₦airaland Forum

donodion:
Doc,
I believe there are so many.You need to see how well our people perform outside our shores. The major issue here is " commitment". .Factor in the rate at which we Naijas pursues money even at the detriment of our own health.

Not trying to hold brief for the senior surgeon but probable he was at a previous engagement somewhere and too exhausted.

The entire health sector, from medical school to laboratory technology colleges needs total overhauling.Let the big hammer descend from the very top Ministers, Commissioners,State directors and Coordinators of health,etc, all of us will toe the line accordingly in compliance.

Then that senior surgeon should have called another equally qualified surgeon from elsewhere to take over in his absence, instead of abandoning the patient!! Is he the only senior surgeon in Lagos? We need to stop making excuses for these kind of shoddy actions.

With the kind of high fees that St. Nicholas charges, they should have at least 10 surgeons at their beck and call!

bushdoc9919:
5.Muamba was taken to the London Chest Hospital....ie the right kind of hospital.
6 Re: Defibrillators....in 2007, some English FA official(God bless him) commissioned a report , and as a result....every stadium in England had a defibrillator, and trained paramedics and an ambulance.

Yeah, I get your point. A patient can still get taken to the right kind of hospital, but if the wrong kind of doctor who wastes valuable time dragging his feet without knowing what to do, instead of swinging into action within minutes takes over the patient's case.... that patient might die.

If it was in Nigeria, don't be surprised if those defibrillators are kept under lock and key in one office somewhere, and on the day it is needed the person with the keys may not be around, and worse still, his colleagues on duty may not know where those keys are to be found! TIMING is the essence here. Decisions need to be taken in split seconds sometimes, during a medical emergency in order to save a life.

Sam Okwaraji collapsed and died on the pitch in Lagos during a football match at the National stadium. What happened? What remarkable upgrades were done to prevent such further incidents from happening, in our stadiums and on our pitches?

HIS HEART STARTS WORKING AGAIN | The Guardian, London.

Against all expectations, Muamba regained consciousness on the Monday after his collapse. He recognised his fiancee, Shauna Magunda, and asked after their son Joshua. Within hours he had talked to a team-mate and expressed dismay to his father that his collapse caused the match to be abandoned. By Tuesday, Muamba was declaring himself "fine", but he remains in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital and, according to his family, faces a long road to recovery.

Experts say the swift action of medics at the scene undoubtedly helped his chances. Deaner said the London response had been "faultless: one thing after another just went right." He visited Muamba shortly after his awakening and said he'd been moved to tears at the speed and strength of the player's recovery.

"I understand you're a very good footballer," Deaner whispered into the ear of the stranger he'd helped. He was rather taken by the dry response, the first piece of humour from a grim afternoon. Muamba replied: "I try." http://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/mar/25/muamba-collapse-minute-by-minute

Oduduwaboy:
What course did you study & in which country? If you trained in Nigeria, whatever is affecting the quality of the Doctors must have also affected you. Why must nincopomps like you always see this kind of rare occurences in the health sector as an opportunity to abuse all hard working Nigerian trained doctors? Events like this happen in every country. Stop being a big f.o.o.l!

Guy, this is NOT a rare occurrence, o! In Nigeria, many lives are lost daily due to incompetence and negligence on the part of the medical doctors. I have witnessed a few cases. Even abroad, patients do die but the only difference is that everything possible is often done to save their lives before they pass on. In some cases, it is the relatives of the patients that even give up on their sick folks, before the doctors do.

If that footballer Fabrice Muamba who suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field of play in London in 2012, had been playing the same football match in Nigeria, he would have lost his life right there on the pitch. In March 2012, Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest during a televised FA Cup match between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur, from which he recovered despite his heart having stopped for 78 minutes.

A few things worked in his favour:

1). A medical doctor who knew exactly what to do was available. He was a consultant cardiologist who was one of the spectators;
2). A fully equipped medical ambulance was made available in minutes;
3). Defibrillators were also available and used correctly;
4). The hospital he was rushed to, performed emergency surgical intervention without wasting time.

