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Y1bos are always trying to re-write history.

Why did they not announce that at the point of executing their coup. Was the writer part of the coupists? It is a big lie. They killed the leaders of other regions, saved theirs, installed their own as the president and their own refused to prosecute the coupists that were largessing around, glorifying in their evil deed.

1million lies can never make a lie the truth. Achebe tried to doctor history in his useless book, but alas, lies can never become truth, no matter how well you paint it. He failed woefully. It was an igbo coup and so it will be forever.

Ovamboland:
They cover their heads and not hijab per say. Some banks don't allow it but GTB,First Bank allows a neat wrap up of the head.
For me, I would rather that we all approach things in a very civilized manner. Whether we like it or or not there is history.
1) Most Schools are off shoot of western or missionary groups and so the culture of those schools.
2) The Nigerian government took control of all the schools at some point making all the governments.
3)Nigeria is and remains a secular states.(It is not an Islamic State, A Christian State or Ifa State)

I think every religion should set this as number one in all religious matters. Citizens of a secular state should not vote for candidates because of their religion but on the quality of their manifesto and their track records.

For the sake of peace, I thought most schools had berets already. This way, every girl can cover their heads.Except if the issue is not head covering.Must it be the Arab style of covering? Maybe a head gear can be designed for schools that will neither be western or Arabian. Maybe just a Nigerian head covering will do....this I think should resolve it for we are talking about uniforms here.

God bless you.

If head covering is really the issue, what happened to beret in schools, why must it be Arab head covering?

MeAboki:
Well, the fact that two Igbo men at the House objected to the one minute silence validates my point about the inherent double standard in the Igbo psyche.

You obviously didn't properly read my post concerning regionalism because, if you did, you would have noticed I inferred that the Sardauna's primary concern was the interest of his ppl in the north; like his counterparts Okpara, Ankintola etc he was a regional head not a statesman; the regions were like small independent countries held together by a weak centre, competing with themselves; they even had their own constitutions, foreign policy etc.

Yes, Sardauna's statement was apt at the time - I am sure most would agree even today that an expatriate is likely to be a better more trust worthy alternative than an Igbo man; the Sardauna simply chose what was best for his region at that time and history has certainly vindicated him (a typical example being his own protege, Chukwuma Nzeogwu, ending up betraying and killing him).

We are suffering today not from what northerners did in the civil service but from what Ironsi, an Igbo man, did to the civil service and Nigeria as a whole by dismantling the regional system and replacing it with the unitary system of government (those unhappy with the present arrangement especially resource control should therefore blame Ironsi not the north).

The tribe most represented in the civil service is Igbo; in fact a recent research by an NGO confirmed that Anambra benefitted the most.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/anambra-is-biggest-beneficiary-of-federal-appointments-research-reveals/153842/
Even if we are to examine this issue of national character more closely, you'll find that most of the northern states are not filling their slots completely but other ethnicities from within or outside are doing so.
Besides, Oga Johnny has even publicly declared that Igbos are the backbone of his cabinet - so whats your point?

Yes, if Igbos want the presidency they should present a candidate and support him; but should not sit back and expect other Nigerians to do their job for them; especially if they go about insulting and abusing everybody else as inferior.
This means jettisoning tribal politics and learning how to form bridges and alliances as well as the art of lobbying and compromise - instead of their usual forceful arrogant do or die tactics, because in the long run politics is not only a game of numbers but also one of persuasion.

As for your ethnic origin, well I don't give a toss (though I suspect you are lying - as your sentiments says it all, because you clearly made it an Igbo issue); what is more important to me is the message - which I believe I have sufficiently addressed.

Explaining all these to those dummies, is like pouring water into the basket.

What I realised is, their uncles and fathers lied to them and they failed to read either. Or maybe they read books written by Ariara market traders.

