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[quote author=haka_nai link=topic=876252.msg10242545#msg10242545 date=1329838522]The question now is,"did Ojukwu died a wanna be biafran or a Nigerian"?[/quote]Ikemba died a Nigerian, fullstop.

Remember that the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari granted an official pardon to Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Thereafter Ojukwu had played a significant role in Nigeria's return to democracy since 1999 (the fourth Republic). He had contested as presidential candidate of his party, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for the last three of the four elections. Until his illness, he remained the party leader.

I agree with this move intoto, no irrelevant group should be allowed to hijack this great Nigerian's burial for selfish gains. Even the burial commitee does not recognize MASSOB.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) has agreed with the Federal government on the proposed plans to give the late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu a full state burial.

The FG has stated that as part of conditions to give Ojukwu a state burial, all groups, not accredited by the burial committee, including MASSOB, will not be assigned any official role during the burial.

According to the statement  released on Tuesday by the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, who spoke through Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, the proposed burial arrangement which had  stipulated full military burial for the late Igbo leader has been accepted.

“We hail the President of Nigeria for approving full state burial for late General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of Biafra and Ezeigbo Gburugburu. The decision to stop MASSOB from participating during Ojukwu’s burial as a group which was reached at the meeting with the burial committee and representatives of Chief of Army  Staff and Ojukwu’s family shall not be contested. MASSOB had earlier agreed to allow the federal government to complete their burial rites on the the first day and take over the second day," the statement said.

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Gaddemm!!! Will these people just freeze everything until the real Ikemba is buried   

Uwazuruike is already warring with the Ojukwus for the rightful replacement of Ikemba!     These fools should understand that no one can replace the one and only Ikemba.

logica:
I had to define what Lingua franca means because I'm sure you don't know what it means. Monkey.

So now you can use what ever zinjanthropus brain you have to figure out what our Lingua franca is.

LWKMD I have two words for you buddy: Flee flea!! Thanks for the laughs.

olafolarin:
Anambra made the right decision by planning a refinery for the oil block.
It will make things easier and will improve the revenue base of the state.

Oh boy, Anambra does not own the refinery nor the oil blocks located in the state. The state had nothing to do with the refinery.

logica:
Who is this m0ron informing? You better go inform the Al majiris in front on your house. Once again, the standard thing should be for the inscriptions to be in our Lingua franca. Whether Soludo approved it or not means nothing to me. I do not do that clannish follow-follow that drives you.

Pray tell, what is your Ligua Franca (<=== LWKMD) , mumu?

logica:
And this makes perfect sense to you eh? Once Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba are represented then all is well with the world eh? I can imagine how it feels to be constantly left out of the scheme of things. I wonder why the minorities are always so silent.

Don't shoot me for attempting to inform you, olodo. The new design in question was carried out and approved by Soludo before he left office. You have a right to call Soludo senseless, but you will not get my support for that.

The ignorance of you people is making me ashamed and I wish I could reach you through your monitors and give y'all dirty slaps. Most of you are so intellectually lazy that your ignorance will allow you to fall into traps of lies, which your leaders continue to  use to keep you enslaved in bigotry and obscene tribalism.

What you guys call arabic inscriptions are not arabic but Ajami scripts. Ajami is actually Hausa written with Arabic letters. That's how the original hausa writing is. And that is what many Northerners that do not have western education can read.

Now, Key features of the new naira notes (polymer)which will be released soon include their small size, pictures of some past Nigerian heroes including the famous female porter Hajiya Ladi Kwali, bold numbering, map of Nigeria, the national colors and the denominations written in the three major languages of Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba.


Arabic (ajami) alphabet for Hausa

https://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/hausa_ajami.gif

Beaf:
The core-Northern elite are [b]a wicked, indolent breed, who believe they are superior to every other.[/b]If denial was a talent, the core-Northern elite would be Nobel Laureates.

Goodness gracious, there are several of this elite among your Governors and political leaders in the SS region, lets not forget those from the area claimed by Eze of NL, Onlytruth; according to your definition!!    

[quote author=Yeske! link=topic=875494.msg10236963#msg10236963 date=1329771841]A ghota rom ifa ina ede, kowatu l'anyi ofuma biko.[/quote]ogo m, the write-up is self explanatory na, ko kwa?

