Did you know that hausas until 20th century weren't muslim or even as faithful to it as today. EVeryone has always associated islam to hausa's in naija, when it was the fulanis that were mainly islamic before the europeans came and the Hausa became more identified with Islam under colonial rule. The British found it necessary to strengthen Muslim leaders who were their allies against “pagans” who sought to resist the imposition of colonial rule or Hausa hegemony. The British perpetrated the fiction that Northern Nigeria was mainly Islamic. The truth was different in 1900. Allegiance to the West African Fulani Islamic ethos of male dominance helped unite Hausa and distinguish them from surrounding “pagan” peoples such as the Gungawa, Kamberi, and others (Michael Smith, 1955; Salamone, 1998). So I just want to hear about your thoughts on hausas( the original hausa, not the hausa-fulani combo).

Antivirus92: no igbo clan traces their root to ibibio,if not the ibibios in arochukwu.

hold up my friend is something wrong with your brain? go do your research before you come disgrace yourself for here. Ah-ah. "Igbo clan".. you mean igbo nation. Igbo people traded-intermarried ( i would call them the least ethnocentric people i know, because they are always welcoming to every visitor and intermarry like crazy) and therefore left their marks in different places they went. It is a given that all tribes in southern nigeria are all related, even the yorubas( story of moremi and igbo king) so my dear read your history book. Igbos when it comes to procreation dont discriminate...lol...ibibio and igbos are like nephew to uncle relationship.

One_Naira: Didn't we have a thread similar to this thread if my memory serves me right?

Anyway, my best friend's family are of the ibibio stock and I have asked a somewhat similar question to his family (i.e: why Igbos and Ibibos have similar cultures in some areas?). The answer I got from the family is that it is because Ibibio and Igbos traded for eons plus the two ethnic group mixed up with each other since history can remember thus the two groups copied from eachother cultures and language. Also supposedly, there are some Igbo clans that trace their origin to Ibibios (I'm alittle bit suspicious of that claim though. Other than Arochukwu, who are Igbos mixed with ibibio, I've never heard of an Igbo clan that traced their origin to Ibibio). To answer your question odumchi: it probably isn't a mere coincidence. one of the two groups might have picked up the culture during a trading interaction and it expanded within their community.

actually you are wrong arochukwu clan arent as closely related to ibibio as ngwa people are. The fact is that igbos are always welcoming and marry all around no matter your tribal identity. I know my mom who is ngwa have efik ibibio cousins from her maternal grandma. The fact is that igbo men believed that as long as the child has an igbo father that they could marry any woman from any tribe and they did easily. I think igbos more than any other major tribe is so accomadating to other tribes that indirectly they evolve and add to their own traditions with their interactions. Yes most people under the biafra umbrella, even some cameroonians all some way have igbo blood in them and vis versa, i.e.aguiyi-ironsi. Even in yoruba land according to my grandpa, people from ijebu igbo intermarried with igbos a lot and not a lot of igbos or southern nigerians can claim one pure tribal identity,neither can people from jos, the best we can do is say, my father is this- for you father's identity is your identity, not your moms.Even today we have mixtures like nse ekpe-etim ( ibibio-efik father(tribal identity-ibibio)), donjazzy( igbo mom- urohbo father( tribal identity-urohbo)), Mikel obi ( hausa fulani mother, father igbo(tribal identity-igbo)) joseph benjamin( igbo mom- yoruba dad-tribal identity- yoruba), Desmond elliot( igbo mom- yoruba father- tribal identity-yoruba) ( segun arinze- igbo dad,yoruba mom- tribal identity igbo). So you see what am saying about mixtures, things you wouldnt know unless they told you. But there also the believe in most african tradition that a woman has no tribal identity until she marries, so what ever her husband is is what she is. Just like edo people are cousins to yorubas, urohbos,efik-kalabari, ibibios are cousins to the igbos. The users of the nsibidi text are all related.So go figure.

Da infamous: My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998).
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis inNigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.
When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.



When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.





Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.



Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.



When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.


For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.



Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities" that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.



To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.

I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.

accept your fault and let everybody get along a lot of Nigerians need education on human right because 70% lack it,and as u can see i was not the person that wrote it has been proofed from the news and videos we see coming from hell hole Nigeria.Genocide suicide homicide murder we see being brought up in the new daily in Nigeria if continues,just a matter of time nigeria will be no more

ummm my dear friend are you okay..when did this become question of maintainng democracy? here we are talking about the acts of awolowo, not the tribe. he committed war crimes according to the geneva convention rules on warfare. and it was written in 1864.so awolowo if he was sttill alive cannot claim as politician well educated about warfare, he commmitted crime and would go to jail today. Second you did everything but state the obvious of his post war actions of keeping other people's wealth that wasnt his, and above all the icing on the cake HE BETRAYED A FRIEND WHO RESCUED HIM FROM JAIL. BETRAYAL IS AT TIMES WORST THAT BEING KILLED BY YOUR FRIEND FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE THE THOUGHT OF THE BETRAYAL WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION THAT PERSON FOREVER. ALL WE WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT WILL BE RESPONSE OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ON HOW TO HELP NIGERIA MOVE FORWARD. HOW DO WE STOP HOPING AND START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT PLAGUE US EVERYDAY.

nnenna.1:
I ask this question after considering how morally bankrupt, hateful, angry, violent, racist, sexist, abusive, dogmatic and ignorant the average Nigerian is. There are Nigerians who don't fit these descriptions of course but I am not sure that they are in sufficient numbers to make a difference in the long run.

Serious question -how do we change the state of the country when Nigerian mentality isn't even equipped for change in the first place?

I have no need to go into specifics or examples of how humanly inept we are seeing that our problems are obvious even to a retaard.

My question is - what are the next steps to take in all of this? Is it too late for Nigeria?

