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| Posted By: Amadi Worgu Posted On: May 19, 2010 Views: 930 | Murtala Murtala what you said is my position but there is a caveat to this, only if the north will maintain and keep to the agreement. There is no need causing trouble in Nigeria. The same Nigerian who are shout hossana .... hossana 4 GOODLUCK nor its seems rossy will definitely shout crucify him .... crucify him tomorrow if he fails. We need peace in Nigeria or let us go our different ways. But if we must live together, we must learn to respect agreements. Amadi Worgu PH |
| Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: May 19, 2010 Views: 880 | Dearth of Quality Leadership in Yorubaland The name is as fishy as the assertions made by the writer. Each time there is a contentious issue here, a strange Igbo sounding name crops up to support the anti-Igbo stand. We are not fooled. We all know the identity of the writer. The very name Mark Ebele (obviously inspired by Jonathans middle name) is unimaginative and unintelligent choice of identity under the circumstances. Yoruba Leaders: The essence of these series Im writing is to point out that key to Nigeria's development lies in the hands of the Yoruba who instead of looking within always look Eastwards for whom to taunt and blame ignoring the mess at their backyard. As progressives and champions of democracy our Yoruba brothers could do well to uphold justice and equity instead of the tribalistic behiaviour they exhibit by blanking out all other groups from economic equation. I will come to this later. (Look around you in your place of work. All top positions are held by Yoruba) Also, our ears are inundated with how Yorubas speak with one voice. This is a bloody myth. Yorubas are even more cacophonous than Igbos. It is just that their very privileged position in the country masks the real rot in their affairs and the dearth of quality leadership bedeviling Yorubaland. Has anyone noticed that apart from Raji Fashola in Lagos and to an extent Mimiko in Ondo, the rest of Yoruba land including Kwara state is ruled by charlatans, con men and thugs? Let us take a brief look at this leadership crisis and its attendant political harlotry which Amadi has just underlined and its impact on Nigerias politics The Yoruba Governors: Olagunsoye Oyinlola: The military thug who holds sway in Osun state: This fellow who once ruled Lagos state as a military administrator nearly wrecked that economically viable state. By the time he left Lagos was almost in debt. Characteristic of the contradictions of the Yoruba, he has been foisted up to rule one of the progressive states in the Southwest. It must be borne in mind that the PDP abracadabra that saw it capturing the AD states wasnt concocted overnight. Yoruba leaders deliberately approved of the demise of their Awoist party AD, just to further an ethnic agenda which was solely to keep their son the Barbarian Olusegun Obasanjo in power. If this type of thug had assumed power in any Southeast state, our Yoruba brothers would have wondered aloud wetin de worry these Igbo people sef? Oyinlola obviously does not have the mental quality to rule over a hamlet talkless of a state filled with well educated people Adebayo Akala: The corrupt ex-police officer who was thrown out of Police for corruption and misconduct but later had his dismissal in typical Nigerian fashion converted to retirement. Akala is as frivolous as the bleaching cream he rubs on his body. Like most Yoruba leaders, being frugal is a totally alien concept to this fellow. The height of his misuse of state funds was reached when he used US Dollars lduring his daughters convocation ceremony as if the currency was going out of fashion. To be continued: |
| Posted By: Amadi Posted On: May 19, 2010 Views: 831 | Folks Nigerian problem is neither Igbo nor Yoruba. Nigerian problem even before independence is the North. Yoruba political harloting is the main factor that enable the north to hold all of us in bondage - GRANTED.The sooner the yorubas realize this and mend their political prostitution the better for the one Nigeria which they hypocritically endorsed. |
| Posted By: Kendo Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 771 | Intriguing! Mark Ebele or Jide my chameleon friend that changes name like water wrote the bellow. Let the igbos search themselves and know the real reasons why every tribes in Nigeria are afraid of them………………..Mark Ebele For sure, we know why every tribe in Nigeria hates the Igbo. We know why they converged in their numbers to crush the Igbo into extinction during the civil war. We know why they continue to marginalize the Igbo’s many years after the civil war. The bellows are some of the reasons Nigerians hate the Igbos 1. We are hardworking and progressive people 2. We always count success in everything we do 3. We can never eat anyone bread without paying for it 4. We believe in transparency and accountability 5. We select our leaders on merit and personal records 6. We sometimes sacrifice our shares to achieve peace i.e “Nnamdi Azikiwe” did so to save Nigeria Before I continue with my emphasis, have you ever asked yourself these questions? 1. In spite of your hatred on Igbos, they continue to progress in everything they do? 2. The more you hate them, the more Nigeria collapses? It will do you lots of good when you carefully digest such questions and answer them honestly. No thief will accommodate a policeman around his premises. You are afraid of the Igbos because in government, they will stop all your looting networks. They will dismantle your ineptitude in governance. They will transform and place Nigeria place it where it belongs in the world map. Are you not ashamed that after many years in leadership, the best we have seen from the North and the West is total darkness? Tell me a country in the West Africa where children shouts UP NEPA!!! Even the poorest country knows the best for their citizens. You are free to hate the Igbos but what you cannot stop is our progressive spirits. You refused to build basic infrastructures in Igbo land; we contributed money and built them. From debris of war, we have shown the world that we capable of surviving without your national cake. A visit to Igbo land will testify my claims. This is why most of you are apprehensive over granting us a sovereign state of Biafra. Can anyone stop the wind? Hoisting of Biafran flag may be delayed but it will take place. Only time will be your best teacher. |
| Posted By: Gerald Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 829 | Again, poor logic.... "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - Hegel The word TRUST and CONFIDENCE are not in Nigerian lexicon. Anybody jabbering about trust and confidence is simply displaying ignorance! Correction again, what happens in Nigeria is "SELECTION", not election! It takes time to teach coconut heads, but that's okay! With trillions and billions of dollars in some 5 to 6 nigerian so-called rulers, who should trust whom? Who is losing the battle here other than impoverished nigerians. Trust and confidence my foot! Why are the Niger Delta militants furious and suspicious? Probably, their anger is directed at the Igbos? Trust and confidence, why are they blowing up oil fields to ask for what is rightly theirs? Hiding under Igbo name doesn't remove the ignorance of some... |
| Posted By: Mark Ebele Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 763 | Ezinwanne/Kendo I completely agreed with what Jide is saying. Without an event, there can never be history. The earlier the Igbos forget about the past, the better for them. Forgetting the past does not necessarily means forgeting the lesson/ mistakes learnt from the past. Today you abuse the hasua, tomorrow the yourubas, who will then have confidence in you? Arrogancy cannot win election. I remember sometime last year an igbo chap [ofeke] called Jonathan toothless bulldog and a mere spare tire. Today the same Jonathan is the President. Destiny can never be changed. Let the igbos search themselves and know the real reasons why every tribes in Nigeria are afraid of them. As usaul, I expect internet solidarity of abuses. |
| Posted By: SQUAD Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 702 | Eagles are going no where! "Eagles to pocket N700m as allowances, bonuses By Our reporter Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Nigerias Super Eagles stand to pocket a massive N700 million (about $ 4.6 million) in allowances, appearance fees and win bonuses should they go all the way at next month's World Cup as skipper Nwankwo Kanu has predicted. Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has already proposed to the players a qualification bonus of 25% of the $8 million Nigeria will receive for featuring in the first round of the 2010 World Cup. In addition, NFF has now projected it would also spend about N700 million in daily allowances, appearance fees and match bonuses if the Eagles reach the World Cup finals. For instance, each of the 23 players who make the final cut for the tournament will be entitled to a daily allowance of $200. A month's stay in South Africa would, therefore, mean that a player would receive $6,000 alone in daily allowances." -------------------------------------------- Money is the name of the game! That's why more young, qualified and fit players were cut off from the original 44-man initial list without ever being tested!!! Most of the old mafia group players have obvious injuries, but pretend to be a thousand percent fit all of a sudden! It's quite surprising how Lagerback toned down his rhetorics and decided to swim along with the non-achieving NFF corrupt house! Well, in less than a month, Nigerian soccer lovers will see for themselves, and they'll be disappointed!!! |
| Posted By: Harrison B. Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 667 | ...YOU'RE A FOOL..INDEED I don't know that ABOKI'S are still in the house saying rubbish like this one called HAMZAT who Insulted and called the president Idiot for choosing Sambo and rather prefered IBB,sorry for him because I know that he is a refugee from Niger republic. |
| Posted By: ugu Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 661 | Beware of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida! If we sincerely wish to uplift Nigeria to become a true giant of Africa and a force in the world, we must learn to tell ourselves the truth and shame the devil and the agents she has used to hold Nigeria and her citizens hostage over the years. IBB is one of those who should be in jail or, at least, hide thier heads in shame rather than attept to come anywhere near governance. Obasanjo is another, among others, but the so-called "maradona" of Nigerian dictatorial politics is the subject here because of his renewed attept to call Nigerians fools again. 1.IBB took over the governance of Nigeria by force,thereby commiting treasonable felony, and should have long decayed in the grave like those who failed, including the ones condemned by him! 2. IBB fooled Nigerians into a nation-wide debate on IMF loan, during which it was overwhelmingly rejected, only to bring in the loan, thereby plunging Nigeria and Nigerians into economic neo-colonization and impoverishment! 3. IBB's regime witnessed disappearances and outright killings of percieved opponents, Dele Giwa inclusive! 4. IBB dribbled and fooled Nigerians on several occasions with his hand-over progammes untill they said "enough is enough!" and heaved a sigh of releif when he was eventually ejected! 5. IBB bribed social crusaders with appointments and banished those who resisted his antics. Gani Fawehinmi wrote his name in gold for refusing his advances despite the pains inflicted on him for fighting for the people's rights! 6. IBB refused to allow the will of the people expressed in the popular "June 12"! 7. IBB has a 50-room home in Minna when Nigerians sleep under the bridge! 8. I am at sea as to what IBB forgot in government house he wants to return to pick! 9. IBB created federal, state and LGA salary structure that vary all over the contry as if civit servants do not go to thesame market, in his ploy to use divide and rule and incapacitate collective negociations. 10. IBB will cling to power forever, if allowed to near government house! 11. IBB should leave Nigeria alone, stop seeing Nigerians as fools, but leave them alone to reshape their lives destroyed by him! 12. Return of IBB will spell doom, to say the least, and should be rebuffed! |
| Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 832 | And so Jide Afolabi Jide, You cannot live your present without recourse to your past. You cannot make a hobby of taunting the Igbo without acknowledging the ignoble role your own people played in making us such object of derision. Ibrahim Babangida ruled left Aso Rock 17years ago Ibrahim Babangida today is lampooned for his actions during his time in power. He is roundly condemned for actions that institutionalized corruption. For this many people ion Nigeria would not want him anywhere near Aso Rock and rightfully so. In the same vein why do you refuse to acknowledge what your god Awolowo did to Ndigbo? Dont you realize that the major policy decisions he took in the early seventies are what is to a large extent, responsible for the dislocation in the socio-political life of the Igbo man. In all we have shrugged it off and moved on. But the biles of well informed Igbos are raised when you come here sounding off about patriotism, one Nigeria and lack of direction of the Igbo. Ordinarily we would have accepted our shortcomings without a whimper, but these vituperations coming from a man whose people did a great deal to keep us where we are is hard to take. If we must exist as an entity in Nigeria, then you guys all of you that came around to destroy the Igbo, must come around to prop the Igbo up. There is a precedent. In 1999 the entire Nation agreed that the Yoruba had been dealt a bad card by the June 12 annulment. Therefore in an unwritten arrangement, the presidency was ceded to the Southwest. This attitude is what is needed to repair Igboland. Not this silly self righteous inclination of Nigerian people towards Ndigbo. A people they all set out to destroy. 40years later the effects of the attempt to destroy us have beclouded our existence, yet you people stand around and s****, taunt us and complain these Igbo people sef. Unlike in 1999 when the Nigerian nation made an effort to appease the Yoruba, no such gesture was made towards the Igbo who suffered far greater losses. Instead the physical war metamorphosed into a socio-economic war waged with all brutality by Yoruba elite with the tacit approval of the Hausa/Fulani overlords This is the justice we talk about. This is what all the Biafra agitation is all about On self pity: No Igbo indulges in self pity. No Igbo leaves his fate in the hands of some Oba or Emir or some remote desert god. Indeed the Igbo compels his own chi to say aye Bear in mind that 95% of the home in Igboland were destroyed during the civil. Today the quality of houses in Igbo towns and villages are unmatched anywhere else in Nigeria apart from Lagos and Abuja. This is no mean feat |
| Posted By: HAMZA Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 815 | HAMZA enfdel in aso rok. not ma prsednt. idot put sambo fo asitant. sambo usles agri. he is no go tel ibb fo win presdnt fo 2011. idot mans folo south goat fo aso rok. robis pepls. |
