₦airaland Forum

laudate:
Says who? Who will give them that option? Nigeria? Let me laugh very well in Greek. I want to see how you would force Nigerian govt to offer this option.

They are banking on the "zoo" to give them an "option"?

Is that delusional or what?

laudate:
Good question. Anyone who has the answers should please share them with us. The Nigerian govt will make a lot of money from entry visas, CERPAC, residents permit, work permit etc. annually, once the Biafrans decide to return to Nigeria. Don't forget that many of them still want to eat their cake and have it. They want to remain in Nigeria running their businesses, and at the same time they want to be citizens of their proposed newly-independent country.

What is the population of Biafrans among the Nd'Igbo serving in the federal govt agencies and parastatals? One needs to look at it. They cannot continue working in sensitive positions and agencies, since they would no longer be citizens of Nigeria. They would have to relinquish those posts, for bona-fide Nigerians, don't you think so?

I think it's probably a good time to join the Nigerian Police. Can you imagine the number of Igbo businessmen that would be desperate to remain in Nigeria without valid papers? I can see serious money changing hands in all this. Please, how can I apply for police job? I'm interested. Who no like mansion?

Latest estimates put the number of Igbos resident outside their region at 7 to 10 million.

Some figures go as high as 15 million.

Is the SE prepared to welcome this number of "returnees", after they are declared illegal aliens in Nigeria, and promptly deported?

SHAKABOOM:
Wot is dis wan saying?We are working towards getting our own country..when we get it we go desert de forum but as for now we will be a boil on you guyz scrotum hia.

But why do you need your own country before you can have your own website?

If everyone thought like you, we'd have billions of countries on earth, not hundreds.

SHAKABOOM:
GUY abeg don't misuse this sweet term..UNITY BEGGERZ are the zombies afraid of ibos leaving this failed state nigeria not the so called nationalist in this shiiit country.

It's strange that of the estimated 2 billion websites on the internet, you choose to spend all your time on the forum of a "failed state, shiiit country". It suggests you're a truly failed, shiit person.

ESDKING:
All unity beggars should get lost and die.

Interesting. I wonder how you plan to handle the opposition in your new country.

Your words suggest we should alert Amnesy International.

Every so often in its life, a nation gives rise to a set of heroes. Patriotic elements who, against all onslaughts, stand firm in the nation's defence. Indeed, no great nation has ever emerged, which did not have this remarkable set of people, at some point in its history. From those who stormed the mighty palaces in the French Revolution, to the great African-American civil rights movement led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, to the great icon of South Africa, Nelson Mandela and his beloved ANC, once condemned as a terrorist group.

In modern Nigeria, the great nationalists of our time, now ingloriously termed "Unity Beggars", are the shining torch, the shining light, holding out to the world an enduring vision of Nigerian greatness.

To this group of nationalist patriots, you have my salute, and may God continue to bless your endeavours.

Misterdhee1:
He needs more than interest bro. This is Nigeria. We all know how it works.

Nonsense. Nigeria has changed. People are heavily connected, and online, across the nation. They are reachable in a way they weren't before. Duke can do an 'Obama'. Flood the airwaves with clear, powerful, incisive, and memorable speeches about his Grand Vision for the country. Become an iconic national figure through powerful oratory and vision. The presidency will be his. Easily. He needs a damn good speech writer though.

igwebuike01:
The major oil producing areas in RIvers are Igboland. THese criminals keep using "Niger delta" or "south south" to hide this fact

CAN YOU SOUTH SOUTHERNERS SEE? THEY'VE STARTED O. ''NO MAN'S LAND'' SYNDROME. NOW THEY'RE SAYING YOUR OIL AND GAS PRODUCING CREEKS ARE ''IGBO LAND''.

GO AND JOIN THEIR ''BIAFRA''. BY THE TIME THEY FINISH WITH YOU, YOU WILL BE LUCKY TO EVEN HAVE A POPULATION LEFT.

raker300:
igbo land has oil..stop being ignorant. Imo and abia are oil producing states..while anambra is oil reserve

If you have all this oil, then why are you trying to force South South to join you? Could it be because your oil deposits are like 10 kobo worth compared to 10,000 naira level in the delta?

tevinsolt:
this word "RULE" is still why we have a big problem in Nigeria.
you don't Rule in a democracy you administer the power giving by the constitution.

Help me tell them o.

Misterdhee1:
Donald has what it takes to become the president of this nation. He has the intellect, and the right exposure. However, can this man outwit the political jargon in this country?

If he really wants to be president, he can be.

What a garbage, meaningless topic.

