₦airaland Forum

Negro_Ntns
My friend sharap dia!

Only a living man makes a living. A dead man is dead.

Nna Obiagu1, I am with Ezeuche on this one!
I honestly don't see how anyone could justify the death of ONE individual just because the place is "virgin". lol
Virgin of death!

Igbo please go home and develop your lands!
If those of you living in the North don't value your lives, please remember that your death casts us as people desperate for money. Since 1945 you have been killed, with or without other Southerners.
There is a new city in Anambra state called "Anam city". The government is developing it. IT IS VIRGIN.
Go there!
Don't keep telling the same story for 65 years.

Posted by: ndu_chucks

nwannem, I am tempted to question your brightness o. Apparently you are ignorant of the fact that you could have elected to recite the Oath which does not include the bit about renouncing your Nigerian citizenship.  That to me is carelessness to say the least. Your newfound emotional states is dumbfounding - I may need to grab you by your Ojukwu look alike bear bear and biatch slap you back to reality. olodo.

I don't understand your beef at all, were you born in the east? If so how in the world did I make your life hell - what da heck are you on about?

chei   there is nothing Onlytruth won't hear in Nairaland!

So, you (an avowed mass murderer whose region is killing my people as we speak) is now questioning the decision of a survivor like myself to pitch his love and loyalty with his adopted country?
Nna this conversation is over. Take my advice and stop making a fool of yourself.

Posted by: Aigbofa

Not only Lagos, but the entire SW. But, let us not be too hard on our forlorn friends from the SE. May God forgive them for they know not who their real enemies are.

@bolded, Lagos is it for most of the professionals, but not the business men among them.
Historically most of the Igbo returnees from the North end up in Igboland and NEVER leave. I've met many of them before. The only Igbo who may head to Lagos (not SW) are mainly professionals; eg lawyers etc (which is good for you but bad for us). This is time for leadership in the East. Our governors must find a way to keep them in the East.
This is really a great opportunity to change our demographic distribution in Nigeria.
Rochas, Chime and Peter Obi should use this opportunity to develop new towns.

Posted by: ndu_chucks

Contrary to what you may believe, I actually think that the idea that dual citizens should be prevented from contesting for political offices in Nigeria is dumb.

What I find objectionable is the idea of giving a naturalized US citizen like you, who carelessly took the said oath, the right to run for office and potentially rule the same country, who’s citizenship he/she has renounced under oath, in a court of law in the USA.

Stop claiming to be an American - you are a bloody unrepentant Abriba Biafran at heart.

@bolded
I am deeply offended and insulted by your idiotic conjectures.
You ( a desert rat who made my life HELL in the land of my birth) is not in any position to question where my heart lies. To insult the USA -a land that has given me much much more than your murderous land- deeply offends me.

Watch your steps aboki! You are WAY out of line now.

Posted by: ndu_chucks

nwannem, kedu kordi? How body na?

I hope you are bright enough to understand that the supreme court has the final say on the interpretation of our constitution. I believe violent implicitly agrees that the supreme court will clarify soon enough, whether your renunciation of Nigerian citizenship(olodo, I know you took the said oath) has rendered you a foreigner in your father's land.

violent is not a childish unrepentant abriba biafran like you. Learn from the exchange of views we've had on this thread. Now run along and return to the hole from which you crawled out. By the way, Okwute Egyptians piafuka gi isi along the way. dan iska

Yaya aiki megida?
You know that I am a VERY PROUD American.
About Naija citizenship, the Biafran question has not been answered to my satisfaction yet, so grab a cool aid.
Always remember that the world is not a zero sum game.
Smart countries know that they can share smart people with just one other country.
So, work hard and fix naija up to attract me back, else, I would advise you to shove your citizenship where the sun never shines. The burden is on YOU. dan banza.

If I were a governor in the East, I would start thinking of ways to punitively tax Igbos living in the North.
I would invent a way to tax their assets in the East. The reason is that anytime they run back home, they create a refugee situation and disturb the social harmony in the East, forcing the state governments to spend more money. Soon they'll go into crime to survive and the rest of us would have to live with it. That tax would then be used to resettle them. Anyone living in troubled parts of Nigeria should be taxed in the East. If they don't want to pay the tax, they should stay home, or move to the North permanently.

