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this pictures have been posted on nairaland long ago but i thought that i should re-post them for history purpose and to also refresh our memories on why the biafran dream and the efforts of our dead biafran heros shall never be in vein.


for non-biafrans, look at the pictures and judge objectively. if going through all these evils in the hands of the Nigerian government while trying to bring the biafra back to Nigeria and after achieving there aims of bring back the biafrans, the igbos and other biafra are still met with injustice,marginalization,ethnic cleansing, boko haram and other forms of evil.

with all these,will you blame the present igbo and biafran generation for still justifying biafra??

Nchara: Hausa/Fulani kill Igbos and Yorubas and other non-Hausa/Fulani in the North. That should not be surprising as Igbos/Yoruba/other non-Hausa-Fulani are outnumbered there and can really not sustain a fight.

In the same vein, it is expected that Yoruba kill Igbos and northerners in the West due to their outnumbering of these non-indigenes

Same expectation if Igbos kill Hausa/Fulani (and they have done it) or Yorubas in the East.

What is surprising is that Hausa/Fulani kill Yorubas in Yorubaland despite being outnumbered in Yorubaland

Hausa/Fulani cannot even dream of attacking Igbos in Igboland, neither can they mute such ideas in the Niger Delta

Sapele people dealt with the abokis in Sapele and Aba and Onitsha people did same in their cities

Hausa/Fulani kill Yoruba in Oyo, Lagos, Ogun and take their land in Ekiti, Ondo and Ilorin. Can we the Niger Deltans and Igbos help Yorubas for once? Or do we sit back and let them be run aground by Hausa/Fulani?

The Yorubas around the area should have confronted the Hausa Boko Haram without asking for OPC. If this has happened in igboland or to the niger delta people of edo and delta,only God would have known what the outcome would have been.probably the news would have been truck load of northers fleeing to military baracks because of the fear of being slaughtered by the igbo.

Any way, this is exactly what happened to the Yorubas during June 12, that a man like Abiola was dressed like a woman. A hunter became the hunted. The late Dim Emeka Ojukwu, Eze Igbo Gburugburu, may his soul rest in peace for the love he showed to his people which they reciprocated a million times, said to his Igbo people, if the aggressor comes to you, in Igboland, don’t even think twice before killing him, and if they attack you while you live in their home town, run as far and fast as you can, until you see a place called Biafra,when you are at home you would be protected. Yorubas don’t have liver for fight. Even the Alaye (Area boys) are even scared to face real fight.It’s a yoruba thing, they only make noise, and are only known for their Owanbe.

Onlytruth: hehehe!

When we were kids (around 9-10 years old), one boy in our play group had a weird way of reacting when you provoke him. He would simply ignore you and start pushing the youngest member of our clique. This boy would NEVER confront the real foe. He would always take it out of whoever he thinks he can fight.
So, one day, he repeated the same thing with a "small boy" who newly moved into the neighborhood. The boy lifted him up, threw him to the ground and fed him with sand!
That was how the new boy bought his "freedom" from this coward boy.

One day, some of you will provoke something in Lagos that you cannot handle. All these attempt to take out your frustration on Igbo will lead to something that can even change the ownership of Lagos permanently.We are not like aboki, but what I know for sure is that the Igbo have more investment in lagos than in any other part of Nigeria. FACT!
That alone will ensure that our reaction in Lagos will never resemble our reaction in the North. Be warned!

GBAM!!!God bless.like as if you have been reading my mind

bittyend: My point is that Hausas are warlike people - and they deserve the same treatment. As for the Igbos, they live in la la land. There are more Hausas in Lagos, and the entire SW than Igbos - they just don't make noise like the Igbos do. Igbos can never take over Lagos, not in the next gazillion generations, trust me. To reduce the 3/4 of population of Igbos is very easy - just attack alaba market, and 90% of them will be on eastern buses the next morning, heading towards the East. Or leave it till christmas, when they're all gone - and take over all their enclaves in Lagos

The day you try that or attack any igbo business interest Lagos,that will be the beginning of the the death of yorubaland.you better be very careful with the kind of comments you make also be very careful in choosing your enemy.igbos don't see ofenmanu,ofenmanu don't count in the arena.that is why engaging ofenmanu is a waste of time.we love peace like every normal human being but do push the igbos because you will never know the resultant end couple with the fact that Lagos is the heart of yoruba land and we are equal in number if not more in population in Lagos.the death of Lagos is the death of yorubaland so don't dear play with the tail of the sleeping lion.imagine bombing third-mainland bridge and turning VI,lekki and the whole of highland to a Syria-like kinda war front,will you wish Lagos that kind of war?be very careful what you wish others cos it can befall and destroy you even more.

Evil conspiracy will surely meet-up with Nigeria no matter how fast they think they can run, the blood of the slain Igbos in the West and North will not shut up until The True Judge Of Heaven vindicate them.
Yoruba brethren, take heart this is just the beginning. Igbos have fought and won their freedom fight for neither North or West will dare Igbos before or accross the Niger in this dispensation.
Lest you forget we are ONE NIGERIA! (my foot)

https://www.nairaland.com/815610/northern-women-now-into-drugs


drug women from the north

"The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself".
- Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, Walter H. Lang on September 25, 1918.

of what use is it when the education is not been used to transform the economy.

owo2390: Ile-Ife - Home of Love!

