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All these “RIVERS” people are lost and confused..

But are you surprised when your identity is a RIVER?


LOL… childish nation

KGBKremlin:
Creating Igbo state in Benin land are you people normal?

Are you normal?

Even Bini people their grandparents escaped the nonsense of the “Western Region” LOL by guess what- REFERENDUM LOL

Makavelli001:
I think the comparision of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe is mischievous at best.

There is no comparison really.

I like to think that what makes someone a SPECTACULAR writer is their ability to tell stories that finds a home in your heart.

I left secondary school MANY YEARS AGO, and I can tell you, that there are literatures I read back then, that I can still remember today... I can remember the dialogues... Incidents...Names... And even the pictures I created in my mind of what I think the writer was trying to portray.

I only read Wole Soyinka because I needed to pass my literature exams.
I remember how we had to debate The Lion and the jewel in our literature class... Soyinka portrayed Africa like a helpless continent that needed western civilization to survive.
I have never opened any of his books since after secondary school.

But I have read Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe more than 10 times.
I have read The Concubine by Elechi Amadi more than 15 times.

I mean, from start to end.

I have replayed different scenarios and different endings in my head.

I have thought about A Things Fall Apart where Ikemefuna did not die...
A concubine where Ihuoma's children didn't hunt lizards on the very day Ekwume came visiting...

These are memories that will remain with me forever because a writer dared intrude my subconscious and made a home there.
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I will chose to read Efuru by Flora Nwapa over any of Woke Soyinka "finest works".

There are at least 10 African writers who I'll read first before I pick any Wole Soyinkas books, like;
Ngugi wa Thiongo
Cyprian Ekwensi
Mongo Beti
Buchi Emecheta
Aye Kwei Armah
Etc.

And No, my submission is NOT because of the politics of "ANYWHERE BELLE FACE' Wole Soyinka has subjected himself to, which has made him a nuisance/laughing stock right now, it's just how I have always felt about his works.
I never connected to ANY of his books, I had to struggle to read, to relate, or even understand them and I have read over 200 books from African writers series alone.

Many Nigerians will easily remember Ikemefuna and Okonkwo more than they can remember any character in Wole Soyinka's books, this is because of RELATABILITY, a writer speaking to the reader in a familiar language.

Chinua Achebe is NIGERIA'S GREATEST LITERARY EXPORT to the world and there is a reason he is called THE GODFATHER OF AFRICAN LITERATURE...

I mean, THINGS FALL APART alone has been translated into 57 Languages!!!

It is not news that the reason why Achebe was snubbed for a Nobel Prize for literature was because he was too committed in his support of African culture and the oppressed, instead of using his platform to serve the interests of big powers in the west who were and are still our puppet masters.

Like the late Nelson Mandela once said; paraphrased, Achebe is the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down.

Achebe is THE GOAT.
There is NO COMPARISON.
Kapish?

Achebe is not a GOAT and will tell you how foolish you are to embrace the ILLUMINATI phrase of Goat.

Otherwise everything else you wrote makes sense

osazsky:
ipob
Esn
Ugm
Miscreants
Thouts and thugs in d west
Cultist should all be neutralized by the army so that we can have a peacefully Nigeria

Nigeria is property of his Majesty King Charles and his family, including the Archbishop at Canterbury that owns oil blocs.

You are just a Nigger Area subject. That is why your anthem can be changed in a week or a day..because it's all fake.

If you want peace, then you need to go back to when your forefathers were free....not answering "Plateau" State or "Rivers" State or any other Pounded Yam foolish name as an identity...

gidgiddy:
If Nigeria can go back to semi-autonomous Region's that are financially independent of government, control their resources and internal security, it will be a good thing

But who is fooling who? The clamour for Regionalism is largely a Southern Nigerian thing, nobody in the North wants it. But beyond that, people have forgotten that it took a civil war to remove Regionalism, and it may require war to bring it back

In 1967 Yakubu Gowon abolished the 4 Region's Nigeria had and created 12 states to replace them. In retaliation, Ojukwu declared Biafra.
It was not until the war ended that the states Gowon created became fully operational.

I have no doubt that those who fought war to remove Regionalism will fight again to see it never comes back.

Gowon is a war criminal... and foolish for allowing OYIBO to toy with him....as a result an entire continent and race have been reduced to dancing and shaking nyash on the world stage via social media and music.

Even if you be doctor for Yankee, your Oyibo patients and even your black fellow folks "standing with you in brotherhood " lol don't even trust you or your knowledge.....

Shame on us all

"Rivers" State....

When they are changing anthem, they should consider changing a very childish and stupid name like "Rivers" State...

What a joke of an identity...

No wonder some people from that side deny being you know what LOL!

