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Osaze007:
Title of post is not sustainability

How can you become a producer of foods and die of hunger? What the hell is IGR when the state lacks ability to sustain itself?

The funny is that the lies perpetrated by the Yari.ba peeps have continued unabated. Everyday, the young Yari.ba people seemed to proliferate the falsehood bore by their forbears. From 1951 carpet-crossing, Fajuiyi sage in Ibadan to shooting war between Nigeria and Biafra, the Yari.ba peeps seemed to enjoy their lies. .

The people should exhume the pipeline from Port Harcourt to Kaduna, even though it is not functional.

Canavaro2077:
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Elder Wole Oyelese, has described as unfortunate the attack on his personality by the state leadership of the party.

The PDP chieftain said most politicians at the grassroots lack knowledge of what politics is about.

He insisted that President Buhari is one incorruptible Nigerian.

In a telephone chat, he said: “I’ve never been a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and have no intention to be. The writers are very ignorant of what politics is about. It is unfortunate that most politicians in Nigeria, especially at the grassroots, are not knowledgeable about what politics should be. To them, politics is just the quickest avenue to get rich. National development and development of human and material resources do not matter to them. The welfare of the common man does not matter to them as long as they have their clique in positions plundering the commonwealth.


“I did not say anything derogatory about the PDP. My antecedents do not suggest that I condone corruption. Since I left office as a two-time minister and once as a Special Adviser, nobody has invited me to account for anything. So, I utterly disdain corruption. This extends my love for President Buhari as a person who I have known to be incorruptible.

“Secondly, as the President, I know he is laying the right foundation for development of Nigeria. I admit very much that people are suffering in the country, and this is bad. This is an area I will want President Buhari to do more and bring succour to the people.

“I still repeat that President Buhari is one person I respect, and I maintain that he is incorruptible. I challenge anyone to publish any bank account containing huge sums of money or buildings in Nigeria or any part of the world that belong to President Buhari to prove he is corrupt. Otherwise, they must be quiet.”


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/buhari-incorruptible-oyelese-insists/amp/

He who comes for equity must come with a clean hand. The saga that surrounds Muhammdau Buhari's enlistment into Nigerian army is corruption incarnate. The dude is a human corruption. By the way sir, you have spoken like a typical loudmouthed Yari.ba. If you are broke due to political activities in PDP, you can simply beg for help. Stop the unfounded praises of the dumbass dude from the Katsina State.

iliyande:
By Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo.....

The former Minister of Defense and an elder statesman, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.) on Saturday urged Nigerians to defend themselves against killers in the country.

Danjuma made the call while speaking at the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State.

“I am not a politician and politics is one profession I don’t want to belong to because if I am a politician, I would not say what I am going to say to you now.

“When I arrived this arena, I saw rich cultural display, and I was amazed at the rich cultural heritage of our people. Taraba is a mini Nigeria with diverse ethnic groups living together peacefully, but the peace in this state is under assault.

“There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and of course, some rural states in Nigeria. “We must resist it. We must stop it. Everyone of us must rise up.”

Details later.

http://punchng.com/breaking-defend-yourselves-against-killers-says-ty-danjuma/amp/#click=https:///wJMfEYZtnl

The rant of a willing slave. The visionary statements of Ahmadu Bello had come to pass.

fakeprophet:
I blocked some of my friends, I mean friends of liberal minds, friends who actually contributed positively to my life. I thought they were supporting gej for no reason. i was calling them all sort of names... TAN ipob etc. I never knew they have seen something that I have not.

Maxwell
Kefas
chidubem
Chidozie
Arinze
Rebecca

I don't know where you guys are now, you guys should forgive me, really made mistake supporting poo in Asorock

weekend of reflections.....

iam full of regrets......

You are a typical Nigerian. Most Nigerians are not apprehensive of their surroundings. Yet they make the most noise about what they know very little about. It is a strait found commonly among Africans. The fact that entire Africa is backward does not go for nothing.

sangresan:
Go and sleep dude...The cross-carpeting happened in your "brain"....



