₦airaland Forum

I'm still waiting for the Ikemba to speak.  

Once he speaks, I'll take my cue from him.

He is the only Igbo leader that I know.

I don't know what role Mbazulike Amaechi played in the adoption of this resolution. If this resolution was orchestrated by only Iwuanyanwu and Ezife, I would thread very softly.

The decision to support Jonathan is actually a life and death decision. If we support the wrong candidate in 2011, the consequences will be catastrophic.

I'll be back.

For me, this is the leading (guiding) quote:

“That given the fact that what is now known as Bayelsa State used to be Brass District of Eastern Region, and that the Eastern and Midwestern regions have been marginalized in the presidency of Nigeria. Consequently, the summit has decided to endorse the presidential aspiration of Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan.”

Everything else is embellishment.  

Beaf is Isoko.  

Last time I checked, Isoko is not Ijaw.  

I support his views on this 100%.

Paddy_lo might be a bit idealistic, but [b]Beaf [/b]is a realist.

Igbo is very much at home in Igboland.

We DON'T want any man's land.  

A united south east and south south is what is needed to achieve true political emancipation of the two regions.

Yoruba:
My brother let us tell ourself the truth. A Jonathan presidency has nothing to offer Ndigbo. When you  look at the political antecedants of those who are pushing for Jonathan's presidency in the East, you would notice that they are on a familiar terrain.
Look at Iwuanyawu, Authur Nzeribe etcetera, they are now trumpeting for Jonathan. These political jobbers were also the same people that worked assidously for Obasanjo's Third Term Campaign. How can an Igbo man who wants Obasanjo to rule for life be speaking for Ndigbo?

That is really my only fear here. Iwuanyanwu is a political pr0$t1tute. He has NEVER worked for the interest of Ndigbo. The man sold Ndigbo as the Chairman of Ohanaeze political committee during Obasanjo's third term bid. I remember that very well.

Anyway, like I said before, we are watching how this will evolve. Already, some northern youths were in Enugu to seal accord with Igbo youths. Believe me, Jonathan will not get Igbo votes if he does not get Ikemba's vote. I know that for sure. So, we are watching and waiting. The road to 2011 presidency is still very far.
A day in politics is a lot of time.

Obiagu1:
Well, I don’t know about that. Ekwueme was not a President so I wonder how he alone could create regions.

Anyway, I’ll NEVER support anyone that hates me for no reason. The North’s case is understandable, they want power; but for the Ijaws to always do things to block the Igbos in any capacity they could and not for them to gain that power, men, I can’t take that.

They should go to the North and seek support, I think they are friends, right?  

Bros, believe me I feel every bit of your pain. I'm only hoping that the Ijaws have changed for sure, because we won't be anyone's fall guy again in Nigeria.

All these have the handwritings of Amb Ralph Uwechue. I suspect that he/Ohanaeze and Ijaw National Council reached some kind of agreement.
The man is working hard behind the scenes. So, I hope they know a lot more than we do.

Ekwueme presented the 6 geopolitical regions in the 1995 Abacha constitutional conference. It was adopted.

That is how south south came to be.

Yoruba:
Dude, it is obvious that you are a tenderfoot in Nigeria politics. How can an alliance with South-South that doesn't have the population help the Igbos to achieve their presidential ambitiion?

Also you blathered on about ministerial portfolios, while forgetting that a ministerial post is a mere political appointment that takes directive from the presidency. Also may I remind you that there is nothing like a powerful ministerial portfolio in Nigeria. Have you forgetten how Aguiyi Ironsi's son spent less than one year as Defence Minister.

Infact, Igbos do not even need any negotiation with Jonathan because he can disregard any agreement immediately he is declared as the winner of presidential election in 2011, and nothing would happen.

Bros which one be "tenderfoot" again?  lmao!

Obiagu1:
The North was firmly in support of Ekwueme till the last minute when Ekwueme stated that he’d probe our past leaders. That was when IBB and co moved in and convinced the North in Bauchi to go for OBJ. But during that time, the Ijaws weren’t for Ekwueme at all.
I’d prefer a stranger (the North) to betray me to my own brother (the Ijaws) to betray me. It’s heart breaking.

