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The pride of the north, Dangote

Such an Iconic figure. I heard so much about him growing up

I sure am. We all have a role to play in the course our lives, and I would like to believe I have done more in my field than I ever thought I would.
Plus, I have conducted my self with humility and dignity. Never have I ever disrespected or insulted my superiors or belittle those I manage.

tunapawizzy:
Lool. Osimhen is not prospering, but you are prospering?

Osimhen is not prospering anything. He went from being a ballon d'Or contender to play in Turkey.

tunapawizzy:
You dont wish him well. Ok
Does Osimhen care?
Will God listen to you?
Are you God?
Do you matter?
Does your opinion of him matter?
You wish yourself well no doubt, but are things going well for you?
In the career that you have chosen for yourself, are you prospering as much as Osimhen is prospering in his own chosen endeavour?
These are the questions begging for answers

I am a Nigerian, I love this country and I have the right to express myself.

femi4:
You don't get it, putting it here does not affect him

Keep that feeling to yourself

Osimhen is not prospering anything. He went from being a balon d or contender to playing in Turkey.

Mexyz:
Who cares what you wish him??
He has contributed to the same super Eagles and the happiness of Nigerians than you.
He does not need your good wishes to prosper.

Honestly I agree. None of us do. But at the end of the day, I cannot change how I feel.

femi4:
You don't even matter in the scheme of things

You sure say you get sense at all. Them say states like Zamfara, Kano, Borno, Kebbi, Sokoto that have a 99.99% Muslim population are at the mercy of terrorist and you are still asking who are the hardest hit. Will it be igbo Christians in sitting in the comfort of their palour in Onistsha and Abakaliki before?

Eriokanmi:
Who are the hardest-hit in the northern region and which religion do these killers belong? Let us continue to be deceiving ourselves, despite knowing the truth. Truth must prevail.

"crossing the line" is Osimhen insulting the NT coach and disrespecting the super eagles. He was even telling the guy trying to calm him down "No let me nod you o".

He was golden boot winner in Italy, but couldn't get a move in Europe top 5 league. That's unheard of. Is it a coincidence? Its because Europeans don't tolerate the same nonsense we tolerate and am very happy they aren't letting his bad behavior slide

BeginsAtHome:
How has your "not wishing him well" helped your family

Person wey better everyone in your generation put together

If you had said you don't like him and stopped there, no one would even notice. But going further to say you don't wish him well was "crossing the line"

Wish yourself well first then come back and tell us how far with your life.

sagitariusbaby:
Na this bitterness and evil intentions go finally kpai you.

He is the first and only footballer that I have ever genuinely hated. I can't unhear that rant. It was inexcusable.

webincomeplus:
It's fine if you don't like him because of the outburst of then. Saying you don't wish him well just because of that is taking things too far. Witchcraft doesn't have any other definition.

I just don't like this osimhen for one day, since that day he went on Instagram live and insulted his national team coach and disrespected the super eagles. I don't wish him well at all.

And some people still think its a Christian genocide. Pathetic.

The man deserves his punishment, but I don't see the need for making a sport out of an execution.

As a former fanatical Muslim, It brings me so much happiness each day knowing that I dodged the bullet called Islam. Such a radical religion.

The number of people in sabon gari is more than the population of many local governments in some states.

LadeeE:
If you are referring to Sabon Gari, it is not a local government. It is a local government ward.

No body segregated anybody. When the earliest Igbo traders were coming to Kano they settled around market areas and established communities that grew to become what they are today. The settled their because it was the best place to conduct their businesses.

SpaceX:
why the segregation? Is it one Nigeria, why do they have to have a separate place to conduct their business?

Where did you get your figures from? Kano is one of the safest places to be a Christian in the North. In fact there is basically a local government in the city center dedicated to Christians. There is no type of church you will not find in sabon gari. There are beer parlours, clubs and night life that would make you not know you are still in the North.

SpaceX:
in the early 2000s the population of Muslims to Christians was 60 :40 in kano but in 2025 it 75:25, what happened here, where did the Christian population go? Jiihad right?

Kano is one state that will never tolerate bandits and kidnappers. Even when Boko Haram were hot, they desperately wanted to establish a base in Kano but found it to be impossible.

When Islam jam poverty and ignorance, the result is always terrorism.

This is a very great man. He is an inspiration.

