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Ewo!!! The damage the Fulani Herdsmen are doing on our people is unimaginable. The mayhem, the wanton killing, the gratuitous violence, visited on a people in their land is unheard of, abominable and calamitous. Igboist, a group I direct, contributed money to buy whatever we can for those that survived the attacks in Uzo Uwani in Enugu. Yesterday, we met at Shoprite, and right there we bought all the goodies we can get and loaded in a bus and headed to a hospital in Nsukka, when we got there, only one patient from the attack was still there, some had died and the rest were moved to Orthopedic hospital in Enugu. We attended to the only patient left there, gave him his goodies, succor, consoled him, took his contacts so we can still get him more help, we then headed back to the hospital in Enugu were the rest were transferred to. When we got there, see mayhem, see human suffering. Those in the ward we were directed to were not just herdsman victims from Uzo Uwani alone but herdsman victims from other parts of Enugu state. Madness. Madness that anyone can encroach into an Igbo land and inflict woe of the highest proportion on us. Can an Igbo man enter another man's land and even harm their fly and hell would not be let loose? Anyway, we now ended up catering to everyone in the ward.
See, if this were the civilized world, you would see so many charity organizations falling on top of each other to help the victims, financially and otherwise, but here nothing, you are on your own. But thank goodness that we were able to do what we can yesterday. And the victims, the ones that were conscious, were so happy despite their pain, they felt, people cared. The unconscious ones just looked on, as we consoled them and dropped off their goodies.
I appeal to state governments to please not abandon victims of this herdsmen mayhem to fend for themselves. Please, visit them in hospitals and take care of their hospital bills, they cannot be put through this for no fault of their own and then be saddled with how pay their hospital bills or to get themselves out of the hospital.
NGOs: Oruola na omume, please, you are needed here, go and see these people and do something for them.
Anyone who is able to do something for these people should please do so. Go and visit them, and see what you can do to make life easier for them..
Dear Igbo men, Dear Igbo men in leadership positions, Dear Igbo men in Government, Dear capable Igbo men, Please, this shame is too much. Clean it off our faces, we cannot have anyone walk into our land and, harm us, ravage us, and kill us. No it is not acceptable. Do something please and do it fast.
Thank you: On behalf of Igboist, I profusely thank all those who donated towards this family event. It is not easy considering the hardship we are all facing. Thanks for putting your money where your mouth is.
A special thank you to Igboist members that came along for the journey. An extra special thank you to Igboist manager per excellence, Mmasinachi Njideka Emoka, who took charge of this project and delivered gallantly, as usual.
Dear Igboland, help is coming your way, you will be whole again. Be patient, your children will soon cleanse you of this calamity.
Yours Sincerely,
Maria Ude Nwachi (Afikpo Chic).
#BCEL - Best Chic Ever Liveth (Mama Igboist)
Member - Ebonyi State House of Assembly.

>>>http://www.042report.com/2016/05/the-visit-relief-materials-for-uzo.html

Afikpo chick ADA Igbo ji eje MBA


Oga adili yi na mma. Kedu Linda ikeji ebe ono..ifele mee ya

Umu Igbo kunyie nu. Oruna Na omune

Eddygourdo:
Happy sunday to you all, hope una go church and have decided to truly repent. Anyways I get matter that bothers me a lot. The opinions of nairalanders might be inconsequential when an entire nation of 170mil is considered. But still its opinions and differences indicate a possible trend afterall.

I go through the political section and I see three things.
1. The yorubas and the igbos assume they are enemies and can't stand each other.
2. The northerners are united to any cause , be it evil , good or outright callousness

3. Most nigerians have lost faith in the nigeria project and prefer to waste time being incoherent opositions .

Look at korea, look at the americas during the civil war, look at most recently sudan. The division they sought occured between northern and southern lines. Thanks to coastal advantage, the south always prospers. Look at nigeria , a perfect example is the unity by some unfortunate governors who came out to declare stleath support for fulani herdsmen attacks. They know its wrong , they know these people are murderers who hope to carry on their activities, yet they stood united in their opinion. Everybody knows that , if only oil was found in the chad basin in economic quantities, the north would have broken off a long time ago.

