Good news for the parents of these kids! Nigeria is fast turning into Somalia; Kids kidnapping kids for money.
Hope this is not the beginning of atrocious acts that plague the SE corridor.

RichyBlacK:

riffraff or whatever you call yourself,

Don't join issues with me, I don't have the energy to discuss with akamu-brained loonies. Go on with your toddler rants.

How can you have energy? You've expended your self on rage!
I understand your rage -the truth really hurts, it must be tough to be a Biafran.

RichyBlacK:

oyb,

I can understand when crassly ignorant simpletons and charlatans like reporter?, babapupa and akigbemaru make their infantile comments about a war that illuminates their ignorance of all things Biafra and their hatred of Ndi-Igbo, but this coming from you? Somebody else probably posted with your username. Interesting though.

You folks are always quick to claim victim when people reciprocate your disparaging comments about Yoruba.
No one hates you, it is rants from your kinsmen that provoke responses.
Some of your folks are not secured in their own skin.  Always wanting to deride Yoruba to hype themselves.

Do you expect us to fold our hands while your keyboard militants continue to disparage everything Yoruba?
Look inside before you blame others. Do you not hear the chants of revenge- revenge- revenge on Yoruba from your Internet militants?
Revenge for what.
Mekuxx, Metal-gong, Wilywily are the culprits in this whole saga.

As for Biafra, you folks have to come to terms with it.  Continue or discontinue the project is the prerogative of
your people; however, do not force it down our throat and call us traitors when we never planned Biafra with Okujwu.
The Eastern assembly leadership  is solely responsible for Biafra secession and not Yoruba, every Biafran apologist
must come to terms with that fact.

EzeUche:

Egotistical Yoruba will reap what they sow.  We Igbos know who the real enemies are. The blame cannot be place solely on the North.

Deluded Ibo,  you have obviously not learned from your previous experience.
Only a ram will want to tread the same path twice!
Before you open your mouth about your revenge on Yoruba, why don't you at least get to know the history
of Yoruba and their conquest in West Africa.

There is a reason why West African students study the history of  Yoruba Empire as part of their West African history!
Hint -- Yoruba Empire gallantry.
Have you ever heard of Ibo empire before? Hell no. When Yoruba were building empires, your folks
were running around butt n.ake.d
You think revenge is by mouth and keyboard? Think twice before you commit suicide.

asha 80:

E be like say u no wetin dey happen for naija thyese days na why u dey make this statement.


Yoruba for this site for end am a long time ago in this site when they were told to discontinue there snide comments against igbos in early nairaland days(even seun got into the act) but i guess they refused hence giving rise to people like mekusxx  

That is not true, you Ibos have been the aggressors from day one.
Biafrans are the bitter ones who have beef with everyone in Nigeria.
Mekuxxx aka metal-gong is the principal instigator of all the nonsense.
Even before Mekuxx, there had been many others like him; Sunny-bobo aka wily+wily,
Dede1 to some extent, Ikeyman and many others.  

It amazes me while Ibos are always moaning and whining and complaining at every turn
that they are being trashed by everyone.
What do you think is going to happen if you continue to open threads to bash other people?
People are going to fold their hands and let have you have a field day?
Everyone is supposedly the enemy of  the Ibos, maybe it's time you guys look at the man in the mirror.
You'll hardly see Yoruba people on NL open threads to bash Ibo, it is always the Ibo man that opens bigot threads to bash others, and he'll then turn around and claim victimisation.

Biafrans can have Biafra if they want, I have no qualms with that; however, Biafra rants should stop at the gate of Biafra.com.  This is nairaland, and it clearly states that it is for Nigerians!

asha 80:

Funny enough the aboki up north are now turning to your people for their yearly sacrifice as shown by recent events in jos including the youth service guys and the teacher that refused her students to cheat because they are finding your people are softer targets since they know say the last thing wey una go do na retaliate.

Na why dem fit fight una for una backyard and una go run (idi araba)

This is where Yorubas are different, we are not some savages that go on rampage to right a wrong.
We'll exhaust all peaceful resolutions before resulting to violence.  Only Barbarians respond in kind.

