₦airaland Forum

bebrief:
What stops the south from breaking away? I guess you can as well lead the match. If you know what you can do right, then go ahead doing it and stop ramping all about like a coward. But please don't lead some innocent people in the battlefield and escape to Ivory coast. Unless you really don't have a plan afterall.

By the way, who are you to dispute my identity? Or why do you think i should want to 'claim' being Igbo?

how do you think nigeria as it is now can be better?

JNdupu:
As Richard Pryor would say , "say what?"

You cudda fooled us, we thought it was ,

3. Hausa - Kill all of them
2. Northern Nigeria - Excise them
1. Islam - Evil

Y'know, when that disintegration of Nigeria you promote don occur, dem no go let you go past Okada Gate. U go dey admire this fine railway from a distance as your new Biafra masters dey pepper your yansh.

think before you type.is edoyard from the east?

Below is the unedited response Obasanjo made to his questioner this morning:
“When in year 2006, the idea came up as to succession; I was convinced in my mind that a Southerner succeeding me will not augur well for Nigeria. You may agree with that, you may not agree. I was convinced in my mind. Now, was looking for those who will succeed me who has three important qualities. One, he has enough intellectual capacity to run the affairs of Nigeria.


Two, he has sufficient personal integrity to run the affairs of Nigeria. Three, he is sufficiently broad minded enough-politically, religiously, socially, whatever to manage the affairs of Nigeria. These three were the important things. Then Umoru Yar’Adua who is now the President, I know he has kidney problem and was under dialysis. Sometimes earlier, he has gone abroad when he was still the Governor of Katsina State.


When the idea was for him to contest, I asked him and he gave me a medical report. The medical report shows that he has come off dialysis. I asked experts who then told me that if you were under dialysis or you were on dialysis and you are no longer under dialysis, it means you have had a successful kidney transplant and that you can live for as long as God may give you favour. Now, who am I and who are you not to accept that? That was the situation.


Now, Mallam Musa Yar’Adua went campaigning and we campaigned together. I remember at one day of the campaign, he was run down. Chairman of our party then, Ahmadu Ali was also run down. Ahmadu Ali didn’t go abroad to check up, but he went abroad to check up and the rumour was that he was dead. And I called him and I put the telephone on speaker and I said, Are you dead? And we continued with the campaign.



To the best of my knowledge, he wasn’t on dialysis after that. When the issue of dialysis came, he was well into his first term (as president) which must maybe the kidney transplant is failing, if it hasn’t failed. That you cannot blame on me. You cannot even blame it on him. So, to say that I, Olusegun Obasanjo deliberately see somebody who is an invalid and, is highly, highly ungrateful, how can I put so much into this country both in peace and in war and I will begin to run it down. If you have fear of God, you will not make that statement.


On the way out of the constitutional crisis, what I needed to say on that, I have said as the Chairman of my Board of Trustees last week. I won’t say anything more. What I need to say is that nobody picked Yar’Adua so that he will not perform. If I did that, God will punish me. There is no reason why I should do that. Again, if you take up an assignment, a job-elected, appointed whatever it is, and then your heath start to fail and you will not be able to deliver to satisfy yourself and to satisfy the people you are supposed to serve, then there is a path of honour and the path of morality. There is path of honour and the path of morality and if you don’t do that, then you don’t know anything.”



http://www.saharareporters.com/real-news/sr-headlines/4897-obj-ask-yaradua-to-resign.html

Terror Watch List: Nigerian lawmaker deported from Amsterdam Schiphol
Written by SaharaReporters, New York
Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:31




Tuggar Yusuf Maitama
A high-ranking Nigerian lawmaker, Tuggar Yusuf Maitama, this week became the first major casualty of Nigeria’s new inclusion by the United States among 14 nations allegedly with terrorist links. Hon. Maitama, who represents Gamawa federal constituency of Bauchi State, is the Chairman of the Committee on Public Procurement in the House of Representatives. Mr. Maitama was traveling to New York on a KLM flight on Monday when the US Immigrations and Customs agents in Amsterdam pulled him aside and told him that he could not fly to the United States, having been found to have “terrorist tendencies”. His visa was immediately revoked and the lawmaker was deported to Nigeria. But Saharareporters quick search through US no-fly list and terrorism-related databases did not yield Maitama’s name.



