British really did a number on Nigeria with this big fool called Yakubu Gowon. This dingbat has never proffer any good reason toward the growth of Nigeria out of its moronic decadence.
There goes the bogus claim of mother of democracy by USA and UK. The UK and USA are still father and son of colonialism. All the nonsensical "American Value" is complete hogwash.
boluwatife66: I READ an interesting Facebook broadcast by a friend of mine, Ray Morphy Ugba, the morning just before coming to the office to write this article. Ray is a journalist, politician, blogger and (from what I saw after the broadcast) also a musician.
He hails from Cross River State, though he seems quite proud of the fact that his mother is an Igbo woman, which is why he calls Igbos “my mother’s people”. Ray referred to a recent controversial statement credited to the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on a visit to Badagry, where he said Lagos was not a “colony” but part of the Yoruba homeland (which is true).
He reportedly announced that there was “nothing like Eze Ndi Igbo again” in the state, stressing his determination to move several markets (like Mile 12, Ladipo and others) to outskirts of the metropolics. This outing has been trending in the social media, and some Igbo people believe it is yet another pointer to the fact that Ambode is an “enemy” of their people.
(FILES)- A March 2, 2012 file photo shows an Ohafia cultural troupe entertaining bystanders during the burial of Nigeria's secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu at his native Nnewi country home, in Anambra State eastern Nigeria. Odumegwu Ojukwu, who championed the campaign for an independent Republic of Biafra in eastern Nigeria in the 1960s culminating in a 30-month civil war which left more than a million dead was buried at his Nnewi family home in Anambra State. Its name is synonomous with the declaration of independence and updates on the brutal conflict that followed, but nearly 50 years after Nigeria's civil war, Radio Biafra is again making headlines.
Ray in his broadcast said: “Just because you have bought a large parcel of land from a community to build, live, trade and flourish does not make you an indigene of that place”. I concur. Though it makes you a stakeholder as a property owner and citizen, it does not entitle you to the “inner matters” to which only the aborigines of the place are entitled. However, that you are not entitled to those things does not in any way reduce your rights, privileges and obligations as a citizen under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I will expatiate on this presently.
First, let me deal with the issue of “going home”; what it is not and what it is. What does “Igbos, go home” mean? It does not mean: pack your belongings and leave the place. It does not mean that you should uproot from where you currently live and go back to Igboland or your hometown in Igboland. Why should you? You are a Nigerian, and the Constitution entitles you to settle and live peacefully and lawfully in any part of the country without harassment. “Go home” is a very useful piece of advice for any sensible Igbo person willing to listen. Anyone who tells you “be careful”, “mind yourself” or “be warned”, is not insulting you. He is your friend, maybe in disguise.
The Igbos are the only group in Nigeria who require this timeous advice: “go home”. The Yorubaman in the North or any other part of the country does not need it: he hardly “leaves” his roots, no matter how long he lives outside Yorubaland (including abroad). The Arewa man does not need it. He hardly plants down any tap root outside his aboriginal enclave. He never builds any permanent structure. He lives among his own cultural types, maintains the purity of his religious culture and is in touch with “home” by radio and other channels, no matter how long he lives outside Arewa land. It is only the Igbo man that takes the “One Nigeria” dictum on the surface level. He is like Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who says: “let us forget about our differences”. But other Nigerians are like Sardauna Ahmadu Bello who says: “let us remember our differences”. It is this misguided float of mind that leads the Igbo man to settle and develop where he lives, forgetting that where he comes from also requires to be developed.
History once taught the Igbo man a painful lesson when the coups of 1966 took place and the pogroms in the North led to the civil war. When the war ended, the Igbos came back and were allowed to reclaim their property in the North and West, but were denied that right in Port Harcourt, a city built on the land of the Igbo-speaking Ikwerre sub-national group. Why? Because Port Harcourt had become the oil booty of the civil war’s winners. The Igbo/Biafrans were not allowed to be landlords/stakeholders in this city after losing the war over its oil.