They rejected secession clause being included in the Nigerian Constitution.
They killed leaders of other regions.
They truncated our working democracy.
They started the stup1d centralised system, in their greed to control everybody.
They massacred Mid westerners.
They were bringing their stup1d war to SW.
They bombed Lagos - Marina and Pen Cinema.
They looted CBN Enugu Port harcourt and Benin. Despite that, we pitied their miserable lives and gave them a lifeline by paying the rebels 20pounds each, equivalent to 500k of today.
They annulled June 12 through Arthur Nzeribe.
Daniel Kanu led 5mm man match for Abacha.


They are beasts and they should be treated as such.

Descartes:
Coming from a Gambari slave.

Coming from a slave to all Nigerian ethnic groups.

#Pissing on you.

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christopher123:
That's what I am talking . Igbos hatred then Igbo keep dominating them and making them slaves in their gathered fathers land

Their yorubas cowardice is legendary

See this loud mouth flat.head.

Were you able to dominate minority tribes just beside you, talkless of your masters -- yorubas.

We are your Lords and you and will remain our slaves, toiling with your blood and sweat for us.

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christopher123:
And 5th class citizens have been developing and ruling you by Proxy
Oil and gas sector Igbo
Aviation igbos
Defence igbos
Finance igbos
Coordinating minister Igbo
Trade and commerce Igbo

.maybe you go manage farming ministry that's what your good at
...Gauss Hausa slave

If appointment is what y1bos reckon with has being power, we are way above that low life level.

We hold the power when we want to and give it back to whoever with like and playing God enough to even know the fate of the president and stylishly plant the VP to become the president.

That is sagacity in politics. It is alien to your barbaric culture.

WilyWily5:
Yorubas are going mental, never expected the Son of a fisher man to led them, Thank God Jonathan is using his trawl net on Yorubas.
Yorubas are confused now, they can't believe their eye how Ijaws are dragging them on the street with trawl net.

Any other tribe can lead us, even the nude koma people but not y1bos, that are the 5th class citizen of Nigeria, the official slaves of Nigeria.

Y1bos always whining and crying like bush babies that they are.

We are used to them, no be today?

Who God has blessed, no man can curse, yorubas and their land is blessed while some have been caused since the days of Cain.

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taiwoakin:
Coming here to tell blanket lies
you are a liar from the pit of hell, Schools were taken over at state level not at federal level.
many of the Govs. who did the take-over were Christians and some of those who returned them back were Muslims including former Gov. Tinubu
so dont come here to tell cheap lies cos i will expose you for what you are

So Muritala Muhammed that enacted the decree before he was assassinated was a christian president, you must be a blatant liar or joker at most.

Read up and stop displaying your ignorance here.

taiwoakin:
It is simply because our religion has respect for constituted authority that we took the case to court
It is also perfectly legal to deny any candidate or party who doesnt respect our religion our votes at the election and thats why we are going to toe that line.
The Nigerian constitution guarantees the right we are demanding and the court shall vindicate us
Your last paragraph warrants no reply, it is based on baseless fears and false and malicious assumptions

Mscheeeeeeeew. If you do not take it to court, what would you have done?

Please, we are begging you to deny candidate that will refuse to dance to your cheap blackmail, your votes. We will see the magic your so-called vote will do.

So the Nigerian Constitution does not guarantee the so-called right of wearing hijab in the army or paramilitary. Hypocrisy of the highest order. How does a public institution like military different from public schools?

After hijab, what will be the next right you will like to enforce -- my guess is camel riding. Lol

How can people be opening their mouths to spew such words?

Are you God? If you are not willing, God would have used someone else. Simple.

jmaine:
It is useless and fallacious statements like this that nullifies whatever useless demands your faithful's try to force on others . . . .

You are minding that deluded and brainwashed taliban.

It's a compete way of life and the so called way of life is to be beheading people, suicide bombing, killing children, rap1ng women, supporting terrorism whether actively or passively, marrying underage. What a way of life?

The guy is pissing me of. I still respect the opinion of AbdH, because he is logical, unlike this dummy that is carrying Arab culture on his head. He should also add Camel Riding to his list of ever growing compulsory obligation of his religion.

