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This is nothing compared to Odili. At least he only steals few millions at a time. What of Odili who steals several billions at a time through Rockson Engineering (owned by Arumemi, owner of Arik Air)

I would love for the Igbo to support the North in 2011 and then get gazumped in 2015. It seems things only start moving in Nigeria when Ndigbo is aggrieved. 2015 may just be the last straw that broke the camels back as the CIA predicted

All this never happened under military rule. Perhaps Naija is not ready for democrazy

Ezeuche is softer than a babys bottom. He is the kind of guy who would be scared to visit friends in Borokiri cos "they shooting" in the Ijaw part of town.

Eleme people dey crase. They constantly deny that they are Ogoni not knowing that Ogoni people are the only people that love them. Eleme is the Ikwerre of the Ogoni nation. As for the viability of a Bori state, the state is quite contiguous from East West road through Bori to the border with Andoni.

@ Udezue,

Ikwerre na wetin Okrika dey use play since 19th century. We have sacked them severally. Read up on it.

Y'all are softer than pampers. hehehehe.

Physics class. Smoked a fat blunt before class. Unfortunately the green must have been laced and my head was spinning in class. Ran to the toilet to throw up but barely made it past the door. At the end of class, my classmates saw the vomit at the front door and immediately started laughing at me. My teacher was cool though cos he smokes that sticky too. That was the last time I smoked skunk.

I already have $1m but I will choose another $1m before true love

Olodo is always wrong as the name implies

Dede1:
This is the delight of funny notion and misinformed gesture. I never new Midwestern region was separate country from Nigeria. If Nigerian army had to station soldiers in Forcados and Escrovos, Biafra had every reason to move into Midwestern region and beyond.

I always maintained that invasion of midwest was a tactical move to keep on the offensive through to Lagos rather than fight a defensive war. All military strategists know that the only reason France lost to the German Panzas was due to their defensive stance behind the Maginot line.

Can you correct the erroneous notion of some Biafrans that the aim of invading midwest was to "collect their Igbo brothers". There are many other tribes in Biafra who also need their brothers "collected from midwest" so if Biafrans keep trumping this story, they would look hypocritical.

Whilst we all know that Beaf love for GEJ is pathological, we can also say oyb hate for GEJ is pathological.

The amount of time OYB spends attacking GEJ, you would have thunk that IBB and Atiku are better candidates. Please distribute hate evenly.

Them want thief tax join? Abegi!

^^^Biafra invaded midwest to collect their Igbo brothers.

Did they invade midwest to also collect our Ijaw brothers to join us?

No wonder some people say Biafra is an Igbo thing.

Whats good for the goose is also good for the gander.

Dede1:
I do not think Ndigbo had to negotiate its way to the Atlantic ocean in case of war-driven disintegration of Nigeria. Alaigbo is not landlocked as goofy punks would want us to believe.  However if Alaigbo is landlocked, Ndigbo had no better option than to fight their way to the sea.

hehehehe. . . . you for talk this one from start instead of claiming here, there and everywhere.

Pesin say MIGHT MAKES RIGHT and Ijaw live by that code. We no dey look face.

This Aganga sef. I saw him on CNBC yesterday and the guy no even comb him hair. He just look like tramp.

This Rajkovic and his numerous loans. When is he planning to establish himself? We have had this boy since he was 15 and we paid £2m for him.

asha 80:
even though i try to be neutral in this he has some point though.

What point does he have? That Obasanjo, Abacha etc are venerated in Ijawland? I can as well google some chieftaincy title that an Igbo chief bestowed on OBJ and claim that OBJ is a hero in Igboland. He writes like Ijaw is a homogenous society.

And BTW, on his claim that Ijaw like fighting for land, which tribe in ND does not have land dispute?

Take Eleme refinery for example. It was called Eleme-Okrika refinery till the 70's when the FG decided to change the name to Eleme refinery. I encourage you to visit the Eleme refinery and tell me whether any single Eleme man lives on the main road to the refinery. To get from Eleme town to the refinery, you have to pass through Abam (Okrika village). Next to the refinery is Okrika grammar school. We have family house opposite the refinery and all our neighbours are either Okrika or expatriates. We did not buy that land. It was handed down from our ancestors, and we also have vast farming land in the same area. No one has ever come to claim it from us, yet the refinery directly opposite is claimed as a "solely Eleme refinery". We call the front of the refinery Samanga and it is owned jointly by Ogan, Abam, Fiberesima and Kalio villages and is their traditional farming ground.

Now at the back of the refinery, we have fallow Eleme forest which is owned by the Eleme. If you split the refinery in two, the front facing side is Okrika land, and the back-facing side is Eleme land. Hence we often have dispute over the refinery. If Okrika and Eleme start fighting tomorrow, some guy like this bigoted writer would start pointing to evidence that Ijaw like fighting for land.

