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This dumb pradam should stay in his lane, what are younsoo concerned about what will happen to igbos, igbos are faring better than another people now , why you so scared that igbos might leave? Pls conserve your energy cause the yorubas will need it. Your talking about biafran war its funny how non biafrans cry more about the war than biafrans themselves

Rhino.5dm:
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sod off! Clown!

Read through this thread to see how BEAF manipulated you people by blowing hot air in to your head.

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-629485.0.html

very pathetic indeed!

What don't you understand? Whether election was rigged or not igbos still voted for good luck ,get over it.

Onlytruth:
They are just being desperate.
A desperate man can say and do anything! They feel that the only way they can convince Igbo not to secede is to keep dividing Eastern Nigeria and hoping it sticks!
Only foolish Easterners accept that. They should go and check whether Awori would join Odua first, before coming here to talk trash.

Its really becoming ridiculous, I just wonder what they plan to achieve by doing that and how it will be of benefit to them. I think this is the major problem with the black man rather than solving your problems you keep looking for who to pull down

Lasinoh:
Tufiakwa. . . Edo nor join Biafra for 1960s e come be now.
Tufiakwa I say.
God forbid Iyamiri neighbours!
Twa!!!!!

Enough of this Igbotic boolsheet of a thread.
Wey beta thread abeg.

Why would any sane igbos man want edo to be in biafra? We might not even accept Ijaw talk less ofmedo, we just want peace of mind and the less group we have the better for us

I think this prodam is st,upid I dont understand why non igbos become expert in igbos affairs, why would the igbos in rivers and delta not join their igbos country if I may ask you? Are people still this stu.pid in todays Nigeria.we have asked what minerals others have that we don't have? Is it oil we have in abundance in both imo, and abia or natural gas ? Or are u talking about fanta,coke and sprite. Secondly why are you getting headache over what will happen to igbos and how they should divide themselves? Why not put all that energy on what will happen to your people.

Rhino I think you have a mental problem, it the yorubas that keep claiming of accommodating other people as if them don't live in non Yoruba states, secondly its elrufai that stated igbos own most of properties in Abuja and thirdly there's nothing wrong in someone counting or telling you or even boasting about his achievements after all Nigerians are trying to get away from poverty, ehan someone boast to me of what he has I try to find out how he got it and possible use his strategies or buckle up rather than being jealous or calling him ethnic group names, pls grow up.

Why are you even doing business in rivers state a I yorubaland no do u again.

emmalexabl:
@bashr. .
I wish the next target would be ur kith and kins up there,. .so lets see how long you gona keep that ur gutter mouth shut. .

Leave that talk, why should we have a sizable amount of igbos in the north to start with? We have 5 core igbos states add part of delta and rivers I think that's enough for us. This did not start today it started even before independence I don't know how many more years we have to wait before we learn, I don't have kith and kin there cause igboland is large enough for them,yes there maybe civil servants that can't control where govt post them but there number should not be significant ,if I want to leave igboland I might as well jand

That guy is I'll informed like nchara said that channels guy sound like he is from Benin or kogi and not igbos, for the fist time I have to agree that some igbos need to shut their mouth ,they are beginning to talk too much.

Nchara:
Actually, the war may turn out to be Muslim north against the rest of Christian Nigeria. Its gonna be reverse Jihad.

Those middle belt guys go chop their meat lol, I think that is the northern muslims worst nightmare now to be eaten

Am more worried about the Christians in the north and middle belt. As for the north fighting the igbos that will be ridiculous even terrorism will be difficult unless they use Yoruba Muslims cus hausas can easily be identified in igboland. It may take them the whole Muslim nations support to come close to that but when it comes to that stage we also will get allies bu I doubt if it will. We repelled them before and we will do it again

manchy7531:
you guy refuting the 3million claim need to see the doctor.i guess Lagos is close to 20 million right? do you want to tell me the population of igbos in lagos is 300 thousand?if your guess is same as mine then if Kano is close to 10million in population then i don't doubt that there are up to 3million igbos in Kano and do forget you don't need a demographer to know the largest single ethnic group in Nigeria.let  us all forget Nigeria's population census.igbos are the most populous single ethnic group in Nigeria, take it or live it.