It is not yet known if Maitama was coming to New York as part of an official delegation sent by the crumbling Yar’Adua regime to meet with UK and US officials over the inclusion of Nigeria in the terror watch list. The group, which includes the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe; the Senate Chairman on Foreign Relations, Jubril Aminu; his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Umar Bature, as well as the chairperson of the EFCC, Farida Waziri, made a stop-over in London yesterday, and is expected to arrive in New York later today. They are to be lodged at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel New York.



That means it will be an interesting visit, as they will be welcomed tomorrow morning by Nigerian protesters who are getting ready for a Save Nigeria Group "Enough Is Enough" rally at Nigeria House on the other side of the same block.

The cumbersome delegation is unlikely to meet with much success in the US. The US state department has already dispatched to Nigeria a delegation, led by US Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Africa, Johnnie Carson. It is expected to leave for a crucial three-day trip to meet with Goodluck Jonathan.

Mrs. Waziri's inclusion in the delegation is a surprise. Owing to the poor work of the EFCC, she is highly unpopular with the US government, and the EFCC was singled out for criticism last year when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Nigeria. In addition, Mrs. Waziri's first visit to the US a few months ago ended with her being heckled and chased out of an official function in New York by Nigerian demonstrators. That encounter could be repeated tomorrow.


http://www.saharareporters.com/real-news/sr-headlines/4898-terror-watch-list-nigerian-lawmaker-deported-from-amsterdam-schiphol.html

slimghost:
@Poster

You didn't tell us how he was booed and insulted at the Onitsha main market, honestly Soludo is a clown.

really? they booed him?

SEFAGO:
Nigerians and "blaming every situation on white people" complex

Y'all should better soji yourself. Pulling the Colonial guilt card can't help us anymore.

If you have a problem with crisp and articulate English, please stop speaking English and start talking in your native language.

Would you like it if someone spoke igbo with a thick accent? Would you bother listening to them? Moreover, I dislike people with thick non-english accents myself most especially Italians. I can stand it when an Italian talks English. Howver, I get really happy when I hear one speak with a British accent because it classier and easier to understand.

, For one that is not foreign policy. Secondly the SAP policy was a bretton woods-IMF collaboration and was not thought up by any supposed "Nigerian intellectuals." Olu Falae was noted for pushing the program through, however the program was disastrous if I remember my history correctly. However, SAP was successful in several other countries

No Nigeria does not have exceptional policy formulation. I will stand by this. I have argued several times that we lack any strong policy but someone keeps bring really illogical examples.

Furthermore, Soludo's NEEDS policy was an upshoot of the SAP program. Basically he re-modeled a preexisting but outdated macroeconomic formula. He did not bring something unique or new to the system.

Man we are really in lack of intellectuals I must say I feel Nigeria needs more development economists.

More display of inferiority complex.

nigerians and inferiority complex

SEFAGO:
If I was foreign minister and Nigerians get executed as much as they do in China, I would have at least done something to create an extradition agreement with China. And if I get blocked by the president, I will resign from my position- like Okonjo Iweala (Very Honorable and respectable woman unlike ashewo Maduekwe). If you are hindered from performing your job, why stay in it?

At first bolded talk is cheap.

At second bolded the 'nigerian factor'

SEFAGO:
Yeah what did I say was wrong?

If Chinese can execute an american for whatever reason in China you think having an 'Obahiagbon' as foreign minister will do jack?What concerns the Chinese with your foolish arrogance that USA cannot muster?

As for oil blocks i wonder how an arrogant foreign minister will have an effect in a nation that generally does not care about his citizens interests.

SEFAGO:
This is an example of a non-local classy accent, compare it to Ojo Maduekwe

Local Onithsa village man

Kai if this is who is representing us on the local stage, man we are laughing stock of the world


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

I do not think the foreign media is interested in ones accent because frankly they do not give a flying monkey but the susbstance of the person.Only someone with acute inferiority complex you are displaying here with all the pride that a peacock cannot muster will be interested in such things.I know in about 6 years time you will get over this.

Funnily the lady you put her link here comes from a place nearer to onitsha than where ojo is from.

SEFAGO:
The white people can call Africans monkey because we have no bargaining power, no international clout no confidence neither are we organized or introspective. If we had an arrogant, and confident foreign minister without a bush accent , you wouldn't have Nigerian youths being killed in china like chicken while the chinese are buying oil blocks in Nigeria.

