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lawani:
Where did you get that data from. Oyo state has everything more than double IMO state. So how can the GDP be higher?. Oyo has second highest number of hotels after Lagos for instance. IMO has around 500 hotels and Oyo has over 1000

A simple online search would have cleared your doubt. Imo state has double the GDP of Oyo state. Anambra's GDP is also bigger than that of Oyo state.

Niger state is also the same size as the entire SW states. Does it mean that the SW states are useless?

Ofemannnu:
Go school,you no go go.


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319687582_IGALA_COLONISATION_OF_NORTHERN_IGBO_STATES_1450-18th_century

What type of phone are you using? I can't see jack of what you uploaded here.
The title says Igala colonization of 'northern Igbo states in 1450-18th century' but you claimed Igala colonized Igboland in 1945. Are both the same thing? No, they're not. Did Igala invade parts of Igboland? Yes, they did. They did try to institute a system there? Yes, they tried. Did they succeed after a long period of time 1450-1700s? No, they didn't. How large was the area they invaded? Very small part which is actually parts of Nsukka in present day Enugu state? By the late 1700s, all their institutions had collapsed and their people assimilated by a superior culture and tradition. In the Delta and Anambra areas, they were easily assimilated leaving no single trace because they lost many battles.
A European Explorer called Joseph Hawkins wrote about the Igbo/Igala war in the late 1700s in which the Igala lost. What then are you yapping about?
You know nothing about Igbo history and only driven by hate to push a false narrative. Nsukka is not Ilorin and Kwara where your conquerors banned the Yoruba festival called Isese from being celebrated. Everything in Nsukka right from the 19th century is Igbo till date. Choke on it.

chiagozien:
Yes truth that Asaba is not Igbo City, but coup lead by Asaba man is Igbo coup

Also, A Yoruba man named Col. Ibrahim Adetunji Taiwo alongside Murtala Muhammad led the infamous Asaba Massacre were over 700 men purely of Asaba indigenes were forced to slaughtered in cold blood. Today, the same Yoruba people are saying Asaba people are no longer Igbos.

Ofemannnu:
Don't be a mumu.Only cute Abiola is "they"?
When Fulanis,Nupe migrated to Ilorin,they inter -married with the Yorubas,so there is bound to be Yoruba Fulani and Yoruba Nupe bloodline too.

When Igala colonised Igboland in 1945,there were inter marriages between the Igalas and Igbos.There is no pure Igbos especially in Anambra,Onitsha to be precise.
One of the Chiefs of the Armed forces is an Igboman of the Igala stock.

😂 😂 😂 😂 Igala colonized Igboland? In 1945? Even in Kogi state, there are still many Igbo communities till date. Rather, many Igalas assimilated into Igbo communities and are today Igbos. Where then is the colonization? Where's their culture in the areas you claimed they colonized if they were actually colonizers? Yeriba hatred will never allow your mind to think things through before writing them.
I challenge you to mention just one Onitsha indigene that says he's a mixed blood.

Here's Asaba people in the recent Igbo festival in London 2025 going over to the Nteje people to greet them being their parent. If you understand Igbo language, you can hear their greetings to Nteje people.
Source: YouTube https://share.google/ZaJN5DYfLC4J8wNfp

Factcheck0001:
we all know who they are and where they come from but we must not talk.

This issue of overlooking your problem n blaming everyone else is y 3 of your young men were killed live on camera by those same people who claim to b fighting for u n u couldn't do anything

Your eye go clear when there are no males from your side to marry your girls

ESN will kill its own, then many will still b locked up in various prisons abroad

How many males are remaining in Yeriba land since skull mining and Amotekun killings started?

Ojiofor:
You still don't get it!
If Ipob formed ESN to fight Fulani bandits how come they have killed more Igbos than Fulani terrorist?
Do you have any link of ESN in confrontation with killer herdsmen in the east?
I don't mean staged propaganda videos where ipob esn bandits are seen chasing after one or two cows..killer herdsmen doesn't herd cows.
We all know that Nigeria army is compromised when it comes to herdsmen across the nation not just in SE but is that an excuse to turn your stolen riffles on your own people?

