Chetimah:
When they tell you that NSA, Interior, IGP, COAS, Customs, Immigrations, DSS are all headed by the north...

Remind them that the Financial base of the country: - FIRS, CBN, Finance, Trade & Invest, NSIA, DMO, Salary and Wages, Auditor General, Budget, Labour, Navy, NIMASA, Power, Works, Housing, CDS, Foreign Affairs, Transports are all piloted by the South.

Besides all the Service Chiefs, Chief of Air Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Army Staff all report directly to the Chief of Defense Staff, who is from Ekiti.

#Fact

I'm a Buhari supporter, but those security appointments are brazenly clannish and contemptible.

If we place your puny attempt to justify this gaffe against the backdrop of herdsmen marauders rampaging around the country and PMB's apparent indifference to herdsmen atrocities, one begins to wonder whether there isn't an ulterior motive to these appointments after all.

taoheedoriloye:
Lols.Obj!
Same obj who denied lagos allocation for four years.
This baba cha!

True. Baba should have kept quiet about this.

I adore this man! A man of undiluted intelligence. A rare breed; a man born in the wrong generation, on the wrong continent.

Awo was well versed in philosophy: it's quite obvious from his speech. But why are our current political leaders bereft of any political ideology? Everything about politics now is, "jeun soke!"

Rest in peace, Great One!

Mujtahida:

And justify it through dangerous sophistry. Tribalism is our own racism and we are consummate practitioners and defenders of it. I watched the African American Professor Smalls in a youtube video paint such a glorious but naive picture of Africa when he was advocating for African Americans to come back to Africa and contribute to nation building, that they'd be free from the racism they experience in America. I just shook my head. They will be shocked if ever they do so.

I'm sick and tired of it. Each ethnic group wants to be at the top solely because it's a crass opportunity to exercise dominion over the other groups. And even worse, while on top, they gloat over their vulgar accomplishment.

The Tutsis lorded it over Hutus; and when power changed hands, Hutus returned the favour, shouting 'Hutu power' up and down. It is pretty petty-minded, and it's all over the African continent: hence our underdevelopment.

It is very sad.

Mujtahida:

As always it is your own logic that I reflect back to you.
Of course I knew you'd never see the internal logic and relationship between the statement of Onyeama and the born to rule mentality because you hate the mirror. You like showing it to others but when the mirror is put before you, you begin to flap about and cry that one is justifying execrable actions and attitudes. Your analogy about Nigeria dominating Africa is psychologically false when put in the same bracket as Onyeama's statement. I press this point about the men of that era including yours as being tribalist because all of them not only made statements loaded with barefaced tribal statements and innuendoes but it showed in their actions.

Your logic on Onyeama's statement is that Igbos will dominate Nigeria through education. The Hausa and Fulani elites say they will dominate because it is their birth right to do so. Both of them are wrong. Education is not a tool for domination. To say so is to weaponise education. Do I hate education or meritocracy? No. But I detest the man who wants to dominate another by using education as his tool and the man who by thinks by reason of his birth or heritage he can rule and dominate others. Both of them are the same! And no wonder they hate each other.

Very well articulated. No fluff, and straight to the point.

Your post just sums up the problem of this country: the imperative of one ethnic group to dominate the others.

Ngozi123:


I disagree. They support Nigeria the way it is, not a 'united' Nigeria, in the true sense of the word. I only say 'One Nigeria' as it's quite a catchy phrase but what I really mean is an 'unjust Nigeria'.

That Nigeria is just or not is not the point. The crux of the matter is whether it's possible to love a united Nigeria for ulterior tribalist motives.

Ngozi123:


He was always a pan-Africanist and was an advocate for 'One Nigeria' even when his people were getting slaughtered. Why would a tribalist support a united Nigeria when his own people had gained independence? Can you imagine Awo or the Sardauna doing such a thing? I can't...

Your argument is a non sequitur.

There are many tribalists in the North who currently support 'One Nigeria'!

