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Exactly, as if this no be naija/nairaland again where things never go "right" ... if a bigot can win politics poster of the year 2012, and a man like Chinua Achebe will be (not only mentioned, but) voted in the hall of shame on this site .. then why should anyone raise an eyebrow even if Chino11 or any rascal on this site is made a mod?
Congrats anywho to Afam4eva. must say i did wonder a bit at your threads and posts (how they "changed" and became "neutral" ... it all makes sense now.

pDude: If there are yoruba bigots as mods, why can't there also be Igbo bigots as mods?

#justsaying

nah wah o for this kind turn turn you dey do sef .. reading in between the lines, na Oga Jarus be the enyi nwoke. lol interesting.

Odunnu: Ask Jarus nicely. He will tell you.

Odunnu: O gini bu nke a? How does my 'enyi nwoke' surface here?

I guess

Guess i should have added the phrase "in an unrelated event" ... I'm just wondering, cause i remember wanting to ask a while back, but kept forgetting/getting tres occupe. Its an easy question to answer, innit? Yes or no? Do you nwere an enyi nwoke?

Erhm, (was gonn' say this way back when, but got pretty occupied real quick, but) but good to see you noticed it too, you're a sharp girl (i guess); Master Jarus just played politics there by using/playing his "mod.-card" ..... Check it:

Jarus launched a thread which was to be the premier of the monthly politics section debates. And so, of course, he neeeded traffic in order to get people to nominate judges and debaters.

Point B wanted to be part of the judges, but didnt make it. He believes Jarus could easily have made it happen if he wanted (but Kooger was whom Jarus still kept as a judge in spite of his recklessness on the thread).

Feeling rejected, Point B (pretty much the same day, depending which part of the world you're in, or almost immediately), launched a thread in the politics section for this years Eze Nairaland to get things rolling.

Of course Jarus saw this as competition, and although he came to the thread to announce his presence and support, he did not move it to FP.

(i didnt see it, but i guess) the politics debate nomination and topic thread made it to home page. someone correct me if i am wrong.

and only after it was over (again correct me) did the eze nairaland thread get to home page.
that is power and politics of the mods! Cheers.
Odunnu, i nwere enyi nwoke?

Odunnu: You guys should stop the attack on Mukina. She wasnt responsible for that thread hitting HP. I wont say who did either.
Just wondering sha, why didnt Seun do the needful if he actually wanted that thread up on HP. Attacking Jarus too is akin to attacking me because I am on that thread and could have recommended it but I didnt because, just like Jarus, I thought those responsible would see it too.
@Jarus, thumbs up. You know why!

I gat to say, this really touched me. Got me sober after feeling a bit riled up by comments from posters whom act like little kids by trying to deneegrate someone else who isnt from the same ethnic group as they are; having a one-way myopic point of view; and even if/when they know or come across a plausible/reasonable view from others, as long as it counters theirs, it is an automatic reject. its sad, really sad. God help us all. Thank you very much for this post; which newspaper was it published in?
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n October 11, 2012, a book written by Professor Chinua Achebe, the famous author of Things Fall Apart, was formally released. Published by Penguin Press HC, the book is entitled- There was a country: A personal history of Biafra. It is Professor Achebe’s take on what transpired before, during and immediately after one of the most devastating civil wars to have hit the African nation. The conflict lasted 30 months and took the lives of more than 2 million, including innocent children, women and the elderly.

Since the publication of the book, all manners of sentiments have been expressed on both sides of the divide. Those on the Biafran side, during the war, especially those that bore the brunt of the war, have offered their support of the book and see it as a worthy addition to Nigeria’s history. They argue that it was important for the book to have been written and published so that generations yet unborn will learn of what happened and take steps to prevent a repeat. Those on the Nigerian side, however argue about the timing of the release of the book. They contend that at this point in the Nigerian experiment, the book was bound to stoke interethnic tensions and lead the nation down a discordant path. They also question Achebe’s assertions in some areas of the book, especially where he seemed to have attributed the suffering of Biafrans to the policy of food blockage that was championed by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

