₦airaland Forum

if we're going to spend all our time debating if Nigeria should break up or not, then of course the country will never move forward. Instead of finding a solution to rampant poverty and underdevelopment it seems all we want is to forever move in a circle with no progress.

whether Nigeria breaks up or not e go still remain in Africa- and is still called third world. The greatest beneficiaries will always be the leaders who are at the helm of affairs.

even if nigeria divides into 300 countries- one country per tribe. That is not the solution to poverty.

We cannot tacle poverty, reduce unemployment, reduce ehtnic tension if we do not tacle the useless document we call the Nigerian Constitution. See we have to debate on how we as people can leave and relat with one another . The USA did their about 230 years ago and they are reaping the rewards. You cannot use the resource that belong to one locality to develop another area. Moreso, the issue of indegeneship should be clearly defined. Somebody cannot stay in a place for about 60 years and still considered an alien. Finally, WE may not love one another if all these re implemented, but we will tolerate one another at least.

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you guys like making a big issue out of nothing,a lot of hausas and other tribes get dragged out of the various police stations illegally across the country, its sad that when its an ibo man you guys bring in political intonations, an igala man was killed in ekiti,a tiv man killed in kano,a yoruba man kiled in abia,an ijaw man mained in taraba,a jukun man robbed in rivers, so what?

I wish it was your son or daughter that was raped, beheaded and dragged through the street. May that happen to either your mother, father, your brothers or your sisters. If you do not have any then i wish that will happen to your children, if you have none that may it happen to you. BASTARD

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Even if i buy a news one, i may still encounter the same problem, because i will still want to update it.


Cheers.

please ny e-mail is saintgregorymillenium@yahoo.com. Grateful in anticipation of receiving the gmat 2007 document.

Dafur,
You said that Ojukwu and the Elders who were his advisers were hasty in declaring Biafran republic with devastating consequences. So I want to ask you.When in your won opinion should have been the right time?

moreso, as MLK said, the greatest enemies of people are not the extremist but those who while sitting on the fence urge for a postponemet of change to an "appriopriate" time.

ana chu ana mo kwa

ok, the spelling is Nnamdi Azikiwe .igbo, ibo all na the same thing. we igbos use igbo more often than not. but sometimes ibo is used too and most non igbos find it easier to use ibo and there are many non igbos in nairaland. but anyway, igbo is the right one so thanx for the correction. but this issue is not about wether i'm igbo or not

Bloody impostor. AS i have repeated before no Igbo person will write the kind of nonsense you are writing and As expected non igbos are the once giving you kudos. You know what? It does not bother us becuase we know where we are going- to the promised land.

Dim Ojukwu did not act alone as some people will want us to believe. There were council of elders in existence then. You can read the book "Ojukwu" by Federick Forsythe. It story is told in details at least from an impartial observer.

you made no point mr. say the truth. you are saying nothing. the greatest beneficiary of the war was Ojukwu. he appeared to be a messiahto the ibos. ojukwu himself says it the power is non negotiable. once you taste it, you want it over and over again and again. he sent young men to their early graves in the name of a revolution.

did you realise that he declared biafra after gowon split the east into three states cutting out the rivers and cross river areas? he felt threatened. he had an excuse to declare a war but he was not outrightly altruistic. he didnt use wisdom and because of that, the igbos lost a generation of young men and women. and when the war came to his door steps, he did what all war leaders do . . . . . . escape.
he can't be my hero

i'll rather admire major nzeogwu, ifeajuna, ademola ademoyega, gideon orkar, etc. these were real men. they don't run from war, but face war.
unlike war leaders like hitler(who prefered to kill himself than face the russians, a big coward)
saddam hussein(who surrendered to american soldiers and could not fight even when with a gun)
ossama bin laden(who preaches death by suicide but has refused to lead by example as if he doesnt want the same paradise he promised those who die will get)
idi amin(who ran away when the tanzanian troops came to his door step)
Ojukwu( who fled to cote'divoire when the nigerian troops marched into biafran heartland and lived to marry beauty gueen and contest elections after preaching that biafra shall fight to the last man in great oratory skills sending millions to their unfortunate early graves)

i'm too wise to be fooled. at least not by these guys. don't tell me he is ibo i don't care. he did not help the ibos in any way other than mere rhetorics.

so my friend, get educated and be informed. appraise issues before opening your mouth.

Dafur or genocide,
Your  "points" have be made known. You are "smart". However we igbos know that people like you are mere jackals and scum of the earth.  Certianly you have formed your own opinion and i will not argue with you.

and 2.5 million people died from the war, Oga wisdom.
i believe you did mathematics in school. 30,000 vs 2.5 million. even if you didnt go to school at least you have common sense.

i'm ibo, it may have been a good idea to break up that time. but at what cost? if we had the weaponry and their was some parity in military strength, then it may be worth the risk. but how can you send kids with "sticks and stones" to face tankers and bombers? that is not war. that is suicide. infact, the nigerian army in I967 must have been made up of dumb generals b/c they could have won that war in 2 weeks. Nnamdi asikiwe knew this. that was why he was somehow apprehensive about the war. he had his reservations. ojukwu was

just plain mad.

not only did 2.5 million people die, also there was total infrastructural destruction from which ibos are yet to recover. . . 38yrs after the war.
B4 u act, check your chances and the cost. do a risk assessment and take professional decisions and not necessarily popular decisions. did ojukwu do that? no. the result? 2.5 million dead.

did he have options? he could have manipulated the moral advantage. he wont achieve much, i agree, but surely the fed govt would have been under some pressure to at least rehabilitate the area. at least, if nothing else, 2.5 million people would not have died. one life saved, is a great achievement. ask the surgeons.

