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pazienza:
No it didn't. Ondo borders didn't remain the same.

So get some facts to prove us wrong. Don't start making baseless claims.

Shymm3x:
For those looking for Yoruba architecture - I believe the Egba were able to build great architecture in the mid-late 19th century and early 20th century in Abeokuta. Perhaps, folks just need to modernise what the Egbas were able to create.

Sample pics

[img]https://etcetera9ja.files./2013/10/img-20131015-00156.jpg[/img]


https://photonaija.com/sites/default/files/daily_uploads/Mo%20Photography/10/08/2014%20-%2009%3A46/jpeg_20141008_091445_1089711677.jpg

I like the pattern.....if we should keep anything from this architecture, it is the pattern.


the artistic pattern on the staircase looks Islamic,

pazienza:
[s]Just giving a historical perspective to the presence of crude oil in larger quantity in Ondo, and relatively lesser quantities in Abia and Imo.
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While Oil bearing Igbo speaking groups that should have been in Abia or Imo were put in Rivers state and encouraged to take on distinct ethnicities, and as well as carving out the few remaining Igbo speaking oil communities in Abia and Imo and added to Rivers, where as the same time,the oil bearing Yoruba speaking communities in old Bendel were being selectively carved out and rightly added to the SW( Ondo in this case).

So why the SW was being carefully weaned to have crude oil, SE was carefully deweeded of any oil producing community.

Someone already answer this lies you keep posting.

Ondo border remained the same before and after discovery of oil.

Pele, even if they find oil in Ogun/Ondo [which i am sure will happen], you guys will claim that the people in those states are not Yoruba

To be honest, one of the reasons I watch Yoruba movies is the music. I love how they sing and what they say

Shymm3x:
Lol.

I just had to throw that out here cos the thread's dying and the guy who start the complaint is yet to contribute anything. Yet he came on the thread again today to complain about the change of name. I just don't like folks who are like that. If you have nothing to contribute, then you shouldn't have an opinion. This isn't his first time - he did the same thing on the Ibadan thread. The guy lives in Ibadan - rather than take pics of his own area in Ibadan and contribute to the thread, he was just moaning and giving folks orders on what to do and what not to do. Who does that?

Anyway, personally, this thread has inspired me a great deal - especially the profiles we posted. And cos of certain folks that I saw on this thread, I've changed my diary and set new goals for myself, for the remainder of this year. Some of the posts are also enlightening and we can't stop now. We just need to keep educating and inspiring one another. Yoruba commonwealth is bigger than just the SWern part of Nigeria - it's global.

lmao.... who is it?

I know A LOT of successful yorubas and I've been inspired by them. I went from social/tech sciences [you know about this] into full blown ICT.

after seeing how much money people were making, i was like......fuckkk this, lemme follow the money.

I'm glad that thread helped you to refocus your goals

Aareonakakanfo:
So from my last comment till now,the thread only managed to move 4 pages higher.na wa ooo.Anyways,i'll address everything you guys have said

ahhhhhhhhhhh

You just left like that. I ALMOST GAVE UP.

laudate:
Oooh!! Thank you so much for this!! It brought back such great memories of my childhood. I was never able to understand the words, but I would join my late maternal grand father on the verandah, as he nodded his head to different Ewi minstrels every Saturday morning!

He was not even Yoruba, but he had a deep appreciation for the culture (he spoke it like a native), and listening to Ewi, while sipping chilled palm wine was his own way of chilling out. We would both nod in tandem with the drum beats and shekere, and he would sometimes pause to explain a few words of the songs to me!

I am trying so hard not to cry....

Awwww, I'm listening to all the videos right now.

Oriki is so deep ...... they use Yoruba ila amin to create beatiful lyrics (se ki n ki (greet) yin ni abi se ki n ki (oriki) yin).

We need to bring back these culture...

You said your grandfather (may his soul RIP) was not yoruba.....where's he from?

" They [Ilajes] rightly claim Yoruba because there are no external forces [Igbos] at play, trying to give them a distinct identity.
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- Pazienza, Nov. 2015

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pazienza:
My argument was never if Ilaje is Yoruba. Any blind man just by looking at Ilajes and their names, will know that they are just Yorubas with riverine culture.

So son, what are you whining about?

pazienza:
They rightly claim Yoruba because there are no external forces at play, trying to give them a distinct identity.

