₦airaland Forum

fx45:
Firstly, Nzeogwu is not Igbo. Secondly, if there is to be a repeat of 1967,you'll be surprised at what will happen. Times have changed and the people have changed. Don't deceive yourself.

I wonder why you still want me to remain in a forced union with you when it's very apparent that you have nothing but hate for me. Does it mean you can't do without me? What exactly is it that you're benefitting from me that you can't just let go?

stop it. nzeogwu is Igbo.....everyone knows that. everyone knows okpanam near asaba.

chuna1985:
The only way to understand ojukwus decisions regarding d civil war is to read d Aburi accord...wen u do, ur opinion will change forever

I know the aburi accord, but how does that affect his working relationship with his kinsmen who are his political and diplomatic predecessors?

stop overrating ojukwu, we all know where his reputation starts and ends.

millions have died in the warfronts and civilian quarters severally due to his misjudgements and stubbornness, (asides awo starvation policy and gowon's madness) yet he enjoys life, teenage bride, and wealth. pls stop overrating him. when he died, we all honoured him okay?, but lets just keep the records straight.

zendy:
Ojukwu handled things as any sane man of the time would have. This was a man who saw as thousands of his people were being butchered, rendered destitute, chased oppressed all over Nigeria but he still had the temerity to sit down with Gowon in Aburi,Ghana, and hammer out an agreement to avert secession and subsequent war. Yet, Gowon chose disregard the gentlemans agreement he signed. What did people expect Ojukwu to do? To be jumping up and clapping his his hands as his people were being decimated? If any of us had been Ojukwu, we would have done exactly what he did. A person who believes in "One Nigeria" is just someone who has not yet witnessed 40,000 of his kin being slaughtered in broad daylight.

despite their political and diplomatic clout internationally, ojukwu refused consulting them during the war. who are they? zik (do you think it was easy to be the foremost nationalist and suddenly become a sessesionist?), okpara (eastern region premier) jaja nwachukwu (foreign affairs minister).

ojukwu believed in himself alone, any predecessor before he joined politics is a no no. it is so wrong. mind you I regard ojukwu, but his exuberance and know it all attitude was his and Biafra's waterloo. why him hand over to effiong and run comot? only for him to come back and enjoy life and wealth with a teenager (bianca), and even reabsorb himself into Nigerian politics.

uniklinkum:
In the first Republic, the Igbo-dominated NCNC formed an alliance with the northern-based NPC to form a government in the center. In the Second Republic the Igbo-dominated NPP again teamed up with the NPN to form the national government in the center. In the third Republic during the NRC-SDP era, MKO Abiola won the election fair and square on the platform of the SDP but the majority of the Igbo, led by the late Odumegwu Ojukwu, (Ikemba Nnewi) the late Evans Enwerem, and Okwesilieze Nwodo, teamed up with prominent Igbo and even some prominent Yoruba leaders to support IBB, Shonekan, and Abacha to sustain the annulment of that election. Again, for 16 years the PDP was in power
in Nigeria, and the Igbo was with the PDP.

N.B read carefully and in all honest tell us who the slaves are??

yorubas are the slaves, even a Hausa man can attest to that. forming an alliance in trying to (but unsuccessfully) heal a deep wound is not slavery. slavery is a Fulani emir ruling a traditional Yoruba community. slavery is a Yoruba general crying and kneeling before a northern general. slavery is north sneezing and Yoruba catching cold.

that said, I hold no grudge against the yoruba people, but sometimes you outsmart them when they think they are too smart......

Joe igbokwe, I don't expect anything less from you. ACN made you, but when you think you understand Igbo political dynamics then you are damn wrong. Igbo have played opposition before in terms of being marginalised and cheated economically, yet we remain strong.

if you make mention of an Igbo president regardless of the party you are in (except and Igbo conceived party like apga or ppa), others raise an eyebrow. its not because the guy is less qualified but because he is Igbo. too bad.

Biafra will continue to be an option if Nigeria continues in this political, economic and religious hypocrisy.

