₦airaland Forum

It has been stated in the news that they are closing this case to amend the charges and then file another suit.

For now I will withhold my disappointment in this mockery called anti-corruption fight.

This is long over due.

If some "masses" have to suffer for the safety of all, then it is highly welcome.

They just gave the government a good excuse to do that which must be done.

I hope same could be done around the boundary axis of Ajegunle. That place is madness unrefined.

yungpowers:
Who else has noticed the new trend of employment opportunities on daily basis here on nairaland?
Does it mean that there are now excess employment opportunities in Nigeria?
Just asking.

Many have relocated to Canada and abandoned jobs in Nigeria.

RealIgboboy:
Buhari media center (BMC ) are working round the clock trying to market their pay master at all cost.
They are busy creating thread on job vacancy even with ghost company name. Baba is working my foot.

Another propaganda to create impression that Baba is working.

There's nothing like vacancy

Believe it at your own peril

You are a real IGBO boy indeed.

The calibre of politicians we have at both the executive and legislative, have helped to diminish our democratic institutions.

chinavs9ja:
Let them do it now! World must hear that our army want to detonate bomb


I am a writer check my signature

Yes the world must be foretold, before writers like you write epistles on how the Army is denying that they were overpowered by boko haram or IPOB.

pweshboi:
Before bloggers go turn am to another thing....

Those bloggers and their misinformation have become a social malaise.

Izabel:
The baby doesn't seem familiar with him

Father was a rolling stone...

Someday, one or all of the many buildings that make up Aso Villa will adorn National paraphernalia as it ought to be.

The presidency is still steadfastly militarised even with 19yrs of democracy.

jaymichael:
The reason may be that there isn't any official building called the 'ASO ROCK VILLA' just as the White House. What is referred to Aso rock is a series of buildings within a zone (even a bit far apart sef) that comprises of The office of the President, Vice president, Chief of staff, SGF, etc. also within this "zone" is found the residence of the President, the council chambers, barracks, private residences, estates etc etc.
When they say Aso Rock, it could me the office of the President, his official residence, the council chamber etc. We have all seen Aso Rock but not as we expect (even if you recognize it as Aso rock) what is mostly shown is the council chamber though.
Naptu2, come shed more light on this issue please.

I know that many buildings make up the Aso Villa.

But have we seen the picture of any of this buildings before?

The most we have seen is the corridors that seem to link some of these buildings.

Is it not weird that Nigerians don't know what the structures look like?

Xander85:
Now i know what it means when your type are called revisionists!

The Sadauna could say whatever he liked about Ndigbo....it's a case of free speech! But ain't it curious that you give him a pass for all the subjective tripe he said about Ndigbo, yet when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu takes advantage of his own God-given right to the same free speech, you bleat for his head on a platter and cheer on the fulani soldiers as they invade the South East to kill or kidnap Mazi Kanu and his parents and kill unarmed protesters! You see where your two-faced nature, double-speak and your bigotry has got you?

Like i said, the Sadauna could say whatever he likes, but then the tag of 'founding father' or 'nation builder' shouldn't be used to identify him. Calling him a regional champion or father of Arewa would be more apt don't you think? He could make whatever discriminatory policies against Ndigbo that tickled his fancy, but for you to sit there and say this was ok and that you don't have a problem with it says all that needs to be said about your character and whether or not you believe the Nigeria of today should continue as country! I hope you're beginning to see the difference between you 'one Nigeria' pretenders and the likes of IPOB and myself that are realistic and pragmatic enough to question the basis for the continuation of the farce that is 'one Nigeria'?

The question of some states laying off workers has been dealt with exhaustively! I take it you're referring to Abia state and Ochendo-Global? Well, for what it's worth, i and many right-thinking and pan-Igbo Nwafors think the guy is a nut case! No right-thinking Igbo supported that action, and in any case, issues like what happened in Abia is nothing but a consequence Ndigbo being in 'one Nigeria' and how this has wrecked havoc on our Igbo identity! You think the balkanization of Igbo land into smaller states and equally taking part of it to Rivers state to be administered by the Ijaw.....you think that did any good for Igbo unity, cohesiveness and homogeneity? This is why i want my people out of this cursed entity called Nigeria...so they can rediscover themselves and the values and opportunities they once had that made their region one of the fastest growing in the world at some point!

With you it seems one has to repeat himself again and again! With the regional system of gov't being ran at the time, the Sadauna was well within his rights to pick and choose which people he would like in his workforce! What i take exception to was the lies he was spreading about Ndigbo simply because they are a hardworking people and take advantage of any opportunity they get to excel. Obviously, this would have been a problem for him since his own people were not as educated, but the fact he says he'd rather give a job opportunity to a foreigner than a Igbo (who hasn't killed of hurt anyone) paints him in a bad light! That being said, that same way of thinking would be unconstitutional in Nigeria of today given the lack of fiscal federalism and unitary form of gov't we operate!