LOST and foolish

Let the Europeans leave Israel and go back to the Kazar mountains…and leave the religion for the real Hebrew dark skinned people

raskymonojendor:
Because they were rebels and commited treason.

Nnamdi Azikiwe ensured that section 86 was inserted into our constitution with the proviso that if any region should secede, it would be an act of treason. Nnamdi Azikiwe himself wrote about this in an essay, which was published by the New Nigerian Newspapers in 1975 and has since been republished by other papers and by Mr Azikiwe himself.

Rebels ni….

SO are you… a rebel to his majesty King Charles dem..

NIGGERS

Acekidc4:
🙄 Eye Service
Gallivanting Failure.

If you quote me wrongly you will die💯

Heartless Blackie Nigger


Can you do the same…nope you cannot

That party has expired as many of them are in APC…

All na criminals

Black Boy Afrika lol


What a name LOL

Fatty bum bum he was dining with Uzodimma during his “victory party” months ago

Nonsense

They should send these herdsmen to Binta Nyarko

eDoctorr:
Those countries only made modification. Not a total change

Not only that…they did not go back to colonial slave anthem.


But all those trips Tinubu was going to England…his handlers told him that he is a slave as is their creation Nigger Area…

That’s why upon all the things going on they abandoned it tp be doing anthem lol

Federal Republic of dumb NIGGERS lol

Ikaeniyan0:
This is the same way the terrorist leader was beating his chest before he was lawfully arrested in Kenya

Your Supreme Court says you bush people were reckless and it was unlawful…

Dont you pay attention to what your learned people say?


NIGGERS lol

To our Muslim brothers and sisters, your so called spokespersons they have homes in Dubai and throughout the Islamic world….but in black Africa they form dumb..form mumu…and make you all mumu..

So you wont overthrow them and develop…

Dont buy into their rubbish to keep Islamic Nigeria backwards…

KnowAll:
And every ethinic group should have a state. For instance a state like Kogi an igala state should be created, that means igala’s in edo and Anambra state would be added to that state.

Why the igbirra’s can have their’s with headquarters in Okene and the joins would have Lokoja.

It is not about every ethnic group or sub group or kindred having states with useless governors or 6 member "state" assembly. It ultimately is about regions where there is a dominant value system that represents historic, geographic, religious, economic, political, and SOCIAL norms that have been there for centuries.

Oyibo that came even saw it clearly as outsiders who were related to who and somewhat kept these realms together under regions. Within those regions were now ethnic, tribal provinces and guess what- it worked very well.

KnowAll:
We cannot go back to regionalism because as we had in the 60’s the region gets d money in which case western region. When we had western region only Ibadan was developed but today, oshogbo, Akure, Abeokuta, Ado Rkiti and not limited to state capitals, cities like Ondo, owo, life, Kanu ode, Ogbomosho, oyo and iseyin are well developed.

You must be dreaming.... all those places their very best structures were built by Pa Awolowo...


Nonsense

Yep, the country's way of thinking is as ugly as a bat.

FOOLISH continent.....


No wonder a small group of OYIBO criminals were able to enslave millions of foolish thinking people... and send millions more into slavery in the Americas. while A-rabs did the same sending millions more as slaves to Emirate regions....

am4truth:
When ' did the senator spoke against the killing in the east?

He is in support of the ipob miscreants.

He is support of the rule of law....which you no sabi...

Even Israel is forced to abide by rule of law...against Palestine.

But bush people in Black Africa...all they know is to run their mouth anyhow...

Why is there even a military checkpoint on the road? What is the point of having police then?

ZOOOOO

How many Abba Kyaris are there

Didn't Buhari have a n Abba Kyari as his chief of staff who "died" from Covid...?

flokii:
No tribe in Nigeria has high number of sell-outs and saboteurs among their ethnic group as the Yorubas.. this is why the conservatives need to rise up to kick the 'akotiletas' out for good.. they are not welcome in our midst.

The conservatives are the ones who desire progress for Yoruba sons and daughters under the development framework of Nigeria, not the ones that swallow every bullshlt from external interests or follow them to be doing religios war.

The conservatives understand the need for balance of power and the need for Yorubas to be at the centre, not in opposition like Azikiwe placed us in the 60s'. No real Yoruba man has held power until now and we must work for his success.
I know with time, the chaffs would be separated from the seeds.

Awolowo and Yoruba placed themselves in opposition. Zik was foolishly thinking he could work with him and Sarduana...maybe even outsmarting them.... and he failed woefully.

Many Yoruba today are agitating and supporting an Oduduwa state that includes regions of Togo and Benin. The issue is the same fear fear...that is, if an Oduduwa State will collapse into warring factions and backstabbing as in the times of the Oyo Empire and Af.onja.

But this is 2024... we are all wiser now... and frankly, ethnic based nations or rather, states with a common and dominant value system, is the obvious way to go....

