He ran from his own thread

intrepidJ:


How

Nigerian army never had thirteen combat divisions,the most we had was five during military rule. Obasanjo actually increased it, creating the 86 div,new combat battalions,as did GEJ,and upgraded the Lagos garrison to a full division,81 div of today.
You want to write such piece?. Kindly do your research,but I understand this is an asslicking post in praise of the "sheriff" in town.

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laudate:


Is there a clause on referendum within the Nigerian constitution? If you believe there is, then kindly cite it here, quoting the relevant sections. Prof. Oyebode has just told you guys, the position of the Nigerian law as it is, with respect to the UN clause on self-determination, not the position of the law as it ought to be. And you are still here comparing Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia etc., with the Nigerian situation. Scotland has provisions for referendum in its laws, Nigeria does not! Your focus should be how to get your own international law experts and constitutional lawyers to give you advice on how to insert a clause on referendum into the current constitution!

The Nigerian constitution has clauses on referendum,but only as concern state (Section and local government creation, for now.Do try and get a copy.
Also, get The Creation of States And Boundary Adjustment (Procedure) Act,made pursuant to Section 8.All speak to referendum as a tool to settle issues.
Tis only a matter of constitutional amendment,to include regional and independence referendum,if we all agree.
Btw, before their agitation,the Scots had no special laws for referendum in their books.Britain was being ruled from Westminster,before power was devolved to the various constituent units

Referendum exists in the 1999 constitution,but. only as relate local government creation by states.It can easily be spread to state, regional or even independence vote through a constitutional amendment process in the National Assembly,if all agree.

@OP,the Scottish referendum had only Scots living in Scotland vote.Not everybody in Britain voted,not even Scots living in England.Same happened with the South Sudanese vote.
Not everyone is entitled to vote in a referendum for independence,only those living in the area(s) to be affected by the vote.
Do take note

Quite the long read. Not for the intellectually-challenged folks prowling nairaland though.

