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Xisnin:
Cowards! It was Biafra or Death how did it become Biafra or Restructuring. You guys are as confused as your fugitive terrorist leader.

Your problem is poverty. Hungry, ignorant soul

Before they made Nnamdi Kanu disappear the north was treading carefully and seemed ready to discuss restructuring. It is very obvious now that IPOB really scared them, that's why python dance had to happen in a peaceful region. Just to kill off the clamour for secession and prevent any talk of restructuring.

To the southerners who were the biggest critics and attackers of Nnamdi Kanu/IPOB una well done o! Your slavery continues.

T9ksy:
@ bolded.............abi o jare!!! I guess they were Awo's bosom pals (Ore kori ko sun)

These folks are so mischevious, it's unbelievable. Very soon, they will start telling us that the january coupists were in collaboration with Awo whilst he was incarcerated in calabar prison.

It's also instructive to note that for the brief period Nzegeow held sway in the north and was threatening to march down south and displace Ironsi, he did not at any time mention anything about Awo or the fact that they aim to release him from jail and make him the next Prime minister.

All this malicious, fake twisted bigoted propaganda never lasts long. Open your eyes and read well

"It may well be added that it was Awolowo’s
participation in Gowon’s administration that enabled
him to get a copy of the Ifeajuna manuscript.
A copy was sent to him by a well-wisher who thought
he should know about the plans that the January 15
1966 coup makers had had in store for him. It was in
similar fashion that he got a copy of the transcripts of
the Enugu meeting after the tapes were said to have
been captured at the fall of Enugu and the take over of
the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting service by Federal
Forces. Awolowo had the two documents in safe
keeping when I became his Private (Political) Secretary
in June 1978."

"Of interest is that in spite of the famed unreliability of Ifeajuna, none of the narratives written about the Nigerian crisis by the principal protagonists Alexander Madiebo, Ademoyega, Ben Ghulie, and Hilary Njoku have differed in any substantial sense apart from turns of phrases, from the core of what Ifeajuna wrote in the white hot heat of the moment that followed the coup.
The contentious issue over their choice of Awolowo has
been repeated by the participants in the core group that
set out to change the government before they were
overtaken by Ironsi, and the echelon that surrounded
Ojukwu in Kano who would not allow Nzeogwu to make
use of troops in that city to march on Lagos as he had
planned to do after he discovered that the coup was
botched in the South."

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/awolowo-and-the-forgotten-documents-of-the-civil-war-by-odia-ofeimun-3/

Odia Ofeimun, Former Private Political Secretary to Obafemi Awolowo

deomelo:
The same road under construction...


Never ever believe ipob lies and anti-Nigerian rubbish, they are all crooks and liars.

Fufu brain....heavy equipment patching a microscopic section of the road for show is something to dance celebrate? I'm done with this clown

ollysaks:
Oya vex and carry your cows to Ekiti state.

Tell them there that you can't ranch your cattle .

See if Fayose, will not use the for stomach infrastructure

Post of the year

deomelo:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/5535358_cracks2_jpegb7c83461acd888f4ec1780c44d5a5ddd


www.nairaland.com/attachments/5340963_p6131929562_jpeg71ac4f0ae60335fa57529b51af594697

This is the reap patch patch work on the best project in iboland built by the best village governor in iboland.


Na bricklayer dey patch patch death trap village gather bridge that's not even 2 years old.



https://freedomonline.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fashola_commissions_floating_bridge.jpg

https://poi.api.hotels.ng/poi/187/lekhead.jpg-187-56eac855cf7d0.jpg


...but Fashola built the best bridge in Nigeria in less than 3 years while all your worthless village governors can not build 2nd NB after 30 years of beg beg, crying and wailing.

So who is the failure? I'm sure you know the answer.


You better face the death trap in your village..

