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The present government of Nigeria which is a pretense of democracy remains the most useless government in the history of the shithole called Nigeria. The emptiness and waywardness have gone beyond abysmal. It is very laughable to say Nigeria is a constitutionally configured entity.

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Ijaw was never an ethnic nationality. Ijaw only native attire is very foreign. It is laughable these goons seem to wear "Nwagoro" headpiece when it is convenience to them.

OyigboUpdate:
May God protect the widowers, widows, orphans poor people who might be attacked by the ESN/UNKNOWN GUNMEN for not sitting at home - Prince Okey

Those killed by Fulani armed forces in Obigbo have not returned home till date. Even the ones arrested and taken to Abuja have not seen Obigbo till date. I had rather fight and die than live in the shithole called Nigeria under the semi-Taliban rule by northern region of Nigeria Oligarchy.

mobilenewsnetwo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfqhk9zqJ5c

''Each time I remember what the lady did to me, I feel embarrased''- Youth Corper who was assaulted by female soldier in Calabar speaks as she returns to Lagos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUPJOMfN7ce/?utm_medium=copy_link

Please remember 1967 when your forbearers did the unthinkable.

BlackSaints:
Because of port harcourt na isn't it obvious? That's why you are draging a whole ijaw clan as igbo

The last time I checked, Igweocho remains Igboland.

Zhunnurayn:
Russia have been making a global statement, in a bid to assert itself as the true world power (of course it is), and not the United States, who are delusional. Despite it's history, and global influence and role especially in the world war, little is known about this great country. In a thread few days back, many misguided nairalanders, have trash talked mighty Russia, even saying it is poor in infrastructure and can't cater for it's citizens. A country that stands the sixth largest economy in the world in terms of PPP, should receive the due acknowledgement it deserves. In reality, Russia has by far greater military influence and is the actual world power. Let's clear the air, and talk about this great country, and silent the anti Russians.
1. Russia is the largest country in the world and bigger than Pluto.
It covers an area of 17 million square kilometers, of which Siberia makes up 77%. It stretches so far around the globe that Russia has 11 different time zones. Russia has a population of around 144 million people.

2. The name of Russia’s famous Red Square has nothing to do with communism
but comes from the word krasnyi which originally meant beautiful.

3. Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918
This calendar is 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar. As a result, the Russian Olympic Team arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympic Games held in London. The Russian Orthodox Church still uses the old Julian calendar.

4. Russia and the US are just 4km apart at the nearest point
This is the distance between two islands Little Diomede (United States) and Big Diomede (Russia) that lie in the middle of the Bering Strait, the channel between Russia and Alaska. In the middle of winter, an ice bridge forms between the two places but walking across it is illegal. Alaska itself was once part of Russia; the Russians sold it to the Americans for USD 7.2mn in 1867.

5. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space
when he orbited the earth in a 108-minute flight in 1961. In 1967 Russia also launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.

6. Two Russian cosmonauts have spent more time in space than any other person
Gennady Padalka broke the record in 2015 with a total of 879 days in space over five space flights, taking the record previously held by Sergei Krikalev with 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes over six space flights.

7. Russia is home to some 20 percent of the world’s trees, and one-fifth of the world’s freshwater is in Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, and situated north of the Mongolian border in south-eastern Siberia; the lakes stretches 644km (400 miles) and is around 1,637m (5,000ft) deep. Russia is also home to 640 billion trees; almost half of the country is forest. These last wild forests of Europe include vast swathes of Siberia, home to the endangered Siberian tiger.

8. The word tsar comes from the Latin word ‘caesar’.
The first Tsar or emperor of Russia, Ivan IV, better known now as Ivan the Terrible, was crowned in 1547. The last was Tsar Nicholas II who was executed in 1918.

9. The Russian Revolution wasn’t one but two revolutions.
In the 1917 February Revolution, there were violent demonstrations and riots in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) and a provisional government replaced Tsar Nicholas. The October Revolution (effectively a coup d’etat) in 1917 marked the beginning of Soviet Russia, when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks (from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning ‘majority’) took control. Following the revolution, Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital of the Russian Empire in 1918 after holding the title for more than 200 years.

