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Mekanus:
Go and Google about all the martial arts actors and actresses in the world and know that all of them are real martial artists. Performing stunts is not the same as martial arts. And choreography only comes to play when the actors can perform the exact type of kick needed. Choreography is used to make the kicks fast and fascinating to those watching it. A person who is just a stunt man without any form of martial arts training cannot perform even the simplest kicks in martial arts (e.g front kick and roundhouse kick) because they may not possess the flexibility needed to execute such kicks.

Go and read about these actors and see that they all started practising martial arts from childhood, many of them with black belt.
Bruce Lee
Jet Li
Jackie Chan
Jean Claude Van Damme
Steven Seagal
Scot Adkins
Donnie Yen
Chuck Norris
Jason statham
Michael Jai white
Wesley snipes
Tony Jaa
Steven Chow
Chow yun fat...

Correction,chow yun fat is a thespian not a martial artist,please check,and martial arts for the screen is a totally different ball game from real martial arts (combat).

F22RAPTOR:
hahahahahahahaha...hope they have seen the Ghanaian mortal kombat? If this is not better than that, then sorry.

That video I think was Malawian.

jrusky:
Really Who martial art has helped so far?

Actually a lot of people really will tell you that M.As helped on the journey through life,myself with with 23 years of studying and practising M.As,it has helped with my health,mental focus and general well being.
It has produced countless millionaires in film and sport e.g Jackie chan,Donnie yen,jet li,jcvd,chuck Norris,Dolph ludgren,Wesley snipes to name a few in film,the likes of conor McGregor, braukaw,seanchai,GSP,jimi manuwa,Jason njokuani,teddy reiner,MVP to name a few in sport.
That said,this movies looks like the generic representation of martial arts, based on the Asian formula.hope he manages to portray a realistic and acceptable storyline.more grease to his elbow.

Gilbertase:
Op i just read a fallacy, but i wont blame you, i'll blame Punch. T.D Jakes has been to naija before at least once, which i am certain of. And that was either the second or third installment of the eXperience gospel concert. About whether he is igbo or not, i wont comment on that. Time will tell. Naija always like to dey claim successes that they will never create.

Actually he did his DNA tracking,the results put him as descendant of igbos,as most black slaves who descended from Virginia, Kentucky and some parts of Georgia, the British tobacco and sugar plantations.T.d jakes 's story came out in the early 2000s,so this is stale news.

Benekruku:



Ikwerre bu Otu!

I know Julius personally(family friend), he is from ahoada environs,but he identifies as igbo.

Billyonaire:
I studied Industrial Chemistry, its not an excuse. But I am neck deep in studying programming and spirituality on part time basis daily until now when just figured out that I was preparing for this moment. Now I am researching on robotics and attending webinars. It is not late at all. That is what you came to Earth to do. To learn, to theorize, to develop technologies and on the course of it, develop your body and mind.

Wow,you must be my doppelganger.same words ,same thoughts.also bsc industrial chemistry, and nose deep in programming, just started with Python. Oss bro.

hotwax:
My boss is somehow confusing. He is this churchy guy. Always quoting bible verses when talking. He leads prayers in the morning in our department. We even call him pastor.

He is a very nice man. When you have a problem, just approach him, your problem is half solved. He is the perfect boss any employee can dream of.

But the issue is. He always put on ring with illuminati insignia.
There is the shirt he put on most Fridays with the same symbol.
Is he camouflaging? Or Am I suspecting him wrongly

This is a sure sign of early senility,so someone wears a ring and T-shirt ,so they are involved in a satanic cult,wow,how old are you??,better yet,how dumb are you??.

laudate:
Weren't you the one who copied my post while addressing your remarks to someone else? What were you trying to do? Show how clueless and childish you truly are? Anyway, thanks for letting us know that you only know how to whimper.... Keep it up.

LOLl,you went from trying to discredit the post to Eromo egbejule is Igbo to trying to discredit Forbes editorial team,all to prove what??,that you are a miserable butthurt gimp.and I was even begging amarabae to take it easy on you.okay,carry in with your tomfoolery and have a miserable life.

laudate:
Wow! And you just had to dish out this childish, clueless response. Now, why am I not surprised? It shows the level of your reasoning.

My level of reasoning shouldn't be your problem,I wasn't talking to you either,LOL,so who is childish and clueless now ??,amarabae,please continue pouring iodine on this Blockhead's butthurt.he wimpers exquisitely.

laudate:
Hehehehe..... madam, you are the one crying here. Everyone can see it! See how you just confessed that you have been "gnashing your teeth," and suffering "painment.' Eeyah, accept my sympathy. Otherwise, you would not have made allusions to such emotions, if you had not been suffering from such feelings yourself. Now, try to get over it before you do yourself an injury, as you do not have proof to support your claims. Thank God, everyone can read. And they all know that articles published in Forbes, are not written by Forbes itself, but by various journalists.

For your information, Forbes Magazine is published by Forbes Publishing Company, an arm of Forbes Media LLC.

