₦airaland Forum

freshvine:
How stupid. pid can you be. The area I mentioned have over 60 oil Wells together and the best grade in the world.

Rossikki:
It is not the number of oil wells that matters, but the magnitude of deposits. If the oilfields were of commercial quantities, they would have been exploited even before the delta since they are inland and therefore less expensive to drill.

Rossikki:
Oil and gas is not available in the east in commercial quantities otherwise it would have been exploited decades ago. The East only grows yams and udala, or agbalumo as Yorubas call it.

freshvine:
This has exposed your ignorance that you're not even from the Niger delta as you falsely lay claim.

Rossikki:
Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

Rossikki:
Oil and gas is not available in the east in commercial quantities otherwise it would have been exploited decades ago. The East only grows yams and udala, or agbalumo as Yorubas call it.

Afam4eva:
Did he really claim to be from the Niger Delta?? He used to be claim to be an Igbo man too.

Eshinwaju:
Senseless basic write up by the OP....sounds like stuff produced by a primary one student....

babyfaceafrica:
Who your opinion EPP?....chief tribal lord..nairaland branch

freshvine:
This has exposed your ignorance that you're not even from the Niger delta as you falsely lay claim.

Shell had been on the oyibo, ukwa axis for over 30years exploring.

Agip has been on the Egbema, oguta area for over the same period.

Osogbo man from the land of the tallest drum

Rossikki:
I never claimed to be from the Delta you liar. And again, Igbos can leave, but they will not go with the Niger Delta which is not their territory. So if you have oil in Abakiliki and Umuahia, all well and good. Hope it will be enough to sustain the 20 million Igbos that will be deported from Nigeria as illegal immigrants.

Rossikki:
I never claimed to be from the Delta you liar. And again, Igbos can leave, but they will not go with the Niger Delta which is not their territory. So if you have oil in Abakiliki and Umuahia, all well and good. Hope it will be enough to sustain the 20 million Igbos that will be deported from Nigeria as illegal immigrants.

Alariwo2:
Who is begging them to stay before? who needs them

Thank God your hunch back dilector confirmed our assertions that he wants Rivers and Benue as part of biafra. They gave him the 5 SE states as he claimed yet refused.

Noone, I repeat noone (not even me) will give igbos 1 inch more of the 5 SE states to go form biafra. Let's see if you'll take other people's land by force.
Then you'll meet your doom

freshvine:
Nigeria army that lacks technological invention can never withstand a new Biafra military of 2 year old. Take it to the bank.

Biafra military will be the "Russia" that'll sting Africa

Afam4eva:
This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

Having said all this, i think it's important that people separate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria

Dreambeat:
God bless you for this write up.

Afam4eva:
This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One

God Bless Nigeria

frankdoz23:
afonja! Can you put up an equivelent right up? No is the answer, nothing complimentary can come out of ewedu decimated brain.

Eshinwaju:
Senseless basic write up by the OP....sounds like stuff produced by a primary one student....

freshvine:
This has exposed your ignorance that you're not even from the Niger delta as you falsely lay claim.

Shell had been on the oyibo, ukwa axis for over 30years exploring.

Agip has been on the Egbema, oguta area for over the same period.

Osogbo man from the land of the tallest drum

bakila:
One thing you fail to understand is the break-up will not happen like a write up. There will be so much hate and bitterness, given the history of our attempt at seperation. No body will host someone who does not like him enough, to leave to form another country. It is like divorcing someone and then argue that since civil partners like togather, the divorced couple should continue to occupy the same space.

Bizibi:
I wish the Ipob and their leader are talking about developing and moving their region forward.......the Igbos need someone that really have their interests.

If I were to be the one I would think of creation of wealth and development first then agitation can be after.

Afam4eva:
This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

Having said all this, i think it's important that people separate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria