The badger has confirmed the earlier postulation that he is Nupe/Fulani

As a matter of fact, given the sheer desperation of each of the major ethnic groups to win control at the centre in 2015, the activities of Boko Haram, the agitation of the Niger Deltans, the resurrection of MASSOB, the unmistakable resurgence of a rather extreme form of igbo nationalism, the activities of various ethnic nationalist groups and the growing religious and sectarian divide in our country, it has only just started in earnest and it is a cause that I have chosen to dedicate my life to.

As long as I live, I will resist the idea of any part of Yorubaland being turned into a ‘’no-man’s land’’ where the Yoruba people are meant to live as second class citizens and never-do-wells and where they are treated like filth. If that makes me a tribalist or a bigot, then so be it.

If loving my nationality, which comprises of 50 million Yoruba people, and adoring my nation of 160 million Nigerians at the same time is a crime then I am guilty of that crime. I do not have to love one at the expense of the other. We are not America which is a nation that is made-up of immigrants and ex-slaves and a country which literally wiped out the indigenous population that they met there when they arrived who were known as the Red Indians. We are not Americans who somehow found their way into the world barely 300 years ago, we are Nigerians.

And each and every one of the great and numerous nationalities that make up our beautiful nation has a noble heritage that goes back for thousands of years. We may not be as developed or as wealthy as they are but we know who we are and we know where we are coming from.

That is why I am proud of this country and all the various nationalities that make it up regardless of our difficulties and challenges. Yet we are not so different to some others. In the United Kingdom there are basically four nationalities: The English, the Welsh, the Irish and the Scottish. Each of these four nationalities is actually a tribe yet you very rarely find a British person who will tell you that he is not proud of his Scottish, Welsh, Irish or English heritage AND at the same time proud of his nation.

He is first an Irishman, a Welshman, an Englishman or a Scot before being British even though he cherishes being both. He does not have to sacrifice his Irish, Welsh, English or Scottish heritage and roots for Britain and neither does he have to sacrifice Britain for his heritage and roots. He balances it well, he has the best of both worlds and this is indeed a wonderful thing. He derives his strength from both.

He enjoys being Irish, Scottish, English or Welsh and cherishes it deeply just as much as he enjoys and cherishes being British. And, today, centuries after Great Britain was established as one nation under one Crown and one Royal Sovereign the British citizen still cherishes his primary nationality and tribal heritage so much that power has been gradually devolved from the centre at Westminster in London to the various tribes and ethnic nationalities in the regions over the years.

Such is the agitation for the restoration of ethnic identity and devolution of power in the United Kingdom today that Scotland is preparing for a referendum to determine whether her people should remain in Great Britain or not. This is a beautiful thing. It is known as self-determination and no human being ought to be denied that right. Taking pride in your primary roots and your ancient heritage is not a crime.

That is how it is meant to be. It is only in Nigeria that we call this perfectly natural and wholesome phenomenon ‘’tribalism’’. We give it an ugly name and we ascribe to it an even uglier connotation. Everywhere else in the world the reality of ethnic nationalities is acknowledged, respected, valued, cherished and well-managed. As a matter of fact such diversity is a source of strength and pride for many. For example in the nation of Belgium one will find that there is an ancient dichotomy and deep rivalries between the Flemish people of the north and the Waloons of the south.

They speak different languages and have a completely different history and cultural heritage yet these two great and ancient nationalities or tribes are proudly Belgian and they rally under one flag. This is how it ought to be everywhere. I have no hate or ill-feeling towards any other ethnic group in this country or anywhere else. If I did I would say so and damn the consequences. Racism and tribalism is below me and such primordial traits offend my sensibilities. To harbour such views is well below my intellectual and spiritual dignity. Those that know me well can attest to this. I have as many non-Yoruba friends just as I have Yoruba ones. I look down on no other human being, no other race and no other nationality and I do not claim that the Yoruba are better than anyone else.

