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IGBOS BY PROF TEKENA TAMUNO I always insist that the greatest merit for Igbos in recent times is *not simply the advent of the internet on the surface!* _It is the social media aspect of the internet_ which now allows independent thinkers to *challenge the lies of history.* In Nigeria, our little corner of the world, *through social media presentations,* scholars are now debunking the false stories perpetuated by the Yoruba press *(with the help of the north who has always been paranoid about Igbos).* The Yorubas took advantage of their civil war take-over of the press *to rewrite the history of Nigeria as it favors them...,* and if you believe them, *"every post independence success in Nigeria was Awolowo influenced"* and every problem in Nigeria was *"instigated by Azikiwe, Ojukwu and the Igbos!"*"The truth is reluctantly coming out"* and _Igbos are gradually being vindicated!!!_ Read this masterpiece below by *Professor Tekena Tamuno, a great historian and former Vice - Chancellor University of Ibadan.* By the way, he's not an Igbo man!�� =============== "IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA" -- PROF TEKENA TAMUNO The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme court. Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service. The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as "the fastest growing economy in the world," by the Harvard Review; faster than China, faster than Singapore, and all the so-called "Asian Tigers." Awolowo is often credited with "free education". But no one yet has pointed out any surviving school buildings of the period built by Awo. But all over the East there were quality schools built by the various communities using the Town Development Unions from 1954, and acessing the matching grants of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. And this was the East with the poorest revenue resources of any of the regions. The Mbaise secondary school exists, the National High School Okigwe exists, the Ngwa High school exists, the Enyiogugu Grammar School exists, etc. These were solid schools built all over the East with matching goverment grants. But where are the buildings of the Modern schools in Western Nigeria? They do not exist. They were makeshift. The Catholic church forced the Azikiwe government from its scholarship program, but it is also on record, that the Eastern government was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in education. The East had the highest number of schools; the highest school enrollment; the broadest penetration of medical services; and the best modern road network in west Africa. Indeed if we look carefully, the only public hospitals and most of the schools still standing in the East today, at various stages of run down are the schools and hospitals built by Azikiwe/Okpara. Every division of the East had a Joint Hospital as part of the Eastern Medical services. So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments. First, the Eastern Outlook, the government paper of Eastern Nigeria was the first newspaper established by any government in Nigeria, and it was of such quality and impact that the literacy level of Easterners, and the depth of public information retailed by Outlook was without compare. This is besides the fact that Western Nigerian Broadcast Services, WNBS-TV founded in 1958 only preceded the ENBC-TV founded in 1959, by only seven months. But Outlook preceded Sketch by 15 years. Now Azikiwe built the Onitsha Modern market, the first modern mall or trade emporium in West Africa. Onitsha was effectively Dubai before Dubai. People traveled all over Africa, from as far as the Congo and Sudan and Egypt, to come and buy and trade in Onitsha. The economic impact of this was humonguos. So, give me the vast Onitsha modern market over Cocoa House in Ibadan. Azikiwe built the first Nigerian University at Nsukka with the first School of Law, the first School of Engineering, the first Business School; the first school of journalism, and the first school of music and performance, etc. By the time its first graduates took the Nigerian civil service exams in 1963, everybody began to raise the cry of "Igbo domination" starting with Akintola and Ayo Rosiji. Give me UNN over Liberty stadium. Azikiwe began the first modern library system in West Africa. The East had a system of city libraries starting with the very modern Ziks Library in Enugu. I Literally grew up in the Umuahia Divisional Library. These libraries were built all over the East. Schools in the East were built with libraries. Moreover the Eastern Nigerian Library Board had a sysem of rural amd mobile libraries. There was nothing like it anywhere else in Nigeria: kids having library cards and able to borrow or order books from the public library. Give me the the first library over the first TV. I do not by this mean that Awolowo did not make his contributions, but the regular skewering of the facts, and angling of contemporary national narratives often makes it seem these days like the greatest contributor to the founding of Nigeria and its development is Awolowo and the Yoruba, when the actual facts speak differently. The great Ibadan historian, Tekena Tamuno, was unambiguous in stating once at NIPPS, Jos, that "the Igbos are the makers of moderm Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed." We must remind Nigerians, particularly Igbo children, daily of these fact, to achieve what Achebe called " a balance of stories." And that also means we must read beyond the surface of things. Babarinsa's Guardian essay is angled carefully to maintain a revisionist narrative. And that is to be always challenged, however innocent it might seem. Even today, most Yoruba think that Awolowo founded the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. No one has reminded them that it took Azikiwe's pressures for a university for Nigeria, in his meeting with Arthur Richards in 1946, that led to the cobstitution of the Eliot commision and subsequently the founding of the University College, Ibadan. This fact is even clearly conveyed in Michael Crowder's eponymous book, The Story of Nigeria. Nsukka was Azikiwe's critique of what he felt to be the conceptual limitations of Ibadan. The University of Lagos was the result of NCNC's ideological contributions to the federal policy during the ill fated coalition government with the NPC. UNILAG was an NCNC project, shepherded by Aja Wachukwu as minister for education. Even the great UNILAG in her 50th anniversary failed to mention Prof Eni Njoku as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the university, a man that layed the solid foundation of what made Unilag is today. These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible. Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter. |
