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mikeansy:
Absolute rubish!!!!

Section 145 of the constitution is sufficient for Yar'adua to do the right thing or get impeached for gross misconduct. There is no need whatsoever to amend the constitution.

There is something called the LETTER and SPIRIT of the law. Those who wrote the constitution would have reasoned that we will have a President rational enough and who love the country enough to know that when he is not available to discharge his duties he will inform the National Assembly so that the business of Government will be taken care of by others.
They will not immagine that we will have a President so selfish as to exploit technicalities is semantics to refuse to obey the law. Are you suggesting that some aspects of our constitution are written so that the President can choose to ignore it if he so pleases? Need I remind you of section 1 of the Nigerian Constitution which makes the constitution binding on all Nigerian citizens and authorities alike?

This is a shame of a Nation. Yar'adua swore an oath to defend our constitution, he should not be looking for loopholes in language to disobey it. Those who wrote section 145 did not expect the President of a Nation to put the country at risk by not handing over when he is on medical leave.

How could you accuse a person that has been alleged to be mentally incapacitated and probably in a vegetative state of being selfish?  If you are really a legal practitioner, you would have tough time making the ends meet.  The bolded area speaks volumes about your understanding of the subject matter.

There is no room for sentiments or unfounded spike of emotions in a democracy that is guided by the constitution.

mikeansy:
You are obviously more ridiculous than Dora Akunyili.

She did not publicly ask Yar'adua to step down. She only called her colleagues to face up to the reality of now by allowing the constitution to take its full course.

Just like the President, Dora Akunyili swore an oath to defend the constitution and if she is convinced that the FEC is not getting quality advice in line with the constitution, she has a duty to advice accordingly.

You just need to stop reading the constitution selectively.
I am also disappointed at Jonathan and the truth is if Dora was my mother or sister I will advice her against doing the right thing because if the country is not ready to make progress there is nothing one person can do. Jonathan is the biggest culprit in all this. However that is not to say Dora did anything wrong!!!!

Who could be more ridiculous than you my pal? I neither wrote the article nor created the thread on the issue of alleged Dora Akumyili’s statements in the FEC meeting. I have stated clearly in my post that if the alleged statement credited to Dora is to be correct, the lady minister does not have a place in the corridor of democracy.

Granted the president is sick and incapacitated that he could not neither write nor detect a memo of transfer of power to VP, there not much to do than to wait until president is no longer with us. If democracy meant anything to so-called Nigerians, the best approach is to mount pressure on constitutional amendment to the provisions of section 145 of Nigerian constitution.

Ujujoan:
@ Dede 1

If the President were my father, I'll beg him to resign. Because he's making a mockery of democracy, he's abusing power and he's killing himself even more.

Sentiments aside, this country dosen't need a man who cannot even hold a coherent telephone conversation now. This is a ccritical time and the President has shown that he's too sick to manage it! It's going to four months now and he has abandoned he's job without any apology or regards for the people who put him in power. People rule from sick beds and forgive me for calling you silly, but you shd know Yar Adua's not doing that because he CANT.

He's causing more harm alive than dead. It's better he dies than hold the whole country @ ransom like this!

BTW my dad's dead. Thank you for reminding me!

Do not waste your energy in calling the sick or dead president ugly names. But I would advise you to call for the amendment of the section 145 of Nigeria constitution in order to accommodate means by which power could be transferred to VP when sick President is in a state of incapacitation.

edoyad:
Dede your ignorance is the stuff of legends. Show me a precedent of a country where a president leaves his country for treatment without someone in acting capacity ? Common sense dictates that the man who has sworn to protect the sovereignty adhere to such simple rules. Even the useless state governors we have usually leave somebody in acting capacity when they travel our for not so brief periods. You think 140 million Nigerians are illiterates like the people he governed before becoming president ?
I'm happy the docile house of reps has started debating amendment to ensure no fo.ol abuses our laws again.

