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onenaira2:
RIGHT

Even a 2014 report of the government of the nation is false. Na 2013 is more reliable because it favours yoruba.

Lmfaooooooooooooooooo they'll kill us with laughter.

Abeg leave am with their painment. I pity them. Na "I get am before" things

Igbo pre civil war dominance was too much for them to bear, they thought that the civil war would keep the Igbo down forever, but 4 decades down the line, Boom! They are behind the Igbos again in every single facet of human endeavour.

I appreciate their pain. You need to listen to Akintola "ronu speech" with a Yoruba interpreter to understand how hard it is to live behind the Igbo shadow.

Bear with them. You can't beat a child and take away cry from him, doing that will make you a terrible person.

Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965)




I pity Yorubas, forever under the great Igbo shadow. The pain must be excruciating.

You can Imagine how painful it was, that Akintola had to deliver the painful Yoruba ronu speech, specially dedicated to the great Igbo.

Yorubanews:
That's how we know it's fraud. Lol Even you sef sabi use common sense to decode am

Lol! All parts of Nigeria ahead of holy Yoruba in education, are doing miracle centres, except the holy Yorubas.

Yorubanews:
Miracle centers in the SE have been discussed in depth.

Miracle centres that allowed northern states to even rank higher than SW states in performance index at WAEC

Yorubanews:
You still can't tell us Nigerisn Bureau's methodology. You won't find it, even if you go, a true researcher will notice the fraud.

UN's methodology is online for all to read and debate.

Any true researcher will notice these realities:
www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statisticswww.nairaland.com/2562674/shocking-cut-off-marks-federalwww.nairaland.com/2919593/2015-waec-performance-ratings-ekitiwww.nairaland.com/2913833/again-south-east-leads-wassce-performance

And not voodoo stats that places a region that is lagging behind SE in aspect of human endeavour ahead of SE .

Yorubanews:
You still can't tell us Nigerisn Bureau's methodology. You won't find it, even if you go, a true researcher will notice the fraud.

UN's methodology is online for all to read and debate.

Any true researcher will notice these realities:
www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statisticswww.nairaland.com/2562674/shocking-cut-off-marks-federalwww.nairaland.com/2919593/2015-waec-performance-ratings-ekitiwww.nairaland.com/2913833/again-south-east-leads-wassce-performance

And not voodoo stats that places a region that is lagging behind in aspect of human endeavour ahead of SE.

scholes0:
guy, pls stop deceiving yourself the methodology of measuring multidimensional poverty may have been developed by Oxford which is a top global research university IN COLLABORATION with the UN.
But the field survey to collect the data was carried out purely by UN staff in Nigeria.... Oxford does not even have the means nor the funds to go on a field survey in over 100 developing countries of the world.



There is the methodology for you.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi
http://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/MPI_2011_Methodology_Note_4-11-2011_1500.pdf?cda6c1

"The MPI has been estimated by OPHI and published in UNDP human development reports since 2010".

That's what I got from your link.

UNDP conducted no such studies, Oxford university did and published it in UNDP reports.

Btw, Oxford Data are still flawed, as I suspect they gathered them from local authorities and not from
the streets.

www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics
www.nairaland.com/2562674/shocking-cut-off-marks-federal
www.nairaland.com/2919593/2015-waec-performance-ratings-ekiti
www.nairaland.com/2913833/again-south-east-leads-wassce-performance
https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment

In the face of the above facts and reality, why should anybody take any flawed report that place SW ahead of SE in any thing that has to do with education serious?

Good a thing UNDP admitted to collecting their obviously flawed data from Nigeria.

scholes0:
BUT when one journalist used this same data source to say SE is the safest region in the country, it was sufficient enough then abi?
Take it or leave it, this is a 2015 report.

the report on multidimensional poverty which ranked the SW as the richest region in Nigeria is a 2015 report.
So go and sit down abeg.

The multidimensional poverty stat was not conducted by UNDP, it was conducted by Oxford university, who did not conduct any fresh studies themselves, but relied on flawed data from NBS which placed Niger state as the state with least poverty rate.