1.i think first step is nigeria acknowledge the civil war..build a national monument or museum for it.
2.number two allow former biafrans the right through the nigerian government to get old bank and property record from uk government (cuz they kept financial and property datas of its colonial citizen that used pound til 1980), and then pay those that can prove ownership back what awolowo stole(might bankrupt naija ..but oh well)
3.make it mandatory to teach the about darn war and naija history from grade school to universities.
4. create a tolerance program that will help teach nigerian children to tolerate eachother
5. make every public officials who commit crimes go to jail for life.
6. pay teachers better so they can teach our kids better
7.create after school programs like sports.
8. Remove mandatory youth service and make it mandatory that students in each grade level do a certain amount of community service, within their communities. No need to go to a land you dont know the language and get killed for nothing. Make each university mandate that their graduates finished 200hours of community service through out their college career.
9. dont try to use western democracy in nigeria because it wont work.. create a new form of ideology..maybe pan-traditionalist ( cuz we know we can never stop the cultural traditional rulers from getting in involved
10. penultimate-take bakassi back into nigeria, because that was an illegal exchange obasanjo did and personally should be criminalized for it.
11. make a grant available to help clean up the niger delta and make sure its done, and pay these niger deltans affect a certain amount to help them start a new business to live on. Or teach them new ways of farming. For now that is all i can think of.

Real-Mccoy:

They are guilty and I won't blame them cos my own conscience would not allow me to sleep also. Do you know what goes through an average Yoruba man's mind when there is Boko Haram bombing up north? All they say is damn,our leaders messed up big time, how I wish Oduduwa Republic is a reality....Hahaha
They are mostly comic...Three Yoruba Kings were dethroned in less than three years yet they say they are cultured.....lol

dude i dont know if you know, but am yoruba, so please dont affront us, but i understand your plight as igbos but dont make it that you will bash yorubas and be happy abt it.

exxell: The worst thing that can ever happen to you is to deal with a yorubaman or woman! They are the cunniest, deadliest, heartless and dirtiest people on planet earth. Remember Psquare/May D, Don Jazzy/ Ski banj, Ruggedman/9ice, Obasanjo/Rochas Okorocha, etc. Does this popular betrayals ring a bell? Their girls are so dirty. They have the guiness world record of scratching their arsse more than 100 times per day because of dirtiness. Bottomline: SHOULD A YORUBAMAN AND A PYTHON ENTER YOUR HOUSE; BUTCHER THE YORUBAMAN FIRST BEFORE YOU THINK OF PARDONING OR THROWING THE PYTHON AWAY! THE PYTHON DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS SCUM OF A TRIBE.

wow all that for one tribe. You are wrong my dear. I know you will tell me take my yoruba scratching ynash another place, but dont forget i also have igbo blood in me. Abi dont you guys say Nneka? anyways you are wrong to be so tribalistic, i understand that is something passed down by our parents, but we must over come it. Lets celebrate our differences. I believe igbos are always welcoming to visitors, you even feed the visitor before yourselves and i adore the hospitality, so please lets heal together. I know it will take years to erase the animosities we have all built over the years but i believe that nigeria should start jailing and fining people for being tribalistic just like uk is jailing and fining people for being racist, i think that will help bring a quick end to it. I wont tell you lets hug and makeup as igbo and yoruba, but i am open to a good conversation with you about how we can improve nigeria.

sweet_gala: History is good, but I see this a tactful act to destroy the image of your enemy.
Awolowo was a great leader , a man was willing to take certain questionable decisions in the hope of ending a terrible civil war.
He never had any verbal agreement with Ojukwu to protect Biafran interest, why should he be vilified . It was not a strange tactic to deny your enemy access to amenities through routes which were under your control. All sides done so in world war II , merchant ships were targeted by all sides, cargo planes and rail lines, during the American civil war both sides resorted to caves and underground passages. It's your enemies duty to deny you easy access to supplies its yours to protect your supply routes, gain some and come up with alternatives. All wars are won on this simple principle.

It is no news that Awolowo and Achebe were on opposing sides during the war , history is written by the victors , to that effect Gowon, Awolowo and several other Nigerians are celebrated as powerful people who kept this country together today, achebe has denied himself a national honour twice a decision I respect.
We made an effort to forgive Ojukwu of treason and gave him a state burial honoured his widow.

Gowon gave a great speech after the war which denounced the notion of victory for the Nigerian state but promoted peace dialogue unity and reflection.

Now I ask why must a old much respected Nobel laureate invite the topic of division and taint the image of his long dead enemy for personal gratification?
The war for him is long gone and lost.

okay my dear friend and to those that liked his statements, you are not writing with facts because even in his speech in may 1967 he even reiterated that if biafra left,the southwest will follow suite. now he verbally made a promise or ojukwu wouldn't have continued with the war, ojukwu always believed awolowo had his back to the last minute betray him. so my dear if the British and Russians who helped Nigerian have written about the same betrayal,don't try to makeup a story to appease the guilt(if there is any) that a fellow tribes man brought to your door step. I charge you to read other books written by non nigerians about the biafran war, from beginning to end and also after.Tell me if your friend rescues you from prison and you make him a promise to help him secede Nigeria and turn around and trade him for a promise of presidency( which you never get) and to get what you never had you go to hide and steal their assets just because they are of a certain tribe and then when queried lie and say you never read the documents you signed the northerners gave you as finance prime minister, haven't you in all honest committed a crime and breached the oath of office? So my dear awolowo's daughter should be disappointed by her father's actions before and after the war towards other tribes period. Dont call evil good just because his a tribesman or a father. Speak the truth!!

Dahbutter: Cry baby ibos. Your ogas lacked intelligence and war strategies and a more intelligent side whopped their @ss using common sense in a war.
I wonder, if situations were turned around if the ibos would have sent or allowed food reach their own enemies in a war they were desperate to win knowing the concieted, dubious, crafty, dishonest selfish crooks they really are. Now because modern trends have coined out the word "war crimes" 4uking asswipes are screaming injustice!

I wonder if the whimps would have given back properties to their enemies after the war or aid them to prosper in their own land after like d yorobbers did.

The first stoopid fact about the barggers is they don't really know their real enemy and decided to loose their frustration on the ones who were most sympathetic to their plight. Dumb pricks
My mum is ibo, but I must admit here on NL they come around as a dumb lot with a misplaced focus screaming foul play because they didn't have the advantage in a war due to their brainless commanders.

