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I laugh when people stick their heads in the sand and spew crap about tribalism or the need to end tribalism in Nigeria without agitating the need to end the country as configured. Nigeria is another name for tribalism. People should quit being delusional about the talk of getting rid of tribalism in Nigeria.

Federal character, quota system and zone are all products of inherent tribalism in Nigeria. It is humanly impossible to ask a person born and bred as Yoruba to accept Igbo or Fulani or Hausa or Ibibio or Ijo or Tiv etc as Yoruba and vis-à-vis.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns]Canada and America, like Nigeria, were once British commonwealth. Canada and America no longer keep to the British protocol. Britain does not have a licensed right on how or in what format your military apparels are worn. Because Nigerian Army is a conventional fighting force it is bound by crrtain protocols to keep within a degree of complianc but is not as narrow and constricting as you have alarmed it to be.

If the regimen are so tight as you portray it, then Idi Amin would have been court martialed for his numerous military uniform and rank violations alone.[/quote]I spent most of time on the campus of military staff college somewhere on earth where military personnel from countries around world attend courses. At no time will military officers from Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel or South Africa wear a combination of patches of military ranks on the cap or uniform. Only moronic dingbats in Nigeria will turn themselves into billboards of military ranks from regiment of two countries.

The few times I saw Idi Amin in military uniform, he had worn uniform and rank depicting Field Marshall as rooted in British military culture.

T9ksy: @ bolded..............Abi ojare!!!

Am sure its also equally an unpardonable miscarriage of history to insinuate that Zik and his NCNC party won the 1951 regional election in western nigeria for

over half a century. All available evidences points to it been just a fringement of you and your ilk's wide and warped imagination. Hey! but that still hasn't

stopped you ibos from regurgitating the same fallacious tales to all and sundry without once providing any shred evidence to substaintiate your wild and

malicious allegation.

I am certainly assured you will not recognize a shred of evidence even when placed under your nose.

[quote author=Gen. Orumov]I don't think Disintegration will totally solve our problems. Nigeria's main problem may be tribalism and religion but we have other countries that have more than one tribe and religion but their's isn't as pathetic as Nigeria's. Our major problem is poverty which has led to serious corruption. Even if we disintegrate, corruption which is now part of our orientation and culture will still hold us back. Jonathan has said it all. Attitude is our major challenge.[/quote]Of course there are many countries with more than one tribe and religion but they are not Nigeria or experienced war of attrition (civil war) engendered by the differences rooted in ethnicity and religion. It is unfortunate Nigeria has heroes and heroines validated only by their ethnic and religious background. There were many factors that kicked off Nigeria\Biafra civil war but none is greater than tribalism.

It appears Nigerians tend to live in state of denial hence the prevalent corruptions and acts of lawless that besieged the society. Any drastic attempt to corral the decadence in Nigerian society will open a plethora of ethnic tensions.

If Republic of Igbo land decides one morning to shot its corrupt leaders, it does not need to worry about backlash or cry of unfairness from Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Kanusi, Nupe, Idoma, Ijo, Efik, Tiv, Edo, Esan, Urhobo, Birom, Bachama, Ejegam, Ogoni, etc.

There is no doubt in mind that disintegrated Nigeria shall be more progressive than the current cesspit.

@OP

It is an unpardonable miscarriage of history to remotely insinuate that Lt Col Gowon was the choice of coup plotters of July 29, 1966. All available evidences have suggested that Lt Col Gowon was an integral part of the coup plotters and active participant in July 29, 1966 coup.

odumchi: Although I'm still not sufficiently convinced that he hails from Enugu, I'll respect what you said. The fact still remains that Celestine Ukwu actually did say so and it equally wouldn't be fair to assume that that particular line was connected to his guitarist since there isn't any apparent evidence to suggest so. But then again, his dialect sounds akin to what you'd hear outside of Ndokwa. You might be right.

Bros, you are free to believe anything but bear in mind belief is not truth.

