houvest:


+ 1million. You have hit it smack on the head.

These people really think they can play with the intelligence of Nigerians by pulling out as many conspiracy theories as possible out of the woodwork to excuse the North and make the South  especially SS and SE liable. They even tried to bring in their usual divide and rule strategy to divide the south by trying to paint OBJ and by extention the SW in good light and SS and SE in bad surreptitiously bringing up the biafra scare-mongery and scapegoatism to deflect attention from the BH terrorism and attempted to re-build the usual  pan-Nigeria anti- Biafra coalition but this time without the SS.  At no point did he say anything to sympathise with the Igbo dilemma but only said that they are the largest in number in the churches in the North, therefore they should endure it and remain in the North and continue being killed untill the Security apparatus stops BH. Not even the courtesy of admitting that there is a real threat and that they might have to go even if temporarily for their own safety  or send home their wives and children in the interim, to show empathy ; Instead it is the usual northern insensitivity, sadism, wickedness, arrogance and bragadoccio
of  'they should go if they are tired of the North' or 'it is a pretext to seccession'.
However did this man become a senator and what honesty ever is required to become a vice president of ACF? Does the tea and buruntashi served at ACF meetings so intoxicate and blind that  Waku, a supposed christian can not see beyond his nose , the fundamentalist muslim threat on the Nation, his religion and his people?

However Waku should realise that he and his people will be used and dumped by Arewa to fight the SS and SE the way Gowon and his people were used to fight Biafra and later dumped and being targetted presently if he dishonestly continues seeing it as a SE/SS  affair or creation. I cry for you Waku because he that rides a tiger ends up in its belly. Expect more campaigns in this direction in the following weeks using Biafra scare tactics and a spurious claim of SS nepotism as talking points.

However the sun's title of the interview is so sensational that you wont believe that they took out a statement that is about 1 per cent of the whole interview to title it in order to sell their paper.  They should have used a more appropriate and wholistic titlebut probably, if they really wanted to protect Ndigbo and draw attention to it, added this as a sub-script.

This was what I was going to say. This is their strategy.

Negro_Ntns:

. . . nigga, you are light skinned people, you are industrious, you never had king beside ones you imitated, you looove money, you are short, you are distributed all over the world, everywhere you go you irritate people, your are targeted by the Islam North, your origin is Nri - a Jew. . . . what else can your a s s be other than Jew?  
You punk!

LOL, you must be blind. Even in the states, in places like houston where many igbos live, we are known to be tall, muscular men. White americans beg igbo parents to have their sons play sports at local high schools and universities. They pass up on yorubas everyday and see yall as weaklings. This is something that a white man told me and I was shocked when he said it. I even tried to stick up for you people against his comments because I don't accept a white man saying anything against black people in general.

Here is the number 1 American football player in the country, Igbo boy:

http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/02/07/robert-nkemdiche-the-circus-begins-for-the-nations-no-1-overall-prospect/

At 17, he is 6 foot 5 inch and 270 pounds, fast and strong.

I agree with OP. Let Ikwerre be what they want to be. We will gladly support them in their decision to live in the niger delta republic with the ijaw. We will move on to biafra without them.

I know some ikwerre people and some don't know why they feel that way. Some say they are igbo, some say they are ikwerre. It would be like someone from Nkwerre, Imo state saying he is no longer igbo. It would make no sense. Every town has their own dialect. Only Ndigbo on this board will understand this example. Before the war, ikwerre did not deny their igbo ties. The names that they carry do not lie on their identity even until today. The abandoned property issue and the fear of marginalization after the civil war made them deny their igboness. People must remember that ikwerre is very small group when compared to ijaw and other groups. Their move to deny their igboness after the war was a political strategy, because they have no numerical strength. Some igbos today drive by property that they or their fathers once owned but lost due to "abandoned property." I can tell you that no igbo man can brag about having something he has never worked for without being shamed by his own people. We take pride in building something from our own hands. The acceptance of abandoned property was the beginning of laziness for many groups.

