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God bless your mum. She's the most smartest woman on earth. I csme from a lower-middle class family and grew upnin Festac Towon in the 80s and 90s. Till today, l wished l hawked while growing up. It would have unleashed my enterprenuel life in my teenage years which would have impacted my adult life at an early age.

Kudos to your mum!

Awoleesu:
I was raised by elite parents but Mom believed a lil exposure to the street was good especially for the male child. So, she made us hawk a few wares... From ice blocks (kankara) during Ramadan to boiled corn. I remembered how she'd drive us in her posh 504 SR sedan then into the Army barracks. The people watching with interest as we alight from the clean, air conditioned car and head into the barracks, street after street, basin on head and screaming "BUY SWEET CORN"!


What a life back then! But it paid off as I owe my present business acumen to those rough, little beginnings...
Plus, hawking helped my self confidence and has helped me withstand and overcome the effect of rejection.

Awesome!

freedomchild:
I hawked satchet water during my primary school days, around 2000 on the streets of Aba, Abia state. I was in primary 4 then till I wrote my first school leaving.
I moved to hawking sliced water melon during my holidays because I was a boarder as a secondary school student. Then I later sold Ghana-must-go back from my SS2 in 2006 till I wrote SSCE in 2008. My younger brother also had his share of the hawking world(satchet water, cooked corn and sliced pine apples).
But today I'm a pharmacist, 30 years and doing well for myself. My younger brother now is a ship navigator moving from one country to another at 29 years. He just passed his licencing exam as a sea man last year. We're now taking care of our siblings and ageing parents.. I'm the first child and the first son of 5 children

To God be the glory

Please can you share your story. I never hawked but l wished l did while growing up. Those who hawked because their parents could not nake ends meet easily were actually imbibing life lessons and skilms that will benefit them in future. They were actually but unknowingly entreprenuers who got exposed to the power of owning and managing a business. Majority of them became successful early in life than their friends whose parents had everything set up for them.

Lets here your experience.

900warriorz:
Well, I'm still that plantain boy,
but na me be the pikin wey dey give him mama joy;
many people see me as a useless boy but thank God today I'm a very big boy,
and not just a big boy, but a very rich boy

If you hear my story, you no go wish me to fail for life..

May God bless every legit hustlers out there....It was never easy

You are ahistorical - drunkenly and giddilyahistorical.

davodyguy:
If greed didn't push ojuiku to war, then no one would ha é been starved. Before the war were people starved to death? After the war were people starved to death?

So, without one man starting the war, no one would have been starved

He is even worse than Buhari?

Mobi47:
And Osibanjo is an accomplice....Many are still clamouring to make osibanjo the next president. I don't think Nigerians are ready to have a better country.

Can you give me evidence-based economic reasons why you think Igbos can't stand on their own without minorities? What is your nationality

LILTJAY1:
Igbos know they can't stand on their own without the minorities
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

WHY DID YORUBA REALLY FIGHT THE WAR?

YorubaHero12:
Lol, you Igbo chestbeater do not cease to amaze me. So you think Biafra fought alone against Nigeria lol. There are lot of mercenaries employed by Biafra during the war and a lot of countries supported you guys too.

Infact when they saw that you guys are being killed like chicken and Ojukwu kept fighting without direction even while seeing his kinsmen dying like fowl they had to raise the issue in the UN hence why they always term the war genocide due to the high mortality rate.

Nigeria forces commanded by the brave Yorubas ended the war through force and strategic planning. You have to learn a lot from the superior Yoruba tribe and that is diplomacy, restraint, and tactical approach to situations.

A coward is not a person that is slow to anger, a coward is a person that started a war with propaganda, whose action led to the massacre of his tribesmen in their million and who fled with his tail behind his legs when the war raged on after realizing he has been defeated ideologically and physically, of course I’m talking of Ojukwu of unblessed memory. He is a true definition of a COWARD

You don't have to post on issues above your paygrade. Silence can be golden!

ipobcannibals:
I know you’re a brainless Ipob bingo, one that is eternally doomed to reason via his ‘anular cavity’.
I don’t have time to read all the gibberish you typed here. The fact that you’re right doesn’t mean or translate that you will win a fight,,,, this was what cardinal Arinze told some brainless Ipob members in Rome.
Yes, Ojukwu was right in asking for the maintenance of the military hierarchy, but the reality was that the other three regions have agreed to come under the command of British-backed-Gowon government and Ojukwu could have seen the reality and save the lives of easterners, by extension, Igbo lives, by avoiding that war.
Today, your suplim reader is begging for his life after shouting biaflaud or death and wasting Igbo lives again. When are you going to join the ESN cannibals in the bush and fight for biaflaud?

The present Yoruba are savvy, yet they voted and revoted for a Fulani irredentist and ethnic bigot named Buhari.

