What else do you expect from an octogenarian with memory issue leading a bunch of intellectuals... nothing good

Dontquit:


This is

can it work on this

The current structure of Nigeria is truly faulty.... why not explore the economic values of these places... why must it be abiut Lagos and Abuja

brixton:
What does this guy do for a living? There’s a gossip on ig that he scams people for UN invitations. I would like to know what he does to earn is LA lifestyle

What's the source of Tinubu wealth... guy must you be a bad belle

Ozbgodfrey:
.which absu no be the Absu weh me dey na lie joor

so what are you tryna imply? That she won't return?

Damn.... I pray she returns from wherever she went to

THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY NIGERIA REMAINED ONE NATION, WHO WAS BEHIND IT AND WHY

"If you thought oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1959, you could pass your high school economics with that information. It was actually discovered 50 years earlier.

Did you know that Oil from the Territory was sold for almost 50 years before the approach of Independence in 1960 forced the disclosure of Oloibiri by Britain? Even at that, the quantities were concealed from the newly Independent Nigerian Governments, until the Counter Coup of July, 1966, when the North packed their baggage to head back North in the famous ARABA putsch.

The then British High Commissioner to Nigeria, of course on the promptings and direction of his home Government, zoomed in upon Gowon halfway, and prevailed on him to reverse the decision of moving the North out of Nigeria, at a time Gowon already hoisted the Arewa Flag in a temporary Capital, Ilorin.

In the hurry to announce this reversal, the Gowon’s speech that was originally designed to take out the North, was poorly edited, leaving a portion that should have been expunged and so distorting the concluding part from the body of the speech.

That unexpunged portion is the celebrated Gowonian faux pas in which he in one breathe declared that "Everything considered, the basis of Nigeria's Unity was no more", yet going ahead in the next breathe to proclaim that "To keep Nigeria One is a task that must be done".

It was in the heat of the ARABA (Northern Secession) move that the British whispered into the ears of the fledgeling Gowon Government, the huge quantities oil that Eastern Nigeria would have, if the North left, and so would become the poor neighbour of the South, particularly Eastern Region.

In a series of dubious underhanded exchanges that followed rapidly, the British practically took over the handling of the crises all the way to when it became War in July 1967, from the poor School Certificate-holder soldier, Yakubu Gowon (Gowon went for tertiary education only after he was overthrown in 1975 by his July 1966 comrade-in-crime, Murtala Mohammed).

In that dark period, Gowon signed off the entire oil/gas reserves of Eastern Nigeria to the British for 50 years, more or less, contracting the War to Britain.

The British which held those concessions via Shell, had to parcel out substantial blocs of their holdings to the other World Powers and Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.

Thus the entry of Gulf Oil and Mobil (US) Elf (France), Agip (Italy). Soviet Union had oil at home and so didnt need oil blocs. What Russia (USSR) got was an open order to supply the hardware for the War, including MIG Jet Fighters, Ilushyn Battle Tanks, AK 47 Riffles, all at double of prevailing market prices.

This oil blocs bribe was the basis of the cooperation of the then World Powers with Britain and its stooge, Northern Nigeria, to kill 3.5 million Easterners in a simple Self-determination disputate, substantially resolved in Aburi, January 1967.

Back to Willinks Commission.

Could it be because of the Special love the the British had for the Niger Delta that the Commission Recommended the preferential accelerated development of the Area. Dead no. So much had been taken.

The people would soon find out. The Development was an upfront bribe and containment Strategy to help calm would-be frayed nerves.

Unfortunately, the North-led Government that took over in 1960 from the British, abandoned that proactive scheme (partly because the whole truth as to the quantities of crude and money involved was not disclosed to them by the British departing arrangers).

Some of the findings of the LNC on reasons Isaac Boro and his Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, (yes NDPVF did not begin with Asari) declared the Defunct Niger Delta Republic, had to do with this "detail" of British concealments, some of which are still in force.

Those who are still in doubt should find out whether Shell was not Headquartered in Owerri for 42 solid years up till 1960 in the place still called Shell Camp to date (now broken into several large premises' including the Government House, Rockview Hotel, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, the Federal Medical Center, the Mobile Police Camp and a number of other Governmental institutions).

