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SW is the new 5%

1999 You voted against Yoruba interest False and voted for Fulani interest Obasanjo.

2003 you contested against Obasanjo as you did in 1999. Yet you called him the most detribalized Nigerian after he brought you out of the dog house and appointed you into powerful positions.

2007 Obasanjo anointed Yaradua and you voted for this same Northerner because he chose you as the second fiddle like Balewa and Zik.

2011 You voted for another Biafran, Jonathan with mostly Biafran cabinet. Yet came back for another turn after chopping and cleaning mouth because Jonathan a Biafran, not Igbo.

BetterHeadline:
1999- Obasanjo (Yoruba)
2003 - Obasanjo (Yoruba)
N.B They voted Obasanjo over Ojukwu and Buhari (despite Bihari picking an Igbo VP)

2007- Yaradua (Fulani)
2011 - Goodluck (Ijaw)

I hope this answer your question.

Writing about stupidity, so the people of "Kaduna, Nassarawa, Taraba and Plateau" are Igbo voting for other ethnic group?

Read it again but this time slowly. Which other ethnic group did Igbo states vote for, if you are not playing deaf and dumb.

Hashabiah:
So the people of Kaduna, Nassarawa, Taraba and Plateau are ethically biased to igbos abi...? For a yoruba man, your stupidity no get part two o.

Those who cried the loudest are the most clannish and ethnocentric.

Check out the votes by their states.

OBJ see himself as courageous but only when it is against the interest of his people.

What did he get in return after interpretation of two third by Akinjide in order to hand over to Shagari?

What did OBJ get after supporting Babangida to nullify Abiola elections?

Except to be supported into Presidency against False, his people's choice?

Abacha sent him where Karma wanted him.

What did OBJ get after bringing Igbo into powerful positions since the civil war?

What will OBJ get after supporting Obi blindly?

The same thing he got after they called him the most detribalized Nigerian. Ugly names later!

Obasanjo, you are only a temporary hero to others and a traitor to your people. Self gratification is not defined as bravery.

Mayor of Lagos, Prince of Lagos, Obi of Lagos, Ore, Yoruba chief, Yoruba wife or anything Yoruba as insurance in case Nigeria breaks.

It may or may not help you.

Look at the three leading Presidential candidates and feel sorry for Nigeria and Africa.

Guess who Buhari and Idi Igbo would vote for in a runoff between Atiku and Tinubu

You scratch my back I scratch your back. You scratch my face I scratch your face

God no go fes.

Nigerians have failed to learn from their own history

You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.

This vote for me but will never for you mentality will never work, period.

Look at the leading three Presidential candidates and understand why Nigeria refuses to get off on its butt.

Godwin Maduka and Sowore have no demonstrated abilities or experience in looting, drug paddling or terrorism.

Maduka could not even be elected Governor.

Where is the statsence or nonsense to the East

APCHaram:
Is it now you are realising that igbos are the staunchest one Nigerianists?

30 months of Biafra rogue nation was enough to reset them back .

Kanu's ipob criminals is reminding them of what a paradise of anarchy Nu Biafra will look like.

De tin taya me, no be small.

Obi and his supporters have come out in droves as the biggest Unity Supporters while Southwesterners are fed up with One Nigeria.

Find out what happened if Obi lost the Presidency.

He would be elected President of Biafra and all Biafrans would move to the East happily �

Oduduwa must have been here before Christ, going by parallel archeology of the Yoruba, Egypt, Greece and Rome with the history in the Bible or the Koran. Unless those before him were many centuries old before he was born! He traveled through the Nile river, spread Yoruba civilization and religion. Yoruba, named in Arabic writing noted them for their religion, before their present country brothers became aware of them. See Beginning of Ethnic Formation. During Oduduwa’s exploration, he had children Yoruba usually name AdeTokunbo, Omowale, Magbagbeile and others overseas. He was revered because his descendants were kingdom builders and they also unified the Yorubas. Oduduwa proved his Ife royal blood by displaying his crown, a book in verses and an obelisk. Zo Giwa mentioned these three items in his article.

August 7, 2006

http://www.segundawodu.com/martins27.htm

You will find out after the Election.

Southerners fight after the horse has left the stable. Where were you when Atiku that should have been disqualified based on his past and the fact that Buhari comes from the North?

Ndi A.

thuxzwda1:
Who be this?.......

Atiku is the next President, stop fooling yourselves.

The North made every President except Obasanjo Second Term.

Until the South learn to put credible candidates forward, the South will always help elect a Northerner.

