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fpeter:
You Tube videos. I bought the enzymes and Chinese herbs in could access.

Please what is could access?

Dazzle86:
Dear @4realwoman , I don't visit this thread often anymore, but when I was praying last night I remembered my atc sisters here and your moniker was the first on my lips among those I mentioned. I understand a little how you feel,. I felt exactly the same way. Had myo September 2015 got bfp Dec 2016. I really thought it would happen as soon as I started ttc after surgery. I started trying December of 2015 so it took me a year before I achieved bfp. My dr did routine hydrotubation, 8 weeks after surgery, then after a month of trying naturally he placed me on clomid, still nothing happened after two cycles. Then I decided to relax and let nature take it's course. After about 2 cycles of waiting while taking folic acid and baby aspirin, using clean point tampon, I decided to try another gynecologist, who decided to run tests ,i did hormonal profile, hsg, dh did another SA. Then he started clomid again this time with trigger shot for 2 cycles still nothing, hospital was too expensive since it was an ivf clinic, I stopped going. I kept praying and thinking was my myo a waste? But I took consolation that my heavy 8 days painful periods had stopped, also even if I had achieved pregnancy with the fibroids it will be a high risk pregnancy that may end in miscarriage, cos mine were a bit big and were all over my womb both inside and outside, plus the fact that if I were to try ivf they won't consider performing it with fibroids.
I intensified prayers, a colleague took me for fertility massage in June of 2016,the woman was massaging and giving herbs which after a few weeks I stopped taking the herbs because it was elongating my cycle and giving me false hope, but I continued the massage.
Then something made me check my hormonal profile test, I uploaded it here, mamas here said it was OK.
I started browsing on unexplained infertility then came across a nigerian forum where a doctor gave his phone number for whatsapp chats, I sent him my hormonal profile test, that was when he told me that two of my hormones were on the extreme sides of normal. He prescribed m2tone, I added pregnacare conception to it and took it religiously. I researched on both drugs before taking them, I remember a mama here, back then that just got her bfp also used m2tone.
I started them beginning of November(mid cycle) and on the 12th of December I got a bfp on the 26th day of my cycle. My phone got damaged just before my BFP, I could not even get the chance to thank the doctor and tell him the good news.

Sorry for the epistle, I just wanted you to know that you should never loose hope God is on the throne.

Please can you share the doctor's phone number? Or the name of the forum?

fpeter:
So, i spoke to a friend recently about my TTC struggles and she sent me a DR's info. I was skeptical at first about calling him but then i gave him a call on Monday. I told him i was dealing with tubal issues and immediately he told me that my enemy had no hope, he said IVF was the only option. I told him that it was the same DRs that said there was no remedy to blocked tubes especially the tube that had hydrosalpinx, yet I did my own research and got the tube cleared of hydrosalpinx. Then he said to me as if taunting me, that why hadn't i gotten pregnant since then...that how was i sure that the damage to my tubes were not permanent, this DR really dashed my feelings but i got over it and told God to surprise them. Then today my friend who sent me to the DR asked how far and i related my encounter to her..the next thing she said to me was that i wasn't serious, i hadn't done enough, that i wasn't trying enough, otherwise i would have gone for IVF, she said until i'd done IVF 16 times in India then she could agree that i have tried. It took a huge effort for me to control myself without lashing out at her. Meanwhile, she's also TTCing so i asked her how far with her and why did her IVF fail, she said i was feisty and cynical...that was i expecting an answer from her to use as a yardstick to make my own decisions, that do i even know if she's pregnant right now....at this point, i couldn't bear it anymore so i gave her my own piece of mind. I don't understand how someone would say another person has not tried enough, nobody knows how much the shoes hurts except the one that wears it...TTC is no joke and everyone's efforts and pace should be respected. There's no certificate for long-term or short-term TTC, some people may be able to endure 20yrs and another won't be able to endure 3yrs.

Please how did you do your own research and get the tube cleared of hydrosalpinx?

Is it that ancient man that they are talking about?

Looks better than what I saw on NTA.
Umahi has a very pretty wife

bigfrancis21:
First, that is proof that there is life after death and the soul survives the body after death. Second, that wasn't her 'ghost' you saw. That was her spirit or soul trying to come to terms with her sudden death. Ghosts are more like long-dead spirits that have refused to cross over into the afterlife after their death and have remained stuck on the earth plane. Third, there was no need to even fear in the first place because spirits can't harm you especially if they were good people while alive. This is really where good knowledge of the afterlife comes in. Upon dying, there's usually a very bright light (the phrase, light at the end of the tunnel comes from this) coming through a 'circular' tunnel which every soul sees and is supposed to move towards but for some reason some souls, sensing that could be the 'heaven' they've heard of on earth, choose not to move into the light for different reasons (such as 'I lived a bad life on earth, that's heaven if I enter there i'll encounter 'harsh' judgment so I better hang around on this earth plane for now', or 'I didn't repent before I died that means I'm going to hell if I enter that light and encounter my judgment', or some that were over-addicted to worldly pleasures such as drinking, smoking, sex, etc. (doing things with moderation is the key here) and were unable to overcome it before death came visiting to the extent that such desires penetrated into their souls and after death their souls still crave for earthly pleasures, so they choose to hang around on the earth plane to look for mortals still in the flesh to use their bodies momentarily to keep satisfying those cravings etc.). Seeing that she was praying before her death, I would tell immediately that she had some level of understanding of the afterlife and upon seeing her 'spirit' you would tell her all is well, her children will be ok and she should move into the bright light that she sees. Sometimes, people die so suddenly that for the first few moments after death they are surprised at what happened and are trying to come to terms with what happened, especially those who never gave any thought to what happens after death while they were alive but were busy chasing after material things. Some wonder why they can talk or see people but others cannot see or hear them. It's confusing to many. A good example would be the 9/11 terrorist attack in NY where over 2,600 people lost their lives. Majority of the people that died were in the twin towers when suddenly they heard a very loud noise and everywhere blacked out, then suddenly they could see what was going on around them but couldn't understand what had just happened to them (sudden death). Excavators or workers at the site of the twin towers reported that they often saw 'black masses' or 'shadows' hovering around the site when they were working on finding any human remains so the owner could be identified through DNA testing. These masses were the souls of the dead still unable to grasp what had just happened. Then they also reported seeing the spirit of a woman with dress style of the 1940s serving 'sandwiches'. She's said to be a 'soul collector' sent to gather or redirect majority of these souls who were confused into the light. For majority of people dying, they often believe in the afterlife or some sort of place after death and they cross over successfully. Unfortunately, some souls get stuck in-between.


