₦airaland Forum

The End is Near

Peappy49:
For those too lazy to read the article :


Osinbajo therefore charged all the tiers of government and critical partners to be focused, open-minded and collaborative in meeting shared aspirations, providing better and fuller lives and decent jobs for Nigerians, especially the youths

thanks

b3llo:
Lol..... The rooster knack any bird

some Nigerians be like this rooster...

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lol

This thread is for fools, that is, if you find yourself agreeing to this thread,go see a psychiatrist ,you're losing your mind

rosinkkit:
The UAE has a population of 10 million with 3 times Nigeria's oil and gas deposits, and export levels.

Southern Nigeria would have a population of 100 millon+ so the oil income would still be grossly insufficient, and she would not be a UAE.

who is talking about oil?

babydioku:
BREAKING NEWS:

Finally, fuel will be sold at 96 Naira per litre from * 12th sept, 2021
President Buhari made it clear 2 hours ago on a private interview in Aso Rock, that fuel will be sold at 96Naira per litre starting from *12th sept, 2021.
President Buhari also said that, the issue of Naira falling in value will be resolved in less than a week, he made it clear that by the time the naira issue is resolved, 200 Naira will = 1Dollar and that will be in 3 weeks from now, it will become 200 Naira - one Dollar (#200= $1).
President Buhari also said that he promised to change Nigeria at the right time and that right time is now.
He also wanted to talk about corruption, but my TV exploded immediately after he mentioned the Word,
"Corruption"
and that was when I woke up and discovered that it was all a Dream.

If e pain you come and beat me make I see

if I catch you ehnn...

He is right

Penguin2:
And the same govt has established a gigantic factory to exploit Southwest gold while Zamfara gold belongs to Zamfara people, right?

Are you Fulani or you just have cognitive deficiency?

You just modified your posts... So you are in no position to make any insult,but I will let it slide because you are right ....

Omoluabi1stborn:
You have comprehension issue u not understand the guy message

he modified it

lol

Penguin2:
Exploited by locals or by govt?

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Penguin2:
Exploited by locals or by govt?

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Penguin2:
Until Zamfara Gold is seen as Nigerian gold and not Zamfara gold, you guys are talking in the nonsense.

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Nice...
it's good that we're diversifying ....

Nice

stieyven:
My friends who are not from the East of Nigeria where Igbos come from often ask me why there is so much anger in the East and among Igbos. Some wonder why, despite the famed Igbo” wealth’ and enterprise all over Nigeria, the people still complain that Nigeria is unfair to them. Some insinuate that the anger comes from the loss of the 2015 election by Jonathan who the Igbos heavily backed.

And why is it that the current generation of Igbos are so angry as to contemplate carrying arms against the country? With lots are following Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB with his secessionist message. Those not following may despise his antics and rhetoric but are sympathetic to his underlying message? And what is that message? That Igbos don’t feel wanted in Nigeria. That decades of official marginalization and discrimination should be stopped or they would be ready to take their chances in a new nation.

First, for those who think this is all about Jonathan and Buhari. It is not. Igbos were disappointed that Jonathan did not win. But those whose candidates lose elections lick their wounds. It is allowed. It happens when your candidate loses election. Why did the Igbos invest so much emotions in Jonathan, a non-Igbo Ijaw? It was more because of the fear of their experience in the past 50 years. Nigeria has placed an embargo on any Igbo man becoming Nigerian president. Jonathan was the next best thing. Other parts of Nigeria have supported their sons to the presidency. Some have bombed Nigeria into submission to get their son to Aso Rock. Igbos have little capacity to blackmail Nigeria to the presidency. They chose Jonathan as their “Igbo” . But that’s not to say that they are angry enough because he lost to contemplate going to war on his behalf. Jonathan was not really the model of a President you would go to war for. And his Ijaw people have accepted his loss. So?

Igbo anger has been building up in Nigeria since I was a kid in the 70s. As kids, we made choices in our school years based on the narrative of the Igbo place in Nigeria. We knew of the glass ceiling against Igbos before we were out of puberty. After the civil war, despite the “No winner, no vanquished” program, Nigeria placed glass ceilings and no-go areas for Igbos. The war reconstruction program was observed more in the breach. There was the “abandoned” property program that was introduced to drive a wedge between components of the former South-East Nigeria. While the country was too embarrassed to put the discrimination program down in an official gazette, it was there for anyone who cared to look. It was evident in the Igbo police officer who stayed in one position while less qualifies juniors progressed to become his bosses. It was evident when no Igbo qualified to become the Inspector General of Police, or leader any division in the armed forces. It was there when ‘ sensitive” or ‘lucrative “ positions were shared in Nigeria and Igbos were conspicuously absent. It was there when Igbos were only fit enough to be made Minister of Information until Obasanjo came to power. And even recently, it was there when Buhari appointed 47 people to man the critical roles in his government and no one from the South east was there. Any time there is a federal appointment in Nigeria, its usually the east that shouts. It was there from Buhari first term to his second term and anyone in-between.