As a writer myself, having published a book about the Biafra war titled, “Surviving In Biafra- The Story of the Nigerian Civil war, I have come to respect the rights of every one to air their views, whether in writing or otherwise, on any issues. I have also come to understand that in a war situation, because no one has the ability to be in all locations at one time, people are bound to see many issues from different vantage points which in turn inform their conclusions. As a result of this thinking style, I have largely stayed away from criticizing either the antagonists or protagonists of Professor Achebe’s book. I must say, though, that I took issues with the “intellectually lazy” ones amongst us. These are the people who are too lazy to get the book and read yet they engage in “mouthing off” about the book just based on snippets they read here and there. I call that intellectual laziness because they do not have the full context of the assertions made in the book and yet come to half-baked conclusions. Unfortunately, as the saying goes that an empty drum makes the most sound, it is this category of people that make the most noise about the book, advancing shallow and meaningless arguments and coming to silly conclusions that defy logic. The right cause of action would have been to read the whole book first and then make more informed conclusions and deductions based on a holistic understanding of the contents as stated in the book.

I also took issue with the people who believe that the release of the book is either ill-timed or that it was bound to upset the apple cart in the Nigerian nation. They believe that Achebe should have “let sleeping dogs lie” and not even write the book. To those people I will simply say that merely sweeping the Biafran experience under the rug will not make things better. Fully discussing the experience in all manners of forum, coming to some form of consensus as to what happened, will help Nigeria heal and work towards preventing such from occurring again in the future. The reason why tensions, occasioned by that war, have not fully abated is that right after the war, the Federal government basically clamped down on Igbos by allowing federal soldiers to stay in the Igbo heartland longer than necessary. It was basically anathema or taboo, at the time, to talk about the war or even express any type of anger about the various losses that people suffered. Nigerian soldiers were hovering over Igbos in all the cities and villages they occupied like the sword of Damocles. As a result, people never really had the opportunity to grieve their losses or vent their anger and frustrations about their losses. It was just of late, as the democratic experiment in Nigeria started taking hold, that people started feeling freer to vent. It is therefore inappropriate for anyone to blame Professor Achebe for writing and releasing the book now. Let me remind those with that type of mindset that there are countless books about the American Civil war and as I write, many more are on the way. People have been analyzing and dissecting what happened from all vantage positions, perspectives and angles. The goal here is that that type of war will never take place in the United States again. As they say, if you do not understand where you are coming from, you can hardly tell where you are headed.

My silence on the book was however cut short lately. That was after I read the comments attributed to General Gowon. Remember him? He was the one that presided over the war on the Nigerian side. During a recent visit to Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger state, General Gowon was asked by journalists what his take was regarding Achebe’s book. He responded that Achebe wrote the book from a position of ignorance. He then added that he and Chief Awolowo had no regrets regarding their roles during the war. As if he had not made enough head-turning and mind-boggling comments, he postulated that “if there was no secession, there would not have been civil war”. After reading his comments, I was forced to break the studied silence that I had wanted to maintain on this issue.

First, Gowon says that Achebe wrote the book from a position of ignorance. This is assertion flies in the face of the facts considering the important position that Achebe occupied in Biafra during the war. However, for the sake of argument, let us assume that Gowon is right that Achebe does not have the full details of the war but that he, Gowon, has all the details. If so, what has prevented Gowon from writing his own memoir 42 years after the civil war? If he has all the facts as he should, why has he not done Nigerians the favor of publishing a book so we will know what exactly happened? Instead, he prides himself in taking unwarranted swipes at anyone that dares to put their own side of the story out there. Gowon reminds me of one of my contemporaries when I was growing up. Anytime a disagreement or a fist fight occurred between him and someone and they were called to tell their sides of what happened, he would never tell his own side. Instead, he will elect to wait for the other person to tell his own side and then simply say that the person’s version is not true. All efforts to make him tell his own side of the story always failed but he would adamantly argue that the other person’s version was not true. Even at that young age, I always felt that the behavior was too childish and silly and that he was hiding something. That is the same way I feel about what Gowon has been doing with the story of the Nigerian civil war. Many actors in the war have written their sides of the story and all I hear or read is that Gowon said they got it all wrong but he would not use his own memoir to “set the record straight”. I have now come to the conclusion that Gowon is hiding something. If he has nothing to hide, I see no reason why he will not tell Nigerians how he piloted the ship of state as the nation burned and millions died from 1967 to 1970.

