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Again I believe this would lead to the emergence of a new "tribe" in Nigeria called "Nigerian". How else would you qualify a child of a Hausaman who married an Igbo woman and they both live in say lagos?

Posted by: 9jaganja

You'll be surprise how quick everybody in Nigeria will become Yoruba!! Already the music culture is enjoying Yoruba language to the fullest, entertainment is the best tool of propaganda, By the time good good songs keep keep coming in Yoruba while movies made in Igbo will just simply be ignored lol!!! Sor foon won pe kowa ta si mi, What happened to Kwara? yea that's right they all speak Yoruba now even non Yorubas lol!, You and I know cultural genocide is bad!!!!
Even though I know Yorubas are at a huge advantage, I won't support any oppression of minorities!

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You think I care about that? I'm laughin' 

Posted by: okada_man

I agree with @9jaganja.

If you want to be Igbo or claim citizenship in any Igbo state, then you must worship Amadioha and other Alusi's

Without that, you are an efulefu, you are worse than Osu, you can never be governor.

Una no go kill me for hia walahi!

@topic,

IMO this is the greatest news out of Nigeria in a very long time.
I keep saying this; the problem with Nigeria is that those who chant "One Nigeria", who actually fought for it during the civil war, had no clue what they were fighting for.
The proposed amendment is the only way for that "One Nigeria" can work.
Anything else can never work. Moreover, this proposal makes common sense. Any strong culture would assimilate "settlers"; while weak ones would simply die off, and it is good.  I'm tired of having 250 languages in a nation with really about 7 - 10 cultural and language groups.

I think the Aworis should chase these thieving Yorubas back to their own part of SW. Enough of all these deceit.
They should ally with Igbo to contest under APGA in the next elections. We will vote for them.

Let me say what I have privately believed. As long as Nigeria continues to remain one, all offshore oil resources must continue to belong to the Federal Government. It makes simple sense.
The onshore ones are different because they are within clearly defined state and regional boundaries.
The Nigerian nation owns the offshore resources. PERIOD.

Posted by: ndu_chucks

@Onlytruth,[b] a better idea may be to freeze the status quo - by that I mean the feds continue to control all of the existing onshore oilfields because of the investments already made, contracts, and legal issues. All new exploration would then be carried out by the regions and the region controls 100% of all new finds. [/b]How about this idea?

Well, at least this demonstrates that you are proposing a forward looking solution. Well yes I totally agree with the bolded. Because of how complex things have become in Nigeria; no reasonable person would want to rush things. If the freeze would achieve a gradual (but clearly defined and timed) approach to eventual 100% onshore control, then fine by me.

hehehe! Tell us what we don't know already.

Yes, Yoruba leaders sold out –Gani Adams


By Victor Ebimomi
Sunday, August 07, 2011

National Coordinator of O’dua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, has warned that revelations by former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, on the alleged bribery scandal after the death of the presumed winner of June 12, 1993, presidential election, M.K.O Abiola, should not be dismissed with a wave of the hand.

He insisted there are elements of truth in Al-Mustapha’s claims based on what was experienced after MKO’s death. According to him, after Abiola’s death, those who were supposed to keep the fire burning against the then military regime of Abdusalami Abubakar suddenly played down the struggle,  He also explained that Yoruba people are known to demand for their rights but contrary to expectation after Abiola’s death those people became Abdusalami Abubakar’s friends.

“Mustapha’s statement is not a diversionary issue. There are some elements of truth in it, because we heard that some people connived to kill Abiola. “Besides, after Abiola’s death, they played down the struggle and suddenly became Abdusalam’s friends,” he said.

He added[b], “Why is it that instead of asking questions about their son that was killed, they were rushing to form political parties under the person that killed him, if there was nothing behind it?”[/b]

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/aug/07/national-07-08-2011-008.html

This is one of the few times I agree with ndu_chucks. All offshore resources should remain a jointly owned asset. Onshore resources should be a different thing. For me 100% resource control for onshore. 

There are few very interesting facts I want to share with Nigerians.
Nigeria never produced and branded a made in Nigeria computer until Leo Stan Ekeh (an Igbo son) made that happen. Today, Nigeria can boast of Zinox and the brand is almost everywhere now in Nigeria.
Nigeria never produced and branded a made in Nigeria car or vehicle until Innoson by Chukwuma showed up. Today Innoson is about to rescue the transportation sector.

