I was born in 1988 into a Military home in Lagos Nigeria. Dad was a Major in the Army back then and Mom's a medical practitioner. I am from Delta state, Ughelli North Local government. I am Urhobo, proudly Niger Deltan, proudly Nigerian, proudly African, proudly Black and proudly Human.
As a child in the barracks back then, I schooled in another barracks and had designated school buses that takes me to school and back home. Being in the barracks, I will say I felt secure enough that I didn't even know the police was a force different from the boys scout, until I was about 12 years old.
Back then in the barracks, we had it all. Different age groups, crowd of children from different tribes and religion. We all played and lived as one.
On christmas day, easter, New year day and even church harvest we christians had our celebration and the muslim kids will come to our churches and our homes, we will all eat and laugh and have so much fun.
During the Muslim Fasting period, we the christian kids will go to the mosque to eat akara (bean cake) and drink cold kunu and iced zobo drinks. The Imams and mallams would look after us like we were their biological kids, they will even teach us simple life moral lessons, lessons that make me the man I am today. On salah day, we will all join hands in killing of the rams, cows and help in the distribution of food from flat to flat which every house gracefully accepted.
Sometimes, some parents will have to be sent on peace keeping missions to other countries like Liberia, somalia, etc etc and the wives and kids left behind will move in together and live as one. I remember one occasion where five families moved into our house. 2 muslims and 3 christians, we had so much fun. Sometimes our parents even bring back refugee orphans and they join us at home, we all grow up as one happy family.
In school back then, Command childrens school and Command secondary school, when we prayed at the assembly, first we will pray in Jesus name which the muslims par took happily, then we pray in the Muslim way and we all would shout 'Aaaaaaamiiiiin' happily while we smiled and went to our classes. Kids slept over in friend's home to study together without minding ethnicity and religion because our military parents thought us how to be as one!!! We never joked with the national anthem and pledge, we took every word seriously.
Back then, our national team had different tribes based on the best of skills and we were such a threat even Brazil.
Fast forward to 2007 when I applied to study at the University of Benin. I got admitted and the same trend continued. My department alone had northerners, south south people, igbos, yorubas, Cameroonians and malians and ghanians. The way the admission was run was almost 99% on merit so we had a diversity of tribes and religion and most importantly, the best brains. School was fun and lovely.
Today, I see a lot of tribal bitterness, sentiments and deep religious hatred and even death. Today, we go to private schools owned by christians and they don't allow muslim kids pray or study Islamic religious knowledge. They are forced to study CRK. Today you see UI admitting 80% Yorubas, Unilorin admitting 80% Yorubas, Uniben admitting 70% Edo, Unizik admitting 99%igbos, UNN admitting 70% igbos, ABU admitting 99% Northerners etc etc
Today, you see head of companies being tribalistic and religiously biased when employing and or giving out contracts. What happened to my country? Today Landlords do not want to rent their apartment out to some tribes due to what other people say about such tribe.
Oh what happened to my country?
I know there are issues that lead to all these that created so much hate and disgust amongst us as a people.
Issues like the civil war:
But I ask you my brothers, -how many of you igbos and northerners are richer than the ojukwu's and the gowon's? -how many of your family and relatives died in the war that ojukwu and gowon survived? -how many of your family members have better education and health insurance than the ojukwu's and the gowon's?
Issues like the Oil in the Niger Delta: But I ask you my brothers: -The oil that we all shout and fight for is present in a country called Nigeria. It belongs to Nigeria. -The Nigerian government should conserve and sustainably develop these regions and its people so the wealth that comes from these regions can better the lives of Nigerians in general as it could help diversify other industries like agriculture in the North which provide food for not just the North but all of us as a people. -How many Niger deltans are richer than the Dokubo's? -Dokubo won't die if war comes, trust me. Issues like Boko haram; But I tell you my brother, -if we change our ideology to as it was in the early days, no terrorists, even ISIS can stand our collective might as a people. We are strong!!!,..very very strong I must say... -some say its a northern propaganda. The bombs do not separate northerner from southerner when it goes off. It kills every tribe and we are only talking here in the south because it didn't spread to meet our old parents at home.
Many many more issues which I believe if discussed like true Nigerians, we will see a lot of difference in our lives and that of our future generations. I know everyone of us have had a good experience with someone from every tribe. Make that your reason for fighting for your country.