If I remember right, the north blamed Ekwueme for creating the 6 geopolitical zones that divided the north and south into 3 regions each. The man, Ekwueme, was only trying to reassure minority groups, but the north hated him for it.

They had to find some excuse not to support him.

The north needs to understand that betrayal is bad. And if they want Nigeria to remain one, they must stop seeking power as if their lives depend on it.

Obiagu1:
@paddy_lo

The north did not divide us, the Ijaws took sides (on their own, they are not kids) and they should seek for that support from the people they have always sided with.


@Onlytruth

Since GEJ took office, Igbos have lost every position they gained during OBJ’s tenure, imagine.
Ekwueme should have been President if not for military coup. When Ekwueme contested PDP primaries in 1999, did the Ijaws vote for him. No!

Bros, you are also supporting my position! 

If I remember right, it was the north that betrayed Ekwueme at the polls in Jos. The Ijaws are a minority tribe in Nigeria, no matter how much noise they make. The true power movers in Nigeria are the northerners when they divide us.

The north has betrayed Ndigbo right from Aburi to up to Ekwueme's electoral woes.

paddy_lo:
I dont buy that. . orji uzor kalu was the man in abia state,and the likes of sullivan chime in enugu are doing too well to loose

anyway lets see what happens in 2011. .

but again tell me why didnt orji decamp to APGA if it was powerful. . .?

Have you considered the fact that maybe gov orji does not fit in APGA?

The man failed to perform in abia state, and his statesmen are up in arms. So, he is desperate, and wants a party that can rig him in for second term. APGA is NOT into rigging business. The party simply told him to go and perform.
I guess he was afraid that he may not be able to perform. So he ran to PDP hoping they'll repeat their theft magic for him

Abians are waiting for him at the polls.

Obiagu1:
This is funny. I know Igbos love peace and take care of their brothers and neighbours but the truth is that we should see reality for what it is – the Ijaws are the greatest enemy of the Igbos for no just cause.

If it were an Igbo man vying for the Presidency, the Ijaws won’t support him. Imagine Peter Odili, an Igbo from SS, shoved aside that he does not represent SS just because he is Igbo.

Now they need us right? Let’s be wise! The Ijaws till date keep saying that the North should remember they’ve always supported them in everything (at the expense of the other former easterners).

Yea, I know that. Believe me it hurts anytime they say that!
I don't know whether they think we cannot betray them as well. They don't have monopoly on betrayal and treachery.

I just hope they've learned. Moreso, I hope Jonathan is different.

We should support him.

The north has betrayed Ndigbo more from the past than the Ijaw.

If the north can be trusted with power, Ekwueme would have been president since 1987.

Let's support the person that can at least try to reshape Nigeria in ways that makes sense.

His views on indigene/settler issue is transformative.

There is no guarantee that a northerner will even allow the presidency leave the north again if they take over.

Their hunger for power is baffling.

paddy_lo:
what elections are u talking about. . because,Enugu(ojukwus own state),has always been PDP,same as Ebonyi and Imo

Abia state was PPA,.then now PDP,while Anambra has been tumultuous from day one with mbadinuju of PDP,,then ngige of PDP, then andy uba  before now peter obi

so again what state did APGA win. . .

APGA is a dead force and dont be surprised in peter obi doesn't decamp to PDP in the near future

If you are willing to be honest on this issue, you will admit that elections have been rigged all these years with the exception of the last one which give us a first hint of how PDP stole elections before.
So, let's put things in proper perspective.

Yoruba:
I dont know the planet you live . . .  Even the blind, deaf and dumb know that APGA has been winning gubernatorial elections in the East with a landslide. When you look at their election tribunal judgements, you would notice that APGA lost most of their cases based on technical grounds. Infact, Anambra state APGA was lucky to succeed because of the deep political bickering in Anambra PDP chapter.