Beaf:
. . .And madam, the core-Northern elite feels superior?

mavor, olodo.  I see that the core-Northern elite is still the capable boogie man disturbing you severely. This boogie man is responsible for all your pains and wahala.  Hint: to deal with a problem you have to identify the problem first - biko, who is this core-Northern elite? Please give us a unambiguous definition. Ndo o.

This is getting completely out of hand. Some Igbo leaders are now using the burial arrangements of the great Ikemba to stall their prosecution. SMH

Ikemba is obviously a great Nigerian - how many Nigerians can generate the kinds of responses posted in Ojukwu related threads on NL. Please let's bury the man already and let him rest in peace.

The ongoing burial arrangement for the Ikemba of Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, on Monday, stalled the prosecution of the Igbo Community Welfare Association, President, Chief Augustus Amachi in Kaduna.

Amachi was to appear before a Kaduna Chief Magistrate court for alleged “Breach Of Trust”.

The Counsel to the accused, Mr Fabian Nwokwe told the court that his client was not available because he was invited to represent the Igbo community in Kaduna at the Ojukwu burial arrangement which was fixed for this week.

When the matter came up  for mention, the Counsel to the complainant, Chima Ochu, told the court that the accused had been served with a summon on Dec.19.

Ochu said the accused later responded by appearing before the court on Feb. 1, 2012 serving a Notice of Preliminary Objection on the complainant for the court to strike out the case.

Ochu urged the court to take action as it was an offence to disrespect a court order.

He urged the court to issue a bench warrant against the accused as he was not willing to appear before the court.

The Chief Magistrate Nasiru Idris, said the case would be adjourned on the basis of fair hearing as a result of the preliminary objection filed by the accused to enable parties involved resolve the matter.

He also ruled out the issue of bench warrant against the accused as he has never disrespected the court order.

The magistrate, however, adjourned the case to Feb. 21, 2012 for definite hearing.


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Onlytruth:
Obviously I never expected a simpleton to understand that REAL POWER belongs to the people. lol
All that would become apparent soon. Why it hasn't happened sooner is because MASSOB has remained non-violent.
But even at that, soon it would be clear to any sane Igbo that we can never moved forward in a cage created by Gowon.

The truth is that three are three groups of Igbo out there:

(1) Those who believe in Nigeria as is (about 5%)
(2) Those who want Nigeria restructured for justice and peace (about 45%)
(3) Those who want Nigeria to be totally disintegrated and for Biafra to become a nation separate from Nigeria (about 50%)

I tend to belong to the second group most times but my innermost wisdom tells me that last group has a more solid position.
For as long as I remain Eze Ndigbo here, I would TRY HARDEST to stay with the second group.  I will DEFINITELY join the last group if I dont see changes in Nigeria.  

Eze Ndigbo Gburugburu maramma, you are forgiven because you belong to the second group you described above. I sincerely hope that you indeed believe your statement that power belongs to the people and NOT to MASSOB!! Lest I start to think that you are speaking from all 3 sides of your mouth. At least you are not a hopeless secessionist. Dalu o, make I go sleep.

The rest cannot be history because Nigerians would want to know what happened?
You became a victim of what?

May be the governor had his reasons why he could not deliver on his promises but, like I earlier opined, nothing happens to a prasticing mystic by accident. We are still the best of friends and I am still an active member of the ACN.  The governor remains my friend.

Why did you adjust from the PDP?

Democracy is government of the people for the people and by the people.  No matter your feelings about Governor Oshiomhole, you cannot but give it to him that he has brought about the transformation and transmutation and, if you like, the acatalectic transmogrification of the socio-political topography of Edo State; he has brought the dividends of democracy to the people of Edo State; he has been quixotically committed to making the people get the dividends of democracy. There was a fundamental shift, a very radical shift in political loyalties and alliances.

(That Oshiomhole had brought never-before-seen development to the state).

Several members of my constituents moved on a daily basis from the PDP to the ACN at that time. In fact, 80% of those who gave me their imprimatur to represent them had already egressed from the PDP to the ACN; and every time I interacted and interfaced with them, I was daily bombarded by my people that though they gave me their mandate to represent them, they had moved to a different political tangent. I had to be on the same democratic page with my people.

But you appear to be on your own now; no PDP; no House membership?

