₦airaland Forum

richmond500:
Wait so Civilians are having army escort in the north?

Funny.... it's been happening for years. There are many routes in the north you dare not ply without convoy. In fact, if you arrived late and the military led convoy had left, you park and wait until the next day when they come back and escort that day's convoy.

Misterone:
story. There's no know kingdom in igbo land other than Onitsha and Agbor before the 1800s

So you never heard of Eze Aro and Eze Nri?

How does this even relate to the topic in discussion?

Codepain:
Lol when those people you are courting says they aren't ibo what will you do?

Courting kwa? Can someone court you out of being a Yoruba man? So one judge like Omotosho could declare you're no longer a Yoruba and it becomes so?

You see...even Jesus, the greatest Man that walked the earth said what's born of the flesh is flesh and what's born of the Spirit is spirit. You have no way of feeding a lizard to make it a crocodile. In like manner, despite Nigeria and British wiles against Igbo, an Igbo will remain an Igbo.

We have seen the caging what is remaining is the removal

Una don perfect the rigging plan ba?

Kai...

I wish Trump would put eye in 2027 presidential election make una begin shout sovereignty again.

Maduro things go load.

mandarin:
Write ups will not win you such people. Those people will need to embrace the Igbo. You must be able to convince them they are your people through their fathers' compound somewhere in a town or village in the hinterland.

The Ikwere, Opobo and Anioma are important to an Igbo nation for three reasons;
1. Access to the sea (Ikwere & Opobo are the gateways)
2. Access to resources such as oil and gas (Ikwere & Opobo are key)
3. Access to the western flanks across the Niger( The Anioma are the gateway)

The need for these three sections are quite understandable because they appear as the low hanging fruit. I noticed during the Anioma state campaign, the moment some elements in the Anioma says yes they wanted the state but would be counted as a south south sate, many pro Anioma backed off to prefer other alternatives.

The Anioma, judging by the position of their traditional rulers have various groups and ancestry to Benin or Igala which is why you have some wanting to stick with Bini and others with Igbo. Even Onitsha traced its ancestry to Bini and Philip Emegwali one of its most illustrious sons says its a Bini ancestry.
How do you then lay claims to people who don't share your dream of being in the same country?
I believe if Nigeria don't restructure, it cannot survive a 100years history from independence but even if Nigeria were to divide into different new countries eventually, once there is a Niger Delta Republic, the hope of Biafra is dashed as the Igbo, a very industrious people will have to use a new name I supposed. So all these campaigns are meant to increase the greater survival of the Igbo nation.

Lets look at that scenario even more; the Niger Delta itself will be super volatile as groups want to claim the low hanging fruits, the oil and gas reserves because this is what will provide immediate funding and survival for any new country and it can lead to spontaneous conflagrations across different areas of the new country and ethnic boundaries can become flashpoints. However if the evolvement of the country is midwifed by say the US or any other country, the intention of the Igbo to adventure to take over say by claiming Ikwere land is theirs and starting a war will unite those groups to resist such adventure and make negotiation of access to the sea difficult. What the Igbo nation must do is extract favorable terms in getting access to use the seaport there am assuming at Calabar, Ibaka and Onne.

So Niger Delta as an independent nation would fight among themselves? So Igbo would fight against Ikwerre in your opinion? Yet Yoruba who are known to always be at each other's jugular would form their own country I
In peace?

Why do you people love lying to yourselves? Igbo have lived for thousands of years in our domain without even a unified government and have lived largely in peace with minorities in the Niger Delta. So it's now because you're applying the same divide and rule that has enabled you and Fulani to loot the country dry that you remembered Igbo cannot live in peace with them anymore.

You try sha, but try harder.

aswani:
Nzeogwu was from Opanam, about the most principled Nigerian soldier ever by the way.

Igbuzor was renamed Ibusa.

Two simple facts you got wrong in your write up that I skimmed over.

I wonder how many more there is in your podt in your haste to claim to be a victim of Lord K ws what?

