₦airaland Forum

Sapiosexuality:
Stop this thing. You know what I'm saying. Please stop pretending. Nigerians harbour thieves and praise them. Nigerians also select thieves to praise and hate. I recognize these facts. But my point here is, why blame a community that just suffered a loss with details you do not fully understand? Why must we blame EVERYONE in the community based on developing stories? Don't pretend you don't understand because I think you do.

What would you like, dear? Buy them warm blankets and serve them hot tea with cup cakes? Ozubulu is not an isolated case of chickens coming home to roost. I fear for my safety and that of my loved ones everyday in Nigeria. I thank God for each day of safety in this chaos. Forget the story. assume it is an allegory. Ask of the allegory is plausible. Whether as you said if "Nigerians harbour thieves" won't there be consequences for "harbouring thieves"? If we don't want the consequences what should we do? Do we all accept responsibility at a communal level? Of course the whole community cannot be guilty of the particular atrocities that brought the misfortune but the whole society is guilty of the culture in which those atrocities thrive. Each one of us is only guilty to the extent of our failure to discharge our responsibility from spreading the culture.
Ozubulu is a symptom of what is wrong with us as a people. even if we focus on the "developing story" as you would have us urged we are only doing that at the risk of seeing another Ozubulu happen albeit in another dimension.
At symptomatic level, I agree there are innocent people. But at pathogenic level, dear, you and I have roles to play and the earlier we start calling for a saner society the quicker we will stop or reduce the rate of terror in our land.

Sapiosexuality:
Chill, and stop bring emotional sentiments here. Think. On what premise did you build the conclusion? I know there are evil everywhere and Nigerians and humans are often quiet to evil, but on what basis is he blaming the community? What premised it?

1. I am not Igbo nor the original writer.
2. I don't believe the original writer has the whole answer. He may be quite wrong in the degree of blames he apportioned to the parishioners or the community. But I will agree with him to the extent that "it takes a village to race a child".
3. It is a notorious fact that in this part of the world we care little about source of wealth. Our degree of careless vary from community to community. I therefore agree with the writer to the extent that "a little leaven leaventh the whole lump"
4. The writer is more concerned about solution involving societal effort as against blaming IPOB or Police or government alone. of each one of these categories alone change we cannot have the progress we desire. I agree with the writer to the extent that "all have sinned." "Be the change you want to see"
5. The world masses want unity and peace and cooperation everywhere so separatism even when it has some semblance of local justifications will hardly find universal support outside the locality. So you may struggle and have casualties like sysria, Sudan and all that the world would still watch you to accept the prevailing order.

You may choose to go against what the whole world prefer but you will do so at your own risk. of the cost is acceptable to you, then persevere by all means. just don't be angry or blame the world accept the consequence of your choices with philosophical calmness. Who knows, one day, the world might just change because of you!

nonsobaba:
Only a demented goat will conceive an idea like this. OP, grow some brains! Ipod carried out that attack at Ozubulu to begin their holy war of replacing christianity with judaism in igboland. Get that into your thick, hollow mgbeke skull!

Your state of mind is evident in your reaction. to address this your mental challenge. I will acknowledge that
1. I love you just as the Bible says love your neighbour.
2. I am not Igbo and I don't support IPOB.
3. You will remain unhinged if I engage you at the level of your understanding.

To help yourself you need to drop all preconceived notions about anyone in a debate or issue. even a broken clock is right at least twice a day. Only state what you are absolutely sure is possible without discounting other possibilities. Only proper solution that is sustainable. A solution is sustainable if it the most efficient in addressing in addressing the concerns of the majority who are interested or may be interested in the outcome of your solution.

NB I am not saying what I have said will decide all issues with finality. It will only give us oportunity for building on what is commonly acceptable.

The write up, assuming is a fiction, at least illustrates an age long truism: "CHICKENS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST" Anyone with proper education will at least try to argue that chickens don't come home to roost. but at the end we must all reap what we sow.

Sapiosexuality:
Poorly thought. You are using a yet to be proven case to draw judgement. You bought into the yet to be understood premise and used it to draw a conclusion.

A logician doesn't do that. The Facebook is not smart enough and should have kept quiet.

I've never seen the Nigerian Police resolve any issue between two hours. Other sentimental persons can buy the story to help their bias but I won't.

The same Nigerian Police every Nigerian agrees is not competent is now taken seriously for something that even the police of more civilised countries will be doubted.

You don't build a conclusion from a premise you do not understand or that is not well defined.

I really don't blame you, my dear. You are one of the many casualties of wrong orientation. We can only make progress if people like you are given opportunities to see things in the light of progress.

It is our son. leave him alone! I do not know whether it is wrong to be human in such away that you care about people's tragedy even when they hate you for pointing out the misfortune likely to attend their attitude.

Honestly, the problem with many developing country is greed and the opportunity too many people seek to show how greedy they could get. This being a prevailing attitude, it is just inconceivable that we can have a nation where youthful dreams can be guaranteed a chance in reality. Hence this Biafra thing. This Oduduwa thing this Arewa thing are all going to come as hostile to growth as you have all over Africa.

Finally, I pray that in this time of Buhari and Osinbajo, Nigeria will witness attitudinal change and real progress. Should they fail just like the previous governments their failure would affect masses.

This FB post by Roz Ben-Okagbue says it all:

Ozubulu... death of the innocent

Yesterday gunmen stormed into a Catholic church in Ozubulu and gunned down members of the congregation who were attending Sunday mass. As the drama unfolded and social media was agog with gory pictures, the rumour mills started grinding and the blame was immediately directed at all sorts of terrorist groups. As the day progressed, however, the truth filtered through and it was revealed that the source of this massacre was an enemy within otherwise known as Greed.

