₦airaland Forum

efighter:
Yes, Anambra is a beautiful mega state that is very developed, yet Igbos want to die in Lagos. Yoruba pray to go to heaven while Igbos pray to go to Lagos. Even when Raji Fashola abducted and dumped Igbos at Upper Iweka at 2:00am, they still jumped into the next trailer carrying cows to Lagos. What a people!

Idiot, Igbos fought civil war and sacrificed millions of lives to stay far away from you and your Nigeria/lagos, and your fathers sacrificed their own lives to forced them back to your lagos/Nigeria. You also forcing your ugly lots on their women. Yorubas are very ugly race with ugly minds. Can't your ugly mind see, that Igbos are still paying the ultimate prise(still sacrificing their lives) at the moment to stay apart far, far away from Yorubas, lagos/Nigeria??.

Adebowale89:
but what is the president concerning this killing. buhari supporters should talk about this too, his keeping mute on this incident might cause you people his online campaign a futile effort



this killings is getting out of hands. one of the reason I don't want a Fulani man to be elected in number 1 sit next year



these people are sadist and heartless to the call.

....but your people give them the supportive energy through your powerful media platforms. When Yorubas view the Igbos as worst than Hausa/fulani in all ramifications and subsequently support them blindly,....the outcome is what we are witnessing. You will be the first to condemn Femi Kayode, when he echoes out the organic, undiluted natural truths.

stephanie11:
@POLITICSNGR

The Benue State chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Abba Yaro has described the massive killing of over 50 Benue people by the Fulani herdsmen as an invitation for Civil War.

In a Statement issued in Abuja, Yaro decried the recent killings as an attempt to spark second civil war in Nigeria, insisting that, it is clear case of ethnic cleansing around the Benue Valley which must be stopped immediately.

While calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately call the Fulani to order and as well direct security agents to fetch out the killers, he also called on all Benue Sons and daughters, irrespective of Party affiliation to rise in defence of Benue Community.

"This is above Party politics, it is human lives, how can you kill a pregnant woman and removed the unborn child yet slaughtered it? It is barbaric, unspeakable and generally unpalatable".

Yaro says the Anti Open Grazing Law in Benue is not targeted at any section of the people but for the general security of Benue State, a measure against cattle rustling and a solution to herders/farmers clash.

"The implementation is ongoing and we are in support of our governor, we are not deterred, the Anti Open Grazing Law has come to stay.

"Nigerians should not see the killings as a Benue problem but National crisis, the absence of peace in Benue is an absence of peace in Nigeria.

"We must treat it as a national ethnic cleansing by the Fulanis and collectively pressurize Mr President to put an end to it. If Boko Haram can be defeated, IPOB stopped, Fulani killings can be stopped", he observed.

He further call on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Buratai, the Interior Minister Lt Gen Danbazau, the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris to protect Benue community or "we rise in self-defense, which will amount to the second civil war."

Yaro emphasized that "if the Fulanis are not called to order by the relevant authorities to stop the ethnic cleansing like the lawless Fulanis are doing, Benue people shall take laws into their hands in self-defense".

https://politicsngr.com/2018/01/03/fulani-herdsmen-killings-invitation-civil-war-benue-apc-chairman/
cc: lalasticlala, mynd44

Yoruba blind (or slavery) support for their northern masters provide them with the supportive energy, confidence, and fearlessness of all collectively nationally condemnations that these darstly acts deserved, and President Buhari in his New year speech to the nation have asked other regions of the country to emulate the SW social-political sophistication, which inadvertently implies that some of the truth seekers and truth tellers from the region like Femi Kayode/Fayose should be viewed as exceptional or at worst crazy/drug addicts.

So comrade Abba Yaro should keep quiet and must emulate the SW examples period.

yang:
The zoo republic with animals everywhere

This is how they are running away from the zoo into slavery in Libya and auctioned for $400

A disgrace to the whole world

And the baboons keep shouting one zoo

The living place of the devil

Yorubas.

zoba88:
President Buhari's aide Femi Adesina was today
conferred with Isimiri of Mmaku by HRH Igwe Nnevo Obasi in Mmaku Enugu State.

See photos below



Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2018/01/buhari-aide-femi-adesina-conferred-with.html?m=1

*Note*...Femi Adesina hates Igbos Albeit, secretly.

harbdulrasaq88:
The governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has placed a N200 million bounty on the perpetrators of Monday, January 1, killing in Omuko, Rivers state. The governor urged anyone with useful information that will lead to the arrest of the killers to help the state government.

Speaking during a visit to the families of the deceased, Wike, who led the Rivers state security council on a fact finding mission in Omuko condemned the act in the area by some hoodlums.

Sympathising with families of the deceased and victims of the attack, the governor said anyone or group of people connected to the crime would have their house forfeited to the state government.

Wike said:



http://www.newshelmng.com/2018/01/photos-gov-wike-places-n200-million.html

Very good one governor, but is not too late to revise that figure down to $10 million naira, which is still an over kill and will get the job done comfortably and redistribute the remaining to victims families.

FortifiedCity:
We all need to come together and stop this atrocity right under our nose

Coming together entails restructuring or true federalism. They are mutually inclusive.

emmie14:
Surprisingly Buhari with his lengthy epileptic readings on 1st January made no mention of Fulani herdsmen. He owns 150 cows and a Fulani. People have written, shouted and echoed through media yet the presidency remain adamant. That is why restructuring is necessary where each state controls police of their own because Nigeria police seems not interested even the military. Hsbaaa Pa Buhari.
If the villagers try to revenge they will be arrested. Let vote again.

