₦airaland Forum

DickDastardLION:
So sad. This now seems endless. Peace has left this country long ago.

Lalasticlala

Every evil of this country must be blamed on diabolical Yorubas and nobody else.

zurich1010:
Hypocritical Afonjas will pretend they didn't see this because their masters' children are involved...children of looters wasting Niger Delta money abroad. Had these been Diezani Madueke's children, my my my, Afonjas would have descended on them like a hyenas and baboons. Make God never forgive Afonjas, may Amadioha strike their cone skulls left and right back to Togo and Benin Republic where they originated from. See the one below me saying"God bless the couple" SMH...Wicked hypocritical things!

Yorubas are the worst African tribe known to man I swear, but thank God their demonic antics have being lay bare (internet, social media)for the world to see.

Their latest cold wars on Igbos in USA now, their pastors destroying Igbo families left, right and centre.

victorDanladi:
EMPTY CHESTBEATING!.VICTIM AND MASTER MENTALITY AT THE SAME TIME!
But do you have to compare yourself to yorubas to prove yourselves?

that is inferiority complex.

No son, with separation, their will not be any more Igbo vs Yoruba or basis for comparison

victorDanladi:
FACTS AND FIGURES WE NEED,MR MAN...NO BE MOUTH

LIST THE INDUSTRIES AND IGBO OWNERS.


by the way,


Yorubas call what you do "egan",watering down what
you lack to compesate for the deficit.


A:USA is great
yIGBO like thinker:remove newyork and Los angele,USA
is nothing.


A:UK is great
yIGBO Like thinker:Remove london and Manchester
city,UK is nothing.


A:Japan is great
B:yIGBO like thinker:Remove tokyo japan is nothing.


A:southwest is the most industrialized according to
national statistics.
B:yIGBO like thinker:Remove lagos and ogun,southwest
is nothing....infact 75% of it,na we get am.


A:yIGBO land is the most industrialized.
yIGBO like thinker:Yes,especially our Anambra.

That some race or group of human beings are better advantaged than others..is the work of God and nature.

Every Igbo human being dead or alive know that they are more advantaged than Yorubas by nature, and they never see it as being superior to Yorubas until Yorubas out of envy conspired to commit genocide on Igbos. Yorubas conspired through Obasongo wicked and envious policies under the cloth of one Nigeria denied Igbos access to sea port/international airport, zero infrastructural projects and developments in Igbo land subsequently forcing Igbo population to Lagos to develop it(how can a big country like Nigeria have one seaport)

Igbos as a population group on the edge of being wiped by these Yoruba inspired conspiracies(Hausa/Fulanis are only interested in Jihad and Yoruba envious tendencies towards the Igbos works for them also under one Nigeria) become introspective in understanding their woes under one Nigeria and how to tackle it.

Igbos have unravel the mystery of their woes. That mystery is their God given human resource capital and the envy it attracts to them, for e.g, and this is the most visible. The beauty of Igbo women attract envy from Yorubas and the only way for them to attack this particular envy is to marry more of Igbo women and abandon theirs.(do you need stats on the #s also?.).
Beauty apart, other areas like education, sports entertainment, commerce and industry, etc don't require stats or numbers to prove anything. Forget about some Igbos saying Lagos is no man's land, if Biafra comes today, they will leave Lagos.

BAILMONEY:
NO BODY IS TALKING ABOUT RELIGIOUS WAR HERE SWEETHEART

IGBOS are being cheated all round in Nigerian marriage equations and should STOP their women marriage to Yoruba men firstly, until there is a clear cut national policy on inter tribal/religious marriages and citizens state of origin.

Fulanis do not give their daughters to Yoruba men because, they don't want to mix with ugly genes that will disfigure there collective physical appearance in the future...but I have begin to notice that specific Yoruba ugly genes manifesting in some igbo populations.

zoedew:
While condemning the hate song in it's entirety it remains to be said that the SouthEast drew the first blood with the hate and war mongering approach to self determination (a right legally theirs to claim). Law of cause and effect playing out here. Nowhere in history has hatred overcome love. All wars end up at the round table where love prevails. Pause and think very, very deeply and you will see that what gains Ndigbo have made within Nigerian power equation after the civil war ended is fast getting eroded with the disconnect and distrust engendered by the modus for Biafran agitation. For a sampler, Ihejirika might for a very long time to come be the only trusted South Easterner to be NA Chief of Staff for understandable strategic reasons. Has Ndigbo paused to ask why despite Nkalagu limestone deposits and numerous competent SouthEasterners in his employ DangoteGroup is not in the SouthEast? Spread love not hatred.

Yoruba change your evil logic and ways towards the Igbos because the fate you have in stock for Igbos may ironically becomes yours all because all your evil logic on Igbo matters are illogical to say the list

Long history of Hate killings will naturally produce hate speeches. Yoruba, this is how to logic.

afongha:
Self flattery/delusion at its peak. .

Listen to yourself "Igbo drive traffic on nairaland". I'm sure its also an Igbo that helped develop the code for nairaland. nonsense.

You guys are just insufferable, and that's putting it mildly. #spits

Yorubas are in a deep deep mess with the Igbos around or without the Igbos around...just think through it.
As the world geopolitical and economic survival of the great powers pick up speed, in no distant future(sooner than you think) a great power might decide to make a move against Nigeria like in Iraq, lebyia or Syria.The best weapons to their disposal are your hateful and genocidal tendencies towards the Igbos.....subtle moves by any of these powers could bring about mutual assured destruction for every body because the hatred is real.

Alcatraz005:
I greet my fellow forumites especially my immediate constituents (yoruba) and I just want to implore all to resist any provocation by the igbos to destroy our country.

