₦airaland Forum

Please stop using Panadol for Yoruba's head ache.
Let them worry about their problems.

WeneWali:
Mr man, if you like shout make your vocal cord burst. The Ibos and us in the SS are not a sparing a single vote for you yorubas in 2023.

You yorubas should should start learning how invoke your dead ancestors to come vote for you on that day.

I kukuma trust north in APC, they'll do everything to hijack that ticket from yoruba, while you cry about Amotekun and UNPO. In PDP, you have almost no say.

A yoruba president is no longer feasible in the next 200 years. Yorubas are the least qualified southerners to be president. You've taken your share, you must give way for other southerners.

Some of you don't even know details of what you are commenting about.

1) MC Oluomo started as a DRIVER, then owner of several commercial buses.

2) People who work in or own buses in Public transport sector have TRADE UNIONS.

3) NURTW is one of the numerous trade unions in the Public Transportation Sector

4) The NURTW in Lagos State are part of the private sector participants who secured loans from banks to invest in BRT in Lagos State and were given their own dedicated transport routed. They employed several graduates in this transport business.

5) MC Oluomo until few months ago was just the Treasurer of the NURTW in Lagos and only became Chairman very recently.

6) Members of NURTW , like members of NUT,NUJ, NBA are free to join any political part of their choices.

7) NURTW is an affiliate of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).

tot:
And how did he get to high school in Georgia?
The fact remains that it's the money from election violence and harassment he has used to train his children, but you see, it's not the beginning of a thing that matters but its end. You can't cost other people their peace & lives and think all is well. Nigerians as usual will praise anything and never question the origin of something as long as it's "getting results" and we wonder why the country has gone to the dogs.

See how this Bros just dey take para on top say MC Oluomo wear facemask in him office.






Bros, relax and no give yourself hypertension.

Nothing do you, Lagos State or Nigeria with this picture.

livebyday:


Who cares? I mean who actually cares?!!

If you care that this good for nothing , uneducated, dredge of society, piece of dung, thug for hire, assassin for pay ,son of a bastard wears a face mask then you are worth no more than a grain of shît in the toilet about to be flushed away into a pit.

Not the solid type of shît but the watery type that comes after you eat too much beans portage and moyin moyin with boiled eggs

This man is a worthless scum bag and a dirty , filthy, shît eroded corpse who should not be held in any form of respect if Nigeria was a sane society. Well let me not heap this on Nigeria this is purely a Lagos State thing! No other state can be so idiotic !!

Now when the drunkard Nnamdi kanu called Nigeria a jungle , a zoo and a farm we all criticized him but the fact that this rubbish thread is on front page about such a mannerless tout as this idiot , shows how far Lagos State has indeed fallen, unfortunately that bastard named Nnamdi kanu has actually been proved right

Imagine the state of New York in the United States of America using a thug like master P as a brand ambassador? That's what the idiots in Lagos are doing with rubbish like this !!

Education is clearly not wisdom

Oookay, I see.

Dew04:
Nigerian guys are the most difficult creatures to please.
With the way you all go about slut shaming women, exonerating virgins and condemning sexual expression, why should we agree to sex immediately?
If we don't pretend for a while, we get labelled. And no one wants to be stamped as a result of indulging in their desires.

It appears Buhari doesn't read whatever Prof Farooq Kperoge has been writing.

tayebest:
Farooq my man


He keep writing but Bubu never give a fcck about him!

Why did you say say so?

spiritmasquerad:
Outright seperation is not possible

Nnamdi Kanu can go ahead and conduct his referendum.


He doesn't need to await for the Zoo or Jubril Al-Sudani to give him approval.

gidgiddy:
Are you still a learner? You dont know whats going on here? Long before the so called Nzeogwu/Igbo coup, Nigerians were highly suspicious of Igbos. The Igbo man was the only one who would move to all parts of Nigeria, settle and strive to make it commercially viable.That principle of 'one Nigeria' whereby you consider anywhere in your country as 'your home' was only practiced by Igbos to a high degree. And the Igbo man was doing well wherever he went and this was going down too well. It was bad enough that the Igbo man was grabbing economic power, by his sweat and hardwork, to allow him to grab political power would not be allowed.

So when Nzeogwu conducted his coup, and it led to another Igbo man, Ironsi, becoming head of state, the powers that be could not stand it.

Nzeogwu's coup was quickly tagged an 'Igbo coup' while all other coups that followed have no ethnic tag.