What I insist on though is that I should be allowed to acknowledge my history and to preserve my ancient heritage, culture, values and ethos. I also insist that my people should be allowed to develop at their own pace. I am not ashamed of who I am and where I come from and had it not been for others holding us back I know where the South-west and the Yoruba would have been by now in terms of development. And neither would I go to England or America or Enugu or Kano and claim that I own the place or that my people built it from the scratch and that they generate all the money that is there. I would never say or do such a thing and neither should I be expected to sit back quietly when someone says it about my land, my people and my territory.

In this debate I have threatened no-one, I have incited no-one, I have accused no-one and I have not sought to silence anyone with threats or blackmail. I have not expressed hatred towards anyone. Yet my family has been subjected to insults, threats, humiliation, hate-speech, misrepresentation, falsehood, intimidation, calls for arrest and lies by some people who really ought to know better. My father of blessed memory has been insulted during the course of this debate as has my late mother, my wife, my children and my people from the South-west. We have been called all sorts of names and subjected to the most filthy and disgraceful abuse and malicious lies. And now some ask me if I will ever stop this fight for the rights of my people. The answer is that I will not because a price has already been paid. I will never renounce my views.

Those that have chosen the path of aggression and open hostility and that seek to suppress our voices, intimidate us into silence and drown us with their propaganda are vulger, crude and rude. They are also experts at telling lies. Yet they cannot silence a whole nationality or just wish us away. We are here to stay. To me this is simply an intellectual exercise and we can agree to disagree and still remain compatriots and friends. However I will not give up my identity because that is all I have. I will not betray the dreams of my forefathers and their aspirations for our people. For four generations now the Fani-Kayode have contributed positively to the affairs of this country.

Unlike some of those that are bleating and insulting us we have paid our dues. Like millions of others we have a stake here and we are from Yorubaland. I have a little Fulani blood in me too and I am very proud of that but I am first and foremost a Yoruba and I will live and die for the Yoruba and indeed for my nation Nigeria if needs be.

I have written about virtually every major ethnic group and nationality in this country over the last twenty three years and sometimes in very harsh terms, including my own, Yet it is only when I disagree with some of our Igbo brothers and sisters and dispute their claims on Lagos that all hell breaks loose.

They say our territory is ‘’no-man’s land’’ yet they will never offer us theirs in return or even allow us to build there. Who is the fool here? And when we complain they have the nerve to insult us. Enough is enough. I am not a racist or a bigot but I believe that I have a right to defend that which is mine and to preserve my identity.

We ignore our differences at our own peril and this is not only naive but it is also exceptionally dangerous. They made the same mistake in Yugoslavia through the ’70s and 80s until the explosion came in the ’90s and all hell broke loose. No-one saw the war coming in that country except the more discerning and brilliant minds who had been shouting for decades before it came that their very own ‘’nationality question’’ had to be answered and that Colonel Broznin Tito’s dream of an eternal and everlasting old Yugoslavia was unsustainable. No-one listened to those discerning voices and consequently millions were killed in the most horrendous and vicious civil war that Europe has ever seen.

From being one country where the people and numerous nationalities were compelled to ‘’forget their differences’’ by law, Yugoslavia was eventually broken up into five sovereign independant states as a consequence of fratricidal butchery and unrestrained and all-out war. I pray that we never break up and that we never witness or fight such a war in Nigeria. The answer is to understand and settle our differences and not to forget them.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/the-nationality-question/#sthash.smvMX9Q6.dpuf

Celebrating mediocrity..

eko ile or whatever is your name you should have noticed that people on NL are now avoiding you and anything related to you like plague. But its true, imagine a thread you started since 3pm, you were left alone in it running up and down.

This will still cost lagos residents billions and food-toll gate just like they are being azzwhipped at every point with tolling..

TUFIAKWA!


Mods please take this gibberish to comedy section..please

dovemart:
Now I see what you can think. Governor Amaechi's Truancy & inaction is better than Gov Obi's 'Developmental Strides' . I tell you. I am from Anambra State & even had my University Education in Awka. Take it from me. If you doubt me, review Gov Obi's Policies & Gov Amaechi's.

Apart from number of secondary schools in PH and few roads of which I can name them now what else did Amechi achieve? Given the huge allocation and massive loan he took from capital market.