You're right about Okpanam. That skipped me because Igbouzo is a neighboring community. That's the only thing you got right in your comment. Thanks anyway.

The boy was never a Christian. No Christian could ever become a Muslim. Unless of course those weak ones who could do it out of fear of death. A real Christian becoming a Muslim? Nah...

Eagles never become chickens.

I posted a reply to a comment by someone who may be an Igbo:

You spoke like someone who has accepted a lie. When you say the Igbo don’t need Rivers State, you are not speaking from knowledge, you are speaking from a script written by our adversaries.

Let me be clear: There is in reality nothing called Rivers State. There is nothing called Enugu, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Abia, or even Delta. These are administrative fictitious lines drawn on a map not by us, but against us. The states in Nigeria were not created for development, they were tactically created to dismember Ndi Igbo. It was the British who advised Gowon to fragment our land, to cut us into pieces so that we would forget that we were once a nation.

But the soil does not forget, and the blood does not dilute.


Today, Ndi Igbo have been fragmented in no fewer than 13 states of Nigeria. In Rivers State alone, you have Obigbo, the very name a testament to our presence. You have Etche. You have Umuokoro (Rumuokoro). Are we now to abandon our kith and kin there because an a m a l a (not Ama- Ala) person from another tr i be says so? Are we to cede our brothers to political labels invented in 1967?

Chukwuma Nzeogwu, the man who led the January 1966 coup, was an Igbo man from Igbuzo, a town the British renamed "Ibuzo." If Nigeria eventually splits, are we to tell our people in Delta State to fend for themselves because others say they are "South-South"? Do we abandon the graves of the thousands of Igbos murdered in Asaba? Do we forget that Murtala Muhammed’s soldiers massacred our people in that very Igbo town simply because they were Igbo?

The lie that "Igbo land" is confined to the five Southeast states is the greatest weapon used against our unity. The truth is far grander.

In Edo State, we have Igbanke. I have a friend from Igbanke who bears the name Emeka - as Igbo a name as any.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was originally from Delta, an Igbo name like any other, just like Ifeanyi (Okowa). Before the whiteman came, the largest and most powerful Igbo city was not in the Southeast as we know it today. It was Aboh (in present-day Delta State). The other most influential Igbo city was Arochukwu (in present-day Abia). Aboh was the gateway to the Atlantic, a mighty Igbo trading hub that controlled the riverlines.

Before the colonial incursion, the Igbo nation stretched from the Benue-Plateau region all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Today, our clans are scattered across Kogi, Benue, Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Edo, and Delta. These are not "Igbos in diaspora." These are Igbos at home as any other Igbo. Same language, same ancestry, and they are no less Igbo than any other.

The British didn't just colonize us, they tried to fragment our memory through Nigeria. They renamed our towns, drew new boundaries, and created new ethnic identities to weaken the numerical and political strength of the Igbo nation. They succeeded in making many of us believe that an Igbo man from Delta is a different species from an Igbo man from Enugu.

Ndi Igbo, we must reject this Nigerian lie. Igbo is not "Southeast." It is a geopolitical zone created to cage us, not to define us. I sometimes wonder the role of Ohaneze Ndigbo. What is their function and usefulness to the Igbo nation? Even Kanu as a person seems to have accomplished far more in a few years than that group. I sincerly hope they're not another appendage of the Nigerian oppression of the Igbo nation.

Look at the map of Igbo land from the 19th century - the one the British met when they arrived. That is our true heritage. Let us remember it, protect it, and never abandon our kith and kins. Igbo ... is just a matter of time.

Igbo Kwenu!
Igbo Kwenu!
Igbo Kwezue nu!

My error: Nzeogwu was from Okpanam, not Igbouzo. Okpanam is a neighboring community just like Asaba and I got it mixed up.

