₦airaland Forum

willow0801:
But do we igbos have to shun them, they are our brothers, we are all easterners bro, we need to fight against this evil

This might sound outrageous but it is the pratical truth. "you can never save everybody in life" the igbos will not save the ijaws without any collateral damage on the igbo race.

Some people are "DAMNED"(damnation/condemnation) as long as Nigeria is concerned. If igbos continue on the path of "justice 4 all" they will be condemned with these people. You cant always be the good boy. If igbos will submit themselves and be loyal just as the yorubas did to the lanlords of Nigeria(hausa/fulani) the igbo people will have no problem and our lost lands/glory will be restored. It is in the best interest of igbos to remain in nigeria and join in the pillage and rape of the minorities.

You cant save a man who do not want to be saved

you dont save a man that wants to drown Lest you drown with him

Good people dont last, only the wise/cruel does.
Igbos cant continue to be the good guys. We got to submit to the trend of things
cc eurobomber

babyfaceafrica:
why is one always attaching itself to the oda?...can't SE stand alone?.....

you are still not getting it. No one is Attaching SE to south south. The 20 richest men in Nigeria are dominated by hausa,yoruba and igbo(including igbos of delta state). I dont think any of those rich igbo men was "made" as a result of south east/south south. Stop attachment.
Stop putting so much importance on ss, the average ss man is not more educated or rich than his sE counterpart.
Mind you i am ss

babyfaceafrica:
SS will survive without SE........they are a great region

and i cant ever remember seeing anyone saying the two regions needs each other to survive

willow0801:
But do we igbos have to shun them, they are our brothers, we are all easterners bro, we need to fight against this evil

This might sound outrageous but it is the pratical truth. "you can never save everybody in life" the igbos will not save the ijaws without any collateral damage on the igbo race.

Some people are "DAMNED"(damnation/condemnation) as long as Nigeria is concerned. If igbos continue on the path of "justice 4 all" they will be condemned with these people. You cant always be the good boy. If igbos will submit themselves and be loyal just as the yorubas did to the lanlords of Nigeria(hausa/fulani) the igbo people will have no problem and our lost lands/glory will be restored. It is in the best interest of igbos to remain in nigeria and join in the pillage and rape of the minorities.

You cant save a man who do not want to be saved

you dont save a man that wants to drown Lest you drown with him

jstbeinhonest:
Right now the SS is more developed than the SE.

what do you define as development? Is it infrastrucure or standard of living ? Even the most developed part of ss is still igboland.

Goodboiyy:
If you create this thread to mock on Us, then u must be a joker.. Asin am happy the crude is fading away.. atleast East , West And North go let us be.. Wenti na.. una 1 pest us die, #Parasites

cry not for us.. Cry for your poverty unfertile land..

so why dont you show us proof that your land is more fertile than igboland? Or was igbos starving before the advent of Nigeria?

TonyeBarcanista:
No INCH of Rivers state is Igbo! Get used to it or Go and "you know the rest"


PS: You are NOT from Rivers state. I've seen lots of impostors already!




Bye-byeeeeeeeeeeee

let me tell you something. I DONT CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ME and i wont start proving my origin to you,it only depicts inferiority and your thoughts about my origin doesnt count because your are INCONSEQUENTIAL. And your rants cant stop ndokis and others from being igbo. Do you know what "OBIGBO" means in english? THE HEART OF IGBO LAND/PEOPLE.
Bro, we are proud and not ashamed of our heritage. The people with the brightest IQ in the continent.
AS I HAVE ALWAYS TOLD YOU(OBIGBO)NDOKIS ARE NOT IJAWS. We are not ijaws we are igbo and are proud of it, carry your expantionist agenda to IBENO.

NB: I HAVE ALSO SEEN/BURSTED PEOPLE OF YOUR KIND, HOW ARE MY SURE YOU ARE NOT YORUBA?

babyfaceafrica:
So just because they are not joining in your fruitless biafra,you wish them evil abi?.......biafrans leave ss alone!!!!........before oyel discovery they survived,after oyel they will survive......paddle your canoe!!

Dont bring biafra to this. The thread is never about biafra.
It is about the future of Niger delta, of which i am, which has been brutally raped by the Nigerian state. A great percentage of our means of survival has been destroyed and would cost a fortune to restore.

babyfaceafrica:
So just because they are not joining in your fruitless biafra,you wish them evil abi?.......biafrans leave ss alone!!!!........before oyel discovery they survived,after oyel they will survive......paddle your canoe!!