https://www.nairaland.com/3805698/what-must-know-before-die

Are you talking from experience or what you read somewhere? Have you died before?

Biafra 50 Years After -
Reconciliation: What have we learned?
Paper presented at The Conference -
MEMORY AND NATION BUILDING: BIAFRA 50 YEARS AFTER:
A SOBER REFLECTION.
By
PROF. T. UZODIMA NWALA
President
Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF).

Introduction.
Before I thank the organisers of this Conference and pay my tribute to the Memory of my friend, late Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, in whose Foundation Center this historic event is being organised, let me quickly dismiss certain lingering pernicious fallacies that have dominated all discussion about the coup of January 15, 1966 and the Biafra War.

First, the Chairman of the occasion, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, has alluded to the January 15, 1966 coup as an Igbo coup that, according to him, was replied by a Northern coup of July 29 1966.

Let it be said loud and clear that that coup, namely January 15, 1966 coup, was not an Igbo coup. It was a coup led by certain Igbo and Yoruba Officers, involving the active participation of soldiers from the North. The aim, as has been stated again and again, by the leaders of the coup was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was in detention at the time and install him the Prime Minister of Nigeria.

That coup was foiled by Igbo military officers. Igbo political leaders and activists knew nothing about the coup.
Again the Incursion into the Mid-West by the Biafran troops was not a quest for territorial grabbing by the Igbos. Ojukwu sent troops under the Command of Col, banjo in response to Chief Awolowo’s request for troops to help liberate Yoruba land from the occupation of soldiers from the North. By the time Col Banjo got to Ore, the British had gotten Gowon to offer Chief Awolowo Vice Chairmanship of the Nigerian Government. Awolowo, therefore, asked Banjo not to proceed on his mission.

General Yakubu Gowon knows the truth of all these things. And that is why the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) had written him and asked him to tell Nigerians and the whole world the truth about the January 15, 1966 coup and the Biafra incursion into the Mid-West.to stop all the lies against Ndigbo, which have been the basis of the burden they carry as a nation within the Nigerian Federation.

Secondly, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Head of State and a frontline commander on the Federal side during the war, said that they (the Federal military leaders) conducted the war without any hate or vengeance because it was a quarrel between brothers.

To this one is constrained to ask a few pertinent questions
How did the world come to describe the conduct of the war as POGROM?
What about the policy that hunger was a legitimate weapon of war and so was justified in its application against the Biafrans?
What about bombing of refugee camps, market places, churches, etc?

Again, when Chief Obasanjo said that they, the victorious side, have been more magnanimous than the victors in the American civil war, where, according to him, those who lost the war never had a chance to be President of America until several decades if not a century later, I would ask him WHAT ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA? WHAT ABOUT NELSON MANDELLA?

Such assertions rather than heal the wounds of the war, keep the wounds aglow, rather than reconcile pour raw paper of unjustified arrogance on the wounded hearts of the Biafrans. How can you genuinely talk about reconciliation with that kind o mind-set. The truth is that for General Obasanjo, the Biafrans are defeated people. Period!

Indeed, before we can talk about reconciliation, we must accept that grave wrongs were done to the Biafrans, Before, During and Since the end of the war.

Tribute to General Yar’Adua.
NOW, Mr Chairman, Ladies and \Gentlemen, let me go on to thank the organisers of this Conference - the Yar’Adua Foundation and the six Nigerian Universities partnering with the Foundation; the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa who have provided support for this Conference - Biafra: 50 Years After.

What is more, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of my late friend, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua. I met him for the first time during the 1994-5 National Constitutional Conference. There we struck a friendship that would have born great fruits but for his untimely death. I personally escaped being arrested with him.

General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, became a great democrat after the war despite his aristocratic background. He genuinely believed that this wobbly Federation could be given a dependable foundation. Consequently, he set out to recruit gifted compatriots to work with him for that purpose. What a great hunter of talent Shehu was!

I remember two memorable moments in our interaction. One afternoon, after lunch in his house, we sat down on the sofa. I asked him

“General why is it that when you are not smoking cigar (cigarette), you are chewing kola nut?

He answered me. I will not tell you his answer today. Wait for my Memoire that should be ready by my next birthday.

At another moment, also after lunch with him and late Prof. Aborisade, we sat down on the sofa. Shehu said to me “Dr Nwala, let me show you why we Northerners are reluctant to relinquish political power”.

He brought out two volumes of strategic studies which he had commissioned some intellectuals to produce in preparation for the Constitutional Conference of 1994-5. I glanced through volume 1 which deals with the indices of power in Nigeria. I read the discussion, looked at the statistics and the graph, and shook my head, and said to myself this guy is a great political actor. I also reserve the details of what I read in that volume as well as our discussion for the sake of my forthcoming memoire.

I saw those two volumes of strategic studies at the Library of the Yar’Adua Center when I visited there about two week ago.

What is important in this narrative is that General Yar’Adua was avery sincere leader, he always spoke to me and to anyone in his political company from the bottom of his heart. He was sincerely in search of a genuine way forward. He was a man who knew that all is not well with the Nigerian Federation and genuinely sough the correct path to its healing!

