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I find it funny how an Igbo is made C.O.S. in a time when the country is about to disintegrate.also how nigeria just signed a pact with the US which is basically bringing africom to nigeria. This article is really on point.

My Igbo brothers Ngwanu ka anyi fuo n'ebea since ndi yoruba enweghi ike zaa ajuju anyi

Solomon227:
@ chyz

Be wary of quiet people! This calm guy may just tick d PDP ballots himself. He obviously has a plan and just making every1 happy to fulfil all righteousness

i hope you're right.

T9ksy:
Chyz, Don't start another lie o. Both Awo and the sardunna never believed in One Nigeria and they never minced their opposition to the notion. Rather it was zik  and his landlocked igbo people who wanted One Nigeria. No sooner had Ironsi and his igbo people got power from the North via the 1st coup in the country which they plotted and implemented, than he gave us the May 24 unification decree. Npow we are lumbered with you deceitful guys.

Facts are facts, so don't you embark on another one of your well-known revisionsm. just gba break, my okro brother(?)

Boo-Hoo .Now tell me how does this topic contribute to the progress of the yoruba?

sbeezy8:
i find it funy youre either for goodluck one day the next youre not? Which One is it?

I'm not against him.

sbeezy8:
Naw Awo is a yoruba triablist remember? Zik na d real hero he believed in ONE Nigeria from the start, even aligned himself with the north- thanks to him we are One.

sorry, awo was the one who "ended" the war,remember? you know, the war that kept naija together. thanx to him we are One Big Family.

T9ksy:
@ chyz,

That's got nothing to do with you. You should concern yourself with how your threachrous igbos people are going to progress. However, it's now been proven beyond reasonably doubt that, you igbos initiated the 1st military coup in the annal of our history and in the process, gave us One Nigeria.

Moral of this exercise is Never trust an igbo man!

Again, how does the thread help the progress of the yoruba people?

sbeezy8:
I have to give it to the igboman- Zik if not for him we wouldnt have One Nigeria.

Awo was ready to have a southern Nigeria or atleast a West Nigeria as a country BUT THANK GOD ZIK WENT TO THE NORTH.

Now we have One Nigeria

That's what awolowo fought for and thanx to him it worked.

cap28:
Chyz the one mistake you have made is to assume that the likes of Jonathan and his cronies are not in on this AFRICOM deal. The truth is nigerian politicians do not really have any real power when it comes to the foreign multinationals, take it from me when i say that nigeria is now being run by shell, exxon mobil and chevron - the nigerian govt is merely an agent for these multinational organisations. If you look at the way multinationals operate you will understand that by virtue of their financial might as well as the military backing that they receive from their countries of origin - (in this instance the US and Britain), they control the economy as well as the internal politics of of any nation that they are intrested in controlling.

Its not just in nigeria that you find this type of situation - it is all over the world. Look at the US govt and its relationship with multinational organisations, banks and other major corporations, these powerful organisations control congress by way of lobby groups who spend billions of dollars bribing and co-opting congress to pass bills that protect and safeguard their interests.

Therefore if these foreign multinationals can control their own govt, is it the nigerian govt that they won't be able to control and co-opt? Jonathan is very much aware of the implications of this so called regional security pact, you should ask yourself why the americans went out of their way to facilitate his rise to power. The bitter truth is that he agreed to do what Yaradua would not do - accelerate the sale of our public services to foreign owned companies for chicken change.

Now the americans have selected their preferred candidate for the presidency - IBB, everything has been predetermined as far as nigeria's presidency is concerned - the americans want someone who will allow them to continue to loot and plunder our natural resources and that person is IBB. The Africom deal has sealed nigeria's fate because we will soon officially become a continent occupied by foreign troops. No country which is occupied by foreign troops ever regains its sovereignty without going to war.

