₦airaland Forum

Op! 50yrs ago we fought a war!
Lost 3million brothers.
Our ancestral homes ploughed with bombs, our farms destroyed,
Our properties outside the biafra siezed and those in biafra destroyed,
All our assests both in cash and kind was reduced to £20
We started from the scratch!


50 yrs later and there isn't any tribe in Nigeria that has more millionaires than Igbo tribe!, {I stand to be corrected} against all odds {no president, no vice-president, no federal presence!}
So don't worry about our economic viability. Worry about those who have the land, the manpower, the government support, the foriegn support and yet they have the highest rate of poverty in the country!








BIAFRA WOULD BE FINE
Adios

HiddenShadow:
Is Delta a tribe

Mention your tribe

Mumu na tribe una add for your Biafra map.
Itsekiri ogbeni and we don't speak igbo.

HiddenShadow:
Is Delta a tribe

Mention your tribe

we are Nigeria, stop all this tribe thing.
America today is made up of different ethnic groups to different race sef, yet na American they dey can themselves

sarahade:
Mumu na tribe una add for your Biafra map.
Itsekiri ogbeni and we don't speak igbo.

Itsekiri is not needed in Biafra

I wonder who mistakenly added you people in Biafra

Anyway, we have informed Kanu that Itsekiris are Yoruba cousins and we don't want to have anything to do with you guys

Are you happy now


So use the word Itsekiri and not ND

What will be the role of Israel and world Jewry in a new Republic of Biafra?

The answer has a lot to do with the potentials of Biafra.

EzeeYFB:
we are Nigeria, stop all this tribe thing.
America today is made up of different ethnic groups to different race sef, yet na American they dey can themselves

Who made us Nigerians.?

My tribe wasn't consulted before being declared Nigerians

The youths from both sides who were not born to witness the civil war will continue to mislead us on social media. Let's fight for break up for just one day so that the lesson will last for another one century

Kei144:
What will be the role of Israel and world Jewry in a new Republic of Biafra?

The answer has a lot to do with the potentials of Biafra.

Most idiots on Nairaland don't know that Israel will help transform Biafra into a first world nation in 10years


Biafra will be a developed and prosperous nation in 10years because of the Israelites

HiddenShadow:
Itsekiri is not needed in Biafra

I wonder who mistakenly added you people in Biafra

Anyway, we have informed Kanu that Itsekiris are Yoruba cousins and we don't want to have anything to do with you guys

Are you happy now


So use the word Itsekiri and not ND

Lol but our oil go sweet for una mouth abi.

Chase itsekiri people out of Niger delta now fool.

Greedy bastards, tribalist Oshi.

HiddenShadow:
Who made us Nigerians.?

My tribe wasn't consulted before being declared Nigerians

I never knew u run a consulting firm na.
Abeg pack well ja re
See as u come out and be shouting ur tribe wasn't consulted, who know u?!!
When the men of the day consented to it where u there? Them Don born u then sef?
abeg go take ogi with peak milk and sleep ja re, your brain dey over heat.

sarahade:
Lol but our oil go sweet for una mouth abi.

Chase itsekiri people out of Niger delta now fool.

Greedy bastards, tribalist Oshi.

bro no mind am, see one of reasons This Biafra no make sense, common men like this doing foot soldier work for their elites and get dumped at the end.

HiddenShadow:
Most idiots on Nairaland don't know that Israel will help transform Biafra into a first world nation in 10years


Biafra will be a developed and prosperous nation in 10years because of the Israelites

lol
Israel ko Judah ni
See tale by moonlight oo
Bt mehn u r better Dan this na
U r nt that gullible to this kind of myths, step up ur game.
As Israel dey dem no get una time, they r busy with Palestine to bother about Biafra.
Besides will all Eastern states turn to Jews when we Don become Catholics finish and Christians of various denomination, abi u think Jews like Christians In the first place ni, they are still waiting for Christ to come and you are claiming Christ to come, tell me how they won help us na

Nnemuka:
i stopped reading when i saw this "The complete lack of regard for the religious believe of the typical Muslim is usually the trigger for violence between the Arewa Muslim community and the Igbo nation, it is not unusual to find an Igbo man provocatively gulping a bottle of beer before a fasting Muslim neighbor without recourse to their emotions during Ramadan, the failure and outright refusal of a vast majority of the Igbo community to recognize and respect the religious beliefs of their host communities will continue to be the weakest and most lethal link in this complex relationship."

