Handsomegod: Nwa Okodu jirikwa nwayo! We may be at the risk of painting everyone with same brush and I must state that Igbo rennaisance is the highest level now more than ever before. Who could have thought that an Ikwerre man will be the Secretary General of Ohaneze in an era like ours. I saw the video of Omu Anioma when she came with her courtesans at the Ala Igbo Development event and that singular act broke hitherto fallow grounds. Lots more are happening on the positive side of Igbo integration even as the mad ones are still roaming wild. For instance,some of my closest friends are Ikas from Umunede specifically and we are completely and basically Igbo. Never have the question of their Igboness ever arose. Infact,one of them,a woman who is also a medical doctor based in London is one of the Organisers of summer Igbo language classes! Can you beat that?! For purpose of confidentiality,there are many of such I won't mention here. At least,one of the most learned Igbo historian of this generation is Chief Osita Mordi and he is Ika! Recall it was also Professor Onwuejiogwu that gave the closest details of Igbo histories of many Anioma towns. My point is this is time to get positive and shun the divisive elements among us. Ekenem Unu.
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, political representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria. We need every Igbo in this new tactics against the Igbo adopted by Nigeria, especially the Fulani dominated Federal Government and active collaboration of our Yoruba southern brothers.
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 are still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties.
Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
Handsomegod: Nwa Okodu jirikwa nwayo! We may be at the risk of painting everyone with same brush and I must state that Igbo rennaisance is the highest level now more than ever before. Who could have thought that an Ikwerre man will be the Secretary General of Ohaneze in an era like ours. I saw the video of Omu Anioma when she came with her courtesans at the Ala Igbo Development event and that singular act broke hitherto fallow grounds. Lots more are happening on the positive side of Igbo integration even as the mad ones are still roaming wild. For instance,some of my closest friends are Ikas from Umunede specifically and we are completely and basically Igbo. Never have the question of their Igboness ever arose. Infact,one of them,a woman who is also a medical doctor based in London is one of the Organisers of summer Igbo language classes! Can you beat that?! For purpose of confidentiality,there are many of such I won't mention here. At least,one of the most learned Igbo historian of this generation is Chief Osita Mordi and he is Ika! Recall it was also Professor Onwuejiogwu that gave the closest details of Igbo histories of many Anioma towns. My point is this is time to get positive and shun the divisive elements among us. Ekenem Unu.
We are clapping our hands here for this post, me and my friends are giving 1,000,000 likes each, and we are many here.
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 is still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties. Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, political representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria. We need every Igbo in this new tactics against the Igbo adopted by Nigeria, especially the Fulani dominated Federal Government and active collaboration of our Yoruba southern brothers.
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 is still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties. Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
CJ,
I was on the look out for you here. Thank you for this response.
This thread has been infiltrated by Afonjas because they are always threatened by Igbo unity. They have failed because the New-Igbo man that Alhaji Sanusi predicted will arise has already been born and we are well aware of the antics and treachery of Afonjas . We shall not make the mistakes of our ancestors trusting Afonjas blindly and playing their game of "DIVIDE and Conquer" which they have used to destroy the Southeast and Southsouth region.
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, political representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria. We need every Igbo in this new tactics against the Igbo adopted by Nigeria, especially the Fulani dominated Federal Government and active collaboration of our Yoruba southern brothers.
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 is still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties. Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
Thank you for this master piece write up you said it all
In my next life I still want to come back as an Igbo man
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, political representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria. We need every Igbo in this new tactics against the Igbo adopted by Nigeria, especially the Fulani dominated Federal Government and active collaboration of our Yoruba southern brothers.
