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Well done Joe Igbokwe.

We shall keep educating these bigots till they grow some brain.

Ndigbo in Nigeria: History is my witness by Joe Igbokwe.

A few days ago a friend, patriot and a committed Nigerian, Emmanuel Majebi reminded me of the tragedy of looking the way and keeping quiet by men who should know better in times of crisis. He reminded me of the calamity that will befall a society or nation when real men choose to be neutral in times of great moral crisis. He reminded me that evil triumph in every society when good and thinking men do nothing. Hear Emmanuel: "The story is usually told of how Years after the devastation of Germany in WW2 ... There was a meeting of German eggheads ... And the question was how did it come to pass that a nation that produced Great Thinkers like Friederich Nietzsche. Karl Max ...Albert Einstein....Bruno Bauer. Friederich Engels... Etc ..etc...get seized and goaded into ultimate destruction by a looney like Hitler... Who was not even originally German but Austrian!!!! The thinkers came up with the conclusion that complacency and indifference until it became too late ... Was the main cause!"
A.J.P Taylor captured it succinctly when the German war machines crumbled in 1945 when he said: "The real problem of German history is why so few of the educated recognized Hitler as the embodiment of evil."
The blame was put squarely on the inability of the German political class and the elite to rise up to the challenges of Hitler and his collaborators. The consequences of their inability to call a spade a spade resulted in the death of 20 million people and the massive destruction of property worth several billions of dollars. The rest is now history!
Before 2015 and after the 2015 general elections I had a running battle with the some Igbo writers and opinion builders both at home and abroad on the choice of words they throw to the public space. I reminded them those of them living outside Nigeria that they creating millions of enemies for our people living and doing businesses outside Igboland. I was abused as a sellout, a saboteur, and betrayer. Nnamdi Kanu's Radio Biafra was there and is still there as I write this spewing and spreading hate, ethnic bigotry and primordial tendencies with reckless abandon.
I did not see Ohaneze, Ndigbo Lagos, Aka Ikenga and other Igbo political class rising up to say enough is enough. The brigandage continued unabated until the Arewa Youths of the North responded in their way a few weeks back and hell was let loose.
Yes, the Arewa Youths flouted the Nigerian Constitution by asking Igbo to quit their territory. Yes, the Arewa youths took laws into the hands. Yes, the Arewa Youths response was reckless and totally unacceptable but has anybody taken mental notice of the abuse and uncensored choice of words used on the person of the President and Northern Nigerians by some Igbo at home and abroad? Why did our leaders keep quiet in the face of these provocative statements and abuse? Why did they not care about others in Nigeria? Why did it not bother them? Why was Nnamdi Kanu not called to order? Did they address any press conference calling for the censure of hate speeches and abuse of others who are different from us?
The same Igbo leaders who could not speak when elders are supposed to speak were the ones visiting Nnamdi Kanu in prison taking pictures with him. Now, what signals are we sending to other Nigerians who are not Igbo? Can you see what I am seeing? Can you add two and two to get four? Can you see that Arewa Youths ran away with the thinking that those who are abusing and cursing them got an endorsement from Igbo leaders? The evil spirits visited in the night and the child died in the morning and you are still waiting for the proof of what happened. What the Arewa youths did is to practice what political scientists call the balance of terror, a balance of abuse, the balance of hate, a balance of ethnic bigotry and balance of primordial sentiments.
It was when the Arewa Youths reacted the way they did that Igbo suddenly remembered that they have investments worth trillions of Naira outside Igboland. It was then that former Governor Kwankwaso reminded Igbo that they are occupying the size of South East in the North. It was then that it dawned on Igbo and other Nigerians that we need one another. It was then that we started looking into our Constitution. It was then that Igbo leaders started speaking out. It was then that they realized that hate speech can cause war because war starts by hot exchange of words. It was then that it dawned on Igbo that while it is easy for Northerners to quickly vacate the South East it may not be too easy for Igbo to move their physical assets out of the North. It is impossible. It was then that we realized that nobody has a monopoly hate language.
We are gradually witnessing what happened in Biafra from 1967 to 1970 when patriots and genuine Igbo leaders who offered alternative views to Ojukwu then were branded as saboteurs and tied to the stake and gunned down. Zik, C C Onoh and Professor Enegere of the University of Nigeria Nsukka confirmed this to me. God forbid. We are in the age of ideas and the age of learning. May the voices of the uneducated, unlettered, and the uncivilized in Igbo land do not swallow the voices of reason, hope, truth, and life. Before the declaration of Biafra on 30th of May 1967 at the then Eastern House of Assembly all the bonafide leaders in Igbo land were seated. More than 80% of the people in that hallowed Chamber rose up for Biafra and it came to pass.
Now if we want Biafra again 50 years after everything must be debated, Mark my words. Let us call for the debate and let the intelligentsia and those who can add two and two together to get four go to speak for Igbo land. A lot is at stake in Nigeria, and I do not want Igbo to lose again.
I agree 100% that Igbo have suffered systemic, organized, structured and official marginalization in Nigeria but let us go into constructive and civilized engagement to redress the imbalance. For us to do this we need to play better politics by working with other Nigerians. I have a reason why Igbo should see Nigeria as their country. There is no other country in the world where the Igbo language is spoken. Yoruba have three million of their kinsmen and women in Benin Republic. The language spreads to Liberia, and even up to West Indies. The Hausa-Fulani have their kinsmen and women in Mali, Niger, and even up to Saudi Arabia etc. If there is serious crisis in Nigeria they can move. Igbo have no outlet anywhere in the world. You cannot plant and another will come and harvest. You cannot build and another will come and occupy.
Now what is the way forward? Igbo should stop persecution complex, marginalization complex, defeatist syndrome, leadership complex, and what Prof Ozodi Osuji will call selfish sense of superiority and paranoid grandiosity. We can do better than this. Nnamdi Kanu' Biafra project will not fly in the 21st Century. Igbo must see Nigeria as their own where they have invested trillions to build. We are all Nigerians. Given my experiences in Nigeria and Igboland we may not be able to live as one in one country. I am a living witness of what happened when Enugu was carved out of the old Anambra State. I am a living witness how Ebonyi State always join the North when issues concerning South East are put to vote at the National Assembly. I am a living witness when former Governor Orji of Abia State sacked all civil servants from Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi and Enugu from the State civil service. Catholic Diocese of Ahiara Mbaise cannot accept the man is from Anambra State as their Bishop. An Anambra man Mr. Cletus Ibeto who bought the Nkalagu Cement Factory cannot start operation because the bigots feel an Anambra man cannot buy and own Nkalagu Cement Factory. This is the country the small boy Nnamdi wants me to be part of. Let common sense prevail even though I know common sense is not common. Case Rested!
Joe Igbokwe

