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What kind of person wears dark shades to a romantic time out?

san316:
Questioning the continuous existence of a country is treason. This is what MASSOB is doing but since we are in a lawless country, some foolish posters are talking nonsense. Let him be arrested and let's see what will happen. Just like they said the country will burn if GEJ loses.

When Alex Salmond, the erstwhile head of the Scottish national party (SNP) questiond the continued the continued existence of Britain last year, the Scotland was given a referendum because Britain is a civilised country that does not force anyone to belong to it. But in backward Nigeria, when anyone questions the British fabrication called Nigeria,they are frivolously charged with treason and clamped in jail. This Nigeria is really something.

peppyluv02:
Apart from Lagos which I won't deny is more developed than the east but that doesn't include the ghettos, no part of your south west can compete with the east!
Stop hating!

Don't mind that ofe mmanu. The major reason why the Yoruba man fights over Lagos is because aside Lagos,there's nothing in the SW. While I can give it to Yorubas that they are academicians and captains of industries, it is incredible that besides Lagos,there is no commercial hub-city in all of Yoruba land. You cant find the equivalent of Onitsha,Nnewi or Aba in Yorubaland. Oh well, everyone has his own area of strenght I guess.

It is a very rare thing to find a Yoruba person in Igbo land. On the converse side,most Igbo men would have visited at least one Yoruba state or Lagos before the age of 20.

raumdeuter:
Some of these fine officers were killed by those bastardss that planned the January 15 1966 coups

None of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna were in his picture

Nzeogwu along with Obasunjo joined the army in 1960. Ifeajuna joined 1961.

IdiAmin1:
So Ojukwu was senior to Gowon afterall, hmmm.

It has been a subject of debate about who is senior between Gowon and Ojukwu. Gowon stated recently while celebrating his 80th Birthday that he was commissioned as an officer in 1956 while Ojukwu was commissioned in 1957 making him Ojukwus senior in the army. This is true,however it should be noted that an Army officer is still a civil servant. Ojukwu joined the civil service as a graduate in 1955. When Ojukwu joined the Army and was subsequently commissioned in 1957 after undergoing officers training abroad,the government backdated his commission date to 1955 to reflect the year he joined the civil service and that is how Ojukwu gained seniority over Gowon. The government just saw his joining the military as transferring from one Government department to another. To this day, the Government still recognises Ojukwu as senior to Gowon while the Army might recognise Gowon as senior to Ojukwu.

You know you have made it in life when you can afford a house that has indoor swimming pool and customised Jakuzzi. Very nice Mikel enjoy your money bro.

I'm not an Okorocha fan, infact, I really detest the man but this news is unbelievable. I don't want rush to judgement. It could be typo error somewhere. Maybe the meant '3 months'.

So with the name Chibike Amaechi, you cant figure out who he is? The same Amaechi went campaiging in Aba where he told the crowd "I am an Igbo man, I can speak Igbo". Amaechi is an Ikwerre man and the Ikwere's are just Igbos who deny their Igbo heritage because of the politics of Oil and the civil war.

AhmedMustapha:
I'm not saying Nigeria has worked, I only stand by the fact that division won't solve any of the problems we face as a country

United hasn't solved the problem so we have give division a try.

AhmedMustapha:
I asked you what is against the progress of the Igbos in Nigeria that division will solve and you come up with this imaginary theories, Again I ask you why can't the Igbos touch the sky in Nigeria?

This has nothing to do with them touching the sky in Nigeria, this is all about if they want to be in Nigeria at all. For the sake of this same Nigeria, the Igbos have been marginalised, killed in their millions and their sovereignty stolen. Nigeria hasn't worked in 100 years since Lugard created it and it will never work, its time Igbos left this union which they were forced into against their will.

sameer1212:
Damn! U have been ranting like a mad man here since the beginning of this thread. Are u okey? What's your problem? So there will no be a country call nigeria in the next four years abi? If U think so, then u are the biggest fool on earth. U just make me sick

In history,there are many countries that have broken up in the past,it is not new

AhmedMustapha:
So you mean Igbos will do better in their own country. Just wanted to ask what is against the progress of the Igbos in Nigeria and how will division solve that problem

Yes Igbo will do very well in their own country, actually, it is even Nigeria that is holding the Igbo man back from touching sky.