So because some set of people are fasting then others should not drink beer or may be eat again? you were making sense until i read that.
i will advise you to delete that part and think of something else to say. Its like saying people should not take their bath because its snowing in America, and Americans dont bathe during that period. mtcheww

It's called wisdom, sensitivity, tact, respect. Even in Dubai with its cosmopolitan atmosphere you don't wear your bumshorts around. People have culture which whenever you come into such place you have to just respect it for peace to reign. Recently, the Ipob declared sit at home to commemorate those who died in the Biafran war. What that means is that even if I am not igbo if I was there I'd respect that order out of respect for the dead and the pain and suffering of those mourning their loss. While I could easily say 'well I am not igbo, wetin concern me. I will go around and do my business jare after all the constitution guarantees freedom of movement' I will not be wise to take such a stance. I will be insensitive and foolish.

Please let us always try and look at things not only from our own perspective, our own history and experience which is often too narrow and excludes the other persons'. We are in this mess today because we have failed, even refused to understand each other.

More than anything the human heart craves for understanding. As a human being I might not always agree with you but I can at least try and understand you-Why are you saying what you are saying, what is the cause, what is behind this or that? This are questions I can ask in a bid to understand you. And my understanding of your position can be the beginning of a great working and fruitful relationship. But if I shut you down and say go sit down jare. You will be hurt and that is what we do to ourselves in this country. And everyone is in pain now.
Cheers

EzeeYFB:
bro no mind am, see one of reasons This Biafra no make sense, common men like this doing foot soldier work for their elites and get dumped at the end.

Havehahaha Biafra people carry your 5 states and go.
God bless nigeria

EzeeYFB:
bro no mind am, see one of reasons This Biafrano make sense, common men like this doing foot soldier work for their elites and get dumped at the end.

Hahahaha biafra-ud people carry your 5 states and go.
God bless nigeria

EzeeYFB:
lol
Israel ko Judah ni
See tale by moonlight oo
Bt mehn u r better Dan this na
U r nt that gullible to this kind of myths, step up ur game.
As Israel dey dem no get una time, they r busy with Palestine to bother about Biafra.
Besides will all Eastern states turn to Jews when we Don become Catholics finish and Christians of various denomination, abi u think Jews like Christians In the first place ni, they are still waiting for Christ to come and you are claiming Christ to come, tell me how they won help us na

Why do you think Netanyahu participated in ECOWAS meeting? Was he interested in Judaising West Africans? No! He came for economic interests. Israel will be interested in Biafra for economic reasons and not for Jewish brotherhood or Jewish religion. Israel knows that Biafra will be interested in their participation.

sarahade:
Lol but our oil go sweet for una mouth abi.

Chase itsekiri people out of Niger delta now fool.

Greedy bastards, tribalist Oshi.

Chase who

Why should we chase you out of your ancestral homeland

If Ijaws, Ibibios, Annangs, etc join us, you guys can join the Fulani herdsmen to continue with Nigeria


Your ethnic group is not needed for our survival


So join Fulani herdsmen

sarahade:
What I know is Biafra should stop including Niger delta in their useless map. If we can't stay on our own we stand with Nigeria.

Many in this forum keep making this same statement and it's getting Stale.
Whether you like it or not, some of the people in South South, especially Igbos there will join their brothers.
Staying back in Nigeria or South South will turn them to minority.
Who wants to be in that position, if they have a chance of being the majority?
Stop wasting your time repeating the same thing over and over again.

HiddenShadow:
Chase who

Why should we chase you out of your ancestral homeland

If Ijaws, Ibibios, Annangs, etc join us, you guys can join the Fulani herdsmen to continue with Nigeria


Your ethnic group is not needed for our survival


So join Fulani herdsmen

How this people take relate to una is what I don't understand.
Mad people
God bless Nigeria

steppins:
Many in this forum keep making this same statement and it's getting Stale.
Whether you like it or not, some of the people in South South, especially Igbos there will join their brothers.
Staying back in Nigeria or South South will turn them to minority.
Who wants to be in that position, if they have a chance of being the majority?
Stop wasting your time repeating the same thing over and over again.