It is said that innocent people lost their lives in the incident but let us ask ourselves, is anyone really innocent in this? Can any of us claim to be innocent? Are we really surprised that this incident occurred? Have we not been courting this enemy for several years now in Igboland? Is it something that started today?

According to reports corroborated by the governor of Anambra state, the incident was the outcome of a drugs war between two drug barons from Ozubulu who were fighting over a debt arising from a drugs deal. Having gone to the house of one of the barons known as “Bishop” and not finding him home, the gunmen proceeded to the church to seek him out and kill him. They marched into the church, saw his father and opened fire killing everyone who was in the way. What gave them the impetus to march into the church premises with their guns and open fire on ‘holy grounds’, committing an act that is a total abomination? They clearly did not recognize the holiness of the premises after all they were aware that the church was built from the proceeds of crime and drug sales. As far as they were concerned, they were home!

And that is where the problem lies. That is where we should begin to question our own innocence in this matter. Is there anyone in that town who was unaware of “Bishop’s” reputation or the source of his wealth? Didn’t the priests accept his blood money to build their church? Didn’t the villagers attend the church knowing where the funds came from? Didn’t they treat the donor and his father with deference because of his ill-gotten wealth? What other outcome could we then expect? How then can we claim to have been innocent?

I attended the funeral of my friend’s father in the East some years ago. At the end of the service, the priest began to name the ‘wealthy’ people in our midst and call them by name to come forward and make donations to the church. He thanked them all for being there and shamelessly badgered them for funds to renovate his church. Neither he nor the son of the deceased who assisted him in identifying the targeted donors saw it fit to thank the rest of us for travelling all the way from Abuja and assisting them in making the event a huge success. We were not important. The focus was on the wealthy people regardless of how this wealth was acquired.

I attended another funeral in Ojoto some years ago. During the proceedings, several men, clearly of questionable character strolled in, accompanied by armed policemen to emphasize their importance. Some were said to be sons of Igwes from neighbouring towns whilst others were clearly successful men of the underworld. One who looked like he was someone’s houseboy dressed up in an ill-fitting safari suit stepped forward with his gun and began shooting in the air. I was horrified and terrified at the same time, and I complained bitterly at the evident lawlessness on display. People around me including my friends, looked at me like I was some spoil sport. Couldn’t I see that this added colour to the event? No one was concerned that the indiscriminate shooting apart from being illegal, could have resulted in a serious accident. They all left at the same time, jumping into their SUV’s and shooting in the air. I was told that the purpose of this was to ward off potential armed robbers since they had ‘sprayed’ huge sums of money at the event. The children present looked on in admiration and awe. These were their heroes and role models approved by us, the adults. So why are we shocked by Ozubulu’s tragedy?

For years, young men with little education and no visible means of income, have come home and built palatial houses for their parents. How many parents refused to live in those houses? What message does that send to the youth? The same people come to the villages and install boreholes and build roads. Soon enough the villagers ‘beg’ them to run for office and before you know it, they are installed in the State or National Assembly or even run for the governor’s office. No questions asked about the source of their wealth. Why then should we be shocked?

Bishop, the drug baron who the gunmen were after celebrated his 36th birthday commissioning roads that he tarred in his community. Governor Willie Obiano’s picture was used to advertise the event, thereby validating this young man. It appears from reports that the governor and the commissioner of police even attended the event. Did they ask him where the funds came from? Hadn’t they heard the rumours? Did they investigate? Are they really shocked at the outcome?

Instead of exhibiting all this shock and sorrow, we should resolve today to end this cycle of greed and worshipping criminals. It’s been going on for so long and we are all guilty. The lesson learnt from Ozubulu is that we are all potential victims so we can no longer pretend that it does not concern us. Anyone of us could have been sitting in that church on Sunday. It was not an incident that just occurred, it was a disaster waiting to happen and it can happen again if we do not take steps to prevent it!
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potent5:
I just don't get the way you keep twisting the narrative, making sound as if Ojukwu sacrificed his people. You are exactly the kind of breed the Nigerian govt desires and that is why they removed history studies from our school curriculum.
Millions of Igbos did not die because of Ojukwu. On the contrary, Ojukwu saved several millions of Igbos from dying. Tens of thousands of Igbos had already been massacred in the north in June 1966 and it was only a matter of time before the people you worship extended the killings to the south east and south south. It was Ojukwu's heroics and courage in saying enough is enough that saved millions. Go to Asaba and you will find out what the people you worship did there, killing any male in sight. Up till today Asaba is still reeling from the shock of it. And this was done to them because they were shouting one Nigeria. Regardless of what South East went through during the war, their losses cannot be compared to the Asaba massacre.

If not for Ojukwu, Igboland may have become a conquered territory occupied by the hausafulani today.

Pls go and do your research.

I hate to reply your likes on issues that you are apparently ignorant of.
But I will do this for the benefit of those who interested in the contents of trending topics.
1. You accused Yorubas of worshiping the north.
2. Your lot accuse Yorubas of not supporting secession
3. Your lot blame Nigeria for the war.

On your first accusation.
From 1950s to 1999. Igbos were the ones in government with the north playing second fiddle. First Republic Zik was a ceremonial president. Balewa was the PM with all the Executive Powers. In the second Republic again. Shagari was the Executive president. Ekweme the vice. In 1999 Yorubas rejected the PDP as a northern contraption the igbos abandoned Ojukwu and went with the North. so tell me who had been worshiping the north with votes? The first alliance between north and west was 2015. But you forget your history of political subservience to wine about Yorubas status in the present govt. We should have stayed with GEJ and be content with just 2 substantive ministers. Omobola Johnson and Adèsina.

