₦airaland Forum

LORDI:
Bunch of ignorant/jobless people seeking for biafra, why can't we just be ONE NIGERIA

One Nigeria on whose shoulder and blood? On the blood of 3 million of innocent women and children your idols and icons cleansed?

The stuff that'll hit 'One Nigerians,' I'm sure they won't see it coming.

barcanista:
You know what I mean I am sure

No, I don't. Define SS - does your SS include Igbo SS?

barcanista:
South South will never join Biafra, but we will always wish them well

What constitutes South South?

LogicPower:
I know Igbos are indisputably among the most educated peoples in Africa and, as such, I assume they must have hordes of experts who must have thoroughly analysed all the implications, negative and positive, of pursuing this dual-track approach in their search of national identity.

One the one hand, they are trying (and largely succeeding) to get the best political, economic and other benefits out of NIGERIA and, on the other hand, they are trying to revive and sustain their aspirations for a separate country of OUT OF NIGERIA.

As an outsider, I can see more negative implications to it than positive, as it portrays the Igbos to the rest of Nigerians as a people in a perpetual identity crisis, who are, therefore, less committed to the Nigerian project, as a result of which they should not be trusted as partners in a long-term relation.

This is just my personal layman opinion, anyway!

Do you think after murdering 3 million in cold blood that we can ever be friends?
And who gives a hoot about being trusted or as you put it 'being committed to the Nigerian project?' Shekau's parents and forebears were committed to the Nigerian project in case you didn't realize.

Remember this: Biafra will get the last laugh. Our last laugh will come because we worked for it unlike the recipients of 'One failed Nigeria' whose current preoccupation is monthly oil allowance and unbridled hunger for Ask Rock.

The nail through the heart of Nigeria shall be driven with the same mercy, love, and passion that saw the death of millions of my brothers and sisters - a genocide for which no apologies have been rendered so far.

Nigeria is on a suicide mission, this much I can say - I hope you don't fall asleep at the wrong time.

Happy holidays.

It's amazing how unapologetic Igbo haters have converged in hypocrisy to tell us what's best for us. Quite frankly, this is becoming annoying. The same people who used to be in the front-lines singing their well rehearsed hymns of Igbo deportation, the same people who regurgitate how Igbo will never be president of Nigeria, the same folks who have never praised their idols and war murderers enough for eliminating 3 million innocent children in cold blood, are now the same fellas singing a new love song for Ndigbo. Wow! what a quick and unexpected 180 degree turn.

Well, news flash: there can never be unity between light and darkness.

My advice to OP and his friends is this: Go ahead and vote GMB or whoever it is that keeps your boat afloat, just leave us out of it. The time for online gragra is long gone, now is the time for you to put your money where your mouths is. Your job is to get GMB into Aso Rock while mine is somewhat different. I hope to see no tears, no war, or the threats of it when the chips finally go down on Feb 14 - and believe me, it will go down precipitously.

On a different note, I congratulate GMB for his victory at the just concluded APC primaries. I wish him luck.

atlwireles:
U.S. oil drillers idled the most rigs in almost two years as they face oil trading below $60 a barrel and escalating competition from suppliers abroad.

Rigs targeting oil dropped by 29 this week to 1,546, the lowest level since June and the biggest decline since December 2012, Houston-based field services company Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) said on its website yesterday.

As OPEC resists calls to cut output, U.S. producers including ConocoPhillips (COP) and Oasis Petroleum Inc. (OAS) have curbed spending. Chevron Corp. (CVX) put its annual capital spending plan on hold until next year. Rigs targeting U.S. oil are sliding from a record 1,609 after a $50-a-barrel drop in global prices, threatening to slow the shale-drilling boom that has propelled domestic production to the highest level in three decades.

“It’s starting,” Robert Mackenzie, oilfield services analyst at Iberia Capital Partners LLC, said by telephone from New Orleans. “We knew this day was going to come. It was only a matter of time before the rig count was going to respond. The holiday is upon us and oil prices are falling through the floor.”

ConocoPhillips said Dec. 8 that would cut spending next year by about 20 percent. The Houston-based company is deferring investment in North American plays including the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico and the Niobrara formation in Colorado. Oasis, an exploration and production company based in Houston, said Dec. 10 that it’s cutting 2015 spending 44 percent.

Lower Capex

“Our capex will be lower,” Roger Jenkins, chief executive officer of Murphy Oil Corp. (MUR), an El Dorado, Arkansas-based exploration company, said during a presentation Dec. 10. “I think this idea of lowering capex 20-something percent is going to be pretty common in the industry.”

Even as producers cut budgets and lay down rigs, domestic production is surging, with the yield from new wells in shale formations including North Dakota’s Bakken and Texas’s Eagle Ford projected to reach records next month, Energy Information Administration data show. Oil output climbed to 9.12 million barrels a day in the week ended Dec. 5, the highest in EIA data going back to 1983, and is projected to increase to 9.3 million barrels a day next year.

