₦airaland Forum

FOLYKAZE:
Tell those youth to stop constituting nuisance.

If you want to protest, get permit from NPF. Dont attack or intimidate people and try not to block public roads. Hence, we will deploy our gallant men to treat you like a goat

Baboon


In your thinking, how civilised countries respond to the nonsense you wrote above is to start shooting people.

He came down Onitsha after his men murdered peaceful Biafran protesters. One day, Buhari and Burutai will pay for the crimes they commited against humanity

realjoker:
and you want to ruin your life more by adding those whn dont believe in your ideology in your phantom country, why trying to repeat the crime you acuse the british of by lumping SS minorities in your pipe dream country they are all proud of being an empire builders. I repeat again the british did you a very big favour by bringng you together (i know your egoistic trait will not make you admit it,) if not for the whitemen you would have been living like some dudes lives today somewhere in taraba state. And i salute ur double standard, ibos are not empire builder indeed,keep on wallowing in your deluded minds.

There's no phantom country here. Infact, if there is any phantom country, it is Nigeria which is a mere British creation. If in future, Igbos seek or get a different political arrangement outside Nigeria, it will be through a democratic thing such as a referendum. Those who do not share our ideology can opt out while those who do can join us. The days of a country created and maintained by force of arms ended with Lugard

realjoker:
ibos with their victim mentality. British did you disservice by lumping you together with other nigerians? Realy, or did you a favour by bringing you together? Tell us the history of the ibos pre-colonization, because the ibos of today live as loose entities before the coming of the whites, so the group that should be claiming that the british did them disservice should be the fulanis, the binis, the yorubas, the idomas, the ijaws, the calabas, the tivs, the igalas who have built empires and have been living as a nation before the coming of the whitemen and not the ibos that where brought together by the same whitemen.

Igbos are not empire builders, we never have been. We are a loose confederation of autonomous clans united by language,customs and beliefs. We had no central point of government and we want to return to that because that is our way of life. Had Igbo land not been touched by the British or outside forces there probably would have come a time, by an organic process, where the Igbo elites would have come together and formed a nominal Government with an extremely weak center while the Igbo clans retained a high degree of autonomy becoming the federating units. A true confedertion so to say. The egalitarian nature of the Igbos makes it highly likely that they will fight outside ( and inside) forces who try to impose any authority on them. They fought the British and later fought Nigeria for this reason. The British did us no favours, they actually ruined our way of life.

British rule was highly resisted in the south, examples being the Akasa war fought by the Ijaw and the Ekumeku war fought by the Igbos. But British rule was widely accepted in the North with little or no resistance. The British always knew that their best allies where the subservient north rather than the stubborn South so they tried to demarcate the North from the south so that the more exposed and educated south would not influence the North. It was just unfortunate that the economic wealth of Nigeria was in the South so the British tried to balance this by giving political power to the north. To this day, the northerners still believe that political power is their exclusive preserve and they can't stand not being without it while the south has remained ever stubborn to its right to self determination just as they were to the British. The The fallout from the struggle for political power is what has landed Nigeria where it currently is.

My perspective on this as an Igbo man is that the British did us a great disservice by bringing us together. The British knew we were different, they knew we would all fight for political power, but they still brought us together for selfish interests.

The good thing is that the process of decolonisation of the 1914 amalgamation has started. The average Nigerian now talks about, IPOB,MASSOB,Referendum like it is nothing. 20 years ago, just mentioning any of these words could get you shot or thrown into prison on treason charges. Decolonisation will continue until the indigenous people of west Africa that Lord Lugard forced together at gunpoint and bastardised with the name 'Nigerians' finally come together in a referendum and decide their political fate.

Aluta Continua!

I don't like Obiano, but I have to admit that he is working

The human rights record of the nearly a year of the Buhari regime is abysmal to say the least. IPOB shootings, Shiattes shootings,bombing of the Niger-Delta, the list goes on and on. The international goodwill that heralded the election of Buhari has since gone out the window. No world leader of any repute is going soil their name by visiting someone like Buhari. To make matters worse, Buhari recently went on Aljazeera to show the world that he is just another dictator hiding under the cloak of democracy. He is right now in Equitorial Guinea recieving awards from Obiang, one of the worst dictators in Africa. Buhari is truly a disaster of a man who only came back to complete his military regime that was abruptly ended in the 80's.

farem:
Well Noted for future reference.

