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The war museum at Umuahia can be named after Ojukwu.
Also, the Niger bridge at Onitsha and new South east university in Ebonyi state will be o.k.

realchange:
ekt_bear is one of the worst ethnic bigots on this forum, so his views of anybody should be discounted completely
he is also openly campaigning for his Yoruba brothers and nutures deep hatred for onlytruth because onlytruth trumps him most times
i dey laff dis kain elekshion

Am sure the chap does not read Onlytruth's posts. Some nairalanders are like that. They only log on and read through what their favourites offers.

In Naples, I forsee a 1:1 draw.
In West London, Chelsea to win by 1:0.

@Ekt_bear
The 3 nominated posters have their own specialities. It is just like in surgery where surgeons have their own specialities. Some specialise, in Urology, neurology, orthopaedics, plastics, gynaecology, orthopaedics etc. Even in a speciality such as orthopaedics, some surgeons specialise in upper limb, some in lower limb, others in spine etc.
Kats-Biafra with lots of copy and paste and some insults to Ystranger or Chyz
Gbawe-in Acn and some occassional insults to beaf.
Onlythruth-the marginalised and oppressed.
Time has come for nairalanders interested in politics section to choose their best poster of the year. As for me, I have chosen onlytruth.

dayokanu:
How many people wan nyansh this woman sef, Ojuku brother, Odechukwu Retardeen, Now Ojukus son sef wan chop hinside

Everyone wan ride national bicycle

I wonder why moderators do not see this type of crap that comes from an adult.

Eko Ile:
And the ibo patrol rolls in, These clowns love tinubu to bits.

Can't believe tinubu is so powerful to get these ibo losers on their feet fuming red.

Asiwajuis Lord and saviour .

What is it this time?. I thought you ve been cured of your insanity. Has it come back or what. Your post above does not show you received any healing. Boy, device another method for your healing. This time, it should not be at the one in Aro but that Celestial church 3 km away from Aro. Get a help from there Babapupa.

Prority should be on the ability to do a task, imcompetent officials underdevelopes a nation. If Tinubu's whole family are competent to be governors of all the south west states, no problems by me. That region needs competent hands to surge ahead.
It does not matter if he is an Igbo, Itsekiri, Edo, Nupe, Jukun etc but must be competent.
It does not matter if he is a Mohammedan, Guru Maharajan, Hare Krishinan, Sango/Ogun worshippers but must be competent.

South African have forgotten how we fought for their deliverance from the aparthied whites.
They have forgotten all the assistance we offered to ANC.
Too bad.

@Alh Harem, quit seeing Point B as Ezeuche, stop all this insult to his person. In case if you do not know, Ezeuche is in Port Harcourt now and may be there all through the xmas period.
Respect boy.

agbotaen:
the problem you igbo propagandist have is that you are still suffering from the civil war disorder , ok , i know oshimili and aniocha suffered from terrible holocaust, but ika did not suffer this , so sorry ooh, you people always think like this -they are against us mentality ,always ready to fight , if you hate hausas very much and you hate yorubas , so why are there millions of igbos in yoruba and hausa land? why do igbo women marry hausa and yoruba men, but ASABA was made capital by a northern inlaw called babangida.
all i want to know is ika ,and the interesting thing is that we do not need a majority tribe to succeed,and ika people are making progress in every field and they are just ika, obaigbena described himself as an ika from a small ethnic group in delta,when he was interviewed by new york times last year.
every year we have annual ika lecture and discurssion by ogua/onu ika -our highest socio-cultural group and chief fortune ebie has just handed over to sunday usifoh as new ika national leader.
LET ME ,greet the obi of owa ( obi iselogbe ooo) , on the upcoming igue festival that will be held towards this month end, this festival was first celebrated in owa ,about 500 years ago by obi aigbogidi orhogbuwa , this festival was first celebrated by oba ewuare ,the oba of benin.
agbogidi iyare,
ojenebo iyare,
agwo ekirika iyare,
ogiso iyare .
i wish our obi ,many more igue festival , iselogbe .

