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May Arewa Republic consisting of only northern states be actualized. All Hail Arewa Republic!

Moderator. The OP of this thread wants to get answers about a particular tribe. I think it would benefit him if it be moved to the Cultural section.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-546289.0.html

T9ksy:
Quote from:Aigbofa Today at 03:58:20 PM
Exactly!!!

You can only FOOL so many people for so long BUT not 4eva.
Everyone saw thru Zik by the time he died except of course his own people.

Everyone as in. . . ? Saw through. . . ?

Aigbofa:
Named Zik of Africa, died the Owelle of Onitsha. The truth has a funny way of catching up with you.
Dummy? What a monkey!

Died as Owelle og Onitsha and Zik of Africa. O yea and named a Pan-Africanist. Sorry but his footprint never died out.

IGBO KWEZUENU!!!

Aigbofa:
Zik was a demagogue and as tribalistic as any ibo on this website, even long before the civil war. We now live in the information age and nothing is quite hidden anymore.
In the 40s and 50s, probably more than 70 percent of Nigerians were illiterate and it was quite easy for a demagogue to pass as a statesman without raising a lot of eyebrows.

His peers knew him as a demagoue, foreign media saw him as one. Only ibos still consider him as the best thing since slice bread.

Sorry hop off his sack and hop back on ur fathers lap. He's named Zik of Africa not Igboland. National and Internationalist get it right dummy.


http://igcs.binghamton.edu/igcs_site/dirton6.html

tensor777:
And why should I when you keep talking rubbish. What was so revolutionary about Biafra that radicals like Fela would support? Just mention one documented statement  or lyric whereby he expreesed support for Biafra,  not silly beer parlour gossip tou are found of citing

Oh so he's a "radical" now. A man who want freedom for his people from their oppressor(white supremacist) is called a "radical"? You seriously need help you House Nigger.

WHat Im yet to understand is how all of these institutions are striking because of pay and also infrastructure but the federal government is giving pension to ex-presidents. Ok somethings not right here. Umm,wouldn't that money correct some of these problems with would lead to the saving of lives[b]?[/b] Nigeria gets an F in economics.

alj harem:
people, u have to be realistic

ojukwu, was, is and still responsible for the death of igbos not awolowo.fact even me as a northerner knows that, so i don't know what u people are talking about.

igbos, in the usa are in denial and delusional

igbos in nigeria especially in lagos ad abuja, know the truth and dislike ojukwu

i have actually met an igbo woman that dislike ojukwu with a passion

ojukwu is collecting pension from the nigerian government he fought against

ojukwu and many igbo leader have sold there people out facts

Small boy why are u talking nonsense.

tensor777:
Total and utter rubbish. In fact many easterners did not support Biafra such as Azikiwe's NCNC party members not to talk of the Nzeogwu radicals like Banjo and Oyewole who happened to find themselves on the Biafran side at the outbreak of hostilities.
In fact Wole Soyinka was the only prominent non Easterner to support Biafra which is not such a surprise given his own reactionary inclinations.
You're reading too much into revisionist accounts of the war by a few disgruntled elements on Nairaland.

Fela clearly supported Biafra.You know nothing about him or his revolutionary beliefs so why are you talking? Were you his side kick?I doubt that being that you know nothing about him. CLOSE YOUR MOUTH.

DapoBear:
No, they could sell us excess power if our grids are connected. Any little bit helps, buying electricity from them means less power outages.

But probably we just need to build more generators; the gap between supply and demand will be quite enormous even if we buy from them.

Nigeria is even supplying ghana with electricity.This is a damn shame.

[size=18pt]Saboteurs trying to derail power sector reforms — Nnaji[/size]

By Martin Ayankola and Sunday Ojeme

Sunday, 7 Nov 2010


Special Adviser to the President on Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has said that some people benefiting from the rot in the power sector are fighting hard to derail the implementation of the Federal Government‘s power sector road map.

He identified the alleged saboteurs as some Power Holding Company of Nigeria workers, electrical contractors and importers of generators.