The Present day Yoruba man is more savvy than the Awos, they will never be used and dumped as Awo was by the North. Modern day Yoruba race must have learnt from Awo's betrayal and will never give the North Access to the Ocean anymore. The West has to root out people like Tinubu and Tunde Bakare from their political equation and Unite with the rest of the Southerners to get the haramic North from our progressive new found country of Southern Nigeria-A land of milk, honey,Oil and gas, but if they chose not to, America and Russia needs our Oil, and if we have Russia and America behind us, who can be against us?

Totally agreewith you!

9javoice1:
There was a country is a book writen by great Prof Chinua Achebe, a personal account on biafran nigeria war .

the response:
1- too many yoruba's (elites, fools, chiefs, almajiri's, politicians and agbero's) has reponded to the book.
and they will not stop responding till next 3 yrs.

2- few northerners respond to it.
3- very few igbo's respond to it.

question: why were the yoruba's going gaga every week in media and dailies responding to that (bomb)truth?
answer: because the name awolowo and yoruba appered in the said book.

Q: what is realy the point yorubas are making, are they involved in the war or not?
A: if you say they are involved and play a major role, yorubas will deny it and swear with blood of their great grand fathers,
if you say they were not involved, yoruba's will troop to media houses and buy megaphone and shouts how involved they are and major roles they play.
www.osundefender.org/?p=35997 and see as FFK and Alhaji Usman Faruk in war of words about who win the war.

Q: can we trust people who always go with "yes and no" "i will and i will not" same time?
A: nobody will trust such a man it wont take long for his new friend to find out who he is and dump him for a better patner.

Which Igboman? CBN governor is a monumental failure.

FarmWay:
This Igbo man is the grace in this callous junta we are in at present in this country...

















Give Igbo man a to rule Nigeria and see massive transformation

The average Yorubaman and ahistorism. Biafra did not declare war on Nigeria. It was Nigeria that declared war on Biafra.

Biodun556:
How could some people declare war on their perceived enemy and still be blaming the enemy for not giving them food?

Is Nigerian government not God fearing enough to be supplying food to those who took up arms against them?

Thank you my brother!

olabrad:
Then corruption during Jonathan days wasn't the fault of Jonathan, but that of every Nigerian, including Buhari, el Rufai, Femi Adesina, you, etc.

Why cry more than the bereaved?

gidgiddy:
The mentality of the average Northerner is really strange for me as an Igbo man. What this man is trying to say properties and investments are more important than freedom and sovereignty. So because Igbos are found all over Nigeria, have investments everywhere, they are not entitled to seek their own separate country?

Why is he so concerned about if Igbos will suffer if they secede? Why is he hell bent on "one Nigeria"? It no secret that the average Northerner does not like the Igbo man so why do you want to remain in one country with people you have no love for?

The Northerners are not fooling anyone. The only reason they want Igbos in Nigeria is because they have come to see Nigeria as their private property and Igbos are their slaves, they are not willing to lose that property.

If Northerners start talking about Arewa Republic tomorrow, most Igbos wont even give a damn. In fact, Igbos like me will throw party that they want to go their way.

But if Igbos talk about Biafra, Northerners will start shouting "they will suffer", "they will lose their property", "we will send them home", "one Nigeria for life"

I tire for these people

Awolowo was used and dumped by Gowon and his Northern military.

WetinConsignMe:
EVIDENCE

It is instructive that the Yoruba who were lily-livered and capitulated to Northern hijack of power and humiliation of Yoruba military officers' brand Ojukwu - who rejected Northern hijack of power and fought for 3 years to defeat Northern oligarchy - a coward while elevating Yoruba military officers who accepted unchallenged the rule of Northerners as patriots and courageous men.

attackgat:
Well at least he fought for three years before running away.

You guys ran away from Northerners even before any fight even started

You are no prophet and stop engaging in self-deception. The activities of Niger-Delta activist is not responsible for the localization of oil companies HQS in Lagos State/Yorubaland. It was a post-civil war policy implemented by Awolowo to benefit his kinsmen and region

jrusky:
I warned you guys then but some people attacked me I'm a prophet with no church building bcus anything I say must surely come to pass sooner or later go back to my post during the heated militancy era its their boldly that I said "though the oil companies had depleted the environment badly and the course of these struggle is about fair share of oil dividend and improving the environment for livelihood which is absolutely correct and worth fighting for as Saro Wiwa wanted" but it was hijacked and militancy turned it to money making oil ridge and I said giung these way you will one day be begging those companies to return because you have compromised your stand on the real course of these struggle, now here we are.