There is no tribe in the Niger Delta who do not have discontiguous borders with each other and all tribes in the Niger Delta fight each other for land and fishing rights such as Ogoni-Andoni war, Okrika-Eleme war, Urhobo-Itsekiri, Nembe-Kalabari etc. The nature of the terrain itself is cause for war, and is compounded by Federal projects which cut across boundaries between tribes. . . . so these journalists should stop writing nonsense about Ijaw land wars cos thats a part and parcel of inhabiting terrain which is often interspersed with fallow jungles and creeks.

Onlytruth:
You better identify with your neighbor. This your quest to keep us in Nigeria will end up consuming all of us. Loosen up more.
You gain nothing by keeping Igbo in the Nigerian prison. If a war comes, it will consume locals (Igbo, Ijaw, Ibani, Kalabari, and whatever minorities in the East).

I believe that everyone in the East should share a common destiny. Splitting hairs won't pay anyone in the East.

So, yes, we will come to an agreement, a reasonable agreement.

Nobody is keeping anybody in Nigeria. We sef want comot for here. We are waiting for the second coming of Biafra or any Southern alliance that is unified and militaristically capable, not ragtag army holding wooden guns and retreating from day one. Should that time come, Ijawland will seal the deal cos our crocodiles are versed in the art of war.  

chyz:
You see, the Ijaw do not understand or respect the language of peace, harmony or brotherhood which you and other Igbo preach. The only language they understand and respect is beligerence, confrontation, belicosity and militancy. The failure of the Igbo to understand this basic fact is the reason for their lack of success in relating to their Ijaw neighbours. Your Ijaw have more respect for Umaru Dikko, Jibril Aminu etc. despite their threatening and arrogant stance than the turn-the-other-cheek-peace preaching Igbo. When the Igbo learn to return militancy for militancy, beligrence for beligerence etc., their relationship with the Ijaw will be transformed. How does this work? Borrow from how other groups deal with the Ijaw. Examples:

1. Not long ago, Asari Dokubo, a Kalabari Ijaw went to Lagos and granted an interview to a TV station. In that programme, he accused the Yoruba leader Mr Obafemi Awolowo of transfering Ijaw resources to Yoruba and Hausa with his revenue allocation formula in the 1960s/70s. While Dokubo was still talking, the Yoruba dispatched their OPC hit squad to the TV studio to kill with Dokubo. Dokubo was lucky to escape unhurt. Reuben Abati boasted about it in the Guardian. A couple of months later and despite Ijaw profuse apology, obasanjo, a Yoruba caught Dokubo, put him in jail where he remained ever after.

2. obasanjo has sent military forces to destroy Ijaw towns- Odi, Odioma etc. Imported helicopter gunships have been deployed to shoot at them. Look at the way he treated Mr Alamayeseigha. But the Ijaw love obasanjo so much that the have crowned him Kabaowei of Ijawland. By contrast, the same Ijaw have been insulting Igbo leaders from Zik, Ibiam through Okpara to Ojukwu, Ironsi etc. without any consequences to themselves. No Igbo leader is spared. Why? Because familiarity breeds contempt.

3. When the Ijaw persisted in intimidating the little Itsekiri group in Warri, the Yoruba despatched the OPC to go and sort them out. Since then, the so-called Warri crisis has died down. Same for the so-called Arogbo Ijaw crisis. The Yoruba do not take any nonsense from the Ijaw and the Ijaw respect them for that. In fact, some Ijaw even now claim thay they are related to Yoruba!

4. Even the Bini has learnt that the way to deal with the Ijaw is to confront them every inch of the way. Thus when the Ijaw started claiming ownership of Ovia LGA in Edo State (as usual, renaming Bini towns like they did in Port Harcourt after the war), the Oba of Benin summoned his war chiefs and confronted them squarely. Since then the Ijaw have learnt to respect Bini territory in Edo State.

Only the Igbo treat the Ijaw with kid gloves and let them ride roughshod over Igbo interests. David West and co. have been allowed to continue to undermine Igbo interests in Nigeria, can they try it on the Yoruba, any Yoruba without serious consequences? Hell no! Isaac Boro was elected student leader of UNN in the 1960s by Igbo students, but all Ijaw remember and teach their kids is that Boro was not elected in his first attempt because he was Ijaw.

Even Yakubu Danjuma made US $3billion from oil block in one deal alone. But the Ijaw continue to insult Igbo leaders for what? As long as the Igbo refuse to understand the basic Ijaw psychology of an eye for an eye and apply it when dealing with Ijaw, the later will continue to poke their fingers in Igbo collective eyes.

