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[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=549106.msg7120393#msg7120393 date=1289469371]Why do Ibos hate the Yorubas? Why do they attribute every ill in their lives, anything, as the fault of the Yorubas? Case in point; the clear case of fraud by Phillip Emegweali.

Even though an Ibo woman was the first to expose Emewgeali. . . . Even though white reporters exposed him further. I implore you to take a wild guess as to whose door-step Ibos have resorted to dump the exposure of their kin. As if it is a sin to expose lies and deceit. Ibos are clearly the most hypocritical group in Nigeria (and probably the black world) today. An Ibo man believes that if you love him you would sit by and watch while he killed and ate his neighbors. Reporting his cannibalism to the authorities meant you were a traitor.

Below, is a link to an article, BY AN IBO WOMAN, exposing Phillip Emegewali as a fraud! Dont be surprised if a few years from now some Ibo genius tells us that Chioma K. Ezeilo, M.Sc. is really Yoruba. Remember, these are the same folks that try to convince us that Nzeogwu is Hausa, that the Prime Minister died of a asthma attack amongst other clear lies. . . . .

http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html[/quote]I thought your larcenous tendencies had been checkmated within the boundaries of Harlem, NY but it seems you are now addicted to the empirical achievements of Philip Emeagwali.

There is no doubt you lacked the mental capacity to comprehend the intrigues of elementary science so I shall not attempt to commit manslaughter by urging you to indulge in high-performance and parallel computing.

By the way, please try as mush to write the correct spelling of Phillip’s name as you would want to defame him. If I had not known your stock in trade pal, I thought you were referring to one “Emegweali” instead of Emeagwali.

I read the two first paragraphs of the post and decided to park it. I could not remember any region called south-south Nigeria such as there is no region called north-north Nigeria.

In my book, Ken Saro Wiwa was a pathetic individual who crossed a bridge and decided to burn it down so that other individuals would not cross. It does not matter if I had a story and willing to share but all that glitter are not gold.

I had rather chose to fight, bloody the nose of the aggressor and run than to run at the sight of a drunken aggressor and later help the aggressor to declare open-session on the wives and daughters of my kinsmen.

chyz1:
It would be an illiterate to point out another person's mistake.

Bros, did you check the drama the poster staged in the original post and yet he or she has the audacity to highlight someone’s mistake?

Noble Prize committee is mostly stuffed with conniving and deceptive liberal-minded Europeans who either perpetuated the crimes against humanity or looked the other way when their kinsmen commit same.

If the novel titled ‘Things Fall Apart” had slightly concurred in any way with the idiotically written and technically bereaved novel such as “Heart of Darkness” by Conrad in depicting Africans as savage beast, Achebe would have problem safeguarding his Noble Prize Awards.

The novel, Things Fall Apart, has achieved world-wide acclaims in every category imaginable and the goons on the Noble Prize committee could shove their stinking prize.

To all these loudmouths, high-performance and parallel computing is still open to serious minds.

EzeUche0:
I know my Ibibio side. You have Ukwa who are thoroughly mixed with the Ibibio and some claim Ibibio moreso than Igbo. That is why I included them.

EzeUche0, please my brother I suggest you apply a considerable restrain toward your utterances on this forum. I love the spirited exuberance you bring to bear on issue concerning anything that is related to you. But implying that Ukwa is thoroughly mixed with Ibibio and claim Ibibio more so than Igbo is akin to Ngwa or Aro man claiming more Ibibio than Igbo. I spent considerable amount of life in Ukwa and there is no circumstances where Asa or Ukwa person will claim more Ibibio than Igbo.

It is pity the writer of this essay has been overfed with feel-happy fairy stories about Ken Saro Wiwa. I suggest the writer needs to embark on exploratory research about the main character of this unfortunate write-up.

The above post is classically, intellectually and succinctly written.

Aigbofa:
You are obviously the biggest dullard, because you are ignorant and refuses to acknowledge it. Go on and wallow in your stupidity with your wrinkled old arse.

I suggest you write what you mean and mean what you write. You can not ask a thick skull to direct you to Ojukwu. If anybody is endowed with a psychotic skull, you have proven beyond reasonable doubt you fit the description. I thought you worth the time but obviously you are incarnate of a drooling dunce.

chyz:
Sounds like you stole that line from a tv show.Korny to the T. LOL

Please do not waste time with the dullard who wallowed in a pool of idiocy and flip up an idea that suggests declaration of independence is a matter of bilateral execution. It is either the dumb arse does not know meaning of “unilateral” or the fool just wants to flaunt ignorance uncontrollably.