Still, Yorubas will vote for him again.

FortifiedCity:
I'm so pained seeing people run away from their fatherland because some group of people who carry sophisiticated weapons to tend cows attack them in their villages. Honestly I wish there is something I could do now to physically defend those guys no matter how costly.

Worst of it all is that the President is indifferent about this. The governors and local government authorities look so incapacitated. Well-meaning Nigerians feel less concerned because it hasn't gotten to their estates, mansions and houses. Everybody is sitting akimbo.

How long is this onslaught going to continue? Are we going to fold our hands and watch defenseless people being slaughtered like goats in their own lands?
The first gift creation gave to man was land. The bitterest of wars you'll ever fight is over your land.

But right here, we keep silent and watch people being killed and their lands being taken over by strangers including cows.

Guys don't you think this is a strategic genocide, be it religious or ethnic?
Don't you think there are wicked ulterior motives behind these attacks?

The primary reason why you have a neighbor is, to hAve someone speak up for you when you have no voice, to have someone fight for you when you are defenseless. If your neighbor keeps silent while you're being attacked, after you might have been dealt with, it will get to his turn. It is a chain reaction people!!!!!

We are all disappointing humanity by standing neutral in time of moral and human atrocities. Those guys being attacked need someone to speak up for them at least.

Guys we have to speak up so that our diversity remains intact. Agatu comes to mind. That village is a complete shadow now. It's also happening in Southern Kaduna and Adamawa. Lineages, tribes, generations, nations are gradually being exterminated.

We can't let this continue, guys we can't. My heart bleeds now. If there is anything you can do to make the cries of these people heard, please do.

Seun
Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Please I beg you guys, push this to FP, let it get to a larger audience.

It will forever continue because its root lie in false hood and conspiracy heaped on Igbos primarily by Yorubas that have almost destroy the Igbos. While the Yorubas are busy with their media out of extreme hatred of the Igbos creating the impression that Igbos are tribalistic, hateful and etc, deliberately avoiding with their media the real haters and killers of Nigerians.

jollymizzle:
well the feeling of superiority is all that's coming from op. no other tribe claims superiority like the igbos. the irony is those who lagged behind and were so uneducated after the Civil War have been the ones running the country ie the hausa/fulani. whether or not they are doing a good job is a question for another time but I'm only trying to point out that even they don't claim to be superior to other ethnic groups in the country, so what's all the fuss about. all tribes have billionaires, brilliant people. so why should anyone claim to be superior?

You know you are lieing absolutely. Fulanis not feeling, practicing , and killing for tribal superiority(always producing head of state, sultans, emirs and etc), religious superiority, regional superiority etc??.....and that's the root of Igbo reactionary issues.

bakynes:
The truth is that,the way Igbos reason is different from the way others reason and that is why there is always a conflict of interest with the Igbos.

An average Igbo man still doesn't understand even though we say we are one Nigeria, everybody has their boundaries and jurisdictions. We are ethnic nations within a geographical boundary like Awolowo said.

An Igbo man believes that, so far he is a Nigerian, he has the same right as a Yoruba or Hausa Fulani man on his ancestral land and should be given equal opportunity like the locals.

Even in America and Britain, an English man cannot have an equal right as a Scott in Scotland. A black man still doesn't have equal right as a white man in America.

This mentality is why the Igbos are having problems with other tribes in Nigeria.

Every other tribe seem to understand this logic but only the Igbos believe otherwise. Some how in the subconscious of an Igbo man he believes you don't have equal right on his own ancestral land but believes since he is better than you, he should have equal right with you on your own ancestral land.

When the successive evil Nigerian governments took the teaching of nigerian history away from the school, it produces outcomes like your kind of reasoning. From historical context, you should have understood the Igbo mindset in Nigeria. He DOES NOT NEED EQUAL RIGHTS from any ancestral region period. What he wants are, his own God giving share of deep sea port in se, international airport, true federalism or Biafra outright in order to stop engaging you with those issues you have with them .

bakynes:
This is the kind of boasting that attracts hate towards the Ndigbo nation. Not only in Nigeria but from different African and Asian race.

If you are succeeding in your various endeavors, Glory be to God. You are not the only tribe doing well, in fact there is still much work to be done.

Even God hates pride so stop claiming superiority over other tribe.

..but the Yoruba demonic logical mind have shifted the original focus of Op into something else......boasting, superiority, pride and etc..

Gazzy88:
is that all you can say?

Is it not an intelligent enough logical assessment for you to respond??.

jollymizzle:
I saw the headline and thought you meant enough of igbos claim of dominance and their phobia for anything/anyone not theirs and decided I was going to ask you to leave the igbos be. now I found out it was the exact opposite and I'm wondering why an Igbo man would try to start another round of this useless tribal seesaw.you should have just quietly stated that the igbos were doing good just because of their will to hustle. but instead your write up inferred that the igbo people were just superior so the others should just deal with it. just like most igbos in this forum. seriously you guys aren't doing yourselves any favors, why claim to be superior even the people who built the world powers we have today don't do that anymore so what's important about claiming to be superior to the next human. you know such behavior attracts all the ills in the world and yet you claim it shouldn't be. what sort of reasoning is that?if Germans, Americans, Britons, the French and etc have stopped claiming to be superior, why would a group of black people claim to be superior to other black people?just like the life of any human, there are repercussions for what we do or don't do. Igbos please be reasonable

Using superiority as a focus here is an evil diversion. The focus here, is the fear of Igbo domination that led to their genocide, and weather Nigeria must accept them fully or let them go.

