₦airaland Forum

Nchara:
Enugu is the 4th poorest state in Igboland, yet her people can obviously afford to buy from the MALL (otherwise investors won't invest there). You can imagine when the Govts of Abia, Anambra and Imo-states whose average inhabitants are wealthier than those in Enugu - will wake up to similar strides?

Owerri guys will show true class here.

I was wondering why I was so happy on reading this news, until I read the bolded part above.
Thanks!

I always say that the economic future of Nigeria is in Eastern Nigeria. No doubt at all.
Nuff said.

Beaf:
Nice one indeed! Congrats to Chinedu Uzoma Amaefula! we don kolobi anoda bruv! Pop sontin!
Lovely!

. . .But, am I the only one seeing the screaming contradiction? Landon Jones got renamed to Chinedu Uzoma Amaefula by  Chief Theo Egbujor, the Eze Udo I (King of peace) of the Igbo community in Nashville! Damn! How the phuck did Chief "Theo" not rename himself?
The time has come for us to begin to take pride in what is ours. Our names, our cultures and our abilities; people, please cease and desist from naming your kids "Theo," Bartholomew, Nebuchadnezzar, Marcelinus, Rabiu, Ismail and other names that are meaningless to our culture and are trademarks of mental slavery and low-self-esteem.

Let us all be Chinedu Uzoma Amaefula's!

Endorsed!

Now, I am a very very very very happy man! Damn!
Enugu is coming back to life big time!

PROUD-IGBO:
Bia, if Imo State is signing agreements with Nigerian Gas Company or anyone else for that matter, they should go with the smartest and craftiest of Lawyers so they're not shortchanged. It's been known that there's huge gas reserves in Imo and Anambra for decades and we're still talking of plans with nothing yet set in stone . Meanwhile poor Imo youths/graduates are roaming the streets searching for jobs that just aren't there. I guess that's the price you pay for being in a warped federation where each constituting unit isn't allowed to develop at its own pace and use resources found within its borders primarily for the good of its people: everything first has to go to a federation account and then you get a bit back (with 13% jara if you're lucky, which you had better be grateful for).

Sometimes i feel i'm the only one in a hurry to see the South East soar to greater heights economically . Our representatives in the legislature, some of our Governors and our Elite don't seem to be in much of a hurry as i would want them to be .

The future of Eastern Nigeria is really in the hands of our youths. We saw the display of that youth power when Imo youths rose up to ensure that PDP did not rig Imo guber polls. Most of our parents are very corrupt and have sold their souls to the Nigerian system, including some of those who witnessed the civil war. I guess they feel that they did their best already, so we must do ours too. We must vow to take a different direction, else nothing would change.

We should begin by joining ONE party that shares our vision for the future. If Igbo youths join APGA now, they can make a big dent on this problem. I have some other thoughts toward the PDP (as a second option), but I would only share it via email with my council members. When we reach a consensus on it, we shall bring it out here for critiquing.

I would share my thoughts why NUT is running like a chicken with head cut off on this issue.

Public school system in Nigeria is a cesspit of mediocrity and corruption, with so many half baked teachers and ghost worker teachers who collect salary while running their private businesses. Under the churches, all these would stop!
The churches would ask some tough questions of these "teachers" and punish culprits.
So teachers are trying to stop it.
Well, Peter Obi is a very stubborn man, so I wish them good luck on that. A camel would pass through the eye of the needle first before Obi pays them any attention.

CyberG:
[b]Why does Okija present facts to your challenge and all you do is insist he is not from Igbo? Next, you start an abuse and he responds in kind, yet the only argument you have is that he is not Igbo? [/b]I have many friends in real life and none of them is anything like the Igbos on NL.

I know most of you are little kids who only heard a little story about the war and cannot think, read or understand the history of Nigeria. It has been established that virtually no NL saw the war (except liars as the poll was taken after over a couple of hundred views). In essence, read and understand the history of the war from a neutral perspective to understand what really happened. It is because most of you have no clue that you seem to be doing exactly most of the things that caused the pogrom and war some which include: empty boasting, arrogance, know it all, inferiority-superiority complex, dishonesty, tribalism, ethnocentrism, etc, etc.

