₦airaland Forum

Igbonazy:
Give me 10,000 Biafrans for six months, and we'll build an army that would be invincible on this continent. I've seen men die in this war who would have won the Victoria Cross in another context, i've seen a lot of Africans at war but there's nobody like this people."~
Taffy William

Sourc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Williams

Zonacom:
What's up with this news of protest in onitsha cos of the rumour about some boko haram prisoners planned relocation to onitsha prisons? Is it true? Pls those who know better should enlighten us.

Igbonazy:
Excellent point you made but hope you were not comparing our hero Ojukwu with Hitler. Ojukwu fought to "defend" us against islamic agressors and preserve our good values (hitler was an agressor,ojukwu wasnt). Ojukwu was intelligent, very calculated, and empathetic. Hitler lacked these great qualities

SpaceTour:
Igbos should resist such attempt on the great city of Onitsha. They just want to set the city of Onitsha as a Boko Haram target. If Boko can lay their hands on this all important economic city then Igbos will have themselves to blame.

Zonacom:
But how are we sure that the purported prisoner transfer is true in the first place. Secondly, is that enough reason to shut down the whole markets all of a sudden?
I believe something fishy is going on. The govt should better issue a reasonable explanation for these. The tension created by this funny rumour is just uncalled for

OreMI22:
The worst thing we can complacently tolerate now that Boko haram has resurrected themselves under Buhari is to allow their movement en-mass into our region. What happened to the massive prisons in Abuja and other northern states to accommodate these terrorists?

Boko Haram is known to always "break jail" and escape, only to surface a few weeks after the "jail break" to bomb everywhere. This plot is the first stage to destroy Igboland by bringing bombing and insurgency attacks to the Main market, Onitsha and other places. The same people have chased Igbo from the north, now they want to chase us away from our own land.

We should simply say NO to bringing Boko haram terrorists into Onitsha and make sure if they dare to bring those terrorists, we shall attack Onitsha prisons and kill those murderers ourselves and burn the place down.

Zonacom:
I understand your concern bro. But shouldn't the work of resisting the prisoner transfer (if true), rest solely with the anambra legislature and executives? Why is the ordinary man in the street forced to abandon his source of daily bread because of something the state elected officials should handle?
Let me just leave it here sha, but i believe there is something fishy going on other than the rumour flying around. May God help us!

OreMI22:
In a normal society , a state governement can say they don't want terrorists and the FG will obey, but not Nigeria.

Your reference about the so called "ordinary man's daily bread:", they know if they don't take care of this issue right now, they will have no daily bread to work for. It will only take a few bomb blasts in Onitsha main market and their customers will stop coming.

IGBOSON1:
^^^Listen! I have no qualms with us staying in Nigeria.....but what pisses me off with some of you 'one Nigeria' champions is that you don't go further to demand for equality and justice! All one is asking for -which the owners of Nigeria and their southern allies are frustrating- is resource control, devolution of powers from the center to the regions/states, and fiscal federalism! We need to be able to chart a course for our own destiny and economic development without having jealous, conniving, hateful bastards frustrate our efforts behind the scenes! Even now as we speak they're plotting on how to render AIIA Enugu useless!

You need to wake up and smell the coffee! You are sharing the same country with a wicked set of people who will smile in your face and call you 'fellow Nigerian', but stab you in the back at the earliest opportunity! It's being naive, turning the other cheek, and ignoring these glaring facts that have led to millions of us being killed and Alaigbo being marginalized, balkanised and cheated!

IGBOSON1:
^^^Listen! I have no qualms with us staying in Nigeria.....but what pisses me off with some of you 'one Nigeria' champions is that you don't go further to demand for equality and justice! All one is asking for -which the owners of Nigeria and their southern allies are frustrating- is resource control, devolution of powers from the center to the regions/states, and fiscal federalism! We need to be able to chart a course for our own destiny and economic development without having jealous, conniving, hateful bastards frustrate our efforts behind the scenes! Even now as we speak they're plotting on how to render AIIA Enugu useless!

