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ChinenyeN: , speaking of town names, I'm nearly done with my write-up on Bonny. Anyone interested in reading it once I finish?

If the aforemention work on Bonny is precursor to this post: “Bonny :: Adopted Name - Ibani/Ubani :: Original Name - Igoloma :: Named After Curlew Bird :: Now Ijo”, I suggest you hold back.

There is no ethnic group called Ijo. This is derived from Jos what the Spaniards referred to “people of river” they met at the estuaries of Rivers Niger, Benue, Imo, Urashi and Utanmiri. The same thing goes to the appellation Brass.

Some people have posited two schools of political thought in respect to Ajimobi’s gubernatorial debacle in Oyo State. One person suggested that Oyo people voted for ACN and such even if Ajimobi is disqualified, the slot till goes to ACN. This postulation is laughable. Democracy is a government of the people as well as government of the law. Political parties sponsor candidates and candidates win election. If Ajimobi is disqualified, the candidate of the party that came second shall be declared governor.

Another person gave an example of a deputy governor who was disqualified. Granted the deputy governor is part of the ticket, the deputy is not the flag bearer. If the flag bearer is disqualified, the entire ticket, including the sponsoring party, is disqualified for such particular position.

I do not know how many people who contributed to this thread are naturalized American citizen and still insinuate Ajimobi did not renounce his Nigerian citizenship.

I am not sure there are instances in Nigeria constitution where dual citizenship is allowed or expressed. If dual citizenship is allowed in Nigeria, what are the purpose of sections182 and 28 in the constitution?

The NAS has not passed any bill that allows dual citizenship between Nigeria and any other country or vice versa. You can not acquire citizenship of every country in the world and selfishly assume your country allows dual citizenship. There must be an act of NAS that expresses such arrangement.

If Ajimobi is a naturalized citizen of USA, where he could vote and be voted as governor, he did renounce his citizenship of another country, including Nigeria, the day he attended the citizenship ceremony in USA.

I am of the view that Port Harcourt is Igwe Ocha. Ikwerre say Igwe Ocha Mbaram while central Igbo is Igwe Ocha Mbara ama. It is derived from the lengthy stretch of white sand on the beach that seems to touch the sky when view from a distanced horizon.

T9ksy:
An Igbo man who makes casket was going to deliver one of his coffins to a client when his car broke down. Trying not to be late, the igbo man put the coffin on his head and began heading to his destination. 9ja police with their wahala saw him and decided to extort money off him so they challenged him. "hey, Come here! wetin dey inside am and where you dey carry that thing go?"

Trust Igbo man na, he replied . . . . . ."I no like the place where my family bury me so i dey try relocate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."

Omo! come see as olokpa tear race!!!

It is good to know you have taken the extreme execration and aversion you had for Ndigbo to a moronic level. I hope you break an arm while you goofing off.

It is absolutely ridiculous to engender the plank of advantages and disadvantages to the issue of security pact between Nigeria and USA and cite Germany and Japan as example to bolster the lame argument. Al Qaeda or no Al Qaeda, USA can shovel its military base in Nigeria to wherever suits it.

Japan and Germany were world class military and industrial powers before they were militarily defeated by allied powers. It is no brainer that one of the allied powers situated a military base in either Japan or Germany or both.

Funny, funny people!!! What has gone wrong in the land of sanctimonious decorum?

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Nigeria could ally with USA in so many ways that could be helpful to both countries without the so-called security pact with the United States of America to enable the latter establish a military base in Nigeria for hunting down Al Qaeda elements in the country.

It is unfortunate Africans are aligning themselves for neo-colonialism. I am afraid Professor Tam David-West is absolutely correct on this issue.

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This article is the same circling of the wagon known about Nigeria. Nothing seemed to be plainly genuine about it. There is no need to talk about fiscal federalism without the structural federalism on the ground. If federal government should reproach the issue of federalism in Nigeria, the structural federalism on the ground before the following commissions such as Hicks-Phillipson Commission (1951), nChicks Commission (1953), Raisman Commission (1957) and Binns Commission (1964) should be constructively reviewed.

It will be an attempt in futility to embark on genuine fiscal federalism when there is vindictive and draconian boundary adjustment aimed at ceding crude oil producing territories of Igbo land to neighboring non-Igbo communities. If the essence of the fiscal federalism should be solely based on GP (gross product) of state or region as the article tend to suggest, all the necessary composite factors, including the land, must be addressed. If it was not for punitive measures, I wonder why Nigerian government suddenly embarked on redrawing of boundaries in former eastern region where there were no problematic boundary issues among the neighboring communities.

step1:
Any yoruba living in lagos does not need to know where he originally came from. My father is a lagos . He is a brazilian Awori originally but with some ijaw blood and my mother is an offa/egba woman from Kwara. If my mother claims she is a lagosian, that is within her rights to do so. I have cousins who are Ebga people from Abeokuta and when they came to lagos, they called their friends and said "omo eko ni mi" (I am a lagosian).

What is this notation in bold? What about Cameroonian or Jamaican Awori?

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I am afraid many Nigerians shouting democracy on top their heads could be struck stack blind when they meet with system termed government of the people.

Dora has every audacious pedigree to challenge the result of so-called concluded Anambra Central senatorial election. She can even request for a recount.

T9ksy:
Oh no, not another biafra AGAIN!!

Oh well, I can only hope you guys have learnt something from the last war.

DON'T BRING YOUR WAHALA INTO YORUBALAND!!!

For once in your confused world, you are correct that Biafrans learnt something from the previous civil war because they fought the war from a vintage position. 

Fact is inherent stupidity can not be fixed. Two inconsequential nincompoops have attested to this fact already with their imbecilic response to thread.

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I can say that your problem is education or lack thereof. No human being is white or black. It is an irredeemable ignorance to classify human beings with hue.

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UN, WC, ICC, IMF and World Bank are tools of neo-colonialism. Unfortunately, Africans are politically dumb, deaf and blind to perceive the main purpose of such institutions.

From numerous posts in support of alleged illegal conduct of Okorocha who has been erroneously declared governor-elect of Imo state by INEC when elections in Imo State remain incomplete, I say Nigeria has no business with democracy.