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Osagyefo98:
@strikethrough

You don't refute lies by imposing new lies...

Igbo enwe eze is a lie that have gone too far and many shout that without verification.

Igbo nwere Eze...Igbos have kings...Igbos are not headless. Even before the whitemen arrived there are many communities with kingship in Igboland.

Stop spreading such lies in this 21st century. It is even more understandable to say while some have kings, some practice Republicans style through council of elders......not generally that Igbos don't have kings....Igbos do have kings before the whitemen arrived.

Read and assimilate. The phrase "Igbo enwe eze" doesn't mean the Igbos don't have kings. They do have kings but they don't place high premium on kings like what is obtainable in other tribes. The king to them is not infallible hence the Republican nature of an Igbo man.

When people who drank their fill of their mother's breast speak, I listen and I listen attentively.
NDIGBO, MISUNDERSTOOD
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Patrick O. Okigbo III. March 29, 2020. Abuja
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There are many misconceptions about Ndigbo (that group of people's found predominantly in the Eastern part of Nigeria) which, left unchallenged, have assumed the status of unvarnished truths. A phone call I just got from the President General of my town union got me thinking about these misrepresentations. The call was to solicit a donation towards the purchase of food items for the vulnerable in my Ojoto who would be most affected when the Federal Government finally gets round to declaring a national shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. ”IGBO ENWE EZE”: A direct translation of this statement is that “Ndigbo do not have kings”. Indeed, it speaks to the republican nature of the people. However, it is used pejoratively to mean that Ndigbo have no respect for traditional institutions or persons. This is false.
Ndigbo (like most humans) do not want to be lorded over. They desire that issues should be presented for debate before decisions are made. Ndigbo will not accept a position simply because a man of authority said so.
My President General could have issued a statement demanding or levying funds for the programme. Instead, knowing the republican nature of his people, he chose to call. On the call, he mentioned that my traditional ruler, Igwe Gerald Mbamalu, Eze Oranyelu I (Eze Ojoto) endorsed the programme and asked that a WhatsApp group should be set up for the purpose. The Igwe could have decreed a levy as well. Rather, he chose to discuss it with his Ndichie (the highest decision-making council) and then to solicit support through dialogue. This particular Igwe has been excellent in the way he reaches out to all when decisions are to be made and the clarity and transparency he brings to the process. As such, he has enjoyed broad-based support for his community-development programmes.
I have no doubt that before the close of day today, enough funds would be raised to procure the food items. My confidence is rooted in the approach that has been employed. You don’t lord it over anyone; not because you are ordained or elected. Rather, you present a position, open it up for debate, and if it makes sense, Ndigbo will support it. QED!
Ndigbo respect leadership but it must be from a position of discussion and negotiation. Not from a lord to his vassals.
2. SELFISHNESS: Many people who do not understand Ndigbo present them as self-centred (”They will sell their mothers for money”). This is false.
Don’t get me wrong. Ndigbo are intensely competitive and success is highly valued by their society. However, they are a group of people (like most humans) who are drawn to philanthropy.
“Ịgba Boyị", the Igbo business apprenticeship or pseudo-impact investment system, is an example. Likewise, most of the infrastructure in the various Igbo villages (roads, drainage, erosion control, electric power, hospitals, schools, etc.) are built by individuals and their various town unions. There is hardly any successful Igbo person who does not financially support a few widows, indigent students, clan members, etc. Every Igbo person is raised to know that they owe a responsibility to the community and that they should not expect any encomiums in return.
Indeed, in some communities in the South East, the new way of displaying wealth is no longer with status cars, expensive homes, or spraying money at events; rather, it is in the number of kilometres of tarred roads one has constructed in one’s village. It is in the number of kilometres of solar street lights one has installed. It is in the number of health insurance payments one makes every year for the indigent in one’s community. It is in the number of JAMB forms one pays for every year. It is in the number of university scholarships one provides every year. Many of the benefactors are known just to the person providing the support. Even when such benevolence is mentioned in public, it is quickly dismissed with, “Ọ ịfe ọ kwesili ịme” (It is what is expected of one). These can not be the attributes of a selfish, money-hungry, people.
3. LOUD AND BRASH: Many observers claim that Ndigbo are pompous, loud and brash. Well, there is some truth to this one. But it must be understood that, for most humans, it is the same thing that makes one strong that makes one weak.
Most of these Igbo people swim against currents while fighting sharks with bare hands to become successful. It is this “never-say-die” spirit that brings the success that is also seen as loud and brash.
I guess this is one of those attributes that the world would have to find some space in their hearts to tolerate. After all, a man who, with nothing, was able to sell snow to the Eskimos deserves some bragging room.

