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ojasweb:
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How market today?

Sirniyeh:
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When we talk of intelligence, Yoruba people are to be reckon with in this Nigeria. Yoruba Intelligence superceeds all other ethnic groups. The succeess ascribed to Gowon was influenced by Awo.
Gowon was a young boy of 29, even single when became head of state but had lots of achievements.
Many of you witnessed the prudence of OBJ in ruling Nigeria. Compare to GEJ now.......all na story!
For this reason western region is more developed than any other region. Without yorubas, there cant be Nigeria because the economic power of the nation is in the hand of yoruba.
Igbos are just followers and GEJ happens to be a disgrace to them all

Ha ha!

Ashleydolls:
What is this one saying? If possible, do you think we'll want to be recognized with your tribe? You people are a big disgrace to Nigeria in the international face. Nigeria was declared 4th most dangerous place to live in all because of the animalistic behavior of your people ranging from boko haram to fulani herdsmen. Better get a life and stop spitting thrash.

You hit the nail on the head!

kettykin:
Those same troops that stopped biafra at ore did little or nothing besides shedding tears when it mattered most, when the field Marshall of yoruba land, the Aare ona kakanfo ,Obasanjo, Oladipo Diya, and other yoruba generals were hounded, arrested like teenagers ,condemned to death by hanging and kept in custody.

The comments here by some people show a one sided and pathetic reasoning where the same people who are yoruba first before becoming nigeria now choose to die for nigeria first and do nothing for the yoruba race

OLODO RABATA! U death with Biafrans fighting for liberation from Fulani-enslaved One Nigeria instead of dealing with Arewa North to free Yoruba from this fraud called One Nigeria. No sense at all!

The Yoruba solders were the headache of the Biafran solders during the civil war, we dealt with them so much they were defeated on all front led by Yoruba solders.

It is understandable they hate us so much knowing the Yorubas are more tactical and efficient when it comes to action

Read the Captain Iluyomade's interview and u will realize that Yorubas are indeed COWARDS

https://thenationonlineng.net/we-were-least-prepared-for-war-when-biafran-soldiers-attacked-my-command-in-ore-major-iluyomade/

nobaga:
Twist it anyway you want. Which Yoruba were in position or put in the position to command troops as Diya explained?

Ask Ironsi how powerless he was and what happened to him after Igbo coup, when he left Danjuma in charge of his security.

Only a fool without troops would even try or plan a couple.

When Black Scorpion Adekunle was left in charge of troops what happened?

When Obasanjo was left in charge of troops what happened?

When Captain Iluyomade was left in charge of a few soldiers in Ore, he form rag-tag soldiers from hunters and any volunteers to wipe our battalions of Biafran Army.

Underestimate Yoruba tolerance and accommodation at your own peril.

OLODO RABATA!

7lives:
Yorubas are not made for war, but the nitwits blame Awolowo for their loss.
People wey be say the name black scorpion gives them nightmares.
Babangida himself na black scorpion pursue am comot for aso rock.
Black scorpion, IBB,s strange visitor, he entered aso rock to threaten Babangida during the June 12 crisis, this was why Babangida stepped aside.
Yoruba no dey commit mas suicides, ogbon ju agbara lo, brain pass power yet we have both.
Ability to maintain self restraint in phase of provocation, is a sign of strength and not a sign of weakness, sisa ekun t'ojo ko.
We have our ways, we will always get what we want 'cause we are that smart.
Those who sabi fight war, should continue with the sacrifices, ebo afin, ebo a da.
Ire o.

How did Ojukwu & Kanu abandon their Igbo people?

Raf4:
But the only known cowards in the history of Nigeria are odumegwu Ojukwu and Nnamdi Kanu (both ndigbos) who abandoned their Igbo people and ran away from the war front. Can you mention a single Yoruba male or female who ever displayed these attributes?

And how did he end?

ElSudani:
Yoruba people are not made for war except his name was Benjamin Adekunle. The only meaningful expedition of the Biafrans was led by a Yoruba man, Victor Banjo.

Peter Obi is a billionaire and is not affected by the hunger in Nigeria. The real losers are the IDIOTS who voted for APC in the last 8 years and lamenting. Una no get sense!

BlowYourMind:
Losing election can be devastating, Peter girigory Obi people are still aggressive, grieving and mourning the shameful defeat of Peter obi

I disagree!

Strafudeen:
A good man who played a bad role.
Wasted space.
Played the house slave.

Expected to have a better time to make impact , and lost the actual time God gave him to make impact.

I wish you enough time for reflection on your contributions to the present trouble your nation is facing.

Nonetheless, happy birthday sir.

I remember they called us WAILING WAILERS

michlins:
When many were shouting,folks called them wailers and suffering from effects of loss of the election.


Truth is coming out and we don't yet have idea the insane amount of damage APC and Buhari has put Nigeria into.


I wish Tinubu all the best cause he needs it if Nigeria is going to survive. Nigerians look up to you Mr President

Igbos will never rule Nigeria & Obi will never be president

MasterJayJay:
If Obi talks about how insecurity is affecting the price of food, the vultures of Tinubulation will gather to insult him.

Story story

quote author=wirinet post=128796724]He was set up. He did not need to physically steal money. As a G.O.C, he had lots of money at his disposal to run the division. Ordinary Commanding officers of barracks have millions to play around with, not to talk of a whole G.OC.

His junior brother was my class mate at the University, so I knew the story when it happened on a personal level.[/quote]

How is it bad market for Democrats?

Goodlady:
Bad market for Democrats.
Somehow, he's being pushed back to complete his term. And we know he likes war so he ll trigger Putin's anger and both ll square off!
That end time prediction don dey work more.
Those of us in Africa ll not take sides. We d be looking them like spectators. Though, America is useful to Africans than Russia.
Wetin I dey talk sef, make I go cook dinner!

Una no get shame!

thesicilian:
There are certain levels of criticisms expected of a leader. Not everything that a leader is displeased with or doesn't know much about he criticizes openly. You'll not understand if you haven't held a managerial position in a large organisation

You hit the nail on the Yorubanethnic group

fatherjesse:
It was just about looting and crave for power nothing more, and my Yoruba tribe has shown how backward and unsophisticated the majority is

God bless u!

gidgiddy:
Barth Nnaji, the proponent of Geometric Power, Aba, has revealed why he resigned as Minister of power during the Jonathan administration. Speaking to BBC Igbo, Nnaji said he resigned over what happened during the privatisation process. According to him, he had insisted that all DISCOS must have two things, technical expertise and financial independence to operate, so as to weed out those who wanted to use Privatisation to make quick money. However, enormous pressure was put on him to change this policy and he could see that harm might be done to him if he didn't, so he resigned. He regretted that after he left, many of the DISCOS eventually failed due to lack of technical expertise, and the banks they borrowed money from took over the assets

When asked if he was once offered a bribe of a Prado Jeep, Bart Nnaji laughed and said that he had already invested 500 million Dollars in Geometrics before he became Minister and that if he wanted to buy 100 Prado Jeeps today, he could do it.

He also said that Geometric Power was initially supposed to start in 2013 but court battles delayed the Project by 10 years. He also revealed that unlike other Power companies, the power generated by Geometric power would not go to the national grid, but go to Aba and 9 other local governments in Abia state as a start.

https://www.bbc.com/igbo/articles/c9epzrl91j0o?fbclid=IwAR21ximeQHd1ZT7Ch23sW1wennrFDqCmW8UKYhOwiy6hkFOrZxwZCR3i4RA

Eastern Nigeria- A Lost Paradise!

Nigeriabiafra80:
Keep roasting
Them

OLODO RABATA!
Q1) When did the war start?
Q2) when did Ojukwu march into Yorubaland?
Q3) Was Yorubaland of 1967 an independent country or part & parcel of Nigeria?

OPCNAIRALAND:
Awolowo was not pro-any side. He was fair and neutral.
What changed was Ojukwu marching boots and guns into Yorubaland. That's a no-no for Awo! That's when Yorubas launched assault towards Iboland.

Too late!

hornyofife:
hmm, this must be a dirty secret...


anyways, was that why he chose rat poison as his fastest and safest journey to hell? just asking..


God is not sleeping bro... see let me tell you one thing, the 3million he starved to death are back to life and they shall take back their country and she will stand tall above all her pairs


www.nairaland.com/attachments/648287_awo_rat_poison__jpgdadabdc6f31be38d4ff0091e296a0563

A minister making recommendation to the panel.

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if there were any left why didn't the ibos come out with evidence like AWO requested ? ? ? They culd av kept them as evidence of injustice but . . . . . .
Ur point even sounds weaker when we consider the fact that AWO did not make recommendations to the panel that came up with the 20 pounds policy.
Like i said earlier ibo will still look for excuses. Too bad

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YES O!

The father of resource control. Great man

Gbam!

gidgiddy:
Of course Ironsi could have used decree to change resource control like Gowon later did, but Ironsi did not. What is important to note is that the 4 Regions Ironsi met when he came in were still there when he died

Also is the fact that Ironsi did not tamper with the revenue sharing formular and fiscal arrangements agreed at independence

A lot of people like to trumpet "unification deceee" but the only thing the decree unified was the civil service

Nigeria is on a death spiral!

sarrki:
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and human rights activist, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has told President Muhammadu Buhari to divide the country into eight regional structures.

Agbakoba, one of the greatest heroes of democracy in Nigeria, noted that there are so many unclear issues in Nigeria about how people of the country want to organize themselves and how they want to live together.


The senior lawyer told reporters at the weekend that insecurity and other serious issues facing the country “can’t [be] fully arrested,” if the central government remains so strong as it is now.

He added that, “This is because community policing or state policing is a tactical tool to deal with the problem, but the strategic tool is the bigger question of the national question.

“There are so many unclear issues in Nigeria about how we want to organize ourselves, how we want to live together, this is what some people have called the restructuring question, some call it the national question, but I call it devolution of powers question.


“Whatever it’s called that is the central issue that needs resolution so that even if you use tactical tools like community policing, but the bigger issue remains then I don’t know if we can resolve it.

“What Nigeria needs is space, there are diverse ethnicities and they are living in such close proximity that one ethnic community is in the face of the other with counter-cultures, counter-religious beliefs and that is not healthy. Even in America in spite of all their advanced democracy, they take care of diversities.

“So, I think if I were to advise the president, for instance, the first thing to do is create space…,identify the ethnic regionalities, create eight big blocs, even though we have 6 to make it 8.


“And then I will give them the power to do things at their own local level, it’s called the principle of subsidiarity; let them work at their own local level. Subsidiarity is where people engage themselves at the local level such that you find in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England.

“Part of the challenge they had when they were living closely was to create an act of settlement of 1705, that was when peace began to come and each of the regions recognized themselves.

“They all had their own prime ministers and they call them first ministers, so the prime minister of the UK is the one we see internationally, but on local matters like school, refuse collection, education, agriculture, employment, health issues, it’s local.



“So, imagine where eight of the regional structures in Nigeria were fending for themselves at their local level and not depending on federal allocation from Abuja, things will be different.

“Immediately they will take control of what is around them, they will create state police, they will create the relevant security apparatus to deal with any threat, therefore, you don’t need one Chief of Army Staff, and they don’t need one Inspector General of Police to be running around entire Nigeria.

“For instance…say in the South-south region, they will have all the relevant apparatuses to deal with whatever situation that they need to survive as a region.



“They could have courts; they might like to have a Supreme Court of the South-south where cases end in the Supreme Court of the South-south, so they do not have to go to the Supreme Court of Nigeria because the Supreme Court of Nigeria has no business dealing with issues arising from there.

“That is the kind of space I think that should be paramount in the issue concerning where Nigeria is heading to.

“Because that discussion is not on the table, all these ethnic issues flare up as major national insecurity challenge. So, that is what I will do or suggest if I had the opportunity to advise on it. The Federal Government is too strong.



“The Federal Government is actually not a Federal Government, ours is a unitary government because the states have no power on the legislative list so there are 68 items on the Exclusive List and as the name implies in Exclusive List only the Federal Government handles it.

“There is 30 on the Concurrent List, concurrent is between the federal and the state to legislate, but if the Federal Government legislates then pursuant to what is called the doctrine of covering the field the state is not allowed to do anything. In other words, the states have no legislative authority, that creates a problem.

“Why should the Federal Government be dealing with Universal Basic Education for primary schools? What is the Federal Government responsibility with that? I don’t understand.



“What is the Federal Government responsibility with setting up a JAMB process so that you equalize educational activities, but if my grandchild from Anambra scores 282, but my friend’s grandson from Zamfara scores 100, my friend’s grandson gets into the university, but my own does not get in. Why don’t you simply say ….look each region can just organize itself and take your examination?

“So, it is this centrifugal federalism, that means federalism that has a pyramid that has only one leader that is our problem.

