₦airaland Forum

Idiko1:
Ojukwu was not powerless hence July 29, 1966, coup was not successful. Gowon could not even venture out of Lagos to visit Benin City. If not for betrayal artists and backstabbers such as your forbearers, southern Nigeria would have been semi-paradise. The fools such as Ejoor, Adebayo and entire Yoruba and silly minorities from the southern Nigeria joined forces with Jihadists from northern region of Nigeria. I remembered deluded Akenzua attached to the ass of Gowon hoping Gowon will elevate a third-class permanent secretary to position of a minister. Akenzua supported Action Group when certain figures such as Osagie, Osadebe, Utomi, Ekwuasi and Okotie-Eboh fought for the creation of Midwestern region. The legacy of today's Nigeria is the blueprint of Gowon and the goons supported him period.

the legacy of today's Nigeria started with the Unification decree of Ironsi...

gidgiddy:
How could Ironsi have abolished the 4 Regions Nigeris had if the 4 Regions were still existing the day Ironsi was killed? Did Ironsi come back from the dead to abolish the Regions?

Ironsi never tampered with resource control, not even for one day. All 4 Regions controlled their resources throughout the 6 months Ironsi was in charge

It was Gowon that came after Ironsi and used Decree 14 to abolish the 4 Regions we had, and created 12 new states to replace them

Gowon immediately followed this up with Decree 15 where he abolished resource control and placed it in the hands of the federal government

As I said to you the other time....

read your fellow igbo supremacist comment below accepting Ironsi's culpability .

I will continue using this quote because its very rare for an Igbo person to accept criticism and that he/she is wrong ...

CSTRR:
It was ironsi with his unitary policy that ensured that the economic disparity between the North and the South that promoted southern superiority was dissipated on the altar of one unitary country.

And once the economic advantage moved from regions to federal control, it created an equilibrium that empowered the populous north.

It was an Igbo man that ironically created Northern dominance by mistake.

Idiko1:
Ojukwu warned Gowon on the consequences of the usurpation of position of C-in-C of Nigeria when his superiors were still in uniform. At least, you were wrong on Akenzua.

I'm not wrong on Akenzua...

Ojukwu was powerless and couldn't warn anybody.. Ojukwu only tried to do another coup that ended up been a civil war..

gidgiddy:
But the same Akenzua shit his mouth when Gowon was abolishing the 4 Regions Nigeria had, created 12 new states and stripped them of resource control

you and I have argued this thousands of times.. It was ironsi that made it that the regions no longer controlled their resources and their revenue which means the regions became subservient to the FG.

It was Ironsi that abolished regionalism and not Gowon... Gowon only maintained what Ironsi had already done.

2 out of the 4 regions had Yoruba and Igbo as the majority and that would have been a problem for minorities in the south..

so Akenzua would have been very happy that states were created.

Idiko1:
You are totally wrong. It is safe to say today's Nigeria is the legacy of Gowon and his clique of goons. Akenzua supported Action Group when products from Edo were used support Yoruba land under western region.

You're the one that's wrong.. Legacy of Ironsi and Nzeogwu.

Fejoku:
In conclusion, Yakubu Gowon and Prince Akenzua had their way by bye passing previously signed agreement at Aburi. Today's Nigeria is the legacy of their own decision.

Two questions for you. Do you still agree to the structure suggested by Prince Akenzua as at the time even without the benefit of foresight?
Do you think that there's a need for restructure or outright dissolution of Nigeria? Give your reasons.

Today's Nigeria is the legacy of Nzeogwu and Aguiyi Ironsi..

Akenzua didn't want the resources in his ethnic nation to be used by another ethnic nation that had majority power over his own nation....

rainluv:
why did the rest of Nigeria tag Nzeogwu Igbo?

because he is Igbo...

RussellRutherfo:
War would have still happened even without the coup. The Islamic jihadist, Sarduana of Sokoto was already pushing the country towards that lane with his open hatred of the Igbos before that coup.

I am of the opinion that the coup kept this nation together because Sarduana of Sokoto probably had in mind to divide the North away from Nigeria.

He every inch was a Hitler in the making.
The only thing is the coup plotters who handled the Lagos part didn't do their side of the job effectively.

His dislike of igbos started and ended in the north.