True that.

I also suspect that APGA will NOT field a presidential candidate, and in return, Jonathan will ensure a free and fair elections in the south east, which gives APGA great chance in other positions.

If APGA does not field a presidential candidate, then Jonathan will win at least 90% of Igbo votes, spread between APGA and PDP.

I suspect that this is only a beginning of sorts and the communique said so. Things will take shape naturally as the negotiations continue.

Of course nothing significant happens in Igboland these days without the great Ikemba's blessings.

All it takes for this idea to fail is for Ojukwu to vote it down, but I suspect that he won't do so because his political son -Peter Obi- is a party to this deal.

So, it is safe to assume that the Ikemba is on board, at least until he says otherwise.

Now I'm beginning to believe that Jonathan knows how to play this game.

Bravo my people. Bravo!

If he gets parts of the west, middle-belt, and south south too, he has won!

I don't care what others do.

Sweet!

gadogado:
Why don't you focus on the argument being made and intellectually argue a point as opposed to attacking my personality and "people like me" we're not arguing about THEORIES or evolution which are controversial to say the least. we're talking about the AFRICAN's INABILITY TO BUILD A STABLE AND PROSPEROUS SOCIETY/ENLIGHTENED CIVILIZATION on his own (without Arabs and Europeans) and whether this is caused by a lack of intellectual capacity as implied by Friedman (The wheel hadn't been invented in parts of Africa by the 19th century) Take your theories of evolution elsewhere.

I was not attacking your person, I was attacking your illogical position and double standards.

I asked you earlier in this thread why it is alright for all of Europe to glory in the achievements of the Greeks (who by the way stole their knowledge from Egypt), but Africans cannot glory in Egypt or Ethiopia as African, you cleverly avoided the question.

I told you that for as long as Africa is ONE continuous landmass, there is no way any part of it could be excluded from the technological or philosophical achievements of another. I know there are things in Igbo and Yoruba culture that resemble ancient Egyptian things in great detail. The Europeans all copied from the Romans, who in turn copied from the Greeks and so on.

As for why African countries have not started dominating parts of technology in modern times, I would say that you should go and study why Biafra had to fight superpowers instead of only Nigeria. Why was Britain (and Soviet Union) so frightened of Biafra? Heck it was only a tiny country! Yet in under 3 short years, Biafra's scientific ambitions rattled powers that manipulate the fate of Africa. Who knows how Africa would have transformed if Biafra had survived. I'll leave that for now.

You would do well to go and find out how many technology patents owned by Africans (I didn't say African Americans). One of my friends who used to work for IBM owns 120 patents on semi-conductor designs alone.

I will say this again: STOP INSULTING BLACK PEOPLE!

tpiah:
^^if you dont understand my post, waka pass.

thanks.

Oh I understand your position very well. The people you are debating just don't get it. 

I was thinking exactly the same thing just before you said it.

When characters like gadogado come here to yarn dust, I wonder whether they have actually sat down to look carefully at how this world has evolved through time.

It all began in Africa, and I can best my last dollar that it will end in Africa.

And while we are at it, Africans always influenced the history of this world, one way or another.  I won't say more than that.

tpiah:
more like when was the time blacks[b] didnt [/b] lord it over others?

One thing I will say about tpiah any day is that she is a very very very intelligent woman! No doubt at all. 

gadogado:
Why is it so hard for Africans to accept that they simple arent as intelligent as other races? You have continuously proven that to be the case both in what you're able to do, build and produce and also IQ tests clearly suggest that the sub saharan African is the least intelligent being on earth.
I say accept the bitter truth and begin looking for ways to make yourself more intelligent and hence more competitive rather that being emotional and defensive!

Whatever gives you hard-on dude.  

Your mind is made up. So why are you here?

There was a time no one knew that black people could play American football, and baseball. Today they dominate both sports.

At times like this, I lament that Biafra failed, thanks to the same group of people sponsoring you to say these things.