“You still have a lot of spending that went on in 2014 that will take effect in 2015,” Joe Overdevest, who helps manage about $4.4 billion at Fidelity Investments and is co-portfolio manager of its natural resources fund, told reporters in Toronto yesterday. “There’s a delay in that production. It will probably take at least a year to start seeing major effects.”

Production Decline

Oil production probably won’t drop until mid-2015, James Williams, president of energy research company WTRG Economics in London, Arkansas, said by telephone. “U.S. shale is unstoppable at $100 a barrel, but it’s clearly stoppable at $60,” he said.

Chevron, the largest U.S. energy producer except for Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), is still evaluating its capital plans and will probably release them early next year, company spokesman Kurt Glaubitz said by phone Dec. 9. The company usually has its budget out in mid-December.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, responsible for about 40 percent of the world’s oil supply, decided Nov. 27 to maintain its collective crude output target, resisting pressure for cuts to shrink a global glut. “Why should I cut production?” Saudi Arabia oil minister Ali Al-Naimi asked Dec. 10, while speaking to reporters as he attended United Nations global warming talks in Lima.

Rigs Forecast

The international benchmark North Sea Brent oil and its U.S. counterpart West Texas Intermediate crude are trading at their lowest levels since 2009. WTI for January delivery tumbled 3.6 percent yesterday to settle at $57.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The 2014 peak was $107.73.

U.S. oil rigs will fall below 1,100 for the first time in three years, bottoming out at 1,073 in August, forecasts prepared by the Louisville, Kentucky-based energy data company Genscape Inc. show.

The Permian Basin lost the most rigs this week, falling by 20 to 548. Counts rose in natural gas-rich plays such as the Marcellus in the eastern U.S. and the Haynesville in the South.

Natural gas for January delivery increased 16.1 cents to settle at $3.795 per million British thermal units on the Nymex yesterday, down 14 percent in the past year. Stockpiles of the fuel dropped 51 billion cubic feet last week to 3.359 trillion, according to the EIA.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/u-s-oil-rigs-drop-most-in-two-years-baker-hughes-says.html

How long can OPEC wait? The truth is that genie is out. The earlier OPEC countries intensely engage in meaningful economic activities the better for them. Waiting for Shale oil boom to stall is akin to bandaging a hemorrhaging organ. Its only a curmudgeonly and pathologically skeptical individual that would dismiss the breakthrough in US' quest for full energy independence.

OPEC countries, if at all they're serious, must move towards economic diversification immediately, not tomorrow, but yesterday. They're already late for it so its imperative they make up for the lost time by hastening economic diversification before the whole bottom falls out.

I remember attending a good number of energy seminars after leaving school. And even when I was in school I took classes in which several energy contractors and decision makers in Washington, most of whom were both in business and academia, came and delivered lectures on US' road-map to energy independence. These speakers never for once hid their motive and that motive is two layered: (1) get America off foreign oil by any means necessary, and (2) reduce the billions of dollars going in the purse of American adversaries and their terrorist networks. These fellas were open about it and my gut feeling is that, somehow and somewhere along the line, US administration figured if America is going to succeed in taming Russia, Iran, and many other Middle Eastern Nation then it must tone down its green energy policy and dramatically look towards 'dirty' energy. Today we all see shale oil boom and my question to OPEC dimwits is: did you guys not see it coming? I would be shell shocked if those OPEC potbellies saw the whole effort and resource America was throwing into shale RMD and yet chose to benchmark their budgets on over 80dpb. If they really wanted to freeze shale oil from going rogue, I think they should have done it by oversupplying the market at the onset. Now their grandstanding is a little too late as oil is likely to remain under 75dpb for a long time.

Nigeria and her OPEC friends have, for the past 5 decades, consumed finished products with their oil money without investing in meaning developments especially in RMD. Today, that bubble is about to burst and their only answer is 'stay the course, oil price will soon bounce back.' Ok, what if it bounces back then what? Your guess is good - they'll all go back to their buffoonery and stupid over consumption.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Funny, all these statements came from only one side of the country ...

The same people that were angling for Atiku to win even though their support is for Jonathan.

Nigeria needs a clean break from the past and severe social and mental reevaluation.

What in the world is "Nigeria needs a clean break from the past and severe social and mental reevaluation?"
You sure you have your GED already? Or did you attend ISD in Indiana? Just wondering..

manny4life:
My brother, that was a heavy punch ... Dude will never recover from this, and it's all your fault.

Lol! I've figured out who that dude is. He's one of them Arewa born-to-rulers masquerading as a non-partisan US citizen. Any US citizen, educated or not, will never string words together the way he does, yet he wants us to believe he's a US born and bred - negro please! The guy is as Arewa as Shekau and Yerima the Sharia monger.