I have always said that you are a no brainer, a thread about Olukumis is now diverted to Ika via you. You hardly make any contribution in any thread, even about Olukumis in your state. How come you are not intelligent enoough to know about this group. If I may ask, what else do you do for a living apart from spreading falsehood?.

bokohalal:
Ogbuefi should go and read the Guardian of Monday 12th December,2011 .The article is titled:Rot.neglect,anguish at the nation's airports.
When sometime ago I had written that the Benin City Airport was the fourth busiest in the country,Ogbuefi had found it comical. And we now know that while it is the fourth busiest it is also the only other viable airport in Nigeria aside Lagos and Abuja.
Ogbuefi's hatred for the Binis is what is comical. Since he has been found out on this ,I have decided all that he ever said about the Binis and the civil war are lies, too.
ISELOGBE!

There is nothing in Ogbuefi's posts to suggest he hates Benin or Bini people. He was narrating a first hand information of a city he resided for ages.

Anyway, am happy he apologised to his boss.

Okija_juju:
Ochi ato gbue la'm o!!

Nne biko zita lu'm the Nwa Ada o! I indeed need that kind of healing!! lol

@ Onlytruth

In the interest of peace, I will stop all petitions against you. However, I shall be watching your every move.

You may have won today, by hook, line or sinker, but the battle is not lost!

May your reign bring the much needed growth that the Igbo Nation. Like I always pointed out, we both share the same goals, just via different means.

P.S The Agu ji Egbe 1 of Nri cannot be demoted. An Eze may be high than a priest, but the priest is chosen by the gods not man.

Igbo Kwezu enu!

May your days be long.

afam4eva:
No be people wey thief am dey investigate?

Nooo, it was from the previous administration.

coogar:
i guess we should wait but juan mata is setting the league ablaze.

this is also mata's debut season whilst silva struggled in his first season at city.
i would wait till chelsea visit city - if mata obliterates city's midfield again then it would no longer be a myth. . . .it would be a fact!

At the Spanish national team, Silva starts ahead of Mata, what does that tell us?.
Though I prefer Mata ahead of Silva.

Despite this win over City. Am convinced that the league will end in this order:
City
Chelsea
Spurs
Man United.

afam4eva:
Onlytruth wins this one.

You are correct. Kudos

Onlytruth:
Umu Igbo ibem,

fellow Eastern Nigerians,

fellow Southern Nigerians,

fellow Nigerians,

friends of Nigeria worldwide,

I, Onlytruth, Ikenga Dike 1 of Anaedo, Ndu di n’eziokwu 1 of Igboland, hereby extend my warmest greetings and regards to you all on this epoch making event here on Nairaland, Nigeria’s leading online forum.

I am humbled beyond words by your decision to appoint me your e-leader –Eze Ndi Igbo Nke Mbu Na Nairaland (Eze Igbo 1 of Nairaland). This event (election of Eze Ndi Igbo online) is unprecedented in the annals of online forums; this would be the very first time one of the most dynamic nations of Africa (Ndigbo) would appoint an online leader, and since Nairaland is the topmost online Nigerian forum, Eze Igbo Nairaland becomes the de facto Eze Igbo online worldwide.

Dalu nu, deme nu, ka nu, maazi nu, unu emeela, deje nu, mma mma nu! Thank you!

Igbo kwenu!
Muo nu!
Zuo nu!
Rie nu!
Kwezuo nu o!

Though the contest for this e-office started almost jokingly, it quickly gathered the necessary seriousness and momentum as would any other Igbo business and program, Ndigbo being a very serious nation. Ndigbo si na ebe ana ama njakiri, ka ana ekwu ezi okwu (serious businesses are often initiated through banters); so this is a serious as it gets!
To my fellow contestants who played by the rules, I thank you all for putting yourselves forward for the service of Ndigbo. I hereby assure you all that my victory is collective; we are all winners! Thank you for honoring Ndigbo with your offer of service! To my fellow contestants who tried every trick in the book to violate the process, I say shame on you; please repent!