Shameless guy. You are a truly lost soul. Fashola built toll bridge in Lekki so agbepo like you can upload picture for coins

Fashola could not build a single General Hospital from Epe to Lekki but shine shine bridge is your priority. The permanent poor WAEC results from your region is not your problem. The gangs that control areas from Palmgrove to Jibowu is not an issue to you or fashola? NA bridge be una achievement? Zombie follower of a failure

www.wetinhappen.com.ng/protectors-of-lagos-cult-gangs/

thenationonlineng.net/gangs-of-lagos/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/war-rages-at-jibowufadeyi-as-terror-gangs-unleash-mayhem/

Fashola is a fraud and a failure at the local and federal levels. Shikena!

OP go find work abeg. You will never get Igbo mansions in Lagos. Go hustle, try serving as boy-boy to one Igbo trader after 5 years you will get your freedom and a large settlement then you can become a big man. Just don't spend all your money on alomo and weed

Fashola is a failure abeg. Light zero, the most important road in Nigeria (wharf road) zero, if it's propaganda 100%

He had to hand it over to Dangote for him to patch up. What a useless minister

Game over

F$*k APC

Rotimik:
You are a BIG LIAR!

When we're you born. I still remember as a child, a loaf of bread going for 10kobo (0.5 Schilling) in 1980 .

As a Pre-school pupil at the time, my pocket money used to be 5 Kobo which would fetch me a bowl of beans and plantain.

aribisala0:
Lying is in their DNA .
When the Pound was changed it was 1 pound for two naira so he is telling us in 1970 a loaf of bread was ONE NAIRA

Rotimik:
You are a BIG LIAR!

When we're you born. I still remember as a child, a loaf of bread going for 10kobo (0.5 Schilling) in 1980 .

As a Pre-school pupil at the time, my pocket money used to be 5 Kobo which would fetch me a bowl of beans and plantain.

Pathetic plonkers By una sef you exposed the people who embrace lying as a culture. 0.5 Shillings in nursery school my arse

So I should ignore The Guardian UK and buy your childish fable?

No be IPOB matter, APC can never win for we yard. It is a sectional, backward, corrupt, clueless and demonic party. APC brought tanks and soldiers into Igboland to intimidate and murder people in the name of python dance and that stain shall always follow it

Even with the millions of security agents it deployed in Anambra elections and all the federal might and bribery it lost and will always lose.

Without the opportunists in our midst like Rochas and Ngige APC would cease to exist in the SE

Lol!!!! No be today wey APC begin dey mess up.

BankeSmalls:
Tony Nwoye bu ekperime

Tony bu ezigbo agbero

"I have never written about Anambra election but I am
moved to because of the events that took place in Rivers
State. History will judge us if we do not make this clarion
call.

Whatever you do, dear Igbo people of Anambra. Do not
elect a thug in Anambra State.

Anambra have never been led by a thug. Chinwoke
Mbadinuju was a disaster but his bad leadership style in
terms of character standard of moral can never be
compared to Wike and Amaechi.

Never you elect Tony Nwoye in Anambra State. If you do,
what you are seeing in Wike and Amaechi will only be a
child's play. You are already aware that both Chibuike
Amaechi and Wike are thugs. They are both crude just like most of our leaders.

Rochas is a disaster of a Governor but imagine if he were a thug too. The reason sanity still pervades the geography of Imo State is because he is not a thug so to say. I don't know if I am using the right word.

Pick out from the other men who are contesting. This is
not even about APC but APC is not good for Ndi-Igbo.
Tony Nwoye will introduce thuggery in governance.

Finesse is a virtue we must demand from our leaders.

Tony Nwoye does not have it."

By Ifeyinwa China Onyeabo

jpphilips:
Argue with a toddler? Give me some credit pls

You are an empty intellectual toddler. Your 50+ years on earth notwithstanding

Osyabj:
Who is we? speak for your patently corrupt soul.

The majority of SE agrees with the OP..

Time to chase the apga and pdp blood suckers out of SE.

Time to welcome the next Governor of Anambra...

Dr Tony Nwoye

You are joker and you know it. Collect your cash for campaigns, pay your tithes and move on.

