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BTW Nigeria does not miss you in any way. If anything Nigeria may even be suffering because of the role you played before.
Weren't you there from 1999 to 2007?
What happened?
What did you achieve?
Mscheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

Nobody left you out, you just have to learn how to vote for a non-Yoruba first.
This is Political Science 101.

You don't vote for others, others will not vote for you.
Even Jona is trying sef.
Aboki or another less charitable groups would have tossed y'all under the bus.

Dudu_Negro:
If you know Eko Ile well, you know he does not post any story that is fake here.

So now tell me, when is Eze gburugburu is going to be buried. You stayed off internet on Feb 3rd. . . a waste of time! You will stay off on Feb 24th, another waste of time . . . . and the mugu is not even buried yet. I wonder what you will do on his burial date. . . stay off the earth?

And I'm still wondering how this is any of you people's business.
Anyway, I just wanted to correct some things.
The Great Lion of Biafra will be given a WORLD CLASS burial.
And it ain't any of your damn business.

I'm off to a more relevant thread.

If you know Nnewi people well, you would know that they would be itching to do this alone. It has not happened because the man involved is biggger than them.
We are talking about the Eze Igbo gburu gburu. 

Dudu_Negro:
Onlytruth,

When it was spontaneously announced that Ojukwu's burial has been upgraded and NA will give him military honor burial. . . we all wondered how they came about that sudden change in direction.  There was a missing dot!  

This report is that missing dot and if you connect it with the before and after of the decision, it fits very well in place.  This is no fake story, it's authentic.

The fake story I meant is the one posted by[b] Eko-Ole[/b] below:

Further inquiry uncovered a chilling aspect of the burial arrangement – revealing that no indigenes of Nnewi have contributed money towards the burial - neither have the Ojukwu’s contributed money towards the burial.

http://247ureports.com/2012/02/why-south-east-governors-refuse-to-fund-ojukwus-burial/

Eko Ile:
Only419, Ordinary ZIK una no fit give proper burial an u dey talk about world lass,  Why do ibo people throw around words like world class, huge and massive when you people are so incompetent and can not even tie your own shoes,

Obviously, na u need to lay down the crack pipe,

^^
Okay, let me say this now because I think it is time.

That story is as FAKE as they come.

Here in the US when we wanted to organize a funeral event for Ojukwu, there was a HUGE fracas because my (Nnewi) towns people started organizing it without involving anyone. When I heared about it, I basically warned them to back off. Before anyone knew what happened, other Igbo and Eastern groups threw a HUGE fit about it, and warned us Nnewi folks to back off. The event was eventually organized and funded by ALL Eastern Nigerian groups (and even some SWers).
Fact is that Ojukwu is HUGE. That is why no one can reduce his burial to Nnewi affair.
So, tell that liar reporter that he has made a fool of his website.

lagcity:
Gademit, it is all Yoruba's fault! Those basterd Yaribas . They are envious of us, so[b] they sabotaged our Ojukwu's burial[/b]. Backstabbers.

You said so yourself, hehehe!

On a serious note, even Nnewi town alone can give Ojukwu a world class burial.
So, y'all should drop the crack pipes.

Nigeria will stand well well without the core North. I mean well well.
If you excise the core North from Nigeria today, the only way to know that anythig happened is that we would stop hearing about Boko Haram and mass murder in Nigeria. Shi ke nan.

I laughed at "disintegration of the North". hehehe!

^^^

@Jakumo,

I laughed for about 15 minutes non-stop at this your picture.

Una still dey here? Na wa o.

Wetin de pain una sef? I tire o.

BTW why not go and rebury Awo if it would make you feel better. SMH @ this type of jealousy.

ekt_bear:
hmm. where is the op to tell us more

Let me help you die faster, you Ekiti Ph.d thug. The oil is still in SE even if the OP is right.
Stop sneaking around like a freaking snake.

Anambra people don't depend on that kind of stuff. So, it basically changes nothing as long as it doesn't pollute our farmlands.

^^

Abeg go to sleep. I hate talking to sleepwalkers.

