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[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=571808.msg7853363#msg7853363 date=1299365342][color=deeppink]This is lucifer on earth! [/color][/quote]i know right

babarians

abeg awka is a nice serene city except that unizik junction both right and left of the express. i miss the east jare especially weekends eastern boys too like enjoyment, nkwobi, suya point and kill plus the mami water igbo chicks choii ,olingo unlimited

if we determine a fetus is growing abnormally in the womb then it should be aborted cus the baby is still goin to die or even cause death of the mother. you dont want to have a child with only one eye or one leg or cojoined twins do you?

secondly incases of rape and incest abortion are legal cus the birth of that baby could have a life long phsychological impact on both child and family which could still leads to other sad event s that could lead to death of someone.

DRlulu:
the op have a point, i cant say ibeto is richer than dangote considering the number of years he was laid off by obasanjo to give dangote monopoly,

IN SHORT THE FALL OF IBETO LED TO THE RISE OF DANGOTE , before dangote ,ibeto owned cement buisness in nigeria.
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ibeto is among the 5 richest nigerians. rich men from east of the niger believe too much fame leads to envy especially from top govt officials who want to reap where they did not sow, so they prefer to lay low.

true he may not be richer than dangote but he definitely first 5

chiddy bang


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfKc9x01_k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCK3OmhzJQU

nnenna freelon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnenna_Freelon

medical career is borin for me and ties me down , i find IT more exciting though challenging cause you have to keep making breakthroughs to be relevant. am very adventurous so medicine is not just my thing.

ekubear and chiogo , i first attended a caribbean medical school which is easier to enter then transfered back to american school. (na the koko these days).

i have been working on an IT project ,nairalander will be the first to see it when am done.

lekside44:
@kodewrita medicine will soon move to a level where doc learn new technique over d net. What then is the whole idea about telemedicine all about?

have you removed anioma yet? they are not goin anywhere with you to benin republic

lady j u:
Jos is d best place to be. D cool weather, d low cost of living etc, except for d recent crisis. They don kill jos finish.

your right i visited jos sometime in 2005 its really cool and i loved the weather ,i can remeber a place called west of minds we use to go hang out there.

nobody wan reside for yenogoa? wey all my niger delta peeps whats up naa, una dey carry last oo ,come share your experiences livin there. the few times i went there it rained all through so i couldnt stay to discover the hot spots, it was just buiness without pleasure.

i love all my nigerian and african women but i prefer a hot plate of igbo girl anyday anytime ,seeing them alone makes me wanna get married they are soo pretty ,intelligent and homely.

pls all tribes have wonderful women as well but since i was born and raised by an igbo woman i rather stick to what am sure of

why are southafricans murdering their fellows africans? giants indeed that crime infested country, pls am not hating i have been there and the living condition of the lower income citizens there is no different or even worse with that of nigeria.

the difference between RSA and nigeria is that nigeria high income earners are nigerians while that of RSA are non africans so i dont see how SA benefits its aborigenes.

its funny most igbo people do not know about such people yet we are accuses of sounding our trumpet all the time, nice thread

Alj Uche:
sure you are right but if electricity is not solved in nigeria there is no way forward i tell you

companies need it

even electrical made products made in nigeria like ugo plc needs this electricity for his company to grow out of nigeria

am not talkin of having electricity am talking about their generosity , money have never been our problem , i wonder what they are going to get in return.

Kobojunkie:
I think the statement above is probably evidence that more education is needed on your part.

u must be talkin to yourself cus billions of dollars have been injected into the same sector since 1999 ,who told you money is our problem

any thing other than ohakim will be appreciated in imo

am sure you know that comes with a prize, the more they give us money the more we are never going to maximize our potentials rather remain an oil selling and importation country

this is just a long list of nothing ,besides your not expected to buy them yourself you can give the cash equivalent to someone in her family to do the buying , less than 100,000 naira can buy alll these things ,if you cant afford the amount then you can afford to take care of a woman and her children either.