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 is still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties. Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
Nwanne Dalu rinne! Take a cold bottle of Ciroc or Johnny Walker! The bill is on me. You also captured the political basis of this crisis and it is such a refreshing exposition coming from you,one of Anioma's finest online! I think the covert oppression and hatred of Igbos by the current Buhari's rogue regime is a mixed blessings of sorts. It awoke the sleeping long awaited but dormant renaissance and proto Igbo nationalism. Igbos have literally taken over the cyber space making their voices known and the call for a separate Igbo nation today is higher than ever. It is no more about IPOB again! Igbos at home and diaspora and all social and economic classes have thrown their hats into the ring. While curricular history was expunged from Nigerian academics,am actually shocked most people within this identity crises domains failed to Google and be enlightened on the background of this matter. Again,thanks for further clarity. On the flipside,i recommend the attached book for all of us to deepen our knowledge of who we are.
You are very stupid for calling Aniomas fools, I can't continue to hide how I feel about you, you disgust me, I don't know if some of you smoke marijuana before coming online, idio.t are you more Igbo than Pat Utomi,Ralph Uwechue, Prof Joseph Chike Edozien, the Asagba of Asaba and other great aniomas, anuofia Igbos are working round the clock to unite their kin in southsouth an inconsequential idiot with zero family influence from remote village will be writing rubbish online causing nuisance
Bros, no allow Okorocha and his Abagworo spokesman commit suicide as you de talk of development in Igboland and mention the name Orlu. This market you yearn for in Orlu is appropriate; even though there is a huge Imo International Market built by former gov of Imo state. It's fully engaged. But since 2011, Okorocha has not contributed a kobo value to uplift the roads leading to the market. So tay only one alleyway is now left as entrance and exit for the market. Even some roads leading to the market were scrapped by Okorocha govt.
Okorocha demolished Owerri market, built another in Egbeada and named it Imo International Market. People had to remind him that there is a market with same name in Orlu. All plans by Orlu people for development of Orlu area is kept aside waiting for when Okorocha leaves office next year.
Abagworo is a part of the government so his own I understand because he's trying to eat stolen money. It's everyone else sayings things like 'Okorocha beautified Owerri' that I don't understand. I listed that useless city school and a hospital on the outskirts of Owerri. Other than statues, what else did Okorocha add to the city?
Every move me makes, the underlying motivation is to enrich himself and turn Imo into his personal backyard. He got rid of keke so that he can launch is how private taxi service. He demolished the market and is charging improverished women 60,000K a month to sell tomatoes in his new -private- market. He attempted to confiscate all of the community hospitals in the state to privatize them to and 'investor' named Ochedike, owned by his wife's brother.
He confiscated the land of people in Ideato to build a private Eastern Palm University, owned by non other than himself. This guy is worst than evil and defending him means you wish the worst for you fellow human being. Anyone defending Okorocha is an enemy of the people of Imo and the legacy of their forefathers.
To top it off, he thinks his son in law will he his heir as if he's a king. Ok.
You are very stupid for calling Aniomas fools, I can't continue to hide how I feel about you, you disgust me, I don't know if some of you smoke marijuana before coming online, idio.t are you more Igbo than Pat Utomi,Ralph Uwechue, Prof Joseph Chike Edozien, the Asagba of Asaba and other great aniomas, anuofia Igbos are working round the clock to unite their kin in southsouth an inconsequential idiot with zero family influence from remote village will be writing rubbish online causing nuisance
I understand your outrage and dismay. I have gone through the thread to see most of those regretable posts.
In the spirit of Igbo democratic tradition of "Onye kwue uche ya", let us accept his comments without using foul language no matter how inappropriate they were. If i didn't know Omambala before, i could have mistaken some of the posts for Chino's
Nothing gladdens the Nigeria Fulani and some segments of the Yoruba group as seeing Igbos divided and bickering over truly inconsequential things.
I am an Igbo, yet i went to America and became an American citizen. Even if Biafra comes tomorrow, some yorubas who believe in Biafra will apply for citizenship and they will be granted.
Therefore, contesting if an Igbo who speaks the language fluently and can trace 10 generations of his Igbo lineage is indeed an Igbo simply because a Nigerian coup leader calling himself "Head of State" decided to carve him away from his Igbo roots and into another state called Rivers or Delta is silly.
