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pazienza:
I guess taking Otapipia and ending a miserable life, is Yorubas definition of honour.

no honour is when u set your home on fire and runaway. sho gbo?

tishbite41:
were thousands not dead b4 d war? was he responsible for dat? re thousands not still dying? is he responsible for dat? I dnt expect him to b a hero to u Afonjas bt he's a hero to us. he used his father's money to prosecute d war, lost all his father's properties in d process. he didn't care, he fought for his pple. I dnt knw hw many igbos will do dat nw. d irony of it all is dat he was honoured more dan Awolowo who had a clear foresight according to u. Ojukwu u did not go to war for d sake of war, derewas no oda choice. d Igbos were marked for extermination, so we had to defend ourselves. no regrets, we re beta dan any oda tribe in Nigeria. so dnt lecture us on Ojukwu, we knw our leaders and Ojukwu is d greatest of dem all.

you yourself know you're a clown. you're reiterating what a second Schl stds of dis contemporary age knew all

and who's lecturing u? u dnt know different btw citing reference and making history. it was just a mere reference

Mufasa27:
I wish yorubas and my brothers from the east could stand in one accord to fight the bigger enemies (hausas)...

How is that possible when Yorubas have consistently joined their Northern masters to fight the East?

oblak00:
Lagos is not an afonja land. Lagos is for everyone. If you won't still accept this, then let me ask you something. If it is now constituted that everyone should return to his/her state, do you think this rule will apply to the likes of Lagos? Dangote's multimillion naira industries nko? Will he move away? What about other prominent Nigerians whose businesses are in lagos and contributes to the success of this economy? Will they be driven out? No! I agree for other states but not Lagos, 'a no man's land'

Sorry i quote you,what happened when Nigeria and Camerron splits?what happened when Eritrea split from Ethipia,what happened when Russia breaks?What happened after south sudan split from sudan? the response is unique.Whoever owns property(ies) and investment(s) would abide by the law of the region he/she finds himself/herself.Alot of countries has split and resources,investments etc were shared and worked out,it will never be proportional or perfect but in the interest of peace,the quota would be respected.

Saying Lagos is a no man's land is a crazy talk.No man's land actually means a strip of land inbetween two countries.it's always the safe zones where the two countries have no right over.Do thorough research about this and read international land feud or better still consult your dictionary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man%27s_land

No man's land
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see No Man's Land (disambiguation).
An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the opposing trenches and no man's land between Loos and Hulluch in Artois, France. German trenches are at the right and bottom, and British trenches are at the top left. The vertical line to the left of centre indicates the course of a pre-war road or track.
An aerial photograph showing opposing trenches and no man's land between, during World War I.

No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms.[1] In modern times, it is commonly associated with the First World War to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, which neither side wished to cross or seize due to fear of being attacked by the enemy in the process.[2]

Contents

1 Origin
2 World War 1
3 Cold War
4 Israel-Jordan
5 Oklahoma Panhandle
6 See also
7 References

Origin

According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in human geography at the Royal Holloway University of London, the term is first mentioned in Domesday Book in the 11th century to describe parcels of land that were just beyond the London city walls.[3] The Oxford English Dictionary contains a reference to the term dating back to 1320, and spelled nonesmanneslond, when the term was used to describe a disputed territory or one over which there was legal disagreement.[1][4] The same term was later used as the name for the piece of land outside the north wall of London that was assigned as the place of execution.[4] The term was applied to a little-used area on ships called the forecastle, a place where various ropes, tackle, block, and other supplies were stored.[5] In the United Kingdom several places called No Man's Land denoted "extra-parochial spaces that were beyond the rule of the church, beyond the rule of different fiefdoms that were handed out by the king … ribbons of land between these different regimes of power".[3]
World War 1
A stretch of no man's land at Flanders Fields, France, 1919