The Ekumeku Movement consisted of a series of uprisings against the rising power of the Royal Niger Company of the British Empire in the Aniocha-Igbo communities of the Lower Niger River. The British penetration of Nigeria met with various forms of resistance throughout the country. In the south, the British had to fight many wars, in particular the wars against the Ijebu (a Yoruba group) in 1892, the Aro of Eastern Igboland in 1901-1902, and from 1883–1914, the Anioma of Western Igboland.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 The war
3 Aftermath
4 External links
[edit]History

Resistance was strong in western Igboland where a series of wars were waged against the British. The Ekumeku, who were well organized and whose leaders were joined in secrecy oaths, effectively utilized guerrilla tactics to attack the British. Their forces, which were drawn from thousands of Igbo youth from all parts of igboland, created many problems for the British, but the British used forceful tactics and heavy armaments (destroying homes, farms, and roads) to prevail. The Ekumeku, however, became a great source of Igbo nationalism.
The Ekumeku Movement is unique in Igbo history for two reasons. First, the length of time the movement endured, comprising Military campaigns over a period of twelve years. Secondly it is the outstanding example in Igbo Civilization of an attempt to unite previously disunited states to resist the invader. You have seen that one crucial reason for Igbo defeat was the great discrepancy of scale between the average Igbo community and the colonial invader. The British decided on a preemptive strike, and in December, 1902 sent a powerful expedition which systematically destroyed a number of towns and imprisoned their leaders. This, it was assumed, was the end of the Ekumeku, "the Ekumeku and other secret societies have been completely broken".
In 1904, the Ekumeku rose again. This time the changed their tactics, mistakenly, it would seem in retrospect, abandoning the united guerilla warfare of 1898 for the individual defense of each town. The last act of the Eureka drama began in late 1909. The occasion was a succession dispute in Ogwashi-Ukwu. One of the claimants, Nzekwe, the son of the last Obi, feared that the British would deprive him of his throne, and decided to fight for his inheritance.
On November 2, 1909, the British sent an expedition to Ogwashi-Ukwu to kill everyone in Ogwashi-Ukwu but they failed in the expedition. The British perceived, in the whole Asaba hinterland, a sympathy with the Ekumeku, and a disposition to throw off government authority. In 1911, there was a final round-up of Ekumeku leaders in various towns that was followed, once more, by imprisonments.
The acting lieutenant-governor of the southern provinces sent an agitated telegram to Lagos: "Whole country is above area, is the state of rebellion." Reinforcements arrived from Lokoja, and the British proceeded to a confrontation at Akegbe. We quote both the contemporary British accounts of the battle at Nkwo market.
[edit]The war

With the invasion of Ndoni in 1870 and bombardment of Onicha-Ado (Onitsha) on November 2, 1897, the stage was set for the Ekumeku war that engulfed the whole of western Igbo region. The Royal Niger Company (RNC) commandered by Major Festing engaged Ibusa in 1898, and in 1904 it was the people of Owa/Ukwunzu against the British in a war that W. E. B. Crawford Coupland requested for more arms to crush the western Igbo communities. Owa would once again engage the British in 1906 in battle that S. O. Crewe lost his own life. On November 2, 1909, it was finally the turn of Ogwashi-Ukwu who matched the British. In this war the British sustained many casualties with the death of H. C. Chapman.
[edit]Aftermath

Although the Ekumeku failed in 1914, but the western Igbo treasure their memory as imperishable legacy. Heroes included Dunkwu Isus of Onicha-Olona, Nwabuzo Iyogolo of Ogwashi-Ukwu, Awuno Ugbo, Obi of Akumazi, Agbambu Oshue of Igbuzo, Idabor of Issele-Ukwu, Ochei Nwayazia of Onicha-Olona, Abuzu of Idumuje-Unor, Idegwu Otokpoike of Ubulu-Ukwu are still remembered in Western Igboland. The Ekemeku War is one of the greatest resistances to the British empire and inspired later rebellions such as the Mau Mau of Kenya.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekumeku_War

Cyborg2011:
I think if we will rate the ethnic group spoiling, tarnishing, blackmailing, and destroying the image of Nigeria, in "my opinion" here they are:

1) Number 1 are Igbo Peoples in diaspora; India, China, US, Britain all most everywhere,

2) Yoruba

3) Hausa  

4) Others.

