₦airaland Forum

waternogatenemy:
YORUBA MAN STOP FOOLING YOUR ANCESTORS.



EVERYBODY IN NIGERIA IS FULLY AWARE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

EVEN THE NORTH USED IT TO THREATEN THAT ONCE THEY RETURN TO POWER SEAPORTS WILL BE EVERYWHERE.



RIGHT NOW ALL SEAPORTS ARE IN LAGOS.

There were already seaports everywhere since 1800s so North can not use it to threaten anyone..

SE and SS have 4 ports which is more than anywhere in Nigeria..

the only thing Lagos and the SW has over other regions is the spending power which means the buyers and consumers of most products in Nigeria is the SW..

A business person whose market is the SW will not import from the ports in the SE/SS regions then transport the goods to the SW to sell because that is waste of funds and will destroy the business before it starts..

you have never started or owned a business in your life so you don't understand how businesses work and make profits.

waternogatenemy:
WHEN STELLA ODUAH WANTED TO BUILD THE FIRST AIRPORT IN SE REGION IN ENUGU, YORUBA CRIED THE MOST AND EVENTUALLY THEY MURDERED THAT POOR WOMAN FIRST SON AND FIRST CHILD BECAUSE OF AIRPORT IN SE REGION.



IT IS BECAUSE OF YORUBA THAT ALL THE SEAPORT AND DEEP SEAPORT MUST BE IN LAGOS.


ONDO, DELTA, BAYELSA, RIVERS, AKWA IBOM CROSS RIVER CANNOT GET SEAPORT.



ALL OF US MUST USE LAGOS.


ANY TALK OF BUILDING SEAPORT ELSE WHERE AND YORUBA WILL START TO CRY.

There's a port in Rivers state called "port Harcourt".
There are also:
Calabar port
Onne port
Warri port..

SE and SS have 4 ports while the SW only has 2 ports which are in Lagos state.

CSTRR:
What of the SE citizens in other parts of the country?

Have you accounted for what they pay in their host states?

What of the huge fees that importers of SE origin pay at the ports.

Have you accounted for those too?

SE citizens in other parts of the country make their money in other parts of the country and not in the SE states so most of the money never reaches the SE states because they have to pay rents, electricity bills, cooking bills e.t.c. and maintain the life they are living in other parts of the country so you cannot account for what they pay in their "host states" because the "host states" gave them the life they could not have in the SE states that's why they are not in the SE states..

SE importers can use ports in the SS states if they don't want to use ports in Lagos state/

nobody is forcing them to use ports in Lagos.

There's a port in Rivers state called "port Harcourt".
There are also:
Calabar port
Onne port
Warri port..

SE and SS have 4 ports while the SW only has 2 ports which are in Lagos states.

BreconHills:
You actually are just being emotional. You should be blaming past generations that " enjoyed" the fake life. I am among them and so are your parents.

You mention Saudi Arabia. What is Saudi Arabia oil production per day vs its population? What is its cost of extraction compared to Nigeria? How much excess crude oil sales was available for its sovereign wealth fund? Similar questions for Norway. Norway set aside nearly 80% of its oil revenue for its sovereign wealth fund Nigeria imported $3.2bn of stockfish from Norway in 2022. Paid for by subsidies. Stockfish o not spare parts. In 2022 we imported $313million worth of wigs from China alone. I haven't counted India, Philippines. That's where your subsidies are going. Fake lifestyles.

Meanwhile subsidies meant that there was no new investment going into this same golden goose of oil. Why would an oil company invest when it's margins are squeezed by state enforced subsidies? Same thing is going on now in telecoms where call quality is dropping, banking transaction failure rates are rising - why? Because price freezes over the last 2 years have created effective subsidies.

And the subsidies are still there. The cost of educating a home student in the UK is £9,600 per annum. The cost of educating a doctor in the US is not less than $100,000. How much is school fees at LUTH. These are the same doctors the world is grabbing off us because their education is GOOD and CHEAP.