That topic had Bern debated and exhausted on NL here by many Igbo posters, let me look for the links of those debates and Post for the reading pleasure of the neutrals and newbies here.

MrsNgoziKalu:
Mazi Ariani!

So now i should leave the source that told you people that SE is the safest region in nigeria, and face your own nairaland source because it doesn't favour your people this time. To hell with you.

@Scholes0

i remember when 2015 igr was released, my friends said that isn't how to calc econmic viability, it's the amount deposited in banks that shows economic viability of states, and they were rejoicing

God punish devil

Any stat that places SW ahead of SE in any aspect of human endeavour is obviously fraudulent and should be discarded as such.

You don't expect me to slap a fraudulent source when it speaks the truth( ie proclaims the overall superiority of SE over SE in Education and living standards), because the truth is universal, and no one should be praised or scorned for saying it. Simple acknowledgment will do.

Indicator 6.7: Proportion of children under 5 sleeping in insecticide – treated bed nets
It has to be recalled that only 2.2% of children in 2003 slept in insecticide treated nets. The percentage went up to 34.6% in 2012. The trend showed no difference in 2014 as 34.7% of the children slept in insecticide treated bed nets in the night preceding the survey. Across the sectors showed that the urban areas (41.7%) had more children who slept in insecticide treated bed nets than the rural with a record of 31.2%. In the zone the percentage of children sleeping in insecticide treated bed nets lingered between 47% and 17.8%. Similarly, 28.5% of pregnant women slept in insecticide treated bed nets in 2014 against the 30.3% record of 2012. Majority of the pregnant women were from the South West (45.3%) zone as compared to the least in North East (16%) zone.
GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Target 7.C: Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Indicator 7.8: Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source
And Indicator 7.9: Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility
Fifty seven percent of Nigeria households had access to improved water source in 2004. In 2008, there was a slight decrease to 55.8 percent. Fifty seven percent was recorded again in 2012 while in 2014 there was an increase to 62.2%. Access to improved sources of drinking water has been unstable in Nigeria. Although in 2014, the urban areas recorded about 74.6% against the 57.6% of the rural, yet access within the zones showed that it was only in South West that a 70.6% access to improved sources was recorded. The rest of the zones lingered between 68% and 53%.

[b] Indicator 5.5: Antenatal Care Coverage.
In 2008, only 8.2% of the pregnant women attended antenatal for one visit while 44.8% attended for at least 4 visits. In 2012 66.3% of them attended for at least one visit and 57.8% for at least four visits. The record in 2014 was that about 25% of the women that were pregnant never attended antenatal visits. At the same time, 68.9% attended at least once while 60.6% attended for four times and over. The number of visits for antenatal was encouraging in the urban where 75.9% of pregnant women had at least four visits. The rural rears were no exception as 51.6% of the pregnant women visited over four times. With regard to the zones, South East (88.3%) had the highest number of visits. South West (78%), South South (64.1) and North Central (65.80) had encouraging number of antenatal visits. But very few pregnant women in North West (38.1%) and North East (32.9%) attended antenatal up to four times.
Indicator 5.6: Unmet Needs for Family Planning
In 2004, there were about 17% of women in this category. They increased to 20.2% in 2008 and 21.5% in 2012. However, there was a marginal increase in 2014 (22.2%). The prevalence of unmet need was more in the rural sector (22.4%) than the urban (21.8%). Across the zones, there were higher incidences of unmet need in North West (27.4) and North East (25.8%) than the rest of the zones. The experience was very low in the South East (11.4%).
GOAL 6: COMBAT HID/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER MAJOR DISEASES
Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Indicator 6.3: Percentage of Young Women aged 15 – 24 years with comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDs
Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and related diseases among the young women is increasing. There is a general consciousness that HIV/AIDS is real. In 2004, only 18.3% of the young ladies within age 15 – 24 years had comprehensive and correct knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention, and transmission and others. There was a rise in this percentage in 2012 (33%). There was not much difference in the record for 2014 (32.8%). Thus the trend remained at the national level. But in the sectors, the urban areas with 37.8% showed that there were more young women with comprehensive knowledge than the 30.5% in the rural. At the level of the zones, a large percentage of the young ladies in North Central had comprehensive knowledge. Besides the North Central zone were the South East (37.3%), South West (34.3%) and South South zone (33.2%). Both the North West (26.5%) and particularly North East (23.2%) had little proportion of young ladies with comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDs. [/b]

