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ijigbamigb: Has anyone ever been to University of Ado Ekiti's OMOLAYO HOSTEL? No difference between it and Fox River Prisons. Worst Hostel that has ever existed on PLANET EARTH.

ujchief: GraceLand Hostel, Unizik, awka town. One person per room, self contained, standard room size, double entrance, double windows, well ventilated... Oooops, sorry, that was an off-camp accomodation, wouldnt stay in a school hostel for anything!!

DaLover]jp phillips, r there any set of people that are born Lazy?

I quite agree with the structure you illustrated, though you wrong termed it empowerment, but this is not the empowerment I was refering too...

30 or 40 old years ago when the FG decided to seize the resources of the 9ja deltans and exploit the oil via the major ethnic groups and forginers, various means were devices to suppress the populace..these included physical force and divide and rule tactics through bribary of the traditional rulers and those who could show that they commanded some sort of powers in the communities...any attempts by the general community to rise against their corrupt leaders and traditional ruler was meet with brutal force by the state on the side of the corrupt traditional rulers and leaders...this is exactly what brought about the death of Saro wiwa...the saro wiwa story reverberated around the world because he was a popular figure....but thrust me this same situation played itself all over the 9ja delta, a disenfranchised people were that were over a 30 year period cowed into submission.....the artitude you explained here is the kind of behaviour that came about as a result of the behaviour by companies like shell a co, over a long period of time....

After the death of Saro Wiwa and the international comdemnation that followed, shell tried to make a show of sustainable community development, this is what gave rise to the FTO, and other support which shell pays to the communities directly or indirectly through the contractors...

Obviuosly given the culture that was built up over the years, a group of powerful thugs in the communities set up excos and rotate membership amongst themselves to collect monies from the IOCs, the companies are quite ok with this because it keeps the communities out of their business, and when approached on the wrongness of the strategy...they, like you have just done will point to the amount of money paid to communities...

But what is my own solution...it is as simple as teaching the man to catch fish, rather than giving him fish every day.....The way the system is run now, the personnel from the conmmuniies are treated as if they do not have a stake in the issue, the actual transaction take place between the oil companies and the muscle men (those who can be called upon to sqush any uprisings).
Now, the people are tired of waiting for the right things to be done, the are taking their destinies into their own hands, they are already used to taking the crude and selling or refining, even if we could get the poorly paid army officers to stop them, the possibility of willful ssabotage is very high...

What I feel needs to be done, is to find a way of stoping the cash payments to thugs while gradually involving communities in the ownership and operations of these oil companies,,, it sounds funny when you say people are willing to risk their lives to to tap into flow lines or pipelines, transport the crue, refine it in a crude manner, and sell it but these same people are not willing to settle down and own legal oil companies... What I have proposed it not going to be easy to achieve, but there are usually no easy solutions to difficult problems, the existing culture was set over a 30year period and will take time to change, but we need to start in the right step, and that is assuring the people that they have a direct stake in the oil producing business

nsiadi: its difficult to say if illiteracy that prevented gowon from imbibing d spirit of Aburi has left him. Its not enuf for him to shed crocodile tears. He shd openly confess his sins or die with those sins. I hope the misfit suffers more b4 joining his ancestors

nsiadi: its difficult to say if illiteracy that prevented gowon from imbibing d spirit of Aburi has left him. Its not enuf for him to shed crocodile tears. He shd openly confess his sins or die with those sins. I hope the misfit suffers more b4 joining his ancestors

Kanto: @jp philips:

i actually enjoy the ignorance and cowardice of people like you because it stinks to high heavens: Have you ever heard the word the right to self defence? Well that was what Ojukwu exercised and he had the God given right to do so when his people was faced with a pogrom and gowon the head of state whose duty it is to protect lives and property did nothing about it. Even a goat, if you push it to the wall it will turn back and fight you. Gowon had no right to be talking of one nigeria when thousands of people were massacred under his watch. I know that typical cowards like you will rather surrender to be butchered rather than exercise your fundamental right and fight back. Ojukwu like a real man fought for self defence and the nigerian army payed dearly for almost 3 years to the extent that were all celebrating when the war ended.

