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Calabar1stSon:
Back in those days, parents would always advised their female daughters that talking to boy who get them pregnant.

Infact religious organizations preach against it even more but you find many of their members involved in the act.

Do you know even at 18 I still thought that kissing a girl would get her pregnant?

What went wrong with the society of today? Why is Pre-marital sex a norm in the society today?

Another sex starved deviant opening a useless thread to cover his sexual deprivation. Of all the problems in Nigeria today sex is of most importance to you?

Any last minute speech from the other Niger Delta saboteur, what's his name? Boro, before his new found lovers also snuffed the life out of him?

Does anybody dispute these facts?

nellyelitz:
I heard he's being called a supreme court governor.

Some even call him Tanko Mohammed governor.

Throwback:
Who is arguing with you?

Am I the one that made you angry and emotional?

Am I an Eastern minority who you should be defending yourself against on this matter?

What has a cabinet list got to do with fair treatment, when by default it must be representative of every zone/division that constitute the region?

Did anyone previously criticize a cabinet list we already know you cannot go against the requirement of equitable representation?

Even the Buhari you love to accuse of Northern agenda, has a cabinet list that has representation from all the component states of the federation, because he cannot do otherwise.

So even IPOB cannot criticize Buhari's cabinet list.
So whenever the former Eastern minorities call you out, defend yourself before them and leave Yorubas out of your Eastern wahala.

Another Yoruba muslim busy body!
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oyatz:
So any random person that opens a thread on a faceless forum writing anything that is embarrassing about Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe must be my (Yoruba) brother and that my brother is exactly the same thing as the Yoruba ethnic group?

If you have an axe to grind with anybody ,be it Yoruba, Fulani, Efik or a Jew, take it up with that person and stop this childish ethnic profiling.


Everyday, more serious and intelligent Igbo and Yoruba people are making business deals, professional collaborations and romantic affairs while you and other e-warriors seat here all day, promoting tribal bigotry that is likely to robb you of necessary links and opportunities you need to go far in life.

Oga, why you dey talk like you no dey notice how often anyone disagreeing with Tinubu or Buhari is labelled IPOB?
Come on man, you want to be taken seriously?

senatordave1:
Sorry,I suppose tag you.you are an intellectual.but I don't think a book written by njoku should be the only reasonable explanation.mind you,he also went to a course abroad so I don't see why his juniors should overtake him.sounds funny

He researched your question, and posted his findings. Unfortunately, you don't like the answer, because it does not fit your tribalistic and animalistic theory that postulates that somehow Bassey edged out by who? Igbos, of course.

If you have any grey matter left in your brain, which I seriously doubt, you should be asking your stupidly hopeless question to the British, because I know that you can neither read nor do a simple research by yourself.

vincent10:
Journalism in Nigeria is all about source.

"Our source"
"A reliable source"
"Un-named source"
"Source who does not want to be named"
"Anonymous source"
"Source within"

Whona Weldon.

That's why the whole story reeks of Lagos-Ibadan media conspiracy!!!

Fulani government, Fulani chop am!

nextdoor84:
If really Pazienza was banned because of what he posted, then guys I am sorry I would have to leave Nairaland for good. You guys are nothing but irredeemable bigots. Shame on you all the MODs, if you sympathize or accept what they do too, f***uck you also.

Really?
Banned

Why the minority vs majority divide in the former eastern Nigeria.

1. The civil war poured petrol into this fore problem, because there are naturally majority/minority issues I'm the north, west, and everywhere more than 3 people are gathered.

2. Persistent federal government policies to keep them divided. There's the regular 19 northern governors meeting today. Can you imagine the federal government allowing the governors from the former eastern Nigeria states to ever meet under one roof?

3. Continued and persistent misinformation, because of fear and prejudice. A lot of Yorubas who obviously hate the way Nigeria is run today would rather have the status quo when you mention restructuring, regional independence, or autonomy. Why?

4. Misinformation and maligning of the Igbos has gone on for way too long that young people who have heard prejudiced information from the older generation simply repeat same as truth.

5. Oil, oil, oil.
Somehow, many minorities have been made to believe that Igbos are only after the oil. They don't know about the boundary commission designed to carve away every oil producing community out of the so- called Igbo territory. While those communities remain Igbos in their social and cultural life, outsiders like the Yorubas have amplified their differences with Igbos.

As the oil economy crumbles, people will return to their senses and their base.

6. Petty jealousy. Who has not heard about how the Igbos stole their girl friends, wives, or husbands? Some older people will tell a tale about how the Igbos awarded scholarships to themselves only. How the Igbos excluded them from jobs, etc. While a white man headed commission found these to have no merit, the myth continued and now is being passed down to the ignorant young.