So you accuse Ndigbo of liking to 'wail' that Nigeria is marginalising us? So you reckon that since the end of the uncivil war to date we've been treated with fairness and equality with say the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani?

You're a bold-faced liar if you want to sit there and posit that Igboland does not extend into Rivers state thanks to the shenanigans of Gowon and his advisers! I'm from Rivers state myself and consider myself first Igbo before any other thing! You want to show me your proof that Igboland is restricted to and confined solely within the boundaries of the South East? When Rivers state was created in 1966, can you show me the modalities that were used to determine that Ogba, Egbema, Ndoni, Ikwerre, etc, were not Igbo for them to be lumped in Rivers state? Of course the fact they were rich in hydrocarbons had nothing to do with it abi? You want to tell me you don't know a community (Egbema) was split in two just because the Igbo haters couldn't bear the fact that East Central state of the time would have access to 'all that oyel money', and hence they placed the richer part of the community in Rivers state so they (the leeching Igbo haters) could have easy and unhindered access to plunder its resources at will? Of course all this was part of the plan...the plan which now makes you want to brag that Ondo produces more oyel than both Imo and Abia combined! Come to think of it, just how much of that oyel and gas in Ondo belongs to the Ijaw? They took rich Igbo lands and placed in Rivers while taking rich Ijaw lands and placed in Ondo for the Yoruba to control, and you don't see a conspiracy against Ndigbo in all this?

As Nigerians, Ndigbo didn't find 'refuge' in any fuc'king place so just quit it with that misplaced feeling of benevolence! As long as they're Nigerians they're free to go live and work in any part of the country, and if you don't like it then support IPOB or forever hold your peace!

Exactly what 'denigrating and disrespecting' are you talking about? You want us to compare the insults and wickedness Ndigbo have received from your soldiers, obas and politicians as against what Ndigbo are supposed to have said and done to you lot? Or are you taking the few insults thrown by a few Igbo on this forum in response to the insults they received as proof that Ndigbo 'denigrate and disrespect' you? I hope you know this insulting is a two-way traffic?

Ndigbo helped develop Lagos! Why does that fact eat you up so much? But for Nigeria, Lagos wouldn't have been any better than Cotonou or Ibadan!

The general problem of the Igbos is that they believe policies created in far flung lands far removed from their own enclave, should cater to their own desires and not to the needs of those who are making policy for themselves.

If not , you wouldn't still be wailing over what policies a regional premier promoted for the good of his own region and its people in a regionally structured Nigeria.

I repeat that you took refuge in foreign lands of your own need to survive and thrive economically, so if you choose to return to your own lands you abandoned, to face the economic limitations there, you are free to do so as no one begged you to come on a sojourn into their own domain. So enough of all the cries that you are developing anywhere when you went there so you could survive, having already saturated your own region.

I have already illustrated to you how Ahmadu Bello did not care for a national role, and chose to remain within the regional parliament of the North, rather than the federal parliament that fellow regional premiers proceeded to. All the pioneering regional premiers are only called Nationalists because they and other fellow Nigerians were the ones who discussed the future of the country in preparation for the exit of the British colonialists.

Azikiwe who claimed to be a nationalist as his own political viewpoint, we remember how he used his office as president to put only his fellow Igbos in sensitive federal positions, and continually replaced them when necessary with the same Igbo. He was the nation builder who was building his Igbo nation for the domination agenda and statement credited to him years before independence.


I also repeat to you that I and the Yorubas generally did not have any problem with how the North was running the North. The West ran the West as it also saw fit. If the East had a busybody problem with what the North was doing for its own benefit, that then explains why there is a present lamentation that your own region remains a "marginalised" and underdeveloped ghost town deserted by yourselves.

It is this same mentality of the Igbos that make them to berate Awolowo till today for daring to democratically become the premier of his own Western region, ahead of Azikiwe who was hoping that him winning a regional parliamentary seat in Lagos, together with the seats that would be won by his Yoruba party members in Lagos and the West, would allow him become premier of the West ahead of Awolowo who was campaigning on a different party platform.


What lie did Ahmadu Bello spread about Igbos? Have many Igbos not claimed he was only being envious from observing that the trend he illustrated was true? Did the Igbos not saturate themselves within the federal space in the 1st republic alliance government they formed with the uneducated North, where Igbo kept on replacing Igbo as the only tribe that merited senior federal appointments, who then used same appointments to populate more Igbos in federal offices and recruitments? In fact Igbo kept on replacing Igbo in the same federal position in some instances.

Ahmadu Bello did not insult you or lay criminal accusations at the Igbos, he only stated the obvious that you eternally scheme to dominate once you are given a yard, it is your nature to want to take a mile. Events that occurred subsequently proved him very right. So why would I berate him when he spoke from experience that was vindicated by subsequent history?