Aigbofa:
I am now more convinced then ever that imbecility is programmed in your DNA. There is nothing you can do about it.
I'm quite surprised I didn't see "conjectural crap" in your response, that seems to be your only response to everything.
Of course, you are a wrinkled old piece of shi.t, but that is besides the point.

If after all these years you've spent on this planet, you still don't know that a unilateral declaration of independence from a federation, without any agreement with other component units is tantamount to a declaration of war, then nobody can help you.

You were born stupi.d and silly you shall remain for the rest of your miserable existence.

If you want to test my hypothesis, your God Ojukwu is still alive, tell him to declare another Biafra and see what happens. Agbalagba didirin!

I can not waste my precious time crossing words with log of wood. For umpteenth time slowpoke, declaration of independence is not a subject of bilateral execution. However, undomesticated monkeys such as you would always conjure declaration of independence as an act of war. I am not surprised you have to defend the legacy of your forbearers. What a jackass. I suggest you jump off a cliff.  

May spirit of ofa pay you a visit in the middle of the night, agbaya!!!

seanet02:
it is you that will die a premature and painful death, i have always think That with time you tiny brain will grow to absorb
more than you are presently absorbing, your ranting stinks of stupidity, foolishness, madness and Unrivaled ignorance. Next time You post this type of garbage here,


The god of Thunder will strike you dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!! slowpoke
Dede or DENDE?

If you are not moronic Aigbofa, I wish all the incoherent rants from a dirty pig such as you to befall your entire lineage.  It is only demented douche bag such as you would assume that declaration of independence is act of war and should be done bilaterally.

Sango will strike you to death!!!!!!!!!!!!! What moronic sawdust

These overfed morons should have started with the challenge of federal character and quota system. It is a pity that only 780 lawyers declared themselves officially as political panhandlers.

Aigbofa:
How would your shriveled old arse know what I have or haven't achieved? If you want to play a game of my house is bigger than yours, that is one thing, but don't lump it with a vacuous war in which your arse got whipped.

Who started the Biafra war? You silly old rat.

What a stupi.d old fool. You want to unilaterally declare independence within a federation and it's not a call to war? What else could be a call to war, bloody slowpoke?

God may never allow you to grow old. You will die a sudden youthful death and you old parents, if you have any, will bury your sorry arse. By the way, what pushed a nincompoop such you to conclude that I am old?

If you are not dumb piece of dirt, I would have urged you look toward in eastern Europe where countries have declaration independence and the right thinking humans beings in Europe never regarded such act as a declaration of war.

You are so daft in articulation that your access to free air should be denied. I guess a domesticated monkey such as you should know that independence is not declared bilaterally.

chyz:
Fela clearly supported Biafra.You know nothing about him or his revolutionary beliefs so why are you talking? Were you his side kick?I doubt that being that you know nothing about him. CLOSE YOUR MOUTH.

I guess the meaning of support is different between us.

Aigbofa:
It is inconsequential whether Fela or Soyinka supported Biafra. ibos started the war and attempted to invade Yorubaland. It doesn't matter whether or not Fela wore the Biafran uniform.

No wonder you have not amounted to anything throughout you miserable life on earth. Are you not ashamed of your dilapidate brain even to insinuate Igbo started Nigeria\Biafra war? It is only in the land of maniacal fools that declaration of independence tantamount to starting of war. What a confused dimwit.

KnowAll:
[size=14pt]Ojukwu gave miscreants like IBB and Abacha the balls to grasp power. The Seed of discontent was first planted by Nzeogwu, but Ojukwu made it a currency where every cattle rearer with a gun would aspire to be head of state.

Thank God for the death of Yaradua, sanity has been bestowed in the polity.[/size]

You are a regrettable dimwit. How could you accuse Ojukwu of giving rise to miscreants such IBB and Abacha? It was the government of your grandfather Tafawa Balewa that absorbed many unqualified northerners such IBB and Abacha into Nigerian army officer’s cadre. When Ojukwu adamantly insisted on the chain of command and seniority as a yard stick to succeed Ironsi as Head of State, thus Ogundipe instead of Gowon, I recalled that many Yoruba peeps in military uniform capitulated and cowered in shame to serve under considerable junior officer.

becomrich4:
dede, no post it again. you are covered. take my mouth.

What the hell will I do with your putrid mouth? Again, Fela's sisters were frolicking with the likes of Brigadier E. E. Ikwue.

[quote author=Hi_Tek link=topic=546403.msg7095147#msg7095147 date=1289131879]It is true that Fela had sympathy for the plight of Biafra. But while the war was going on, he was actually in support of One Nigeria. In fact, he came out with a song in 1969 titled "Viva Africa" where he specifically called for One Nigeria.

