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passion007: Brother, your contribution brings up more questions than it answers. How many of those indices for measuring poverty were actually assessed. How were those indices adapted for Nigerian families. My undergraduate paper in community medicine was on the relationship between poverty and mental illness and believe me, it's not that easy to measure poverty by definition as you have suggested. For knowledge's sake, I wanna know what parameters were employed in determining poverty in this particular research.

Guy,i like your signature. Is it ezeagu dialect? The kind that desperate chick used in the song: who get that thing.

Dee60: Like Ronaldo like Balotelli - Why always me? The smart man in Real Madrid is already looking for a replacement for him!

In a few hours, the people that truly know football will vote. I personally wont be surprised if Messi or Iniesta wins. These two have shown maturity, team work, high level of professionalism and they do not brag too much about it. Iniesta has helped his country win both World Cup and European Cup, which are both spectacular and which CR7 does not come anywhere close to.

My take on it is this - If Messi does not win, then it should be Iniesta. CR7 has already awarded himself his own personal Ballon Dior by writing those things on his own boot! He is not even Number 2 in my opinion!

Opinion is cheap,everyone has one.

hustla: dis one don smoke sk dis a.m....
Messi was a big flop in 2012?? u fall down from cocoa house head first?? beta gaan watch football wella befre u say bs.. cos he missed a penalty against bayern or which team sef doesn't make him a flop

Goals are needed to win matches,if messi goals were scored in important matches,barca would have won more titles. How many titles did messi's crappy goals win for barca in 2012? It's simple,he failed to score when it mattered most.

Oahray: Yeah, just like political elections are popularity contests. Maybe we should scrap them. How dumb can one get?

If FIFA gives the award based on internal judgement, una go complain say na ojoro. If professionals outside FIFA decide by voting, una go complain say na popularity contest.

Ronaldo fan boys are bad losers...

Shut up. If you have no arguement,pack one side. Messi fans want us to believe that the award should be given to messi based on individual performance,but we know that cannavaro's victory in 2006 shows that,that award is sure not given by individual performance all year. And going by sneijder's snub in 2010,that award is sure not given by individuals contribution to team success. So,we are left with popularity contest,tainted by sentiments of the voters.

karpentar: Exposing ignorance in a public forum is as low as it gets. My dear Bobbystanley, FIFA has nothing to do with this award. The best player is selected by coaches and captains of National teams. Think before you write!, it's easy.

So,can we now agree that the award is but popularity contest,tainted by sentiments of the voters.

raffite: Can this be said of Fabio Cannavaro in 2006?

You have time for messi boys, ronaldinho had a wonderful year with barca in 2006, set champions league and la liga ablaze with magical skills,winning the champions league and la liga that season,yet cannavaro that struggled with juve all season and zidane that had a not so wonderful season finished first and second ahead of him on the race for ballon d'or that season. Contrast this to messi's 2010 season and see why no body should take fifa and their balon 'dor serious.

Bobbystanley: if it should be based on individual perfomance...why did fabio cannavaro won it in 2006 ahead of Zinedine Zidane and Gaucho Ronaldinho?
Dats because he led italy to claim the world cup dat year..its given based on contribution to teams success..

Its just that Fifa is now a political party like PDP

Tell them bro.

alj harem: read

https://www.nairaland.com/371485/regional-poverty-nigeria-north-south-west

Maybe you would understand what they are talking about

That 2006 stat was conducted by UNDP and NAPEP,and the co ordinator was not an igboman. That stat represents what's on ground more than this new crap compiled by a yoruba guy.

By the way,Umuchieze is made up of lokpanta,lokpaukwu,lekwesi and leru. So,in umuchieze, they say,lokpanta-umuchieze,lekwesi-umuchieze,etc.

There is nothing to be happy about those northerners in lokpanta,those guys there have refused to nbuild any reasonable structure there,all they do is build shanty houses with zinc and wood and generate dirts everywhere. Heard they were recently chased out of there into isuochi,those people are nothing but eyesore.

I find the whole story,thought provoking,the general ado and nwonicha angle makes a lot of sense,but throwing ado ekiti into the mix is just overstretching. I equally found the onoja story quite interesting,and of course,the okpuno igala story. All in all,all these raise more questions,rather than answers, we need to invest heavily in archeology in igboland,we need to recover our lost history.

Abagworo: This is a mere figment of the writer's imagination. I however believe there was a place known as Ado na Idu where most lower Niger groups once lived and the place is probably around Benin city. There was also the "agha idu n'oba" which many Igbo groups have an oral history of being refugees of the war. In Igbo language "Idu" means leader, Oru means riverine people, Obiama means the source of origin of a people while "gbo" means ancient or bush people.

Idu does not mean leader,it means "to lead",morever the tone marking of the "iduu" we have in onicha ado na iduu,is quite different from the iduu that means "to lead". They are simply not pronounced alike,and can't have the same meaning.