Dont bring biafra to this. The thread is never about biafra.
It is about the future of Niger delta, of which i am, which has been brutally raped by the Nigerian state. A great percentage of our means of survival has been destroyed and would cost a fortune to restore.

babyfaceafrica:
So just because they are not joining in your fruitless biafra,you wish them evil abi?.......biafrans leave ss alone!!!!........before oyel discovery they survived,after oyel they will survive......paddle your canoe!!

Dont bring biafra to this. The thread is never about biafra.
It is about the future of Niger delta, of which i am, which has been brutally raped by the Nigerian state.

TonyeBarcanista:
Niger Delta is very rich. Before crude oil we were rich in palm oil. In fact, we were called Oil Rivers(Rivers, Warri and Bayelsa states) for a reason. We have rich lland for agriculture and our waters were used for fishing. Though our land and waters have been polluted due to oil exploration. We are rich in gas with abundant gas reserve. Whether oil become worthless or not we won't suffer. We will only adjust.


Most importantly, we have access to see and can easily capitalised on it.


@OP cry not for the Niger Delta. We will do just fine!

And i hope you have a boundry definition of what you call Niger Delta. The oil politics that divided igboland will soon be over and the boundry between igboland and your Niger delta(mainly ijaws) will be drawn.

I thank God my people has always been proud of their igboness despite being in Rivers state. The future holds good for us as igbos with the help of our naturally endowed "survival instincts/spirit"

we are developing.
We are expanding.
We are progressing.

Lest i forget. Obigbo is the satelite town of porthacourt. We are doing Good Infrastructurally and otherwise.
What does the future hold for polluted ijaw land?

Wasnt igboland producing palm oil?

Dont igboland have a seaport at porthacourt?

Somalia has the longest coastline in africa but where are they?

Doesnt igboland have more gas reserves and solid minerals than ijaw land?

Dont we have the human resource?

You once said that igbos lack bargaining chips, so what will be your peoples bargaining chips when pure water is more costly than toxic crude?

We are majorities, we can never loose in this game just like the yorubas and hausas though we have our political differences with them. Minority will always remain minority, they will continue to be pawns in the cheese board of Nigeria

You know what? Eurobomber was right!

eleko1:
after those miscreats killed our own vivianblog lil sis nd others.Pity

Abeg park well

But can someone summarise this article

EdCure:
No mind am.

For what I understand, the essayist actually did an excellent job in debunking the white IQ supremacy myth with concrete facts using current realities of what you may call the Nigerian academic/intellectual wonders.

One thing that is most baffling to the author (and even me) is the fact that most of these Nigerians who outperform the Whites (and Chinese) in the academic field, exams, cognitive test (including scrabble) were not even born there. They went there as immigrants from Nigeria - a poor, less developed country with very limited opportunities, which is enough to impede cognitive development.
So The West cannot claim any glory for having to bring them up with their culture.

Black race (Nigerians) is the super race.

This not about nigerians generally but on individual ethnicities(sorry your edo is not among) because on the former article which the author is debunking it was made known that acessing based on races, black and white, it was discovered that the white generally performed better than the blacks but when the study was conducted on individual ethnic groups it was observed that the igbo and yoruba outperformed the whites. This is about super intelligent races. The igbo remain number one(1) then followed by yorubas.

EdCure:
No mind am.

For what I understand, the essayist actually did an excellent job in debunking the white IQ supremacy myth with concrete facts using current realities of what you may call the Nigerian academic/intellectual wonders.

One thing that is most baffling to the author (and even me) is the fact that most of these Nigerians who outperform the Whites (and Chinese) in the academic field, exams, cognitive test (including scrabble) were not even born there. They went there as immigrants from Nigeria - a poor, less developed country with very limited opportunities, which is enough to impede cognitive development.
So The West cannot claim any glory for having to bring them up with their culture.

Black race (Nigerians) is the super race.

you are right and wrong

yudee233:
Nonsense call a spade a spade not a digging tool. These People are NIGERIANS not Igbo and Youroba

e pain am :p this is why i will always be proud of my igbo heritage. My people will not deny their igbo brothers because of oil politics. A time will come when intellectual superiority and inventions will translate into wealth for the igbo nation and not oil,then,we will remind those of us that denied us because of temporal benefits(oil) that they are distinct.
I am happy to be a River man
i am proud to be an Ndoki man
I AM MORE PROUD TO BE AN IGBO MAN(the tribe than is driven by hyper intellectual creativity)

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nicerod:
I take God beg u summarize am 4me

hehehe

Orjioorji:
if they are thieves like Mr president with our $300,000.let them be persecuted and jail for life they are all evil. Buharibringbackourmoney .

are you siding sick bubu?

obinnashady:
You must show us the photos or.....Adonblivit

lol. U just got to believe it

I read somewhere this morning that over 700,000 people have died in the insurgency war in the north east. I was very suprised but i knew that it was part of nemesis against the north and the worst is that more are still dieing.
But when is waste land going to pay their own price?