(Not a large city town but a quasi-city town)

guy wetin dey worry you.if ife is a city then what is oshogbo?

ife is more or less an ancient village that is lucky to have a federal presence(Obafemi Awolowo university) and that has transformed it to a quasi town and nothing else.don't come here on NL to propagate rubbish like there are not people from ile ife on NL.Be warned unless i will embarrass you with pictures from ife of those tilty houses which is typical of an average yoruba town.

Shor ra re oo

Dede1: I am not a stranger to Port Harcourt, Aba, Lagos, or Onitsha. If you had read my post without bias, you would come across a statement such as “Remove Crude Oil Activities from Port Harcourt the city dies a natural death”. Believe me, I stand by it. I remember when I used to go to Abonima waterside to bring drums of Akamere (kinkana) and loads of smoked fish for my mother. Port Harcourt might have had Wharf but all the importers and businessmen came from Aba or Onitsha with warehouses in those cities. People from Ogoni, Port Hacourt, Afam, Eleme and Obigbo went to Aba to engage in trading activities.

By the way with the trend of economic and industrial development seen today any city can serve as a hub for economic activities. The city does not need to be a crude oil city. It is only in Nigeria crude oil is an alpha and omega. In USA, cities such as Houston and New Orleans, which handle crude oil activities as does Port Harcourt, are considered backbenchers to cities such New York, Los Angeles or Las Vergas when business activities are subject of discussion.

To support your argument and also why portharcourt is not fast growing as one would expect with the presence sea port.read this carefully

Pandemonium broke loose. People were running helter-skelter, wailing. Those who could not wail were shouting. Commentaries upon commentaries were all over the media. The cyber cafes were flooded. Everybody wanted first-hand news. General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is dead. Nigeria and Nigerians stood still.

He died early hours of Saturday, November 26, 2011, at Hammersfield Hospital London. His family and close associates confirmed this. He was ill about a year now and had been receiving treatment. His death has been unfolding many in the Pandora’s Box. People like Generals Yakubu Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo have refused to briddle their tongues since Ojukwu died. They are now exhuming what was supposed to be left for history. Gowon, like Obasanjo, because they saw theirselves in positions they never expected all their life, by their prosecution of Ndi’Igbo in and after the 60s, they would not allow Ndi’Igbo to wipe away the tears on their (Ndi’Igbo) eyes, before they started to make derogatory statements against the dead. In his statement on his master, General Ojukwu, all Obasanjo could recall was that he requested Ojukwu to apologize to the nation for coming up with the Biafran state, “but that Ojukwu refused”, while Gowon is blaming Ojukwu for leading Biafrans to the war. It is a pity that Obasanjo have not realized that he had egocentric interest; never really cared about anybody, including his Yoruba race. While Ndi’Igbo are trying to stop taking Gowon serious, Obasanjo is goofing. Ndi’Igbo will never stop to remember Ojukwu for what he stood for, the sacrifice he made in the name of freedom for Ndi’Igbo and Nigeria in general. Gowon and Obasanjo have refused to remember those men and women who sacrificed so much in the name of Biafra and Nigeria. Maybe, the “the Sword of Damocles” is now hanging on Gowon and Obasanjo’s heads and they are making mentally subnormal utterances.

Since Gowon and Obasanjo have refused to allow the sleeping dog to lie, one issue their statements have made Ndi’Igbo and Ngerians to recall to is the issue of ‘Abandoned Property.’ This phraseology was given after the Nigeria/Biafra civil war – 1967-1970. Ndiigbo who are majority Biafrans left their property in the old Rivers State created in 1967, and fled for safety of their lives during this war. After the war they came back to Rivers State to start up a new life, they were deprived of their property. Rivers men and women claimed Ndiigbo property worth Millions of Pounds unlawfully and characterized it “Abandoned Property” with the connivance of the Nigerian state.

The Nigeria/Biafra war didn’t just come up. It was after the Northerners gruesomely murdered Ndiigbo, in what was called retaliation of some Northern elites, who were killed during the January 15, 1966 coup. This coup was adjudged as a pointer that Ndiigbo wanted to “dominate” all spheres of life in Nigeria. But the fact was that the coupists never consulted any of the known prominent Igbo leaders. The North characterized it as “Igbo-inspired Coup.” Hence, they killed Ndiigbo in the North. Ndiigbo mutilated bodies were ferried down their land amidst tears. Ojukwu was among notable Igbo sons and daughters who stood up and cried and called the entire world to come and see the pogrom that was committed against Igbo. The Northerners wanted to break out of Nigeria. Hence they saw anybody who was not from the North as an enemy.