Instead of spending his time and energy on confronting the warped and barbaric ideology of the terrorists like BH, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah etc He is busy spewing thrash here.

Even in middle east and Northern part of Nigeria that sharia is, how many rich people have they amputated for stealing govt funds, how many women has gotten justice for being rap.ed, the northerners smoke most in this country. The highest number of killings in this country is in the north. So who is deceiving who. Is shariah really working there?

Why won't a lady cover her head in the windy dusty middle east desert?

taiwoakin:
Islam is a complete way of life.
Unlike other religions, you practice Islam 24 hours of everyday
Use of hijab by Muslim ladies is not a cultural thing, it is a commandment by Allah in the Glorious Qur'an
Not using the hijab means you are neglecting the commandment of Allah and committing a sin
The use of hijab does not affect non-muslims in anyway neither does it affect the quality of education being offered or received
So i dont understand why people are opposed to it except either ignorance or hatred for anything islamic

To those who dont understand the importance of this campaign, the use of hijab by a muslim lady is compulsory as commanded by Allah in the Quran whenever the lady is in public and the Nigerian educational system is forcing the Muslim lady to compromis her beliefs by removing the hijab when in the school environment

So your religion ask you not to respect constituted authority and law of the land? You can as well relocate to the lawless caliphate of ISIS, failed state of Somalia, Yemen, Aghanistan and Iraq or the authoritarian and barbaric Iran, where your dream version of constituted authority exists.

If it was commanded by Allah, take your kids to your madrasas or private Islamic schools. Show us the part of the quaran that says your kids must attend public schools. If you must obey Allah strictly without using your senses, take your children to madrasas and let them learn only Arabic or learn anything they want to learn in life in Arabic.

If they must attend a school that belongs to all of us, that we are all funding by paying our taxes, then they should drop their hijabs at the gate while entering the school in the morning and take it back on their way home.

Public school belong to all of us and it is a collective property that NO FAITH has any right whatsoever to demand what is not.

I repeat, govt hijacked the schools of other faiths and communities because of Muslims and now you are insulting our sensibilities again by demanding for what is not.

I pray the court should give you the right to wear the hijab. And govt too will see a mega sample of madness. It's only masquerade that went to school in Iwo, horn carrying kids, wearing uniform with cowries will soon be seen in our schools.

PapiWata:
The Nigerian Camel Riders' Union have DEMANDED that ALL cars should be abolished throughout Lagos State, so that camels can take over all roads in the metropolis.

Don't mind him.

Religion is indeed the opium of the people. Which of their culture has the Arab imbibed. None. But, they must adopt Arabs culture hook line and sinker. How dogmatic can that be. Of course, they should adopt it fully and start demanding their freedom of transportation right by pressurising govt to approve camel and horses on our roads.

Shior.

taiwoakin:
No am not saying Muslims have been unfairly treated
Am simply saying the Religion of the candidate for Lagos Governorship has never been and should never be a point
in order not to set a bad precedent of religious politics.

Regarding the issue of Mary, if we start that discussion, it may never end but the point i want to make is that
If the Mother of Jesus could use an head cover during hr times, Why are many Christians always castigating the use of hijab unnecessarily

Who cares about what anybody wears outside a designated public office that has a dress code. If you like wear black hijab from head to toe in scorching sun, who bloody cares?

The fact remains, a public institution belongs to all of us and only you cannot start religious anarchy by demanding for one stup1d fundamental religious right, that we all dropped for the good of the society, by embracing uniform ab initio.

It is either government cancels uniform out rightly or everyone must exercise the religious right too.

