₦airaland Forum

Obalufon: . TALK ABOUT IGBOS I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOU PEOPLE.

Obalufon: . Rest to your imagination. The Ewes know their root. We know ourselves ,there is link between us. You can't erase that with jealous

9ja voice: AN IGBO GROUP CAN NEVER PUT ON A MILITARY UNIFORM TO ATTACK ANY GROUP,
MAKE AN IGBO MAN ANGRY HE CAN FIGHT YOU ANYWHERE SO BOLD, UNIFORM STUFF IS DISGUISE.
IGBO MEN ARE SO PROUD TO DO PRETEND.

THOSE SPREADING THE RUMOUR SAYS IT WAS A LIE.

Katsumoto: 1. Don't lose sight of the debate. My point was never about Hausa/Fulani domination or not. I was merely showing that the foresight that was/is credited to Ojuwku only arose because situations changed. I demonstrated that Ojukwu was in favour of one Nigeria when he stated publicly, the day after Ironsi's Unification decree, that Igbo would start exporting civil servants to other parts of Nigeria and only saw fit to secede after the Igbo lost out in the power struggle.

3. Again, you don't know my people so don't be making assumptions. If you assume that the Igbo surpassed the Yoruba in educational terms in the 50s, then I say you are free to believe that.

4. Gowon's government was illegal but Ironsi's was legal right, yes? Ironsi should never have truncated the nascent democracy, once he went down that route, he set a very dangerous precedent. Legality can never be established through the use of arms. Ojukwu declared war by forming a country within a country without any form of plebiscite or diplomatic arrangements. Ojukwu declared Biafra because his authority was being usurped by Gowon dividing Nigeria into 12 states and not because Igbos were still being killed in May 1967. Ojuwku did the right thing by asking his people to return home where they were safe but declaring secession was another thing entirely.

Dudu_Negro: I am against a Southern sovereignty. SS has lost its political virginity and tasted power and they now act and behave typical of a newly dis-virgined young woman in her new found power over men; deliriously intoxicated and mischievious. The only way West should form any merger and cohabit in Southern nationality is if SE will regain its authority and power over SS and there exist just West and East.

Katsumoto: 1. Igbo civil servants were already serving but does that mean they couldn't send more? To achieve that purpose, Ironsi removed the compulsory Hausa language test for the civil service in the North. I don't really get your point; are you stating that Ojuwku didn't state that the Igbos would start exporting civil servants to other regions?

2. Not that I admit that Awo tried to cut deals with both Zik and Bello but that was negotiation to strengthen one's hand. After all, even if both agree to deal with him, he can only deal with one and not both

3. You don't know my people, so leave that out of it. It is your opinion that you think the Igbo caught up with the Yoruba. Not worth debating over. In any case, the prize for the Igbo was the North and the West, which was why Ironsi abolished tests in Hausa.

4. Igbos didn't have to prostrate to anyone. They were being killed in the North, all they had to do was go home until Nigeria's future could be sorted out through diplomatic means. Going to war was not the answer especially as they weren't prepared. You do know it's possible for one to stay in one's home if there is danger outside. What was the straw that made Ojukwu declare secession? What many of you don't understand is that Ojukwu went to war because he realised he could have been replaced by Gowon had he accepted Gowon's decree 8 of 1967.

5. Awo was not a saint but he damn was the best administrator of that generation or any generation for that matter. His records remain unmatched despite successive governments having budgets that dwarf what he had to work with. If you are in doubt, you can read what Lennon-Boyd wrote about all three regions in 1957, which was a precursor to the Willinks report of 1960.

Katsumoto: You mean the same Ojukwu that said the Igbo would export Igbo civil servants to other parts of the country after his fellow Igbo, Ironsi, signed the unification decree 34 in May 1966?

And we are talking about the same Awolowo who didn't want the country Nigeria but was forced into the union called Nigeria. The same Awo that advised Zik that a secession clause be inserted into the constitution but was ignored?

The problem with some of you Igbo is that you are opportunists. They wanted Nigeria at all costs because they wanted to dominate others but as soon as that plan fell apart, they suddenly realised that Nigeria was no good and expected that Awo (and by extension, the Yoruba) would reason along with them. Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way.

Everyone must live with the consequences of their choice including choices made by others.

bakila: while since you need help with your ignorance they are a stock of Idoma people. Now say thank you, I dont care about you rudeness.

bakila: While ethnic group or groups live in Agila?