As my office begins to take shape, I ask for your assistance and support by making yourselves available for any assignment which I may extend to you as ezigbo umu afo Igbo! Thank you in advance! My office is very ceremonial and whatever authority that derives from it is purely advisory, voluntary, and without any compulsion to anyone whatsoever.

I need to state early enough that the goal of my one year statutory tenure as Eze Ndigbo Nairaland is to enjoin you my entire fellow Umu Igbo, to rise to the challenge of an Igbo renaissance to drive our survival and advancement in Nigeria. The renaissance drive assumes firstly that we as Ndigbo have strayed far away from our cultural, spiritual, religious and moral base, and the situation requires an urgent retrace of our steps. We must remember the point of our deviation, and emphasize a determination to mend our ways. I hereby advise that we be guided by these two Igbo proverbs as we design our rebirth:

Ndigbo si na onye amaghi ebe mmiri bidoro maba ya agaghi ama ebe okwusiri. (a person who does not know where the rain started to fall on him/her would never know where the rain stopped falling on him/her)
Ndigbo si na onye ekwughi ka oha eburu ya gafee ama nna ya! ( a man who gives the wrong impression of his true status, would inevitably be carried past his own fathers gate)

Umu nne m, agwo no na akirika! (brothers there is trouble in the land!) because we just lost our foremost leader, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. However, I have a feeling that you all know that already! My job as Eze Ndigbo Nairaland is to ingeniously design a path to our renaissance, and this I will do, so help me God! I begin that process by going back to the ways of our ancestors, which is the “Igwe bu ike”, and “Umunna bu ike” strategy. It never failed us before the advent of “modernity”; it will not fail us this time. As a Christian also, I draw inspiration from God’s command to Joshua after the death of Moses in Joshua 1: 7-10.

I began this process by registering an email address for the office of Eze Ndigbo Nairaland, an office email ezendigbo_nl@hushmail.com, which shall be handed down from one Eze to another in the coming successive years here on Nairaland. Everyone (both friend and foe) is welcome to contact me directly using this email address.

To my fellow Eastern Nigerians, I wish to re-emphasize our brotherhood and good neighborliness. Since the beginning of history till date, there has never been any inter-tribal war amongst different peoples, tribes and nations of Eastern Nigeria. The event of the civil war did not even lead to one. There was both support, and opposition to the Biafran secession effort from ALL tribes in Eastern Nigeria. Ours is a region of exemplary inter-tribal harmony and peace. It is a remarkable feat which must be commended and bolstered, and for which every Eastern Nigerian must be very proud. We have intermarried; conducted slave trade together without discrimination along tribal lines; co-survived the injustices of power, and continue to live in peace with each other despite some invidious divisive strategies unleashed on us to create division in Eastern Nigeria, thereby making the region easier to exploit. It is time for us to recommit ourselves to a common goal of regional political integration and economic empowerment. SE and SS should always move together in the internal politics of Nigeria.

It is political foolhardy for any one tribe, or group to feel superior to another, or to feel more Nigerian than another, or to scheme or collude with outside interests to subjugate one tribe or group in order to gain the upper hand, because at the end, all Easterners would be the losers! So, enough of treachery! We are brothers and good neighbors, and so shall it remain, so help us God!