If the governor of your state gives you his words, how could I have doubted those words my brother? Such promises are supposed to have the hallowed importance of…

(He muttered some words that appeared to be a mix of his Edo dialect and Latin,  to which he was bluntly told ‘when we finish, you will have to write those words yourself’ and laughter followed)

Some people have said you ought to be a tourist attraction for your state but here you are, out of the House of Representatives, in limbo sort of?

I feel flattered and humbled by what you have said and by what people say.
Sincerely speaking, daily, I find myself in a state of lachrymoseism when at the airports and at various public places people receive me even up till now with reverence and most times with eyeballs soaked in tears.

There was a day I was going to Calabar for my mystical activities and a whole family rushed towards me and a woman started crying like a baby and said ‘you mean in spite of all your contributions and your ability to call a spade a spade, your people didn’t bring you back to the House of Representatives? It must be a shame; what kind of country are we in?’ To the glory of GOD, I still get that kind of reception on a daily basis even though I never knew my little contributions affected people so emotionally, but you know a prophet is always without honour in his home town. We continue to give thanks to Omneity and appreciate Nigerians that have shown me so much love.

(That he feels flattered when people praise him)

Deep inside you, when you look at the potentials of Nigeria as a nation and where we are today, with the insecurity and challenges we have, what would you say, especially with what the woman at the airport said, about Nigeria being where it is because of our approach to governance issues?

It just shows that we have not gotten it right.
With all the scenarios you have painted, I want to add another scenario in terms of the bellicose and belligerent reaction of Nigerians when, on January 1, 2012, they were awakened by the rude increase in the price of petrol.
When government took that decision, it was from the point of view of Roma Locausta Est, Causa Finista Est, which means when Rome has spoken, there is nothing more to be said.

Did government not buckle at the end of the day?

That brings me to what I have always said, that the political class would not by itself commit class suicide, that the movement out of our political phantasmagoria, economic quagmire and social stupour does not rest on the shoulders of the political class but the people who would have to rise against the malodorous excesses of the political class.

The marginal reforms we have made in our polity have come as a result of the fact that the progressive intelligentsia, the progressive media and students’ unions have forced the hands of the political class to change.  The lesson is that Nigerians must constantly be at the barricades and constantly engage the political class. Eternal vigilance is the price for democracy.

What about the insecurity in the land as occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency?

Let me first of all say that we must draw a difference between religious Boko Haram and political Boko Haram. Just as in the days of Obasanjo, there was religious Sharia and political Sharia.  Political Sharia came into play when the Hausa Fulani oligarchy thought that Obasanjo had become as refractory as a mule to be controlled and they thought they needed to put him in check. So they introduced political Sharia.

I have said it for a period of aeon that the Boko Haram that has manifested into a murderous and malodorous saga precipitate gargantuan gaga, has come as a political contrivance, a Machiavellian and Mephistophelean contrivance to reject the way and manner they rightly or erroneously thought they were short-changed.


And beyond that, political Boko Haram is aimed at doing for the North, what the Niger delta militants did for the south-south.

If Niger Delta militancy could bring to the front burner the marginalisation being suffered in that region and forced a shift in political power to an Ijaw minority, the northerners were not sleeping and they were watching and interpreting those events and they are now moving in a way as to put them ahead of other regions preparatory to 2015.

That is why no matter what solutions are adopted to curtail it, I don’t see its containment until after the next presidential election. If power gets back to the northern hemisphere, you can quote me verbatim, Boko Haram, like political Sharia, would fizzle out by itself.

What is your relationship with President Jonathan today, Chief Anenih and Governor Adams Oshiomole?
I enjoy a cordial relationship with Chief Anenih. My relationship with my governor remains very warm and he enjoys my absolute loyalty and of course you knew the activism and robust role I played when I was in the House of Representatives to support Mr. President and he still enjoys my support.

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Interesting interview:

What is the meaning of Igodomigodo? So many people would want to know?

Igodomigodo is a political sobriquet I have habilimented or if you like togarise my identity for a period of aeon to emblematize my culturico-spiritual fons et origo. It was an advertent stratagem to cosmopolitanize my genealogical matrix and arcane trajectory since it was not by accident that I originated from the land of Igodomigodo. The interesting thing is that IGODOMIGODO, being the pristine nomenclature of the Bini man, evokes in me the alacritous presence of the invisible “gods” of my progenitors which, by itself, invokes a luxuriation in an ancestral egregore of pristine resurgimento.