Why then aren't the entire south a more united front despite our differences. We have a lot in common than what divides us, we are religiously tolerant, we have a large portion of educated people who could assume an elite class when needed, we aren't murderous no matter what, our union as a united south would forster the benefits of diversity. So what are the differences amongst the yoruba and the igbos on nairaland that fosters all the hate. I believe all these aren't representative of real situations . I have many yoruba friends and many yorubas have igbos as friends.

A unified southern nigeria, would create a platform for real democratic practise, we will be away from the born to rule people who encourage murderous behaviour. There is need for a unified southern nigeria and middle belt. We will disagree but we won't kill each other for it. Its not natural to us

But East Timor was on Eastern line
Ethiopia and Eritrea was Eastern line also

So your theory doesn't hold water

senior123:
d northerers r even wiser now. go to the north now and try corruption. sheriff is hated by his people. They r now wiser. They r now united in their fight against corrupt hopeless leaders. N u say most northern leaders... R d southern leaders any better? they r all hopless politicians and untill we come together as Nigerians and kick them out, we will remain here. Northerners have done this already. Southerners r still playing I hate u, i love ojukwu game.

Oga it will take a millennium for the north to get wiser. Ask me why? Islam is one thing that stops people from been logical . I have been to north and I know what I mean

They have the mentality if anything Western is Christian and that is why you hardly see them in north taking education for example ...I have passed through kaduna to Abuja then gone to Zaria you will see ample lands and opportunity yet these people are still backward

Do you know that if north has been educated or open to education they can produce foodstuffs and add value chain in it..but what do you see today in north ..marrying kids as early as 10 having vvf and so many things . OK look at how they voted ..they just voted not because the man has any economic blueprint but because he is a Muslim ..that's is height of illogicalities

Oga take it or leave it. .the north will never be wiser. Left for me I think no northern man will contest untill they need certain standards in living ..charity must continue from home . you can't give what you don't have


OK look at buhari and tell me one impact he made in daura alone . tell me any NGO he is into before and tell me his economic blueprint. The answer is none and that is why we are in this mess today. It might be hard to believe but the truth is that north brought Nigeria to were it is today from independence. Only the killings is enough for any region like SE and SS to form alliance because they are the only 99.99% Christian zone and I am in total support of it

So we should stop chastising them..they are sure of the union

omoelesa:
Jonathan this,jonathan that.This jona u wants to die for,who brought him from the wilderness of bayelsa to become the VP, no be obasanjo a yoruba man,when Turai and co were kicking all over the place who stood for him by protesting on the street,in 2011 didnt yorubas voted for him massively.in all of this where were the ibos.u mention diezani and NIMASA,so u think the yorubas are like ibos that will protest because of some useless politician.The fact is, yoruba dont need the ibos for an hiy thing, it is the ibos that need the yorubas.

Who ever brought him out nko? The bottom line is that the world knows who stood by him

All you are saying now is medicine after death
SE and SS has formed and will always be allies due to historical factors

ChinenyeN:
Sorry it took me a while to get back to you, because I really didn't even know how to begin to address this. I was sort of taken aback by all this. Anyway, here is my (carefully thought-out) response. It might be a little long, and I tried to share as much as I knew without getting too off topic, while still attempting to really put everything into context. Even while writing this response, I periodically had to stop and think on it. Kai.

Of course, it goes without saying, but if you feel the need to ask more, feel free. I'll respond to the best of my knowledge and ability.

To be honest, much of what I know comes from having attempted to corroborate oral traditions within the Ngwa-Echie-Ikwere axis. As you rightly noted, oral traditions in this axis are rather thin, and most corroboration can be found primarily in population movements. Corroboration is necessary, especially since specific details tend to only be remembered by specific communities. For example, all available accounts show that Ochichi is only mentioned in Ikwere oral traditions. Echie and Ngwa traditions do not mention an Ochichi, but the traditions do recollect the population movement that gave birth to Ikwere. This is hardly anything to be surprised about. It is often the case in the Ngwa-Echie-Ikwere axis (and probably also in general) that parent villages do not recollect many of the specific details found in the traditions of offshoot settlements, but may recollect the population movement itself.