10. A clock in St Petersburg marks the exact moment that Russia became communist.
The clock on the mantelpiece in the White Dining Room in the Hermitage Palace stopped at 2.10am on the night of 25 October 1917. this was when the provisional government, in power since the February revolution, were arrested by the Bolsheviks.

11. There are over 100 languages in Russia.
The official language is Russian and it’s the first and only language of just over 80 percent of the population. There are more than 100 minority languages, the main one being Tatar; 3% of the country speaks Tatar. Other minority languages include Bashir, Circassian, Chechen, Chuvash, Dolgang, German, Mordvin, and Ukrainian. Most people who speak a minority language also speak Russian.

12. Russia has domesticated a species of fox.
Russian scientists led by Geneticist Dmitry Belyaevat the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, showed that a species could be tamed by breeding on behaviour alone in just over 50 years. The domesticated Siberian foxes are friendly and trainable – and extremely expensive.

13. During the 45 years of the Cold War the Soviet Union and the USA never fought each other directly.
Instead, each side funded wars around the world, built up nuclear weapons (the arms race) and vied for supremacy in space. The Cold War ended in 1991 with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika reforms, the collapse of the USSR, and the founding of 15 independent republics.

14. Over 70 cats roam the 14 miles of marbled corridors of The Hermitage in St Petersburg
on the lookout for marauding mice. There were cats there since the time of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, who decreed the cats come to court in 1745. Today, three volunteers look after the cats. They even have their own kitchen and small hospital.

15. Russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world
with an estimated 7,700 warheads, it holds just under half of all the nuclear weapons in existence (the US has the second biggest store).

16. Russians scientists have brought back to life a plant that became extinct 32,000 years ago.
The fruit of a tiny arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, was stored away in the burrow of an arctic ground squirrel, and lay frozen hard in the Siberian tundra until a recent excavation. Scientists thawed cells from the placenta (the part of the fruit that produces seeds) and grew them into whole plants.

17. The radiation emanating from Russia’s Lake Karachay would kill you in an hour.
Lake Karachay, in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia, was a dumping ground for radioactive waste for years. It’s possibly the most polluted place on earth.

18. The world’s largest collection of squirrel-related items belongs to Russian Pavel Gerasimov.
He has over 1,100 items including a solid gold squirrel statuette.

19. Russians are the world’s fourth biggest lovers of alcohol, knocking back 15.1 litres per person a year
only Belarus, Moldova and Lithuania beat Russia. Vodka is the most popular drink (the word vodka come from voda, which means water), and beer (the second most popular) was only officially classed as an alcoholic drink in 2013. Up until then anything with less than 10 percent alcohol was considered a foodstuff.

20. Russian women live 12 years longer than Russian men.
The life expectancy for Russian men is 64.7 years and 76.57 years for Russian women (2015 estimate). Women also outnumber the men: there are around 10 million more women than men in Russia.

21. The famous Trans-Siberian railway is the longest single railway in the world.
running some 9,200km (5, 700 miles) from Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast in Asia. The trip non-stop takes 152 hours and 27 minutes.

22. Peter the Great wanted to westernize the Russian way of life so he imposed a beard tax in 1698.
He ordered all men with beards (except priests) to be clean shaven or pay a tax of 100 roubles. Those who paid were given a copper token bearing a beard and moustache and the words ‘the beard is a useless burden’.

23. More billionaires live in Moscow than any other city in the world after New York.
According to the Huran Global Rich List 2015, Russia has a total 93 billionaires (those valued with assets at more than USD 1,000,000,000), the fourth-largest number of billionaires in the world after the US, China and India. Many Russian billionaires saw their fortunes fall in the last couple of years due to a number of factors, not least the drop in global oil prices. Some rich Russians hire fake ambulances to ensure that other drivers let them get through Moscow’s terrible traffic jams.

24. The Volga is Europe’s longest river at 3,690km (2,293 miles) and has over 200 tributaries
all of which add up to a staggering 357,000km (221,800 miles).

