₦airaland Forum

lygn19:
Adamu (from Kogi): The Soldier who plotted that coup was Maj Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu from OKPANAM, ASABA, DELTA state, do you realise that? So in the real sense of it, you people caused the trouble you blame the Igbos to have caused!!... I love dz comment d most... dat time d Nzeogwu or whatever was plotting d coup he didn't remember dat he was not Igbo o... when sm ppl want to play the blame games they point hand towards "igbo" ppl... most of Nairaland's longest lasting controversies and e-battles always start immediately sm1 mentions d coup and when it starts Nzeogwu becomes Igbo and all dz Delta-ibo ppl become invisible....lol

whitecat2:
No one held you back, you just didn't have what it takes to go. And now if you have made up your mind not to go, then it's because you love nigeria as you cannot be held in or forced out against your will, but keep your mouth shut and stop shouting nigeria today and biafra tomorow. Make up your mind and stick with it. Don't you guys get exhausted

ISpiksDaTroof:
Well, deceit seems to be a Nigerian trait, so Im not surprised. You insult a person, and when they return fire you claim innocence. Don't hit if you're scared of getting your tooth knocked out and your eye blackened.

P.S: Nigerian blood doesn't flow in me, I have no reason to be a backwards thinking African.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Of course I know Okotie-Eboh wasn't Ibo. All I'm saying is every tribe in Nigeria played a part in destroying the fabric of the country and for you to try to absolve your kinsmen is not only disingenuous but also deceitful.

Your manner of writing, coupled with all the unnecessary "......." just goes to show you don't know its relevance or use in the construct of a sentence and that you are a bonehead. So, this is the idi*ot gene your father passed on to you and which you'll unfortunately be passing on to your kids?

huptin:
What exactly did the federal govenment do in the west thats not in the east?

The port has always been in lagos from pre colonial times.

Is it bridges? Airports? Roads? I really want to know exactly what the federal government did in the southwest that is absent in the east or any where else.
For the sake of christ lagos has ceased being the fedral capital since 1991. The Europeans in their wisdom decided to make Lagos their abode and since then the city has been prominent. So how is that the fault of the Yorubas.

Do you know how much has been sunk into Abuja and yet that place is as desolate as graveyard nobody is going there.

ISpiksDaTroof:
I do not understand why people like you have empty vessels as brains. If you have any incident preceding that (of Azikiwe and Okotie-Eboh)which I stated then feel free to let us know. Bigotry, tribalism and idiocy has truly consumed you lot.

huptin:
You see your biggest problem is blaming everybody for your woes, if you desire those things nobody cann stop you from getting them, in this life nobody gives u anything on a platter of gold, you fight for it, you can sit down and blame yorubas, americans, Hausa etc for all you can, you wont still get it.

when June 12 was annulled, did the yorubas ask anybody for help? Or blamed anybody? No they learnt to fight for themselves, yes you can call them noise makers, but they made such loud noise that the world was forced to listen and they were compensated, when fuel subsidy was removed the same thing.

You guys claim you are the best in everything, go ahead and get what you want stop blaming other people for your woes.

its not for nothing that 99% of the FDI into the country last year came into the southwest, according to your president only Lagos and Ogun state alone accounts for 55% of Nigeria's economy activities, yet in your bigoted minds the yorubas are bad people destroying everything if they have destroyed everything why not simply go and reestablish then in your region and prove to the whole world how wonderful you are in resource management.

huptin:
My friend i have travelled to every state down here in the south and even some states in the north, so dont give me that nonsense about leaving my village, only the state capitals and a few towns are worthy of mention, and even those lack any major commercial or industrial hub to sustain the population, its the reason your people will not stay there.

Even those capitals how many people live there? They are usually desolate once night falls, 90% of the people dont even reside there they usually come from their rural and semi rural areas to do their daily businessess,

If we mention 5 strategic states to the Nigerian economy my dear none will be from the south east #fact.

tonychristopher:
As a matter of serious conversation, shouldn't your first instinct be to answer to the substantive question about projects that Yorubas have embarked on and succeeded in Nigeria and out of the confidence that you derived from having responded properly to the inquiry at hand you can then proceed to asking any questions that you dim necessary.