He said,” Think of it this way, the headquarters of corruption is with electricity distribution sector because you cannot have a transformer easily. For instance, the distribution companies in the last five years have not been audited. So by privatising them, you wipe out corruption there.

”Only for a period will the government be involved in the purchase of power. With time there will be a direct arrangement for purchase of power through bilateral agreement. So corruption is going to be drastically reduced there. Some people are not happy about it. Now they are fighting back to ensure that all manner of contracts don‘t go. Not to talk of those profiting from Nigerians who are using generators.”

Nnaji who spoke exclusively to SUNDAY PUNCH also said the leadership of the electricity unions fighting the Federal Government reform was doing so for selfish reasons.

He said, ”Let us look at the structure of the union. There are two units, the junior staff and the senior staff. The ones that are always at the forefront are the junior staff, the National Union of Electricity Workers. The secretary-general of the union, from what I understand, is not a worker of PHCN.

”They receive pay according to how many workers that they have. So one can only imagine that privatisation or anything that tampers with the status quo is going to be a problem for such people.”

Throwing more light on the issue, Nnaji said, ”One of the requests of the union is that the casual workers, about 10,000 of them, should be included in the workforce. So you can now relate what we are saying to that request. Government has a law about how to treat casual workers. It is actually mischief that is leading to this.”

He added, ”This government did something that has not been done in seven years. For seven years, the workers of PHCN had been owed their arrears, and this government within a short time of its life, took the decision, found money to pay the arrears. How is that not taking care of the workers? Let me also say that anybody, worker or no worker; union or no union, that is saying that the status quo should remain in this country does not mean well for this country.

”The Federal Government power plants generate approximately 2,400MW, the private sector power plants generate the rest to make up 3,500MW. So, somebody telling you that is what we should stay with and remain in darkness in Nigeria does not mean well for Nigeria after 50 years of independence. It is extreme selfishness.”

Reacting to this, the Secretary- General, National Union of Electricity Employees, Joe Ajaero, accused Nnaji of conflict of interest and selfishness.

He said in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, ”Nnaji has a private company, known as Geometric Power Limited, which can only start business if privatisation is implemented. They claim that they have exclusive rights, so they want to use privatisation to achieve their own selfish interest. The money the government paid[monetisation arrears] was owed by the same government, so why should we thank them for paying us?”

On casual workers, Ajaero said, ”PHCN is a government- owned company. It is against the labour law to keep someone for over six months without confirming their appointment. Some of them have worked for 10 years without pension, some of them are earning N10,000 a month, and they have wives and children.

”Before Nnaji was appointed in 2008, we had concluded the whole exercise. There was a verification exercise, thereafter, the employees were about to receive their letters when Nnaji came and stopped the process. It is not that they were just employed.”

President Goodluck Jonathan, had on August 26, in Lagos, unveiled the road map for the nation‘s power sector reform.

In the initiative, the country is targeting 14,000 megawatts power generation by 2013 and 40,000MW by 2020.

Nigeria currently generates an average of 3,500MW against a demand in excess of 25,000MW.

”Self-generation of electricity (from diesel and petrol generators) is conservatively estimated at a minimum of 6,000 MW i.e. more than twice the average output from the grid during 2009,” the road map stated.

Nigeria‘s average per capita energy consumption is just 129 kilowatt hours compared to 239kWh in Ghana, 491kWh in India and 12,607kWh in the United States, according to government estimates.

Brazil has 100,000 MW of grid-based generating capacity for a population of 201 million people, while South Africa also has 40,000MW of grid-based generating capacity for a population of 50 million people.

According to the road map, the Federal Government will sell 51 per cent of its stake in electricity distribution companies and thermal power stations to investors, while it will grant concession to private companies to run the three hydro- electric power stations.

However, the transmission grid would still be owned by government but managed by the private sector.

The Bureau of Public Enterprises has already invited bids for management contracts for the Transmission Company of Nigeria, but the sale of 51 per cent of government‘s stake in electricity distribution and generation companies could commence in December.

