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PoliticsRe: From Change To Restructure, But We Want Biafra-IPOB Blast Atiku,Gowon by gartamanta: 8:35am On Aug 05, 2016
Powerful write up! It encapsulates everything bad about Nigeria and why that country will never move foward. The truth shall always prevail over lies.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria States By Landmass. Lagos Would Shock You by gartamanta: 7:24am On Aug 05, 2016
It seems that many Yorubas do not know that landmass has nothing to do with state creation, it is all about population. Nobody cares about landmass, what is important is capacity. Borno is the size of Britain but Britain is the 5th richest country in the world. I should add that Anioma should have been the 6th Igbo state.

But all these things do not matter, if there is either a return to real federalism/Regionalism (or Biafra), the first thing we Igbos are going to do is abolish all the states in our area leaving just the Local Governments. State creation started by Gowon is one of the worst things to happen in Nigeria
PoliticsRe: We Are Not Aware Nnamdi Kanu Committed Any Crime-kuje Prison Inmate by gartamanta: 1:54pm On Aug 04, 2016
kropotkin2:
when Kanu was a free man i listened to radio biafra regularly on the internet. That in addition to the countless videos of him soliciting for arms and threatening indiscriminate violence on other ethnic groups. The evidence against him is so Strong, it will be a walkover for the government securing a conviction
It will only be a walkover if you have ever heard that a person was jailed for 'talking' in a democratic dispensation. The video of him soliciting arms still falls under 'talking' and the constitution allows Kanu to say anything including threaten anyone, even Nigeria. Unless the Government can actually prove he did something 'actively' besides talking, the case is dead in the water and is nullified by Kanu's constitutional right to free speech and expression.
PoliticsRe: We Are Not Aware Nnamdi Kanu Committed Any Crime-kuje Prison Inmate by gartamanta: 1:47pm On Aug 04, 2016
OgundeleT:
until there is referendum, we cant know whether the majority of the igbo want to secede. presently nobody is forcing anybody
yes. based on our constitution. that is if there is going to be alteration the natinal assembly must be aware

by voting for those who will help you put in in our constitution
no. they are the law makers in Nigeria and whenever any alteration is going to be carried out on our laws they must be aware.
Hausa only have say on on the law that govern us all and not Biafra

all this you are regurgitating can never give you people Biafra. i can authoritatively say today that majority of Igbo love to be in Nigeria until referendum prove otherwise and since there is nothing like referendum in our constitution there is nothing one can do. human being have laws that guide them, we are not animals and until that law is changed nobody will have sympathy for you people if govt jail anybody for doing what contravene the present law
All the above might have meant something if the Igbo nation had at any time agreed to the union of Nigeria.

On the 4th of July 1776, the leaders and representatives of the 13 colonies that make up America came together to sign the 'American Delaration Of Independence' where they pledged to be one country which produced the USA. On the 1st of May 1707, the Welsh, Scottish and English crowns came together and signed "The Act Of Union" which produced the United Kingdom, the very people who created Nigeria. Now, when and where did the Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa man come together to agree on 'one Nigeria'? It never happened, so by extension, Nigeria, its Government and constitution are all illegal since no contract of unity was ever agreed on in the first place. Therefore, it is incumbent on the Government to legalise 'Nigeria' by directly asking the indigenous nationalities Lord Lugard forced together, if they consent to the union, via a referendum. Any other thing is just mere grandstanding.
PoliticsRe: Just In: Heavy Explosion Rocks Spdc Trunk Line In Delta by gartamanta: 8:08am On Aug 04, 2016
Kingsasian:
These avengers are mad. Why don't they attack those politicians directly instead of making lives more difficult for the poor masses they said they are fighting forhuh They should go to Abuja and bomb the mansions of those thieves.
I don't think the politicians are the problem. The problem is Oil. Oil and who controls it has always been the problem in Nigeria and forever will be.
PoliticsRe: Gowon: There's Nothing Wrong With Restructuring Nigeria, I Did It In 1967 by gartamanta: 7:52am On Aug 04, 2016
Propropro:
The man that single handedly ensured biafra was dead and buried in 1970 while Ojukwu fled to ivory coast with his tail behind his legs. God bless Gowon for keeping this great nation one. We are forever grateful sad
And after 'Biafra died', has your country moved foward since then?
PoliticsRe: We Are Not Aware Nnamdi Kanu Committed Any Crime-kuje Prison Inmate by gartamanta:
OgundeleT:
almost every colonised country were forced to be together, and once it is recognised as a sovereign state then so be it. but if you people need referendum your reps and senators can do that for you by voting for those who can help you lobby it into the constitution, it may take them decades to do that though. anything apart from that will never work.
The state is never greater than the people who populate it. You only get a sovereign state when the indigenous people of the land jointly and collectively decide to come together as a nation. If there are any of them who do buy the idea, nobody should force them into the union, that would be an extension of the same colonialism.