Asari basically nailed it.
He spoke like a true man. Our shackes are on their way off our hands in SE and SS.
We can't wait any longer.

ndu_chucks:
Eze nwannem, you sir are an olodo. What power shift? The main problem you and your likes have is that you don't know how to follow rules - your expertise is in breaking them. You have to participate in the democratic process to orchestrate a legitimate power shift in  Igboland.  Unfortunately, you are calling for power to be shifted to MASSOB and are working towards an illegal political process. Pray tell, will MASSOB take over APGA, PDP, or ACN? Abi MASSOB will form a new party?  You people are well advised to learn how civilized people play the political game.

Ikemba headed APGA, can't you people take advantage of his style? You people will end up in jail where you belong as soon as you start your secession/biafra  cry again. I'm sorry for you and your ignorant lot, buddy. Dalu o.

Obviously I never expected a simpleton to understand that REAL POWER belongs to the people. lol
All that would become apparent soon. Why it hasn't happened sooner is because MASSOB has remained non-violent.
But even at that, soon it would be clear to any sane Igbo that we can never moved forward in a cage created by Gowon.

The truth is that three are three groups of Igbo out there:

(1) Those who believe in Nigeria as is (about 5%)
(2) Those who want Nigeria restructured for justice and peace (about 45%)
(3) Those who want Nigeria to be totally disintegrated and for Biafra to become a nation separate from Nigeria (about 50%)

I tend to belong to the second group most times but my innermost wisdom tells me that last group has a more solid position.
For as long as I remain Eze Ndigbo here, I would TRY HARDEST to stay with the second group.  I will DEFINITELY join the last group if I dont see changes in Nigeria.  

alj harem:
Why ?. You talk of Igbo tradition but yet are Igbos not human being.

Andre my friend Brother, If SW want to help out, then try to accept them. Stop being arrogant.

Same with other regions

My friend nobody is stopping anyone from offering a helping hand, just make sure that the hand is actually helpful.

tpia@:
No offence but imo swesterners should be included in the burial committee or even allowed to organize the whole thing.

Nothing personal- just that they're good at stuff like that.

I laughed when I read this because , here is another point of view by (I hear he is one of yours):

But the Yoruba people are nowhere in these frameworks of human interaction. [b]Wherever you find two or three Yoruba people, the words and phrases ‘order’, ‘intelligent disagreement’, ‘orderly agreement or disagreement’, and ‘rational disobedience’ are often lacking because the Yoruba people are not cut out to exist in civilized relationships. They are worst than the beasts and lions in the wild because their culture is a culture rooted in anarchy. Even if they go through many years of training in either military or academic institutions, the Yoruba people are still worse than the beasts in the wild. Ekiti is a perfect example here.

Ekiti is supposedly a state in Yoruba South West where every Yoruba therein has a PhD or an advanced degree from an institution of higher learning. Ekiti is like the city of Boulder in Colorado or like Iowa City in the state of Iowa, where every person is associated with an institution of higher learning. Yet, Ekiti is the center and hub of deadly, machete-wielding thugs, who will never allow an election or peaceful gathering to take place. All the politicians therein maintain groups of deadly gangs as the only means of winning elections or governing the state. Ekiti produced the likes Peter Ayodele Fayose who has a PhD and yet believes and acts as if having a name like Hussein Obama makes Obama a terrorist. By virtue of his PhD, you would think that Peter Fayose is a free-thinking man who uses his brain to analyze and solve problems rather than looking to command and order other people around. But no, the norms of his Yoruba culture are so ingrained in his being that governing by consent or disagreement means nothing to him. This is why he had to murder a journalist simply for asking him questions. Today, he is still one of the forces to be reckoned with in Ekiti politics - because the Yoruba culture considers murder and murderers as the essential ingredients of government and of running the affairs of their masses. Whatever holds in Ekiti is also true in all other Yoruba states.[/b]

So, these are the people to organise Ojukwu's burial?
Abegi.  

ndu_chucks:
Eze nwanne m, Assuming this report is true, you people need to learn how to take responsibility for your failures. You are shamelessly blaming states (geographical expressions) for your inability to arrange a befitting Funeral for the great Ikemba, ko? Whatever happened to the people who live in those states? Aren't they and their leaders to blame for the current burial troubles? SMH.  As they say, you can remove you people from the bush, but you cannot remove the bush from you. Even if the states are gone and you remain Eastern region, you will still be lead by the same incompetent fools who cannot even arrange to honour the greatest son of the land.