In the case of Ochichi, you will find two major claims in Ikwere oral tradition. The first claim I will focus on is the one that claims Ikwere people to have either migrated from Bini or descended from Bini royalty. This Bini claim even has variants, and (oddly enough) it seems that only the latest variant mentions an Ochichi. According to the general Bini claim, it is asserted that Akalaka was a member of the Bini royal family. Due to some political issues, Akalaka fled with his wife and son, Ekpeye. While in exile, Akalaka married another wife who gave birth to Ogba, while the first wife gave birth to yet another son, Ihruoha. If we take this tradition seriously, along with a grain of salt, we can probably deduce a migration from somewhere in or near Bini, which led to the migratory wave (Ekpeye) interacting with a different community (Ndoni, according to tradition) that brought about Ogba, and then some Ekpeye migrating further to settle in parts of Ihruoha (or what is now Ikwere).

As noted earlier, Ochichi has been added to this story and a variant has come about. According to the variant, Ochichi and Akalaka are half-brothers who both left Bini together. Ochichi migrated further from where Akalaka had stopped (Ekpeye) to settle parts of what is now Ikwere, along with some of Ekpeye's sons. Another inclusion to the claim asserts that Ochichi had a brother Wezena who moved with him to settle at Ikwere. In this variant, Ihruoha is not a son of Akalaka. It is probably noteworthy to mention that neither Ekpeye nor Ogba traditions mention an Ochichi. It is also noteworthy to mention that the inclusion of Ochichi was expressly meant to address the controversy of the second major tradition of origin which claims that certain communities at the heart of Ikwere do not have a Bini connection.

Now for the second major claim in Ikwere oral tradition. All available accounts suggest that it is in this claim (and not the Bini one) that Ochichi is originally mentioned, and this tradition makes no mention of Akalaka, Ekpeye, Ogba or Bini. Rather, the tradition recognizes Echie. According to this tradition, Ochichi lived and died in what is now Ozuzu in Echie, but before his death he had fathered a child, Iwhuruoha (Ikwere), who then moved and settled at Elele. This tradition then asserts that internal migrations, which led to the original establishment of the seven village-groups, first sprang from Elele, hence why Elele is regarded as the cultural capital of the Ikwere. It is probably noteworthy to mention here as well that in both this tradition and the Bini one, Ochichi's lineage is the one directly associated with Elele (Ikwere's cultural capital).

Now, as noted earlier, neither Echie nor Ngwa recollect an Ochichi (be it the name of a person, people, or language). However, depending on who you ask, there are elders within Ngwa and Echie that recognize the name Iwhuruoha (often either as Iwhereoha or Iwhorooha). Echie recognizes this Iwhuruoha as a population movement from Ozuzu into what is now Ikwere. Ngwa recognizes this Iwhuruoha as one of the population expansions noted in Ngwa oral tradition that lead to Iguocha. The Ochichi-Ozuzu tradition also recognizes Ngwa. As it would seem, elders in various communities which recognize the Ochichi-Ozuzu tradition also recognize a shared ancestry with Ngwa, and according to one Ikwere historian, some communities apparently recognize another tradition known to them as "Ngwa Owhuhu and Ngwa Gbaka", which is actually the Ngwa Ukwu/Ohuhu oral tradition that affirms kinship between Ngwa and parts of Mbaise and Ngor Okpuala.

Now, in both of these traditions (the Bini and the Ozuzu) where Ochichi is mentioned, not a single one recognizes Ikwerrengwo or Umuebulu. In fact, going by historical accounts, it seems likely that Ikwerrengwo and Umuebulu were settled in more recent times. Ikwerrengwo especially is recognized as a heterogeneous community, including Igbo-speaking and non-Igbo-speaking peoples. It is one of the few communities in the area with notable and recognized heterogeneity (i.e. Igbo-speaking and non-Igbo-speaking). Aside from this, I am left wondering about the existence of these Ochichi speakers themselves. According to Blench's note, only a few old people can be found that speak this Ochichi language. Now, if, in 2003, there are a few old speakers, then going back 100 years, we could likely expect there to be at least three generations of active speakers of this Ochichi language. At this time, I'm considering British rule. I know very well that Europeans had a poor understanding of the "Niger Area". Despite that, I cannot deny the European's ability to keep detailed records, especially during the periods of surveying. Anthropological documentation and intelligence reports by colonial officers at the time abound. I sincerely find it difficult to believe that an aboriginal group, with such a markedly different language would have gone unnoticed for over 100 years.