[s]Eze Ogba, Ogbuehi Francis Ellah and his supporters in Ogba Maintained that Ogba is a branch of the Igbo ethnic group, but the breakaway groups were financed and encouraged to grow by the FG, they frustrated Francis Ellah throughout his stay on the throne, and immediately replaced him with an Igbophobic New Eze, who changed his throne to Oba from Eze.

The same scenario played out throughout Rivers state. All Ezes with any allegiance to the rest of Ndiigbo must either renounce their allegiance, or abdicate their throne, and be replaced by an Igbophobic one.
Even non Igbo kings in Eastern region with any form of allegiance to Ndiigbo were not spared.

This was part of the post civil war internal policy of one Nigeria[/s].

So the external force should be igbos who don't even know where they [igbos] came from?

You claim that Yoruba-speaking Ilaje is not yoruba [because of oil], yet you want to claim that Igbo-sepaking Ikwerre people are igbos......

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[size=14pt]Igbos Are Not United -Gov Rochas Okorocha
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Until Igbos are united in one voice and aspiration, the highest political office in the country would continue to elude them, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said.

Na igbo person talk am o

[size=14pt]Any Igbo person talking about Biafra today or tomorrow is confused and troubled[/size]

Today, the areas that made up the Republic of Biafra are 9 different states with 5 of them making up the South East geo political zone and the other 4 states are part of the South South geo political zone along with Delta and Edo states.

Things have changed and the condition that made it possible for the then military governor of the Eastern region to declare Biafra does not exist today and no single person whether in government or out of government has the power to declare any Biafra comprising of these 9 states today.

So, if you allow people who use the name Biafra to make money for themselves to deceive you and give you false hope then you should be pitied.

The only talk about Biafra that makes sense and can be justified today is when making reference to the period between 1967 and 1970.

Each time I ask proponents of Biafra to tell me the boundaries of this Biafra they talk about today they start speaking in tongues or tell me to wait until we get to the proverbial bridge.

A facebook friend of mine wrote this morning that I was being a coward for not agreeing with him that you don't have any Hausa doctors in Nigeria and maintained that I was against his ridiculous position because he was a bold Biafran.

I needed to post this update to make the bold Biafran realize that in the real sense he is a bold confused Igbo man that seems to be very ignorant of Biafra and what it represented.

If Nigeria ever disintegrates the only viable independent nation the Igbos can talk about remains the Igbo nation that could be given any name because the word Biafra is not even an Igbo name and referred to both Igbo and non Igbo speaking areas of the then Eastern region.

[size=14pt]This New Biafra is a confused cause [/size]

On May 30, 1967, Biafra also known as the land of the rising sun in South Eastern Nigeria became a secessionist state. Two and the half years after the deaths of more than a million civilians felled in the war by enemy bullets, air strikes and starvation resulting from blockades, Biafra agreed to a cease fire with Nigerian Federal Military Government. Subsequently they were re-integrated into Nigeria. 45 years later, they long for recognition again, only that this time it has nothing to do with the power play in the military or the Northern plot to eliminate Igbos in the mid- 60’s.

Having gained independence in 1960, all seemed well with Nigeria though pretentiously, until 1966 when an Igbo Major who was born and bred in Kaduna and was popularly called Major Kaduna Nzeogwu led an Igbo dominated coup which prompted the killings of Northern elites and Military officers including the then premiere of the western region who was a Yoruba man. That coup won’t have mattered if at least one Igbo man was killed. Though Nzeogwu grew up in the north, he never mistook the northerners for brothers. Young Igbo military officers murdered the first and only Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. No Igbo political leader not even the then premiere of the eastern region nor Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, the then President who were all part of the corruption their administration was accused of, was killed in that coup. Hence, It was widely believed to be an Igbo coup.

Though Nzeogwu and his small group of Igbo officers put a wrong foot forward when a coup designed to rid the country of corrupt leaders in the first republic was targeted at mostly northern senior military officers who had no hand in the ugly situation back then, and worse still a Sarduana, however, the retaliation by the north was demonic. They went too far with their sport. It was a blood bath! It was like they had been waiting for the Igbos to falter.

And I ask; is that what you get for killing a highly respected Sarduana in cold blood and even having ample time on your hands to make a mockery of his death right in his domain?

Read also: This New Biafra is a confused cause (Part 1)

The Igbo military officers were enjoying bloody games and fatal jokes while it lasted. They didn’t know then that a Hausa/Fulani man does not react well to jokes. They don’t even have ears for sarcasm.