The leader of the Ibadan People Party was Chief Adisa Meredith Akinloye...He lived a long time after the saga and properly wrote down what happened....If you still choose to believe what your kinsmen told you rather than search for the truth, it's your cup of tea...

I do not know when a ninny such as you came in contact with historic facts about western region of Nigeria. Please note that the IPP was led in conjunction with one Adegoke Adelabu. By the way, Adisa Meredith Akinloye was not only an original carpet-crossing ninny, he was equally a backstabber. Adisa Meredith Akinloye also defected to NNDP from Action Group and made sure Awolowo was imprisoned.

olabrad:
You mean like

Lauretta Onochie
Joe Igbokwe
Rochas Okorocha
Rotimi Amechi
Iwuanyanwu, etc?

Your igbo tribe is the definition of true slaves to the north. Stop being stupid

Iwuanyanwu remains a stalwart in PDP. I guess it takes one slave to the north to recognize another.

sangresan:
Only an slowpoke will make such a meaningless rhetoric...


Go back and digest what was in the referred quote...

After the carpet-crossing saga was understood, what happened in the next subsequent election? The AG lost its deposit.

sangresan:
Stupid remarks....In the Parliamentary System, a local party could contest elections into the regional house of assembly...Don't expose your ignorance further.


Ibadan People Party was a party formed to protect Ibadan interests...There were also local parties in the Ondo and Edo provinces...


There was also a room for independent candidacy which Nigerians are just clamouring for in the present Republic....

Independent candidacy ensured that you could contest for a post without belonging to any party...After the election, if you emerged the winner, you could form alliance with other parties to form the govt.
Many political gladiators used that route after disagreements with their parties...

No party had presence in the whole of Nigeria even though the NCNC was the largest...They only had areas of strength and sundry political alliances....NPC had no candidate in the South but it was still considered a political party....Ditto the NCNC and the Action Group.....

Many of you don't even understand the Parliamentary System not to talk of arguing intelligently....
This isn't a political tutorial anyway...

Why do most foolish and idiotic Nigerians tend to start off with insults on subject they know nothing about?

Mynd44:
This thread says the opposite.

Who do we believe?

https://www.nairaland.com/4412839/efcc-cant-declare-anyone-wanted

The narrative from the above link is sound and in line with statutory edict establishing EFCC.

If Justice A. O. Musa made such declaration, he or she is not qualified to be a member of the bench.

usba:
EFCC should be allowed unrestricted powers to go against criminals

If "power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Sometimes I wonder what actually got in the water taken in 1967 by the so-called Christians from northern region of Nigeria.

Deadlytruth:
Though I am neither Yoruba nor Igbo, my open minded research of Nigeria's history leads me to the conclusion that Nigeria's current failure as a country is 95℅ attributable to the self delusions, short-sightedness/greed and stupidity of Zik and Ironsi.
These two figures did a lot of damage to the future of the entire Southerners in the context of the North-South dichotomy.
While there are generally no heroes in Nigeria in the true sense of the word, Zik and Ironsi are relatively the worst villains whose choices and actions laid the foundations of all the present confusion, bloodshed, misrule, etc that have come to define Nigeria as a Shithole.

I really do not know how far in research your open mind attended. I hope it included when Zik called for confederation for Nigeria in 1950 Ibadan conference. With the backing of British who had written unfounded attributes of Awolowo in certain quarters, Awolowo threatened the members of conference with secession. Awolowo wanted Nigeria the way the British had prescribed, deceitful federalism with all the powers at the center. It was the first time any would-be Nigerian used the word in threatening remark.

Deadlytruth:
Here it is below. It is very long on account of its being very detailed in order to put an end the lie that Zik won and Awolowo used tribalism to deny him of victory.