@OP

It is rather unfortunate that Okirika outfit decided to publicly and politically indict Dokubo-Asari on known political fad that had reduced the people of so-called Niger Delta and South-south into self-denial artists, deceitful neighbors and outright panhandlers. It is funny to see people fight, kill themselves and finally settle for cheap handout over what is presumed to be under their feet. Americans say one can not fix stupidity.

meforkene: And your point being?people get shot everywhere around d whole world..check any world news..what I know is if u go out of ur way to talk about ppl then u have an inferiority complex or those ppl r actually ahead of you.
Its been a long time I lost respect for the moderators on NL.
Truth is,if you keep on hating ibos na u go die o cos igbos would always be in ur face n all around u,everyday of ur life till u die,no matter where u go..n'ata isi ewu na nkwobi

Do not pay any mind to goofy jason123 who has fallen in love with a stiff. One town in USA sees more murder cases by gun in day than Nigeria experiences in a month.

koruji: This coming from the mouth of people who promote Igbo supremacy on this forum!!!

Why can't the nation of Nigeria be shamed into performance by the US? You fool yourself.

It is not the tribalism per se it is people that exploit tribal and religious differences to steal us blind - and the fools who because of their tribal supremacy views get taken by common thieves.

It is poignant to notice your degree of ignorance especially in the silly allusion why Nigeria has not being shamed by USA. Nigeria is not a contemporary of USA either in the formative stages or growth. USA is country erected with unalloyed focus and based on one culture-English.

In your infinite wisdom, you deduce the problem is not tribal and religious differences but people who exploit them. One wonders how people can exploit a situation that does not exist. I guess bloody fools who could not discern an existing situation for exploitation and blinded by imaginary fear of self-sustenance are taken by clever and common thieves.

Nigeria’s main problem is rooted in tribalism and religion. The only remedy to Nigeria’s misery is disintegration. It is a perceived fact that the Republic of Igbo-land will try to avoid the instances of being shamed for lacking behind Republic of Odua in terms of socio-politico-economic development, vis-à-vis. There shall be a healthy competition as well as cooperation among the nation states. In addition, there shall be a genuine fight against corruption among the nation states.

aribisala0: You are a dunce! What is your point exactly? We know you are never coherent in speaking why not just order some snuff!
Wipe your mouth before people see your saliva.

If I call you a dullard, it is a heavy-handed compliment.

aribisala0: No old man it is NOT stupidity . THat is the NEW CAMOUFLAGE which was launched this year.http://nigeriannewstrack.com/wpnnt/?p=612
Camouflage is different from regular gear and I guess reading ranks may be confusing to some.

Now I would like to believe that they have reasons for that and would have gone through some process to arrive at that decision.So rather than come and expose your empty head in public AGAIN why not send for some more SNUFF

I have learnt not to cross words with irredeemable lappers such as you. My post has nothing to do with your inconsequential goofy reference on camouflage. A staff officer in Nigerian armed forces should not be a flag post.

The typical example is the naval officer depicted on the video. On the cap, he wore three stars while on the shoulders are the correct naval insignia yet on the cullers of his uniform are British\Nigerian red ribbons signifying his naval rank.

It is a disgrace for a military officer to become a billboard of insignias that represent his\her ranks from two military backgrounds among professional armed forces, olodo.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns]you love parading your stewpidity in public square.

what military convention says you can have one or the other but not both styles?[/quote]What a bloody fool. I guess you have never seen a military parade ground in your entire miserable life. Military is strictly regimented and will not tolerate a patchy uniform talk less of wearing uniform out of formal protocol. Nigerian military culture and tradition are rooted in the British armed forces.

It is the height of stupidity on the part of governor Obi to spend the money meant for the people of Anambra State on Nigerian army.

Everything about Nigeria exudes stupidity. Granted that staff cars of the officers with the rank of general are designated with STARs corresponding to the officer’s rank, it is plain idiocy to imitate American military parlance by wearing a British rank insignia as well as USA’s.

In the picture where governor Obi handed the keys to the Maj. Gen. Oshinowo, the general wore the British\Nigerian rank on his lower chest and USA format on his cullar. It is a bad joke that the general wore two stars on the culler of his uniform instead of red ribbon that represent the British\Nigerian rank of Maj. Gen. I wonder what prevented him from wearing two stars on his berate instead of Nigerian insignia of the rank of Maj. Gen.

[quote author=Okija_juju].Do we really need a Law for this?!

How does a cofin shop near or far away from a Hospital affect the quality of Healthcare?!

Na wah for Nigeria o!!

[/quote]Na wah wah wah for Nigeria o!!! I guess Ondo State is filled to the brink with silliness. Why not ban the sell of coffin in entire Ondo State?

