The COR movement was a movement for the creation of separate minority region from the then Igbo majority Eastern region by some members of the Eastern region minorities . Its an acronym for Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers, representing the minorities provinces in the now defunct Eastern region of Nigeria.


The Eastern region existed between 1939 to 1966. In its composition were Igbos, Ijaws, Ibibio, Annang, Ejagham, Oro, Agbo, Boki, Ugep, Ogoja, Ogoni, etc.
It was estimated that minorities on the whole constituted roughly 1/3 of the population of the region, while Igbos constituted 2/3 of the region total population.
The relationship between the Igbos and the minorities were relatively peaceful but not without intrigues. There were often innate fears and cries of Igbo domination by significant members of the minorities who usually called for creation of a minority region from the Eastern region. These demands led the colonial government to constitute the Willink commission of 1957 whose aim was to look into the grievances of the minorities and offer a recommendation.
The report of this commission can be found below this post.
The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Nevertheless, the yearnings of the minorities for a separate existence outside Igbo area of influence never died. It gathered pace once more when having lost out in Lagos, NCNC members found a way to replace Eyo Ita with Zik as the leader of the Eastern government. The aggrieved Eyo Ita left NCNC with both his Igbo and non Igbo supporters and founded a new party where he lost the elections to NCNC. However, rather than concede defeat, Eyo Ita embraced and vitalized the COR movement in retaliation. This rattled the Eastern region, but with NCNC party loyalists from COR areas like Mbu, Akpan, Ibanga Akpabio, Imoke against Eyo Ita, he soon ran out of steam and conceded defeat, while admitting that the people from COR didn't really want separation from the Eastern region.
Eyo Ita would later reconcile his differences with Zik and rejoined the NCNC.

To know more about Eyo ita saga :https://www.nairaland.com/2730983/see-no-wisdom-south-south/3

Appended to this post is a copy of Eyo Ita statement on his resignation from championing the COR movement.
This was sourced from Chibuzo Ihuoma collections via his blog:

WILLINK REPORT 1958 THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM A THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”
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THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Ibo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Ibo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”

2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”

“It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”

3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”

4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Ibos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

5. “The strip to the south of the Ibo block, is physically, divided by a block of Ibo territory, tipped by the important Ibo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”

6. “In the whole of this non-Ibo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Ibos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Ibo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”

THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES

7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Ibo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Ibos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Ibo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”

9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”

10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”

11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Ibos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Ibo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Ibos ate thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Ibos….We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development.”

14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

THE PROPOSAL FOR NEW STATES

15. “The Ogoja state proposed to us would include former Ogoja province, whose population of slightly more than One million include more than 700,000 Ibos…the main intention would be separation from the central body of Ibo population, but in which they will still be linked together with as a minority with their Ibo neighbours in Abakaliki and Afikpo…A majority of evidence we heard from Ogoja was direct that they preferred the present situation to any association with Calabar and that they were at least as much afraid of domination by Efiks and Ibibios as by Ibos.”

16. “The (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers or COR) state proposed would consist of Calabar, Rivers and Ogoja provinces excluding the two Ibo Divisions of Abakaliki and Afikpo. The population of this area is 2,649,000 and the following would be the five largest tribes:

Ibibio 717,000
Annang 435,000
Ibo 428,000
Ijaw 251,000
Ogoni 156,000

As already explained, the small but important Efik tribe of 71,000…The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo. It would leave the Ibos of the Ibo Plateau surrounded by a state whose reason for existence was hostility to themselves: the Ibos are an expanding people…”

17. “The area claimed for Rivers state consists of the whole of the Rivers province, that is: The Division of Brass, Degema, Ogoni, Port Harcourt and Ahoada, together with the Western Ijaw Division from the western region, and two small sections in the Eastern Region from outside the Rivers Province, Opodo and Andoni being one, Ndoki the other.”

18. “Port Harcourt is an Ibo town and it is growing rapidly and the indigenous branch of the Ibos who are original inhabitants are already out-numbered by Ibos from the hinterland.”