We will keep repeating it until biafra-ud remove us from ya map.

Mujtahida:
It's called wisdom, sensitivity, tact, respect. Even in Dubai with its cosmopolitan atmosphere you don't wear your bumshorts around. People have culture which whenever you come into such place you have to just respect it for peace to reign. Recently, the Ipob declared sit at home to commemorate those who died in the Biafran war. What that means is that even if I am not igbo if I was there I'd respect that order out of respect for the dead and the pain and suffering of those mourning their loss. While I could easily say 'well I am not igbo, wetin concern me. I will go around and do my business jare after all the constitution guarantees freedom of movement' I will not be wise to take such a stance. I will be insensitive and foolish.

Please let us always try and look at things not only from our own perspective, our own history and experience which is often too narrow and excludes the other persons'. We are in this mess today because we have failed, even refused to understand each other.

More than anything the human heart craves for understanding. As a human being I might not always agree with you but I can at least try and understand you-Why are you saying what you are saying, what is the cause, what is behind this or that? This are questions I can ask in a bid to understand you. And my understanding of your position can be the beginning of a great working and fruitful relationship. But if I shut you down and say go sit down jare. You will be hurt and that is what we do to ourselves in this country. And everyone is in pain now.
Cheers

What's the point being one?
FYI, Dubai is another country. If I go to Dubai, I respect the laws of their land.
In Nigeria, according to the constitution, I'm free to eat, work and live wherever I want to.
If that right is threatened, then there's no reason for one Nigeria.
This is one of the reasons we're fighting for secession.
If we're Biafrans, and some of us choose to live in the north, they will respect the laws or culture in full, since they're no longer citizens.

sarahade:
What I know is Biafra should stop including Niger delta in their useless map. If we can't stay on our own we stand with Nigeria.

Did u read the topic at all?
U can go to hell with your freaky Niger delta

In

EmeeNaka:
There are too many exaggerations in this article
1) That Igbo people are in control of 70% of commercial activities in the North. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Northerners i saw while in the North are astute businessmen. They are in control of Northern commerce. I will instead agree that Igbos commercial activities in the North are quite significant.
2) Biafra agitation is led by Igbos chiefly, but not only Igbos are in support of it and the Biafra proposed map does not make the Biafra, a landlocked state except if there are some other people preparing another Biafra.
3) Igbos business activities in the North are mutually beneficial to the Igbos and the North. The envy and Jealousy that always come with Igbo business is Nigeria are unwarranted. Every Nigerian eye is set on Igbo business. They will talk of it 20times per day always alluding to their friendliness. Every part of Nigeria is hostile to Igbo people. It's just that the people there still need what igbos offers. Igbos turn any environment they settle to viable environment and develop it unlike other Nigeria tribesmen who will not even attempt to buy land in Igboland nor even develop a free land given to them. At Ugwuoba in Enugu, a large Hectares of lands were given to Northerners to build their place. They ended up setting up a refugee camp there. They would not mould a single block to erect a building. They devastated the land.
If you give such land to Igbo man, in 3years,you will be amazed. Go to Shaki in Oyo state and see newest examples but few days back,an indigene of shaki started threatening Igbo's to leave Shaki.
4) National Integration should not be led by a single group. Many Yorubas will claim of being good host but they never claim of being good immigrants notably because if a Yoruba man want to travel, he will most likely travel outside Nigeria. A lot of Nigerians accuse igbos of being unruly but they can't go outside their homeland in Nigeria to live where there are no Igboman in the same Nigeria. Most group oppose Biafra secession by threatening to secede if Igbos go; that's a sign that the only thing keeping many groups in Nigeria is Igbo man.
5) There is nothing more to learn about Hausa Fulani North men. There is no way to please them if you're not a Muslim. The fact that Igbo man drinks a beer during Fasting is a non-issue. Making statements against is simply being unNigerian.
In Conclusion, Igbos has been more Nigerian than any groups in Nigeria. Igbos live out the true meaning of National integration which has brought them harm from those who has always touted one Nigeria but hate to see it materialized. The only thing that sections of Nigeria care about Nigeria is oil wealth. The idea of Nationhood is totally opposed by majority of Nigeria groups. The call for secession will continue unless Nigeria restructure in such a way as to promote Corporate coexistence.

good write up

kirchofff:
but the Igbo's are not united within themselves.....have Biafra and you'd see the truth.