First Nigeria Regional Elections:
Western Nigeria 1951 Elections
Matthew Mbu and history:
Ambassador Mathew Mbu is a well-
respected Nigerian. But in this piece,
veteran journalist, Mr Felix Adenaike
challenges some of his claims about
Nigeria's past 'Falsehood may have
its hour, but it has no future' -
Francois D. Pressense
In what seemed his 48th
independence anniversary gift to
Nigerians, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu,
politician, lawyer and diplomat, gave
The Nation an interview run in its
October 1 edition addressing some
political issues in Nigeria of which he
had been a key player. Among
others, he spoke on the Western
Nigeria election held in 1951, two
generations ago, and repeated the
claim of the National Council of
Nigeria and the Cameroon (NCNC)
that it won that poll, but had been
robbed of victory. Then as now, Dr.
Mbu did not provide any evidence to
substantiate the NCNC claim.
Dr. Mbu said of that election held on
24 September 1951 that: "Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the
Western Region of Nigeria, not by
the electorate, but by the leaders.
The NCNC won the election against
the Action Group (led by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action
Group introduced what was
unknown to Nigerian history",
namely, "carpet crossing. They
Action Group bought members of
the NCNC to join the Action Group
after these people had won election
on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the
leader of a majority party in the
Western Region became the Leader
of Opposition overnight".
Reminded by the interviewer that the
late Chief AMA Akinloye had
maintained in his lifetime that he
and his group had contested the
election on a neutral platform from
the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: "That is his
version. He is entitled to say what he
wants to say. I don't want to say ill of
the dead. He knew he was NCNC and
his group was NCNC. Adelabu
remained NCNC. He stuck on to
NCNC till he died".
The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba
Mbadiwe said in his autobiography,
Rebirth of a nation, among others
that: "But in pursuance of the policy
of creating a political climate healthy
enough to make one a citizen
wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe
contested and won the general
elections in 1951 into the Western
House of Assembly. To stultify this
policy of one Nigeria in favour of his
tribally-based philosophy, Chief
Awolowo got some elected members
to cross carpet from the NCNC to his
AG side. Zik the victor lost. And
Awolowo's party was able to form the
government of the Western Region."
At a news conference in Lagos on 20
September 1989, more than two
years after Chief Awolowo's death,
Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic
saying: "Dr. Azikiwe and his party
won the majority of seats in the
Western House of Assembly. He was
due to be elected the Leader of
Government Business, when
overnight, the Action Group
introduced the notorious carpet-
crossing. By this manipulation,
members who won under the NCNC
crossed over to the Action Group
building it to become the majority
party in the West. As a result of this,
Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of
Government Business and Dr.
Azikiwe had to resign."
Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe
named the members of the NCNC
who contested the election on the
party's platform and later joined the
Action Group to enable Chief
Awolowo form the government to
the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These
are weighty allegations such that
they would have assisted their
readers to clear the issues rather just
repeat their own version of the
events at that time in the hope that
such repetition would turn
falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over
candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the
Government Public Relations Officer,
wrote to the parties to furnish a list
of the candidates contesting election
on their platforms. Only the Action
Group complied with this request
and its list of candidates was as
follows:
1. Ijebu Remo Division - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode Division - S.O. Awokoya,
Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips;
3. Oyo Division - Chief Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A.
Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun Division - SL Akintola, JO. Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola;
5. Ondo Division - P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko;
6. Okitipupa Division - Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA
Tewe and SO Tubo;
