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PoliticsRe: Terrifying View Of The Split Up Of Nigeria - Apocalypse for North & South? by Onlytruth(m): 2:22am On Aug 20, 2009
Beaf:
I came across this spine chilling article on Nigerian Village Square.


If the incessant religious violence in the North within the last two decades is anything to go by, we can also expect a 1966-type bloodbath of Easterners. But this time not only Igbos and Eastern minorities will be ethnically cleansed, but all southerners and even Middle belters in the core North. This will certainly be followed by massive retaliations down South.

These are just some of the ugly scenarios that await us if we are unable to make Nigeria work. The prospects are quite dire as a peaceful Soviet Union-type break-up is unlikely. On the contrary a Yugoslavia-type of violent disintegration is much more probable with Nigeria splintering up to a dozen parts. Old and subliminal ethno-religious animosities will violently erupt as our disparate ethnic pseudo-nationalities battle each other in a fratricidal scramble for territory and resources.

Nafata Bamaguje

Daura, Katsina state

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/nafata-bamaguje/if-naija-scatter-part-1.html
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!
PoliticsRe: I Have $5000000 I Dont Know Where To Keep It by Onlytruth(m): 6:12pm On Aug 19, 2009
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PoliticsRe: Are We Truly Ready For A Revolution by Onlytruth(m): 3:24am On Aug 19, 2009
Beaf:
Wrong. Javanese comprise 42% of their population, the next biggest groups are Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5% and Malays 7.5%. Naturally the Javanese run things and no othnic group is big enough to challenge them.
Anyway what about their war in Aceh?

Compare with Nigeria; Hausa ~20%, Igbo ~20%, Yoruba ~20% huh
Solid observation.

ezeagu:
Nigeria was created to spite us.

Can you imagine letting Oyo, Benin AND the troublesome Igbo have soveriegn states? Europe would have/had serious competition and they had to fix that, that is why the most valuable African art pieces in the British museum, and their only bronzes (Obviously stolen) where ransacked from these states, this happened less than 120 years ago.

In summary Nigeria is not/was not meant to be a nation.

grin, Hey a revolution is a revolution!
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)
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PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 10:51pm On Aug 18, 2009
Links to lies!

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PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 10:46pm On Aug 18, 2009
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!
PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 10:31pm On Aug 18, 2009
Ikengawo:
The Igbo and Ibibio fought several slave trade related wars and all eastern tribes constantly raided each other for slaves.)
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!
PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 10:12pm On Aug 18, 2009
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!
PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 10:06pm On Aug 18, 2009
strangleyo:
Actually you're wrong on Britain. Anglos and Saxons are two distinct tribes. Anglos are the original English people who dominate in Wales, and South England. The Saxonites were northern European invaders. The Scots and Irish also have much Celtic (nordic Euro) mixtures in them.

Language is a bigger barrier to cultural homogeneity than all other factors, bar perhaps skin colour.

Nigeria cannot be united unless we can all understand each other. With the right education all Nigerians should speak our newly adoped English.  One of the major house indifferences is their language. The fuckers don’t seem to want to learn English.
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!
PoliticsRe: Balkanization Of Nigeria Would Be A Bloodbath by Onlytruth(m): 9:51pm On Aug 18, 2009
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.
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 9:27pm On Aug 18, 2009
Aloy~Emeka:
Is Enyimba not a football club that has players from all over Africa?. When did it become an igbo affair?. You think Enyimba will be the biggest football club in Nigeria if the proprietors tribalize it the way you guys are doing?.  If small Angola has a big club like Petro athletico, why shouldn't Nigeria have 10 of them?
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:
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!
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!
PoliticsRe: Are We Truly Ready For A Revolution by Onlytruth(m): 7:03pm On Aug 18, 2009
nex:
You all see why we need time to plan a revolution?

Some people mistake it that we're planning genocide. How can I engage in a revolution when my comrades are going to be slaughtering downtrodden people of other tribes instead of bringing down necrocracy.


As regards a bloodless coup, in Nigeria of today, it can't be done.

Due to foreign influence and interests in Nigeria. The will want the revolution to last forever.


At an average, 30% of the population will die. Not just directly from the violence, but from starvation, disease and contamination which would be caused by decaying dead bodies, transportation hazards that will engulf people fleeing (sinking ferries, crashing planes, cars and lorries). Not to mention those that will be killed in confrontation.