Now go back and prepare 4 another war if u want, use your brain this time but remember as the chinese say all is fair in war!

you are an ode, and i feel sorry for your generation and your mom for uttering such rubbish. Go back and check and make sure u are born of an igbo woman, cuz you dont sound like one. For you were, you will stand on the truth no matter your bias or your paternal identity. If you must know, after the war, the igbos were part of naija again and should have gotten their properties back fair and square, but we know what awolowo did, and then claimed ignorance of the whole confistication later, so lets leave politics alone and face the truth. Awolowo did good for his tribe, but stole and wronged the easterners, as to maintain economic power in the west. It was ethnocentric-ally driven so my dear brother of equal mixture face the truth and swallow it, like utabazi its ever bitter, and unfortunately has no sweet after taste like ewuro( olugbu).

vedaxcool: I think the whole issue started from the coup orchestrated by igbos in which they killed Northern leaders that in fact fouled the air thereby creating the scenario which culminated into a war. And I believe the first generation of leaders failed in certain areas they would have done better. But Awo using the food tactic despite wrong brought the war to a swift conclusion. The problem is both Nigeria and Biafra did condemnable wrongs, as the Biafrans killed innocents and also invaded places that they shouldn't have. We wonder whether you ibos plan to apologize for that? My point, we the youths need to stop thinking the way our elders did. Or else we will end up in the same place they at. I believe Nigeria is a complete set, the Ibos one of the greatest tribe of resourceful entrepreneurs, the yorubas intellectuals, the Hausas great politicians, and the list go on and on, I am neither from any of the three tribes but I feel that Nigeria can be a better place to live if we believe we can make a difference and leave the ethnocentric bigotry in the dustbins thereby working for our collective good. The truth is that our leaders use all sort of distraction to keep us from realiazing the great damage they do to us every time when they plunder our collective treasures.

stop saying what you think without fact, because the coup by the supposed igbo generals had other tribes,including yoruba,hausa etc involved in the plan. Infact the leader of the coup did it for justice for all nigerians not for the igbos, because even he wasnt a 100 % igbo. So lets focus on the case here, awolowo committed war crimes, and also stole from the eaterners their hard earned wealth. Him saying i just signed the documents has no basis, he should have read wjhat he signed as the finance minister of nigeria. Infact what he did was abuse of office and a crime in all honesty, speak the truth please and shame the devil.you keep saying you igbos, forgetting that there were other tribes including some yorubas that fought on biafran side. i dont care what tribe you are from, but the truth is that your tribal identity right now is insignificant, because its not about tribe, its about the individual, awolowo and what he did before and after the war. Nigeria, am sorry to tell you cannot move peacefully and progressively without facing the issue of the civil war. It needs to be taught in our schools.We need to have a memorium for it. LET US FACE THE PAST AND FIND A WAY TO FIX THINGS FOR OUR FUTURES AND THAT OF OUR CHILDRENS. the fact is most of us are mixtures of so many tribes even though we represent our paternal identity, but at the end of the day we are the future of nigeria. my suggestion, just like south africa and america has done to appease the people people they wrong, the government should create a program that helps people who were under biafra to try to get their wealth they lost back. Because what many people do0nt know is that the british still holds records of the supposed savings of all their colonies under them, and nigeria is no different. So i will say, if the people who lost their wealth when awolowo refused to give it back still want what is due to them let them make a request of british government through nigeria of those bank records and let them be compensated fairly. That i believe will help start the healing.

shymexx: You guys need to defuse this madness before it consumes everyone... It was a war, and you're allowed to use everything at your disposal... Achebe is an elder statesman and he should know better than to exacerbate a bitter past in Nigerian history maliciously in a way that might end up consuming generations unborn... Perhaps, he's trying to show his bitter hatred for the late sage... However, why now? And why the sensational rhetoric and the revisionist agenda?? Every student of Nigerian history knows the truth, and Awolowo did what he had to do to end the hopeless war - and save the country... I would've done the same thing if I were to be in his shoes... You've to be prepared to go to war - and it's asinine to expect your enemy to feed you during wartime... Fait accompli! - time to move on, and be prepared for war next time...

It's great to talk about history because: "History is a clock people use to tell their historical culture and political time of the day. It's a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The history tells them where they have been, where they are and what they are. But most importantly history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be." However, it becomes problematic when statesmen of Achebe's calibre starts peddling lies and half-truths... Awolowo was power hungry; so was Ojukwu(Achebe's first cousin) who wanted Biafra to himself and other parts of Southern Nigeria; so was Nnamdi Azikwe who wanted to become the premier of the Western region(despite not being from the region) and had to go back to the Eastern region to marginalise the minority groups there; and so was Ahmadu Bello who wanted to sink his Qu'ran in the Atlantic ocean and continue where his ancestors left off... All your founding fathers were power hungry TRIBALISTS... Singling out Awolowo is just stupid IMO!!

I'm going to buy the book... But I hope he also critiqued Ojukwu, Nnamdi Azikwe, Gowon et al with the same venom about the roles they all played in the events that led to the war, their roles during the war, and what they did after the war... Failure to do that would show how bigoted he really is.... And I hope he also included the indiscriminate bombings of Lagos civilians by the Biafrans and their white mercenaries who wrecked havoc on Nigerians - and how Biafran soldiers wanted weapons instead of food...

Where do the Northerners stand in all this madness?? The war was between them and Igbos - how come Igbos are not confronting them Scared much??

i dont think its about being scared, why most people of igbo descent have problems with yorubas and blame yorubas is because of awolowos action, before and after. awolowo after ojukwu rescued him from jail made a promise to the igbos to side with them if a war erupts, but goes back on his words when the north promises him a future as the president. Betrayal is hard to forgive. and the north could never have won the war without yorubas and etc. Then his actions after the war as nigerian finance minister and holding all igbos wealth and properties, and only giving them 2opounds and keeping the rest in yoruba land, to leave them imporvished for life. That was theft and evil in everyway possible. So my friend know the truth and let it set you free. am sure azukiwe,gowon bello etc all were tribalistic and power hungry, but awolowo took it too far.

