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You have only been presenting your position with rants out of the hole in your black behind.

What would you Igbos be today without Samuel Ajayi Crowther who went on an expedition to bring your people out of darkness?

He gave the Igbos the lexicon, alphabets and writing system of their language, publishing a Primer and giving the light to education to your people.

If not you will still all be gathering to wrestle in the village square hiding behind raffia-clad huts at the sight of civilised people

ofai:
The CMS grammar school was owned and built by who? Yoruba? Lol.... Dude, don't disgrace your tribe here. CMS was owned by the British. Save your breath.

Without Igbo, your history will be written and researched for you. Thank dike.

Without Igbo, slave abolition would have been delayed. Thank equiano.

Without Igbo, you won't have had independence from Britain. Thank zik.

I love the way you weave historical and current facts with a very intelligent writing skill to bare the truth.

God bless you.

No one hates the Igbos. We just won't standby and watch the children of greedy igbo fathers of the past entrench the now institutionalized lies they keep spreading.

You are also correct. A lot of Igbos self-destruct on greed.

Throwback:
Even Dike could not understand why he had to be called back from an unfinished Sabbatical in the USA to come become Vice Principal under the soon departing British Principal.

He was apprehensive to accept the position he damn well knew he was the most senior and most qualified Igbo, but not the most senior or most qualified Nigerian.

Just as the Igbos would have cried fowl if Brigadier Maimalari was appointed as first Nigerian Major General, ahead of Aguiyi Ironsi the most senior, or Ademulegun and Ogundipe who were the next ranking of all the 4 Brigadiers that were in contention for the promoting to Major General.

It is for such slight that a more senior Ojukwu, rejected the authority of a subordinate Gowon.

Yet our Igbo debater believes merit is only said to have been adhered to when an Igbo is appointed out of the blues ahead of his superiors. He is even trying to cast aspersions as to the academic credentials of the first African Professor in a globally multiracial environment in a then British run university. Oladele Ajose broke the glass ceiling for others to follow.

Merit = Igbo

Unfortunately, it was Igbos that self destruct and truncated the Igbo domination by nepotism agenda, out of excessive greed to have it all.

Keep trumping them with facts that are clearly there for anyone to research and confirm, while they continue wailing with seething jealousy and regurgitated lies of their fathers.

Azikiwe knew why he wanted a strong nation without any clause for confederation or secession. He was power hungry. He thought an alliance with the hausa-full ni NPC would pay off for him, hoping to outsmart the lesser educated and politcally-experienced northerners.

The same greed for power and domination played out immediately after the first couple d'etat. After the Prime Minister was declared missing, the ruling alliancestors agreed to put forward Mt Dipcharima to hold forte as the acting Prime Minister pending when the whereabouts of Sir Balewa can be located, instead the Igbo Senate President, went in alone with Aguiyi and carried out a second state coup that eventually put the last nail on the first republic democracy's coffin

Throwback:
It is no news that the British could never stand the "I know my rights uppity attitude" of the Yoruba employees in the colonial era. From Doctors to Engineers to Lawyers, Yorubas had them all, and they were not prepared to play servant to the British who most times were not better educated or experienced than the Yorubas, but the British felt no Briton must ever work under an African. And rightly, the Yoruba's wasted no time in forming a political party as early as 1908 to demand for the rights of the Yoruba people, at a time some tribes were still learning how to recite ABC.

So Ajose was a riff-raff academic, yet became the first tenured African at the university that had a globally multicultural academia? Do you know what it takes for a Blackman to break such a glass ceiling? What is more pioneering than being the first in a race that is purely academic and research focused? What is more experienced than being the most senior on the academic board?

You see why I rightly said that to the Igbos, merit means I Go Before Others?

I can only imagine if Ajose was the younger and less experienced academic who was chosen over an Igbo professor who was more experienced, qualified and pioneering?

Marginalization is the word the Igbos would have cried from that time till now.

Keep exposing your hypocrisy, while I continue to haunt you with your ignoble past.

Did the British who were also leaving the army not nominate a Yoruba Brigadier ahead of his peers who were a total of 4 Brigadiers, with the Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi being the most senior?

Was it not Aguiyi Ironsi who was eventually promoted to become the Major General, and head of the Nigerian Army?

God bless you for bringing this truth to everyone's knowledge. It is quite pathetic how most of these young Igbo boys keep regurgitating the lies of their fathers.