Get it into your head. Nigeria is not a rich country. It has never been. It is a potential high medium income country. Stop feeling entitled to what does not exist.

You cannot use the 1% to calculate the size of NGN true GDP. You are all going to work your *** to get out of this. Nobody is coming to save you.

The major cause of Nigeria's poverty and under-development is the Western institutions that don't want to see any black nation prosper..

It is western influence that made t:inuboooo to devalue the naira which spoilt the purchasing power of every Nigerian.

you guys don't understand their hatred for black people globally especially those in Africa..

india annual budget is ₹48 trillion which is equal to $560 billion ( with a population over 1.4billion people

while Nigeria annual budget is ₦49 trillion which is equal to $30 billion ( with a population of 200million people )..

my point is Western powers claim Nigeria's population is the reason for ₦ Naira's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

but India with a population 7 seven times Nigeria's own is not affected by the same policy that causes Nigeria's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

if you reduce india annual budget to ₹28 trillion similar to Nigeria ₦28 trillion..

india's ₹28 trillion is still equal to $326 billion...

the Naira is a weapon fashioned against Nigeria and Nigerians by the Western powers.

Rilwayne001:
Now compare Nigeria population and GdP to the population and GDP of the countries you mentioned.

the major cause of Nigeria's poverty and under-development is the Western institutions that don't want to see any black nation prosper..

It is western influence that made t:inuboooo to devalue the naira which spoilt the purchasing power of every Nigerian.

you guys don't understand their hatred for black people globally especially those in Africa..

india annual budget is ₹48 trillion which is equal to $560 billion ( with a population over 1.4billion people

while Nigeria annual budget is ₦49 trillion which is equal to $30 billion ( with a population of 200million people )..

my point is Western powers claim Nigeria's population is the reason for ₦ Naira's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

but India with a population 7 seven times Nigeria's own is not affected by the same policy that causes Nigeria's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

if you reduce india annual budget to ₹28 trillion similar to Nigeria ₦28 trillion..

india's ₹28 trillion is still equal to $326 billion...

the Naira is a weapon fashioned against Nigeria and Nigerians by the Western powers.

sulaak:
The UK has a productive economy with an annual budget of $700 billion for a population of 67 million.

Nigeria cannot even feed people, resulting in food imports.

The country's budget of $30 billion for 220 million is shocking. Yet, you want the government to continue borrowing from Eurobond at 8% to fund fuel imports of over $10 billion annually and protect the Naira by spending $1.5 per month.

Nigeria must face the reality that 25 years of democracy have failed due to consecutive governments' failure to outline an industrial strategy. Removing Fuel Subsidies and FX is the right decision; now, Nigeria must leverage its oil and gas resources to build a petrochemical and energy industry and increase food production.



The average Nigerian can start having fewer offspring, which places a strain on the social infrastructure, educating their children and using the street to protest instead of being priasing as corrupt politicians.

the major cause of Nigeria's poverty and under-development is the Western institutions that don't want to see any black nation prosper..

It is western influence that made t:inuboooo to devalue the naira which spoilt the purchasing power of every Nigerian.

you guys don't understand their hatred for black people globally especially those in Africa..

india annual budget is ₹48 trillion which is equal to $560 billion ( with a population over 1.4billion people

while Nigeria annual budget is ₦49 trillion which is equal to $30 billion ( with a population of 200million people )..

my point is Western powers claim Nigeria's population is the reason for ₦ Naira's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

but India with a population 7 seven times Nigeria's own is not affected by the same policy that causes Nigeria's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

if you reduce india annual budget to ₹28 trillion similar to Nigeria ₦28 trillion..

india's ₹28 trillion is still equal to $326 billion...

the Naira is a weapon fashioned against Nigeria and Nigerians by the Western powers.

MasterTeeUSA:
They won't believe you Sir until they japa and see the amount of work they have to do compared to what they used to do and call working hard in Nigeria lol.

I've not seen anyone that japa that claim to work less than when in Nigeria...even if you work remotely, your log ins and work is always measured and analyzed.