That's all I want,insults aside your , we want the same thing

At first bolded really?

At second bolded it is a fact and not an insult sorry.

I wonder why you guys are bothered about Sefago's comments on the accent of a thing when he is epitome of why the white people refer to africans as monkeys.

As for Maduekwe he deserves a bullet to his skull for disgracing nigeria and himself.

Nigerians spend over N137bn to study in UK, US varsities

By JAMES AZANIA, Published: Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?t, 01001194262726

Foreign universities are profiting from Nigeria‘s ill-equipped institutions as Nigerian youths paid whopping sums as tuition to British and American universities in the last two years, JAMES AZANIA reports

Nigerians studying in British and American

universities may have spent over N137,023bn on tuition and living expenses in the last two academic sessions going by an average tuition of £19,000 per session for international students in UK universities and $21,000 tuition and living expenses for international students in America. This is more than a quarter of the nation’s entire budget for the education sector in two years under review. The Federal Government budgeted N210bn for the education sector in 2008 and N249bn for the sector in 2009. This brought the total budgetary allocation to the education sector in 2008 and 2009 to N459bn.



Investigations by our correspondent showed that the recognised universities in the United Kingdom had a total of 20, 090 Nigerian students in 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 sessions. While 10,000 students were admitted to UK universities in the 2007/2008 session, the figure increased to 10,090 in the 2008/2009 session.

On the other hand, 12, 478 students were enrolled in recognised universities in the United States of America during the same period with 6,222 students admitted in 2007/2008 session and 6,256 admitted in 2008/2009 session.

In the UK, international students, including Nigerians, spend an average of £19, 000 on tuition and living expenses per annum. Science students pay more. This amount far exceeds an average of £1,310 paid by home students and students from the European Union countries per annum.

Information obtained by our correspondent from the Visa Section, British High Commission, Lagos, revealed that of the 28, 500 Nigerian students that applied for the United Kingdom study visa during the 2008/2009 session, only 10,090 got visa.

With a refusal rate of 65 per cent, only 35 per cent of those who sought to study in the UK were granted visa.

At between £15,000 and £25,000 which when converted amounts to between N3.8m and N6.4m tuition and living expenses per student per annum, for international students. Nigerian students must have spent an average of N97.7bn in two years in UK varsities depending on the course of study at the current exchange rate of N256 to the British pound.

According to Mr. Okike Oriaku, who recently completed his first and second degrees in the UK and still resides in Britain, some international students pay far higher than the average, depending on what part of the country they schooled or are resident in.

Oriaku, in response to our correspondent‘s enquiries, through the e-mail message said, ”Most universities in the UK charge the same tuition fees for home/EU students, and another rate for international students, so it all depends on what your interests are. Obviously, the international rate is far higher than home students‘ fees.

”Students‘ sustenance/maintenance entirely depends on the area the university is located, if the individual will be living in the halls of residence or renting a place around the school. Then, if as a Nigerian he/she might need to include cost of travelling to places where African food is available, heating/gas, and other necessities, including, computer and Internet accessibility.”

The UK Border Agency introduced a points-based system for international students in March 2009 to ensure that students on admission in UK universities have the wherewithal to pay their tuition.

The policy, among others expects some foreigners including Nigerians, to show evidence of full payment of tuition for the first year as well as their first maintenance fund for the first nine months of study.

Further investigations also showed that the USA was another high-destination country for Nigerians seeking to study abroad.

Information obtained from the Public Affairs Section of the US Consulate General Office in Lagos showed that from a total of 32, 708 students in US universities during the 2008/2009 academic session, 6, 256 were Nigerians; a marginal 0.5 percentage change from the previous year‘s figure of 6, 222.

Moneywise, the capital flight to the US, on account of scholarship, is also outstanding, as investigations further revealed that there is a deluge of requests from Nigerians wishing to study in the US.

Some of the Nigerian students in the US, in an interview with our correspondent said tuition and living cost gulped an average of $26, 000 per annum, per student, depending on the course of study. Students pay more to study science-based courses, according to sources.

A second year (sophomore) student of Industrial Manufacturing Information Engineering at Morgan State University Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Aderojuola Agoro, said his parents paid $15, 000 as tuition and $11, 500 for accommodation.

