This is a very informative thread. Thank you poster. I stumbled into it online and this brought me back to Nairaland since like 10 years now. Do you have similiar posts like this?

Abagworo:

I am not being pessimistic but rather realistic.The way Ohaneze and our so-called leaders are going about things,it is not coming soon.We need to take care of our region first just like the Southwest has seized control of their region before we can have the power to negotiate or even make any meaningful impact.

The SE is being willy here. Ohaneze for Jonathan, ILF for Atiku. Good game. Let the game begin. Goodluck to the winner. After the elections Ndigbo will benefit from either side that wins as they supported both sides. A little to the left, a little to the right. I dey for centre. Let each group pursue their goals with utmost determination to win. But I warn both of you, No killings or I will come hard on you with my hammer. We are not like that and besides no need crying more than the bereaved. Our utmost self interest must be protected.

The SE is being willy here. Ohaneze for Jonathan, ILF for Atiku. Good game. Let the game begin. Goodluck to the winner. After the elections Ndigbo will benefit from either side that wins as they supported both sides. A little to the left, a little to the right. I dey for centre. Let each group pursue their goals with utmost determination to win. But I warn both of you, No killings or I will come hard on you with my hammer. We are not like that and besides no need crying more than the bereaved. Our utmost self interest must be protected.

The SE is being willy here. Ohaneze for Jonathan, ILF for Atiku. Good game. Let the game begin. Goodluck to the winner. After the elections Ndigbo will benefit from either side that wins as they supported both sides. A little to the left, a little to the right. I dey for centre. Let each group pursue their goals with utmost determination to win. But I warn both of you, No killings or I will come hard on you with my hammer. We are not like that and besides no need crying more than the bereaved. Our utmost self interest must be protected.

dayokanu:

How many Yoruba Politicians went for the Atiku show?

You tribalist. You have come to derail the thread. Anyhow Ndigbo does not take directions from Yorubas how to play their own politics. They dont put all their eggs in one basket like the Yorubas because history has taught them that Nigerians always try to make them scapegoats when issues that dont even concern them arise and they start being killed all over the Nation. That is why they always share themselves when their is an issue in 9ja like June 12 so you do not say they are against you or for you. It is called survival strategy untill they have completely being liberated from the Nigerian bondage.

As Always they miss it.

Blazay:

Phillip is enjoying his Gordon Bell Prize hanging in his sitting room and you are here breaking your kolanut?
Oh no.
Poor you. Poor you. Phillip Emeagwali does not care.
Have you heard him respond to the internet clownish onslaught?
Now you go use your time for something more productive.
The Gordon Bell Prize stays with the owner.
This has been going on for some 5 years now.

Jesus did not find any measure if salvation in the small band of followers.
You still crucified him and called him a magician.
Now you eat his flesh and drink his blood every Sunday like the true ritualists you are.

Why do we expect Phillip Emeagwali, a mere mortal to find that?
Do you all want to eat Phillips arse every Sunday to find some peace in your lives?

Give it up I say, and get a life.

Aluta!

Abi oo?

Mkpotu:

The fact is simple, different people and different states have what you can use to best qualify them.

For those voices chanting foul because President Goodluck has described ANAMBRA STATE AS THE BRAIN BOX OF NIGERIA, those people are doing so out of jealousy and wickedness and they will continue to be disappointed. They can best be described as enemies of progress, may be they would have expected a bomb blast in Anambra State during Presidents visit or any negative thing, in that case I know they would have been happier.

Any person that knows Nigeria, Anambra State and her indigenes, knows that what President Goodluck is saying is nothing but the truth and I make bold to say it that some of you lame minds who sit at the back of their PC talking rubbish do not have a better knowledge of the various parts of the country than the President. At least for the benefit of doubt, being the president of Nigeria gives him at least 70% of the 36 states of the Federation let alone states like Anambra with its economic/human/ intellectual endowment.

Goodluck has never said Anambra is the most developed (like Lagos, PH, Kano,Kaduna, Enugu)- No !, He has never said Anambra is the most peaceful (Like Cross River, Taraba, Niger)- No !, He never said Anambra is the richest (like Lagos, Kano, Rivers, Delta, etc) No !, He never said Anambra is the tourist centre of Nigeria (like Cross River, Plateau, Taraba, Kano, Enugu, Lagos, Edo) rather he rightly pointed out that Anambra is the Brain Box of Nigeria and the reasons are simple and I make bold to state them:
(1) Anambra state carved out from the Old Anambra which had Enugu as its capital was created in 1991 with Awka as her capital, is a state blessed with great Human Resources, men of great intellectuals both in academic field, entrepreneurial, politically, religious and otherwise.

(2) Anambra state has two major commercial towns to wit: Onitsha and Nnewi. While Nnewi is known for her automobile/parts manufacturing as well as motorcycle manufacturing, Onitsha is a pure commercial city which has several big markets and infact the Main market in Onitsha, a standard market which had in the past years adjudged as the biggest market in West Africa.

(3) I make bold to say it that today, any part of Nigeria (like Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Abuja, etc and neighboring counties like Ghana, Benin, Anambrarians and infact Igbos, having taking those commercial initiatives of what we have at Nnewi to all these places and infact these went further to support Presidents Goodluck assertion during his visit in Lagos, where he observed without hiding his feelings the immense contribution of the Igbos in the commercial nature/city of Lagos today.