You cannot an igbo man and be writing such nonsense. If you are, then you are one of those that beneficted immesnely form the suffering of the igbo people like Arthur Nzeribe.

Dafur you are fool as i have repeated.

Emeka, and "the truth" is?

The truth is Nigeria is not suppose to be one country as OPC, MASSOB and Niger-Delta millitants are saying.

You must be silly not to have known the truth by now. Or are u a parasitic Hausa man?

there's no igbo expletive to dodge. ojukwu was a lt.col in the naija army and nothing more than that. he is officially a retired lt.col as well as the leader of the defunct republic of biafra.

and was he smart? no. he was power drunk. and he doesnt deny it. here was a guy who knew that biafra had no weapons and yet he challenged a well loaded naigerian army with british, american, russian and even egyptian backing. isn't it foolhardy to engage in such a fight? wasting the lives of a generation of igbo youth. and why? why? why did he run away at the end of the war? why not stay back and face the music? he ran like a coward. he wants to live, yet he sent a generation of young men to their grave knowing fullywell that they will all die.

if he was smart, he could have used the moral advantage the ibos had in I967 to attract world opinion and get the fed govt to some strong commitments. it wont be good enough but it will definitely be better than the millions who died during the war.

i don't admire him at all. I, Darfur Akpukanwa O, I'm far too smart to hero-worship anyone just because others do. i consider a lot before i pick my heros.

You are a very big fool. Close to 30,000 igbo died in the riots of 1966 (including my close relatives) in the northern part of the country and you are saying that it is a stupid act for the igbos including Dim OJukwu to opt for succession citing threat of lives and property in Nigeria. YOU MUST BE A BIG FOOL.

Ojukwu is a Igbo people and he will contoinue to be.

The only regret is that this country did not break up as it should be. Dim Ojukwu is one one the greatest Nigerian dead or Alive.

Ojukwu is a general with the defunct biafran army but a Lt.Col in the nigerian army. he wasn't a distinguished or smart commander by robert lee

this is nonsense. And this is not the issue. The issue was that General robert Lee was a general in the Confederate Army not in the Union army, yet he was still called a General. And did you say Ojukwu was not smart enough? Really? So how "smart" was General Lee?

And was not distinguished? At least he is better than Olusegun Obasanjo!

The question is preposterous.

Nigeria one, How do i describe your post? Full of nonsentical statements. Inaccurate information. I also suspect that he may be making a jest of all of us problaby trying to see how we will al react. his ' " is at best gibberish. I have logged into it once and did not fount anything intellectulaly stimulating.

Nigeriaone, i do not knoiw your level of education but i suspect that you are not too intellectually sound.

hello all,

How can i resize my digital passport for dv 2009 without actually stretching the photo. I use adobe photoshop. Any suggestions?

The truth is that South Africa's infrastructure is world class and that is the end. Every other things about the country is horrible. Is it the HIV/AIDs crises? or the hostile and lazy citizens?

Nigeria is a far better place. There is no place like Nigeria in the African continent which is why despite the horrible things happening in Nigeria people still flock into the country. Investors know it.

See i will not exchange even America (Tufiakwa!) with my home Nigeria

When will the Yorubaman/woman occupy Aso Rock again? Any ideas??

2099

Calling her a crook is too hasty.

President Yar adua is showing signs of someone who is not is own man. But come to think of it, What do we expect from the man who did not win the presidencial election?

I think President Yar Adua wants to gradually ease out the "left overs" from Obasanjo's administraton. He wants to be his own man. However, Professor Soludo just played into his hands ( and others). There has been "stories of him not making due consultations with various stakeholders before making decisions, if that is true then it is a careers faux pax.

'The last straw" was the revaluation of the naira. The outcry that followed it was just too much for him to survive it.

He has been gradually eased out. If i were him i will simply tender my resignation. Professor is a very brilliant man that has so much to offer. I am sure when he leaves, international financial institutions will be scrambling for him.

Awolowo is a visionary leader even more than his peers. First stadium in Africa, First T.V station in Africa and he actually engineered the fastest growing economy in Africa in the South West then.
Compare his achievement to those of his peers and you would see him as a hero!!

That was false. He never engineered any fastest economy. As for TV , he may have built the first tv in african but not the best.

But others ones that uses messenger 8.0 do not have problems

I recently formatted my pc with and installed yahoo messenger 8.0, but i noticed that it does not work. When i type i do not see what i am typing or what other people are sending to me. I do not know whether anybody has an idea on what to do. I use windows 2000. Moreso, the messenger works with my admin account ( unrestricted) but not with my client account (it has limited rights).

Am scratching my head, trying to figure out why you are so obsessed with my gender. Na wa o! You no get beta job? Abi, them send you. . . . . .??!! Tell members of yah cartel say, you dey too small to deliver di message o!

I can swear that Laudate is a guy. Your Reply is very masculine. But i wish say you be babe o .