Until medical care get to this stage in Nigeria, more lives will continue being lost.

d33types:
I am not trying to cover up.

This guy had a kidney transplant..see these transplant patients are on immunosuppressive drugs for life and their food and even drugs are to be specific.. Even aspirin you can take for pain is not taken by them else it may damage the kidney . I believe that's why kevwe was cautious not to give drugs..
He's just a medical officer
Besides,, most drugs these patients use can have interactions with other drugs causing more harm than good.
In ethics if you can not do good, then atleast do I'm harm

Agreed, their medication has to be supervised.....but you are still trying to cover up. The guy needed urgent surgical intervention, to save his life and for 3 hours after admission, the doctor was still fumbling, making calls and dragging his feet. Why was he even sent home the previous day instead of keeping him under medical observation??

ChelseaDr:
May his soul rest in peace. May God give you the fortitude to bear thia irreparable loss. I can imagine the pain of losing such a promising young man.

To the doctors, both young and old, you can be that link between the life and death of that helpless patient before you and your action at that point in time determines to a large extent tge result you get.

How can you think of or make a diagnosis of intestinal obstruction (in this case ib a CKD patient who obviously and not surprising has hypertension) and you are thinking of EXFORGE first, and forgetting the 3 tubes you were taught in the medical school...
1...NG TUBE (which in this case was all that was needed to this patient who choked to death via aspiration...chemical pneumonitis...it is a killer)
2...IV LINE (which the young doctor was having difficulty getting...he may not have passed an NG TUBE before)
3....URETHRAL CATHETER...to monitor his urine output...being a renal transplant patient.

These three could have gone a long way to save this man's life. I dont know the cause of his death but from the narrative above it is obvious.

l will not blame the young doctor because what happened to him (Dr Kiewv) happend to almost everyone at their infancy years in the profession. l put the blame on both Drs Balogun and Fadiran who knew what was at stake but never bordered to tell the young doctor to pass an NG TUBE (except if they did)...and to tell a patient with suspected intestinal obstruction to go home (after giving pain relief) is unheard of.

Doctors always do your best to save that fellow lying helplessly before you.

To Ma'am please take heart!!

Abeg, please share these lessons with your fellow medical doctors. Many of them are clueless and incompetent!

d33types:
Firstly..RIP to the dead.

Secondly .the man was a high risk patient hence the doctors were right to be cautious about medications.

Thirdly.. All the steps taken were medically in order

..even if he anesthesiologist wasnt needed till the man was critical. the radiologist wasn't needed until the necessary resuscitation was being done .

It's a very unfortunate situation.. But its giving the dog a bad name to hang it.. Nigeria is bad for all of us..imagine calling the anesthesiologist by 9pm and he leaves home immediately but because of traffic he arrives late then you blame him 'chai doctors don suffer sha..
I swear Nigerians are damn ungrateful ..Doctors are the very few coping with the poor system.

Well it's because she's well to do

Those steps were NOT in order! Read her post again. The anaesthesiologist was not called at 9pm. She took him back to the hospital in the morning. What medical intervention did they give him? A drip and an injection. Was that the way to treat his case? Don't forget that his wife said he was in pain! You doctors can be terrible! Trying to cover up for one another.

Orikinla:
Only Almighty God JEHOVAH wiil save us in Nigeria. I keep on telling people that corruption is not what is destroying Nigeria, but incompetence and ignorance. Many doctors parading themselves in hospitals in Nigeria are not certified medical doctors and the Nigerian Medical Council has failed to investigate the medical staff working at many clinics and hospitals to verify their professional qualifications. Dr. Chris Ngige should be the new Minister of Health and he will overhaul the health care and medicare system in Nigeria. We need Cuban medical doctors in Nigeria.

You are right about incompetence and ignorance causing a lot of problems in this country. That Dr. Kevwe should be sued, taught a very big lesson and used as an example to the rest of the medical community.

