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Not just Oil, obsessed about Nigeria. The one thing that I will never understand about Yorubas is that they were a people who were self Governing, had the Oyo Empire, had an Army led by the Aare Onakakanfo, had a central Government and a rich cultural history long before there was anything called 'Nigeria'. Today, the same people don't know anything except "Nigeria Forever". Some day, I hope someone can explain to me exactly what Lord Lugard did to them.

AntiIPOOP:
History!

These pictures only show how right Ojukwu was to try and get his people away from Nigeria, an entity that is prepared to starve prople to death. Who in their right minds would want to be part of a country that is capable of such? Except a crazy person?

cheruv:
For the Igbos who still believe in one Nigeria, I hope its now clear that even a foreigner has more rights than them in this sham of a country called one Nigeria. You can imagine after all the humiliation,they mocked him by telling him to forget it all that we're "one Nigeria"

Moreover what has the poor dog done to be murdered so brutally by northerners Doesn't it have the right to bear the name its loving master gave to it ?

Nigeria needs to be flipped upside down!!

Some of our people are foolish. An Igbo man is thrown in jail by a non Nigerian, someone from Niger Republic and most probably a Muslim for exercising his constitutional right to name his Dog by any name he so wishes. He is persecuted for being Igbo because those who held him are Northerners. My fellow Igbos, 'one Nigeria' is a myth. You are treated according to your tribe and who is in control

misterawo:
In addition to the above, Murtala Mohammed supervised the execution of 300 worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church, Onitsha

That is also true. The worshippers were dragged out one by one and gunned down. Only one woman who lay under the dead bodies with gun shot wounds but managed to crawl away later and escaped to find help lived to tell the tale. I didn't mention this episode because it falls under the war crimes of Murtala which I already mentioned an example of in Asaba. This is the same man celebrated on the N20 note.

meccuno:
I keep wondering why at every post that relates to the Northerners written probably by someone from the SE, a yoruba person or people are usually the ones who defend them tooth and nail even if it is detrimental to their well being. I notice these things in all post. I think I need to do more research on this behavioural tendency. Whenever a story is written about the north, u see northerners defend them selves but have more yorubas defending. More. I see this very well on nairaland and facebook. I wonder why that's so. Just them. They never see anything wrong with the hausas

It's a master-slave relationship. The slave must always defend the master no matter what.

EpicMaurice:
olamide is yoruba and phyno is igbo.
My girlfriend is yoruba and am igbo
so what else are you talking about

You can have a Yoruba girlfriend, even marry a Yoruba woman. It doesn't necessarily mean that you like Yorubas as a people. BTW, Phyno isn't Igbo.

mazimee:
I don't reside in any of the South western states but i have friends from Yoruba tribe that are my pals. We are very free with each other, non harbours hate for the other.
The fact that you have been unsuccessful at building relationship with people from the other side doesn't mean that others are not doing so.
You are the one that needs to up your game as regards to how to relate with other people from the other side .

I never said Igbos and Yorubas hate each other, I said they don't like each other. As tribes, Yorubas and Igbos don't see eye to eye, we just tolerate each other for the sake of civility. Rarely have I seen any Igbo man say he loves Yorubas collectively as a tribe and can't say I have seen any Yoruba say the same about Igbos. In terms of Nigeria, Igbos and Yorubas have too much bad history since before indepedence and after

mazimee:
The truth is that, the so called hate between the Yoruba and Igbo ends here on this forum. I doesn't go beyond this forum.
I won't fail to mention that you are bias and you know it, but I will leave that for another OP to do justice to your delusion.

Don't fool your self. Igbos and Yorubas don't like each other. In the history of Nigeria, the Igbo and Yoruba nations have never come together to do anything. We detest each other.

I think that the actions of the militants are some what justified. I also like the fact that they have not killed anyone yet.