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HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE CURSED- Shehu Mohammed Writes From PDP , -> If you buy data with your money as a jobless youth to praise Buhari govt. -> If you vote for a change and still join apc to blame pdp for corruption when 26b is still missing in NNPC -> If you queue for fuel in petrol stations and still put apc flag on ur dashboard -> If you posting that Atiku is desperate for power and still supporting Buhari for second term -> If your parent can’t pay your school fees and Clapping for Buhari who kids are in London schools -> If you have malaria and and fight Pple criticizing Buhari medical bill –> If you are in diaspora and everyday you go online to hail apc govt for putting you in life exile –> If Buhari can pretend to be sick for 2 years but get well now to seek your vote -> If by now you still don’t know that apc is ruling with propaganda -> If you don’t have voter’s card and complain of bad govt –> If Buhari has not found his certificate after 2017 and you still believe he can still recontest elections –> If after 2years in office and Buhari is still blaming past govt for poor economy and you still wearing apc shirt –> If Buhari keeps paying Paris refunds and your Governor can’t still pay salaries –> If you hail Buhari body language for steady power supply and you can not now smell his economic body odor –> If you clap for Buhari for fighting corruption and see Buhari and Tinubu sitting together inside presidential jet –> If you Abuse Atiku for joining pdp and clap for Obanikoro and Tinubu for attending apc program -> If you blame Gej for Diezani loots but now continue to defend Buhari for appointing Kyari at NNPC board –> If you using generator to watch Fashola and Buhari commissioning power plant in Kano –> If you join apc to condemn pdp convention when apc can not call just ordinary NEC meeting in four years -> If by now Lai Mohammed is yet to find his voice to criticize pdp convention and you still think the congress is not successful for pdp to win in 2019 -> If lastly you read this joke and don't share for people to vote against Buhari draconian rule and still continue thinking like cow in Buhari Daura Twitter visit then you must be one of his herdsmen. |
May thunder, birthed in Daura, breed in Zulu, Brought up in Swahili, attained puberty in the Pacific, and currently resides in Bermuda fire Buhari and all who has connived to bring tears and shame upon innocent Nigerians. |
My dear it is full of propaganda and deceit.Cant any of the girls speak in English, I cry for this nation |
I am still very surprised that none of this acclaimed found girls can speak English as we where all told that they where all preparing for WAEC at the time of there Kidnap. |
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Lord will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus....Just keep faith don't give in,God will surprise just cast your care to him |
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Maritime University ON JANUARY 28, 20163:32 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS *As Aginighan urges FG to rescind decision By Emma Amaize & Jimitota Onoyume WARRI—Reactions have continued to trail the decision of the Federal Government to scrap the Nigeria Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, in Delta State, with the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Western zone, demanding an apology from the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. File: Nigeria Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, in Delta State Also, an Ijaw leader and former acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor Power Aginighan, has described as an error of judgment, the reported move by Amaechi to scrap the university which was set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan. Pastor Aginighan, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in a statement, said that the proposed action was against President Muhammadu Buhari’s assurance to redress challenges of underdevelopment facing the region. Aginighan, who is the founding National Secretary, Ijaw National Congress, INC, expressed fears that the reported move by the Minister of Transport would upset the atmosphere of peace in the region, stressing that the coming of the university brought joy to the Ijaw nation and people of the region. Meanwhile, IYC Western zone, comprising Edo, Delta and Ondo States, made the call at a meeting in Bomadi, presided over by its chairman, Freedom Atigbi. In a communiqué by the Information Officer, Napoleon Kenerekedi, the youths said it was an insult to the Ijaw nation for Amaechi to say that Gbaramatu Kingdom was unsafe for Nigerians from other parts of the country to come for learning. The council said he should not only apologise but rescind the decision, “If the terrain is not conducive for Nigerians from other parts of the country, then it should also be unsafe for continued oil exploration activities by multinationals and the Nigerian government.” |
Bubu blame GEJ for dis |
Buhari self! Prophets are now running mad because of hunger.. |
Buhari self |
My name is Tinubu,Fashola's god father and Atiku happens to be our good friend even Amaechi we are all angels and saints.....one love |
I celebrate u ma'am...4rm glory to glory |