Let us focus on what is truly important today:
1. INVEST IN IGBOLAND and do not yield to the sugar-coated EVIL LIES of "higher profit" to lure you into investing elsewhere in Nigeria. Investments in Igboland will give you just as much profit or even more than investing elsewhere in Nigeria.
2. Advice our people to express their frustration with those ruling Nigeria by getting their PVC and voting for their preferred candidate (If you fail to vote, you have NO RIGHT to complain when an unfavorable candidate takes over and implements draconian oppression on you.)
3. Push the SE and even SS governors to consider pooling resources and partner with China Exim bank to float & fund key regional infrastructural projects such as power stations, Refineries, Regional fast speed railways, Regional deep sea ports etc. We will be more prosperous cooperating as a region than acting as small tiny states.
4. Support businesses based in Igboland by patronizing their products and even using banks owned or favorably disposed to Ndigbo.
Please let us focus on what needs to be done and not allow ourselves to be distracted by those who want us to focus and promote quarrels between Anambra vs. Enugu or Imo or Igbo vs. Anioma or Ikwerre or Ebonyi. These are the Divide and Rule tactics of Nigeria which we should all be aware of by now and resolve to defeat it.
You are very stupid for calling Aniomas fools, I can't continue to hide how I feel about you, you disgust me, I don't know if some of you smoke marijuana before coming online, idio.t are you more Igbo than Pat Utomi,Ralph Uwechue, Prof Joseph Chike Edozien, the Asagba of Asaba and other great aniomas Anuofia Igbos are working round the clock to unite their kin in southsouth an inconsequential idiot with zero family influence from remote village will be writing rubbish online causing nuisance
I have deliberately stayed away from this argument so that our people from both sides of the Niger can express their frustration and iron things out in a democratic discussion which is the hallmark of Igbo custom.
Truth is that even in the same Ika family, one brother will be 100% Igbo and the other will choose to be 100% Bini or whatever. Now how do you judge that family? If you say they are Pro Igbo, you have not accounted for the half brother than is not. If you say they are anti-igbo, you have been unjust to reject the brother that is 100% Igbo.
These things were engineered by Nigeria after the civil war to perpetually destroy the Igbo and make it a minority tribe in Nigeria. So all the Igbos at the border fringes of Igboland were approached by Nigerian vandals and through coercion or active collaboration, they got elders of those communities to declare they were not Igbo. These were all done to strip the former East Central State (SE region now) of any access to the sea and more importantly, an access to it's oil reserve.
Ofcourse a lot of families took personal decisions not to break their Igbo identity and even encouraged their sons and daughters to marry from the East Central State, while many others gleefully accepted their new non-Igbo designation and pretended to be Nigerians of no ethnic group. In the newly created Rivers state the worst atrocity of confiscating Igbo properties was enforced and that brought untold bitterness between us. Everyone went to sleep and it was thought the Igbo was finally decimated in Nigeria.
The Igbo quietly endured the loss of her investments in Port Harcourt and many parts of northern Nigeria and simply started again from the scratch. Today, Igbo has come up to speed with other people that stole their properties and these issues have come up for discussion about who is Igbo and who isn't.
Firstly, every Igbo outside of the SE knows he is Igbo. They just fear that the behavior of their elders immediately after the war cannot allow them to say who they are without sounding hypocritical. Despite this bitter history, i would ask that we find a way to unite all our peoples again. That will be the best way to pay back the Nigerian vandals who engineered this division of our people to decimate Igbo in Nigeria. If Germany united her people from the Eastern and Western block many years after World War II, Vietnam united her people in the northern and southern Vietnam after the Vietnam war into the Vietnam we know today , North Korea and South Korea are still working out modalities to unite their people, it is only reasonable for Igbo to unite her people into an Igbo nation. For the process to be genuine, mistakes of the past my be acknowledged so that they do not happen again and forgiven.
