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PoliticsRe: Ex-N’Delta Militants Vow To Sustain Biafra Struggle, Demand Kanu’s Release-Today by tonychristopher: 3:30am On Jan 05, 2016
spanishkid:
Hahahhaa. Nnamdi Kanu is going to rot in jail and nothing will happen. We've heard of much bigger threats than this one. Try any nonsense and you'll know there's a difference between GMB and GEJ. Foolish and jobless people.
Benin boy ..grow up
TravelRe: Eko Atlantic City (updates) by tonychristopher: 3:23am On Jan 05, 2016
MXrep:
If we follow yoruba line of reasoning, Gwari ppl are the most sucessful tribe in Nigeria, Abuja is Gwari land. Lol
Sometimes the best thing is to ignore them....the most successful tribe yet they have the highest area boys and rascals in southern Nigeria

I hate bragging

Oh yes Abuja gwari is the most successful tribe with their logic

Ask them how many of them have property at the eko city or how many can afford the rent ?


Happy 2016
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 3:07am On Jan 05, 2016
Rose2014:
Can u imagine we've bn here arguing with a Yoruba guy about Igbos in SS
How desperate can they be?
Sometimes I wonder where they created that way or they acquired it

Here in Lagos pokenose of Thiers is too much.. Very loud and noisy
CultureRe: Where Yoruba And Igbo Peoples Meet - Ugbodu, Delta State. by tonychristopher: 3:01am On Jan 05, 2016
Don't make that mistake to go there and call em Yoruba ...they will Lynch u

They have been igbonized
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:56pm On Jan 04, 2016
Lilimax:
Iran should go and sit down. Saudi Arabia just executed Shiite member, yet heavens did not fall tongue
Are u Saudi? What impact can you make? Even within your own country you are divided
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 8:54pm On Jan 04, 2016
Rose2014:
So you're even Yoruba? And you've bn running up n down this thread. Mtchew
You don't know these people from that side....they can be funny
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:47pm On Jan 04, 2016
iconize:
That dude who said Iran can't do jack to Nigeria is overly being idiotic and elfish.
Ignorance is a bliss
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:41pm On Jan 04, 2016
FriendChoice:
So Iran will fight Nigeria because of Elzazzaki? Foolish talk.
Iran can fight not because they have anything to gain ..Nigeria is a poor country but they will fight to make a statement and test their technology

Mind you this is a religious confrontation not an economic one...so we have ego that might be elevated and bruised ...just the way it is done in syria not because syria is rich but its between Sunni and shitte Muslim
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:38pm On Jan 04, 2016
FriendChoice:
Look. For a country to go against Nigeria, is to go against the entire African continent.
When Cameroon invaded last year under the guise of fighting boko haram what happened , when they invaded bakassi what happened, when Niger invaded what happened... When Togo invaded kwarra last year what happened

Tribalism has killed this country ....nothing is professionally run..even the army


God is just saving us
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:36pm On Jan 04, 2016
[quote author=vRendoh post=41656596][/quote]That was why I said Christian south east and south south


Well western Nigerian aren't even regarded as pure Muslim so they might free them

But emphasis is in east and south south
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:18pm On Jan 04, 2016
Gboliwe:
I hope they (Iran) have the right map? Before they get "us" 5% involved.

This is what you get having an evil terrorist up there in Aso Rock
I said it ...its not our war..we Christian won't mind
StoneColdBiceps:
Make una leave all this yeye talk wey ona dey talk. Who bé Iran where Nigeria dey? Nigeria is d most unique and complicated country in d world. Even America dont know how to handle us, how much more Iran wey their diplomatic relationship no get meaningful impact on Nigeria. Nigeria is not Sudan, Yemen or Niger. Nigeria has the Biggest Army in Africa.
America is ignoring you...not that you have anything to offer ....which biggest army do we have

Is it the poorly trained ones that abandon weapons in face of confrontation or is it the one that bruttaly mess innocent civilians up

Tell me any war that your army fought without any external assistance.. They couldn't fire a bullet to defend bakkasi whereas India is still fighting Pakistan over Kashmir