In essense, today, if you find a made in Nigeria computer or car, there is a big chance that they are either of these two brands. Jealous folks would dismiss these as trivial. Some would say they merely assembled parts. My question is, why didn't ANYONE assemble those parts and brand them before Igbo sons did it? If they did, where are they today?

The fact remains that to move Nigeria forward, you need an Igboman. We are really the only folks in Nigeria with a can-do spirit to DARE move Nigeria forward.

The inevitable outcome of failure to entrust that job to us is to accept that Nigeria will DEFINITELY disintegrate very soon because the offsprings of lions don't chew grass. Y'all can choose to be donkeys or other grass chewing species. We are LIONS. We ain't chewing no goddamn grass.

All I have to say to these Yorubas is that they could not meet their quota in the army in 1960s, but Igbo produced MAJORITY of the officers in the Nigerian military. This fact alone says it all.
If not for the civil war which aboki won and used to suppress Igbo numbers in the military, we would still top the officers corp today.

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alj_harem

The only "President" of Igbo extraction was Ironsi, and he was there for barely 6 months and paid with his life. His ill-fated "presidency" was followed by the greatest mass murder in the history of Africa. So tell me, is that supposed to be counted as an "Igbo presidency"?

Posted by: Dede1

You beat me to the post. I sincerely believed the author was born after Nigeria/Biafra civil war and had become deluded with stinking presidency of Nigeria. I had accepted a teething Biafra over jaundice-jointed old hag called Nigeria that is capable of nothing.

My brothers are killing me with laughter eziokwu! hehe.

Posted by: Onlytruth

The only thing the international community needs to do for Igbo people now is to bring their airlines for Enugu international. The whole world knows what is going on in Nigeria, the whole world knows was has been done and what is being done to Igbo people. Many Igbo people have accepted Nigeria will never work and should continue with their 'siddon-look' attitude with a rifle in hand for 'that day'.

I agree my brother. My only regret is that we dropped the riffle in the first place. That was JUST WRONG.
The international flights can come to Enugu if we pressure our people and Igbo governors. They can pull the strings.

Posted by: DRlulu

stop posting all this rubbish here , if you want presidency campaign hard for it simple and short, the more you post these rubbish the more you look pathetic and unserious, stop disgracing igbo people. the average igbo man will slap you for belittling him by posting such .

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No my brother, the sensible ones won't.

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hehehe!

ezeagu my brother. The oke nkita ji isi anya oku 1 of Igboland.

I actually had you in mind when I posted this article.
Let's just say that this article is part of our blind investment in Nigeria. We are NOT begging anyone.
We are just making our case in front of the "international community". Nobody begs for his basic human rights anywhere in the world. World war 2 settled that.
Personally, I believe that Biafra lost the international support because our then leaders did not understand how outsiders (especially the powerful ones) saw our position. It may appear like begging, it ain't.

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My name is Onlytruth, and I endorse this message.

Ndigbo, Nigerians and 2015

Written by John Okiyi Kalu   
Saturday, 06 August 2011 10:25

Fellow Nigerians, Chief Obafemi Awolowo once said; "you cannot be a good Nigerian if you are not a good Yoruba man". I, John Okiyi Kalu, am Igbo and a good Nigerian. I love Nigeria because I also love Ndigbo. I love Africa. I will not shy away from saying the truth about an injustice that has persisted since Nigeria gained independence.The political conspiracy against Ndigbo in Nigeria is hurting me. For the simple reason that I am Igbo by
birth, I cannot aspire to be President of Nigeria. If I dare, my fellow compatriots will scream "secession".

Is it really true that Ndigbo want to secede from Nigeria? Will a people who want to secede invest in all parts of Nigeria? From Jega in Kebbi state to Oshogbo in Osun state; from Toro in Bauchi State down to the rough terrains of Otueke in Bayelsa state, Ndigbo have lived and continue to live and peacefully do business all over Nigeria. They have contributed to the development of those places.

They have also paid with their blood and properties for the sake of national unity.Let us face facts. Did Igbo’s ever go to war against Nigeria or was a war of self preservation imposed on them? Recently, a principal member of Chief Awolowo's kitchen cabinet confessed that Nzeogwu and his co-coupists actually planned to make Awo the president of Nigeria. Not Zik. Not Okpara. But Ndigbo were hunted and killed by their brothers and neighbors and forced to flee to the east for sanctuary.

