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[quote author=[WilyWily link=topic=601457.msg7695713#msg7695713 date=1297241473]For real Yoruba Leaders are Rascals and Thieves,[/quote]since you are efik

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[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=599800.msg7694675#msg7694675 date=1297218158]Man, go hang urself or something! Innocent my left nut!

So, in July '66, the Hausas just woke up and decided to turn Ibos into Shish Kebab for no reason?

The Yoruba section is easier to reach from Northern Nigeria (check you damn map), why didnt the Hausas attack them?

Innocent indeed! NEXT TIME, KILL EVERYONE EQUALLY!!![/quote]the truth is that igbo fear us northerners than yorubas

fact!!!!

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=599800.msg7694649#msg7694649 date=1297217349]It is what it is. He lost the mid-west territory, lost control over the Western region to Akintola and allowed the enemies of the Yoruba people to cause chaos in the land, got himself imprisoned on trumped up charges, and kept trying to make alliance with the Igbo when it is clear they meant nothing but harm for him.

Only reason why things turned out halfway decently is because of the incompetence of the Igbo coup plotters and Ironsi. If they'd be somewhat reasonable in their actions (capture rather than kill leaders, place less trust in Northern soldiers, consolidate their hold on the army), the counter-coup would never have occurred and they'd be dominant in all of Nigeria today.

Anyway, I'm sure he tried his best. But results are all that matter to me. And the end result would have not been very good without a fortuitous miscalculation by his enemies.[/quote]he never did, ekueme was the one that seperated the mid west from the yorubas

infact there was a referendum in which edo, itsekiri vote to remain with the west but isoko urhobo said no

and ekuemem used his power to push that though

till today, some itsekiri still claim to be part of yoruba even there leaders joined afenefere and etc

esan of edo and co still want to be part of south -western state

ezeagu:
What is "Ibo"?

ibo = igbo

matazzmagi:
The Igbo fought with sweat and blood to win Nigeria's political freedom. They labored to win the freedom of Hausa, fulani, yoruba, chamba, Angas, Fulfulde, Jukun, Etkywan, Kpan, Mumuye, Agatu, Basa Gbagyi, Gbari, Bacama, Bade, Kanuri, Marghi, Ebira, Kakanda, Edo, Esan, Okpameri, Iyayu, Arigidi, Egun, Tiv, Igede etc had got hatred and savagery in return. Where are their humanity? Nigeria awaits the inevitable,

you forgot

ijaws that supported the nigerian army to do blockade against biafra

you also forgot igala, ikwerri, kalabari, isoko, urhobo, itsekiri and beroms

PhysicsMHD:


Ok. Without google, could you tell me what the Iseyin-Okeiho rebellion was?


I just think you and some other posters have a distorted view of colonial resistance in Africa. Let's just agree to disagree.  

na to day

some even claim biafra never killed people in edo and lagos

PhysicsMHD:
The claim is unfounded. That was my very point. How can you still keep the claim? Are the Ashanti not West Africans?

With regard to Nigeria, read "Disaffection and Revolts in Nigeria during the First World War, 1914-1918" by Akinjide Osuntokun or Nigeria: background to nationalism
by James S. Coleman or Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria by Toyin Falola

Did I deny the existence of the Anglo-Aro wars? And the Aro-Igbo were one of the last to be invaded. As for stiffest resistance, that's debatable. I don't want to derail this thread too much. But this idea of other groups not providing any significant resistance is mythical and that's what I wanted to point out.

Binis had the Ologbosere of Benin and Oviaweri

Esan had the king of Uromi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogbidi_Okojie)

Yorubas had the Oba of Lagos resistance to British occupation in 1851 and the Egba kingdom (1914) and the Abeokuta women's tax protest (1948)

I don't see much difference between the Egba revolt and the Aba women's war, and I think history is being distorted by trying to say only this or that group resisted. Yorubas, Igbos, Edos, etc. resisted.


I've already knew about the Ekumeku rebellion. It was first studied in detail by Phillip Igbafe, a Bini historian, something you probably didn't know.