As for this talk that anyone who wants a referendum should look for it through the National Assemby, how is that going to work? Is it the NASS that created Nigeria? Will the Northerners even agree to it? Why should a Northerner even be voting in the internal sovereign matter of an Easterner? If the Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa man never had any formal agreement to be together, on what basis do either of them have the right to decide who stays and who goes? Nigerias entire claim to sovereignty is based on the fact that Lord Lugard sat in some room in the north and signed a document proclaiming everyone as 'one people'

It should be said that even Lord Lugard who created Nigeria prescribed a shelf life of a 100 years for the country in the Amalgamation Document. As of 1st January 2014, Nigeria became an illegal entity.
PoliticsRe: We created state to avoid eastern secession ..Gowon by gartamanta: 9:29pm On Aug 03, 2016
chydon24:
I don't understand why this Gowon has become the one who decides the faith of this country though what came out of his thought. He was not even present when Lord Lugard created Nigeria and what was on the mind of the people that did this false marriage. His is trying to let us know that the reason why he killed millions of people during the civil war was b/c he was admiring the map of Nigeria. Shame on him. He is an evil man.
Of course. First he restructured Nigeria by abolishing the regions and creating States in other to entrench 'divide and rule' then he invaded the Eastern Region and killed millions because of how the map of Nigeria would have looked. Many countries still list him as a genocidal killer who slaughtered millions in the name of a non existent 'one Nigeria'
PoliticsRe: No Alternative To United Nigeria – Jonathan by gartamanta: 9:18pm On Aug 03, 2016
No alternative to Nigeria?

Before, Lord Lugard came to create Nigeria, what alternative existed then?
PoliticsRe: We Are Not Aware Nnamdi Kanu Committed Any Crime-kuje Prison Inmate by gartamanta: 9:13pm On Aug 03, 2016
SuperS1Panther:
cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

Your response is very laughable.

1. The Grand Norm of every nation is the constitution and every activity of all the entities within the association is encapsulated in the constitution. Anything outside the constitution is ultra vires, null and avoid.

2. Right is not absolute anywhere in the world. Every right has its own responsibility and your right must not infringe on the right of others. As much as the bset mout of alaigbo has the right to use his basket mouth to preach hate, he has infringe on the right of others to life and therefore the State ha the right to punish him for infringing on the right to life of others.

After FG is through with him, he will still be sent to ICC to face his crime against humanity for inciting genocide. Thank God for the alertness and vigilance of FG. Maybe by now over a million people might have been killed in Nigeria as a result of the hate mongering of that mad man.

He will rot in jail.
Guy, you have no country. What you have is a forced colonial creation that is heading nowhere
PoliticsRe: We Are Not Aware Nnamdi Kanu Committed Any Crime-kuje Prison Inmate by gartamanta: 3:41pm On Aug 03, 2016
SuperS1Panther:
Is that the best your vestigial brain can come up with?

Show us part of your constitution that recognises referendum like that of England and Scotland?

In marital divorce, is there not a laid process for it? If the wife is threatening to kill her husband if he does not divorce her, will such husband not get such an uncouth wife arrested for threat of violence, bodily harm and first degree premeditated murder.
Guy, you are reasoning like someone who is not aware that this is the 21st century. You are talking about referendum and constitution? On which constitution did Lugard make you a Nigerian? You are talking about divorce when you never had a wedding?

One last thing. Chapter four of the Nigerian constitution allows anyone the right to free speech and expression. This means that Kanu is entitled to preach hate and make threats, against anyone or even Nigeria. So stop talking nonsense until such a time that free speech is removed from the constitution and focus on those who are no longer making theats but actually killing people such as Boko Haram, herdsmen, cultists, militants and the security agencies. After you have addressed them, the you can come back to address Kanu for 'mere talking'
PoliticsRe: Kanu Will Never Renounce Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu’s Wife Tells Buhari by gartamanta: 11:18am On Aug 03, 2016
Now watch as haters from a section of the country (you all know them) will flood in here to insult Mrs Kanu.
PoliticsRe: Buhari Was Inexplicably Deaf On His Own Advice On How To Lead (newswatch,1989) by gartamanta: 10:26am On Aug 03, 2016
drss2:
how nigerians voted dis failed expired product of 1985 in 2015 is d 10th wonder of d world. sad
Those who voted Buhari were far more interested in throwing out GEJ than they were about what they were bringing in. A case of chasing out the Cat to bring in the Lion.
PoliticsRe: "Biafra Or Death" Nnamdi Kanu Replies MEND And Their Ahithophel Team by gartamanta: 10:12am On Aug 03, 2016
Yyeske:
Seun should be told that these silly Biafran threads must be closed and the OP who brought it up banned for six months at least.
Seun should be reminded that security officials visit this site and maybe monitoring his clandestine support for these silly Biafran threads.
Nuff said Seun
Seun can always quote chapter 4 of the Nigerian constitution which allows everyone freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of conscience and the right to freedom from discrimination.

