₦airaland Forum

tomakint: In case you don’t know, I don’t give a tinker’s damn about what you think or say about me. I am a Yoruba man but NEVER a typical one like you! I was not privileged to witness the Civil war but my parents told me a lot about it, and I have read different materials (be it journals, books, interviews granted by principal actors and others) on it, and I can tell you I am saturated enough to draw the followings; that the Igbos were heavily marginalized before the outbreak of the war, that the Yorubas were used by the Northern oligarchy against the Igbos, the singular enemy of the Igbos was Nnamdi Azikiwe who was the ‘proverbial bat’ (neither there or here in Nigerian politics), that Odumegwu Ojukwu remains a hero till date because he had the interest of his people at heart and defended that interest till the end, that Awolowo’s sudden leaning towards the Northern-controlled regime of Gowon was ill-advised and regrettable (trust me Pa Awo regretted his role in that war), that the war was actually a mission of pogrom by the Northern Nigerian Army against the Igbos), that the Aburi conference agreements would have been the best thing to have happened to the political history of Nigeria if not snubbed, that Gowon was just a figure head used by the ‘Northern chosen few’ that were actually in charge, that genocide was actually carried out against the Igbos, that Gowon and some other actors like Joe Garba, Benjamin Adekunle and others who are not of the ‘far North clique’ felt used in that war, that the same ‘chosen few elements of the North’ are still in charge of this country (in case you don’t know, now you know), that we owe N’digbos deep apologies and reparations, that the war veterans have been neglected and their children are the militants we now have in Niger Delta, that the time of the war was a time being an Igbo man or woman was an anathema in other parts of the country, that Igbos are still living with the psychedelic memories of the war till date. I can go on but let me stop here because my mission is not to bore you with lengthy speech. We Yorubas are always fond of thinking that we are wise with the way we play politics but we are fooling ourselves; always running errands for these loons (wicked, blood-sucking Northerners) that will always take us for a ride is not wisdom but signs of weaknesses. All we know how to do best is put on our funny caps and ‘starched parachute’ we called ‘Agbada’ and start to elucidate, dramatise, extemporize at the hollow chambers, world press conferences, forums, seminars on state of affairs of the country and at the end of the day queue behind the ‘Abokis’ in order to be used as usual!

Callotti: I agree.
He was never the same after becoming a 'cripple'!
He has really been a sad thing ever since his accident.
He needs PITY!



Ever since Satan created the IGBOS. . . . HE NEVER RESTED!
What an ignoble, heinous, dastardly, vulgar and plebian breed!
With nerves as raw as ANY MEAT you would find at ANY butcher's window.
Achebe should know better.

ilugunboy: Well we did it....!!! we starved Igbos.......we will deploy the strategy again if there is ever any reason for it.

We accept we did it...but weren't gonna apologize for it.

CyberG: History can never be changed! Like truth, NO matter how hard you try to hide it, it ALWAYS catches up to you. Nigerians ought to know Ojukwu and his band of secessionist Ibos who lead Nigeria to a war that consumed 3 M+ lives, mostly the Iboz he claimed to lead. You be the judge as he speaks in his own words. Let us have an intellectual debate on this issue Nigerians and not sentimental arguments from which there is no benefit. I will be back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4ZiCSeWlE&feature=youtu.be

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Eko Ile: This is what we say about these ibo clowns all the time, they are empty barrel and only neat their empty chest.


It's even funny and luughable knowing that this clown in the video boasting got his ass whooped, ran and left his people on the battle field for dead, dressed like a woman and fled the country to hang out with ashawo in IC, then returned to Nigeria to beg the same enemy for pensions....lmao


You can't make this up, even by looking at the same clown and empty barrel in the video boasting.


Typical ibomylitis syndrome...

mekuslogan: This is garbage. Achebe is a much accomplished person, all round, than Soyinka. You need to check out Achebe's children versus Soyinka's. Noble price was given how many donkey years ago. Who the frigging hell is Sonyinka, everything taken together, compared to Achebe?

afam4eva: I can't believe that a human being said this...

eduson77: you need to go back to primary 2..at your age,you have not learnt the spelling of IGBO.

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Nebeuwa: Did Professor Achebe lie?

That is what I wish to know.

Did Chief Obafemi Awolowo say these words?

"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder."

ACM10: Pls can you provide evidence for your first and second assertion? I'm waiting . . .

afam4eva: Well done MUkina. More grease to your elbow. I wonder how you guys get to dig out these topics.

ayo011: My yoruba brother should leave this matter for once. I have read from several authors that it was Ojukwu that released Awolowo. Btw, Gowon couldn't have released Awolowo when he awolowo was in the Ojukwu's territory and jurisdiction.

Am a yorubaman, but Awolowo for what its worth should have been tried for war crime that launched poverty on women and children thru starvation. If he had forged ahead with Ojukwu in his secession plan we wouldn't have all these crises we have now, more especially the bombings in the north.

Ojukwu remains one Nigerian that I respect even in death, he saw what our nincompoop politicians could not see over 40years ago.