Even here on NL, Nzeogwu from Okpanam in present day Delta state, will be an 'Igbo man' when it comes to the first coup. After discussions on the first coup, the same Okpanam will suddenly become Anioma, Niger Delta, South/South and non Igbo. When Nzeogwu was alive, he never heard Okpanam referred to as Niger Delta, South/South or Anioma. Today, they are all three as long as they are not Igbo "when required to be"


"One Nigeria" is a fraud and all Nnamdi Kanu is saying is that a referendum be conducted so that people can choose their destiny

You keep deluding yourselves by thinking that others are the causes of your problems.


Merits CAN NOT be killed in human societies.
Those who truly distinguished themselves will like the proverbial gold fish that can't hidden.


'See a man, dilligent in his work, he shall stand before kings and not mere men- Provide-22: 29


1) Merit hasn't been killed in Paper and Stationeries, Timber &wood products, Chicken, Turkey ,eggs and other Poultry products.
Start dominating the production and let the whole Nigeria come and be buying from you.

2) Merit hasn't been killed in the Print &Electronic media.
TVC, Channels the AIT supposed to be dominated by you and your region supposed to have the largest private Radio Stations.

3) Merits hasn't been killed in the production of cotton and cotton products, why aren't you dominating in this sub-section of the economy?
4) There's merit in Animal husbandry. You ought to be in the forefront of production and supply of beef to Nigerians.

gwafaeziokwu:
Succinctly put. This is the crux.

Nigerian killed merit because of this same reason and our nation has turned into one huge jungle.

If merit is enthroned Igbos will shine because their culture prepared them well.

The only way to keep Igbos out is to turn logic on its head with mediocrity.

That is why Biafra has to come. Africa is in dire need of us. Black race need to get her respect back.

Check the Human Development Index of Nigerian States as published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

horsepower102:
In summary, Being an ethnic group which is highly driven by a meritocratic culture is a big fear inducing factor in a land of mediocrity and low expectations and low self esteem people.

Once you understand this, then you realize why igbos get so much haters.

“How dare you come to our land and do better than us”!!!!

How difficult is it for you to understand this simple fact;

State (formerly called Region) creation is a CONSTITUTIONAL matter.

Awolowo was a private citizen in 1963 and no single citizen or even a political office holder had the power to create or prevent the creation of a State.


1) Two third majority votes in the Western Regional Assembly, Ibadan.

2) Two-third majority votes in the National Assembly.

These were what were required to conduct the referendum in 1963.

nku5:
Your emotional outburst and rush to deny without fact checking even though the links and text are all over this thread shows you have cognitive dissonance based on tribal loyalties.

Was Awo still not the leader of the Action Group even AFTER stepping down as premier? Keep consoling yourself the facts are out there and more are coming

In that case, the Igala, Ebira, Idoma, Tiv and Jukun of Kogi, Benue and Taraba States, Nassarwa, Plataeu and Southern Kaduna be allowed to vote in the referendum to decide if they want Biafra or not

fhranchez:
I don't know if you went to school but referendum is actually the best place tick "not interested" and make your stand known

Who has the legal authority to conduct the referendum?

The Agitations for Biafran referendum need to involve the Political leadership in the SE and the non-Igbo Nigerians to convince them for CONSTITUTIONAL ammendents that can allow for the referendum.



The United Nations can NOT just stroll into a peaceful sovereign Country and start conducting a referendum in a portion of the Country with a view of dividing the country.

If it were that easy Catalonia and Western Sahara would have long invited the UN to conduct referendums for them and get their new Countries.

fhranchez:
always answer them with REFERENDUM!!! There will be no Homogeneous Igbo nation until after REFERENDUM fullstop

The most serious problems confronting the Igbos is also confronting the Igala, Kanuris, Yoruba, Fulani and all other Nigerians- poverty, unemployment, insecurities, poor infrastructure etc.


Amaechi or Wike are neither the problems or the solutions.




Massive Industrialization in the SE will help the Igbos and Nigeria in general.


Igbo Amaka,

Nigeria Amaka!

TheGodlessGod:
but many do. Wike don't claim he's igbo but ameachi does.

That's why igbo leaders worldwide need to come together and let the people decide if they want to be part of igbo or not.

You can't be having an igbo name and denying you are igbo then you decide to commit crime .

Excuse me sir, what exactly do you mean by 'those who can't compete'?


Wake up and smell the coffee, the South-South States have left the Igbo States behind.