The constitution permits anyone and everyone to not only talk about Biafra but also to peacefully protest and agitate for it if they wish.

If you don't like it, start your own protest to change the constitution.
PoliticsRe: Igbos Need Accommodation Not Biafra – Nwodo by gartamanta: 9:58am On Aug 03, 2016
102 years of national existence but Igbos are still looking for accomodation within Nigeria? Nwodo is a politician, he has talked as a politician.


I do laugh at the "Igbos have investments in Nigeria" sentiments. What about the Igbos who have investments in other countries like America, Britain etc? They should throw away their sovereign rights in the name of investments?

Nigeria remains a British colonial creation and it is the right of the various ethnic nationalties to decide their destiny
PoliticsRe: A Letter To The Igbos by gartamanta: 8:37am On Aug 02, 2016
Speak2klein:
OK sir! They should continue to waste time and clamour for sovereignty. What plans are on ground after sovereignty? Unfortunately, we Nigerians are always sentimental about things. The igbos have left their lands to develop other places eg Lagos. I have not seen any indication or alliance between the igbo governors. In the end we gain sovereignty and can't even survive after. I'm not against sovereignty, I'm against sovereignty without a plan. Let's get things right in our cupboard first before we start clamouring for sovereignty.
Clamouring for sovereignty isn't a waste of time. A person without sovereignty is actually a nobody. It is having control of your land, your resources, your laws and your political will that makes you sovereing and gives you the best chance to develop your land as you see fit. Ideally, Nigeria should have been run in a "European union style" confederation where all Igbos, Igboids,Igbo speaking people and some of the minorities who confortable with Igbos will be in one region with no states, just provinces (or Local Govts). The Regions will be more powerful than the center, control 100% of their resources, pay an agree percentage to the center, have their own parliament, enact their own laws, have their own regional police etc. it is then that Igbos can finally administer themselves and develop their land. But we all know that the North does want this because they know that 'Igbo region' is liable to secede any time.


Igbos leaving their land to develop other places was as a direct consequence of the war because they had to move out of their war ravaged lands to find green pasture elsewhere. But I'm happy this trend is declining. Current happenings in Nigeria has made Igbos realise that 'one Nigeria' is redundant. Many Igbos are now choosing to site their immovable assets back home due to the volatility of Nigeria.

When you talk about 'plan'. You can't put the cart before the Horse. Britain just recently left the EU single market. Not even the British Government has a plan about what they will do outside the EU. What they do know is that the sovereign will of the British people must be followed and they believe that they will survive outside the EU.
PoliticsRe: A Letter To The Igbos by gartamanta: 11:52pm On Aug 01, 2016
Speak2klein:
The best step to independence is actually financial independence. That is what the article clamours for. Let's first develop our region as we do that we are less dependent on the FG. Rather than focus on the problem, create solutions. Remember the biafran war, what killed most if the easterners wasn't guns or bullets but hunger. If the easterners were self sufficient in food then the massacre wouldn't have been that terrible. Once beaten twice shy. I hope we learn.
Stop talking like an ignoramus. How can you be talking about Igbos developing their land and being financially independent when the Igbos don't have their sovereignty? How can the Igbo man control his destiny when that destiny is controlled in Abuja? How can the Igbo man reach his full potential when when the Igbo man is under the laws of Nigeria? Is the Igbo man controlling his large deposit of Coal in Enugu? Is the Igbo man controlling his Oil in Anioma,Anambra, Imo and Abia? Is the Igbo controlling his large deposit of limestone in Ebonyi? All of these natural resources are under the Government of Nigeria. So how do you think that a people who don't have their sovereignty can grow? Start talking about the real issues instead of this "let's keep managing in Nigeria" mentality you have.

