adubam:


Could you please point out the Igbo areas that you said produce crude oil in Delta State.

The entire Delta North is Igbo speaking with a fraction in central, are you now saying there are no oil wells there? Or you just want to be mischievous?

oyeb15:
Only one town produce oil in Imo state and they don't speak Igbo.
Those who created states and boundaries intentionally made some selfish decisions.

See them sophersicated fools.
Imo State is probably the only state in Nigeria that is 100% ethnically homogeneous!

Tell me which village or town in Imo State that is not Igbo?

Mind you, if Egbema was not wickedly carved into two by the military governments and forced into Rivers State, Imo State would have been producing double of what it is currently producing!

Same thing happened to Abia State when Obigbo was carved into Rivers State with all its oil and gas reserves!

newdawnlive:
why igbo always make mouth when it comes to oil, ondo state produce more than the 2 state in the region combine together.

You see how you just disgraced yourself?

Imo State and Abia state combined produce far more crude oil than ondo state as shown by this report yet the bigot in you wouldn't allow you to see it.

Imo State earned in excess of 600 million!
Abia State earned over 300 million!

While Ondo earned 700 million yet according to you, 700 is now bigger than 900

Again, Igboland does not end in SE, Igbo areas of Rivers and Delta States also produce much more!!

Afonjas and lies, shame on you people!!

Amaechi2023:
Nigeria has always been a potentially Rich country but has lost its ability to utilize it's potential.
the south south we know are the largest with their crude oil, how about other regions??

the north has massive Gold reserves, agriculture, oil and ajao kuta steel in potential and are yet to be fully utilized.

what resources does the west and East have in potential that can make them a great nation?


I don't want to believe empty barrel makes the loudest noise..

Lol, I will overlook your obvious biasness and enlighten you.

Agriculture? Gold? Ajaokuta steel? How many countries has agriculture made rich? What volume of gold does Northern Nigeria produce, is it up to the fraction of what Ghana produces? How rich is Ghana despite having crude oil, tourism and far lesser population compared to Northern Nigeria?

What do you mean by ajaokuta steel? Or you mean Iron ore? Is Ajaokuta steel functional? What volume of iron ore does Northern Nigeria produce?

The fact you are mentioning raw materials and minerals as what will make you a great nation shows your ignorance.

Now, to what Igbos and Yorubas have, the two groups have a large diaspora population which can yield more forex than all your agriculture, iron ore and what have you combined!!

The two groups have a relatively highly educated population that is necessary to navigate this modern times and global economy.

The two areas still have cocoa and palm produce even though it ain't their reliable assets. They also have some amount of crude oil to help their local economies to an extent.

What makes nations rich today is not agriculture or solid minerals but tech industry, software development, production of finished goods, commerce and tourism. Even having crude oil alone without a commensurate human resources can't make a country successful.

melvinjames:


@emboldened
I never said he insulted Igbos, I said he used to insult other tribes. Read my friend, read and read again. You have problem with comprehension.

Lol, can't you see you're the one that lacks ability to read and comprehend. That was a rhetorical question I asked you with a question mark yet you couldn't understand!

Nnamdi Kanu equally insulted Igbos on many occasions, both our elite and common men! That's my point! Comprendi?

melvinjames:


Go and read it again and compare how he used to abuse every tribe except Igbo. Seems reality is staring him in the face.

You're the one who is ignorant here. Nnamdi Kanu didn't insult Igbos?

It's obvious you're just looking for how to call a dog a bad name so you can hang him.

My friend, Nnamdi Kanu insulted Igbo men and women too on many occasions, but doesn't mean we will not look at the bigger picture.

Juliusmalema:


You are talking trash.

Leave his state for him.

In today's world where people discuss global issues from any part of the world is when this village boy is opening his stinking mouth to spew garbage.

You're such a disgrace to your generation!

Chibuike21:


Why don't we Igbos concentrate in igboland?

Amadioha kugbuo gi there for claiming to be Igbo when you're obviously a fulani herdsman.

melvinjames:
This fraudster have no shame.

You're the one without shame!
How is Nnamdi Kanu telling them to unite and save themselves amount to begging?

You sure say you get sense so??

