treasuremi1:
For how long do we want this to continue!!! What is happening? Okay, the oba said it and he is regretting ever saying it., but can't we move on?

OdenigboAroli2:

wharreva!

musing:


You sound like you're speaking from experience

Godwin10123:

Igbos have spoken ,Go and die. We re here to stay. The write up preach peace and tolerance but you re here passing on hatred to your generation. Go ahead!!! Igbos re here and oda state to stay aint nothing can do abt dat. Animals

Terenceike:
Surprising to see these cowards called yoruba threatening the Igbos. You now act as if you're ready for a war. Remember you didn't say a word when Abiola did win an election but was denied. Instead he was imprisoned and later murdered, his wife followed, yet you didn't raise dust. Just because you feel you've got a collabo with Hausas you're biting more than you chew. Remember this isn't 1967, its not for no reason Igbos are called 'Japan of Africa'

lygn19:
I ve heard stories, I ve been with really successful people, some of em who went to school by trekking over long distances and engaging in hard labour to pay der fees...

Ymodulus:


Lol.
Morning

OdenigboAroli2:

as resourceful, intelligent, law abiding, hard working and life chopping folks, we don't give a flying fvck what any other person thinks.

superstar1:


Who cares, in as much as it was an effort in futility.

MugabeRobert:
The Oba has spoken and this voice are in clear terms. If you can't take it, just move back to your village and stop causing nuisance.

Finally, am proud someone is standing up against these arrogant and loudmouthed bullies.

MugabeRobert:
The Oba has spoken and this voice are in clear terms. If you can't take it, just move back to your village and stop causing nuisance.

Finally, am proud someone is standing up against these arrogant and loudmouthed bullies.

geoworldedu:


Are you sure you igbos are not seeing yourselves otherwise?

OdenigboAroli2:

we should sweep it under the carpet and have more people continue to threaten igbos?

Ymodulus:


Thanks it takes a bright mind to see that. Many just think am been tribalistic. Thinks am against the igbos without knowing am part of them

OdenigboAroli2:

what for? The only way to know you are in the lead is when all others start clawing at you back to pull you back. Hence the Obas unprovoked outburst.

OdenigboAroli2:

face your front, why did the oba misyarn?

Ymodulus:
I think I will start by trying to be Anthropomorphic, as it will bet express my heading.
Its really sad when insanity realizes that he has a mental disorder then he is as good as cured. The moment a people come to terms with their complex problem which often place them at loggerheads with their host communities the better for them.

I seem not to fathom how a tribe claim to have suffered humiliations and deprivation from other ethnic nationalities. This allegation should be consider very weighty even though it was not substantiated. Nonetheless, this aggrieved ethnic nationality needs to ask herself what is about it that could be responsible for the purported hostile acts of other ethnic nationalities toward it.

One problem I have with Chimanda is all her articles tends to quote Chinua Achebe, even when its evident chinua actions are wrong. The sane mistake she made, about his book "there was a country". Now she is trying to say that the Igbo's were murdered in early 1960's for political reasons? Who started the war? Was it the Nigerian Arny or The late Ojukwu ? I see Chimabda is biased. And she is just a staunt re-echoer of Chinua Achebe's belief.


I liked the fact that she related the massacre of the Ibos in different parts of the country before the civil war. However what I do like to ask her is this,

1. chimanda was there nothing that led to the massacre?

You can't deny that the tendency to dominate in another man's land which is being exhibited now by taking the Oba to court is what led to such. Tell me when you come back from court if the people of Lagos will still have a good relationship with the Ibos.


Chimanda while trying to play a neutral ground at the surface, is been biased deep down. I am sorry to say but if Chimanda spent her time writing this, she wasted that time. As this just further lowered NY respect for her as an internationally recognised writer. Novel is her thing not politics.

Just imagine how shez is spreading lies about 1960s massacre. Posterity Judge you.

OdenigboAroli2:

nothing changed for us, same ppl ruling since 1967 still ruling and we getting bigger and stronger since 1970, even causing the oba some nightmares. An exercise in futility it has been since

geoworldedu:


did the Oba come to your shops to proclaim that? you guys went to the OBA's palace to disturb his peace and he laid a 'Lagoon curse' on you.

francizy:


You people speak as if Igbos are forcefully stealing your land and political rights from you. Even when Igbos contest and loose in Lagos, do we go out en masse to cause trouble and kill? No.

