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@OP

The author of the article is academically bankrupt. It is either he abstained from reading the Nigerian Constitution or did not understand the basic teaching of the codes. There is section of Nigeria constitution that has explicitly given the rigorous process of electing individuals into certain political offices in Federal Republic of Nigeria to the political parties. This noise-making of enshrining the principle of zoning into Nigerian constitution is mute and laughable.

Needless to remind the author that zoning principle in PDP is one political party affair. There are other parties that do not have zoning clause in their constitution. I suggest GEJ and his whining supporters are free to join other parties than PDP.

DapoBear:
@jason12345: He is correct in that those groups did participate on the Nigerian side against Biafra (though the core North and Middle Belt was a majority of the army.)

But this is not the whole story itself. I highly recommend buying that book or some other neutral account of the war. Or getting it from your library. Part of me believed that Nigeria did starve Biafra. I also used to believe it was an Igbo plot. Even the march into the Midwest was basically a high-risk, high-reward gamble by a desperate Ojukwu. It wasn't necessarily malevolence or evil by the Biafran leadership, it was mostly just simple incompetence.

Anyway, read the book (or some other neutral account.) I wish it were freely available online so everyone could have a copy and know the history

You seem to have your social order intact. Nairaland is fast losing its intellectual touch.

I have concluded the problems afflicting Nigeria are inherently induced. The civil war in the former British colony was between the two republics-Nigeria and Biafra. It is either academic exercise in futility or utter display of intellectual dishonesty when some peeps try to invoke element of neutrality during the civil war.

Apparently common sense is longer common. If not, what could have induced any person who pinched tent with northerners during the civil war attempt to invoke the silliness of neutral entity? The governments of northern, western and mid-western regions including the military administrator of Lagos represented Republic of Nigeria while the government of eastern region represented Republic of Biafra. It must be recalled that Nigeria, led by northerners as well as their compatriots who now claim south, declared war on Biafra. When Gowon sat in Lagos issuing orders that requested Adekunle to move Lagos Garrison Organization to Escravos in Mid-western region in preparation for amphibious attack on Biafra, one wonders what happened to these ridiculous voices of neutrality. 

It is beyond the pale of comprehension why these northerners who claim south attempt to claim neutrality about civil war.

DapoBear:
Dede1 is a revisionist Biafran historian. Most of his posts can be understood in that light. From his perspective, Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani are mostly the same.

You could have scored unquantifiable political points if you had purged yourself of the symptoms of revisionist Biafran historian. I am a leaving eye witness to the Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani/Tiv/Ijo/Edo/Urhobo/Itsekiri/Kauri/Nupe/Bachama/Esan/Idoma/Gwari etc episode with Biafrans. Since such well thought-out unification, I have never regarded these people anything other than northerners.

Even if the job seekers referred as SNG Group flew from Australia to Nigeria, the transportation expense amount claimed in the article begs for thorough investigation.

Anyway, GEJ is capable of anything to remain on the corridor of power. After all, he has flouted his party’s constituted clause of zoning in order to remain relevance in Nigeria’s polity.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=560084.msg7251980#msg7251980 date=1291213069] How are they related ?[/quote]They are related in more ways than one.

Coup is acceptable method, whether legitimate or illegitimate, to overthrow useless government. If these drones in Abuja masquerading as operatives of democracy do not understand the basic detects of government of the people, for the people and by the people, I declare the entire government of Nigeria useless.

The so-called south-south is not an entity as far as Nigerian polity is concerned. My people say that it is only a fool who does not known his elder sister is a visitor.

Why 7?

@OP

It is either you have a “malu” brain as your handle name suggested or you ridiculously immune to Nigerian history. In my book, Yoruba are the same people as northerners.

Onlytruth: ‘Only Jonathan presidency good for Igbo’

From FRANCIS AWOWOLE-BROWNE, Abuja
Monday, November 29, 2010

Igbo Redemption Group (IRG) is a non-political group but committed to the emancipation of the Igbo race. It aims at redeeming the ethnic nationality from marginalization and relegation to the background in the scheme of things in Nigeria.

Faced with which direction the Igbo should go in 2011, where its interest will be served best in the emerging political scenario, the group, headed by the renowned lawyer, Chief Chimezie Ikeazor (SAN) has pitched its tent with the umbrella body of the Igbo, Ohaneze Ndigbo, in the decision to support President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 presidential election. Of course the position of the two bodies is at variance with the views of the Igbo Political Leaders Forum (IPLF), headed by Chief Simon Okeke.

The forum which claimed to be negotiating the Presidency for the Igbo for 2015 had seen its prominent members aligning with some of the presidential aspirants from the North, a development that the IRG said had given them away as to where they are driving to. National publicity secretary of the IRG, Delly Ajufo, said any Igbo leader who could not read in between the lines to see that only the Jonathan Presidency in 2011 offers a ray hopes for the actualization of the Igbo agenda politically is not a genuine leader:

“They are being driven by personal ambition and not necessarily the desire to have an Igbo Presidency. In any event, we have since discovered that those who are saying Igbo should not support Jonathan are preparing themselves for a Vice-President position with a candidate from the North, which they know Jonathan Presidency cannot offer them for now.” Ajufo explained that the IRP was out mainly to advance the cause of the Ndigbo and in doing this they found that the situation on ground favours Jonathan and from whose Presidency he believed Igbo could have a better bargain for the nearest future.

