PRYCE:
INTEGRITY told us he had only 1 Million in his account before the elections but had enough to sponsor his children to UK universities.... That's not taking into account the responsibilities he had here in Nigeria. ISSORITE!!

GEJ had ALL HIS CHILDREN AND DEPENDANTS SCHOOLING IN NIGERIA OOO... Talk about a real president who believes in the Nigerian Brand.

They will not like it to true but its what it is. Buhari is not better than any other. Jonathan would av done more if given the chance.

Of course we do not expect the security operatives to arrest APC advisers and their thugs.

The Yorubas, longer throats. They played a major role in this. If they could stand up for themselves as the Igbos, wickedness and impunity would ave no place in Nigeria.....

He has endorsed the killing of Biafrans, something he knew could kill and bring the country into chaos.....he is not interested in d unity of Nigeria, he is interested in his motives. How many did the Fulani's killed in Benue State? I could not remember. But he plans to allocate grazing fields all over the country for them....ulterior motives.

HungerBAD:

This is a man who has not done a day of work in his life, and was teleguided and taught by his father on how to loot and steal Public Fund. How did this man end up the Senate President? this is an embarrassment to the entity called Nigeria.

Talking about embarrassment to Nigeria as an entity? I laugh at people like you. Just like many of u Nigerians, that suffer from convinced ignorance. The gravity of embarrassment saraki might have allegedly brought to Nigeria could not be compared to the one your current president brought and would still bring to Nigeria. You see this is the trouble with Nigerians, convinced ignorance. The CCB singled,EFCC singled Saraki for prosecution at a time of heated argument about his status as a Senate President and, of course at this time when PDP and people of the past government are being hunted....what a huge coincidence, I mean its merely a coincidence actually.

He has a very young family, like I said it is very sad.

Irrespective of ethnic differences, let us lay condolences to late James Ocholi family . I personally, I do not want anybody to lose his father, mother or family of any sort....it is of no interest to me even when am not a fan of them. It is very sad.
Your condolences please!

By Obi Nwakanma.