Igbo Community Development
Association (ICDA), Akwa
Ibom State has advised
Nigerians not to politicise the
ongoing anti-corruption war
instituted by President
Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration.
Rather, the group, said to be
an umbrella union for all Igbo
groups in Akwa Ibom, has
thrown its weight behind the
anti-corruption crusade,
even as it appealed to
Nigerians not see the
exercise as a witch-hunt of
key players of former
president Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration.
A statement made available
to Daily Sun yesterday,
signed by Nze Obi Anthony,
who is the chairman of the
group’s electoral
inauguration committee,
decried the cynicism with
which many people are
regarding the anti-corruption
war.
“Some people say Buhari’s
administration is selective in
its anti-corruption drive but
we wish to call on Nigerians
to be patient because the
world is watching the
president,” adding that the
crusade has started yielding
results.
The statement revealed that
the group intends to, on
Friday December 18,
inaugurate its newly elected
executive members into
office.

sunnewsonline.com/new/dont-politicise-buharis-anti-corruption-war-igbo-community-in-aibom/

Residents of Atele Street in the Anibaba community, Ikorodu, Lagos State on Tuesday woke up to find two naked dead women, who were dumped by the roadside. PUNCH Metro learnt that the women, whose identities had yet to be known, also had their breasts cut off, while their private parts were removed. Our correspondent gathered that the shocked residents tried in vain to locate the families of the deceased women. The residents told our correspondent that the incident was the second time in two weeks that mutilated bodies of women would be found in the area. Our correspondent had reported on Monday that six women were found dead in a canal in the area on Saturday, December 5. It had been reported that the decomposing corpses were thereafter removed by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, and deposited in a morgue in Yaba. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, had told PUNCH Metro that the relatives of the women had yet to show up, adding that the police were investigating the cause of the women’s death. Our correspondent learnt on Tuesday that two women were again found by the roadside, stripped naked and mutilated. It was gathered that some of the residents reported the matter at the Ikorodu Police Division and to the Rapid Response Squad. Officials of SEHMU were said to have been invited to the area again to attend to the corpses. Speaking with PUNCH Metro, a resident, who gave her name only as Iyiola, said the faces of the deceased were not familiar to any of the residents. She said, “The spot where we found these women on Tuesday is just some distance away from the canal. The bodies were dumped behind a house on the street. “Just last week, six women were picked from a canal in this area. The bodies were found after a foul smell pervaded our area. On Tuesday, we were shocked to find two fresh corpses. We strongly suspect that the women were killed by ritual killers. “The bodies were stripped naked, while their breasts and private parts had been cut off. When are we going to stop seeing dead bodies?” Another resident, who identified herself as Iya Sarah, said, “The police and the community development association must do something about these killings. There is obviously a serial killer in the community. One of the corpses found was that of a lady, who was stripped of everything.” Our correspondent learnt that some residents had written letters to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, and the National Human Rights Commission in Abuja to investigate the spate of killings in the area. The police spokesperson, Offor, could not yet be reached for comment, as his phone rang out. However, the Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Ministry of Heath, Mrs. Adeola Salako, confirmed to our correspondent that the SEHMU officials found two new corpses of women in the area on Tuesday. “You are right about the two new corpses,” she said in a text message.

The governor spoke in Uyo
at the contract signing for
the Full Business Case, FBC,
and the official handover of
Certificate of Occupancy
during the kick-off meeting
with the Transaction
Advisers and Master
Planners for the project.
Emmanuel assured that the
state government was
determined to complete the
project and willing to do
everything necessary to
assist the various groups
involved in the deep seaport
to bring it to reality.
He stressed the importance
of maritime to the
development of the country,
noting that the state
government was desirous of
creating the right
environment for developing
the economy of the state and
by extension, the nation.
“Recently, Nigeria has been
battling with a dwindling
economy which over the
years thrived on crude oil as
a mono- product. The fall in
the price of crude oil in the
international market has
taken negative toll on the
economy of many states
including ours.
“The new wave of challenge,
therefore, is for states in
Nigeria and particularly
leaders, who hold the
people’s mandate in trust, to
arise and evolve alternative
ways of achieving
sustainable economic growth
and prosperity as well as
guaranteeing survival for its
teeming populace.
“The significance of the
maritime sector to the
Nigerian economy can be
seen in the area of
transportation, facilitation of
trade and commerce,
revenue generation and
availability of finance,
employment and job creation,
and promotion of tourism,”
Emmanuel said.
“Other areas include
development of related
economic activities,
enhancement of industrial
growth and development,
institutional development,
international relations and
peaceful coexistence, socio-
political harmony as well as
defense and security.”

