bk/babe90:

Sorry to bust your bubble, duke, but according to the Ibo website below (see link) the names u put up there ARE ALL IBO NAMES!! Looks to me like u just shot urself in the head!


http://culture.chiamaka.com/IgboNames/igbonamesi.htm

Classic id.iot, the link does not state "Isimeme" as an Igbo name. Anuofia madu. Fake a.s.s trick!

Beside the obvious fact that you're a f.o.o.l, you're not even Nigerian, and your attempt to claim Nigerian because your mother is whoring herself away with some Yoruba dude in New York does not make you a Nigerian, mkay?

Ileke-IdI:

^^^ ROTFLMAO!! You have killed me o

I think kpanako is either Igbo or Edo name.

adconline:

kpanako is either Igbo or Edo name.
Must you associate every crime with every tribe? How did you reach that conclusion that it's igbo or edo? You should have been good at recognising tribal names, instead you chose to graduate from Sarah Palin's School of Geography where the study of geography is treated as quantum physics and ranked above rocket science. Go do your research. Enough of speculation!!!

Of all the Nigerian ethnic groups, the Yorubas seem to show the most ignorance of other ethnic groups, even in simple tasks as name association. This characteristic is even more glaring for so-called minority ethnic groups, whereby every non-Yoruba non-Arabic name is likely to be Igbo.

For example, to the average Yoruba, the names "Isioma" and "Isimeme" are Igbo names; "Mabiaku" and "Maduka" must both be Igbo too.

This consistent show of ignorance among many Yorubas may likely be due to poor integration with other ethnic groups. Their inertia to travel to regions outside the southwest of Nigeria may be one reason for this.

It may also be an instance of the classic chicken and egg problem. Is the poor integration with non-Yorubas the cause of the ignorance of other cultures or a consequence of this pervasive lack of knowledge of all things non-Yoruba?

Any ideas?

Okija_juju:

Why wouldnt we let bygones be by gones. We are thinking of 2011 and we are being drawn back to 1966.

Sharpeville massacre was in 1960, fifty years ago, and no black South African has forgotten about it, even today with a black president another documentary is being planned in honor of that fateful day.

Eventful historical dates can never be wished away.

Onlytruth:

God is God.  He cannot be deceived and he hardly forgives crimes committed against the innocent. For Nigeria to even dream of normalcy, we must revisit January 1966 coup.

Thank God that these information are declassified and available. We are nearing the hour of truth in Nigeria.

Danjuma should take up the debate challenge. We need him to come clean for once.

Onlytruth,

Thank you for the above post and also for the original post.

Nigeria will continue in the doldrums until the issues concerning the January 15, 1966 coup and the subsequent civil war are addressed. Meanwhile, every available statistics from sources within and outside Nigeria clearly show that the South East geopolitical zone is ahead of every other geopolitical zone in every index of human development, including education, wealth and health.

Ka chukwu gozie Umu Igbo!

^^^^ lol!

Dede1:

Nigeria’s problem is rooted in tribalism, religion and colonialism. Colonial masters aided in creating an entity called Nigeria which should not have been configured as it is today. Colonial masters also created a system where tribalism and religion were used freely to engender nepotism, sectionalism and brazen corruption. 

The need to stamp out nepotism, religious bias, corruption in high places and sectionalism led to the January 15, 1966 coup that gave rise to July 29, 1966 countercoup which resulted into a civil war. The civil war had robbed Nigeria its innocence and created everlasting enmity among neighbors.     

The only solution to Nigeria’s issues is disintegration of the colonial cesspit. Nigerians can dance around all they want the truth remains so-called “One-Nigeria” slogan is the biggest fraud ever.

Well said.

Aigbofa:


I know ibos are stupi.d, but at least, I thought their little brains should be able to make the connection between a cause and effect.
Look at the slowpoke coming here and sounding appalled. Who are you trying to fool. Stupi.d rainforest marmoset.

