₦airaland Forum

Dsalvo:
Here we go again. Tribalistic IPoBian cannibal. I bet all your lineage are 'made in Lagos'. Yet all you Ingrates know to do is malign Lagos, the Yorubas and SW.

You deserve all the insult you get because no sensible and proud Yoruba will have time for the mischief of you ungrateful Igbos.

You benefit most from the SW but badmouth the region and people all chance you get. Whether you lot like it or not, Nigeria has to adopt restructuring and regionalism or die.


When that happens the suffering of you hateful, vagrant and opportunistic Igbos will have no part 2.

ManMountain:
Can Ibos unilaterally decides to dam River Niger ?

Let me know where to categorize your own sense

ManMountain:
I think the SW will be glad to kick you guys out of the SW.


The problem is your political and economic elites that are not leading this struggle, leaving it in the hands of barely educated thugs like Ekpa and Kanu

Meanwhile stay on topic of damming River NIger by Ibos to spite the North

Dsalvo:
Lol. You are the one mentioning intellectual not me. Must mean you believe I am.

This corroborates the inferiority complex that seeps through everything you write. Bruv, you're a tribalistic N1tw1t. Try to improve in 2022 for your own good.

ManMountain:
Not just geography, he need political-economy lessons.

The older generations of igbos understand that they are the greatest beneficiary of Nigeria both in market population and geography. However, it will take a reality shock on this current generation to understand what their grandparents understood long time ago

Dsalvo:
He is right. You're unexposed and your opinion shows this. Cumulatively, that makes you 'uneducated' in comparison to others.

Education is not book knowledge alone as some of you Nigerians believe. As a Lagosian and Londoner (yes we exist) I can tell you that you can go to areas of the UK, Like Surrey and parts of Manchester where the Man United players all live, i.e Alderley Edge, that are very clean and aesthetically beautiful with amazing mansions.

Yet not many Londoners would dream of swapping London for those 'sleepy' places. Ditto for Lagosians and New York dwellers.

London, like New York and Lagos is to USA and Nigeria respectively, is the cutting edge gold standard of everything be it fashion, career options, journalism, entertainment, art, media, architecture etal.

The OP is a dullard and you are not far behind because, like OP, tribalism and envy of others is your problem if you can be touting Abuja more developed that Lagos.

Faller:
In that case they should leave football abeg, no be by force...

Make them continue with their Kung Fu Champions League



Well China over North Korea Sha

ThatFairGuy1:
What are you doing to make her a hopeful country?

Remember you're also Nigeria (a part of the hopelessness)

KingAzubuike:
I used to live in Abuja before relocating to the states but for you to say Abuja is more developed than Lagos shows it's either you're not educated, sound or you don't go out. Even some places in the mainland is no match for Abuja not to talk of the island. You're talking about the former capital of Nigeria here. You're talking about where the British settled during their colonialism. Lagos is more developed in everything.

Abuja is still under development and should be competing with the likes of akwa ibom .

Hisbah21:
louder,let me hear u on more time,but in ipob voice

globemoney01:
Idiotic fool. only a fool starts an argument he cant defend. anyway, now you accept Obiano is not comparable with any SE gov so get lost

Hisbah21:
really Ipob

Drogunov:
Someone with a brain meaning a cannibal.

ThatFairGuy1:
That's to tell, the deed is everywhere.

STOP BADMOUTHING NIGERIA you unpatriotic lot

yommen:
Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first and the real betrayer of Ibos, the servant lover of the Hausa man, born and bred among Hausas.

Hisbah21:
Zik like his grandson Nnamdi kanu

yommen:
(1953) NNAMDI AZIKIWE, “SPEECH ON SECESSION”
POSTED ONSEPTEMBER 2, 2009BY CONTRIBUTED BY: BLACKPAST

Nnamdi Azikiwe
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In 1953 when Northern Nigerians were beginning to consider secession from the Nigerian colony that would soon be a nation, Nnamdi Azikiwe gave a speech before the caucus of his political party, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in Yaba, Nigeria on May 12, 1953. That speech, while not disallowing secession, suggested that there would be grave consequences if the Northern region became an independent nation. Ironically, fourteen years later, Azikiwe led his Eastern Region out of Nigeria and created Biafra, a move that prompted a bloody three year civil war. Azikiwe’s 1953 speech appears below.

I have invited you to attend this caucus because I would like you to make clear our stand on the issue of secession. As a party, we would have preferred Nigeria to remain intact, but lest there be doubt as to our willingness to concede to any shade of political opinion the right to determine its policy, I am obliged to issue a solemn warning to those who are goading the North towards secession. If you agree with my views, then I hope that in course of our deliberations tonight, you will endorse them, to enable me to publicize them in the Press.

In my opinion, the Northerners are perfectly entitled to consider whether or not they should secede from the indissoluble union which nature has formed between it and the South, but it would be calamitous to the corporate existence of the North should the clamour for secession prevail. I, therefore, counsel Northern leaders to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of secession before embarking upon this dangerous course.

As one who was born in the North, I have a deep spiritual attachment to that part of the country, but it would be a capital political blunder if the North should break away from the South. The latter is in a better position to make rapid constitutional advance, so that if the North should become truncated from the South, it would benefit both Southerners and Northerners who are domiciled in the South more than their kith and kin who are domiciled in the North.

