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Fineman87:
Guy. You must be ashamed of your tribe for foistering a tyrant on nigerians. Sensible yorubas are silent and reflecting on their generational mistake while yiy are here disgracing yourself. Smh

Just like I said before, those if you who still cry over Jonathan either has no shame or brain or both.

We Yoruba people will continue to try out new people in position of power until we get it right. You people need to learn common sense from us.

Every right thinking Yoruba sees elected officials as his equal. We don't lick political leader's anus like some of you do. In Yorubaland, elected officials are constantly afraid of the wrath of the people.

This explains why why our region remains the most progressive and prosperous. If anyone elected to serve is not doing well, we simply replace him. Period.

enugu419:
You're looking for someone to join you in your misery.

Igbos who shouted GEJ till 2019 and didn't get a 2nd Niger bridge, see your life.

What did Goodluck Jonathan accomplished as president other than mass looting of the treasury.

There's nothing wrong with voting for somebody else. If Buhari fails to perform, we will simply replace him just like we did to Jonathan. Period.

Those of you who still cry over the removal of Jonathan has no shame, may be no brain.

Stingman:
By Joseph Erunke ABUJA—

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, said over 50 million Nigerians of northern extraction live in poverty. The governor also lamented that the region was faced with five most serious problems, which he enumerated to include low literacy, poverty, poor healthcare, unproductive population and bad economic position. Gov Kashim Shettima of Borno State. Shettima, who is the Chairman, Northern Governors’ Forum, said he relied on recent research data released by experts, which indicated that of the 79.6 million Nigerians living in poverty, over 50 million of them, representing about 70 per cent, live in the 19 northern states of Nigeria.

To this end, the governor entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with General Electric, GE, to enhance healthcare delivery in all northern states. Signing the MoU in Abuja, yesterday, the governor, who noted that governors of the region were taking very determined steps to rewrite the northern story from different perspectives, regretted that unproductive population in the North had resulted in lack of affordability for the most basic of healthcare services.

Shettima said: “It is a tall and tough task but where there is the will, there is always the way and one of these ways is partnership with General Electric in our very sincere bid to improve healthcare infrastructure in the region.” ‘’As we go towards implementation, we should bear in mind that the lives of many people in Northern Nigeria depend on how quickly we are able to continually improve access to quality and affordable healthcare. “Series of report by the World Health Organisation gives records of high maternal, infant and under five-old mortality in the northern population. “We have since resolved to productively invest on sound and measured basic education. We resolved to have strong bias for girl-child education.” “It is always a pleasure for me whenever I have something to do with General Electric.

This, of course, is for the simple reason that General Electric is sincere in partnerships, committed to pursuing goals and most importantly, very compassionate about supporting us to address key problems bedeviling us in Northern Nigeria. “In three successive years, I have been privileged to have productive affiliations with the General Electric. In October, 2015, I was present when the General Electric presented a cheque of millions dollars to the UNICEF, which at that time, was the highest private sector intervention in support of internally displaced persons in Borno State. “In November, 2016, I was mandated by my colleagues from the Northern Governors Forum to sign an MOU with the General Electric for the establishment of solar plants to generate combined electricity of 500 Megawatts from five States in Northern Nigeria. “In October, 2017, I am here again, to once again, on behalf of my colleagues, sign another MOU with General Electric for upgrade of healthcare infrastructures in Northern Nigeria.

“The Northern Governors Forum is absolutely committed to this partnership and we have supreme confidence in our selfless and versatile Malam Tanimu Yakubu Kurfi, who is heading the Northern Nigeria Global Economic Re-integration Programme which is the facilitator of today’s partnership.’’

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/50m-northerners-living-poverty-gov-shettima/

This is the reason why the North have been footdragging on restructuring.

Brugo:
Long read but timely and relevant.

I like the fact that he recognized out main problem which is the default way we think. We first identify with our tribes before any other.

Also, he pointed out that before amalgamation we were not a group of robust nations but small warring groups with intolerance for our neighbors, going on slave raids and so on. So the idea of returning to past glory is redundant.

I agree with him that indeed, amalgamation put a stop to the needless bickering and raids that plagued our coexistence before the colonial government.

