₦airaland Forum

afam4eva: Please go and have a 30 minutes nap and read what you just wrote when you're awake and tell me if it makes sense. Yakubu Gowon was the head of state. Lagos was the capital and the head of state declared war on Biafra and you expect biafran forces to match to kafanchan to go and do what exactly? Jason, you're smarter than this biko.

kettykin: Friend leave the leg and hit the ball, If Americans went to invade iraq and Lybya for the sake of invasion without putting in thought what they would gain and at the end of the day they loose even their oil wells to Iraqi or Libyan control with All American companies relocating their Headquaters to Tripoli and Baghdad and getting only get 13 % for every dollar made from every barrel of oil , what would you call that.

ekwy nwa: @ post
Nigerians re wiser, in 2015 our votes will not be influenced by ethnicity, religion and other such irrelevant factors that took the centre stage during the last election.

kettykin: The foolish Niger Deltans fought Against igbos for nought and were rewarded with exploited and oil populated and ravaged land only good for burying people

Beaf: You are wrong. The Midwest was first invaded by Biafra, then the FG. Nobody bothered to ask us anything, talkless of us taking sides. Your story is just propaganda which might have been useful at the time, but is now as painful as any other false accusation. I don't see how Isoko's, Urhobo's, Itsekiri's, Ilaje's etc fought against Biafra, or even had the wherewithal to do so.

We were helpless spectators, whose lands were invaded by both sides.

In a manner reminiscent of the Vietcong in Vietnam, corpses of freedom fighters were recovered at great peril for burial, frustrating the Biafran units who had just engaged them in firefights. In the Siluko area, 50 Biafran soldiers (about half of a company) were drowned by a group of "Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri swimmers" who lost 16 men in the fight.

Ogbemudia, S. O.: Years of challenge. Heinemann Educational Books, 1991.

free_soul: no problem
if he earn nigerians support fine though i doubt he can do that with north desperate for power, with sw hating his sluggishness and with se feeling betrayed because he told ohanaeze he was running only one term

i asked you whether ijaw is the only group in ss you did not answer
anyway sha we de watch ijaw and power play

afam4eva: Are you from Bayelsa because for some strange reasons known only to you, you don't want it to be in PH.

free_soul: the bigoted thing is to call together ijaw peoples and call them "south south" people.
where are other groups in that zone?
where is itsekiri for example? soon ijaw will become south

anyway na tree go vote for jonathan? mek we de wait sha, make 4 million ijaw make im president for 2015

free_soul: this is an ijaw only thing
soon ijaw will find out that they are a minority group in nigeria and they cannot hold the nation to ransom
for behaving like they can dictate to the rest of nigeria, jonathan will not continue in 2015
let ijaw make him president, let's see how 4 million ijaws can force 156 million nigerians to do anything
arrant nonsense!

Paultue: Is Bonny Island no more in Rivers state? That is even the largest LNG plant in Nigeria. Remember, the GEJ administration is trying to cut down cost. I think its a good decision, even though i would have preferred Bayelsa.

sylve11: foolish, he's just foolish. . .no necessity replying his post anymore. ilaje rabbit.

chasy16: free that dumanu. Itsekiri people are always known to talk like that. Spewing Sh!t from their mouth.

Dede1: I am surprised you did not prefer Ondo
State.

afam4eva: Why Bayelsa? Port-hacourt is the oil and Gas capital of Nigeria and such the headquarters of most oil companies should be situated therein.

afam4eva: LMAO. I wish i could read my minds of Jason and Al_harem.

gentleoyink: @ those of you talking

For your information, the high price of petrol in the riverine areas is not because of the increase in pump price.
Do your research and you will find out that even during Obj and Yaradua's time, fuel has been selling btw N120 to N150 in Ijaw villages.

The person who started this thread is proud because of the less informed responses he has gotten so far from those who would not just accept that GEJ is their president.