Gboliwe:
@built2last and you had not even a single picture to validate this your tour tory? #notcool

Back to the matter, I am so proud to be counted among the 5% discussed above. If I had to do it over again, I will gladly do and encourage others to do same.
As for Biafra and the cause, I have been privileged and consider it a great honor in my lifetime to be in the same room twice with the late Ojukwu. We threw some questions at him on both occasions and several years later I still feel the impact of the wise answers of that great man who had nothing but "love of country" for his people. I'll always consider it a big insult to have anybody compare the arrogant noisemaking-attention-seeking-devilish Nnamdi Kanu with the late Dim Ojukwu. If what Nnamdi Kanu propagates is Biafra I am 100% against it. The militants in the creeks have my approval over what this man propagates.

ojukwu displayed the same youthful exuberance when he was kanu's age. so forget it. stop glorifying ojukwu, yes he fought for a noble cause, but how he handled it was another thing entirely.

proudly Igbo... any day anytime anywhere....buhari can keep his recognition

pls op, tell them o

mensdept:
LOL @ Orji Kalu, from the poorest and ravished state in Africa

abia poverty rate is 21%, better than most states in Nigeria. name your state.

Chartey:
Well, I'm not Muslim. I don't think a true Christian will talk the way you've done.

neither will a true believer utter such rants you made.

Idrismusty97:
Lol. The religion is simply a joke, can be interpreted in whatever way you want.

while your lslamic religion is sadistic, always taking people backwards.

totit:
Thou shall not chestbeat, thou shall not lies, thou shall not pull out figure from you yellow bombom







In a Capitalist State Like Ours, Wealthy Firms With Healthy Cash Flow Control The Economy Not Petty Traders.

"I have investigated all the 20 top Nigerian companies listed below as compiled by authoritative Forbes business magazine and none of them is based in Igbo land or controlled by the so called ‘Igbo business men’.

Impressively, 20 Nigerian companies made it to the list of Top 25 companies in West Africa. They include:

• Dangote Cement
• Zenith Bank PLC
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
• Nigerian Breweries Plc
• First Bank Plc
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc
• United Bank for Africa
• Guinness Nigeria
• Nestlé Nigeria
• Access Bank
• Flour Mills Nigeria
• Union Bank of Nigeria
• Stanbic IBTC
• First City Monument Bank
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO
• Total Nigeria
• Unilever Nigeria
• PZ Cussions
• UACN
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc

According to Forbes, Nigeria has 20 of the best 25 companies in West Africa.

It is only a fool who will believe Igbo postulation that it is street trader’s and hawkers that controls an economy. If that hypothesis is valid, then the Indians and Pakistanis in Britain can also claim that they [are] in charge of British economy because over 70% of petty street trading in Britain is in the hand of the Asians. However, we all know that actual British economy is firmly in the hands of the Britons. The same is factual for Germany and France where Turkish and North African Algerians are their own local version of Igbo. The only difference is that these other 'gypsies’' are more knowledgeable of who they are in their host countriy's economy, unlike ignorant Igbo petty street traders in Yoruba land."









Nigerians have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world the reason been that Forbes estimates the wealth of individuals and rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (companies listed on the stock exchange).

The few Nigerians that have the list are Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola.

The list of top 21 Richest Nigerian billionaires has been based on:

The value of their shares held in quoted companies, the size and market share of their companies, the number of companies they own and its assumed value, the market value of their company’s brand and the impact of their companies on the Nigerian economy.

Despite the harsh terrain and business challenges involved with starting a business in Nigeria; the successful entrepreneurs listed below held their ground and fought their way to the top.

In a country with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time.

Check out the list below.

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom

3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group

17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank

21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
Before I finish this essay I will examine an absurd claim that the igbo often make which reflects an inferiority complex, a deep case self-delusion and which borders on the sociopathic. Wherever they settle they often boast that they control all the money that is there and that they have more businesses than anyone else. They often suggest that they have more business acumen and that they are more successful at business than any other tribe in Nigeria yet this is not true.