The British Army did not widely employ the term when the Regular Army arrived in France in August 1914, soon after the outbreak of the Great War.[6] The terms used most frequently at the start of the war to describe the area between the trench lines included 'between the trenches' or 'between the lines'.[6] The term 'no man's land' was first used in a military context by soldier and historian Ernest Swinton in his short story The Point of View.[1] Swinton used the term in war correspondence on the Western Front, with specific mention of the terms with respect to the Race to the Sea in late 1914.[6] The Anglo-German Christmas truce of 1914 brought the term into common use, and thereafter it appeared frequently in official communiqués, newspaper reports, and personnel correspondences of the members of the British Expeditionary Force.[6]

In World War I, no man's land often ranged from several hundred yards to in some cases less than 10 yards.[7] Heavily defended by machine guns, mortars, artillery and riflemen on both sides, it was often riddled with barbed wire and rudimentary improvised land mines, as well as corpses and wounded soldiers who were not able to make it across the sea of explosions and fire. The area was usually devastated by the warfare, carnage and remains of the artillery. It was open to fire from the opposing trenches and hard going generally slowed down any attempted advance. However, not only were soldiers forced to cross no man's land when advancing, and as the case might be when retreating, but after an attack the stretcher bearers would need to go out into it to bring in the wounded. No man's land remained a regular feature of the battlefield until near the end of World War I, when mechanised weapons (i.e. tanks) made entrenched lines less of an obstacle.

Effects from World War I no man's lands persist today, for example at Verdun in France, where the Zone Rouge (Red Zone) is an area with unexploded ordnance, poisoned beyond habitation by arsenic, chlorine, and phosgene. The zone is sealed off completely and still deemed too dangerous for civilians to return to: "The area is still considered to be very poisoned, so the French government planted an enormous forest of black pines, like a living sarcophagus", comments Alasdair Pinkerton, a researcher at Royal Holloway University of London, who compared the zone to the nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl, similarly encased in a "concrete sarcophagus".[3]
Cold War

During the Cold War, one example of "no man's land" was the territory close to the Iron Curtain. Officially the territory belonged to the Eastern Bloc countries, but over the entire Iron Curtain there were several wide tracts of uninhabited land, several hundred meters in width, containing watch towers, minefields, unexploded bombs and other such debris.

The US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is separated from Cuba proper by an area called the Cactus Curtain. In late 1961, Cuba had its troops plant an 8-mile (13 km) barrier of Opuntia cactus along the northeastern section of the 28-kilometre (17 mi) fence surrounding the base to prevent economic migrants fleeing from Cuba from resettling in the United States.[8] This was dubbed the "Cactus Curtain", an allusion to Europe's Iron Curtain[9] and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia. US and Cuban troops placed some 55,000 land mines across the no man's land, creating the second-largest minefield in the world, and the largest in the Americas. On 16 May 1996, Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, ordered their removal. The US land mines have since been replaced with motion and sound sensors to detect intruders. The Cuban government has not removed the corresponding minefield on its side of the border.
Israel-Jordan
Largely empty land near the Old City wall, Dormition Abbey (on the far right), and Tower of David (centre-left).
No man's land in Jerusalem, between Israel and Jordan, circa 1964.

The 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Jordan were signed in Rhodes with the help of UN mediation on 3 April 1949.[10] Armistice lines were determined in November 1948. Between the lines territory was left that was defined as no man's land.[11][12] Such areas existed in Jerusalem, in the area between the western and southern parts of the Walls of Jerusalem and Musrara.[13] A strip of land north and south of Latrun was also known as "no man's land" because it was not controlled by either Israel or Jordan in 1948-1967.[14]
Oklahoma Panhandle
Main article: Oklahoma Panhandle

In 1885, the United States Interior Department ruled that what was called "The Neutral Strip" was public land and that squatter homesteads were invalid. The Strip began to be called No Man's Land around 1886 after one official stated "no man can own the land".[15]

Adebowale89:
you yourself know you're a clown. you're reiterating what a second Schl stds of dis contemporary age knew all

and who's lecturing u? u know different btw citing reference and making history. it was just a mere reference

wat is dis n.iiga saying?

tishbite41:
wat is dis n.iiga saying?

