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Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 584	Sanmi and his disappointments Sanmi, did I hear you say disappointed? Tell me what else could be more disappointing than when a learned man refuses to acknowledge that using hunger on innocent women and children as weapon of war is a heinous crime against humanity? You are disappointed because those innocent children that lost their lives are not yours. Point of correction Igbos are not the harbinger of Nigerian tragedies because God is not obligated to finish anything he didn’t start. The foundation of Nigeria was built on the interest of the colonial masters. It is impossible for people of different culture, language, religion and vision to co-exist without serious internal crises. It is now imperative for Nigeria to review the events that brought them together as a nation. Looking at all countries that are doing well around the world, they all share something in common such as language, religion, culture and vision. As you can see, these important ingredients that harmonize a better society remain a mirage in Nigeria. The threshold of Nigerian tragedies commenced when an Igbo man won election in Lagos state. The Yorubas converged and denied him his seat. They chorused! How can a kobokobo man win an election in Lagos state? After that day, many questions churned the air. How can an Igbo man win an election in Lagos state? How can an Igbo man become the president of Nigeria? How can Igbo land be developed as Abuja and Lagos? How can Igbo land have an international airport? How can Igbo land have good roads? How can an Igbo man enjoy first class employment in the federal ministry? The question goes on and on without a single answer. Since nobody is ready to answer our many questions, we are pleading to those involve to peacefully grant us a sovereign states of Biafra to enable us practice our culture, speak our own language, worship our God through our religion and put our visions into manifestation to soothe the challenges of the 21st century. We shall remain non violence as we value human lives and properties. We shall continue with our peaceful and non violence procedures until our request is granted.
Posted By: Onyekachi Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 585	Super Eagles In SA The extent of corruption in this Banana Republic of Nigeria has eaten deep to the extent that those piloting the affairs of Sports; especially Footbal in this Dwarf Nation don't even know the pride of a National Team to a Country. They are busy junketing all over the world to siphon government money, even forming a different types of Committe to oversee the performances of the SE. But how on earth one of the African Pride Team wore a Training Suit from London to Madela Country including the Coach and his Staff dispite Millions of dollars under their care. Is it wrong to have a Dress Code in a team?? Can any of those players appear on their Training Track when going to Away-March in Europe?? How much can it cost our Football Administrators to order a Special Tailored Blazer Suit to our Football Warrious??? Shame to Nigeria !!!!
Posted By: Stanley O Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 582	Sanmi You should be ashamed of your late Awolowo, the father of tribal politics in Nigeria. I am in a hurry now. Talk to you later.
Posted By: Nnaemeka Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 572	What do these idle people do? What do legislators' aides do? By NnaEmeka Meribe, Published: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 Last week, the Senate approved a 100 per cent pay rise for workers of the National Assembly. The increase came even before the committee set up by the Federal Government to review the salary of federal civil servants had yet to complete its assignment. A breakdown of the new package reveals that the minimum salary earner in NASS will receive N32,034.66 monthly while a fresh university graduate will earn N104,984.40. Assistant directors and directors will go home with N359, 922.64 and N437,644.58 respectively while clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives will earn N1,153,512.42 per month. For legislative aides, special assistants on grade level 14 will earn N437,693.68 per month. The increment followed the submission of the report of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Services. According to the report, the increment will take effect from January this year, but will be deployed in batches with 50 per cent paid immediately and the balance spread over the next eight years. The 50 per cent balance will be added up incrementally by 20 per cent, 15 per cent, and 15 per cent after the second, sixth, and eight year respectively. With the increment, the annual cost of maintaining legislative aides (numbering 2,942) will now rise to N6.02bn from the present bill of N3.5bn. It costs more to maintain these aides than any other group of NASS workers. Senators, according to media reports, said the new salary structure was justified, as there was need to attract and retain a high calibre of workforce. Some senators also argued that because NASS staff worked extra hours than their counterparts in the public service, they