Onlytruth:

Ibime you are beginning to lose my respect here, and believe me you don't want to do that! No matter how deltans see Biafra or Aburi Accord, they were DELIBERATE [/b]actions of the [b]EASTERN NIGERIAN [/b]government. I still believe that the Accord could have served Nigeria veritably if not for the selfish and myopic leadership of other majority tribes (and some minority ones like Clark, [b]Enahoro and Saro wiwa). The war broke out because the Federal government decided by its own caprices not to implement the Accord. The war or Nigeria's years in the wilderness were all avoidable. Today everyone is clamoring for a SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE (whatever that means!). Clarify yourself or lose my respect for good.

Onlytruth:

Ibime you are beginning to lose my respect here, and believe me you don't want to do that! No matter how deltans see Biafra or Aburi Accord, they were DELIBERATE [/b]actions of the [b]EASTERN NIGERIAN [/b]government. I still believe that the Accord could have served Nigeria veritably if not for the selfish and myopic leadership of other majority tribes (and some minority ones like Clark, Enahoro and Saro wiwa). The war broke out because the Federal government decided by its own caprices not to implement the Accord. The war or Nigeria's years in the wilderness were all avoidable. Today everyone is clamoring for a [b]SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE (whatever that means!). Clarify yourself or lose my respect for good.

Ibime:

Calm down hombre. . . . no need to blow gasket. . .  . . . . the condescending Dede1 sought to prove Biafras "fair treatment" of minorities by highlighting that each town had an administrator from that town. . . .how charitable!. . . . although that proves nothing because even in the contraption called Nigeria, we still have administrators from our own towns.

Dede1's tries to use his example to prove "fair treatment". . . . but to me, the only "fair treatment" was that Ojukwu apply the same Aburi accord to Biafra as he wanted Nigeria to apply to himself. . . . If Igbos deserve Aburi Accord in Nigeria, then Ijaws deserve Aburi Accord in Biafra. . . . but Igbos would not even consider giving them their own state for minor decision making, talkless of devolving power completely ala Aburi Accord. . . . the double standard is there before God and Man to see.

naijaking1:

Becomerich
Thanks for not pasting another mind boggling map yet.

Thanks to OBJ's first time as a head of state, he enacted the land reform act, which made it impossible for people to access oil in their own land.

Like the Hausas, you Yorubas just want to get the oil and go your ways. The reality is theat none of the major industrialized nations Japan, Britain, USA, France, Germany, etc controlled, sold, and abused oil economy like we do, so we're not going anywhere by these oppressive steps.
Why do you think Lagos, Ibadan, and Kaduna are more developed than the cities that actually produce oil?


thus as I hate to agree with him,I have to agree to this lil comment.WE NO KNOW WHERE UNA BELING, infact if you ever mention Niger Delta near Ondo,we go block una from comming down south for Good,infact, tell that Governor of yours to repair you section of the lagos benin xpress way first B4 comming here to yan crap

JomoGbomo2:

I am less concern if this guy is anyone's hero or not even though the Isaac boro Park( named after him in Port harcourt) is where i find myself growing up. but the truth is that he made an impact maybe positive or negative.

What really touched me is that he made his impact at quite a young age (mid 20s to early 30s) trying to make nigeria great in his own best definition and thats why could be discussing about him being a hero or not using 9 pages in this particular thread.
The question i think we should be asking ourselves is how can we make an impact in this nation positively in what we strongly beleive in. Most of us replying to this thread are in the age group he was when making this gaint strides of his.

I think this is a challenge on we the Nigerian youth of today to make bold moves in what we believe in especially good governance. Just think about it.

You should be attacking Vanguard, not me. That's another case of misplaced priority. Funny, you don't want me to believe a reputable national newspaper(owned by a minority--I believe), but you want me to believe your small, and narrow minded theories about Nigeria
No, Vanguard is not Biafran owned.
Adaka Boro got what he deserved: death from his "Yoruba friends", disregard from his Hausa mentors, and dislike from his fellow eastern Nigerians.
And for you trying to re-write history by claiming Adaka Boro was a hero, you deserve shame/quote]

naiajking1 your so myopic in your views why should i attack vanguard newspapers were they the ones that clipped it on this thread, you did and now because everyone is exposing your lack of proper research your trying to hide for cover, and i never said vanguard was biafran owned i said maybe you got your information that adaka boro is no hero from one of those your biafran dailies sold only in the east, i can hold my head on high and say boro is a hero unlike your turncoat two-faced biafran weaklings ojukwu et al.

