₦airaland Forum

AlexBells:
First Lius Was Nigeria's first billionaire and that proves that he was the richest at those times around, this a Forbes Africa post about him,
https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/ I don't know what more credible sources you want but I also learnt during his death he was worth about $4 billion in todays value which means if he was alive, he would still be among the top 5 or so richest Nigerians today lol

You people just love propaganda.


1) The website you qouted is a Biafran propanganda website. It is NOT from Forbes.

2) Billionaires are rated every year. There was no such ratings of Nigerians by Forbes in the 1960s.


3) The whole budget of Nigeria in 1967 wasn't up to $1Billion in 1967.
What was the size of Nigerian economy in 1967 and how can a player in that economy worth $1Billion in 1967?

Thandiubani:
This is very wicked reasoning. in 2015 when Boko Haram terrorists were busy killing innocent people in the north, destroying lives and properties, bombing Abuja and other states, nobody gave that as an excuse not to vote Buhari. Rather, everyone was busy telling us how he from the north understands their problem and can solve it because he's from there and is also a former military man.

Now, we want a SE man to occupy the position, you are telling me that nobody will vote for someone from that region because you think the antecedents of IPOB will make people not to vote for him. That's is really sad coming from you. Pure hypocrisy and that is why Nigeria is where it is today. People can't just boldly say the truth no matter whose ox is gored.

Honestly, it will be a plus for Nigeria if igbo presidential candidates can join the presidential race and campaign for the presidential ticket of both the APC and the PDP with utmost seriousness and commitment.

As at now, it seems only igbo youths online are campaigning for Igbo presidency but the Igbo politicians someone has accepted that they can't win and don't want to risk losing their money on a an election that they know they won't win.

EmekaA125:
It's too late. We don't want to be part of this useless and unworking godforsaken country where illiterate leads the learned. We are IPOB. We are IGBO.

Then form your own country where everything is perfect and stop disturbing the rest of us.

Thandiubani:
This is very wicked reasoning. in 2015 when Boko Haram terrorists were busy killing innocent people in the north, destroying lives and properties, bombing Abuja and other states, nobody gave that as an excuse not to vote Buhari. Rather, everyone was busy telling us how he from the north understands their problem and can solve it because he's from there and is also a former military man.

Now, we want a SE man to occupy the position, you are telling me that nobody will vote for someone from that region because you think the antecedents of IPOB will make people not to vote for him. That's is really sad coming from you. Pure hypocrisy and that is why Nigeria is where it is today. People can't just boldly say the truth no matter whose ox is gored.

The truth, most times is unpalatable.

1) No two elections are exactly alike.

2) The candidacy of Buhari will NOT be like the candidacy of even any other Northern, let alone be like the candidacy of an Igbo presidential candidate.

EmekaA125:
You are very very right. Believe me, IPOB worked so hard to achieve this. It's either Igbo governors and President hopefuls jettison their Utopia dream and support Biafra restoration or we become extremely violent towards it in 2023. Since no tribe will vote an Igbo candidate, the only option available is Biafra but those idiots won't read the handwriting on the wall and stop fighting IPOB.

Even in getting Biafra, you will still need the cooperation and support of non-Igbo Nigerians.


Biafra can be gotten in 3 ways;

1) WAR: This has been tried before but didn't work.

However, this can still work if Biafra has superior advantages (like more sophisticated Technology, greater economic resources, favourable geographical factors e.g Biafra controlling the coastline of Nigeria and blocking Nigeria from reaching the outside world and Biafra having more DEPENDABLE allies than Nigeria) over Nigeria

2) Peaceful and Diplomatic resolutions: this will require ammendment of the Constitution to accommodate secession, a long process that will require the support and cooperation of all Nigerians.

3) Combinations of the first two options: After long period of war (like 20 years) resulting in a statement, both sides decide to come to round table to agree on disintegration of the country. This was what happened in Sudan Vs South Sudan and Ethiopia Vs Eritrea.

AlexBells:
Had there ever been an Igbo man that does not love Nigeria please don't be deceived it is only a people that love their country so much that can endure a quater of what Igbos had endured in Nigeria and still keep faith alive, and by the way, I said Ojukwu's father was the richest man in the country during the time, in fact he once borrowed Nigeria a role Royce when the Queen came visiting so how does the son of the richest man be money motivated, if Ojukwu cared more about money he could have pressed more about staying in Nigeria as Nigeria as a whole is Richer than the East, I'm surprised at your shallowness for a member of tribe that goes deep sea fishing I'm still surprised at how shallow you are.