MyopicMods:
As Long As I Remain Governor, 'Unknown Gunmen' Can't Operate in Rivers State - Gov. Nyesom Wike

“People we know are attacking police stations and you say they are unknown Gunmen. The truth is, we know who they are. Are they attacking police stations in Rivers? No!, that's because I made sure they were completely flushed out of Rivers State. They are no longer here in Rivers. As long as I remain the governor of this state, no one, group or tribe will attack anyone or police officers.”

But the people of Eleme are being killed by "known gunmen" yet this bastard is not concerned!!

Look at yourself in the mirror and say after me, I AM A COWARD!!

Who is calling for war between those committing mass murders and chasing innocent civilians into a foreign country as refugees and those fighting to protect their people??

tutudesz:
[s]The First Nigerian President Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ( 1904- 1996) was indeed an enigma of no less order. His towering personality makes him to be the greatest Nigerian ever in history. But Who was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe? Who was his true biological father? What if all that the public knows about him was the untold truth?
Then there is the raging question of who truly owns a child? Is it the Mother or the Father? Some traditions require that the man has to fulfill his marital obligations to lay claim to a child! But others are lenient in such issues.
In considering the aforementioned posers about one’s Fatherhood, let’s concede the fact that fatherhood is not just blood, but a responsibility. No one can reasonably lay claim to a child one abandoned only to return years later for the same child, cared for by a single mother. That would be insensitive! That is not morally right.
But the question here is, what if the man was not allowed access to his son because tradition says he should not? What about the culture that says it is not the man but the woman that owns a child if the man failed to perform his marital vows?
In which case, she left with the child and got married to another man who fostered him and trained him to achieve his educational dreams, only for the child to find out the truth that his biological father is somewhere. What would be his reactions? How could he tell that the man whom he thought all his life to be his father was not his biological father? And that his father was somewhere else!
The heart of a woman is truly a deep blue sea of secrets!
That for Zik’s Mother to tell him the truth about his origin, the boy had to wait until the time was right. He must know his roots, for that was his spiritual freedom, but he must be trained to accept the fact he had gone too far in the journey of life to return home to his father.
She had told him, the story of her youth, and the love of her life, about that handsome dark tall Ijaw fellow whom she met at Agbere in some decades ago during when both of them were working at the Royal Niger Company. She was a staff, and he was a carpenter. They met and fell in love, and one thing led to another. Then she was naive about her culture and tradition, thinking love was all that mattered in the whole world. She became pregnant but the man was struggling to make it in life and was not ready for a child. A misunderstanding ensued and she left with the pregnancy.
Years after, their paths crossed again at Onitsha where he was a fisherman. But this time she was carrying his baby, and when he saw the baby, he saw a reflection of himself; from the dark colour to his facial features. He apologized and promised to marry her, but she was already married. He came too late.
She had already named him Benjamin, but that was later changed by the boy when he realized the truth about his paternity to ‘ Nnamdi’ meaning ‘ My father is somewhere’. And that was how Pa Lewis Apam lost the battle of life and his love to an Onitsha man. And so, she left and returned no more. Sadly, that was the last time he set his eyes on his biological son until the boy grew up and became the president of Nigeria.
But God is dynamic in answering the prayers of men. According to the story made available by the family, Chief Ezonbodo in his political journey came across Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, and when he introduced himself as an Ijaw man from Agbere town, immediately their blood bond was rekindled. They were brothers from the same bloodline. Dr Zik sent for his father Chief Lewis Apam, and when Hon. Ezonbodo Ninetry brought the two together, they were indeed identical. Dr Zik saw himself in a mirror as his biological father stood before him.
Thereafter, they became close. The lost relationship between Father and son was restored. Dr Zik in the name of politics visited his Father’s place Agbere more than twice and spent a night or two. He took his father to Lagos in his house, most of the time until the man died. He knows his siblings and half brothers, like the great footballer Onyekachi Justice Apam’s father who was equally married to an Igbo woman from Abia state. Today, many has mistaken the great Nigerian footballer as an Igbo man, but he is Ijaw by origin, paternally. In his case, his father fortunately had paid the marital vows of his wife, so the children were free to announce their father’s name Mr Apam proudly anywhere, even though his name Onyekachi could be misleading as the public most times thought he is an Igbo man.
