₦airaland Forum

Wallie: I guess it will depend on how the country splits up. If we go by the 6 geopolitical zones, each zone will face a unique set of challenges but most important determinant of success in today’s world will be education, good governance and peace.

Any zone that depends on “easy” money will turn into a war zone because the country will be too small to avoid easy manipulation.

1. North-Central - Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, and Abuja.
2. North-Eastern - Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe.
3. North-Western - Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara.
4. South-Eastern - Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo.
5. South-South - Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers.
6. South-Western - Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo.

The SE will have a major problem because they’re landlocked and will have no choice but to get along with their SS brothers if they want to survive. There is no way to get food into the area and finished goods out of the area without going through SS. The North Central zone provides an alternative route but the cost of transportation will make things too expensive to buy or sell.

SS will probably have the greatest challenge of being a successful country because the place is awash with guns and there’s easy money to be made from oil by companies and selfish individuals. If the country breaks up, any small military can wreck havoc to the place. Every single company that’s already a player in Africa’s oil will be jostling for oil contracts and you better believe that they will fund insurrection by the opposition party or local warlords. Do you really think SS can defend itself if a company like Shell funds a coup with the likes of Dokubo Asari against their new President? Where will they get their military from, mercenaries from Sierra Leone? The country will be another Sudan in the making!

The northern zones suffer from low education and arid land but will probably do ok because they typically follow their leader’s rule. They will easily find trading partners for their food but without massive investment in education, it will be hard for them to become a prosperous state.

The SW will probably have it the easiest as long as they can get access to food, which shouldn't be a problem because of the sea ports and airports. However, I think the SE and SW will probably form a very close alliance because the SW will dlocked the tax base and people in the SE zone care more about their entrepreneurial success than fulfilling an ideological dream that is sure to stifle them. Most Igbos are entrepreneurial by nature, why would they want to be restricted to a small landlocked zone that will make it almost impossible for them to do what they do best, which is to trade?

Who will ultimately win if Nigeria breaks up? Those in power in their respective countries because they will rule and steal with impunity and it would be almost impossible to challenge them electorally, judicially, and financially.

If you think Biafra is landlocked, are we airlocked too?
And why must Biafra be restricted in their land?
Why is Nigerians now residing all over the world, instead of BEING restricted to their enclave, according to your great wisdom?
It show the low level of reasoning of many of you. Somalia is not landlocked, I can see how they are leading the world in their sea world.
Its not what you got is issue, it what you do with it.

T9ksy: Not according to the General commanding officer of the biafran army , Alexander Madiebo. In his book "Nigerian revolution and

Biafran war", he had this to say on page 371:






Are you in essence saying that Ojukwu lied to the commanding officer of his secession army? Oh well, nothing new there as

Ojukwu also lied to his people to get them to follow him into battle with outdated and minimal firepower. I wonder how many of you guys would have

gladly followed ojukwu into battle, had he been forthright with you i.e that one gun would be shared at the warfront by two ibo soldiers.

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My people syas that a small snake seen by one man always turn into a a pyton afterward.
You read in a book and I was there in person. That is the difference.
Like I have told your tribal brother you had just taken his seat, we don't in any way bothered about what you think or even how you feel.
Ikemba is the greatest Igboman living and dead. You are free to feel slighted till the next 100 hundred years, how you feel is non issue to Biafrans.
In our culture, committing suicide is not an option.

dayokanu: It shows the kind of people who sees a fleeing coward as a hero. Every general who leads war must either win or die fighting not fleeing in the middle of the night We have seen War lords and War generals

Kindly give examples of 5 Generals leading an army who fled the warfront and left their populace to die

Even if I am mad enough to supply you with 100 generals you are asking, it won't change anything because all your reasoning is manured by ethnic bigotry. No one care about how disappointed you feel today and tomorrow. If you think he is a fleeing coward, well, that is good enough for us, we were happy with our coward hero.
Deal with it.
One mans coward is another man's hero coward. Its just that we prefer our hero not contemplating any sort of suicide.Thats life.
And stop crying more than the bereaved. Its obviously pathetic.
That is the same mentality that allow your second Aare Ona Kakanfo to commit suicide too in the hand of refrafs like Hamza Mustapha.

