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You have shown the level of your intelligence by comparing gun violence in United States and total breakdown of security in Nigeria. Your education investment is a monumental waste.

deji17:
More people die in the USA every year due to gun violence and they spend multiple fold on defence and internal security. Yet nobody is blackmailing their country with the numbers.

2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. So far, 2021 is worse. Gun-related deaths from preventable, intentional, and undetermined causes totaled 39,707 in 2019, nearly flat from 39,740 deaths in 2018.

Mourners at a memorial for the 10 people killed in a mass shooting at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store. The March rampage is part of what’s been an especially deadly year for gun violence, one experts fear will only get worse. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post)
By Reis Thebault
The shootings have come at a relentless pace. Gun violence this year has cut through celebrations and funerals, places of work and houses of worship. It has taken lives at a grocery store and in a fast-food drive-through lane.

And most of all, it has unfolded on city streets and in family homes, away from the cameras and far from the national spotlight.

By almost every measure, 2021 has already been a terrible year for gun violence. Many fear it will get worse. Last weekend alone, more than 120 people died in shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, with three especially dangerous incidents in Austin, Chicago and Savannah, Ga., leaving two dead and at least 30 injured.


Through the first five months of 2021, gunfire killed more than 8,100 people in the United States, about 54 lives lost per day, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization. That’s 14 more deaths per day than the average toll during the same period of the previous six years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/14/2021-gun-violence/

Another gullible Nigerian

Dejyom:
Prioritization of job creation and employment generation is the way forward in the effort to close the widening gap of unemployment. This administration is looking pretty much on track in this aspect.

This government has less than 2 years to stay in office. What are they going to do in this few months if they could not it in 6 years? Our VP loves vomiting mesmerising and feel good speeches that is hollow and powerless just to deceive the gullible public .

TheRareGem1:
Diversification of economy is the best way to create jobs; agriculture, mining and others need serious investment while we continue to reap from oil proceeds. Creation of enabling environment is also key.

Why are you blaming Lord Lugard that died long time ago. You had the chance to end Lugard's Nigeria in 1967 when Ojukwu declared Biafra, instead you chose to continue with Lugard's Nigeria. So blame your political leaders and not Lugard.
CHIKINA!

Fahdiga:
Lord Lugard will continue to burn in hell till eternity

Totally agree with you!

Mordecai:


It appears this man derives pleasure from sounding off.

You want all tiers of government to be open-minded. Can you say the FG is open-minded?

An administration in which every critic is denigrated, and/or hounded by DSS, and to survive, we have to post our views on Nairaland where we are to an extent, faceless.

I cannot stop talking about my disappointment in a man who promised the gates of heaven, but watched silently while his principal drove us to the furthermost recesses of hell.

As MLK jnr noted, "In the end we will remember, not just the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".

Totally right!

Akwamkpuruamu:
Always sounding elusive and politically correct, while evil is being perpetrated right under him.

The local government issue is not the responsibility of Abuja. It should be a state issue.

TheRareGem1:
The autonomy signed by Mr. President is not being followed by some state governments in fact, majority by of them refused to adhere to it. The local government has been outrightly marginalised and this is getting worrisome because the grassroots is where the foundation of everything start.

That's book confirmed Ogundipe and Adebayo as cowards whose actions or inaction allowed the North to hijack power and dominate Nigeria today

Erudite77:
This is not about being a coward!

Ogundipe realised that no junior officers were in his support! When he gave an order to make a safe landing for Ironsi, the officers sent were ambushed. When he tried to send other officers, they declined! So he sensed mutiny.

Let me remind you.You can't declare yourself without internal support. Obasanjo was able to declare himself because TY Danjuma and Sheu Musa Yaradua were in his support. They emboldened him.

Did you know that Murtala and other junior officers were looking for him before they could ask Yakubu Gowon to take over? They wanted him to hand over peacefully. They never wanted him to assume the position.

So when Ogundipe realised that he was not safe again, he left the country in the midnight. Until then Gowon was able to become Head of State.

I can recommend this link. You'll see the man that saved Ogundipe's life.