I'll tell you this though; the world is constantly changing, whether you like it or not. The same people have not ruled this world for more than 700 years ( the Moores that occupied Spain).

If the earth is still here, it will continue to change and different peoples/races will continue to rule it at different times.

Aigbofa:
This is like looking at Egyptian hyroglyphics and asking, where are the sentences!!!

Don't mind that guy! lol.

Building Africa's Biggest Oil facility (Worth over $30 billion)


HOW to attain greatness and sustain leadership according to John Maxwell is for an entrepreneur to be focused and believe in what he is doing regardless of criticism that the future of the business is uncertain. This is exactly the case of the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, who entered the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry with a purpose to take over the leadership of the industry. This is not in terms of promises as it is being practised by the political class, but through steady investment which by all standards is incomparable in Nigeria today.

Perhaps, the mentioning of Capital Oil today makes Major Oil Marketers to shiver as a result of proactive and strategic steps he took diligently in driving businesses previously thought are exclusively for the Majors with foreign control. And that is why at the peak of long queues for fuel by motorists as a result of poor distribution arrangement, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in appreciation of the company’s investment in jetty, storage and truck park facilities worth over $30 billion took a wise decision by signing a partnership agreement with Capital Oil and Gas.

The expectation of who and who will dominate activities in the downstream sub-sector of the African oil industry therefore requires analysis of influences that Ubah may have in the nearest future. Perhaps the advice that the downstream sub-sector is too small for Capital Oil and Gas to operate by the Minister of State for Works Engineer Chris Ogienwonyi who was the former Group Executive Director (Exploration and Production) of NNPC during the inauguration of the company’s Mega truck park is an indication that International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the upstream sub-sector may again have difficulties in acquiring juicy oil blocks, if Mr Ubah decides to participate with good technical and commercial packages in the 2010 licensing round. Indeed, it is now clear that if not for the investment made by Capital Oil in jetty facilities, long queues witnessed in the country in 2009 would have become a permanent feature of the downstream sub-sector until the Federal Government decides to implement full deregulation.

Perhaps like a typical Igbo trader, he is a spoiler for petroleum marketers making cut throat profit from sales of diesel and throughput fee for storing products at his depots. His plans to set up a refinery in the country on completion of the ongoing expansion of his depots will also be a major threat to existing refineries based on his philanthropic ideology of always giving back to the society at the least price. Hence, the fear of crashing the prices of petroleum products by capitalists operating in the sector may be a great challenge in securing final approval for construction of a mega refinery in the country due to expectation of lower exdepot prices for quality petroleum products from his proposed refinery.

Who is Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah?
Mr. Ubah holds a Bachelor of Science B.Sc (Hons.) degree in International Relations. He hails from Nnewi, Anambra State of Nigeria. An astute and accomplished businessman, Ubah has been actively involved in top flight international business ranging from oil and gas, telecommunication, real estate and general merchandise for over two decades.

He started engagement in business activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and from there, in 2001, he came back to Nigeria to commence investment in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. According to him, he spent four years to study the market and prepared for a bold move that resulted in the creation of Capital Oil and Gas and inauguration of the first depot in March 2007.

Achievements
The depots of Capital Oil and Gas Industries with a total capacity of 175 million litres is located at Ibafon in Lagos. The depots belonging to Mr Ubah currently cover about 30 per cent of the total area used for oil storage comprising over 18 private depots at Ibafon. The company’s state of-of-the-art facility has an excellent deepwater berth which enables discharge of products from four mother vessels at the same time to any of the 18 depots. He is currently building a new loading gantry with 22 bays and when completed the daily throughput of the depots with 28 bays would be 55million litres. In preparation for the commencement of deregulation, Mr. Ubah has also acquired four tanker vessels and 400 state-of-the-art trucks making the company the leading tanker fleet operator in Nigeria with over 600 haulage trucks to support the operations of the largest private facility in Nigeria.

