mrksquare: If not for the personality war between Awolowo and Akintola and the support of Prime Minister Belewa to the latter; If not for the Western region crisis that heated up the system, Chukwuma Nzeogwu and his band of coupist would not have upened the political system.
Aguiyi Ironsi also didn't take step to pacify the Northern region. If only he had put all the coupist to trial with capital punishment meted out to them, Theophilus Danjuma and his boys would not have killed him. And the civil war would have been averted. But Aguiyi was only fixated in consolidating power by coming up with his draconian decree that plunged Nigeria into our present unitary system.
Another conjectural crap on circulation. Aguiyi Ironsi did not have the power to try anybody with capital punishment. Aguiyi followed the rules stipulated by Nigerian criminal code as well as Military code of conduct.
wirinet: You are just behaving like a pre-recorded audio that's meant to play a certain sound bite no matter the fact. You mind is already made up on your narrative without even bothering to present any evidence.
I asked for a signed copy of the agreement you don't even bother discussing it.
I told you that the Aburi meeting was a power sharing agreement purely military officers to prevent the impending war, you pretend you did not see it.
I presented the fact that civilians from the other Regions rejected the accord, you become oblivious.
Not only did civilians reject the aburi accord, some senior military officers who were bypassed in the power sharing appointments like T.Y. Danjuma and Murtala Muhammed rejected the accord.
See more of what really transpired below. I hope your mind can grasp new information.
Arrant nonsense!!! When did Murtala Muhammed and T.Y. Danjuma become some senior military officers? Danjuman was in the same intake as Capt. Ben Gbulie and was flunked out of position in RMA Sandhurst, UK at Tesire, Ghana. Murtala Muhammed was senior to Onwuatuegwu in Sandhurst, UK but was commissioned in the same parade with Timothy because Tim's academic prowess. Tim Onwuatuegwu earned a brigade cadet. A position only equaled by his superiors such Keshi and Obienu from the same British Royal Military Academy.
wirinet: I disagree. Yes there were a few corrupt politicians like my tribesmen Okotie-eboh, Akintola and maybe maybe Fani Kayode. But most of the politicians were honest, a did a lot of good things, developments in their regions. I could not think of one Northerner Eastern leader accused of corruption. Most politicians of that era died in poverty, no huge bank accounts, no properties scattered all over the place and no extravagant lifestyles.
Above post can only come from a stream of thought typical of Nigerian. Corruption does not end at the embezzlement of fund. There are more to corruptible practices than fiscal embezzlement.
ijustdey: As the world moves from fossil-fuel cars to electric cars, the federal government has been strongly advised to formulate deliberate policies to control the exploration, mining, production and exportation of lithium in Nigeria.
Chairman of the Board of the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF), Uba Sa’idu Malami, who made this call during a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, said lithium will soon replace oil as a strategic economic resource across the world, and formulating such policy would enable Nigeria to be in full control of the entire lithium value chain in order to make maximum benefit from the scramble for Nigerian lithium that is already in the offing.
Malami, a co-founder of the Geological Society of Nigeria (GSN), said: “Lithium is the new oil that could significantly control global wealth and economy of nations in the coming decades,” adding that the new economic order will be largely dictated by the ability of nations to take advantage of emerging opportunities afforded by lithium resources.
Discussing the strategic importance of lithium in modern technology and global economy, Malami said, “Diesel and gasoline were the energy source of cars for decades. Now, cars have migrated from the hydrocarbon to battery-charged cars, otherwise known as electric cars. So, the energy required by cars are the batteries, while lithium is the key component of batteries.”
He revealed that the price of lithium has risen from $500 to $5000 within three years adding that “Lithium is too strategic to be left open for exploration without control, especially as it is in global demand.”
According to him, the current regime where a company gets a licence and starts mining lithium without proper control and regulation is not in the best of the country.
The COMEG-certified geologist and businessman, who served on the Boards of some notable companies in the extractive industry before his appointment as SMDF Board chairman, said: “Any foreign investment in lithium must be controlled in a way that prioritises the political and economic interest of the country.
”We must be jealous and quick to develop very intentional policies that will protect this prime mineral resource (lithium) like we did for oil and gas decades ago. If this is not done, it is a disservice to the nation and the continent of Africa.”
The SMDF board chairman noted that Nigeria should lead the way for the governments of African nations to take advantage of this opportune moment in history, and said if Nigeria controls local and foreign investments in lithium with patriotic fervor, it will attract enormous wealth to the country and strengthen her position in the emerging global economic order in the way as crude oil.