This is how many of them feel about Ndigbo. What he said is what we have heard among many yorubas on this board. We shouldn't be shocked that this rhetoric is not confined to just NL. Before someone commits acts of hate (pogroms, massacres, genocide) against a group of people, the rhetoric (both written and spoken) must come before it. I don't know why these people cannot let us go our separate ways and disintegrate this union. Nigeria is like a man with many wives, in which some are neglected, abused and beaten but the husband keeps begging them to stay. We Ndigbo have filed the papers for divorce and are awaiting on the dissolution of this marriage with "one Naijerya."

dayokanu:

We know who the lineage of cowards are in case you are confused, Ask Effiong

The b1nch fled the war front and left the populace to die

What a shame to war generals.

God bless Effiong a true general who waited not the biatch who fled

This is coming from a people who were enslaved by the fulani and forced to covert to islam. Who is the real coward? If yoroobas were in our shoes at that time you all would be muslims today, cowardly people. If given 20 pounds, you people would sell us your villages just as you continue to sell lagos to us. Baboon looking bastards!

If the East can get a real international airport and seaport, there would be nothing we couldn't accomplish even in "one Nigeria." The building of a sea port and international airport are federal projects in every country. Making the state do it, makes it very hard because you are talking about international flights and business that will be conducted through these places. States should not be dealing alone in such areas. Any city/region in the world that is successful in business has an real international airport and/or seaport. If these are created, people will see more Igbos relocated back East. Then we can start conferation and eventually breakaway from Nigeria.

Negro_Ntns:

A lot of these guys in Lagos that have succeeded in the typical fake product marketing are what in the igbo society would be called "osu".  It does not matter how successful or well educated they are, their society discriminate against them.  They are an outcast in that society and the osu stigma is lifelong.  They cannot hold titles or lead the igbo tribe.  Their relevance is limited to fellow osus like themselves.  

As a result, they take any slight opportunity to get out of their discriminating society and go live in societies outside iboland that are more liberal and embracing of their humanity. Once they leave most never look back home.  This is why inspite of many years of killing and oppression in North, they still prefer and loved that region far more than the oppression and indignity suffered in the hands of their own people back home.  For this reason, iboland is deserted.  It is not the industriousness that make them leave. . . they can be just as industrious on their soil, but rather the crime against their humanity.  

They will never use ports in East, even if you dredge the Delta and bring the sea into iboland and build a world class harbour and port in there. . . . these guys will not go to iboland.  Hence, as new structures and facilities are built in East. . . there is hardly anyone to use them and so they lay underutilized.  A waste of money!  

It is not a seaport that ibos need to go back home. . . . it is abolition of the osu caste.  

Have you talked to these igbos to ask if they are "osu"? Many igbos are not practicing this belief anymore. I have many relatives that live in Lagos and are doing well. Real movers and shakers in lagos. So to assume that all or the majority of Igbos are "osu" in Lagos is stupid. When Christmasn comes we know that the majority of Igbos go back East? This is a fact that cannot be disputed.

9ja voice:

our southern muslims should stop defending this northern muslims anytime their evil is revealed.

after they islamize us what next.  the hausa/fulanis is upto something.

whenever i see yoruba and igbos bashing themselfs i just laugh and say these guys are blind.
why not unite and stop the hausa. our bigger enemy is the hausas/fulanis. how do we igbo/yoruba ended up taking
eachother as more enemy than hausa/fulani.

lets unite now or forever cry without remedy at sight.

No, you are blind. Who have been the ally of the north for all these years? You need to know Nigeria's history before typing.