See the screen shot of my post earlier on another three where this similar issue you addressed came up.

Throwback:
Yes he was made vice principal of the University College Ibadan ahead of the most senior African on the academic board and first ever Nigerian professor, Prof. Oladele Ajose.

Dike's appointment was facilitated by the Igbo dominated NCNC who had also installed Dr Akanu Ibiam who was the first Igbo doctor, as the School Council chairman. While Oladele Ajose was most senior and readily available at the school, Dike was called back from the USA where he was on an unfinished sabbatical, to come take a position (Vice Principal) he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the school, Akanu Ibiam as School Council Chairman, further ensured that Kenneth Dike who was a fellow Igbo like him, became the first Nigerian principal of University College Ibadan. Professor Oladele Ajose realised that he was forever going to remain a victim of the NCNC and Igbo version of "merit" system that only found the Igbos qualified for positions that their better educated and more experienced Yoruba superiors did not qualify for. Ajose read the Igbo writing on the wall and moved to the Western Region owned University of Ife, to become its first principal.

Prof Kenneth Dike and Akanu Ibiam led school council would eventually go on to conduct recruitment into UI after the departure of the British. Out of 115 new hires, only 3 were Yorubas while the bulk of the remainder were from the Eastern Region.

That is how Igbos practice a merit based system.

The foolish Yorubas who were members of NCNC were never offered any sensitive position in the NPC/NCNC partnership of the first republic. Not even the Eastern minorities were offered critical positions.

All that was good that the Northerners could not occupy, the Azikiwe led NCNC ensured it went to the Eastern region, and ultimately to only the Igbos of that multi-ethnic Eastern Region.

Neither did Awolowo or the Yorubas send those poor 3 millions souls to their early grave.

Ojukwu did, when he refused to allow a land corridor to bring in food to the hungry and insisted only on airlifting supplies which allowed the World Church Council bring in weapons to fight. Nigeria's refusal to accede to airlifting and Ojukwu's stubbornness sealed the fate of those poor dudes.

And while millions died of starvation the Over-indulged bald brat was drinking the choicest of wines from Europe, Smoking imported French made Cigarettes and living lavishly with a retinue of thieving ministers and whorls in his bunker.

Go and read and do some research and quit spreading the lies and hearsays your father told you

Cooly100:
We will give you N200 billion after sending about 3 million afonjas to their earlier graves...that's a generation of the Yorubas.

How about that?

The question must of you have nit answered is...why is starvation not used in Syria and why the FG is not used blockade to defeat BH?

Wicked liars everywhere...

I know even Igbo proverbs will attest to it that it is only those you are better than that won't stop talking about you or alwas trying to emphasise the few negatives you have and bring you down.

We are not dazed.

We don't get distracted because we know you are all dying slowly from hate and jealousy. It will soon kill you.

We will always be ahead, even if you abuse us,our girls,our towns and cities, our culture and lifestyle, we will always be ahead.

And your people will not stop running to our land for solace because the curses ravaging your lands and her people will not let them prosper.

I'm not sure you live in Lagos. 95% of prostitutes here in Lagos are Igbo girls, not counting the old single ladies and shameless housewives messing around.

You may never know but I suspect there's a curse that your people need to break over your land and people.

Imagine IPOB youths going to scatter a meeting of elders in Enugu. Is that not a curse on their heads already? Children who don't respect their elders and fathers are already cursed.

nkwuocha:
They fucck for free what do you expect? Like seriously, if one chooses to be a prostitute why not do it in such a way she can be able to take care of herself in case if any eventualities? Yoruba girls na osho FREE!

I know even Igbo proverbs will attest to it that it is only those you are better than that won't stop talking about you or alwas trying to emphasise the few negatives you have and bring you down.

We are not dazed.

We don't get distracted because we know you are all dying slowly from hate and jealousy. It will soon kill you.

We will always be ahead, even if you abuse us,our girls,our towns and cities, our culture and lifestyle, we will always be ahead.

And your people will not stop running to our land for solace because the curses ravaging your lands and her people will not let them prosper.

Can you tell me anywhere in the world where two parties went to war and then one of them saved monies due to the other while the strife lasted and even paid out some cash for them to start life all over again? Where in the world?

Iraq? Sudan? Liberia? Congo?

Tell me please.

