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chosen04:
Its obvious very soon you guys will rewrite histroy to make igbo and ibo two different tribes.

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I think i asked you a question

sjeezy8:
what color are your panties- are you fat or skinny? lmfao

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grafikdon:
I have a feeling that most Nigerians know this but they have accepted the questionable term Hausa/Fulani. There is hardly any difference between that term and a claim that Igbo/Ijo is one ethnic group. Very erroneous.

They are known as the Hausa/Fulani and if they are not complaining who're you to complain.

BTW

3 major tribes in Nigeria are

Hausa
Igbo
Yoruba

Hausa/fulani is not a tribe!

Tippy Top:
There has always been and will remain 3 major tribes in Nigeria:
Hausa/Fulani
Yoruba
Ibo.

Am with chosen04  on this one.

Hausa/Fulani is just a tribal hegemony designed to give the sokoto caliphate balance in Nigerian matters. I very much doubt that the Hausa and Fulani combined number up to both Yoruba or Igbo.

But lets not derail the thread further.

Did Omo chicken deliberately push Ojukwu to war, knowing the west would benefit from the war?
Is Omo chicken an embarrassment to all Yoruba people?

History did showed us who was exactly the chicken. Remember, chicken are usually slaughtered to satisfy others!

looking at the statement made by Awo from different perspectives, one can deduce a lot from it. by using the word 'if' , he made the possibility of the yorubas pulling out a conditionality based on 'if' the East was allowed to pull out which eventually was not allowed.

Now looking at it critically, Awo may have further pitted the North against the East by that statement. By making that threat, the Federal government of Nigeria then led by the North were pushed to take a decisive action not to 'allow the East pull out of Nigeria' so that the Yorubas wouldn't have a cause to also pull out. This resulted in the war which led to the annihilation of millions of Igbo mainly innocent civilians, women and children.

Going by his antecedents and what the yorubas are known for, the above may have been his aim though he approached it in a subtle manner as Yorubas are wont to. The events during and after the war ie starvation as a weapon of warfare and the 20 pounds policy all point to a deliberate plot by Awo to emasculate Eastern Nigeria particularly the Igbos who he saw as the only tribe standing between the Yorubas and economic dominance.

I guess he succeded but now the tables are turning and very fast at that.

grafikdon:
I have a feeling that most Nigerians know this but they have accepted the questionable term Hausa/Fulani. There is hardly any difference between that term and a claim that Igbo/Ijo is one ethnic group. Very erroneous.

Not really.
Hausa / Fulani = Hausa + Fulani = Hausa & Fulani = Hausa and Fulani = Cabal 

I have always tried to stay away from this blog but I've always read it from time to time hoping the conversation would get more productive but it hasn't. You young nigerian miinds keep fighting about which tribe is superior and who did what when most of you were not born. The often missed reality is that the problem in Nigeria is not inter-tribal but between the mass and the elites. If you've noticed the elite barely fight over tribal issues except when the want to whip the often less informed masses into a frenzy with economic benefits for them. Until we masses unite across all ethnic lines we woould not be strong enough to fight an elite that is already ahead of us in resources. Take this food for thought and chew it: Despite the northern dominance of power is the regular joe on the street of Kano better off than that on the street of Anambra or Ogun? Let the masses of Nigeria Unite!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hausa are ruled by the Fulani so what difference does it make? It's almost like Anglo-Saxon.

Sunny_bobo:
looking at the statement made by Awo from different perspectives, one can deduce a lot from it. by using the word 'if' , he made the possibility of the yorubas pulling out a conditionality based on 'if' the East was allowed to pull out which eventually was not allowed.

Now looking at it critically, Awo may have further pitted the North against the East by that statement. By making that threat, the Federal government of Nigeria then led by the North were pushed to take a decisive action not to 'allow the East pull out of Nigeria' so that the Yorubas wouldn't have a cause to also pull out. This resulted in the war which led to the annihilation of millions of Igbo mainly innocent civilians, women and children.

Going by his antecedents and what the yorubas are known for, the above may have been his aim though he approached it in a subtle manner as Yorubas are wont to. The events during and after the war ie starvation as a weapon of warfare and the 20 pounds policy all point to a deliberate plot by Awo to emasculate Eastern Nigeria particularly the Igbos who he saw as the only tribe standing between the Yorubas and economic dominance.

I guess he succeded but now the tables are turning and very fast at that.

Your points are reasonable and may be valid.

And i noticed it didn't have any "hate" in it.

If Nigerians can agree and discuss with the knowledge that the past is in the past, and that the future is the most important thing, then we night be able to sort out this mess.

My brother, you may have to conclude it is the enabling effect of internet anonymity.  I simply don't recognize this intellectual paucity in conversations when I step out with my people in the real world.