I wish there were more people like you on NL.People who no the actual root causes of the destruction of nigeria and Africa as a whole. So by your observation and the major influence the U.S. has on many of the decisions of African countries, do you think that this Africom can be prevented?

sbeezy8:
it doesnt help yorubas progress in anyway because yorubas are doing fine(we just have bad govs!)- but as a yoruba I find satisfaction in knowing innocent Awo had nothing to do with the "igbo coupe".

pls igbo should just take repsonsiblity for the wack coupe- no biggie.

Thanx for at least admitting the bolded.However, im still giving bk babe a benefit of a doubt because he must of started this thread because it had something to do with the progress of the yoruba people. So again i ask the OP, how does this help the progress of the yoruba people?

T9ksy:
Posted by: Obiagu1
By making them (and other groups, too) realise never to trust the igbo man as he's always got something up his sleeves, even when he's shedding crocodile tears.

The (landlocked) Igbos have been striving for decades, to extend their hegemony onto yorubaland.

You still haven't answered the question but instead went on an emotional rant. Answer the question.

sbeezy8:
[size=13pt]BECAUSE THE BASIS OF IGBOS ARGUMENT AND PEOPLE LIKE MBU WAS THAT THE COUP WAS CARRIED OUT TO INSTALL AWO ! WHICH IS  A LIE.[/size]

so this helps keep the name of awo out of the jan coup  carried out by igbos.

No. The question is how does this help the progress of the yoruba people? whether awolowo was a scum or king is not the issue.

df2006:
if the white man try as much as he can to downplay, the achievements of emeagwali, the least i will expect is help, to further diminish him, from black and nigerian brothers like him, fact is, he did something outstanding, wether he,s, was fastest internet or not.
my brothers wether you are yoruba ibo or hausa, you are just a black man in the eyes of the world.
think!!!!! leave emeagwali out of our differences.

Well said.

ajoguegbe:
I'm disappointed with most of you.I posted this thread for us to sing the praises of our own intellectual giant whose role is being played down by racist white and fellow Nigerians chose to further use tribalism to pull him down. Sorry, Follem, I am sure the likes of you would rather celebrate football and movie stars who have multiple divorces, promote materialism and indecency than a man that could challenge the white man's brains. I'm sure you are more at home with the 419ers and looting politicians than a man that refuse to scramble for the national cake,rather decides to fight for black interest. If he is fake many foreign universities and media organisations wdnt have been inviting him.

Even if his computation was the tenth fastest in the world, how many Blacks have achieved such feat?I am really disappointed in u and other nigerians who would rather look at his Igbo origin than his "Nigerianness".

Many of u critics have never achieved anytn of repute in Nigeria let alone the world. I am not surprised anyway the greatest critic of the rich are the poor: Envy, Hatred and anger are part of their lifestyle, they are always angry at life
Grow up folks

Thank you.

The north always seem to get there way. Lets see how GJ unravels this one.

[size=18pt] Guber primaries first - PDP caves in to governors[/size]
Wednesday, 15 September 2010 00:00 Muideen Olaniyi


The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party yesterday caved in to pressure from state governors by changing the order of its primaries so that governorship nominations take place before the presidential primaries.
Sources within the party told Daily Trust in Abuja last night that the National Working Committee of the PDP also agreed on timelines for the emergence of its candidates for all positions in the 2011 general polls coming up in January.

The NWC had earlier drafted schedules of the primaries, where National Assembly election candidates would emerge first, followed by a presidential flagbearer, governorship candidates and state house of assembly election candidates in that order.

But governors in the party, particularly those of them seeking a second term, saw this as an attempt to blackmail them into supporting President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential aspiration. They therefore put pressure on the national leadership of the party to reverse the order to the traditional system of choosing a presidential candidate last.

At a six-hour meeting on Monday, the NWC members could not agree on the order of the primaries, forcing them to adjourn and continue yesterday.

Sources in the PDP told Daily Trust that the meeting on Tuesday finally agreed to revert to the traditional order, where by the governorship and state house of assembly primaries will hold first followed by National Assembly and presidential primaries.

The decisions would have to be ratified by the National Executive Committee meeting holding today in Abuja.