We must understand the need to unite our people when you clearly understand that the Nigeria - Biafra war ended it's shooting phase on January 12, 1970 but has continued through economic, infrastructural, political representation marginalization and all sorts of exploitation of the Igbo by Nigeria. We need every Igbo in this new tactics against the Igbo adopted by Nigeria, especially the Fulani dominated Federal Government and active collaboration of our Yoruba southern brothers.
The moral of our history which we have refused to learn is that we MUST learn to invest at home. Today, the Igbo must learn to invest more at home than wherever attracts their fancy in Nigeria. Some of the greatest harm to Igbo economy by Nigeria was possible because most of her wealth were outside the East Central State which is the SE region now.
Those that think the war of Nigeria against the Igbos ended in 1970 are still living a silly dream. It is very much alive today as the blockade was alive in the 1960s, they just decided to stop the shooting. If we FAIL to LEARN from these mistakes of our fathers and repeat the same mistakes in our generation, then just like our fathers we may suddenly lose everything through a silly "QUIT NOTICE" and again start from the scratch for another generation of back breaking toil just to meet up with those who stole our investments and properties.
Let us LEARN from our past mistakes and vow NEVER to repeat them
nice one. I have said it before that the greatest agitation we should have in south east now is the creation of Anioma state out from delta and rivers states and joining it to south east to get 6 states. That in itself is much more important than biafra agitation and even igbo presidency.
Because we need to bring our people under one zone politically...b4 we can achieve anything else. Wen we get Anioma state, we add 2 more igbo senators to NASS. Wen we get anioma state and join it to south east, it becomes easier to convince those who deny being igbo to see things differently. If we get Anioma state, that would make the ikwerres of rivers state also re-think their politics. Anioma state will also make it easier for igbos to break out alone in future without needing niger delta tribes.
Why is ekweremadu not championing Anioma state creation. Why is our abuja politicians not talking about it? Wat exactly have they fought for igbos b4?
selemempe: nice one. I have said it before that the greatest agitation we should have in south east now is the creation of Anioma state out from delta and rivers states and joining it to south east to get 6 states. That in itself is much more important than biafra agitation and even igbo presidency.
Because we need to bring our people under one zone politically...b4 we can achieve anything else. Wen we get Anioma state, we add 2 more igbo senators to NASS. Wen we get anioma state and join it to south east, it becomes easier to convince those who deny being igbo to see things differently. If we get Anioma state, that would make the ikwerres of rivers state also re-think their politics. Anioma state will also make it easier for igbos to break out alone in future without needing niger delta tribes.
Why is ekweremadu not championing Anioma state creation. Why is our abuja politicians not talking about it? Wat exactly have they fought for igbos b4?
Good idea, but again it is not the greatest agitation that we should be doing. Why go for a small slice of the cake when you can have the cake itself, especially when you were the one who baked it.
Operating in a fake nation with 5 or even 6 states won't do anything but legitimize the suffering and hardship our people have been facing and will continue to face as they are trapped in a cage with other nations.
selemempe: nice one. I have said it before that the greatest agitation we should have in south east now is the creation of Anioma state out from delta and rivers states and joining it to south east to get 6 states. That in itself is much more important than biafra agitation and even igbo presidency.
Because we need to bring our people under one zone politically...b4 we can achieve anything else. Wen we get Anioma state, we add 2 more igbo senators to NASS. Wen we get anioma state and join it to south east, it becomes easier to convince those who deny being igbo to see things differently. If we get Anioma state, that would make the ikwerres of rivers state also re-think their politics. Anioma state will also make it easier for igbos to break out alone in future without needing niger delta tribes.
Why is ekweremadu not championing Anioma state creation. Why is our abuja politicians not talking about it? Wat exactly have they fought for igbos b4?
U expect Ekweremadu to champion the motion for an Anioma state at this time when an Anioma son is the gov of Delta state? Never going to happen.