They are not united yet they conducted a successful sit at home
Tell us another lie.

sarahade:
We will keep repeating it until biafra-ud remove us from ya map.

Words of consolation. You don't wanna be left alone with the northerners. Lol
And without the igbos in South South, Niger delta Republic(even with their oil) will end up like South Sudan. Lol
Itsekiris, Urhobos​ and some Yorubas pretending to be South South, are the only people running around, complaining about a Biafra map.

Nigerians! Tune in to NTA international if you can.
You're senators still have their heads in the sand & have refused to smell the coffee.

So far, they want the status quo to remain!

steppins:
Words of consolation. You don't wanna be left alone with the northerners. Lol
And without the igbos in South South, Niger delta Republic(even with their oil) will end up like South Sudan. Lol
Itsekiris, Urhobos​ and some Yorubas pretending to be South South, are the only people running around, complaining about a Biafra map.

Mumu as if we don't know how greedy you people are.
Stop including us

Noccerino:
Did u read the topic at all?
U can go to hell with your freaky Niger delta

Finally you understand .
Republic of Niger delta or Nigeria.
God bless Nigeria

ochejoseph:
BIAFRA VS AREWA FACE OFF: THE FIVE MAJOR ISSUE
WE MUST NOT FAIL TO US


Growing up as a child in Rigiyar Dorowa area of Sokoto was one of the happiest times of my life, opposite our house were the native Hausa/ Fulani hosts while on our sides were the non-natives 80% of which were Igbos. life was good, pidgin English was the lingua franca and the two other languages we could not do without were Igbo and Hausa and as kids we spoke them fluently nobody thought us we just grew up to speaking the languages as we mingled without segregation.

I have stayed out the Biafra discussion because I realized that whenever the issue comes up emotions run high while common sense and logical reasoning is always thrown out of the window hence my decision to watch the drama on the sidelines ,As a child who was born, raised and educated in Sokoto, North western Nigeria, I have felt the warmth, kindness and undiluted love of the people, I also understand the thinking's of a typical northerner haven spent the first 27 years of my life there and as a husband to a lovely Igbo woman and father to kids with some Igbo blood in their veins I also have a stake in the Eastern region.

Like I asserted in my book the Unseen Terrorist published by Author house in the United Kingdom, telling yourself a lie is like putting a short gun to your head and pulling the trigger in both ways you end up destroying yourself. There are 5 issues we must objectively look at in the ethnic and religious conflict that produced the Biafra agitation, at this point in our nation’s history silence is no longer golden, and history will not be kind to us if we fail to objectively dissect the issue and help the warring parties understand what is truly at stake.

Issue Number 1: The Tendency of the North to always be Violent

No one likes living with animals, as Northerner's we have spilled so much human blood, about 75 % of our innocent and defenseless victims have been the Igbo people and their children, and we have not spared their property also. Once there is any small fight or civil disturbance the next thing a northern miscreant thinks of is how to destroy Igbo property and sniff life out of a fellow human being.
During the sharia and election crises we killed and destroyed their properties across northern Nigeria, while they were still bleeding from the pains of the civil war and the trauma of abandoned property we continued to make them our number one target at the slightest provocation, these animalistic behavior we have perfected over decades has made living with us a nightmare.
Even among the so called northerners we have remained extremely violent to ourselves, how do we explain the killings in my home state Benue, how do we rationalize the slaughter by Boko haram in the North East. The Agatu massacre by Fulani herdsmen, their collaborators and silent supporter's is unexplainable yet we want people to live and coexist with us! Only a mad man will do so without asking questions.