Gbawe:
And the problem with people like you is that you do not understand that there are ways to show you don't see yourselves as Nigerians which would make others take you seriously. You understand the saying "charity begins at home"? Why , if serious about your wish to reject and move away from the rest of us, do you not insularly remain in your domain and make it a microcosm of the separate "great" nation you claim you want and are capable of building?

What would make other Nigerians and indeed the entire world take you seriously more than this? Yet you come here daily telling us all other Nigerians are your problem and are the groups "holding you" back meanwhile your nomadic lifestyle, typified by your readiness to go anywhere in search of wealth and prosperity, mark you out as confused , hateful and hypocritical.

If you do not feel Nigerian, and this is truly a general feeling of your ethnic group all Igbos adhere to as a matter of principle, why not begin showing us you mean business by shunning interaction with the rest of Nigeria to make Ebonyi, Anambra, Abia, ENugu, Imo et al superlative models of how Igbos can create paradise in any space they are completely free to define? Or are you not free to define your space as you wish? Yet why do you leave your domain in droves to adopt the language and culture of others only to turn around and say those same people you willingly travelled to live with hold you back? I will never take your kind seriously as long as the real actions of Igbos on the ground show they need other Nigerians more than the other way round.

Good Nigerians, to include Igbos, are sick of the hypocrisy of bitter individuals like you who are unwilling to let go of the past. The way forward is very simple. You don't "feel Nigerian" then stay away from Nigerians completely. Don't trade with them, don't migrate to where they live and don't interact with them socially. You have the States to enable you to do this, i.e keep to yourselves. We are all sick of your bitter diatribe where you hypocritically say you want your own Country and that the rest of us hinder your progress yet your real nomadic lifestyles bear people like you out as confused, hateful and bigoted hypocrites.

If you and other secession-minded Igbos are genuinely intelligent and sincere then you would have realised that land borders mean nothing to resolute and 100% sincere agitators. You can create an insularly great Igbo region, irrespective of Nigeria and definitive of the "supremacist" talent you go on about non-stop, if that is genuinely what majority of Igbos want and are committed to delivering.

Listen man,we are not in a stone-age. The "ECOWAS" embossed at the top of the Nigerian passport did not get there by mistake. It is there to encourage economic co-operation and free movement of west Africans without the need for the member nation to give up their sovereignty. This same principle applies with the European union (EU). I do not have to give up my sovereignty to do business with a Yoruba man or Hausa man. Igbos don't have to be in the same country to the Yorubas or Hausas for us to anything mutually beneficial for all. I have read on NL how some Yorubas have said that they cannot take Igbos serious about wanting there own country unless they leave Lagos and go back their homeland and I laugh. Why would anyone even think this if not to spite the Igbos? Have all the Yorubas in west Africa,Europe and America been sent back for not being citizens of their host countries? The commercial activities of Igbos in Lagos are contributing in generating revenues for not just Lagos but Nigeria as a whole but someone wants the Igbos to go because they want their own country. What will be next? You send back all the Chinese,Indians and Ghanains? How can Nigeria even send anyone back without leaving ECOWAS first. The Igbos need and want their sovereignty stolen by the British back. I do not need my destiny decided in Abuja and I certainly don't want any political Union with Yorubas or Hausas. You can't enforce your "Lord Lugardian dream" on people who don't want it. A country is by the consent of the people and not by force or fiat.

tupacshakur:
You couldn't spell the word "illiterate" correctly and you dare call a retired General, who rose through the ranks of the Nigerian Army an "illiterate".