Oga I wan go ATM then you go home from the bank. Oga, I want to go to my children's school...Oga, can i get some of my salary in advance lol. Naija don't know until they know.

MasterTeeUSA:
Don't worry Naija is getting there...days of Rent of $500/yr is coming to an end as your minimum wages increase, employers will start demanding you work hard for what you earn. States are getting rid of those collecting salaries on the payroll for doing nothing. You think cos people make N1k per hr, they don't pay N300k per month in rent lol. It is until you japa that you understand that you can't survive on N1000/hr lol

the major cause of Nigeria's poverty and under-development is the Western institutions that don't want to see any black nation prosper..

It is western influence that made t:inuboooo to devalue the naira which spoilt the purchasing power of every Nigerian.

you guys don't understand their hatred for black people globally especially those in Africa..

india annual budget is ₹48 trillion which is equal to $560 billion ( with a population over 1.4billion people

while Nigeria annual budget is ₦49 trillion which is equal to $30 billion ( with a population of 200million people )..

my point is Western powers claim Nigeria's population is the reason for ₦ Naira's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

but India with a population 7 seven times Nigeria's own is not affected by the same policy that causes Nigeria's bad currency conversion to the dollar..

if you reduce india annual budget to ₹28 trillion similar to Nigeria ₦28 trillion..

india's ₹28 trillion is still equal to $326 billion...

the Naira is a weapon fashioned against Nigeria and Nigerians by the Western powers.

LagosOrigin:
The fulani herdsmen will surely retaliate over their poisoned cow by Egbetokun

They can't retaliate..

This is just one person you don't know if there are other people poisoning cows.. if they retaliate then it gives the people more justification for poisoning their cows.

So this is how SW has been fighting herdsmen... no wonder incidences of kidnapping has reduced.

casualobserver:
On the contrary you have just proven that there are indeed exceptions to every rule. For instance the belief that the Yorubas are educated and enlightened. You’ve just spoken like a man who has never left his village or seen the 4 walls of a school.

My father always told me the minute you realize you are arguing with an eediot, exit the conversation or you become the eediot.

An eediot just wants to be an eediot and is not interested in evidence, facts or probabilities.

Your time is up.

england did not build primary schools, secondary schools, universities, health centers, hospitals, stadiums, technical institutes, vocation centers, maternity hospitals, pediatric hospitals, sports centers, housing estates, roads e.t.c. all over Nigeria between 1830 and 1960 and after..

they took the billions they made from Nigeria and other places they colonized and used it to build england they did not use it to build Nigeria and the other places they colonized.

England put their ethnicity and ethnic nation first.

I doubt you have a father because you comment like a bastard..

casualobserver:
Drawing a conclusion based on evidence is called logical conclusion. It’s what intelligent, properly educated logical minded people do. You look at the evidence and draw a conclusion, you don’t draw a conclusion and look for evidence to fit.

I am pure unadulterated Yoruba with Royal paternal and maternal lineages. I make the same comment to you I made to the 1mb3cil3 who brought his tribe and mine into the discussion…….If you have to bring your tribe or the tribe of your into the argument, it means your argument has reached it’s intellectual ceiling. We have eediots from all tribes.

Not every yoruba is an omoluabi. We have traitors amongst us, we saw what baba Kekere tried to do to Tinubu. Similarly, Not every Fulani is a born to rule mentality, not every Ibo is a closet IPOB or has an expansionist agenda! If Akintola and Awo can disagree what says the coup plotters agreed with the Ibo establishment and their expansionist and domination agenda?

It is ok to judge a race based on common traits but it is also important to recognize there are exceptions to every rule.

from the early 1900s even before Nigeria's almagation of northern and southern Nigeria.. Nnamdi Azikwe's father was working for the Bri:tish as a secretary and hundreds if not thousands of other i:gbos were also working for the bri:tish all over Nigeria because the Bri:tish favored them and not because other tribes were not qualified and un-educated.

