₦airaland Forum

ThoniaSlim:
i still maintain, till the hausas go. no peace.

The Hausas are not the problem. Ignorance, illiteracy, lack of respect for fundamental human rights, intolerance, non-adherence to constitutional provisions etc. are the real problems. There are many Northern Christians, including Hausa ones. Go to various Local Government Areas in Kaduna state, and see what is called discrimination. At least, you southerners in the South, can live, worship and enjoy your lives in peace, without being victimised by almajiris or fanatical, brain-washed zealots who have chosen to interprete the Qu'aran upside down.

Go to Sokoto, and see if you won't trek miles before you can find a church to worship in, because most of the churches are outside town. Why?? Some religious, mis-guided zealots who have been in charge of the state from inception, decided to deny Christians permits, to hold services in the centre of town or build churches close to the city centre. It is so easy to sit and launch attacks on the whole North, without realising that the North is a widely diverse place. In fact, the uneducated, common man in the North suffers more, because some of his religious leaders, have chosen to keep him perpetually in penury & subjugation, by using religion as a means to enslave his mind. And once you control a man's mind, you can control his destiny.

denex:
When I claim that Okocha is the greatest footballer in the world today, no Igbo man accused me of being an Igbo lover.

When we were expressing our sorrow at the death of Ekene Dili Chukwu, no one harassed us that we should leave Igbos alone.

When we hail Nnamdi Azikiwe as a man who meant a lot to Africa, nobody paid us heed.

Now because we want to expose a selfish, cunning trickster that used the lives of more than 2 million people as bait, they say we're Igbo haters.

Haba, denex!!  Don't you think everyone is entitled to choose his or her own hero?

You guys are being unfair to Seun. Check through all the other threads on this forum. Several people have said many derogatory things about Awolowo, and other people from Seun's tribe. Yet, he has never banned anyone for that. It even takes him forever, before he closes any thread that deals with such topics.

So kindly cut him some slack. Am not from Seun's area, and I have never met him. But I don't think he is as bad as you guys are trying to paint him.

Planner:
So Oga wetin be your point?

Go back & read my previous post.  It's all in there.

Planner:
Its in Dawodu.com that you would see all the write up by Omogui. There's no way Igbos will be killed by northerner without some form of provocation from some quarters. And
Thank you very much for giving us some inkling on how your mind works. So you solely depended on an article written by a very biased writer? I have also read some of his articles on igbo people and the civil war.

Ono et al, why do you people insist on burying yourselves in your own argument?

Er. . . . .I was actually the one who made the first reference to Omogui. Ono never relied on him, or cited his work as 'facts'. And I wouldn't refer to him as a 'biased' writer. So far, he seems to be one of the very few, who has written extensively about the war from various perspectives. Other writers such as Alexander Madiebo who served in the Biafran army, as well as a few others like Frederick Forsythe, Wole Soyinka etc. have shared their own accounts of the war, with the public. But am still waiting for Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu to do so. His last book "Because I'm Involved," did not address the issues that led to the war & its' aftermath. I just wasted my money buying that book.

We need to learn from the past, because those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, like someone once said. May this country never go through the turmoil of war, again. Amen!

SMC:
LOL. You really believe all the crap this asshole spews? Please don't. I am almost sure he is a pauper. Can't you see that he posts the same picture all the time. He claims to have been all over the world and the only evidence he shows is a suspicious jeep (which in all probability isn't his) which is in a dodgy neighbourhood with buildings that look like dormitories. He can't write simple English. I doubt he can speak it too. I won't be surprised if he was stuck in Aba and had a relation or friend in the USA who feeds him news about things there.

I try to disregard peoples bragging and look at the whole picture for the proper story, and for the guy known as ABA4life, the story points at him being a poverty-stricken, frustrated, unemployed individual who constantly dreams of hitting the big one and making it big. Allow this dreamer to have his dream. Afterall, he has nothing else to console him.

Hehehehe. . . . .oh mi gosh!! I can't stop laughing!! Somebody pls help me! Kai!! SMC, you dey wicked o. See as you take hit the nail on the head, gbam, like that! Chei!

ThoniaSlim:
Birds of the same feather, flock together. Gbam.

Gimme a hi-five, girl! I knew you would spot the difference!!

ThoniaSlim:
i suggest you read her other posts in other threads, then you would understand better, why people are reacting that way.

Thank you, jare. . . am glad some people can read between the lines!

babyosisi:
then let them make their responses on that thread.
She said nothing wrong here

Ooops! Here comes the Defender of chichi81's universe!!  

Um, how come you said nothing, when she was attacking other tribes in other threads, and you are now here jumping to her defence, in this particular thread?? Hehehe. . .wonders shall never end!!

Hehehe. . . . why am I not suprised??

She started out on this forum by posting several nasty, nauseating statements about other ethnic groups. Now, that she is giving herself & members of her own ethnic group a medal, do you expect folks from the groups she had disparaged on a continuous basis, to now give her a standing ovation??

Abeg, make all of una cool down!!  

@denex,

I have read about the TotalFinaElf angle to the civil war, but since I do not have any facts to disprove or corroborate it, I will keep mute. But please note: you got it wrong when you implied the Igbo fought the war due to oil. NO sir!! The Igbo fought the war, because a large number of them had been killed in the North, and they needed to defend themselves. Period. Along the line, when resources were being depleted as the war was being fought, maybe the thought of using oil revenue to finance the acquisition of arms that would be needed to defend Biafra, may have arisen. But that war was not fought primarily to annex the oil fields in the Niger-Delta. NO!! Read up on the events that led to the 1966 coups and the eventual declaration of seccession. Nowa Omoigui as well as some British historians, have published some facts about what took place between 1966 and 1970. There have also been some non-fiction books written about the war. Draw your own conclusions, after you must have gone through them.

What I believe till date, is that all the peaceful avenues known to man were not fully explored to resolve the situation, before the nation was plunged into war. Like I keep saying "War is nothing, but the absence of wisdom." Those are not my words, but those of people who have seen enough bloodshed, to know that conflict resolves nothing.

Oh,. . . .na wetin be all dis?? Na dis kind thing I no dey like!! From a mellow, sensible exchange of views, the whole thing has suddenly degenerated into a slanging competition. Abeg, TayoD, Afam, Denex, Tornadoz. . . . . .make all of un bury di hatchet. . . .biko. E don do. . . .

TayoD:
@laudate,
Now here is someone who has information. It was Alan Dick!

Ah, I see. . . .Alan Dick and Plessey had a turn-key contract with MTN in 2001-2003 to deliver a specified number of BTS sites, when the construction of the 'yellow bahn,' took off. Now, MTN has more 'subbies' carrying out the job for them, on a larger scale.

Anyway, that was a digression. Am still scratching my head, trying to understand the reason for your hostility towards Afam! I don't get it o! Why can't we all express our minds in a milder, civil manner, ehn?