₦airaland Forum

Fhemmmy:
Leave your number again pls

naijaking1:
How much work do you think goverment does to produce crude oil?

Beaf:

Damn!
Bayelsa and Delta states almost single handedly sustain this country! Bayelsa produces 40% and Delta 30% of crude oil the country feeds on. That should be enough to rubbish your list.

Can a display of ignorance be more plain? I notice this same thing about northerners in general; they all claim their states contribute to the country; only God knows how.

Onlytruth:
What truth That the north was economically unviable before 1914 hence the Lugardian amalgamation to support the north with the resources from the south?
Is it true that Nigeria's best minds have run Nigeria from after the war till date?
What is the truth here?

Onlytruth:
For unsuspecting readers:

ndu_chucks is Hausa!

ndu_chucks = Arewa

Notes taken!

Onlytruth:
The main question should be, are you Igbo? If yes, then you are even more pathetic! Though we all know you are just a masquerade. I can't show you your land! You are Igbo remember? To help you, yes there is NO OIL IN THE WHOLE OF IGBOLAND. Are you happy now? slowpoke.

naijaking1:
You're wrong to say that the concept of araba or scession by the north was a direct result of 1966 coup, please educate yourself:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=araba+massacre,+nigeria&source=bl&ots=EHOTmziVvP&sig=2Y-o8R5ZeFR30jy9AzFFVZens34&hl=en&ei=RxrSSu8B82tlAf4xampCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Onlytruth:
Though this must qualify as one of the biggest lies of the Nigerian half century, I wouldn't honor that with a reply. What Igbos rely on is far richer than oil. We rely on our natural human resource, unrivalled in Africa!

More people on NL are taking on Igbo usernames to insult Igbo people. I notice that Igbos don't take on Yoruba or Hausa names here to do likewise. It shows that we have more character than our detractors.

naijaking1:
Your first point was a good one, but comparing the Nigerian 1960s situation with Osama is wrong in every way, in bad taste, very condemnable, and not deserving a response.
Arewa muslimchi ba chawu.
My suspicion that you know the answer to your own question was right, but Araba is not the only incident where Igbos and southerners have been killed in the north for no legitimate reason. The coup was just another reason to do it again.

Onlytruth:
dayokanu, your way of reasoning would kill Nigeria and ensure permanent enmity in that space for a long time! If I follow you right, what you are saying is that irrationality and stupidity backed by the force of arms is preferable to sanity and rational dialogue. If Ojukwu outwitted the rest of the Nigerian delegates combined, whose fault is that? Should he have babysitted them at the conference, especially when they were deceiving themselves by usurping positions and ranks in the leadership of Nigeria for which they were obviously not qualified?
[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=334770.msg4712375#msg4712375 date=1255282174]someone mentioned araba.

de sad ting be say, hausas, Yorubas, midwesterners, etc follow participate. de sad history be say, mob of people from all tribes except igbos participated in this particular lynching of igbos.

if una come here dey talk say araba na atrocity wey only northerners carryout, una no sabi de truth. na one of de saddest periods of nigerian history be dat.

naijaking1:
I would answer this question as if you're truely naive, and that you don't already know the answer after so many writtings on the subject by many people including Lamido Sanusi, etc.

The Igbos(people from eastern Nigeria-including Ijaws, Ogonis, Efiks) have been targets of social, economic, and religious prosecution in the north as far back as the 1940s. These riots, usually organized by local Hausa elites often start on Fridays after prayers, and targets non-Hausa residents of the area. Yorubas have also been attacked, but not as much as the Igbos. The Igbos have been accused of being too successful as petty traders, living immoral lives as christians/pagans, and even planning to replace local Hausa populations with bus loads of Igbos sent in from Onitsha, Warri, or even Aba.
As a youth corper in Kano, I had a first hand experience about Igbos were often attacked. The local elites simply gather some almajiris, and instruct them on how to go around looting, killing, and raping the non-muslim populations of the area as a pretex for retaliation to some unrelated World event.

naijaking1:
Come on, you know there're many nothern states today that depend on federal allocation almost 90% for their budget. This budget is derived from destroying other people's drinking water, farm lands, and ancestral lands in the Niger delta. How fair and just is that? These states could not have been created save for this unfair policy

naijaking1:
@Dayokanu
Unegbu was the GOC of one of the major army barracks. He was Igbo, and he was also the guy who almost frustrated the first coup, because he refused to release weapons. For his refusal, the Nzeogwu group killed him.

dayokanu:
^^^

When Nzeogwu made his infamous "we were five" comment, he made no reference to the rank of the "five". He was merely referring to the five designated strategic regional commanders of the coup. In fact, no less than nine Majors were originally billed to take part in the coup. These were Majors Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Ademoyega, Okafor, Anuforo, Chukwuka, Obienu, Onwuatuegwu and Chude-Sokei. Shortly before the coup, Chude-Sokei was posted overseas. On the coup day itself, Obienu failed to show, leaving seven Majors as participants. When it came to execution, the Majors designated five officers as regional commanders for the coup's execution. Of Nzeogwu's "five", there were "the two of us in the North" (Nzeogwu and Major Tim Onwuatuegwu), and three more in the South

You claimed Unegbe was killed? Who was Unegbe in the scheme of things?
We are talking about The Prime minister here.

We have 3 or 4 regions right North, West and east. The premier of the North and the west were killed So what happened to the eastern premier? Escaped.

In the 3-4 regions

The Political leaders were

North Sadauna followed by Balewa (Both were killed)
West Akintola and Awolowo (Akintola was killed Awolowo was in Jail so escaped)
Mid west Okotie Eboh- Minister of Finance was killed

What happed to Azikwe the President? he escaped

All eastern political leaders were left and other regins got hit.
You are now bringing a Unegbe into the fray, Can you count the number of soldiers from other regions who were killed also?

chigsmith:
@gogwada
Can u also be giving us dat of pounds and euro. I gess dat of dollar rate is blak. Pls i was givn 262 for pounds. Am i bein cheated?

BAC:
Thanks Gowaga, We need info about how to use your service are u at Ikeja or lagos island

Fhemmmy:
Thanx dude

Sir Kay:
@ gowaga68,

Are you a bureau de change operator? Your office location please? How much do you sell cedis?

BOMANY:
Thanks a lot for your continuous informing us about the latests. The rate still in the average, i do not believe that Naira will wetness dramatic changes soon like what happened previous this year. Pls no need to spread PANIC


Bros am not try to make ppl panic even if i dont let ppl know ,some ppl might think aboki wants to make too much money when given the price.
thanks for your comment .
i may not be postin rate for now due to some lil things but will be back when things get better.
Naija for life.

sholatech:
I sold some dollars to aboki in Jos,Plateau state today @ 157 naira