Bleep APC! Failed party in every regard. The only hope it has in the SE is rigging with federal might (God forbid )

We hate APC in Anambra. Just forget it

Tolexander:
better than knowing nonsense!

You know nonsense!

I have put rich facts forward. You know nothing and have brought nothing to the discussion except showcase your bias and foaming mouth.

Tolexander:
One died a martyr
While
the other hid like a coward

You know nothing.

deomelo:
Funny how these villagers are the internet debt police, boring us every day about other people and their debt, who is paying or not paying salary in other regions when in fact they own massively, they have nothing to show for their debts and 4 out of 5 of their poor states collected salary bailouts.


How sad...

L'ori N1.2 Trillion debt

Na omoluabis for Ondo and Ekiti even help una small. Thank Fayose and Mimiko

https://www.nairaland.com/3954139/2017-waec-results-state-ranking

The latest WAEC ranking of the 36 states is as below: Abia - 1st Anambra - 2nd Edo - 3rd Rivers - 4th Imo - 5th Lagos - 6th Bayelsa - 7th Delta - 8th Enugu -9th Ebonyi - 10th Ekiti - 11th Kaduna - 12th Ondo - 13th Abuja - 14th Kogi - 15th Benue - 16th Akwa Ibom - 17th Kwara - 18th Ogun - 19th Cross River - 20th Taraba - 21st Plateau - 22nd Nassarawa -23rd Kano - 24th Borno - 25th Oyo - 26th Niger - 27th Adamawa -28th Osun -29th Sokoto - 30th Bauchi - 31st Kebbi - 32nd Katsina - 33rd) Gombe - 34th Jigawa 35th Zamfara - 36th Yobe - 37th Culled from Punch Newspapers

jpphilips:
The world is laughing at your Kanu comparison, see a shrink ASAP

Smallie if you want to argue go to the first post

Mynd44 abeg epp me delete this double topic post

Today is 22 years since the Nigerian state killed Ken Saro-Wiwa on the allegation of murder of Ogoni Chiefs. Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried alongside other Ogoni leaders and citizens, including Mr. Ledum Mittee for allegedly instigating and killing their brothers. The death of those Ogoni chiefs was an unfortunate and unexpected turn of event, occasioned by intolerable disagreement on the strategies for the emancipation of Ogoni people.

This could be a case of what behavioral scholars call ‘predictable surprise’. With ‘hindsight bias’, one could say that the level of venom and angst in this strategic contention would definitely lead to epic tragedy. But, in the thrills of self-determination, no one would have expected the gruesome killing of those who disagreed.

Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried by a special military tribunal headed by the immediate Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, who was then a junior judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Other members of the tribunal were Col Ali, former Military Governor and now Comptroller General of Customs, and a senior judge from Cross River State whose name I can’t easily recollect. The trial was my closest and most insightful encounter with the Nigerian state.

I was a young lawyer, barely two years from the Law School, when Ken’s lawyer and my principal, Gani Fawehinmi, drafted me as co-counsel in the trial. The trial became a ruse to put away a very costly irritation to the Nigerian state. As one of the tribunal members explained to us, it was a strategic mistake that the Nigerian state did not deal ruthlessly with the Ogoni ‘insolence and provocation’ long ago. In his view, Abacha should have exterminated this irritation. But, nevertheless, General Abacha got around doing what a ruthless state gets to do: brutally put off the agitation.

The ‘persecution’ of the Ogoni leaders was expected but the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other accused persons-minus Mittee- was a real surprise. Both Ken Saro-wiwa and Gani Fawehinmi knew the trial was a sham. As I explained to the Newsweek magazine, the Auta tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court’.

In fact, Ken Saro-wiwa, realizing that the trial was a predetermined extermination of the dangerous Ogoni agitation, counseled Gani Fawehinmi not to put up a defence on his behalf. In Ken’s view, the Nigerian state wanted to kill him after a sham trial whose only redemption would be that such high caliber lawyers represented him. Gani, understood that this Auta Tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court but countered that we needed to push the Tribunal to serial errors to discredit the trial. Thereafter, we would back down.