Mstrsheikh:
It's just like brandnew and was bought so

Guy, please go and do your homework first, on the price of Nigerian registered used cars.

nairalandist:
3.2milla for naija used rx350... very cheap. Goodluck.

LWKMD!! ROFLMAO!!

Can it fly for 1 million??

Sharliex:
I get ur point though. But seriously just do the research. huffingtonpost, mashable, dailymail...these are all blogs that earn big money every year. We re talking dollar millions here. And I believe Lindaikeji is one example. Blogging is not as easy as it sounds though, in fact 50 percent of blogs dont earb, only 10;percent earn enough to pay the bills, other smaller bloggers include johnchow, neilpatek and so on. These people are earning a lot. Blogging is a business just like any other.

Hi, does Linda Ikeji have the same kind of readership or followership that Huffingtonpost, Mashable etc has? Does her blog command the same numbers and level of advert revenue that these blogs you mentioned, already have? Those are the salient questions. In Nigeria, the level of internet penetration is still quite low, compared with the USA, UK and other Western countries.

The number of people and companies that sponsor online adverts are still far lower in volume than those abroad. As a blogger, it takes a lot of work, time and energy to build up a followership and to increase your web traffic.

While it may be easier for foreign bloggers to make money, it is not just as easy for Nigerian bloggers to monetise their sites. Please let us compare apples with apples.

I still got a call from a friend of mine who is also a popular blogger in Nigeria - in fact, one of the top 10 bloggers at the last ranking - and he was complaining about business being bad, and how one of the banks that used to advertise their product on his site recently pulled it down citing inadequate media budget. They had to cut back on their media budget due to this TSA directive that has affected the size of their deposits! And he does not earn anything even close to 20 million per annum from his blog!

Abeg, I no fit talk. Nigeria Railways that keeps running its operations, as if they are running a shop at Ogbete market! Una no go take laugh kill person for here, biko!

Revolva:
Gerraaraa here!!!! Who don't know pple earn from blogging....not up to that amount they hypes 40million from bloggin a month...una be thief!!!! Kai....linda de earn 40million from bloggin a month na she never buy5 range rovers.....lol....i beg shut up...she get money from adverts from multinational compaany...not google adverts....how can google pay you milliions...so u wan rich pass the owners of google abi...u don't think..gal and again am not a hater...ok stop using words you don't know about...

Actually, even though I do not support Revolva's choice of language, I do believe he has a point. Most bloggers in Nigeria over-hype their net-worth. What is the statistics on the number of followers that they have?? How many hits a month do they get on their sites? What is their website traffic? What is the number of adverts they carry on their sites, per week? And what kind of revenue do they make from their ads? Don't forget that online ads cost a fraction of newspaper ads. A ThisDay Newspaper can charge over 500k for a full-page colour advert in one single edition, for example. But an online advert banner cannot command up to 60k for a month.

All these things are tracked and can be verified using different applications. Until I see hard core evidence pertaining to her website traffic and how much she earns per advert...am sorry, I cannot buy into that hype that she is worth 2 billion.

If you had said a 100 million naira, I may have even said maybe....but that would even be stretching it by a long mile! I hope the tax man is watching all of Linda's moves and they would raise the proper assessment papers based on her suppossed net-worth!

I can see detached storey buildings and duplexes oh. Where is the bungalow?

Sweetguy25:
Do you want to compare the standard of education in the 80s to what obtains today? Jeez! Have you ever been to a male hostel in a Nigerian federal university in present times? I finished from one and I can tell you that is not a rosy experience. We were seven roommates in a 2 man room, it is even in a worse condition now.
Things have changed, you can say that Nigeria was bad then but the truth is that it is worse now. There is more competition in everything- there are more universities and polytechnics; more graduates;

The social media is nothing. For the most part, it has become a tool that has been used to enslave the youth into perpetual laziness and redundancy. All the NGOs and programmes you mentioned are mechanisms and tools to avert disaster, if they weren't available, the youths would burn Nigeria to the ground because of their unemployment and hopelessness. They are nothing more than paliatives. They weren't needed back in the day because job security and employment were more available than it is today.