Then, perhaps the biggest question in my mind concerns Ikwere's fight for ethnic recognition. How come the Ikwere nationalists did not recognize or attempt to identify these Ochichi speakers in an effort to gain some sort of advantage for recognition? From where I stand, the existence of this group is convenient. They somehow bear the name of the legendary primogenitor, and they speak a language that is not Igbo. Both of these key points could have easily been used by Ikwere nationalist to gain an edge in their fight for recognition. So, now I'm left wondering how such a convenience has gone unnoticed all this time. In fact, how come no move has been made to capitalize on this since the discover of these speakers over a decade ago? (Not rhetorical. I'm actually interested in hearing what sort of speculative conclusions you believe might satisfactorily address this.)

These curious questions are partly why I believe that they are unlikely to be an aboriginal, non-Igbo population. Considering the loudness of anti-Igbo rhetoric in Rivers State, I would certainly have expected their dissenting voices to have been heard. Yet, even 10+ years after they have been discovered, they themselves (forget talking about Echie and Ikwere) are still quiet.

Overall, I am seriously tempted to mark this one as a coincidence in name. A particularly strange and disturbing coincidence, because it is much too close to the heart of the Ochichi-Ozuzu tradition and only subtly misses the mark.

Nice one but Oga pls the late oba of Benin had said that there is no history of akalaka or ikwerre migration in Benin history

AjaanaOka:
This post was prompted by a short note I stumbled on late last year, and which I have been unable to stop thinking about. The note can be read here:
http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/BC/Cross%20River/Central%20Delta/Ochichi.pdf

In the note, the linguist Roger Blench talks about a little-known non-Igboid language spoken in Ikwerrengwo and Umuebulu in the Etche (Echie) area. This language, known as Ochichi, is only spoken by a few old men in the Etche communities mentioned. Attempts to gather information about this Ochichi language was largely unsuccessful. According to Blench, “The speakers refused to give any further information on the language as they almost entirely switched culturally to Echie (an Igboid language) and no longer wish to remember their old language.” [Why do possessors of precious knowledge always do this – hoard information? Exasperating.]

From the few words Blench and his team were able to collect, it appears Ochichi belongs to the Central Delta language family, and is related to such languages as Obulom, Abua and Odual, spoken in Rivers State and Ogbia, spoken in Bayelsa State.

How did a Central-Delta language end up as an enclave (albeit today, a practically vanished enclave) within an Igboid-speaking group?

If the histories of other linguistic enclaves found throughout the world (eg: Cornish in England, Basque on the Spanish-French border, Berber-speaking ‘islands’ in the Maghreb) are an indication, then the answer is quite simple: - Part of what is now Etche, and perhaps even further afield, was in the forgotten past not Igbo-speaking at all, but populated by people who spoke a Central-Delta language, Ochichi. Then in an age of population expansion, Igbo-speaking peoples probably from a ‘population core’ in the Mbaise-Ngwa area struck south engulfing Ochichi-speaking villages, and absorbing and/or expelling the Central Delta-speaking aborigines.

[My suggestion of Mbaise-Ngwa as the ‘population core’ from which what is now Etche was ‘Igbonized’ is based on the little information available to me which appears to show that the people of that area share the greatest linguistic similarity with the Etche – a fact that could be indicative of ancestral kinship; there are also fragments of tradition in support of this.]

If the above deduction is accurate, it wouldn't be the only time in Igbo history a non-Igbo-speaking area was Igbonized. A well-documented (orally documented, that is) example comes from the Northeastern Igbo area. There Ikwo and Izi farmers, according to their own lively accounts, had embarked on a sweeping expansion taking land from, and absorbing, several small Upper Cross groups in what is now northern Ebonyi. Linguistic enclaves of some of these Upper Cross groups still survive within Ikwo and Izi territories, and include Effium, Ntezi and Okpoto.

The reason the Igbonization of North-East Igboland is remembered, and the Igbonization of Etche not remembered is probably because the former event is nearer to us in time and therefore more within the time-scope that a preliterate people can manage. In spite of this however, it DOES seem that oral traditions in the Ngwa-Etche-Ikwere area have preserved in attenuated forms the memory of population movements associated with Etche’s Igbonization.