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Gen. Ironsi - Held Boro in protective custody out of harms way. Sabotaged by Ijaw


Mr Benjamin Adekunle - Shot Boro in the back- worshipped by Ijaw



Gen. Abacha- Hanged Saro-Wiwa high, poured acid on his bones- respected by Ijaw


obasanjo - Destroyed Odi, Odioma. Orders helicopter gunships to fires rockets at fishermen of Gharamatu. Crowned Ambaowei of Izonland


Photo: Sir Francis Akanu Ibiam - eastern nigerian leader pilloried by Ijaw because familiarity breeds contempt.


Photo: Obasanjo - Destroyed Odi, Odioma and told his victims to shut up much to Ijaw admiration. He was crowned Ambaowei I of Ijawland for his effort.

Do people like this still exist in Nigeria? Thank God these first generation provocateurs will soon die of old age.

Anyone who wants to do business in the Oil Rivers must be at peace with the tribes that occupy it. Otherwise, you are wasting your time.

Import and Export has never been a problem for the Igbo. With seaports in Calabar, Abonnema wharf, Okrika, Lagos and potential seaport in Onitsha through the widening of the Niger from Akassa through Ogbia and Aboh, I dont see the thirst for Alaigbo to unlandlock itself.

Lets come to arrangement like in Palm oil days. You guys handle production and we will handle clearing and forwarding.  

When you lose everything till you have nothing to lose, YOU LOSE IT!

That's why people are mad right now, and Obama must take the blame as the public face of govt. It will only stop when people stop losing their homes and jobs

Amaechi is talking about Odili. He shouldn't be scared to mention him by name instead of speaking in code.

Perhaps one should be grateful to have a strong man controlling Kwara state.

When you consider the number of politicians fighting and killing each other in other states, and having to waste the state resources just to compete with their rivals, one would be grateful to have an unchallenged dictator like Saraki

Utomi has no business going to moderate a debate about a corrupt Governor who wants to borrow N100bln just 5 months to the end of his tenure. . . . unless he is going there to tell them that it would be ridiculous not to at least wait for the new Governor. . . . again, Utomi's name is just being used to lend a veneer of credibility to an already pre-agreed arrangement. . . he should beware. . .

All this is coded talk by JM.

He wanted a strong Drogba-like striker thats good in the air, strong on the ground and can play with back to goal. He desperately wanted[b] Fernando Llorente[/b] but Real are not ready to make the financial sacrifice to get him especially with Benzema and Higuain already on their books.

They told him to make use of Benzema, Higuain and Ronaldo as strikers and promote one of the B-team strikers as back-up.

However Jose style of play demands a battering-ram centre-forward. Although Benzema and Higuain may be great players, they are not JM style of striker.

Which part of Africa had not invented the wheel by 19th century? Friedman should stick to economics and stop all this anthropological commentary. Someone living in thick rainforest does not need the wheel

There has always been more armed groups and vigilantes in Rivers State than in most others. Most of these are culturally indoctrinated in violence.

1993 when Okrika asked each house to produce 2 fighting men to prosecute the Eleme war was when the likes of Ateke were validated. One who took part in that war told me they were using cock-and-shoot and spoke quite proudly of his initiation as an Okrika man. Now take those cock-and-shoot and replace with machine guns, what do you have.

The same boys who prosecuted the Nembe-Kalabari wars, Andoni-Eleme, Okrika-Ogoni, Abuloma-Army clashes etc. Combine those boys with PDP and this is the fallout

@ tkb,

Is it because Gateway Television is hosting the debate? I hope say your hand no dey inside o. Hehehehehe

Some legislators have been touched, hence their decision to hold this debate to justify their change of decision. Its all a whitewash.
At the end of the debate they will be justified in voting for the bond having received millions from OGD to do so.

Legislators have no business discussing the economics of bonds and stuff.

The title of the debate should be: "OGD: Corrupt or not". EFCC should be called to moderate the debate. If they rule that OGD is too corrupt to be trusted with N100bln the state doesn't even have, then end of debate.

This is how they dribble the populace.

Utomi should not lend veneer of respectability to a flawed scheme. The debate has never been about the usefulness of bonds, rather a referendum on GD's character and suitability to handle such sums without stashing them in Swiss accounts.

Utomi must not participate in this looting of the future.

The Vicko and Pyrate boys who blossomed in late 80's and 90's now have stranglehold on Rivers and Bayelsa Government.

Soboma George is not your typical university confra. He barely finished school at Stella Maris back then. Most of these new age cultists in Borokiri can all be traced to three secondary schools, namely, Comprehensive, Stella Maris and Baptist.

They cut their teeth in the intra-school wars of the early to mid-90's. Who remembers King of Baptist?

This is the legacy of the failed education system of the 1980's and 1990's. However, these boys would have remained common touts had Odili not armed them for 2003 election.

Now we hear of political assassinations everyday. Who remembers the shock and horror when Chief Obi Wali was assassinated in the 90's. Even back then, they used machete to kill him. Now they fire submachine guns anyhow and political assassination is no longer news.