1) Which unbiased institution/agency rated Sir Loius Odumegwu-Ojukwu the richest man in Nigeria in 1967?


2) It is true that the Queen was chauffeur driven in Sir Ojukwu's Rolls Royce in Lagos in 1956 but she rode in Rolls Royce in other places too.

For instance in Kano, she was driven around the city in the Rolls Royce of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi-1.

By 1956, Oba Adesoji Aderemi (Ooni of Ife) and Dantata had Rolls Royce.

AlexBells:
This is not for your shallow understanding, take a course in advanced Military intelligence, IPOB is different from Biafra of over 50 years ago and by all indications they will incite revolutions and revolt, keeping Kanu changes nothing but will ensure more brutal measures

But why are you crying more than the bereaved?

Why are you warning (or will I say 'threatening' ) Nigeria about the havocs IPOB can wreck on the country even when Nigeria appear unconcerned, unmoved and unperturbed?

I share some of the writer's sentiments but to tell you the naked truth, any major party that field an Igbo presidential candidate for the 2023 is putting itself in a disadvantaged position and making it very easy for it's opponent to defeat it.
This is the reason why their beloved party, the PDP is conspicuously silent on 'igbo presidency'.

onuman:
Those beheading people are not Igbos.
Jihadists employ every misleading strategy in the books during Jihad. Boko Haram was unleashed on the east to kill government forces and provoke government to send armed forces to invade the east.

Continue to defend the indefensible and be deceiving yourself.


When Boko Haram started ,many Northerners were sympathetic to them and defended their actions.

I remember some Northerners insisting that there were Christians who dressed like muslims just
to be killing people and tarnish the image of Islam. Those Northerners now know better.

CursedNsukka:
I hope say her kpekus isn't choking the boy. Yoruba women kpekus get strong stench

Onye-Ara, you need to work hard so you too can go on vacation.

OfoIgbo:
Igbos are by far, academically more intelligent that Fulanis and Zulus.

Igbos are also not darker than the tribes you mentioned. And some Igbos have hazel eyes. Fulanis and Zulus don't normally have hazel eyes, unless they are faking it with contact lenses.

No tribe is more academically intelligent than another tribe but one individual may be be more intelligent than another individual.

Kennyking1234:
cause it took so much time for the camera to take and process the pictures. This was in 1930's and 1940's

So these people were still walking about naked as recent as the 1930s?

greymiles:
Igbos are way far ahead of yorubas from time

Look at the people in the backgrounds of the middle left and middle top pictures, they were naked and only covered their private parts with leaves.

richiemcgold:
Number 3 is a Ghanian name.

Some Yorubas bear Owusu.
You can check them on Facebook.

These people fail to learn from the mistakes of the past.

You don't win wars based on emotional rantings.

You don't win wars because you are ruthless but you win wars because you have superior advantages over your opponent(s).

These superior advantages may be Superior Technology , greater economic power, favourable geographical factors like access to the ocean and/or international land boundaries, DEPENDABLE ALLIES or a combination of all of these.

Finnese001:
Opinion on Igbo issues or Yoruba issues?

There's freedom of opinions on ANY matter.

He just aired his opinion about IPOB but if you feel he has committed any crime by so doing, you can survive him to court.

BKayy:
Na ordinary shame una no get.
What do you people want?
A mini Nigeria?

When the Referendum is conducted, Delta, Benue, Kogi and Southern Kaduna States will vote either to join Biafran or not.

colorsofrainbow:
Which nation that has Fulani as majority wey well so?
Believe it or not,if dem pack all Fulani wey dey Naija relocate dem to U.S,U.S will become a third world country immediately.
And that would be the time the true light of Nigeria would shine.

Bros, Fulanis are a minority ethnic group in Nigeria and there's no State where they constitute a majority.

In West African countries, there minorities except in Guinea where they constitute the largest single ethnic group.

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MANOSUB:
Whoever wrote this is the biggest fool, idiot and stupid person in history of this nation. All put together to describe him because to ascribe corruption to someone who has not been convicted for any crime or without a pointed crime only that he bought a car even though PDP is not in power, is the biggest mistake of having someone like the writer in our society.

I feel the writer was hired by APC to tarnish the image of that gentleman so that they can have their way come 2023, unfortunately for them Buhari and his political party is already gone like the extinction of the dinosaurs era.

