₦airaland Forum

Asgard13:
I told you... this people gat nothing but insults and abuses
See how typical Yoruba brain functions..

No levels!

You don’t own 98% of Lagos agin ?
Awo didn’t die of rat poison again loool

Asgard13:
Awolowo died of poison

Yoruba people love denying this fact

Okay Oga tell us what kill Awolowo

Mbaise it is Ojukwu that strangled him while asleep as revenge for loss of war


By chiamanda Achebe
Author of igbos own 98% of Lagos land

Asgard13:
Oya now go and change the narratives

Awo committed suicide .. he drank poison use for rat.

If you can change this truth... Yoruba nation will be happy

That an assignment

Name calling and insults will change anything...

Mbaise tales by Chinua Achebe

Juliusmalema:
This west boys sef, na u write na u laugh...

All just to console yourself...

and feel among.

Oya laugh again.

All hail the conqueror of the rising sun
Obafemi Awolowo

Asgard13:
Every Nigerian know say a Yoruba man Jakande betray Awolowo

Yoruba can never ever change that narratives even in a million years..

Just deal with it

Tales of Mbaise, the only people who know about Yorubas more than yorubas loool

Sunshineg5:
They still see him in their nightmare years after his death,

bear in mind he wasn't even alive when most of this Indomie generation were born.

The power of the pen
Since then they have been coming up with Mbaise tales

Look at our forefathers vrs their own
We are enjoying owambe things

Juliusmalema:
Great and was conquered by rat poison.

What a man.

Same way Ojukwu died of lethal poison looool

Sunshineg5:
Ogbeni go and recite your poem elsewhere jare

Don't disturbe me if you have nothing else to say

Loool I like Awolowo makes them react like this loool

Asgard13:
Ojukwu na freedom fighter and believe in fighting oppression and injustice

He led more than 3 million of us and would likely get more if demanded to fight the cause which the 3 million handed over to him
He fough gallantly and died a hero

Is Awolowo a Yoruba hero... an ambitious man with heart filled lies jealousy and envy..
He wanted to be Nigeria President... a post which zik has held
He failed and died a wretched ogboni man..

Died taking his own life ... sign of Yoruba bravery and went to rAt hell
Now poor Awolowo is in hell burning with his fellow rats..

After all gra gra on earth

Loooooooool dilector don tell them say na rat poison kill am it makes you feel better

Juliusmalema:
You heard me right.

Awolowo has no history. He is a condemned convict that was saved from the class of death by Ojukwu.

Looooooool conqueror of Biafra

Juliusmalema:
Awolowo think he can poke nature without consequences but he died regretting it. Not just that but with rat poison.

Well, Awolowo has no history. West are just trying hard to fit him in to history but no correlation for that.

Awolowo has no history looooooooooooooooooooooool go & ask Ojukwu

Moneywomen17:
Na today ibo don they lie. They say things with no proof. That’s why I don’t take them on their word.

Loooooooooooool

pazienza:
AZIKIWE and AWOLOWO: who did more for Nigeria's education?


The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme court.
Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service.

The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as "the fastest growing economy in the world," by the Harvard Review; faster than China, faster than Singapore, and all the so-called "Asian Tigers." Awolowo is often credited with "free education". But no one yet has pointed out any surviving school buildings of the period built by Awo.

But all over the East there were quality schools built by the various communities using the Town Development Unions from 1954, and acessing the matching grants of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. And this was the East with the poorest revenue resources of any of the regions. The Mbaise secondary school exists, the National High School Okigwe exists, the Ngwa High school exists, the Enyiogugu Grammar School exists, etc. These were solid schools built all over the East with matching goverment grants. But where are the buildings of the Modern schools in Western Nigeria? They do not exist.

They were makeshift. The Catholic church forced the Azikiwe government from its scholarship program, but it is also on record, that the Eastern government was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in education. The East had the highest number of schools; the highest school enrollment; the broadest penetration of medical services; and the best modern road network in west Africa. Indeed if we look carefully, the only public hospitals and most of the schools still standing in the East today, at various stages of run down are the schools and hospitals built by Azikiwe/Okpara.

Every division of the East had a Joint Hospital as part of the Eastern Medical services. So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments. First, the Eastern Outlook, the government paper of Eastern Nigeria was the first newspaper established by any government in Nigeria, and it was of such quality and impact that the literacy level of Easterners, and the depth of public information retailed by Outlook was without compare. This is besides the fact that Western Nigerian Broadcast Services, WNBS-TV founded in 1958 only preceded the ENBC-TV founded in 1959, by only seven months. But Outlook preceded Sketch by about 15 years. Now Azikiwe built the Onitsha Modern market, the first modern mall or trade emporium in West Africa.

Onitsha was effectively Dubai before Dubai. People traveled all over Africa, from as far as the Congo and Sudan and Egypt, to come and buy and trade in Onitsha. The economic impact of this was humonguos. So, give me the vast Onitsha modern market over Cocoa House in Ibadan. Azikiwe built the first Nigerian University at Nsukka with the first School of Law, the first School of Engineering, the first Business School; the first school of journalism, and the first school of music and performance, etc.