I'm very sure your Father is not as literate as Buhari...

Oloshi!

Well if your here to check who crosses their Tee's and dotes their i's, or who forgot add an 'e', save your self the trouble and buy a newspaper.

olalat:
And who is going to disintegrate the country? You I guess. Something inside me gingers to give insult of your life but I won't do that for I respect your nativity and the fact that you need more education outside what you were being thought in d classroom. See kid, Nigeria can never break, I repeat, it can never break. If you want to know why, ask with humility, I shall explain to in detail. Some of you need tutorials.

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Nigeria can break because lord Lugard told you so? The soviet Union broke up,Sudan broke up, even our Colonial master Britain almost lost Scotland last year. But it is 55 year old Nigeria that can't break up? You should be asking your self why you are afraid of a break up.

Gbawe:
Indeed. Every time I come to nairaland, I have to literally slap myself 'normal' because of how posters like zendy talk aberrantly. Everywhere else in the world, and because of the stone-age problems of our nation, the focus of the people would be on adequate electricity supply, optimal healthcare, bridging our massive infrastructure deficit, developing a modern, modular and robust transport sector, provision of quality education that will assist Nigerians be the sort of solutions providers who can produce first class products and services the world wants, etc , etc, etc.

Yet it is very disappointing to see that some, to the detriment of their own development, prefer to wallow in the mindless hatred of others and the unproductive insistence of holding on to the past to the extent they always prefer to remain bitter and vengeful even when the unique opportunity has arisen for all of us to make a fresh and productive start for the sake of our Nation. Clearly GEJ was a failure. How would it hurt any Nigerian, genuinely desirous of the progress of their own country, to grant Buhari their goodwill, support him, even if temporarily, and hope he delivers so Nigeria can be the great nation God intended her to be ?

The problem with your write up is that you don't seem to understand that not all of us see our selves as Nigerians. What is a Nigerian except a west-African who subscribes to an 'colonial identity' foisted on him by a British profiteer called Lugard? You have no country as at yet.

olalat:
Nope, that's not the ultimate. Rochas is going to be the next President of Igbo extraction. After Buhari, power is coming back to the south and of course, everybody knows that igbon reserve it. The question is, who is that Igbo man that has national appeal, that could be accepted across all divides of the country? Its only Rochas I see for now. Not tribalistic Peter Obi that Jonathan was positioning for the job. Definitely not Maligned Orji Uzor Kalu. The Igbos need to put heads together and find a common front from now on. They should stop been vindictive, emotional and egocentric but visionary in their words and actions. I wish them well.

These APC people haven't even gotten into office and they already turning into 'PDP'. Look at this one predicting who will become president after Buhari. He doesn't even know if there will be a party called APC in 4 years time or if APC will not turn out to be more unpopular than PDP. Chances are that there won't even be a country called a Nigeria in 4 years time.

IGBOSON1:
^^^I swear, it's these beggarly greedy and selfish old fools that are our biggest problem!

Our only option as a people is to either agitate for a true fiscally compliant federation, a confederation, or everybody should go answer their papa name.....simple! Not all this stupid going to beg a Fulani man not to forget Igbos! I mean, have they no shame!? These people they're going to 'beg' are the very same people that have hated, marginalized and murdered Ndigbo......and there's no sign that they're remorseful for their past actions, yet some old fools are going to 'plead' with these very same people 'not to forget Igboland'!

Since the end of the uncivil war, we've had bastard sons and daughters like these fools that have done exactly what these knobheads are doing today, yet where has it left us as a region compared to others in attracting 'federal attention and projects'!? People that hate you will continue to hate you, so you better wise-up and fight for true freedom and not all this nonsense they're asking Buhari for!

Fools!!

It would be a good thing for Nigeria to be run on a regional or confederal type government (amazingly,this is the only area of Nigerian politics that Igbos and Yoruba see eye to eye) that has fiscal responsibility but unfortunately, the North will never agree to it for three reasons:

1) It will make nonsense of 'born to rule' because the Central Government will be weak while the federating regions will be strong.