I know some of you might be like, who is this delusional person who thinks she can clean the niger delta. Well i say i can with your help. I was part of the gulf oil spill clean up and i know the hard work it takes, plus niger delta's spill is full of 51 plus years of spill deposit, and will take a generation or more to clean, but i say lets start.One of my friends who studied chemical and environmental engineering always told me that the reason she studied those branch of engineering is to be able to clean the niger delta. I used to laugh at her, but last week sunday she came to me with a proposal. She had gotten twenty of her sorority sisters to agree to spend two years after undergrad in ogoniland and help her clean the niger delta. She understands it will take years, but she is so passionate about it, and has decided to dedicate her life and time to it. When i asked her where she was gonna get the funds she said that the UN had instructed nigeria in 2011 to make 1bn dollars available for the clean up and nigeria agreed, but as we know that it will be a miracle if the funds are used for the cause . But she said she is not counting on that, she says that her sorority sisters and her have raised over 1.5million dollars for the cause and that she believes that she can relocate and start the work.I know some of you might be saying this girl is not serious, but she is. I thought the same. What i have learned through this friend is that charity truly begins at home. But i believe that though this is a gallant selfless act, that she needs nigerian youths help. Mind you, you will not get paid for this, its pro bono, but housing and food and other necessary amenities will be provided. Some of the projects that is part of the cleaning is helping the surrounding villages through hospitals and schooling those who need it. I offered to come during the summers for three months to help, so you can help as long as you want, but we just need your help. She is relocating in february 2013. What i have learned about our youths in diaspora is their passion to change nigeria for their future and that of their children, and they are willing to do it out of their pockets if needs be. As nigerians ogoniland is also ours, and what ever affects the nose will soon affect the eyes, meaning what ever affects them will also affect all of nigeria. Having done volunteer works with my family in nigeria, i noticed that the youths are not passionate about doing anything for free, they want to be paid some how, but unfortunately am sorry this project can only pay you in kind, for what you do to help will be a payment of better future for your children, and their children's children. Lets stop looking to the government and start doing something. So my friend who is relocating will be staying in the villages with her sorors and please pray for their safety as they prepare for this journey.if you are interested.. just message me your emails and i would forward you some more info as she makes them available to me. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a step. Please note that more than 15 of these girls going are not even africans,talk of nigerians, but are willing to give their time for this endeavor and hopefully you guys can take a sip from their cup of selflessness and offer your helps probono.

Prof Corruption:

Your leaders lacked strategic thinking! You don't fight war alone. It's not even rocket science, it's common sense.
You plead to some countries to stay neutral, you bring others on board. It's not about brute force, it's all wisdom.

With all its military might, US did not go to Iraq alone? Britain was there with US. Even in Afghanistan where a war is raging as I type, do you know how many countries are there with US? Germany, France, Holland, Britain to mention just a few are there. Was US not defeated in Vietnam? Was USSR not defeated in Afghanistan? Why is Isreal seeking US green light before attacking Iran? War is not a joke, if you don't plan it well, goodluck to you. When you take actions, you are also taking the consequences. Nobody declare Biafra for Ojukwu. He brought avoidable misery upon your fathers and grand fathers. Blame him for that. Don't hip the blame on Awolowo. Tell the senile old bitter racist English professor to stop rewriting history.

If your leaders fail to think like leaders and went to war alone, how was it supposed to be the problem of Awolowo who courted the USSR and USA-the opposing superpowers of the era? Why didn't Zik or the now senile Achebe devise a winning strategy for Ojukwu? Sorry, the empty boast of greatest army south of sahara would not let them see c


Spoils of war, take heart.

I hope you know that this was a civil war and because nigeria was a sovereign country, usa,ussr etc had no right legally to join and help nigeria. They broke the international law on sovereignty and i still maintain that if biafra was to rise today and take usa,uk and others involved to court that they would have a case. So dont try to say the people of biafra didnt have good leader, can u hold on to a war for three years, by the ingenuity and God's help like biafrans did? NO, especially against all the super powers. Biafra tried and i dont care what anyone says igbos, and everyone under the umbrella of biafra..i.e bakassi have the right to fight for their right. Nigeria is not a democracy, tradition rules over it. And most of the northern and western rulers tried to take something that wasnt theirs, and you dont expect those that own it to fight back for it.. U dey craze? i beg. spoils of war my foot.mtcheww!!

Prof Corruption: Why Do Igbos Always Go Looking For Trouble?
Written by Ozodi Osuji Ph.D




Why Do Igbos Always Go Looking For Trouble?

There is something in the psychological makeup of Igbos that makes them always go looking for trouble. In the calmest of circumstances they will always do something that would annoy those around them, create conflict and then live in conflict; they seem to enjoy living in conflicts.

As it were, they seem to have death wish and do things that would make those around them to attack them, and or kill them hence gratify their death wish (thanatos).

Consider their relationship with their neighbors. Invariably they would say or do something that even a child knows would irritate those neighbors and do it as if they do not know that such actions irritate people. Consider Obi Nwankanma’s concocted historiography. The man is apparently writing a history of Igbos (as gleaned from the snippets of it that he posts on the Internet). Invariably, he would make claims to the effect that Igbos stimulated what their neighbors did or he would make Igbos have credit for what other Nigerian tribes did. And he would make these self-serving bogus claims as if they are true. He is, of course, lying but presents his lies as if they are substantiated truths! The man writes history as propaganda!

Taking credit for what other tribes did diminish those tribes self-respect; they feel attacked and angry at him and by generalization at all Igbos. Thus, the man’s private behavior has negative public consequences for most Igbos, for other Nigerians who feel insulted by him (in a country where folks indulge in stereotyping behaviors, by all Igbos) attack any Igbo in sight.

And this misguided man is not the only one doing what he does; many Igbos do it. Consider their unreasoning response to Frederick Lugard and his British cohorts. Britons created what is now called Nigeria in 1914. Igbos who hitherto did not have a nation were for the first time placed under one administrative unit hence given a sense of being one people. But instead of being grateful to Lugard for hastening their sense of oneness some foolish Igbos call Nigeria Lugard’s cage; that is to say that they feel caged in a place they would rather not be in.