Despite i:gbos having most of the federal jobs all over Nigeria the regional jobs and institutions were controlled by the indigenes and Western Nigeria created more regional institutions, companies and agencies than other regions and i:gbos like Azikwe were covetous towards Western Nigeria's institutions and wanted control of Western Nigeria and its regional institutions which i:gbos till date are still trying to grab control of states in the SW...

there are no exceptions to any rule.

Ethnicity is brought into issues so that no ethnicity is deceived and deprived of things they should benefit from..

Anyone that can not bring up ethnicity into issues will never defend his or her own ethnicity in times of danger..

Kem:i Ba:d:enoch brought ethnicity into her conversation...

You are not Yoruba..

no Yoruba person born of 2 Yoruba parents will be anti-Yoruba like you..

You are the traitor you speak of....

spiSeyi:
Who told you how you take know.. Oyo mesi is the only king maker and ifa doesn't choose king but Oyo mesi in the Oyo empire

These ones are fake Oyo Mesi..

The primary duty of Oyo mesi is to uphold Yoruba traditions, culture and religions and those guys are not and can never ever be true Oyo Mesi because they worship, kneel and bow to false foreign gods.

Biodun556:
What is the primary duty of Oyo mesis?

I hope you study Government as a subject in school

The primary duty of Oyo mesi is to uphold Yoruba traditions, culture and religions and those guys are not and can never ever be true Oyo Mesi because they worship, kneel and bow to false foreign gods.

femi4:
So how is it Makinde business

Makinde is the Governor of Oyo state.

Manny21:
Traditional stool be sustained by traditional legitimacy. It is an abominable desecration of tradition for a Governor to use veto power and political influence to install his stooge as a King. it will always backfire and it will take years to recover from it. Kano is yet to recover from Ganduje's interference in the emir stool. They will eventually give power to an already bastardized judiciary to determine who becomes the king like they determine who becomes the president of Nigeria or the governor.

spiSeyi:
After all either Oyo mesi chiefs or Seyi won't be forever but Seyi should know that he can only hold on to power for a limited time while the Oyo mesi empire stand 4ever

femi4:
Makide really messed up, interfering in Oyo king selection

Biodun556:
Seyi Makinde is a useless governor.


He could as well take over the the jobs of medical doctors in a state owned hospital if he thinks he is right for taking over the job of the Oyo mesis and imposed a candidate on them

How will governor in his right sense be consulting ifa priests to choose a king sidelining the king makers completely

As long as the Oyo Mesi do not worship any Yoruba Gods and Goddesses and are not students of Ifa they have no business deciding who the Alaafin of Oyo will be..

casualobserver:
There is a difference between coup plotters who happened to be ibos and ibos. The coup plotters failed so we will never know their intentions. Because the ibos that took over after the failed coup were the typical ibos, they acted in typical ibo fashion hence their brothers were not tried and Awolowo remained in prison, decree34 was promulgated etc.

Like I have said many times, there is evidence to show that the coup plotters may have been revolutionary, patriotic, nationalist and not sectarian……unfortunately for them and history……and for the ibos, they failed! So we will never truly know.

What I will say is that the coup plotters do not represent typical ibos and they ended up handing over power to typical establishment ibos who acted like typical fashion. I said in a previous post that I believe 95% that the coup was not an ibo coup. The 5% is because the ibos were already losing/lost influence at the center, a successful Balewa/Akintola alliance would have further dented the influence of the east so there is that 5% chance it could have been an ibo centric coup such that the only hand left to play was to install Awolowo since he was already in alliance with NCNC anyway. We don’t know. On the balance of probability, I am willing to believe it wasn’t an ibo coup but the actions of the ibos since have not helped their perception.

you are igbo or one of your parents is igbo because you are too igbocentric to not have igbo blood flowing in you..

there is no difference between coup plotters who happened to be igbos and igbos.

the coup did not fail..

the coup plotters only allowed a senior igbo military officer called ironsi take over..

and ironsi could have released Awolowo in the 6 months he ruled for if the lie that Awolowo was the reason for the coup was true.. because i:gbos have herd mentality just like the obi:dient movement that made them focus on 1 goal.

the goal of the coup was to stop igbos from losing federal jobs the british gave them.

the coup plotters were sectarian and they represent 100% of typical igbos who hate Yorubas passionately and would never ever install Awolowo into power.

the igbos only love igbos there is no way the igbos would have brought Awolowo to power... the Obi:dient movement is proof of that.