19. “The people of Ahoada, a Division of which a pan runs down to meet Port Harcourt, appear at one time to have favoured the idea of a Rivers state, but have changed their views and before us expressed themselves as strongly against it. Comparatively few of them live in the low-lying swampy country of the coastal strip and they have voted for the NCNC consistently, they said themselves that a main factor in their change of front had been the inclusion if the Western Ijaws in the proposed state. So long, they said, as the Rivers state was to consist of the River Province only, the Ibos would have been the most numerous tribe within it: but the inclusion of the Western Ijaw Division put them at a numerical disadvantage beside the Ijaws and they therefore preferred to stay out. Whether or not this was a line of reasoning that really had a wide appeal, the fact remain that before us they were opposed to the idea of the state. This is not surprising because their problems are different from those of the ijaws.”

20. “To include within a River state Ahoada and Port Harcourt, would, we believe, create a problem as acute as that with which we were asked to deal at present and and would be sharply resented by the Ibos of the central plateau.”

From the Willink report. It's obvious why COR movement wouldn't have succeeded without a military fiat.

1. Eastern region was run on equity, justice and fairness. All minorities were given sense of belonging.
They could complain of Igbo domination, but there was no truth to it. Every single Eastern region appointment and projects, always reflected 1/3 population representation of the minorities.
They were never cheated.

2. NCNC had many minority heavy weights who were part and parcel of Zik inner cycle. They knew the party was never tribal. Mbu, Akpan, Imoke, Akpabio. They knew the truth and were always going to keep the East united.

3. In as much as the minorities were scared of Igbo domination, they were scared of Each other too.
The Ikwerre, Etches, Ogba, Abua, in Rivers province were weary of Ijaw domination if they joined Ijaws to form Rivers. They were lukewarm to the agitation.
Likewise the minorities in Ogoja (Northern Cross River) were scared of Efik/Ibibio domination.
It cancelled out their fear of Igbo domination and stagnated the COR movement.

Some weeks back on one of your posts I made a rebuttal about the erroneous and mischievous rants of some of my (our) misinformed Niger Delta brothers.

First and foremost let me tell you all a little story for the avoidance of doubt.

I am from the Agbo ethnic group in Cross River State. We are located in Abi Local Government Area which is a coastal settlement and unarguably the smallest LGA in Cross River State in terms of landmass and to a large extent population - slightly a few thousands ahead of Bakassi LGA.


My fore bearers both on my maternal and paternal side were given the opportunity to serve in then Eastern Nigeria regional government.

My grand uncle Dr.S E Imoke of blessed memory was an all influential cabinet minister in the regime of Dr M I Okpara. He held the Trade portfolio and was also Finance minister at the time until the unfortunate incident of January 1966.


He was the longest serving Education minister. His son the Urbane Liyel Imoke is the immediate past Governor of our state “Cross River”.

During the outbreak of the war, he was the Biafran Commissioner for Refugees and Humanitarian affairs. One of my maternal uncles also served as Permanent Secretary in the ministry of health at Enugu.


My maternal grand father was also a front-line member of the Eastern Nigeria regional house of Chiefs.

Outside my family circles, another great Cross Riverian M T Mbu was nominated a Federal Minister for Transport and Navy by the Igbo controlled NCNC.

It's on record that Mbu was Nigeria's first Ambassador to the UK, UN and the USA.

He is from Boki in Cross River state. Boki is another minority ethnic group just like my native Agboland. The Igbos gave him the opportunity to excel ahead of their own worthy sons at that time.


He is the father to a Senator MT Mbu jr. Another person who is noteworthy is the late Chief Michael Eta-Ogon who was the Administrator of the oil rich Port Harcourt province in the first republic.

He is also from the same Boki with Mbu. Thomas Weir Ikpeme an Efik man from Odukpani in my native Cross River was the longest serving Permanent Secretary in the Eastern Regional Ministry of Education.

