₦airaland Forum

Beaf:
Dude, me and you can argue about these things and there will be no stress. However, if expansionist Yoruba people begin to stick their noses into affairs that dion't concern them (because they dream of new oil slaves), then we have a problem. We tend to be very mixed, I for one grew up in a house where we were scolded in at least 6 languages. We don't need problems from people with demonic suggestions.
Another thing is, the link you provided is far from factual, and will only give fuel to bigoted idiots from outside the state coming to stoke problems.

shut up

this bigots should have slapped you when you entered murtala airport

Orikinla:
Do you know that there are millions of Igbo children and others whose parents are from the South-south have been  enjoying FREE EDUCATION in Lagos State for decades and in other ACN states? But their UNGRATEFUL Parents, uncles, aunts and others are not supporting or voting for ACN.  Is Goodluck Jonathan and the corrupt PDP paying the scool fees of your children in public schools? Can your children enjoy FREE EDUCATION in Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra and other  states under the PDP government? Is it not EVIL and WICKED to be so UNGRATEFUL? And on Sunday, you will go to church to fellow and worship? Claiming to be "CHRISTIANS"? When the TRUTH is YOU ARE HYPOCRITES". You bite the finger of the ACN that feeds you when you vote for the PDP? Don't you have conscience? So if the devil is an Igbo presidential candidate you will vote for him, because his name is EBELE AZIKIWE? You are the most foolish people on earth if you do not realize your folly? Can you see what Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has achieved in Lagos State. What did Goodluck Jonathan achieve as Governor of Bayelsa State? May heaven and earth be our witness. May our works speak for us. God save Nigeria from corrupt and ungrateful people and hypocrites.

although there are some elements of truth in your discussion

btw why call us ungrateful, who should we be grateful to other than Allah. No man or ethnic group can take the place of Allah in your lifes

Andre Uweh:
The writer is a Rivers Igbo who once denied his IGBO Identity. But he is back in his senses now and supports everything Igbo. I disagree a lot with the article. 1st, education in the old east was not in the hands of chiefs and elites. Education in the old east was in the hands of the missions and town unions. The churches established schools in the east and awarded lots of scholarships to pupils to study higher. Secondly, Igbo communities and town unions collaboratively built schools for their villages and that helped spread education in the east. Before the war Ndigbo were at par with the Yorubas in education as a result of my reasons. The war set Ndigbo back educationaly and financially. But through hardwork, Ndigbo bounced back and reclaimed territories that once belonged to them and taking more territories.

interesting

this sums it up for me

thank you andre

well it is our choice to vote for who ever we feel is right

moreover your are IJAW not yoruba so what is your problem

ekt_bear:
It is a pretty big city, is it not? I assume the traditionally Itsekiri parts are in the West? It honestly shouldn't be that hard to come up with something fair and equitable. Or in the worst case, make the city jointly administered by both states, or something. . .

hmm good point as well

but the city will then lack development because of the contest for power and greed of money from both state government

and also the locals will fight any majority (be it itsekiri or urhobo) so as to be in the state the majority of their people are in

Beaf:
The purpose for which I created this thread was to draw attention to the need for true federalism and self reliance at a time when people were inundating the NASS with ridiculous demands for states that would have needed Abuja money to survive. I have never wanted an Urhobo state.
The thread was also posted at a time when NL was sensible; I never meant for this thread to attract ignorant bigots, barely literate donkeys or dunces.
Warri has drawn blood, it is now peaceful and is absolutely none of the business of a trouble making bigot like you.

me a bigot


just Shut up

^^^^^

ok

ekt_bear:
Delta is basically Itsekiri, Urhobo/Isoko, Ijaw, and Igbo, right?