All political parties would have to conduct their primaries latest by October 30, according the timetable of elections issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission last week.

After yesterday’s meeting that lasted for about two hours, the NWC members went straight to Presidential Villa by 4pm to brief President Goodluck Jonathan, who sources said endorsed the order and schedules of primaries.

The national officers returned to Wadata Plaza national secretariat of the party by 6.30pm, and went into another meeting which was still going on at the time of filing this report.

The meeting of G84 comprising state party chairmen held last night in Abuja to discuss the sequence of the primary elections.

Also, North West PDP governors had a private meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo last night in connection with the 2011 polls.

Today’s NEC meeting is expected to also endorse a waiver for former vice president Atiku Abubakar to seek for the party’s presidential nomination.

Meanwhile, PDP presidential aspirants are expected to pay N10million for nomination forms, while N5million, N3million, N2.5million and N1m have been fixed as fees for nomination forms for governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and state House of Assembly aspirants respectively.

http://www.dailytrust.com/dailytrust/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2866:guber-primaries-first-pdp-caves-in-to-governors&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8

[size=18pt]IYC sends SOS to Oshiomhole over Ijaw settlement demolition[/size]
News Sep 15, 2010

By Gabriel Enogholase


BENIN—VICE Chairman of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Delta, Edo and Ondo States, Mr. Andrew Igiri, has appealed to the Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to look into the demolition of Agbede Ijaw settlement in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of the state by Okomu Oil Palm Plc, under the guise that the community and its environs were sold to it by the Chief Lucky Igbinedion administration.

He told the Governor that on  April 2, 2008, the management of Okomu Oil Palm Plc moved into the village and demolished it, claiming that it was sold to them by the government just as he insisted that more Ijaw settlements in the area were on the verge of being bulldozed b y the company under similar excuses.

Igiri and some Ijaw youths, who were at Vanguard’s Zonal Office in Benin, yesterday, to register their protest on the activities of  Okomu Oil Palm Plc, lamented that no single Ijaw person was in the employment of the oil palm company, adding that there was no single contractor of Ijaw extraction in the company, which he said was located on Ijaw soil.

Commenting on the recent recruitments of youths by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the Ijaw youth leader accused the Edo State arm of the commission of neglecting the Ijaws of the state, saying that “whenever there are problems involving oil producing communities and the military, we are made to bear the consequences.”

“The aim of establishing the NDDC by the federal government is to ensure the development of oil producing communities and states. But here in Edo State, NDDC has turned to Niger Delta Individual Development Commission.

There is no single project of the NDDC in Ijaw area of Edo state and of the 120 youths recently employed by the Commission, there was no single Ijaw among them”.

He also carpeted the Niger Delta Ministry for doing nothing to solve the problem of the Niger Delta region.

On the political marginalization of the Ijaws of Edo state, the youths appealed to Governor Oshiomhole to address the imbalance and injustice being melted out to them just as they called on him to call to order the leadership of his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) who were using his name for political motives.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/15/iyc-sends-sos-to-oshiomhole-over-ijaw-settlement-demolition/

Na wa ooo. Lets see how this going to play out through the weekend.

[size=18pt]Ibadan boils: 12 buses burnt , 83 others vandalized[/size]
, As Eleweomo, Tokyo loyalists clash

From GBENGA ADESUYI, Ibadan


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/images/ib-boils.gif



In what looked like a war situation, Olomi area of Ibadan and its environs were early Wednesday morning thrown into confusion as members loyal to the embattled former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (Eleweomo) allegedly stormed the secretariat of the union at about 1.30am burning down no fewer than 12 vehicles and vandalizing 83 others.

In the attack which was said to have been led by Alhaji Salako and his deputy, Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a. Auxiliary), shops and stalls located around the area were also not spared.

Many of the residents were seen counting their losses as they gathered in groups discussing the incident. Also, some of the vitctims, betrayed emotions and broke down in tears over the development which caught many unaware.
Residents of the area said there were sporadic gunshots around 1.30am and 4.30 am, making them to be awake throughout the night with their hearts in their mouths.