The defence strategy was delivered up to the hilt. We so exposed the tribunal’s bias and partiality that the envoy of the Law Society and the Bar Council in the UK wrote a damning report of the trail. The Report resulted in worldwide denunciation of the trial. But we missed an important point. Ken had asked me whether I thought Abacha would execute him after conviction and sentence (we knew that Auta and co would convict and sentence Ken and his comrades to death).

I painted scenarios and predicted that how Abacha would treat General Obasanjo and Yaradua, two eminent leaders he had convicted for coup plotting in another Kangaroo military tribunal, would determine his treatment of Ken & co. in my flawed thinking, I believed that if Abacha listened to international outcry and reduced the death sentence on Obasanjo and Yaradua to prison terms then we should be sure he would put Ken into prison and not to the gallows. Then, perhaps, Ken’s dream Nobel Prize could be on the way.

But we failed woefully. I did not reckon that the Ogoni struggle is a different kettle of fish. To the grand commanders of this unfair republic to challenge the unity of Nigeria (a euphemism for challenging the neo-feudal foundations of the Nigerian state) is the unpardonable sin. A coup plotter is pardonable. But the one who puts his hands against the Lugardian knots pays dearly. Ken Saro-wiwa paid the price for raising his voice in the manner in which Adaka Boro and the Biafran soldiers did. It is a legendary irony that Ken Saro-wiwa thoroughly deprecated Ojukwu and his comrades for foolishly rushing to self-determination instead of parleying with the Nigerian state that was already murdering Igbos.

He even called ‘Ojukwu ‘inglorious braggart’, and queried the wisdom of the Igbo struggle. He was not alone in this put-down of the Biafra insurrection. Prof Ali Mazrui seriously lampooned the poet, Chris Okigbo, for abandoning poetry and taking up arms to defend Biafra. I confronted Ken with this irony while he was in prison and he gave me a copy of his ‘On a Darkling Plain’ to debunk allegation of Igbo hatred. Obviously, he did not hate the Igbos. Like most of us he simply failed to see the body in the corpse until death hit home.

About 25 years after the Biafra revolt, Ken inspired a powerful Ogoni rebellion. About 22 years after the Ogoni rebellion was fiercely exterminated, the Nigerian army moved again to the east to quell another insurrection against the Nigerian state. The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) hoisted another flag of a separatist enclave (don’t forget that MOSSOP had Ogoni flag and Anthem). A young man, Nnamdi Kanu, who, like Ken Saro-Wiwa, is privileged with good education and quality of life, swore that he wanted either Biafra or death. Nnamdi Kanu thinks that his Igbo people are being enslaved in Nigeria.

Ken thought Nigeria turned Ogonis into hewers of woods and fetchers of water. Kanu believes that the problem of his Igbo people is that they are enslaved by the Fulani caliphate. Ken believed that the Nigerian military-business complex was imprisoning Ogoni people. Both of them wanted some kind of out.

The pacification of Ogoni was brutal and unfair. In the guise of restoring peace to a troubled land and bringing murderers to justice the Nigerian state brutalized Ogoni and dismantled one of the most vehement and revolutionary political agitations in Nigeria. In his written address to the tribunal Ken Saro-wiwa warned that if Nigeria rebuffed his peaceful agitation for environmental justice and political self-determination, it would contend with violent challenge to its iniquitous order. But Nigeria was not in the mood for reason. And as predicted, the Ijaws took over from where the Ogoni left. Militants swarmed the Niger Delta and forever changed Nigerian politics.

After Ken’s execution, a Nigerian journalist, Adewale Adeoye, and myself decided to publish a book on the Ogoni trial and the political future of Nigeria. In chapter 6 of the proposed book I argued that the future of Nigeria after Ken Saro-wiwa requires a rethinking of the federal system of government. I argued that until we reconceive the Nigerian state on the line of democratic citizenship, without subjecting the state to ethnic and religious competition and dominance, we could lose the nation. In mimicry of the fabled but failed nation-building project in Nigeria, we abandoned the book project. That was over a decade before the present feverish clamor of restructuring and the thunderous chant-down of ‘Nigerian unity is non-negotiable’.