“We just have to blast the structures and allow regional leaders as we had under the 1960 Constitution. So, when you have regional leaders you will have people who will like to play regional politics or regional law.

“There is no reason, for instance, in my own profession the eight regions I propose should not be awarding SAN to their best lawyers. Why must it only be Abuja? In the UK, the SAN in England is different from the SAN in Scotland.

“So, the formula that worked for Nigeria was to recognize the differences and I think the best example of the agreements that we can apply is the Aburi Accord.

“The Aburi Accord recognized that Nigeria’s problems were as a result of our diversity not being well managed. We need to manage our diversity that is the way we can move forward




https://dailypost.ng/2019/06/23/apply-aburi-accord-divide-nigeria-now-agbakoba-tells-buhari/

Only IDIOTS take Reno serious!

gidgiddy:
I read what Reno Omokiri said about Decree 34, Decree 8 and the Aburi accord, and wonder why this guy keeps pushing out false narratives? Is he such a poor student of Nigerian history or is this deliberate?

Reno Omokri said that Ironsi abrogated Regional rule, seized the resources of the Regions with Decree 34, the same old lie that has been told for decades. Why cant Reno Google Decree 34 and read what is in there? There were 4 Regions when Ironsi came in, the same 4 Regions were there the day he was killed, so which Region(s) did Ironsi abrogate? Decree 34 was nothing more than a civil service decree, at no time did Ironsi tamper with the boundaries of the 4 Regions that existed at the time, nor did he deny them resource control

If Reno wants to know who really abrogated Regional rule in Nigeria, let him Google Gowons Decree 14 that abolished all 4 Regions Nigeria had,and created 12 states in their stead, as well as Decree 15 that ended resource control of the Regions

The Reno Omokiri pitifully tried to defend Gowon over the Aburi accord, claiming that Gowon had to renege on the Aburi agreement because Ojukwu announced the agreement first, rather than let Gowon do it. Has this Reno guy lost his senses? When you sign an agreement, it becomes binding, who announced the agreement first is irrelevant

Ojukwu signed an agreement in front of the President of Ghana, General Joe Ankrah, the three other military Governors of the time also signed, but the reason Reno is giving why Gowon could not implement what was signed was that on return to Nigeria, Ojukwu announced the agreement first?

Reno Omokri is a laughable character

U said it all!

proeast:
The story went like this, before the war the Igbo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when the civil war started, Igbo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the East, the Igbo land. After the end of the war, the Igbo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Igbo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Igbo 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 Igbo 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 Igbo 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 Igbo 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 Igbo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Igbo 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 guard, 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 Igbo 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 worse 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 Igbo 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 Igbo understanding


a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatal
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 Igbo and putting a finishing touch to it by
a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Igbo had in all the Nigerian banks
b) Offering every Igbo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.
c) Militarizing every part of Igbo land.
d) Rendering every Igbo without exception a pauper.
e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Igbo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

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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 Igbo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Igbo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic, social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingering today within the Igbo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Igbo good and the country as well, he brought the Igbo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Igbo 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 Igbo leadership and threw Igbo 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 Igbo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Igbo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Igbo 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 Igbo 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 Igbo 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 Igbo 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......

Totally agree with you!

Nwodosis:
Aburi Accord remains the permanent solution but it is good as we all chose to live on its denial.

Totally agree with you. Gowon is a perpetual ACCORD BREAKER!

PointB:
Decrees are just what they are - whims and caprices of some power drunk men.

Which means, the fellow who issues a degree can effectively abrogate such degree if it is evident that it may not be favourable to his intended design.

To hinge your hope on a decree issued by a man who will not honour an agreement, is not in my opinion, pragmatic. Decree 9, 10, or 11 can effectively erode the supposed benefit of decree 8.

People should not be rule by decree, not matter how 'well-meaning' they might initially sound.

Where is Gowon to save them?

BossGerald:
Elrufai is a CORNfused dwarf, he can't reason pass his height


So he can be this proactive, but was very docile when fulani herdsmen and bandits were wrecking havoc on the people of southern kaduna



Vote OBI2023

Awesome question! They have benefitted from environmental degradation and air pollution, destruction of their waters & land.

gidgiddy:
Now ask Boro's people what they have benefited since states were created? Are they any more empowered? Now the federal government controls their resources which is worse than when it was the government of the Eastern Region that controlled the resources