The key point is that the Igbos were comfortable with us “the minorities” that was why they entrusted education solely in our hands.

Not only education but other critical areas like Public Works and Transport etc. N. U Akpan an Ibibio man from Akwa Ibom state was the technocrat behind the eastern regional public service. He was the Secretary to the regional governement

Thompson Akpabio, an Annang man from Ukana in present day Akwa Ibom state was the regional minister of health.

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom state Godswill Akpabio is his nephew.

There were other high ranking cabinet ministers of minority origin like one of our family good friends, HRH Amanyanabo E P Okoya, Agada III the Ibenanowei of Ekpetiama in Bayelsa State, Chief. Erekosinma of Rivers and a whole lot of others who are too numerous to mention.

During the secessionist struggle, an Ogoni from Rivers state, Chief.Ignatius Kogbara was Biafra's Ambassador to Britain.

My dad's friend Chief. Lekam Okoi, from Idomi in present day Yakurr LGA of Cross River state was one of Ojukwu's trusted drivers. He is today a successful lawyer and a former commissioner in the Federal Character Commission.

Capt Akpet a minority from Cross River was also Ojukwu's dependable aide on intelligence.

Secondly for the avoidance of doubt, aside these political appointments, our people enjoyed immense goodwill from the Igbo dominated region by way of

My dad's immediate elder brother received a scholarship from the regional government that enabled him study for a PhD in soil science.

He is the first man “arguably” in Africa to obtain a doctorate in Soil science. I have friends across the Niger Delta whose parents, uncles, aunties and relatives also benefited from the benevolence of the Eastern regional government.

Unarguably our Niger Delta region received it's last major face-lift in terms of infrastructure when we were under the Eastern region.

Till the abolition of the regional system of government, the Eastern region was the most united region, they was never a recorded case of ethnic skirmish or BLOOD letting between the Igbos and other minority.

During the pogrom of 1966 we all carried the same cross to “Golgotha”, both Igbos and Eastern minorities were killed in their thousands across Northern Nigeria by the blood thirsty Hausa Fulani/Northern folks without blinking an eye.

It doesn't really matter if you were Igbo, Ijaw, Efik or a miniature Agbo person.

I never really wanted to bore you with reading this lengthy essay but it's my moral responsibility to tell the truth at all times.

I was thought by my fore bearers never to distort history and to always separate facts from fictions.

If we were not marginalized by the Igbos during the “analogue” age, how then can the Igbos marginalize us in this digital

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legit.ng/amp/1092790-opinion-why-igbos-never-marginalize-minorities-by-rex-egbe.html

The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Ndigbo have really suffered all types of accusations imaginable. It only takes outside bodies to tell the truth based on what they observe without hatred or bias.

horsepower102:
The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Ndigbo have really suffered all types of accusations imaginable. It only takes outside bodies to tell the truth based on what they observe without hatred or bias.

The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo. It would leave the Ibos of the Ibo Plateau surrounded by a state whose reason for existence was hostility to themselves: the Ibos are an expanding people…”


See the bold.

We have really suffered.

They so much marginalized and oppressed other minorities that it led to the first secessionist movement.
Guess what,the Eastern government readily squashed the movement and had them executed.

The relationship between the Igbos and the minorities were relatively peaceful but not without intrigues. There were often innate fears and cries of Igbo domination by significant members of the minorities who usually called for creation of a minority region from the Eastern region. These demands led the colonial government to constitute the Willink commission of 1957 whose aim was to look into the grievances of the minorities and offer a recommendation

Oh okay

Nevertheless, the yearnings of the minorities for a separate existence outside Igbo area of influence never died. It gathered pace once more when having lost out in Lagos, NCNC members found a way to replace Eyo Ita with Zik as the leader of the Eastern government. The aggrieved Eyo Ita left NCNC with both his Igbo and non Igbo supporters and founded a new party where he lost the elections to NCNC.