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Issue Number 2: Beneficiaries of the Northern Population.

The second truth we must tell ourselves is why are the Igbo's found in the remotest villages of Northern Nigeria, No one has milked the benefits of the Northern population like the Igbo nation truth be told. Unfortunately, majority of Igbo's and southerners are unwilling to accept the role of the north in developing the Igbo entrepreneurial zeal.
A vast majority of the Goods and products sold in major south eastern markets like Aba and Onitsha are not consumed in the East they end up in the north, this explains why the volume of cash inflow to the east is at its lowest during Ramadan and crisis period up North, today the Igbo's control about 70% of the core commercial activity in the North while Northerner's control less than 3 % in the Eastern region these are facts.
The Northern population has provided a training ground for many Igbo traders and their trainees who later became masters and continued their commercial exploits , data has shown that a vast majority of real estate especially in major cities in the northern Nigeria are owned by our eastern brothers and sisters thanks to a northern population that was willing to support their enterprise, but to claim the Igbo's are doing the north a favour by making money in their enclave like some have claimed is taking the insult too far .

Issue Number 3: Insensitivity to Religious Beliefs on Both sides

The complete lack of regard for the religious believe of the typical Muslim is usually the trigger for violence between the Arewa Muslim community and the Igbo nation, it is not unusual to find an Igbo man provocatively gulping a bottle of beer before a fasting Muslim neighbor without recourse to their emotions during Ramadan, the failure and outright refusal of a vast majority of the Igbo community to recognize and respect the religious beliefs of their host communities will continue to be the weakest and most lethal link in this complex relationship.

On the other hand, the insatiable appetite and perpetual quest to burn churches by arewa miscreants and few educated illiterates is another issue that has hastened the segregation of the nation along ethnic and religious lines, this is because the non-northern Christian population in the north is largely dominated by the Igbo's
Unfortunately, the political elites on both sides see this as a political weapon and often used same to whip up sentiments during elections this explains why elections in Nigeria is never based on issues of development but largely on ethnic propaganda and where you pray.

Issue Number 4: Demerits of the Biafra agitation and Arewa exit declaration.

It was Micheal Crichton who said “if you don’t know history you don't know anything, you are like a leaf who does not know it is part of a tree."
Today Puerto Rico is begging to lose its statehood and join the US as its 51st state, South Sudan the world's newest nation is currently in coma with no end in sight to the infighting for power by her political elite. It’s not about chasing people out of a land or claiming you want Biafra it’s about the huge consequences of what some of our friends are asking for...

Salient issues

A. If Biafra is granted independence as some want that will automatically transform Igbo's into foreigners in Nigeria, a nation they contributed immensely to build.

Now...
Which country in the world will allow foreigners to control 80 % of the commerce within its territory? It will be against National security to do so, except the capital of Biafra will be Abuja.

B. If Biafra secede Will the Arewa dominated "new" Nigeria allow Igbo's who by this time are non-nationals to still hold on to 70 % of the real estate which they control in the capital?

C. Many of the Nigerian flagged ships are Igbo owned, with Biafra coming into the picture they will automatically lose their privileged rights under the Cabotage laws and even go bankrupt because they automatically become foreign flagged ships with little or no expertise in foreign shipping and the huge demands

D. It will be odd to see Goods from Aba the China of Africa and Onitsha paying import duty just to cross the Niger Bridge into Asaba! ,!!! Yes that will be an export terminal if the agitation succeed, this will reduce the competitiveness of these products in terms of pricing.

E. Our current laws limits foreign equity in local banks, even Jaiz Nigeria’s only Islamic Bank has more Igbo shareholders than arewa Muslim shareholders, if that is the case imagine the Igbo shareholding and equity in traditional banks! What happens to these investments by hard working Igbo men and women? Will the law be changed overnight?

E. The Nigerian Civil service is dominated by Igbo's, comparative to their population nationally they have taken more than their fair share , will the over saturated states Eastern civil service struggling to pay salaries absorb them? How will the new nation cope with the huge number of pensioners from the east under the national payroll?