In these traditions, the name Ochichi is remembered as the name of a founder-hero. This Ochichi is also believed to have hailed from Etche – the same ethnic nationality that today houses the near-dead Ochichi language. Ochichi, the story goes, came from Ozuzu in Etche from whence he moved into the northeastern part of Ikwerre and begat Elele, Omerelu, Egbeda and Alimini-Isiokpo, four groups that are today Ikwerre.

One possible interpretation of this fragment of tradition (in the light of Roger Blench and his team’s discovery and classification of the Ochichi language) is that some Ochichi-speakers, probably facing pressure from incoming Igbo-speakers at home in Etche, moved west into Ikwerreland. The location of Ikwerreland at the bottom of the Igbo-speaking (Igboid-speaking, if you prefer) world probably meant that the region served as a cultural/linguistic cul-de-sac, admitting various relict populations and cultures from the interior. The great linguistic heterogeneity of Ikwerre, which Kay Williams remarked on, is most likely a testament of this.

It appears that with the passage of time, Igbonization (not satisfied with 'de-Ochichizing' Etche) followed the Ochichi into Ikwerreland, for the Ochichi-descended sections of Ikwerre are today also wholly Igboid.

Linguists and traditional historians working today sure can recover chapters of our history we never thought recoverable.

I laught at stupidity

The word ochichi is even Igbo
The word ozuzu is Igbo

Was your Mr.ochich igbonized also

Bros abeg find another gist.. This one no follow at all

omenka:
And you who is gifted with a very fat brian, so fat your skull finds it hard to accommodate it, couldn't come up with something as simple as a moniker but had to clone someone else's.

You with a very big fat gift upstairs think Omenka is Idoma.

I really envy your gift upstairs bros.

I give up

OlandoOwoo:
It is a shame, what you have turned to in this forum. I know Idoma guys are usually not well gifted upstairs but your case is well beyond their norm. Just an advice :go for soul searching

Your true .they are mostly barbers ...I am trying to see an idoma man that is an intellectual that is recognised ...I can't see. They are good at farns and sex

So forget arguing with them

Ugosample:
Bye.
And stop stalking me too..... You know what I am talking about.

It is Igbo people like you that give us bad name.......
Onye asai

Nechieonu and stop claiming Igbo. Onye ofe mmanu and mind you we Igbo don't have bad name ..anuofia ..if you have bad name deal with it..we Igbo do not have bad name

All these watered down genes that claim Igbo. Your post has proved it... Ofeke

Gbafuo........onye apari..how this monkey say Igbo have bad name
Oh your yoruabare saints
Your hausas are angels


Your basically stupid

MirabelArode:
yorubaman, Driving Taxis in PH and speaking Ikwerre doesn't make you one. Don't just make noise here, go on the streets of Pitakwa(Igweocha) and organize an Anti-IPOB rally, that'll speak volume than the useless spittle you are throwing around here. Go test the popularity of your views on the streets. Noisemaker!

Give up on that guy..He is a foregone case. Ezepromoe and TonyChristopher took him to cleaners once over his stupidity

Yoruba should stop this thing..it is becoming shameful and embarrassing ...after acting funny 2015 elections an d conniving with north to form alliance they think we don't know

Now they are fidgeting that SS and SE are together. The honest truth is that Yoruba has always been the black sheep of the southern Nigeria and we all know this . I just don't know why..right from independence

SE and SS has formed an alliance which has been there for centuries so why are the Yoruba worried . they should know that people understand

senior123:
they have tried to decieve SS into their hate driven tribal delusion of integration. dat didnt work. the next card is to claim indigens of SS states and claim d states. igbos should go back 2 their land. abi they r chasing fulanis away. they should go back.

You don't need to talk
Jonathan was evidence how the West hated SS
Dizieani was evidence
Nimasa man was evidence
The way you miljee SS was evidence

Do you think that SS are stupid ..they see far and know their neighbours never had anything against them
This was proved during 2015

Jonathan failure was a blessing for SE and SS

Eddygourdo:
yes oh bro. I really dispute. But before we argue, I need to under the premise you standing on. You are invariably saying that these igbos are of greater population than other tribes in the SS ?
That was the submission I countered. The presence of minority igbo tribes amongst the major ones in SS , isn't a big deal. But sayin the igbos are in majority there, then we will argue that to the pits of hell

In rivers they are not minorities in Delta they are not minorities sndbmaybe minority in cross river and akwa Ibom and fringes of edo and bayelsa but when you collate them together they are the biggest set in Niger Delta so these we can comfortably go with

Something is foundermentally wrong with h the Muslim mind

Ugosample:
We Igbo people are the architects of our own problems.
You see what you are typing?