7. All fingers are not equal, but all fingers are important.
There's paranoia about being a minority. This is unfortunate, because every society has minority and majority in every demographic comparison. The majority pays more of the tax for running the government ( many people will not understand this , because the oil pays for everything now).
The majority provides more people and manpower to run the government. A society that refuses to properly utilize the majority will not advance like other western countries.

The minority has rights, and must be protected from the natural human tendencies to victimize the weak. Even members of the minority groups will honestly tell you that they are unable to perform many of the tasks carried out by the collective human man power supplied by the majority.

Apart from having a small privileged ruling class, there's no other way the minority can control the majority in a democratic rule. Sometimes, I think that the verbal and psychological beating of Igbos is actually designed to make them second class citizens, ruled by say a few thousand Ogonis or Ijaws. However, history has shown that this type of effort always fails on the long run.

8. Majority could become minority tomorrow and and vice versa. But that must be by evolution not revolution.

sule17:
ASK YOUR SELF. HOW WELL DID IGBO PEOPLE LIKE THEIR SELVE?

You mean THEMSELVES?

Op,
Nice job. Quite academic.

mrvitalis:
You didn't want us in uyo and your people are all over ABA and enugu ? ...all your stay in ABA and enugu what development did you bring to those place ...bunch of lazy idiots

He's a hopeless Yoruba M.

senatordave1:
Ss are not interested in Biafra.we are either in Nigeria or create our own Niger delta republic or remain in nigeria

We?
We?
Which we?
Hopeless Yoruba muslim trying to pass for an eastern minority

Yeah, maybe in your next life.

Do you mean Fire Power of British Military?

KingJa:
First of all you need to cite reputable sources to provide evidence that Ojukwu released Awo from prison.

2nd of all there was no plight of secession by Ojukwu at the time of Awo’s release, so why would Ojukwu risk his career and his life (we all know how much he loves his life ) by telling the Military’s Head Chief of Staff to fuucckk himself again?

Common sense is all you need bro.
Check historical facts to understand the timeline involved.

Ojukwu's disrespect for Gowon was notable, he insisted that Brigadier Ogundipe, the next most senior army officer after Ironsi be made head of state, and not Gowon who was just Ironsi principal secretary.

Once again, after Independent Biafra was declared, and you still think a high value prisoner would have been voluntarily released on Gowon order

Again, ask yourself why Awo first went home to Okene, before going to Ikoyi prison for the Gowon and Yoruba media photo shoot?

KingJa:
As Nigeria’s head military chief of staff he ordered the release of Awo. Only a stupid person would think he has to physically travel all the way to Calabar to order the release a federal prisoner.

Oh yes!
Imagine a phone call like this:

- Hello, Ojukwu, this Gowon. There's a prisoner by the name of Obafemi Awolowo in in Calabar prison. I want you to release him quickly, and fly him to Lagos.

- Who's this again? Gowon? Go fuucckk yourself, ok!

And the massive Yoruba media somehow has been bent on believing that Ojukwu obeyed Gowon order, and brought Awolowo to Lagos prison where they staged some nice photo op for the World to actually see Gowon releasing Awo from Ikeja prison!!!

YorubaHero12:
Yes it is always Yorubas that take the blame. The Igbo man must always find a way to blame the Yorubas for everything. It was Yoruba that whispered in the ears of Adaka Boro to rebel? Just as Ojukwu also lied he released a Yoruba man (Awolowo) from prison and that he betrayed him by allying with Gowon to whip up emotions and paint Awo bad supporting Gowon. Just as you blame the Yorubas for your loss in the war with Ojukwu crying that Awo seized his food supply. It must always be the Yorubas!

Was almost going to ignore you, but if you seriously think that Gowon went to Calabar prison to release Awo, when Calabar was under Biafran control at the time Ojukwu had declared Republic of Biafra, then I see why you lack logical thinking.

KingJa:
I find it ironic that northers don’t champion education the way Dan Fodio did. Also seems like there is tolerance for looting and killing but zero tolerance for freedom of religion...weird!

I have a question, was Gen Sani Abacha a Muslim?

He was Jehovah's witness.

YorubaHero12:
Your fact about Adaka Boro is baseless because freedom is a right to every man. You are doing like the opressors that is trying to give reason to why the opressed have to remain under him. He was jailed for standing up for his people and demanding for their right and yet you are here saying he shouldn't have stood up for the right of his people because the Igbos gave him chance to become SUG president? Such nonsense!

