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Noneroone:
after this epistle you didnt refute anything. Patience Jonathan said she is Igbo. Akpabio's wife's name is Unoma Akabio

Mrs. Jonathan, as a First Lady, here are lessons on the power of the Chief Executive of a State
By: John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D | Published August 31sth, 2010

Her Excellency, Mrs. Dame Patience Jonathan like every well-meaning daughter or son recently went on a two-day official visit to her home town in the Rivers State of Nigeria.

Madam, there must be pride in among the Okrika people to see your presence in their midst. Also, there is more international pride to your home background as evidenced as having come from the Okrika Island of the Rivers State, especially from an area called Obama, a great and passionate name at best.

First Lady Jonathan, as history tells us for over 400 years the people of Okrika have gone through various struggles, starting as a midpoint of Euro-American slave trade and in the early part of the 20th century the land and the people of Okrika were overshadowed by the city of Port Harcourt.

As an Ijaw woman who has watched the long standing exploitation of the area of Niger River Delta of Nigeria by the Euro-American Oil Corporations, one understands your current sentimentalities. http://focusnigeria.com/mrs-jonathan.htm

Noneroone:
after this epistle you didnt refute anything. Patience Jonathan said she is Igbo. Akpabio's wife's name is Unoma Akabio

Noneroone:
Atiku married Igbo
IBB married Igbo
murtala nyako married Igbo
liyel Imoke married Igbo
Godswill Akpabio married Igbo
Goodluck Jonathan married Igbo

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ndoeyopbennet:
Obviously, the map your people have released have made it my matter. Akwa Ibom is included in the map, Ibibioland is included there. I am a full blooded Ibibio man from Ukanafun so by that logic, I am included in the map. Please address my issues if you can.

mathy001:
The statistics is true. I dont know about Delta Igbos and Ijaws but Itsekiris and Urhobo-Isokos do not subscribe to Biafra and may never do.

PenSniper:
A display of your crass naivety. Are you Indigenous People of Delusioners so daft that you must assume wboever airs an opinion contrary to your Biafra aspirations MUST be Yoruba ? So you are gullible enough to expect the entire peoples of six states of the south-south to be timidly quiet after you arrogantly annexed their region with your suicide mission ?
For how long will you run away from the truth and reality ? You are so intolerant and averse to intellectual debate. You certainly have a huge problem.

baby124:
Even Jim Ovia...lol.

Profile of (former)..Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, NIGERIAN AIR FORCE | DSS psc (+) fwc MSc CFR

Air Marshal Paul Dike hails from Issele-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. He had his primary education at St Barnabas Primary School, Ilorin and then went to Ogbomosho Grammar School, Oyo state. Paul joined the Nigerian Defence Academy on 22 January 1973 as an officer cadet. He was granted a regular combatant commission into the Nigerian Air Force as Pilot Officer on 21 June 1975.

PROMOTION LADDER

Pilot Officer Paul Dike was promoted Flying Officer on 22 January 19 77 and became Flight Lieutenant on 22 January 1981. By 22 July 1985, Paul Dike was promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader. Six year later, on 22 January 1991, he became a Wing Commander. He was promoted to the rank of Group Captain on 22 January 1996. Thereafter, he attained the rank of Air Commodore on 22 January 2001, the rank he held until 22 January 2004 when he was elevated to the rank of Air Vice Marshal.

The 15th Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) was promoted to Air Marshal on 30 May 2006, the same day he was appointed CAS......

NB: Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike is a totally detribalized Nigerian, born in Maiduguri, schooled in Ogbomosho, married to a wonderful woman from Abeokuta. https://maxsiollun./2008/08/25/profile-of-new-chief-of-defence-staff-paul-dike/
http://naijarchives.com/paul-dike-nigerias-first-air-chief-marshal/

Minemrys:
Hmm thats your opinion though i see a bit of sentiment in there. Left to me, i say success deals more with personality than culture/tribe. I've met alot of yoruba or other men who are successful without having married an igbo lady and to cut story short, their wives if not all were supportive. I know many because of Mr. Freeze's comment would go searching for an igbo gal [that's fine] but they should 1st and foremost know success starts with them first. A man's worst enemy is himself. Heaven help those who help themselves.

Chief (Dr) Emeka Anayaoku, the former Commonwealth Secretary-General and the Ichie Adazie of Obosi, married a Yoruba woman Olubunmi, a royal princess from Abeokuta and they have been together for over 45 years;

Prof Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, the Eze Ikelionwu IX of the great Aro town Ndikelionwu in Anambra State is married to a Yoruba woman too. Her name is Adebimpe Olurinsola Abimbolu, and she is also an accomplished Professor of Library Science. They have been married for over 50 years.