His speech is a well thought out plan for restructuring and can be further refined by debate in a proper conference. Our legislators should not be involved in discussing this since they are united in corruption and satisfied with the status quo.

you didn't even read yet you have written such a stupìd and unfortunate comment. Stop reasoning from your anus.

The reason why we need restructuring in the first instance is because the different ethnicities that made up Nigeria can never and will never give up their identities, because life is meaningless to them without their cultural heritage

Therefore, restructuring will give every people group the opportunity for self expression within their own localities without the interference of the other.

All over the world, be it America, Europe, China or India, people of different ethnic groups have preserved their cultural heritages while living together in a single country.

Great speech by a true patriot. It greatly encapsulate every viewpoint in the national discourse on restructuring of the polity, taking into consideration the diverse interest of the various ethnic, social and political groups.

The 10years progressive transition in the process of restructuring of the polity suggested in this great piece is a welcomed development. It allay the fears of the poor states will give them ample time to prepare for economic independence from the Federal Government .

dpsam:
That's true. In the book, Fire In His Bones- q biography of the Arc Bishop Idahosa, the author wrote about his (Idahosa's) meeting with Pa Elton. He also noted that Pa Elton influenced Idahosa's going the Gordon Lindsay's bible school (Christ For The Nations)
To the above OP's question, I believe we were brought into another phase of the Charismatic move of God's Spirit.
NB: I Love Your Observation. God bless you.

In those days of the SU(scripture union) movement, not enough was done by the Evangelical/Pentecostal movements to get God's people out of poverty as focus was mainly on Salvation and personal Holiness. I believe God raised these men to address that.

However, we as a movement have abandoned Holiness for physical comfort. I think the time has come to begin to consider how we can live a holy life and still be prosperous.

Most Yorubas who have given up the idea of secession have come to the understanding of the fact that we are better together than separated.

myright:
Bruce Fein, Contributor
Constitutional Scholar
Nigerian Dictator Buhari’s U.N. Hypocrisies
09/21/2017 08:50 am ET


Nigeria’s dictator Muhammadu Buhari expounded on the fatuous and doltishness punctuated with hypocrisy before the United States General Assembly on September 19, 2017.

It is a safe bet that none ever wished it were longer.

From beginning to end, Buhari’s words careened between banality, imbecility, hypocrisy, and deceit. Only the major flaws in his thinking will be exposed as a concession to the shortness of life.

Buhari cynically insisted that he spoke on behalf of the “people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” He was elected pursuant to an illegitimate constitution decreed by a military dictatorship in 1999. The “people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” have never approved it. Moreover, as Buhari was speaking, he was simultaneously dispatching Nigeria’s armed forces and police to the South East to terrorize and plunder millions of Biafran Christians; and, endorsing a northern Nigerian Hausa-Fulani ultimatum to 11 million Biafrans working and living there to abandon their homes and businesses by October 1, 2017 or risk death or torture. Buhari no more represents Biafrans than a slave owner represents his slaves.

Buhari’s desultory remarks were intended to conceal Nigeria’s tireless persecution of Biafrans since its birth from British colonialism in 1960. He absurdly maintained: “[W]e often forget that what we have accomplished in the last 72 years is unprecedented in the annals of human history.” Was it an “accomplishment” to deny Biafran self-determination in violation of United Nations decolonization resolutions? Was it an “accomplishment” for Nigeria to renege on its 1966 promise of Biafran autonomy? Was it an “accomplishment” for Nigeria to provoke the 1967-1970 horrifying Biafran War by systematic persecution of Igbos?

While Buhari is slaughtering and immiserating Nigeria’s own Biafrans because of their Christianity and ethnicity, he made time to deplore Myanmar on its maltreatment of Rohingya Muslims as an anti-Muslim atrocity: “[T]he Myanmar crisis is very reminiscent of what happened in Bosnia in 1995 and in Rwanda in 1994.” In sum, Buhari cares more about non-Nigerian Muslims than he does about Nigerian Christians—which is treasonous to approximately half of Nigeria’s population.