Sources said the reinstated chairman of the union, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a. Tokyo) also escaped death by the whiskers in the three-hour attack and had since fled Ibadan to an unknown destination, after the one-storey building office of the union was seriously vandalized. A new sport utility vehicles with Lagos registration number belonging to Alhaji Akinsola(Tokyo) and several other SUVs owned by union leaders were also not spared as matchete cuts were visibly noticed on them.

Daily Sun also noticed that a large number of empty cartridges from the gunshots fired during the attack littered the, scene. An 18-seater bus belonging to Tokyo faction packed at Academy on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway was also seen burning at about 11:00 am when Daily Sun visited the area.

There were also reported clashes at Iwo Road area as well as other locations in Ibadan, the state capital.
While recounting his experience, Mr Lekan Alesinloye, the Secretary to Tokyo’s faction said they had reliably got information that Eleweomo and others would be attacking them and they had since been keeping vigil at the office complex since last Friday night.

He added that his faction was fully prepared for the attack “but for the cooperation which Eleweomo and his boys received from men of the State Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).” Alesinloye, while addressing journalists, also alleged that Eleweomo, Auxiliary and their group members were backed by the State Police Command, exemplified in deployment of men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to aid the attack.

Conducting journalists round the union’s office complex and adjoining streets ,he pointed to the Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) of the State Police Command which he claimed was one of the vehicles the police used in aiding the Eleweomo and his group. Alesinloye whose Mercedes Benz Car was also destroyed in the attack further said , they were alerted to the coming of Eleweomo and his group at about 1.00 a.m but when he mobilized his men to stop them at the Academy area, the large size of Eleweomo and the Police escort that were shooting sporadically made them to flee the area.

He however dismissed any possibility of a reprisal attack but expressed the determinationn of his group to continue to pursue the matter legally irrespective of the intimidation and backing the Eleweomo faction has been receiving from the government and the state police command.

He called on well-meaning citizens of the state to appeal to the new Inspector General of Police (IGP) redeploy the Oyo State Police Commissioner,Alhaji Baba Adisa Bolanta before things finally get out of hand.
He also alleged that the second term bid of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala had been largely responsible for the backing the Eleweomo faction had been receiving since the crisis rocking the union started, adding that the “do or die politics won’t do the State any good.”

When contacted,the State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Bolanta dismissed he allegation of his men’s involvement in the fracas, saying that the APC was meant to maintain peace in the area and not to intimidate any faction of the union.
Bolanta added that the command got a distress call that fight had broken out at Olomi and some other areas in Ibadan around 2.00 a.m and his men were quickly drafted to the area to maintain law and order, querying why his men would now be accused of backing any of the camp.

He said some suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack, while also promising that the command would get to the root of the matter and that the newsmen would be informed as investigations progressed.
At as the time of writing this report, the casualty figures could not be immediately ascertained, but unconfirmed sources said scores of people suffered varying degrees of injuries and were said to be receiving treatment in hospitals in the city.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2010/sept/16/newsbreak-16-09-2010-001.htm

JeSoul:
Chyz, lets look at this for a minute shall we;

-The only real fact we have in all this is that Abacha was a foul, foul person of a human being who left terrible, undisputable footprints of human and economic abuse on this great country.

-Now, Farrakhan himself does not have a good track record. He is known for his extreme aversion to all things "white" or pink as Bishop likes to put it.

    Now, in light of those two points, should we now take both their word - in absense of any kind of evidence - as the absolute truth?  If it were MLK making these accusations I can bet you the rest of us would take a lot more seriously. The source matters. We must not let our sometimes irrational dislike for "white people" to cloud our judgement and begin to entertain these kinds of unverifable speculations (that acheive nothing by the way) that we would otherwise not.

and oh, I certainly do not have a pinch of all the facts in the world. Just wanted to clear that up. Cheers.