One more thing. During the Biafran war, people didn't starve in Igboland because of lack of a strong Agricultural base. It is on record that the largest food producing area in the Eastern region that later became Biafra was Abakiliki. Ojukwu foresaw that there would be a food crises and began a program of intensive cultivation of the land. The reason why people starved was because the war turned many into refugees and they had to leave their lands and farms to flee for dear life.
PoliticsRe: Let A SouthEasterner Become President In 2019 by gartamanta: 3:34pm On Aug 01, 2016
DropShot:
You know deep down your heart you're Not sincere.
What will the presidency do for Igbos? Has the presidency done anything special for those who held it in the past? So an Igbo man becomes president then what? Stars will drop out of the Sky? There things that are more important
PoliticsRe: Let A SouthEasterner Become President In 2019 by gartamanta: 3:17pm On Aug 01, 2016
We Igbos are not interested in the 'poisonous' office of president of Nigeria. There are other things that are important than that
PoliticsRe: NNAMDI KANU : We Are Not Seceding From Nigeria by gartamanta: 3:12pm On Aug 01, 2016
sCun:
Zoom in and read the article Yoruba illiterate.

We are not seceeding from Nigeria, we just want to go back to the way we were before the British came.
Exactly! The mischievous OP just 'flashed' the Headline without bothering to read the content.
PoliticsRe: NNAMDI KANU : We Are Not Seceding From Nigeria by gartamanta: 3:08pm On Aug 01, 2016
TheArchangel:
I am baffled by the number of non-Igbos celebrating this "news". They really want Igbos so bad.
Don't mind them. Kanu has frequently said the Biafra he is fighting for is a "restoration project". Kanu has said that the word 'secession' only comes into use if indigenous people in Nigeria had made a binding agreement to be together like the UK and America once did. So he asked people to drop the word secession and use 'restoration' since Nigeria is not a binding country. The Headline is misleading
PoliticsRe: ....and Nnamdi Kanu Pushed Us by gartamanta: 11:27am On Aug 01, 2016
Aigbofa:
You are trying to dress a hateful bigot in the garb of a freedom fighter. Did Biko and Mandela ever call for the total extermination of their opponents in South Africa?
If Kanu pushed you, he probably pushed you into a pool with live crocodiles and other dangerous reptiles, the earlier you recognize this the better for you.
Mandela was even worse than Kanu. Mandela took up arms, kanu is yet to kill anyone. So if what bothers you is what Kanu said then you have misplaced priorities. At least Kanu is still in the talking stage, there are many who are not talking any more, it is their gun talking for them. You should be happy that Kanu is still only talking.
PoliticsRe: Will You Vote For An Atheist? by gartamanta: 7:14am On Aug 01, 2016
UncleSnr:
Now to the main issue, as a Nigerian 100% of all our politicians corrupt and those claimed not to be, still serving and retired, are all affiliated to a religious body. None have I read his/her profile ascertaining his/her disbelief in a diety, stating to be an Atheist.

So am asking, if an Atheist (one that is publicly known to be one) comes out to contest for a public position will you vote for Him/Her?

NB: You shouldn't use his or her competence level as a criteria cos those already voted for have shown their competence and incompetence in the past and present.

Yes or No, stating your reasons.
Yes I would vote for an atheist, the many non atheist we have voted for in the past have all turned out to be disappointments anyway
PoliticsRe: ....and Nnamdi Kanu Pushed Us by gartamanta: 2:35pm On Jul 31, 2016
Before Kanu, there were many Nigerians who didn't know that self determination is a right.
BusinessRe: Save Our Souls! Inflation Is Out Of Control In Nigeria by gartamanta: 10:57am On Jul 31, 2016
BizLifeE:
Several months ago, I bought Val-U bread for N220. Two months later, price went upwards to N250. A few months later, it became N300.

I was perplexed and exasperated.

Name it: Table water, toothpaste, malt drinks, transport fares, school fees, house rent, garri, elubo, handset, dollar, gas, bottled groundnut, rice, imported products, etc., etc.

The naira is losing value fast, and people get poorer and poorer. The previous generation were richer than the present one, and surely the present generation would be richer than the coming one. That’s one hidden law of economics that many educated people don’t know.

What I can use N1,000 for about 10 years ago was much more significant than what I can use it for nowadays. This means that, unless you have several sources of income, or your alary is increased regularly, you become a poorer person.

People don’t have money to buy what they need, and what they need keep on increasing in prices.

A responsible family man with a few kids plus wife would hardly survive on N20,000 per week, not to mention the fact that many people collect less than N50,000 per month. A graduate who’s spent huge amount of money to get a degree is now being offered N10,000 salary per month. This is a pity.

In Nigeria, over 110 million people can’t boast of an income of N300 per day. The reality is even worse than this. When a company declares profits, it’s not that they really make profits, but they save lots of money by downsizing, retrenching or reducing employee’s income. Is this normal?

