₦airaland Forum

alex101: If these corpses are those of MASSOB, then the leadership of Massob should be held acountable like the trigger happy nigerian police/army. Uwazurike is the greatest fool ever for thinking he can 'tame a lion bare-handed'. All he's doing is leading Igbo youths to their untimely deaths . Also, the Igbo politicians must request for thorough investigation and the appropriate purnishment metted out to those basterd uniformed cowards that keep shooting unarmed civilians. MASSOB should disband immediately before they start making our youths think and act like cowards .

I remember I made the same call sometime last year. That organization is getting more and more annoying. All they know how to do is to scheme to collect money from our people.
If they are a non-profit organization whose only focus is on the disabled Biafran soldiers, I would understand and support them. But they are busy running around the streets, leading uneducated and gullible Igbo youths to their untimely deaths, and in the process introducing a culture of cowardice into Igbo land.
I once called on them to leave Igboland. I still stand by that call.

Eziachi: So what do we say to God about thousands of un-healed one in nearby [b]UNTH [/b]due to lack of good and quality facilities? f@ck you god?
His so called healing, if he now finally sick has nothing to do with God but a good medical care money can only afford.
God is not there to be mocked you know!

I thought you would say something about a STATE OWNED hospital, in which case you would have a stronger point.
UNTH is a federal institution.

Eziachi: Nigeria!
Imagine disappearing from your job for months and when you decide to turn up, the company lay out red carpet for you [/b]with all the board of directors of the company lining up to kiss your forehead.
[b]You gotta love and admire Nigerians and their oppressors.

But you should at least agree that the man is working even more than those physically warming their seats with little or nothing to show.
Bros let's always recognize merit so that more of good things would come our way.

kettykings: [size=25pt]For the Ignorant folks focusing on the COAS Ihejirika and deciding in their Hypocrazy not to be reasonable here is what is happening in Customs[/size]

LOPSIDEDNESS AT KANO CUSTOMS TRAINING COLLEGE ADMISSION?

I received, as usual, an email from one of my Facebook friends, Sulaimon Hakeem Bolarinwa, drawing my attention to a piece of information that requires verification regarding the lopsidedness of the admission made into the Customs Training College in Kano. He got his information from Facebook wall of Lanre Ayoola. These are the statistics he gave:

"792 cadet officers recently recruited for training at the Customs Training College (CTC) in Kano, only 45 were from the South West. One hundred and sixty eight cadets were from the North Central, 157 from the North East, 91 from the South South and 68 from the South East."

Statistically, Southwest got 5.68%, Southeast 8.59, South south 11.49, Northeast 19.8, Northcentral 21.21 and Northwest 33.23%.

There are allegations of lopsidedness in Zaria Military school too, though not of this nature.

Can someone - like GROSNAMM and its customs version - please help us verify these figures to enable us start asking the commandants of these schools for reasons?

Bros I particularly appreciate your knack for REAL data and fact checking.
You are a one man "data army" here. FACTS ARE UNASSAILABLE.

Thanks man!

uxor: Peter Obi is a cheat and deceit!
Only good in packing Anambra State fund in his bank.

SHAME TO PETER OBI, IN HIS DECEIT GOVERNANCE!

He will soon go to jail.

I honestly hope he is not involved in this. We shall watch to see what he does as this story develops. I do not expect any Igbo governor to approve of, or condone killing of unarmed people under his watch.

Imo State is one of the most strategic states in Igboland. We don't call it the Heartland State for nothing. So, if anybody thinks that he can operate as he likes there, dragging the state along to the land of the political unknown, that person has a shock coming.

Ajughi aju eri, butere ariaghi aria anwu - eating without asking questions, always leads to dying without first being sick.

Whatever changes Ihejirika is bringing to the army, he must first make sure that he is personally safe, and that he has planned how to neutralize opposing forces. The army is a different environment where the reprisals or resistance come as matters of life and death (and as Nigera's past has shown) even to innocent civilians going about their normal business far removed from the military.
I am happy that the army knows specifically where this threat is coming from (I hope they know all other covert ones), and should neutralize it and continue the transformation agenda of GEJ.

I wish the COAS God's speed.

My brother the governor, I pray for your full recovery. It is sad that only good men suffer certain things on this earth.

But take solace in what is written in Psalms 34: 19-20

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken.

Jisie ike nwanne. Our God will preserve you to finish the great work you have started in Enugu state.
I shall continue to pray for your total and complete recovery.

Not wanting to jump the gun before we know for sure, but if this is really MASSOB people killed extrajudicially, then it becomes the duty of all reasonable Igbo to hold someone PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE and make sure such person is brought to justice one way or another. This is not time for "Ogbasara m".