The Northerners circulated falsehood as necessary motivation for executing the civil war. They said that General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi’s military regime was tending towards unitary form and if not stopped, would be detrimental to the heterogeneous composition of Nigeria. As a result, some scholars have asked that if unitary government was against Nigeria’s corporate interest between January 15, 1966 and July 28, 1966, how come after the July 29, 1966 revenge coup, unitary system of government was consolidated and perpetuated within Nigeria even till present-day? What changed after July 29, 1966? They have asked that could it be that some sections of Nigeria were entitled to impose and operate a unitary form of government on other sections of Nigeria, while some other sections are not entitled to do the same. The scholars have further said that the Hausa-Fulani, while hiding their real intensions for the war, co-opted the Yoruba in the project. Both these groups set about poisoning the minds of some Eastern Nigeria minority groups especially the Ijaw with phantoms of Igbo “oppression” and “domination” so much so that both the Eyo Ita incident and Udo Udoma’s COR movement issue became ready ‘examples’ adduced as representative of Igbo ‘domination’ of Eastern Region minorities with the potential to spread to other parts of Nigeria, if not checked by collective effort. The unsuspecting Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni amongst others, swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker.

Ojukwu’s death has refreshed the memories of Ndiigbo on the evil of ‘Abandoned Property.” General Yakubu Gowon was it who led the Nigerian soldiers against the Biafrans. The war took millions of lives of Ndiigbo and impoverished them during and after the war. It was Chief Obafemi Awolowo who advised Gowon in 1967 to diminish the powers of Ndiigbo. His heinous advise was that Gowon should divide the old Eastern region by creating two states out from it. But this was Awolowo who was released from the Calabar prisons and taken to his Ikene home by Ojukwu’s aids. Awolowo gave this ill advise shortly after his release from the prison. It was his advise that born Rivers and south eastern states. These states were used as an easy access by the Nigerian state to humiliate Biafrans.

Shortly Rivers State was carved out from the old eastern region, Biafra’s main base in Calabar and Port Harcourt fell to the capture of the Nigerian soldiers with the aid of some people characterized as saboteurs. The Igbo victims fled Port Harcourt when the city was captured by the Third Marine Commando Division in May 1968. Olusegun Obasanjo was the General Officer Commanding Third Commando Division in 1969, with headquarters in Port Harcourt, and was seen as one of the hands guiding the then Rivers State governor, Lt-Commander Alfred Diete-Spiff. When this was achieved by the Nigerian soldiers, historians would say that Ken Saro Wiwa was allegedly among the Rivers State indigenes who led other like minds from the state to Gowon. The outcome of their meeting was an accord with the Gowon-led government that should the war end in favour of Nigeria, the state would take over all that Ndiigbo left behind in River State.

In 1970 the war ended, Gowon pronounced his Kangaroo statement: “No victor, No vanquished”. While this lasted, because an agreement is an agreement, Ndiigbo property they worked hard to institute in Rivers State was sharply coveted by the Rivers indigenes and was immediately given the name – Abandoned Property. Ndiigbo were hand-twisted over their property. However, Awolowo, while the war was going on was given the Federal Commissioner for Finance, a gift from Gowon for denouncing his earlier stand to declare the Odu-Dua Republic. His stand on this republic was hinged on the prospect, should the easterners declare the Biafra republic.

While the Yoruba people respected Awolowo, Ndiigbo venerated the commands and the wishes of Ojukwu for their undying patriotism to their different regions. Ndiigbo were fighting to live, while Awolowo had announced a total naturalization of all the companies Ndiigbo had so much interests in, especially on the Nigerian side. His International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiation of fund was to fund the war in favour of Nigeria – his pay master. He didn’t stop there, he channeled some of the percentage of this fund into the National Bank. This bank was solely owned by the westerners. As a result of this, Yoruba people had direct access to loans for the purchase of the share interests taken away from Ndiigbo till date. Conversely, through these rigorous adventures orchestrated against Ndiigbo by Awolowo, Ndiigbo did not lose even a pin in the entire Yoruba land after the war, but they did in Rivers State that was supposed to be their brothers and sisters.

Although Ndiigbo didn’t lose property in the Yoruba-land after the war, but one of their own, who took the helm-of-affairs as the military president of Nigeria in 1976 took Ndiigbo less than a beast. This person was Chief Obasanjo. It happened after the death of Murtala Mohammed. The representations of Ndiigbo in the federal level were next to nothing. Courtesy of Obasanjo. A lot of people said that it was the hatred culminating from the Yoruba-race since during the war that made Obasanjo to hand power over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1979, even when Shagari, it was clear in many quarters, did not win the election with the two-third(2/3) majority, as stipulated in the Nigerian electoral rules. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe – Igbo – was allegedly robbed in that election.

Going down memory lane of how Ndiigbo have been unjustly humiliated in the Nigerian state since forty years the war ended is a crying shame. In 1999, Dr. Alex Ekwueme emerged as the most preferred candidate in the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primaries, but the same machinery that have been in use against Ndiigbo was used to float him out of the race in favour of the same Obasanjo. It was this same skimming out anything Igbo that converted Igbo businessmen into street hustlers, following “The harsh post-war economic policy” that was meted out against Ndiigbo. The distinguished President of the Senate, David Bonaventure Mark, allegedly chaired and rationalized the properties of Ndiigbo in the Old Rivers State. A “Statesman” like Chief Edwin Clarke has been manipulated severally as a major beneficiary of the abandoned property, no matter how he has tried to exonerate himself from this situation.

