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Is this Asari Dokubo in the middle?
Well, we are finally embracing ourselves and our destiny.

jason123: See logic!

Ilaje, Itsekiris and Usen and neigbours are "[/b]Yoruba groups[b]" and they are in the Niger Delta
Get this into your tiny brain, there are Yoruba and Igala people in the "Niger Delta".

Mr. Ngodigha aka Andre Uweh, see your life . . .

My friend sharap and stop bombarding us with your southern Nigeria illusion. Take a look at the map and see that Igboland cuts CENTRALLY (not peripherally) into the Niger Delta. Yorubaland is only tangential to it, that is assuming the Ilaje and Itsekiri admit to be called Yoruba.
We Ndigbo have clear and frontal claim to CENTRAL areas of Niger delta than any other majority group in Nigeria. THESE FACT CAN NEVER CHANGE.

^^
Awww, desperate for my attention, again. Sorry o, the sun must shine on those standing up before shinning on those sitting down.
For now, there is nobody standing up, so there you have it. When folks stand up again, you disappear again into irrelevance and backwaters.

hehehe!
So, what is stopping him and his boys? lmao.

Okija_juju: I was going through a topic where the current Eze Ndi Igbo of Nairaland Ichie Onlytruth referred to the "South-South" as; a political and economic red herring which will soon disintegrate. The two bolded is part of why I believe in EASTERN NIGERIA . This prompted me to actually research to see if this statement wasnt as good as shooting oneself in the leg.

I have attached a map just to see. I would even have thought the like of Taraba, Benue and Adamawa would be the ones refered to as Easterners not Igbos.

Educational reasons only. . .

The major flaw in your argument (as indicated by the included map) is that the crosshairs of the geographical planes have been rigged to support your theory.
Nothing short of a real map with longitudes and latitudes complete, would solve your question. The crosshairs could have been manipulated to suit your theory.
For me, nothing less than a map, inserted into a complete Cartesian style grid box would accurately answer the question.
All I know for now is that the Nigerian map has always been ruled by two major landmark rivers in Nigeria -the Niger and Benue. Everything to the north of Benue and Niger is the North; everything to the West of the Niger is west, while everything to the East of the Niger is the East. So, your question remains unanswered.
In that case, I maintain that we (Ndigbo and others in the same region) are Easterners.

Ola one: The US and other Western nations will support her. She has been very good to them. She helped them to further their interest in Nigeria recently.


Oh, sorry, this position has been an exclusive preserve of[b] US nationals[/b] since inception.

Sorry oo, Madam poodle

I believe she is a US national, unless I'm wrong.

My brother[b] FACE[/b] please take note.

Dudu_Negro: Ufeolorun and Ekt,

On the issue of whether or not Yoruba should make a move on the offshore question, I want to draw your attention to two facts:

1. The reason Azikiwe carved MidWest out of Western Region was not because the Mid Westerners were agitating for separation or independence, it was because Zik intended on keeping oil wealth and ownership in the Eastern region. This happened in 1965 with a constitutional amendment.

This is a historical fallacy because I have seen the referendum conducted in the Mid-west that led to the creation of the region, the ONLY political zone ever created in Nigeria by popular demand following a referedum.
This lie is shameful.

2. The reason Gowon carved Rivers and East Central State out of Eastern Region was because (a) the Deltans wanted separation and indeendence from East; (b) to de-spirit Ojukwu from secession. This happened in 1967 with the issuance of a decree.

This is another lie because the creation of Rivers and SE states was a MILITAY FIAT. There was no referendum conducted in the two areas before the states were created.You are only correct that Gowon wanted to despirite Ojukwu and sow a seed of divide and conquer in Eastern Nigeria to make it easier to defeat and exploit.

[s]The regions are antagonizing one another over the Delta. Well, let's talk about the Delta. It's divided into three sectors -

1. West Delta
2. Mid Delta
3. East Delta

Only the West and East Delta are restive, the Middle Delta is not. West Delta is owned by Itsekiri (Yoruba); East Delta is owned by Efik (Ibibio, Annang and Efik) and Mid Delta is owned by Ijaw and Ogoni.