His latest innovation is a 22,000 litre mobile filling station/dispensing truck made up of multiple metered dispensing gadgets of international standards. Also, in effort to help ease congestion on Lagos roads, especially the ever-busy Apapa-Oshodi expressway, he has completed the construction of a mega truck park capable of accommodating 1,100 trucks at any given time and can serve 5,500 trucks daily on a shift basis.

Future
Mr. Ubah commenced the construction of strategic regional petroleum products reserves nationwide recently. The ongoing projects are located at Suleja in Niger State, Funtua in Katsina State, Kano, Emene in Enugu State and Onitsha in Anambra State. These projects will enhance accessibility to local market, relief from recurring fuel shortages and boost employment opportunities. His refinery project in the medium term is also another ambitious project that will add value to the image of Nigerians abroad and in other African countries such that Nigeria as a giant of Africa is also producing a giant firm the continent’s oil industry.

“The truth is that we must begin to appreciate that it is only Nigerians that can put down funds and be so committed to establish a refinery in the country. No foreigner will do it. In fact they have proved they can not do it because in the over 20 years of major marketers doing business in Nigeria, none of them have considered it worthy to establish a refinery in Nigeria, they have not even thought of doing it as a group,” Ubah added.

Fulfilling his promise to make available part of the company shares to the general public in the capital market will crown his past achievements in giving back to the society as a philantropist.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/sunday-business/1206-ifeanyi-ubah-building-africas-largest-oil-facilities

I'd go back to my first position.

No human civilization can claim exclusivity of knowledge and inventions.

Man has been in the copying business long before the copier machine was ever dreamed of.

Knowledge flows around, and has been flowing around even before history began.

The most retarded claim I've ever come across is that "Africans lack intellectual capacity".

That is not just a bold insult, it makes the claimant truly dumb.

As I'm writing this, my townsman "Innoson" is busy building auto plants in Nnewi using Chinese technology.

One day, when he and Nigerians must have perfected it and started our own automotive designs, someone will start claiming it as purely ours.

Technology started when man turned bones into knives, and later discovered fire.

No one owns anything.

Fact.

I can't believe the level of ignorance being paraded without shame by so called Africans here.

Its truly shocking!  

sage:
Have you ever seen people in Chechnya claim Britain or Italy before? Have you seen Indians claiming China's civilization before even though they are all Asians?

I said EUROPE not specific countries.

Historically, there is just one European country that started the whole thing: GREEKS. And they even copied everything down to mathematics and 12 gods from Egypt. Others merely copied from them.

sage:
The problem starts from people buying the idea of a "black Africa" when no such thing actually exists

Tuaregs and Zulus are as different as Zulus are from Arabs but people put the first two groups together as a single society while infact they are not and would never be

What we should be dis-assembling is the erronous idea of a similar "black Africa"

Fulanis and Igbos in one country are not even similar to each other at all not to talk of the whole continent

Africa in ONE, just like Europe is ONE, with different peoples of course. You can't tell me that a Chechen is not a European, can you?
Meanwhile the Chechen can claim European civilization; why can't a Nigerian claim Ethiopian civilization as an African.

People should stop dissecting Africa in ways that suit their dubious missions.

Building Africa's Biggest Oil Facility (Worth $30 billion)

HOW to attain greatness and sustain leadership according to John Maxwell is for an entrepreneur to be focused and believe in what he is doing regardless of criticism that the future of the business is uncertain. This is exactly the case of the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, who entered the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry with a purpose to take over the leadership of the industry. This is not in terms of promises as it is being practised by the political class, but through steady investment which by all standards is incomparable in Nigeria today.

Perhaps, the mentioning of Capital Oil today makes Major Oil Marketers to shiver as a result of proactive and strategic steps he took diligently in driving businesses previously thought are exclusively for the Majors with foreign control. And that is why at the peak of long queues for fuel by motorists as a result of poor distribution arrangement, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in appreciation of the company’s investment in jetty, storage and truck park facilities worth over $30 billion took a wise decision by signing a partnership agreement with Capital Oil and Gas.

