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@OP, Please always endeavour to add your source for verification. Thanks.

Thanks OP for posting this. Quite an enriching video.

This could be the long awaited panacea to the power challenge of Nigeria.

Bizarre

Great.

Why would such a fine young man ruin his destiny with this kind of approach to life and living? So sad.

I think this is it: http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/12652-DEPRIVATION-DERIVATION-PRINCIPLES-WHY-THE-NORTH-POOR.html

chima12:
The niger deltans are in power now.they should use this period to dismantle and dislodge all parasites and stop the oil theft by northern elites and other parasites.oil blocks given to people like danjuma,ibb,atiku and other northerners and their cronies/collaborators should be collected from them and given to qualified nigerdeltans through the process of competitive bidding.gej is too slow.am just not impressed with him.

You can now understand the reason for Boko Haram and why they want to make the Nation ungovernable under GEJ so that they will intimidate everybody to conceed power back to them again in 2015 so that the ND oil will remain their war booty. All you that criticise GEJ can now see the cabal he is up against. He needs our moral support and constructive imputs to dethrone the status quo ante because they will do everything in the book and ouside the book, even beyond Boko Haram and including selling their souls to the devil, to frustrate it.

@OP. The link you posted is on the poverty rates of the GZones. Can you give us the link to the story on the ownership of the oil firms.

@ Andre. How was it at Barking yester night? I was at St George's Cathedral for the Requiem High Mass but did not go to the Enabling centre. I hope it was worthy. Nwanne we need to meet up how? You can reach me with houvest@ hushmail.com.

Nigerian journalists and shoddy reporting. How are they calling an honour ceremony for Ikemba alying-in-state. SMH. See here for the true event:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/igbo-in-lagos-honour-ojukwu-today/

Ikemba's body will be flown in on 26th feb fromUK so who is lying in state at TBS? Funny journalists.

Quite revealing

Onlytruth:
My brother Dede1

I always respect the opinions of some of you that are older than myself, and may have experienced the civil war. So, I take your opinions very seriously.
However, I am also a very talented strategic thinker.

I believe that is it not possible to understand the positon of our non-Igbo neighbors, until one has fitted into their shoes in the lead up to the civil war.
Also, I believe it is a grave mistake to judge most of them by the circumstances of 1967, because a WHOLE LOT has happened between then and now.
Let me leave that for now and focus on more salient points.

Personally, I believe that Eastern Nigeria +Anioma is ONE. Take a close look at Nigeria's history, not just during the civil war, but BEFORE, AND YEARS after the civil war.
Each time I look at it, I marvel at how we (both Igbo and non-Igbo) Easterners fell so easily to cheap blackmail and divide and conquer tactics.
I look at PH and Calabar for instance, and conclude that there is no reason on earth why these two cities could not have rivalled or even surpassed Lagos in greatness today, had our past leaders been more strategic in thinking.

For me, one of the biggest mistake of the Biafran war effort was that it never seriously carried the non-Igbo along.
We were unlucky not to have such leaders, but then, who is perfect on this earth.
A perfect strategy would have been to allow the whole Biafran secession effort to be led by non-Igbo almost completely (win or lose), with us prividing the needed numbers when necesssary.
The North did it successfully by foisting Gowon. Why couldn't we do the same?
Why is the North still one today, while our region was balkanized into SE and SS?
We have to start using our God given brains.
Extraordinary situation always calls for extraordinary strategies.

I would not mind a Dokubo or any seriously minded Ijaw or Ibibio leading MASSOB for instance. Igbo "smart folks" can be his advisers and guide in that effort.
The end result is the only thing that matters.

This is where I differ from some of my brothers.
I often say here that if someone like myself was in the Biafran war planning team, THERE IS NO WAY WE WOULD LOSE THAT WAR.
I'm serious.

So, I reject the idea that our neighbors cannot be an priceless asset to the emancipation effort.
On the contrary I even think that our dream will remain a dream if we fail to carry them along.

Here I stand!

Very Strategic and poignant.

My concern is that as we have the Briggs and Asaris, we also have the Clarks. As we ally with the ND, we must also be discerning.

He clearly will be much greater in death.  Ojukwuism is not going away any time soon. So we can say that he has only transitted to a higher realm. His spirit lives on so strongly.

phraoh:
Can yu please,enlighten me.Why does everyone think highly of the guy?

Many reasons but the most significant is that when he was Lagos CP, crime dropped to almost zero because of his ingenious approach to crime-fighting.

One of the best news coming out of Nigeria. Akpoyibo is an IGP in waiting.

Dede1:
Bros, I guess you know the meaning of the terms such as recurrent spending, capital spending and capital development as they were applied in the thread. The figured pressed forward to impress on those terms as I know them are very fallacious and ridiculous. Whether Okorocha will become the best governor ever born on Nigerian soil, I do not give a hoot.