deserved special encouragement. I will not begrudge the NASS staff for getting a pay rise. In fact, based on current economic realities, the minimum salary of any worker should be above N50,000. And it is no big deal for a fresh graduate to earn slightly above N100,000 monthly since his mates in some sectors earn well above that. What I do not, however, understand is the argument that NASS staff work extra hours more than their counterparts in the public service. This argument is weak to justify as some civil servants play truancy, some NASS workers also play truancy. Again, just as there are NASS workers who work extra hours, there are also many federal civil servants who work extra hours almost on a daily basis doing reports and facilitating workshops. Besides, is it only NASS staff that need special encouragement? Lecturers, doctors, nurses, judicial workers and so on had many times gone on strike over salary issues but there had never been a time a lawmaker argued that their salaries should be raised as a form of encouragement. Or don’t these categories of workers perform essential duties? I still need to be convinced that the job of a special assistant to a lawmaker on GL 14, who earns N437,693.68 per month, is more essential than that of a consultant in a Federal Medical Centre who earns just about that monthly. But what do the lawmakers’ aides on whom bulk of the money would be spent do? Do they really ease the legislative activities of lawmakers? I tend to believe that apart from carrying the numerous cell phones and bags of the lawmakers, perhaps, what these aides do is mostly to ease their (the lawmakers) extra-legislative activities, hence they are being rewarded. I make this submission because I have yet to see great debates in the National Assembly. In climes where debate is the whole essence of the parliament, lawmakers’ aides spend the whole of their time researching so as to arm their principals with the ammunition to shoot down the opposition party’s arguments or to justify the ruling party’s policies. It is such aides that need special encouragement and not the ones who carry handsets and arrange various things for lawmakers.
Posted By: Ogboku Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 566	I will answer soon Ugu Ugo,Hold your peace , you will hear from me soon.
Posted By: Amadi Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 573	Folks You don't forget the past so that evils of the past do not repeat itself. For the sake of peace and tranquility you don't remember the evils of the past just for a vengeance. You forgive the wicked people who committed atrocities of the past if they express remorse and repent from their evil ways. The sad thing about nigerian case is that northern oppressors are not ready to change from their barbaric ways and embrace nationalism and patriotism instead of ethnocentrism and islamic delusion. It is also sad that the yorubas are not ready to erase their igbophobia and igbo antagonism and form solidarity with igbos to destroy northern political domination and manipulation which have rendered a naturally blessed nation confused, hopeless and hapless. Nigeria cannot have political stability and socio-economic progress as long as the north manipulates the system to its advantage, detrimental to national interest and common good. I am against ethnic confrontation on this forum but at the same time I strongly beleive that we have to address our ethnic dichotomy because it is the reason for our political limbo, bad governance and socio-economic retrogression in abundance of human and natural resources. Tribal differences and sentiments do not allow us to establish a meritocratic politics which produces accountability and credibility in government.Keeping mute on it is not the best solution.
Posted By: Amadi Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 568	Folks You don't forget the past so that evils of the past do not repeat itself. For the sake of peace and tranquility you don't remember the evils of the past just for a vengeance. You forgive the wicked people who commited atrocities of the past if they express remorse and repent from their evil ways. The sad thing about nigerian case is that northern opperessors are not ready to change from their barbaric ways and embrace nationalism and patriotism instead of ethnocentrism and islamic delusion. It is also sad that the yorubas are not ready to erase their igbophobia and igbo antagonism and form solidarity with igbos to destroy northern political domination and manipulation which have rendered a naturally blessed nation confused, hopeless and hapless. Nigeria cannot have political stability and socio-economic progress as long as the north manipulates the system to its advantage detrimental to national interest and common good. I am against ethnic confrontation on this forum but at the same time I stongly beleive that we have to address our ethnic dichotomy because it is the reason for our political limbo, bad governance, and socio-economic retrogression in abundance of human and natural resources. Tribal differences and sentiments do not allow us to establish a meritocratic politics which produces accountability and credibility in government.Keeping mute on it is not the best solution.
