₦airaland Forum

ibedun:
I am worried because the protests are beginning to get a BIAFRAN coloration !!!!

Why worried when parts of Nigeria could still exist for you? It appears Biafra tends to scare the crap out of deluded Nigerians.

Jessepaid:
It's sad... I Never thought a person from my tribe could become an ass licker..

She is not an ass licker as you would want us to believe. She is a courageous APC operative and remains true to the ideological views of the political party. Attack the APC party principles not Onochie.

Kingscee:
The stupid woman must be a very wicked soul, just look at how she opened her bleached mouth insulting that gentle man, I pity her husband that's if she has any

You have all these aspersions for the woman because she did not sheepishly tow to your myopic view about the protest. Nigeria needs total disintegration. This silly "endsars" protest is a diversionary gambit.

Brandonx:
A very stupid woman people are out there protesting for a better Nigeria for everyone and some fooooools are kicking against it.
If I say this useless woman won't live to see the better Nigeria now it would seem unfair.

How on earth would you have the so-called "Better Nigeria" when dudes such as you do not respect the views of people who disagreed with you?

Ndigbo should focus on disintegration of the Nigeria. This overhyped endsars crap is pure cop-out and diversionary gambit to defocus people whose intent is to disintegrate the shithole called Nigeria. The last time I checked, SARS are Nigerians and Nigerians are SARS. It does not make any difference if SARS is baptized SWAT.

A mere name change of SARS will not bring any definite change to the sorry state of Nigeria. The call for total and unconditional disintegration of Nigeria either by revolution or war will usher new and definite changes and orientation to what used to be Nigeria. However if this “endsars” saga could bring about total and unconditional disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria, I am game.

Jesus Christ can lead the rebaptism of SARS to SWAT, it remains Nigerians. The nomenclature of the house is not the issue but the tenants.

Goodmarlian:
Isnt it a better option if we remain part of south Nigeria and then we restructure the new country into a confederation? Since biafra is looking more And more difficult because we are doing it alone ,two heads are better than one though..

The best option is Republic of Igbp land. Any sane person can carve Nigeria into two or three pieces however all efforts remains foolish dance in the rain with Republic of Igbo. Ndigbo have come a long way to realize that Igbo nation is the best option going forward.

Southern unity can only come after the disintegration of shithole called Nigeria. The emerging nation states in the southern part of former Nigeria can build a grass root unity based on cultural affinity.

Luftwaffe:
She is the ugliest human I have ever set my eyes on.

I guess this aspersion is because she does not cow-tow your political views. You are one of the reasons Nigeria is a backwater.

BascoVanVeli:
Bro those players left college a long time ago. No college player made the USA squad that won the world cup and no player younger than 25 played the final

Bro, I suggest you take look at the 1991 World Cup US Women Champion team. Most of the players listed below have started playing for the US national team while still in the university. For example, Mia Hamm was still a colligate player in UNC when she featured for US in 1991 world cup. As much as I would have liked to see a Nigerian coach such as Peter Dedevo in this position for grassroot recruiting, I think Waldrum could bring such sense of bringing raw talents to the team.

1991 US Women World Cup Champions.
1 GK Mary Harvey 4 June 1965 (aged 26) 5 0 United States UC Berkeley
2 FW April Heinrichs (captain) 27 February 1964 (aged 27) 42 33 United States University of North Carolina
3 MF Shannon Higgins 20 February 1968 (aged 23) 26 4 United States University of North Carolina
4 DF Carla Werden 9 May 1968 (aged 23) 81 0 United States University of North Carolina
5 DF Lori Henry 20 March 1966 (aged 25) 38 3 United States University of North Carolina
6 FW Brandi Chastain 21 July 1968 (aged 23) 14 7 United States Santa Clara University
7 MF Tracey Bates 5 May 1967 (aged 24) 28 5 United States University of North Carolina
8 DF Linda Hamilton 4 June 1969 (aged 22) 18 0 United States University of North Carolina
9 MF Mia Hamm 17 March 1972 (aged 19) 43 12 United States University of North Carolina
10 FW Michelle Akers-Stahl 1 February 1966 (aged 25) 44 44 United States University of Central Florida
11 MF Julie Foudy 23 January 1971 (aged 20) 26 4 United States Stanford University
12 FW Carin Jennings 9 January 1965 (aged 26) 45 22 United States UC Santa Barbara
13 MF Kristine Lilly 22 July 1971 (aged 20) 42 9 United States University of North Carolina
14 DF Joy Biefeld 8 February 1968 (aged 23) 40 7 United States UC Berkeley
15 FW Wendy Gebauer 25 December 1966 (aged 24) 25 8 United States University of North Carolina
16 DF Debbie Belkin 27 May 1966 (aged 25) 48 2 United States University of Massachusetts Amherst
17 GK Amy Allmann 25 March 1965 (aged 26) 46 0 United States University of Central Florida
18 GK Kim Maslin-Kammerdeiner 12 August 1964 (aged 27) 17 0 United States George Mason University

sanpipita:
Lol his records are awful, I don't know how competitive USA collegiate football is because that's where he spent most of his coaching career