Walai:
First of all, I'm not Igbo. I want Biafra to come because that's a big leverage for achieving our aim here in having a Middle Belt Republic
Secondly, the huge gas reserves in the SE is like a joke to you? We're talking of one of Africas largest reserves still untapped. Igbo don't need Rivers State because they're a future liability. After Nigeria have tapped all the oil and petrodollars, they will now transfer a pollution and environmentally degraded Rivers State to Biafra.

Dr

You actually spoke like someone who is not informed. You cannot say Igbo don't need Rivers state. In reality, there is nothing like Rivers state, just as there is nothing like Abia, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra or even Delta. States were tactically created in Nigeria to divide Ndiigbo. The British advised Gowon to do that to minify the influence of the Igbo nation.


Igbo are in 13 states of Nigeria. For instance, in Rivers, you have Obigbo (heart of Igbo), you have Etche, you have Umuokoro (Rumuokoro) and others. Are you saying that Ndiigbo should leave their kiths and kins because some a m a l a perso ons say so?

Chukwuma Nzeogwu who led the January 1966 coup is an Igbo from Igbouzo (renamed Ibuzo by the British). Are you saying that if Nigeria splits, that Ndiigbo should leave their kiths and kins in Delta state because Nigeria wants Igbo divided? Are you aware that millions of Igbo were murdered because of Nzeogwu? Are you aware that thousands of Igbos were murdered by Murtala Muhammed at Asaba, an Igbo town?

Are you aware that in Edo, there are Igbo? In fact, my friend from Igbanke Edo bears Emeka, just as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was originally from Delta state? Are you even aware that before the white people came here, that the largest Igbo cities were Aboh in present-day Delta state and Arochukwu in present-day Abia? Are you aware that Igbo land stretches from present-day Benue-Plateau to the Atlantic ocean? Kogi, Benue, Crossriver, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Delta have Igbo clans in them who are no less Igbo than those in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi.

You Igbos, all Igbos must never allow the Nigerian lie that Igbo is southeast. The Igbo country map that the British met in the 19th Century is what I leave you with.

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Who started a thread to wail over Yoruba matter? Is it not your brother? Who is taking Panadol for headache Yorubas are supposed to have? Is it not you and your brother?

We do not need your warning or doom and gloom prediction. We have always done better than you reacting maturely, efficiently, productively and sincerely to threats.

Simply compare the fortunes of Amotekun, now the best complementary security force to the NPF in Nigerian, and Ebebeagu, disbanded for many atrocities to include armed robbery and summary execution, to note who needs help and warnings yet will never stop doing cho cho cho over the affairs of others.

In 2014, I as an Igbo was struck with horror when I saw some Benue and Southern Kaduna people campaigning for Buhari. I confronted one Benue lady and one Southern Kaduna man regarding their lack of foresight.

The Benue lady asked me who she would vote if not Buhari. I told her that Benue would pay for a Buhari presidency in blood she thought I was joking. The Southern Kaduna man only replied that he had never seen me angry the way I spoke to them.

I was angry because it seems only Africans lack foresight.

What I just posted is in plain sight but many of you lack the acuity to see it or you'd rather not see it because you hope you'd survive it and that it gives your man opportunity to continue looting for your tribe.


Have you watched the movie, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly where one man Blando loved gold more than his life?

WizardOfNG:
The evil you wish on the SW, and have always historically wished upon us, will rebound to you.

That reality should be clear to you given it is not today you have begun wishing doom and gloom on us yet we continue to make progress to now be the Premier region of Nigeria currently, along with the SS, while your region is troubled and regressing.

I would advise you to mind your business but such advice would be wasted on you because, from your leaders like Obi to the man in the Street, all you lot know to do is ignore the huge plank in your eyes to be pointing at the speck of dust in Yoruba man's eye.

I'm not a Fulani so stop crying at me. Dry your eyes...

This one is no news na. All the Tinubu e r a t s are waiting for Igbo, Peter Obi or Nnamdi Kanu news. As their masters s la u g h t e r them, no comment as long as they give Tinubu second term.

When m u m u i s m has a clan.