Mind you, that was the same way the then Muslim President hijacked all schools from missionaries and made it public schools. Those are the same schools you want to be wearing your hijabs to now. The fact remains the bulk of all the schools are either formerly christian or community schools. Wear your hijab in the minute schools you donated to the Govt. The govt has done enough to rub peter to pay Paul, by hijacking the Christian, other faiths and community school just because of Muslims. It is now an outright insult of all, taking a step further demanding hijab on a property that was never yours ab initio.

give us the name of any schools that was under the care of muslims, before govt took them over, that was a top school?

taiwoakin:
When Muslims put on the hijab, they are not forcing it on every student
just like when a parent decides the weather is cold enough to warrant his ward putting on the cardigan
We are not stopping other religions from demanding for their right, Each demand must be treated on its merit
Not just making noise because muslims are demanding that the right thing be done
you know yourself that you are dancing to the gallery
No other religion in Nigeria has a compulsory dress mode that must be used whenever the adherent is in public except Muslims and you know it

PS Your language shows the kind of morals you learn in your place of worship

I do not have time for whining crying bush babies like you. If you cannot use your brain to discuss intellectually apart from.being sentimental and emotion, find your way to Sambisa Forest and get out of here.

You can as well demand for riding of camel and horses on our roads
and stop all these your fallacy and hypocrisy of hijab or no hijab.

AbdH: Bro, laws are made by men. A uniform doesn't change in meaning even with the hijab. I know your stance about this issue and I'm telling you that you are overly sentimental and cynical.
A girl wears a skirt while a boy wears trousers - it is still the same colour so it is a uniform. Now tell me why a hijab with the same colour with the uniform cannot fall in the same category as a beret with the same colour?

i will enjoin you to please tow the line of mutual respect without name calling. I respect people that respect themselves on NL and take on the ones with bad mouths in equal measures.

I am not sentimental and cynical. I do not buy into religion dogmatically. God gave us a brain to think a little, to prevent anarchy. I am a realist and practicalist. dont do on to others, what you cannot allow. If the traditionalists wake up tomorrow and start advocating for their children to enforce their fundamental human right, by wearing palm fronds and cowries to school, will you just keep quiet because you do no want to be seen as being sentimental. A school is our collective property, who cares what anybody wears after school? b

a unifom is meant to make all and sundry equal, irrespective of religion, backgrounds , societal status, beliefs etc

How does usage of hijab conform to this core ideology of usage of uniform in our public schools?

how does hijab usage in public schools respect the religious right of others?

On what premise are muslims basing their argument on usage of hijab in public schools, apart from over flogged ''fundamnetal religious right'', as if others do not have the same right.

Why must your hijab be enforced on a property that belongs to all of us, even satanists?

If you are allowed, are others free to exercise their rights too, no matter what they deemed it fit as their religious right, even wearing of maquerade paraphernalia to school? Will there be a need for uniform again?

soonest: You said full shariah should be implemented in Nigeria

he will go to the caliphate of ISIL to achieve his dream of full shariah and not in Nigeria.

he must have been fantasising on how to be beheading people and teaching children how to behead too, killing children and ra.ping women. The one they started in the north, landed them in Boko haram's enclave.

AbdH: How does a lady wearing a cloth covering her own body infringe on your right? Hmmm?

hijab is not infringing on anyone's right, but does the hijab, whether cape or not, makes a uniform to be called a uniform again?

AbdH: Ifa cult? Are you kidding me? Well, no thanks. I maintain the culture and language but the cult is yours to enjoy.

what should be expected of a child of an ifa cult worshipper in our public school, if he or she is to be allowed to exercise his/her ''fundamental'' religious rights?

Aigbofa: I heard UNN will soon be renamed Black Scorpion University.

you want all of them to have heart attack.

what right do you have to determine what is compulsory or not for others?

is it only one religion that does morning devotion?

ibedun: My Yoruba Brothers
Continue with your debate but be aware of IGBO interlopers on this thread.
We have been muslims and Christians living peacefully together for a long while and that tolerence must continue.
And whether we like it or not none of the 2 religions have done us any particular good over the years.
Christinity despite their sanctimonious stance is full of fraud, manipulation and abuse and mind control of vulnerable (and sometime outright stupid people)
They do more damage to people than the bombs.
I support those who want to wear Hijab to school, office or wherever the like.

