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You people should note that the green frog symbol is used by extreme racists who hate black people.

Meanwhile engineers are unemployed or working in banks. Nigeria should be ashamed of itself.

Oil done de finish. Na this wey una go de now export.

The British built that monstrous army and then the damned savages wiped each other out in 1966.

Shoprite and GSK have left. Shell and ExxonMobil have sold their on-shore production. MTN lost $100 million.
It's Tinubu's turn.

After his 1985 overthrow Buhari had thirty years out of power he could have used to learn how economies work. He learned nothing and came back to power clutching the same stupid, and wrong, ideas. Nevertheless a majority of Nigerians were convinced "Sai Baba" would change things.
Na him una still de suffer reach today.

Una get money to buy software? It isn't the handiwork of Tinubu alone. It's the vast, swirling value system itself. I frankly wonder what Microsoft thought it would gain by opening that office in Nigeria. Anyhow, $100 million means nothing to Microsoft, or any large American multinational. Time Warner lost $80 billion during the botched merger with AOL. Time Warner is still here. That's the company that brings you CNN.
Nigeria is a difficult and worthless environment for business. It can be argued that abstract thought and sophisticated reasoning are utterly alien to Nigerian, and sub-Saharan African culture. A company like Microsoft produces no physical products other than the Xbox and a type of keyboard. Windows 2000 called for the collaboration of 4000 engineers. Windows 2000 came out, obviously, in the year 2000, and is now obsolete. Microsoft's products are complicated ideas and services. That won't work in "Naija". The company's wealth comes from its ideas, which is why Bill Gates is worth ten time Dangote, who is a monopolist of flour and cement and nothing more. Two years of trading on all the stock exchanges of sub-Saharan Africa except that of Johannesburg is equal to sixteen minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
One of my biggest regrets was starting a structural engineering business in Nigeria. My second biggest regret was shuttering the business when sales were impossible. I then went job hunting. I went for interview at a Nigerian structural engineering company on Lagos Island. They gave me a problem to solve. The then second in command found the method I used incomprehensible and he spent nearly an hour trying to figure out how I solved and he asked whether I had used several obsolete methods. The matrix method made all the classical methods of structural analysis obsolete in the 1960s. By the 1990s a lecturer at UNN was telling students that a method developed in 1930 that he was about to teach would be used by the students every day as practicing engineers until they would retire. This was in 1997. That matrix method is the basis of all the structural engineering software used today. The author worked at another Nigerian structural engineering firm where it was clear that the engineers there were happily using analysis software to calculate without a clue about how it worked. Western engineering and technology forms a tradition based on constant development and innovation, where each generation recognizes it has inherited that tradition and must attempt to add to it and improve it and pass it on. That concept is utterly alien to Africa, where people still cut grass with cutlass, even at the schools teaching students technology.
Meanwhile look at the famed universities supposedly training the future Naija engineers, computer scientists and so on. Their hostels are filthy and squalid. An American or English farmer who attempted to house pigs or cattle in buildings as bad and unsanitary as Nigerian university hostels today would have his farm raided and shut down by the government health authorities and he'd be forced out of business.

Woman's qualities that she must have:
1. Miss Universe material face
2. Big nyash
3. Big boobs
4. Hot legs
5. Smart
6. At least bachelor's degree, no less than 2:1. Additional qualifications will be advantageous
7. Nonparasitic financially

Nigeria should write a formal letter to the United Kingdom asking for the restoration of British rule. The nonsense you've been truing since 1960 isn't working.

Some toto de like that.

I beg, Edo de for Biafra 2?

I didn't attend OAU but did NYSC in Ife at Oduduwa College. I used to hang out at OAU. An OAU girl I toasted became a good friend. I proposed to her but she said no.

The mistake Gowon made was trying to fight the Igbo from the south. That's where the Nigerian army encountered forests that gave the Biafrans cover. The fight from Ogoja southward was easier because of the open plains and lasted only from July 1967 to December 1967. After that area had been conquered Gowon should have simply put impregnable forces equipped with armor and heavy artillery around the areas held by Biafra and blockaded those areas until they surrendered. Also, Ojukwu should never have been pardoned and allowed in Nigeria, talk less of running for public office.
The current five Igbo states and the region of Delta State with Igbo should have their governors removed and replaced with military governors of general or admiral rank who answer only to the President. That should continue until the stupid agitation for Biafra has stopped.

What a mess these guys and the kids who joined after them made.

The naivete and simplemindedness of the Igbo led them to the disaster of the Biafran war. Now they're gearing up for another episode of slaughter and starvation in their paranoia. If I were the head of state of Nigeria I would send soldiers to occupy the Igbo states, including the Igbo regions of what is now Delta state. Someone has to save those savages from themselves.