They flock to other parts of that Lugard’s cage to seek employment! The Yorubas allowed them to come to Lagos, a Yoruba city. Now many of them live at Lagos. Instead of expressing gratitude to their Yoruba hosts some of them now claim that Lagos is an Igbo city! Imagine that cheek!

Yorubas could feel insulted by squatters claiming ownership of their land and attack and kill a few of them and the rest of them would carry their loads on their sorry heads and march to the East. They would not even have the courage to stand and fight to death. When the going gets tough they always run to their tribal enclave.

These people routinely insult Hausas and Hausas, not being as patient as Yorubas are, often pick up their machetes and start slashing at any Igbo in sight.

These people literally ask other people to attack them and when attacked they turn around and see themselves as victims. Alas, the rest of the world does not come to their rescue!

The white man could care less if Africans murdered other Africans, if in doubt see the Sudan, Somalia and East Congo where Africans, as we speak, are butchering each other and the International community give them all the opportunity they need to get rid of themselves from the face of this earth (and leave the damn continent for animals so that white men come on wild life safaris in it).

If other Nigerians start murdering Igbos no African Union or United Nations would come to their rescue and even if they did they would send African soldiers, who are likely to be Muslims and hence participate in killing Igbos some more!

These people are not aware of the real world they live in and talk as if they are invulnerable supermen when in fact they are the most vulnerable group of Nigerians (other Nigerians hate their arrogance and could easily gang up on them and do away with them).

So why do Igbos do these crazy things when they could have peaceful relationship with their neighbors? Why do they go looking for trouble (as Fela Kuti said, trouble de sleep” iyanga” de look for am)?

Fela recognized that pride (iyanga)causes interpersonal troubles; Igbos are” inordinately proud” [/b]and out of their pride insult other folks and those folks also being “normally proud” human beings (all human beings feel proud, in degrees; the neurotic, aka narcissistic and or paranoid personality feels inordinately proud)feel degraded and attack them.

Fela was an insightful musician, not trained psychologist. There is a more psychological process at work in these people’s apparent irrational behavior. They do what they do because of their inordinate sense of inferiority.

Feeling totally inferior and wanting to seem fictionally superior to other persons they make claims that would seem to make them seem superior to other people. Those absurd claims naturally make those they belittle angry, and those attack them.

INFERIORITY FEELING

I am saying that Igbos go looking for trouble because of their sense of inferiority and paranoid level of compensatory superiority (according to Alfred Adler, all human beings feel inferior and compensate with some superiority feeling and quest for power over their world, but the neurotic over does it).

DEATH WISH (OR FREUD’S THANATOS)

It is as if these people have a death wish and must attack other people so as to generate other people’s counter attacks on them, and when attacked they feel persecuted hence feel alive. The pathological ego feels alive when persecuted!

The paranoid person feels alive when he feels attacked and is defensive; if not feeling attacked and persecuted and defensive he does not feel like he is alive!

The paranoid person has not yet learned that a person can feel even more alive by loving himself and those around him. If you want to truly feel alive do what loves other people and what serves people’s interests.

The alternative to Christian agape love for all people is the paranoid attacks on people that generate counter attack for him and he gets attacked and in defending his self feels falsely alive.

For the longest time I could not quite understand this oddity in many Igbos behavior. Finally, I understood it. They engage in their apparent self-defeating behaviors because of mental disorder. They suffer mass delusion disorder (follies adieu, aka group paranoia).

The deluded person takes his private interpretation of reality as reality. He wants to seem superior and powerful, which he is not; he imagines that he is superior and powerful; believes what is not true as true hence is deluded.

The mentally ill person is not operating in the real world; he is living in his personal world, his fantasy world where he is all powerful and invincible.

The sadist part of it all is that even if you understand the dynamics of what is going on in the deluded person’s head and tell him about it he does not get it and continues doing what he does that gives him certain results and continues to get the same results while expecting different results.

[b]Igbos insult other people, make them angry; they get attacked and or killed. They do not want to be attacked and killed; that is, they want different results but they keep doing what generates the old results and get it. This is the definition of mental disorder: doing the same thing while expecting different results. An alcoholic keeps drinking but does not expect to damage his liver and health; poor soul; as long as he is addicted to his drug of choice he must be slowly damaging his liver, brains and killing himself even though he wishes to be healthy and live.

I know that these people are not going to change for part of mental disorder is not to see what is obvious to the normal person. The normal person, as if instinctively, recognizes that if you insult folks that they would be angry at you and that some of them would attack you, but these bizarre folks keep attacking others (by insulting them) and not expecting them to counter attack them in self-defense.

They do not know what they are doing and one is wasting one’s time trying to get them to recognize the obvious.

I suppose this is my mission: to keep stating the obvious until those who wear blinders finally remove their veil and see it; remove the mask over their eyes and see reality as it is. I will never give up on them after all they are my people, and attacks on them, even if self-brought, are attack on me (when folks begin attacking or killing Igbos they will attack or kill me, too). The sins of fathers are visited on their children’s heads. Therefore, I must keep trying to help them smell the coffee and roses.

A FINAL WORD ON OBI NWANKAMA’S PRETENSIONS

Obi Nwankanma, apparently, is writing history, make belief history of Igbos. He has been talking smack about Nri as core Igbos (obviously a self-serving claim). His idiotic talk is irritating me. One of these days I would unleash my fury at him. I generally allow annoying things to simmer for a while and when I become sufficiently angry I unleash a ferocious attack and will keep attacking and nothing would stop me. By and by I will take Obi Nwakanma up and attack to destroy his pretensions.

These clowns write 419 histories that make their people the head of Igbos while ignoring the obvious, that the core of Alaigbo is Owerri. When I have some time I will do rigorous research on Igbo history and then refute their make believe history (I just read Elizabeth Isichie‘s version of Igbo history; she is not pretentious and haughty; she honestly believed what she wrote; she is a scholar, not a propagandist pretending to be a scholar).