You accused Yorubas of not supporting secession. I will let your forefathers answer you from the grave
In 1953 the NPC under the leadership of my good friend, the late Sardauna, threatened to secede from the federation unless their 6-point proposals were adhered to. I had to use personal diplomacy. We had been personal friends since 1940. So, I saw Sir Ahmadu Bello and prevailed upon him that the unity of this country was greater than himself and myself and the other people too helped so that the North shifted grounds and agreed and so the country was saved. That was in 1953.
Again, however, when the 1954 constitution conference started, my good friend, Chief Obafemi Awolowo tabled a motion to the effect that in the new constitution, provision should be made that any state which feels like seceding should do so. I was opposed to it and said ‘no’ and said that once we have a federation, we are indivisible and perpetual. That was when we began to use that expression - ‘The Indivisibility and perpetuity of the federation’ - and that to secede would amount to treason. And so, a debate ensued.
Zik and his Igbo travellers won and Nigeria became indissoluble till today!

You blamed Nigeria for the civil war.
As per legal principle of indissolubility established by Zik, Igbos gave Nigeria the legal armour to prevent secession at all cost. Igbos killed leaders of other regions and celebrated the killings in the streets of the North. Ironsi promulgated Decree No 34 of 1966 abolishing the autonomy the region's had been enjoying. There is something about laws of warfare, it is called casus belli. cause of war. Each party to a war has a reason for the war. you have yours the north have theirs. at the end Nigerian law prevailed against Ojukwu. So you have a choice before a war. plan to fight and when you are starved run away with millions of dead bodies in your wake. or avoid war through international arbitrament. see Cameroon Vs Nigeria.

So as per our documented history of 60 years the east have been the ones worshiping the north. The West were in opposition to both the North and the East
as per who caused the war.
Ojukwu caused it. With his stubbornness. If he knew how to run. He should have done that earlier. If fought gallantly to the end he would join those who died for the cause they believed in. cowards!

PrecisionFx:
Stop trying to use long epistles to derail what I m saying here.

The north only kills SW leaders, we can't count how many they have killed...

The never ever dare kill igbo leaders because they know what would happen.


If Nnamdi kanu were to be a Yoruba man, the north will waste him in no time.

exactly. It was more tolerable to kill 2 million or your lot and keep the succeeding generation in marginalised condition than to kill 2 of your leaders. And the northern killers too are not immortal after all. so do the maths across regions and keep beating chest to mass graves in millions and keep crying of marginalisation and keep agitating like slaves to be free. Americans did not agitate for freedom form Britain. They took it like freeborns. only people with slave mentality agitate from generation to generation. that is Ojukwu's legacy for you. and you are doing a good job passing on the legacy to the next generation. wetin be.my own self. Awo's children are doing fine. Ojukwu's children are well catered for. Maybe another Awo would be killed and maybe millions of chest beaters will be killed. who knows. But this trend is unlikely to affect me or people like me the way it has affected you. so keep it and goodbye.

PrecisionFx:
igbos died in a civil far fighting for what they believed in, fighting for their existence, future n survival... What have yorubas ever stood for in 57 years


Abiola was killed openly by ur masters up north......


And nothing fucking happened.

Ojukwu returned to Nigeria from exile n bubu arrested him n detained him, they couldn't kill him for fear of another deadly igbo uprising. The Hausa up north have long know that igbos are never cowards n must react, that's why they fear killing important igbo leaders........ As for Yoruba leaders the north has destroyed, we can't count dem.


If Abiola was an igbo man, I swear we would be having this conversation from different countries today.

2 million killed. 20 pounds. marginalisation. and all that and you are still here. and you want the world to believe that if a figure like Abiola were killed in Igbo land you would have separated from Nigeria. I can now see why it is convenient for Kanu to put all of your lives in jeopardy and he is still being celebrated. 1 Ojukwu equals 2 million plus X biafrans. since kanu is greater tan Ojukwu then Kanu's life is equal to 2 million plus x square Biafrans. What destiny! what sense of slavery! what life of canon fodder!

potent5:
There is nothing Honourable about killing oneself; it is the most cowardly thing to do, especially when done to escape punishment for treason. His corpse should have been thrown into the evil forest lest it desecrate the land.

If not for the bravery of Ojukwu who released awo you wouldn't be here today yapping about how he was elevated and his face put on the Naira. Yet the perfidious awo paid Ojukwu back by recommending starvation as a weapon of warfare rather than fighting with arms and ammunition. He thought he was free but when the blood he spilled came for judgment he cowardly took his own life.

That he was elevated is irrelevant, any criminal can be so elevated.

I DON'T CARE HOW ONE SINGLE PERSON DIED. CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED! GRUESOMELY! SO PAINT AWO'S DEATH WITH ALL THE MACABRE COLOURS. IT IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THE LEGACY HE LIVED FOR. WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU IS THE FACT THAT MILLIONS OF YOU DIED FOR OJUKWU TO USE HIS DISCRETION TO ESCAPE. WE ARE NOT THAT WORTHLESS FOR BELATED "DISCRETION SAKE"

Since our appreciation of proportion is irreconcilable let's respect our view point. We lose 2 you lost millions every body minds his business and God judges our proportion of wickedness. peace!

N.B. give me a proof of your assertion that Awo committed suicide. No single proof except the wishful thinking of miserable souls who gratify their sadistic mien with delusions of retribution. You on the other hand are a living testimony of your own calamity!