Ngozi123:


Is it possible to be a pan-Africanist and a tribalist at the same time?

You mean Zik? Well, he started off as a "pan-Africanist" journalist but ended up a tribalist politician.

There are intellectuals with answers to Nigeria's problems, but crass sectional politics will never get them near power. And much worse is the fact that, even when some of these intellectuals get close to the corridors of power, they are frustrated out of relevance by petty politics and selfish interests of the "Class of 1966 and their cronies." Leaders of the counter coup that ousted Ironsi not only took power but also cornered to themselves the wealth of this country. Nigeria has been serving their interests till date, and nothing goes to anybody unless they say so.

Pat Utomi surely knows what he is talking about.

The issue of tribal marks is a bit complicated. Where as some loathe their facial scars, I've seen others who are very proud of their tribal marks! Nevertheless, tribal marks should not be forced on anyone; under-aged kids should never scarred!

exlink10:

“...And that is what Oyo state is promoting in the name of cultural tourism in 2017? Nonsense. Who needs tribal marks in the age of the millennials? There are modern means of identification: your passport, driver’s license, national identity card, even your fingerprint and iris. So, what is Oyo state planning to celebrate – that tribal marks are good?”...

It isn't a good dream whatever the interpretation anyone makes of it. May i ask what you think of your dream now looking back ?

For me, Soldiers represent law and order against foreign elements, and your dream may imply activities out of order becoming the rule of the day. The Buhari you saw was not necessarily Buhari as a person but a system overthrowing the present system. I.e.since Buhari is the leader of the current system, a leader in charge of a chaotic system as represented by the fake soldiers taking over the activities of the real soldiers. It's an incomplete dream to me.. If you had this dream, the Buhari figure needs some further revelation but its not him like most times who you see in dreams represents systems.. May God help us. I pray Nigeria sees the end of this year without trouble. While people are talking about 2019, i'm scared of even June-July 2017

The OP narrated his dream in February 2015, before Buhari was elected. GEJ was still in charge then.

ogologoamu:
Op, hope you are not high on Isi Ala Ngwa weed.

The Israelites that missed their way from Egypt and landed in Aguleri were speaking Igbo instead of Hebrew language abi as they landed in Aguleri their tongues changed from Hebrew to Igbo language.


Don't lemme tie you with my moniker.

The 'bolded' is a rib-cracker...lol as I type this.

...very, very shallow reps. Dem swear for these reps? na by force to watch dstv?!!! Shebi Daarsat, Startimes dey there as alternatives if dstv dey out of reach. Make una jeje leave dstv alone and do better things, yeye reps.

Rossikk:
When I see these images, it makes me think we are still not yet truly independent in Nigeria.

If we were, we would be teaching this glorious history to every Nigerian child in our schools.

If our youths are taught these things, why would they bother to be bleaching their skins, frying their hair, and imitating/feeling inferior to white people?

How can you be feeling less than the people whom your own fathers taught left from right?

How has the teacher become the student?

The leader become the follower?

To the extent that we even refuse to buy things made by our own people, preferring things made by whites. By our students.

How did it get to this? And how do we retrace our steps?

If you want to destroy a race...first, you destroy the wealth and spirit of its people, you then divide its people and rewrite its history. Africa lost its place and pride through complacency. So did China centuries ago, but the Chinese are now almost back at the summit. The question we should ask ourselves is, "what do we do now to get back to the top?"

CliffordOrji:
Alright Nwoke'm. Tell us why did azikiwe run away from Biafra to support the Nigerian government in the killing of we Igbos? This was the same Zik that composed the Biafra National anthem. Is Zik not deserving of the award of the most treachrous, greedy, covetous backstabber? A man who composed the Natoinal Anthem of a country he had no faith in

This post brought tearful laughter to my soul. CliffordOrji, you are wickedly funny!

PMB's forex policy direction na one chance...a monumental blunder! Buhari's Economic Team could have been better. Sad

plaetton:


And in typical fashion, you are more carried away by your own empty verbosity than in articulating common sense.

