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I like the cartoon. Do you know the creator or the publication where it was first published? Thanks

You are wrong. It should be mumu non-Igbo South - specifically Yoruba.

ComrdDRS1:
Good... mumu south

If you don't know why the party with less votes got more seat just shows that your are blissfully ignorant of Nigeria history. You need to spend more time and energy on self-education

jerseyboy:
This fact jumped out at me immediately. I however did not want to add my own opinion while editing. I wanted the reader to be the judge

Northerners have logic and fact, yet they have not used these assets to improve the lot of their kinsmen despite monopolizing power and key to Nigeria's oil wealth. Some social media commentators are cognitively challenged.

Khaleepha5681:
My fellow Northerners and respected southern brothers,don't waste your time explaining anything to Easterner,they are "Emotionists" so they have nothing to do with reasons,logic and fact.

Wonder why are they louder?
Wonder why they always insult the country?
Wonder why they are black Israelis?
Wonder why they arrogant?
Wonder why they are rejected and ignored?

It's simple!. We use brain,they use heart.

They consider us heartless people,well,we in turn consider them brainless.

They are very good at fiction writting,we are very good or best at actualising the event and make a history.

They have yesterday,we have today and we seized tomorrow.

They have something to say,we have something to do.

They have something to dream,we have all to achieve.

They threaten,we conquer.

They understimate us,we catch them by suuurpriiicccee!. We over-rate the enemy!.

They claim,we prove...we are achievers and they are claimists with zero to show.

Hail thee North!

xw

We did move back in 1967 when we abandoned our jobs and business for Eastern Region and declared Biafra on May 30, 2022. Yorubas went to war to force us back into Nigeria. They were afraid that they could not survive One Nigeria with the Hausa/Fulani without us.

How do you want them to leave the rest of NIgeria without a formal separation? Who does that and where has it ever happened?

izac82:
Normally, I would have ignored you, but.... for your information, I have never been to South West, and never intend doing so. Not all Igbos are resident in South West. I for one, will love Igbos to leave everything south west and move back to the east, with their business. At most, move to other parts of Nigeria. Fulani/Hausa may kill Igbos because of religion, but You guys just hate Igbos for no reason.
You guys were the most vocal critics of the recent Biafran movement. I never supported Nnamdi Kanu, but I shudder in silence each time I read posts, both of mockery and threats to Igbos. I pray my people get sense soon, so they can leave your region, make person hear word.
I turned down a job offer, as an ASP.NET developer in Lagos, 2020, just after the lockdown, since it will entail moving down to Lagos.
No be everybody wan stay Lagos, you hear.

You have the right to wallow in self-deception!

MrMaestro:
They love to measure themselves against the Yorubas because they know deep down Yorubas are the yardstick for measurement for blacks globally. So when they see people praise the Yorubas, they are naturally envious and jealous.

Are Yorubas not slaves to Fulani's? Is the entire South not slave to Fulani's?

Difrent:
This thread will always be a reminder for how ibos so much hate yorubas. They hate this APC so much because of yorubas....they will always prefer enslaving themselves to fulanis while calling yorubas slaves

You did not respond to the issue he raised regarding the subject matter. How did one person (Zik) over ride the two people (Awo and Bello)

Sunnybay7:
Dull comment as usual,shifting the goal post to sound intelligent but your brain failed you woefully. You should be watching mtv not commenting on serious issues.

You expect us to obey the empty noise of unemployed miscreants. If they are serious, they should join us to end Nigeria so that each region will manage their destiny. Until then every ethnic nationality has the fundamental right to domicile every where and any where in Nigeria.

Parachoko:
Una no fight your host, but Northerners told Igbos to leave the North and your elders had to start begging.

Kano indigenes might wake up tomorrow and say Christians should leave their state, and people like you will argue in favour of the quit notice.

Future generation of Yoruba - not future generation of non-Yoruba - will speak of Awolowo like they do of Plato et all.

Omoluabi16:
Rest on, the great Awo. Our dear hero. The future generations will speak of you like they do about Plato, Aristotle, R.descartes et Al.
If only they allowed him rule.. If only he wasn't cheated at the polls.

Who will oppose Nigeria's break up today? Yoruba, Ndigbo, Southern Minorities?

bilymuse:
Because no country has ever broke up amicably, there is no way Nigeria is going to brake up amicably, it going to be blood , blood, blood.

All the country surrounding Nigeria are going to be drawn into the conflict, it going to be all west Africa civil war

Totally agree with you. Igbo hatred or antagonism is the unifying band in One Nigeria.

DrGoodman:
It's the same sentiments uniting Nigeria since 1970. If there is no Igbos to hate together, Nigeria would have scattered.

Buharri got elected because the Yorubas felt that Jonathan must go, because it was said he was favoring Igbos. An Ijaw man for that matter. Forget the corruption tag he got.

Nnamdi Hero Kanu would have got a standing ovation for his messages of warnings for fulani attrocities on the south, but he is Igbo, so everyone had to love Buharri than listen to the voice of reason.

But their hate is already eating them up, it's one young Igbo doctor today and countless northerners gone.

Indeed fool!

misscall247:
wat a fool......that measures d state of a nations economy by number of ppl dat board flight

How about One million? Will that satisfy your conscience that millions died?

georgeakins:
I don't really believe that those that died were up to 3m. Where did they bury the 3m corpses?

Ibos like lying and exaggerating petty things.

"Awolowo recognized this and moved for a secession clause to be included in the new constitution BUT Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and even reported Awolowo to the British as a saboteur - infact he personally wrote section 86 which makes any move for secession a treasonable offense"

Question #1
Do you understand the word " rejected"? How did Azikiwe reject the inclusion of secession clause when he was not in charge of the process of determining the inclusion or rejection of the secession clause in the constitution?

Question #2
When did Zik personally write section 86?

27Pushing30:
1. We are backward because of the north … they did not want independence; the south did this from the beginning we were incompatible .

2. After enahoro moved the motion for independence in 1953… there were riots in the north with many southerners killed —- this was the first indicator that they (the north) were committed to being under British rule - Awolowo recognized this and moved for a secession clause to be included in the new constitution BUT Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected it and even reported Awolowo to the British as a saboteur - infact he personally wrote section 86 which makes any move for secession a treasonable offense!
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/04/27/flashback-why-i-opposed-awolowo-on-secession-zik/?amp=1

Funny how Azikiwe later realized his ignorance during the civil war but it was too late.

I’m telling you that based on section 86 Nigeria can never break up unless the ENTIRE south wants it and are willing to shed blood for it… not SE , SS or SW individually but the whole SOUTH as an entity .

So NO we did not request independence too early … we only had one visionary leader- Awolowo - the others were ignorant

Who are the Yoruba man who stood their grounds when Ojukwu ran off? And when did he ran off as a LovePeddler through border and which border? Can we conduct a survey to ascertain among Ndigbo whether they support your hypothesis that Ojukwu "sacrificed 3 millions of his kinsmen"

BSdetective:
Descendants of ojukwu shouldn't call men who stood their grounds cowards...... especially when ojukwu ran off disguised as a wh0re through the border after sacrificing 3mill of his dumb kinsmen as ground manure.

Who let the dog out?

SlyDev:
Greediness of Igbos and Fulani cost this innocent man his life

"the only thing that bring Northern region and Eastern religion together is their hatred for the third region, western region"

The South should have requested their own independence and allowed the North to have their own country when they are ready.

Christistruth00:
Awolowo and Azikiwe requested for independence at least 20 years too early

But they meant well
Ahmadu Bello was more realistic when he admitted that the North was not ready for independence

With hindsight even the South was not ready for independence at the time

But trading the prime minister position is not the fundamental reason why the North dominates Nigeria today

seunmsg:
Where will all these bigotry take us to in the south? Why do some of these cretins always think they can blackmail the south west? Are you guys really this senseless?

Your grandparents traded the prime minister position for an irrelevant and powerless ceremonial office. Your parents voted Shagari in 1979 and still voted for Tofa in 1993. You’ve been voting for PDP since 1999 and even voted Atiku in 2019.

You and your parents will still vote for Fulani Atiku again in 2023 so what’s the obsession with the SW political choices? Are we complaining to you? The two most important positions in the party was shared between the north and SW so why the noisy blackmail?

Are you for real?

ExplorerReturns:
so what finally ended awolowo? #20 rat poison from aba

Awolowo was a real visionary? Are you for real? Have you interrogated Awolowo's political and public life in post-Biafra Nigeria to ascertain whether he was a true visionary or Short-sighted and visionless man who sold his future and that of his kinsmen for a pot of porridge?

aribisala0:
Much has been said and written and much will for ever be said about Awolowo, the £20 pound policy and so on.

I am not here to argue abouut what is true or not true.

I am here to remind ALL YORUBAS.

We must never offer anyone any explanation or apology for what Awolowo is said to have done.

Yes there was a blockade of leading to starvation of many innocent victims. They were Ojuikus victims. I will not go any details here except to say the following

I AM VERY PROUD OF EVERYTHING PAPA AWOLOWO DID

IN FUTURE IF THE NEED ARISES WE WILL LEARN FROM AND IMPOVE UPON EVERYTHING HE DID

Certain we shall be more uncompromiing having learnt even more about our partners

Awolowo was a true visionary who gave the best advice to the youung and inexperienced Gowon on how to put Ojuiku in his box.God bless Awolowo eternally and give to Ouiku his dues.

Again Awolowo advised on the chaange of currency which invalidated the loot Ojuiku had plunderd fro the CBN in Benin and the East thus rendering Biafra bankrupt overnight

A true gentleman after the war Awolowo benevolent handed over an deserved windfall of £20 to all Biafrans even thought they had emptied their accounts before they fled and exchanged their money for the worthless Biafran pound.
Awolowo resigned in 1971 and contrary to the Eboe lies was not in offie when the Indigenisation decree was enacted or implemened

How would both benefit the average Yoruba?

Lovenorth:
Vote a compromised pastor at your own risk, Tinubu is our choice and it's sealed

I wish Biafra survived

APCLyingBastard:
This thread showed were the real revenue was generated from.

One skull miner posted here that SW produced large chunk of the Palm oil for exports.

I asked him why then was there not a Palm Oil house in Ibadan instead of Cocoa house.

Fear these Yaribansa (deceitful bastards).

" Ashawo get honour pass Buhari.... Even a dog is more honourable than Buhari... I wish you and Buhari goodluck"

A serious indictment!

toxtimmy:
What has Buhari done or achieved for a better world?..... A man that stood in front of Nigerians and told them "I promise you that no government official will go overseas for medical care as soon as I am president".... Bam before you know him don run go overseas as soon as he is voted in for medical care.

Ashawo get honour pass Buhari.... Even a dog is more honourable than Buhari... I wish you and Buhari goodluck

Thank you my brother

Rose2014:
A yoruba friend ask me: under what conditions would you support One Nigeria and let go of the Biafra struggle.

Here was my response:

1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri.
2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports...only local or minimal connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights...direct and major connecting flights.
3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.
4. All federal governments agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC,e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
6. If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented, we can try one Nigeria and let's see if you Hausas and Yorubas will like it for a month. Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, e.t.c.

The yoruba friend replied: you can't be serious, this is wickedness. I said really? Don't you think Biafrans have been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 yrs? He was quiet for a few seconds and said: wow, you are right but it never occurred to me. I said, that's the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting love it and would love to maintain the status quo

You have no job

Rossikki:
Latest estimates put the number of Igbos resident outside their region at 7 to 10 million.

Some figures go as high as 15 million.

Is the SE prepared to welcome this number of "returnees", after they are declared illegal aliens in Nigeria, and promptly deported?

Indeed you are a SOPHISTICATED slowpoke!

SlyDev:
After Tinubu 2023 - 2031, another fulani go take am complete 8 years then give am back to Yoruba. If igbo don't beg us they will never be president

Today they are suffering. Zik should be ashamed that we lost Southern Cameroun.

Onlytruth:
[size=14pt]The Cameroons Unification Revisited (1): On the Road to the Plebiscite of February 11, 1961[/size]



By Dibussi Tande

(Originally posted on the Camnet Internet forum on 11 February 1995)

Southerncameroonsmap It's [45] years to the day since the British Southern Cameroons voted, in a United Nations-sponsored plebiscite, to unify with the French Cameroons (then known as La Republique du Cameroun) to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

Over the years, there has been a huge amount of literature about the state and outcome of that union. This posting will not dwell on the issue but will instead  focus on some of the reservations expressed primarily in Southern Cameroons before the plebiscite. I leave it to the reader to compare the pre-plebiscite predictions to today’s realities.

Passionate Debates
The plebiscite came amidst a passionate and intense debate between the integrationists who wanted Southern Cameroons to become part of  Nigerian, and the unificationists who dreamt of a great "Pan-Kamerunian Nation" made up of the British and French Cameroons.

In spite of the numerous reassurances from President Ahidjo that unification was not about the assimilation of  Southern Cameroons, there were strident cries of protests and shrill warnings about the impending unification.

In a message to the people of Southern Cameroons a couple of weeks before the plebiscite, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Nigerian Prime Minister, pointed out to them that they were being asked to choose between "certainty and security:  an honorable status as an integral part of a big country", or assimilation by a country with an alien culture and a government which had made no clear promises to the people of  the British Cameroon:

    "If you vote against Nigeria, I cannot see how you can avoid living a life of poverty, hardship and under the constant shadow of violence, " he warned.

This view was shared by many in the Southern Cameroons, including a leading newspaper "Cameroon Champion", which described Southern Cameroon Prime Minister Foncha’s obsession with the utopic bilingual Cameroon federation where Southern Cameroons will "finally be free" as "Foncha's false Jerusalem" in its Feb. 8, 1961 issue.

Even in La Republique du Cameroun which really had nothing to lose from the whole deal, there were many who believed strongly that unification was uncalled for. Writing in a local paper, a native of Ntem Division in the Centre Province asked a fundamental question that is still relevant to this day:

    Qu'elle avantage y' a-t-il a demander la réunification des deux Cameroun si, a première vue, nous devons considérer nos frères Bamiléké et Bassa comme des étrangers dans notre propre département?  Dans quelle catégorie rangerions-nous un Camerounais originaire du Cameroun Britannique si nous nous considérons nous-mêmes comme des ennemis et si le simple fait de dire Bassa ou Bamileke dans le Ntem devient (, ) un crime méritent la mort?

However, the direst prediction about the outcome of the union between the British and French Cameroons was made by the Southern Cameroons leader of opposition and the territory's first Premier, Dr. EML ENDELEY. This prediction, which basically promised Southern Cameroons fire and brimstone in the event of  the “Kamerun option” winning the day, was contained in a Cameroon Peoples National Convention (CPNC) pamphlet published on the eve of the plebiscite. Endeley’s CNPC described the message as "eternal evidence of the full note of WARNING that is being sounded in good time to all Cameroon people before they make their historic choice of February 11." Excerpts of this document are available in another posting.

On February 11, 1961, the people of Southern Cameroons went to the polls to choose between two options:

    (a) Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the independent Federal Republic of Nigeria?
    or
    (b) Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the independent Republic of Cameroon?

Endeley’s dire warnings failed to sway voters and Prime Minister John Ngu Foncha’s pro-unification KNDP carried the day. Southern Cameroonians voted overwhelmingly (70,49%) to achieve independence by joining La Republique du Cameroun while Northern Cameroons, which also took part in the plebiscite, opted for remaining as a part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

According to Francis Wache (Cameroon Life Magazine, March 1991), as soon as it became obvious that Foncha's "Pan-Kamerunist" option had won the day,

    ,  a song rippled through the grassfields surpassable only, perhaps, by the dry season fires in the area: The chant ran:

    Foncha has walloped Endeley
    Foncha has walloped Endeley
    If Foncha hadn't been there
    Endeley would have sold us.

However, close to a century later, the pan-Kamerunian dream had become a nightmare for the people of Southern Cameroons.  As Wache points out in the same CamLife article,

    Today, thirty years after the event, a song is being hummed through the length and breadth of the Western shore of the Mungo:

    Because Foncha trounced Endeley
    Because Foncha trounced Endeley
    If Foncha had not trounced Endeley
    We wouldn't have been sold."

John Ngu Foncha, the "architect of the unification" did not challenge this view at the twilight of his life as evidenced by his 1990 letter of resignation from the ruling CPDM, by his heart-wrenching mea culpa at the 1993 All Anglophone Conference in Buea, and by his little-known statement to the 1994 Constitutional Consultative Commission, excerpts of which are available in another posting.

http://www.dibussi.com/2006/02/the_cameroons_u.html

I have a question for you:

Q#1: Why did Yoruba military align with the Northerners to fight for One Nigeria?

Q#2: Why did Yoruba political leadership align with the Northerner to fight for One Nigeria?

Q#3: Why didn't Yoruba military revenge the murder of Fajuyi by Northern solders?

Q#4: Why didn't Yoruba military insist on Ogundipe as the next-in-line to Ironsi for the position of Head of State?

Q#5: What was the political objective of Northern-led military government in fighting against Biafra to keep Nigeria one?

christistruth01:
Do you understand what it means for a Military leader to loose 3 million Precious Souls

If Ojukwu was a Yoruba Monarch of Old he would have been made to pay the ultimate price for Far less a Calamity

His Chiefs and Subjects would have politely asked him to go to Sleep in the interest of the Kingdom


The issue of Ojukwu fleeing to Ivory Coast would not even arise

Buhari is better. At least, he does engage in deceitful and self-serving pontification

GoodHardDick:
As usual.
Always dishing out motivational quotes. Man is a complete failure just like Buhari

What is good about this? Can you show me a federal system where the center approves capital project fund for an airport that should be owned by the state.

CryptoTeacher:
Good move

You are absolutely right. He lacks intellectual capacity to debunk a twisted lie talk less a natural fact. I pointed the same reality to him.

Idiko1:
You do not have intellectual capacity to debunk a twisted lie talk less a natural fact.