I'm saying that you're wasting your time telling me how ojukwu was a hero or coward. I knew everything before


if u cant comprehend that simple logic then I'm sorry for u

Adebowale89:
I'm saying that you're wasting your time telling me how ojukwu was a hero or coward. I knew everything before


if u found that to comprehend that simple logic than I'm sorry for u

u knew he was a hero and u came here to spew trash. smh. y wuld I undastnd ya shoddy ryt up? dnt u undastnd mine?

zendy:
How is that possible when Yorubas have consistently joined their Northern masters to fight the East?

It marvels me too, since I was born till now , I have never seen igbos as threat to this country unlike those terrorist from the North.. I have see them murdered a lot of yorubas during a riot at bodija market ibadan some years back, and the mile 2 riot last year and so on.. This guys are pure evil... They are the only problem we are facing here in this country

tishbite41:
u knew he was a hero and u came here to spew trash. smh. y wuld I undastnd ya shoddy ryt up? dnt u undastnd mine?

seems u have problem with logic in grammar. u shud open your eyes and see where I said hero or coward


this is a noun phrase and it shud tell u I don't care abt his status.

limeta:
Only in yoruba land.
south east /South/south dont want to know you.

We don't thin we care to know you either, We chase out GEJ with out votes and we will give our votes to PMB in 2019..


Nobody from SS/SE will ever clinch without our support..

Nigeria Rocks. Just imagine how united we were when our troops matched to Gambia......... I love that feeling[/quote]


I just dash u all d fuk now..i concur wit u, wen it's comes to an international issues like dt we r united, previous election divided us I pray dt 2019 election wil bring us togther again

Adebowale89:
seems u have problem with logic in grammar. u shud open your eyes and see where I said hero or coward


this is a noun phrase and it shud tell u I don't care abt his status.

u re d one who has problem with common sense. u dnt expect an Ojukwu Stan lyk me to type coward next to dat great name.

[quote author=Afriifa post=53000458]I so much love the south-west. E.g Lagos and Ondo(my brothers lives there)


as a Nigerian, I am always proud of Lagos state anyday, anytime.


Although my Neighbours always refer to them as "Afonja" I still like them.

The only problem i have with them is their support for the Notherners even in the face of wrongs. However God knows why.
[b]
Nigeria Rocks. Just imagine how united we were when our troops matched to Gambia......... I love that feeling [/quo[/b]te]

tishbite41:
u re d one who has problem with common sense. u dnt expect an Ojukwu Stan lyk me to type coward next to dat great name.

your statement is not logically follow bro. you're lacking behind the motive why u quote me

when u finally understand why u quote me, feel free to write back


ve a great weekend

oblak00:
Lagos is not an afonja land. Lagos is for everyone. If you won't still accept this, then let me ask you something. If it is now constituted that everyone should return to his/her state, do you think this rule will apply to the likes of Lagos? Dangote's multimillion naira industries nko? Will he move away? What about other prominent Nigerians whose businesses are in lagos and contributes to the success of this economy? Will they be driven out? No! I agree for other states but not Lagos, 'a no man's land'

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LIKES OF GLOBACOM, MTN, DANGOTE GROUP AND ETC IN YORUBA LAND. THE OODUA CONGLOMERATE WILL INVEST LIKE USD 5 BILLION IN DANGOTE CEMENT AND RESTRUCTURE THE BOARD. DANGOTE WILL REMAIN A STAKE HOLDER, PROBABLY CHAIRMAN. SAME APPLIES TO OTHERS. YOU GO AND DO SAME IN YOUR LAND!.

Oblang:
How exactly is the north dealing with them? Which region has the highest share in the budget and appointments? Make all of una just dey there dey mumu urself....

can you even comprehend what you quoted

LOL!
The one they SHAPED in 2015 nko?

Adebowale89:
your statement is not logically follow bro. you're lacking behind the motive why u quote me

when u finally understand why u quote me, feel free to write back


ve a great weekend

well, from ya lexis n structure, I can deduce dat u re a product of inferior scholarship. go n buy d brighter grammar series. it will b of gret help to ya Nairaland career. bon voyage.

enyanwoke:
South west yield more power and influence.. Heheheh, most dumbest thing I have heard this year

Wow really? in 2011 Buhari persuaded SW and tinubu to merge with himso as to defeat PDP but the timing is wrong and due to sympathy we voted for GEJ.. In 2014 GEJ come to Mapo in Ibadan and call SW leader thugs and say Lagos is too big to be left in the hand of thugs and 2015 we show him and voted for Buhari that give us regard and honor us..