The Igbo elite called it marginalization. Other Nigerians countered by saying no part of Nigeria was getting enough. Marginalization was universal. But they forgot something. The Igbo cry of marginalization was official policy. It was expected. It was programmed. And occasionally, key government officials let it slip that Igbos should not complain. After all, they fought a war with Nigeria. Talk about No Victor, No Vanquished. There was a Victor alright. And they were reminded of that at every turn. Every appointment. Every national project. Nigeria was only pretending. Igbos were licking their wounds and complaining and the rest of Nigeria was too busy to notice.

Go to the South-East today. Since the 70s and the oil boom. Nigeria has invested in commercial industries across the country. None has been sited in the South east. None. Refineries, Steel Plants, Cement Firms. Any Industry. The South East was systematically de-industrialized. Even when it was the best location for any industry, there was always a reason why it should not be sited there. What this means was that any Igbo man that wanted to work in a commercial federal establishment had to leave the east. Add this to the indigenization policy of the early 70s that pushed the Igbos out of private companies. It meant that international companies also avoided expansion into the south east. The Nigerian Breweries, the Dunlop and other such firms sited their plants outside the East and only set up distribution centers to sell in the region. This is one of the main reasons the exodus of Igbos from the zone accelerated after the war and continues to this day despite the hostility they face in certain parts of Nigeria. And why most became traders and commercial business men. Because access to organized work either in the government, government commercial institutions and even commercial institutions were limited.

The only industrial enterprise in the east are built by easterners; Nnewi, Aba, Onitsha. These are Igbo indigenous industrial cities.

This has been the practice since the end of the war.

In addition to this, the Federal Government has systematically made it difficult for Easterners to do commercial business even in the East. The Federal Roads in the East are some of the worst in Nigeria. The Eastern Sea ports have been made ineffective. It was a war to get the Enugu Airport upgraded to an International Airport. The former Finance Minister shed tears on the day the first International Flight landed in Enugu. Yes, Okonjo Iwealla cried! Recently, it was only the South East that was conspicuously missing in the New Railway Plan of the Federal Government. Nigeria has 6 regions. And one was missing in a national railway plan. Incidentally, Igbos who reside here are the most itinerant in the country and would benefit most from a national transport plan. Even our President changed the plan to include his village but a zone of the country was not included.

When you go to the east, despite the lack of federal presence, the presence of police all over the east tells a story. They mount road blocks and make it difficult to have commercial activity. Recently, Customs has joined. And lastly the army. It is an occupied territory. They extort money. They intimate. They recently have started killing.

Nigeria has made the east unlivable. Purposely. Carefully.

I am often in conversations where people accuse the east of being clannish. That while we are welcome in all parts of Nigeria, outsiders cannot come to the East. My question is: why would you come to the east? To do what? There is no business to do in the east. Nigeria has ensured that. Why would someone from the South West of Nigeria go to the East to invest? No one would prevent you. But it hardly makes commercial sense. Nigeria has ensured that. Those from the North are there in droves. Igbos love to celebrate with cows. And the cattlemen go there to sell their cattle. No one molests them. In my village and most villages in the East, they live unmolested. But those are the only people who can find commercial reason to be there!

So those who wonder why Igbos are angry, wonder no more. While most would not dare carry arms against Nigeria, don’t under estimate the level of disconnection and anger especially among the younger generation. Nigeria is made of nations that came together to form a country. No nation will like to be in perpetual servitude. That Nnamdi Kanu’s supporters starred down army tanks with sticks is a sign that the next generation will be ready to fight bare hands if necessary to stop Nigeria treating the Igbo nation as second-class citizens. There will be fiercer and angrier Kanus in our immediate future if Nigeria does not officially stop the “vanquished “program against the Igbos who fought the civil war. You cannot preach unity and indivisibility of the country on TV and all your actions point at discriminating against the components of the country. It is as dangerous as it is foolhardy. Let those who preach unity walk the talk and stop open discrimination of their countrymen. History has shown that you cannot decree peace. You cannot decree unity. You cannot force any group to belong to a country by force, it may work for a time. But never sustainable.