Teamwork is one quality that is found in the best persons on earth. Imagine a nation where everyone works as a team. We will be the greatest.
Nigeria is Mother to us all, fight for her!!!!....
From a concerned citizen wishing and hoping his message is received with a kind heart, without bias, without hate, without concentrating on the Evils of the past but the good of the past, so it can lead to nation building, continuous improvement and sustainable development.
BETTER NIGERIA
The problem with people like you is that you are yet to come to terms that you have no country.
I repeat you have no country!
What you have is a "forced amalgamation" of ethnic groups. Just like the picture you posted of Awolowo, the Saduana and Zik, Nigeria was an experiment to see if the Yoruba man, Hausa-Fulani man and Igbo man can live together under one roof along with the minorities. That experiment has turned out not only to be a mistake, but also a monumental faliure. My brother, not every marriage will work out. Some marriages are not even worth entering into. We are Africans, a white man cannot come from nowhere to give us our country. It is for us to go and get our own countries. We have tried Nigeria for 100 years, the result was millions dead, millions living in porverty , large scale corruption, bad Governance, nepotism and tribalism. It is easy to say "If we all unite, everything will be fine". We have been "uniting" for 100 years and nothing is fine. Only a fool will see something that is not working and stay there in false hope when the reality on the ground is that nothing will change. It is time to dissolve the White mans fabrication called Nigeria and let us Africans create our own Countries.
egift: "Only a Lunatic will shout Biafra all over the Internet and still go home to be fully identified and addressed as a Nigerian just be able to cloth and feed himself." - EGIFT 2015
We do not want any "Mexico" in the backyard of the "United States" of Nigeria. Stop being a pawn in one clown's quest to become an emperor of the east. Our country Nigeria is the Giant of Africa and we are not dividing it. You can relocate to UN Hq in NY, land in Tel Aviv or swim the Atlantic - we will still not divide Nigeria.
We are Nigerians and it is the best thing since sliced bread.
Don't fool your self. You are only a Nigerian because Lord Lugard said you are one. I, on the other hand, am Biafran because I say I am one. Drop me a line whenever you manage to remove the toga of colonial slavery known as "A Nigerian" which the White man forced you to wear for 100 years. Who knows? By then you might have discovered there is something called self determination.
HungerBAD: The cry for Biafra started in Onitsha Market, and it will die a natural death there too.
The Educated Ibo elite, will not mingle with such losers clamoring for a Biafra that died in the 1960's. The Southern part of the United States went to war with the Northern part over slavery. The South lost, and aside waving their stupid confederate flag once in a while, they have accepted their defeat graciously and moved on.
Biafra lost.
Get over it and move on. Some of the richest people in Nigeria, are the Easterners, some of the most successful companies in Nigeria are owned by the Easterners,some of the most intelligent people in Nigeria are the Easterners.
But no, until the EASTERNERS own the WHOLE of Nigeria they will never be satisfied, and will be crying BIAFRA like some spoiled BABY.
In the Last political dispensation. At a time, COAS Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika(ibo),Aviation Stella Oduah(ibo),CBN Charles Soludo(ibo) Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu(ibo) and a host others.
But, still they want more.
Don't compare the American civil war with the Nigerian civil war. The American civil war was about the north fighting the south to enforce freedom, the north won and all the slaves in the south were freed. The Nigerian civil war was all about the south fighting the north to enforce freedom, the north won and all of the south is still in bondage to this very day.
RepEnugu: what will become of biafra if actualized will be worst than that of south sudan.... think bro,think.
Man I don't need to think. You really believe that in Biafra, it is your kinsmen and some tribes in the niger delta who you have a much more important connection with that will kill each other? Boko Haram that you have no connection with is already blowing everywhere up but you believe it is your brother that will blow you up when you get independence. I don't like discussing with pessimistic people,goodbye
baby124: See his yansh, there is a shape of a small chair there. The metal probably passes through his trousers into the carpet below. I double dare him to stand up and sit again in front of everyone.
That's how this trick is done. A very strong thin metal that takes the shape of one of his legs runs through a heavy base (probably concrete) in the box then runs out through the shoe on the carpet then runs through that trouser leg until it gets to where his a$$ is then it flattens out to accommodate his buttocks. All he is doing is sitting down to read.
