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musicwriter:
All I can do is pity you and the millions of people like you around the African continent that now think that being a slave is being free.

Do you know that Britain was also enslaved but they later rejected everything given them by foreigners once they woke up? They even fought to get back the English language by rejecting the language of their colonizers!! But if I tell you let's do the same thing to restore ourselves, you'll give every excuse on the planet why we shouldn't. Shame!!

I suggest you read the history of a subject before you comment on it. The English language is not the native language of Britain. The English are actually invaders from Germany/Scandinavia . The English language is. It native to the British isles, the British royal family are Germans, the English are conquerors/immigrants.

That’s why they are called Anglo-saxons. From saxony in Germany, their language being anglo. Read about the Norman conquest.

mascot87:
This one na lazy student. He don't want to research it himself so he wants someone to do it for him. Sadly, someone above have fallen for his deceit

I think the OP is not lazy but truly lacking that grey matter, he genuinely believes those are the only words. He could easily have spent the t effort he wasted creating the thread and asked google

Another real life example that education and certificates does not equate to intelligence. We are currently in the midst of a saga involving a minister who forged a certificate he does not need for the job.

When people say Africans go to school to work for people who didn’t go to school this is why?

Irony1:
See Oga anyone can use a fake font to print propaganda. This scope is stale. Why not bring the real book that you referenced it from and state the page of the book. Haba stop all this disinformation.

These are archives from the z British government. Records of proceedings. You are free to search yourself. Just google “1953 constitutional conference” you can add “the status of Lagos” to fine tune your search. I know people like you will not read it because you are not interested in truth just propaganda.

Irony1:
Did you read the item 2 of that letter to Banjo? Does that letter look like someone that wanted to take over the west? He even said that Yoruba deserve to have a life of respect and be free from Hausa/Fulani tyranny. Haaa stop please this disinformation is gone too far. Honestly DSS needs to start looking at posts on nairaland.

We were born yesterday. He was using Banjo and deceived him. Even a child does not need explanation of what transpired there.

Why would he tell Banjo when he captures Lagos and Ibadan he must take orders from him and anything must be cleared by Him. What nonsense. What kind of friend is that? Nonsense! You have secedes, you claim you are helping your “friends” to secede but after they secede they must take orders from you? That Victor Banjo deserved what he got and anyone who aligns with these covetous expansionists! . Omo ale!

Just like the Obidient movement there are always some naive Yorubas who allow themselves to be used. Not realizing what they think is a noble cause is actually a tribal movement and they are just pawns. Same thing is happening or happened with the Obidient movement.

Like I have said he who doesn’t read the history of this country will not know what is happening now has repeated itself many times in the past.

Irony1:
Dude stop misinforming people. Babangida acknowledged that the coup was not an igbo coup when he stated that his first commander an igbo man. Col Arthur Unegbe was killed in that coup.

See me see trouble. A man say “I may be wrong”, he says he is stating an “opinion” (not fact). He goes on to say he was a junior officer far removed from the action.


Abeg get out of my mentions. Nonsense people!

People who can read and understand what they read will only make one conclusion, those with agenda will take the part that suits them and run with it. Basic English we are taught in school, teaches us the difference between “my opinion” and a fact especially when the author clearly states he was far removed from events and he is SPECULATING.

It’s only when you people are involved that a clearly stated opinion and speculation becomes truth and fact.


This is why we are speaking up now because you always lie and twist events and over time your lies become accepted as truths.

JAWBONE:
The coup was not an Igbo coup, read Babaginda's book, read Ademoyega's book.

It was a Nigerian Army Coup.
Nigerian soldiers do not identify themselves by tribe

babangida never said it was not a ibo coup. as usual you are masters of twiting words. h


he specifically said he doesnt know because as a junior officer, he was not privy to the coup plot or their motives. In the same sentence, he also went on to say that the ibos wives were mocking the northern wives in the barracks.

as usual you just took the 1st part of his comment and ignored the rest.

Those who argue that the original intention of the coup plotters
was anything but ethnic refer to the fact that the initial purpose of
the plotters was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo ‘from prison
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immediately after the coup and make him the executive provisional
president of Nigeria.’ The fact that these ‘Igbo’ officers would do this
to a man not known to be a great ‘lover’ of the Igbos may have given
the coup a different ethnic colouration. But, again, I may be wrong
here since this view is speculative. I admit that my position here may
be the naive insights of an unsuspecting young officer who viewed
events from a distance

JAWBONE:
Stop your lies and stop attempting to rewrite history. All these Ronu fake intellectual

The war began in the first place because Gowon failed to agree to administer Nigeria like a Confederacy which is what was agreed with Ojukwu at Aburi, Ghana

just like the coup was not an ibo coup. spare me we have all wised up to you guys.



text of Ojukwu's letter to Banjo

inscreAF:
My dear Victor,

1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.

