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Apologise for preventing Ojukwu from fighting the civil war in Yoruba territory while the Igbos continue to host cultural festivals in their own enclave?

Apologise for killing the Yoruba premier and Yoruba senior army officers while Ifeajuna sat for discussions with the Eastern premier instead of sending him to the world beyond?

Apologise for Biafran leaders preferring weapons to food for their starving population?

Apologise for preserving Igbo owned properties and handing over same after the war?

Apologise for a Yoruba officer pledging his allegiance and loyalty to an already condemned Igbo commander, then have Igbo revisionists claim years later that the Yoruba officer did nothing noble because he was also marked for assassination by the coupists?


Just say you are ungrateful and we can move on.

Any terrorist operating in that axis should be obliterated from this world.

No need for prisoners.

As for the Igbos who are consoling themselves to mask their frustration that militancy imported from the NigerDelta is being destroyed, they can replace the ijaws and also suffer the same destruction.

When a man destroys his own land and now wakes up to realise his mistake, he tries to reproduce the same destruction around him to make everyone equal. That is the situation with these Ijaw militants being massacred. They have destroyed their own region to the applause of their Igbo spectators, now they need a good place to destroy, seeing nothing good to destroy in the already deserted SE.

Now with the massacre being fed to them like hot dodo, is anyone surprised at the miserable spectators who urged them on the journey to self destruct, being the very ones lamenting about a genocide by the military that the natives are not worried about?

As for the Igbos developed Lagos chanters, I wonder what happened to the love for no mans land?
At the end of the day, a migrant would always be a migrant and a native would be a native. No native would ever rejoice in the destruction of his place and would do everything to restore sanity and destroy terrorism, except a migrant who eventually remembers he has a native village to return to.

I hope Anambra and Abia state already have plans for the Igbos who would be displaced from those locations when the dust finally settles?

Has anyone rescued Hyginus from the Ijaw terrorists that kidnapped him?

Poorboy:
leave the dumb nigga... Jobs will be created in lagos, lagos collects the tax and improve their IGR... THEN AT THE END HE SENDS REFINED PRODUCT TO NIGER DELTA WE BUY AND HE MAKES MORE MONEY.

What of the 13% derivation money earned from sales of crude oil to Dangote? Doesn't that add to the IGR of the states whose crude oil is sold?

Does the NigerDelta consume more refined products than other regions in the country? Or the refined products that would be sold internationally would be bought by foreigners with NigerDelta money?

Cry from morning till night, there's nothing that can placate your frustration that Dangote put his thinking cap on, and put the future of his investment our of your reach, control or sabotage.

Keep you crude in the storage tanks where it will turn to dollars, that will not stop the refinery, nor can you live without buying the refined products from the plant once importation stops.

Ikwokrikwo:
Someone is spending billions of dollars to lay pipelines to a particular location and you think he needs to be begged to buy oil from that same location? What kind of reasoning is this? Very dumb.
See how you are talking like you are Dangote himself...the man has made his intenions clear by investing in pipelines worth billions of dollars all the way to Rivers state, any other thing you say is your armchair opinion.

The earlier you climb down from your high horse the better for you. Did the report not mention that the refinery is designed to refine multiple types of crude available in different world locations?

He has made his investment to cater for both Nigerian and foreign crude. Nigerians crude will be supplied via the submarine pipeline from Lagos to as far as there's crude along the southern coast of Nigeria. Deliberately, no land pipelines would be installed to access the hinterland producing areas and states.
If Rivers State or Delta State would blow its own landing docks that can be accessed at the surface, supply would still continue along the sub marine pipeline from other locations.

As for foreign crude, too many suppliers are jostling for a market for their crude and Dangote has just opened up a big market now for world crude.

If your plan is to blow up Dangote's pipeline or arm string him to kowtow to your whims, then you better find another vocation in life.