Your failure toaddress the question at hand before asking your question indicates that you are not a serious interlocutor like Ayo and I say that for the records.Notwithstanding your inability to rescue Ayo from his self-inflicted wound, again typical of a Yoruba man, I will not hesitate to take you to school if you chose to be babysitted for the record, although I will be repeating myself. Now in respect to your specificquestion, what Igbo built that Yoruba destroyed, in a nutshell almost every institution that the white man handed over to Nigeria after our independence Igbos built but because of your sophomoric question I will endeavor to break down what I mean for you. Nigerian railway was built and managed under Igbo minister Dr. Onyiuke and Igbos ran most of the day to day operations and the railway worked, when Yorubas took over the railway after the war they destroyed it.


Igbos ran the military and brought prestige to the Nigerian military because of the caliber of Igbos that joined the military and the military worked then, look at what the military has become. You can mention any ministry before the war that worked and you will see the hands of Igbo in it.During the British/Biafran war Igbos invented one of the most deadly explosives (IEDs-Ogbunigwe)the world have ever known in the 1960s, the Igbos built armored cars, air missiles, assault rifles, gun boats, rocket launcher, rocket propelled grenades and ambulance vehicles. Igbos not only built underground refineries they also built mobile refineries as they lost territories to the federal troops. After the war Awo and his tribal cabal representing the Yoruba conspired and went on a search and destroy mission and methodically combed all the south east and blew up and destroyed all thefactories that Igbo built instead of moving the factories and the Igbo scientists to a federally controlled areaand using their ingenuity to the benefitof the whole nation. For your information ask America and Russia what they did with German engineers after world war 11. Today Nigeria is importing all these military equipments.


That is destruction of what Igbos built. In 1972, Professor A. N. Njoku-Obi produced an anti-cholera vaccine recognized by the world health community, Yoruba elites who were running the Nigeria bureaucracy after the war did not want to hear of it, they undermined that project and today Nigeria is importing those drugs instead of being the manufacturer and exporter. That is destruction my friends. In 1974 two years after an Igbo invented the cholera vaccine, Professor F. A. Udekwu and his colleagues performedthe first ever open-heart surgery in Nigeria and Black Africa, did you think that Yoruba elites wanted to hear that, of course not, if I did not tell you now, would you know? Hell no! Today, forty years later Nigerians are going oversees for their heart surgery payinghard currency.


That is destruction of Nigerian economy. In 1999 after Obasanjo took office, he destroyed every Igbo business that was importing Rice and Cement into Nigeria before he came into office by granting an unprecedented and probably the biggest sole monopoly ofthe importation of rice and cement to one man called Dangote who became a billionaire overnight. When Igbos where involved in the importation of these items like cement, the price of cement was around N300, now the price of cement is hovering around N1,500 a bag. Go figure that, that is destruction of not only Igbos businesses but Nigeria in general. After Dangote was grant the sole monopoly of importing cement, he complained to Obasanjo that Ibeto cement industry owned by an Igbo which was mostly a repackaging factory was creating an undue competition for his monopoly and overnight Obasanjo used an executive order to shutdown Ibeto cement factory with its 400 employees. My friend that is destruction by any standard. Savannah Bank was established by Jim Nwobodo an Igbo man, Obasanjo closed down that bank and rendered all the employees jobless because he had some disagreements with Nwobodo not because the bank went bankrupt, not because the bank was running a fraudulent scheme, not because the bank was being mismanaged but because Obasanjo like most Yorubas have this visceral hate, wickedness, jealousy and the type of indifference that says why did God create an Igbo in the first place. Again Kunle that is destruction of a unique type. Engineer Ezekiel Izuogo created the V600 car and Yoruba press, politicians, lawyers even Yoruba engineers attacked him mercilessly and frustrated his effort to build the factory in Igbo land, that is one, second when he decided to build the factory in South Africa during Obasanjo’s regime, Obasanjo and his co-haters went and stole everything, the design manual, the engine block, everything necessary for him to carry on his work thereby destroying Izuogo motors for good. Kunle do you still need more examples? Wait I told Ayo that I have more than most of you could imagine. Do you remember Niger Dock Apapa, Dr. Nnamdi Ozobia, an Igbo built it, he built yachts for individuals and ferry boats for Lagos State that plied between Apapa to Mile2. He also did repairs for foreign ships that paid Nigeria hard currency, well here we go again, when Obasanjo came into office he removed Dr. Ozobia in the most ignominious way a pattern for Obasanjo and handed over Niger Dock Apapa to Yorubas. Today Niger Dock Apapa is in ruins, a shadow of its old self. That is destruction of what Igbos built. You have Nigerian Ports Authority, NigerianAirways, you have NITEL that Yorubas burnt down after they ruined it throughembezzlement. Lest I forget what about the mother of all destruction, theindigenization decree of 1972. What the decree did was to hand over Nigerian economy to the Yorubas and they destroyed the economy. The list below is a partial list of mostly British and other foreign owned companies that Igbos were efficiently managing before the war, few of these companies were owned or partial owned by Yoruba.