He said, ”My school fees is $26, 500 per annum, including accommodation, which includes feeding, Internet access, and other needs but I don‘t rule it out that what is expanded could be more than this by the end of the year.”

Another international student, Elsie Okoye, a freshman (First year) student of Geological Engineering at the University of Mississippi, Oxford Massachusetts, had a similar fiscal story.

The alumnus of Lagoon Secondary School, Lekki, said, ”I enrolled in the US in September 2009. Tuition there is $12, 500, plus about $12, 000 for living.”

Okoye has a good story of money well spent to tell though, having garnered Grade Point Average of 4.0 on a four-point scale at the end of her first year in the university.

For the period under review, each of the 12, 478 Nigerians in the various US universities, expended $26, 000 as tuition and living expenses. With an exchange rate of N150 to the dollar, these Nigerians must have paid N48, 664, 200, 000 to the coffers of some US universities in two years.

In all, Nigerian students in the UK and US might have contributed a whooping N137,023,460,000 in fees and living expenses to these foreign universities in two years. This does not include millions of naira they expended on their upkeep.

Educational experts, however, said about three per cent of Nigerians studying abroad might be on scholarship.

Facts gathered from the PAS, US consulate, showed that these foreign universities would keep on reaping revenue from Nigerians as the number of applicants was likely to keep on increasing on a yearly basis.

A source at the US Consulate, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed to our correspondent that thousands of prospective students made enquiries about studying in America.

The source said, ”On an annual basis, education advisors in the Lagos (US) consulate alone speak to over 30, 000 students, and there are also other agencies doing similar things.”

An education advisor at the PAS, US Consulate in Lagos, Mrs. Ifeanyi Olagbaju, however, said that the benefits of overseas study transcended the boundaries of a single country, and must not be looked at from the angle of monetary gain or loss alone.

She said, ”These students are studying because of what Nigeria is gaining. There are not enough schools for everybody and that‘s why people move around.

”The students, in the first place, are of quality standard, and that‘s why they are able to get admission to the US varsities in the first place.

”We have a student who got first class from the University of Lagos, Akoka, and just got admission to a university in the US. People go to America because of what they get. We have good Nigerian graduates, and there is no talk about the country not having better options.”

Explaining variation in cost of tuition, an educational advisor at the US consulate, PAS, Mrs. Margaret Anyibo, in Lagos, however, said that there was disparity in tuition and condition of living in the US. According to her, the cost of living in the US is not the same in all the states in the country. For instance, she said that students in community colleges paid lower tuition.

She, however, said that what the students gained in low tuition could easily be taken away by higher living cost.

She said that the cost of living for the typical student varied from between $15, 000 to $55, 000, per annum.

She said, “You cannot generalise on the cost of living per year. The cost of living in New York will be different from that of Alabama, for example; on the average maybe between $15, 000 to $55, 000 annually.

“If the student is going to a community college, then it will be less. The community colleges are less expensive, as their names imply. They are actually meant for the people living around the area, and they have contributed to it.

“They do not have housing, so, students go from home. You find International students there, who rent houses. The average is $10, 000 for the lower side, and $13, 000 on the average.”


[b]
Experts believe this trend will continue unless government addresses the problems facing the Nigerian university system.

The Head of International Law, UNILAG, Prof. Akin Oyebode, said that from whatever angle the phenomenon was viewed, Nigeria would be the ultimate loser.

He said, ”What we are experiencing is not just a question of loss in form of foreign exchange, it‘s also about loss of standing. We are losing colossal sum in terms of what parents and even government spend on foreign education.

”Of course, foreign study has some benefits in terms of exposure but when you do a cost estimate, it is uncalled for, not when Nigeria has the capacity. Now, it is only the children of the super rich that can afford expensive university education; they even send their children to high schools there, in spite of the annihilation they suffer.

”I don‘t think it should be encouraged to send kids to undergraduate courses, maybe, Master’s. We have 104 universities, so we should revamp the system.

”If you look well enough, the instability occasioned in the past explains the vanishing of foreign students and even foreign lecturers and dons from our campuses.[/b]


”At the staff clubs, it used to be a cosmopolitan setting but now, it is only Nigerians you find there. If you remember that Nigerian universities ranked around 5, 000 in the world, then you realise that no parents would want to send his or her ward or children to such universities, together with its unstable calendar.”

Though successive Nigerian governments have claimed to place education on the priority list of the country‘s socio-economic policies, the reality on ground attests to the contrary.

