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JudgeDredd:
For chrissakes, the millitary were around and very much in control back then with vested interest/input from western nations, lack of awareness on the part of the general populace didn't really help as well.

We've got the chance to right the wrong this time around, we however should be careful lest we turn into another calamitious project of the west.

i hope you can get the northen part of the country to believe because quite frankly i do not think they warm up to confederation.

Andre Uweh:
Probably, he feels there is a lot to it.

actually i was trying to rile up someone.

JudgeDredd:
Of-course, each region has a right to independence albeit it could end up disturbing the peace and stability of the various regions if rushed. Nigeria is on the brink of total collapse and all you can think of is breaking it up abruptly without considering the aftermath.
I see your mindset is just like your brother ola edo. Internet warriors, do remember to stick around when the poo hit the fan.

see this one.can't you from what said realise that though i am for it it might or never happen because this same arrangement you are advocating was tabled in the aburi conference but was rejected by nigeria and the follow up was the civil war.The poo already hit the fan.

JudgeDredd:
A referendum won't solve the anomaly we currently find ourselves in. Sudan lost six of her citizens (owing to religious skirmishes along the Abiye border) this very day in a bid to effect a referendum. A confederation is more apt (a test run), atleast till we fashion out how to co-exist independently and peacefully.

Forget this.It died with the aburi accord.

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Re: Biafra: The Nigerian Civil War In Pictures
« #74 on: Today at 08:00:50 PM »

even responses on this board remain heavily ethnically biased.  did innocent non-igbos not die, lose limbs and properties during this war?  were all non-igbo fighters calumnous while all igbo soldiers were noble and doing the right thing?  many who fought on the federal side, including my father, were not fighting the igbos; they were fighting a break-away entity which they honestly believed should not secede.  every nation opposes secession.  if biafra had succeeded and the urobos or other non-igbos in biafra had subsequently attempted to secede they would have fought them too.  there were no heroes or villains of the biafran war.  just another epoch in the history of a nation like many other nations.  please stop glorifying biafra just for the sake of it and villifying the federation just for the sake of it.

Pathetic ignorance.I do not blame you but the education system in this country.you do not even know the history of your country.

Poster i can see you are new to nairaland.if you are here long enough you will know what threads brings out controversy.

No it should not be abolished

jabbok:
chime wasted his four years in office - structure wise. How can a sitting governor be so scared of conducting state congress in his own state? His purported move to ACN might be a rumour as he is also not in good terms with ACN big wigs in ENUGU.

Maybe he is not your 'typical nigerian' politician.fashola rings bell?

i can understand fashola but fayemi  

he should be more interested in getting ekiti out of the grip of poverty.

i guess the bug of tribalism on nairaland has finnnaly gooten to you.

how is this news if you know about the ngige incident?

jason123:
I am confused. No one said that democracy cannot be learnt from the igbos. All they are saying is it can only work in the local level. Nationally, it would not work because your country does not only consist of igbos but yorubas, hausas and over 250 other groups. What might work for the Ndigbo community might not work for the benins and vis-versa. Btw, why don't we learn from the yorubas and binis? I still prefer their type of democracy where the cheifs talk to a central ruler before a decision is made. That way, power would not be centralised.mo.

i hope you know that their power is more centralized in their type of government more than the igbos.

jason123:
Chime is welcomed!!! I heard he has done quite well in his state. Please Chime join the pprogressives!!! _{where is onlytruth?}

i am curious.what makes acn progressives?

Chime holds secret meeting with Fashola, Fayemi
Headlines Jan 8, 2011 *It is friendly visit, Chime ‘ll not quit PDP, says Govt spokesman

By Tony Edike
ENUGU—GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime and his supporters in Enugu State may dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and pitch tents with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN as efforts to reconcile his political camp with that of the National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo have failed.

Chime met secretly with two ACN governors, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his Ekiti State counterpart, Dr. Kayode Fayemi in Enugu Saturday where they reportedly discussed the possibility of Chime and his followers moving over to ACN to contest the forthcoming elections since the rivalry in the state chapter of PDP could not be resolved.

Reliable sources told Vanguard that the meeting held behind closed doors at the Governor’s Lodge, Enugu was to prepare grounds for Chime’s defection to the new party in the next few days and the governors’ visit was said to be in response to Chime’s invitation.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/chime-secret-meeting-with-fashola-fayemi/



I guess nwodo is not thinking

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=581958.msg7490831#msg7490831 date=1294519884]Defense, economic policy, and many other national issues need a centralized authority to make decisions. You cannot really "direct democracy" certain things that a nation needs.

Also, direct democracy is a bit dangerous. People sometimes are interested in what is only convenient for right now, even though it is harmful in the longterm.