Malami commended the minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite, for protecting the interest of Nigeria while responding to Tesla’s bid to mine and export lithium from the country.
“Arc. Adegbite told the car manufacturing giant – Tesla – that he would not grant permission for their mining bid in Nigeria unless they will establish a lithium battery manufacturing plant in Nigeria,’ Malami said.
LEADERSHIP reports that Nigeria is home to commercial quantities of lithium spread across states of the federation, but mined by artisanal miners in Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, Ekiti and Cross River states.
The SMDF board chair called for the establishment of a special-purpose fund for the exploration of lithium in the country saying: “We must be ready and deliberate in developing funds for lithium exploration and exploitation in Nigeria, just like we have the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). A special purpose fund for lithium exploration and exploitation must be urgently made available to relevant authorities in order to ensure that Nigeria is positioned to occupy its prime place in the comity of nations in near future.
The geologist also called for a deliberate marketing strategy that will help the country control the rush for lithium that will come upon Nigeria and, in fact, Africa, so that they can attract the deliverables of the emerging global rush and trade with regards to lithium.
Malami who first made the call for strict control of lithium mining in 2019 after the discovery of high-grade lithium ores in the country said: “If we are going by numerical facts, there are millions of cars in use today in the world and the number may well be on the increase. These cars are in millions; they will require lithium as a source of energy.”
He explained that advancement in technology shows that the world is progressing to a future where diesel engines and petrol will be phased-out and replaced with cars that are powered with lithium batteries.
“When this happens, you can imagine how much lithium resources will be required to fire the electric vehicles that will be in use across the world!” he said.
Malami recalled the Climatic Resolutions of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (commonly referred to as COP 26), noting that the Resolutions passed by the nations aim to safeguard the environment.
He said: ‘The COP 26 resolutions called for the production of lithium battery-powered cars that will gradually replace the hydrocarbon engines,’ adding that “by various ways, lithium is the new oil.”
Malami who has been on the forefront of the advocacy for patriotic development of Nigeria’s mineral resources, further said he foresees the scramble for Nigeria’s lithium among developed economies.
‘The Chinese are here for lithium; the Americas are here, too, and even the Europeans. They are all here for Nigeria’s lithium resource. We must safeguard our future even though we desire foreign investment. We need to control foreign investment so that we don’t embrace investments that will take away our mineral wealth while impoverishing our people and country,” he added. https://leadership.ng/lithium-is-the-new-oil-govt-must-control-its-exploitation-malami/
A typical nonsense from a deluded and idiotic Nigeria. Which study conducted by silly Nigerians gave rise to the above conclusion on lithium? When I hear the names of goons who lead anything in Nigeria, it brings sigh to my mouth. Who said every country on earth should follow the craziness proposed by certain goofy Americans and Europeans? Nigerians can still build vehicular engines that run petroleum. Do the self-appointed policemen of the earth stop Africans from using their resources to support their inventive ingenuity? Germans revived the use of goal mechanisms at threat of Russia-Ukraine war. Where is the so-called global warming?
tomax026: No doubt, Peter Obi is the best candidate, and me as a YORUBA MAN will VOTE for him.
But I have heard some people saying he is an Igbo that is why they won't vote for him, and I always tell them, it is you that will suffer not Peter obi, if he didn't win...Must they suffer cos of primitive sentiments? Here in the southwest, I have seen some Muslims Yoruba using religion sentiment. And even in the North, some senseless leaders are preaching that the election is like jihad, and Muslim must vote Muslim. So I want to ask people who have this backward thinking, if they would vote Obi, if he is not Igbo or/a Christian
Most Nigerians are bunch of dingbats. They will pretend to their graves. Why celebrating armed forces on January 15 when there is July 29? I guess few Nigerians whose brains still remain intact above their shoulders take January 15 as a Remembrance Day of the first revolution in the British contraptions called Nigeria. Large majority of Nigerians missed out on the January 15,1966 revolution because they were slaves to tribalism.
Ekpeitit: Point of correction, there is no tribe in Delta State known as Igbos.
Is the bolded for Igbo or Igbos or being semantics? if this moronic statement holds for anything, it is safe to say there is no tribe known as Ibibio in Akwa Ibom.
gidgiddy: Its hard to say which city is more developed between Uyo and Asaba, Im tempted to say Uyo
Anyways, Igbos and Ibibios are neighbours and should not be comparing their cities like Asaba and Uyo
Wrong!!!! In a provincial urban setting, Uyo was ahead of Asaba even before the 12 states of Nigeria were created. However, Asaba has bounced into the developmental atmosphere and has emerged bigger than Uyo in land mass. Asaba is about to stretch to Okpanam and Igbuzor.
