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| Posted By: Peter M Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 799 | Banji Ojo Bro,you are entitle to your own feelings but what i won't tolerate is to conclude that Igbo are more greedy than any other tribes.I don't know how long it will take many of your type regardless of all past and present evidence than an average igbo man is more principled that than any other region in Nigeria.How many other tribes has ever resigned voluntary a political post in the country because he or she doesn't agree with a particular policy apart from the our great tribe?I can give you two most recent one;Ekewe and Ngozi Nweala.Even when all HONEST TRIBES were very selfish with truth about the true state of yaradua,an igbo woman had the gut to hit the nail on the head.What henry Nwosu who called the true winner of the popular Abiola result.So,how many evidence of the great intergrity of our great man do you want sacrificed to this crazy nation?i guess that is why other tribes hate us because truth in Nigeria is forbiden.Banji,tell one yoruba man that willily resigned a position without being forced? |
| Posted By: Elisha Zira Dia Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 796 | Embracing true democracy If Nigeria decides to embrace true democracy, there will be improvement in our governance. The zoning of presidency by PDP is undemocratic. Also bad leaders that ruled us in the past ruthlessly like IBB cannot attempt coming back. |
| Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1190 | Banji Ojo The Igbo are simply better in Nigeria and you can't do anything about that. Hate all you want asrehole but the truth remains. The Igbo leads. We are not afraid. |
| Posted By: osadebe Ibegbu Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1175 | Banjo comments Banjo is one of the greast shame of Nigeria. his He seems to have forgotting like Igbos, The Jews are the most hated in the world, yet they have excelled above others globally and in all nations including some that hate them they control intellectual and economic activities. Same applies to the Igbos in Nigeria. even in his vilage, there must be some Igbo of sort contributing to the development. My brothers should grow up enough of your tribal leanings. |
| Posted By: Banji Ojo Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1279 | Peter M Hausas hate you, Ikweres hates you, Ijaws hate you, Bini hates you, the Yorubas no llike you. Haba na only una dey Nigeria? Search yourselves and see what is wrong with your tribe and culture. A tribe that believes they are better than any other tribes. Attitudinal change will do you guys a lot good. Inakis |
| Posted By: Gerald Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1289 | Suggestions for O. D..... "Let Nigeria and in particular the Igbo allow Ikwerre to remain who she says she is until and unless superior evidence is provided to prove beyond all reasonable doubts that Ikwerre is Igbo. Let the Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Igbo etc allow Ikwerre to be." - Okachikwu Dibia, Abuja. ------------------------------------------------ In a free speech society or environment, one is entitled to one's whims and caprices! I showed my Ogoni and Ikwerre friends what one of their own vomited. Their answer: "Pardon him and people like him. A lot of them are so confused!" Oh yes, people are taking notice of the way a lot of original words are being tweaked to fit in without running away from the original! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Obigbo to Oyigbo; Ebere to Ebele (albeit ebele is also original in some authentic central Igbo dialects); Okechukwu to Okachikwu Umuibe to Umuiberibe! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Soronu Nwauwa to Saro Wiwa I don't wanna go further! There are millions out there!! However, I command you Okachikwu Dibia to swith over from hence to "Oyasiku Diobui" (what a beautiful new switch! NB that Your O. D. is honorably retained). Okay, Oyasiku Diobui, from Abuja, we shall hear you next time!!! Majority of Ikwerreans think you're simply out of touch! Bye! |
| Posted By: Enforcer Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1281 | Re:IKWERRE IS NOT IGBO! I sympathise with O.D who doesn't want to move with the times. This fellow is still day dreaming of the Ikwerre of his Great Great grannies. I respect conservative men like him but he must be educated that he is fighting a losing battle for the survival of the IKWERRES. It is only a matter of time for the IKWERRES to be fully absorbed and integrated into the Igbo mainstream and nation. O.D must understand that the Igbo nation is made up of various sub-groups like the IKWERRES. The NGWA or BENDE or WAWA man can equally claim that they are not Igbo. Most Igbo dialects are not intelligible outside their various Clans. What unites the various sub groups is the CENTRAL IGBO - did I hear someone shout Omenuko and Peter Nwanna? O.D must learn from history of nations like England. The English expanded by absorbing groups like the Cornish, Yorkshires etc. O.D should be more worried about Ndi Yoruba swallowing Ndigbo than Ikwerres fully integrating into the Igbo nation. |