The 18 PHCN successor companies are Kainji Hydro Electric Plc, Shiroro Hydro Electric Plc, Jebba Hydro Electric Plc, Egbin Power Plc, Afam Power Plc, Transmission Company of Nigeria, Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc, Yola Electricity Distribution Plc , Ikeja Electricity Distribution Plc, and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Plc.

Others are Kaduna Electricity Distribution Plc, Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc, Benin Electricity Distribution Plc, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Plc, Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc, Kano Electricity Distribution Company Plc, Sapele Power Plc and Delta Power Plc.


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101107683189

Ileke-IdI:
this alj harem dude is beginning to annoy me.

I don't know why, but I just want to slap him with a porcupine.

LMAO!

alj harem:
u igbos are deillusional

Good now be gone,small boy.

High_Chief:
Zik of Africa was a true Federalist and labored for all Nigerians, while Awolowo in the other hand was busy stealing from other regions to meet his(and his yoruba brothers) insatiable greed. No wonder he is not remembered anywhere outside yorubaland. M.K.O Abiola means more to Nigeria as a whole than Awolowo, no wonder he(Awo) died the way he did.

GBAM!

and to add to that M.K.O. Abiola aint even like awolowo's azz neither.hmmmm i wonder why?

koruji:
Whether good or bad you people refuse to focus on yourself, everything is about other people.

Zik was "so" great in your eyes that rats dominate his masoleum before your very eyes, while you are all here proclaiming his greatness with word of mouth.

Awolowo's achievements are tangible and celebrated throughout Yorubaland. By the amount of time you people spend on him, even years after his death, he is a great man in your eyes too. Otherwise, I don't see how you could attribute most of your failures to this one man!

awolowos failure came to him and his people.with the millions of igbo money he stole its a shame how that gay still left his beloved home land to be more impoverished than the Igbo's land.

awolowo was a pure bytch and died like a rat.did more than zik in what world?. LOL

excanny:
The IPF is comprised of former Vice President Dr Alex
Ekwueme, former Governor
of old Anambra State Chief
Jim Nwobodo, former Senate
President Ken Nnamani and
former CBN Governor
Professor Chukwuma Soludo, and others.

The IPF never claimed to be speaking on behalf of Ndigbo. They are just one of the many Igbo pressure groups who are coming up with different political options that could benefit Ndigbo.

My problem with the Ohaneze's endorsement is that i dont understand how this option will lead to having an Igbo presidency.

The statement made by Uwechue that Jonathan cannot be sworn in thrice does not hold water.

Igbo may not produce a president in 2015, but i want to see maneuvers that will make it a reality in the nearest future.

The move that Uwechue made by going with jonathan doesn't solely lie on Igbo presidency. What you must understand is his move was more so for Igbo Interest. Uwechue shows pride in the Igbo and hope.He knew along with Ohanaeze members, that by going with jonathan igbo interest would be less far fetch that with an IBB or northern presidency.As far as Presidency, he understands that presidency will not be handed down to the Igbo,he knows we must fight for it through unity and presenting the best candidate. That is what believing in your people is all about and Uwechue proved to be a true leader. As far of the IPF is concerned, their moves suggest that they dont believe in the Igbo, that we cant achieve anything as far as presidency if we dont abide and adhere to the northerners. Are we dogs?!No. The maneuver is well thought out and the best. Remember people like, soludo, nnamani, and ekwueme are just looking to get back into the federal family so they will sell their soul to do so and dont think that there moves are being done for the Igbo.

tensor777:
You are such a funny guy. Murtala executed for his pan africanism -whatever that means- or in fact caught up in a counter coup by disgruntled elements in the military stll loyal to Gowon.

So if not for peole like Gowon or Babangida, Nigeria would have been the Japan of Africa? Don't make me laugh. Based on a mono-product economy having a budget of just $30 billion for a population of 100 million?

If you do not know that murtala muhammed was executed for pan-africanism then your are a fool.