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[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=595370.msg7636828#msg7636828 date=1296441647]Equatorial Guinea only has a population of 676,000. And Obiang is a tyrant. It would only take 1,000 Igbo soldiers to overthrow that regime. Even the Niger Deltan militants tried to attack the island. Just imagine what we can do.[/quote]wdf?

Obiagu1:
@ asha80, if your forefathers did not migrate and you have a link to Eri, you'll probably still be struggling for space in Igbo-Ukwu. All of us just folded our hands to enjoy the lands our forefathers gave us.
I'm still Igbo!

it is a question of developing your present homeland and not repeating the mistake of developing another persons homeland.na wa

Onlytruth:
Posted by: EzeUche_
Frankly this is one of the biggest lies myths I know.

Each time I travel from Onitsha to Enugu, to Abakaliki and Nsukka I see so much space that current Igbo population WORLDWIDE cannot even fill.

I challenge you guys saying this to go home and try drying along Enugu PH expressway and Enugu/Onitsha, Abakaliki roads, you will come back far wiser.

Igboland is largely undeveloped.

My interest in Gabon is ONLY for strategic reasons.

you dey mind them.man paranoia no good o.

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=595370.msg7636786#msg7636786 date=1296440443]Let us be honest with ourselves. Igboland is too small for the Ndi Igbo. We need to expand. My Aro ancestors set up communities in all directions. Even in Cameroon, there are Aro settlements.

We Igbos are always on the move. It is because our region is too small, that we seek to expand in all directions. Gabon will be the perfect for living space.[/quote]there some places in igboland that are unoccupied.eg is the ihitte uboma/obowu axis,umuagwo/obinze axis,some parts of enugu and ebonyi.

what is the real genesis behind the mushin gang wars?

ayodeji200:
I can prove dis anywhere that u can hardly see any successful Igbo businessman in Nigeria without involved in any criminal activities such as arm robbery,burglary,kidnapping etc
I ve observed few of them in my neighbourhood over the years and a lot of things had confirmed my suspicion.can u believe a situation where someone who owns a boutique would disappear just like that and when you ask after such shop owner,the other Igbo guys ll tell u that he has gone back to the village even when they claimed he died in ghastly motor accident,there won't be any report/record of such accident along d motorway where they claimed the accident happened and not only one or two but few of them that had been involved in dis ugly situation.

I was oppourtune to work with Nigeria Police Force Headquarter as Auditor but my office was close to CID department for about 6months and what i discovered then really shocked me. In a week,about 10 to 15 armed robbers were always brought in either dead or alive and believe me or not,all of them were always Igbo,big big men wt nice stature nd toned skin in pool of blood. The ones who re alive always confessed to have one shop or the other after thorough investigation as well as severe purnishment.

However,(very)few of them are honest in their businesses.you might not accept dis in d public[b] but when you re all by yourself,your conscience ll be telling u that what that guy wrote right there is nothing but the truth.[/b]

i hope you know that a lot of civil servants from your part of the country a first class embezzlers of funds so no need to appear holy because you guys are not.experience has let me know this.

emmke:
Ibos u know what? Nobody likes u people. Reason being u are so arrogant and always claim to be better or smarter than everyone (which is a symptom of massive inferiority complex, btw) this has always and will always be u people's undoing. U'd continue to be marginalised and there is nothing u lot can do about it. All your threats are empty, as usual, as u dont trust urselves enough to unite and fight for your common goal. Ibo people are such terrible politicians[b]. U guys dont matter[/b]. Get use to it. am not yoruba

this would have made more sense if igbo related threads in nairaland do not elicit the most replies here.

Obiagu and Ezeuche have finally lost it.

rman:
It is happening in Kwara, Borno, Lagos and soon everywhere!

KWARA: Father is the political leader, son is governor, sister is in the senate, and guess what, eight years later, the best a whole state can come up with is to switch from brother to sister(governor). That is what is in the making and may likely happen

LAGOS: Husband is the party leader, wife goes to the house of assembly, inlaws and cousins are also there. Family affair.

BORNO: Husband will go back to senate( after being the senator and governor for twelve years), brother becomes governor and wife goes to the house of reps. Another family affair.

The Obansanjo's, even Bankole are also examples of family affair politics been practised in Nigeria.

And most ignorant Nigerians fail to see our decmocarcy as Nigerians colonising Nigerians gradually. Some really dump ones give examples of the Kennedy's and co in the US. They fail to understand that with no results to show for your tenure you are politically dead in the US. Even sex scandals can get you out of office in a jiffy.
My problem with all these set up is this; why do we have learned men/women still hanging around and doing ''ranka dede'' for all these men that ensalving them and their own unborn kidds. A poor, uneducated man may be excused.

We all need to wake up and tell oureselves the truth. Nigeria, as a nation, is on a path to destruction quickly and there is no way back if we don't understand te fact that the same set of people that caused the problem are the ones we are looking up to, to provide solutions.
PATHETHIC!

i hope you know that those parts of nigeria that do these things are monarchical in their thinking hence they do not particularly see any problem with those arrangements?