| Posted By: Somadina Chukwuani Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1282 | A man who forgets his origin O.D, sorryoooo!, upon your education, what you will tell your children and generation is that someone is forcing you to come from a place. Hahaha!, it calls for question of identity and loss of dignity on your part. If Ohaneze Ndigbo chieftain had traced your origin to United states of America, I am sure people like you will jump at it. Sorryooo!. Ndigbo, dont join issue with this kind of fellow. Which so called tribe in Nigeria is better and more dynamic than Ndigbo?. What is remaining of the so called Nigeria is our legacy still. A child that is being fed with breast milk does not know it will dry up one day. We are watching, God is the best Judge. I am happy today and the day to come we are still better. |
| Posted By: Kendo Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1284 | O.D Okachikwu Dibia, I will educate you a little from your name. Your first name Ukachukwu or Onyekachukwu which you transformed to Okachikwu is an Igbo name. In Igbo Language, Uka means “word” while “Chukwu” is translated to God. Your first name in Igbo language is “world of God”. Another way to translate Onyekachukwu is “who is greater than God”. Let me educate you again on your second name which is a general Igbo language The meanings of your second name “Dibia” in Igbo language is a Doctor or call it a native Doctor. For your information, nobody is begging anybody to become an Igbo citizen. You are free to answer a “Buzu” man if that pleases you. But before you do that, we beg of you to drop your Igbo identity and tradition so that you will have ample of room to practice your newly adopted “Buzu tribe”. I believe that the present day Ikwerre indigenes know better than you do. An average Ikwerre man knows where he belongs. For those of you who do not know, I will not blame you. Let time be your best teacher. You may not be an Igbo today but someday the stone that the builders reject shall be the head cornerstone. (Mark this word and pass it to your children) It will surely come to pass. O.D, once again, I will say good evening to you because your morning is yet to come. I believe that someday, you will have enough reason to crosscheck your past utterances and ask questions that demands for urgent answers at dawn. |
| Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1300 | 32 Teams in 32 Days: Nigeria 32 Teams in 32 Days: Nigeria "Jamie Trecker is a senior soccer writer at FoxSoccer.com. A working journalist for 25 years, he covers the Champions League, European soccer and the world game for FoxSoccer.com. PRINT EMAIL RSS ADD THIS 74 comments »Updated May 20, 2010 6:22 PM ET Each day between May 10 and the day before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on June 11, FoxSoccer.com analyst Jamie Trecker will preview each of the 32 teams playing in South Africa and tell you everything you need to know about each nation represented at the world's greatest sporting event. Country: Nigeria Nickname: The Super Eagles Nigeria is a kleptocracy that milks the most populous African nation. Oil wealth has made this massive African nation one of the most dangerous, most corrupt, most impoverished and straight-out saddest countries on earth. Despite billions and billions of dollars in annual oil revenue, virtually none of it reaches the general population, instead lining the pockets of one "big man" after another. NIGERIA Nigeria Team Page World Cup schedule June 12: vs. Argentina (Johannesburg) June 17: vs. Greece (Bloemfontein) June 22: vs. South Korea (Durban) Home Away Key players Mikel Jon Obi, Midfielder Aiyegbeni Yakubu, Forward Best WC result: Last 16 in 1994, '98 FIFA World Rank: 21 Adding to the discord is the legacy of colonization and the North-South split in the nation along religious lines: Christians to the South, Muslims to the North. What passes for government in Nigeria is usually an uneasy balance between the two religions. However, since that government seems to exist only to leech off its populace and mineral wealth, it is predictably ineffective. War is a regular occurrence in Nigeria, and drug and arms smuggling have made it an almost-failed state. The only thing that unifies the country is the national football