Furthermore, Gowon says that he does not regret any of the actions he took during a war that resulted in the death of millions, including children, pregnant women and elderly men and women. I cannot believe that someone who calls himself a Christian and witnessed the carnage that his actions or inactions caused in Biafra, the loss of innocent children, women, and elderly, will be making such a statement that borders on sadism. All the pictures of young children with bloated stomachs, at the throes of their deaths, should at least move Gowon to regret the war. At the minimum, as a Christian, this man should have stated that he regrets that the war ever took place considering the cost in human lives and suffering. He is trying to say he fought the war to keep Nigeria one but Gowon has never told Nigerians how he would have stopped the atrocious genocide that was being committed against the Igbos in the north at the time had they stayed on in Nigeria. Even a goat resists when being led to the slaughter house, talk less of humans. He still has not told Nigerians how he would have safeguarded the lives of Igbos in Nigeria had they tried to stay on and not seek self-determination.

Gowon tells reporters that he is ready to face the international criminal court. I see this as a bluff. If he were that confident about his actions, he would have written a book and told us what happened but he is afraid that he will be called to the carpet for his actions in that war. How can General Gowon justify to the world the fact that he did nothing while pregnant Igbo women were disemboweled in the north? How can he justify to the world the fact that he did nothing while humans were being massacred in the north like animals after he became the head of state post Ironsi? How would Gowon justify to the world the fact that he sent those Russian-made migs (aircrafts) to fly to civilian enclaves in Aba, Umuahia, Owerri, Afikpo, Onitsha, Nnewi, to strafe and bomb civilians with reckless abandon? I thought that innocent civilians and children are supposed to be spared in conventional wars? I do not have to be told that Gowon flouted the rules of conventional war because not once, not twice or three times did I, as a little boy, have to run for cover in Nnewi to escape the sadistic bombing missions of Russian migs that Gowon sent to Biafra to bomb civilians. If Gowon is the Christian he wants us to believe, he should at least say that it was wrong for him to have sent those Russian migs.

[b]Will Gowon tell me that he was unaware of the massacre in Asaba where civilians were tricked into thinking they were coming out to greet Nigerian troops but then were dastardly gunned down? I do not have to be told that story by someone because it hit close to home. I lost many of my relatives in that massacre in Asaba. The least General Gowon could do is to openly say that he regrets what happened during the Asaba massacre. He is more concerned with telling Nigerians that he does not regret any of his actions. The Asaba massacre alone is enough to send him to the Hague, like Charles Taylor, to answer for his actions and inactions. After all, Charles Taylor did not personally commit any of the atrocities but was the helmsman when the atrocities were committed. This is precisely why Gowon is not releasing his memoir because he knows he is on the hook. He will have a lot of questions to answer.

Will Gowon say he did not know that the federal soldiers maltreated Igbos, at the end of the war, during an occupation that lasted more than a year? In my village, they forced young children to go fetch water for them or serve them and if you refused, you were subjected to koboko flogging. All these atrocities took place under General Gowon’s watch and he still does not regret the war or his actions? It is either General Gowon has sadistic tendencies or is simply trying hard to keep himself out of the international criminal court that he says he is willing to face.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit my own bias and point of view. As catalogued in my book about Biafra, I was only 7 years when the war started and turned 10 when it ended in 1970. At that age, just like other kids that age in Biafra, I lived through, saw or heard things that a child should never have to. That experience is still etched in my memory and will probably remain there till my dying day. The air raids by Russian migs, the death of young children from Kwashiorkor, the death of relatives massacred in Asaba, general suffering and privation and the death of my beloved brother, Fidelis, that fought in the war. Yet, what I witnessed pales in comparison with what some other children, who were closer to the various theaters of war, went through. I remember when I started secondary school in 1973, I met many kids, about my age, that survived the war. This was three years after the war but the memories were still fresh in the minds of the young lads. We exchanged stories about what we experienced. Some talked about the brutal death of parents, siblings and other relatives either through air raids, starvation and plain heartbreak. I recall the case of one of my dorm mates. I had noticed that portions of his fingers were missing and he would always try to hide it whenever possible but yet he was a great artist and whenever he was drawing, the missing fingers would become apparent. One day he opened up and said that he used to have all his fingers intact. But immediately after the war, while in elementary school somewhere in Owerri, they were cleaning the school compound and clearing and burning brushes. He gathered a load of trash and just as he dumped it into the fire, an explosion occurred and that was how he lost portions of his fingers. It was later discovered that he had inadvertently picked up unexploded ordnance. He lives with that scar, occasioned by the war, till date.