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=599800.msg7694323#msg7694323 date=1297209294]Intelligent yes, but appears to have been severally outmaneuvered by the enemies of his people. I'm a big fan, but less so that I was before.[/quote]you can say that again

i am also a big fan of him

fstranger3:
^^^^

Look at how AWo outclassed Ojukwu

Up Yorubaland!!!  Down Alaigbo!!!

see brain vs brute force

chai!!! see how awolowo use brain destroy my people's leader

chai    chai    chaii

very painful indeed, only if ojukwu did not use pride, we igbos will be on top of things now

even after awolowo's death, ojukwu said awolowo is the best leader nigeria ever had, ,.,., shame !!!

only if he listened!!!!!

it is the same pride that is evident on nairaland and nigeria politics today in aligbo,.,.,. very sad indeed

seanet02:
@bluetooth, thank you for upholding the Integrity of The Future Armed Forces of ODUDUWA Republic, you see oderemo is simply one of those who will sit down at their home and post rubbish to the net, but they are not ready to make any sacrifize for the nation, yet they want a change. It is on record that OPC stood by the YORUBAS in ILORIN during the crises over there, they were the one who dealti with the hausas at Sagamu when they were being silly! They were the one who called the hausas to order in Lagos, can you remember the time our chest beating ibos threatened to Declare Biafra in Lagos? It was not oderemo who beat sense into their reasoning faulty, it was OPC, it was Fasheun and Gani Adams who said "TRY IT AND SEE HELL" and you know our ibos brothers being who they are, they quickly retract their statement, when the ijaws were on rampage against the ITSHEKIRIS who are also YORUBAS it was also OPC who was defending them in Warri,did we ever see the Ode of Remo? I am solidly being you.

correct !!!!

Ify27:
seems to me that you are one of the uneducated ones, alj harem=mumu

do you know

but i am more educated than you militant yoruba and igbo people

ChinenyeN:
My question now is (serious question, by the way), how do you judge that percentage? Who are the pure-bred stock to which you can point to as a marker?
Traditions suggest the existence of the name "Ngwa", before the Imo crossing incident, but, I do get where you're coming from, and no there was no king.

thank you, i was wondering what chyz* was talking about

emesiere

ndi owo Nigeria

ekot mi ahj harem

jamace:
E tie do oo.

Oto Mmom ?

ifele:
To Awoist,

Awolowo never cared about Yoruba Unity and Independence . Awo wanted us to remain part of Nigeriia because his dream was to rule the whole of Nigeria himself and he failed at this. Awo is not a true Yoruba he is a Nigerian. He is like many Yoruba politiicians working for Nigeria who want to bring us to our doom by going about arresting the people who want independence for example Obasanjo who arrested and imprisoned OPC members. Thank God Awo is dead because he would still be trying to rule Nigeria for himself.

now i know you are mad

awolowo baba ijebu was one of the greatest nigerian that has ever lived

ifele:
To all Yoruba Peoples in Nigeria,

At the rate we are going there will be chaos and war in Nigeria. Alot of people are feeling it too. The best option for Yoba people is to have their own nation state in South West Nigeria. We have to take courage. Whether you are Hebrew, Christian, Muslim or Pagan let us join hands and cooperate so as to eliminate the Nigerian oppression from our lands. Lets show respect to our Biafran neighbours who are struggling for the same freedom we are hoping to receive from the Creator.

Ife Gori Ota re. Ife Lododo Ile Aye.

mad

Ify27:
We educated igbos agree with you, the ones who make silly remarks about a serious thing like these are the uneducated one who dont know anything about themselves , their country or the world that they live in, they make outlandish comments about another tribe not knowing that we are all victims of Nigerians horrible political battles and britians greediness of oil, see what they are doing to the villagers of the delta!! what is the government doing? absolutely nothing, if war breaks out in nigeria again, im going to rally all the igbos and Yorubas in the states and were going to come home to fight for our land back, we need to take back our oil fields and use the money to build our own economy, schools and hospitals, we will set the standard for the rst of the country

I agree with your cause completely,

ode, ewu

ify27 = ifele

The hope of countries in the West African sub-region to have a single common currency in the near future looks dim as the countries missed the convergence criteria in 2010.

Minister of State for Finance, Hajia Yabawa Lawan Wabi, gave this indication while declaring open the 30th meeting of the Technical Committee of the West African Monetary Zone at the Central Bank of Nigeria head office in Abuja, on Monday.

She said a review of the West African Monetary Zone countries’ economic performance in 2010 indicated that overall compliance with the macro economic convergence criteria deteriorated from three primary criteria by the end of December 2009 to two in 2010.

The minister said the single digit inflation rate and fiscal deficit, excluding grants, criteria were missed.

While Gambia and Ghana met three of the primary criteria, Hajia Wabi said Guinea experienced its worst performance since December, 2005 by not meeting any criterion.

HajI Wabi also stated that Liberia met all the four primary criteria to maintain its December 2009 performance while Nigeria sustained its performance on the convergence scale by attaining three criteria as at the end of the June, 2010.

“Sierra-Leone maintained its end-December 2009 performance of compliance with one criterion,” she said.