I will not mind the occasion when someone displays acute stupidity in public but would take offence when such ignoramus rascality is pushed to trespass the boundary of idiocy. The last time I checked though, Nigeria is constitutional democracy not a mere figment of imagination.

I understand that Nigeria is a democracy and had three tiers of government. Since the president is being hospitalized, the federal government of Nigeria has never ceased to exist or function as country.

All these cries of handover of power to VP are coming from trolls that do not understand intrigues and test of democracy. It is no brainer in understanding that the calls of handover of power to VP were instigated more by sheer of sectional sentiments than detects of the constitution. It is unfortunate that knuckleheaded dimwits such as you that are calling for the trashing of section 145 of the Nigerian constitution failed to realize that people could also call the abrogation of the section that stood up the office VP.

Ujujoan:
The Persident is dead already and I don't need to be his physician to know that! Jeez I can't believe you . .

Who needs a confirmation of idiocy about you after reading this crap? If you are a soothsayer, you are a frustrated one indeed.

I hope someone would say the same thing you have said about the President to your father if you father is not dead already.

Remember that Mr. President is somebody’s father, brother, uncle and husband.

Ujujoan:
^^^ Don't be silly, he's not just sick. He's incapacitated.

Just because no medical personnel has declared him unfit dosent mean he isn't. She didn't defy the constitution by asking for Yar Adead to resign. People like you are the ones twisting the constitution to suit them.

You are on nobody's side? Dosen't look that way to me! And please when you say the word 'Democracy' . . I shiver! If this is Democracy, the we are ruined!

It is either you are silly or downright stupid. You are so silly that you do not even understand the meaning of the words you use in sentences such as “incapacitated”.

If your idiotic self and minister Dora Akumyili are in a hurry to hand over power to Goodluck Johnathan without adherence to detects of Nigerian constitution, you can as well kill the President.
Why would a sane person discuss democracy with a nut case such as you? I guess you are the physician prescribing treatments for the president.

I can not believe that well read fellow such as Dora Akumyili would utter such nonsensical crap as urging the sick President to hand over power to VP knowing fully well about the detects of section 145 of Nigerian constitution. The so-called Nigerian democracy must be one govern by the constitution not sectional sentiments. There is nothing in the constitution that stipulated that somebody had to call or urge visibly incapacitated president to write a letter to the senate that would allow the vice president to assume the powers of the presidency. If the alleged article that credited Dora Akumyili as calling on the president to hand over power to VP is valid, then the lady has no place in the corridor of democracy.

When Reagan was shot, one of president’s cabinet ministers was fired for just stating that “I am in charge “. Dora Akumyili should be fired for assuming the responsibilities of the constitution. Even when the president is certified dead, there are constitutional rites to perform in order to pave the way for VP to become president. It is very disgraceful to read the political shenanigans from Dora Akumyili. If Goodluck Jonathan feels that it is constitutionally okay to call the sick President to commit a letter of handover of power to him, he should be the one calling on the President to do so.

I am neither the fan of the president nor a supporter of Nigeria but believe in a democracy that is judiciously guided by the constitution. With so many Nigerians calling on the sick president to resign, I have adjudged that the so-called Nigerians have no place in steering democratic state.

egheleghe:
why must you impersonate?ikwerres are simply rivers people.we acknowdledge our similarities but not to say that we are you.you are you and we are us.ikwerre#1 you are igbo.

You are as uselessly idiotic as the slowpoke that started this thread. I can not believe it that at your present age, you still refer whatever stock of people that gave rise to you as "rivers people". What a doping fool. Can you tell us of the Ocean or Delta people? You are one of the loafers that made idiocy secure a place in Nigeria.

In addition, you are as imbecilic as the so-called Niger Delta that does not exist. What is referred as Niger Delta is a delta formed by Niger, Benue, Imo, Anambra, Utamiri and Ursahi rivers.

Katsumoto:
If you read my post again, you will observe that I did not mention Awolowo anywhere there. My post was aimed at refuting the erroneous perception that all of Lagos was developed by the Federal Government. For you information, Awolowo was premier from 1954 to 1959. How are you able to call Awo a political thug in one sentence and a respected politician in another?