Anytime Chief Clarke was brought into this issue of Abandoned Property, he sings lullaby to Ndiigbo, claiming that the statement is a blatant falsehood deliberately calculated to tarnish his reputation and to incite his very ‘good Ndiigbo’ friends to hate him. He would categorically state that he did not acquire any abandoned property in Port Harcourt and that he does not own even a kitchen or any property in Port Harcourt at anytime before or after the Civil War to this day. “It is indeed, a deliberate falsehood and malicious assassination of my character,” he would say. But what Clarke has refused to tell the world was that he moved to re-install Ijaw hegemony in Rivers State, even though that he comes from Delta State, in what many Nigerians have described as, “by all means necessary.” This followed his full support of Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State since 2007 the later was clamoured to have been imposed on Rivers people as governor, a man many have said was declared winner of an election in the court of law and installed as governor in an election, he did not contest.

One phenomenon that has kept the Nigerian state aghast about Ndiigbo is their skyrocketing socio-economic status, even when deprived much of Nigeria’s political positions. Ndiigbo are surmounting all odds in the Nigerian state without rehabilitative assistance from any quarters, locally and internationally. Upon their hard earned property seize in Rivers State, they are not leaving anything to weigh their entrepreneurial spirit down. The memory of the roles Awolowo played against Ndiigbo during the war has only deterred a progressive and prosperous Southern Nigeria and Nigeria, but people are just pretending.

In the later months of 2007, Ojukwu visited Rivers State. The issue of abandoned property unofficially characterized his visit. Many Nigerians were of the view that the Rivers State government might re-open the issue. From virtually all quarters indications were prominent that Ojukwu’s visit was to impress on Amaechi the need for a retroactive abrogation of the Abandoned Property Edict. There were also feelers that the federal government might be uncomfortable with the alleged move. This information was hinged on the fact that it could further heat-up the already militantly over-heated Rivers State. The issue was that Ojukwu seldom visits a serving state governor, so why Amaechi?

A lot of people feared that Amaechi, Ikwerre, may not move fast enough to repeal the land grabbed by the indigenes in Rivers State, because “… abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property “law” was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as collaterals for bank loans. That was a master stroke after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone N20…The fiction of abandoned property was embellished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa State. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing… my view is that this should have been called “Stolen Properties” instead of “Abandoned properties,” said an observer.

Not even Spiff helped Ndiigbo to attain their “stolen property” back by the indigenous Rivers people. He was even alleged to have plotted with Obasanjo and the Federal Government to further hold unto the decision against Ndiigbo takeover of their property back. There has been doubt by many Nigerians over the speculation that absolutely nothing is to be gained from the purported review of the Abandoned Property. They allay their claims that the point was that the Rivers people kicked the Igbo nation in the stomach, while it laid prostrate on the ground, adding that such a review would have made sense in the 1970s, when Spiff was in office.

More were yet to crop-up from this issue, as many Nigerians were saying that the next aim of abandoned property was to award Port Harcourt to Ijaw henchmen as war booty and edge the Igbo people into the fictionalized enclave called East Central State with no access to the sea. The Ijaws accepted their task with unbridled zeal and this had two consequences (a) destruction of the port in Port Harcourt and the migration of Igbo import-export business to Lagos, Cotonou and other ports in West Africa (b) the destruction of the real estate sector in Port Harcourt and the flight of capital to elsewhere.

Nigerians have gone further to say that the Igbo nation has learned a valuable lesson from the abandoned property saga and moved on. Despite the suffering of individual property owners, the overall outcome has been positive. Ndiigbo have learnt to think home always. Alternative growth points have been created everywhere in Igboland – Asaba, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Umuahia etc. Igbo trading network in West and central Africa has diversified away from Port Harcourt, as its focus and has been strengthened rather than weakened. Abandoned property has also enabled the Igbo to be more realistic about the distribution of infrastructure in their country. Today, Owerri with its 5-star hotels, universities, wide streets, housing estates and Airport exists side-by-side with Port Harcourt. And Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AKIA) Enugu, will complement Port Harcourt international airport and Owerri, to give people more choice in the region. Abandoned property has thankfully re-oriented young Igbo away from unhealthy fixation with Port Harcourt and diversified development thinking in Igbo region.

There is a school of thought that says that those who owned abandoned property are mostly dead or have moved on. Any so-called review now is not for their benefit- more to sooth the conscience of those reviewing it that is apparently haunted by their treachery. Review or no review, Igbo people have moved on. This is one piece of theater that should be pointedly ignored by every worthwhile Igbo. But other people are of the opinion that even though that the owners of the abandoned property may have died, their wards can inherit the property. The late elder statesman Sam Mbakwe, former Governor of the old Imo State, is praised to have tried to handle the collective cases of the Igbo landlords in Port Harcourt, even though that there was rare significant outcome. The question now is why majority of the abandoned property on the Ikwerre land went not to the Ikwerre people but to those from the Riverine areas of Rivers State.