The only important to note here is that the office of the president of Nigeria hasn't improved the lives of those who have held it. Every president since 1966 to date has been a disaster. Not one of them is anything to write home about. In a way, I'm actually happy that Igbos have not produced an executive president of Nigeria apart from the 6 months of Ironsi. At least, history will say that the part Igbos played in messing up Nigeria compared to others was the smallest. I pray that an Igbo man or woman never becomes the president of Nigeria for two reasons. The first is that whoever it is will end up a faliure just like all others in the past because Nigeria is simply unworkable. The second reason is that I want my fellow Igbos to aim for something more important than the president of Nigeria

I don't know if he said any of things or if they were fabricated. But if he said those things, he is a Governor with full immunity. He can say anything he likes. People don't seem to realise that Wike could arrest Amaechi and publicly execute him personally and nothing would happen because of the power of immunity a Governor has

Toktee:
Yes,but you have not outgrown prison like the terrorist kanu.

The only prison here is the one Lugard put the likes of you in 1914

He was probably plotting his 3rd coup when this picture was taken

Adadio:
Imagine what Nigeria would be like if the peoples of the South East and South West form a close relationship instead of the cat and mouse,albeit childish row upon row between them since the 1950,s.
Why should the two zones at every turn be at war,albeit a silent one for no justifiable reasons.The level if literacy is high in the two zones with high calibre professionals,intellectuals,vibrant youth etc.
In the South East,one in five families have Yoruba blood ,the ratio may be less in the South West.
It is really sad to read lots of yabis apologies to Fela,on social media between the two groups.One can feel the bitterness in some of the comments,but why?.
The day the SE and SW close ranks,hmmm Nigeria will hit first world status in less than a decade.Trust me.
I love the Yoruba and no amount of hiccups in our relationship will deter me from doing so.We shall be great.

We Igbos know the two faced nature of the Yorubas. Igbo/Yoruba unity? Not this life time or the one after!
Tufiakwa!

coolitempa:
Are ikwerres ibos....or ndoni or etche.....stop land grabbing and claiming....

I'm from Abambra, I have an Igbo surname and speak Igbo as my ancestral language. Am I Igbo?

Ikweres and Etches are from Rivers and have Igbo surnames and speak Igbo as their Ancestral language are they Igbos?

What makes a person Igbo? Bear in mind that the words Nigeria,Anambra and Rivers are just coinages of "a body of water"

Why is it that whenever there is talk about Biafra, it be followed by

"They were not even born when the war was fought"

If that is the case, there should be no one in the Nigerian Army since most of those currently serving were not born then either.


My parents and eve grand parents told me everything about their war experience by the time I was a teenager. I don't need to have been born before the war to know exactly what went on then.

We Igbos have outgrown the worthless position of president of Nigeria. We should be aiming for something more important.

Uzo Chukwu! Uzo Owuwa anyanwu!

coolitempa:
Rivers people will not allow their rivers to be used without compensation.....and on what basis other than being landlocked are you comparing Switzerland and Austria with the dream of Biafra.

There nothing called 'Rivers state people', mention the tribes you are talking about. Rivers state is made of about 70% Igbos,Igbo speaking People and Igboids.

Babatundetinubu:
Apart from the SE being small and landlocked ....they are uneconomically viable....let us be honest...the SE is a parasite in contributions to the national coffers...

Being landlocked has never been a problem, Countries like Switzerland and Austria are landlocked but each of those countries are far richer than Nigeria. The important thing is to have access to the sea and it has been proved that Azumini blue river in Obuaku, Abia state is even closer to the Athlantic Ocean than Porthacourt and a river port can be built. There is even a river port in Ontisha. Another thing with this SE you mentioned is that Igbo's are far larger than it. Today, there are 7 Igbo Governors but 5 Igbo States, how do you think that is? SE dies not mean anything, what matters is the "greater Igbo confederation" made up of all Igbos, Igbo speaking people and Igboids. That area is one of the most economically viable area in Nigeria.