Your non sequitur is enervating. It's obvious you are out of your depth.

plaetton:

How really convenient it is for you bunch of cowards.
Blame everyone but Buhari , the real culprit.

I guess you buffoons are not aware that the many policy flops emanating from the CBN is because Buhari and his inner cabal are interferin g with the monetary Independence of the CBN.

Typical, uncouth response from a 21st century Cro Magnon. If you had comprehension problems, picking up a cheap jss English Language textbook could have sufficed to get you updated.

In any case, if Buhari's cabals have been overbearing on the CBN Governor as you suggested, why didn't Emefiele use the honorable exit door? In stead, he stays and presides over policy somersaults and a foreign exchange fiasco.

Perhaps, you could have been less visceral and more cerebral with your submission.

Kindest regards.

Truly, Emefiele has been a disaster!

But sacking Emefiele is highly improbable, because Buhari agrees with Emefiele's stone-age CBN policies!

LocalChamp:
October 18, 2016
...
If there were ghosts disturbing them in Aso Villa, they should long have given others the key. As a friend of mine asserted, he would have lived with all the ghosts and got the job done. We must accept no excuses. Anyone who cannot overcome the ghosts should leave the job alone; let’s get professional ghost busters to run the country.
Ghosts always bow to determined humans!
Senator Sola Adeyeye, Abuja
http://punchng.com/demons-villa-ghosts-nigerian-paralysis/

LOL

Newworldorder:
1 Ogun State,
2 Ondo State,
3 Oyo State,
4Osun State,
5 Ekiti State,

These are the main states own by the yorubas,
Lagos state, kwara and kogi land are not part of Yoruba land, and no indigenous Yoruba exist in Lagos, kwara and kogi,
Lagos state is owned by the binis,
Kwara and kogi state are owned by the north

Stop being a clown, Lagos State is a Yoruba State.

The bini throne that invaded Lagos...no be Oranmiyan put am there? Oranmiyan no be Yoruba man? Lagos na Yoruba affair all the way, hehehehehe

Emefiele: the most clueless CBN governor to date...and a blundering juggernaut. How he came by this position truly amazes me!

pazienza:





What reports are you talking about? Same Ogbomosho/ Sagamu beer parlour that spurned the story of Fajuyi begging for Ironsi's life? Lol, propaganda report.

If Fajuyi and Katsina were not in sync with Ironsi decisions, they always had the option of opting out of the government, they didn't.


No, the massacre of Igbos started in earnest after the counter coup which occurred in July and not May . And even then, Ojukwu was still disposed to the idea of a United Nigeria, that was until the massacre of Igbos that Ojukwu sent back to North after the first wave of massacres.

And moreover, Ojukwu insisted that the highest ranked military officer, Ogundipe take over the government following the disappearance of Ironsi.

The Ironsi ran military, which included Fajuyi and Katsina, stuck to a central government settings, cos under normal circumstances, that's how military regimes work, though you are free to give it your own interpretions, as long as we all accept that those interpretions represent only your sentimental opinions and not in anyway represent the fact on ground, I am cool with that.

What facts on the ground? The ones you choose to ignore? Let me first address your monumental gaffe. How could you not know there was an Igbo massacre on May 29, 1966? The pogrom in the North started long before Ironsi was put away, which puts some question marks on Ojukwu's reversion to regional autonomy only after power changed hands!

You are utterly out of your depths. If I had known you were this shallow with the facts, I would have ignored your earlier post.

I seriously advise that you read up and stop being cool with lies!

pazienza:



This logic is redundant. Government is made for the people and not the people for the government.

When Ojukwu supported Ironsi Central government, there was not yet open massacre of Easterners with the FG looking sideways, and Ojukwu was not alone in supporting the Ironsi plans. The military governors of Western region ie Fajuyi and that of the North were not against Ironsi decision, if they were not condemned for such, why then is Ojukwu.

