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laudate:
I feel like dashing you 1,000 likes for this post! You brought back a lot of memories. My uncles and their friends danced endlessly to Shina Peters, in those old days. As kids, we used to peep at them from behind the door, trying to copy their dancing styles. I am not familiar with Bongo Sigwe, or are you referring to Bongos Ikwue?

bongo sikwe....he was the one who sang co.ck crow at dawn.the tv drama series on NTA

mbhs139:
Perhaps you are still very young when the Igbos and Hausas were dancing to the tune of Sir Shina Peter's 'hit track (or is it album) Ace in the 90s. As a matter of fact, you need to ask about Sunny T, "Omo Nna to nko fuji", and a host of others.

Again, and in case you don't know or you have not heard, there's KWAM 1, and he has sung a lot of Igbo track. Not forgetting Alhaji Ayinde Barrister. These are renown Yoruba fuji crooners.

On a personal note, Osita Osadebe, Oliver De Coque, Onyeka Owenu, Uche Ibeto (the Jigida Queen, I doubt if you know her), Bongo Sigwe, and a lot of Igbo highlife songs, with some others whose name I can't remember at the moment, are my favourites musician.

Take this for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2y2bTWg-Ko

if i was still young then?? very funny.....

Funnicator:
Nnia Nwodo so far seems to be the best onahaeze president since this Republic and I feel he is the most organizing and igbo sympathetic leader in the SE among the other governors and even ekweremadu.

Nwodo will make a good governor general of Eastern region should we return to regional government.

u have sense.....

BluntBoy:
Is Osadebe a style of music? Juju music is a style of music. The band was playing juju music with English lyrics.

igbos dont like juju music. they love high life. the only igbos i know who listen to juju are the ones who grew up in the SW. i listen to sunny ade,ebenezer obe doesnt mean others would like it.

Ballmer:
. This senselessness you conjured could be seen from a different perspective e.g. why should any Igbo be a manager of any institution in Yoruba land ? I have been to countless shows in Lagos and Oliver de coque music was played I did not ask the DJ out. Sick insane Igbo everywhere, if it was any Igbo artist that was asked out in Lagos like that dimwits among will start asking for Biafra.

u obviously do not have sense. if you do,u would know that a show is not meant for a particular tribe. there are different acts in the show and you probably would have known that oliver de coque was performing before you took your sorry ar.se there. moreover the show wasn't by force. and how would a human with a brain actually compare a show with a wedding or gathering that has more than 80% igbo to a show with mixed tribe? another example is an apostolic church which is predominantly yoruba. there a igbos there. so because you hv igbos there,you invite chioma jesus to come and lead praise? please if you dont hv sense,dont quote me abeg.

but why would a DJ with common sense be playing juju music in a crowd of igbo people? people should respect others for heavens sake. have u ever seen a yoruba gathering where osadebe is played? people should stop raising unnecessary dust

tbliss22:
I can't believe an Igbo man typed this. How I wish every Igbo man will think just like this.....

Well good thinking brother, the Yorubas will always welcome any tribe as long as u are human.

so the only time the igbos make sense is when they curse and abuse each other? you are a tribalist and you are yet to find out...

Ikology:
You went overboard brother, you don't have to denigrate the whole tribe because of the action of a few. Like IPOB, like Niger Delta militants, like OPC when MKO Abiola was denied presidency. These groups are politically motivated. Their agenda might serve the interests of a few political elites. Do not insult the sensibilities of the Igbo people because of IPOB crisis. Whatever insults you direct at Igbo people is also directed at you. If you say we are greedy, you are also greedy, including your parents and kinsmen. Be guided.

this is exactly what i am saying. and someone who thinks he is a human being would come online to type trash. i doubt if he is a sensible igbo man

cornel00:
I was expecting response like this, nwanne, abum nwafor igbo from nkanu west local government.
For once let's face the truth.

i detest igbos like you. that is if you are actually igbo. you are one of the reason why i dont take whatever the igbos do seriously. so coming online to insult and despise the igbos makes you love them more than themselves? my brother you are a foo.l and lack common sense.

