Throwback:



It is no news that the British could never stand the "I know my rights uppity attitude" of the Yoruba employees in the colonial era. From Doctors to Engineers to Lawyers, Yorubas had them all, and they were not prepared to play servant to the British who most times were not better educated or experienced than the Yorubas, but the British felt no Briton must ever work under an African. And rightly, the Yoruba's wasted no time in forming a political party as early as 1908 to demand for the rights of the Yoruba people, at a time some tribes were still learning how to recite ABC.

So Ajose was a riff-raff academic, yet became the first tenured African at the university that had a globally multicultural academia? Do you know what it takes for a Blackman to break such a glass ceiling? What is more pioneering than being the first in a race that is purely academic and research focused? What is more experienced than being the most senior on the academic board?

You see why I rightly said that to the Igbos, merit means I Go Before Others?

I can only imagine if Ajose was the younger and less experienced academic who was chosen over an Igbo professor who was more experienced, qualified and pioneering?

Marginalization is the word the Igbos would have cried from that time till now.

Keep exposing your hypocrisy, while I continue to haunt you with your ignoble past.

Did the British who were also leaving the army not nominate a Yoruba Brigadier ahead of his peers who were a total of 4 Brigadiers, with the Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi being the most senior?

Was it not Aguiyi Ironsi who was eventually promoted to become the Major General, and head of the Nigerian Army?

Keep rewriting trash. Why did the British consider ironsi ahead of ogundipe? Ironsi was more proactive simple despite his (ironsi) seniority even! So its more than just age dude. Ogundipe was a 'paper' soldier, not a rugged and well travelled soldier.

Stop hyping ajose, he was nowhere near Dike. Your propaganda won't fly this time. Nobody knew ajose, everyone knew Dike. His exposure, age and antecedents were unquestionable.

Throwback:


Was Dike more pioneering that Oladele Ajose, a medical doctor and most senior African on the academic board of University College Ibadan?

Was Dike more senior to Oladele Ajose who was the first tenured Nigerian professor in history?

Is it false tale that Dike was called back from sabbatical in the USA to take the position of Vice Principal. While a more qualified Oladele Ajose was right there in Ibadan on the campus?

You cannot erase the facts, and even Dike was apprehensive to accept the position that was being forced on him.

I repeat merit to the Igbos is Igbos first, others follow.

IGBO - I Go Before Others.

Your lies will keep hunting you. Who told you ajose was MORE QUALIFIED than dike? Which research of his was groundbreaking? you think VCship is all about age? Its like trying to compare Amos tutuola's palmwine drunkard to Achebe's things fall apart.

If your ajose was more qualified in EVERY respect to take the job, it would have been indisputable by all and sundry including the british who were about leaving. They knew who would be MORE proactive and innovative.

Dike had the papers, the drive, the age and the better competitive advantage in research works compared to ajose. Keep exposing your biase.

Throwback:


Yes he was made vice principal of the University College Ibadan ahead of the most senior African on the academic board and first ever Nigerian professor, Prof. Oladele Ajose.

Dike's appointment was facilitated by the Igbo dominated NCNC who had also installed Dr Akanu Ibiam who was the first Igbo doctor, as the School Council chairman. While Oladele Ajose was most senior and readily available at the school, Dike was called back from the USA where he was on an unfinished sabbatical, to come take a position (Vice Principal) he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the school, Akanu Ibiam as School Council Chairman, further ensured that Kenneth Dike who was a fellow Igbo like him, became the first Nigerian principal of University College Ibadan. Professor Oladele Ajose realised that he was forever going to remain a victim of the NCNC and Igbo version of "merit" system that only found the Igbos qualified for positions that their better educated and more experienced Yoruba superiors did not qualify for. Ajose read the Igbo writing on the wall and moved to the Western Region owned University of Ife, to become its first principal.

Prof Kenneth Dike and Akanu Ibiam led school council would eventually go on to conduct recruitment into UI after the departure of the British. Out of 115 new hires, only 3 were Yorubas while the bulk of the remainder were from the Eastern Region.