Restructuring now overtaken: No one should take us back to restructuring, for that has been swept aside by events. All peace-loving people, above all, Igbos, must welcome the ultimatum to leave the North.But, this is also boom time for fifth columnists. Hence, there is a particular warning to Igbo, Yoruba and other Southern leaders : the caliphate and their officials would before or after October 1st, try to buy over some Igbo, Yoruba or other Southerners to try to help them maintain “one Nigeria”. Those Igbos in Yorubaland and elsewhere that love crime instead of honest business are specifically warned that they are on their own, and not welcome by the Igbos. It is roughly estimated that Igboland can effectively accommodate up to 100 million hardworking men and women; it will not be easy in the beginning, but after initial adjustments, Igbos will find their way in the world. It will constitute a crime for any Igboman to plead to stay in the North; in accommodating the returnees, in everything, this is the time to once again implement Onye Aghala Nwanne Ya!
Every Igbo family in every Igbo town and village should prepare one or two rooms to temporarily accommodate 5 to 10 returnees from the North that have no home of their own in Igboland. Other immediate practical steps should be taken to reduce the adjustment period of these innocent returnees. Igboland alone is going to become a big market for thriving investment, and prosperous import-export trade.
Appeal to the western powers: Igbos continue to appeal to foreign governments, especially the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Israel and other world powers and international community, not to continue to allow Igbos to be slaughtered. Igbos pose no threat to the West; if anything, Igbos are in all aspects more Western than those sponsoring terrorism and religiousextremism. The Igbos are very lucky that the British had before their departure clearly and precisely delimitated the boundaries of Igboland. The Igbo nation whole heartedly welcomes the expulsion order, and plead to the West to do nothing else than assist its peaceful implementation. Nigeria being divided according to the wishes of the North, which also coincides with the aspirations of others, will create more, not less friends for the West. Therefore, Igbos plead that Western governments do not dispatch “experts” and officials to advice Nigerians on the advantages of One Nigeria, or on matters of peace that leads to pieces, pogroms and genocides. The West should kindly help the Igbo nation now.
Various Igbo figures must respectfully know that they are on the watch list of everybody. We all have been reduced and humiliated, and no one is any longer afraid of anything. There is not a single square meter now available for mistake, treachery or betrayal. If anyone continues to spread the Gowonic ethnic-cleansing evil of “Southeast”,instead of Igbo and Igboland, all Igbos would start re-examining the god that he is serving. It is too late to accept double speak. It is Igbos that have been served the ultimatum, not “Southeast” alone, and postwar Igbo public figures must, please, respect the unity and integrity of the Igbo peoples and their ancestral homeland, and henceforth STOP pretending lack of knowledge of the difference between the two, and the catastrophic implications of any wrong direction. Igbo public figures should for a start, simply remind Igbos in the North of the need to carefully return with papers of their landed and other properties, preparatory to an eventual reconciliation of accounts. Above all, every Igbo criminal must be warned not to harm any Northerner, especially since they too have been ordered home by their people and, even if not, are human beings created by God.
Why the north will certainly strike: They pretend to be reacting against the agitations of IPOB and MASSOB, and that there should be no other sovereign state inside a sovereign Nigeria, when they themselves have been unilaterally and impudently operating a caliphate state-within-state, with the officialNigerian army and security agencies, deployed, controlled and teleguided by them. They will also strike because there is a pride that the capture of all military and security institutions of government is the highest point of their achievement under “another Northerner”, and need to make the fullest use of it before it slips never to return – because, this time, except there is a castrated Southerner in Aso Rock (and, they could be in millions), it may not return. They also need to strike now before anything happens that could permit a Yoruba professor to emerge a constitutional president of Nigeria, with the prospect of contesting and winning in 2019. There is also an internal ideological crisis within the caliphate. They know that their goal of turning Nigeria into a religious fiefdom and others as a milk-cow of parasitism is speedily coming to a close, with the Middle Belters getting wiser, and they need something dramatic to precipitate a reversal. There is also the calculation that the Igbos love property so much so that they could be blackmailed,insulted, killed and abused as they have been doing with no serious consequence. What ofthe simple annoyance over calls for restructuring, which would drag the entire edifice of caliphate economic, political, cultural and financial corruption down to pieces! Their operatives, leaders and ideologues are well-educated, and aware that centuries of feudalgovernance is not getting them anywhere; they cannot go on in that way in modern times and cannot come off it; it is a terrible negative contradiction, so, the only way they can “resolve” it is to provoke a major crisis, even if of a suicidal nature. The caliphate has passed the line and staked their honour by that quit order; they have imposed upon themselves an obligation to vindicate their manhood, and the fear that if the threat is not carried out they would lose all credibility before their slaves, will definitely pressure them to strike, even if the hour is uncertain. Indeed, right now, what is holding them against the Igbos is the lack of assurance from the Yoruba, the Eastern minorities and Middle Belters, to join in the annihilation of their enemy and confiscation of their properties. The gradual unity of the South is also complicating their calculationsAll Igbos should know that what these expellers need most is love, understanding, and yet more love and, while doing so, hasten home before October 1st. If this crime against peace and against humanity doesn’t re-unite Igbos, nothing again might. Igbos, from Igbo Akiri to Aba Omeghe, inland to the coast, would re-embrace each other; by themselves modernize Port Harcourt, etc., through which we trade with other nations, correct our past mistakes against each other, and move on, hopefully along with the Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik-Annang-centrral Ibibio-Ogoja, Andoni and the many willing others. Hundreds of trillions of naira investment to develop the North is not worth the blood of any other Igbo child. We created that wealth out of nothing, and there is greater prosperity elsewhere! Igbos coming home may not seem the best option in terms of preserving Igbo properties, but in the circumstance the best option for preserving Igbos lives.
*Prof Obasi Igwe teaches Political Science at UNN

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/igbos-restructuring-expulsion/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/igbos-restructuring-expulsion/