Awolowo was a victim of Azikiwe and igbo herd mentality of not accepting defeat in an election and congratulating the winner...

I believe it was 100% an igbo coup from start to finish with the help of some Yoruba traitors..

where is the influence of the east in 2025

read the quote below and have more understanding

raumdeuter:
Actually there was need for the Ibos

1959 to 1964 was a NPC(mainly North) and NCNC(Mainly East) alliance which ruled and formed the cabinet. By 1964 Akintola already broke away from the AG and formed his NNDP. Akintola already reasoned that this alliance was to the detriment of Yorubas since all the good positions were cornered by the Ibos and Hausas. To the level where even the Vice Chancellor for UNILAG and UI both in Yorubaland were Ibo men Eni Njoku and Kenneth Dike.
(I listened to Akintolas campaign speech of 1964)
The initial alliance between the NPC(Balewa) and NCNC(Azikwe) was broken and Akintolas NNDP became the new partner with NPC to form the NNA alliance. The NNA Alliance won the election thus Balewa and Akintolas party would be forming the new govt and the Ibos would be pushed into opposition. Akintola started replacing Ibos in the former govt with Yorubas from his NNDP. An example, At that time the tenure of Eni Njoku expired as UNILAG VC and Akintola ensured that Prof Saburi Biobaku was made the VC. This was too much for the Ibos to take and they reacted which meant Akintola had to be killed and those in the new NNA alliance

Mujtahida:
In Nigeria, we largely stay put where we are oo
Kano is mostly hausa dominated, same for the West, East and other geographic regions.

The point is that even if we move around as we do to a certain degree, I prefer homogeneous societies because of the cohesion that it gives. Inikpi the beloved daughter of Attah igala was sacrificed as a guarantee for victory demanded by the gods when Jukum people attacked my people.


I ask myself will our Attah had done that if we were a mixed multitude? He will not. He will most likely act the way we do today - as in shift the responsibility to others.


I hate DEI oo. I really hate it. It destroys nations.. It's worse than atomic bomb.

I thought "Attah" was a Ghanaian word

A person do both - shift the responsibility to others and keep upgrading and improving themselves and communities.

Mujtahida:
Ese. This is my view. It's this idea that nationality is determined by citizenry that turned the French team into a mash up of black and white. In fact the whites are now on the margins of the French team. I keep asking myself how is Saka an English man, how is Kante a Frenchman? Having one, two, three or four blacks in the team, that's fine but to have almost the whole team black, is something I find jarring.

F:rance makes its money from its African colonies so I can partially understand the deception they are using and it also passes a message to other black people in Africa to leave their countries and be like those players in their fields of study.

DABIGATRAN:
If other ethnic nationalities had their sovereignty, currency and constitution, I doubt if they would "flee" as you mentioned into another ethnic nationality.
What resources are they exporting in Lagos? The revenue is from tax, tax and tax.

Nigerians still flee to Europe, U:S e.t.c despite having their own sovereignty, currency and constitution due to the fact that Nigeria's currency value is messed up by Whyte supremac:ists and the global finance system that is racist towards Black African countries.

what I mean is that most Nigerians don't have any reason to leave their ethnic nations because we all use the same currency..

2elliot:
Some of you just amuse me. As an adult that you are, you believe that the Igbos will carry out such actions to subjugate the entire country when they did not have the military might or the population to sustain that level of domination. For how long did they expect to dominate at a time when all Africans were fighting colonial domination. Not even the Fulanis some of you dread could have done that.

No Yorubas dreads the F:ulanis..

igbos definitely felt they owned Nigeria and Africa due to the favoritism the b:ritish showered them with..