Guy find another gist
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:15pm On Jan 04, 2016
StoneColdBiceps:
Make una leave all this yeye talk wey ona dey talk. Who bé Iran where Nigeria dey? Nigeria is d most unique and complicated country in d world. Even America dont know how to handle us, how much more Iran wey their diplomatic relationship no get meaningful impact on Nigeria. Nigeria is not Sudan, Yemen or Niger. Nigeria has the Biggest Army in Africa.
America is ignoring you...not that you have anything to offer ....which biggest army do we have

Is it the poorly trained ones that abandon weapons in face of confrontation or is it the one that bruttaly mess innocent civilians up

Tell me any war that your army fought without any external assistance.. They couldn't fire a bullet to defend bakkasi whereas India is still fighting Pakistan over Kashmir

Guy find another gist
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:10pm On Jan 04, 2016
EternalTruths:
The best policy is to avoid this war

But will the proud Northern Sunnis agree to that.


Anyway, they should not touch the SE/SS. cool
It isn't Christian fight ...they can kill themselves ...the lessee Muslim we have the better for us all
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:08pm On Jan 04, 2016
There is an igbo adage that goes like this ....he who doesn't know who is bigger and greater than him hasn't grown at all...


So the question is ....is Iran bigger than Nigeria economically and military... The answer is yes



Iran that called USA and western nation bluffs, a nuclear country a country that has what it takes and one of the greatest alies to mankind..Russia and China


Now bubu ask yourself questions. ...do we need this ?

This is not a political or economic war.

The truth must be said this is a war between wahabism Islam buhari type and shitte Islam

So count the Christian south east and south south put when the shit hit the fan finally

So I think Nigeria should thread carefully
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:03pm On Jan 04, 2016
FriendChoice:
Mstw even U.S.A cannot dictate to us, talkless of Iran. Here we have a system.

We should released him without investigation and being charged to court?

We should let him go after creating a state under a state?

We are also warning Iran to stay out of our business or else.. They will face the unbearably consequences.
Talk is cheap

You must be a yoruba man....don't take offense
PoliticsRe: We Have Used All Channels To Warn Buhari Over Shi’ite Leader – Iran by tonychristopher: 8:01pm On Jan 04, 2016
fearNORTH:
Iran says it is using all diplomatic channels to pursue the release of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky who was arrested by the Nigerian army last month.

“We have used all those channels to warn them [Nigeria] regarding this issue. So hopefully the government… would adopt wise action given the sensitive situation,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hoseyn Jaberi-Ansari told reporters in the capital, Tehran.

Sheikh al-Zakzaky after members of his Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) clashed with the army in the northern city of Zaria.

Campaign group Human Rights Watch said at least 300 IMN members were killed and quickly buried in a mass graves during the incident. The Nigerian military denied the claim.

The military accuses the pro-Iranian sect of trying to assassinate army chief Gen Tukur Buratai, which it denies.

Iran is currently embroiled in a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia over the execution of a prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Shia in Nigeria
▪ Shia are minority in Nigeria but their numbers are increasing
▪ The IMN, formed in the 1980s, is the main Shia group led by Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky
▪ They operate their own schools and hospitals in some northern states
▪ They have a history of clashes with the security forces
▪ The IMN is backed by Shia-dominated Iran and its members often go there to study
▪ Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram condemns Shias as heretics who should be killed

http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/04/we-have-used-all-channels-warn-nigeria-over-shi%E2%80%99ite-leader-%E2%80%93-iran
How did we end up with this kunu drinking nunu sipping old man as head....


He doesn't obey courts
He is offending so many people


Well lets watch
PoliticsRe: My Husband Will Continue Biafra Course If Released, Kanu’s Wife Declares by tonychristopher: 7:58pm On Jan 04, 2016
Omotolu:
After all said and done,this woman will definitely do another man if her husband dies. Just like Winnie Mandela,she will f.uck another man if Kanu stays too long in jail.
Why are u worked up ?
PoliticsRe: My Husband Will Continue Biafra Course If Released, Kanu’s Wife Declares by tonychristopher: 7:46pm On Jan 04, 2016
xtropy:
You must be talking amiss and over dreaming this period. Go see a medical before you enter the market place.

I pity you and your cowardly Yoruba who stand for nothing, and are perpetually being hunted for sports by your Fulani masters. It's your destiny on earth!

If the mouth can be used as AK-47 guns, Yorubas would have been a world-power by now. 

Has Yoruba fought any modern warfare? The war Yorubas fought was with matchete and spears...and you call that war!