See Yugoslavia- all 6 or 7 nations emerging from that are all tribal...and places that some of you guys are planning to JAPA too... imagine that.
Their soccer teams even are beating all these "Giants" of Africa in World Cups lol.... along with the same giants hiring them to coach LOL LOL

KnowAll:
Since the LG system has collapsed it would make sense to create more stated knowing that the Governors are emperors who push development in their respective states if they so wish.

One can see that last exercise was a success. Akwa Ibom state came out of CRS. But today Akwa Ibom is more developed than her parent state which is CRS.

Same thing Gombe state and Bauchi, Gombe is one of the best run states in Nigeria. And it is highly developed when compared to Bauchi.

See the level of development in Delta state today, if it were still part of bendel state the development would be a far cry.

The SE needs one more state. Create a state around Lake Chad foreshore to take care of that area.

Oke ogun state from oyo state is long over due.

Create a state from Niger State, it being the largest state in Nigeria and it seems to have a lot of ungoverned spaces.

Instead of going to one silly regionalism creat more states to spread development.


What do you think.

You have obviously been brainwashed by military rule for decades. State creation has taken Nigeria backwards so much that even the criminals in Abuja have no choice but to try to return Nigeria to regions to savage Nigeria.

What you need are strong regions and within those regions you can have states or provinces or counties or the likes. Akwa Ibom has not developed more than any other former Eastern Region state and is suffering the same backwardness you find everywhere. Each state has some small sprinkles of developments or structures, but none world class, none to justify the amount of resources they produce, and generally bad leadership.

Return to regions is the way to go.

May this beautiful woman rest in peace.

helinues:
Shame on them.

Where were they when the illiterate kids were forcing the sit at home?

Should honoring the dead also be costing more lives?

Shame on them joining the likes of APC to be rigging in these quack leaders everywhere

0001Lagos:
Return to Regionalism; Lagos say they won't be part of Western region .

Abeg o, this is funny to me o. First, the Lagos state government deported 350 Osun state indigines back to Osun for constituting nuisance and begging in Lagos . Now, the same Lagos has made it known to everyone that cared to listen that Lagos will not be part of Western region . Please, why is Lagos dis-associating herself from the other south west state ?

We understand that Lagos is the only big state in South west with massive IGR. But why is Lagos making it look like other Yoruba states are inferior to her?

I think with this declaration by Lagos that the state won't be part of Western region, it is now safe to say that Lagos is no longer a Yoruba land.

It was not Lagos... it was one Ade guy they claim made the claim LOL

Nonsense

Quintessence44:
Nigeria we hail thee
Our own ancestral land
Though ethnic groups may differ
In brotherhood we stand
Nigerians all are proud to serve
Our sovereign motherland!

………………


National Assembly, please adjust accordingly, and remove the troublesome words of ‘tribe’ and ‘native’ in response to the national outcry.

Happy Sunday all.

Tribe or ethnic groups.... are not ethnic groups more suggestive of differences than tribe?

Nonsense....
You have been carried away by the same much to do about nothing things...

Where is your economy or value system na?

This "group", made up of maybe two or three hawkers, was made just yesterday for the sake of a newspaper article.

You are Western Region/Oduduwa period.


No amount of N50,000 they pay you to tap rubbish will work...

CilicMarin:
She is right of course. IPOB founders are not expected to sing the Nigerian National Anthem.

No sane African should be singing a colonial anthem in 2024….unless of course, they are NIGGERS from shythole place… Are you one of them?

Canih28:
Hi Individual Nairalanders and "Virtual" E-Legislators.
I Advocate a Re-plan of that "Boring" Green with a cut of white.

Its about time we the young take our fate in our
hands. The banner was planned in the period of pastels utilizing little imagination. Presently we approach Programming.

Lets start an Imaginative, Productive, Cutthroat
Mission and Pass it to the "Blocks and cement
Senate". I actually accept that Nairaland is greater than the Senate. The Virtual (Profound) Senate
Supercedes the Physical.

Presently the Ongoing Banner can Develop "Green" with Jealousy.
Here are a portion of my plans, which of them would be better;
• first banner •
• second banner •
• third banner •
• fourth banner • (separately)

We really want a banner that addresses our with style and significance, not outright paints of varieties.

You can post your own plans here!

So you forgot about economy, insecurity, corruption, and all types of problems with “Nigeria”… and yet you are talking about redesigning flag.

You people are like Children.

No wonder White people call you NIGGERS as in NIGGER AREA

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Nobody wants you in Nigeria .

Go back and stay in your useless yeast.

You contribute absolutely nothing to the national purse and you are basically a welfare region dependent on others and the FG.

The sooner you fck off , the better we will all be.

Your own leaders dont want you LOL