Lets hope the Army will take complete control, logistical and financial, of the burial, before people like Onlytruth bleep it up. olodo

My friend, go hump a goat as usual. 

The Nigerian states are like unity-devouring-cancers created by Gowon as a military strategy. It's origin as a military strategy makes it an evil legacy of Gowon. Notice how the states were created- THEY WERE SIMPLY ANNOUNCED by the Gowon junta; no consultation, no constitutional conference, no referendum: Just a military FIAT.
It was purely a military strategy, nothing more. Unfortunately for Nigeria, subsequence Northern military leaders simply continued creating more states without remembering how the first groups of states came into being. It is like getting a snake into one of your rooms to kill and eat the rats there, and then doing the same for ALL your rooms, forgeting that the snake is still a venomous animal. Suddenly the snakes start killing your children, and you act surprised!
The point is that you should NEVER have introduced snakes as part of your strategy to rid your home of ordinary rats; stuff you can even live with if you make litle adjustments.
You introduced snakes because you are a wicked human being to start with.

Back to this issue now.

This is the reason why these governors failed to empower the South East Nigeria Economic Commission. They were busy defending their stoopid useless states' interests.
This is why we have no investment corporation for the SE like we had before the war.
This is the reason Gov Orji of Abia state woke up to kick other Igbo out of his state's civil service.
This issue will continue to destroy whatever common goals we may have to emancipate ourselves from the evil Nigerian dungeon.
This is why groups like MASSOB may soon enjoy more legitimacy in Igboland, than any idiotic state governors.
Uwazuruike would soon be accorded more voice and followership in Igboland than all these petty minded morons parading as governors of the SE states.
They should continue with their idiocy.
Ojukwu's burial will be the beginning of this power shift in Igboland.

bakila:
Sai david Mark 2015. Alliance ko? Mark is Still from the North. Smart chaps posting your strategy on the internet. One of you boys, as smart as always, even called for removal of Clark as Ijaw leader. Fake internet name de make some people show dem mumu abeg? Aboki folds his arms smiles and say ok, Allah kaimu. No sleepless night I tell you.

What you don't acknowledge is that no one can stop natural events. It has taken almost 50 years for this to happen.
The core groups involved here is SE and SS (the two zones with the Nigeria's natural resources), so you cannot stop this -EVER.

If you try to, you would likely get something worse -like disintegration of Nigeria. Ka ji ko?

BTW this is not about David Mark.

And this is why I remain strongly opposed to these "states" and more state creation.
It creates idiotic and laughable groups which turn brothers into strangers and enemies.

I will remain opposed to more state creation in Nigeria.
What we need in the East is amalgamation of states back to where they were before Gowon struck in 1967.

If we had one state in SE for instance, this issue would never have arisen.
Nonsense!

Anyway, gotta go for now.

This is why I am a strong advocate of a cultural revolution in Igboland to expel all these strange greedy and self serving political culture which was not there in Igboland before creation of "states in 1967.
Believe me, if this was how our fathers behaved, Biafra would not have lasted more than one week.
These "states" have remained what they were intended to be (by Gowon)- an evil stratagem to keep people divided in Nigeria.
Shame on these "states"!

I knew that an alliance like this will give some people many sleepless nights, but you cannot stop natural development of things. Like someone asked before, it is a wonder that this didn't happen much sooner.
We know ourselves in Nigeria; so no need preaching. If managed well, this alliance will solve ALL of Nigeria's problems.
Just watch!

Asari is his father's son.

It takes GREAT COURAGE to openly reject falsehood and practically expiate. The man is earning my respect more and more.The future of Niger delta peoples and the rest us the Igbo nation is ONE.

The middle belter is welcome too provided they keep Boko Haram away.

IT IS WELL

The ancient of days is not asleep one bit.

Natural allies are gradually coming together in Nigeria. Soon Nigeria's problems would be over.

This is the smartest move I've seen by these groups in YEARS.