The first two stanza of the song are as follows:

This is brother Fela Ransome-Kuti.
This is one time I will like to say a few things
Men are born, Kings are made, treaties are signed, wars are fought
Every country has it’s own problems.
So as Nigerians, so as Africans
Let us bind our wounds and live together in peace
Nigeria, one nation indivisible
Long Live Nigeria
Viva Africa

The history of mankind is full of obvious turning points and significant events
Though tongue and tribe may differ
We are all Nigerians
We are all Africans
War is not the answer
It has never been the answer
And it will never be the answer

You can listen to the song here:

http://nigeriawiki.com/Fela_VivaAfrica.htm[/quote]God will guide you in all your endeavors for posting a fact that flies in the face of these rabid conjecturers?

I had to call on the original poster of this thread to embark on exploratory research before posting goofy and conjectural crap such as the one that claimed Fela Ransome Kuti supported Biafra’s effort. It is imperative that EzeUche should listen to this advise or being lumped with flock of guinea fowls roaming this forum.

It will amount to act of despoil on history for anybody to insinuate that Fela Ransome Kuti in any way or shape supported Biafra’s effort. The musician from Yoruba ethnicity did not support Biafra rather he supported the phantom called One-Nigeria which almost the Yoruba supported and fought. 

During the war, Fela and his sisters were frolicking with the likes of Brigadier E. E. Ikwue, etc.

seanet02:
dede stop being foolish, The Only slowpoke here is
You Look at the Mirror!!!!!!!!

I guess you have looked at the mirror and saw nothing but a moronic imbe.cile.

DapoBear:
Quote from: Wikipedia

The Nigerian government launched a "police action" to retake the secessionist territory. The war began on 6 July 1967 when Nigerian Federal troops advanced in two columns into Biafra. The Nigerian army offensive was through the north of Biafra led by Colonel Shuwa and the local military units were formed as the 1st Infantry Division. The division was led mostly by northern officers. After facing unexpectedly fierce resistance and high casualties, the right-hand Nigerian column advanced on the town of Nsukka which fell on 14 July, while the left-hand column made for Garkem, which was captured on 12 July. At this stage of the war, the other regions of Nigeria (the West and Mid-West) still considered the war as a confrontation between the north (mainly Hausas) against the east (mainly Igbos)[citation needed]. But the Biafrans responded with an offensive of their own when, on 9 August, the Biafran forces moved west into the Mid-Western Nigerian region across the Niger river, passing through Benin City, until they were stopped at Ore (in present day Ondo State) just over the state boundary on 21 August, just 130 miles east of the Nigerian capital of Lagos. The Biafran attack was led by Lt. Col. Banjo, a Yoruba, with the Biafran rank of brigadier. The attack met little resistance and the Mid-West was easily taken over. This was due to the pre-secession arrangement that all soldiers should return to their regions to stop the spate of killings, in which Igbo soldiers had been major victims[7][10].The Nigerian soldiers that were supposed to defend the Mid-West state were mostly Mid-West Igbo and while some were in touch with their eastern counterparts, others resisted. General Gowon responded by asking Colonel Murtala Mohammed (who later became head of state in 1975) to form another division (the 2nd Infantry Division) to expel the Biafrans from the Mid-West, as well as defend the West side and attack Biafra from the West as well. As Nigerian forces retook the Mid-West, the Biafran military administrator declared the Republic of Benin on 19 September.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafran_War#Breakaway


Is my understanding of events wrong? Please correct it if so. If my understanding is fine, then the Igbo send an army led by Banjo all the way up to Ondo State. You guys captured Benin, as well.

Even a slowpoke can discern above post as an illogical piece of conjectural crap. I can not believe anybody who had access to free air will post this nonsense in support of an argument. Anyway, sometimes wiki is fool’s delight.

EzeUche0:
I am just saying that there were Yorubas who supported Biafra. Wole Soyinka was thrown in prison for his support of Biafra. We cannot forget Yoruba activist like this.

Let us be honest with ourselves. And we should never forget about Biafra.

There were Yoruba extractions that fought on the Biafran side. Soldiers such as Banjo, Ademoyega, Adeleke and Oyawole should be remembered. However, there were few Yoruba people of extraordinary personalities such Lt Col Ayo Ariyo who was 2ic in 3MCDO in Calabar in 1967 resigned his commission in Nigeria army instead of fighting Biafrans. Also, Ijebu Ode Peasant Farmers Association that violently protested Gowon’s stay in Lagos while commanding Nigerian soldiers to fight Biafra. Yes, Wole Soyinka who spent the three years of the war in prison in Kaduna for opposing the war. You must understand that these fine personalities were just drop of water in the ocean.

