Duru1:

Biafrans did not surrender and never surrendered to Yoruba army or Oodua Republic peasants. It is inherent that Yoruba tend to arrogate everything to them selves. I am not surprised that a jackass such as you believed a Yoruba man was Nigerian army. After all, one loudmouthed Yoruba peep had publically claimed that Yoruba won the civil war for Nigeria.

Biafrans did not surrender my ar.se. Maybe Ojukwu is still in search of peace in IV. You should at least read up on Nigerian elementary school history before embarrassing yourself with your half baked opinion.

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Okay I like the part where Obj captured biafran leader like a rat.

I think I like the part where Adekunle whupped Ojukwu's butts all the way to Ivory Coast better.
Anyho, Ali can say whatever, OBJ remains a non grata in Yoruba land.

omonnakoda:
no Ibo are brash,boastful and generally insensitive to others feelings.I say with all confidence that anywhere in the world where you have a large number of Ibos their hosts always have problems with them.
Leave Nigeria and go to Gabon,Equitorial Guinea,Ghana Let us not talk about SA for now till the day the FG will send planes to carry their bodies. The sad part is the Ibo man has no knowledge or care of why he is so despised.
Be humble and stop boasting!!

You are so right. Ibos do not understand why they are despised by everybody. In their warped mind, they think their hosts envy them for selling spare-parts, kidnapping, drug pushing, armed robbing their graceful hosts. What an upside-down thought process!

Ngwakwe: Most of you internet warriors should come down from your high horse and find a way to gain(get) the best out of the Igbos. We are endowed with talents and are generally hardworking.

The Igbos integrate well with their host communities thereby minimizing the clash of culture and civilization.

There is no level of online conspiracy that can break the ingenuity and survival of Ndigbo even in the harshest location in the face of the earth.

Instead of envy, take it as a challenge and motivate yourself to learn from and also teach that Igbo person nearest to you.

Do you all suffer from delusions of grandeur in addition to paranoia. I laff when you guys talk about envy. What is there to envy about you? Arrogance? Hitler mentality? Armed-robbing? Kidnapping? Drug pushing? Cannibalism? Product counterfeiting? Do anything for money? Your boorishness?
You need to get back to planet reality. Nobody gives a fuccck about you.
The message is clear -If you can't abide by laws of Lagos, pack your bags and leave to where chaos is allowed.

Negro_Ntns: The comments and responses of igbos on this thread is proof that igbo culturally has no reverence for constituted authority. They respond and respect brute treatment and interaction and consider it a show of courage because naturally they are brute and ill mannered. A gentle and soft approach and handling of them will always be considered a sign of weak and cowardly character.

When you have the upper hand, you have to treat igbo like igbo would his own fellow tribesman or people of other tribes if the advantage of power was on his side, and that is with cold and base instincts.

You have summed it up nicely. Bringing down the hammer on them is the only way to treat these kind of people.
A people without culture does not recognize civility until you make them toe the line!

PointB: We appreciate the governor commitment to re-open the market after the immense pressure brought to bear upon him. We shall demonstrate our appreciation by ensuring that such wicked and tactless government and any party associated with it, is NOT voted in the next election. We want a government with human face. Good bye ACN/APC from Lagos state.

Stop deluding yourself. Your votes are insignificant in Lagos State, and what pressure are you talking about? Since when is begging a synonym of pressure. Abeg, talk something else.

Demdem:

Scrotum matter still dey ooo my bro.
I don't even know why this discussion should continue. Ladipo simply is experiencing what other markets in lagos had earlier experienced.
Infact, I think the traders should be grateful to Fashola. Their health is at risk under such inhumane conditions.
Don't know why its difficult for market men to clean up.

I also call on Amaechi to do likewise in markets here in Ph starting with oil-mill market. Those aba boys has turned that place upside down.

The drama continues because Ibos like to whine at everything!

shymexx:

You're the ignorant one, to be honest... Why compare a Lagos with the UK, even if the present ratings of the Lagos is higher than the UK?? Do the two places even belong in the same sentence Just take a looking at the GDP, spending etc.. If Fashola isn't ignorant, he would have compared like to like...