Amarabae,I gbugo anumpama,biko jie nwanyoo,nwannem.
He had to go dig out the whole owner ship info of Forbes.pepperdem,lol.

laudate:
I made reference to the person who wrote that piece for Forbes. It was written by Eromo Egbejule, an Igbo guy. Nobody said anything about Forbes being an Igbo media. Am sorry to say this, but you are an ignoramus! Do you now want to lay claim to Forbes too, in the same way your people have been laying claims to Lagos?

You have confirmed your retardedness,so EROMO Egbejule is an Igbo name,well done there.

allrightsir:
If you lived in the west, the richest man you knew in those days was fajemirokun, if you lived in the east it was ojukwu because understandably the east is a very insulated place and they dont know who Fajemirokun was. That Ojukwu was known in the west and his wealth wasnt the stuff of legend like Fajemirokun would have me beleive that Fajemirokun was probably wealthier, that said what does it matter, is there any difference between Dangote and Adenuga? They are both dead and their wealth hasnt grown from one generation to another like the Fords and Walmart Dynasties.

So why didn't famiwhatever assist in building the apapa wharf??,why wasn't he the founder of the Nigerian stock excahnge.??,inferiority complex is a bastard.you guys can revise history for the whole of Africa.

Eshinwaju:
This is why it is important to counter the dirty lies from the land of the erosion ravaged beasts because before....you know it....their lies becomes accepted as truth... .....as soon as I read that first few lines...I just wrote off the rest.....

But wole Soyinka stated the first time he met Emeka Ojukwu in Yaba in the Fifties,he approached him because he was surprised to see a young black man driving a rolls Royce,now we should believe you and disbelieve Soyinka,
SMH

This is actually fair,congratulations to the new permsecs.

That is to say that was a pucci to die for,lol

Firstly anyone mentioning Zika is a slowpoke,I am not here to defend pastors or prophecies, just to state facts.
Zika virus was first found in Africa and far back as 1945and it is transmitted by mosquitoes, and sexual transmission is just a side vector not other main one.
Last year2016,a report came from the CDC that there a new strain of Gonorrhea out ,that is super resistant to all known antibiotics, it also can be transmitted by saliva, so one can catch it from blowjobs.
There is a new strain of herpes virus also,that is proving super resistant to treatment and can be dormant in a host body for a long time.
Personally,I believe, that these are manufactured strains of the original strains just like Aids was,but that is another story altogether,
People should pay more attention to report coming from the medical world I bet if Ebola didn't hit is close to home,most nigerians would have been ignorant of the virus that had been isolated and known since the 70"s.
People like freeze should pay more attention,cheers.

Actually that's taekwondo,but who cares.lol

ColonelDrake:
Easy with the chest beating. If you said old time Yorubas, I'd agree with you but if you meant this current generation of Yoruba, I beg to differ becuase majority are weaklings, sissies, cowards and aboki ass lickeeers (yoruba muslims)

Please stop baiting others,I can tell for a fact that Yoruba are none of these things,they might choose to play the fence,but they are not cowards, stoking a hornet's nest never ends well,a word is enough for the wise,either way innocents will be caught up in collateral damage,a well meaning person should avoid such.yagazie.

fratermathy:
What of the anti-Hausa/Yoruba music that is also in circulation in the East?

It is easy to play the victim when the truth is half-revealed.

That said, no one should have to live in fear in his own nation. The federal government has to seat up to its duty of engaging the hate propaganda permeating the Nigerian political stratosphere of the day.

Secession can be successfully accomplished without hate messages and threats to lives and properties.

You are really are a piece of work,SMH,these ''anti Hausa/Yoruba music''only exist in your bigoted and hate filled mind,always jumping on any and every Igbo related thread to spew garbage,such a shame and a waste,I actually felt you had potetial.

WetinConsignMe:
By end of '66 the pogroms had already ended and Igbos were back in the East. Gowon was a devout Christian - nobody was about to come to Igbo land to decimate Igbos. That was propaganda. But Ojukwu himself was in a very precariuos position - it was either he fight that war or be humbled out of the army or worse.

You are so wrong,the pogroms were still going on strong inthe North despite multiple calls from Ojukwu to Gowon to cease and control the situation ,when the town hall meeting in UNN Nsuka held,where the people shouted down Ojukwu down demanding for secession,Biafra seceded, the FGN responded by invading Biafra striking Nsuka fist,so bombarding a university town that posed no military threat with mortar strikes isn't an attempt to decimate the people,I don't know what is,My dad was in his second year in UNN at the time and present at that meeting.ojukwu warned the people against secession but was shouted down by the people.

OmoEpe:
Out of Onitsha and Owerri!!!
Hear yourself, not an advancement but rather a defence , si with all your chest beating all the example you can site is fighting from a position of weakness . SMH

Everything is chest beating for you dimwits,given what they(the biafrans)had to work with,it was a major achievement,the fellow I quoted was the one boasting up and down about the Nigerian army's prowess,but given superior armament ,firepower ,air support and numbers,they were took to the run severally by a bunch of ''ragtag boys'',those are just the facts,so go SYH somewhere else.

mansakhalifa:
@laudate So you see where the op missed the plot? No Ogbemudia,no Federal incursion into Mid West. Well,I guess that wasn't a part of the focus of the story.

