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PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 10:20am On May 07, 2019
Westbestside:
I always thought you are intelligent, but never knew you are not even close. What is the size of whole anambra compare to Ibadan alone, not to talk of oyo state. Anambra that that they will take 3 of it from ondo state still remain is talking of oyo.
you are the otondo here. let me explain why.

Israel, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, UAE, etc are small nations yet they are 1000000000000 times developed than your eldorado southwest. My point? NO BE BY SIZE O.... Anambra surpasses your OYO by far.
PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 10:14am On May 07, 2019
Ofemannnu:
A labourer will always blame his Oga and wail nonstop but Abel will always be Abel.
Facts are sacrosanct,Mr Labourer. grin
Lol....enjoy your self induced delusion jare.... its necessary to maintain your unstable ego.
PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 10:02am On May 07, 2019
Ofemannnu:
Facts are sacrosanct,labourer grin
words of a coward and lazy loser....Lol.... its not my fault that your inferiority complex is deeply entrenched.
PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 9:36am On May 07, 2019
Ofemannnu:
Just like the Africans find It easy to make money from the lazy whites. grin

God said Esau was hardworking but Abel became his master through smart work like the Yorubas.

Those whites and Yorubas seem lazy to you because they work smart not hard like labourers.

The Yorubas worked hard cum smart in the days and were able to lend money to you lazy Igbos 2 times so that you do not die from laziness induced penury.

Yorubas just like the whites have upped their hard cum smart work to smart work.

Look at these:

Yorubaland is very much developed than Igboland.It has more schools,industries,hospitals,Houses..both old and modern,universities etc.

Ibadan city only is more developed than the entire Igboland and has more infrastructures.

Ibadan city only has 5 mega malls while the entire Igboland has only 4 malls huh

Yorubaland is more industrialised than Igboland.

Yorubas have the highest number of indigenous industries in Nigeria.

Only one Yoruba man can buy the entire Igbo billionaires and millionaires lumped together.

None of the Igbo billionaires is as rich as the Yoruba woman billionaire.....Mrs Folorunsho Alakija.Go and ask Forbes.

Ogun state only is more industrialised than Igboland.

The IGR of Ogun state only is bigger and larger than that of the entire Igboland.

Etc.

If we all do the hard work like Igbo the Esau,who will be Yoruba the Abel?
Yorubas are highly intelligent. grin
another lazy Yoruba flaunting a mere scientific speculation as fact.
PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 9:33am On May 07, 2019
dyydxx:
Tony Enumelu is from Delta State
same as major chukwuma nzeogwu.

by the way Nigeria's richest pastor, oyedepo is not Yoruba, he is from kwara in north central Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Only 3 Notable Igbo Billionaires have their Business In Lagos by superlightning: 9:30am On May 07, 2019
rafindo:
.

You are incredibly deluded from self induced malaria sickness. First of all Nigeria only have 5 Forbes billionaire in dollar CEO.
1.Dangote
2.Adenuga
3.Rabiu
4.Alakija
5.otedola.

The rest sit comfortably in the millionaire club.
Even me responding to this madness is sicking to me.what will I gain arguing about people money.that is a sign of mental laziness.

Quote me you can't be a billionaire in dollar in Nigeria without having 50% of your investment in Lagos.just like saying you are billionaire in UK without London
Tufikwa madness is now cheap.
All the Five you mentioned are political cronies. Real entrepreneurs like Carlos slim, bezos, zuckerburg, bill gates, Oprah, jayz, etc don't need government handouts, rather its the government that looks out for them because they solve real problems.

The average igboman is comfortable and well to do. if Nigeria was a sane country, it would have produced a quarter of the worlds billionaires.
BusinessRe: Tinubu-ojo Installs Iyaloja, Babaloja In Computer Village by superlightning: 6:34pm On May 04, 2019
NgeneUkwenu:
Good! If you didn't like it, relocate to Ochanja Market and leave us alone..

Itesiwaju Ekoo!!!
response of cowards.

we shall see how this iyaloja thing pans out.
PoliticsRe: INEC Declares PDP's Ikpeazu Winner Of Abia State Governorship Election by superlightning: 9:08pm On May 03, 2019
Rikze:
To cut the long story short...