Mrnairalandd:
I am coming up with a proposal to all our states in South West region of Nigeria-Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun state that all lands should only be leased for period of 5years to Non indigenes instead of outright acquisition. In this proposal, Yorubas ll be asked to ask for few documents before a land ll be leased to non-indigenes. A letter from a head of a family and local govt identification should be part of documents to ask for before the transaction even allow to take place.

I strongly believed we need this to prevent non-indigenes from polluting our cultures, traditions, politics and many other things.

It’s high time we come together as Yoruba people and protect our nation within a nation called Nigeria. Let’s create an Odua nation that our children ll be proud of tomorrow.

Moving forward, i will like to read your views about this proposal.

Idiot go for your own country.

MrMaestro:
Take anything? Lol Yorubas have taken everything. We take all the foreign investment in Nigeria between Lagos and ogun. We take all of the tax from people coming from other regions. Our yoruba banks take all of your money when you come here. We turn your culture into yoruba as most of your children coming to our land learn to speak yoruba. They learn about our customs and traditions. We take all of your businesses and industries that could be used to improve your region but improves our own. We own the media. We own Nollywood. We own Nigerian music. We own EVERYTHING. So to answer your question, people can say whatever they like, but it doesn't change the fact that we have taken everything of significance in Nigeria.

Seriously speaking, apart from Lagos, It doesn't reflect on other core Yoruba states, neither in your per-capital incomes . I also thought Igbos are ahead of you in sports, education, commerce and industry, nollywood, beauty, music(about the same or slightly above Igbos for now) , in real estate across the country and beyond. The lists goes on and on.

tobillionaire:
Yorubas don't sell lands to igbos alone BT fr Hausas, Chinese, Lebanese, Europeans any tribe whatsoever so long u have d money. We are more hospitable Dan igbos, we re not tribalistic like dy are, we don't utter hate speech, we accommodate any religion (we don't criticise religion/faith) we take you for who you are... that's d reason y we keep progressing, ppl from d other side are just jealous of us cos thy can never b like us not even with their landlocked region.

You see, how stupid the Igbos think of Yorubas with their way of thinking. Hate and jealousy were the motivation behind the Yorubas joining Hausa/fulani in genocide against Igbos. Igbos never engage in killing of Yorubas because of hate, but you have. Hate, envy and jealousy are the reasons Yorubas are in the fore front fighting against functional deep sea port/international airport in in the East. Don't get me wrong, Igbos hate you as well because of your hatred, envy and jealousy against them, but would rather sacrificed their own lives to separate from your lagos and Nigeria. Idiocy in reasoning, Igbos hate and envoy Yorubas, but the same Yorubas in the Nigerian army have sacrificed their lives to have Igbos in their region to continue hating and enving them forever. FOOL!

Stingman:
This is an observation I have made over some time now.

Why are the Yorubas ready to take anything thrown at them, especially by the Igbos just so long as Nigeria remains?

They have the seaports, major international airports, major train system, best investment location...more educated and more industrious than any tribe in Africa...or so they claim...Yet they are ready to receive insults including letting others buy their lands, develop it, and even become their Obas and governors...All for One Nigeria.

Is there something they are not telling us? Why are they so desperate for one Nigeria...even when their leader Awo stated that Nigeria was never a nation. Why are they ready to give up their pride, culture, and tradition for one Nigeria?

You even went to far, let me add to your question,.
..with the all above stated facts, while would they even accept the kind of Nigeria we have today?. I will keep saying this, ..there are so much, that Igbos don't know about Yorubas.

dalaman:
*The Unprecedented Level of Patience Shown to Buhari---the ECONOMIST*

Nigerians have never shown such level of patience and tolerance towards any of their past leaders for his record and strange policies as that shown to their current leader, Muhammadu Buhari – a former military dictator now self-confessed democrat who said he came to fight corruption.

Buhari, 75, is being plagued with failures across every single sector in the economy, the like as has never been seen before. Less than a year into office, the economy plummeted into recession, an economy which had till then grown at an average rate of 7% in previous years (2011-2014). The nation’s currency lost 70% of its value, unemployment rose from 6.5 to 26%, commodity prices tripled across many quarters and the state-regulated premium motor spirit prices were hiked by 67% without practically anybody batting an eye.

There have been stern opposition to his policies however and to his very personality as well, notably in the South East and South- South regions in the country as they are called, where he both received less than 5% of the votes cast at the last Presidential election and where he has always been sternly unpopular for his history of bigotry against the people, perceived incompetence and dictatorial tendencies. But in many other regions across the country the people have rather resolved to suffer patiently, drawing up excuses for him at will, blaming everyone including his hundreds of political appointees, anything and anybody but never the man himself.

But in many other regions across the country the people have rather resolved to suffer patiently, drawing up excuses for him at will, blaming everyone including his hundreds of political appointees, anything and anybody but never the man himself.