Shut up,I guess all those igbos in south east Delta and rivers are zombies. Remmebr that Ph and onitsha are also among the most populated cities , lets stop all these fabrication abeg , I will say it again only lagos can boast of huge number of igbos the total population of people in Abuja where we have many igbos is not even up to 2 million I fact Abuja city don't have up to 500thousand inhabitants both natives and non natives.

ade_77:
It was actually a war between the igbos and Hausas the Yorubas did not join in the war until it got to ore

The division was led mostly by northern officers. After facing unexpectedly fierce resistance and high casualties, the right-hand Nigerian column advanced on the town of Nsukka which fell on 14 July, while the left-hand column made for Garkem, which was captured on 12 July. At this stage of the war, the other regions of Nigeria (the West and Mid-West) still considered the war as a confrontation between the north (mainly Hausas) against the east (mainly Igbos)[citation needed]. But the Biafrans responded with an offensive of their own when, on 9 August, the Biafran forces moved west into the Mid-Western Nigerian region across the Niger river, passing through Benin City, until they were stopped at Ore (in present day Ondo State) just over the state boundary on 21 August, just 130 miles east of the Nigerian capital of Lagos.

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

What are we supposed to take home from this?

jason123:
I partially agree except for that the Mid-west and West were invaded during the departure and that was what cause the the bad blood between southerners.

Mischief so what was biafras mission in your so called Yoruba invasion? Capture yorubas? Meanwhile the so called biafrans soldiers in Midwest were of Midwest origin and headed by a Yoruba man,  we can do this over and over again.

houvest:
Any Source to this story?

Its just someones opinion and its really ridiculous

pharmow:
For all those dumb Ibos that have made unreasonable comments on this thread, I will like to know your history and heritage, a lot has been said about yoruba history and by the time you dumbasses link 2 or more stories, you can see that the yorubas have a very rich heritage. Have been hearing since I was a little kid that it was a gorilla that impregnated your foremother, I can agree more cos the way you guys behave, it always show the animal instincts in you.

Ironically yorubas look like monkeys even as black as guerilla, I hate to tow this part but since you want us to really start saying things as it is.

Igbos have always been open and truthful about nigerin situation, others either live in denial or are just waking up, this confirms that tribalism didn't start today,if these people really had a problem with igbos dominating everything why didn't they just turn a blind eye during biafras seccession we were actually doing them a favour and ending their misery and nightmares.

genxris:
this topic is supposed to be restricted to yoruba xtians &muslim interaction pattern but inferiority complex &abusive nature of d yoruba poster & his tribesmen in NL has made them drag d ibo's into it.And u dont kip mentioning d killings in d north as if it's only d ibo's that r casualties,many yoruba people live up their too.Yes we may neva v a muslim governor in ibo land because we are 99.5% christians here so that's it and we practise intermarriage more than any tribe in nigeria, turn all dis hatred to lov

Yorubas don't care about their people you should have known that by now, they have been fighting wars among themselves before and after colonisation by Britain, no matter how many yorubas that die in the north they will never talk about it cause they don't want to upset the hausa-fulanis

The solution to ngeria problem is to divide it simple and short another thing will only complicate it

ezeagu:
Is it a problem to care for people associated to you?

Can move where? Into Berom and Tiv land?

Stop supporting bogus claims, thats how they were shouting bokoharem is killing only igbos and that only igbos are stranded and targeted when we got to the north igbos did not even make up to a quarter of the population leaving the north, lets stop all these bogus numbers.anyway whether its just 200 igbos we still have to support them in evacuating Kano if they are interested

The only state that have a huge population of igbos is Lagos no other state outside the east can claim to have up to 200 thousand igbos residing there

What a ridilous claim, how many people live in Kano in general? Am not in support of this number propaganda and census numbers my people are throwing around its ridiculous, we are already over 30 million in igboland southeast and part of south south or are they trying to claim we have the highest population, confusing

naja2:
most igbos are too myhopic hence their bigoted approach to every issue. Sorry the yorubas got it right, rather than being jealous how about u guys learn from them. In any case igbos are the most dis united people in Nigeria, an igbo man will gladly dupe another igbo man . Why blame every one else for your woes? Like i always say dont blame yoruba or hausa for you backwardness , you guys NEVER stand for any just course. Please yorubas are very united because they a very educated and exposed, they know religion is purely btw u and ur God rather than d other guys who prefer to make political profits wit religion. GOODLUCK TO U GUYS,

