₦airaland Forum

IRobot7:
Which books do I read, please tell me? I don't want to read some books and you tell me that the authors are biased.

That is left for you to decide....
... Just remember history was/is written by the Victors.

IRobot7:
Enlighten me sir, I do not know the problem. We are talking about Britain here and not Biafra.

Go and read up on history, then you can decipher what we are passing through and where we are heading.

IRobot7:
What was the problem the amalgamation was supposed to solve?

The same problem Biafra wants to solve, in the opposite direction.

IRobot7:
The amalgamation was not to solve problems but for Britain's selfish interest. You need to read this book ' there was a country' by chinua Achebe. Honestly everyone needs to get a copy of that book and read to digest its contents.

It still was to solve a problem, I didn't say your problem.

Do you think this Biafra will solve "my" problem?
No, it intends to solve a problem from the Igbo point of view, same as the amalgamation of Nigeria solved a problem from the British point of view.

Besides, which country was founded by Democratic consensus by referendum?

Why must the Creator be God?

The Creator is just that, Creator.

Since you are the Creator of this thread, Are you God?

God is a creation of the Creator.

That is because Governor Udom, like every other politician, knows we are a people suffering from collective amnesia, that after the initial uproar everyone would mind their "busyness" and things would return to normal.

All things works together for good.

Opening a church would fulfill your needs for income and the needs of those looking for where to sing, dance and hear some motivational fear laced talk.

The future is buried in the past.

Why were we brought together into one country, Nigeria?
Why do some people want to regroup into another country, Biafra?

The amalgamation was to solve problems then, which succeeded and created new ones which Biafra thinks to solve by breaking up Nigeria.

Have we thought of the solutions to the problems breaking up Nigeria would leave in its wake?

Adiola:
old man so you don't wanna grow up keep quoting yourself am looking at your IP right now

I know reality can be a bit confusing...
Keep looking, now you have seen the IP, soon you will see the shape of the device linked to the IP, then the hand holding the device, punching the keypad..... To the mind forming the words.

Adiola:
that guy you quoted and the op are same person

You don't mean it!

GrandGarcon:
I don't even understand what your are saying, to right to the left. Je ne comprend rien. The north being ultra conservative has absolutely nothing to do with what I am saying. We should preserve our cultural values, and language. Look foward but don't forget where you are comming from. You yoruba people will always try to twist things and put words into people's mouths, all for political gains.

Well, why do you think they use Hausa language in teaching in schools there?

Does language not have cultural value?

You should try defending your opinion in a social discourse without recourse to tribal taunt that is uncalled for.

Besides, I am a Nigerian of Ibibio extraction.

GrandGarcon:
That is not what I am talking about. Look at Japan, despite all the high rise building and technological advancement, they still do not let their culture die, in fact the Emperor Akihito, is the custodian of the Japanese culture and language, they know where they are going but still do not forget where they are comming from. How about Qatar, Thailand, Britain, I think Holland, Denmark, Sweden, even Morocco and Jordan, arent these countries developed? But the king or queen is very much alive.

But that is exactly what you are saying, those countries you mentioned have been able to adapt their culture to fit their prevailing progressive mindset of today or is it adapted their progressive mindset to fit their culture? But, which ever way, they are not conservative in their thinking or reactive in their doings.

GrandGarcon:
One has to organise himself according to his custom. So that you don't throw away your traditional aspect of life.

That's exactly what is holding back northern Nigeria from developing, despite the fact that they control or always want to be in control of the federal government and its resources all of the time, their traditional conservative views on certain aspect of life, which is at variance with the rest of the country's progressive views.