For now let me just say that it is irritating to one to see those who are not even fully Igbos to keep talking as if they are real Igbos and worse present themselves as the leaders of Igbos (they were influenced by surrounding non-Igbo folks; the real Igbos are in core Igbo land, in the Igbo heartland, Owerri/Orlu axis. (Owerri must eventually become the capital of one unified Alaigbo state in Nigeria or Alaigbo republic should Nigeria breakup).

The time allotted to foreigners, such as Onicha/Edo folk, rule over Igbos is over.

Most history books are written as songs of praises to the people they are written about hence are hardly objective. That been said, if one is writing a history of one’s entire people one ought to make an honest attempt to be fairly objective rather than write claptrap that sings the praises of one section of the people. Just imagine it: everyone knows that Owerri is the core Igbo but clowns from non-Owerri area pretend to write Igbo history and not give central place to Owerri.

Even the much maligned white colonial folk recognized that Owerri is core Igbo hence made Owerri dialect the central Igbo dialect in their books on Igbo language. But buffoons from non-Owerri area write as if their peripheral areas are central to Igbo history and in their idiocy expect Owerri folks to accept their nonsense. Why, it is supposed to be Igbo history and every Igbo ought to accept it even if it is a bunch of lies.

When I am free to pay attention to history I will descend on these clowns like a ton of hot coal. Their contrived, 419 scam history of Igbos cannot be allowed to stand



Ozodi Osuji Ph.D

Ozodi Thomas Osuji is from Imo State, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD from UCLA. He taught at a couple of Universities and decided to go back to school and study psychology. Thereafter, he worked in the mental health field and was the Executive Director of two mental health agencies. He subsequently left the mental health environment with the goal of being less influenced by others perspectives, so as to be able to think for himself and synthesize Western, Asian and African perspectives on phenomena. Dr Osuji’s goal is to provide us with a unique perspective, one that is not strictly Western or African but a synthesis of both. Dr Osuji teaches, writes and consults on leadership, management, politics, psychology and religions. Dr Osuji is married and has three children; he lives at Seattle, Washington, USA.

He can be reached at: Ozodi@africainstituteseattle.org ; ozodiosuji@yahoo.ca (206) 853-4245

This man is a perfect mugu and i will bet you he has no real igbo blood in him. No man who witnessed what dr.achebe witnessed or many survivors of the genocide called biafran war would utter such rubbish about the igbos looking for trouble. I wasnt there, but the horrors of the stories my grandparents both on igbo and yoruba side have told have made me question the unity of a country such as nigeria. These people wanted freedom, just like south sudan got, but the truth must be told and shame the devil, Controllers of nigeria i.e-uk,soviet union,usa..etc, wanted the oil and if nigeria broke apart the part known as biafra will have all the richness of the oil and right to do what they want from it. And lets be correct here, it wasnt only the igbos, all the other tribes around the igbos agreed to leave nigeria, yoruba almost did, but at the last minute sided with the north. Yes until a conversation is had about the effects and affects of the spoils of the war on all the generations, especially ours, nigeria will never be this bad. we all wanna pretend there is peace, non tribalistic rants, but at the end of the day there is problem in our community. nigeria is a confederation with three countries in it. What we need to accept for once is that the truth hurts. Awolowo knows what he did and you cannot affront another man for speaking the truth . Respect papa achebe, you are truly more than a heroe to each of our generations.

thelastPope:

Please no vex. Let me ask. Did you attend the occupy protest in the city where you live? Have you ever advocated change in any particular area of the Nigerian society even if by correspondence? Have you ever sponsored or inspired any community change or development project in any part of Nigeria? I will like to know how you demonstrate your patriotism.

I dont think you know who you are speaking to. Since i was a child my mom has made sure we helped nigeria. In our households the premise was always get a good education and a job so you can go back home and help nigeria. Me standing in the street holding occupy that and yet nothing is done is a waste of time. I believe if you want something done, start on your own and do it with what you have. My father and mother have fixed roads in their villages with the money our whole family contribute and i have even volunteered at aba teaching hospital to help give shots to people who are sick. Each year my family and i bring loads of medication back home to hand out to people who need it most. My syblings and i have two housing center for youths in ogun state and one in abia state for needy families. I personally take $20K out of my paycheck at the end of the year to give to four deserving students to help them pay their school fees and my siblings too. So before you ask me what i have done for nigeria, tell me what you have done. Since i was a child my mother made sure that my siblings understood that what defines us is how we live our lives and how many people's life we positively effect. So check yourself. I feel if the youths in each community got together and helped clean up parts of their community without waiting on the government that naija will be better off. I live in the usa 10months out of the year and spend 1 month in ogun state and one month in abia state volunteering my time in the villages to help the needy with my siblings, so i think am doing my fair share. Infact i feel that we nigerians abroad are more kind hearted and selfless than those at home.

thelastPope: I am really getting irritated by many Nigerians in diaspora. They seem bent on seeing Nigeria and Nigerians go down. They come here and all over other Internet sites spewing garbage about Nigeria. They will put down anything positive about Nigeria. It seems they are suffering from gross bitterness.

There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has many issues but we cannot solve it by hating ourselves with so much raw hate and talking nonsense all the time. There is a time to critisize. For example, I like to criticize our excesses on materialism as a people which leads us to many unwanted stuff like corruption and crime. But insulting the nation and saying we will never make it and making us look so pathetic to the rest of the world is just too bad! We have our dignity and pride and we will never sacrifice that on any alter of self defeat and hopelessness.

If these bitter diaspora folks can't see anything good about Nigeria and Nigerians, I wonder why they even bother to post on Nigerian forums. They should carry their crap somewhere else. They forget that they are part of those who have failed Nigeria because they have not made any meaningful contribution to Nigerian growth.

Some of us travel out of the country and know how many of these folks live in Europe and even the US. In spain, Italy and Greece, many of them beg on the streets. In the UK, I don't even want to start. They haul themselves, sometimes as much as 15 in a 2 room apartment! Yet they talk nonsense here on NL because they can afford cheap Tmobile internet connection.

We have no other country but Nigeria. We must stand up and build it. Yes, it is a long road but it is a journey worth taking! Our families and friends live here. The question we must ask ourselves today is how can we make it better?