Nnamdi Kanu have the traits of Emperor Nero of Ancient Rome.He is drunken in power and think himself as demigod and at the end,he destroyed himself.

Those whom the gods wants to destroy they make mad first.

Continue as all these charlatans are praising and bowing down to you,you cannot be like Odumegwu Ojukwu who tried this project first even as a military man and with his fathers resources but failed.

Well done Joe Igbokwe.

We shall keep educating these bigots till they grow some brain.

Ndigbo in Nigeria: History is my witness by Joe Igbokwe.

A few days ago a friend, patriot and a committed Nigerian, Emmanuel Majebi reminded me of the tragedy of looking the way and keeping quiet by men who should know better in times of crisis. He reminded me of the calamity that will befall a society or nation when real men choose to be neutral in times of great moral crisis. He reminded me that evil triumph in every society when good and thinking men do nothing. Hear Emmanuel: "The story is usually told of how Years after the devastation of Germany in WW2 ... There was a meeting of German eggheads ... And the question was how did it come to pass that a nation that produced Great Thinkers like Friederich Nietzsche. Karl Max ...Albert Einstein....Bruno Bauer. Friederich Engels... Etc ..etc...get seized and goaded into ultimate destruction by a looney like Hitler... Who was not even originally German but Austrian!!!! The thinkers came up with the conclusion that complacency and indifference until it became too late ... Was the main cause!"
A.J.P Taylor captured it succinctly when the German war machines crumbled in 1945 when he said: "The real problem of German history is why so few of the educated recognized Hitler as the embodiment of evil."
The blame was put squarely on the inability of the German political class and the elite to rise up to the challenges of Hitler and his collaborators. The consequences of their inability to call a spade a spade resulted in the death of 20 million people and the massive destruction of property worth several billions of dollars. The rest is now history!
Before 2015 and after the 2015 general elections I had a running battle with the some Igbo writers and opinion builders both at home and abroad on the choice of words they throw to the public space. I reminded them those of them living outside Nigeria that they creating millions of enemies for our people living and doing businesses outside Igboland. I was abused as a sellout, a saboteur, and betrayer. Nnamdi Kanu's Radio Biafra was there and is still there as I write this spewing and spreading hate, ethnic bigotry and primordial tendencies with reckless abandon.
I did not see Ohaneze, Ndigbo Lagos, Aka Ikenga and other Igbo political class rising up to say enough is enough. The brigandage continued unabated until the Arewa Youths of the North responded in their way a few weeks back and hell was let loose.
Yes, the Arewa Youths flouted the Nigerian Constitution by asking Igbo to quit their territory. Yes, the Arewa youths took laws into the hands. Yes, the Arewa Youths response was reckless and totally unacceptable but has anybody taken mental notice of the abuse and uncensored choice of words used on the person of the President and Northern Nigerians by some Igbo at home and abroad? Why did our leaders keep quiet in the face of these provocative statements and abuse? Why did they not care about others in Nigeria? Why did it not bother them? Why was Nnamdi Kanu not called to order? Did they address any press conference calling for the censure of hate speeches and abuse of others who are different from us?
The same Igbo leaders who could not speak when elders are supposed to speak were the ones visiting Nnamdi Kanu in prison taking pictures with him. Now, what signals are we sending to other Nigerians who are not Igbo? Can you see what I am seeing? Can you add two and two to get four? Can you see that Arewa Youths ran away with the thinking that those who are abusing and cursing them got an endorsement from Igbo leaders? The evil spirits visited in the night and the child died in the morning and you are still waiting for the proof of what happened. What the Arewa youths did is to practice what political scientists call the balance of terror, a balance of abuse, the balance of hate, a balance of ethnic bigotry and balance of primordial sentiments.