dayokanu: Akintolas children are always proud of their father who was a brave Aare Ona kakanfo who faced his killer gallantly and died like a brave man he is unlike the useless Bastardd Ojuku who fled warfront. A shame to all war generals

Its not about whether or nor they are proud of their father, as we are all proud of our fathers. Its whether they preferred him death, so that you can call him brave on Nairaland is what they wanted.
You have never been to war and will never will be. Arm chair field marshall is very easy.
We the Biafra people asked Ikemba to RUN FOR HIS DEAR LIFE and you on the other hand wanted a war trophy in Ojukwu, that is the source of your annoyance.
And guess what? We are not bothered about how disappointed you were for not getting your war trophy ( The greatest Igboman living/dead)

Spiritmask: If this con3 is about 2 divide, we frm benue state will prefer join biafra if d niger delta region are among them than join dis deadly northern ppl. We hav majority of christian in benue state nd wil dnt want 2 b wipe out in dis planet by d so called muslim. We prefer join biafra dan d north.

You are not joining anybody. You are north, that what you had been telling us for years when the going was good, as you share wealth that doesn't belong to you with Dan Fodio kins.
Christianity or no Christianity makes no difference us.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Wont surprise me if it was a lame SE'ner who created this senseless peice of shoit.

SE cannot survive alone. Ask Onlytruth how I taught him that lesson.[/quote]Neither your tribe nor South East came into existence for the first time with the emergence of Nigeria in 1914. Before 1914, 99.99% of SE people don't know about your existence neither do you knew about them.
Never say somebody cannot survive without anything cosmetic.

oyb: anuofia

better read up on the yorubas

we don't celebrate lily livered battlefield buffoons

akintola faced his murderers lke a man - ojukwu handed over authority to his subordinates when the going got tough

I don't think Akintol's children, growing up without a father will agree with you that a dead lion is greater than a living dog. There is nothing brave about committing suicide.
That is why religious people always runs to the hospital when they are ill, instead of dying to go to heaven which they preach every time.

cjrane: If for some miracle a great astute political guru can get the East and West to cooperate and restore trust, Nigeria shall be healed. Ojukwu dedicated his life to foster the so called handshake across the Niger, still with limited success.I wonder who can pull off that magic.

Dream on!
Any nation involving Yorubas and Igbos together ever again is a non starter.
Will never happen. Trust me.

obowunmi: Cashmentor, you are on crack, How will the North have anything to gain when it boasts the most number of illiterates and useless mallams who do nothing but commit heinous crimes?? Without education and extremists, the North can never progress.

This is the simplistic myopic common view of ill informed southerners.
Just ask yourself where most of the stuff you eat comes from? Whenever you enjoy your sunday lunch, just purse and ask where most of the stuff comes from?
The north may surprise many of you southerners that were blinded by tribal bigotry. As a Biafran, there is nothing I wanted more than the liberation of my home land from Nigeria, but if the truth is to be told, only the north still have visible honest politicians that can kick start their new nation, while we had to spent the first 10 years, maybe exiling our Nigerian trained rogues, parading today as leaders.

Billyonaire: Patience GEJ is a private citizen, Nigerians should leave her private health life out of their jobless amebo life. In the event that anyone should find a constitutional clause to prove to me she is a public figure as President's wife, which I doubt, Its also State Secrecy to keep health of state officials secret so enemies wont go doing 'winshees' on her.

I can't wait for the next time you address her as your first lady.
Private citizen that flew presidential jet wherever she goes, I bet my mother and yours as private citizen also jumps in anytime they feel like it too?
How can I forget? she is also a permanent secretary. I wonder what she will tell her boss in whatever ministry she perm secs, where she had been all this while?
Private citizen my foot.

ULSHERLAN: If your wife/gf is sick do you go about telling people what's really wrong with her..GEJ sure has his own life n privacy to keep up with..

If he is the president, he surely will. Jonathan is not you and him on the street. He is public servant, that is why they used public owned airplane in his care to take his darling to hospital in a foreign land instead of the one in Otueke, at the expense of public.
The person you are asking will not enjoy the same privilege if his wife is to fall sick.