You need to wake up and smell the coffee! You are sharing the same country with a wicked set of people who will smile in your face and call you 'fellow Nigerian', but stab you in the back at the earliest opportunity! It's being naive, turning the other cheek, and ignoring these glaring facts that have led to millions of us being killed and Alaigbo being marginalized, balkanised and cheated!

Maser:
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Enough of the rant already ! You know where to direct your frustrations, Igbo politicians. Why don't you direct you artillery at them for continuously selling out.

Have watched them over the decades betray their own for a meal of porridge. Watched how they betrayed Ekwueme in 1998, Watched Ohaneze host meetings of Igbo politicians and reel out communique of "Igbo Presidency or nothing" only to turn back and support incumbent weeks later to the detriment of their own, Watched many of them whom I know were awarded contracts for big projects in Igboland embezzle them and did nothing.

Truth is, we have to love ourselves(which doesn't translate to hating others), we have to learn the game of politics which is by building consensus with others. That was what Tinubu did successfully with the North and other Igbo leaders tried so unsuccessfully to direct our people to but people like you refused. Igbos can't stand alone, we must stake our claim in the Nigeria project through active collaboration with other ethnic groups in order to succeed. If you stand alone, don't claim others conspired against you, No! You didn't play your game well and lost. Our politicians from the time I know them are so self centred and Ndigbo are the least on their agenda. My point, I'm well versed in the history of persecution of our people before and during the war but if we allow hatred to blind us, we won't get anywhere. We need others in order to move in National politics and that is the only way to beat them in the game. Ojukwu kept talking about handshake across the Niger cos he knows that's the only way we can stake our claim.

Besides, our Governors working for us coupled with our aggressive enterprising nature, even without Federal help we'll be light years ahead of others in development just as in the present Anambra scenario, but will they? Didn't a certain T. A Orji mess Abia up leaving heaps of refuse for a legacy. Didn't he sack his Igbo brothers and Sisters of other states from Abia civil service? Didn't Enugu do the same when they got a new state in 1991? How does the Anambra man see the Enugu man when using the derogatory name Wawa to refer to him? Other examples abound. We need to love ourselves first irrespective of political boundary and dialect. That's why I tell people that those who think our problems will be over once they give us Biafra to think again cos it is then that internal strife will rear its head. South Sudan is a case in point. Enough! [/s]

Kagame:
I really do not like this victim mentality.

Why the paranoia and the inclination to view everything from the prism of a victim?

Is there a calculated plan to sabotage the interests of the region ?

Let us not always mistake glaring incompetence for sabotage.

Maser:
Enough of the rant already ! You know where to direct your frustrations, Igbo politicians. Why don't you direct you artillery at them for continuously selling out.

Have watched them over the decades betray their own for a meal of porridge. Watched how they betrayed Ekwueme in 1998, Watched Ohaneze host meetings of Igbo politicians and reel out communique of "Igbo Presidency or nothing" only to turn back and support incumbent weeks later to the detriment of their own, Watched many of them whom I know were awarded contracts for big projects in Igboland embezzle them and did nothing.

Truth is, we have to love ourselves(which doesn't translate to hating others), we have to learn the game of politics which is by building consensus with others. That was what Tinubu did successfully with the North and other Igbo leaders tried so unsuccessfully to direct our people to but people like you refused. Igbos can't stand alone, we must stake our claim in the Nigeria project through active collaboration with other ethnic groups in order to succeed. If you stand alone, don't claim others conspired against you, No! You didn't play your game well and lost. Our politicians from the time I know them are so self centred and Ndigbo are the least on their agenda. My point, I'm well versed in the history of persecution of our people before and during the war but if we allow hatred to blind us, we won't get anywhere. We need others in order to move in National politics and that is the only way to beat them in the game. Ojukwu kept talking about handshake across the Niger cos he knows that's the only way we can stake our claim.