We need a revolution, but it has to be planned. It has to be structured and it has to be timed. People like asha80 have to be re-oriented that revolution doesn't mean tribal war or ethnic cleansing. They have to be reminded that there will be no looking back. Nothing like "but e been dey share the money" or "na my inlaw brother wife".


Before we get to the stage of the revolution, we must be sure that's what we want to do because once you get people like me activated, the job must be completed.
Do you realize how idiotic this sounds huh MEND attacked Atlas Cove (a federal facility in Lagos), Yorubas are still raking! grin
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 6:13am On Aug 18, 2009
Umar accuses Yar’Adua of nepotism
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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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.”






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PoliticsRe: US Army Prepares For Nigeria’s Possible Break-up (2015) by Onlytruth(m): 2:11am On Aug 18, 2009
THE AMAKA:
thats EXACTLY what im scared of! i dont want anyone trying to kill me because im a christian. and i dont want to cover my whole body and PRETEND to be something im not.
i wish people could freely just walk around Nigeria as they please, whether you are a christian or muslim.
you shouldnt have to fear your life. ive always wanted to go to northern nigeria.
now i feel that is out of the question because my life might be on the line.
a bomb or a machete either one!      embarassed embarassed embarassed undecided undecided undecided
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. cool
PoliticsRe: US Army Prepares For Nigeria’s Possible Break-up (2015) by Onlytruth(m): 2:03am On Aug 18, 2009
THE AMAKA:
cheers!

i dont want nigeria to break up.
i still want to visit every part of what is now Nigeria. i want to travel all over nigeria.
maybe if we had a good leader we can live in one peace within the same borders.
i would really like to travel to the north and see some mosques and some of the architecture i heard they have.
im just scared, and i dont want a car bomb exploding on my head because of unruly civilians.
but anyway, we should all just pray.
Amaka calm down, bomb no go blow for ya head!  grin grin

klassyguy:
One wonders in 2007 that obasanjo's government was bad, that we don't want him anymore. but it seems this present pot-smoker is making things worse. it wouldn't be nice to have a split nigeria. c[b]ertainly this guy is not going to win in 2011, cos nigerians no go gree anymore[/b]. it's going to be serious come 2011.
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! grin
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 1:34am On Aug 18, 2009
nex:
@JamesG

Really, not everybody that says I'm Ibo, I'm Igbo, has anything to do with Eastern Nigeria. Be very vigilant. Not everybody that opens an ID with an Ibo word is real. Nairaland does not have a tribe detector. If only there was such a software for the moderators to install, you would be shocked.


@OnlyTruth

who the fuçk is Pa Enahoro? Is that the man who is sponsoring you to spread all these lies? What's the name of that your 419 group. NADECO abi FEDECO?

Your plan shall fail. Oh! The Ibos and Edos were engaged in war doing the civil war, who the heck wasn't? You think that is enough a mantra to spread hate with? You need to try harder.


But why are you trying so hard to bring up something that will stir up hate against Ibos? Why try so hard?


Go and stand in front of your mirror and say to yourself, "I love Ibos". Let's see if that mirror won't shatter. Liar!
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.
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 10:49pm On Aug 17, 2009
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.
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 10:32pm On Aug 17, 2009
nex:
You mean only Ibo means progressive in Nigeria? Who is the supremacist now? Who is the Nazi now? Do you even know how Hitler started? Do you know the result?


OnlyTruth, I confirm that you are not from the East. You're a Boko Haram agent trying to make the Ibos look like hateful people who look down on others. What is your aim? To reciprocate this kind of feeling from other people? You are a liar! You are a devil!
See me see trouble o shocked. You conveniently avoided the points I raised to attack me personally. I resist the temptation to attack back because that simply derails my message. If I am the devil, what do you call your Pa Anthony Enahoro who woke up after about 30 years (after starving 2 million Igbos to death in Biafra) to discover he was wrong about Biafra and Nigeria. Keep your head inside the sand, it changes nothing! How can a people's love for progress (demonstrated through actions, not in speeches and rhetoric) become their greatest crimes huh 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!  angry
PoliticsRe: Are We Truly Ready For A Revolution by Onlytruth(m): 10:19pm On Aug 17, 2009
Dede1:
The current talk of revolution in the cesspit called Nigeria amounts to feel-happy ranting. Nigeria lost its sincerity to stage revolution on July 1966. The only form of revolution the jungle will see is a fratricidal war of disintegration that will give rise to serious battles of expansionism and change of boundaries.
Sound points!