Buhari opined: “The world may be badly governed, but the fact that there is a form of governance agreed upon by all is an accomplishment in and of itself.” According to Buhari, bad governance—even genocidal governance—is always superior to the alternative. That nonsense on stilts would have shipwrecked the American Revolution. It is indistinguishable from the barbaric policy of “might makes right,” i.e., the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Dictator Buhari fails to understand that justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It is constantly thundering like a hammer on an anvil to shake the foundations of every tyranny. A society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker is the very definition of lawlessness.

Buhari took hypocrisy to a new level in summoning the United Nations to “restructure” to remain “relevant” while fiercely crushing advocates for restructuring Nigeria around the unalienable right of all peoples to self-determination—including Biafrans held in bondage to Hausa-Fulani terrorists.

Buhari also hypocritically sermonized, “As we have learned in Nigeria, sometimes you need to change in order to remain the same.” Every Biafran except the quisling Governors sitting in the South East must have laughed into tears at that monumental lie. Like the French Bourbon rulers on the eve of their destruction, Buhari forgets nothing and learns nothing. He aims to fossilize Nigeria’s politics.

Buhari would profit by learning something more powerful than a gun. The clarion call of Amos 5: 24: “But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59c3b4eae4b0c87def883597

This writeup is nothing short of pure nonsense!

ashjay001:
Ur disappearing cowardly leader?! This should be his moment! Standing up to d python! Calling its bluff! Not performing a disappearing act!

We will see what we will see!

Don't mind KANU. He saw the Python dancing towards him and fled

Kemperor:
Cowardice is in d blood of all afonjas...

Shut your trap if you don't have any sensible thing to say!

ODVanguard:
Guy, you can only bamboozle your fellow folks but sorry to burst your bubble, coz this subject matter has already been settled on the following thread that Yorubas are at the driver's seat of Nigeria's entrepreneurship, industrial and economic landscape.

https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe

Your people even opened a counter thread that couldn't even match-up.

https://www.nairaland.com/3926379/igbos-most-industrious-innovative-richest

Abeg compare and constrast both threads and you will objectively surrender.

The world doesn't start and end in your people's archaic and obsolete 2x2 mode of trading. Yorubas are more innovative and versatile in their approach to doing business, therefore we don't have to become nomads going about opening shops all over the place and call that entrepreneurship.

Name the industry. Is it Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, I.T, Insurance, Banking, just name the area of entrepreneurship or business ownership in this country and we come tops, just that we don't make noise about it like y'all are known for. Even in the area of hotel ownership, we have facts to prove that we own more in our region than yours or any other for that matter. And I have data to prove this, no be mouth. We don't just make noise or wild assumptions like you all are fond of doing, we back it with verifiable data.

Thanks brother.

They are always boasting that they are the most enterprising people I Nigeria, argument that are not based on facts.

Just because you are more visible on the streets does not make you the most enterprising.

giftq:
Be consistent in your principles.
Yoruba depends heavily upon SS crude oil, so we must criticize Yoruba for not being successful based on their region alone.

Big lie!

The Southwest contribution to the federation by far surpasses the pittances it get from the Federation.

We don't need you people's oil money at all. That is why we have always champion the calls for fiscal federation.

Malawian:
There is something that make Igbos excel, i believe it is God's grace and not really about the level of hussling involved. Take me for instance, I started a cafe just four houses from another cafe owned by a yoruba, he has sinced packed up and moved elsewhere to restart his business, another Igbo opened also another few houses away from mine, we are both thriving and no beef.

Igbos set up your kind of business beside you not playing fair like undercutting the prices below cost price level or faking/ adulteration of products with the hope of forcing you out of business, only to return to normal practices and prices when you are gone.They don't care if they sell vulture parts in their soup to you as chickens, so long as they make their money. We all know this.

Most of us Yorubas are either victims or witnesses to these kinds of evil schemes by a lot of Igbo's, but not anymore. We now owns the best electronic shops and Malls in town.

pboy247:
Greetings, my fellow Nairalanders.

I hope this piece hit FP.OP.

Now let's reason together and think about my counter views on Igbo bashing as expressed below.

Before you stone the Igbos, ask yourself, did the Igbos put guns on anybody's head before buying up Alaba, Ajegunle, isolo, festac, ago palaceway, ikotun, Apapa and Oshodi in Lago

Did they use juju before the Ibadan surrendered Iwo Road to them?