Seems to me you could simply:
A) Move the Itsekiri LGAs to Ondo (or create Itsekiri State)
B) Create Urhobo+Isoko State
C) Move the Ijaw LGAs to Bayelsa (or create another Ijaw state)
D) Create Anioma State

Why would this be a bad idea?

good idea actually

but the problem is WHO WOULD TAKE WARRI

is it the urhabo/isoko or itsekiri or ijaw

Andre Uweh:
Interesting.

what do you think about the article

jason123:
Have you forgotten that Onlytruth think you are a bad omen for the igbos?

do not mind that man

he hates me for reasons i do not know

i think onlytruth should read this

he needs to learn a lot

Andre Uweh:
Uche my brother, don't be offended by my outburst, but I feel it is an outright stupidity for someone to claim that Igbo people were wowo in the colonial era while that person can not produce his grand or great grand father's photographs for comparism.

i agree, if igbos were "wowo" then so did other ethnic groups

An ideology is a general concept that informs collective understanding and focus for policy formulation, planning and implementation. It is the philosophy that informs state and individual actions towards development. Ordinarily, the mention of ideology takes everyone’s mind to Capitalism or Socialism.

This should not be so because it is not only Capitalism or Socialism that can develop a people. It could be an ideology that combines all and even more provided it is relevant to the developmental needs of the people. This is because as an instrument of society development, ideology should be appropriate and sensitive to the peculiar needs of the people. Therefore every ideology must be ready to resolve the imbalances in the society, provide a roadmap towards the true development of society and truly develop it. My point of interest today is on Rochas Okorocha’s ideology for the true development of Ndigbo. As an aspirant for the gubernatorial election in Imo State under the APGA political party, he has maintained that his key agendum is free education. How relevant is this free education ideology to the development of the Igbo in Nigeria? Before we answer this question, let us retrospect on the ideologies that have sustained Nigeria’s major ethnic groups and state why free education should be the best to liberate and develop the Igbo in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, the Igbo is one of the major three ethnic groups that have been ruling the country since independence. The others are the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani. In the social, economic and political considerations, one can easily say that the Yoruba had survived in Nigeria mainly because of the free education implemented by the Western Region under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. While others were busy castigating Yoruba for producing less qualified professors, the Yoruba were busy producing them and hoping that in due time, the quality will improve and today they remain the best educated in Nigeria to the extent that they are in control of all the professions and industrial sectors of the country. To the Hausa-Fulani, their own key means of survival in Nigeria today is political leadership of the country. To the Igbo, the most obvious important means of survival is trade business. Remove education from the Yoruba, political leadership from the Hausa-Fulani and trading from the Igbo and tell me how these people would have fared in Nigeria? Consequently, the Yoruba had been investing his best in mass education and the Hausa-Fulani is doing same in political leadership. These investments are funded mainly through federal, state and local government funds. To the Igbo, the strength of public funds in supporting trade development in Igboland is very minimal. During the Eastern Region era, scholarship was strictly available for the children of the chiefs and the elites. The rest merely struggled to send their children to school. It would have been asking too much from the individuals to also fund free education up to the tertiary level so as to improve the quality of trade activities by the Igbo. That was the reason trading has not been well refined and improved to adequately support Igbo development.

Instead of improving state investments (through regional or state or local government funding) in free education to support trade development, governments in Igboland had been engaged in other inappropriate ideologies. They had the republican ideology that negated strong collective efforts at society development. This gave room to too much of individualism in the process of survival. Later, it was the nationalistic ideology championed by the Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. This ideology was not to reverse the republican stuff, but for Nigeria and maybe Africa to immediately become Americans or Europeans. What about his own people in a heterogeneous federation? In a federal state, the well being of the state must first begin from the well being of the composite units. That was why Nigeria under the regional arrangement was economically stronger than she is today, despite the abundance of the petrodollars. From there, Igbo went on to secession ideology championed by Col. Odemegwu Ojukwu. But Ralph Uwechue would argue that Ojukwu should have explored the ideology of constructive diplomacy where he would have demanded for the safety of his people instead of going for secession. The rest is history. After the war, the rulers of Igbo agreed and settled for another ideology called re-integration derived from General Yakubu Gowon’s Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (the 3Rs) post-war policy. Reintegration informed the post civil war attitude of the Igbo for survival in Nigeria; hence, they cried against any government action that seemed not to carry them along as marginalization. For example, in the creation of states, local governments, building of airports, appointment of military chiefs etc, the Igbo had always cried marginalization which pointed to the fact that the Igbo is not being reintegrated into the Nigerian system. But we need to ask, in the republican, nationalist, secessionist and reintegration ideologies, who had been the ultimate beneficiary? The Igbo elite! Today, an Igbo is Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS). Has this made Igbo duly integrated into Nigeria they way it should be? No! So, all these are whitewash ideas that cannot develop Igbo. Rather, they made the elites richer twenty four seven.