Comparing Lagos to the UK is like comparing Switzerland's/Luxembourg's economy to America's economy... No matter how messed up the American economy is with any type of ratings lower than that of Switzerland - there will never be any basis for comparisons....

Why didn't he compare Lagos' economy to the City of London's(not the whole London) economy??

I'm disappointed that you (you appear intelligent) do not seem to grasp the context of the statement. Fashola was not in any shape or form alluding that Lagos' economy as a standard of living or volume was better than of UK's. He would be nuts to say that. He was only referencing "ratings" as rated by various organisations.
Your line of argument should be centered on that. Size/GDP is not an indicator of a health of an economy. Greece has a much larger GDP than Luxembourg, but would you put the two countries in the same breath? You wouldn't --that's what I thought.

Krucifax: Nigeria's GDP is US$413.402 Billion Pending revision from 2011 (i.e it is actually higher)= Source IMF

Ghana's GDP is US$90.0 Billion Current = Source IMF

U.K's GDP is US$2.316 Trillion Current = Source IMF

Lagos State GDP is US$33,679 Billion Old figures = Source Canback Global Income Distribution Database.

Yes Lagos try no be small but Fashola should stop cracking bad jokes!

The governor was not referring to size of the economy, but economic ratings by organisations such as Fitch, S&P, Moody, Egan-Jones, Nigeria Bureau of Stats etc.
Next time, try to comprehend within the context of a text before criticizing.

alfaman2:

You are jealous of the igbo man's success. His ingenuity in the face of adversity.
Look. Even this little bump on the road can only make us better and stronger. We will, as always, come out on top.
When your fashiola is looking at the igbo man's mansions and having sleepless nights, he should remember that each one started with 20 pounds only.
We will buy more of your land. Make more money under your noses. And we are just starting to learn the political game. Just wait and see.
Do owambe party and create useless websites. Cut up your faces more. Do juju go up and down. We will always be better than you.

You have lost the damn little mind of yours if you believe any of the crap you posted.
What mansions are you talking about? The ones in Ajegunle or the ones in Orile Obviously, you have never set foot in Lagos. Yoruba having sleepless nights 'cos of Ibos. You're just plain delusional.
Don't let me start.

alfaman2: Yoruba jealousy is making them draw bad card. Really bad card.

What is there to be jealous about? That you degrade the environment, set up a militia, poo all over the
damn place, and many other vices too numerous to list?
You need a brain transplant.

Another one of "them" caught. Even before I opened the page, I knew he would be one "them people"
If they are not carrying drugs, they are kidnapping or armed-robbing innocent people.

alj harem: This was Alj harem's comment 2012 January on Closure of hausa and yoruba dominated trading market in Anambra

Alj --don't bother yourself proving anything to these Ibos. They whine and shout tribalism at every opportunity.
If they can't adhere to the laws of Lagos, then they need to vamoose to the land of erosion.

Igbos are funny people. I have been hearing "we shall leave Lagos and Lagos will collapse" for a long time.
Yet not a single Igbo has moved out of Lagos. In fact, more our trooping in from erosion ridden land by the minute.
Freakiiiiing jokers.

Eziachi:
Lets assume we accepted your explanation about Ore and Mid West.
Then when you liberated Ore, what were you still fighting for?
How did you manage to get to the East? Jumping over mid West or your turn to invade mid West in order to get to the East?

Common sense dictate that this constant use of invasion of Ore doesn't make sense, because few months before that your leader was in Enugu, on the phone, sending representatives calling for Southern United front and few months later he joined forces with the enemy to fight a part of the same south. It doesn't add up. Awo claimed that he also had issues with the north, but this issue wasn't bad enough to fight them.

If troops in Ore was such a sacrilege, why didn't the northern troops in Lagos, such a bad thing? Based on what we read here, Awo was scared and worried about northern troops on your land and therefore was treading carefully not to upset them and therefore made no attempt to fight them off your land but you suddenly grow some muscle when Biafra came to Ore.
It cannot be just troops in Ore, because you liberated Ore and still carried on.
Neither did you tell Biafrans your qualms was them being in Ore and you don't want to get involve.

