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I'm currently watching a Korean movie and all of a sudden, I start seeing news about South Korea on front-page. Why? Because I'm not used to watching movies or what? Ha?

So happy to hear from you, ilegendd.

BlackhatMentor:
Kindly read before commenting.

Wonder why kids keeps dropping rubbish comments here

Fvck is you on? Stop throwing stones at someone when you live in a glass house! Keep Black Americans out of your mouth!

BlackhatMentor:
Read the history of those countries before comparing them to countries in Africa.

I'm sure if you went through what Koreans or Chinese had to go through before they "made it", your life will never remain the same!

Y'all are just bunch of annoying comedians!

ednut1:
how many years did South Korea, arab countries, Singapore or china use to develop lol

End of Discussion. Thank you sir.

Always blaming everybody but themselves!

Kushites:
Talking to you, you self hating negro that started a thread to suck white dick.

Hello! Why do you keep talking to yourself?

Kushites:
Who “blamed white man”?

Donkey slave talking rubbish.

Bodyguard for white man.

If you came here to suck white dck, get lost.

Why are you talking to yourself?

Nonexisting1:
You can only brag that the president is from my village, town, state or region and after that, crawl back to your leaking roofed, mosquito infested, bedless and mattressless room to drink sugar filled, groundnutless and milkless garri. If I lie, ask people from Daura and Iragbiji to recount their experiences.

What an irony!

helinues:
Igbo presidency would have been a benefit to you and the over 80% of the voters who voted for Peter Obi in the last election had he won.

It's just ironic that less than 6 months ago, you lots want to take your country back, only God knows from who. You have suddenly lost interest in the same country, if it can burn, let it right?

Una dey very easy to predict

I have no idea about what you're talking about, drown this mentality of "we vs them" when you want to engage in a reasonable discussion.

Who voted for who?

LegendHero:
Yes I support Nigeria breaking up as at when it happened.

But until then, Tinubu will continue to govern because it’s Yoruba turn to rule for 8 years.

If by tomorrow, something happened and they suddenly break Nigeria, it is very fine by me. Infact, Yorubaland will develop more as a separate country rather than being within this Nigeria.

But until then, we will live and participate in the politics without leaving things to chance.

I don't really care who rules, I already gave up a long time ago. But for how long will we continue to remain at the bottom? What exactly are these politicians doing to better our lives?

Man, I honestly don't even know what to think of the "African race". Whichever way, I will keep watching and see how far this ship takes us before it hits "Titanic".

For some of you celebrating, I hope you understand that, that country's government have provided these basic social amenities which is still alien to a lot of Africa's population. The only problem is, nowadays, millions can't afford it because of the unstable economy.

We here in Africa aren't asking for much, we just want clean water, security, education, good roads, and other very simple "amenities" provided by Roman empire centuries ago. Is it that difficult?

Cc @nlfmods @mynd44 @Seun

I'm dying to get these answers.

Raskimonojendor:
4 actually. England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Thank you sir. You're right!

I'm seriously curious.

1. How will an Igbo president benefit me as someone of Igbo descent?
2. How is Nigeria benefitting me?
3. How will Nigeria benefit my innocent kids?
4. How will Africa rise again with this mentality you possess?
5. What's so hard to give your people good roads?
7. What's so hard to invest heavily in one sector for a certain number of years until we reach out goals?
8. Why do we keep blaming the "white man"? Because of neocolonialism?
9. Did the "white man" stop you from building infrastructures?
10. Did the white man tell you to lock people up and hide the palliatives meant for them in 2020?

porthouse7:
Aboki don dey do hip hop, no be harram be that

Some of you are so ignorant and proud about it. If only you know how popular hip hop is among the Northern youths. I remember blasting Classiq's songs and nodding my head to Morrell's songs.

Back then, me, Mustapha and Suleiman would engage in rap battles...

@LegendHero


Something will always create division even in a family, however Nigeria is not working, we can peacefully go our separate ways and still remain one big "families". This is why the British, Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand will always join hands together.

I'm worried about the future generations, I really am...

LegendHero:
I always laugh at folks trying to end tribalism or hiding under the usual “Politician are dividing us” jargons to blame Nigeria issue on politicians.

All tribes are tribalistic. Both minority and majority, but the problem is that those that are somehow independent of another tend to be bold in showing their own tribalism.