If you must know, your folks are being killed by the minute in the North even more than Yorubas. So what is your point?

ezeagu:

I don't see where its wrote out in clear letters that 'ojukwu used starvation as a deliberate strategy during the civil war'.

How can you comprehend with your warped mind? Read again starting with the first paragraph, and this time try to discern.
Ojukwu led Biafrans to a no-win situation. What you hear from your ppl today is nothing but propaganda -it did not work
during the war, and will certainly not work now. Get a grip and acknowledge the failure of your rag-tag incompetent war leaders.
Why fight a war you cannot win?
Haven't you heard that you should never take a knife to a gun fight? That was exactly what your leaders did.

How you folks continue to be blind to the truth is beyond understanding. Understandably, losers need to hype themselves to feel good, but outright delusion is inexcusable.

ndu_chucks:

Let me restate the statement you chose to ignore:

[b]Soon enough, you people will learn to take responsibility for your own actions and future. [/b]You cannot continue to kill ND Ndiigbo at will on the one hand while blaming them for not supporting criminal MEND or helping you to secede on the other. Ndiigbo will not help you fight anyone.  In addition, stop blaming all of Arewa for your woes - the criminal elite, including your governors are more responsible for your demise than the lovely Arewa people.

Chew on that, Rakoomin dadje. 

Very well said. The problem with Nigeria is everyone is a victim of one thing or the other. No one has bothered to look at the man in the
mirror. It is always the fault of the man in the middle or the man up stream, and forgetting the man next door that is purloining everything in sight.
Shallow minded ppl believe that Hausa/Fulani are solely responsible for the sorry state of Nigeria, they conveniently ignore the obvious fact -that
Nigerians from all ethnic groups are jointly responsible for the mess.
MEND or a faction thereof is only concerned about their pockets.  Splinter groups will continue to emerge as long as there is a quick buck to be made.

Ojukwu was a coward who led Ibos to a war they could never have won from the get go.
Any sensible person would have surrendered once their food supply ran out.  But trust power-drunk
Ojukwu, he had to continue with his senseless quest to dominate the Ibos and other Eastern minorities who
were unfortunate to be in the same region as a power-drunk brat.

Ibos being gullible today as they were in 1967 continue to blame others for the failure of their war leaders.
While they continue to whine, the Ijaws and other minorities are becoming more relevant.
Cry babies.

olabukola:

The highlighted is what i don't understand from my folks. What is the need of dragging poverty, backwardness,drug peddlers, 419ners, ritualist and useless tribe along with us. The earleir we let them go the better for us and our next generation. Are we to loose if we let them go and what exactly are we going to loose. Are we better of with them(ibo's) and somebody should let me know the benefits.

Am getting more and more confused on why we must be with them(Ibo's). Pls my brothers(Babapupa,Bluetooth, Knowall,hatch,petosh, ndu-chucks,sauron etc) can any of you shade more light. Otherwise i feel we are not doing ourselves any good. Odua Nation will be better for us all than what we have in Nigeria today.

No one really cares if Biafrans pack their bags and leave. Sooner the better if you ask me.
The noise you hear about Biafra is mostly from internet soldiers that have no clue
about Biafra. The people who fought in Biafra never want to see war again; they understand war is hell. It's no child's play, and only a fool will
want to revisit the same calamity twice.
Biafra apologists will have you believe that the South East+portion of SS of Nigeria constitute part of Biafra.  
Therein lies the problem of these agitators -wanting to include groups of people that are not Ibos.
Of course, Nigeria is going to say F--U. It was what caused the first civil war -the greed of Biafrans.

They can start practicing what they preach by hauling their behinds to Biafra.com. There they'll find sympathetic ears to their sob story.

It beats me while Biafrans continue to rant and rave on NL while Ojukwu continues to sip Champagne with the elites of Nigeria.

Perfect analysis of Ibo man's paranoia and bigotry


"In retrospect, what I said about the Igbos amounts to the view that they are not victims of other Nigerians attack, and that they generated attacks on them by being arrogant and insulting. I, in effect, would seem to blame them for their dreadful fate.

