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See the contradiction in your comment. One one hand you trashed Kanu and his kinsmen and on the other you acknowledged that there is a grain of truth in what Kanu is saying.

Can't you see that it is you - and millions of Nigerians-that are real deluded people.

DanseMacabre:
Hmmmm.

The fact that Nnamdi Kanu is a money-seeking clown with a lot of deluded Igbos following him blindly does not in anyway lesson the severity of this issue.


Where is Osinbajo and why has he suddenly and systematically been relegated to the background after the 2019 elections

Please who are tou referring as children of fallen demon?

AhoadaRivers:
Biafra heroes day.

Remembrance day for the East.


Usual lamentation day for the children of the fallen demon.

Are you a southerner?

Area4Area:
Kanu and his IPOB have suffered this period, insults for them from left, right, centre.

Are you joking?

fumiswtpusytwo:
Even though I am a yoruba muslim from no man's land lagos,i have always maintained that biafrans ss and se expecially igbos are heroes from ojukwu to the obinna selling lascacera in traffic but give him five years he Will become a millonaire.
Is that not act of heroism,if biafra gets its freedom I will do everything to become a citizen even though I am an Omoluabi.

Stop peddling falsehoods. Boro's protest was against the federal government.

tested4sure:
The lesson leant here is, once u ar taged minority in nigeria then u ar not suppose to speak or challeng the so called majority 3(hausa, igbo, yoruba). Ken asked question, "why shld u take oil from Ogoni land to developed other places like lagos, abuja,enugu, without any project sited in Ogoni"? 'why do u chosed to give jobs to people outside not even up to 0.2% of the shell workforce were ogonis?. these question could not be answered by any of the useless so called 3 majority groups. instead they resort to blackmail. for those that are ranting ken betrayed biafra, ken goodmorning ,my question is, what stops they igbos from joining ken to fight off what they now say is a common enermy (hausa fulani) if all there is a single common enermy? of couse they would never want minority to lead and they igbos now they followers. Isaac Boro asked the then corrupt eastern government and federal government that same two questions, same faith visited him eastern governmenet lead by their corrupt igbo leaders arrested him. now i ask the question, who stops they igbos from joining the ijaws to fight off this so called commom enermy? no ijaws can lead and they follow. summary of this is that they strugle to free from this greedy corrupt wazobia must continue till total libretion of they minority groups especially in southern nigeria and middle belt.

So you think you guys excel in politics? And you think Igbos are all about selling spare parts, gala etc.?

Benevento:
Seems The account you quoted is on ban, I will be replying on his behalf.

Tell us why in every awards :

Music.
Future awards.
Forbes ranking of Entrepreneurs.
And recently nollywood
I.T
Education (5 of the best universities in NG are in the west)
Yorubas always occupy at least 65% leaving the remaining 35% of others for share? But we don't chest beat.

Greatness is not limited to selling of spare parts, gala and Asha****.

Greatness is when you are able to excel in all aspects including politics (most important)

That's why we Yorubas don't brag, empty vessel makes the loudest noise.

Indeed an irony. He was killed by Abacha whom he called a friend and a liberator from Igbo domination - not Ojukwu whom he called enemy of the minorties. Karma is a bitch!

Racoon:
To thinks that Ken Saro-Wiwa had a cordial relationship with the late Gen.Sanni Abacha when he was a younger officer back then in PH yet was killed under the govt of same was an irony.Anyway dictators are like that-you dont matter when their ego is threatened.

Please educate me. This is the first time am hearing that Nkrumah was going to throw Zik - his mentor - into jail. What year was this and what was the cause of Nkrumah's proposed action?

MetaPhysical:
Beside Yorubaland, the man couldnt find anywhere else hip and booming to eek a decent living.

Nkrumah missed him by whiskers, he was going to throw him in Jail in Accra. Zik fled Ghana!

Ojukwu did not declare any war. Nigeria or specifically Northern
Nigeria declared war on Biafra.

MetaPhysical:
Which Ojukwu, the one who borrowed money couldnt pay back and lost his collateral property....or the one that insanity drove to declare war and when heat of war came too close he baled?

Please what's the source of this quote?

joeyfire:
Awo swam in tribalism, ate tribalism, wore tribalism, he was tribalism personified. He tried to intimidate the Oba of Benin who quickly put him in his place

You are absolutely right. Awo should never be forgotten in the South West. There is no contention of that fact

Sammy07:
Keep shut.
Stop bringing Zik when mentioning Awolowo.