But that was not the case of the Great Zik of Africa. His case was different. He had to consider his society, the Igbo society he had come to be associated with to make his political name and fame. Again, he had to consider the good man who married his mother and adopted him as his son. Again, the larger world that looked upon him as a man with a perfect childhood and upbringing. No, he couldn’t handle the controversies. After all, what is life without dignity, without power, without honour?
And he was not a Moses to have traded all these things for merely an origin of birth. No way, let history set the records straight, when I am gone, he must have thought. But to a large extent, it was not a secret.
The entire Ijaw leadership knew the story, both home and abroad. He sponsored his brother Chief Ezonbodo Ninetry politically as a first generation politician that he was seen as a demi-god in the whole of Western Ijaw Division.
The Ijaws celebrated their son Dr Nnamdi when he was alive until the day he died. Interestingly that was the lost Ijaw son who became an Igbo man by tradition.
To many, it is no longer relevant, after all, some truths are better left unsaid, especially when it has lost its relevance and time. But what is life anyway, if not to relive the memories we share with our loved ones. Apart from that, like every tribe with their own traditions and cultures, so is the Ijaw man’s culture, forbidden him to be part of a secret, merely for the sake of the living who lives in secrecy all our lives.
According to the tradition of the Ijaw man, it is a taboo for one to bury a man with his secret. Such secret could be kept, but not when the man has died. For in death, the spirit of man is pure before his Creator, and every other worldly desires are purged, including his many covered up secrets.
Ironically, tradition holds the living responsible for not saying it, for by saying it, you are freeing the soul of the dead from eternal destruction, if you don’t the spirit in the life beyond suffers in damnation.
Reasons being, that it is only in life that greed, lust of power, envy, and all material things are needed. But in the spirit, when the flesh has given up its grip on the soul of a man, he becomes free. As such, all that’s needed is the truth, nothing but the truth- which is Ijo in meaning.
Hence, it is our obligation to honour our blood brother, father, uncle, who in life had taken the effort to be identified with his people the best he could as a human being. He may not be perfect by not changing his foster name, but he was a good man to the Ijaws, and there is no way one can make good and enemy of perfection.
And when he died, the Ijaws in London equally saw a reason to celebrate him as their own in grand style.
Though his silence on the matter was understandable. But think about it, how could the President of Nigeria, the greatest personality with the self appellation ‘ Zik of Africa’ be a man of double origin? That his true full-blooded biological father was an Ijaw man? Of course, that could bring some considerable shame to his public image and ego. Therefore he hoped to carry the secret to the grave. But ironically it was not a secret to his brothers of Agbere town.
Sadly that is the world in which we live, and has been raised, a cruel tradition that denies a father from his son simply because one could not meet up the rites demanded of him. Strangely the life of a man is policed daily by traditions- they over rule our actions and stories.
Strange enough, for one to know that Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was a son of his mother who later identified his roots with the great ijaw tribe as his paternal home, one could see it through his actions.
The Owele of Onitsha built his University at Nsuka instead of Onitsha. He equally built his beautiful home, the Onuye Haven in his mother’s place instead of Onitsha, place of his fostered father. All things point to one direction, he was truly a son of his mother, and in all his life, he knew his father was somewhere. He secretly worshiped him and held that memory dearly to his heart. It pained him to know all these things yet he could not say it, and that made him sad, and such, was holding those grudges against the world.
Interestingly, family sources further confirmed that before the demise of Lewis Apam (his father), Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe directed his father with financial provisions to build a house for him in his home town of Agbere. This was a registration of undeniable acceptability of his kinsmen. As a man of uncommon intellectual stamina and moral fervidness or audacity, the Great Zik of Africa realized that mother’s love is Supreme but father’s love is a bowel of strength and courage. But unfortunately the house project was overtaken by events.