My prayer for you is that your people should face genocide so that you can surrender yourselves without a fight to be butchered.

No tribe in nigeria can face a gang-up of the rest of nigeria like biafra did and survive even a week, if any of you can i challenge you to declare war and see how you will be crushed in less than one week. The yoruba owambe cockroaches will even run away like they did over june 12 before any war has started.

All through human history there have been countless wars fought by those who exercised the ultimate right to fight for self defence and what they beleive in and we are proud of the biafran war and the heroic resistance against a gang-up of 246 ethnic groups against a few and yet could not prevail for 3 years. it should be a lesson to those who want to learn.

At the end of the day ojukwu has been vindicated as the whole country is now crying to have a sovereign national conference. Today there is boko haram wanting to islamise the whole country. No matter how fools like you try to ignore the truth it is catching up with you by groups like boko haram and their islamisation agenda and even gowon knows the truth but is too ashamed to admit it.

This is just the beginning.

ojukwu's finger prints are all over kaduna nzeogwu's coup, you seriously don't think it is a coincidence that such hit pulled by his kinsmen could be largely successful without the blessing of an influential one of them highly placed in the army that was functioning like a cult? the same force of coincidence that spared the eastern top guns?

you could remember that the pogrom started in the army where some people thought it was a mere rival military cult skirmish, the westerners did not spare the ibos either

it is commonsensical to assume that ojukwu a historian from oxford is aware of the UN resolution on genocide enacted shortly after the second world war. a tool that could bring gowon to justice if he really cared about the ibos, the irony was he exploited that tool when his people were starving and used same tool to call for truce after he left on exile

ojukwu's father was one of the few Africans that enjoyed royalties from British oil companies in the late 50's a feature people like me thought he could have explored to use the British influence to put gowon on a tight leach a move that could have saved countless igbo lives,
it is no news that he pulled the same strings during the hunger era of the war.

ojukwu's agenda at the aburi conference has no single ibo interest, by bamboozling gowon to ratify confederation is an act of WAR an oxford graduate should know better.
how it saves the pogrom is what eludes Albert Einstein.

if the hit in the army had succeeded, the ojukwu boys could have been in total control of the army, since his father has the biggest economic interest in the country, oil and gas not excluded, the smart historian could take a political stage. does the picture fit? army plus economy equals, that reminds me, till death, he remained a political figure, what happened to Nelson mandela's heroic style?

oh!! i forgot to add that he wasn't a member of the supreme military council which robs him the right to decide for them who should be the next head of state.

lastly

my heroes don't run, i will chose a hitler anyday over a gallant soldier who forgot his purse on the last plane from Uli enroute ivory coast,

my heroes die in the struggle for what they believe in, for one that has wasted so much lives and took to his heels? hell no!!! he doesn't qualify, i believe he will learn a lot from real heroes in the great beyond.

adieu!!!! Emeka
can u pass the coffee please.

Dede1: Of course, coup plotters usually chose among themselves who will lead. The fact remains Gowon had lied through his teeth that he was not a member of the coup plotters yet the evidence proves otherwise, olodo.

Act of precipitating coup is never legal and honorable act among discipline soldiers. Ojukwu opposed Gowon because Gowon and his clique of undisciplined soldiers from northern region were illegal.

Kanto: @Dayokanu:

Ojukwu fought a heroic war against the rest of nigeria for almost 3 years with almost bare hands and gave them the fight of their cowardly lives before leaving like every hero to fight another day ie General charless de gaulle of france and other european presidents during the 2nd world war.

But in the case of yorubas over the june 12 crisis, all of the yoruba cowardly leaders from general alani akinrinnade, bola tinubu etc all ran away even before any war had started.

Running away before the war had started is the height of cowardice. You should have brought the cowardly brig. adekunle who preyed on defenceless civilians and who was disgraced out of the war to come and fight for june 12, but he too chickened out! What a shame. True to type people like adekunle can only find his manhood when he is fighting defenceless people. Shameless owambe cockroaches.

Yoruba fought a war to be 2nd class citizens under northern domination. What a waste of brain matter!