I guess I'ld say folks shouldn't let technology or whatever that's easily obtainable in this new age carry them away. Let private things be private. It seems everyone these days is too quick to take pics even when in 'outhouse' and then turn around to wonder why it went viral. If you want to see how you look when you're doing the 'do' then by all means get a 4ft-by-4ft mirror and enjoy your 'x-rated' movie. Perhaps, its either a chunk of people who put their info, private or public, in digital format are plain dumb or they don't care but either way, what fellas need to know is that any info you have in digital format is as good as public info. Internet has been with us for quite some time now yet it baffles me that a lot of people still think there's a 100% secure network or storage out there. The truth is - there's absolutely none! This is why tech people rarely keep anything private or incriminating in digital format. You can take a private pic or video if you want but if you care about your image that much then you must destroy the data afterwards. Crying after things have gone viral is a waste of tears. At any rate though, I feel this lady, Olabomi, doesn't deserve to be humiliated for giving love to a trusted adult. It's a shame what most of us do to each other outside Nigerian shores.

Anyways, this Ifedayo dude needs to be ashamed of himself if he actually posted a private pic of her lover, a mother and a sister, online. Brothers in UK needs to offer him a job before he gets to the next Nigerian woman.

manny4life:
Wicked...

The Americans will say: "Standard of living, Cost of Living" NOT living standards or even living costs".

Nanosecond is "one word" not two words

#JustSaying
#Americana
#TryingToFeelAmong
#LMAO
#Wicked

Forget that dude.

I said it before - he's as Arewa as Shekau, Maitasine, and the rest of them born-to-rule almajiris. The only difference is that at least he's able enough to espouse his Arewa's 'ride or die' political ideology here on NL in high-school grammar where as the rest of his almajiri brethren are in Sambisa downing Nigeria's outdated war planes and beheading our trained pilots.

If he's American then I'm Jupiterian, better yet I'm Sunian or Moonian. How about that?

ISpiksDaTroof:
Oh boy, this homo just couldn't resist showing up for the party.....

Mannyforlife, Mr.Talk-about-any subject-And-I'll-Pretend-I-Know-about-it.... I just knew you'd show up. Always following me around. Now, when I retaliate you'll (in your usual deceitful manner) try to claim innocence. You've done this from the day I joined this site. Why you stalk me is beyond reasoning and to be honest it's kinda creepy. I wouldnt be surprised if you're actually the same person as the other user names above.

Tell me, how would you know how Americans talk when you don't have a single drop of anything but South East Nigerian ape blood running through your veins? And you haven't been out here but 4 or 5 years so what suddenly makes your "I-Know-It-All" a*s.s an expert in American language structure? Honestly, it's like a lot of you on here from the Eastern part of your country are Special in the head because that's the only excuse I can give for your continuous show of insanity. You exhibit extreme insecurities that are beyond my understanding. People will disagree with you so stop trying to take it personal. Worry about the shiyythole you're from--and were birthed in-- instead of wasting time trying to magically decipher from behind your keyboard where others are from.

P.S: what's with the steewpid hash tags? Do you even have an idea their purpose? Of what use is it on Nairaland, African?

On the emboldened, please do try harder next time.

By the way what's "American language structure?"

I mean, not that the sentence is particularly incorrect but I'm scratching my head and wondering.......have I seen those three words strung together in the US before? Or could it be our resident Triple Alhaji is writing from Gwoza?

Quite frankly, it sounds Gwoza to me. I'm just saying.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Did it cross your mind that maybe I don't give two shiyyts where anyone is from and all Im concerned about is how to put forth my argument---in a convincing manner--- to an opposing view? So, why should I be checking where anyone is from? Why should I care if you're from Mars or the social amenities starved village of Abia? Thats not my business. Put forward your opinion and let me present mine and stop worrying about mundane issues that do nothing but expose how shallow your mind and thought process is.

P.S: This is the last reply you'll get if you insist on diverting the topic towards stu*pid and irrelevant issues.

It's simple: stop hiding under "I'm American" while propagating and defending your vile and failed Arewa's 'manifest destiny.' You think appending the word "America" to your nationality makes you objective and non-partisan. No buddy - you failed woefully. You're as Arewa as Shekau.

ISpiksDaTroof:
If I told you--- and God is my witness--- that I stopped reading after the very first sentence (and just skipped to the bottom of the rest of your drivel) would you believe me?

Anyway, I continuously remind clowns like yourself where I'm from and where I'm at ONLY after you try to accuse me, and insinuate, that I'm of a different nationality. I also do this because I'm trying to beat it into your block heads that life could be better,and you don't have to live like a loser or subject your kids to hopelessness just because that's what your fathers did to you.

You're not the only "I'm of a different nationality" here buddy. If only you checked well you would've equally discovered I came from Mars. I'm commenting on NL through Marsian 'tenretni', a variant you earthlings know as internet.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Do you really think---even for a Nano Second---that any of your policies in Africa will remotely affect my way of life or living standards of my society? If you feel like it keep on hiring kleptomaniacs and inept people to manage your affairs, take a wild guess who gets to sleep in the dark or to the noise of booming Power Generators every night?


P.S: How does him talking about a local issue equate worldly policy? Now I can't take you serious anymore.

It's beyond me why you keep harping on being or living in the US. Each time it seems like your Arewa brothers are losing the initiative your flight mysteriously finds the tarmac on the pages of NL. Yet, you claim to, not only live in the US but, be a non-African US citizen.