There is nothing to gain in war but much to be lost in a needless conflagration in the most populous black nation on earth. The consequences of a war in Nigeria is better imagined as Syria will be child's play compared to the level of destruction that we will experience in Nigeria. Another reason why we should resist being goaded into conflict by the igbos is because they are a defeated race already hence the constant frustration from them. The effects of the civil war defeat of the igbos is still being felt by them. What we are witnessing right now in the form of the current agitations is that the present generation of igbos just came to the realisation that igbos have been consigned to slave status (2nd class citizens in their own country). This sudden reality is why they are exasperated. It is the stubborn struggle of a dying animal. In Yoruba, we call it (japooro). Ibo n japooro ni.....

Let's face it, the igbos cannot win a free and fair Presidential Election in Nigeria and they know it. Which of the two big tribes will vote for an igbo? None! Igbos have burnt all bridges of friendship and they wish to bring the whole house (Nigeria) on all other peace loving Nigerians. I specifically want to appeal to my Hausa brothers to withdraw the quit notice issued to igbos as insisting on pushing the igbos out will be playing into the grand plans of the enemies of Nigeria. I would not trade the peace and tranquillity of Nigeria for my fervent wish to see igbos punished for their hate and insolence. It is not just worth it. Love trumps hate any day, anytime.

The Igbos are not worth the destruction that will trail the execution of the quit notice. As any discerning mind will notice, the igbos are losing relevance every day as they are now the butt of jokes Nationwide. We should allow them fully express their folly to their full derision and chagrin. We won't fight a war because of Igbos. Never!

I would end with a reference to a principle I encountered in the book, 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. And it goes thus: a strategem is more powerful than weapons of war as it (stratagem) has the power to destroy the lives of babies in the womb of their mothers. An apt example is the genius of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo who without firing a single bullet, defeated the the biafran forces and essentially brought the Nigerian Civil war to an abrupt end through the power of his immense intellect. The effect of Awolowo's sheer intelligence is still being felt by the Igbos today who have essentially been turned to generators of internal revenue for the children of Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. The war has been won and lost, we do not need another war in Nigeria. Never again!

The Igbo's should be pitied and not hated.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

You might think, it's smart money for nairaland to keep comming up with treads with Igbos as subject matter because Igbos drive traffic on nairaland, although, it's profitable to nairaland on short term basis, but have you guys consider the long term negative social economic and psychological impact on Yoruba nation or do you all, think their will be none??.

OMANBALA1:
My prayer is that anybody working out any scheme to tear our fatherland,Omanbala,shall meet his death before he carries out his plans. Today,our brothers are being slaughtered in Ozubulu.
Umu Omanbala,wake up and stop following Nnamdi Kanu like fools,it will stunt our economic growth.

This killing was designed and timed for Igbos like you to go against your future and attack Nnamdi kanu period.

higherpower:
Joe Igbokwe wrote

NNAMDI KANU CALLED ME A HUNGRY SLAVE RESIDING IN LAGOS AND I HAVE FOUND THE NEED TO TELL MY STORY AGAIN FOR RECORD PURPOSES. I WANT NNAMDI TO TELL HIS OWN STORY TOO. PLEASE READ THIS:

In 1971, after my primary school education, poverty drove me to Lagos to find something to do to help my poor mother and siblings. Civil War devastated my father’s thriving business in Onitsha and we all suffered from 1966 to 1970 when the war ended.

With four wives and 34 children, my parents could not cope any more. My brothers and sisters dropped out of school to learn a trade. Because I was a little ‘sharp’ in school, my father encouraged me to finish primary school. It is needless here to recall how I and few of my siblings survived to finish our primary education. Consequently when my mates were taking Common Entrance Examination, I did not because there was no need to do so. No money, no three square meals a day, no good clothing, just nothing.

My mother encouraged me to travel with friends to Lagos. We landed at Sawmill Ebute Metta where I worked as a sawdust carrier at seven Shilling, six Pence a day. My job was to pack sawdust from the Machines to the Lagoon from 7am to 5 pm daily. I did this for nearly two years and later I became a danfo conductor plying Idioro/Ajegunle axis. From there I joined my brother in a supermarket business at Ijesha Road, Surulere. I did this until I returned home during Christmas in December 1973. I came home to meet my friends I was beating academically in school trying to make me feel and look inferior. Again I also noticed while in Lagos that if I fail to go to school, I may end up doing menial jobs meant for illiterates till the end of age. I decided to go back to school to add values to my life. But where are the school fees? There was nothing. How I managed to get the first school fee to start and what happened thereafter will take a book to do the narrative.

In 1979 I left Okongwu Memorial Grammar School Nnewi with Division One and was the school Head Boy. I taught in the same school as an Auxiliary Teacher from 1979 – 1980. In 1980 I got admission to read Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nigeria Nsukka and graduated in 1985. I did my Youth Service in Ogun State and thereafter I returned to Lagos in 1986 to begin a journey to where I am today. I walked the streets of Lagos from 1986 – 1988 until the then military government headed by Gen Ibrahim Babangida set up the National Directorate of Employment, (NDE) to encourage graduates to start their own businesses. I got a loan of N27,500, using my NYSC discharge Certificate and my Degree Certificate as collateral at 9% interest rate. I set up a Restaurant Business in Western Avenue, Lagos and hit an instant success. While doing this business, I spread my nets also to the auto spare parts market in Lawanson, Surulere where my brother thrives as a very successful importer. I opened a shop there and got a boy to take charge of the business. From there, I entered into Auto dealership in Western Avenue Surulere. I paid back that loan in full and collected back my certificates.