I want General Gowon to realize that when he says he does not regret the war or his actions during the war, many of the children that were the direct recipients of the brutality occasioned by his actions are still alive and read his statements. They will continually wonder what manner of Christian he is. They will at best be seeing him as a hypocrite that masquerades as a Christian.

Finally, if Gowon feels that Achebe’s book was written in ignorance, if he feels he has nothing to hide and would be ready to face the international criminal court, let him put forth his own memoir, detailing his actions during the civil war and let Nigerians be the judge. I regret the fact that Odumegwu Ojukwu also failed to release his own memoir before he passed on. As the two principal actors, their memoirs would have had a measure of importance and add to the important discourse of what happened and what needs to be done to prevent that type of episode from reoccurring.

HERE I STAND

geeez: And is there anything like Lagos 'will' in the post? I said Lagos 'may' ....

Go and enroll in a school of reasoning and logic

so in the school of reason and logic you've attended, after reading the article, you reasonably and logically conclude that "Lagos may buy up Igbo land"?

Is this an intelligence problem or tribalistic/stupidity problem... probably both...

Smart Yorubas can be really smart, and the dumb ones can be really really dumb and $stupid (probably dirty, smelly and double faced mother f'kers.)

"fool, fooler"? (I guess you think it follows the same pattern as "dumb, bumber..." Didnt you benefit from Awo's free education? You probably did and were the smartest in your year. I see you, very smart. Mr. Fooler. rofl Fool ko, fooler ni, abi? lol

Yomieluv: Don't know why it shouldn't be:

Fool! Fooler!! Hausas!!!

Greedy!greedier!!igbos!!!

English will be easier to comprehend this way.

roflmao! i am still on page 1... or should i say page 0 and just had to reply this comment because now e don pass page 9 and i am sure its still soaring. I will definately not be surprised that its going to be alot of "mouth-running" ("finger-running"?) for most of the pages on thhis thread... Naija is a funny country.
btw... 4 more years! (not that i'm a merican lol)

Youngzedd: They are preparing for war.
So they want to use the Igbos and Hausa to attack Iran, dem they crazy.

Na we deserve to die in conflict zone and their men will be in command as in (Oga and boi boi)

No wonder their women are duped by some 9ja niggaz on daily basis about marriage things.

Blacks wise pass whites.

But wait ooo...
Why Yoruba no follow the league?
Na ONE Nigeria naa..
They should modify their speech as soon as possible.

Na now I knew what happened.

They want action not talking in the battle field, because they no say people go run when the deal will become tough.
No wonder....

Hmm you haven't seen anything yet, this thread will pass 9 pages. This war is for the mouth only, no weapon.

Just watch and see Nairalanders in action.

I was surprised he won it! heard him read a section of the book on Sheila Rogers radio show

Its very pathetic i tell ya; especially, as you said, coming from people whom have travelled out of the country and you think they are the ones to eschew vices of hatred, bias and intolerance. If their host country shows the exact type of behavior to them, they wont know its the same evil that they have perpetrated; how will they know, tribalism does blind people, even strips them of reason and morality. How can you think that an act is wrong, but if its against someone from a different tribe whom you cant stand, then such act all of a sudden doesnt appear wrong anymore.
As Stevie Wonder sang, heaven help us all.

Sky Blue: How did Aba turn to Ibadan? The bickering between the WA and the BIA of this WAZOBIA crap has passed the point of genuinely being nauseating, I have never seen such childishness in all my life. And to think many of these nairaland posters have families is even more worrying, how on earth are those kids going to come out normal?! Seun please consider making a WABIA section of this forum where all such threads can be moved and let the rest of us know peace - this is not all there is to Nigeria! Alternatively, any one know of any good Nigerian forums where intelligent exchanges are possible should let me know - seriously. Need to take some months off this madness, what a racist bunch.

actually its...
I - I

g - go

b - before

O - ofemanus

Fixed

looplat: Not surprised, what do you expect from Igbos?
And you wonder why nobody would vote for a yiboman.

I - I

G - Go

B - Before

O - ofemanus

Very greedy people.

N. Ireland, Scotland and Wales once were... S. Sudan once was part of or as yousaind ... in... Sudan, [quote author=ogugua88]The Biafra region is inside Nigeria. Was Nigeria inside Great Britain?[/quote the other examples in the post you quoted and responded to.

trea in Ethiopia etc ... how come you didnt see

Is the bolded in your post really true? Had the polgrom stopped and there was peace? (as in no more killing of Igbos?) Id like an honest response cause that could change ones interpretation of things.
I remember reading (from a third party observer) that the "fall" of the east, which didnt happen during the counter-coup and polgroms, was what the counter-coupists wanted, and that they THREATENED TO MARCH TO eENUGU TO COMPLETE THEIR "REVENGE".