No one is for or against any religion here.

The fact remains, if a particular religion is insisting on exercising its right over our collective property, it is only fair and just for all to exercise theirs too, in accordance with their various faiths.

How are you sure that covering your head with blood or white substance or cowries is not compulsory on a daily basis for a child of babalawo. Perhaps, it is the uniform that has been stopping them from exercising their rights.

Xtianty and Islam are foreign religions; which we must adopt and domesticate into our environment with our thinking faculty and not the ''our way or no-way'' some deluded elements in our peaceful environment has suddenly developed. Why those 2 form a large proportion of the population, we should also know that others exist and their right must be protected by govt too, no matter what they worship and what they use in worshipping their gods or goddesses.


A repeat of what was witnessed in Iwo, Osun State will definitely play out. Its better for Govt to just cancel uniform out rightly and let everybody wear what they like to school, even pants like fela. With that, everybody is able to exercise his or her right, without that of anyone being trampled upon.

taiwoakin: freedom and justice must come before development. So the stand on hijab is more important than their fake promises
ignoramuses like you who jump on a topic without knowing the genesis are the reason why people are being misled
The use of hijab is a compulsory part of female dressing in Islam (whenever the lady is outside the house).
Is the use of sutana compulsory in christianity?
is the use of ofi and aso-oke compulsory in traditional belief?
that is why we are not asking that mal studnts should be allowed to use caps, because use of cap is optional
Nobody is asking for cancellation of uniforms.
Students wear cardigans during cold weather (the school ensures the cardigan has the same theme with the uniform)
why can muslim students be allowed to wear hijabs that have the same theme as their school uniform
Any politician that thinks he will get to lagos government house without giving us religious freedom is joking with defeat
why cant muslim female

keep your muthaf........g mouth shut odeson, if you cannot discuss based on superior argument, rather than on an embarrassing sentimental and emotion basis.

What gives you the right to determine what is a religious right for another religion. You are breaking the collective rule that binds all of us and you are still the one determining what is compulsory and not compulsory for others. How daft can you be?

why must you wear hijabs and others cant wear their palm fronds or carry rituals or embed cowries on their uniform?

FOR GOVT TO SAY YES TO HIJAB, IT WILL BE BETTER FOR IT TO CANCEL UNFORM OUT RIGHTLY. ALL RELIGIONS HAVE RIGHT OVER ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS TOO. MUSLIMS ARE NOT THE ONLY TAX PAYER FUNDING THE SCHOOLS. YOU ALONE CANNOT BE EXERCISING YOUR RELIGIOUS RIGHT ON OUR COLLECTIVE PROPERTY.

BETTER STILL, TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS -- THE SCHOOLS BELONG TO ALL OF US -- MUSLIMS - SUNNIS, SHIAS SALAFIS, XTIANS -- CATHOLIC WINNERS, REDEEMED, ANGLICAN, METHODISTS, BAPTISTS; TRADITIONALISTS - OGUN SHANGO AGEMO OSUN IFA WORSHIPPERS, OTHERS -- ROSICRUCIANS, OLUMA OLUMBA, ANIMALISTS, GRAIL MESSAGE; JEWS AND EVEN SATANISTS/TERRORISTS.

no red bandana in schools, no voting.

no blood on the head of pupils in schools, no voting.

no palm fronds in schools, no voting.

no sutana in schools, no voting.

no fila isegun in schools, no voting.

no rituals in schools, no voting.

no cowries in schools, no voting.

NO OFI/ASO OKE IN SCHOOLS, NO VOTING.

GOVERNMENT SHOULD OUT RIGHTLY CANCEL UNIFORMS IN SCHOOLS AND LET THE MADNESS BEGIN.

SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST BEING DOGMATIC TO ARAB CULTURE, APPROVE THE HIJAB AND WE ''YORUBAS'' WILL MAKE A DEMAND FOR ASO OKE OR OFI IN SCHOOLS COMPULSORY.

MayorofLagos: by 'our folks', do you mean Ibo people?

We need a study and revelation of what was going in Ibo territory in 1891. I would love to do a mythbuster on it.

i found some documentation of Lander talking about Ibo but its not lengthy. Its like hunting rabbit and then an ant crawled up your foot and so you mentioned it as a passing episode in your narrative on the rabbit hunt.

I miss the mythbursting series.

IN my last article captioned Zik, Ojukwu and Ndi-Igbo’ published Monday, 25th August 2014 by The Guardian, I averred that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe’s speech at the Consultative Assembly in Enugu opposing Lt Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s intentions to pull the Eastern Region out of Nigeria in 1967 earned him the ire of the latter.

In order to gag and prevent Azikiwe from doing anything further to openly or covertly frustrate his desires or organize effective opposition to his resolve to pull the Eastern Region out of Nigeria, Ojukwu took the pre-emptive action of tactically placing Azikiwe under house arrest without letting the general public and even most government insiders know he had done so. Security operatives were simply put in place at Azikiwe’s residence ostensibly to provide security and protect the former Nigerian Head of State from harm but actually to keep unwanted or unauthorized visitors away. Zik’s close confidants, associates, friends, possible cohorts or likely supporters and even relatives were quietly kept at bay. Those who tried to see Zik were discreetly informed by the security men emplaced by Ojukwu that the great Zik did not wish to see them or words to that effect.

Of course, some of Zik’s relations or kinsmen were not convinced or were distrustful of the farcical reports of Zik’s disinclination to be reached. Soon, highly informed sources say, some prominent Onitsha indigenes, Azikiwe’s kinsmen, especially those of themwho knew and agreed with Azikiwe’s position and nonsupport for secession began to meet to address the unfolding ugly situation. Apparently, they imagined that the traditional freedom of association and free speech everybody took for granted still existed.
Of course, Ojukwu got wind of what was going on and promptly arrested the supposed ringleaders of the group and clamped them into detention on charges of sabotage and illegal assembly.

Those arrested included such Onitsha prominent citizens as Barrister Dan Ibekwe, Solicitor-General of Eastern Nigeria;Mr. Michael Ibekwe, who later became the Police Chief in the East Central State; Mr. Edwin Nzegwu, a very successful lawyer; Justice Araka, who later became the Chief Justice of East Central State; and a host of others. It is not for me to talk about what became of the Araka family or wife! It is equally remarkable that many of those arrested or detained were not even remotely associated with the said meetings of concerned Onitsha indigenes.
There was no doubt that many Onitsha people, Azikiwe’s kinsmen, were going to rally behind Zik and his idea that it was premature, risky and rash to declare the secession of Eastern Nigeria at least at that point in time. Many of them agreed with Azikiwe’s pragmatic viewpoint that the action could lead to the annihilation and humiliation of Easterners by Nigeria’s Federal troops given the fact that the East was at that point ill-equipped for war.
The said meetings and possible rally against secession were of course actions which under normal circumstances could have passed as an inherent democratic expression of a group’s preferences, enacted to moderate government policy. But from the way the matter was handled, Onitsha people became a byword for saboteurs in the region. Many suffered various degrees of discrimination and persecution as a result of the smear campaign that followed both in the region and later in Biafra.

