₦airaland Forum

My last exprience flying into Port Harcourt convinced me that it wouldn't hurt to fly into Enugu or even Asaba if possible. If I could fly into Enugu, chances are that I, and many others, will visit Nigeria more. The mere thought of landing in Lagos or Abuja, and then driving hundreds of kilometers to the east keeps alot of Nigerians abroad. Nigeria is losing money but who cares? Igbos must be kept down by all means!

The current state system is not viable. We have too many unviable states! Any combination that allows a state to be strong enough to: maintain a police force, construct all infrastructure within the state, own and maintain schools (primary, secondary and tertiary), build and maintain state prisons and all other things that are of particular interest to such state (stadiums, art theatres, tourist locations etc). Mind you that the current geopolitical arrangements might need to be tweaked a little to create such viable states. I see north east and some parts of north central merging to create such state and so on.

People should stop thinking that the way to maintain equity is to create more tiny states. So, I support Anyaoku on this provided each state can survive without the FG handouts. If such state cannot survive, they can put themselves under the direct administration of the FG, but the FG will have very little money to dole out since the revenue sharing formula will trim their purse drastically. Sharing formula might be something like state- 70%,  FG- 30%.

back2back:
The yardstick for Yaradua health is no longer playing game of squash but WATCHING FOOTBALL

Nigeria don die. Kai, which kind country be this!

Football is a game of strategy you know. The guy is simply plotting his next move
I wish him God's speed. Nature abhors vacuums. So he should hurry back. The devil we know is better than the angel Gabriels eyeing his office, some of them flying with the borrowed wings of a certain devil called OBJ.

My brother beaf abeg no vex!
If only someone can show me one functioning Nigerian technology, I may be convinced. The last satellite the chinese launched for us simply got lost in space! All we do is plan, plan and more plan. No action. And if anyone tries to do something, government will stifle him/her. That's how all our best technologists are based overseas.

Definitely not in my backyard! Una never finish manage simple oil refinery. na nuclear station una want. I no wan die for nuclear accident. naija and nuclear station, sighs and logs off!

These F-15 Eagles are my darlings in air war theatre. The F-15 family has a combat record of 101 victories and zero losses.
The FA-18 Super Hornets are serious birds! Anyway, these are above Nigeria's league.

I support Onwa Anambra State. He is tested and proven. Soludo is PDP. PDP is evil.
Ngige all the way!

sjeezy8:
Lol no british master is needed the north gains more and more military men by the day, they can finish you small boys.

Igbo people say that when men finish fighting a war, women come out to boast and claim victory!
Since when did you become a northerner

Beaf:
Why all these warnings of war over Yar Adua?

Because that is the way to scare people down south. Nigeria sef!
Just mention war and people run to hide under the table!

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Dis my brother Soludo too much o! 

You are even lucky to get 3 Igbos to support that windy public relations stratagem! That is our status in Nigeria today. We are now 3/50th of Nigeria! Time was when we represented 1/3rd of Nigeria. So, take your 3 Igbos before we change our minds! Yar adua must stay!
Dumb asses!

OPCman:
Comment:
How many prominent Nigerian Ibos is on the list? (3)
Where is Ojukwu and other Ibo leaders what is their stand on this?

Maybe because we are finally wisening up in Nigeria to stop championing lofty ideas only to be sacrificed at the last minute, while the Yoruba sneak in through the back door to make hay at our expense! This time we don begin play naija game proper. Wait ol boy, no panic! 50 patriots (or was it Parrots ) my foot! Throw dem oil block each and see wetin go happen. Useless people. Yar adua should stay in office, shikena! 

Also note that they are sending pilots to China to learn how to fly the aircraft. In the Soviet days, they sent them to Soviet Union. A 50 year old country can't even produce a war plane. Tells you all you need to know about Nigeria.

If the reversal happens, more Igbos will be waking up to the reallity of their enslavement in Nigeria.

Why are we even debating the intent behind the reversal?
Nigeria, one funny country sef! However, all these convince me that the death of that country is even nearer than I predicted.

padd_ylo:
Nigeria buys F-7 fighters from CHINA
12 WERE ORDERED and the first batch was delivered in mid- 2009,this is what the fighters look like below. .
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The F-7/J-7 is an upgraded version of the Soviet MiG-21 interceptor, with modernized avionics and weapons and a slight cranked-wing configuration.

