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Crime / Re: Made In Aba Canned Coke by chaloner(m): 2:16pm On Jun 07, 2017
But u will buy one from British or Holland? Nonsense, u re a disgrace sad
Politics / Re: Groups Give Ndigbo Three Months To Leave North, Ohanaeze Kicks by chaloner(m): 6:48am On Jun 07, 2017
bakynes:

Most SS indigenes don't live in the core North( NW & NE) in large numbers, they rather go to Lagos or Abuja. It is you Igbos that are in huge numbers in the core North.
lol seems u don't go out grin

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Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 11:04pm On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
lost vagabond. Are u doing insulting your generation?
grin

Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 10:23pm On Jun 06, 2017
Possible clickable 5odd

Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 10:23pm On Jun 06, 2017
samueldon:
Basket ball is d real deal... I mean inplay.....its time consuming bcus u will have to calculate ur options as quick as possible bcus d odds and options do fluctuate... I started it today without knowledge of basketball.. I funded my account with 1k den placed games of 200h each on 4 tickets... I lost 3 and won one... Bt den I started understanding d game with d help of flashscore.mobi...... And dis moment I can tell u dat I have made upto 700% profit I have abt 7,860 naira in my account and I will withdraw 7k tomorrow morning n continue with d other balance... Guys give it a try... Football is not profitable... D lowest odd u can get in basketball inplay is 1.80...and always try to play singles do not accumulate... Good luck and good 9it
share more ideas...
Politics / Re: IGBO Leaders Should Stop Nnamdi Kanu Now! by chaloner(m): 9:33pm On Jun 06, 2017
Udmaster:
Right from day one, I don't and will never support this IPOB Biafra thing. YES I am a proud Nwa afor Igbo.
It is an agitation borne out of delusion by that albino jewish scammer.
Just take a look at their deluded map! Even they have added kogi and benue to their map.
Oh! Where are the Igbo leaders?
That albino scammer want to put Igbo lives and properties in danger again.
He must be stopped! Pls FG Re-Arrest Nnamdi Kanu again.
Thunder fire that idiot, a scammer who want to risk Igbo lives and properties.
There is danger ahead.
IGBOS Can't fight a civil war again, it will be fatal
why do these Igbos want to destroy what the Igbos have worked to build up since 1970? Why being bitter that Buhari won an election?
Igbo youths, I beg you, you can't win any confrontation with the North.
Every ethnic group in Nigeria are paranoid and suspicious of Igbos.
if war breaks out, Ijaws, Ogonis, Urhobos, Efiks etc will NOT help you. BE WISE.
like glucose no longer run in this ur dead brain again.... undecided

U fear u die and go.... We give war for those that need war and peace the same way

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Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 9:14pm On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
otu nnegi tiwaa
Bleep ur mama toto

Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 6:47pm On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
nkita raa nnegi ozu
awoo wuo nnegi aka n'ihe cheesy
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 5:09pm On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
ikpu nne gi
ohu nnegi grin
Politics / Re: We Niger Delta : The Truth by chaloner(m): 1:53pm On Jun 06, 2017
MaconAwire:
I see u @igwe




wire was here
wire wire.... Where u hide since na
Politics / The Beginning And The End Of Anini, "The Law".. by chaloner(m): 1:44pm On Jun 06, 2017
29th MARCH 1987 HAS LAWRENCE ANINI: THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF

NIGERIA’S MOST NOTORIOUS ARMED ROBBERS!
...ONLY ELDERS LIKE ME WILL REMEMBER THIS STORY, KIDS PLEASE

READ TILL THE END!!!... Lolz
Indeed, Nigeria has recorded only two types of armed robbers: Lawrence
Anini and Others.
No armed robber in the history of this Country has ever held the entire
country to ransom as Anini.
In fact, his reign was so bloody that he was even discussed at the State
Security Council meeting.

THIS IS HIS STORY:
Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini was born in a village about 20 miles from
Benin City in present-day Edo State.
Anini was an only son of his Evbueisi-born mother, he had two sisters.
His father died when he was still a young boy.
Anini was brought to Benin where he was admitted at the Oza Primary
School but from a young age, he started manifesting the signs of
truancy.