Bro, the NCAA remains the source of players for USWNT. USA dominated the world women football scene due to inexhaustible pool of players from NCAA.

BascoVanVeli:
He will get his chance but we should say what is right and wrong. This is the worst hire they could probably get. A complete disgrace to women and women's football

It is unfortunate that a person I love to read his\her posts seemed to forget so easily. When USA ruled the World Women Football Empire, it did not have Woman Soccer League. All USA players were sourced from NCAA. Till date, USA depends on the poll of soccer players from NCAA, especially the USWNT.

My sister, this is when virtue gives way to stupidity. It unfathomable that actors and actresses in adult movie termed BBNaija are celebrated in Nigeria. What a country.

Aderr:
How can you expect him to understand this? You are dealing with functional illiterates who see everything in black and white.

Bro\sis, most Nigerians seemed not to belong. They have silly tendencies to blame others for their shortcomings.

tensazangetsu20:
Why are Nigerians above the age of 40 so unfortunate and extremely stupid. You guys were born when the British left Nigeria. They handed over a country with dreams and a bright future but you managed to ruin it and wreck it for future generations. Your mates who also took control of their countries in the same time periods have built their nations to first world status while you have generated poverty and hopelessness for Nigerians. Most millennials were born from 1985 to 1995. What did we meet? Honestly this country has been a shithole from birth and it has managed to get worst in recent years. As of last year I could cook a good meal with 1000 naira. It's impossible to do so today. How much do I make? What is the average Nigerian salary? How many jobs even exist in this useless shithole.


The most annoying thing about this failed generation is they still have mouth to talk back on the youths that the youths are the ones who ruined Nigeria. Ruined Nigeria with what. Look at the fool called myBraine. How can one person be so foolish and he thinks he's making any sense. Nigerians should be excluded from technology and embrace subsistence farming. Please name one country in the world where subsistence farming made them a trillion dollar economy which is what Nigeria desperately needs for our booming population. The endsars protest going on go and check the people against the movement are Nigerians within that age range. People that feel that you can't make any money online. They don't know the world has changed. They don't know it's possible to sit down in Nigeria and work with big companies in silicon valley and earn millions. They don't know the millions many people make monthly trading crypto and Forex. When bbnaija was showing they said the youths are distracted now it has ended and the youths are out and you are abusing them.

Nigerians above 40 why are you so unfortunate? Your mates built south Korea, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam you guys left poverty for all of us.

Based on your calculation that gave rise to above summation, it is not hard to conclude you are one of the banes that stood in the way of progress for Nigeria. You cannot even apply derivative arithmetic to surmise the age of most Nigerians born before or after British granted independence to the country. At least, anybody with age of 55 years was born 5 years after British granted independence. How could Nigeria even begin to lay foundation of progress when the crop of the cream such as you cannot make use of simple extrapolation. Granted not everybody has the sense of numbers as evidential with your above post, however the basic knowledge of simple arithmetic is required in building foundation for national growth.

Northern region and Western region elites knew that the only obstacle before them in their devilish machination to usurper the resource in south-eastern region is Ndigbo. However, the so-called resource is about to be rendered useless as technologies from Europe, America and Asia are on the rise.

Butterworth:
Fulani herdsmen are cattle keepers... but IPOB are terrorist... Loooool.

If you have intellect better than a domesticated dog, please name whom the IPOB has terrorized?

Moronic Nigeria has no chance against Chadian air superiority. It is very silly to talk about Nigerian Alpha Jets against Chadian MIG 29s and Mirage 1s. In fact, Nigeria is silly joke. I can never associate with a dumbass country such as Nigeria.