GrandGarcon:
There is an organogram that IPOB released about three or four months ago. That organogram is the foundation and all Biafrans agreed, both Massob and IPOB members, it isa parliamentary system with checks and balances everywhere, ie there will be a president and a prime minister, the prime minister is the head of government and the president is a ceremonial president, the PARLIAMENT ELECTS THE PRIME MINISTER FROM AMONG THEMSELVES, THEN THE PRESIDENT CONFIRMS HIM OR HER, THE PRESIDENT WILL BE ELECTED BY THE TRADITIONAL CHEIVES. Every Nation within Biafra controls its own territory with thier OWN laws and their own parliament and is independent from the others or the central government, only they cannot have thier own embassy or currency or army, THEY WILL DO THEIR OWN THINGS, CREATE AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE LGA AS THEY DEEM FIT AND WILL SOURCE FOR FUNDS ON THEIR OWN, IF UNEMPLOYMENT GOES OVER 10% THE PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS! I wonder where the fualty foundation is, is it not the same as a country like Italy or Japan? Just that here we have not one king but several that will choose who becomes their head chief.
The content of the document is quite large so I wish you will go through it for tourself, for this is how I understand thr little I can remember.

So Biafra is going to run a confederato - Parliamento - traditionalo - presidential system of government?
Very indigenously ingenious.

mekaboy:
I have never been in support of Biafra as a country, but an ideology.

Relax I don hear.

And part of that ideology is belittling every one that is not first and foremost an Igbo and does not support the Biafra, as an ideology or as a nation?

mekaboy:
Easier said than done. No matter who elects the president,money will always play a role in the government.

Those who have stolen from Nigerian will be influential and turn Biafra into another corrupt and violent country which they gain from.

As long as there are idle youths and money bags, They will turn the system around to their advantage.

What happens when a state decides to pull out of biafra?

@bolded, The rat race gets back to starting line.

modik:
Do you listen to yourself?

Food resources in the North is being controlled by FGN ba?

another injustice and basis of Biafra agitation.

Southern Oil is controlled by the central govt, while Northern food resources is controlled by individual Northerners.....you see yourself?

Ooooohhhh
Please I am so sorry, I didn't know Biafra is all about resource control

Nnamdiojukwu:
I don't want you to believe,but her name is Amarachi,and I don't owned anyone apology for my moniker.

Yes, you do, in the light of the comment you made.

... Else can't you see, it still defeats the Biafra idea?
...yet an idea, which time has come, is unstoppable.

Nnamdiojukwu:
I love Igbo's,I have an Igbo speaking lady as a wife,but one thing I hate them is that they look down on every other tribe as been inferior.
An average Igbo person don't trust his next door neighbour.
Look at their so called agitation,many of them are against it especially the educated ones, only the illiterate s among them are shouting Biafra while worshipping at Nnandi kanu feet's.
It pathetic.

Hhhhhmmmmm

This is suspicious, how do you explain your moniker in the light of this your comment?

seguntijan:
Unfortunately, Nigeria Education is not a true test of how smart or dull you are. If you had asked about crammers I would have used Nigeria Education to judge. The reason why some best student in Nigeria class don't do well after school is that the school system has killed their 1. Creativity Skills 2. Decision Making Skills 3. Analytical skills. All subjects/courses thought should be structured in this way but so unfortunately we don't have it yet. that's why most firm goes abroad finding graduates that has those 3 skills, even as an entrepreneur you need those skills to survive. that's why Bill Gates could come up with Microsoft (creativity skill), analyse the feasibility and viability(Analytical skill), then drop out since he is convinced on his idea(Decision making Skill), same applies to Mark, Steve and all great men. Even firms recruit base on that because they need to keep improving that's why most investment banks will keep watching out for MBA certificate from abroad.

We need to do something different, our style of education was useful in the INDUSTRIAL AGE (1960-1995), but we're now in INFORMATION AGE. that's why there's that wide range of unemployment in the country. I have a dream of becoming the Minister of Education.... SO HELP ME GOD.

Surprisingly, tomorrow (being a sunday) the same sermon of that "new" "kingdom of God is at hand" would be preached and when we look at the present day reality, that "new" Kingdom is the kingdom of information already at hand, though "is passing away" will hold away for a few thousand years.

lawrykings:
"Untill you find and do what you are good at and succeed at it, you are a dullard."

you summed everything up bro. in other words no one is dull, the enemy is yourself, many never pay attention to their strength and weakness, plenty de do folo-folo. once you get to know your strength and weakness and find the best way you can exploit them, then you can start talking of fulfilment and beauty of life.

for those that would want to have an idea of what their strengths and weaknesses seem like visit
https://www.nairaland.com/3836234/find-strengths-focus-using

That link there is a great read, I was not aware of it when I wrote that quote.