Ojukwu didn't demand for regional autonomy because Ironsi was ousted, he did so because Ndiigbo were massacred all over Nigeria and the FG did nothing to stop that. Such FG Ojukwu reasoned can't be trusted with powers to protect Ndiigbo, and he was right.

Ironsi was killed for his plans for centralized civil service, why then did those that killed him adopt the same?

...

Your post is irrelevant, even misleading. The crux of this discussion is Ojukwu's foresight as a leader. Spare me the B.S about why Ojukwu supported unification under Ironsi and retraced his steps after Ironsi's ouster. Ironsi and Ojukwu were quite aware of the negative attitude and disillusionment of Northerners (including northern military officers!)about the unitary decree. Ironsi and co forged ahead with the decree anyway. Reports even have it that Katsina and Fajuyi counseled Ironsi to have a rethink, that wise counsel fell on deaf ears. The massacre of Igbos started in May 1966, did Ojukwu and Ironsi have a rethink? No they didn't. But immediately Ironsi was toppled, Ojukwu found his voice!

It's obvious why Ironsi and Ojukwu stuck to their guns (pun intended). Their Northern military colleagues saw through it too...they eventually struck back and took advantage of the decree. Therefore, whatever Ojukwu later proposed thereto was seen by the North as mere "hot air"! Power had changed hands, if Ironsi didn't listen to wise counsel to rethink the unitary decree, why should the northerners listen to Ojukwu.

CSTR12:
Foresight? haha. I don't think there is any leader in Nigerian history that had as much foresight as ojukwu. Go and read his manifesto on biafran independence.
This was the same man that was responsible for many indigenous igbo made weapons in 1967. If he didn't have foresight, he would not have wanted out of Nigerian backwardness or promoted regionalism.
Gowon had no foresight, no leadership skill, nothing. He was merely an appendage of colonialism. He stood for regionalism in ghana, came back and then changed his mind. That is not a sign of leadership.
Ojukwu made many mistakes, a few of them very shocking indeed, but he was a greater leader than all his peers.
Btw, ojukwu was the military head of state of the oil rich eastern region and there is no record of him stealing oil blocs like many of his northern counterparts. That is leadership uncommmon to Nigeria.

...laughable submission. Were we not practicing regional autonomy before Ojukwu proposed his in Ghana? What happened to the previous regional system that Ironsi's government abolished? Wasn't Ojukwu part and parcel of that government? Ojukwu's foresight never condemn the abolition of regional autonomy when Ironsi was in power but became its strong advocate after Ironsi was ousted! Could we call this "oscillating foresight?" or just self-serving hypocrisy! There was nothing noble in Ojukwu's new-found regionalism when he earlier consented to its abolition. A noble officer would have stepped aside as governor if he hadn't consented.

Ojukwu was never a great leader, and that's the simple truth. My proposition has already been tested in any case: that Ojukwu was advised against a war he hurriedly rushed into, a war in which he was soundly defeated. That's Ojukwu's unenviable CV in summary.

Kindest regards.

CSTR12:
Foresight? haha. I don't think there is any leader in Nigerian history that had as much foresight as ojukwu. Go and read his manifesto on biafran independence.
This was the same man that was responsible for many indigenous igbo made weapons in 1967. If he didn't have foresight, he would not have wanted out of Nigerian backwardness or promoted regionalism.
Gowon had no foresight, no leadership skill, nothing. He was merely an appendage of colonialism. He stood for regionalism in ghana, came back and then changed his mind. That is not a sign of leadership.
Ojukwu made many mistakes, a few of them very shocking indeed, but he was a greater leader than all his peers.
Btw, ojukwu was the military head of state of the oil rich eastern region and there is no record of him stealing oil blocs like many of his northern counterparts. That is leadership uncommmon to Nigeria.

Double post.

