₦airaland Forum

Bighead9:
Guy, stop chest beating.
Today the East remains the most backward region in this Country. Everything is not just working well in the EAst. I'm an Igbo man from Aba but I had to relocate to Benin, in search of greener pasture. Cause the East is no longer viable for Business. Hundreds of youths leave the East daily to other regions, to make ends meet.

We lack good infrastructures, good Roads and the economy of the East is worst. That's why the East contributes zero to the Economy of Nigeria. We refused to accommodate others who wish to do business in our region, NA we dey suffer am now.

Oga you are not informed about Igbos, I doubt if you have ever stayed in ABA , how many Yorubas, Hausas and Tiv people were denied owning landed properties in the East? that State you relocated to, did they send you an invitation letter to come and live with them or you went there to attach yourself? have you asked yourself why Chinese, Lebanese and whites are coming into NIGERIA in spite of insecurity and lack of infrastructure? they come here because they are looking for markets for their goods and services, that is how Igbos go to other states to sale their goods and services because those natives are not into such businesses. A Yoruba man will not want to acquire landed properties in the East because they come to the East as Military, Para milliary or senior Civil servants on transfers so their stay is usually temporary unlike an Igbo man that travels to Borno State to establish his business that he wants to grow, expand and hand it down to his children. At Borno State he has little or no competitors but in ABA there are millions of fellow Igbos in the same line of business.

Brandstudio01:
I'm not an IPOB fan, but this man is unarguably the most headless and shameless Governor of all time.
When did IPOB agitation started and when was the first Democratically elected governor?

Shameless dudes who call themselves Leaders.

Or is fine telling headless creatures that the IPOB stopped him from utilizing the state monthly revenue?

Is he telling fools that the state has not been receiving allocations since he became a governor?

Abeg jare , I will Design a Professional Logo for your product or Business for 2k Only

What has the Governor been able to achieve with the monthly allocation and IGR he gets from both federal government and internally generated revenue. Bunch of thieves. Abia State is truly in quagmire.

Drchristian:
I CALLED MY IGBO NEIGHBOR THAT LOVE NIGERIAN SECEDING DISCUSSIONS AND HATES TINUBU "AN IPOB MAN" BUT HE SEEMS NOT TO LIKE IT.

IGBO AND IPOB ARE FAST USED AND BECOMING THE SAME THING. FOR EXAMPLE, AS IT IS IN THE FOLLOWING:

AREWA OR HAUSA

BINI OR EDO

ODUDUWA OR YORUBA

SO ALSO, IS IT CORRECT TO USED THE WORD IPOB FOR IGBOS?

ON NAIRALAND I THINK WE USE THE WORD INTERCHANGEABLY FOR THE FOLLOWING:

1. TO AVOID BAN OR PUNISHMENT ON NAIRALAND

2. TO AVOID INSULTING A TRIBE BY GENERALIZATION

FOR THESE REASONS THE WORD IPOB SHOULD BE CENSORED TO IGBO BEFORE IS DEROGATORILY USED ON SOUTH EAST EXTRACTIONS TO AVOID ERROR

Arewa or Hausa is not thesame as Igbo or Ipob you should call him a BIAFRAN or Igbo. IPOB is a group that is clamouring for seccession of Old Eastern region, there are other groups like Zionist and Massob so stop calling him IPOB because if you call me IPOB na for Hague we go settle am . I am a Nigerian and also an Igbo man .

mightyhazell:
The killer soldier must be investigated thoroughly.. we have read how he was deprived of 7months salary and yet fighting the deadliest groups in the world in very harsh conditions.. Pray, how does one do one of the world's deadliest jobs and yet don't get paid.. ur mom or siblings back home may be sick and dying because of lack of funds.. while u away in a terrorist enclave,and yet without pay.. Shooting your commanding officer is most odd and inexcusable ,so we need to get to the root cause of the ugly incidence,if not for anything to forestall future occurence of such ugly scenerio.. leaving arms in the hands of mentally unbalanced individuals in itself is a big flaw. our armed men need mental evaluation from time to time

Well said. The private is wrong to have shot his commander but it is also wrong for a worker to be deprived access to his salaries for months. There is urgent need for a total over haul of our military.

Maryamahmad:
KOGI State Governor Yahaya Bello in a speech said the fear of Coronavirus kills faster than the virus itself.

According to him, a virus that has killed 510,909 people worldwide as of Tuesday was an “imported” illness that was “forced on people” to shorten their lifespan.

The governor disagreed... Read more..https://raymondknows.com.ng/kogi-state-governor-says-covid-19-is-a-hoax/

same way development in kogi under Hello is also a hoax.

