₦airaland Forum

Bonessaw:
And where is Obudu ranch located? A large expanse of grazing lands with Presidential guest houses. GEJ used to spend his holidays there.

Did you build obudu?

You need to read history, I have already busted the myth today

Seerade029:
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As if western region was lacking behind

It wasn't written by Yoruba oo.

seunmsg5

Bro he is showing us how they milked the Rest of Eastern minorities by planting crops on the land of minorities to develop five star hotels in Enugu and Port

And they used the revenue to develop a Cement factory in Ebonyi.

Is that not enough?

Nigeriabiafra80:
Try and read
Lagos became capital of southern protectorate
In 1906
When the southern Nigeria was declared
Taken away from calabar

Before then Lagos was a separate protectorate on his own and called Lagos colony.

Nigeriabiafra80:
Coal was what made enugu capital of eastern region
Most white reside in Enugu
Due to coal mining
Business and governance move hand to hand
With British system of governance

It's not true.

If most white reside in Enugu then why was Calabar the port city chosen in the first place to be the capital of the whole of Southern Nigeria?

The largest income earner for Eastern Nigeria was plam oil not coal and of Cross river and calabar province also have potential for tourism.

pazienza:
Establishment of Presidential hotel in Enugu and Portharcourt.

Why not in calabar or Uyo or typical ijaw areas in Yenogoa, Why towns with significant igbo population

pazienza:
More

All the none igbo areas generated the highest revenue, so why weren't they developed at the same pace as the igbos?

See the Ibibio areas of ibom with large revenue, yet not a single ibibio was chosen as a minister in the list we saw yesterday.

Why?

whirlwind7:
Oh dear.
Some people actually were not fitted with a brain at birth

What a horrible burden to bestow on a child

Bro, if you cannot read, call your brothers or sisters to read the news on your behalf

He would post an information and try to twist the narrative by saying something else.

It's like someone asking you to see red as white.

Let everyone look at the projects with objective minds.

pazienza:
Catering rest houses in Calabar, Ikom, Enugu, Aba,PH, Umuahia, Uyo, Ogoja, Owerri

Notice thatEvery province was carried along.
Equity and fairness is the Igbo man motto.
As encapsulated in our Egbe belu, Ugo belu ( let the kite petch and let the Eagle petch too) traditional philosophy.

@ emboldened

Where is the rest room in all these places

All I see is Plantations in those places and the revenues will be used to develop Enugu and the rest of igbo land.

Igbos couldn't develop Plantations in their own areas because they had small land mass, but could develop estates and fine hotels in their areas.

pazienza:
Oil palm estates in Eket, Calaro, Elele, Ibiam , Nsadiop.

Rubber estates in Elele, Etche, Amaeke Abam,Biakpam, nko,Emeabiam, Obiti

Cocoa estates: Umuahia, Arochukwu, Obienyi, Obubra, Bende, ghe Ayuk,Boje


Eastern region was planning to ramp up its cocoa production to generate more revenues.

I thought you said you develop industry among the minorities

Isn't this just to exploit the Minorities in East?

You milk them of the money they make to build Cement factory in Nkalagu


PS: The idiot arguing about the cement in Nkalagu on my thread should come and see his stupidity now

He said colonial masters developed the cement factory not igbos because he was ashamed at how they marginalise minorities.

Nigeriabiafra80:
Yoruba impostor
capita of Southern protectorate was move from calabar to lagos
Not enugu
Mumu
Tribalism don eat ya brain

So why didn't calabar retain the capital since it already function as capital for Southern Nigeria previously?

Meanwhile, Lagos was never part of Southern Nigeria when Calabar was capital.

Fatimaade:
The power of the pen
Since then they have been coming up with Mbaise tales

Look at our forefathers vrs their own
We are enjoying owambe things

We have always enjoyed life and any group of people that love life can never harbour hatred for so long.

We live our life according to our terms not anyone's choices

We love to live life and enjoy our times on earth.

You only live ones YOLO

Fatimaade:
Loool I like Awolowo makes them react like this loool

They still see him in their nightmare years after his death,

bear in mind he wasn't even alive when most of this Indomie generation were born.

Asgard13:
Awo face is on my 100 while zik is on my 500..

Uni zik is named after Awolowo

Typical Yoruba rant...

Ignorance is a bliss

Oponu ni eleyi sha

Who is talking of Uni Zik or N500 or you don't know Obafemi Awolowo university in Ife.