Even at Aburi, they never asked for Biafra. They asked to be allowed to remain Nigerians and develop at their own pace, living side by side with their brothers from the North and West. Since the end of the civil war, they have made contributions to the peace, growth and development of Nigeria. They have performed whatever task the Nigerian nation assigned to them. They love Nigeria. I love Nigeria. They do not want secession. I do not want secession. They want to contribute to the growth of Nigeria. I want to do the same.In 1999, this country bent backwards to right the injustice wrong done to Abiola and the Yorubas.

‘To heal a festering national wound and correct the injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigerians supported the emergence of President Jonathan as the running mate of late President Yar’Adua in 2007. In 2015, I invite you to do your bit to re-integrate Igbos into Nigeria and put the ghost of the civil war permanently to bed. Give my children hope that one day they can excel in Nigeria and be judged by the quality of their brain output and the content of their character when they contest for the Presidency of Nigeria

Every Igbo man is hurting. Some can mask it and pretend there is nothing wrong. Others will show overt alignment with other Nigerian tribes in the hope of being accepted as a "true Nigerian". Many more will complain privately and dare not speak up for fear of being branded tribalists.I am a tribalist only to the extent that I was born in a Nigerian tribe. Just like you. You will be a negative tribalist if you fail to recognize that something is wrong with the Nigerian system that has effectively excluded the Igbo man from the Presidency. Right the injustice.I’m not the only one making this call. Other "nationalists" have made similar calls. Read them and take a stand. God bless you.

“The Nigerian Question is the Igbo Question because it is only the Igbo person that is found in every hamlet, in every cave, at every footpath, at every marketplace, on every river course or swamp in Nigeria, working very hard – often too hard – to make any environment he finds himself better. Hence, an Igbo man, women or child is affected by any problem or crisis anywhere in Nigeria. So, it would make a lot of sense – and Nigeria would be doing itself a world of good – if the burden of running Nigeria is placed on the head of an Igbo man or woman. He has everything to gain if Nigeria is well run; everything to lose, if it is badly run, ” (LAND OF THE RISEN SUN by Uche Ezechukwu)“

Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid,  They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things.

In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos.

Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.” - Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

“In 2015, I will love to see that an Igbo man becomes president of this country so that it will fully put an end to the civil war matter and fully integrate them into Nigeria. After the civil war, they need to completely feel like Nigerians.
''If we must make every one believe that he belongs to this country, then it is after an Igbo man has been given the opportunity of being president in 2015 to complete the programme of fighting for the unity of this country by General Gowon.” - General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida“We cannot show the end of the civil war if the South East is not supported to produce the president in 2015. We have to show to the world that even after a war, anyone from anywhere, from any religion or tribe can aspire to become President of Nigeria and I will do all I can to see that this happens.” - General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida"

I am committed in laying solid foundation in four years and will make sure that the dream of Ndigbo of becoming president in 2015 is actualized.” – General Muhammadu Buhari"The little credit recorded by Obasonjo's govt. came from the Igbos in his cabinet.They've succeeded in every sphere of life.

Why don't we allow them to govern this country"[b] Gani Fawehimi“Some 40 years after the civil war, it is about time that someone who is Igbo, one of Nigeria’s three largest ethnic groups, became President of Nigeria. This will be the boldest way to put the civil war behind us, It is in writing, it was widely publicised, and I want to be held to it.” Atiku Abubakar. [/b]Stand up for justice, equity and progress in Nigeria. Since our nation's independence, the office of the Head of State of Nigeria has been occupied thus number of years: NW: 15, NE: 6, NC: 18, SW: 11, SS: 1 (+4 in service), SE: Nigerians arise and correct this inequity! Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere…

http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7664:ndigbo-nigerians-and-2015&catid=25:politics&Itemid=92

But come to think of it, isn't it ironic that a natural born coward whose tribe could not meet its quota in the Nigerian military in the 60s could call another whose tribe made up majority of the officer corp of the Nigerian military, coward?
Simply idiotic logic. 

As for Yoruba officers fleeing their positions, we all know that the next highest ranking officer after Ironsi, in the Nigerian army (a Yoruba) fled and ran all the way to Britain and never came back.
The rest of your soldiers simply opened their nyash for aboki to f0rk.
Awo toyed with the idea of asking Northern troops to leave the west but coward down when the Northerners laughed him to scorn.

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You can believe whatever you want. Biafra (Eastern ) soldiers marched all the way to Ore, and was betrayed there by Banjo ( a Yoruba coward). I wonder what could have happened if that force was under an Igbo son. Your Gowon would have fled North.
Your Northern officers were "planning to march" on East, but couldn't do it without foreign help. We marched towards the seat of government in Lagos without that help.