So there won't have been any war.. the only people who took hatred beyond their region were Igbos.

waffiboi:
We can play moffi oshimen and ademola in a front 3. Moffi as a false winger

Oshimen
Moffi. Ademola

Iwobi

Oyedika. Ndidi

Sanusi Tosin. Bassey Aina

Uzoho


Guys What do you think about this 11 going forward?

change it to:

Oshimen

Tella or Ejuke ||| Moffi or Awoniyi ||| Ademola or Chukwueze


Oyedika or Bonke or Ndidi or Yussuf. || Iwobi or Onyeka or Nwakali

Sanusi Bassey Ajayi Aina

TheSuperNerd:
You referring to Rafiu Ishaq, I believe. He is now at NK Maribor in Slovenia's Topflight.

okay, thank you.

TheGoodJoe:

I am still pleading. Keep post free of abuses. Thank you.

he abuses in subtle manners and must not be kept free from abuses...

If I was the mod him and benji would have been banned ...

it is an abomination to come to a Nigerian sports forum and denigrate Nigerian players especially the ones born and groomed in Nigeria..

TheSuperNerd:
Shut out by the coach since his red card in Late July/Early August for Violent conduct in his 2nd league start. His red card contributed to them losing that game.

Did very well in his debut game from the start. Started the second game and bagged a red card for bad conduct, served his ban and since then he has been restricted to bench roles and cameos. Now in recent weeks since the turn of the new year, he has not made the matchday squad.

An unfortunate situation Ishaq faces at Anderlecht.

what about the other Ishaq that played against Mexico or highest goal scorer in NPFL last season

before some people will in future come and accuse Africans of age cheating..

the guy who was joggling ball is in a freestyle academy with others like him..

he is a 4 times guinness world record holder and his from Anambra...

they were invited to perform in a state in the South West

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brutal1:
The reality here is this, for any tribe to rule Nigeria, you need to align with at least one other tribe which is what the Yorubas and the Hausa/fulani's have been doing over the years. The truth here is that the Igbos should come to this Understanding and align. It's either you work with the Hausa/Fulanis to achieve this or work with the Yoruba to achieve this. You cannot hate the Hausa/fulanis and hate the Yorubas at the same time. Learn to use your "enemy" to your advantage. According to this post here, they claim they've been marginalised since 2015 how about before 2015? We are talking about just 8years ago, we've had 16years before that time, were they marginalised then?? This anger should be directly at our politicians who failed to deliver fruit of democracy to our regions. What has your representatives brought to your region I dont believe it is until you are a president before you can bring about the change in your region. My decision to vote for Peter Obi wont be because he is a saint, save me of all that saint story, it is only on equality. If the slogan of "emilokan should come from any region I think it is from the South east in all honesty. But picking someone as a saint is just pure nonsense. The PDp ruined the country for 16years and they decamped to APC to continue the ruins, they have even done worse, PDP even apologised that if given second chance they wont steal again. The 3 candidates we have right now are/,were all part of the rots in the system. They are /were active players in the system since 1999 so this topic of sainthood is total rubbish. I am not voting for Tinubu because of his health. Senility has stepped in, Atiku is seasonal failure. In the spirit of equality and it is obvious PO is the most fit for the job, he should be given the chance. But the blame game of marginalisation cannot be blamed on other tribe, just like betting, the other two tribes have been working together and you chose to go for the PDP which didnt work out, it's nothing to be sad about, na una carry wey nor work. The two powerful tools these our new slave masters(politicians) are using to divide us are RELIGION & TRIBALISM. Let us all old our representatives accountable for not doing the job and stop blaming other people for our misfortune. I am so open to all abuse. It gives me great joy

Igbos have already partnered with the Fulanis for this election..

Igbos have 2 candidates in this election in Okowa and Obi.

Okowa is Igbo and Atiku's vice president. So PDP will likely win the election.

muzeze77:
He definitely was not wearing a life jacket,life jacket will keep you afloat no matter what

baralatie:
What about his life jacket?

BernieLee:
I know the man personally. Won’t mention the name here but he’s a northerner. We worked for the same establishment at some point.
Very simple and easy going. From what I gathered he wasn’t on life jacket.