I think it is time we start punishing our people living in the North if they must always run back to us in times of trouble. They are (by their own confession) developing other areas, but they expect us to accommodate them when they suffer the consequence of their own poor choice. If they succeed, they never come back, but when they fail, they run home.
If they must develop other areas, they should die there too.

Posted by: greateros

Ben Murray was on the brinks when stella obasanjo rescued him with a juicy appointment as the Director of NTA - He recouped after that appointment.

His outfit Silverbird has been organizing beauty pageants in Nigeria long before Stella Obasanjo showed up.
I started noticing him from 1990.

What about Ben Murray Bruce?

@violent
You taught ndu_chucks some serious lessons in LAW. Thanks bro.

Posted by: ezeagu

Oh, so they actually know that they are developing other peoples lands for them. Chai, I've never seen such a group in my life like Igbo people.

My brother you know what they say about "Igbo anaghi agba oso mmiri karia mgbe mmiri mazuru ha aru".
Notice they are sending their families home first.
I hope they stay back and fight first before leaving for good.

All these are adding to the realization of the 2015 emancipation timeline.
We are waiting hopefully.

Posted by: Rhino.5dm

[b]Those states UP there are mostly middle belt. [/b]You called them Hausa/Fulani when it suit your agenda. But when you are riding on Biafrain ghost, you wont mind "snatching" them over from "core-north", afteral they are Igbos.

Another mark of double face greedy arze.

We know who has been killing people in the North. It is NOT the Northern minorities.
The same people are killing Northern minorities too.
Luckily for us, the same killers have more of their own people in the East than the Northern minorities.
We know them.

Now that they have left their investments back in the North to be inherited by Northerners, I expect them to shake the hands of Northerners in the East, congratulate them, and give them cold beer to chill and do business in the East.
I'm laughing so hard.

Insecurity: Igbo flee North en-masse

By TONY EDIKE

ENUGU—IGBO living in some Northern states where many Christians had been attacked by members of the Boko Haram sect are now returning en-masse to their home-states, abandoning most of their belongings.

The returnees, who have been trooping home since the past few weeks, said they were residing in Plateau, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Niger and Borno states where they had lived and conducted their businesses for decades.

They added that they were forced to return to their native-states because of incessant violent attacks on their businesses and families by the Boko Haram sect.

Vanguard encountered some of the returnees, mostly women and children, at the Ninth Mile Corner Motor park, yesterday, while trying to board vehicles to their respective homes.

A native of Umuoji in Anambra State, Mr. Lawrence Okeke, who had resided in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital, where he sold vehicle spare parts for several years, said he decided to evacuate his family to his home-state following the state of insecurity in Lafia.

He said having suffered huge losses in the last sectarian violence, which he was yet to recover from, it would be fool- hardy for him to remain there, hence his decision to evacuate his family to his home-town.

He said: ”I have been a trader in Lafia for several years and we have lived peacefully in the town until the last sectarian violence which rendered many of us homeless. We decided to stay back, but threats of fresh violence have continued.

”Most Igbo in that town have been evacuating their families back home. Some with strong investments there decided to stay back but having lost my trade, it will be unwise for me to remain in the North,” Okeke said.

Another returnee from Jos, Chief Ikechukwu Obalum, from Aguleri, Anambra State, told Vanguard that he brought his wife and four children home because of increasing insecurity in the city.

Obalum said: ”I will return to Jos to continue with my business there, but my family members will never return to the North.”

He  added that although he was aware of the risk involved in doing business in the northern states, he could not start life afresh in his home state.

A mother of four from Nkanu area of Enugu State, Mrs. Kate Ejiofor, who left her Suleja residence recently for Enugu following serial   bomb blasts in the town, said  many easterners in Nasarawa State have been moving back to their native-states because of insecurity of life and property.

An elderly man, from Imo State, Chief Boniface Nwosu, said he returned from Borno State after selling his building at a low price to enable him evacuate his family from the state he had lived for over 40 years because, the Boko Haram sect members had made life unbearable for residents of the state.

Nwosu said: ’’We have lived in constant fear for the last two years because of insecurity of life and property.

‘’These people burn down our churches at the slightest provocation, kill and main people at will.

’’Sometimes, one would even be thinking that this is no longer the Nigeria we knew before. The police are helpless in this matter because police stations are also bombed and their officers and men killed.

