₦airaland Forum

Abuheekmat:
Yahoo boy king

Generalnomercy:
You can not.

I invite you to join those who will be sent to rig the election. Then you'll know that rivers is not your mate in machine guns.

Nbote:
If U have to dispute someone's claim atleast make sense

FuckThaMod:
It's funny what mere 30k can do to some nigerians sense
You think obi is stupid and wicked like ur fellow yoruber thugs? That man u seeing is a free happy man and doesn't need to take politics as a do or die affair. Moreover the loser can feed you and ur descendants, who is the looser here?

kinibigdeal:
Man U fan right now

Wiseandtrue:
That we have to re-assess!!! Him (Sen Bruce) for saying the truth or you a perpetual zombie!!!

Before you criticize Bruce remember that the man is into wealth creation himself!!! He knows what he's saying!!!

So choose your words carefully!!!

Because a man whose wife can lose N2.1B to an aid cannot be said to be poor okay

Not all Nigerians are stupid!!!

LiveByNight:
Exit to the other side

enemybulldozer:
Stop spewing trash!
How did Kanu and ojukwu instigate the fight you talked about??

What is special about Yoruba history that will make Sen. Ogunlewe to study the Yoruba history??

If the Yorubas always finish what they started, Why did they allow Kwara state to slip away from them??

If the Yorubas are strong and mighty in battle (as you want us to believe) why did they allow the Dahomey women (which some of them were even pregnant) to decimate them??

eagleeye2:
In one area it is okay to elevate a Thug, in another area it's a Taboo.
Someone should give me a better definition of Hypocrites.

Escalze:
I was generally talking about the good old days not late 90s and 2000. Are you part of the indomie generation?

cute9ja:
Claim 4
Every Other Tribe but Igbos Are Betrayers – Ijaws, Yorubas and others

The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers. That
was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post-Independence and led to a
succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for the next thirty three
(33) years.

The Fact

Through the first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except the South Eastern Region.

As the coup appeared unsuccessful, J.T. Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This and subsequent actions sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War
.
On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup popularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup), an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.

Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December 1966 by the Supreme Court.

His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria – sounds familiar?

Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Ralph Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal six months after the coup had taken place. Their dates kept being moved, Aguiyi-Ironsi kept dilly dallying. This formed the reason for subsequent destructive actions that played out.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. However, a revenge coup was executed on July 29 led by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was killed. Major Yakubu Gowon took over, released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally and re-instated him into the Nigeria Army with his previous rank. By this time, dark and ominous clouds had stared to gather over the North as reprisal killings against South Easterners were unleashed by Northerners.

As a result of the large mass of people of South Eastern extraction being maimed and slaughtered by Northerners, on May 30, 1967, Major Odimegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu declared secession of South Eastern from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, declared Biafra Republic and drew a map of Biafra which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.

Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier. Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.

But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. Who betrayed who?

Claim 5
Ojukwu Declared Biafra because other Nigerian tribes did not like the Igbos and failed to honour the Aburi Accord.

The Fact

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-Secession decree (Decree no 34 of 1966) aka the Unification decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging.

Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of the Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbo considering that Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and un-elected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle.

Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected representatives of federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi, the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all side lined for politically naïve soldiers to hijack the process in January 1966 under the guise of getting Nigeria rid of rotten and corrupt politicians.

By principle, it is unheard of that soldiers make laws for the people rather, the elected civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and majority accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians agreed that on no account shall the military take over power (Azikiwe, as President, twice invited the Military to take over in 1964) while also clearly stating that amendments to the constitution could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.

On the day of his inauguration as the Army GOC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource
control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft.

That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dis-honouring of sacred agreement. The primary actors who breached the first agreement that all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, happened to be of Igbo extraction, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

SOURCE - http://www.nigerianeye.com/2019/03/the-igbo-elite-and-professionals-and.html

cute9ja:
By Folorunsho Kuku

In this piece, historical facts helps to dispel many of the false claims about how the Igbos have been unfairly treated over the course of the years within Nigeria and instead throws light on how the decision of their elites, knowingly or unknowingly, brought thrust Nigeria into its current abysmal state.

Claim 1
Igbos claim to have always been cheated out of juicy positions in Nigeria thus the clamour for regional and political restructuring where they are unable to secede from Nigeria.

The Fact 1.1
While Tafawa Balewa presided as Prime Minister of Nigeria, several positions, now famously considered “juicy”, across the country were led or headed by the South East.

Security Chiefs
1) General Officer Commanding (today’s equivalent of Chief of Army Staff) was
Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi from Umuahia in present day Abia State
(1965 - 1966)
2) IG of Police was Louis Edet from Calabar in present day Cross Rivers State
(1964 – 1966)
Executive & Cabinet Ministers
1) Governor General & First President was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was from Enugu
State
2) External Affairs (today’s equivalent of Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Minister was
Jaja Wachukwu from Aba in present day Abia State
3) Education Minister was Aja Nwachukwu from Ebonyi State

Education Leadership
4) First Unilag VC was Professor Eni Njoku from Ohafia, Abia State.
5) First Nigerian Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan was Professor Kenneth
Dike from Awka in present day Anambra State.