Read this interesting account of how Ogundipe was saved!

https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2019/12/27/ironsis-death-my-role-in-brigadier-ogundipes-escape/

How would he bring war to his people? Can the North fight both the East and West at the same time? Ok he didn't want to bring war to his people but he was willing to bring war to Eastern Region and partake in the massacre of millions of lives. A case of what is good for the goose is not good for the gander.

You are absolutely right that he was not part of the coup and that the most senior officer in the military must not necessarily take over power. So why become a spokesperson of the an administration that humiliated you and hounded you out of office? Why didn't he reject Gowon's position of Nigerian High Commissioner to UK by telling Gowon that he was not going to be a part of government that hijacked power and subjugated and oppressed Yoruba military? That singular act would have made him a man of integrity and moral courage.

paramakina202:
Isn't it better than being dead and maybe bringing war to his people lose at the end and still go to exile after millions must have died?
Who told you the most senior officer in the military must take over power when he weren't part of the coup plot?

3: Adaka Baro as a student of Nssuka , saw with his two eyes what Niger Delta Oil was been used for in Enugu, Onitsha and saw how marginalised olopobiri was

4: Adaka Baro was not the only one with deep hatred for Eastern region marginalization by Ibos and dominance, Ikwere leaders , Oyigbo leaders, Anioma leaders rejected the eastern region, some prominent leaders include Ken Saro wiwa, pa Edwin Clark

There was no minority marginalization in the Eastern Region of Nigeria. The Willinks Commission on Minority Rights just before independence affirmed that. How did Boro become UNN Student union president in an Igbo-dominated university if Igbos marginalised minorities

Jerryherd:




Lie pob

1: Major Adaka Boro was a military man.... First lie of the write up

2: Tafawa Balewa , Sir Ahmadu Bello , Samuel Ladoke Akintola had already been gruesomely murdered by Ibos like Nzeogwu when Aguiyi Ironsi was made head of state ..... Second lie of the write up

3: Adaka Baro as a student of Nssuka , saw with his two eyes what Niger Delta Oil was been used for in Enugu, Onitsha and saw how marginalised olopobiri was

4: Adaka Baro was not the only one with deep hatred for Eastern region marginalisation by Ibos and dominance, Ikwere leaders , Oyigbo leaders, Anioma leaders rejected the eastern region, some prominent leaders include Ken Daro wiwa, pa Edwin Clark

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Stop lying on social media. When and where did Bello started replacing Igbos in Northern civil service that led to resentment.

louqas:
The bolded confirms igbo domination....which most Nigerians especially northerners and southern minority fear most. Pre independence, civil service of northern nigeria was peopled mainly by ibos , which make them feel like lords and eventually lead to resentments. Ibos too felt bad when Ahmadu bello started replacing erstwhile ibo public sevants with new graduates of northern extration...they mocked his death because of that further infuriatung northerners ...who then decided enough was enough with the 1967 coup......

If you are northerner -particular Arewa Northerner, l excuse your comment. But if you are a southerner, l weep for the womb that bore you.

SlyDev:
Kanu and Igboho are noise maker. Their supporter are nuisances especially kanu ipob members. If at all Buhari will forgive Igboho, Kanu must be punished for his crimes. His followers na karma go solve their case

Totally agree with your apt observation!

koondog:
When Nnamdi kanu escaped military invasion of his house that killed 9 people, Yorubas called him all kinds of name including coward. Now the same fate has befallen Igboho, running for his life as well. Guess what? Same Yorubas are now justifying it, citing Muhammad and Moses for also running for their lives. But when Nnamdi Kanu did it, he was a coward. You won't see Igbos or Biafrans making a jest of Igboho's situation. Yorubas stop this your evil and hypocrisy, I say stop it!