Igbo democracy is useful for a town or small political unit. But for governing an entire state, much less an entire nation. . . doesn't seem quite appropriate to me.[/quote]i think this a bad side of the 'traditional democracy'.

buzugee:
these chinamen are ubiquitous

hehe it seems they are 'invading' everywhere

spyder880:
He was a 'skilled IT professional', a phrase that could well mean a 'yahoozie expert'

Invisible you no make sense here.

[quote author=tayo_ast link=topic=580709.msg7477573#msg7477573 date=1294353123]u cant reall call dem pirates.

Wat most of these artistes do is to SELL the ,aster to alaba bois DIRECTLY.

Thats y most of dem(artistes) dont care abt figures[/quote]ok  

Kinezeala:
Oh no ! Why sauce kid ? Men this is not fair!

Guy no be by sinzu is sinzu joh  

[quote author=tayo_ast link=topic=580709.msg7477523#msg7477523 date=1294352519]didnt get u, thats y[/quote]i am talking about alaba boys involved in cd distribution(pirates not withstanding)

[quote author=tayo_ast link=topic=580709.msg7477428#msg7477428 date=1294351261]^^ [/quote]what is wrong with what i said?

eldee:
It was Abu Ventures online and International version not included . . . for them to give him 20mil, they must be looking to make about 200mil off the album.

Jeez no wonder those guys have so much money.

^^^ i think it is the south

Parnassuss:
There is a certain gospel Naija track 'Because I believe'. That thing was the best song in ALL of 2010 for me. It beat every song I heard HANDS-DOWN. I don't know the singer and I have been looking for it for a long time now.

me too.i am looking for sang that song.

[quote author=tosinaded@ link=topic=578737.msg7475162#msg7475162 date=1294329907]lol no be bad belle o, na my mind i talk!

thats my worst song of 2010, together wiv giv it to me by D'prince[/quote]d'prince is only surviving on his brother's beatz and production.he has no business singing in my own opinion.

chai dem finish enter jesse jagz nyash 

as for sauce men the guy no like this exposure 

[quote author=tosinaded@ link=topic=580709.msg7476252#msg7476252 date=1294340171]cant u see that his avatar is M.I.2  . . .  that album is fetching him money![/quote]i heard the either iyk da don or obaino music or any of those alaba guys that MI had the agreement to market his album actually paid him(MI) off 20 million for MI2 album?

playboy19:
In my opinion, MI is not whack. If you know about rap/hip hop you'll know what i'm saying.

My biggest disgust stem from all this Jobless - London Streets Roaming - 6 month visiting visa - Turn - Illego Immigrants returning to Nigeria to sing posing as if because they've been to England then they automatically are qualified to sing or know how. Tell Goldie and others to go go get a job or open up a beauty saloon or something because those "Gboko lo wo e and Jawo" tracks are nothing but pieces of crap.

Word to Sasha, face your fashion designing and stop your whack rapping style that never seems to improve for your so called 7 years. Mr. Freestyle and Sony Nneji, you both has left stealthily and nobody noticed or complain, why come back with craps and expose your own shame like this?

And now to the biggest looser of the year,  and the Winner is,  FAKE, oh sorry,  Faze. What an I*diot, I dare you my grandma can do better than you did. You had better start selling spare part or open a cd pirate shop in alaba, from that (atleast you are familiar with most of the artists), you'll make more money than that silly Gear one poo you put out there.

Well just my 2 cents,  oh may be more than 2 cents, just take as many cents as you can take from it.

D blank:
Every thing that come out of that girl[GOLDIE]mouth is RUBBISH,dunno who as been deceivng this girls that they can sing.They had better go back to school and make the most of their lifes.Theirs this other one too she sang SOMETHING omalicha nwa.

MI,Eedris Abdulkareem,Bouqui,Terry G,ikechukwu,and alot of the so-called yankee and london returnee to 9ja.


Cant they just learn from 9ICE,2FACE,P SQUARE those guys are natural.Whether they sing it in pidgin,english or ijile yoruba,people feel them.

na so jimmy jones start

i wonder if all those luxury transport owners can be regarded as 'creative entrepeneurs'

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=578293.msg7456124#msg7456124 date=1294097928]@ All Sincere advocates of ethnic constitution and ethnic recognition, I'll like to ask;

What about the rights of the individual? what if the interests of the sponsors/leaders of my group as -structured by an ethnic based federalism- violates my own sense of individual freedom and liberty?

As a proud and ready Odu'a tokan tokan, I will not hesistate to fight against those who seek to limit my personal liberties under some ethnic considerations, even if their grandfather was Oduduwa's cup bearer.

True individual liberties based on the principles of (home grown) egalitarianism is the way to go IMO.

We can build a nation on that with what we have, or split then worry later, whichever way we go, I believe we won't be satisfied until we embrace individual freedom and liberty regardless of ethinicity, religious beliefs or language.[/quote]has the yoruba way of life changed?