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Crime / Re: Man Strangles His Wife To Death In Badagry, Buries Her Beside A Well (Graphic) by Imerson(m): 3:34pm On Jan 09, 2018
She will not stop to wag her mouth, you see people hates when women talks bla bla bla........ Ngozi learn a lesson
Politics / Re: Showdown Imminent As Senate Resumes by Imerson(m): 2:14pm On Sep 25, 2017
This country is a shame in the face of the world. Is it not because he said the truth? Are we expecting him to lie against his sit? Why is this nation like this? It bleeds my heart when I hear issues like this. This means we are not governed by elites rather we are left in the hands of wolves. I am not happy seeing our leaders tainting our images in the face of the whole world. Where are those days when dora akunyili intervened on our behalf on the case of labelling our country a terrorist nation due to mutalab's bombing? Can we still get some leaders like him today? I have many questions to ask but time will not permit me
Politics / Re: Why Has Nnamdi Kanu Not Been Rearrested Despite Violating Bail Conditions? by Imerson(m): 5:27pm On Aug 03, 2017
mkoabiola:
Am wondering why the so called ipob leader,Nnamdi KANU has not be rearrested respited flaunting one of d bail condition,
As one of the bail condition ,he was told by the court not to be seen in a gathering of more than 10 people but as of today,he is addressing crowd and making hate speeches.
When will he be rearrested to douse the tension in the country especially the south east.

because man pass man. Kanu is (nukwu manwu) have I answered your question?
Car Talk / Re: Which Will You Pick If You Are To Stick To 1 Car Brand For The Rest Of Your Life by Imerson(m): 1:24pm On Jul 29, 2017
that should be Benz off course, some people don't understand the question. the vehicle that can take you through your life. bro you need a rugged car that can last for thirty years and still on the road. see Benz 200 calculate the life span of it. one thing on Benz is that anybody that is accustomed with its performance and it's ballance talk of steering flexibility will always go for it
Politics / Re: You Sacrificed Your Left Leg To The Devil To Become Governor - FFK Fires Rochas by Imerson(m): 1:01pm On Jul 29, 2017
ffk carry go, if we have four or five of you in our government today Nigeria wouldn't have been what she is today
Crime / Re: Man Commits Suicide Over Inability To Repay N60k Bank Debt by Imerson(m): 6:57pm On Jul 25, 2017
poverty is a disease. and an abject poverty is a chronic disease
only the pressure those microfinance will put on you will not let you know when motor is coming to crush you. is a pity, rip bro.
Religion / Re: An Owl "Killed" By Bishop Sam Zuga's World Wonders Water by Imerson(m): 7:22pm On Jul 17, 2017
nonsense[color=#990000][/color]
kstyle2:
Some people will say whatever you pay them to say- Lucious Lion
Politics / Re: Nigeria Is Negotiable, Say Soyinka, Dickson, Others by Imerson(m): 12:46am On Jul 15, 2017
thank God for kanu's agitation. Nigerian eyes are open now. you see "soon or latter the tyrant man shall be overtrowed, and the fruitful field of england(9ja) shall be trod by beast alone" illus at ANIMAL FARM.
Romance / Re: Igbo Man Celebrates His Yoruba Girlfriend Publicly For Not Being Demanding by Imerson(m): 3:35pm On Jul 13, 2017
tell him
dyadeleye:
She might be grooming you for bigger project
She has a hidden source of income which she kept you shut out from

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Romance / Re: Igbo Man Celebrates His Yoruba Girlfriend Publicly For Not Being Demanding by Imerson(m): 3:30pm On Jul 13, 2017
tell him
dyadeleye:
She might be grooming you for bigger project

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Health / Re: South African Woman Whose Bum Keeps Getting Bigger Believes She’s Cursed (Photos by Imerson(m): 10:20pm On Jul 11, 2017
mama think back who must be responsible for your problem. someone you may have offended before
Politics / Re: Biafra Has Not Been Defeated – Wole Soyinka by Imerson(m): 8:20pm On Jul 10, 2017
[when an experienced man talks the air listens. I perceived that those white hairs there are full of wisdom and knowledgequote author=Cooly100 post=58321268]
On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria. Malnutrition, Red Cross, kwashiorkor, relief flights, genocide, the Uli airstrip used by Biafran planes to elude the Nigerian blockade, mercenaries, the Aburi accord that broke down and led to war—these are some of the memory triggers of the Nigerian civil war of secession that we would like to re-assign.


Over a million lives perished—a shameful proportion of them children—mostly through starvation and aerial bombardment. The Nigerian federal government, committed to the doctrine of oneness, had boasted that the conflict would last no longer than three weeks of “police action.” We had learnt much from the politics of other nations, but apparently not from history; the war lasted more than two years. Noble Laureate, Prof Wole Soyika Tormented by the image of a herd of human lemmings rushing to their doom, as a young writer, I made the “treasonable” statement warning that the secessionist state, Biafra, could never be defeated. The simplistic rendition of that conviction in most minds—certainly in the minds of the then-ruling military and its elite support—was that this applied merely to the physical field of combat. Thus it was regarded as a psychological offensive against the federal side, an attempt to demoralize its soldiers while boosting the war spirit of the enemy. That “enemy” had also boasted that no force in black Africa could defeat them. My visit to the Biafran enclave in October 1966 resulted in arrest and detention.