(All that he has said here means that he adopted the name Igodomigo to give meaning and pleasure to his belief in his Bini culture. Fons et origo means source or origin)

How did you actually come about the bombast with which you speak?

Well, this question can be answered from a bifurcated fons et origo.

One, I had a singular privilege of having a martinet for a father. My father was, and remains a very strict disciplinarian of puritanical and quixotic predilection. What that meant, my brother, in practical terms was that I never saw the streets of Benin outside my father’s compound after 7p.m., until I became a practising lawyer. I didn’t know how Benin looked like after 7p.m., except of course when I had to go to school.

If you grew up under that type of ambience, you cannot but put your nose to the grindstone. And more germane was the fact that when my father traveled abroad, he brought with him a flyer to the effect that good speakers have ruled the world, and if you want to rule the world, you cannot but be a good speaker.

I was very impressionable when he gave me this flyer which he had bought from London and for me who have always had the primus mobile and gravitating force to want to be part and parcel of the political higgi haggar of my milieu, I said to myself that if being a good speaker was the condition sine qua non for ruling the world, then I was going to do everything possible to be a good speaker and that was how I acclimatized myself very voraciously to the Students’ Companion and read all there was to read that came my way.

It was indeed a period of mental lucubration and intellectual gymkhana but more fundamentally is the fact that – and I’ve always said this – for most people, the dictionary is a reference point; but, for me, for over 25years now, the dictionary is a vade mecum – constant companion that is.

(Because his father bought him a flyer which says to rule the world you must be a good speaker, he started reading all there was to read with a view to becoming a good speaker because he wanted to influence the politics of his area – that’s all)

How?

I have spent nothing less than an hour on a daily basis on my dictionary for the past twenty five years and this could go from the pedestrian dictionary to the Encyclopedia and even to the Encarta dictionaries.


What purpose do you want to achieve with that? Just to speak, or to confuse people by being bombastic and verbose?

Let me tell you an incident that occurred that I want to bring under focal hiceps and biceps when I had the rare privilege to peregrinate through the green chambers, the House of Representatives, specifically. I’m talking about when I had the opportunity to describe the intended legislative gambadoism of my colleagues as amounting to legislative rascality. You remember I was to be committed to parliamentary seppuku for that idiolect.

(An incident that occurred when he called his colleagues in the House of Reps legislative rascal).
You were talking above them?

As far as they were concerned, the use of rascal simply meant something that was odious and malodorous and, to that extent, they felt scabrously stigmatized. But if you had the opportunity to go beyond the normal dictionary, into the high mental lingua dictionaries like the Encarta dictionaries, it would tell you, for example, that the word rascality, beyond those stigma, equally means when someone or an institution takes a position that is antipodal from the majority position.

So, from the point of view of the fact that majority of Nigerians including the progressive media and even the political parties objurgated the contumacious attempts by us to foist ourselves as automatic members of the NEC of our respective political parties, our intended actions had a deprecable and philistine pigmentation of legislative rascality which I pooh-poohed.

(Because the word rascality also means taking a minority position which was what the attempt by Reps to become automatic members of the National Executive Committees, NEC, of their parties amounted to, but which his colleagues did not understand, he got into trouble)

So, after courting trouble with your bombastic words, did they easily agree with your definition?

No, no, no, no.

Of course, normally in parliament, a concatenation of Machiavellian colloquy enveloped in punitive vendetta preceded my supposed parliamentary guillotine. Of course they were not in the mood for robust dialectics. I have dealt a mortal blow to their calculative solar plexus and I must be dealt with. Enough of the “obahiagbonesse”

So, it was a mob reaction and when I made to justiceate my earlier position that the action of parliament amounted to legislative rascality, my justification indeed further added fuel to their anger and when against my wish, the Speaker insisted that ‘Honourable Obahiagbon, I agree with what you are saying, but your colleagues still feel angered and why not please pacify them by saying you are sorry?’

It was at that juncture and in deference to Mr. Speaker who was so righteously desirous of my not swimming inside an aqua of vendetta and an already predetermined hara-kiri, that I had to verbagogically meander around the interstices by rendering the famous apologia even though I was still quick to insist on the strong conviction of my position. But do you know my brother that even the use of the word apologia deposited parliament even more in turpsy turvydom?