If Jonathan wants privacy, he should resign and find himself a private job with his PHD and pay for his foreign trips from his salary and no one will even notice the existence him and his dear wife.

There is no such thing as privacy for a public servant, especially when the action in question is paid for by the public.

Recently when Prince Phillip was ill and was admitted in hospital, Buckingham Palace/British media were giving the British people a daily update of his condition until he was discharged in the full glare of TV cameras. That is the way its done in a sane and organised society.
Nigeria is still pegged down by their military mentality of irrelevant secrecy, that fuels unnecessary rumours.

thelastPope: Are you not an eediot? It was someone thinking like you that advised vodacom not to do business in Nigeria and now they are regreting it. MTN took the right advise now they are mega. Complete ignoramus like you

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You don't know me , neither do I care to know you either. We have our views and its our right to express them, if abusing an unknown person online whom you disagree with his/her views is your way, it tell much about you and from where they unleashed you on humanity.

You can believe whatever your local/foreign oppressors are yarning at you, that is your choice. The likes of Blair and Rice has no means of livelihood except collecting public money from the likes of Uniport-made PHD Nigerian leader.

MTN are vulture investors, who never had any root on the ground wherever they are. They employ few people, like drivers and mail runners, the better jobs are given to relatives of their host collaborators, they pay little or no tax and make the corrupt tax collectors rich. That is why they are king in corrupt African nations, where nothing is done by the book. I will rather had a small firm that makes Ice cream come and invest in my village that will build a local factory, source material locally with local labour and thereby improves the lives or ordinary people.

This are the type of investors your clueless leader should be sourcing and they are found locally in abundance. All they need is the environment to succeed. Instead of running abroad all the time wasting public money looking for vultures in Oil/Telecom that bring nothing but take billions away and tomorrow their partners in crime like IMF will part you on the back that you are growing by two digits and your slowpoke rulers will jump up clapping upon their own ignorance.

I had been around so long to know Nigeria and their month by month pretending patriotic rulers- If there is a degree for it, I deserve a PHD on it by now. I feel sorry for the likes of you, because sooner rather than later, you will also learn how others before your generation had. Take it or leave it, investing your hard earned cash in Nigeria is like betting on an injured horse, unless you are part of their rotting system or you are ready to dance to their corrupt tune. I am speaking by personal experience and I am not the only one and will not be the last.

agabaI23: It appears Richard Branson is from Nnewi while Blair and Rice are the colonial masters

Who do you rather believe? A disgraced and lying politician paid to seat down and listen and telling those that paid him what they paid him for in Blair/Rice of Sir Richard Branson who had actually invested his hard earned cash in Nigeria and got his hands burnt by your corrupt and inept system?

You don't need to come from Nnewi to know that investing in Nigeria is like putting your money on a horse, unless you into vulture investment (Oil/Mobile Telecom)
I am from Orlu, the heartland of Igboland, I have invested too and almost lost everything I worked for all my life without the help of Nigeria.
The last person you should be listening to is Blair or Condo Rice. Had it been they are from the wrong countries, they must be sharing half cooked beans now with the likes of Charles Taylor in the Hague.
When a lion starts telling a young zebra how nice he looks and you think that his a compliment?- think again! that is what vultures like Blair/Rice are doing to your clueless president.

Oh dear!! Trouble in paradise!.
Welcome to the united nation of Oduduwa, where everybody speak with one voice like programmed robots (we were once told, till now).

Its not atomic science, polygamy is the biggest spreading agent of HIV is the sub Sahara African. One person brings it into the chain, all, including the innocent are damned.
I will only support polygamy if equality is practiced within it, so that women will have more than one husband as well and then watch as our ever willing men supporters suddenly hates it and it will no longer be called our culture all of a sudden.

Desola: I really don't care for him being the president of Nigeria but willing him to become the governor of the western region or if push comes to shove - the president of Oodua nation. In the meantime however, it would be great if the other ACN governors can borrow leaves from his book and start taking strides to overhaul their respective states in the manner in which 'Fash' has done. In this case, Ogun state has no excuse for not being half as developed as Lagos given its proximity.