Polchiz: That is not my intention but I have lived in the North for 14 years. An average Northern Muslim is looking for an opportunity to shed blood. Even in ABU Zaria, lecturers are not allowed to teach anything about the coup and civil war. It is regrettable experience. I am Igbo but I always wished Ojukwu had deployed a diplomatic way of resolving the conflict instead of war. Even, Ojukwu warned Igbos never to go into war again. Even Northerners with their population are afraid of any war. Please, Nigeria should never go into war again for any reason.
Ojukwu did not remotely start Biafra\Nigeria war. The war was brought to the doors of eastern region by western region, northern region and the British advisers.
Nigeria is filled to the brim with deluded blockheads. At this point of Nigeria's life, most inhabitants are roaming the street with stomachs full of fake news. One of the reasons Nigeria is pitifully backward remains more than half of the populace are intellectually lazy. It is very silly some goons in Nigeria are still peddling the innuendos of yesteryears.
A day like this is a day of mourning and sober reflection as a nation. If you ever peel an onion, you know the deeper you go, the more tears your eyes would be shedding off. I don't intend to continue peeling off this 'onion' of Jan. 15th 1966. My intention is to tell OUR story https://twitter.com/DrMusabayero/status/1614651157053378561?t=eXNvjMhSHq6kQRHaMn3lrA&s=19[/quote]Which school did Ahmadu Bello enroll Chukuwma Nzeogwu? Were Chukuwma Nzeogwu's parents dead as to be adopted by hateful and belligerent Ahmadu Bello? Ahmadu Bello only knew Chukuwma Nzeogwu and C. C. Anuforo after their training at Sandhurst, UK and how they dressed in Kaduna.
Only idiots such as you think about annexation of anybody's land. There is nothing good about the land where your forebearers were born. You sounded like a dumbass dingbat and the land you claimed is your place of abode could be far from idiocy too.
sapele914: Please go and re read the facts of history presented by APCHaram.
Only an Ipobian will still be denying the facts, the East was alright with Cameroon leaving them, but immediately other minority tribes wanted the creation of Ogoja & other regions separate from the igbos, serious wahala arose.
You seemed to be low class acumen as APCHaram. In fact, the handle name, APCHaram, speaks volume about your favorite quotes. British not anybody with abode in eastern region oversaw the southwestern Cameroon political issue. There was never a time a piece of legislature introduced to block any group from seceding from eastern region. Secession does not include daydream.
FFK, your loudmouthed father, RFK was not rescued by any soldier. I remembered he was loudly referred as Remi Fani-kayode the "Power". Your father, like a typical Yoruba peep, behaved himself. When the putschists came for him, he succumbed like a bag of rotten potatoes and cowardly comported himself. RFK would have been shot if he had shown a slight moronic bravado which trailed his political campaign stunts in western region of Nigeria. RFK was released from detention by troops loyal to Ironsi. Nobody stormed any guardroom where people were detained during or after the debacle of January 15, 1966.
Only an OSU bastard will spend so much energy degenerating a region that has come to be united by culture, political aspirations.
Yes, we are not one homogeneous pile of shit like you osus but at least we are more united that you will ever dream of being in your OSU enclave.
Only you osus will insult the Niger Delta "as not a tribe" in your attempt to sow divisions .
Only you will use the Igboid peoples in our region as a door stop to claim parts of Niger Delta as your territory.
OSU, stay your lane.
I guess it takes one wide-eyed and moronic "OSU" to refer to another person as "OSU". The so-called Niger Delta is mere geographical expression which has never been consummated into region by any statutory of any state or even legislative shenanigan. It is foolhardy to wear a moronic piece of expression as a costume.
sapele914: It is well documented that other tribes in the old eastern region were oppressed & thrown into pauperism by their majority Igbo brothers.
Even Northern Cameroon in the plebiscite of Eastern Nigeria voted overwhelmingly to leave Nigeria forever because of unimaginable marginalization & oppression by the igbos, but yet their same brothers up north in their own referendum voted to remain with Nigeria.
Please try to publish the documentation of oppressed people of other tribes in old eastern region. However, there was never a time Northern Cameroon was part of Nigeria. Ndigbo were not the British when southwestern Cameroonians decided to leave Nigeria. In the old eastern region of Nigeria, people from the minority enclaves gained more than Ndigbo.