[b] Indicator 4.2: Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
The deaths of infants under one year per 1,000 live births in Nigeria was also very high in 2004 where 100 children died without seeing their first birth day in every 1,000 live births. The deaths of infants have been on the decrease since 2008 in which 75 infants died per 1000 till 2014 with a record of 58. The prevalence of infant mortality in 2014 was more prominent in the rural areas with a record of 63 deaths than the urban with a record of 46 deaths per 1000 live births. Across the zones, the North West with 77%, followed by South East with 69, had more infants dying without seeing their first birth day in every 1000 live births.
Indicator 4.3 – Proportion of one year old children immunized against measles.
Measles vaccination is becoming popular and the coverage is improving though slowly. Fig4.3 shows that between 2004 and 2012, the measles vaccination of children under one year of age staggered between 50% and 55.8%. In 2004, there was a record of 50%. It went down to 41.4% in 2008 and appreciated again to 55.8% in 2012. There was a significant increase in 2014 in which 63.1% of children under one year were immunized against measles. The analysis of the survey result by geo-political zones showed that over 80% of one year old children were immunized in South East (82.4%), South West (81.2%) and South South (80.3%). Although North Central (77.0) was not bad, yet North East (42.4) and North West (35.4%) were not encouraging. One year old children were predominantly immunized in the urban areas (56.2%) than the rural areas (39.95).
GOAL 5: IMPROVED MATERNAL HEALTH
Target 5.A. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the Maternal Mortality Ratio.
The 2004 Maternal Mortality ratio of 800 in every 100,000 live births crashed to 545 in 2008. The performance tracking survey of 2012 recorded a further decrease to 350 per 100,000 live births and the downward trend consistently maintained its course to 2014 with a record of 243 per 100,000 live births. As a remark, the 2014 estimation was strictly based on women within the age bracket of 15 to 49 years, as opposed to the 2012 age bracket of 15 to infinity. The rationale behind this is that the child bearing age for women is within that bracket. Based on this, Nigeria is at the verge of meeting the target on maternal mortality.
Indicator 5.2: Proportion of Births attended by skilled health care attendants.
A zonal disaggregation of this trend shows that of the children born within the period of reference, South East (89.1%) had the highest record of delivery assisted by skilled birth attendant. Eighty three percent was recorded in South West. North Central and South South zones respectively had a record of 67.2% and 64.4%. The least were in North East (30.8%) and North West (24.8%). Sectorally, the urban areas with 79.2 had higher proportion of deliveries assisted by trained personnel’s while the rural areas had 46.6%.
Target 5B: Achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015
Indictor 5.3: Contraceptive Prevalence Rates:
This is the percentage of women aged 15 – 49 years that use any method of family planning. The use of contraceptive is gradually gaining general acceptance. In 2004, only 8.2% of women within the stated age bracket used contraceptive measures for family planning. The percentage increased to 14.6% (about 78% increases) in 2008. It appreciated further in both 2012 (17.3%) and 2014 (18.5%). Contraceptive prevalence was highest in South East zone with a of 43%, followed by South West (24.0%). The prevalence in the urban areas (16.7%) was higher than that of the rural (9.7%). [/b]

