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 Politics / Re: Eze Ndi Igbo Nairaland Election (voting In Progress: ) by olyivy(f): 12:35am On Dec 08, 2011 |
Okija_juju: Thank God for a day like this. You finally got served! Stop hating Ojukwu cos he is not the one that made your mom run away with aboki soldiers during the war where she gave birth to you. Your identity crisis is not Ojukwu's fault. I nu go? Now go and hang as an outcast that you are. Yorubas dont like you, igbos rejected you. FOOOOOOOOOOL!!! |
| Politics / Re: Why Is Everybody Afraid Of Buhari's Presidency by olyivy(f): 3:29pm On Dec 06, 2011 |
It is only nairaland GenBuhari and musiwa that can single handedly take a thread to ten pages in 2 hours! Phew! @Post, If buhari is better than other candidates, he woulda won. He is simply not good enough! |
| Politics / Re: Court Sentences Boko Haram's Ex-spokesperson To 3 Years In Prison by olyivy(f): 3:17pm On Dec 06, 2011 |
namfav: fool > they will soon crack your own cell in bauchi |
| Politics / Re: Nairaland Politics Section Hall Of Fame/shame - 2011 Induction by olyivy(f): 10:35am On Dec 06, 2011 |
Okija_juju: [size=14pt]FIXED!  [/size] |
| Politics / Re: Nairaland Politics Section Hall Of Fame/shame - 2011 Induction by olyivy(f): 10:23am On Dec 06, 2011 |
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| Politics / Re: Same-sex Pastor Dares Senate Ban And Continues Fellowship by olyivy(f): 12:27pm On Dec 05, 2011 |
Okija_juju:Of course we know it. You will rather live in your world of sodomy without even food. Who doesnt know that. |
| Politics / Re: Same-sex Pastor Dares Senate Ban And Continues Fellowship by olyivy(f): 11:08am On Dec 05, 2011 |
Okija_juju:Stop being in denial you are a fa-g you have always sounded like one. And yes! we need senate to outlaw it. Your fellow fa-gs are already taking steps towards kissing in public ad we wont let them get to that stage. That might be too late. Again use your fagotted brain for once, they will come and demand to be wedded in church and court if it is not outlawed. We dont have space for you and your fellow asspokers in naija, you better start preparing your own gay-assylum papers now before police will begin to raid your enclaves. |
| Politics / Re: Same-sex Pastor Dares Senate Ban And Continues Fellowship by olyivy(f): 10:18am On Dec 05, 2011 |
Okija_juju:Knew you would be nothing but a fa-g. mtseww |
| Politics / Re: Same-sex Pastor Dares Senate Ban And Continues Fellowship by olyivy(f): 7:27pm On Dec 03, 2011 |
Eko Ile:I always knew this duma.zz is a fago.tt. mtsew! Look what your kinsman 'pastor' is bringing to Nigeria, i hope you now see where our problems in this country is coming from. |
| Politics / Re: Senate Rejects State Burial For Ojukwu by olyivy(f): 7:02pm On Dec 02, 2011 |
lagcity:Nonentities like you will never understand Ojukwu. You will never understand why he ran for offices in Nigeria just like you have always to he was eulogizing awolowowo when he said that he (awolowowo) is the best president nigeria never had. Umu ewu! |
| Politics / Re: Senate Rejects State Burial For Ojukwu by olyivy(f): 1:12pm On Dec 02, 2011 |
Okija_juju: [size=13pt]I have told you before to cease from blaming ojukwu for your mothers waywardness. He did not ask her to follow abokis to the north where you were given birth. Your moma did it because her thing de scratch am well well. Leave Ojukwu out of your ethnic confusion.[/size] |
| Politics / Re: 15 Most Corrupt Countries Of The World And Nigeria Doesn't Make The List by olyivy(f): 9:42am On Dec 02, 2011 |
This country never comes first in anything again. Even corruption! Common corruption! Damnnnnnnnnn! |
| Politics / Re: There Is No Point To Immortalize Ojukwu by olyivy(f): 9:45am On Dec 01, 2011 |
Ijogz K:Arent your people especially your grand father that fought for the awusa people and was retired immediatley after the war a bigger fool. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu: Immortalize Him – Yerima by olyivy(f): 9:43am On Dec 01, 2011 |
okpurukata:+2000 |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu: Immortalize Him – Yerima by olyivy(f): 9:36am On Dec 01, 2011 |
Okija_juju:Bia ewu a, it is not Ojukwu that asked your wayward mother to follow an aboki soldier to north where she gave birth to you during the war. Your mother has always been a ny.mpho right from when she grew to know what punnie is used for, if you doubt me ask your grand father from okija.  |
| Politics / Ojukwu, Ojukwu, Gowon Is Coming: by olyivy(f): 11:51am On Nov 30, 2011 |