These strange stories that Igbos are more industrious than the Yoruba people, where do they come from? Is it because Yoruba people think big and never settle for profits from petty trading? The Igbos have not excelled more than Yoruba people in any kind of business at an advanced level, with the exception of the long haul coach and bus business. In the transportation business generally how many igbo people own the largest private airport on the African continent like Wale Babalakin. Tell me the Igbos that are mega industrialists like Folawiyo, Okoya, Adedoyin, Akindele and Awosika. Of the 10 leading banks in Nigeria, 8 of them used to have yoruba people as shareholders with the controlling interest, until Sanusi Lamido Sanusi launched his campaign. Today, four are still owned by Yoruba people and only one by an Igbo. Telecoms, one Ijebu businessman built a massive telecoms company single handedly. No Igbo man can boast of such. The first four leading oil distributors are Yoruba. Of the 10 leading Nigerian businessmen, 6 are Yoruba. The highest indigenous employers of labour are Yoruba people. Look at all the companies in Ikeja- they were all invited by the Western Region Government in the First Republic. If Igbos leave Lagos today, these companies will still hold high in their elegant skyscrapers. Igbos can’t hold Lagos or anywhere in the country hostage. The stereotype claim is that the Yoruba are the agberos of Lagos but you will be surprised to know that many Igbos in Lagos are actively involved in the transport business, some of them also play omo oni le with their Yoruba friends and some of them are street beggars as well. They would have denied this if Fashola had not deported them.

Many Igbo people are on the payroll of Yoruba businessmen. If you go to their region, you will see GTB, Oando, FCMB, GLO, Con Oil, Nicon Insurance, Sahara Oil, Bicourtney all owned by Yorubas. How many Igbo companies provide mass employment in comparison? If you take away all the companies owned by Yoruba businessmen what is left? The truth, hurtful as it can be, is that the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs are Yoruba people and they built Lagos with their mega business skills. This was what attracted Igbos- the tribe of wanderers and gypsys. Igbos cannot even boast of business skills when they speak with successful businessmen in the Midwest. The Midwest can boast of companies like Zenith bank, UBA, Ibru and co. and Etisalat, They can boast of Arik Air and Aerocontractors. A man from the Midwest by the name of Festus Okotie Eboh tackled your most respected Nnamdi Azikiwe and shook his power-base as the financier of the NCNC party. I don’t share the view that Igbos have superior business skills. The business men many of us admire are entrepreneurs like Wale Tinubu, Fola Adeola, Segun Agbaje, Subonmi Balogun, Kayode Odukoya, Deinde Fernandez, Tope Sonubi, Tunde Fagbemi, Kase Lawal, Harry Akande and Mike Adenuga and not the glorified petty traders and trouble makers. What the Igbos are doing is psychological warfare. If their lies are not checked and set straight they will have a negative effect on the psyche of future generations of the Yoruba. A lot of blacks in America are suffering from the lies white historians have perpetrated. For a long time blacks were made to feel inferior to their white counterparts. We can not allow the Igbos to continue with their lies against the Yorubas unabated. We have a responsibility as patriotic Yorubas to set the record straight. If it means being tagged a tribalist, that is fine. -Destructive Ways of the Ignorant...




Abegii jare
Make una shut una akpu mouth and let us rest for akpu sake

while the world celebrates us, you are busy hating and smuggling your greedy wealth as achievement. alariwo oshi. Igbos are the best, so die of heart attack pls

wrongnumber:
Except he is trying to marry an Igbo lady then maybe this assertion might be true but all i saw is an opinionated and intelligent writer.I have gone through his threads and i can see that he writes well from political matters to family and so on but in Nigeria we are always quick to relate a writer's perspective to his personal life and this is a sign of immaturity for those who do so.

I disagree with you. people like op should stop threading on issues he is blatantly ignorant of. his supporters on this thread have shown an even more blatant ignorance on this issue.
if you need comprehensive answers, go to church.
respect peoples customs, whether Igbo, Jewish, Asian, etc.
FYI, Judaic religion is not christian religion, they only share moral and symbolic semblances.

mencade5:
thank you very much.

this was the same thing i was thinking. they will dodge the issue of tithe yet go against this.one.


i tire for nigerians.

tithing was done before Judaic law existed....take note of that..... and mind you, not all churches emphasize tithes. so work hard and honour God and peoples customs

Toks2008:
If it comees to tithing i guess judaic practise becomes relevant but coming to a specific law God gave his people through Moses its now judaic abi?