Pray, tell me why I should join SNG and Boko Haram to protest fuel price of N1149 when I have been buying it for N150 when it was N65, knowing that if it eventually returns, it will still not affect how much I buy it?

gentleoyink: @ those of you talking

For your information, the high price of petrol in the riverine areas is not because of the increase in pump price.
Do your research and you will find out that even during Obj and Yaradua's time, fuel has been selling btw N120 to N150 in Ijaw villages.

The person who started this thread is proud because of the less informed responses he has gotten so far from those who would not just accept that GEJ is their president.

Pray, tell me why I should join SNG and Boko Haram to protest fuel price of N1149 when I have been buying it for N150 when it was N65, knowing that if it eventually returns, it will still not affect how much I buy it?

edicolove: @Jason123, I never said I hate the Yoruba. I am discussing issues here not persons. I did say before that I have several Yoruba friends. I am talking in the context of Nigeria and the Yoruba nation. My problem with them is the hypocrisy they show when they try to make us believe they are fighting for our collective interest. I will respect them a lot more if they just come out and state it like it is. At least that's one thing you have to respect the Hausa/Fulani for. They always come out to say what they want. If all the tribes in Naija just come out and make their demands and positions, we would have been a great country by now.

The reason people like Asari say the things they do is because they know Nigeria is all about sectional interest. They have seen how over the years, the north and the SW have pushed their own into key areas of the oil and gas industry and continue to do so. They have seen how you couldn't get choice jobs or contracts from the FG except you were Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba. They have seen how a whole country was thrown into debt and poverty because the nations resources was used to build a new capital territory in record time. They see these stuff everyday so you can't blame them for how they feel. Honestly, I feel their pain too.

ekwy nwa: pls get your facts right, they were not against their own, they preferred Olu Falea to OBJ, they perceive OBJ is a northern string-puppet. In 2003 they voted OBJ en mass and they even lost SW states to PDP.

edicolove: @Jason123, I did say that "if I can recall" meaning I wasn't too sure if he was the first. But I think he did set the tone for modern day Nigeria in terms of economic policies. Like I said, on one hand, they ere good policies that favoured his people but in the National context, they were detrimental to the national interest in the long term. So sincerely, it is hard to fault him. I do have big issues with Zik too. Zik was one of those that pushed the one Nigeria stuff to the point where we ended up with this fraud of a relationship. But Zik was a ceremonial head. Sir Ahmadu Bello was the prime minister and had all the powers. Ironsi was a weak military ruler who didn't even want to rule.

9jadelta: Hahahahaha I can see some Igbo and yoruba here trying to claim what they don't have...trying to form alliance with us in the south south ...well we are d richest tribe so I won't wonder much about that....but I will rather have naija Delta republic that all my oil will be use to develop or my area than join any other stup!d tribe be it biafra or odua republic to form a country or better still united southern nigeria .... So all if u igbo mor0ns and yoruba ass...can kiss my butt..hihihihihihihi *wicked laff*

edicolove: @Edo_girl, if you think the non indigines in Lagos really "Love" the Yoruba, you are truly delusional. I have several Yoruba friends but when you talk of the Yoruba as a whole, the perception is very different. When you talk about them in the context of Nigeria, the perception is very different. Edo state is ACN but majority of Edo state citizens will never go with the Yoruba.

I am talking about the way they try to address national issues. I am not talking about individual dislike for persons. The Yoruba man will always vote for his own. They are the most tribalistic people in Naija. They can isolate themselves and I am not talking about GEJ's government. I am talking about a time that is coming when decisions will be made and they will affect everyone of us, whether we like it or not. The SW states are not very bouyant states aoart from Ondo. Lagos income or wealth is artificial. It is not natural. It is because Lagos was capital of Nigeria and enjoyed things like being the major sea and airport for many years. That is changing and could change even much more in the near future.

I have worked in several sectors. The Niger Delta people are the most detribalised in Nigeria. A ND man will never employ another ND man just because he is from ND. A Yoruba, Hausa or Ibo man will do exactly that. That is what has been going on for years in the federal ministries and multinational companies. They can come here and pretend to be saints but we know what is really going on.

Like I said before, Nigeria, for about 5 decades, was ruled and destroyed by the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba leadership.