Not impressed one bit! You can only modify an old fighter jet for so much. When the Americans wanted to replace the world class F-14 Tomcats (real powerful interceptors!) they REPLACED them with a breathtaking interceptor called the FA-18 Hornets! Talk about class act! These are legendary interceptors. Nigeria is not a serious country. So, I won't care what they get from where.
The Camerounians are making hay in Bakassi and Nigeria is busy showing off outdated military hardware. Sighs and shakes head!

Kay 17:
COMPLETION IS DEC. 2010.
  what is this?  you draw up animated cars and buildings and say this is what Fashola has offered you and  you mention that in some distant time,the fruits will be reaped , this is not the first in Nigeria that plans are drawn. Yar dua said 6000mw in dec then we praise and hail him?  besides what benefits will be enjoyed by the masses?

Smart observation! Nigerians are generally gullible, even the ones who consider themselves smart. I wonder why we are still talking about the same problems Fela talked about 30 - 35 years ago (water, light, food, house). Mind you there were plans then. I don't want plans, I want action! I want completed projects, not project designs and concepts.

Just been to the site and impressed. From the site, I learned that Imo state has 2,040 primary schools! That is impressive and I never knew that. Truly awesome!
Imo state is laying solid foundations for a sound educated citizenry and workforce, while northern states are breeding Almajiri.

I personally don't care that the northerner has refused to educate his people. I'm only concernd about their antecedents.
If I and my people can give scholarships to the indigent in my home town (a common pratice in the south east), why not northerners who have garnered billions of dollars from the Nigerian coffers since after the war? So, these guys don't enjoy my sympathy at all. They should vent on their leaders, but I bet you they won't. They are waiting for another opportunity to burn Igbo businesses and loot their properties.

I would quickly add one more thing: I really don't think this problem can be solved by conventional means. I was in the north in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and the same situation has remained. Someone observed that this might be the culture of the northerners, I think he may have a point. As someone who has been a victim of such latent time bombs(riots and pogroms), I would advise my people to stay away from the north for now. If they insist on staying there, they must take security measures. Else, these almajiris are the most deadly weapons in Nigeria's demographic make-up.

Beaf:
The North is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The almajiri issue is Nigeria's greatest security threat.

When you visit the North, you really wonder what the lords and masters of these innocent souls achieved in their 40 years in power. It isn't just the uneducated almajiri's, it is destituition, the the abysmal quality of life. If you visit one of the hamlets that sort of pop up from the sorrounding desert / savanah as you drive by (Bauchi area), the air is always filled with a very strong faecal stench, there is so much tangible squalor and poverty; you wonder how the inhabitants could possibly survive till old age. It really is heart wrenching, the closest I have come such a feeling down south was when I found myself on a soul destroying tour of Ijora Badia (Lagos). The North has thousands of Ijora Badia's, only they are on dry land.

. . .after their own leaders have ruled this country for 40 years. But lets forget about their "leaders", something urgent needs to be done to improve and save lives.

@Beaf
Do you read my mind before you post Every other poster here has been dancing around the issue again, the usual Nigerian way. Thanks again for spotting the toad in the midst of a heap of rocks!

diobi:
fariness is not a nigerian. brute force and crudeness is the nigerian way. we must plan to survive. we have the money and should use it to defend ourselves so that we can make more money. we hustle, we struggle, we work hard, all we need is protection which no one can give us except ourselves.

gospel truth

Edruezzi:
Who told you one Nigeria makes no sense. America is made up of thousands of groups and everyone wants to go there, incluiding maybe 99% of Nigerians. I’m sure if you go back far enough in history you’ll see that what we call Igbos were probably formed by all kinds of groups gradually assimilating into an Igbo speaking population.
It’s dictators like Ojukwu and an entire class of Igbo officers who realized that with the countercoup of 1966 they had no more realistic carreer opportunites as military officers in Nigeria who started Biafra and kept it going. Baifra was suicide from the start. That people followed ojukwu shows their illiteracy and ignorance of military affairs. Let me say it again. In war, the side with the greater firepower wins.
Go fight another one and another ten million will die.

^^^
The lies and idiocy continues 

Please, if you have nothing good to say about our dead heroes please move on to other threads! This is in memory of our Biafran soldiers who died defending our homeland, and the innocent women and children who were starved to death by your fathers. I understand you can't resist the temptation to be gleeful, but don't be annoyed if someone curses you out.