FSBoperator:
Those southern idiocrats who pushed for a Buhari candidacy, campaigned rigorously and voted for him are by far the biggest fools known to mankind.

the south are the biggest fools known to man...

AfonjaConehead:

fineboynl:
lol.Alpha jet that end in world war 2. outdated irons. in warfare ballistic missiles or simple rockets launcher will bring that object down.

heheheh!!! Nigeria is really a funny country. parading ancient planes in this 21st century claiming giant of africa?? if south africa invades Nigeria,we would be destroyed on 30 mins....

wisdom fall on you.

omenka:
Since Jonathan lost the election, they've been doing this.

What exactly are the results the protests have produced?

One marches for this and that and the next day they are busted for selling narcotics.

Bumbling terrorists.

i knew you would be here....

which one be yoruba mosque again?

ImperialYoruba:
Mainstream Nigeria must stand up for self preservation against tyranny of the minority with majority rule.

The present incursion of boots, guns and machineries in Igboland is an insult and effrontery to all Southerners.

This is the same tactic of divide and eliminate we have seen with Fulani attacks. They attack Gboko today, Akure, Aba, Benin and Sapele are silent.

They attack Akure next week, Gboko, Aba, Benin and Sapele are quiet.

The week after they attack Oron, people in Asaba, Port Harcourt,Gboko and Akure and Awka keep quiet.

Gradually, fulani, a minority, has systematically enshrined itself as a parallel army and turned every part of Southern and Middlebelt Nigeria to its roaming domain to perpetuate any atrocity it deems fit whenever it suits a political agenda.

If Akure, Benin, Aba, Sapele, Oron, Awka, Asaba had all spoken up and took reprisal action in support of Gboko, fulani would have been trained to accept that Southern Nigeria will not submit to its political agenda and it will be force for force on any assault. But what we did instead is get on newspaper and condemn and warn. Even when the warning and condemnation had no effect, year after year...we still warn and condemn.

So it has come to this. Now Army is in Umuahia, Ibadan, Benin, Port Harcourt, Awka, all are silent.

Tomorrow Army will use the fulani model and move to Ibadan, the rest wil be silent.

After that Army is in Gboko, ...we are all condemning and warning still.

Pretty soon all over South is turned to occupied land. Fulani rulers in Aso will then have a easy path, with the coopt of Army to truly turn all our lands into Fulani grazing zone.

Ten years from now we will still be warning and condemning.

Has there ever been an incidence of any Southern ethnic group causing riot in North and killing people in bloodshed they way they Northerners do in South? Never!


All should rise up and troop to the street and demand immediate expulsion of all Army occupation anywhere in South. We sustain the North. The oil from South and the ports in South, without these the North will be like Chad, poor and wretched.

We are the mainstream. There is no country in world where mainstream is held hostage and battered by the minority voice. Nigerian's case is an exception and a cowardly response.

Shame to South! I do not ever want to hear another Southerner brandish his degree and phd in my face...I will curse him out.

is this the same person or am i dreaming

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the

Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President

Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other

peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for

shattering the unity of this country.

Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered

paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and

deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition

when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda.

Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate.

Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo

is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the

nation is sitting on a time-bomb.

After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second

World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political

leaders have no sense of History.

There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the

street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon

decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa,

one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems. By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.







Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999

so the igbos can be this united? thats great......

stev120:
@poster eyyaa. .
sorry you didn't confuse any body

so who is talking trash now??

alcmene:
Just ordinary tear gas and the dude is down like a drunken elephant

Yet he will be castigating Nnamdi kanu as if he has something to offer.

Just see as he full ground like someone struck by Amadioha

feelgoodInc:
seriously guys anytime I enter this politics board I just keep seeing that Kenya is ahead of Nigeria, how come this post has not been removed. isn't there someone that can do this. I'm not saying it's a lie or it's the truth but I'm tired of seeing it, it done do

you are not alone....

elannie:
So after two years of voting in change what can u say abt it nw....hahahahaha.

