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Celebrities › Re: Jim Iyke And His Son Lie On The Bed (photo) by ezeagu(m): 9:45pm On Sep 25, 2015

agarawu23:
you think say Jim go gree marry naija babe? When he knows dey only love for money

So your mother is oyibo, okwa ya?

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Politics › Re: Fulani Herdsmen Working For Boko Haram – Falae by ezeagu(m): 7:23pm On Sep 25, 2015*

They're not herdsmen! They're a terrorist militia! Stop calling them "herdsmen".

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Culture › Re: As Seen In Onitsha (photos) by ezeagu(m): 12:04pm On Sep 25, 2015

buygala:
If the gods can't teleport on their own, but have to be carried around on Okada, what then can they do?

smh

Does Jesus teleport you?

Politics › Re: How Come The Devil Resides In The Heart Of Islam's Holiest Shrine? by ezeagu(m): 11:38pm On Sep 24, 2015

chiefmidwife:
Islam is a political cult
A forged religion
Adherence risk hell fire

Hope you're not Christian because that is Roman juju also.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 11:30pm On Sep 24, 2015

centje:
I agree with the second part of your post but the naked truth is that Igbos are feared and hated in Nigeria. Every other tribes hate Igbos even our closest neighbours.

This is even before the British came.

Celebrities › Re: Rita Dominic Remembers Her Parents With Throw Back Photo by ezeagu(m): 10:03pm On Sep 24, 2015

tblaq:
Am serving

*I'm or I am. 'Am' is the first person singular present tense of the verb 'to be', it can also be contracted to 'I'm'. 'Am' does not stand alone without the pronoun 'I'.

jnrbayano:
Rita Nwaturuocha.

I still wonder where "Dominic" came from.

Childhood bullying, that's probably where.

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Celebrities › Re: Rita Dominic Remembers Her Parents With Throw Back Photo by ezeagu(m): 10:01pm On Sep 24, 2015

Tallesty1:
Nah you she be wan resemble

Must everything be a fight?

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Politics › Re: Willie Obiano Donates Gun-boats To Navy (photos) by ezeagu(m): 9:33pm On Sep 24, 2015

ARIZONA123:
. I have fowarded ur name,address and everything about you to the IPOB officer in Uga. I am assuring you that you will regret ever speaking against the biafrans Nonso. If you didn't hear from the IPOB family from now till october. Come back here and call me a coward. Udo!

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 9:16pm On Sep 24, 2015

Ofodirinwa:
Igbos aren't hated.
When you're in another man's land, you will be treated as if your in another man's land. The reason Igbos have issues with others is because more than others we're in another man's land. We're the largest minority group in every major Nigerian city so it's going to seem like Igbos Vs. Everyone because we're the only ones walking around in their backyard. We give others liberty to offend us.

I don't know if anyone has really checked whether or not you can import and export from PH.
Frankly we go to Lagos because we believe the further from home the more to brag about. Niger is more pretentious in that illogical respect that Lagos. Some people will call Congo 'abroad' if you give them a chance. We don't move because of any real business decision, we move out of rote habit and ignorance. There are igbos in villages in Katsina. Is it that there was no business in Aba, Onitsha, Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, PH, Nnewi, Umuahia, Awka or Orlu? Many have skipped Enugu to go to Dutse and suffer, so it's not a matter of Lagos being convenient, we're just illogical people.

If someone's business booms in Lagos, power to them. Business is not patriotic, so if you're mixing patriotism with business that's you're loss. I would like for everyone to be in the east and to me it's logical and feasible, but they don't see it that way.

You're right, there's also the influence of those who come back from Lagos after going there empty handed coming back with money bags and building 50 room houses in the village. The kids see this an believe Lagos is magic. Unfortunately because of Igbo culture of success, they don't know that those who don't make it don't come back and are living in ten room per person flats in Mushin. I still maintain, though, that if there were enough industries in Igboland and the basic need light, food, water were stable people wouldn't feel the urge.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 9:09pm On Sep 24, 2015

Afam4eva:
Microsoft headquareters is in Seattle, Washington while Cocacola is in Atalnta Georgia. If these companies were in Nigeria, they would be in Lagos and Lagos only. They could only venture into ogun state owing to it's closeness to lagos. We operate like the united Kingdom where almost everything is centered in London. This means that other states have to carve a niche for themselves to be taken seriously by organizations. Calabar has done that with tourism. For some reason, Calabar is the most popular city after Lagos, Abuja and Porthacourt despite the fact that interms of development, Enugu beats it imo.