7. Epe Division - SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and
C.A. Williams;
8. Ikeja Division - O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO
Okuntola;
9. Badagry Division - Chief
CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev.
GM Fisher;
10. Egba Division - J.F.
Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole,
Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso,
SB Sobande, IO Delano and A
Adedamola.
The others were as follows:
11. Egbado Division - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A.
Fafunmi, Adebiyi Adejumo, A. Akin
Illo and P.O. Otegbeye;
12. Ife Division -
Rev S.A. Adeyefa, D.A. Ademiluyi, J.O.
Opadina, and S.O. Olagbaju;
13. Ekiti Division - E.A. Babalola, Rev. J Ade
Ajayi, S.K. Familoni, S.A. Okeya and D
Atolagbe;
14. Owo Division - Michael
Adekunle Ajasin, A.O. Ogedengbe, JA
Agunloye, LO Omojola and R.A.
Olusa;
15. Western Ijaw Division - Pere
EH Sapre-Obi and MF Agidee;
16. Ishan Division - Anthony Enahoro;
17. Urhobo Division - WE Mowarin, J.B. Ohwinbiri
and JD Ifode;
18.Warri Division - Arthur
Prest and O. Otere, and
19. Kukuruku Division - D.J.I. Igenuma.
Of the names on the list, only MA
Ajasin from Owo Division, which
comprised Akoko then, did not run
because of party solidarity and unity
in Owo. He stood down for A.O.
Ogedengbe and R.A. Olusa to contest
two of the three seats, which they
won, while D.K. Olumofin won the
third for the NCNC.
Three secretaries of the Action Group, who ran as independents and won were:
1. Egba Division- Alhaji D.S. Adegbenro
2. Ekiti Division - J.O. Osuntokun, and
3. Epe Division - S.O. Hassan.
At the close of polls on 24 September
1951, the Action Group had won 38
of the 72 seats in contention out of the total of 80 in the Regional Assembly. The shortfall was due to the fact that elections had been postponed in Lagos and Benin due to security concerns. Lagos had five seats in the West Regional Assembly all later won by the NCNC in the election of 20 November 1951, while Benin had three all later won by Otu Edo candidates in the election of 6 December 1951.
Of the 68 candidates on the list furnished by the Action Group to the Government PR
Department, 38 of the elected AG
members were from that list, and were as follows:
1. Ijebu Remo - Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole;
2. Ijebu Ode - Rev. SA Banjo and S.O. Awokoya;
3. Oyo - Bode Thomas,
Abiodun Akerele, ABP Thomas, TA Amao and SB Eyitayo;
4. Osun - S.L. Akintola, J.O. Adigun, JA Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I.A. Adejare, J.A.
Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola.
Other elected AG members from the
list were:
5. Egba - J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji
AT Ahmed, Rev. S.A. Daramola and
Prince Adedamola;
6. Egbado (now Yewa) - J.A.O. Odebiyi, D.A. Fafunmi and A. Akin Illo;
7. Ekiti - E.A. Babalola
and Rev. J. Ade-Ajayi; Badagry - Chief
CD Akran and Rev. G.M. Fisher;
8. Ikeja - SO Gbadamosi and O Akeredolu-
Ale;
9. Ife - Rev. SA Adeyefa and SO Olagbaju;
10. Owo - AO Ogedengbe and RA Olusa;
11. Epe - Safi Lawal Edu;
12. Okitipupa - C.A. Tewe;
13. Western Ijaw - M.F. Agidee;
14. Ishan - Anthony Enahoro, and
15. Warri - Arthur Prest.
In addition to the Action Group and
the NCNC, there were local/divisional
parties such as the Ibadan People's
Party (IPP), led by Chief AMA
Akinloye; Ondo Improvement
League, and Otu Edo of Benin. At the
end of poll, the standing of the
parties was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. NCNC and its loyal Independents - 25;
3. IPP - 6
4. Ondo Improvement League - 2.
5. Otu Edo candidates won the three
Benin seats, namely, Chief SO
Ighodaro, Chief Humphrey Omo-
Osagie and Chief Chike Ekwuyasi.
Chief Ighodaro opted for the AG,
while the latter two went to the
NCNC. And of the six IPP elected
members, only Adegoke Adelabu
joined the NCNC. The rest of them:
AMA Akinloye, Chief DT Akinbiyi
(who later became the Olubadan of
Ibadan), Chief SO Lanlehin,
Moyosore Aboderin and SA
Akinyemi, opted for the Action
Group. The NCNC National Secretary,
the late Chief Kola Balogun had sent
declaration forms to the IPP
assemblymen asking them to declare
for the NCNC but Chief Akinloye
returned all the forms uncompleted.
The three AG secretaries who had
run as independents - Adegbenro,
Osuntokun and Hassan, five IPP
members, one Etu Edo, and one
Ondo Improvement League, Chief
F.O. Awosika; and Chief Timothy
Adeola Odutola (Independent, Ijebu
Ode) had swollen the number of the
AG elected members. All the
transactions had taken place before
the inauguration of the Regional
Assembly on 7 January 1952. These
were not known members of the
NCNC, nor did the party publish their