Buhari’s party, the APC, promised Nigerians unprecedented swiping changes in government and the eviction of all corrupt individuals.
One possible explanation for this could be his party’s hope narrative in the 2015 General election where citizens were promised an unprecedented crackdown on corruption and the abolition of all government waste by a man whose financial worth they declared to have been less than N30million ($150,000 then), a historical low for a former top official in the country and most especially a former leader.

In a country plagued by acute corruption problems and with the unremitted crude oil revenue scandal of 2014 still fresh in the people’s minds, many were eager for an abrupt change, the like as never been seen before. He was seen an army general, already experienced in government, with a great strength of will, tough to take on the nation’s cabal of hardened criminals. He promised to appoint only technocrats to head the country’s departments and to see out the lingering Boko Haram insurgency from the warfront. For a nation lacking basic amenities such as power supply in spite of its huge energy resources and with the lingering insurgency crises, the choice seemed easy to many- the general with integrity was the man for the country.

Talk was cheap then but now reality has taken its course. His earliest opponents pointed out to his track record and not to his speech, noting that the last time Nigeria fell into dismal failure, currency woes and commodity shortages was when he had seized power as a military general in 1983 and stating that the facts of that record contradicted the poems of his image brokers.

Many however just wanted “change” as it was then called and so voted the General and sat to wait for the sung promises. But from the onset of his government, the course was as his critics had predefined: Incompetency, bigotry and dictatorial tendencies plaguing the country.

He ignored the newly born genocide in the middle belt of the country perpetuated by the Fulani herdsmen of his kindred against the Christian communities in Benue, Plateau and later on Kaduna. He breached the Central Bank’s 2007 Act of Independence, telling it to suspend forex disbursements to steel importers and other manufacturing sectors in a bid to defend the Naira, a disastrous action which kick-started a spiral of recession.


He took 3 months to appoint his Chief of Staff, 6 months to appoint a cabinet and now 23 months and yet counting to appoint heads of agencies and board members he was so eager to fire upon his assumption into office and rose import duties on the most basic of commodities in a bid to raise government revenue.

And as for the corruption fight, the facts on ground do not show any one at all. Apart from a few officials harassed or imprisoned without court order, the country is yet to witness the first victim of the said campaign at the court stands.

Government waste is on the rise, officials publicly caught in graft acts were swiftly excused, the 2016 Budget year passed without implementation and most worrisome, the Central Bank’s foreign reserves were being shared among unknown Bureau De Change operators at variable rates at the detriment of critical manufacturing, business and banking sectors.

The government continues to praise itself but the people seem to be increasingly tired of the paraded self-righteousness. The President’s recent illness was greeted with cheers by many. Many are just tired of the government. But the remarkable level of patience shown so far has been unprecedented and many a times the general reactions towards acts of constitutional violations was one of calmness or insensitivity.

If the Change narrative of the 2015 election and the songs of man of integrity are to account for this, then Nigerians may have just certified themselves on the world map as a nation easy to fool with propaganda. An adult should be judged on his track record not on his tongue.

*Culled from The Economist*

The primary reason for that is obvious:

He is a fulani Muslim from the north. He can be tolerated in all ways as long as the sustenance of the coalition of oppressors of christian population in Nigeria is maintained at all times. ( the Christian region is the oil region).......some are still neck in their belief that Nigeria can still transform or modernise with the way the country is being govern. Trump has just threatened to destroy the Nigerian regime, over Jerusalem and I think he ment business if nothing is done.

ChimaAgbalajob:
I know a lot of Nigerians will try to lie that they have no resentment against the Igbo just as part of the self denial problem of Nigeria.

Achebe was a great man of words and i thank God men like him put in writing the problems with Nigeria.

It is left for us to solve them or allow Nigeria to continue drifting while we play ostrich that the problem does not exist.

From the time Achebe wrote those words to today, thousands of Nigerians have perished in Libya and inside Nigeria simply because we chose to deny than tackle the problems. Thousands more will still die as Nigeria continues to be an uninhabitable space for its people.

Do Yorubas understand the magnitude of their hateful incline toward the Igbos, and what that hate can do to them as well?. As they are in the for front of every conspiracy to destroy the Igbos, Igbos have not being involved in such numerous conspiracies like the Yorubas in other to harm/destroy them, not even once. They think the table may never turn against them in this wicked world?.

Niger Delta Avengers:
Nigeria will be better than Dubai if Yoruba and Igbo agree – Yinka Odumakin

http://www.businessdayonline.com/nigeria-will-better-dubai-yoruba-igbo-agree-yinka-odumakin/

I have written about the solutions to Yoruba/Igbo feud, and, the solutions are there and simple if you seek for it period. The two groups are socially close(inter-marriage, dick measuring on social media and etc) but politically apart. So, what's the solutions.

The Oni and Obi must firstly sign a general open peace treaty outside the ambit of the Nigerian constitution and immediately established a cost less "Oni/Obi" think tank group, whose main purpose/focus will be "truth and reconciliation".

***warning**...stake holders, profiteers and blood suckers of Nigeria will fight to the end to prevent the manifestation of this new order, and that's why I proffered an open treaty instead of "secret political treaty" which is more powerful/proper for now. You and I know that Hausa/fulani, Britain, other neo-colonial interests, Yoruba political/religious duality and Igbo greed must be cracked and thrashed mathematically as #1 duty of the "Oni/Obi" Thinktankyoribo.org. Oni and Obi must work tirelessly to save the future of their subjects, ( SS/middle belt must be carried along) Nigeria.