The redemption group, he said, has no interest in any political arrangement other than the one that will benefit Igbo in the unfolding political calculations. Ajufo noted that the Igbo though have endured colossal injustice and marginalization and have paid the supreme price for the indivisibility and prosperity of Nigeria, the present clamour for the number one position in Nigeria could not be achieved by coercion or bullying by any group:

“We didn’t just wake up and say Jonathan should be the Igbo choice. We believe very strongly that any consideration for a President by the Redemption Group must be based on the Igbo core issues which are premised on; the doctrine of true federalism made up of the centre, six geo-political zones and states as the federating units should be the political compass for a peaceful and united Nigeria.
“Fiscal federalism based on the principle of derivation and equality of the zones which is the essence of democratic Nigeria.

Equal number of states among the six geo-political zones to guarantee fairness and justice in the allocation of our God given resources as well as fair and equal distribution of infrastructures, perquisites and privileges to ensure even development and level playing field. “Rotational presidency among the six geo-political zones in a manner that will address previous injustices and lopsidedness should be the final bastion of good faith.”

Atiku as a PDP northern consensus presidential aspirant “I don’t think his emergence will change anything. This is because Nigerians are unanimous in the determination to do away with the past leaders and inject new blood into the governance. It is even a misuse of word to say one aspirant is a consensus aspirant for the North. No he is a consensus aspirant for Mallam Adamu Ciroma Committee. There are other credible Nigerians in the North who are not members of the PDP and we have some of them who are nursing ambition to contest the presidency.

“I am not a PDP man and neither is our group a political one. All we are saying is that it is the Jonathan Presidency that can guarantee the maximum chance needed for an Igbo man to have a shot at the presidency. We have to realize this and our position is not motivated by any personal political interest unlike those who called themselves Igbo political leaders.

They have one after the other aligned with each of the aspirants and in another breath they are saying Igbo has no candidate yet. Is until one of them is nominated as Vice-President? We have passed that stage of hide and seek, we have to be frank with ourselves. Ohaneze has hit the nail on the head. Igbo are for Jonathan for reasons they know are in the best interest of future of an Igbo man in Nigeria.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/abujareports/2010/nov/29/abujareports-29-11-2010-002.htm

I could grudgingly condone a political sermon from certain misguided individuals from Nigeria but definitely not from an Osaka swine whose last name is AWOWOLE-BROWNE.

Ibime:
If Emeagwali had made some unique assumptions and derived some Mathematical equations from Navier Stokes based on these unique assumptions, his techniques would be studied in every Computational Fluid Dynamics class.

Unfortunately, the same paper was rejected as a PHD thesis, and Emeagwali himself has "lost" such an important paper.

Does Emeagwali not think that his technique to bypass Darcy's law for laminar flows would have been written into every Mathematical modelling textbook by now?

I actually believe those that say he's a fraud cos he makes some spurious claims. How can someone who taught Mobil how to extract extra oil from reservoirs be eking out a living as a motivational speaker. I haven't even seen Emeagwali write any Governing equation in any of his writings. He must have forgotten how to after 21 years of inactivity.

I like to respond to folks who knew the subject matter. Some of the write-ups stemming from the news media seem to have issues mixed-up. I am not an expert on high-performance and parallel computing, the fact remains the Emeagwali was able to resolve a problem in liquid flow with certain wetted-perimeters through the use of Navier-Stokes equation. It is very erroneous for people to insinuate that Esson-Mobile is using Emeagwali computational derivatives in their crude oil reservoir. We must understand that Mobile fielded a team that came first in the highest flow rate and won prize money as Emeagwali did in the performance category in 1989. In fact, the Mobile team achievement was adjudged the best due to flow rate attained.

Whether Emeagwali achievement through the detects of Reynolds flow (Transport theorem), Newtonian fluids hence Navier-Stokes equation, Eular equation, Bernouli equation and Darcy’s Law, the fact remains he is still the only African that can be mentioned in such capacity as far as high-performance and parallel computing is concerned.

Granted there has been exaggeration of the facts, I do not think Emeagwali is a fraud. Currently the list of Gordon Bell ACM awards cadre is dominated by individuals from Asian, North America and European continent.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550663.msg7138421#msg7138421 date=1289686938]Thanks, no you're not mistaken. [b]I only assumed they were yarning about awolowo again because he's their main man and no one mentioned the amount of currency they were talking about.[/b]As for the support and criticism of Awolowo, it's not my affair. He was human, he did bad and he did good is all I've been hearing.[/quote]Assumption is a code word for losers.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=550663.msg7138090#msg7138090 date=1289683991]Even tho a lot do not support the starvation of the Biafrans, Awolowo IS a hero for many.
So that's not going to change anytime soon. Don't be surprise if your hate for Awolowo provokes each Yoruba states to start naming one of their towns after Awolowo. Bi o se n bere ni yen.[/quote]You are a big disappointment and believe me it is an understatement. Granted you have the tendency to grab Nigerian history at the wrong end, you should have ingested the theme of the post before embarking on your tribally tinted rant. People who cry wolf are really incarnates of the beast.