He struggled to finish his primary school then entered the Igiedumu
Secondary School. He did not spend more than three years when he
dropped out of school, preferring to be an apprentice at a local mechanic
workshop. That was around 1976.
Anini later migrated to Benin, learned to drive and became a skilled taxi
driver(Legend has it that he was the best driver created by the Almighty).
He became known in Benin motor parks as a man who could control the
varied competing interests among motor park touts and operators.

He later dived into the criminal business in the city and soon became a
driver and transporter for gangs, criminal godfathers and thieves.
Later on, he decided to create his own gang which included:
1. Monday Osunbor (The Deadliest Man That Ever Lived),
2. Friday Ofege,
3. Henry Ekponwan,
4. Eweka and
5. Alhaji zed zed or Zegezege who was never captured.
They started out as car hijackers, bus robbers and bank thieves.
Gradually, Anini and his gang extended their criminal acts all over Benin
City.

THE DEADLY ANINI’S REIGN OF TERROR:
Following the sudden overthrow of the politicians in the early 1980s and
banning of politics in 1984 by the Buhari regime, Anini discovered that
armed robbery was far more lucrative and that was when he formed his
gang...
In early 1986, two members of his gang were tried and prosecuted
against an earlier under-the-table ‘agreement’ with the police to destroy
evidence against the gang members.
The incident, and Anini’s view of police betrayal, is believed to have
spurred retaliatory actions by Anini.
In August, 1986, Anini and his gang masterminded a fatal bank robbery
in which a police officer and others were killed. That same month, two
officers on duty were shot at a barricade while trying to stop Anini’s car.
During a span of three months, he was known to have killed nine police
officers.
In an operation in August 1986, the Anini team struck at First Bank,
Sabongida-Ora, where they carted away N2,000(big money back then).

He killed many people that day.
On September 6, 1986, the Anini gang snatched a Peugeot 504 car from
Albert Otoe, the driver of an Assistant Inspector General of Police,
Christopher Omeben. In snatching the car, they killed the driver and went
to hide his corpse somewhere. It was not until three months later that
the skeleton of the driver was spotted 16 kilometers away from Benin
City, along the Benin-Agbor highway.
A day after this attack, Anini, operating in a Passat car believed to have
been stolen, also effected the snatching of another Peugeot 504 car near
the former FEDECO office, in Benin.
Two days after, the Anini men killed two policemen in Orhiowon Local
Government of the state.

Still in that month, three different robbery attacks, all pointing to Anini’s
involvement, took place. They include the murder of Frank Unoarumi, a
former employee of the Nigerian Observer newspapers; the killing of
Mrs. Remi Sobanjo, a chartered accountant, and the stealing of the
Mercedes Benz car in Benin, of the Ughelli monarch, the Ovie.
Before September 1986 drew to a close, Anini struck at a gas station
along Wire Road, Benin, where he stole a substantial part of the day’s
sales. He shot the station’s attendant and gleefully started spraying his
booty along the road for people to pick.
The height of Anini’s exploits, however, took place on October 1, 1986,
the Independence Day when the state’s Commissioner of Police, Casmir
Igbokwe was ambushed by the gang in Benin, and nearly yanked off his
nose in a hail of bullets. The police boss survived the attacks with
serious injuries. Earlier that day also, the Anini men had gunned down a
police man within the city

"The Law", as he was nicknamed, during an operation that went bad had
to escape from the police by driving in reverse from Agbor (Delta State)
to Benin City (Edo State). Indeed, he was a real life "James Bond-007".
Also, on October 21 of same year, the Anini robbery gang terminated the
life of a Benin-based medical doctor, A.O Emojeve when they gunned
him down along Textile Mill Road, in Benin.
Not done, Anini and gang went and robbed the Agbor branch of African
Continental Bank and carted away about N46, 000. A day after the
operation, Anini, The Law, turned to a ‘Father Christmas’ as he strew
wads of naira notes on the ground for free pick by market men and
women at a village near Benin. Anini’s image thus loomed larger than
life, he spearheaded a four-month reign of terror between August and
December 1986.