And what were we looking at before the Igbos took over Isida and Adeti in Ilesa.

Where were the YORUBAS when the Igbos thrived and built 90% of the Hotels at Abuja. Was there a law that excluded the YORUBAS from selling building materials? Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja is 90 % Igbo owned.

So the more we point one finger at the Igbos, the more we have the other four fingers pointing at our laziness and lack of initiative as a society.

The YORUBAS should have been better with all our education, but we may be worse that the Fulanis who just roam around the bush.

Why? Because we lack the entrepreneurship spirit. We just want salaries from doing 8am to 5pm job. We proceed in foolishness and we persist in hoping to reap plenty without showing hard. The Igbos are different, hence we are now jealous and envious.

We love wasteful parties and Aso Ebi. Just a little business without even making any profit yet, we usually call musicians to spay money like coffetti .

Where are all the Board Members of Ebenezer Obey today? Where is lawyer Omoyinmi and Lanre Badmus? Where is Oroki Social Club of Osogbo? Where is Felates of Ilesa and the likes whose trade mark was to bring Sunny Ade to Ilesa every Xmas, to waste all income gathered for the year?

The Yoruba society wasted their leading lights on excessive consumption and wasteful attitudes. We wasted our capital on frivolous social gatherings.

We took religion to ridicoulous levels, such that the wealthiest pastors and churches are now Yorubas. But all the wealth extracted by the churches from the Yoruba nation is also merely flaunted to show who's God is the most miraculous.

So we have become paupers and destitutes, as the Yoruba nation cannot now pay salaries. Pensions are owed for years.

Tell me, is Osun State filled with human beings or goats to have tolerated Aregbesola, when they rejected Akande. Say it loud, is the Constituted Authority of Ibadan sane to just bring about 21 Obas from nowhere to receive salaries, where there is no money to reopen Ladoja Akintola University?

Are the Ondos so wise to have allowed Mimiko to devastate their terrain as to be now saddled with 12 months salary arrears? What of Ekiti with rabble rousing Fayose and the intellectually arrogant Fayemi?

Even Lagos, there is nothing to write home about it, despite all the hype.

But the Igbos are hard workers. Let us not continue to deceive ourselves. 20 of their young boys can live in the shop from where they sell goods, after some years they will take over and become big boys even here in Lagos and in their father land! There is no place too dirty or remote for them to hibernate and incubate their ideas. Give them 5 years, you will see them buy and take over all shops and lands.

True, some of them are criminals which is not different from other tribes the Yoruba and hausas! but majority of the Igbo youths build and build physical structures away, while the YORUBAS are content with looking for salaried jobs, so that they can have siesta in the afternoons and then attend parties on Saturdays. Then spend Sundays in church wishing and praying for divine miracles.

How foolish? How many yorubas are in Igbo land hustling? How many of our youths can boast of having their own house at the age of 35? Huh? as the Igbo people are meeting and strategizing on Sunday, so that they can gather money and come and buy the houses and lands owned by our Yoruba fathers.

Whether we like it or not, Obokungbusi Town Hall will soon be on concessional PPP sale. The Igbos will buy it. The proceeds will be used to pay backlog of salaries owed to impoverished Ijeshas. It will come willy nilly.

It will happen even in a declared Oduduwa Republic. Afterall, the Chinese, the Lebanese and the South Africans are buying us out with reckless abandon. See how ShopRite is buying up everywhere. I heard that they bought Owena Motel estate in Akure. How come we did not sell it to the Igbos?

We shall continue to grumble and hate the Igbos until eternity. Unless we spy on them, copy their ways and imbibe their can do attitude. They are lovely people and they are willing to carry you along in successful business if only we can embrace love and stop unnecessary hatred!

The Yoruba nation and society have been pauperised and destituted. In desperation, we shall soon start to behave like the Almajiris' in the North.

In grinding poverty and out of jealousy, the Almajiris of the North regularly loot Igbo shops and businesses. Very soon Yoruba urchins will start looting too to show that they hate the Igbos.