Qatar with all its huge resources powdered by gas and other petroleum resources is currently feeling the heat of the blockade by GCC nations, its only land border is with Saudi Arabia this route serves as the only link for the supply of critical resources and it is currently closed, the proposed Biafra although with some little orifices is virtually a landlocked region the Igbo man is too mobile and enterprising to be confined to a landlocked nation. Therefore those supporting Biafran agitation must avoid parochial sentiments and look at the bigger picture.

On the other hand my Arewa brothers who are banking on free crude oil money after chasing the Igbo's away must go back to the drawing board. It is sad that they fail to realize that once the South east goes, the South South will joyfully exit, and as we all know their agitation will not be as peaceful as IPOB who present themselves for practice training with live bullets by drunk officers and men of the Nigerian police and army, even the middle belt might not be willing to stay after the fragmentation and trust the highly educated Yoruba nation they have all the ingredients and capacity to start and sustain a viable new country.

As at today many of the northern states cannot sustain themselves, Benue my home state inclusive, with all the noise about food production and food basket there is widespread hunger, desperation and hopelessness in the land. The Northern healthcare system is driven by the population they want to expel, 9 out of every 10 pharmacy and chemist in the north 8 are owned by Igbo's.
The educational system in the core north is on life support thanks to Boko Haram. We have failed to properly manage the industries bequeathed to us by the late Sir Ahamadu Bello the Sardaunan Sokoto today their carcasses are scattered all over the region. If there is a time we need entrepreneur’s and investors to come to our region it is now !!!.

Many of those who have joined the band wagon of chase them away and Biafra agitation have not seen war, and some are under the influence of tramadol, alcoholic drinks and other substances which they abuse , nevertheless there are genuine agitators with sufficient grounds to call for a divorce of the marriage of 1914, they have issues which needs to be addressed, this is why I believe the decision the Buhari administration to pursue the policy of 97% and 5% as soon as he was inaugurated was the worse decision of his presidency so far.

Furthermore, the decision to completely throw away the entire recommendations of the national conference without sieving through to implement some of its nation saving recommendations is an action we will continue to regret for many years to come. With the current administration showing no regard for the constitution, court orders or the rule of Law, citizens are beginning to copy these dangerous precedents by abrogating to themselves powers which even the state does not have, as manifested by these haphazard declaration's and counter declaration which will further weaken whatever is left of the Nigerian state.

It is instructive to note that the general feeling among Nigerians who genuinely have the interest of the nation at heart is that there is an urgent need to restructure or tweak the framework of Nigerian state in order to prevent an imminent collapse and descent into lawlessness and anarchy.

Finally, just like my Eastern family my Northern family must recognized that we all need each other, No ethnic nationality can claim to know all, and no region is entirely self-sustaining as such we must stair up the Nigerian spirit of innovation and seek for ways to permanently resolve our differences, salvage our crumbling economy and preserve whatever is left of our common humanity.

May God Bless the Federal Republic Of Nigeria


Oche Joseph Otorkpa is a fellow of the Royal Society for Public health UK
And Author of the Unseen Terrorist

Asaba is Igbo land

steppins:
What's the point being one?
FYI, Dubai is another country. If I go to Dubai, I respect the laws of their land.
In Nigeria, according to the constitution, I'm free to eat, work and live wherever I want to.
If that right is threatened, then there's no reason for one Nigeria.
This is one of the reasons we're fighting for secession.
If we're Biafrans, and some of us choose to live in the north, they will respect the laws or culture in full, since they're no longer citizens.

Why is it so difficult for people to understand things. So in other words when you have Biafra you will respect their culture there because you are foreigners and they are foreigners to you? As in while you cannot respect (according to you because of the constitution) the culture in the North as Igbo Nigerians, you will respect it as Biafrans in the North of Nigeria when Biafra becomes a reality? Constitution? Don't you have commonsense? This is your logic: Nigerians should not respect the culture of other Nigerians because we are all Nigerians but foreigners should respect the culture of all Nigerians because they are foreigners.

I am shaking my head. No wonder we are in this mess. Please how old are you-no vex-cos I like to interact with matured minds. I am shocked at your logic.