CastedDude:
Yesterday, the executive of Anambra state, Wille Obiano and his wife hosted the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi at their mansion in Lagos. The Yoruba monarch paid a visit to the couple following the governor's victory at the gubernatorial election on November 18...

https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/12/governor-obiano-wife-host-ooni-ife-residence-lagos-photo.html

From that pics, ... Igbos probably have more advanced cultural artifacts than Yorubas....like the stool with elephant tusks and akupe.

KingSango:
The U.S created Boko Haram no doubt. They openly admit it BH are their border agents. U.S behind all terrorists groups. Nigeria is a victim of the US might and money. Biafra isnt a traditional Igbo movement but sponsored by the West that sought to destroy the newly created independent Nigeria in 1960. Guinea was the first African nation to declare independence. You do better to study this entire time period, you will see the West used many covert acts against African nations. The trick is this, you have issue with other ethnic group then the savage is more than happy to escalate it. They are there to offer money, support and anything you need to kill each other. Then they laugh about it.


Ase

Love Sango

Biafra is a complete opposite of what you just wrote. How can the West sought to destroy a newly created independent Nigeria using Biafra , while the West strategic objective in creating the Nigga Area in the first place was to stem the transformation of the African continent by themselves creating Nigeria with three largest African tribes as strange bedfellows ropped together through a dysfunctional political structure, undue advantages to a region either by the way of falsely census figures and other demographic concoctions. Extreme religious intolerance thrown into the mix as well......and you have their strategic objectives well intact. They can always come back and activate those destructive tendencies, and that to the Yoruba mind is an ideal newly created independent African country?. Well, you've seen the genocide, the underdevelopment, extreme poverty, bokoharam, fulani headsmen, corruption, extreme tribalism/religious intolerance, return of slavery, mass death in the Mediterranean sea, disease and the list goes on and on. Igbo world view is completely different from Yoruba world view, and I think Igbo world view to me, is a little bit clearer.

KingSango:
Igbos and Hausas are not the enemy. The enemy is the spiritual dead Africans who the Whites and Arabs will use against us. The Whiteman came to power because groups of Africans saw fit to ally with the Whiteman, then once the Whiteman destroyed the group of Africans too strong for him to beat alone, he then turned upon those African allies. We don't have the propaganda machine to wake up all the Africans on Earth, we must prepare defenses for such thing as happened before in the West African invasion by Moors. If the Whiteman came to Nigeria, your army would blast him to bits, but if he used other Africans like Boko Haram, Isis, and even foreign Africans it might pose a serious challenge. Take my advice serious. Make sacrifices by making peace with Igbos and restructure Nigeria so that you can have peace and prosperity which is the only thing to unite your nation, region and increase your defensive forces. Africans must create economic social systems that assist the youth in livelihoods. Yorubas are too lead the way on this since you are so industrious but don't misuse power.

Ase

Love Sango

How....I mean how can the Yorubas lead?. What is happening to Africans in Libya today can be logically be connected to the genocide on Igbos spearheaded by Hausa fulani/Yorubas. When Britain advised Gowan to renege on aburi accord with Ojukwu which outcome resulted in genocide against the Igbos, panafricanism died with it. Can the giant of Africa presently rally the black world now against this new onslaught against Africans?. The answer is capital No , because Yorubas and Hausa/fulanis are still trying to destroy Igbos, and any attempt by Nigeria to resist this new scramble for Africa, will see the West secretary supporting and financing IPOB and Niger Deltans, or might even use their newly deployed drones in Niger republic for a different kind of missions. Igbos understood this grand conspiracy on Africans from the get go, while Yorubas and their conspiracy with Hausa/fulani against the Igbos thought they were ascending above Igbos by conspiring to deny the region all manners of infrastructural development/projects, not knowing that they are reducing Nigeria per-say and indeed Africa. There is no tomorrow and this is at the core of why Igbos regard them as zombies. Igbos want to achieve industrization, modernization, transformation either through true federalism, or outright separation in order to save Africa and secure her future, but Hausa/fulani and Yorubas either don't understand it that way or they are too busy with Niger delta oil.

HtwoOw:
Very stupid people with stupid mentality


The repairs being carried out was paid for by the Buhari government that you hate, your father or mother did not pay for it


When repairs or upgrade is completed will government shut it down?



Useless people who can't see beyond their noses, is this the only yuletide season?

Is it the only airport in the country?


The writeup even said operations will be permitted from 7am till 3 pm after which contractors will take over


Another airport was upgraded in Nigeria a few months back, that airport was not allowed to carry out any operations for a month


Dumb people

How can Igbos be stupid with stupid mentality in this issue?. Sincerely speaking, that Igbo writer who suggested a diabolical intentions from the executive arm of the government towards Igbo travellers has a more weighted logical explanation than you because his critical reasoning, analytical skills with emphasis on timing of this action by the federal government on an ethnic group known for their mass travelling at this time of the year is spot on.

ipodstinks:
Chief (Dr) Chinua Achebe wrote a book titled
“There Was a Country” which had sparked a lot of
discussion on the pages of many of our National
Newspapers of the resent. The pity of it was that
Achebe had touched on the raw parts of the
Yoruba People of this country and many had
commented promptly and appropriately.