Are Igbos ever at peace when they see that they do not dominate a place? Nigga please! Anyone who has coexisted with the Igbos outside of their own region can attest to the fact that the Igbo is only satisfied when they dominate, anything short of that is marginalization, while merit is said to be practised only when Igbos are employed.

I certainly know that Nigerians played their part in developing Lagos as part of private enterprise to develop their own self and make their own lives better, but who makes noise about it as though they did something charitable? It is the Igbos.

The same Igbos who eternally lament that they have to pay taxes to Lagos, as though they would rather prefer the penury that was their lot in their region before they fled to Lagos for economic refuge?

No Nigerian that is not a top politician can claim to know what Aso Villa looks like.

Yet we claim to be a continuous democracy that is 19 years old?

Is it a crime for the media to take a photo shot of Aso Villa, since the end of military rule in 1999?

Now let the government of Nigeria go sue Google for exposing a structure that Nigerians should by right be able to draw as a primary school assignment.

thesicilian:
Selective justice in itself is a form of corruption.

Can Nigeria ever move forward with this mentality of "I must protect my criminal brother", "you cannot arrest my criminal brother first", "let the change start with you before I also change"?

If this story is true then I commend the police, but I wonder why it took so long to come to this achievement.

Human life means nothing in Nigeria. Both the government and the people of Nigeria (like the one I am quoting) are an epidemic that must be quarantined within Nigeria, so they don't infect the sane world where people support the institutions of government to achieve the common good and not ask why success was attained to the demerit of their own parochial interests.

thesicilian:
Has he not heard of the Fulani herdsmen to go and arrest?

So it has become a crime for the police to arrest those who empower some of these killers with the ammunitions that take human life?

What manner of crazy bitterness is this?

Even the finest police in the world would not only attempt to arrest the perpetrators, but to arrest the means by which this terrorism is being sustained and propagated.

OP, what is your source for these allegation?

selemempe:
I keep reading ur words and see the evil u try to propagate. However i will tell u these facts.

1. The Igbos signed up for the contents of the 1960/63 constitutions. Nothing more.

2. The igbos never trauncated the 1960 constitution as u all love to write. That was done by the Gowon/Murtala/Obasanjo regime which replaced the regions with states they created without Igbo input and replaced the 1960 parliamentry constitution with the 1979 constitution also without Igbo input. They did it in a way it would favour them. (North and west gain, east loss)
P.s Ironsi's decree 34 was not meant to be carried over to a civil constitution. It was meant to give his military junta control over the regional military governors. But the roaches still made it civil law. Even after agreeing with ojukwu at Aburi for a confederation

3. Before the war, the eastern region had 50% ownership of their oil. After the war and without their input, it was reduced to 13% (north and west gain, east loss)

4. Before the war, lagos belonged to all Nigeria as a federal district. After the war, it was ceded to the yorubas. (West gain)

5. Before the war, igbos owned and mined coal in Enugu. After the war coal became fg's property and was left to rot in favour of oil. (East loss)

6. Without input of Igbos, Gowon moved Nigeria's capital to his region...the north. (North gain)

7. In sharing oil revenue, igbos got 5 states while the rest of Nigeria got 6...whith the caliphate getting 7 states. (East loss)

Pls tell me what Igbos gained in the economic and political activity that happened in Nigeria after the war. I have showed u wat u lots gained.

Xander85

I keep reading your own words and only marvel at your ignorance.

How can you cede a city to a people who have always owned it, never lost it and decided its progress?

Murtala Mohammed initiated the moves in 1976 that resulted in the Abuja federal capital in 1990, so how did Lagos cease being a federal capital after the war that long ended at 1970?

So why did you not show me that the capital being moved to Abuja from Lagos was a loss for the West?

And you claim that oil being a national asset that allows only 13% derivation for the host states that are not Igbo, was a gain for the North and West, but not a gain for the SouthEast that is still struggling to produce more oil than Ondo in the SouthWest?

I acknowledge the loss of the SouthSouth states when it comes to oil revenue matters, stop forcing yourself into a group you do not belong. If the SouthEast lost anything, it only lost what never belonged to it to begin with.

If I remember correctly, the ethnically heterogeneous Eastern Region that existed then was majorly producing oil from Ijaw land. Ijaw land was in the East, while Itsekiri land that also produced oil was in the West but to later become the regionally independent MidWest.

The Ijaws in the East were already opposed to using their natural resources of crude oil to develop Enugu that was Igboland. When the Ijaw Adaka Boro led a secessionist uprising to secure Ijaw oil for the separatist NigerDelta republic, an Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi and Emeka Ojukwu, as Military President and regional governor respectively, ensured such demand for freedom and emancipation by the oil owning Ijaws was crushed by military might.