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Rossikk: [b]That's a flawed reading of what occurred. [b]The secession was declared months after the northern massacres had ended. [/b]It was declared ostensibly because the fed govt had failed to 'bring to justice' the perpetrators of the killings. It's not as if northern troops were marching down into Igbo territory to slaughter everyone before secession was hastily declared by the Igbos to ''defend themselves''. There was no threat at all to Igboland at the time the secession was declared.

In fact, Ojukwu's rejection of Gowon's 12 state solution was the real tipping point for the declaration. Some analysts say Ojukwu could not countenance his much reduced and limited powers issuing from the new state system announced by Gowon. (He would have been a state governor in much reduced territory, as opposed to his role at the time of military governor of the entire Eastern Region.)

So the day after Gowon announced the 12 state creation, Ojukwu declared secession.

You must be dreaming, no one has time to be wishing anything on the Yorubas. its lazy people that dont have any handiwork that sit around jobless and keep worrying 'bout other people's business. so get ouver yourself thining Igbos will be giving themselves headache about Yorubas. i mean... isnt it the less successful ones that should be doing that? the average Igbo and Yoruba, who is more successfull? find that out first before dreaming Igbos are worried about Mr. Yoruba.

T9ksy: @ bolded, yeah, if only wishes were horses.......................!

You ibos have been wishing us all manner of calamities since eons but we are still here, standing.

Why don't you just hand Lagos to pdp then? Afterall, you ibos owns lagos and constitute about 50% of its population.

You ibos are truly your own worst enemy.

a war fought over 40 years ago that was sponsored by world powers is what you always and quickly rush to bring up as prrof that you are "strong" and will be able to do it again.

heheh. keep on using tha as proof or a yardstick to what you will be able to do today, until the time comes, not even your gods will be able to save you from the wrath you'd bring upon yourselves.

The Igbos learnt a lesson and are now wiser; Yoruba internet warriors are still beating their flat chests after 40 years and threatening a repeat if not worse for the Igbos if $hit happens again. I am not advocating for war, but if it comes to that ...
your babalawo cant even tell you what hit ya.

Aigbofa: Ojukwu boasted of having the strongest army in Africa, only to run over little girls in a cowardly and inglorious escape. Am sure you can top that, only this time we will chase you and we will not stop until you reach Cameroon.

Damn! this $hit is real funny. dunno why i just cant picture a Yoruba chasing someone. rofl.
If a Yoruba man is chasing anything, it probably will be (to get with) a woman.

Wasnt it IBB that said if he was asleep and was woken up to be told a Yoruba is planning or executing a coup, that he'd go back to sleep?

Your masters know y'all pretty well too and use una as their shoe shine boys.
People that cant raise a finger (or their manhood) to defend their son are talking of chasing Igbos out of Lagos all the way to Cameroon. chai! rofl. this is terribly terribly funny indeed. Go and get a life first before making empty threats; little boy!

Aigbofa: Nonsense, start chi.t and it will be the end of ibos finally. We will pursue you to the border of Cameroon.

and this 70% will not vote ACN after Fashola cowardly dumps lazy, dirty Yoruba rats in Onitsha, and doesnt even have the ballz to own up to his actions.
PDP will take over and you'll just be crying like a baby. Or more so, keep on running your mouth with more empty threats.

Aigbofa: Since ibos constitute 70% of Lagos population and they are the only people who have money, I would guess ibos are the ones paying the ex-governor.

It gets annoying seeing you say you speak with facts, you speak with facts, and then go ahead to make assumptions or say things not factual. I havent finished the whole thread yet, but this last one made me just have to point it out out to you; cause maybe you may not know that you arent speaking with facts.
How is the bolded in your post a fact?

Danka7777: I don't have to like it or not. My job on here is to convey facts in the simplest and discernible way as to be understood by anyone. If you idolize Late Ojukwu as a great man, fine, that's your private enterprise. But don't try to force your ideology on the rest of us. Allow us to make our decisions cleverly with facts just like you have made yours except you didn't look at facts.