With yet another ASSU strike the African has demonstrated once more that he had no use for higher education or abstract thought. The last time the black man was economically productive was when he was enslaved en masse in the 19th century. Nigeria should tear down its universities so you niggerians can go back to pulling cassava out of the ground. That's what your brains are suited for.

Don't worry. Nigeria will eventually split. But that won't be into the neat little artificial categories you people think in terms of. It will split into an unworkable mess like Somalia, where increasingly splintering groups will fight over smaller and smaller territories and all law and order will collapse. The UN may have to run large areas of it indefnitely At the same time anybody who understands what the former Eastern region, which seceeded as biafra, has become knows that the Eastern minotireis, like Ijaw, Efik, Urhobo, Abonnema, Okrika and so on are not about to trade in rule by the HAusa-fulani oilgarcy for rule by Igbos. Meanwhile I wish you MASSOB dreamers and fanatics the best. If the crude and uncouth young men I see running little stalls in the auto spare parts market near Satellite Town Lagos represent the flower of young Igbo manhood then the new Biafra faces grim prospects.

What is Biafra? The only reason it worked was that ojukwu was able to neatly pull the constitutionally defined former Eastern region of Nigeria out of the federation. What used to be Biafra is now nine states or so, and the people in the non-Igbo states don’t see themselves as Igbo and don’t give a damn about Igbo people. Indeed, if the inept Ironsi had split the four regions into twelve states he’d probably be alive today and there wouldn’t have been a war. If Gowon had split the regions up right after coming to power, he would have stopped Ojukwu’s ambitions in their tracks. Yes, kids, the monomania of spoilt rich-kid chukwuemeka ojukwu, a man who makes a buffoon of himself practically every time he speaks, was the biggest cause in transforming some violent rioting and interethnic clashes into a needless full-scale war. What you kids don’t realize is that Nigeria is so diverse that large-scale ethnic-based wars like Biafra are probably not possible in it anymore. The same goes for every African country. The only one that has split up since the sixties is Ethiopia, and its borders were NOT a product of European imperialism or the Berlin conference. Are you MASSOB lunatics telling me that you’ll somehow convince Ijaw, Urhobo, Efik, Abonemma, Ibibio and so on, to join you in yanking your impoverished region out of Nigeria?
Go get some education.

Of course, European rule was good for Africa. If Europeans never came to Africa and Africa had been left undisturbed Africans would still be living in mud huts, and they wouldn’t know that. Africa was the first continent to be circumnavigated and the first to be shown in full on maps, yet its interior was in the Stone Age and did not see the wheel until the 1870s.

You “Naija” people, your minds are so simplistic. It’s unfortunate. If you split Nigeria into its components parts what exactly are the components? Based on that logic Nigeria should be split up into 250 nations. Biafra had twenty different ethnic groups. You should learn to live in the 21st century, not think of living according to tribes that were obsolete five thousand years ago.

Biafra did not fail because of the Yoruba. Next time you Igbo guys want to fight a war make sure you’ve got plenty of weapons and artillery and food. Come to think of it, if Gowon, or maybe Ironsi, had created the twelve states in 1966 or even early 1967 that war wouldn’t have happened. The records show that Gowon’s creation of twelve states scared ojukwu witless. He had to act quickly before his power would start to ebb, so he declared his unarmed little republic independent three days later. The rest, as they say, was history.

This myth refuses to die and has become one of the great myths the Igbo use to justify their suicidal war. a man of ojukwu’s intelligence and who knew the Nigerian military intimately. Having made a career there, would have know that awolowo was not the person to go to for the securing of a deal to get the west to secede along with the east. For that he would have gone to the military rulers of the west. If you wanted Anambra state to secede during the Babangida regime would you got to Jim Nwobodo or to the current military leader? At any rate when awolow arrived in Enugu in July 1967 for peace talks he and his delegation spent an entire working day talking to ojukwu and his aides. at the end of the day, late at night ojukwu personally went to awolowo’s hotel suite and told him that the east had made up its mind to secede and that there was no going back. Read Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth At Dawn for the documentations of that.

Awolowo could not give what he did not possess. Like the rest of the country Western Nigeria was under military rule by then and Awolowo had been in prison since 1962. Therefore the idea that ojukwu could have gone to him to get the west to secede is a myth.

Even a ghetto dweller in America lives better than 99% of Nigerians. My friend who’s denying they are Aje-butter, face it you can’t imagine how savage the lives of most Nigerians are. Sub-Saharan Africa is returning to the stone age.