My comment to you today, has very little or nothing
to do with the tribal issues but as affecting the
military, the 3MCDO operation area during the civil
war and to Sector 3 of 3MCDO of which I was the
commander in particular, from 1967 to 1969. I was
also the Chief of Staff of 3MCDO during this same
period.
This book will be out there forever, and I need to
defend myself and my actions during the civil war
for posterity.
Nothing but the truth will be good enough for today
and tomorrow.
My account therefore will not be what I was told or
what I heard as contained in many parts of
Achebe's book. This is on the spot account of
events described in Achebe's book. I have just
completed reading it. Chief Achebe wrote about
the following military situations, which I know are
inconsistent with the truth:-
a Asaba Massacre – Page 133
b The Calabar Massacre -
Uyo – The brutality and blood lust of the
Nigerian Soldiers Page 137
c. The capture of Afikpo
d The Capture of PH - After several weeks of
sustained air, land and sea pounding, a period
reportedly characterized by military atrocities -
rapes, looting, outright brigandry – Port Harcourt
fell to the Nigerians on May 12, 1968. – Page 137
e. The Economic Blockade and starvation-
pages 209 – 210
I will therefore take these issues one by one and
expect that there will be questions at the end of
my discussions with you on the points made or
generally on the book, since I have read it.

Asaba Massacre.
This was on the night of 8th August, 1967 at about
10pm. I was the commander of the Federal troops
of 4th Area Command at Asaba. The Biafran troops
broke the barricade on Niger River bridge and
went straight to a place called “Ogbe Hausa” at the
cable point; where the Hausa community lived.
Biafran troops pounced on them and killed many of
them. The few that escaped were moved down at
Onitsha end, the people jubilated. Before my
troops could reach me to report the situation,
about 20 Biafran troops attacked me at the
catering Rest House where I was living at the time. I
fought my way through, and overpowered the 20
Biafran troops and reported the situation to my
boss Major Henry Igboba at Agbor. The story of
how I did that is contained in my book.
b) When the tide turned and the Federal Troops
recaptured the Midwestern Region and Asaba, the
Hausas among them retaliated by killing the people
at Asaba. The Hausa who were there had
never denied doing that.
c) Please read the excerpts of this story in a
book written by a Midwestern Asaba Ibo author
titled “The Blood on the Niger” - pages 28 and 62

[b]Excerpts[/b]: Lieutenant Wokocha of the invading forces awakened one of the commanders of the Midwest Fourth Area Command in Asaba, Major Alabi Isama from sleep at the Catering Rest House. Major Alabi escaped arrest by shooting his way through and
headed straight to Agbor......
Elsewhere at the ’Ogbe Hausa’ settlement (the
equivalent name to the northern ‘Sabon Gari’
residential quarters of migrant elements living in the
traditional Muslim Hausa states), a former teacher of
35 years experience, tells an equally hair-raising
story. But before then, let us backup to the scenario
at Ogbe Hausa the day Biafrans crossed the Niger.
The Hausa settlement at the end of Cable Point is as
old as Asaba Township itself. It developed during the
trading boom of the Royal Niger Company. Trade on
the Niger had brought a lot of Nigerians together
buying, exchanging and selling goods. Most of these
stranger elements from the North – Hausas, Fulanis,
Nupes, Tivs and Igalas decided to stay on in Asaba.
Many were born there and did not have deeper ties with their own Northern roots, and during the crisis,
did not quite know where to run back to. These
were the Nigerians that a group of brigands from
Onitsha fell upon on the morning of 9th August, 1967.
These youths, mainly aggrieved refugees from the
North apparently had not forgotten the 1966
debacle in the North. In vengeance, they
accompanied the Biafran Brigade and before the
Asaba indigenes knew what was happening, a lot of
damage had been done in Ogbe Hausa. Many were
rescued and given safe conduct through Auchi by
road while others proceeded by boat through the
river Niger. This group never made it, for they were
ambushed at Onono near Onitsha and dealt with.
This was the situation as the Federal troops, now on
the offensive and in command, approached Ogbe
Hausa quarters, Asaba
* In short the Hausas were all killed.
The rest of the story is in my book now being
published which hopefully should be launched in
January / February 2013.
The Calabar Massacre – page 137 of Achebe’s
book.
I was the Chief of Staff of 3MCDO and Col
Benjamin Adekunle was the commander. Achebe’s
story here was that the Nigerian forces over ran
Calabar in early 1968 without much resistance or
investment. He further wrote that the Nigerian
Forces decided to purge the city of its Igbo
inhabitants and that by the time the Nigerians were
done, at least 1,000 and perhaps 2,000 Ibos had
been killed.

a. This is a very unfortunate comment.
Intelligence report showed that Biafran troops
had alienated the Efik people of Calabar, did not
recruit many into the Biafran Army and had lousily
defended the town and the beach area of
Atimbo. 3MDCO therefore led by Col Adekunle had
an amphibious landing at Calabar which proved
that the town and the beaches were not defended
by Biafran troops with the seriousness that it
deserved; and the natives welcomed 3MCDO with
all the enthusiasm and the support it deserved.
b. I landed 3 days after the amphibious
landing and the natives gave us all the support we
needed – medical, casualty evacuation, food, off
loading the ship of our supplies and heavy
weapons. These stories and relevant pictures are
contained in my book.
c. Achebe then said, on the same page 137
that the Nigerian forces opened fire and murdered
fourteen nurses and the patients in the wards in
Uyo.
Here is an excerpts from a book titled “The Nigerian
Revolution and the Biafran War” by AlexanderA. Madiebo, the commander of Biafran Forces on
page 240 and 242 of his book.