These are road did by amechi for 8years, he only concentrated in PHC/Obiakpo:

Choba road (uncompleted)

Ada george (uncompleted)

Agip flyover

Mile-1 to Mile-3 axis

Okporo road (uncompleted)

Artilert-Trans-Amadi-Slaughter

Iwofe Road (uncompleted)

Airforce flyover/road-Oliozu

Infact going by the huge allocation available to Amechi and over 100Billion he borrowed from banks, he should be considered a failure because evidence of those massive funds cannot be seen anywhere on ground in the state.
Add more if there is any..


In the case of Obi he has achieved so much in all fields and areas without borrowing a dime..

Education

Health

Industrialization

Road (Urban and rural)

Agriculture

Oil and Gas

attraction of FDIs.

I can go on and on..

@Nri Priest..

How sure are you that that silly berem is a woman?

He is just an old man starved of se.x and relationship..

iamtheprincipal:

I will beg to disagree with your position. Please, learn to speak for yourself as an individual and not holding brief for the entire South Eastern region because those that understand the plaque of corruption, ineptitude and incompetence befalling this nation today, understand that General Buhari is a good sellable product we can't afford to miss come 2015, except for those folks in your click who take-in the rubbish that the government of the day is dishing to the public with regards to the unequal general...

Cut the crap my friend..

Buhari and tinubo are only sellable to boko haramists..

I bet you if roches test the will of Igbos to fly the flag of demonic APC, I assure you, he will be shocked at what will befall him.

No sane Igboman will leave APGA, PDP, LP and go to vote APC, ACN or CPC..

We should learn to be realistic atimes..

Just do a common poll here on NL you will be embarrassed as to the result you will get.

kingoflag: Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi who clocked 50 on Thursday says he does not have the intention of rolling out drums today to mark the birthday.

He said he would prefer attending lectures, where issues of governance and state’s welfare will be discussed, but not where people will eat and drink and probably forget themselves.

We have attracted the second biggest brewery in the world to Anambra ..... This is my birthday gift,” Obi said.








Lmaooo why drink and forget yourself just on my birthday, when you can drink yourself to stupor every single day?

Use your brain..

He is talking employment wise.., do you know 100s of people that got job in that singular facility alone? We are not talking about Chrisoral Group, Orange Drugs and most importantly Orient Petroleum.

I am a direct beneficiary of Sabmiller coming to Onitsha.

Anambra home of excellence and brilliance..

Writers Village to produce more and more Achebes, Okigbos, Chimamandas..

The LNG prize holder Ms Chika Unigwe, has got a surprise package from the Anambra state Governor, Mr Peter Obi as she was given a land beside the Prof Kenneth Dike Library near the Anambra Broadcasting Service Awka for her proposed writers’ village and a cheque for N2 million naira to support its development.

Governor Obi made the donation during a ceremony to mark the recognition and presentation of rewards to six Anambra achievers in the Exco Chambers of the Government House, Awka. He said the State would continue to honour and celebrate individuals who had distinguished themselves and brought pride to the State.

Other beneficiaries are Miss Rosaline Ejindu, the overall best graduating student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka last year who received a cheque for three million naira for scholarship to further her education; while Dr. Mrs. Uche Amazigo, Professor Francisca Okeke, Mr. Uzochukwu Alutu and Professor Akachi Ezeigbo received a cheque for one million naira each in appreciation of their various achievements.

Obi appealed to community leaders to compile names of their subjects who made first class in various Higher Institutions to enable his government honour them as his administration would continue to celebrate excellence as against mediocrity that was elevated in the past. He explained that the aim of celebrating the best human resources of the State is to provide positive role models for children and the youth.

He further said honour was part of measures to restore the State’s status as a pace-setter in the country, noting that the State has remained in the forefront of rebuilding and advancing the country.
The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, said Governor Obi’s policy of celebrating talents and achievements would motivate youths to aspire to greater heights. He stressed the need for collective efforts to tackle the challenges of male drop-out in schools to save the future of the society.