By Obasi Igwe

IGBO lives matter and nothing is bad in evacuating a killing zone. By that peremptory hate speech and expulsion order, which are being arrogantly repeated everyday without any bite from the authorities, except attempting to join the expellers in blaming the victim instead of the violent culprits, and pretending to narrow the Igbos down to their “landlocked” Southeast in order to blockade the central Igbos and seize those in the Rivers, Delta, Edo and other states as future slaves, Nigeria has already disintegrated spiritually, only awaiting a formal dissolution, which Southerners must ensure should happen smoothly on or before the October deadline.
The expellers know who the Igbos are, and confusedly interchanging “Igbos” and “Southeast”, serves little purpose except self-imposed brinkmanship. They also know that the Ohanaeze is for all Ndigbo, not “Southeast” alone, and that an Igbo referendum will be Igbo-wide. Most Igbos in the “Southeast”, “SouthSouth”, and in the diaspora, greatly appreciate the latest Northern attitude to self-determination, and wholeheartedly welcome their expulsion from the North.
Reactionary feudal system
They have invested a lot to develop the North, but Igbo lives are more important than the hundreds of trillions generated out of nothing. Below is part of the history that Igbos, most Southerners and Middle Belters would be teaching their offspring: Nigeria’s basic problem was the caliphate, a very violent and corrupt state-within-state that averred that the IPOB/MASSOB, OPC, Niger Deltans, Middle Belters, etc, didn’t have any right to seek their own states-within-state or, sovereignties-within-sovereignty.
The caliphate had its own independent Hisbah police, courts, laws, divers administrative set-ups variously decoyed armies (Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, etc), all, unlawfully paid for by Nigerians. Their anger with the Igbos had been deep-rooted from day one, stemming from the fact that whereas each and every other Nigerian nationality seemingly shared with them or was part of some bits and pieces of their reactionary feudal system, they sawthe Igbos as the only people that had totally nothing to do with it and, therefore, “uncultured”.
Whereas moderate Islam is a religion of peace, the patently reactionary jihad was merely to achieve a Fulani territorial power base, and its tribal nature was maintained by the total exclusion of non-Fulani from the apex leadership of the moslem ummah in Nigeria. Thus, while the post-jihad caliphate often perfunctorily preached peace, it practiced violence as of necessity. Like other Wahabbis, they did not believe in a constitutional democratic secular state, and for long deployed state resource to fund private religious pilgrimages and other escapades, compelling other sects to also seek a cut in the pie.
The caliphate oppressed even the moslems they purported to represent, not to talk of others. In their homes were all sorts of Western gadgets, but in their minds, a limitless array of atavistic designs against progress. They built a large following of sycophants, beneficiaries and apologists who helped them spread violence, but, this could have been overcome, except that Nigerians were not courageous enough to do so.
The caliphate was not only economically wasteful, it was very politically and culturally corrupt; it served the needs of some extended families and endlessly strove to blanket the country with a 10thcentury darkness in a 21st century world of advanced civilisation and open society. They had nothing to offer any modern man other than tutelary offices and cultic “protections”, for those sufficiently betraying their people.
They were pathologically after military-political power and foreign allies, never competitive democratic discourse because, being always afraid of enlightenment, violence was the only means by which they could achieve or implement their unjust objectives against all and sundry. Chinua Achebe claimed that Nigeria’s basic problem was leadership, but it was mostly systemic for, there was no amount of “good leadership” that could operate effectively in contention with a parallel authority, or while receiving unwritten orders from it.
Since August 1966, the caliphate started desiring Nigeria to continue to exist, but on its own terms. It was very clear to everyhonest person that until it was totally abolished and wiped away from the country, in vain were the “lovers” of the nation labouring to have others see the exploitative anachronism as normal and acceptable. For the remnants that still believed in a rescuable Nigeria, there was some idea that a huge economic and other potential did exist within the Hausa-Fulani and other Northern masses, and unless and until that positive power was unleashed to join their Southern counterparts in a peaceful democratic context, which could not happen paripassu with the caliphate, Nigeria, even with a so-called Igbo presidency, would come to nothing.
Of course, there were progressive-minded elements within the caliphate, but the system overwhelmed them and, partly because of fear, hardly made their voices heard. Fear of change, of a truly democratic secular political revolution in an egalitarian society, was the major obstacle. In the alternative, almost everyone accepted with joy a renewed Northern offer for people to go their separate ways. End of history.
To Igbo elite and all: Igbos in various places and positions must be seriously mindful of their use of words and phrases, otherwise they would be suspected of colluding to destroy the Igbo peoples. The expulsion order is served on the Igbos, not “Southeast Region”, and Igbos have accepted it wholeheartedly, and the coming referendum (if it does), will also be Igbo-wide, in Abia, Anambra, parts of Delta and Edo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Rivers, and other parts of Igboland, and not restricted to Gowon’s ethnic-cleansing, designer “Southeast”, intended to divide the Igbos and minoritise those in the Rivers, Delta, Edo and other states that are still being persuaded and pressured to abandon their kith and kin and become slaves to the caliphate or their agents, even as they have never been spared in any Northern killings.