Some Yorubas in the past have quibbled about preciselywho owned what but not on the point of whether Yorubas ruined all the companies that they acquired by the force of the indigenization decree. My response is that the issue has never been about who owned what, the substantive issue was and is that Yorubas ruined, defrauded, liquidated and destroyed all the companies they took over after the war regardless of who owned them before the war even including their own companies that they started but could not manage. For your information that single act of indigenization decree is largely responsible for our economic state of affair.“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State.Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State •Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State •Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State •Wema Bank Plc,

ISpiksDaTroof:
They conveniently choose to forget that the very first high ranking Government official accused of stealing from State coffers was Nnamdi Azikiwe just before Nigeria gained independence. The British were ready to jail him for that and make him politically irrelevant but for the fact they didn't want to unsettle the polity because of the "tribalism" cries that were sure to ensue. That's why they ensured that his position was ceremonial and he didn't have any real power. The theft of Government monies didn't stop there but instead continued with Chief Okotie-Eboh who upped the ante from formerly miserly unnoticeable figures, to astronomical ones that shocked the whole world.

This is the story of how stealing public funds started in Nigeria.

whitecat2:
Who screams igbo agenda You ibos need to get out of abc class first before thinking of any agenda. You are giving yourselves too much credit. I just don't like the way some of my people treat you like rabid dogs and sending a wrong message, which you end up seeing as cowadice.

You can't make Yoruba help you leave Nigeria, go already and stop complaing about how we pull you back the first time or do Yoruba still have you on a leash? Learn from Yoruba. When we talk about leaving nigeria, you ibos are never mentioned cos you don't count. And if you say all your decisions depend on us, then you have to give us the respect.

diluminati:
truthfully, even if the Igbo were perfect in all things, they would never become president. You guys should blame Ojukwu, if not for the civil war things would have been different.

akins56:
Nonsense , did he make any statement that he has converted to Christianity?, i can not count the number of times my dad and my other siblings followed my mum to church, whenever there is an important program in her church, and that never make us any less Muslims, its a common phenomenal among yoruba Muslims, we ain't fanatical hausas nor are we bigotic igbo's!,,we are yoruba's!

rozayx5:
good i hope egift did not take a headshot

torkaka:
. . . . . . . . . . . . Not wanting to sound unpatriotic but I think we Nigerians like praising and elevating ourselves when there is no need for that . . . . . . . . . .INNOSON has done a good job (and is still doing) and he needs to be encouraged . . . . . . . . .my gross is with the tag "made in Nigeria", INNOSON (like PAN) does not manufacture cars, what they do is importation of CKD parts for assembling in Nigeria, the same thing KATANGA GROUP is doing in Ghana, same thing MOBIUS MOTORS is doing in Kenya, and most importantly, the same thing PAN has been doing in Kaduna over the years!! . . . . . . . . . . . .still waiting for the first fully Nigerian manufacturing car plant

OgologoDimkpa:
Ban the use of hijab nation wide now!

laykorn:
You can't use the actions of some 52 psychos to judge a religion. The muslims have been peaceful since the independence haven't they? If it has anything to do with their religion,this wouldn't have started in this decade. Besides,the terrorists could not even be muslims. They could be political thugs who are been brainwashed for motivation. Doing it the religious way.
Ayamlaykorn

tirex:
if u go through ur post,u'll notice that none of the attacks aimed at the high profile Men u mentioned ever succeeded....#JustSaying.