[b] GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015.
Indictor 3.1: Ratio of girls to boys in Primary and Secondary education
Nationally, the gender parity in the primary school in 2008 was 0.9. The interpretation is that in every 9 girls in primary school in 2008, there were 10 boys. It increased to 1.0 in 2012 implying 10 girls in every 10 boys. The parity index increased to 1.02 in 2014. The rural (1.01) and urban (1.01) were equal. The GDIs across the zones were exceedingly encouraging. In the secondary schools in 2012, the gender parity index was 1.02. The decline to 1.01 in 2014 was insignificant. There were no disparity in both the rural (1.0) and urban (90.98) in 2012. Nigeria has already achieved gender parity index as illustrated in fig 3.1a, being a chart of gender parity in both primary and secondary schools distributed by state in 2014.
GOAL 4: REDUCED CHILD MORTALITY
Target: Reduce by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate among children under five years old.
Indicator 4.1: Under five Mortality Rate (U5MR)
About ten years ago specifically 2004 (201), Nigeria’s average under five mortality rate was very high. But right from then, there has been a steady decrease till 2014 when there was a record of only 89 children dying before their fifth birthday in every 1000 live births. See Fig4.1. Although the national average in 2014 was 89, yet some states had numbers much higher than the national average. The states include Kogi (169), Katsina (155), Kaduna (167) etc. The death prevalence in 2014 however was much more in the rural areas with 98 deaths against the 66 in the urban. North West zone with 121 and North East zone with 78 had the highest under five mortality rate than the other zones. South West zone had 45 as the least. If the rate in 2004 is adopted as the base value, it implies that some zones and states would have met the MDGs target on under five mortality before 2015. [/b]

[b] Download the complete report here: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pages/download/254

GOAL 1: TO ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Target 1c: Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Indicator 1.8: Prevalence underweight children under five year of age.

In the year 2008, the proportion of underweight children going by the national average was 23.1%. It went up to 27.4% in 2012 but declined to 25.5% in 2014. For lack of data, concrete trend cannot be established with this report. Although Nigeria has attained the hunger target according to other reports, yet more interventions are needed not only for the under-five children but for their mothers in order to alleviate them completely from the scourge of hunger.

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Target 2A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Indicator 2.1: Net enrolment in primary education.

In 2014, The states with very high attendance ratios included Anambra (94%), Delta (92.80), Imo (90.7), Lagos (92), Ondo (92.4), Osun (91.6), Edo (91.0), Ekiti (93.6) and FTC (94.1) while the least were Bauchi (29.9), Sokoto (24.80), Yobe (23.7), Zamfara (37.80).

At the national level, the net attendance ratio was 61% in 2008 and it increased to 71% in 2012. In 2014, there was a shortfall of 2.3% and the net attendance for 2014 thus dropped to 68.7%. When classified by sectors, net attendance in the urban (84.3%) was much higher than in the rural areas (62.2%). Across the geopolitical zones, it was very encouraging in the South East (90.5%), South South (88.1%), South West (87%) and North Central (80.2%). But in the North West (50.5%) and particularly North East (42.5%) net attendance was not impressive.
Although 100% attendance is expected, the result shows that Nigeria is on track.

Indicator 2.2: Primay Six Completion Rate

Nationally completion rate according to fig. 2.2 in 2004 was 82%. It increased to 87.7% in 2012 and dropped to 74.0 in 2014. Within the 2014, the completion rate was higher in the urban (84.4%) when compared with the rural (69.7). In the zones, completion rate was highest in South East (98.7%) zone, followed by South West (94.1%). Primary six completion rate was poorest in the North East (49.5%) zone. Nigeria is also on track.

Indicator 2.3: Literacy rate of 15 – 24 years, women

The literacy rate of youth women between 2004 and 2014 at the national level increased from 60.4% in 2004 to 80% in 2008. In 2012, it declined to 66%. Although it slightly appreciated in 2014 (66.7%), but that is insignificant. At the state level, literacy of youth women aged 15 – 24 was very encouraging in states like Rivers (98%), Enugu (97%), Imo (95%), Akwa Ibom (95%), Delta (94.1%), Anambra (93%), Ekiti (92.7%), Abia (91.3%). Conversely, literacy rate among woman of age 15 – 24 was poor in Sokoto (10.7%), Bauchi (13%), Yobe (16%) etc.