Minus the volume sold as crude export, producing states need Dangote to buy their crude to increase their 13% derivation income, while Dangote just needs to get crude from anywhere without being beholden to anyone.

Start making plans on how to sell your crude oil to Dangote instead of making demands that are just whispers to the overall investment plans of Dangote.

Ikwokrikwo:
If he had the choice, he wouldn't ve laying expensive pipelines to as far as Rivers state

He does not need to lay pipelines to Ghana or Senegal or Sao Tome and Principe. He only needs to use vessels to Transport from those locations. He has laid pipelines for the crude oil producing locations in his own country.

At the end of the day, it is those locations in Nigeria that will implore Dangote to buy their own crude over that of Equatorial Guinea or Gabon.

It is his choice to make, so start making your sales pitch to Dangote while Gabon too makes its own sales pitch on how their own crude is best for Dangote.

You're not in a position to make demands but to sell. But if stupidity is not far-fetched in the NigerDelta, let Rivers State blow out its own landing dock for the pipeline, and watch Akwa Ibom rejoice at the absence of 1 more competitor to its own crude.

Lagos and Ondo production is already guaranteed. Both states know that you have to sell crude to make money, not store crude to make money.

caesaraba:
You bloody f00l. Did he say he wanted to collect your crude for free? As a smart businessman, he has sited his refinery seaside so that he can easily buy from the thousands of other crude merchants roaming the seas with crude at prices cheaper than what he'll get from the avengers.

Only a mad man will use private funds and site any valuable business (even if it's a public toilet) in the Niger Delta at this moment. It's his money, you can go fvck yourself. Thank you.

To add to that, it is also deliberately located seaside to enable exportation of refined products to other parts of the world.

One would expect that the oil producing states in Nigeria would be happy that they not only get 13% derivation from crude that is sold as export, but also on crude that is sold to Nigerian refineries to produce derivatives consumed both locally and internationally.

If Dangote and others can make Nigeria a petroleum refining hub for the rest of the world, the likes of Akwa Ibom, Delta or Ondo states could earn more money from 13% derivation from crude being refined for local sale and export, than what they currently earn on crude just exported as raw material.

Ikwokrikwo:
Thought they have oil and gas in Lagos? Why is Dangote laying pipelines all the way from Rivers to the same Lagos. Ambode come and answer o.

Any state that does not want to supply Dangote crude or gas should blow off its own part of the subsea pipeline at the docking station at the surface, then begin to lament why their neighbouring state is using funds derived from Dangote's patronage to outperform their own dormant state economy.

Every seller rejoices when a sale is made, because the buyer had the choice to have bought elsewhere.

Achuwa1:
Hope Dangote is making arrangement for crude outside Niger Delta tht he will be refining in his new refinery tht he is building in Lagos.
Because u cant be building refinery in Lagos & be loading crude from Niger Delta to refine in Lagos,unless he will be refining crude explored from sw.
if Dangote wants crude from Niger Delta he would have built his refinery in SS coz we have other peaceful states of Akwa ibom to build it if he feels Delta state is not safe.
we are watching & waiting coz what NDA is doing nw will be small compared with what will happen then if an inch of crude is to be lifted from Niger delta to be refined in Lagos.

Is he buying the crude or are you giving him for free?

If you chose not to sell, he buys elsewhere. It is his choice to make, while you should be begging that his choice will be to patronise NigerDelta crude.

He holds the ace here, he is not at your mercy.

AJINATU:
Because they are Ijaw Militants. Their identity is not in question. Locals know them

Whether they are Ijaws or Yorubas, they must be totally obliterated from this world that we know.

mazichika:
PDP has already filed for a stay of execution.
You and know too well that such judgement from Abang is pure disgrace to our judiciary.
Can a high overrule another high court?

NJC should call okon Abang to order before be damage their little re£aining image!

I believe you've just summarised what Justice Abang declared as Judgement.

