₦airaland Forum

EzeUche:
[b]Biafra was not Nigeria. Ojukwu declared an independent nation because [/b]people ALL of the East were being targeted around Nigeria for crimes they did not commit.

The only crime a person of the east committed was that they were from the East. There is no justification in Nigeria invading a sovereign nation.

EzeUche:
[bYou are a DUMB BUFFOON. It is OFFICIAL[/size][/b]

Let me repeat it for you since you do not understand.

If a nation cannot protect its citizens, then the people who are impacted can form a nation of their own.

Can you comprehend fool?

kasiem:
@jason, have heard that the hausa/fulani fought with Yorubas in lagos. I could remember that time hausas were being massacred and immolated in aba, my dad went out pleading for some of them. This the response we are getting from cows like harem. Even in the north, igbos massacre the hausas without allowing the media to cover it. I'd not mind giving my contact to any yorobaman that wants enter early grave by challenging me for a fight. Let dbanj tell u guys what ikechukwu did to him.

EzeUche:
Of course Nigeria should be blamed for the Civil War, by invading the Eastern Region. That invasion was an act of war by any accounts. If a nation cannot protect its citizens, then the citizens have a right to declare their own nation.

RoadStar:
I believe the same feeling that lead to the counter-coup is begining to play up again.
Fear of southern domination.
The whole boko haram debacle seems to be a sheilded uprising by the north.

s3nn2x:
To say the least, she is not asking a legitimate question. She, you and every1 supporting are just plain tribalistic in nature. hw can somebody say the igbos are jealous of lagos and it is because of lagos that they do not want to leave Nigeria. Do u thing lagos or any part of the south west is self sustaining. Nigeria is best if we remain together but if peole like you dont want to go beyound the Biafra period then shame on you. Nobody is jealous of lagos, infact, lagos is nothing more than a failed city and it would require every1 in Nigeria to rebuild lagos, so, if u are tryn to be sentimental, then u can rebuild lagos on your own. it is people like you that is making Nigeria divided instead of us to be united.

Was Calabar not the capital before Lagos?? And is Abuja not the current capital
Do these cities speak English or Ibibio and Hausa respectively

bashr4:
the difference is that they will be no killing spree

lagcity:
thanks a lot ezeuche, i threw you a bait and you caught it. this was necessary because i knew you wouldn't be upfront if i brought up the meddling in western politics at first. the North didn't use Akintola, bello's NPC and Zik's NCNC used akintola as fifth column. Bello and Zik were very scared of AG and its radical members. thus they decided to throw a wrench in the AG. so Zik and bello's meddling in the politics of the west caused the wild wild west. if they had just minded their business, there wouldn't be wild wild west. scholars have already concluded on this issue that NCNC and NPC were very strange bed fellows: they weren't really seeing eye to eye and it was a marriage of convenience. these two parties joined together all because of fear of the AG. npc saw ncnc as the lesser evil and vice versa. please ezeuche, don't take my word for it. be intellectually honest enough to ask ppl who actually know this stuff. when i get the time, i'll give you a list of professors from the mid-west and eastern region who told it like it is. no sentiments please. i still have my question for you; was coup and unnecessary bloodshed the perfect solution to the wild wild west?

ChinenyeN:
Particular things irritate & elicit a hot-blooded response from me. One of those particulars has been featuring on NL more often than it used to.
Aside from that, nothing is different about me.

htajz:
did all that happen in your dreams?? infact i must commend the ithsekiri for managing to put up a fight , cus on a normal day people with yoruba blood are known to be cowards all bark no bite.

htajz:
izon this izon that , the fear of izons is the begining of wisdom 

wey that itshekiri boy jason so you still get mouth sef hmm you lucky say u still dey delta state just get ready to migrate back to ile ife .

as for the yaribas , no be today we know say na only mouth mouth una get so no need adressing you
i no get bizness wit awusa man
as for igbos the boundries are clear any incursion into izon land will be fiercly resisted, we will recover opobo soon just as we have recovered bonny hope you dont have a problem with that and remeber when it starts the ikwerees are easily accessible to us by the time you are able to come to their aid 

ChinenyeN:
Jason, just so you know, Ngwa saw the Atlantic pre-colonialism & pre-slave trade.

Ibime:
Nobody "gave" land. I am explaining Ijaw mentality - Ijaw man can live somewhere for years and not cultivate the forest around preferring to fish instead. If another tribe comes to cultivate the forest, Ijaw man will feel he "allowed" that tribe to take that land and can take it back anytime. 

