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I dont have a problem with ethnic groups in the south south who dont want.to be part of Biafra but the truth is that a Niger Delta country will be as confused as Nigeria. Reason being that it will be made up of various ethnic groups with cultural and language differences just like Nigeria. The only thing that will be binding them is oil. The majority ethnic group will still dominate the minority and victimize them as we see in Nigeria. The day oil dries up, more confusion and trouble will spring up. Moreover, most of the Niger Delta ethnic groups are naturally lazy and therefore will lack the required manpower that is needed to drive their economy. In that case, surrounding countries (e.g. Biafra, Oduduwa and Arewa) will still dominate their workforce and economy.
Forming a Niger Delta country wont favour them.

Nigerians are ahead of other countries in terms of suffering and smilling.

Despite the hardship in the country, Nigerians still enjpy their sleep and wake up sound.

In far away U.S or U..K, people would ve been commiting suicide under this condition.


Naija people, i hail una o.

persius555:
The igbos should learn to leave the south south out of their struggle. If biafra is all about oil and dominance, then they can shove the shitty biafran agenda off their asss.. What the niger delta people want is at least 50 percent control of their resources and not been a part of the proposed "shady match up made in hell".

What is south south? We are talking about the igbo tribe and you are talking about region. Does south south make the Igbos in that region non-igbo? Receive wisdom.

DaBullIT:
That's your answer up there


maybe you'll learn to reason objectively

You just want to play wayo here. The bottom line here is that some yorubas are making the demand just like some igbos are doing.

DaBullIT:
Exactly my point , the picture has been in circulation since Dec 2014 , January 2015 and August 2015 it has been used and recycled and reused again and again to suit the propaganda intended

https://www.nairaland.com/2092535/buhari-why-yorubas-must-never

https://www.nairaland.com/2470036/should-nigeria-referendum

So why do the yoruba here attack igbo for demanding for their own country? Typical Ypruba hypocrisy.

@Op, you made some valid points. However i think u erred in some areas. It is on record that thw igbos and yorubaa have always been strong supporters of the south south in the issue of derivation unlike the North who has strongly opposed it so its not only in GEJ's presidency that the igbos showed support for the south south.

You and i know that the height of violence, bitterness, disunity among Rivers indigenes does not happen in Igbo land. If you think your Niger Delta country will be more united than Biafra then you are deceiving yourself. Your South South is a congregation of various tribes and the majority tribe there will still dominate others in your Niger Delta country. So Niger Delta country is not even better for u. The best u can do is to remain Nigerians or join Biafra. The only uniting platform for south south is oil. When oil dries up there will be no uniting factor again and your ND country will be torn into pieces. Same with your Nigeria so bear this in mind too.

A lesson for the igbos in the south south. Can you now see that those you think are your brothers are actually not?
Being part of south south does not make you their brother. Dont be deceived. Keep in touch with your root- Igbo, and forget about the name south this and south that.

@op, you are right. Yorubas are lazy. They only like to present Mike Adenuga, Otedola and even Dangote and co (an Hausa mam) to us each time they want to boast of how well they are doing in business while we are talking about our numerous young igbos scattered across the country who are doing small scale, medium scale and large scale enterprises. Yoruba here are even happy that their youths are doing tout jobs of collecting kobo kobo from our traders. You have told them the rruth.

Duru1:
I had rather say Imoites are really fools. I had no soft spot in my heart for the Imolites. There are consequences for every action.

I am from Imo but i must say you are right. They were so foolish to vote for Rochas again I was against that man. Though Ihedioha didnt do much too as the speaker. Iheanacho would ve been better. Its a shame. I wonder why technocrats like Leo Stan Eke of Zinox computers are running away from politics. These are the kind of men we need.

Tomtoxic:
if d flat head doesn't wanna hear Yoruba he should jump into d lagoon dat 1 nur nid gate fee

He hears yoruba but understands to some extent. You call someone flat head yet your head cannot differentiate between hearing and understanding. Tufiakwa.

Orjioorji:
Buhari is a cause to Nigeria

This is the type of comment that confirms that those of you who hate Buhari does that senselessly. Receive sense. Also learn to spell correctly.

Op thank you for stating the truth. After all that we passed through in this country we still came out tops today. Thanks man.

Movic1:
That shows you that Oyo+Ogun+ondo+osun+Ekiti=Lagos. I.e YORUBALAND. Carry your division go front. Mr fIathead.

Oyo+Ogun+Ondo+Ekiti+Osun-= deceivers and hypocrites who reaps where they did not sow.

