₦airaland Forum

CoronaVirusPro:
[Now she feels the pains of those parents who had their kids blown up in school by AR15 while her late husband said it was worth it.


“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”


— Charlie Kirk

Dpharisee:
I can see the known Igbo haters on this platform lined up on page 1, I didn't bother reading what they wrote because I look at Monikers before reading comments

nedu666:
See how apc are making a fool of them selves. How can nidcom be responding to a fake non existing ik iziguruzo. This so called character who claims to be ohaneze president doesn't exist. He is a fictional character created by Apc under buhari to make it seem ohaneze has factions

LegendHero:
Are you on Twitter? If you’re on it, you won’t deny what I said.

That tweet was in response to voiceofigbo tweet. Then she smiled at that one tweet.

That is her personal account. She can laugh, she is not their mother so why does she need to control unrulyy pipu on Twitter?

Nowhere in that tweet was any ethnic group mentioned. So I don’t know what you guys are angry for. Are you admitting Iboes are MKeys?

LegendHero:
If na me be Abike, I go just tell Ohaneze to go to ELL.

3exe3:
this didn't start from nairaland an ibo named amaka accused the yorubas of being against the ibos leaving Nigeria . all this started on x reno replied her though

Ttalk:
This is typical example of someone who destroys his people. Just imagine SE have 5000 of this type of leader who collect 500m as constituency allowance but chose to empower 50people with wheelbarrow, what sort abject poverty will such society become after 10 years

Brendaniel:
The Igbos have not moved on? yet you people talk more about it than even the Igbos, this thread was opened by you people talking about the Igbos, can you people stay a day without talking about the Igbos?

Helinues please prove to me you can do it, just stay for 24 hours without posting a topic about the Igbos and stay away from any Igbo related thread, just prove to me you can do it...

Deal?

Buccalcavity2:
Ironically, same Zik supported Biafra after championing that Charter. Again, when he was being relegated in Biafra, he came back to Nigeria and denounced Biafra.
Zik, very smart....but highly treacherous! Funny, he has a lots of disciples now!

Factcheck0001:
Criminal enablers are now enjoying the monsters they fed, some people too are romancing their criminals n defending them online but when those criminals show them small thing they start blaming Tinubu.

Thank God we were able to curb Sunday igboho, it's so funny that those brave men who called us cowards then are now running for refuge in d land of the cowards

Yujin:
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Can you quote or show just one pre-independent document that stated Yorubas have more population than Igbos? I'll provide you with two that states otherwise.

lawani:
Franchasng was saying the military added some parts of Igbo land to Kogi and Benue and that is what I said is not true. No part of the south was added to the North by the military

lawani:
Which assertion?. Are you saying some parts of the south was added to the North by the military?. If Igbos were divided by the military it only applied to the old Eastern region.The Igbos in Delta and Edo states were never in the East to begin with neither were the ones in the NC

Validated:
Reno Omokri should by now know that discerning Nigerians already know about his deluded self created replies on social media. Nigeria has over 100 million youths, most of them on social media, especially X or Twitter and Facebook.
Based on Nigeria population, Igbos occupy No. 3 position, so we can infere that they do not have the highest number of social media users.
Even Reno's demographic followers are not up to 40% Igbos. However, for some inconceivable reasons, only Igbos with first names only post to Reno on issues pertaining to other ethnic groups. So you see posts like:
- Reno replies Nedu on Yoruba culture and food
- Reno replies Amaka why Nigeria is indissoluble
- Reno replies Okoro why Hausa ... blah blah blah
- Reno school Chioma on Bini people's... blah blah blah
The next you will see post like Reno educates Ifeoma or Ndubuisi or Eze. He never replies Pelumi or Biodun or Musa. These his followers never have last names that they can be traced. Neither do they have locations.
For some very strange reason, Yorubas, whom he now call Lukumis, Northerners and Muslims do not post topics he found worthy to reply to. What a per-excellent coincidence?

@Reno, we are smarter than your self-delusion. Kindly grow up, you are in your 50s and should be showing maturity for your age.

Softmirror:
I can't see any. I only see a smart man who avoided been drawn down to a sub human level. Hence, blocking an uncivilized discussion.

Softmirror:
Where is the intelligent question? Where? Abeg make person show me.

lawani:
I did not mention landmass at all. I talked about population only. Then Igbo speaking villages in the North have always been in the North just like Yorubas are in the North. Dividing Igbo's after the civil war does not apply to the North central. The British did not partition Nigeria properly from the onset.

It is water resources that mostly determine population. Iflf you are rich in water resources then your small land can support a huge population. This is true for the SE. However the SW is large and also rich in water resources and fertile land. All evidence including census abroad show that Yoruba is far more than Igbo in population. That is my point.

SeeWahala:
So it's now a weekly affair to be getting this sort of news from there?

Hmm, kwara state is Going - Going - Going . . . ? 🤔

StarGraphicX:
Gentle Yahoo Says HI

PigTormentor:
Bowing down the orange clown because of money. Pathetic

ShoeMarket:
The National Grid, painstakingly designed by Engr. Clement Chukwukadibia Onyemelukwe in October 1962, has been left to ruins over the years.