The point of the story is to reveal a bit of the life of this great political strategist, who if he had lived after that Conference, he and the powerful circle of comrades he had built at the Conference would have helped to see to a more liberal accommodating political order in Nigeria. Shehu was the darling of a liberal democratic movement that was emerging in Nigeria before he died. He was equally hated by what many of us call the hegemonist who have consistently aborted every opportunity to create a democratic political culture. It is the later who have consistently made it difficult to achieve a genuine reconciliation in Nigeria. It is these forces that have insisted on a Federation founded on the peace of the grave yard.
Yes, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua along with the compatriots he had worked to put together would have constitute an authentic force for reconciliation and national integration. He was a victim of the forces of hegemony.

Post –Biafra Reconciliation – What Lessons?

During the trial of Adolf Hitler after Germany and her allies lost the war to the Allied Forces, the following exchange took place between Hitler and his interlocutor –

Interlocutor to Hitler: You were responsible for the Second World War?
Hitler: No! The Versailles Treaties was.

I believe this Conference has been provoked by the renewed agitation for Biafra. In that case, a similar question can be posed to the Biafra Self-determination Agitators in Nigeria today as to whether they are responsible for the renewed Agitation for Biafra.

I imagine that the Biafra Freedom Agitators, just like Adolf Hitler, would emphatically respond NO! They would rather blame the present upsurge for Self-determination and Biafra and all its fallouts on all those leaders on the victorious side who, rather than pursuing the path of genuine Reconciliation, pursued the path of punitive retributions against those who lost the war.

Unfortunately, as it was in the case of the defeated Germany that was neither pacified nor conciliated, nor was it permanently weakened, so do we find in the case of Biafra, that despite all the retributive measures against her people, Biafra and the Biafrans, have neither been pacified, nor conciliated, nor have they been permanently weakened.
Unlike the Treaty of Versailles that exerted bloody pound of flesh on the side that lost the First World War, the victorious side in the Second World War padded their retributive actions with the Marshall Plan. And thus unlike the intended Carthagenian peace of the Versailles Treaty of 28 June 1919, the Marshall Plan brought a relatively permanent peace to Europe that withstood the shock waves of the cold war including the Cuban Missile crises.

In pursuing the lessons of the retributive post-war treatment of the Biafrans, I would ask the leaders on the victorious side –

When you took all their financial deposits in the banks and paid them only £20 (twenty pounds), what did you expect the result to be – pacification, conciliation or to have them permanently weakened?

When you allowed massacre of unarmed soldiers and leaders even when they had declared their return to Nigeria, what did you expect? I mean when you murdered Prof. Kalu Ezera or when you killed unarmed Col Onwuatuegwu in cold blood, what did you expect?

When you killed and also buried alive thousands of innocent civilians in Asaba, was that a circus show?

I escaped being killed at the end of the war through the mysterious intervention of my college mate, Mr Nwogugbe from Asa in Abia State who was a member of the Nigerian battalion that overran my area on that fateful day of January 8, 1970. The solders had sent for me and when I arrived at Nkwo Mbaise their base, Nwoguegbe instantly recognised me and shouted Nkume! I responded Nwoguegbe! Despite being introduced to his commander, Captain Jibowu, the later took him to one corner, asking to be convinced why I should not be treated in accordance with the official instructions, namely to waste any such able-bodied young-man who may have been an actual or potential Biafra soldier. I was lucky. Nwoguegbe saved me, but several of my mates from my community were not. Cornellius Oguikpe, Michael Osuagwu, Efriam Chukwunoyerem, Echewodo Onwunali, all were murdered at the end of the war by the Nigerian soldiers.

Yes, post-Biafra was not attended by any genuine efforts to seek reconciliation nor even to find out what led to the war. Rather, what we have witnessed is decades of vengeance, arrogance and conspiracy against Alaigbo and Ndigbo –
Yes these are on record -
Immediate post-war punitive massacre,
Dismissal of some officers on the losing side, reduction in rank of others
Dismissal of civil servants.
Secret Execution of some officers (Col. Onwuatuegwu, Prof, Kalu Ezera)
Abandoned property seizure of Igbo property.
Punitive boundary adjustment.
Closure of the Eastern Sea Port and Railway lines.
Deliberate policy of encirclement of Alaigbo, inciting Igbo outside Igbo heartland to reject their Igbo identity.
Deliberate policy of exclusion from the governance and power equation i Nigeria..
Deliberate policy of destroying Igbo businesses.
Continued massacre, lynching of Igbos in many places in the North
Insensitivity to the plight of the IDPs of Igbo extraction who were initially the major targets of Boko Harm bombings and killings.
No serious effort at post-war reconstruction and reconciliation

I strongly recommend to all those who care to understand how the Igbos view their predicament in the Federation to read the Petition of Ohanaeze ndigbo to the Human Rights Violations Investigating Committee of 1999. It is captioned
The Violations of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndigbo in the Federation of Nigeria (1966-1999).

President Obasanjo should speak to the nation now about why and how that initiative of his was aborted. A Truth and Reconciliation was a great idea, but just like all National Conference decisions meant to deal with the resolution of the injustices of the system. It was arrogantly dismissed and nothing happened.

Biafra : A Collective Guilt
Have we forgotten that Biafra was a collective guilt and that those who created the Nigerian Federation did so to satisfy their own agenda They designed a local a local agenda for the same purpose?
Have we forgotten the cause of Biafra and the war? Have we ever come together to examine why Biafra?
Obasanjo’s Truth Commission and the Justice Oputa Commission were arrogantly dismissed and nothing happened.
Who was the aggressor in that war?

