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In Igbo culture, a man who is rejected by his father or fathers people can return to his mothers kindred where he be allowed to assume his mothers original surname and live out his life there just as if he were in his fathers domain.

NNVanguard:
An Error bro. Not by force at all! We all want a restructured yet united Nigeria like what we see in the USA!

Together we can! As we try to build bridges across both northern and southern region. Nigeria with a new leadership anchored on patriotism and selflessness will be the home of all blacks in the world!

#togetherwewill

Stop kidding your self bro. The only error here was the one Lugard made by bringing us together in 1914 and basterdising us with the name of a stupid River. People like you have been shouting 'Nigeria unity' for over a hundred years, do you see any unity? When will you get tired? Not every partnership, Union and marriage is meant to last forever. There comes a tme when even the most optimistic fool has cut his losses and call a spade a spade.

Nigeria is an enforced union and an instrument of oppression and we Igbos want to return as we were before Lord Lugard appeared from nowhere to force us into it.

NNVanguard:
We are not seeking for a united Nigeria by force but mutual tolerance and equity!

Really? No wonder Nigeria came down to the East to kill 3 million people from 1967-70.

blues20:
IPOB, should forget about the Ijaws for now. They should instead, focus on developing strategies on how to win their Igboid brothers in the South-South to join their course. Assumptions can be a rude shocker when faced with reality.

To win their Igbo brothers in the South-South? Are you for real? I should not have to win over someone who is my brother. A person is either my brother or not, a person is either Igbo or not. There's nothing to win over, it is a free world

mrkayusfit:
I hate IPOB and Avengers

But you want to do 'one Nigeria' with them

Barbarian nation! They already put the handcuffs on him, why go ahead to beat him? Tomorow, someone will ask me to answer "proud Nigerian"? Never!

payosehtor:
but what is so special about the Ibos?

They are the only ones of the three main ethnic groups who believe in freedom and self determination.

NNVanguard:
IN THE PURSUIT OF A NEW NIGERIA

He is a fool who did nothing because he could only do a little........ Edmund Burke

Its no longer news about the present painful economic realities facing our dear nation, Nigeria as at today. We have heard, seen and felt it like never before.

The reality has dawned on us all that the blame game of past government administration since after the civil war is not the way forward. We are in desperate times and should be able to muster courage and think of what we can do to save our ailing and dying nation. While the bulk of the matter rests on the table of the government yet the citizens aren't left out.

Its time we take down ethnicity, pride, religious supremacism and bigotry in the quest to birth a new great and truly sovereign Nigeria. The spate of hunger and untold hardship is irrespective of tribe and religious affiliations. The Almighty question that may be sounding rhetoric now is, what can we do?

No nation ever develops to enviable heights without the cooperation and mutual trust between the government and its citizens. Its now a norm that we feel that the battered relationship of trust and confidence between the electorate and the political leaders has come to stay and no one is to be blamed because once bitten twice shy. Leaving us in a circle of hopelessness in the government. But of a truth something can be done. Not all Nigerians are bad, just that the good ones have refused to speak out of fear, cowardice and sentiments. Its not gainsaying that the new Nigeria we want starts from the political leaders who need to lead by example on the tenets of patriotism, zero nepotism and shunning other such ills bedevilling our nation evident in corruption, cabalism, lootocracy, disobedience to the rule of law and zero empathy to the pains of the electorate.

However, we as individuals of the society needs a total reawakening and reorientation, that we need to Foster the rebuilding of broken ties of relationship among our ethnic nationalities. In the face of these present economic challenges all hands must be on deck in stirring the ship of our nation to a safe blissful haven and shore of unity and faith, peace and progress ( Nigeria motto) inspite the pain we may encounter. We need to be the first line of credibility, integrity, accountability and patriotism. The idea of supporting a looter and one who shortchanged this nation and defending him with ethnic sentiments and bias in order to shield him or attract unnecessary empathy is a whirlwind that blows no one any good. For crying out loud the rule of law must not be bent for anyone, justice must be served no matter whose ox is gored! Let our judiciary rise up to the tenets of upholding justice and live up to the cliche "hope of the common man".