Your mumu Don ripe! Anuofia!!!
I am from umuahia, but I support ikpeazu. and his good works will keep shaming you.
PoliticsRe: Ebonyi State - The 7th Poorest State In Nigeria With 73.% Poverty Rate by superlightning: 9:02pm On May 03, 2019
ofeco:
It is not hate but pity for you guys that keep praising mediocrity, Umuahia Ikot Ekpene road is in bad shape, Umuahia Aba road has not been completed for years, is it the fly over at osisioma that has been commissioned? go to Abakaliki, all the federal roads that connects the state to other states are in good shape. presently Umuahia is the most underdeveloped state capital in south east .
despite growing level of unemployment across the country, is abia among the poorest states?

secondly, the issues you are mentioning are minor compared to the challenges most states in Nigeria are facing in terms of economy, health and education.

we neither want nor need your pity. we are not there yet, but we are moving forward.

focus on your state and stop comparing abia with others. our pursuit differs.

we know that even if abia transforms overnight, you still will never see anything good in the state governor.

abia isn't begging you for a dime.

Aba made is getting the publicity and business.

secondary education is the envy of other states.

Abia state doesn't compare with others. WE ARE BETTER THAN OTHER STATES IN ONE THING OR THE OTHER. But we run at our own pace. Every state has its own burdens
PoliticsRe: Ebonyi State - The 7th Poorest State In Nigeria With 73.% Poverty Rate by superlightning: 1:16pm On May 03, 2019
ofeco:
You should be thankful that he is building infrastructures, some states like Abia, Benue, Kogi etc have governors that are afraid of providing infrastructures and paying of salaries. Ebonyians are 80% farmers so building good roads will enable them to convey their farm products to the nearest markets.
na you get your brain.

by the way, golden guinea will soon commence full operations. FDI for Aba has increased. the road infrastructure are being worked on.

hating and sadism won't help you o....it won't help
PoliticsRe: Ebonyi State - The 7th Poorest State In Nigeria With 73.% Poverty Rate by superlightning: 1:11pm On May 03, 2019
nazicartel:
forget everything.. umahi has tried, anytime I visit abia state I feels somehow... that state needs a very good leader, Okezuo is a FAILURE.. Okezuo lacks comon sense.. I don't even know how he became a governor.
its foolish to compare one state with another. let all states grow at their own pace.

in terms of education, security and economy, Abia state is doing well, even better than most states in Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Akwa Ibom, Rivers Top States With High Unemployment Rate In 2018 3rd Quarter–nbs by superlightning: 8:50pm On Apr 27, 2019
farem:
What is this one saying? Do you miss your way?
Oga, it is "did you miss your way?"
if you are short of words... leave the thread.
PoliticsRe: Akwa Ibom, Rivers Top States With High Unemployment Rate In 2018 3rd Quarter–nbs by superlightning: 5:23pm On Apr 27, 2019
farem:
Well said. We are on the same page!
keep deceiving yourselves. we are waiting for your keg of gunpowder to EXPLODE.
Meanwhile, see your people
http://saharareporters.com/2019/04/27/nine-nigerians-arrested-us-35m-fraud
PoliticsRe: Akwa Ibom, Rivers Top States With High Unemployment Rate In 2018 3rd Quarter–nbs by superlightning: 5:03pm On Apr 27, 2019
Chimaokigwe:
Calabar was the Capital before Lagos, why didn't it develop?

Lagos had an airport before Nigeria discovered oil. Lagos was developed before Nigeria had oil money and that's why Azikiwe the thief wanted to kill himself over Lagos.

Remember the Western Region was limited to Bar beach area to Ajegunle down to ilupeju. Ikeja wasn't part of it. Today Ikeja has more facilities than the entire SE combined and it wasn't part of the Federal capital.

As at when Awolowo flew by helicopter to the SS, the schoolkids he went to their school weren't wearing clothes to school.

If westerners are lazy, what is the rate of unemployment of the SW states?