So who was in alliance between 1966 and 1979 with Fulanis? Under which alliance - Igbo/Fulani or Yoruba/Fulani did the policies and laws which destroyed Nigeria's federation and enthroned Hausa-Fulani domination of Nigeria occur?

louqas:
So who was in alliance between 1966 and 1979 with Fulanis?
Get your history right
In 1959....Azikwe went with fulanis.....he got ceremonial president
In 1979....ibos went with Shagari.....and got ekweme vice President, even Ojukwu supported fulanis
In 1999....ibos went with fulanis to impose Obj...
In 2019.....ibos went with fulani Atiku
In 2023.....ibos Will go with fulanis especially since APC will likely hand over to a yorubaman

You don't understand the true definition of victims. The Nigeria-Biafra War and its after effects is the foundation of the political and economic marginalization Ndigbo in Nigeria and the root cause of Nigeria being a FAILED STATE which is affecting everybody - including the regions and ethnic groups that fought against Biafra.

Stating this truth over and over again is not playing victim. From the May 1967 state creation by Gowon which deliberately carved out Igbo areas into the new states to the post-war centralization of our commanding heights of Nigeria's and deliberate government policies to economically castrate defunct Eastern Region. Articulating these grievances is not playing victim but stating reality. The average Igbo man is not asking for handout or special treatment. I am curious, HOW ARE WE BLAMING OTHER TRIBES FOR OUR WOES?

"Igbos daily alienate other ethnic nationalities that should have been their allies by insulting and name-calling them thereby driving those that should have been a natural partner to the other edge"[i][/i]

So Ndigbo are the only one that alienate other ethnic nationalities by insulting and name-calling? Other ethnic nationalities don't engage in such practices. You don't ascribe a behavior exhibited by every one to one ethnic group, exclusively. That's double-standard of morality. If because of that, other ethnic nationalities refuse to align with Ndigbo to free themselves from this colonial imprisonment called Nigeria, then we don't need such allies. He that is down fears no fall. We are already down in post-Biafra Nigeria. We will all continue to suffer until Nigeria kills all of us.

Come to think of it, you are more worried by the insults and name-calling of Ndigbo than the ethnic killings in the North in the last 50 years where thousands of southerners -particularly Ndigbo have bee killed and properties destroyed. How many non-Igbos have been killed in Alaigbo compared to Northern and Western Nigeria?

Lifestone:
They blame every other tribes except themselves for their woes

You must be unemployed or under-employed if Kanu/IPOB is your priority at this moment in Nigeria.

cocolacec:
Emotion without reasoning.

That is the whole sum of IPOB and their Supreme Leader wants them just like that.

Should they reason and ask simple questions, his house of cards will collapse.

Ask questions and you are a sabo, Fulani slave or efulefu.

Kanu did not set up IPOB Worldwide Limited to actualize anything.

He realized through Uwaziruike's MASSOB that Ndi Igbo are easily swayed by anything Biafra and he latched on to that emotional vulnerability to scam our gullibiles.

He hasn't taken a single step towards what it would take to actualize a diverse entity like Biafra.

His personality is incapable of such delicate and patient venture.

It is all a scam. Just see how they are fighting over money. I mean who are even those contributing money to this joke?

By-the-way, Kanu once promised yoruba people 1-million ipob soldiers in support of their own agitation for independence.

Now is the time to activate those foot soldiers if they truly exist. They should send them to Aso Rock to rescue director, instead of fooling around with needless propaganda.

Angela Uche

How are Igbos playing the victims?

Lifestone:
I must agree that this is a piece of brilliant narratives by Mazi Ani and I salute his analysis of the events of the Civil War that in his views contributed largely to the defeat of Biafra.
However his attempt to exonerate Ojukwu did not fit into the narratives that he himselves postulated. It is part of accountability for leadership to be held responsible for the outcome of events or circumstances they presided on and Ojukwu can never be excused from the outcome of the civil war.
I am surprised that Mazi will attempt to remove Ojukwu from the context of inability to properly define his circumstances and developing strategies to overcome them. Those narratives as exposed by Mazi Ani did not fully satisfy why Igbos lost the war. To me Biafra was not ready when they entered into the war, the building of international allies and partners were not strong enough to justify the haste of going into war, a little perseverance for a more global support base would have helped.
Secondly, the preparedness of their arms readiness is also a factor to be questioned, as elucidated by Mazi, they were outgunned and significantly outnumbered on man to man, so I question the rationale of starting the war in such circumstances.
Relying on human sacrification in war situation and hoping for an outcry from international communities is foolish and as it played out, the world looked away while about 3million souls were wasted just because of the poor judgment of an individual.
Today indeed has significantly changed in world ideology, national configuration as Mazi said, but little has changed in the Igbo approach to the actualization of Biafra and it almost look certain that the outcome will not be different given what it is now. There hasn't been enough international support other than largely from Igbos based in the diaspora,
Igbos daily alienate other ethnic nationalties that should have been their allies by insulting and name-calling them thereby driving those that should have been a natural partner to the other edge. Today, the formation of ESN and killings of fellow igbos who is not on same page with them will continue to create internal divide and send wrong signals to others as to how the new Biafra will look like.
As a tribe, igbos must stop playing the victim and recalibrate their politics to a winning strategy that will create a new Nigeria that we can all thrive and flourish now and in the future.