For the Nigerian youth we must shun bribery, short cuts against due process, stand for the truth, lend helping hands to those we are better off, shun vandalism, terrorism, gangsterism, cultism and other ills that portray us in bad light.

Join the new Nigeria Vanguard and build alliance with young minds from the length and breadth of Nigeria whose values are those of integrity, courage, selflessness, patriotism, merit, economic empowerment, zero corruption in all it's shades and facades whose vision is SECURING A PEACEFUL, UNITED, PROGRESSIVE, CORRUPTION-FREE NIGERIA FOR NOW AND POSTERITY.

Sorry bro but you have no nation. The British invented organisation called Nigeria is not your nation, neither is it mine. Nigeria is the enforced Union of people, some of which are clamouring for their freedom which the British criminal called Lugard stole in 1914. If you want a country, support that a referendum be held and the various ethnic nationalities who vote to remain in Nigeria, they are your brothers and your nation. You cannot be seeking unity where none exists. You don't get a nation through 'unity by force'. All you get through this process is pain, suffering, regression and hypocrisy

walemoney007:
there is no need to collapse the state

There is a big need to collapse the states. Igbos and the minorities who are comfortable with them must have their region. We cannot have true federalism with these artificially created States, it is not viable and it only promotes 'divide and rule'. True federalism must come hand in hand with regionalism.

kinibigdeal:
We all clamouring for restructuring, which am very much in support of but paradoxically, some quarters are not in support of such idea, probably due to the term 'comparative advantages' of states over the other. Lagos for example have got the economic power and thanks to the new discovery of oil etc if Nigeria is to be restructured today, what comparative advantage do you think your state have over the other in terms of resource control. As for me, i can talk of large amount of Natural Asphalt/bitumen, Cocoa and petrol. Moreso, we all know that every state depend on each other for survival which is the beauty of federalism

It is important that to note that if Nigeria is to be restructured, two things must happen.

1) All the states must be dissolved and 'Regions' created in their place.
2) a referendum must be held in all the 774 Local Governments so that the people can choose what region they want to belong to.

OkoNDOoBo:
Maybe u should open another thread for that question.

Nobody hold ojukwu from declaring biafra what is holding igbo from declaring biafra.

At least you re the japan Of africa,you re capable of producing, atomic bombs,war planes,war ships,Ak 47,armoured. Personnel carrier armoured tank.

So what. Is stopping igbos from following ojukwu's part

That for another day the title of the thread says

WHAT IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOUTH EAST REGION TO
THE FEDERATION'S ACCOUNT AT WHAT %.??

Then don't open silly threads like this. Go and ask that question to people who care about Nigeria.

Next, you will open a thead and ask me why I didn't contribute in paying your School fees.

OkoNDOoBo:
This thread is not about biafra

WHAT IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOUTH EAST REGION TO
THE FEDERATION'S ACCOUNT AT WHAT %.??

That's the wrong question to ask. What you should be asking is:

Why should the SE be contributing anything to the same Nigeria they have been fighting to get out of?

Moses came to lead his people to the promised land. Th gworo chewing Dullard of Daura doesnt even know where the promised land is.

Hagm0nd:
victim mentality at its peak.
Kanu and his fellow rascals are held in jail for preaching hateful messages against Nigeria,advising his fellow thugs to pick up arms and start killing innocent Nigerians.
.

So you won't be happy that Kanu is only just "preaching" hate in his quest for Biafra?

Do you know what Lugard did in his quest to create Nigeria? He came and beat up your forefathers, killed the ones who resisted and turned the rest into his personal slaves. That same Nigeria of Lord Lugard is what you treasure today as a worthwhile legacy.