Presenting the citation of the awardees, the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Professor Chinyere Okunna, said that the Governor Obi administration had remained gender-friendly and had achieved visible results in all sectors through multi-sectoral vision and strategy geared towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.


http://orientnewspaper.com/anambra-achievers-rewarded-as-govt-donates-land-for-writers-village/

nwabekeyi: Anambra has a lot of towns wch r glorified villages nd a mega slum city of onitsha, awka is a local government, most anambarians thnk dey r developed, evn eboyin state s beta of.

You have started again, I hope you will withstand what you want to start. When chino will descend on you again you will start crying like a baby. When chino posted pictures of Onitsha, you were ashamed to post the pictures of the worst, dirtiest, most disorganized and rotten town called Aba and its village square, shanty and rural capital called Umahia.

As much as I do not like the outright and blanket position of the OP, I will not fail to state here and now that Abia state is still at base level, far below and smacks of insult to compare it to the most advanced state out of the SE.

Google Oseloka Obaze, you will be amazed. Anambra has numerous over qualified candidates.

List my candidates that can continue the revolution and foundation already laid by Obi:

- Oseloka Obaze

- Nkem Dora Akunyili

- Soludo

- Ngige (Not under ACN nor APC)

The Anambra State governorship election will hold on November 16, 2013. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday announced the date for the election and released the Time Table and schedule of activities for the election 2013 in Anambra State.

In a statement signed for the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the State, Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, by Assistant Director, Public Relations, Mr. Frank Egbo, the Commission said activities for the exercise would start on August 13, 2013.

The statement read in part: “In exercise of the powers conferred on the Independent National Electoral Commission by the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and all other powers enabling it, the Commission hereby issues the Time Table and schedule of Activities for the Governorship Election 2013 in Anambra State.

“Activities for the election will commence on 13th August 2013 while the ban on campaign by political parties in public is hereby lifted with effect from 18 August 2013. Also, there are other activities scheduled for, from 26th August to 15th November 2013.

“In accordance with Section 179 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Run-Off Election (if any) will be held within seven days of the announcement of the result of the election.

Interested members of the public and political parties are advised to check for details on the Commission’s notice board in the State Office, Awka, and all LGAs in the State.”


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/anambra-guber-to-hold-on-nov-16/

Amaechi should stop all these rubbish. His desperation is getting out of hand. Well am going to PH tomorrow, we will get to the root of all these madness. If he wants to decamp, he should do so without a fight. As for any SE governor on the same train with Amaechi, he is finished politically.

There is every indication that he is gonna end up in jail, alot of misappropriation and misapplication of funds in Rivers state.

hisable2: @Awka-Made-Gun pls what is d website? bc i have been clicking on ur first post to open but it keep display Can't Reach. pls help

Sorry ..was in a program all through.

Here:

Zi: Pls sir, where (what office) did you submit the resume?

I submitted online. I equally took the hard copy to their HeadQtrs @ Abuja Estate, Awka. Though submitting hard copy is not allowed but I had to use some insider to make inroad.

Amaechi is headed for ruins.

Ola Johnson:
If you can mention one reputable scholar apart from Nadine Gordimer, who first said CA was of African literature, I will quit this thread. I mean it.

On it being on google is not a new thing. Google stores information on websites.

Somebody has to start it and because it is a fact the world over now know Achebe as the father of Modern African Literature. You got to live with it because nothing can change it not even the dark skinned and face marked people of yorobland.

Just submitted my wife's resume on Friday. So much crowd in Awka trying to lobby for the jobs.

CAMEROONPRIDE: i heard about achebe in the west, and I'm your neighbor this should tell you how the people around you who are most likely francophone don't know achebe. Wuth all due respect.if we remove the west(USA only) in the equation the dude is a local champion and a hero for only Nigerian.an unbiased view

Achebe's work has been translated into over 60 language. Soyika's works put together are yet to be translated into a single language.

What makes you think French language is not among? We Igbos did not give Achebe the title. The world gave it to him. If you want to know google father of African Literature on the internet..you will be shocked to the marrow what you will see.

It is only sadist, bitter and envious Soyika and his Yoruba people are kicking. Thank God you people cannot change what has been written world over.

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You really need to go and fight your teacher to refund your school fees, because from all indication they taught you nothing other than how to write blunder and bad spelling. Oh I understand..it was free substandard education given you guys by that felon that later took his own life. What a people.