Nigeria is simply a money making venture that Lord Lugard and the British set up in West Africa. Today, that British money making venture is why someone in Sokoto will be claiming the Oil and Gas in Bayelsa, it is also the reason someone in Ibadan will be claiming the Oil in Ibibio land. How can someone go and take what is in another persons land? When you ask them, they will say it is because Lugard made us one. I laugh in Igbo. The militants are only taking back what theirs, they are taking control of their resources that has been stolen for decades in the name of 'one Nigeria'. Now, the Nigerian Government is ready to negotiate. If the militants had not blown up pipelines, nobody would take them seriously because violence is the only language the Nigerian Government understands. The British invented fraud of a nation called Nigeria is why the militants are justified in controlling their lands and resources and the violent methods they use is the only option the Government of Buhari left them.

parisbookaddict:
Very well written..that note sgould have fela kutis mother instead or one of the many trailblazers nigeria has produced. That fellow was a criminal and serial coupist... he spear headed the killings during the counter coup of 1967 which produced gowon and he then even overthrew gowon because he was not a Northern muslim.. dimika another sorry case fortunately ended murtalas coup ploting days..

It is shocking that some Nigerians are hailing Murtala that he fought in the civil war even though he commited war crimes and on top of that, failed woefully as a Military Officer in a war situation due to his bad leadership qualities.

It is shocking that a man who killed so many people in cold blood is seen as a model citizen worth emulating and honouring on on the N20

It is shocking that a man who shot his way to power through coup plotting and went on to abuse power in many despicable ways is the same person people think is a patriot

It is shocking but not surprising. Nigerians have a long history of honouring any criminal who manages to acquire money or power or both.

Almajiri1:
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What do you think is the Nigerian dream?Any takers

Oil and Gas

The number of people claiming to write or speak for Nnamdi Kanu these days is baffling. Now it's a letter a family member wrote? Who is this family member? Probably another member of the Yoruba propaganda media who can't stand the fact that Kanu and IPOB have escaped the mental slavery syndrome called 'one Nigeria'

See as all of them were mocking GEJ for reducing fuel by N10. Now they are buying at it at almost twice the cost as back then. Welcome to 'change'

lagdmark:
All this your analysis will not unseat a ruling governor in Nigeria

It's been done before. Ngige, Ubah and Omehia are examples

StOla:
Why are some people so self-destructive, suicidal and craving for conflict and anarchy?

The Northerners did not misconstrue his intention. They know him to be a hateful Igbo, the likes of which vent their frustration and misery on this forum and other online media. Now an Ipob member who has forgotten he is not in Aba, has met his match in Buhari's tribesmen. Even if the complainant is claiming to have Buhari as his father's name / surname, it is evident that both defendant and plaintiff are fighting a tribal proxy war over President Buhari.

Can he name his dog Ojukwu or Azikiwe? Imagine a Yoruba man in Nnewi naming his goat Ojukwu, or a Fulani man in Aba naming his dog Nnamdi Kanu and parading it around the IPOB meeting centres? That is the suicidal attribute the Igbos are known for. Imagine using such a revered name in a community populated by Hausa-Fulani? Even if he had named the dog Awolowo, I know his Yoruba hosts may find it repulsive, but would not react violently, resulting in the boldness of the Igbo man who then concludes that Yorubas are cowards and are docile.

Since the Igbo man welcomes bravery and detest the peaceful Yorubas as weaklings, let him celebrate and enjoy the bravery of his Hausa-Fulani neighbours. It is stupidity such as this that was displayed by Igbos in the North, that led to their slaughter in the Northern pogroms as a Northern civilian reaction to the Jan 1966 coup killings of Northern politicians and Army officers.

However, whether the coward directed his friends of hate to eat up his own dog is irrelevant as no case exist here, talk-less of an implication. Nevertheless, the arrested man is safer in that police custody as his bigoted life will be wasted without a second thought, the moment he steps out of police "custodial protection".
We all know the Hausa-Fulani, they don't need to mouth hatred and beat their hollow chest to teach an equally hateful lesson.

See what hate has caused now? His days of peace are over in that community. Except he is released by the police directly at Aba, where his fellow bigoted clansmen will welcome him as a hero who had to runaway from Yorubaland because of Hausa-Fulanis who are his fellow settlers.

After his brain was reset at the police station, hear him declare eternal love for Buhari.