I see many of them as paranoid, narcissistic and antisocial personalities; I see their society as pathological, a society that accepts people conditionally hence produces neurotic persons.

My write up on their icon, Chinua Achebe, sees the man as immature, simplistic, a man who sees himself as a victim when, in fact, he is not.  

In other writings, I saw Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Igbos civil war leader, as a bloody coward who ran away from the battlefield.

All these apparent negative views of Igbos would seem to suggest that I hate Igbos. Therefore, Igbos justifiably feel angry at me. They see me as their enemy and blame me. This is an understandable reaction to me. When people feel attacked they tend to be angry; angry persons have been known to kill those who made them angry. (Though I am Igbo, I emotionally distance myself from them hence talk about them as if I am talking about other persons, not about my people. I do so to be able to be objective and dispassionate in talking about their issues. Of course, I identify with Igbos otherwise I would not be so obsessed with their apparent untoward character traits. I am motivated to help, not crucify.)"


Culled from Ozodi Thomas Osuji Ph.D  THE IGBOS AND I

Ibos and their delusion.

"These people feel so inferior about themselves that they rejected themselves and identified with others, those they imagine are superior persons, Jews, and want you to collude with their obvious paranoia and tell them that they are Jews (read, tell them that they are superior persons, as they imagine Jews are) and if you do not they feel mad at you.
     We have to explore why these people are doing what they are doing, for it is no longer a laughing matter. They generally run around fancying themselves superior to their Nigerian neighbors. They seize on flimsy evidence to justify their delusion of superiority. They would tell you that Hausas do not qualify to directly enter Nigerian universities (what it takes to qualify to enter Nigerian universities would not qualify you to enter good universities elsewhere, so qualification is always relative). They glibly tell you that Hausas enter universities on quota grounds. You ask them to provide you with evidence for their claims. Providing evidence for their delusional claims is not one of their strong points. Clearly, Hausas are as qualified as any other Nigerians to attend Nigeria’s universities.
      There is no shred of evidence that the Igbos are superior to any other Nigerian tribe (their average scores on standard IQ tests, such as Stanford-Binnet and WAIS/WISC, are the same as those of other Nigerians; they perform at the same levels on SAT, GRE and other college entrance examinations as other Nigerians). Their feeling of superiority is imaginary, is based on their rejection of their real selves and identification with fantasy ideal selves"  

Culled from Ozodi Thomas Osuji Ph.D  EXPLORING IGBOS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

Mekusxyz:

The man is an achetypal Yoruba. He looks like Seal (the musician), another uglyoruba. Infact dem all ugly

Okoromado,

Both Seal and Bankole are accomplished in their respective careers; something your pathetic person can only wish for.

What have you done with yourself other than propagate hate?
Since hate is your motto, I am guessing you look like a cross between Satan and Shrek.

aloy-emeka:

Bola Tinubu will not try that because [b]PDP will be happy to grab Fashola and he is more than likely to win in Lagos [/b]over and over unless AC plans on massive rigging. On another note, it could be dangerous too because they may decide to assassinate him and pave the way for an unbridled candidate who will surely dance to their tune. The latter will likely be the case. Presently, AC will be committing a political suicide if they let Fashola go because not even Obama can win him in Lagos state.

He could win for PDP but he would not win.  AC is too entrenched in Lagos, massive rigging plus voter's intimidation will
prevent Fashola.
If OBJ was still at the helm of affairs, I'll concede that should Fashola deflect to PDP he would win as OBJ will ensure
that, either by legit votes or otherwise. I can't see Yar adu or Jonathan with that kind of muscle.

babapupa:

Muize is currently Lagos state's Commissioner for Environment. He's great administrator and all around good guy. I know Fashola is fine but we're OK either way it goes.