Mention any SE State that is more developed than Rivers and Delta States.

Check the Human Development Index (HDI) and clear your doubts.

horsepower102:
Yeah any nation that True igbos are fighting for will be the republic of Igboland. God forbid we end up in another quagmire with bitter cries of marginalization from those who just simply cannot compete.

God deliberately place the Igbos in Nigeria.

horsepower102:
Banning of history in Nigerian schools is a proof that Nigerian government has so many things that they are scared of being revealed.

Teaching history will force children to start asking older people lots of questions.

Teaching history will burst so many lies and propaganda against igbos.

It’s really sad igbos found themselves in Nigeria.

Buhari, even if he wants to doesn't have the power.

There is no single political office holder that can create Biafra.



Biafra can only be created if the majority of the political leaders accross Nigeria support it and amend the constition to create a secession clause.

Staphylococcus:
Gibberish!

Fake news.

Buhari should even give this people their Biafra. The chest beating getting too much.

Nearness isn't the only consideration when picking a residential place.

What about the amenities, conveniences and ambiance of Port-Harcourt?

PHijo:
It is only in Nigeria people will live in Obio/Akpor or PH and work in the Ogu/Onne port.

What about staying in Eleme LGA, Ogu/Bolo LGA, Okrika LGA, Oyigbo LGA or Bonny LGA?

These are the closest to the Ogu/Onne port.

The Maritime and Dock workers are NOT employees of the FG but employed by private Maritime Companies.



Wike is doing more harm than good to the economy of his State.

Later on, some misguided online e-warrior will be peddling falsehoods that the Yorubas are the reasons why ships can berth in the Ports of Rivers State.

SaintNegro77:
Since the federal government refused to give Wike his own share of the money, he's out to punish any federal government worker and frustrate the FG. The lockdown in River State is not to checkmate Covid-19. It's all about vengeance.

My first GF

Part of the money from the Niger-Delta are also been used to pay Federal allocations to Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi States every month.

horsepower102:
Op the money that would have been used to develop Portharcourt and Warri into modern cities went to LAGOS and ABUJA. This is a statement of fact yet some people see Igbo domination in their dreams.

But you didn't tell us that Buhari is using crude oil money to build the 2nd Niger Bridge.

Smithkafors:
How do you mean?,next you visit Abuja,Lagos and any other state, know it's oil money being made use of.Buhari and amaechi is using naija oil money to build railway to daura that is not of any economic benefit to Nigeria neglecting SS/SE.Till we get it right, Nigeria will always remain stagnant!

This is an unfair statement.

There are many well educated Urhobo and Ijaw youths.


Lazy youth with entitlement mentality abound in every tribe.

Nwanyiogwashi:
I rather stay with Benue people than stay with ijaw and urhobo,at least Benue people are hard working people but ijaw and urhobo will stay one place with out working all in the name of waiting for free oil money even if you give them work in oil company they will sell it.

Not necessarily.

The new Country will now be established by the natives for themselves on agreed basis unlike what we have in Nigeria.


I see no reason why Taraba, Kogi, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau and Southern Kaduna States can't join Biafra.

IGBOSON1:
Hehehehe

If all regions are given a UN conducted referendum to either remain in ‘one Nigeria’ or join Biafra, it may just turn out that everyone (including the Hausa-Fulani ) will vote to join. Then we’ll be back right where we started!

The Ilorin Emirate is multi ethnic in origin and composition such that after two hundred years of it's existence, the members of the Emirate Council are now a complex hybrid of Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Nupe and several small tribes.

Davash222:
Is Tafida Emir or Oba

Asking for myself.

They can be parts of Biafra if they vote for it in the 2023 referendum, even Kogi and Benue States will vote in the referendum.

Nwanyiogwashi:
Any Biafra that will have ijaw and urhobo people on it ,just count Anioma people out of it.Using Delta state as a case study

What exactly do you mean by '95% of the Porn videos aren't real'?

Are you saying that they don't really have intercourse?

zexy2030:
whatever u see on video are all acted porn scene purely for the entertainment of viewers, 95% of the videos aren't real but they are paid to act, so don't be deceived. There a lot of people who just want to make the world undwellable.

I considered the referendum for the creation of the Mid-Western Region in1963 and the Jun-12 Presidential election as the most democratic exercises ever done in Post Independent Nigeria because it showed that we, as a people can resolve political Issues according to laid down rules to reflect the will of the majority.

They are NOT perfect exercises and definitely not devoid of conflicts.