2 in every 5 people in Abia are unemployed and you're talking nonsense here. No wonder Kanu lined them up in front of soldiers so that the unemployed ones can reduce
calling abia up and down won't save you any embarrassment.

we all know how some states boast of being the economic powerhouse of Nigeria while the other suffers marginalization.

unemployment does not mean they aren't doing one or two things to survive, that I know.
PoliticsRe: "I Don't Have Any Regret Standing Surety For Nnamdi Kanu- Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe by superlightning: 3:50pm On Apr 26, 2019
Abfinest007:
don worry when ur property are gone u will borrow regret n sorry
that's the worst you can do. issue stupid threats.
PoliticsRe: Reno Omokri Reacts To Doctors Are Free To Leave Nigeria By Chris Ngige by superlightning: 12:52pm On Apr 24, 2019
Buhari administration is a serious setback for Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning: 1:40pm On Apr 22, 2019
Deadlytruth:
So you mean you who know better can't just copy that book's "authentic" version of Ironsi's broadcast and paste it here for us to compare and contrast? Why refer me to a book to which you alone "have" access? It is like you are before a law court and in response to the presiding judge's demand for you to provide evidence to substantiate your statement of claim, you ask him to go and look for the evidence himself. Then that means you know it deep down in your heart that such evidence doesn't really exist. How can I, your opponent, be the one to help you search for evidence to advance your argument over mine? If there are no online versions of the book, why can't you take snapshots of the relevant page and upload them here?? You think you are talking to a kid? Honestly you are a clown.



At what point did it suddenly become clear to you Igbos that the attacks weren't actually temporary hence your decision to escape from the North and even seceed from Nigeria? Back then and today, most Northerners were advocating Shariah and total islamization of the country anidst their rejection of Western Education and belief that they were born to rule. Now, you mean you Igbos, despite your level of elightenment back then, were expecting such people to within few yeats later discard such deeply ingrained cultural philosophy? It is like US, after experiencing the World Trade Centre attack, continuing to assume that Arabians would with time become more civilized and rational hence avoid talking steps to put anti-terrorism measures in place, and even open the US borders wider to influx of Middle East immigrants. Would that have made sense? Why didn't the other southerners, e.g. Yorubas, Edos, Ijaws, Urhobos, Itsekiris, Efiks, Ibibios, etc share that hope with Igbos?


Leadership Newspaper is also owned by an Arewa man hence unapologetically pro Arewa by the same standards you appraise Dawodu.com.


You bore me with conjectures. When you are ready to show me a link to your "authentic" version of Ironsi's May 24 1966 broadcast, then I will take you seriously.
chai.... to think that I actually underrated your poor level of acumen.... pls forgive me, I admit, your poor level of acumen is high!

I won't discuss important issues with you any further.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning: 6:25am On Apr 22, 2019
Deadlytruth:
Your response above is a washout. I have told you that the contents of your Leadership Newspaper link is not Ironsi's national broadcast which is what we need to know whether he destroyed the regions and federal structure or not. How can you substitute an individual's personal opinion on Ironsi's person for Ironsi's verbatim national broadcast? Does that make sense at all?
You are the one embarrassing yourself by jumping from pillar to post rather than just providing us with a link to your own "authentic" version of Ironsi's May 24 1966 broadcast. What's my business with your"12 days of military rule" if it doesn't contain the broadcast in question?

You still haven't explained why Ironsi, Ojukwu and Nwabueze first ever tampered with our parliamentary system, so why do you think I should explain to you why Ironsi's successors did worse by your own personal perception?

The case of Enugu Mayor was a very rare occurrence as an overwhelming majority of Northerners were even back then irresponsible and blood thirsty hence were
already killing Igbos living with them in the North in large numbers....The 1945 and 1953 massacres of Igbos in Jos and Kano respectively were testimonials. Even the 1966 pogroms of Igbos right under Ironsi's nose as HoS should have been enough evidence for him that Nigeria wast ripe for his idea of national unity.

You still haven't answered me as per which part of the independence constitution Ironsi relied on to take power for himself and appoint military governors for the region hence the beginning of the whole trouble.

Exactly how and where do you put the dividing line between lengthiness and briefness of a post? You think your own post above is a brief one?
Oga "12 years of military rule" contains the broadcasts of each military ruler along with local and foreign commentaries on their administrations. You never knew any better did you?

and yes, some northerners (not most of them) have been attacking the easterners since the 40s, but then Igbo were still living and working there believing perhaps that these attacks were temporary and that maybe one day those northerners would try to redeem themselves.