He has declared that a high court judgement in PH could not have overruled one in Lagos (which was not given by Justice Abang). I am happy you've also conceded to this opinion going by your expression in bold.

So if that be the case, why was Makarfi elected using a PH High Court judgement as authority, when there was a judgement already given by a Lagos High Court preventing that convention from even occuring, talkless of electing a Chairman with it?

In the end, Justice Okon Abang has proved to be one of the few sane Judges in the country. He deserves accolades, even from you. It is time NJC nominates Justice Abang to a higher court.

aresa:
You didn't see google before asking your dumb and ignorant question?

See how you land inside trap. silly ipobs

You trap am like Jerry the mouse.

LOL!

The NigerDelta and any other oil producing state should be appealing to Dangote to buy its own crude even if his refinery is in Mali.

You sell your crude, you get increased income as 13% derivation.

Any serious state government would have already began liaising with Dangote. This is the time for Delta State to try outdo Akwa Ibom in terms of oil derivation revenue, this is the time for economic competition instead of foolishly making demands forgetting that the customer will patronise the seller of his choice.

I don’t recall that there's an oil company called NigerDelta oil. As for the recognised oil companies producing Nigerian crude oil, they can chose to sell and make money which is the purpose of their venture into that business, or they can choose not to sell and somehow watch their crude oil turn into currency notes by a miracle while in the storage tanks.

gartamanta:
Let's assume all the above it true, then what is the point of 'one Nigeria'? You should bear in mind that if it is a question of who started killing who first and who responds in kind, the Northerners are guilty. The Kano massacre of 1945 and the Jos riots of 1953 are testaments of the Norths hatred for Igbos and this was long before the January 1966 coup. So, if being together means we have to kill each other, what is the point of 'one Nigeria'?

Despite the advantages of joint population and land mass, I'm not really an advocate of staying together if it means killing each other whenever we find a convenient excuse.

The killings you mentioned are factual but triggered impromptu as reaction from people not known to have any patience or value for human life.
The killings of January and July 1966 were however planned and executed to settle scores and achieve political objectives of the tribes involved.

He was killed by lazy Indonesians who envied him for his success.

Is it a crime to be hardworking and successful?
Is it a crime to want to develop Indonesia?
Is it a crime to take advantage of the "visionlessness" and docility of the native people?

Yoruba propaganda media must have reported him to the authorities there.

Cc: Knowledge9000, another Igbo misfortune to blame on Yorubas who determine your happiness or misery.
He failed to heed your warning to be very vigilant. If only he knew Yorubas very well like you do. They went after him and brought him down because he was promoting commerce in Indonesia instead of Lagos.

Indeed it was.

It was a case of if you can do it, we can do it better. If you can laugh at us for misery that you caused, we can make you miserable too. If you can gloat at our misfortune, we can give you something to wail over. You want to tell your kids stories of how you killed others, why not let us add stories of how you were massacred too.

You fail to render justice to mutinous soldiers, we render justice as we deem it fit.

You want a unitary government led by you while others follow? Why not see if you like it when others led and you be the follower?

DonMaxxy:
Somewhere in the West somebody is sharing yams without oil and pepper to the indigenes of his state...

Somewhere in the East another is busy exporting and making more money cos the indigenes of his state are hardworking...

The rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer...

Take it or leave it all fingers are not equal.


God save Nigeria
God help Ekiti state
God bless the Light of the nation

I wonder what the above poster has to say now that he had boasted and gloated on a lie that has not increased the purse of the Anambra state government?

One woman was photographed using her teeth to tear the leaves supposedly meant for export to Europe.

LOL!

The above expose really got me cracked up. Imagine the African touch to pruning and packaging vegetables for consumption in Europe?

Anyway, Obiano should try not to launder his image or embellish facts to make for higher political points. At the end when exposed, you lose all the political points ever accrued.

So Ben Bruce was put into debt by Yorubas in 2011 for promoting made in Aba products in 2015?