If an Igbo man makes the mistake of slaughtering a cow belonging to Fulani herds-men, trust me, they would kill 10,000 Igbos as compensation. Then, how much more a Sarduana, who was the most revered Islamic icon in the North?

The Hausas felt the Igbos played God in the North, however the north went overboard with the massacre that ensued. The ruthless Northerners went on a killing spree! Haba! 10,000-30,000 Igbos were murdered in broad daylight, depending on the account you choose to relate with. No doubt, there was indeed a grand plan to eliminate Igbos, we just can’t conclude if that plan was entirely Northern. Who wouldn’t go to war on that account? Which tribe in Nigeria would suffer that and still want to be under the leadership of such menacing region of the country?

Though they lost the war, the Biafran army was a gallant force and I believe their plan would have been successful if the war had been balanced. But like they say, all is fair in love and war.

The war was forced upon them and it’s sad that till date the Igbos are still held at arm’s length politically. The effects of a war doesn’t last till the end of a war, it lasts many years after and may not even have an end.

You want to know the truth; the problem with Nigeria and Biafra did not start during the civil war. The problem started in 1914 when the British selfishly amalgamated a then Northern region that was backward in every sphere of human endeavour and had no form of inclination towards the South with a more illustrious, vast and economically prosperous Southern region; it was indeed the greatest injustice of colonization.

Later, another problem sprang up in 1956 when oil was discovered in Oloibiri; that set the stage for the British spiral ball to roam recklessly on our fertile green land with no holds barred. If only we had no black gold, ‘boya ife wa ma gbono gidigidi’ (probably we would have been genuinely united)

Back to present day; so, this time what is the last straw that has hit the camel’s back that would warrant calls for another wanton loss of lives and properties; Jonathan’s loss in the April 2015 polls? Buhari’s presidency and his own supposedly unreserved and unmistakable hatred for the Igbos?

Or was it after the ones that didn’t really know what happened then, saw the movie-half of a yellow sun? Though I’m not sure half of a yellow sun told us what really happened before the pogrom, just like Achebe’s book,”There was once a country” only did justice to the part that grossly affected his kinsmen.

I respect Achebe; he remains my best Nigerian writer ever. In fact I liked him more than I do like a Soyinka, both in their writings and their deeds. But that doesn’t change the fact that his last book before his death could have been biased(Now, I’m not sure if it was his last); he told us the bitter truth about the war we needed to know; albeit it still didn’t change the fact that it was a one-sided account of what ‘really-entirely’ happened before and during the war.

Albeit, I still give it to the literary genius of the man of blessed memory. It was his personal history of Biafra; his own account of the civil war. Just like this article is my own account of what I think this renewed agitation is about; my own opinion. Probably I would have understood things better if my tribe was at the receiving end of the ‘1967-1970’ madness.

Often times, we choose to believe what we want to believe, not necessarily what our mind tells us; that is what they call sentiments, right? Invariably, I had to find a balance between sentiments and belief, in writing this piece. And this was what I could come up with.

Regardless, is this new clamour for the sovereign state of Biafra borne out of genuine concern, or is it just one plan of an overly ambitious, power thirsty man or group of Biafrans who want the innocent to suffer for their cause?

Kanu says Nigeria is a failed nation where nothing works; I hope Biafra holds more promise so he won’t have to eat his words. Moreover, do the majority of the Igbo people support his cause or is it only a cross section of Igbos in the east?

Though, I vehemently oppose President. Buhari’s alienation of a major ethnic group through his political appointments, albeit is that enough to lose rag?

In my minds’ eye, Nigeria has always being a mere geographical expression but will a civil war do us any good? Will Nigerians and Biafrans alike survive yet another civil war? Or is it that we’ve developed selective amnesia to forget so soon the dark era that lasted some 30 months; an era which still lives in the consciousness of the affected ones still alive; a time when over 1 million Nigerians of eastern descent and another 100,000 from the federal forces lost their lives to a war that could have been averted.

With the many groups/leaders clamouring for Biafra and the divisions even within the Biafrans, will they not face the same problems of wanton power-play, inequality and injustice, Nigeria has consistently been saddled with from time immemorial?

For 8 whooping years, Igbo leaders were unable to settle an intra-party disagreement; I wonder what a Biafra will be like with them at the helm of affairs.

I don’t have a problem with Igbos falling out of Nigeria because I have a problem with the so called country called Nigeria; A country that acts like a toddler who fails to learn from every fall. Yes! We should never have being? But that doesn’t change the fact that the Biafrans need to know and understand well enough what they are fighting for.