In 1995, I wrote my first book, Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra. I also established National Vision Newspapers in 1997. In 1999, I wrote my second book: Heroes of Democracy. In 2004 I co-authored 2007: The IBB Option with my good friend, Peter Claver Oparah. One thing led to another. I became an opinion molder, a public commentator, political analyst, writer and an advocate of the peoples’ cause. I bought my first car in 1990 and became a millionaire in 1995 after launching of my first book.

In 2006, the then Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, made me the pioneer General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure & Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA) and I was there for almost 10 years. I served Asiwaju’s government for the remainder of his days as Lagos Governor. I served His Excellency Governor Babatunde Fashola for 8years. In September 2015, His Excellency Governor Akinwunmi Ambode moved me to Wharf Landing Fees Collecting Authority Apapa as Chairman. I became the Publicity Secretary AC, ACN, and APC since late 2006 till date. By the grace of God I have been the Chairman of Conference of APC Publicity Secretaries (CAPS) in Nigeria since 2014.

These positions and exploits have put me in the limelight in Lagos and Nigeria since the early 90s, and God has been kind to me. These offices have opened the doors of the rich and poor to me. They have opened the inner ways,byways, subways, expressways and highways to the corridors of power in Nigeria. I have been connected to the pace setters, policy makers, the movers and shakers of blue chip companies, newsmakers and the powers that be in Lagos. The magic of Lagos, the beauty of Lagos, the dynamics of Lagos, the glory of Lagos, the momentum of Lagos, the capacity, capability and the strength of Lagos touched me in no uncertain terms since 1986 (32years ago) till date…..and still counting.

My sojourn in Lagos for 32 years has also opened my eyes as a historian as to what Lagos has done for my people from South East. Today as I write this Igbo do not have a quarter of what they have in Lagos in the South East in terms of investments. As I write this book, Igbo are the second most populous ethnic group in Lagos. Today, Igbo exert tremendous influence and capacity in Lagos and its success story. Few years back two prominent sons of Nnewi told me in confidence that they did not know they have been wasting their time in Nnewi until they came to Lagos. They said Lagos opened doors for limitless opportunities and endless possibilities. I have seen people come from other parts of Nigeria to hit gold mine in Lagos.

I got married in 1990 and all my five kids are all Lagosians and so are millions of Igbo kids born in Lagos. They have lived most of their lives in Lagos, schooled in Lagos, worked in Lagos, made friends in Lagos and have keyed to the Lagos success story. They know any other place except Lagos. Lagos is their home. This is not limited to Igbo alone but all other ethnic groups and of course Yoruba from outside Lagos. Lagos is a melting pot, a mega city, a cosmopolitan beehive. Lagos controls the heartbeat of Nigeria, its wealth, its influence and its strategic socio-economic and political hub. Lagos changed my thinking and original thoughts, Lagos emboldened me, Lagos motivated me, Lagos challenged me and Lagos made me. I can say no less. This is the story of Lagos, my Lagos. It is still unraveling, not for me alone but millions of other Nigerians, to the glory of God."

Your life story is somewhat similar to those millions of Igbos whom you claim to be second largest population after Yorubas in Lagos. You went ahead to attest to the limitless possibilities, potential and opportunities that can be find in Lagos. You also qualify you and your children(Igbo children) as proud lagosians. You served under different Lagos state administrations and your eyes and ears become open to the by ways and high ways of power play and government on various levels in Nigeria.

Joe Igbokwe, you are among those Africans Europeans or whites in general refer as inferior Africans or niggers.

Most Africans/Igbos/Yorubas/Hausa Fulani naturally lack the ability to critical reasoning and analytical skills and this call for emergency establishment of think tanks societies in various levels of social strata.

Back to Joe Igbokwe. My brother, their are millions and millions of Igbos who have achieved and attained highiest level of success with their children in a more beautiful and infrastructurally developed environment than Lagos but are ready to give all that up in order to have a homeland with all those infrastructures and opportunities, possibilities and potentials etc. This is where Nnamdi kanu belongs. He is an idealist, you are not, he is a thinker, you are not and etc.

He is aware as a higher and uncommon conscious being the history behind the new world Igbo migratory patterns......remember the success he attained in radio Biafra came as a result of creating a platform for our people scattered all over the world including you and your children. Could the pull to Lagos and elsewhere by the Igbos including your self and your children as result of deeper conspiracy and age long marginalization, infrastructure, sea port/international airport denayal to Igbo population.

I personally believe(and I might still be wrong) that the Igbos as a population group have entered into the very first phase of extinction protocol regardless of their huge commercial prowess.

They are presently facing level 0 extinction because it is systemic in nature. You firstly have political extinction, economic extinction and finally demographic extinction and that's your level 0 and you are a prime agent of this evolution playing it self out.

*note millions of Igbos have died on their way to Lagos and Europe.

ebosed:
The same deception that led Ojukwu slaughter innocent civilians while he escaped. Diaspora my foot. Libya and Syria are still counting there losses. Many alive in Syria have no relatives, father, mother, sisters and brothers all lost to war. Please beat war drums because you are in Europe... Remember somehow it would affect you too.

Peace to IPOB and the rest...

Bro, Igbos face systemic level 0 extinction among her strong enemies. They are politically extinct, next economically and finally demographically extinction.

Overall, they are in the very first phase of extinction protocol regardless of their commercial prowess. Go study human evolution and extinction, or the law of natural selection or simply known as the survival of the fittest. Please don't exclude the survival of the political fittest because its the main trigger of human evolution and extinction.

BroZuma:
The funny thing is that the Op, the VP, and APC in general bred this unfathered phenomenon called "hate speech" and they should be prepared to reap the whirlwind.