To add insult, it's on front page. The mods on this site are pathetic.

AustineCJ:
Iheanacho,Iwobi,Ndidi,Moses,Kayode,Isaac success,Alampasu,Onazi,Musa etc with playing time to most of them Nigeria is set to Dominate Africa....they r all on dre early 20s

You forgot the Baba of them all......Henry Onyekuru.

Omofunaab2:
Op, The only geo political zone that can't stand alone is the south east, they know this, but they won't answer your question instead they will call you afonja. .

Why do you think most of them on nairaland denied that there was a fight between biogbolo youths and igbo traders in Bayelsa? Bro, it is because of "oyel " ..and do you think the south south people don't know this? Left with the south south they don't want to share their resources with anyone including Nigeria sef. .

Today south west can decide to secede and be on its own but can same be said of south east?

I have friends that are from delta, they have igbo names, i see them as igbos but they usually get annoyed whenever i call them "Omo Ibo " . Seriously i really don't understand why people in rivers and delta are denying their "igboness".. Why aren't they proud of being called igbos? Kwara is in north central, okun people are in kogi but you will never hear any of them say they are not yorubas.

I must also admit that i have met two or three people from delta that embraced their "igboness " but majority always claim they are not igbos

They see Igbos as domineering. They're very nervous about how much the Igbos will oppress them in any Biafra contraption, by virtue of their population dominance. Who can blame them? Before you know it it they'll start calling the riverine oilfields "no man's land".

Let the South South declare that they are not interested in joining Biafra, and watch how quickly the Ipob movement collapses. Biafra is ALL about stealing that oil for the Igbos.

In private, many Igbos ridicule people from the south south. They call them drunkards and wastrels. But in public, they are "brothers in the Biafra cause". If the south south join Biafra, they will live to regret it. The Igbos are ready to exterminate them to seize those oilfields.

kingzizzy:
The only person that is shamelessly begging is you. You have grabbed several ethnic groups that dont even know you and called them 'SS' minorities when the same SS is not recognised in the constitution.Why are you speaking for other people? You speak for Igbo, you speak for Ijaw, you speak for Ogoja, you speak for Ibibio. Why the atrachment? It means you are doing the same thing you are accusing the Biafrans of doing.

Hypocrite. You're happy to say the south south are "not recognised in the constitution" because that suits you and your greed for their oil and gas. I wonder how much you will shout if it we said your own Igbo region is "not recognised by the constitution" just so we can steal your resources.

Ncsamuel:
which kind stupid research? Our history is passed down from generation to generation by the word of mouth. Cant remember my parents telling me that my ancestor is jewish! And if not for the civil war all these stories wont be everywhre

Ignorance personified. Firstly, historical research goes beyond oral history, and includes a whole range of elements such as anthropology, linguistics, and cultural comparison among others. Secondly, the oral history of a people is not typically passed from parents to children, but from trained griots to their apprentices. The place you go for trained griots in Igboland would include the Nri kingdom etc, not your parents.

Lastly, until you have spent quality time researching the subject - what you term "stupid research" - I suggest you stay away from the topic.

Ncsamuel:
For the love of GOD!! There is notin like 'BIAFRAN JEW' am an ibo man! Pls we dont have any jewish ancestry in our blood.

What research have you conducted in this area?

^^That goes superbly with peppery red stew and pounded yam. Yummy...

naijalander:
which truth is found in Yoruba DNA, am also a Yoruba guy but I choose to be objective in all my research and research shows that Yoruba people did not migrate from anywhere. Neither did Igbo or Hausas, we have all always been within this region called Nigeria..

"Research" shows no such thing. A multiplicity of scholars and researchers have traced various African groups, including Yorubas, Igbos, and Hausas, to ancient migrations from the North, i.e. the Nile Valley and the Levant.

fighal:
Last Last na CAPITAL O..

I have all these listed qualities.. I can come up with very very prospect filled business idea, especially tech(online) related ideas but where capital?

Most tech related ideas can be started on a shoestring.

About time......this project has been on for many years.

iaamxavier:
Bcuz he is oyinbo hav they celebrated all their black teachers?

Thank you very much. If that same man had done all they said he did, but was a black Nigerian like them, it is very unlikely they would do this big party for him. White worshipers.


Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds

- Bob Marley

blueAgent:
Check your facts well before you post trash.