RIP to the dead and another lesson for the living.

muzeze77:
thought as much , life jacket would have saved his life , you can fall from a jet ski and all you have to do is climb back

azpekuliar:
Oga. I mentioned life jacket and swimming. I consider the latter to be the most important skill to even go on water.

spartachico:
He might know how to swim but probably an accident happened and he lost consciousness and wasn’t wearing a live jacket

According to the post, his body sunk too deep to be rescued..

If he drowned without anything pulling him down his body would have been floating.... which means he had an accident and his clothes or shoes/sports trainers or shoe lace or part of his body was stuck or entangled with the jet ski and pulled him down deeper into ocean...

In this case, knowing how to swim wouldn't save him because something is continuously pulling him deeper into the ocean and he would be panicking because he would have to release himself from the sinking jet ski while in the water or whatever was pulling him deeper into the ocean..

but the report didn't say whether the jet ski sunk or not.

Teeroyzimma:
You better be joking cos it's well known that Lagos is far from safe, you can't even walk down a street without getting robbed or harassed

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maidaboi:
A friend forwarded me the story below - can’t verify the details but it makes for interesting reading. We have so much potential but we remain where we are because of the “Naija Factor”.

Just sharing an interesting personal account by a usa-based Diasporan!
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“As I look at the recently concluded world cup series, I am saddened by the performance of the Green Eagles.

While many people know of my foray into software development for the country, I seldom talk about other projects I attempted to execute in the country as part of my contribution as a Diasporan who wanted to give back.

A friend in this group called me today to ask and wonder why the 360 degree turn in my attitude towards the country and why I am so embittered. I laughed and said nothing. After careful deliberation, I thought it was time to share more of my experiences while I sojourn in Nigeria.

Criticism of Diaspora is completely misplaced.

People need to understand the quiet pain and losses we endure for our country.

Once I settled down in 2016 and felt (a false) a sense of security about my investments in Nigeria and the critical development work I was doing for the country, I considered another undertaking.

I was angered by the massive number of Nigerians watching the European Soccer league. I imagined the economic benefits to Europe and financial losses in foreign revenue, lost jobs to Nigeria

I approached the minister of sport in 2017 through a mutual friend and assured him we could bring soccer to international standards in Nigeria. We could set a healthy minimum salary (in millions), create over 100,000 direct middle class jobs in the first year, and over 250,000 indirect middle class and low income jobs.

The minister was dismissive at first. He had been approached with similar offers that never materialized, and I understood his skepticism.

I assured him that I don't start anything if I can't finish it. I am a pitbull of sort when I embark on a project.

I assured him I would bring $1 billion dollars to the game in Nigeria. He practically laughed me out of his office. So, I issued him a challenge.

If I could bring the money to the table, would the ministry grant me a license to start a new league in Nigeria.

He looked me up and down as if to size my capacity to deliver, then chose to take me up on my challenge. Personally, nothing excited me more than a healthy dose of challenge.

I immediately returned to the US. Put a team together. A friend who had played with Atlanta Falcons and ran a semi-pro football team in Atlanta introduced me to a number of sport agents, which led to an introduction to a major sports management group based in NY. I quickly engaged the group to put a league and marketing plan together, a $75k project. My team in Atlanta put the business plan together, and within 30 days, we were armed with a pitch document. I went into sport equity market pitched several equity firms, leveraging my businesses, and i successfully secured a $750m letter of credit (LOC) with terms to draw subject to the issuance of license promised by the minister.

I returned to Abuja and the minister was presented with LOC, I have never seen a black man turned white before, as he could not believe I had an LOC for $750m. I assured him we would supplement the funding with a licensing fee to be issued to 10 club owners at $25ml each, which would complete the $1bl guaranteed to the minister.

The league will fund $50ml to each team, creating a $75ml escrowed capital to launch each club

Leaving us with $250ml to develop the league

We began to test the market for broadcast licensing agreements to fund our LOC payback. Interest was strong and the numbers made sense.

There are more people watching soccer games in Nigeria on a Saturday than the UK, Germany, and France combined. The export market for Nigerian soccer league games across the globe is mature. There would be little or no distance between us and Brazil if we did things right.

Nigeria was licensing Euro soccer games and exporting foreign exchange and to me reversing that trend was a personal objective.