(Laughter)
(The Speaker wanted him to say sorry but he used the word apologia which was rejected by his colleagues and which further infuriated them, leading to shouts of no, no, no no from members)

But you could also have simply said SORRY?

My friend those were funny times and a day of the long knives.
Apologia and SORRY mean one and the same thing!

If for me apologia was what my medulla oblongata popped up at that time, so be it.

(if what his brain suggested at that time was apologia, so be it)

The ‘rascals’ did not become members of their party’s NEC any way?

I no know book oooooo.
(I don’t know what you’re talking about)

You did not return to the House. Was there any link between this, your move from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and eventual exit from the House? Was there no deal between you and your governor before you went into ACN?

I don’t want to think so. I am a practising and an ardent student of Rosicrucian mysticism.
And as a student of light, I believe that anything that happens to me does not happen by chance and, in fact, nothing happens by chance or accident to a practising student of mysticism.

I don’t want to believe that; but suffice to say that by the time I adjusted from the PDP, there was a deal between myself and the governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the high priests of the ACN that they would deploy the ACN party machinery to actualize and concretize my mandate. The rest is history.

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Onlytruth:
Back to this issue now.

This is the reason why these governors failed to empower the South East Nigeria Economic Commission. They were busy defending their stoopid useless states' interests.
This is why we have no investment corporation for the SE like we had before the war.
This is the reason Gov Orji of Abia state woke up to kick other Igbo out of his state's civil service.
This issue will continue to destroy whatever common goals we may have to emancipate ourselves from the evil Nigerian dungeon.
This is why groups like MASSOB may soon enjoy more legitimacy in Igboland, than any idiotic state governors.
Uwazuruike would soon be accorded more voice and followership in Igboland than all these petty minded morons parading as governors of the SE states.
They should continue with their idiocy.
Ojukwu's burial will be the beginning of this power shift in Igboland.

Eze nwannem, you sir are an olodo. What power shift? The main problem you and your likes have is that you don't know how to follow rules - your expertise is in breaking them. You have to participate in the democratic process to orchestrate a legitimate power shift in  Igboland.  Unfortunately, you are calling for power to be shifted to MASSOB and are working towards an illegal political process. Pray tell, will MASSOB take over APGA, PDP, or ACN? Abi MASSOB will form a new party?  You people are well advised to learn how civilized people play the political game.

Ikemba headed APGA, can't you people take advantage of his style? You people will end up in jail where you belong as soon as you start your secession/biafra  cry again. I'm sorry for you and your ignorant lot, buddy. Dalu o.

Onlytruth:
And this is why I remain strongly opposed to these "states" and more state creation.
It creates idiotic and laughable groups which turn brothers into strangers and enemies.

I will remain opposed to more state creation in Nigeria.
What we need in the East is amalgamation of states back to where they were before Gowon struck in 1967.

If we had one state in SE for instance, this issue would never have arisen.
Nonsense!  

Anyway, gotta go for now.

Eze nwanne m, Assuming this report is true, you people need to learn how to take responsibility for your failures. You are shamelessly blaming states (geographical expressions) for your inability to arrange a befitting Funeral for the great Ikemba, ko? Whatever happened to the people who live in those states? Aren't they and their leaders to blame for the current burial troubles? SMH.  As they say, you can remove you people from the bush, but you cannot remove the bush from you. Even if the states are gone and you remain Eastern region, you will still be lead by the same incompetent fools who cannot even arrange to honour the greatest son of the land.

Lets hope the Army will take complete control, logistical and financial, of the burial, before people like Onlytruth Bleep it up. olodo

Bobby Brown left Whitney Houston’s funeral at Newark, N.J.’s New Hope Baptist Church shortly after the service began.
In a statement put out by his representative, he explained,

“My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston.  We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions.

“I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move,” he said.

“Security then prevented me from attempting to see my daughter Bobbi-Kristina. In light of the events, I gave a kiss to the casket of my ex-wife and departed as I refused to create a scene. My children are completely distraught over the events.

This was a day to honor Whitney. I doubt Whitney would have wanted this to occur. I will continue to pay my respects to my ex-wife the best way I know how.”

mukina2:
Rev Jesse jackson said, they didnt make room for bobby brown and the 9 people he came with,on the front row, so he left. . .