Aborted Efforts to Solve the Nigerian Problem
What about several efforts to sit down and dispassionately examine the fate of the Federation and how to heal the wounds of the past. Several aborted historical opportunities for peace and stability, or a genuine democratic system include -
Ibadan Conference of Sept/Oct 1966
Aburi Accord.
Abiola’s election that wuld have set a precedent.
1994-5 Constitutional Conference and the 1995 Draft Constitution, the best Constitutional Draft in the history of Nigeria.
Conferences organised by Obasanjos regime.
President Jonathan’s 2014 Conference.
Current Ferocious opposition to restructuring.

Laying the Foundations for Genuine Reconciliation – The Biafra Initiative
The Birth of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) – A child of the post-war East Central State Youth Volunteer Services Corps (ECSYVSC) whose memo to General Gowon led to the establishment of the NYSC by the Federal Government.
I led the delegation, as Chairman of the ECSYVSC, that delivered the Memoradum to the Federal Government on the eve of the first post-war independence anniversary, precisely on30th September, 1970.
In response General Gowon had given Dr Ukpabi Asika’s Government £75,000 (Seventy-five thousand pounds) in appreciation of that historical initiative of the youth of Alaigbo.

The great objective of that historical initiative as conceived by us, the youth of Alaigbo, was to forge a genuine instrument of national reconciliation and national integration.

What has happened to the NYSC? Any credit to the initiators? Several attempts have been made by the chaps in the NYSC Foundation in Abuja to interview me in order to draw inspiration from the original mind that conceived the NYSC; each time they were discouraged from a follow-up.

It was the same way that a former Governor had advised the Federal Government to create an institution to house the Biafra scientist. The answer was no!, because doing so would give credit to the Biafrans.

The Road to Reconciliation.
Not Restructuring but Renegotiation of the basis of the Nigerian Federation.
Nigeria is a multi-national Federation. The task is to agree on the terms for a form of political union among these nations and mini-nations.

Unless this is done, there would never be any stable Federation uniting all these peoples who are culturally, religiously and philosophically separate nations and mini-nations.

Prof. Uzodinma Nwala
President
Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF)

Good one Anambra.

peacettw:
I am sorry. Really don't understand where you are coming from

I'm trying to say that sex selection is scientifically possible.
Sorry if I misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were mocking those who think sex selection is possible

peacettw:
Yes, that is the general belief. It works hence its popularity. Do you also know what else has been touted to 'work'? Chinese Calender for gender selection, Mayan's calendar, doggy sex style, eating lots of bananas, etc.

I know colleagues and patients shettles didn't work for and here we have unlimited and free access to high resolution ultrasounds with experts in the field to track ovulation which is way more superior than ovulation kits and monitoring body changes.

So, what is the right way to objectively conclude on the validity of shettles? It's simple really. Just conduct a study to determine if indeed there is a statistical significant difference and so far there hasn't been any.
Simply put, the chances of shettles working is neither here nor there and thus no better than flipping a coin.

**I am really tired of going back and forth on this with you. I have provided some proof and frankly at this point, I am okay with you not accepting anything I say. Believe what you must.

Browsed a bit and what do you know, there are men who produce more.of the female spermatozoa and vice versa. Below is the link
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121835.htm

Have you heard of micro- sort?
IVF is also effectively used in gender selection. Please do your research

chy4luv:
@op I understand what you are going through. My sister has 5girls. She got married in 2000 and has her first daughter in 2001. She was so sad also through the years of her marriage because of societal pressure. People were saying all sorts of things.

Anytime she drivers a baby, their response was mmhh she has delivered another girl as usual. It got to a point, out of my young mind I was praying that when I get married and have a son I will give the child to my sister while she fakes her own pregnancy . When her fifth girl arrived one of her youngest daughter questions why she kept coming back with girls that they want a brother.
But my sister was lucky her husband showered her with love and there was no pressure from our in laws. My family had a meeting that my sister should not go through any pregnancy anymore without being sure that the next child will be a boy as we have bought so many books, monitors and things to enhance her chances yet she continued having girls. We didn't want to loose our sister just because of mere pursuit of a male child. Besides she has been on this journey for the past 13yrs of her marriage.
We made enquiries and she went abroad to do sex selection which she described was an emotional roller coaster. The stress alone, injections, lifestyle changes inclusive of diets and living in the hotel all through the course of treatment. The first attempt failed as no there was no healthy male sperm to insert. We had to pay again and extended her Visa and glory be to God the second one was successful. The boy is over 1year now and healthy as well.
I also recommendEd it to my friend that has four girls and she went to the same clinic. She was successful at first. They both complained the journey was not an easy one. We don't know what we have getting pregnant easily. They also met so many Nigerians at the clinic.
@op
If you and ur hubby are financially alright you can go for the sex selection. Otherwise economy is very bad to continue having babies just to get a male child. I wish you a baby boy. Blue dust all over u.

Abeg, what's the name of the sex balancing clinic?
I learnt that Assisted Reproductive Technology centre at Ikeja has the highest success rate for gender balance in Nigeria.

@topic, I don't think the op is unreasonable. Everybody loves variety. I had two daughters first and I was naturally yearning for a son. It didn't have to do with societal or family pressure or who will or will not take care of me, or inherit anything.

I wanted a son. Period!

So vilifying the husband or accusing the op of ingratitude doesn't cut it for me. Her disappointment and reactions are legitimate and her feelings should be affirmed. But let her carefully consider her options.

I tried the sympto- thermal ( using thermometer to predict my ovulation) and prayers. That was how I got two boys. God granted my dream of having two daughters and two sons

Great genes

This is why some of us are wary of traditional religion.
Many, if not all the African gods, demanded human sacrifice.
Or insisted on ostracizing people based on natural defects or gender. How can I worship a god that abhors women, albinos, etc?

How liberating to know that Jesus says 'whosoever will' may come! Black, White, red, yellow everyone is equal and precious. It makes sense. Great sense!