2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination. We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.

3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:- (i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West. (ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression. (iii) Biafra is determined to maintain and safeguard her sovereignty and ensure that her integrity and safety are never again threatened. (iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat. (v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory. (vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba. (vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority. (viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops. (ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss: (a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory; (b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.

4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.

5. It is essential, in order to avoid misunderstanding or confusion, that all subsequent requests for support be formally made to me by you in writing.

6. Will you please signify in writing, your acceptance of the above conditions so that you may leave for Western Nigeria and lead the army of liberation.

Yours very sincerely, signed Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu,
Military Governor and Commander in Chief of Biafran Armed Forces.
culled from " A Break in the Silence : Lt. Col. Victor Adebukunola Banjo, pp.66-68, by F. Adetowun Ogunsheye, Spectrum Books, Ibadan, 2001". Provided by Prof. Olufemi Ojo

ElSudani:
I didn't know this "No man's land" thing has been going on for so long.

Zik and his tribe have coveted lagos since the 1940s. the problem is we dont study history. To the extent that Awolowo had before independence offered to contribute to the building of a new federal capital away from Lagos. that time lagos was not even a a state...it was just an area a total of 29 square miles.

Ojukwu lost the war because his troops crossed into Asaba with the aim of taking Lagos and Ibadan. That was when the war escalated, prior to that it wasnt seen as a war but a "police action". It wasnt about secession, it was about conquering Nigeria. He found a useful mugu liberal akotileta in victor Banjo...in the end he executed him when banjo realised Ojukwu was using him. Same thing Kalu is sponsoring indigenes bill. why do you need an indigine bill in a country you are a citizen and can live and work anywhere?

Kushites:
Don’t you find it embarrassing that an African judge wears an English white man’s wig on his head to administer justice?

Is there no part of you that says “Come on….this is ridiculous”?

so which clothes will the ibos wear since they did not have clothes before the white man came and all their clothes are borrowed from the colonizers?

it really doesnt matter if he graduated or not. the point is he submitted forged certificates.

i keep saying Nigerians go to school but they dont think or act like educated people. Why forge a certificate when the law does not require you to have a degree? it does not even require you to have a secondary school certificate.

FarahAideed:
Haba na ..I don't hate migration I just want people to do it legally , illegal migration is too Dangerous for any society, anybody that cannot obey simple immigration laws might not obey harder laws

100% spot on.

Anywhere you allow mass immigration from people who are different from you in culture and in values will eventually be consumed and destroyedby the same issues that destroyed where the immigrants are coming from, whether Europe UK or Lagos and SW Nigeria. it's only a matter of time! if these immigrants were capable of managing a society or functioning in an orderly society they wouldnt have to migrate in large numbers becaue their societies back home would be functioning. Mass Migration is ALMOST ALWAYS a failure of society, those are not the people you want in your society

In almost all cases, it is the inability of these immigrants to get along with each other, compromise and build a prosperous society that has turned their people into economic migrants. Eventually they settle, they rise in positions in society but the leopard never changes its spots. that character that destroyed where they are coming from will eventually destroy the host community or nation.

Immigration only works when the hosts either limit the numbers, deny them acces to political or administrative positions or all of the above. Dubai functions because because outsiders are kept away from the politics and administration despite immigrants outnumbering the citizens. they also dont grant citizenship to every dick and harry because youve stayed there for years The western world is collapsing because they have allowed too many people who are not like them and have given them the same rights as the citizens. it will be their end!

SonOfDSoil01:
this is what happens when someone is clouded by hate…..are you talking about the coastal road that is already getting to Ondo? And even the portion of the road have also started in calabar. Just because you hate Tinubu or Lagos doesn’t mean you should come on SM to spread your propaganda about a road that it’s progress is a public knowledge

the road is currently under construction in 5 states. lagos, ogun Ondo, Akwa ibom and cross river.

a section of Benin Agbor (ewu to agbor) was handed over to edo state last week

Benjamin Kalu is an embarrassment to APC, to Abia and to Nigeria. He is unfit to be a deputy speaker.

helinues:
Do we have standard database to monitor people's income?

The deliberate unavailability of cash was partly a prelude to the new tax laws. With BVN and an increasingly unavoidable cashless society every transaction in and out of your account is traceable and monitored.

Banks are also required to flag certain transactions. If you are below the threshold for taxes, the inflow and outflow would reflect this. If you are account is handling millions and your tax declaration does not reflect the flows or you do not file any taxes, you will be flagged.

Expect a huge surge in tax collections next year. Income taxes go to states though.

When you hear a crime is committed in a some specific countries, you know the people committing the crimes. South Africa, Ghana, anything Asia, Thailand, India, Indonesia, non English speaking Europe, ati be be lo….you know it’s the developers. If it’s Uk, USA, Canada , it can be any of us. If it is Saudi, you know it’s our people.