It's true, it's evident in the fact that Lagos and Nigeria are sometimes used interchangeably meaning in the eyes of some investors other places don't even exist or are seen as oily or war torn periphery.

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Food › Re: Camel Spotted At Allen Junction Ikeja: Sallah Meat? by ezeagu(m): 9:44am On Sep 24, 2015

But the camel is not spotted.

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Culture › Cultures Igbo Recently Adopted by ezeagu(op): 2:11am On Sep 24, 2015*

[size=14pt]Dancing with coffins at burials[/size]
This traditional, ironically, existed in parts of Igboland but the practice was strictly in the case of murdered victims in which the pallbearers were 'empowered' and after some hefty and great movements swaying side to side the spirit of the deceased was believed to lead the procession to the murderer, where either some mystical calamity befell them or they confessed.

[size=14pt]Umu Asebi and Uniform[/size]
The practice of wearing 'unifrom' at weddings and funerals is a chiefly Lagosian influence in addition to the institution of Umu Asebi, bridesmaids, at weddings. The clue is in the foreign names.

[size=14pt]Eze - Transformed Warrant Chiefs[/size]
There were a few religious political figure heads know variably as either Eze, Obi, and or Igwe who were mostly elective from special families and had lesser powers than some conventional kings, apart from those all the other so called "Eze" are an invention and institution propagated by the British in order to maintain greater control of the largely autonomous Igbo by introducing them as 'Warrant Chiefs', basically lineage heads who would look after tax collection for he British. When there were no more than 50 Eze or Obi before the British, there are now over 600 so called Eze in Imo State alone, an area that previously had zero kings and only representatives like the president of Ugwuta (Oguta). Most of these thousands of kings are no older than 20 years old, and some come from the warrant chief system. For the most part their position as so called Eze isn't recognised in the customary law of the Igbo people.

[size=14pt]Coral shawls and head dresses[/size]
Much of the coral shawls and head dresses women were today, and even the so called crowns the "eze" wear today are an Edo influence, the crown especially an Urhobo influence. There was extensive use of coral in Western Igboland (Anioma), but apart from that many Igbo people today do not really adorn themselves like their ancestors who wore mostly mixtures of ivory, bronze, copper and other metals and stones.

[size=14pt]Weddings[/size]
This isn't so much an outside influence as it is a secularisation. Much of the 'Igbo' weddings you see are not the Igbo weddings of the past. The Igbo weddings of the past were mostly the protocols know today, but also a ritual of a woman ceremoniously being taken by her husband from her house or even being 'kidnapped' by her friends at night and taken to her husbands place. Many of the Igbo customs including attires like red caps were part of specific subgroups or areas but have been taken as a general Igbo culture in the 20th century, including wedding customs.

You got anymore?

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Travel › Re: 7 Reasons Why Every Foreigner Must Visit Nigeria/next Tourist Destination by ezeagu(m): 1:17am On Sep 24, 2015

kingpole:
How many cities have nightlife in nigeria? I mean how many cities would you feel safe moving about after dark.

And when you say dark, as in ichichiri, dark, no light. Madu ma magbu gi na abali, see their mouth like "tourist destination".

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 8:48pm On Sep 23, 2015

VickJames:
The igboland needs rebranding, serious rebranding!

One of the reasons why these people get many things in their favour is the way they brand their places. A very good media advertisement about the region will open the region too.

You're right, and I'm sorry to say this, out of the big three ethnic groups in tropical west African (Akan/Ghana, Yoruba, Igbo) Igboland is the least accessible and least know, even places that are less developed are better known. Also these cultures promote their culture as a 'diasporic' cultures and get many tourists to their festivals and so on. Again, this is an issue of accessibility as well.

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Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage And Son Get Matching Sneakers(photo) by ezeagu(m): 6:53pm On Sep 22, 2015

vizkiz:
dem Don start to dey put padlock for shoe, very soon them go add chains... Going back to the slavery regime

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 11:37pm On Sep 21, 2015

BuddahMonk:
This is what many people don't understand about international trade, policies, relationship and diplomacy.

If Igbo leave Nigeria today, tomorrow growing resentment will envelope Nigeria from different quaters everybody demanding for a better package or be left off the hook.

Russia and Britain are sworn enemies but there are Russia investments in UK, even in the US many NBA clubs are Russian owned.
US is restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba and Iran after decades of severing them.