Well done, Fash. Yoruba is proud of you!

Funny how you love the idea and the sound of Odua nation and your future president, but the word Biafra often makes you feel melancholic. Funny world isn't it?

2buff: please let this man run for president...please

Before he ran and you making his bed in Aso Rock. Let him tell us how he cast his vote in the last presidential election?

Why was the question specific to the Igbos?
I thought wise men like you and others said that there is no Igbos in Delta? What makes you chose today that Nzeogwu is Igbo and not another day?
Ask Yoruba if Oladipo Diya is a hero or a villain first, at his nationhood is not in any doubt.
Ask Gideon Orka's people if he is a villain or a hero? Or you ignorant of where he comes from too?
Another silly ignition of tribal bashing.

This what I asked my daughter before hand, is there anything about you prospective husband that bothers you now, that needed sorting? And she said no. And luckily, there wasn't.
Because the mistake most people full of love make before marriage is seeing something and believing that it will be alright eventually.
You shouldn't beat up yourself very much because the did has been done but it can be rectify.

Talk to your husband and express in a loving manner and tone about your concerns. Choose an appropriate time (not the time he is about to watch football) and not during a meal. If he really care about you, he will listen to you, but it depends heavily on how you approach him and your choices of words.

Your first plan should never be to stop him seeing his father or come between them as the solution. The bond between parents and their children as so strong that anything that will make him choose may backfire. Make him see that you love and appreciate his father but it will be so nice if he shows respect to both of you as his children.

Let both of you put head together and put a plan that you both sanctioned to approach him. If he is a reasonable man that wants the best for his son, I am sure he will make some changes. Often parents can be overbearing based on love but their approach may not be the best, so you may be surprise that the man meant well.

I married from a Scottish aristocratic family when mix marriage was a no-no in the U.K. It took the birth of our son few years later for my mother in-law to bring herself to speak to me , irrespective of my own respectable background too, but in the end I was to become like a son to her, but looking back, she did all she did because she believed its because of her love for her daughter.

With good manners, you can win the most heart of stone over and some times it takes time. Even if its didn't work in the end, at least you had satisfied your conscience that you did the right thing. But speak to your man first. This from someone that had married to the same lady for 40+ years and today still seems like honeymoon.
Goodluck! (I don't mean Jonathan)

omoobajeje1: it seems u are barcelona supporter. ♍Ɣ questn 2 u Į̸̸̨§ when will u urself wise and grow up and start sayin D̶̲̥̅̊ truth? CR7 deserve it but J̲̥̅̊u̶̲̥̅̊s̶̲̥̅̊t̲̥̅̊ bc u love barca u refused 2 say D̶̲̥̅̊ truth

I enjoy and acknowledge good football.
I am no Barcelona supporter nor real Madrid, I am a season ticket holder of Tottenham Hotspurs since 1978 (because again I lived local then)
I support mainly my childhood local team which is Enugu Rangers.
So should many of you gullible Nigerian new satellite TV football supporters bandwagon.

davies123: Why do people like mentioning eufa supercup?Is that a cup?Abegie!

No! its not a cup, its a trophy.
Happy now!

nija80: The guy has attitudinal problem,too proud for my liking.if you watch when the players were coming in for the awards even in monaco.Iniesta came in alone and was signing authograph and so is Messi.It was only Ronaldo that came in sandwich between two body guards thinking he was coming to collect award.when he was ask a question that has no relationship to their winning the supercup he mention it.the way he played during the last Euro also show how arrogant he is,if he has worked for and with other members of the team they would have performed better.His letest problem?i think its because he was not declare the best player in Europe

Well said, I couldn't have put it any better.

donpapa: The subject about the potential winner of the Ballon d'Or has been alive for sometime now, and as many have seen now, the matter is getting a bit hot now. Personally, as a fan, I want Cristiano Ronaldo to be the winner this year, because he deserved it more than Iker, Lionel and Iniesta. Here are my specific reasons:

-Ronaldo scored against every single team in La Liga BBVA in the 2011-2012 seeason for Real Madrid;
-He scored 46 goals in only his 3rd season, surpassing his own record of the previous year(only to be outscored by Messi);
-All of his goals were scored when they mattered the most-especially against strong opponents such as Barcelona, Bayern Munich and etc.;
-He has now scored in all of his last 5 games against FC Barcelona, with most of his goals being counted as desicive;
-He has won La Liga and the Super Cup of Spain;
-He scored desicive goals for his National side(as a Captain) in the EURO 2012 and single handedly brought his team to the semi-finals of the tournament;
-Messi hasn't had any major Tournament during the Summer, therefore he cannot compete with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Iker Casillas and Iniesta in the sa called "national sides factor";
-Yes Iniesta has been a major figure in the Spanish squad, but so has Iker. Iniesta made the Game, Iker saved the Game(for example if it wasn't for Iker in 2010 against The Netherlands in the finals, in an 1-on-1 play he denied Robben, Spain would've been the runner-ups)in the EURO Iker made the saves again-so their contribution in the aspect is probably the same;
-Cristiano Ronaldo has been in the Liga for a bit more than 3 years, Messi has been there for more than 8;
-He had a horrifying pressure on his shoulders all the time, but he proved all of the pundits wrong, by instantly becoming the Leader of Los Blancos.

With all due respect to Lionel Messi, Iker Casillas and Iniesta, i seriously hope that Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the winner of the 2011-2012 Ballon d'Or.

PS. The only GK to have gotten the Ballon d'or is the late Legendary keeper, Lev Yashin of the USSR, he got his award when he was 34 years old. Iker still has the time, as goalkeepers play longer into their years compared to on-field players, so I think it would be right if this one went to CR, he'll be 30 in a couple of years, and age is not a friend to sportsmen.

Best regards to all

I wonder how many Nigerian club sides you can count on your fingers? I blame satellite TV.

[quote author=kunle.t.ade]Yes there is something we need to understand how they(uefa/fifa) fool us every year abt the vote and draws they always deceive each other that they make every year .Platini know who will win the champion league before the final so pls wise up[/quote]How old are you really?

[quote author=kunle.t.ade]Uefa and Fifa know abt the conspiracy I honesty believe Ronaldo deserve the award but last 2 season when Ronaldo broke the pichichi award they told us story that the balon'd or is not won by goals now if they give messi the award they would tell us he broke all time highest goal scorer[/quote]You don't deserve an award, but you merit an award. As long as coaches, journalist and fans that votes of this awards are concerned, you and Ronaldo may feel that he deserved it but they believed that Messi and now Iniesta merited it. Conspiracy theory is not the answer.

davies123: What is this attitude problem u guys keep talking about?So he must come and bowing down to u guys?He is a perfect footballer and dis is what dis all about!The other time during the euros they gave iniesta best player and said he is humble!such rubish!You and i knows that Platini is a fan of anything Barcelona and he has said it openly that they are his idea of what team should be.He hates anything Mourhino or Real madrid or chelsea cos he beliefs they promote mercenery in football.Although he is entitled to his opinion i also thing its wrong to allow it influence something as sensitive as the best player award.This same platini frustrated and killed the carreer of Sneijner by rubbing him of his award years back now his target is CR7

Do you see how he stand/pose before taking the free kicks that land in the stand at least 80% of the time. Every time he poses like that, he really cracks me up
Ronaldo is a good player, just like the original Ronaldo, Ronaldino, George Wear and many others before him. But Iniesta is very special and go about his business without the show-off of an ostrich associated with Ronaldo.
Then Messi is something so special that may never be reproduce again as long as football is concern.

Instead whining with Ronaldo who is totally self centered with his skin tan, please enjoy the likes of Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, because that trio may never happen again.The best since the last Dutch trio OF Gullit-Van Basten-Raikard.

Since when does Platini's love affair starts with Barcelona, apart from you bloody African who thinks because nothing in your countries work on merit, therefore its like that all over the world. If Platini is this God that follows Mourihno around to stop him, why didn't he prevent him winning the trophy with Inter Milan? Did not stop Chelsea's 11 man defence from taking the cup instead of Bayern. When will some of you grow up enough to know that Platini or EUFA,FIFA do not decide this awards?