You are here with the usual rubbish without proof about Adekunle killing Boro that you guys always regurgitate. Where is the proof to that? Which credible source do you have to that effect except the usual propaganda?

The corrupt and untrustworthy Yoruba media built Adaka Boro as a man who fought to retain oil revenue for his people against the Igbos, but many of them failed to understand that oil was not even an issue earlier on in Boro's drama.

How convenient for you to claim that Adaka Boro died under mysterious circumstances when Adekunle' s troops ambushed the exuberant young man as he was busy celebrating repelling of Biafran forces the night before.

Truth bites, and the lessons of Saro Wiwa, Adaka Boro, and Afonja shall always be taught in schools so that they understand that your temporary friend who helps you attack your own people will eventually kill you!

YorubaHero12:
Typical Igbo man, you intentionally left the impact of the southern minorities in the Palm oil industry of the Eastern region so as to project an illusion of doing them a favor. Let me refresh your memory.

—In 1936, The british under the United Africa Company first established a 6000 acre plantation of Palm oil plantation in calabar.
—UAC also had a second palm plantation in the Midwest which it inherited from much more earlier period than the above.
—In 1948, The government later developed farm settlement schemes which was first established at Kwa falls near Calabar.
—After series of low level of grove maintenance, the farm settlement were abandoned in 1955, and the farm formed the nucleus of the first plantation of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation (ENDC).
—Infact, some major producing provinces of palm in the Eastern region as at 1962-1968 were Uyo, Calabar, PortHacourt.

As per the importance of crude oil in the civil war, I won't even waste my time explaining that coz even a kindergaten will know crude oil is part of the reasons why Ojukwu thought he could stand alone. Infact Crude oil is also one of the reasons why Britain supported Nigeria.

See how you diverted the discourse to Awolowo moving oil company to Lagos like he have ever a president or supreme commander at any time in Nigeria history. However I will refresh your memory to the words of Adaka Boro when he rebelled against the Eastern Region government for the freedom of his people. Adaka Boro led an armed protest against the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefited mainly FG and the Eastern region with capital in Enugu and nothing was given to the Niger Delta people . His school of thought was that the Niger Delta people deserved a larger share of proceeds of the oil wealth.

Below is his emotional word when he declared the secession of Niger Delta Republic in Feb 1966:
"Today is a great day, not only in your lives but also in the history of the Niger Delta. Perhaps, it will be the greatest day for a very long time. This is not because we are going to bring the heavens down, but because we are going to demonstrate to the world what and how we feel about oppression. Remember your 70-year-old grandmother who still farms before she eats; remember also your poverty-stricken people; remember, too, your petroleum which is being pumped out daily from your veins; and then fight for your freedom."

He would later be jailed for treason by the Eastern/Federal govt coalition and was released later by Gowon. Later died mysteriously.

The above clearly showed the Igbos have denied the minority their rights especially when you speak about crude oil. So stop pointing your fingers at Awolowo while leaving the wrongs of your own and accept the greed and covetousness of the Igbo man on the minorities.

Now that you're suddenly Adaka Boro promoter, let's just remind you of basic facts about him.

1. His early education was before oil was ever discovered, so he personally benefited from the eastern coal and palm oil economy.

2. His rise to fame started at UNN where an obvious and unbiased Igbo majority students union elected him president.

3. His initial foray into politics began with a communist slant, and then metamorphosed into a liberation struggle.

4. He was also aided and abetted by Yoruba agents who had always sought to divide the east just like Zik allegedly help create the midwestern state out of the western state.

5. Just like Awo, he was duly convicted in a court of law.

6. Anybody who had issues with the east automatically became a hero to Gowon and his agents.

7. Just like Saro Wiwa, the same people who supported him to stab his own people in the back, eventually killed him, because the Yoruba commander in the area became jealous that Boro was becoming more popular than he was. That was Adekunle who killed Boro. He didn't die under mysterious circumstances, read the war records well.

YorubaHero12:
Well, this thread is not opened by a Yoruba man and I think we Yorubas on here showed a lot of restraint to be drawn into the argument even when the Hammer guy keep calling us.

What I’ve written is a truth that is available in the public domain and I just brought it here to sharpen the memory of intellectuals. The Southern minorities can think by themselves and they will judge accordingly.

Lastly, there are countless Zik’s speeches that showed the hypocrisy and the magnitude of his greed. Let me not derail this thread by documenting it here. That will be left for another day.

You are such a twister of the truth, and your darkly colored biased underbelly shows.

The Yorubas in the west had problems with minorities in the former western region, not just with the Edos, and Urhobos leading to the creation of the midwestern state.