Thanks for providing the information. I had no idea who he was.  If Fashola was not to run, do you think Muiz will
automatically get the nod to be the AC flag bearer?

ikeyman00:

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becomefool

dnt think cotonu will be used to these [size=31pt]trait[/size]

at one point tinubu made way for hmmm

at next point Tinubu na ole

yoruba people wetin naw!!drop these trait plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


at one point the yorubas are smart; well no doubt hahhhh cuz the hausa are killing the igbo? ehuuuu kia

when those baffoon roast some yorubas; the turn around sayin ojukwu was right

i don de tire for una; only very few without trait na F!gator but as for tilipian witch hmmmmmm

this is not getting us anywhere; cuz the bible say so; u see god loves us, and we need to learn how to sort out thing in line with loving eachother

drawing up goggles and s hit wouldnt work; u see i dnt want to talk about edo, Bayelsea, ijaw now, i m writing just as the scripture says

Sorry to burst your bubble. Inteligent (Lagosians and friends) people are having a discourse here.
Why don't you call Mekus, Sunny-bobo,  Wily-wily for a bash. They will understand the gibberish you posted.
Thanks for gate-crashing, but you are not invited.

sjeezy8:

Everyone knows Tinubu is a thief and those loyal to him may want to discredit fashola.

But either way as long as Lagos moves forward, doesnt matter to me. Muiz is suppose to be doing well and could be the second term man for AC.

Fashola is doing great but I actually know Muiz and the Banires so either way Lagos state is going to keep moving. But it would be dumb for tinubu to fumble fashola- what ever party fashola may deflect to would gain automatic recognition.

Both Muiz and Fashola are good candidates- tinubu is the Ole

Who is Muiz? Never heard of him. Is he part of the current Fashola's administation?

If Fashola deflects to another party he would not win. The only party that he could deflect to and win would be PDP, but I doubt if he would do that.

Fashola has done incredible things for Lagos; things that average Nigerian politicians are not accustomed to doing for their
constituents. Obviously, many are jealous and will do or say anything to try to bring him down.

This is nothing new in politics. Only a dreamer will expect Fashola to coast home free to the finish line without detractors.
Detractors are every where, even here on NL saying their usual junks even though they are not privy to any information other than
"dem say"

For the nay sayers, regardless of what happens,  Lagos will forever shine.

Mekusxyz:

http://www.yabatech.edu.ng/Yabatech%20-%20About%20us.html

This is one crazy, ridiculous claim by our Yoruba friends

Okoromado,
Wondered why it did not occur to you that it could be a typo of some sort. Nobody will intentionally claim that.
You are so absorbed with Yoruba affairs that your are becoming an embarrassment to your people.
I am beginning to think you may not be Ibo, just some confused person from Planet of the Apes

babapupa:


Truly, I have nothing negative to say about Michael Okpara or the fact that he did for his people in the east unlike another gentleman from the east around the sane era.

The fact is, the main and still the foremost industrial hub in Nigeria are the many industrial estates in Lagos and Otta/Ogun state, 

The premier industrial estate in Nigeria is Ikeja industrial built by Awolowo,

Mushin alone has 4 industrial estates,


Matori Industrial Estate — (Banking, shoes, furniture, Engineering products,Media & Telecommunication,foods and beverage Industries),

Ilupeju Industrial Estate — (Banking, Engineering products, cosmetics,foods and beverage Industries),

Aswani Industrial Estate — (Textiles Industries)

Ilasamaja-Isolo Industrial Estate — in which steel and aluminum products, furniture, concrete, clothing, plastics, textiles, beverages and shoes are produced.


And we still have Apapa, Amuwo, Isolo and Ikorodu industrial estates.


Nothing corky about hard facts my friend,

You missed:
Oluyole Industrial Estate in Ibadan, one of the largest in West Africa
Costain Industrila Estate, Lagos

Mekusxyz:

You claimed Ebira is a subset of Yoruba. That is a lie; admit it and move on. My argument with you about schools and early education [b]was just to punish you a[/b]s I know the facts already (you could see that I got the info myself). Yoruba was there before Igbos, but dat na yesteryears The story changed since before independence.

Help!!! Mekuxxx is punishing me. Dude, seriously, you need help if that is what you could come up with.