Ojukwu, Ojukwu, Gowon is coming, I was just a kid in elementary school when the Nigerian civil war started. Nkrumah had already been overthrown. The NLC was in power and Ghana was looking forward to “better times” without Nkrumah. There were lots of Nigerians in Ghana then. Indeed, there was no town or village in Ghana in which you did not see a Nigerian. Many of the major towns had quarters where there were large concentrations of Yoruba. “Lagos Town” in Accra was not just a name. There were Ibos too – lots of them. And the Calabar woman was well known for the colour of her skin – and her job. So when the civil war started, it did not only affect us in Ghana as a close neighbour. There were many Nigerians in our midst living with the knowledge that their homeland was burning. Because I was so young, my personal memories of the war as we saw it from Ghana are very dim. There were pictures in Graphic and Times of the happenings there – the top level meetings taking place to stave off war, and then later, pictures of the atrocities that were going on. We saw the pictures of all those starving Biafran kids. It all seemed very far away from us. I don’t remember as a kid ever knowing what the cause of the war was. But we were always hearing the names of Gowon and the bearded Ojukwu as well as Awolowo (Awo) and Azikiwe (Zik) and all kinds of stories about them. Then there was the acronym, GOWON, that we all liked – Go On With One Nigeria. We also heard the music of Fela then singing with Koola Lobitos – Viva Nigeria (War is not the answer, ) and Cardinal Rex Lawson’s song about the war. Oh, how Ghanaians loved Rex Lawson’s music! He died during the war. I can’t remember seeing any war-time refugees coming to Ghana. There were already many Nigerians who had been living among us for ages. Perhaps the refugees went to Cameroon. What many Ghanaians will remember most about Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who died in a London hospital last Saturday aged 78, was his performance at the Aburi Conference. It was an attempt by the then NLC chairman, Gen. Ankrah, to help the two parties come to an agreement and prevent war. They met in 1967 (a year after the massacres in the north) at the luxurious Peduase Lodge outside Aburi. Gowon and Ojukwu met face to face, in the presence of General Ankrah. It seems Ojukwu (who had adequately prepared himself for the conference) got the better of Gowon in the negotiations because when they returned to their country, the Federal government side realised the Aburi Agreement was not in its favour and quickly discarded it. The Biafrans still held on to the Aburi terms – “On Aburi We Stand. There will be no compromise. Aburi Kwenu!”. It is said that the Ghanaians recorded every single word that was uttered at the two-day conference and gave each party a copy of the tapes. It didn’t help. The civil war happened and by the time the guns went silent, more than a million Nigerians, mostly Biafrans, had lost their lives. The war lasted 30 months. Shortly before Lt.-Col. Phillip Effiong, leading the Biafran side, surrendered to Obasanjo on January 15, 1970, Ojukwu had left for exile in Côte d’Ivoire which was one of the few African countries that had recognised Biafra (the others being Gabon, Tanzania and Zambia, as well as far away Haiti). The NLC government did not recognise Biafra but it seems many Ghanaians of the day were sympathetic to the Biafran cause even though they knew the odds were heavily stacked against them. The Americans, with their hands full with the Vietnam War, were loath to play a leading role in the negotiations. But Americans, privately, had sympathies for the Biafrans. Ojukwu was articulate, well educated (with a Masters degree in History from Oxford), dashing and cut a romantic figure that appealed to the American sense of adventurism. He had a presence that infected all those around him. What else would make British novelist, Frederick Forsyth, write such a hagiographic account of his life? The suffering of Biafrans during the war attracted worldwide sympathy. I have met people in Europe who told me that as kids in the late 60s, their mothers made them eat their food by threatening that if they didn’t eat, the food would be taken away from them and given to the starving children of Biafra whose pictures filled the world’s newspapers and television sets. I don’t know if Ghanaian mothers also resorted to that gimmick to get their kids to eat. When you cast your mind back to the roles of Gowon and Ojukwu during the war, one thing will strike you: the very young ages of the two leaders. At the time they arrived at Aburi as heads of their various delegations, Ojukwu was no more than 33 years old. Gowon was a year younger. These young men carried the fates of millions of their countrymen and women on their youthful shoulders. When Gowon was forced out of office in 1975, he was still young enough to go back to school which he did, never stopping until he had earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Warwick. (If only Rawlings too had done something like that!) Busia came to power a few months before the Nigerian civil war ended. One of the first things his government did was to pass the Aliens Compliance Order that forced the many Nigerians living among us to leave the country. Busia also opted for the infamous policy of dialogue with the apartheid South African regime which