@oyb

Obviously someone really empowered to know these things reached the same conclusion about the war: It was a genocide.

"Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now - and starvation is the grim reaper. This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or to go through channels or to observe the diplomatic niceties,  The destruction of an entire people is an immoral objective even in the most moral of wars. It can never be justified; it can never be condoned."

Mr. Richard Nixon, September 9, 1968- During the Presidential Campaign

So, for you to continue in your line of reasoning simply makes you a genocide denier. You won't be the last!

~Bluetooth:
What do igbos really wanted from the nigerian government,,silly lamentations for over 30years ago & continuing, Wetin be una problem

Do you really want to know or is that a rhetorical question?

@oyb

If you've followed my post, you will notice that I am unapologetic about honoring the memories of my people whom you tried to wipe out.
More importantly, honoring those brave men and women who died in defense of their homeland, my homeland. To folks like me, those Biafran heroes are the only real thing I have seen in that space called Nigeria. Everything else is fake. That is why you can't even have electricity. A friend reasoned that Nigeria cannot produce light because the country is led by people with dark souls, like the types that are without remorse after starving women and children to death.
So, you see my friend, the things I celebrate are far more honorable than the ones you celebrate. Mine gives me hope. Your's bring despair and hopelessness. Your minister for power has just shifted the power goal posts for uninterupted power supply to 2010. And the lies go on and on, 

oyb:
^^^^^


i want to believ that it is mainly nigerians in the diaspora that subscribe to all this biafra noise. i have been all over nigeria - and ibos are everywhere. even in zamfara.

so i have o wonder who all these people calling for biafra are.

even with the  bloodshed in the north, ibos are staying put.

so one can only conclude that it is disaporans with no true sense of what is going on -

the numbers of ibos outside the east speak for themselves


see biafrans in action

www.nairaland.com/attachments/200791_london1_jpgf6369f4e183994c33ada90f328400109

wetin i talk - i bet that guy has not set foot in naija for the past 15 years - maybe thats only truth

anyway, what can i say - america has its kooks, all those paranoid noisemaker militias, we have biafrans - lots of noise on the internet   

No my friend, this is more like me.

Did I forget to mention that whenever Nigerians run out of logic or fair argument, they resort to divide and rule: "diasporan" and "home based Nigerians". As if a dead Igbo in Nigeria does not have relations abroad. Surely stupid logic of the worst kind. Henry Okah is in Diaspora too, but he is more relavant to the ND issues that even people who never left Nigeria. Talk of reasoning through the behind-hole.

The more I read comments from Nairalanders about the war, the more I come to believe this poster has a point. The genociders have not shown any sign of remorse and we must really prepare against a repeat.

texazzpete:
Bullcrap!
You aren't putting up images like that for 'proper honor and burial'. You lot are recycling these images as a tool, a club of guilt and hate to beat the rest of Nigeria over the head with. The most respect you can show for the dead is to honor their memories and to ensure that we never go down that path of violence and hatred.

Perhaps you should be the one getting a taste of the sorrows in this case, not me.

I have a very bad news for you dude: These stories will never end and they would continue to come for a very long time. You and your genocide supporters cannot escape from that history. And because you think the atrocities were mere acts of war, you and your people shall experience such act of war. It is called Karma. It is called ofo in Igbo. Heck it is already happening because you don't even have electricity and your soldiers shoot and rape you in the name of peace keeping. 

texazzpete:
Seriously, how old are you? 12?
So you're that bereft of any intelligent argument that you resort to that childish insult? Even Becomrich never displayed this level of foolishness.

My friend, Igbo people say that when a child's corpse is being paraded for proper honor and burial, an unconcerned person simply looks at the corpes as something trivial (maybe a bunch of firewood!). The guy only wished you the type of sorrows you are trivializing here. Simple enough. I wouldn't call that foolishness.

And I also say it should include a public holiday in the east (if other easterners don't observe it, then core Igboland must do this). The holiday will help preserve the memories of our dead heroes and remind the future generations about what they fought for and what they died for. The lies must not be allowed to continue.
We lost a war, yes, but we never lost the judgment of history; the other side lost that!
If we don't do this, the other side will keep trying to rope us into the 40 year mess which they hoisted on Nigeria. We really have to do this.