Northern Leaders led by Sardauna Ahmadu Bello however resisted same from occurring at Ahmadu Bello University insisting that the North will prefer to have a foreigner head the school until the North had produced a qualified administrator.

The reason for this was that by the late 50s and early 60s South East dominated the senior ranks of the Northern Civil Service after the British colonial staff rushed to leave the country as agitation for independence grew louder. What is obvious is that as each region attained self-determination, leaders of each ethnicity sought that its people lead or head these institutions located within their regions.

Dissatisfaction of the way the polity was run by politicians across Nigeria culminated in a mutinous coup executed largely by senior ranking South Eastern officers who executed Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Brigadier General Maimalari and a host of the crème of the North’s leadership as well as Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Regional Head of the South West region.

The plan of the mutinous soldiers had been in the works since 1964 and Major Nzeogwu gave the instruction that led to mayhem and blood-letting on the morning of January 15, 1966. Reading the details of the main actors involved, it is surprising that they failed to see how skewed those they eliminated largely represented a certain demographic of the growing nation.

Of all the senior ranking officers in Nigeria at the break out of the 1966 coup, there were fifty five (55) officers (officers as at June 1959 are listed below), the SE had thirty seven (37), with the exception of Lt-Colonel Arthur Unegbe (Quartermaster-General of the Nigerian Army when the January 1966 coup broke out) no other Igbo man was killed.

Of the eight ( officers from the North, six (6) were killed while of the ten (10) officers from the South West, two (2) were killed. Note that the Igbo Majors as at 1966 who were the primary brains of the coup did not join the Army until the early 60s and are junior to those listed below.

In an awkward twist of fate and curiously, the headship of the government when the coup failed, fell into the laps of another Igbo officer, J.T. Aguiyi-Ironsi, (being the most senior military officer in the country) despite not being one of the coup plotters. Aguiyi Ironsi with help of a leading legal expert, subsequently imposed a unitary system of government on the country.

QuotaSystem:
Always remind pained trolls that no matter the situation of the jungle, an Almajiri will NEVER descend to the sub-human and satanic level of stealing their wives pants or using them for human sacrifices as is rampant in the south just to escape poverty. They will never engage in cannibalism or mine skulls for money, neither will they transform their daughters wombs to baby production lines - just to escape poverty. God forbid, our values are much higher than that.

They will rather preserve their humanity and beg for alms like destitutes all over the world from Europe to Australia

BlackMbakara1:
They should take it to the "yeast" and develop their land...

Mrakeli:
A pan-Yoruba group, the Oodua People’s Congress, has warned ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and those planning to foment trouble during Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections to stay away from the Southwest in their own interest.


It also warned them to stop issuing inflammatory remarks and threats of attacks on the Yoruba.

Dokubo was widely reported in a section of the media a few days ago to have threatened to deal with the Yoruba in a video posted on Youtube, if non-indigenes were attacked during the polls.


In a statement issued yesterday by its President, Comrade Dare Adesope, the group said its men were prepared to protect Yoruba and their Igbo counterparts in Lagos State.

He said: ” Asari Dokubo and others should mind their choice of words while addressing Yoruba people because it is very clear that the Yoruba are not enjoying the privilege we give to the Igbo and other tribes in their land.

”The presidential election is over and we are looking forward to the governorship poll. We have decided to stand up to the task and protect our states by ensuring that the election is violence-free. Any group planning to disrupt the poll should have a rethink because OPC(R) is prepared to resist such act with our last blood.


”Heavy presence of our members would be adequately felt in all the polling booths across the Southwest.”

virtue of this , we are imploring all registered voters to come out and exercise their franchise without fear of attack from any quarters.

”And to all Igbo groups and persons threatening to attack Yorubas, I am sounding a strong warning that they should give it a second thought because we are very ready to defend our people. They should know that the gentility of a tiger is not is not an act of cowardice.”

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/03/elections-stay-away-from-yorubaland-opc.html

oladeebo:
Atiku I'll gotten wealth must be investigated
Oladeebo

pazienza:
Your head is touching.
What does IGBO has to do with it?

Incase you don't know, Asaba is an Igbo city, and it's people and King identify as proudly Igbos.

Take your Igbo hate elsewhere.

kiddoiLL:
Straight-up it's Hanks but That guy way talk say Na Hank Inspire Django Unchained dey mad for head

Gabriel004:
Yes, they have one. Oya mention any Nobel laureate that igbo have. Well, falz already finished it. Person wey no get work dey ask if my watch is original.

Base1line:
Unintelligent bigoted Igbos was my comment chastising Asaba or the foolish Igbo insult those from Asaba or do you both want to claim that bigot is not your kinsman? With lies u tell daily Igbos population in Asaba may not be up to 0.5%. The day I believe any PDP population claim on NL May I never live to see the next day. Amen