It was when the Arewa Youths reacted the way they did that Igbo suddenly remembered that they have investments worth trillions of Naira outside Igboland. It was then that former Governor Kwankwaso reminded Igbo that they are occupying the size of South East in the North. It was then that it dawned on Igbo and other Nigerians that we need one another. It was then that we started looking into our Constitution. It was then that Igbo leaders started speaking out. It was then that they realized that hate speech can cause war because war starts by hot exchange of words. It was then that it dawned on Igbo that while it is easy for Northerners to quickly vacate the South East it may not be too easy for Igbo to move their physical assets out of the North. It is impossible. It was then that we realized that nobody has a monopoly hate language.
We are gradually witnessing what happened in Biafra from 1967 to 1970 when patriots and genuine Igbo leaders who offered alternative views to Ojukwu then were branded as saboteurs and tied to the stake and gunned down. Zik, C C Onoh and Professor Enegere of the University of Nigeria Nsukka confirmed this to me. God forbid. We are in the age of ideas and the age of learning. May the voices of the uneducated, unlettered, and the uncivilized in Igbo land do not swallow the voices of reason, hope, truth, and life. Before the declaration of Biafra on 30th of May 1967 at the then Eastern House of Assembly all the bonafide leaders in Igbo land were seated. More than 80% of the people in that hallowed Chamber rose up for Biafra and it came to pass.
Now if we want Biafra again 50 years after everything must be debated, Mark my words. Let us call for the debate and let the intelligentsia and those who can add two and two together to get four go to speak for Igbo land. A lot is at stake in Nigeria, and I do not want Igbo to lose again.
I agree 100% that Igbo have suffered systemic, organized, structured and official marginalization in Nigeria but let us go into constructive and civilized engagement to redress the imbalance. For us to do this we need to play better politics by working with other Nigerians. I have a reason why Igbo should see Nigeria as their country. There is no other country in the world where the Igbo language is spoken. Yoruba have three million of their kinsmen and women in Benin Republic. The language spreads to Liberia, and even up to West Indies. The Hausa-Fulani have their kinsmen and women in Mali, Niger, and even up to Saudi Arabia etc. If there is serious crisis in Nigeria they can move. Igbo have no outlet anywhere in the world. You cannot plant and another will come and harvest. You cannot build and another will come and occupy.
Now what is the way forward? Igbo should stop persecution complex, marginalization complex, defeatist syndrome, leadership complex, and what Prof Ozodi Osuji will call selfish sense of superiority and paranoid grandiosity. We can do better than this. Nnamdi Kanu' Biafra project will not fly in the 21st Century. Igbo must see Nigeria as their own where they have invested trillions to build. We are all Nigerians. Given my experiences in Nigeria and Igboland we may not be able to live as one in one country. I am a living witness of what happened when Enugu was carved out of the old Anambra State. I am a living witness how Ebonyi State always join the North when issues concerning South East are put to vote at the National Assembly. I am a living witness when former Governor Orji of Abia State sacked all civil servants from Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi and Enugu from the State civil service. Catholic Diocese of Ahiara Mbaise cannot accept the man is from Anambra State as their Bishop. An Anambra man Mr. Cletus Ibeto who bought the Nkalagu Cement Factory cannot start operation because the bigots feel an Anambra man cannot buy and own Nkalagu Cement Factory. This is the country the small boy Nnamdi wants me to be part of. Let common sense prevail even though I know common sense is not common. Case Rested!
Joe Igbokwe