Good idea, but again it is not the greatest agitation that we should be doing. Why go for a small slice of the cake when you can have the cake itself, especially when you were the one who baked it.
Operating in a fake nation with 5 or even 6 states won't do anything but legitimize the suffering and hardship our people have been facing and will continue to face as they are trapped in a cage with other nations.
Strategy is key believe me. Igbos can get biafra easier than joing the whole se and ss together. However we need to gradually and strategically bring the igbo nation (including ikwerre )into the south east. Then we can ask for igbo authonomy or independence. It would be easier for nigeria or u.n to reason and agree than adding niger delta folks.
Look at this map again..if u get igboland complete...then u dont need nobody else
Strategy is key believe me. Igbos can get biafra easier than joing the whole se and ss together. However we need to gradually and strategically bring the igbo nation (including ikwerre )into the south east. Then we can ask for igbo authonomy or independence. It would be easier for nigeria or u.n to reason and agree than adding niger delta folks.
Look at this map again..if u get igboland complete...then u dont need nobody else
Brother, no one is claiming to be Mr or Mrs Biafra....but I'm very in support of your proposal. It's just that such effort can be made after we attain our ultimate goal. The 5 states that Igbo have somehow been reduced to have done what in almost 20 years of democracy? Nothing. There is no unity or sense of belonging, except against Biafran groups. Even when Goodluck tried to smuggle a 6th state for the so-called SE, look at how fools like Iwuanyanwu went there to scuttle the matter with over 30+ proposals.
Even if Anioma and Riverine Igbo are brought in, you can simply have another tout like Wike or Amaechi as a do nothing governor for 8 years while naming structures after murderers like Gowon.
The problem I have with most of you here is that you guys always blame other tribes for our misfortune. With the way we complain, one would think that Igboland is the worst part of Nigeria and unfortunately, many Nigerians already believe that Igboland is not conducive for living. As of 2015, 90% of the federal roads in the country were not motorable but due to our excessive blame game and complains, other Nigerians now believe that the South east has the worst roads in the country. You all claim that the government built infrastructure and created many employment opportunities in other parts of the country and neglected the SE, I want you people to please mention those industries you claim FG built in the SW and the North to create employment. Another nonsense thing you guys say is that the federal government built the infrastructure in Lagos. This is another lie. If you go to Victoria Island, the federal buildings there make up less than 1% of the total skyscrapers there, from Union bank tower to UBA tower to Nestoil tower etc are all private investments, even the major roads that make the area beautiful were built by the state's government. Ikoyi, Lekki, Banana island etc were all done by the state's government not FG so why do we keep associating the progress of Lagos to the FG? FG failed to fix federal roads in Abia but the state roads are also in sorry states but we send all the blame to the federal government. Was the federal government that stopped Ebonyi state from improving on its poverty level? Was the federal government that made Abia state not to have motorable state and local government roads? Was it the FG that prevented Igbos from locating their factories in Igboland? We claim the unavailability of working seaports in the east is the major cause of our problems but you guys have also forgotten that landlocked Kano state generates as much IGR as the entire SE also without a seaport. Johannesburg in South Africa is the richest city in Africa and it is landlocked so what is stopping the SE from generating the highest IGR in Nigeria? Even as I am writing this, Film house cinemas, a cinema owned by an Igbo man, is opening more branches in lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Akure and Abuja but does not even have one branch in the SE, is the FG also the cause of this? All of you here should desist from insulting and blaming other tribes because the underdevelopment you all brought upon yourselves. Since the end of the civil war, Igbos have gotten all the federal positions in Nigeria except the Presidential position but Igbo land has not witnessed any reasonable progress and we all come here and foolishly blame Buhari for our decades of visionless leaders we brought upon ourselves. The north is the poorest region in Nigeria today with the less infrastructure but we continue to claim that the FG is against us in the east. Awolowo never ruled Nigeria but when got a ministerial position, he grew the agricultural sector of Yoruba land, introduced free education in Yoruba land, built the first skyscraper in Nigeria in Ibadan, contributed to the creation of NTA TV and located it in Yoruba land etc while the Igbo leaders in power were busy fooling themselves. An Igbo man, out of greed introduced unitary system of government in Nigeria in 1966 and today, we are all suffering it. We planned to break out of Nigeria but our greed also prevented us from breaking out, the likes of Azikiwe and others greedily contributed to our loss. From 1999-2003 Nigeria changed senate president more than twice and all of them were Igbos yet, we did not get any development. Under GEJ, we got many appointments yet, no development. Let me make it clear that all of you should stop this your shameful attitude of blaming other tribes for our problems because we are the people who brought underdevelopment upon ourselves. You all must remain unbiased on the trend and stop this stupid blame game.