Can you enlighten me on how Odumegwu Ojukwu developed Lagos? Or how Dr Eneh developed Ilupeju Industrial Estate? I think you are confusing beneficiaries of infrastructure with policy makers.

As far as Nigeria is concerned, I am not interested in counting beans but to refute to the best of my ability the inaccurate accounts of few deluded minds . During the 20s and 30s political schemes of the protectorates that forged into what is called Nigeria, Awo was a political tug and street money changer. Having said that, I have always admired how Awo charted his political rise. Yes, Awo remains my political mentor.

From 1951 to 1956, regional political leaders are not regarded as premiers because the regions did not have self-rule regional powers. It was after 1956 constitutional conference that regional powers were granted to the regions and saw the regional election of 1956. In addition, regional indigenous governors were appointed to replace the British. 

Either as policy maker or as beneficiary of infrastructures surrounding Lagos, Awolowo was never a major factor. The British took control of EKo (Lagos) in 1861 and managed the affairs of Lagos till nationalistic movements of 1920s. 

Again, men like Odimegwu Ojukwu and Majekudumi(sp) single-handled built Lagos wharf  in conjunctions with Britsh when Awo was not even conceived.

I remembered when Ilupeju had not roads and one of the industrialists that paved the way in the estate was Dr. Eneh.

What happened to Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ife, Ogbomosho, Akure, Ijebu-Ode and Owo to mention but a few? Please inform me about industrial accomplishments of WNDC which was the so-called brainchild of Awolowo’s western regional government?

Katsumoto:
Dede1/Babapupa
Dede you are wrong on your assertions. Before Lagos state was created in May 1967, some parts of Lagos were part of the Western Region. Lagos as the FCT was a very small portion of present day Lagos State. If you look at the Industrial estates listed by Babapupa, they were all under the Western region except for maybe Apapa. The parts of Lagos under the FCT were Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lagos Island, Obalende, Apapa. Anyone who knows Lagos very well will agree with me that the metropolitan areas of Lagos was bigger than the FCT administered Lagos.
See below

Lagos State was created on May 27, 1967 by virtue of State (Creation and Transitional Provisions) Decree No. 14 of 1967, which restructured Nigeria’s Federation into 12 states. Prior to this, Lagos Municipality had been administered by the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Lagos Affairs as the regional authority, while the Lagos City Council (LCC) governed the City of Lagos. Equally, the metropolitan areas (Colony Province) of Ikeja, Agege, Mushin, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry were administered by the Western Region.

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

I list them again
Mushin alone has 4 industrial estates,


Matori Industrial Estate — (Banking, shoes, furniture, Engineering products,Media & Telecommunication,foods and beverage Industries),

Ilupeju Industrial Estate — (Banking, Engineering products, cosmetics,foods and beverage Industries),

Aswani Industrial Estate — (Textiles Industries)

Ilasamaja-Isolo Industrial Estate — in which steel and aluminum products, furniture, concrete, clothing, plastics, textiles, beverages and shoes are produced.


And we still have Apapa, Amuwo, Isolo and Ikorodu industrial estates.

I have no stomach for euphoric grandstand or unfounded scheme of grandeur such as the erroneous arrogation of building of Lagos to Awolowo. Nobody is disputing the fact that Lagos is part of western region of Nigeria and nobody would argue against the fact that Abuja is part of northern region of Nigeria or in fact part of Niger State.

If Kaduna was once FCT, I bet that Ahamadu Bello would have been credited with the wonderful growth in that state.

Men such as Odimegwu Ojukwu had commenced the development of Lagos when Awolowo was a political tug. For the sake of posterity, after the 1951 regional election, Awo was not the premier as the regions have no regional powers until 1956 constitution conference. I guess Awolowo became the western region premier after 1956 regional and federal elections.