angered the radicals in Ghana. Côte d’Ivoire, where Ojukwu was in exile, also favoured dialogue. These two policies of the Busia regime were so unlike anything Nkrumah’s government could have done and ended up marking the most disgraceful moments in the foreign policy history of our country. The Compliance order came at a very bad time for Nigeria which was still rebuilding its economy after the war. Even though Nigeria was then a major oil exporter, it was the time before the increase in oil prices (and revenues) precipitated by the oil crisis. The first oil crisis started in October of 1973. It hit Ghana badly. Less than ten years after we had shamelessly sacked the Nigerians, Ghanaians would start arriving in Nigeria searching for jobs. By 1975, secondary schools in Ghana had started losing teachers to Nigeria. The great movement of Ghanaians of all calibres to Nigeria would happen between 1979 – 1981 (the time of the second energy crisis). Yours truly was in the throng. Some people argue that the first sacking of aliens (read Ghanaians) from Nigeria in 1983 was in retaliation of the Busia order. That may not be so. There were cracks appearing in the oil-rich economy and Shehu Shagari’s government thought they could make things better for themselves by sacking the non-Nigerians. They saw, just like we had also seen earlier in Ghana, that such policies never solved any problems. No country has ever fared better by sacking immigrants! The irony of the Ghanaian-Nigerian situation was that, it was mostly those Nigerians whom we had sacked from our country who were most favourably disposed towards the Ghanaians who had now come to work in their country. After all, they still spoke Ghanaian languages and spoke English like Ghanaians. It was rather the Nigerians who had never been in Ghana who often reminded us of what we had done to their fellow countrymen. Ojukwu was granted an official pardon in 1982 by the Shehu Shagari government. This enabled him to return home after 13 years of exile to a tumultuous welcome by the Ibo who have always regarded him as a hero. He plunged straight into politics again always in search of the righteousness and equity for which he had fought all his life. As I ponder over the death of Ojukwu, I remember my days as a school boy in Ghana while the civil war was raging on in Nigeria. Jamaican born singer Millie Small (better known for My Boy Lollipop) had a song in 1967, “Wings of a Dove”, that was frequently played on GBC. We used to sing this song replacing the instrumental interlude with an Ojukwu taunt: If I have the wings of a dove (2x) I will fly, far away Over the mountains over the seas Where my lover waits for me Panpara, panpara, panpara papaaaa, Ojukwu, Ojukwu, Gowon is coming, Ojukwu was certainly a very courageous man, principled and with a passionate love for his people – a love that was abundantly returned by the people who showered him with titles. The many tributes pouring in are not just the nice words that people say of the dead. To the very end, he remained the People’s General – Ikemba Nnewi, Dikedioranma Ndigbo, Odenigbo Ngwo, Ezeigbo Gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. May he rest in everlasting peace. Kofi Amenyo (kofi.amenyo@yahoo.com) http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=224639&comment=0#com 2 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:59pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: He meant your real dad, not the one they told you is your dad! |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:57pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
phreakabit: To even suggest that his people go to war not to even be talking about dying in one is laughable. [size=15pt]They dont fight! They just open their mouth from ear to ear and shout YEEE!! Next thing you know, they run! [/size] |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:29pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
adolfe bad: No his wife bought it for him. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:25pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
namfav: [size=14pt]Its a lie! You use water from your kettle and your bare hands [/size]thats what all abokis like you do. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:17pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
adolfe bad: Dumbito! Who is talking about aliens here. Your awolowowo took his own miserable life in the most barbaric way ever known to a nigerian and you think its all folktales?Comot here! |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:12pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: Lame! Awo is already in hell. You shoulda said he will drag somebody into hell cos thats where hes been for some decades now. How did he expect to take otapiapia and still go to heaven. [size=18pt]No way! Otapiapia is not a heavenly Drink, abeg. [/size] |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:08pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