That’s the tribal demography of international crime by Nigerians. Northerners generally don’t participate in crime or being a nuiscance and a disgrace to the country abroad. If it is being a nuiscance to their hosts abroad, whatever the country may be..it’s only one tribe.

Tunde Bakare is a hypocrite. You didn’t remember Awolowo v Akintola when you were contesting against Tinubu?

He should go and sit down, if he wants to join ADC with his one vote he is free to. Let us have peace!

metallisc:
That was FMB - Federal Mortgage Bank

I remember FMB headed by Chief Falegan . The jingle I remember was federal savings bank.

I know you said one thing but

Scrap states. Introduce 6 regions, grant full autonomy and introduce local languages as official languages in each region alongside English.

Amotolongbo:
😂😂😂
I remember when I was a church goer and being fed this kinda lamba every Sunday

That’s why I don’t do Pentecostal churches. You suspect food is poison but you are ok giving it to your own dogs. If the story is even true what does it say about you?

Before the introduction of foreign religions, the Yorubas have always worshiped different gods etc Sango, Ogun, etc. so we have always been tolerant of different choices and have lived in harmony allowing others to practice their beliefs as they please. That is why in yoruba land you will see members of the same family practicing Christianity, Islam and traditional religions and living in Harmony.

Religious intolerance is alien to the SW.

If e go die make e die there…..Heaven will not fall! There was no compassion for the victims of his terrorism.

Freshtruth:
No be say oshimen no good o but he is too aggressive as a human being if u be coach u go sign m? No difference between him and balo

That’s not the reason premiership won’t touch him. It was simply down to his wage. Demands.

The clubs that needed a striker could not afford his wage demands.

To put it in perspective, isak is on £250k a week gross, Osinmhen wanted €250k(£216k) a week net and refused to budge. For a premiership team, that translates to £400k+ a week gross. The clubs that needed a striker, Manu, Chelsea, Arsenal Liverpool, can’t afford that.

As you can see below, this is the salary a premiership team would have to pay him to achieve his wage demands. Based on that there was no point even negotiating. We all know when we go to the market, there are some prices the seller will demand that you don’t even bother asking “how much last?”!

You go explain tire!

This is why statesmen should remain statesmen.

Okoroawusa:
If you for a second think that there's a difference between Peter Obi supporters and Nnamdi Kanu supporters then your education was a waste.

….and that is all you need to know. And if you are not an IPOB or Kanu supporter and you’ve been supporting Obi, you’ve been gaslighted, you’ve been played, you’ve been used!

helinues:
I am just seeing your comments now. We are actually practicing democracy in Nigeria because if not, all those activists would have been silenced

This is why history must be taught. Anyone who reads the history of Nigeria from pre-independence to today will think it’s the same set of political actors from the 1940s. Yet batons have changed hands many times.

The lesson is that Nigeria’s problems are because we are Nigerians and human nature does not change. So if you are not allowed to know the missteps your fathers or grandfathers and the consequences, you are more likely to make the same missteps because you have the same behaviour as your fathers.

There is nothing new under the sun as far as Nigeria is concerned. The only difference is we have a generation doing the same things that don’t know how it ended the last time.

alrahmanonline:
Even if some people mess , they'll blame wike for the stench, you'll hear he should have prepare somewhere where the stench will go, inside all of una wike haters church mind, you all knew wike is the best fct minister so far in the history of Nigeria, one thing I know be say, if you like kill yourself for people, who hate you no go like you.

The guy is a waste recycling specialist. He is looking for contracts.

kelechi50:
Fela would have died, if what he did then is done now.

If Fela did not die then, he won’t die now. Many of you who didn’t live through it don’t appreciate how tolerant of dissent Nigeria is today. All these people talking anyhow, Sowore, Obi, would have gone missing or if they are lucky locked up on trumped up charges. Meanwhile these same people have skeletons in their cupboards but the government allows them to make noise.

Quest7777:
This Present Generation will never believe this once happened in Nigeria.

I remember the radio jingle. “Federal savings bank, federal savings bank, you can open an account with ten…..” I think it was ten Naira in my time not ten kobo…though I may be wrong.

When the west see that Nigeria is on the right track, they begin to fabricate reasons to halt our progress.

Gerhards:
You are mistaking, anyway continue to explain maybe you will get it right 😁

In the formative years f this country, the most intelligent people were teachers and university lecturers. Lucky are we who benefitted from their tutelage.

The problem with many of you is by the time you started school, the good teachers stopped seeing teaching as a viable profession and only people who couldn’t get good jobs elsewhere went into teaching.

This is why foreign institutions now require applicants from a country that professes English as its official language to take tests in English proficiency before admission.

You are only as good as the system that produced you.