Besides, our Governors working for us coupled with our aggressive enterprising nature, even without Federal help we'll be light years ahead of others in development just as in the present Anambra scenario, but will they? Didn't a certain T. A Orji mess Abia up leaving heaps of refuse for a legacy. Didn't he sack his Igbo brothers and Sisters of other states from Abia civil service? Didn't Enugu do the same when they got a new state in 1991? How does the Anambra man see the Enugu man when using the derogatory name Wawa to refer to him? Other examples abound. We need to love ourselves first irrespective of political boundary and dialect. That's why I tell people that those who think our problems will be over once they give us Biafra to think again cos it is then that internal strife will rear its head. South Sudan is a case in point. Enough!

cjrane:
Absolutely 100% perfect post!

I also don't have any qualms being in Nigeria as long as it is a just and equitable country, and not an opportunity for some hateful basterds to reduce me into a 3rd class citizen.
You are right, they are seriously plotting how to shut down Enugu International airport under the smokescreen of "International access into Enugu kills Nigerian aviation industry" So they want to demand that any airline that flies into Enugu, must be denied their other lucrative routes in Nigeria. Such behavior is what fuels the anti- Nigeria feeling. Afterall, Cameroon airport may not be as busy as Lagos, but their people should not be forced to land in Lagos just because Lagos is a more lucrative route.

It is clear that the agenda right now is to emasculate the industries operation in the SE by making unfavorable laws, remove any international access into the zone and deny it of any useful federal presence. What more do you want to see before you know they have declared a war on you?

AnambraDota:
One thing you people don't understand is that its only Igbo people that look the Monolithic North eyeball to eyeball and tell them whatever they don't want to hear. Its only Igbos that go to any conference with clear cut agenda and voice it out. Its only Igbos that attack Northerners in their homeland when their kiths n kins are attack in North.
The North doesn't take any other parts of nigeria for anything but Igbos always act as check on their excesses but the most unfortunate thing is that the entire Nigeria is united in hatred against Igbos.


Ndigbo are not playing victim card but Nigeria is always victimizing Igbos.

How can Igbo State have only 5 while others have 6 and 7.

How can SE receive the lowest allocation in Nigeria despite contributing much to national purse.

How can Igbo children score the highest in Umity college while others score low to gain admission.

How can Igbos be killed in North because Bonke was coming to Kano to do crusade

How can Igbos be killed in North because Muhammed Cartoon was spotted in Denmark

How can Igbos be killed in North because US invaded Afghanistan to dislodge Talibans

How can Igbos be killed in North just because Nigeria wanted to host Miss World Beauty Peagent

How can Igbo graduates be Massacred because Buhari lost an election in 2011. ??

How can Igbos be threatened with genocide in Lagos just because they voted for Jonathan in a general election

Check the entire East there is no Federal presence.

Why is Anioma not a state but Jigawa and Osun are states without economic lives.

Why FG yet to apologize over Asaba Massacre

Why are we just getting Intl airport last week while others have bEen enjoying it?

Do you think all these things are accident, no Igboman use your brain, its not accident, its the system.

Let me remind you guys one thing, you can embrace one Nigeria as you like but when the chips are down you will be at the receiving end, I have never embrace Nigeria because the Zoo worth not dying for.

Forget those guys you see in your church and schools, they wish you no well, they are just oral friends whose hearts are filled with hate, envy and jealousy.

One thing I discovered is that these so called Igbo Lagosians and Igbo Northerners are sabotaging our consciousness, these Igbos born outside Igboland lack cultural,economic, political and social connection to motherland East.
They are just setting us backward.

Igbonazy:
I dont trust you, my friend
You're evil!.

cjrane:
Crap!
I usually revere your posts, but you missed the entire point in this one and got this flat wrong.
As important as having good politicians, good citizens can be in the life of a nation, the issue here is the [size=15pt]structure, new policies[/size] designed to specifically to strangulate Ndigbo in Nigeria. We may have bad and inept politicians, but that is not the reason why the Hausa and Yoruba are conniving to destroy Ndigbo. Infact, they celebrate and promote our inept politicians as their partners in crime.