team. And sadly, it reflects its state all too well. The local league is hopelessly corrupt, with games that are routinely fixed. The youth national teams have been successful -- but too often tainted by accusations of cheating. African and some Asian players have routinely lied about their true ages in order to play in the age-eligible competitions, and until FIFA began cracking down on it, Nigeria was known as one of the worst offenders. In fact, prior to the U-17 World Cup that Nigeria hosted last year, FIFA announced it would begin conducting bone scans on all players in an effort to stamp out the practice. The day after, 16 Nigerian players -- half the squad -- dropped out of camp. The sad part about all this is that corruption seems so endemic in Nigerian culture that it threatens to obscure the fact that some Nigerian players are world class. They play a gorgeous, flowing style of soccer when they are on, and some of their players have justifiably become legends, with Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha being two prime examples. Sadly, the team tends to dissolve into pointless squabbles over the usual, venal matters. Bonuses aren’t paid, roster choices are always suspect and being a coach in Nigeria requires a hefty cash deposit up front, because you're not likely to see any more. If Nigeria could get its act together, it could be one of the great footballing powers on the planet. Since it cannot, it won't. PAST WORLD CUP SUCCESS: This is Nigeria's fourth Cup. Best showing was in America in 1994, where many observers feel they could have won the whole shebang. (Obviously, they didn't.) Recent history is a bit tougher: They stunk it up in Japan and failed to qualify for Germany. REGIONAL SUCCESS: Two-time winners of the African Cup of Nations (1980, 1994). At the Olympic level (which is an Under-23 competition), they took gold in Atlanta (1996) and silver in Beijing (2008). See above for the caveats. LEAGUE OVERVIEW: It's a corrupt mess. See above. MANAGER: Lars Lagerbeck. The former coach of Sweden quit after that country failed to qualify for the Cup. If he actually makes it to the Cup, it'll be something of a miracle as he's already had one run-in over non-payment, and Nigeria has a habit of firing their foreign coaches on the eve of a major tournament to reward some politically connected local hack. KEY PLAYERS: Kanu, allegedly 33, is still playing in England for Portsmouth. Despite the fact that he may actually be closer to 42, he's going to play. Defender Joseph Yobo (Everton) is very solid as is his counterpart at Bolton, the unfortunately named Danny ****tu. The star is John Obi Mikel (Chelsea), who has been transformed from a foul-prone hothead into one of the better holding midfielders in the game. Yakubu (Aikegbeni; he goes by one name at Everton) and Obafemi Martins (Wolfsburg) are the target men up top, running off the erratic Victor Anichebe (Everton). FIFA RANKINGS: 21st. Top was 5th in those heady days of 1994; lowest was 82nd in 1999. FIRST ROUND OPPONENTS: Argentina, South Korea, Greece HEAD TO HEAD AGAINST ARGENTINA: Nigeria has a long history against Argentina, but mainly at the youth level -- where Nigeria holds a firm edge. At the senior level, however, Argentina dominates. They have met twice in the World Cup, and lost to the Albicelestes both times. In 1994, Nigeria fell 2-1 in Foxboro; in 2002, Argentina got the better of them in Japan, 1-0. They played to a scoreless draw at the 1995 Confederations Cup. HEAD TO HEAD AGAINST GREECE: Nigeria whipped 'em in the game that mattered, 2-0 back at Foxboro in the 1994 World Cup. They dropped a friendly by the same score in Greece five years later after most of their top players failed to show up. HEAD TO HEAD AGAINST SOUTH KOREA: Never met. FOX SPORTS POLL How far will Nigeria go? Win it all Finals Semis Quarters Round of 16 Won't make it past group play HOW THEY QUALIFIED: Barely. They needed a big win over Kenya on the final day. Had Tunisia won its game, Nigeria wouldn't have made it at all. That said: Nigeria didn't lose a game (9-3-0) in qualifying. And yet, there was a lot missing. PERCENTAGE CHANCE TO PROGRESS: 75%. If Nigeria cannot get out of this group, on African soil, there's something deeply wrong. Since we've already noted that there are, in fact, many things deeply wrong with this side, if/when they flop out, don't say we didn't warn you. TO WATCH: First off, see if a coach actually shows up. Next, see if the players take the field. After that, see if the guys talk to one another. If you get all three, this team has a good shot. ROSTER Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Hapoel Tel Aviv), Dele Ayenugba (Beni Yehuda FC), Bassey Akpan (Bayelsa United), Austine Ejide (Hapoel