BELIEVE IT OR NOT Yorubas would rather have her leaders sacrificed to save millions of people. not to save leaders and kill millions. or let everyone face his own fate not for anyone to manipulate himself out of his fate whilst putting a whole race in fatal jeopardy. If you celebrate such a criminal act then it explains a lot in terms of today's crime ratio.

potent5:
My friend, have you heard about the cliche: 'no dead heroes'? I bet you haven't. There is even a movie titled after this cliche.
Only enlightened people know that a hero is better alive than dead. Ask Wole Soyinka, David Mark and Tinubu who ran away from Abacha into exile. They recognized the principle of self preservation.

It still beats my imagination why someone who killed himself through the most ignominious way should be regarded highly. I believe it must be out of collective idiocy by people who believe their heroes should commit rat poison suicide without anyone taking up the gauntlet in their dead heroes' place.

Do the maths. Two Yoruba sons to millions of Biafrans men, women, youths, children and aged! Rat poison or snake oil poison or whatever your fantasy catches it is incomparable to slow death by starvation. It could take upto 15 days. without water 7 days. And you so much hate your selves to prefer your selves to die like this in millions as against just one person to do the Honourable thing: say no to war or die trying. And you guys are liars, you hate the tragedy of Biafra more than you want us to believe that Awo died of rat poison. Yorubas are not crying over Awo whatever happened to him. When we knew he was unjustly incarcerated Nigeria knew no peace until civil war broke out and Awo was elevated to very govt he was allegedly trying to overthrow. Awo is celebrated on your currency, landmarks and citadels of learning. 50 years on Biafra is still mourned by your greatest (Achebe & Co ) and meanest (Kanu&co). So if mourning is better than celebration, I give up on your sadistic delusions.

potent5:
Yes. Only a great and wise man would know that discretion is the better part of Valor.

So many men have died, not from bravery, but idiocy.

People like Ironsi, Abiola, Awolowo, etc. all died because they thought they were being brave. You catch my drift?

Discretion "to run from battle" exercised after death of about 2 million of your own people is nothing but wickedness laced with cowardice. Assuming Awo and Abiola chose to fight like your hero, I guess Yorubas will be talking of £20, Kwashiokor, genocide, marginalisation, secession. Why Awo and Abiola would have the likes of Bianca as widows and fat estates for their children. go on brother, I suppose some people are to pay for their leaders "heroism" with the blood of the followers. Funny enough Kanu's own heroism is already being paid for again with blood. We don't envy your place as the canon fodder of your heroes. I rather want my hero yo die for me!

Markfemi2:
nigeria has multitude problem
first is structural
second is leadership
third is the people yes the people
nigeria is not properly structured that lagos has 20 seats and kano has 44 despite a new state created out of it is not as a result of what you claim
that yoruba kwara nd kogi is not politically aligned with south west is a problem
that each and everyone does not control their resources in their domain is a problem
pre first coup each region had their own consulate in london
now theirs leadership issue
leaders are lazy cause they know they dont have to work for money and this cuts across all regions
so the structure actually breeds lazy leaders
restructuring cannot be sudden it has to be a 10 year road map to enable everyone fashion what they want

so you have a valid point but nigeria is simply not working
i supported apc at first but withdrew my support since the national assembly saraki saga which i belive was intentional
also the nepostistic appointment
i dont support kanu ffk
but if their agitations is making us discuss Nigeria
so be it
the biggest victims of nigeria are actually niger delta and yoruba people
oil has been sucked out of niger delta
tax has been sucked out of yoruba land
yoruba land does not control 15% of its territory under this nigerian contraption.
so its good everyone is discussing it.

I agree with you also. I only wish you start with addressing the very ignorance that created the problems you have correctly highlighted. The principle was captured by Albert Einstein when he said NO PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED AT THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS THAT CREATED IT. The awareness of ethnicity and religion "as constituted" is so prejudiced that nothing ennobling can come out of it. There is no exception to this rule all over the world. The awareness we need is awareness of "shared poverty" and "shared Ignorance" "Shared prosperity and shared enlightenment" As we make progress under this awareness, the fish monger or pepper seller will appreciate the importance of electing or voting for people who seem most likely to guarantee the the pursuits of livelihood.

As of today, the majority of voters are ignorant. All they see are the obvious differences or similarities between themselves and their leaders in terms of ethnicity and religion. It is only after election that they begin to understand the gnawing disadvantage in the outcome of their choices. If APC voters for instance had insisted on debating the APC manifesto with the PMB team we wouldn't be where we are today. I supported APC because I knew it was appropriate to change PDP after 16 years of misery. I knew that ideologically APC will do no better than APC if we did not properly engage the APC leadership on the outlines of our common expectations of Change. Unfortunately those of us who wanted this engagement were in insignificant minority. The majority who simply trusted them and cheered them to victory are the ones complaining.

Now we are on the march again asking for another form of change in structure. just as we did in 2015 we have no idea how this change should be constituted in foolproof details. give a local government the budget of a whole state and a free hand to operate that budget, the human capital development will not be different from what we have today. Of course their may be more infrastructure just as in Lagos and Akwa Ibom but corruption will surely kill their initiatives. politriks, sabotage, crime and all social evils will be at play. What would you say about a situation where your opponents work assiduously for your best intentions to fail so that he can gain power?

I wish we can go straight to tackling the problems you have highlighted but I regret to acknowledge that we are too ignorant to appreciate the intricacies of corporate civilization. The solution to this ignorance is rigorous education. This may take few years if we have the right leaders. It may take decades if we don't have the right leaders. Pardon me, if I am boring and wary of joining another bandwagon.

Markfemi2:
uncle i get your drift
but if this agitation will lead to a constitutional review should we support it or let status quo remain?