EmeeNaka:
There are too many exaggerations in this article
1) That Igbo people are in control of 70% of commercial activities in the North. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Northerners i saw while in the North are astute businessmen. They are in control of Northern commerce. I will instead agree that Igbos commercial activities in the North are quite significant.
2) Biafra agitation is led by Igbos chiefly, but not only Igbos are in support of it and the Biafra proposed map does not make the Biafra, a landlocked state except if there are some other people preparing another Biafra.
3) Igbos business activities in the North are mutually beneficial to the Igbos and the North. The envy and Jealousy that always come with Igbo business is Nigeria are unwarranted. Every Nigerian eye is set on Igbo business. They will talk of it 20times per day always alluding to their friendliness. Every part of Nigeria is hostile to Igbo people. It's just that the people there still need what igbos offers. Igbos turn any environment they settle to viable environment and develop it unlike other Nigeria tribesmen who will not even attempt to buy land in Igboland nor even develop a free land given to them. At Ugwuoba in Enugu, a large Hectares of lands were given to Northerners to build their place. They ended up setting up a refugee camp there. They would not mould a single block to erect a building. They devastated the land.
If you give such land to Igbo man, in 3years,you will be amazed. Go to Shaki in Oyo state and see newest examples but few days back,an indigene of shaki started threatening Igbo's to leave Shaki.
4) National Integration should not be led by a single group. Many Yorubas will claim of being good host but they never claim of being good immigrants notably because if a Yoruba man want to travel, he will most likely travel outside Nigeria. A lot of Nigerians accuse igbos of being unruly but they can't go outside their homeland in Nigeria to live where there are no Igboman in the same Nigeria. Most group oppose Biafra secession by threatening to secede if Igbos go; that's a sign that the only thing keeping many groups in Nigeria is Igbo man.
5) There is nothing more to learn about Hausa Fulani North men. There is no way to please them if you're not a Muslim. The fact that Igbo man drinks a beer during Fasting is a non-issue. Making statements against is simply being unNigerian.
In Conclusion, Igbos has been more Nigerian than any groups in Nigeria. Igbos live out the true meaning of National integration which has brought them harm from those who has always touted one Nigeria but hate to see it materialized. The only thing that sections of Nigeria care about Nigeria is oil wealth. The idea of Nationhood is totally opposed by majority of Nigeria groups. The call for secession will continue unless Nigeria restructure in such a way as to promote Corporate coexistence.

You nailed it bro. Every other tribe is envious of the Igbo because of what they can achieve when the indigenes have been there all along. You made an example of Ugwoba, so many of such settlements are scattered all over Igbo land. No attempt to build a descent accommodation even with the billions they make there. It's only Igbo people that go to these places and transform the place. Go out and check most Ama Awusa in Igbo land. It's like a mini refugee camp and all sorts of crime goes on there and it's a no go area for policemen-case in point Ama Awusa Owerri.

As far as am concerned, it's only the Igbo that have shown national integration. You see Igbo people learning the language of its host community, Hausa people are trying on this, but Yoruba men will not dare. Wearing their clothes and attires but other major tribes will not touch an Igbo attire with a long rope except of course during political campaigns. I personally wanted to make babariga but someone pointed it out to me and i stopped- and generally integrating. I stay in PH and deal on building materials, in my 10 years in the business, it's only once i saw a Hausa man coming to buy goods and i hear they're in charge of Customs, NNPC and some other oil industry. Why are those big Hausa men in Port-Harcourt not building. What are we saying. Igbo believe in one Nigeria and have shown it in their actions and deeds. Just wish other tribes will be less envious.

steppins:
Many in this forum keep making this same statement and it's getting Stale.
Whether you like it or not, some of the people in South South, especially Igbos there will join their brothers.
Staying back in Nigeria or South South will turn them to minority.
Who wants to be in that position, if they have a chance of being the majority?
Stop wasting your time repeating the same thing over and over again.

we won't stop saying it. The Igbos that don't want to be in niger delta can leave. It's a multi ethnic republic so all are welcome. Funny you're afraid of your Igbos brothers being minorities in niger delta republic but what us to be minorities in biafra