BentizilL2: Don't run away, stop trying to shift goalpost... Combine three of your best state in South East, let us compare it with only Lagos from Southwest...
I'm a confirm Edo boy, I even wish I'm Yoruba than anything else...💯 So you agreed Yorubaland should be compared with other African countries and not the barren Osuland?
...bring all you states in SW lets compare it with Abuja
BentizilL2: Lagos Island OSU was once a capital, learn to differentiate from Lagos state...
Lagos Island is less than 10 percent of modern day Lagos and the rest is under Awolowo western region... Read before you reply me, I don't tolerate foolish people... People wey pass you pass you, Yoruba pass you...💯
Na them you dey chase, not the other way round.. Na everything Yoruba use senior Igbo... 💯
Why u no develop your igr to compete with Lagos, na me be your governor?? Don't even try to run away..
OSU I no be Yoruba, but dem senior you... E dey glaring...
Hahahaha....but the Lagos which you are claiming is part of western region is how you are known...
`Isheri, Iju Agege, Dopemu, Iyana, Ikorodu, Mushin, Makoko...etc...they are just as developed as you dusty cities and towns in Oshgobo, Ogbonmosha Oyo, Ilesa, Ijesha, etc.
We have gone over these with images..several times...
veraponpo: Igboland is very small with small landmass of the size of Oyo State. Igbo people therefore are trying to maximize the land. On the contrary, Yoruba people have the land and can decide to use it as they like.
Another factor is the value and culture of the two tribes. While an average Igbo person cares about money at all costs as evident in the number of Igbo people being arrested daily from Indonesia to India, America, etc., an average Yoruba person is satisfied with the little he has (note that this does not mean there are no criminals in the Southwest).
So, a drug baron can build a big mansion while a salary earner will build a small house. The last time I checked, drug money does not represent a regular earning.
Finally, an average successful Igbo man does not live in Igbo land. He makes money outside Igbo land eg in the Southwest or outside Nigeria and build houses in the village. The very reason why the population of the people living in the East is the least in Nigeria. So, this is a template that any other tribe can copy but it has its negative effect. For example, poor IGR, poor economy, it turns the cities to Ghost cities, poor investments, poor political relevance, etc. This is the reason why anybody can win an election in Nigeria without thinking about the Southeast.
That's the bitter truth.
When did that start...?
All the while the north always choose the east than the west, since independence...
Even Buhari chose Igbos more time and he failed and then he tried the SW..and boom....
BentizilL2: OSU na South East Lagos dey?? You dey mention yours, I dey reply... What's your business with SW?
You no get shame...
Every time una open thread to mock the Igbos you are always humiliated..and then you go on calling Osu this Osu that...and I wonder why you are not banned..
..if that fail to work, you will start comparing everywhere with Lagos...
Thanks Anamba1ston for teaching these people another lesson.
flokii: That's a pipe dream really.. Where will biafura get money and resources to function?. Or you didn't know the South East relies solely on monies generated from SW ,SS and North paid to them as allocations for survival??.
Go and follow the civil war stories and check what gave Igbo kids and adults kwashiorkor at the time.. Nigeria stopped supplying them food. Like they were fighting Nigeria still hoping on same Nigeria to feed them. That's crass fo0lishness if you ask me.
Which SW?
Only the north has close affinity to the east in terms of mutual arrangement...
For example only the north is impacted with the sit ant home...as their goods are held in neighboring states.
The SW has nothing to export to anywhere...so they have absolutely no impact...
Odibembem: The truth is that majority of Igbos are sympathetic to IPOB and d quest for Biafra. Their elites may not be but the likes of Peter Obi have enough sympathy for them. And no one should deny a people what they genuinely yearn for. The demerits of a Biafra republic is not for the rest of Nigeria to force on Ndigbo, if that's what their hearts wants then the rest of Nigeria should make the process of achieving it less cumbersome for them.
Nations secede either through wars or legal secession. We have seen what happened in 1966, Ndigbo cannot use war to have their country, God forbid there be another war cos it's not worth it. So the war option is ruled out. The second option is referendum. This is the best option. But it has to be legal meaning the national assembly has to pass a resolution to that effect and even amend d constitution. Would they agree? Not ordinarily except d Igbos do something to indicate that d best option for both sides is for Igbos to go. So how do Igbos prove their readiness? Let me lay out what I think
1. Massive relocation of Igbos and their businesses to the SE such that other regions would feel d impact. Lagos would be empty, Kano, Kaduna, Benin, Port Harcourt and Abuja would all be empty. 2. Energizing the SE economy and integrating it economically and politically. Have uniform economic agenda, setting up functional intergovt agencies and setting up a SE parliament who can make inputs almost similar to laws for d entire SE. 3. SE governors gradually cede powers to a Governing Council of the entire SE 4. Members of individual State Houses of Assembly move motions for a referendum for an independent state. This of course is not binding but it sets everything in motion, it energizes the SE caucus in the National Assembly 4. Categorically define the geographical boundaries of the intending country and do not lay claim to any territory outside the SE. Allow the Igbos in the SS outside d SE or NC as claimed my MNK to make such claims themselves of any intention to join the SE in their Biafra. They have their Senators, House of Reps and House of Assembly members. Let them speak for themselves rather than d people of d SE speaking for d so called Igbos outside their region. 5. Study the trajectory of secession in Africa and the rest of the world, no magic or miracle will make their case different. Up till today, Abiyei province is yet to join South Sudan even though the legendary John Garang was from there. Donesk Region is still part of Ukraine even though it has ethnic Russians and Russia is a super power. Despite letting of blood for decades, Northern Ireland though overwhelmingly majority Irish peoplele have not united with the Republic of Ireland but still part of the UK. The SE for the sake of their Biafra that would bring them eldorado should make sacrifices, u can't be rigid in a negotiation while expecting the other party to shift their position.
