₦airaland Forum

She spoke Nsukka dialect very well in that movie.

Anyone with half a brain would know that this policy is not only unaffordable, it is also unworkable. Only a brainless cattle rarer would actually dream up such a laughable idea. With Oil prices plummeting and an ever increasing cash strapped society being the order of the day, it is prudent to live in the real world. APC as a party is a disaster and Buharis cluelessness makes GEJ look like Einstein.

lolaredvelvet:
Rubbish. So, having kids out of wedlock is now the latest trend in town abi. Trust Nigerian yeyebrities to always emulate black American celebrities with their baby mama isssh.
Wizkid, Davido, 2face, Timaya, P_square (before dem marry) now D-prince .. who's next? Korede Bello?

When it comes to emulating the good things of westernisation .. E.g. infrastructure and technological development, that one na die. But to copy nonsense, trust our people.

Man you said it all. To be a baby father/Mother is easy. To be a Husband/wife, that's another kettle of Fish entirely.

I drink and smoke. I have had girl friends who were smokers. Yes I can marry a girl who smokes but on the condition that she will quit smoking before the arrival of our first child.

Eze Nnunu?


Which means "King of Birds"?


As much as I like phyno's songs and I know he is a Coal city guy, Im not sure if he is actually an Igbo guy. But I will hasten to say that anyone born or raised in Igboland,accepts Igbo culture and loves the Igbo tribe second to none, in my mind is Igbo.

bigmodo:
Guys help me, I suddenly started developing strong feelings for my salesgirl. both of us are not married. I have fallen in love with her, please what should I do?

What do you know is love? You can only fall in love with someone you are already dating and getting to know on a personal level. Anything else is infatuation or your 'Joy-stick' talking.

PAINGAIN:
Yorubas as usual don't know where they stand or what they want. U hate the ibos, deport them,despise them but then u turn around and tell us that biafra will fail if we break out. What do u guys want? What? What? What?

All they want is to continue with Lord Lugardian fraud called Nigeria. I think the Yorubas cannot stomach the thought of being in one country with the Hausas without the Igbos.

chamboy:
Do u have Food

That's the whole essence of being independent. To develop our selves Agriculturally and otherwise. Besides, places where food can be bought will never run out.

honeychild:
Do all these Anioma igbos, etche-igbos, rivers-igbos accept that they are really igbos? Nairaland is full of threads in which each of these people keep shouting that they aren't igbo. I live in PH. Call an ikwerre man "igbo" and see what happens

The ones amongst them claiming not to be Igbos are hypocrites who deny their ancestry because of the politics of Oil. How can someone have an Igbo surname,speak Igbos his or her ancestral language but turn around and say they are not Igbo? Did the person fall from the moon? A good example of this hypocrisy was earlier this year when Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,former Governor of Rivers went to campaign for APC in Aba. He told the people of Aba that Jonathan is not Igbo,does not have an Igbo name and can't speak Igbo. But he (Amaechi) is Igbo because he has an Igbo name and can speak Igbo. In Portharcourt, Amaechi is an Ikwere man but outside Portharcourt,he is an Igbo man. Who is fooling who here? The Ikwere Man has a sneaky way of remembering he is Igbo once he is outside Portharcourt

CharliParker:
Sometimes I wonder if this people calling Biafra are with their right senses

We are with our senses. Only people with sense seek their freedom.

blaqoracle:
if there were to be a referendum today, I can assure you that 85% of igbo will opt out of Biafra. you need to visit biafraland to know that they can never survive a 100 days before collapse. ignore should be ever grateful to Nigerians for them and their loads

Oh really? What is it that Nigeria has that would cause Biafra not survive? Didn't we survive before there was Nigeria?

EUROBOMBER:
I am absolutely speechless.

Was Ojukwu right?

It all depends where you are from . If you are an Igbo man like me, was Ojukwu right to declare Biafra after 40,000 of his people were butchered all over Nigeria? He was was more than right.