Conflicts arise because different people see the same issues in different ways.

The nature of politics involve conflicts and politics in civilized societies involve three dimensions- Prevention of Conflicts, Conflicts Management and Conflicts resolution.

The authors of modern constitions understand this fact and made provision for conflict resolutions through judicial adjudications.

Going to court to LEGALLY challenge a decision that's contrary to one's view is a democratic process and not necessarily an evil thing.

The people of Mid-Western Region Western Region and Nigeria as a whole did a commendable job in the 1963 referendum.

They deserve our commendations and not this irrational bashing based on ignorance,sustained by tribalism that borders on madness.



If matured, well educated and well groomed leadersship in the First Republic weren't truncated by the ill-conceived coup of 1966, there wouldn't have been a civil war and Nigeria of 2020 would have been more developed than this level.

Your cock and bull story can not change the FACT that creation of the new Regions (now called States) was and still a CONSTITUTIONAL matter with well defined legal processes.

1) Two- third Majority votes in Western Regional Assembly.

2) Two-third majority votes in the National Assembly.

The two above CONSTITUTIONAL requirements MUST be met before the referendum could hold.




The Minorities in the Mid-Western Areas could NOT on their own alone meet these requirements.


3) Awolowo was NOT a member of the Western Regional Assembly or part of the Government since 1959.
Why is it difficult for you to understand this simple fact?

nku5:
Lol these your stand alone facts have no bearing on the points I stated

1 There was no Western region then but the Benin-Delta ppl saw what was coming and started to agitate-

"Meanwhile, Oba Eweka II became increasingly concerned about the long-term implications of various administrative proposals for new regions that would ride roughshod over the unique history and independence of most of the peoples of the Central Province, which later became the Benin and Warri Provinces. Therefore, in 1926, he requested the British to bring all the Edoid and Anioma (Western Ibo) areas together in one region that would have a direct reporting relationship with the center. He argued that the people of the Benin and Warri provinces were predominantly of one linguistic, cultural, religious, chieftaincy and historical stock and had functioned in the same cultural system before the British came. [File BP 44,VOL 1, The Oba of Benin. National Archives, Ibadan"

Their fears were confirmed when they were merged into the Western Province. Are you aware that until the Benin ppl fought to get Gaius Obaseki to represent them at the legislative council in 1935 it was a Yoruba trader living in Sapele who was representing the Benin ppl. If you've read through this thread you have seen how Midwest kings were provoked when they tried to make Yoruba the lingua franca at a meeting in 1942


2. You want to whitewash Awo? The same Awo that invited Oba Akenzua for a meeting to warn him that his campaign for a new region was political and the Oba told him that he wasnt doing politics and had to remind Awo that the Ooni of Ife and Alake of Abeokuta were open and active members of the Action group. The same Awo whose AG goons were hunting after Midwest activists whenever they crossd into yoruba land? There is too much info to even bother debating this here. Trying to claim that Awo who was leader of the Action Group was innocent because he was no longer premier is a big joke

3. Majekodunmi's administration withdrew the case against the referendum (that Akintola's agent) filed at the Supreme Court. This is not debatable at all. Like I said before Akintola got his seat back after the matter had been sealed and his legs were too shaky to object as he was desperate to please Balewa. In short his hands were tied not that he wanted it

The problem with Nairaland is that it's filled largely with people who don't read.

1) In the Second Republic, the UPN won in Bendel State.

Awolowo won in Bendel State and scored about 40% of the votes in Cross River State.

Prof Ambrose Folorunsho Alli of the UPN was Governor of Bendel State between 1979-1983.

2) Awolowo and Shagari jointly received most of the votes casted by the Southerner minorities while Azikiwe's NPP received about 5% of the votes in Bendel, Rivers and Cross River States.

Ex-Governor Adams Oshiomole of the ACN was Governor of Edo State for 8years. The incumbent Governor Obaseki is of the APC.

comos:
No wonder Edo and Delta always vote for a national party like the NCNC, NPN, PDP instead of a western regional party (AG, UPN, ACN, APC)

Many people on Nairaland are beclouded by emotion fueled by irrational hatred for other tribes called Tribalism rather logical reasoning.

Constitutional requirements for conducting the referendum to create new Regions;

1) Two-third majority votes in their present region (in this case, the Western Regional House of Assembly).

2) Two-third majority votes in the National Assembly.



My questions:
Could the minorities in the Mid-Western area on their own mustered two-third majority votes in the Western Regional House of Assembly, Ibadan if the Majority population of Western Region were strongly opposed to it?