Anya ko cho, some Ibo criminal terrorist attacked Ado LG in Benue state and you claim Ibo ownership of land there. Condem it like you implore those who It is alleged Boko Haramist share faith with.

jason123: Did that Igbo man release him? It took a middle-belter called Gowon to release him. For eff sake, stop lying. Since when the Gowon become a Hausa. Even his closest friend Nnamdi join a Hausa to imprison him and cause chaos in the Western region after splitting it to reduce her political dominance but God does not sleep.

You guys are not being sincere and that's your problem.

Pennywise: Jonathan can never write a letter like this even if his life depends on it.

bakila: And the MASSOB attack on Agila should go the way of other commitees, story story storryy.

Frostyzone: Guy, it's because of people like you that the Ibos lost the civil war. An Ibo man bashing his own tribe in view of other tribes! Na wa oo!

anonymous6: always knew ewe's originated from Nigeria, I have ghanians friends of that tribe who have also said that but I never knew from what region or tribe through they descended from

Obalufon: Why are you so bitter about the post? you need to watch your words .i know you are not Yoruba. there was no time in Yoruba history we were ever dominated by the Hausa's ,they were used as slaves in our land also in wars and fulanis were scholars and traders in Yoruba land for centuries before they took advantage of a greedy general who wanted to create a state for himself within the empire due to internal disintegration of the empire. Northern part of Yoruba territory was the power house of the empire that was where the Calvary regiments of the empire was located and made it hard for Oyo to retake back the north but the fulanis were checked from advancing. "We are Yoruba or anago not Yoruba okay" Ewe Anago/yoruba, Ifon Akan Have the same linage .language mutates itself. "ETYMOLOGY "

T9ksy: So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

Obijulius: And since the bulk of our revenue comes from oil, with Ijaw land contributing almost 80% what's ur challenge. Lemme ask u, do u think Shell MD should be a yoruba man, super-bigot/tribalist.

Obijulius: And Victor Briggs is? Ur mumu no get equal!

RESIDENTS of Kaduna and environs, who rushed to the famous Kasuwan Talata (Tuesday market) at Kawo to restock, were shocked to the marrow as no single bag of garri was available in the market to buy. Similarly, there were no chicken feeds in the market for poultry farmers to buy because the suppliers could not move out of Kaduna to place orders due to the curfew.

A resident of Kawo New Extension, Sani Ikwere, who went to the Talata weekly market to buy foodstuffs, as government relaxed the curfew on Tuesday, told newsmen that the Igbo and Yoruba traders were nowhere to be found, even as the few bags of garri with some few traders were mopped up by government officials to feed the Internally Displaced Persons across the state.

Ikwere said most households resorted to garri because the curfew did not allow their women take other cassava to market for grinding. “We are adjusting our feeding pattern; it is now a meal or two meals in a day. It is no longer as usual. We pray things will normalise,” he said.

Also, bank customers were disappointed as they could not access their bank accounts. Many banks failed to open while the few that opened operated for four hours between 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. due to the ongoing 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 a.m. curfew within the state capital.

Most shops along the ever busy Ahmadu Bello Way between Katsina road and Leventis roundabout were also closed.

Meanwhile, over 2,000 people have been displaced in Kaduna, the Executive Secretary of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Dogo Makama, has said. He said his agency is collaborating with donor agencies to provide succour to the internally displaced persons.

dustydee: Public display of ignorance. He is a NORTHERNER from KOGI and is EBIRA and not Yoruba. Bigot

Beaf: Tinubu is known to own hotel boats bought in the UK; platatial homes in VI and scattered across Lagos and Abuja, grand hotels in Victoria Island, the Nations Newspaper and airline, his brother fronts for him as owner of Oando.

Tinubu is not known to have ever declared his assets. How can he prove that he got so wealthy off an annual governors salary of less than N4million?
There is also nothing in his biography below that can account for his astonishing wealth either, yet his 60th birthday bash cost N2billion.



http://www.africa-confidential.com/whos-who-profile/id/2726/

Beaf: I will put it in stark context for the blind.
SW + core-North = End of Nigeria.

Nobody is anybodies slave in Nigeria. All Tinubu and the ex-generals are after is oil and the thieves won't get.
There will be no Nigeria in 2015 if parasitism continues to dominate opposition politics.

We are armed and ready.