It was Premier Michael Okpara who bought the large premises off Shell in 1961 on behalf of the the then Eastern Region, after Shell moved to Port Harcourt in the dawn of this grand pretence at a distinct Niger Delta that had nothing to do with Igbo, which has now been confirmed by Junaid Mohammed when he charged at Jonathan with the rebuke that the Niger Delta was a creation of the North to manage its interests in Eastern Nigeria!.

Those who wish to interrogate this claim of 50-years-oil-sale-before-Oloibiri should get on SPDC website so they can see for themselves that it was in 1936 that a certain Company called Shell D'Arcy (Shell's predecessor) came under Crown Regulation, to pay more to the Crown probably because of the impending Second World War.

Prior to that time, Shell D'Arcy had the same kind of Charter as the Royal Niger Company (later UAC, UNILEVER).

Those Charters were issued about same period at the turn of the 19th Century, before your Nigeria was created in 1914.

Do the arithmetic. Nigeria was purely a business venture of the British and everything that became our "Constitution" took their roots from that Main Object to date".

By Anonymous

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MorataFC:
...and so?

go get your brain checked

Biafrans making us prouf since time immemorial

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Jochabed:
I love that!! He should be kept in there till he repents.

Sorry dear its a "She" and not a "He"

Do you know that it is a sin to be a Nigerian

anibirelawal:
All of the above.


Let me simplify it for you. an average Igbo man wants:

1 *BIAFRA; once they have biafra, next thing which is automatic is for :-

2 *IGBO MAN to be a president of their republic. so as a result of that, it will lead them to a :-

3 *GOOD GOVERNANCE in their dear rupublic.

you're right on point with this comment. as the Nigerian project is no longer viable we gats look for own,,,, Biafra

We take serious things for granted down here. Na the same police wey suppose arrest them go still collect N500 Roger from them

Just a case of priority misplaced

Paretomaster:


Also d dumbest people on earth.. .....D way Kanu toyed with their head is unimaginable.. .

He even told them Buhari is one Jibril from Sudan, and they all believe him.. ...

We still stand with that fact. Thats not the real Buhari... only time will prove so

Great men worthy of emulation

the fiance and the sister should wash it together and get to know each other while doing so.

but it is your responsibility to watch as armed military invade your state in disguise of python dance and attack the home an unarmed man taking him away.

Kwantinue

stop asking questions to which you already know the answers to. buhari and buratai should be held responsible for his disappearance for invading his home.

like seriously?? a man who is facing corruption charges in his country where Ndi Igbo are killed on weekly basis. what has he or his country done to merit naming a street before him or even putting up a stature of such magnitude that cots a whooping N520 million? this is madness!!!!!!!!!!! why do we keep celebrating mediocrity in this God forsaken nation? the other time he gave his daughter the sum of N600 million just for christmas decoration in the capital. is he not mad?

i am not understanding

Bros Femi

if I say we no longer have a working constitution una go call me ipob, which I am, an Indigenous Person of Biafra. the constitution is for the southerners while the sharia constitution is for the northerners

we really should stop giving attention to that confused old man

modsfucker:


All I know is that candidates who are Igbo by tribe keep emerging everyday.

Secondly, people queue up to collect their voter's cards and they're also Igbos.....

However, you can do better than issuing a threat...... back it with action.

Ask those candidates to back down so the election wouldn't be contested at all.

no problem brother, when that day reach and people refuse to go vote. you go enter their house go bring them out by force na

modsfucker:


Why wait till 2019...

Don't leave till tomorrow what you can do today.

young man don't be pained yet, wait till you see what will happen during Anambra election.

In 2019, the world will know we ain't joking

sarrki:


Am a patriot

You are a patRi-Otu

Kady don't let the bills get to your skull

rheether:
Because the igbo don't have a king..

Igbo amaghi Eze. Igbos are egalitarian in nature.

DONGOYARO1:
Is the sit at home meant for ibo traders alone? Abuja was also included, will ibo civil servants and politicians(senators and ministers) also obey the sit at home order?

Why dont you just tell all the ibos in these Northern states to go back to iboland. Is it not senseless to want to break away from Nigeria, and yet keep running to other part of Nigeria

Your reply is quite senseless. First there's nothing like Ibo or Iboland, it is Igbo or Igboland. Ndi Igbo are free to stay anywhere they wish to as there isn't any law law in any country barring a sect of people living there.

Gat any other contribution? If none, thank yiu... goodnight