’’I have come home permanently and will never go back to the North to do business and develop the place again. Things cannot continue that way. It is hell living there,’’ he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/insecurity-igbo-flee-north-en-masse/

Posted by: PointB

You are just a naive young man

Don't mind that dude. He is desperate to force us to stay in his chaotic mess. So, he grasps at straws and forget that he is a strong minority in his own corner of Delta state. His people were never known for fighting for freedom.
He fears that Biafra or an Eastern nation may actually rise and succeed. So, he attacks our unity in the East. Desperate I tell you!

Even folks outside Nigeria are very bitter and angry at how things are back home.
A friend just returned from Nigeria and told stories of how she was almost killed in PH on her first day back from the US.She lost her junior brother plus $10,000 in the melee.

Now, imagine people living like that DAILY in Nigeria.
I would be shocked if nobody is planning a serious armed insurrection in Nigeria. Humans can never be accustomed to pain. Humans can't live with pain FOREVER. Sooner or later, they would lash out.

The only thing to prevent that is if Nigeria started to make sense to them. I don't think that is happening any time soon.

Posted by: Obiagu1

I think funding still comes from the government but the missions can obtain fund from Universal Basic Education Commission as well.

oh, ok thanks!

These were the same schools that produced all the great men in our land. I hope the churches remember how they did it. I believe they had a lot of "missionary" (foreign) help in those days; Anglican (help from England), Roman Catholic (help from Rome/Vatican). Some of their teachers were expatriate missionaries. So the education standards were quite high.
One school in my town (Okongwu Memorial Grammar School) produced almost all the professors and skilled professionals of highest repute from my town that I know of today. I was told it died a natural death after the government took over in 1970.

This is one of the reasons why I tell our people to vote APGA always. The idiotic decision to steal the schools from the churches was implemented in 1970! WHY? To force stoopid national ethos on the rest of us.

I say that any Igbo state governor that has not overturned post civil war impositions on Ndiigbo, has failed totally.

I have to also add that Anambra state should continue to fund/subsidize the schools, else the missions may be forced to impose school fees. We still need state government involvement in funding the schools (I hope they are not hoping to escape that through the back door).
They should hands off the rest!

Yoruba stole the party, hehehe!
Aboki woke up too late to find that when it comes to tribal or sectional politics, they are no match to the ofemmanus.
lmao.

Great move!
You see how APGA is able to do the will of the people of the state.
PDP would be more interested in pleasing Abuja, throwing our people's interest under the bus of Nigerian chaos.
Up APGA!

Posted by: alj_harem

when a country is not mature to do something, why should u force it ?

Two questions arise from your comment

(1) When would that country mature?

(2) Will it ever mature?

That we are still asking these questions after 51 years justifies those of us who think that we are wasting each others' time. Why not everyone go his way NOW.
Which sane human being would wait for infinity?

Posted by: alj_harem

Nwanne kedu!!
I have to put "but" there because in an ideal society, what Tinubu stated should be the case

NIGERIA IS NOT YET AN IDEA SOCIETY.

well I gave a senario for ndu-chuks and I hope you read it as well

That is how you people always put confusion in Nigeria and blame us for wanting out.
It is like saying you are marrying your wife on a "BUT" basis. If she is smart, she would leave you with your BUT before you mess her up.

Like I said, it is either you want unity -WARTS AND ALL- or you don't.
Here I stand.

Posted by: alj_harem

My friend, I am also with Tinubu on this BUT

My friend why do you always have BUTs with bold attempts at unity?
You either want it or you don't. There are no buts about it.

Posted by: Katsumoto

FYI, I have never stated where I am from. I may be Igbo for all you know.
But I guess if the Yoruba want me, then I am proud to be a honorary omo odua. Ewu nama

I am from Owu then. lol
Awon omo ole gaan.

Abu m onye Igbo kpom kwem!

Posted by: 9ja voice

@Katsumoto ,
  you are one of the people i respect here on NL, But sometimes i still blv that nl has changed your sense of justice.
Tell me how a supposed president of a country will write a letter without a stamp etc to officialize it.

be truthful to yourself.

Your respect is a misplaced and blind one because the individual in question is one of the most tribalistic Yoruba you would find on this forum. He never changed in the first place and NEVER pretends about it.
@Second bolded; HELL WILL FREEZE OVER FIRST before that happens!
His definition of truth is always bounded by his mission to justify betrayal and mass murder. Learn to live with him AS IS.