The issue is how to address the gang up to destroy Ndigbo and not to distract us by counting how many kidnappers , inept politicians or armed robbers we have in SE. Like every society, there are good and bad people and we are not different. But,whether the politicians in any society are deft or daft, can not justify their deliberate systematic oppression and destruction economically. That is what the issue is.

levelszik:
Abagworo just created a thread on why anambra hates imo state, stating it was out envy of anambra towards imo state. I mean how lower can this guy still go? I just gave up completely of his case.

cjrane:
Nne God bless you.
Truth is that some of these folks aren't Igbo, but they come here to spy on us.
When i read that 'victim mentality' from that guy, i knew i should be wary of him.
Even Cameroonians in Nigeria know the Hausa and Yoruba people have a deliberate policy to use their dominance of the Federal government to deny Igbo areas of Nigeria federal presence and the highest offices in Nigeria. So for a supposed Igboman to claim to be unaware of that, exposes his intent of plain mischief.
We should know that some people we call Igbo may not share your cause because they view themselves as being born elsewhere. Where you are born is really a powerful thing.It is not specific to Igbos. I know a Yoruba guy "Segun" whose father worked with Nitel in Enugu, and we went to the same elementary school there. He speaks excellent Igbo very well and identified with every Igbo cause, even though his parents were yoruba and couldn't speak Igbo. I think he lives abroad now. So , such a person may have yoruba parents and yoruba name, but he is truly Igbo at his core. So we should expect some of our folks with Igbo names may not share your experience nor aspiration.

cjrane:
Absolutely 100% perfect post!

I also don't have any qualms being in Nigeria as long as it is a just and equitable country, and not an opportunity for some hateful basterds to reduce me into a 3rd class citizen.
You are right, they are seriously plotting how to shut down Enugu International airport under the smokescreen of "International access into Enugu kills Nigerian aviation industry" So they want to demand that any airline that flies into Enugu, must be denied their other lucrative routes in Nigeria. Such behavior is what fuels the anti- Nigeria feeling. Afterall, Cameroon airport may not be as busy as Lagos, but their people should not be forced to land in Lagos just because Lagos is a more lucrative route.

It is clear that the agenda right now is to emasculate the industries operation in the SE by making unfavorable laws, remove any international access into the zone and deny it of any useful federal presence. What more do you want to see before you know they have declared a war on you?

AnambraDota:
One thing you people don't understand is that its only Igbo people that look the Monolithic North eyeball to eyeball and tell them whatever they don't want to hear. Its only Igbos that go to any conference with clear cut agenda and voice it out. Its only Igbos that attack Northerners in their homeland when their kiths n kins are attack in North.
The North doesn't take any other parts of nigeria for anything but Igbos always act as check on their excesses but the most unfortunate thing is that the entire Nigeria is united in hatred against Igbos.


Ndigbo are not playing victim card but Nigeria is always victimizing Igbos.

How can Igbo State have only 5 while others have 6 and 7.

How can SE receive the lowest allocation in Nigeria despite contributing much to national purse.

How can Igbo children score the highest in Umity college while others score low to gain admission.

How can Igbos be killed in North because Bonke was coming to Kano to do crusade

How can Igbos be killed in North because Muhammed Cartoon was spotted in Denmark

How can Igbos be killed in North because US invaded Afghanistan to dislodge Talibans

How can Igbos be killed in North just because Nigeria wanted to host Miss World Beauty Peagent

How can Igbo graduates be Massacred because Buhari lost an election in 2011. ??

How can Igbos be threatened with genocide in Lagos just because they voted for Jonathan in a general election

Check the entire East there is no Federal presence.

Why is Anioma not a state but Jigawa and Osun are states without economic lives.

Why FG yet to apologize over Asaba Massacre

Why are we just getting Intl airport last week while others have bEen enjoying it?

Do you think all these things are accident, no Igboman use your brain, its not accident, its the system.