As for Awo, let me tell you now. If the East was under someone who understood Yoruba mindset, your Awo would have been fed to the dogs and NOTHING would have happened. 

Posted by: Negro_Ntns

Onlytruth,

I read your original post. You have lost your daymn mind, proposing for a no go area on your land but you want to be on everyone else's land. You are everywhere on fulani territory but you want to restrict him in your territory. What a fool u are.

Every piece of land where you find Igbo people in Nigeria is paid for. They either own it, or they pay rent. Period.
I know say your people too like awuf, but please don't confuse the issues.

If they pay for grazing rights, I would give them my acres of land in Udi. If they don't and insist on grazing there, they'll likely meet my gun. No apologies about that.

At least we could have used that old bat as chip to whip the Yoruba in line.

Posted by: Negro_Ntns

Onlytruth,

So why did he not?

Ojukwu did not kill Awo because Ojukwu is not Yoruba; he is Igbo. We don't fight undeclared wars.

As at the time Awo was in jail, Easterners did not habor any ill feelings towards Yoruba; in fact Ojukwu called Awo papa.
You don't kill your "papa"; but alas, the "papa" ended up stabbing the "son" in the back in a typical Yoruba fashion.

I can almost assure you that some wise Easterners must have advised Ojukwu to the contrary about Awo (we don't lack guys like moi in Igboland ), but Ojukwu must have overruled them.
I'm sure that one of Ojukwu's greatest regret would be letting Awo leave the East unscathed.
This is a lesson in treachery that Ndigbo must never forget.

One more thing though: THE FULANI CATTLEMEN SHOULD PAY FOR GRAZING RIGHTS.
Nobody gives us free land anywhere; even Igbos don't get free land in Igboland. I don't know why these cattlemen should be using land for free. It doesn't happen anywhere else on earth.

Charging grazing fees would also help check their excesses within designated grazing lands.

Here is the thread again.

Enugu has just initiated it. Other SE states must follow suit. A stitch in time saves nine.

Now I'm convinced that government officials visit this site.
I remember launching a thread here about designating "no go areas" to herdsmen in Igboland.
I think this is the politically correct way of doing it.
Great job.
I hope other SE governors follow suit.

Calabar was under the Eastern Nigerian government. It only came under Gowons control after it was invaded and captured by the Nigerians in late 67.
If Ojukwu wanted Awo dead, he would have seen to it that the old bat never made it back to Oduduwa land.

Awo lived mainly because the Easterners were not as wicked as their Yoruba counterparts.
Imagine if Zik was in jail in Ibadan! The Yoruba's would have found one way or the other to ensure he never returned to the East. They would foist his death on Aboki as usual. Aguiyi Ironsi was felled in Ibadan of all parts of Nigeria. Why Ibadan?
Me sef dey smell rat because these ofes can kill their own brother (Fajuyi) just to get Ironsi. Pure speculation of course, but my nose never fail me.

Posted by: Negro_Ntns

Lagcity,

That's the point!  Ojukwu's benevolence to Awo, as onlytruth wants us to believe, was an independent decision for goodwill to the man.
The real goodwill and show of independence would have been to say no, there's no place for him in Calabar. Also, to the point you made, to have issued the order independent of Gowon and release Awo.

I stiil want to know from Onlytruth what altaernatives are open for Ojukwu to rebel the release order?

Kill his @55 in jail, and NOTHING would have happened. 

Posted by: Negro_Ntns

Onlytruth,

I said who threw Awolowo in jail?

The Federal government of Tafawa Balewa (a Northerner) threw Awo in jail.

Posted by: Negro_Ntns

who thre Awo in jail?

Let's start from there.

Gowon released him we know that.

Awo did not commit suicide but for some reason Ibos loved repeating and recycling tales manufactured in Abakaliki.

If Ojukwu rejected Gowon's order to release Awo, there was nothing Gowon could have done about that.
He was not in control of the East, Ojukwu was.
As for Awo's suicide, it is public information. 

Ikemba Nnewi
Agu na eche mba
Dike di ora mma 1 of Igboland

You have run your race, and history continues to celebrate your vision and courage UNPRECEDENTED and never surpassed in the history of Nigeria.

If you return home to us alive, we will cerebrate and thank God for your life.
If not, we will celebrate and thank God all the same for allowing us to have a leader like you, even if once.

I wish you God speed!