How on earth did Awolowo’s government build Lagos in 3 years and left the Ibadan the regional headquarter in a state of junk? Be mindful that Awo’s hold on the western region ended after 1959 federal election when the respected politician went to Lagos to become an opposition leader. By 1962, Awo headed to the prison. The time span has proven not to be an ally of Awo in terms of building Lagos. I guess that some demented and misguided disciples of Awo should stop exaggerating the achievements of the political figure.

I resided in Lagos in the 70s and earlier 80s, I must say that one of industrialists that developed Ilupeju industrial estate was not Awo but one Dr. Eneh of Ozidies Industries.

I repeat that it is a euphoric joke to insinuate that Awolowo developed Lagos. The economic and corporate brainchild of Awolowo was WNDC and I can count on my fingers the achievements of such corporation and Lagos is not one of them.

babapupa:
What else is new, nothing but same meaningless rubbish I guess.

Nothing is more meaningless than a laughable claim that Awolowo built Lagos. I could not recall a Yoruba person appointed as minister of Lagos when it was FCT. I wondered aloud why Awolowo did not perform the same magic in Ibadan, Ogbomosho, Ife, Abeokwuta, Akure and Owo as he did in Lagos.

They also claimed that Lt Col F Fajuyi volunteered to die with Gen. Ironsi. They also claimed that Awolowo built Lagos. They also claimed that they are the best educated bunch in European civilization. They claimed to be only natives to the territory later known as Nigeria via Oduduwa descending from the sky.

babapupa:
This has got to be the lousiest and unintelligent rubbish I've ever read.

Of course, it will appear rubbish to you because you are uneducated troll. I could not believe for a moment that you can even read.

[quote author=reporter? link=topic=386194.msg5405586#msg5405586 date=1264705669]Are you a Jew? Why bring in Jew into this?
Self-denial is your problem. You need not go far to hear chants of supremacy from your folks.
The pages of NL are littered with perceived Ibo supremacy from your stock. Rants and delusion if you ask me.
I will cull more of Ozodi Osuji's papers for you to enjoy!
You deny the obvious actions of your folks.[/quote]Of course, I am not a Jew and had no intention of converting to Judaism. I made reference of Jew in my post because of the skewed comparisons of Jew and Igbo in your misguided posts.

At least, you admitted that it is all about your illogical perception of Igbo supremacy. I shall add that it is also the figment of your imagination. You come across like a person that can tweak obvious statement into boast Ndigbo are not known for cheat-beating but believed that actions are lauder than voice.

babapupa:
The federal government did not build any of the industrial complexes in Lagos, Awolowo did when he was the premier of the western region and the complexes remains the main industrial engines in Nigeria and Lagos was a thriving community before any federal set up.

And I dare you to name anything that was built in the eastern region that's still standing today, that's if anything was ever built anyways. Were Igbo people not in charge of the eastern region.


My friend, arrant stupidity and drunken stupor is the other way around because you're casting your net against real brick and mortar facts, not den say or hand me down. You can not always sidetrack facts with trashy English words, it only makes you sound delusional and ignorant.

Is it even possible to compete with Lagos when your people are not even in Igboland, when they're not even doing anything in Igboland, when your leaders have mansions and business in Lagos and anywhere but Igboland. Who are you fooling for real? How and with what are you going to compete with?

You really need to quit surfing so hard on emotions and calm down, Yoruba people or any other group are the least of your worries, your worries are at home.

The bolded statement magnifies your inherent stupidity and shows the no-ending empty exaggerations associated with the stock of people that gave rise to you. The closet Awo came to building Lagos was that the city is part of Yoruba land by nature. By the period Lagos was designated as nation’s capital, the city was jealously controlled by the federal government through FCT ministers and they were mostly Fulani or Hausa.

AG or even Akintola’s NNDP never had control of Lagos. The first party named NNDP under the leadership of Macaulay lost the Lagos town council election in 1934/38 to YMN led by Ernest. Okoli. By this time Awo, a street money changer, was a political tug.