[quote author=dem_people link=topic=595370.msg7632249#msg7632249 date=1296373005]On #5. In my post, I said, "Creation of a 6th state for the SE to level with other zones [/b]in the federation. This means that whatever number of states in other zones will be reciprocated in the SE.

On #6. Anyi amago ife ga-eme echi. Nigeria enweghi isi n'odu. If its left like that, we're not better off as a state because our allocation is low. If its explored, benefit would surely come our way in terms of funds.[b] Already, there's a private refinery springing up there.

On #8. Eventhough we showed ourselves to be resilient and turned out to be once again successful and all that, we still need that compensation. It wouldn't alter any historical knowledge of the enterprising nature of Ndigbo.[/quote]i thought it has been haulted or work stopped?

PhysicsMHD:
If he campaigns in the middle belt hard enough, plus in the south, yeah it would give him the necessary states/numbers.


It's all on him.


a) Sit back and wait until after the election while people die and then do something.


b) Or be bold, do something costly now and make up for it later with double effort.


I don't see GEJ as the hero type, so I'm not getting my hopes up, though.

i do not think nigerians (especially those looking up to his presidentship) appreiciates that.nigerians have a weird way of reasoning you know.even if you dod things for their own benefit they will still condem you.

PhysicsMHD:
R.I.P. to all those that died.


I think GEJ needs to forget the political implications and just come down on the Hausa-Fulani with full force.

That, plus scrap that Hausa-Fulani LG in Jos and set things back to how they were.


For all he knows, South + Middle Belt with no "Northern" support might be enough to win it. Forget Sambo.

you are sure about that?

if only jason is a consistent guy.

your kinsman being a head of state might have carried weight during the millitery regime (ala abacha massively developing kano) but in this settting i do not see how it affects the commoner that presidents kinsman.

like i have said before,one yoruba guy came into s restaaurant where i was bragging about how igbo might not get presidency and all that only to later beg me for some money to help himself out of a situation only for me to tell him to go to ota and ask Obj.

yourbas in jos should stay in jos after all they have been there since the very early twentieth century

nuzo:
How you dey asha?

Good thing you are also looking out for DRANOEL. . . what a way to show the much needed brotherly love.
But wait a minute, we can both agree that's its so hard showing love on a being who lacks love for itself.

On a more serious note, DRANOEL comes across as a confused being, hence why I will not bother trying to hear from him. . . . with due respect pls.

man na so if only the new guys in nairaland would understand why we are looking for these guys comments.mehn there posts in the past concerning their affinity with hausa fulanis back then was the height of misplaced cammaradie especially DRANOEL 

i don ask about the guy and DRANOEL.e be like say dem no wan drop mouth for wetin dey happen there but na josboy4life wey i dey look for im comment badly

Katsumoto:
Are you suggesting that he was Governor of the Western region from 1966 to 1971 in absentia? I will let your comment about Ogundipe slide; this is not the politics section.

I will leave you with a quote from Adebayo before the civil war when opposing the use of force against Biafra.

'I need not tell you what horror,what devastation and what extreme human suffering will attend the use of force. When it is all over and the smoke and dust have lifted, and the dead are buried,we shall find, as other people have found,that it has all been futile, entirely futile,in solving the problems we set out to solve'.

no wahala i know say u get diary of civil war issues

samparian:
i dey fly under the radar these days for security reasons no blame me.

things have been tense in Borno state for a long time. Nobody paid any attention to the killing of igbo businessmen, police men and military personnel. The igbo's in the state went on a sit at home strike for 3 days. Businesses were reonpened on Thursday morning.

any soldier or policeman that walks alone in the streets of maiduguri is a moving target. this has been going on since last year but it was kept out of the papers.
I'll say it again, Gov. Sherrif MUST know about the crises in his state. He wants to return to the senate, put his wife in House of Reps, His brother as governor and his father as chief contractor of the state

as for the first bolded are they random(ie from any ethnic group or igbo specifically)?

as for the second bolded wdf

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=592779.msg7630777#msg7630777 date=1296344798][color=deeppink]Nope!

He wasn't born in america, he only immigrated to america.

If he was born in american, he wouldn't have been known as an immigrant to the authorities.[/color][/quote]it is good to be informed before you argue blindly like you usually do

How Tobechi Onwuhara Masterminded $44 Million Bank Fraud in America , Born in Houston, Onwuhara was sent to live with his wealthy father in Nigeria . ,

http://www.123people.com/s/tobechi+onwuhara

FBI agents say Onwuhara was born in Houston and sent to live with his father

http://audionigeria.com/?p=2358

samparian:
i have returned from my sabatical leave.
ANPP of borno state know what is happening. this is an in house cleansing that's going on. SAS cannot claim ignorance. He and his family are too ambitous for their own good.

guy where u dey since  

man give us the lowdown in borno as per say na ur base. _{also wetin dey happen for igbos dem dey kill there}

T9ksy:
We have never believed in One Nigeria that Ironsi and his igbo advisers foisted on us withour our consent.
The same One nigeria that zik and his sudekicks were harping on about even as both the sardunna and Pa awo clearly expressed their objection to such a ridiculous idea. Even as the north was killing igbos in their enclave with unparallel barbarity (1945, 1953)

Your case is not unique in yorubaland as am sure you are fully aware off. Am a pagan whilst most of my siblings are devote xtians. I have two in-laws who are muslims. It's therefore a no-brainer  to expect yorubas to embark on religious warfare. It will be tantamount to killing my family members for some religious god.

if i may ask what is stopping yoruba from secceding now?