Expressing concern over the deteriorated convergence criteria, the minister said that improving and sustaining performance on the convergence scale would require member countries to further strengthen fiscal performance by exploring innovative ways of enhancing domestic revenue mobilisation and rationalising expenditures.

Advocating the injection of tax efficiency into tax administration, the reformation of the tax structure and broading of the tax base in member countries, Hajia Wabi added that expenditure rationalisation and efficiency would be needed not only to lower the fiscal deficit but also to make government expenditure more effective and productive.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17254-common-currency-for-ecowas-under-threat

By Kenneth Ehigiator
AUTHORITIES of Anambra State University have increased fees payable by students by about 150 percent as part of measures to shore up the institution’s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR.
The university reopened recently after a six-month of strike action embarked upon by the university’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other unions in the institution over improved welfare package and adequate funding of the institution.
Addressing reporters at the Uli campus of the university, the new acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Fidelis Okafor said that the new fees were fixed at a meeting attended by the stakeholders, including the management and officials of the Students Union Government, SUG.
Details show that old students are now to pay N84,000 per session, while fresh students, who are pursuing non professional courses are to pay N108,000. Fresh students studying professional courses are to pay N128,000. Before the strike, fees paid by the students ranged from N30,000–N35,000 for all courses.
According to the Vice Chancellor, the fees cover such items as student’s identity card, academic regulation, x–ray for incoming students, medical laboratory, students’ union fees, among others, adding that members of SUG saw need for the increase.
He said: “The school cannot provide all the needs without increasing school fees. The agreement signed with the unions stipulates that we should increase our IGR and that is why we increased the fees.
“In doing that however, we took into consideration its effects on the parents and we believe that the reasonable not such that could have negative effect on the parents.”
He said that efforts were also being made to improve the staff structure, adding that while deserving academic staff would be promoted, new ones would be hired from outside.
He explained that with the lifting of the ban on the admission of new students in some state –owned universities for the 2011/2012 academic session, the university was striving to conclude the present academic session by October this year, noting that the staff have agreed to make the necessary sacrifices to ensure that the lost time were recovered without lowering standards.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/anambra-varsity-raises-fees-by-150/

THE game plan of the Northern political class to explore the possibility of another option apart from President Goodluck Jonathan appears to have ended.

Reason being that the key elements in the region are “totally disappointed” in the choice of a running mate announced by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari.

Rattled by the defeat of its consensus candidate, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF), led by former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, had considered other options aimed at returning power to the North.

One of such options, referred to as Plan B, had been the covert move to endorse Buhari and garner support for him in the North until last week’s announcement of fiery preacher and social crusader, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that NPLF’s look in the direction of Buhari, apart from his wide acceptability and respect in the core North, was informed by the alliance talks between the CPC and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

Buhari had announced Bakare as his running mate two days after the collapse of talks between the two parties, owing to the insistence of the ACN on former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as its preferred standard-bearer for the alliance.

But Buhari’s surprise choice of Bakare, Nigerian Tribune gathered, had halted the NPLF’s plan to explore the retired general’s option.

According to a source close to a leading traditional ruler in the North, the NPLF had confided in most power brokers in the region to ‘tolerate’ Jonathan for the next four years rather than support an unpopular ticket against him in the next presidential election.

“I think Buhari was the person the North was really looking at to confront Jonathan; but from the turn of events, he was trying to balance religion with politics and he overdid it.

“How could he pick Bakare? Is the man a politician? How many people can he control in the South-West where he hails from? These are the issues the people have gone back to look at because they appear to be totally disappointed in the general’s choice of his vice-presidential candidate.

“And from the look of things, the people are already resolving to tolerate Jonathan for four years rather wasting time on a ticket that will not be possible for leaders to defend,” the source said.

He said those behind the widely touted Plan B were faced with the contradiction of their earlier stance for a northerner to replace the late Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua and their support for Bakare, whom he said the North saw as the initiator of the process that led to Jonathan taking office as acting president through the proclamation of the Doctrine of Necessity by the National Assembly.

Only last week, defeated presidential aspirant, Abubakar, expressed his readiness for dialogue with President Jonathan just as he said he was not leaving the PDP.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17259-buharis-choice-of-bakare-rattles-north

jason123:
People, please ignore this Harem of a goat. He survives on yoruba vs igbo e-fights.

you are a big mumu,.,. mumu of all mumu itsekiri mix breed of goat and human

ideeiot  

Lagosboy:
I guess The ISLAMIC BANK OF BRITAIN should be changed because it UK is a Christian society with HM been the head of the church of England.