| Posted By: Kendo Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 782 | Jide Afolabi I wonder when this mesmerized Jide will stop seeing things myopically. His feigned naivety is to pretend as if all is well with his frivolous “One Nigeria”. No insult intended but you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you will not continue to be daft at all time. Like you emphasized, the criminality attached to Nigerian civil war which took place over 40 years ago must be swept under the carpet to allow Nigeria move forward. Are you sure you are not dreaming? Have you ever heard about Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and other prominent personalities presently answering charges of war crime? The crimes were committed long ago. As you know, the spirit of the dead will never have rest until justice is done. Yes we are truly moving forward. Few months ago, thousands of people were massacred and buried at Jos in an open mass grave. Maybe you might be among the next victims. God forbid! I would want you to live long and see what will become of your “One Nigeria”. You claimed that what happened in the past is regrettable and should not be allowed to repeat again. Not long ago, you stressed on this forum that using hunger on innocent women and children as weapon of war is justified. I wonder what you are regretting today. The more you write without focus on this forum, the more you make big fool of yourself. Why don’t you employ the service of the wise people among you before writing further on this forum? Doing so will improve your low level of reasoning. I believe there are more intelligent people who can reason better in your camp. |
| Posted By: Jide Afolabi Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 638 | ... AND SO EZINWANNE, ...! I have not been told what all these self-pity is all about. Do you want to move on with a pregressive, forward-looking Nigeria or wallow in self-pity and continue to bite your fingers over the past? The war happened over 40 years ago. Why continue to lament till today? Nd'Igbo have the same opportunity like everyone else in Nigeria. What happened in the past is regrettable and should not be allowed to repeat itself. But we have to move on, my friend... |
| Posted By: Oscar Eze Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 636 | Nigerian leadership Should the south rule for as much years as the north have ruled (military and civil rule) before handing over? |
| Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: May 18, 2010 Views: 789 | Our kind and Loving Country men John, Some people object to discussions here having ethnic colouration. I disagree. Many tales are untold of what has happened since our nation's independence. These tales must be told. If Onyekachi abuses you maybe its because you do not see things from a more robust perspective. If you were Igbo, you will know what it means to be at the receiving end of unnecessary hatred from your own country men especially Yorubas. These fellow countrymen again turn around to insist that you have no right to complain after having done more than any other group to put you where you are. What Fajuyi did is commendable but there are thousands of other actions taken by Yorubas deliberately to spite Igbos thereby nullifying whatever good inherent in that noble action. Take a trip into history. 1n 1953, Awolowo visited Jos on a campaign for his AG in those heady campaign days leading to self rule and finally to independence In the course of the campaign volatile issues were raised which raised the Socio-religious tempers in Jos The Igbos were not in AG. The Igbos had nothing to do with Awo's campaign. But to every Igbo man's amazement, mobs of Northern Youths took to the streets killing Igbo people and destroying their property. In other words these people in very different circumstances died for Awolowo; but because they were not as high profile as Fajuyi, no recognition is given them. You just mentioned how the Yoruba man can be. That's good. I have also written several things on the flip side about how the Yoruba man could be too. Take for instance Awo handing out 20pounds to every adult Igbo male irrespective of how much you possessed in your bank account. 20 pounds given to all Igbo men by our loving and justice loving Yoruba brothers. These 20 pounds were given when the entire Igbo country lay in ruins; totally destroyed after a 3year civil war. The Igbo man had no money, no job, no sense of security and he still had to contain with hostile country men. Low profile killings of Igbos continued across Nigeria until 1971. It was still our kind Yorubas who instituted the indigenalization policy. It was a policy that enabled Nigerians ( Yorubas) to buy up and own major companies. That policy marked the unequalled and domineering presence of the Yoruba in the corporate world. This dominance exists till this day. The shooting war was over. This new offensive was a continuation of the economic war waged against Ndigbo by the Yorubas to effectively shut Igbos out of the economic equation. Igbos had 20pounds a head. So there was no question of a level playing field. Consequently, they took to trading and sundry business endeavors with vigour and tenacity. By the way the mastermind of that policy was no other than our kind Awolowo; minister for Finance and father of the Yorubas who loved Ndigbo so much. Balance things please You guys need to go beyond stereotype feelings and be more objective. Guaranteed you guys dislike Ndigbo. No problem. Afterall 9million Jews are surrounded by over 100 million very hostile Arabs But even if you dislike someone, your sense of justice must always be fair and firm. |
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