It really expatiated what I had in a capsule.

Thanks.

What if the only activity that makes me lose track of time is sex, then what?

Ogalanyachieze:
you again

Lols
I no fit laf

So una don bracket somewhere before?

Ps:
.... But wait ooooooooo
Me sef don bracket this mekaboy somewhere, but for there him be Biafra prophet.

Danishguy:
Imagine every body is now writing essays... Something they never loved to do in secondary school. This God is truly wonderful

No, they just discovered the use of essay writing, in the matrix of life, then while in primary/secondary school they thought that that English language teacher was the devil incarnate.

Zikaviirus:
Same person as the OP...fooling his ewedu coneskull.

I know the effects of Zika virus infection is taking its toll on you.

It depends on the definition of who a prostitute is.

If "sexual" activity is replaced by "any" other activity, we are all prostitutes.

So I will redefine prostitute as "a person who engages in an activity for payment."

This is borne from the fact that a prostitute by standard definition offers his/her body in service or be serviced for a fee. We all offer ourselves one way or the other for a fee.

So We are the prostitutes.

Well said.

Biafra is refounded on hate, which is a more violently reactive emotion than love, fueled by a sense of superiority and victimization.

I subscribe to the restructuring of Nigeria, because as much as the North depends on the south for oil the south depends on the north for food.

lytech1:
She start calling me some months ago telling me about her husband incompetence(financially broke and not responsible)

sometimes,she ask for financial assistance which i manage to render on most cases.

She also felt sorry for letting me go(she was impregnanted by the guy,that leads to our breakup)and always seek for forgiveness.

She pay me a visit 3days ago and start demanding for sex which i manage to resist.. She pleaded and cry but i make realize my concience wont allow me do such a thing.

Though,she is the reason why am still single(coz i found it hard to love since we path ways).. She has been calling ever since asking me to make love with her even if its just once to shows have forgiven her totally...

My concience is against such.....
Fellow nairalandes,
what can i do to stop her....?

@bolded, you have gotten your answer already.

mekaboy:
No, a structure where states have their own constitution, with a regional development framework and minimal interference from federal Government. Federal governments will look to states and regions for allocation not the other way round. The power at the center is reduced drastically and it becomes less attractive. We save the money we use to overfeed the Senate and reps , and invest it in infrastructure and development of states.

Is it God that would do that for us?
We are the ones that adopted the federal system as we have it, now that we are no longer comfortable with it, we are still the ones that would and should change it.

By the way, changing the federal structure as we have it is not synonymous with Biafra.

mekaboy:
Nope. Since they said Igbos are after their resources, the question now is, are they or the Igbos in charge of it now?

Igbos were just business people like they did all over Nigeria. So how come Igbos were not in control of their resources then and now.

I don't even support the Biafra agitation but true federalism. Igbos have enough resources and skills to develop as a region.

I don't know why there is need for SS, let every region develop .We will benefit from each other as neighbors.

You know what? It was not God that created the three regions, neither was it God that created six geopolitical zones or the states, but men as a function of political and economic expediency.

Are you calling for the old regional structure that favored the major tribe in each region as it were?

The problem is this attitude of hate and division along too many lines that pervades our national discourse even though we claim to be religious, which itself is a dividing factor.

And nobody is seeing that as an attempt to islamize Lagos, if that MOU was signed by PMB, Hhhhhmmmmm!

mekaboy:
All lies. How come all the oil blocks are not controlled by igbos today? Wouldn't it have been better if igbos controlled the oil blocks as their neighbors, than far away North?

Emeka! Relax, why should the igbos control all the oil blocks?

Oh! So this Biafra thing is actually about the oil resources in the Niger Delta?