[quote author=humilitypays post=57479258][/quote]wise words from a decent man.....Drake

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Garrirevenge:
PLENTY JOKERS, PLENTY COMEDY.
Emeka(real name) is in Lagos,
married with 3 kids and you see
him locking his plaza anytime and
every time in support of Biafra.
Emeka recently bought two plots of land around Badagry and
already the foundations to a 4
bedroom masterpiece is taking
shape on that land. Emeka is from
Anambra state, a single pin he
owns not to his name in the village. Yet in Lagos, Emeka goes
about shouting for all to hear
'Biafra or I die'.
.
.
Musa(not real name) is in Kaduna, tired of a constant nagging
national anthem from Emeka,
Musa assumes a potentially
dangerous identity and declares a
90 days ultimatum telling the
Emeka's that all of them can leave his domain and disappear to their
Biafra. Failure to do so, they
would be forcefully evicted.
.
.
Dapo(maybe it is me, maybe it is not) is falling for a pretty
intelligent damsel whom he is yet
to tell how he feels about her. He
is worried that he as a Nigerian
won't be in love with another
Nigerian but rather a foreigner called Biafran. What an anomaly,
for he would be needing to travel
from one country into another
just to see his in-laws who were
once neighbors but now
foreigners. .
.
Dapo's case is small, love they
say can break barriers, although
who knows how much a Biafran
pound would exchange for when the time for dowry ever comes.
For it is often said that the dowry
to marry from that region in
Nigerian Naira can make a young
man hug a transformer, how
much more would it be in Biafran pounds. Just hope by then Dapo
won't tell the Oba of Lagos(that
one that told Emeka to jump into
the Lagoon) to allow him dive into
the water when he is told to bring
3 billion Biafran pounds which would be about #300 million
Nigerian Naira before he can
marry their beautiful Abian
princess. That is if they even
agree to allow him after the
second civil war that led to a separation.
.
.
Musa the unknown spokesperson
declaring absolute and beautiful
bunkum on behalf of the entire Northern youth is already getting
a warning from his sensible
governor who is ordering that all
such irredentist fanning the
embers of tribal war in his state
be arrested. What a governor, if only Emeka's governors aren't
cowards and follow the footsteps
of the Kaduna mallam, our unity
might not be as shaky as it is
right now.
. .
However, in my true life fiction, it
is Emeka one needs to pity the
most. Emeka who for once
haven't held his governors,
chairmen, senators, representatives and himself
responsible for the neglect in his
region. Emeka who thinks all
Igbos scattered worldwide hold
the same views as his and would
point fingers to all others in a constant self-absorbing manner
that selfishly belittles the pain and
neglect other regions suffer too.
Emeka would mostly act as if the
North and West don't have poor
people who have no hope. To imagine that it is this same Emeka
that statistics can prove a penny
of his money is not going into the
development of his region(unlike
Musa and Dapo who still
contribute a little to their regions) screaming the most for a break
up of his country is just too much
palm wine taken in excess.
.
.
Musa, Dapo and the strong headed Emeka need to come together and
truly see that the problem is not
themselves but those who have
selfishly enriched their pockets at
the detriment of their people
while posing as their leaders. If only they can stop the joke, stop
the comedy and the call to shed
innocent blood and go after those
who have held them in bondage
for decades, then they can have
true liberation for themselves as Nigerians and not as breakout
factions acting as puppets for the
same selfish greedy leaders using
religion and region to separate
them.
. .
Musa, Dapo and the ever
industrious Emeka, Oya give
yourselves brain today. No more
jokes, no more comedy. You can
unite to shame your common enemies. It is very possible, yes
it is doable for us to have a united
prosperous Nigeria that shall
respect the rights of every man.
My name is MICHAEL ILORI, and I
just want to make Nigerian sense

. ________________oladapo micheal ilori

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Papiikush:
lol, you say you are fasting but you eat first thing in the morning and once it's 7pm you rush to the kitchen. Na only lunch you no chop but you go still complain say fasting tough

Abeg who is fooling who?