You Nigerians have a big problem with honesty. That sickness has polluted everyone and everything in Nigeria.
You conveniently turned a blind eye to my own argument, challenging his theory of secession = declaration of war.
He conveniently listed only the countries that experienced breakup through war or conflict; what about other countries that broke up peacefully, like the old Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia? I decided not to list the countries that divided peacefully because it would not stop your friend continuing with his main mission, which is to insult, curse and mock Ojukwu even before his burial. He also wanted Ojukwu to die in the war, forgetting that if Ojukwu died in that war, peace would have been impossible, whether Igbos were defeated or not!

I challenge you to show me any other Easterner here (never mind Igbo even) that harbors that level of hatred for Ojukwu. The only people I know here with such hatred are Northerners and Yoruba people.
FACT.

Your dishonesty (like Nigeria itself) is why nothing works in Nigeria.You pretend as if you are detribalised, but are far worse than those who speak out their true feelings. You pretend as if tribe is not a factor in the civil war, but even your fellow Yoruba commander Adekunle boasted that when he got to "Ibo heartland, we shoot at things that don't move".

About Igbos that you see on daily basis, they are also like the Yoruba that I see on daily basis too! Nobody would say his true feelings to your face. That is the only thing unique about this forum -it gives some anonymity to commentators, thereby allowing them to say their minds freely. So, don't come here preaching to the choir; we know the truth!

If this topic wasn't about the man who would go down in history as the FIRST man in Nigeria to lead a war of secession which was launched to save his people from mass murder, then tribe would not be a factor at all.

The underlying issue of this topic is tribe, that is why some "fellow Nigerians" have been itching for almost 30 years to change the name of "University of Nigeria" to something else. Obviously Igboland ,to such people, is undeserving of a school by such name.
Please take your "righteous anger" elsewhere!

Posted by: Abagworo

Orlu — THE Imo State Commissioner for Petroleum & Environment, Chief Steve Ahaneku has said that[b] the State has gas reserve in excess of 7.8 trillion SCF[/b], which he disclosed are deposited in Oguta, Ohaji/Egbema, parts of Izombe, Owerri Municipal and other areas of the State.

That gas deposit is greater than those of many countries. We ain't doing bad afterall. To God be the glory.
The glorious days of Igboland is still ahead!
We shall get there site n'ike nke chineke! 

I thank you all umunne m  for all your good wishes and blessings! May God bless you all too! 

Please let us meditate on our motto going into the new year:

Igwe bu ike!

Umunna bu ike!

United we stand!


To achieve them, we must dethrone love of money as the dominant value system in our land. Not that money is useless, obviously not! lol, but we need to put our human and brotherhood considerations ahead of any material consideration.

I say this because love of money brings along ALL TYPES OF EVIL; you name it: selfishness, ultra-individualism, deceit, greed, cowardice, envy, avarice, lack of conscience, Godless lifestyle and many others.
All Nigerians are suffering from these same ills, so no one should single Ndigbo out; but if we want to reclaim our God given destiny, we must fight these to a standstill!
If we do these, believe me my brothers and sisters, we would be unstoppable in Nigeria.

It is not an easy task to undertake, but I believe that not trying at all guarantees failure!

We must try 

pazienza:
okija juju is ndu chuks, let no one be deceived,the guy is good in igbo,he is a fulani man that had probably lived in igboland,ndu chuks once claimed to be from abriba.

I strongly suspect so too because both characters are strong advocates that Igbos should leave the North and return to the East, but they are (strangely) bitterly opposed to anything secession or division of Nigeria; almost an oxymoron logic.
I have a gift for reading characters (if I'm really interested). However, ndu_chucks hates long posts. That is the only clear difference between them so far. I'm still studying them.

My brothers and sisters Niseamaka, olyivy, ak47mann and houvest you have shown the true mettle of true Igbo and Eastern sons and daughters. Oka chara acha, eji anya ama ya!   