It is you Yoruba stinking arsewipes that are stu.pid, bloody fuktardos!

bk/babe9O:

Mr Fire wants me dead. You will not get your wish. Any way, I am no more very hateful of Ibos as b4 since I am half Ibo myself. Suprised? My father is actually an Ibo man but a very silly one. Yes he is. The fool left me and my mum (a nice Yoruba lady) for God knows where and never came back. When I grew up, I decided to hate any Ibo I come across. My father's attitude towards us has affected me in no small way. I did not grow up like a normal kid.  My mum took to prostitution to make ends meet. I hated it so. As I grew up I found out that I am gay. You know. I like to be had by fellow men like I am a babe. Sorry to bother you all with my private life, but you need to know where I am coming from. I am half Ibo but don't feel like one. So thats why all the hatred. My mum hates the damned Ibo man and curses him all the time.

Pathetic!

Why not go see a shrink?

Abia State? What the hell are they doing with Lulu's mother there? These people are animals! What has the poor woman done to deserve this?

Katsumoto:

What is the correlation between stating that it was an Igbo coup and the pogroms which followed? Are they not mutually exclusive events? Is it not possible for one to state that it was a coup organised by Igbo officers without wanting the deaths of innocent people? Does the senseless pogroms justify the deaths of those killed in January 1966? Please lets leave sensationalism out of analysis. Were non-Igbo citizens singing hosana when the pogroms took place?

Your attempts at exonerating Ndigbo from the malaise bedeviling Nigeria is naive at best and mischievous at worst. Did you forget the actions of Igbo sons in forming the entity called Nigeria. Perhaps you are unaware of several events in our history. One did not need a soothsayer to know that the amalgamation of the various bodies into Nigeria would be a disaster. The British lumped the Republican Igbo, the feudal North together with the semi-republican and semi-feudal yoruba to form a nation. But the same British offered each region complete autonomy in 1957 with Awo accepting, Bello rejecting (on the basis that the North wasn't ready), and with Zik holding the deciding vote. What did Zik do? He chose to delay independence by three years so as to achieve a personal ambition of ruling over a UNIFIED Nigeria. Each region could have been autonomous by 1957 but instead we got Nigeria.

Then when the time for forming a coalition came, what did Zik do, he chose to serve under the errand boy (Balewa) of his rival Bello. Lets not forget that if you put Bello and Balewa together, they wouldn't be as educated and enlightened as Zik's left leg. Did you need a soothsayer to also tell you that a feudal North is the antithesis of a republican Ndigbo? The marriage between the two regions leads to the first coup in January 66 and the revenge coup in July 1967. Yet Cohomology wants us to believe that Ndigbo is blameless.

Who is to blame? Is it the North that did not want independence, was just satisfied with being ruled by the British and had its reverred leaders murdered and sought revenge? Or is it the West that wanted complete autonomy, was rebuffed by the other regions and was a bystander in the events of the 66? or is it Ndigbo who chose to unify Nigeria, delaying independence in the process, chose to get in bed with a suitor that wasn't suited to it and subsequently carried out the first putsch in the new nation killing non-Igbo citizens in the process?

Fair analysis of part I.

How about part II, post-civil war? How have the Hausa and Yoruba leaders done so far?

I mean, it is clear that the policy after the war was to marginalize the rebellious Igbo. How is that working for ya?

Andre Uweh:

That shows you are selective when it comes to 1966 memoirs. Anyway, why have you chosen to ignore Ademoyega's authored book-Why we struck. Is it because he wrote that the event of Jan 15, 1966 was not an Igbo act?.
Now, I realise you read only books that will support your arguements. Wow, I am learning new dog tricks everyday.

He is picking and choosing sources that only align with his made-up view of the world.

Katsumoto:

So you want me to ignore the immediate actions of the plotters during the coup and accept the version of a junior plotter who wrote a book in the comfort of his home several years later? I think I go with the fact that Nzeogwu did not mention Awo when he made his broadcast.

