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Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by TheOnlyWiseMan: 4:38pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a stdent of history, I wish to show just what these great people came/come against and yet thrive. Okay, the incessant killings in the North will be glossed over so as to make this article not overly long. The civil war will also not be discussed. However, post civil war, as I explained in my post MINORITY REPORT: THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED AGAINST YOU, the rich in Nigeria have major roots in the Indegenization decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausas and Yorubas loans to by up companies owned by foreigners. Now imagine the Federal government forced Chevron to sell 51 percent of its shares and that Access Bank will give you loans to buy the shares. How rich will you be in a year? 5 Years? That is how many Yorubas and Hausas got to own UAC, all those Dunlop, Leventis, Cadbury etc. Now while this was ongoing, Gowon told the Nigerian banks to give TOPS twenty naira to any Igbo man that had money in the bank before the war. That is, if you had 5 naira before the war, you will be given the 5 naira. But if you had a hundred naira, you get just twenty naira in full fulfilment of the banks duty to give you your money. Ask yourselves “why would the banks give Igbos only twenty naira? Did the banks collapse? So why pay less than you were given? So while the banks were giving loans to Hausa and Yorubas to buy Oyibo companies they did not build, Igbos were being cheated out of their rightful moneys. Now not also that these people lost Houses and business across the land. It is safe to say that as at 1970/71. the richest Igbo had 20 naira that may be the equivalent of maybe one million. Let us lok at how Dangote made his money. He Dagote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) has an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 50’s and 60’s. He gave Dangte a loan and Dangote paid it back in record time. CLAP CLAP. The add that Dangote has had his “brothers” in government, from IBB to Abacha and Abdulsalaam. When they now agreed to democracy, he was rich enough to have funded Obasanjo and so government policies, be it monopoly afforded him for rice, sugar flour and of course a large share of subsidy etc ensures he is the wealthiest Nigerian. (note many had same opportunity but did not use it. We kowtow to Dangote’s investment capabilities) However, for the Igbo man, where will he see an uncle that will loan him money? The richest man in their family has how much as at then? So while Fani Kayode can inherit property of his father and grandfather and great grand father, a Chidi Cali cannot inherit anything from his grandfather who had business in Kano or even Port Harcourt. Neighbours have made his dad’s storey building theirs, and even someone as educated as Saro Wiwa lived in an Igbo war emigrant house as his. (a sore point of the Niger Delta and Igbo Unity) WAEC building was Ojukwu’s dad’s building and like that building, thousands and the land with it….lands worth billions today were taken from Igbos and each and everyIgbo had tops 20 naira, destroyed homeland, stolen and destroyed wealth away from the east. ALso his brother is never president that will give him oil block or fuel lifting. Of 33, only one Igbo man and because he was in Obasanjo’s good graces. YET LOOK HOW PROUD THEY STAND TODAY!!! Look what they have achieved for themselves….FIRST GENERATION WEALTH…top second generation. From being unable to send their first sons to school so he could help look after the shop, to producing first class brains in all departments of modern learning. So today, as you accuse Igbos of wanting their Biafra or of Baby Factory, or liking money and ready to do anything for money, remember that just forty years ago, while the banks were dashing your uncles loans to buy all the companies of Nigeria, it stole from the Igbos. Know that appointments have not favoured them. Note that they remain persecuted and many speak such ill and hate twoards a people forced by need to survive to be extra-aggressive towards their sustenance. Maybe if you took their history into consideration, you will not be so critical of them, but instead say “what a resilient people” and give God the glory that FOR NOW, we and such a great people are compatriots. Igbo Kwenu. By : Ena Ofugara http://www.igberetvnews.com/?p=1331 42 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Nobody: 4:47pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
Yes Igbo's are great, if not the greatest..but that does not mean you should be copying other peoples text. |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by TheOnlyWiseMan: 4:54pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
Zinicc: Meaning what? |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Nobody: 4:54pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
who dosnt know this in this contraption called Nigeria, but they will always feign ignorance due to there envy and hatred. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by OZAOEKPE(f): 4:57pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
"Hypocrisy is when you support your own
criminals(amaechi, atiku, tinubu etc), and when
I support my own criminals(mimiko, saraki etc)
you begin to condemn me. Is amaechi different
from mimiko? We are not ready for change at
all in this country". Quote me anywhere 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by badnature: 6:03pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
but today awusa and yoruba are the poorest in Nigeria, that is chukwuabiama for you.we are the chosen people 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by honourhim: 6:44pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
Op thank you for stating the truth. After all that we passed through in this country we still came out tops today. Thanks man. 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by DMerciful(m): 8:40pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
One thing Nigerians fail to understand is that what drives the Biafrans is from within just like Germany after two world wars they are the richest in Europe 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ezeagu(m): 8:53pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
OZAOEKPE: Why support any criminals in the first place? 2 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Orjioorji(f): 9:34pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