We submitted our business and marketing plan to the minister, including economic impact. He was excited and all on board. The secretary to the Ministry of Sport was on vacation while all these were going on. The legal department engaged us, and an agreement to issue a license was put in place. Negotiation ensued and terms agreed upon. "It's execution time" just needed the secretary to return from vacation.

USL (United Soccer League) was about to be a reality.

We would take over existing federal and state stadiums for 10 clubs and bring them up to international standards with corporate suites.

We were going to leverage the first year of broadcast license to attract retired BIG name international stars like Ronaldinho, Kaka for 1 yr contract or borrow some international star to help launch the league. The clubs making up the league would have to bid to join our first year.

We set our season opposite European league to give us room to grow with minimal competition for our audience.

This was an exciting development for me as things moved along.

Secretary to the ministry returned, and our discussion on agreement was now at his desk, expecting things to move forward. Then came the jolt from all directions.

Suddenly, there was talk about buying the existing NFL, something I vehemently opposed. You can't take a bad product and wrap it in a new package and expect the audience to buy it. There is a reason the NFL is not captivating the attention of Nigerians, but we can help it develop, not acquire it.

Also, we feared we would run into conflict with existing, compromised structure under the control of entrenched personalities.

We offered to put $50ml into the NFL to improve it and allow it to feed players into the USL (United Soccer League) which would increase the value of the NFL and we would share stadium with them to improve value of their broadcast license fees.

Not only would we have triggered massive, minor league development across the country, we would have develop local stars to international status, with similar benefits as enjoyed abroad, retirement programs, health coverage, multi million naira contracts, super star statuses.

I remember introduction to the great Kanu by an assistant to VP Osinbajo and a few other greats in the football space in Nigeria. The excitement was definitely brewing.

I had people working on both sides of the Atlantic working on league rules, marketing, retail licensing, security, trademarks, and other intellectual rights.

Then, the bomb shell. The secretary of the ministry decided to send the agreement to outside parties for review.

It was the last I ever saw the agreement. The agreement left the building and never came back. Inquiries after inquiries yielded nothing.

I was disillusioned, I had put my credibility on the line for the LOC. I had triggered costly activities at numerous organizations locally in Nigeria and in the US.

Suddenly, I got a call from an unknown number. It was a male voice on the other line.

Who is this I asked.

Response : Oga it's not important, I just want to tell you that things will go well if you can at least leave 5% of this project for the people at the ministry.

I was stunned left speechless for about 60 seconds

5% of $750ml is $37.5ml where on earth do you hide that on your books and how do you allocate and describe that expense to your investors.

That was the end of my soccer project in Nigeria. I promised I would not participate in corruption in Nigeria and stood by it.

2 years later, I completed my primary and robust project for Nigeria. Tested and approved to launch in 2019. 45 days before the launch date, a demand came forward that could have easily put me on the radar with the US government and in violation of the US foreign corrupt practices act. I declined.

2 weeks before we were to launch the project for Nigeria, I was verbally advised that the head honcho has decided to stop the project. He was no longer interested. It was no longer about Nigerians. It was about his personal interest and decision.

The cost to me personally was significant financially, with several million dollars just discarded by head honcho of the government agency. I also lost a network of investors and sustained damaged credibility with one of the largest sports equity funds in the US

I left Nigeria and promised only to return for family matters only.

Nigeria died inside me.

To all those who want to criticize Diaspora, please understand that many of us tried and, in many ways, failed. You, the people, just don't know or hear about the sacrifices we make. It's a horror show.

We love our country as much as you do. When you say we are online and just posting and agitating, there are reasons for it.

Nigeria is a crime scene, a burial ground for our investments, life savings, and retirement.

Stop judging us if you don't know the whole story.”

it's a fake story...

each team in Holland's Eredivisie gets 5 million euros per year, while the winner gets about 10 million euros....

Nobody will give 10 Nigerian clubs $50m each... it is not feasible.

jihday:
I think there must be a name for this thing Nigerians love to do, urge to always rubbish your country and her achievements.

You're on the internet.. the person you're quoting can be from another country.. the person may not be African.... anytime I see such comments I press the report button...

sammyrollo:
It working, I just received my virtual card now and I use it to fund my registr successfully just now

Sapiosexuality:
Says who?

my card status is inactive...

when I try to unfreeze card it doesn't work.. I never froze it.. so its Grey that did it..