25. The Russian village Oymyakon is the coldest village on earth.
The Siberian village of Oymyakon saw the temperature dip to -68 C on 6 February 1933. Only Antarctica is colder! It’s chilly elsewhere in Russia, too: the icicles hanging off some of the buildings in Moscow are so huge that people cordon off the sidewalks below to prevent the icicles from hitting pedestrians below.

26. A Russian peasant women holds the world record for giving birth
to 69 children. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, various contemporary accounts record that a Mrs Vassilyev (1707-–c.1782) gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven pairs of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Most of them did not survive infancy.

27. Revenue from oil production and exports makes up more than half of the federal budget revenue.
Russia is the world’s largest producer of crude oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas (after the US). The state-run gas monopoly Gazprom (GazovayaPromyshlennost) is the largest producer and exporter of natural gas in the world.

28. You can view Lenin’s body in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.
After his death on 21 January 1924, Russian scientists carried out experimental embalming methods to preserve the body; they’ve been fine-tuning the procedures ever since. Scientists re-embalm Lenin’s body every other year.

29. Everyone was an atheist in the Soviet Union
but today around 15–20 percent of Russians say they are Russian Orthodox, 10–15 percent say they are Muslim and around 2 percent profess to other Christian denominations. The true figures are probably higher as there are still many non-practising believers, a throwback to the days of Soviet rule when adherents to a faith suffered discrimination and persecution.

30. Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach posed the world’s current, longest-standing maths probis not lem in 1742.
No has ever been able to prove or disprove Goldbach’s Conjecture that ‘every even positive integer greater than three is the sum of two (not necessarily distinct) primes’. Answers on a postcard, please.
31. Most importantly, Russia has the highest nuclear might in the world, with a war head of over 7700. Delusional America, believes it has the strongest nuclear arsenal. Hence Russia is the world power. Long live the Republic of Russia, VIVA LA RASA! VIVA LA RUSSIA, VIVA EL SUENO!!
front page, Lalasticlala.

A country which cannot feed itself in a protracted conventional war is neither a supper power nor world power.

BlackSaints:
Igbo people and their desperation! Mr man Okrika is an ijaw clan, and that will never change.
That belema is an igbo girl claiming to be from Okrika.

Arrant nonsense !!!! Why would Igbo desperate to have Ijaw?

There is no going back to the so-called peaceful demonstration by IPOB. It has come to arms struggle. IPOB on course as the first step to achieve self-determination.

Ojiofor:
In this century a region of well over 20 million inhibitants will be forced to lock down without exempting hospitals and medical personel incase of emergency they do not care about those who have special needs to survive daily.Taliban are angels and more civilised to compare with IPOB.
May IPOB's Biafra never come.Ise.

You tried to be smart instead showed compound foolishness. When Fulani cum Nigerian armed forces attacked people loving people of 20 million inhabitants, they never thought about emergency and need to have hospitals operational. The simplest mean to the sage is grant IPOB its desire for homeland period. It is very idiotic to draw Taliban into this issue. At least, Talibans have a homeland they call a country.

DonJuan13:
I just can't respond to this. I'm sorry. You've succeeded in reinforcing the futility of trying to have an intelligent discourse on this platform.

You are the so-called "warlord" on nairaland. You cannot even accept the simple truth.

DonJuan13:
I will try to keep this short. I am inspired to write this piece by the unexpected and unexplainable bond between my 10 year old south western moslem son and my neighbor's 3 year old south-eastern Christian son. Although many more examples abound of the intertwining of the Yoruba and Igbo race (I have loads of close friends across Nigeria), I have chosen this unique reference due to the age grade of the kids involved. Ebube loves to spend time in my house playing with my two sons although he is closer to the older one. I see the joy in his eyes when he spots Abdulrahman, and no one has been able to explain their closeness. He's just started preschool and the boys have been helping him with homework. Inadvertently, both mothers have become closer. This has led me to believe that the seeming/perceived hatred, mistrust, tribalistic tension that exists between the Igbo and yoruba, especially on this platform, is something we learn as we grow up. it is high time the tribal warlords on this platform begin to find a way to put an end to this animus that exists between the tribes and realize the plain truth; in Nigerian politics, there is no christian, moslem, Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa dichotomy. The rich and the powerful use these fictitious categories to get THE PEOPLE to despise each other and thus conceal and distract us from the real battlefront – the one between classes.