To my fellow Southern Nigerians, I hereby extend my hand of love and fellowship to you all as partners in search of peace and justice in Nigeria. It is self evident that Ndigbo find more peace and safety in Southern Nigeria than in Northern Nigeria. That alone, demonstrates true potential for peace, and can be a model for peaceful co-habitation of all Nigerians within the Nigerian space. We, Ndigbo, appreciate the peace we share with one another in Southern Nigeria, and wish to continue that peaceful co-habitation. However, I must state that whatever misunderstanding we may have with some Eastern and non-Eastern Southerners have centered largely on the civil war and this address to you would be incomplete without addressing some aspects of that. The civil war has been fought and won/lost, so we must move on. However, we Ndigbo feel that the main cause of the civil war –which is unbridled greed for power and political hegemony-, remains unaddressed in Nigeria. Whether you accept it or not, some of the goals of Biafra remain attractive to different groups in Nigeria, and by different names – Arewa, Middlebelt, Odua, etc, and this can only mean that the idea of Biafra was not based on greed as some of you often accuse us of, but rather a genuine attempt to find peace and progress within a politically and culturally stable space. I have always stated here that Biafra is not and cannot be my first choice for Ndigbo if all the ideals of equality encapsulated in the Ahiara Declaration, are implemented in the Nigerian constitution. We Ndigbo are not die hard secessionists; we are simply lovers of peace and progress.

So, if Nigeria cannot grant us our genuine rational and fair hopes, I would always echo the words of the great lion of Igboland/Biafra, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, “Biafra is always an option!” Whenever you mock our attempted secession, you shut the door to logic and fair hopes of all decent humans both within and outside of Nigeria. What is fair is fair, period, even if you may not want it for yourself. It is wicked and evil to try to play spoiler to your neighbors’ fair self help plans, because you are free to design similar plans for yourselves. Treachery is not exclusive to any individual or group. Evil is always easy, and all humans have equal capacity for evil. Therefore, let us learn to respect one another.

To my fellow Nigerians from the North, by both human and divine design, you have enjoyed the longest period of access to power at the center in Nigeria’s history as a nation. In that period, nations which were behind Nigeria in development in early 1960s (when you were not in total control) have frog leaped ahead of Nigeria, while we struggle with such simple things as electricity supply. We appreciate your contribution to nation building, but we appeal to your conscience to see a need for a change in direction of power within Nigeria. Nigeria must enthrone merit as the basis for political leadership. The years of “dark horses” must come to an end. Enough of born to rule mentality, especially when those imposed on Nigeria are hardly literate enough to understand the stakes for Nigeria.

In the year 2011, when other nations of the same independence age as Nigeria are moving into first world status, Northern Nigeria is still grappling with diseases which have been successfully eradicated in some of the poorest countries in Africa. To add to the problem, Nigeria is now the only black sub-Saharan African country with cases of suicide bombing and Islamic extremism. Northern Nigeria is gradually falling into a civil war, and there is no way that war would not metastasize throughout Nigeria unless we collectively pull the plug on power greed. I say this, because I want to believe that there is still hope for Nigeria; nevertheless, I do not believe in “indivisibility” of Nigeria because only a mad person would cleave to a failed methodology. Nigeria’s indivisibility should announce itself when things are done right. It can never be imposed whether by force of arms, or “by a multitude of people” to borrow from Lord Denin.

To friends of Nigeria, I enjoin you to continue to contribute to our discourse here on Nairaland, and offer your opinions and advice on the way forward. We always appreciate you. Please keep coming!

To the Mods, I Onlytruth, Ikenga Dike 1 of Anaedo, Ndu di n’eziokwu 1 of Igboland, Eze Ndigbo 1 (elect) of Nairaland, wish to thank you for your support during this process. You proved yourselves classy, diligent and decent Nigerians. We, Ndigbo, say a huge thank you!

To the greatest online Chairman of the Highly Independent Electoral Commission of Nairaland –PointB- I say a huge thank you. May your days and your tribe(family) increase, Amen!

Long live Ndigbo, Long Live Eastern Nigerians, Long Live Southern Nigerians, Long Live Nigerians, Long Live friends of Nigeria.

Igbo kwenu!
Eastern Nigerians kwenu!
Southern Nigerians kwenu!
Nigerians kwezuo nu!