SapeleGuy:
How can people forgive when the perpetrator of this crime is immortalised on our currency?

Splendid indeed and could not have been stated any better.

alj harem:


chyz chyz chyz

i always warn before i fight ooooo

stop this now before i get angry

do i look like a small boy

it is not me in that video

no vex meoooo

i dey beg no vex me

i don warn

if i catch u chyz i would beat the thing out of u

i would u iron rod to beat that lack of respect out of u

Dude, you got some serious skills!!!!!!!! It is very fascinating to see you induce the cow to urinate all over your psychotic skull.

@OP

It is pity you have sunken this low. The first is a map of Nigeria and second is also a map of Nigeria someone tried to distort. The only thing Hausa about the map is the inscription of Royal Niger Company stating its claim of Hausa land with headquarters in Lokoja.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=550248.msg7137029#msg7137029 date=1289671017]during his time,there was no one like him ![/quote]Of course, he was front and center as a local tribal bigot. By the way, Awo was my favorite political operative of his era.

What of the venerable Chief SL Akintola?

@OP

I can not believe my eye seeing the caption of this post or what triggered it. Reasons that crossed my mind where either the poster is ignorant of the precursor of Nigeria/Biafra war or oblivious of the brutality of the civil war.

If the so-called leaders of Nigeria do not strive to avoid attritional civil war by making sure that the resources of Nigeria are spread equitably, war is inevitable.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=550093.msg7134250#msg7134250 date=1289636580]Hate me for saying this but the second Nigerian Civil War started about 7-8yrs ago. . . . its just waiting to explode and engulf the whole country. Officially though, I'd say the war started Oct 1st, 2010.

When the history of the second civil war is being written I bet it'll be traced back to sometime 7-8yrs back, but if u guys are so deluded as to think Nigeria is not at war, then I dont know what to say to u![/quote]Nice to see you stick to your medication. I did not know you have such canny ability to articulate a readable post. Nobody would hate you for writing unavoidable truth unless when you latched onto idiotic drivels about Ojukwu, Biafra and Ndigbo.

This is not police men fighting as the picture showed. But close observation would reveal an attempt to arrest and resistance. One of the police men is not wearing boots and belt. I guess he is the one under arrest order.

fstranger:
The guy with the gun is Yoruba. He looks well groomed, sharp and athletic. And also, he is holding the gun. The other guy, who is Ibo, looks uncouth, rough and Biafran-like. Very easy to tell.

There is always a surprise source of joy when idio.ts self-indict. Are you not ashamed of yourself that one dude has the strength to lock up the hand-carrying guns of two fellow police officers in fist fight?

fstranger:
Point of correction . . . I am not a Nigerian! I am a confirmed citizen of Oodualand, an unapologetic follower of Awo, a chest thumping Igbo wife beater and an unrepentant Conqueror of the Biafrans. Best get that into your tiny brain.

I shall put down few of my valuable belongs in a bat that a sex-starved maggot such as you can not withstand a protracted and free-for-all hand to hand fight with weakling Igbo lady.

@Kobojunkie & Ileke-Idi

I am banging my head on the wall because two unseen ladies have concluded my contributions to the nairaland’s forum debates are tribally bent. At least, good to know two bodacious babes on nairaland have taken notice of my posts.

DapoBear:
Look, it is a controversial topic. We had a long discussion on it in the thread started by EzeUche0 accusing him of genocide; I demonstrated how that was impossible since the applicable genocide statutes were not even in place until 1977. So at the very least can you concede that arguments can be made both ways? If you can understand this, then you'll understand how there is not necessarily hypocrisy. You are simply assuming one exact interpretation of what happened. If one has an alternative interpretation, then there is no hypocrisy.

If you have different interpretation of a fact or fiction, then it amounts to exercise of imbecility to call a contrarian some choice names.

In fact, tagging me a tribal icon will not change my aggressive challenge to fallacies and unfounded conjectures some trolls wish to spread on this forum. Nigeria is what it is; a cesspit and colonial contraption. And I must add that nothing will make me happier than to see Nigeria disintegrate.

Aigbofa:
LOL All my 7 votes also came from Dede1 under different IDs.

You are apparently ridiculous and insecure if you remotely deduced my royal personality would stoop so low to partake in practical joke such as this one. Dr Nathaniel Akinrine Fadipe wrote “to detribalize is a sort of malady” and in his words, I concur.

I hardly join issues with people on subjects bereaved of recorded facts on this forum. To debunk fallacies and feel-happy innuendos remains my stock in trade and no amount of name-calling or stereotyping will mellow my zeal to spread the truth. I know sometimes truth is hard and often bitter to accept but it must be told nonetheless.

By the way, one of the sons of the soil in Nigeria had been labeled a tribal bigot yet he remained a hero in the eyes of his followers.  I perceived an act of hypocrisy from certain individuals on this nonsensical exercise.