Confirmedzombie:
How can you call your fellow human being zombie
You are wicked and heartless
Stop calling me zombie for Gods sake
Wicked soul

I only called you by the name you gave yourself (Confirmed Zombie)

Now tell me, how am I wicked?

Confirmedzombie:
Ipobs will still blame Buhari for this. Instead of ipobs to hold there governors, senators, House members, LGA chairmen accountable, everything is Buhari.

What's the govs do with the monthly Allocations, revenues generated in the states, Grant's from international communities.

Until ipobs resuscitate themselves, wall themselves round with the fear of God, nothing good will come out of this useless ipobs terorists filled with hate and bitterness.

I wonder how these ipobs sleeps at night.

Ndi Ara

There's nothing more to say to you. By your alias you've just made known your true identity, "Confirmed Zombie" the walking dead.

Naija! una no go ever learn. You guys would continue to wallow in misery and hardship while these crop of politicians continue to fatten their pockets.

Can you imagine in a perilous season like this where leaders of saner countries are helping it's citizens with stimulus packages to ease the burden of this epidemic your own leaders are elevating your sufferings by taking delivery of exotic cars to the tune of 25,000 to 35,000 dollars per car.

Where are the supporters of this rogued-plaqued administration? Did the car get to you too?

"Security personnel and other individuals transporting the ordinances noticed smoke from the vehicle. After several attempts to extinguish the resulting fire failed, the vehicle and its consignment ignited causing a massive explosion that was felt in Akure and its environs."

Abeg who's the director of this science fiction movie?

Well I can not come and cry more than the bereaved.

They say " The Gullible would believe anything thrown at them hook line and sinker without making use of their head"

CoronaVirusPro:
Idiot looking for cheap fame!

Who knows the morafvcker in sane world

Shut the Bleep up! Civik 1-9 like you

UKBobo:
Your grammar is appalling. Please join your JS1 classmates in the boys quarters, adults are in the big house.

Olodo! Just a typographical error and you're going nuts. See your life...... intelligence quotient is predicated upon grammar. Little wonder you and your ilks still went ahead to vote for an incompetent man to govern you.

What a lopsided country. But we are yet to hear or witness fulani herdsmen being prosecuted for also damaging farmer's crop and their livelihood.

UKBobo:
Lie, lie, he just wants to avoid the daily press conference..

Calm your nerve! You think there's is like this your shithole you call country?

seunmsg:
Even you? .

Do you know the numbers of innocent people that work in Aso Rock? Do you know the numbers of experts that have one thing or the other to do in the villa? What has happened to our humanity? Smh!

Do you also know the number of innocent men, women and children lavishing away in the IDP camps due to government negligence ? Do you also know the number of victims of fulani herdsmen and the trauma their loved ones are passing thru? Do you also know the number of victims of road accidents daily as a result of corruption by the govt? Are you aware of the number of average Nigerians dying in government run hospitals as a result of negligence by corrupt leaders and their agencies? Are you also aware that there are so many unemployed graduates roaming the streets in search of jobs? Have you for once asked what happened to the billions of dollars budgeted for healthcare and social amenities and yet nothing to show For?

Nobody is rejoicing over what is happening to them it's the law of karma that is paying them back in their own coins.

Deltayankeeboi:





Jack of all trades, master of none.