Says a guy who uses AI to generate arguments. your post is not hard, i just find it offensive that you could not use your own words to argue you had to resort to ai.

shortgun:
Sorry ooh, I no even know say my post go too hard for you to understand. But you self try upgrade your self

ordinary conversation, you don go dey use AI. Even the AI arguments self na rubbish but i no follow you argue since you no fit use your own reasoning to argue.

shortgun:
1.political representation has nothing to do with land size. It is about equal political representation.
Every state big or small in Nigeria has 3 senators.
So southeast with fewer states automatically have less representation, less political bargaining power and fewer federal allocations tied to the number of states.
North West: 7 states → 21 senators
South East: 5 states → 15 senators
This is a permanent structural disadvantage!

Representation is not calculated by land size; it’s calculated by number of states—and the South East has the lowest.
The point is that all regions were created politically, not naturally and the South East’s demand for balanced state creation is legitimate

2. Nigeria intentionally concentrated refineries and other oil infrastructures in certain regions because of political power distribution, not geography or efficiency.
If transporting crude is more prudent, why then did Nigeria build refineries in far away North (Kaduna), which has zero oil and requires pipelines running across the country? Without building one in the southeast which has crude oil and gas reserves?
The prudence argument collapses immediately...the only reason a refinery was built in kaduna was to give the North a sense of belonging.

Why is it taking the government of Nigeria this long to address this obvious inequality.

3. For schools cut off mark.
High competition isn’t the problem.
The problem is that the federal government santioned cut-off system that penalizes high-performing regions instead of expanding capacity and rewarding them, a system that punishes merit and rewards mediocrity is an anomaly!
Places with lower demand get preferential thresholds, which guarantees unequal intake and opportunity.

If the North has low applicants, that’s all the more reason to invest more in basic education there, not to suppress merit in competitive regions and kill the dreams of Igbo children which traumatize many of them forever. How exactly do you explain to a kid that their high score after rigorous studying is not enough to get them admission in the same school were kids from other regions don't even need to lift a finger for the same opportunity?

4. In the case of IPOB, no region has paid with the bloods of it's people for the actions of few like the southeast.
The atrocities Nigerian security personnels committed in the name of fighting IPOB in the southeast can only be equated to war time wickedness.

Many innocent Igbo people who had no business with IPOB have been killed and labeled IPOB
There was Mass arrests
There was Military raids
Illegal Detentions
Fighter jets were deployed to bomb villages.
Young teenage girls were labeled IPOB and turned to sex slaves.
Entire communities were touched by security officers.
Every Igbo person is regarded as IPOB member
Numerous killings of civilians wrongly labeled as IPOB/ESN. Worse still, the government did not investigate any of the killing of the innocent people which speaks volumes.

Meanwhile, other violent groups—Boko Haram collaborators, bandits, herdsmen militias have received negotiations, reintegration programs, and in some cases state-backed pardons.
So saying IPOB gets special freedom is misleading

5. Militarization: You are Comparing Apples to Oranges
Saying “Go to Borno or Yobe” as proof that the South East isn’t militarized oversimplifies the matter.
Yes, the Northeast hosts the military because it is an active warzone.
But the question is different:
Why does the South East without an active insurgency even before IPOB have the highest densities of checkpoints and federal security operations in the country? Do you know security officers pay huge bribes to the superiors to be posted to the southeast? Because of the money they'll illegally make from the people of the southeast?

A region with no declared war shouldn’t be treated like a war zone under siege.


6. The push for fairness is not a victim mentality.
Demanding structural balance is the foundation of every stable federation worldwide.
You cannot build national unity by telling one region to forget legitimate historical and political disadvantages.

Unity is only achieved by:
Correcting systemic imbalances
Ensuring equal political voice
Distributing national opportunities fairly

Equality Requires Honesty
Nigeria cannot move forward by pretending the system treats everyone the same.
The South East’s concerns are rooted in the undeniable mathematics of Nigerian federalism.
A country that seeks unity must first seek fairness.
And fairness begins with acknowledging the imbalance, not dismissing it.



Our fathers endured this shameless, daylight injustice because the Nigerian state and it's collaborators took advantage of the peaceful nonchalant nature of the Igbo man to cheat him out in everything.

But this generation, we don't have the patience of our fathers and will not sit quietly and continue to absorb disrespect.
We’re not begging anymore, we are not waiting, or pretending anymore.
We will take back control of our future and make sure our children never inherit this engineered injustice. If we don't do it nobody will do it for us

Imagine a pastor telling his congregation to encourage his followers to also make the same contribution to him.

Depends on the strength of the relationship. If I really love the person, it will not be a deal breaker for me. There has been great advancement in managing HIV, so long as the person maintains a U=U status they can live a normal life and have children without any problem.

