₦airaland Forum

FKO81:
Ibadan 93% slums city-UN HABITAT

naturalman:
I don't argue base on emotions and tribalism.....

like I said before,.... Nnewi is more popular to a non Nigeria than Ibadan and KANO.

Nnewi has a lot of business to do with China, Japan, Korea ,etc than Ibadan and KANO has.....

Even the people in Nigeria have no business to travel to Ibadan...traveling to Ibadan to do what?.

Nnewi attract more foreign and local visitors on daily basis than Ibadan and kano combined...

ikechizoba:
It may interest you to know that during the war British people did not get any deal from Odumegwu Ojukwu when he went to Russia to buy weapons and assistance, the condition he was given was to nationalise the oil companies and hand over to them, Ojukwu turned it down and maintained his stubbornness. I am sure that is what some minorities shouting our oil mistook for Igbo interest in the oil. The oligarchs on the other hand knew they wouldn't have east access to the oil fields with Igbos in view.
Earlier, the British launched minorities commission in 1957 popularly known as Willink commission, the idea was to prop up unwilling tools (minorities) who were mainly farmers and fishermen to scuttle igbo influence and ignoring the fact that political arrangements were heavily weighted in favour of oligarchs who have persecuted Tivs and other minorities and in the west, yorubas showed great hostilities towards the Urhbo and Benin etc.
Saro wiwa an opportunist and a poor historian who should have learnt from Afonja in illorin and his close brother Adaka Boro who paid the ultimate price for sabotage, becomes overnight friend to uncle Sanni Abacha and Saro wiwa and family lived in gigantic mansion of Odumegwu Ojukwus father in port-harcourt. Saro wiwa kids called captain Abacha, uncle Sanni " this was in the early 70s. Saro wiwa at some point boasted of crossing over to join the Nigerian army and helped them take (Igweocha) now Port-harcourt , because he believed that Igbos had disrespected him.
Fast forward to early 90s and "uncle Sanni" hangs daddy saro.
The idea to seize igbo properties only in port harcourt was to ensure that the bitterness, hate and distrust between the two brother regions never healed. OC nwali and okogbule nwonodi warned Niger deltans against this, but the glee and rejoicing by the EK Clarks camp was too raucous.
The trouble for saro wiwa, elechi amadi and EK Clark started when immediately after the war, captain David mark was drafted in to share the abandoned properties in port harcourt. This was despite the agreement that indigenes would share them.
The niger delta servants of the Fulanis started feeling the tinubu treatment immediately after the war. E K Clark who was given information minister during the war was dropped and have struggled for the rest of his life to touch a government post.
Elechi amadi was found as a ready tool by the British and the Nigerian government to spew all forms of misinformation, One of his book titled Sunset in Biafra alleged that.....
"Some thirty years ago the Ibos began to move in .......Eventually, many settled and Igbo came to be so widely used that certain tribes practically lost their mother tongue. "
Fabricated lies and deception !!!
Elechi amadi was abandoned and he remained brutally and abjectly poor until Amaechi tried to rehabilitate him at dying age.
Saro wiwa was serially humiliated from immediately after the war and never got that illusive happiness from Fulanis.
Before he was wasted like a common criminal In 1994, a year before his death, he showed up un-invited to an Ohaneze meeting in Enugu and asked Ndi Igbo
to forgive him and aid in his fight for self actualization.
With the Fulanis and British eye on oil, and with documented fears of Britain to negotiate with Igbo's, who they hated for knowing even more than they the white man knew, (for every British professional expatriate in the 50s, there were 3-8 superiorly educated and exposed Igbo's.
So, Britain wanted Igbo's away from oil negotiations. This led to the advice to Gowon to cut Elele, Etche, Opobo, Oyigbo, Asa, ndoki, ndoni and some other Igbo communities into the new rivers state they created for stark illiterate 23 year old korofo naval boy, diette spiff to run.
Then they feared that ikwerre blood tie & proximity to Igbo's will return them to their Igbo identity, so, they asked Gowon to pay and commission captain elechi amadi who was a literary practitioner and author, but who felt overshadowed by achebe, and thus, hated Igbo's like hell, to rewrite the ikwerre language and create a new ikwerre language.
So, okuko becomes ochucho, onyeisi = nyerisi, nw =w, as in wike, nwobo=Wobo.
Elelenwa becomes Elelenwo, Umuola becomes rumola, umuokorushi becomes rumuokorishi, obigbo becomes oyibo, umuokuta becomes rumokuta , obi =ovu , umuaka= rumutakiri , etc etc etc
The British clandestinely funded to language alteration project to reduce the Igbo's to minority, so as to face less hectic trade negotiations in future. They also feared that Igbo's might start spreading to run other African states due to their expansive westernisation and individual wealth.
All these hatred were justified as result of Igbo's running port harcourt through enugu the capital. The British who are detailed historians, found every bit of fear mongering and annoying story of domination to whip up hysteria amongst the niger deltans. Where there were facts, they greatly exaggerated them. Lazy men who couldn't compete in life started blaming igbo domination for their failures.
The war was a connivance of convenience as the British bombed the Igbo's, while nigeria blockaded them for starvation purposes. This occurrences are in the past. They shouldn't raise emotions amongst Niger deltans or Igbo's. They're just history.
We shouldn't let them repeat.

