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Yorubas dont know what they want. Today it is Nigerian presidency, tomorrow it is Oduduwa Republic, next tomorrow it is restructuring

Pleasant01:
even Rivers and Kano? ....okay

In Rivers, after Portharcourt, is there any other urban area?

In Kano, after the capital city Kano, is there any other urban area worth mentioning?

But in Anambra, after the capital city Awka, you can still mention two huge urban areas of Onitsha and Nnewi

Thats how you know that Kano and Rivers cant compare to Anambra in terms of development

Lagos and Abuja are former and current capital territories respectively and recieved massive government investment that made both what they are. No state can compare to both in terms of development

However, besides Lagos and Abuja, there is no state in Nigeria that can claim to be more developed than Anambra

Development is not how large your state is or the size of its IGR. Its all about infrastructure on the ground.

Anambra could be the only state in Nigeria that has 3 cities, Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka.


Outside the two capital territories, no state in Nigeria can claim to be more developed than Anambra

Hillard:
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Friday, condemned the arrest of seventy, (70) Biafrans in Imo state.

In a statement he personally signed but sent by Emma Powerful, IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Kanu said he has written to United Kingdom and United States respectively, warning that a peaceful agitation should not be construed as weakness.

He advised the Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma and the states commissioner for police, Isaac Olutayo Akinmode to release the arrested Biafrans.

His words: We wish to draw the attention of the creator of Nigeria, the Almighty Great Britain through the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, UK in Nigeria, the US State Department through U.S. Mission Nigeria, to the deliberate and orchestrated provocations/actions of the government against peaceful Biafrans.

“Without provocation and having not committed any crime known to law, a group of Biafrans numbering over 70 were arrested, humiliated and detained by Isaac Olutayo Akinmoyede, Police Commissioner in Imo State.

“Despite the daily carnage and mayhem in Imo State by herdsmen, no one has been arrested and detained in the police custody.

“Police are yet to arrest or parade suspects involved in the killings and destruction of farmlands in the State.

“This same police had the temerity to detain innocent people going about their business because they are Biafrans.

“Is the state governor and commissioner for police saying that Biafrans can be arrested at will even when no crime has been committed but herdsmen are free to roam and kill at will.

This level of provocation is unacceptable. If and when Biafran people decide to take matters into their own hands, let it be on record that the duo caused it. Peaceful agitation should not be construed as weakness.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/nnamdi-kanu-condemns-arrest-of-70-biafrans-writes-uk-u-s-to-intervene/

So they have been sitting on IPOB case to have its proscription overturned for 2 years now? They are too scared to sit because they know they will have no choice than to unproscribe IPOB

Miracle1991:
do you know that those boys were chanting ipob,ipob? Do you know that they were carrying flags of Biafra? When organization is proscribed, you cannot gather again under that name of the proscribed organization. Secondly, you cannot raise another flag after surrendering and taking an oath to be Nigerians and obey the Constitution of Nigeria in 1970.
If you want your country go to your representative in the national assembly let them present the request in the national assembly. Stop constituting nuisances in the country.
Don't forget that those boys were moving under the name of Ipob knowinfully well that the organization is proscribed.

So what they are carrying the flag of Biafra? That flag has been in existence over 50 years, long before there was anything called IPOB. Besides, other groups such as MASSOB and BZF, that are not proscribed, use that flag. Nobody took an oat to be Nigerian, and even if they did, international law allows anybody or any group to agitate for independence from the country they belong to. Wether you get your representatives to table a request at the national assembly for independence or not, you are still allowed to agitate for independence

Nigeria is not a serious country. This is a country that has reduced a very serious issue such as terrorism to childs play.

Niger Delta Militants took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists

OPC took up arms and killed people, nobody declared them terrorists. Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people all over Nigeria from Southern Kaduna to Benue, nobody declared them terrorists

But IPOB that are not armed and did not kill anybody is who the Nigerian government believes are the real terrorists who should be proscribed

All the armed groups out there killing Nigerians daily, it is those going to see native Doctor that government is mobilising to arrest.

A useless country

The way those in power now insulted Jonathan when they were in the opposition, had Jonathan decided to come down hard on them as they are doing now...........

adekolaelect:
Although I recognise your opinion but Ipob is no more a legal organization in Nigeria .they were proclaimed Terrorist group in Nigeria and nobody had gone to court of law to lift the proclamation .