Anini also reportedly wrote numerous letters to media houses using
political tones of Robin Hood-like words, to describe his criminal acts.
Worried by the seeming elusiveness of Anini and his gang members, the
military President, General Ibrahim Babangida then ordered a massive
manhunt for the kingpin and his fellow robbers. The police thus went
after them, combing every part of Bendel State(Now Delta and Edo
States) where they were reportedly operating and living. The whole
nation was gripped with fear of the robbers and their daredevil exploits.
However, Police manhunt failed to stop their activities; the more they
were hunted, the more intensified their activities became. Some of the
locals in the area even began to tell stories of their invincibility and for a
while, it felt like they were never going to be caught.
However, at the conclusion of a meeting of the Armed Forces Ruling
Council in October 1986, General Babangida turned to the Inspector-
General of Police, Etim Inyang, and asked, ‘My friend, where is Anini?’.
At about this time, Nigerian newspapers and journals were also
publishing various reports and editorials on the ‘Anini Challenge’, the
‘Anini Saga’, the ‘Anini Factor’, ‘Lawrence Anini – the Man, the Myth’,
‘Anini, Jack the Ripper’, and ‘Lawrence Anini: A Robin Hood in Bendel’.
The Guardian asked, emphatically, in one of its reports: ‘Will they ever
find Anini, “The Law”?’.

THE D-DAY: DAY OF RECKONING!!!
Finally, it took the courage of Superintendent of Police, Kayode Uanreroro
to bring the Anini reign of terror to an end.
On December 3, 1986, Uanreroro caught Anini at No 26, Oyemwosa
Street, opposite Iguodala Primary School, Benin City, in company with six
women. Acting on a tip-off from the locals, the policeman went straight
to the house where Anini was hiding and apprehended him with very
little resistance.
Uanreroro led a crack 10-man team to the house, knocked on the door
of the room, and Anini himself, clad in underpants, opened the door.
“Where is Anini,” the police officer quickly enquired.
Dazed as he was caught off guard and having no escape route, Anini all
the same tried to be smart. “Oh, Anini is under the bed in the inner
room”. As he said it, he made some moves to walk past Uanreroro and
his team. In the process, he shoved and head-butted the police officer
but it was an exercise in futility.
Uanreroro promptly reached for his gun, stepped hard on Anini’s right
toes and shot at his left ankle. Anini surged forward but the policemen
took hold of him and put him in a sitting position.
They then pumped more bullets into his shot leg and almost severed the
ankle from his entire leg. Already, anguished by the excruciating pains,
the policemen asked him, “Are you Anini?” And he replied, “My brother, I
won’t deceive you; I won’t tell you lie, I’m Anini.”

(AT THIS POINT, PLEASE TAKE A CHILLED BOTTLE OF WATER BEFORE
YOU CONTINUE READING)

Anini was from there taken to the police command headquarters where
the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in
the police net, Anini who had poor command of English and could only
communicate in pidgin, made a whole lot of revelations.
He disclosed, for instance that Osunbor, who had been arrested earlier,
was his deputy, saying that Osunbor actually shot and wounded the
former police boss of the state, Akagbosu
Anini was shot in the leg, transferred to a military hospital, and had one
of his legs amputated. That was after Monday Osunbor was also
captured. When Anini’s hideout was searched, police recovered assorted
charms, including the one he usually wore around his waist during
“operations”.
It was instructive that after Anini was captured and dispossessed of his
charms, the man who terrorized a whole state and who was supposed to
be fearless suddenly became remorseful, making confessions. This was
against public expectation of a daredevil hoodlum who would remain
defiant to the very end.

THE ROLE OF THE POLICE IN ANINI’S EXPLOITS
Shortly after the arrest of Anini and his gang(excluding Alhaji zed zed or
Zegezege who was never captured, he may still be alive living a normal
life till date), the dare-devil robbers began to cry and confess, revealing
the roles played by key police officers and men, in the aiding and
abetting of criminals in Bendel State and the entire country.
Anini particularly revealed that Iyamu, who was the most senior police
officer shielding the robbers, would reveal police secrets to them and
then, give them logistic supports such as arms, to carry out robbery
operations.
He further revealed that Iyamu, after each operation, would join them in
sharing the loot. It was further exposed how Iyamu planned to kill
Christopher Omeben, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge
of Intelligence and Investigation.
But Iyamu was later to be disappointed as the assailants dispatched to
eliminate Omeben were only able to kill his driver, Otue, a sergeant.
Iyamu, whom the robbers fondly referred to as ‘Baba’, reportedly had
choice buildings in Benin City; being how he invested the loots he
obtained from men of the underworld