The "holding to account" should start from the officers who pulled the trigger and go all the way to the highest person who approved such act.

Like I've been saying here for eons, extrajudicial killings (for any crime whatsoever) must be stopped in Nigeria, and those caught in the act given the maximum punishment prescribed by the law. I said the same thing when the police were executing Boko Haram members, and I am saying the same thing again here. If we no longer have courts in Nigeria, the government should tell us so that we will all arm ourselves for self defense. If people are to be killed without court process, then, it is long past time that Nigerians are allowed to own all types of weapons for self defense. This type of a crime is precisely why the US constitution accorded the citizens a CONSTITUTIONAL right to bear arms. The citizen is the soveriegn, and must be protected from undue use of state power.
Nigeria in her usual half and half overlooked this provision when she copied the US constitution. Its like buying a 240 pound guard-dog, but refuse to buy a gun to protect you from the dog should it go haywire one day. Quite obtuse.

I am not (and probably would NEVER be) a fan of MASSOB because I frankly think that they are an obtuse organization with little thought going into each of their actions. But I also hate those who think they are God.

Meanwhile, lets wait and see what Igbo leaders will say about this one. If they don't say anything, then I wish this evil on their families individually. Humans mainly act when evil hits home.

This is an official complaint.

I don't know which of you banned me now TWICE in a period of one month, and for nothing. I have examined the last posts before the ban and found nothing wrong with them, thereby making me to believe that someone is banning me to "show power".

Well, I would not bring this complaint again. I'm doing so now only to ensure that the owner of the site is also notified (in case he is not the person doing it).

YOU DO NOT PAY ME TO POST HERE, and I do not consider myself an average poster.

I will leave your site FOR GOOD if you repeat it again. The posters that I consider my intellectual peers have since left this site, so I am at my last tolerance level now.

It costs me time (hence money) to post here. Don't think that I ever forgot that.

X-factoria:
Forget those states in bold. Buhari, a bigoted fulani man, has never and would never win in the middle belt. Tell them I told you that.

But I wonder why people from the SW keeps propping that man's name as if he is new.
Frankly it is shocking how people talk about him as if we don't know him already. Absolutely shocking.

pazienza: river port in onitsha,and seaport in akwa ibom,will not cripple lagos. It will only reduce it's economic importance in the scheme of things,and there would be a major population re-arrangement,that will free up lagos for it's yoruba owners.

WORD.

I'm laughing at people who say that the data for past elections are flawed. Which Nigerian demographic data is not flawed? lol
When did we conduct a credible census in Nigeria?

I'm also laughing at some strange permutations feathering predetermined political nests. LMAO.

As for me, the more these "mergerers" talk, the more I'm convinced that GEJ is unassailable in 2015.

wesley80: The airports in Asaba and Owerri can be upgraded if need be, those two cities have more pressing needs than international airports.

Nna need don "be".
Enwego need siiiiiiiiiiiiince! Yet, we are being played. When would we be able to take off from SE and land in New York?
I personally think that the governors of these "airport states" are either selling us or are being willing tools to deny us that international air access.
What are they waiting for?
Governor of Akwa Ibom is building an international airport in Uyo that I'm sure does not command the commercial potentials of an Aba or Onitsha.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we should reject these talks that SE does not need an international airport urgently; WE DO.
If fact we needed it yesterday!.

achi4u: ^^^
The rail line you mentioned will serve a better purpose for nown than the international airport.

Customers across SE/SS will found it very easy to transport their heavy duty goods with cheaper price.

We can still have the rail line even if we have the international airport in Ontisha or environ.
It is even a no brainer that SE needs at least TWO international airports, just going by current statistic here, and it is only fair that cities that generate huge cash flows get those airports.
However I would still accept a rail link to Enugu INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT from Onitsha.
Bottom line is that Onitsha is desperate for an international air access, being a commercial city.

Peter Obi may not see the sense in it, after he is a tight-fisted man; onye mkpi mkpi!
Bring in Soludo in Anambra and watch as realities change.

Andre Uweh: Onitsha does not need an airport at all. Asaba airport is also Onitsha airport. What Onitsha needs is an operational Riverport.
Also, an airport for Aba is a waste of fund. Aba is surrounded by Port Harcourt, Owerri and Uyo airports.

I believe that Onitsha (or somewhere nearby) needs an INTERNATIONAL airport. I don't know if Asaba is international. I always ensure that I add international to any ideas of an airport in Anambra state. We don't need any local airport really because Asaba is there of course. That is why I referred to Enugu in the first place.