They need to first take care of the internal politics inherent in their domain before they face the Nigerian factor or else they would be no better than Nigeria if and when that region secedes.



I did say at the start of the first part of this article that I may lose my numerous Igbo friends to secession if it eventually works. Obviously, I don’t have to wait till the secession before I lose my Igbo friends; I have a feeling I’ve lost them already.

I still love you guys though, even more than my own people, you know yeah? And you know better than to let this piece come between us, right?

What God has joined together, let no article put asunder! Did I hear an Amen!

God bless Nigeria!

Obiagu1:
If you are really exposed, you'll know that you hardly have a single organisation fighting for freedom of a people.
You can read about Palestinians for a start, your education will start from there.

To be honest, I'm really tired of all these 'free education', they often lack common sense.

Please tell us other secessionist group as confused and divided as Igbos. Do these groups attack every other groups in its country? Do these groups blame others for its failures?

All "igbo-speaking" groups denying Igbos..... while Yoruba-speaking groups claiming Yoruba.

Igbo people, I feel for una.

pazienza:
If Ilaje was Igbo speaking, it would have been hauled into Delta state and forced to take on a distinct ethnicity. That Olugbo that is Yorubaphilic will be forced to become Yorubaphobic or lose his throne to become replaced by a new Yorubaphobic Olugbo, who would be empowered by the FG and together with his new cabinet re write the history of the town and distort history as much as possible to present Ilaje as a new distinct ethnic group that even though is Yoruba speaking, is not Yoruba.

This was the fate the Igbo suffered in Southern Igboland as many of our oil bearing communities and clans were given distinct ethnicities and then lumped with the Eastern minorities in the old Rivers state.

From the article I quoted, Yorubas speaking clans in the old Bendel state were returned back to the current Ondo, which is why Ondo is oil producing today.

But on the case of Igbo speaking parts of the old Rivers, the opposite was done.

Another Ilaje association, once again, claims Yoruba

http://www.ilajecwa.org.uk/history.htm

pazienza:
If Ilaje was Igbo speaking, it would have been hauled into Delta state and forced to take on a distinct ethnicity. That Olugbo that is Yorubaphilic will be forced to become Yorubaphobic or lose his throne to become replaced by a new Yorubaphobic Olugbo, who would be empowered by the FG and together with his new cabinet re write the history of the town and distort history as much as possible to present Ilaje as a new distinct ethnic group that even though is Yoruba speaking, is not Yoruba.

This was the fate the Igbo suffered in Southern Igboland as many of our oil bearing communities and clans were given distinct ethnicities and then lumped with the Eastern minorities in the old Rivers state.

From the article I quoted, Yorubas speaking clans in the old Bendel state were returned back to the current Ondo, which is why Ondo is oil producing today.

But on the case of Igbo speaking parts of the old Rivers, the opposite was done.

You're not making sense. Silly igbo trying to rewrite Yoruba history.

This is the largest Ilaje association and they claimed Yoruba : http://ilajeusa.com/History.htm

superstar1:
Can we all flaunt our Oroki.

Mine is .

I prefer to not post mine because I believe in eleda mi. It's a special thing that if known, can be used to disable you.

My grandma sings me my oriki every time I call her. O ma n mu ori mi wu.

coolitempa:
....but ewa o......kiloshe ILEKEHD

Lol I was having a conversation with one lunatic like that.....

superstar1:

Lol I hope they keep dividing themselves. Anyone that wants to "kill Yorubas", may Sango continue to cause confusion and division within their camps. Awon oloshi.

Obiagu1:
... and why are you crying for us?

Why una bring Yoruba for the matter? una craze?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKosHVIX8k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OObrbNz7EU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIRics0Dl0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlvSJ2dc8nY


Find your state and its oriki

Se ki n ki yin ni abi ki n kii yin.

laudate:
Why can't 'Ewi be popularised?? Before anyone tells me that the words are not easy to understand (I know, lol!), those poems are so lyrical. Just listen to the beats. And the chants are so rhythmic! One day my late maternal grandmum's sister - may God rest her soul! - translated one of those old Ewi chants for me titled Oriki Olodumare, it was so deep and rich in meaning! I can't even remember the name of the artist, anymore.... _*sigh*

Unfortunately, it's dying. Even our talking drums professionals are dwindling. This is what Africa gets when it relegates its culture for whiteman's. We lose some of our essence.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc1V91xDV5U

Obiagu1:
@ Ikengawo

There's Massob, there's Ipob, there's Lower Niger Congress, etc.
You can start your own movement for the actualization of Biafra you support and put all these your ideas in use.