naturalman:
Just stop deceiving yourself....all this areas you people are posting can not be seen by a visitor especially first time visitors....

if you are coming from ile ife road, what you see are brown roofs, if you are coming from lagos , what you see are from roof,..if you fly to Ibadan..the Ariel view are all brown roof, so what are you saying....

naturalman:
I get am before, no be property....

Ibadan is like Egypt......

You started civilization but was dormant, why other states overtook you...

that is the highest level of rascality....

and it seem to me that you guys have not woken up to understand this....it is a pity.

kelly72:
IBADAN??
Hmmmmm......................I can even see those famous colonial roofs from here

jahsharon:
Saraki is a bastard for going to see Osinbajo. Saraki should have summoned Osinbajo nah since he Saraki is now almighty powerful.

maklelemakukula:
Abeg comot Ibadan from the list

forgiveness:
I think he has a secret sinister to misinform the public.

He's not informed.

forgiveness:
The most industrialized state has to do with the numbers of industries or magnitude of a company?

I think you are mixing two things together. Ain't you?

naturalman:
The international bodies don't know Enugu but they the are the ones that declared Enugu the most resilient city even before Lagos was included.

For your information, the international bodies recognises Nnewi more than Ibadan and kano..

I don't speak via tribal sentiments but reality.

Nnewi have more business to do with China,Japan and other countries than Ibadan and kano

timawoku:
Osinbajo is wise not to leave the country for too long especially with opportunist saraki. Saraki misfired and now looking for soft landing. Well planned but premature action due to lack of adequate information on the location of the acting president Osinbajo

CROWNWEALTH019:
I don't get paid bro..

Just that I don't support injustice

ODVanguard:
How many times will you people recycle this topic sef? This yiboss sha want attention by fire by force. Abi dem dey take am collect award abi money?

folly22:
u believe because u are there when he killed him. PDP ni o. No to Aregberascal again. Such a dishonourable and heartless man

BabaRamotu1988:
hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha this is the worst delusional statement ever

keep dreaming

Osibanjo is a vagabond
kiss the truth

Joenyam:
The Senate want to play co-presidency.
The presidency want to reserve all powers to itself.
The judiciary instead of giving clear interpretations of judgements, will leave us more confused and divided than we approached it.

In a sane country, on Magu's issue, the executive and legislature ought to present their case before the Supreme Court for interpretation. On receiving judgement, the section 171 of the constitution will thus be amended.
But no, everyone of them likes it as it is, so they can continue the power tussle as it suits them.

Stupid politicians.

Overwhelmed by negative reactions to some observations on the floor of the Senate, the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Thursday night held a secret meeting with the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Investigation conducted by our correspondent revealed that the Senate President’s meeting with the Acting President was based on “some developments that occurred in the Senate during the week, including the suspension of consideration of further nominations by the Executive in protest against the retention of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and the consequent threats of impeachment by some Senators.

A source said: “The Senate President met with the Acting President. He actually came alone and without the paraphernalia of his office to underscore his commitment to rapprochement between the Executive and the National Assembly.

“Saraki took time to explain a few things to the Acting President, but the talks bordered on the clarification of a few misgivings, especially the rumour that he was planning to become the Acting President or instigating the Senate against the Presidency.



“He also took time to explain why the Senate wanted its resolutions respected in line with the principle of separation of powers.

“Above all, the session was actually frank.”

Findings made by our correspondent also showed that Thursday’s meeting between Osinbajo and Saraki was preceded by a visit the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, paid the Acting President on Wednesday night.