Presumably, we have neatly dispatched off Nnamdi Kanu and his noisome pestilence through the ‘Operation Python Dance’, just the way we extirpated the Ogoni struggle through the Rivers State Internal Security Committee of dreaded Col Okuntimo. The clamor of the Biafran agitators has been drowned in the cacophony of bullets and martial law. We have cured the disease but multiplied the virus. As we ruthlessly fall down those who stand up to question the political fundaments of the Nigerian state and refuse to deal with the issues they raise, we continue to weaken the foundations of Nigeria’s sustainability.

The union grows weaker and weaker after each successful expedition. The Nigerian unity is more threatened today than in 1995 when Ken Saro-wiwa and his colleagues were hanged for asking inconvenient questions. Yes, we dealt with them neatly but we did not answer their queries. 22 years after we are still dealing ruthlessly with, perhaps, a much more inconvenient and insolent query: the new Biafra self-determination movement. It is now time to stop bolstering and bluffing, sit down and ask really difficult question: why does the nation has to be severely threatened every other decade? We can’t we secure the nation on something stronger than individual and group aggrandizement? Can’t we form a less imperfect union?

Dr Sam Amadi, former chairman and chief executive of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), was a defence counsel to Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders at the trial

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Today is 22 years since the Nigerian state killed Ken Saro-Wiwa on the allegation of murder of Ogoni Chiefs. Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried alongside other Ogoni leaders and citizens, including Mr. Ledum Mittee for allegedly instigating and killing their brothers. The death of those Ogoni chiefs was an unfortunate and unexpected turn of event, occasioned by intolerable disagreement on the strategies for the emancipation of Ogoni people.

This could be a case of what behavioral scholars call ‘predictable surprise’. With ‘hindsight bias’, one could say that the level of venom and angst in this strategic contention would definitely lead to epic tragedy. But, in the thrills of self-determination, no one would have expected the gruesome killing of those who disagreed.

Ken Saro-Wiwa was tried by a special military tribunal headed by the immediate Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, who was then a junior judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Other members of the tribunal were Col Ali, former Military Governor and now Comptroller General of Customs, and a senior judge from Cross River State whose name I can’t easily recollect. The trial was my closest and most insightful encounter with the Nigerian state.

I was a young lawyer, barely two years from the Law School, when Ken’s lawyer and my principal, Gani Fawehinmi, drafted me as co-counsel in the trial. The trial became a ruse to put away a very costly irritation to the Nigerian state. As one of the tribunal members explained to us, it was a strategic mistake that the Nigerian state did not deal ruthlessly with the Ogoni ‘insolence and provocation’ long ago. In his view, Abacha should have exterminated this irritation. But, nevertheless, General Abacha got around doing what a ruthless state gets to do: brutally put off the agitation.

The ‘persecution’ of the Ogoni leaders was expected but the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other accused persons-minus Mittee- was a real surprise. Both Ken Saro-wiwa and Gani Fawehinmi knew the trial was a sham. As I explained to the Newsweek magazine, the Auta tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court’.

In fact, Ken Saro-wiwa, realizing that the trial was a predetermined extermination of the dangerous Ogoni agitation, counseled Gani Fawehinmi not to put up a defence on his behalf. In Ken’s view, the Nigerian state wanted to kill him after a sham trial whose only redemption would be that such high caliber lawyers represented him. Gani, understood that this Auta Tribunal was a ‘hangman’s court but countered that we needed to push the Tribunal to serial errors to discredit the trial. Thereafter, we would back down.

The defence strategy was delivered up to the hilt. We so exposed the tribunal’s bias and partiality that the envoy of the Law Society and the Bar Council in the UK wrote a damning report of the trail. The Report resulted in worldwide denunciation of the trial. But we missed an important point. Ken had asked me whether I thought Abacha would execute him after conviction and sentence (we knew that Auta and co would convict and sentence Ken and his comrades to death).