(4) It is important to state that another reason why President Goodluck have made his observation which we do not owe anybody apology is that Anambra people have held influential positions in the country and during such period they have distinguished themselves in doing their assignment without any bias or sectional interest, eg Great Zik of Afrika, a pure nationalist. Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Prof. Dora Akunyili, etc

Once more I salute the economic sagacity of these notable industrialists in Anambra like Dr. Innocent Chukwuma of Innoson Group of Companies & Dr. Ifeanyi Eric Okoye of Juhel Nig ltd, Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis ltd etc, their effort so far in the Think Home Philosophy is a step in the right direction.

I believe with the support of the Govt at both Federal and State, as well as better understanding between the WELL READ and the BUSINESS MOGULS in Anambra State coming together to harness ideas and resources, Anambra will be a more enviable state.

Ndibeanyi, ekene mu unu!!!

GBAM GBAM GBAM!!!!

Instead of berating the Igbo leaders, the question is were they properly informed. WIC, Ohaneze, Akaikenga,etc, might not have known about such a momentous event and so could not make a presence. I know for a fact that WIC has been documenting the Igbo landings and so why should they ignore such an event?

With their political, intellectual and cultural leadership cadre running around in an uncertain cycle, the Igbo of Nigeria were handed something to cheer about in the far away State of Virginia, United States of America.

There, in late September, during a sadly little-publicized ceremony, the authorities of the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia which curates the affairs of early settlers in America had formally commissioned the Igbo Farm Village to the appreciation of historians of Igbo life and sympathizers world-wide.

Constructed in the typical Igbo architectural format, with mud fences, mud buildings including the obi with thatched roof, the 'village', reportedly hosts a variety of wandering domestic animals as would be found in any traditional Igbo village today in the homeland.

And why were the Igbo so honoured by the culture museum authorities in Virginia?

The reason, according to the executive director of the museum, Mr. John Avoli, is to immortalize the early settlers in Virginia, one of the southern states of America that was built by white settlers with slave labour.

He said that, having honoured the English, Irish, German and other European tribes, it was necessary to also honour the slaves that dominated the place in the beginning.

Indeed, this honour is very fitting, as Virginia was dominated by Igbo slaves taken there during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Indeed, a cursory look at the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade shows that though they were considered rebellious and 'suicidal' by plantation owners, preferring to die rather than be enslaved wherever they found themselves during the slavery period, the Igbo quickly bonded and usually attempted to free themselves from the slavers' shackles.

It is a fact of history that the slaves who fought off the Spanish and French slavers to found present-day Haiti had been mostly Igbo slaves who hijacked the vessels trans-shipping them from America to Latin America and headed for Barbados.

The ex-slave writer Olaudah Equiano, was among the slaves that were later trans-shipped to Virginia from Barbados. About 44 per cent of the 90,000 Africans in Barbados were from the Bight of Biafra from where the Igbo were shipped.

There is even a story that could be apocryphal about the mass-suicide of a shipload of Igbo slaves on landing at an American jetty in November 28, 1858. Rather than disembark in their chains, the slaves were said to have jumped into the ocean instead. This event led to this particular jetty being referred to as the 'Ebolanding'.

About 1.4 million Igbo were transported by European ships across the Atlantic between the 16th and late 19th Centuries that slavery lasted.

Descendants of Igbo slaves are today dispersed in Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, United States, Belize, and Trinidad and Tobago. Elements of Igbo culture can still be found in these places today. In the US, particularly, the Igbo were found in numbers in Maryland and Virginia. In fact, historians have since denominated Virginia as Igbo land.

That such a momentous event in Virginia was largely ignored by present Igbo leadership is very curious indeed.

Except for Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, who was represented by his Commissioner for Information and Culture, Chief Emeka Maja Umeh, nary a sound or word was heard from the so-called Igbo leaders that have been prancing all over the place and hugging the public space to proclaim the loss of relevance and their determination to bring back the Igbo into the main stream of national and global reckoning.

We commend the Anambra State governor and his organic Igbo-centricity, first by being the only Igbo political leader to empathize with the people and government of Haiti, an Igbo country, and second by sending a delegation to the US to witness the commissioning of the Igbo Village there.

That Americans would find something about the Igbo worth celebrating should be a challenge to Igbo cultural and intellectual elite who helplessly wring their hands and bemoan the so-called marginalization of the race without pro-actively doing anything to advance the cultural relevance of the tribe.

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Institutions like Ohanaeze, Aka Ikenga and the motley of Igbo socio-cultural and political organizations that purport to speak for the Igbo should have been fully represented at the commissioning of this Igbo village in Virginia, USA.

This is because it is foolhardy for the Igbo to dream of political leadership of Nigeria without first of all achieving the sort of cultural hegemony that the Hausa-Fulani or Yoruba nations have achieved. That is the relevance of the Virginia commissioning of the Igbo Village.

Ileke-IdI:

Sometimes I just think ppl they knw what they want. When someone created the above article topic, a lot of the posters in here supporting Ohaneze actually supported the "do not endorse any presidential candidate". So much for the voice of the youth.

who are those posters? name them.

The post is on SE PDP. Are posters here confusing them with Ohaneze. There is an Ohaneze thread. Please go there if you want to comment on Ohaneze in order not to derail this one.

Glo is limited to only 24 states thats why etisalat's promo is better.but who knows for how long