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Posted By: Nicolas o Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 680	were was this money spent in nigeria? By December 31, 2010, the three tiers of governments in Nigeria would have spent N40 trillion or more going by federal and states’ budget appropriations and statutory allocations to the 774 local councils since January 2006, according to Newspapers’ checks. were did they spend all there money,lagos ibadan road,lagos benin road,all other roads are death traps,police are well equiped,pensioneers are not paid and workers are not paid nor taken care oof,these so called looters/leaders steal all this moneys travel aboad and start gambling these money away with the children.while those who has no body in government to steal for them are left alone to wallow in grife and poverty.this is more than terrorism and its a crime agaisnt humanity .....who will be the jj rawlings of nigeria come come come tawlings come
Posted By: Ugu Ugo Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 843	Where is NTA International? When the NTA International came on air a few months ago, Nigerians in diaspora heaved a sigh of relief, hoping to be afforded the opportunity of feeling the pulse of home via NTA network news and other programmes. The joy fissled away within weeks as our NTA disappeared without notice, leaving us to depend entirely on foreign media known to promote only junk news from Africa. This has obviously delt a blow to the re-branding efforts of the Hon. Information Minister. Can someone, please, bring this to the attention of Pro. Dora Akunyili, the Information Minister, who holds the re-branding of Nigerian image close to her chest. Nigerians in diaspora hunger for first-hand information of hapenings back home. We urgently want NTA International back on air in the interest of Nigeria. I strongly feel that our action-woman Prof. Dora Akunyili will take urgent action, if this comes to her attention. Somebody, please, help!
Posted By: Yoruba Ronu Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 804	Yoruba Ronu Igbokwenu, Please shut up my dear if you have nothing tangible to say. The talk is about imbalance and those profitting from the imbalance. Those people are Hausa and Yoruba. Simple. Go and build an Abuja or a Lagos in Igboland and see if any Igboman will come to your backyard. Using federal resources got from the Southeast and Southsouth, you build good good things in your cities and when Igbos come to make better use of what you built for yourself in your place, you complain and ask them to go home. U de craze? Why ask them to go home at the same time shouting One Nigeria! Go home to where? To Biafra? Which one is your fatherland? Is it Yorubaland or the Nigeria created by Lord Lugard? Your father Awolowo said his fatherland is Yorubaland first before Nigeria. Here you are accusing Ndigbo of fighting their fatherland. A useless fatherland that first attempted to annihilate them. Lastly stop hiding under an Igbo expression. Be man enough to use your useless Yoruba name to write. Infact Yoruba should Ronu o From Ezinwanne
Posted By: samuel kabir malum Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 827	I have seen a great Nigeria sequel to the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the president and commander in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria it has being to me like Nigeria has entered into a new heaven.Let me point it clear that i have serious faith in the prioritization of President GoodLuck Jonathan Administration and his Quest to make a hitch free Election come 2011 "suffice to say whenever i here him speaking i see a great Nigeria" all we need to do as citizens is to garner our collective effords and see how this can be accomplished.
Posted By: Igbokwenu Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 674	Karma! Who is Immuned? Nobody can change the laws of Karma...except Kendo Ezewanne Stanley O and co. An Igbo man knows how to crack out water from a dry piece of stone...only in another man's town but not in his own town. Everybody on planet earth reap what they sow, according to the holy Bible...are the igbos exempted?. What is happening to Nigeria today is Karma because she has refused to treat her people well... but what is happening to the Igbos today is not as a result of the Karma the Igbos committed against Nigeria by being the first tribe in Nigeria to raise sword against her fatherland. It is only in Nigeria that tiny ethnic groups like Hausa and Yoruba marginalise the mighty Igbo, the largest ethnic group in Nigeria... Mr.Kendo Ezinwanne Stanley o, the earlier you wake up and realise that the poor man in Enugu is not different from the poor man in Ibadan or Kastina; the earlier you realise that the Yoruba thief in the NASS is not different from the Igbo or Hausa thiefs in Executive arm of govt.; the earlier you realise that the governors in the northern parts of Nigeria are not different from their counterparts in Eastern and Western Nigeria then the better for you and your fellow Biafra agitators. Be warned! You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned...Gautam Buddha.