You should be attacking Vanguard, not me. That's another case of misplaced priority. Funny, you don't want me to believe a reputable national newspaper(owned by a minority--I believe), but you want me to believe your small, and narrow minded theories about Nigeria
No, Vanguard is not Biafran owned.
Adaka Boro got what he deserved: death from his "Yoruba friends", disregard from his Hausa mentors, and dislike from his fellow eastern Nigerians.
And for you trying to re-write history by claiming Adaka Boro was a hero, you deserve shame/quote]


naiajking1 your so myopic in your views why should i attack vanguard newspapers were they the ones that clipped it on this thread, you did and now because everyone is exposing your lack of proper research your trying to hide for cover, and i never said vanguard was biafran owned i said maybe you got your information that adaka boro is no hero from one of those your biafran dailies sold only in the east, i can hold my head on high and say boro is a hero unlike your turncoat two-faced biafran weaklings ojukwu et al.

babasoty:

@ibime

i am from olunwa compund my bro, and you made a mistake about okujagu and nduisi those are not compounds in amadi-ama okujagu is close to slaughter area and they are the owners of azuabie town while nduisi is another name for ogan ama, amadi ama is composed of seven compounds, olunwa, amadi, koko/josiah, worianime and aluko,ogbanga,tubobereni and iringe compounds, and please amadi ama boys are not terrorists, its the same problem that was faced by boro that is still staring at them today and we have buried our hatchets with our abuloma brothers.

Thanks for reminding me. . . . I was confusing Ndibuisi and Tubobereni compounds. . . . I remember that TuboBereni used to use jazz during the football tournaments. . . or so they told us. . . . . . . I left that area when I was ten years old so my memory is not sharp. . . . I also grew up in Olunwa Compound. . . . Olunwa Estate to be precise. ./quote]

which of the olunwa estate, is it vivian olunwa estate, or the nemi estate because i am from olunwa family for tubobereni using jazz nahhhh dont think so.

babasoty:

which of the olunwa estate, is it vivian olunwa estate, or the nemi estate because i am from olunwa family for tubobereni using jazz nahhhh dont think so.

babasoty:

nemi is my uncle, idua is in texas, furo is married same with abiye and tekena while boma is late who exactly are you cus i know everyone that stayed there.

babasoty:

@ibime
then you must be micheal, i know your sis joanna and whats the other ones name with your brother your cuz sotonye ogan is my buddy, he broke my arm at staff school abuloma.

babasoty:

@IBIME

nahhhh its not isebie we are all cousins but no worry guess hard if you see my face you'd know me but lets stick to the alias here, how are you been a long time you guys left. stay blessed

Dede1:

@na_so

You are indeed a misguided fellow.

Dede1:

@na_so

You are indeed a misguided fellow. As I said in my previous post, what was termed as Niger Delta by the British as indicated in your post is not the same as the present Niger Delta created by the lunatic and political idiots roaming the jungle called Nigeria.

As for the Shell D’arcy crude oil exploration in southern protectorate and Nigeria, I suggest you perform additional reading.

Ibime:

Calm down hombre. . . . no need to blow gasket. . .   . . . . the condescending Dede1 sought to prove Biafras "fair treatment" of minorities by highlighting that each town had an administrator from that town. . . .how charitable!. . . . although that proves nothing because even in the contraption called Nigeria, we still have administrators from our own towns.

Dede1's tries to use his example to prove "fair treatment". . . . but to me, the only "fair treatment" was that Ojukwu apply the same Aburi accord to Biafra as he wanted Nigeria to apply to himself. . . . If Igbos deserve Aburi Accord in Nigeria, then Ijaws deserve Aburi Accord in Biafra. . . . but Igbos would not even consider giving them their own state for minor decision making, talkless of devolving power completely ala Aburi Accord. . . . the double standard is there before God and Man to see.

erico2k2:


Now haven said all tat crap,the Igbos are making noises about Biafra,the Housas are happy where they are,the SOuth are blowing up pipes saying the want resource control and wanting Niger Delta republic, what are the Yorubas or rather the West doing ?sit down and look? Una B follow follow? I will quote what Naijaking said and its a perfect answer to this

na_so:




I hope you are not under immense pressure to function in this your self-appointed role of trying to hide the truth. You can still make your point without sounding abusive you know?