I painted scenarios and predicted that how Abacha would treat General Obasanjo and Yaradua, two eminent leaders he had convicted for coup plotting in another Kangaroo military tribunal, would determine his treatment of Ken & co. in my flawed thinking, I believed that if Abacha listened to international outcry and reduced the death sentence on Obasanjo and Yaradua to prison terms then we should be sure he would put Ken into prison and not to the gallows. Then, perhaps, Ken’s dream Nobel Prize could be on the way.

But we failed woefully. I did not reckon that the Ogoni struggle is a different kettle of fish. To the grand commanders of this unfair republic to challenge the unity of Nigeria (a euphemism for challenging the neo-feudal foundations of the Nigerian state) is the unpardonable sin. A coup plotter is pardonable. But the one who puts his hands against the Lugardian knots pays dearly. Ken Saro-wiwa paid the price for raising his voice in the manner in which Adaka Boro and the Biafran soldiers did. It is a legendary irony that Ken Saro-wiwa thoroughly deprecated Ojukwu and his comrades for foolishly rushing to self-determination instead of parleying with the Nigerian state that was already murdering Igbos.

He even called ‘Ojukwu ‘inglorious braggart’, and queried the wisdom of the Igbo struggle. He was not alone in this put-down of the Biafra insurrection. Prof Ali Mazrui seriously lampooned the poet, Chris Okigbo, for abandoning poetry and taking up arms to defend Biafra. I confronted Ken with this irony while he was in prison and he gave me a copy of his ‘On a Darkling Plain’ to debunk allegation of Igbo hatred. Obviously, he did not hate the Igbos. Like most of us he simply failed to see the body in the corpse until death hit home.

About 25 years after the Biafra revolt, Ken inspired a powerful Ogoni rebellion. About 22 years after the Ogoni rebellion was fiercely exterminated, the Nigerian army moved again to the east to quell another insurrection against the Nigerian state. The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) hoisted another flag of a separatist enclave (don’t forget that MOSSOP had Ogoni flag and Anthem). A young man, Nnamdi Kanu, who, like Ken Saro-Wiwa, is privileged with good education and quality of life, swore that he wanted either Biafra or death. Nnamdi Kanu thinks that his Igbo people are being enslaved in Nigeria.

Ken thought Nigeria turned Ogonis into hewers of woods and fetchers of water. Kanu believes that the problem of his Igbo people is that they are enslaved by the Fulani caliphate. Ken believed that the Nigerian military-business complex was imprisoning Ogoni people. Both of them wanted some kind of out.

The pacification of Ogoni was brutal and unfair. In the guise of restoring peace to a troubled land and bringing murderers to justice the Nigerian state brutalized Ogoni and dismantled one of the most vehement and revolutionary political agitations in Nigeria. In his written address to the tribunal Ken Saro-wiwa warned that if Nigeria rebuffed his peaceful agitation for environmental justice and political self-determination, it would contend with violent challenge to its iniquitous order. But Nigeria was not in the mood for reason. And as predicted, the Ijaws took over from where the Ogoni left. Militants swarmed the Niger Delta and forever changed Nigerian politics.

After Ken’s execution, a Nigerian journalist, Adewale Adeoye, and myself decided to publish a book on the Ogoni trial and the political future of Nigeria. In chapter 6 of the proposed book I argued that the future of Nigeria after Ken Saro-wiwa requires a rethinking of the federal system of government. I argued that until we reconceive the Nigerian state on the line of democratic citizenship, without subjecting the state to ethnic and religious competition and dominance, we could lose the nation. In mimicry of the fabled but failed nation-building project in Nigeria, we abandoned the book project. That was over a decade before the present feverish clamor of restructuring and the thunderous chant-down of ‘Nigerian unity is non-negotiable’.

Presumably, we have neatly dispatched off Nnamdi Kanu and his noisome pestilence through the ‘Operation Python Dance’, just the way we extirpated the Ogoni struggle through the Rivers State Internal Security Committee of dreaded Col Okuntimo. The clamor of the Biafran agitators has been drowned in the cacophony of bullets and martial law. We have cured the disease but multiplied the virus. As we ruthlessly fall down those who stand up to question the political fundaments of the Nigerian state and refuse to deal with the issues they raise, we continue to weaken the foundations of Nigeria’s sustainability.