MelesZenawi:
Fake Christianity: Gbajabiamila from a deacon to a Muslim.


Speaker Gbajabiamila converted to Muslim in 2019

His reason was simple that his fore- father's(Ancestors) where originally Muslims.


That validates my earlier submission that Christianity was alien to south west and Yorubas.

The original religion known to Yorubas all through history was Islam and that explains why Muslims are still in majority in South West roughly around 69.4%..


If Christianity currently booms in west, then it is a recent event and not as old as many thinks.

How does the conversion affect the price of goods in our markets?

Lamasta:
Land mass is one economic mass is another...

But Niger State is enough to stand as a country with a huge land mass

Lagos state has the least land mass but is enough to sponsor the whole Nigeria budget as small as it is the billions or trillions coming out from there will develop the whole land mass of all Nigeria if there is no corruption.

Thank you very much. Land mass is not the issue, what matters is economic viability.

doclatom:
� Found this interesting

Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.

*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.

However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.

To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis). As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:

"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949). Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.

But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.

Anascopeterson: While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
Anascopeterson: When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:

In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address. But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.

On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.

Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.

Anascopeterson: The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.

Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.

In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.

Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers. Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra. But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge. Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.

First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians. On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.

I took time to read through this your tendentious write up but I was disappointed by the fact that I did not see any policy that was introduced by Aguiyi Ironsi that favoured only the Igbos or any policy that showed Aguiyi Ironsi's government was Igbo centric but we keep talking about Igbos did this and did that "How Igbos destroyed Nigeria" for the past 50 years Igbos have not occupied the number one seat yet NIGERIA is carving in people are not complaining about present maladministration, they are only interested in what Igbos do. I don't support the idea of seccession but some Nigerians leave Igbos with no choice. The only problem Igbos have with other tribes is simply the fact that Igbos have the ability to bring out water out of stone. Igbos are not responsible for the current insecurity, corruption, terrorism and maladministration that we have been battling with for the past 50years.

juman:
Ibos always underrate other tribes.

See how aguiyi ironsi and his ibo people destroyed a good constitution out of their greediness.

The 1966 coup was ibos agenda.
When it failed they went for their alternative plan which was biara.

It is wrong to claim that Igbos destroyed Nigeria, although Aguiyi Ironsi made a mistake by introducing unitary system of government and also not punishing those that executed the coup that led to the killings of top politicians from other ethnic groups, Aguiyi Ironsi's govt lasted for six months but why haven't your tribes men that have been in charge of governance since 1970s to date being able to correct the mistake of Aguiyi Ironsi? why are Nigerians not enjoying those goodies that was disrupted by Aguiyi Ironsi? the insecurity, corruption and terrorism that are burning down the fiber of our society caused by Igbos? Igbos, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulanis and others contributes to the problems of NIGERIA. it is unfair to blame only one tribe.

See them playing victim cards here!
They will tell you how Igbos were prevalent in Tafawa Balewa's cabinet. But ask them how many cabinets Tawafa had, they won't answer.
Tafawa Balewa had 3 cabinets. All cabinets contained 3 Igbos, 3 Igbos, and one IGBO respectively. Greater percentage of the cabinets were filled with people from the western and northern region. Here is the link;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa


They will tell you how Igbos planned a coup to overthrow the government due to greediness! Ask them about the "usual identity crisis amongst Igbos" they usually support. The two major Coup leaders were Ifeajuna ( an Onitsha born ) and Major Nzeogwu ( an Anioma born). The foolish uneducated Yorubas will lay a strong support for the motive that " Aniomas are not Igbos" and " Onitsha are BENINS" just to make sure Igbos are divided! But here we are seeing right in our eyes, laying claim that Ifeajuna and Major Nzeogwu are Igbos. I thought you supported the motive that Aniomas and Onitsha are not Igbos! Hypocrites!

There were 5 major coup leaders in that coup, 4 were from Igboland and 1 Yoruba. If we can go with Yorubas' postulation that Aniomas and Onitshans are not Igbos, then which means 3 out of 5 were not actually Igbos. Only 2 core Igbos present. So therefore, the coup was a Benin/ Yoruba dominated coup. Why can't you guys think about this and air it out?


