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diplomat058:
[b] Restructuring, though desirable by any true progressive who is not satisfied with the abysmal state of things in this British project called Nigeria, has been degraded by politicians into a master strategy designed to draw electoral favours.
I can not trust any politicians, particularly the billionaire beneficiaries of the present systemic dysfunction to rearrange things altruistically. Even if they did, such adjustments would still be lopsided, designed to favour a privileged few. History shows that such revolutionary changes as restructuring can only be true and effective as a bottom-top concept, that is, when triggered by those mostly affected-the peasants and 'rodents' of the system.

Secession is the only true way to go by. Nigeria is a compelled unity of opposites. How it has managed to existentially defied the distrust, disunity, sectarian hatred still amaze me a lot. Even in sports, colourations of dismemberment are still very much manifest. If you doubt this, go and check the comment made by Kano pillars Head Coach about the Club's Igbo players on the loss of trophy to Enugu Rangers Club.

Lets everyone just go his or her own way. Its that simple, and all these senseless killings, hatred, fear, unhealthy competitions, and stagnancy will immediately go extinct! [/b]

Spot on!

Offpoint:
Parachute for helicopter wey Boko boys shot down with anti aircraft machine gun? where you wan parachute go? jump out anyhow you go end for the chopper propeller.

.....or end up being shot out of the sky by a boko marksman!

jaxxy:
This show how intelligent our military is, u fly a chopper into a war zone without knowing the capabilities of ur enemy and loose great men. Smtn the that cud have been avoided most likely. A war without intelligence.

Maybe they're scared to engage them on the ground man-to-man!

Vtrd:
The guy is seriously talented.
One of the top 3 youngsters in Spain right now.

If he keeps his head down and keep improving, we will finally get a true world class player.

Fortunately, he is Nigerian true and through, else I would be wary of Spain poaching him.

I think there's still a chance he could be poached if he hasn't played for the senior team of his country. I stand to be corrected though!

Pidginwhisper:
I pray he doesn't get distracted and stay with Villarreal for atleast 2 seasons more. Any move right now could see him go the way of Nwakali brothers and Yahaya.

Exactly! He should stay put and first make a name for himself before thinking of moving! Look what's happening to Iheanacho because of his greedy father!

hammerFC:
I wonder if Igbo people still exist aside Nnamdi Kanu.

I wonder wat sought of tribe willl constantly receive news of their young and able bodied men being wasted in Borno consistently for the last 4 years and keep mute.

Wen all these Igbo boyz are gone, HausaFulani will come to protect and defend Igbo land. RIP @Ngozi123, Amarabae, pazienza, Bigfrancis21, afam4eva

The only thing that would send Hausa/Fulani soldiers down to the south-east is if they're on a mission to intimidate, bully, harass and murder!

The useless Igbo elite are a huge part of our problem as a people! Like you said, the bastards are keeping quiet as their sons are being wasted in a war they ordinarily should have nothing to do with...and for a country that sees them as not good enough to be president!

Fools!

1759King:

This is the worst time to be a member of the Nigerian armed forces. May their souls rest in peace and may their families find solace.

The best time was when they were executing coups left, right and centre!

BeeBeeOoh:





The gap between Buhari and "Integrity" so very wide

They're oceans apart!

SalamRushdie:
the macabre acquisition of Keystone bank and 9 mobile by Buharis cabal member Issa Funtua will go down in history as the most corrupt action overseen by AMCON ever and to try to absolve Buhari from it will be resisted by all smart people because when Buhari appointed his friends son inlaw as the boss of AMCON to do exactly just that

Watch and see...they will come up with the tried and tested excuse that Buhari was not aware!

Niccoloimhotep:
if Dr Maduka is not on the list, wetin we gain. That man is an epitome of Akuluouno

I noticed his absence from the list as well! Maybe it's b'cos they were only listing the top 5.

Top five richest from Anambra according to Vid-Nova.