Anyone not toeing their line of politics, policies or propaganda is a "wailer", "ipob youth", "Igbo" and other funny unimaginative names...lest I forget my favourite, "enemies of the state" ; which begs the question of which state?

Of what good is a government of ass-lickers, for ass-lickers and for the benefit of ass-lickers got to the Nigerian populace? Dear Acting President, stick to your manifesto and developmental agenda and stop overheating the polity with your self-righteous speeches.

Can you imagine that. Igbos have being on the receiving end of hate speech/hate killings and genocide for over 50yrs and are making and sending strong messages that they want to exit from a country where hate speech, hate killings, marginalization are second nature to them with out anybody being punish for all those hates, and here you have a typical Yoruba way of thinking in their man osibanjo telling the victim of hate killings and genocide in Nigeria, that their strong messages of opting out of a situation that brings genocide to them from time to time is a hateful speech that can result to genocide against them.........this is Yoruba for you.

Baronlarge:
Biafra : Serving Police Corporal Salihu Ajanaku Insults Igbos, Claims he slept With 3 Igbo Girls One Night

Corporal Salihu Ajanaku a Nigerian serving Police Officer from Kwara State took to his Facebook account calling the entire Igbo race the most useless ethnic in Nigeria, Salihu Ajanaku called igbo women prostitutes and their men Robbers, Kidnappers and Ritualists

His attack was triggered because the Biafra agitation by Igbos calling for secession, that is going on in the whole of South east and some parts of South south regions


The Police Officer also claims he had party with three igbo girls the previous night

Below is what he wrote

Ibo fools,Ibo idiots,Ibo mumu and finally ibos'r the most useless ethnic in Nigeria,their girls are in to proustites for a living,sincerely i slept with three last night "Three sum" now talk of their men haaaahhhaaa!ye paa!they're Robbers, Kidnapers and Ritualists, Awon olori buruku,konidafun your Mama and your Papa

http://spectascope.com/post/2054/Biafra--Serving-Police-Corporal-Salihu-Ajanaku-Insults-Igbos-Claims-he-slept-With-3-Igbo-Girls-One-Night

Yorubas are three fifth of humans almost like ape like in their nature. The Same Igbo women you go after their Igbo genes through uncountable marriages you seek with them in order to humanize your ugly physical appearance, you are here criticising.

I think the time has finally come for ndi Igbo through the use of social media to stop Igbo women from marriage of core Igbo enemies. Like Fulanis, you can only have inter marriage with their women after you have achieved political and religious union with them. It's an age long practice in the middle East, India and etc

Without any political union between Igbos and Yorubas, Yoruba men marriage to Igbo women can be seen as some kind of war trophy to them and most be discouraged 100%.

*note, Igbo men generally don't go after Yoruba women at such, and their men shamefully do not care to dig out why as Igbo men/fathers continue to welcome them with open arms.

Abagworo:
The truth which Osibanjo kept is the fact that only Igbos are in the danger of the genocide. The plot by enemies of Igbos to put us on the line of genocide started towards 2015 election when every reasonable person knew it was impossible for Jonathan to win. They used Igbos as a divisive tool on social media making outright hate speeches as a strategy to force other Nigerians accept Jonathan but it failed. I started crying wolf early because those same enemies within advised Jonathan not to concede defeat and if Jonathan wasn't wise to reject that advice, the genocide would have happened in 2015.

After Jonathan accepted defeat they devised another strategy of radio Biafra and IPOB to put Igbos once again at the risk of genocide. Many of the unwise ones think that making hate speech is a wise strategy and never think of the fact that it breeds reciprocal hatred from all your neighbours.

Believe me, the top leaders of Ipob are extremely very intelligent bunch. Calculations have been made on this subject. They will attempt genocide, this time, the numbers will be fewer, the outcome will be earth shaking. No two conditions and outcomes are the same.

Now we have "the responsibility to protect under UN as it was applied in lebyia and Syria, information communication technology, strong Igbo diaspora, new allies....Niger delta, middle belt, most Yoruba reluctance and the lists goes on and on.

Ikenna0b:
I stopped reading where he said "all Nigerians should love our country" as well crying about the calls for divisions.

You cannot force people to love a country they don't want to be part of.

Until you and the rest of your greedy politicians get that info your head, you'll continue hearing the calls of division and "hate speech".

Get it through your fucking head.

Even God is tired of your one niggeria that's why he let it rot to the ground despite the overly religious fanatics in that country praying everyday.

You're supposed to be a pastor yet can't even read what God is saying

Don't mind these people. The Niger Delta insurgents are threatened the use and deployment of chemical weapons across the board and soon, they will be wondering how we got here just like Bokoharam and suicide bombing.

The idea of them even thinking of it is scary. For African enemies who are eyeing the continent huge mineral resources potential and vast arable farmland to ever growing global population, this is a welcome news as they will encourage it in actions that would be seen as though, though they are against it or preventing it....like in Syria.

Almaheed:
of course the problem is with Nigeria, but there is also an Igbo problem which some certain elements among the Igbo community tend to carry around then anywhere they go, as much as they are the well traveled and industrious tribe in Nigeria they tend to undermine social values and cultures and constituted authority. this started because they themselves chose to disregard their own traditions and customs which as been cancerous to their existence as a Nation of people. which has brought about their relegation in the Nigeria political calculations

In Nigeria, Igbos are desperately running away from extinction, and Yorubas are desperately courting the Igbos to stay put and deal with it.

Remember, they are the most travelled.....which translates into the most collectively gained engaging experiences from the travelling.

Truthfully, even restructuring (although a good start) will never never stop Hausa Fulani from killing other Nigerians.