We will support you.

So divided! No respect for their leaders. No loyalty. No unity.

By next year, Ibo Union For Peace will pop up too.

coolitempa:
There surely must be a scientific explanation for ikogosi......I have actually been there and felt the. Point at which the hot met he cold or the other way round...... ........a real marvel..........as regards rocks.....nothing beats the Akokos o....

Lol hopefully, the scientific answer is oil
I think Fayose must know something, there's a reason why he wants to die in Ekiti government house.

Shymm3x:
So this thread is dying slowly but surely, no?

When I was trying to make the subject-matter broad so as to keep the thread alive and more engaging - you have got clowns with insecurities who neither contributed anything to thread, nor have anything to contribute - moaning about the thread losing its purpose. Now that we've limited it to one thing - the same clowns still have nothing to contribute. SMH.

I'm about to further expand the topic.

I support you.


@ALL

Until we get someone to direct the Yoruba hour (not me, I can't be 90% of the time here ), no one is going to show up.

[size=14pt]Two Igbos Executed for Drug Trafficking in Indonesia
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A Nigerian, Daniel Enemuo, and four foreign nationals were on Sunday executed by Indonesian authorities for drug trafficking-related offences.

Another Nigerian, Mr. Solomon Chibuike Okafor, was also executed. He was however being classified as a citizen of Malawi because he was arrested using a Malawian passport bearing Namaona Denis.

An Indonesian national was also executed for the same offence after they had all been convicted between 2000 and 2011.

Twelve other Nigerians remain on death row in the Asian country which resumed executions in 2013 after an unofficial moratorium from 2008.

It however did not carry out any execution in 2014.

Amnesty International and other organisations had pleaded for clemency for the condemned prisoners: Mr. Namaona Denis (Nigeria/Malawi), Ms. Rani Andriani (Indonesia), Mr. Daniel Enemuo (Nigeria), Ms. Tran Thi Bich Hanh (Vietnam), Mr. Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira(Brazil) and Mr. Ang Liem Soei (Netherlands).

Five of them, including Enemuo were executed at the high security prison on the Nusakambangan Island, off the main island of Java while the Vietnamese woman was executed in Boyolali district in Central Java. Five, asides the Dutchman, were convicted for attempting to smuggle hard drugs into Indonesia while he was convicted for operating a factory producing ecstasy. All had lost their appeals in December and were executed by firing squad early yesterday morning.

Indonesia’s Attorney General, Mr. H.M Prasetyo, insisted the executions were carried out in accordance with the law and were “not something pleasing or fun.
Indonesia must be saved from narcotics…this is a crime against humanity that damages the morals of the younger generation,” he said after the executions which have now caused a diplomatic row between Indonesia and Brazil and Netherlands as both nations have recalled their ambassadors in protest.”

Nigeria itself was at loggerheads with the international community following the execution of two condemned prisoners by the Edo State Government in 2013.
Resuming the executions has again highlighted the fate of at least 12 other Nigerians who remain on death row in Indonesia with about 100 serving various jail terms.

Most Asian countries apply the death sentence for drug trafficking offence.
A Nigerian diplomat who spoke off record, lamented that despite all the campaign against drug trafficking, some Nigerians choose to attempt to traffic drugs outside the country.

“What can we do for them aside pleading for leniency? When you know that the penalty for trafficking drugs to these nations is death, and you go ahead anyway, it is like signing your own death warrant,” the diplomat said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in its reaction, said it received the news of the execution with sadness despite pleas for clemency.

It also clarified that Namaona Denis was a Nigerian but was arrested with a Malawian passport.

“And these, in spite of the very cordial relations that exist between the two countries, spanning the South-South Cooperation, the D-8, among others,” the ministry said in a statement.

It added that the federal government would continue to engage the Indonesian government with the aim of concluding a Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) that could enable other Nigerian prisoners in Indonesian jails to return home to complete their jail terms.

“The federal government wishes to use this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians to restrain themselves from criminal activities, especially drug trafficking, which attracts the capital punishment not only in Indonesia but in many other countries.”

Why do these albino gorillas always find ways to attach Yorubas with their biafran failure?

Attache by force people.

Attache to SS by force.

Attache to Yorubas by force.