selemempe: ikwerres are igbos and we should remind them of that weneva we can..wat makes them non-igbos? Because they say so? The chinese-americans can claim to be 'american' all they want...still doesnt change their chinese ancestry They wear our cloths and speak our language even tho we neva colonised them...yet they are not igbos? U realise they are actually Igboland's only access to the atlantic ocean if nigeria eva breaks up? This ikwerre issue should be looked into again by ohaneze and major moves should start to court them. I am not more igbo than Nwike
It's not your responsibility to remind one of where he is from or who he is. They capitalize on that to feel too big and I can't stand that. It's shameful. A smaller group should be begging to be part of a bigger group, not the other way round
Brother, no one is claiming to be Mr or Mrs Biafra....but I'm very in support of your proposal. It's just that such effort can be made after we attain our ultimate goal. The 5 states that Igbo have somehow been reduced to have done what in almost 20 years of democracy? Nothing. There is no unity or sense of belonging, except against Biafran groups. Even when Goodluck tried to smuggle a 6th state for the so-called SE, look at how fools like Iwuanyanwu went there to scuttle the matter with over 30+ proposals.
Even if Anioma and Riverine Igbo are brought in, you can simply have another tout like Wike or Amaechi as a do nothing governor for 8 years while naming structures after murderers like Gowon.
the thing is that concensus is hard to get in igboland because igbos dont have a leader. The west takes tinubu as leader...the core north (ne & nw) takes buhari as leader. These 2 groups are our biggest enemies in nigeria. But they can easily take a common stance. We dont have that central, rallying figure. Nnamdi kanu could have become that person if he didnt fall for buhari's trap.
I say this because of the 30+ proposals of state creation u said iwuanyanwu came with in the 2014 confab. It really shows that we have no cordination as a people. At this point wat we should be fighting for is igbo unity. To remake the great igbo tribe. To rebirth it. Not looking to create selfish states that further divides us. I like nsukka people being in enugu...why do they want to divide themselves from us? We should come together and as for only one state_ anioma state. It shows us as a people who should be taken serious...who are up to something.
As for having non-performing govs, that is a nigerian factor...sometimes a state gets a bad leader...someother time a good leader comes along...its not an exclusive igbo thing.
We need a central igbo leader who is pro-igbo nationhood and who can play the nigerian politics without emotion like tinubu or buhari. And we need Anioma state.
It's not your responsibility to remind one of where he is from or who he is. They capitalize on that to feel too big and I can't stand that. It's shameful. A smaller group should be begging to be part of a bigger group, not the other way round
u are right...but in this case..not so.
U see we lost a war..and it made us losers that people didnt wanna be. Same thing happened to german-americans wen germany lost ww2..they started denying being german. Same thing happened to irish-americans wen ireland was fighting u.k
We need to keep the conversation going and not accept that they are not igbos
selemempe: the thing is that concensus is hard to get in igboland because igbos dont have a leader. The west takes tinubu as leader...the core north (ne & nw) takes buhari as leader. These 2 groups are our biggest enemies in nigeria. But they can easily take a common stance. We dont have that central, rallying figure. Nnamdi kanu could have become that person if he didnt fall for buhari's trap.