The sooner we shed our bigotry the better for us as Nigerians, till we learn to tolerate ourselves and appreciate our diversity we would always remain in the schackles of under development.

thank you

must of this people are bigoted and hate anything north and Islam

some even talk about terrorism in Islamic bank

just shows how clueless they are

Obiagu1:
No wonder they were so determined to kill Ojukwu's people, women and children. They were actually bitter with Ojukwu not the secession itself. Making more sense every day 

okayyooooo now i see it all making sense now,., obiagu1 you are very clever ooooo

9ja voice:
@alj harem
can people see that this man is mad finally

yes yorubas are the most educated in nigeria ,.,, FACT but must he put it there to annoy other groups

what about we[b] igbos [/b] that are the best in trading

What did that mean.Bloody hausa/fulani lair.we know you, people like you make other religion to see islam as a bad religion

how does this relate to Islam, i think you are going craze,.,. too much alj harem is not good for your health

moreover do you and your southern brothers not all ready hate Islam,., so what is new,., mumu

texazzpete:
May God save us from Educated illiterates in Nigeria!! How can a geoscientist 'assure' you of finding oil thousands of feet below the earth? No geoscientist will ever ASSURE you of that, and this with no obvious seismic shows!
See the kind of dolts we have running NNPC.

what are you talking about

oil is found were dead organism have been buried for years and the compression by layers of sand or silt caused the the formation of oil

this layer can be thousands of feet below the earth surface depending how lake chad has been in existance

afam4eva:
You guys should ignore the aboki above me. he always has a way of turning every thread into an IGBO VS Yoruba thread.

how, the president said something and i highlighted his ignorances to other groups in nigeria

how do that turn to igbo vs yoruba

did i mention igbo here

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=597261.msg7687909#msg7687909 date=1297134742]All you people from across the Niger River, whether you like it or not, are Igbo in every ramification, except of couse the minority tribes such as the Ibibio,Efiks,etc. Stop fighting each other and accept it.You are all the same.If DNA was taken to find out what tribe you are it would say that you are Igbo. Because your community/area name is different from one another,means nothing because it is just that, a community name. You are nwa onye Igbo, accept it and sleep peacefully and stop arguing with one another.[/quote]chineke me oooo


how can you say this

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=601457.msg7693288#msg7693288 date=1297197902]Nice try Alj haram. Cow herder trying to use divide and rule through nairaland. [/quote]how my brother

the president said something and i exposed his ignorance

how am i using divide and rule when i am igbo myself

9ja voice:
Finaly the hausa/fulani guy is here to change the discussion into igbo yoruba bashing thread. Sorry mr.al-harem go and drink your medicine or better still stop commenting.  Jonathan didn't speak about igbo's or any other sect ok. are you not ashame that in nigeria nobody talks about hausa/fulani in any progressive things.

My dear everyone here knows your game why not stop.   look, igbos and yorubas have much in common than hausa. pls talk about uncle GEJ comment ok.  When i said that this guy(al harem) is on contract in NL to make sure igbo's and yoruba's do not agree, some folks thinks i hate him now see, what concern his writeup with the topic. if he is sincere why didn't he use hausa/fulani (where he comes from) in refrence instead of using igbo.    Am a full time time suporter of uncle GEJ , but as for this comment he is Wrong.

mad man on the loose

ode remo:
it so funny how ppl without first hand account of event can start saying all maner of rubbish on public forum
without themselves knowing what they stand for.
can that GREENTOOTH  guy spell out what opc stand for?
bakassi, arewa., opc etc what did they all stand?
lets get to the bottom of this MAFIA like organisations?

ok brother

arewa is not a militant group like opc, bakassi, massob etc

2.) in my visit to port harcount, i was eating in one shop when bakassi boys with red stuff tied on there arm bulled the shop keeper to serve them food and did not pay

you do not see arewa do that

3.) Opc was formed for the intreset of there yoruba people but it is divided into 2 fractions
i) the diplomatic one ii) the miltant one
massob do not bull people they only fight for the igbo cause and help igbos in igboland, this due to there fight for the biafra not for igbo cause so the miltary will view them as traitors to nigeria unlike awera and opc

we as opc help there people in yorubaland and all over the world

arewa is also divided into 3

i) diplomatic one ii) the youths iii) the touts

the job of the touts is to stop the oppression of northerners up north and all over the country

maimalari:
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Describing the South West as the most important
in the country because of its political antecedents,
the president, said the zone was too educated,
civilized to be left in the hands of rascals.

www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/obasanjo-justifies-preference-for-jonathan’s-candidacy/

can people see that this man is mad finally

yes yorubas are the most educated in nigeria ,.,, FACT but must he put it there to annoy other groups

what about we igbos that are the best in trading