You are scared of the north even with their troops amassed on your territory, therefore did nothing, but saw the East as defeatable if you're paired with the north irrespective of how it looks.

Because months earlier, you said you have issue with the north too, trying to fudge a partnership with the East.
When was your issue with the north resolved for you to have made such a u-turn and become partners in a war against your own brothers?
There must be another reason and that is what we want to know, because your actions defies logic.

There are several flaws to your argument.

First, you assumed ignorantly that once Ore was liberated, the West would simply go back to the sideline. The advancement of East to Ore was a wake-up call for SW'ners that the East had intentionally dragged them into war they did not want to partake in. After Ore, there was only one direction to march to -East.

Secondly, you alluded that the West had a pact with the East to declare a joint southern federation. Please provide proof of such joint proclamation. Awo stated unambiguously that the war was b/w the East and the North. How hard is that to understand? The Midwest also stated their neutrality in no ambiguous way. Why attack them and occupy their land?

If you want to be sincere, you will blame Ojukwu for his wrong strategy of advancing westward. Even Gowon whose office was in Lagos chose to attack Biafra through the north instead of thru MW for fear of antagonizing the rest of S'ners.

Mr. Globe:

kindly show us the backlash. you mean the one from psychopaths like you. Publicly apologize my azz.

Foolish emotionally unstable Igbo like would not recognize backlash even if your life depended on it.
WTF do you think people have been expressing since the first page? Yanmiri, a beg pack for corner or go
find somebody to kidnap.

Jarus: To me, the matter is not one of Achebe or not. I personally respect Achebe and I never even dabbled into the whole debate. When people nominated Achebe, there was nothing I could do to it, even though I silently didn't want his name on the list. But I checked the rules, none was broken. So there was nothing I could do.have

Now, Seun, as the capitalist owner of Nairaland has every right to make a business case for the exclusion of Achebe. He could have sent us an email that 'gentlemen, the acceptance of Achebe nomination will not augur well for Nairaland. Please strike out his name from that list' . Even though I won't take that automatically and would argue with him that bending the rule also diminishes the whole exercise and similar ones, it will be easier for us to come to agreement and perhaps remove his name or cancel the exercise altogether for this year.

But coming open with such disrespectful posts, without consulting us in our usual channel of communication, is unacceptable to me. It is disrespectful. Even my employer won't do that to me, not to talk of this purely voluntary thing.

This is actually not he first time Seun rebukes his mods in public. I won't take that.

The only condition that can warrant my return is for him to apologise.

Else, he should take his job and give the Afams and PointBs, who're already lobbying.

Props to you Jarus and OMJ for sticking it to Seun for his draconian act.
Seun deserves the backlash he is receiving. Seun, you NEED to apologize publicly to Jarus and OMJ.

Tunde Bakare

Ashebe

Katz --this is your time!

[size=16pt]@Mr Globe

Please provide your own results of the 1951 election or forever STFU.

Tired of your incessant whining![/size]

Igbos the self-proclaimed hard working people Naija. Always bringing disrepute to Nigeria.

Why are Igbos denying the obvious? If I were Ibo, I would be very concerned about this trend,
But then, Igbos are known to pride themselves in their nefarious deeds.
Some of them even call it "industrious." Arrant nonsense.

MegaMan2020:

Am I wrong? I bet the day Biafra is announced, the Biafra nation will become the kidnapping capital of the world. You can't ignore the fact that kidnappers tend to be Igbo.

Not just kidnappers, but drug dealers, armed robbers, adulterators, and etc. You name the crime, Ibos are the perps.

Here is my take -both are making two independent arguments, and there is no
conflict in their position as previously pointed out by some posters.

Fashola speaks like a true leader who is genuinely concerned about our state of being.
Simply put, if we must grow, our attitudes to our laws must change. Let us perfect what we have before we complicate things further with amendments and whatnots.