Awolowo can never be forgotten for his great achievements in South west.

And it's visible till today.

What has all these got to do with Zik? Of what relevance is this tired repetition of Awolowo Firsts that benefited Westernn Region. These were the priorities of Awolowo as the WR premier.

oluwadabira111:
Tribalist coward he brought free education to western part. he erect the biggest storey building at that time to western Nigeria! he brought the first Television station to Nigeria! bro give Zik achievement again!

Which ideas beat his comtemporaries? Did his comtemporaries come begging him for financial help. Every region contollled their destiny and developed according to their resources and endowment.

Bodexman:
No matter the epistle written against him, the Yorubans will forever reference him and hold him in high esteem.

His name & legacies is written in sands of time.

A man who beats his contemporaries hands down in achievements & other.

Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo is his name

That's a lie. Macauley did not hand over NCNC to Zik. Because of his unparalled anti-colonial pedigree, Zik as the general secretary of NCNC was the most qualified person to ascend the position following the sudden demise of Macauley. There was nobody in the entire Nigeria - not least any Yorubaman - that matched Zik's resume who could have competed with him for that position.

Educate yourself and stop regirgitating falaehoods.

Captainrambo2:
h.macauley a youruba man handed ncnc to zik an igbo man. Then there was no tribalism . Even the alafin saw zik as a friend and political leader. Till the trubalistic and divisive awolowo came along

He countered zero nothing. All he made were personal assertions and claims without any empirical evidence to back them up.

tommy589:
It is better this way to counter than to hurl insults

Can you substantiate, with emprocal evidence, your assertion that NCNC was always a Yoruba party before ot spread to the East?

SamNaijaboy:
Nonsense. NCNC had loyalty from Yorubas because it was always a Yoruba party before it spread to the East. It was formed and led by a Yoruba, Herbert Macaulay, who upon his death handed it over to Azikiwe. The Yorubas following Zik did that as a part of their loyalty to NCNC.
Zik is the most tribalitic leader of them all: he should have partnered with AG to be the PM, rather he preferred to be a ceremonial President/Governor General to the North.
He also wanted to be Premier in the West after installing another Igbo as Premier in the East instead of ensuring he went to the East as Premier and working to install a Yoruba in the West using the same party that he inhreited from them.

Same way Igbos come to Lagos to prosper yet can't stop themselves from hating the indigenes that helped them prosper in their midst, always thinking they are smarter than the people who created the environment that makes them excel. Zik should have realized he was a nobody without Herbert Macaulay and the NCNC he gave him to lead without any nepotism and not attempt to rule those who graciously let him lead the party

Awesome job you're being in this forum. Please under what administration and period did this appointments occur?

pazienza:
More.

Out of the 10 Eastern region provincial commissioners.

Eastern minorities had 5, while Igbos had 5. If you count Ogba people in Rivers who are currently claiming non Igbos as minorities, then minorities would have 6 commissioners, while Ndiigbo had just 4.

Notice that the commissioner for Onitsha province was an Ogba man by name Masi.

And that the one for PH was not an Igbo, Ikwerre or Okirika man.

NCNC picked then according to where they had resided and contributed to the society.
Masi might be an Ogba man, but he was an Onitsha province boy as he lived and grew there, hence why he was made the province commissioner, same with Etta Ogon who was the commissioner for PH province despite being from Ikom. He was a Ph boy.

That's how NCNC ran the East.

Boro fought against the federal government not against the Eastern regional government.

Throwback:
Remind us from which region Isaac Adaka Boro declared an independent NigerDelta Republic?

Why did Adaka Boro get tired of seeing Ijaw oil wealth develop Enugu at the detriment of the minorities where the oil was derived?

You are doing a great job here debunking all these Yoruba historical revisionist But l differ in some of your points in Zik.

Who would have fought the war and against whom had Zik refused to accept the 1964 election? Why must Zik be the one always compromising for Nigerian Unity? It is not a testament that his addiction to Nigerian Unity failed woefully as NPC replaced him with Akintola after using him to win political power.

Political power controls everything. But Zik with all his advanced education in political science could not figure it out while a semi-educated Ahmadu Bello understood this without a shadow of doubt.

Imagine if Zik had looked beyond his political and personal problem with Awolowo and accepted the offer of alliance with Awolowo - despite the deceitful nature of Awolowo - post-colonial Nigeria would turned out differently.