Can you even stand the sound of shelling? Did your fathers ever heard the sound of bombardment or shelling?

Only the noise of Ikeja bomb blast of 2001 you lily-livered creatures ran for life only to perish in the canal in your multitude.

Did you hear a hint from IBB about your cowardly tribe, that if he's woken up from sleep and informed that there's a coup led by Yorubas, he'll simply go back to sleep?

A moment you bigots stutter, "Igbos Must Leave Lagos" when you're high with sniffing excess of your farts. The next moment after relentless ass-licking your slave masters you shout "One Nigeria"

Frustrated OPC e-warrior!
Now this is classic
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 7:40pm On Jan 04, 2016
mechy:
It is not elele miri .... it is elele ali mini....
And what is the difference
They are the same thing

We don't mini but miri

So why make mountain out of anthill
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:46pm On Jan 04, 2016
DiademSh07:
Bring it on!
Yeye!
Have grown past that stage
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:44pm On Jan 04, 2016
HopeAtHand:
Nzikomndu. Meka.

I saw someone posting something about Asari. Let them know that Asari like everyother person is entitled to his opinion. Also his opinion isnt binding on anyone. He can speak at best for Kalabari and it ends there. We have chosen how we want to be identified and only our opinion counts on that matter.
Do you realize that as you advance your senility is advancing


Can you tell me what make ikwerre not to be igbo
My uncle is an ikwerre man and he says he is igbo
Now before you jump out

He is from elele miri ....toward fr.ede prayer ground



Waiting
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:28pm On Jan 04, 2016
DiademSh07:
Yet they had ibos whimper like the little child they are! LOL!
You don't know me ..I would have responded you with venom but just repented

So I will let this slide
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:27pm On Jan 04, 2016
Anticabal:
Do you know that this issue is very simple? If you don't feel comfortable with Igbos in the SE and how Anioma and Ndoki relate smoothly with them but feel comfortable with because you think we pro-igbo SS are minority, you can simply chan byge your names to benin names, because as long as we bear Igboid names they have to claim relationship with us.

You also have the right to claim cultural relationship with Binis, ijaws and yorubas but must start changing your names from Ibo names.

1.) When you successfully de-acculturate yourselves from Igboid names strangers won't feel you are idiotic answering an Igbo name and claiming no to be Ibo.

2.) It will also serve as a big message to Igbos to stop calling you Igbo and nobody will ever do that.

Wake up buddy, the war ended 40 years ago and our oil is loosing value and drying up.

Just found out that Akalaka the name of the founder of ikwerreland is a pure Igbo name that means (palm, destiny).
Simply stated and the gospel truth
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:20pm On Jan 04, 2016
DiademSh07:
That aint compared to the suyanization of ibos at the hand of Igala in Agulari! LOL!
Why do we have this retarded mentality ...igala that is 1% of anambra state

Just look at you

You know that igbo don't run away from fights
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:19pm On Jan 04, 2016
Anticabal:
If i abuse this one now mynd will come again with his hammer. You are telling me we ndokis are not entitled to our land again because a fulani man carved us into rivers. Did the fulani man physically carry our land on his head to you in rivers before we 'migrated' there are according to you? All these dishonesty because of oil?Why are you shameless? Why are you such a fraud this man? i heard you people in ogba bear some benin names too, why can't you go back there with the canoe you came with?
Nice point
PoliticsRe: There Are Igbos In South South- Buhari by tonychristopher: 5:01pm On Jan 04, 2016
Anticabal:
This emptyheaded yoruba man, what do you know. Why don't go and face fulani and nupe who are currently sending your fathers in kwara on a quick march to benin republic. onye ara.
What is happening in kwarra. ...must they make a mess of em every time
PoliticsRe: South East May Actually Been Marginalized; See Raesons by tonychristopher: 4:56pm On Jan 04, 2016
xtropy:
Frustrated Yorrobber, this is to reformat and reset your brain:

tonychristopher post:
This piece was prompted by what I saw as benign ignorance amongst some of our Ibo folks and because such ignorance is music to the ears of some other people and Yoruba in particular. In more than one occasion my friends and other Ibo have advanced the argument that if Ibo was that smart, how come Yorubas dominated the commerce industry in Nigeria? What they meant were the domination of Yoruba in the banking, insurance industries, Coco Cola and some other surviving industries. In one particular occasion a friend revealed to me that he recently discovered that the reason why some Yoruba are so wealthy is because they were smart enough to invest their money in corporate stocks and bonds (not realizing that Yoruba actually stolen those corporations) while Ibo is busy engaging in buying and selling. The Yoruba will like people to continue to believe that story, that it was because they were smart that they were able to do all these great investments in the commerce industry. One relevant question that I always managed to ask my interlocutors is whether they were aware of the indigenization decree of 1972, master minded by Awolowo and the Yoruba and the ramifications of that policy, as will be expected, the answer ranged from, I have heard of it but does not understand what it actually meant to I have not heard of the policy. Listening to this ignorance induced perspective from my friends made my heart to skip a beat, realizing that the task of bridging this information gap is not going to be a child’s play. What is disconcerting is that some in their benign induced ignorance believe that the effect of indigenization is inconsequential at this time because it happened about forty years ago. This piece is therefore for those that are educable and for those that have the capacity to appreciate the magnitude and most importantly for those that can relate that gigantic economic event that reshaped the economic foundation on which Nigerian economy settled on after the British/Biafran war and as well as relate our present economic malaise to that economic foundation engendered by indigenization.

There is no doubt that most people, particularly those that do not have either basic or international economics background are overwhelmed by the subject of INDIGENIZATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES IN NIGERIA because of their inability to understand the economics of it and the efficacies to make the necessary connections and relate it to the present economic doldrums, some simply brush it aside or worse, simple minimize its far reaching implications particularly on the Ibo. In so doing, majority of us dabble into analysis of how terrible Ibo has managed their affairs since after the civil war, while leaving out a huge chunk of the elements that need to be factored into their analysis. The unspeakable effect of the policy of indigenization on the Ibo was wicked and dastardly. The economic damage on the Ibo is impossible to calculate. The psychological toll on the Ibo is still reverberating amongst the Ibo today and creating identity crisis. Some folks will argue that we should drop the subject because it happened forty years ago, which is equivalent to saying that because slavery, Jim crow and the holocaust happened years ago, and for that reason, they have no relevance in today’s analysis. How can any credible analysis of American history not include slavery and its implications, or how can any Jewish history not include the holocaust and its implications and effects, but that is what some folks want us to do, to avoid or forget one of the most devastating economic policies that changed the economic landmark of Nigeria, second to the genocide of more than a million Ibo committed by the same man, Awo, and still arrive at any meaningful analysis. I believe that the incredulity that any ethnic group is capable of visiting such devastation on another is still an obstacle that the subject is struggling against and must overcome. It is not that most people do not know what happen, it is simply that they do not what to believe that it happened because it is mind bending. I also believe that if we do not tell the story over and over, the Yorubas will not tell and neither will the Hausa tell it, as a matter of fact they always wish that it will go away. So whether they like it or not, we must continue to broadcast what happened until people start to understand the effect of the policy not only on the Ibo but on the nation as a whole. Suffice to say that after Awo and the Yoruba succeeded in executing the indigenization decree and became overnight millionaires, many Ibo packed their bags and left Lagos to the east –ala Ibo, where they shortly died out of heart break because some of them also suffered the deprivation of their properties due to abandon property policy in Lagos and Port harcourt.

WHAT ENGENDERED THE INDIGENIZATION POLICY?

It is no more news worthy to point out that before the civil war that Ibo out of their capacity for honesty, to work hard, to produce, to innovate, to manage, create and persevere were able to penetrate all facets of Nigerian endeavor, when the British used merit as a yard stick. It is an irrefragable fact that even Yoruba would not dare challenge that fact, if not, what started the Yoruba hate, envy and jealousy against the Ibo in the first place, Yoruba and Hausa claimed that Ibo was dominating everything in the country but what they will not acknowledge publicly was the fact that the British were making the decisions about who to hire by their own standard and not by Ibo standard and that Ibo was good at what they did and better than them. The Yoruba and Hausa wanted not only equal opportunity they also wanted equal outcome regardless of effort and everyone knows that that is impossible.