Igbos must speak now with one clear and unmistakable voice : if anyone is in any doubt about who the Igbos and Igboland are, which pre-existed Nigeria, let him consult ethnological and historical texts and round it up with what everybody agrees was the most important document in Nigerian history, left to us by Her Majesty’s Government: the page 51 of the Willinks Report of 1957/58. Igbos remain happy that they were the only people so clearly and precisely defined by various explorers and Great Britain before their departure. The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, not Ohanaeze of “Southeast”, should know better.
A word also to Eastern minority brothers and sisters: Igbos would continue to love and need them as brothers, sisters and neighbours and, given the unprintable crimes committed against them in Nigeria, fully support the rights of the Ijaw, Efik-Annang-central Ibibio-Ogoja, Ogoni, Andoni, for self-determination, to the level of their desire in or out of the country. As Easterners, Southerners, and mostly christians, we need unity now, more than ever before. Statements suggesting an ambition to isolate the hinterland Igbos and carve out Opobo, Port Harcourt or the Rivers/Mbamiri, Delta/Anioma, Edo and other Igbos into an Eastern minority coastal republic or “Region”, whatever its other aims, might be seen as a continuing effort to divide, weaken, “landlock”,and hamstrung the Igbo nation and transform her from the victimised of Nigeria to the victimised of the Eastern minorities.
Anyone who likes or needs any Igbos should try and like and need all of them, and not spite any part or seek to pick and choose which Igbo species to treat in what manner. Igbos are a coastal nation, and their centuries-long coastal history generally served the East very well, sowing the seeds of the global civil rights movement.
Igbo priority is the consensual restoration of an enlarged Eastern Region and, if not possible, every Eastern/Southern nationality being on her united own, down to the coast, as was the case before, during and after colonial rule. Any Igbo agitator “unilaterally” drawing maps to embrace any non-Igbo in anything, might have meant well, but “forcing” anyone into liking or associating with any other group, is in no way part of Igbo enlightened thought process.
Igbos seek mutually beneficial relations of equality and justice with everybody, not the harm or oppression of any, whether inside or outside Nigeria. Whichever Easterner continues to attempt to tear the Igbos apart, or join in an anti “other Igbo” alliance, would raise the question of motive for such designs.
For the avoidance of doubt, it was through the Southern Igbos that modern Igbo maritime traditions developed; it was through them that Western civilisation entered Igbo hinterland, including the rise of the Union Igbo Bible Nso, which is essentially of Bonny, Ikwerre, Etche, Opobo, and other origin. On the one hand, it was also through them that the Igbos with Jaja, pioneered the struggle for African emancipation. On the other hand, it was mostly through the Ika/Anioma Igbos, led by Nnamdi Azikwe of Anioma/Eze Chima origins that the Igbos were mobilised to fight for Nigerian independence, and their Nzeogwu in the botched attempt to usher in an egalitarian and modern Nigeria. Therefore, if modern Igbos needed a hierarchy, these two peoples would be on top. Those attempting to cut off the head and leave the rump as “Igboland” in the guise of “Southeast” or “South-South” region or republic should, please, leave the Igbos alone. We are not unmindful of some individuals making a career out of a suicidal “Southeast” instead of Igbo-wide advocacies, since their selfish material objectives and hidden paymasters would one day be unmasked.
The North and October ultimatum: No Igboman should be used to rescue the caliphate from their internal contradictions. Their next move in this self-imposed quandary is likely to be an attempt to achieve a Yoruba support or a Fulani-Yoruba alliance against the Igbos, by hiring some fools or criminals to stage an altercation between the two civilised groups, and concocting a non-existent “war” or “conflict” between the Igbos and Yorubas.
Threat to civilisation
This could be in Lagos, Port Harcourt, or any other part of the West or East. They might also try to create an altercation in the East between any paid agent. Leaders of all the groups concerned should be alert to attempts to divert attention from the Northern threat to civilisation.
Except when used against the Igbos, they have absolutely nothing other than love against the talakawas, almajiris, and the host of other innocent Hausa-Fulani, peaceful muslims, christians, and so on being oppressed by the Fulani caliphate and their hirelingsthat present themselves as, and hereinafter called the “North” and, to whom the Igbo nation have for long been persevering to bring some light and development, and take some of their own back home, so that we could all join to build a great African society called Nigeria. This was the dream imposed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a contiuator of Olaudah Equiano, Africanus Horton, King Jaja and several other Igbos, and through whom they became the only African nation that was 100% mobilised and comprehensively united without exception for the struggle against colonial rule. The caliphate never liked that independence, delayed it as long as possible, until a “victory” was forged for them, which they never had even in the Middle Belt, let alone any corner of the South, but which nevertheless enabled them form a tortuous federal government with a declared aim of completing the atrocities of Othman dan Fodio and murderous wickedness of Alimi.