It is very funny and intellectually laughable to read all forms of hyperbolic statements about Awo’s achievement including the alleged building of Lagos. The only city Awolowo had power to build anything is Ibadan and I am not surprised that the city’s name does not feature prominently in your misguided and lofty scheme of grandeur.

Let me inform your lazy arse that the only infrastructure or corporation that should be created to Awolowo’s western region of Nigeria was the formation of WNDC. Believe me; the laurels of WNDC can be counted on your five fingers.

@reporter?

I am of the view that you and your famous Internet junky called Ozodi Osuji are mentally deficient. Neither the Jews nor Ndigbo have drummed the idea of their superiority to anybody.

All Ndigbo have requested and will continue to request is an innocuous sentiment of achieving sovereign status for Igbo land. I do not feel that the call of equal playing ground for everybody in Nigeria on matters that concern any human endeavor engenders any display of superiority complex.

Ozodi Osuji has issue with Osu system in Igbo land and I think it is understandable but I can not fathom your issues with superiority complex or lack thereof.

SEFAGO:
Quick point- Achebe in every way deserves the Nobel Laureate. He was not given one because of significant criticism of eurocentrism and the dehumanization of Africans in western literature most especially in Conan's Heart of Darkness. I am proud that Achebe stood up for his race first, and did not care for something as silly as a nobel laureate. Please not us insult a great man and spend more time on the useless ones on NL

I could not believe my eyes while reading a well composed easy from no less a person than SAFEGO. Pal, I urge you to stay with whatever medication you are taking now. It is working like a magic.

babapupa:
Like I said, talk is cheap, the regional set was way way before the war ( 1954 – 59) and it is you I encourage to go learn your history and equip yourself with facts and understanding. This basic failure betrays the rest of your argument.


You basically help asserted my points, you guys have  nothing but excuses and distractions for everything under the sun, even twisting history and basic facts to prove worthless points.


I dare you to itemize the so called developments in the east during the regional set up cos I have some to share with you out west.

Now, of what use and help to your people is your resilience  when your land is neglected, your sons and daughters are busy developing other people's land and calling other people's land home? What do you hope to pass down to your future generations? Underdeveloped land? or basically tell them that your people are resilience and that's why you neglected their future and help develop any land but Igbo land and shamefully and consistently brag about it?


And what in your mind do you think Lagosians were doing before the Igbo man showed up? Pounding stones? You showed up because it was a better place than where you came from, you showed up because the people were nice and accommodating, friendly and the atmosphere was good for business  and you wont be there if the atmosphere was the other way around.

I don't know why you guys rejoice and gleefully nurse the idea that Lagos will collapse if you guys ever did the right thing and go develop your homelands for the sake of your future generations. You obviously don't know Lagosians. There's a saying in Lagos back in the days of our forefathers “B’oju o ba ti Ehin’gbeti, oju o ni t’Eko”. (If “Ehingbeti is not in shame, Lagos will never be ashamed.) We always find our ways.

This is statement born out of ignorance, arrant stupidity and drunken stupor. I think the Ndigbo would want to standup a competing city to Lagos if the federal government would spend this same amount of money sunk into Lagos as federal capital on any city in Igbo land as federal capital city.

The only cities that could be mentioned in the same breathe with Lagos in regards to industrial or business orientations are Aba and Onitsha. Yet the last time I checked though, Aba and Onitsha are not former federal capital cities and do not boast of any form of Nigerian federal government presence as Lagos does.

Ibadan, Ogbomosho, Akure, and Abeokuta are not even in the picture to be mentioned in the same sentence with Lagos on any scheme.

There are codes of conduct that governor the military and police force that are not written in the constitution. If these police women satisfy the cultural and legal requirements of marriage, there is no ground for IG’s directives. However, it is the function of the police to regulate against allowing police officers from harboring touts and sluts in the barracks.

I remembered when Nigerian Police force was a thing to write home about, the married police officers have option to live outside the barracks or live within the secluded barrack areas for married officers.