Adekunle is today a depressed and mentally unstable man who is not even reckoned with in nigeria. The same adekunle is now crying for a sovereign national conference proving himself to be a senseless slave.Unlike ojukwu buried like the hero he is,when adekunle dies only dogs and cats will mourn him.

igbo boy: eediot my maternal lineage is ikwerre so go and teach person wey no sabi your teachings ...onye ara

Wallie: I guess you want to hold what I said in absolute terms and out of context. Take a look at post #27 where I clarified what you had in quotes. And while you're at it, take a look at post #31 where I showed what will happen from overinflation. If your car manual recommends 35psi and your tires are inflated to 40 psi, is that overinflation?

My response that you quoted was in reference to the OP’s claim that the tire could have exploded because it was inflated to 60 psi instead of 40psi as claimed by the vulcanizer. I responded saying that the tire couldn’t have exploded from being overinflated (to 60 psi). Anecdotally, the post by @amdman supports my claim because his tire was inflated to 70 psi and he traveled that way from Benin to Lagos.

Einstein, your arguments about elasticity limits is like someone trying to make a point about something that will happen eventually even if it takes a million years. Of course a tire will explode if you keep pumping air in it past its elastic limit but will that occur when you add an extra 20 psi? No. How about an extra 40 psi? Probably not but if you keep adding air, it will explode sooner or later!

Oh, and you are right about me looking at bobi in class. I saw absolutely nothing wrong in playing with bobi while I aced my courses! I was certainly good at it because I made out like a bandit by any measure you choose! My apologies if you didn’t get the girls and the grades.

dayokanu: Someone is already taking Dendemoron to school again

Dede1: I am not interested in educating a jackass such as you on the issue of 1966 Nigeria. It is either you can not read or you have abject deficiency in comprehension. I wrote there was no formal meeting of constituted military executive because the Head of State and Commander in Chief Gen Ironsi along with another member of military executive council in Col Fajuyi were missing.

Even though some top military officers such as Gowon, Ojukwu, Ejoor, Ogundipe, Katsina, Johnson, Wey, Njoku and Acting IGP Kame Salam have know the faith of these men, general public was still loaded with rumors.

mimifonwon: umm sir i believe that if people face facts, that then they would let their tribalism simmer down. As for my accounts, they are well researched, but i understand where you are coming from. And @jp before you reply me, you need to do some reading, and ill suggest you start with this The 'Igbo Scare' in the British Cameroons, c. 1945-61
Victor Bong Amaazee
The Journal of African History
Vol. 31, No. 2 (1990), pp. 281-293
Published by: Cambridge University Press, good luck am going to sleep, dont die with ignorance.

the kinda books that told you the capital of biafra was PH? happy reading!!

Dede1: You are a bloody fool and I have no time to lecture a moronic troll such as you. You have shifted from supreme military council to mere military council. You should disabuse your silly mind before engage a person like me in your idiotic drivels.

There was veto power enjoyed by the members of military executive council. The opposition staged by Fajuyi over the faith of January 15, 1966 coup plotters prompted many northern officers to concluded that Fajuyi was part and parcel of the January coup.

There was no constituted meeting of military executive council after Ironsi disappeared. During the phone discussions among the members, Ojukwu insisted that in the absence of Commander in Chief, the chief of staff Supreme Military Headquarters should assume the position of commander in chief until the faith of commander in chief is known. I do not blame a moronic fool such as you to assume there was supreme military council because there was position of chief of staff supreme HQ.

It was unfortunate that officers such as Adebayo, Wey, Ejoor, Katsina and Johnson had to succumb to fear and urged Gowon to continue to thrash the rigged principle of Esprit de Corp.

mimifonwon: You are very stupid, i gave a definition and you are here trying to tell me what i know.people assumed it coined out of bight of africa, idiot. Second Little is known about the literal meaning of the word Biafra. It is not part of the Igbo language. It is unclear whether the origin of the word Biafra has any relationship to "Bia", the Igbo word for "Come". The word Biafra most likely derives from the subgroup Biafar or Biafada[34] of the Tenda ethnic group who reside primarily in Guinea-Bissau.[35] Manuel Álvares (1526–1583), a Portuguese Jesuit educator, in his work "Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone", writes about the "Biafar heathen" in chapter 13 of the same book.[36] The word Biafar thus appears to have been a common word in the Portuguese language back in the 16th century.

