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Beaf:I don't think it will happen exactly like that. It will be very easy for the East to peacefully negotiate a nation(nobody will force anything on anybody). Once that happens (as I suspect it will), then Biafra will take up arms and wait for any islamist attack. If the islamists ever attack any Biafran territory, the Biafrans (including MEND) will move the battle to the North. The war no go be for our backyard this time. We've made that mistake the first time. It won't happen again. The battle field will be in northern towns and cities. If Yoruba don't want to join the fight against islamist north, na their own wahala. Dem go become slaves to the north. Simple! It may become a bloodbath, but it will be mainly up north. The north has never experienced a war before. I bet you they will be very vulnerable! This war go dey different o! A lot of lessons have been learned through the years! |
[size=14pt]ROTFLMAO! [/size] !!! |
Beaf:Solid observation. ezeagu:A famous thinker agrees with you: [size=14pt]"There is nothing so quite useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all" -Peter Drucker (World's most influential business guru)[/size] |
Links to lies! [size=16pt]IDIOTIC POSTER[/size] |
I think I have provided enough evidence to counter your sophistry. So stop spreading lies against Biafra and Igbos, else you will always have the likes of me to call you to order. I'm sure you will equate headache with terminal cancer. That you say so does not make it true. The type of war you talk about NEVER HAPPENED between the Igbo and their neighbors. It happened in the North during the Jihads. It happened in the west between the Yoruba and the Bini for instance leading to the "Obaship". Igbo never had that type of tribal structure to wage such wars and we won't do that today against our neighbors. Biafra no be by force! |
Ikengawo:So how does that translate to tribal wars? I'm sure you will call drugs wars in Columbia and in Northern Mexico tribal wars too! You were talking about ethnic wars (or ethnic cleansing wars). What you are trying to do amounts to[b] sophistry[/b]. No offense! |
If you are saying that Nigeria is planning to wipe out the Niger delta like they tried to do to Igbos in Biafra, you may have a point. Afterall there are already military personnel on the ground in Niger delta. Those who are desperate for oil money will stop at nothing. Just leave Igbos out of it! |
strangleyo:Are they all white? Yes! Are they all Christians? Yes! Do they speak the same language or a derivative of the same language? Yes! Even the entire western Europe has about three main root tribes (if you like), and share root language, which is why "rendezvous" and "deja vous" are French words adapted into the English dictionary. The way an English person speaks French is different from the way an African (even from French speaking countries) speak it. The English person will speak a more "accentless" French than an African. These are one people! Never mind the small language variations. Ndigbo share cultural and some linguistic ties with all Eastern tribes. Igbo and minorities are also Christians and Animists. Most importantly, there has never been wars between Igbos and their Eastern neighbors. That is a fact! So stop spreading lies! |
Stop spreading lies you idiot! How many minorities did Igbos kill in Biafra? Who is killing those minorities today? The most peaceful and progressive African country of Botswana is a uni-national state (tswana). You conveniently forgot that just to feed your obsession with Biafra. Is Japan and South korea not stable and peaceful? Even all the nations you mentioned are dominated by single progressive nations. China is 90% Han too. Igbos will NEVER FORCE ANYONE TO JOIN BIAFRA. |
Aloy~Emeka:The problem with Nigeria is that people just refuse to face the facts as they are. Did you even read what I said about Enyimba? Here it is again: Onlytruth:How can that translate to demagoguery? Honestly I believe that if due process (eg allowing the most qualified to man affairs) has been followed in Nigeria, we will not be where we are today. And yes, the Igbo would most likely man the most sensitive positions in Nigeria (going by facts of education and drive which everyone knows about!), just like the whites do in South Africa. Every great nation on earth has done the same -put the best on the job! But can that happen in Nigeria? That is why we are where we are today. THOSE WHO WOULD HATE NDIGBO ALREADY DO SO and we don't care. Just allow us to leave in peace! |
nex:Do you realize how idiotic this sounds MEND attacked Atlas Cove (a federal facility in Lagos), Yorubas are still raking! ![]() |