@Becomrrich


I often get the thrills out of your irrepressible stupidity. If I may follow your fatally flawed analogy, persons such as Nkem Owoh and those Igbo and Ibibio persons that had last name such as Attah are none Igbo or Ibibio instead Hausa or Yoruba.

The name, UTOMI, is very unique and rear name in Igbo land and had absolutely no roots to Bini.

LAFOCUZY:
Really its difficult to pass through what these guys have passed through and what their parents may have told them and not feel the way they feel. other parts of the country were in school when these guys were besieged in war. And the treatment today has not changed.

If we look at the issue from their perspective, maybe we can very well see the points of the Gobs. Literature and publications about the war tell clearly that the Bavarian secession from Nigeria was not driven by greed both from survival. Which still happen today

The Yoruba's have also shown friendship; Somewhere in output the Gobs I understand was hidden from Nigerian soldiers. Most of them regained their properties in Lagos unlike in Port Harcourt and other part of the country.

I think I understand how the Ibo feel and perhaps most of us will react differently if we are in their place. I respect this people group for their industry and entrepreneurship.They literally have to fight for everything others get freely. So you quickly and easily see the strong reason for a Bavarian state. The insensitivity of Nigerian leaders, repeated crises in the north exacerbate the situation. The truth is that you have more Ibo clamoring for a Bavarian state today than ever before. And lets not just rule out that possibility because every major crises through history started with these agitation

Its simply unfortunate

I must say that your post contained encouraging words and good understanding of the sources of the socio-political grouses of Biafrans in today’s Nigeria.

However, certain sections of your posts have equally left with me the idea of sarcasm. It could be either honest omission or plain commission of insult to the Biafrans that you consistently written Bavarian for Biafran and Gobs for Igbos.

Other than those fallible commitments, I looked upon you as a Nigerian with intentions of unity if only you are not of Igbo ethnicity or a conniving detractor.

Becomrrich:
one 1 are old are you. any igbo old you enough , would tell you that portion of land in delta state is own by benin. with a legal document. Go and find out. if you live in london. britian museum is your first start.


Have you heard the name Pat utomi. how many igbo people are utomi.

Utomi was not given that support by ohaneze, because of history. Nigerian children abroad bear white name, it does not change their root.

under law, if i have the legal document to a place, if you live on it for generation. I am still the own of the land, because you are an immigrate. ok here is it. In oyo state, there is a place call ago fulani. It is a town in oyo state.   The town use to be a small villages where fulani separated themself and lived.

You see in lagos, ibadan and ondo etc, we have the place call sabo.    if you are in lagos. you must have heard of sabo in lagos. who first lived in those places where hausas. is ibadan or lagos yorubaland . it is yorubaland.

now in kano, they have the same system,   i am telling obaigbena people are the omo oni ile. owners of the land. igbo only came to farm. go look for people in that area, they would tell you.


on isaac boro. what i mean is,   stop trying to claim ijaw people by force. Let ijaw people be ijaw, they have thier own mind. this is the problem with nigeria. we try to force thing on others, they now hate us. 

The reason you igbo online are so deperate for the ijaws is because of oil.  look myfriend. forget oil.  make una look comot for that place. we get solution. your people would not loss. take my word for it. we know what we are doing. Just vote for the yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa to join benin first.


You dont want nigeria to fall into a war before you save it.
you see we have back up in war, arsenal  emmanuel adebayo is not a NIGERIAN. he is a YORUBAMAN. NOT A NIGERIA.

Can you see the word in togo satellte pictures Agbatope and anago. You can see the size of kano compared to cotonou and lome.



https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/523/32790247.jpg

I must resist the temptation to ascribe entire stock of your people as being foolish because a single act of a loafer such as you. It is your privilege to brazenly display your stark ignorance in the public but you do not have the right to distort history.

One of the Obas in Oguiso(sp) dynasty stated that one of the worse decisions he ever made was engage in territorial expansion toward south-east. It was alleged that the series of defeats the so-called Benin Empire received from Igbo warriors forced the Oba to look south-westward for his fancy.