Folks like me know you're an alhaji resident in the North. I doff my hat to you though for trying unsuccessfully to make your grammar sound 'American,' but hard as you've tried, your posts still very much reek 'Nigerian.' Not saying 'Nigerian' in its context is wrong, it's just that in your own case both your grammar is not only consistently incorrect it's also 'un-American.'

I usually don't care about people's use of English language because, quite frankly, I don't give a hoot - provided you can do the job for which I hired you...you're good to go. However, in your case I just couldn't resist taking this low road with you because for quite some time now, you've been displaying this "I'm-American-better-than-you" smug that's as annoying as an insidious bug.

So, let's go back to your post and see if you truly are American.

This is what you wrote:

ISpiksDaTroof:
Do you really think---even for a Nano Second---that any of your policies in Africa will remotely affect my way of life or living standards of my society? If you feel like it keep on hiring kleptomaniacs and inept people to manage your affairs, take a wild guess who gets to sleep in the dark or to the noise of booming Power Generators every night?


P.S: How does him talking about a local issue equate worldly policy? Now I can't take you serious anymore.

If you were truly a well schooled American as you've claimed time and again, you'll agree with me that the emboldened below completely taters your claim.

ISpiksDaTroof:
Do you really think---even for a Nano Second---that any of your policies in Africa will remotely affect my way of life or living standards of my society? If you feel like it keep on hiring kleptomaniacs and inept people to manage your affairs, take a wild guess who gets to sleep in the dark or to the noise of booming Power Generators every night?


P.S: How does him talking about a local issue equate worldly policy? Now I can't take you serious anymore.

Case closed.
Triple Alhaji, may your Arewa days be long.

tochukwuifeduba:
For the sake of equity and fairness we call upon the just elected PDP Lagos state Gubernatorial flagbearer Chief Jimi Agbaje to pick an Igbo-Lagosian as His running mate.

This is the only condition neccessary to clinch the unequivocal Igbo support in the 2015 Election and sail the PDP into an Easy Victory .


Ifeduba ThankGod T ( Aguiyi Na Ozubulu)

08094646643

Thank God this thread is a sham.

Nwanne m, I've no idea what you intend to achieve with this affront on true indigenous Lagosians. One Nigeria or not, Lagos state leadership should be for Lagosians. Nigeria is not America and will never be so please respect the sensitivities of your hosts, Lagos people, and shelve this idea.

One Nigeria does not equal "One Stupidity."

On Arewa's tombstone the following shall be written:

1945 - 2013: Arewa killed non-Arewa.
2013 - 2014: Arewa killed Arewa.


In the end we regrettably admit that while Arewa was busy chasing General Ihejirika, Alhaji Darki Bello's female-bombers audition was on steroids.

RIP Uthman dan Fodio's 'would have been estate.'

Signed: Arewa's human-leftovers.

omenka:
Well, you make very good points. Sometimes I don't blame the security operatives for shying away from the task of spying. They are indeed ill equipped and ill motivated.

It rankles to see the "take home" of these guys that are supposed to put their lives on the line just to ensure we live in peace. They see what become of the families of their colleagues who die in the line of duty and imagine same fate could befall theirs should they end up dead like the others.

What makes America a great country today is the dogged nature with which the government protects her citizen; that country act as though they can go to war with another country over the life of a single ORDINARY citizen, unlike what we have here where a BATALION of soldiers are unleashed on a town because a relative of a minister had been kidnapped but ordinary citizens get killed daily without as much as a sneeze of concern from the authorities!! How can such acts promote patriotism??

We all know spying is one of the most hazardous jobs of security agents especially when it involves penetrating a violent organization under cover. You are most likely to get busted and, of course, killed in the process. The motivation to take up such jobs is totally nonexistent in this country if you ask me, hence the security agencies have been reduced to acting like political thugs with no definite course of action. Relying on hunters, and local vigilantes could be totally counter productive in most cases. These guys could easily be bought over and wind up turncoats or at best, double agents further complicating an already messy situation.

A total overhaul of the system is what we need and honestly, I don't see that happening under the crop of desperadoes we have currently at the corridors of power. Give these guys a new lease of life, insure their lives and those of their family members and you'd be amazed what they can achieve.

Not so fast on the emboldened. Anyone who has lived in America knows that's not all there is to America's security and greatness. Let me hint on the security part because the 'greatness' aspect, I believe, could fill 10 pages.

On security: The reason America seems almost impervious to terrorist and anti-US agents is because Americans, especially whites, have unalloyed patriotism to their country. America to them is an exceptional country that's a little short of God's own kingdom. Even the atheists among them who have no interest in God, somehow, still do believe that America is exceptional and most will gladly fight for this country. Blacks and Hispanics are a little different but nonetheless a chunk of them love and appreciate their country and would not even contemplate the idea of moving to Canada. To them Canada is .....where the hell is Canada? They know Mexico far more than Canada.

Let's juxtapose that with Nigeria. In Nigeria a large of the population want to get the hell out. Patriotism in Nigeria is, at best, a fake exercise reserved for the 'owners of Nigeria' and their relatives as well as their cronies. It's a sham practiced by regions, ethnic nations, and people who criminally usurped our collective resource and power to create states, LGA, oil blocks, etc with reckless abandon.

