₦airaland Forum

udezue:
Oyinda

The different Biafra groups will have autonomy and besides we are like one people regardless of our differences so as long as fairness is honored I don't see any break up.

Federal government owns MMA in Lagos and Abuja airports. Imo state government built the Owerri airport.

udezue:
[b]Nigerian aggression, British support

British interests are very clearly revealed in the declassified files. ‘Our direct interests are trade and investment, including an important stake by Shell/BP in the eastern Region. There are nearly 20,000 British nationals in Nigeria, for whose welfare we are of course specially [sic] concerned’, the Foreign Office noted a few days before the outbreak of the war. Shell/BP’s investments amounted to around £200 million, with other British investment in Nigeria accounting for a further £90 million. It was then partly owned by the British government, and the largest producer of oil which provided most of Nigeria’s export earnings. Most of this oil was in the eastern region.
Commonwealth Minister George Thomas wrote in August 1967 that: ‘The sole immediate British interest in Nigeria is that the Nigerian economy should be brought back to a condition in which our substantial trade and investment in the country can be further developed, and particularly so we can regain access to important oil installations’.

Thomas further outlined the primary reason why Britain was so keen to preserve Nigerian unity, noting that ‘our only direct interest in the maintenance of the federation is that Nigeria has been developed as an economic unit and any disruption of this would have adverse effects on trade and development’. If Nigeria were to break up, he added: ‘We cannot expect that economic cooperation between the component parts of what was Nigeria, particularly between the East and the West, will necessarily enable development and trade to proceed at the same level as they would have done in a unified Nigeria; nor can we now count on the Shell/BP oil concession being regained on the same terms as in the past if the East and the mid-West assume full control of their own economies’.[/b]

http://markcurtis./2007/02/13/nigeriabiafra-1967-70/

African people are very smart.

so i have a few more ignorant questions:
is there a efik language? or a separate ibibio language?
what will happen if the ethnic groups in biafra end up not getting along? will the country split further?

Onlytruth:
Anyway, we need a REAL international airport in the East.
Let me say what most people already know, any such airport in the East will be viable. Worst case scenario, it would deflate Lagos and Abuja airports, but how is that my business?
Place a fully functional international airport in Enugu or Asaba, or even Calabar and Uyo.
Stop fearing the inevitable.

Besides, the Ibos are a proud, sometimes arrogant people, and their frequent bursts of self-praise did little to make them popular. Former Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, himself an Ibo, is fond of saying, "The god of Africa has created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of the ages."

sjeezy8:
DAYUMMM who wrote that article . . . . it was like praising the igbo for having the potential to be the most westernized(which they are) and at the same time it was kinda degrading to what is actually "igbo" according to what the europeans thought was primative.

Its like saying "igbos were once the most backward cannibalistic tribe in Nigeria but theyre backwardness served well for being westernized easily".

CRAZY  

SEFAGO, did we not discuss that issue already. . .

When the British arrived in Nigeria, the Ibos were among the most primitive people they encountered, scratching out their lives on yam patches and occasionally supplementing their low-protein diet with human flesh.

Yes it would have coz Africans would for the 1st time realize that they are NOT cattle and sheep the Europeans can herd and command to do anything. The British GOVT know this hence they fought tooth and nail to maintain the status quo so they could continue to milk the continent and they are still milking it. Yakubu Gowon did not handle anything brilliantly. He is a fool who got used and dumped and now his people are suffering the effects in the hands of the Fulani. The brilliant person is Woodrow Wilson of UK.

Biafra = AFRICAN PRIDE.

chiogo:
The situation I'm referring to is the "domestic" thing mentioned in earlier pages.

*Sigh* I'm done.

So, it's not a low percentage. The Igbos are still a minority. Anything less than 50% = minority.

And what did I say about renovating the existing ones?
Either way you wanna put it, they're of low standard. Murtala Muhammed may not have sufficient facilities but it sure has more than these ones in the East.

udezue:
Kobojunkie, I see u like to argue for the sake of arguments.

Tagging some airport is one thing but directing international flights in and out of it is another.

My family will love to land in Enugu but can't because its not offered. PH, Calabar, Owerri are in the same situation.

But whatever, I'm done arguing. The bottom line is that even if there exists airports in the East, most of them are NOT yet recognized as international. At the end of the day, they're useless to many Igbos esp. those outside the country.

sjeezy8:
igbo states- Akwa ibom, cross river, River state, enugu, abia, imo, ANAMBRA, ebonyi.

Everyone in the EAST IS IGBO- there are no other ethnic groups

4 Play:
The average Nigerian student does not 'excel' in the UK/US. If they did, Oxford and Cambridge will be falling over themselves to get their hands on Nigerian graduates. The reality is that education is an income generator, especially for universities at the bottom of the quality scale where you will find most Naija students.

These Unis depend on foreign graduates, through exorbitant fees, to subsidise education for the locals and make ends meet. Nigeria happens to be one of the largest customer base. You don't expect this salesman to say that Nigerian students are not really that good but they need them because they are prepared to pay +£9000 per head.

shotster50:
@ Sefago

If mekusx said the same thing about Igbo, you know you would be all up on his a,ss

Ikengawo:
i dont believe in this brain drain myth.


most of us don't realize that most of us are brilliant in nigeria.

the UK and USA aren't getting the 'best' nigerians, they're getting average nigerians and realizing the average nigerian is smarter then the average anyone else.

if the schools in nigeria were up to standard they would be and currently are, pumping out geniuses.

also idk why ppl are trying to make it a tribal thing cause lets be realistic, JAMB statistics have proven igbos get almost double the scores of yorubas and triple hausas.

Dede1:
If ruling the cesspit called Nigeria is a more important political achievement of the 1950/60 era than gaining independent statues for protectorates as majority of peeps on this thread has shown, I guess that Azikwe should be guilty as charged.   

It is very unfortunate that some empty heads that knew nothing next to the history of the protectorates and road to independent are proffering skewed analogies of well established transparent system in UK and system marred with colonialist induced tribal fighting and distrust, lack of transparency and clogged with newspaper articles with no verifiable sources in the North and South Protectorates of British colony in West Africa.

ezeagu:
That's only because the Igbo people started having a meeting.

agabaI23:
Prof is that correct?

That night as they slept on the floor at the back of To-chi’s shop, Mekus woke up suddenly to a strange feeling - his anus was being penetrated ! He tried to resist ,but was too tired and he sort of enjoyed it.

If people learn to work together and stop being greedy, the world would be a much better a place. We do not have to live in a Hobbesian state of nature.

How do you know a nation-state cannot work in such a way? Just because it was never tried before does not mean it will not work. The United States was an experiment that apparently worked. I do not believe in such zero-sum games either. If people learn to work together and stop being greedy, the world would be a much better a place. We do not have to live in a Hobbesian state of nature.

You give too much credit to the hausa fulani. We have seen how united they are with the incapacitation of Yaradua and eventual death and all the undercurrent. We have seen how united they are, yet Atiku and Buhari cannot form a credible opposition party.