₦airaland Forum

john4reala:
From who's money? Primary schools in ebonyi state don't have chairs and desk ... No good roads except federal roads and you are donating.... Doing the work of federal Government that doesn't concern you


Nice movement though But at the wrong Time

#Gerrarahere!!!

Not travelling can make people sound little below an 8 years old baby.

futurewise11:
False and fallacy statistical presentation by an igboman.check the name of the writer.

futurewise11:
False and fallacy statistical presentation by an igboman.check the name of the writer.

A Yoruba writer have this to say...
Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the
National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the
highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and
Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six
respectively.
In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the
National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been
upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state
known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013.

https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

reuben79:
guy don't decieve urself"u can compare sw wit se in level of everythins"b best education,educators'schoolars and d best universities in nigeria u will fine it in SW.how many many yorubas ar base in igboland?wat do u hv?i beg packwell

It marvels me that most Yorubas still believe we are still in the 60s... Keep it live.

reuben79:
where u can fine best universities,schoolars,educated go to ws ok

Structures don't make a nation, people do. You have better universities we have better students, so... who is winning?
I've shown you evidents. Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race...US Academic Report 2015

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

reuben79:
lol best education indid.osinbanjo is mere commissioner gud and fine"nobody in ur region u can compare wit osinbanjo"politically,educationally,legally and socially.tell me how many profesor in law"SAN"u hv in igboland?pls politics is nt ur callin ok,go back to market and start ur normal business

Since you are living in the 90s, be my guess. Google the states with the highest number of Professors, Doctorate Degrees and Bsc in Nigeria, unfortunately not even one Yoruba state made first 4th, we took first three compiled by NUC. JAMB and WASSCE we have been leading since... check out

http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

reuben79:
i always laugh igbos politics,i no even understand der political plann,igbos ar slave to south-south......infact its very very laughable.....do u knw how many languages der ar have in s/s?only edo st alone hv more dan 30 languages,desamethin in rivers st,delta and cross-river.igbos man cannot be vice president in dis country talkless of president.

We don't need a mere commissioner's office to be relevant, we are tolling the part of the Chinese, controlling the economy is the best way to rule, not sitting on empty belly.
Since we are the best in education now in Nigeria, with the added advantage of innovative skills, then...

reuben79:
Igbos hv used dey ar political tribalism,favourism,nepotism and religionlism killed political carrer of chist Ngige.igbos fine it difficult to jst hv one elder stateman in der region,its is a pity.igbos will continue slave to south-south till kindom come

Elder statesman like Tinubu who every Yoruba man now works for like slave hahahaha... that's the reason for brown zinc round the whole West.
South South ad East are brothers, not the slavery relationship between North and West, have they released your elder statesman that slept on the floor for four days, you couldn't even cough cowards.

dejavume:
I heard someone sanin awo poisoned him.dats d same awo dat sent ojukwu to exile.We can name awo achievements not as a yoruba man bt as nationalist.but same cant b said of ojukwu.

Which nationalist? A man who took poison after failed coup attempt.

omoelesa:
But,Awo is an accomplished man now, unlike ojukwu.

Accomplished man? Awolowo lost a state to the Hausa Fulani without a fight, while Ojukwu didn't lose half a state with a fight... which one is accomplished at this?

omoelesa:
Why do ibos adol and revered Ojukwu so much, even thou he supervised, the killing of 3 millions of his fellow ibos?

Because he didn't commit suicide like Awolowo.

Please ... If l may ask, does Nairaland charge ad per click or section cost per week?

Kagawa10:
Lol! An ibo in his enclave is discussing ladipo?
Wetin we no go see for here!
Yeye people!

Ogudu G.R.A, Lagos...Where your kind can never enter, more of rent an apartment.

Kagawa10:
The demolished Ladipo market wasn't demolished? Lol!
Ibo no go kill me!

Please ask anybody based in Lagos, stop all these cheap lies. Am going there month end to buy something, I've already called the guy l need see when l get there.

Kagawa10:
If you don't continue to renew your leased rent, it will be demolished and ibo will do nada just as nothing was done when Ladipo was demolished! Alaba is next by the way, do your worst!
Shameless loser!

Are you based in Mali? You see why l say Yorubas are cowards... Which Ladipo was destroyed? Please stop feeding your head with fantasy.