LocalChamp: How we rescued Osun Speaker’s wife, by Ogun CP

Posted by: Nwokolo Ernest, Ogun Posted date: October 16, 2012 In: Featured, News | comment : 26

Ogun State Commissioner of Police Ikemefuna Okoye yesterday narrated how Mrs. Muibat Salaam, wife of Osun State House of Assembly Speaker Najeem Salaam, was rescued from her abductors.

Mrs. Salaam was abducted last Tuesday in Ejigbo, Osun State, by gunmen.

She was rescued on Saturday in Ogunmakin, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Speaking with reporters while parading the suspected kidnappers in Eleweran, the Command Headquarters, Okoye said members of the Vigilance Services of Ogun (VSO) noticed the suspicious movement of the kidnappers and their victim and alerted the police.

He said the Fidiwo Police Division deployed men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and plain-clothed policemen in the area, where the suspects were hiding in the bush.

Okoye said: “My men moved into the bush and engaged the suspects in a gun duel, killing one of them. Four were apprehended and the others ran away with bullet wounds.

“It was after we rescued the victim that she told us who she was. Let the record be set straight that the police carried out the rescue operation.”

The suspects are Chukwuma Usifo (28), Chukwudi Okereke (25), Ogbole Elijah and Okonkwo Lucky (27).

Items recovered from the suspects include two AK 47 rifles and four magazines with 87 rounds of ammunition.

Okoye praised members of the VSO for providing information that led to the arrest of the suspects and the rescue of Mrs. Salaam, who has been reunited with her family.

He urged the public to be security-conscious and always alert security agencies when they notice suspicious movements.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/how-we-rescued-osun-speakers-wife-by-ogun-cp/

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LocalChamp: How we rescued Osun Speaker’s wife, by Ogun CP

Posted by: Nwokolo Ernest, Ogun Posted date: October 16, 2012 In: Featured, News | comment : 26

Ogun State Commissioner of Police Ikemefuna Okoye yesterday narrated how Mrs. Muibat Salaam, wife of Osun State House of Assembly Speaker Najeem Salaam, was rescued from her abductors.

Mrs. Salaam was abducted last Tuesday in Ejigbo, Osun State, by gunmen.

She was rescued on Saturday in Ogunmakin, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Speaking with reporters while parading the suspected kidnappers in Eleweran, the Command Headquarters, Okoye said members of the Vigilance Services of Ogun (VSO) noticed the suspicious movement of the kidnappers and their victim and alerted the police.

He said the Fidiwo Police Division deployed men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and plain-clothed policemen in the area, where the suspects were hiding in the bush.

Okoye said: “My men moved into the bush and engaged the suspects in a gun duel, killing one of them. Four were apprehended and the others ran away with bullet wounds.

“It was after we rescued the victim that she told us who she was. Let the record be set straight that the police carried out the rescue operation.”

The suspects are Chukwuma Usifo (28), Chukwudi Okereke (25), Ogbole Elijah and Okonkwo Lucky (27).

Items recovered from the suspects include two AK 47 rifles and four magazines with 87 rounds of ammunition.

Okoye praised members of the VSO for providing information that led to the arrest of the suspects and the rescue of Mrs. Salaam, who has been reunited with her family.

He urged the public to be security-conscious and always alert security agencies when they notice suspicious movements.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/how-we-rescued-osun-speakers-wife-by-ogun-cp/

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Why are Igbos so incline to life of crime? The KKK of Africa.

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Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize
By KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROM Associated PressAssociated Press[/size]


STOCKHOLM—Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a cause of pride for a government that had disowned the only previous Chinese winner of the award, an exiled critic.
National television broke into its newscast to announce the prize—exceptional for the tightly scripted broadcast that usually focuses on the doings of Chinese leaders.

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mo's "hallucinatory realism" saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

Peter Englund, the academy's permanent secretary, said the academy had contacted Mo, 57,before the announcement.


http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/ci_21748137/chinese-writer-mo-yan-wins-nobel-literature-prize?source=most_viewed


Nobel is for the serous minded writers, not for some rabid foolish old man.

Buffny,


Ore,

Please chill on this one. The foolish old man's family has nothing to do with it plus
she's married to one of our own. please modify your post.
Ose pupo.