Majority of the people are asking for curtail of degrees of mutual suspicion and antagonism amongst all the groups involved in the war in one way or the other. According to them, the issues from the war have so poisoned the political atmosphere in Nigeria, corroding any traces of future political unity between and amongst the ethnic nationalities, which constitute Southern Nigeria. They are asking for the abrogation of the over past decades Igbo and Yoruba, for selfish and self-serving considerations, refused to bury their differences and chart a mutually beneficial political and economic course for Nigeria. They pray and believe that the death of Ojukwu will bring about the long sought peace.

Nigerians in many quarters have confirmed that Ojukwu is a General of the Peoples Army of The Republic of Biafra & General of the Army of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, son of the Richest Black Man of his time and also an Oxford Graduate, he was never and will never be a tribal warlord as Biafra is not a tribe, like Gowon and Obasanjo have painted her to to be. Gowon and Obasanjo should remember that Ojukwu joined NPN (Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba party), not NPP (Igbo party), when he contested for the senate. He was born in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in November 4, 1933. He started his early life as a hero and died a hero. The Old Boys of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, King’s College, Lagos, Epsom College, Surrey, England, and Lincoln College, Oxford University, England where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree in History, would be crying more than. He joined the civil service in the then Eastern Nigeria, upon his return to Nigeria in 1956; he enlisted in the Nigeria in 1957, and was posted to Nigerian Army depot, Zaria, as one of the graduates that joined the military during that period, though as a recruit. He had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and appointed Quartermaster General, Nigeria Army, by 1964. He was everything good until his death at 78. While Nigerians would be morning him greatly, he would be deeply missed by the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), a political party he was its national leader. His death to Ndiigbo is like they are now abandoned property. But what can they say other than “Ojukwu farewell”.
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ndahbros1: @ OP:

PORT HARCOURT IS NOT AN EASTERN CITY.
IT IS IN THE SOUTH-SOUTH OF NIGERIA.

you need to go back to school.if elele,port harcourt that is just the next door neighbour of owerri is not in the east so where is it.you are still been deceived by the Nigerian political geography.i pity you.

By the way,let me ask you mumu. what makes imo.abia,anambra,enugu,ebonyi more eastern than cross river,akwa ibom and rivers?

alj harem: LOL you have respect for him and you call him Yoruba rather than Yoruba. Also those that don't like Ojukwu are not tribalist rather you should ask yourself WHY they do not like him.

Lastly Ojukwu is not and would never ever be the greatest Soldier ever produced in Nigeria neither would he be the most brilliant.

If you talk of great soldiers, then you talk of Adaka Boro and Effiong and if you talk of brilliance you talk of Victor Banjo and Effiong.

Thanks for you time

Mumu tell me what those nams you mention have contributed to this nation.if you dont know Ojukwu is not just the greatest in nigeria.he is the greatest in africa pairing side by side with mandela.he gave us black men our black can do consciousness.to believe and not to depend on the white men.do you know what it will mean for the black world if we all follow ojukwu's legacies??in less than 10yrs we will be spring up the black japans,black koreas,black chinas,black Germanies.

"The war has come and gone but we remember with pride and hope the three heady years of freedom. These were the three years when we had the opportunity to demonstrate what Nigeria africa would have been even before 1970. In the three years of war, necessity gave birth to invention. During those three years, we built bombs, we built rockets, we designed and built our own delivery systems. We guided our rockets, we guided them far, and we guided them accurately. For three years, blockaded without hope of imports, we maintained engines, machines, and technical equipment. The state extracted and refined petrol, individuals refined petrol in their back gardens, we built and maintained airports, we maintained them under heavy bombardment. We spoke to the world through a telecommunications system engineered by local ingenuity. The world heard us and spoke back to us. We built armoured cars and tanks. We modified aircraft from trainer to fighters, from passenger aircraft to bombers. In three years of freedom, we had broken the technological barrier. In three years, we became the most civilized, the most technologically advanced black people on earth."::::Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

obviously the akinyemis,the soyinkas,the tunji braithwaite,the tinubus,the babangida aliyus,the Olugbenga Ashirus,the Bola Akintenrinwas and the rest all know better.so i will not indulge in senseless argument with you.

manchy7531: AS top research fellows from Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and Indian Council on World Affairs (ICWA) ended a two-day conference in Lagos, a strong case has been made for better relations between India and Nigeria as well as other African countries.

According to speakers at the two-day event entitled Second India-Africa Academic Conference, the relations between India and African countries should transcend trade bilateral relations into India, with its rich credential as the oldest democracy, promoting democracy on African continent and using its position as a regional economic and military power to promote joint causes.

They also proposed a more active intellectual collaboration and exchange between research organisations in India and Africa like the current one between NIIA and ICWA to generate ideas and inputs for the formulation of policies to enhance diplomatic co-operation.

Those who canvassed these positions included Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru; former Minister for External Affairs, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi; India High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Mahesh Sachedev; Director- General of NIIA, Prof. Bola Akintenrinwa; his counterpart in ICWA, Ambassador S.T. Devare among others .

Ashiru commended the rapid growth of Nigeria and India bilateral trade as well as the Asian country’s investment drive in Africa.