I'm new here so please easy on the roasting abeg.(I know say una Sabi yab well well).

The only solution to Nigeria's problem is disintegration of the shithole called a country.

paramakina202:
You know all these yet Ipobians will come online to boast that they ESN has made ala Igbo safe from herdsmen attack?
My post was a reply to that boastful fellow above who love to live in denial or deception and propaganda.IPOBians are liars.

The bolded is intellectual issue with some goons in Nigeria. I can bet my last cent you have not seen and cannot even point out an IPOB member from a crowd. Anybody can come online, just like you, to spew crap. If you expected me to blow my horn over ECN activities, you wasted your time. By the way, you may ask any Fulani herdsman the actions of ECN.

I hope the so-called Uche Mefo is not as wretched and poor as the picture suggested.

adanna23:
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Gov. Ganduje’s Son Rejects to Work in CBN or NNPC, Chooses Hisbah Police

There is confusion in the first family of Kano State as the son of the governor insist on becoming a commander of the Hisbah police as against the preference of his father for him to work in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) or Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The governor’s son, Muhammad Abdullahi Ganduje, recently graduated from the prestigious Regents University, London with a BA (Hons) in Global Management (Enterprise & Innovation). Before jetting out to London on Tuesday for the graduation ceremony, our source said Gov. Ganduje had already secured juicy posts for Muhammad at the CBN and NNPC. YeyeNews.com correspondent learned that the arrangement was for Muhammad to choose and resume in either the CBN or NNPC immediately on his return to Nigeria.

Click here for full article:
https://yeyenews.com/gov-gandujes-son-rejects-to-work-in-cbn-or-nnpc-chooses-hisbah-police/

If Nigeria is a country, the bolded would have started a riot in certain sections of the country. Most Nigerians with better grades are still languishing on dusty streets of Nigeria without a job.

The only solution to the saga is actualization of Republic of Biafra for the IPOB and Republic of Igboland for Ndigbo. Any further inhabitation in the shithole called Nigeria will continue to escalate the problem.

slimfit1:
See how ESN expose themselves, a useless set of people.
How does this help anybody or your people?

What is the fashion parade about?

Why don't you do what you want to do and stop acting like an idiot? It's like they think they are commandos. ESN don't have people with brains that can advise them they have not learnt anything for the past 2 months. You don't show your enemy what you have you keep them guessing. This government would give you all resources to fight agitation but none to fight terrorists. ESN it's in your best interest to take down any pictures or videos you have. Even this government is contacting people with spiritual powers. I can't say anything anymore it's annoying that people are not protecting others or even themselves reasonably.

Honestly, I guess you are the useless in the episode. There is no doubt you have not seen a parade ground in your sorry life talk less holding an assault rife.

I just shook my head!!!

All I foresee among foolish Nigerians is conflict of interest. Nigerian police force is animal kingdom already and now supplemented with load of sentiments.

paramakina202:
Have the herdsmen attacks stopped?

Under ESN watch how many times have they attacked communities in Ebonyi state and Enugu state this year?

This happened in may this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUH0ET6ofI

This one happened in April this year.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/04/breaking-fulani-herdsmen-attack-ngbo-community-in-ebonyi/

June this year
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/ebonyi-massacre-fulani-herdsmen-attacked-7-igbo-villages-3000-persons-displaced/

March this year
https://guardian.ng/news/herdsmen-attack-ebonyi-communities-kill-20-destroy-property-others/
Still continues.

Enugu State.
July this year.
https://guardian.ng/news/herders-attack-farm-settlement-in-enugu/

August this year
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/bloodbath-in-seast-as-gory-killings-spread-to-enugu/
July this year
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/bloodbath-in-seast-as-gory-killings-spread-to-enugu/
Ohanaeze ndigbo react on Fulani herdsmen attacks in Enugu.
https://dailypost.ng/2021/07/27/enugu-herdsmen-attack-prove-your-capacity-now-ohanaeze-youths-charge-military/
And the list goes on and on.Fulani herdsmen attacks still goes on unchallenged in SE states while ESN is busy killing Igbos they termed as saboteurs.