Revisionists abound on this topics,so don't be alarmed.

Okoyiboz3:
Nzeogwu killed, Igbos in the North cheered, Innocent Igbos suffered the consequences.

Thankfully, Google can help you out,EVERYBODY cheered,check the headlines of the times,not just the igbos.

nkemdi89:
Igbos were claiming victims because it later backfired and that of asaba was a sold out, my own opinion, Igbo's owes the north an apology.

So all the Igbo living then came together and planned to kill the premier and the others,interesting??, you really need Jesus.

laudate:
No, go back and re-read what mansakhalifa wrote. Read it slowly. Then come back and tell me where you saw Niger-deltan in his post, and what type of jab he took. There is no need for you to get confused.

Laudate,I was reffering to chippychapy comment,pressed on the wrong comment,you all so salty,lol

Okoyiboz3:
This one is calculating war like someone selling gala in Ojuelegba traffic.

Nairalanders, help me judge this matter o.

The Biafran Army lost a battle and moved back by 100Km. They finally moved forward by 20Km before being beaten back by another 70Km.

Did they make progress or retrogress?

Lol,you dimwit,now who's calculating??,
War is war,
Nothing glorious ,the only count is lives,of which the Nigerians lost a lot for each km they gained,and even till the end didn't entirely complete their ''police action''.in fact the nigerians lost way more combatants that the enemy whose major loss were in civilian lives.nothing glorious,just facts.so stop glamourzing war like it's a video game.

nkemdi89:
If IBO's were wise enough to had dissociate themselves from the coup it would have gone a long way in preventing counter coup, because nzeogwu never had IBO's in mind, it was just his own ideology, when Samuel ogbemudia dissociated himself and every mid west from biafra, and igbos was that not the reason Midwest including that okpanam was not affected by the war.

You are right to an extent,when the coup struck,it was celebrated in the newspapers of the as the Nigerian revolution, but as soon as the counter coup struck,it became the ''Igbo coup'',that is why we are here.
And don't forget the asaba massacre,while an entire generation of men were wiped out by the orders of Muritala,so the Midwest wasn't spared as you put it,asaba is just 12 minutes from Okapnam.

nkemdi89:
But I put it to you that nzeogwu never carried out the coup with the thinking of an Igbo in mind, he never claimed to be an Igbo man, based of ethnicity he is not an Igbo man. Because he bears chukwuma?

Not trying to argue with you,Nkemdi89,he was from okpanam,hence he is ethnically Igbo,what he was really is another kettle of fish,he could barely speak Igbo,intact he could only speak Hausa.
Pray tell,in what other Nigerian language does Chukwuma and Nzeogwu have any other meaning??

laudate:
Oga, go back and read what your friend Mrchippychappy wrote. I merely responded to his erroneous assertions. And you have not traveled up and down the breath of Anioma area. If you had, you would still find a number of indigenes from there who would tell you they are not Igbo, in the same way you would also find those who affirm their Igbo identity, with all seriousness.

As a matter of fact,I have, the anioma are a mix of peoples, some like the ibusa and ogwashiukwu claim Igbo ancestry, while others on the northern end claim igala and other yet claim migration from the binis.but the all speak Igbo and practice Igbo culture, hence they are nominally reffered to as igbos.

laudate:
Oga, you need to ask the OP. Maybe he wanted to concentrate on Banjo's story. Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia is still highly respected among the Edo people till today. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

He was taking a jab at you for the common insinuation that an anioma isn't an Igbo man only when it suits the argument,other times he will be reffered to as. Niger deltan.

Okoyiboz3:
Abagana skirmish ko, Abakaliki riot ni. It's like you need me to subtitle my post into Igbo for you to understand.

I said mention one ADVANCE of the Biafran army and you're telling me of counter-attacks.

If the Biafran army had advanced, would they be retaking Onitsha and Owerri from Federal hands? Doesn't that tell you that they were beaten back?

Look cretin,that was a answer to your previous point ,if the army didn't advance for their position,can they retake lost ground.also note,the Nigerian army never advanced beyond orji river until the end of the war.the first Nigerian boots to step in IHO and Mbaise were in January'70.

laudate:
So anyone who disagrees with you is an Afonja? You are clueless. And for the record it is not the Yorubas or any other ethnic group that say the people of Asaba, Anioma etc are not Igbo. It is the indigenes of those places themselves, that say so by claiming they are Ika and not Igbo. Go and do your research and stop telling lies here!

For you info,Anioma is different from ika,you guys never travel ,so you won't know the difference, kindly do due diligence, it is the ika who say they are not Igbo due to their shared history with the binis,despite their language and culture has no similitude with bini.an Anioma man will tell you he is Igbo albeit delta Igbo.
Just to correct erroneous info.