There is one very important fact in my analysis that I want everyone to get, and that is that before the civil war, Nigeria as a nation did not have an economic of its own. Let me say it again, that Nigeria as a nation before the British/Biafran civil war did not have an economy of its own. I emphasized that point in other to say that whatever seemed like Nigerian economy were British owned. Put differently, if you excluded few of the regional cooperatives and some joint ventures businesses which were mostly British engineered to make buying raw materials easy for the British, ever y other aspect of the economy were owned majorly by the British, even the military, given the fact that almost every military supply came from Britain. It is then save to say that British investment in Nigeria amounted to a great totality of Nigerian economy or that Nigerian economy was at that time synonymous to the total investment of the British.

Below, courtesy of Africa today are the list of some of the companies that constituted Nigerian economy before the war that the Yoruba stole in one swoop, spanning the insurance companies like Lloyd’s of London and all the banks in Nigeria owned one way or the other by the British. This is but a partial list of what constituted the British investment in Nigerian economy.

“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge ],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State. Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State Wema Bank Plc, Marina, Lagos West African Portland Cement Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State Great Nigeria Insurance PLC, Ikoyi, Lagos State Glanvill Enthoven & Company Limited ◦Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. ◦International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State. ◦Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos ◦Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State ◦Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State ◦Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State ◦Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos ◦SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos ◦Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos ◦U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos etc.

The necessity of inserting this partial list of the companies/assets that existed before the war was to give the reader a sense of the extent of what the issue is all about and who owned what and when. The Yoruba hardly owned much of anything or any of these assets listed above except in some regional joint cooperative ventures with the British.

The story went like this, before the war the Ibo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when British/Biafran war started, Ibo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the east, the Ibo land. After the end of the war, the Ibo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Ibo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Ibo abandoned their positions and do not deserve their position back, reminiscent of the abandon property thievery in Port Harcourt River State and Lagos. However, a dynamic developed as Ibo every morning dressed up and went and occupied the lobbies of their different offices that they used to work in. Tell me, if this is not manifest bravery of the highest order ever exhibited by any group in Nigeria and we are talking about days and weeks immediately after the war was declared over. But the final say as to whether or not the positions that Ibo left for dire life was going to be declared abandoned rested on the British that owned these companies. As the back and forth went on, the British started angling to make an economic decision because they understood the difference between the Ibo worker and the Yoruba worker and the three years of the civil war made that difference even more crystal clear to the British, if not, why would the British bother to accommodate the Ibo after such a long time? What became clear to the Yoruba was that the British were willing to make extra provision to re-absorb the Ibo any way possible. Yoruba was not ready to tolerate any of that because they knew that it was a matter of time before the wheat will be separated from the shaft that Ibo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Ibo into these British owned companies, the corporate Yoruba decided to solicit the help of Awolowo who was then the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council.

This is where a plan was hashed to wrest the control of these companies, consisting of banks, insurance companies, corporations of different kinds and types from the British. The best way Awo and his cabal found fit was to convince Gowon and the military leadership who in all probability have never had the word indigenization in their lives to promulgate the INDIGENIZATION DECREE in 1972 that stipulated that every foreign owned venture must transfer majority ownership to Nigerian indigenes within a year of the promulgation of the decree or they will forfeit the assets of the company to the Nigerian government. (Emphasis within a year) As expected, the British were caught off guide, not understanding the motive behind the policy, the British thought it was a dream or a joke that will go away, particularly given the fact that they just won the war against the Ibo for the Yoruba and Hausa. After exhausting six months out of the one year in their bid to reverse the decree, the British became frantic and concluded that they could not reverse the decree and went about trying to salvage whatever they could. What was worst was that the British did not even have enough time to evaluate the worth of their ventures because of the limited time the decree allowed, courtesy of Awo and cabal. The situation gave chaos a new name because the British were in chaos. So the first problem the British ran into was limited time that they couldn’t figure what the value of majority of their ventures were, they could not tell how much to sell them for. Mind you that this was happening within a year after the end of the civil war. At this time the Yoruba was running every conceivable federal ministries, departments and agencies plus all the corporations listed above and more that the British owned. It is important to point out that the north had little or no presence in the commerce economy of the country before the war and after the war except in the military leadership and infantry. The economy of the country was dominated by Ibo first and Yoruba second before the war. In order to solidify the economic dominance that the Yoruba attained during and after the war and to make their position even more potent in acquiring the British spoils, Awo as the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council and his Yoruba cabal decided to economically emasculate the Ibo understanding

a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatals

b) That Yoruba was running every conceivable corporation that the British owned or had majority ownership as listed above.

c) That Yoruba was managing all the Nigerian banks, insurance corporations, National shipping line, Nigerian airways, Nigerian’s Ports authority, Nigerian Railways and all the ministries, Departments and Agencies conceivable.