Hausa Fulani will for ever impunitly imposing on others politically, economically(controlling every region resources), religiously, socially etc.

oladeebo:
but if igbo is running from what it can never escape in life then something is wrong, igbo must stand against injustice and people will give support that's how it's done in civilize way.
If igbo have biafra today it mark the beginning of new era of marginalization on igbo, igbo can't survive living in the womb of Nigeria.
even if we build the Berlin wall between Biafra and Nigeria the wall will be push down!

Hmmm.......Igbos are desperately running away from extinction, while Yorubas are desperately courting the Igbos to stay put and deal with it.

Thewrath:
This happened in yorubaland.

Yoruba Muslim cap spotted.

oladeebo:
Building nation is with challenges, and all the developed nation of 400 years old, passes through challenges before become what they become today, the acceptance of others is first in human society, I have never seen a pure hausa government in this country, and if igbo believe in Nigeria is the calling for the dead of Nigeria that will solve Nigeria problems?
if Nigeria is balkanized in home basis, can that stop Nigerian from living together, or there won't be conflicts? why shy way from or problem instead of standing against it?
I would have advocate for igbo if it's stand in the armpit of Nigeria and fight for justice

Yes, you are right, it takes hundreds of years to form a nation wading through those challenges(although some never make it that far).

Some challenges are insurmountable to surmount or over come due to the nature of those challenges (religious, tribal, resources control both from local or foreign interests etc)

Igbos, after losing millions of human beings from their own side have come to appreciate the nature of Nigerian tragic challenges onto nationhood which are capable of bringing a level 0 extinction for Igbo population before the nation fully formed . (You have already seeing such with the politics of census counting and resource allocation).

The Igbos understand fully that the Yorubas do not understand any iota of these Igbo realities hence Yorubas and oneness of Nigeria because they haven't experienced such. For example(and there are so many many of them abound). Obasungo tribal wicked policy of "no seaport in the se/ss" have so many negative outcomes/effects that an average Yoruba can never understand. Most Yorubas do not understand why Igbo are flocking to Lagos like there's no tomorrow, nor do they feel the casualty figures of over 20 thousand fatalities on Lagos Onitsha roads..creating so many widows from bread winners of thei families.

What the Yorubas see as Igbos trying to balkanize the country, the Igbos see as cry from becoming extinct. These differences are real.

oladeebo:
MagicBishop!
I won't have answered you, because I know you lots, if not for the magic church members who started click fool likes for you.
it' only in the magic kingdom that you lots become bishop and preach with dictionary as your holy book in which how people created was revealed.
but what am sure is that, if at all you manage to liquidate Nigeria nation, your incoming generation will fight to reunite the gant nation back into her status.
take note!

Yoruba people, please think, think outside the box of this your Yoruba one Nigerianism that is loved by every body across the board but cannot work. Believe it or not Igbos loved Nigeria more than Yorubas, but Igbos have come to the understanding of the realities of Nigeria and you Yorubas are still idealizing of a great country.

Truthfully, even restructuring, will NOT stop Hausa Fulani frm stop killing other Nigerians in this your idealised Nigeria.

No matter what, Hausa Fulani will never never stop impunitly imposing on others politically, economically, socially, religiously, and etc.

If you Yorubas want to see the good nature of Igbos, talk first of Nigerian tragic problems/solutions before talking of her oneness....but if you want to see the worst side of Igbos, continue to talk about the oneness of Nigeria first.

ismhab:
THE HARD TRUTH OF A PATRIOT FMR PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO.

1. Former President OBJ says there is nothing wrong with the present structure.

2. The problem is that those who cannot get power through the ballot box they must get elsewhere or let the country break into pieces that is the real reason for this clamor.
Allow APC its mandate and then campaign to unseat it.

3. Follow the constitutional process and amend whatever you want if you are truly democratic.

4. Anything outside the constitutional process is illegal and it is just like military coup.

5. If you want referendum then amend the Constitution to allow for it.

6. No leader can wake up one day and say the integrity of the country is negotiable or representation is based on ethnic nationality or Ekwueme zoning that was why the so-called 2014 conference report can only remain a persuasive document.

7. Politicians who could not contest or field candidates were part of it and now they are claiming it is even better than the Constitution.

7. Yes the military had authority to promulgate the Constitution because they are legitimate.

8. Yes the Nigerian State was established by the colonialists after defeating the Kingdoms and communities so they had legitimate authority.

9. There was nothing like Arewa Republic, Biafra Republic, Niger Delta Republic or Oduduwa Republic these are social constructs that emanated from the colonial experience.

10. None of these entities or thoughts ever existed before the colonial rule yet chauvinists want us to believe they are sacrosanct. They can never be.

That is why all patriots like OBJ and others are against these destructive separatist tendencies. No leader elected as President of Nigeria can ever allow any stupid referendum or Sovereign National Conference that was why GEJ convened only a conference. Sovereignty belongs to the Nigerian State, recognised by international law not ethnic nationalities. If you want ethnic nationalities in whatever form you must first violently destroy the Nigerian State.
#SayNoRestricturing���

Complete rubbish!!..The Nigerian tragedies/problems are not as a failure of good leadership/good governance, but are failures in this order of logic...foundational, structural, systemic/leadership/governance failure.

Under foundational failure, impossible ethnic groups were matrix/roped together without a "WE" the people constitution which have led to a complete systemic/leadership/good governance failures. Corruption becomes structural. The extremities of Islamic religion/control of natural resources/strong ethnic affiliations took the center stage and make the overall system dysfunctional. All the above produce extreme bad leadership/leaders like obasongo to defend the tragedies.