The question in the bold is silly and idiotic. Have ECN ever enjoyed free liberty to deal with Fulani herdsmen without being attacked by Fulani Nigerian armed forces? In fact, have any community in the southern and central Nigeria ever chased Fulani herdsmen without being attacked by Fulani Nigerian armed forces? Fulani herdsmen are integral part of Nigerian armed forces period.

Taliban to Afghanistan is natural occurrence. However IPOB is an incident which could end now if Biafra or even Republic of Igboland is actualized. IPOB is the making of Nigeria. As long as Nigeria lives in the current configuration, IPOB will reign supreme.

PlatGurGongo:
PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE, WAS THE KINDNESS AND WELCOMING NATURE OF OUR PARENTS WORTH IT OR WAS IT A MISTAKE??


At the dawn of the colonial era around 1900, there were absolutely no to very few foreigners or settlers within present day Kaduna city, Jos, Kafanchan, Shendam, Mangu and most of the major towns/cities within Plateau and Southern Kaduna.

Based on colonial records, At the time the British consolidated their conquest of present day Nigeria, there were only some few Gbagyi speaking villages on both sides of the Kaduna river in the present location of Kaduna city.
While in the areas around Jos were settlements of the Anaguta (Naraguta) and neighbouring Afizere, Berom, Rukuba (Bache), Amo and Jere/Buji.
Before the 1900s, very little or nothing was known about present day Jos/Kaduna cities. In the case of Jos, there are few records and oral histories that talk about the defeat of the Emir Yakubu Bauchi and his Jihadist soldiers by a combined effort of Indigenous warriors of the Anaguta, Berom and Amo, when they (the jihadists) invaded the present day Jos area of the Plateau around the late 1800s.

From the early 1900s, Kaduna started growing as an urban center because it was made the capital of the new Northern protectorate (subsequently Northern region) by the British, due to it's centralized location and easy navigation through the Kaduna river which drains directly into the Niger river.
Jos on the other hand began to grow due to the lucrative Tin mining industry that begun in the early 1900s.
Other towns like Kafanchan also grew because it was a very important railway junction that linked different parts of Nigeria, at a time when railway was the most common means of transportation.

These cities/towns started attracting people from all over Nigeria. Yorubas, Igbos, Hausas, Kanuris, Fulanis, Urhobos, Ibibios, Edos, Idomas, Igalas, Ebiras, Nupes, e.t.c came in large numbers.
In fact, at the time of the Independence of Nigeria, settlers and foreigners outnumbered the Indigenous people in both Kaduna and Jos towns.

Unlike in Kaduna city where the evolving settlements were very mixed in nature, with every ethnicity and religion being present in almost every neighborhood, Jos had a very different settlement pattern per neighborhood.
In the case of Jos, this happened because the labourers of the Tin mines formed their own ethnic communities and were sometimes settled by the British in different neighborhoods based on their arrivals.
It is a known fact that during the colonial era, the Indigenous people of the Jos-Plateau did not show much enthusiasm or interests in working on these Tin mines, hence foreign labourers had to be brought in by the British from other parts of colonial Nigeria.

For example, most of the Yorubas who arrived Jos in the early 1900s were settled around Kasuwan dare/Rikkos and Nasarawa axis to the Southeast of Jos city center. The Hausas, Fulanis, Kanuris and other core-northern muslim people were settled along the Bauchi road to the northwest of the city center, while the Igbos were settled around Tafawa Balewa/Apata areas to the Southwest of Jos city center.
Till today, most of these communities are still found in their majority in these areas in Jos.

The numbers of we the Plateau and Southern Kaduna Indigenous people started growing in Kaduna and Jos significantly after the colonial era especially when the first 12 states were created in the late 60s after the civil war.
At that time, thanks to the education that came with the missionaries, we had enough educated people to start filling up the new administrative positions that came with the new states, local government areas, districts e.t.c.