That is how Igbos practice a merit based system.

The foolish Yorubas who were members of NCNC were never offered any sensitive position in the NPC/NCNC partnership of the first republic. Not even the Eastern minorities were offered critical positions.

All that was good that the Northerners could not occupy, the Azikiwe led NCNC ensured it went to the Eastern region, and ultimately to only the Igbos of that multi-ethnic Eastern Region.

Your self-serving and face-saving revisionism cannot fly this time.

NCNC my foot.

Professor Dike, Nigeria's first professor of history, in a clearly stated mission to narrate and preserve African history from the African perspective became the first VC of Univ. Of Ibadan based only on MERIT.

It was your awolowo that introduced tribalism and nepotism into academia.

Even unilags first black VC was pioneer professor Eni Njoku, another great academic of botany.

These men were the pioneers of their time. There was no egbe omo oduduwa in academics then. Everything was purely merit based that even your awolowo was scared of competing with igbos. no long revisionism can change the narrative.

Obi1kenobi:


I don't have time to. Google is your friend. It is a fact that Edo have produced far more eminent personalities than Abia. And is home to one of Africa's proudest, most globally renowned pre-colonial civilizations: the Benin Empire.
Abia is an eye sore, cursed with comically bad leadership since '99. And still somehow voted in Nigeria's worst governor as a senator.

Lol.... Always dodging as usual.

Insecure imp. Abia's worst is better than your best. Prove me wrong by stating your Edo personalities. From inventors, to politicians, to academics to technocrats. Name them or forever remain a coward.

You know definitely that one Abia personality surpasses ten of yours. If you disagree list your dignitaries since you were even the one who brought this up. I dare you to if you truly certain about your Edo greats.

Name your supposed superior edo personalities or shut the hell up.

Am waiting....

post=65624410:

Sorry bro, my mistake, I wanted to quote the clown

OK bro.

Obi1kenobi:


Edo have produced far more eminent personalities than Abia. Chest-beating mugu.

Oya list them.

Deadlytruth:


And am I discussing Edo State issue here?
Can't you see you are the cretin there?
Why not convince your drug baron brothers languishing in Western prisons to stop disgracing Africans? Evuobani!

At least one of my brothers is now the first black senator in Italy. Which Edo man and women since Adam have achieved such feat? All they know is Italian harlotry and occultism.

post=65624209:

Tunde face your worthless state.

Brother, check your mention. I wasn't attacking you na...I was attacking your enemy na.

WaffenSS:
Stupid idiot being congratulated by bigger idiots.

He's anti-immigrant.

So how did he get there?

Your idiocy amazes me. Read the story in details and save yourself from further embarrassment.

He is against illegal immigration NOT on immigration itself. Go to school you won't go.

Deadlytruth:


Azikiwe had been indicted of corruption as far back as 1952 - which amounted to 8 years before becoming Governor General and later President.
You obviously have never heard of the Foster Sutton Commission's Inquiry into the running of AfDB managed by Zik pre-independence.

This cretin has arrived again. Is this thread about Edo state? Why not convince your night flying and "Italian connection" sisters to stop disgracing africans? Shioor.

Obi1kenobi:


Why the fucckk would I be "trying hard to fit" among you and yet, I'm calling you all out for the brain-dead cretins and witless, low self-esteem moorons you are? I asked you in my previous comment whether you're a window-licking imbeciile and got no answer. Cos you post the most moronic shiit that makes zero rational sense. Can you make sense out of the nonsense you just posted?

Is that the best punch you can give? You disappoint me. Pls try harder. Somehow your stupidity amuses me.

Obi1kenobi:


You do not owe me an explanation about your Igboness, but I'm supposed to owe you an explanation when you brought up my Igboness? Are you a window-licking imbeciile? Afugom ife n'eba, sha.

If by "unapologetically Igbo", you mean making a fool of yourself and all Igbos with your low self-esteem, chest-beating rubbish and cheerleading for an opportunistic Igbo man who hitches his political ambition to a bunch of white xenophobes and racists, then I'm an "apologetic Igbo", cos I'm not an apologist for idiots that disgrace Igbos all over the place.