Katsumoto: My take

1. GEJ has the right to change the name but he should have consulted the relevant bodies i.e Alumni, university board, etc before changing the name.
2. Students and Alumni may be concerned about the brand of their school; they have every right to be.
3. Apart from dying for the the cause of democracy, MKO still remains the greatest philanthropist in Nigeria
4. It may be true that MKO was far from being a saint but what matters is that he gave his life for the cause even when he could have renounced his mandate
5. The University of Chicago Business School (a top 20 Global Business School) was renamed the Booth school of Business after Booth who donated $300 Million to the school. Ignoring the money factor, if students who paid in excess of $80,000 to get an MBA did not run riot all over Chicago, why are students who are paying less than $2000 rioting? More worrisome is that these same students are yet to protest over issues that will affect them directly.
6. The rebranding of the school could have been handled much better if all sides were involved in the process. I don't see any issue with renaming the school let alone after a man who paid the ultimate price.

MAULag students have demonstrated a rather myopic outlook which many of them will regret later. I say this because their actions has demonstrated that it is an effort in futility for anyone to give up his life for that country. After this episode, many will justify their lukewarm attitude or even outright hostility towards progress by referring to this action of these students.

PhysicsQED:
I think it goes both ways. Some people on both sides (East and West) were seriously discussing the question of cultural affinity, while others were making political statements for the chess game.

manny4life:
Oh please shut it

manny4life:
Wonderful

Lagos accounts for 30% of Nigeria's GDP? Na wa o for you people's statistics eh, 0.30(x) = $54billion (supposed GDP of Lagos) is $180 billion of Nigeria's GDP. So you're trying to convince me beyond reasonable doubt that Nigeria's GDP is $180billion as against $260 according to same Nigerian figures and that of the World Economic Outlook Report from the IMF?

Apparently, energy consumption has absolutely nothing to do with this, however, I'll still consider anyways since you mentioned it. Dude, I don't even know where to begin with this that you wrote, I never knew Lagos consumed a whopping 2,400MW   of electricity while the 34states and the federation are struggling for the 1,600 MW,  Forgive my ignorance, Damn

90% foreign trade ? Now this takes the ultimate cake of the day. 80% of total imports is from Lagos, I sure hell ain't surprised because if Govt had completed ports at SE and SS, Lagos will be relieved of this "stress" that it clamors about. Talk about the 70% of industrial investment, chai, this is serious bad statistics, anyhow


I wished to continue but it's certainly not gonna change the bad stats flowing around by poor fellow. In fact, if Lagos accommodates 95% of financial institutions (Wall Street of Nigeria) YET, Lagos gov is confused on how to harness such resource, there's trouble brewing because Lagos hasn't yet told itself the truth. You talk about 75% car ownership in Nigeria, please what type of sample did they use to draw their conclusion? Assuming that there are 160+million people in Nigeria, 1 out of every 100 Nigerian owns a car, that means 1.6million people own cars, therefore, 1.2million reside only in Lagos which is about 8% of the population using a 15million population figure. That leaves about 400k people in the whole 34states and the federation, damn,


Yo, quit the hype, Lagos is an important city but you're giving so much hype and too much credit that your forget so quickly that other cities are gradually springing up. I will expect that Lagos Gov. will utilize all these factors perfectly to create the perfect state, not asking for much money. You have 1.2million cars registered, you collect taxes on them (isn't that the price for living in Lagos), yet you're not satisfied. You have 95% of financial institutions here in Lagos, 70-90% of industrialism in Lagos, YET, LASG is confused on how to generate revenues from them. Yall keep decieving yourselves, whenever Lagos is ready, they will utilize all these figures for something useful.

stpat1:
@ezeagu, I don't think you are literate at all, if you are then u will know already that the Edos are more closely related to the Yorubas, they are close geographically, culturally, religiously, Historically, Names etc. I will not only say this but also give u examples.
Geographically: Of course you know that a lot of Edo locations are intermingle with some western states. at the Akoko Edo end, you have the Akokos of the Ondos, at the Okada axis there are also there
Historically: I don't think you need too much lecture on this go to Wikipedia and check that one out. Lagos was a former colony of the Oba of benin, the work Eko is an edo word, he was ruling lagos from Edo
Religiously, like Sango, which is a similar God of Iron, the the Osun, etc
The names, there are so many similar names with similar meaning, Segun, Bose, Gbemi, Ogedegbe, Tunde etc

I wonder which close ties any Edo man has with an Igbo man. Guy I am an Edo and there is no similarity between us. We are Niger Deltas and if u guys will not take us in We know our roots

oduasolja:
look at this silly guy.

i guess u delight in trying to drive a wedge between the yorubas and others. well , let me tell u something, we the yorubas dont care.

we have our land, you lot have yours .


edo is not related to yoruba , we know that already , we just live close to each other and have had relations for a long time.  end of story.

We are not irrational dummies like you igbos that think that once a group lives close to you,, u can claim them as siblings and then ofcourse u can claim thier land and resources as ur own. buhahhhahhahahahahahahahaa.

imagine an igbo man trying to claim ijaw as sibling, or one and the same , when the two languages are not even mutually intelligible.