If you want to argue with my point above, please be polite and post reference to your claims, then I will assume you are literate and educationally-wise intellectual Nigerian, else otherwise.

first of all the name obaseki is not igbo neither is it eastern nigerian , it sounds south western or mid western to me so i dont know how u  came up with the headline

Eko Ile:
The only coward on record is Ojukwu and we can forget how ibo people ran like pancies back to iboland everytime  Hausa man whoop their a's's.

Even though den no touch them after June 12, the same ibo cowards ran back to ibo land like little girls, and the grand master of all cowards na Zikwey run comot and stayed away while his country dey burn.

Yoruba people's history exhibits bravery, we are not afraid to fight and give our lives fighting for everybody's right and freedom, our leaders fron Awolowo to soyinka, gani, fela, abiola and his wife,, solarin, ajasin, dele giwa and many more were sent to jail and killed for their acts of bravery. Something ibo people don't know ish about.

And during the civil war when the war was crappy, Yoruba military men took over and whoop your biafran a's's and you end up surrendering to another yoruba man after your weak and incompetent coward and rebel leader took off like a sisy fagg.

Now shut your mouth and go read more about your history of cowardice and incompetency

yes the hausa whop our a.s.s in their land but they come into your land up till today to whop yours and you cant do shit about that , now who is the coward? the other day ijaws whopped your a/s/s in ondo and you all ran to lagos and ibadan in twinkle of an eye .you dont even have the balls to go beyond the SW. nigerians know who the cowards are. as for what happened in the biafran war, the documents are all over the net so arguing with you is a waste of time since you have access to internet you can educate yourself so that you dont sound stupid in public.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=616372.msg7854267#msg7854267 date=1299380260]Thanks! lol

The "tribalism" comment tho, was it referring to original post  or the scrapping going on now btwn me and the "sheep" up there? If its to the OP I, humbly, ask :" can you (and I ask you with all sincerity) show me ONE,JUST ONE, thing that was, without with being tinged with humor, tribalism. The only wise crack I made was towards Eziachi. Beaf as Squealer? I doubt you could defend that without getting convicted here in Naira Land Court? Your trial wouldnt even last 10mins and the jury will return a verdict without leaving the pew! Whole trial---between start and when a verdict is returned? 10:48secs ---FLAT!!! I'm that confident. So, we agree with that.

Next was referring to the Ibos as the "hens whose eggs kept getting taking". You surely cant say my characterization can be described as an example of "tribalism". The pigs lived fat off the eggs of the chickens. The chickens were being underfed. They werent treated right. They revolted. They broke the eggs instead of letting the pigs continue reaping where they did not sow. Owing to the vicious nature of the pigs and how they killed with impunity; the hens felt they were as good as dead. They probably figured death was better than living as slaves and being fed scraps off the proceeds of what belonged to them in the first place! But what did the Pigs do? Did they kill the Hens for sabotaging the egg collection? fUXcks no! If there pigs were anything, they werent silly! Nobody kills the goose that lays the golden egg! So, what did they do? THEY BASICALLY, "BLOCKADED" THE HENS, STARVED THEM INTO SUBMISSION UNTIL THE HENS WERE FORCED TO GIVE UP AND START GIVEN EGGS TO THE PIGS AGAIN! STARVED THEM TILL THEY GOT WHAT THEY GOT! The Hens gave up, but in snippets as the book goes on, u'll see the hens express bitterness. You can tell theyre probably wishing they were stronger and could take on not just the Pigs, but even the rest of the animals cus they probably blamed them for not standing up to the Pigs when they (hens) revolted.

Now, replace the following:


Eggs: Oil

Hens: Ibos

Pigs: Hausa/Yoruba/Rest of Nigeria

Revolt/Blockade/Starvation: Civil War.


You can even go on and pretend the Hens had a Leader named Ojukwu! Dont blame me, I'm usually one with a book when Im reading it. But I'm sure u get it.

Now, apart from those three examples I just refrred to, can you show me ONE HINT OF TRIBALISM IN THE ORIGINAL POST? .

