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afonjaheadhunt:
what you know as the Nnewi house is the apapa towers, it used to be known as Apapa towers until the 90's when they revert to Nnewi house, you see the issue of Ojukwu's property is not one that I wish not to discuss because collectively the family have accepted the outcome I only revisited it here because one or two person made the claims that Igbo properties in SW where given back to Igbo's, which is not totally correct.

As for me being the ignorant one here that is really funny, you guys have manage to derail this thread and I have been trying to stay on topic so i do not intend discussing anything other than the topic, so far, I have done justice to it since, however trolls bitter by the revelation have been foaming in the mouth and I had to address their lie, but now I have kids all over the place trying to sound intelligent I really don't have the time for kids.

At least not tonight.

afonjaheadhunt:
So you are ignorant to facts and reality and you are forming I too know here, I am done with you, I even thought you were older and smarter than that totits of a fool. And to think you don't even know the difference between elephant towers and elephant building yet you ignorantly claim that all Ojukwu's property was given back to him when you have no slightest idea what properties he had. Then you go the Afonja media as your source of information you case is a lost one you are simply irredeemable, you should just die already. ITK.

These property which were at a time compulsorily acquired by the Federal Government were later released to OTL and the late Dim Ojukwu continued to manage some of them until his demise last year. The property include those situated at 58, Ibadan Street, Ebute Metta, Yaba, Lagos; 29, Queens Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos where Ojukwu once resided, 41 Macpherson Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos, 13 Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, 14 Probyn Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, 2A and 2B Park Close, Apapa, Lagos, 32A Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos, Nnewi Building, 1/3 Creek Close, Apapa, Lagos, 120 Agege Motor Road, Mushin, Lagos, 4A and 4B Park Close, Apapa, Lagos, 196 Igbosere Road, Lagos, 15 Oshodi Street, Lagos and 15/16 Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/crisis-in-ojukwus-family-escalates/

afonjaheadhunt:
Guy where is Elephant building? Apapa Towers? Ikoyi tower and his other office towers scattered across choice areas in Lagos in the 60's The Ojukwu's only got a few residential building and not all they did not even get "Ojukwu's court", Ojukwu's fathers personal private residence, so Mr stop saying what you don't know to feel alright.

Go to Surulere, Ojuelegba, yaba, lawanson, road and see afonjas still living in Igbo houses today, in Ojuelegba just before under bridge there is a twin 2 story building No 31A/31B for both twin towers built by the same Igbo man after the war the houses were occupied the man sha did wahala got one and just last year got the other from the Afonja thief that have been living there for close to 50 years now the Afonja is homeless and begging to be given a flat they are many like that many Igbo's lost their property till date to Afonjas but you folk keep denying your thievery.

After Chief Samuel Shonibare died very prematurely at 44 in 1964, his wife, Chief Mrs. Alice Olaperi Shonibare took over the business and helped not just to keep his dream alive, she continued to dream new ones. She redeveloped Shonibare estate. In fact, it was never called Shonibare Estate, people called it by that name in memory of our first Chairman.

So, after he died, his wife who was an incredible, self-effacing and very smart woman took over. They had been formidable partners. She, it was, who created the Maryland Hotel, a 50 room hotel which became a huge success with a restaurant and dance club. She paid back the loan to Barclays Bank in 1969, acquired the interest to Elephant house from the Pearse Family.

Now Elephant House is widely recognized as one of the most interesting examples of Brazillian architecture in Nigeria. It stood magnificent on the Broad Street but one of the conditions attached to her acquiring this building was that any building that had to be built there must be called Elephant House. So this was the original Elephant House, a holistical monument which people like John Godwin have fought very hard to have listed.

It took ten years to get the permission to build Elephant House because, in those days, the Lagos state government was very strict about the condition under which you could build a high rise. You had to have 50 feet setback at the front, 50 feet at the side. You had to do a survey of the impact of the construction on the environment. You had to submit what you now call, an Environmental impact analysis.

And because the size of the land around Elephant House was modest she had to acquire 3 more plots to make up 2,502.52 square meters of what is now the present Elephant house. So, it took her 10 years to get the approval and she always contended that that was the hardest part of the process and once she got the approval, she handed it over to her daughter, Taiwo Taiwo, to raise the funds for the project. Taiwo Taiwo was just 29 but it didn’t matter to her mother.