Each time i've seen this Abia issue raised by Yorubas in defence of Fashola's act, its been (clearly) incorrectly applied. Its okay if you dont know twart about another ethnic group, but displaying such ignorance and trying to use it as a shield is ... someone else can fill in the rest cause i tire for this kind thing.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Save your aggression for Orji Kalu who fired non-Abian workers from public service.

Were you this passionate then?

My dear, you have a complex issue when it comes to Yoruba. Unless you were also deported, that would explain your zealous posts on this Each time i've seen this Abia issue raised by Yorubas in defence of Fashola's act, its been (clearly) incorrectly applied, misused or false. Its okay if you dont know twart about another ethnic group, but displaying such ignorance and trying to use it as a shield is ... someone else can fill in the rest cause i tire for this kind thing.
its like desperation and tribalism eats up ones morals and ethics without their knowing. maye even their intelligence.
(I must say though, i believe you just made a mistake). Orji Kalu didnt do nadda like that.
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Man, quit lieing already. You've told lots of them lately just to cover a man that doesnt even know you (and because he's from your tribe). You should be the one not to be talking about politics here if you can not analyze correctly, simple politicking. since this news broke, you've not just lied, but contradicted yourself and is refusing to learn.
When all the bad stereotypes are made of Yorubas, one can now see how they are formed

The news i have for you is this, buddy; you can lie all you want, twist things and retwist them again, back-stab, be treacherous and all that - which your Pa Awolowo (RIP) also passed on to you guys. A wise man will see the way he ended and not want to tow the same line he did. because, again, its true that evil can not overcome good (or more aptly put is that... you cant get ahead with evil, or you can only go as far, and then you'd change (hopefully) or take the rat poison route. s
ay no to tribalism. because i find that is why you tell lots of lies on here, just to (make you and your ethnic group) look nice and all.
I dont even know why i am responding to you because you arent a good liar either. Probably not enough education (which Awolowo gave you for free and you still act like this).I would be worried if it was a more intelligent person telling these lies because they do it so well that i fear some (young, next generation) Igbos looking for the truth could possibly get deceived if they dont cross check your lies.

Again, the bolded in your post is a bold faced lie. You accuse someone of doing something he didnt do, and when you are asked to bring out facts or sources to support your claim, you start shamelessly dancing around, trying to find a way, as a snake to slip out of it. See why they say if a snake and a Yoruba enters your house, you should first kill the Yoruba(stard).


[quote author=Dudu_Negro]......if you are a Nigerian and dont know that Abia deported non-indigenes in 2011 then you are better off staying away from political forums and topics on national interest. lol.[/quote]

Yeah, some go into any type of business, transport, computer, etc, even trade and they end up leaving at a loss. some succeede and some fail. its called competition. at times the Yorubas ask what there is in trade that is difficult to do or fill in the positions if Igbos left... but you just cant know till you get into it. there are secrets and or keys ... vital things you need in order for success in any venture, moreso business.

a1solution: For me this over exaggeration on fish farming is becoming too much. This is the reason so many people lost their money trading forex cos of too much hype like this. I have seen someone who bought this mobile fish pond of a thing and end up selling both the fish and the pond below purchase price.

How many of those people dumped in Anambra were Igbos? Even in your dreams, do you believe that Igbos can be deported from Lagos en masse (or even buses?).
WAKE UP!!!!
[quote author=Dudu_Negro]In response to OP,

If you follow the reports you will notice that Lagos acted with humility and kindness towards its homeless and stranded kins. They were taken back to their various and individual home states and placed with relatives ....this is how you rehabilitate victims of circumstance.

In the Ibo case, all of them regardless of home states were banded into buses and deported back across the Niger and to the borderline where igboland begins. They dumped them there and let them sort themselves out. This is how you treat nuisanc that are irredeemabl.....vagabonds and theieves and kidnappers looking for get rich quick schemes to own home in lekki.[/quote]

Cant y'all see that the article posted below reports no single beggar/destitute from the south-east/East? Not even one! a single 1!
No Igbo, not even half. So this makes me strongly believe that those people "dumped" in Anambra are not from the south east. so all this noise on the thread made by those rejoicing that Igbos have been deported are just fantacizing. Personally, i would like Igbos to bring back their business to Igboland...
uote author=kunlekunle]Lagos deports 15 foreign beggars, 3,029 to other States

By Miriam Ndikanwu13/05/2011 00:13:00

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Beggars

The government of Lagos State in Nigeria has in the last four years deported 15 foreign beggars and 3,029 from different states across the country in order to address the challenge of social miscreants.