Take it easy. You tried but still, e no work...

I really feel sorry for impostors like you because very soon your destiny will catch fire. Igbo bashing won't take you to eldorado. Take it easy.

Obi1kenobi:


Oh look. It's the nigga with the paymasters in Anambra politics.
How many pictures of mediocre projects has the shayo master and his APGA disciples paid you to snap today?

You think everybody comes here for childish chest-beating? Nkita lacha gi ike n'eba ahu. Lachakwuo ndi nzuzu n'akwu gi ugwo ikogheri n'ebaa.

Igbo wannabe, I know you are trying hard to fit among igbos and also equally be "reckoned with" in nairaland. Take your stupidity elsewhere.

Obi1kenobi:


I was only cautioning you on the day because I pitied you. I don't like seeing the less fortunate being terrorized.
See non-entity "frying" someone.
Who wanted to know or remember you? It's called having a brain and a memory. I remember just about everybody I've ever directly interacted with on Nairaland whether I want to or not. That you can't is an indictment on your brain capacity. It's not your fault.

Am a non-entity yet you see it as a point of duty at every opportunity to respond quickly to my posts. Kwantinu....Lol....

You can't hide your true pathetic form. A lazy, attention seeking Igbo wannabe.

Obi1kenobi:


You're one of the Jew claimers of course. I remember that one very well. So I wouldn't have been surprised if that was what you meant. Ndi nzuzu na umu anuofia na echu afa.

I'm a fake Igbo, born of an Oraukwu man and an Agulu woman in Anambra. So where is your own real Igbo from?

Obviously you are fake. Anyone can claim anything online. I do not owe you any explanation about my Igboness as it is obvious to all and sundry (except daftees like you of course) that I am unapologetically Igbo.

You are so narrow in your reasoning that anyone who cites Jews as case study is "feeling inferior".

Obi1kenobi:


See mugu attacking Edo girls when his brothers are pushing white powder all over Asia, South Africa, Kenya, Brazil etc. Who is attacking Italy, you dumb fucckk? I'm attacking the self-hating immigrant nigga that made his political livelihood from antagonizing other black people and the idioots rambling "Igbo amaka" in support of him. Absolute cretins.

By the way, your "attacks" are inconsequential. You are just making stupid noise. How much were you paid to mudsling Igbo at every instance? Idiot.

You are not attacking Italy, yet you call them RACISTS? idiot

Are the "white powder" rogues not mainly from your Anambra? Stop disgracing that state, I respect them a lot.

Obi1kenobi:


It's funny your memory is that shallow that you don't remember Anambra threads where you came spouting rubbish about Anambra people with Chino. And I was even the one trying to caution you and you kept making a fool of yourself because Chino was trolling your stewpid ass.

Stylishly call chino to come and save your ass. I will fry you both at once.

Who knows you? Who wants to know or even remember a misnomer like you?

Obi1kenobi:


You are a black ass Igbo nigga from Abia. Stop comparing and attaching yourselves to Jews all the time with your inferiority complex.
You don't have to complain. It just makes you a laughing-stock to embrace white ethno-nationalists that despise your presence in their country. And you're foolish enough to think they care whether you're Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Ijaw, Efik, Tiv or whoever. You're just black-ass niggas like every other Nigerian and that's all they know.

Which envy? I'm an Anambrarian. What the fucckk do I have to envy from you?

Your brain has really been titrated on. I gave you an instance of whites attacking whites (in this case Jews) and you are talking about inferiority complex.

Fake and proliferated "my mama say I be Igbo". Lekwenu nzuzu o.

Obi1kenobi:


Look up what the term "useful idiot" means. And "house nigga". And "porch monkey". And "uncle tom". If you weren't a brain-dead cretin, you'd know the most vile racist is more than capable of using self-hating, self-serving niggas as pawns and tools to oppress other black people. Infact, one of the easiest ways for an immigrant to make a political career in hostile socio-political climates is to be antagonistic towards his own people.