How come people like you like by pass the real issues on the ground? This man has the constitutional right to call his Dog anything, be it Buhari or otherwise. He was arrested for that, thereby denying him his right. Instead of addressing his illegal arrest, you play the ethnic card. If an Hausa man had called his Dog Ojukwu in Igboland, sure enough there would be many Igbos who won't like it. The only difference is that no one is going to arrest and detain him, neither will anyone molest him. The worst that will happen is that some Igbos would have told him to consider going back to the North. This man was arrested for being Igbo. Another act of displaying Northern hatred for Igbos.

searchng4love:
If Nigeria is not restructured the country is as good as dead

Sorry but Nigeria cannot be restructured because the North is against it. To restructure Nigeria, the constitution has to be changed. To change the constitution, you need a 2 thirds majority to pass the law at the National Assembly. Since we all know that the North don't want restructuring, they will vote against it. So where will the 2 thirds needed to get restructuring come from? From outer-space? Restructuring is never going to happen in Nigeria.

youngaz:
lol...hear urself out!...now u said MASSOB surfaced unda OBJ...agreed... wen Jonathan entered did we ear anytin from 'em?...NO...capital NO...GEJ left and unda Buhari..dey resurfaced again...are dey trying to pass a message across wit dah?

Then say you didn't hear, because you were not listening. The agitation for Biafra has long been there, just because you heard of it now is not anyones problem

youngaz:
Now lezz go 2 d mata....i saw a topic on FP sayin NDA wants to declare biafra independence on October 1st....bt my question is,why didn't dey demand for it during Gej's tenure?....d man is from the eastern part of d country why didn't he develop dat region wen he was in power...he didn't develop it and dose living there didn't complain...why are dey now complaining of d sorry state of d region in Buhari's regime?...dey said govt are taking their oil...was it nt from d same place oil was gotten unda GEJ?....and all d profits made on dose oils were being embezzled by our chief mrs (Allison Madueke)...and yet dey didn't complain of any foul play....Jonathan left d post 4 buhari dat is wen dey no dat Federal govt is nt paying dem enuff money..read a report too sometimes ago saying there was one part of Bayelsa dat doesn't ave water...dey drink water from d same river dey washed their clothes...unda jonathan no problem bt wen buhari entered dey started protesting dat govt negleted dem...i mean it's absurd...NDA or Biafra or warreva didn't do all diz tins unda jonathan...bt why are dey doin it now?.,..dey are bombing pipelines polluting their lands...@ least once in a week on Channels tv News @ ten u'll see pple complaining abt d sorry state of their farm land being destroyed by oil spillage...my question remains why didn't dey see dose faults in their states unda GEJ

So you didn't hear of MASSOB since the days of OBJ? What did you think MASSOB was fighting for? The unity of Nigeria?

johnpalmer774:
You should have wait for the Main Appeal before Praising Ikpeazu's Lawyers cos Ogah Has Won.


The judge held that Ikpeazu was not qualified to be PDP’s candidate having disclosed false information to INEC in violation of his party’s Article 14(a) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines and Section 31 of the Electoral Act.

The court held in both judgments that Ikpeazu was not qualified to be PDP’s candidate having falsely claimed on oath that he had met all necessary qualifications to be PDP’s candidate.

Justice Abang’s judgments were based on separate suit (FHC/ABJ/CS/71/2015) filed by Ogah and the other suit (FHC/ABJ/CS/1086/2014) filed by Obasi Ekeagbara.

That was what I was going to ask as it seems that the main appeal has not been overturned. What seems to be overturned was the issue of the certificate or return. I'm no Lawyer but that's how I see it. If the main judgement removing Ikpeazu has not yet been overruled, then there is nothing for Ikpeazus supporters to rejoice about

rayzornaija:
My brother, the problem is not lord lugard who is dead and forgotten. It is up to you and I to look for a way forward instead of contemplating secession.