Anybody who is stuck in the country called Nigeria and remotely believed in the nonsense called One-Nigeria is ravaged by “stockholm syndrome”. By the way, who in his\her right senses would associate with a country Dayolodo calls home?

I have met both senator and governor close and personal. It does not take a rocket scientist to discern that the governor is a motor park tout. Rochas Okorocha lacked decency and class in every human endeavor. Even his taste for everything shows elegantly.

@OP

The title of the thread is as deceptive as the poster. How could a car that runs on “electric generators and batteries” also powered by wind?

@OP

The post is a bunch of baloney. I guess the article would have attracted a second glance if the name of JS Tarka was omitted. One of the reasons the Nigerian soldiers precipitated January 15, 1966 coup was issue of JS Tarka, Tiv riot of 1964 and NPC led by Bello. Yet it was the same JS Tarka the Mobile Corporation drafted to circumvent the pleas and cries of Biafrans before American public.

Fashola’s achievement or lack thereof is typical Yoruba loudmouthed acts of hype and exaggeration.

[quote author=Dudu_Negro]It is very nice to read Igbos herald all these successes by Sir Ojukwu. It is evident that Mr Ojukwu was the shaker and mover of all coroprate companies operating in Nigeria at that time and on record in the security exchange registers.

So then on the topic of lost savings and investments, Achebe must not be aware of these feats by Sir Ojukwu. If he did he should have directed ndigbo to ACB, Guiness, Costain, John Holt and the rest of them for recovery and not waste time assassinating the character of Awo as he did blaming him for Igbo losses.

If Awo could single handedly sit on the entire Igbo treasures, then whatever Sir Ojukwu was known for and narrated by you all is only ceremonial and did not in anyway had a rooting influence, one way or another, on economy and business or finance and trading.[/quote]Shut up your wild putrid mouth. Awolow never had a character talk less the one to be assassinated by venerable Chinua Achebe. Why would impeccable intellectual such Achebe want to soil his hands by assassinating a tribal bigot and convicted criminal such as Awolowo?

Awolowo never sat on Igbo treasures but was once appointed commissioner for finance of federal government of Nigeria. Baring Gowon, Awolowo would have remained politically nobody and will never surface in a meaningful discussion in Nigeria.

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Sometimes, I wonder aloud how Fashola and bunch of lawyers in Nigeria got to the position of SAN. Every law, including the ban of Okada, should flow from the constitution or statutory code enacted by the legislative bodies. Fashola is one example of Nigerians who are driving democracy to the mud.

odumchi: In his song "Uso Ndu", Celestine Ukwu said: "Ka anyi welunu ofu obi bili na udo na Ndokwa"; that's why I am saying that he is from Delta.

Thanks for the correction on Victor Uwaifo, I meant to say a different Victor who is from Delta. To me, it seems as if it just boils down to a matter of personal opinion. In my opinion: it's Anambra and Delta, while in yours it's apparently Imo.

I do not think it is prudent for student of music to base issue of fact simply on lyrics. Musicians are known to sing songs composed by a member of their bands. In the case of Celestine Ukwu with alleged song “Uso Ndu”-“Ka anyi welunu ofu obi bili na udo na Ndokwa”, I deduce it is connected with Emma Ikediashi who happened to be Celestine Ukwu’s lead guitarist.

Internet is one of the greatest inventions of mankind but it has unimaginable flaws.

@OP

It is laughable and downright embarrassing to watch the dunces and their idiotic audiences make fool out of them selves. In one paragraph, the narrator stated northern region, including Bello and Balewa, was not ready for Nigerian independence in 60 and not capable of handling self-governance, yet in another paragraph the narrator stated that Bello and Balewa were traditionally schooled and readied for governance. I guess the narrator can not eat his\her cake and have it. If I say the narrator is intellectually bankrupt, it is simply an understatement.

Fashola is another figure caught in the usual Yoruba over exaggerated and hyped instances of empty achievements. If Ibadan never existed, Awolowo would have been nominated as the maker of heaven and earth based on Yoruba fairy tales.

olas2u: where will you be living then?

I shall call the Republic of Igbo land a home sweet home and kiss everlasting bye-bye to moronic Nigeria.

Did not know Nigeria is a cesspit.

alj harem: Ise !!!!! goat

Funny stuff indeed.