The north also had problems, much more serious and repressive to the minorities. Col. Anuforo, and Igbo man risked everything to disobey Sarduana's order to shoot demonstrating Tivs on sight.

There was issues with minorities in the eastern region too, but never as bad as it was in the Yoruba west, or Hausa north.

So, when cheap revisionists and liars like you rise up to fuel Igbo vs minorities divide in the east, you should first talk about yours first.

The civil war was used to further divide people of the former eastern region, and many people of average age know the truth. Do you?

pazienza:
Some weeks back on one of your posts I made a rebuttal about the erroneous and mischievous rants of some of my (our) misinformed Niger Delta brothers.

First and foremost let me tell you all a little story for the avoidance of doubt.

I am from the Agbo ethnic group in Cross River State. We are located in Abi Local Government Area which is a coastal settlement and unarguably the smallest LGA in Cross River State in terms of landmass and to a large extent population - slightly a few thousands ahead of Bakassi LGA.


My fore bearers both on my maternal and paternal side were given the opportunity to serve in then Eastern Nigeria regional government.

My grand uncle Dr.S E Imoke of blessed memory was an all influential cabinet minister in the regime of Dr M I Okpara. He held the Trade portfolio and was also Finance minister at the time until the unfortunate incident of January 1966.


He was the longest serving Education minister. His son the Urbane Liyel Imoke is the immediate past Governor of our state “Cross River”.

During the outbreak of the war, he was the Biafran Commissioner for Refugees and Humanitarian affairs. One of my maternal uncles also served as Permanent Secretary in the ministry of health at Enugu.


My maternal grand father was also a front-line member of the Eastern Nigeria regional house of Chiefs.

Outside my family circles, another great Cross Riverian M T Mbu was nominated a Federal Minister for Transport and Navy by the Igbo controlled NCNC.

It's on record that Mbu was Nigeria's first Ambassador to the UK, UN and the USA.

He is from Boki in Cross River state. Boki is another minority ethnic group just like my native Agboland. The Igbos gave him the opportunity to excel ahead of their own worthy sons at that time.


He is the father to a Senator MT Mbu jr. Another person who is noteworthy is the late Chief Michael Eta-Ogon who was the Administrator of the oil rich Port Harcourt province in the first republic.

He is also from the same Boki with Mbu. Thomas Weir Ikpeme an Efik man from Odukpani in my native Cross River was the longest serving Permanent Secretary in the Eastern Regional Ministry of Education.

The key point is that the Igbos were comfortable with us “the minorities” that was why they entrusted education solely in our hands.

Not only education but other critical areas like Public Works and Transport etc. N. U Akpan an Ibibio man from Akwa Ibom state was the technocrat behind the eastern regional public service. He was the Secretary to the regional governement

Thompson Akpabio, an Annang man from Ukana in present day Akwa Ibom state was the regional minister of health.

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom state Godswill Akpabio is his nephew.

There were other high ranking cabinet ministers of minority origin like one of our family good friends, HRH Amanyanabo E P Okoya, Agada III the Ibenanowei of Ekpetiama in Bayelsa State, Chief. Erekosinma of Rivers and a whole lot of others who are too numerous to mention.

During the secessionist struggle, an Ogoni from Rivers state, Chief.Ignatius Kogbara was Biafra's Ambassador to Britain.

My dad's friend Chief. Lekam Okoi, from Idomi in present day Yakurr LGA of Cross River state was one of Ojukwu's trusted drivers. He is today a successful lawyer and a former commissioner in the Federal Character Commission.

Capt Akpet a minority from Cross River was also Ojukwu's dependable aide on intelligence.

Secondly for the avoidance of doubt, aside these political appointments, our people enjoyed immense goodwill from the Igbo dominated region by way of

My dad's immediate elder brother received a scholarship from the regional government that enabled him study for a PhD in soil science.

He is the first man “arguably” in Africa to obtain a doctorate in Soil science. I have friends across the Niger Delta whose parents, uncles, aunties and relatives also benefited from the benevolence of the Eastern regional government.

Unarguably our Niger Delta region received it's last major face-lift in terms of infrastructure when we were under the Eastern region.

Till the abolition of the regional system of government, the Eastern region was the most united region, they was never a recorded case of ethnic skirmish or BLOOD letting between the Igbos and other minority.

During the pogrom of 1966 we all carried the same cross to “Golgotha”, both Igbos and Eastern minorities were killed in their thousands across Northern Nigeria by the blood thirsty Hausa Fulani/Northern folks without blinking an eye.