So if Nigeria eventually gave autonomy to such oil bearing regions that are not Igbos, then I can accept that it was truly your loss but the gain of those who owned the oil.

What you were left with was the federal allocation funded by such oil proceeds that you did not own, just as the West and North got same federal allocation while not owning oil resources just as the SouthEast didn't own either. For that, you should be thankful and not cry that you are marginalized over oil that was not your own.

You never hear the SouthWest cry marginalization over the oil producing MidWest that was cut out of it by the Eastern and Northern alliance that dictated the government of the 1st republic.

Now that you have your oil in your Igbo Imo and Abia, Just as the Yorubas have in their Ondo and Lagos, Igbos are still having regrets over the independence the Eastern NigerDelta got from the Eastern region.

Do you see or hear Yorubas exhibit any regret over the independence the Western NigerDelta (Itsekiri, Urhobo, Ijaw, Bini, Esan, Anioma, Isoko) got from the Western region?

If you miss that oil income that Adaka Boro regretted the Igbos were using to develop Enugu to the detriment of Ijaw land, don't you think the SouthWest should also be missing the oil income that accrued to Delta and Edo states?

Yet we are satisfied with just federal allocation, but you want oil income that is not yours and that is now rightly beneficial to those who truly own the oil. Whether they be non-Igbo or Igboid of the NigerDelta.

For the sake of those who own the naturally occuring oil by no effort of their own, their loss is truly Nigeria's gain, but they still have a derivation of 13%. A policy that affects states in the NigerDelta, and the more resent states in the SouthWest and SouthEast.

Xander85:
I just knew you'd bring up that 'greedy Igbo truncated the first republic' line! It's hilarious! Care to point out when and where Ndigbo mandated Nzeogwu and co to carry out a coup? You do realise that Ndigbo in particular and the Eastern Region in general had no reason to change the status-quo seeing as they were doing quite well economically. The choice of planning and executing the coup should be placed squarely at the door mouth of Nzeogwu and co, and last i checked they were not all Igbo. So i don't get why you people keep on propagating this lie of 'Igbo coup'.

Besides, isn't it your kind that say Igbo are only found within the confines of the South East? Or is it a case of changing the ethnic make up of the Aniomas depending on the argument at any point in time and depending on which side of the bed you get up from in the morning?

You see, i blame the likes of Zik for not seeing the insecure, tribal and bigoted type of people he was intent on coupling us with! The jobs ndigbo got in the north and south west, did they get them by holding a gun to anyones head? If guys like you made up the generality of the population of places like the US or the UK, they'd still be backwards uncivilised cesspools of mediocrity and ethnic strife! You listen to the argumant a so called founding father of Nigeria made, and you have no problem with it solely because his fire was aimed at Ndigbo! All his assertions were all subjective and libelous....a so called founding father, yet you have no problem with what he said!

If a people settle anywhere, they're free to vote and be voted for at the place of their abode! Any position to the contrary should be backed by the constitution and not by the whims and prejudices of hateful, insecure bigots!

You need to quit with this argument of Ndigbo needing to be grateful for some imagined benevolence accorded them by the 'owners of the land' where they went to 'seek refuge'! It smacks of a misplaced and unmerited sense of superiority, smugness and arrogance! Ndigbo are only taking advantage of opportunities accorded them by the constitution, and were not handed anything on a platter....which is more than i can say for those stealing our oil wealth in the name of 'one Nigeria' and questionable laws that place the ownership and control of the oyel and gas in my backyard in the hands of some far off leeching bigots!

You actually want to argue that if things are done on merit in Nigeria that Ndigbo would not come out second to none...that the Hausa/Fulani would still occupy all the 'juicy' and critical appointments and jobs in the civil/public service? You think the fact that Ndigbo economic and administrative capabilities were trusted by the British, and thus on the day of 'independence' in 1960 held a good number of critical positions in gov't, military, politics and the economy...you think all this was just a fluke and that the Brits didn't know what they were doing? Dude, get real!

You do realise the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani have gained more from the Igbo than we've gained from you? Calculate the amount of money you lot have made from the exploitation of the hydrocarbons found in Alaigbo (note: i said Alaigbo and not the politically contrived South East)....you'd be amazed at what you find! I'm including all the hydrocarbon rich areas you conniving lot took from the East Central state (and later Imo and Abia states) and placed in Rivers state just so you could get easy access and control away from those 'pesky inyamiri/y'ibo/fla'theads'!

Ahmadu Bello never cared about Nigeria, hence his decision to remain in the regional space to remain as premier and rather allow his deputy party leader Tafawa Balewa to proceed to the federal parliament and eventually become Prime Minister. Unlike Awolowo and Azikiwe, who like Bello were also pioneering regional premiers but had federal ambitions that bello never cared for.