Wrong, IPOB is the court of appeal trying to lift that proscription. But beyond that, do you have to be a legal organisation to visit a native Doctor?

Miracle1991:
the organization is proscribed, therefore any gathering in that respect will be considered as a threat to the nation.
Ipob organization is a terrorist organization, and we cannot allow terrorist to have a meeting in our land.

The organisation may be proscribed but going to see a native doctor is not proscribed. If a group of people go to see a native Doctor, what has that got to do with proscription?

Let me put it in another way. Lets say an IPOB member falls sick and needs to be rushed to the hospital. All his neigbours are also IPOB members. They rush him to the hospital but on the way, they are arrested and told they cannot gather and the IPOB members dies because of lack of medical attention. Do you think thats right?

Or lets say that there is a church and half of the members of the church are IPOB members, the IPOB members are to be denied their right to worship because they have gathered in Church?

Proscription only means that an organisation is no longer allowed to exist, it does not mean that the rights of the people such as freedom of movement and worship have been taken away

The proscription of IPOB actually showed that Nigeria is not a serious country. While other countries are proscribing violent armed organisations that are killing people, the Nigerian government chose to proscribe IPOB that is neither armed nor killed anyone

Niger Delta militants were armed and killed people, no proscription

OPC was armed and killed people, no proscription

Killer herdsmen are armed and killing people, no proscription

But it is unarmed IPOB that killed nobody, and are just waving flags on the streets, that government decided is the real terrorist group that should be proscribed. What a clueless country

Picture 1. Governor Masari of Katsina poses for pictures with an armed terrorist who is probably a Boko Haram member

Picture 2. Governor Shettima of Borno declares that IPOB, who are unarmed and have very little record of violence, are more dangerous than Boko Haram that are armed and have killed hundreds of thousands of Nigerians and driven millions into IDP camps in his own state.


Interesting. Thats Northern Governors for you

What Ojukwu saw more than 50 years ago, some people are just starting to see now

Bkayyy:
Quote me anywhere, the historical picture of kano city looks more developed than the current kano city

That picture of Kano was a total disaster! You mean Kano still looks like that?

Cyberterror:
So because Itanyi was from nsukka, he felt that he could slap him and nothing would happen.?

It had nothing to do with where Itanyi was from, it had more to do with the fact that Nnamani had just returned from vacation from the USA and discovered that Itanyi had paid some government contractors from money Nnamani wanted to use for another project

helinues:
They are doing more than badly

Anambra state, the acclaimed billionaires state is less than 5000km/2 in landmass, please could you point out to any significant development happening there.

Note, no region or state is doing fairly not to talk of better currently in Nigeria..

Outside the federal capital territories of Lagos and Abuja, there is no state in Nigeria that can claim to be more developed than Anambra. Infact, I dont think there any state that can claim to have 3 well know urban areas like Anambra has in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi

HedwigesMaduro:
Really? Can you list things yeebos have set out to achieve as a group in Nigeria that was achieved? When Yorubas were tired of the first republic they crashed it. Same with the second republic. Same with kicking the military out. Same with making sure we got the presidency exclusively into our zone (despite Ekwueme trying to scuttle it). It's high time you yeebos realised you're not relevant as far as Nigeria is concerned.

And after achieving all these remarkable feats, then what? Are Yorubas any better off than Igbos?

I hear this happend between Buhari and Osibanjo but it was never recorded

Reminds me of when Governor Nnamani of Enugu state slapped his own deputy Governor, Okechukwu Itanyi, at a function

Awka4chinoidio:
Everyone is steadily dissociating from Anambra state as a whole.. No one wants anything to do with Anambala cheesy cheesy.. So much problem for a state.. Funny enough they have so much crises BTW themselves, see how Authur Eze and the gov Obiano are fighting dirty and they want others to join them in their show of shame.. For me a different zone should be created for Enugu and Ebonyi, let Abia and Imo have theirs and Anambala should be alone and kill themselves if they wish to

Meanwhile see their Drunkard worthless governor here

What are you talking about? Dont you know that Police zones are created by the federal government?