The minister asked India to, apart from promoting bilateral and investment drive in Nigeria and Africa, support the quest to entrench democracy on the continent as well as assisting in tackling and re-defining unequal power balance in the global environment.

He also noted that key elements and issues in Indo-Africa relations such as the trade and investment opportunities have always dominated the discourse on the future of relations between India and Africa.

On the relationship between India and Africa, he said it dates back to some centuries ago featuring early trade links.

“Today India’s presence in Africa has grown beyond those early historical and diplomatic links to include substantial economic interests and investments. India has shown serious interest in Africa’s mineral resources and energy, and is already engaged in competition with other new economic diplomacy in Africa.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80361:name-defence-academy-after-ojukwu-group-tells-govt&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

i have so much respect for Prof Bolaji Akinyemi and he comes to me as one of the most brilliant Yoruba technocrat that ever lived. For him to be one of those calling for the renaming of NDA after ojukwu goes to show that there are still some detribalise man and women who at any point will make their decision base on merit and worth.

I think NDA is the best to be named after ojukwu and not one street or district like as it is been name after all those treacherous politicians. Because Ojukwu is the greatest solider and most brilliant leader that Nigerian has ever produced.

AS top research fellows from Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and Indian Council on World Affairs (ICWA) ended a two-day conference in Lagos, a strong case has been made for better relations between India and Nigeria as well as other African countries.

According to speakers at the two-day event entitled Second India-Africa Academic Conference, the relations between India and African countries should transcend trade bilateral relations into India, with its rich credential as the oldest democracy, promoting democracy on African continent and using its position as a regional economic and military power to promote joint causes.

They also proposed a more active intellectual collaboration and exchange between research organisations in India and Africa like the current one between NIIA and ICWA to generate ideas and inputs for the formulation of policies to enhance diplomatic co-operation.

Those who canvassed these positions included Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru; former Minister for External Affairs, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi; India High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Mahesh Sachedev; Director- General of NIIA, Prof. Bola Akintenrinwa; his counterpart in ICWA, Ambassador S.T. Devare among others .

Ashiru commended the rapid growth of Nigeria and India bilateral trade as well as the Asian country’s investment drive in Africa.

The minister asked India to, apart from promoting bilateral and investment drive in Nigeria and Africa, support the quest to entrench democracy on the continent as well as assisting in tackling and re-defining unequal power balance in the global environment.

He also noted that key elements and issues in Indo-Africa relations such as the trade and investment opportunities have always dominated the discourse on the future of relations between India and Africa.

On the relationship between India and Africa, he said it dates back to some centuries ago featuring early trade links.

“Today India’s presence in Africa has grown beyond those early historical and diplomatic links to include substantial economic interests and investments. India has shown serious interest in Africa’s mineral resources and energy, and is already engaged in competition with other new economic diplomacy in Africa.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80361:name-defence-academy-after-ojukwu-group-tells-govt&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

na today una dey know say odua na the next almarjiri nation after North.North sef still better cos 4 odua na so so half naked/naked beggers you go dey see plus mad people wey dey plenty for road like say them dey do canival.

All na wetin Awo don produce from him fake free education whey dem no fit defend(forgery). some people talk say na part for the biafran curse(no be me talk am oooo),very soon tragedy go enter the land come destory them.The anger of the lord is already visiting odua.

"The Hausa-Fulani north has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace parasite to any community to which he seeks to attach himself".
- Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, Walter H. Lang on September 25, 1918.

Ikemba: Now coming to the wider question of the East attending, if it
is a Reconciliation COmmittee then it must be reconciling warring
parties. A Reconciliation Committee can not have the parties
within, somehow, it does not work, unless, of course, they have
already agreed on the major issues, because reconciliation
is to stay in the middle of the warring parties. And one thing
is so clear in the Nigerian situation: certainly the North
and the East are warring. For any Reconciliation Committee to
do justice to the East, it should not have Easterners and
Northerners
in it.[b] That is one point. How does the Reconciliation Committee
expect us to go to Lagos ? Can you, Sir, imagine Sir Kashim
Ibrahim coming to the East to meet and discuss ? The critical
point of the Eastern stand is that the East cannot go to any place
where there are Northern troops. That tells his own story.
The North has made it abundantly clear that no association
if they are not controlling the central machinery, is acceptable
to them. Even in the face of the resolutions of the South,
the Emirs, feudalist Emirs, had the audacity to dictate to the
South; [/b]first that they will not allow the Northern troops to leave
the West until they are satisfied that the West has got sufficient
troops.

the bolded is a clear indication that the north don't in any way have wanted the south to rule this nation.that is what we are seeing with GEJ and the evolution of Boko haram.

i pity some of you Yoruba foools that are arguing blindly.the bolded above is a clear indication that you guys have been slaves to the oligarchy and fear and cowardice have made you remain as a slave.by the way from the post.it was clear ojukwu knew what he wanted.Awo the rat sucide bomber was just ranting and making fake promises which ojukwu been an intelligent man knew Awo himself could have been used by the north to set him up so that he would be murdered.

After the war Awo was refused presidency.that was why AWO died a sucide bomber and the remains of his body was thrown into the lagoon, why his bones given to gowon's dogs and his heart used as sacrifice in his ogboni fraternity.