Secondly, Itsekiri took land by force from around the 15th century when their Kingdom started expanding. Dont act like they owned the whole of Warri. Thirdly, there are many Itsekiri who are "absorbed" Ijaws, having chosen to assimilate themselves into the more powerful Itsekiri Kingdom of that time, Richard Mofe Damijo for example.

Thirdly, there is no such thing as Ijaw. There is a little Ijaw in every tribe of the Delta. Ijaw is simply a name for Oru people, the aborigines of the Delta. The name Ijaw was used for those West of Brass whilst the name Oru was used for those East of Brass. Bringing everyone into a tribe called "Ijaw" is a recent phenomenom after the amalgamation of Nigeira. Oru is simply the original language and culture of the riverine people of the Delta. Even Abohs (Igbo) and many other riverine Igbos are asimilated Orus whilst the bloodline of modern day cultures like Urhobo, Isoko and such are interfused with Orus. Ijaw does not really exist except to describe people who can still trace themselves back to the aborigines of the delta (Orus). An Okrika man cannot understand a Gbaramatu man, yet they both call themselves Ijaw.

EzeUche:
The people who have committed that abomination have been dealt with in that community. 

I don't know if you were old enough to remember, but do you remember what happened to the Hausa in Onitsha and Aba when they were rioting about the Miss Universe pageant?

Do not put the Igbo to a test.

alj harem:
mouth again and lairs

Ibime:
NL tribal Warriors! Any small neighbourhood skirmish, they'll turn it into a ten page discussion.

Ijaws do not play with land dispute. They react like niggaz with their backs against the water. They must swim or fight. Most Ijaw leaders of yesteryear were crowned for their ability to find good land for their people. Any good Pere is one that can lead his people to good Kule (land).

Incidentally, Ijaws are said to be the most aboriginal people in Nigeria. The Ijaw man still believes that he owns all of Southern Nigeria and allowed other tribes to settle on land because he had no use for it and preferred to be on water. My elders used to tell me years ago how Bonny people "allowed" Ogoni people to settle on their current land and directed them to go and cultivate there when the Ogoni showed up on the shoreline. This is a prevalent mentality amongst Ijaw, whether rightly or wrongly.

Warri issue though is a historical one going back more than half a millenium. It is no news that Warri was an old Ijaw settlement from which Ijaws were pushed out of by Benin Kingdom and others 500 years ago. This is what prompted many Ijaw tribes to move South, and many Ijaw peoples in Rivers State today such as Kalabari claim to have started their journey from Warri over 500 years ago. Till today "Wari" means House ie Compound (Family House) in Ijaw language and that's where the name Warri comes from.

Of course, Ijaws have no right to Warri anymore than Jews have right to Palestine which they left 2000 years ago. Whatever happened in the past is gone, likewise Opobo land is no longer Ikot Abasi land, neither is Abonnema an Ekpoma land. The point is that struggle for land, constant migration and wars have been the Ijaw story for the past 1000 years. Ijaws have lived as far north as Benin hundreds of years ago and have been forced to flee and fight for the last millenium so they do not play when it comes to land issues.

ChinenyeN:
Minorities. . Seems like you people know what your problems are. Jason, given the situation, I'd say that the answer is clear. Urge your people to deal swiftly and efficiently.

ekt_bear:
Seems to me that whatever buildings they are building need to be destroyed. And the land needs to be resettled again.

At a minimum. And you'll need to call on any allies that'll be able to help. Man we should have settled in large #s in that area, then there would be no numerical disadvantage. . .

I wonder to what extent we can help, if at all.

killayut:
NEW IJAW state proposed for creation,

"Whereas, the Ijaw communities, demarcated into Arogbo Central, Arogbo South, Arogbo North, Ukparamo, Ajakpata, Biyagbene, Adoloseimoh, Awodikuro, Apoi, Gbekebo, Gbaraun LGAs in the present Ondo States, Egbema Mainland, Egbema Island, Egbema-South, Ogbudugbudu, Ofunama, Olodiama LGAs in the present Edo State and Delta State, having united for a common purpose, for the benefit of all our indigenes, do hereby agree to form a new State in the West of the Niger Delta to be called BENI-EBE State, with the city of Arogbo as the capital"


A must,

ekt_bear:
^-- My heart goes out to you dude. It must be frustrating as hell. Not clear what the answer is either