Therefore, one would argue for ideologies that should be of benefit to the masses of Igbo. For example, constructive diplomacy and the consistent demand for the safety of the Igbo in Nigeria would not have claimed many lives as did the secession ideology. Indeed, the best ideology after the war should have been mass free education instead of re-integration. Let us now address the significance of the Rochas Okorocha’s free education ideology in the lives of Igbo youths who are traders and mostly illiterates.

Free education means that every child of school age is entitled to attend school at no cost by his/her parents. Why is free education relevant to the Igbo especially after the civil war? We are aware that after the war, the Igbo were socially, economically, politically, environmentally and physically devastated. What else could have raised sufficient knowledge power for Igbo development if not mass free education? With free education, the educational glory Igbo lost would have been regained. It would have, in the next 30 years (1970-2000), raised a crop of astute Igbo educationists and professionals who would have constituted the intellectual pillar Igbo development needed.




Another peculiar factor that called for free education was the fact that most Igbos who engage in trading are illiterates. Today in Nigeria, Igbo traders occupy over 60% of Nigeria’s trading activities. They were critically involved in the development of important areas in Lagos State: Idumota, Apapa, Ikeja, Alaba etc. Remove Igbo traders in these areas and see what will happen to Lagos! What of Onitsha, Aba, Ibadan, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, Maiduguri, Jos, Sokoto, Makurdi etc. Yet, they do their businesses under very harsh environments where there are no well planned city arrangements that can make trading less stressful, convenient with full functional infrastructure. When I was in Lagos, Idumota shops where Igbo traders do their business had no ventilation whatsoever, no water, no electricity, poor sewage system, roads are always blocked, dust was something else, no space for parking of cars, ambience was zero and yet they sustained the economy of Lagos. How come Igbo traders are ever ready to accept and dwell in such very poor environment? It was not because there were no alternatives; it was because to reject this poor environment required higher intellectuality which they did not have. Most of them, despite the fact that they control millions of naira, are school certificate holders and I believe this was the case because they could not afford better and higher education. This is where the ideology of free education by Rochas Okorocha becomes very significant, 41 years after the devastating civil war.

With free education in Igboland, starting from Imo State, the quality of trading activities would certainly change and this will be reflected in the pattern of trading, investment and higher portfolio Igbo will command in the Nigerian economy and indeed all over the world. If the personal struggles by Coscharis, Kenquip, Chisco owners could lead to where these companies are today, then we can imagine five times of that progress if these entrepreneurs were well educated abinitio. The method and quality of service offered Nigerians by ABC Transport is surely a case in support of education first before business.

It is sound free education that can galvanize all the wasting talents in drugs manufacturing and trading, iron smelting and manufacturing, cement manufacturing (and save our dear Nkalagu Cement from total extinction), goods trading, into highly improved and sophisticated activities. Most importantly, their attitude to business will change for quality in quantity. It is only education that can move Igbo trade apprenticeship system into a more refined practical system where it is formalized into the business education curriculum of Igbo. Igbo is the most capable of teaching the world trade education through the development and automation of the Igbo Trading Apprenticeship System (ITAS). What it means is that after acquiring formal first degree education, the graduate who wants to be a trader, will now enroll in another institution to learn professional practical trading where the ITAS amongst others would be thought. It is like after studying Economics in the University and one wants to manage a big progressing business; he/she goes to Harvard.

We must note that this free education must key into the peoples’ existing and popular way of life. This is important because Igbo cannot truly develop outside itself; but from within. Therefore, Igbo education must revolutionalize existing occupation (trading) to meet higher society expectations. Igbo free education must be to positively affect Igbo’s environment, talents, resources, needs, productivity, culture and ultimately development. The philosophy of the free education should be: Igbo Free Education for Igbo Development. Therefore if Rochas is not paying politicians’ lip service to free education in Imo State, one will suggest that Imo people should give him a chance to implement this idea that distinguishes him from the crowd. He is the only one that is talking politics in the land; the rest are all infrastructure politicians. He is playing politics of ideology which is the essence of politics.

Okachikwu Dibia
Abuja.

