₦airaland Forum

cocoduck:
I am not your brother. BTW I don't hate you.

If someone gives me a gun to kill you I won't hesitate

Benita27:
You're contradicting yourself @embolden. That was exactly the point I raised. Just maybe, being too quick to quote me is making you loose your brain cells. That one could be right, and the other wrong was what I meant as "truth" being subjective. Please, go back to Google.

And FYI, I don't discourse feminism with Nigerian guys as most of you don't know the concept but are quick to act like you do with derogatory remarks of how feminist are.

That one could be right and the other wrong is what I meant as truth being subjective

DrGoodman:
This story is a weak attempt to frame a man to shut him up for whatever reasons.

Homo
Rapes children
Owns a church
owns 5 shrines
on the run

haba, na him be satan? Maybe them don kpai the man and now preparing a story to excuse their atrocities.

Mayrock:
I doubt the validity of this story.

Police as we all know how inefficient they are.....should atleast carry out a proper investigation.....

There are some pinch of salts to this story....

looks fabricated to me though....

Benita27:
I know where you're driving at. You think truth has to be universal, but it's not a universal concept. What's considered to be the truth in Africa may not be true in Asia. Take note of the word "May not" and you know why? Humans think differently.

Back to the topic, op thinks Chimamanda is doing more harm than good to the Nigerian girl-child and she called that the "Truth". Chimamanda thinks she's telling the world how things ought to be and she thinks it's the "Truth". Do their reasoning align? No, 'cause Truth is as subjective as beauty.

horlarwereleh:
Thank you so much guys, i really appreciate your comments!!

Benita27:
You don't know what you're saying. What I meant by truth is subjective is that what's truthful to a person/group may not be truthful to another person/group. Truth is as subjective as beauty. I could have also said it's relative.

Ask Google further questions if that word confuses you.

OfficialDad:
The op even asked her to show how truth is subjective, she no fit answer.

I believe people just type for the sake of writing, without the actual knowledge of what to write.

cuteralph101:
sadly I'm igbo...the nuisance perpetrated by igbos is a disgrace to the world. Such a shame. Let them go. They won't be missed

meccuno:
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meccuno:
your eyes were opened, so were the eyes of other naive igbos too. it goes both ways. i stopped believing in Nigeria. it was a complete waste of time. i personally dont think that it is cool to have a country with so much diversity. it breeds contempt distrust and it has never worked. the best bet is to be friends from afar. not together.

Benita27:
Truth is subjective. I think Chimamanda would say same @embolden.

BrownRoofRep:
Afonja suffersficated m0rons can't play football naa. The only thing they master is kissing Fulani feet.
Useless cone heads.

Chi59:
On point. If she's unwilling to excuse herself from her friends, don't say anything to her. Just tell her "have a nice day"

Mayrock:
The fact remains no Igboman is angry whether niaija won or loosed...

we all know how failure a nation like Nigeria is.

freedomchild:
Instead of you to give me a reasonable answer, you're here insulting

Go to Ikoyi registry and see how you guys import Oyibo grannies to your western region.

cuteralph101:
honestly reading this breaks me but what do igbos do. They gon sink themselves...

freedomchild:
Igbos always repping

Why is it that these oyibo beautiful young ladies love Igbo boys too much

And their grannies love Omoluabis too much

Brownhypo:
Some people will just be shouting tithe and offering every seconds, as if its your 50# or 20# they used in building those Churches.

the truth is, He who is blessed is blessed indeed! forget the 20 naira offering wey you dey squeeze inside box every sunday

#Peace

gaby:
Lets all bury the hatchet and live as one. This is the ultimate message. All the name callings and persistent suspicions of one another is only doing us all more harms and zero goods, both individually and collectively.

gaby:
VERY HISTORIC PIECE

Copied from "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" Forum posted by Adenike Marinho, a Medical Doctor.

Tunde Oduwole, I-QS.
14.06.'18.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF HATRED
I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a leader but a youth who knew how to wash his hands. At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989, I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit. They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct?".He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu. They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version. Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal?" he roared, and continued:
1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his leutenants to jail!
2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott? We met all night and reached agreement about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote
3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP?) Leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN)
4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North
Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal? How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your businesses in the West and went to Western schools. Yet you count the Yoruba as your enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your friends. It's your choice. If you want to be slaves for ever, we can't help you"
I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth. The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.
Now to make three points from all this:
A. The Yoruba have been stretching their hand across the Niger for a handshake for a long time. The Igbo refused to take it for a long time until recently
B. Many Igbo Leaders of the 70s, 80s and 90s deliberately perpetrated the legend of Awolowo's role betraying them into the civil war and his role in prosecuting the war, to rally the Igbo population behind themselves. The Igbo agreed on Yoruba hatred than on any other issue. So it was the fabric that held them together for a long time
C. Time heals all things. Many Igbo reading this will be hearing for the first time that their leaders of old knew for a truth that Awolowo did not break his word to Ojukwu as alleged. And to think of it, EVEN IF OUR PARENTS QUARRELLED, SHOULD WE THE NEW GENERATION CONTINUE THE SAME WAY?. ITS TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THE HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE NIGER WORK FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PEOPLES AND NIGERIA

Justiceleague1:
shut up,sophi M,and say amen.

cocoduck:
Thunder fire you and that your useless brotherhood. I am not your brother. If someone gives me a gun to kill you, I won't hesitate. FYI.

jiggaz:
morning