CSTR12:
If Gowon was your best and noble military leader then no wonder Nigeria is the way it is.
Have you read the aburi accord? You need to see how he was schooled in governance by ojukwu. If he was indeed noble he would have atleast accepted the intellectual superiority of ojukwu and entrenched regionalism that he agreed to in ghana. But the coward had to backpedal like an amateur.
He should be grateful he had the brits at his side. Men like him don't win wars. If the roles were reversed, ojukwu would have crushed him in a month.

Perhaps Ojukwu's "intellectual superiority" was his undoing. Ojukwu didn't listen to good advice because he felt "superior" to good advisers. Gowon didn't pretend to being a genius, but he was smart enough to recruit intellectual giants as advisers.

In fact, "One Nigeria" would have been "toast" had Gowon led Biafra. Gowon would not have attacked the Midwest. Gowon would never have taken hostage oil "expats." Gowon would never have bombed Kaduna or Lagos. Gowon was too smart for such inanities, he wasn't egotistic. Gowon would have listened to Njoku, Biafra's Army commander. Thank heavens, Nigeria didn't have an Ojukwu for a c-in-c!

A leader need not be a philosopher a la Plato, he only needs foresight with an excellent moral compass to guide him, a trait that would eventually endear him to great allies which Ojukwu didn't have. Yes, Ojukwu was smart, but he lacked foresight: hence his defeat. In any case, Ojukwu's leadership skill was a midget compared to Gowon's!

Kindest regards

Gowon was far from being a "noodle leader." He was arguably the best and noblest military ruler we've ever had in this country. A decent research on this gentleman isn't a bad idea.

In any case, it isn't Gowon's fault that your sense of humour isn't as sharp as it should be.

Kindest regards.

nijabazaar:
This is the kind of Noodle leaders we are cursed with....so ur primary purpose of restructuring then was so that Nigeriaz map wont get K leg on paper?
...

banki:
Islamize kwa?

but asari dokubo and his allies are staunt muslims...can you Islamize him further

infact asari is so good that instead of building a big school for the niger delta people he built in in benin republic
he also built a magnificent building in Abuja
he went and established a football academy in benin republic to ensure that the people of niger delta develop, so the taxes and royalties of his biggest businesses go go to other countries and states instead of Bayelsa where he comes from....

that's part of why Bayelsa state government despite collecting 13% derivation, nddc intervention, fedral allocation, ministry of niger delta intervention, and taxes from oil companies still cannot pay salaries for over 7 months....with population of less thatn2milllion people

You are wicked! Haba

Abagworo:
Wise men. It seems they actually read my contributions here as it has not been up to a week I suggested the elders save the situation. Their silence could lead to death of millions and miserable life fir whoever survives the war to come. Wise decision by wise people.

The elders no try, I swear! They kept silent, played politics and looked the other way as their sons gave several ultimatums to the Federal Government. And now that the August deadline is upon us, the elders now deem it fit to "warn" their wards. What a "cop out!"

cktheluckyman:
I think this fool should quit making a fool of himself. Does he have any proof for any of this?

Nairaland doesn't disappoint. What a post!

Smart guys would have at least waited for more facts to surface on this issue before concluding Jibrin is "making a fool of himself."

36xtr93r:


So, the January 15, 1966 coup gave your folks in the Nigerian Army the impetus to collude and kill 185 Igbo officers in the Nigerian military?
As if that wasn't enough, you ganged up, rushed into the streets and started killing Igbos and burning Igbo establishments in the North and South-West. 

You positioned yourselves in airports and railway stations hounding and killing off innocent Eastern passengers.“…between 45,000 and 50,000 civilians of former Eastern Nigeria were killed in Northern Nigeria and other parts of Nigeria from 29th May 1966 to December 1967 ...not less than 1,627,743 Easterners fled back to Eastern Nigeria as a result of the 1966 pogrom.”

According to your warped logic anytime there is a revolution or a coup the ethnic groups of the coup plotters should be singled out for ethnic clea mnsing!

Keep on burying your head in the sand of shame...

Could you show me where I justified the revenge killings of July 1966. I only described events that led to it. Or are you suggesting now that fishing out the motives for a murder necessarily implies justifying it!