The chosen prince to continue that jihad was Ahmadu Bello who, using his servant, Tafawa Balawa, were responsible for thousands of deaths in the Middle Belt, killed and burnt others in the Western Region, and were planning to resume against the Igbos from where they stopped in 1945 and early 50s, come January 17, 1966. “No facts, no arguments, nothing under the sun can ever make these jihadists stop labelling January 15,1966, “Igbo coup”, and nothing would ever make them forgive the Igbos for preventing Ahmadu Bello completing his divine task of forcing the whole of Nigeria into the loving arms of Mohammed (PBUH).
To them, it was that 1966 coup d’état that justified the mass killings of the Igbo in 1945; it was also that 1966 coup that led to their massacring thousands of other Igbos and Southerners over a statement made by a non-Igboman in Lagos in the early 50’s. It was also that 1966 coup d’état that led to the eradication of the Tiv/Middle Belt and the killing and humiliation of the Yoruba in the 60’s. It was of course the killing of Ahmadu Bello that has warranted the systematic elimination of the Bakassi people in their own homeland, via a treacherous Maroua Declaration; the murder of Saro-Wiva and complete destruction of Ogoniland; the present total occupation of the Ijaw Niger Delta and other corners of the South in pursuit of a righteous “degrading” of the Ijaw etc youths and communities; the ongoing genocide in Southern Kaduna whereof sophisticated weapons are dropped to the Fulani advance army through official channels, with villagers complaining that the army and police are ready for “action” only after the deed has been done and the natives need be prevented from defending themselves. It was also the unfortunate assassination of Ahmadu Bello that warranted the murder of Abiola, a presumably fellow moslem, his beloved wife, and several others, mainly Yoruba, over a simple matter of an election lost and won. Agents of the violent caliphate authored the Boko Haram, and only started washing their hands off it, if they are indeed doing so, only when it seemingly turned a Frankenstein’s monster.
Nothing is meant to be said here about the murder of General Ironsi, Colonel Fajuyi and hundreds of Igbo officers and men, the series of pogroms that preceded the genocide, the genocide itself, the “post”-war ethnic cleansing in southern Igboland, all of which have consumed at least 4.5 million Igbo lives. Added to possibly 2 million lives of other Nigerians eradicated by the caliphate since independence, and presumably other 2 million since they set their feet on Nigerian soil early 19th century, it means that some people have in their red hands the blood of almost 9 to 10 million innocent human beings since the last 200 years, most of whom are of course, Igbo. With simple arithmetic means, if youcalculate that a country of 4 to 10 million people 200 years ago could be between 50 and 100 million people today, one may come a little closer to the understanding of what some feudal-minded people have done to the fraction of the black race called Nigeria. There arejust too many war criminals hovering around, and too many war crimes and crimes against humanity and against peace hanging over many people’s heads that it is clear that thecivilized world, including in Nigeria, have been taken for a ride for far too long. And, those that they are committing these atrocities against are people spoon-feeding them with trade, love, marriage, development and friendship, so that there could be a certain One Nigeria, forged from Lugard’s astral auguries.
Now, why is the caliphate North, with this history, suddenly expelling the Igbos? Answer: there is a very angry ritual which they enact every 15th January, since 1966. Not a single modest Igboman from 1966 till date wished Sir Ahmadu Bello dead, despite the murder of many in the West and Middle Belt associated with him, but that ritual is targeted at the Igbos, primarily as a means of issuing veiled threats and mobilizing bias against the Igbo nation. January 15 is a date set aside by the North for hate speech-making. Hirelings that present various papers deliver one hate speech after another hate speech in commemoration of the “Gamji”. You will wait for a single apology or at least sign of remorse over the atrocities associated with the great man, the many in the West and Middle Belt orphaned through him, and millions in Igboland and elsewhere by his followers, but in vain!
The Nigerian state, a euphemism for the caliphate, cannot after 50years, even think of erecting a memorial for the lives of 4.5 million innocent Igbos they have destroyed (think not about property). So, because of this and other cruelties by caliphate Nigeria, the Igbos for the first time declared a sit-at- home to commemorated their dead by themselves (and to some, if necessary, also achieve a Biafra by peaceful means). What the Northmeans by the expulsion order is that while they annually commemorate someoneassociated with the murder of so many, openly making hate speeches and inciting statements on each and every 15th January occasion, the Igbos have no right to sit quietly in their homes to honour the 4.5 millions murdered by them. Of course, whatever becomes of Nigeria, there is going to be a more general lockdown nationwide for the Igbo to commemorate those murdered by the caliphate and their agents, not only during the Biafran war but since 1945; the Yoruba, Ogoni, Bakassi, Ijaw, Tiv/Middle Belt, Southern Kaduna, etc would either join or separately conduct their own, and the possibility cannot be totally discounted that at some point in the future, even the almajiri and talakawa that the jihadist extremists dare educate may in remorse also join to commemorate the killingsof the Igbos and others. Therefore, as the caliphate, their caliphs and agents are numberingthe days of the Igbos and calculating the millions they will kill, throw into the Benue riveror seize their properties, they should also be numbering their own days.