@Niseamaka, I would implement your advice against Okija_juju. I would ignore his rants henceforth, provided you Igbo sons and daughters always rise to put him thoroughly to his confused corner of Nigeria.

Igbo si na onye gbara nkiti, kwere ekwe! (if you don't seriously challenge him, his warped and dubious version of history becomes the accepted version). So, never let him get away each time he lies here.
Thanks in advance. 

@Topic

Obviously someone in the North thinks that the East does not deserve to keep the name University of Nigeria.
Why not change it to University of Biafra? Believe me, we would jump up in jubilation. 

So, in essence, whoever conceived this invidious idea wanted to do two things:

1. Degrade Ojukwu

2. Remove the name "Nigeria" from the university at Nsukka

Why not them just carve us out of Nigeria? I wonder how long this self deceit would continue.

Pukkah:
I like this.  It shows that you know what you want as a person.  But I was surprised to read from the same people who kicked against naming UNN after him only to point to another institution which they think should be named after him. Does it mean that the sentiment they have for Ojukwu is weaker than that which they have for the retaining of UNN's name?

Honestly, the issues are separate. Firstly, it is almost obtuse to name a university after a man whose main life achievement was to lead a freedom war. He was a soldier and not academician. If anyone really wanted to rename that school to an Igbo, they should find an academician like Chinua Achebe or someone along that line.

The second issue is that this school is really the most prestigious federal university in the East (maybe due to its age), and the East is complaining about little or no federal presence there. If you remove that name, the East could as well become a separate country because there is nothing left there.
If you carve out the East now and name it Biafra, that school would become the university of Biafra, still not named after Ojukwu.

Ojukwu's status as a tested war man would be degraded by naming a school after him, unless the school is a military school.

I just laid out the underlying issues.

I really think they should change that University to University of Nsukka, and build a so called "University of Nigeria Abuja" so that we can all rest. We are not Nigerians anyway. They have been itching to do so for many years.
Ojukwu would roll over in his grave if anyone tagged him with another man's name.

They should not name anything after Ojukwu.
We will build a befitting memorial and tower for him.
That is what Ojukwu would have loved, and that is what he deserves. He was no academician. He was a soldier.
Soldiers are remembered with monuments and statues, not schools.

If they insist on putting a Nigerian tag on him, then they should name the 82 division of the Nigerian army in Enugu after him.

ZE:
i still insist that the true paternity of this so called okija_juju guy be checked.

her mother played away match with one dirty aboki nama

He is clearly not Igbo. lol
As of this past weekend, he was still writing "qua" in place of "kwa" in Igbo, until I busted him and taught him how.
No Igbo would ever write "qua" for "kwa" even at primary school.
He thinks we are dumb like him. 

Okija_juju,

You keep claiming that you have read books about things that precipitated the civil war, but you fail woefully to show us how Ojukwu started the civil war. Only mentally deranged humans would buy your theory of secession =declaration of war.
Let me ask you, if Hausa/Fulani secedes from Nigeria today, would you fight them?
If Yoruba secedes, would you fight them, even if all Nigeria's oil is there?
I know for a fact that you won't! So, your theory fails on arrival.

However, that is besides the point really. The point is that anyone familiar with Igbo people's mindset, someone with eyes to the ground, can smell from very far that YOU ARE NOT IGBO.
We Igbo are very sane and are NEVER devilishly bitter even against our enemies, not to talk of a man who you admit did some things right at the beginning of the crisis in 1966.
So, just because according to your own false and warped history which no history books corroborate, he failed to die at the war front, you harbor this devilish bitterness against the same man you praised for some things he did right? Even to the point of dancing on his corpse before his burial?  
Take a look at this whole Nairaland; out of thousands of Igbos on this forum, how come it is ONLY YOU that harbor this level of bitterness against Ojukwu?
In Igboland, we say that a man who thinks that ALL his kinsmen are mad, that his own madness is worst!
If you are from ANY part of Igboland, you would understand this simple Igbo belief.

YOU SEE HOW IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT IGBO?  