My proposed Eze –In-Council (subject to amendments)

Prime Minister – PointB, or[b] Odumchi[/b]
Ohanaeze Chief liason officer –[b]Andre Uweh[/b]
Umu ada Leader –Ifyalways
Traditional Priest (eze mmuo) – Nri Priest
Chief Political Strategist – Obiagu1

Open offices:

Please suggest using the email provided.

position accepted.

Man pass man.

Special Thanks to Marocguy and my campaign team.
Special thanks to Ijaw-girl and non Ndigbo who supported me.
Special thanks to Ndigbo for their support to me.
Special thanks to Nigerians for their support.
We (Andre Uweh's team) do not see this election as a failure but a high way to success in the future. To my Umunna in Isinweke, no need for riots, there is another day.


We hereby use this medium to congratulate the eventual winner Onlytruth and others who participated in this election. We all believe in one goal, to re-establish the glory of Ndigbo before the army struck in 1966. We will support the winner to accomplish this task.
Long live Ndigbo.
Long live Nigeria.
Yours Andrew.

efisher:
My ideal Official Politics Section Poster Of The Year should be someone who:
1. Is a regular topic starter.
2. Actively contributes to many reasonable topics (there are very many unreasonable topics).
3. Is objective and supports arguments with facts.
4. Presents his / her views clearly, respectfully and probably with a tinge of humor.
5. Brings out new / interesting perspectives in forum discussions.

These are the qualities I think we should be looking out for.

The answer is onlytruth.

seanet02:
What concerns agbero with overload self? Why is ibos always  poke-nosing into Yoruba affairs? ezeife STFU. ediot

Lil boy, Northern youths also kicked against the demnstration but you just like your fellows are too scared of the north.

No.
There may be a toss of coin or play one another probably in a neutral venue.
In Spain and some other places, head to head rules applies while in the British isle goals difference comes into play in that situation.
I ghotago.

Ejiné:
It's all about business competition, actually. Most wouldn't want to commute in a place like Onitsha, because there are about 600,000 traders who still deal with the type of stuff they do, hence stiff competition.
But when their shops are situated in the North (a place where the majority are into nomadic livestock farming), you see their businesses flourishing because there aren't much traders to challenge them with equal things of better quality.
It's that simple, really.

Well put.

@the O.P, this thread has been posted several times in this section. There is nothing new to add.

afam4eva:
Once again Igbos are casualties. I keep saying it that it's easterners that are carrying this nation on their head. Anything that happens in Igboland affects Igbos. It happens in the west, Igbos are counted. It happens in the north. Igbos are highly represented. Igbos are being used for blood money in this country.

Word.

Onlytruth

High Chief

Odumchi.

Nice post from Ezeagu.
The Igbo resisted the British more than any group in West Africa. The fiercest resistant came from Bendeland as those communities took to arms from one village to another. Afara, Ubakala, Oborro, Uzuakoli, Olokoro and Item. Also were Ovim, Nonya, Ozara all now in Isikuato.
Even what culminated into the Aba women's riot of 1929 started from Bendeland, Olokoro to be precise.

wesley80:
Sorrowful cry has gone/ended
Ukwuani - Ekwa alili ana
Aboh/Ndoni - Akwa alrilri ana

Wont you eat?
Ukwuani - ye ke li?
Aboh/Ndoni - e jeke lri?

She came to eat
Aboh - Obianibelri (used to be my sisters name but the last time I saw her document, her name had morphed into Obiageli! I asked her why and she simply said it was easier on the tongue, well I couldnt really fault her choice cos just as my parents would refer to God as Oliseh Osobulue my generation would simply end the discussion at 'Chukwu' and communication would be guaranteed. The gradual fusion and 'corruption' of languages seems pretty much undeniable.

Nice contribution, more please.

Obudu cattle ranch is not in Calabar.