However, the Igbos went back to the North and West and soon forgot all the lessons that Port Harcourt was meant to teach them: understand how to live with other Nigerians in this “One Nigeria”. They recovered from the scars of the war and started ravenously building mansions, markets and even industries in major cities like Lagos, Abuja, Kano and elsewhere. Not only that, they totally neglected their own aboriginal homeland. Igboland feels very little of the famed commercial and technological acumen of the Igbo people. It is essentially an economic and infrastructural wasteland.
The Igbos became so “comfortable” outside their own homeland that some misguided elements among them even started setting up some fake traditional institutions and installing what they referred to as “Eze Ndi Igbo” in those places, to the utter irritation of the indigenes and those of us who feel the shame of it all. These hustlers (“Eze Ndi Igbo”) who don’t understand the implications of their tomfoolery, go as far as conferring chieftaincy titles on relevance-seeking nonentites who, invariably, are people of questionable roots and means of livelihood. These fakers have come under increasing scrutiny by the owners of the land: their commoners, kings and political leaders. This is long overdue! If Ambode says no more “Eze Ndi Igbo” in Lagos, he is right.
Anybody whose ancestors did not come from the geo-cultural boundaries of Lagos cannot be an indigene of Lagos. If you are not an indigene of Lagos, how can you be a “king” in Lagos? How can you dispense chieftaincy titles? It is a barefaced usurpation of the “inner privileges” exclusive to those whose ancestors first established their traditional authority in Lagos. In any case, what value does “Eze Ndi Igbo” add to Igbos in Lagos? It is not even a cultural trait of Igbo people.
It was a mere copying of Arewa’s Sarkin Hausawa or Sarkin Zango system which the Igbos born in the North (like the late venerated Dim Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu) misguidedly copied against the better counsel of some of us. The Sarkin Hausawa do pay homage to the traditional and political authorities of places they settle as due deference (though some of them are no longer doing so but actually making territorial claims which pitches them at loggerheads with indigenes). If push comes to shove again, Igbos will lose a million times more than they lost in Port Harcourt. Yet, many of them are supporting Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra separatism, believing they can eat their cakes and still have it back. What naivete! Igbos must “go home”, develop Igboland, build up its economic infrastructure and make it a destination not only for the Igbos but also other Nigerians and even foreigners to live, work and thrive. That is the meaning of “go home”.
Igbos will never live in dignity outside Igboland until they have done this. Their children will continue to speak English and the native tongues of their hosts without the ability to speak and behave like Igbos. If Igbos do not “gome home”, they will be lost! They are already losing their Majority status, anyway, and their language is rapidly vanishing. It is in the vital interest of the Igbo people and their children to “go home”. Anambra State is showing that it can be done. I did not vote for Ambode during the elections but he is not my enemy. He is developing Lagos State for the common good, and he needs to remove shanties to do so. Every Lagos dweller (including the indigenes) has three choices: cooperate, give way or be prepared to go in. But the citizenship rights of all Nigerians in Lagos MUST always be upheld. Lagos MUST be developed lawfully. Otherwise, our voters cards will speak for us at the right time.
For the fact Nigeria and Nigerians are foolishly clinging to indigene and non-indigene crap gives rise to the agitation for Biafra. The real countries do not talk about the crappy indigene.
For the fact Nigeria and Nigerians are foolishly clinging to indigene and non-indigene crap gives to agitation for Biafra. The real countries do not talk about the crappy indigene.
The lunatic Alfred P. Rubin can never be better than heads that stood up United Nation which formulated resolution 1514 and 1541 that guaranteed the right of self- determination. If the is no positive law that grants secession, there is equally no positive law that grants unity. Under the Sun, actions and reactions are equal and opposite.