Typical Yoruba man very dumb,stupid and etnicentric, what has igbos got to do with your useless thread, imagine a yorubamantelling igbos that they are not united,  you yorubas are the most disunited group in Nigeria,  your leaders have robbed and scammed you so much that yorubaland now have over 60 percent poverty next to the north, almajiro is now common in yorubaland , confused bunch of people ,tell me where in history of Nigeria where yorubas where united? Not even during the civil war neither now the igbos are speaking with one voice while you people keep clowning about and talking from both sides of the mouth. Demons, the only difference between you and the hausas is that you are cowards.

Yoruba language under threat of extinction – Abimbola By Tunde Odesola, Osogbo Saturday, 6 Nov 2010

Former Vice-Chancellor, Obafem A former Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Wande Abimbola, has warned that Yoruba language faces the threat of extinction in the next 50 years if urgent steps are not taken to revive it.

In the third Odua Distinguished Lecture papers made available to our correspondent in Ibadan on Friday, Abimbola lamented that the essence of Yoruba culture, which included songs, dance, dress and language had been neglected by the government and individuals.

He said it was unfortunate that Nigeria had failed in attracting tourism and foreign investment despite the immense potential available in the country. The highlight of the occasion was when five Americans sponsored by the United States Government to learn Yoruba language and culture stepped out and greeted the audience in impeccable Yoruba.

The director of the centre, where the Americans are learning Yoruba culture and language in Ibadan, Prof. Kola Owolabi, said the Americans were part of a project sponsored by the American government, adding that the project would run for a year.

Abimbola, who is the Awise Agbaye, a high chieftaincy title bequeathed to him for his prowess in Ifa knowledge, explained that the Yoruba were highly endowed in terms of culture.

Delivering his speech in Yoruba, Abimbola charged the government, parents and guardians to endeavour to allow the young to communicate in Yoruba, saying that this would aid learning of science and technology.

Abimbola, who sounded a gong as he delivered obsequies to Yoruba gods, said, “The Yoruba in the Diaspora are over 100 million. Yoruba language will go into extinction in the next 50 years if we don’t arrest the trend of neglect afflicting the language.

“Yoruba will be slaves to other cultures if we don’t take the bull by the horns and start teaching our children Yoruba language from nursery to primary and secondary schools. Brazil, where 50 million Yoruba people reside, makes so much money propagating Yoruba cultures and language.”

A professor of history and Provost, College of Humanities, Osun State University, Osogbo, Siyan Oyeweso, told our correspondent on the telephone that Yoruba people no longer spoke their language.

Oyeweso said, “In one of our universities in Nigeria, there was a time when its Yoruba Department had only one student a particular admission year. In order to overcome this trend, Nigerian universities now combine Yoruba with Portuguese or French or other foreign languages.”

But a lecturer in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr. Chijioke Nwasomba, differed from Abimbola and Oyeweso, saying Nigerian languages would not die.

Nwasomba said, “People speak these languages in villages and towns. Language is dynamic and as a result of this, it could take other forms. The government should, however, support those who write in indigenous languages. Nigerian languages cannot die.”

The chairman of the occasion, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, condemned hero-worshipping of Nigerian leaders by their aides and hangers-on, saying this trend portended grave consequences for governance.

He commended past Yoruba leaders for charting a course of development for the region, even as he urged the Yoruba to be united.

According to Adelusi-Adeluyi, the Yoruba race has contributed significantly to the development of blacks worldwide. He said that among the major tribes in the country, the Yoruba remained number one.

The Group Managing Director, Odua Investment Company Ltd., Mr. Adebayo Jimoh, said the dreams and toils of the past and present leaders of the race would not be in vain.

He said OICL remained committed to improving the socio-economic and cultural realities of Yoruba people.

Foremost scholar, Prof Bolanle Awe, who reviewed the book, Odua Investment Company at a Glance, lauded the management of the company for sustaining the dreams of past Yoruba leaders, who founded the company.

In the Yoruba essay competition organised by OICL, Oluwakemi Fagbenro came first, Bayonle Sulaimon came second, while Funmilayo Owoeye came third.