Besides most of the monies lost by Igbos were in ACB, African continental Bank, owned by Azikiwe and with more branches in the East than on Lagos.
How many of you have asked Zik where all your monies in the vaults were kept?

Also, Ojukwu looted all the Central Banks in Benin, Port-Harcourt, Calabar, Enugu...
Did the government or any other tribe asked your leaders where all those cash from our commonwealth were taken to?

With all these Awo low still had a heart to save for you and help you. Left to the other Hausa-Fulani in Gowon's Cabinet, Igbos will get nothing!

Awo's good intentions for Igbos will be the judge of your lying fathers who poisoned your minds and you senseless ones who are regurgitating it

The same narrative passed unto you and millions of other now-senseless youths.

Having Igbos occupy all those key positions you mentioned was not based on merit. Yorubas as at then had more than enough qualified men and women to fill those posts.
The NCNC-NPC coalition made sure to put only their people in most federal positions and offices to spite the West, thanks to the likes of Mbonu Ejike, Mbadiwe and other Zik boys who took the liberty to run their ministries like their village clans.

It was the patience and magnanimity of Awo and his government that kept the Yorubas from protesting such Nepotism (same thing most of us now accuse Buhari of today). Well at some point they couldn't take it anymore. The only two universities in southwest was going to have two Igbo VCs! When we had more than enough qualified professors. Even civilians who shied away from partisan politics saw the bias of the ruling party. And igbos in the southwest took it upon themselves to rub salt in these injuries by openly boasting of their connections and privileges because their 'brothers' were in power.

When Akintola parted ways wit Awo, one of his strong point for campaign for support in Yorubaland was that our qualified men and women will now get posts and offices that have been denied them because his party is now connected with the Ruling one in Lagos.

I will stop here, but will advise you to get cured of the lies your father's and elders told you and find out the truth.

Cooly100:
Who introduced starvation as an instrument of war?

Why is that insrument not used in Syria today?

Who said all is fair in war?

I tell you, Gowon has more honor in the east than Awo?

Igbos were everywhere before the war. They were the VC of UI, Unilag and rector of Yaba tech. Awo wanted to remove Igbos so his tribe could occupy the positions. This he has accomplished today. But he is not God, as despite the change in position in the civil service, Igbos have done well despite the set back. Today, only Lagos, a city developed by all Nigeria is better than cities in SE.

A funny pix of what David could look like in a few decades from now was share on IG.

Quite hilarious I must say!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfu14ZFAL5y/

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Mynd44

Few years time, you hear he is the actual owner and only renting it out to ExxonMobil.

Udom God will punish you for this lack of sense of priority

The same public funds your clueless superior spent on Almajiri schools and mosques?

Reno O'Mockery your mumu never do?

I beg all Igbo parents in the village, please STOP giving your children to all these wicked couples who return from Lagos to sweet talk you to release them under the guise of educating and caring for them as you would do.

Most of them bring your children to Lagos and make them go through hell. I have witnessed quite a lot of these cases and had to intervene in a few to bring justice.
It's quite rampant amongst SE peeps

Omo aiye

Why are all of his projects always looking cheap and substandard.
Thin-laid asphalt, fragile-looking culvert and drain ducks, road without drainage (UNIZIK Ifite)...

This man can do better than wearing aso ebi and gallivanting upandan.

Well those that will be easily deceived by his shambolisms will not hear the "hunter's whistle"

So Okowa thinks buying an award would savage his already dented image as a clueless governor?

Gbenu E soun

No be Reno O'Mockery?

Way to go.

I'm glad that Lagos is doing a lot to also preserve the beautiful history it has. These two museums along with the J.K. Tandle Centre for Young History and Culture under construction at Onikan, Lagos Island, The culture, arts and history of Lagos and the Yorubas at large will be preserved for posterity

Venezuela don cast.

Nigeria is very peculiar. We are almost in the same situation with them but we turning out better after oil prices picked up again, at least comparing both countries.

Same way we survived, albeit with pains the same economic situation that upturned Argentine economy and sent the entire country into deep recession they are still battling.

Sweet Asisat

Omoluabi governor

prettyboy5:
Who told you that crap that the king Cobra's venom is the most poisonous? It only has the most plenty venom in volume possessed within the snake.

The most poisonous venoms remain that of the very non aggressive Belcher sea snake and for terrestrial snakes its the snake called inland Taipan, its a snake in Australia.