She said; “Listen, I have done the hard job; you go and raise the money. Your father was very young when he put together western house so you go ahead.” http://www.sipc-ng.com/vision/alice.html

With heavy investment in transportation (Ojukwu Transport Limited) and Real Estate, the man was able to buy choice properties in Lagos and the East.

Some of the properties include: Villaska Lodge, the Lagos home of his late son, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, at No 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street (formally Queen’s Drive), Ikoyi. This building tested Dim Ojukwu’s fighting spirit because he went through several court battles with the Lagos State Government to reclaim ownership after he came back from exile in 1985. The building which used to be some sort of Mecca for Igbo leaders is presently not occupied by anyone, only security guards and cleaners are seen around. The lawn is still lush green as domestic servants tenders the flowers and clean the surroundings. Other buildings in Ikoyi are situated at 41 Macpherson Avenue, 13 Hawksworth Road, and 14 Probyn Road, Ikoyi.

Another building situated at 58, Ibadan Street, Ebute Meta, Yaba, Lagos is presently rented to an investment company and valued at over N300 million. Other prime properties are situated at 2A and 2B Park Close, Apapa, 32A Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Nnewi Building at 1/3 Creek Close, Apapa, 120 Agege Motor Road, Mushin, 4A and 4B Park Close, Apapa, 196 Igbosere Road, Lagos and 15/16 Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt. http://www.castles.com.ng/magazine/article/AGENCY%20PRACTICE%20/1216

afonjaheadhunt:
At bold, thank you for this truth I don't know why Yorubas keep claiming that they returned Igbo properties after the war.

hilroy:
Thanks so much for this comment. It annoys me when I see some Yorubas accepting the lies and propaganda that Igbos own substantial investments in Yorubaland. There is nothing significant Igbos contribute to Yorubaland that other tribes do not contribute. They claim they have businesses, when you ask them what the businesses are, they tell you spare parts business in Ladipo or electronics shops in Alaba. But for every one naira an average Igbo man makes from those businesses, an average hausa business man makes 10 naira from bureau de change but you don't hear them make obnoxious noise that they own Lagos. They claim they have houses in Lagos but all other tribes in Nigeria have houses even foreigners have houses in Lagos. Like you rightly said, those bastard unity beggers are the one selling Yorubas cheap by making these ingrates feel important. I cant wait for the day they take all their belongings and mischievous acts out of Yorubaland. Enough of this hospitality to people that are ungrateful.

afonjaheadhunt:
You are Joking, abeg inform yourself and stop living in fools paradise.

Bianca Ojukwu, the embattled widow of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has asked a Lagos State High Court, sitting at Igbosere to reject an application filed by her husband’s second child Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Jr, seeking to be joined as defendant alongside Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and seven others in the suit she filed against the family over property.

The former beauty queen had on behalf of her two under-aged children, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu (claimants) sued Ojukwu Transport Limited, OTL and seven others; Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Emmanuel Ojukwu, Lotanna Putalora Ojukwu, Dr. Patrick Ojukwu, Edward Ojukwu, Lota Akajiora Ojukwu and Mrs. Massey Udegbe (doing business under Massey Udegbe & Company) before the court over an alleged move by the Ojukwu family to eject her sons from the company’s properties situated in Lagos. The company, OTL, and its property belong to the grandfather of the claimants, late Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu.

In their statement of claim, Bianca, and her two children prayed the court to declare that the alleged threat of forcible ejection from 29, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, by the defendants as illegal.

They are asking the court for a declaration that her children are entitled to possess the following property: No. 13 Hawksworth Road, Ikoyi (now known as No. 13 Ojora Road; No. 32A Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos; No. 30 Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos and No. 30 McPherson Avenue, Ikoyi.

According to them, the properties were under the possession of the late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the father of the claimants, from the time the properties were released from government acquisition till date.

The claimants stated that throughout the period their father was fought to retrieve the properties from the government, the second to seventh defendants “never played any role in the struggle nor contributed financially or otherwise to the realization of the struggle.” http://onobello.com/bianca-asks-court-to-dismiss-ojukwus-second-childs-application-to-join-property-battle/

afonjaheadhunt:
I am glad you are privy to this information, please educate that totti guy a little he sounds very young naive and uninformed, however i have to correct errors that you made the flyover was not built be the federal govt the FG at the time ask the traders to build it alongside the Master plan of the market and stated that they would be refunded but the marketers are yet to get the refund they assumed the FG used it to alternate for Land charge. Secondly the Old structures still stand firm and very distinct from the New trade fair complex so that is not in dispute.