Your being unfairly selective and looking away from facts that discredit your assertions.

There is no manual on coup announcements, and going by historical accounts there has NEVER been any coup in Nigeria whereby the subsequent head of state was announced during the initial coup broadcast. None.

Can you provide any?

The problem with most of your analyses is that you go in with a closed mind but want others to have an open mind. Learn to have a more open mind. You used to be more open when you started these discussions, but now you're becoming very closed-minded. There is still time to change.

How can you base your opinion of history on something without any historical precedence?

chosen04:

That is also my favority, especially when served cold.

Pls send the add. for onward delivery.

Yep, cold. Done.

chosen04:

You deserve a drink!

Remain Blessed!

chosen04, I like vodka and pineapple juice, thanks!

yarodin:

The killing of my brothers and sisters was eventually going to happen because at the time Igbos were advancing too fast.  Yes, majority of the coup plotters were Igbos, but the  coup became an Igbo coup once it failed and certain politicians who happen to be Igbos were spared.  For those saying that Igbos had no reason to plan a coup because we were already established remember Igbos both educated and uneducated were seen as advancing to fast and rapidly both in the Govt and private sectors.  I am quite sure there were already plans to contain this fast growth mainly from the Northern leaders land that is why Azikiwe probably tried to get the military involved.  The first coup became a good excuse to now execute their plans to slow down the Igbos and as you can see their plans worked.  Yes, Igbos were able to rebound from that brutal civil war but as you can see the playing field has sort of been levelled if not maybe we Igbos are now sort of below (Northerners dominating the military and govt sectors and the Yorubas dominating the financial and media sectors).    One can only imagine what would have been if the first coup had not taken place?  But something had to happen, there was just too much tension between the Igbos and the rest of Nigeria and in some ways that tension still exists but this time in the form of Christians versus Muslims.

yarodin,

Don't worry yourself at all. We are watching key statistics and figures coming out of various sectors in the Nigerian economy, and i'm glad to tell you that overall the Igbos are doing better than any other ethnic group in Nigeria right now. We have the facts and figures to prove it - no opinion, just numbers. So, we have already rebounded from the huge losses of the civil war.

nex:


It was an Igbo coup. We cannot unwrite history.

Even when people claim that this man was from the Midwest and the other was from here, we are not saying it was an Eastern or Midwestern coup, it was an Igbo coup. Even during the civil war, the Igbo part of the Midwest was annexed by the Igbos.

Some wonder why the Igbos would want to carry out a coup when they infact were enjoying a lot of power. They forget that with the Igbos, it's always all or nothing. They went for all and now there's nothing.

Everybody can understand there was a coup, but what we can't understand is the sparing of some of the politicians along tribal lines, and what the military cannot understand is the massacre of high-ranking Northern officers. These mallams are not as silly as we want to make them seem.

The only reason why anyone, including this Benin man called nex, would claim it was an Igbo coup, is to justify the subsequent pogrom targeted at Igbos in Northern and Western Nigeria.

Since they have no explanation as to why thousands of Igbo civilians were killed by other ethnic groups in 1966, falling back on the "Igbo coup" is the only excuse left.

It is not that these folks entirely like the killing of innocent people, e.g. they abhor the violence which frequently erupts in northern Nigeria where people of their ethnic groups are sometimes massacred, it is just that when it comes to the July 1966 pogrom, they make an exception, an exception based on the fact that those large-scale killings of Igbos exposed the ineptitude of the Nigerian government, hence a legitimate reason for Ndi-Igbo to want to leave the entity called Nigeria. This audacity of the Igbos seemed like arrogance to the other ethnic groups and further inflamed the pre-existing animosity towards Ndi-Igbo.