University students back then were hopeful that they would get employment once they graduate and this was the case. That is why Femi Pedro's friends could sit in their rooms and plan on starting a bank. Which graduate would dare think of such a feat right now?

I'm not trying to make excuses but Nigeria as at 2015 is almost useless. We shouldn't try to blame the youths for being lazy, we're nothing but vestiges of a totally failed educational and social system.

Guy, I really do not have the time or energy to take your points apart piece by piece, but trust me...you guys have it much easier now than it was in the 80s, when there was no mobile phone, and you had to queue for hours to make a 3-minutes call, if you were lucky to get a dial tone on the analogue sets.

There was no internet then, and no way to call up information at the touch of a button. Now you have all sorts of software programmes that are easily accessible. Now there are iPads, android tablets and all kinds of communication gadgets. Can you imagine what would happen if the world wide web were to go out of existence now, for just 48 hours?

And in the 80s, the quality of hostels in public universities was just as bad as it currently is, now. Flashback to 1985 when as a young kid, I used to go with my older relatives to visit my older siblings, in the universities. They had 6-8 people in a 2-man room, so what you are saying is nothing new. Free meals ended in 1979/80. So in the 80s and beyond, you had to pay for your meals. Accommodation on campus was NT guaranteed, even if you came from Kafanchan to school in Unibadan. And there were no jobs on graduation at that time, either. The communications sector had not been deregulated and neither were the banks.

Government controlled almost everything. NGOs providing training for the youth were non-existent, and career counselling was done in trickles as most people did not have access to such services. Today there are private universities in many states, and if your parents or relatives are rich enough to pay your tuition and accommodation costs, at least university education is guaranteed. This is why we urge folks like you to go back into history and conduct some research. Be thankful for small mercies, as things could have been worse.

Today, you have mobile apps for transferring money online and ATMs that can dispense cash on demand. What did those youths have then? Today, there are online job portals like Jobberman, CareerNG etc. to aid your job search. Did anyone have that in the 80s? Whosai!

Yet they were still able to think constructively outside the box. The Femi Pedros of those days, were working hard at their day jobs, and brainstorming at night, on how to create a great bank that would change the face of the industry.

Innovation does not depend solely on how much cash you have in your pocket, but how much creativity resides in your brains!

chiefokonkwo:
Useless girl. I am an old man, n I have placed a curse on you. You will never find a man to marry you, mark my word.

Haba! You be God?? What makes you think you have the final word on a person's destiny?

Another thing - what makes you think she is not already married, sef?

@DollyParton1, your mouth will put you in trouble. Kindly put a hold on the hate speech, abeg.

MisterLongman:
I thought he was a superhuman. How come he still in detention since wednesday despite all the supernatural powers.....

What chukwu okike abiama waiting for?

Hey, stop it! Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain! The Most High God Chukwu Okike Abiama, who is the great Creator and Provider, is watching all those clowns who have been hiding behind His name to perpetrate treason.

Freemanan:
Funny thing is the Igbos are great folks... I am a part of the race indirectly. They are one of the best set of people you can meet in this country. Just some lost bigots trying to make them look monstrous... Ewus

Daalu nu! That is why I cannot stop talking sense to the misguided e-warriors that keep recycling their failed propaganda on these threads.

indigene:
Only four of you? When have you started stealing cocoyam and cassava with chinese plastic toy gun on eke market day?

ROFLMAO!! LWKMD!

somegirl1:
Friends/ age-mates of the bride who accompany her on her first outing to greet the inlaws usually wear matching attires and hairstyles.
This concept was never called asoebi or ashebi or anything of the sort, however matching outfits worn by friends of the bride is not new to Igbo culture.

When exactly did this culture start??