Amoto94: Don't push people to war while you stay faraway from the warfront, I have witnessed political crisis many times in my hometown and I have read about and watch war documentaries war is not a child's play and all efforts must be put in place to avoid it. Ojukwu and Hitler made more noise and went into battlefield only for them to be defeated home and away, so don't wish for it. Even Napoleon Bonaparte with all his smartness lost his men and country
I have seen and fought war. War or no war, anybody born of a woman must die one way or the other. If you are lily-hearted as you have indicated in the above post, you have no place where a revolution is discussed. Nobody can scare Biafrans with the silly drumbeat of war.
oladeebo: In Colin Warbrick’s words, uti possidetis “was given particular political and legal weight in Africa... by the decision of the Organization of African Unity39 in 1964 by Resolution 16(1)...”. By adopting this decision, the member states of the organization “pledged themselves to respect colonial frontiers as they existed at the moment of decolonization”. Warbrick also states that, accepting the established borders, “however arbitrary and dysfunctional they might have been”, was fundamental to identify both the territory and the people of the state. read more: http://sam.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BurakCopAndDoganEymirlioglu.pdf
infact it may be by ignorant or arogant of Nnamdikanu/ipob pushing and calling biafra referendum in Nigeria! it's not just easy or possible. oladeebo on UN charter!
Who wants the dumbass referendum which is sure to be cantankerous? It will be either a gentleman's agreement or war.
Amoto94: You don't insult those whom you need their support to secede diplomatically else you risk a violent confrontation. When one of my sisters listened to Radio Biafra before it was jammed she was surprised with the kind of words KANU was using. KANU insulted others and he's created more foes for Igbos than friends.
No country on earth has ever survived a second civil war. If war of attrition is the last option for the actualization of Biafra, I am down to the count. In this scenario, there is no doubt it will bury Nigeria for good and give rise to countries which will include Biafra.
Masculity: Why are you afraid of relocating to your 'fatherland', you can't build your dream country from outside nah. Please.
The fact that Niger-Area gained independence in 1960 did not automatically required all Nigerians in British Empire to relocate to Nigeria. Everyday exposes the imbedded animalistic idiocy only inherent among most Nigerians. One thing that is very sure remains that Biarfra actualization has been accelerated.
indemnityy: Igbos living outside the shore of Nigeria have called on federal govt. of Nigeria as matter of urgency fixe the date of referendum for Biafran people to determine whether the people (BIAFRANS) that have agitated for a longer time that led to the civil war, which a lot Biafrans were massacred actually want to secede. They also barreded the AREWA youths for quit notice giving to Igbos in the Northern part of the country and ask AREWA youths to pursued the fed. govt. of Nigeria led by Northern leaders to conduct referendum to Biafran people instead of making useless noise or remain silence forever. However; they urge Igbos in northern part of the country to think twice of their continuing staying and investing in the north and any other part of the country except Igboland owing to what is happening in Nigeria now; as they should not sweep the quit notice giving to them under the carpet. As for those promising them protection may not be there when the madness will start. they stated.
Arrant nonsense!!! Niger-Area that could not produce a rope in which it could use to commit suicide shall be entrusted with conducting a referendum. We simply want peaceful separation. If USSR and Czechoslovakia can separate with ordinary handshake, Niger-Area can do so too. Anybody calling for referendum is completely insincere because it will become a load of drama.
Who would not want to be a Biafra after the treatment meted to the Bakassi people by Hausawa, Fulani, Yari.ba, Kanuri and the rest of northern region of Nigeria. My grandfather told me that when a woman marries two men at different times, she will certainly determine which of the men is a good husband.
Are you this slow? Of course, Nnamdi Kanu was correct with such assertion. Niger-Area cannot clean its gutters talk less of conducting free and fair referendum. There is no country on earth that have ever survived two civil wars. It is either a separation discussed over a dinner table such as the case with USSR and Czechoslovakia or war.
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Something curious is going on in Cross River State, some obviously sponsored youths have been induced to carry out "protest rallies" against the face and moving spirit behind the agitation for the resettlement of the displaced people of Bakassi. Apparently the young protesters phantom angst is that Senator Florence Ita-Giwa is really not from Bakassi and should stop misrepresenting them. It is the height of insult to a woman who, on record, was born in Atabong, Bakassi. It is also a funny assertion coming 30 years after Ita-Giwa almost single handedly brought the plight of the Bakassi people to the front burner of national discourse.
All of this is coincidentally taking place just after the Senator decamped from PDP the ruling party in the state and declared for the APC, the government at the centre. Anyone who has followed Ita-Giwa’s political career knows she likes to play with the government at the centre. Thus, any discerning person can see that something sinister is afoot.
