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gwafaeziokwu:
Wole Soyinka ? Who the hell is he. What did he achieve?

Last card....... Dennis Memorial Grammar school (DMGS)

Prof Kenneth Dike, First indigneous vice chancellor of University of Ibadan.

Oya gbafuo

omonnakoda:
Wole Soyinka achieved a Nobel prize something Ibos can only dream about.

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gwafaeziokwu:
Really never heard of him, tell me more

NigerianSage:
I heard it all, but this here is what you call chest-beating overload and on steroids..

These low self-esteem chest beaters sabi lie for Olympics I swear..

Chikelue2000:
ofcos....it won't suit ur taste cos it talks about the igbos....I don't know y we r dis hateful n sentimental.....reverse d tides....let this thread praise Awo(peace be onto him) n u will nod ur silly head in approval....it's time to grow a new Nigeria like d USA where humanity counts first before tribe....pls join us in dis adventure

gwafaeziokwu:
Really never heard of him, tell me more

Moneywomen17:
wole Soyinka won a Nobel prize something nobody in ur ibo tribe have ever achieved.

Moneywomen17:
wole Soyinka won a Nobel prize something nobody in ur ibo tribe have ever achieved.

gwafaeziokwu:
In your mind ,before the building of Niger bridge, trading was not going on in Onitsha?

gwafaeziokwu:
We might have come a bit late in the education party in Nigeria, but oh boy did we make a colourful entrance

Most importantly for me ,unlike in the west, Micheal Okpara and Zik did not turn east to war zone like Akintola and Awolowo did in the west. Agbero politics is alien to us.

Ezemust:
why do u think mutarla stop to destroy onitsha market when it fell to the federal troops?

omonnakoda:
You will need to be on suicide watch if I do.

Moneywomen17:
wole Soyinka won a Nobel prize something nobody in ur ibo tribe have ever achieved.

Subduer:
SUSTAINABLE Colourful Entrance
Today, in this 21st Century, 10-year old Igbo children, males & females, MUST score 130-138 points, in order to gain admission into Federal Govt Unity Schools, even as the most educated, most 1st Class, most sophisticated tribe still struggle to clear between 115-130.

And in order to CRIPPLE Igboland, wielders of the Federal Might successfully installed their kind, NOT ZIKISTS, in Abia state, who don't bother about sound education, or the upgrade of AriaAria.
First official outing of the one at Owerri is to present staff of office to a clown, styled as chief imam.
But the Children continue to outperform the sophisticated ones, nonetheless.

gwafaeziokwu:


If they ever try to open up admission for unity schools. You will see something like this in the admission list, Igbos 70% others 30%.

Fear of igbo domination is real dear. It is the main reason for the federal character policy that introduce, Nepotism and corruption into our national live.

Subduer:
Stop what? A Sandhurst alumnus, who ordered the killing of UNARMED CIVILIANS, including the father of Maria Babangida! How on earth could such an officer stop lesser breach of the Rules of Engagement. His troop Commanders are still alive o.

yugotee:
I think this is a great piece. Please read carefully and verify the revelations made here.


The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme court. Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service.

The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as "the fastest growing economy in the world," by the Harvard Review; faster than China, faster than Singapore, and all the so-called "Asian Tigers." Awolowo is often credited with "free education". But no one yet has pointed out any surviving school buildings of the period built by Awo. But all over the East there were quality schools built by the various communities using the Town Development Unions from 1954, and acessing the matching grants of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. And this was the East with the poorest revenue resources of any of the regions. The Mbaise secondary school exists, the National High School Okigwe exists, the Ngwa High school exists, the Enyiogugu Grammar School exists, etc. These were solid schools built all over the East with matching goverment grants. But where are the buildings of the Modern schools in Western Nigeria? They do not exist. They were makeshift.


The Catholic church forced the Azikiwe government from its scholarship program, but it is also on record, that the Eastern government was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in education. The East had the highest number of schools; the highest school enrollment; the broadest penetration of medical services; and the best modern road network in west Africa. Indeed if we look carefully, the only public hospitals and most of the schools still standing in the East today, at various stages of run down are the schools and hospitals built by Azikiwe/Okpara.