Agitation in Nigeria are always compromised by the lead agitators. Thus this current review will lead to nothing in the lives of average Nigerians.

The only thing that can save Nigeria is a President that can achieve economic and educational empowerment for all Nigerians at the grassroots.

Restructuring, secession and all such political gimmicks will only substitute a faction of the oligarchy with another. Unfortunately this may remain the case because the grassroots who suffer only care about the privileges of their ethnic, religious or partisan leaders. They care little about own fundamental rights. They have been conditioned to think that privileges of power enjoyed by their leaders are conditions precedent to their own right to dignity and livelihood.

http://thenationonlineng.net/de-criminalise-sex-work-in-nigeria-sex-workers-urge-fg/
Despite the claim by Nnamdi Kanu about his tribes women involvement in sex work, Amaka Enemo the incumbent president of Sex workers nationwide has called on FG to legalise commercial sex work throughout Nigeria. While this would have been considerable under the last administration it is doubtful if the administration headed by a devout Muslim and a devout Christian will accede to the request of Ms Amaka and her sisters in this business. Should Federal government fail to accede, the IPOB army would have another economic reason to wage war on Nigeria

haters won't like this. posting pictures of humble people as if there are no slums in New York and other rich cities around the world.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/QCISQhIt6j3GrnltVd1mMK/Mumbai-richest-Indian-city-with-total-wealth-of-820-billion.html

Mumbai richest Indian city with total wealth of $820 billion: report

Mumbai is home to 46,000 millionaires, 28 billionaires; Delhi is home to 23,000 millionaires, 18 billionaires and Bengaluru houses 7,700 millionaires, 8 billionaires
PTI
According to New World Wealth, Mumbai is the richest city in the country followed by Delhi and Bengaluru in the second and third place, respectively. Photo: Bloomberg
Who is Narottam Mishra? Pervez Musharraf mulled using nukes against India after 2001 attack: report
India’s financial capital Mumbai, which is home to 46,000 millionaires and 28 billionaires, is the richest Indian city with a total wealth of $820 billion, says a report.
According to New World Wealth, Mumbai is the richest city in the country followed by Delhi and Bengaluru in the second and third place, respectively. Delhi is home to 23,000 millionaires and 18 billionaires with a total wealth of $450 billion, while Bengaluru with a total wealth of $320 billion houses 7,700 millionaires and 8 billionaires.
The list also includes Hyderabad with a total wealth of $310 billion. Hyderabad is home to 9,000 millionaires and 6 billionaires. Kolkata home to 9,600 millionaires and 4 billionaires has a total wealth of $290 billion, Pune (total wealth of $180 billion, has 4,500 millionaires and 5 billionaires), Chennai ($150 billion, 6,600 millionaires, 4 billionaires) and Gurgaon ($110 billion with 4,000 millionaires and 2 billionaires).

The shut down of SE is a sign of widespread acknowledgment of IPOB for good or ill. There is no democratic yardstick to gauge the level of voluntary submission to the directives of IPOB. Even armed robbers can lock down a neighbourhood with a one paragraph letter. A bunch of terrorists can order a whole state to stay indoors in preparation for liberation.

Election gives people the free wil to vote or not to vote. to accept cash in exchange for vote and damn the outcome of the election. If IPOB is not amenable to democratic process then it's claim to liberation is as good a mask of tortoise on a pile of vipers

IPOB should use ANAMBRA as a referendum. This practice is not new. Every election is seen as a referendum on the popularity of the Parties and issues in the election. The ANAMBRA election will be a referendum on acceptance or rejection of the Nigerian Federal constitution. Not necessarily every thing in it. just the essential principle of indissolubility and peaceful coexistence of the people thereof.

what should IPOB do?
1. It may simply issue directive that Igbos should not participate in the election as a sign of rejecting the Federal constitution and all it represents forever. If IPOB achieve this without threatening or actually preventing Igbos from voting then it would have a cast iron evidence for the whole world that Igbos are essentially unanimous in leaving the Nigerian Federation.
2. IPOB on the other hand may field candidates for the election who will assume office for one thing and no other advocate for self determination just like the nationalists before independence. This approach is more legally purposive and it a mark of democratic civilization that the whole world can relate with.
3. IPOB may follow a known pattern of willful resistance of constituted authority. This has dire penal consequence under Nigerian laws. But the law does not prohibit offences acts it only spells out the consequence of offences. The law does not "say do not engage in breach public peace" rather it says
This is an example of a provision on breach of public peace
the Peace
see. Criminal Code Act
Chapter C39
Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004
69. When three or more persons, with intent to Carry out some Common purpose, assemble in such a
manner or, being assembled, conduct themselves in such a manner, as to cause persons in the
neighbourhood to fear on reasonable grounds that the persons so assembled will tumultuously
disturb the peace, or will by such assembly needlessly and without any reasonable occasion
provoke other persons tumultuously to disturb the peace, they are an unlawful assembly.
It is immaterial that the original assembling was lawful if, being assembled, they conduct
themselves with a common purpose in such a manner as aforesaid.
An assembly of three or more persons who assemble for the purpose of protecting any house
against persons threatening to break and enter the house in order to commit a felony or
misdemeanour therein is not an unlawful assembly.
When an unlawful assembly has begun to act in so tumultuous a manner as to disturb the peace,
the assembly is called a riot, and the persons assembled are said to be riotously assembled.
70. Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to
imprisonment for one year.
71. Any person who takes part in a riot is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three
years.

The law of course is an ass. For some socio-political some laws under some circumstances are more honoured in breach than in observance. What we know in practice however is that the State frequently apply its laws as necessity requires and laws serve as reference point in relating with "a person of interest"

Make no mistake about it money will be made by one or more parties in any of the three options above. Money are made through security vote, compromise, mobilization, propaganda, conflict resolution or prosecution. Any party who wishes to participate in one way or the other should be sure that even if he would not get a dime, no one one should become richer at his own expense.