Those in the know reveal that the problem started with a fire outbreak at a Bakassi displaced persons location. Senator Ita-Giwa was said to have gotten the National Refugee Commission to promptly respond to the disaster. The Refugee Commision mobilized considerable relief materials in the form of food and building materials which was handed over to the state government at a ceremony in Calabar. However, the relief materials never got to the affected victims of the fire disaster but instead found its way into the open building materials market in Calabar.
The obviously miffed Senator Ita-Giwa then reported to the authorities in Abuja, who dispatched some security personnel to look into the issue. Their findings revealed that there was indeed a diversion of relief materials. According to Prince Paul Nsan, National Coordinator, Renaissance Group Caucus, the hate campaign against Ita-Giwa may have been masterminded by the state government that feels embarrassed instead of taking responsibility for the situation. The government has allegedly decided to demonize Senator Ita-Giwa for having the temerity to expose the farce. Hence the sponsored protests against her. But this is not the first time, Ita-Giwa is rising up against suspected crooks who want who are feeding fat on the misfortune of Bakassi indigenes. In May 2010, there were rumours that funds were missing from the account of the Bakassi Resettlement Committee, chaired by Ita-Giwa. She promptly asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the matter.
Nsan expressed fears that the current protests might incite a misguided youth to take matters a step ahead by physically attacking the senator. God forbid that she should be assassinated as was the case with a British female member of parliament a few years ago. He called on the PDP controlled Cross River State government should concentrate on governance and find ways to pay the backlog of salaries they owe workers rather that squandering scarce resources on mobilizing youths against Eka Iban Ke Efik Eburutu, the Mother of the Efik Kingdom. Let it be known that nothing must happen to Senator Ita-Giwa.
When this lady was frolicking with officers of 3MCDO in 1967 in Calabar, she never realized that her home village had been ceded to Cameroon by the very soldiers she was helping to win the war. My grandfather told me it is better for the wind to blow so that every can see the.......
Markfemi: As an Edo Yoruba I have observed how since GEJ lost Igbo people have waged an online attack on Yoruba race but Yorubas have ignored them all the title Igbo claim facts always dispute and hands it over to Yorubas. Yorubas are the richest, most educated and accommodating. no one man can control their mumu button like kanu does to ibo
Igbo has attempted to use Ilorin to abuse Yoruba forgetting that being defeated in a war is a worse humiliating experience they also claim Yoruba have always aligned with north which is another lie ibo has been the chief boy boy to hausa from Azikwe to Ike ekremedu.
today, if igbo is sent out of Yoruba land ibo will suffer Yorubas are naturally blessed they have access to the sea, they have oil, they are the gateway to West Africa their presence is in Benin Togo all the way to the south america they call Yoruba lazy but its only the lazy Yoruba man that turns is village into a town and to a city by staying and developing his own land take a look at ogun which makes more money than the entire igbo land
take a look at ede in osun once a village now a thriving town same thing in kwara, same thing in ekiti with afe babalola
so ibo people why do you envy Yoruba so much?
Yoruba have rich history we know nothing about Igbos seems the more you envy them the more they achieve and you sound and look very bitter.
You also accused yoruba churches of not having ibo top pastors
I have not seen any Yoruba man accuse igbo catholics of not allowing non ibos lead Catholic churches or are you jealous of great yoruba churches with international influence even prime minister of uk must visit for votes. THE YORUBA ENVY IS VERY VISIBLE
they are tribes of first and are continuing the achieve more greater feats MY YORUBAS I HAIL UNA IF NIGERIA SPLIT TODAY EDO WILL JOIN ODUA AS SEPARATE AUTONOMOUS REGION
GREETINGS FROM A EDO YORUBA BOY
Is there any silly crap a person will not read on this forum? The only people who are jealous in Nigeria are the moronic ninnies that joined forces to precipitate war against Biafra. How can Igbo chap be jealousy of Yari.ba yet want out of Nigeria? There is absolutely nothing Yari.ba had that Igbo chap would want, not even Yrai.ba women.
naturalman: This is the list of the 10 most urbanized states in nigeria....in order of hierarchy...