This man dey make me laugh. chei. 

Please as the "historian" of the house kindly explain the makeup (demograhic and geographic) of the Niger delta as designed by the british and explain how the Ijaws were not major players?

You have consitently made attempts at denying what is glaringly true at every occassion. It is either  a case of mischeavously  understating the returns from crude oil at the start of the civil war , or that  the Akassa war of 1895 being as a result of elimination of Ijaw middlemen in palm produce trade  and the actual producers being Ibos.

At some point you have maginified the drops of oil found in Owerri and Ikot ekpene  before it was discovered in commercially viable quantity in oloibiri. Then used this unsuccesful oil exploration activities in owerri as a platform to  ask  " where were the ijaws and Boro when oil was struke in Owerri?"  No one is fooled.

You are really working hard to sell this your theory of economic depedence of the ijaws on ibos before crude was discovered.

You are really very funny but note that all this mass of unrelated historical tales, can not derail me from my points in this discuss. Which are:

1. Adaka Boro to Ijaws is (if not more than) what  Ojukwu is to the Ibos. If Ojukwu is the HERO of ndigbo, same applies to Boro in Ijawland.

2. Before crude  oil was discovered Ijaws have a rich history of economical viable agro based activities. Hence were not economically reliant and  that at best the Ibos were economic partners.


In your response kindly highlight parts of my posts you have a problem with . This will make it easier for better clarification.

akigbemaru:

Yorubas are peace keeping as you know na where we stand.

naijaking1:

I forgot Enahoro also kicked against the Aburi accord, but 45 years later, the man is busy campaigning for the same sovereign national conference as contained in Aburi.
You know, an honest man of his age would call the youngers around and tell them how mistaken he had been in the 1960s, and possibly advice them about making such mistakes again in the future.

Dede1:


You are becoming uncontrollably ridiculous. Please get a handle of yourself. Ojukwu did not go to Aburi in order to negotiate terms for the Ndigbo. Rather Aburi summit was primarily between Nigeria and Biafra. During the period of summit in the Ghanaian town, Gowon and his ethnic group of Angas did not represent the cesspit called Nigeria. By the same token, Ojukwu’s stance in Aburi was not for Ndigbo but Biafra. The last time I checked though, Biafra represented the defunct eastern region of Nigeria.

I forgot Enahoro also kicked against the Aburi accord, but 45 years later, the man is busy campaigning for the same sovereign national conference as contained in Aburi.
You know, an honest man of his age would call the youngers around and tell them how mistaken he had been in the 1960s, and possibly advice them about making such mistakes again in the future.

Ibime:

I think you are being facetious here. . . . the Aburi Accord devolved power to Biafra alright, but gave no power to the nation-states that make up Biafra. . . . again, I will remind you that it gave power to the Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. . . . full stop. . . . within Biafra itself, Ndigbo vehemently resisted the devolvement of power away from Enugu. . . . the Wa-Zo-Bia chess games NEVER took into account power-devolvement to the "minorities" within their region. . . . .if we consider that the smallest tribe in the old Rivers State was Ogoni with more than half a million people, do you not think that half a million people deserve power devolvement?. . . . and the Ijaw nation is 10 million strong. . . .so what makes you think that Igbos with 20 million deserve devolvement, but 10 million Ijaws do not?

Dede1:


I told you in my previous post that desperation is setting into your plank of argument. Please for sake of clarity, where did you plug the number of 10 million that you claimed represented numeric strength of Ijo people in the defunct eastern Nigerian? Even the combination of Ijo as citizens of both Nigeria and Ghana would not amount to10 million.

I hope you are still normal because most of the permanent secretaries that accompanied Gowon to Aburi were Ijo. It is cool to hear from you that during the summit in Aburi, Ijo people were neither Nigerians nor Biafrans.

Dede1:


I told you in my previous post that desperation is setting into your plank of argument. Please for sake of clarity, where did you plug the number of 10 million that you claimed represented numeric strength of Ijo people in the defunct eastern Nigerian? Even the combination of Ijo as citizens of both Nigeria and Ghana would not amount to10 million.

I hope you are still normal because most of the permanent secretaries that accompanied Gowon to Aburi were Ijo. It is cool to hear from you that during the summit in Aburi, Ijo people were neither Nigerians nor Biafrans.