Even Awolowo was honoured before Zik was given 500

Asgard13:
Ojukwu na freedom fighter and believe in fighting oppression and injustice

He led more than 3 million of us and would likely get more if demanded to fight the cause which the 3 million handed over to him
He fough gallantly and died a hero

Is Awolowo a Yoruba hero... an ambitious man with heart filled lies jealousy and envy..
He wanted to be Nigeria President... a post which zik has held
He failed and died a wretched ogboni man..

Died taking his own life ... sign of Yoruba bravery and went to rAt hell
Now poor Awolowo is in hell burning with his fellow rats..

After all gra gra on earth

Freedom fighter that was drinking Bornrvita and toast bread when your parents were dying of malnutrition in the East

Whose freedom was he fighting for with his failed political career?

His wife even failed untop. I have never seen a man failed so much in my life.

Juliusmalema:
They put awolowo on note not worth up to a dollar.

Indeed he is a worthless man..


leave ikenne tales and Tales of moonlight in ikenne....
Awolowo think he can poke nature without consequences but he died regretting it. Not just that but with rat poison.
Well, Awolowo has no history. West are just trying hard to fit him in to history but no correlation for that.

Ogbeni go and recite your poem elsewhere jare

Don't disturbe me if you have nothing else to say

Asgard13:
Yoruba live in dreamland.. when it suit them wiki becomes valid
If it doesn’t... Yoruba will say anybody can amend it
Meanwhile na dem Dey arrange am to fit in their narratives

Okay... see as you gave him reality... his ignorance chose Yoruba propaganda

This people don’t know anything except for insults and name calling

Corner a Yoruba man will truth and watch him display sophistication by insults ..both your parents.. your tribe .. even they reality the hate

Check their post on nairaland... if it’s not insults is not Yoruba

Ogbeni don't cry on my page oh

Bring any evidence that supports his kindergarten arguments and stop derailing my thread

Juliusmalema:
Tales of moonlight in ikenne....


Awolowo think he can poke nature without consequences but he died regretting it. Not just that but with rat poison.
Well, Awolowo has no history. West are just trying hard to fit him in to history but no correlation for that.

Check your hundred naira note and cry

A famous university named after him

Has anyone in your lineage ever done anything that great?

Juliusmalema:
Awolowo think he can poke nature without consequences but he died regretting it. Not just that but with rat poison.

Well, Awolowo has no history. West are just trying hard to fit him in to history but no correlation for that.

Tell us one major thing achieved by Ojukwu outside leading 3 million igbos to death and a failed political career.

Ojukwu failed in everything he tried.

aworatak:
Again with your reference to Wikipedia which is not a credible source of information. It is obvious that I am arguing with an indomie generation pikin.

Please bring out other sources that supports your argument?

Juliusmalema:
Awolowo is a tribalist and died disgracefully.

And Ojukwu and Zik were heroes that led three million igbos to their early grave for nothing.

aworatak:
It is obvious that you are an empty vessel when it comes to history. So you are relying on Wikipedia which any tom, dick, Harry and drunkard has access to. My advice to you is to carry out a research on your own to avoid making a great mockery of yourself.

It obvious you don't know how to argue

At least bring out any Source to support your fairy tale you posted earlier.

Even a separate source by Lafrage claims that the cement factory was established after the one in Ewekoro in 1959, So how could colonial masters have set up the cement factory in 1957?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_Africa

aworatak:
The only thing that caught my attention in this garbage you posted was the bolded part.
It is important to clear the air on this falsehood you just posted before you pass it on to your gullible generations
The Nigerian Cement Factory(Nigercem) Nkalagu was set up by the colonial government around 1957/58. In 1961, the administration of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa decided to sell off the Federal Government's majority stake in NIGERCEM NKALAGU. Plans have been concluded by the Federal government to sell it's stake to a British consortium. However the Eastern Nigerian government headed by Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara convinced the Balewa administration to sell it's stake to the government of eastern Nigeria. For those that followed the privatisation process of Nigercem around 2004, the percentage of ownership were as follows:
The five south eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo States controlled a 51% stake in Nigercem while the Federal government held an 11% state in the company. The Federal government later sold it's 11%stake to the Ebonyi state government.
Cc Igboid, , Horsepower.

You think lies would save you here

Check history of Nkalagu cement factory posted on your Eastern Nigeria Wikipedia page. I came prepared


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria

Ibadan is 10,000 km

Ibadan municipal is 3000km

Which is the following local government area ibadan South west, ibadan South East, Ibadan North west, Ibadan North East and Ibadan north

Ibadan sub urban is 6000km

Which is the following local government area, Akinyele local government area, Lagelu Local government area, Ido local government area (Ajimobi's local government and the largest in Ibadan), Oluyole local government area, Egbeda local government area. Ona Ara (Makinde's Local government
Area.