Those that are dependent are always scared of showing their tribalism which explained why some tribe will say they are less tribalistic and some are more tribalistic. There is nothing called less or more tribalistic, you can either be tribalistic or not.

If we divide Nigeria today into major tribes and let’s say we have 10 countries for example. People within those tribe will then fragment themselves into clans and the struggle of clannish continue. Check state governorship election, it’s always a game of clans within a tribe.

You can only have peace if you divide Nigeria totally by clans. Then at that stage, you’re looking at 5k individual states.

However, dividing Nigeria into major zones with tribal realignment to their zone will help a bit. At least we will have the clan problem which will be at a lesser impact compared to tribe issue.

The English, French, Dutch, Boers are all tribalists -- what I'm trying to say is that these things happen everywhere in the world. The fact that I'm the type of a person who doesn't give a fvck about someone's ethnicity doesn't mean I'd expect others to be like me. It takes a crazy amount of hard work to be like me, I understand, as long as nobody tries to think they're special because of their ethnicity.

Just because people have car accidents doesn't mean people should stop driving cars! Once you begin to see things from a "default perspective", them you'd understand that humans will always fight, kill, and hate, regardless of where they come from!

South and North Korea are the same people genetically, even though they fought off the Japanese again and again in the past, that didn't stop them from killing each other in the Korean war. Even Germans were divided by a wall just over 30 years ago.

Look, the earlier we start accepting reality, the better for us. As for me, as long as I am unable to give my kids a better country or future, I'm not going to bring any child into this part of the world to experience our madness.

God bless this guy, everything he wrote is the absolute truth! I wonder why we keep deceiving ourselves while the enemies laugh at our stupidity.

There are many countries in the European Union but they are more united than the nations that make up "Nigeria." I find myself lost in thoughts of a great life for my people but honestly I don't think they deserve any pity at all.

Even the British that created this country wouldn't wish the same for themselves, this is why they got like 3 countries under the United Kingdom! Even if we separate, it would never stop us from working together to make Africa great again -- which is what we all want, or maybe I'm wrong...

Why do we keep deceiving ourselves for Christ's sake? Why? Why? Is this the legacy we're going to leave behind for our children? So, they can hate and kill each other while Europeans and Asians make progress?

We only got one life to live, and one day, when you're lying on your dying bed, your children will spit on you because you did nothing to better their lives.

I can relate 😔.

illicit:
People u see coming out of that cemetary are normal people

When I was at uni, na inside cemetary at Alalubosa, Maraba, Ilorin. we dey smoke Igbo, the guy selling the Igbo is there almost 24/7

Sometimes we smoke till 10pm inside darkness nobody dey pursue us, we sit on the graves, Drink, play music...

So if u see us coming outta dat side, what will u think?

I don't believe in ghosts cos I have smoked in their house and dem no show face

🤕🥴

AlaafinOfOyo:
Check all the wars fought during the cold war. The Soviet Union would oppose any side the US supported, except in Biafra. That was the only war that both the US and Soviets backed one side, Nigeria. They knew that a Biafra would herald the liberation of Africa. That's why a writer wrote a book titled "In Biafra, Africa Died".

Hello boss, can I get the PDF version of that book from you?

I wonder what Ojukwu and Chinua Achebe would say 😢.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
I honestly think to many non-ibo readers, he was biased, heavily. Other books tend to put a big hole in his book.

I appreciate your honesty and totally understand what you're saying. For example, not a lot of people have nice things to say about Mr. Steiner whom Achebe painted as a great guy that fought for Biafrans.

Again, Achebe was just a civilian like my grandparents. He was just a writer who wrote about what he witnessed and heard during one of the darkest years of his life. Losing his mother during the war and almost losing his family must have been devastating...

The purpose of that book is to prove that it is possible for Africa to rise, if only we're ready to pay the price.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
I mean there are tens of books written about the events leading up to and after the war.

Achebe's book focused solely on making every action taken by the secessionists and glorifying it, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

You can call the Achebe book a book of self consolation and self victimization.

While I understand what you're saying sir, but I think Achebe's book is an important piece of history. He wasn't trying to paint himself or the others good but writing from his own point of view.