What still baffles me is why folks are going about on this site claiming to be Igbo when they are not.
How many Igbos have you seen pretending to be any other tribe than Igbo?
One of these days, you will bleat this nonsense to the face of an Igbo guy who would gladly put you out of your misery.

Gradually, a consensus is emerging in Nigeria. It is always inevitable anyway. The problem for some time (and probably for ever) is the"how to redraw the map". Unfortunately for us, oyibo is not in Nigeria. They are good at facing and solving tough problems. We shall see. The UN may have to do it for us eventually if things continue along this line.

Jarus:
My co-Mod has issued official statement which I co-signed.

In my private capacity, I however congratulate the newly elected Eze Ndigbo Online Nigeria Gburugburu, Onlytruth, on his deserved emergence [/b]as the the leader of the most business-minded Nation and most most money-conscious people in the world.

[b]Congrats man!

Thank you Jarus the Mod.
Your support and well wishes are highly appreciated.
I wouldn't say we are "the most money-conscious people" though, even in Nigeria. I believe we have allowed foreign ethos to corrupt ours. It was not this bad in Igboland even before the war. The civil war almost destroyed us completely. We still limp in so many ways because of that war.

It would be presumptuous of me to assume I can change things overnight, but I will damn well try!

chosen04:
So when and where exactly will the staff-of-office be presented?

The tenure of the Eze Igbo begins on January 1, 2012 and ends on December 31, 2012.
The staff of office has been subsumed in the electoral process if I'm not mistaken.
The Eze simply starts work on new year.

BTW Chosen04, how is "Biafra" Guatemala? Are you really there?

BTW I believe that MASSOB is the strongest political party in the SE now. 
My definition of "party" is not the one Nigerians are used to, but a grassroots movement.
They were instrumental to APGA's first rise in the SE, before our governors started to be stoopid.
I don't like making comparisons, but both Boko Haram and OPC are getting tacit support from top politicians in North and SW.
It is time for MASSOB to get same support from our politicians. I don't even think our politicians have any choice about that, because MASSOB is growing and soon if the politicians don't embrace it, they would be toppled by the masses in SE. MASSOB is not disappearing anytime soon.
SE may even be the place for a revolution to begin in Nigeria.

noblezone:
We can honour Ojukwu by actualising him dream of Biafra: the "Japan of Africa".
Even if the Biafra of territories is delaying, we can start of with the Biafra of the mind whcih has no limits or boundries. Let us honour Ojukwu by pursuing "Made in Aba", "Made in Nnewi" etc. until someday when we can have the liberty to stamp "Made in Biafra".

We have stagnated enough.

I totally agree with all the bolded.
However, I still believe that a strong Igbo-led political party is perhaps the fastest way for us to push for whatever we want, whether to remain in Nigeria (certainly as one of the biggest stakeholders as God designed it) or secede successfully.
I don't want us to repeat the same mistake of not having a solid grounded political movement before we embark on any major moves in Nigeria.
I personally believe that PDP is almost anti-Igbo dreams and aspirations including possible secession.
It is a "come and eat" party with no known ideology. Sad but true.

As soon as the Ikemba is buried, we should move to APGA, his party in his honor.
Let us put our political stakes in his party, the party he led and urged us to join.
If we love Ikemba, we should show that love by joining APGA en mass.

Let us do this in his honor.

One_Naira:
Only_truth it shall be well with you eeh, congratulations on your win. It was fun while it lasted.

It was so much fun!
Thanks! Please let us join hands in shaping our destiny.

@Rhino.5dm

Did you manage to find out his political party?
I bet you he is in one of the so called National parties. lol

Rhino.5dm:
The truth is now hunting you guys. It is known fact that, every political ideology/intrest should come under single plartform to achieve the desire goals and produce the desire force to be reckon with.

Just yesterday, i was chatting politics with my Igbo friend and he very was adamant to audacious conclude that the individualistic factor/strenght of Ndigbo shall cease when they are in a  collective movement. [/b]That they can never have a single leader.
[b]He went ahead to tell me that Igbos are too intelligent to come under single agreement or Igwe.