Sectorally, the survey showed that there were more literate youth women (85.3%) in the urban as against the 57.8% recorded in the rural areas. In the zones the literate youth women in the South East (93.5%) were much higher than the rest of the zones. North East (33.0%) and North West (35%) had the lowest percentage of literate youth women in 2014. [/b]

The data was captured for 2008-2013.

: https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment

This is a more recent data.
And more reliable. And as usual, SE leads.

smirn:
Anioma got N2b, and yes we are happy if the Sapele- Agbor-Ewu road is rehabilitated. I think that is the only major Federal government road that is really not ok in the region. The major federal road that cut across Delta state are the Benin-Warri-Patani road and the Benin-agbor Asaba express which are both very good roads completed by OBJ. When GEJ was in power, no single federal road was repaired in Delta State. The other major road in the state linking Ugheli- kwale-Asaba which is a state road has been under construction for over 8 years without completion due to the handiwork of the then corrupt Uduagan led PDP government in in Delta State.

Are you from Anioma?

Imagine only a meagre sum of 18.5 billion will be spent on roads passing through SE
SW has 53billion to be spent on roads passing through the zone.

This is serious.

When Nnamdi Kanu speak the truth on the things going on in this geographical contraption, some naive Igbos will be too blind to see.

Anioma only got 2billion.

contagiousme:
Your hero should should have been arrested and prosecuted for using children young as 13 as soldiers
shame on you for defending him

Your Hero was arrested, was found found guilty in a court of law, of embezzlement of public funds and Treason, sentenced to jail like a criminal he was.

But was saved by the coup. Yet his greed and criminal nature still got him into plotting another coup, apparently the petroldollars he was siphoning from Niger Delta to Lagos wasn't enough for him, he was arrested for the second time, like a criminal he was. A jailbird was always going to be a jailbird. Karma caught up with him eventually, and he died like a rat.

Now, how about that?

contagiousme:
Your hero fled the country with over 3000 pounds of personal
luggage and his expensive Mercedes Benz leaving the igbos to go f themselves

Your Hero took a rat poison after getting drunk on petroldollars, committed treason for the second time and died like a wretched rat.

That's basically the story of your Hero, he died a nobody, the world knew not the day he died.

contagiousme:
dont act like your ignorant ,his point is that Ironsi’s actions lead northeners
to have a counter coup .

igbos refuse to acknowledge the origin of the war.
they killed Northern ,yoruba,and midwestern leaders,while their own was spared
and the northerners do not joke with their leaders and decided to take revenge on the
ibos living in the north.

this is whey ojukwu lead your people to their graves........... ignorance

Still talking trash! Who are the "they" you are referring to? Never knew that Ademoyega was an Igbo man.

The Origin of the coup means nothing to me.
As the coup to the best of my knowledge was not in favour of the Igbo political agenda as spare headed by Okpara and Osadebey.


Don't quote me again, if you can't make use of your brain for once.

"If they had killed them, they will say that it is Edem-Nike people, because it is in Edem Nike I met them. But those that wanted to kill them are from Abakaliki. I saw them and asked them why they are pursuing them; they said they damaged their block."

"I asked them, is it worth killing somebody because they damaged your block? How much is your block, tell me I will pay.

This Igwe is imbecilic. He would defend Fulani murderers to curry favour from the North, and he would paint his fellow Igbos as murderers to that end.

End time Igwe iberibe.

[b] The coup was anti Igbo because:

Nzeogwu the coup originator never was Igbo trained, he was only Igbo by blood, he hardly can represent the wish and political thoughts of Ndiigbo at that era in discuss.


With regionalism in place, and the two oil rich regions of Midwest and Eastern region under the leadership of Igbo leaders ie Osadebey and Okpara, all Ndiigbo needed was to tighten regional autonomy and ensure the wealth from the two regions was used in developing the region, while we paid peanuts in tax to the FG, this was what the Igbo leaders in Okpara and Osadebey wanted, the ignorant khaki boys( Ironsi, Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and co) actions, betrayed those interests .

