₦airaland Forum

I think we all from the former eastern region need to understand each others views on this issue of port harcourt without insulting each other.Everyone has a case here.
@Dede1 please take it easy with Ibime as u have to understand where he is coming from.I know that during Micheal okpara's regime a lot of upland igbo(i resist saying jusy igbo) settled came and settled in present day portharcourt because of the economic boom going on at that timeThe construction of Trans Amadi industrial layout being one of those projects that attracted them.
Their seemed to be some resentments on them by the ikwerres that they where buying up the lands they considered their own(even though it was not at gun point).However their are some speculations that the regional gov. at that time where mainly occupied by upland igbos and so it made it easier for the people to buy lands.
@ibime
I used upland igbos above and not just igbos because i believe that the ikwerres are igbos.Please do not use the fact that they have their own dailect to mean that tyhey are dinstint.Why?because their are many dailects of igbo.One thing i have noticed is that many 'outsiders'do not seem to know that in even in the same states in south east there are very different dialects of igbo.
In my state alone if an owerri man is speaking his dialect the the orlu man that is born and bred in orlu might not be understanding what the owerri man is saying.As for you ibime i can tell u that i understand the igbo been spoken by the ikwerre or asaba or even ibusa in delta state than the igbo spoken buy an afikpo man of ebonyi state.
All these issue of whether i am igbo or not is just what Gowon wanted at that time to weaken the resolve off the igbos by creating states.

@wilywily
;Dna wa 4 u oooo._{civil war betrayal}

however i thought he was on their side

and we are saying we are moving forward.chai nigeria shame to the 'african giant'

d guy na ram

tpia is igbo

most nigerians see nigeria as an enterprise to make money from and not as a country to serve and build because their is no feeling of nationhood amongst its people

until u solve the above mindset you cannot solve the issue of corruption in nigeria

This idiot. It is better you learn about the local issues in River State before opening your mouth to spew bunkum. Even the Ogoni's acknowledge that they are originally from the upper-Volta region of Ghana. Only in your bush mind is that meant as a slight to the Ogoni people. When they landed in Niger-Delta, the Ibani people of Opobo gave them virgin bush inbetween Opobo and Okrika to settle in and named them Igoni (meaning foreigner). The British later bastardised the name as Ogoni, the same way they changed Okrika's name from Wakirike to Okrika. Look it's better you focus on Igbo issues, not Niger Delta issues because you know nothing about the local interaction between all the Niger Delta tribes

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@scottN
Please when did imo and abia state become non igbo since they are regarded as oil producing state.Do not come here to display ur ignorance.

@pepeye
Moronic brain
@mai suya
I can see how nigeria is a fantastic country with good leadership from your people gworo brain

fed gov. wishes

People are denying to agree that this is the lasting and peaceful way to solve Nigeria's Political and Economic crisis. Take this now, if Biafra is separate from Nigeria, their unemployment rate will drop from 70% to 30% in only one year, and their income will increase by 300% in two years. Almost the same with other countries like Arewa, Odua, and the Middlebelt.

For Peaceful resolution to the division, all those Southerners living living in Arewa will be automatically given a Resident Card after they obtained the passport from their embassy (Biafran Embassy in Arewa or Oduan Embassy in Arewa). The same for Arewans living in Biafra or Odua, they will obtain their Passport from the Arewa Embassy in Biafra or in Odua or in Middlebelt.

This is a ONE way and the ONLY to the SOLUTION of Nigeria's Political and Economic crisis.

After all, if ECOWAS monetary union is ready, all of us will be using the same money (like the EURO for example).

intelligent post.this is what i have been telling people who always bring up the issue of people who are living 'outside their homeland'

useless country

i am now beginning to undestand why chinua achebe wrote about "igbo problem' in that his book "the trouble with nigeria".

Kobojunkie at her eccentric best

Guy beleieve me dividing nigeriaas a topic can never come as a debate in the legislator the way nigeria is being governed at the moment.

Over many peoples dead body.Do you know why?It is because many see nigeria as an enterprise to make money from and NOT as a country to serve.Many people will not admit these though

We wil all live and die in this one nigeria.

@Naijex
So after yorubas produced Olisiego Obulusonjo and the North(not necessarily the hausas) brought Yaradull you want people of SE and SS to produce a "credible" candidate that is generally accepted to clean these peoples mess abi for President?Abeg bring Orji Uzor Kalu,Andy Uba,James Ibori so that we can complete the cycle of madness.

@lucabrasi
Is ibime igbo?So much for detribalized mind.

@topic

Nigeria died a long time ago.The problems we are having now is the stench that is suffocating us all because we have refused to bury it.

Nigga raw-Ara ga agba ndi ara
Flavour-Na abania
Psquare-do me
Psquare-no one like u
Psquare-ifunanya
9ice album
Ruff coin-nwa aba
Duncan Mighty's albulm

@ziddy

do you think i made that statement 4 fun

Didn't they come together at last. That's the point.

Because UK didn't change her currency to Euro didn't say she is not a EU member

Again they came together out of their OWN VOLUTION.Did the various people that make up nigeria come together to decide if they should stay together?Bringing EU in this argument falls flat on its face because any country within the EU can hold a referendum to pull out.Can any group in nigeria hold a referendum to pull out of nigeria?

As you said Uk did not change her currency.Is that not on their own terms?I hope you know also that switzerland is not also in EU.

@naijex

EU is a made up of europian countries that decided to come together to form a big economic block out their own volution.They where NOT FORCED together.Mind you UK and NORWAY are not in EU because their citizens are not yet interested in it.

@ziddy

Go and sit down.What about us that their brothers ,sisters,uncles,aunties and friends have been hacked to death since 1953 and complainig yet people will open their mouth to say what our people were doing there in the first instance.

This guy, just forget dat tin. Nigeria does not need missionaries. We all know what to do to change the situation, even those of us who were born and bred there. Unless you are coming to Nigeria with 10,000,000,000 AK47's, RPGs, Surface to Air missiles, F1 fighters and a 10 million infantry, I cannot believe in the 'change' you offer. . . . like Lucabrasi said, you should concentrate on charity work. . . . . until then, these are just ideological dreams of an undergraduate fantasist. . . . people with serious PHD sef never fit change Naija, na Britico like you go change am?

@earthMAMA
I think some state goverments sponsor pilgrimage but i think the whole idea of sponsoring people to all these pilgrimages is a waste of public funds.

@Ibime

You make it sound as if igbos are the problem with nigeria.

@nuzo


But seriously nigeria is a joke

Nigeria is a dead country.The problems we are having now in the country is the stench that is suffocating all of us because we have refused to bury it.

All i can say to the man is GOOD MORNING!