Yes he will complete the mandate just like Jonathan did for Yaradua.

Continue in your good works President Osinbajo till 2019, just two years to complete the mandate for "The Late" one.

My friend you are a big fool for behaving like a child.
Don't you no that there is time for everything? Dont you know that once they started complaining and finding faults that your time in that house is up? They are kind enough,a family of three to absorb you in this perilous times and you want to put blame on them for being harsh on you. You have overstayed your welcome even if they housed you for one week,time for you to move. Be a man,take up the challenge and look for accommodation elsewhere even if its Batcher (temporary).

But wait o,you may be wasteful indeed because two spoon of milk is enough na considering that you are adult,must you scoop three even in presence of the wife?
Learn a lesson from this,no condition is permanent.

This He-goat is lucky he came out alive to tell the story.

Wetin carry you go visit married woman for her house,eehn!

This kind of people are indeed home breakers and they take advantage of any little chance to sleep with these kind of women who keep male friends.

Just go for thanks giving.
Ewu Gambia !

Take him to TB Joshua for what?

Africans(Nigerians) attach everything to spiritual even for things that either our environment or association is a cause.

His place is in Kirikiri maximum prison where he will spend at least 30 years undergoing rehabilitation and resetting of his brain and mind from committing crimes.

Period!

The news caption is misleading. It should be:

Five Igbo men arrested with drugs in India.

From South Africa to Egypt,Australia to Brazil.Russia to Afghanistan these same tribe just dey do crime because they want to meet up,become reach overnight.

TUFIAKWA FOR YOU PEOPLE!

Good he's investing in his home region and not developing others region because one day na one day,the owners of that region will give you quit notice.

Learn your lesson from this... Ndigbo.

ScotsReferendum:
Stop talking like a broken radio

Referendum first and then eviction.

My talk pain you reach bone marrow.