F:ulanis do not have the population and the military might to subjugate the H:ausas but you can see what has been the case for over 200 years..

2elliot:
You were already killing one another during the wild wild west, so what's your point?
If that coup had succeeded and Awolowo brought to power, things would have been different today and not all these accusations.

the igbos only love igbos there is no way the igbos would have brought Awolowo to power... the Obi:dient movement is proof of that.

2elliot:
Not even the Fulanis could have tried that nonsense by exterminating other leaders just so they can dominate the others. But you think the Igbos will do that, and expect the whole world to watch them do that and fo scot-free.

the F:ulanis did it to the H:ausas and tried to do it to the Yorubas but Yorubas killed them and chased them away but the B:ritish still gave the F:ulanis ilorin just to spite the Yorubas because both Yorubas and the Dahomey warriors were giving the b:ritish a hard time so the br:itish did not trust Yorubas.

Mujtahida:
I don't understand how black people cry for space in white man land and when they don't get it, they start crying racism all over the place. I can understand if its America because of their peculiar history but Europe, mbanu. European people - just like any other people - owe themselves a duty to put their people first and even last.

That's how Larry Madowo, the Kenyan CNN reporter went to Argentina and started complaining that he did not see any black man. Haaaa so have you seen other races complain of not seeing their people in Africa? Where did the idea come from that black or brown or white or yellow people belong just about anywhere on earth?

If there's one thing I hate, it's DEI, multiculturalism and every other woke nonsense that panders to the idea of making homogeneous societies less homogenous. I look at the present French team and I feel sorry for the French people.

Look at England. They basically have tribes now: black tribes, brown tribes, Muslim tribes (I have nothing against Muslims, I'm just stating a fact). They have become a mixed people.

And that signifies that they are going down. Because I feel one of the reasons why Nigeria is the way it is, is because of the mix of over 300 ethnic groups. It's literally babel. So if Europeans allow themselves to be bludgeoned and surrender to DEI, they will become babel.

yes it is the reason Nigeria is the way it is but Nigeria's case is different partially because in Nigeria's case every ethnic nation has free access to move into another ethnic nation territory without border checks because there are no borders and ethnic nations who did not grow their indigenous ethnic economies just "flee" into another ethnic nation that grew their own ethnic economies even though we use the same currency..

if each ethnic nation stays put in their territory then Nigeria won't be the way it is today..

2elliot:
The fact remains that some others were informed but they declined. Besides, that period was a period when young boys and girls were very vibrant and revolutionary, when the movement for pan Africanism and liberation was louded. Not now that we have pussy niggas like you who only argue on the internet without the balls to effect any changes. At that time, tribe and language was primary focus.

2elliot:
They were informed and they rightful refused to join. So, what is your point?

if I inform you that people are coming to kill your parents would you stand and watch them kill your parents?

2elliot:
The coup failed and so they couldn't release him, and an opportunist called Ironsi took over. What don't you understand here?

the coup did not fail..

the coup plotters only allowed a senior igbo military officer called ironsi take over..

and ironsi could have released Awolowo in the 6 months he ruled for if the lie that Awolowo was the reason for the coup was true.. because i:gbos have herd mentality just like the obi:dient movement that made them focus on 1 goal.

the goal of the coup was to stop igbos from losing federal jobs the british gave them.

2elliot:
It is not hard to understand why. The crisis in the western region tore the west apart, with one side on Akintola and the other on Awolowo's side. While in the north, the sardauna is both the NPC head, the premier of the north and religious leader. They have a herd mentality. Hardly any northern soldier will join to lead such a coup that will aim at their own leaders.
The east did not have that herd mentality and also didn't have factional leaderships as was the case in the west. Yet, the coup was communicated to others who even in the west who simply declined to join.

stop spreading lies..