aurenflani:Eyaaa! some body is hurt ooo. By the way who mentioned allah here sef? you boys should have boundaries ooo. But cherekwa onye fulani, if the alla you are praying to is the same God of abraham we also worship, you have to wait forever cos He doesnt answer that kind of prayer. No wonder you guys tend to take laws into your own hands most times. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 3:03pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
ekt_bear: He may have died a century ago but we still know who killed him. No imaginations here please. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 2:48pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
ekt_bear:Cry baby thats exactly the route I intend to go down right now  Your awolo[i]wowo[/i] took his own life (in a very barbaric manner) after a long period of anguish over betrayal by his own people. What a shame for the so called sage  |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 2:40pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
lucenzo: Bros u wicked ooo  You shoulda asked the mofo if his papa is dead first. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 2:37pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
ekt_bear: Your suggestions are dumb. Bluetooth reserves the right to insult whoever he wants and so do I. If you think bluetooth needs to be cautioned, do that yourself. Leave me out of it. You are not left out. You can jump in if you want. I am not insulting Awolowowo, I am actually stating the fact - he died miserably. Taking otapiapia is such a bad way to die  |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 2:04pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
~Bluetooth:Even Abacha himself died an honorable death. He was not known to have taken otapipia like awolowo. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 12:49pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: Yes of cos, it is some few brave and revolutionary igbo soldiers! But they werent the ones that gave your awolowo the rat poison he took. |
| Politics / Re: Ojukwu (Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu) Is Dead by olyivy(f): 12:05pm On Nov 26, 2011 |
~Bluetooth:At least he died peacefully. Not so for some of his compatriots. Awolowo died bitter and committed suicide, sarduana was shot on top of his wives, belawa's body was found rotten, shot and dumped on a roadside. Do you need more? |
| Politics / This Hausa Man Has Lived In Onitsha For 81 Years by olyivy(f): 9:46am On Oct 06, 2011 |
, Appeals to FG to fix roads in the South east From DOM. EKPUNOBI, Onitsha Wednesday, October 05, 2011 Alhaji Baba Mallam Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section For Alhaji Baba Mallam, an Hausa man from Kano State, who has lived in Onitsha, Anambra State for 81 years, his people enjoyed the commercial city in the past than they do presently. Alhaji Mallam who says he has full Igbo identity, having spent 81 years of his 86-year sojourn on earth in Onitsha and speaks Igbo fluently, said in the past, the Hausas in Onitsha had attended the Ofalla festival with the natives and had formed bulk of the people, who attended the annual festival. As a little child, Mallam who was coming with his parents to transact business in Onitsha and later travelled back to Kano had after six years of the journey settled down in Onitsha and had since continued to live in the town. Alhaji Mallam whose wife hails from Ojoja in the old Eastern Region got 12 children from the marriage. Two of the children died and he is left with 10, who are now all married with their own children. Today he has about 46 grand children. Even after most of his business partners have crossed over to the other side of the Niger and settled in Asaba, Delta State due to a problem they encountered some years back which resulted in loss of lives, he has refused to leave, but has continued with his onions and beans business at the Bridge Head Market, Onitsha. His conviction is that Nigeria is one and belongs to all irrespective of tribe or religion and that any Nigerian could settle and carry out his business anywhere he or she wants. Mallam who spoke with Daily Sun in an interview also looked at the Boko Haram menace. Excerpt: Where exactly is your state of origin? I come from Kano State in the former Northern Nigeria. How long have you lived in Onitsha? I came into Onitsha for the first time when I was six years. I came with my parents who were coming here on business trip from the North. We were coming here to sell things and six years after that, I settled down in Onitsha and grew up here. At that time Onitsha was not developed at all. What was Onitsha like when you came into the town? Not many Igbos were living in Onitsha then. People were coming from the hinterland to buy things. Hausas and Nupes occupied all these areas where we are now. Onitsha Main Market area was occupied by Hausas and there were just a few