Imagine the impunity of claiming another 8 years!

It took me a while to understand why anyone would rape. It boils down to power over the victims.

But you know what? Both men and women rape. Who do you think dis-virgin many young boys?

Luckily, the society understands that it is more traumatic for females. Lives of both men and women have been destroyed just by accusation of it.

Facts or not?

Dispute if you can with all your vigor.

OBALOLA55:
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING ACHIEVE WITH THIS NONSENSE YOU WROTE HERE.

You may not agree with their antics but while others are trying to change their Regions, Igbo have boldly taken on the whole of Nigeria for change.

Who took on Balewa head on and settled for Governor or ceremonial President but Zik.

Who took on Nigeria but was later betrayed by his co coup plotters but Ezeogwu.

Who abolished Regional Power for a stronger Nigeria under his rule but Ironsi.

Who challenged Nigeria at Aburi but Ojukwu.

You may not agree with their tactics but they yearned for greater Nigeria under their rule.

Others can not even revolt, Issac Boro did and was crushed.

Please give it to Igbo for daring!

pazienza:
Ndiigbo don't do tribal marks.

Ichi is a form of religious /status scarification mark.
It's something an individual decides voluntary to take as an adult, you don't give it to a child. And only few people take them. Because the process is usually very painful and there were cases of post procedure infection and fever.

Uri are simply body paintings, like tattoos with ink that over time wash off. They are not body scars.

Egbugbu is done with chalks and washes off after use, same as Nsibidi ones

Ogbanje marks are usually just ond line on the face region close to eyes on both sides of the face. You will hardly notice them, they are also given to children who were too sickly during infanthood or early adulthood .

On the whole. Ndiigbo are not into body scarification.

Very ignorant. You cannot be Igbo because some or most of the bodily marks are known to most Igbo and some non-Igbo.

Tinububalls:
I support patriotic citizens not criminals masquerading like politicians.

I agree with you completely.

But the future belongs to the Youths. They cannot Japa or hide. Face your demons at home.

Babangida ran and Abacha took over. Abacha Nemesis caught up with him. He even refused invitations to Lagos by his own military governor, Marwa.

Youths cannot wake up Aminu Kano, Nzeogwu, Gani Fawehinmi, Tai Solari or Issac Boro. Your grandfather did their part. Wole Soyinka is too old to face tear gas like the old man that collapsed at Occupy Lekki while the Youths fled.

Youths must make Nigeria and overseas uncomfortable for those criminals called politicians.

Tinububalls:
After lamentations, did you provide any solution?

Yes. Find out about university activists on Ali Must Go, Kayode AdamsProtest against Vice-Chancellor, Protest Against Obasanjo as military leader.... that's enough for now.

What are you doing now?

IPhone as soother in your mouth.

Supporters of the three most crooked Presidential candidates in Nigeria's history and JAPA!

Nigeria has some of the most talented people in the world but those talents will never get the opportunity to rule Nigeria.

This country was the big brother of all African countries sending talents and material to manage them after the colonialists were kicked out. Out of spite never hand over to progressives.

This country fought a civil war without borrowing a kobo yet could not get good managers to utilize talents, resources and income out of spite.

Cutting your nose to spite your face. None of the three Presidential candidates can dig you out of the mess pigs enjoy.

Even mumu could have done a better job than vultures.

DSC7:
Lagos is a case study

Only Lagos!

You said and know it already

Ireke!

Confutionist.

God helps those who help themselves.

Africans have to learn how to strife for excellence instead of expecting manna from heaven. We must struggle for other goals apart for money alone.

Teachers used to be a noble goal even when the salary was low. How about the best manager, role model, novelist, civil rights activist, sculpture artist, carpenter or iron worker?

Ideals Academy Must Replace Greed Academy

When was the last time individual African countries refocused on Ideals Academy? Ethic and morale has never been so low just to catch up with the Greed Academy’s teachings. Influence of Greed Academy is corruption, indifference, terrorism, immorality, power grab and no guilty conscience.  Western Schools of Business, after the 1987 stock crash vow to imbue ethical courses, but learn little until the new crash of 2008. Africa must.

August 22, 2012

By a real life story, some walked miles to the mine fields in the rain, sun and even snow. Many that made it there, came back rich and celebrated. Some died on the way while others died inside the mine. Those that came back look at poor people, not as strong as they were, and wondered why they did not go to the mine fields. They spoiled their own children; but forget those that did not survive on their way back were not so lucky.