Igbos lay claim to parts of Ijaw land as their ancestral domain. Ijaws on the other hand has been encroaching on ancestral lands and territories that belonged to Itsekiri and Ogoni. People are bringing trouble to Ijaw or Ijaw is bringing trouble to others. There is plenty ethnic palaver in the Delta and is all localized to Ijaws of the mid Delta.

The global oil corporations that drill our oil are bigger and stronger, politically, than our country. They manipulate and dictate our oil policies, they are constantly assessing their risks and where the sovereignty of Nigeria might take it. If the Delta people (Itsekiri, Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik, Ibibio, Annang) have a better promise for economic partnership than they are enjoying from Nigeria, then they will be more upfront and interested in dissolving Nigeria so they can form new alliance with Delta over its oil.

No one can deny that Nigeria is socially stagnant and politically wrecked. So why is Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco and the rest of these mega global oil monopolists comfortable in the risks of stagnation and wreckage?

It's because the North/South social dynamics and political antagonism is just the proper measure of recipe that is needed to keep us embittered at one another but not at the foreigners that are at the root of our political problems. Our stagnation and wreckage is a great risk to their economic interest, but if Nigeria dissolves, then Delta will splinter and dissolve also and they will then have to deal with a partner that has no internal enemy - the venom that had hitherto been directed against Hausa will now be aimed at them and from each of the three different sovereignties in which the three Deltas are now housed.

West Delta belongs to Itsekiri, there is no trouble in Itsekiri. There is a reason why GEJ is there and there is a reason why bokoharam is loose, there is a dynamics to the political unveiling. We should allow Ijaw to ruin itself if it wants to! Hausa did not just wake up one day and started fishing in Constitution for loopholes to exploit or seeking understanding on off shore oil and meaning of contigous coastline and continental shelf. Oil is in the South, if the Northerner does not understand his position in its ownership then he will have no grievance against derivation formula and its inequity. If he is shown the interpretation and its understanding and told how to manipulate the loopholes in the constitution to claim ownership, then he will have an awakening that puts him in direct confrontation with the Southerners.

There is no tragedy, it's all drama!! The hero and the villain in a tussle. If you allow the hero to kill the villain, then heroism ends there. You only allow humiliation so the villain can flee and prepare for a vengeance. By alternating their turn at humiliation, the fight lasts forever and the hero never dies.

Whether offshore oil is co-owned by the sovereignty or not, Yoruba needs to sit on the fence and work our collective interests toward 2015. . .we have been out of power for 8yrs or longer, we need to get back in it and consolidate our political influence. What we need to get upset and mad about is Ijaw's foolishness for bringing its trouble into West Delta. That's our people and our frontier and we should defend every one of our citizens and every piece of our land.

eni ti ose bi Ibadan laari, Ibadan o se bi baba eni kankan!! lmao!
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The rest of your post above is pure drivel.


@Post,

Ndigbo should continue to support our fellow Eastern Nigerians in their fight to retain the 13% derivation.
We have no choice because we cannot kill someone we would end up mourning.

Ivynwa: Mr Onlytruth, how are you sir? I need to talk to you about something important and sent you friend request so that
I can mail you when you accept that.

You can contact me at ezendigbo_nl@hushmail.com
Later sis.

Because of women like Auntie Ngozi, Oby Ezekwesiri, and Arunma Oteh, I have vowed to train any of my female relations who is interested to any levels of education, provided they are FIRST CLASS students.
These are Nigeria's best of the best.
We are proud of them.

The Enugu international airport is part of why I wish there is a governor in Enugu state who is more gregarious, and with a HUGE vision and dream. As has been demonstrated over and over, the governor of the state is really the leader of such project on the ground, no thanks to Nigeria's brand of stateism. If Gov Chime of Enugu state shows a big interest in that airport, he would rally other players to it. Unfortunately that is the truth. All we need to do is to keep harping on that airport because it holds the key to our future in Nigeria.

This is the words of a man who truly loves Nigeria and wants Nigeria to continue as one. This is also the FIRST Northerner to openly embrace the truth in his statements; others are busy playing games with Nigerian unity.
I hope that others would come out openly to embrace this truth. Other sections of the country, the Igbo for example, have patiently waited for almost 46 years to produce a Nigerian president. This has fueled anger and secessionist moves in Igboland. Nevertheless, the Igbo elite still remain patient. The country will never be one or ever know peace until the Igbo produce a president of Nigeria. That is really what this man is saying.
All wise folks should rally round him.