Same way I'm warning my people about ipigs authoritarian approach naturally average Nigerian lack mental capacity to stay on course when they sense they have an edge over others they will use that slight edge to bully and suppress other and if allow to stand they will be touching everything and want to force entire lineage to obey them or suffer so they can be seen as Emperor. Look at Moham+mad of Boko Haram bitch, look at Kanu and his ipigs, look at Turji the f u c King bastard etc. Watch, the next order from ipigs is loading.......come back here and quote me then.

Gragra is not always a solution to some problems and if you are going to use gragra don't let money or acquiring weather be your motive orelse you will lost the game.

When will the age of oil over? Countries are still reaping billions from oil. So the age of oil, an inescapable reality, is still many years ahead

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
The age of oil is over all over the world it is the same look at Saudi Arabia and Iran two sworn enemies are now coming together to talk peace because the age of oil is over oil is 3 times more expensive to produce than green energy

But millions of your kinsmen, if you are Yoruba, voted for him

ablejesus26:
I have got a son who is going to be 12 very soon and I perceive him intelligent enough to call what is wrong, wrong and what's right, right.

Bubu is a failure,it berates all mental comprehensive deduction why an adult like you can't come to terms with such obvious truth.

ABIOLA IS SQUIRMING IN HIS GRAVE

Maxymilliano:
At this rate, Tinubu will visit the devil to seek endorsement and express permission to contest .

Clown !

Awesome

EmmaJnr1:
EASTERNERS ARE UNDER MANIPULATION

At times we might not understand it if we don't think deeply and ask some crucial questions.

We are being manipulated. I mean we in the East. We are all being manipulated. Are you Igbo, Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Ogoni or whatever you call yourself, know it that you have been under manipulation for the past 51 years. You are not from South East, South South or Niger Delta. You are from the East. You are only being manipulated to think otherwise.

The Manipulation

Whatever is happening today is Britain using the Fulani to manipulate you. Far it be from me that I am blaming others for our woes, but the truth is that if you don't know of this manipulation, you cannot gain freedom.
This manipulation started during the genocide they called the Nigeria Biafra civil war.

The East has been under manipulation till this very day. No doubt, the East has been great in themselves. Whatever they touch turns to gold. In conquering the black man Britain found a stumbling block from the East. From the time of slave trade to the colonization era, the East never gave Britain a breathing space. Britain knows that for them to hold the East down they have to find a way to manipulate them.

Opportunity came with the war. Don't forget that the war of 1967 wouldn't have taken place if not for Britain. Britain wanted the war. The war is so much needed for the manipulation to work. They are so much in need of the resources in the East.
When Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met at Aburi Ghana and agreed to set aside every hostilities and become a confederate state, it didn't go down well with Britain who desperately needed the war.
Using British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) Britain mounted a campaign against the Aburi agreement, stating that at last Gowon has bowed down to Ojukwu. The implication of this statement is that Northern Nigeria has bowed down to Biafra. For Gowon represented Nigeria while Ojukwu stands for Biafra. This hurted the ego of the North (Nigeria) and infuriated them. The North in a meeting refused to adhere to the agreement. Rather they instructed Yakubu Gowon to divide Nigeria into 12 states. On 27 May 1967, Gowon proclaimed the division of Nigeria into twelve states. This decree carved the Eastern Region in three parts: South Eastern State, Rivers State, and East Central State. It was Gowon on the stage, but Britain in the background. With this division Gowon destroyed the regional government.

To this effect, the Eastern Consultative Assembly made up of elders from every part of the East voted for the East to secede from Nigeria. They demanded that Odumegwu Ojukwu declare Biafra a Republic. In obedience to the wishes of the people, on 30 May 1967, Ojukwu declared independence of the Republic of Biafra. As expected, Biafra came under attack by Nigeria Army. The war began on the early hours of 6 July 1967 when Nigerian Federal troops advanced in two columns into Biafra. With this Britain staged the decimation of the Igbo and their other cousins. It is worthy to note that the East prior to the war has been in charge of lots of offices in Nigeria. This was made possible due to their early embrace of education.

With the help of Britain and other world powers, Nigeria inflicted heavy causality on Biafra. Millions of Biafrans mostly women and children died. It was estimated that about 3.5million Biafrans died in that senseless war of Nigeria unity.

The war ended in 1970 with the Biafrans led by Philip Effiong surrendering to Nigeria. After the physical war, another unseen war started. And that is the manipulation of the Eastern people.

During the the war, Nigeria government perfected a successful plan that divided the East. Nigeria military started attacking the coastal Regions wearing Biafran Army Uniform and speaking Igbo during those attacks. Lots of Coastal Biafrans that survived the attack heard the attackers speak Igbo and till this very day, they still tell stories on how Igbo people wanted to wipe them out during the war. This is a high profile manipulation.
No one asked how a people suffering extermination will have time to wipe off their own brothers. No one asked if there has ever been any attempt previously by the Igbo to attack or expel their neighbours from their lands. No one asked how possible it will be for a people that lack weapons to waste it on their fellow brothers. No one cared to think deep and ask how Philip Effiong will be a second in command and his people will be wiped out by the same Army he commands. And to cap it all, he didn't speak about it. Are coastal brothers not in the Biafra Army? These are the necessary questions that will neutralize these lies that have been told over the last 51 years.