The union grows weaker and weaker after each successful expedition. The Nigerian unity is more threatened today than in 1995 when Ken Saro-wiwa and his colleagues were hanged for asking inconvenient questions. Yes, we dealt with them neatly but we did not answer their queries. 22 years after we are still dealing ruthlessly with, perhaps, a much more inconvenient and insolent query: the new Biafra self-determination movement. It is now time to stop bolstering and bluffing, sit down and ask really difficult question: why does the nation has to be severely threatened every other decade? We can’t we secure the nation on something stronger than individual and group aggrandizement? Can’t we form a less imperfect union?

Dr Sam Amadi, former chairman and chief executive of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), was a defence counsel to Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders at the trial

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I want Chidoka to win but at the end of the day APC must never win. Rather let Obiano take it again

You see why we say this demonic party should never be allowed to win? See dirty politics in our peaceful state. God forbid

Bleep Tony Nwoye
Bleep APC

Chai so the woman even posted it on social media ;

Original mumu like APC supporters for naija

Yyeske:
This is America, the bastion of democracy. If this was to happen in Nigeria, some people would've started shouting ICC, UN, ECOWAS etc.
When we tell them that our president has humanity in him, they become insultive.
Tell me which head of state in the civilized world will take 10% of what IPOB and Nnamdi kanu did and they'll ever go Scot free

You don high this early morning ba? It's because she is in a civilised place that all she got was the sack.

In Nigeria any ipob person that does that to PMB will be shot and have acid poured on the and the likes of you would still blame ipob or Nnamdi Kanu for looking for trouble.

Buhari's illiterate government keeps disgracing itself. Biafran currency that is kept all over the world by people as a historical artefact?

This WAEC wey buhari no get dey really disturb am

laudate:
Wait first, Igbo's deserved compensation for going to war against their country Nigeria?? What planet do you come from? Were they not the same people that were said to have given Ojukwu a mandate to go to war??

Another super ignorant, bitter, bottom-feeder. Even your brother has used plenty grammar to backtrack from his shame.

The ECOWAS Court has authoritatively silenced the wicked little pipsqueaks like you and rendered your opinion a shitty backward waste of time . N88 Billion (a conservative figure in my opinion) is what they awarded gbagam! Now go hang

[quote author=GavelSlam post=62066598][/quote]Mtcheeeeew!!

Ok i don hear. £20 pounds was equal to bill gates bank balance. Whatever tickles your fancy

aribisala0:
Well I have not said they do or do not deserve compensation.They are not MORE deserving of compensation than the people of the NE, See who is talking about cold and inhumane.

Are the victims of Boko Haram the same as Boko Haram. ?? Hypocrite

Compensation for what? We must be clear.Compensation for killings in the north cannot be linked to £20 they are different issues. The right payment muust be made to the right victims

The fact is the £20 was not compensation if it was it would be taken into the calculation. It was a purely goodwill payment that did not remove the right to seek compensation for those who are entitled .But we must not let emotionality becloud our ability to correctly compartmentalize issues.
The issue here is about whether peoples money was forcefully taken.It was not . Did they deserve to be allowed to exchange the old Nigerian notes for the new ones?.Thaat can be debated separately and I encourage such debate because we can examine all the pros and cons

The ECOWAS judgment is not about £20 .

Yes they were robbed. BY OJUKWU whom they gave their Nigerian Pounds to. What did he do with it??

What is the ECOWAS judgment about then? So it is after I dismantled your primary school narrative you now cry that Boko haram are different from their victims you deserve pity honestly

While the world is signalling to this country that its past is ugly and wicked as the 88 billion award has shown the likes of you are opening futile threads to convince your type that the cost of 40 loaves of bread are good recompense for stealing and destroying the wealth of a nation valued in billions