I confess: the title of my essay today is not original. It
was first penned by the now late Agwu Okpanku,
Classicist and journalist trained at Ibadan and
Cambridge, in his column, “The Third Eye,” published
in the now defunct, Enugu-based newspaper of the
1970s, Renaissance. Agwu Okpanku was a fierce critic
of the post war attempts by the Federal Military
Government of Nigeria, under the leadership of
Yakubu Gowon, to erase all evidence of Biafra from
national memory.
When Agwu Okpanku wrote “Killing Biafra,” he was
simply reminding the triumphalist power of that
moment, about the indelicacy as well as the futility, in
decreeing oblivion. Biafra was an independent
republic. For three years it fought for its sovereignty.
It had symbols; it had documents, and it had a
material presence which the Federal Military
Government’s policy was working rather too hard to
erase, in uninformed attempts to force “one Nigeria”
down the throat of former Biafrans.
So, for instance, the Uli Airport, which could have
been preserved for its historical significance and value
was bulldozed; the Bight of Biafra suddenly became
“Bight of Bonny;” material evidence that had any hint
of Biafra were seized and systematically destroyed, or
kept sealed – until Babangida established the National
War Museum in Umuahia. It would have been
tolerable if the former Biafrans felt a welcoming sense
of justice and acceptance to “one Nigeria.”
But, no. A lingering sense of alienation remains from
Nigeria’s mishandling of the policy of the “The Rs”
announced at the end of conflicts. In actual fact, at
the end of the war in 1970, Sam Ogbemudia as
military governor of the Midwest had quickly made
contact with the now late T.E.A Salubi and Dr.
Nwariaku, one of the great Biafran scientists, and a
key figure of the Biafran Research and Production
(RAP) department whose innovations in war
production gave insight into the capacity of the black
mind, and quickly made a case at the Council of States
for the Gowon administration to urgently gather these
scientists, rehabilitate them, and use RAP as the basis
for Nigeria’s industrial revolution.
Ogbemudia was strenuously opposed by his
colleagues in the council: nothing of such should be
done with “the rebels,” he was told. Post war federal
policy, not surprisingly, was at odds with reason, and
it was soon clear to those who had fought for Biafra
that the Federal Military Government’s policy of
“reconciliation and rehabilitation” was no more than a
hollow pact calculated to disarm the Biafrans. Since
1970, the mindless and tragic exploitation, and the
strategic policy of neglect has left areas of the former
Eastern region bitter, frustrated, and alienated.
The Federal government, using its divisive politics and
narrative of sectionality have tried to emphasize
regional differences between what it has often falsely
described as the “Niger Delta” and the South East. The
fact that much of Igbo land falls into what is
geographically the Niger Delta has been obscured by
the convenient geo-political narrative of difference
that has long been promoted by the self-interested
powers, who have used the ploy to exploit and
contain any upsurge of defiance from the East in the
last forty years.
But a new generation, many born in the war and after
it have seen through it all: how come, many of them
now ask, that the areas from which much of Nigeria’s
oil wealth was exploited have benefited very little
from the exploitation of the resources in their region?
The direct benefits of what should have been an oil
economy went in the enrichment of people outside
the region. Not even many Nigerians have benefited
from this product, oil, now in its dying phase as an
economic factor.
One of the significant aspects of the old East is its
contiguity. What happens in any part of the region is
quickly telegraphed to the other. Gas flare in Izombe
is felt in Port Harcourt. Oil spill in Eleme is quickly felt
in Asa and Aba. If an explosion happens in Eket, you
will quickly feel its reverberations in Owerrinta, or
Ohambele or Bori. It is fifteen minutes from Aba to
Ikot-Ekpene on a good road, and to Uyo, less than 45
minutes.
Only a bridge separates Itigidi from Afikpo. Asaba and
Onitsha are just like St. Louis and East St. Louis, as
with the other, linked by the Eads Bridge across the
Mississippi, one in Missouri, and the other in Illinois,
yet inexorably linked. From Yenegoa, Degema,
through Elele to Owerri is as much distance as from
Owerri to Enugu, and it is such contiguity that makes
the Eastern areas of Nigeria a powerfully attractive
economic belt as well as a disaster waiting to happen.
The interconnections and linkages is most probably
the factor that is driving the new Biafra and the Niger
delta movement into a single defiance movement.
The growth of this single movement quite frankly
poses a security threat to this nation that no president
should, or can ignore. It requires a strategic and
comprehensive response; that much is true. Whatever
response to this movement however must begin from
the framework that the new Biafra movement is the
result of both political and economic frustration and
alienation. It did not begin with this administration,
but it is growing exponentially, and is compounded by
what seems to be the President’s tunnel vision; his
unwillingness to address this question like a statesman
not much rather like a belligerent soldier.
Thus far, the president’s response to the Biafran
agitations, which is currently at its peaceful stage, is
ego-driven, and frankly immature, and does not lend
itself to the kind of thoughtfulness and diplomacy
required of a president whose duty above all else is to
secure peace by all means necessary in a fragile multi-
ethnic nation such as Nigeria, in order to achieve
common prosperity. The growing Biafra question is
looking most certainly to define the Buhari
presidency. The president looks all set to entangle
Nigeria in a long and unwinnable conflict that
threatens to snowball into another civil war if
improperly handled.
Last week, the president lost a great opportunity to
address it and scale it down. He was confronted with
this question in an Al-Jazeera interview, about Biafra
and the administration’s authorization of the killing of
unarmed Biafrans by soldiers. The president refused
to see recorded evidence available to Al-Jazeera of the
killing of unarmed, peaceful protesters asking for a
“Biafran referendum” in Aba.
He snapped at the interviewer who asked if it is not
better to meet with them than shoot them. “Why
Should I meet them?” the president asked, bristling.
This president puts himself in an actionable position in
justifying the use of maximum force and the killing of
an unarmed civilian population protesting peacefully
within their rights. The president’s claim that their
agitation for Biafra is intolerable, is itself intolerable
under democratic rule. What the president is doing is
deliberately pushing a currently unarmed movement
towards an inevitable armed conflict, and a widening
of the field. The images of the shooting of civilians is a
great recruitment tool for the Biafrans, as more and
more people once indifferent to it are quietly joining
from deep anger at these images.
This president, we use this column again to plead with,
should not push Nigeria into another civil war, by his
actions or inactions, because there is no greater threat
to the security of a nation than a deep sense of
injustice and alienation felt by a great number of
people. President Buhari fought in the last war and
must certainly realize that there is no such thing as a
“cake-walk” in war. It is important that president
Buhari’s advisers tell him that it is still early and
possible to contain this Biafran movement peacefully,
and prevent its next inevitable phase, the armed
phase, which will happen if the young leaders of this
movement begin to feel that no one is listening to
them; and that they have no other option than to
defend themselves militarily against the government’s
use of force. We must never arrive at this moment,
Mr. President.
Therefore, it is important that all parties, from the
federal authorities to the new Biafrans, show good
faith and meet and listen to each other. President
Buhari ought to take the initiative to meet because he
is the president – the adult in the room. Otherwise, he
might just have a great, complex situation unfolding
in startling ways before him. It is not possible to “kill
Biafra” with threats. We have said this before. It needs
repeating