Apologies/acknowledgement to the many Nigerians in diaspora who do not fall into this category. Your patriotic contribution is a blessing to some of us!

ummm i beg to differ, i believe nigerians in diaspora are more patriotic and nationalist than most nigerians that live in naija. If you nigerians at home spoke up and stop accepting corrupt leaders to lead you, then you can stop having 15 people sleep in a 2 bedroom apartment. Please dont come here trying to create a problem where there is none. I h8 people like you that always like to cause problem for no reason. Truthfully if anyone is bitter it is those living at home, because they think since we are abroad that everything is rosy, not knowing how hard we have to work to overcome the sterotype that nigeria has, and try to make an honest living. The only diff is that the governments abroad works for the people by the people, unlike in nigeria they work the people for their pockets. So rather than hating and calling us bitter, know that every situation or environment has its obstacles. And if you knew how much tmobile cost reap most of it customers off, you would be venting to.

oparah chi: Hello nairalanders,
Please I cld use some advise here. There's a prospective babe, and we most likely are going to date even though we already act as though there is an intimate relationship. However, there's something that puts me off about the girl in question. "She eats too much". I have consulted other girls to determine if it was bad for a girl to eat too much and all answers I got were in favour of the girl. I don't remember when last I met a girl that eats three square meal.
The other nite she claimed she was really hungry and needed food. Just before I could get her food, we had a little conflict so we kept silent and put ourselves at a distance. We settled this conflict at about 2am that was after I even woke her up from sleep. Guess what people after the resolution at about 2am, she told me she was still hungry. I had no choice bUt to go look for food around the surburbs.
The reasons for my being paranoid goes thus: 1) the tendency she might get fat. 2) its just surprising to me cause all the girls I have dated in the past don't eat much, plus I know generally girls are light eaters.
Advice please!

lmaooooooooooooooooooo...... if you wont date her because she eats too much, then you are not worth her. Have you considered that maybe she has a very fast metabolism? I know i weigh 130lbs at 5'5, but if you see me eat, you would wonder what miracle diet pill i use to stay skinny, but unfortunately am all natural..thanks to God..so no blame her, but at least tell her how you feel about her eating habit so she can try to minimize her food intake.

masterpiecer: this is terrifying, women and secrets, they can keep secrets for a thousand yrs

I beg this is no secret, most of you people here claiming this tribe and that tribe, its a given that at least one of you were brought up by wrong tribe, due to the mother's deceit. Thats why i say watch what you say because in africa,especially naija you might just be cursing your blood. i tell my brothers a woman's heart is deep as the ocean and filled with so many secrets that you have to pray that the woman you marry is faithful enough to share part of hers with you.I know a friend of mine who grew up in the usa and not until his dad needed blood transfusion did he learn that the man wasnt his father and his mom later explained to him that she bought him from a nurse in asaba 25 years ago and that his dad doesnt know and tried to make my friend promise not to tell his dad, but he eventually did, and the truth gave the man another heart attack...horrible things!! the guy who grew up yoruba saw his world crumble. I felt sorry for him, he tried to retrace his lineage and find his actual family, but still no help. the mom gave the excuse that after 7 years of marriage she was unable to give her husband kids, so her husband people was trying to bring another woman in and she said she was not ready to lose her wealthy husband to another woman, so she faked a pregnancy and learned that there was a nurse in delta state that helped her cousin get a new born, so she made sure she left usa to naija to have the kid. >>>>( who in their right mind leaves usa to naija to born pikin? the husband should have suspected her). So you nigerian men, as you know if you marry the mom with the child she is carrying, the child is immediately urs, genes or no genes, and the thing is that there is a good chance that the man will never find out.SMH!!!

am sorry to tell yall this but i believe in my ancestral Gods are taking revenge slowly but surely, and just watch all of them corrupt leaders who have taken more than their fair share will all inheirt one uncurable disease or another and modern medicine will not help them. Just watch!!

I feel that just like every other important issues that is in need of attention GEJ is just going to over look it. I will tell them to occupy abuja, as the people of cross river, your families,cousins, fellow nigerians to help make your plights known, and if that doesnt work, declare yourselves your own country..after all u were injusticely placed where you dont want to be.

kasheemawo: front page pls...............OP this ppl even lied on radio Nigeria broadcast this morning that hundreds of nigerian graduates secured job yesterday on which NO single person got job.world bank supported the program wit billions.

LMAOOOOOOO, YOU ACT LIKE YOU DONT KNOW THE COUNTRY U ARE FROM...LMAOOO.. I BEG THEY HAVE POCKETTED THE MONEY AND IF YALL PAID THEN THEY GOT EXTRA PAY FROM YALL.

I am sure this has happened in nigeria. This is why before people get married in our traditional cultures we go around finding out about their family and not just doing quick stupid western weddings. I feel sorry for her, and i blame her relatives. that is why whn you knock a girl up you either marry her or at least stay in the child's life so they dont one day marry or be in a relationship with you by accident.

onila: rubbish

thank you that is my exact sentiments... these fools have more than 350 plus cultures to celebrate, but no they want to do africaribbean... something they dont know the history of, just always wanting to please the west and forgetting african tribes and cultures need celebrations too. Now if it was a Pan-African festival i would understand...but unfortunately that is a wishful thinking.

This is what i believe, ... i believe that if our traditional believes are practiced as much as christianity or islam that nigeria would be better, infact most african countries will be better off. If you think of it...subsets of christianity like catholic is mainly accepted by africans because it is basically kinda like what most people term our "pagan" traditional religion.. The pope=babalawo..saints=dieties...and so on.most people dont want to admit it but thats why many africans are more catholic than any other subset, if you want prove read african in latin america, then you will understand that the only difference between our traditional religion and certain branches of christianity is that the people who commit the crimes dont face judgements and feel they can do anything, but in our traditional religion there is no forgiveness, rather the Gods get their revenge.