102 years, you are still looking for way foward. If after 102 years, you haven't yet undertood that it is time to try something different then carry on.

rayzornaija:
Alright! So I was reading earlier about a man who named his pet dog Buhari on the front page of nairaland.com and I couldn't help but wonder how tribalism and political bigotry has divided my beloved country Nigeria.
Personally I think the entity "Nigeria" is on the verge of collapse unless something is done urgently. We should stop seeing ourselves as yoruba, igbo or Hausa and start seeing ourselves as Nigerians for goodness sake.
Every Nigerian has a God given right to name their pets whatsoever they wish without fear.... After all we are under a democratically elected government.

How are we supposed to be the giant of Africa when we are busy creating ethnic hatred and unnecessary tension within our immediate communities? The rest of the world is watching.
When Nigerians travel they receive inhumane and unpalatable treatment from immigration officers, even from third world countries that cannot stand up to Nigeria in terms of wealth, human capital and natural resources.
I have one piece of advice for every Nigerian >
To the IGBOS.... forgive your fellow country men and help move the country forward.

YORUBAS..... Love your neighbour as yourselves.

HAUSAS.... Nigeria doesn't belong to you, It belongs to us all and learn to learn to be tolerant in terms of religion.


Thank you all. CHIMEZIE RAYMOND UCHENNA aka OKE OSISI 1 of nteje
#onelovenaija

People like you have been singing the song of "strenght in our diversity" for 102 years since Lord Lugard came to Africa to illegally declare us all Nigerians. So far, your "stenght in diversity" has led to waves of genocide starting in 1945, 1953, 1966 and culminated in a civil war that claimed 3 million lives. You are still singing the same song as your economy goes down the drain, tribalism and nepotism is on the rise, daily massacres by herdsmem and Boko Haram.

Nna, even a fool will at sometime start asking when the foolishness will stop. It doesn't take 102 years for anyone to know what works and what doesn't.

Deadlytruth:
It is a known fact that a person who sets a bad precedent is always guiltier than all others who later copied him. Ironsi was warned that once the purse is centralized it would become very difficult and almost impossible to reverse it as those who would later have a taste of a centralized purse would not want to let go again. That is where we are today. Even GEJ whose region is most disadvantaged by the centralized purse was so carried away on seeing its size and attractiveness that he too began to resist restructuring. Certain precedents are better not set.

But the centralisation of Government was reversed. The Aburi agreement completely reversed it. It was signed and sealed. It was when Gowon now abolished the regions, created States and introduced full unitary system that Ojukwu retaliated by declaring Biafra. Those who accuse Ironsi of introducing unitary system are the same people who helped the North fight Ojukwu in other to keep the unitary system from being changed.

Deadlytruth:
So correct and factual. In fact at independence we were practising true fiscal federalism by which each region summarily retained 75% of its own revenue and remitted only 25% to the centre. By that arrangement each region was developing at its own pace and was free to utilize its funds to invest in building seaports, airports, industries, universities, etc.
However it was an Igbo man called Aguyi Ironsi that came and, in the name of seeking "national unity" dismantled true federalism thus abolished the regional structure and replacing it with unitary system which led to a chain of reactions that ended up redirecting all powers and revenues to the centre (Lagos) resulting in economic strangulation and stunted growth of all other parts of the country for 50 years now and still counting.

If Ironsi is guilty of introducing unitary system, them all those who came after him are guilty of sustaining it.

adamswahab72:
Divided we stand united we fall

"One zoogeria"

KingJB:
This brief summary is not to incite tribal war, but to allow all the foolish tribalist youths on Nairaland learn from the past. Violence only begets violence.

In war, people die, children suffer, and lands are destroyed. No matter how terrible the national situation is, war is the last thing anybody wants.

"Life and history have taught us that conflicts are never resolved without effective give and take from both sides".... MLK

Let's tolerate one another; Youths, history repeats itself. History repeats itself.

Cc lalasticlala, Dominique, seun

How come you opened this thread but you didn't even bother to make a thorough investigation of Nigerian history? Who told you that Murtala was to made head of state? Who told you that Ojukwu flew to Zambia? Why didn't you say anything about what was agreed in Aburi even though you posted pictures of General Ankrah celebrating the conclusion of the talks with Ojukwu and Gowon. You didn't even state why Ojukwu declared Biafra. Politics is for adults not kids