₦airaland Forum

Beaf: Abiola's greatest legacy is the democracy we are now enjoying.

But as a Cameroonian immigrant, what would you know about democracy anyway? Paul Biya has been sitting on your heads for like 30 years.
Here in Nigeria, we value our MKO.

uba@_onye:
Is dere a Federal University of Technology, Umudike?? Dnt fink so. Its a Univ of Agric,

PointB: Succinctly put.

On the other hand, I hope this is not some grand design by some Boko Haram element in GEJ government to draw us into another needless blood letting. Quite frankly, it is very callous and cowardly gun down unarmed men for whatever reasons. If this should continue, I would like for MASSOB to discard the non-violence garb, arm themselves to the teeth, and open another front against the Nigeria security apparatus. They can start by burning police stations, and attacking military check points and formation. I strongly think, someone wants to help the boko bastard in the grand scheme of making Nigeria ungovernable. If GEJ, the C-in-C, cannot put a leash on his boys, and understand where he derives power from, why should we care if Nigeria explodes in his watch?

Onlytruth: Ok. Here is my take.

I have been shouting myself hoarse that MASSOB is not doing Igbo much good by their stratagems. I have been called all sorts of names by some of my brothers for that, but I still have to state the truth.

We Ndigbo are a peculiar tribe (let me not use "special" because of envy) in Nigeria. People envy us and covet us even for some of the most simple things. They plan to kill us at the slightest reason. Nigeria's history is replete with unnecessary shedding of Igbo blood for one stoopid reason or another. Therefore, we are not supposed to live our lives in ways that give our enemies ANY CHANCE WHATSOEVER to come into Igboland to kill us. Because of that, I have always thought that MASSOB's non-violence doctrine is stoopid. I did not say that it cannot work elsewhere o. All I'm saying is that it will not work for us Ndigbo because there are too many haters in Nigeria wanting to kill us. Therefore the time has come for Uwazuruike to either ship MASSOB out of Igboland, or go learn how to earn Nigerian respect.

It is irresponsible to be leading hordes who get killed willy nilly in Igboland. These are peoples brothers, husbands, fathers and sons.
I am also watching what the so called Igbo leaders both in and out of government will say about this (seemingly)unprovoked mass murder right in the heart of Igboland.

I would always advise Igbo folks to stay away from MASSOB until their Modus Operandi is sanitized enough else they will die for nothing.

Ekwugo kwa m nke m.

souldust: my dear, do you need abacha glass or something? I did not mentiona only names i also mentioned words. What about those words are they islamic also?

You want to invent similarities between idoma and igbo so as to claim territory and political power that you will never get.

Beaf: ^
Unlike you, I am not campaigning and don't give a damn if you vote for GEJ or not. The nation is in mourning today.

Beaf: Enjoy your pathetic life mate, on any decent forum, you would have been banned long ago for defaming public individuals and spreading falsehoods.
While we mourn the dead, all you can think of are Satanic ways to profit from blood and falsehoods. Forging twitter accounts and publishing fake pictures.

Nairaland allows people like you to proliferate, so continue with your lies, hate and dance in innocent blood. It gets you on the front page.

Well done NL! Great work!

ozoebuka1: i think its high time d yorubas joined the igbos to eradicate these vampires from da north called hause..hahahaha

Onlytruth: This question has bugged my mind for weeks and months now. It has got to the stage that I cannot sleep well at nights while pondering this question. I remember vividly how we lobbied (at least added our voices) to the appointment of Anyim Pius Anyim to the position of Secretary to the Federal Government. There are such other Igbo personalities now as Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and others. I would not be exaggerating if I say that we hold strategic positions in this government.

Why is Enugu International Airport "upgrade" looking like a glorified hen house project?
Why didn't the Federal Government include Enugu as one of the international airports to be concessioned alongside Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt?
Is it that Igbo heartlands must continue to be denied international access or something more sinister?

These PDP Igbo Federal officials should tell us what projects (any project at all) they have attracted to the SE. They are there because we voted for Jonathan.
As for Jonathan, unless he is not going to need Igbo votes again, he should take this personally.
This continued marginalization of Igboland, even with Igbo sons/daughters in strategic Federal positions should give us reason and pause for thorough introspection. I hate PDP (not that APGA has impressed me too much but it is still better than PDP in defending Igbo interests in Nigeria) for this reason. If any Igbo thinks that I'm wrong for hating PDP, he should come here and put forward a contrary view; let the readers decide. It is not enough that your local PDP governor may be working. It is time we start thinking COLLECTIVELY for our survival in Nigeria. If we cannot survive in Nigeria by confronting the local challenges, how can we survive out of Nigeria by confronting international challenges?

So, let's answer this question honestly.

Here I stand.

Signed,

Onlytruth, ndu di n'eziokwu 1 of Igboland, Eze Ndigbo Nairaland.

mpumalanga: Don't blame ASARI.Igbos and yorubas should look back to know what went
wrong.

Beaf: Akpabio, Amaechi and Chime will also be ready in 2015 if GEJ does not pitch his hat in.
That said, I like Fashola, but he's too beholden to Tinubu.

souldust: idoma and igbos are not one and never be one! It cannot happen lai lai.
You talked about okloboia and ada but let me tell you that there more hausa influences in idoma than there are igbo similarities. What about the following names and words: usman, aladi(sunday), yakubu, yahaya, audu, ademu(adamu), alemu(orange), sule, yunisa, waaka(uwanka), etc

the name ada is purely an igbo name. We bear it becos some part of our teritory shares boundry with Egbor and that boundry is the shortest we have with any of our neighbours. As a result of our geograhical closeness, we sometimes do have friends from that area and later decided to name or children after our igbo friends.

NB: we also bear abu. Now that doesnt sound like igbo does it? The names and words i mentioned earlier have connections with hausa not igbo!

So get it into your skwii; idoma and egbor are far apart the only relationship is the short, very short boundry we have
befor i forget. Those names i mentioned are not only answered by the idoma muslims but also by idomas who do not have anything to do with islam. They are names of my relatives.

ibide: Urhobo's are the real delta state . So we need our own state then give one to ijebu or ibadan take anioma to join south east izon of delta to join bayelsa itsekiri to join ilaje of ondo state

wesley80: Oops is my apologies. Come u young raschal hope you know I'm not your mate either abi you want make I knock ya head?