"We SE" that has no backbone without including "we SS".

I reckon the SW has continued to determine the fate of some regions whose success only depends on the SW allowing it?

I am happy that the OP is a miserable man and made so by Yorubas. I am also happy his children will inherit this misery and continue to see the Yorubas as the ones who determine their fate, their success or failure.

I hope IPOB will rescue HYGINUS from the Ijaw militants they were cheering on?

yang:
The zoo Airforce shelling Arepo

What kind of a stupid country is this

How can a millitary arrive community in fighter jets and start shelling it

This dullard buhari loves genocide


And npbody is talking

Today its arepo, tommorow it might be your community

Why are you crying more than the bereaved?

Better the military shelling the place and committing genocide against terrorists, than terrorists committing crimes against the state and law abiding citizens.

Today it is Arepo, tomorrow it must be the origins of the terrorists in the NigerDelta creeks.

superstar1:
10years ago I was gisting with my cousin in UK and he asked me whether i have registered on the new raving forum in Nigeria, Nairaland. I told him I do not even have any idea that the new Forum exists. I quickly logged on and found one elementary website bearing Nairaland. Not deterred by the perceived elementary outlook of the forum, I registered and was happy to belong to a platform where i can air my view ona ny issue about my country to the world.

I only restricted myself to Sport section, most especially Manchester United thread. I do peep into Politics, culture and tribal sections once in a while, but there was really nothing unusual apart from the usual news we all have access to in the regular media. Culture section was more informative with some NL encyclopedia lecturing on us who we are as Africans and other cultural stuffs. Due respect to AndreUwe and Fulamania.

Fast forward to mid-2008, Politics section started getting hot with waves upon waves of attacks on Yorubas from Igbos who were spewing their remixed version and make-me-happy tales by moonlight of their Fathers and Uncles false heroics. Major cuplrits were Deridegull, Chino, Oneast or Chinology. Most guys ignored them except Dayokanu that made it a point of duty to decimate all their claims, with Katsumoto delivering irrefutable facts to nullify all animosities against the Yorubas. The hours upon hours of lectures and counter ectures from Katsumoto and Deridegull or Duru1 were very informative. By early 2010, subtle warnings were being sent to Seun to curb tribalism in Politics section, he did not see it as anything serious. By mid-2010, other yorubas felt enough is enough of these shenanigans coming from igbos. The likes of OPCNairaland, MayorofLagos, jakumo, IlekeHD, Gbawe, Aareonakakanfo, Shymexx,led the full scale attack, with Desola being the only female, always hitting the mark in a very subtle but effective way.

This culminated in the myth bursting season, monicker expose season, the season of truce with rendezvous at Beerhugz Ikeja. Ngozievergreen will never forget NL. Those were very brutal days in Politics section of NL. 2015 election brought out the good, the bad and the ugly of NL. It was a propaganda and campaign ground for the major political parties. That was the season of PPP -Pay Per Post. Post election ushered in the cry for bia.fra season. Seun responded to this cry in a manner that has never been seen before on NL. I am not sure DSS did not threaten him on that particular issue.

Due to the clamp down on secession cries, some threatened to migrate out of NL and never to come back. They left, they were not missed and voila, they are back. Some even created parallel fora that never had the pull effect of NL and such fora died a natural death.

We are presently in the season of indiscriminate bans. Just came back from a lengthy ban and i cannot even guarantee not being banned before end of today. . We have seen it all on NL.

The diversity of opinion and the scintillating presentations of some are what make NL thick and addictive. It will be the highest hypocrisy if I fail to mention that tribalism and ethic jabs are also part of the fun of NL, that you might not really get elsewhere, except on Vanguard online and probably Facebook. In the midst of the jabs, we learn one or two things. Atimes some jabs make you to read up on such jabs and you will come back to give a merciless counterjabs. . Veterans will understand what i am talking about.