We are all going to stand before God in judgement some day. When that day comes, it wont matter what religious connotation you gave your self while on earth. It wont matter if you called your self a Jew, Judaist, Christian or Pentecost. The only thing that will matter is the life you lived

This Igbo man called Peter Odili. Oh well, we keep watching

Chimok:
Is that really the case.
In recent history they have been getting what they set out to get.
The 1999 presidential election.
The enthroning of Buhari presidency.
The ametekun security outfit without waiting for the federal government to sanction it whereas the southeast governors are begging federal government to allow theirs.
Among many other things.
How important is Yoruba to the unity and disintegration of nigeria

And they are still in Nigeria, poverty capital of the world and centre on insecurity in Africa

The only reason Yorubas are relevant in the disintegration of Nigeria is because they know that if they choose Oduduwa Republic today, Igbos will not stand in their way, making it impossible for the North to stop them.

Had it been that Igbos were full supporters of "one Nigeria", Yorubas and any dream of disintegration would be irrelevant because there is no chance Yorubas have of taking on the combined force of the North and Igbos. Yoruba land would be overrun in a month.

Its one thing for Igbos to take on Nigeria and fight for 3 years. If Yorubas tried the same, they wouldn't last one month.

Funny how Nigerians cheer when the authorities are abusing their powers if it is people they dont like. They dont seem to understand that the injustice you support today could be the injustice visited on you tomorrow

I will never understand the Nigerian police. Almost 70 peaceful unarmed people are travelling to see a native Doctor, you arrest them and claim they are going to get powers that will stop bullets penetrating their bidies so that they can go about snatching guns?

What kind of stupid statement is that? How can you arrest a person for a crime they have not yet committed?

The NPF is an embarrassment

ubecharles:
. Is Ned an Igbo man? Please don't insult Igbos with sense.

Of course he is as Igbo as it gets. His name is actually Chinedu Nwoko but he shortened Chinedu to just "Ned"

Austria, a small land locked country of less than 10 million people but is richer than Nigeria

Switzerland, a small land locked country that is the size of Abia abd Enugu state. Has less than 10 million people but is the 13th richest country on earth with a bigger GDP than Nigeria

Small or big, what matters is the quality of life the land can give the people who live on it.

Only barbarians destroy buildings they could confiscate and put to other uses

BehindBiafra:
Nnamdi Kanu is a bloody terrorist

Then that means he is the only unarmed terrorist in history. Kanu is not armed and there no such thing as an unarmed terrorist

freeborn02:
All is fair in love and war.

People like Charles Taylor and Radovan Karazic thought the same, they are now in jail

More and more countries of the international community are choosing not to sell light arms to Nigeria due to its poor human rights record. Nigeria badly needs those weapons if it will overcome terrorism, violent insurgency and banditry. Amnesty International has well documented cases of the Nigerian security forces killing unarmed protesters such as IPOB and Shiites(IMN). While the Nigerian government has designated both groups to be terrorist organisations, the international community does not recognize them as such because the minimum standard of declaring a group to be terrorists is that the group must be armed and engaged in widespread violence. Neither group are armed and both have very few cases of violence.

It is ever becoming apparent to the international community that the Nigerian government may be using arms to crush the voice of dissent, intimidate the opposition and commit human rights abuse.

Nigeria must improve its human rights record if it wants to taken serious by the international community

Tkester:
Mumu somebody! Always mouthing off on RB. Tell the idiot that freedom fighter meet their enemies halfway and not on radio.

When he returned to Nigeria in 2015, was it quarter way he came to meet them?

bolaayenimo:
Babajide Ogunsanwo, Channels television data analyst said Yobe state alone is bigger than all the five states in the South East combined..
That means Yobe is bigger than Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.

Is the South East that small?

Switzerland is just the size of Abia and Enugu state combined but Switzerland is far richer than Nigeria

Japan is a very small country but is the second richest country on earth

Land size is no achievement, its all about what you can do with whatever land you have.

