₦airaland Forum

ndu_chucks: I was told that Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi walked around when he was commander-in-chief with a dead, treated lizard in his hand.

Is there a cultural or political reason for this and do some Igbo's still practice this act? Did Ironsi believe that he derived some sort of supernatural power from this lizard?

Please no bashing, I simply seek to be informed.

felifeli: Naughty me !

felifeli:
Kai you don dey follow me for NL ? Thank you Jesus I don popular well well now. *sings* O se o jesu..

Ehm which lunatic ? Are you referring to felifeli or gbawe ?

afam4eva: What a hypocrite! I just went to your profile and i noticed how it's bombarded with Igbo and Biafran threads yet you're here preaching against it. Could it that it's because you were owned? Why not dedicate your time creating much more useful thread instead of crying like a baby that his mother refuased to breast-feeed. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you want to remain inside the kitchen then shut your mouth and ignore any thread you don't like. If e still dey pain you shoot yourself.

felifeli: Igbos are the descendants of Cain, the first murderer . They are a cursed tribe and until you go and do corporate deliverance you will continue to wander about and be hated . Let me educate you further :

According to the biblical narrative in Genesis 4:1-16, Cain treacherously murdered his brother Abel, lied about the murder to God, and as a result was cursed and marked for life. With the earth left cursed to drink Abel's blood, Cain was no longer able to farm the land.Cain was punished as a "fugitive and wanderer"and Cain suffering from body tremors (severe anger). Interpretations extend Cain's curse to his descendants, where they all died in the Great Deluge (Biafra war ?) as retribution for the loss of Abel's potential offspring.
Source: Wikipedia

In conclusion better for you people to find out the "Abel" that your forefathers murdered and go and do etutu to remove the curse from your head. A word is enough for the wise.

T9ksy: Exactly! Ojukwu knew the situation the yorubas were in at that time as Awo intimated him about during their enugu meeting........

ACM10: Pls who can link me to Pa Pini Jason. Anyone? I need his phone number, email or home address. I want him to throw more light on the event of 1951. Pls it's urgent!

CyberG: Iboz come to cry Nigeria another ocean! Pathetic lice! Cry until you are dead but when you try your madness of war again, you will beg for Chief Awolowo but you will NEVER find! To say that rebellious iboz will be annihilated would be an understatement. All this caritas, red cross, food corridor nonsense will never happen. There will be no time to capture ibo POWs. Every inch of iboland will be removed from the earth and bombed into craters!!

kikuyu1: I've heard the same and I suspect it may be true. Most African history is still not just unknown but untold. We parrot the same historical narratives of the oyibos as if we still haven't learned anything for ourselves. On a relevant thread I posted our own lost pictography called gichandi,which in my own layman's view wasn't far from nsibidi.

Its more of an inferiority complex to be honest,its nothing to do with resources or politics. In Kenya,Luos,Kalenjins,Somalis,everybody else in fact 'explains' their poverty blaming Kenyatta,Kibaki and Kikuyus at large. IDK,where you are but if you're in the West there must be some Luos in school. Ask them about marginalisation and disenfranchisement-they'll bend your ear for hours with tales of how we supposedly engineered their poverty. Then ask why Kenyatta established sugar,cotton and rice growing schemes in Luoland during the early days of the semi socialist command economy. At this point they change the subject.They're too attached to the narrative however false to see things as they are.
Do you have anything more on ekumeku?

cjrane: So ironic Gowon now prefers London and Lagos to living in Plateau State. The only former President that cannot live in his own state.Wonders shall never end.

felifeli: Igbos are the descendants of Cain, the first murderer . They are a cursed tribe and until you go and do corporate deliverance you will continue to wander about and be hated . Let me educate you further :

According to the biblical narrative in Genesis 4:1-16, Cain treacherously murdered his brother Abel, lied about the murder to God, and as a result was cursed and marked for life. With the earth left cursed to drink Abel's blood, Cain was no longer able to farm the land.Cain was punished as a "fugitive and wanderer"and Cain suffering from body tremors (severe anger). Interpretations extend Cain's curse to his descendants, where they all died in the Great Deluge (Biafra war ?) as retribution for the loss of Abel's potential offspring.
Source: Wikipedia

In conclusion better for you people to find out the "Abel" that your forefathers murdered and go and do etutu to remove the curse from your head. A word is enough for the wise.

dayokanu: The worst ritual killing in Nigeria - Chief Vincent Duru aka Otokoto

The worst ritual killing location in Nigeria - Okija shrine

The worst 419 in Nigerian history - Nwude and Anajemba

The worst armed robber in Nigerian history- Eze Derico

The worst kidnapper in Nigerian history - Mazi Osiskankwu

The worst cannibal in Nigerian history Igwe Clifford Orji

The worst Fraudster of Nigerian heritage- Tobechukwu Onwuhara

Chidi4u: That guy Awo,had a narrow and myopic view of Nationhood hence his inclinations to being a local champion of regionalism and ethnicity.