Perhaps with the above, the rest of Nigeria would finally let the SE go and do it peacefully and they have the country that would be different from the present SE and different from d rest of Africa.
If however they cannot follow this part, please and please, stop the noise, stop indoctrinating your children negatively and let us all work for a better Nigeria knowing we have no other country of birth.
You are childish...these rubbish will NEVER work..
You are simply putting the cart before the horse.
You want one country yet you share power with yourself...giving others no sense of belonging...
You want one country when the president only trust members of his tribe.?
Nigeria has been together since 1914...and instead of cementing the gaps..the gaps are widening with intensity...
TimeMachine2: Which east ? Stop deluding yourself. Just mention a single billionaire business man living in any part of the traditional 5 South Eastern states and I will give you a million naira. Even the so called meeting amongst ibo elders is done outside the southeast. Obi china lives in lagos, the shameless Kenneth Okonkwo rants from his lagos abode while evil twin psaure and that old fool charlie boy can't last 5 minutes in the east. Every other prominent person from southeast have moved to asaba or elsewhere. Southeast is the most hopeless place to live at the moment, far beneath desolate places like Zamfara or Boko haram states.
How much new blood is added in your veins with these high level of lies. deceit and propaganda...?
Enugu state has one of the best natural environment in eastern Nigeria...added to large coal deposit.
This is why the colonialist settle for Enugu as far back as 1909 when they found coal...
This led to the founding of Port harcourt in 1912..by the same colonialist as rail link was established between Enugu and Port harcourt port to ship coal to Europe.
SamboAnguissa: Lolz. According to Statsense, 49% of people in the SE are poor, as against 40% in the SW. So, which region made their people poor now? I know this fact is against the lies you bums tell yourselves in your village meetings in December where you massage your overbloated egos to reduce the pain of your knowing how irrelevant you're in this country.
If you remove the people from the east living in SW who are used to beef up the the stats from SW...you will find that SE is richer than SW by far.
...for example...when you use only the 5 SW states VS the 5 SE state minus Lagos..you will find that its you that is literally ignorant...
Again to support this fact...when the pilot to give stipend to extreme poor people in Nigeria..SE states were not included but SW has 2 states in the pilot.
Zionmdde: Those herdsmen are attacking should decide how they want it. You can't imprison my brothers inside their homes
Kee them all
Nobody wants any sit at home...
But as a scientists I like looking at the root cause of any problem and go all the way back to fix it...This is different from people who major in Arts or failed politics..
Now if you recall, the UGM or whatever, was alleged formed to repeal the herdsmen who were never arrested and taken to court like thy are doing in Benue and Plateu state for decades...
So the issue of the herdsmen should be part of resolving this, as well.
Zionmdde: We don't want to hear they arrested anybody with gun Shoot them at sight Take their bodies to the evil forest. Shoot anybody destroying the peace of the east. Comb the bushes Kee them all Devilish things
I worked in several palaces in the the northern villages and as at few years ago that I left...some of your people in the villages are still wearing leaves...and some going naked.
When I asked around they told me the people are called Kemberis and Dukawas...
Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom, Imo...should do the same...ensuring that 90% of their local staff in their oil and gas companies...are speaking their languages or be booted out...
...gradually everyone will come to their senses and ask for total autonomy..
Electorate: Tribal bigotry taken to a new level by the Yorubas.
See dem, association of tribal bigots are already applauding the divisive move by the Lagos State Government, You all can now see who is more Tribalistic between the Igbos and Yorubas, No state in the entire South East does this nonsense...
South West is now officially a land of Tribal Bigots.
Kwara State wouldn't have been captured by the fulanis if you truly love your culture.
I am Yoruba before your malfunctional brains tell you I must be an igbo for saying the truth.
Now we know who the real tribal bigots are...The Yorubas.
Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom, Imo...should do the same...ensuring that 90% of their local staff in their oil and gas companies...are speaking their language or be booted out...
...gradually everyone will come to their sense and ask for total autonomy..
Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972).
You should be grateful for Igbos being in Nigeria...
Can you believe that what Kissinger said in 1972..is even worse today...
Are they liked in the federation considering their efforts in developing everywhere they live?
Instead they are hated more than they were in 1972... for no reason..
Evil men like Omenka, helineus, Durochang, Afamed, Manngrill, Ttalk are somewhere in the SE scanning everywhere with microscope...videoing people flogging small girls...
...calling Obi and Oby to say something...
..but here now..100 dead and they are not concerned... not here yet...