₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
Igbos were not "settled" .No one owed them anything so your starting point is wrong.

Has anyone settledthe victims of Boko Haram?

Are Igbos better than they?

They are victims while Igbos were investors in Biafra

aribisala0:
With 20 pounds in 1970 you could buy a little over an ounce(1.2) of gold
Which today is £1000 an ounce

aribisala0:
If you are interested in knowing the value of £20 in 1970 here is some homework

Check the exchange rate to USD$ 2.3-2.5 = $46 -50

We know that the Nigerian pound exchange at parity(1:1) with sterling


Check the pricee of gold per ounce in 1970about $39


Check the price of gold tooday $1280

aribisala0:
Loaf of bread 53pence?in 1970?

How old are you?
A small loaf of bread was 10 kobo in 1983 when Buhari took over

research
Go and listen to Fela's song
Original sufferhead 1981


This was a lament at the escalating prices at that time. It will teach you two things

The prices of food at that time

How unbearable those prices were considered then



Here is some research on historicity for YOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX250GbUTZY

JUSTICE4Nigeria:
propaganda at it best, igbo been business men have so much money in the bank before the war, after the war, whether u have equivalent or more than the aforementioned u will be given 20pounds just like given every igbo 20naira after all they have save in Nigeria bank, awolOwo took THE balance to buy shares in different company, due to they didn't laboured for it yorubas squandered the fund,

aribisala0:
In 1970 after the war the Nigerian government generally gave £20 of Nigerian money to every eligible adult but no one has ever done the math.

Let us assume their were one million of them =£20million Nigerian

We know that the Nigerian pound exchanged for £2 pounds sterling in 1970 so
that would be £40 million . What would that be worth today

according to this inflation calculator

https://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html
it would be
£432612859. Sterling
Not sure what sterling is doing these days but @ 475

that is

205491108025 Naira

200 billion

Assuming it was 1 million people that received the money. No one has ever told us how many did but I think it could be double that.

For a country to pay that out immediately after a war of such devastation is a huge feat considering that Nigeria was not even a major oil exporter in1970 and in 1970 oil prices were under $4 which when adjusted for inflation in today's money is $21.

It is a testament to the prudent financial management of Papa Awo who also kept the allocation of East Central state for 3 years and paid it all after the war


But they are not grateful and feel entitled to that payment. What have we done for the NE . Imagine finding 200 billion to give them today when oil prices in real terms are 3 X what they were in 1970

The standard of living was much lower. Let me put it in Perspective our standard of living then, There was no Lagos Ibadan Expressway. No East -West Road. PH to Aba was a single carriage way.The Air assault camp was the main airport in PH Omagwa airport did not exist. There was nothing like presidential jet. Where were the airports?
The country was broke with very little compared to today but still gave generously in the spirit or sacrifice and reconciliation

kn23h:
The topic was deleted for no reason, but I will recreate the clean version.

Today, Ibadan, Lagos, Ogun and even Osun all have masterplans to develop their land. Why don't Ibos have the same plan? Why do they rely on FG to come up with a plan to develop the SE?

deomelo:
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Your irrelevant rubbish doesn't change the fact that your ipob states collectively own N257 billion with nothing to show. Shouldn't this be your primary headache. ?

deomelo:
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Your irrelevant rubbish doesn't change the fact that your ipob states collectively own N257 billion with nothing to show. Shouldn't this be your primary headache. ?

obonujoker:
Oladeebo is a northerner... he also operates minuola and jesuslovesyou nicks.....

colossus91:
for yur info sir i wrote yoruba language ans scored a b2 am igbo in which i also wrote yoruba for a yoruba girl on exam day she scored b3 so calm down......that was in 2008 was born and bred in lasgidi bt nw banking in d east coast!!

senatordave1:
The gap between apc and apga in 2013 wasnt much,obiano is now a loner.anambra polls are not decided by the masses but by godfathers,church pooitics and money and these factors are working in favour of nwoye.even if all anambrarians vote for apga at the polling units,apc would manipulate the results at the ward and lga collation centres.oboano has underperformed anyway.apc would win 5 lgas in anambra south,4 lgas in anambra central and 2 lgas in anambra north.the two Os can share the remaining areas.nwoye's victory will mirror that of obaseki and akeredolu.sweep anambra with tony.apc,ebe na kpotu.kai gabba.

Osyabj:
Speak for yourself.

The arrogance of these pdp/apga erats is nauseating. Speak for yourself.

The only thing that unites thief Obiano and thief Obaze is the grand thief himself, thief obi.

Thief Obi and thief Jonathan imposed thief Obiano on the good people of Anambra, now the shameless thief Obi wants to impose another thief, obaze on us.

Obi should realise that thief Jonathan is gone so is his military that he used to run obiano in in 2013. Both Obiano and Obaze Will NEVER run Anambra again.
Get this thru skull, you pdp/apga erats do not speak for this Anambra poster or over 50 million independent minded Igbo nation worldwide.

You certainly do not speak for these Igbos and Anambrarians below and their hundreds of thousands of supporters in Anambra who have joined the APC
:
1) Oil billionaire Emeka Ofor
2) Tony Nwoye fmr Ananbra pdp chair (now APC flag bearer & the next Governor of Anambra)
4) Billionaire Arthur Eze ( Dr Tony Nwoye's ATM)
5) Senator Andy Uba ( Who lost APC primary due to his closeness to Saraki & Wike)

And of course, Anambra APC leader & fmr Governor Dr Chris "Onwa"Ngige

This is exactly what you pdp/apga erats said about Imo state, yet APC's Okorocha wiped the IMO floor with your corrupt pdp man , Ihedioha.

Obiano's failure to defect to APC was his deathnail. No force can stop APC from kicking that Lagos-registered Obi puppet, thief Obiano, back to lagos in November 2017.

Right now APC has Imo, Anambra will follow in November and Abia and Enugu in 2019!!

pdp/apga erats elections are not won on the pages of Nairaland. Remember pdp is
Edo and Edo is pdp; pdp is Imo and Imo is pdp, pdp is Ondo and Ondo is pdp?

Yet APC humbled you pdp and apga erats in Imo, Edo and Ondo.

The next Governor of Anambra is Dr Tony Nwoye.

Take that to any bank and cash it!!!

senatordave1:
The way nwoye won the apc primaries as an underdog is the way he would win the governorship.i never counted him as one of the contenders but he won suprisingly.that would be reenacted during the main polls

Afriifa:
everything about Buhari is cursed

Mrchippychappy:

You are the ignorant fool for thinking Biafra = IPOB. BIAFRA is bigger than IPOB, IPOB are miscreants that were misguided by a charlatan, their misguided leader could have caused the Biafran struggle a lot more harm if he was let be. Good riddance, IPOB is done. Now we move forward with actual intellectuals who have influence and affluence in world politics. IPOB was NEVER and would NEVER be the mouth piece of true biafrans.

ivolt:
Nnamdi Kanu is not the reason restructuring is being discussed.
It is due to the political calculations of 2019.
Restructuring discussion is not new to Nigeria and since the "change"
mantra has now expired, it is important that a new slogan is created,
hence the birth of lip-service restructuring.

Remember that a candidate does not need the support of Kanu and his
followers to win the presidential election and I doubt Kanu will be thrilled
to abandon his god-like aura to support a candidate who promises restructuring.

erunz:
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