www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/killing-biafra/

walexy30:

You be confirmed OLODO. Can't u differentiate between a Chancellor and a VC.

My mistake though.

Ok just a chancellor...its ok. Just hope its not one of those moves set in for marginalisation.

ibotic:
It feels good to be back from this long ban...
So many innocent people are being banned anyhow on NL these days..
As an Nnewi babe...
I hope this news is not true...
Ngige is a great man...
I heard the news when coming back from Ohafia today..
I suspect the ipod people are behind this....

I wonder for such a man of immense wealth, yet he's medically challenged. They have medical allowances there. What are they doing with it?....I do not know. Though we would wish him speedy recovery but his type needs series of queries. I mean he lacks in every angle: he's morally ill, incapable of achievements and power hungry. Now, despite his wealth and the level of medical services before him he could still have a challenging health.....he needs to be queried and not the IPOB as u stipulated.

The response attributed to that col. Kingsley is disappointing.....utterly disappointing. Is this the change we have been anticipating for?

Nonybb:
If Buhari declares that Godwin Emefiele and Ibe Kachikwu are Igbos, he is not wrong. Someone must not be from your own village, speak the same brand of Igbo with you before you know he is Igbo. Ostensibly I know that Buhari is an error as a leader, but with his recent statement, he was able to prove that he understood Igbo tribe more than some Igbos. Hausa tribe had been able to merge themselves with the Fulanis, calling themselves Hausa-Fulanis and that is why they had been able to repeatedly dominate Nigeria politically. We must take advantage and cognizant of this tribal alliance the Northerners had been using as an advantage. When appointments are given to Anioma people of Delta state, Ikwere people of Rivers state, Igbanke people of Edo state, etc, let us collectively see it as Igbo man fully appointed. Let there be no contention amongst us, and lets get ride of that supremacist mentality of one state being more Igbo than the other. We are all Igbos as long as we can pick one or two similarities between within our Igbo spoken language.

Did u not realize there are critical factors that gave birth to the situation you analyzed....... RUN your checks properly before saying things that matters a lot to a group or organization.
That someone stipulated that he understands the Igbo more than its people is not something you should buy without asking 'how'.

A mosque burnt down? Could anyone recount in their numbers the number of Churches burnt and destructured in nigeria? In the name of facts, and everything truthful burning of Churches in nigeria is now a considered norm.

Mrsprof:
God forbid! Even though I am a Igbo, I won't support killing of innocent people. Being it Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba.

it is very necessary to be in a right state of mind and utmost understanding and knowledge before making such a resolution..

biafranqueen:
Happy to know you!

Thank you....can I have ur Facebook name if u have any.

petkoffDrake:

u? have big butt? u call that big butt?
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Y U TOO DEY LIE LIKE THIS...?