Was he also a wise man in serving in an administration headed by a far junior officer( Gowon)and dominated by the Northerners who denied him his rightful position and hounded him out of Nigeria?

What was the honor and integrity in becoming a diplomatic housboy for Gowon in London?

paramakina202:
Ogundipe was a wise man by refusing to take Ojukwu's advice that would have ended his life and the coupist will still have their way anyway.

I have not gotten to the survey part yet. I am scouring your postings and identifying the ones to use for my political project.

LegendHero:
Maybe if you can show the survey you did for numerous monikers that share your ideology, that could look more credible.

And who are the children of hate and perdición?

LegalWolf:
It’s quite surprising that the children of hate and perdition are not shouting that a southerner replaced a Northerner. This time, it favors them.

We have a problem in this country and everyone of us is a part

You are totally right!

VaselineCrew:
We might have special individuals, but as a collective, we are mediocre

In the part of Nigeria you currently are, does the government supply you tap water? Or did you dig borehole or buy from tanker?

Have you ever seen police squad cars “Pull people Over”? If it wasn’t for Hollywood, would you even know what that means?

Then we are still struggling to get power levels above 5,000MW, which is not nearly enough for even a section of the country.

When you travel abroad to western nations, you don’t even know where the gutter is, you will be looking and looking for gutter but you won’t find it. Come back to black man Nigeria, and be greeted by smelling open gutters all over the nation, but black man no send

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Some are happy to remain like this, but few are asking questions, seeking for a better representation of our race by building great black nations. But of course this is the minority, the majority no send

You are the real OPONU!

laiperi:
OP,your brain has been fried to accept and label yourself the way you are indoctrinated. You must be one of those that call the village, town or city you originated from a ZOO.

If Africa was crawling for over half a century with our civilization, we would still be better off than where we are today.

Why? Everything that is not yours you want because it is branded by white skin. This is why your Chiefs exchange gold for mirror. Today you exchange printed paper that has no worth or gold standard for your talents and resources.

This is why you gladly accept and argue for Structural Adjustments and Devaluations. How was that determined other than bulls taught you at London School of Economics.

Kotinu but don't compare your wretched brain with that of every African because they put your likes in Power to turn the richest and the most successful Black community into poverty stricken place with brains like yours begging for Foreign Salvation

Oponu!

Totally agree with you!

Aganju849:
Been saying this for years...earned quite a few enemies in the process, egomaniacs and afrocentrists who insist the black man is the apex of human races despite his obvious lack of collective achievement, his underdeveloped and chaos filled societies.

Truth is, an unacknowledged problem, one that has been normalized as the accepted state of affairs, will never ever ever be solved.

You just proven the thrust of the post. You are more bothered by Kanu who want to liberate his ethnic group frim this colonial failure called Nigeria than the doom staring at your ethnic group abd your children's future. TUFUAKWA!

justtoodark:
shattap....!!

thats why your supleme leader was kidnapped in kenya....

while you are busy insulting all black people,kenyans passed your supleme leader over to nigeria like a common thief....

So this is your #1 priority today. You must be unemployed or under- employed.

