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cap28:
I used to be an ardent church goer but not anymore, the more you find out about what is going on in the world the more cynical you become, foreign religions have destroyed the minds of most africans - the christian missionaries worked hand in hand with the slave traders and the bible was used to cow and brainwash african people into submission.  This is why today many nigerians are virtually human vegetables with zero ability to think critically.

religion in nigeria is big business and is used to keep nigerians oppressed and exploited - this is the reason why the ruling classes in nigeria are not afraid of a revolution because they know the average nigerian is completely spineless.

ezeagu:
"The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more ,  the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. Unfortunately, my IQ scores have always come lower than the Asian average, but we have to make exceptions for outliers sometimes, don't we!" - Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

Get it?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew

cap28:
thank you my brother - watch this:

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Nj girl:
This thread is encouraging it shows we ve got lots of wise youths.
I was once watching one of the educational tv channels and a dinosaur fossil was dug up in an african country and guess what in the presence of citizens it was carried away by foreigners to a foriegn lab.
The most heartbreaking part of it is that the african country aint that rich and the foriegners will make lots of money with showing off that fossil in the museum.
We either unite and shun ethnocentrism or stay divided and be in water while soap makes mincemeat of our eyes

phreakabit:
Honestly I think it should start from the educational sector. There should be compulsory changes made in all books/publications with the word BLACK used[b] in reference[/b] to sub-Saharan Africans. I started hearing people refer to Sub-Saharan Africans as "black" right from primary school, so it some how got stuck in my consciousness. I think the easiest way to kill this BIG PROBLEM is starting from the schools.

BTW: The North Africans "call themselves" Mediterraneans! LOL. Also there is nothing wrong in speaking English. Africa has just too many languages to pick one . Besides you dont expect more than half of the entire continent to start learning a new language from scratch ?

Beaf:
http://www.sc-sl.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=L6igKdrjyyg=&tabid=160

All for daimonds.
Sierra Leonian war victims that had limbs amputated by the unspeakably evil Gaddafi armed RUF:

https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/children3.jpg

https://www.africanwanderings.com/wp-content/hopeinfootball1.jpg

Prior to the 1966 coup which ushered in General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, very few people in Nigeria had ever seen soldiers before. They were mostly confined to the barracks. Most of us in those days did not even know that Nigerians soldiers were sent to the Congo.




Even now, most history books never recorded the exploits and bravery of Nigerian soldiers in the West African Auxiliary Force who distinguished themselves in the First and Second World Wars on the side of the British colonial masters in Burma and East Africa. That is another story.

Then came the first time I saw soldiers in 1966 on TV, and one of them was the face of a young Colonel called Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who at the time was named the Governor of the Eastern Region. The name, Ojukwu, itself connotes some kind of force, some authority, some discipline and romanticism to me, at least. To make it more intriguing to me, I had never before seen a soldier who has a full beard as this man. The perception then, to us civilians, was that soldiers are not allowed to grow beards as part of their service; and that Ojukwu was given special dispensation by the Nigerian Army to do so because the beard just wouldn’t go. This further reinforced my belief that this was a hard, stern, disciplined man, and to me as a Yoruba man, further confirmed to me that the Igbo were a tough and hardy people.

Throughout his tenure, and before and during the civil war, I never saw Ojukwu smile. He was always taciturn, serious, stern, and hard-faced, another feature that convinced me of his being a man of sterner stuff; a man not given to trivialities or nonsense. It was therefore no surprise to me, even at that very young age of mine, after the large scale massacre of his people and his disaffection with the Military Government of General Yakubu Gowon, who was his (Ojukwu’s) junior in the Army, that he felt he had to secede from the Nigerian nation to save and protect his people.

With the benefit of hindsight, and considering the current and increasingly violent fractious situation of Nigeria, who can blame him? I feel in fact that the Ikemba, as Ojukwu’s title is called, is now wholly vindicated.