When people need to spend more and more to buy the same thing they have been buying as a necessity, they become poorer and more hopeless if their income doesn’t increase or it gets reduced.

Can government really help us to control inflation? I’m afraid that, if things are not controlled, it may lead to hyperinflation or runaway inflation. I pray that such thing doesn’t happen here.

Please save our souls – inflation is running out of control in Nigeria.

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Just shout "Sai Baba!" three times and all your problems will be solved.

When us in the SE/SS were warning you guys that this man will make things much worse than GEJ, you all thought we were fools. Now face the music!
PoliticsRe: Breaking News: "After The Election Wey Dem Dey" Crooner Arrested (photos) by gartamanta: 10:44am On Jul 31, 2016
Zoo song!
PoliticsRe: July 1966 Counter-coup: Fajuyi’s Aides Knew About The Coup But Betrayed Him –sis by gartamanta: 12:46am On Jul 31, 2016
kikies:
Bt d IBO's killed Ademulegun in d January coup,did d Yoruba's take offence den?
Of course they took offence! Many Yorubas still call out Igbos for killing Northern and western leaders, even here on NL. I'm not even sure who killed Ademulegun, under what circumstances and by what directive. The only thing some people want to hear is that " it was an Igbo coup". But rarely will you ever hear a Yoruba man ever call out the Northerners despite the Northerners killing their Governor of the western region and denying a Yoruba man their rightful place as president twice.
PoliticsRe: How The Ibos Destroyed Their Chance Of Seceding Peacefully From Nigeria by gartamanta: 12:34am On Jul 31, 2016
ManMountain:
Agreed that lugard brought people that have different orientations together, but why did Ironsi thought it wise to merged the different regions civil service with decree 34?
We will keep puncturing all your attempts to absolve your forefathers from this mess.
90% of the foundation of Nigeria present mess lay squarely on ibo military and political elites of the the 60's
Then the question you should ask your self is this. After decree 34, why did all of those who came after Ironsi promulgate and enact worse decree's than decree34? If Ironsi was a bad man for decree 34? What are all those who came after him? Buhari was one of the Northern officers who participated in the counter-coup that killed Ironsi. They said one of the main reasons they did it because of decree 34. The same Buhari is now president after 50 years of that, he is still telling Nigerians that "decree 34" must stay. The same Yorubas who criticise Ironsi that he took away true federalism with decree 34 are the same people who are hailing Buhari who participated in the killing of Ironsi for decree 34 but the same Buhati still stands on decree 34. We all know that Buhari will never agree for true federalism to return, he can't, he is a Northerner. The hypocrisy is just too much.
PoliticsRe: How The Ibos Destroyed Their Chance Of Seceding Peacefully From Nigeria by gartamanta: 6:29pm On Jul 30, 2016
ManMountain:
You guys are always looking for an excuse to absolve your own from the mess that Nigeria is. You love seeing others as the bad guys, meanwhile the foundation of everything wrong in Nigeria today is partly due to lack of foresight and wrong judgement on the part of your people.
Azikwe never did anything in the interest of the South, rather he is either pleasing the British or the Northerners, he was rewarded as the first president of Nigeria though, after serially betraying a southern cause
Wrong bro, the foundation of everything wrong with Nigeria was when Lugard brought incompatible people together.
PoliticsRe: Govt Has Agreed To Release Nnamdi Kanu, Okah Brothers, - MEND by gartamanta: 6:25pm On Jul 30, 2016
i don't think Nnamdi Kanu is going to back down on the Biafran struggle for freedom. He has made it his life mission
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Will Disintegrate Before Buhari's Very Eyes - Femi Fani-kayode by gartamanta: 6:03pm On Jul 30, 2016
It never ceases to amaze me the way "one Nigeria" supporters gather to discuss how they are going fight and kill everyone to keep their 'dream' alive
PoliticsRe: How The Ibos Destroyed Their Chance Of Seceding Peacefully From Nigeria by gartamanta:
CSTR12:
Equating the decision of Nnamdi azikiwe to the entire igbo race is foolishness.
If it was left to Nnamdi azikiwe, ndi-igbo would never have secceeded .Which was why he never had any say in the secession that later came.
He lost his relevance to ojukwu.
Nnamdi azikiwe was more or less like an okorocha of the 60s, though much smarter, and more refined. Both of them pursued Nigeria's interests at the expense of igbo interest, unlike awolowo and his northern counterparts who couldn't give two shitts about Nigeria. Nnamdi was probably Nigeria's most patriotic leader ever, but then at what cost?
Sad really.
I couldn't have said it any better. But I want to add that even if secession had been inserted into the constitution, it would have been the first thing the Notherners would have removed after their successful coup.

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