Occurstaem:

Even Zik will be ashamed of this your attempt trying to whitewash him.
Zik -of cursed memory- and his tribesmen were the real backstabber. You will just be opening your mouth without facts and evidence to back it up. It's obvious you got this notion from radio biafraüd.

Your Zik and his tribesmen were the greatest betrayal of all time.

Just like at Independence, Awolowo offered a joint government between the AG and NCNC, with Azikiwe as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awolowo and Azikiwe "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Azikiwe would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North. The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his lieutenants to jail! The fact is there.

What of the 1965 elections which the West (Yoruba) and the East (Igbo) agreed to boycott? They met all night and reached agreement at about 3am on the day of the election. In the morning, while the Yoruba (West) boycotted the election, the Igbo (East) went ahead to vote.

Also after the 1979 elections, Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP) leaders were still at the negotiating table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN).

Then after the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself. Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation. Talks started and they met in Benin where Awolowo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between the Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria. They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North.

Second Republic minister,Paul Unongo of Npp (Zik's party) was one of the beneficiaries of NPN and NPP alliance

kachistone:


My chief, I no dey insult people when I dey argue because there is no need.

I will recommend certain books for you to read if you think I am lying.

You can check Paul Anber's 1967 book, Modernisation And Politics Disintegration: Nigeria And The Igbo

1. I agree that the West first got Western education but the East caught up and surpassed the West and that was why Awolowo introduced free and compulsory education. The Igbos were at the forefront of education before independence and Awolowo had to give the West free education to catch up. I salute Awolowo because he is a great leader and I believe he and Zik should have partnered to salvage this country.

2. The East had the fastest growing economy in the world in the 50's and 60's according to the world bank. You can Google it.

3. You said I mentioned a University. It should interest you that UNN was the first University to be established in Nigeria as it was a full fledged university unlike University College Ibadan that was a campus of the University of London. Kindly note that the first graduates of University College Ibadan which later became UI received certificates of the University of London. UNN was a brain child of the great Zik abinitio. Awo and Sardauna later built Universities in their regions.

UNN was among the first of it's kind in the black world and he modeled it after the University of Michigan.

4. The Eastern region under Zik and Okpara devoted almost 45% to education and there was mass literacy in the East.
5. Zik built Nigerian Cement in Ebonyi in 1955. I am sure you must have heard of Nigerecem.

6. He established Nigeria's first steel company known as Niger Steel. This was way before the military govt of Gowon built Ajaokuta after the civil war.

7. He established the first indigenous bank in Nigeria known as the African Continental Bank ACB before Awo built the National Bank for Nigeria while Sardauna built the Bank of the North which is now Unity Bank.


Awolowo is great leader no doubt but don't compare him to Zik.

The reason Igbos do not rate Zik is because we maintain that he was busy doing Zik of Africa while others were playing regional politics because he could have used his influence to fight for Biafra and the agitation could have gotten more bite if he contributed his influence. He never believed in it.

Zik also contributed to Ghana's movement for indepence by establishing newspapers there. That man was not a small fry.

Just go and read about Zik my chief. No need for insults. Let's be civil.

Google is there for you to correct what you posted

Awolowo started free education in the 50s not after independence

Western region bought over Agbonmagbe bank,now known as wema bank. Where is Acb bank today?

Tribune newspaper,the oldest newspaper in Nigeria is still flourishing. Where is the west African pilot?

Ewekoro cement of Awolowo is still in operation. Is Zik cement producing?

All Awolowo personal businesses are still in existence (dideolu holdings) and better managed. Just to prove he was a better manager with eyes for the future

Expect more responses from others

Give respect to the best president Nigeria never had-Ojukwu

Slytiger:


As minister of finance, Chief Awolowo's ministry paid £20 only to those former Biafrans whose account records were lost, and to those who held their bank balances in Biafran Pounds.
Since they could not prove how much they had in their accounts, they got a blanket £20. That money was a gift from Nigeria. Those former Biafrans who could prove their account balances received all their monies.

The late Senator Arthur Nzeribe is an example of an Igbo who could prove his account balances. All former Biafrans who had accounts in banks outside the Eastern Region got access to all their funds after the war. The late Chief Alex Ekwueme is an example of this.

In every part of NIgeria, Igbos got their abandoned property back, except in Rivers, where their own fellow Igbo speaking peoples, who somehow say they are not Igbos, seized their property.

Also, there were cases of seized abandoned property in modern day Benue. But it did not happen elsewhere.

Chief Alex Ekwueme is again an example of this. Although he was not really friends, per se, with the recently departed Otunba Subomi Balogun, they lived close to each other. Just before the outbreak of the civil war, Alex Ekwueme left Lagos for the Eastern Region, like most prudent Igbos.

After the war, he returned to Lagos and, surprisingly, met his house in a renovated condition. While he was wondering what happened, his neighbour, Mr. Subomi Balogun, approached him and gave him his back rent in cash.

Chief Ekwueme's children are still alive and can attest to this.

Put yourself in Awolowo’s shoes. Many of the banks in the then Eastern Region had been destroyed. The accounts were in Biafran pounds. Records were lost. And even the banks deliberately destroyed records for fear of being punished for holding Biafran currencies, which had been declared a crime of economic sabotage against Nigeria by General Gowon's government.

Furthermore, after the war, Awolowo paid the Eastern states all their monies from the Federation Account from 1967-1970. He invested it and returned it to them, for which he was acknowledged by SG Ikoku, the Commissioner for Economic Development in East Central State, in the Daily Times of May 22, 1971.

Every family in former Biafra owes a debt of gratitude to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. But sadly, many parents who should have taught their children this documented history have instead filled them with hatred by regaling them with wartime propaganda.

These records are still available.