Engr. Clement Chukwukadibia Onyemelukwe initiated the planning and development of the electricity grid still used in Nigeria today when he became Chief Electrical Engineer in 1962.

Onyemelukwe is reputed as the "Father of Nigerian Electricity" and the first Nigerian to marry a peace corps volunteer ever.

Born April 1, 1933 in Nanka. He attended DMGS, a premier colonial-era boys secondary school in Onitsha, University College Ibadan for two years before he was sent by the British colonial government to Leeds University. Onyemelukwe hailed from Nanka in Anambra state.

He received his B.Sc Engineering degree in 1956 and worked in the power sector in the United Kingdom. He acquired a second degree in Economics from London University.

He had nearly abandoned any intention of returning to Nigeria when the Electricity Corporation on Nigeria, ECN, recruited him as part of the drive to fill civil service and parastatal positions after Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960.

In 1961, he became deputy chief and the following year was made chief engineer, taking over from the British man who had run the operations for many years. It was on his desk that the first outline of what is now the PHCN, formerly ECN and NEPA grid was formulated. All the chief executives of NEPA, the renamed national electricity corporation, since its inception up to 2001 were his former staff.

Onyemelukwe initiated the planning and development of the electricity grid 330 KV electricity grid still used in Nigeria today when he became Chief Electrical Engineer in 1962.

Clement Onyemelukwe, Nigerian Chief Electrical Engineer of the country's Electricity Corporation, generated international attention when he married Catherine Zastrow, a white Peace Corps volunteer, who had just completed her service in 1964. Interracial marriage was illegal in Kentucky which was still Catherine's U.S. residence while she was in the Peace Corps.


When her parents returned to Kentucky after the wedding they had to change their phone number because of hate calls. The couple received telegrams from people all over the world, mostly supportive but a few critical. A photo of the wedding appeared in the popular Life Magazine in January 1965 and was also noted in Ebony Magazine.

"Peace Corps Worker to Wed Nigerian Engineer," was the bold headline for a brief article in The New York Times from Lagos, Nigeria on Dec. 23, 1964. The couple “went through last-minute preparations today for their wedding Saturday at St. Saviour's Church,” the piece said.

With the Nigerian civil war looming in 1967 Clement left ECN to take up leadership of Biafra's Coal Corporation and electricity utility. He was also made executive chairman of the Biafra Airports Board. Late in the war he became chairman of the Panel on Post-War Reconstruction. He returned to Lagos and the Electricity Corporation after the Biafran war in January 1970. He was also the one who made sure that Planes landed and took off safely in Biafra during the war.

He left the electricity industry to found Freeman Engineering in Lagos in 1973. In 1976 he founded Colechurch International Ltd, a project management and promotion company, in United Kingdom. He and his wife Catherine moved to Westport in 1993.
He initially held a residence card, known as a "green card," as he was spending a good part of his time in his home country Nigeria on business.

In 2007 he finally became an American citizen. He was a speaker at the Y's Men and an active library user while working on his latest book or researching business ideas.

Engineer onyemelukwe is the owner of Colechurch of International Ltd, His son, China Danfort Onyemelukwe, one of the most prominent and important investment banker in the world.

Today, Colechurch is active in 32 countries worldwide and has head office in London and a sub-head office in the US. The group has an asset base of about $750m and annual turnover was $400m, the staff strength worldwide is 2,500 as at 2009.

Clem Onyemelukwe has an impressive and perhaps, intimidating profile. He bagged an Engineering degree in 1956, from the University of Leeds and an Economics degree of London University in 1960. He has written many books and lectured widely on the power industry, economic development and growth in the global top Universities and conferences.

He died on January 18, 2020 of Metastatic non-small cell, non-smoker's lung cancer in his westport home in US, aged 86.

Onyemelukwe was the author of five books, namely:

"Industrial Planning and Management in Nigeria (Longmans UK) 1964;"
"Men and Management in Contemporary Africa (Longmans UK) 1973;"
"Economic Underdevelopment: An Inside View (Longmans UK) 1974;"
"Science of Economic Development and Growth: The theory of Factor Proportions (M. E. Sharpe Publishing US) 2004."
His last book, "The Decline of the American Economy", is due out in spring 2020.

Clem was well loved by the community at the Unitarian Church in Westport and others. His warm smile, easy laugh, and joy in recounting stories of Nigeria made him an engaging conversationalist. He loved to discuss politics and economics with any and all.

He is survived by his wife Catherine, their three children, Chinakueze, Elizabeth, and Samuel, and five grandchildren, Kenechi, Nkiru, Teya, Bruche and Ikem. His brother Prof. Geoffrey Chukwubuike Onyemelukwe, Consultant Physician and Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Ahmed Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, and three sisters also survive him. He was predeceased by his cousin (Most. Revd. Dr. Jonathan Arinzechukwu Onyemelukwe, former Anglican Bishop On The Niger), who died in July 2011, and one sister.

Engr. Clement Chukwukadibia Onyemelukwe was buried in the family compound in his ancestral village, Nanka in Anambra state, beside his parents in April 2020, reinforcing the saying “na isi nwa eze adịghị atọ na mba”. The son of a king's corpse must be buried at home not in a foreign land. The End.