APCHaram: The problem with that statement is how the Igbo have come to see a 100% funded Federal project that serves to connect the SE to other parts of Nigeria as their exclusive property.
Delta state has more stake in that project as oil revenue used in building that bridge was sourced in part from it.
But for some reason the heebo now see it as theirs and demanded that the bridge be named after a literal bridge burner who blew up the first Niger Bridge
One idiot here even suggested that the federal territory by rotated among zones with Enugu to serve as replacement for Abuja.
They want to sit down somewhere and have all the resources and infrastructure cornered to their yeast. This is exactly how Enugu was built to the total neglect of other provinces in the parasitic eastern region.
Before there was ever any thought of an Abuja, the heebo were doing same in Enugu by diverting all resources to Enugu and other Igbo provinces to the total neglect of non Igbo provinces.
They complain of Buhari's stinking nepotism but they shamelessly promoted same in the old eastern region by ensuring even a lowly clerk position in places like Calabar was occupied by an Igbo to the total marginalization of the so-called minorities.
The rubbish of Aburi were they demanded a return to the status quo, they will lie was to return Nigeria back to regional adminstration even though Ojukwu was the only MILAD to wholeheartedly welcome Ironsi's Decree 34. What they fail to tell you was that it wasn't a return to regionalism that ojukwu and his fellow Afro Zikists demanded but rather a reversal of the creation of two states (old Rivers and old Cross River) our of the blighted old yeast.
It is important to point out the half truths and fallacies of the Igbo in their ongoing revisionism over what led to the war. The crux was the Igbo demand at Abiri to have the already Igbo weary so-called minorities yoked back with the parasitic Heebo.
The same minorities , I must add,that were fighting to have their own separate region to which they had succeeded until this very day 56ys back the Igbo coup happened towards truncating the federal Parliament from creating the Calabar Ogoja Rivers region that is comprised of present day, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Cross River.
The heebo staged a coup to prevent the federal Parliament from granting the so-called minorities of the old eastern region their own separate region. Decree 34 was rolled put to put an end to regional governance in place of a centrist Igbo dictatorship. What arrogance!.
When they were kicked out and Gowon created states, they then demanded for the same Igbo weary minorities to be yoked back to them. When this failed they then dragged the same minorities back into their God forsaking Biafra..
Now , tell me are these people victims as they claim or just plain parasitic land grabbers.
This is why Peter Obi is running on preserving the Zikist central govt and why all the Igbos are backing him.
Use brain.
The brain power of fool at forty. The famous Decree 34 tends to make most Nigerians remain ever foolish. If Decree 34 abolished regional government instead of modifying civil service, a person wonders why the government of the day still operated regional seats and appointed regional governors. The statement in red is most idiotic and empty-headed statement I have ever heard on nairaland. It is very funny some goons in Nigeria tend to embrace political delusions of yesteryears as reality. I guess there was middlebelt region the so-called federal Parliament was planning to create before it was truncated by Igbo. Oh! what about East Central Region the federal Parliament initiated to actualize before it was terminated by the Igbo. I must say that Mid-western region was so lucky to have escaped the unscrupulous intent of Igbo.
This same madness is what made them slaughter you like fowls in Kano after thinking Sabo Garin is no mans land outside the authority of the Fulani Emirate long after the British lease ended and Sabo Garin returned back to the Emir.
Well_I know you can't try this nonsense in the SS. The lessons of abandoned property is why you avoid claiming rubbish there.
The only people who are tolerant and liberal to your arrogating claims and nuisance will wake up one day and chase you away from where you will have nowhere to return but your blighted yeast.
The bolded is fool's theory. What the hell is Niger Delta?
leethebee: Pioneer Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande has disclosed that the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will emerge Nigeria’s president after the presidential election in February.
Akande, who spoke a Symposium organised to celebrate his 84th birthday anniversary at his country home in Ila-Orangun, Osun state on Saturday, said Tinubu’s advantage over other candidates is his brilliance and experience in public administration.
He said, “My projection for 2023 election is that the best, most brilliant, experienced and best exposed candidate will emerge.
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu shall become the president of Nigeria. He has everything that other candidates don’t have”.
He charged younger generation of Nigerians on the need to serve humanity selflessly, saying it is a better path to greatness.
“I am glad that at 84 I am still serving people that is why I will advise the younger generation to continue serving and be selfless, these qualities will make them great”, he said.
In his lecture, the guest speaker, Tunde Olatunji, stressed the need to choose political leaders on the strength of their capacity to deliver.
“Capacity of people in position of authority and decision making must not be compromised on any platform whatsoever. You can not continue to sacrifice capacity on the platform of political parties.