Petah Tikva) Defenders: Taye Taiwo (Marseille), Elderson Echiejile (Rennes), Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow), Onyekachi Apam (Nice), Joseph Yobo (Everton), Daniel ****tu (Bolton), Ayodele Adeleye (Sparta Rotterdam), Rabiu Afolabi (Salzburg), Peter Suswan (Lobi Stars) Midfielders: Kalu Uche (Almeria), Dickson Etuhu (Fulham), John Obi Mikel (Chelsea), Sani Kaita (Alaniya), Lukman Haruna (Monaco), Ayila Yussuf (Dynamo Kiev), Peter Osaze (Lokomotiv Moscow) Forwards: Yakubu Ayegbeni (Everton), Victor Anichebe (Everton), Chinedu Obasi (Hoffenheim), Nwankwo Kanu (Portsmouth), Obafemi Martins (Wolfsburg), Ideye Brown (Sochaux), Ikechukwu Uche (Zaragoza), John Utaka (Portsmouth), Peter Utaka (OB Odense), Victor Obinna (Malaga)" |
| Posted By: Peter M Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1308 | my brothers http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/32countries/story/Nigeria-32-teams-in -32-days read this and tell me if we should cry or laught |
| Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1332 | Okachikwu Dibia Ikwerre is not Igbo abi? You speak Igbo and you bear Igbo names and you claim not to be Igbo fool. Please stop making a jackass of yourselves, pleaseeeee. When Nigeria are finally finished with you then you will run to where you properly belong, to the Igbo your kinsmen. One thing I must tell you is "Ubochi nta anyi achuo na owere nchi" |
| Posted By: EJIOFOR ALISIGWE Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1308 | Okachikwu Dibia Ikwerre is not abi? You speak Igbo and you bear Igbo names and you clain not to be Igbo fool. Please stop a jackass of yourselves, pleaseeeee. When Nigeria are finally finished with you then you will run to where you properly belong, to the Igbo your kinsmen. One thing I must tell you is "Ubochi nta anyi achuo na owere nchi" |
| Posted By: ITK Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1296 | IBB Okigbo Report: FG Considers Action against Babangida •Govt statement unambiguous, says IBB By Chiemelie Ezeobi, 05.21.2010 The Federal Government may take legal action against former military President Gen. Ibrahim Babangida if there is evidence to prove the allegation of mismanagement of $12.4 billion during his tenure. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mohammed Adoke (SAN) disclosed that a committee would be set up to review the allegations to see if a criminal charge could be sustained. But the former president has described Adoke’s statement as “unambiguous”. Adoke was responding to a petition by a coalition of civil society groups, asking the government to implement recommendations of the Dr. Pius Okigbo report by prosecuting Babangida. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement of $12.4 billion in a Dedicated and Special Accounts while he was in office should be probed, the groups stated. A letter by Adoke dated 12th May 2010 with reference number HAGF/PG/2010/Vol1 said: “I acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 5th May 2010. I appreciate your effort in making available a signed copy of the Dr. Pius Okigbo Panel Report, and as appropriate, I shall set up a Committee that will confirm the authenticity of the said report and also review the allegations and recommendations contained therein with a view to ascertaining whether these allegations can sustain a criminal charge. While we shall keep you informed of our effort in this regard, I would like to thank you for your concerted effort in sustaining the fight against corruption in our society.” Executive Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accoun-tability Project (SERAP), Adetokunbo Mumuni, reacted to the AGF’s statement thus: “While we prepare a detailed response to the letter by the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, we would like to welcome the clear commitment of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to prosecute the former military president on the basis of the strong and compelling evidence contained in the Okigbo report.” Mumuni urged the government to accelerate the process of investigating and prosecuting the case. He argued that if the case was pursued to a logical conclusion, it would show that the government could do things differently. “This would also provide effective remedy for the countless victims of high level official corruption in the country,” he added. Mumuni continued: “We urge the Honourable Attorney General to involve the civil society and the United Nations in the work of the committee to ensure that justice is not only done but seen to be done. We stand ready to offer full support and assistance to the authorities in the prosecution of suspected perpetrators of the $12.4bn scam.” The groups that send the petition