How can you or anyone compare America in the same sentence with Nigeria? All faiths worship peacefully in America, but in Nigeria......No! we have to make a special reservation for northern Islam. We have to let them have Hisba police, collect VAT, etc. Yet when other states talk about state police the owners Hisba are up in arms. Nigeria is an epitome of hypocrisy. Sometime ago I read an article in which a northern member of National Assembly openly told Nigeria's govt to wipe out the entire Niger Delta because of the activities of MEND. According to him, "Niger Delta can't hold the rest of the country hostage." How soon we forget.

I do not even want to bring up the millions of Igbos, Ibibios, Efiks, etc who got buried with no rites and remembrance, thanks to Nigeria's road to elusive oneness and greatness.

Folks talk about America and Europe. But do we tell ourselves that none of those developed nations provides a blank-check for failure to about half of its population in the name of 'federal character and quota system?' How can we reach greatness then if what we do is only talk about great nations but when it comes to following their steps we shirk and develop cold-feet.

I think it's time we quit comparing our nation to developed nations. Let's walk our own doom and gloom part and fatalistically accept whatever outcome at the end of the tunnel.

In 9/11 America was mourning whereas northern Nigeria, precisely northern Nigerian Muslims, were jubilant. Are the two nations comparable? I think NO!

Abia! White mani kwa? Hmm! So it's no longer Ihejirika?

Umunna, odikwa ka ihea ga eseti very soon. From CAN to MEND to Shekau to Sherif to Ihejirika to GEJ to Igbo traders to Mossad to 'one white mani' to ..... To everything but Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri.

Umunna, okwu agwu kwa m n'onu, onye obula nokwa Arewa uti maka Arewa adigo confused.




No! wait a minute fellas! Does it mean Arewas are going to withdraw their case against General Ihejirika from Hague now that they've caught 'their white man?'

International gang of criminals joined in squeezing and starving Biafran people thinking they would get a hand on Nigeria's oil wealth. They got their victory but Nigeria sent them packing with 'Indigenization' policy. Britain lost her companies and Russia didn't get any foothold. However, Arab Egypt and Sudan somehow got their islamic wish aka OIC. The rest of Nigeria got 40 years of Hausa-Fulani hegemony.

Fast forward to Nov 30th 2014. Boko Haram is raging, Nigerians are running helter skelter, the military is impotent and inept, Britain is no where to be found, and Russia isn't too much of a help either. Nigerians, all of a suden, have become 'their brothers' keepers.' Praying and wishing Boko Haram goes away, praying and wishing a revolution happens (Lol! they want 'indoor' and 'keyboard' revolution or should I say Ipad, Iphone, keyboard, and Samsung Galaxy Arab Spring). Each time I listen to their responses what I hear is: Boko Harams are cowards, GEJ is clueless, govt is weak, Shekau is unislamic, we shall overcome, CIA is responsible, Mossad and MI5 are behind BH, its the French, its Iherejirika, it's America, it's this and that. But these people are too quick to insult Biafran men, women, and children who braved Egyptian flown MIGs and damned Nigeria's barrage of air, land, and sea bombardments for 3 years with no shoes and inflicted heavy toll on Nigerian army. Up until now folks didn't know Nigeria army lost to Biafran forces in head to head count.

What's my point you might say. Let me make it clear - it goes like this: If you really believe in Gowon's Nigeria, if you had up until now chided and called Biafran struggle and army - rag-tag, weak, and useless - then now its your time to march up north and help Nigerian army sack BH. Now is the time to prove and show your superior intellect, battle readiness, dexterity, and faith in your country. The civilian JTF in the north has shown they have the balls, so get off your Ipad, Iphone, and keyboard and show us your mettle as well as your love and sacrifice for one united Nigeria. It's not enough to cast aspersions and ridicule people in life and death situations, but when its time to help your own beleaguered comrades in the north east and west you take to NL. Go show Biafrans how to fight a 'real war' with or without international powers. Your beloved country is at war and spending all day here on NL isn't going to win it. Fight for what you believe in and show the world, America inclusive, that with or without their weapon your country is worth dying for.

Adminisher:
ALL THESE GOWON BASHINGS MUST STOP.
Kids who were not even alive during the civil war rehashing lies told by their parents. All IBOs need to thank Gowon. What if the Head of State had been MURTALA MUHAMMED? there wont have been "No Victor, No Vanquished". It would have been "Kill All Ibos". Muhammed almost became Head of State at that time. In all interviews regarding the civil war, Gowon shows great sympathy for Ibos and reserves intense condemnation for Ojukwu. Even in this article he does not mention Biafra by name. The man who starved Biafra was Awo for good reasons...pls children dont make the mistake of your Children, Gowon is the only ex Head Of State with some love for GEJ. Please stop being STUPID.

Too late for that.
We've crossed that bridge and we're here.
Somehow we survived and no spin will change our collective inevitable fate.

The debt owed by a strong man will, someday, be paid by his children.