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Friday, May 26, 2017

50 Years After Biafra: Reflections And Hopes

By John Nnia Nwodo

1. I am grateful to Shehu Musa Yar Adua Foundation, Ford Foundation and OSIWA – the co-sponsors of this event for your kind invitation. I commend your foresight in convening this conference, the first major conference discussing Biafraoutside of Igboland. Nigeria. In hosting this conference the Yar’Adua Centre, which is best known for promoting national cohesion, honours the legacy of a great patriot: Shehu Musa Yar Adua. He died building bridges of understanding across our nation. I salute his family and associates for sustaining the legacy of Shehu through the works of this Foundation.

2. It is significant that you have chosen to harvest sober memories ofBiafra. By so doing, you help us to wisely situate today’s talks of Biafrain the proper context: namely, as an opportunity for nation building; and not – as an invitation for invectives or recrimination.

3. 50 years ago, Nigeria faced disintegration by the declaration of the Republic of Biafra. Biafra was born out of the political crisis which engulfed Nigeria at that time. The crisis began with the struggle for leadership in the Western Region of Nigeria, the declaration of state of emergency in the West, the coup of January 1966, the counter coup of July 1966, the pogroms, the declaration of Biafra and the commencement of a police action that turned into a three years civil war.

4. I hope that our gathering today may contribute to the body of knowledge or body of lessons from the war. Lest we forget, there is wisdom in the words of George Santayana that: those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. That is why I thank you for the chance for us to collectively remember, reflect, hope and seek ways to build anew.

5.My most heartfelt reflection is that in the Nigeria-Biafra conflict, we can and should acknowledge the sacrifice – in blood, suffering and toil – by millions of citizens on both sides of that divide. They shared a common hope for their sacrifice: namely, that out of that war, we shall build a nation where no man is oppressed. The only difference was that for one side, Nigeria was that nation. For the other it was Biafra.

6. Let us spare a thought for every victim of that conflict and the crises before that: the leaders and the soldiers, ordinary men, women and children. Each one loved life; had hopes and dreamt dreams. They died prematurely and often, painfully.

7. For those of us that survived the war and others who came afterwards, we are both heirs to the sacrifices of fallen brethren. Let us commit ourselves today and always to their hopes for peace and justice. Anytime that we are violent, anytime that we are unjust in the exercise of our public trust, anytime we lower the ideals of this nation, we betray them; and we act as if they died in vain. As we honour their memory, today my worry is not only about the rising feeling of marginalization of Igbos or any other group but that our nation may emerge from this conflict a more united and prosperous country.



8. At the end of the war, in spite of a policy of no victor no vanquished by the Government of General Yakubu Gowon, an unconscionable policy of impoverishment of Biafrans was unleashed by the federal government. Every bank deposit of Biafrans that had encountered a transaction whether by deposit or withdrawal was reduced to £20. Massive savings were completely wiped out. Capacity for investment and recovery from the war was shattered. Whilst this poverty pervaded, the Indigenisation Decree was promulgated enabling other Nigerians, except Biafrans to acquire commanding heights in the indigenised companies which held at that time the critical and commanding heights of Nigeria’s private economy.​

9. Nevertheless, on the issue of reconciliation, we must give due credit to the resilience of the people from the war affected areas and the generosity of millions of other Nigerians that opened their hearts and homes to their friends and neighbours that were victims of war. In many ways, it was by these incredible citizen to citizen relationships that Nigeria achieved one of the most remarkable post-conflict people to people reconciliation and reintegration in modern times.

10. Before the war national unity was the norm. A Biafran was a member of Northern Nigeria House of Chiefs. Biafrans lived freely and invested in all parts of Nigeria. In Lagos Dr Azikiwe was elected leader of Government Business. Mbonu Ojike was elected Deputy Speaker. In Enugu Alhaji Umoru Altine, a Fulani man was elected Mayor of Enugu. Mr Willougby a Yoruba man, was Accountant General.

11.On the economic front, the economy was buoyant. Import substitution industries grew rapidly and were more profitable. In the North, groundnut production and export fuelled economic growth. Textile industries flourished, agriculture boomed. Ahmadu BelloUniversity thrived with outstanding international reputation.

12.In Lagos and the entire Western Region growth was phenomenal.Cocoa was a dependable foreign exchange earner. Cement, soft drinks, rubber, beer, soap and other import substitution industries grew phenomenally. Lagos, Ibadan and Ifehoused universities of world standards. The first television station in black Africa was built. The first stadium in Nigeria was also built in the West.

13.In the Eastern Region palm produce grew the Eastern economy. Coal was mined and exported. Beer, cement, cashew nuts, tyres, aluminium, steel and soft drink factories grew rapidly. University ofNigeria was built and run by Americans.

14. Reflecting on 50 years after the Nigeria-Biafra conflict, it would seem to me that we have made very elaborate efforts: constitutional, political and administrative to ensure a united Nigeria. We must not shy away from giving our nation its due credit, after all, some other societies with challenges like ours did not fare as well as we did.

15. However, we should not rest on our oars. Unity is not an end in itself; and ultimately, the best way to sustain our unity is to apply it to achieve a higher objective; namely, nation building.

16. Our political system is jaundiced, unfair, exploitative and unsustainable. Since attainment of independence the civilians have not been able to agree on a political structure. Our present constitution and the previous 1979 constitution were impositions of the military – an unrepresentative and dictatorial corps whose decrees were seriously influenced by the lop-sidedness of their composition.

17. The economic and development data from Nigeria is unencouraging in many sectors. Our law and order system including the police, the court system and the penal system has been characterised by impunity, incompetence and indiscipline.

18. On the global Terrorism IndexNigeria ranks 3rd after Iraq andAfghanistan and ahead of Pakistanand Syria. The World Economic Forum ranks Nigeria 127 out of 138 on the Global Competitiveness Index. The UNESCO ranks Nigeria withChad, Pakistan and Ethiopia as the worst educational system in the world. Nigeria, according to the report, has the highest number of children out of school and one of the world’s worst education systems due to a combination of corruption, conflict and lack of investment. In the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Program, Nigeria ranks 152 out of 188 countries and is the lowest among OPEC countries. The data points to a bleak future as we march to post-oil world without a coherent plan to reduce conflict and build a new national consensus.