The man is free to say what he wanted; he was wrong though. lol   
The only time Ndigbo acted in a way that earned them respect in Nigeria was before and during the civil war.
It is a no brainer.
Division can never lead to strength.

When I read this, I started laughing, and actually did so for some time. I don't know why I was laughing.

[size=16pt]Nigeria plans design, launch of own satellites[/size]

Wednesday, 14 December 2011 00:00 By Chukwuma Muanya, Abuja News - National

WITH the support of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) United States, Nigeria is planning to locally design and launch its own satellites by 2025.

Director General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr. Seidu Mohammed, yesterday at the national space dialogue and national media conference noted that Nigeria is located within the equatorial region and the country’s geostationary orbit is more energy-efficient, making it cheaper to launch satellites from its region than launch missions originating from non-equatorial planes.

Mohammed said: “A major focus of this year’s space dialogue is the discussion on the benefits of launch capability in Nigeria. A major consensus is that Nigeria is located within the equatorial region and remains the leading space agency within the African region. Our location in the equatorial region has naturally endowed us with certain space resources peculiar to the region.

“The agency is strongly planning towards the development of launch capability in Nigeria. We hope to be able to launch our own locally designed satellite from our centre here by 2025. We are already building a centre where all the technical materials needed would be developed, but that is being hampered by shortfall in funding.”

According to him, 2011 has been a very progressive year for the agency, culminating in the successful launch of two earth observation satellites, NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X.

“This stride has placed Nigeria among the countries in the world with high resolution satellite capability. In addition, the agency is strategising to provide space-based geo-information services to Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in line with the directive of Mr. President,” he said.

The NASRDA boss said its plans had been acknowledged by colleagues from NASA, ESA, Japanese Space Agency, Chinese Space Community, and members of the disaster monitoring constellation. NASRDA, according to Mohammed, is planning to double the capacity of providing telecommunication services by commencing the development of two additional communication satellites in the next two years.

To address the funding gap and maximise the benefit of science and technology towards national development, a senate panel has called for the setting aside of one per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for science and technology.

Chairman Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Prof. Robert Ajayi Boroffice, said: “We want to use science and technology to drive the economy. To do that, I recommend that one per cent of the country’s GDP is set aside. Countries in Europe and the United States set aside between 2.4 and 2.8 per cent of their GDP for science and technology.”

President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Chief Alade Ajibola, said Nigeria could successfully design and launch its own satellite by 2025.

“In future, a lot is going to be done in Nigeria until one day we will be able to design and launch our own satellite. We can build and launch our own locally made satellite. We need to take advantage of what is happening today. We are at the future by training our own engineers to begin to fit into the programme. NigSatX is a unique situation, it a very good example of a Nigerian content because it was built by Nigeria engineers.”

A Nigerian professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, United States, Prof. Leo Daniel, in his presentation at the conference titled “Satellite launch vehicle development and economic possibilities in Nigeria” said: “Nigeria can easily launch a satellite with a space launch vehicle because we are closer to the equator. So we can launch our vehicle very cheaply. It could be done, what we need to do is to integrate all our activities by 2025 and start to think we can be able to build a typical launch vehicle.

NASRDA has set a new date for the launch of the Nigeria communication satellite (NigcomSat-1) that was de-orbited on November 11, 2008. The replacement satellite called NigComSat-1R will now be launched on December 19, 2011 in China.   Mohammed said the satellite has been enhanced to better serve Nigeria and the entire Africa continent at no extra cost.

Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon, said: “As a nation endowed with enormous human and material resources, which must be harnessed with all the urgency therein, there is no better time than now for all of us to come together as partners in progress with the aim of articulating and charting a new course, which is capable of translating our collective wishes, dreams and aspirations into reality through the instrumentality of science and technology.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70756:nigeria-plans-design-launch-of-own-satellites&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Rossikk:
What I can't stand is when they build these roads and fail to add sidewalks plus covered drainage, like every other civilized place in the world.

lol, They don't even bother to mark the roads properly!

What is with Nigeria and black and white road marks?
Why is our traffic marks so drab and uninspiring?