Matter fact, use those 3 examples too. Show me one hint of tribalism, because I honestly fail to see it.[/quote]total rubbish , oil should go to ijaws secondly who told you only igbos fought the biafran war, what about efik,ibibio, hell even some yorubas like banjo. what the igbos have you can never take from them and its not oil.secondly startvation had nothin to do with end of the civil war. some children starved but the soldiers were ever ready and increasing recruitment.there lots of people still starving today today in nigeria and dying of starvation but the igbos are not amongs them. give it up man what you read in nairaland is not the same as what is happening in nigeria.


pig=Hausa/Yoruba/Rest of Nigeria indeed

Alj Uche:
well said brother you the true son of your father

@other posters

no matter the amount of tribalism we show to ourselves here on nairaland, we are still nigerians and even if me as a kanuri man meets and igbo or yoruba man out side, i would still treat him like my own regradless of his ethnicity

the same can be said to some igbo and yorubas

we are one, together we stand, divided we fall

remember that

yeah but they should stop picking on igbo people , i came to nairaland to share knowledge but ended up an igbo warrior cus i just couldnt take it. if i tell you what i do for a living you would not believe i would stoop this low to fight with internet warriors .

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=616372.msg7853992#msg7853992 date=1299373601]I don't represent Nigeria, I represent Igboland. I am for African unity but definitely not the unification of nigeria as a country.[/quote]that will be difficult , we have to start with one nigeria first even with all the tribal and religious conflicts ,there no other way

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=616372.msg7853956#msg7853956 date=1299373165]Oh my God!

Your such a mo>ron!

Nigeria does have serious problems![/quote]yes but your trying soo hard to make tribalism is the biggest of them all.

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=616372.msg7853908#msg7853908 date=1299372361]The only hope that that re-tard has is if he drinks poison, dies, then comes back as an Igbo man.[/quote]pls dont say that ,you might not like him but he is still a nigerian ,we must carry everybody along if we must compete with the west and asia.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=616372.msg7853898#msg7853898 date=1299372194]Ok, I see what the problemo is. Lemme pretend I'm talking to my 4 yr old cousin. . . . .


In the book was it ONE hen or a[b] GROUP[/b] of hens that rebelled?

Did the Hens feel that the Pigs were taking their resources, using it for their own benefit and live in luxure while the hens wallowed in Poverty?

To use a word you might understand casue you lot love throwing it around so much: Did the Hens feel "MARGINALIZED"?


Is Isaac Adaka Boro a group?

Is Biafra one man?

Did Isaac Adaka Boro own any oilfields?

Did Biafra get starved, like the Hens, into submission. . . . . ?

You want me to go on?

[/quote]thank God you keep exposing yourself, ignorance and insolence are the best words to describe you. biafra war was not about marginalization cause biafran were occupying all the strategic position , it was simply about hatred nothin more ,igbophobia the same thing you are doing today . the eastern region was far ahead of other regions before the war so what marginilasation are you talking about. how can a region with the least poverty rate and highest literacy rate be marginalised.

the situation in nigeriais too complext for minds like yours  to understand so stick to what you know best thats igbo bashing cus your good at it.

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=616372.msg7853878#msg7853878 date=1299371898]Come on now. I know you too well. To give an Igbo man that much credit, you would rather die first. That is why you reserved that character for Awolowo.

Even though Nnamdi Azikiwe deserves it more if you are going to try to use an analogy.

[b]Zikism [/b]is the system of political thought attributed to Nnamdi Azikiwe, one of the founding fathers of modern Nigeria and the first democratically elected President of Nigeria. Azikiwe expanded on this philosophy through his published works such as Renascent Africa (1973) and his autobiography My Odyssey.
Overview

Zikism is characterised by five principles for African liberation:

[b]Spiritual balance
[/b]To show empathy for other peoples views, and recognize their right to hold such views.

[b]Social regeneration
[/b]To expel from one's self national, religious, racial, tribal, political-economic, and ethical prejudice.

[b]Economic determinism
[/b]To realize that being self-sufficient economically is the basis for rescuing the Renascent African.

[b]Mental emancipation
[/b]To be knowledgeable of African history and accomplishments, and to dismiss any kind of complex exhibited by any race or tribe.

[b]Political resurgence
[/b]To regain the sovereignty that Africa has lost to colonialists.[/quote]are you kidding me , you expect them to know such things that have to do with igbo? man your giving these guys too much attention.