During interrogation, I insisted that my statement was meant as a counter to the surge of emotive nationalism and a slavish sanctification of colonial boundaries. Biafra was therefore an expression of that rejection and its replacement with a people’s self-constitutive rights. This specific challenge owed its genesis to memory at its rawest, the memory of ethnic cleansing, whose remedy could not be sought rationally in a campaign of subjugation against an already traumatized community. One question, rhetorical in tone, stuck in my mind for long afterwards. It went thus: “Why should you take it on yourself to make such a statement? Is it because you’re a writer? Who are you to take a contrary stance to the government?” I replied to myself that I had learned to listen. The young man countered that he was on the side of history, and Biafra would be crushed. Not quite, as it turned out.

The Biafrans were indeed defeated on the battlefield, but crushed? Today, most Nigerians know better. Biafra has not been defeated. If anyone was left in any doubt about this, the last work of my late colleague, Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country, has left us re-thinking. New generation writers, born long after that brutal war, have inherited and continue to propagate the Biafran doctrine, an article of faith among the Igbo populace, even among those who pay lip-service to a united nation. Millions remain sworn to uphold it. Many have died at the hands of the police and the military as succeeding guardians of that legacy troop out to reclaim it in defiant manifestations. Amnesty International estimated that at least 150 pro-Biafra activists have been killed since August 2015. Some of their leaders, including the director of their official mouthpiece, Radio Biafra, remain on trial for alleged subversion and treason. Others have gone underground. The war is not over, only the tactics have changed. One could claim that a project of internal secession is unfolding, one that skirts the peripheries of Nigerian laws, testing what they permit, and daring what they do not.


As for the victorious side, analysts continue to cite the lingering consequences of the war of secession among the main causes of the nation’s instability, alongside contemporary factors such as mismanagement of petroleum resources, corruption, visionless leadership, etc. Today, secession simmers openly, and is moving steadily beyond rhetoric. It has already taken on a dangerous complement—ejection. A number of combative youth organizations in the northern part of Nigeria recently called for the expulsion of the Igbo from their lands for daring once again to talk about secession. Mainstream leaders have disowned them, but some support has been voiced by individuals within the same adult cadre, including its intelligentsia. Debate is intense, often acrimonious. Sadly however, one is left with a feeling that most participants in this discourse shy away from a fundamental component of nation being, one that transcends the Biafran will to corporate existence. That principle virtually gasps for air under the wishfully terminal mantra that goes:

“The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable.” I have never understood how this is supposed to differ from the dogma of certain religious strains that declare conversion from faith to be an act of apostasy, punishable by death. Nationality, like religion, is only another construct into which one is either born, or acquires by accident or indoctrination. Those who insist on the divine right of nation over a people’s choice seem unaware that they box themselves into the same doctrinaire mould of mere habit, just like religion. In the Nigerian instance, however, the matter is even more troubling. Since the absolutists of nation indivisibility are not ignorant of the histories of other nations and are immersed daily under evidence of the assertive factor of negotiation—be it in the language of arms and violence or the conference table—since they know full well that this process straddles pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial histories, such speakers unconsciously imply that Africans are sub-citizens of the real world and are not entitled to make their own choices, even in this modern age. This smacks of an inferiority complex, if not of a slavish indoctrination, when we additionally consider how today’s Africa came to be, a land mass of constitutive units that were largely determined by alien interests, and thus, hold possibilities of fatal flaws.


Also requiring contestation is the implicit equation of supreme sacrifice with supreme entitlement: Those who say, “We have shed our blood for Nigerian unity, and will not stand by and watch it dismantled.” My observation is that in civil warfare—indeed in most kinds of warfare—civilians pay the higher price in lives, possessions and dignity. We need therefore to eliminate the distracting lament of professionals of violence and confront, in its own right, the issue of the collective volition of any human grouping. This leaves us with the other line of approach, the line of frankly subjective or reasoned, pragmatic preferences. It is a positioning that admits, quite simply, I am a creature of habit and prefer things as they are. Or: I like to be a big frog in a small pond, and allied determinants. Such individual and collective preferences for nation validation offer sincere basis for negotiation and resolution. Once conceded, we proceed to invoke the positives of cohabitation that render fragmentation mostly adventurist and potentially destructive. Habit is a great motivator, but it should not be permitted to transform itself into categorical controls that make any existing condition “non-negotiable.”

Should Biafra stay in, or opt out of Nigeria? That is the latent question. Even after years of turbulent co-tenancy, it seems unreal to conceive of a Nigeria without Biafra. My preference for “in” goes beyond objective assessment of economic, cultural and social advantages for Biafra and the rest of us....


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/biafra-has-not-been-defeated-wole-soyinka/[/quote]
Car Talk / Re: New Peugeot Pick-up Truck To Replace 404 And 504 Pick-up (photos) by Imerson(m): 7:58pm On Jun 23, 2017
it was modified on 406 wagon
Politics / Re: Remembering General Sani Abacha: 19 Years After His Death by Imerson(m): 10:49am On Jun 08, 2017
what is it in sand Apache to be remembered of?
ditatoship
tyrany
loot
wickedness
money laundring
subjection of our economy to a kwashiokored state
irresponsible
echetaram echetaghimu.
Agriculture / Re: I Killed This Monitor Lizard In A Fish Farm (Photos) by Imerson(m): 11:53am On Jun 01, 2017
thought shall not kill is among the ten commandment. so take it or leave it, period.
NYSC / Re: Female Corper In Kogi Pays School Fees For 30 Students (Photos) by Imerson(m): 10:05pm On May 27, 2017
I will pay. have I answered your question
GAZZUZZ:
[color=#990000questio ]She tried. She has a good heart.

sadly who will pay For the next session?[/color]
Politics / Re: Stop Deceiving Nigerians – Adeyemi Attacks Tinubu by Imerson(m): 1:24pm On May 15, 2017
Silasrule:
Our eyes are wide open
as if baba is not sick. stop deceiving Nigeria, so that we will know how to channel our prayer point.

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