Dede1: I should tell you to go back to school, olodo. There was no supreme military council when Gowon usurped the position of commander in chief. When Ironsi assumed power, he created military executive council made-up of the military governors and certain military officers. As the military governor of eastern region and sole military authority in the east after partial success of July 29, 1966 coup, Ojukwu remained the only bona fide member of the military executive council to tell Gowon that Ogundipe was 2ic to Ironsi.

It was unfortunate that officers such as Adebayo, Wey, Ejoor, Katsina and Johnson had to succumb to fear and urged Gowon to continue to thrash the rigged principle of Esprit de Corp.

If I call you and your father fools, it should be a compliment because pogrom started in northern region when Ironsi was the commander in chief. Again, if you have any brain at all, you should have known that the July 29, 1966 coup only succeeded in western and northern regions. Eastern region was absolutely out of bound to coup plotters. In fact, Gowon could not even attempt to visit Benin City, the capital of Mid-western region, during the era in discuss. The coup that brought Gowon to power was an illegal act and Ojukwu as military governor of eastern region opposed it.

mimifonwon: incase you didnt know Alaigbo stretches from Igwe Ocha( rivers-ph) to Agbo in present Delta State. All Igbo speaking people, no matter how different their dialects are, is part of Alaigbo state. This is a settled matter and it is silly always revisiting it as if it is up to us to change it.Biafra is the name of a village in Portugal; I am not a Portuguese and, therefore, cannot be named by a Portuguese word.
Original (correct) names/spellings for Igbo City's/Towns/Villages
Abakaliki is Abakaleke; Afikpo is Ehugbo; Asaba is Ahaba; Awgu is Ogu; Awka is Oka; Bonny is Ubani; Enugu is Enugwu; Ibusa is Igbuzor; Igrita is Igwuruta; Oguta is Ugwuta; Onitsha is Onicha; Owerri is Owerre; Oyigbo is Obigbo; Port Harcourt is Diobu; Ogwashi-Uku is Ogwa Nshi Ukwu.
P.s. another history lesson by my grandpa-
According to my paternal grandpa who is of yoruba, who is in his late 80s, the word oyigbo is what they called white settlers because they were fair like the igbos, because igbos had a lot of albinos in their tribe, so oyirigbo become oyinbo.
By the way, EKO (Lagos) is an Edo Word, Lagos itself is a Portuguese Word, America is Spanish, Yoruba is an hausa word, etc etc...Does the appellation change who the people and their circumstances are? no so sharap.

mimifonwon: clap for ya self you corrected me,still PH is part of igbo land by tradition, so your point, so i miss quoted the first capital of biafra, the fact is that PH is igbo land.

mimifonwon: You need to read your history books, I dont have time to reiterate unbiased history of nigeria for you. Read the ones prior to independence for nigeria to understand the formation of nigeria geographically. Second PH people never sided the gov of nigeria that is where you are lying, because the first capital of biafra before it moved after ph was captured during the war is ph. Secondly the only reason the lost people claim they are not igbo, yet speak an igbo dialect, have their traditions,Gods, etc, is something called politics. They do it because they know that most southwest and north would never let an igbo man rule nigeria for fear of him creating his own country. thirdly saro-wiwa and adaka boro are two individuals who were not the chiefs of their lands. Many igbos didnt want the war, but they werent the mass. ojukwu while carving biafra never put sw in the equation, yall were asked to join and you refused- we the yorubas refused. As for midwest their leaders agreed to biafra. Go to oxford university and read books on biafra, then you will understand the essence of what happened during the war. I am done with discussing this issue with you, but if southern sudan can leave sudan, biafrans have the right to leave the nigerian union. Your misinterpretation on the history of the war and nigeria is the reason I hope nigeria have a dialogue on these issues, because this is the open wound that his still helping rot nigeria, ignorance.

i for say na sand sand dey your head but e be like say na Gun powder,

before you deceive your children, the first capital of biafra was Enugu not PH, it was in enugu that the republic of biafra was declared.
after the fall of Enugu, Owerri became the next capital,Aba was also one of the make shift capitals, history recorded ojukwu's bunker in umuahia after the fall of owerri and he escaped from Uli in anambra state,
now, thank me for waking you up

igbo boy: hahahah Yoruba people and the half baked free education ara-wolowo gave them

so this is what they taught you in amala grammar school in ile ife?