Leyelyzo: How? Ojukwu was able to achieve his aim of creating a biafran state or what? If you go down rightly to the memory lane, Yorubas' has always been anti-north, always opposing the north. Or was AG, UPN, AD, ACN not an opposing party? When in history do you have the Yorubas going with the north? Instead was it not Zik that allign with the north at one point or the other?
The west has never in anyway feared the north or any zone, its just that we believe more in united Nigeria. Not that we couldn't survive on our own.

mr man you are talking rubbish.which one Nigeria did you want.was it not awo that first demanded that the south should have it independence which zik refused for the inclusion of the north?. when he now had the opportunity to achieve his odua nation what did he do?the north bribed him with the post of finance minister and also promised him presidency to betray a man that released him from prison.not just betray him he also declared the asset of his people abandoned,refuse them food aid and called for their blockade.even if he did not believe in ojukwu's quest for biafra, why did he not just stay neutral,why did he use the war to show his long time hatred for the igbo race?

AWO was just and opportunist and an ingrate.that is my conclusion.

Ikemba: Now coming to the wider question of the East attending, if it
is a Reconciliation COmmittee then it must be reconciling warring
parties. A Reconciliation Committee can not have the parties
within, somehow, it does not work, unless, of course, they have
already agreed on the major issues, because reconciliation
is to stay in the middle of the warring parties. And one thing
is so clear in the Nigerian situation: certainly the North
and the East are warring. For any Reconciliation Committee to
do justice to the East, it should not have Easterners and
Northerners
in it. That is one point. How does the Reconciliation Committee
expect us to go to Lagos ? Can you, Sir, imagine Sir Kashim
Ibrahim coming to the East to meet and discuss ? The critical
point of the Eastern stand is that the East cannot go to any place
where there are Northern troops. That tells his own story.
The North has made it abundantly clear that no association
if they are not controlling the central machinery, is acceptable
to them. Even in the face of the resolutions of the South,
the Emirs, feudalist Emirs, had the audacity to dictate to the
South; first that they will not allow the Northern troops to leave
the West until they are satisfied that the West has got sufficient
troops.

the bolded is a clear indication that the north don't in any way have wanted the south to rule this nation.that is what we are seeing with GEJ and the evolution of Boko haram.

i pity some of you Yoruba foools that are arguing blindly.the bolded above is a clear indication that you guys have been slaves to the oligarchy and fear and cowardice have made you remain as a slave.by the way from the post.it was clear ojukwu knew what he wanted.Awo the rat sucide bomber was just ranting and making fake promises which ojukwu been an intelligent man knew Awo himself could have been used by the north to set him up so that he would be murdered. but finally God pass all of them.

2015: Don't distract me, Jonathan warns northern leaders


President Goodluck Jonathan last night asked Northern leaders not to distract his administration’s agenda with its politics of 2015 succession.

He also said he is spending his first term in office and could not have been pursuing a Third Term Agenda.

The President fired back at the Northern leaders through his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati.

Abati said: “The President is focusing on governance and he remains committed to the transformation agenda. And he refuses to be distracted by those who are already playing the politics of succession.

“It is not in any evidence, in any way, that the Belgore Committee, which the President set up to look at the outcomes of previous political conferences’ recommendations, has submitted any report, any where.

“I am not aware of any report that has been submitted any where making any recommendations. We would expect that people, who claim to be major stakeholders in the Nigerian project, when they make contributions, their contributions will show commonsense and decency.

“To comment on the report of the Belgore committee that has not been concluded and a report that has not yet been submitted, will amount to witchcraft or if you like sorcery, and it is therefore curious and entirely mischievous. As far as I know, the Belgore committee has not concluded its work.

“It also appears strange to me that a group of people, who otherwise would be described as distinguished Nigerians, would claim that the President is looking for a third term.

“Every intelligent man in this country knows that President Jonathan is in his first term in office. So, how have they suddenly jump from first term to third term. From the point of view of arithmetic, even their claim cannot stand. So, that claim is weak, it is unacceptable.

“If their concern is about the seven-year term tenure, President Jonathan has made it clear that his proposal is out of patriotic concern about the amount of wastefulness, greed, tension, conflict and the obsession that go into the search for second term.



http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/39987-north-warns-panel.html

“It is borne out of patriotic concern that elected officials at all levels should dedicate themselves and concentrate their efforts during a specific period. This proposal is not original to the President.”

It's unbelievable that those suspects could beat our armed security men effordlessly. Surprisingly, there was no single gun shot. The incident should be thoroughly investigated

surely the escapee bombers will die another day.