The seed of discord sown by the Nigeria government during the Civil War made it possible for the East to be fragmented. The Igbo became the worse enemies of most Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni etc. They see the Igbo as rivals. Some of them out of deep ignorance have proclaimed how it is better to live with the Fulani than the Igbo. With this mentality, the Fulani won. They took advantage, owned the oil, controls it and left the people with nothing, other than polluted environment, not good for agriculture.

The Fulani also divided the Igbo into many parts. They included Igbo people into the North and South South. They manipulated people into thinking that Igbo people are only in South East, while the Igbo people that fell into other regions started denying being Igbo. The Fulani frustrated anyone bold enough to answer Igbo after the war, which necessitated the denial. Asaba, Ikwere, Onitsha, Etche, Ogwashiukwu, Ika man will tell you how he is not Igbo. Those singing this shameful songs of denial will always be favored by the Fulani.

Betrayal Become A Lucrative Business In The East.

Those that led Biafra during the time of the war was the most trusted men the Easterners respects so much. They are men of integrity and patriots who will rather die than betray their own people. Men like Chinua Achebe, Akanu Ibiam, Odumegwu Ojukwu etc.
Nigeria government removed these men from office and started employing men that are ready to betray their own people.
Gradually, it became an act of foolishness and stupidity to stand for the people in the East. If you are not a puppet of the Fulani, you will not be appointed into any office in Nigeria. They encouraged these men to openly stand against their own people. They made them rich, influential and powerful that ordinary people started worshiping them. Remember the Igbo saying that says 'onye bu igu ka Ewu n'eso?' This is how almost everyone in the corridors of power in the East started becoming sycophants and hypocrites in other to make it. This is exactly how we got the leaders we have today. Leaders who will bring Pythons to kill their own youths. Leaders who will refuse to constitute security group for their own people, just to please the Fulani. Men who is so afraid of the Fulani to the extent that they will support the massacre of their own youths for protesting in a country Fulani herdsmen terrorists are pampered and Boko Haram terrorists recruited into the Army.

These manipulations made the Igbo, Ijaw Efik etc to loose focus. All the leaders in the East needed is to be loyal to the Fulani and they can loot and squander our collective resources the way they want. If you complain about the lack of federal government presence in the East, Northerners will remind you of your governors and how they are squandering the resources. It is just manipulation. They use them and yet blame them for your woes.

Since after the war, never a time have the East worked together to develop the East. There is zero plan by the Eastern leaders of today to liaise with each others to develop the entire East. It is just squandering and obedience to the Fulani as to escape persecution and prosecution. The Fulani only goes after anyone against them and standing for the people. The Fulani have the power to remove an elected Governor and replace him with their puppet. This is exactly why Emeka Ihedioha is not governor today.

This manipulation has effected every aspect of our lives in the East. Today, police men will love to be posted to the East because they make more illegal monies in the East than any other part of Nigeria. They know that the East is a police state. They are the marginalised part and got no right. So once you are arrested or confronted, you pay them and go with your goods. This has made life difficult in the East.

An Igbo in governor will do everything possible to safeguard his position through loyalty to the Fulani. He will rather employ unqualified HausaFulani into the government, than employ his qualified Eastern brothers. Those that are ignorant of the manipulation going on will never understand. They will rather say WE DON'T LOVE OURSELVES. You are just under manipulation.

Any Eastern Leader speaking against the marginalisation of the East in Nigeria will be witch haunted. Almost all the federal roads in the East are bad, yet no governor will ever complain. Parts of the East are polluted due to oil spillage, yet non of them is speaking for their own people. Some that fights for the people will be given contracts to shut them up.
If you speak up, a case will be opened for you in the court and you will surely be disgraced out of office.

You are from the East in Nigeria, you are not free. You are manipulated to hate yourselves and work against each other. It is only when you realise this, that you can work towards your freedom.

If you ask me, I will say that only the restoration of Biafra will break the stronghold of the Fulani on our people.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher And Activist, 2021.

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ooduapathfinder:
In response to your quest to contest Nigeria’s Presidency in 2023, the Yoruba Referendum Committee is, by this Letter, asking all of you to take a categorical stand on the Yoruba Referendum as the solution to the National Question in Nigeria.
There is no contradiction between your quest and the Yoruba Referendum; they are not mutually exclusive; indeed, your quest will have meaning only within the context of the Yoruba Referendum, otherwise, it becomes seeking power for its own sake.