Awolowo had nothing to do with anything.

read the quote below and have more understanding

raumdeuter:
Actually there was need for the Ibos

1959 to 1964 was a NPC(mainly North) and NCNC(Mainly East) alliance which ruled and formed the cabinet. By 1964 Akintola already broke away from the AG and formed his NNDP. Akintola already reasoned that this alliance was to the detriment of Yorubas since all the good positions were cornered by the Ibos and Hausas. To the level where even the Vice Chancellor for UNILAG and UI both in Yorubaland were Ibo men Eni Njoku and Kenneth Dike.
(I listened to Akintolas campaign speech of 1964)
The initial alliance between the NPC(Balewa) and NCNC(Azikwe) was broken and Akintolas NNDP became the new partner with NPC to form the NNA alliance. The NNA Alliance won the election thus Balewa and Akintolas party would be forming the new govt and the Ibos would be pushed into opposition. Akintola started replacing Ibos in the former govt with Yorubas from his NNDP. An example, At that time the tenure of Eni Njoku expired as UNILAG VC and Akintola ensured that Prof Saburi Biobaku was made the VC. This was too much for the Ibos to take and they reacted which meant Akintola had to be killed and those in the new NNA alliance

2elliot:
Wipe out to achieve what? Some of you are so damn myopic. SE did not wipe out the British who ruled them for decades during colonialism, but they chose to do that with the entire country without any military base in the region, or the population and power to subjugate the entire country. Some of you are just daft to think that that coup was an Igbo coup. Not even the Fulanis some of you dread can openly carry out such an act. Dem no born them reach. But you think Igbos who were well represented in government and military at the time would want to dominate the entire country through force. If that was the case, Ironsi would have moved all military wares to the east and strengthen it. Yet, that would have been foolish. But except, the corrupt west was behind them to destabilise the country.
You all need to start thinking for yourselves, honestly.

from the early 1900s even before Nigeria's almagation of northern and southern Nigeria.. Nnamdi Azikwe's father was working for the Bri:tish as a secretary and hundreds if not thousands of other i:gbos were also working for the bri:tish all over Nigeria because the Bri:tish favored them and not because other tribes were not qualified and un-educated.

why would igbos attack Bri:tish that favored them and in 1960 when the British left Nigeria they handed it over to the i:gbos..

it would have been very foolish of the igbos to attack the Bri:tish that favored them over other ethnic nations in Nigeria.

the i:gbos and igbo leaders of that era believed they had the population and power to subjugate the entire country but you are too igbocentric to see this and acknowledge it.

Don't i:gbos of this 2025 era also believe they have the power and population to subjugate the Yorubas and take over Lagos and its political structure or you are just too igbocentric to accept this

kettykin:
You’re absolutely right. The Igbos had no need for the coup. They held the officer cadre of the military, the Chief of Army Staff, the presidency, and the presidency of the House. Yet, a group of soldiers foolishly intervened in a Western Region crisis—a problem tied to Awolowo and his jailed cronies.


There was peace in the eastern Region with the economy adjudged as the fastest-growing in the world. The east was at peace with itself.
This disastrous meddling should be a brutal lesson for every Igbo: never intervene in battles that aren’t yours, no matter how much blood floods the streets. Let others fight their own wars.

The Igbo playbook going forward should be that no intervention if an issue has nothing to do with the Igbo race. Southern Nigeria only exist in the feeble mind of manipulators. The best interests is the interests of the only the igbos.

the i:gbos had need for the coup and greed fueled that need because they wanted control of the Western region revenues and institutions..

Eastern region does not start and end with igbos.. the Eastern region major revenue was not coming from the i:gbo dominated parts it was coming from Cross River, Port Harcourt and the present day Bayelsa state.

you are grossly mis-informed

2elliot:
They were the people remotely involved in the crisis at the time. Why didn't Awolowo's or his key men affected? Why didn't the coup plotter go after Awolowo in prison if he was a person of interest to them? It was for his benefit the coup was planned for. The northem leaders who became victims had connections with Akintola faction. And besides, there were issues even the north at the time the south west was experiencing wild wild west. The eastern region was not experiencing any political crisis at the time to necessitate involving them.

the coup was for the benefit of the ig:bos it had nothing to do with Awolowo..