Intelcorei7:
Grey virtual cards are now active and working. Go and get yours.

this is not true... Grey virtual cards are still inactive...

Intelcorei7:
All Nigeria banks are thieves and rogues. They get dollars from CBN at official rate of #450.00 or thereabout. When you ask them to sell dollar for you to fund domicillary account, they will decline and tell you they don't sell. They will now pack the dollars give their agents ( aboki exchanger ) and direct you to go and buy from them at an unofficial rate of #700 + per dollar. It will never be well with those bankers,and those that are making life miserable for common people

Blakjewelry:
big fool dollar is scarce but it is surplus at the aboki joint, if you need million dollars you can get at it very easy at the aboki joint. Where does the aboki get his dollar from, na 20 dollar wey people dey manage. In fact when the dollar limit was 1k dolls it wasn't as scarce as this. What is the volume of trade by the 20 dollar users. There are as much verve card owners as visa and master card. Out of the international card owners only a few percentage of them even use it for international transactions, besides people only buy stuff that are not produced locally, infact if no be say you dey craze why you go dey mention Bluetooth, your father dey produce Bluetooth? All the products people buy from outside are actually produce and imported too, plus what item can $20 get you mumu.

B:oohari is creating jobs for his people

Blaze14k:
U say gowon never did anything buh y didnt he keep to the agreement on aburi accord. Also why did he create 12 state to decentralise power in the east. And also y did he activate article 8 to control the east when ever he pleases

You still don't understand..

If the coup didn't happen then Gowon wouldn't happen, aburi Accord wouldn't happen, state creation wouldn't happen.

The problem with you and most Igbos is that you want to do things to other people and get away with it without the other people reacting and when the other people react you start complaining and screaming victimization when the truth is you started it and it didn't go the way you expected it..

Blaze14k:
Bro u r only pointing fingers at igbos saying they are the problem of Nigeria yet u still say they are suffering because of there greed. I still dont understand how u r affected

Don't put words in my mouth.. I didn't say anything about greed. Since you have mentioned greed.

It's their greed that made them abolish something they would have benefited from.

Blaze14k:
Bro if we keep talking about the history of nigeria we will never get tired. Gowon u mentioned was one of the problems we had as a nation. He had his short comings and he regrets it up till today. The bottom line is the north dont trust anyone else and that is the major problem we have.

Gowon wasn't a problem... the Igbos were and are still the problem... If they truly wanted Biafra they could have started processing it as soon as Ironsi took power but he didn't move for dis-integration because like SilverOrLead also said:

"The coup was an Igbo attempt to prevent the minority regions they had been leaching on from leaving .

The discovery of oil in commercial quantities was the icing in the cake that motivated the Igbo to such foolishness."

SilverOrLead:
No . you got it wrong.

The very reason for the coup was to prevent the creation of COR region out of the old eastern region by an act of federal Parliament which had concluded plans to listen to and pass a referendum to determine the creation of COR region.

The coup was meant to both stall such proceedings that were on the docket for the house .

The coup was also meant to murder regional heads that were supporting the minorities .

The coup was an Igbo attempt to prevent the minority regions they had been leaching on from leaving .

The discovery of oil in commercial quantities was the icing in the cake that motivated the Igbo to such foolishness.

You're right.. I didn't know about the COR region..

got this from wiki "the COR State Movement had broken away to press their own case. Thereafter, the British launched a commission led by Sir Henry Willink to look into the misgivings, The Willink Commission initiated the conception of the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB). The purpose was to tackle the problems of underdevelopment, however, this failed to rise to the expectations of the masses. After much discontent, some of the people attempted to take the extralegal route to achieve their goals."

which means the b:rits scammed the COR states and nothing materialized.. I didn't see anything about federal Parliament having plans to listen to and pass a referendum to determine the creation of COR region..

SilverOrLead:
They are the sole cause of our descent to madness.

Let these people go already abeg.

the bad thing is the Igbos taught they were "doing" the western region when they abolished regionalism not knowing it was themselves and other minorities in the eastern region they were "doing"...