"Alusi igbo jebe mbana,obulu alusi obodo igala". "Egbusia igbo nine,igbo afodukwa na igala". How ancient are these sayings,if they are truely ancient sayings by our ancestors,then this igala story must be true.

aribisala0: That comment was directed at intelligent people who can read it an comprehend what it means

It's no secret that f.ools often think they are intelligent,there is nothing special about your case.

aribisala0: People are planning how to win an election an others are talking of war.I thought we had agreed that elections are not do or die affairs. GEJ was voted in CLEANLY no argument and he CAN be voted out CLEANLY too!! Let us wait for the election. No need to threaten fire and brimstone

If we are not talking about war,then why were you talking about the composition of nigerian army?

The north should be careful,any attempt to chase GEJ out of aso rock dishonourably,would only lead to the formation of a united east. This is not 1967 when some people served as foot soldiers for the british,only to beat their chest later that they fought a war,a united east would not be good for the north,they should approach with caution,they have a lot to lose.

Nwannaa doing us proud. Good one. Isn't flanders the pro secession group in belgium?

States should have 100percent derivation to oil found in their lands,but those found in nigeria territorial waters,should belong to all Nigerians,with no derivation to anyone.

Sagamite: You are so accidentally gaddam right, it is shocking.

Yes, 90% of people on the planet are mere fucktards that we have to control to make the world a good place. That is why I detest democracy (every foool has a right to a good vote) and I support religion (very useful in controling foools from being savages).

You will never, as in NEVER, see SAGAMITE EVER reason like that. You understand?

I am at the peak of the intellectual totem pole and I reason like a fcking GOD!

Like ALPHA ati OMEGA!

No wise man talks like this.

Eyo ita,the expelled ministers,a few other legislators and his supporters who had resigned from NCNC formed a new party called NIP. Zik got his wish,when the lyttleton constitution of 1954 which granted residual powers to the regions. The eastern house was dissolved,fresh elections conducted,eyo ita's NIP party was in opposition,they lost,NCNC won,and zik ascended the throne. It wasn't until 1959 that eyo ita rejoined NCNC. As you can see,eyo ita's ousting had no tribal undertone,as he equally had igbos who decamped from NCNC with him.

Eya ita was not happy with the dismissal of the three central ministers by the party,and he himself refused to resign,he was not alone,other eastern house members that refused to resign were E:I oli(igbo), S.J una(ogoja),R.I uzoma(igbo) S.W ubani. Those that complied with the party directive were Dr M.I Okpara(igbo),M.C Awgu(igbo) and S.T muna(bamenda). Eyo ita and his gang decided to sit tight,NCNC members decided to rubbish the house by voting to defer every bill before the house,the british Lt governor got fed up,and decided to pass the regional appropriation bill into law.

Eyo ita ousting had no tribal undertone,it was more or less ideological differences between him and zik. After zik lost out in the western region elections,zik soughth for the reformation of the macpherson constitution,Zik wanted total independence. NCNC called it's central ministers to resign in other to actualize this goal, but some of the central ministers who were feeling good with their present position refused to resign,they were A.C nwapa(igbo), Eni njoku(igbo) and okoi arikpo(ogoja), only endeley(cameroun) agreed to resign,the former three were consequently dismissed from the party.

Yes,i meant the eastern region consultative assembly. It had 335 members,of which 166 were non-igbos and 169 were igbos,they voted for seccesion of the eastern region from nigeria. I don't know how else you want me to prove that frank opigo was the member that suggested the name biafra,since you have termed all articles containing that info as pro biafran, i wonder were else u expect to see such things concerning biafra.

On the permanent secretaries issue,i don't really know much about that,perhaps dede or eziachi can come and throw light on that one. On the ijaw ever rulling biafra,i doubt that would have been a problem,biafra was structured such that each province controls it's resources,while paying a token to the centre,in such a scenario,i don't even think anybody would be much bordered about who is at the centre,people would rather hussle for regional appointments and posts. Biafra was eastern nigerian affair,any attempt to make it an igbo affair would always be built on dishonesty.

On whether ijaws would have ruled biafra,well,eyo ita was once a premier of the easter region,and he wasn't igbo. You boast about GEJ being the number one citizen today,but you have forgotten who gave him a strong base to build from,endorsed him even before he won the primaries,what made you think it would have been different in biafra? Wasn't adaka boro elected the SUG president in UNN,an igbo dominated university.

ow11: You are the one with fecal matter for brains.

Did the Ikemba consult with UJ Esuene and Diete-Spiff before adding their territories to his new country? Or the chiefs of all the villages in four non-igbo states that Ikemba annexed?



Yes, we have been shafted by the north but today many Ijaw young men have benefited from GEJ's largesse. We have actually been recognised and the current 'presodent' is an Ijaw man. Would an Ijaw man ever had the opportunity to rule that fictitious Biafra?

How many Ijaw men were speakers in the Eastern Nigeria House of Reps? How many were permanent secretaries in Enugu Pre-1966?

You are being as ignorant as possible, ijaws were members of the eastern house that voted for secession,i guess you don't know the meaning of representative democracy. Wasn't the name biafra chosen by an ijaw house member,frank opugo?

Bia,abagworo,don't open this kind of thread next time,which kain level be this one kwanu,taking panadol for someone else headache,haba! Ozoemena o!