However, to some people, Ojukwu should have thrown a party and celebrated the massacre of his people because we are 'one Nigeria'. The picture above is another example of 'one Nigeria'

ba7man:
Lagos was already a thriving trade city before the emergence of the whites.

Slave trade made it witness a boom in West Africa and white men sailing to south Africa used to stop over to be hosted by Oba Dosunmu. They reported he was very westernized in his ways.

The waterways made transportation of goods easy.

The same Oba Dosunmu who signed over Lagos to the British in 1863.

olusipimp:
Will ♈όϋ shut that ur useless mouth and think right with that ur flat head,where were ur tribes when da obas of lagos fought,where were ur flat head tribes when lagos war was fought and now γ̲̣̣̥ou̶̲̥̅̊ have da guts to say lagos was collectively developed,its ur tribe that's perpetrating evils in dis same sw....for all crimes in sw,flat head ppl caused 89% of it.......think bfor spill out trash.fht

Lagos was designated as capital of Nigeria for many years and taxes from all over Nigeria was used to build Lagos. If the British had not made Lagos Capital of Nigeria, Lagos would have just been a "Village by the coast"

blackmartial:
This would have been his prefered vice, if not for people chanting no to a muslim/muslim ticket as if it really matters.

Don't kid your self. If it wasn't for the Muslim/Muslim ticket thingy, Tinubu would have been VP.

Chei! I thought my fellow Igbos had outgrown this sort of barbaric act? Why do you guys have to burn and kill these people even if they were armed? What makes the people committing this act any better than the people they are burning? Show maturity and hand the suspects and their guns over to the police. This just low.

The problem with Osibanjo is that he has no political clout. Obasunjo could not ride Atiku because Atiku had a lot of weight as the leader of PDM. What political structure has Osibanjo got? Could he have won the counsillorship of his ward before he became VP? Osibanjo is just seen as 'Tinubu norminee'

I laugh at the 'change' that APC supporters where chanting a little over a week ago. It's change alright, change from one set of political criminals carrying an umbrella to another set of criminals carrying a broom. The vultures are circling over Abuja waiting to feast over the carcass called Nigeria. Saraki was just the first Vulture to swoop down, others are on there way.


Nobody and I mean nobody can rescue Nigeria while it is running this leperous unitary system of Government. Government has to be decentralised to made effective. Career criminals are all in Abuja running things and people think things will get better? I laugh in Swahili.

Nigeria is a failed enterprise and anyone who has hope of redemption should forget it. What does not work, simply does not work

leke12:
The only side still deciding Nigeria's fate is Southwest,had it been awolowo agreed with ojukwu there won't be anything call nigeria again. Let's view. It this way, imagine:1. if southwest decide to secede, the southeast and SS will never want to stay with d north. 2.and if southwest decided to stay the SS and SE won't be able to secede because the southwest won't want to stay alone with the north so it will boycott their every move and form an alliance with d north just like d civil war days. 3. For nigeria to break successfully without any bloodshed or war the whole southern protectorate will secede, and they must form alliance to do that. Forget actualization Biafra or niger delta republic without d southwest alliance it will jst cause senseless bloodshed. I agree the north is pulling us back in terms of civilization, hunger for power and freedom(southwest aren't that okay with it) but all the southern protectorate must first agree to break together and each can form their respective countries later. Peace!!!!

The Idea of the SW,SE and the SS uniformly seceding as the "Republic of Southern Nigeria" is intriguing. There was a time I actually thought this might be the best option. Unfortunately, I don't seee this ever happening for 2 reasons:

1]The present day Yoruba man has lost all sense of self determination and sovereignty (which is why us Igbos generally perceive Yorubas as cowards)


2] The Yorubas know that a Southern Nigerian Republic probably won't last very long. They know they can't control the Igbos by themselves. I think that the Yoruba man is more comfortable with Nigeria than a Southern Nigeria,hence the alliance with the North. The very idea of Oduduwa Republic scares the $hit out of them. They just don't have it in them to go it alone.