Ipob as a group is nothing but a kriminal organisation.

You'll one day be confronted to produce your evidence for accusing IPOB and ESN for the killings of Ndigbo in the East. I'll make sure you're brought out to prove these accusations. It's easy to lay false accusations because of your evil heart but know it that the blood of our people killed by your evil government and their supporters like you will speak against you. When the time comes, don't say you were catching cruise because it won't be entertained. Your antecedents are well known.

NOETHNICITY:
Genocide in our lifetime. This is the first open genocide that is openly committed and recorded detail by detail in clear 4k video footages.

How do we explain this to our great grandchildren, that while we stood and watched isreal genocided and entire population of people.

This isn't the first. Biafra was the first ever genocidal war shown on TV screen where children, women and men were dying of starvation on a very large scale. The horrific scenes from Biafra led to the creation of 'Doctors Without Borders.' All the perpetrators of the Biafran genocide are considered heroes of Nigeria. Little wonder Nigeria has remain a killing field ever since then.
Learn the correct things before posting online

Nigeria is a the biggest crime scene on earth. The most insecured contraption on all ramifications. Your continuous hope on the dawned institutions will be your undoing. Already, terrorists have all the information of the elites and sensitive organizations. This makes it easier to get them when they want them.

Amotekun terrorists are killing and displacing their own people. What a shame. You won't see those envious deviants saying anything in this thread. Anyway, the bloodshedding will get to everyone. It's just a matter of time.

Nice thread. The ENSC was a robust plan. One can only imagine what the Eastern Region could have become if their plans weren't interrupted. It isn't over though. We can still achieve.

cr7lomo:
The authorities that suspended the pilots were absolutely right... she was very unprofessional and went against protocol.... u don't move the plane when there are people on ground , according to air control guidelines.... its the work of the security to have arrested him and dragged him out of the tarmac if he refused to leave ..... what the pilot did will also earn her a suspension and withdrawal of her licence.... she had no right to move that plane ... any well-trained pilot know this rule ... imagine if she crushed him with those ground crew / officials ... do u think the public will still be talking about his unruly behaviour?? K1 messed up big time but the pilot now allowed him stain her badly

WITHDRAW the license of an experienced pilot without a bad history because of an unruly man who attempted to hold her airplane hostage? Do you even think things through? It's just like asking that K1 be jailed for 10years because of this incident. That will be too much. Proportionate judgement is what is expected in this case.
For me,
1. The pilot should be queried but not stopped from doing her job. She has the least blame in this case. Remember she was assaulted by him.
2. The tarmac security should be penalized for not bundling him out of the tarmac. Their negligence of clearing him out of the led the pilot to do what she did. The flight has a scheduled time so she was under pressure to fly her passengers on time to their destination.
3. K1 deserves to banned from flying for at least 6 months together with a fine to serve as a detterent to others who might want to attempt it another time.
This is why commissions of enquiry are usually held to understand the entire things that transpired together with their duration to fully understand the circumstance they all were at the time of the saga.

See how some people are trying to push the weight of the fault on pilots that were assaulted by a musician simply because he's popular among them. These are the same people that will waste no time in insulting a whole ethnic group because of the poor behaviour of a single individual among them. This musician is boarding a public airline yet was insisting on getting on board with an undeclared liquid which he proceeded to pour on the pilot and other flight attendants thereby causing chaos and endangering the lives of scores of other passengers. Who doesn't know how passengers complain about delayed flight? One drunk who ought to be arrested and charged for assault, recklessness and holding a scheduled flight hostage is been defended by some of his ethnic minions devoid of common sense.
If he thinks he's above the law, why doesn't he purchase a private jet and load with a cooling room full of his choicest wine and hot drinks? Why coming to a public aircraft to exert stupidity simply because he feels he's connected to influential persons in government? This is the why Nigeria is hopeless without any future.
In working countries, he would have been detained and charged to court for the charges listed above.

guass:
Comparing Igbo that has the entire South East and parts of South South with a tribe that has only one state is ridiculous.
In Nigeria, Igbo is 3rd largest, Urhobo is 4th while Ijaw is 5th.