Jeez....you stink of envy and jealousy. You are trying hard to conceal your false "righteous" indignation.

Lazy idiot. You better tell your Edo girls to stop their "ITALIAN CONNECTION". Tell your government to make life easier for its citizens rather than attacking Italy. Them send you?

Obi1kenobi:


Resolved amicably? After making a total fool of themselves and embarrassing Igbos everywhere.

Empty talk as usual. A coward like you concealing his identity. Be confident enough to mention your state so I can place you where you truly belong.

Obi1kenobi:


It's funny, but it's something I've observed too. The overwhelming majority of Nigerian Trump-supporting moorons I know in cyberspace are Igbos. It's some pretty weird, twisted shiit. One of the Nigerian Republicans I often seen on CNN, an avowed Trumpist, and NRA spokeswoman, Antonia Okafor, who I see frequently peddling the horseshiit drummed in her ear from her masters is Igbo of course. Just a few days ago, she made a complete fool of herself on British television.

What is it that drives you weirdos to follow bigoted foreigners who patently despise you?

"....who patently despise you?"

Trash talk. Ethnic profiling at its best. Igbo this Igbo that.

Did we report to you that they despise us? Even if they do, are we complaining? ask the Jews what they face from rednecks and whiteys...still they are sought after.

Your envy will kill you one day.

Obi1kenobi:


How is any of your ramblings above relevant to a black, ass nigga who subjects himself as a tool to a far right, openly xenophobic party with a long record of racism? You and who are screaming "Ghana must go"? Aren't you the twaat from Abia, a state that sacked non-indigenes, mostly from Imo, from their civil service? You think everybody is as myopic and clannish as you are?

If you can't see the relevance then your myopia is indeed confirmed.

On abia-IMO civil service fracas, you didn't hear when the likes of KANU nwankwo and nkiru sylvanus, abia indigenes were under fire because rochas appointed them when he newly became IMO state governor.

You also didnt hear that their Fracas was amicably resolved eventually. Of course you won't hear that.

Empty headed wannabe.

casualobserver1:


I am happy that you see what is really going on here. This senator is just like the likes of Daniel Kanu of those days. A willing tool of oppression.

He is used to parrot the racist sentiments of his party and they let him be senator sothat can say "Look! Even a black man agrees that the black people should go. We can't be racist.".

This is like the blacks in the US that support the Republican party. They know they can rise to high positions in the party because there are so few blacks that are willing to sell thier souls and so they join and are rewarded with positions.

We also see people like this in the NRA in the United States. There will always be Quislings like this, and they are invariably put in thier place and remided that those they serve have no respect for them if they ever make any attempt to show any independence.

In the US there are many Igbos that join the Republicans and play this same game. We see them in the police and in politics. They are like those Jews that joined the Germans in hunting down thier fellow Jews in exchange for preferential treatment. Of course, the Germans still dealt with them once they were no longer useful.

Keep badmouthing Igbos. Instead of blowing hot air on the irresponsible African government to make their citizens more comfortable, instead of re-orienting your Edo damsels from their "Italian connection", you are busy attacking what you know nothing about.

Every Igbo success story is bad news to you.

casualobserver1:


I am happy that you see what is really going on here. This senator is just like the likes of Daniel Kanu of those days. A willing tool of oppression.

He is used to parrot the racist sentiments of his party and they let him be senator sothat can say "Look! Even a black man agrees that the black people should go. We can't be racist.".

This is like the blacks in the US that support the Republican party. They know they can rise to high positions in the party because there are so few blacks that are willing to sell thier souls and so they join and are rewarded with positions.

We also see people like this in the NRA in the United States. There will always be Quislings like this, and they are invariably put in thier place and remided that those they serve have no respect for them if they ever make any attempt to show any independence.

In the US there are many Igbos that join the Republicans and play this same game. We see them in the police and in politics. They are like those Jews that joined the Germans in hunting down thier fellow Jews in exchange for preferential treatment. Of course, the Germans still dealt with them once they were no longer useful.