EzeUche0:
There is a lot of wisdom in your words. My father has actually moved on from those terrible times. Growing up, I did not hear much about the Yoruba or encountered them much. The few things I would hear is that Awolowo was an evil man, and that the Yoruba elite betrayed the Ndi Igbo. On the other hand, Fela was widely praised and when I got older, Wole Soyinka was discussed as well.

I do not hold a grudge with any people. At first, I was taken aback by the vitrol directed at the Ndi Igbo. I came across NL, because of a Igbo bashing thread. I did not know that SOME Yorubas held that view and it made me angry. The Yorubas I met in the U.S. has always treated me like kin. That is why I was surprised by NL.

Then the advent of Bk.babe caused a lot of Igbos such as myself to get very angry. In response to him and other tribal chieftains, we all became POLARIZED. Before, Igbos in NL would only discuss Biafra and how we wanted to break out of this union. Then tribalism reared its ugly head.

It is time to tone down the rhetoric.

I hope you are not being delusional with this inconsequential Fela stuff? Fela did absolutely nothing in support of Biafra. He was in London enjoying himself out of Nigeria’s coffer.

DapoBear:
So supporting Biafra is well and fine. But what happens when Biafra sends an army westward, promising to supposedly "liberate" your region from the rest of Nigeria?

This ultimately is something I can never support. If you want to secede, secede, by all means. But secede, and landgrab from me? Hell to the naw. Awolowo may be painted now as a ruthless demon, but he did what he had to do. And if certain people want to paint Yoruba as ruthless backstabbing demons, then so be it, it is a legacy I'll happily take. Just let it be known that if you try to send an army anywhere near our lands, we will do everything in our power to have it destroyed.

I guess when you and your forbearers were bending backward to make Gowon and northern Nigeria soldiers comfortable by supplying porters and women from your stock while they sat in Lagos sending vandals to attack eastern Nigeria, offensive strategy of any sort is best defense.

Beaf:
That is semantics, which is a different ball game. If you feel its better called Benue-Niger Delta, thats fine. But we'll have to rename the Niger bridge to Benue-Niger bridge as well.

It is not semantics but improper ways of doing things in the colonial contraption called Nigeria. Yes, the bridge at Onitsha\Asaba is Benue-Niger or Beniger.

Abagworo:
We do not doubt that river Niger is not the only River but why deny the existence of Niger Delta?

Since you have no doubts that River Niger did not singularly enter Atlantic Ocean, why Niger Delta instead of Benue-Niger Delta?

I was born and raised in the region wrongly referred as Niger Delta. There were deltas created by Benue-Niger, Imo, Urashi\Otamiri, Anambra\Oji, Qua Ibuo, Escravos and Forcados rivers. The problem with Nigerians remains the act of clouding everything with unfounded sentiments and misplaced politics.

Sometimes we must storm out of the sentimental shell and embrace common sense for a change. Niger Delta is a big misnomer. My state is included in the so-called Niger Delta but the fact remains that River Niger that met River Benue at Lokoja to form lower Niger-Benue River did create a delta by itself.

Beaf:
Yeah, when the first oil rigs were put down, it miraculously created a delta.

If the so-called Niger Delta is full of useless silts, we shall not have this discussion now. It would amount to terrible dishonesty to discount the presence of crude oil in the political shenanigans surrounding the talk of Niger Delta.

Beaf:
I don't know where you got your definition of confluence from, but it is faulty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence

The above is a proper definition of confluence. The Benue is a tributary of the Niger, if you wrote otherwise in a geography exam, you would fail.

Are you sure that you are not creating contradiction? Let us see, compare and contrast the definitions of confluence. Mine is “Confluence is where two or more bodies of water meet together”. 


The link you posted, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence =  In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water.

Like one poster has previously stated, all these clamoring, posturing and encoding of term, Niger Delta, are blindly spurred by crude oil.

Beaf:
River Benue is a tributary of the Niger. It is a tributary, because the Niger is bigger, that is elementary geography. The body of water that flows southward is called River Niger and it has been so for centuries and it has been so for logical reasons.
If you are proposing a name change, it is a different concept to claiming that the Niger Delta does not exist.

I am not canvassing for change of name but stating factual facts backed by natural denudation of the earth. Tributary or affluent is a stream or small river that flows into a big river. Confluence is where two or more bodies of water meet together. Benue, Imo, Orashi, Utamiri and Qua Ibo rivers are not tributaries of River Niger. Imo River entered Atlantic Ocean as does Niger. Again, Lokoja is not called confluence town for nothing.