19. On the positive side, there is a global consensus that Nigeria is highly potentiated. With a population of about 182 million people, by current estimates; and with our vast mineral and material resources; a well-organized Nigeriashould be a land of plenty that supports its people and a leader in the comity of nations. Sadly, this is not the case.

20. Almost every Nigerian is agreed that Nigeria is not working but there is no clear consensus on why; or on what to do about it. Some say that it is merely a problem of leadership and once that is fixed all other things will fall in place. Others say that it is a problem of corruption. Once you tackle that, everything will be fine. Others have said that our problem is one of law and order; some say it is more fundamental and has to do with control of resources, structure of the Federation and thus requires more equitable sharing of revenue and the devolution of powers. Others say it can be fixed with power rotation and a more level playing field. It has been said that it could be a bit of all of the above; and thatNigeria cannot be fixed without a fundamental change of values and attitudes. Whatever the case, it will not profit us to pretend that we do not face existential challenges.

21. These challenges are worrisome; especially to our younger ones who must face the fact that the next 50 years could be even more challenging and there is a good chance that we could be left behind if we fail to take action today. For instance, it is estimated in some quarters, that by 2050 – that is in 33 years’ time – Nigeria could be the 4th most populous country in the world. That means that Nigeria, which is just twice the size of Texas; would be more populous than all the United States of America. Meanwhile, as of today, we have a GDP that is barely 2% of that of the United States.

22. At the same time, in the years ahead, we could face very severe ecological challenges that will impact negatively on our economy. The desert is encroaching southwards at a speed of up to 6 km per annum. Thus within 33 years we could lose about 200 km of land to the desert – across the north. This can only exacerbate competition for arable land in the north and elsewhere – with dire political consequences.

23. In the South East, we could expect more ecologically-induced dislocation. For instance, the government of Anambra Stateestimates that about 40% of the State is threatened by erosion. In the South-South, by 2050 we could be dealing with the reality of a post-oil economy and yet have massive environmental degradation that is yet unattended to. There is also the possibility that much of the mangrove ecosystem could be lost to deforestation. Lagos could have a population of up to 50 million people and face unbearable challenges of massive urbanization.

24. We must become more responsive to the world around us, or we and our children will be left behind. These are some of the fears and anxieties of our youths. We have for too long allowed the bitterness of the war and its lingering feelings to dictate our political relationships. The coalition that fought the war is still in control of Nigeria engaging in rhetoric that fuelled the war in managing renascent Nigeria. The young men and women who were not part of the war are frustrated by this impasse.

25. Those who are in the East fuel strong agitations for separation in the face of clear treatment as second class citizens. War is the primary instrument of military dictatorship while negotiation and agreement are the essential ingredients of civilian democracy and political diplomacy. Nations are not created and sustained by street warfare. The federal government of Nigeria must instruct its police and army to promulgate a ceasefire and disengage from further unproductive street warfare with IPOB and MASSOB. There are no problems which cannot be resolved by negotiation.

26. We do not want any more wars.We have shed enough blood without producing corresponding political results. 50 years after Biafrathe time is now overripe for a fresh approach. We must immediately commence discussions and fruitful negotiations about our political future. In the era of assymetrical warfare, war is no more an easy option for states, therefore we must negotiate our way out of a sense of national despair to a new national consensus that unlocks our national possibilities.

27. Nigeria, blessed as the richest and the most popular nation inAfrica has enormous potentials. Every part of Nigeria can survive as an independent country. The North with its mineral and agricultural potentials can build a strong nation. The West with its cocoa, oil, indomitable intellectual know how and commerce can build anotherBritain. The South South with its oil, notwithstanding its declining economic potency can transform its area before oil ceases to be a major foreign exchange earner. The East with industry, outstanding innovation and little oil may still emerge as the African wonder. But none of these little enclaves will rival the capacity of a united and reconciled Nigeria. We must all rise up and save this nation from a trajectory that will make a break up a more viable option.

28. The challenges ahead are beyondBiafra. Just like the challenge in North East Nigeria exploded in our face and has engaged our nation for almost 9 years; we could face challenges anywhere and anytime. In my view, if we fail to build a nation that caters fairly for all its citizens; and prepares us for the world of tomorrow – there will be new challenges in the future.

29. We must find creative ways to manage a complex multi-ethnic and multi-religious state. History teaches us that no society is static; the status quo cannot endure forever. We must find creative ways to promote political, economic and social justice within a nation and between the people that comprise it. If not, then we are invariably opening the doors to future threats of chaos, disorder and societal dislocation.

30. The final challenge of our generation is to show that we learnt the right lesson from that sad conflict of 50 years ago. We must bequeath our children with a nation that works for all and one that looks ahead. We want a Federal Republic of Nigeria which is collectively owned by all Nigerians as opposed to a Federal Republic that will be perceived as a the private property of one group or groups of ethnic groups depending on who is in office. The categorical destination is a Nigerian Nigeria under the collective hegemony of the people ofNigeria. In order to achieve this we must have a flexible federation; strong enough to guarantee our collective defence and protect individual rights, agile enough to react to emerging tensions and threats, yet expansive enough to allow each state room to develop at its own pace. We must create a national order whereby each state bears the primary responsibility for its development.

31. Today majority of Nigerians are yearning for a restructuring of the federation. The beneficiaries of our current system are resisting it. A famous British Prime Minister in the wake of nationalist struggles in colonial Africa said to the British ‘there is a wind of change blowing throughout Africa. Those who resist it do so at their own peril’.