2)The North fears it it will lose out on oil money

3) no northerner has forgotten how the east seceded under the regional system,hence they need to maintain 'divide and rule'. They will always fear that regionalsm will make it easier for the SE/SS seceed.

These 3 reasons are why Nigeria is a 'nest of deciet' which will never work.

omonnakoda:
Eboes always lived in villages and have no knowledge of the complexities of statecraft and diplomacy. This explains their extreme clannishness .The Eboe identity was foisted on them by the British/Nigeria
They were developmentally quite bakward relatively and have no meaningful history to share.They were essential a farm that the Efiks harvested for slaves for centuries

There's the saying that " Igbo eh nwe Eze". This means that " Igbos don't have kings" ( although the accurate translation is that Igbos never had and will never have a king). That's just the egalitarian nature of the Igbo man that he doesn't recognise anyone as his superior wherever he is. That's why the Igbos never had central form of authority unlike the Yoruba that had the Oyomesi and the Hausa that had the Sokoto caliphate. To this day, it still amazes an Igboman like me that a Yoruba man can prostrate on the floor to another human being bacause I know that someone will have to kill me before I can agree to do this. We Igbos have been fighting colonialism for a long time. We fought the authority of the British but failed,we fought the Northern dominated Nigerian army in Biafra and failed but I'm proud of my people for fighting where others ran away like cowards. When we win, we shall win big. Until then,we keep fighting

Stupid Igbo leaders!!! Going to beg a near illitrate Fulani cattle rearer not to forget them. These are men who should be educating the younger Igbos that it is their right to dissolve any political ties they have with Nigeria and set up their own country if they want. Ridiculing themselves for the sake of the British contraption called Nigeria.

OrlandoOwoh:
There has been no time any head of state, president or prime minister that governed Nigeria has been prepared to pilot the affairs of the most populous black country. From Tafawa-Balewa/Azikiwe to Jonathan, all got to the seat of power unprepared. Some didn't even have the interest.
1. Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa/Nnamdi Azikiwe: As it is with the practice in parliamentary system, the leader of the party with majority in the parliament emerges the Prime Minister. But in the case with Nigeria, the NPC (albeit with NCNC) which got majority had its leader, Ahmadu Bello reliquishing the office of Prime Minister to his deputy, Tafawa-Balewa.
2. Maj.-Gen. J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi who became the Head of State on 15 January 1966 got to the post when the coup plotters of January 15 failed to kill him, having killed the Prime Minister. He got there in his capacity as the GOC of the Nigerian Army.
3. Lt.-Col. Yakubu Gowon who took over from Aguiyi-Ironsi had it "forced" on him by some northern officers led by Lt. Col. Murtala Muhammed, Maj. T.Y. Danjuma and Capt. Martins Adamu, who led the July 1966 coup. Any of them could have retired him and become the head of state.
4. Brig. Murtala Muhammed was called by Col. Joe Garba and other officers to lead the country after the July 1975 coup. It is widely known that Muhammed was flown into the country from the UK after all the airports had been closed.
5. Lt.-Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo who became Head of State on 13 February 1976 succeeded Muhammed who was assassinated in a coup on the same day. According to Kole Omotosho in "Just Before Dawn", when Obasanjo was approached to lead Nigeria, he was met weeping.
6. Alh. Shehu Shagari who was sworn in as the first executive President on 1 October 1979, was originally eyeing the Senate, not the Presidency.
7. Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who became the Head of State on 31 December 1983 was approached by other officers who overthrew Shagari, to lead the country. He was flown from Jos, where was the GOC of a division to Lagos.
8. Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim Babangida overthrew Buhari.
9. Chief Ernest Shonekan was the Interim President. He got there when the pressure on Babangida became much.
10. Lt.-Gen. Sanni Abacha who was the Minister of Defence in the Interim National Government overthrew Shonekan.
11. Lt.-Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar who became Head of State on July 8 1998, succeeded Abacha who died on the same day.
12. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was brought out of prison in 1998 to contest in 1999. He has less than a year to prepare after the trauma he went through in prison.
13. Alh. Umaru Yar'Adua: He became President after it was forced on him even though his health status was known.
14. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became President after Yar'Adua died in office.
15. Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) became President on May 29 2015 after he had been contesting since 2003.