Nigeria has a lot to look forward to as a united country. It also has enough for the regions and nations that make up the country. Our diversity is a blessing. Our failure to reach our potential is caused mostly by the internal contradictions and the inability to build a fair country that can bring out the best out of her component regions. Those who shout most about loving Nigeria today are mostly those its current unfair structure favor. But Nigeria will continue being as strong as its weakest link. And the weak links are all there to see. The East is one of the weakest links. Until it stops being a weak link, Nigeria cannot truly make progress.

Published By
Collins Onuegbu
Collins Onuegbu
FOUNDER AND EVC at SIGNAL ALLIANCE

Igbos are not the weakest link in Nigeria.
also there's a Nigerian brewery plant in the south east just because you never sea am no mean seh he no deh dier.... stop marginalising yourself

If your laws are passed, then there will be no equity..

fvck puma....
although this is not a good news

mrvitalis:
Even British know our ability that's why they said we can't be trusted with power

The igbo man is fearless , but is never the aggressor always the defender ... equity and justice is our watch words even when we have reason to dominate ...

We believe in competition that's fair and square ...we equaled the educational advancement of the Yoruba from zero in 1900 to equal in 1960

If the war start no body would be safe ooh ...a rocket that can sink sultan palace is less than #50m ... And worst still we have the man power to make it

lol and you think the government can't afford $50mll....
fearless or not
education or not
if biafra should start any war today with the Nigerian governments. biafra will still lose..
no sentiments... it's fact

am sorry

mrvitalis:
Nigeria vs Igbo without external help igbos would win ...we only lost because we could not make bullets ...with lead deposit in ebonyi that's never happening again

Egyptians flew the Nigerian jet fighters go research ...igbos were the finest military personnel then because British picked by merit

Have fulanis topped any chat by merit before ?

Nigga ,keep deceiving yourself

Lifestone:
I must agree that this is a piece of brilliant narratives by Mazi Ani and I salute his analysis of the events of the Civil War that in his views contributed largely to the defeat of Biafra.
However his attempt to exonerate Ojukwu did not fit into the narratives that he himselves postulated. It is part of accountability for leadership to be held responsible for the outcome of events or circumstances they presided on and Ojukwu can never be excused from the outcome of the civil war.
I am surprised that Mazi will attempt to remove Ojukwu from the context of inability to properly define his circumstances and developing strategies to overcome them. Those narratives as exposed by Mazi Ani did not fully satisfy why Igbos lost the war. To me Biafra was not ready when they entered into the war, the building of international allies and partners were not strong enough to justify the haste of going into war, a little perseverance for a more global support base would have helped.
Secondly, the preparedness of their arms readiness is also a factor to be questioned, as elucidated by Mazi, they were outgunned and significantly outnumbered on man to man, so I question the rationale of starting the war in such circumstances.
Relying on human sacrification in war situation and hoping for an outcry from international communities is foolish and as it played out, the world looked away while about 3million souls were wasted just because of the poor judgment of an individual.
Today indeed has significantly changed in world ideology, national configuration as Mazi said, but little has changed in the Igbo approach to the actualization of Biafra and it almost look certain that the outcome will not be different given what it is now. There hasn't been enough international support other than largely from Igbos based in the diaspora,
Igbos daily alienate other ethnic nationalties that should have been their allies by insulting and name-calling them thereby driving those that should have been a natural partner to the other edge. Today, the formation of ESN and killings of fellow igbos who is not on same page with them will continue to create internal divide and send wrong signals to others as to how the new Biafra will look like.
As a tribe, igbos must stop playing the victim and recalibrate their politics to a winning strategy that will create a new Nigeria that we can all thrive and flourish now and in the future.

I agree with this m*fu*ker....
it's just as simple as this
Lifestone Nice one...

Fahdiga:
All this mushroom and brown envelope news sites like DWnews should not dabble into what they don't know anything about. Kanu should be addressed as a world renowned freedom fighter and anything short of that will not be accepted by Nigerians and freedom lovers worldwide

please learn to only speak for yourself...

Nice

Decolonel:
First to comment. I dedicate this thread to all my fellow hustlers that are preparing to vamos. Buckle up guys, the gate is finally open.

We will see at Burj Khalifa to drink together. Cheers mehn

amen