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kettykings:
Which west again. Lagos was the capital of Nigeria

You are going to make Lagos the capital of Biafra

Nigeriabiafra80:
You can concoct rubish from ya brown roof
I can only take you serious ,when you mention the killer of isaac boro?

Don't sit in alaigbo potor cave and be typing rubbish, counter his claim with fact

900winer:
History will forever punish the man that wrote this nonsense.

Histroy laughing @ you.

mrvitalis:
We all agreed to leave ..but south south betrayed

Hope u are enjoying it tho

Likewise

Racoon:
The Yorubas took advantage of their civil war take-over of the press to rewrite the history of Nigeria as it favours them and if you believe them, "every post independence success in Nigeria was Awolowo influenced", and every problem in Nigeria was "instigated by Azikiwe, Ojukwu and the Igbos.The truth is reluctantly coming out & Igbos are gradually being vindicated.

Cry me a river


Cc legendhero osu people wan't rewrite history

PortHarcourt1st:
"IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA" -- PROF TEKENA TAMUNO

Preamble

I always insist that the greatest merit for Igbos in recent times is not simply the advent of the internet on the surface. It is the social media aspect of the internet which now allows independent thinkers to challenge the lies of history. In Nigeria, our little corner of the world, through social media presentations, scholars are now debunking the false stories perpetuated by the Yoruba press (with the help of the north who have always been paranoid about Igbos).

The Yorubas took advantage of their civil war take-over of the press to rewrite the history of Nigeria as it favours them..., and if you believe them, "every post independence success in Nigeria was Awolowo influenced", and every problem in Nigeria was "instigated by Azikiwe, Ojukwu and the Igbos!". "The truth is reluctantly coming out" and Igbos are gradually being vindicated!!!

Read this masterpiece below by late Professor Tekena Tamuno. By the way, he's not an Igbo man!

"IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA" -- PROF TEKENA TAMUNO

Fact, not twisted stories to misinform and mislead.

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 what it is today.

These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible, without any bias towards our Yoruba Brothers, who equally have contributed immeasurably.

Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter.

Tekena Nitonye Tamuno was a Nigerian historian and Vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan. He was the President of the Board of Trustees of Bells University of Technology.
He was born on 28 January 1932, Okrika, Rivers State and died 11 April 2015.


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Very interesting.

Racoon:
Histroy laughing @ my father.

Fixed! Well done sir

laiperi:
You are going to make Lagos the capital of Biafra

The Day Nigeria Restructures will be the day Lagos will be Cut to Size

There shouldn't be any ethnic divisions in Nigeria whatsoever. All I see is nothing but envy and jealousy.

There's nothing any man can do about a man/woman God has blessed. The best anybody can do is to support and learn from that person or group so that you too can make progress, trying ever so hard to keep them down would also me that you stay down.

To successfully keep a cork at the bottom of the sea, you should be ready to drown, because it will surely float.

Truth be told, the igbos are blessed, and are a blessing to Nigeria as a whole. Other ethnicities have their uniqueness too, but they can't realize it if they only focus on pully down others.

After the Civil War, Nigeria should have at least apologized to the people that made up Biafra. If Nigeria had respected the agreement they reached with them in Aburi Ghana, there wouldn't have been a war.

If the igbos are bitter with Nigeria now, it is understandable, they've not been taken seriously as a component member of this federation, appeasement is all that needs to be done.

You can't make progress by stepping on the head of others, if you do, you will surely crash. Nigeria's progress and unity lies in equity, justice and fairness to all.

Secondly, attempts to separate the igbos from their neighbors in the South will end in futility, many people there are tracing their roots back to the igbos.

For me, I seek the peace and unity of the country, but it should be built on equity, justice and fairness, else, we're going no were forward.

900winer:
Then go and hawk Lagos to alaigbo na.

The Day Nigeria Restructures will be the day Lagos will cease to exist

kettykin:
The Day Nigeria Restructures will be the day Lagos will cease to exist

You don't need to wait for restructuring make it cease to exit now.
Odogwu

IspitonCowards:
[s]Yorubanza people are Suffering from Dementia as a result of too much Ewedu soup, They have forgotten The giant strides made by Igbos for this stupid Nigeria, But they will be reminded soon[/s]

Osu-cast Igbos are known to be liars who lies to fill their ego it their job dilector did it, now they have to go all the way to facebook to bring out one forged ogbolo news written by a professor that has been dead 5-6 years ago am impressed

900winer:
Abobaku Yorubanza peoole are known to be liars who lies to fill their ego , now they have to go all the way to facebook to bring out one forged ogbolo news written by a professor that has been dead 5-6 years ago am impressed

I totally agree with you, Afonja people are just hopeless

IspitonCowards:
I totally agree with you, Afonja people are just hopeless

When you guyz have nothing to say you editing comment there was one an Osu guy here Chukwudi or what was his name..his very good at editing comment you can join his group of jobless editors

900winer:
Don't sit in alaigbo potor cave and be typing rubbish, counter his claim with fact

Counter a source less fact
Just a question
Who killed horror?

johnmartus:
Yes it would be surprised you how an igbo man was made a vice chancellor of university of ibadan. When a Yoruba that more educated than dike was on ground.

His brother made him vice chancellor ahead of Yoruba.

As early as 1960 tribalism have not creep into Nigeria system
Therefore you can’t be blaming tribalism

Igbo started tribalism in Nigeria.

Nigeriabiafra80:
As early as 1960 tribalism have not creep into Nigeria system
Therefore you can’t be blaming tribalism

Nigeriabiafra80:
Counter a source less fact
Just a question
Who killed horror?

Google it and you will find your answer from a verified source, not the trash the op posted from facebook said written by a man that has been dead 5-6 years ago.

Frankly speaking, the Igbos are very hardworking, intelligent and lively