“I have looked at the candidates without primordial sentiment I have studied them on based of most educated and the one that demonstrated capacity is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu”, he added.
I guess the thing the so-called asiwaju had and other candidates lacked is diaper. Nigerians will be forever looked upon as bunch of the imbeciles if Thiefinubu is elected president of the shithole called Nigeria. What a nightmare.
Metrix147: Member representing Bende federal constituency of Abia State and spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu has said the presidential candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has the welfare of Igbo man at heart, calling on all sons and daughters of the region to support him win the Feb. 25 presidential election.
He said his support for Tinubu’s victory as a party man is not borne out of sentimental considerations but reality, stating that the GDP of an Igbo average Igbo man in Lagos has increased as a result of mechanisms Tinubu put in place while he was governor of the state.
Featuring on ABN TV's current affairs programme, Political Perspective, the lawmaker said Tinubu’s innovations have raised so many millionaires of Igbo extraction in Lagos State in the area of commerce and industry.
Rep. Kalu also said Tinubu has an enviable track record of appointing Igbo persons into his cabinet while he was governor, one of whom has ascended the ladder to become the director of Budget Office, a department in the ministry of finance.
"An office as strategic as that, Mr. Ben Nwabueze cut his teeth as a member of Tinubu’s cabinet which has seen him where he is today, he didn't give it to a Yoruba man, he didn't give it to Hausa man, he called my brother, a sound mind, a God-fearing man to hold that position.
"He has ruggedly held that position for the benefit of Nigeria through thick and thin, who discovered him? Not Igbo man but Tinubu.
"The Igbo man holds one of the most important positions in this country and that is Ben Nwabueze, he runs the country's budget, he decides what goes where, nominated, appointed, supported, showcased, started by Bola Ahmed Tinubu", he stated.
While agreeing that the Igbo needs to be president of the country as well, Rep. Kalu said the region needs the support of other geopolitical zones as votes from South East alone cannot produce the country's president.
According to him, without a structure that will embrace other regions, producing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction will be difficult.
"Peter Obi is a good man, but you need more than a good man to be president, Peter Obi is educated, but you need more than an educated man to be president of Nigeria.
"I'm not talking about structure or no structure, how long has he built inter-regional politics? How much has he invested in making his name a household name in the hinterlands of the North, hinterlands of the Yoruba land, and other groups across Nigeria" referring to the presidential candidate of Labour Party who hails from the South East region.
While stating that Peter Obi has started a good step, he expressed doubt if the step is enough to produce the desired result in the upcoming election.
He called on the people of South East region to support Bola Tinubu to become president for the good of the region.
What a deliberate piece of sh.it. Any Igbo holding certain post in the shithole called Nigeria is a glorified carpetbagger. I can bet my last cent that this numbskull called Benjamin Kalu is an unscrupulous scammer.
cyprex: as is usual of my people, they blame everyone else for our woes except themselves. You kill your kits and kin yet you have the audacity to accuse another person.
well, Karma is always ready to kick asses when it matters much.
It appears some delusional folks get some of ecstasy in fanning the amber of chaos in Igbo land. I can state unequivocally that the banditry in northern region dwarfs what is obtained in southeast. Southwest has the same level societal delinquencies as southeast. Every urban city in Igbo land is habitable as any urban city outside Igbo land.
babasolution: The simple reason why Peter obi cannot win is that he is not supported by his own people.
Majority of Igbo people have spoken to do not believe he can win and are weary of supporting him,they favor atiku more.
This is what people aren't noticing
Even so far Peter obi hasn't campaigned in some Igbo states like Abia,ebonyi,even his home state.
Peter obi's people aren't behind him,most igbos that supports him are delta and rivers igbos.
There's no way Peter obi will win without the backing of his people,this is not 1999 that was btw two Yorubas cos that's the example people like to give- the Obasanjo case.
The only way Peter Obi can win is a total and undivided vote from the southeast, the south south and north central will augment,northeast and southwest will give the little toppings to seal victory.
Without his home region backing he will never win.
This is the best chance of Igbo presidency . I really want an Igbo presidency,let's see how they will perform, I have really good expectations.
However,the wavering support of his people his discouraging,if they don't get it Igbo will not get presidency till not less than another 24years.
Igbo support your man now!
If you don't ,do not expect support for any other Igbo candidate in the future.
You can never blame any other region for denying your region political advantage,never again will you be able to make that claim.never again
If you know who can win and not win the future election and still remain poor, I say quit this silly pontification.
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