names on the list of its candidates,
but claimed them as its "members,
supporters or sympathisers",
according to inimitable Zik in his My
Odyssey, " It takes more than
speculation to claim a person as a
member of your political party". You
cannot just be under the
"impression" as Zik had claimed that
they were and go ahead to field them
as electoral candidates.
For over a
half century, the NCNC is yet to
provide evidence to back its claim
that it had won the West Regional
election in 1951.
Mr Cooper absolved his department
of responsibility for the controversy
generated by the NCNC after the
election. At a post election news
conference in Lagos he said that "Of
the winning candidates, the names
of 38 were on the list sent to me by
the Action Group. The six successful
candidates at Ibadan were all among
those who had been identified to me
as representing the Ibadan People's
Party. No claim of any kind had
reached us about the party affiliation
of the remaining successful
candidates." Why did the NCNC not
send a list of its candidates for the
poll to the Government PR
Department before that poll? And
why have Dr. Mbu and the others not
published the list of NCNC
candidates to substantiate their
electoral victory claim in over 50
years but merely kept reaping false
claims? The records of the poll
conducted in the West and all over
Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.
In this matter, it is facts that speak,
not what some political/ethnic
partisan said or did not say.
Dr Azikiwe's frustration was not only
in losing the regional election, he
also lost the election to the House of
Representatives held on 10 January
1951 at the House of Assembly, Ibadan, among NCNC members. The total tally for the 1951 poll in the 80 member Western Regional Assembly was as follows:
1. Action Group - 38;
2. Independent/AG - 15;
3. NCNC - 24;
4. Independent/NCNC - 3.
Three
members of the NCNC who had been
elected to the House changed party
allegiance that day ahead of the
House of Representatives vote. They
were: Chief SY Kesington-Momoh, JG
Ako, and Awodi Orisaremi, from
Urhobo and Kukuruku Divisions.
They were running for the House of
Representatives and wanted Action
Group votes. Kesington-Momoh and
Ako were elected, but Orisaremi went
back to the NCNC. That was all the
carpet-crossing that took place on 10
January 1952, namely, three at first
to the AG and one back to the NCNC.
From the vote tally, it is clear that the
NCNC and the Independent /NCNC
totalling 27 seats altogether out of
80 seats could not have formed the
Government of Western Nigeria.
Even if the local/divisional parties
had chosen the NCNC, it would still
be some seats short of 41 required to
form the government. The Action
Group won 38 seats; its independent
candidates - Adegbenro, Osuntokun,
Hassan and Odutola won four seats
making a total of 42 seats. The AG
could have formed the government
without the support of the other
small parties. It did not have to
"bribe" anybody to join it to form the
government. Since politics is a game
of number, only few principled
politicians would not be disposed to
joining the winning party, in this
case, the AG.
Dr. Mbadiwe also claimed in his
book: "Successful NCNC men who
were not Yoruba were scared away.
Dr. Azikiwe who won a seat to the
Western House (of) Assembly from a
Lagos constituency decided to resign.
Since membership of the House of
Representatives was by an electoral
college in the regional house, no
NCNC from the West came to the
House of Representatives in Lagos".
This is blatantly false. Zik resigned
because he lost election to the
federal house from the West, while
Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Dr. Ibiyinka
Olorun-Nimbe, Chief Frank Oputa-
Otutu, Chief Denis Osadebey and Sir
Odeleye Fadahunsi were elected
from Ibadan to Lagos. Who ever
scared non-Yoruba NCNC people
from the West? Chief Denis
Osadebey succeeded Adegoke
Adelabu as Opposition Leader in the
West and the likes of Humphrey
Omo-Osagie, Festus Okotie-Eboh,
Chike Ekwuyasi, Fidelis H Utomi, Obi
Osagie, Yamu Numa, GO Oweh and
GB Ometan were non-Yoruba NCNC
in that Assembly.
As Mme De Stael says: The "search
for the truth is the noblest
occupation of man; its publication is
a duty". Dr. Mbu and his political
entourage have chosen their own
side of history. It remains to be seen
whether or not history will absolve
them. Their contemporary audience
is composed of intelligent people
who will search after the truth
without inheriting the political
prejudice and stereotype of their
lying grand-parents. That is the way
ahead for Nigeria. And "the greatest
friend of truth is time; her greatest
enemy is prejudice". - CC Calton