They will say Igbos killed their leaders in the coup. But ask them of how Northerners started the ethnic cleansing by killing Igbos in thousands during the 1945 and 1953 massacre in the north? Here is an article of how Northerners were planning a genocide on Igbos in 1964;
Hate of the Igbos: Northern House Of Assembly Proceedings, February - March 1964
Below is an extract from the proceedings of the Northern Region House of Assembly between February and March 1964, less than four years after Nigeria’s independence from the British. I have nothing to add. Read and judge for yourself:
Mallam Muhammadu Mustapha Mande Gyan:
On the allocation of plots to Ibos or allocation of stalls, I would like to advise the Minister that these people know how to make money, and we do not know the way and manner of getting about this business. We do not want Ibos to be allocated with plots. I do not want them to be given plots…
Mallam Bashari Umaru:
I would like (you), as a Minister of Land and Survey, to revoke forthwith all Certificates of Occupancy from the hands of the Ibos resident in the Region… (Applause)
Mr. A. A. Agogede:
I’m very glad that we are in a Moslem country, and the government of Northern Nigeria allowed some few Christians in the region to enjoy themselves according to the belief of their religion, but building of hotels should be taken away from the Igbos, and even if we find some Christians who are interested in building hotels and do not have money to do so, the government should aid them, instead of allowing Ibos to continue with their hotels.
Dr. Iya Abubakar (Special Member, Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria):
I am one of the strong believers in Nigerian unity, and I have hoped for our having a united Nigeria, but certainly if the present state of affairs continues, I hope the government will investigate first the desirability and secondly the possibility of extending Northernisation policy to the petty traders. (Applause)
Mallam Mukhtar Bello:
I would like to say something very important, that the Minister should take my appeal to the Federal Government about the Igbos in the post office. I wish the numbers of these Igbos be reduced…. There are too many of them in the North. They are like sardines and 1 think they are just too dangerous to the Region.
Mallam Ibrahim Musa:
Mr. Chairman, Sir. Well first and foremost, what I have to say before this Hon. House is that we should send a delegation to meet our Hon. Premier to move a motion in this very Budget Session that all the Ibos working in the Civil Service of Northern Nigeria, including the native authorities, whether they are contractors or not, should be repatriated at once…
Mallam Bashari Umaru:
There should be no contracts either from the government, native authorities, or private enterprises given to Ibo contractors (Government Bench: Good talk and shouts of “Fire the Southerners”). Again, Mr. Chairman, the foreign firms too should be given time limit to replace all Ibo in their firms by some other people.
The Premier (Alhaji the Hon. Sir Ahmadu Bello, K.B.E., Sardauna of Sokoto):
It is my most earnest desire that every post in the region, however small it is, be filled by a Northerner (Applause)
Alhaji Usman Liman:
What brought the Ibos into this region? They were here since the colonial days. Had it not been for the colonial rule, there would hardly have been any Ibo in this region. Now that there is no colonial rule, the Ibos should go back to their region. There should be no hesitation about the matter. Mr. Chairman, North is for Northerners, East for Easterners, West for Westerners, and the Federation is for us all. (Applause)
The Minister of Land and Survey (Alhaji the Hon. Ibrahim Musa Cashash, O.B.E.):
Mr. Chairman. Sir, I do not like to take up much of the time of this House in making explanations, but I would like to assure members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria, my ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of members are met. How to do this, when to do it, all these should not be disclosed. In due course, you will all see what will happen.

Thank you for this post, the reason why Nigeria is like this today is because so many Nigerians are selfish, why not ask Igbos how the succeed instead of the hatred. I know that from day one NIGERIA has never been United.

Fulaniherdmens:
If you keep discrediting this man, remember he got his grounds as chief Whip of Senate and house of rep.
Regardless if exonerated, he can be presented as a replacement for peter obi.
Tinubu/Orji Kalu 2023.

Oga Kalu and Tinubu are not the crop of politicians we need to make NIGERIA great. Tinubu will increase taxation and convert 80% of govt properties to his name while Kalu will move the remaining to his company. we need people that care about HUMANITY ,those that understands the need to make NIGERIA work.

MinorityOpinion:
Nnamdi is far from humble, he is an arrogant, not so bright hypocrite, hateful and instigator of violence while him and his family are chilling in UK

Oga you deserve one cow this Sallah, call me tomorrow morning.

they want to see the face of the man that emptied their state treasury.

[quote author=Tranquillity360 post=92142077]The zoo called nigeria must
go down.[/quote
The last time I checked, NIGERIA is called Federal Republic of NIGERIA while her citizens are called Nigerians. Zoo is not the name of any country in the world.

Tranquillity360:
The ZOO must go down.

Which of the Zoos are you? I hope you are not one of those animals that are causing Corona Virus.

They won do us anoda decivin again.

NubaVertigo:
The Fulani raided his village in Oyo. He literally has a biography about this on the internet. Just use google. His village in Oyo was surprise raided by the Fulani and they captured and sold the villagers, including him

ok. thanks for the clarification.