The Belcher sea snake is the boss, it teaches me a lot if things, despite having a venom 100 times more venomous that even the most venomous terrestrial snakes, it rarely attacks humans, and on rare occasions that it bites humans, it rarely releases its venom.

Just few milligrams of its venom, it would be enough to kill over 100 men. And funny thing is that this snake is so elusive and non aggressive, telling you that those who have a lot inside them don't make noise or go about bragging.

Belcher's sea snake, which many times is mistakenly called the hook-nosed sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa), has been erroneously popularized as the most venomous snake in the world, due to Ernst and Zug's published book "Snakes in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book" from 1996. Associate Professor Bryan Grieg Fry, a prominent venom expert, has clarified the error: "The hook nosed myth was due to a fundamental error in a book called 'Snakes in question'. In there, all the toxicity testing results were lumped in together, regardless of the mode of testing (e.g. subcutaneous vs. intramuscular vs intravenous vs intraperitoneal). As the mode can influence the relative number, venoms can only be compared within a mode. Otherwise, its apples and rocks.".[4] Studies on mice[5][6][7]and human cardiac cell culture[4][8][9] shows that venom of the inland taipan, drop by drop, is the most toxic among all snakes; land or sea. The most venomous sea snake is actually Dubois' seasnake (Aipysurus duboisii ).


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophis_belcheri

People have been wondering what the highly anticipated version of the Galaxy smartphones will look like – and now they know.

Samsung was planning to unveil its Galaxy S9 at the Mobile World Congress next month, but its design has been revealed in a fresh leak. Photographs quickly spread online, allowing netizens to check them out before the device’s launch date. The new version of the Galaxy is expected to have an extremely powerful rear-facing camera, and according to Evan Blass, who uploaded the images but referred to an unidentified source, “in selfie mode there are animated avatars kinda animoji.” Their primary 12-megapixel cameras will also allow it to film “super slow-mo” videos.


https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/956906111189377025/photo/1

The founder of IKEA and Ikano, and one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has peacefully passed away, at his home in Smaland, Sweden, on the 27th of January," the company said in a press release.

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Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Paris remains on high alert as the Seine continues to swell and the Louvre prepares to close its doors amid the third-wettest French winter in over a century.    

The river had risen 4.3in over a period of 24 hours by Saturday evening, more than 13ft above its normal height, causing problems for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks.

Tourists suffered too with the capital's famous Bateaux Mouches rivercraft out of service, and only emergency services authorised to navigate the Seine.

The Vigicrues flooding agency believe the river will continue to rise, peaking at 13.1ft on Sunday night or Monday, but not quite reaching the 2016 high of 20ft, when the Louvre museum was forced to close its doors for four days.

But the world's most visited museum was on high alert on Saturday, along with the Musee d'Orsay and Orangerie galleries, with the lower level of the Louvre's Islamic arts wing closed to visitors.

Leaks started to appear in some basements in Paris on Friday, while some residents on the city's outskirts were forced to travel by boat through waterlogged streets.

A health centre in Paris's northwestern suburbs, where 86 patients were receiving care, was also evacuated on Friday.

In total around 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the greater Paris region, according to police, while around 1,500 homes were without electricity.

'Due to the spread of flooding to different tributaries, the level of the Seine in Paris will continue rising again on the weekend,' said Vigicrues, adding that the highest level would last for about 10 hours before slowly going down.

The extent of the rising water levels was evident from the Seine lapping half way up the Zouave statue of a Crimean soldier on the Pont de l'Alma bridge.

It was enough to worry Joao de Macedo, janitor at a residential building in Paris's upscale 16th Arrondissement.

'There are six studios in the basement, and we've had to set up blocks outside to keep the windows from breaking and covering everything in water,' he said.

Inside the studios, tables and dressers have been lifted off the floor as water seeps through the walls.

But even once the water levels start to recede, forecasters and officials say it will be a slow process, since much of the ground in northern France is already waterlogged.

'If we're talking about things going completely back to normal, that's going to take weeks,' said Jerome Goellner, regional head of environmental services.

A main commuter line, the RER C, has halted service at Paris stops until Wednesday, and some expressways that run alongside the Seine have been closed.

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Mynd44

Ikpeazu and his HOA are full of Sh*t

Ok