Mekusxyz:

Some perspective about early education in Nigeria

By 1879 the Yoruba had produced their first graduate, a lawyer by name Sapara Williams. In contrast, the first Igbo graduate could not emerge until about 1934. I believe his name was Dr. S. Onwu, a medical doctor. Despite this late start, due to no fault of the Igbo, Ndiigbo were able to catch up with the Yoruba by the 1960s. It was the investment in education in the 1930s and 1940s that yielded the dividends of the sixties, which saw the flowering of all aspects of Igbo culture and life.

Those were the hey days of the indefatigable The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the great Owele of Onitsha and the first Nigerian Governor General of Nigeria, as well as the first President of the Nigerian Federation; of the boycott king, the Hon. Maazi Mbonu Ojike; of the flamboyant wordsmith, the Hon. Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe; of the political pragmatist, the Hon. Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara, of the cerebral scientist and parliamentarian Honorable Kalu Ezera; and of radical Zikists like R.B.K. Okafor, Mbazulike Amaechi, and Mokwugo Okoye to name but a few. Mention must also be made of Dr. Nwafor Orizu, President of the Nigerian Senate before the outbreak of hostilities. These political fire-eaters and strategists brought charisma, color, and candor into the Nigerian political scene and raised the status of the Igbo man to an unprecedented height.

The academic group was led by intellectual giants like Professor Kenneth O Dike, first Nigerian principal of the University of London College at Ibadan and its first Vice Chancellor for seven years. There was Professor Eni Njoku, first Vice Chancellor and principal officer of the University of Lagos. Writers like Cyprian Ekwensi, Chinua Achebe, and Christopher Okigbo dominated the literary scene. Even though the Igbo were latecomers in the field of education -- behind the Efik in the Cross Rivers State and the Ypruba of the South West -- by 1960, the year of Nigeria's independence, the Igbo had outstripped the Efik and were about at par with the Yoruba. The Igbo rise was so phenomenal that the Yoruba felt truly threatened and their leaders wondered aloud why the Igbo should take over the leadership of the University at Ibadan, a university located at the heartland of the Yoruba nation.

At the same time the business group led by tycoons like Okonkwo Kano, Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu of Nnewi, Chief Ihekwoaba ofNkwere, Chief Akwiwu -- who was the first mayor of Port Harcourt, Chief Nnanna Kalu of Abiriba (though of a younger generation) and Chief Abaecheta of Mbieri provided necessary financial and moral support to the political and academic communities and helped in the overall renaissance of Igbo culture, art, and entrepreneurship.

So if Yoruba had produced the first graduate by 1879, how hard is it then for you to deduce that the first three engineers were Yoruba?
I am not interested who is in on top now and who is below. This is where we Yoruba are different. We really don't give a s***t about
such competition.
I leave you to worry about stuffs like that. Too many of our people (Nigerians) are illiterates in any case.  That to me is alarming and needs to be addressed.

Mekusxyz:

Ebira is not Yoruba and has nothing do with Yoruba. Stop your false claims

You are not talking about Lawal anymore? There is no false claim here.  I do not need to claim Ilorin for Yoruba.
Ilorin is a Yoruba town period, nor do I need to claim Ebira -ask yourself for what end?
All my points about schools and early education have been substantiated with facts and name of  schools.
You keep jumping from one discourse to another.
Dude, you need to man up.  I gotta move on. I actually have a J.O.B

Mekusxyz:

Not so fast. Can you show how Ebira is a subset of Yoruba? Or is this yet another false claim. As far as I know, Ebira is not related to Yoruba in terms of language.
Is Saraki Yoruba?
The only Yoruba there is Adebayo

I will not indulge you anymore.  Here is some info on:

Mohammed Alabi LawaL --- A direct descendant of Afonja. I'm sure you know who Afonja was

http://www.saharareporters.com/real-news/latest/1135-lawal-ex-kwara-gov-dies-pm-news-lagos-.html

As for Saraki, he can call himself whatever. I really do not care. Still does not change the fact that Ilorin is 99 percent Yoruba.
Unless you have contrary proof, please present it to the world.
The old phrase goes like this; If  it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it's a duck.
Draw your own conclusion. Anybody can be anything in Nigeria for political gains.

As for Ebira, most I know had Yoruba first and last names.