In 1963, Nigeria was under Democratic rule and NOT Military rule, there was nothing Azikiwe/Balewa who weren't members of the Western House of Assembly could have done to force the House to vote for the motion.

They were however LOBBIED by the Mid-Western leaders to instruct their party members in the National Assembly to support the motion for the referendum.



The primary reason why the Biafran referendum will NOT take place is because the agitatators don't lobby other Nigerians to support the referendum but rather are preaching hatred against them.

Biafrarep:
They are still telling lies so shamelessly even when caught. Who did you give independence? Was it not NCNC through Zik that collaborated with with Ahmadu Bello's NPN that forced referendum on the Western region?

Even this report stated that Awolowo's AG formed a shadowy group to frustrate the referendum and even made the ridiculous claim that Igbos will dominate the Benis if they should go ahead with the referendum. Lol, I can even draw some parallels with those blackmails of Awolowo's AG to what is happening in recent times between Igbos and the minorities. They are now telling the minorities how Igbos are after their oil and would subjugate them should they align with us.

The evil that is currently going on in Nigeria did not start today. SMH!

Obviously you don't know what you are saying sir.

1) Total Colonial Government in Nigeria started in 1900. There was no regional Government (No Western Region at all) in the 1920s, so how can agitation for the creation of Mid-Western Region started in the 1920s.
The Richard's Constitution of 1950 created Regional Government.

2) Awolowo was an avowed supporter of Federalism based on ethnic groups.
He had created Ministry of Mid-West Affairs by 1956, fashioned after what was obtainable in the UK at that time where was a Ministry of Welsh Affairs.

3) Awolowo resigned as the Premier of Western Region in 1959, he wasn't the Premier during the referendum.

4) The creation for new Regions and the legal guildlines were introduced (Based on recommendations of the Willinks Commision of 1958) by the 1960 Independence Constitution which came into effect on Oct-1,1960 almost a year after Awolowo had left the Government of Western Region.

5) Dr Majekodunmi was an unelected Administrator of Western Region for SIX MONTHS in 1962.
He had no CONSTITUTIONAL roles to play in the referendum process.

6) The referendum had to be approved by the Regional Government which the Western Regional under SLA Akintola did in 1963, a year after Majekodunmi had left.

7) Separation of ordinary couples is often problematic let alone separation of peoples and lands by a political system which was new to the actors at that time without an advantage of learning from any historical precedence.
This was bound to generate conflicts of interests which was managed with maturity.

The Northern and Eastern Regions strongly frustrated any attempts to divide their territories to carve out regions for the minorities.


Learn to give credit to the Political actors of the Western Region (between 1956-1963) when it's due, it won't take anything from you.

nku5:
Awo and Akintola never agreed for a referendum to ever see the light of day. Instead they were both desperate for there to be referendums in the North and Eastern regions despite the dogged agitations for the Midwest region that far outweighed the other regions and had been on since the 1920s

It was the emergency government of Dr. Majekodunmi that allowed the Midwest to escape. Majekodunmi's administration withdrew a motion that an Action Group agent had filed (on Akintola's behalf) to block it at the Supreme Court in May 1962. If not that the Action Group had been brushed aside for that period because of the Awo vs Akintola war it would never have succeeded

By September 1962 Awo had been arrested and Akintola couldn't match the clout of Okotie-Eboh who was very close to Balewa and his men

1) The Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers Movement for the creation of a separate Region for Non-Igbo populations in Eastern Region started around 1956.

It is interesting to note that the Ikwerres were part of this Movement.


2) The Western Regional Government and Action Group were supportive of creation of a separate Mid-West Region , they only differ on boundaries.

3) The Akintola led-Government in Western Region conducted the plebiscite/referendum to create the Mid-Western Region in 1963 and it was approved by the Federal Legislature.

The Eastern Region on the other hand refused to approve any agitations for the creation of COR Region because the separatist groups MUST get approval of the Region they want to leave before seeking the approval of the National Assembly.



4) Operation Wetie was a violent protest against the rigging of 1965 elections in the Western Region and it happened two full years after the Mid-Western Region has been created.

nku5:
There was minimal or almost no agitation in the eastern region. The Midwest agitation was do or die and led by titans like the Oba of Benin himself for decades but Awo kept resisting. What saved the Midwest was operation wetie and the fact that Awo/Akintola's war distracted the Yorubas.