Just Negodu! The Igbos that are agitating for Biafra is now calling for arrest of the Arewa youths while the Afenifere that they (Igbos)call cowards are the ones shouting on top of their voice for referendum and self determination.

Why don't the Igbos give the North a tit for tat by relocating back to the East so as to force the Nigerian state to grant them their wish of having their own country. I believe that if they begin to relocate now in mass it will send a serious and clear message that they mean what they say instead of crying and looking for sympathy everywhere.

Lastly,this is the only chance this Biafra agitation can only come to actualization,if not no body will take them serious anymore.

Dinosaur MeLie no amount of spiritual konji will save you on this after all you brought it on yourself.

Your yam don done,chop it alone.

God bless you my lady for saying the truth.I don't support domestic violence but 95% of the women are the cause why the men would raise their hands on them.
Men are not beast these women portray them to be all the time rather
Feminist,lesbianism and money have destroyed so many homes.

hopefulLandlord:
stop prophesying gullibility into my life and simply take your pick

I doubt if you have a life since you doubt the existence of a supreme being (God) and Jesus the Christ.

Know it now that "Life without Christ is Life in Crises"

hopefulLandlord:
This pastor shouldn't suffer like this if Jesus words were true as reported in the Bible because Jesus said you would get anything you ask in his name; Jesus also repeated this many times over and over to show that he means it

below are such verses

And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:21-22)

Jesus also reiterated it again

Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst. (Matthew 18:19-20)

and again

Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours. (Mark 11:24-25)

and again

And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it. (John 14:13-14)

and again

(Matthew 17:20 For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.) then whatever you ask for in prayer will be granted, there are obviously only a few options available.

looking at the above verses and trying to square it with this pastor's predicament, one comes to 5 possible conclusions

1) the Bible is wrong, Jesus never said these things

2) the Bible is right, Jesus said these things but Jesus was wrong

3) the Bible is right, Jesus said these things but Jesus lied

4) this pastor prayed for alleviation of his suffering but had no faith

5) the Bible is just a collection of myths & fables & Yahweh, Satan, Jesus, Holy Spirit doesn't exist

take your pick

Only fools like you say there is no God.

Continue in your foolishness, a day shall come when you will see the light like Soul and you will spread the gospel more than the people you mocked.

Cucumber have suffered in the hands of Igbo people.
Doing all sort of rubbish to it,from cocimbating to urinbating.

God save us from these Jewish pepu.

He has gradually turned himself to a demigod.


The scamming started long ago but only a few saw it coming.
Where is Joe Igbokwe.... your prediction have started manifesting.

freeman95:
My mind deh always sweet if I remember that the owner of nairaland is a full fleshed YORUBA man haha.......

Which kind small pikin be all these one for Nairaland sef,eehn?
Tribal bigotry go kee you.

AnonyNymous:
tf are you saying? abeg try get small sense

Which sense? This people can't do a thing like that,after all the family is rich already and well known unlike others,thats my insinuation.

DINOsaur MeLie you brought this upon yourself for being too loud mouthed all the time.
Now he will be looking for a way out.

I wish other constituency will take a cue from this and recall all these lagislooters who are in Abuja just for their own selfish interests.

Those who lost the election have all accepted it in good faith and all gone home,even the "we shall not take it" man, including Asari Dokubo the loud mouth who threatened ammagedon should Jonathan loose have all moved on yet you are still bittered.

Rino please try get some sense na,accept defeat and go back and re strategize instead of spewing trash all the time.

Make una leave this Evans matter alone na.
Why can't we hear any other news than Evans this,Evans that eehn.
After all to own an account is not a crime and the bank should not be held responsible for his crime.

Please someone should tell me if our President is back,I dreamt of him last night and the dream no good at all all.....the man just wear boxing gloves and one oversized boxers and very very skinny.

In your minds eye just visualize how him go look like.

There is no way he can be the biological father to all the children because the women must dey shine Kongo outside after all him don old and no amount of Alamo bitters or Baby oku can recharge his transformer to the status of a young man.

Fear "North"..... mba fear Women.