Odenigbo Aroli:

Have you lost your danm mind Who da fhucck are you asking "ara odi igba ghi" ? Watch your mouth,little girl. One; You arent Igbo. Two; Your knowledge of the history of the Igbo is not up to par. No wonder you believe Ngwa speaks the MOST ANCIENT IGBO. You are not even an Igbo yet you came here to teach an Nri son the history of his ppl. I am not surprise becos you are an " Ofenmanu" fool,henceyou have their traits. Agwo adi agha imu ife di ogonogo.....lie ebunu na nnai na akpa atulu. What do you know about the history of the Igbo and her cultures? You are disrespectful and ignorant at same time and i will not cease to hurt your feelings if you dont act like a girl with an Igbo mother!

ewu mpama..i beg go brush your teeth before talking to me...yes my father is yoruba.. and so.. if you dont know your culture if i visit my mothers people...aka you igbos, you are suppose to protect me no matter what..second dont make me insult your life...ah ah..okibiri nwoko la eweghi oru aka... i beg shift.. thirdly i have the right to say whatever i want and just because you were raised in the igbo tribe dont make you one, it is known that many women..especially from your side buy children and lie to their husbands that its his, so you might even be yoruba by genealogy ...mtcheww mis guided...unlearned mkpi!!!

HAH: it is a fact that the people living in bakasi are nigerians while the land belongs to cameroun. the mistake Nigeria made is going to the court and judgement has been given, if Nigeria tries any war , the UN and the entire comity of nations will give the blame to Nigeria. have you ever wondered why UK did not go to court with argentina on falkland, it is because they know that the land belongs to argentina while the people who are mostly english are settlers. I think the best thing for nigeria is devise a way of rehablitating those nigerians in bakassi that are willing to come to Nigeria and move on.

actually you are wrong.. The land today known as bakassi has always been part of nigeria, until idiotic obj and his thiefing friends gave it to camerouns ...Corruption...they forgot that they gave part of the south Eastern protectorate away so, lets be real here, This people have a right to protest anything they want. Because of how obj gave away the land about more than 350K nigerians, are today camerounians by nationality, but tribally are full of nigerian major tribes like igbo, kalabari, yoruba and so forth. So do your research before you talk nonsense. I praise this people for asking for their rights, after all what obj did is illegal, people didnt care because of the corruption in the government. At the end of the day it is good that our youths hungry or not are standing up for what their parents refused to stand up for. We determine our own future..no longer our government... During the European scramble for Africa, Queen Victoria signed a Treaty of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, known to Europeans as "Old Calabar", on 10 September 1884. This enabled the United Kingdom to exercise control over the entire territory around Calabar, including Bakassi. The territory subsequently became de facto part of the republic of Nigeria, although the border was never permanently delineated. However, documents released by the Cameroonians, in parity with that of the British and Germans, clearly places Bakassi under Cameroonian Territory as a consequence of colonial era Anglo-German agreements. Interestingly, even after Southern Cameroons voted in 1961 to leave Nigeria and became a part of Cameroon, Bakassi remained under Calabar administration in Nigeria until ICJ judgement of 2002.[4]
[edit] Bakassi People

Bakassi people are mainly the Calabar people, the people of Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, including the Efut, Efik, Ibibio, Annang, etc. As you all can see the colonial leaders caused this rubbish, but traditionally the land has always belonged to kalabari..efik people of south eastern nigeria.. so lets know history...and learn from it.. i will tell them to write up a petition find a good lawyer and sue the nigerian government in international court for indirect selling or stealing of property, because we all know that unlike uk, NIGERIA IS NOT A 100% DEMOCRACY..MOST OF THE TIME TRADITIONAL LAWS OVER POWER COLONIAL POWER LAWS.... "Bi iso iya o ba run, o ye ki ti omo o le ta sansan," Ka anyi na ga li ihu


“In the three years of war, necessity gave birth to invention. During those three years, we built bombs, we built rockets, we designed and built our own delivery systems. We guided our rockets, we guided them far, and we guided them accurately. For three years, blockaded without hope of imports, we maintained engines, machines, and technical equipment. The state extracted and refined petrol, individuals refined petrol in their back gardens, we built and maintained airports, we maintained them under heavy bombardment. We spoke to the world through a telecommunications system engineered by local ingenuity. The world heard us and spoke back to us. We built armored cars and tanks. We modified aircraft from trainer to fighters, from passenger aircraft to bombers. In three years of freedom, we had broken the technological barrier. In three years, we became the most civilized; the most technologically advanced black people on earth.”- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

semid4lyfe: Jacob Esan? He must keep a really low profile cos I've never heard of him

there are a lot of millionaires and young eligible ones at that that dont go around tooting their horns about their riches, you just have to be in their circles to know them. Personally i prefer when they dont toot their horn and keep low profiles, like naetoc says, you get the wrong attentions when ppl know abt your riches. but i think Esan should have just created his own team in naija and grow it that taking the money and investing in another country. SMH!!

what about women who take the husband full name, especially ibo women... it pains me when i see someone who took her husbands full name.. like nkechi julius agwu, or patricia james obiora... WTF. i would understand a woman keeping her father's name if she was the only child or her name happens to be branded, your professional degree is attached to your nmaiden name or aristrocat, but if not i believe changing ur name is also a way of submitting to your husband, showing that you are all his and no other man, not even your fam can put asunder.

drnoel: Guys this is currently causing ripples in my extended family. The wife of one of my first cousin´s was beaten up by one of her husband´s immediate brothers. The lady in question has 2 children for her husband and just kind of needed help in her house so she requested that one of her husband´s nieces should come and live with them for a while. The little girl (14 years) that was sent has lived with them since she was 12 years. The little girl started having problems with the madam of the house and at the peak of the problems the lady beat her niece. Ofcourse her niece reported the issue to her parents and her father drove down immediately without asking what the problem was and gave her series of very dirty slaps. I heard she tried to complain but the series of slaps that followed each other after the other shut her up. I heard the brother-inlaw also shouted shut-up u are a woman.

Guys/Girls pls what are ur take on this matter. If u were her husband what would u do. If u were the lady in question that was beaten would u fight ur inlaw back or would u just take the beaten and not complain.

My advice is she deserved what ever she got. Dont beat another person's child the way you dont beat yours. I bet she must have beat the girl to the extent of scars.