How hard can it be to MARK THE ROADS PROPERLY?

CyberG:
^^ Nuture and grow tribalism more and more on one hand and claim to be taking it down on the other.

I am not nurturing tribalism.
I am nurturing realism.

We are the only majority zone in Nigeria without any serious federal presence.
We don't even have a functional international airport!
Meanwhile we've been in PDP for 12 whopping years!
What do we have to show for it?

Why are we always the last in PDP's consideration?

Why is no one taking Ndigbo seriously in Nigeria?

As the year 2015 approaches, I know that some of our people will be transfixed on an Igbo president under PDP.
The PDP might even pull a fast one and give it to us, but I am looking FAR beyond 2015.
Not that an Igbo president would be totally bad for us, however, it may delay our political emancipation.

Just my thoughts.

Please if you have any opposition to my position here, don't hesitate to state it here, or send me an email
at:

ezendigbo_nl@ hushmail.com

I would like all members of my council to register for an email address with hushmail.com.
It is an anonymous email provider, so we can have privacy.
One of the greatest challenges of our time is that we don't know who the enemy is, but anyi agaghi eji mgbagbu wee ghara ogu!
God will protect his people always, AMEN!

NRI PRIEST:
I, Nri High Priest the mouth piece of the Gods and our ancestors want to use this venue to state that i have humbly accepted the post EZEIGBO has given to me. I am not sure most of us have any idea what this exalted post entails,well,i will leave  that for another day. But I am ready to serve my KING and all ndigbo on nairaland with truth,faithfulness and dignity!
I want to also use this opportunity to call on the merciful Gods of the marvelous ANAIGBO to bless the EZEIGBO with wisdom,to bless him with people who will listen to his opinion and respect it and accept it without questioning his judgement and to bless him with captivating,enchanting and humble words. May your reign bring cohesion,love,understanding,peace,progress and unity amongst Ndigbo on nairaland.
KA IFE DI UKWU GHALU IKO NA OBI ISI WEE PUTA,  I HAIL THEE IKENGA ANAEDO, OONU NNEWI SII EDO NWELU NKWOR!!
ORINMILI NA IDENMILI IS THE NAME I SHALL CALL MY EZE!!! MAY OUR GODS STREGHTEN THEE IN EVERYTHING YOU DO!!!

Welcome on board the great Eze mmuo umu Igbo Nairaland.
May the God of heaven open your eyes clearly on daily bases to enable you guide us spiritually. Amen!
Pease use the email to contact me when you can, and let me know here.
Thanks for your service, and may you be blessed as you bless Ndigbo!

houvest:
Eze( Elect) OnlyTruth biri kwa o. I join in sending my heartfelt congratulations and wish you a beautiful and successful reign and in the pursuit of your vision of a resurgent Igbo Nation.

Folks may take this AS A JOKE BUT I DEFINITELY DO NOT. [b]We must make efforts to get our ideas, visions, decisions etc down to Ohaneze, WIC, MASSOB, SE Governors and stakeholders. [/b]We must join in discouraging internal betrayals, sabotage and efuleful ism in Igboland especially as the 2015 Igbo presidency project beckons. We should be in the vanguard for this and rally other online forums like the village sqaure. The Boko Haram and fulani cattle herdsmen issues demand an Igbo militant body even if it is just a defensive one. We cant fold our hands till push gets to shove before we start running around. Dear Eze- elect, I hope that these and other issues I will share via the new email will receive urgent attention from you.

Finally Eze-elect, Please do look into the idea of getting NL Igbo physically rallied not just online. I know your role has been restricted to an online leadership but I think we need more than that wrt the things facing us today. Of course it will be completely optional for those who want to be involved. But if this proposal is accepted, liason officers for different regions will be needed. Thank you and God Speed. We need it.

Thank you my brother. May God bless you!
The bolded is my mission. Please make you of the email provided to contact me directly for ideas.

We have no choice than to take our destiny on our own hands. Nigeria is rapidly hatching. We don't know what it will hatch out, but woe betide any group that is caught unawares!