ethene:

ur wrong it's the 'Ijaws'. We have the Ijaws in the whole of Bayelsa, in parts of rivers, delta, and ondo state.

Osekwenike and Abuetor are in Bayelsa,and they're Ndokwa.
Bayelsa is not Ijaw only.


Very stupid thread though

aribisala0:

It is not true that the party with the highest number of seats produces the Prime minister. That is absolutely not how it works so stop talking nonsense. A coalition may be formed by smaller parties with fewer seats against a single party with the highest number of seats.It is called a MINORITY GOVERNMENT. EDUCATE YOURSELF .
There is nothing like 2/3 majority .Tell that to children of your age. .
Then you start making up tales They approached Awo, why are you folk such shameless liars. What demand did he make? Tell us please

Mr Educator,a minority government means a party or coalition with highest number of seats in Parliament,but just short of 50% and also assured others are too fragmented to come together and edge them out.Example,PM Stephen Harper's govt before he finally lost election or Nicola Sturgeon's current govt in Scotland.
The party with highest majority in government,almost always form the govt except where,there being more than one party with high number of seats,the other party form a majority coalition to edge out the one that slightly came first e.g,PM David Cameron's first govt with the Liberal Democrats.
Thank me later for the lesson.

Olu317:
Hahaha....Look at you having a partial understanding of Yoruba. OK ooo, I give it to you on having a little knowledge of the partial meaning because it was made popular. However, èji Owuro(morning dew/drops of water from the sky to wet the flowers etc periodically) is clearly differentiated from proper ÈJI, which accurately mean rain. You can't outclass me in my language ooo

Dude,you know next to nothing of Yoruba language and its history.
Don't push me use you to mop the floor here.
Eji is mist,not rain.Same way mist is referred to as igirigi in Igbo
BTW,maize in Yoruba is agbado not oka.
Oka is purely Igbo word for maize,though ground flours used to make swallows are also sometimes referred to as oka in Yoruba.

Olu317:
Oh I see, you lived within urban Yoruba who had interchangeably use Agbado which literally mean maize. You seem to have failed again because you don't know much about Yoruba culture and food . In Yoruba land, We call rain ÒJÒ and Èji , the second one can hardly be known to YOU,except my exposing it to you at this moment. Yoruba in the rural speaks archaic Yoruba which you can hardly hear and calls OKA , Maize flour. In some places, it can also be used for White yam flour,which you know it with a different name. You will get lost if you think you can understand Yoruba because you fraternise with Yoruba city. You claimed, it is used among Ibos, It is a borrowed words from Yoruba land, just as Aso Ebi, “Igbo," were borrowed. Oka has been used in Yoruba land for centuries.

Eji means mist,especially the type that comes down in the morning.It's also used for dew.
Who do you think you want to fool here,children?.
I'll beat you over the head with ijinle Yoruba,if you're not careful.

Malawian:
The highest Order is still the Arch bishop. Both Pope and Cardinal are mere Titles. The Pope is just the Archbishop of Rome. Cardinal Alfred Martins is the Archbishop of Lagos. All Cardinals are Archbishops, all Popes are Archbishops.

Alfred Martins is not a cardinal.You can't have two cardinals living in the same diocese,except Rome.
But you're right,the highest order is Bishop/Archbishop.
Not all cardinals are/were/can be bishops though.
Read church history.

Dalastically:
The Pope is regarded as HIS HOLLINESS while an Archbishop as His Eminence.. please correct your post.. Oooshe

A cardinal is referred to as Eminence, while an Archbishop is His Grace.Get it right

ODVanguard:


And all the roads in Rivers state are in pristine condition?

There they go.

It's not a my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours contest.
The guy simply stated condition of roads where he lives.

wristbangle:


Overall IGR generated, the state with the highest percentage increase is ogun, then lagos state against the previous year though on a slight margin.

Akwa Ibom and Delta are regressing though their performance is still encouraging.

Seriously OYO state needs to be proactive. That governor is clueless.

What the problem of SE is in terms of IGR, I don't know. Well expecting Anambra report sha.

Good morning lalasticlala/mynd44. This thread need more views pls

There's a seeming lackadaisical attitude towards revenue collection drive in SE states.This mostly due to capitalistic cum republican orientation.The various govts just don't seem interested in collecting taxes and dues.Not even the transport unions,as one can see in places like Lagos.It's as if there is a permanent tax cut regime across the region.
There is need for them to do better.People can and will pay,so far as there's assurance the revenue generated will be judiciously utilized.

jargo89:
That sounds flimsy as any dumb excuse laid. The NPC and NCNC called themselves to notify each other of a potential alliance formed with opposition groups. Who does that? Common sense is needed.

Because they came 1st and 2nd,and either party potentially could form a government.
Govt 101