Before his visit to Osinbajo, Odigie-Oyegun was said to have reached out to the Senate leadership, asking them to prevail on warring senators to tread softly so as not to plunge the nation into unnecessary crisis.

A government source said: “The APC National chairman came at a time the Acting President was about to have a meeting with a select group of government officials. He was asked to join the meeting, which bordered on the battle line drawn by the Senate.

“During the session, the APC National chairman said he had interacted with Saraki and advised the Senate leadership and Senators to ‘lie low’ and avoid anything capable that was capable of plunging the nation into crisis.



“Oyegun also said the APC could not understand why the party in power would be in opposition against itself.

“No one can say if Oyegun’s intervention was responsible for the visit of the Senate President to Osinbajo.”

There were indications yesterday that the Presidency had uncovered four planks on which the Senate is hinging its threats of impeachment.

One of them is the running battle between the Presidency and the Senate over continued stay of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, in office.

A reliable Presidency source said: “Intelligence report revealed that some senators have identified four issues to take the Presidency on.

“These issues are insistence on the removal of Magu; the renewal of the row between the chamber and the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hamid Ali(rtd); the alleged denigrating comments of the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption(PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay and alleged constitutional breaches by the Acting President and the Presidency in general.

“Although the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, told the party leadership that the impeachment kite caught him unawares and he swiftly overruled the senators behind it, intelligence report indicated that “it was a kite flying agenda” by some senators.

“The government does not wholly believe the defence of the Senate leadership. It is closely monitoring events and putting safety valves in place, including legal dimension.

“Part of the intelligence report showed that some senators had plotted the impeachment script before the Tuesday session.

“Those who tabled the motion were actually not aware that the Acting President had returned to the country.”

It was learnt at press time yesterday that some past leaders (names withheld) had teamed up with the Acting President against the threats from the Senate.

“These leaders have told the Acting President to remain focused and ignore elements trying to cause political upheaval in the country.

“In fact, they assured Osinbajo of their support. These are leaders who the government thought had identified with the Senate.”

The tone for the impeachment process was set by two issues raised on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.

The Senate had on Tuesday taken exception to the retention of the Acting Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and the Executive’s alleged non-compliance with the resolutions of the Senate.

The President of the Senate had said: “This is an issue that we have to once and for all address. We cannot pass laws and see that the laws are not being obeyed. This resolution must be obeyed by the Acting President, otherwise we will take appropriate actions and resolutions.”

On the same day, Senators Eyinanya Abaribe and Kabiru Marafa had under Point of Order asked the Senate President to become Acting President in the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Acting President, who was away for AU meeting in Addis Ababa.

Marafa said: “If the President is not around, the Vice President should act, and if the Vice President is not around, the Senate President, who is the number 3 citizen should become Acting President.”

raker300:
better than hiding in the bushes like the Afonjas.

Afraid to even speak but chestbeating online..these Afonjas are jokers.

Where are the Afonja elders that made noise under GEJ?

Where is bakare, Soyinka, Tinubu etc..

LionDeLeo:
Ipobs - we want biafla, nothing more nothing less.

Ohanaeze - we want restructuring not break up.

Chairman SE gov Forum - we are not ready for restructuring

SE senators - We stand with one Nigeria.

Ndigbo - Arewa youths cannot "drive" us from the north.

Just imagine the cacophony emanating from people who want to be taken serious.

HAH:
I don't want the adeleke guy not to win just to show that because should not be hereditary, it is not there family inheritance to be senators of osun west, why will demola aleleke be the senator because his isiaka adeleke died on the seat?

Josephnice:
these states will never come to a mutual terms with the biafra due to their dubious, insincere nature, kidnapping, counterfeiting of genuine products, diehard mentality of getting rich, insubordination, lack of respect for constituted authority and royalty. just to name a few. it all boils down to trust issues. the ibos have lived with almost all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria hence the aforementioned attributes about them are glaring to everyone's notice. I'm sorry if my utterances hurts it is my actual finding as to the reason no one is willing to go with the biafra.

spartan117:
Now God is using you mightyly to fight d Fulani jihadists that are in power. God bless Bishop idahosa

conductor7:
. They're emulating Awolowlo the ewedu-gobbling hanimal

IamaNigerianGuy:
Nnamdi Kanu is so politically naive. These states will decide for themselves what union they want.
Haba! The guy go use him own hand spoil him market.

Danzakidakura:
the skull miners will fail this time they think we have forgotten ,you want buhari death so that your son will take over power, watch and see how we will use you people for bullet training.