Ahmadu Bello would have either implemented his threat of seceding from Nigeria if Awolowo and Zik's alliance prevented NPC from controlling the post-independent government or swallowed his pride and became the opposition. I

Nigeria would have been spared so much pain and death.

Igboid:
I don't know what you are on about.

AG-UPGA in Western region decided to boycott elections and lost all her seats to Akintola controlled NNDP-NNA. But elections held in East and Midwest where NCNC cleared the polls.

NNDP was a Yoruba party full of Yoruba politicians many who were former AG members and so had already guaranteed Western region position in the government.
Zik and NCNC were already cornered, he had to accept the election as it were or plunge the country into war, where the Yorubass already in NNA would easily team up with North and squash the insurrection. Infact, Zik in his press release, noted that he had to break his stand and form a government with NNA or risk going to war, and that seeing as all military facilities were in the North , he wouldn't have stood a chance.

If NCNC refused to form coalition with NNA, NDDP members who were actually former AG members from West, would get all ministerial posts for South, leaving Midwest and East hung and dry.

I would want to believe that the betrayal I see here is the fact that while NCNC and AG were challenging the falsified census that gave North exaggerated numbers in terms of population. NNDP cared not.

Please what has that got to do with the thrust of this write-up?

0balufonlll:
This potor group of emotional tramps nor get any modicum of sense o.
Why all of una sleep face one way? No wonder Ijaws enslaved & sold a lot of you for centuries till the Europeans came into the picture.

You have no job or meaningful job.

MinorityOpinion:
Ojukwu set what's happening in Nigeria in motion. Biafran War was about oil. Ojukwu want to seize power so he saw pogrom in kano as an opportunity to do that.

Wonder why the minorities don't wanna tag along. They could read what was going on.

If you want secession you could have done it through the right way not by bloody coup

Historian Mike Gould from SOAS, University of London, has spent considerable time researching and analyzing the complex situation that followed Nigeria's independence.

Please how old are you?

diplomat058:
Well, I am not really keen on the blame games. For the records, Awo and Gowon are also entitled to knocks in that regard, but exonerating Zik and Ironsi is a betrayal of history. In the pre-independence, Zik paraded himself as a core nationalist and sought sought to undermine the regional structures and mutate self determination. He effectively convinced the NPC to remove the secession clause from the constitution. He favoured the centralization of powers to put the destines of all the peoples in common hands. Ironsi issued unification decree 34 which shattered the then viable federalism. Although the decree was short lived, I believe it prepared the psychosocial groundwork for the later undoing of Gowon who acted to salvage the country from dissolution. And don't forget that if Ironsi had done the needful, we may not have had a war.

That said, I wish the country was successfully torn apart then. I also blame Awo for his culpability in the wreckage of the then viable federalism. And

When did Obasanjo become Igbo? How did you single-handely make Jonathan president?

LukasPodolski:
Baba gerrahere mehn.

Below is Yoruba and Igbo voting pattern since Independence.

Suddenly we betrayed the south because we rejected an ingrate whom we singlehandedly made the president (exaggeration).

Omo ale.

Thank young brother.

Igboid:
There is no proof Zik stopped the insertion of secession clause, neither was there proof that Awolowo and Yorubas wanted out and zik led an army to keep them in.

You must be a Yorubaman. Every other leader and ethnic group( Azikiwe, Ironsi, Ojukwu, Ahmadu Bello, Balewa, Igbos, Hausa/Fulanis) are bad and guilty but your Awolowo and Yoruba ethnic nationality are guiltless and paragon of innocence with regards to this "geographical expression" called Nigeria.

You are a hypocrite and historical revisionist. How was non-inclusion of secession clause responsible for the state of Nigeria today? Yes, your Awolowo unsuccessfully advocated for inclusion of secession clause in the post-war independent constitution.

Yet, when his beloved principle was actionalized in 1967 when Eastern Region seceded, the same two-faced Awolowo went against the principle he advocated for less than a decade earlier by aligning with the Hausa/Fulani to fight an unjust war that killed over 2 million Biafrans fighting for self-determination which he supported earlier.

Typical Yoruba:
-Two-faced and double-tongued.
-Empty vessel that makes the loudest but empty -noise.
-Do as l say not as l do.
-Never able to match words with action.