But you won't be demanding for conviction before accusing someone of corruption if the accused is Tinubu.

wink2015:
DEVELOPING THE SEAPORT IS NOT ENOUGH.

WHAT ABOUT THE BUSINESSES THAT WILL USE THOSE SEAPORT.

Take for example, in Warri there are hardly any significant manufacturing companies such as the ones that can be found in the south east.

We mainly have chains of hotels in Warri, petrol station, private schools as the main business.

If the seaport becomes functional what are the industries that the government should have on ground that will depend on the seaport?

So many goods destined for the South-South and S/East markets like second-hand vehicles, Roofing sheets, pharmaceuticals, electronics and industrial chemicals can be imported via Warri ports.

mrvitalis:
And you think there is no exceptions when igbos declare to sit at home

Did I mention Igbo or must every statement on Nairaland involve Igbo?

mrvitalis:
State owned school teachers would come to work ? Or are they not civil servants ...so what would happen to neco writers in state owned school

Since u want to be smart

There are always exemptions when declaring Public Holidays.

Godada:




This show of humiliation best depicts the kind of contempt the Indonesians and the world at large has for the country Nigeria and it's citizens.

Our stock has dropped to unenviable low. The government hasn't helped matters with its officials who have soiled their hands while in public office been shedded. Case in point, the super cop and Gandollars. Millions of naira swallow by a snake.

In countries like China such corrupted officials would be summarily excited. Little wonder China runs shoulders with the US.

The country Nigeria has lost its pride long ago.

Nigerians that share the same tribes/States with the accussed corrupt officials will cause so many problems to prevent the accused officers from being punished.

UdyOgwoUde:
Innocent Nigerians go through trauma that is worst than this in the hand of their government and security agencies here in Nigeria. A lot of souls have been wasted without FG doing anything, but they are now crying foul because it has happened to a Diplomat in a foreign land.

If you know the implications, you will be talking like this.


The FG should severe all diplomatic relationships with them and cripple Indonesian economic interests in Nigeria.

Why not name your child in your mother tongue? For instance, Oluwasegun, Adisa, Olorunwa, Ishola etc

Gentlerespect76:
So it is the Igbo that is responsible for this disquiet we have from Borno to Kebbi; the rumblings of kidnapping from Katsina to Niger to Oyo, etc? Chaii, heavenly Father grant this man and Nigeria a little sense before it's too late.

The old man said the naked truth if you read the text and not just the misleading headline.

Steinmann:
IPOB should stop these frequent stay at home orders.The Igbo's need to work in order to make progress.
Stay at home should be once in a long while just to show solidarity and nothing more.
Pls don't add to the suffering of Igbo's.

How will IPOB teach Buhari a better lesson if they don't order people to sit at home?

Ariani:
All ethnic groups within the COR province attended the Willink commission.
The Willink commission report is all over the internet and it noted that Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ikwo, Ezza,Izzi, though in COR region, were subsets of the Larger Igbo group.

You are still making the same mistake; trying to define a people based on what outside perceive them to be, instead of what the people themselves call themselves.

The ethnic grouping presently being used in Nigeria were created by the British as a mean of classifying the indigenous people. Some groups may accept or reject their inclusion in such ethnic classification.


In this age and time, we don't need to belong to any ethnic group to succeed in any areas of human endeavours.

Ariani:
Lies.
Ikwerres were not counted as Minorities during Willink commission, but as a subset of Igbo who were in a province containing other minorities.
Since their province like those of Izzi/Ezza/Ikwo who were in Ogoja province then, fell under the COR zone, they had to be present in the commission deliberations likewise Ikwo/Izzi and Ezza people.
It doesn't in any way mean they were considered non Igbos then.

Stop misleading people here.

The ethnic groups attended the Willinks Commission as ethnic groups and NOT as provinces.

If the Ikwerres had considered THEMSELVES (not what Igbos , the colonial Masters and other tribes considered them to be) as a subset/ part of one of the three major tribes, they won't be attending meetings meant for the minorities.

zeuss:
cant you read? "POPULATION DENSITY" means population density nothing more....not density map as you have chosen to describe it....you people keep twistn facts as you thrive on falsehood and injustice......it will come to a crashing end one-day.

Population density actually refers to the degree to which people get crowded in a particular territory, it doesn't refer to the Number of the people. For example, 100 people on one plot of land will be densely populated than 100 people on one acre of land.