A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVES
AND POLICIES
THE COLONIAL PERIOD 1842 – 1955
In 1946, soon after the establishment of the first
school in Badagry by the Missionaries, Lord Grey
had recommended the establishment of
agricultural education. The curriculum was
intended to include household economy,
gardening and surveying and agricultural
chemistry (Faghulu, 1983, P 140). The tradition
of work-oriented education was not successful as
abundant evidence existed in the literature of
complaints against the products of the school
system who were unwilling to use their hands
(Blyden, 1887). The same fate befall the attempt by missionary bodies to set up industrial
institutions in Abeokuta. In the twentieth century the Phelps-Stokes
Commission of l922 attempted to redirect the
focus of education to work, as it was generally felt that the education given to Africans was
inadequate and inappropriate as it educated them away from their environment. The Commission


www.nigerianobservernews.com/2015/03/future-of-education-in-nigeria-historical-review-of-objectives-policies/#nayaparam:857

What garbage is this?

I don't know what this is or what you expect to achieve by posting it. It makes no sense, and I've no idea what you're trying to say. The colonialists built not one university in Nigeria between 1897 and 1960, despite exporting natural resources worth TRILLIONS in today's money. It wasn't just education they neglected. Name me one major hospital they built in those 63 years. Name me one stadium. Or one expressway. Or one power plant. Or one manufacturing industry?

Nothing. Not even one university. Goodluck Jonathan, in just 5 years in office, built TWELVE universities. We often say that corruption 'increased after independence'. That's the height of tomfoolery and ignorance. Corruption actually DECREASED and DECREASED HUGELY after independence.

Before independence, something like 95% of national earnings were siphoned to Britain on an annual basis, by British officials. This was why Nigeria was under-developed at independence. By right it should have been even more developed than South Africa, considering the resources exported. Our politicians have a history of corruption, but most estimates put the monies siphoned even in the worst years of corruption at no more than 30% - 40% of govt revenue.

So our own leaders are not perfect, but they've done better than the colonial rulers.

bantudra:
facts.......it doesnt realy make sense at the long run.....how can you compare a nation of 1.7 million to 1.3 billion?.....

Of course you can't.

OBAGADAFFI:
Ask yourself how did we less industrialized than South Africa.

Nigeria was far developed and industrialized than SA in the 80s to Early 90s.

Today most of the industries have relocated to SA, Ghana, Kenya and smaller African countries.


Just look at the mess called Ajaokota and NNPC.

You are completely ignorant. South Africa has been an industrialised nation since at least the 1940s. Their colonialists built the economy, unlike in Nigeria where they just came to loot. SA had their first universities by the mid 1860s. In Nigeria, the whites built no university at all until they were kicked out in 1960. THE ONLY REASON South Africa is ahead today is because the colonialists invested the nation's resources back into the nation. Why? Because there was a substantial white settler community. In the rest of Africa, they did nothing but loot. This is why most African nations started from virtually nothing at independence in the 1960s.

OBAGADAFFI:
Say what you know.

South Africa is generating more than 40k magawatt with less than 50million population.

Nigeria is yet to achieve 10k megawatts with more than 159 millions.

Whose fault is that.

South Africa has been building power plants and transmission systems since the 1880s. Nigeria only started building power plants after independence in 1960. The colonialists in South Africa reinvested their exports in the SA economy. The colonialists in Nigeria did nothing but loot. That is why we are playing catch up with South Africa today.

GEJPosterity:
You've just confirmed my theory.

You are trolling.

Dude, kindly disappear from this place, as it's clear you've nothing to contribute.

Is it by force to post?

GEJPosterity:
Little does Sapiosexuality know that he has been talking to a sock puppet.

The amount of horse manure contained in this comment is hard to quantify. See how this thing directly contradicted itself saying "Economy comes before awakening", then in the very next paragraph says "Europeans conquered agriculture, allowing the rest of the population to develop other professions". So which came first? Did the Europeans first develop a consciousness about the need to conquer agriculture and free themselves to do other things, or did the agricultural know-how just fall from the sky?

See this Rossikk handle in my observation is actually a hardcore white racist who spends time here faithfully trolling. His message is too one-track and uniformly stupid to be genuinely his opinion. For someone who can do as much research and construct as many sophistic polemics as he can, these posts are too dumb to be his true thoughts.

This guy is trolling.

I'll address the main part of your post and ignore the bizarre drivel.

Europeans may have "developed a consciousness about the need to conquer agriculture", but so did every other population on earth, including Africans. But success in this was determined by the quality of the soil. Climate issues also affected the ability to domesticate animals. In Africa these were adverse, and in Europe, the conditions were ideal. The colonialists were shocked that most of the crops they brought from Europe couldn't be grown in Africa. They had assumed, like many still do today, that African soil was highly fertile.

GEJPosterity:
Cocaine is a hell of a drug...

Look it up.