Sir (Dr) Akanu Ibiam, former Governor of Eastern Region, Nigeria from December 1960 until January 1966 also had a Yoruba wife, named Lady Olayinka, from the great Sasegbon family of Lagos state. In April 1974, Dr. Ibiam lost his dear wife. She died at the age of 68. Out of respect for her, he refused to marry any other woman. She was given a state burial. Dr Akanu Ibiam the late Ezeogo and Isiala 1 of Unwana and Osuji of Uburu, was given the title of "... Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George by Her Majesty the Queen";

Dr Vincent Ifeanyi Maduka the pioneer Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA) also married a Yoruba woman. His wife is Engr. Joanna Maduka (nee Olutunbi) from Ilesha in Osun State. she was an undergraduate of University of Ife (Ibadan campus) when they met. They got married in 1967 and are still together till date.

There are several other successful Igbo leaders who were (and still are) married to the Yoruba women, and they are among the most successful Nigerians in history.

baby124:
Femi fani Kayode that insulted Igbo women is your idol. An internet search will help you. I think you should be more ashamed that he made a baby mama out of an Igbo woman. I am yet to see their marriage. Femi Fani Kayode is NOT a man any human being should aspire to marry. Look at your bragging rights. O girl, abeg rest..

baby124:
You really need to open a thread to educate we Yoruba women about what you see in Yoruba men that make you and your men lose their minds. It even seems like some Igbo men are more attracted to Yoruba men than Igbo women.

Enahi:
Nonsense so the ladies from other tribes whose husbands are successful married igbo women. Oh I forgot Aliko Dangote is married to an igbo woman,Bola Tinubu is married to an igbo woman,Otedola is married to an igbo woman. I think igbo women are faliurs because their husbands aren't even listed as some of the most successful men from Africa.

I am not a hater but igbo ladies are just there nothing fantastic about them!

bigfrancis21:
DNA wise they are half Igbo. And these half-Igbos are becoming popular in the SW. It is not even uncommon to find elderly half-Igbo Yorubas who have Igbo mothers. For example, Segun Arinze who speaks fluent Igbo. A half-Igbo yoruba man who marries an Igbo woman, their children are 75% Igbo and 25% yoruba only. You don't understand the magnitude of what's going on in the Yoruba gene pool. A day will come when more than 50% of yorubas are half-igbos or have Igbo DNA in them. Children naturally are closer to their mother's than their father's side.

Enahi:
Don't mind the idiot, Babangida's late wife was from Delta State and not Igbo and Patience Johnathan is from Okrika in Rivers State and she is not igbo,Tony Aninih has other wives and his current wife is not igbo.

AxeurdaddyIX:
His opinion sha. Peter Okoye married a Yoruba lady. Today he's arguably one of the most successful artistes in Africa.

It's not about the tribe, Its about the person you marry.

CandyDiamond:
Go to Ikwerre land,if a man wife is not from IMO he cannot be a king before, so time will come in Yoruba land that if a child is not half Igbo in Yoruba he cannot be Oba or hold key position in Yoruba land.
Time will tell,kiss the truth.

moghulis:
lol...
we all know how the thing goes.
Yoruba guys dreaming of marrying Igbo girls
below is a Yoruba Jamaican pastor that fell for Igbo girl.
Dude you should not wail for igbo men but rather cry for your sisters....Jesus said somefn like that to some wailng women on his way to calvary.
Imagine Igbo girls locking down your men in the heart of Yoruba land where majority of the girls are yoruba. Nigga that means somefn must be wrong somewhere

matrixme:
The recession is really affecting people's reasoning capacity these days. We all have one or two Igbo girls we admire, but that doesn't make all of them saints. From my personal experience, the Igbo women I know are gossips, extremely manipulative and self centered. Have you even considered the millions you will use to marry them? Cross tribal marriage is patriotic but I'll personally stick to someone I can speak the same language with for the rest of my life.

Why I released Awolowo from prison — Gowon | October 17, 2015 | Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji | Premium Times

A former Nigerian Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on Thursday said his administration released the late Obafemi Awolowo from prison to end the political unrest in the South West and ensure peace across the country.

Mr. Gowon, who spoke to journalists after paying condolence visit to the Awolowos at Ikenne, also noted that he was privileged to have been used by God to ensure release of the late sage from prison.