I do not need here to recite a long biography; his birth, school; army career and his infamous war with Nigeria are well documented. Suffice it to say he was born into a rich family, well educated both in Nigeria and in the UK and in 1957, within months of working with the colonial civil service, he left and joined the military as one of the first and few university graduates to join the army: O. Olutoye (1956); C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu (1957), E. A. Ifeajuna and C. O. Rotimi (1960), and A. Ademoyega (1962). (Wikipedia)

His popular background and sound education guaranteed his promotion to higher ranks. Besides, as at 1956, the Nigerian Military Forces had 250 officers and only 15 were Nigerians. There were 6,400 other ranks, of which 336 were British. It is not surprising that he is N/29 (W.U. Bassey was N/1, while JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi was N/2; the first Nigerian to be commissioned as an officer, Lieutenant L. V. Ugboma, left in 1948) Odumegwu-Ojukwu has an understandably fast rise in the military, eventually becoming the Quartermaster General.


Ojukwu served in the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in the Congo, under the legendary Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1964 and posted to Kano, where he was in charge of the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian Army. He was in Kano, northern Nigeria, when Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu on January 15, 1966 executed and announced the bloody military coup in Kaduna, also in northern Nigeria.

It is to his credit that the coup lost much steam in the north, where it had succeeded. Lt. Col. Odumegwu-Ojukwu supported the forces loyal to the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Major-General Aguiyi-Ironisi. Major Nzeogwu was in control of Kaduna, but the coup had flopped in other parts of the country. He surrendered.



General Aguiyi-Ironsi took over the leadership of the country and thus became the first military head of state. On Monday, January 17, 1966, he appointed military governors for the four regions. Lt. Col. Odumegwu-Ojukwu was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Region. Others were: Lt.-Cols Hassan Usman Katsina (North), Francis Adekunle Fajuyi (West), and David Akpode Ejoor (Mid West). These men formed the Supreme Military Council with Brigadier B.A.O Ogundipe, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, Chief of Staff Army HQ, Commodore J. E. A. Wey, Head of Nigerian Navy, Lt. Col. George T. Kurubo, Head of Air Force.


By May 29, 1966, things quickly fell apart: There was a planned pogrom in Northern Nigeria during which Nigerians of South-Eastern Nigeria origin were targeted and killed. This presented problems for the young military governor, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu. He did everything in his power to prevent reprisals and even encouraged people to return, as assurances for their safety had been given by his supposed colleagues up north and out west.

On July 29, 1966, a group of officers of Northern origin, notably Majors Murtala Ramat Rufai Muhammed, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, and Martin Adamu, led the majority Northern soldiers in a mutiny that was later tagged “counter-coup.” The Supreme Commander General Aguiyi-Ironsi and his host Colonel Fajuyi were abducted and killed in Ibadan.

First, Ojukwu, to his credit, insisted that the military hierarchy must be preserved; in which case, Brigadier Ogundipe should take over leadership, not Colonel Gowon. But Ogundipe no longer had the stomach to deal with the army; he was easily convinced to step aside and was posted to the Nigerian High Commission in London.

They ended up in Aburi, Ghana in January 1967 for a peace conference hosted by General Joseph Ankrah. Three days later on May 30, 1967, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA:

"Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra." (Wikipedia)



The rest is history. Of course, as we know, Ojukwu was officially pardoned by President Shehu Shagari and after 13 years in exile, returned in triumph to Nigeria. At the time, it was felt that Ojukwu was used as a political pawn used by the ruling NPN of Shagari, to get the Igbo vote and was then dumped unceremoniously. A political naivety for the Ikemba, I’d say.



I have always felt that this hard, intelligent and well-educated Nigerian eventually succumbed to the Nigerian disease called sycophancy and flattery. He was severally mis-advised and fed wrong information as to the real vagaries of politics in Nigeria. Of course, being a military man, he would always be found wanting when it comes to immersing himself in that deadly unique Nigerian partisan politics, and it was no wonder his name was smeared several times, not only by the rest of Nigeria but significantly by his own people, the Igbos.



To me, Ikemba (Dim) Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu remains a Nigerian icon. He might not necessarily be seen as hero to many Nigerians, but he was one of those leaders, worthy, who shaped Nigeria. Methinks it was unfortunate he was born in this era, and probably a younger Ojukwu today, or in the last decade would have made very significantly positive contributions to the progress of this country.



To me, I will never lose respect for him. It is often the case that when people like Ojukwu die, all kinds of encomiums and eulogies will be written. Nobody will ever see him in a bad light.