I say this because of the 30+ proposals of state creation u said iwuanyanwu came with in the 2014 confab. It really shows that we have no cordination as a people. At this point wat we should be fighting for is igbo unity. To remake the great igbo tribe. To rebirth it. Not looking to create selfish states that further divides us. I like nsukka people being in enugu...why do they want to divide themselves from us? We should come together and as for only one state_ anioma state. It shows us as a people who should be taken serious...who are up to something.
As for having non-performing govs, that is a nigerian factor...sometimes a state gets a bad leader...someother time a good leader comes along...its not an exclusive igbo thing.
We need a central igbo leader who is pro-igbo nationhood and who can play the nigerian politics without emotion like tinubu or buhari. And we need Anioma state.
Get these 2 things and biafra is closer than ever
A central igbo leader whom we all respect and Cherish
NOI excellently fits that position but she made it clear she is no longer interested in Nigerian politics
Apart from her I don't see another igbo person who is more respected worldwide.
selemempe: the thing is that concensus is hard to get in igboland because igbos dont have a leader. The west takes tinubu as leader...the core north (ne & nw) takes buhari as leader. These 2 groups are our biggest enemies in nigeria. But they can easily take a common stance. We dont have that central, rallying figure. Nnamdi kanu could have become that person if he didnt fall for buhari's trap.
I say this because of the 30+ proposals of state creation u said iwuanyanwu came with in the 2014 confab. It really shows that we have no cordination as a people. At this point wat we should be fighting for is igbo unity. To remake the great igbo tribe. To rebirth it. Not looking to create selfish states that further divides us. I like nsukka people being in enugu...why do they want to divide themselves from us? We should come together and as for only one state_ anioma state. It shows us as a people who should be taken serious...who are up to something.
As for having non-performing govs, that is a nigerian factor...sometimes a state gets a bad leader...someother time a good leader comes along...its not an exclusive igbo thing.
We need a central igbo leader who is pro-igbo nationhood and who can play the nigerian politics without emotion like tinubu or buhari. And we need Anioma state.
Get these 2 things and biafra is closer than ever
Even if things get done the way u have put them, getting Biafra now is the worst thing that can ever happen to us and our land. If we break out now, we will be cut out of the national power grid thereby leaving our land in total darkness, we don't have a functional seaport, many Igbo people will lose their businesses located outside igboland in Nigeria, there will be mass relocation of over 10 million Igbos back to Igboland which will stretch our little infrastructure, we will lack food because we are currently not sufficient in any food crop we consume etc. Many things have to be addressed before we even think about breaking out of Nigeria.
nnamdijonathan: The problem I have with most of you here is that you guys always blame other tribes for our misfortune. With the way we complain, one would think that Igboland is the worst part of Nigeria and unfortunately, many Nigerians already believe that Igboland is not conducive for living. As of 2015, 90% of the federal roads in the country were not motorable but due to our excessive blame game and complains, other Nigerians now believe that the South east has the worst roads in the country. You all claim that the government built infrastructure and created many employment opportunities in other parts of the country and neglected the SE, I want you people to please mention those industries you claim FG built in the SW and the North to create employment. Another nonsense thing you guys say is that the federal government built the infrastructure in Lagos. This is another lie. If you go to Victoria Island, the federal buildings there make up less than 1% of the total skyscrapers there, from Union bank tower to UBA tower to Nestoil tower etc are all private investments, even the major roads that make the area beautiful were built by the state's government. Ikoyi, Lekki, Banana island etc were all done by the state's government not FG so why do we keep associating the progress of Lagos to the FG? FG failed to fix federal roads in Abia but the state roads are also in sorry states but we send all the blame to the federal government. Was the federal government that stopped Ebonyi state from improving on its poverty level? Was the federal government that made Abia state not to have motorable state and local government roads? Was it the FG that prevented Igbos from locating their factories in Igboland? We claim the unavailability