₦airaland Forum

EsomahJD:
How have the president status help them? Obasanjo is from Ogun State, did that stop the State from hosting some of the bad roads in Nigeria

Nobody knows what they achieved with 8 years of Obasanjo

edochie12:
calm down,that flyover was never good,it wasn't high like that, in fact we are happy that the flyover is being destroyed in order to elect a massive and beautiful one.

I can see from the picture that the flyover is just too low. A double decker bus will not get past it

Bialegend:
The zoo apologists are soooo daft it beggars belief. They retorted the same thing before he came back into their zoo in 2015, what did the cowards do? Sent all their fighter jets to bomb and kill one man. Only one man, yet they couldn't. The zoo and it's inhabitant's incompetence stinks to high heaven.

Thats how they were shouting that Nnamdi Kanu can only broadcast from London and never come back to Nigeria. Kanu later returned without fear

Now they have started shouting again for him to return again. They have no shame

Gift52:
I Dare Nnamdi Kanu to come back to Nigeria and speak Biafra if he will not be killed - man speaks


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii8M-byMcE

This was way back in 2014 before Nnamdi Kanu eventually returned to Nigeria

ThatFairGuy1:
It's an UTMOST disrespect to compare a nuisance (Kanu) to Legend Papa 70. Desist please

Depends on where you are from. Most people in Northern Nigeria think Fela Kuti was a nuisance, even to this day

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I just want to clarify what some mischevous people have been saying online that Nnamdi Kanu has repented and wants to work with Yorubas. The audio of what Nnamdi Kanu said is online for anyone to hear. What Nnamdi Kanu said is that Biafran supporters should cease from attacking "Oduduwa elements" as he has had a meeting with them and resolved to work with them. He clarified it at the end of the announcement that he did not want to use the word 'Yoruba people' but 'Oduduwa stakeholders'

In essence, Kanu wants to work with those who are working for "Oduduwa Republic" since they are all aspiring for the same thing. Any Yoruba man who wants "Oduduwa Republic" is not likely to stand against Biafra and should not be attacked by Biafran supporters.

There is a big difference between working with Oduduwa stakeholders and working with Yoruba people in general because not all Yorubas want Oduduwa Republic. Lets not get things twisted, there are many Yorubas who dont want to hear anything about Oduduwa Republic or Biafra and they are not who Kanu was talking about

I like Pa Adebanjo, he is a good man. Unfortunately for him, nobody in the core North will ever agree to restructure Nigeria, not now or ever.

According to a statement signed by its coordinator, Mazi Nnamdi Okorafor, the group noted that the people of Anambra State are law-abiding and will not be dragged along by any individual or group of persons

The problem of Yorubas is that when they try to pretend to be Igbos, they make too many mistakes because they know little or nothing about Igbos or the dynamics of Igbo land

My people, is someone from Anambra likely to be called "Mazi Nnamdi Okorafor"? The chances of that are next to zero. Also, which Igbo man would spell that name as "Okorafor"? Is that not laughable? It is only some who is not Igbo would spell that name that way because he is spelling it the way he hears it, not the way it is actually is.

These people make me laugh

YakubuAugust:
Igbos are a diverse group.

They always have been. I dont think that people realise that Igbos are a confederation of different people who speak a similar language and practice similar culture jusy as you would find with Ijebus, Oyos and Aworis amongst Yorubas. Igbo has never been uniform

The amalgamation was a big mistake, the clear evidence is the Nigeria we have today

Bond111:
You are the typical greedy Igbo, What concerns you with delta state? I am from delta, we know you well. Anioma people will never fall for your evil murderous ways.

We want nothing to do with you.

Greedy murderers

There is no tribe in Nigeria called Anioma. Anioma, is an area just like Nigeria is an area. Nigeria is not a tribe same as Anioma is not a tribe. So first figure out your tribe.

The people who are celebrating in the video are fools. Someone left what is happening today to focus on what happened over 50 years ago? There was a war, people died and later the war ended. In 2020, different armed gangs like Boko haram, Killer herdsmen and Niger Delta cultists are all armed killing people all over Nigeria and someone is celebrating what?