To me he was a Liberator of his people; to me, he was the “Rebel Leader of Biafra”, as we used to hear in those days of the Civil War; but he was not a tribal leader, never a tribal leader. The man was too liberated, too intelligent and too educated to descend that low. This I hope we will all agree on. He did all he could to keep Nigeria one but under a very different and difficult circumstance when he could no longer see any alternative.

A privileged upbringing and best education with one of the then richest men in Nigeria as a father, Odumegwu, rather than rely on the wealth of his father, chose to enter the common workforce by joining the Civil Service and was then inclined to join the Army, all against the wishes of his father.

Mind you, Ojukwu was not a Hero, but an Icon; the reason being that it is difficult and not appropriate to label him such because, ultimately, he should take and share the blame for the millions of Igbos and other Nigerians who lost their lives as a result of the Biafra War. This is purely my opinion, and I am sure others will not agree with my use of those nouns, but one thing is that I have never perceived him as a villain of the piece. He will always be my hard-faced, bearded, strong and intelligent leader. He did what he felt he had to do then.

I have no doubt that in a different age; Ojukwu could have been the type of leader we yearn for in this confounded country of ours. Not only to the Igbos but to all who call themselves Nigerians.

When we look back and forward to the present day Nigeria and how it is being run to the ground by the corrupt, hypocritical, religious and tribal fanatics, then perhaps it is time we started looking at Dim Ojukwu in a new light.

I am never one to heap praises and eulogies on our leaders, but this is a time I have to change my stance.

A true Nigerian Icon has gone.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.

Akintokunbo Adejumo

solomon111:
And let all this diasporeans shut the hell up.They left the country for dead,and are only agitizing for revolution from their comfort zone.They have no right nor say in this discussion.If they wont join in the revolution at home,then they dont deserve to share in any resultant benefit.BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES

Nigerian government through the Bank of Industry (BOI) and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) is investing N75 billion funding facility to Nigerian entertainment industry, Nollywood, BusinessNews reports.



The entertainment industry in Nigeria has taken an upward swing in the past decade, drawing the attention of the government and global multilateral funding agencies to the sector’s potential to trigger a major growth in the economy.



The potential of the essential sector of the economy has now led to the arrangement of the N75 billion fund that would be targeted at the different point in the value chain of the entire entertainment industry, from artiste development to video production and editing and then marketing and distribution.



The Managing Director, BOI, Ms Evelyn Oputu, during an annual general symposium organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), said the fund was at the verge of disbursement.

Dr. Jude Igwemezie
Dr. Jude Igwemezie was born in Nigeria. He is the Founder & President of ARRT - a railway consulting engineering and research company.

Dr. Igwemezie is an expert in structural mechanics, stress and failure analysis, design, testing and assessment of railway structures, and derailment investigations.

Dr. Igwemezie is also the Founder & President of The UniP Tie Co. Inc. UniP Tie Company Inc. (UniP) is a privately owned corporation that manufactures and supplies railway steel ties.

He is the inventor of the The UniP steel tie. This unique steel tie design won the Gold Medal in the 1996 Canadian Design Engineering Awards.

Dr. Igwemezie is the Founder & President of NorfastInc - a company that manufactures functional, practical and cost effective rail-to-tie fastening systems.

Dr. Igwemezie is the inventor of the patented Norfast Tie Plate and Clip Assembly products.

Education:

PhD Engineering, McGill University
Principal Researcher, CIGGT Queens University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens University

kelz88:
OP, please tell them. They would rather wait for manna to fall from heaven.


‎"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Teach a man how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime; Give him Religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish"

martinosi:
The Nigerian Govt borrows Billions of Dollars every year to finance is "Fiscal Expenditure" outlay
Goldman Sachs is an agent to Finance the Under-writing of the Bonds on the International
close circuit Bond Market,

Why do you think Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga was the Finance Minister and now is the
Trade & Investment Minister? lol He was put their by the lobbying of Goldman to make sure
the Bond Payments are respected!!

Word among my former Investment Banking Colleagues is that Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga is
Goldman Sachs/J P Morgans "Errand Boy" to shop around for Investment Deals for their
Corporate Buddies in "The City" & "Wall Street". lol!!!

ROFLAMO! oh Nigerian are being played bigtime, .Technocrats from Investment Banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley etc) are now running nearly all the Finance & Trade Departments of African Govt who are in debt to America/Western Europe.

What a Joke!!!