Leadership newspaper is not an Igbo tabloid outfit, but dawodu.com is unapologetically pro-arewa.

you bore me with tales. when you are ready to show me the provinces and their heads and their place in ironsi's cabinet, I will then take you serious.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning: 4:12pm On Apr 21, 2019
Deadlytruth:
You are obviously sick of ignorance. Go to YouTube and watch the video of the 1957 Constiutional Conference held in London and through which the Independence constiution was produced. In the video you will see delegates freely elected from every constiutionency to represent them in the conference. There were no military figures in attendance let alone making any input.

The question you should first answer is whether it was right in principle for Abacha and the rest to have convened an SNC to give us a genuinely we-the-people constiution when Ironsi and Igbos had not been able to explain why they destroyed the first of such that we produced at independence, and also had not appologised and promised not to tamper again with any new one to be made in correction of their first blunder?

For introducing military rule at all thus paving the way for all other military opportunists like himself... to warrant our current comparison, Ironsi remains the worst ruler in Nigeria's history. If he hadn't introduced military rule, would we have been trying to compare which military rule was better than which by now?
Which regurgitated lies? Before I take you up further on your phantom bolded claim above, please explain exactly what Ironsi meant with the bolded sentences in his May 24 1966 national broadcast as follows:

Fellow Nigerians:
During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme
Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many
important state matters were considered. . .
It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has
been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military
Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before
relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way
is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes into
effect at once.
The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last
vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past
, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows:
The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces
. . . .
Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It
now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria
..........
The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive
Council become respectively the National Military Government and the
executive Council
. All the Military Governors are members of the
Executive Council.
A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which
and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National
Military Government
, he shall exercise executive power. In order to
avoid any major dislocation of the present administrative machinery,
the grouping of the provinces has been made to coincide with the
former regional boundaries. This is entirely a transitional measure
and must be understood as such. The present grouping of the
provinces is without prejudice to the Constitutional and
Administrative arrangements to be embodied in the New Constitution in
accordance with the wishes of the people of Nigeria.

The National Military Government assumes the exercise of all
legislative powers throughout the Republic subject to such
delegations to Military Governors as are considered necessary for
purposes of efficient administration.
The public services of the former federation and regions become
unified into one national public service under a National Public
Service Commission. There is a provincial Service Commission for
each group of provinces to which is delegated functions in respect of
public officers below a given rank. This rather drastic change will
probably involve a reconstitution of the existing commissions, and
the National Military Government reserves the right to do so in the
manner stipulated in the Decree. Until this is done, the present
Commissioners continue to act in their posts. Every civil servant is
now called upon to see his function in any part of Nigeria in which
he is serving in the context of the whole country. The orientation
should now be towards national unity and progress. I expect all
civil servants to co-operate and to consult at all levels, vertically
and horizontally, between groups of Provinces and between Provinces
and the Centre.
People are aware that Study Groups

https://www.dawodu.com/irons2.htm
I'm quite sure you didn't read the link, so that explains your lame rebuttal. besides if you had read my statement prior to the link properly, you would know that I was COMPARING your dawodu with an authoritative newspaper in order for the casual reader to get the right articulation and interpretation of ironsi's statements.
the 4 REGIONAL governors were to oversee the provinces in their regions, nothing more, nothing less


secondly, if you were old enough to have had the book '12 years of military rule" published by the daily times, you won't embarrass yourself here. an informed reader would laugh over the gross misinterpretation and dubious narratives you were projecting with your dawodu.com

you keep revising and regurgitating what you have stated earlier. no facts, just dawodu.com You still haven't disproved why other leaders didn't return to parliamentarianism but rather, did worse than ironsi.