Government agencies, political parties, security agencies and even print media now know that anyone that ignores NL is doing so at his or own peril. This is a classical example of online forum that has given power to the youths and masses. Here, we can report any agency or personnel of government or corporation or individuals that misbehaves in real time without any fear of harassment, which was prevalent in the days of the likes of Fela and Gani Fawehinmi.

By and large, I have learnt a lot from NL in the last 10years. While growing up, I was never interested in who were our forefathers as Africans, who we were as a people, the events that led to the amalgamation of North and South, the civil war, Awo, Zik, Ahmadu Bello or Oduduwa. The contributions of all from every nook and cranny of Nigeria challenged me to read up, to separate the truth from fallacy. I had to read virtually every book or write up ever written on Nigerian Civil War, Pre and post-independence era, the days of the Evil Genius Maradona, the dark days of Abacha and the emergence of the 4th republic democracy in Nigeria. I also picked interest in the top 5-7 ethnicities in Nigeria and I had to read up on their histories too.

Seun thanks for creating this forum. It has been an avenue for youths to air their opinion freely, demand better governance and forge a better country for ourselves. Even the ethnic jabs is forcing all parties to have mutual respect for ourselves despite all the animosities and probably collaborate to achieve an objective of a better country.

I am specially hailing Katsumoto, Dayokanu, Desola, Chino, Abagworo, Shymexx, Duru1, Dede1 AndreUwe, Fulanmania, Aresa, OrlandoOwoh, Ijakumo, Modath, Soundking, Sunnybobo, Anonimi, StBlack, StOla, arewafederation, AareOnakakanfo, cheruv, debosky, PenSniper, eggheaders, oduastates, Ngwakwe, EzeNri, dearpreye, dozzybaba (mad-dest boy on NL), VICTORCIZA, OPCNairailand, NgeneUkwenu, idupaul, MayorofLagos, T9sky, pazienza, Jason123 Deridegull, IlekeHD, ACM10, raumdeuter, odenigboaroli, 9jacrip, Aigbofa, Beaf, Passingshot, nduchucks, Iyangbali, fiiznation, Firefire, Omenka, Orikinla, Anonimi, Aljarem, Berem, ijawmilitant, EasternActivist, Babyosisi, JAckBaueress1, Freeglobe, ANAMBRAII, tupacshakur, Zimoni, demdem, kobojunkie, fstranger, barcanista or is it Tonyebarcanista, ezeagu, obiagu1, basilo101, tonychristopher etc You contributed immensely in making NL a vibrant social forum it is today, most especially the Politics section.

Looking forward to another decade.

Thanks for your dedicated service and recognition too.


I had spent lots of years consuming information in volumes of encyclopaedia britannica, biographies, autobiographies and historical accounts on people, places, countries, events and organisations.

I took an interest in political forums and programmes on CNN (Cafferty File) in the build up of the Obama primary campaign and eventual primary and presidential election wins. I enjoyed the back and forth arguments from the contributors, even making a couple of contributions of my own while seated in Lagos Nigeria.

I was totally oblivious of what Nairaland had to offer as regards contributing to the national discourse in my own country, despite knowing that the forum existed. Later on in early 2012, I got to experience Nairaland from the fits of laughter from a work colleague who was lucky to be the only one whose PC had not been barred from accessing non-work related websites, allowing him to make Nairaland his source information and amusement.

Luck soon smiled on my colleague who moved on to a better job offer, and I got drafted to his own unit and inherited his unrestricted computer. This allowed me to encounter Nairaland front page stories by default whenever the internet browser was launched. I soon got tired of watching by the sidelines as religious God of Men and their religious junkie zombies ran riot all over the religion section.

Indeed, I signed up to Nairaland not for the politics that had previously attracted me to foreign fora, but to save the gullible from religion induced mental slavery. With time I soon realised the Politics section was a natural habitat for me, and forsook the religious arguments that did nobody any good in this world that we know nor changed the society for the benefit of those not posing behind the pulpit or holding the fraudulent tithe collection box.