The dingbats have no legal pedigree to ban IPOB. It is the inalienable rights of the IPOB to agitate for self determination. Nigeria has proven once again to be a zoo.

drefe2real:
Boro decided to secede because the 3 major ethnic groups, especially a certain ethnic group that constituted the majority in the old Eastern region, was marginalizing the Ijaws. Boro had issues with the Igbo's that were majority in the old Eastern region; that's why he was very happy that the Ijaws was free from the Ithe domination of Igbos when Rivers state was created. If he had issues with Nigeria, why did he fight on the side of Nigeria against Biafra? You guys should stop twisting facts here.

Why would he not fight on Nigerians side when Gowon freed him from prison and encouraged him to join Nigerian side? I guess you hear what makes you happy in your jealous hatred for Igbo.

otokx:
Many years later we are still in the same situation as regards the Niger Delta and job opportunities in the region.

Please remind the goons who thought that self denial brings acceptability. The influential political movers in northern region of Nigeria would want to see all the lappers from the so-called Niger Delta as beggars and house keepers.

How did born again fools such as Okoroawusa and Daura slowpoke get leadership position in Nigeria?

drefe2real:
God bless u OP. God bless Boro too for fighting against the injustice meted to the Niger Delta in the Old Eastern region. And someone somewhere wants the Niger Delta region to make the same mistake again. We are wiser now. May the soul of Major Isaac Adaka Boro rest in peace.

Boro declared independence from Nigeria not eastern region. Whatever political misunderstanding Boro tabled was against Nigeria not eastern region. In addition, Boro was dealt by forces owned and controlled by Nigeria. You do not need to flaunt your ignorance on the public domain such as Nairaland.

This is not a factor to secure less blame but a mark of divided country with no atom of unity. It will continue unless the country is broken up.

Mikeal09:
I pity the poor. Here in sokoto, big investments are own by some igbo men, go to kaduna, ever heard of sabon gari in kano? People who have things to do are too busy creating better lives for themselves, rather than blabing abt gov't failing to meet their needs, and the igbos are not the only ones suffering.
I also read someone saying war. War Just wait until you see your father or mother shot dead before your very eyes while their own children and family members are flexing and are also potential leaders of both Nigeria's economic and political system, maybe then you'd understand, this war you so much desire isn't worth it.
A lot of people have made it in this same country, just in case you forget 'everyman is for himself' xo whether biafra is actualized or nt, hustle continues

It is only in silly Nigeria that a person's investment holdings foreclose the person's right to agitate for a homeland. If Nigeria is a home of intellectuals, there is no remote reason to insinuate about war because of innocuous agitation for homeland by IPOB.

mabea:
Please try to be civil at least for once in your life.

You could secure civility from a goat before you do from the poster you responded with above post.

drefe2real:
I doubt you are truly from Edo State. If you are an Edo boy, you will not type this. You think that the Igbos are different from the Hausas abi. They are even worse sef. This Biafra struggle is just a smokescreen to secure the oil resources in the Niger Delta for themselves. That's why they are fighting for the Niger Delta to support them by all means. All true Niger Deltans should either be calling for restructuring or calling for a Niger Delta republic. Don't think Biafra will be different from Nigeria. Biafra will be Nigeria all over again with the Igbo's talking the place of the Hausa's. Of course, you can guess the fate of the south south tribes in a nation with a majority that is controlling the resources of the minority.

The bane of skewed intelligence in Nigeria.

maclatunji:
By Hart RexLawson Atemie

Before Biafra, there was the Niger Delta Republic led by Isaac Adaka Jasper Boro. Boro was one of the early people who began the struggle for the emancipation of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. He challenged the exploitation and deprivation of the region as the resources were being channeled to develop other regions of the country.

It was the culmination of the injustice, political frustration and suffocation that the Ijaw and other Niger Delta people suffered in an independent Nigeria. As a bubbling, brilliant young secondary school leaver, Boro, after a three-month stint as a teacher, joined the Nigeria Police as a cadet in 1958 with a lot of fire in him to bring about change. But he received a shock when he found that he was alone in a police force that was already corrupt and was subsequently dismissed due to ill luck, maybe, the call of destiny. Heartbroken, he dusted up his certificate and went to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he suffered various degrees of injustice as a student politician. He came to the realization that the Ijaw were heading for extinction if the tide of the national politics being controlled by the big three (Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) did not change.