Nigerian Soldiers 'Intercept' Boko Haram Vehicle Loaded With Bombs On Gombe-Bauchi Road
Posted: March 15, 2012 - 05:48

By Saharareporters, New York
A car loaded with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) by suspected Boko Haram sect members was this night intercepted in Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi State.
The sect militants were reportedly traveling with the assembled IEDs to an undisclosed location in Bauchi from Gombe State.
The Information Officer of the local government, Muazu Haruna confirmed that the bomb laden car was intercepted at the check point.
“The soldiers stopped them, and there was no chance they could speed past them. When one of the soldiers popped open the boot, the driver and other persons took off upon sensing danger. The soldiers ran after them, but they somehow escaped.”
Muazu added that the main road has been blocked, and the car sealed as the anti-bomb police unit from Bauchi State Police Command was expected on the scene to help defuse the IEDs.
The paramount traditional ruler of the area has visited the scene.
The Nigerian Army had in February announced the relocation of 3rd Amoured Division Nigerian Army, Jos to Gombe, stating that, “following the intractable security situation in the North-East region of the country, army headquarters recently ordered the GOC to move the division’s tactical headquarters to Gombe to properly coordinate and fight the activities of criminals within the region. The General Officer on relocation to Gombe went on a tour of the area of responsibility during which he warned that the division would not condone any act of criminality within the area. He added that those who think they could challenge the division would be decisively dealt with.

The embattled SEC boss who has been shown to abuse her office threw mud at the lawmakers grilling her
Under fire Director General of the Security and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh, fought back fiercely today after being accused by lawmakers for abusing her office and embarking on limitless spending.

Today, Ms. Oteh said the lawmakers are furious at her because she turned down the request of the chairman, House capital market committee, Hernan Hembe, for a N44million tip.

Ms Oteh said the lawmaker first asked for N39 million to defray the cost of the ongoing public hearing, and when she denied, the chairman asked for N5million.

That was in addition to the commission sponsoring a foreign trip for members of the committee, and paying them estacodes.

The hefty accusations have unsettled the mood at the hearing, which is being beamed live on television, and lawmakers are scrambling to play down the concerns.

After the allegations were made, Mr. Hembe asked to identify representatives of the EFCC and the ICPC at the hearing, and said he was surrendering himself to their probe over the charges.
Lawmakers discussed informally the possibilities of containing the news, with senior members questioning why the event was screened live in the first instance.

Premium could not ascertain the veracity of Ms. Oteh's allegation against the lawmaker but sources close to her said she arrived the hearing today fuming and threatening that she would unsettle the lawmakers and make them pay dearly for humiliating her Wednesday.

More to come...

are you sure those pictures are from abia cos they look like some places in osun and oyo states

so this made the front page?Another prove that nairaland moderators are silly,masturbat!ng tribalist.

so this made the front page?Another prove that nairaland moderators are silly,masturbat!ng tribalist.

Are nigerians not tired of naming their twins

Taiwo and Kehinde,
Peter and Paul,
Victor and Victoria?.

Why cant we use names like
Copy and Paste,
Find and Replace .
Clearing and Forwarding,
Dolce and Gabbana,
Goodness and Mercy,
Facebook and Twitter,
Input and Output,
Open and Close...


Nairalanders suggest names

A comment from olatunji in vanguard

Gowon and Ojukwu’s Funeral.
No need for all the lame excuses. We do understand; Nigerians are no babies. It was a wise decision to stay away from the Ikemba's Funeral. With the level of passion prevailing across the spectrum, the presence of Gowon could ignite the dry tinder. The intricacies of 1966/1967 viz. the Igbo massacres, the Aburi Accord subterfuge, the genocidal war, the steal named abandoned property, the punitive impoverishment of the Igbo, the 'no victor, no vanquished' hoax that kept many ex-Biafra soldiers in jail- constitute the monstrous luggage he would have brought with him. It is all available in the public domain. He battles with an introverted castigation. There is hardly a day in his life the thought of the 1966 pogrom fails to flash across his mind.
It is doubtful if the military has the word "OPPONENT" on its lexicon. It is either 'FRIENDLY FIRE" or "ENEMY FIRE". To hedging around and refer to Odumegwu-Ojukwu as "OPPONENT" is cowardly and pretentious. He is unable to get over his hatred and disdain for Ojukwu and his kinsmen. He should use the right appellation -"ENEMY". Warfare is not like a boxng or soccer match were you deal with “OPPONENT”S.
Only a little girl could take his call. It is both despicable and embarrassing that at his age, he relished speaking "... to his (The Ikemba's) little girl, Ebele, that answered the phone and we had a good conversation with her". The graphic nature of this remark would make one mistake the author for a sexual predator or pedophile of some sort.
Gowon has tried to keep a straight face in spite of the heavy burden of guilt he has never bothered to make up for. There is no doubt it will haunt him for the rest of his life. His life is an absolute living hell. It is arguable that the perennial loss of innocent lives in Jos and environs has everything to do with the evil he brought home. Hiding behind the ACF skirts and toting bibles and running around the place for prayers will not help. It is all about 50,000 innocent children, women and men massacred under his watch as "SUPREME COMMANDER". All that hypocritical display of piety will not make it go away. After all, this very same Gowon could let down 50,000 defenseless Igbos who had believed that, being Christian, he would not allow the massacre. Today, we know how Christian Gowon is.
Nobody sees honor in a soldier who turns his gun on the civilian compatriots he swore to protect. The brutal slaughter of 50,000 innocent compatriots, for the only reason that they were Igbos, offends the conscience. It is not some triviality that can be erased from Gowon's