We cannot hang our hope on Asaba because they may never have a plan for an international airport.
Now if they upgrade and convert Asaba to international overnight or (anytime before we have one in Anambra state), then I would agree with you.

Not that it matters much in overt terms, but sometimes one pauses to ponder certain similarities between Igbo and the people called "the Israelites" in the bible.

Following the similarities in pure academic and empirical terms would certainly not prove much. However, if one is a "sprititualist" or a believer in the divine, the similarities are too powerful to ignore.

With little doubt in my mind, I believe that the "mindset" and "spirit" of both Igbo and the Israelites of the old (notice I did not say "the Jews". ) are very compellingly similar.
If you have ever read the old testament very well; studied those Israelites, and then study the Igbo peoples, you will begin to marvel at the similarities.

Please note that the Igbo nation of today is not really from one origin (as was noted earlier in this thread), but a good chunk surely must be. The guy that came closest to my own hunch is the guy that referred to the book of Jeremiah 41- 44 in the bible.

There is something very deep, very strong (almost indestructible), very spiritual (christianity apart, the Igbo somehow are addicted to fairness and justice), very rebellious, very resillient, very fearless (the Igbo can migrate and live among foes and still carry on with his life normally, even dominating the land he finds himself!), very ambitious, and very "returnist" (he must go back to Igboland no matter what, even if for visits only), and all similar things in between about Igbo that makes them compellingly "Israel-like".

Nevertheless, only a spiritual hunch would convince one beyond any doubt.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .

ALl other peer cities (in terms of volume of cash) have international airports, except Onitsha and Aba.
Something should be done about that!

And to think that Onitsha and Aba has no international airports is the most egregious case of injustice I have seen anywhere.
My only consolation is that Enugu will (hopefully this year o!) start international flights.
If not, then we must build (expediciously) an international airport in Onitsha, by God's grace.
I would prefer a rail link between Onitsha and Enugu though, airport or no airport.

Now, all it takes is a rail link between Onitsha, Nnewi and Enugu. The entire region will explode in economic development.

Where is Soludo for Anambra Governorship 2015?

I'm still studying how to tie the entire SE together economically.
The Oguta Port will play similar role (I'm yet to study Oguta, but I hope it connects Aba by rail).
Bottomline is that an integrated transportation system tying the whole East should be on the table.
We shall get there.

This move is making me especially happy about the economic future of SE and parts of NC. The idea is brilliant because it unleashes PRIVATE CAPITAL to develop the port to any NEEDED CAPACITY.

As for those still calling this a "river port", all I have to say to you all is "I de laff!".

Thanks Manny4life!

At this time, let me repeat my advice to Ndigbo.

What we need in Nigeria is not to have more conscience or to play fair more. We have been doing that all these years. I cannot count how many times a top Nigerian leader of Igbo extraction would throw Igbo interests under the bus, just to please people who can NEVER be pleased. Heck even an Igbo civil servant would often refuse to speak Igbo while attending to government business, because he/she is mindful of other tribes always feeling bad when we speak Igbo; yet a Yoruba or Hausa would continued his language without caring whose ox is gored.

Bottomline: WE CANNOT PLEASE THESE PEOPLE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

So what should we do:
BE STRONG, COLD AND WITHOUT CONSCIENCE.
Those are the only languages these people understand.

Though people like to joke about this comparison, the closest comparison elsewhere in the world to what is happening in Nigeria is the relationship between JEWS AND ARABS.
I studied the relationship between Jews and Arabs for at least 15 years. In many of those years, I couldn't understand why Israel would use the tactics she uses against Arabs. Infact I was sympathetic to the Arabs! Then I started studying the situation more, and one day a question popped into my head:
ISREAL IS BY FAR THE STRONGEST MILITARY IN THE MIDDLE EAST; WHY THEN HAS SHE NOT EXPANDED INTO LEBANON AND JORDAN AND SYRIA? I mean basically nuking those countries and sacking them entirely. I then realized that Israel is the most civilized, self restraining country in the region. That she is only doing the most basic to stay alive and remain there. Then I studied the Arabs more and came to see how they HATE and DEVOUR even their leaders who served them. I concluded that these are packs of wild dogs with little human soul.
So I am one of the STRONGEST supporters of Israel you will find.

So, I advise umu Igbo. The only language these packs of wild dogs understand is lack of conscience and strength of physical violence.
Let me make a prediction that there is no way we can survive in Nigeria if we don't copy Israeli tactics. Absolutely no way!

