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Please can we get past all this talk.......I hardly hear people talk about solutions, the future and how to move this country forward. Please lets leave the past buried and lets discuss issues that would unite us, and make life better for us and generations to come.

All this blame trading and insults will only breed anger/bitterness and further drive us apart.

ITS HIGH TIME WE LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE.......LETS DISCUSS SOLUTIO

This is for those trying to cover up history, biafrans fought a war of self defence against a lager interest which is the British. The British had the resources of the then Biafra as their strategic interest and backed the then Nigerian government to achieve it. More small arms rounds were used in biafra war than the second world war. That explains the extent of atrocities committed against biafrans. It is left for the actors to apologize for the atrocities they committed.

All these people shouting BIAFRA, do you realize that rivers, bayelsa, akwa ibom, c rivers won't be part of u when u break away? Do u realize that the east won't be able to contain ur population? That the ibos would lose all their investments outside the east? That you would be a landlocked country? No landlocked country has ever prospered economically.

Where can I download/buy this book? Is there an e-book for it? I see so much truth in it.

Igbos are not cry babies.
When your own people were killed in their millions, its memory alone is heart wrenching.
A simple acknowledgement and possibly an apology for not intervening fast enough when the massacre was going on against a particular people in the north, is enough to defuse any hurt and tears remaining from that time.
Not defences up and down.
We continue to ask: what happened during the war? Were we there?
We can find that answer in our present day with the goings-on in the north. War against a group of people- again.
Is someone doing something about it? Is the government acknowledging to the people that they see what is happening, and do everything in their power to stop it?
When they protest, what is done?
Itt is easy to call them 'ungrateful, troublemakers', when the people involved are not largely your people.
Let us leave sentiments aside pls , and face the situation head on.
When something is bad, say it is bad. Do not colour it even if your brother is involved.
The solution to This nation's problem will be when the right apologies are given/adequate security is given to the same people you want to be a part of the entity Nigeria.
How can they live comfortably when history against their people is being repeated?
And the same ELDERS posing as advisers cannot deem it fit to 'advise' their own people to stop killing innocent citizens.
See how fast they have come out to talk about a book. Yet the same people conveniently ignore that the atrocity going on in their backyard is of greater urgency than a mere book.
May God have mercy on us as a nation.
So much hypocricy!
The past is past.
A book is there to learn and move on...not fight over it.
But the War going on presently at our backyard? Why can't they channel that much energy into a more urgent topic?
Which of them has ever opened their mouth to address it?
God's wrath will not spare the wicked. Because it is wicked to keep silent while people are dying just because they aren't your people.

L pls.help answer this question
Why Igbos are slaughter daily in the north?
Why is there no relationship between south east and south south?
WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER SOUTH WEST, with flourishing business even serve in the cabinet of state governors?
Why this holier than thou accusations against the dead?

Achebe most b enemy of progress 4 this country 4 him to have wake up a dead case @ this crucial state of d country. Useless old man

Who gives a flying phuck about Awolowo and Achebe?

I AM TIRED OF ALL THESE RANTS.
Pls can someone help us understand by telling us how these e-fights have improved his/her life?
Reason with your heads and not your emotions!
Stop heating up a society that wants to have its peaceful rest.
Igbo or yoruba, we are all one. Wonderful people at that.
Can we hear better news? God help this nation.
The war has come and gone.
It is ANCIENT HISTORY. Do you want to go back to that time?
Move on. Stop these meaningless insults all over the place before other nations wonder if Nigerians are okay in the head.
Read books and move on. You musn't fight over every one of them.

the only peace we have here is the truth which could be demonstrated in many way; an ordinary call for international airliners to use Enugu airport has turn to tribal anger from the other sides

so what are saying? pro corruption the so called logical analyst?

What a crazy world we live in...Let by-gone be by-gone...Achebe just wants 2 start something he won't be able 2 finish

boz should have thought about these BEFORE causing war not after! Actions carry consequences and this is the truth iboz cannot run from. Today, iboz are stoking another war thinking that his wrong will correct a previous wrong it they are very wrong. If you start another war NOW, like Germany WW 2, you will lose, more millions of iboz willbe killed. War is not a solution for war is never won really. Stop insulting other Nigerians, in the north or south, east or west. Your empty arrogance and rhetoric will cause you more losses. Note that in history, the boastful, arrogant, unthinking side has always lost in WAR.

You guys need to defuse this madness before it consumes everyone... It was a war, and you're allowed to use everything at your dispos

However,Achebe’s kinsmen in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, saw nothing wrong in what he said.

Dr Phillip Atanmuo a native of Ogidi and Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo in the state, said: “Truth is always bitter and that sums up my reaction’’.

Dr Atanmuo demanded that Nigerians face the reality of how things are and stop wiping up tribal sentiment at any slightest opportunity, retorting that those wiping up the sentiment were just striving to paint Ndigbo black.

‘’Until there is fairness , equity, justice and love for one another, Nigeria would remain down but once these virtues are propagated, healthy competition will creep in because all the best brains in the world are from Nigeria. Go to Europe and you will discover that the best brains there are from Nigeria – the most brilliant people all over the world, yet nothing is happening here because of tribalism and unnecessary bickering and antagonisms,” he said

This is the kind of arrogance that become a catastrophy down the line.

Many Igbos have always claimed to be related to the Japanese, among others.

May be or may be not, but you would be well instructed by the Japanese experience in WWII.

Pearl Habor-like behavior will always lead to Hiroshima-Nagasaki-type behavior.
9/11 like-behavior will always lead to Iraq and Afhganistan-like behavior
Stop foolishly putting your people in danger.
Most of them are living peacefully with Yoruba people.

Unaware of the kind of foolishness your kind are promoting all over the world.

One Biafran calamity is enough for any sane individual - Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and what have you.
May the curse of Rwanda visit anyone who comes on this forum to promote unhealthy, and downright dangerous, ethnic rivalry in Nigeria.
Let's seek peace and pursue peace.
Let's compete on things that make us more than animals in the eyes of the world.

Are we not living in Nigeria again? Hausa Fulani has shown times without number that if you don't dominate the politics, you don't dominate anything.
Nonsense! It takes just a policy to reverse anything. We used policy to defeat them on the war front how much more when there is no raging war.


Fasola has even started deporting some of them

Dayo and Co, e don do. Fashola has no right to send anyone packing at the first place. It is just that Nigeria is a lawless country.

Lagos itself is not that great, fact. It's a shame that a city like Lagos is seen as great in Africa. Mekus is a know tribalist and instigator so I expected this thread to have been ignored

I'm sure this move was well reasoned. Would someone please tell us what programs were put in place to assist the displaced market women and other youths who make their living through business activities in the market?