chukxy44:
You have simply if i am equally tired of the state of our nation and the stituation we the citizens find our self. I say a big yes. [b]I am ready to stand up and fight for that which is right, incase u don't get nigeria would not change one bit if U and I do noting to change things. [/b]In case u don't know, there were a lot of south-south people on nairaland who just sat back and enjoy the net, making post and no action tll things got this bad. If the north and south can be affected by a slok of a government then the nation is not immune. CHANGE would happen with or with u and i. But i prefare to to partaken and save the next generation.
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. grin Na only you go die for this one o. We no dey inside!

So, sit back and enjoy your pain. No escape my friend! grin grin
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 9:32pm On Aug 17, 2009
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!
PoliticsRe: The Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 10:47am On Aug 17, 2009
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.
PoliticsThe Igbo Question: Why Nigeria Cannot Work by Onlytruth(op): 10:35pm On Aug 16, 2009
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! embarassed Nigeria cannot generate electricity (only produces about 2000 megawatts for a country of 140 million!). embarassed 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! embarassed
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! angry
PoliticsRe: Does Sanusi Have A Hidden Agenda?unanswered Questions About Bank Mds’ Removal by Onlytruth(m): 11:50pm On Aug 15, 2009
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!
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 5:01pm On Aug 14, 2009
na_so:
Hmmmmmm , Oga , oga u don start again o. Proof please.
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.
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 9:55pm On Aug 13, 2009
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!
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 9:07pm On Aug 11, 2009
naijaking1:
Guys, I see a lot of folks here making the same mistake Adaka Boro made.
Who told you the Hausa people who have tasted oil, and like it too much will just let Niger Delta become a republic/nation/confederate or whatever you call it without a fight, or a grand design of their own?

Yes, Ijaws might not have totally liked their position in eastern Nigeria, but the truth today is that on the average, they are not better off.
As far as oil continues to be mostly produced from the Niger Delta, the Hausa oligarchs who have developed a sweet tooth for this sweet crude will always find a way to divert most of the income to themselves.

While I don't support the tactics of MEND in every aspect, that idea of fighting for survival ought to come first before planning how to gain from the situation.
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:
I have often maintained that the only flaw in Igbo philosophy in Nigeria is that the Igbo are applying the (egbe bere ugo bere) ie live and let live philosophy to Nigeria. They are forgeting that these philosophies should only be used with people who understand them. It other words, they should be used only in Igboland. Why practice a philosophy that others will not understand or even abuse? [/b]That is how we have paid with blood to defend people who will sell us as cheap as anything worthless. Thank God that young Igbos are going to school a lot these days. [b]The Igbo are fast learners and I know they are learning a lot here.
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 7:34pm On Aug 11, 2009
Beaf:
O shut up! You are just a comical and deluded idiot speaking for yourself.
The average Igbo person is much more intelligent, mature and wiser than you ever will be.
I have never heard any Igbo (outside of your mad self) that either says they want to wipe out the Niger Delta or utter anything close to your messianic claims above.

Keep up your swastika sales. Psycho.
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).
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 7:28pm On Aug 11, 2009
Beaf:
O shut up! You are just a comical and deluded idiot speaking for yourself.
The average Igbo person is much more intelligent, mature and wiser than you ever will be.
I have never heard any Igbo (outside of your mad self) that either says they want to wipe out the Niger Delta or utter anything close to your messianic claims above.

Keep up your swastika sales. Psycho.
Did you read what I just posted at all? Here it is again:

Onlytruth:
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!
Please read comments before reacting to them. Thank you!
PoliticsRe: Isaac Adaka Boro And Niger Delta Militancy by Onlytruth(m): 7:15pm On Aug 11, 2009
Beaf:
Don't waste your sweat. As is obvious, ND guys are already heated up enough to stop your deluded 4th Reich right dead before it is born. grin
In the meantime, you can crank up swastika sales, nothing will stop us from gaining.
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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