TITHING IS BY REVELATION, NOT A JUDAIC PRACTICE. ABRAHAM GAVE TITHES, AND JACOB GAVE TITHES BEFORE JUDAIC PRACTICES EVER CAME INTO BEING.
STUDY YOUR SCRIPTURES WELL.

STUDY ROMANS 13, WHICH SPEAKS OF HONOURING CUSTOMS FOR WHOM IT IS DUE.
ALSO, JUDAIC PRACTICES ARE NOT NECESSARILY CHRISTIAN PRACTICES, THEY ONLY SHOW SOME SYMBOLIC SEMBLANCE.
OP TAKE NOTE. WORK HARD AND PAY THE BRIDEPRICE OF ANY CUSTOM YOU HOPE TO MARRY FROM.
SHALOM EVERYONE.

[quote author=wadetaw202 post=36494920][/quote]wadetaw,
I didnt know you really wanted to be me....*shakes head pitifully* thank God for social media

wadetaw202:
meesr unbigoted old man, you would answer my question if you still have some sense of reasoning left in your old head.

coward hiding under social media...even your father and mother wouldn't dare spew such trash if they see me face to face....

coolitempa:
thunder fire ur palmwine head.......muumuu....

Mr. satanic, repent before its too late.

PassingShot:
Wailing is allowed.

Buhari......we still dey wait for the change o

coolitempa:
muumuu......

I hear you, just repent.....or perish

coolitempa:
Nothing satanic in supporting Biafra..... ....since you claim to know the seven things that God hates including the jamming of heads...... ....

you are satanic....repent or perish.

coolitempa:
The day you Yorubas stop deceiving ur selves......and stop supporting the vile wickedness of d yeboes....the better it will be for you..... ...the same dirry mouth that u use to support them.....is the same mouth they will abuse...... see what they say about Soyinka these days....a man who risked his life....ditto banjo etc.... ...well I have learnt never to trust these people again and so should you...... ...when janadaft marginalised SW......where were those of them who supported us

Trust a flat.head at ur peril....

God hates 7 things, chief of which is jamming two heads together. you are indeed satanic.

applying BODMAS, the answer is 5

she is beginning to mature both mentally and age- wise...

omonnakoda:
lol masturbate na the new one wey dey reign for una,no more ZOO?
You folk are pathetic.Do you have any ideas of YOUR OWN?

lol.......tell that to your brothers....Igbos whether good or bad, are known for their high IQ, not amala and photoshopped brain....and the use of the word ' masturbation' in other forms of usage is new to you....just as I expected.

omonnakoda:
It is no excuse. You can tell yourself all kinds of tales to make yourself feel good but the truth is if you have the effrontery to slap the president do not expect that all you will get in return is a slap. Do you think one EBoe live is equal to one Akintola? No it is 10000 to 1 .So next time hopefully you will think TWICE

you go fear analysis....... keep marstubating your delusion.

omonnakoda:
It does not work like that reactions do not have to be equal and opposite.Sometimes when making payment one may choose to make advance deposit

awfully lame excuse....even ancient laws would say 'eye for eye'....any excuse you are giving is a lame attempt in covering your envy and hate for Igbos, because you fear Igbo domination..... inferiority complex....

wadetaw202:
Operation wetie has nothing to do with Igbo's. It occurred in the southwest between akintola, omoboriowo and awolowo's supporters.

Igbos were at the helm of affairs at the time in most of the public offices. so young military officers acted based on their sense of responsibility. the coup was nationalist, not tribalist.

wadetaw202:
So old man, ironsi's coup was a revenge right?

you see...this is why Nigeria can never be one...because of bigoted individuals like you.

jomoh:
I can see you're a goat and I won't dignify a goat with response again.
Shalom

light shineth, and darkness comprehendeth it not.... resist the devil, and he flees.... good riddance....

jomoh:
Mr facts cannot be distorted and your comment I quoted just proved it.

Mr Satan, father of lies.... SOPHISTICATED liar!