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/ibom-seaport-2018-completion-date-sacrosanct-gov-emmanuel/

Dr. Ibrahim’s article didn’t just indulge in staple homogenisations and mutabilities of Nigerian ethnic politics, it also conflated race and geo-politics in its analysis. Its focus was probably on the South-East of Nigeria but his framing was Igbo. Just as the North and Hausa or South-West and Yoruba are not the same thing, Igbo and the South East aren’t the same. One is a geo-political invention; the other is an immutable racial identity. One can be reinvented; the other can’t. As with all things incapable of being changed, generalisations about tribe and race risk and invite credible accusations of bigotry. In reality, though, the underlying generalisation that is evident from the article arguably reflects its author’s personal views about “the Igbo”. If that is so, then this is quite troubling because it could suggest his cupboards of tribalisation in Nigeria are in gross arrears of his professed ideals. This leads to the more substantive problem with the article: its banalisation of politics and its commitment to the Bantustanisation of Nigeria. Dr. Ibrahim’s article speaks about the “political game” and, somewhat hubristically, determines losers (and therefore winners). But, surely the question must be what winning means in Nigeria’s politics. In an earlier article, Dr. Ibrahim had recently written about Barewa College, the legendary High School in Katsina State that appears to hold a patent on producing Presidents and powerful people in Nigerian politics. But what have these people accomplished for Barewa, for their people or for Nigeria? All the Presidents he pointed to are from “the North”. But what have the peoples of this region had to show for their political musical chairs? Despite this lock on power, all the three zones and 19 States of Northern Nigeria put together have less Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, than the six states of South-South Nigeria; the seven states of North West Nigeria (a zone that is a net importer of human resources from other parts and with nearly 30% of Nigeria’s population) together have just a little over half of the IGR of the five states of South East Nigeria which is a net exporter of human resources to the rest of Nigeria. How can that be progress and what does that mean for politics and our notions of winning and losing? Speaking about political game and how it has been banalised, the Niger Delta produced President Jonathan for five years and three months and yet the East- West Road which leads to his village remains for the most part a crater. The road to President Obasanjo’s house in Otta (the Abeokuta-Lagos Express Way) was, similarly, one of the worst in Nigeria under his Presidency. In this Nigerian political game, the people seem to be the football that the elites use for their kick-abouts. I can honestly understand a claim that any people have lost out in the political game if Dr. Ibrahim or anyone could point to any verifiable legacies left by the supposed tribes of winners except the supposed Brownie Points that come from producing elites with an equal opportunity commitment to the pauperisation of all of the country. The most far reaching of such legacies have come from people who didn’t exercise federal power: Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo and Michael Okpara. Nigeria deserves to be freed from the tragic consciousness in which enlightened people think that politics is about capturing power with no real benefits to the human beings who make power worth exercising. If we cannot elevate the tone of our politics or its analysis, we can at least decide not to continue to trivialise it.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/the-igbo-question-a-response-to-jibrin-ibrahim/