NwaAmaikpe:


Nice one.


His father used him for sacrifice to get this ambassadorial appointment

I know this family too well.Nothing is impossible going by the way people crave for wealth and fame.

CROWNWEALTH019:
Wike is far better than amaechi...

In what ways,service delivery or what?

Wike's governance is characterized with so much shedding of blood and general insecurity. No tangible project to point to.Forget the politics Osinbajo played by calling him "Mr project" which could as well mean yeye projects like the amusement park he built.

Amaechi did so much in structural development in River State from world class primary schools equipped with computers and modern facilities to health care centers which are built in every nooks and crannies of Rivers State .He also build world class stadium,dualized many roads and built new ones.Developed a master plan for a new port Harcourt city hired thousands of teachers and doctors,built farms and so many other things that brought back the glory of port Harcourt.

obataokenwa:
I don't know if it's only me that notices... If you see Amaechi talk, you see a human being that behaves like agric fowl. No single decorum at all.

Of course you are the only one,because you refused to stop taking that "stuff" now you have become delusional.

Quit before they put you in chains and take you to the psychiatric hospital.

IamaNigerianGuy:
This is not a miracle. It is a phenomenon well documented in the medical literature. It has happened before and will happen again.

The patient was mistakenly diagnosed as deceased after what was probably a cardiac arrest. He in all likelihood had spontaneous resumption of cardiac and circulatory activity. The technical term is ROSC
"A patient is not dead until he is warm and dead" is what you are taught in emergency medicine courses because cold preserves the vital organs and can allow recovery later.

In 19th century Europe and America , there were so many cases of people mistakenly thought dead who woke up, that a practice was established of keeping the 'corpse' in a room for 24 to 48 hours with a bell beside him/her. Friends and relatives would gather expectantly waiting with hope. If he awoke he was supposed to ring the bell.
That is the origin of the term 'wake keeping'

Only the foolish says there is no God.

Continue in your foolishness thinking you are brilliant.

Bakerdav:
Why are you pple wishing the man dead,with all this rumour, you better find better work to do

Just imagine what you wrote here.You don't make any sense with this kind of write up.

As far as i know,what the citizens are asking is that Mr Buhari shouldn't die in power rather he should resign and hand over to his deputy so that he can take care of his health which is mainly as a result of age.
It was not easy for young Obama and Jonathan who suddenly developed gray hair due to stress of leadership not to talk of a man of Buhari's age.

We should keep sentiment apart and ask for his resignation so as to save this country from impending calamity as a result of power struggle.

CROWNWEALTH019:
Them wan even make laws to kill the joys of the common man

The joy of the common man is smoking cigarettes? Just listen to yourself my dear.
Nigerians are very difficult people to manage.We like to do things upside down and that is why things that work in other countries don't work here.
In Nigeria people trade on the railway lines,people defecate in the open without minding,we don't use designated places like bus stop,in places like port Harcourt,taxis are not painted for easy identification,safety and uniformity. When ever government decides to enforce these rules we are the first to shout that government doesn't consider the poor masses. How can one risk his life trading on the highway, rail lines,not using seat belts,lifebouy jackets in places of water transport yet we blame government when avoidable disaster happen.

I don't know why the British gave us independent in a hurry a left because we were never ripe to govern ourselves.

Wheelbarrow Governor.

I hope he didn't donate some to these distinguished men?

This can only happen in the western world.
The dog would have served as good delicacy if it were in this part of the world.
Hmmmm...poor dog. You need to see how dogs are killed, the kind of treatment meted to it and the agony before it is prepared for consumption.

Trut:
That's a GOODEST news to Biafrans. ECOWAS, AU & UN should fast track the referendum biko.

Why then are the same Igbos agitating for a Biafran state adamant to leave.They are now calling on the same Zoo security agents to arrest those behind the declaration.
Igbos will be the last to leave the North even if you repeat the 1967 pogrom,so far their money and investments are there they'll rather die than leave the region.

I never see this kin people.