EraseTheDot:
•NTA

•Nigeria Radio Corporation

•Nigerian flag

•Nigerian Anthem

•The Nigerian Coat of Arms

•Naira

•The design of Nigerian Passport

•FRSC

•Nigeria Civil Defense Corp.

• NYSC

• States Creation

•Nigerian Army, Police, Navy, Airforce, Immigration.. their Uniforms & Symbols

• etc

Is there anything after Independence that we can point to as the brain child of igbos?

-erase the dot

I am doing a political project on Nigeria. I plan to use some of your postings on this forum ( Example: LegendHero: I’m always amazed at you guys and your claim of braveness. In the history of Nigeria, you are the only group of people that have been massacred in their thousands without retaliation. Tribe of cowards!...….) I am asking for your demographic information so that readers can have an idea of you when they read your posts used in my project. I also plan to conduct a survey for this project so l will appreciate it if you respond when l formally invite you to participate in one or several surveys for this project.

A) Age specifically
1) 20 -24

2) 25 - 29

B) And what is your level of education:
1) High (secondary )School
2)Graduate
3)Post-graduate

C) Location

1) Diaspora
2) Nigeria-based

(From my little exchange with you and reading some of your postings, l believe you are Diaspora

LegendHero:
In my late 20s what’s up?

Please how old are you?

LegendHero:
I’m always amazed at you guys and your claim of braveness. In the history of Nigeria, you are the only group of people that have been massacred in their thousands without retaliation. Tribe of cowards!

In 1945, hundreds of you were murdered in cold blood in Jos and you cowards dare not retaliate in the sad eastern region.

In 1953, thousands of you are murdered in Kano in a more brutally savage way while your ancestors wail in agony in the Eastern region without retaliation.

In 1966, more than 30,000 of your kinsmen paid for the stupidity of Nzeogwu and are murdered in cold blood without retaliation from the Eastern region.

Ojukwu foolishly declared war on Nigeria only for more than a million of his people to be slaughtered for fun while he ran away like a coward disguised like a woman.

In the history of Nigeria, the Igbos are the soft target that the North have always used for target practice. You are chicken livered beings with noisy brain who usually take actions without thinking.

Your father from the 1800 up to now are people of coward that only hide under noise and vituperation to proof strength.

If not for quick pleading of your present Corp of leaders, thousands of you would have been massacred in the North during the quit notice when Kanu foolishly ran his mouth like a coward.

Tribe of coward!!!

How will Nigeria's legal system deal with it when the same messed up legal system is not aware that a crime was committed? How can you deal with what you're ignorant about?

Beancounter94:
For once I agree with FFK

The crime was committed in Nigeria. Let the Nigerian legal system deal with it. And let Abba Kyari go to jail and lose his job for hobnobbing with yahoo boy..

Why don't you respond to question he raised and ignore the condition of the messenger? What would have been the response of La Mohammed and Buhari's administration uf Hushpuppi had mentioned Kanu'sname?

Keep deceiving yourself by your yeye name NGpatriot. Nigeria will not get better because millions of you wish or pray for it.

NGpatriot:
Just listen to this bigoted old forgotten singer and nuisance peddling bigotry and tribalism, they call themselves activists and they want a better Nigeria, but their actions and utterances are always the other way around.

How sad..

Please how are you housing all the fools Is SW no longer part of Nigeria. The way you folks in SW reason is comical?

sultry69:
How ?young guy.



Yoruba that's housing all of you fools are now your problems,just bear it in mind that there will be no heaven (SW) for you again immediately we separate.,your migration from your hell SE,North en mass will have to stop by force.

And SS elders were not given you usurper any breathing space.

Totally agree with you!

PROUDIGBO:
All these awo-apologists and revisionists never fail to amaze me; Igbos are this and that yet fought to bring them back into this cursed entity?.....you fought to share a country with the very people you despise?

We now have a 'nation' that certain bastards fought for that us the laughing stock of the entire civilised world; a nation that celebrates corruption, criminality, nepotism, laziness, religious fundamentalism, and all sorts of vices to numerous to mention.....a 'nation' from hell, yet some deluded fools still want us to remain as one.

To be one country no be by force!