Boro and other Ijaw students watched with bewilderment as the Ijaw politicians failed to break into the top echelons of Nigerian and regional politics controlled by the easterners. Boro was provoked how Year after year, the Ijaws were clenched in tyrannical chains and led through a dark alley of perpetual political and social deprivation. Strangers in our own country! Inevitably, therefore, the day would have to come for us to fight for our long-denied right to self-determination.
Boro lamented the exclusion and alienation from power, How the Ijaw withered in bitterness and regret. For a then estimated two million people, he was angered there were no adequate educational opportunities, no infrastructure, no empowerment, no openings. The only fishery industry which ought to be situated in a properly riverine Ijaw area is sited about 80 miles inland at Aba, the boatyard at Opobo had its headquarters at Enugu. Personnel in these industries and also in the oil stations are predominantly non-Ijaw but more of the Igbo’s from Eastern Nigeria.

The lamentations of Boro and other prominent Ijaw leaders like Chief Harold Dappa Biriye lead to the agitation for the creation of a Niger Delta State and formation of the Niger Delta Congress. But Igbo-dominated National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) which ruled the East was not interested in the creation of Niger Delta State for obvious reasons.

Niger Delta congress (NDC) could not do much as out of the nine representatives of the area, eight were from NCNC. And in the Eastern Region House of Assembly, the Niger Delta had only 5 against 110 other representatives. In the Midwestern House of Assembly, Niger Delta had 2 representatives against 58 others. “Given these prevailing circumstances,” lamented Boro…..“an Ijaw nationalist finds that a state for his people is more of a necessity than a mere desire, Such a demand becomes all the more compelling when the area is so viable yet people are blatantly denied development and the common necessities of life.”

In October 1962, Boro, then an undergraduate of UNN, began the movement that would, in 1966, start the violent campaign to end the marginalization of the Niger Delta which he tagged “to discuss the political future of our people”. They became known as the Internal Caucus. Boro was elected the secretary-general. “Our primary objective was to organize ourselves into a strong political force to struggle for our self-determination as soon as we graduated,” Boro explained.

In 1963, Boro and his Internal Caucus took their campaign to the embassies of some countries whom they considered advocates of freedom. They did not get the desired support. In 1964, Boro and Samuel Owonaru, later to be his second in command in DVS, toured West African countries to conscientise Ijaws living in the West Coast about the plight of the their people in independent Nigeria. They visited Dahomey (Benin Republic), Togo and Ghana. In Ghana, they visited the Cuban Embassy where they hoped that Fidel Castro’s country would be keen to support the freedom of Ijaws. The ambassador gave them 60 minutes to vacate the embassy.

After graduation, Boro was employed as a technical officer in the Faculty of Science, University of Lagos. Again he, Owonaru and other youths formed Integral WXYZ “to prepare the minds of the Ijaw youths for the ripe moment”.

That ripe moment was the killing of Balewa on January 15, 1966. He resigned his job, cashed his emoluments, sold his property and with £150, returned to Kaiama, his hometown, set up camp at the Taylor Creek and began recruitment.

“Today is a great day, not only in your lives, but also in the history of the Niger Delta. Perhaps, it will be the greatest day for a very long time. This is not because we are going to bring the heavens down, but because we are going to demonstrate to the world what and how we feel about oppression… Remember your 70-year-old grandmother who still farms before she eats; remember also your poverty-stricken people; remember, too, your petroleum which is being pumped out daily from your veins; and then fight for your freedom.” – Isaac Adaka Jasper Boro.

With these electrifying words, 27-year-old Isaac Adaka Jasper Boro, general officer commanding, the Niger Delta Volunteer Service, DVS, declared an independent Niger Delta Peoples Republic in February 23, 1966, 40 days after the historic January 15 coup. It was 3pm and the three divisions of the DVS, made up of 159 troops, were going into action at 5pm with the objective of dislodging the federal police and taking over Yenagoa at 12 midnight. It was code-named “Operation Zero”.
It marked the beginning of the “12-Day Revolution” during which Boro, an ex-police inspector, former president of Students’ Union Government of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a fresh graduate of Chemistry, called “the attention of the world to the fact that the inhabitants of the Niger Delta were feeling very uncomfortable” with their fate in Nigeria. That was an understatement for some of the observers of the time.
12 days later, the revolution was foiled by federal superior fire power; the unity of Nigeria was not negotiable. Boro and all his commanders were jailed and condemned to death for treason by General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi (From the Igbo extraction) military administration. But fate favored them and General Yakubu Gowon’s government freed them and created Rivers State and Lieutenant Commander Diete Spiff, an Ijaw, was made governor. It was dream come true, the revolution had failed and yet succeeded.

“My men and I, with the creation of our state (Rivers-State), are now free to help not only our people, but also Nigeria, to peace, unity, stability and progress,” - Boro enthused in 1967.