You should be very happy that Kanu is only preaching hate to get Biafra considering the process that made you a 'Nigerian'

TRIPOB and RE-IPOB. Two organisations that were formed on Lie Mohammed's Laptop. Lol

texazzpete:
You argue like a child. There is verifiable information a Google search away, yet you think to argue with anecdotal evidence?

https://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/infographs/IGR-2015-info1.jpg


State Rank: ---------: Amount in ₦
_________________________________________

1: Lagos State: 268,224,782,435
2: Rivers State: 82,101,298,408
3: Delta State: 40,805,656,911
4: Ogun State: 34,596,446,519
5: Edo State: 19,117,468,369
6: Enugu State: 18,081,014,527
7: Oyo State: 15,663,514,824
8: A/Ibom State: 14,791,175,253
9: Anambra State: 14,791,175,253
10: Kano State: 13,611,853,935
11: Cross River State: 13,567,122,507
12: Abia State: 13,349,444,263
13: Kaduna State: 11,536,729,988
14: Ondo State: 10,098,000,000
15: Bayelsa State: 8,713,516,526
16: Osun State: 8,072,966,446
17: Benue State: 7,631,789,841
18: Kwara State: 7,178,922,182
_______________

19: Plateau State: 6,937,349,802
20: Kogi State: 6,776,580,756
21: Sokoto State: 6,224,448,122
22: Niger State: 5,975,149,921
23: Katsina State: 5,791,008,741
24: Imo State: 5,472,581,634
25: Bauchi State: 5,393,721,996
26: Jigawa State: 5,081,424,105
27: Gombe State: 4,784,605,861
28: Adamawa State: 4,451,736,117
29: Nasarawa State: 4,281,701,806
30: Taraba State: 4,155,053,816
31: Kebbi State: 3,592,406,108
32: Borno State: 3,530,261,222
33: Ekiti State: 3,297,707,703
34: Zamfara State: 2,741,632,541
35: Yobe State: 2,251,330,427
36: Ebonyi State: No Data for 2015
_______________________________________

TOTAL: (2014):707,857,998,395.88
(2015): 682,671,578,878.52
IGR Growth difference 2014/2015 -3.69%

Source Nigeria Bureau of Statistics website
Download Page: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/387

This does not answer my question. These figures can be cooked up by anybody. What has Edo state got to come even remotely close to Anambra in terms of revenue generation?

If GEJ had done more for his people, they would have labeled him a tribalist who favours only his people.

GEJ did more for the North than his own people, they labeled him a fool who did nothing for his people.

You just can't win with Nigerians.

texazzpete:
Lagos generates substantial IGR.

Edo State, a civil service state, generates more IGR than most of the South Eastern states that are supposedly commercial centers.

Oh shut up. I'm an Anambra man who did his NYSC in Edo state. In the one year I was there, I went around the whole state. What has Edo state got to generate more revenue than Anambra? Anambra has the largest market in west Africa, the huge industrial base of Nnewi and is also an Oil producing state. What is in Edo that makes them generate funds?

OsuIbo:
Ironically this was the same man that was the chairman of the igbo delegates at the last National Confab in 2014.

It was a disgrace to the Igbo nation that a traitor like Ike Nwachukwu could lead their delegation. As a young Lieutenant during the war, he fought on the Nigerian side and helped kill his own people in different sectors of the war front. All of that so that his Almajiri brothers up North could take political and economic control of Nigeria. And he has the guts to keep showing his treacherous face on the national scene? Ike Nwachukwu is an embrrassment to all patroits of the Igbo nation.

OmoAjowa7:
Their landlocked region is just about the size of Oyo state. Add the erosion plus their population and you know they're in deep shii.
Yorubaland is the only region they easily migrate to. Let's not even talk about Lagos, they're in the most rugged parts of
Yorubaland but still....

It's like they're programmed to hate.

You guys are still using this stale sentiment? Switzerland, a nation of just 8 million people, is a landlocked country that is just roughly the size of Enugu and Abia state combined but commands a GDP of $650 Billion.

As big as Nigeria is with a population of 170 million, it has a paltry GDP of $500 Billion.

In the committee of nations, Nigeria is not even qualified to sit in the same room as Swizerland

The moral of the story is, nobody gives a ratsa$$ about your coastline or landmass, it is all about what you have to offer.

doskie:
Can't be true

It might be true, that guy executed his own uncle by letting dogs eat him and later executed his first wife and her entire family.

I wonder if this Osibanjo grew up in the same Nigeria as me?

olorunwa90:
I am optimistic that, Nigeria will great

Your forefathers said the same in 1914.

I just formed TRI-APC and RE-PDP.