of working seaports in the east is the major cause of our problems but you guys have also forgotten that landlocked Kano state generates as much IGR as the entire SE also without a seaport. Johannesburg in South Africa is the richest city in Africa and it is landlocked so what is stopping the SE from generating the highest IGR in Nigeria? Even as I am writing this, Film house cinemas, a cinema owned by an Igbo man, is opening more branches in lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Akure and Abuja but does not even have one branch in the SE, is the FG also the cause of this? All of you here should desist from insulting and blaming other tribes because the underdevelopment you all brought upon yourselves. Since the end of the civil war, Igbos have gotten all the federal positions in Nigeria except the Presidential position but Igbo land has not witnessed any reasonable progress and we all come here and foolishly blame Buhari for our decades of visionless leaders we brought upon ourselves. The north is the poorest region in Nigeria today with the less infrastructure but we continue to claim that the FG is against us in the east. Awolowo never ruled Nigeria but when got a ministerial position, he grew the agricultural sector of Yoruba land, introduced free education in Yoruba land, built the first skyscraper in Nigeria in Ibadan, contributed to the creation of NTA TV and located it in Yoruba land etc while the Igbo leaders in power were busy fooling themselves. An Igbo man, out of greed introduced unitary system of government in Nigeria in 1966 and today, we are all suffering it. We planned to break out of Nigeria but our greed also prevented us from breaking out, the likes of Azikiwe and others greedily contributed to our loss. From 1999-2003 Nigeria changed senate president more than twice and all of them were Igbos yet, we did not get any development. Under GEJ, we got many appointments yet, no development. Let me make it clear that all of you should stop this your shameful attitude of blaming other tribes for our problems because we are the people who brought underdevelopment upon ourselves. You all must remain unbiased on the trend and stop this stupid blame game.
Don't forget igbos were @ the forefront of Nigerian affairs before the civil war
The yorubas had university of Ibadan while we built unn
An igbo man was the first VC of Ibadan a Yoruba university
We controlled the education sector, finance sector and almost all the top sectors in the country as at then
But the failed NZEOGWU coup changed everything coupled with what ironsi did by changing our government it to a unitary system of government
Those acts coupled with the loss of the civil war changed everything.
Don't forget igbos were @ the forefront of Nigerian affairs before the civil war
The yorubas had university of Ibadan while we built unn
An igbo man was the first VC of Ibadan a Yoruba university
We controlled the education sector, finance sector and almost all the top sectors in the country as at then
But the failed NZEOGWU coup changed everything coupled with what ironsi did by changing our government it to a unitary system of government
Those acts coupled with the loss of the civil war changed everything.
After the civil war, Igbos have been the architects of their own passived backwardness. I just know I have passed my message, we should stop blaming Yoruba and Hausa for our problems because everybody and tribe in this country is the architect of their own backwardness or progress.
Ndiigbo dont know it yet but we are in serious trouble.
Nnamdi Kanu that was expsoing them have been removed alonside his parents, nobody saying anything anymore, how much longer now before wat happen in the middle belt become a daily occurence in the SE?
Maybe, once Buahri is reinstated for second term.
A people must be vigilant and try to know wat ur enemy is planning for you.
Wen everything appears calm panic becos it means something is on its way.
If we can be patient and vote just APGA in all the different southeastern states both state house and federal house and national assembly. We will be able to infiltrate the political ranks through this medium. If we take over the political powers of the east, we are getting close towards getting what we want.
Develpeast: If we can be patient and vote just APGA in all the different southeastern states both state house and federal house and national assembly. We will be able to infiltrate the political ranks through this medium. If we take over the political powers of the east, we are getting close towards getting what we want.
Is it all about voting for APGA or voting for the right and most credible candidate irrespective of political party
Anuofia Igbos are working round the clock to unite their kin in southsouth an inconsequential idiot with zero family influence from remote village will be writing rubbish online causing nuisance