Arrant nonsense. This was tableted after the carpet-crossing. One major plank of the episode that the author deceitfully omitted were the platform and manifesto the mushroom parties used during the election. It must be noted that parties that did not have national coverage or presence were not allowed to contest election. Those who crossed carpet included individuals who ran under the NCNC's platform and manifesto.

seunmsg:
I really don't get your point. Are you saying Awolowo shouldn't have contested for the western region premiership position because Zik was more popular? Did Zik's party win the majority of seats in the western region Parliament to enable him become premier? What the fvck is tribalism in a Yoruba man asking Yoruba people to vote for him?

Awolowo did not contest for the premiership of western region of Nigeria. Zik equally did not contest for the position of premiership. However which ever party that won the majority of seat in the parliament is expected to produce the premier.

Throwback:
As usual, we would always have an Igbo cry that Awolowo introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics by daring to compete to become premier of his own ethnic region.

You never shame to complain that others did not let you have your way in their own region. Yet when you have your way, you turn round to gloat that others were stupid to have let you dominate on their own turf while you held on to your own turf. Isn't it?

What is my business if Zik was far popular allover Nigeria, yet he couldn't get his party to win enough votes to become Prime Minister?

That Zik won his seat in Lagos to be a member of the Western Parliament, does that make him more popular than Awolowo in the West?

Or you think if not for the parliamentary system we practiced, Azikiwe could have secured votes in his own name alone to compete with a Westerner in the West? Who knows Zik in Ibadan or Ondo or Ogbomosho or Ekiti. Zik only stood a chance because he had other Yorubas from his party wining their own seats in a parliamentary system, and Zik being the party leader would also lead them in a government if they form a majority.


But when it came to the federal government, Zik as Governor General/President, ensured he Igbonized every position that was of value, such that those Igbos appointed to high offices ensured they used their position to get more Igbos into federal offices and employment. Yet you say that was meritocracy while Awolowo was a tribalist in a tribal region. How absurd is that?

The joke is on you.


CC: Jollymizzle

You have fallen prey to the blunder of ignorance. A party leader cannot talk of premiership if he or she was not elected into the house of assembly. Zik was duly elected into the western Nigerian regional house of assembly.

nwabobo:
You see how idiotic you are?

UNN was the first Nigerian university, established in 1955 and formally opened in 1960.

UI was established as a COLLEGE of the University of London and became an independent university with powers to award its own degrees in 1962. UNN already produced 2 sets of its own graduates before UI produced its first.

Most Nigerians are not creative thinkers. UNN became Nigerian university in 1960 while UI became Nigerian university in 1962. I really do not know why most Nigerians do not understand the cardinal method of counting days, months and years.

Throwback:
The same people who created unitary government because it would finally give them access to control the North and Western regions from the center, were the same people who opposed it a few months later when the center was still occupied by the same military, but a Northern head.

You confuse issues due to goofy stuffs from news media housed in western region of Nigerian. The central government of Nigeria in 1960 still controlled from the center. Tafawa Belawa declared state of emergence in western region and appointed a regional administrator. Most Nigerians come across as ill-educated trolls.

femi4:
He was given based on merit and not where he came from. Such can't happen in igboland cos its a rare level of exposure/maturity..... Deal with it!

Are you alright? Yari.ba peeps were not involved when such decision was taken. In fact, when the university was turned onto Nigeria, the Yari.ba immediately rebirthed their tribal politics in the university.

femi4:
wasn't the first in the Country but the first independent University. Ibadan was the first University in Nigeria

University College Ibadan was established on 17th November 1948 with three founding faculties; Arts, Science and Medicine

It was not the first Nigerian university. It was not first owned and run by Nigeria.