Posted By: OSITA Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 553	Biafra must be Osita Ebiem Thursday, May 27, 2010 ositaebiem@yahoo.com ANNOUNCE THIS ARTICLE TO YOUR FRIENDS GIDEON AKALUKA – REASON FOR BIAFRA The circumstances surrounding the murder of Gideon Akaluka are all the reasons all those who still harbor any doubts on why Biafra’s independence must happen now need to be convinced. In December 1994 a group of Muslims came to Gideon Akaluka’s house and claimed that a piece of the Koran had been desecrated by Akaluka’s family. The accusers alleged that the Koran’s piece had been used as toilet paper and that the punishment for such action was death. In the first instance Gideon managed to escape from the death mob because he was taken in by the police at Bompai Police station in Kano Nigeria for safe protection by the might of the Nigerian state. In any other country that is truly worth the name that would have been enough to keep him safe from his would-be murderers. In fact in a civilized and true nation state the police would have come to his house and provided protection for him, his family and property. He would not have needed to be taken into the custody of the state for protection going by the reasons his accusers gave. His case is not much different from that of Salman Rushdie the British author of Satanic Verses, a publication the Muslim world claimed to have blasphemed Islam and subsequently passed a fatwa, an Islamic death sentence on him for the alleged transgression of Islam. Salman Rushdie was originally from India and that has not made any difference in the way the British state has discharged its duty in providing protection for him as a British citizen. For more than a decade now they are still doing an excellent job in providing security for him. Gideon Akalua was an Igbo businessman who resided in Kano Nigeria. When his accusers came to his house he was first taken in by the Nigerian Police for “protection” but later, after a few hours released to the Islamic mob that came to the police station to demand for his release to them. (Some other sources claim the mob overpowered the police, the very might of the state?) On his release to the mob Akaluka was lynched and beheaded in the police premises as the Nigerian Police Force watched and, as you can imagine, cheered and encouraged and nodded in approval. While the Nigerian Police Force watched and cheered on the Islamic monsters, they severed Akaluka’s head and hoisted it on a spike. The murderous beasts then sang, danced and rampaged triumphantly around the city for hours with the head aloft. They so took pride in their accomplishment such that they took turns in being photographed with the detached head while their leaders addressed the people in full glare of camera on the “virtues” of killing non-believers in their religion. For hours they celebrated and the Nigerian Police Force now performed their true duty, they offered the rapacious mob protection while they savaged about the city of Kano. On the 7th of June 2005 Ifeanyi Ozor, Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Paulinus Ogbonna, Chinedu Meniru were murdered in cold blood by the Nigerian Police Force at a police checkpoint in Abuja Nigeria. While the rest two of the six Anthony Nwokike and Augustina Arebu were taken to the police station where a ransom of N5000.00 for each was demanded by the police and when the families of the victims could not come up with the amount they were taken to a nearby bush and short and killed on the 8th of June. After the killing the Nigerian Police Force planted guns on the bodies of the six victims and took pictures and claimed they were armed robbers who fired the first short at the police. That incident became known as the Apo Six Murders. Apo is the name of the shanty town (mechanic village) near Abuja where the crime was committed. The murdered victims did business in Apo as car parts dealers. These Igbo young men and woman were returning from a night out when they were ordered to be killed by the off-duty police officer Danjuma Ibrahim whose sexual advances were turned down by Augustina at the party just a while earlier. The police officer Danjuma Ibrahim who was later detained was released on the 3rd of August on “exceptional and special” medical bail and the case of course is about as closed without any convictions despite the incriminating testimonies by many credible crime witnesses. Grace Ushang was raped and stabbed to death in Maiduguri Nigeria by a group of Muslim youths who claimed she dressed improperly in a Muslim country. She wore a pair of khaki trousers which was part of the service clothes issued to her by the Nigerian government which had sent her to Maiduguri on the compulsory national youth service assignment. Grace was 25 and hailed from Cross River state a part of the Biafran territory and was murdered after she had been defiled by these savage Islamic gangsters while she was performing service for a state, Nigeria which is incapable of protecting her from harm or executing justice for her murder. The dastardly gruesome murder happened in September 27, 2009 and up till today the Nigerian state has