The former head of state, who was at Ikenne on account of the death of HID Awowolo, disclosed that the late matriarch was the one who persuaded Mr. Awolowo to be part of his military government.

“’It was my fortune and I thank God that it was me that had the opportunity to release Papa from prison from Calabar to Lagos and certainly to be able to help us have peace in the West at that time and then we came,” Mr. Gowon recalled.

“Mama was very happy and very grateful for what has happened and I can assure you, that is what earned me the respect of Mama right throughout her life. But yes, what we did was alright..." Read the rest here: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191679-why-i-released-awolowo-from-prison-gowon.html

KingOvoramwen1:
Lol

marryjesus:
.... he argued that rather than bemoan their situation, Igbo people should exploit their ingenuity by using their technical and business acumen to develop their land...

More at http://www.akelicious.com/2016/11/amaechi-to-igbo-stop-lamenting-conquer.html?m=1

toprealman:
Why should not it be sold? All major oil producing countries have their national refineries which is often times the best in their various domain. same goes for other major industries....telecom, electricity, transport etc. Ibekichwkwu should have resigned if he knows his onions as you claim. His job is to set systems that will revitalize the industry. Why should an individual perform better than a government enterprise? Is this normal? Why do we celebrate mediocrity in Africa? I wish you can make your points as plain as possible without throwing unnessary punches because to be honest I really wish to know why you think so. I'm fully kitted should you think otherwise!

cuteboy2:
These are contradictory statements

Mr Minister, the Petroleum Ministry sits in your plate, and that of your Oga, the President.
What have you people done since you came onboard 18 months ago apart from increasing fuel prices and endless "We will", "we intend", statements. The PIB bill you met still remains unpassed.

You characterise your own refineries as "scrap". If an individual like Dangote can muster enough gut and resources to build a refinery, what prevents the mighty Federal Govt from doing the same, under whatever funding arrangement. We hear this same Federal Govt that says it has no money to build new refineries has promised Dangote all the forex he needs to build his private refinery. What an irony!!!

Meanwhile, small Kenya that does not have oil is busy importing cheap oil at current low prices, and refining it in their refineries and making exporting the refined products.

Ghana is refining all the petroleum products they need in government owned refineries. Our own ministers and government officials are whining and running from pillar to post. If they are not in China tomorrow to beg for money, they are in America or Morocco to blame other people and nations for their incompetence.

We understand the clueless, dull looking Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun is blaming the America and the Western powers for blocking Nigeria from building coal power stations. So what stops Buhari from building gas-fired power stations to utilise billions of cubic feet of gas flared daily in Nigeria.

What happened to all the NIPP gas-fired power stations at Alaoji, Egbema, Calabar, Ihovbor, Geregu, Omotosho, etc started by OBJ and progressed by GEJ govt? At least Americans are not blocking us from completing those. When will they all be commissioned and connected to the national grid?

ASL33:
for the second time how much is this vehicle

Yyeske:
Quote me using good grammar next time, now get off my mentions

We will thrash your silly Biafra from within if you don't know

ChessEnthusiast:
Very wacky comeback.

demmahomidi:
Nigeria in trouble. If akeredolu emulate bello then plenty wahala dey

Yyeske:
Some fools come online reeling out figures they have been brainwashed with that 40% of their so called Biafrans are not Igbos, ask them how they came about the figure, story, have they carried out a referendum to determine how many Igbos and other ethnicities want Biafra, another story. All they want is to lump everybody by fire by force into the stupid Biafra to be headed by the devil himself Nnamdi Kanu.

Fools everywhere

Duru1:
Arrant nonsense!!!

Godprotectigbos:
I JUST LOVE AMEACHI ...HE HIT THE POINT

For being a powerful, reasoned voice for mod­eration and mutual respect for all Nigerian nationalities, for confronting key issues and speaking truth to authority where many shy away from it; for being a firm guiding hand al­ways available for consultation in times of na­tional danger, Chief, Ichie Mbazulike Amaechi is The AUTHORITY Icon.

The story of his life is intertwined with the story of Nigeria's evolution from a disparate collection of ethnic nationalities into a challenged entity striving strongly to become a modern state. Today, he is the quintessential statesman who has seen the extreme challenges of nation building. He is Chief, Ichie Mbazulike Amaechi, First Republic Minister of Aviation.

He was born in Ukpor, Anambra State, on June 16, 1929. Young Amechi attended Catholic School, Umunuko Ukpor, from 1937 to 1943. He later proceeded to the famous Etukwuoku College, Onitsha from 1944 to 1948. He served as the Principal Organising Secretary of NCNC from 1955 to 1959. He was the Secretary-General of the Zikist Movement from 1960 to 1963 and later NCNC publicity Secretary from 1964 to 1966.