The expectation of who and who will dominate activities in the downstream sub-sector of the African oil industry therefore requires analysis of influences that Ubah may have in the nearest future. Perhaps the advice that the downstream sub-sector is too small for Capital Oil and Gas to operate by the Minister of State for Works Engineer Chris Ogienwonyi who was the former Group Executive Director (Exploration and Production) of NNPC during the inauguration of the company’s Mega truck park is an indication that International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the upstream sub-sector may again have difficulties in acquiring juicy oil blocks, if Mr Ubah decides to participate with good technical and commercial packages in the 2010 licensing round. Indeed, it is now clear that if not for the investment made by Capital Oil in jetty facilities, long queues witnessed in the country in 2009 would have become a permanent feature of the downstream sub-sector until the Federal Government decides to implement full deregulation.

Perhaps like a typical Igbo trader, he is a spoiler for petroleum marketers making cut throat profit from sales of diesel and throughput fee for storing products at his depots. His plans to set up a refinery in the country on completion of the ongoing expansion of his depots will also be a major threat to existing refineries based on his philanthropic ideology of always giving back to the society at the least price. Hence, the fear of crashing the prices of petroleum products by capitalists operating in the sector may be a great challenge in securing final approval for construction of a mega refinery in the country due to expectation of lower exdepot prices for quality petroleum products from his proposed refinery.

Who is Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah?
Mr. Ubah holds a Bachelor of Science B.Sc (Hons.) degree in International Relations. He hails from Nnewi, Anambra State of Nigeria. An astute and accomplished businessman, Ubah has been actively involved in top flight international business ranging from oil and gas, telecommunication, real estate and general merchandise for over two decades.

He started engagement in business activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and from there, in 2001, he came back to Nigeria to commence investment in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. According to him, he spent four years to study the market and prepared for a bold move that resulted in the creation of Capital Oil and Gas and inauguration of the first depot in March 2007.

Achievements
The depots of Capital Oil and Gas Industries with a total capacity of 175 million litres is located at Ibafon in Lagos. The depots belonging to Mr Ubah currently cover about 30 per cent of the total area used for oil storage comprising over 18 private depots at Ibafon. The company’s state of-of-the-art facility has an excellent deepwater berth which enables discharge of products from four mother vessels at the same time to any of the 18 depots. He is currently building a new loading gantry with 22 bays and when completed the daily throughput of the depots with 28 bays would be 55million litres. In preparation for the commencement of deregulation, Mr. Ubah has also acquired four tanker vessels and 400 state-of-the-art trucks making the company the leading tanker fleet operator in Nigeria with over 600 haulage trucks to support the operations of the largest private facility in Nigeria.

His latest innovation is a 22,000 litre mobile filling station/dispensing truck made up of multiple metered dispensing gadgets of international standards. Also, in effort to help ease congestion on Lagos roads, especially the ever-busy Apapa-Oshodi expressway, he has completed the construction of a mega truck park capable of accommodating 1,100 trucks at any given time and can serve 5,500 trucks daily on a shift basis.

Future
Mr. Ubah commenced the construction of strategic regional petroleum products reserves nationwide recently. The ongoing projects are located at Suleja in Niger State, Funtua in Katsina State, Kano, Emene in Enugu State and Onitsha in Anambra State. These projects will enhance accessibility to local market, relief from recurring fuel shortages and boost employment opportunities. His refinery project in the medium term is also another ambitious project that will add value to the image of Nigerians abroad and in other African countries such that Nigeria as a giant of Africa is also producing a giant firm the continent’s oil industry.

“The truth is that we must begin to appreciate that it is only Nigerians that can put down funds and be so committed to establish a refinery in the country. No foreigner will do it. In fact they have proved they can not do it because in the over 20 years of major marketers doing business in Nigeria, none of them have considered it worthy to establish a refinery in Nigeria, they have not even thought of doing it as a group,” Ubah added.