There are seven reasons for my holding to this view. Secession by the North may lead to internal political convulsion there when it is realized that militant nationalists and their organizations, like the NLPU, the Askianist Movement, and the Middle Zone League, have aspirations for self-government in 1956 identical with those of their Southern compatriots. It may lead to justifiable demands for the right of self-determination by non-Muslims, who form the majority of the population in the so-called ‘Pagan’ provinces, like Benue, Ilorin, Kabba, Niger and Plateau, not to mention the claims of non-Muslims who are domiciled in Adamawa and Bauchi Provinces.

It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region, which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger, except upon payment of tolls. It may lead to economic warfare between the North on the one hand, and the Eastern or Western regions on the other, should they decide to fix protective tariffs which will make the use of the ports of the Last and West uneconomic for the North.

The North may be rich in mineral resources and certain cash crops, but that is no guarantee that it would be capable of growing sufficient food crops to enable it to feed its teeming millions, unlike the East and the West. Secession may create hardship for Easterners and Westerners who are domiciled in the North, since the price of food crops to be imported into the North from the South is bound to be very high and to cause an increase in the cost of living. Lastly, it will endanger the relations with their neighbours of millions of Northerners who are domiciled in the East and West and Easterners and Westerners who reside in the North.

You may ask me whether there would be a prospect of civil war, if the North decided to secede? My answer would be that it is a hypothetical question which only time can answer. In any case, the plausible cause of a civil war might be a dispute as to the right of passage on the River Niger, or the right of flight over the territory of the Eastern or Western Region; but such disputes can be settled diplomatically, instead of by force.

Nevertheless, if civil war should become inevitable at this stage of our progress as a nation, then security considerations must be borne in mind by those who are charged with the responsibility of government of the North and the South. Military forces and installations are fairly distributed in all the three regions; if that is not the case, any of the regions can obtain military aid from certain interested Powers. It means that we cannot preclude the possibility of alliance with certain countries.

You may ask me to agree that if the British left Nigeria to its fate, the Northerners would continue their uninterrupted march to the sea, as was prophesied six years ago? My reply is that such an empty threat is devoid of historical substance and that so far as I know, the Eastern Region has never been subjugated by any indigenous African invader. At the price of being accused of overconfidence, I will risk a prophecy and say that, other things being equal, the Easterners will defend themselves gallantly, if and when they are invaded.

Let me take this opportunity to warn those who are making a mountain out of the molehill of the constitutional crisis to be more restrained and constructive. The dissemination of lies abroad; the publishing of flamboyant headlines about secessionist plans, and the goading of empty-headed careerists with gaseous ideas about their own importance in tile scheme of things in the North is being overdone in certain quarters. I feel that these quarters must be held responsible for any breach between the North and South, which nature had indissolubly united in a political, social and economic marriage of convenience. In my personal opinion, there is no sense in the North breaking away or the East or the West breaking away; it would be better if all the regions would address themselves to the task of crystallizing common nationality, irrespective of the extraneous influences at work. What history has joined together let no man put asunder. But history is a strange mistress which can cause strange things to happen!

SUBJECTS:
Global African History, Speeches
TERMS:
20th Century (1900-1999), Gender - Men, Africa - Nigeria, Speech Time Frame: 1951-2000

Drogunov:
You are making no sense nighah! No sense at all.

globemoney01:
Look at a sycophant calling someone one. Instead of all these irrelevant nonsense you could have said how Umahi or Obi is better than Obiano like I have done. You want me to believe you without any evidence just because it’s what you want. If telling you the truth makes me an afonja then that’s fine too, shows you don’t have sense

paramakina202:
Ikegwuru

paramakina202:
Do you speak Igbo to understand the difference in dialects?
Say what you know cos Yoruba also have different dialects.
In Igbo land every Village or town speaks their own dialect no town or village speaks what you call full language whatever that is.

globemoney01:
Obiano is better than Umahi and Obi combined. Anambra airport alone is far better than anything they did

globemoney01:
He’s top notch on social media. Obiano is best SE Governor ever not just Anambra. In 100 years he will still be relevant because of the airport. Peter Obi has no single legacy project to his name

festacman:
Remarkable thing about this Anambra Airport is that Gov. Willie Obiano was finishing badly until he pops up with this airport project and wham, his rating shot up. And the 'sad' thing here is that in 20 years time Willie Obiano's name will always ring bell more than that of both Peter Obi and Chris Ngige. All because of this airport. Phew!

LLiKYekoba:
yorubas are not sincere beings.
They are trying to throw Igboho under the bus for the presidential ticket. The comment of this yoruba muslim lawyer has confirmed it all.

Igboho will surely regret the day God made him a yoruba man... Many yorubas are praying for him to die, so that they can use it to blackmail the country for the presidency, the way yoruba leaders sold off MKO Abiola.

Igboho is more likely to be killed by his own yoruba people than buhari and the FG.

Idiko1:
The dude has fellowship of clowns.

mytravels:
See This: Why Is It That I Am Not Just Lucky When It Comes Food At Event?

I am angry right now i am at an event and i have been served with chicken head, while others are served with half and quarter chicken.

It has been happening like this either i am served with small beef or something else.

Please share your experience.

Please take this forward