Every division of the East had a Joint Hospital as part of the Eastern Medical services. So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments. First, the Eastern Outlook, the government paper of Eastern Nigeria was the first newspaper established by any government in Nigeria, and it was of such quality and impact that the literacy level of Easterners, and the depth of public information retailed by Outlook was without compare. This is besides the fact that Western Nigerian Broadcast Services, WNBS-TV founded in 1958 only preceded the ENBC-TV founded in 1959, by only seven months. But Outlook preceded Sketch by about 15 years.


Now Azikiwe built the Onitsha Modern market, the first modern mall or trade emporium in West Africa. Onitsha was effectively Dubai before Dubai. People traveled all over Africa, from as far as the Congo and Sudan and Egypt, to come and buy and trade in Onitsha. The economic impact of this was humonguos. So, give me the vast Onitsha modern market over Cocoa House in Ibadan.


Azikiwe built the first Nigerian University at Nsukka with the first School of Law, the first School of Engineering, the first Business School; the first school of journalism, and the first school of music and performance, etc. By the time its first graduates took the Nigerian civil service exams in 1963, everybody began to raise the cry of "Igbo domination" starting with Akintola and Ayo Rosiji. Give me UNN over Liberty stadium. Azikiwe began the first modern library system in West Africa.


The East had a system of city libraries starting with the very modern Ziks Library in Enugu. I Literally grew up in the Umuahia Divisional Library. These libraries were built all over the East. Schools in the East were built with libraries. Moreover the Eastern Nigerian Library Board had a sysem of rural amd mobile libraries. There was nothing like it anywhere else in Nigeria: kids having library cards and able to borrow or order books from the public library. Give me the the first library over the first TV. I do not by this mean that Awolowo did not make his contributions, but the regular skewering of the facts, and angling of contemporary national narratives often makes it seem these days like the greatest contributor to the founding of Nigeria and its development is Awolowo and the Yoruba, when the actual facts speak differently.

The great Ibadan historian, Tekena Tamuno, was unambiguous in stating once at NIPPS, Jos, that "the Igbos are the makers of moderm Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed." We must remind Nigerians, particularly Igbo children, daily of these fact, to achieve what Achebe called " a balance of stories." And that also means we must read beyond the surface of things. Babarinsa's Guardian essay is angled carefully to maintain a revisionist narrative. And that is to be always challenged, however innocent it might seem.


Even today, most Yoruba think that Awolowo founded the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. No one has reminded them that it took Azikiwe's pressures for a university for Nigeria, in his meeting with Arthur Richards in 1946, that led to the cobstitution of the Eliot commision and subsequently the founding of the University College, Ibadan.


This fact is even clearly conveyed in Michael Crowder's eponymous book, The Story of Nigeria. Nsukka was Azikiwe's critique of what he felt to be the conceptual limitations of Ibadan. The University of Lagos was the result of NCNC's ideological contributions to the federal policy during the ill fated coalition government with the NPC. UNILAG was an NCNC project, shepherded by Aja Wachukwu as minister for education. Even the great UNILAG in her 50th anniversary failed to mention Prof Eni Njoku as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the university, a man that layed the solid foundation of what made Unilag is today.


These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible. Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter. Kabissa!

Subduer:
Many thanks for these pages you uploaded.
You're educating, not the person you're reacting to, but also lots of others who don't have the info available to you.

Moneywomen17:
do u know what innocuous means. I only brought out the current state of ui cuz apparently this “innocuous” article which is fake and lie by the way try to undermine a lot of projects that happened in the western region by talking about a lot of the stuff done in the eastern region still standing strong today. Tell me what resources of unn was taking to abu and ui can u list it cuz ui has always been the best university in the country for a long time. And am not asking for ipob stats but real sources about what resources was taking From unn.

eagleu:
It all makes sense now: you simply argue without facts or evidence.