Zik only, verbally, opposed secession, yet the average Yoruba castigates him. Your Awolowo went to war and killed millions of innocent children and women to oppose secession which he earlier supported, yet no Yoruba castigates him. Instead they adorn him with false nationalist and patriotic garb.

What a stinking hypocrisy!

flokii:
All you've stated could have been avoided if not for Azikiwe, Ironsi and the Easterners who fought the inclusion of a "SECESSION CLAUSE" in the constitution.

It could have been so easy. Anyone who wants to leave could leave without bloodshed but NO, Azikiwe out of greed and hope of Igbo dominace blew it all away.

So you see why we say the Igbos are the architect of this failing system we have today. The recklessness of their leaders in connivance with the North ruined everything.

Come 2023, Yorubas will take over governance in Nigeria and things will change.

Why is restructuring not visible in Nigeria for now? And who told you restructuring would be a instant and one-year political solution?

helinues:
Restructuring is not visible in Nigeria for now . That's the reality people are shying away from.

Didn't Osinbajo lead restructuring campaign during OBJ's government? Why did he shun the idea now that he is VP?

Obasanjo talking restructuring is only being mischievous.. How many states in Nigeria can survive without oil revenue?

Has any region created an alternative for revenue generation should in case of oil drop like this?

Restructuring bill won't pass second reading ..May be from 10 years oo and that's only if this Corona would reset the brain of our leaders.

Stop lying!

flokii:
One thing you must understand is that Yorubas are blessed and naturally ahead.. despite being in the opposition since Independence with Northern and Eastern regions in power, South West still fared well while the duo can't pin point any particular thing they achieved with power held for years.

Pa Awolowo is the reason why Yorubas have a voice today as Nnamdi Azikiwe then wanted two regions, North (Hausa speaking) and South (Igbo speaking) but God pass them and his plans failed.

The Middle Belt region made that mistake which they are regretting today from incessant killings, land dispute to Hausa/Fulani dominace in politics. God bless pa Awo for the great foresight he had.

South West will forever thrive whether in Nigeria or otherwise.

Chihas 10 times the fake product than Igbos yet they are the second largest economy and your Nigeria cannot survive without China. So we have a good company and example in China.
See how poor your logic of reasoning is!

[1quote author=Grayoso post=89588476]

What are we going to miss about Igbos? Your fake medicine, fake spare parts, fake electronics, fake shoes and fake clothing or the inferior junk you drop-ship into Nigeria daily from China?[/quote]

Yet has 10 times the fake product than Igbos yet they are the second largest economy and your Nigeria cannot survive without China. So we have a good company and example in China.
See how poor your logic of reasoning is!

[1quote author=Grayoso post=89588476]

What are we going to miss about Igbos? Your fake medicine, fake spare parts, fake electronics, fake shoes and fake clothing or the inferior junk you drop-ship into Nigeria daily from China?[/quote]

One of the best post.

jacksonkennedy:
What exactly is our national goal?

We know that Hausa/Fulanis want to keep Nigeria one and dominate it.
We know that Ibos want to divide Nigeria and go with the SS

What is our own unique goal?

We just registered our ethnic group in UNPO, which may suggest to other Nigerians that we want out of this union. Yet we are positioning for presidency in 2023.

It's good but I want to know what our people think should be our end game.

Your Azikiwe is the root cause of the mess we are now by his penchant to compromise when the occasion demands fortitude and steadfastness. Where is the One Nigeria for which he sold Igbo future for mirage called Niger I Unity?

Eastlink:
Truth be told Ndigbo have suffered in this country. Partly also caused by them.

Since the demise of Nnamdi Azikiwe we've lost our political expediency. Emotionalism introduced by recent Igbo leaders, MASSOB and IPOB has taken a toll on our pride.

First we must get it right political. The era of trying to please others must seize henceforth. We did the nonsense with the Yoruba's in Abiola and Obasanjo and repeated the same to GEJ, yet their tribesmen would never pays us back in like manner.

Igbo must get it right and all those who scorned her will come begging on their knees. We must start using our thinking caps and be pragmatic.

The likes of MASSOB and IPOB offer nothing to Ndigbo. We must push them out for an hard core Pan Igbo group that looks after our interest first.

We must begin to vote in leaders that think Igbo first just as the Fulani's voted in a Buhari. Any lily livered Igbo politician who thinks others first etc must be destroyed politically.

Why don't you engage him and stop your infantile
postings?

Fatimaade:
All because of the 3m Igbo souls your pained like this Pele