So which of the Igbo states is too big? Land wise or population wise there are states in Nigeria that are much bigger than all the Igbo states yet they have 3 senators like the Igbo states. How is that being unfair, do you want the government to create more states out of thin air in the south east.

In the core South East, only abia State has substantial oil reserve and before oil was discovered there refineries have already been built in neighbourig states of Delta and Rivers. So would it not be prudent to transport the crude oil there instead of building a refinery abia. Moreover, what are the refineries in Nigeria doing, absolutely nothing.

South Eastern schools have more competitions, while nothern schools have low applicants that why their cut off mark is lower. It simple logic, not because the schools don't like Igbos.

IPOB has gone scot free after burning a police station in abia, and have repeatedly attacked police and soldiers in other states without any consequence.

South East is the most militarized region ke, have you been to Borno, Benue, Yobe and Other states.

South East have higher FAAC allocation than North east and north central, so what are you saying.

The new generation of Nigerians, understand that they are not victims, they will let go of the grudges that have held us back and work towards building a better country.

shortgun:
You are funny.
Why is south east the only region with only 5 states? While other regions have 6 and 7 states?...this means less representation in the senate and house of reps. Less allocation from the Federation account. E.t.c
Why is no refinery sited in the southeast despite having the most viable crude oil?
Why do south east children need to score 150 to gain admission into unity schools while the some part of the North only need to score 9?
Why is it that when criminals kill any security personnel in the southeast the army will retaliate by killing innocent people and burning down villages and towns but does not deploy the same strategy for other parts of the country.
Why does the southeast the most policed and most militarized region in Nigeria?
Why does southeast states receive the least allocation from the Federation monthly allocation

Make I stop here first.
The good thing is that the present generation of Easterners don't want to just seat and complain, they don't want to just complain, they are tired of being victims.

You can't give a single case of Igbo oppression in this country, in fact I think Igbos are treated extra nicely because of the war. Igbos are among the elite population in this country with the liberty to live freely, conduct business and thrive in every nuke and cranny sometimes at the expense of the indigenous population (not saying it's bad).

The only grudge some Igbos may have is that we have not had a president of Igbo descent. But you and I both know that it is not state policy that is to blame here. Its just the dynamics of the Nigerian politics which makes it so. I hope and pray for an Igbo president in our lifetime.

themanderon:
Then you Are not being truthful. I love justice And peace, genuine justice because without justice there can be no peace.
Every right thinking Nigerian knows these people have been treated badly since after the war. If you don't see this then I am sorry.
One thing I have observed in this life is that someone that holds someone else down invariably holds himself down.
Nigeria can never ever progress so long as they hold igbo repression as state policy.

The Igbos are not victims in Nigeria, they are not oppressed or treated badly. So I don't know what you are talking about

themanderon:
One thing that I know about this world is that the word never never truly exists. Even the British empire never knew it would become a weak toothless bulldog it has become today.
Europe as presently constituted was not really this way from the beginning. People fought wars and millions died for the freedom Europe enjoys the today so we must never discount the probability of this happening in future.
Even the whites that ruled South Africa with vice grip had to let go when the time was right. Only but one day............

I believe the the most viable solution to making Nigeria a true giant of Africa is unity. We must see past our religious or cultural differences and focus on our common struggle against oppression and bad governments.

Kewekubosineh:
Ok

So, you like the manner Nigeria is moving, groping? Since you don't want Biafran agitation and exit from Nigeria?

Offer solution than dismissing Biafran agitation in a jiffy.

Nigeria is groping like a ship in the Adriatic sea.

Unilateral declaration of Independence is illegal under international law. But just for argument sake, do you know the price Yugoslavia and Sudan paid. People died in millions, and none of those countries have recovered ever since. Some of the worst atrocities ever recorded in human history happened in Yugoslavia. There is a documentary about it on YouTube.

Moreover, the case of Biafra is different. The factors I gave earlier makes it clear that Biafran agitations will no see the light of day. It can neither be achieved through force, referendum, or constitutional amendment.

themanderon:
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That's how people will be yearning dust. Who told you breaking away is against international law? People have a right to self determination if the country they currently live in doesn't serve their interests.
Was Yugoslavia not broken into pieces under its own weight when people wanted to finish themselves? Was Sudan not broken into north and South? There are several examples too numerous to mention. Even Scotland is agitating to go away from the ill-fated union with the British. The British empire had to make serious concessions to placate and quell the succession plans yet the British empire doesn't want any country they have interest in to break up because of their selfish interests.
The good thing about this life is that nothing lasts forever. Not humans , not empires not economies. Just nothing.

Agitations! Thats all it will ever be.