We have a saying that "onye gburu dibia na agworo ya ogwu chefulu na ndi n'eme ya insi di ndu." Meaning: A man who killed his charm maker forgot his enemies were still alive. They momentarily got rid of Biafra with empty promises to outside powers and criminals. When it got to 'paycheck' time the powers were greeted with a monumental scam in the name of Indigenization policy. Britain lost a chunk of her investments, Russia got no foothold, Arab Egypt and Sudan eventually got OIC, and the rest of Nigeria got 40 year born-to-rule hegemony. But in life there's always a second chance, and for those powers that chance is now.

Yesterday Gowon was saying America was not Nigeria's friend and ally because they refused to sell Nigeria fighter jets durin the civil war to 'chase Biafra's B25's away' from Nigeria's air space. He said, "we were not asking to shoot it down but to chase it away. we wanted to stop it from throwing bombs and killing innocent people, that's why we want to chase it away but America refused to sell us fighters." Story for the gods! Ironically, this same Gowon who said he didn't want to shoot down a jet, just merely chasing it away, was ok with Nigerian jets strafing and blasting innocent women and children in markets, schools, and hospitals on the Biafran side.

Sometimes I wonder if these people realized we're many and alive in Nigeria. It seems when they talk about what they did to our fathers and our homeland, they assume no single 'Biafran' is alive so let's justify and heap all atrocities on dead Biafrans - the dead can't hear so what a heck! Too bad Gowon, you didn't get everyone, so we can hear you loud and clear. We know what happened and someday Biafra's time will come. But until then, we leave Nigeria with the Repo man for Gowon's overdue and unpaid fees.

I will join the impeachment wagon if the 'impeachers' first tell me how they plan to pay Nigeria's bills. We're already producing about 2.3 million barrels at $70pb, yet naira is sinking and our belts can't go tighter any further. Impeachment is the easy part, the hard part begins after 'the shoeless' is kicked out.

nagoma:
I have no qualms about separation and I have said it innumerable times on these pages. What is worrying is your ambivalence about an idea you so cherish, at least superficially. You say one thing and the next breadth you say the opposite. When the real possibility of separation arises you all go back into your shells. You cannot afford to lose the expanse of land and what land means. As igboland is only 3.1% of Nigeria's area and is mainly eroded and leached soil of no real use for agriculture and contains no minerals. The idea of separation was presented at the clandestine national conference and all the southerners went mute. I can understand your personal (Sam Ikenna ) issue, which is vendetta over a perceived offence of the civil war. You can't bring yourself to accept it and want to see the north punished for it, hence your challenge for the north to secede. North should come up with their own Ojukwu as you suggested. You are obviously celebrating the murderous carnage going on unchecked in the north. Unchecked by a southern despotic government. You must be having a party this weekend celebrating the deaths in kano. At least you are getting some blood and some ounces from the pound of flesh you so desperately crave for from the north.
But One other issue you consistently refused to address is my question about southern educated people in government clearly unable to present a wisdom that can develop Nigeria instead of the selfish primitive materialism and corruption that characterizes the southern regimes - especially the current criminal leadership. Why can't you address this?

Nwanne, I don't know why you keep regurgitating the name, Ojukwu. I guess it's in line with a civil war time paper I read some time ago in which every Dick and Harry on the Nigerian side of the divide blamed Ojukwu for Nigeria's problem. They went as far as saying that once Ojukwu was killed, captured, or gotten out of the way that Nigeria would be peaceful, calm, rich, united, and other yati yati yada. They got their wish with Biafra's surrender, yet where is the peace and unity and the yati yati yada? where is the beaf? Nothing! No peace, no unity, no nothing. I wish I kept that newspaper. I think it was online though, perhaps one of these days I'll look for it and post it on NL. Folks need to read the promises Jihadists and their collaborators made to delusional Southerners and MB who joined in a moment of hate-filed frenzy. But that's a matter for another day.

Right now, you're making the same mistake. You think dragging Ojukwu into your mess will secure you a good dose of sympathy, it won't buddy. The man is long gone. He's probably done rendering account of himself to his maker, so let's lay off him for awhile and concentrate on current and more pressing issues.

I understand you think I want revenge for whatnot. Well, in some sense you're right. But the kind of revenge I want has nothing to do with Boko Haram terror cell that kills Northern Christians and moderate Muslims. I mean look at the north, is there any week that passes by without one group descending on another? From Ombatse to Tiv to Fulani to Berom to Boko Haram, it's like one week one ethnic clash and one mass grave. Common! Even Hitler himself would have wanted this nonsense to stop. My revenge is to have the wolf separated from the sheep since the wolf can't get along with anyone. I'm not mythical Dracula - I do not need your blood.

You want me to address why southern education has failed to provide direction, or should I say "crime-free" leadership to Nigeria. Hmm! That's a big one. Well, I guess its safe to say that southern education has, in some sense, failed to deliver because of the 40 year rot perpetrated by Hausa-Fulani passi passi and padi padi leadership. Education doesn't equal miracle. Education is more like a seed while the nation is akin to a soil.