I'm sure you intentionally skipped where "provinces/divisions" were typed in my post. I meant to state that these two terms connoted each other. so quit trying to be smart by half.

you said our refusal to allow herdsmen settle in the east is a testimony to your point that we weren't ripe for aguiyi's approach. We don't accommodate or acculturate criminals, it doesn't mean we cant acculturate honorable northerners, after all the former mayor of Enugu (capital of the eastern region) was a Fulani man.

by the way, having a lengthy post does not not on any imply brilliance or facts. you keep releasing garbage before and now. thank God public perception about ironsi is changing for the better. the lies against have be condoned for too long.
PoliticsRe: How Northerners Planted Stooges As Leaders In Igbo Land After The War by superlightning: 5:49am On Apr 21, 2019
MyGeneration:
I am an Igbo guy. But there's nothing I hate in this world than hearing the word Biafra. I swear I hate that word and everything it represents.

Say this to an average Igbo man, he might just hate you but I swear we are standing on the wrong side of history.

I was thinking igbos would find a way to not just forget Biafra but make the rest of Nigeria forget too but we are doing the opposite.

I am happy to be alive and I know God created a few of us different for a reason. One day I believe we will be empowered enough to show our people the real truth
another efulefu spewing trash. no successful people or nation ever forgets its root and history.

you don't even sound Igbo. you are a fake.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning: 11:03pm On Apr 20, 2019
Deadlytruth:
@OP, the author of the article you referenced actually plagiarized a lot of logical analyses already done by the monicker called Deadlytruth on various NL threads about Igbos' misadventures in Nigeria's political history. The bolded lines are purely original to that moniker.
If you want the links to the NL threads which the author of your source plagiarized to make up his article without giving credit to the genuine original author of those arguments, you can be furnished with them.
we keep debunking your half truths, thank God for the internet.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning:
Deadlytruth:
You are obviously sick of ignorance. Go to YouTube and watch the video of the 1957 Constiutional Conference held in London and through which the Independence constiution was produced. In the video you will see delegates freely elected from every constiutionency to represent them in the conference. There were no military figures in attendance let alone making any input.

The question you should first answer is whether it was right in principle for Abacha and the rest to have convened an SNC to give us a genuinely we-the-people constiution when Ironsi and Igbos had not been able to explain why they destroyed the first of such that we produced at independence, and also had not appologised and promised not to tamper again with any new one to be made in correction of their first blunder?

For introducing military rule at all thus paving the way for all other military opportunists like himself... to warrant our current comparison, Ironsi remains the worst ruler in Nigeria's history. If he hadn't introduced military rule, would we have been trying to compare which military rule was better than which by now?
Which regurgitated lies? Before I take you up further on your phantom bolded claim above, please explain exactly what Ironsi meant with the bolded sentences in his May 24 1966 national broadcast as follows:

Fellow Nigerians:
During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme
Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many
important state matters were considered. . .
It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has
been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military
Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before
relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way
is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes into
effect at once.
The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last
vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past
, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows:
The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces
. . . .
Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It
now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria
..........
The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive
Council become respectively the National Military Government and the
executive Council
. All the Military Governors are members of the
Executive Council.
A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which
and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National
Military Government
, he shall exercise executive power. In order to
avoid any major dislocation of the present administrative machinery,
the grouping of the provinces has been made to coincide with the
former regional boundaries. This is entirely a transitional measure
and must be understood as such. The present grouping of the
provinces is without prejudice to the Constitutional and
Administrative arrangements to be embodied in the New Constitution in
accordance with the wishes of the people of Nigeria.

The National Military Government assumes the exercise of all
legislative powers throughout the Republic subject to such
delegations to Military Governors as are considered necessary for
purposes of efficient administration.
The public services of the former federation and regions become
unified into one national public service under a National Public
Service Commission. There is a provincial Service Commission for
each group of provinces to which is delegated functions in respect of
public officers below a given rank. This rather drastic change will
probably involve a reconstitution of the existing commissions, and
the National Military Government reserves the right to do so in the
manner stipulated in the Decree. Until this is done, the present
Commissioners continue to act in their posts. Every civil servant is
now called upon to see his function in any part of Nigeria in which
he is serving in the context of the whole country. The orientation
should now be towards national unity and progress. I expect all
civil servants to co-operate and to consult at all levels, vertically
and horizontally, between groups of Provinces and between Provinces
and the Centre.
People are aware that Study Groups

https://www.dawodu.com/irons2.htm
dawodu.com? dawodu.com?! just as I suspected.