I don't know how they came about knowing the networth of these worthy sons, but when i saw Prince Eze as number-2, i was wondering just who number-1 would be and was surprised who came up and what they said he's worth. I'm sure you will be too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8f7FdtQk8

Obi1kenobi:
Points like this don't make any sense at all. It would make sense if the SE was the most progressive region in Nigeria being held back by the maladministration and corruption and incompetence of the FG. That is why Catalonia for example wanted to leave Spain: cos it had to subsidize less productive regions in Spain while getting less from the centre than it was putting in. You don't have such an argument. The SE ranks only ahead of the NE in economic productivity in Nigeria. The SE is as misgoverned as any region in Nigeria. A state like Abia has had one of the worst state governments in the Federation through this 4th republic since 1999. The SE is also getting far more from the FG in oyel money than it is contributing to the Federation account. No state in the SE generates IGR that is up to 50% of the the Federal allocation it receives from the FG. Ordinary Cross River sef generates more than any SE state in IGR. Yet, you think the genesis of your problems in the FG: an FG whose oyel money you depend on. Politics like this has to start closer to home. If you're from Abia for example and witnessed the abomination that was T. A. Orji's administration, it is foolish to abandon your local problems to blame the FG for all your failures.

Witness the katakata than Brexit has caused in the British government. And this is the UK we're talking about here who are facing the prospect of economic contraction in the coming years once it leaves the European Union. We're talking about the UK that has the world's 5th largest economy and the 2nd largest in Europe: a highly productive, advanced economy. Yet, many of you walk around with the delusion that the SE would turn to Japan immediately you secede from Nigeria. On the contrary, the extra trade barriers (a natural consequence of new sovereign borders) we would have to face (particularly key, seeing as the SE is Nigeria's only zone without any international borders, talk more of sea access), plus the loss of that free oyel money we're getting will inflict great economic pain. Better stop deceiving yourselves and stop listening to jobless, crude, uncouth, riffraffs like Nnamdi Kanu. The only reason secession might even make sense is if Nigeria's security situation continues to deteriorate. The economic paradise you're dreaming about is just a dream, and not reality.

You know your watery, Igbo-bashing arguments always belie your claim to being a Nwafor! All that rubbish you put up there in the first paragraph actually make a case for those of us that say Ndigbo are being held back from fulfilling their destiny by being tied down in this unworkable union that deluded peeps like you have been trying to get to work for nigh on 60 years! The cra'p you listed up there as the negatives Ndigbo have are actually the very same lame arguments trotted out by chronic Igbo haters who want to justify their hate and derision towards us!

If you weren't so daft, you'd have realised it's the Nigerian system that's thrown up all these misfits and deplorables that parade themselves as the Igbo political elite! You actually think that in a free Biafra, the visionless lot we have today piloting our affairs would stand a chance in a free and fair election when they're up against the likes of Soludo, Ezekwesili, Moghalu, Sam Amadi, etc? The crooked and rigged political system we operate today in 'one Nigeria' is what gives room for thugs and semi-illiterates to raise up to be godfathers, cabals and oligarchs who dictate who can or can't run for office, and the electorate/masses have little of no say in the matter!

It's the same Nigerian way of doing things that is giving a visionless and incompetent geriatric like Buhari the confidence that he can 'win' the 2019 presidential elections regardless of how poor his first tenure was; all he needs is a compromised INEC and army, a godfather calling the shots in the south-west, loyal governors in the core north....on standby to rally the almajiris and illegal immigrants (not minding how much dollars they stuff in their agbada), and one or two efulefus in the south-east/south-south! Job done!!!

The Eastern Region had one of the fastest growing economies in the world when everyone was answering their papa name in the early to mid 60s! It was after that ill-advised Nzeogwu coup (conveniently tagged a Igbo coup as they had to find a justification for all their wickedness) that our fortunes as a region started heading south! Dr M I Okpara, the Premier of the eastern Region at the time, is testament to the kind of leaders Ndigbo can elect when left to manage their own affairs without outside interference from those with a different agenda to ours!

Not to place much emphasis on oyel (which has done us more harm than good), but if you were asked today if Alaigbo is richly blessed in hydrocarbons, what would be your answer? Or are you one of those that limits the extent of Alaigbo to just the 5 south-east states? Do you know the part of Egbema rich in oyel and gas was sliced away with surgical precision and placed in Rivers State? Do you know ONELGA in the same Rivers State (my local gov't area) has one of the highest onshore deposits of oyel and gas in Nigeria? Leaving out the Ogba (who seem to have issues being identified as Igbo), doesn't Ndoni and Egbema put paid to your senseless claim that Igboland hasn't much oyel and gas to sustain themselves with as an independent country? And we've not even talked of the deposits in Anambra and Imo, which are not being exploited to their full capacities either because they were tagged in the past as 'future reserves' by Abuja (or something stupid like that)...not to be exploited, or because there's a deliberate attempt to under-exploit proven reserves in the south-east just so those 'nyamurees' don't get too rich!