Our reasons are as follows:

(1) The fundamental issue confronting the Peoples of Africa is the resolution of the National Question on a continental level as well as within each country. This truth is borne by the reality on the Continent where Rwanda is often cited as the exemplar of African renaissance based on her human and material development.

(2) What is not debatable about Rwanda is that whatever it has become today, or in the process of becoming, cannot be divorced from the extremely violent resolution of her National Question, otherwise known as the “Rwanda Genocide”, a repetition of which we believe no one would wish on any of the Peoples of Africa.

(3) Furthermore, Rwanda is entrenched on a dictatorship centered around the person of the President such that economic transformation as a necessity, by itself, has been substituted for the person and power of the President, occasioned by the suppression of dissent such that continuity of such transformation is dependent on Presidential Benevolence and which may not necessarily continue once the present benefactor is off the scene, one way or the other, as has happened in other African countries flaunting their development credentials wrapped around the benevolence of the leader exemplified by Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara et al.

(4) The only exception is Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region of Nigeria, where, despite his travails and the twists and turns of our existential reality, the social, cultural, political, and economic philosophy embedded within the People and pursued within the short time frame of our Regional existence, ensured its continuity, even after his demise, where political relevance is generally measured in terms of fidelity to, derives from, and is driven by the historical and categorical necessity his government and leadership ensured.

(5) What is playing out in Nigeria is the resolution of the National Question within the context of a contest between the forces of Unitarism, anchored by the North, politically as the NPC and the East, politically as the NCNC, both of which represented the Unitarist realities of their societies; already being practiced in the North; but an expectation in the East, fueled by the projection of her political leadership aimed at neutralizing the West, through subversion of Western political leadership since the dawn of anti-colonial agitations. This became the basis for their political alliance in their quest to dominate and control the Nigerian geo-political space until the breakdown in their military relations.

(6) Unlike the Western Region, the bastion of Federalism, taking her cue from her historical trajectory, anchored on a Federalist relationship between the various Kingdoms, which prevented the emergence of an overall kingdom for the entire land; and despite the attempt to neutralize, under the valid reason of waging a war against foreign occupation, resulting in the famous Kiriji War, pitting Yoruba Unitarist forces against the Federalists; an inconclusive war because of colonial intervention, despite which the tendency towards Federalism remained fundamental within the Yoruba political psyche.

(7) The Nigerian State was, and still is, the result of this contest between Unitarism and Federalism, with the 1960 Independence Act only an interregnum: the battle resuming immediately afterwards, where the North and the East, through their alliance, formalized Unitarism with the 1963 Constitution, resulting in its entrenchment as the defining characteristic of the Nigerian State politically, economically, and internationally.

( Politically, manifesting in various ways, among which are: (i) the manipulation of the 1962 Census, riding on the shoulder of the 1952 Census which had already given the North a Parliamentary majority and which the alliance later used against the Western Region, culminating in the 1965 Western Regional crisis and later the January 15, 1966 Military coup which temporarily ended the alliance and subsequent coups thereafter, further cementing Unitarism, this time with the North in almost absolute control (ii) despite this, the East yielded to the North, and remain committed to the alliance, always willing and ready to throw its weight behind the North against the West; (iii) Centralization of power through the atomization of the Peoples into different states dependent on the Center;(iv) the calibration of electoral votes in favor of the North, thereby enabling them to call the shots at any election;(v) centralized control over Party Affairs (vi) determination of party priorities outside the purview of their social and cultural environments (vii) denunciation of the Nationalities, reducing them to “tribes”, just as the colonial power did; (viii) attempting the “detribalization” of the Nationalities which can only end up in a “Rwanda” and (ix) Legitimization of all these(and more) by the current Constitution, reaffirming the Unitarist nature of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State.

(9) Economically, presenting itself, in Yorubaland, among others, through (i) the neutralization of the foundational economic philosophy which defined Yorubaland between 1951 and 1959, established on the foundations of a political economy of social development, with development banking an integral part, exemplified by the Yoruba version of the “too big to fail” economic necessity via the “buy out” of the Agbonmagbe Bank, preceding the famous US experience under President Obama by 50 years. (ii) massive central investment in commercial agriculture and irrigation, controlled especially by Military Officers thereby making the rest of the country dependent on the North (iii) the gradual neutralization of a development paradigm through the negation of human capacity development experienced through the de-education of the people and the subsequent integration of the country’s economy into the vortex of underdevelopment as dictated by the IMF, which eventually culminated in the enforcement of the Structural Adjustment Program, thereby de-industrializing Yorubaland (as well as the entire country).