32. Nigeria cannot prosper, as it should, unless we redress some aspects of our current condition. I believe we have enough men and women of vision and experience, in every part of the country, to help us plot a bright future. I commit Ohaneze Ndigbo to this path. It may be difficult but it is doable.

33. True leadership evolves in historical circumstances like this. Our country is at cross roads. You can feel the tension every day. It is palpable, it is potent, it is real. Let us wake up to the change imperative at this moment and claim a glorious judgment by History.

34. Thank You for your kind attention.

JOHN NNIA NWODO
PRESIDENT GENERAL, OHANEZE NDIGBO
ABUJA 25TH MAY, 2017

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waledeji:
IPob always cry

Another day

Another ABA MADE statistics

Another chest beating

Another i pass my neighbour post

Truly truly.. IPob always cry

Did you, by any means, verify the statistics?
Oh I forget. It doesn't matter. Even if the facts are on ground, for coming from an Igbo writer, it must be Aba made

pweetymii:
D man been dey nice oh.I think old age is beginning to get to him.
@Goldenheart002,congratulations to you,wishing you a stress free 9 months.
So,i am supposed to start with a new gynae,i was told to do HA and HSG i know i have said i will shake my now flat bum bum and walk away from any doctor that said i should repeat hsg.That is how i went to do my Hsg yesterday cycle day 10(i googled it and most women feels it helps to be done on day 10).I took duclofenac a pain reliever like 2hours before the procedure.God bless all you all that taught us here to take it.The sonographer told me i was a strong woman and i was doing well,i just yimud at him in my mind.So,the result came out,i am all clear,tubes are patent,small fibroid of 2cm outside(did uss too)and then what i do not understand was he querying something like pelvic adhesion(whatever that means)....anyways,i am not supposed to see the gynae till 2weeks time but before then,the weather is always cold these days so,i intend using it very well.
Happy Weekend All...Remember to speak to your bodies. .
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Thumbs up!

Sibe007:
Hmmmm

Sure the years of experience requirement would limit many

Actually years of experience has less value than publications. To rise in the academia, you need publications

XXLDICK:
The clueless one sold the Discos to his cronies. demented people's hero. smh.

And the cluefull one came on board two years ago, discovered the anomalies and quickly remedied them. Bravo!

NIGERIA MUST TAKE A DECISION ON THE IGBO

http://punchng.com/nigeria-must-take-a-decision-on-the-igbo/ Published May 9, 2017

Azuka Onwuka; azonwuka@yahoo.com; 0809-8727-263 (sms only)

Before August 9, 1965, the Singaporeans were seen as an irritation in Malaysia. Then Singapore was one of the 14 states of Malaysia. Singaporeans were viewed as arrogant, stubborn, and domineering. While the United Malays National Organisation wanted affirmative action or “quota system” for the Malays, the People’s Action Party of the Singaporeans insisted that the best thing for the country was a merit-based policy on all issues, so as to bring out the best in the nation and create a spirit of excellence.

This constant disagreement and tension resulted in race riots. It got to a point where the Malays could take it no more. So on August 9, 1965 they convened the parliament, with no Singaporean parliamentarian present. At that sitting, the legislators voted unanimously (126 – 0) to expel Singapore from Malaysia.

When the Singaporeans heard that they had been expelled from the nation, at first they were devastated. But they took their fate in their hands and started building a new nation. And, indeed, by applying merit and the pursuit of excellence, Singaporeans built a country that moved from the Third World to First World in record time, overtaking Malaysia in all ramifications.

Interestingly, despite this sad way of parting, Malaysia and Singapore have remained good neighbours. In spite of the success that the latter has recorded, it has not made Malaysia not to record its own success.

There are many similarities between the story of Singapore and Malaysia and the Igbo and Nigeria. The Igbo are not happy with the quota system policy used in the admission into federal schools and federal positions. They want competitiveness in every sector, which will lead to the best being selected, for the sake of excellence.

The Igbo are seen as arrogant, noisy, domineering, greedy, over-ambitious, to mention but a few. Many Nigerians see them as irritants. They get killed frequently, especially in the North, at the least misunderstanding. Sometimes the cause of the provocation is someone from Denmark, Cameroon or another part of Nigeria.

There are many Nigerians who will easily tell you: “We will never allow an Igbo person to rule Nigeria.” There are many who believe that the problem of Nigeria is from the Igbo and that once the Igbo are done away with, Nigeria’s problems will disappear.

Given this scenario, the Igbo want a true federal system that will make Nigeria look like what it was before 1966, with each state or region taking charge of most of its affairs and moving at its own pace. Sadly, anytime it mentions restructuring or true federalism, there are forces that resist it vehemently and insist that such will not be allowed.

Ironically, despite this view by many Nigerians about the Igbo, anytime any person or group from Igbo land asks that the Igbo be allowed to leave Nigeria to form their own country, the resistance from most Nigerians is fierce. This reaction creates a contradiction. If the Igbo are irritants and troublemakers, why not expel them from Nigeria the way Singaporeans were expelled from Malaysia? But if you see them as valuable and believe they must be part of the Nigerian state, why not treat them as equal partners in the union? What does Nigeria really want from the Igbo?

Last week news broke that the Department of State Services embarked on a recruitment exercise, with 165 people recruited from the North-West. The report said that 51 people were recruited from Katsina State alone, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director General of Department of State Security, Mr Lawal Daura, while the number of people recruited from the five states of the South-East was 44 and the number recruited from the six states of the South-South was 42.

Compare that with the academic performance of the different zones of Nigeria. The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Education of 2016 produced the following number of applicants from the six zones:

South-East (five states) = 335,883;

South-West (six states) = 320,691;

South-South (six states) = (299,632);

North-Central (six states plus the FCT) = 259,846;

North-West (seven states) = 163,240;

North-East (six states) = 96,220.