Let the fake Christians among us continue to weaken us by preaching what they don't understand. As long as there are Christian countries in Europe and other developed countries, I am not swayed by some fake "peace at all cost" preachings.

souldust: never have i seen the igbos being hit so strongly when it comes to thread concerning the north. I am so thrilled and kudos to those yorubas who stood for what is right and checkmate this notorious igbo arrogance and false image. Thanks to all peoples (yorubas and notherners ingeneral including north central) who kicked against the excesses of the igbos on this forum.

Dont get me wrong. I am detribalized nigerian. And becos of that, i have to stand up against all of those things i see as threat to the unity of nigeria and the igbo syndrome we see demonstrated here is one of them.

You have a mental problem, like the rest of Igbo haters in Nigeria. You are late though because the Igbo you will face today is at least 120 degrees different from the one you stabbed in the back in 1966/67.

I asked you a question before and you did not answer that question.
Here it is again:

DO YOU WANT IGBO TO LEAVE NIGERIA FOR YOU?

None of you have answered this question; rather, you all gather like a pack of wild dogs and keep ranting and raving, hoping to stoke another mass murder against us in Nigeria.

I put it to you that you all have serious mental problems; if not, please explain to me HOW you could hate someone so passionately, yet cling unto the same person for life.
Please explain, I'm waiting.

BTW the bolded is the most st00pid and iidiotic self deception I keep seeing in Nigeria.

miiraaj: ....And who should be trusted, inyamiri? ROTFL

We shall c 2015!

At least not aboki. NEVER aboki again in aso rock. We should divide Nigeria now rather than have aboki come back to remove oil derivation formula and seize power for ever in Nigeria.

NO TO ABOKI presidency!

souldust: my dear onlytruth, i am not saying it is not long overdue to allow igbos into the innermost circle in nigeria. Afterall some of those that have given most to the pride and nigeria's identity are: okojo iweala, akunyili etc. But you are also guilty of separating yourselves from every one else. And no! The NC do not see anyone in particular as the problem of nigeria. We are the most neutral in this country. We are truely the "BELT". Take the us away, and the trouser will fall from the waist.

Igbo have never seen Middle belt as enemies despite roles they played during the war. We really think that they are puppets of Hausa/Fulani that need to wake up to stake their own claim to the Nigerian nation rather than being somebodys pawn in the Nigerian chess board.

Stay neutral and support justice for all.
If that is not acceptable to you, then let us divide Nigeria now so that everybody will answer his fathers name.

nagoma: And we will know who the drug couriers and kidnappers are.

One of your former heads of state was the DRUG baron and even used a parcel bomb to kill one of Nigeria's finest journalist, an Edo man.
Your Boko Haram is kidnapping and killing innocents without asking for ransoms.
Both evil were perfected by YOU.

Fisherman.com:
2% of benue people are igbos get it into ur head now.

It doesn't matter answering him. Let him believe what he wants. Those Igbos can answer for themselves when the time comes, can't they?

nagoma: Your name should be onlydeceit . There is no truthful person among Igbos .

And you are Nagoma. Aboki can never and should NEVER again be trusted with Nigeria's presidency.
2015 is GEJ.

nagoma: Ihejirika is not bothered about promoting middle belt people who are northern and they know it. He is focussed on Igbos and our focus must be on them too. The northern governors should meet and the western governors as well to discuss this issue of Igbo nepotism in the military .

Go and find out where the newest commander of the 3rd armored Division Jos is from. IMHO that division is the most strategic in Nigeria.
Come back and tell us.

souldust: only truth, you an i know that those who died didnt die by the gun they died mainly becos they were hungry. Fact! And you say they were unarmed? Well you cant blame that on anyone. Blame those who took you to war and refused to equip you. When you declear war against the other person, you are actually giving him the go ahead to exploit you weaknesses to deal with you. So dont talk like the NA played outside of the rules.

We never declared war against anybody. We only wanted to LEAVE YOU WHINERS alone.
The greatest mistake we made was not to arrange for enough weapons to take the fight to you.
With MILLIONS of Igbo around the world today, and an international market awash with arms and weapons of all kinds today, we will not have a repeat experience.
Trust me on that!

We are either Nigerians or we are not. BTW you dodged my question.

Are Igbo Nigerians?

nagoma: This is a tribal issue. It is purely an Igbo affair. Igbos don't give a damn about Christians if you are not Igbo. It is an Igbo agenda and must be treated as such everyone else is affected.

A big fat lie.
Even NC/Middle belt people know that YOU are Nigeria's problem.
The born-to-rule cattle rearer is the greatest threat to African rennaisssance.