Igbo is NOT the third largest ethnic group. We are one among the three largest ethnic group. There's no sufficient data today to affirm Igbos in third place presently. Historical sources during colonial times CLEARLY listed Igbos as the largest ethnic group in Southern Nigeria. This is a verifiable fact.
However, today there's no repurable source to confirm what position Igbos occupy.

eejo:
Communities in Kogi state with who shared boundary with Benue state comes under attack by Bandits over the weekend. people were killed, properties destroyed and many communities evacuated for fear of attacks. while this was ongoing no security officials came to the villagers rescue. Young Men from these villages are the ones fighting back against heavily armed Bandits. Central Nigeria is currently having securities issues and those who are responsible for securing lives must rise up to the task. Mr President all is not well in central Nigeria and people are dying.

Tinubu will visit them later while his wife is donating millions to displaced persons in central Nigeria. She just shared to those who barely survived the massacre in Yelwata. She called them displaced persons. Don't worry, she will come to Kogi to share another millions to those that will survive this killings you just reported here. No one will be arrested. There's no need for it. She will come with the media to capture as she us displaying her philanthropy to the displaced persons of Kogi state.
One Nigeria must be kept by all means.

BigDawsNet:
Sounds like no solution to this unity of thing … God help this nation

Nigeria is not a nation just like the UK isn't a nation. Nigeria is a contraption while UK is a united Kingdom of 4 different nations. This is why Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland all send their own contingents for some international events.
I hope you've learnt something today. Nigeria can never be a nation. Even being a united country is impossible because of envy, hate, jealousy and tribalism. The death and destruction you're seeing today is nothing compared to what is coming in the next ten years. Nigeria is a British(England) creation to serve the English purpose. Those managing it for them here are making most of what they can get under that limit. No one cares for those trapped inside the creation. Most are just trying to survive without knowing the huge limitations set before them.
Nigeria is like a game reserve. Though the animals roam free and MOSTLY live by natural selection, runners of the reserve always interfere to keep the reserve in order for it to remain productive for them. We can truly snatch the control entirely from them if we want to be free but the vices earlier listed as so stronger that those who think they are benefitting more prefer to keep the status quo and the colonists control perpetually. The English master stroke worked perfectly in Nigeria.

Amuluonyenaego:
Akara and bread

Rice and beans

Akpu and Oha/ bitter leaf soup

Okpa and coke

These are the ones popular for me in my daily activities

There's nothing like bitterleaf soup. It is called Onugbu soup. There's no any other name for it. Take note nwanne.

stuffs2002:
The part where Nnamdi Azikiwe intentionally suppressed the promotion of Wellington Bassey should also be talked about

Yorubas always lying against Ndigbo. I wonder why you guys hate us this much.
I challenge you to show proof of how Nnamdi Azikiwe supressed the promotion of Wellington Bassey. I'm awaiting your answer. Show your proof from published books. Don't tell us fairytale.

On another note, Clement Isong was made the First Federal Commissioner of Police at the same time. Was it also Nnamdi Azikiwe that helped to promote him?

seunmsg:
The facts speaks for itself so no need to engage you in any back and forth. The people of south south knows better and that’s why almost all their governors and elected lawmakers have moved to APC.

Below is a thread on those who intend to stop a south south son from becoming president. I guess they are all Yorubas as well. 👇

https://www.nairaland.com/381150/why-jonathan-cannot-acting-president

The way you Yorubas lie, even the devil will be scared of you guys. This happened just 15years ago with all the information online but here you are turning it upside down.
It is on record that the first person of substance to call for the handing over of power to Goodluck Jonathan is an Igbo person. She did so with a very well worded memo presenting her reasons for saying it to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday, the 3rd of February, 2010. The meeting almost turned into a battle ground as those against it rose in anger to silence her.
Here, we see Yorubas today trying to claim what they never started. I CHALLENGE the Yorubas making these blatant lies to show with PROOF the Yoruba man of substance that called for Goodluck Jonathan to be made acting president ON RECORD before 3rd February, 2010.
Other people, make una dey take note of all Yoruba people lies against Igbo people o.