Upper PH is igbo, while riverside PH is okirika and the rest, so because i am from delta state (former mid west) i should say i am not igbo?

Igbos did not force akwa ibom nor cross river to join biafra...go and ask effiong if dem force am...eediiiot

Dede1: Gowon is bloody liar and the center point of what Nigeria has become lately. Nigeria/Biafra debacle was a needless war if Gowon has accepted Ojukwu’s stance on Esprit de Corp and adherence to the strict military parlance which demand Brig Ogundipe should become the commander in chief in the absence of head of the state.

Gowon also reneged on every principles agreed during the peace mission in Aburi, Ghana. Gowon initiated the division of Nigeria into twelve (12) states while Aburi agreement upheld Nigeria shall remain in a regional mode. It was after the usurpation of power and arbitral state creation by Gowon that Ojukwu declared eastern region an independent nation.

DaLover: If the communities were empowered to run these facilities and pay taxes to Government like every other buziness, will they allow people vandalise and steal their sources of livelihood easily...would it be easy to compromise army and JTF to steal your own crude, or would it be easy for outsiders from the comunity to compromise JTF to steals from pipelines??


Guy the only way forward is resource control...you can't run away from it...
by the way what solutions do you propose.

Onegai: you're funny. Trust me, even you cannot afford me. Trust me. I won awards at Uni for looks (I really didn't like being nominated though and it's why I'm very careful how I post here, I used to be super-popular for being hot and I hated it), I have a very popular last name. I'm polite because my dad taught me all people, from his mechanic to my uncle (on the list of Nigeria's richest) deserves the same measure of politeness. And no, I'm not some 25 year old chicken. It's sad that when a pretty girl is humble, she's seen as having low self-esteem. I guess I should start shouting and vexing, like a child.

tribalism: there're lots of fools here. GEJ has no problem. i wish he will want to go on in 2015, i'll still give him all my support. we all know what problem nigeria has but is busy discussing GEJ. my take on boko haram is, GEJ should allow the actors to continue and one day they will become tired and boko haram will die a natural death.

Onegai: ---

Onegai: The reason I stand by my words is it takes 2 to Bleep.up a rel. So if she was truly all at fault, what would it cost you to be polite while leaving, eh But the fact is that in every rel, there was misunderstanding on both sides, and the breakup merely means you've decided to try other options. Simple. So why be a goat abt it? Ask yourself: "why must I breakup harshly, why must I ignore, blank, blame, act like a bad person to leave this person if she didn't cheat on me, steal my money, kill a family member?" Why are you punishing that person for a rel not working out, when we all know not all will??

DaRapture: why don't these oil companies place their lines underground like they do here in the US?

DaLover: If the land owners are producing the crude, then they would pay taxes and everybody is happy, army is wailing..lol

alj harem: first of all, we have to ask ourselves why oil bunkering occur in the shores of Nigeria (Thus small scale)

Lack of employment and poverty which translate to desperation to find a means of livelihood.

Now what is the solution.

1. try to employ as much indigenous people as you can would greatly reduce this bunkering.
How do we achieve that ? By creating jobs

Jobs in the oil field are created by exploration of oil or refining. either one would do.

Although this is a simplistic solution.

Kingsleyinfo: @onegai
I love the way u have explained things, and I totally agree with ür points.
There is always. A better way to do things
just treat others the same way u want to be treated.

Onegai: Actually, no. But I had to help a lot of people in their breakups, especially guys. And it always seemed the stupider stunts were pulled by them, and then they would regret it, but hold onto some reason not to try win the girl back. I'm working with 2 whom I'm trying to convince to go back to their girls: one is sitting on his hands (and when the babe marries, I will delete him if he comes crying because he did nothing), the other is too focused on his problems(some which he caused himself).