PROUD-IGBO:
Govt to shut down Enugu airport for repairs, upgrade

By Wole Shadare



THE Federal Government has concluded plans to shut down the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu for total rehabilitation and to upgrade it to international standards.


It was learnt that already, a committee headed by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nnamdi Udoh, will meet tomorrow in Enugu to fashion out modalities on how to not only make the airport viable because of its strategic location to the people of South East, but to raise its status to international standard with all the facilities that are required for that purpose.


The Guardian learnt that the airport would be shut down immediately after Easter celebration so that total refurbishment of the runway, provision of modern control tower and other navigational aids that would flight operations seamless can begin.


A visit to the airport shows how fast facilities had generated less than two years after the Federal Government reportedly spent N1.3 billion to extend and repair the runway. Most of the runway markings have faded, a situation that confuses pilots on what the real centre line for aircraft landing is.


Also, there are large potholes on several parts of the runway. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), it was learnt, had mandated the contractor that handled the project to help refurbish it. Most of the holes had been patched up.


To make the airport functional both in the day and at night, the airfield lighting has been installed while Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) are expected to be installed by NAMA.


Udoh told The Guardian that arrangements were being made to give the airport the status it deserves, adding that the closure would be done after Easter period for comprehensive repairs.


The airport's runway, which was 2,400 meters long, was in 2010 extended by 600 metres to make it 3000 meters or three kilometers. The width was also extended from 45 metres to 60 metres.


When completed, it is expected that the runway will be wide enough to accommodate wide-body aircraft. It is also expected that with its new status as an international airport, it would in future be designated for international operations.


Assistant Secretary General of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Mohammed Tukur, who lauded the idea, said Enugu is the fourth busiest airport in the country, and so deserves more attention than it is getting from the concerned agencies.


Tukur suggested that the international flights be designated to international airlines because the airport is situated in the business hub of the South-East zone.

http://nigeriaworld.com/cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://odili.net/news/source/2012/mar/21/1.html

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Decided to post this here instead of starting a new thread.

So once again after unravelling of the patch-patch/kobo-wise-naira-foolish work done last time to 'upgrade' the Airport, it's time to close it for yet more 'renovation' work . What the fuc/k is stopping the Federal Gov't from budgeting serious money for this project to get it done properly once and for all, instead of all this faffing about ? A[b]nd this is the 4th busiest Airport in Nigeria (likely to be 3rd busiest if all the South East States can come together to formulate a common economic/regional agenda that would see investments in an intergrated rail transport system linking Owerri with Aba, Onitsha, Awka, Abakaliki and Enugu).

Notice no mention was made of a new terminal building (and the old one can then be used for local flights only).[/b]

Also (if a [b]PROPER/FUNCTIONAL [/b]Airport is finally achieved) i think there's a potential 'goldmine' waiting to be tapped in the provision of a world-class 5-star Airport Hotel/Conference Centre nearby; maybe at Emene (if the area is spruced up a bit) or where the present Hotel Presidential now occupies at Independence Layout.

I swear, if most other of my kinsfolk had the thirst and hunger for rapid development of the South East that i have (and peeps like Bliss4Lyfe, OnlyTruth, etc), Alaigbo would be Eldorado by now. What we need is a 21st century/digital-age leader (that everyone respects) to articulate and push an agenda for said growth.

That airport and the bridge will be the focus of my campaign online from now going forward.
They hold the key to the economic revolution in Eastern Nigeria.

Dudu_Negro: Onlytruth, I have watched this post from beginning and kept shut. You just said something that I cannot keep quiet about.

In exchange for an International airport, you will support Deltans position on offshore oil. Is that right? Offshore oil is bigger than both you and Delta! Your support on it is irrelevant! Nonetheless, Fed owe you an International Airport. Building an operating International airport in East (. . .will you stop saying SE?) is an obligation of the Federal Govt and you do not have to bargain for it. Tell MASSOB to put heat on your Eastern governors behind and rouse them up to make the airport a reality before GEJ leave office.