Posted By: callistus ozoke-ojo,lagos Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 649	Chief Dabo,his advice to IBB. chief Gody Dabo sir,people like you who always speak the truth when it comes to national interest,i pray to Allah must leave long,because your comments brings peace.your advice to Gen. IBB is nothing but the truth.I like IBB and may not wish him disgraced in any form,especially politics. But Sir Goddy, why not talk to your friends like Tanko Yakassi who may destroy this country with nasty comments on the pages of news papers.Tell Yakassi to explain why the Muslim in Kaduna state wanted to riot because AllAh made a christian the governor of the state.Could the people of that state count the number of years the musilm ruled the state or are they saying that the Christians in the state are fools If president Jonathan and his co-pilots are doing well,must we push them out of office, to satisfy the self interest of the northern cabals and the so called nonsense and selfish zoning arrangement of PDP?
Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 2, 2010 Views: 631	Adeitu Eledumare Adeitu Eledumare, I do not appreciate anyone that feels my pain but refuses to share it with me. Those who cannot share our pains with us are aliens to our problems and thus will never understand reasons of spending our precious time on this forum. Stanley O has already replied you discernibly. I will also touch on few issues you raised. Before then, I have few questions for you. 1. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where other people reaped what you sowed? 2. Have you ever been marginalized? 3. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where your people were murdered in their millions? 4. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where people invaded your communities and plundered most of your inheritance with impunity? I don’t think you have experienced such wickedness. If you do, you will share my pains with me. Your justification to glorify and exonerate the immoral actions of Obafemi Awolowo drastically reduced my respects for your personality. Obafemi Awolowo was not infallible thus cannot be right at all time. I have respect for the elders but not when I see reasons to call a spade a spade. East and West Germany reunification was able to succeed because both parties condemned the actions of Adolph Hitler. Your unremorseful justification on using hunger as weapon of was against innocent women and children unveil your true love for the Igbos whom you claim to love so much. Nemesis is already at work in Nigeria and there is nothing anybody can do to change it. The more we try to insulate the natural laws of Karma, the more it blandishes Nigeria to the canvass. Nobody can change the laws of Karma. The chronicles of Nigerian present deficiency is well documented for posterity. Maybe is time for Nigeria to look back and repent. I do not expect Pharaoh to repent without going for a fight he can never win? Let’s keep moving blindly until the appointed time to call a spade a spade.
Posted By: Omenuko Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 658	Odogwu Kendo Odogwu Kendo, ekene m gi. Udo diri gi. You are a man of wisdom. Your wisdom knows no bound. I have really learnt a lot from you. You have been consistent in your struggle for Igbo liberation ever since I came to this forum. I will be patiently waiting for your reply. I trust your analysis and your love and genuine interest for the Igbo race. I know that your input to my book will surely make it a great success. Nothing, I mean nothing can stop the blaze of the rising sun.
