₦airaland Forum

Okezenwa:
Iboes are truly hypocrite. Today they cry marginalization, the next day they claim there land is Dubai. SW is rubbish and they cant stop trooping to same place, something must be wrong with the brain of an average Iboe man. Confused people

Okezenwa:
Arindin, I should visit a place where everyone is running away from, are you sane? Its just like telling to go visit Somalia

mercyville:
ALL SE STATES PUT TOGETHER ARE ONLY COMPARABLE TO OYO STATE.SE IS A SMALL ENCLAVE BUT STILL HAVE BROWN ROOFS.45 MILLION PEOPLE...IGBOS CANNOT DEVELOP THAT SMALL ENCLAVE...SHAME.
IBADAN
I-IPATA
B-BOYS
A-ARE
D-DANGEROUS
A-AT
N-NIGHT .
IBADAN is indeed a beautiful African world class city.
All the south east states put tgda can never be beautiful like IBADAN.
what are our biafra governors doing?
wake up from slumbering and develop biafra.

If only igboland can have half as beautiful skyline like this,only then will the world take them serious.

https://www.nairaland.com/2303392/recent-beautiful-pictures-ibadan-pride

Eastwalk:
Ala Igbo

kropotkin11:
IPOB miscreants and their land grabbing things are at it again

Eastwalk:
Despite that Owerri is one of the main city in Igbo land, check the non sense you are posting. Now this is Ibadan a city close to Lagos that is supposed to suck all it potential yet the city is still triving. We need to stop this hypocrisy and build our land


Ibadan

Eastwalk:
We should live Yoruba people and their ancient brown roof and face our modern and ugly cities. Imagine Onitsha ranks as the dirtiest city in the world

Onitsha, Anambra

9jakool:
Nigerians like to live under a fantasy but never want to come to terms with reality. Tell me a region of Nigeria that does not have brown roofs. When the Europeans visited Yorubaland, they noted the high rate of urbanism among them. For example, Ibadan at one point in time was the largest city in Nigeria and the largest in all of Subsaharan Africa. Till today, Yorubaland is one the most urbanized part of Nigeria. 40% of Nigerian cities with 100,000 people are found in the region.

It's good that you said almost every successful Igbo build a mansion. However, the truth remains that most Nigerians are poor, whether Igbo or Yoruba or whatever and cannot afford to build a mansion in their village. Most Nigerians live under inadequate infrastructure. Your sweeping generalization that many Yoruba don't build modern houses in their hometowns is false. Yoruba towns and cities embraced tin roofs and in the past, the houses look fairly decent, compare to now.

Brown roofs in my opinion is misplaced priority. It doesn't matter if you build a 4 storey mansion in a village, you are not living life to the fullest if you are surrounded by open gutters, pollution filth and litter, have to fill your generator to power your house, and drive your car on bad roads full of potholes.
What's more important than replacing brown roofs is to clean the streets and upgrade public infrastructure.

Oxtonguy:
Here Enugu

Oxtonguy:
While this is Enugu middle class, the taxi color indicate the authenticity as well

Oxtonguy:
You can't have for Akure, because Akure is a modern city, ancient city like Abeokuta has of those brown things you are posting why new cities like Akure has little that can't be rendered aerially. You only succeeded posting those ancient buildings of Abeokuta. Why do you ignore the new areas

Modern part of Abeokuta

Oxtonguy:
Akure residential

Oxtonguy:
Your opinion very differ from reality.
South west got nice place excluding Lagos

AKURE

Jetleeee:
Let's see what it looks like

BornAgainMay:
Nnamdi cownu is a yahoo boy...


He needed fame and he got it...


May the blood of those innocent souls killed fighting for his freedom be upon him

NgeneUkwenu:
Cownu go and Sin No More! Idiootu!

After spending more than a year-and-a-half in a Nigerian jail without trial on treason charges, Nnamdi Kanu is now free on bail. The BBC's Stephanie Hegarty explains who Nwannekaenyi "Nnamdi" Kanu is and why he attracts so much controversy
Nnamdi Kanu founded the Indigenous People Of Biafra (Ipob) in 2014.

The movement wants a group of states in south-east Nigeria, made up mainly of people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away and form the independent nation of Biafra.

The plan is not new. In 1967 Igbo leaders declared a Biafran state, but after a brutal civil war, which led to the deaths of up to a million people, the secessionist rebellion was defeated.

But the idea of separatism has bubbled away since then and Mr Kanu is the latest in a line of Biafran activists taking up the cause.

Ipob activists held frequent demonstrations over the detention of Mr Kanu
He was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and broadcast to Nigeria from London.
Though he grew up in Nigeria's south-east and went to the University of Nsukka, Mr Kanu moved to the UK before graduating.
Soon after setting up Ipob, he spoke to gatherings of the large Igbo diaspora, calling for Biafran independence. In some of his comments, he urged Biafrans to take up arms against the Nigerian state.
"We need guns and we need bullets," he said in one such address.
And that is what brought him to the attention of Nigeria's security services.
'Frivolous'
However Ipob spokeswoman Amarachi Chimeremeze told the BBC this was not a literal call to arms: "That was a metaphor, to tell the people we are going to fight for this."
If his trial, currently due to begin in July, does actually get underway, that is the question the judge will have to rule on.
In October 2015, soon after arriving in Nigeria for a visit, he was arrested in his Lagos hotel.
He was charged with "criminal conspiracy, intimidation and membership of an illegal organisation" - charges that could amount to treason.
His lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, told the BBC that the charges were "frivolous".
"They were concocted to ensure his detention in prison. These are smoke-screen charges that will never see the light of day."