Against what "facts" are you basing his argument against? The video was not in discussion about abacha sentiment by his countrymen or white or pork. I'm not going for the whole "our irrational dislike for white people" thing what i want to know what "facts" to you have to prove what he is saying is wrong? I dont care about his character,everyone has their own opinion.

marvix:
@bk babe my candid advice is ignore Chys he has no contribution to this thread.

He is just a very good example of an educated illiterate or how else does one explain the question "how does this help the yorubas" In case you don't know its history!

I really enjoyed the thousands of comments you've contributed to this thread as well.

bk.babe97y:
Youre in for a very long day, if u think your Ibo Billy-Goat attitude is gonna get the better of me. Oh, matter fact, lemme oblige you! This topic helps the Yorubas people cus it shows them never to trust an Ibo man. An Ibo man partnered with the Hausas,then killed him all in a bid to steal the Govt! Hows that for history?!

Sorry but it doesnt explain how this article helps the yoruba progress. How does this article help the yoruba progress?

bk.babe97y:
Dude, go take your pills! The only thing that "aint happening" is u trying to derail this post! You and your friends wanna know how this subject helps Yalls Presidential election, how dumb is that? Did I tell u in any part of this post that this had anything to do with the election? So, say, I posted something on Heart disease would u also ask me how it helps the elections? But, now, another revelation on how dubious your people are, and how they are the cause of the problem Nigeria is in presently has your panties in a bunch! History, for people like u, is always a neccessity!

Good. Now tell me how the topic helps the yoruba?

bk.babe97y:
Typical Ibo way; "When backed into a corner by the truth, Lie your way out".

Answer the question. Im not here to insult yorubas so it aint going to happen.

bk.babe97y:
First off u dont tell me who or what to respond to; thats that aggressive Ibo attitude most folks cant stand. I responded to him cus he made a statement. "My People"?lol. Ok, I'll let that slide as "ignorance". Since we're on the topic of "NOT Changing subjects", I'll advise you to adhere to your own insistence! The topic is about another revelation on the Jan' 66 coup, and NOT how it benefits anyone, race, or class! Stick to it!

How does this thread benefit the yoruba people?

JeSoul:
. . . all these Conspiracy theories. When you have some solid facts come back to the market place of information and I'm more than certain more people (whether blacks or "whites in disguise" will be willing to buy from you. Until then, all this speculation or "could have been" is just fodder.

Explain to me what exactly that conspiracy is? since of course you have all of the solid facts in the world.

frosbel:
Louis Farrakhan is a hate-filled demagogue.

You're definitely a white guy on this site trying to destroy African empowerment. How is Louis Farrakhan hate-filled?

yarodin:
If not for that coup Awolowo would probably have ended up dead just like Abiola.  Whatever the Igbo leaders were looking to gain from that coup the Yorubas gained.  But honestly how will this determine who will win the forth coming presidential election?

That's one of the questions I want answered by the OP.

bk.babe97y:
Why wouldnt they bring up history when folks like u still breath oxygen? Have u reread your rants against the Ngwa people? The Ijaws? How u hope to steal their lands and their oil? How u hope to maim and kill all Yorubas? How u hope to kill Ijaws just to get a hold of the Atlantic? How Ibos are superior to all? Huh? No? Aight, I give u ten minutes to do a quick re-hash!

You made this thread so lets discuss the matter at hand.All of this that you typed to Ezeuche is irrelevant. The meaning of the info you've just posted is to change what for your people today?

bk.babe97y:
Nope, it was actually posted cus I was in awe. Like. "Damnnnnn. . . . .  so, these folks treachery knows no limits"

Its a shame because there was news posted in a website about a yoruba gathering which was for the progress of the yoruba people but none of you all found that story important enough to post on nairaland.why?

bk.babe97y:
How does it help Ibos?

You are the one who started the thread, i would believe it was posted for the best interest of the yoruba people. So again, how does this story help progress the yoruba people?

Katsumoto:
So history is only meant to be discussed by those who witness it?

Not by tribal affiliation. There has to be a point for the posting of this bias information in a sense to help change for the good of a people. So how does this help the yoruba people progress?