50 years ago… Ogbemudia was Igbo and Igbanke, Igbo Akiri
— 10th May 2017
“From time immemorial, the people that are called Igbanke today were known and called Igbo-Akiri. It was in 1967 when Ogbemudia became the military governor of the Midwest State that he changed the name of the town from Igbo-Akiri to Igbanke…It would have been unthinkable at that time to reveal that an Ibo man or an Ibo town produced the military governor of the Midwest State…. Ogbemudia, including the prominent Evangelist Rev. Isaac Idahosa are all Ibo and they hail originally from Igbo Akiri.”
(See Blood On The Niger, Gomslam Books 2012 pages 33, 216)
Captain Fred Anuku, the Commander of the Biafran Navy was the first Nigerian naval graduate from Dartmouth. While his fellow Ika-Ibo Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia joined the Federal troops, Fred, who was married to a Caribbean, fled Lagos during the 1966 Igbo pogrom and was offered the command of the fledging young Navy by the Biafran high command.
At the same time, Major Nzeogwu’s involvement in the January 15, 1966 Revolution brought suspicion and calamity to his own people of Asaba, Okpanam and environs. As we prepare to organise a programme for the Anioma and Asaba 50th Year Genocide Anniversary, we shall today mention some of the top actors, commanders from the western Ibo nation of both forces whose roles led to the genocide in Asaba, Isheagu, Ogwashi, Igbodo, Ubulu Kingdom, Ibusa and Ndi Oshimili. These prominent Commanders include Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Col. Conrad Nwawo, Col. Joe Achuzia, and Captain Fred Anuku on the Biafran side. On the Nigerian side, we shall record the memorable activities of Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, General Godwin Alabi Isama, General Cyril Iweze and Commander O.Z. Chiazor, the first black man to be commissioned by the Queen in the Royal Canadian Navy.
Significantly, at this time, charismatic Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu had been released from the Calabar prison. He had disagreed with Ojukwu’s war aims and military strategy, and obviously discountenanced the declaration of Biafra. He advised that the East should resist for, at least, four months, cultivate foreign and local support and then prepare and get into the position with more arms and training to resist a total war. He opposed any frontal engagements against the superior-armed federal troops at that initial stage of the war. At the 1967 Abakiliki military exercise, Nzeogwu demonstrated his extraordinary military acumen and proved beyond doubt that he was the Rommel of the Nigerian Army. A commander’s dream, endowed with a peculiar knowledge of the sub-savannah battlefield terrain, he exuded a rare combat capability and commanded the battle simulation with such confidence and precision that he drew tears of adulation from the awed subalterns. He inspired most of the officers with his unmitigated improvisations. To most of the top brass of the Biafran Army, who were seeing the dawn of real combat action for the first time, this fighting leatherneck was a military institution all by himself, a study in combat readiness and tactics.
After his release from Calabar, Nzeogwu managed to reach his boys still in the Nigerian Army in the Midwest and in the West. The plan to enter the Midwest was originally his and that was his own way of setting a stage for the cessation of hostilities, an end to the war, and the restoration of the ideals of the January 15 Revolution. To this end, he was disappointed by his friend, Major Olusegun Obasanjo whom he had not heard from and whom he learnt had gone back to Kaduna. On the other hand, he was confident in, and had some respect for Major Samuel Ogbemudia, his colleague at the Nigeria Military Training College (NMTC), Kaduna.
Furthermore, Wole Soyinka revealed that the Westerners had agreed on the opposition against the North but also disagreed with Ojukwu on the declaration of Biafra, and for that matter, the declaration of Benin Republic. Declaration of Biafra, the Revolutionaries reasoned would isolate the Easterners and put the West and the Midwest in a bad position whereby sympathies from the West and the Midwest would end up being restrained. They would do better fighting as Nigerians. Whatever was the final consensus, Ogbemudia turned tail. He was next heard of leading the triumphant entry of the Federal Forces into Benin.
Few days after the war, the Biafra Research and Production Bureau made two secret and instant contacts with the high command of the Nigerian Army. Willy Achukwu, the Onitsha-born multi-talented improvising scientist, led one team to the Commander of the 82 Division, Enugu. Before the meeting, a team of Biafran Scientists were directed to put down sketches of the scientific equipment, designs, take measurements of the weapons, guns. A special house with good illumination was erected to keep safely all the Biafran designs and prototypes. They also produced a new Ajuala flying Ogbunigwe to supplement the ones produced at Awo Idemili. Research at this time resumed on what I might term the first world “Smart Bomb” was redesigned as the much needed facilities and spare parts, lacking with the exigency of the war were becoming available after the war. (Pse., see Biafra, a Legacy Lost TELL Magazine Special Report No. 14 April 8, 2002. Page 37)
While Willy Achukwu led one group to the Commander 82 Division Enugu, Professor Ezekwe and Professor Nwosu went to Benin and handed over their Biafran scientific designs to Governor S.O. Ogbemudia. Ogbemudia raced to Lagos and desperately tried everything to convince General Gowon to seize the opportunity and convert that Biafran scientific ingenuity and like the Americans absorbed the German-Jewish war scientific breakthrough; and transform Nigeria to a modern powerful black nation. Gowon shillyshallied and meanwhile the Willy Achukwu group were lucky to escape the gallows.
General Bissala the Commander of the 82 Division before their tearful eyes, poured gasoline over the designs and materials, brought out a box of matches and set the huge collection of scientific fabric of Black civilisation on fire!
Ogbemudia’s shock and depression on learning of the outcome of the meeting with the GOC and the burning of the Biafran war prototypes and designs was enough to transform him from Saul to Paul. For the third time, the Brigadier deflected and returned to his original base and more than any other post war governor was very prominent in the rehabilitation projects to return the war-weary Igbo to Jerusalem. He offered grants to poor students, donated buses to the University of Nigeria and rehabilitated the former Biafran Army officers, returning home to Bendel.
All the same, he cannot run away from the serious war crime charges of changing the name of a whole community, the heritage of his people Igbo Akiri to Igbanke. To this day, the people of this community yearn to return to their kith and kin in the Ika province of Delta State.
On his triumphant entry into Benin, in company with the Butcher of Asaba, General Muritala Mohammed, can he absolve himself and other officers and men of the Federal Second Division, of complicity in the wanton killing of Igbo in Benin that started in September 21, 1967 to the end of that war?