OredoPikin:
U see how i humbled u with facts😂
U think is to write long episode with nothing to back it up.
U dey tell Edo boy say the people of south south knows better 🤣🤣
Okay ooo
Till den
Lets see how many votes the governors go manufacture for Tinubu

Secondly you are showing me post u didn't read.
My people from SS, kindly open that link, yaradua was not confirmed dead. The opposition protest that GEJ be made acting president pending when yaradua returns.
Ogbulafor who spoke on behalf of PDP and not as an individual said the party said not now.
But here is he trying to cunning make it an igbo affair. Thats their character and that's the character that want our support in 2027🤣

Meanwhile Tinubu has left this country countless times without transmitting power to his vice president Shettima and nobody said anything
But these same people were busy protesting daily anytime yaradua leaves the country for him to handover to our son but today kept mute as Tinubu run out of Nigeria every week without transmitting power to Shettima
That is who they
Hypocrites
Deceivers
No moral standing
Shameless

You know them very well. That's why a European author called them 'extraordinary birds'.

Goosethetruth:
This case must proceed to its logical legal conclusion.
Nothing like prerogative of mercy.
If Kanu is innocent then the court should set him free to go home and sin no more. On the other hand if the court finds him guilty, then the full weight of the law should be brought down on his shoulders and he should face the maximum penalty!
Simple.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu my leader's case is that he called the Fulanis out of their genocidal plans before anyone could see them in action. He spoke against Nigeria's capability in protecting his people(Ndigbo and our Biafran brothers). He made a provision for defending our people from the then impending invasion of the Fulanis. If you counted all the above as sins, then he surely WON'T 'sin no more'. If the court rightly declares him innocent of all the charges brought against him, then he's free indeed to continue to advocate for our people.
Since you Nigerians love to shed the blood of your people frequently, count us out of your Nigeria. This is MNK's argument all along.

GerogeI:
I think the first thing is to define culture. Its the way a people live and perform specific functions now. If you have been doing some thing for the past 300 years and continue doing so, that's culture. It does not mean that 300 years ago you did not learn to do such a thing from someone else.

Similarly, tradition is a way of doing things that spans from the past.
Reno Omkri, should educate himself on the difference between origination and tradition. That Yorubas spin clothing, does not mean they did not learn weaving from Fulani Arabs, who even gave them the name "Yoru-ba" or "Yari-ba". Infact we all know the Fulanis would have added Yoruba land to their colonies if the Western civilization did not interfare, cause they already sold Islam to them. Next step was to give them an emir and condemn their own Kings, which they already did in Kwara.

Similarly Igbos learnt weaving from the western colonisers and make akawette cloth. And also adopt various clothing from the white man over, centuries ago, making them part of their culture.

Coming on media to compare colonial adaptations of Yorubas from Fulani colonizers and Igbos from Western colonizers seems kind of demented and aimless attentions seeking.

Your argument has some weight however, I must correct something very important in your argument. Ndigbo DID NOT learn weaving from Westerners. A thorough research about the first European weaving style to Nigeria should have taught you so. Igbos have been weaving clothes for a lot of centuries that I can't even put a date to its origin. Akwaete weaving may be the most popular today but our people in both Enugu and Anioma have been weaving 'akwa ocha' for a many centuries. There are books written over 100years ago that documented all these things.
I can provide proofs to all my claims.
The problem of Reno Omokri and his band of lukumi minions is that they think that before they can promote anything Yoruba, they have to de-market Ndigbo in everything. They don't care about facts and how easily things like this can be verified. They just run along with a perceived notion and present it as reality in demarketing Ndigbo. However, when we debunk their obvious lies with facts, their hate, envy and anger return in full force.
You can google about cloth weaving in Igboland before European colonization. Let chatgpt help you so you learn something new today.

May the soul of the amiable author and man of conscience, Frederick Forsyth rest in perfect peace. Amen

NeckingNgulping:
What if the supposed people in the South South with historical roots to the South east choose not to be part of Biafra?

Are you going to get them along with force?

There's no compulsion in building a union. If any clan among them prefers to go with other non-Igbos in the SS, so be it. However, in future if they want to join us leaving the new country, they will join us. We won't leave our people to be at the mercy of anyone.