See the cheating Yorubas killing themselves over their nyash wey i don open. Why dont you go to your state and develope it and allow Lagos indegenes to govern their state. The government of every state in Nigeria is dominated by its indegenes except Lagos state. Lagos jndigenes wake up and prove that Lagos is not no man's land or Lagos continues to be no man's land.

In Ogun State, Ogun indegenes dominate the government.

In Ondo state, Ondo indegenes dominate the government.

In Ekiti state, Ekiti indegenes dominate the government.

In oyo state, Oyo indegenes dominate the government.

In Osun state, Osun indegenes dominate government

But in Lagos state, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti and Osun states indegenes dominate government while Lagos indegenes are left to eat from the crumb that falls from their tables. What a deceipt, what a cheating and injustice being palpitrated under the guise of- Lagos is Yoruba land. Lagos indegenes wake up from this age-long deceit. Save your future from the hijackers. This is 21st century.

if his intentions are good thats commendable.

She wants to hide her loot in hyde park. No way o. Return the loot and serve your jail term too. No rest for the wicked.

kettykin:
This is really very hilarious , I posted this so that igbos will see how they appear in some people's eyes

Its good you said in some people's eyes.

xtrorse:
A lie may travel for a thousand miles, but it takes just one step of truth to catch up with it.

The voodoo analysis above can only exist in the phantasy world of ewedu eaters. It's no longer news that Yorubas thrive mainly on an atmosphere of lies, falsehood and propaganda.

If the abysmal thinking of the op that assembled the garbage above holds any water why are the Yorubas most vocal against Biafra

Yorubas have used every known tricks to attempt to quench the call for a separate state of Biafra. Many mischievous Yorubas have taken to the internet camouflaging as South-South people and South-East people, feigning undying fake love like never before and putting forth baseless theories why the idea of Biafra should not be allowed to fly.

Recall that in the heat of their numerous nightmares frustrated Yorubas have created numerous threads on Nairaland in their desperate attempts to stop Biafra agitation. Due to the resounding responses they received on such threads Yorubas had to quickly call for such threads to be deactivated! Fact#

If at all Yoruba economy is better than the Igbo economy why are it's people worse hit by the dwindling crude oil prices

If Yoruba economy was in any way superior to Igbo economy Ekiti State will not deem it wise to send its citizens to Aba in Abia State for vocational training, to equip them to be able to create wealth for themselves and improve the economy of the State just like Eastern region.

If Yoruba economy was superior to that of Igbos why is hunger ravaging its people to the extent that concerned individuals from other parts of Nigeria had to come to their rescue, donating cash and food to ensure that they survive the economic crunch occasioned by low crude oil revenue?

And through all this period there was no cause for alarm amongst the Igbos in Igboland. Not even in Abia State where the civil servants were being owed their salaries, courtesy of the State's strong informal sector unlike Osun State where the phantom internally generated revenue (IGR) was a lie of fabricated figures
to massage the egos of Yoruba Kingdom.

T.A Orji of Abia State was labelled as the worst governor in the last dispensation by Igbos on NL and even in the outside world. Nobody criticized TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Igbos. Yet mischievous Yorubas kept lying to themselves of the sterling performance of Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State who was as bad as T.A.

Yoruba media propagandists churned out statistics of how Osun State has blossomed to being able to do without the free handouts from federal government (courtesy of the crude oil wealth from another man's backyard) and yet before you could say JACK the State became comatose and bankrupt.

Of what good is the big size of Oyo State when Ebonyi State is more developed than it? For the myopic Yorubas with poor geography of a place they call their 'country' the smallest State in size in Igbo land is about 3 times the size of Lagos State.

Find below the desperate attempts in the past by mischievous Yoruba voodooists to portray Yoruba economy as good:

1. "I don't need federal allocation to pay workers" - Rauf Aregbesola (ThisDay Newspaper, Nov 28, 2011)

2. Osun's Monthly IGR Jumps from N300million to N1.6billion in 3 years. 

3. www.nairaland.com/2353607/osun-earned-n204-billion-four

4. www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

5. www.nairaland.com/1454198/ict-lifts-osuns-monthly-generated-revenue

6. www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-osun-today
 
7. www.nairaland.com/1277864/osun-names-airport-after-abiola


Yorubas accuse Igbos of being too smart in business and therefore should not be trusted. The implication is that they unconsciously accept the Igbos as having superior IQ and business sense.

And when credible institutions publish the results of their studies showing Igbos as chart-toppers Yorubas begin to search for straws to hold onto to fault the research. You wonder why they become so rattled and agitated at such results.
Business is all about smartness and no dullard or book-theory person can do better in a business than a person with native intelligence. 

Mental superiority makes you want to find your own space. 
Mentally dull people hate radical changes and want to just keep doing the same thing.