No doubt, this matter created intra-ethnic disharmony between Onitsha people and the hinterland Igbo during and after the Nigeria-Biafra war. Indeed, the faceoff and mistrust between Ojukwu and Onitsha people got so bad that Colonel Chude Sokei, an Onitsha indigene, is even up to dateequated to or regarded by Onitsha people as the “Uriah” of the Biafran State; to say nothing about the attitude of ndi-Onitsha to the condemnation and execution of their son, Lt Colonel Emmanuel Ifeajuna, by the Biafran authorities.
It is against this backdrop that one might begin to rationalize or understand the nuances, undercurrents and simmering tension in Onitsha today over some of Peter Obi’s actions towards the end of his tenure as governor of Anambra State.
Indigenous population
When Peter Obi erected Ojukwu’s statues in Onitsha metropolis, the indigenous population of the town gasped. They would rather prefer that Governor Peter Obi took the statue away from Onitsha land!Somehow, it appears, some Onitsha elders and influential citizens have so far managed to check the palpable anger of the people over the issue. But the people’s anger is not by any means extinguished. It is seething. The place is restive. The embers are in fact smouldering, and my reading of the situation is that sooner than later there will be an explosion. Onitsha people regard Peter Obi’s action in this regard as an affront on the indigenous population of Onitsha. The situation calls for the immediate attention or intervention of Dr. Willie Obiano, the State’s new governor. There is need to nip the gathering storm in the bud; to forestall an impending civil commotion in the town over the matter.

Over the weekend, I overheard an Onitsha man grumble to his mates in a restaurant in the city that the planting of Ojukwu’s statue in Onitsha land is as insensitive and provocative as erecting the statue in Calabar, Uyo, Port Harcourt or Yenegoa. It is unacceptable, he lamented. Come to that, it is doubtful whether any Igbo town for that matter would accept to have Ojukwu’s statue in its town square if the people have an inkling of how Ojukwu actually handled the crisis leading up to secession and Biafra, and the war that followed.
It is my considered opinion that governments in the Southeast should always take steps that would not exacerbate tensions arising from the war. If anything, they must adopt policies that will help mitigate the injustices, real and imagined, perpetrated by the Biafran government as well as join hands with other groupings in and outside the old Eastern Region for the achievement of reasonable reconciliation; to bury the hatchet and provide psychological and material relief to those who were scorched by the violence of war and the attendant discriminatory enactments and inflammatory and adverse propaganda orchestrated before and during the entire crisis period on all sides.

There is need for understanding and empathy. In the case of ndi-Onitsha and their travails in Biafra, such empathy has not been forthcoming from the rest of ndi-Igbo, not out of wickedness and lack of care but simply because most people are still ignorant of what really happened; why ndi-Onitsha were erroneously branded saboteurs based on the cover-ups and lies peddled by the powers that be at the material time.
Indeed, governments in the Southeast must also continually adopt ideas and policies to recreate cherished Igbo values and society that were destroyed by the Nigeria-Biafra war. To borrow a refrain of Mrs. Rose Adaure Njoku, the long suffering wife of Brigadier Hilary Njoku, we must endeavour to “withstand the storm”.

Uchenna Nwankwo is the author of the book: Zik, Ndi-Igbo and their Southern Neighbours

naptu2: I'm recovering from an illness, but I'm doing good. How are you?

Nice to have you back. Thank God for the the recovery.

kingmekus: with this hatred in ur heart...u are the next to die!!!

you and your family shall not see the end of this year. oloriburuku somebody, were nobody.

InyinyaAgbaOku: same way obj lost.Awolowo lost.
The abiola that won couldn't rule.
eeyaa .
God forbid a tinubu here

Tell us the election OBJ and Awolowo contested in that they lost the polling booth in front of their house?

Another of the numerous lies of the y1bos.

Abiola could not rule but he paved way for OBJ to.rule. He will rather sacrifice himself, than sacrifice 3mm souls of women and children, that your self acclaimed sissy, mini skirt/spag strap wearing rebel warlord used to appease Amadioha.

InyinyaAgbaOku: Am not the one doing it now.
Hating on a hard working man, instead of a smart working cocaine seller aka tinubu.
Done with you

See y1bo man and their usual inferiority complex -- OUK is hardworking and Tinubu is a cocaine seller.

If you have anyone like Tinubu in your pathetic tribe, APGA will not be a party that cannot even win an hamlet election. Imagine Ojukwu loosing the polling booth in front if his house.