Decided to destroy whatever was left of the Ibo and putting a finishing touch to it by

a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Ibo had in all the Nigerian banks

b) Offering every Ibo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.

c) Militarizing every part of Ibo land.

d) Rendering every Ibo without exception a pauper.

e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Ibo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

When that day of infamy arrived for the British to start selling their assets, Igbo having been disenfranchised and emasculated in any and every way stood on the sideline watching the Yoruba in their glee as they scrambled to obtain loans from their Yoruba dominated banks to make the most minimal of offers to the British as there were no competitions. The British had no choice but to accept any offer as the alternative was losing everything to the federal government. The British lost pretty much all their investment to the Yoruba whose stock in trade is robbing and stealing any and everything they can get their hands on. Thousands of Yoruba became millionaires overnight and there was jubilation and owanbe all over Yoruba land. Yoruba had parties day and night and weekends. They closed streets to display their new found wealth as they partied. That day marked the economic death of Nigeria, that day marked the death of Nigerian’s aspiration to join the civilized world. The implication was enormous and it sent a shock wave throughout the Ibo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Ibo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic , social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingering today within the Ibo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Ibo good and the country as well, he brought the Ibo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Ibo has never recovered from that one blow seven akpus in any appreciable way but Nigeria as whole is worse off for it. I believe that what was more devastating was that Ibo had no place or body to turn to. To be blunt, Awo decapitated the Ibo leadership and through Ibo into great confusion.

It is important to note that by this singular act of INDIGENIZATION DECREE engineered by the Yoruba, the Yoruba de facto constituted the new economic foundation, the sole owner and manager of Nigerian economy without any rivals. So, for those that have wondered why Ibo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Ibo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Ibo buy any shares of these corporations for decades following the heist. Now, some people without the capacity to comprehend the full seismic implication of this economic shift and restructuring will want us to believe that this does not matter and I will beg to disagree because it is like everything else, the foundation of everything matters and determines the success or failure, be it a house or business. As time has revealed, Yoruba stealing and forming the economic foundation for Nigeria was a bad idea and a monumental disaster. For the ignorants, all things being equal (in a fair fight) the Yoruba knew it, the British knew it, the Ibo knew it and the world knew it that the Yoruba did not possess the capacity, creativity, drive, perseverance, hard work and the competence to do what some are crediting to it if they did not conspire to steal not only from the British and Ibo but from everybody else that had any assets in Nigeria. The apparent dominant control the Yoruba has on the economy since after the war was not out of great honest smartness or creativity or innovation or hard work or competence but out of share robbery of the British and Ibo sweat and hard work. I believe that the question that the benign ignorant should be asking going forward is what did Yoruba do with all these assets and corporations that they stole? How did the country fair under the Yoruba management of the Nigerian economy? How did the Yoruba managed economy relate to today’s economic malaise. Hope they can make the connections.

My next piece will try to capture the mind blowing implications of that great heist as it relates to Nigerians and Ibo in particular and the flight of international investment from Nigerian for decades.

Fredrick.


http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/The-Biafran-War/The-Greatest-Heist-in-Modern-H/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-.html
I just said the truth ..they will ban me again but the truth must be said ...did he counter that
PoliticsRe: Should Nigeria Grant Independence To Biafra, Yes Or No ? by tonychristopher: 7:07am On Dec 20, 2015
PassingShot:
I like your comment. I implore you and other Biafrans to take realistic steps that will SURELY lead to exiting Nigeria.

I sincerely want Igbo out of Nigeria. Living together should not be by force. I am sure that as soon as Igbos are able to exit Nigeria, Yorubas will determine if they want to continue with the Nigeria project or leave it.
So this means that Yoruba are looking upto Igbo ..awo was right
RomanceRe: Sagging Boobs. Whats Ur Opinion? by tonychristopher: 7:52pm On Dec 19, 2015
Setaje:
It's not for you to buy it. It's logic.
But the logic is illogical
RomanceRe: Sagging Boobs. Whats Ur Opinion? by tonychristopher: 7:52pm On Dec 19, 2015
doveda:
Unless they have given birth

You know nada about the female anatomy!
I am talking to ypu as a man that has seen it all

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