But they'll switch off IREV if it's presidential election and say there was a glitch.

There are just three pathways to becoming a president in this country.

1/ just steal enough public funds
2/ steal more public funds
3/ steal even more public funds


And you'll have them in your pocket. Election and all.

garykoeman:
Obi votes in 2023 was as a result of voters aparty to M.M ticket.

How come all the candidates he supported after the election lost, even in anambra his home state.

Mind you Peter obi has never contested or won any party primaries but was always handpicked. E.g Apga, labour party.

Obi will forever remain a regional candidate.

So Lagos and Abuja where he floored Tinubu are his region? Go to school you say no na 30kslavery work better.

The soulless serpent has made another post about the APC nightmare Peter Obi.

What smirks of weirdness is how anyone could be fixated on a man they claimed came third in an election completely ignoring Atiku whom they claimed came second.

Ladies and gentlemen, APC knows whose mandate they stole and it definitely isn't Atiku's.

press9jatv:
Social media is currently awash with disturbing reports that the All Progressives Congress’ Ondo State Chapter’s Chairman was physically assaulted today. This conduct is primitive at best and inhuman at worst.


#folorunsofataiAdisa

This conduct is very normal in that side of the town...
Owomida county

louqas:
Yes , there was one or two other tribes among them
The majority and leaders were igbos, try harder but every evidence even you provide points to no other conclusion than it was an igbo planned and executed coup

Buh...we know who the liars are.

Joke of a country. If the NSA admits his phone was bugged, he has no business holding that job. That means not even Tinubu phone isn't safe.

louqas:
In other words , the coup was justified and there was no corrupt igbo politician , we don hear
Move on to the next chapter of your revisionism, na only igbos like you kuku believe all the revisionism because their fathers who lost the war told a lot of cock and bull stories on why they lost and LIED so as to cover their foolishness of facing a national army with a rag tag army of volunteers armed ith sticks and a few Dane guns

Babangida, Ademoyega are not Igbo names o. As per lies, we know those whose specialty it is.

Is $9 million your mate?
The company Tinubu gave the windfall would be like "these foolish government" let's pretend we're working by publishing one propaganda article of $100 for them.

The terrorists are crying... crying... crying...
The terrorists are crying....
All through the house

writetopoka:
Must they announce all the arrival?

Infact I see it as more of an information to the terrorists that Americans are here ooo.

Wicked MuguJs

Don't mind them. People whose expertise is concealing the number of troops killed by terrorists are now announcing American troops arrivals up and down. Yeye they smell.

This guy gives Nigeria too much credit. He thinks because the British cobbled up a bunch of African tribes into a warehouse for the whiteman's greed that it automatically translates into a functional country like where he's from.

I thought they said 200 initially? Is it the initial 200 plus this 100 or just 100? Trump should expedite action on terrorists Nigerian branch the way Israel does with Palestinian and Lebanese branches.

Based on your projection, this is a sign of disgrace for a g b a d o r I the m a s t e r ba?

dragunov:
So the politicians of other regions were corrupt but only the Ibos weren't. It's OK. Keep it up.

Look at this report by the British I attached. They even mentioned the Igbo high moral value in contrast with you... It is a known fact that any form of decadence you see in Igbo society today is as a result of Nigeria's influence, especially the civil war.

No one calls out corrupt Igbo politicians like Igbos. You know them: Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas, and the likes of TA Orji and Ikpeazu. Despite the disdain Igbos have for them, are they not the ones you people love?

In fact, in your region, crooked politicians and traditional rulers are celebrated. Is it not why the best you have is Tinubu?

Fact is, coup plotters know corrupt and disposed politicians and usually show them no mercy. You may choose to whitewash it.
Are we not happy the latest coup failed? What do you think would have happened and how would it differ from the January 66 coup?

You guys hype it because by definition Nigeria is a weapon formed against the Igbo. You all are fixated on Igbo hate while Fulani is fixated on wiping you all off. What a paradox.

Looters taxing to reloot