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Garbage!!
However, you can go to the grave and claim his corpse.

You better start from the North because that's where fulani herdsmen terrorists are illegally occupying other people's lands. As for the East, don't bother, we are capable of taking care of ourselves.

This country has totally gone bunkers walahi. WTF is going on?

I only checked to see if Imo State is no1 but now I have confirmed that, I have nothing more to add.

Where are the cows?
Don't tell me this hungry looking boys are the ones sending afonjas away from their lands to become refugees in Benin republic

You people should stop all these paranoia abeg.

Interesting story with lessons!

Las Las, na Republic of Northern Nigeria una go rule. Make una continue dey jonz unaselves.

Psalmspsalms:
See my fellow Niralanders, these politicians can lie a lot. For those of us who are in Benue state, we know the true story. If u were residing in this useless and backward state, u will definitely wish this man dead. The sight of him and his lies irritates so many people in the state. Almost all the things these politicians tell us on a daily basis are all lies. We should be used to them by now.

This must be the Taquiya we keep hearing about. No sane Benue man will say this rubbish.

LordviccoDaGuru:

What a juvenile delinquent!
So, everything is a joke to you?!

LibertyRep:
I will advise people down South not to gloat over the misfortune of the North in the hands of the terrorists.

Even through it appears self inflicted, should the terrorists finish off the North, they will be emboldened to come down South.

Sadly, they may have infiltrated the South with their willing collaborators.

FYI, Boko Haram cannot survive anywhere in the East. It may survive in the SW or NC, but in the SE and SS, it can't survive and I will give you reasons.

1. Boko Haram can only thrive in areas that have strong Muslim indigenes. You can find such domains all over the north, SW and only Auchi in SS, but non in the SE and the rest of SS.

2. We don't have the sort of grinding poverty and hopelessness that is found in the north.

3. Boko Haram ideology can only work where there is high illiteracy rate. Down here, people are relatively well educated and enlightened to be brainwashed into joining Boko Haram.

4. Similar to 3 above, they will easily run out of recruits because people will not want to join them.

5. Our environment is too open and plain. There are no hidden hills and rocks or vast Sahel wastelands bordering foriegn countries where they can move in and out.

Lastly, Southern Nigeria really needs to do something about cutting North loose. We can't continue destroying our destiny with these guys. Look at how armoured cars and ferets are being set on fire!? These equipment are costly and tomorrow they will budget billions of naira to buy another one and the circle continues.

The earlier we restructure or totally balkanize the country the better for us all or else these guys will eventually drag us along with them into the abyss.

Great! I dont see how the ZOO is going to survive this. We are finally on the treshold of history and Nnamdi Kanu's boldness & heroic exploits at the risk of his life triggered it. I'm not a sorcerer nor a prophet, but as a student of history with sound reasoning I can predict the likely scenario going forward. 1. The North may seek for truce & accept calls for restructuring (this depends if the SS & SW aligns with the SE & insist on restructuring or break up) 2. The millitary will strick under the guise of protecting the country from imminent collapse. The hausa/fulani will want to achieve two vital points with this l.e ensuring that Osinbajo does not take over & keeping power in the north beyond 2019 & also to stifle the demand for restructuring (the only thing that may keep them from doing this is the fear of what the backlash will be like now that the SS, SE & even MB is very wary of them). Either way, what I'm seeing does not look bright all for Nigeria. Only the 1st scenario can save Nigeria now!

chimhigher:
I know online earners would be praying 4 it not to drop..Dem love #500 per dollar ehhhhhhh

Honestly, I always receive this dollar vs naira fight with mixed feelings, simply because I earn from both currencies. Regardless, at least for the suffering masses, I hope the naira will appreciate a little, so that inflation could reduce. That notwithstanding, the way CBN is going about it is unsustainable in the long run, the global oil prices is going down, N.delta still remains volatile, production of goods in Nigeria is still depressed, diversification has remained just rhetoric. Finally, naira stabilizing below 350 to a dollar may not be achievable going by the indices.

This goes to show that many people are now really afraid of the possible actualization of Biafra. Nobody is forcing anybody to join the struggle. Many Igbos and likewise those in the N.delta are in support of it. For sure, Nigeria cannot continue like this, it would be in the best interest of all to conduct a referendum. If Biafra is what they want then so be it but if Biafra is rejected, they together we forge ahead as one nation.

They said Igbos love money, just because they happen to be naturally industrious. Even the ones that claim to "hate money" are busy harvesting skulls and body parts on daily basis, all in a futile lazy approach to make money. Now, Nnamdi KANU have also put them to shame, despite all the billions they promised him just for him to recant on Biafra yet he rejected all of it and choose to risk his life for his people! That is the hallmark of a true leader and that is why he will call people to protest and millions will obey him worldwide.

sarrki:
Nupeng and FG should soft pedal

The suffering will be on the masses they should find a amicably solution

You are really working very hard in this job. Keep it up!