Blaze14k:
Bro ur argument was the igbos where the problem of nigeria of which u took us way back to our independence. So im trying to clear u that aspect.

Look i never said the north controlled the crude. The federal government formed nnpc which bought most of the shares from shell company.

Ironsi never conducted a coup. It was soldiers from the east and one northerner that lead the coup buh the way ironsi handled the issue made it seem it was planned. Also dont forget people were killed in the north and they also lead a counter coup against ironsi. Frankly speaking the tension between the north and the east was really high both of them never trusted each other.

You can deceive yourself that Ironsi wasn't part of the coup...

NNPC was created in 1977... the coup that the Igbos did happened in 1966 and If they didn't abolish regionalism it will mean its Eastern Nigeria Petroleum Company that would have been created and it would have meant that Eastern Nigeria controlled at least 80% of Nigeria's revenue and wealth. which means more jobs, infrastructure, social benefits, healthcare for the eastern region...

but the Igbos were too short-sighted and jealous of the western region been ahead financially not knowing they were about to be extremely wealthy in the coming years and therefore destroyed a regional system that would have made the eastern region the richest region in Nigeria with no other region coming close..

which also means no drug dealing, crime, kidnapping e.t.c in the eastern region because like Gowon said " Nigeria has too much money and they did not know what to do with it " please note Gowon didn't say this before 1966 he said it after 1970.. which means what he truly meant was that "Southern Nigeria has too much money and now that the North is in control the north did not what to do with it"...

SilverOrLead:
They are the sole cause of our descent to madness.

Let these people go already abeg.

European countries will never allow the dis-integration to happen...

the SE ( Igbos ) have the highest/largest or one of the largest gas reserves and deposits in Africa.. they wouldn't want a single ethnic African country to have control over it... as that will mean buying billions of $$$ worth of gas from the Igbos which means the empowerment of Igbos... the good thing is that the Igbos ( an Igbo man I've forgotten his name ) have already built and own the biggest gas plant in Nigeria.

Look at the Ijaws and Bayelsa... the Ijaws don't own a refinery or oil depot e.t.c. A foreign company ( Shell ) owns most of the oil blocks ( I am not sure how true this is ) in Nigeria so anytime B:ritain buys petroleum from Nigeria they ( B:ritain ) are buying from a b:ritish owned company ( Shell ) which means they are buying oil from themselves while Nigeria collects taxes..

If the Igbos did not own the largest gas plant then a foreign company will and can still build a gas plant in the SE and all the e:uropean countries will buy from the eu:ropean company so that they will indirectly keep their money amongst themselves while Nigeria only collects a percentage called taxes...

Blaze14k:
You are missing important part of history bro. During the national consensus that was conducted in 1963 the southern part of nigeria accused the british of inflating the population of the north which lead to political controversy when the results came out. It was used to justify the assignment of most of the seats in the federal legislature to the north.

‘I have no doubt whatever … that the Northern People’s Congress has come to stay and to continue to stay and is going to rule the Federation of Nigeria for ever.’-Alhaji M. Kokori Abdul, Parliamentary Secretary, Northern House of Assembly, 4 March 1964

they didn't control the resources of southern Nigeria so stop deflecting from the main point which is - why are people blaming Igbos... Southern Nigeria was still richer than northern Nigeria until Ironsi and his gang struck...

Blaze14k:
Bro u really need to get ur history right... Abeg where did u read this? Or did someone tell you the story. Do you know the political party that was dominant before nigeria got its independence? Do you the people the British handed most of the political position at that time?

you're the one that needs to get your history right...

After 1960 the b:ritish couldn't hand political position to anyone..
before 1960 the b:ritish also favored the igbos... Nnamdi Azikwe's father and grand-father worked for the british...

Blaze14k:
Bro are you kidding me. You honestly want to go that far? Do you think hausa want us to unit at first?

Its Igbos that didn't want to unite..

in the coup they killed leaders and politicians of other tribes and spared igbo leaders and politicians..

Hausa were the ones that gave Igbos government appointments/jobs in the north.. but after that the Igbos wanted to use that to dominate the north and that's why the northern premier released a video about Igbos wanting complete control.

Igbos didn't give government appointments/jobs to non-igbos in the east..

so who do you doesn't want us to unite