Thanks, just read that Bobby Brown sat in the Front Row but they told him it was reserved for the family, and they told Bobby to live if he will not sit elsewhere.  They could have allowed him in the front row, afterall he and Whitney have a daughter together - he is family.

Whitney RIP.

Was Bobby Brown at the service?

@Onlytruth, Eze NL Gburugburu, nwanne m,  we shall bury Ikemba in the most befitting and honourable manner, while you wallow in your snow infested abode in the USA. Take a chill pill and have a glass of wine. olodo

marocguy:
@nduchucks sure,i have edited the title. Now down to the matter.
According to emeka anyaoku, the exploration work i put some of its pic above have yielded 3D seismic data or whateva. That and other remarks by the governor yesterday at the site proves there is oil there. You can recheck the Sun News report. Now it is worthy to note that they were careful not to mention my community yesterday,but rather aguleri otu(a farming camp settlement of aguleri people on my communal land). Prior to the sun news report of the visit, i was informed on friday that governor obi came on an impromptu visit to the site. They didnt notify the community of the visit.

marocguy, Have no fear. OPLs 915 & 916 contain an estimated 1 billion bbls Oil/Condensate & 30 TCF Gas For now, Orient Petroleum is focused on supplying its own crude oil to run its new refinery. The company even admits that it would source crude oil from its own wells (when they become operational) and other nearby sources. The communities which were mentioned are probably the ones containing the first set of oil wells and rigs.

My advice would be, as soon as you see drilling activities in your area, via oil wells and rigs, start orginizing watchdog groups which will look out for your interests, particularly your environmental interests. Make sure your village elders don't carry the money and run - oil companies routinely pay village elders for silence.

Onlytruth:
MASSOB will likely win this one.
The army will do their thing and go while MASSOB will take over. I even suspect that MASSOB may cause some trouble which would then attract more international attention to their cause. Don't smile to the bank yet.  

The bolded is the more reason why the Army should take over this burial. You people are very shameless and cannot even give the great Ikemba a peaceful sendoff. What a shame!! You and your MASSOB thugs truly belong in jail.

Onlytruth:
ndu_chucks

Where were you when Ikemba was lying ill in London?
Now, you want to steal his corpse.

Your anger is misdirected, please go and explain where Ohanaeze Ndigbo was when Ikemba was lying ill in London, to Bianca.

You fools want to shamelessly use the burial of Ikemba for political gains and as a tool of actualizing your treasonous goals. That will never happen. The Army will prevent you people from denying the great Ikemba a befitting burial - they already have his body. May the great Ikemba, Eze Ndi Igbo Gburugburu RIP.

marocguy:
lol @igwe this is just one of the drives to get it right.
@nduchuks,i musnt show you crude oil rig to verify my claims. I have gone how far i can on this to prove to you at this stage. Will still hit the villa soon to take a complete report. Meanwhile,must we wait for oil spillage or fight to agree with them on our coexistence? These are part of my questions. You are one person i respect here,your opinions at times.I need advice pls

nwanne m, maroguy, no vex my brother. I have edited the 'snide' remarks about Job from my previous posts, please do the same to yours.

Now back to the issues, as I stated earlier, the fact Igga, Enugu is located within the oil blocks belonging to Orient Petroleum does not entitle your state to anything at all. You cannot claim any funds because Igga is within the oil block and exploration activities are taking place there. For now, be thankful that exploration activities in the area will provide jobs to the residents. If oil discoveries are not made in your area as a result of the exploratory activities, you cannot legitimately claim any thing from Orient Petroleum. Now, your elders and others (hint hint) can shake them down for royalties.

As soon as the first drop of oil is extracted from wells located in Igga, then you can start claiming that you are from an oil producing state and ask for a revised derivation for Enugu. As of now, there is no evidence of oil being extracted from Igga. If I were you, I'll wait for evidence of exploration in my area before I start to worry. Trust me, your state government will make sure that you are paid hansomely.

marocguy:
Pics at the exploration coy base in igga,uzo-uwani LGA,Enugu

maroguy, you are yet to prove that oil is produced in your area. Your area falls within the oil blocks owned by Orient Petroleum so they have to keep looking for oil throughout the region, including Igga area. The exploration may yield to no oil discovery in your particular region and no one will pay royalties to you one kobo, if nothing is discovered and extracted from your area.