Dtribeless:
I have always tried to stay away from this blog but I've always read it from time to time hoping the conversation would get more productive but it hasn't. You young nigerian miinds keep fighting about which tribe is superior and who did what when most of you were not born. The often missed reality is that the problem in Nigeria is not inter-tribal but between the mass and the elites. If you've noticed the elite barely fight over tribal issues except when the want to whip the often less informed masses into a frenzy with economic benefits for them. Until we masses unite across all ethnic lines we woould not be strong enough to fight an elite that is already ahead of us in resources. Take this food for thought and chew it: Despite the northern dominance of power is the regular joe on the street of Kano better off than that on the street of Anambra or Ogun? Let the masses of Nigeria Unite!!!!!!!!!!!!

I strongly believe this is one of the most misquoted statements in Nigerian history. To start with, this statement was part of a much longer address to Western(Yoruba+Edo+Delta) leaders of thought in 1967 when speculations were rife about the then pending secessions. Thus this was merely the thought and idea of one man who, despite his great popularity, was not a supreme leader but who merely proposed his own ideas which may or may not be accepted.
Superior arguments would have come to bear which made his position unacceptable and thus influenced the stand thereafter taken by leaders of the Western Region of whom Awolowo was one, albeit a powerful one. But to expect his position to always be taken is an anathema to his democratic credentials and tendencies.

With the continous support for awos role in the genocide the past cannot be forgotten till the past is resolved. A grudge still exists it has to be addressed it can't be wished away

revolt:
With the continous support for awos role in the genocide the past cannot be forgotten till the past is resolved. A grudge still exists it has to be addressed it can't be wished away

You want to discuss Awo's role. What about Zik's role? Why not address that first? Did Zik not switch sides before the end of the war? If Zik, who was an Igbo man, can switch sides, why can Awo not change his mind in the interests of his people?

@Poster

This topic show dumb some of you Igbos really are. A crisis currently engulfs Nigerian. Instead of you coming to Nairaland and sharing ideas on how we can move Nigeria forward you guys are here talking about AWO and OjUKWU.

You know what i say?

Fxck AWO, Fxck OJukwu Bleep all those fools because they all contributed to the mess Nigeria is today. Now i challenge you numbskulls to to create topics that will Move Nigeria forward.

IGBOs shut the fuxk up about Biafra you all sound like jews screaming about the holocaust. You are all pathetic, Biafra this ,biafra that. If you have an issue with Yorubas pick up and AK-47 and go to balogun market and shoot everybody. If you can’t do that then shut. You call Yorubas cowards but it is your Ojukwu who is a coward, he could not fight till the very end, he gave up and ran away only to come back and join the same people who killed his people. Honorable men die with their soldiers, they do not abandon them to be massacred. What do you call that.

The day I meet that OJukwu I will put a bullet in head, he is on my hit list, he is one of the power mongers disturbing Nigeria politics.It is obvious many of you have not met a crazy Yoruba guy before otherwise you will not call yorubas cowards.

Biarfa nation will be a reality if Yorubas do not support it and that is a bona fide fact so you guys better learn to start showing us some respect, the west is far more developed than the easts and there are a lot of businesses in the west. We can decide at any time to kick you igbos out and there is nothing you can do because the OPC will sort you out.

Many of you IGBOs on this forum are cowards who hide behind their computers to make racist comments ,pray you don’t come across a guy like me then you u go no say Yoruba no be coward.

As for my Yoruba brothers please forget about AWo and his likes. We don’t need people like them. We need young leaders like fashola and like minded people to develop the west.

Hausas rise up against your community leaders as they are the ones messing things up in Nigeria.

Niger deltans shxt the Bleep up ,you no get mouth for here .In a face to face war you cant defeat Yorubas ,there is a huge stash of weapons in cotonou waiting to be used in case you folks make any sudden movements!

But the East did secede. On May 30, 1969, Eastern Region became Republic of Biafra. So why did he renege on this publicly-avowed statement? Awolowo saw the conflict as an opportunity to liquidate Ndigbo and position his Yoruba ethnic group as the pre-eminent nationality in Nigeria. His post-civil war policies validates this hypothesis. What the war failed to achieve, he sought to achieve through his wicked policies.

Sunnybobo3:
looking at the statement made by Awo from different perspectives, one can deduce a lot from it. by using the word 'if' , he made the possibility of the yorubas pulling out a conditionality based on 'if' the East was allowed to pull out which eventually was not allowed.

Now looking at it critically, Awo may have further pitted the North against the East by that statement. By making that threat, the Federal government of Nigeria then led by the North were pushed to take a decisive action not to 'allow the East pull out of Nigeria' so that the Yorubas wouldn't have a cause to also pull out. This resulted in the war which led to the annihilation of millions of Igbo mainly innocent civilians, women and children. But man is not God. Man proposes, God disposes!

Going by his antecedents and what the yorubas are known for, the above may have been his aim though he approached it in a subtle manner as Yorubas are wont to. The events during and after the war ie starvation as a weapon of warfare and the 20 pounds policy all point to a deliberate plot by Awo to emasculate Eastern Nigeria particularly the Igbos who he saw as the only tribe standing between the Yorubas and economic dominance.

I guess he succeded but now the tables are turning and very fast at that.