These cities/towns within Plateau and Southern Kaduna kept growing in large numbers and cosmopolitanism until series of Ethno-religious crisis started from the late 80s in Kafanchan and reached it's peak from 2000 - 2010 within Jos and Kaduna cities.
These conflicts (which I prefer to call CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS) ended up creating irreversible ethno-religious partitions between both Kaduna and Jos cities and elsewhere within other parts of the country.

Most Yorubas, Igbos, other Southern Nigerians and people from other parts of the Middlebelt region like Benue/ Kogi who have lived and are still living in these areas can truthfully and sincerely testify of the extreme liberal and kind nature of our people, from earlier times and even till date.

Before the conflicts began, and even till now, our people who are Indigenous to the areas around these cities were so generous to a fault.
They welcomed the ever expanding influx of foreigners into these cities/towns with so much kindess. Landed properties were given to these settlers at giveaway prices and many times even free of charge.
Food was insanely cheap and sometimes even given free of charge. This kindness even extended to our fathers freely giving their daughters for marriage to these settlers all in a bid to cement peaceful and harmonious living.
This kindness and simplicity on the part of our people made both cities continue to grow rapidly even after Independence when Kaduna ceased being regional capital and when Tin mining activities on the Jos Plateau fell.

In the case of Kaduna city with the Gbagyis, the 'kindness and simplicity' even became an object of ridicule and a stereotype till the late 90s.
People often said that Gbagyi Indigenes sold and gave away their lands in Kaduna to settlers while they relocated further into the interior villages as the cities expanded.
Now, this could be true, albeit not in the proportions of the stereotypes.
This is because most of we the Indigenous people of the PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA area have never been a centralized urban loving and trading people. Our lives are tied to and revolve around our farmlands.
[This is with the exception of some of the Jukunoid groups and some other neighbouring groups around Taraba and the Upper Benue (Nasarawa and Plateau south) who developed an urban culture during the days of KWARARAFA]

Just as the ridicule with the Indigenous Gbagyi people of Kaduna city, more and different forms of ridicule and mockery have been thrown at us by people we accommodated. From the past when these ridicules were more subtle and joking to today, now more toxic on-your-face insults.
These settlers call us different unprintable names from LAZY PEOPLE to DRUNKARDS e.t.c.
Apart from these continuous demeaning and insulting words of contempt thrown at us, our people have suffered untold and unimaginable forms of killings, destruction of properties and setback, this time around by settlers mostly of Core northern extraction.

In places that our ancestors lived, tamed and controlled for thousands of years, with this urbanization, there are now NO-GO-AREAS for us within these cities, because apparently, those areas are now MUSLIM DOMINATED AREAS.
After the various crisis that rocked these cities, many of the Indigenous people of these cities had to abandon or forcefully sell their family houses located on ancestral family lands which have been passed down for generations.
In Kaduna city, with the Gbagyis, it was even worse, because most of them not only had had to sell family houses, they also abandoned or hurriedly sold off their farmlands towards some of the northern parts of Kaduna city at giveaway prices, because they could no longer access these places for fear of being killed or attacked.

As a people, we have so much rescources and tourism potentials, but both local and International Investors no longer consider our homelands as viable options because of the bad name that has been brought upon our homeland.

Recently, the university of Jos had to be abruptly shut down due to attacks of terrorists around the vicinity. Different states and local government areas of the country sent in vehicles to whisk away their students.

To the south of Kaduna city, students were kidnapped from Greenfield University by terrorists and some of them murdered. Now, this university is owned by a Southern Nigerian who saw it fit to invest in our region.
Considering this, I don't think we can be able to convince another Southern Nigerian to come and invest in our region anymore, let alone us even thinking of marketing our region to the outside world.

Yes, we can say that these settlers have brought trade, commerce, innovation, capital e.t.c to our region, however when we juxtapose these benefits in the light of our current predicaments, it brings us back to the main question above.
OUR FATHERS' DECISIONS TO WELCOME EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY, WAS IT A MISTAKE OR WAS IT WORTH IT?

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Written by
(Noah K. Son_Of_The_Plateau)
Plateau Gurara Gongola.