THE END OF ANINI AND HIS GANG
Due to amputation of his leg, Anini was confined to a wheelchair
throughout his trial.
Iyamu, on his part, denied ever knowing and collaborating with Anini, but
Anini The Law furiously retorted, “You are a shameless liar!”
Anini had accused him before Justice James Omo-Agege in the High
Court of Justice, off Sapele Road in Benin City.
Of the 10 police officers Anini implicated, five were convicted. The
robbery suspects, including Iyamu, were sentenced to death.
But in passing his judgement, Justice Omo-Agege remarked, “Anini will
forever be remembered in the history of crime in this country, but it
would be of un-blessed memory. Few people if ever, would give the
name to their children.” Their execution took place on March 29, 1987.
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 12:43pm On Jun 06, 2017
pazienza:
It's only Normal. Nkpor and Obosi people get angry when their lands are addressed as Onitsha.

If you elect a sign board in Obosi or Nkpor and label it Onisha, you are on your own o!

People should respect each other boundaries, Egbe belu, Ugo belu.
cool man.... People should respect boundaries for peace sake or extend for wahala sake
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 12:41pm On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
ikpu nnenna gi
ajara aku NNE gi grin
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 10:50am On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
nnegi nkita
otu nnegi cheesy
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 9:49am On Jun 06, 2017
Unimaginable123:
nnanna gi akpa amu
grin nkita
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 10:57pm On Jun 05, 2017
Unimaginable123:
nnegi idi.ot, nnagi idi.ot. Where were you when when onitsha told obosi O_O? Don't allow history repeat itself
akpa amu MPA GI... Mugu..
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 10:13pm On Jun 05, 2017
Unimaginable123:
u are the very mad one. Without onitsha, what's obosi? And oblivious village.
idi.ot how can u define a village...mpama
Politics / Re: Okpanam Decides They Should Not Be Called Asaba by chaloner(m): 9:57pm On Jun 05, 2017
Unimaginable123:
asaba is a metropolitan city. Asaba territorial city extends beyond ibuzor. Is it not in Okpanam Road that they have police headquarters and Delta state house of assembly?
U guys have started this confusion obosi people are causing in anambra. pulling down signboards, saying the places are not onitsha, when we all know onitsha is a metropolitan city, without which obosi will remain a village.
Do u know that lagos city and state are different places? Lagos city refers to only lagos mainland and lagos island. That was the capital city of nigeria. Then ikeja the capital of Lagos state was 32 kilometres from Lagos city. But today they are all one. Lagos is now a Mega city. A city-state.
Just to educate u so u educate your Okpanam folks. Okpanam is a town, part and parcel of asaba city
u re very mad talking wat u don't knw in obosi and Onitsha.... Without obosi dere will never b a place called Onitsha .. Beta respect ur old young age
Politics / Re: Ipobexposed Starts Newspaper To Stop Biafra by chaloner(m): 11:17pm On Jun 04, 2017
Asapcymg:
IPOB/ BORNO
IPOBEXPOSED can we negotiate or buy some share in YOUR newspaper publications
grin

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Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:54pm On Jun 04, 2017
darkweb:
Better days ahead jare bro.
sure...one love
Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:31pm On Jun 04, 2017
darkweb:
Lol it happened some months ago for one italian league like that Lega pro or serie B sha, but the odds no been low like this one. I come dey reason why I no stake my life income and anybody own wey I see join sef lol. At least bet9ja odds of 1.46 been high pass some foreign bookies @1.33
And all those yeye fake fixed game sellers no see this one add to their list. It shows they don't even know what they are doing at all.
no mind those fake low life..
I really lost my yesterday gain
Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:29pm On Jun 04, 2017
xtreme07:
as a wise punter, why not handicapp the away team?
The odd is juicy even with plus 2.
in my recovery bet I even go for girona to score...I didn't even knw both teams jus wan come do entertainment and go
Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:27pm On Jun 04, 2017
lipsrsealed

Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:10pm On Jun 04, 2017
darkweb:
@ chaloner you see now shey? This Girona match is fixed AF! even correct score (0-0) is 1.10 odds. I've never seen this kinda hardcore fixing in my life! Lol
brother I weak...which kind life b did na... And someone will tel me fixin no dey game... Jus imagine those 76 odds... Like when u jus write down anytin u want ... I tire
Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 1:13pm On Jun 04, 2017
darkweb:
That Girona match seems fixed to me...look at the odds for "draw"
don't look at odd... Check stat... They always win to nil to red card

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Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 10:08am On Jun 04, 2017
If anyone can touch this game ,it will enter peacefully...

I'm going like this...

Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 9:41am On Jun 04, 2017
Weyabcom

No 2 is an integral bet... So watch what u stake cos it will double

Politics / Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by chaloner(m): 7:32am On Jun 04, 2017
Oyiboman69:
The goals they want to achieve with new Biafra – Tanko Yaksai

dailytrust.com.ng

Jun 4, 2017 2:04 AM

Alhaji Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former Special Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, spoke on why the agitation of Biafra continued to attract attention, why it is impossible for the Igbo to secede and why they will be better off in Nigeria than Biafra, among other things.



Why is the agitation for Biafra gathering momentum in recent times?

Well, the agitation for Biafra started soon after the demise of Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi. So the name is not new. The only difference is that the old Biafra actually was intended to occupy the whole of southern region. 

It was a scheme for getting the entire southern Nigeria to break away. The intention was to block the North from access to the sea. If that happened, the North would be starved of many things coming from the port, including fuel and imported items we rely upon. So that was the old Biafra. Because of that, when they were preparing to declare Biafra, southern minorities from the present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom led a delegation to the North to plead with General Hassan Usman Katsina, the then military governor of Northern Nigeria, to plead with the central government not to allow Biafran secession to succeed because, according to them, if it was allowed to succeed, they would remain forever as second class citizens in what would be known as Biafra. 

The young men are not agitating for the five Igbo-speaking states to constitute Biafra, rather, they are thinking of the old Eastern Region, with the four minority states, together with five majority Igbo-speaking states. You don’t dismiss idea by a wave of hand. But the practical aspect of it is very difficult because all along there has not been love lost between the Igbo and their minority.

In fact, when Nigeria was to be granted independence and constitutional conference was held in 1957, the minorities in the East complained of oppression and marginalisation by the Igbo. They wanted their interest to be safeguarded in an independent Nigeria. It was agreed that a special arrangement would be made to protect their interest, and it was made with the creation of the Niger Delta Development Authority which was put under the care of Shehu Shagari, who was then the parliamentary secretary to the prime minister.  It was decided that the development of the Niger Delta shall not come from the Eastern Region, even though they were located under the old regional government. 

I don’t think it is possible for the minority to go into any political association with the Igbo.

This agitation started right from the time of Obasanjo, with Uwazurike as its leader. Now, I think Uwazurike has realised that it is an impossible task to realise their dream; that is why he is more or less quiet. This young man, Nnamdi Kanu, was just a broadcaster. I don’t know whether he was under Uwazurike or on his own, but he was not a leader on his own. He was a broadcaster. I believe he got some of their people in the United States, collected their money and set up a radio station, which I think is being broadcast from America and beamed somewhere in West Africa. The boy became popular after his arrest. I think what they are trying to do is to develop the agitation into a political movement and try to gather support from the Igbo and any of their sympathizers.

This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring. So there is now a connection between the agitation for restructuring, the realisation of Biafra and resource control. They started during the 1994/95 constitutional conference, where they were holding regular meetings. At that time, every week, the minority from the East would meet with Igbo, and after that, they would meet with the Yoruba. All these three ideas emanated from former Vice President Alex Ekwueme. 