Okay let us do small analysis here,and this one is the truth, ask anybody.

Prior to the Coup, we Igbo people ran the civil service, and we were top in the Nigerian armed forces. We were practically running the show in these establishments..

Then there was a bloodbath, Ahmadu Bello and Tafa Balewa killed, Akintola killed, (Awolowo was lucky, because if he was not in jail then, he would have been killed too) and Okotie Eboh was equally killed. No leader Fri the East was killed.
An Igbo man now becomes president and abolished the regional structure of the country in favour of a unitary one.

So, our people ran the civil service, military, and now head of state..
How did you expect the other people to feel? and coupled with that Ahmadu Bello video on Igbo people shortly before he was killed also in the mix, things blew up


Now I am not saying that the counter coup and the progrom in the north was right, but that is also history, and I hope you will teach your children this one too, because if you don't, you are a hypocrite

I am done with you Igbo wanna be

Eddygourdo:
who told you the igbos are the largest tribe in the SS . Stop being delusional. Name the SS states and please name the tribes in them and state how igbos are the largest

Igbo are indegenous in all the SS states from Edo - Igbo akiri to Delta anioma to cross river izzi to rivers etche ,ndoni ,ikwerre et AL to even akwaibom the hinges and fringes border between abia . apart from bayelsa

Do you want to debate this ?

Ugosample:
Yoruba people are in my family too. They are not bad people like our fire fathers have made us believe. They just have different cultural practices, that's all

Now I understand

Ugosample:
Are you telling me that my late uncles are liars?
Don't let God punish you where you are o.
Who are you to say he did not conscript anybody,
Or where you there during the heat of the war in 69 where they had to conscript men to fight after we lost many soldiers?
I don't want to get emotional this night, so just forget the topic, Or else .......

Look at this man o.

You are started becoming insultuve ....I think I am done with you .
Have a blessed day

Ugosample:
If that is the case, then I have no problems with it. The Igbo generation after us should no what happened WITHOUT sentiments.
Using your Language Unadulterated.

The history must be told
Those that denied us
Those that sabotaged us
Those that fought with us
Those to trust
Those not to trust
Those that you can firm alliance with
Those that you can't form alliance with

That should be told ...so it is left for the kids to be sentimental or not


Achebe did a good work on that and posterity has found him worthy

Sometimes I wonder how these Fulani people think ...maybe they think we suffer amnesia ....oh bow that Igbo r retaliating that they are sending this deniers

Well I think that this damage control is late

How did we end up with these set of people as a country

That's what I keep asking

Ugosample:
Why the insults?
I lost MANY family members in the war, Ojukwu forvefully conscripted many of my uncles in the war too, and the war was disastrous.
So what should I now do?
Of course my children will know about what happened, but just as my parents taught me those days, I will also teach them not to hate other tribes, but judge them by their person.

If you preach hate, then you should be ashamed of YOURSELF

Oga Ojukwu neve forcefully conscripted any one

My father and uncles fought ..it was a volunteer force and mind you in Igbo land you don't force people to do your bidding even kings
This has shown ypuvare not Igbo

So what are the rights you want to wrong or the wrongs you want to right

Ugosample:
I am not forgetting history, but what happened has happened. What point do you seek to achieve by teaching your kids to hate other tribes? Or better still, pass grudges to the next generation

Nobody is teaching any kids to hate anybody
What shall be taught is the Igbo history in an unadulterated way

olokeded:
The Presidency has responded angrily to the criticism of its economic policies by Bring Back Our Girls group founder, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili describing it as inaccurate.

Ezekwesili, who spoke at a roundtable discussion on the state of the nation on The Platform, organized by the Covenant Christian Center, in Abuja on Saturday, April 30, had described President Buhari’s policies as archaic and enabling corruption.

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo who is heads the National Economic Council replied Ezekwesili’s criticisms through his Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande who said that there was no evidence to back her claim that the economic policies of the present administration is archaic.