Immigration was not properly addressed at the time hence the transferred aggression on her. African government do NOTHING to make their countries comfortable for their citizens hence the large droves of migration.

You here in Nigeria the influx of non indigenes in your state gives you shivers and make you play the ethnic card.

Ordinary neighboring Ghana here made you xenophobic thus screaming "Ghana must go" and you are here judging Italians. You are indeed shallow.

Obi1kenobi:


Your naivety is cute. Italy's last black minister, Cecile Kyenge, was a regular target of vile, dehumanizing, racist abuse by members of that same party. When self-hating niggas embrace racists, the racists deploy you as a useful idioot to further add gravitas to their cause. You become "their" nigga and they use you as a prop. History is replete with niggas who were used by white supremacists as tools to oppress other niggas.

Immigration was not properly addressed at the time hence the transferred aggression on her. African government do NOTHING to make their countries comfortable for their citizens hence the large droves of migration.

You here in Nigeria the influx of non indigenes in your state gives you shivers and make you play the ethnic card.

Ordinary neighboring Ghana here made you xenophobic thus screaming "Ghana must go" and you are here judging Italians. You are indeed shallow.

Gaddafithe2nd:

You are the daft person here. Can't you read, "he belongs to a political party that stirring serious xenophobia in Italy". You lack comprehension. Idiot!

Your cherry picking stands you out as a first class mugu.

Didn't you read where he explained the etiology and prognosis of the xenophobia? Of course your myopia didn't see that!

KratosCorp:
Being anti-uncontrolled invasion and potential genocide on the western culture is not terrorism - it's common sense.

He displayed his old passport to show you that he was an immigrant and was not anti-immigration, but anti-uncontrolled invasion of Europe by unskilled ILLEGAL immigrants - who are being encouraged to keep coming for political gains based on the sick ideologies of the cultural marxists and their leftwing nut heads.


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SamoaJoe is an igbo wannabe. Don't mind him.

Tambari1974:
My dear you are very right in your analysis because this man does not mean well for African race let alone igbo.

Keep fooling yourself. He is for CONTROLLED immigration NOT loose immigration.

Gaddafithe2nd:

You can imagine and some people are praising him. A migrant who is against is fellow migrants just because he belongs to the political class.

You are so stupid. Where in the news was he against immigration?

He believes and advocates CONTROLLED immigration. Not the shithole Nigerian loose form of immigration where Chadians and people from Niger can drove into the country.

iconize:



The cluelessness is evident in your pettiness.

Funnily enough, other ethnic groups exist and yet, the Fulanis run the affairs of the country. The country virtually belongs to them.

That's exactly how the Igbos would still own Nigeria till this moment, if not for the foolery of Ironsi and his co-travelers of the Igbo stock.

Not true.

gawu1:

Zanna Bukar Sullona DipCherima who was the senior cabinet member was to take over the government after the coupist had executed the prime minister. But in their meeting to effect this, Ironsi who was the head of the army used his position to threaten the cabinet ministers and cowed them to relinquish power to him.
Though Ironsi was not part of the coup, he turned out an opportunist. He used the coup to assert himself head of state of nigeria. Eventually he supported the coup because it benefited him. He did everything to protect the coupist, especially that all of them turned out to be his kinsmen.
He mishandling of the aftermath of the coup caused the july counter coup which also claimed his own life. At any rate, Ironsi was an opportunist whose action and inaction after the january coup contributed to the immediate out break of the civil war.

The coupists accused the balewa government of nepotism. The press and populace celebrated these coupists as heroes. Ironsi had to calm the tension by stepping in. Whether he did it for himself or for the nation is highly debatable.

Why did the north want to continue enjoy their falsified numerical advantage? These unresolved allegations was one of the reasons for which the military coupists stepped in.

LaudableXX:


Oh I love this question!

Simple logic. All monies gathered goes to the central account whereby the revenue from each region is shared 50-50. 50 for central, 50 for the stated region. SIMPLE. Stop making a big deal out of the question. The 50% derivative policy was still intact.

The question lacks intellectual rigour. That's why some of us had to rather expose and address his shallowness.