I shall also advise to stay in south-west and never venture into south-east if your knowledge of Igbo land is limited to the nonsensical craps you post on this forum. It is only a stranger to Igbo land that does not understand the meaning of “UTOMI”. In fact, a person must be true son of soil to decipher the meaning of Utomi in Igbo land.

akigbemaru:
Back to you "Onlytraitor" or holytreachery or onlytruth

You people can hate on Yoruba from today till tomorrow, you can't do sh.it. Because one who can't conquer somebody would not dare lay an ambush, unless he wants twice beaten.

Please, beg gods of Biafra to help you people go back to your little portion of land in Eastern Jungle. We still have one Nigeria, there is over-crowding already in the Biafran land, if you guys secede your situation would be so pathetic!!! I guess your moochers still waiting on because you are milking oil money. Thanks God, that the largess of Awolowo never let Western Region secede at that time, your oil I mean Oyel like Ibo people called it had gone finishing since 1800s, what would you people would have been eating?

Let me set the record straight now!
I think after my calculaton below, which is nothing but the truth (you will not be proud of Calabar and Rivers.
To the Ijaws and we Yoruba westerners, Isacc Adaka Boro was an hero and a legend; but to all Bia-failed people or ill-jerk monkey (he was a criminal) just because he got back Port Harcourt and River state from the greedy Igbo people (just like how OJUKWU is a criminal to Ijaw people).
Let me do the math for you fool! Check from this Bia-failed link below to calculate your remaining landmass. http://www./Biafra%20facts%201967.htm
Birthday: May 30, 1967

Capital: Enugu (Umuahia from Oct. 1967)

Population: 15 million

Area: 30,000 sq. miles

Ethnic Groups: Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Ogoja, Ijaw, etc.
Back then, the Bia-failed landmass was 26,000 sq. miles; but they claimed from the above website that it was 30,000 sq. miles, which I believe was a hoax.
Then, to satisfy you, I will use 30,000 sq. miles to do my calculation.
Here it goes: Multiply 30,000 sq. miles by 2.5 to convert it to Kilometer square = (75,000 km²)
Now, go back to Ethicity, just push Ibibio, Efik, Ogoja and Ijaw to the side (because if you ask them if they are Igbos, they will nearly got you bitten before they would reject it overthere dead body to be called Igbo).
This is what constitutes Igboland:
Anambra (4,844km²)
Enugu state (7,161 km2)
Imo state (5,530 km²)
Abia state (6,320km²)
Ebonyi state (5,530 km²)
Total is (29, 385 km²) not up to Kogi state (29,833 km²) talkless of Kwara state (36,825 km²)




Then,Efiks, Bekwara, Ibibio and Ejagham (own Cross river and Akwa Ibom) and they are 5 million strong

Cross river (20,215km²)
Akwa Ibom (7,081km²)
Total landmass is (27,296km²)

Then, Ijaw and Annago
Delta state (17,698 km²)
River state (14,201 km²)
Bayelsa state (10,773 km²)
Total landmass is (42, 672km²) if you add Edo (17,802 km²)
Total is (60,474km²) more than times two of the whole Bia-failed nation. Damn it, y’all just got donk son!

Taraba state 54,473 km²
Adamawa state (36,917km²)
Benue state (34,059 km²)
Total land Hausa took away from the East (125,449 km²). Haba! Y’all got donk again! In my own opinion, there is nothing like South East, since majority is from the North. Let’s put Bia-failed land with its (29, 385 km²) to the North. How about that son?

I thought to have seen ignoramus nincompoops but none is a bigger dumb arse than this author. I am always thrilled by watching the troll display his/her stark ignorance in a public. The dude is a waste of human endeavor. At least, you should try to get the correct ethnic groupings in Nigeria before going into the complex world of mathematics.

bashdecash:
@ Mrprsdent,

Not really fear them, but should we be making utterances that will provoke some class of people and make them retaliate?

going back to history, the 15th january mutiny was not what made the northerners to go for a barbaric re-match, it was as a result of the utterances and mockery by the eastern civilians in offices and market places as well as igbo soldiers in the barracks that provoked the northerners.