You said you were killed in Biafra or by Biafrans, you are now being murdered in greater numbers in Nigeria, so what are then celebrating? From Delta to Edo, to Akwa Ibom, to Cross River, herdsmen are killing hundreds of people every year, farmlands are being destroyed, women are being raped. So what are these people celebrating when their situation was wise only became worse? Only a stupid person will be celebrating his situation getting worse

Hmmmmm...............

Bond111:
http://adeyinkamakinde..com/2019/12/victimhood-and-nigerian-civil-war.html?m=1

They have every right to celebrate after the way the Igbos massacres and evicted them from their ancestral homes.

Is it any different from Boko Haram?

Are they not still being massacred and evicted by killer herdsmen to this day? So what is there to celebrate if their situation did not improve in Nigeria? Things are even worse now than back then

Bond111:
Oh keep quiet, was it not the Igbo that caused all the problems we have today? Who staged the coup, killed others but spared their own? Didn’t ironsi and orizu conspire and seize power after the coup? Who put the unification decree in place? Wasn’t it an Igbo? Who bombed Lagos? Who invaded the Midwest and massacred edo, Agbor and auchi people? Who evicted the abonema Ijaws? Who massacred the ibibio people?

Keep quiet.

Oh really? But no Igbo man has ruled Nigeria since 1966, what have you people been doing for the last 54 years?

You people said Igbo caused the problem, you said you can do better than Igbos. But in the last 54 years, you people only ended up making Nigeria far worse. Today, Nigeria is more divided, the economy is far worse, Nigeria has become poverty centre of the earth, different armed groups like Boko haram and herdsmen are killing people daily. 54 years of total mess! And some people are celebrating this? Terrible

So a day cannot pass without report of someone being slaughtered?

PROUDIGBO:
Stay there waiting for a 'new group that understands diplomacy' to be formed, while your ethnicity is being decimated by the day!

You think your 'one Nigeria' does diplomacy?

Forget him, he thinks diplomacy works in Nigeria. He is on a long thing

Itohanprefa:
Don't really understand your logic, but self determination entails a group of people making decisions independently as pertains their future and being able to stand on their own, there is no reality on ground to be anything is not by force, a people always have the right to choose what they identify as, if ikwerre people say they are a saperate entity and not an Igbo subgroup great, There's no need to get sentimental about it

Self determination is about becoming self governing, it is not about ethnic identity. Ikwerre people speak Igbo as their ancestral language and have Igbo surnames. If the Ikwerre now say they are not Igbo, they need to explain where their language and surnames came from

Xenowerk4000:
Actually , the Ikwerre people prefer to identify as 'Ikwerre ethnic nationality ' and not as a subgroup of Igbo . You can't force an identity on them . Ikwerre people generally hate being called 'Igbo' and most of them just want to be left alone .

Anybody can claim any identity they want, thats not the issue. The issue is the reality on the ground. Someone speaks Igbo as his ancestral language and has an Igbo surname. If the person then turns around to say they are not Igbo, they need to explain where they got their Igbo language and surname from

MelesZenawi:
nobody is talking of central igbo but broad day light colonisation.....


one thing is certain and....sure.....her ethnicity is not sub to anyone and it is fully recognised by the state.


so it is totally awful to disrespect them by adding her as Igbo when her ethnicity is not inn contention or under any.


you guys clout chase a lot most especially on nairaland.


when issues of ikwerre crops up then affix her name there but for igbo we have sinachs, and the rest to occupy the list.


respect someone's ethnicity......

The question then is which Ikwerre is Igbo and which is not Igbo? If well known Ikwerres like former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Monalisa Chinda and Tonto Dike have all come out at one time or the other to say they are Igbos, how do we then know which Ikwerre is not Igbo?

Itohanprefa:
If ikwerre people decide to exercise their right of self determination Igbos should respect it, otherwise it becomes hypocritical to call on that same right when asking for biafra

Self determination is about being self governing. Its got nothing to with choosing ethic group. The Ikwerre people can choose to be whatever they want to be, they can even claim to be Chinese, but the reality on the ground is something nobody can ever run away from.