Thanks for your kind words, Delpee. I stumbled across another article that made my day. It was the text of a speech delivered by Chude Jideonwo at the Red Media Awards recently. Again, it reaches into events of the past to draw inspiration for the present and lessons for the future.

"We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants” | by Chude Jideonwo

..... I speak often about culture. It is my favourite topic. I speak often, and passionately about the cultures that define our nation, and how many of those behaviours appear to be at the root of our national decline.

By this I don’t mean who we are, more than I mean what we have become: the attitudes, prejudice, stereotypes and behaviours we have learnt as we have tried to survive corruption, military dictatorship and several civil and other wars.

One of those cultural anoles is the arrogant dismissal of the past. It has never ceased to amaze how every time someone wants to do something new in Nigeria, they start by dismissing what everyone else there has done before they. You hear ‘Oh, TV was rubbish! Oh radio was bad! Gosh, what have our advertisers been doing?”

There is also the epidemic of people – especially younger people – declaring that ‘XYZ has never been done before’, or ‘this is the first time this is being done in Nigeria’ or ‘I am finally going to do this right.”

I grew up hearing this from peers, but years after it hasn’t ceased to shocked me. This pervasive sense of disdain, of disrespect can only come from the collapse of perspective and the absence of history as an imperative.

And that is why Nigeria is stuck in a vicious cycle in many areas – without the benefit of history, of institutional memory, of learning what we did well and what we did not, of not knowing where the rain began to beat us, how can we know how to do better, what to stand on, where to begin to build? If we do not know where we are coming from, how on earth can we know where we are going to?

Surely the same gaps in knowledge that make young musicians feel that they are first to reach massive international audiences, and deal massive global collaborations in a country where everyone from King Sunny Ade to Majek Fashek to, of course Fela Anikulapo-Kuti have been there, done that, have the t-shirt, threw it away, bought a new one and then rocked it for years. We have a history so rich by success, by victory, by massive accomplishment in the media and creative industries.

That’s not just something I say, that’s the philosophy that underlines our work – a deep humility and abiding appreciation for the history of our country, for the leaders who worked under extremely difficult circumstances, at a time when very few people understood the media, at a time when it was yet emerging, to build this industry that we have now.

But then maybe it’s because many of us in RED grew up on ‘I am Prince Jide Sokoya, the only son of the soil and by the grace of God, the youngest millionaire in the whole universe’, on Nigerian content, and therefore we have an understanding of what makes it special, of why what our forebears did was special.

Up until this moment, I remember I felt in the public relations activation of Onyeka Onwenu and King Sunny Ade preaching the message of birth control, I remember how perplexed my young mind was that every show on TV had on its credits Peter Igho and Grace Egbagbe, I grew up interesting in knowing how my former boss Levi Ajuonuma did that magic where he spoke to the camera and everyone watching felt he was talking to you directly.

I think of the genius of the Bagco Super Sack ad and how viral it went before many of us knew what viral meant, or the forever standard that the ‘MKO is our man’ ad from Rosabel set those 22 years ago. I grew up in awe of these creators.

And I see all of them here today, and my heart swells with pride, with excitement, with joy, with love, with reverence, with awe.

We are truly standing, this generation, on the shoulders of giants.

You, our mentors and forbears, icons and legends, across television, radio, print, public relations, advertising, are those giants.

For sure, older people bear some culpability for the Nigeria that we have today, but you won’t find many of those ones in this room today.

You are a different breed, truly worth celebrating. You inspired this young boy in Ijeshatedo who grew up on the columns of Helen Ovbiagele and Mike Awoyinka, and watched Frank Olize every Sunday night. Who looked longingly at Insight when he was in Secondary School and wanted to join that company as soon as he was out. You inspired a generation.

You made it possible for us to dream, you made it possible for us to imagine as far as our passions could take us, you took the path less travelled at a time when your peers chose the usual and the convention – banks, politics, oil. You created something truly special.

You know, in a country where most awards are given to politicians, to billionaires, to corporate fat cats, and to anyone who can pay money for it, some of our honourees here were shocked when call we called them: “Why are you doing this?”