For APC miscreants who chant "arrest him", "Jail him", "destroy him" like deranged humans, read this




The judge held that by virtue of Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, an accused person was deemed innocent until proved guilty in a competent court of law

All I know is that I'm an Igbo man as were my ancestors. I was an Igbo man long before Lord Lugard came to make me a Nigerian. It will always be my God given right to decide for myself if I want be a Nigerian or not.


BTW

If you are Yoruba, ignore the above, this level of free thinking is not for slave worshippers of the Sokoto Caliphate.

PentiumPro:
All the five states in SE, merged them into one, because really the whole place is just the size of some states in Nigeria.

States are not based on landmass but population. In terms of landmass,Lagos is so small that just Abia state is almost twice as big as it. So why are you not calling for the scrapping of Lagos state?


If I had the power, as an Igbo man,I would scrap the entire 5 Igbo States and merge it with the entire Delta-Igbo people, the entire Rivers Igbo, the Igbos of the lower Benue (The Umu-Ezeokha people) and possibly the Abi people of Cross River into " The greater Igbo confederation" and give every local government in it full resource control and autonomy with increased economic links with all the minorities in the South of Nigeria with the exception of Edo state. The rest of Nigeria can carry on with this wasteful 'unitary' system they are practicing in the shape of states.

Ayoswit:
9ja is gradually becoming a lawless state

It is already a lawless state

philanthropist1:
Please you guys should not spoil his job. Do u people know millions of dollars he makes from each trip? that's the only means he can loot Nigeria because they claim to be fighting corruption.

I remember that during Obasunjos tenure, it was estimated that each presidential travel cost at least 1 million Dollars. Only God in heaven knows how much Buhari has blown on his junketing.

Funny, this president Obiang has pocketed the entire Oil money of Equitorial Guinea. A ruthless dictator who has survived numerous coups and assassination attempts

Tunami:
buhari is giving hope to the hopeless almajiris.

Buhari is crazy. Looking for Oil in a place full of all kinds of terrorists from Boko Haram to Al shabab. Who in their right minds is going to go to such a place to extract Oil even if Oil is found there?

9jii:
so for all the school u are claiming u don't know the problems of total depending of food import from other countries?

The importation of food may come with problems but that is not the topic here. What Ben Bruce is saying is that without the North, the South has no source of food which is a complete lie.

darqly:
But the crude WILL as a matter of fact either run out, or become too cheap, which is happening presently.

And what has that got to do with being dependent on the north? I still stand by what I say that the north contributes nothing to Nigeria

when Igbos in Apo heard about it they went on a riot and dealt with every Hausa they met and burnt several of their bikes. If it weren't for the prompt response of the Police, it would have been much worse.

Nnamdi Azikiwe back in the days when he was a student of Hope Waddell secondary school Calabar

darqly:
It's obvious you've NEVER been to any of these countries you intend to 'import' from. Cameroon ke? We sell our extra rice to Cameroon. And Benin cannot sell what they don't have, no matter how many barrels you promise them. Another scenario- Imagine the present scarcity of forex, compounded with shortages of staples and basic commodities. How much would you buy a measure of imported beans?

All this talk is nonsense. My In-was involved in the importation of Rice years back from faraway Japan. The places to buy food will never run out, infact I think that if there was no Nothern Nigeria, the southern Nigerian Government would probably have used the percentage of Crude oil sales that would have gone to the north to invest into Southern Agriculture

DoTheNeedful:
So,you think the average Northerner also get the oil he uses for his car,generator or tractor for free He just queue up at the filling station get fuelled and leaves?
If you go by primordial sentiments,you are likely to love those you are supposed to hate and hate those you should love

The north gets the a percentage of the proceeds of crude Oil from my state for free. What is the north giving me in the south for free? Nothing. So how can I be dependent on the north when I can buy the same food anywhere in west Africa?

lekkie073:
If nigeria should break today, the North will always use the trans sahara trade route to get what they need. and then we southerners will import tomatoes from Cameroon and Congo as u said! who lose?

Nobody would lose, the tomatoes from Cameroon might even be cheaper. As an Igbo man in the South east, it can take me a whole day to travel to some parts of the North but it can take me just 6 hours to get to Cameroon. As long as there are many places to buy food in west Africa, the south does not depend on the north for anything. We are even doing them a favour by buying their food