RepEnugu: Biafra recently is making waves on the social media platforms no thanks to Mr.nnamdi kanu the director of radio biafra. I would like to enlighten nigerians not just igbos on the urgent need to put a stop to the operations of radio biafra... "When a lie is often told at a time it becomes the truth". Nnamdi kanu is out to destroy what we have worked so hard to build over the years. His broadcasts are filled with hate speeches and lies,where was this spirit of destruction when my father was struggling so hard back in the days in ogun state to make it? where was the hate filled man when my uncle was striving hard to make a living in lagos,now he's established and got many properties worth millions of naira. I have uncles who are successful business men in the north... my brother don't you have relatives in other parts of nigeria? don't you love them? do you want them to lose everything they have worked hard to acquire? would you allow the senseless bastard to destroy us?
here is a simple arithmetic.... we get biafra(lets assume it is made up of only ethnic igbos)= anambra certainly will like to play ''lord'' over fellow igbos. Other igbos will resist such move and we end up like south sudan.. An ebonyi man shouting biafra do you think you will be classified as a first class citizen by an anambra man?.. all we do is shout biafra but we don't know the consequences of such rants...
BIAFRA IS NOT THE SOLUTION BROTHERS..
NB:don't mind my writing skill but I think I have been able to communicate.
You are more interested in the personal interests of your family than the emancipation of your people from bondage. Let me tell you something, you are nothing if you don't have sovereignty. Your uncles that are successful business men in the north, what stops them from remaining successful business men in the north even after we get Biafra? Because they may be asked to go back home? If they are asked to do this then it is all the more proof that they never had a country in the first place. Do you know the number of successful Biafran business men in Gabon,Cameroon, Benin republic, America,China and Britain? As big as the world is, all you can see is Nigeria? You need Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos to succeed in life? We want Biafra, we don't want people who think small.
shachris06: I have stated it here over and again that no right thinking igbo man is supporting this recent madness by a confirmed con artist, Nnamdi kanu.
Nnamdi kanu has turned the heroic deeds of our father's past into mockery and has made biafra a laughing stock.
I keep pointing out to people that Nnamdi kanu is all talk and Nothing else.
Before now, he has bragged to the high heavens that the 'zoo' cannot stop him. clamming he is unjammable. Now that that zoo has finally jammed him, he has also resorted to claiming conspiracy and cooking up another tale about How isreal betrayed him. And yet some people still believe him?
I know most supporters of Nnamdi kanu are merely disgruntled PDP supporters that just found a way to vent their frustrations, But should that be at the expense of a legitimate struggle?
Radio Biafra is a couldron of lies and I am glad that NBC has finally awoken to their responsilities. We the igbos would fight and negotiate for a better deal in Nigeria, But not with the rascalic approach as preached by the defunct radio. we are too learned for that.
Long live Alaigbo
Long Live the federal republic of Nigeria.
udo
You are making the Biafran struggle about Nnamdi Kanu same as a lot of people make the first Biafran Republic all about Ojukwu. Biafra is not about any single human being. It is as about the abominable British created fraud called Nigeria, it is about my right as an Igbo man to decide for myself if I am Nigerian or not and not for Lugard or Gowon to decide for me. Any body who says they are Nigerian and they have no choice in ever deciding when they want to stop being Nigerian, that person is a "nobody"
henryskywalker2003: Seems like English is a difficult lingua for you to grasp so let me bring it down to our native dialect.
Abum nwa afo Igbo. Amurum na Enugwu, e to mu na Enugwu. Guo akwukwo mu nile na Enugwu na Anambara. Aburom onye Yoruba mobu onye ugwu awusa. Inugo nna. Imezi na ka onye nzuzu na amaghi cha cha. Asi na nkita onwu na achi igbu adiro ekwe ya nnuru isi nsi. i na eme ka nwa nkita ahu ugbua. Tete n'ula a ina alu ka mgbe mata na ogu a ina acho ama egboru gi mkpa obuna. Ndi igbo ji aka ha ruo ihenile emebiri oge agha nke izizi. Ndi ogbo nna gi ji aka abuo ha runite gburu gburu ahu ito nime ya. Ha etukwuro ala n'eche mbge govementi etiti kenye ha oke rulu ha na orire mmanu si na ala aputa. Obu okoroibe di ka gi gbara mbo mmeputa onwe ha were dozie obodo Anambara, Enugwu, Imo, Abia, na Ebonyi mgbe anuchara agha nke mbu, onwe be ihe baru uru i ji goro aka gi abuo mecheputa, mana ike di gi i ga tirie ihe ndi ozo mere tupu amuo gi. Atu o ro omara, omara. Atu o ro ofeche, ofepu. E ji ro nti ike ama dinmkpa. Ekwu go mu ka oram n'onu.