West should remain on the fence on this issue. We loose nothing by doing so. Boots, guns and bullets were deployed to our soil for marching and protesting against oil subsidy removal. We are tired of pioneering and leading the forefront of political opposition.

The fact remains solidly clear - the natives and indigenous land and territories need to be clearly defined in relationship to the distance out to sea at which the sovereignty of Nigeria is supreme above that of any of its composite states.

I agree with all the bolded. BTW I am not exchanging the airport for support. I'm only giving an example of proof of physical infrastructure.

Every Igbo person should visit this site because I think that we are the most naive of all major Nigerian tribes about issues of tribalism. No question about that.
Before coming to Nairaland, I knew that some yoruba can be double faced, but that was the only "crime" I attributed to them. Since coming here, I have come to start believing that some of them may be the most wicked tribe in Nigeria.
Nothing hateful even comes close to their brand of wickedness and hate -laughing at dead children who died from starvation and diseases caused by a war crimes regime. Usually, I would place myself in my opponents position before deciding how to relate to their plight. I could never laugh at my enemy for the deaths of innocent children NO MATTER WHAT. That is a demonic level of hate.
Nairaland also helped me to understand other Nigerians more. This site prepared me very well to serve the interest of my people better.

Beaf, just know that I'm talking as someone with little information on this issue.
I still believe in Eastern Nigeria no matter what because it is my catchment area. Nothing will ever change that.
The sooner the people in SE and SS understand that we must move jointly on ALL issues of interest to BOTH zones, the better for us.

Beaf: ^
From all I've read, something is being done about the 2nd Niger Bridge and it is a definite. I don't know much about the airport though, but I do recall it was a campaign promise (I might be wrong). The details of these things are worth finding out.

That airport is more important to us than almost every other thing because it would allow us to develop SE economically.
Anyway, I digress. The point I'm making is that the SE has no interest in SS's offshore oil derivation struggle; but if we have concrete infrastructure to show for our support, then it would be worthwhile; else it would simply be self immolation for an uninterested party.

Beaf: ^
Even the relationship between husband and wife is a trade. You shouldn't take part in a relationship that is one-sided. Is this one one-sided? I think not, there are things to trade on either side. Lets have a healthy day in the market.

Honestly Beaf, I don't know. I am looking for an infrastructural proof that something has changed for the SE with GEJ in aso rock.
I would admit that GEJ was there for us during Ojukwu sickness and burial, and he has also appointed some of our sons and daughters to key positions in government; BUT our only international airport is being treated like a political ping pong. Our second Niger bridge remain indefinitely on the so called drawing board; we remain the only zone with 5 states, and so on. We would trade all those positions for ONE fully functional international airport for example.
These are things that should prove to us that an alliance is in existence.

One Caveat though: I COULD BE WRONG.

afam4eva: The funny thing is that the bolded is always one-sided. That's how foolish Igbo leaders have been. I can tell you that a Niger Deltan(minus Igbo speaking areas) will rather vote an aboki than Igbo. We have to start thinking about what is best for Igboland irrespective of whose detriment it may be. We have to stop all these brotherly rubbish. We can always join heads with the ND but it must be for the interest of Igboland.

The bolded is one issue that should be of concern to every Igbo. I don't know how big it is because we don't probe it here as much as we should (and we should start doing so immediately). We cannot be sacrificing for a partner that may not be interested in reciprocating our goodwill for whatever reasons. I will soon start a thread on SE/SS alliance/relationship to probe it.
I strongly suspect that the North must have obtained assurance of Igbo support before this round of sabre rattling. I know those Northerners to be very savvy and calculating politicians.

Honestly, apart from a STRONG ASSURANCE of alliance to the SE of a shared destiny by the so called "SS", I don't see any reason why Ndigbo should continue to support them on this issue, afterall they are not sharing the offshore oil money in any way. If there is an Eastern Nigeria economic development body being sponsored by part of this money, then Ndigbo would find an interest in this; else it would be very foolish to continue to support it.

@PhysicsQED

For now, at least we both agree that "SS" is an obtuse idea. I don't care if was Albert Eistein's idea. Soon it will disintegrate.
I will be back later to discuss more. Gotta run some business first.