It's funny that he was so prepared but could not tell the people one single policy his government will run with. I was expecting to hear how he will deal with corruption, reduce inflation, improve the economy, create jobs, eradicate Boko haram. All we heard was lip service in that heavy Hausa accent of his. I don't think the man has anything to offer but only time will tell

emeka136:
if the northerners can produce oil in their land, do think that there will be anything like one Nigeria? i put the blame on igbo leaders

They northerners would have declared "Arewa Republic" long before Ojukwu declared Biafra. One Nigeria is the joke of the century.

cyril83:
Imo, anambra and abia oil producing state Hehehe! Maybe on paper.


Dream on brutty. Those states you mentioned are cursed land, too many bloodshed. No good resources would ever reside in their land.

The Igbos don't have anything but you are the one fighting to be with Igbos. This one is hard to understand

Oh well,most of them were APC members before Buhari got elected so this visit was to be nexpected. Rochas will always remain a nonentity outside Imo state and it's just by skin of his teeth that managed to survive the onslaught against APC in the east. They had better hope that Buhari is a magician who can perform wonders because if not,they will all politically drown with Buhari.

cyril83:
Ojukwu only fought because of SS oil and also had intention to claim lagos. If biafra is placed on referendum, believe me most of the reasonable ibos would like to stay because SS oil does not belong to ibos and farming is also dead in the east, so why is biafra nation when there is no resources to manage it

Brutty, you really need to widen you reasoning about biafra thang.

I guess you don't know that there is oil in all 5 Igbo States and that Anambra,Imo and Abia oil producing states? I'm not talking about the SS,they can stay in Nigeria of the want. Im talking about all Igbos including delta and Rivers Igbos coming together to get Biafra. South-South is optional.

cyril83:
Same old and dead thinking, you ibos need to rebrand your thinking so as to move on in life.

You can't keep chasing shadow, biafra is just a name formed by one greedy thief who wanted to turn himself to mugabe of zimbabwe. Biafra can never turned into a country name and if it does, believe me many of you gullible ones will cry for a reunion.

The question remains,why are you fighting to be with the Igbos who don't want be with you? If you and others like you cannot do without Igbos then say so. We Igbos might even commiserate with you people and understand.

cyril83:
Ibos i know can't stand alone, if you have your independence believe me you will still beg for reunion.

Man don't make laugh, Nigeria is of little or no use to the Igbo man. Biafra will definitely come back because Nigeria is a high level fraud created by the White man. I urge anyone who has these notes (mine are tucked away safe) to keep them safe. They will be worth more than gold when Biafra is restored. Don't worry about the people who support 'one Nigeria'. They are just people who have not yet managed to free themselves of that mental bondage the White Man From Britain put them into so we should put them in our prayers.

cyril83:
That was what ojukwu the coward used to lure ibos into war against the govt which now made them outcast in their country.

Ikemba will forever be remembered for the calamity he brought upon his people.

And yet if I ask you why Igbo loved and revered Ojukwu even in death, I'm sure you will not be able tell me. You see what he did as leading his people to death but we Igbos see what he did as leading us to freedom even if he did not succeed. Ojukwu owed Nigeria nothing,all he did was for his people and if I had been born then,I would have been proud to be at the war front prepared to lay down my life too.

missuniverse:
is Stella Damascus Igbo?

Her real name is actually Stella Ojukwu but her family changed their name to Damasus during the Biafran war because it was dangerous to have that surname then. She is Delta Igbo