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/relevant-ideology-masterkey-igbo-development-0

Buhari pity's the nation

what a strong man

;d ;d ;d ;d ;d

hmmmm

;d ;d ;d

Ibime:
Una still dey here after how many months?

Lemme ask these Ndigbo something. . .


Who keeps changing Port-Harcourt Wikipedia page


Every week that page seems to be changed by Ndigbo eager to dispossess Okrikans of Isaac Boro Park - Borokiri area of PH.


Una get time o!!!


As for those who talk about PH, we have to understand that the original PH consists of what is today the Diobu - Aggrey Road axis, 80% of which was bought from the King of Okrika.

Of course, as PH expanded Northward, we have that 80% of PH becomes Ikwerre territory.

this people have started again

Beaf:
I pray GEJ finds an iffective way to doublecross and politically cripple Tinubu. Fashola is the only person worth dealing with.
Tinubu will go to jail.

apoti:
Beaf, we all know GEJ is not that smart

vicenzo:
Hmm,odika gabon na-ewu,kedu ebe obiagu na ezeuche nor,fa bia nye ego motor gabon.

when are our families moving to gabon brother ?

soloqy:
The issue is that the South West voted for the AC reps because its their National Reps. The South West is dynamic. Tinubu has control only over card carrying party members and thats why I feel any attempt at courting/wooing him is a waste of time. The people are going to vote whoever they want in the presidential elections. Its important people know this now so that they dont get to start singing rigging again when it happens.

Sorry i want to ask a question and i hope you do not mind

Are you a Swestern/yoruba ?

if so, why would you think jonathan is going to win in the SW. What is the economic and political advantage that would give SWers

Ileke-IdI:
But we cant even be 50% sure that Ribadu's vote will descend on Buhari. Ribadu stepping down is going to cause a lot of confusion and frustration in Nigeria. This is not only going to affect the SW, but other regions currently supporting Ribadu.

It's too late. Saturday is less than 5 days away.

maybe so but i still believe tinubu can do something

Buhari only needs 25% of the votes not even up to 50% to win the election

Ileke-IdI:
You're very bold, trust me. I'd have run over with my car.

So what's your take on this thread? I'm interested.

@ this topic

i think Ribadu and ACn should step down for buhari, there is no point because they would not win all they are doing to spliting the SW votes

That bloody Tinubu of a man should lay down is silly pride for the nation and try to convince the SW people to vote Buhari.

Ileke-IdI:
Can Saturday just come?

I hate waiting. . . . why is this world not revolving around me?

don't worry the world will revolve around you soon after your first night with me

alex101:
Exactly! We easterners have to start moving our wealth/businesses back east. It's simple,,,,,,,,,,make money in other regions, but don't develop those regions. We should stop buying/building houses in other people's region.

This is why I love those Nnewi and Aba business men. Most of their major businesses are stationed in the east.

i agree with this one

alex101:
I hope this is true. I'm tired of shipping through that Yoruba port in slum-infested lagos

this is where i really get annoyed with you imposter claiming to be igbos

what has Yoruba got to do with this

i bet they are even tried of us sef

ak47mann:
are you a farmer??

must i be farmer to invest in farming for myself

Andre Uweh:
Trust me, My fight against bigots will never stop. I have seen so many photographs of Yoruba, Hausa etc in the colonial era, yet no one said they are wowo but once it's Igbo, those usually busy in harlotry will abandon their occupations for ethnic bashing.

i really do not understand why

hmmmm

Kilode?!:
I agree with you in principle, if this alliance talk is just about sharing positions and making Tinubu VP, I'm totally against that kind of small mindedness.

what happened to ideas?

I don't know the details though.

i have never seen you use an angry emotion icon before

I am against Tinubu as well, ACN and CPC is all about development not sharing of position and power

Beaf:
You are not in a position to threaten anybody with pogroms as you did earlier. Nigeria is already tired of you guys.
The one thing I've noticed though with core-Northern politics is the constant reference to violence as your main tactic. Dude, its bloody primitive, thats why GEJ ALWAYS runs you people in circles. It will happen again on Saturday, alliance or no alliance. The final beatdown!

no one is threaten anybody

if he rigs there will pe protest in the north, those that do not like the protest better move south

we will not allow anybody to rig impose any UNwanted leader on us

that is a fact !!!