What obasongo and co defenders of the Nigerian tragedies do not understand is that the Nigerian tragedies are rooted in Lord Lugard experiences/experiments first in Hong Kong(first governor), in Eastern Africa and etc. His objective was to create political/economic order that will last for a thousand years in defense of the empire.

What Lord Lugard did not know...is the rise of China to a super power status/information communication technology/globalization, which have started to unravel his master piece. As world population increases putting pressure on natural resources, increase in per capita income, increase in the new middle class both in Asia and elsewhere, the devastation and unintended consequences of climate change and etc......I hope and pray that the Nigerian tragedies(which have already destroy millions and millions of lives and counting with the level of hate unimaginable in this world) do not mistreliously throws up the use of weapons of mass destruction in the African continent.

Diademk07:
Legal duty to intervene by killing every leaders apart from the Ibos? LOL!

And it happened that only Ibo could spearhead the coup? Why is that ibo were the majority in the coup? Or the convenience of Zik travelling abroad before the coup? Why is that Ironsi, the ibo man put in charge after the coup never put these coup plotters to justice?

Your manipulation is dead on arrival!

Giving the # of years Hausa/Fulanis/Yorubas have ruled this country since after the civil war, the resources wasted over this period plus hundreds of billions of dollars stolen and stashed away in foreign banks, creating billionaires amongst themselves, building up massive infrastructural projects in their respective zones and at the same period marginalizing the true owners of those resources and owing most of the oil wells, that so called Igbo one sided coup even if it is so,..that argument has become completely null and void and can only be used by demonic evil hypocritically blood drinkers of Nigeria to prolonging what should have been corrected immediately.

swiz123:
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has restated that those agitating for the breakup of Nigeria are making the wrong stand and require a mentality change.
Condemning those calling for the breakup of the country, Obasanjo, remarked that the problem of the country was not in its structure, but in the ‘mentality’ of its citizens.
Speaking in Lagos, yesterday, the former President said he prays for a change of mentality by the agitators.
Obasanjo said if he had a magic wand, “I would make one wish that God should change our mentality; I believe that is the problem of this country.”
He advised Nigerians not to be deceived by those calling for war, noting that they had not witnesse one before.
The former President went on to state that his wish was for the country to remain as one.
“Anybody who thinks Nigeria is going to be breaking up is wrong”, he said.
He, however, stressed that the recent clamours for restructuring were legitimate.
“We need to do more about the equity of this country. We need to see ourselves as our brother’s keepers. We need to share our natural God-given resources together,” he said.
This is coming at a time when the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, said Obasanjo will die if he makes any effort to stop the Biafra agitation amidst accusations that the former President of plotting to assassinate Kanu and overthrow the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government
www.herald.ng/obasanjo-nnamdi-kanu-needs-change-mentality/

"Changing of mentality" is purely a decoy to propagate Islamic ideals upon the Nigerian population.. because in it, moral principles will be taught to individual pupil from kindergarten age. Shared value systems derive from that moral principles will be Islamic and (sharia) based because the "majority" carry the vote.

So people, when you hear things like.. Nigeria doesn't need restructuring but mentality change/change of mind set and etc, from those Northern leaders and their Yoruba conspirators, the above is what the are angling towards on.

...Now ask yourself, what does mentality change on the population have to do with decades of federal government marginalization policies on some sections of the country. What's the connections between that and not having a sea port/ international airport in the East, bad federal roads, Fulani herdsmem killing all over the country, or some courts in the North setting free of killers of Christians, police check points all over SE killing and collecting bribes. Change the frame work under this dysfunctional political and economic structure operate and people behavior/mentality will change as well.
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courseadivsor:
THERE ARE ONLY TWO TRIBES IN NIGERIA

BY Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Tribalism is not our problem. Tribalism and religion are artificial problems created by selfish leaders for their own personal interest.

There are only two major tribes in Nigeria. The Elites and the Masses. Once you make lots of money, you belong to the elite tribe. When you are a commoner or suffering, you belong to the tribe of the masses. If you are an elite, and you need more power, or elective position, you sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, so as to sway their emotion for your personal victory. This happens at both the national and state level. Unfortunately, after the election when they have won and joined their “sworn enemies” to drink and party, the gullible masses continue to fight each other.

Even smart people who belong to the masses, sometimes will sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, and then the masses will carry them up until they belong to the elite class. It is a classic strategy used over 3000 years ago in the art of war. A commoner who aspires to sit with the elites, could stir up powerful tribal or religious sentiments, such wave if properly utilized either by shedding blood or destabilizing the elites, carries the commoner to the elite class. But once there, he immediately mingles and makes peace with the elite tribe, and turn his back on the same masses that helped him get there.

Youths are the worst victim of this powerplay, they kill each other, call other tribes unprintable names, do terrible things and sometimes, even lose their life, thinking they are fighting for their right, not knowing that they are fighting for the personal welfare of someone, whose own children are probably safe in America or London.

So youths, don’t hope on the government. If you don’t have a job, create one. There is abject poverty in the south as well as the north, whether Ogoni or Maidugri. At the same time, there is massive wealth in Lagos, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Kano, Abuja, irrespective of zone.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it well and never remain idle. No job is too low for an idle hand, or else the devil will find work for you. As you become independent, and grow your capacity, do not lose hope in Nigeria. We are the largest economy in Africa and soon the world will fear us. Western powers, don’t like big economies that threaten them, America will do anything to break China, but China is wise to resist that. China has 1.6 billion people, we have only 170 million, and we are talking of breaking.

China has 5 major religions which are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity. Nigeria has only 2 major religions, Christianity and Islam. Yet we claim that religion is our problem.