henryskywalker2003: Ok. But I was born there, I grew up there, I schooled there. For close to 3 decades, I was part and parcel of that place. Despite leaving there to live in another part of the country, I still fly the Igbo flag. I'm from Anambra, but was born and brought up in Enugu, I still visit Enugu even more than I visit my own state Anambra, it's my birth place. A place I will always call home, despite not being from there, that's why I am 042 for life. But all through my time in the east, NO ONE and I repeat NO ONE can stand up and say he or she speaks for the entire Igbo tribe unless he/she was FIRST GIVEN THAT MANDATE and last I checked no one has that mandate, even if we are to give that mandate, it wouldn't be to a bunch of Indomie Generation miscreants that still sag their pants and see the likes of Whizkid and Davido as there role models. So, my dear young man. Speak your mind if you must, but only speak for yourself, cos I bet you don't even speak for your own immediate family, let alone an entire race.
You are an Igbo man? Where do you know Igbo land is? You think knowing Enugu telephone code and the name of a few states makes you Igbo? There you are more concerned about how a tribe of over 35 million people should stay in a failed white mans experiment called Nigeria. If you are really Igbo, why are you not advocating for your own country? You need the Hausas and Yorubas to survive? We survived before opportunistic White men came to foist an illegal identity they called "Nigerian" on us but it is now, in this digital age that we can't survive. I may not speak for every Igbo man but I'm quite confident that I speak for the vast majority who are wise enough to know that the illegal entity called Nigeria is an unworkable union. It has not worked in 55 years and it sure as hell will not work tomorrow. Don't worry, when we Igbos get Biafra, Yorubas such as your self will learn a thing or two about self determination, sovereignty and free choice.
rudebouy: Okay! Poor argument! Una win me for dia. Now to d koko. So anybody dat speaks igbo is from igbo abi?
The only ppl dat claim to igbos in rivers state are the oyigbos and the etches, especially igbo-etche. See the tags: IGBO-etche, oyi-IGBO. Pls if der are oda tribes in rivers state dat CLAIM to be igbo pls let us know.
If Ikweres are igbos, allow dem speak for themselves. If the Opobos are igbos, allow dem speak for themselves. Stop dis fraudulent attitude of claiming a minority tribes as ur ppl.
Yes the Ikwere can speak for themselves if the are Igbo or not. But I ask you again. If you meet someone who speaks Igbos as his ancestral language and has an Igbo surname, what tribe would you say this person belongs to?
spanishkid: you're very sick. Which 30%? Dude wake up.
Am the sick or are you the sick one who has never heard of Delta-Igbos, Rivers-Igbos,Etche-Igbos and the Igbos of Ahoada-Igbos all in the so called South-South? Or are you just a plain morron?
Please Google British got talent magicians and see what they are doing. We have made to believe magic and we have a perfect illusions as well.
But Prof. Peller was born with magic. In fact, he was born with it and he started performing right from pry school in iseyin. I think L A School Koso in Iseyin. I am not sure but one of the pry school in iseyin.
Well, if what he did can be replicated by others and shown to be gimmicks, he is no magician, even if he was doing it at 10 years old.
abduljabbar4: If Namdi kanu wants to impress me he should come here and insult us face to face. Mtcheew somebody that is afraid of police is talking about war
So when he was here since January to June for 6 mints non-stop broadcasting from Enugu, Awka, Aba, Porthacourt and Onitsha and Owerri amongst others, he didn't impress you?
zeefa: I won't agree with you Mr Man cos am a full magic fan as well and we have those who are good with tricks and who really have the full skill of doing magic. The video you just posted shows an illusion to capture how people are being tricked into believing she was actually floating in the air.
Prof. Peller magic was started in the 80's and I want to make it clear to you that all those equipments are not available back then to deceive people. I witnessed one of Prof. Peller show back then in Iseyin at a popular cinema call BALOGUN HALL. Anybody familiar with iseyin will tell you about this hall in the 80's. Although I don't know if the hall is still existing.