Ike EKweremadu has been Deputy Senate president for a long time is still largely a nobody in Igboland.

"Igbo e nwe Eze"

mrmetoo1:
Huh?? You don't have where to move to?? You don't have Biafra states again?? What happened to all the states in the east? Or are you saying you want to leave but they have to develop your state first before you leave because I don't understand.

Then no one is telling you to leave, you're saying you want to leave. All I'm saying is start leaving to show you're serious about your intentions/threat. I have wonderful igbo friends/neighbors/partners and I love that we are one Nigeria but I just didn't agree with the part the poster I quoted said Yorubas are not allowing them leave, that part I didn't get.

If your girlfriend keeps saying she'll leave and she's still balancing in your living room, using your cars, using your office, still sleeping in your house, would you take the threats serious? Until the day she cuts you off before you decide if you want to beg her to stay or just split amicably.

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That's all nonsense. A Biafran Government must be in place first. Biafrans left in 1967 en mass back home,still they were not allowed their country. This time,the country must be in place first.

mrmetoo1:
But I'm sorry who's stopping you?? I'm not sure what the obsession is with Yoruba?? Please what's the story here?? You guys live amongst the Yorubas than any other tribe yet all you do is attack Yorubas.

I've said it before, if you guys are really serious about leaving start moving back to the east with your assets, money, manpower, brainpower, etc then we'll know you're serious.

You guys can't be arriving in huge numbers to Lagos every single day and expect anyone to take this your Biafra talk as nothing more than empty rhetoric.

Instead of you saying Yorubas should let you go like they're chaining you down in Lagos or any part of the SW for that matter, I dare you Biafrans to come meet your tribesmen to convince them to start moving back to the east to build it.

This so called "Biafrans must leave Lagos and move back to the east to show they are serious" being chanted by Yoruba people is indeed funny. We will only move back when Biafra with well defined borders and an instituted Government is in place. No one can ask us to "move from Nigeria to Nigeria". When we are granted our country, then we talk about exodus. How can anyone ask someone to move without giving them where to move to? We will all eventually go back when we get our country and join hands to build it, but not before the country is actualised.

bukster:
That's not true. The SW and SS are the only geopolitical regions that generate more revenue than the allocations they receive. All other regions depend far more on allocations.

Who told you this? Take away Lagos and tell me what is left in the SW? The same Lagos collectively built by everyone? It is a good thing that Oil might soon be pumping out of the South-west. Hopefully, this will finally help the Yorubas leave Biafran agitators alone. Who knows? It might even help the Yoruba man get back a sense of self determination and sovereignty. Two vital human traits that the Yoruba man has long thrown away in the name of 'one Nigeria'.

oyetunder:
We need to be preach UNITY pls. Dividing this country along tribal lines won't solve our problems! I won't be surprise to find tribes within igbo tribe even if they become a Nation on their own! Let there be a Yoruba republic today, and you will know that yorubas are not one! Then you will know that ekitis hate the Ijebus. Hmm, if there is a Biafra republic today, all the Ibo traders shall need visa to enter all Yoruba, middle belt, south south and hausa villages..what happens when they return home to Iboland to trade alone! If all the ibos in lagos should go back to the east today, it shall be a tsunamy!!! Let's build a Great Nation and stop promoting useless solutions.

So because of needing Visa to travel to the territory called Nigeria is a valid reason to stay in Nigeria? Not good enough. The only reason you are a Nigerian is because a British Soldier and businessman called Fredrick Lugard came to West-Africa and formed an Army called the West African Fronteer force. It was with this Army that Lugard killed, intimidated and forced your fore-fathers in to what Lugards Girlfriend at the time (later his wife), flora Shaw called "Nigeria". You are not a Nigerian out of your choice but out of the choice of a white man and that is why the very notion of Nigeria represents slavery. I cannot answer a slave name the white gave me. A country is only created by the sovereign free will of the people and not by force. You have no country.

ndcide:
Only shortsighted people see things from the perspective of the @op.