The six states that produced the highest number of candidates were:

Imo – 104,383
Delta – 78,854
Anambra – 77,694
Osun – 72,752
Oyo – 72,298
Enugu – 69,381.
The six states that produced the least number of candidates were:

Adamawa – 15,615
Jigawa – 12,664
Yobe – 10,045
Sokoto – 10,006
Kebbi – 8,947
Zamfara – 5,295
The states that were given a minimum of 130 cut-off mark out of 200 in the 2013 examination into the Unity Schools were:

Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)

Imo – Male (138) Female (138)

Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)

Lagos – Male (133) Female (133)

Delta – Male (131) Female (131)

Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)

Abia – Male (130) Female (130)

For the same examination, the states that were given cut-off marks of less than 50 were:

Borno – Male (45) Female (45)

Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)

Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)

Kebbi – Male (9) Female (20)

Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)

Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)

Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)

Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)

The six states that scored above 50 per cent in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education were: Abia (63.94%), Anambra (61.18%), Edo (61.05%), Rivers (55.69%), and Imo (52.49%). The states that scored below 13 percent in the same examination were Kebbi (12.08%), Katsina (10.81%), Gombe (7.41%), Jigawa (6.37%), Zamfara (6.23%), Yobe (4.37%).

These are verifiable results that have remained virtually the same for decades. And they give an idea of the number of candidates that are involved in education from each state and zone, as well as their academic performance.

The point of this essay is not that it is only the Igbo that excel in many sectors. Other ethnic groups, especially from the South, also excel. But the focus of this essay is the Igbo. From the attitude of other ethnic groups, it seems that they are comfortable with the status quo. If not, they should not be focusing on the Igbo as their problem.

The call for restructuring of the country has been promoted as the solution to Nigeria’s problem. However, there are strong forces that are hell-bent on ensuring that the restructuring of the country will never succeed. They have been erroneously schooled that restructuring will impoverish them.

The danger in this hard line against restructuring is that if restructuring fails, the alternative may not be palatable. Nigeria has moved in a self-destructive path for long. Nigeria has been wallowing in retrogression for long because some stakeholders are afraid that pulling it out and setting it on the path of progress will cost them their feeding bottle. But nothing lasts forever.

Last week the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, met his seemingly impossible bail conditions within 48 hours. When the bail conditions were made public, the belief of many was that no serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would want to associate with him. But the South-East caucus of the Senate met and quickly chose one of them to stand bail for him. All other conditions were also swiftly met.

If those conditions were given in December 2015, no Nigerian Senator would have wanted to be associated with Kanu. Since his coming into office, Buhari has continued to display a type of croynism and prebendalism that has never been witnessed in Nigeria. And the worst beneficiaries of this are the Igbo. He has been making it clear by his words and actions that the North and the Igbo are not equal partners in the Nigerian project. He has been distributing Nigerian resources and appointments to his kinsmen and region as if they are his personal property. This brazen nepotism has made even the fiercest Igbo critics of Kanu’s call for secession to develop sympathies for Kanu.

Nigerians must decide what they want from the Igbo. It is either they want the Igbo in Nigeria as full citizens or they want them out as non-citizens. As the English say, Nigerians can never eat their cake and have it!

Ebonyi actually has good road network now.

In the last administration, Julius Berger did the Uturu-Afikpo Federal road and it is justp splendid.
Umahi has done the Enugu-Abakaliki axis as well as the Abakaliki-Afikpo road.

I went to Amasiri recently and I was impressed by the construction work Umahi is doing linking Amasiri to Okposi.

My point is that it's not just Abakaliki, neither should Umahi take all the credit

This thread is as sickening as they come!
What's the black man's obsession with s*x, s*x and more s*x? Why this fixation?
In the 21st century when other races are creating new things that will improve the human condition, the black man's idea of charity isn't about setting up viable foundations to assist widows but how to sleep with them, litter the place with babies, die and leave a legacy of children with hatred for one another.
We are already under productive and not realising our full potential. Instead of finding and sticking to our soulmate who together we can strive to do or be something more meaningful, we are striving to justify a hedonistic lifestyle while closing our eyes to the glaring problems.
I'm a product of a polygamous home and I will rather stay single than be involved in that. I won't even wish that on my worst enemy.
I suggest you all read Isidore Okpewho's novel called The Victims which shows that everybody in a polygamous family is a victim: the husband who isn't emotionally connected to his children, the women who wish one another dead, the children who are caught in the cross fire etc

And some are hailing it as deep and objective.
Why are we like this? Are blacks a cursed race? Who sleeps with four women and has thirty children and will still concentrate to articulate a cure for AIDS?

Pathetic! So pathetic!

Bad business!
They say over 2,500 people have gone to blow whistle

Funny

Hahaha

Udemejacob, are those machines still available?

Uncommonbreed:
I just researched on it and you have a point. But again there could be gender imbalance as a result of war and other stuffs which could greatly affect the number of males.

Your second paragraph down said it all anyway.

Thanks so much for not quarreling with me.
Your name describes you: you're an uncommon breed

sunnychindo93:
God bless you for this. I usually tell people that God doesn't give husband/wife anymore after Adam blamed Him for giving him Eve. He gives you total freedom to make your choice cos he's after your happiness, He only blesses what you bring to Him. so all these hollier than thou weh de say de de wait for God or my pastor say this or that na wash

How do you interpret this
"Proverbs: 19. 14. House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD."

If a prudent wife is*from* the LORD, don't you think that, like every other thing about our lives, we consult Him (not any pastor) on choice of marriage partner.
I did and we are happy together

Uncommonbreed:
Do you know if we were to use that logic globally. One woman to a man, the percentage of women without a man will be overwhelming?

Actually there are more men than women. More precisely, out of 1,000 people, 504 are men (50.4%) and 496 are women (49.6%). For every 100 girls, 107 boys are born.

But the men who are husband material are fewer than women who are wife material.

Many men of marriageable age are in prison for petty crimes. The others are struggling with their younger siblings for the fish head in their mothers' kitchens