The usage of the word, "Mistake" , is a misnomer. You and forbearers committed a blunder. You went further in 1967 to compound the silly blunder by foolishly cow-towed with the boneheaded son of the Plateau called Gowon to precipitate a war against Ndigbo and Biafrans. You sold out in 1967 and chickens have come home to roost.

Tissaia:
What wrong with this comment? Is there something inaccurate? Or we will not talk about the past...

In January 1966, some senior Nigerian army officers, mostly of the Igbo ethnic group, assassinated key politicians during a coup in the West African state.

Those killed included Ahmadu Bello, a revered leader in the north.

After1970 Many Igbo still feel sidelined in Nigerian politics, as since the civil war no-one from the ethnic group has become president.

Who started all the chaos? in other to dominate, because they see everyone as inferior they always make wrong calculations. y'all just can't keep threatening Nigerians with secessions while you're enjoying the settings. you should all go back to the south east erect a border so that we will know you are serious.

Killing of Ahmed gulag is still fresh, Insulting everyone on social media is useless just try something better.

I think y'all would have done better if y'all had handled it with a little bit more intelligence, in the past. I think now that Ojukwu… thought he was Jesus Christ.

He thought he could do magic. If he had slowed down and allowed some people who were with him to advise him properly, y'all would have come out better than you did.

They call this "Democracy" the white people imprisoned us all in this hellhole. the Yorubas are smart, the North are also trying to be smart. Politics is about making smart move not acting arrogant and thinking you're superior because your grandad lied to u about been Jewish.

From the above crap, I deduced you are neither a good reader nor bright student. The bolded explained your inherent indebtedness to intellectualism. What the January 15,1966 coup plotters tried to avert is happing now in the name of Muhammadu Buhari. In 1961, the Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, through nepotistic tendencies, recruited goons such as Muhammadu Buhari into Nigerian army officers cadre without basic qualification. Most of the goons became heads of state in Nigeria hence ruined what would have become a beautiful country.

obynzo:
You see why you guys are just being misled that coup was not an igbo coup. Ejoor was batallion commander in Enugu when he foiled the coup in the East, again he has always said in passing how he foiled the coup by removing the boys in charge of the armoury who would have given weapons to the coup plotters. Again the presence of the Papal Nuncio as a guest of M.I Okpara prevented the boys from picking him after picking Sir Akanu Ibiam. Again the forgotten Manuscripts of Ifeajuna stated clearly that the backers of the coup were from AG and NCNC so clearly it was not an igbo coup.

Ejoor never foiled any coup in Enugu. As matter of fact, Ejoor never resumed duty as the CO of 1st Battalion, Enugu when 1966 coup was precipitated. Ejoor was still in Lagos at army HQ and would have been liquated in a hotel room where he was lodged.

babaolofin:
There is no any outcome to come out. FUTO is only displaying the attributes of the people of the region. IMO State governor had an input in this. I cannot imagine FUTO saying that NITDA is a research institution, thereby NITDA DG position is a research fellow position.

Can FUTO tell late Professor Gabriel Ajayi or Professor Cleopas Angaye that were former DG of NITDA that the DG position is a research fellow position which qualifies the occupant for a professorship award?

FUTO ! What has gone wrong. Jacobian where are you? Ndubuisi Ekekwe where are you? Is this the FUTO that you left or it has become another institution entirely ? FUTO is gone.

You are one reason Nigeria is called basket of fools. FUTO is a federal government institution. The jackass called Isa Pantami can never be accepted as a laboratory attendant in Imo State University any institution with roots in Imo State.

GBOKASINCHA:
Imo state and their iberiberism i wonder how that state take enter southeast map

Please before you jump off with your idiocy, FUTO is a federal government of Nigeria institution and has nothing to do with Imo State except being the site.

I wonder the result of open season which may be declared on police in Ebonyi State.