Whatever policy he enacted for the good of his own region is apt if it serves the people and purpose of that region. No one dictated policy to the West or East, so no reason why anyone should dictate to the North what should be best and accommodating for migrants of other regions who had already fully occupied their own regional space and jobs before looking outside.

So indeed, I have no problem with what a regional premier that is well known to accommodate the culturally and religiously diverse tribes of his enclave, initiated for the benefit of his own region. Later history has already taught us that even within the same homogeneous ethnicity and religion, some states will lay off workers just because they are from a different state, while the other state too reply with same intra-tribal discrimination.

That you too bemoan that Northenization policy for its North first agenda, only suggest that I am right to say you Igbos left your own region having found the opportunities there limiting, and voluntarily proceeded to the greater land spaces Nigeria afforded you to make a better living. A Nigeria that was yet to "marginalize" Igbos as you all love to wail and whine about.

As for the oil and gas that has so much benefited Nigeria, most of it has remained outside of whatever you chose to call Alaigbo. For what you call Alaigbo, I could also mention the Yoruboid Itsekiris who have been commercially producing oil long before any Alaigbo tribe. If you mention Imo and Abia oil, then you should remember that Ondo has also been producing more oil than those 2 SouthEast states combined, and Lagos is now producing too.


I am not asking you to be grateful without reason, I am telling you to stop denigrating and disrespecting the places you found economic refuge for yourselves, for which you now try to claim you were forced to migrate because your own region under your control was denied development.

I am also telling you to remember what made your tribe depart the tribal enclave on an economic sojourn, as you now clamour to bring the lost sheep back into the same enclave they voluntarily departed and continue to flee from till today. Remember your economic condition when you dreamed of a life outside, and your economic condition now that you arrogantly claim and regret that you have developed a foreign place you arrived with no penny in your pocket, so you want to now return home to develop your origins.

Remember that the star that does not remain in the sky will only drop to the Earth and turn into dust, while the sky will ever remain shining with newer stars.

Xander85:
You're being clever by half!

The dynamics at play that determined the reasons for emigration of Ndigbo during the two periods (pre and post independence) are largely different. You're playing smart in not making a distinction between the two periods.

Like i stated earlier, during the pre-independence era the Igbo emigration was determined largely by the British colonial gov't. The political, administrative and economic gravitational pull of Lagos and Zungeru at the time was largely responsible for Ndigbo moving to these places.

Now post-independence, the mode and reason for migration amongst Nigerians was not expected to mirror the pre-independence period. After 1st Oct' 1960, we had a new order at play, a new constitution that was birthed from the 1957 and 1958 constitutional conferences** in London between the founding fathers of the country and the British gov't.

With this new order, ethnic groups and regions had more control of their destiny, resources and economic fortunes. There was fiscal federalism at play, little meddling in the affairs of the regions from the centre, and these regions even had their own separate regional constitutions. This was the Nigeria we all signed up for. If we still had that order in place today, the migration pattern would be totally different....Ndigbo and other ethnic groups would be in control of their resources and their destiny and would not be held down by wicked, leeching, 'one-Nigeria' bigots bent on grabbing everything to their regions, controlling and siphoning our resources, and scheming to prevent anyone but themselves from becoming president of the country!

This is why you have separatist and agitation groups like IPOB today. Nobody would tolerate the nonsense and wickedness Ndigbo have been put through in this country without fighting back at some point....certainly not the Hausa/Fulani!

The way out of the quagmire we find ourselves in today is to return to the 1960 constitution (with slight adjustments given the political and economic realities of today). It's either we do that or we all agree to go our separate ways! We are all born equal and free and nobody is a slave to anybody else!


**https://passnownow.com/1957-1958-constitutional-conference/

So you are saying Igbo traders that populated the North and West and Lagos, went there to take up colonial jobs with the British?

Ethnic groups already had more control over their regions since 1952, but the Igbos were more interested in political power in the West, and economic opportunities and regional government jobs in the North.

Till today, the Igbos still wail over the Northern Premier's decision to protect and preserve Northern regional jobs that would be made available to Northerners who were soon graduating from universities.

The Nigeria you claim we all signed up for, was truncated by Igbos who were so greedy they wanted more in other regions and total domination of the federal space where Igbos only should be the ones qualified for federal positions.

You continually fail to acknowledge that your migration attitude helped to create rich Igbo men who either made wealth outside of their region or who exploited the human movement to become rich transporters.

The irony is that you then despise the places you made this wealth and claim to be the ones developing such places, when it is not recorded that the Igbo man brought the wealth of his village to develop the foreign soil he found himself. Rather the money made from foreign soil was sent back home to develop the East and empower many waves of emigrants to also depart the East as paupers but to return as high chiefs.

If any Igbo has made money in a location, it is only proper you should be happy paying taxes in a place where you have amassed the wealth that eluded you at home.