Horus: Tribalism on Nairaland do not comme all the time from Nigerians or Africans. Many Europeans are in disguise on Nairaland and post tribalistic messages to divide Nigerians. They try to make you believe that they are Africans or Nigerians. There are many agendas behind what you read. Know that it is actually an understanding of positive and negative that will truly tell you what is in the best interests for Nigerians. A righteous Nigerian may disagree with aspects of the message but they would not openly try and deter others from receiving it.

geeez: Seriously? 80% of the robberies, kidnappings and ritual killings are perpetrated by Igbos. I can't believe a right thinking person will assert this. Except you just got out of jail and haven't been in touch.

Andro Blaze: Again you are digressing but you have asked a question I have contemplated myself many a time. First of all, how familiar are you with the SE, I mean have you lived there for any considerable length of time yourself?? If you have you must have an answer to the question you raised and I would be interested in hearing it.

Personally I have never lived in the SE nor visited the region, so what I am going to say next is what I have been told by the people I asked. These people were mainly from the two earlier generations (that ruined this country) and had all lived in the SE for a considerable length of time, most with family ties and some even born their. Again though a majority of my sampled opinion was Yoruba a considerable minority wasn't. In fact the only things that linked all of them was that I met all of them in Lagos and surprisingly they all seemed to say the same thing, which kind of goes "Igbos are too fetish, Igbos are too clannish etc." There main gist was anytime they started doing a business or seemed to be doing well in the SE, their Igbo friends would turn against them and some sort of calamity would befall them. Now I took this with a pinch of salt, seeing as most of us love to blame our failures on others and as I said these people had returned to Lagos after their sour adventures in the SE, so I could expect them to be bitter. But it does seem empirically, at least if one looks at the list of the richest/ most popular Nigerian entrepreneurs, I know of none who created their wealth from the SE and were non-Igbo. I mean its easy for me (and most Nigerians) to come up with a list of Easterners and Northerners that made their fortune in the SW, and also easy for me to come up with Easterners and Westerners that made their fortune in the North, obviously the same can be said for the SS where everyone makes their money from in Nigeria; but how easy is it for any one of us to come up with a list of anyone that was non-Igbo,that includes other fellow Eastern ethnic groups, that made their fortune in Igboland? I would find it easier to talk about other Nigerians making their money in Angola and SA than that of Igboland!

Anyway I am not suggesting that this conclusively proves what those people said but I do wonder if some of our SE brothers realise how absurd and hypocritical they sound (to people like me familiar with the stereotype and the evidence that seemingly supports it) when they say "the Igbo would dominate Nigeria if their was a level playing field"-why not try creating one in the SE to test your supremacist theorem first?

BTW this is mainly a personal opinion formed on opinions, evidence to rebut it would be much appreciated.

looplat: Why do Igbos go around taunting their hosts?
Only Igbos claim to own 90% of Las gidi, 100% of Kano, 99% of Kaduna, 95% of Jos etc.
I don't see others making such ludicrous claims.

There are more hausa/fulani in Lagos than Igbos,
how come they don't taunt their hosts like Igbos?

Igbos make too much noise and they have a death wish.

dayokanu: Because Igbos are not even destroying everywhere they go

They bring all manner of crime never known before to their host. Kidnapping, armed robbery, drug trafficking, filthiness, and even Cannibalism

Everyone wants Igbos to go back to the caves they came from

sheyguy: Source

Andre Uweh: Igbo language was used in the organisation of this war. The warriors all spoke Igbo and never saw each other as Ika or Ukwuani.
It's a pity some of the grand children of these warriors have brought division and denial into what held us together-Igbo.
TOO SAD.

bashr8: Mr femi claimed 1966 coup was an igbo coup but he forgot to let us know why there was a coup in the first place. if there was no massive corruption, election rigging , crisis in yoruba land where yorubas where slaughtering each other like fowls in thousands there wouldnt have been a coup . if gowon keep his agreement on aburi they wouldnt have been a civil war.

ROSSIKE: Why don't we have monuments to these heroes in places like Enugu, Onitsha and Owerri?

Statues of them, with plaques and inscriptions?

alj harem: wetin I do again. BTE Barka de sallah

alj harem: Thank you my sister.