(10) Internationally, especially within the West African sub-region, and mainly in favor of the North (i) the trans-humance protocol allowing cross-border movement of pastoral Fulani without inhibition; (ii) the gradual entrenchment of Ethno-National Fulani control of several countries in West Africa as can be seen in the Gambia, Senegal, Guinea Bissau Sierra Leone, Mali, Niger;(iii) the anti-Terrorism war in the Sahel, incorporating some of these countries and Nigeria.

(11) Despite all these, efforts of the Lagos state government under Governor Tinubu to engage the Central government, on various issues pertaining to the Federalist cause whilst also trying to address economic underdevelopment, especially through the deployment of “technocrats” as the antidote to underdevelopment, disregarded Nigeria’s experience with technocrats from the IMF, World Bank, and other international agencies, not making a dent on Nigeria’s underdevelopment. Such efforts eventually failed to advance beyond his tenure, when successive central Governments embarked on policies reinforcing the Unitarist forces in Nigeria.

(12) The infrastructural development touted by the current administration is anchored on a negation of human capital development, resulting in the superimposition of a colonial economic paradigm characterized by provision of access to raw materials for export and which has now been extended to exportation of human materials evidenced by continuous migrations out of the country.

(13) Yet, the Western Region cured this deficiency, by the introduction of a political economy anchored on an all-round education policy as the precondition for human capital development, and by extension, the overall development of the society and which eventually enabled the growth of aspirations and expectations that was experienced, providing the basis for the hope binding the Yoruba People today.

(14) The current administration’s much-touted infrastructural development lacks this essential component, to wit: human capacity development, more so when technological, scientific, and social education production are severely lacking, and with public and private education at all levels in shambles, with no roadmap for resuscitation, resulting in a steady decline of human capital, engendering a heavy reliance on foreign human capital as the operators of the economy.

(15) All of which begs the question as to what is to be done. The Yoruba Referendum Committee posits that the answer is in resolving the National Question in such a manner that will avoid the Rwanda Experience as well as the on-going war in Ethiopia between Unitarist and Federalist forces and provide a beacon for the rest of Africa.

(16) This starts from the recognition of the Peoples/Nations in themselves, and for themselves, restoring their ability to define their aspirations and expectations, and which is possible only if they are recognized as the Federating Units in a Federal System replacing the current Unitarist experience.

(17) Efforts of the Lagos State government earlier alluded to, testifies to this. It took less than eight years for succeeding central governments to create roadblocks against the successes achieved. This shows that whatever was achieved could be neutralized in short order unless the Unitarist forces are decisively and permanently defeated.

(18) It is recognized that such an expectation, by itself, will not lead to a manifestation, unless it is taken from the realm of “reasoning” and brought into the arena of practical politics.

(19) Hence the resolution proposed by the Yoruba Referendum Committee is as follows: (i) Referendums by the various Nationalities as Federating Units. (ii) For the Yoruba, this will be the Yoruba Referendum to be conducted by the Houses of Assembly in Yorubaland, aimed at recreating Nigeria as a Multi-National State, defined as a “ Federal Nigeria, through a valid Federal Constitution, to be known as The Union of Nigerian Constituent Nationalities, with a Federal Presidential Council, whose members will be selected or elected from each of the Nationalities as Federating Units and from whom a Head of State will be selected or elected as the primus-inter-pares with an agreed term.”

(20) A Bill on the Yoruba Referendum, to be passed into Law and pave the way for conducting the Referendum has been submitted, twice, to the Governors and Speakers of the Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti State Houses of Assembly.

We humbly ask that you all, individually or collectively, take a Categorical Stand on this Yoruba Categorical Imperative.

Editorial Board, Yoruba Referendum Committee

Amen!

Penguin2:
This is the disaster that Tinubu helped foist on Nigeria because of his inordinate ambition.

Except God is no longer God, if not Tinubu shall be paid back in his coin in 2023.

Fool and his urchins.

Absolutely right!

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Raco3: http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/01/northern-nigeria-petroleum-company-bayo-oluwasanmi

Having removed Jonathan, what was the end goal of winning political power? It can't be just booting him Jonathan out of office

HacheNoire:
The greatest achievement of Tinubu!

Booting GEJ out power is one thing Nigerians will forever be grateful for. And putting Atiku in the dungeon of political history, was a bonus.


Tinubu in actual sense should be god.

Having removed Jonathan, what was the end goal of winning political power?

HacheNoire:
The greatest achievement of Tinubu!

Booting GEJ out power is one thing Nigerians will forever be grateful for. And putting Atiku in the dungeon of political history, was a bonus.


Tinubu in actual sense should be god.

I have wondered also!