America, the strongest economy is comprised of every tribe in the world, since they accept anybody from any part of the world. Yet they are united and extremely patriotic. Nigeria has only 3 major tribes, and we claim tribalism.

Think clearly and deeply, and you will realize that empowering yourself is the best course of action, not fighting each other. And once the youths are empowered, they can begin to take back their future from the hands of the old and corrupt generation that has been blinding Nigerians with hatred, while looting all her resources. Sani Abacha’s loot is still stashed away in Switzerland, did he use it to develop the north? Those that stole billions under GEJ stashed it away in foreign banks, bought expensive toys, jets and foreign homes, are they using it to develop the south? Now the ones stealing currently, including the “grasscutters”, are looking for Ikoyi apartments, abandoned houses, and pit toilets to hide it, are they using it for the youths in their tribe? NO!

Youths shine your eyes ! Don’t always fall for this tribal, religious sentiments over and over again. Nigeria is bigger than these corrupt elites. They are the problem, not the poor masses.

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This submission by SLS is a complete falsification of the history behind Nigerian tragic history period.

FAILED LEADERSHIP, of which Hausa Fulani monopoly of LEADERSHIP since independence have led to this quagmire. Please Nigerians, our problems are foundational with dysfunctional political and economic structure. Elite corruption is a symptom and one of the functions of that dysfunctionallity
The above submission exemplifies why they don't like to teach Nigerian history in the school. It also offer the core Northern elite/oligarchs/hegemons/scholars the opportunity to falsify the true history and shift the blames away from them.

Rocksteady1:
THERE ARE ONLY TWO TRIBES IN NIGERIA

BY Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Tribalism is not our problem. Tribalism and religion are artificial problems created by selfish leaders for their own personal interest.

There are only two major tribes in Nigeria. The Elites and the Masses. Once you make lots of money, you belong to the elite tribe. When you are a commoner or suffering, you belong to the tribe of the masses. If you are an elite, and you need more power, or elective position, you sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, so as to sway their emotion for your personal victory. This happens at both the national and state level. Unfortunately, after the election when they have won and joined their “sworn enemies” to drink and party, the gullible masses continue to fight each other.

Even smart people who belong to the masses, sometimes will sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, and then the masses will carry them up until they belong to the elite class. It is a classic strategy used over 3000 years ago in the art of war. A commoner who aspires to sit with the elites, could stir up powerful tribal or religious sentiments, such wave if properly utilized either by shedding blood or destabilizing the elites, carries the commoner to the elite class. But once there, he immediately mingles and makes peace with the elite tribe, and turn his back on the same masses that helped him get there.

Youths are the worst victim of this powerplay, they kill each other, call other tribes unprintable names, do terrible things and sometimes, even lose their life, thinking they are fighting for their right, not knowing that they are fighting for the personal welfare of someone, whose own children are probably safe in America or London.

So youths, don’t hope on the government. If you don’t have a job, create one. There is abject poverty in the south as well as the north, whether Ogoni or Maidugri. At the same time, there is massive wealth in Lagos, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Kano, Abuja, irrespective of zone.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it well and never remain idle. No job is too low for an idle hand, or else the devil will find work for you. As you become independent, and grow your capacity, do not lose hope in Nigeria. We are the largest economy in Africa and soon the world will fear us. Western powers, don’t like big economies that threaten them, America will do anything to break China, but China is wise to resist that. China has 1.6 billion people, we have only 170 million, and we are talking of breaking.

China has 5 major religions which are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity. Nigeria has only 2 major religions, Christianity and Islam. Yet we claim that religion is our problem.

America, the strongest economy is comprised of every tribe in the world, since they accept anybody from any part of the world. Yet they are united and extremely patriotic. Nigeria has only 3 major tribes, and we claim tribalism.

Think clearly and deeply, and you will realize that empowering yourself is the be... Read more

The above submission by SLS exemplifies a prime reason why History( Nigeria history in particular) is not taught in Nigeria school systems...so that Northern oligarchs/scholars/elites/hegemons can from time to time offer falsely versions of Nigerian tragic history with introduction of new words to confuse the younger masses of Nigerian population(who have no sense of their history) just because, they want to shift the blames away from LEADERSHIP of which the Hausa/Fulan LEADERSHIP of the country(almost 50yrs out of 56 years of their LEADERSHIP of the country) is the prime responsible for Nigeria tragic history.

If you absorb or buy into his analysis with introduction of new words like "elites" and "masses" you will quickly forget the fact that Nigerian problems are foundational with dysfunctional political structure. Corruption in Nigeria is structural/foundational..and the so called elites and masses concept is rooted in the nature of the Nigerian corruption.

tiger28:
These fools haven't started packing their load in the North, they are already starting an issue with Yorubas?with ALL the flat heads in the South West?I make bold to say that the Igbos are the most miscalculating,sentimental and error-prone tribe in Africa.......they just never learn!!!!!!!

Perfect solution, separate your selves(Yorubas) from them simple.The ones in your land will slowly leave as well.

Oildichotomy:
These news or pronouncements are offensive whenever I hear them.

These wackos falter on accountability from crude oil proceeds already and they are pushing their loot nets to my income all in the name of tax.

What have I benefited thus far from the ones I have paid? I own my Electricity, Utilities, I practically contribute a lump to fix roads whenever it rains.

God punish this wackos in AsoRock!

Is nothing but an economic warfare against the Biafrans period.

steveneche:
I learnt that in the East, almost everybody own a shop. My question is who will buy from who once they get Biafra Republic.

An economy where everybody is a seller with little or no buyer will experience stunted growth.