MightySparrow:
What are his achievements? Awo talked for three days trying to convince him about secession clause which he vehementy rejected.; the result? IPOB

Awolowo was, at best, a British stooge.

resurgentxtian4:
Anybody with half a brain will know that Nigeria is already gone and she will be an Islamic Republic in less than 30 years. All the indicators point to that direction and the very people that can save us (igbos) are too steeped in hate and disorganization to even be successful in their secession plans. As a Christian man of yoruba extraction, I have looked into the crystal ball and all I see is despair and agony for this country.

Accordingly, any sensible Christian youth who’s not married should endeavor to save money (no matter how excruciating that is in light of the meagre wages paid in Nigeria) to leave this country. I wouldn’t want my enemy to live in an Islamic nation. I am so sure in my analysis that I am not pained by Nigeria’s issue anymore. If you have noticed, upwardly mobile Christian youths are leaving Nigeria in droves and this is no coincidence. It is the culmination of what has been predicted a long time ago. I want Christians to please heed my advice and leave the country for the Islamic north to do what it feels like. Already, northerners don’t travel anywhere as they are comfortable with whatever level of poverty a fellow Muslim inflicts on them. They believe Nigeria is theirs and they have been on the ascendancy in this politics thing for a while.

Any sure young man should just try and save money to leave Nigeria. The only people I pity in all these are our southern girls who won’t see young men to marry them as most young men are fixated on traveling out of the country.

As for the eventual settlement of the issue of Nigeria, we shall settle it in the future (no matter where we are in the world). The north/muslims won’t have the last laugh on Nigeria’s issue.

Selah.

I thought you had your thinking hat until the bolded came into view. You and forbearers would have still joined the Islamic northern region if Ndigbo should journey onto the path of success toward realization of Republic of Igbo land or Biafra. You must stay in Nigeria to enjoy the benefits fought by your forbearers during the Nigeria/Biafra war.

DateMynd44:
for the haters who think south East is landlocked.
Abia State, Imo state and Anambra state shares borders with the Atlantic Ocean.
I went on a tour and found out the coastal States of Biafra.
I don't think SE needs SS again in our secession agitation as we could build our direct deep seaport when biafra is restored.
Pics below
Cc IgbosAreOsus femolii masterchen

Funny enough, you really come across like a ninny.

Ndigbo are too much!!!! Of course, the silly boundary adjustment initiated by foolish Obasanjo and his masters from northern region of Nigeria does not hold water.

Most Nigerians are bloody cowards to allow such reckless indulgence to exist.

The shithole called Nigeria needs to disintegrate, period. If the Arewa Republic is managed to the attraction of the outsiders, the Oodua Republic or Republic of Igbo land must challenge its leadership to follow suit or face total annihilation from the masses. Mutual competition brings the best out of neighbors.

Throwback:
Your greed led you to a position where you had to fight.

Yorubas are not backbones to serve the purpose of the Igbos or come to their rescue after fomenting trouble.

Azikiwe was in control of his full senses when he ensured that Nigeria will not have a secession clause, and that such a move would only be settled by war. If only he knew he was sealing the fate of his own people.

You never remembered your Yoruba partners in NCNC when it came to sharing the juicy spoils from your partnership with the North. Yet with greed you wanted more and thought best to eliminate political and military leaders from other regions except yours.

Rather than be grateful that the Yorubas were civilized enough not to have their own pogrom against you in their region, your delusional entitlement makes you expectant that the Yorubas will lay down their life to protect you in the crisis you caused.

You have never been useful to us, we do not owe you any delusional loyalty after an alliance gone wrong with your Northern partners.

What idiotic greed if I may ask? Was there anything Eastern Region of Nigeria tried to deny all other regions in the shithole called Nigeria? The statement about "Yoruba partners in NCNC and sharing the juicy spoils from your partnership with the North" showed that you are very ill-educated about the facts.

imhotep:
It was about crude oil

You could not be more correct.

GoroTango:
Oga the civil war was not about igbos standing up to the north. The events that led to it are well chronicled so don't try to distort history

There was no distortion to the discourse. How many coups were branded ethnic coup thereafter?