Umar accuses Yar’Adua of nepotism From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Yar’Adua Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section [right][/right] Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd) has accused President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of nepotism. He was criticizing Yar’Adua for the first time after the sacking of his sister, the former Minister (State) Power, Hajia Fatima Balaraba Ibrahim. Umar said the appointment of Yar’Adua’s kinsmen from Katsina State into key federal positions violated the principles of federal character and national unity. In a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Kaduna, the retired military officer and social critic specifically faulted the appointment of Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko Inde as the new Comptroller-General of Customs, saying that Dikko was promoted above his superiors and other peers in the customs and service. He further frowned at the appointment of Dikko which came on the heels of appointment of other Katsina State indigenes as chief executive officers of federal parastals, including the Petroleum Development Trust Fund (PDTF), Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), the National Inland Water ways Authority (NIWA), as well as Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). According to the statement: “President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had given the impression that he was unconcerned with the increasing apprehension and anxieties the public feels about the way he is using the powers of his office. Without a question, the public is right and is entitled to expect that the president exercises those powers transparently and always for the promotion of the larger interests of the entire country. “Sadly, what is apparent is the steady emergence of a disturbing pattern of nepotism, cronyisms and chronic disability to treat the whole country as his single constituency. All too often, as in this instance, a high profile office falls vacant and the president rushes to locate an indigene of Katsina (or in some cases, Kano State) to fill it. “Few can pretend not to notice or take issues with the choice of Katsina-born Alhaji Abdullahi Inde, an Assistant Comptroller-General, a lower level position in the hierarchy of that institution, as Comptroller-General after recent appointments of Katsina State indigenes as chief executive officers of a string of parastatals, including the Petroleum Trust Development Fund, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, the National Inland Waterways Authority and, for that matter, FERMA. “It is to be stressed, therefore, that the president’s increasing disdain for due process and the tendency towards arbitrariness in appointments portend grave danger to the unity and security of Nigeria . “His chosen style not only violates our laws but, even more tellingly, shows a provocative contempt for the sensibilities of Nigerians. He is well advised to retrace his steps.” [size=16pt] I cannot add more![/size]
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THE AMAKA:Calm down nevertheless. Just watch where you go in Naija. I don't want to have to come up north to rescue a sis. again. Stay the hell away from there until we negotiate a true nation. ![]() |
THE AMAKA:Amaka calm down, bomb no go blow for ya head! ![]() klassyguy:That is if your votes will count! PDP will destroy Nigeria faster than any bomb! You are stuck with this Yara-guy whether you like it or not till at least 2015. If you protest you will be "shot at sight". Naija sef! ![]() |
nex:How can I bring up something that started in 1967 ( and have survived all these years) and has not abated in 2009? If you noticed I'm not interested in pleading for Nigerians to love Igbos. I'm only saying that Nigerians must accept Igbos as they are and not try to "contain" or "tolerate" them. If you cannot do that, then let them go and form their own country. Simple. Don't love me but let me go peacefully! Your vitriol changes nothing. All you need to do (which I suspect you will never do!) is to address the issues I raised. |
Topic is too important to "tire me". I worry for the future of my children. All responsible parents do. If my child graduates from Harvard, I don't want him to serve some half baked mallam in the name of "one Nigeria". A mallam who can wake up one day to toss him aside like they did to Soludo. |
nex:See me see trouble o Suddenly we are now Nazis for wanting to[b] be integrated AS WE ARE or be freed[/b]. Na wa for Nigerians! If all Edo people think like you, then it means you have not repented from the murder of Igbos in Benin as they were fleeing from Lagos. You think say we don forget?Igbos only hate stagnation and have demonstrated through the years (war and peaceful agitations) that we want to progress. Tell Pa Enahoro to put his money, blood and sweat into what he preaches today. Talk is cheap! ![]() |
Dede1:Sound points! chukxy44:With "shoot at sight" army and police, who go try? No be me o! Naija na one big jail with the most brutal prison guards. Na only you go die for this one o. We no dey inside!So, sit back and enjoy your pain. No escape my friend! ![]() |