He became a parliamentary secretary, Ministry of Information 1960 to 1962 and later Minister of State for Ports from 1964 to 1966. On the business turf, he was astute and circumspect. He was chairman and managing director of a chain of companies in the 60s.

With the return of party politics in 1979, he became a member of the then ruling National Party of Nigeria, NPN, from 1979-1983. During this period he served as the executive member, Strategy Committee, NPN. Later he was appointed the director, Nigerian Railway Corporation.

Amaechi who boasts the rare privilege of being a witness and participant in the Nigerian story, right from independence in 1960, through, civil war, military dictatorships and back to civilian rule also has the singular honour of hosting the South African icon, Nelson Mandela, when he came for consultations with some Nigerian nationalists during the period of struggle against apartheid. With little question, Amechi belongs to the vanishing tribe of elder nationalists.

It is also worth recalling that Amechi put his own life on the line in defense of Nigeria's foremost nationalist, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, by nipping in the bud a lethal plot to attack Zik in Lagos in the 60s. For this selfless, courageous action, he was given the sobriquet of "The boy is good," by a grateful and much relieved Zik as a mark of his personal appreciation. He holds the traditional title of Dara Akunwafor of Ukpor. . http://authorityngr.com/2015/11/The-Authority-ICON--Chief-Ichie-Mbazulike-Amaechi

gidgiddy:
And Im telling you that Gowon had no powers to repudiate Aburi, he had no powers to abolish the regions, he had no powers to offer '95%'. It was Gowons duty to implement the agreement he signed to the letter. Aburi made the 4 Regions the 'confederating' units of Nigeria, they were literally autonomous. And if for any reason, Gowon wanted to change the terms of Aburi, he should have called for a second Aburi meeting. The regions were more powerful than Gowon or the SMC and for Gowon to have come with his own watered down version and a ridiculous clause that allowed him to undermine the sovereignty of the regions was unacceptable. If I was Ojukwu, I would not have accepted it either. It was a crafty attempt to sneak in Northern hegemony via the back door. I dont think Gowon knew what he was signing in Aburi, by the time he did, it was too late.

Personally, I dont think anything could have prevented the war. The Northern oligarchy could not stand Nigeria being run as a confederation because it made them powerless and the agrieved East would rather fight fall under Northern domination. Something had to give.

Ngozi123:
No you weren't, otherwise you wouldn't have bid me farewell in your previous post . Thanks for proving my point btw, I hope other Igbos reading this will see your true nature.

KelleneOkonkwo:
No one cares about the rubbish. Playing victim like a batteree kid is what i hate about these people. You hate others and they hate you too but you playing the victim card. They prefer the Hausa that kill them at any slighest provocations. I hate them same way they hate my people too, the hatred is mutual.

Ngozi123:
Ahh, I was waiting for when you would say something like this, took you long enough... @blues2022 you see what I was saying about their modus operandi? This one here has exhibited it almost exactly.

Thanks, same to you .

Ngozi123:
I feel absolutely disgusted by that comment; I am literally sickened by it. It completely contradicts the lies peddled across Nairaland and in real life that the Igbos were 'welcomed' into Yorubaland and were not treated harshly as they tried to go back home before the war. Thank you for this quote, I'll show it to anyone who wants to counteract this claim to me.

As for your other post, I agree that we should spend a portion of our time debunking the lies peddled about us as, as we've seen in the past, they can have fatal consequences. But our number one focus should be on improving and uniting ourselves as a nation (Igbo Nation) and looking for effective ways to break ties with Nigeria once and for all. That's what I mean when I say that I'm indifferent towards them. Our children should be taught their history and the treatment of their forefathers by these so called 'friendly' tribes but we mustn't let it define them. Where has the hatred for the Igbos taken Nigeria?
As you said, we must debunk their lies but we must also completely separate ourselves from Nigeria both physically and mentally speaking.

Ngozi123:
1. Not on the level of what they've been dealt.
2. Read my post at the top of this page...
3. Where have I said that the Igbos are the only people who've been "unfairly targeted" in this country? There are many groups who are protesting against their harsh treatment in this country and they have every right to do so. If the Igbos want to look for a better solution to their woes then leave us to it. I don't know why whenever 'Igbo' is mentioned, some people like to deny, deny and deny again. It's like a reflexive action...