LOL!!! defeats the purpose of calling food eaten in the morning BREAK_FAST........

By Henry Umoru FOR the second time in three years, the Senate, yesterday, rejected proposals to grant Lagos a special status, in view of the avalanche of socio-economic challenges it is facing as former political capital of Nigeria. The state is still the economic capital and nerve centre of the country. ADVERTISING Indeed, the Senate Chambers was thrown into a rowdy session as senators deliberated on a bill for an act to make provision for a special Federal grant to Lagos State. The Bill, titled A Bill for an Act to make provisions for Federal Grants to Lagos State in recognition of its strategic socio- economic significance and other connected purposes, was sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos Central. The said Bill was first presented to the upper chamber in the 7th Senate, but the lawmakers turned it down at the committee stage. Specifically, on June 5, 2013, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu-led Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review, in its report, ruled out special status for Lagos. It said: “On Special Status for Lagos, while the Committee appreciates the peculiar needs and challenges of Lagos, it is our considered opinion that according such special status should be a matter of political decision, which should be kept out of the Constitution.” Yesterday, while opposing the move, Senators Gershom Bassey, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Cross River South, and Philip Tanimu Aduda, PDP, FCT, said the same provision being asked for by Senator Tinubu, be provided for Calabar, being the first Capital of Nigeria and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Aduda, who said he would only support the bill if FCT got similar attention and special funding from the Federation Account, said: “I will support it (bill) on one condition, that what will be given to Lagos State should be given to other states like the FCT. Some special allocations should be given to FCT. The FCT is over-stretched and government needs to intervene. In the FCT, we have riverine areas.” Senator Aliyu Wamakko, APC, Sokoto North, who also kicked against the bill, said the timing was wrong because while other states are finding it difficult to pay salaries, Lagos State that was the richest state, asking for special grant, adding that if granted, it would make other states poorer and Lagos richer. The rowdy session started when Senator Olusola Adeyeye, APC, Osun Central, in his contribution and apparently referring to what Aduda said, stated that the FCT was like a pampered and spoilt child. He demanded for 13 percent derivation on tax proceeds generated from the state, arguing that one percent was too small. Senator Adeyeye’s description of the FCT as a pampered child elicited sharp and rancorous reactions from many legislators. The statement angered Senator Aduda, who immediately asked Adeyeye to withdraw the statement. Senator Aduda had the support of most senators from the Northern part of the country who stood up demanding the withdrawal of the statement. It was at that point that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, asked Senator Adeyeye to withdraw his statement. Adeyeye withdrew the statement but then the harm had been done, given the commotion and bitterness it caused on the floor of the Senate. It was, therefore, not surprising that the senators unanimously rejected the bill when it was put to vote by Deputy Senate President, Ekweremadu, who presided over yesterday’s plenary. Senator Adeyeye, in his contribution to the debate had said: “I rise to support most of this bill and to oppose an aspect of it. The aspect I oppose is the same aspect that James Manager attempted to highlight. But in doing so, I want to point out that…I don’t even believe that one percent is enough for Lagos. I think what we need to do is to be fair to every part of this country and to say that we must not kill the goose that lays the golden egg. And we have already from Independence and subsequent alteration to the Constitution, say whatever revenue you get from oil by the principle of derivation, a certain percentage must belong to that community. “By the same token, whatever you get from VAT, a certain percentage should belong to that community. We have among us a governor, who made a law that banned the consumption of alcohol. That’s what the people want. I supported it. He has the right to make the law. However, if my own people consume alcohol and pay VAT on it, he should not take a penny of what my people have for VAT on alcohol. “In Lagos, all of us are paying tax. And all of these VAT is taken to Abuja. What we need to do is to say whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander. If it is 13 percent for Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers for oil, let it also be 13 percent to Lagos for the VAT paid there.’’ On what he meant by FCT being pampered, Adeyeye, who is the Senate Chief Whip, while withdrawing the statement and tendering an apology said: “Mr President, you led us to Washington DC on fiscal federalism. We were told that when we see federal roads in the US, it’s federal only in name. It is federal only because the Federal Government of the US provides 80 percent of the money and the state government provides 20 percent. But all of the money is given to the Federal Government on that road.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/senate-rejects-lagos-special-status-bill/