(1)LAGOS STATE.........This is generally known to be the most urbanized state in Nigeria...All the local govt in Lagos state are all urbanized...lagos also have the highest number of commercial banks and industries in Nigeria...
(2)RIVERS STATE......Some person may want to argue this....but it is nothing but the truth....Due to the diverse ethnic group in rivers state, everybody tend to dominate its territory... making most local govt urbanised except ahoada west and gokana....it is the second most urbanized state in Nigeria and also took the 3rd position in the concentration of commercial banks and industries mostly oil industries..
(3)ANAMBRA STATE........This state is said to have the highest number of industrious indigenes....it is the 3rd most urbanized state in Nigeria...the state is developed due to the industrious nature of the indegienes...most LGA are urbanized except Anambra west and some part of the Anambra east,orumba south excluding umunze and ufuma....This state took the 4th position in the concentration of commercial banks and indigenous industries after Lagos,abuja and rivers.....
(4)ABUJA.....This is the centre of unity and is the 4th most urbanized state in Nigeria.... aside areas that harbours the federal parastatics ..other region are said to be rural and abandoned...This state has the 2nd highest number of commercial banks....
(5)IMO STATE.......Some persons do not actually know much about this state.....But it is in the best statues to occupy the 5th position....Due to the geographical position of IMO state ,it is the only state in the whole of nigeria minus Lagos that do not have a dense and extreme rural area...every community is a neighbouring town to a south south or south east state, which are always economically bouyant...The state is in the middle of south south and south east....their is no hitherto land or region in this state..
(6)OGUN STATE.....This state is arguably taking the sixth position... Due to its proximity to Lagos...the overflow of the Lagos population lives in ogun state...aside Abeokuta, places like mowe,otta,sagamu are highly urbanized...but most LGA are rural....and it has the highest number of industries in Nigeria, but mostly owned by foreigners......
(7) OYO STATE.....This is the 7th most urbanized state in Nigeria.... it is unarguably having the largest city in west Africa.....but most part of the city are still rural in nature as a result of infrastructural deficit and absence of basic amenities.... places like Ibadan and ogbomosho are large and occupy most LGA in the state...but most of the LGA are still rural...
(DELTA STATE....This state is occupying the 8th position....it has a lot of urbanized areas occupying more than one local govt area.....places like asaba, warri, efurum etc are highly urbanized...
(9)ABIA STATE......so many people will be surprise to see this state occupying the 9th position....but it is the truth...Aside Aba and umuahia....other region and LGA are either a university town just like uturu....but even at that most lectures in ABSU are living in okigwe town, which is in IMO state....but the state still harbours a large number of commercial banks mostly in Aba....
(10)AKWAIBOM STATE......This state is occupying the 10th position just slightly ahead of KANO STATE, which is highly populated but not urbanized, aside Sabon gari, some part of kurna asabe...other regions and LGA are rural...Akwaibom state have urbanized places like eket, ikotepene, uyo ikot abasi.....
I have traveled to most state in Nigeria... and I can comfortably attest to the truth nature of this list....
BuT any counter opinion is allowed and will be considered with reasonably prove and argument.
Do you know what urbanization means? How many cities are in River State? I do not mean villages dissected by truck A road?
LivingHuman: Fire this evening gutted the house of Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya (rtd) located at Adekunle Fajuyi Road, around Ladipo Area of Ikeja GRA. The retired Lt. General was reportedly not at home as at the time of the incident.
On ground to assist the officials of the Lagos State Fire Service and Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) were Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Fatai Owoseni and Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), who were returning to the GRA after an unscheduled visit to Ikorodu.