The underlying question obviously was: In Nigeria, why would anyone do something so obviously not for financial gain?

The answer is simple, and this is the simple answer truly: "it is a decision of the heart and not of the head, driven by gratitude rather than balance sheets. Our hearts wanted to do this. Our souls wanted to do this. Our very beings wanted to do this."

We wanted to say thank you. For courage, for chutzpah, for character, for creativity, for depth. Thank you for passion, for ambition, for purpose.

So tonight, we thank you. Red Media Africa thanks you. Nigeria thanks you. I thank you. http://www.bellanaija.com/2015/10/17/chude-jideonwo-at-the-theredgala-we-stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-read-the-powerful-speech/#comments

cheruv:
O gi vu histerika! I nula
Amaghim ihe mere mmadu chineke kere gaeji noro nāghori one ya
Zuzupum n'ihu kam hu ndi kwu oto!

Continue asking God questions about the human beings He created, maybe one day He would give you the answer. The reason I have refrained from exchanging words with you, is because I know you are a kid who has been brainwashed. Achòḷù ̣m̀ kà ị ghọdo ife m nà-èkwu òf̣ụma. Those who have brainwashed you by making you subscribe to thoughts of war, do not seek your well-being or those of your people.

Chukwu Nnà, bikō zọpùta ānyị n’aka ndị niiìṇe nā-akpọ ānyị asì.

e7ejinima:
Definitely, no interest in passing off anything as Igbo.

Don't forget the subject of search was not beads. I am surprised your eyes went straight to beads.

If you know how google search works, it tries to pick every item with the keyword tag. So you may even see a recent car in the picture list, whatever.

Retrain your eyes to the fabric patterns and take all the beads, alright. They are all yours.

If you search "akwete" in Wikipedia, that's what you will get

Thanks

Hehehe.... I don't need the beads! You went overboard in trying to prove that the akwaete is the traditional cloth worn by the Igbo. In your bid to make your point, you just copied and pasted everything from Google, without bothering to check which of them would enhance your post or buttress the point you are trying to make, and which one would discredit your points.

Just one photograph, of the woman weaving the cloth, would have sufficed. But no, you had to go in for an overkill and in the process made some blunders. I won't even tell you all the other things wrong with the rest of the photographs, you have pasted here.

Guy, grow up!

e7ejinima:
Sir, all that came as is in Wikipedia. I didn't create it. Source = Wikipedia.

Even Wikipedia is not always 100% accurate. So kindly cross-check details, before re-posting them. That beaded cape or top, is NOT an Igbo outfit. It is an Edo/Benin one, which is worn by women for their traditional wedding, or other ceremonial occasions. Kindly cross-check, and please do not pass it off as an Igbo attire.

cheruv:
AgwuNsi!
Apari gi na NL a akariala.amaghim ihe mere onye tozuru oke dika gi gaeji naezuzughari.ebe obula a kporo Igbo maobu Biafra I mafete ka ukpala.
Azzigba!

Why are you getting hysterical?? Let me warn you again, you are just looking for trouble! Nobody is stopping you from taking hold of your Biafra. Bikō kpụmìga! I will hold back from exchanging words with you, because you are too small.

cheruv:
And you from hypocrisy!

Am trying my best not to insult you or curse you in Igbo. That was why I overlooked your last statement. But if you persist, you would not like my response. Be careful. Kpachalụ anya!

e7ejinima:
Gentlemen,

Note that this thread has had over 1,400 views. My point is that even though it is clear that the Op came out to spew his ignorance, please, instead of coming down hard on him, educate him. Provide him with the knowledge that he lacks that is fuelling his prejudice. And by so doing, you will not only improve him but also improve the knowledge of many others like him who are watching from a vintage point but may not be joining in because the thread is becoming so monotonic. You can also see that not many Yorubas, his people seemingly, are coming to his rescue.

Please do not assume anything. Do not ask him to Google anything. He might not know how to approach that basic step of information search.