no clue on how to find her killers. Of course the Nigerian state will not find the killers because it will be shooting itself on the foot since the killers were actually sponsored by the state and they only carried out the government’s program; to kill off all Biafrans – biafracide for short. Contrary to the beliefs of some people, these incidents and countless others that happen to Biafrans in Nigeria on a daily basis are not as a result of lapses or the Nigerian state’s inability to act right or its failed state status. No, it is the Nigerian state’s policy project designed to systematically cleanse itself of Biafrans. So it becomes very disturbing when a section of the victims are dishonestly unwilling to see this very overt grand plan because they would rather not upset the apple cart. How would anyone describe the Apo Six Murders with the fancy words extra-judicial killing? They are not indiscriminate and unconnected incidents but rather pre-meditated murders by the Nigerian state. An officer Danjuma Ibrahim of the Nigerian state law enforcement unit who had been trained on the art and equipped to eliminate Biafrans saw an opportunity that night when he feigned offense at the party and speedily went out ahead of the Six to carry out his state’s duty – biafracide. He never entertained any qualms because he knew ahead of time that if he carried out the multiple inhuman murders that he had the Federal Government of Nigeria’s full backing and so would never suffer any negative consequence from his actions. At the end of the day what happened, has he suffered in any way? Is officer, Danjuma Ibrahim not walking the streets today a free man and has he not gone back to the same nightclub many times after to reaffirm to his admirers at the club that he was only carrying out a heroic act for his state, Nigeria. For anyone who still has any doubt as to the reality of the Nigerian biafracide project, can you honestly defend your position by pointing out other groups of people in Nigeria who suffer the same fate of constant group and individual state murders other than the Biafrans? Gideon Akaluka Episode, Apo Six Murders and Grace Ushang Disgrace are mere representative of the atrocious consistent cyclical events which should serve as catalyst to transform all Biafrans everywhere from their current state of fear and selfishness to a courageous and selfless disposition. When a Biafran (anyone for that matter) anywhere has been unjustly murdered every living Biafran must be challenged in more ways than one. You must ask yourself these simple questions of why it happened and how it happened. The only honest answer to these questions is that it must never happen again? But that answer involves long-range plans and sustained interests and actions and you must be willing to embark on doing something towards actualizing it. For any Igbo or Biafran who may still believe that it is not as bad as it appears what it will only take is a few clicks of the computer mouse and you can freely watch the graphic images of who we are – the distended stomachs and skeletal ghost-like figures of the Biafran kwashiorkor victims. (Those pictures should be hanging on the walls of every Biafran home and not just on the museums walls). Those are the permanent humiliating images of who we are until we can redeem ourselves and reverse it by redoing the pictures. Until that redemption every Biafran must see himself mirrored in those pictures. It is haunting, shameful and humiliating but that is the truth, our truth. www.web.searchalot.com/texis/open/images?q=biafrawar Akaluka and et al happened after three decades of the first massive biafracide therefore what you see today in the pictures will happen again. I hear somebody saying it must not happen again. Good. That is the duty the living owes the dead. For every affirmation to become a reality it must be followed by concrete actions. Some Biafrans have shamelessly argued that the Biafran sovereign state will happen when the other stakeholders in Nigeria begin to see the fallacy of the Nigerian state and want to opt out. In other words they are saying that Biafra can wait indefinitely. What is wrong with that position is that it is tangled up in fear, selfishness and insincerity. Or if they honestly believe it then they are putting off the justice that is due the people and overlooking the truth in the fact that any justice that is delayed is as good as denied. Biafracide is a reality and every Biafran everywhere must find the courage to embark on actions that must end it. And the long-range and permanent solution is a secured sovereign homeland where all Biafran children will find life, hope and a future. A homeland where our children will not have to live in constant horrific fear of seeing their severed head on a pole held high as a trophy by some depraved savages dancing about cities, towns and villages. A homeland where our children know that when they work hard they can play hard and maintain their human dignity and pride by having the power to choose who escorts them. A homeland where the Biafran children can dress up in any outfit of their choice and venture out into the streets without the fear of being molested, defiled and killed just because they appear different. Biafracide is a reality because the Nigerian state is carrying out a murderous project of which they have no regrets for their actions whatsoever, please see: www.nigeriamasterweb.com/nmwpg1harunaigbomassacre.html
Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 620	Sanmi Good talk Sanmi, We hear. But that’s not the whole story… However we would appreciate if your voice is heard when your brother Jide starts off on one of his perennial anti-Igbo tirades. Most Igbo talk here usually begin in response to Jide Afolabi( Igbokwenu) Abu Yusuf and co whenever he(they) embark(s) on his (their) constant verbal assault on Igbo, blaming them for virtually every ill that assail Nigeria. Jide writes only to portray Igbo in negative light. He never acknowledges Igbo contributions to the Nigerian state. Again, you non Igbos must learn to put up with the secessionist views of some Igbos. It is inevitable considering what Igbos have been through and Nigeria's collective decision not to acknowledge the wrongs meted out to them. In contrast, the slight done to Abiola is proclaimed as the most grievous error done to humanity. Yet most Yorubas dismiss the death of 3million Igbos between 1966 and 1970 as inconsequential or deserved. Yet we know Yorubas as champions of Justice and fair-play. How do you reconcile the obvious anti-Igbo stand of the Yorubas with their stature as lovers of equity and the blatant hostility to Igbos and what befell them? This is the crux of all tribal talk here. There can never be peace and progress in the absence of Justice. That’s the reason why a true Nigerian state will never evolve until Nigeria comes to terms with its dirty, ugly and bloody past
Posted By: SANMI Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 645	plangood STEVE, STANLEY O, OMENUKO and KENDO. I am highly disappointed in all of you. In fact, I am ashamed of all of you. You have all turned this beautiful forum to a field of TRIBAL WAR. If we continue like this, what lesson or legacy are we going to leave for our children and children yet unborn,Legacy of hatred?. I am a Yoruba man and I don't care what tribe you belong to, whatever you do to me good or bad I will never forget. My boss is an Igbo woman and she is the best boss any one can work with, we have the best of relationship. I am pleading with all of you, let's stop this absurdity. No matter what anyone say, Nigeria will surely remain one except for those who have not witness war before. God bless you all.
Posted By: SANMI Posted On: Jun 3, 2010 Views: 662	I LIKE GOODLUCK JONATHAN BUT, No doubt, NIgerians are so much in love with President Goodluck Jonathan as much as I do but who really is he? I see this man (Goodluck Jonathan) as a chameleon,a beautiful snake and a wonerful game player; very soon all PDP executive members will be arrained by EFCC or ICPC for one thing or the other and they will all resign to face trials, ask Ogbulafor. During Obasanjo's regime, it was called "political vendata", this time around we call it "clear the way for Jonathan". Carry go Mr.President.
Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 639	Poor Man Kiss my Igbo arse.
Posted By: Poor Man Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 641	Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba are Nigerian Problem. Hausas are parasite that feeds on federal government, Ibo are kind of groups that can easily be bought with money because of their greed while the Yorubas believes they are more enlightened than any tribe in Nigeria. These three tribes [out of 250 tribes] are the bane of Nigerian development. Let all other tribes team up against these useless tribes -h-i-y.
Posted By: Enforcer Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 639	Tinapa Project in disarray Good Project, poor planning and implemention. Typical Naija. Dey go clean their nyash before dey go toilet. It is only a Joker would fly to Tinapa when they can enjoy themselves for half the price in Dubai or Gambia. Can someone tell me the comparative advantsge Tinapa have over other resorts in Africa? I'm afriad Tinapa would not attract foreign visitors to earn us foreign exchange. Europeans can fly and stay five nights in a hotel in Dubai for as little as 600 Euro while to fly alone to Naija excluding hotel accomodation would cost at least 700 Euro. Tinapa is simply Donald Duke's pet project. Is this another White elephant project in the offing?
Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 702	Jide Afolabi (aka) Igbokwenu Jide Afolabi (aka) Igbokwenu, You will soon know the full meaning of Karma. I said it earlier that Pharaoh will never repent until he goes out for a fight and disgrace himself. For you, Igbos should forget the past and move forward blindly with you. eehn Why don’t you provide a role model and forget the death of Abiola? He also rebelled against the government of Nigeria. He was charged with treasonable offences before his death. I will reserve my comments until you make a public announcement telling all the Yorubas to forget the death of Abiola.

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