What is this silly praise all about when a contraction firm sticks to standards? Asphalt thickness in road construction guideline is 2-inches to 3-inches. What is this nonsense about Okoroawusa and road construction? Does Okoroawusa have a different standard of asphalt thickness from the rest of world? These silly and idiotic praises constitute the reasons some of the elected officials in Nigeria behave like demigods.
azimibraun: Haba!!! How come scottish people own dey open;how come when Eritrea get independence from Ethiopia it was open; how come Pakistan own dey open? I followed the south sudan pursuit from start to finish and It wasn't secret. Pueto Rico just had a referendum last week on whether to join the US as a state it was open. When did Secession that is an item in the united nation's provision for self determination became a thing of secret? Bros you got it all wrong.
Only a fool will remotely compare the political situation in Great Britain with Nigeria as it affects Scotland and Biafra respectively. In case of Eritrea, it started war of secession even Biafra as Flt. Lt Andrew Nwankwo flew the helicopter carried Halie Selisse around Addis Ababa. During Nigeria/Biafra war in 1967, Eritrea was also in a war of secession with Ethiopia. Luckily for Eritrea, countries such as Britain that are bent on reserving its economic interest in crude oil have no use in the war as in Nigeria/Biafra war. Pakistan was mere British machination by allowing majority of Muslims in India to have their country. The same happened to Bangladesh and Nepal. The question you should ask yourself remains why is the case of Biafra and Nigeria always hyped with war? In fact, must we need referendum to go our separate ways? If I am to decide the issue of separation in Nigeria, it will be done on a dinner table.
In 1956, British declared eastern region of Nigeria as the most lucrative estate in British Empire. Point of correction, crude oil has been struck in commercial quantity elsewhere in eastern region of Nigeria before Oloibiri.
azimibraun: I watched south sudanese people cry to God asking him why did he allow them get that independence. They have lost more people fighting themselves than when they were in the full Sudan. South Sudan may be failing now but the future may turn out good. I don't want to discourage anybody who want out. I just want to know how they intend to go about it and know what areas they intend to occupy. Just their plan that's all. Some Nigerians are willing to genuinely support Biafra but they want a plan of action.
There are things not open to public consumption. The strategy of a nation's mechanism has always been a classified document. The situation in Niger-Area today does not allow for such openness.
It was Cameroon under Ahmadu Ahidjo that saved the ass of Niger-Area from being whipped by Biafra. It did not come cheap though as Bakassi was ceded to Cameroon. You could be one of the expendables.
Dereformer: If separation will bring peace, progress, harmony to each of the countries that will emerge from Nigeria, will you in all honesty preach one Nigeria?
This is for sane minds and adults to answer.
I have never preached one Niger-Area. Niger-Area is a silly accident that should have been avoided. Anybody who even insinuate the continues stay of One Niger-Area is incurable insane.
freshest4live: I would advice the Igbos to go alone and form their homogeneous country with lgbo as the official language, it would be better for your progress.The Igbo speaking communities in the Niger Delta can have dual citizenship with RONDEL( Republic of Niger Delta) if the South South also secedes, or they can have it with Nigeria if the south south stays in a restructured Nigeria. All thesame as an urhobo man myself l prefer a Nigeria with true federalism. When the Biafrans go, l hope the country would then be restructured.
As mush as I agreed with you on the formation of Republic of Igbo land, however not everything in the so-called South-south can become a Biafran. There are too many expendables in the so-called south-south.
Igboesika: Same man that claims to come from Delta fighting Biafra with this poo he wrote up there. NO DELTA MAN WILL CARRY BIAFRAN MATTER ON HEAD LIKE GALA THE WAY YOU DO.
MAY GOD HELP YORUBA PEOPLE.
The dumbass ninny can claim anything under Sun, one thing is sure as the day that follows the night, he/she can never qualify to become a Biafra. Most numbskulls, such as the dude you referred in your post, are very expandable.
bantudra: and you are a cameroonian that cant think....people will wake up to una insults and insult una back too and you will still dont get biafra on nigerian soil...
I had rather be a Cameroonian than have a rapscallion such as you as a compatriot in Niger-Area.
Politics › Re: Why Nigeria Cannot Be Restructured – Gowon by Duru1(m): 6:52pm On Oct 27, 2017
DELTA STATE....This state is occupying the 8th position....it has a lot of urbanized areas occupying more than one local govt area.....places like asaba, warri, efurum etc are highly urbanized... 
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