In all, Nairaland has been very instrumental to giving everyone a voice and debating opinions and very bright ideas. Unfortunately, it has also served as a medium to vent ethnic frustration from all quarters, helping to crystallize the hate and mistrust that had always existed from the beginning of our absurd nationhood.

It is a great thing that superstar1 has come this far amidst the bans and metamorphosis of identity. Nairaland truly owes its present success to dedicated and devoted members like you, your contemporaries, and even your adversaries.

Cheers!

Sherrif is the personification of a fish bone in the throat of a glutton.

The desperate PDP that needed Sherrif to be Chairman is the glutton of my illustration.

iflywithbuhari:
The people of Ughene should shutup and hold their peace. Everywhere in the world, the caste system is being practiced whether transparently or opaquely. It's all this useless Osu that come to lagos, to engage in prostitution and lesbianism. They go as far as having taboo sexual intercourse with Yorubas and even hausas. The Osu custom must be enforced and a clear system of identification should be implored.

You must be the last surviving student of Hitler.

Your theory of sub-humans within the same race and tribe, and your notion on the identification of this sub-humans for better identification within their tribe, merits you the accolade of Best Student.

LORDOFAFONJAS:
SOUTH SOUTH and SOUTH EAST are not one in this case oooo

LOL!

So "we SS and SE" does not exist in this matter?

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

On a serious note, even the execution of a mass murderer is not a pleasant event. However, it is the duty of every society or country to rid itself of scourges like corruption and hard drugs using whatever methods necessary.

OlanreJohnson:
We yoruba musleeems are happy about this news because it helps to keep the oil from the former Eastern region flowing to us in Osun. Without oil we can't survive in the SW.

I didn't know that Delta, Edo, and Ondo were all parts of the former Eastern region too?

Similar to a Nigerian coach like Kadiri Ikhana begging NFF not to impeach FIFA president.

Anenih you have been noticed.

ConqueredWest:
An AFONJA spotted

Another slowpoke from the East spotted. Very miserable and always consoling himself with more misery.

Always seen rejoicing where there's anarchy and strife.

ganisucks:
She should visit the US and clear all doubts, period.

No!

The same mouth Fayose used to create doubt about an Aisha Buhari character in the USA that had been long revealed when the present first lady was just a private citizen in Kaduna, that same mouth of his would be used to clear the doubt.

You nor Fayose do not tell her when or where to travel to. She does not report to you and do not owe you a visit to the USA. Fayose however owes the courts the facts of his accusations.

If Fayose can prove his accusations in court, it would be to her shame. If Fayose cannot prove his accusations in court, then it will serve as a teachable moment for all Nigerians that love to propagate false information just to damage the image of another person.

Stop begging for Fayose. He has been presented with a rare opportunity to deal with Buhari and his wife, let him go to court and make his supporters proud.

STARGREEN:
This is waste of time Ma... sorry St Halliburton. a mere visit to the United States will surely resolve the matter.

A visit to the USA will not prosecute Fayose for his libellous crime.
What she is doing is taking Fayose to the legal arena where he can either prove his allegations or condemn himself.

The court is not a place for beer parlour talk, Fayose will have to bring his facts for the accusation he has made.
Fayose would explain to the courts when he became the FBI operative in Nigeria, and when the FBI disclosed that they are investigating the Aisha Buhari that is resident in Nigeria not USA, and is the wife and not Daughter of the president.

He has asked for a burden, let him carry it with the eagerness at which his mouth moves.

How will Fayose prove his case?

Will he write to the FBI to help him identify the first lady as the Aisha Buhari character?

The FBI then replies that "Mr Fayose you are on your own, we no send you message say we dey find any Aisha Buhari in Nigeria."

This is one case where I would love to see someone made a scape goat for making baseless accusations with the hopes of tarnishing the image of the person wrongly accused.