Akintola and Awolowo factions fighting each other, fragmenting and rendering the Western region politically fragile, was actually what the Eastern leaders would have loved, as it makes things easier for Okpara dreams of placing Portharcourt as the nation's premier industrial, port and commercial city. Akintola short term victory would have meant that Awo would have rotted and died in prison while his Yoruba followers would have been easy targets for anyone wishing to destabilize Akintola and Yorubas.

The khaki boys did exactly the opposite, they eliminated Akintola, making it easier for Yorubas to unite behind Awolowo and present a United front, it also meant that Awo survived without Akintola supporters linking Akintola's death to him, as the khaki boys were guilty .

To the best of my knowledge, the coup and coup plotters changed all the political climate in the country that were all favouring Ndiigbo.
Viz:
1, A weak and fragmented Yorubaland that had been turned into battlefield by Akintola supporters and Awo supporters, Akintola himself being a northern sell out, and a tool to the saraduna who touted that he was set to conquer Yorubaland politically.

2, An inplace regional system that would had ensured that the economic gap between the Midwest/ Eastern region and the West/ Northern regions would have been as wide as the rift between heaven and hell, as long as we carried the non Igbos in those two regions along by ensuring equal wealth and power division and wealth control. [/b]

infoispower:
Even when the truth stares you in the face you will deny it,am sorry but that is intellectual weakness that leads to zombie followers

Dispute this too :
General Ironsi, an Igbo, emerged as the head of state. In his policies and actions, Ironsi did little to allay the fears of Igbo domination. He failed to place the coup plotters on trial as northern leaders demanded, and he appointed Igbos to sensitive governmental positions. Against all advice, Ironsi promulgated Decree Number 34 of 1966, which abrogated the federal system of government and substituted a unitary system; he argued that the military could only govern in this way. Given the already charged atmosphere, this action reinforced northern fears. As the north was less developed than the south, a unitary system could easily lead to southerners "taking over control of everything," as a northern spokesperson put it. It was at the height of northern opposition to unitarism that the countercoup of July 1966 took place.

Lol! You do realize that Ironsi favouring the unity government seen as Igbo plan to control everything to you, clearly cancels the "Igbo wanted the Niger Delta oil" to themselves, you Yoruba greedy people propagate?

Unity government meant that the proceeds from the Eastern region will be shared amongst all regions by the FG.

Seeing as the Igbos are greedy and wanted the Niger Delta crude oil, like you proclaim, don't you think that the way to go by Ironsi was to reinforce regionalism and increase the autonomy of the region's, to make sure that the Eastern oil wealth which would have made her 100 Times richer than the FG and the North and West, remained within the East?

I mean is the petty jobs the East could have gotten in the West and the North, after the unification of the regions, measure one-day thousandth to the petroldollars boom the East would swim in, if she reinforced the regional government and paid peanuts as taxes to the FG?

Is this not clear to any body with an ounce of brain that Ironsi unity government proposal were not only anti Igbo, they were his personal decisions, driven by his naive personal misunderstanding of Nigeria structural and ethnic complexity?

infoispower:
Buy this book :Ralph uwuchie, "reflections of the nigerian civil war"
he is an insider he fought with biafra till the end.
google this quote:”the biafran masses, enslaved by an extremely efficient propaganda network and cowed by
the iron grip of ruthless military machine had neither the facts or the liberty to form an independent opinion.
the case of the elite was different…those who had access to the facts knew that the time had come to seek a realistic
way to end the war …. in private they expressed this view but proved to cowardly to take a stand and tell ojukwu the
truth"un quote.

http://thenationonlineng.net/genocide-biafran-culpability-and-achebes-impressions/
https://peccaviconsulting./2015/08/04/biafra-strategic-military-lessons-from-the-civil-war-1/

biafra had effective propaganda system and stories which majority of people still believe till present

Trash! Uwaechue is entitled to his own opinions, but hardly are his opinions facts.

Unless you tell me you are now to believe everything Uwaechue says, cause he said lots of other things I know that you won't accept.

Ojukwu couldn't afford to be a tyrant. He had not the wherewithal to be such, Biafran was lacking in weapons, all she had working for het was the patriotism of her people that were willing to die for her.