GuyWise:
They never regreted ever fighting in war rather they were boasting as we can here it from Gen philip effiong in an interview that he will never regret fighting the war, and he was quoted as saying on the day he was surrendering to nijeriya "treat the surrendering biafrans well or risk their children rising again" this is a prophetic quote as you and i can see it today.

Oh I see. everyone stood and fought for Biafra. And at the end no victor no vanquished. no £20. no genocide. no marginalisation. Go on boasting. Just as Zik proposed that rebellion against United Nigeria should be crushed so will IPOB be crushed. Your fate has been sealed by your own fore fathers

GuyWise:
Afonja always afraid and pee in his dirty panties at the mare metion of BIAFRA

The 3 million casualties of Biafra 1 would wish they only had to pee in their pants. Even if you preach with fire and brimstone, children of perdition must fellowship with Lucifer

in the early days of BH PDP leadership under GEJ described BH as social justice crusaders. Then the crusaders concentrated on attacking churches. soon BH turned on to all targets churches, mosques market, schools parks. Do not forget it started as a virtually non-violent radical movement. IPOB is following the footstep of BH. Once again PDP and APGA politicians in SE were defending them as advocates of Social Justice. Alas. IPOB is now threatening a showdown with the SE politicians over election stoppage in SE. In the days ahead Nnamdi Kanu will either join a wing of IPOB that would certainly call for violence against the state in order to prove a point or he would run to another Ivory Coast. It is time to issue "travel/ investment advisory" to aliens and non-IPOB in the East.

OAU

walemoney007:
I didn't read it

True to type

Building on the Legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, OAU is now set to lead Africa into outer space exploration.


See The African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English.

BRIEF ON THE CENTRE
The African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E) was
was inaugurated in Nigeria on 24th November, 1998 and affiliated to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA). A number of other national and regional institutions with research and training interests in space science and technology are also affiliated to it.
Following resolution 45/72 of 1990 and 50/27 of 1995, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of UNISPACE 82, that the United Nations Programme on Space Applications should assist member states in enhancing their indigenous capacity in the utilization of SST for national/regional development. The UN office of Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA) was mandated to establish Centres for Space Science and Technology Education in developing countries on a regional basis. Nigeria and Morocco were chosen to host the Centres for Space Science and Technology Education for the benefit of Anglophone and Francophone Afreican countries respectively.
The host institution for the Centre in Nigeria is Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. For the effective take-off of the activities of the Centre, Prof. Wale Omole, the then Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University nominated Prof. E. E. Balogun of the Department of Physics to work with other members of the Technical Advisory Committee to put things in place.
To fulfill the hosting guidelines, the ground floor of the new Faculty of Science extension was approved temporarily for the centre. The building was furnished by National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).
The signing of the draft agreement for the centre in Nigeria was done on the 22nd of November, 1998 in Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, after which, the commissioning of the Centre's facilities was done on the 24th of November, 1998. Prof. E. E. Balogun was the pioneer Director and the chief executive of the centre.
After considering the fact that the University was expected to offer a suitable permanent site for the Centre, an area off the Road 1 within Science and Technology Park was approved for development. Co-located in the same area are Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS), Centre for Energy Research and Development (CERD) and National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM).
The centre is being supervised by National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).
GOALS OF THE CENTRE
ARCSSTE-E’S EXPECTATION
AFFILIATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
PROGRAMME PHILOSOPHY
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES . The development of skills and knowledge of university educators, environmental research scientists in the four principal areas of Remote Sensing, Satellite Meteorology Applications, Satellite Communication and Basic Space and Atmospheric Science and Technology.
. Engage Educators in the development of environmental and atmospheric sciences curricula that can be used to advance the knowledge of the scholars.
. Develop Research scientists and project personnel in preparing the space-derived information for presentation to the policy and decision makers in charge of national and regional development programs.
. Co-ordinate Regional and International cooperation in space science and technology programs.

Building on the legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo,
The African Regional Centre for Space Science, OAU, is now set to take Sub Sahara Africa to Space. Awo surely is a gift to Nigeria that keeps giving in a pace - setting manner.

BRIEF ON THE CENTRE

The African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (ARCSSTE-E) was inaugurated in Nigeria on 24th November, 1998 and affiliated to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA). A number of other national and regional institutions with research and training interests in space science and technology are also affiliated to it.

Following resolution 45/72 of 1990 and 50/27 of 1995, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation of UNISPACE 82, that the United Nations Programme on Space Applications should assist member states in enhancing their indigenous capacity in the utilization of SST for national/regional development. The UN office of Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA) was mandated to establish Centres for Space Science and Technology Education in developing countries on a regional basis. Nigeria and Morocco were chosen to host the Centres for Space Science and Technology Education for the benefit of Anglophone and Francophone Afreican countries respectively.

The host institution for the Centre in Nigeria is Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. For the effective take-off of the activities of the Centre, Prof. Wale Omole, the then Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University nominated Prof. E. E. Balogun of the Department of Physics to work with other members of the Technical Advisory Committee to put things in place.

To fulfill the hosting guidelines, the ground floor of the new Faculty of Science extension was approved temporarily for the centre. The building was furnished by National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).

The signing of the draft agreement for the centre in Nigeria was done on the 22nd of November, 1998 in Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, after which, the commissioning of the Centre's facilities was done on the 24th of November, 1998. Prof. E. E. Balogun was the pioneer Director and the chief executive of the centre.