Posted By: Stanley O Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 619	Aditu Eledumare Aditu, have you ever heard of statements like "rules of engagement"? Have you ever heard of expressions like "war crimes"? Aditu, even in wars, there are rules. Think about this: what would you consider a soldier who poisoned a stream or a pond which happens to be the only source of drinking water for the civilians on the enemy side? The civilians, not the soldiers, drink the poisoned stream and die in large numbers. You did not surprise me with your views. In fact, you have re-echoed Awolowo's wicked philosophy which doomed Nigeria. So one can conclude it is typical of Yorubas to be inhumanly callous. But I'll still tender my apologies to any Yoruba man who proves otherwise any day. You are first a Yoruba man, then a Nigeria-Awolowo's school of thought. You see nothing wrong for women and children to have been starved to death-Awolowo's school of thought. May be in your eyes and that of Awolowo, all the Igbo women and children were soldiers. In your rationalization, you compared a single soldier(your uncle) felled by a soldier's bullet to state sponsored ethnic cleansing. Have you read about the Asaba massacre? We have pointed in the past here what our grouses are. For instance, the pogrom of 1966 should have had nothing to do with Igbo civilians. There was no justification to have killed Igbo civilians in such a gruesome manner because of what was military skirmishes. The reprisals then ought to have been purely military to military. You are a Yoruba man first before being a Nigerian. You thought us, so we know now. We have been fooling around thinking Nigeria, talking Nigeria. But today, we know better. I have nice words for Olu. Adenodi. Most of your views about national and ethnic interest are correct. Refer to Aditu to know why we are in this mess. However, get this impression correct. We, Igbos, consider ourselves builders. Where ever we find ourselves, we labour to make the environment befit our taste. The evidence of our presence in any community is always visible in terms of our input to our host community. We are only limited by the limits set by our host community. If it is within the purview of an Igbo man to sink a bore hole to benefit all including himself, in his place of abode, he won't hesitate doing so. But doing so, assuming it is permissible, will raise the suspicion and condemnation by our host community. Before long, Igbos will be in the news as people who are too domineering; as people who invade and overran our host community. It is uncharitable, therefore, to categorize Igbos as being indifferent to the development of our host community. We do impact positively on our host community. So please correct that impression. We have to do what we do to improve our host community because we have a saying that "where ever one lives is one's home" This is why we fan out to various parts of Nigeria(not only just because we are marginalized in terms of land mass and federal government presence)to make a home for ourselves. But Nigerians have shown deep seated hatred for our zeal to impact on the development of Nigeria. At a point, I considered this hatred to have been borne out of misunderstanding of Igbo man, but I later concluded that it is a premeditated scheme to make us irrelevant. I do not know now who is more reasonable than the other. Aditu wrote that Igbos develop Lagos and Abuja, but abandon our land. Olu.Adenodi wrote that Igbos hold meeting periodically to talk about developments at home, but overlook development of our host community. You guys should sort yourselves out. But I understand. It is Ndi-Igbo you guys are talking about here. So any rationalization goes for you.
Posted By: Steve Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 629	Too wonderful... It sure is wonderful! "I am first of all a Yoruba man before been a Nigeria. Do you call somebody who want to lead his people a tribalist? If the east was govern by igboman and hausa been led by an hausaman, do you call a yorubaman trying to lead his people tribalist? I expect my igbo friends to have learnt from their mistakes and built a solid eastern state that every tribes in Nigeria would envy. But this is not the case. I read the other day igbo people are the ones dominating businesses in abuja and that they have acquired lots of propperties. Is there any caution or sense in this regards when your home state is not taken care of?" - Aditu It's like Fashola telling Hausa beggars few months back to go back to the north! Who's he to give such an order in a city built and owned by all nigerians? Igbos own majority of the businesses in Lagos, Abuja and other big cities! Yeah, lagos and Abuja are capital cities built by the Nigerian money! So, if you want people to go back to their states, then, the capitals have to be divided according to the tribes in Nigeria! Don't begrudge Igbos who have more enterprising shrewdness. Remember what late Gani Fawehinmi said: "An Igbo man knows how to crack out water from a dry piece of stone"! So, kudos Igbo guys! You're unstoppable!!!
Posted By: Steve Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 598	Too wonderful... It sure is wonderful! Igbos own majority of the businesses in Lagos, Abuja and other big cities! So, kudos guys! You're unstoppable!!!