Somehow along the way, most people forget when they were at the right place at the right time while those equally industrious as them failed for being at the right place at the wrong time or at the wrong place at the right time. They preach pulling yourself up with your bootstraps. Colo-mentality did not allow them to realize that some do not have boots or straps. Moreover, everybody does not have to be either poor or rich.

Rich people are just as different as the poor. There are rich people willing to give most of their life savings to good causes before or after their death. They realized that, after all the rat race we cannot take anything with us. But there are some people that finally made it rich only to become the meanest to the poor. They figure that if they can burst their butts and make it, so can anybody. They care less about the sick or the weak.

Bereft of ideas or ideals, well-endowed countries are turned to TV beggars by politicians out of touch or mercy. Like businessmen, spend other people’s money. Only that loot is siphoned to contract and cronies. The biggest corporate welfare recipients are defense, building contractors and their children justifying it with impunity. Other’s keeper as our responsibility is dying fast; lingers in Diaspora: our last generation to send money home.

Most African countries failed because we put pursuit of money and greed before the pursuit of ideals and ideas in our schools. No local mega projects to enhance, harness or encourage our primary industries to create primary, secondary and tertiary skilled jobs for our graduates at all levels. So, inept leadership competes with religious fanatics, old retired military men, ethnic militant drop outs, while competence becomes irrelevant.

The quality of our schools has always been a point of reflection especially between private and public schools. There used to be a time when certain public schools could compete or were better than private and mission schools. Unfortunately what we have these days are very expensive schools that do not live up to their hype. Apart from a few foreigners they have, African teachers are too poorly paid to devote the best of talents. We have many parents that would rather spend five years school fees of basic education school in one year exotic schools only to run out of money. The point here is that our poverty mentality that works against us today was created in our children yesterday by greed. As long as our focus is on exotic schools’ taste, not on teaching ideals we need to escape reliance on conspicuous spending; most African countries will linger in poverty.

Therefore, it is not surprising to see parents trying to give children the best education wasting money on unaffordable schools. Nothing illustrated it better than Free Primary Education instituted in old Western Region. By the second or third year, advantages of expensive private schools and eight years in primary school compared to their six years primary; were gone. Indeed, those drop-outs taken into military schools became rulers. It is not a sin to be poor and proud, though embarrassing to many. Consequently, the poor people, even in rich countries make the most noise from their empty pockets. They just want to live it up like the rich. In many cases, we are conspicuous spenders, not needy spenders. The rich can afford to be both needy and conspicuous spenders but even then, the rich are very picky and calculated on what they spend their money on.

The most obvious display of ostentation amongst some of the poor is our clothing and the car we drive. We display gold and silver all over our bodies and carry more cash than the rich. Poor people spend so much money on cars, it’s unbelievable. In many cases, we buy used cars of the rich and spend good money repairing it. Our habit is investing in depreciating materials instead of appreciating ones. Are you poor looking for repair trouble? Buy an old jalopy. You want bizarre estimates? Go to opportunistic mechanics. Yet, Saro say “na poor I poor, no be craze I craze”. Most poor people hate to see others in a worse situation and they usually give a higher proportion of their income or share more of their worth with others while those richer than the poor run away out of fear of exhausting the little they have that makes them comfortable. The fear of returning to poverty once you have been there is real and in many cases drives us to succeed.

This is what drives our leaders into extravagant lifestyle regardless of who is milked dry. Sadly honest homegrown politicians cannot form a quorum. They are always sabotaged. Out of those of us concerned about the poor, some of us try to do something about it. You may know a friend or two that come back home to contest during elections. It is different to the time of Nkrumah, Azikiwe or Michael Manley of Jamaica. Those ones came back home for good into politics. We are talking about those that worked two or three jobs abroad and come home to spend it all hoping to win an election and may be, with altruist determination, help the people govern well. Most of them always loose.

Home grown politicians do not work for European Euros or American Dollars as Tunde Just-Come. Coming home to serve and change the country is a noble cause but not a quick one. Usually home based politicians just watch Tunde until he exhausts his hard earned money only to run back on his last euro. Politics is not the only way to contribute to change of government. Many can help nurture a revolution.

Farouk Martins Aresa
https://saharareporters.com/2012/08/22/ideals-academy-must-replace-greed-academy

Old ugly Aunt could turn off the groom. This would convey a wrong impression to the niece.

Open all borders of Nigeria to all Africans not selective borders to favored marauders.

This is the only way one community will not be overwhelmed by people they have little in common with.