Just one event can render this analysis useless. It's only used by manipulative people to achieve selfish goals.

Finally everything about APC is not all good. Extreme politics is foolishness.

I agree. What the OP is calling political oblivion is just a 4 year tenur. It's hardly worth breaking sweat for.By this time in 4 years time, it could be a new president and a new political party being sworn in, would the current crop of APC politicians go into political oblivion too? I don't like anything about APC. This party would never have been formed if GEJ had been a Hausa or Yoruba man. APC will only work as a party as long as it has a Northerner as its president. The day it fields anybody other than a Northerner, the party will fall like a pack of cards.

As much as I wish Nigeria well, I already know that Buhari will be a faliure just like all Ngerian presidents before him. Buharis promises are like a one legged man promising to one day defeat Hussein Bolt at the Olympics. You can't fix a House that has a bad foundation. To fix the house,you have to fix the foundation first. Every Nigerian president has failed just like Buhari will fail because they busy trying to fix the house and not the foundation, an exercise in futility.

I remember Abacha for his dark glasses and tribal marks. He wasn't much of media person. He ruthlessly dealt with his enemies. Just like Muhamadu Buhari, Abacha became everything he was in life due to successful coup plotting. Abacha was probably the most successful coup plotter in Africa. Not only was he involved in every successful coup in Nigeria with the exception of the first one, he actually foiled the Orkar coup that had all but toppled Babangida. I remember the press sometimes called him 'Khalifa' because nobody could become president of Nigeria without his endorsement. Abacha was also the first person in the Nigerian Army to have gone through every rank before becoming a 4 star General. Who can forget the show of shame known as the "Abacha one million man march"? My assessment of Abacha is that just like Babangida and Buhari, he was a military opportunist who took advantage of the prevailing situation of the time to sieze power for purely selfish reasons. He was the embodiment of corruption. It was people like him that destroyed Nigeia

Mynd44:
I don’t really like to look at past mistakes except I want to see what I could have done better and put it into my going forward. Not even mop about what I could have done about it in the past. It happened, it happened. The whole issues about pogrom or genocide is just a long story for the history books and holding on to the past is not going to make you go forward so what do you do? Look to the nearest and far future.

The problems you have is not different from the problems that plague other parts of the country which is basically economics. I will always say until the inhabitants of the South East start looking towards developing the economics of the South East as a whole and not of certain people living in the South East, nothing will happen going forward.

Take this Second Niger Bridge for example. You have Delta on one side and Anambra on another side and you say for 30 years people have clamoured for another bridge but what is the cost of the darned bridge? It is a little over 100 billion. Are you saying the governments of Delta and Anambra could not have built the bridge by coming up with some of the capital, have private investors come up with the rest and toll the bridge? Imagine the impact of that?

It took the new governor of Anambra, Gov Obaino to sanitise the Anambra side of the bridge after the whole place was almost decaying.

When I heard of the port in Akwa Ibom, I almost jumped out of my skin hoping that the Abia state government will see that as a chance to improve the trade at Aba. You ask why?

The Ibaka (I believe that’s the name) port is a good chance for Abia state to get at the sea. They ought to have bought a stake or invested money towards the project perhaps get exclusive terminal(s) (the same way Lagos bought huge farmlands in Ogun state for their rice project). Then finance or look for investors to finance a direct rail line from the port to an inland port close to Aba and develop an industrial complex right there. Do you know how much economic activities that is? That on its own has simply opened up Abia state to the sea and gives them a chance to export without stress and also give them a chance to bring in raw materials and export raw goods. Footwears and the likes made from Aba gets easy access to the world.

The South Eastern states can come together to link everywhere via rail. The South East is not that large: an inland rail port in Abia can easily link the rest. If you wait for the FG to dredge the Niger, sorry ooooo because believe it or not, Anambra is not the only state that will demand for a share of that and in the spirit of equity, the federal government had to consider the rest too.