You're an idiot! Someone is trying to render services that will be of immense benefit to you, your family and all and you're here dying of envy and bitterness as a result of being an ethnic bigot.

tatatar:
So
ibos and inferiority complex

I release the Holy Spirit upon your mumu head and brain so that you will respect the Don when you see one. Igbo Amaka.

timibare:
Assembled in naija

Inferiority complex coupled with ignorance.

kestolove95:
D cars can't even stand well... Aba made car wey u go dey drive air go pack una go trowey

We are not surprised by your Iberiberism. Nothing good can come out from you.

bigcee:
Shut up, mumu. You can't even produce toothpaste. Anuofia!

Toothpaste is a bit sophisticated, let him produce toothpick first.

Double standard of a president. How do you expect the military to end insurgency after you've given order that captured Bolo Haram terrorists be given VIP treatment, all expense paid trip to Sheraton Hotels and towers, Abuja, and to study in any university of their choice abroad and returned back to sambisa forest.

Kingpee2:
Serious O.G...Heaven please help us to know who you truly called for your work on earth ,the way I see most of these men ,I see them as men doing their own yahoo with religion..

Continue to spew trash, you've being paid in full. We know your type. Even when Christ was on earth performing miracles and wonders people like you also accused him of doing it with the aid of Belzebub so who's pastor Chris?

Zooposki:
The Chinese official is right. That was my thought as well. US created this monster. I said so in a previous post, even before the Chinese official made this known.

Where are the facts and data's to corroborate your assumption? You can just base your theory on mere "them say, them say" get your facts right and stop spreading unnecessary tales.

LosC:
https://dailypost.ng/2020/03/10/weve-recovered-n3-7-billion-various-assets-from-nddc-president-buhari/

With all the claimed recovery yet series of loan borrowings. Abegi make we hear word.

Racoon:
President Jonathan have gotten himself into a big mess.

Shut up your stinking mouth. Lazy Nigerian! Read and comprehend

Tboy1419:
. Which God anointed are you talking about, you don't know the truth that's why Christianity is still backward in Africa, and the Muslim will always supress this gullible christians, because they hate to know the truth.

I see......Since you claim to know the truth where has your truth taken Christianity or your religion to? Keep learning and don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't. A simple Google search on the life and times of this Pope will go a long way in reshaping your thought process.

Thank me later.

Wickedtruths:
Not everyone shares the misfortune of your father.

Just because your father donated sperm to conceive Oponu like you does not make him a father. There's more to being one.

Wickedtruths:
You type as if commonsense is a taboo in your family. Obviously, your fingers are keeping malice with your brain.

Your level of stupidity can't be acquired, it must have been inherited. Your unwavering commitment to stupidity should be studied as part of animal behaviour.

Guy i know life is hard for you, but it's harder if you're stupid.

Wickedtruths:
You too, shut up. Let God fight for his anointed. Or did God beg you to defend him? If God wants to punish him, so be it. No one involved you.

People like you demand for freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which you seldom use. Your stupidity is first class.

YorubaKinging:
Pope is not related to Jesus Christ
It's just another fake religion called Catholism
Igbo people dont quote me..thats what most of you were raised up in

You better keep your mouth shut before something bad befall you. How dare you talk to God's anointed that way.

Oshiomole right now

The North is it's own worst enemy. The elites keep impoverishing their people so as to use them as willing political tools and their followers in turn don't question them due to their penchant for religious beliefs. The only way the North can get out of this economic doldrums is to invest in Human Capital Development such as investment in Education and relevant skills acquisition schemes. Armed with these knowledge they will in turn contribute immensely to their region instead of depending on Niger delta's oil money. This is how other countries with least resources developed with time.

nonny1212:
Tap some likes if you want to be a BILLIONAIRE

Kai! To become a billionaire is not by "Tap some likes" but by working hard and smart coupled with some luck.

PotatoSalad:
My girlfriend looks 1000 times better jare. Yawn

Monkey no fine but him mama like am.....Stop making noise and post her pics and let's be the judge.

Patrioticman007:
Audio representative of god on earth they say.
These idol worshippers are at it again, just like crusade wars, an Italian Catholic brought corona virus to Nigeria.
Imagine the whole Catholic church & its miracles cannot control its members, what on earth is wrong with them ?. They have infected more than 11 countries.

The mother of all ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.