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ScipioAfricanus: How market? And you're still arguing that he didn't buy!

You're a dunce . It's like you don't have a brain capable of understanding

All the ofe mmanus here wey carry bianca matter for head like groundnut sellers , abeg how market

All those people wey carry stella odua matter for head like groundnut sellers , abeg how market

ScipioAfricanus: When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom is - to die.
- Oliver Goldsmith

It still doesn't mean you are endowed with wisdom

T8ksy: You should know seeing as you are neck-deep in delusion but then it's generational, in your case.

Until biancar goes to court..................................................FFK HIT IT, FIRST!!!

Lol you are from a lineage of misfits (a) your grandfather died a thief (b) your father is a failure (c) you are a thief , a failure and an old hog who will die a fool

T8ksy: Abi ojare!!!

Seeing as Biancar is reluctant to head for the courtroom as previously threatened, to bust FFK's alleged cocaine-induced fantasy.

Until she does............................................................FFK HIT IT, FIRST!!!

Deluded fellow

Ayekotoo: How are they lazy and unproductive? that they own 70% of the media houses, 80% of stockbroking firms, 60% of insurance companies, 60% of restaurants, 60% of aviation coys, 60% of higher institutes etc? you must be an ignorant

Fake statistics fabricated by an obtuse fellow tailored to delude his fellow ofe mmanus

ScipioAfricanus: The dude is closer to the fact than you.

A fool is closer to wisdom than you

Bloody ofe mmanus never miss an opportunity to show the world that they are evil spawns of oduduwa . Always whining like si.ssies yet very lazy and unproductive

T8ksy: You sound like a malfunctioning clone from alaba market!

Am sure biancar-an A-level student must have felt honored to be in the same social circle as FFK- a postgraduate student.

Wooow you sound like someone telling the story of his life . You'll die of frustration m@d b@stard

T8ksy: What a bunch of m.o.ro.ns!!!

Until biancar "cheerful giver" ojukwu, ibo first lady summon the courage to go to court, we can only assume that, FFK HIT FIRST!!

In your sick mind . F**l

T8ksy: What a bunch of m.o.ro.ns!!!

Until biancar "cheerful giver" ojukwu, ibo first lady summon the courage to go to court, we can only assume that, FFK HIT FIRST!!

In your sick mind . F**l of the first order

Demdem: Fixed

@ demdem , altering posts does not fix the ineptitude of your gray matter . And its so pathetic to hear that not only you but your seed is cursed

kingoflag: Even if they have a drinking problem that affects their ability to effectively govern?

Jonathan has no drinking problem

bloggernaija: You can call it hate if you like , other call it an assessment.

The Igbo Fallacy By Fredrick Nwabufo
Posted: November 22, 2013 - 17:35
By Fredrick Nwabufo
In my previous didactic, tart, and dispassionate polemic entitled “The Igbo False Dimension: The Igbo I Hate” I adumbrated, exposited and espoused the tendentious logic of vehement and sustained rise in Igbo criminality in Nigeria. The piece extracted venoms from the fangs of “Igbo nationalists”. I was torpedoed with a fusillade of contumelies instead of seasoned, disciplined counterpoints by seemingly bruised Igbo people. My “Igboness” was excoriated and called into question and opprobrium. Let me reiterate here, that I am Igbo, but I will not out of blind, cowardly and defeated ethnic nationalism earthen the malfeasance and failings of my people. The burning truth will always consume the cold, easy lie.

In truth, the gruesome, senseless and depressingly cold murder of a Nigerian of Igbo fount in India, and the ceaseless profusion of crimson Hindustan xenophobic outrages towards Nigerians vivify curious ponderings, somber, sober reflections and unkind truths about the sojourning Igbo. About forty thousand Nigerians live in India. Of this number, a vast queue of Igbo persons constitutes an irrepressible, but unimpressive quota. That is, the Igbo are in the majority stratum of Nigerian sojourners in India. It is therefore in the remit of unbiased logic to aver that a majority of Nigerians who commit crimes for which all law abiding Nigerians share in condign comeuppance in India are Igbo. It is also on the threshold of verifiable truth that gross proportions of Igbo Nigerians in India are wired and prodded by survivalist propensities, and as such can do anything beyond the cloud of kosher to drag on their existence. Consequently, the piercing hollering of Indians that Nigerians in their country are criminals may be the unfortunate, lachrymal truth.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning to even the remotest of places in the world has been attributed to their much-vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. As a matter of fact, the claim that Igbo sojourning is driven by an atavistic entrepreneurial proclivity is enclosed between pressing, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger between fluffy loaves. Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are seemingly peripatetic sojourners. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for an Igbo man or woman to commit a “stigmatized” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatized crime committed at home there is a stern reprimand implicit in cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”.[/b] However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend its sacred arm of cleansing and reprehension to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the Igbo picturesque dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to receive chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in hard drugs. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.[b]

Going by the stated point, it is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of self-conscious Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travelled outside the Igbo enclave to peddle crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo people is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful at crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam and other Asian countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only revivified abroad or outside Igbo land? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality all across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as poor or struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of admiration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are abroad”; even when the abroad is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and admiration of other fathers in Igbo land. Again, it is a proud thing for an Igbo person to be far away from home. It gives him a mysterious air of importance. The Igbo value more their people who are not in Igbo land than their people who are in unenviable propinquity. This is the Igboawful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy.



Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and a poet. Email: fredricknwabufo@yahoo.com 08167992075.



The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of SaharaReporters

Lol this is a load of crap expressed in sophisticated but deeply flawed grammar . There's absolutely no cogent evidence or statistics to corroborate this blatant show of hatred for the Igbo nation .

@ op If you are really good at reading the bible then you'll know that the bible commands that we should show respect to our leaders

Nafeesa AA: @ Admin You can Choose to modify the topic to be more appealing.

1. The Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah is Igbo;

2. The then acting Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) who authorised the purchase of the armoured cars in contention, Mr. Joyce Nkemakolom is Igbo;

3. The Minister of Finance who granted the waiver for the said cars, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, is Igbo;

4. The Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement who issued the Certificate of no objection, Emeka Eze, is Igbo;

5. The Chairman Senate Committee on Aviation, Hope Uzodinma is Igbo;

6. The Chairman House Committee on Aviation, Nkiruka Onyejeocha is Igbo.

7. The car dealer, Cosmas Maduka is Igbo.

Yet these are the people who claimed to be marginalized and we are made to feel guilty. The total takeover of the Aviation and Finance Ministries has not even been taken into account.
~ Babayola M. Toungo.

Don't you have better things doing than posting crap .

bloggernaija: You people are beginning to see the reason for the carpet crossing of NCNC member of SW stock because of the agitation of the Ibadan people party or whatever.
Their idea of good government is the one in which they are at the helms of affairs,corrupt or otherwise.
Them fellas are as crude and corrupt with power as the Hausa/Fulani whom they love to hate.
The activities of their warrant officers in pre- independence nigeria is a good point of reference.
Nnambi Azikwe ,the so called founding father was as corrupt and vain as the modern nigeria politician(the colonial actually had a big file on him).
They shout merit all the time but whenever merit is used as a yard stick,
WE ALL KNOW WHO DOMINATES.
Now the point now is which way,
PERSONALLY,
I THINK WE NEED TO CUT THEM PEOPLE LOOSE.
THEY OFFER US NOTHING AND WE GAIN NOTHING.
FROM POLICEMAN TO THE CUSTOMS,FROM THE MILITARY TO THE PORT AUTHORITY/AVIATION MINISTRY
WE SEE TRIBESMEN FIGHTING TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SW.
LIKE FASHOLA ASKED,
WHY DOES A WHOLE REGION FEEL COMPELLED TO MIGRATE TO THE SW.
(THEIR ARE BAD MANAGERS OF PEOPLE AND RESOURCES AND ARE OUT TO HELP THEMSELVES ONLY)
THE " BADLANDS " OF THE SOCALLED AWO PARTY.
YOU CAN EXCUSE THE MINORITIES IN THAT QUESTION.

THIS PARTICULAR CASE OF CORRUPTION AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THIS WOMAN IN THAT MINISTRY IS A SMALL ,WHEN COMPARED TO THE HEIST GOING ON ELSEWHERE.
BUT FOR CASUAL OBSERVERS,
ESPECIALLY FOR US IN THE SW,AND THE SHENANINGANS/OUTRIGHT BIGOTRY IN ANAMBRA,
IT WAS A TEST FOR THE IGBOS.
APART FROM THE USUAL LONE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS,AS A GROUP.
IT WAS TOTAL FAILURE.
AIDING AND ABETTING CORRUPT INDIVIDUALS .

You can stew in your hate for all we care

musiwa112: 90% equipment to Stop Liberia & Sierra Leone War was own Western Nigeria of army

Syntax error . Musiwa112 go to school

chiefinalowo: Wa gbayi jare. Omo iran kiran ni won.

FFK, Oodua sons and daughters are with you.
The only place they could call home has been taken over by erosion. I am 100% sure that when God created the earth he created the place for erosion and not for any living soul. I wonder where they will return to when this cesspit disintegrates by 2015. The problem they have is that, they are all afraid to move back home because there is nothing there. They could not live on their land but they have chosen to live in the SW - a place of peace and harmony.
I will lead the team that will drive you out of Yorubaland when the time comes.

Gbogbo Omo Oodua, odun ayo ni odun Keresimesi ati odun tuntun yii a je fun wa o.

Ode