It doesn't really matter if you were Igbo, Ijaw, Efik or a miniature Agbo person.

I never really wanted to bore you with reading this lengthy essay but it's my moral responsibility to tell the truth at all times.

I was thought by my fore bearers never to distort history and to always separate facts from fictions.

If we were not marginalized by the Igbos during the “analogue” age, how then can the Igbos marginalize us in this digital

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legit.ng/amp/1092790-opinion-why-igbos-never-marginalize-minorities-by-rex-egbe.html

Much Respect, sir!!!

BTW, I interviewed with a doctor Imoke in Maryland for surgical residency a long time ago.
And he sounded almost like you!

Thanks.

12submarine:
Bringing criminals like this woman to justice is one of the areas Buhari failed. I don't want to believe this is the same Buhari that ruled in 1983.

Sorry, but you refuse to accept that Buhari is the biggest criminal of all!

YorubaHero12:
First of all, you guys need to know exactly why most Igbos are hellbent on annexing the South-South (ND) ethnicities into their Biafra. It is a game plan that have always been in the mind of the Igbo decision makers since inception and they don't necessarily draft the SS people into Biafra based on true brotherhood.

To give you a better account. In May 12th 1953, Azikwe gave a speech when the Northern people were murmuring secession and was bragging with the resources of the Eastern people as his bargaining power.

Below are some excerpts from it that showed why exactly most Igbos are trying so hard to annex SS:
—In my opinion, the Northerners are perfectly entitled to consider whether or not they should secede from the indissoluble union which nature has formed between it and the South, but it would be calamitous to the corporate existence of the North should the clamour for secession prevail. I, therefore, counsel Northern leaders to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of secession before embarking upon this dangerous course.

—It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region, which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger, except upon payment of tolls. It may lead to economic warfare between the North on the one hand, and the Eastern or Western regions on the other, should they decide to fix protective tariffs which will make the use of the ports of the East and West uneconomic for the North.

—You may ask me whether there would be a prospect of civil war, if the North decided to secede? My answer would be that it is a hypothetical question which only time can answer. In any case, the plausible cause of a civil war might be a dispute as to the right of passage on the River Niger, or the right of flight over the territory of the Eastern or Western Region; but such disputes can be settled diplomatically, instead of by force.

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/1953-nnamdi-azikiwe-speech-secession/

Brethen, the above is the major reason why they wanted to annex the South South ethnicities into their fold. All the bargaining power Azikwe used were resources of the SS'ner minorities. However there is one more thing that later came up to make them want these ethnicities more, that is Crude Oil.

Ask yourself, if the seas and crude oil were to be in the Igbo lands of SE, will they ever try this hard to bring the SS'ners into their folds? Will they try hard to even add them to their maps? Will they show the same brotherhood they are showing? SS have oil and seas, but yet some Igbos always feel superior to them, let alone changing the situation to SE having the oil and seas. Just imagine.

I know you will ask what is the Yoruba cup of tea in all this, but this country and forum is intertwined, what affects one affects everybody.

Peace.

Now, I get you.
When a Yoruba man takes it upon himself to open and push a thread about the SE disrespecting the SS, it makes rational people begin to wonder about the altruism, the love, and affection involved in all this.

Your analysis of Zik's speech is devoid of basic understanding at best.

I just read a chilling report of how more than 100,000 Igbos were massacred in Benin prior to the civil war?

Apparently, they wanted to recreate the Igbo massacre in the north in Benin of all places!
Easier to understand the unnecessary anger against Igbos now.

The Oga at the top had told everyone to demonstrate your hatred for the Igbos in order to show that you are a good Nigerian, and they sure did!

First they cried about our oyel, and when the Fulani came and took all of the oyel, they still vent on Igbos

Republican Right wing conspiracy theorists at work, now with gaulible and ignorant Nigeria to be confused.

If Abacha who ruled for a short time is bailing us out front and back, imagine what IBB who ruled longer and stole way much more than Abacha ever could have done if he repents and returns his own loot to Nigeria

Shame to justice Mohammed Idris.
I bet he could neither read nor write, and yet he is a judge , because of quota system.

Juliusmalema:
This is bad.


Why sending them back?


No be one Nigeria again?


Why no quarantine them and absorb them into larger ondo state if they tested negative.

Or put them on Isolation if positive.


Nigeria constitution guarantees them right to stay in any western states and the constitution supersede any regulations.

One Nigeria when it's convenient to you?
No be one north, great north, born to rule north?

Anyway, the northern state who licensed the teacher should help take these kids back to their parents and stop traumatizing the children over and over again.