Your Hero was in Otta yesterday begging baba..

sarrki:
Let me continue with your class am taking you.

(1) when elders are talking younger ones should keep quiet

What happened to ojukwu , and recently Nmadi kanu the criminal

Ojukwu today is the greatest leader to come out of africa.
Little Wonder he had the best burial in africa

tishbite41:
well, from ya lexis n structure, I can deduce dat u re a product of inferior scholarship. go n buy d brighter grammar series. it will b of gret help to ya Nairaland career. bon voyage.

u don't know the meaning of inferior, if u do, u will know you're just rolling on one circle


is a big slap on me when someone like u is recommending what to read for me when your approaches is not connected with your submission

get "invisible teacher" written by dele ashade. it will guide u...isn't just abt speaking English

coz I dnt see WHR all my careful and logical words correspond with lexis&structure

APCmyheart:
Wow really? in 2011 Buhari persuaded SW and tinubu to merge with himso as to defeat PDP but the timing is wrong and due to sympathy we voted for GEJ.. In 2014 GEJ come to Mapo in Ibadan and call SW leader thugs and say Lagos is too big to be left in the hand of thugs and 2015 we show him and voted for Buhari that give us regard and honor us


Your Hero was in Otta yesterday begging baba..

Olodo So when obj went to abia state last month or the other day he was in Calabar he went to beg abi......
Oponu kpo gan ni nairaland.

Adebowale89:
u don't know the meaning of inferior, if u do, u will know you're just rolling on one circle


is a big slap on me if someone like u is recommending what to read for me when your approaches is not connected with your submission

get "invisible teacher" written by dele ashade. it will guide u...isn't just abt speaking English

coz I dnt see WHR all my careful and logical words correspond with lexis&structure

look at wat a grown a.ss man is typing. can't u skim thru wat u ve written b4 submitting it? oga, go n help ur sef. d Queen's premier would be a gret start. wishing u a happy Sunday in advance.

pasol4real:
Ojukwu today is the greatest leader to come out of africa.
Little Wonder he had the best burial in africa

real talk nt adekunle hu was buried like a fowl which died of bird flu.

tishbite41:
look at wat a grown a.ss man is typing. can't u skim thru wat u ve written b4 submitting it? oga, go n help ur sef. d Queen's premier would be a gret start. wishing u a happy Sunday in advance.

lolz! I shud go and help myself in what precisely? lemme just forget coz u haven't make any valid point so far, just parabulating in a circle of repetition

The people of this region mentioned is the real problem of Nigeria, one they are scavengers, two Hypocrisy, three afonjas, four sycophants, five enemy of progress, six betrays, just to mention few. Ask even the Northerns they will concore, that is why they call them Bribri ba shawo

enyanwoke:
South west yield more power and influence.. Heheheh, most dumbest thing I have heard this year

Which region determined outcome of 2015 elections?

Tonason:
The people of this region mentioned is the real problem of Nigeria, one they are scavengers, two Hypocrisy, three afonjas, four sycophants, five enemy of progress, six betrays, just to mention few. Ask even the Northerns they will concore, that is why they call them Bribri ba shawo

The people of that region are your masters and we understand your animosity against them.

Tonason:
The people of this region mentioned is the real problem of Nigeria, one they are scavengers, two Hypocrisy, three afonjas, four sycophants, five enemy of progress, six betrays, just to mention few. Ask even the Northerns they will concore, that is why they call them Bribri ba shawo

Seven, from recent history, they determine presidential elections.

MrMontella:
can you even comprehend what you quoted

No mind the fooool. Just say make I reply the mumu not minding his foolishness...

LOL
These SW guys like overestimating their importance in Nigerian politics.
Anyway it's fine, make we dey look

LOL
These SW guys like overestimating their importance in Nigerian politics.
Anyway it's fine, make we dey look