are: SERAP; Women Advocates and Documentation Centre (WARDC); Access to Justice, AJ; Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR); Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC); Partnership for Justice (PFJ); Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA); Nigeria Liberty Forum (NLF); Nigeria Voters Assembly (VOTAS); and Centre for the Rule of Law (CFR). The petition by the groups was signed by Adetokunbo Mumuni; Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, Executive Director, WARDC; Joseph Otteh, Executive Director, AJ; Auwal Rafsanjani, Executive Director, CISLAC; Kayode Ogundamisi, Convener, NLF; Olanrewaju Suraju, Head, HEDA; Olasupo Ojo, President, CDHR; Itoro Eze-Anaba, Managing Partner, PFJ; Moshood Erubami, President, VOTAS; and Tejumade Oke, Programme Director, CFR. Adoke had requested a signed copy of the Okigbo Report when the groups sent the petition. He promised to act on it when he receives it In a letter dated 5th May 2010, they sent the 352-page original report. They also quoted parts of the report which described the management of resources at the time. “The Dedication and Special Accounts had become a parallel budget for the Presidency. The decision as to what expenditure items to be financed out of these dedicated accounts was made by the President alone. For example, the accounts had been utilized to defray aim assortment of expenses that could not in any way be described as priority such as: $2.92 million to make Documentary Film on Nigeria: $18.30 million to purchase TV/Video for the Presidency; $23.98 million for Staff Welfare in the Presidency; $.99 million for travels of the First Lady abroad; and $59.72 million for security,” the Okigbo report stated. “The approved budget for the Federation did not reflect the receipts into the Dedication and other Special Accounts; that the balances kept in these accounts were not included in the Federation Account, a practice which violated the fundamental precepts of the federal fiscal relations in Nigeria, and that in a number of cases, there were significant variations between the amounts approved for payment and the actual disbursements made, without any further explanation from the documents supplied,” the report added. The Dr. Pius Okigbo Panel set up under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, had raised questions on how the oil windfall during Babangida’s tenure was managed. IBB promptly responded to the Federal Government through his Spokesman Kassim Afegbua. “What the Attorney General said in his response to the petition is unambiguous; that the government will try to ascertain whether that is the true copy of the Okigbo report. The whole concept of civil society organisations bringing signed copy[ies] of a Federal Government Report to government raises a lot of curiosity and mischief on the part of the civil societies. I have not seen a situation where a government will set up a panel, only for report to be given to it [government] by unknown bodies. “Despite all the clear cut attempts to rubbish the good name of General Babangida by this gang of sinuous fawns who want to play the 'angelic' role as civil societies, I am yet to find anywhere in the whole wide world where these organisations have rendered account of their own grants from foreign countries in the years of their existence. This is our challenge to all of them,” Afegbua said. |
| Posted By: O.D Posted On: May 21, 2010 Views: 1262 | IKWERRE IS NOT IGBO! By Okachikwu Dibia nelsondibiaokachi@yahoo.com In the interview of the President, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Ralph Uwechue, published in the Daily Sun of 10th March, 2010, the President was asked what efforts he is making to unite Igbo in Rivers and Delta States, he said “ First of all, it should be understood that these fractions who now deny the fact they are Igbo did so only after the civil war; take for instance the Ikwerre people… fully identified with us during the pre-civil war era but because the Igbo lost the civil war, a kind of stigma was smeared on them making a lot of people to start adjusting their names to sound less Igbo…”. This statement is misleading and not correct. First of all, Ikwerre is not Igbo. We have made this clear even before the civil war and that was why some Igbo accused Ikwerre of sabotage during the war. Second, in all efforts by the minorities in the former Eastern Region to agitate for their own political, social and economic recognition and liberty in the Easter Region and Nigeria at large, Ikwerre participated fully: hence, the late Chief E. J. A. Oriji and others represented Ikwerre before and during most of the conferences set up to address the fears of the minority ethnic groups in Nigeria. Third, in