IDENTITY politics in Nigeria is very much alive, well and thriving. It’s an elite preoccupation. Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim is one of Nigeria’s most astute and reputable political scientists. He is a very able thought leader, civic activist and intellectual and an unlikely convert to the visceral world of Nigeria’s rent politics of identities and “tribes”. That is why his recent article on the “Igbo Question” merits attention and deserves a response. In the article, Dr. Ibrahim organises his argument around the assertion that “the Igbo elite has a strong empirical basis to read Nigerian political history as one of failure and frustration for them.” In support of this, he asserts that “after the civil war, there was a co- ordinated policy of pauperising the Igbo middle class” and “this was followed by routing the Igbos from the commanding heights of the economy”. According to Dr. Ibrahim, the “Igbo elite…. refused to change their narrative about the Nigerian state and today the initiative is out of their hands.” He does not necessarily say what this constant narrative is or when it began. However, the article laments that “the biggest failure of the Igbo elite is the incapacity to play the political game” and, switching from analysis to clairvoyance, concludes that “teaming up with Goodluck Jonathan produced petty rewards for a few but it rolled back the schedule for an Igbo Presidency.” Some people will read the article as somewhat favourable even if patronisingly so, to the “Igbo”. The declared goal of Dr. Ibrahim’s column is “Deepening Democracy”. Far from deepening democracy, however, the article stunts it. From a long-standing advocate of inclusive civics, this article corrodes coexistence and disappoints on many fronts. There are many flaws with both the methodology and argumentation in the article. Let me begin with the methodology. Clearly, ethnicism remains an effective organisational tool of Nigerian politics and many would argue that it is the province of political scientists to observe and analyse it. How this is done, however, matters. The historic methodological flaw of ethnicism is to racialise the politics of opinions and association and then homogenise them based on genes or tribal identity. That is manifestly unsustainable. Whoever the Igbo are, they are not a horde of undifferentiated morons. They’re capable of and have always had political difference. In a democracy, tribes don’t vote; citizens do. To imprison political analysis in the mindset of homogenised tribalisations, therefore, is to deny the possibility of an evolved civic capability in Nigeria generally and in the Igbo in particular. A related point is the convenient adaptability of deployments to which tribe and ethnicity are put in such analysis, with the effect of denying the considerable progress that Nigerians have made towards mutual co-existence. Take the case of former Kano State Governor, Sabo Bakin Zuwo. Governor Bakin Zuwo was Nupe. That would place his origins somewhere in present Niger State. But he was elected first as a Senator and then as Governor by the people of Kano. Yet, to most in Southern Nigeria, he was “Hausa” or just “Northerner”. Similarly, Kogi and Kwara states are part of the historic Northern Nigeria. So, persons from these states would be “Northerners” but, if they are of Yoruba stock, then many would rather prefer to exclude them from “the North” by referring to them as “Yorubas” because the Yoruba are supposedly not of the North even if millions of them are in it. However, when it comes to “flexing” (to use a contemporary Nigerian slang) with demographic politics, the Yoruba of Kogi and Kwara are conveniently counted as “We North…” . By the way, Kaduna Nzeogwu was from the Mid-West (and until 1963 of the Western Region) but it was convenient in the narrative of the 1966 coup to re-create him exclusively as “Igbo”.

RECENTLY two Ijawcitizens have come under the light of the agents charged with corruption – Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madukwe, and Chief D. S. P Alamieyesiegha. One was arrested in London plushest address at 1 Park Lane, another one was being sought out by the British police to answer charges of money laundering.
This piece in no way condones their alleged corrupt practices and no one should read it as such. For the benefit of doubt Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madueke was charged for corruption; the NNPC over which she presided was the Sodom and Gomorrah of corruption and the stories about how allegedly corrupt NNPC was a legion. As for Governor DSP Alamieyesiegha, he ran away from Nigeria to undergo a tummy tuck operation in Germany, when the warrant for his arrest was issued in Dubai, he ran to London where he was thoroughly watched by the Secret Services of Britain. He left London, according to some sources, with the active connivance of the British authorities, for Cote d’Ivoire en route to Nigeria. On arrival to Nigeria he was promptly arrested by EFCC. But he spent several months in the hospital in Lagos and Abuja before he was released. A couple of years later he was pardoned by President Goodluck Jonathan. About a forthnight ago he was said to be wanted by the British authorities for money laundering. He has not been enjoying good health, although the incessant and unrelenting pursuit by the British and other authorities could not have improved his health. He died soon after. Let’s go back to the antecedent of Alamieyesiegha’s impeachment. A good precedent in law is that, although an enthusiastic officer may pursue a case with all due diligence, he may not do so while breaking the law. Alamieyesiegha’s impeachment was a travesty of the Nigeria constitution. He may have been a thief but the law demands proof in a proper court by the prosecution that the culprit is indeed guilty. The impeachment provision in our constitution is antithetical to that very constitution which guarantees to every individual the right of justice. DSP Alamieyesiegha was dragooned into impeachment by over zealous EFCC members, on the order of higher authorities. There are 24 members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly. The EFCC simply picked up all of them and asked them to account for the one billion Naira constituency project they signed for, they were all locked up at 15 Awolowo Road and asked to sign a declaration condemning the government or explain a one billion naira constituency project each received. This declaration formed the basis of the impeachment, which lasted eight hours from when they returned, to Yenagoa in Bayelsa. The House formed a committee to impeach, asked the Chief Judge to draw up charges and set up an impeachment tribunal which reported to the Chief Judge who rubber stamped this kangaroo court.
Read full story here www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/leave-the-ijaw-alone/

okolochyke:
Nonsense

hypocrite

Nawa o