By the time its first graduates took the Nigerian civil service exams in 1963, everybody began to raise the cry of "Igbo domination" starting with Akintola and Ayo Rosiji. Give me UNN over Liberty stadium. Azikiwe began the first modern library system in West Africa. The East had a system of city libraries starting with the very modern Ziks Library in Enugu.

I Literally grew up in the Umuahia Divisional Library. These libraries were built all over the East. Schools in the East were built with libraries. Moreover the Eastern Nigerian Library Board had a sysem of rural amd mobile libraries. There was nothing like it anywhere else in Nigeria: kids having library cards and able to borrow or order books from the public library. Give me the the first library over the first TV. I do not by this mean that Awolowo did not make his contributions, but the regular skewering of the facts, and angling of contemporary national narratives often makes it seem these days like the greatest contributor to the founding of Nigeria and its development is Awolowo and the Yoruba, when the actual facts speak differently.

The great Ibadan historian, Tekena Tamuno, was unambiguous in stating once at NIPPS, Jos, that "the Igbos are the makers of moderm Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed." We must remind Nigerians, particularly Igbo children, daily of these fact, to achieve what Achebe called " a balance of stories." And that also means we must read beyond the surface of things. Babarinsa's Guardian essay is angled carefully to maintain a revisionist narrative. And that is to be always challenged, however innocent it might seem. Even today, most Yoruba think that Awolowo founded the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. No one has reminded them that it took Azikiwe's pressures for a university for Nigeria, in his meeting with Arthur Richards in 1946, that led to the cobstitution of the Eliot commision and subsequently the founding of the University College, Ibadan. This fact is even clearly conveyed in Michael Crowder's eponymous book, The Story of Nigeria. Nsukka was Azikiwe's critique of what he felt to be the conceptual limitations of Ibadan.


The University of Lagos was the result of NCNC's ideological contributions to the federal policy during the ill fated coalition government with the NPC. UNILAG was an NCNC project, shepherded by Aja Wachukwu as minister for education. Even the great UNILAG in her 50th anniversary failed to mention Prof Eni Njoku as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the university, a man that layed the solid foundation of what made Unilag is today.
These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible. Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter. Kabissa!


- Anonymous

Mynd44 lalasticlala oam4j dominique justwise
Rule 3

Destroyerofyeeb:
All hail biafuro, land of piss

Land of falling sun

AnanseK:
When Biafra to become a reality there will be mutual mass murder and destruction over tiny pieces of unproductive plots of land further constricted by gulley erosion.

I can’t wait

9jaDoomCountry:
Bleep YOU Bleep RULE WHATEVER.

Very intolerant they want to abuse but don’t want to be abused

Legendhero
Metaphysical

Developers fighting civil war

NGpatriot:
This is how they brag about not paying taxes in their own village, the same people actually blast Lagos and Ogun for taxing collrcting taxes.

There's a reason why the SE is the poorest region in Nigeria.

They see tax as collection and not a civic duty undefined punks

Sammy07:
Lolzzz.

I'm working in one of Nigeria embassy outside the country.

One of the white men, sacked an Igbo guy cos of fraud and employ a Yoruba guy to fill his space.

You grab?

Come and see how they are sacking igbos here and replacing them with Yoruba employees

AtikuNetwork:
Indeed. Must you people lie about everything? Most populous tribe in Lagos yet they can't present candidate under either APC or PDP and contest governor's seat in Lagos, or even Deputy governor. What kind of useless 'most populous tribe' is that? How many igbos are in Lagos assembly? How many igbos are local government chairmen and counselors in Lagos? Don't provoke me this night ok? I have nothing against igbos but this your lie is nonsense and foolishness.

99% of Lagos land
44trn northern investment
95% of abuja land
80% of hotels

Yeeebos and fake statistics are 5&6

Loooooooooooool
Awolowo permanently ensured igbos never forget his name
All hail tha Emperor Awo

codemaniacs:
ajl this comment is in reply to oshigun ( i have read your reply to oshigun where you called him "Very shallow statements. Typical tribalist" )..

Notice the part I put in bold in winterfell007 comment...

It took me years to understand and accept it but this is the truth.. but people will support and fund politicians, bizmen, gangsters e.t.c that support their interests and welfare at the detriments of the indigenes ( in this case Yoruba ). so Yorubas that aren't protectionist and tribalist will lose to non-Yorubas that are protectionist and tribalist in Yoruba territories.

from your comment to Oshigun, its proof that you're not Yoruba, no sane Yoruba person will call another Yoruba person a tribalist ...

stop hiding behind the " my used to sell in Balogun market area" lie that's rubbish..

Yeebos know not to express their political right in Northern Nigeria

Same with Aziwke he feared not contesting in the north but was masturbating over contesting in the west
Loool

Only igbos are unhappy Lagos May have made up to N1.2trn this year

mystery22:
exactly, says a man from Ogun state,better concentrate on your skull mining cos that's all you people are good at,why not develop Ogun state,cos everybody develop lagos,develop Ogun state,look how you guys are killing each other in Ogun state cos foreigners don't live there...

You mean Ogun state with higher IGR than the entire Igbo land