Igbos are one of the most travelled people in the world, I find it amazing that the governors and leaders there can’t use the influence of these people to draw in investors.

Do what Ogun state is doing to Lagos by sending delegations to companies (with your people at the helm) and giving them free land and tax incentives which is gradually making Ogun one of the states with the highest number of industries right now and still growing.

It is not every time you wait for the Federal Government. Look at how Lagos took Ikorodu road from the FG and worked on it. Or how Oyo, Ogun and Lagos asked the FG to hands off the Lagos-Ibadan expressway if they won’t fix it.

I want to see a tax structure in Anambra that generates money for the state to do more. The traders are there, tax them but before you can tax them, make the markets better. Aba is there, tax the traders and give them a chance to access the international markets

You don’t have to fight for international airports. Fight for roads instead.

Regional integration first: that is the nearest future before you talk of Biafra. If Biafra works, you already have the structures. If it does not come, you still have it

I don’t get why Abia state will fire non-indigenes from other South Eastern states from the civil service. That is dumb and only divide you.

You complain of representation in the National assembly and how you are numerically disadvantaged but even if you have an additional state, it only gives you a slight number. SE legislators need to build bridges with those from other zones and play the politics of the Senate and House of Representatives. They need to learn to “toast” other legislators (possibly actively support the bills favouring them) so they can support your bills in return.

This politics of “We are Igbos” has to stop especially at the federal level. Learn to play politics where you make friends (even if you have to pretend). Do you think Lagos got the federal government to move a lot of companies there because they have more senators? Hell no. They made friends with those they can make friends with, sacrificed what they can and got what they can get. Remember a tight hand not only keeps what it has but also not receive anything.

Igbos love to talk about how many houses they have outside the south east or how many business interests they have outside the south east but at what gain? You set up a factory in Oyo and pay tax to the Oyo state government, employ more citizens(indigenes and non indigenes) of Oyo and add to the GDP of Oyo so you can brag? Why not set it up in Ebonyi?

I don’t understand how Ifeanyi Ubah can come out to say Igbos are taking over Lagos and brag about how “they” won House of Representative seats there. Who will they represent, the south east or Lagosians(Lagosians here being both indigenes and non indigenes)? They are there to develop Lagos. Why will Ifeanyi Ubah say “Igbos will install the governor of Lagos”? You are simply playing politics where everyone else will be hostile towards you. Look even if you have Biafra as your goal, pretend to belong and be a part so you can get what will develop you

There has been this issue of other regions cutting food supplies to Biafra if it is ever created and then you hear Igbos say they will also cut oil supplies but before thinking of alienating yourselves in the event of a Biafra, why not just open your doors with the North in terms of trade as it concerns food? Why must it be malice (not necessarily violence)?

No one has the monopoly of farming but is the south east investing in farming right now? Learn from what happened the last time when food was cut off and stop thinking about how you will cut off oil supplies. What if the states in the South-South decide not to join and decide to form their own country (It can happen)? Everyone trades according to what they gain and if anyone offers them money, they will sell oil to them. Nigeria uses merely 400,000 barrels of oil each day, the oil deposits in Ondo and Edo(if you believe Edo will be part of a Biafra then you need to think about it again) can sort that out. The government is also talking of continuing the search in the Lake Chad region. Deposits have been found in Lagos, with Dangote building a 650,000 barrels per day refinery and Oando following up with a 350,000 barrels per day. The country will be a refining hub in West Africa and with that can afford to buy raw crude and export the products.

But what happens to the people of Igbo descent who has billions in investment in places outside the South East or the places that might not be part of Biafra? The loss to these people will be huge as the government of the country you leave might just nationalise them if you decide you want to leave with malice and the continual threats by people like Kanu Nnamdi of Radio Biafra.