Why does everyone turn a blind eye to the troublesome Fulani but label Igbos as the devil in Nigeria? I can recall vividly how peaceful Jos and Plateau state was before some tribes lost elections in that town and started killing their host. What did Nigerians do or say about that? Nothing, why? Because they are born to rule and cannot be challenged by the Yorubas, Igbos and other tribes.

In real sense and from history, the the true owners of Kaduna are the southern Kaduna tribes who are predominantly Christians, but they've been merged with people from Katsina and have had their numbers equal to or a bit smaller than the Northern Kaduna. Since 1999, they've only had one Southern Kaduna ruler who was made governor by the actions of the president in using Sambo as his VP.

We talk of political appointments and stuffs like that not knowing what is happening at the other side. When I schooled in ABU, a Southern Kaduna/Christian Prof won an election for the post of VC but was never made the VC due to massive protest within and outside the walls of the school. Finally, a Hausa/Fulani/Muslim Prof was appointed the VC.

But that is not the case in a Igbo land because I went to Metallurgical Training Institute at Onitsha and a Yoruba man is the Director. Mind you, that's just one establishment I went to. Imagine I was born and brought up in the South East, I would have seen various other tribes holding political/academic posts in my region without my people making a big deal out of it.

The truth will always hurt but I will spill it out, if it was the Fulani tribe that had this large population of the Igbos in a Yoruba/Lagos land and have not produced a governor yet, there would have been serious bloodshed. Take it or leave it.

oluamid:



Really?

See how you are re-writing history cos of your tribal bias. Lol

superstar1:


iissshh

No wonder you keep running from the pillar of GEJ skirt to the post of ICC. Stronger indeed. You have always been on the losing sides from time immemorial and it is still same till today and it shall continue forever more.

brainbox2014:
Here's a comment from a blog on which I first read the piece


Chimamanda, nice piece but this is not a matter to over-flog. You’re not more Igbo than me and many others saying “let’s move on” “calm down”. Many of us your fans will like to see how you can promote national unity through your writings. You write with too much ethnic fervour for a writer that all Nigerians will like to see as a national ambassador. At the end, what reaction do you expect from your readers in writing this poignant criticism of what you consider to be anti-igbo trend? That we Igbos should hate those of our countrymen from other tribes more, feel oppressed, disliked and hold our heads down like an ostrich or take up cudgels against the Oba of Lagos who showed so much scorn for our tribe? You don’t live amongst us so it’s dangerous to yield to your temptation. If ethnic strife breaks out here, the genocide will be a material for your story telling abroad but some of us here may not be alive to read the story. Nigerians are coming out of those primordial ethnic sentiments you’re promoting. We are focusing on issues of development and the collective progress of all tribes, all tongues, all cultures in Nigeria. Igbos love Yorubas and Yorubas love Igbos. Leave all that story that do not change our lives for the better in any way my sister." - Stanley

Samirana360:
i didn't xpect such words 4rm an oba, a traditional ruler of d most populous city in nigeria. Ok now what if ambode losses dis election? Does it mean dat igbos ar responsible 4 dat? Is agbaje an igbo man? How would he(oba) knw d people who vote 4 ambode or jk?


oba should answer me

Truth234:


Trust me you are not making sense, can you please mention one other tribe that has won election in the East like Igbos did in Lagos or that has held a political appointment in the East like its done in Lagos? This was exactly what Ahmadu Bello was saying in the 60s, you want to dominate your host and dictate how they live in their own land, wasn't your people that put an end to the first republic via coup d'etal? A year later raised war against their own country? and Chimamanda still asking if one is more Nigeria than the other, the answer is obvious because the last time I checked the meaning of patriotism its devotion or commitment to ones country. Something your people don't seem to have enough of.

OdenigboAroli2:

Don't expect anything to change in this country, the oba will keep ranting and more state governors will keep trying to curtail igbos. Nothing will change so, One Nigeria!

VirginFinder:


Most ibo Nairalanders are semi-literate just like you.
I cant fathom why.
It's 'curse' not 'course'.

@OP ibos should stick to their business and stay out of our local politics.
Any attempt to dabble into it will spell doom as we can all see.
That's all!