Rugaria:
It cost over one million naira to transport a 40ft container from Lagos to Onitsha at the height of the Lagos port crises! During Jonathan's regime, it was plus-minus 200k!
Since the end of the war, through vindictive politics, importers in the east have to import through Lagos, then truck by land the containers to the eastern hinterlands! Just as we have to come to Lagos to fly out of the country, which has lead to many deaths by accidents...What this means is that in most cases, imported goods are costlier in the east than say Lagos and it environs. It also means endless accidents and deaths on the Lagos-Benin-Onitsha road... , One of the busiest roads in the country! So how did the brood of vipers running this country manage to prioritize cheaper transportation for Niger republic citizens as more important to that of the most commercially active section of the country and still have the effontery to defend that with a straight face? Why exactly is this government dragging her feat on building rail tracks in the east?

Why go to war? Why does the black race always seek the violent way out? The white race always use peaceful political process to settle their problem.

Tap0lane:
I want to believe your father is not a dullard. When Eritrea got tired of Ethiopia it went to war for it freedom, so did South Sudan, Kosovo, East Timor etc they do not wait to be granted independence they fought for it n not keep wailing like a foolish tribe that they should be pushed out into independence

True talk!

36xtr09r:
"If-I'm-not-sure-I'll-make-it-alone-then-let-us-all-stick-together-and-see-if-we-could-make-it-together-in-a-jealous-tribalistic-wicked-painful-way." 
- Deadlytrash

Why won't you ab0ki ass-lickers be grandstanding carelessly and senselessly on NL when in 1967-70 the Uneme-Nekhua people and their Southern cotravellers gladly colluded with their Northern masters to gleefully commit genocide on supposed Anioma brothers?

Whether you like it or not, your senseless repetitions and rantings on NL cannot prevent you and your inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua people from spending the rest of your miserable lives with your Fulani masters.

Till date this diabolic scammer and treacherous Unemes backstabber, has consistently and cowardly shied away from daring to mention the contributions of his inconsequential Uneme-Nekhua elites to the upliftment of this country.

It's rather pathetic that this land-grabbing and people-claiming bigot and his criminal Uneme-Nekhua people are so deluded as to dare challenge and critique the 1999 constitution, that began with "We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...",
This deluded ab0ki ass-licker want other people to believe with him that the generality of Nigerians, including the Christian community, assembled to produce the fraudulent 1999 constitution replete with 73 mentions of Sharia, Islam - 28, Muslim - 10 and no single mention of anything Christ, Christian or church.
In all his studies he couldn't lay his hands on the Nigerian constuition to understand that the country he calls his own is an Islamic State.


https://www.nairaland.com/233153/north-would-have-regretted-nigerias-break-up-in-1966-Umaru-Dikko
"when Gowon took over government there was a constitutional conference, people from the Northern, Eastern and Western regions came together to say which way Nigeria should go. Because, at that time, the country was in turbulence and anything could have happened.
"So, we went, some people were saying Nigeria should break up. All the regions supported the idea (of Nigeria breakup), except Midwest (now Edo and Delta states), which said no, the federation should remain and continue. We went as Northern delegation, led by Sir. Kashim Ibrahim, Governor under the Sardauna to Lagos to discuss the matter."
- Alhaji Umaru Dikko,
SECOND Republic Minister of Transport and Special Duties

The Uneme-Nekhua people should grow a ball and challenge the marauding herdsmen who maim and kill their kinsmen for fun for decades.

Let this message sink deep into your medulla oblongata: "Igbos are not interested in parasites, traitors or genocide conspirators. Igbos cannot afford to share a country with verm1ns and vagabonds parading as Uneme-Nekhua people on NL. The Igbo Nation are not willing to self-destruct with the deluded Uneme-Nekhua people".

Deadlytrash, your wicked propaganda and foolish ranting on NL cannot stop the raging IPOB tsunamic movement as your eternal portion remains with your Fulani masters.

It has been a curse having your likes in the same country and this curse is broken already and the serpent head is severely bruised and that's why you've been on rampage for some months now attempting in vain to resurrect a walking corpse.

Take your miseries to OduaArewanistan republic where bunch of hypocrites and confused bigots are found. Igbos are comfortable having a separate existence from Uneme-Nekhua greedy, treasury looters cum murderous backst*bbers.


https://www.nairaland.com/3143222/biafra-memo-oba-akenzua-frustrated-implementation-of-aburi-accord-january-1967
http://www.punchng.com/biafra-memo-akenzua-aburi/

Prince Akenzua (now the late Oba of Benin) along with top permanent secretaries including Alhaji Yusuf Gobir, Phillip Asiodu, Eme Ebong, B.N. Okagbue and Allison Ayida deconstructed in Lagos, all that was agreed in Aburi.

On arrival in Lagos, Prince Akenzua discussed with Gowon and raised objections to what was agreed in Aburi. Gowon asked him to raise a memo which he did. I am sure a copy of the memo is with Gowon today while a copy is in the archives in the Presidency. Civil servants are to be seen and not to be heard and that is why Akenzua never released a copy of the memo to the world.