Dignitaries present at the colouful occasion included Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola, the Araba of Osogbo, Chief Yemi Elebuibon; Secretary to Oyo State Government, Chief Olayiwola Olakojo and past group managing directors of OICL.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201011064273784

I miss my old I'd

Negro_Ntns:
a new accord and treaty need to be drawn to meet the new political awareness and realities. You cannot default to a 1967 agreement that Ojukwu failed to honor. Yes, its time for something to partition and dissolve the country. Abudri accord does not do that.

Your a dummy, how can ojukwu fail to honour what he was fighting for,I really don't understand how someone can be so stupid gosh are u a spambot or whT

Masters of denial, I dey laugh oo any fashola have always foolef lagosians so am not suprised

The Nigerian Army spokesperson, Col. Mohammed Yerima has broken his silence over the heavy presence of military men on Lagos streets, saying it was requested and actively sponsored by the Lagos state government.

Although, the minister of Defence, Bello Haliru Mohammed, told newsmen on Tuesday that the military personnel were deployed by Federal Government to Lagos to safeguard lives and property in view of recently protests and national strike.

Yerima stated this in a four paragraph statement he read to journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. He noted that the soldiers were drawn from the same Operation MESSA, a security arrangement of Lagos State government made up of police and military personnel.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Defence Headquarters has been drawn to the unsubstantiated claims by a section of the public alleging that the Federal Government ordered the deployment of troops in Lagos to halt the protest against the fuel subsidy removal.

“While the Defence Headquarters do not wish to join issues with any individual or groups regarding the matter, we wish to state categorically, in the interest of the larger society, that there is no element of truth in those claims.

“The soldiers seen on the streets of Lagos are still the same men of the special task force code named Operation MESSA set up and sponsored by the Lagos State government long before the fuel subsidy protests, for the purpose of supporting the civil police in protecting lives and property as is the case in many parts of the country.

“The men of the task force who are currently in Lagos have been there and were not brought from outside Lagos. They are members of the Lagos State Government sponsored Operation MESA and the demand for their withdrawal is therefore uncalled for”, he concluded.

But in a swift reaction, the Honourable Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, said the claim by the Nigerian Army was a blatant lie and there was no iota of truth.

He enjoined Nigerian Army to show the entire populace the proof that the Lagos State Government has a hand in the mass deployment of soldiers.

Ibirogba said the state government has nothing to gain in victimising its citizens, because they have constitutional right to protest without destruction of lives and properties, which was not obtainable during the 6-day industrial action in the state.


http://saharareporters.com/article/janus-faced-fashola-exposed-nigerian-army-regarding-deployment-soldiers-lagos

The reason why I consider those igbos that actually joined the subsidy protest as fool, after all their sweat yorubas have made sure igbosnare tagged the people that did not protest, one of my ex girlfriend almost fought me because I told her its a useless protest now she can see this and agree with me, whether igbos join or not bad belle people will always look for what to say, its good the right thinking ones focused more on saving our people in the north than this jamboree called subsidy protest which yielded nothing.

Negro_Ntns:
. . .yep, good job commando! stay focused on that mission, let others handle their own.

And make sure you keep away from igbos affairs since your not capable of helping your own people.

Yes we will continue to remove igbos in the north while the yorubas keep getting killed without anybody even raising an eyebrow about it cause maybe to you their life worth nothing, just maybe

Its really tru yorubas don't care about the people, his is really sticking an pathetic,, anyway lets not judge yet till the real yorubas like ggawe and maybe shangor tor come on board, negro nuts is a known slave to the northerners, everything about him is in the interest of the north as long as nobody gives the north a bed name yorubas can die who care that's his ideology, anybody that served in nysc alone in any part of the country whether east west north and south know that the igbos and yorubas have the highest population of corpers so srgung with this buffon is really useless as we are yet to get a proper response as to why there is no help coming for the yorubas from the south west.

Obiagu1:
If it were someone like me that have been on Nairaland, walahi, I'll screen everyone before anyone boards that bus.
Pathetic people, they'll never appreciate the Igbo rather they'll be backstabbing them.

Don't mind him,  he knows more about the north than yorubaland I guess he is alahji harem or some other northers or those Muslims from kwara notice the real yorubas always avoid this kind of thread cus they have nothing to say