If Biafra is landlocked Nigeria will see the economic importance of opening her ports for Biafra import and recoup the import duties. If they refused Biafra can import from Benin Republic and use ECOWAS treaty to send her consignments to their destination.

Many people doesn't even know that majority of Nigeria imports are from Benin Republic yet Nigeria have 5 seaports.

Biafra won't be a perpetual enemy of Nigeria neither will Nigeria see Biafra as perpetual enemy, regional and sub regional issues will reduce the tension

Can you really compare Europe with Nigeria? Wasn't Nigeria the same place where Nigerians were being deported from their own country?

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 11:35pm On Sep 21, 2015

BuddahMonk:
Oga you keep shifting goalpost and punching holes.
Deviating from why Igbos don't invest in Igboland because of seaport to why they do invest in North because of political clout of the North.

So Johannesburg is not a country but Igboland is a country

The argument makes no sense. You must not love your nuts.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 10:03pm On Sep 21, 2015

Bishop42:
Have anyone here ever wonder why no Igboland have major access to the Ocean. Could it be that we paid too much attention to these vocal minority who care more about what enemies/competitors want than what their own people want?

No, Igbo people took all the land and pushed everyone else to the swamp. Look at a topological map.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 9:50pm On Sep 21, 2015

nedu666:
pls can you name two, just two sea ports in the north. yet there is no scarcity of goods up north. yet u see ndi Igbo buying goods an transporting it up north. just to give you a better perspective pls contact Nigeria breweries and guinness for the list of their major distributors and u will see our people listed there.

You do not have the same leadership/privileges as northern Nigerians.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 9:45pm On Sep 21, 2015

BuddahMonk:
Ezeagu said igbos can't invest in igboland because of lack of seaport then I ask him if there is one in kano or Kaduna but he didn't answer me.

Is there any seaport in Johannesburg SA the richest city in South Africa and her economic capital ?

Afam why do Igbos request for haven and earth before they want to invest in igboland. they will tell you there is no airport in Anambra and Abia, when you ask them to invest in Enugu or owerri that there is one there they will tell you there is no seaport in those places.

Seaport or not, with effective transportation arrangement and perfect marketing strategy you can dominate any part of the country with your products.

Nnewi people will import motorcycle from abroad, move it from Lagos down to Nnewi, people from Lagos will go to Nnewi and buy motorcycle parts and return back to Lagos.

Oga na brain nobi muscle, its not about the size of ones skull.

Why don't you guys actually think past the face value. Northern Nigeria has ties if not dominant ties with southern Nigeria, particularly Lagos. There are trains, good roads and international airports that link northern and southern Nigeria. Most importantly northern Nigeria has managed to benefit off of Nigeria's income and isn't planning on seceding anytime soon. None of these are true for Igboland. You're surrounded on all sides by people who either don't trust you, just tolerate you or outright dislike you. Northern Nigerians do not do import/export in Lagos, that is Igbo people. Northern Nigerians have a grasp on politics, not economics like the Igbo, which is why Abuja is so close to them. Maybe you can understand now.

Also the question about Johannesberg makes no sense because Johannesberg is not a country.

Politics › Re: Cargo Train derails from track in Kaduna [photos] by ezeagu(m): 8:37pm On Sep 21, 2015

CharlesPhc:
Obviously a case of sabotage...!!! How can a train track be so sandy?
But Op pls use another caption for this trend like
'Cargo Train derails from track in Kaduna'

Isn't that the aftermath.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 7:24pm On Sep 21, 2015

Abagworo:
None of you wants Igbo republic like me but the difference is that it should be in peace with Nigeria and no single Igbo denier should be included in the plan.

That's something people are not getting, the same people who have denied being Igbo will cause problems in the future if they are nudged into what they really don't want. You should look at the inclusion into your sovereignty as a thing of privilege any way not a free for all.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 6:30pm On Sep 21, 2015

BuddahMonk:
He is deep in Igbo culture and geography but he is using it for mischievous purposes, the guy bu ezigbo okenye alulu ana

He needs to be checkmated all the time lest he cause great division and enmity among Ndigbo

From this thread, you guys just can't see what he's saying, don't join the bandwagoners who shout "Yoruba" at anybody who asks them a difficult question.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 2:07pm On Sep 21, 2015

Bishop42:
From Wikipedia...