In addition, majority of them don't even have up to £5 in their accounts but still got the £20.

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You will explain tire!

It won't change their mindset about Awolowo. He was even hated by the colonialists for his sterling performance on self rule

Ok

Forkthiefnubu:

The SW since the colonial times have been bastion of tribal politics, it is their political philosophy, their values and culture is steeped in tribalism and they are not hiding it , the few votes GEJ ever got from the SW states are from the none indigenes and in 2019 they did not come out to vote , I saw that with my two eyes

Don't say what you are not sure of regarding Jonathan 2011 presidential election. The night before the election I was with a late older friend ,an acn political stalwart, he informed me they have received directives from their party leaders to vote Jonathan. It did not come as a surprise to see Jonathan won in all SW states except in Osun. Are the none indigenes that you claimed voted Jonathan more than indigenes?

I don't vote or care who becomes Nigeria's president. And I have also stopped believing in democracy for any developing nation,because it is an exercise in futility.But what I understand about Yoruba is that they have been in opposition before independence, and voted Jonathan in 2011 hoping he was going to be an ally,but he chose not to. 2015 that brought Buhari was Jonathan's fault and Tinubu has capitalised on it to be the president. Every tribe in Nigeria is scared of subjugation and won't pursue an alliance when their interests are not protected

Ok

Auxiliary,this is for you

My Way
By Frank Sinatra

Ok

They don't call Americans crazy for nothing. Don't be surprise when some students take up this invitation

DMerciful:
We have no unity of purpose but also afraid to do the needful which is to go our separate ways

Don't bank on it until Niger Delta oil dries up. That free oil that gives monthly allocations without sweat is what unites us

Lovit:


Go and take his place na?

shey you no like Police work?

I don pass to dey find work

Na you need am pass

Obj invested $16 billion dollars on power project,till date no head no tail. Decentralise power generation and transmission and put in place appropriate pricing to reflect cost of production

Not bad

Leave Niger Delta oil alone. Others should use what they have to get money they need

Let everyone one dey there dey. Let Nigeria build you to be resilient and use it to leverage your life

@ DMerciful what has been the outcome of all these years of protests? Are the billionaires labour leaders the characters to lead protest or these senior "students" parading as NANS leaders.

These tribalism existed from day 1 and it is not going to change anytime soon. We have different tribal values, and you don't expect a tribe that share properties among siblings equally to be on same page with tribes where such don't exist

Ok

Police go, barrack remain

His loss is another man's gain

66spirit:
This type of mindset really describe why some some of us were taught in kindergarten that Mungo Park discoverer the source of river Nigeria instead of being the first European to do so..
Just because a white man said so, so be it huh?
Whatever the condition of Palestine, I will like to believe the Europeans had an existing agenda to take over the land regardless hence the churning out of undesirable news and info about Palestine being these and that .
What is the outcome of it today?
Carnage, war, violence .
So much as well as the artificial and immoral partitioning of Africa lands creating borders and separating brothers.
I don't believe most of European reports about anything foreign. They are sometimes so biased and full of ignorance.

Was it reported as a barren land to discourage outside interest? What later made the barren land attractive to designate as an homeland for the jews

79 years of untainted records

In fact, there's a long line of German armour. And above it a sign: "History is repeating itself."

BigYash:
She dey shout harder harder.. Dey drink people sperm like juice.. Anal wen u no dey do her,another guy man dey scatter her anus.. And na you still dey pay bills.. inside the money you give her,she go still give those boys.. Some boys dey Zuor sha. The mumu go dey shout say my babe can’t cheat on me.. I love her so much.. dey there dey personalize community property..

horsepower102:
My Yoruba friend and I went to America and we both worked hard. We both suffered, received insults, racism, and put in blood and sweat to become successful.

When it came to time to invest our wealth in Nigeria, my Yoruba friend went to Lagos and ogun to invest. I followed him and go to Lagos and ogun to invest.

Am I wise or am I stupid?

I have to ask this question to really understand because I am very confused.

Not that I will abandon my root,but where I make money is my home

Umahi finally responded to the question but e wan take style dodge am before

How about landmark linking the beach with a uniquely built bridge. I am not talking of regular bridges,this one has to come with features that makes walking or riding to the beach breathtaking

DMerciful:
Hand of Esau, voice of Jacob.

Amaechi was used to remove GEJ, from same state

This your version of history is incomplete. You should start from the beginning and include how Jonathan and his wife used Wike and Mbu to frustrate Amaechi out of PDP

Who wears the shoe knows wear it pinches. I can not imagine the feelings of the property owners of old and new alignment when demolition comes.

Compensation should not be delayed. I hope government adopts the immediate compensation process of the Chinese company handling railway projects

This guy in Merlin season film that time

loffyloffy:

So you'd rather ferry the millions of people that cross the third mainland bridge daily so that the government can make money.

When we talk about economic benefit, we're not talking about making money. We're talking about the changes and impact on the economy that the project provides.

Let's even go with your ferry idea. How big would it have to be to carry the volume of people on the third mainland bridge daily? What would the traffic gridlock all over Lagos look like without that bridge?

Ferries were features of Lagos up to the late sixties and early seventies. Ferries won't be able to support the influx of passengers on apapa/island axis with the huge commercial activities that emerged from petrol dollar of the 70s

It is this government sanctioned estimated billings that I am totally against. I have no complain if I get electricity that's commensurate to my inflated unit rate

Duolingo will ease the change or any other language apps

Are you a nanny or experienced in nursing a child that you would want her not to leave with your baby. Better to enjoy your freedom and plan well for the future. Not that I support separation but call her bluff,it seems she sees herself better than the relationship or doing you a favour by still staying in the marriage

God take control

Opportunity to be away from the stress of Nigeria