Kagawa10:
You chose the wrong place though! No Yorubaland is close to any iboland. More so, Eko is at the centre of the south west whic makes it difficult to be stolen by the ibos and according to the constitution of Nigeria, land belongs to the indigenous people of the land!
In essence, you losers can keep dreaming!
Lol! Shameless illiterate!

Education is very essential. You think if the Igbos gain Biafra you can take there property? Wake up because they are covered by UN international property right... And so you wont get free houses, except you want to be another Zimbabwe in Nigeria.

Kagawa10:
keep dreaming and getting joyous over leased lands!
Bunch of losers!

It is "leased lands" as you called it, that brought all those sanctions against Zimbabwe, this is 2015 not 1960.

Kagawa10:
Nobody fought to have you!
Yorubas got involved in the war as a result of your greedy nature! What happened to staying in your enclave during the progom? Why did Ojukwu invade Ore and Benin?
Stupid Ibos always playing the victim card.

Losers always crying fowl... We will buy Obaship of the West, with bailout fund. We will not stop till we buy every itch of Lagos property.

Kagawa10:
ANambra is more like it, the way igala boys use ibo for suya over there no be small. Its a matter of time before ibos becomes extinct in Anambra.

Please travel out your enclave and stop making mockery of your school.

coolitempa:
Although you are a barely literate individual, I will indulge your misplaced thinking. Let me state clearly that we are not threatened by your people....we just want you out of our lands..... ...into your lands....Biafra......no group of people ever receives mass inward migration of strangers into their lands without repercussions...even in the predominantly white Europe...immigration is the biggest talking point in all their elections....

But the Yorubas fought to have us, so... why crying of mass exodus when we wanted to stay in our own domain?

Toktee:
who cares?
Nobody need them,with or without them buhari can succeed,we showed to them how irrelavance they are in the political circle of this nation during the last electon,now they are learning their lesson in the hard way,,politically,if you insult the north and south west,you are on your own,that is exactly what egbos are going thru now.

You showed us how irrelevant we are politically... We showed you how irrelevant you are in education, industrialization, commerce, sport, innovation and mostly GDP per person... hahahahahah

engrkenny:
Am in the East, that doesn't mean we can't work together when I make a headway, maybe you can leave me ur email Bro, thanks a lot.

Check there my phone number is there, thanks.

Up Biafra... God with us.

Alcatraz001:
We should gift the presidency to the igbos on a platter of gold?

if you want presidency won't you work towards it?

Igbos should be allowed to leave jareee, we sef don tire for them.

I like what you said... That you are tired of them, and they are tired of you too and so... marriage over !!!

franchizy:
I don't believe Muslims can be killing Muslims. A certain tribe are responsible for these killings in the North.
They never like the Northerners yet they have refused to relocate from the north to there region.
There agitation for Biafra will never see the light of the day.
RIP to the dead.

Lazy coward waiting for bailout... Austerity awaits you.

I have lots of respect for the writer of this article. But l want to correct a lot of impressions.

1. You talked about Biafra having small space of land

Nigeria 923,768
France 551,500
Japan 377,915
Germany 357,022
New Zealand 270,467

From the above data you will understand that Nigeria is larger in Land mass and population, yet there economy is not half compared to ours.
Japan doesn't have any mineral resources yet there GDP per capital is more 800% better than ours, why?
Simple... they are hard working people,same with Germans.
Secondly, Abia State alone is bigger than Lagos twice, use Google search and check the size, yet Lagos has 20 million people now, while Abia has 5 million now... that means only Abia alone can house 30-40 million people.

2. I can assure you that if there is a referendum today for secession, 90% Igbos will sign-up for that. Look after the war we had nothing, today... we are far better off.

3. 80% of oil wells are owned by Northerners, and you are asking us to keep quite?

4. They want us in Nigeria, but we don't deserve to be president, right? On top our Oil shaiiii !!!

ebennick:
be wise enough bro don't dash your money out oooooo . scamer plenty oooooo

Mine own is expatriate, while the investor comes with materials.

engrkenny:
What is your location man? Am working on this real good fish feed formulation, i think the price would be nice.

Lagos... Do you want us to partner?

engrkenny:
What is your location man? Am working on this real good fish feed formulation, i think the price would be nice.