Ibadan alone is bigger than Enugu state.

slivertongue:
God forbid I can't descend so low to fight for tribe or religion.
so count me out of your brouhaha.

ur take negates ur premise

Note: This write up is not to promote tribalism.

Busting lies is not tribalism

You jumping up and down on a trend that lied about the Yorubas yesterday is full tribalism.

Tyrant28:
My friend legendhero told me something a long time ago, he said "always verify anything an eboe man tells you"

if it was verifiable, they would have been putting it in our faces a long time ago.

It's not in the nature of igbos to hide achievement or progress.

I know all the houses in Nnewi today without ever being to the city before because the Anambrafirstson of a boy has litred Nairaland with pictures of the city.

slivertongue:
you have finally revealed ur intension. all the tribal threads can't add or remove from the tribes u all attack. dem no no say una dey exist. Worst is that tribal thread presentations are whacked. SW under Awo is ur business not theirs and versa

What was your intention yesterday?

My intentions have been revealed in the caption of this thread.

You don't need to be a secret agent to find out.

Seerade029:
OP, pls, change it from capital letter to small and bolded.

Thanks already done.

slivertongue:
all of you making tribal threads having one thing in common - poor historiography .

why not endeavour ur energies to market the good in ur tribes. am sure ur neither Igbo or the minorities u claim to speak for

Were igbos marketing their own tribe yesterday when they started attacking Awolowo's legacy and old western region?

Note: This write up is not to promote tribalism

So during the late hours of yesterday in a heated conversation in a Topic created by ethnic supremacists in an attempt to rewrite history to favour their narratives, A well known moniker who goes by the alias of Anambra First Son claimed that the Eastern region under igbo administration had developed minority tribes more than other regions during the first republic of Nigeria.

Well! under cross examination by this writer, his claims were busted as mere myths.

Here are some of the claims busted as lies so far, others would come shortly.

Obudu cattle ranch

Rice mills in cross River

Platations etc..

Obudu cattle ranch resort

1) A quick check of the history of the famous Obudu cattle ranch resort shows that the Ranch was established in the year 1951 by British business men even before Nigeria was separated into three regions in 1954. So how could Eastern region government have developed something that existed before them?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obudu_Mountain_Resort

Rice factory in Cross River

2) According to the governor of Cross river state, his state had no rice mill until 2017. Hence, before they had a rice mill, the rice cultivated in Cross river area were taken to Abakaliki for processing. He even went on to allege that most of the rice called Abaliki rice were all gotten from Cross river state.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/ben-ayade-cross-river-to-complete-ogoja-rice-mill-before-december/brtc4bz

Plantations of cash crops

4) Plantations of cash crops had been on since the colonial periods, I honestly feel it's a new low for any region to claim plantation as an achievement of some sort. Every region emphasized its development around plantation of cash crops in the first republic

4) it also worth noting that the only two factories eventually sited in amongst the minorities in the East like the old Cement Factory in Cross river and Glass factory in Portacult were sited there only after MINORITIES IN THE WEST HAD LEFT TO FORM THEIR OWN REGION

So What happened from 1954 to 1963? Why did the igbo led East first set up a cement industry in Ebonyi in 1962 before Cross river? Your guess is as good as mine!

INSERT

Despite the shorter life of the Western region when compared to the Eastern region, The largest wood processing Factory in Africa was set up in Sapele by UAC during this time.

In addition, Awolowo left them a legacy that positioned Edo and Delta states as those with the highest level of literacy in the South South today, even as most Yorubas admit today that Awolowo should have treated the minorities better.

Stay tuned for the next episode of myth busters Nairaland edition.

Nowenuse:
Nwanyiogwashi does not even know anything about Delta state. All he/she does is rant endlessly and pointlessly.

We know the real Aniomas when we see them.

Honestly, while I was at service one could not easily tell the difference between Aniomas Urhobos, Isoko and Ishekiris except they themselves tell you.

They spoke a similar type of pidgin and hardly spoke their local language especially those from Warri axis.

Nowenuse:
Lol, in my department and faculty at large, Urhobos & Isokos outnumber Benins! Esans & Aniomas were dragging numbers with Benins.

Benins only dominate Uniben absolutely in terms of staff and workers and this begun around 2010 when a strong Bininization of Uniben staff began.

Perhaps he grouped Esan with the Binis

Nowenuse:
Are there no Ijaws in Warri north LGA?

They are close to the ocean in Warri north not Immediately after Ondo state.

In fact, although very contentious, Ishekiri claim they produce every of the 33,000 barrel Produced in Edo state near the communities are the border with Ondo.