Anybody who was at ABU in the 1980s when I was there would have unquestionably noted library books with UNN stamps all over the pages. UNN didn't dash ABU these books of course, they were looted by the army and transferred to ABU who then shamelessly placed them directly on the shelves.
I have no first hand experience with UI, but the story goes the same.
Some of your points are without merit at best, or even criminal at worst.

yugotee:
I think this is a great piece. Please read carefully and verify the revelations made here.


The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme court. Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service.

The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as "the fastest growing economy in the world," by the Harvard Review; faster than China, faster than Singapore, and all the so-called "Asian Tigers." Awolowo is often credited with "free education". But no one yet has pointed out any surviving school buildings of the period built by Awo. But all over the East there were quality schools built by the various communities using the Town Development Unions from 1954, and acessing the matching grants of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. And this was the East with the poorest revenue resources of any of the regions. The Mbaise secondary school exists, the National High School Okigwe exists, the Ngwa High school exists, the Enyiogugu Grammar School exists, etc. These were solid schools built all over the East with matching goverment grants. But where are the buildings of the Modern schools in Western Nigeria? They do not exist. They were makeshift.


The Catholic church forced the Azikiwe government from its scholarship program, but it is also on record, that the Eastern government was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in education. The East had the highest number of schools; the highest school enrollment; the broadest penetration of medical services; and the best modern road network in west Africa. Indeed if we look carefully, the only public hospitals and most of the schools still standing in the East today, at various stages of run down are the schools and hospitals built by Azikiwe/Okpara.


Every division of the East had a Joint Hospital as part of the Eastern Medical services. So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments. First, the Eastern Outlook, the government paper of Eastern Nigeria was the first newspaper established by any government in Nigeria, and it was of such quality and impact that the literacy level of Easterners, and the depth of public information retailed by Outlook was without compare. This is besides the fact that Western Nigerian Broadcast Services, WNBS-TV founded in 1958 only preceded the ENBC-TV founded in 1959, by only seven months. But Outlook preceded Sketch by about 15 years.


Now Azikiwe built the Onitsha Modern market, the first modern mall or trade emporium in West Africa. Onitsha was effectively Dubai before Dubai. People traveled all over Africa, from as far as the Congo and Sudan and Egypt, to come and buy and trade in Onitsha. The economic impact of this was humonguos. So, give me the vast Onitsha modern market over Cocoa House in Ibadan.


Azikiwe built the first Nigerian University at Nsukka with the first School of Law, the first School of Engineering, the first Business School; the first school of journalism, and the first school of music and performance, etc. By the time its first graduates took the Nigerian civil service exams in 1963, everybody began to raise the cry of "Igbo domination" starting with Akintola and Ayo Rosiji. Give me UNN over Liberty stadium. Azikiwe began the first modern library system in West Africa.


The East had a system of city libraries starting with the very modern Ziks Library in Enugu. I Literally grew up in the Umuahia Divisional Library. These libraries were built all over the East. Schools in the East were built with libraries. Moreover the Eastern Nigerian Library Board had a sysem of rural amd mobile libraries. There was nothing like it anywhere else in Nigeria: kids having library cards and able to borrow or order books from the public library. Give me the the first library over the first TV. I do not by this mean that Awolowo did not make his contributions, but the regular skewering of the facts, and angling of contemporary national narratives often makes it seem these days like the greatest contributor to the founding of Nigeria and its development is Awolowo and the Yoruba, when the actual facts speak differently.

The great Ibadan historian, Tekena Tamuno, was unambiguous in stating once at NIPPS, Jos, that "the Igbos are the makers of moderm Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed." We must remind Nigerians, particularly Igbo children, daily of these fact, to achieve what Achebe called " a balance of stories." And that also means we must read beyond the surface of things. Babarinsa's Guardian essay is angled carefully to maintain a revisionist narrative. And that is to be always challenged, however innocent it might seem.


Even today, most Yoruba think that Awolowo founded the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. No one has reminded them that it took Azikiwe's pressures for a university for Nigeria, in his meeting with Arthur Richards in 1946, that led to the cobstitution of the Eliot commision and subsequently the founding of the University College, Ibadan.


