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Anambra has oil, Imo has oil, Abia has oil and I am sure Enugu and Ebonyi have hidden deposits.

Igboland will do just fine on our own, and we do not need oil either.

Igbos are good at hiding their money. 

When people say Ghana is a small nation, this is one of the main reasons why I support that Nigeria be split.

I rather have a small car that works, than a large car that doesn't.

I know when I am near a creek, because the mosquitoes there are wicked

I see no difference with the mosquitoes found in Port Harcourt from the mosquitoes found in Lagos.

Igboland is 16,000 square miles if we go by rough estimates.

It is most likely more, by a few thousand, but that is if you include the Igbo subgroups.

61 countries in the world are below 16,000 square miles. That includes The Netherlands which is a very advanced nation.

I'll take a tiny nation that is progression over a large behemoth like Nigeria that is not.

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And your region is up in flames with suicide bombings and now terrorist who kidnap people from the West.

Your region is the most backward region in all of Africa with the exception of Somalia. Even your fellow Muslims in Senegal and Mali think you all are crazy.

Why should we care? They should have kept this within the family and handled it.

He gets no sympathy from me. Why rush to the media?

No leader will come from that family anymore. They will just live off the name of Ojukwu.

The North only brings death and destruction. Animals seem to live up there.

The Kwara issue will be a major issue for the Yoruba, once disintegration begins in Nigeria.

You see that when you give a Hausa an inch, he takes a yard.

God bless Wole Soyinka.

The last of a dying breed amongst the Yoruba.

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You want us to bend over backwards to thank those who played a role in keeping us in bondage?

I would however, give a special thanks to Wole Soyinka, Fashola, Asari Dokubo and GEJ.

Jerry Rawlings is someone that I deeply respect. A true military man who changed his nation. I salute him.

The only true Niger Delta states are Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers state.

And there is an Igbo presence that dates back to before the white man even came to Nigeria. These groups include the Anioma, Ika, Ukwuani, Ekpeye, Ndoni, Egbema, Ogba and Ikwerre.

You cannot separate the Igbo from the Niger Delta, and we will NOT allow you to do that.

Dayo need to stop being upset at the Ndigbo for his late uncle.

He should be mad at his own people for not mourning the death of the retrogressive Akintola whose death was CELEBRATED.

He is giving Nigerians in the DC area a bad name.

God bless these countries. I hope to invest in every single country that recognized Biafra.

Either way, I am tired of the Ndigbo playing the victim.

This atrocity was committed against our people, but do not cry, because living well is the greatest revenge.

Wole Soyinka and the late Fela Kuti would weep to see as some of their people are justifying an atrocity.

I hope my Igbo brothers do not allow the actions of a few to paint one group with one stroke.

Many Nigerians are sycophants. Just look at richard69 comment.

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More like men who are ready to die to save Northern hegemony over the rest of Nigeria.

What does the North offer besides violence and terrorism? Each day, we see the North as parasites who bring nothing to the table.

Ndigbo around the world are celebrating the life of our beloved leader.

Igbos learn to ignore post and stop embarrassing your people.

I have secretly held this position and I think the Ndigbo and Yoruba could be great allies, but only in separate countries. Let us taste freedom for a while, before we start building alliances. We both need to get our houses in order.

I wish Igbos would learn to ignore threads like this. Is it that hard or do you enjoy such nonsense?

Shame on any Igbo posting in this thread. You make our people look like fools by posting on such nonsense.

Igboland is truly celebrating the life of our now deceased leader.

The way some of my Igbo brothers are commenting on this thread, I can tell they do not interact with the people of the Niger Delta. That is why they are making such comments about some phantom unity. If you want to know how the people of the Niger Delta feel about the "Core" Igbos, I suggest you go to Port Harcourt or Yenagoa, before you make a comment about this new "unity" between our regions.

Some people may be surprised to hear that that even the Annang would be against a Biafra. The fear of Igbo domination is real in the Niger Delta and the younger generation has this view just like the older generation. When I see Onlytruth discuss this topic, he wants the wider Igbo to make concessions to ease the fear of the minorities within this reason. Why should the Ndigbo bend over backwards for this people, when we have the most to lose? Have you people forgotten the abandoned property saga?

Africa slow progress in human development

For some African countries, there is cheery news in the 2011 Human Development Report. Published by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), it ranks countries according to three measures of human development: life expectancy, education and income.

In both Kenya and Nigeria extreme poverty has declined due to improvements in water, sanitation, health and other living standards, while Ghana has made steady progress and is now ranked as having medium human development.

The report notes that according to the Human Development Index (HDI, a composite of the three measures), the countries in the lowest 25 per cent of the rankings (including many African countries) improved their status by 82 per cent between 1970 and 2010, twice the average gain worldwide.

"If the pace of improvement over the past 40 years were to be continued for the next 40, the great majority of countries would achieve HDI levels by 2050 equal to or better than those now enjoyed only by the top 25 per cent in today's HDI rankings," says the report.

Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, US and New Zealand lead in the global index. The report ranks Libya, at 64, as the highest among African countries. It is followed by Mauritius at 77 and Tunisia at 94. Egypt comes in at 113, South Africa at 123 and Nigeria at 159. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is ranked at 187, the very last, and nine other African countries round out the bottom 10.

The report acknowledges that even though a number of African countries have made progress, they still "suffer from inadequate incomes, limited schooling opportunities and life expectancies far below world averages due in great part to deaths from preventable diseases such as malaria and AIDS."

The poor showing by some sub-Saharan countries results in part from a legacy of armed conflict, as in the DRC and Liberia. And progress in poor countries may be reversed by mid-century if efforts are not made to deal with climate change, environmental damage and inequalities, the report notes.

The Gender Inequality Index, a recently introduced indicator, lowered the rankings for some African countries, including the Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Liberia, Mali, Niger and Sierra Leone, all among the ten least equitable countries. "In sub-Saharan Africa the biggest losses arise from gender disparities in education and from high mortality and the adolescent fertility rate."

The Multidimensional Poverty Index, which examines factors such as access to clean water, cooking fuel and health services (not just income measurements), ranks Niger as having the highest share of poor, followed by Ethiopia and Mali.

The 2011 report covers an unprecedented 187 countries, up from 169 in 2010. This means that the results for 2011 are not comparable to the previous year's figures, the report notes.

http://theafricareport.com/index.php/2012022151709102/columns/africa-slow-progress-in-human-development-51709102.html

The Niger Delta cries while the South-East and South-West bickers. The North laugh all the way to the bank.

I would add more comments, but ChinenyeN has said everything I wanted to say.

No Igbos are found on that list. Our hands are clean.

The next time people try to scapegoat the Ndigbo, they should look to their own leaders as the reason for their misery.

This list is dominated by Northerners. They are the true masters of this country.

And like someone said, Igbos are often accused of loving money, but the biggest looters in Nigeria's history are never Igbo.