But this was not to be. The civil war started and Boro gladly became a major in the Nigerian Army. During the period leading to the Nigeria/Biafra civil War, Isaac Adaka Jasper Boro had informed and warned the Eastern Region Governor, Odimegwu Ojukwu that the Ijaws will not be a part of the Biafran Secessionist Movement. On declaration of the BIAFRAN Republic (With the Niger Delta Occupied), Adaka Boro was made Commander of 19th Brigade under Col Benjamin Adekunle (Of Blessed memory) who as at that time was the GOC 3rd Div. Boro led the Military under him, mostly Ijaws from the Niger Delta Volunteer Services (DVS) to clear the Niger Delta of Biafran Rebels, Which he successfully did within a record short period.

He was killed on April 20, 1968, near Port Harcourt and that muted the radical voice of the Ijaw Nation. The circumstance surrounding Boro's death is still not clear, Opinions was divided as to the Conspirators. While some alleged that Col. Benjamin Adekunle had a hand, however Roy Tomo-Spiff, who was among Boro's Force that fought against the Biafran Rebels at that time disputes it, claims Boro was ambushed by fleeing BIAFRAN Forces.

When stories are recounted about Nigeria and how the General Ojukwu’s declaration of the Republic of Biafra which led to the 18 months civil war on grounds of deprivation and marginalization of the eastern region, not much is said about the declaration of the first Republic within Nigeria called the “Niger Delta Republic” which also premised on deprivation, alienation and marginalization of Ijaw people. Rather the new agitator, Grand Commander Nnamdi Kanu and cohorts are trying every means possible to cajole the Niger Delta People into another antics for advance colonist theory, the labor of our heroes past shall never be in vain.

Fake news frosted with deliberate illogicalities.

Ereolamide:
I don't intend to mock Igbos, Igbos have the right to self-determination; whatever ways they choose to pursue it and its consequences are none of my business.
Our elders say that 'Ogbon ologbon ko je ka pe agba in were', 'Agba to jin so koto o ko ara yoku logbon'

Some months ago a young man released a video claiming to be the chosen leader of Yoruba youths ready to fight the Nigeria government with chemical weapons and other war thingamajigs for Yoruba's self determination, some people recognized him as Adeyinkas grandson, the internet went agog, a lot of jest was thrown around about how cowardly the tribe (Yoruba) the man claimed to represent, some even dared him to come down to Nigeria since he was domiciled abroad.

Here on Nairaland, many well known Yoruba monikers tapped into his rage, they started insulting Yoruba elders 'they're too docile, they're cowards and so on.'

The question these Yoruba youths should ask themselves are: during June 12 protest who led the protest, who fought Abacha government, who sponsored Radio Kudirat?

Simple answer: our fathers and mothers did, not just any Yoruba father and mother; well known and popular Yoruba bigwigs, politicians, some kings, lawyers and human right activists; they all came out to embrace the bullet, they dared the evil in human form Sani Abacha; how many Yoruba youths were killed, how many elders were killed? Many, but not as much as it would've been without the support of our elites.

They turned up the heat so much that a terrible military dictator couldn't step into the southwest, the beast died like a dog at the end, you may wonder why that was so?

Yoruba elite supported the masses and vice versa, for the injustice meted on Yoruba tribe, the region was chanting the same pledge, that is the power of a stable culture and tradition, our culture should keep having a stronghold on our lives, let our leaders and elders be the one to talk first, like they have done at the recent Ibadan conference which was a perfect example of the Ogboni conference of ancient times, it is not a sign of cowardice if we obey them, we have this system of checks and balances that won't allow a single person no matter how right he might be, lead us astray into quagmires.

We all know the proverb that says: what an elder sees when sitting a child will not see even if he's atop a tree; our elders have the foresight and ancient wisdom, let them lead us gently, with their international recognition they'll get us out of this useless contraption called Nigeria when the time comes, as we too become elders let us embrace the virtue of patience and tact.

Weeks have passed, so many dawns and dusks, what have we heard about the grandson of Adeyinka?

There is nothing wrong for set of people to opt out of Nigeria. The country is growing in population without economic infrastructure to sustain it. It is better to accept the reality that Nigeria has never seen or experienced unity in terms of harmony and find ways to separate peacefully than to degenerate into chaos and self destruction. It is a display of idiocy to think a war in today's Nigeria will be the same war as in 1967.

The operation python dance will be successfully counted with operation python hunt.

wahles:
So u mean to tell me d Nigerian Army is made up of hausa tribe alone? Wehdone

The leadership is dominated by Muslim Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri and Nupe.