I will therefore answer some of his worries:

He wanted to know if there was any traditional clothing for the Igbos. Yes, actually many but with everything about Igbo history, it was difficult for the white colonialists to understand our ways being so republican and vibrant. Self determination was in Igbo land long before the whiteman came.

So for the cloths:-documented and undocumented:

1. Akwete. "Akwete cloth weaving is said to be as old as the Igbo nation." Vanguard. Read more:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/akwete-cloth-an-igbo-textile-art/
Akwete cloth is a unique hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete in Abia state, Nigeria is famous. -Wikipedia

Akwete is the most documented of Igbo traditional fabrics. It was so sophisticated that the patterns and motifs had copyright as far back as then. Traditionally the creator of a new motif is granted an unwritten copyright. Artiste Victor Uwaifo sang so colourfully about akwaete.

2. Ekete. A loin cloth made of local cotton, very often worn as a day-to-day common cloth. It is spurn from local cotton and is much more affordable than the ceremonial Akwete. It is also used in some sling chairs used by those who can afford it. It is also used a lot by the masquerade cult.

3. Ogodo. Thin strip of cloth meant as inner wear for men

4. Igba. A tougher form of ogodo mostly dorn by wrestlers

Guy, just an observation. The photograph tagged Enyi'm and Ejima'm, has a beaded top in it, worn by one of the women. Isn't that the same beaded top called 'ewu-ivie' worn by the Bini/Edo women for wedding ceremonies??

cheruv:
Agwunsi!
Amam na o bu ebe a ka I gāmabata!

May God deliver you from your silliness!

klax:
I can't stop laughing at my own people or do I say my papa people because I'm yet to be convinced I'm from the east, but was it not in this same NL some anuofia said buhari recognised biafra and his speech at UN meeting gave biafra a hope And I said it then you mean buhari of Nigeria or buhari of biafra that gave such hope many were so upset with me now here is it that same buhari now is now evil isn't

You want to leave Nigeria and get biafra country but still installing useless Eze everywhere isn't You want biafra and yet still clamouring for more ministerial nomination isn't You want biafra but yet refused to vacate yoruba, edo, hausa, igala land isn't You want biafra yet all your livelihood, your money, your properties, your business, your everything is in Lagos, Abuja, ibadan, kano etc and yet you want biafra you must be kidding my people I repeat you must be kidding, you are not yet serious I mean you lack seriousness.

Fed Govt should arrest him and lock him up until the igbo wake up and understand you don't stay in another man land, develop the land and left your own land in shambles and underdeveloped and be asking for biafra nonsense.

I know I have angers them again and pour salt over their wound well take it pain that way ok. Truth pains like mad but must be said

Bros, may you live long! Kpù ̣okwu n’ọnū. Abeg, help me tell them! Maybe they would receive the truth, since it is coming from you....

I said something similar to what was highlighted up here, in another thread. And some retar'ds started jumping up and down in a frenzy, calling me unprintable names. One of them even became paranoid - cutting and pasting senseless remarks repeatedly, because of his myopic hate-filled vision, without being able to propose a solution to the dilemma you have articulated so clearly up here.

May God save us all.

cheruv:
Igbos are tired of that regional nonsense!!
Since 1970,we've been championing the course for ethno regional autonomy yet some sections think that we're joking kos they thought they won a war
Now,we've gone past the phase of regional autonomy and are pressing for full independence. And I'd suggest Nigeria do some soul searching kos the next phase in which I'd participate is a violent war that'd ruin this country and open it up for absorption by Niger, Benin and Chad.

And may that violent war you have been clamouring for, first consume you and your entire kinsmen before it fizzles out. Amen!

Rayhut:
Did you read this link that you posted, the man said that Yoruba's can't fight , that his battalion at Ore is more of hausas, that Yoruba have less than 1000 men in Nigerian army and most them are service men which cannot fight, you people will come here and claim that Yoruba drove Biafra army out of Western Nigeria

Did you read my post? My post simply stated the name of the commanding officer of the battalion who stopped the advance of the Biafran army towards the Southwest. And yes, he was a Yoruba man. Apologies if it offends your sensibilities. If you want more info on this aspect, please read the book Tragedy of Victory by Godwin Alabi-Isama, a retired soldier.