My point here is that, Prof. Peller is born with his power and also get more power in Indian and the rest of the world to perfect his magic.
Please, what you see in the modern day of magic can't be compared to the legacy of late Prof. Peller.
Although, we have great illusionist also in america. You can watch may of them in the reality show ie, American got talent series.
If I have time, I will educate you more on magic and post video of real magic for you to know there are good magicians.
spanishkid: look at this joker. Anambra has no oil on commercial quantity. Stop deluding yourselves. If there's oil in anambra why are you guys trying to include south south in your worthless biafra.
I guess you were not in Nigeria when GEJ commissioned Orient petroleum which is a partnership between the Anambra state a Government and private investors situated close to the Oil wells in Aguleri? As for your so called South-South, I guess you don't know that more than 30% of the SS people are Igbo speaking people. You expect us to leave them behind in Nigeria?
emamos: could you pls expatiate more on the bolded
You want to know peller did this magic trick of the woman floating in the air? It is very easy. It all has to do with the curtain that peller is standing in front off. Have you ever wonder why many magic tricks are done with the 'Magician' standing in front of a curtain? It is to stop the audience from seeing how the trick is done because everything happens 'behind the curtain'. How this particular trick is done is that usually, the magician standing in front of curtain will invite a female assistant to come lay on a bed, then he waves his hands around and does some conjuring and incantation and the girl seems to "levitate" in to the air. However, all is not as it seems. Behind that curtain is a 'lifting device' similar to a forklift and an operator. The curtain peller is standing infront of is actually two curtains joined together as one. The middle where they join us where peller is standing and he has to stand there because it is through the gap where they join that a very thin but hard handle of the lifting device protrudes and Peller uses his body to hide it. What happens is that the bed the female assistant lays on has a 'fake top' that is either made of wood or metal but hard enough to take the girls weight and this fake bed top is attached to the protruding arm of the lifting device behind the curtain. The female assistant cover the edges of the the fake top with her body by laying close to the edge but she can't hide the one where her head is and that why her head has to tilt down so you see the edge. All peller does is to do some conjuring in a loud voice so the lift device operator can hear him then at the mention of a prearranged signal, the operator lifts the girl up a couple of feet in the air with fake top attached to his lifting device and everyone thinks it is magic.
There are two ways to do this trick can be watched in YouTube link below:
peeta89: All the Igbos in this platform are saying thrash. If Radio Biafra is bold enough, why don't they make their radio station base known?
At least most of our radio stations we all know their base and where they are located.
You guys should wake up we r in 2015 you guys are still talking and thinking of Biafra. No be only Biafra na Raffia palm.
Why would we make the radio location known? So that the authorities can send those hoodlums called The Nigerian police in to arrest people and destroy equipment? You better start accepting that Biafra is here to stay and the fraud call Nigeria is an end.
[quote author=coolbis post=35914881][/quote]Funny that a lot of people talk nonsense on NL.
The difference between Ojukwu and Buhari is that Ojukwu was never an active participant in any coup in Nigeria. Buhari on the other hand was a major participant of all three coups he was involved in including the one that made him Military head of state. As for seceding, Ojukwu did not manage to secede because he was a Military man. Ojukwu seceded because the easterners besieged him to secede after 40,000 Easterners were slaughtered nationwide. Ojukwu could secede because he had the full backing of his people.
Demigods: Man. Look at the way he elevated the woman's body!
I will get there soon. Advancing!
If you look at that picture of the woman 'floating' in the air, you will see how he did it. Look well at the shadow of the woman and where her head tilts back.
coolbis: brainless indeed, i just wish i could be as brainless as buhari so my kids will be proud of their brainless father who became a governor at 33yrs,a minister@ 35yrs,a chairman of the government largest corporation and a head of state @ 40. Wish some1 here too can be proud and wish his father too can be this brainless like this 'brainless dullard'.
Your post is laughable. Did Buhari get to those positions by merit or did he get there by the barrel of the Gun? Besides winning the Presidential race, Buhari got to where he is in life by being a successful coup plotter. The counter-coup, Murtalas coup, the 1983 coup and Abachas coup saw Buhari being made a Governor,Minister, Military head of state and PTF chairman. Buhari is just an opportunist.
Politics › Re: What Happened To My Country? by zendy: 8:49am On Jul 18, 2015