Mr dawodu.com, follow this authoritative link (NOT SOME AREWA WEBSITE) and stop disgracing yourself.

https://leadership.ng/2018/07/27/remembering-aguiyi-ironsi-a-patriot-for-all-times/amp/

To summarize it in comparison to your malicious dawodu.com half-truths:

1. The provinces were to be under the regional governors.

2. in his effort to curb tribalism, he wanted a unitary system in which with time, people will acknowledge provinces more above regions, that said, there were NO provincial governors in HIS CABINET so stop twisting the facts.

3. if the provinces were actually in place as you falsely projected it, ojukwu wouldn't have had the balls to break the east away from Nigeria.

4. if the succeeding heads of state were sincere, why didn't they restore Nigeria back to parliamentarianism? Why did they do worse?

5. Ironsi wanted a Nigeria where its not your ancestral origin that matters, but your place of birth. for example, Mohammed can say he comes from port Harcourt, wale can say he is from Enugu, chinedu can say he is from markurdi. This is how is it done in developed countries. IRONSI WAS DETRIBALIZED.



dawodu.com my foot. Stop following sites that are good in twisting facts. who in his right frame of mind authoritatively quotes dawodu.com

attacking a man who is not around to clarify himself is sacrilegious. however the momentum and structure of his administration should have told you that there were 4 regions supervising provinces, MIND YOU, the balewa regime also had provinces/divisions.

I am ready to expose your half-truths any day anytime.
Deadlytruth I am waiting for you and your likes.
PoliticsRe: How Igbo Leaders Caused Nigeria's Current National Political Problems by superlightning:
Deadlytruth:
Responses:

1. Ironsi destroyed resource control by centralizing the Public Service hence stripping the regional Governments the only constiutionally recognised Institution through which they generated their revenues from resources found within their domains. If Buhari were to centralize the Public service today, a governor like Obiano of Anambra will become redundant as the civil servants working under him will become loyal to and generate revenues for only the FG.
Put in other words; as long as the Public Service is the only means by which subnational units control their resources, whoever centralized the Public Service automatically dismantles resource control. After May 24 1966, the day Ironsi unified the Public Service with his Unification Decree through his national broadcast, no Region had the power to generate revenue anymore let alone hold onto 50% while remitting the other 50% to the center. Everything began to go to the center untill Gowon took over and reversed Ironsi's Unification Decree with his own Decree 56.

2. Ironsi did not really maintain the four regions he met. He took over through the backdoor on January 17, 1966 and appointed military administrators over the regions as a tentative measure pending when he would eventually dissolve them as he had planned against May 24. On May 24 he actually dismantled the regions and broke them down into 35 provinces over which he appointed military administrators whom he commanded to be reporting to him at the center thus stripping them of their autonomy. In his national broadcast on that day, he argued that regionalism was promoting tribal loyalty above nationalism hence it had to give way to a more tightly bound system which would engendere "national unity".
Also, he declared in that broadcast that Nigeria had ceased to be what is referred to as a federation, and changed the country's official name from "Federal Republic of Nigeria" to just "Republic of Nigeria"... meaning that he no longer recognized the previous federating units which were the regions.
3. The argument that Ironsi left the regions intact despite having promulgated Decree 34 presents him as a dullard who didn't know the meaning and implications of a Decree he promulgated or that as a Supreme Commander of the armed forces, he was actually a puppet in the hands of some political figures hence was a weakling who was therefore unfit to handle the situation for which he forced power out of the hands of civilians.

4. Ironsi remains the worst of all present and past Nigeria rulers as it was he alone who tampered with the only genuinely we-the-people constiution we ever had, and dethroned a genuinely democratically elected government. Among all the military rulers we have had, he alone took over power in violation of the oath of office he took on his inauguration day to defend and preserve the constiution. No other military ruler took such oath only to renege on it. He therefore remains the most irresponsible, dubious, unprincipled, fraudulent and deceitful ruler Nigeria ever had. He introduced the abberation called military rule into a perfectly working democracy. He remains the only military ruler who never allowed himself to be guided by Public opinion hence ran the most illegitimate government in the country's history.
The constiution he met in place recommend that in an event of death or incapacitation of the Prime Minister, a member of the parliament thrown up by the parliament should be sworn in as replacement, but Ironsi recklessly violated that provision and swore in himself despite the constiution didn't make any provision for him or any other military man. How on earth could such a person be said to have scored the highest in preservation of the constiution?
Wow, your post is a beautiful piece of lengthy trash.