May 1963, Ikwerre people formed the Ogbakor Ikwerre Convention to state that Ikwerre is a distinct ethnic group from any others in Nigeria. Fourth, in the 1964/65 elections into the Federal House of Representatives, NCNC nominated an Igbo man named Mr Eluguronu to represent Ikwerre in the House. Ikwerre rejected it and fielded young Bar. Nwobidike Nwanodi as an independent candidate and he won. Fifth, Ikwerre’s participation in all the movements for the creation of COR and later Rivers states clearly shows Ikwerre’s rejection of been Igbo. Let the point be made that right from about the 16th century, the Igbo has been in touch with Ikwerre ( through slave trade, Arochuku activities, goods trading, hiring of labour for farm works, marriages and politics) and had always wanted to dominate, colonize and take over Ikwerre at all costs and by all means possible. This is natural especially where the dominated people are better endowed than the colonizing power, coupled with the ever tendency of a bigger group to swallow a smaller one and whenever the latter refuses, the former resorts to cheap propaganda. That is exactly what Chief Uwechue and Ohaneze Ndigbo are bent on doing to Ikwerre. In this unholy enterprise, they appear confused: for example, while some of them claim that Ikwerre sabotaged the Biafra project, Uwechue has said that Ikwerre did not. Truly, Ikwerre did not just like every other minority ethnic group in the former Eastern Region. How could we when the Igbo was in absolute control of the region? So, we fought for Biafra. When another colonizing super power (Nigerian forces) arrived, Ikwerre had no option than to surrender and cooperate with them. Hence, Ikwerre actually fought the war on and for both sides. After the war, some of the ill activities of the Igbo in Ikwerre were corrected. In the case of names, the Igbo first changed the original Ikwerre names into Igbo names in an attempt to force Ikwerre to become Igbo. So at the end of the war, some Ikwerre decided to assert their original names; hence, Igirita was changed to Igwuruta, Isoba was changed to Choba, Amaweke was changed to Rumuokwuta etc. Even individuals suffered the same humiliation when their names were forcefully changed from Ovunda to Obinna for example. Even the original name of the Ikwerre Ethnic group which is Iwheruoha was changed to Ikwerre by the Igbo. Some names have been retained (like my surname) to reflect part of the Ikwerre colonial journey, just like a Yoruba Nigerian bearing the name Mathew. Does this make the Yoruba man an English man? No! On a more serious note, if the Igbo insists that Ikwerre is Igbo, they should provide concrete sociological and historical evidences to prove their case beyond the whimsical factors of appearance, language and name which no longer can correctly and truly define a people in today’s world. What does is the character of the people and I am yet to see where the Igbo character can be sufficiently located in the behavior of an average Ikwerre person. For example, they say we are lazzy; is the Igbo also lazzy? Again, if Ikwerre say they are not Igbo, why not the Igbo leave the Ikwerre alone; must Ikweere be Igbo for them to exist? Ikwerre is Ikwerre! It is this type of continuously overbearing tendency to dominate and extinct a people by force that makes it difficult for me to agree to dissolve myself into who I am not. That is why it will continue to be difficult to agree to a citizenship arrangement in Nigeria whereby I will just be a Nigerian. I am a Nigerian from Ikwerre, just like Wilson Churchill is a European from England. Therefore, let us restructure Nigeria on ethnic basis and let all the groups have equal rights, privileges and opportunities and respect one another as peoples of diverse and different nationalities who have discussed and agreed to be in one political and co-ordinate sphere called Nigeria. This pluralist recommendation is akin to the EU with different and diverse ethnic groups who have political, social and economic freedoms, but agreed to meet as equals in EU. Thinking of forcing every ethnic nation in Nigeria to forget who they are in order to become Nigeria, is like forcing the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain etc into one country. If they did not discuss and agree on that formation, who will rule who and how? Let Nigeria and in particular the Igbo allow Ikwerre to remain who she says she is until and unless superior evidence is provided to prove beyond all reasonable doubts that Ikwerre is Igbo. Let the Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Igbo etc allow Ikwerre to be. Okachikwu Dibia Abuja. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- |
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