Your argument that no state in the south-east generates a decent IGR shows how little you understand about states viability! So the IGR receipts of a state is enough for you to declare that state viable or not? A little over four years ago, a state like Ogun was posting IGR figures far less than they are doing today. Going with your argument...four years ago we should have written them off as not being economically viable given what they returned as IGR receipts for the year, not minding the fact that there are other variables that come into play in determining a states capacity to generate IGR that can come close to or match what it receives from its federal allocation: some states may not have developed a efficient revenue collection system; while others may not be as keen to collect as much revenue as they should, maybe so as to encourage businesses to grow or to attract new ones to the state!

Dude, i can tell you for nothing that if the United Kingdom was forcefully tied to Europe the way Ndigbo are tied to Nigeria, and were roped into a union with savage, primitive minded toe-rags that see them as being less deserving for political appointments and infrastructure either b'cos of what a kinsman of theirs did more than 50 years ago, or because they gave only 5% in the last election....dude, i can tell you for nothing that economic contraction would be the least of the UKs worries! The UK electorate would vote overwhelmingly for BREXIT and would not be prepared to brook any nonsense from Westminster! As far as they're concerned, if Theresa May does anyhow, she will see anyhow!

You talk of trade barriers and such being put up to prevent a newly emergent Biafran nation from trading smoothly with the rest of the world! So you're now assuming Nigeria would remain as is if say Biafra leaves with just the 5 south-east states? You actually think the core muslim north doesn't know that if Biafra (in whatever configuration it may take) leaves 'one Nigeria' that it would set the ball rolling for other ethnic groups in the south to leave as well? Why do you think they are not even brooking the idea of a referendum in just those 5 south-east states if they were so confident only those ones will leave with the rest ethnic-groups/states remaining in 'one Nigeria' to continue to have their resources milked while they're given a paltry 13% as if they were being done a favour? If Biafra comes into being, there would be no barriers worth worrying about b'cos if we choose not to develop Obuaku, we would be spoilt for choice which other port city we could enter a partnership or shared-ownership with! There's Port Harcourt; Calabar; Ibom; Bayelsa; and Warri to choose from, so i wouldn't loose any sleep over sea access if i were you! Biafra would be the beautiful bride!

I would sooner listen to Mazi Kanu than listen to an anonymous peep like you! He's put his life on the line for his beliefs and his people! If you have an alternative to IPOB, make yourself and your argument known, and if it makes sense you may just be in with a chance to torpedo his agitation and replace it with yours which i'm sure would be no more than: let's keep on praying 'one Nigeria' will work...even after nearly 60 years of praying, and let's use Buharis' INEC to vote out who we don't like and vote in who we like...possibly, one chosen for us by a greedy godfather or cabal!

Jonathan:
Lmao .
Yèyé

Your attention has been diverted in your vain attempt at mocking Biafrans....meanwhile your shithole of a country is the butt of all jokes and going up in flames as we speak!

Chew on that!

Mexyz:
I just hope this chopper has not been delivered to Boko, it will be disastrous if Boko boys get hold of that helicopter.

Imagine a weapons-ready attack helicopter in the hands of a red-eyed, kamikaze-boko maniac whose got an axe to grind! Na just to find way emigrate be dat!

Jonathan:
I see some bastards rejoicing about this on the thread .
Some people are just so useless

If they really are rejoicing, i doubt they're rejoicing any more than you rejoiced when the Nigerian fulani army went down to Igboland to commit all manner of atrocities....including murder and human rights abuses!

If you say you didn't join them to laugh, then at least could you point out where you expressed the same level of outrage like what you've expressed today? I'm waiting!

Sellfish:
Newsflash

Buhari doesn't need your Christian votes.....His almajiris and INEC have him fully covered


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This is what i keep telling people hinging their hopes of getting rid of Buhari via the ballot box!

ikezuora4689:
I think Biafra is a last resort...... nothing seems to be working in this country.....too much religion and tribal war....if we can't make out a plan to co-exist together...I think separation is what we need.... instead of killing and fighting each other....a nation we only develop when there is peace...that's why nations like iran and irag are ravishing in poverty....so we have to work together or divide

Apparently, you yet to wake up and smell the coffee, as well as read the handwriting on the wall!

So what's your alternative ideology to counter the one of IPOB? Or you want to continue with business-as-usual...which is basically for Ndigbo to continue taking part in the crooked and rigged Nigerian partisan-politics like they've been doing since the end of the uncivil war, which has gotten us nowhere till today?