http://sunnewsonline.com/50-years-ago-ogbemudia-was-igbo-and-igbanke-igbo-akiri/

livinbygrace:



He was in his home town recently.You people should stop spreading false information all because of hatred.The man is saying the truth.

When?.
Put up now,or forever shut the Bleep up

silastemplar:
This man is so on point. Couldnt have said it better. I am Ibo myself but honestly i get embarrassed by the kind of comments i see here from Ibos especially when in support of ipob or GEJ or PDP or Fayose or some person not on the side of the present day government. I have nothing against supporting or favoring any of these people but biko just argue or comment intelligently

You're "Ibo",indeed

blues20:
My question to Joe Igbkwe, what have you done, as an individual to better the life of an average Igboman? Sitting down in Lagos and writing articles is not enough. Come down to the East and let your impact be felt. Charity begins at home.

He can't
He's on exile,along with his family.
Nuff said.

GavelSlam:

You don't have to abolish your constitution you amend your constitution.
Ignoramus thinking he is intelligent.

You see why I called you ignoramus?. The specific section can't be amended.

misterh:
That's true though. But until then, the Act remains their guiding light. If it is not in their Act, and Nigerians clamor for it to be there, then the Act has to be amended.

It cannot.

Not that easy.You will have to tackle your constitution before you do that,thanks to Abdulsalaam Abubakar

GavelSlam:


Boko Haram is an international/regional group.

If NIA claims the sect is not within their purview they should be summarily dissolved.

To dissolve the NIA,you will have to abolish your constitution.
The National Security Agencies Act,Land Use Act and NYSC Act are an integral part of your constitution and cannot be amended by your run of the mill process.

Kids and ignoramuses all over the place.

Children all over the place.

NIA is for foreign intelligence, not domestic.
Failure of domestic intelligence lies squarely with your foolish SSS.
Don't destroy the NIA

decatalyst:


You obviously have not being to Ibadan.

Its an ancient, large and beautiful city.

I don't understand the problem with 'brown roof'. Do you guys expect an ancient city to have stone quoted roof?

Iyam not understanding ke

Erm.... Ibadan is a relatively young city,not ancient.Established in the 19th century,after the collapse of Oyo.
Don't bother....I grew up there

Keneking:
"He added that the raid is to force him out of office and give the impression that he is a corrupt politician, unfit to hold any public office."

- Yes, you are one of those undergoing trial with Saraki

What trial is he undergoing with Saraki?.
Kindly educate us

0ntruth:
As long as he is from URUAGU NNEWI in Anambra state,they will treat his matter with uttermost care to avoid any conflict,any harm on him then you'll see how the Anambra people especially ndi NNEWI will protect their son Igbokwe against Ipop.take it or leave it.

Dude,I'm royalty of Uruagu.
Igbokwe is on his own.He's long been disowned by even his umunna,so we don't know what you're talking about.

One Nigeria indeed. Cadets from Northwest alone more than those from the south put together

Which Ooni ever ruled an empire that people keep making show of themselves calling this present one "Imperial Majesty"?.
Not even Oduduwa ruled one.

kpaminose:
Aniomas were not killed. People were massacred in Asaba and few people were also selectively killed in some few other Oshimili communities. People that were known to be supporting the biafrans were pointed out and killed. It's in Asaba that they killed indiscriminately. I'm not supporting massacre but fact should be fact. Ika people were not killed.

Liar.
Those that were killed in Igbodo are not Ika, abi?
And what the hell do you mean by "Aniomas were not killed"?.So,Asaba,Igbodo,Ogwashiukwu and other communities that had their people killed are not Anioma to you?.
You sound like that compound fool,Solomon Mgbejume

Amoto94:
Some of my southern kinsmen are Grade-A hypocrites, they're all over this thread masturbating and sucking up the hypocrisy. Was Sodom and Gomorrah not destroyed as a result of their homosexual practices? Governor Yari is right from the angle he viewed it from because there is a Prophetic narration that supports his statement. SLS should have seek clarification instead of refuting Yari without evidence.

Wrong.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for exactly the same situation Nigeria is in today,not homosexual practices.
If you are a christian,pick up your bible and read Ezekiel 16:49
"'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." NIV