Fulfilling his promise to make available part of the company shares to the general public in the capital market will crown his past achievements in giving back to the society as a philanthropist.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/sunday-business/1206-ifeanyi-ubah-building-africas-largest-oil-facilities

gadogado:
Modern day English is based on Sanskrit alphabets not ancient egyptian hieroglyphics, plus why are all the civilizations in "Africa" that created writing systems all in the the extreme east, Egypt and Ethiopia both of whom have heavy semitic/caucasian admixture. Even the berbers who are indigenous to North Africa but are caucasian have their own self developed writing system. The only set of people in Africa that didn't create a writing system are the ones that are in the heart of africa and unmixed with whites etc. I want someone to give me an answer, west africa, central africa and southern africa have no writing sytems of their own, only extreme north (Mediterranean admixture) and East Africans (semitic admixture) look at a map and conclude the proximity of these groups with our reading and writing African brothers.  The obasanjo looking African has always been starkly illiterate

Are you even following normal logic?

Why not dissect Europe as you do Africa? How come you are ready to accept English achievement as a European achievement, but reject Ethoipian or Egyptian or Berbers as African achievement?

Frankly, there is a gap in your thought process.

As long as Africa is ONE continues land space (not islands in the ocean), no part of Africa can be divorced from the achievement of the other.

gadogado:
Funny how those pre colonial africans created those pieces of art but could not "label" them if their lives depended on it.

You really have a lot of nerves coming here with your "Shuwa Arab" behind to insult Africans.  

I watched the Friedman video, and all I will say is that the man's arguments are full of half truths and "clever" lies.

For instance, he claims that only "parts of Africa" had figured out the wheel by 19th century. My question is this: When did those parts of Africa "figure it out" for the first time? He didn't say. It is possible that the wheel thrived in Africa far before it did in Europe. I know it did in Egypt, and Egypt is in Africa not Europe.
The fact that all parts of Africa didn't ride on it should not deny Africa fair credit.

My take on this whole thing, however, is that no race or region ever thrived on its own inventions alone, this is much more evident today. Europe basically copied EVERYTHING from Africa and Asia before it emerged as a world leader.
Today, the Asians are doing the same thing: copying and exceeding the technologies of the west. All Asian countries are doing this.

I know for sure that a day will come when Africans will "re-copy" back technologies from other parts of the world to create a world beating system.
I even suspect that African leadership of this world is coming, and it will last longest.  

I think that the coming "All Igbo political summit" should seriously consider the option of Igbo candidate next year.
With the way the north is so combative about winning next year, Jonathan may not win. At least, that way, we will keep reminding Nigerians that Ndigbo are still waiting to be full Nigerians, or we should start thinking of how to pull out of that country.

I'm happy that people like Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife are coalescing around this question: When will it be the turn of Ndigbo to produce the president of Nigeria? It has been 40 years since the civil war ended.

Both the north, and president Jonathan must answer this question before we decide who to support.

^^



Ol'boy you are simply a genuis!

Do you write novels and movie scripts?

Simply outstanding!

And the more I think of it, the more shocked and puzzled I become!

If the north "liberated" south south (though this term is unbelievably controversial because you have Cross rivers and Akwa Ibom there who were staunch Biafrans ), who will liberate Ndigbo in Nigeria? Or don't we need liberation as well? May be we should look outside Nigeria for our liberation. This conspiracy is becoming too mind boggling.

So the south south actually owes the north, according to a northern stalwart  like Isyaku Ibrahim?  

So, the south south sees Ndigbo as that dangerous to their survival?  

If that is not so, why would Ibrahim (who I know as a very intelligent and old northern politician) make this allegation?

Unless he is embarking on an exercise in grand self deception, why on earth would he make this allegation?

We, Ndigbo need to know what other people think about us in Nigeria. I cannot say this enough.

Personally, I believe that if Jonathan runs next year, and there are no Igbo candidates in other parties, he will receive more Igbo votes than he may even get from south south. That is why it is important that we are sure of what Jonathan thinks of us. This game is a high stakes game.

Ndigbo, muru kwa nu anya o!

Agwo no kwa n'akirika o!