I AM STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE SE VOTED AGAINST THIS BILL......SOME PEOPLE SHA

Three Nigerian scammers who befriended many of their victims on dating sites have been slammed huge prison sentences by a Mississippi court

after making tens of millions of dollars from their schemes. Rasaq Raheem, Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, Femi Alexander Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan,

30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison; Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, was given 115 years and Femi Alexander Mewase, 45, got 25 years behind

bars, according to a report by https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com A court in the Southern District of Mississippi had in February found them

all guilty of crimes including mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft of government property. Ayelotan and Raheem were

also found guilty of conspiracies to commit bank fraud and money laundering. Dating back to at least 2001, the scammers were involved in

multiple internet fraud schemes, resulting in losses in the tens of millions, according to the Department of Justice. It claimed that they would

befriend women on dating sites, establish a romantic relationship and then either get them to send money or have them participate in fraud

schemes, usually without the victim’s knowledge. The unsuspecting women would sometimes be required to cash counterfeit checks and money

orders; use stolen credit card details to purchase goods; and use stolen personal information to take over victims’ bank accounts. They were

also apparently used to launder money via Western Union and MoneyGram, and re-package and re-ship goods obtained fraudulently. A whopping

21 defendants have already been charged in this ongoing case, 12 of whom have pleaded guilty to charges involving conspiracy and 11 of whom

have been sentenced. The three Nigerians were among the six extradited from South Africa by US Department of Justice in 2015 to face

charges of running a series of scams against gullible Americans over the past 16 years. Fourteen others resident in the US were also arrested to

face trial in Gulfport, Mississippi on nine federal charges, including conspiracy to commit identity theft, wire fraud, bank fraud, theft of US

government funds, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The indictment states that since 2001 the accused, were part of a string of

scams against Americans, facilitated by internet communications. These include the longstanding 419 scheme, whereby a massive windfall is

promised once a small number of payments have been provided, but the DoJ claims it went much further than that. The team was also accused

of running romance stings to bilk the lonely of funds, shipping fraud, running fake work-from-home businesses, check fraud, and plain-old

hijacking of other people’s bank accounts and credit cards to divert funds. Global fraud continues to grow thanks to the internet and an increase

in the use of both anonymizing technology and bots designed to mimic human behavior. ThreatMetrix, which analyzes 20 billion annual

transactions, blocked 130 million fraud attempts in Q1 alone, a 35% increase on the same time last year. However, it is Europe that has become

a major fraud hotspot. There were 50% more fraud attempts originating from the region than the US in the quarter, the firm claimed.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/america-jails-3-nigerian-scammers-235-years/

naijacampu:
Here they go, Delta, the latest tribe in Africa!

Buhari is not a Fulani, he's a 'Katinan'.
Obasanjo is not a Yoruba, he's an 'Ogun'.
Kanu is not Igbo, he's 'Abian'.

I wonder what mama Okonji was before the creation of Delta State? 'Bendelian' perhaps.
Before the creation of Bendel State nko? 'Mid Western' I guess.

You lots ascribed Igbo man to be the leader of the first military coup but will jump to Igbo talents in Delta State.

Simpleton like you will not refer yourself to your state but afonjo.
Cone heads expelled space rats are the most envious losers on earth.

Partnerbiz:
So fans are now for kidney transplants?

ayokellany:
Noise making as usual without a single tangible point. Only God can save you people from yourself.

if after reading all what the man wrote there and this is what you can deduce,then i think you need to re-examine the organ in your head called a brain.