I know for certain that many yorubas have been killed in riots in Jos, northern Nigeria and during the election violence when NYSCs were kiled. I think that yorubas prefer other groups to voice their displeasure with these events to keep the yoruba away from the forefront of these issues. It is almost as if they are invisible when such things happen.

kettykin:

Actually thses yoruba peopla are not active, proactive or reactive they are just passive, if your remember , the incaceration of Awolowo and the Declaration of State of Emergency in the western region was not even resisted by yorubas until Nzeogu struck.
The killing of thier man Fajuyi a gentle man and a soldiers soldier was not resisted rather it was the killing of Akintola a bloody enemy of Awolowo .

Also the Annulment of june 12 and incareation of MKO Abiola and the 17 yoruba generals was not resisted with force of arms or even violent demonstrations until death took Abacha away.

you need to understand the yorubas and their antecedents they will rather protest fuel subsidy than the violent Murder of their Kinsmen in Deeper life Gombe and Apostlic Church Mubi
Anybody working with Yorubas need a lot of caution and tact . yorubas are A vulture that would rather pounce on the carcass of a predator rather than be a predator

Damn, that hurts and I am not yoruba.

namfav:

we're not talking about other people, we are talking about these 13 that were killed by there own kinsmen, its really sad

rip

You and the governor are liars from the pits of HELL. You know that those reports are not true, Who are these business rivals then? wouldn't they be easy to identify? It is because of people like you that Nigeria is under the control of SATAN.

RIP to the victims

Who created Nigeria? Is it not the British?

Why do some you love Nigeria so much? A country that gives you nothing in return. I pity some of you people that love suffering rather than peace. The North has had control of the country for decades and they have nothing to show for it but aljimiris and boko harem. With all the money they looted, where is their education system and jobs for their people? Look at the poverty they face. The only place in the world where polio is still common. They are backwards. They have nothing to blame but themselves. If the East was allowed to loot as long as the years the North had power. The East would look like Dubai. There would not be one thing we would lack. NIGERIA IS A FAILED STATE, NO MATTER WHAT A STUPID WHITE MAN IN THE US SAYS. WE NEED TO BREAK UP!

DanKan0:



Thats why, only mainly in Nigeria and Sudan.

[img]http://mathildasanthropologyblog.files./2008/06/fulanimap.jpg?w=500&h=326[/img]

Other fulanis are of course in many other countries.

I am aware of those maps. If they have so much in common, why don't they create Arewa?

That is a very small number but than again most Nigerians don't have relatives in the states. Many of my relatives have been giving Visas over the past few years to the US and Canada. All my cousins have now graduated from universities in the states and are living a very comfortable life.

This should be circulated to every Biafran son and daughter! All this talk against Biafra, but when I tell non-Nigerians, whether they be black american, white or asian to read about the history of Nigeria and Biafra. They all SAY THE SAME THING, THAT BIAFRA SHOULD BE A COUNTRY. They all say that they will support Biafra, NOT ONE has said othereise. You know what the most shocking thing to them when they read about it. That during the COLD WAR on that USSR (SOVIET UNION) and UK were on the same side. The US remained silent supporter and everybody knows that whatever the UK does the US is in agreement with and vice versa. But we will hold our heads high, those that died will never be forgotten. Some of the truest words ever spoken by a great man.

Marriage has become a scam in the states. For many men, getting married is one of the biggest mistakes they have ever made in their life. Men are crippled financially in many instances after marriage and treated as criminals if they cannot afford to pay child support and in some cases alimony.

obowunmi:

Blooody Americans --- how many times have the government told them not to go to Delta region.

silly prick.

Americans are there to make their millions and bring it back to the states and enjoy life. Many have no idea how the western world is getting rich off of oil in the delta. Why would a white man leave his life of comfort and family to come to Naijerya? He is not there to be a humitarian.

OgidiBoy:

I wonder when Texas "Dallas" would have our own memorial service. If anyone knows please share with the rest of us because I will not miss it for

the world.

RIP EZE IGBO!!!

I know that there are many Easterners in Texas. I am in Houston right now. We must celebrate this great man! I am sure that we will get information soon.