Remember he started from the very beginning, which is the circumstances that laid to his birth... he wasn't a main actor in Biafra so I think he had a good intention. I love how he was blunt, also, he also admits his people's shortcomings (if I'm not mistaking, he agreed he might be biased... I don't know)


The country he was referring to might be the old Nigeria of his time and maybe a little bit on Biafra achievements.

anungangampu:
No one expected Ojukwu to step down. As a matter of fact, Ojukwu had more leverage than Gowon when the war started. He had almost all intelligencia from Southern Nigeria on his side. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Effiong were far intellectual than him but they all allowed him to flourish.
Till he began, the Biafra or death mentality. As on 1968, igbo have dominated control in places in the North and Lagos.
Whether Biafra existed or not, Igbo will always travel out. But my concern was that leaders of his Kind who came to power didnt do well. I dont think he will be an exception.

Ojukwu would do better than leaders like Mugabe. That Biafra or death mentality must have been as a result of the death caused by war.

Anyway, I will making a part 2 of this thread and dig into this topic.

Purvan:
In order to combat insecurity


I believe that every farmer should be allowed access to a long rifle



After this , nothing Fulani herd men again because they won't dare come close



Farmers should try secure themselves and their properties



Farmers nowadays are mostly illiterates and need proper enlightenment


I have a farm and secured mine by implementing land mines and Bobby traps for Intruders

I agree.


These idiotic fulani herdsmen are painting us bad, they wouldn't exist in a place like Southern US.

XerXers:
Those who are not in Igboland will never understand how things work there. They love their sit at home and have taken over agriculture from northerners

Is this real or just propaganda?


I'm happy to see this, a serious nation ought to invest heavily on agriculture.

MICHEALADEX:
If they can't come near imo on election day, after all the no election in Igbo land then all the noice is just a flash in the pan

What election? I don't follow Nigeria politics.

skj1377:
They want other people's state as well including Lagos. Have you forgotten they were stopped at ore in ondo state on their way to takeover Lagos. Am sure after taking over Lagos in order to keep it they have to take over Ogun and ondo state as well for obvious reasons. They will equally need portharcout and some surrounding oil producing states. Anyways all that is history now. But I doubt if anyone can fight to keep Nigeria together a second time around.

Attacking Lagos was the right thing to do! Had they succeeded, the war wouldn't have been fought in just Biafra land where the civilians were targeted.

I mean why would Biafrans attack Lagos? It's a war, for God's sake! Lagos was the capital of Nigeria at that time and that was the location of the government's 'house.'

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Before reading Achebe's book, what other books did you read?

Achebe is an amazing writer, but 'there was a country' was just off the mark, It achieved one thing though - introduce the reader to ibo mindset and pains, not to others who at times were victims of same ibo mindset and views.

Other books about the war? None yet, just Achebe's...

anungangampu:
I think you need to Read Madiebo account of the war inorder to predict what Biafra could have been if it was won.

Achebe focused on the bright side of Biafra intelligence and accomplishments while Madiebo accounts were about the Egos and what made the war a huge casualty.

If Biafra exsited as a country, we could be another DR Congo in the making. Ojukwu as of then was a sit tight leader and hated consultation. He was seen as a god like human and he tried to maintain that view throughout the war to a point, Biafrans were divided into two group. One fighting for Ojukwu while another was fighting for a country. At the end Ojukwu sided with those that think he is morthan who he is.

This is my cry againt Nnamdi Kanu. We have seen liberators exalted to prophet and god like position, and it always fail. Nnamdi Kanu started like Ojukwu but at a point exalted the whole Biafra thing to himself. Thats where he failed and thats where Ojukwu failed.

I might sound pessimistic, but i think Igbos are far better off now than Ojukwu Biafra. We have only one problem now, and the issue is we are yet to see Nigeria as a farm where we cultivated anyhwere but take the proceeds home. The day we start thinking like that, we would be more valued in the country while Biafra states become far better than any place in Nigeria.

Hmmm, I understand you sir.


That's why I believe Ojukwu would certainly try to remain in power, Achebe even wrote that both Ojukwu and gowon's advisers were all trying to make them feel good about themselves.

I now see why MNK refused to be president and I also agree exalting liberators to prophet like position is foolish. But I disagree, Igbos would be better off in Biafra.

No country is perfect, in times of wars, things like that happens -- expecting Ojukwu to step down when the war was ongoing wasn't the wisest thing to do.