What your Hausa-Fulani brothers didn't realize was that by holding the nation (soil) hostage for 40 years they denied Nigeria the opportunity to grow her seed. Is it any wonder today that Nigerian doctors and engineers make up the bulk of African professionals and intellectuals in the US and UK? If southern education was a complete sham like you claimed, why are southern Nigerian professionals still very much respected in developed countries?

I've been to 3 colleges in the US yet my eyes never for a day saw one Hausa-Fulani in any institution of Knowledge. I've seen Ogoni, tiny Ogoni, I've met Bini, Ghana, Uganda, Congo, you name it - these people are here competing with the rest of the world while Hausa-Fulani is in Nigeria killing NYSC students. Anyways, sorry for digressing a bit but the point is: Yes, southern education hasn't lived up expectations. However, if one takes an objective stock on the factors that impeded Nigeria's education, south or north, it's unmistakable where the chunk of the blame lies. Chew on that nagoma.

nagoma:
You ungrateful lot will not acknowledge the support you had from Milton Obote of Uganda, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, h. Boingny of Ivory Coast, the crusaders of America, General De Gaul of France and many more. In any case what stopped you from getting help , if as you claim , you fought and lost all alone?

Don't get it twisted, I'm not delighted on the ongoing carnage in your region. My beef with people from your region is that they seem to enjoy avoidable violence and catastrophe in this age of freedom, intense competition, and limitless knowledge. Given that this path of violence and stagnation appeals to them, one would've expected a concerted effort on their part to live alone in their sharia-land instead of creating untold hardship and terror for other non-core northern Nigerians.

I'm not sure I have any interest in dragging 1967 issues into your plight any further. It seems revisiting events of 67 gives folks like you the impression that we're laughing at you - that's childish. If anything at all, it is that I want you to be gone so the rest of us can have a moment of peace before we meet our creator. And for emphasis, the word 'gone' doesn't imply death or extermination, it means having an independent Arewa republic where you'll practice your religion, live your life, and make laws as you deem fit since history has shown (1945 - 2014) that you can't tolerate secularism.

nagoma:
We prosecuted the successful war

Correct sentence should have been: Britain, Russia, Arab Jihadists, and 350 Nigerian ethnic groups prosecuted the successful war.

nagoma:
...and we can do it again when it becomes necessary.

When it becomes necessary? Really? When will that be?
Ok, I'll take your word for it. Just don't forget to wake me when 'it becomes necessary' 'cause I'm about to go on sleep-mode.

nagoma:
Imagine 50,000 supposedly trained intelligence/ security men for five years cannot stop one bomb and cannot prosecute anybody

Yea, I agree totally with you on this one. But on a closer look it seems like the 50,000 is split down the middle: 25k from south working to stop BH + 25k from north giving BH military intel and field strategy. Seems to me like 25k + (-25k) equals zero.
Hmm! No wonder its not working.

nagoma:
So much for "educated" southern leadership.

You'll agree with me that no matter the horrible state of southern education, it's a 1000 miles better than Almajiri and wahabi indoctrination. At least we rarely kill each other for stupid reasons. And you wonder why Shekau's motto is "Western education is sin?"

nagoma:
How great it will be, not to worry about those names.you guys have the chance to go your way now, the opportunity was offered by Lamido of Adamawa at the national conference but no southerner came forward to support separation. I am sure the north will be better off without you and you may also be better off in your new tiny enclave. It will be a win win situation and I plan to go into oil for food business. GEJ can for a start send back all northern soldiers and policemen to tackle BH with a northern command.

You're on point. However, since you guys are the ones getting the heat, I think the onus is on your people to ask for a separation just like we did in 1967. You don't expect me to me to joshua Arewa out of Nigeria, do you? I mean, if you're uncomfortable in a shoe I shouldn't be the one telling you to change it. You have a brain so use it. You're at war while I'm not so I can't rock the boat for myself by giving you independence. You've got to fight for it. Be a man son! Get your own Ikemba and kick some behinds! Besides, Britain will always come in for you if it gets out of hand so don't be afraid buddy.

Descartes:
Bad leadership?

Now you can agree with me that your leaders have failed your people

Nwanne, anya gi n'ya.

It seems like they all went to school over night and got crash a course on leadership. All these years their people were doing passi passi and corner corner in Abuja, they all enjoyed it. Gowon pass to Muritala, Muritala to OBJ, OBJ to Shagari, Shagari to Buhari, Buhari to IBB, IBB to Abacha, Abacha to Abdulsalami - a good musician could make a killing singing only Hausa-Fulani passi passi. These hypocrites enjoyed it, all and every bit of it was delicious and yum yum. They never complained about poverty, Sharia, Oil revenue, and whatnot because they criminally and shamelessly cornered everything. They created states and local govts for every cow and dog in the north. Look at NA today, no bill can see the light of the day unless it favors them, and you ask: how did this happen? Were where we when they tied us to a stake like Christmas goat? It's shameful what they did with power and Nigeria's common wealth, pitiful!

My opinion is that we've over enabled and over fed these Jihadists for far too long. If not, tell me what gumption they would've had to bomb and massacre us like cockroaches...