Furthermore, 40 years after the defeat of Biafra, it seems in hindsight that maybe, just maybe, the Igbos had some foresight, call it premonition if you will, about the fate of the entity called Nigeria. While the other ethnic groups refused to allow Ndi-Igbo depart in peace and did everything, including sacrificing 250,000 of their sons/soldiers (5 times what America lost in the Vietnam War - that's a different story) to keep Nigeria one, they went a step further after the fall of Biafra. They ensured that power remains out of reach of any Igbo man or woman. What has happened in the 40 years?

Well, over the last 40 years Nigeria, under the able leadership of non-Igbos, has become a joke. One can even find many non-Igbos become so frustrated about the situation of things that they shout "Bloody Revolution", "Divide the Country", "Odua Republic Now!", "Arewa Republic". A comedy of tragedies!

One would think that such calls will endear some of these people to the Igbos who, unlike the calls for "Araba" in then Northern Nigeria (which were based on a superiority complex, a la Islam, of the Northern Nigerian leaders), wanted to leave Nigeria because of the clear ineptitude shown by the Nigerian government for allowing (and facilitating) the murder of so many Igbos - which still happens with impunity even today, the reality is that no such feeling of unity has occurred. So, on the one hand they are frustrated about the utter uselessness of the Nigerian experience and want some drastic measure, however, on the other hand they don't want to scream too much so as not be seen replaying an old tape in a new jukebox. For some of these non-Igbos, the thought of this idea being an original Igbo idea (wanting out based on federal government ineptitude and injustice, not on religiosity like the calls for "Araba" and nostalgic Uthman Dan-Fodio moments)

What happens? The status quo is maintained. Rebellion has been officially outlawed in Nigeria by those who connived to checkmate the Igbo dream of Biafra, however, that puts ALL of them in a zugzwang! Rebel against the status quo and play up the discredited "Igbo idea"; maintain the status quo and continue "suffering and smiling".

The drama continues.

DaddyO:

How won't foreigners hate us when we don't even get on, like or trust ourselves?. The level of suspicion I see between tribes alone (particularly yoruba and igbos) is enough to make you cringe.

Also, with a people clueless about fighting currupt leadership at home, but would readily seek foreign countries to infest with crime and grimewhat do you expect?

Abeg lets leave these foreigners alone. We are our own biggest enemy!!

Super! You make a lot of sense!

Kobojunkie:

Where is your proof of this? Let me guess, because your police never reports any of the many deaths as suicides, means there are no suicides?

Don't mind em. With the police filled with certified illiterates how can they write any report that makes any sense?

All the fools embezzling Nigeria's funds in the billions only exist because WE protect them.

The day that protection, from the very people they're robbing blind ceases, is the day our collective failures will begin to evaporate. Am I holding my breadth for such a day? Nope!

ezeagu:

It seems like people have moved away from the idea of the old Biafra (and even the name) and are looking towards their own indigenous lands instead, e.g Igboland.

Ala-Igbo?

But I like the name Biafra. Oh well, what's in a name? Shakespeare?

olafolarin:

Yoruba was a united nation until 2003 when Obasanjo used "divide and rule" tactics to impose himself in Yoruba politics and polity.
Political ideology in Yorubaland is very progressive and we can all see what destruction Obasanjo and his PDP travellers has done to Oodua land.
All the South West PDP governors couldnt show anything for the huge revenue they get from the FG.
Because obj WANTED TO RULE AT ALL COST;HE IMPOSED MEDIOCRES on us all.

Very true!

If PDP, the most useless party in the history of politics, was running Lagos, Lagos would have been the dirty old Lagos we've always known.

This is why Nigeria should be peacefully disintegrated. OBJ's divide and rule tactics would have been easily checkmated in an Odua Republic.

We in the East face the same problem of horrible governors, because they hide under the shroud of the inept arseholes in Abuja and use the same divide and rule tactics you allude to. However, such tactics would be ineffectivel in the coming Republic of Biafra.

One 1:

Look at pure animals. all they know how to do is fight each other smh, this is sickening. Yorubas please pull it together 

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Serious struggle with the English language. Why can't they just speak Yoruba instead of the visible difficulty in speaking English.