And contrary to what you stated here, the man said most of the Yorubas in the army were not trained soldiers, but clerks, administrative staff etc. so they could not fight, which was why he now had to train them on how to use arms and fight, under his command. Due to their small number, Obasanjo had to send additional 150 troops who were Northerners and mostly Hausa chaps to beef up his battalion at Ore. But there was no love lost between them and there was a lot of suspicion among soldiers cutting across both ethnic groups.

Please read the article again with an open mind.

DollyParton1:
You think his British Citizenship can't be withdrawn? You will be shocked at the speed that UK will employ to dissociate themselves from him

The rule below is applicable in his case.

"For example, passport facilities may be refused to or withdrawn from British nationals who may seek to harm the UK or its allies by travelling on a British passport to, for example, engage in terrorism-related activity or other serious or organised criminal activity. This may include individuals who seek to engage in fighting, extremist activity or terrorist training outside the United Kingdom, for example, and then return to the UK with enhanced capabilities that they then use to conduct an attack on UK soil. The need to disrupt people who travel for these purposes has become increasingly apparent with developments in various parts of the world."

Chukwu biko!

tonytony208:
You seem to be the ignorant one here. Who won the final battle in the civil war? It was Colonel Obasanjo. Nothing you can do to change that. Who sent your useless ruffian rapist slaughterer army out of Midwest back to Biafra? It was a Yoruba captain from ondo town with his 180 soldiers (I can't remember his name now). Nothing you can do to change that. Why did biafran rebels blow up the Niger bridge? because they were afraid of the Nigerian army pursuing them. Nothing you do can change that. Ignorant fooool!

The federal soldier who stopped the Biafran troops at Ore was Col. Raphael Oyinlade Iluyomade (rtd). He commanded a platoon of 33 soldiers at Ore, which was later increased to 179 soldiers, after the invasion of the Mid-West, and the movement of the rebels towards the South-West.

http://thenationonlineng.net/we-were-least-prepared-for-war-when-biafran-soldiers-attacked-my-command-in-ore-major-iluyomade/

mightyhaze:
am not a yorroba bla bla bla blaaaaa! Get out of my sight u bladdy hypocrite. No time 4 numbskulls ds buriful evnin.u can bleat 4m now till eternity abt not bein yoruba,I don't care ok. Am gon try my hands on dis challenge dis reasonable op threw at reasonable ppl,...2 see if I cud resist d urge 2 descend on tribal bigots like u,startin 4m now,...u can wear urself out now on my mentionss as am sure u wuld,I won't evn see it.goodbye

See this ekwensu making silly noise here. The hypocrisy on this thread flows from your veins. Can't you see it? Mugu! Continue to play the victim.

And the word 'numbskull' was given to you at birth, have you forgotten?? Anuofia! Don't let that deceit and tribalistic hate that you feel for other non-Igbo groups kill you before your time. Silly twerp.

Emilokoiyawon:
You started the civil war and we FINISHED it. Why are you complaining? #blackscorpion

BTW - if you are not yet 'full' please, pretty please start another civil war.

ROFLMAO!! LWKMD!

MeandSum:
Let's start with a caveat: 90‰ of Nigerians pay no tax! 99‰ of Igbo "businesses" pay zero tax.

Una no go kill person with laugh for dis place!!

Kagawa10:
The Eze himself narrated that ibos has been living in Akure for over 70yrs! How could you live in a land for years without knowing the culture of the said land and its people?
That's not even the crux of the matter, the problem is staging a protest after he was warned!

Eziokwu!! Talk true! He was warned not to wear his crown to the palace and he still disobeyed?? Maka, why? And what happened to his fellow protesters? Updates, anyone?