Of course Biafra is a total failure:

1) You insult Yorubas, Fulanis, Hausa, Ijaws, Edos, Middle-beltans, etc. You hateful people abuse anyone you can lay your hands on. Who in their right minds would support that failure called Biafra? Making you stay in Nigeria is punishment enough.

2) You act as if you DESERVE Yoruba's indirect/direct support after discussing how you can kill Yorubas on radio biafra. Are you crazy? Why don't you weak soldier ants go and protest in the SW/ North? Brave hearts only protesting at home eh? Dem no born any igbo to trespass Yorubaland land with their badly-written placards.

3) Fulani support? hahahhahahahah....... next one.

4) Ijaw support? Lmao......support land grabbers? After you don abuse Ijaws finish? Sure Ijaws will use [and dump, as usual] Igbo people to free their oil from Nigerian clutches. They ought to be careful tho because Biafra really wants that oil. Greedy, wicked and selfish briafrans.

xtrorse, the albino igbo gorilla,

you still dey here?



Igbo people are use and dump people


[size=15pt]Jonathan’s Igbo Internet Warriors Are A Disgrace To Humanity [/size]

The Igbo Internet thugs who campaign for Goodluck Jonathan are an utter disgrace to humankind. They are, indeed, a strange species of homo sapiens. Maybe, they are a hybrid of homo erectus and home sapiens!
The Igbo Internet thugs who campaign for Goodluck Jonathan are an utter disgrace to humankind. They are, indeed, a strange species of homo sapiens. Maybe, they are a hybrid of homo erectus and home sapiens! Their actions are hardly compatible with those of people who have what the French call l’amour propre, self esteem or self worth.

A little over a year ago, Femi Fani-Kayode wrote a series of horrible articles well circulated in the media against the Igbo. Falling short of calling for Igbo extermination, Femi confessed his great admiration for Adolf Hitler’s Mien kempf, probably the most racist book in world history. All manner of people who called themselves Igbo Internet warriors were calling for his head. You would naturally expect them to kick against Jonathan’s recent appointment of Femi Fani-Kayode as the director of media and publicity of his reelection campaign, thus becoming the face and voice of the president, an Ijaw who has strangely been portrayed as an Igbo. But far from taking exception to this sacrilege, the self-styled Internet warriors, whom Oby Ezekwesili memorably calls Internet thugs, are rather now in cahoots with Femi! They quote him approvingly every minute. Why? Femi has a huge propaganda budget! Most of these Internet warriors are on his payroll, and their principal duty is to besmirch the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari, apart from raising cudgels, knives, daggers and guns against thoughtful Igbo people who raise questions about the propriety of their action. The Great Zik of Africa was fond of describing such irresponsible characters as knaves.

The knaves enthusiastically circulated a forged hospital document alleging that Buhari has prostate cancer. Just before this forgery, they reported online that Buhari had fainted at a campaign rally and was rushed to a hospital even when the same characters were commenting on Buhari’s ongoing campaign stumps in different parts of the country!

As Jonathan was about to visit Onitsha last week, they circulated a picture of a bridge under construction somewhere but mischievously claimed that it is the so-called Second Niger Bridge which becomes relevant to the president only during electioneering campaigns. The essence of circulating the false picture was to deceive their own Igbo people into believing that work on the mythical bridge had taken off in earnest. How some Igbo Internet fraudsters could have the courage to “419” or swindle their own people in broad daylight in order to please an Ijaw president and turn round to claim that they are the champions of Igbo interests remains one of the greatest mysteries of our time. It is revealing of the kind of ethics of the government in Abuja and their supporters all over Nigeria. It is also revealing of why some people in Nigeria and elsewhere think that the Igbo have too many Judas Iscariots, too many people eager to kill even their own family members for a mess of porridge.

On a personal note, I am deeply worried about the enthusiasm of a couple of professionals and Pentecostal pastors in this forum to indulge in this fraud in the name of politics. They need be reminded in public that certain actions of theirs do cause tremendous and eternal violence to their personal and professional reputations, to say nothing about their supposed religious callings. They are advised to read up the idea of the scandal of perception in Catholic theology. Put succinctly, their utterances and actions as ordained ministers of God or equivalent could cause some believers to lose faith in God.

C. Don Adinuba.

I will be back for una.... don't worry

Igbos are even making it easy by washing their dirty laundry all over the internet.

If bias mods don't delete this thread, I'll help una create one.

Igbos are really the problem with Nigeria, not Yorubas.