Now, if you provide us with pictures of oil wells or rigs located in Igga, Enugu, I'd support you all the way.

After further analysis, we can conclusively state that oil block OPL915 covers the following states:Anambra, Kogi, and Enugu while OPL916 covers Anambra, Edo, Delta, Enugu, and Kogi.   

Boys boys, let's put this issue to bed once and for all. The first map below shows Orient Petroleums's oil blocks 915 and 916. Now OPL916 is where their refinery is located. The second map shows an old map of Nigeria which shows the location of the refinery (i.e. OPL916)

From that, lets hope it becomes clear to you people exactly where the oil blocks are located. Frankly OPL915 seems to extend to Kogi state.

Becomerichr, biko, help these people with location identification before dem kill themselves before a single drop of oil is extracted.

manny4life:
Military tradition? What type of tradition is that? I know of tradition where the military participates in the funeral, I did not know they the tradition involved "mandatory" seizing of the corpse, and mandatory funeral.

@nud_chuks,

If IBB dies tomorrow, going by your logic, so it's perfectly ok to bury him in the South right?

Where do these dullards crawl out of?  Ikemba was born in Zungeru, but was IBB born in the south? olodo

udezue:
@NduChuks, honor him all you want afterall he deserves to be honored by all u sub-humans of Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri extraction instead of all those half-baked craddle-robbers like Saraduna, Bello that u look up to. Its quite interesting that you scums now want to honor him. Chaiii I see why you love to hate the Igbo. No matter what its evident that we have been blessed to produce the best of the best while u desert rats have nothing but matchette wielding almajiri.

Don't let your hatred and bigotry eat you up. Learn the act of love and forgiveness from Ikemba, honour him with that.

afam4eva:
if they bring Pasuma to perform at Ojukwu's burial, that's the day i'll cease to be an Igbo man.

All Nigerians should honour Ikemba, Pasuma is order . Hausa musicians should also have participation.

wesley80:
Whether or not this was IBB's idea, it makes perfect sense as no sensible govt would sit back and watch a separatist group flex its muscle in the full glare of the international community as MASSOB threatens to. And do you think this would be done without the support of the governors of the Eastern states? No way, I bet they actually requested for this considering the fact that they'll be the first victims of a resurgent MASSOB and an increase in separatist sentiments. All in all, its a good move and in the best interest of the nation.

^ +1000 Finally, a voice of reason

Kobojunkie:
Why are you all fing_gering the north in this?

  [size=14pt]Please stop trying to ethnic-cize this and focus on at least identifying the signs right where you are. [/size]

Many NLers are nothing but tribalists and bigots who cannot help but ethnicize every issue. Poverty in Nigeria is a national problem and a disgrace.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=870103.msg10223455#msg10223455 date=1329570217]Wow. Still no comments from @ndu_chucks?

They seem to have plenty of time for commenting on things that don't concern them.

But none for issues that affect them and their region acutely.[/quote]ekt_bear, as I mentioned above, I don't see poverty as a regional problem, I see it as a national problem and a disgrace. State governments and the feds have failed woefully in fighting poverty. Billions of naira has been spent at the federal level through Ministry of National Planning, an institution with the core responsibility of formulation medium term and long term economic and development plans for the Nation, and through the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP). Yet poverty persists. The main reason is corruption.

Funding that should go towards educating people about contraception, for instance, are routinely stolen, just like the fuel subsidy funds are. If we deal with the corruption issue and channel our funds appropriately, we will make significant progress towards reducing poverty. We lack good leadership at all levels. This is a national problem rather than an ethnic based problem.

udezue:
The family should stop any move by the Hausa army to hijack his burial.

@Ndu Chuks, thunder fire u. How dare u suggest Ojukwu be buried in Zungeru. Cursed ppl. That will be the ultimate insult upon us as a people.

shatap dia, olodo. The Army has already picked up Ikemba's body, as instructed by the Presidency. You all will not be allowed to use the body of this great Nigerian for cheap publicity and a very unpatriotic, if not treasonous cause. Ikemba will be given a befitting burial. He was one of the best the Army has ever produced and will be honoured as such, whether you like it or not.