I am moved with tears Chukwu okike bless you @op. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by TheOnlyWiseMan: 9:34pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
DMerciful:Gbam 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Scholes007(m): 9:57pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
Very touchy article... Imagine what could have been the faith of ndi igbo if there was no civil war or the country nigeria 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ifyan(m): 12:01am On Oct 12, 2015 |
honourhim: You can say that again 2 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ifyan(m): 12:02am On Oct 12, 2015 |
Scholes007: We may turn out to be the great 1 Like |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by TheOnlyWiseMan: 4:43am On Oct 12, 2015 |
Scholes007:You're correct. 2 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by MayorofLagos(m): 5:07am On Oct 12, 2015 |
Scholes007: You were told to backtrack away from war. You refused to listen. "imagine if" should have been caculated before, not after war. PUT THE HORSE INFRONT OF THE CART, damn it! 1 Like |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by naijaking1: 5:13am On Oct 12, 2015 |
TheOnlyWiseMan: Front page quality article!!! 2 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ArodewilliamsT: 5:35am On Oct 12, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: Sharap you cowardly monkey, there would have been a damned Emirate in Biafra like you have in your godforsaken yorubaland of effeminate cowards if Biafra didn't defend themselves from your fulani masters backed by Britain,Russia and egypt. 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by yang(m): 5:36am On Oct 12, 2015 |
umu chineke 5 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by lincolnj88: 5:38am On Oct 12, 2015 |
If i see urhobo people i just start to cry... upon all ur oil but heavily marginalised 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by MayorofLagos(m): 5:44am On Oct 12, 2015 |
ArodewilliamsT: Who would put it there? Your land was never developed before the war, it would have remained undeveloped if war had not been fought. |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by naijaking1: 5:48am On Oct 12, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: That's the major difference between your people and Igbos: when to fight and die honorably, or remain in perpetual bondage. No matter the type of misinformation you might have recieved about the the civil war, the facts remain that Ojukwu could have more easily packed his things and left Igbos to their fate, he was wealthy, remember. But he sacrificed it all. When your fellow Igbos are killed just because they are Igbos, without federal protection or intervention, and you think you have time to calculate and backtrack from being killed yourself, then you must not be an Igbo. Most Igbos I know will rather die fighting than be taken prisoner for life in their own town as was the case in Illorin. I'm sure Yoruba natives of Illorin are still backtracking away from war with Fulanis since the time of Afonja. 22 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by LastSurvivor: 5:55am On Oct 12, 2015 |
No other tribe will survived what we passed through.. God bless Ndigbo ibem.. 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by kingzizzy: 5:56am On Oct 12, 2015 |
The flag hanging in my living room Proudly Igbo Proudly Biafran 13 Likes
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Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ArodewilliamsT: 6:03am On Oct 12, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: It was better than the land of the brown roofians and far ahead today. Face illorin 4 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by ArodewilliamsT: 6:11am On Oct 12, 2015 |
naijaking1: This yoruba generation should curse their forefathers for not fighting for illorin to save them the shame they suffer today. 200 years ago, their forefathers were afraid to die in the fight to liberate Illorin, today did their cowardly forefathers live forever? Didn't they still die anyway? Now they'll leave the misfortune of bleeding for the liberation of kwara in the hands of their children. The children they are supposed to protect from harm. Cowardice is a generational curse indeed. 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by kernel501: 6:19am On Oct 12, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: Hahahaha... Poor-brown-roofed-coward, why did your grand father die fighting to be named with us, l guess so... we can be bailing your states out, and feed your teem of impoverished tribe. 8 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Nobody: 7:03am On Oct 12, 2015 |
As the Igbo saying goes, "if you hold a man down, you are also holding yourself down". To expand, in order for that man to remain down you have to stay down with him. This is the hostage situation between Nigeria and Igbo people. Nigeria will succeed when they allow Igbos to succeed and level the playing field. 13 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by tonychristopher: 7:19am On Oct 12, 2015 |
The OP has spoken and has spoken well...facts are sacrosanct and this is it 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Nobody: 7:26am On Oct 12, 2015 |
TheOnlyWiseMan: cc kaycid77 |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Nobody: 7:33am On Oct 12, 2015 |
To be honest my dad said they almost deceived him to sale his house in apapa in a give away price. But he decided to abandon the house knowing fully well that the war will later end. Of course he went back to take back his house from his backstabber friends who think he will die in the war. 7 Likes |
Re: Biafra : Urhobo Eulogizes Igbo, Says Igbo Are The Salt Of The Nation. by Jaideyone(m): 7:58am On Oct 12, 2015 |
ArodewilliamsT:ok I was just going to laugh and pass but I just had to reply you. the Fulanis were defeated and driven back to Ilorin by the Ibadan armies. the only reason Ilorin wasn't liberated was because the indigenes embraced Islam. infact most of those that fought against the Ibadan armies while trying to take back Ilorin were Yorubas. The Fulani Caliphate attempted to expand further into the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadan Oyos were seasoned warriors and thus Ibadan infantry I understand your stupidity is inherent. but no matter how hard you try. you can't change history. have a wonderful day and pls stick to the topic 1 Like |
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