Special Adviser to Governor Babatunder Fashola on Youth and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru, stated this today. He also said government gave out 152 children for adoption in several foreign countries.

According to him, “at least, 3,044 persons were either transferred to other states or country or released to their relations for re-integration between January 2010 and now”.

He explained that 196 beggars were deported to Sokoto State; 83 to Oyo State; 75 to Kano State; 67 to Osun State while 21 were deported to Ekiti State and seven to Ondo State.

The Special Adviser also added that 12 beggars were deported to Niger Republic ; two to Chad Republic and one to Cote D’voire [b]while 2,580 others were handed over to their relations for integration.
[/b]http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/5930-lagos-deports-15-foreign-beggars-3-029-to-other-states.html


https://www.nairaland.com/996765/lagos-deported-yoruba-beggars#11518926


Whats the fuss about,
sending destiutes back to thier village.[/quote]

so p square that bought a house for 3.5 millon, and all the igbo millionaires used blood money?

Abagworo: You have to mellow down a bit on your tribalistic tendencies and understand where I'm coming from. Do you think there are no Yoruba or Hausa millionaires in Port Harcourt or Owerri? The difference between them and Igbos is that they carry the money they make in Port Harcourt and invest it in Yorubaland and Hausaland which is cheating. Do you think Adamu, Tunde and Okoro are not earning the same when they are of same rank in say Mobil oil? Okoro will invest much of his earning in Port Harcourt while Tunde invests in Ibadan and Adamu invests in Kano. Who is the bad guy?

what is this talk about nairaland losing its google check? Did someone blackmail NL or something?

afam4eva: One thing i'll suggest is that moderators in any section should not be people that frequent that section a lot but they must have an idea about that section. For example, since sexkills, as his name posits like sexx very much, he should be taking very far from where he'll have access to sexx to moderate so that he won't ban people who don't agree with his opinion. Sorry sexkills, i just had to use you to make an example.

I don't like people that lie; or even worse is one of my petpives which is falsely accusing someone else even when you know you dont have all the facts eh.
That is not just immature and puerile behavior, but also very unethical. i guess it only eats up the bearer of such falsehood until they accept the truth or plainly stop pre-judging people, acccept the truth, decide to live by it, and even better yet, ask God to help in setting them free and living a happy life.

... and i am referring to Dendum in this post...
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olivertwist: Rumour has it that Beaf is currently on a trip to Germany probably to rest because of NL stress caused by the likes of Gbawe, Demdem etc. However, we are yet to get any feedback from our German correspondent about the latest development and what Beaf's mission in Germany truly is.

Stay on this thread for more info.

My brother, i was like "huh?" when i saw the east-west remark. so all this south-south baltradash is just used for convenience and is illogical as far as geography is concerned. its just laughable seeing a so=-called south-southerner" make a comment like that... so the comment implies "south-south" is part of the east, if his train of thought is to be corrected?
Ndi aghugho.

sheyguy: They now realise they can't play ethnic politic that seeks to divide and blackmail others forever abi, they av suddenly realized they av little in common with the east abi, it is time to win some support for GEJ: Some support from Parasites, Leeches, Awuf Lovers, Oyel Theives and NURTW abi . . . or how do we explain the fact that they are using the bad state of East-West road to justify their greedy request, when the contract for the said road has already been awarded long ago.

do you really think that the issue here is whether he was invited to the convention or not?

Delafruita: nairalnders just believe any news again tinubu.the article was so ridiculous and i had to check out the publishers.

on one account they claim-
African Examiner Online is owned by RD Frontline LLC, a state of Maryland registered company
P. O. Box 11582 Baltimore, Maryland, 21229, USA Tel: 443-904-1239. Editor-In-Chief: Oludare Sunday Fase


on another account they claim-
African Examiner is an online publication of S. O & T Communications LLC
P.O.BOX 2445, Landover Hills,
MD, 20784, USA
301-803-8033

i wonder how this ridiculous "gossip column" with no known address then becomes a more credible source.

besides,irrespective of the criteria emplyed,was tinubu invited to the DNC or not?YES HE WAS.

it means that usually your posts do not affect the price of. lol

Aigbofa: What is this supposed to mean?