This is the situation now.  The issue to be addressed is whether the present Biafra would include the former Eastern Region, whereby the four minority Igbo-speaking states would join forces with five Igbo-speaking states and form new Biafra? That has not been spelt out. The only thing I heard was that Rivers would not be part of the Biafra; I think Akwa-Ibom too. But it is not clear yet whether the four minority Igbo-speaking states have openly declared that they are not going be part of Biafra. This is the immediate challenge the agitators for new Biafra will face. But grant it that Biafra will materialise; everybody is aware that the major ethnic groups in Nigeria are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. 

The minorities are everywhere and our minorities are not distinct; we are interwoven. Even the North-Central, which is the official area regarded as the Middle Belt, is made up of six states. Four of the six are Muslim majority; they are Nasarawa, Niger, Kogi and Kwara states and the minority elements left in Plateau State, for instance, are themselves fighting one another. In addition, they don’t speak with one another except in either Hausa or English. None of them can speak with the other in their own native language, and all of them were at loggerheads with the Tiv. Initially, when our committee was asked to recommend creation of states, we intended to create Middle Belt state but when the idea was put forward, the people of Niger said they were out of it; the people of Ilorin said they were out of it and the people of Kogi also said they were out of it. So the old Plateau had to be merged with Benue and made one province while other provinces were regrouped.

So, the reality is that the three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, need Nigeria. Every one of them needs Nigeria. Let’s start with the Yoruba. Most of the industries are located in the South-West, mainly in Lagos, some in Ogun and some in Ibadan. According to a letter written by the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, the industries in Oyo are owned by Lebanese and Indians, but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo. So the industries that are manufacturing goods in the South-West and some in the Eastern Region have the whole of Nigeria as their market, a market of about 200 million people. If there is no Nigeria, there would not be that market and what would be the consequences of lack of market? 

First, the goods cannot be sold, there will be no production and there will be unemployment, and the people that are employed in industries located in the South-West are largely Yoruba. The day there is no Nigeria, there will be massive unemployment in the South-West. This is apart from the food and livestock they are getting from the North. If there is no Nigeria, they will not get them, and if they are going to import, it will take time and will be costly. By nature, they cannot grow livestock and some food items in their area. The geographical situation in South-West is different from that of the North; the animals they are growing do not enough meat and milk, unlike the ones in the North.

For the Igbo, at present there is no village where there is a flourishing market where you cannot have the Igbo conducting their own businesses. And they are living in peace; nobody is harassing them. They live within thousands of other ethnic groups and nobody is attacking them. It is a well known fact that the business of building materials is surrendered to Igbo people, as well as electrical appliances, fittings and spare parts. Commuter transportation; those luxury buses that are plying our roads from one state to another are owned by the Igbo. The day there is no Nigeria, the Igbo will have no alternative than to relocate to their states. And with the hate speeches being circulated on the social media and other platforms, it is impossible to have a peaceful dissolution of Nigeria.

That is the take on the Igbo and the Yoruba people. We the Huasa Fulani too need Nigeria. I have sat alone, without reading any book and said to myself: “What do we need from Nigeria?” And I have come up with five things we really need Nigeria for. One, we have no way of having immediate access to the sea than from Nigeria. If there is no Nigeria, we have to go to Libya, and there are no enough roads to achieve that. 

Two, we need the current oil revenue. In Nigeria, only six states can survive with the oil revenue they are getting. There are four oil bearing states that cannot survive with the quantity of oil located in their areas. These states are Abia, Imo, Ondo and Edo, they have oil, but it is not as much as they could rely on for survival. But Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom and one other state can survive with the oil located in their respective areas. So, during the first Biafran agitation Ojukwu entered agreement with France whereby he gave concession for the entire oil and gas resources in the Biafran region. If Biafra succeeded, there was no way the Niger Delta people could claim ownership of oil and gas located in their areas. 

Three, the North also needs education. Today, in most of our universities the lecturers are mostly from the South - even the students. We need education and we cannot get it without teachers, so we need Nigeria to get teachers from southern part of the country to come and teach us. 

Four, we need the technical know-how the South has. So we need them for that. 

Five, we also need the South for investment. The only northerners that have huge investments are three - Aliko Dangote, T. Y Danjuma and Alhaji Abdulsamad Isyaka Rabi’u. But if you go to the South you will get thousands of them with huge capital. 