....On the 9th of March the enemy landed at Oron and
then on, no one including the Brigade
Commander Aniebo, really knew what was
happening until Ikot-Ekpene, 50 miles from Oron, also
fell. However, within hours of enemy landing, there
was firing in many towns and villages between Oron
and Uyo. Thereafter, wherever our troops tried to
deploy in the area, they fell into an ambush. That confusion continued until the 11th when firing
started inside Uyo town and we soon discovered
that the “enemy,” whoever he might be, was there.
In short Uyo had fallen! Our own troops were pulling
back in disarray, absolutely unable to establish a
defensive position anywhere along the route. Having
lost complete control of his brigade with no
prospects of regaining it, Colonel Aniebo was
dismissed from command and summoned to
appear before the Head of State, Ojukwu...

Here also is an excerpt of the book titled “Nigeria
and Biafra my Story” by Phippip Effiong, the Chief of
Defence Staff of the Biafran Armed Forces on
page 220 and 221 of his book:

.....When I visited the Brigade shortly before the
invasion, particularly in Uyo and Calabar areas, I
received a lot of complaints from the local people
about unsavoury treatment by our (Biafran) troops. I
drew Colonel Eze’s attention to these complaints and
urged him to improve relations with the civilians. At
Uyo, military/civilian relations were so strained that I
had to personally intervene to release a local
newspaper editor from detention. Such acts on my
part were not just a question of feeling alone for my
people, but also a question of justice and sense of
belonging in an emergent Biafran State. Were these
arrests, false accusations, and detentions a sign of
things to come in an independent Biafra? These issues bothered me as they would anyone else in
my position then.....
..... With the fall of Calabar, Itu , Uyo and Ikot Ekpene
the rest of the mainland was militarily threatened.
Before this threat became imminent, I had strongly
suggested to Ojukwu that as Ikot Ekpene was a vital
junction town. It should be strongly defended. All he
did was to sarcastically remind me that in fact we
should also put a battalion at Nnewi. Nnewi was
Ojukwus’s homerown as Ikot Ekpene was supposed to
be mine, because I lived and grew up there.
However, I am from Ibiono in Itu, and not Ikot Ekpene.
After I received his sarcastic message, I did not
mention the subject again. As it eventually turned out,
the fall of Ikot Ekpene hastened the collapse of the
Biafran 12th Division and, consequently, of Biafra....

d) More of the story and pictures of the capture of
Calabar, Uyo Ikot – Ekpere are contained in
chapter 5 of my book.
1. (Pictures) – Building Bridges – Page 85 of my book.
2. (Picture) Natures helping to build the roads and
bridges – page 86 of my book.
3. Map for the capture of Obubra – page 87 of my
book.

Yorubas must always figure out a way to defend the atrocious nature of the Hausa/fulani in Nigeria, especially where it has to do with Igbo matters, at the same time seeking the hands of Igbo women in marriage.

So what are those positive attributes they see in a culture that they are seeking to destroy?. They have sacrificed their own lives to be together with Igbos at the same time seeking their destruction,(politically, economically etc)while Igbos have sacrificed their own lives to part ways with Yorubas, at the same time don't care about any thing Yoruba(politically, economically etc) including their women.

Conclusion: Yorubas are proactively and offensively engaging the Igbos, while Igbos are reactionary responding to their offensivenes......Therefore, Yorubas are the most dangerous existential threat to the survival of Igbo people, worst than Hausa/fulani.

Nowenuse:
As much as I support Igbos on this one. I do not approve of the lie that lack of infrastructure is the only thing that takes Igbos away from their homes.

Let's face it. Igbos are opportunistic people who love to maximize every available oppprtunity. Also i think it is because they are traders.
There are Igbos all over the north, even in very underdeveloped places and villages. Are we now going to say it is lack of infrastructure that took Igbos there?

So, why are they sacrificing their lives for Biafra?. Primarily, is it not to build up their infrastructure, roads, bridges, airports sea ports etc which will enable most of them settle down in their region.

Alcatraz005:
You Hausas can kill them off. They are of no use to us. Most of our population reside here and the region is moving on. And I am sure that their population does not exceed a few thousands so you can’t compare it with the millions of Igbos that want to break down our infrastructure. We want the igbos to shift back a bit. Xenophobia is beginning to rare its ugly head in Nigeria. I hope you saw the thread where an Edo State Government official told the igbo street urchins to go back home?

That tells you rising unease with igbo migration is a National phenomenon. This is not about hate but common sense. What is chasing the igbos from home? Why is it so hard for them to stay in the east?

You can kill the Yorubas in Jos because they are clearly useless. We yorubas don’t leave our region because we have all we want here’s and we are a very content people.

See your life. Alcatraz005, let me help you out son, because you can't eat your cake and have it. What is chasing the Igbos away from their region is basically political/marginalization conspiracy relationship of Hausa/Yoruba against the Igbos. Eg, I would like to think that most of them will settle in their region with sea port/real international airport, don't you think so?
For now, Igbos with their blood in millions of lives lost and continues have tried to extricate themselves from Yorubas/Hausas to no avail. What else do you want them to do. Part of the conspiracy is the absence of core Nigeria history in schools. Historically, you can't contextualize the reasons Igbos are flocking into SW/other regions at the same time sacrificing their lives seeking Biafra.