Ironsi "destroyed" the we-the-people constitution right? who were the we-the-people that promulgated the constitution? secondly, what stopped Generals Gowon, Muritala, Obj, Buhari, IBB, Abacha and Abdulsalam from convening a true sovereign national conference that will promulgate a truly we-the-people constitution?

stop regurgitating the lies we all know masquerade as truth.

Ironsi was 10 times better than all the generals after him. Igbos are angry with him because he didnt play the partisan politics other generals after him played. Igbo are angry because he naively surrounded himself with his enemies.

I'm ready to expose your regurgitated lies today.

there were provinces/divisions under the 4 REGIONS, that was expected just as there were provinces before military rule came in. that's why there were ONLY 4 REGIONAL GOVERNORS - hassan katsina (north), temi ejoor (Midwest), ojukwu (east), fajuyi (west)


stop being dubious kid.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 6:03pm On Apr 17, 2019
hisgrace090:
I personally love people that criticize non performers as we will learn to always call bad 'bad'.
you are still parambulating.... is golden guinea breweries good news to abians or not?

is abia one of the most reformed states in business or not?

stop being dubious. criticise constructively. don't be a sadist.

I won't respond to your gimmicks again. good riddance.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 4:33pm On Apr 17, 2019
amaniro:
Yen yen yen it ain't my fault I didn't grow up there. it's good all the same. It made me exposed and see what true governance is.
shame on you, common Igbo, imaghi aasu.
where you grew up in, can you speak their native language?

true governance? Lol.... if where you grew is in Nigeria and you speak of true governance, then indeed you are a charlatan.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 4:28pm On Apr 17, 2019
hisgrace090:
It"ll stop when good governance is enthroned in abia state.


If you go round the local govt in abia state you'll weep as some cannot boast of 10km asphalt road in an entire local govt.
such is the case in every African state or province. Yes, bad roads isn't good, but to write this administration off because you think "no road" has been built or rehabilitated is too shallow and naive.

if a road has been constructed in Abia, there will be no online traffic to follow the good news, but once its bad news, sadists like amaniro will troop in there like sugar loving ants.

this must stop. sadism doesn't bring the needed development we want for abia state.
PoliticsRe: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by superlightning: 11:16pm On Apr 16, 2019
nonsobaba:
Anambra thread is growing from thread to thread while Enugu thread has packed up. Our people are listening and acting accordingly. We will no longer take our investments to wawa land. Anambra is the pride of the east.
the fact that you are monitoring Enugu's thread shows you are being intimidated by them. why not compete with yourself and run at your own pace.

this your inferiority complex is serious o.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 11:13pm On Apr 16, 2019
amaniro:
I can't hate my state of origin. I only hate the past and present government there.
all these "my mama say I be Ibo" kids sef.... I don't blame you anyway.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 10:02pm On Apr 16, 2019
amaniro:
Superlightning thinks I'm jobless ooh...


Ahh Oluwalodamilare
I actually speculated your cowardice, now I am confirming it.
pls don't start what you can't finish.
take your hate and envy for abia to the lagoon.
PoliticsRe: INEC Declares PDP's Ikpeazu Winner Of Abia State Governorship Election by superlightning: 9:10pm On Apr 16, 2019
Chizuru01:
Thank You bro
my brother, we are together.
golden Guinea breweries is opening .... this is good news for abia.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 9:07pm On Apr 16, 2019
This amaniro sef na itoboribo..... amaniro you are acting cowardly.
come and prove how "nothing is working" in abia state. Loser.
BusinessRe: Golden Guinea Breweries Dispels Rumours On The Commencement Of Full Operations by superlightning: 8:57pm On Apr 16, 2019
I am SHOCKED at the traffic of this thread.

ANY news about abia that SEEMS NEGATIVE attracts attention.

ABIA TRULY HAS ENEMIES

Thank God Golden Guinea is TRULY opening. if not, haters and sadists would have launched their attack.

amaniro where are you o....you called me.

loser.

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