Oladiran:
I askd fo prayers b4, i tnk we need it now! Heavy gunshots frm farin-gada area, nobody can sleep again!

Oladiran from your name you are from western nigeria.my candid advice please try and go back to the west for you to have peace of mind.

JaaizTech:
Mr. Facts; so what are the facts
I am appalled by the no. of comments by Igbos accusing the north of murdering Igbos, one even talked about 1966 May be Igbos should be reminded that they were at war with Nigeria and not just the North; in fact it was Awolowo's brilliant idea ("starve the Igbos of food) that brought an end to the war.Also the Igbos murdered Nigerian soldiers with impunity both Northerners and non-northerners; and The genesis of the war was as a result of insensitivities by some Igbo Military officers. So stop all these spread of hate; Igbos enjoy their lives better in the North than what the northerners face in the east; I ve' witnessed this first-hand, their women are continuously taunted and harassed (pulling their head covers is very common) in the east, they are abused and insulted at will.

first igbos supposedly enjoy better lives in the north than the northerners in the east simply because igbos are ambitious.an igbo perosn that starts with ordinary handerchief selling is not hoping to that the rest of his life and is willing to enter into more lucrative ventures as times move on but the northerner that shines shoe in the east has no qualms doing that for the rest of his life.

as for taunting the northerners that wear hijab by pulling their covered hair what a way to steer controversy just to justify a non existent argurement.

Tsiya:
These are all secondary issues created later. Land and grazing rights are not even a problem in Jos. There is sufficient fertile land in Plateau for all the people.

The main issue is the hatred the people have for each other caused by religious difference, economic empowerment, political aspirations, lack of justice.

what do you mean economic empowerment?

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=592779.msg7629765#msg7629765 date=1296333760]Are you Tobechi or his family relative or something?

Whether you believe it or not he's dumb, the FBI are having a problem catching up with his dumb butt because[b] he's a Nigerian immigrant and from a village such as Abia which makes it highly unlikely he'll be caught.[/b]

But, let truth be told, he's just very lucky to have left the U.S. soil before his evil schemes was exposed, his american accomplices have been caught and are all in jail right now except him

This days, it's really hard to catch up with a criminal who is foreigner especially one from west africa but one thing is for sure if the FBI catches him or not, he'll pay for his deviant acts one way or another.[/quote]he is an american as he was born there and has an american passport.

edoyad:
What does gej have to do with this ? People went for Xmas eve service and were attacked, that's what we should look at. Many of the J boys i'm with (here in lagos) confidently say their people will end it this time around. I'm sure you don't need an interpreter to tell you what they mean by "end it".

i can understand when people say abiola worked himself up to elected president but no one should tell me about Obj working up to anything.Someone the ex military junta used to appease the sw because of june 12? abeg free me

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=594719.msg7625190#msg7625190 date=1296271712]Places that look like this: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/zerot001/architecture/ghetto.jpg

http://abagond.files./2010/07/bronx-ghetto.jpg

People who live in places like that, you do not invite to your house. Especially late at night.[/quote]mehn those are real ghetto settings.council flats in uk are much better danm.

kcjazz:
Dude, it is a start. I would rather start small, than wait for big things to fall from heaven. We all can agree, there is a problem, some young folks are doing stuff in that direction deviating from the past. I am all about solutions sorry.

goodluck.

please guys what do you guys mean by projects?is it like council flats or hand outs?

buzugee:
you think he will be a vegetable ?

i think he would be.i mean look at the description of the body when it was found.i rather be dead that live with that.

kcjazz:
We want to learn to riot? Abi dodge tear gas?

First, the situation in Tunisia and Egypt is totally different, I commend them for their courage but they woke up too late to allow tyranny rule for over 20 years. When we start saying people are not dying for others, it seems we have forgotten about the struggles of June 12 or Ken Saro Wiwa, we forget that at a time when politicians were on national TV adopting Abacha as a sole candidate there were people fighting and putting their lives at risk for this country.

Not all struggles can be achieved with strikes (ask NLC). We need change. There are young Nigerians that give me hope about what is needed in this country. Have you registered to vote? How have you contributed to any failing sector be it education, health or road accidents, Jos? Get in touch with the detribalized young people making a change, the struggle for our generation is different and we must seek out ways to create change and it will come albeit slowly. But it will come.

you need more than that to solve nigeria sorry

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=594719.msg7625138#msg7625138 date=1296269772]Why are African Americans targeting Nigerians? This is unbelievable. How many of our people have to be killed in that country?[/quote]are you not there?