Achebe's works are border breakers. His work is read all over the world, that is why he is called the father of modern African Literature. Soyika works are yet to cross Ogbomoshoh before to other state talkless of going global like Achebe.

DerideGull:

Bros, there are certain sets of people in Nigeria that shall remain humanly pitiable for a very long time.

I don't know why they are stirred up. This is largely due to insecurity in them. Soyika himself felt highly insecure on seeing that Achebe is known all over the world than him who is not even known outside the borders of yorubaland.

@Johnson, are you not azz whipped enough? You have been run over for the past one week now? You could be e-lynched. Quit and choose the path of reason.

The whole world knows Achebe as the father of modern African Literature. Its a fact all over the globe.

ACM10:


hahahaha
Dude you are a disgrace. I promised not to respond to you. But the bolded ignorance is too obvious for me to ignore. The more you argue, the more you expose your inadequacies. Now take a look at this


Did he give birth to medicine? [size=18pt]NO![/size]


Did he give birth to music? [size=18pt]NO![/size]


Did he give birth to surgery? [size=18pt]NO![/size]

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I think this is the final nail that will close this matter forever.

Achebe has been proven world over as the father of modern African Literature. Soyika and his Yoruba people should deal with it, they are the only tribe in world that felt very hurt and unsettled by this honor bestowed on Achebe by the world viewers.

Source

cr7lomo.:


Tribal war of words again, am a proper igbo boy 4m anambra state and I want u 2 no dat no celebrity has mor investests like dbanj , he is very big in d oil business already, his also in2 real estate and his 4m south west, dnt 4get dat som of his business runs runs in som african countries like his koko mobile nd koko water. Kudos 2 ma bros psquare, kip on makin us proud and I wish u guys d best

Anambra wannabe..who made you an Anambran. Are you in the first place qualified to be Anambran?

You must be sick in the head..

Psquare Okoye -the Anambra twins remains the best and richest musician in Africa. Dband is a common shoe shiner where Psquare dey..

Billyonaire: Did you just put up that permutation ? Whats that probability subject to ? A sharia nation? Is it proportional to common sense ? Did I see read it clearly ? Buhari - this name will never be President of Nigeria. He is a coupist and we know it and a Boko Haramists role model. So APC actually had no vision. APC is getting everything wrong.

last timer: Who says power should return to the North. Smh! Abeg o, for the sake of equity, power should remain in the south cos we've got more credible people here. Oshiomole, BRF etc are tested and trusted candidates. IMO, Rochas should stay put in Imo state to stabilise and develop the polity. All these Northerners looking for VP candidates can consider the position for themselves. Na wa o, is it by force to rule.

Just listen to yourself. Before now you ediots were jumping up and down praising Roches as the best thing since space shuttle and now he is no longer good enough for the exalted office, since your leaders has succeeded in deceiving him into biting the fingers that fed him. He should now stay put in imo state and quietly convert the state to APC without a fight for vote, so that it will be that APC has made in road in the east? Then it could have been better he remained where he was since there is nothing he can gain in return for joining the merger.

Hahahhahahahha dey laugh in Anambra..

Now picture is coming out clearer everyday. This guys will roast roches like a chicken sooner than later. He ran to OPC APC the Yoruba and boko haram party thinking that they will give him at worst VP now they are not even considering him for any post whatsoever, they are advicing him to remain in his imo state to return the state to boko haram.

The chicken is quietly coming home to roast. Tinubu and Buhari just wanted to use him for their selfish ends, still the mugu could not read the hand writing on the wall. By the time the chips are down, roches will be a homeless and an outcast..

Hahahhahahahha dey laugh in Anambra..

Now picture is coming out clearer everyday. This guys will roast roches like a chicken sooner than later. He ran to OPC APC the Yoruba and boko haram party thinking that they will give him at worst VP now they are not even considering him for any post whatsoever, they are advicing him to remain in his imo state to return the state to boko haram.

The chicken is quietly coming home to roast. Tinubu and Buhari just wanted to use him for their selfish ends, still the mugu could not read the hand writing on the wall. By the time the chips are down, roches will be a homeless and an outcast..

Ezi okwu