If you choose to leave where you were not forced to come to, you should remember why you had to seek refuge there initially, even when you were not marginalised by any other tribe at a time your regional destiny and development was in your own hands, and at a time the federal government was in your pocket to define federal merit as Igbo only.

Read through this thread and see where the same people claiming to be sufferers of Nigeria's attempt to hold them to the ground, are equally boasting that they are doing so well, which is majorly in the Nigeria that is beyond the confines of the SouthEast.

stanluiz:
Despite all their evil policies on the SE we are still excelling and progressing.

See this one who is admitting that they are still excelling and progressing, in an apparent mockery of other regions of Nigeria. The question then goes, who is responsible for not allowing those other regions progress while they are supposedly the ones holding down the progressing Igbos?

1beat:
God bless ur wisdom ...

Igbo's are the one bumming Lagos economy they occupied large population in notable market in Lagos. such as Alaba, Ladipo,Computer village and Supper market. they're just working for Lagos government and her people

Ask this one above to leave these Lagos markets and go back home, he will petition the UN that Yorubas want to commit genocide. Yet he is lamenting that they are paying tax to Lagos, but not lamenting that they have become rich in Lagos.

pcguru1:
As in I was confused reading his despite, despite it being a man's (based on your word) its even harder on men and more sympathetic towards women, a woman would get much more assistance before a man. I guess its the price to pay for toxic masculinity a man is expected to sort himself. Though women got some specific battles to face though won't deny that.

He is confused.

In fact when it gets to higher management roles, many qualified men are kept at bay to allow a woman assume a role she is not qualified for.

A woman manager is even allowed to initiate policies that cater for the career growth of women alone.

Can such be allowed by the women folk if done for men only in such politically correct establishments?

The liberal media will not let such male manager sign and drop his pen.

delugajackson:
It's a mans world afterall, but Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. We need to reshape our perception of how we view others. We need to appreciate women's efforts in our society. Life is not a bed of roses.

And to you my friend, jealousy is real & is the ugliest trait to ever have. Show us your own apartment or forever remain silent.

You dare say women have to work harder to make it in this world?

You are deluded.

What more work has Chioma done to have a car I cannot afford with all my daily toil?

I work in a politically correct establishment where women have to be hired and promoted just to ensure workplace diversity, and not because they competed better.

It is an explicit policy that women must be hired, whatever it takes to get them there, thereby denying more qualified men, the opportunity to do a job that is highly masculine, and for which most of the hired women would still require the help of men to meet their work objectives.

Imagine a man crying during his recruitment interview for not being able to rightly answer questions from the interviewer? That same tears of failure was what ensured a woman was hired just because a diversity policy had to be honoured, while many men who rightly answered questions had to be kept at bay for a woman to pass through.

I reckon the woman worked harder by crying?

selemempe:
the thing u have to know about the dude Throwback is that he is the perfect definition of an Igbo hater. And what makes it worst is that he seems educated....so he can throw big words around and promote lies that ppl use as truths.

B4 the coming of the whiteman Aba and onitsha were already big cities. Iron works, palm produce, slaves, artifacts and livestock were all sold in these big cities. Ppl migrated from ibibio and ejeagham into these cities to be part of the trade.

The hausas were also coming down south ward...they gave our merchants horses and cows in exchange for slaves and iron weapons...we never went up north at the time...until the game changed and we all became one country.

The fg has denied igbos things like international airports, good federal highways and a friendly police (like u have in the north).

Continue with your fallacies that you have been denied development, that's why you are a nomadic tribe looking for economic refuge elsewhere.

Maybe the North and West were better developed that was why your tribe sought refuge in the North and West, at the onset of an amalgamated Nigeria?

So when you finally went up North when you became one country, was it because the North was already developed by Nigeria at that early time, while the East was deliberately underdeveloped by who?

You emigrated for your own benefit alone and now you want to return home to your own economic demise.

Xander85:
Looks like you're just looking for an argument just for the heck of it! Ask any neutral today who the most daring and most widely travelled group in Nigeria are and chances are 8 times out of 10 you'd come up with Igbo as the answer!

Because of our daring, independent, republican and mercantile nature, Igbos are not afraid to seek out new challenges, new opportunities or to broaden their horizon. This stands in stark contrast to those who generally chose to be insular and preferred to play it safe by sticking to already known and defined borders (remember you accused only Ndigbo of travelling, so don't blame me for the assertion made in this paragraph).