After considering the fact that the University was expected to offer a suitable permanent site for the Centre, an area off the Road 1 within Science and Technology Park was approved for development. Co-located in the same area are Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS), Centre for Energy Research and Development (CERD) and National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM).

The centre is being supervised by National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).

The development of skills and knowledge of university educators, environmental research scientists in the four principal areas of Remote Sensing, Satellite Meteorology Applications, Satellite Communication and Basic Space and Atmospheric Science and Technology.Engage Educators in the development of environmental and atmospheric sciences curricula that can be used to advance the knowledge of the scholars.Develop Research scientists and project personnel in preparing the space-derived information for presentation to the policy and decision makers in charge of national and regional development programs.Co-ordinate Regional and International cooperation in space science and technology programs.

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The celebrated hero of IPOB "yoots" has gone through history to reveal that tribalism did not start with Yorubas and their leader Awolowo. as alleged by igbos and some reactionary elements. DOCUMENTED accounts show that the seed of Tribalism was sown by Zik and and his followers. see
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/105036-how-the-igbo-introduced-tribalism-to-nigerian-politics-by-femi-fani-kayode.html
”Igbo domination of Nigeria is only a matter of time”- Charles Onyeama, a prominent igbo lawyer and member of the Central Legislative Council, 1945. (Page 204 ”Ethnic Politics In Kenya and Nigeria” by Godfrey Mwakikagile).
”It would appear that the God of Africa has created the Igbo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of ages ….” – Dr Azikiwe, President of the Pan-Igbo Federal Union. (The West African Pilot of July 8, 1949).
The first statement from Charles Onyeama, which was made in 1945, was the first overtly tribal and divisive comment that was made and recorded in the politics of southern Nigeria in our history. That is where and when tribalism in the south actually started. After that comment, and as a direct reaction to it, the Yoruba established the ”Egbe Omo Oduduwa” to further and protect Yoruba interests and after that came the formation of the Action Group in 1948.
The second statement from Zik, which was made in 1949 (and which clearly shows that the great Zik of Africa had forgotten that the NCNC was not an Igbo party at the beginning and that it had in fact been established by an upper class and very well educated Yoruba man by the name of Sir Herbert Macaulay, one of the famous ”Black Victorians” from the Lagos Colony, and who, at his death bed, was gracious enough to hand over the leadership of the party to him even though he was Igbo) confirmed that tribalism was here to stay in the south and that ever since that time the Igbo had an agenda to dominate others. This sentiment and this unfortunate Igbocentric attitude is what cost Zik the premiership of the Western Region in 1953 when the NCNC narrowly lost to the Action Group.
It is clear from this that if you want to know who started tribalism in southern politics and the politics of the southern protectorate of Nigeria, it was not the Yoruba or the southern minorities but the Igbo. The excesses of the Igbo State Union and their treatment of the southern minorities and the Yoruba from 1943 till 1967 was completely unacceptable. The rest of the south were prepared to accept the Igbo as equals with open arms but they were not prepared to be politically dominated or conquered by them.

When you realize that despite decades of civilization ahead of Igbos the Fulanis and Yorubas never said they were the chosen messiah of Africa. Ajayi Crowther who was the first African to introduce literacy to Igbos did not even claim his tribe was superior to Igbos. just a little taste of education and power, igbos believed they could lord it over the whole of Africa.

hammer6:
JUDGING FROM UR WRITING, I ALREADY KNOW U ARE YORUBA.

I AM NOT SHOCKED THAT U ARE FIERCELY PRO NIGERIA.

YORUBA LAND WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE LAND WITHOUT NIGERIA.

U ARE BENEFITING FROM NIGERIA IMMENSELY.

U HAVE EVEN DEDICATED TIME TO PROPAGANDA MANUFACTURING AND SMEAR CAMPAIGN INDUSTRIES TO STAY ON TOP.

I AM SAYING THIS SO THOSE WONDERING WHY YORUBA ALWAYS APPEAR AS UNITY BEGGARS KNOW EXACTLY Y.

THEY RAN A TRIBALISTIC HATE CAMPAIGN ON GEJ, CALLING HIM FISHER MAN ETC.

THEY RUN TRIBALISTIC HATE CAMPAIGN ON IGBOS EVERYDAY. THIS IS WAT THEY WAKE UP EVERYDAY TO DO.

THE UN RECOGNISES RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW PROTECTS GROUP FROM GENOCIDE.

UN HAVE RECIEVED REQUEST FROM OHANAEZE TO PROTECT IGBO FROM NOTHERN THREAT OF GENOCIDE AND CALL REFERENDUM.

UN RESOLUTION CAN GRANT BIAFRA REFERENDUM TO LEAVE NIGERIA.

DON'T WALLOW IN WILFUL IGNORANCE MY FRIEND. GO TO UNN NSUKA AND ASK THE HOD INTERNATIONAL LAW WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THE UN FACILITATING THE BREAK UP OF A SOVEREIGN STATE. THE CHANCES ARE NIL IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. ON YOUR WAY TO NSUKA, READ ABOUT SYRIA CRISIS and the helplessness of the UN despite horrors of war. where was UN in Biafra (1967), Rwanda (1994), Kosovo (1999), Sudan (2004–2007), and Sri Lanka ( 2009), Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo.

While at UNN NSUKA ask the HOD of Psychology to tell you about Megalomaniac Delusions of Grandeur MDG. If after your findings you are still convinced that Biafra will achiev anything different from 1969 outcome then I WISH YOU the best.
I



http://listverse.com/2013/01/28/top-10-failures-of-the-united-nations-2/

APC supporters are jubiltating over the prospect of capturing south east. It is expected that Kanu the fearless IPOB leader will not chicken out of his promise to his followers that Elections will not hold in SE unless there is a referendum.
APC will therefore claim South East virtually unchallenged.