The term "Igbo question" is only used here to mean "the progressive question". Igbo represents progress and achievement; the true Igbo spirit. Put differently, is Nigeria willing to employ an aggressively progressive people such as the Igbo for greatness? Those trying to twist my words here are deliberately trying to misrepresent facts and somehow change the subject. Nigeria is not progressing (some have been saying Igbo are partly to blame but that is a lie because Igbo have never been in control of power in Nigeria).[b] Any little progress we make (like the debt relief negotiated by Ngozi Okonjo Iweala), Naira policy (initiated by Chukwuma Soludo) and war against fake drugs (initiated by Dora Akunyili), are quickly reserved and dismantled once the North returns to the helms. [/b]The cell phone revolution initiated by Engineer Ernest Ndukwe would have suffered the same fate if he was removed. [b]My point is that I cannot even count how many chairmen of the US federal reserve that were Jews. The last one (Greenspan) was a Jew and the current one Bernanke is a Jew. In the US the job simply falls to the brightest and most qualified. I[/b]n Nigeria it falls to the least qualified due to regional hegemonic thinking. I can almost guarantee that if the power sector reform is handed over to some qualified Nigeria (who may be Igbo) we will come to see that steady power supply is possible in Nigeria. But will the North let that happen? The Igbos have done what was considered hard or impossible by other Nigerians (Enyimba for instance with Felix Anyansi Agwu). Mind you that some Enyimba players are not Igbo, but the point is that Anyansi Agwu is a typical Igbo go-getter and knows how to inspire a team to achieve the impossible. Igbo wants to progress and are in a hurry (any rational person should be after 40 years of stagnation!) to progress. Will Nigeria tap into Igbo zeal for progress and build a great nation or will they continue the policy of Igbo containment, 40 years after the war? If the policy of containment must continue as some seem to suggest, then the Igbo must be allowed to leave Nigeria in peace! |
The points raised remain unchallenged. Everyone knows they are true. I'm sure they speak for themselves. Ndigbo must be great in Nigeria or great in Biafra. Already we have achieved the most impossible tasks for Nigeria. Example, Enyimba football club is the ONLY NIGERIAN club to lift the African Champion league cup, ever! And they did so twice! No other Nigerian team has achieved the same feat again. You cannot force a lion to chew grass simply because there are more buffalo in the reserve. |
Nigeria cannot work AS IS. Period! There are too many things wrong. Let us take a look at some of the problems: 1. The cart is attempting to pull the horse: Northern Nigerian attitude to government business and governance (the born to rule mentality) poses the biggest obstacle to a Nigerian nation. The North has been ruling Nigeria since the end of the civil war in 1970 (almost 40 years!). Nigeria degenerated steadily under Northern rule to the today’s pitiable conditions whereby Nigeria cannot even boast of the ability to refine petroleum (our biggest foreign exchange earner!). Africa’s largest producer of petroleum cannot refine petroleum! Nigeria cannot generate electricity (only produces about 2000 megawatts for a country of 140 million!). Nigeria cannot even provide security and protection from dangerous robbers (both pen and gun robbers). Nigeria cannot protect Nigerian citizens abroad. There are Nigerians scattered all over the world undergoing various harrowing conditions and treatments on a daily basis, with no hope in sight. The list goes on.2. The prognosis is not good: Current statistics show that some sections of Nigeria (South East for instance) produce far more qualified workforce than the North, and yet these graduates join the jobless queue yearly while the less qualified Northerners get jobs. This is part of why the violent crimes and militancy are now championed by persons with university degrees! ![]() 3. Nigerians cannot live peacefully in Northern Nigeria without fear of occasional “religious riots” which claim thousands of lives each time. These riots are often termed religious but they are really tribal riots targeting Igbo and churches in the North. The rise of the BOKO HARAM is just a little manifestation of a deep seated resentment against western culture and education which Igbos and other southerners maintain an advantage over the North. 4. The oil in the Niger delta should be owned by the local states and communities who should own the fields 100% [/b]but pay taxes to the Federal government. That is the standard practice all over the world but not in Nigeria. This can NEVER happen in Nigeria, hence the instability in the delta. 