Validated:
Join the new mega party All Progressive People Democratic Congress (APPDC).
This the party that we the youth will ride on to power. Both PDP, APC, APGA, Accord, Labour parties are to steal money
Mandate:
1. - Free qualitative 12 years of compulsory education upto high school level
2. - Education grant to all tertiary institution students between N20k to N100k based on courses and programmes
3. - Free maternal health and infant/child under 10 years
4. - Monthly education grant to all children of 10 years upto N5000 per child upto 2 children per household
5. - improve tax system for every able-bodied Nigerian. Expand tax base and wealth tax
6. - Resusitation of school-to-farm programme for all graduates willing to farm. Govt will buy up produce at harvest
7. - Subsidies to all farmers by way of farm tools and implement
8. - Resusitate the Nigeria Agricultural Development Bank to grant loans and help agro-allied industries
9. - Enact a new anti-corruption law, with penalty upto death and confiscation of assets globally on conviction
10 a- Reform the Armed Forces for agility and response
b- Reform the Nigeria Police, imcluding creation of state police

Any old criminal politicians and serial defectors are not welcomed. Any political baggages carriers are not welcomed.
All candidates under APPDC will depose to an oath to vacate office immediately on defection.

Please, join this wave kets make Nigeria great for once.

APPDC -We move! Forward Ever, Backward Never

You lost my vote with the bolded.

Bluntguy:
The Igbos really want to go their way. If an Igbo man loses interest in anything, nothing changes his conviction . That is what is happening.

You could not be more correct with the bolded. I had shot any Igbo person who shows remote interest in the presidency of the shithole called Nigeria.

divinehand2003:
The Ohaneze and other political leaders from Ibo land have repeatedly denounced this idea of succession in the public space because they know it might not be profitable to the region if they go in that direction. I believe strengthening your political idea in unity and with one voice is the way to success in Nigeria.

The same fools who cannot be mentioned for presidential candidacy of the shithole called Nigeria.

Agbonma19:
Some people have justified the lunacy in the Southeast on the ground that revolution is not a tea party and cannot be without collateral damage.

Maybe! But there must be a goal and the strategy must be right. What is the goal here? Is it to force Buhari’s hands to set Kanu free? Anyone who knows Buhari well and the mindset that underpins his actions will know that won’t happen.

IPOB’s actions are tantamount to cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. Buhari does not care. In fact, he will be happy that Igbo youths are helping him complete the job of reducing South-East to the level where Northeast is right now.

The businesses that are destroyed are owned by Ndigbo. The students that are prevented from sitting external examinations are Igbo. The sit-at-home order is only hurting the economy of the South-East. So, why should Buhari bother?

To pretend, as some people are doing, that those wreaking havoc in South-East are agents of the Nigerian State, including operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), rather than IPOB or Eastern Security Network (ESN) members is to play the ostrich.

Today, many Igbos are afraid not of Buhari, but IPOB. How can a group that claims to be fighting for the emancipation of its people reduce them to frightened zombies? Many Igbos are afraid to travel to the South-East because they are in mortal fear of the “freedom fighters.” This is not what Ndigbo are known for. To allow the bourgeoning rule of the mob to thrive is to bid goodbye to our republican civilisation. That is not an option.

Those who are busy fanning the embers of this madness should reflect on the posers Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra State, raised on Tuesday: “Will investors come to the zone under the present condition? Will established businesses not think of leaving the South-East under such a condition? Will traders from neighbouring countries that flock Aba and Onitsha on Mondays not seek alternatives? Will some industries not think of re-locating?”

Making South-East ungovernable in the name of self-determination is a self-defeating gambit. It is counterproductive. Ndigbo are better than that. This madness must stop.

Visit: https://www.thenicheng.com/ipob-this-madness-must-stop/

You sounded like a dunce in the above crap. It is funny you know IPOB yet you cannot fathom their goal.

richmond500:
see u, so u think say Buhari use him name borrow the money?
He actually used his office the govt will definitely pay.

And the country won't divide because except street urchins and touts, no one is championing this breakup

You are simply delusional. Nigeria must breakup!!!. There are many countries which have broken up. The only country which will pay debts owed by Nigeria is the country that retained Nigeria as an entity. There is no way any creditor would want Biafra or Republic of Igboland to pay the debts owed by the shithole called Nigeria. Nigeria dies with its debts.