Rather, statistics show that the country, in less than three decades had lost its position as a knowledge-acquisition destiny, the same way it frittered away opportunities in areas like agriculture, where it possessed comparative advantage over others.

Stakeholders have also cited the desire for excellent facilities, research opportunities, job placements and abundance of journals and research publications as some of the reasons why Nigerians are increasingly trooping overseas for studies.

In the absence of official data, it is believed that over a 100,000 Nigerians are scattered across the globe in search of tertiary education, a development experts say will continue until drastic measures are taken to improve on the fortunes of the country‘s education system.

Aware of the zeal of many Nigerian students for foreign education, universities from Europe, America, Asia and even South Africa as well as Ghana and Botswana frequent the country for participation in education fairs towards students‘ recruitment.

Others have gone as far as opening centres in major cities of Nigeria for prospective Nigerian applicants to make enquiries and get necessary support for Visa applications.


The Head of Department, European Languages, University of Lagos, Prof. Jide Timothy-Asobele, traced the problem of the universities to the military-era.

He said, ”With the military intervention in the life of our nation, series of dictatorial decisions were taken, and since the university system was part and parcel of the scheme, there is no way it will not feel the effects of the undemocratic tenures.

”The democratic disposition of the university system and that of the military was bound to lead to clashes which invariably resulted in strikes.”

The problems in the sector have reduced the status of Nigerian universities and undermined the quality of education. For instance, Nigeria‘s premier university, the University of Ibadan in the early 1970‘s was rated as the fifth best university in the Commonwealth, far ahead of many universities in Europe and Africa but the university has since lost its glory.


The institution was said to have received an average of 20,000 journals per year while the then famous Ibadan University Press flourished, providing the required platform for the publication of books and journals to the delight of students and lecturers.

Analysts believe the seeming collapse of the country‘s political and cultural values have merely found another logical expression in the country‘s educational image.

In the face of what would appear as daunting, the Federal Government and the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, had just signed an agreement, which many believe could solve the problems of tertiary education in the country.

Many, on the other hand, are of the opinion that the agreement can only serve as a respite that would not last for long in the face of what they describe as fundamental damages done to the system.

Oyebode said of the ASUU/FG pact, ”The agreement is a measure to buy time. Our standard does not even meet the African average. In less than five years, academics will start saying that inflation has eaten into what they got.


”ASUU, I think fought a good fight, and they decided to cut the loss of the parents and the government. It was a bad measure and it will rebound; you can‘t even retain the ones in the system or attract the best.

”Our best students go to the banks, telecommunication industry and other lucrative sectors of the economy. What happens when five years down the line, our lecturers retire or leave due to attrition or death, then mediocrity will set in?”

aahmed112:
Is it? My apologies if so. Facebook group posted it.

Ill take it down

yea it is old.i have seen it here on nairaland sometime last year.

otokx:
Are these pictures really valid?

The first one by mekus is valid but the second pic by aahmed is not because i have seen that pic sometime in the long past.

The man deserves 2 bullets in the head.

Good news for once if it materializes

Actually Ifeajuna is from Onitsha.Funny that he went to ilesha grammar school.

Are you in jos now?^^^

davidylan:
We know the truth . . . when muslims are in the tiny minority they are largely "peaceful" because in the USA and Canada . . . the rule of law is STRICTLY followed and christians will immediately and ruthlessly crush any islamic fundamentalism.

You HYPOCRITES should rather CITE nations where muslims are in the majority . . . where is the peace?

Errm . . . saudi arabia,UAE,Malaysia,Indonesia

Jos crisis : Constant killings could lead to disintegration
National News Jan 19, 2010 By Taye Obateru

Jos — President-General of the Yoruba Community in Plateau State, Chief Toye Ogunshuyi, has warned that the constant killing of Nigerians from other parts of the country in the Northern part could lead to Nigeria’s disintegration.

He stated this shortly after paying a visit to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Greg Anyating, disclosing that no fewer that 10 Yoruba people have been reported killed in the latest violence.

He said situations like this could lead to reprisal in other parts of the country which could threaten the country’s unity, adding: “My people are dying; they are burning their houses. We just woke up and found ourselves in this mess. Some of us have to take refuge in the church.