You see my issue with you is based on not just this thread but many others about Rochas' exploits. You always come in and act as a spoiler to him. There are a few other Igbo that do the same but I do not bother with them because they have completely lost credibility to the point that many of us think they are not umu-igbo or are of a mixed but frustrating breed but we hold you in high esteem.

You may have a point here about the economic jargons and Adam Smith or Sam Aluko terminologies but deciding to focus all your energy on those instead of just pointing it out and passing; then enunciating his good works, try to belittle your good image. When added to your  comments on other threads a picture of an anti-Rochas mindset pops up.

This man is trying. Let's give him that first of all then we can add our constructive crits to help him do better since he is still human and so subject to faults and foibles. Maintaining a strident critical stand on all issues about him detracts and actually fails.
I am an Imo man and from the same LG as Ohakim but I would prefer a performing Rochas any day to a thieving Ohakim with his 419 hordes. The Imo masses actually chased Ohakim out and installed Rochas after all the shenanigans he and his group did to keep power and Imo in his pockets and they, the masses are smiling daily for that. They have never had it so good since the time of De Sam.  They have seen the Zubairus with their paucity of funds excuse, the Udenwas with their hope agenda, the Ohakims with their clean and green 419 cunning, etc and so can easily compare notes. I appeal to you to tone down the rhetorics for now. If and when he  begins to mess up, then we shall be in the fore front of the people that will hammer him the way we did Ohakim and ran him and his 419 hordes out of Imo to Abuja.

We certainly are no praise-singers, for whatever it is worth, but do recognise talent, skill, ingenuity and integrity mixed with panache and do give honour to him it is due.

@ Nduchucks. Bad belle is very purgative o. All your campaigns against Rochas election failed. Now I see the beginning of your campaign agaisnt his presidency. Man you no fit naa. You no fit swim against a Tsunami naa if Nigeria is still in tact by 2015 as you no fit do anything against Restoration 2011. You who are always trying to destroy Dede are suddenly curiously doing ass-licking. E no fit work oo Shehu Ndu. Ignoramus.

My post a year ago was quite prophetic: 'Because of Rochas there is hope for Imo.'  https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=566751.msg7318227#msg7318227.

I am glad I am being proven right. As for Ohakim if he wins his appeal as somebody asked, he will rule over only those 100 men and 419ers who desperately want their looting and free bread back, and that will be from the supreme court office like Omoboriowo in 1983.

And yea bros Dede, you are really beginning to fall my hand. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks or to swim against a sunami. Dissent is allowed but let it be reasonable and constructive.

Wahala deyooo.

Funny how folks try to wallow in denial. So all the message for Nigeria's survival the Aburi accord has to give to some reallywell  breast-fed Nigerians is a resort to play on semantics of minutes or no minutes. How shallow can these guys get to remain in the ostrich status of doggedly burying their heads in the sand. Shall we wait for Godut for this bizarre and grotesque approach to life by these folks comes to an end?

I am glad that we have the Soyinkas, Fani-Kayodes, Aliyus, Akpabios and increasingly many more who have embraced the truth of our past and got their consciences healed by it and they have been set free.

Thanks Eziachi for reposting this thread. Hope your leg is ok now, we have missed you for long.But I fear that you are addressing the wrong audience. You are going to get more semantics, polemics and verbiage full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Some already are calling Max Siollun the world re-known historian and original writer of this piece an Igboman. I wish you all the best.

The Igbo say after the interment comes the burial. A word is enough for the wise.

OP. Good to always post your source so we know how to comment.

I guess it is time the youths of Niger Delta snatch leadership from the likes of Clark whose past and Igbophobia are burdensome to him. As long as he remains the leader of the Niger Delta, Igbo will find the Niger Delta a dilemma. Well he and his ilks are passing on and will soon be no more. I see a glorious future for this alliance with these dead woods out of the way. There is no killing of an idea whose time has come.

This is a natural alliance. I'm surprised that they are just discovering it now. However the idea of opening their mouth too wide is a wrong move. Why move your rook straight to the opponent's king's file without first securing your king? If they could organise 3000 men on short notice, then it is a formidable alliance but they should spend time strategizing before pronouncing the core North as enemy no1. This will cause positions to harden and sincere core northerners who do not subscribe to the born-to- rule doctrine and would otherwise have sympathised with their calls for true power rotation among the 6 GZones to either turn against them or to become apathetic.
This is the strongest alliance that ever has been made in Nigeria so far and if they are resolute, they will truely dictate things in Nigeria for a long time but they need to plan not just to hold night vigils and mouth off.
Ojukwu's death might actually catalyse ojukwuism more than his life.

Quite succinct. Could OP pl post the source.

Nnaji has done a lot so far. I believe he will deliver.

OP Are you done on your Igbo bashing? Fire away as long as it helps cure you of your insomnia.

Freedom of Speech please.

Love is blind.