Posted By: Aditu Eledumare Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 586	StanleyO/Kendo I have been a good reader of this forum and just feel I should chip one or two words. I can feel the pains you guys are going through, but you neeed to be civil in going about it. Attacking the Yorubas or name calling is not the solution. One of you if not all have been attacking the Late Obafemi Awolowo for his role in Nigerian Politics. I agreed you are entitle to your opinion, but that does not diminish the respect the old command dead or alive. So why waste your energy? Charity begins at home so the old African proverb says. If you dont build your home who do you expect to build it for you? I am first of all a Yoruba man before been a Nigeria. Do you call somebody who want to lead his people a tribalist? If the east was govern by igboman and hausa been led by an hausaman, do you call a yorubaman trying to lead his people tribalist? I expect my igbo friends to have learnt from their mistakes and built a solid eastern state that every tribes in Nigeria would envy. But this is not the case. I read the other day igbo people are the ones dominating businesses in abuja and that they have acquired lots of propperties. Is there any caution or sense in this regards when your home state is not taken care of? I lost an uncle during the civil war [abagana], should hold all igbo accountable for killing my uncle? Do you keep feeding your enemies to have better strenght to fight you? War is war or should I say enemy can die anyhow during war. The better we appreciate our common value and learn to forget our bitter past, the better for us. Some of the guys who took twenty pound after the war are today doing better that those who looted banks during the war. Is this not wounderfull?
Posted By: Olu. Adenodi Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 575	MR.AMADI ON ETHNIC IDENTITY Mr. Amadi's write-up on ethnic identity is not all that accurate. Usually,an American will identify with the state of his residence and that is where he comes from. When pressed futher, he will tell you that he is an American. A New Yorker is an American, A Berliner is a German and a man from Brisbane is an Australian. The tendency is for any of this group to tell you the country of their origin first before saying the region or locality of their origin. Whereas,a man from Lagos,who happens to be an Igbo man, if asked where he comes from will tell you he is from Arochukwu in Imo state and Nigeria last. Ask an Ondo man ,who resides in Kaduna where he comes from, the answer will be Ondo first and Nigeria last. The Hausa man does not even recognise Nigeria as an entity. To him, he is from Kano or Bauchi.He probably does not know what Nigeria is. Nigerians are more ethnocentric than Nationalistic. Nigerians living outside their state of origin are most likely to form an association of their native men living in the same area to discuss events happening in their home town or village. Loyalty is to the village,town,state and lastly is the country, Nigeria. They are usually not concerned with their host town or region. Their associtions are likely to meet every Sunday,biweekly or monthly. They will meet to raise funds to build schools,town halls and other amenities lacking in their towns or villages. It does not matter whether soch amenities are lacking in their host states. Nationalism or patriotism is far from the lexicons of the typical Nigerian. It is the fault of the Nigerian leaders who use these parochial instincts to their advantage to the detriment of the larger society. They also use religion to devide us some more. The Nigeria constitution is to blame too. An Igbo man, Ondo man or a LOkoja man residing in Lagos who gives birth to a child in Lagos will be denied access to amenities in Lagos.Lagos will ask the child's parents to pay special fees to use the Lagos School system,the tendency is to ask the child to claim its parent's state of origin. To be admitted to the federal institutions ,there is cut off point for each of the states,and the children have to use the state of origin of the father. The vouge in Nigeria now is for the elites to send their pregnant wives to U.K and other European countries and the United States for these women to deliver the baby in any of these countries so that the child automatically becomes a citizen of these countries. The question for these elites is what if these countries apply the antiquated question of having to claim the father's country applies to these foreign born citizens? They take the advantage of citizeship laws in these countries,whereas,the same can not be achived in Nigeria. The elites who are in a position to change these law do not want to do anything about it so that their off spring can always be on top in the scheme of things. Nigeria should reintroduce civics in primary schools and social studies in the secondary schools where our children will be taught and encouraged to think Nigeria first. Deemphasis parochial love. Teach Nigerian children to see all of us as Nigerian and eradicate questions that portay us as igbo,hausa or yoruba in passport forms,applications into tetiary or even ordinary elementary schools and other required information that is of ethnic or tribal colouration. Let us all forget the indeginous associations e.g.Ondo Parapo in the America or the Igbo Indeginous Associations etc.....etc.I am not sure if these type of parochial associations exist amongst the hausa/fulanis in the U.S. They are usually together in a community setting,usually, for solidarity purposes.,nothing about meetings. Good luck NIGERIA.
Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 576	No matter what happens, we shall get there!!!! Omenuko Nwanne’m Udo diri gi. I will communicate with you soon. Maybe not at your convenient but surely, I will write to you personally. Igbos are majority in Nigeria. It is not possible to marginalize over 50 million people. Days of those that orchestrated the marginalization of the Igbos are numbered. Yes! I dreamt for a better Nigeria that I never have. I believe every honest Nigerian shared my dream as a child. Today, Nigerians are relegated to improvise with the inept aura the visionless centralized government unleashes on its helpless citizens. The disparity between the rich and the poor in Nigeria is out of proportion. You can only be as rich as King Solomon or as poor as a church rat nobody cares. When a nation forbids the truth, the consequences will give birth to internal crisis of monumental dimensions. To prevent those coming after us from inheriting the current outrageous and unacceptable situation I have found myself. I asked questions that demanded for coherent answers without getting any. I decided to dive deeper and swim to the shores of reality myself. The deeper I dived for realistic experiments, the more I swim to the shores with adequate information on why Nigeria is in shambles. The truth was concealed while fallacies excel to the detriments of the least intelligent people. I repeat that I have ample of evidence to challenge anyone that the amalgamation of Nigeria took place under duress. Therefore, it is very wrong for Nigerians to be complacent with the unjustified situation the colonists imposed on them ostensibly to continue with their exploitations on African soil. I am not an enemy of homogeneous cohesion. People of different tribes, culture and religion can live together only on the condition that the people involved are not coerced to live under the conditions that do not represent the opinion of majority. When the reverse is the case, the results will always end up in uniform with the present situation of Nigeria. For how long must we cry out loud that we want our own nation of Biafra? We demand for Biafra not because we hate Nigeria. We demand for Biafra because Nigeria hates Biafrans. When you hate someone so much as we have witnessed in Nigeria, the only option is to part away with such person. You can not hate someone and continues to dine and wine with him. It is our rights to demand for a sovereign nation that represents our culture, language, and religion. No matter what happens, we shall get there!!!! My Igboness will not be complete until I see flags of the rising sun hovering on the Eastern sky.
Posted By: Ugu Ugo Posted On: Jun 1, 2010 Views: 552	The demon in Mr. Ogboku comes to the fore! Little minds like Mr. Ogboku of Igbere in Bende, Abia state should not ordinarily engage my attention or that of any serious mind for that matter, but for the possibility of his influencing uninformed Nigerians. Addressing an elderly statesman, like me, as a demon in a distinguished public forum, like this, says volumes of his personality and character. I am far from being surprised and so will not veer of focus to join issues with he who resorts to pouring venon rather than cryatallization of ideas vital for onward march of dear Nigeria. One would expect the fanatic proponent of IBB's presidential bid to articulate and adduce reasons for his stand or, at least, counter those advance by opposing views rather than resorting to name-calling. Nigerians must learn to polarize around credible ideologies and credibility rather than daftly lend political support from empty standpoint! This is the bane of the Nigerian nation! This is the reason for our underdevelopment in 50 solid years! According to Mr. Ogboku of Igbere, one should not make comments on past Nigerian leaders for the simple fact that, in his opinion, they were appointed by God who has already forgiven their sins! Supper reasoning! But, wait a minute. So Mr. Ogboku addmits that sins have been commited against God and Nigerians, but talking about them to giude our future choice of leaders is a greater sin concievable only by "demons" in Ogboku's wisdom! God save Nigerians from Nigerians, we pray thee. Nigerians, including my humble self, are still waiting for Mr. Ogboku to tell us why IBB should not permanently retreat to his 50-room mansion in Minna to enjoy his il-gotten wealth pending eventual judgement by man and God sure to come.

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