Lagos...

drey076:
If yorubas are drug baroness, what will you call those consistent drug traffickers from South East

Eastern drugs... hahaaah

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afroniger:
Wow! I am SHOCKED to hear this commentary about Obiano's performance, as I was under the impression that he's putting up a sterling performance thus far.

People are entitled to there own views in life.

DaBullIT:
Written & Submitted July 17th 2015

Ever since former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the presidential election on March 28, 2015 which some of us knew he would never win based on the facts that we all knew and the statistics available, a majority of the Igbo have been unhappy and angry. They have been cursing and abusing the President and the All Progressives Congress leaders wishing that President Buhari never existed and the APC never formed. Many of them have been so frustrated after the election that they are now looking for a way to get back to the APC-controlled Federal Government.

Now, one Nnamdi Kanu who has been dreaming about the State of Biafra has provided a space for them to vent their anger. Some of them have joined him to begin to wish for the State of Biafra. Suddenly, the so-called Radio Biafra has created a momentum for them. On Facebook, I have watched with keen interest what these guys dish out on a daily basis in the name of fighting for Biafra. They tell blatant lies, create havoc, make terrible noise, they abuse other Nigerians, and they preach unimaginable propaganda and hate that at once put Igboland in potential danger. I have been waiting for the South-East governors to speak up but they have maintained a deafening silence that suggests complicity. I have also waited for our elders to caution this young man but nothing has happened. With the so-called Radio Biafra, Kanu has unleashed an unimaginable trailer-load of lies and potentially dangerous propaganda that have put the Igbo nation in danger. It is now 45 years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and I think that Igbo must rise up to stop this man who apparently never saw the 1967-1970 Civil War and who may not know the implications of what he is doing. He has never consulted anybody to seek his opinion. He has been speaking to the gullible and not too educated people in Igboland, and very soon these uneducated people will take a dangerous decision that may decimate and destroy Igboland. Soon, our people will start complaining that they were not consulted. To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.

Last week, I saw a photo of a group of people that gave the impression that they are getting a military training somewhere in Igboland. Later, I saw another photograph on Facebook with some youths bearing guns and Kanu standing with them. I may not know where these pictures came from and what they are planning to do but this is the time to speak out and I urge anybody who is anybody who understands where we are coming from to stand up now to be counted. Woe betides a nation whose leaders are children. If we elders do not talk about this evil, posterity will never forgive us. Let us speak out and if these children do not hear us, then it should be on record that we spoke. About a month ago, the barrage of lies and uncontrolled propaganda Radio Biafra dished out everyday drew the attention of the National Broadcasting Commission which asked Nigerians to stop listening to the pirate radio station.

Now, here are compelling reasons why the Igbo must remain in Nigeria in their own interest:

The Igbo fought a civil war of self-determination between 1967 and 1970 and lost about one million people. This should be taken as a huge price for the unity of this country. Having made this monumental supreme price, I think the Igbo should work for the unity of this country based on social justice, equity and fair play.

Nigeria has three major ethnic groups: Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausa/Fulani Empire has Hausa people stretching all through the Sahel to the Sudan. They are mostly Muslims and they have contact with the Arab world. The Yoruba nation has Togo, Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and even up to Brazil and Cuba to run to where their kinsmen are. The Igbo nation has no outlet anywhere in the world where the language is spoken. Therefore, they must see Nigeria as where they belong and work for its survival.

Nigeria provided a big space for the Igbo to spread their tentacles, explore, excel and blossom. The South-East is too small for this highly mobile and dynamic people to thrive.

The world pays attention to Nigeria today because of our size and population. If Nigeria splits into smaller countries, the world will pack their bag and baggage and leave. Population and size make a nation a destination.

Ndigbo control between 60 and 70 per cent of all the imports in Nigeria and other Nigerians, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Ijaw, Efik, Birom, Tiv, Idoma etc provide a huge market for Igbo mobile and big-time traders.

Monumental inter-marriages between the Igbo and Yoruba and other ethnic groups have thrived for close to 70 years now that we cannot just dismiss all these with a wave of the hand.

Ndigbo own huge and massive investments in property in Lagos and Abuja, and other state capitals in Nigeria. Now, are you going to wish all this away?