Alcatraz005:
The hate is there but both tribes are too civil to fight but dont kid yourself that yorubas are happy with all the insults being hurled at us. I for example wont rent my family property to an igbo man even if he has the money.

The yorubas are just too crafty and dangerous to employ violence against igbos. We are dealing with the problem subtly with serious consequences for future generation of igbos. The American Doctor that called for the mass deportation of igbos from yorubaland is very educated and fulfilled so that goes to show how deep the dislike for igbos is in yorubaland.

I wont go any further.

Yorubas are idiotic in their logical analysis in relation with Igbos, I swear. Categorically, Igbos want out of any kind of relationship with Yorubas period. They have expressed it with civil war, Ipob, on social media etc. You Yorubas are the ones preventing the severance of the so called relationship between Igbos &Yorubas. You are the ones forcing social union with the Igbos by going into marriages with Igbo girls. So you see, if Yorubas over a long/short period of time subtly/violently deal with Igbos, the outcome will favour Igbo aspirations 100%. At least, one of the outcomes includes a sea port in the SS region , so you go figure. You have already participated in Igbo genocide, so tell me what is left. In your little mind, you think they have forgotten/forgiving you people, because they don't talk about it. Igbos are forced into Lagos by forcing them to be Nigerian.

Built2last:
I have said it before and it bears repeating now, the day Ndigbo and the Yoruba decide to bury the very destructive but senseless rivarly between them and forge a common front on issues of common interest, that is the day the #TheChildrenOfTheSouth and indeed the whole of Nigeria will experience a new dawn.

I have always waited for this day and as it would seem, 11th January, 2018, appears to be the day my long wait will take its last breathe for that is the day these two great peoples will gather in Enugu in celebration of their age long but almost forgotten brotherhood in a historic event tagged "HANDSHAKE ACROSS THE BRIDGE" being put together by an Igbo socio-cultural group -NZUKO UMUNNA (The Bridge Builder) under the auspices of the two Apex socio-cultural groups of both Peoples, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Afenifere.

It is the day the 'Who-Is-Who' from both sides will come together to re-ignite the unique bond examplified by their two brave sons, late General Aguyi Ironsi, the former Head of state and Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, the former governor of SouthWestern region who were both murdered in cold blood by disgruntled soldiers in the counter coup of 1966.

But beyond the euphoria of the expected brotherly HandShake between these two great Nations, the question is, was there any justifiable reason for unhealthy rivalry between them in the first place?

Has there been any record of tribal war, clashes or any form of direct ethnic confrontation between Ndigbo and the Yoruba? (The answer is No)

So why the destructive competition rather than constructive collaboration??

For ages, numberless generation of young people from both sides have been fed with the wrong account of the Civil war, an account that is replete with cherry-picked quotes, facts and figures, self-serving selectives, a basket of distortions, mis-representation, mis-quotation and mis-interpretation.

For instance, those who wish to keep us divided will always feed an average Onye-Igbo with the devilish propaganda that The Yorubas starved Igbo kids during the war while Ndigbo attacked Lagos, Yoruba-land, in a land-grabbing quest. And with these distorted war histories, our children will grow up inheriting a mutual antagonism while our region and our people will keep wallowing in socio-political/economic Egypt.

How about telling a Yoruba man that an Igbo man, Ojukwu, it was, who released Awolowo from Calabar Prison and sent a security team to escort him to his village?

How about telling an Igbo person that Adekunle Fajuyi, a Yoruba man, died with his guest, Aguyi Ironsi rather than give him up?

We owe it to both Man and God to put the wars and woes that happened five decades ago behind us and build a long-lasting mutually beneficial alliance in the interest of peace and economic emancipation of our two great peoples and the country in general.

It is for this reason that I find this event as uniquely significant as it is strategically desirable. I say a very big Thank You to NZUKO UMUNNA for conceiving and organizing such a landmark Bridge-Building event. And even a bigger Thank You to Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Uba-led Organizing Committee.

With Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze Ndigbo PG co-hosting with the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and the Publicity Scribe -Yinka Odumakin and the Obi of Onitsha and Ooni of Ife as the Royal Fathers of the day, I have no doubt in my mind that the great Southern unification is nigh.

May This New Bridge Never Break!

By Charles Ogbu.

......And I have written about it before, and it worth repeating. Handshake across the Niger(between Igbos & Yorubas) which can be seen as "a momerendum of understanding" is not an act period.
There must be a peace treaty sign by the two Royal fathers. Any political scientist will tell you, that hand shake alone in this context is not a political initiative,...
.no political value. It can be done outside the Nigerian constitution as this can be seen( though I am not a constitutional expert) as two big African ethnic groups within their rights have decided to pursue peace. Next level, truth, peace and reconciliation commission will be set up with a major focus on why the Yorubas aided in genocide against Igbos.

nobaga:
It took a while but Yoruba youths have started paying Igbo Youths back in their own coin.

This may be strange to those of us that came of age before both youths. The days of accommodation is gone, pity!

You can't do worst than Obasango generation's genocide on Igbos.