Economic theories have proven that, the growth of any nation is strongly determined by the active participation of the three most important economic agents, namely, Producers, Consumers and Government.

judging by this:

1. PRODUCTION: South East does not produce anything. They only buy and sell finished goods n agricultural products from other region n countries.
2. CONSUMPTION: like i said, everybody is into buying and selling. So this agent will be relatively inactive. The inactivity of this agent is what causes recession.

3. GOVERNMENT: this agent only regulates business environment but needs finance to do so. Its finances comes from natural resources n taxes.
The last time i checked South East has no resources. The worst part is seller will be able to pay tax when market is not moving due to lack o sellers?




My analysis is subject to criticism, Oya economists in the house over to u

Fool, every seller is also a buyer or a consumer.

cumbak60:
They are zombies. Mathy, this is blues20. My moniker was given a one year ban, so I angrily suspend it. I'm a core Biafran, but from my findings, Nnamdi Kanu's Biafra is a disaster waiting to happen. The religion fanaticism exuded by his followers without questioning makes me believe its more of a charade than reality. I see him as someone actually standing on the way Biafra restoration with the way he is going about it.
He is not in any position to give us Biafra......

Bro, there can never be a more tragedy than Nigeria.
Calculatedly, since her birth, Nigeria have lost close to 35 million lifes and will loose equal numbers by the year 2035.(UN on global average life span of 70 years) US through their council on foreign relations have set up a day by day tracker on the # of Nigerians dieing every day and the cause of death. Nigerians like you cannot do critical reasoning or have analytical skills. The Biafrans have move one notch up above the average Nigerians because through their critical reasoning and analytical skills have come to the conclusion that the Nigerian tragedies are foundational and dysfunctional political structure, while almost all Yorubas and Hausa Fulani and some Igbo elites believe that it's a LEADERSHIP problem.......far from it.

fratermathy:
While he made some good points on the state of the Nigerian nation, he is at best very idealistic on the Biafran issue. He acknowledged that multi-ethnicity is one of the problems with Nigeria yet he blatantly referred to the Niger Delta (including the many non-Igboid tribes -and even mentioning Itsekiri & Isoko) as "Southern Biafra". Such delusion and audacity are among the reasons why Biafra may never be a reality any time soon.

He said so many things; mainly utopic in nature. However, he did not state the framework for which Biafra will operate its federal structure. It is not just about granting ethnicities their own regions. That will not solve all of the problems. There are core issues that need to be addressed in a federation and he never spoke one bit about any of them. Rather he was boasting about making Lokoja a "seaport" and "dredging the river Niger". Making it seem like he is campaigning to the Tiv and other Middle Belt groups.

For someone who wants Biafra so much, he paid more attention to Nigeria, Tinubu, Mohammed, and the North. He exuded more of a personal angst and vendetta against Nigeria and Nigerians, rather than a genuine love for Biafra.


Finally... All I can say is that this interview has reinforced my conviction that the Biafra agitation, as it is now, is nothing more than blatant idealism by misguided youths, led by a delusional man whose main justification for the struggle is his hatred for the Hausa-Fulani and the "Zoo", as he puts it.

Ok, just for the heck of it, let me say you are right. But the real question then is can a Yoruba come up with ideas that can change/transform Nigeria which have been a monumental disaster from birth, other than from a position of, we have Lagos, sea port, international airport, the highest IGR from 60% companies within the Nigerian economic space, and therefore, we don't care about the Nigerian tragedies, .....until somebody shows up to change those tragedies for his people and you feel threatened. Yorubas are also scared stiff of a restricted access to attractive Igbo women sex....their #1 selfish desire.....for them every thing in Nigeria is for them to keep selfishly(international airport, sea port, echo Atlantic, access to attractive Igbo women/sex & etc) and will fight or beg for Nigerian unity..not to correct "the'" tragedies, but to maintain the selfish order. (Not all Yorubas though...but I will say 90%).

Obaiyski:
Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani, has listed 10 factors he said were working against the unity and progress of Nigeria.

The lawmaker listed the factors as follows:

1.Dependence on one major source of revenue from a section of a country, which logically profiles and categorises other sections as parasitic.

2.Fading memory of the tragedy of secession and war: Lost lessons of history.

3.Manipulation of sectional, religious and ethnic sentiments and sensibilities of Nigerians by the political class.

4.The slow death of the nationalistic and patriotic spirit in the hearts and minds of Nigerians, evidenced with the perennial indifference to October 1st Independence Day celebrations.

5.A succession of failed governments, economic paralyses and widening gulf between the have and the have nots.

Federal government to supply 3 million prepaid meters to Nigerians – Fashola

6.The rise of a new restive and angry generation without value for, interest in or sense of history.

7.Retention of a national political and socio economic culture which emphasises on sharing of national cake as against the baking of national cake. A bogus federal structure of largesse.

8.Deliberate or negligent suffocation of institutions established to promote national unity e.g. NYSC, Federal Government Colleges, etc.

9.Narcissistic and forlorn ideas and fantasy of chauvinists and ethnic champions dreaming of carving out mini nations along tribal lines.

10.Inequities of a pyramid economic structure; a rich few over a poor many.

Meanwhile, Sani has advocated for an ad-hoc Committee that would address agitations of various groups in Nigeria.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/06/19/senator-shehu-sani-lists-10-factors-blocking-nigerias-progress-unity/

Something is definitely wrong with the way northerners think..... it's really sad.

Shehu Sani, # 1main thing wrong with Nigeria is northern political dominance, and #1 main solution...complete restructuring.

ZorGBUooeh:
Yah man! That's the spirit.. Ipod ad Ipond must go..Oduarewastan loading.

Igbos don't have any problem with the Yorubas, only mouth action or should I say, theoretical problems.