Olabestonic001:
You just exposed your hypocrisy.
Didn't Adaka Boro rebel against Ojukwu and his cohorts prior to d Civil War?
Why did he did dt? Igbo only wanted a Biafra made up on oil in the Oil Rich region but they detest Nigeria for wanting dt. Your hypocrisy is legendary! So, your Biafra can't exclude Oil Rich Niger-Delta but Nigeria must exclude it right? Hear dis clearly: AS LONG AS IGBO SPEARHEAD A BIAFRA THAT INCLUDES OIL-RICH DELTA, THEY'LL BE SEVERELY RESISTED!
Come up with a secession that excludes Oil-Rich Delta and get Biafra in 7days. Its obvious, Neither FG or Igbo's loves the people of Niger-Delta but Igbo's are coming with their lies of being lovely to cajole them. When Niger-Delta truly rebel, maybe we can disband Nigeria (Lugard's corporation) but definitely not Igbo would be allowed to corner what could be for all.
Enjoy Nigeria while it lasts.

What are you going on about?
How can Igbo not love people of Niger Delta, when Igbos ( Etche, Ogba, Ikwerre, Asa,Ndoki,Ika, Ukwuani, Oshimili, Aniocha, Egbema, Ekpeye) are Niger deltans themselves? Why should we exclude Igbo speaking and non Igbo speaking territories in Eastern region , if they choose to be with us?

For every Boro in Ijaw, there was the king of Bakana that was behind Biafra, Dokubo's father was an Ijaw man that abdicated his thrown because he supported Biafra, and there were Men like Opigo, for every Saro wiwa, there was Kogbara, a genuine Ogoni leader who wasn't anti Biafran, and Ojukwu was more than open to UN supervised plebiscite in non Igbo speaking minority areas to determine their allegiance, which Gowon already knew was not favourable to him and declined.
Biafra was Eastern region, and it's funny that your greed wanted it divided to enable you leech on it's the newly discovered wealth.

Igbos never allowed the division of Eastern Nigeria before the discovery of crude oil, when coal and Palm oil were the main stream of incomes of the region, they were willingly to let justice to reign to accommodate all and sundry, but your greedy selves now believed that Igbos should let the region be divided at your own whim and caprice, when crude oil was discovered, just so that you get your filthy hands on it? okwaya?

You need to get your eyes off people's wealth. How can Niger Delta wealth be for all?

Look at the extent greed for other people's wealth got your ancestors? With placards calling other people's wealth, "our oil".
Little wonder why everything was siphoned to Lagos the moment you got the chance.

Greedy people.

Olabestonic001:
No, by seceding and collecting oil Royalties from Royal Shell. Sincerely, had Ojukwu been interested in Biafra without oil, he would have gotten it on a platter of gold.

You mean the Eastern region should have allowed Yorubas and Northerners to continue collecting royalties on resources of the region from Royal Shell?

Makes sense why you expect the Avengers to operate without demanding that you stop profiting from the oil of their region, by stopping the flow of oil, like Ojukwu did in the East.

This Yoruba protesters placard in Lagos 1968 says it all.
Your greed will be your end.

I find this hard to believe. How can she be the first female Nigerian cadio thoracic in the year 2016?

Yorubas.

"With the war ended, and as a
Commissioner in Rivers State, I soon
found that the Rivers State for which I had
fought did not end my nightmare. In the
first place, oil money from Ogoni country
(as well as Ijaw country) was being carted
away to Lagos, leaving the Ogoni illiterate
and backward. This is anti-federalism".

Meanwhile, look at what later happened.

Yorubas be like:
Ojukwu wants to steal our oil
Igbos want to steal our oil
De Gaul wants our oil
France wants to steal our oil
IPOB want sto steal our oil
Tompolo wants to steal our oil
Niger Delta Avengers want to steal our oil

Finally the Niger Delta is not Ijaw and Ijaw is not the Niger Delta. Let us play back to GEJ's government.Where were the Ogonis.the Efiks and so on.

You probably think the minorities are fools to fall for the same trick twice.