However i am glad this report came from you, as these kids just littered this thread with senseless back and forth over the issue.

afonjaheadhunt:
I have emboldened the answer to your question, it was not a peaceful secession that was why and the war did not come with victory.

As for benevolence go to surulere and ojuelegba and see yorubas still living in Igbo houses till this day yorubas should stop telling those lies

is the Lagos state government and federal goverment not still using Ojukwus fathers property in Lagos till this day? stop the lie.

afonjaheadhunt:
As for our investment and saying countries do not tolerate petty trading in their countries, that will not affect Igbo's in Nigeria rather it will define Igbo's investment in Nigeria by properly stating our worth, values, tax, and our IGR contribution, already Igbo's markets in Lagos are worth well over 500,000.00 USD I am not even talking about the goods, I am talking about the value of property and markets built by Igbo's in Nigeria, markets like Alaba international, ASPANDA (Trade Fair) Oduade (Building materials markets) these markets were solely built by Igbo investors and would beat and mark or investment capital put by the government, take a market like ASPANDA for example it comes with it's own flyover to prevent traffic gridlocks for customers coming to the market, has several police post, Banks, fire station, eatries, a field, etc. Also take Alaba for example it is one of the largest electronic market in west Africa, same for Oduade, these markets have all beat the investment benchmark, The only Igbo market that would be affected would be the Ladipo Auto Market but as we all know the have requested to be given a site to build their own market, so they are equally up to the task..

realjoker:
hallucinations of the highest order.
So, you know about anything called peaceful secession before running your mouths like a running tap? You forgot about peaceful secession When you are sowing the seed of hates by calling everybody all sorts of derogatory names?

The chaff in your eyes will soon get off.

Keep deceiving yourself. By the time you are serve half of hate you throw towards others we will see what will be left of your emotions laden brains.

Amimi01:
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damiwiol:
My recent experience with one of the so called estate companies Adron Home and Property proves that they are real scammers. My land was purchased and paid in full in 2013 and till now I have not been given my physical land. A lot of hidden charges and you are treated like a beggar.
I am currently being made to beg for my land even after making full payments. If you buy land from Omo Onile no matter the situation you will get your land immediately even start building on it without all the issues.
As if that is not enough Adron is asking for the following ridiculous items before I can get my land
1. Builders profile
2. Certificate of incorporation of the building contractor
3. COREN certificate
4. CORBORN certificate
The government should quickly look into the activities of this estate companies, they are just ripping us off all in the name of selling lands
The true cost of the land is not the advertised amount you will shocked to know that the true cost of the land is almost four times the advertised cost. Omo Onile is better by far.

Theleutenant:
. ya fatherr!

Theleutenant:
. boy! you should really be ashamed of urself for once.why do you always claim minority when we already know where you hail from idiatt?

the next time you try this shit. i will give you the beating of ur life.yeye boy

GoroTango:
Amen brother. We've already thrashed this matter on the other thread i think two, three weeks ago? I recall you and jjphilip's brilliant submissions on the subject matter. I think the OP is being rather mischievous opening this thread given that he made his position clear on that thread and he countered.

Kagarko:
A RABID INMATE OF THE ZOO
The Ibos, the Nupes and Nnamdi Kanu
By Dr. Ndagi Abdullahi

.....Imagine Nnamdi Kanu is saying that the Ibos are Jews and that the Ibos originated from Israel! This boy is such an unmistakable illiterate!!

Well, let me tell the illiterate that the Ibos are Nupe and they originated from here KinNupe!

Let me immediately add that I am not saying this on my own authority, because I know even my own Nupe people will not believe me.

It was Professor A.E. Afigbo, who is himself an Ibo man and who is also the greatest Ibo scholar of Ibo history ever, that wrote on the 24th page of his book titled ‘Ropes of Sands’, that the Ibo people originated from Nupe. Professor Afigbo emphatically added that the Ibo race originated from the general Bida area and not from Israel or the Middle East.