Itohanprefa:
I didn't want to reply that guy in other not to tribalise the whole thing, Yoruba people were selling themselves too, if you are weak or don't have an immediate family to stand with you, off to America

lol.

fairfora:
Even though yoruba leaders back then had every opportunity to sell their people in that era, they rather waged war against the colonialists and suppressed their powers. Madam Tinubu had the opportunity to make a great fortune in this business of evil but chose to defend her people by fighting the Europeans who thrived in slave trade. Any human being who takes pride in selling his/her fellow human beings is worse than animals.

Same yoruba agitated for independence and democracy in our land even those who said we were not ready for independence are now number one beneficiaries of it. Any day we say we are leaving this union, only God will say otherwise because we are the reason this country is still together.

Who sold Samuel Ajayi crowther since yoruba's did not sell their own but protected them?

prince4pro2:
Stupid woman. Were u not in the same boat with T A Orji? U r among the architect of this pandemic called ABIA

Thank you very much. other house members are empowering their constituents,she is busy criticizing thesame gang that she used to be their secretary.

Macphenson:
OUK 2023. so up till now you cannot see the signs?

You are even more myopic than I thought.

OUK can never represent Igbos as presidential candidate with his track record as the man that laid the faulty foundation of governance in Abia State. We Igbos will present a candidate that will effect positive changes to our political, social, economic environment. We have the likes of Ogbonnaya Onu under APC , Peter Obi, Dave Umahi and Ike Ekwerenmadu under PDP.
Say no to OUK and chairman of Iberiberism (Okorocha).

Igbochief001:
Anything outside south east ...north keeps ruling there no two ways about it

*Supported*
South East supported OBJ (South West)
South East supported GEJ( South South) if they both refuse to support southeast then North should keep the office of the president till the coming of Christ. people have been creating so many threàds asking southeast to support Amaechi from South South, they should also create a thread asking Amaechi and South South to support an Igbo president from South East. 2023 will be insteresting.

eduj:
We are not stating that abia is better than its neighbors (even though it beats them in many other indices of development)
If you feel so about staying in Abia, you can relocate to any other state. The fact you have been their for over 10 years (if true) means the city is working for you

How do you think the state will change for better when some of you can not accept the fact that the state is not working. As for relocation, I have already applied for a transfer, I am waiting for a go ahead from my employer. There's need for Abians to talk to their political Representatives to have a change of attitude, some of them are our Brothers, Husbands ,Wife and Uncles.

raker300:
because Abia state is being dragged here doesn’t mean they aren’t making progress.

We igbos like keeping our leaders on their toes to get the best from them

Oga Abia is not making any progress, stop deceiving yourself. I have spent 10 years in Abia State, go to Akwa Ibom or other neighboring states you will weep for the slow pace of development in the state.

This news is fake , there is no other news media that has such a news

Some Nigerians are very good at criticizing others that they perceived they are better than, Ebonyi State is among the fast developing states in Nigeria, some people are envious of the pace of development in Ebonyi State, some will say "Ebonyi people are not Igbos" while others will be shouting"Ebonyi people are the poorest people in the world" LOL. this same people that are better than Ebonyi State indigenes are still struggling with unemployment or under employment, paucity of infrastructure in their home states, some of them can not even travel to their villages because there are not motorable roads but in Ebonyi State the case is different, 80% of her villages are motorable. If you want to criticize Ebonyi State and her indigenes, please start the comparison from yourself ( who you are and what you think you have achieved so far that you think nobody in Ebonyi State could achieve), Family ( the worth of your family members e.g Bill gate family ($) you then compare your family with the families in Ebonyi State) you then do that for your LG and state. You can not claim to be better than somebody when your life is full of want.

SLAP44:
The action governor

This governor is better than all the governors in the north and SW

Don't say something that will attract*thunder* to you, what has he achieved as a Governor? what he is doing is *patching* some Northern and SW Governors are commissioning good roads and over head bridges in their numbers.

[quote author=ignis post=88596391]What's all these lockdown in less risky states for?[/quote

He is taking proactive measures, if Nigerian government had closed our borders early enough we would not have gotten into this mess.

CodeTemplar:
Why haven't security men clashed with muslims that pray on major roads?

Every Friday in major northern Nigeria cities and towns, muslims gather in any mosque located at the centre of the town no matter how small the mosques is and do their jumat prayer there. They do it obstructing roads around the mosques and I find it baffling that our security agent have hardly clashed with them the way they clashed with Shi'ite muslims.

What is the secret behind this highly improbable pattern?

Is blocking roads during prayers the same thing with threatening disintegration?

Olunmercy56:
We are just 250 million in Nigeria, why not give out #100k to each family? I don't understand?!

Divide the 21Billion by 200 million population then you will know if the amount can feed you for a day.