“We want to know if this is Nigeria. If as Nigerians we cannot come here to live peacefully, then we will now tell our people in the South to fight back. We are not going to allow this to go the way it went the last time and some of us are still left homeless.

“The Oba Yoruba (of Jos) is waiting for me now for us to go and assess the situation and once it is beyond our control, we will phone Lagos, Ibadan and other states,” he told journalists.

Ogunshuyi recalled that the Yoruba down-played the killing during the 2008 crisis of three youth corps members who were all of Yoruba extraction to avoid reprisal, adding: “Enough is enough. If Nigeria must be one, then they must demonstrate it now or else we shall hit back.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/19/jos-crisis-constant-killings-could-lead-to-disintegration/

CBN asks Ovia, Elumelu to quit
Cover Stories, Latest News Jan 19, 2010 Emma Ujah, Anuja Bureau Chief & Tina Onah
The new banking reforms of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has claimed its latest victims, the Managing Directors of the United Bank of Nigeria (UBA) and Zenith Bank, Messrs Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia, respectively, as the apex bank has asked them to quit, latest July 31, this year.
This is in line with the CBN new regulations which provides for tenured appointments of banks’ Managing Directors, fixed for a maximum of two terms of five years, each.

Director, Banking Supervision of the CBN, Dr. Samuel Oni, who announced this at a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday, said the decision which was taken by the Board of the apex bank, on Monday was “to ensure that the banking institutions are not personilaised.”

According to him, “all bank MDs who would have served for the period of 10 years by July 31 shall seize to act in that capacity”.

Besides, the CBN said that all those who are MDs of banks which are products of either mergers or acquisition in the 2006 consolidation exercise shall have their pre and post merger years of service combined, for the purpose of the new regulations.

CBN directed that all bank boards should immediately review the terms of appointment of their MDs to reflect the new regulations.

All MDs who would have attained the 10-year maximum two-term period by July 31,should immediately start a succession programme to enable a successor emerge on or before the terminal date.

CBN also said that any MD who quits a bank, having attained the 10-year maximum period in a bank shall not be eligible appointment in the same bank or any of its subsidiaries until after three years
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/19/cbn-asks-ovia-elumelu-to-quit/

Katsumoto:
Did you listen to their accents?

sorry but their accents sound nothing like yoruba to me.

Just curious,how do you know they are yoruba?^^^

ezeagu:
Listen Ikengawo, or whatever name you assigned yourself, people have died and are dieing out there in Nigeria. Many of these people have died from things that people in the West go to their local GP's for. Many of these people are also family members and friends.

Don't ever, ever, ever try and patronise us with this useless illusion of an even Haiti standard Nigeria. If Nigerians say that the country should be split into 1 million countries, you should close your mouth, because why, you have no solution whatsoever to stop people from dying in that corroded 'country'. Were our ancestors dying like we are now? How will any country be weaker than Nigeria? There is constant light and running water in the slums of Mumbai, you will not find that in the best city in Nigeria.

We do not care for your patriotism if it stops at posting pictures and writing poems of fine houses and 'Eko' atlantic, as well as any other housing projects in Nigeria made to benefit foreign oil workers. People are tired, if you don't have anything worth while to type, then don't type anything at all.

Your anger dey show here

however ikengawo posts reeks of ignorance of nigerian situations.

Katsumoto:
I will not tire to prove you wrong or ignorant.
Ojukwu wrote that letter before there was any Western or mid-western involvement in the war. Are you naive to believe that the Igbo did not regard the Yorubas as enemies once there was a perception that Awo betrayed Biafra? The war ended 40 years ago but you still have characters like metalgong, wilywily, mekusxxx, and sonnybobo who HATE yoruba people; you now want the rest of us to believe that Biafrans did not view the Yoruba as enemies during the war.

There were atrocties committed on both sides; for instance, I have seen a video of Biafran Soldiers parading captured Yoruba soldiers naked. If you haven't seen it, just ask and I will provide the link for you. Is it accepted by the Geneva convention to rob captured soldiers of their dignity?

Before I answer your question concerning whether Awo's action was wrong, I need you to respond to the issues I brought up first.

I will like to see that link.

[quote author=bk_baybe99 link=topic=384258.msg5347930#msg5347930 date=1263914131]Lemme guess, from the sound of his name this dude is ibo?!?lol. I rest my case![/quote]You are confirmed i d i o t.If you do not have better things to say then keep quiet.