5. [b]The required skill-set to create a great nation out of Nigeria is not in Nigeria. Nigerians with such skills (which again are mainly from Southern, especially South Eastern Nigeria) are abroad. They have been forced out by the insistence of Northern Nigeria to remain in charge. Some Nigerians even accuse Igbos of greed and of trying to dominate Nigeria. They forget then even biggest and greatest nations like the USA and Great Britain are dominated by the Jews (who are an infinitesimal minority in the US and British contexts)! It does not take away anything from these nations. It only makes them truly great! But the question is this: if Northern Nigeria has been leading Nigeria right and providing the right and qualified leadership, would anyone complain? If Nigerians have electricity, good roads, health care and security, would anyone care that the North dominates? I doubt it! But that is not the case. Nigeria has been spiraling downwards since after the war and there is no hope. 6. There is no hope because a region that produces far less university graduates are scheming to remain in charge for ever. The Igbo will never stop going to school. They could never be discouraged from schooling (as appears to be the intention of the architects of Northern control). Even Igbos outside Nigeria go to school far more and will continue doing so. This situation will only get worse. I only see trouble ahead if nothing changes about the way northern Nigerians see power. So, Nigerians need to be honest with themselves. You cannot say, well I want to stay with Igbos but I fear they will dominate me! Either Nigerians accept a possibility of Igbo dominance (based on current education trends and proven competence), in which case a truly progressing and growing nation can emerge; or they should have the courage to ask Igbos to leave Nigeria. Something must give! ![]() |
Ordinarily this shouldn't be a problem (provided the Fed Gov actually bailed these banks out with billions of dollars, and own majority shares in them). These are private corporate financial institutions! They lose all that private stuff only if the government owns majority shares in them or gave that as condition for bailing them out(which the companies reserve the right to reject in a normal capitalist economy) , then everything becomes possible. It appears not the be the case here (we never heard that the government owns these banks or gave that condition for bailing them out, unlike what happened in the States). This action is only legitimized by the military decree re-codified Nigerian-style in 2007. This is really unprecedented and it may all be about the same "northernization" of everything in Nigeria. The proof to this allegation will come in the form of replacements to these sacked managers. Mark my word, they will all or nearly be all northerners! Let's just watch! |
na_so:Can someone please provide concrete details of the "Abandoned Property" law? A lot of folks here don't know what really happened. Information is power. |
Look, this debate is really good for everybody from the old Eastern Nigeria. I said in one my posts that what is evil is the attempt to hush up these types of discussions. Why is this good? It is good because you may wake up to discover that the person you thought was your oppressor is actually your victim. The politicians and leaders from the 60s era were not perfect. They had their flaws. However, it is also a fact that some of them were more right than others. Some of those who were wrong have changed their positions (for instance Enahoro and Saro wiwa before his death). Others have refused to do so out of wickedness and unnecessary hatred. The Eastern region (Biafra) was more culturally homogeneous and cohesive than some make it out. I just (last week) gave out my niece in marriage to a guy from Akwa Ibom. She is the third member of my family to marry someone from the minorities of the east. I know for a fact that the Igbo would not have allowed (or even be in a position to allow) the current environmental degradation of the delta (among other evils). Don't forget that the minorities could balance out the Igbos population-wise; there was no way resource control agitation would arise. Let every former easterner approach this debate fearlessly. Let's be fully honest about how we feel. Everyone should keep his/her eyes open! I don't want a repeat of 1967 ever again. Ndigbo have paid enough dues for Nigeria! So, it is okay to love or hate Ndigbo. Just let us know on time! I don't want to wake up one day to discover that I have been sleeping with an enemy. I don't want to wake up dead! |
naijaking1:Bros, this my comment should guide your insights into these issues. We must open our eyes in that Naija! From now, I am more interested in helping us see the real picture and take a cue from that. Onlytruth: |
Beaf:And don't try to patronize Igbos with your cheap gambit. The Igbos were "intelligent" and all that and yet they fell for your cheap stratagems which nearly annihilated them in Biafra. They died to defend your territories. We are wiser today. Face your real enemies (which are growing in ranks by the way). |
Beaf:Did you read what I just posted at all? Here it is again: Onlytruth:Please read comments before reacting to them. Thank you! |
Beaf:Don't worry about me or Igbos. We hold no ambitions over that part of the world (if you can use your head for once). Worry about those who are there already to deal decisively with your type. Like I said before, the Igbos don't need to do anything. We have far more lucrative and bigger real estate to aim for. I can't stoop to give you a hint. You are on your own! |
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