Kudos.

The saddest thing about Nigeria is that grown men come out in the open to claim that Nigeria's constitution is modeled after the US one.

Let me just say that if the US is a masterpiece of a particular tapestry or painting, Nigeria is a caricature of the same work. 

[size=16pt]CONSTITUTION: The lie called Nigeria[/size]

By Jide Ajani


When will the folly stop?  No one can say. Even President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who just some two years ago became a victim of this paradigm, mocked and made to feel incompetent and incompatible by the Yar’Adua cabal – because they didn’t believe in the constitution of Nigeria – is set on his path to another paradigm which would not lead to any shift.

Yet, it is common sense that one of the silliest things is when a man knows he’s lying, yet convinces himself to believe that he’s not.  The leaders of Nigeria represent this typology.  There is a difference between telling it as it is and telling it as you want it to be.

The latter comes with confetti of challenges because telling it as you want it to be exposes you to all manner of implications because you are not telling it as it is.

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria deceitfully says:

“We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding;

And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all persons in our country, on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity of our people

Do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution”.

Since we as a people prefer copying to being original in our deeds, let us help the leadership of the Nigerian state thus.

Just 59 men with good, very good, intentions wrote the American declaration of independence with a clear head.  Just like Nigeria’s founding fathers just before independence agreeing on the institution of true federalism, the Americans wrote the following while capturing the mood of the paradigm shift they wanted to engage:

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of….”

And then for the constitution, they wrote:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

When Obasanjo, yes, Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, instituted a Constituent Assembly which came up with the executive presidential system of government, the egg heads and the few politicians among them expected the operators to be driven by altruistic intentions in applying the letters and spirit of the constitution. But to lie barefacedly that “We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,

Having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation…” as a preamble to such a document only means one thing:  That other further lies would follow.

Therefore, when some people talk about the need for a sovereign national conference, national dialogue, constitutional conference, national summit and some others are whimsically rejecting such calls, it is all a continuation of living the lie that Nigeria has become.

Amalgamated by the soldier of fortune, Lord Lugard, the north and south of this land were forced to cohabitate together without any form of consensus and the “mistakes of 1914 are coming to light”, according to late Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto.

The mistakes come in the form of Boko Haram, Niger Delta militancy, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC insurgency, Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and all other forms of ethnic groupings seeking to ventilate within this shambolic Nigerian state.

The very elementary stage of psychiatry, we are told, is the expectation of a different outcome from doing the same thing over and over again.  Since Nigeria shifted from a true federal system, with the three (and later four) regions as components, to the unwieldy and unproductive 36 state structure, it has been a progressive retrogression.

Yet, President Jonathan is fallen to the same trap of self deception – not willing to do that which is in the interest of Nigerians – engendering a process that would lead to a truly peoples constitution that would not hurt.  Instead a certain Belgore Committee, with a mandate that is similar to that of a management meeting of a distressed bank is expected to come up with solutions for Nigeria’s 150 million people.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/controversy-over-new-constitution-the-lie-called-nigeria/

One_Naira:
I'll say one last thing before leaving

For anambrians wey dey for here
Do you really think only the private owned refinery would drill oil in Anambra now that the oil reserves has been broken?

Ok oo!!! since una are starting to accuse some of us trying to reason with una as "hating", make I leave this page?
All I need to say is if brothers are walking together and one puts am foot in a hole and gets bitten, another person puts am foot in the same hole and gets bitten, another puts am foot in the same hole and get bitten as well, do you think the brothers would let another of one of our brothers put his own foot in that same hole again? think about that before accusing us of insulting and hating.

My brother don't worry the oil is for ALL OF US. Do you even need me to say that? Go to Onitsha and tell me which Igbo is which.
The whole of Anambra state is IGBOLAND, and ALL Igbo live there and own land and properties as ONE.

Don't mind the two individuals annoying other Igbo brothers here. We are sane folks.
Don't let anybody talk trash to you. If this thing fails and starts spilling oil polluting our land, where will we run to?
It is time you start ignoring kids on this site.