Even some of us here will defend it to show our hatred for the Igbos. Whereas, the looting is as a result of hunger and uselessness of our society.

How sad for the Yoruba Nation. ���

Nothing sad about us . We still lead on all fronts.

You know what? Had our people unleash their fury and anger on you Igbo people for the sales of cheap fake and adulterated products back then, you won't have the big and filthy mouth to insult us with this your wicked thread.

Choosing to accommodate you people despite selling fake products to in order to take over some businesses from Yoruba people who sell the originals does not make us fools.

You people should stop taking the patience of your hosts for granted. You must be a wicked person with a dark soul for writing this wicked piece.

iConductor:
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We've heard, coward.

You people think being disrespectful to others is the same as being bold.

What a shame!

Thank you for highlighting the positions previously held by Igbos in previous governments. It reveals their true reasons for calling for Biafra . They don't like being in the opposition. Period.

The Igbo attitude is, " if we are not in charge, let's crash it" . Sad!

YelloweWest:
It's too early for a stupid thread to hit front page nah!

A girl who want to marry u does not want u

What idiot comes up with this sort of shìt??

You are naïve.

jezuzboi:
Guys!!! Someone posted this on Facebook and it got to me. Now I’m looking for tips on HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN A WOMAN WHO WANTS YOU AND A WOMAN WHO WANTS MARRIAGE. Any ideas

It depends on the motives for the two respective scenario. A girl may want to marry you because she wants you as well as want you because she wants to marry you. I'm talking from experience and observation.
This is true love.

Also, a girl may want you or want to marry you for some other reasons other than love such as sex without commitment, your money, marital status, or children only to dump you after getting what she wanted.

Dnockeror333:
Do not use any fetish fire to quell the darkness around you, nor where we commanded to use Holyghost fire to fight of the fangs of hade.

Holyghost fire indwells the Believer!

Do you know this? This is so, by which they could stand out from the crowd.

Instead wear the whole ARMOUR (protection)of God to be able to fight of the evil and deceptive tricks of Satan and his hordes.

Now, goto Ephesians 6:10-18.

Do you see? In place of fighting foolishly with the Fathers great name, why not use His armour of Love?

Bless you.

Thank you for this post.

The Holy Ghost Fire is meant to fight the unseen evil forces that makes people do bad things, not the bad person . We are commanded by the Lord to forgive our enemies and also to pray for them, not against them.

Copiousworld:
Op thank you. The same people will call holy ghost fire to consume and destroy their so called enemies meanwhile the Bible taught us in .Luke 6:28 (KJV). Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you....Even when Jesus was been crusified, He prayed for His enemies...Luke 23.34. (KJV) Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do... Africans and their method of Christianity very pathetic..

The Bible says," we wrestle not with flesh and blood ( humans), but with....spiritual wickedness ( demonic beings that seek to control human affairs) in heavenly places.Ephesians 6:10_ end.

jerrywill:
Happy sunday fellow christians.

Now let's look at it from the bible; when the Holy Ghost/Spirit was poured out on the day of penticost, the bible related fire to it. (And other incidents that followed) but it was never recorded anywhere in the bible where the 'fire of the Holy Spirit', in this case 'Holy Ghost fire' ever burnth or consumed anyone.

Now, I will like to hear your say on the topic if this Holy Ghost fire prayer is biblical

Somewhere in the Psalms, the Bible says that, " God sits on His throne, a fire goeth before Him and consume His enemies roundabout ".

So, Holy Ghost fire does exists.

fernandez1:
They should take the host country as favorite so there will be WILL and passion to fantastically victory!

They should go out with fiery determination to win that match.

GreatCracker:
congratulations

Yea, this calls for celebrations.

However, the team should not celebrate for too long. The final is tomorrow.

The Nigerian basketball national team ,the D'Tigers has done it again- defeating Senegal 76 points to71 to qualify for the grand finale of the FIBA Afrobasket championship 2017 holding in Tunisia.

The D'Tigers were on full trottle from the blast of the whistle to the end of the encounter winning the the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quartersof the match 15:12, 19:17 and 18:16 respectively while they lost the 4th quarter to Senegal by 24:26 points- aggregate score 76:71. Nigeria won!