So, the three major ethnic groups need Nigeria because everybody is benefiting from Nigeria. For the Igbo, if there is no Nigeria, there will be no market for them to do their businesses. At least if you take the North, you are talking of 55 per cent of the population of Nigeria, which is about 100 million out of the 180 million of Nigerian population. The Yoruba also need market because their industries cannot sell the goods to themselves. By nature, the Yoruba man likes the Hausa man more than the Igbo man and the Igbo man likes the Hausa man more than the Yoruba man, yet the Yoruba are now trying to convince the Igbo to forget aganist the Hausa. 

The Igbo, unfortunately, are lacking in diplomacy. This is the weakness of the Igbo and that is what the Yoruba are capitalising on to manipulate their way of thinking. During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.



grin
Dis one mak me poo

Lol, so north see SW as trouble son of nigeria cheesy

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Family / Re: I Cheated On My Husband And I Want To Confess To Him by chaloner(m): 11:31pm On Jun 03, 2017
istoctober:
l had to open this account to tell this story and l know that l will be bashed for this but l really need to get it off my chest.
it was in 2014, that l cheated on him and since then, l have not been myself. l have confessed to Pastors but l can't forget it and my mind keep telling me that God has forgotten about me cos whenever l pray, l find it difficult to concentrate and that's why l want to confess to him.
l know he will send me packing because he said something like that to me and the fear is what is keeping me from confessing to him. l don't want to be disgraced out of my home cos my husband will definitely do it.
l can't blame him for my shortcomings but myself for allowing devil into my home.
l really need your advice for help.... You can curse me but l deserve it for being a loose woman but l seriously need help cos depression wants to take over my life that l think of suicide to escape shame and mockery from people in case he finds out.

Make up your mind to go.
Park and go to your own parent house.
Let your parent know what happen, confess to them..
He will come for you, at that period confess to him...
If he loves u , he will take u back...

Also knw God is in charge..

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Business / Re: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by chaloner(m): 10:03pm On Jun 03, 2017
My own ma to eat money... Wish I put may pay to play d game....

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Politics / We Niger Delta : The Truth by chaloner(m): 9:11pm On Jun 02, 2017
Negative outburst from few misguided and myopic Niger Delta youths on facebook does not and cannot portray the mindset, yearning and aspirations of the entire Niger Delta people.
I am a Niger Deltan and I can tell you my people stand with Biafra anyday, anytime. Yes, the Igbos have their own wahala, but it will be far easier to negotiate my existence in Biafra than in Nigeria.
To those my people who are screaming blue murder that they weren't consulted or their opinion sought before the Biafran map was drawn (that is, if such a map exists). Please I have few questions for you..
1. Did Frederick Lugard consult or negotiate with your forefathers before trapping them into the entity called Nigeria?
2. Were your communities consulted or your opinions sought before the map of Nigeria was drawn?
3. Were your fathers consulted before the oil wells in your communities were distributed among Emirs and military officers from other side of River Niger?
4. Were you consulted before your lands, creeks, rivers and ecosystem was raped, polluted, rendered barren and abandoned by IOCs in connivance with the Nigerian Government?
5. Were you consulted before being politically, economically and infrastructural
ly marginalised and relegated by Nigerian government and her constitution?
6. Were you consulted before headquarters of IOCs operating in your communities were sited in Lagos and Abuja?
7. Were you consulted before quota system was entrenched in Nigeria?
8. Were you consulted before your uncle Ken Saro Wiwa was framed, jailed and executed by Nigerian government for daring to speak out for his people?
9. Were you consulted before your son Isaac Adaka Boro was charged and jailed for treason and even killed?
10. Now, are your opinions sought before OPL and OML licenses are issued to individuals and organisations to further exploit and degrade your communities? I can go on and on with these questions.
I am an Akwa Ibomite and I stand tall to say my people are ready to part with Biafra anyday, anytime. And to my myopic brothers on facebook, please stop exhibiting your absolute lack of imagination, discernment and long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
We need to build alliances not make enemies. I stand with IPOB and selfless mazi #Nnamdikanu.
Shalom. " ~Favour Mkkybaby Udoma

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Business / Re: Help Needed! What Business Can I Set Up With 5m Naira by chaloner(m): 6:34pm On Jun 01, 2017
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