The memo dated January 8, 1967 began with: “Your Excellency, in view of my discussion with you last night, I am raising this memo in the interest our fatherland, Nigeria”. Akenzua traced the long hard road that Nigeria had travelled and stressed on the need to keep a United Nigeria.

He (Akenzua) said in the memo that Gowon had given too much away in Aburi and that it would lead to the destruction of the country. He further added that Gowon had “legalised” total regionalism which “will make the centre very weak.” Akenzua alluded in his memo that a weak centre would lead to confederation and total disintegration of the country. It was the memo that prompted Gowon to summon a meeting of the secretaries to the military governments and other officials which was held in Benin City between February 16 and 18, 1967. If you look at the minutes of the Benin meeting presided over by Mr. H. A. Ejueyitchie, Secretary to the Federal Military Government, you will discover that it was a total rejection of what was agreed upon in Aburi. The Benin meeting interpreted in its own way the agreement reached in Aburi.


The decisions at Aburi amounted to, in terms of political and military control of Nigeria, that the country should be governed as a confederation.


N.B:
The Omo N’oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa (CFR), the 38th Oba of Benin, who was born on June 22, 1923 and ascended the throne on March 23, 1979.

The Oba of Benin is the traditional ruler of the Edo people and head of the historic Eweka dynasty of the Benin Empire.

Before becoming an Oba, as Prince Samuel Aiseokhuoba Igbinoghodua Akenzua, he was an outstanding civil servant. He, in fact, rose to become the Federal Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health before he retired in 1973.

Along with others, he attended the Aburi meeting held at the Peduase Lodge where the conflict of Nigeria was discussed between January 4 and January 5, 1967. Aburi is a town in Ghana and a 45-minute drive from Accra, the capital of Ghana.

Those who attended the meeting were Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, Col. Robert Adebayo, Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Lt. Col. David Ejoor, Lt. Col. David Hassan Katsina, Commodore J.E.A. Wey, Major Mobolaji Johnson, Alhaji Kam Selem and Mr. J. Omo-Bare. Others were Prince S.I.A. Akenzua (Permanent Under-Secretary, Federal Cabinet Office.), Mr. P.T. Odumosu (Secretary to the Military Government, West.), Mr. N.U. Akpan (Secretary to the Military Government, East.), Mr. D.P. Lawani (Under-Secretary, Military Governor’s Office, Mid-West) and Alhaji Ali Akilu (Secretary to the Military Government, North.) The Chairman of the Ghana National Liberation Council, Lt. Gen. J.A. Ankrah, declared the meeting open in his capacity as then the head of state of Ghana.


https://www.nairaland.com/2854914/why-fought-side-ojukwu-biafra-fola-oyewole

Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war. Before then, he was, because of the first coup 50 years ago, imprisoned in Lagos and in the Enugu but was released by Lt Col Ojukwu.

He wrote his own war account too, entitled “The Reluctant Rebel”, which joined other civil war narratives like ‘The Biafra Story’ (1969) by Frederick Forsyth, ‘Why We Struck’ (1981) by Adewale Ademoyega, ‘Sunset In Biafra’ (1975) by Elechi Amadi, ‘The Nigerian Revolution And the Biafran War’ (1980) by Alexander Madiebo among others.

In this interview with Ademola Adegbamigbe and Femi Anjorin (Idowu Ogunleye snapped the photos), the retired army officer narrated what happened during the first coup, his participation in it and why he, despite being Yoruba, fought on the side of Biafra like other non Igbo officers like Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega and others.

Q: In what area did you take part in that coup?

A: Arrest, seize facility and others…


Q: You were at a point, according to your book, with Captain Adeleke, another Yoruba soldier, who was he?

A: He was a colleague. He is the one who said he wanted to consult the family and we were friends, we both worked in Apapa before the crisis.

Q: I want you to describe what happened to other Yoruba people or non Igbo who fought on the Biafran side – Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega, then Major Kaduna Nzeogwu an Igbo from Opanam in Delta?

A: They were detained like myself, and Nzeogwu was detained, that was a common factor.


Q: In the book, you applaud Ojukwu’s performance in Aburi, explain to us what actually happened because there is this argument that he bamboozled Gowon

A: If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec (Akenzua) who led us to (the mess) where we are today.

Q: Was it Philip Asiodu?

A: The group – Asiodu, and the rest. Their recommendations, what they brought back from Aburi was agreed to be implemented but when they came here they tore it into pieces.

Q: Ok, was after the agreement was signed in Aburi? They came back to Nigeria….

A: To put it in whatsoever you can say political implementation. They desired to analyse it, it was an agreement not suggestion, that’s where our problem sort of started.

If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec (Akenzua) who led us to (the mess) where we are today.