Think of developing the SE as a short term goal with Biafra as a long term goal else the future (near and far) is going to be hellish.


http://www.megahub.com.ng/to-get-biafra-forget-about-biafra/

This is the write up of a myopic person who cannot see beyond his nose. You are asking the Igbos to stay in Nigeria? Why? Has Nigeria worked as a nation? lol around you and see the so called Giant of Africa and tell me what you see? An utterly failed nation. Look at America, it used to be under Britain until the 13 colonies that made up America decided to take their destiny into their own hands and struggled to get their own country. That same America that Britain dismissed as "nothing" is now the greatest nation on earth. My people of the South-East have to chart their own course and seek their own destiny outside Nigeria. We survived before the White man came to create Nigeria, why won't we survive after we leave Nigeria? I'm not saying that Biafra will be easy, infact, I'm sure it will be tough at first. But I believe in my people. During the Biafran war, despite being blockaded by air, land and sea. We made our own guns, fashioned our own explosives,refined our own fuel and depended on our selves while fighting an enemy who was vastly more equiped. If we could do that in war time,then imagine what we can achieve in peace time. Stop thinking small. We have outgrown seeking relevance in a failed soceity like Nigeria. It is time for us to seek our own nation and go with it wether good or bad. I think that Biafra can be achieved through a negotiated settlement with Nigeria and there won't be any need for armed conflict. However,if Nigeria refuses to negotiate then war is inevitable. Every war has always been about one group of people who are fighting to be free and another group who are fighting to take that freedom away.

tpiadotcom:
just curious.

It happens too often, where a women has everything- looks, perfect figure, good job, great cook, socialite, etc etc, fills all indices yet still finds herself in such circumstances.

what could be the cause?

You want know the cause? I will tell you. It doesn't matter how beautiful or sexually appealing a woman is,the man in her life will eventually get tired of having sex with her. Let's say Indomie is your best food. If you eat Indomie morning,afternoon and night for 2 months, you will get tired and sick of Indomie. Even the sight of the unopened Indomie will make you sick. The same thing applies for men towards women. The novelty of sleeping with a beautiful woman wears of fast and thin. What makes a man not cheat has nothing to do with physical beauty or how good a woman is in bed, I know rich men married to stunningly beautiful women but that same man is chasing after their ugly maid more than his wife. What makes a man not cheat is character. If a man sees more to a woman's character than just beauty, he is more likely not to cheat because he will remember that no amount of good sex is worth throwing away what he got. Most Africans don't know anything about love. They think love is a high degree of "liking someone" or that love is what the read about in romantic fiction and movies. I remember during my university days, one of my best friends was a 6 foot tall handsome guy called Monday. Girls went crazy for the guy just because he was good looking. The guy went through many girls like Dangote goes through Naira. Every girl who dated him was the "happening chick" on campus. He cheated on every last one of them. The idea of getting tied down to one girl sounded crazy. All the girls he cheated thought "they were in love". I used to laugh and still laugh at the stupidity of some women.

cramjones:
Dear Nairlanders,

It has come to my attention that not up to 2weeks of our president's take over of Nigeria's governance, some of you have been using unprintable words on him.

It is highly regrettable that we sit behind our computers and phones and call the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria a dullard. This is not right! We must learn to respect those in authority. What has Buhari done that warrants him to be called a dullard? The two religions most Nigerians practice tells us to respect those in authority.

Nevertheless, we must criticize where we believe PMB has erred, but we must refrain from using demeaning and derogatory terms. This must stop.

I urge the moderators of Nairaland to follow this trend closely, lest Nairaland becomes a forum to insult a sitting president.

We will not tolerate this!

God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

-CramJones

cc: Lalasticlala

You cannot tolerate this? Seriously, you cannot tolerate this? What do you think this is? Uganda under Idi Amin? You and that gap toothed brainless cattle- rearing illiterate are going to tolerate it for as long as he is in office. So you think that being president accords anyone any special status? If you don't have anything better to do,go and watch a movie.