the coup was too ensure igbos don't lose the federal jobs they had in Northern region and Western region as Ah:madu Be:llo was talking about hiring indigenes and Akintola was also talking about hiring indigenes.

this video below is proof of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_odAy4rVz8

2elliot:
That coup was not a secret coup. Several military guys from the south west were informed but they declined to join. The crisis in the western regions, and another in the north, necessitated the coup. The likes of FFK's father were corruption personified and was remotely involved in the crisis. And besides, the muteeners' were sympathetic to Awolowo's plight. The coup was carried out to take those men out. It had nothing to do with all politicians or leaders at the time. Try to understand the history based on the context. Nnamdi Azikiwe or any other Igbo leader was not remotely involved in the political crisis of the western regions at the time.

stop spreading stupid lies..

if military guys from the SW were informed do you think they would have agreed to kill the Premier of Western Nigeria..

what concerns Eastern region with the politics of the Western region..

so there were no corrupt igbo politicians for the coup plotters to kill in the Eastern region?

to you and the coup plotters only Western region and Northern region were filled corruption while the Eastern region was and is filled with angels.

2elliot:
That period in history was a time when young men and women had revolutionary ideas, not now that 50yrs old men and women are without any ideology or direction like pussies and woke feminists. That period was when boys and girls of 18–30 acted like real men with balls, and girls with intellect, not affected by flouride in their paste and water that diminishes their manliness and brains.
The idealogy of the time was pan Africanism and liberation movements. Those young soldiers saw a need to stop the chaos in the south western region–with Awolowo's freedom as their rallying point. This is very important note. If you miss this aspect, then you will miss all.

igbos that hate Yorubas with passion will attempt a coup to free Awolowo a Yoruba man... You igbos must think Yorubas are dull and lack sense to be spreading lies...

Awolowo was in Calabar prison... if they wanted to release him they would have done it after the coup during the 6 months they ruled for..

you igbos always lie hiding behind pan-africanism, ironsi abolished regionalism because he wanted access to funds in Western Nigeria while Northern Nigeria funds would have just been bonus because they were never a rich region..

2elliot:
Igbos had it all, so what are you talking about? Whether they formed the alliance with the north or the west, Igbos were well placed and represented in politics and military. So, and with the newly found oil in the eastern region, no other region could have matched them. So, what power do you think they needed? Some of you are just stupid and wicked parroting lies.
That coup happened because of Awolowo and nothing else. And the coup wasn't a secret one. Several military men especially in the south west were informed but most declined to join. There was no Igbo conspiracy involved. The crisis in the South west was a concern to a lot of vibrant people, both civilians and military, at a time youths were very vibrant and fighting colonialism and corruption in the African continent. It is not like now that 50yrs old men are stupid and cowardly and do not have any revolutionary ideas.
If you want to understand history, you must study and put yourself in the era of those who participated in that history. Don't use you 2025 logic. You won't get it.

igbos never had it all..

in some countries.. government jobs are exclusively for the indigenes, that's the point Bello and Akintola were trying to make..

from the early 1900s even before Nigeria's almagation of northern and southern Nigeria.. Nnamdi Azikwe's father was working for the Bri:tish as a secretary and hundreds if not thousands of other i:gbos were also working for the bri:tish all over Nigeria because the Bri:tish favored them not because other tribes were not qualified and un-educated until 1960 when the Bri:tish left..

their white collar employment had nothing to do with Ahmadu Bello and Balewa. since they already had those jobs before independence and continued on the jobs after independence so Ahmadu Bello, Akintola were working towards replacing i:gbos who had federal jobs in the north and western Nigeria...

having jobs is different from controlling the companies or institutions that create those jobs...

Despite i:gbos having most of the federal jobs all over Nigeria the regional jobs and institutions were controlled by the indigenes and Western Nigeria created more regional institutions, companies and agencies than other regions and i:gbos like Azikwe were covetous towards Western Nigeria's institutions and wanted control of Western Nigeria and its regional institutions which i:gbos till date are still trying to grab control of states in the SW...