I want to repeat that Professor A.E. Afigbo categorically emphasized on that page 24 of his book

attackgat:
Under Nigerian law, being born in any Nigerian territory guaratees you automatic Nigerian citizenship. An Igbo like me who was born in the North will always be entitled to Nigerian citizenship (not that I want anyway) even Igbo land becomes Biafra

However, needing visa to go to Nigeria from Biafra is a small price to pay for freedom

seunmsg:
We won't even give them visa. They should remain in their country if biafra is achieved. We don't want anything to do with them ever again if they succeed in breaking up this country.

nextprince:
Yes, I said it and I will say it again.
Are you expecting to be a non Nigerian and still be walking the streets of Nigeria without relevant documents?
You must be getting it twisted.

igbodefender:
Milions may not be allowed back in. The 'Nigerian' side would want revenge, and the way they will exact it is to limit migration and other frustrating tidbits. Suddenly, going to Lagos to sell gala or laptops becomes something you have to go to an embassy for. We are helping Nnamdi Kanu by pointing this out now. Nothing is so saddening as when your own people accuse you of misleading them.

engrchykae:
he is an inlaw and we dont joke with our inlaws

DieBuhari:
FFK has joined Fayose in overtaking Awolowo on the list of great Yorubas

preciousuweh:
I have a question for you OP. won't Biafra be a west African country? won't it be one of the ECOWAS state or country?. so why will dey need visa to travel to Lagos or Nigeria as a whole because the last time I checked one of the aim of ECOWAS is to ensure free movement of people between it member nation without the use of Visa. so I don't understand where this issue of visa comes in except Biafra won't be a member of ECOWAS.

soulpeppersoup:
So what stops Biafra from joining ECOWAS and what will take a Biafran to Nigeria in the first place if not tourism

GoroTango:
The ECOWAS treaty states that no new member states can be admitted to the community except by the unanimous agreement of all current member states. This means that even a small member state like Togo or Gambia can permanently veto the admission of Biafra into the community, talk less of Nigeria that pays the lion share of ECOWAS bills

Diademk07:
The question is what is ibo business if the SW region was in chaos? Are you forgetting that we were under a true federalism where each region was in control of her regional government? What's Ibo's business even if Yoruba uprooted the whole SW land and put it on their head? How does it concern the East? To the extent that your folks had to kill every regional leaders apart from the ibos while Zik chose the very time of the coup to leave the country for abroad even when his doctor stated that he was sound and healthy!

Are we to say ibo leaders were saint while Yoruba and Northern leaders were the devils who needed to be killed by you folks?

Abeg, stop this manipulation already.

Diademk07:
Ademoyega was operating under Nzeogwu and Ifeanyi who were the leaders who spearheaded the coup. I wouldn't be surprised if it was what he got fed by the coup leaders! And don't forget that apart from the 2 ibo leaders, ibos were the majority in the coup.

But the question is why did every regional leaders have to die except the Ibos? Why was Zik out of the country at the time of the coup? And what's Ibo's business even if Yorubas burn the whole SW and turn into ashes, after all it aint ibo region? Smh..

gare:
You forget to mention opening of the seaports in the Niger Delta, that is why they have fustrated every effort to open the port's in Warri, port Harcourt and Calabar

Forwardersam:
Baba should be specific on how to stop him.
By force or through sincere and genuine restructuring?

On the night of 15th January, 1966, Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari had hosted a party in his residence in Ikoyi.

Later in the early hours of the following morning some of the very officers who had warmly fraternized with others at the party that same evening returned to his house and attacked the Brigadier under guise of staging a coup d’état.

He was able to escape the initial attackers and exited through the backyard of the residence, only to fall into the hands of his own Brigade Major who it turned out was a part of the coupists. They shot him to death. http://saharareporters.com/2014/05/21/who-was-brigadier-zakariya-maimalari

Maimalari had managed to escape from the first attempt to arrest him by Major Don Okafor, but as he was escaping on foot, he came across the car of his Brigade Major: Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Recognising Ifeajuna, Maimalari waved down the car, and was promptly shot dead by Ifeajuna. Maimalari's murder was a great loss to the northern soldiers who respected him, and to Nigeria as a whole. http://www.nigerialinks.com/Articles/Siollun.html

atorioke:
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigerians must do everything possible to stop the Biafra agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu.

He warned that failure to do so could lead to a replay of the 1966 coup and the events that led to unprecedented bloodshed in the country.

Obasanjo made this known during the launch of the biography of late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari on Tuesday at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

According to him, the top most lessons for Nigerians to learn from unfolding events in the country are that the nation has had enough of tragedies.

He said: “What lesson can we learn? The lesson we can learn is that we have had enough tragedies in this country.