All reasonable non-Hausa-Fulani in Nigeria today should be seriously at work in finding ways to cut these folks to size. We need to make them understand that we all bleed the same way, die, love, and hate the same way. This nonsense of killing other Nigerians that has been their forte since 1945 plus the aberration of born-to-rule must be forced to a screeching halt.

In fact I'm beginning to wonder if an average core northerner has a sense of shame at all. A people that received some 40 years of sweat-free opportunity on a platter. 40 years of almost unbroken access to power and un-audited national coffers. What did they do with it? They built hilltop mansions, married multiple wives, and allowed their people to sink deeper into illiteracy, almajiridom, and extreme religiosity. Today they're fighting some tiny Ijaw nation for power and massacring everything on sight including their own children, what a shame!

Ologunjude:
Later some people from the South East would say it only Christians that they are killing e.g. Pastor Orisejafor and most of my Ibo brothers and sisters who are blind folded with tribalism and religion. This is no religious war neither is it APC vs PDP battle. This guys meant biz, they want thier own country.
GEJ should be impeached ASAP. He has lost it. Over a thrillion budgeted for defense in the last 5years, our army do not have weapons. With corruption staring at us and impunity been the other of the day, Boko Haram would remain champions.
Sad to see over a hundred worshippers sent to early graves. May their souls rest in perfect peace. Amen.

I don't know where to begin. I guess I'll start by asking: What is it in South East that you people failed to get in 1967 that's causing this heartache? Is Orisejafor Igbo? The itch to drag Igbo into every insanity in Nigeria these days is maddening as well as ludicrous.

Apart from people from Boko Haram caliphate is there any other ethnic group that has lost more men than Igbos? And if the victims, whether Berom, Isoko, or Igbo, say Boko Haram is religious who are you to refute their claim with the accusation that they were blinded by tribalism and religion. Do Boko haramites give their victims candy before elimination or do they shout Allahu akbar?

Whether BH is about religion or politics, what difference does it make? They still kill anyways. Besides SE is one out of 6 zones in the country so why should one zone's supposedly 'tribalism and religious bigotry' be the reason BH is still very much in killing business? Does it mean the remaining 5 zones are too impotent to assert their will on rag-tag militants?

This fixation on SE is stupidity at best. Besides, what's wrong with BH wanting to have their own country? You said they want to have it so why not let them have it? Do you have any gold buried in Shekau's Kanuri land?

I believe the person who said that "a people deserve what they get" had Nigeria in mind.

nagoma:
When we are all dead he can rule an employ country. Assuming that he will have a clue on how to do that one.

You don't have to die before you find a solution. You can simply abort now and establish your own republic and then deal with Boko Haram madmen in ways and manners you deem appropriate.

They're your brothers. No one will say a word if you impale them based on independent Arewa's 'correct' interpretation of Sharia law.

Take a look at Bashir's Sudan. Before South Sudan's independence Bashir and his Arab brothers in the north always tried to impose Sharia on the Christian south with disastrous results. Today, the south is gone and Bashir now has no one standing in his way to Sharia Utopia.

My point is - 'we don't have to die' together. You can always go your way and have your sharia in an exclusive Arewa Caliphate where I would have no right or reason to complain. Also it'll give you a wonderful opportunity to be led or ruled by one of your own - you'll never have to worry about names like Tamuno, Okeke, Ikenna, Bayo, Segun, Okpokiri, or Ata again.

This is one thing about Nigeria I despise. It seems we're always too quick in condemning people without getting hard facts and then perusing it objectively. Rape allegation is not a joke, it could ruin someone's life and career. It may or may not be true, but at the very least, fellas should let Sowore speak first. If indeed he committed the act he needs to be punished, but first, let's give him the opportunity to explain.

Other things being equal, I must say that the day Sowore denied Nigerians the opportunity to hear from the nation's FA's minister and Nigeria's US Ambassador in a town-hall meeting in New York was the day I lost respect for his person. I don't know if he's an attention seeker or what, but at any rate politics is politics - it should be separated from private life. What he did in New York and what he continues to do in online media is politics. He doesn't deserve to be 'blackmailed' with a life-destroying rape case because of his political leaning. I have a feeling this allegation is some sort of pay-back, but I might be wrong.

If it's pay-back, Okiro and 'the handlers' should be ashamed of dragging a man young enough to be their son to the mud.

30pence:
Wen niger delta militants were daring the country, obasanjo couldnt put off d heat, even with d whole artillery he comitted to that course, and with his experience as a general.

That shows that such issues were not best tackled by a military in agbada.

Again, this menace called bokoharam was well incubated and hatched under obasanjo & some other generals in the past. And only became a an adult under GEJ.

The whole thing has bn well machined politically to oust the president, and possibly bring in one of the supporters. Dont u think u playing into the gallery of such script writers.

My take on this is;
Dont let Bokoharam get wat they are indirectly yielding for, I.e. compulsory return of power to the purpoted power brokers that sees nigeria as their personal property.



Issues like this cant be resolved

Speak bro. They said - give us Sharia! They killed thousands because of it. Now they have it and we can't even sleep, what a bunch of delusional people.