Enahi:
I still don't understand why Men go crazy about big behinds.
Its embarrassing walking down the road and I start getting all sorts comments and look from Men.

The most painful part is I cant wear fitted skirts and gowns and feel comfortable anymore.

Ladies with big backside how do you cope? I get very shy when walking down the road because of the way Men stare at me. Its very embarrassing.


What should I do?

I have heard Men shout Ukwu when they see me. Seriously what should I do, am not finding it funny.

U know ma haus abi

Alamiesegha, you know there is a region in this country that shall never forget you.......I hope God judges you fairly.RIP

biafranqueen:
You are correct and yes I am from Nnewi and you?

A grown son of Awka.....

well, what you're looking at right now is another propaganda...........in Nigeria you win the people with lies, but you can also win the northern and western nigeria with cheap lies......credit to them, both the liars and the lied!

Jomark:
He was an outstanding medical doctor before he joined politics. He is also from a well known family in Alo community, Anambra state. His brother is a famous lawyer--Emeka Ngige SAN .A nd to call him illiterate makes you a presidential fool. So doctors are illiterates in your myopic mind? Fool.

Quote me, he's a compound illiterate. And when next time you reply me make sure to answer my previous question; how did his previous occupation as a medical doctor fared?...thank u.

biafranqueen:
I was like which Ngige are they talking about that is loved by all? The one that after rigging first election with Übe getting busted, thrown out he went and loot Governors lodge and burned it down with other property? The guy that built a 4 block road in his town and a few toilets and called it infrastructure? A man whom as a Senator hasn't done jack? Nigerians know how to celebrate nonsense. Chukwu dalu some people keep it real!

I heard he never propose any single motion during his days as a senator, thank u for being also real....are u from Anambra?

Nice man indeed! A man that loves money more than life and progress. Nigerians should be wary of this man; he's a looter,money-grabbing fellow and highly illiterates. Ask him about his occupation before he ventured into politics, how it fared?
He deliberately insighted violence and hatred among his people credit to his love for money. He betrayed his hometown, state and party for some million of Naira. He is a cultist, rejected by state and people. He wanted to gain power with fraud to rule his own people which is an epitome of the party he represents...If someone for any reason had to betray his people what happens when he steps outside his home.......betrayer!!!

I use to believe being so nice and soft(the so called genleman) is a a way to win their heart but now, make I hear. They don teach me lesson, nah to nack and register now ooooooo. I no get time for them again.....

FatIjeomaOkolie:





How can you understand what he wrote? Do you want him to write in Igbo language?

Anyway how is Onitsha? How many phones did you sell today?

Well, we're nairalanders, we have to tolerate.

ibedun:
If only this OP and his ilk s would concentrate their efforts on the Eastern States, they might have a home to go to, instead of constituting nuisance and miscreants in. Lagos state.

Oduah must pay for her crime.

Get lost,!!!

You might as well consider that a lengthy list of people have to pay for theirs too.

aresa:




@ Op the Disgraced and discredited ignorant can't read and comprehend protection seeker.

Please when you are done with your latest idiocy and foolery, show us where Fashola or the commissioner signed any checks and last time the world checked, signing checks and the rubbish you posted are 2 different things..


Many of the nuisance wailers on NL post better half baked than you so you are a lousy and sub par wailer...

You were very hard to understand, no basis, no argument. Please quit epitomizing ignorance...thank u.

SeverusSnape:
The zombies will soon swarm this thread.

@ topic, Though Fashola is someone I like, But his response during the screening was wack, Fayemi did much better. I don't know why some people were even hailing him.

The answer to your question is ignorance and that is what they want; that the entire country remains ignorant thus less opposition to their incompetence

basty:

You are a daft wailer. Can you compare Fashola to Oduah. Idiotic bush fellow.

Aren't they comparable? Try to hear yourself at times.

Just an interview, I guess you wouldn't like to hear the direct response. She either responded in vernacular or nurtured a lot of blunders while responding.