He said, “I have read through Dr. Ezekwesili’s statement and I did not see any evidence to back her claim that the economy is archaic.

“What is archaic in the attempts by the present administration to diversify the economy and spur technological innovation?

“What is archaic in the government’s attempt to find long-lasting solutions to the problems facing the country? What is archaic in the Treasury Single Account which has increased the level of transparency in handling government’s revenues?

“What is archaic in bringing to account those who have stolen our commonwealth and get the resources back to government coffers? What is archaic in fast tracking industrialisation and dealing with infrastructure? All these are economic issues.

“You cannot come up with your own unclear elitist summary of the economy. Although she is entitled to her opinion because this is a democracy,” he said.

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/05/presidency-rubbishes-oby-ezekwesilis.html

Buhari go and pay remita firm....
Oby zi ha uzo hmmmm

The oba recognised in Nigerian constution ...the Benin idioben is the only ancestral house constitutio. The oba that settle the oduduwa saga. The only oba that provided historical link between Benin PRINCE and evolution to oduduwa which might be contested .

The only oba that told ikwerre people to stop claiming to be benin. May your royal soul rest in peace

I saw your majestic splendor when I came to Benin and I must say that I admire your aura but what I didn't admire was the statement attributed to you that anything after abudu is Igbo. Well history and posterity will set us free and apart

One thing I know is that you are a royal one and must be respected. I have come to realise that there are oba and there are obas.

Rest in peace oba , prepare to go home, the chalk has been broken and male Benin sons are shaving their heads in your respect . they are making a prigrimage to uselu and other rituals will take place .


I am not a Benin but I have come close to them and contacted them. Farewell Oba the great ...

Ijaya123:
Let the boasting and chest-beating begin!

And let the admiration and awefuly looking proceed

As an Igbo man and Anambra man ...we have to reach these Fulani Islamist the modern ways of raising cattle . their elites have failed them and we will never allow that grazing bill...left for me

I will say that therw should be law that any stray cattle calf or cow that is wandering with or without a herdman should be confiscated

Karm16:
Even the blind can see that IPOBs and PDP are trying to politicize these terrorist groups. These cowards and their crying governor should find permanent solutions to eradicate Fulani grazing like their big brothers from the SW. Instead, they're pointing fingers at their political rivals. Fulani violence did not start nor will it end with this administration if all y'all do is cry and pray.

Why are you people like this ?

God pls give me another country so I can get away from people like you

You stink...Igbo man is your nemesis

Ugosample:
I am an Igbo man too, and I see that out tendency as VERY BAD.

Our parents (well my parents didnt, but relatives did) keep feeding the young ones with hateful messages to keep animosity and it's not good at all.

I thank God for my parents who let me see things for what they are, and did not feed me with hateful message.


It does not help anybody.

Ife eji awu Igbo Erika


So what are the things that you see as they are ? Can you pls educated us ...it seems you are the only one eyed man in the land of blind


Biko gwa anyi....maybe Achebe was wrong
Maybe other millions were wrong


Pls right their wrongs

BraniacX:
USSR no!

Korean peninsula, hell YES!

Can you tell us the size of Korea peninsular?

You guys just assume that Nigeria is that big

It's not even the biggest in landmass in Africa seff

Ugosample:
I am an Igbo man too, and I see that out tendency as VERY BAD.

Our parents (well my parents didnt, but relatives did) keep feeding the young ones with hateful messages to keep animosity and it's not good at all.

I thank God for my parents who let me see things for what they are, and did not feed me with hateful message.


It does not help anybody.

Oga that is what you see....or do you want millions that perished in pogrom wished away


If you choose to forget history
Others won't
I will still tell my kids our history
The fights
The betrayals
The prospects
The ingenuity
History must be told not embellished

Ugosample:
The truth is that the country has gone too far to disintegrate.

The worst that will happen is restructuring the country and embracing fiscal federalism. As for disintegration, FORGET IT

Is Nigerian bugger than Roman empire
USSR
Indo China

Oga nothing is possible
Keep your mind open and if there is change ..adopt

Simple

kropotkin11:
The conditions that led to the dissolution of the USSR are very different from what obtains in Nigeria today. The USSR was a totalitarian state, Nigeria is not

What of Korean penusular
Wat of Ethiopia
What about Sudan