Tunde Bakare's utterance is one of the like that can raise another dust.

Please if you do not know your history, it is fine you are ignorant of facts surrounding the recorded events of your country. But it is not your right to distort history and engage in flagrant display of conjectural crap.

What “utterances and mockery by the eastern civilians in offices and market places as well as Igbo soldiers in the barracks” are you blabbing about?

One of cardinal reasons of January 15, 1966 coup was to get rid of northern Nigerian army officers that were not qualify to wear the uniform of NCO talk less of commissioned officer. The same core unqualified officers that instigated the counter coup of July 29, 1966 formed the leagues officers that ran Nigeria into the mud. Even few of them could not remember taken the final examination from their respective High Schools

Any southern Nigerian that has just recently acknowledged the tactics of “divide and rule” by the northern Nigerian political elites is simply a fool. The same ploy has given rise to south-south, south-east and the so-called Niger Delta.

@poster
As one poster has already stated, you can donate through Red Cross or GSM line (Globacom only) by text to HAITI to 33090.


@"charity begins at home"

It is very unfortunate that Nigerians are quick to compare oranges to apples. The mayhem in Haiti was as a result of unforeseen contingence. The disturbance in Jos is an avoidable catastrophe brought upon by the inhabitants of the city of Jos including the indigenes and non-indigenes. I do not believe that the principles intended by the saying that “charity begins at home” apply in these scenarios. Besides, it is the donor’s inalienable privilege to act as he/she wishes.

It is unfortunate that every political move instigated by Ijo always states and ends with crude oil. The truth must be told to Ijo that they neither own crude oil nor the piece of estate the crude oil is struck.

If all the oil wells are aggregated according to the domain of ethnic groups, the Ijo people will be highly disappointed that their so-called northern Nigerian masters and Ijo political leadership have been feeding them with crap about crude oil deposit in the jungle called Nigeria.

By the period the Yoruba people were using juju to round non-Yoruba folks out of town from the regional house of assembly in Ibadan, Ndigbo had elected an Hausa man as the first mayor of Enugu.

I could not fathom the crass interlude between irreparable stupidity and plain nonchalance to facts among certain grade of the so-called Nigerians. There is no iota of bravery on the part of Lt. Col F. Fajuyi with regard to the governor’s death. Fajuyi was declared a co-conspirator with January 15, 1966 coup d’etat plotters and was marked for death by counter-coup plotters of July 29, 1966 coup. I shall repeat that there was no period in time that Fajuyi volunteered to die with the C-in-C. The feel-happy and shameful propaganda was set in motion by the Western Region of Nigerian government publication of 1967 as a ploy to save face from deplorable act of cowardice in the face of aggressor. 

@buffnaija

It is no gain-saying that you lacked elementary tutoring from your parents. Your display of unguided ignorance left me perplexed as to whom to blame about your incurable mess.
I shall not waste my time in getting your lazy arse started on what constituted as a farce which you and your forbearers had been hoodwinked to believe and currently referred as Niger Delta. I do not give a slightest hoot to the phrase “Niger Delta” as it is today because it is a machination born out of greed and wholesome stupidity.

@bebrief

I guess you could have done yourself significant amount of favor if you have carried your idiocy to the grave while unpackaged. Probably, you would have been patting your father and uncles on the back if they had prostrated before the aggressors and allowed your mother and sisters to be jacked up by drunken and murderous Nigerian vandals.

Ndigbo in particular and Biafrans in general did not start or called for war in 1967. Gowon, northern Nigerian elites and the so-called Nigerians (southern Nigerians baring Biafrans) precipitated a war of attrition on Biafrans. I hope it does not surprise you that the malignant f.ools from the southern Nigeria who had joined the forces that fought Biafra are either publicly denouncing their participation in the war or shamefully clamoring for division of their war slogan of One-Nigeria into north and south.