Antivirus92:
see how peaceful this thread is,,

nobody is here shouting "chestbeating"

nobody cared about bringing igbo celebrities to compare with these ones

nobody cared about calling the female celebrities on the list ashawos

nobody is painfully laughing


#just yorubas celebrating themselves in peace,,,


if it was igbos now,,,,ur guess is as good as mine

If it had been about Igbos, they would have derailed the thread in the first page

I also want to add that the name Mercy Chinwo Nnenda isnt strange. For some reason, most Ikwerre people pronounce the name 'Chinwe' as 'Chinwo'. Also, father is 'Nna' in central Igbo but in the Ikwerre dialect it is 'Nda'

There are some small differences between Ikwerre dialect and central Igbo but thats how it is in all of Igbo land

If I were to say say "Mercy Chinwo Nnenda" in central Igbo it would be "Mercy Chinwe Nnenna"

Someone wrote a list of who he thinks are the most influential Igbos, that's is their opinion. Everybody has their own list of who the most influential Igbos are

Xenowerk4000:
Majority of Ikwerre people do not see themselves as Igbos . Rotimi Amaechi is only saying that because of his 2023 presidential ambition .

This is not about who sees themselves as Igbo or not, this about who is Igbo. If being Igbo is about who sees themselves as Igbo then nothing stops a Hausa man in Kano to get up one morning and say he is Igbo because he now sees himself as Igbo. If I like, I can see my self as Japanese, it wont make me Japanese

The Igbos are a group of people who speak a branch of the Niger/Congo language known as Igbo and have Igbo surname.

Ikwerre language is Igbo, they all have Igbo surnames. So what is the difference between an Ikwerre man and an Ohawfia man in Abia, or a Wawa man from Enugu? Absolutely nothing.

Igbo is never about what you see your self as, its about your ancestral language and surname

Xenowerk4000:
Mercy Chinwo is an Ikwerre woman . She's not Igbo .

Former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is also an Ikwerre man and proud Igbo man and he says it in the video below. So which Ikwerre is Igbo and which one is not?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFwj28U8eQE

rdokoye:
I know it's just a hypothetical question, but the truth is, if Igbo people were doing what Fulani are doing, then we wouldn't be Igbo. It's our behaviour that makes us what we are. We don't go around murdering people - so it's a pointless hypothetical.

As far as government perception between IPOB and the Fulani Herdsman. The Nigerian state perceives the Fulani as insignificant, as they don't provide or offer the state anything it can't easily replace. Whereas IPOB is advocating for the fragmentation of Nigeria, essentially the end of Nigeria. That's why the Herdsman are called criminals, and IPOB are called terrorists.

Ok, let me get what you mean. The Fulani herdsmen armed with AK47, killing people, destroying communities and farmlands and raping women are just criminals? But IPOB that are only armed with flags and their mouth, protesting for a referendum to let them decide if they want to be part of Nigeria, are terrorists?

Chei! Africans, who did this to us?

flokii:
The killer of Niger Delta dream and architect of the bloddy pogroms on his people with his refusal to prosecute his coup plotting brothers.

His people were already being massacred in 1945 and 1953 so lets not pretend as if the pogrom wasnt already an ongoing periodic thing long before there was any coup.

The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

horsepower102:
So basically Igbo life and blood is worthless to Nigerians to the point they can react more violently towards igbos in comparison to Fulani and others.

Oh yes, thats why the Government will send military after unarmed IPOB that have only flags and their mouth then turn around and offer Ruga to the Fulani herdsmen, long designated the fourth most deadly terrorist group on earth.

Even online, you will see people attack Igbos in all they do and look the other way when herdsmen slaughter people. Even Kanu, who has no weapons, will be attacked more than killer herdsmen. Not necessarily because of Biafra agitation, but because he is Igbo. Had Kanu been a killer Fulani herdsman looking for Biafra, everyone would have kept quiet.

Why would any sane human being even want to share a country with people that are always waiting for the opportunity to bring you harm.

Why?

Some people fear the break up of Nigeria far more than the bullets of the herdsman.