IPOB youths are counting on this promise as the ultimate test of the fearless Kanu's supremacy. This, many hope, will not be like civil war that ended in "no victor, no vanquished" and the fearless Ojukwu in ivory coast.

The social media is already abuzz with praises from IPOB youths over this no referendum no election threat by Kanu. should this threat become an empty threat the kanu will be yet an empty chest beater

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_riot_of_1953 The Kano riot of 1953 refers to the riot , which broke out in the ancient city of Kano , [1] located in Northern Nigeria , in May 1953. The nature of the riot were clashes between Northerners who were opposed to Nigeria's Independence and Southerners made up of mainly the Yorubas and the Igbos who supported immediate independence for Nigeria. The riot that lasted for four days claimed many lives of the Southerners and Northerners and many others were wounded.
Causes
The remote cause of the riot was the strained relationship between the Northern and Southern political leaders over the issue of self-government in 1956. This strained relationship started with a 1953 motion for self-government for Nigeria in 1956 tabled in the House of Representatives by a member of the
Action Group (AG), Chief Anthony Enahoro . The Northerners did not accept the motion. The leader of the Northern People's Congress (NPC) and the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, in a counter-motion, replaced "in the year 1956" with the phrase "as soon as practicable". Another Northern member of the House moved a motion for adjournment, a motion which Southern members of AG and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) viewed as a delay tactics. All the AG and NCNC members in the house walked out as a result of the adjournment motion.
When the Northern delegates left the House, they were confronted by hostile crowds in Lagos who insulted, jeered and called them all sorts of names. Members of the Northern delegation were embittered and in their "Eight Point Program" in the Northern Regional Legislative House, they sought for secession. The last straw that broke the camel's back was the tour by a delegation of the AG and NCNC led by Chief Samuel Akintola . That tour which was aimed at campaigning for self-government acted as the immediate cause of the Kano riot. It sparked off a chain of disorder that culminated in the riot. The riot took place at Sabon Gari an area predominantly occupied by southern Nigerians.
Riot
There was already growing tension in the North when the Action Group northern tour came to Kano during the weekend of May 15-17, the tension was a result of the hostility towards the Northern delegation in Lagos. An orderly demonstration by the Northern Peoples Congress supporters against a proposed Action Group meeting took place on Friday, May 15. This was followed by small skirmishes on Saturday. Disturbances that led to the riot started out at the Colonial Hotel, on May 16, 1953 which was supposed to be the venue of a meeting by the Action Group led by Akintola. Prior the meeting, the Kano Native Authority withdrew its permission to grant the meeting. A mob gathered outside of the hotel and started stoning people close to the hotel, during the fracas, two people believed to be southerners died, the mob later attempted to gain entry into Sabon Gari but were subdued by the Native Authority police. The situation became more serious and became an inter-ethnic crisis on Sunday, May 17 when mobs of hooligans from Northern section of Kano, in particular Fagge attempted to break into the Southern and Igbo dominated Sabon Gari area with some success, though their original chants were against the Yorubas , the casualties in the Sabon Gari area were mostly Igbos. [2] Shops in the Sabon Gari market were looted and violent attacks took place. But the Native Authority police and the Army were called upon and prevented further entry of hooligans into the Kano area. The skirmishes further spilled into the indigenous Kano areas such as Fagge where small unorganized groups of people of different ethnic groups clashed. [3]
An exchange of prisoners took place to reduce the tension, Southerners who were arrested were released and Northerners also released; Northerners in the Sabon Gari area were asked to leave and Southerners in the Fagge area were asked to move to Sabon Gari for the meantime. About 46 Nigerians mostly Northerners and Igbos died during the clash and more than 200 people were treated for injuries. Though it was immediately called an inter-ethnic riot by the colonial government in Nigeria, the political leaders termed it a political riot between people who want self government in 1956 and those who want imperialism to continue.

Igbos were saints who merely eliminated the leaders of other ethnic groups in a coup. They were the God sent Messiahs who abolished regional autonomy and concentrated power the hand of the Arc Angel Ironsi. They were the saints celebrating the murder of leader other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria except theirs. They are the saints who have the right to call themselves the master race of Africa. And according to the writer they have bested the rest of Nigeria in Education within 30 years. The rest of Nigeria are the aggressors. They were the saints who formed association of better Nigeria and helped the Military to keep June 12 Election annulled. Give this guys their country already!

raker300:
This man is a bloody liar.

"After the war, bank documents of the igbos were burnt":
mr. Man, the documents were at Cbn at the time Wch was in Lagos. Lagos did not witness the war because it was the capital of nigeira.
How come only documents belonging to igbos were burnt?

"I did not know who was in the panel or what they agreed, I just signed the documents";
this man is a masterminded criminal. You a minister of finance don't read documents before signing? God have mercy.

Good thing this crook is in hell fire!! Burn forever!!!

According to your teachers, everyday transaction of bank customers are kept in CBN. You went to ACB branch at Araiara market in 1966 with your passbook you withdrew 10 pounds out of 12 pounds. on the same day the cashier took a record of your withdrawal to LAGOS CBN over 500 km away. Even in this millennium banks don't operate like that unless CBN or EFCC is interested in criminal activities through your account.

on the panel members. The panelist were apparently lower level officers of the CBN such that you can possibly expect the Finance Minister to recall.

I don't expect you to know all these though because you need proper education to know them.

Nor is this to justify FG and the Rebels for allowing the war to take place ab initio. The war could have been prevented even if it means Ibos would have to go or Nigeria should divide.