At about 7 O'clock this morning, August 14th, IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu held an interractive Q & A broadcast in which he took questions from Radio Biafra listeners all over the world. However, before Nnamdi Kanu started taking questions, he commented on the 67 IPOB members arrested yesterday in Imo state. This is what he said:

"Before I throw open the phone lines for our faithful listeners to call in, there is something very important I must say. I want to bring the attention of the world to what the supreme court Governor of Imo state and the Yoruba commissioner of Police are doing in Imo state"

"They arrested 67 people going to see a native Doctor. Since when has going to see a native Doctor become a crime? Our forefathers did it, politicians do it even Christians. The foolish Yoruba commissioner of Police in Imo state arrested 67 people based on future prediction of a crime that has not yet been committed. What did these 67 people do? Were they armed? Is there no longer freedom of movement and worship in a democracy?"

"Everyday they arrest our peaceful members, lock them up, torture them and kill them. While that injustice is happening, many look the other way. They are trying to provoke us into taking up arms just like they did to Boko haram. Boko Haram was once a peaceful group agitating for an Islamic caliphate. It was what the security forces did to them that made them abandon peaceful agitation and pick up arms and Nigeria has been fighting for almost 10 years. Now that IPOB is unarmed and peaceful, everyone is looking the other way at injustice been done to us. If we pick up arms tomorrow, they will not remember that there was a time we were peacefully asking for justice"

"The Supreme court Governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinmma, and the foolish Yoruba commissioner of Police for Imo state must release these 67 people, it is not a crime to visit a native Doctor. This level of intimidation and bastardisation of the rule of law has been going on for a very long time. How can you arrest people, parade them, and claim you are doing so because you think they might commit a crime in the future? People that have committed no crime? And the press who should be asking the critical question of what these people did, just buy's into that mockery of justice?


"This is why Africa is poor, the black man cannot reason. How can you arrest unarmed people traveling somewhere but you will never arrest armed herdsmen killing people everywhere? Is it because we have chosen not to be armed in the face injustice been done to us? Let the world remember there was a time we asked for justice and the authorities looked the other way. The 67 people arrested must be released immediately!

RuudVanNisteroy:
Peter Obi Questioned On Why He Invested $30m State Funds In Company Where His Family Owns Shares.

He claimed that the company belonged to his parents, and he had no dealings in it after he became a public officer.

Peter Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has explained why he invested $30million of Anambra State funds in a company owned by his family.

He stated this in response to a question by Kadaria Ahmed, host of ‘The Candidates’, a presidential town hall co-production between Daria Media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), with support from the MacArthur Foundation, held in Abuja on Wednesday.

He claimed that the company belonged to his parents, and he had no dealings in it after he became a public officer.

His words: “I brought International Breweries into Nigeria and as a Governor of a state, they built a greenfield facility in the state and they came to me and said ‘as our partner, we want you to own 15 per cent of this company’, and I said to them ‘No, right now, I am the Governor of a state. I know the future of this brewery, and I want the state to own 10 per cent and since I’m no longer involved in the company, they can own five per cent’. I put in $30million of state money there, it’s now worth $100million and it’s still there. No other state in this country has such investment.

“Personally, I have no investment; not even one Naira. Go to Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) today, if you will see Peter Obi as owner of one share; it doesn’t exist. Next is a family company started by my own parents and as their child, I ran it at a time, and when I became Governor, I had nothing to do with it till today.

“I also invested $50million of Anambra State money in the power sector. I invested several billions in banks, including banks where I have shares. I was investing for the future of the state; it doesn’t matter whether I have shares or not. If I have the opportunity of building the future of the state, wouldn’t I have done that?

“I left office in this country, leaving Anambra State with investment in cash of N75billion. The day I left office, we had $56million, N12billion in Fidelity Bank.; in Diamond Bank, $50million, N12billion; in Access Bank, $50million, N12billion for Anambra State. Show me in the history of this country where anybody has left 10 per cent of that.”

http://saharareporters.com/2019/01/30/peter-obi-questioned-why-he-invested-30m-state-funds-company-where-his-family-owns-shares

Im not the biggest fan of Peter Obi but I will give him his props when he has done well. In the video, Peter Obi said that International breweries offered him 15% of the company. Rather than take the 15%, he gave 10% to Anambra state government and let Next, a family company. He then invested 30 million Dollars of Anambra state money into the company and it is now worth 100 million Dollars. Anambra state made money and got an additional 10% stake in a company. So what is the problem? Peter Obi gifted Anambra 10% which he could have easily pocketed