“So far, since 1999, it seems that we have got it right. Let us hope that we continue to get it right and learn that Nigeria has had enough of bloodshed, enough of sacrifices by those victims, that Nigeria deserves peace, unity and progress,” Obasanjo asserted.

Mynd44 http://www.eyereport.com.ng/we-must-stop-nnamdi-kanu-obasanjo/

Remembering Brigadier Zakaria Maimalari| By Hassan M. Hussein

Brigadier Zakaria Maimalari at the time of January 15th 1966 coup was the commander of 2nd Brigade in Lagos and the highest ranking Nigerian military officer of Northern origin. He was callously and cold-bloodedly assassinated by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna one of the leaders and executioners of that coup. It was a coup that shaped Nigeria’s political destiny like no other.

On the night of Jan 14th 1966 many senior army officers were attending a party in the honor of Brigadier Zakaria Maimalari who had remarried, his first wife had been shot dead in a bizarre accident involving a hunting rifle. The party was attended by the coup plotters themselves and most senior officers based in Lagos. In the January 15th coup that overthrew the civilian Government, Northern political ( Sir Ahmadu Bello , Sir Abubakar Balewa, Ahmed Ben Musa.) and military leaders (Maimalari, Pam, Kur, and Largema) were murdered by Igbo officers. That means all military officers but one (Gowon), of the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and above of Northern origin, were eliminated.

Zakaria Abubakar Hassan Maimalari was born on 17th January, 1930 in Maimalari village of the present day Yobe state. He was an alumnus of famous Barewa College Zaria. Zakaria Maimalari and Umar Lawal, along with the late king of Morocco and a Ghanaian Charles Bua were the first Africans to ever attended and successfully passed out of the world famous Royal Military academy Sandhurst in United Kingdom. As an officer in the army, he attended many professional courses and trainings in England and Pakistan.

Brigadier Zakaria Maimalari was a charismatic, influential, disciplinarian, and intimidating character who would not tolerate any disobedience or disloyalty. He feared nobody and exacted discipline from all his subordinates .He was widely respected within the army, especially among the Northern soldiers who viewed him a role model. It took him eight years to become a major , but after that only two years to reach the rank of brigadier ( a promotion of three ranks) and found himself commanding an entire brigade . The only officers of equal rank to him were Ironsi and Ademulegun. He trained and motivated some of the top ranking officers of the Nigerian army.

A riot almost broke out when an attempt was made to remove Brigadier Maimalari’s name from notices at the 2nd brigade headquarters in Lagos. Many soldiers believed that he is still alive. A heroic mythology grew around his character.

The murder of Brigadier Zakaria Maimalari in particular caused grief and anger among Northern soldiers, they felt it a duty to avenge the death of their colleagues murdered in January .The volatile situation in the Nigerian army was not helped by Ironsi’s decision not to court –martial the executors of the coup ...

A riot almost broke out when an attempt was made to remove Brigadier Maimalari’s name from notices at the 2nd brigade headquarters in Lagos. He was a holder of the campaign star medal, medal forces service star, Queen Elizabeth’s the 2nd coronation medal and United Nation’s Congo medal. http://www.gamji.com/article10000/NEWS10300.htm

maballack:
@ the auto Mods , please take down this thread as the headline is misleading and defaming,

Its a clear cut case of the womans skepticism having the better part of her.

Thread should be closed.

Caveat
To all those who have purchased simply verify your customs duty clearance

Madam dont go adding your friend bought this and faced whatever , she did not buy through tadeus so dont go making a hasty generalisation thereby bastardizing ones business and online personality.

A simple Analogy, if i went to computer village to buy a phone and i was sold a fake phone does that mean all the traders in computer village sell fake..

Let small sense fall on you madam...

reminiscing:
Biafra that you will not get.... Yimu

preselect:
the president of Biafra is . . . . Laudate. . . . . and Biafra got her independence. . . . . . . today

meanwhile where is that fulani cattle rearer . . . . who cant speak english?

#BuhariWhereUDey

misano:
Get away from here. U don't even know what we are talking about sef. Beef they talk Kpomo say im get opinion.

gypsey:
i agree with her %10000 me too i am British biafran as you guys can see Educated and influencial people like this chi onwura do not want to be associated with Archaic Nigeria, Nigeria is a zoo! even buhari who is supposed to be Nigerian President has become a British citizen.