Let me remind you guys one thing, you can embrace one Nigeria as you like but when the chips are down you will be at the receiving end, I have never embrace Nigeria because the Zoo worth not dying for.

Forget those guys you see in your church and schools, they wish you no well, they are just oral friends whose hearts are filled with hate, envy and jealousy.

One thing I discovered is that these so called Igbo Lagosians and Igbo Northerners are sabotaging our consciousness, these Igbos born outside Igboland lack cultural,economic, political and social connection to motherland East.
They are just setting us backward.

Kagame:
I"d rather not be Igbo, than to be an Igboman who thinks he is more Igbo than the others,simply because they hold a different opinion,had their upbringing elsewhere other than the SE or sired by parents from different tribes of Nigeria,other than both being Igbo. I mean,such delusions of adequacy to question peoples Igboness simply because of the circumstances of their birth or upbringing. Comments like these are the reason why some misguided Anambra dolts think we are superior to other Igbos. And you say "spy on us" ,for what purpose and to what end if I may ask?

I'd let Anambradota's comment slide because he seems to be a very emotional person and his paranoia can be traced to recent historical events ,even though sometimes exaggerated.

Maser:
Anyone who knows the Governor should give him this idea.


He should look into doing some fresh Street roads so that Anambra doesn't look like a concrete jungle. There are too many earth roads. Enugu state government under Chime did a lot of this. (I know Rome wasn't built in a day but our Governor should keep this idea in mind)

They should also vigorously pursue greening the environment with trees and grasses and completely prohibit pasting of posters which defaces the environment.
They should impose heavy fines on anyone whose poster is found anywhere (This only requires political will) . This will make the environment saner and more beautiful. If you construct the most beautiful flyover in the world and they deface it with posters, you've lost it. Anyone who wants to advertise anything should go for billboards or distribute handbills. Thats how its done in the UK and even in Calabar and thats why that city looks like Europe. Lagos too started putting up signs warning against defacing environment with posters but a penalty of heavy fine will keep prospective offenders at bay.
Again there are too many signboards littering Anambra environment thereby making it unsightly. A law should be made that all signboards should be of the same template and stuck to the walls of the business building in an orderly manner. This when implemented will give us a neat pleasant aesthetic Anambra. Besides those signboards obscure road signs which is dangerous and bad for motorists.

A friend from Cross River told me that their government spends over 60 million monthly paying sweepers and contractors handling refuse evacuation from streets. He said that Donald Duke used to visit neighbourhoods unannounced and would promptly revoked any environmental contract found wanting. No wonder their environment looks so clean. Anambra needs to borrow a leaf.

Some of these things are the things Donald Duke did to make Calabar a beautiful city whilst I picked some living in London.
Most of these things won't cost money, just political will but they will make our state beautiful. We are already moving into a league of our own by having the best road network in the country. We should take it a notch higher by being the most organised, most beautiful, and most liveable.
Let's just leave the rest of Nigeria behind. Anambra ga adi mma!

Kagame:
I"d rather not be Igbo, than to be an Igboman who thinks he is more Igbo than the others,simply because they hold a different opinion,had their upbringing elsewhere other than the SE or sired by parents from different tribes of Nigeria,other than both being Igbo. I mean,such delusions of adequacy to question peoples Igboness simply because of the circumstances of their birth or upbringing. Comments like these are the reason why some misguided Anambra dolts think we are superior to other Igbos. And you say "spy on us" ,for what purpose and to what end if I may ask?

I'd let Anambradota's comment slide because he seems to be a very emotional person and his paranoia can be traced to recent historical events ,even though sometimes exaggerated.

Jakpon:
Governor Willie Obiano should with the assistance of Director Nnamdi Kanu build an IPOB base over here.

We Ndi Omambala should emulate what the Abians are doing by burning down all Yeriba owned churches and chasing all their pastors away from Alaigbo.

Chukwu Abiama Okike shall give us victory because Nigeria is a Zoo and we Ndigbo are ready for war againt Ndi Ofe and their Awusa collaborators.