Because of their republican and democratic society, during the period of the empires Igbo interaction with her neighbours was more by way of trade, whereas for others at the time it was more by way of conquest to expand their empires. The Sokoto Caliphate, Oyo Empire and Benin Empire were examples of such. If Ndigbo had been interested in territorial conquest and expansion, it's most likely you'd not have had the many other languages in the south Eastern part of Nigeria as you have today...they'd all probably be speaking Igbo like you have in the western part (minus Edo and Delta states) where they all speak Yoruba. If you check the old map of the Oyo Empire you'd see it stretched into present day kwara and Kogi states...hence the Yoruba influence and Yoruba speaking groups. Same influence can be found in the way almost all the northern part of Nigeria speaks Hausa, due to the influence of the Sokoto Caliphate and the later Sokoto Oligarchy.

So what i'm saying is that the Igbo, even though they are a widely travelled people, had a different kind of relationship with her neighbours than was the case with the other big two.

Another daring and widely travelled people were the British, Spanish, Portuguese and the Germans. You can't say their travels were borne out of a serious case of inferiority complex can you?

You mentioned the dates 1914 to 1940. I don't know why you chose that particular period, but any noticeable spike in the emigration of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria during this period would be as a consequence of the interplay of two factors: 1) the daring, mercantile and independent-minded nature of Ndigbo; 2) and the coming into being of Nigeria (first Southern Nigeria and then the amalgamation of the two protectorates in 1914 by Lugard). Remember that at the time Lagos had the gravitational pull both for administrative and political purposes, and it says something that a people can travel from so far and still be able to make their mark in a far off place like Lagos was at the time. Same scenario played out after 1914 in the North when the Igbo were found there in their numbers playing key roles aiding the British colonials in their administration of the region. Both Zik and Ikemba were born in Zungeru. I hope you remember the part Zungeru played during the Norths colonial period?

Thank you for admitting that at the onset, Igbos chose to leave their own land to move elsewhere for their own economic benefit and not because the system was rigged to make their own lands underdeveloped, hence the need to move towards development.

The whole thread had been filled with posts that were alluding to the known fallacies that the Igbos only seek opportunities outside because they had been deliberately starved of internal development by Nigeria, so they had to move out to the greater Nigeria land space to survive.

Simply put, from the onset, you chose to exploit what opportunities laid outside for your own good.

For your own good alone. Nobody forced you, or underdeveloped the East at the onset of Nigeria.

This should be good news to all sane Nigerians.


To the anarchists, it is another opportunity to be unhappy and lament that the government is lying.

Yet they continue to hope for good news while condemning any good news they hear.

The follow up to this news should be that those who made possible this fraud and were the beneficiaries of these ghost salaries, should be identified, sacked and prosecuted.

That there is no single conviction for the many corruption trials that this government has only managed to embarrass itself at the courts, is a serious concern and unforgivable failure of this government.

naijaking1:
So that the corrupt Buhari government will stop having excuses for not performing compared to GEJ who sold petroleum at $54.

This history is too recent to lie so brazenly.

GEJ sold petrol for 4yrs when the price was $100+pb.
It was in his 5th year from mid 2014 till May 2015 that it began to drop towards $50pb, at which point the federal government of Jonathan was already borrowing to pay federal civil servants salaries, having already ran down the federal savings he inherited and reduced foreign reserves from $47b to $29b/$30b within the same period of such high earnings.

At the time Buhari assumed power and crude oil price continued its downward fall till it reached $27pb, wailers like you were asking for Nigeria to be turned to Dubai and Florida, outrageous expectations you never had while crude was selling for $100+pb without any savings made of it, and 2nd hand trains as the only tangible economic investment to boast of by the Jonathan sycophants.

It was at that same time that your type were rejoicing that the Niger Delta Avengers were sabotaging the economy by vandalizing pipelines to your delight that the economy will be crippled, just because a useless president was sacked by the same electorate that gave him a nationally spread victory 4 years earlier.

Now that crude has entered the $70+pb range, you are also asking why Nigeria is not yet a Paradise, because a Paradise on Earth only requires 3days to build?

Now with your high expectations and standards, you will understand why many of us concluded that the Jonathan regime was a colossal failure that could not show anything tangible for the 4yrs of stupendous oil wealth, except brandishing almajiri schools, new universities and 2nd hand train, at a time we claimed to be the biggest economy in Africa, yet we could only afford 2nd hand trains because we are not America (as opined by Jonathan presidential spokesman Doyin Okupe).

You will now understand why it is a disgrace that less than 8 months into the fall of oil prices from the top price of $100+pb, the finance minister and coordinating minister of the economy, had become so helpless and hopeless that the government had started to borrow funds totalling N470b to pay federal salaries for Feb/March/April 2015. This is the same finance minister who was shouting from the wilderness that no savings was being made by the government she was the economic coordinator and we should soon expect an economic nosedive. If she could not take responsibility to ensure savings was made, whose failure was it and who then is responsible that the economy did eventually nosedive when oil income dropped drastically?



The government of Jonathan while earning so much from crude oil, refused to pay its own counterpart funding for JV oil projects with its IOC partners, such that when the oil crisis had began, such funding being owed by the government had totalled apprx $5b for 2010 to 2015.