Biafra at a glance:

States claimed by Ipob for an independent Biafran state
Image caption
Ipob claims these existing states would make up an independent Biafra
First republic of Biafra was declared by Nigerian military officer Odumegwu-Ojukwu in 1967
He led his mainly ethnic Igbo forces into a deadly three-year civil war that ended in 1970
More than one million people lost their lives, mostly because of hunger
Decades after Biafra uprising was quelled by the military, secessionist groups have attracted the support of many young people
They feel Nigeria's central government is not investing in the region
But the government says their complaints are not particular to the south-east

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Since his arrest, groups of Ipob supporters have gathered in protest around Nigeria and the movement has gained momentum.

They believe that the British vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's election in the US are evidence of growing international support for the "right to self-determination" which they espouse.

Some have said they are now seeking "Biafrexit".
Organised pro-Biafran protests have almost always been broken up by police, with Ipob saying their followers were injured or even killed, something the authorities vehemently deny.

But the violence has led to increased publicity and Cheta Nwanze, a political analyst who has done extensive research on the pro-Biafra movement, says Mr Kanu's "arrest was a mistake because it played into his hands".
"When the 2015 election happened, there was a slowdown in the popularity of his radio station and that's when he decided to come to Nigeria to get arrested."

Was it a mistake to arrest Nnamdi Kanu?

Mr Nwanze believes Mr Kanu is an opportunist and points to a video of him speaking at an anti-Boko Haram rally in London just months before he set up Ipob, where he spoke about the need to protect Nigeria from breaking apart.
But the Ipob spokeswoman disputes this. She says Mr Kanu simply went to Nigeria to show his commitment to the struggle.

"He came to prove to them that he meant everything that he said. The Nigerian administration were acting as if according to a script and arrested him," Ms Chimeremeze told the BBC.

'Lost tribe of Israel'

Putting his separatist ambitions aside, human rights groups and some senior politicians have been calling for Mr Kanu's release, arguing that his many months of detention without trial was unlawful.

As is common with the Nigerian legal system, the case has been plagued by delays. After a year-and-a-half, no significant progress has been made.
The government ignored several court orders calling for Mr Kanu's bail before bowing to a court order last week, and granting it "on medical grounds".

It is hard to judge the strength of pro-Biafra activists
But the bail conditions are harsh: The Ipob leader is banned from public speaking, granting interviews or being in a group of more than 10 people.

As a condition of that bail Mr Kanu had to bring a prominent Igbo leader, a wealthy resident of Abuja and a senior Nigerian Jewish leader to provide 100m naira ($260,000; £200,000) each as surety to the court.
The Ipob leader says he is an Igbo Jew, part of a group who believe they are descendants of the lost tribe of Israel who settled in West Africa.
It is hard to judge the real strength of a movement like Ipob and its leader.

While the misery of the Biafran war put an end to the separatist ambitions of many Biafrans, a lot of Igbo people still feel that they are not fairly treated in Nigeria.
And some argue that President Muhammadu Buhari is doing little to help that. After all, he was a soldier in the army that defeated the separatists in 1970.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on the other hand, was recently celebrated for opening a conversation on what happened during the Biafran war.

What happens to Mr Kanu and Ipob next is not clear.
The movement may go the way of Massob (Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra), an earlier separatist movement. Massob lost some of its influence after its leader was jailed in 2005 and released two years later.

This year marks 50 years since the Biafran war began.
What the interest in Mr Kanu and his movement shows more than anything else is Nigeria's 50-year failure to put the idea of Igbo separatism to rest.

OreMI22:
Truth be said,

Rochas is really trying to make Owerri a world class destination.

Imo people should be happy to have at least one decent modern city inside their state than have 20 semi shanty towns.

If Owerri makes it to be counted as a great and conducive city to attract foreign tourists and investors, i will say Rochas government was a success.

Okoyiboz3:
To us, the SW isn't fully developed as we see the inherent potentials. To you, the SW is the heaven and mecca of everyone from your land of the rising scams.

Aregbe alone has executed more projects than all the SE governors and their predecessors combined.

You see the Opon Imo project of Aregbe, before it can be adapted for the use of your people, it wont be earlier than 2040. This is because you people are still at the very basis of human skills and learning. You are innate criminals and are unable to live in a lawful society.

bakynes:
But do you know Ibadan is bigger than 2-3 states combined in the South East land mass wise and Oyo state is almost the size of the entire South East.

Basic123:
That is what an igbo man will see because tribalis and empty chest beating has beclouded his vision.An objective,hausa/fulani,bini,and yoruba man after seeing ibadan brown roof will also see these

Basic123:
The bigger the city in nigeria the bigger the brown roof.Also,I pray this Amadihoa strike you if that is >90% of ibadan

Basic123:
Lolz..we thought igbo land has no brown roof at all untill we found this:

lolz..your claim,bragging,chestbeating you are
known for are not necessary,relevant and
important,you can even claim,brag and chest beat
that you imported london to igboland.But these picture
speaks volume.