If we had been in a true and united nation, i'd have gone along with you. But we're not....we're in a jungle of a country, and are sharing it with hateful bigots whose main aim is to see us held down and subjugated beneath them economically and socially!

Just take a look at the thread on their claim that Atiku doesn't wanna share any posters in the north with Peter Obis' face on it because Igbos are hated and despised up there! Some of the comments are just dripping with bile! Are those the kinda people you think will practice the reasonable and idea-based politics you hope Nigeria is now matured enough to play?

zabuur:
You are right my brother. He was also supposed to have waited 16 years to do d needful.

Keep quiet! Thought you guys justified ousting GEJ with the excuse that things would be done differently! The little Buhari has done, he concentrated in the core north and south-west with the excuse that '5-percenters' deserve less!

He only recently started doing the little he's doing in the south-east for reelection purposes....so his minions would have something to point to, to prove he's fair-minded and treating all regions/ethnicities equally. Of course we know it's a bold lie! Nigeria has never had a more divisive, hateful, bigoted and vindictive president like we have today, and Igbos are saying 'leave us the fuc/k alone with our 5%...we've been through worse, and we'll weather this storm like we always do'!

blues343:
IF THE STORY IS TRUE.

D MUMU GUY FIT GO JAIL OOO

THAT'S ASSAULT now... Na You Invite Her in the First Place nd She came not like She came un invited...........

SMH TO THE Both of them..
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The lady should get a good lawyer and sue! People shouldn't be allowed to get away with this kind of barbaric behaviour!

Deadlytruth:
The Gelegele issue has been decided by the Supreme Court and Binis won with unassailable evidence so much that even Ijaws no longer formally contend it.
Biafra is rather the only landlocked entity in the South, and so shall it remain.

Leaving the Igbo component of Biafra aside...and whether Igboland is 'landlocked' or not, how can you say with any degree of certainty that Biafra is 'landlocked' when you don't know the ethnicities it will comprise of?

Assuming Biafra is made up of just Ndigbo, how can it be 'landlocked' when it has access to the sea via Obuaku? Or you think if Biafra (Igbo only) comes into being, that the likes of Akwa/Cross and Ijaws would still want to share the same country with you primitive and hateful lot? Of course you don't, and this is why you don't even want to entertain the possibility of holding a referendum b'cos you have a strong inkling what the outcome would be!

kalufelix:
Them no suppose make noise because govt looting is different from hard work.

How this people managed to recuperate with 20pounds less than 50 years after a devastating civil war is amazing.

You just have to admit ibos are very enterprising and industrious

Spot on!

But it's Igbos not ibos.

Stupid statement!

He's talking as if he's done a comparison between the two administrations and determined that corruption is less in the current dispensation! At least he concedes Nigerians in general fared better before now!

adonis89:
Everyday I wish we got a leader like this in Ijaw land

Bros, but you have! More than one in fact: Tompolo, Asari Dokubo, Boyloaf, etc!

Donmedra:
Yawn.

Oduduwa with which ethnic group because I know ijaw, egun, ijebu, awori won't be going

No biggie! They can stay in their own then....there's no template that says a country must be heterogeneous in its ethnic makeup!

Balyz:
Anything to keep the money flow coming in. What is Kanu doing for a living in Israel?

Funnily enough, one could say the exact same thing given the way you leeching gits cling on to 'one Nigeria' for the sake of oyel and other benefits!

Have you no shame!?

midolian:
Influential where? His family as the head, In the Israeli parliament or in Israel?

At the very least, he's influential in causing you headaches and restless nights....that much we're certain of!

So this new year, it's IPOB matter this peep is ruminating on as he slowly chews on his festive chicken?

That's my guy right there!

blingxx:
Why must everything be a competition to you ... Yorubas are dirty, skull miners, lazy... Yet your brothers are dying to live in Yorubaland... Have you ever thought about this?

Not excusing his statement, but read the OP again and see where a veiled attempt was made to measure dick!

They had better get the best professionals to manage it whether they're from Akwa-Ibom or not....that's if they want to avoid stories that touch the heart!

The way these diseased scum carry on, one would be forgiven for wondering why -if they believe Ndigbo to be this evil- they are yet to initiate moves to separate themselves from the major cause of their woes! Why see Igbos as the personification of lucifer on earth, yet you don't mind being joined with them at the hip in the name of 'one Nigeria'?