But you want an overnight developmental paradise now that oil is only beginning to rise above $70pb?

Yet you are ready to make excuses for the failures of the previous government that was in office for 5years with 4years of immense oil income?

stanluiz:
Àll those things you type are complete trash.

Yet you do not have the knowledge or courage to prove it so?

Lets start from the very beginning.

What moved the Igbos out of their land upon realising that they have free access to a land mass that dwarfed the old perimeter of their known existence?

Why wasn't there mass immigration into Igbo land instead of emigration at the start of the 20th century (1914 to 1940)?

stanluiz:
lies!

Why not approach the questions with courage?

Kettyking said more than this while campaigning for his Igbo brothers to leave Lagos and move their businesses to the East so that Lagos will perish and finally afford the SouthEast an opportunity to grow from a wealth that would be supposedly generated from Igbos by Igbos, until he eventually revealed years later that he too was sitting tight in Lagos and paying N1.5m rent to his Yoruba landlord.

The day Igbos all over Nigeria return to their regional enclave, is the day they will realise that a market needs customers, and without the customer there is no income, so profit, wealth and boasts will not exist. That is the day the arrogance will fall flat and perish.

At the end of the day, those who will happily occupy the space they exited, will still pay that tax for having benefited from that location.

A question the Igbos have never bothered to answer is what wealth or enterprise or commerce was ever associated to any Igbo community before they found themselves in Nigeria?

What geographical feature do they have for their own benefit like Lagos or Port-Harcourt?

What cultural ties do they have with nearby international neighbours that could make a vast commercial city develop from such human interrelations like Kano came to be?

Why is it that right from the onset of Nigeria, decades before independence, the migratory pattern was more prone to movement to the North and West? At least all Igbos were within their own enclave at that onset, so why didn't they stay home to grow wealth from within instead of make an escape to the outside to make wealth?

What vast natural resources do they have for the economic benefit of the state?

When the SouthEast is described as landlocked, it does not mean just landlocked like the many European countries that apologists love to reference without correlation, but landlocked and trapped within the greater Nigeria and at the mercy of economic policies of Nigeria.

His family should hold Kanu responsible.

He certainly was one of the anarchist supporters who Kanu commanded to burn down the country if he is lawfully arrested by the same court that gave him the bail he was abusing.

IkpuNnegiEwu44:
Exactly, the only program I watch on channel is the politics today aired by 7pm. Apart from that, wetin concern me with the APC TV where that yeye girl Maope Ogun talks trash. Her bias is very glaring. Don't know if she is trying to gain the face of their oga Momoh who APC compensated with NBC chairmanship position

Why are people fond of posting any rubbish that their ignorant heads can fathom?

What has being the chairman of BON which is more of an association of broadcast organizations, got to do with NBC that is a government regulator and not headed by Momoh?

Arrogant ignorance is now an epidemic in Nigeria.

It has been so obvious that Oyegun has been as useless as Buhari in his own capacity as party chairman.

Little wonder why the troublemakers and beneficiaries of intra-party electoral fraud, are the ones determined that Oyegun must remain. People like ElRufai, Rochas, Yahaya Bello, Akeredolu.

Even I agree that the APC is finished, for the good of Nigeria.

sanandreas:
After sealing the company, they can as well seal Northern youths mouths. This is definitely not the right approach. What happened to sanctions? Oh I forgot it is owned by Igbos. The highest pharmaceutical company in Nigeria has been shut down.

Apparently, all you read was not useful to you, except the pre-existing knowledge that Emzor is owned by an Igbo.

That was all that mattered to you.

Persecution/Victim complex cannot even die inside Biafra, so why am I surprised it is an epidemic in the SouthEast within Nigeria?

May be the claimed "highest" pharmaceutical company should be more ethical than profit driven, and more cooperative when under investigation by their regulator.

I reckon the other companies where just included so as not to betray the grand agenda against the Igbos?

carpmam:
I don't know y they are ganging up against emzor,they nafdac gave them the license to produce codeine,they gave them the specific quantity to be produced daily,why are they now sealing the company, have it been established that they produce more of the drug,or is it just because the owner of the company is from the east,or maybe because she is a woman

You are another sufferer of persecution/victim complex.

So with all you read about a lack of cooperation from the 3 different pharmaceutical firms, all you care about is the single one known to be owned by an Igbo.

How will a future Biafra survive this toxic clannish behaviour, where an Owerri man will always support his own over an Nnewi man?

Even if this clannishness is in your DNA, can't you find a way to suppress it with objectivity using the facts of the matter?

Must a regulator already conducting an investigation over a drug abuse epidemic, have to beg a firm that is already a suspect, to cooperate with it?

Now let them cooperate with criminal negligence.