Its not only your performance on the pitch surrounded by great talents that makes one a darling footballer to the fans/public, your off pitch attitude too. That is why players like Pele, The Germain Kaiser, Bobby Charlton are loved as great players all these years. Some this Ronaldo should learn from.

Ronaldo is a good player but Messi is a great player and humbly goes about it and that makes him the greatest and darling of people that appreciate good football without having to be a supporter of any team, especially teams. thousands of miles away from your home land.

Laryokeke: I am an igbo indigene, and i sympathize with the massob. However, the first lines of the constitution outlines that Nigeria must remain one indivisible entity. Hence, if component elements are allowed to flagrantly hoist flags that imply that the nation is not one, it would amount to serious weakness on the part of the federal government. Constitutionally, the police commissioner is right and i would advise the massob to channel their energy into less swashbuckling acts

Mr Igbo man constitution interpreter, what part of your holy constitution outlined the explosion bombs that had maimed thousands of people? If MASSOB is desperate for advise, I don't thin your name/number is stored on their phone or on top of their list. So keep it to yourself.
When was the last time you pay up your town union/age group community development levy- Mr my dad told me I am Igbo?

CyberG: onlyLIES, here you come again with humpty-dumpty empty-headed stupidity! What will 4 M untrained, hustling ibos do against a trained, battle-tested Nigerian army of even 200,000 soldiers? With biafra isolated, landlocked, how will the 4 M people land to be of any help?!

Here we go again! Landlocked?
You that share the ocean with the fish, how many water events did you and your people won in the last Olympic for Nigeria?

vislabraye: An excellent comment from you. The way I'm seeing it, its just a handful of Ibos fighting this war. I ask what do they really want?
If Biafra succeeds, how many states will join them? Will the Cross Rivers, Bayelsa or Rivers State join them? I don't think these people clamouring were born during the civil war. If the asked their elders what they suffered they would think twice.
I think the IG made a thought provoking statement: "they should think about how they can stop kidnapping".
Really speaking before these guys should take up such tasks, they should think very well. They should not forget that the chief of Army staff is an Ibo man, and there are other Ibo top shots who would benefit from a united Nigeria. Let them do their home work very well.

Why must anybody join to make up Biafra. Cross River or Bayelsa is bigger than many nations of this worlds, let alone the Igbo nation.
Unless you are asleep during you teachers geography lessons.

Katsumoto: Whats the big deal in hoisting a flag? The Police Force shouldn't expend any resources on arresting anyone.

There are more greater threats to Nigeria's unity, security, and safety of citizenry than MASSOB.

In any case when are the Nigerian reps going to discuss Nigeria's future? I guess when pigs fly.

Exactly my point.
Wrong priority.

aryzgreat: I still keep wondering why some f00ls get "hard on" whenever biafra is mentioned, yet they hate them y not allow them go? Osun state recently hoisted flag, designed their own coat of arm, composed their own state anthem and bayelsa followed suit just this month, Ogoni recently declared self-rule, like wise bakassi though not a Nigerian territory and heaven did not fall, please why do u people have "high BP" whenever Biafra is mentioned? U detest them so much yet u won't allow them go, no be madness? And for the police thinking they can ride on massob, let them get ready for a gorrilla war cos d massob i know have gotten armed, u may ask wia some of the trailer load of arm arrested at onitsha were heading to.

Lets convoke a national conference and go regional or balkanize this fake country were tribalism is d order of the day, imagine Aviation minister trying to diversify flight and some cows are crying sectionalism, WTF! Damn lets divide abegi!

Its because it doesn't matter how many mad dogs you put into a zoo, no one will bother erecting any wooden fence, but the day you put even a one legged lion to join them, there will be iron fencing within minutes.
Nigerians and their oppressors considers armed less MASSOB with a flag more than a threat than a Boko Haram with a dynamite.

Josboy2: All dis massob members neva see war.Abeg mek dem ask their old men wey see to tell dem the cost.They think say war na beans.

And I take it that you have seen not just a war but wars, hence, your wanke warning?