"Countries have made particular efforts to avoid being
landlocked,by acquiring land that reaches the sea:
The International Congo Society, which owned the
modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, was
awarded a narrow piece of land cutting through Angola to
connect it to the sea"

This easiest way Igboland can have "full acess" to the Sea is adobt thesame approach. We could easily aquire a narrow land from Akwaibom or Calabar that stretches to the Sea. It's 100% possible

Better thinking, the best way would be between the Akwete area and south easterly. But caution has to be taken because of this idea of birth rites so people don't start problems in the future.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 12:54pm On Sep 21, 2015

Unemadu:
Seaports are important but doesnt mean a country cannot survive without it. That igbos are running from their homeland because od lack of seaport is absolutely ridiculous.
Its like saying because a country has no mineral resources then its doomed.

But all of these are ifs and buts and hypothetical. The practicals is that the Igbo people largely rely on import and export business, much of the industries from coal and oil to clothing, electronics and car manufacturing rely on seaports. To think that people would abandon these habits and change to services or whatever overnight just to move home is unrealistic, especially with the success driven culture that encourages people to move away to come back successful, and only successful.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 12:13pm On Sep 21, 2015

Bishop42:
Hope you know Ethiopia is landlocked and still has the highest FDI in Africa plus its very sophisticated Air tranport system.

Why is nobody on the other side of the Niger bridge concerned about a second bridge? Answer this question before presenting incompatible case studies.

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 10:47am On Sep 21, 2015

BuddahMonk:
Very funny, childish and watery assertion, what about Kano and Kaduna are there seaport or indian ocean there

Think of it Aba one of the top 4 most industrialized cities in Nigeria have no access to the sea or seaport but more industrialized than those with access to the sea except Lagos.

Except Lagos. You've just terminated your own argument. Lagos is the only place with something worthy of being called a sea port. So are you trying to argue that Aba would not benefit from a closer seaport or that all those treacherous journeys from the east to west would not be minimised? The thing about some of you people is that you don't like telling yourselves the truth. You'd rather give false equivalence to privileged places which you know are false and dig your head in the sand. A bulk of the Igbo wealth relies on import/export. The reason you people are even moaning about a second Onitsha Asaba bridge is because the current one is so taxed by people rushing to Lagos to receive their containers that it's on the verge of collapse. Nobody on the other side is as concerned, ask yourself why.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 3:47am On Sep 21, 2015

kmariko:
Mr. Nestle was not rich by using peoples money.. Brown and boveri used there business acumen and the list goes on... No group of individuals are rich " by default ". You have to work extremely hard to maintain that affluence even if it was handed over to you on a silver platter.

Yes, but if you don't have a proper framework they'll you have to settle for import/export and lock-up shops, nothing wrong with that, just that the framework in Nigeria does not allow easier upward mobility like Austria. You think Austria has to worry about differing world views and a thousand tongues?

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 3:28am On Sep 21, 2015

kmariko:
They believed in themselves and ability to overcome at all odds. They stayed away from all the destructive alliances that bedeviled waring European nations. They focused on making things, food processing (nestle), steel, textile, machines that make other machines, electric machineries ABD, financials and Commodity trading... The list is endless.

They didn't 'believe in themselves', they sat back and soaked in all the blood their fellow western Europeans were drenching from all over the globe. Those people are rich by default, Switzerland is basically ethnically French and German, Austria is Germanic, so they can afford to be landlocked, especially with their disposition allowing foreigners to amass mounds of wealth in their countries with no questions asked. You can't compare Austria and Switzerland to Igboland.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 3:08am On Sep 21, 2015

Cjrane2:
Lame excuse.
But they will relocate to Abuja and kano to build castles, but leave Warri and Sapele that have ports! that is why it gbastas me not , when they kill them and burn their buildings up north. Na dem sabi.

BTW, What Ports does Austria or Switzerland have? yet, their people have invested there and made it a prosperous place?

How can you compare Austria and Switzerland to a place that can barely tar its roads?

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 3:07am On Sep 21, 2015

kmariko:
Kindly remind me of the ports of Switzerland.. Not investing in the east by the easterners due to " lack of access to seaport" is a very lame excuse.

Can you really compare Switzerland nestled under one of the most powerful nations economically in the world with other powers nearby in a peaceful and relatively 'civilised' neighbourhood with decades of wealth and sovereignty to a region in dark Africa that's surrounded by a state that is historically hostile to them? Do the Swiss people have a huge business importing and exporting common products? Answer that first.

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