Godemcee:
but ondo state alone has more oyel than s.east,s.east oil wey no reach 2%

People have been saying this "Ondo has Oil" thing for sometime now. Where in Ondo exactly is Oil being drilled? At least this report talks about Agip in Ohaji/Egbema in Imo state. What Oil company is drilling Oil in Ondo and in which community?

That's how it goes in a country built on falsehood and inequality. Someone will leave his land and go another persons land to steal their resources. On top of all that, the same person will asking 'what am I doing wrong?'

LadyExcellency:
Says who? His son was once a defense Minister during Obasanjo's administration.

Thomas "Tom" Aguiyi-Ironsi is a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria. He is the son of former military leader Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and was the ambassador to Togo before former President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him to succeed Roland Oritsejafor as Defence Minister. Aguiyi-Ironsi is from Umuahia, Abia State.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aguiyi-Ironsi

Thomas Agu-Iyi Ironsi was actually in Ibadan with his father and Lt.Colonel Fajuyi when troops led by TY Danjuma surrounded Government House. His father hid him in a room just before the Soldiers too him away never to be seen alive again

luvinhubby:
Buhari has succeeded in reversing all meaningful progress Nigeria made in the past 30yrs, including the automobile policy.

The other day Kemi Adeosun was talking about reducing tarrifs on tokunboh vehicles thereby killing the local automobile industry.

Buhari is a disaster.

The man is a complete and utter disaster. No vision, no focus, no objectives. I will always be proud of the SE/SS area who saw what was to come and rejected the man.

Some people don't know how big Innoson is. They think that it is just making cars, they make motorcycles and other mechanical parts too. They won't close down, but the might scale back production. However, there are many businesses and business men currently suffering as a result of the bad situation in the forex market.

Ike Nwachukwu, the traitor who fought and killed his own people in the civil war in other to help enthrone Northern hegemony. The paternity of this traitor must be checked because there are a few bastards in Igbo land roaming about claiming to be Igbo. This man should hold his head high in shame for a being a sleazy turn coat traitor of a man.

QuotaSystem:
[b]Rochas is a wise man. I don't see how telling the eastern parasites to become self sufficient in food production is a crime.

These people need to treat their inferiority complex, because I don't see why they should belly ache about the statements when it's a fact that the South East depends on northerners for food supply.

The SE contributes the very least to Nigeria and this is a fact they try very hard to deny and keep unspoken. If the SE leaves today, the only thing that would happen in the North is that our streets and markets will be less congested, there would be less otapiapia and fake drugs in circulation and Young Shall Grow will go bankrupt. Tell me anything else that would change since they contribute less than 3% of our national oil revenue.

Wait for it: Northern Leather alone contributes over 40% of national GDP for agriculture which is more than what the entire SE states contribute in oil revenue. Research and try to prove this wrong.

Regarding markets, you think it's easier for you to import food from elsewhere if there's a food blockade from the North than for Northerners to sell their food to other regions in Nigeria and to other countries they share borders with or even export? Kids.

Even though it damages their self esteem, the truth needs to be told to these people. [/b]

Funnily enough, the so called SE has been trying to leave the British concoction called Nigeria since 1967. They even left, the rest of Nigeria came down to the East to fight for three years to bring them back. Igbos don't need Nigeria, it is Nigeria that needs Igbos. If the Igbos leave again, you guys will still come again to fight because you can't do without them.

Victorvexz:
Please I am talking of the south east as a region, why are u going off topic by mentioning delta and rivers? Are they part of south east? Everybody body knows that igboland land starts and end in the landlocked south east. Even the oil in the south east is not up to 5%, for u to be boasting, yorubaland, precisely Ondo state produces more oil than ur erosion ravaged enclave. Am pretty sure that the amount of money the northerners make from exporting their farm produces can make up for the money the south east tiny oil gets. So I ask again, what does the south east as a region really contribute to the economy.

Same as everone knows that Lagos was never part of the SW but part of the Lands of the Badagry and Awori that Yoruba invaders stole. We haven't firgotten history. The true Yoruba territory of the old Oyo empire contributes nothing. Even the Oil producing area of Ondo is Ijaw territory. You said we contribute 5%? Much better than tou guys who contribute nothing, hence why you need 'one Nigeria' to keep funding your owa mbe life style.