This is part of why I am a strong advocate for setting up an Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation own by ALL the states in the SE and parts of SS. The company should develop all the mineral deposits in the SE and parts of SS to ensure world class environmental standards and best corporate practices.
It would also nullify cave mental rivalry and conflicts which undermine our unity, making it easier for foreigners to steal from us.

This idea is for GREAT/MATURE MINDS, not kids.  

Da infamous:
Otu ocha and agbaru people i don't think they will allow oil spill in their land,

I hope they don't allow any oil spill on their land because their land is arguably the most fertile land in Anambra state.
They have been feeding us with their yams and rice.

We Anambrarians will ensure that nobody pollutes our source of food for some demented mad rush to extract oil.

Now, I'm no longer rejoicing (not that I was anyway ) because I can see that some of my brothers lack common sense and always insult one another for silly things.

This oil will not be different from any other business in Anambra state. IT IS PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED.

If you ask me, it would not be different from Innoson, or Anamco or any other big Igbo dominated coporation.

All these noise making will not change anything.

My own is let the company not pollute Otu Ocha, the food basket of Anambra state.
I cannot emphasize this enough.

I eat yams from that place. I don't eat oil.  

igbo boy:
biko make una keep am private o, No FG/NNPC, no SHELL, CHEVRON, (no wetern oil company period, their track record in the SS is nothing to write home about).

Even Chinese sef (dem go bring worker for mainland china and go refuse train the local, dem go import all tools, dem go write manual for chinese so when time come for repair u no go sabi do am). If anything bring S.African or latin AMerican oil firms with expertise but with serious oversight.

Abokis are very cunning o. dem go say make una pay tax on that oil, gbam dem don get slice, the best thing na federalism for each region

Frankly I did not understand why they had to register Orient Petroleum until now.
Umu Igbo di egwu o.
Don't worry bros; anyi ma etu esi ekwe onya usu (we know how to lay traps for bats -a highly "technical" feat! )   

igbo boy:

SMH, Why are my people in the SE trying to behave like us in the SS?
I have always respected igbos in the SE when it comes to hardwork, all my relative from my moms side in Rivers are the laziest set of beings i have seen,  All claiming son of the soil to extort money or take one form of govt assistance,

Now igbos in the SE are rejoicing cos of oil. mtscheew. For delta state i no dey see dividend of oil for my hometown mancha,

DOnt you know at the end of the day federal govt go collect 60% and they will start using the money to sponsor silly things like sharia bank, hajj, 100million naira donation to sharia states that were attacked by boko haram (just like sanusi did),

Biko my people no dey put hope for the oil cos u go dey disappointed, The bitter truth is that no be you get am na ABoki.

Bros don't worry, nobody is losing sleep over this. Our state governor has been promising something, and his support helped to make this happen.
We Anambra folks are not that type that go crazy because of oil.
My concern (and I'm sure others would concur) is the ENVIRONMENTAL impacts. Of course we want to see it reflect on the economy of the state, eg support the industrial growth of the state. What I'm really happy about is that this is a PRIVATE venture effort, and so the model can be replicated in other parts of Igboland for the benefit of our people and other Nigerians. Aboki won't near this one lai lai.  

merengue:
PRAYER FOR MY ANAMBRA PEOPLE:

May the discovery be a blessing and not a curse.
May you go the way of Qatar and not the way of my people (Niger-Delta)
May the useless things called politicians and traditional rulers not siphon the money for marrying wives, buying streets in London and shopping without sense.
May the discovery not blind you to opportunities for development outside the crude oil.
May the curse of crude oil which has made brothers rise up against brothers stay away from you.
May the blood sucking vampires called Oil companies actually partner with you to help develop your land and not turn your environment into a barren wasteland.
May the crude oil not make you lazy , dishonest, badly educated and greedy like my Ijaw brothers.
May the discovery of crude oil not destroy your farmlands, rivers and culture.

I SAY AMEN ON YOUR BEHALF.

My brother thank you for your prayers o because we will need it!

At this time I need to restate the fact that Anambra Igbo are not the lazy type, and no matter the amount of oil there, it will NEVER stop them from working hard and minding their own individual business. My people are natural hustlers and they are always busy hustling.
This oil thing will only attract their attention if it starts destroying the environment.