In the other semifinal encounter, host Tunisia pip Morocco by 60 to 52 points to set up a final clash between the host Tunisia , and the defending champions Nigeria due for 18:00GMT on Saturday, 16th September.

Send your congratulations and best wishes to the D'Tigers to encourage the team.

Up D'Tigers!

Up Nigeria!

erico2k2:
I'm quite sure %60 of us don't even k ow the meaning of foreign reserve and what it is meant for and what it is used for.

I wonder whether most commentators on this thread pass their O' level economics or perhaps they cheated to pass.

kennieG:
External reserve hitting all time higher while d citizens are living in abject poverty is not acceptable.. Who is deceiving who here .. Apc has failed us and the earlier we stop living with all these lies n deceits the better for us .. thank you all

Display of ignorance.

External savings are not meant for private pockets, rather for rainy days. Had Jonathan not depleted our foreign reserve, naira to dollar would still have remain at between N200 and N250 today.

External savings are meant to shore up the value of local currency when foreign exchange earning is low to prevent inflation and other economic catastrophies.

Aufbauh:
How i wish we are not much in numbers in Nigeria so that we could share our external reserve per head.
#supportIpobexit

Ole!

The Nigeria National basketball team , the D'Tigers will today face one of their fiercest opposition, the Senegal national basketball team in the semifinals of the ongoing FIBA Afrobasket 2017 today in their quest to qualify for the final of the Championship and the World Cup to be held in China in 2019.

Nigeria's opponent, Senegal has remained undefeated so far in the championship, defeating the likes of South Africa, Mozambique, Egypt, and Africa's powerhouse Angola in the quarterfinal to set up the stage for a semifinal confrontation with the defending champions, Nigeria.

Nigeria, on the other hand defeated Ivory Coast and Mali, lost to Democratic Republic of Congo in the group stages before beating the Cameroonian national basketball team to qualify for the semifinal stage.

The semifinal clash between the Senegalese and the defending champions, Nigeria comes up at 10:30pm GMT tonight, 15th of September 2017.

Send your goodwill and best wishes to our dear D'Tigers to encourage them and to show them that Nigerians are solidly behind them.

Go!....Go!....D'Tigers!

Eat them alive. Do jot spare their bones!

Up D' Tigers!

Up Nigeria!

Nbote:
Camerooun don hear nweeeeen for our hands dis year.. Na revenge for Bakassi

Yes o. We never finish with them , this just the beginning. Anytime Cameroon beat us for sports, he dey pain me deep for bone. Thank God we won

Congratulation Nigerians! The Nigeria National Basketball team, the D'Tigers today defeated their Cameroonian opponents by106 points to 91 to qualify for the semifinals of the ongoing FIBA Afrobasket 2017. This result takes them takes them one step closer to qualification for the World Cup in China 2019, as another win in the semifinals will seal their participation in the coming world event.

The D'Tigers led the Cameroonians in the 1st and 2nd quarters, but the Cameroonians created a scare in the 3rd quarters as they won it with 3 points. However, the D'Tigers roared back in the 4rth ( final) quarters to take the lead and win the match.

Nigeria will know her next opponent for the semifinal clash, which is the world cup qualification proper later today.

Send your best wishes to the D'Tigers in their quest to qualify for the World Cup and defend their title successfully.

Up D'Tigers!

Up Nigeria!

DonBobes:
SSBN if u c a fly on ur window pane its me, i love military history like water dats y m following u n explorer lik zomo.
Good write up though.
And please reduce d way or stop ur calling Goodluck a lame duck. We all have our weaknesses n being less strong minded is d weakness of our former president goodluck. So I would really appreciate it if u address him d way he was n he is; former president.
Nagode

You can describe a weak person accurately without necessarily abusing or insulting him. Whatever we may think of him, Goodluck Jonathan remains our former president.

pedrilo:
Is this stewpeed analysis of urs responsible for buhari hatred for IBO's? Is that his reason for appointin only pipo from his region into nnpc other places?
U tink u r wise abi?
Conspiracy theorist

Your contribution does not make sense. Nobody hates the Igbos .

Igbo's should realise that life is a battle fought with sense. If Igbo's want power they should seek with calculatively.