people in the town. We Hausas formed the bulk of those who used to attend the Ofalla Festival of Obi of Onitsha whenever there was one. We joined the indigenes to celebrate the festival. There was mutual love and understanding better than today. What made you to live here in the past 80 years? Igbos are hospitable people. Before the civil war, there was no problem and it did not matter where anybody came from. It was not until the war broke out that many Hausas deserted Onitsha. I did not go because nobody knew where I come from. I was still moving around in Onitsha and when anybody confronted me, I told them I come from Benin. That was how I survived in Onitsha until I joined others to move right into Biafra city where I stayed until the war ended. What would you say about Nigerian politics? Most politicians now seek for their individual pockets. When M.I. Okpara was the Premier of Eastern Nigeria and some other politicians of that time were in leadership, things were much better. They cared for the people and had better policies and programmes than our present crop of politicians. We did not hear about the kind of money that our present politicians often cart away now. There seems to be too much greed now, too much rancour and too much hatred in the land and in each election, we hear about massive rigging and violence. They are not good for our polity. Politicians should endeavor to use the nation’s enormous resources to provide good welfare for Nigerians because the nation has more than enough to cater for everybody, but our wealth is in the hands of a few. This is why a lot of people go into politics, not because they have any interest for anybody, but they see it as an avenue to amass wealth. There may not be meaningful development until our politicians, our leaders begin to demonstrate genuine desire to work for the masses whose interests they are made to serve. Are you disturbed about the killings in the country? All well meaning Nigerians should be concerned about what is happening, about mass killings and destruction of property. There is no justification for all the lives that are being lost almost on daily basis. Those who are involved in the killings should have a rethink and government must be serious at tackling the problem frontally. As a Muslim, is Boko Haram a recognized Muslim sect? There is only one Islam, but you know that these days, people sometimes breakout and form diverse groups which propagate diverse beliefs. It is in Islam and it is in Christianity. The fact remains that Islam does not preach taking of human lives. What would you suggest as your solution to solving Boko Haram problem? My suggestion is that government should be stern in dealing with them. I do not believe that those members of Boko Haram are Nigerians otherwise they could not have been doing what they were doing. They should, therefore, be made to leave Nigeria if they are not comfortable with us, so that peace loving Nigerians should stay in peace. They should be given a chase. Government must do everything possible to find out who their sponsors are and deal with them. When their sponsors are identified and dealt with, they should run away and leave the country for genuine Nigerians. It is a wrong notion for anybody to think that they have the blessing of the Muslims or the North. They are simply enemies of the nation. Anambra State Government wanted to drive you people away from this your business area, what is the position now? Everything has been quiet in the last two years. Nobody is disturbing us for now. The fact is that this place (Onitsha side of the Niger Bridge Head) was given to us by the Federal Government and we have been paying rent on it. We now also pay to the state government which, of course, amounts to double taxation, but we do not mind. Our major problem is that a lot of us who were doing business here before have relocated to Asaba, thereby shifting the business to Asaba and for that reason, we are virtually doing nothing here. You can see that business is not moving. If it were before this place would have been very busy, but it is no longer so. What would you expect the Federal Government to do, especially on our roads in the South- East? Let me seize this opportunity to appeal to the Federal Government and the state government to attend to the roads in the South-east which are now in deplorable condition. It is pathetic that travelling from Onitsha to Enugu is now made so difficult because of the bad road. A journey of about an hour now takes about three hours because of bad nature of the road. We have the resources to put our roads in order. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/oct/05/national-05-10-2011-0019.html |
| Politics / Re: Buhari Condemns Attack On Un Building In Nigeria by olyivy(f): 3:47pm On Aug 28, 2011 |
That statement is just saying: 'it is not my boko haram' no matter how much he tries to hide it in his comment. |
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