There is a correlation between Igbo achievements and 21 billion dollars remittances back into Nigerian economy on yearly basis as evidenced by statistics from Western Union. A less backward or less enterprising group of treasury looters cannot achieve such feat.

The Igbo youths are born into a society where they always have to think fast else they will be like Yorubas who live on free handouts from Abuja. Igbos always try as much as possible to excel in their various pursuits in life. Little wonder you see many Igbos competing on the world-stage.

Without government connections and patronage, Wale Tinubu, Jimoh Ibrahim, Femi Otedola, Mike Adenuga etc. of Yoruba tribe will be nowhere today, and that's why every now and then you would hear them being linked with one financial crime or the other.

Nigeria economy assumed a downward trend when the Yorubas and their Northern co-travellers acquired all Nigerian companies by virtue of indigenization decree of 1972. But they could not manage the companies instead they ruined, defrauded, liquidated, bankrupted and destroyed all the companies - that was the mother of destruction of Nigerian economy! The swindlers indeed bastardized the Nigerian economy. 
And to divert attention from their ineptitude and crass looting of the treasury Yorubas would use illogical reasoning to attempt to bamboozle other people while pointing accusing fingers elsewhere!

After more than 40 years, despite the stolen wealth, the Yoruba land cannot be said to be transformed and be one of the enviest in the world. None of their cities could be likened to, say the least, Johannesburg!

Inspite of the tortuous journey the Igbo man passed/passes through to achieve success the criminal system in place and the Yoruba gang will not allow the Igbo man be. Yorubas are bitter and angry at the success of the Igbos, that they use any given opportunity at their disposal to remind Igbos that they are the ones who accommodated them and therefore they should abide by their dictates, whims and caprices, including being coerced to vote the candidate of the host's choice in election.

With all the disadvantages Igbos faced and still face after the 1967-70 they rose from grass to grace and Yorubas are not even ashamed to compare Igbos with treasury looters. 

There is no law on this earth that prohibits free movement of people and participation in government. It takes a man of courage to venture into an unknown terrain and conquer it. The Chinese are doing it. The British, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese etc. did it. If the great Roman Empire hadn't ventured no one would have known they were great. Today many American businesses are located offshores in China, Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, United Arab Emirate and they are still venturing out to conquer unknown terrains.

For you to be great you have to venture out of your comfort zone. This is the true character of the ever industrious and peace-loving Great Igbo Nation. As of today it would be an understatement to aver that Igbos control 50% of the economy of Lagos and its environs. You see, it pays to venture out instead of lazing around touting and disturbing the peace of the society. 

Great. Great. Great. Proudly Igbo.

laudate:
Those Fulani herdsmen are so clueless. Traditional rulers in kogi state do not have money. The herdsmen should have looked elsewhere!

Hypocrisy runs in your blood. This is the only reply you can give to your slave master you coward. Quite a shame.

Oby delisted from TheList

Keziehenry:
Please your urgent response is needed.

it is wrong biblically. Pls avoid it. Thanks.

size40:
Which oyibo are u from? U don't even know how to spell ur LGA. Meanwhile, if truly ur from there, u are a settler because d Oyibo ur talking about belongs to d Eleme and Etched people if don't know. Thats why most government in Rivers state pays little attention to that Area.

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You too didnt spell Etche well. Mr correction.

size40:
My dear, there is nothing like SS Igbo. Igbo is Igbo. Efik is Efik. Ijaw is Ijaw. Ikwerre is Ikwerre. Ogoni is Ogoni. Kalabari is Kabari. Okirika is Okirika etc. Am a complete Rivers man. From Emohua LGA of Rivers state. So keep ur Biafra to yourself. We don't want it. We don't want to associate with something we don't know about. Short and simple. Fight ur Biafra fight and leave us alone. The 5 states in the south East can be a country. After all, how big do u think Gabon is? The size of Gabon is far less than the 5 Eastern states.

U mentioned various ethnic group and still said -leave us alone. Is emouha and ikwere the same? No. So what is the us there? Pls stop confusing yourself. U cant hold brief for Etche people or Ndoki people.

Intrepid01:
Na wa for you ooo. So Palestine was a region in a Country before shey?

Why are you not being sincere or you don't have adequate knowledge about Palestine?

Be reasonable. What was Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba before the unholy amalgamation in 1914?

PMB may have to delist some names from TheList as events unfold

Nonsense

milkymesh:
If God Want Us to LOVE our ENEMIES, Why Is He Going To Destroy HIS ENEMIES In HELLFIRE?

I need real answers please.

Do you know what love means? Does love mean no punishment for an offender even after several warnings and opportunities to repent? Pls be sincere in this.