Other Nigerian cities have provided safe havens for the Igbo as places to run to cool off whenever self-inflicted crises arise or other problems. When kidnapping became a way of life in the South-East, our people moved to other parts of Nigeria to settle. Now, where will the Igbo go when confronted with these problems in Biafra?

How can the Igbo thrive without their Lagos and Abuja or Port Harcourt? What happens to all their connections and relationships in these places?

We have been so intermarried, interwoven, intertwined, inter-related that the idea of separation may not be encouraged. I do not want to lose my friends from the other parts of Nigeria for anything.

I can go on but there is no need to continue to do so. We must be strong enough to stop this world’s old problems of looking down on people who are different from us. This is the problem of Nigeria. Nigeria’s diversity is a big plus for all of us to excel. United we stand, divided we fall. I confess that the Igbo have not played better politics in Nigeria since 1970 and that has been our bane. Anytime Nigeria wants to change a bad leadership in the country, the Igbo as a bloc will resist it. It happened in 1993 and we lost everything. In 2015, the Igbo were at it again but forces of history prevailed. The Igbo can do better than this.

However, I want Nigerian leaders to show leadership by carrying all Nigerians along in distributing power and resources. If there is no justice, there will be no peace. If there is no peace, there will be no progress. Let justice prevail.

Let us be fair to all concerned. If the truth must prevail and it must prevail, Nigeria has not been fair to Igbo since the end of the civil war. They tell us that there is no victor and no vanquished but in actions and deeds, the victors are still celebrating and enjoying the spoils of the war while the defeated are still languishing in abject neglect. For instance, of all the six zones in Nigeria, only the South-East zone has five states. We have found solace in all these because we have found out that those who are still oppressing the Igbo in Nigeria are not better. We also take solace in the findings of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council that all acts of indignity against human persons, against human society debase the perpetrators more than the victims. It is not that the offended cannot forgive but have the offenders repented? This injustice must stop now for the sake of unity of this country. I wrote Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra in 1995 thinking that the book will prick the conscience of other Nigerians but they have not paid any attention. It has been business as usual. Now, President Buhari must address this injustice. Case rested!

Igbokwe wrote in from Lagos


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/why-nnamdi-kanus-biafra-project-must-be-stopped/

Unfortunately lots of Nigerians, espeacially the West, are very
concerned about Biafra Radio, without paying any attension to Boko
Haram menance, which is ravaging the North.
I will like to address certain issues regarding the Igbos seceding
from the entity called NIgeria. Peaceful agitation of independence is
no crime anywhere in the world, and so... Why will Nigeria resort to
fighting Biafra considering the fact they don't constitute nussiance
to the Nigerian state.
I can tell you a lot has happened since NigerIa-Biafra war.
1. During the war, Niger Delta sided Nigeria, helping Nigeria to block
the passage of Biafran arms and food, which really affected the morale
of Biafran troops. But after the war, Nigeria betrayed South-South by
giving away Bakassi to Cameroon, went ahead to take 80% of her oil
well for the North, to make matters worst undermined, blackmailed and
marginalized their son Ebele Jonathan.
2. NigerIan economy is no strong, when compared to 1966-1970,
corruption has ravaged Nigeria economy, war requires lots of funding,
remember it was NigerIan troops that stopped the uprising of sect
during the 90s, but today troops run away from Book Haram.
3. The West (Yoruba) grudge deeply over losing Kwara state to Fulanis
as well as the treatment meted out to Awolowo, Abiola and mostly
recentlyTinubu.
4. Nigeria as a state will have to face war from two or three fronts,
one East, South-South and maybe West. The reason why l l mentioned
West is because, if they fail to join the South-South , they will
fight them or they must align with Nigeria, thereby making there home
a battle front.
Middle belt may not join the core North because of there past experience.
5. South-South will cripple Nigerian economy by blowing up all the pipelines.
6. Nigeria cannot stand war on two fronts at this point. If they come
after Biafra, then... Boko Haram will have a field day and then over
run the North. Besides these army can't stand a tribe, more of two, with the source of funding blocked.
7. ICC and Amnesty International are the in-thing now, homicide and
genocide can't be done now, unlike then when you can do anything and
get away with it.
8. Technology with the use of iReport and internet, the fight will
hurt the image of Nigeria on the international stage