This fact is even clearly conveyed in Michael Crowder's eponymous book, The Story of Nigeria. Nsukka was Azikiwe's critique of what he felt to be the conceptual limitations of Ibadan. The University of Lagos was the result of NCNC's ideological contributions to the federal policy during the ill fated coalition government with the NPC. UNILAG was an NCNC project, shepherded by Aja Wachukwu as minister for education. Even the great UNILAG in her 50th anniversary failed to mention Prof Eni Njoku as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the university, a man that layed the solid foundation of what made Unilag is today.


These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible. Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter. Kabissa!

gwafaeziokwu:
The East was the first to draw up the Eastern Nigeria Development Economic Reconstruction plan (1954-1964). A ten year plan drawn by Nnamdi Azikiwe and Mazi Mbonu Ojike the great economist ( boycott all boycoattables!) Sound familiar right?


The east had the first industrial development plan in the whole of Africa, they include

Aba ( Factory road)
Umuahia (Factory Road)
Calabar (Factory Road)
Enugu (Emene industrial layout) Free zone
Portharcourt ( Trans Amadi industrial layout )
Owerri,Aba, Portharcourt were designated as 3 city nexus

Institutions.

African continental bank

Cooperative bank of Eastern Nigeria

Eastern Nigeria Development corporation

University of Nigeria with campuses in Nsukka and Calabar

Obudu tourism and Entertainment Ranch ( you are shocked right?)

Niger Cem

Niger Gas

Niger steel ( the first indigneous steel industry in Nigeria before the Ajaokuta pretense started )

Factory glass industries

Hotels ( eg. Hotel presidential Enugu)

Abakaliki Rice mill

Aba textile company

Golden Breweries in Umuahia

Standard shoe factory in Owerri ( this is where the present Aba shoe industry came from)

Portharcourt sea port expansion

A big force in Library development in Nigeria and of course

Main market Onitsha our own mini Dubai.

Neither Nnamdi Azikiwe nor his understudy Dr.Micheal Okpara was in the same league with your white elephant project master . It is a big insult to their memory for such a comparison to be made with someone who was learning from them.

Did I state also that the Eastern region generated more electricity than all the other regions. Infact Oji river power plant was built first before kainji Dam. Electricity drives industrial growth,so it's not rocket science to determine who had high industrial activities.

caleboxylic:
That's what we are lacking in the east and it has affected our socio-economic growth.
New economic development plan should be put in place and followed diligently.

caleboxylic:
That's what we are lacking in the east and it has affected our socio-economic growth.
New economic development plan should be put in place and followed diligently.

Subduer:
Jim Nwobodo followed that model, & after only ONE 4-year term, his legacies are still THRIVING & yielding fruits.

Mbakwe revived Aba.

Peter Obi even gave loans to Osun state, & helped Ebonyi state.

Any other Governor that left THRIVING LEGACIES?

Covidodo:
This junk wasn't written by Professor Tekena Tamuno . That I'm absolutely sure of .
Only someone with inferiority complex would write this kinda piece .


I don't know why those folks would always use others to fly their useless propaganda.
It used to be Adeyinka Adebayo and Obasanjo .
Now it's the late Prof Tamuno .

I dare any of you to post a link to this watery article only befitting of a chest beating contest in a village meeting .

Professor Tamuno died in 2015 . So when did he write this
https://www.google.com/amp/s/newsbarz./2020/04/29/igbo-are-the-makers-of-modern-nigeria-prof-tekena-tamuno/amp/bos and fake news

Ogonimilitant:
Give honour to whom honour due

Covidodo:
So you decided to create that nonsense 8hours ago .. Did you visit the link you sent ??
Look at the website sef..
You Ipobs are so funny

caleboxylic:
That's what we are lacking in the east and it has affected our socio-economic growth.
New economic development plan should be put in place and followed diligently.

Subduer:
And Prof Tamuno is Kalabari, not an Igbo man.
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