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OfoIgbo:
All this your bad belle, because God blessed Igbos with abundant gas.

Let me give you a brief history lesson.
In the old Eastern Region, coal was discovered in Enugu and it was used to finance most of the project then.
Coal money built Portharcourt, Obudu cattle ranch and every other major project easterners had then.

Enugu people didn't for one day start claiming OUR COAL. They did not make their fellow Igbos feel alienated from the coal revenue, and they definitely did not go alienating the eastern minorities with the OUR COAL mantra.

The little that coal brought in, we all enjoyed and Enugu people did not go selling the east out, to the Fulanis.
Immediately oil was discovered,. Adaka Boro and co started the now known OUR OYEL ranting, alienating everyone and undermining the east by entering into secret conspiracies with Fulani terrorists, which eventually led to Fulanis now controlling Nigeria's oil resources.

For many decades Igbo areas that produced oil were increasingly being ceded to non Igbo states just to financially emasculate the Igbos.
In the entire SE, no meaningful federal presence as Igbos were constantly reminded that they were bringing in nothing to the centre.
Every Igboman remembers.

Today Igbos are gradually getting to know that gas resources has been handed to Ndigbo by God himself.
And you expect them not to scream it from the highest heavens. So far, no Igbo has been considered worthy enough to be the Nigerian president for many decades.

Our gas is a gift for ok God, and unlike coal, we Igbos will make sure every dime benefits Igboland only.

lebron7:
Lmfao
Even a simple Google search would have prevented you from this show of shame

Enyimbafc:
Have u notice for sometime now yoruba and other zoogerians have not been calling igbo land barren,indeed God is good.

cybertyrant:
Nwanna nwere nwayo, m na ekwu maka mba afrika nile, juo onwe gi ndi arab ana eyi ihe ndi oyibo na eyi

Jman24:
Stop being ignorant.
Like I have said, there is nothing like Racism, complex etc. These are words created by human beings to dominate others. So everything is all in your head.

I have had so many foreign friends who marvel when I do their things like their language.

Back then as kids, when we wave at camera in public events, you call us village people but you see a lot of whites waving at camera in an event like the world cup

DesChyko:
Suits are a thing of old. Let a president embrace LGBTQ and you'ld see the jubilation you seek.

DesChyko:
Suits are a thing of old. Let a president embrace LGBTQ and you'ld see the jubilation you seek.

theTranslator:
I hope Africans would get out of the "whites must validate" mentality


It's very demeaning and irritating

Aderewah:
Why not summarise and restate your submission? The only cogent submission you have is that imo people spray money in clubs. Just restate your submission to prove me wrong.

PoloG:
that guy no get sense

Aderewah:
You never did. Former capital? Calabar was. Abuja is. Port? Bayelsa make more money per capita from oil than lagos makes from ports. Just bow to people superior to you.

Aderewah:
Lmao. Pulling nonsense from your ass. I dare you to name 5.

TruthOverFacts:
Let me just stop here. I snapped the pictures I posted here at random. If I had entered Ikenegbu, Works, Main Owerri Municipal and New Owerri proper, the doubters would be in more shock... Let me sign out with this.....

FreeIgbos:
You don't need to bring Imo State down to pass your message na. Oil and gas alongside property development plays a huge role in determining GDP of a state, that's why you see the Niger Delta states with little except oil activity having bogus figures. Out of the 36 states, you didn't see any state to use to extrapolate but you chose Imo?

Anyways, the statistics is crap.

Aderewah:
Significant wealthy people spread across. Ipob statistics. it's funny how you people reject hard data and just throw words around with no proof and expect people to believe you. If there were so many wealthy people there, big companies both local and international will be fighting to open up there. But we all know where most businesses are.

Aderewah:
All these your lies is getting boring now. What useless policies is making lagos create jobs? List 5 of such policies.

Aderewah:
If your glorified towns were rich and developed, it would have jobs and it will be a dream to move there and live the way all your uncles move to Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan and Port Harcourt.

Aderewah:
Wow, so smart
Clubs imo throwing money is how you justify wealth. Okay, people in Norway dont throw money in clubs. I'm sure Imo is richer than Norway.

post=102802878:
On media not in reality

mrvitalis:
Why stats on ground doesn't match reality u have right to question it

I'm from imo there is no way imo has twice anambra GDP impossible

TruthOverFacts:
More from Owerri dotcom . I snapped these ones this morning on my way to Orlu

Ojiofor:
Schools are colonial/western institutions and have nothing to do with Igbo believe system or ideology(Omenala or Odinala ndi Igbo)
Show me one ancient Igbo artifact that bear a resemblance of STAR of David like our Ofor and Ogu symbols.

Justiceleague1:
Shame... This is of most importance to Nigerians.... Shame.

BeLookingIDIOT:
The DNA test results “did not support their claim to be descendants of the ancient people of Israel… [but] we consider them our brothers through our common faith in the Messiah Yeshua."


They still want to be Jews by force.
Faith in what Messiah,do Jews believe Jesus

Bialegend:
I posted this yesterday and one the hetorade moderators deleted the thread. They do not want people to know about Igbo history. What is wrong with these people?

Ojiofor:
Stop falsely claiming other people identity and civilisation as yours.Igbos of Nigeria ain't no Jews as proven by DNA test.


Igbo Men Have No Known ‘Jewish DNA,’ Controversial Test Shows

August 10, 2017 By Sam Kestenbaum
Igbo Men Have No Known ‘Jewish DNA,’ Controversial Test Shows by the Forward

Courtesy of Onwukwe Alaez...

Among the Igbo, one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups, there is widespread identification with Jews, and many see themselves as descendants of the biblical Israelites.

But a recent test to determine if a group of Igbo men share genetic material with Jews is back — and no connection was found.

Even before the results were known, the test was the source of heated debate among the Igbo. Now activists are decrying the enterprise, and the missionary American group that carried it out, as illegitimate.

“Our purpose for providing this DNA testing… was to assist them in their pursuit of truth concerning their historical lineage and identity,” Jonathan Bernis, head of Jewish Voice Ministries International, wrote in an email to the Forward. The DNA test results “did not support their claim to be descendants of the ancient people of Israel… [but] we consider them our brothers through our common faith in the Messiah Yeshua.”

Jewish Voice Ministries International is a Messianic missionary organization that appeals to “lost tribes of Israel” and people with Jewish heritage around the world to spread the message of “Messianic Judaism and the Jewish roots” of Christianity.

The Forward first reported on the initiative early this year, when the group carried out the test in collaboration with a local religious group called Redeemed Israel Community of Nigeria. Together, they gathering some 120 saliva samples of community members and the tests were carried out using kits from Family Tree DNA, a Texas-based company that sells genealogical analyses, including a focus on Jewish heritage.

The genetic test had been the source of fierce debate among Igbo members, some of whom questioned Jewish Voice’s ability to successfully carry out such a test and whether such a test would serve or hurt their cause.

“There is no DNA test for ‘Jewishness,’” Igbo lawyer and author Remy Ilona wrote in a lengthy Times of Israel blog post, which outlined his objections both to the group and what he sees as their faulty methods. Ilona has written a series of books promoting the thesis that Igbos are genealogical Israelites.

Onwukwe Alaezi, an author who first supported the effort, decried the Messianic group as saboteurs who came only to delegitimize the Igbo. “Whether the white fake Jews want it or not,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “Igbo are Jews.”

Contact Sam Kestenbaum at kestenbaum@forward.com or on Twitter, @skestenbaum

Igbo Test Shows No Known ‘Jewish DNA,’ Test Shows
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BabaOneChance:
You have pictures of my maternal homeland? Nkwerre.

Make I no lie, I be Yoruba, from Ondo State. But my mom came from Imo (RIP). And I did 3 years in St Augustine Grammar School in Nkwerre before coming back to Lagos.

Show me my place if you have the pictures. Thanks.

olabukola:
Drone pictures always look nice. Snap from ground pls.