However, rather than concede defeat, Eyo Ita embraced and vitalized the COR movement in retaliation. This rattled the Eastern region, but with NCNC party loyalists from COR areas like Mbu, Akpan, Ibanga Akpabio, Imoke against Eyo Ita, he soon ran out of steam and conceded defeat, while admitting that the people from COR didn't really want separation from the Eastern region.
Eyo Ita would later reconcile his differences with Zik and rejoined the NCNC

@ bolded.. Hmm

“Port Harcourt is an Ibo town and it is growing rapidly and the indigenous branch of the Ibos who are original inhabitants are already out-numbered by Ibos from the hinterland.”

Wonderful

A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

Oh boy, imaginary enemies don tey oo

I always asked this question ...if igbos were tribalistic how would eyo ita be elected in the first place ??

Zik was the party leader ...when he came back it's logical u step away

Biafra with a South south minority is a no no for me ....they would always have this inferiority complex and feeling we are talking advance of them ......we must avoid it by all means and if we must form a country with south south it must be a very very loose republic like UAE or lexemburg

Let them keep their oil ....that has made them very arrogant

lolz. See wetin person sit down de type. Igbo, igbo everytime. What is nairaland without the igbos?

I have come to realize that the true problem that minority tribes had with Igbos was mainly being a majority tribe in raw numbers.

In addition, Igbos were not passive people in nature or culture. This just led to a natural fear which overtime translated to hatred.

BeLookingIDIOT:
They so much marginalized and oppressed other minorities that it led to the first secessionist movement.
Guess what,the Eastern government readily squashed the movement and had them executed.

What are you talking about ? No fake news here o. Provide links so we can know what this means

This thread is gold. Thank you OP. You have killed off propaganda like a nuclear bomb here. Damn! I don't know where to start.

Any yoruba or minority idiot that speaks to you with nonsesne of Igbo attaching by force because of oil refer him/her to this thread.....


Pazienz@ thanks for this thread, Ndigbo ahusie la anya n'ime Nigeria nka lump anyi with every tom and jerry.

The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed.

Noted. Niger delta or Volta are suffering from inferiority complex.

This rattled the Eastern region, but with NCNC party loyalists from COR areas like Mbu, Akpan, Ibanga Akpabio, Imoke against Eyo Ita, he soon ran out of steam and conceded defeat, while admitting that the people from COR didn't really want separation from the Eastern region.

They are know blackmailers who can't stand alone. As at today they should be excised and let go and found their new country. I so hold.

“we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity.

All these COR are just greedy, and when faced with the truth will be crying blue heavens. Since oil has been in their domain, what stops them from developing and now having all scholarships abroad.

“That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

When blinded by hate. They forgot that they can do things on their own.

As already explained, the small but important Efik tribe of 71,000…The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo

We have already established it here. They are scared of themselves but want to use Igbos as cover up.

“The people of Ahoada, a Division of which a pan runs down to meet Port Harcourt, appear at one time to have favoured the idea of a Rivers state, but have changed their views and before us expressed themselves as strongly against it. Comparatively few of them live in the low-lying swampy country of the coastal strip and they have voted for the NCNC consistently, they said themselves that a main factor in their change of front had been the inclusion if the Western Ijaws in the proposed state. So long, they said, as the Rivers state was to consist of the River Province only, the Ibos would have been the most numerous tribe within it: but the inclusion of the Western Ijaw Division put them at a numerical disadvantage beside the Ijaws and they therefore preferred to stay out

Always afraid to secede but will turn blackmailers in others want to


All of them from A-Z should be excised, let them go and form their new nation.

I so hold.

Muna4real:
lolz. See wetin person sit down de type. Igbo, igbo everytime. What is nairaland without the igbos?

The op is a hardcore igbo man. He's obsessed with south south people especially ijaws and I don't know why.

SaintBishop:
The op is a hardcore igbo man. He's obsessed with south south people especially ijaws and I don't know why.

How is he being obsessed with south south?


He wasn't the one that wrote all that, he just picked some key points from willinks report and pasted it here,


Please read through the reports conducted by white men and then draw your conclusion.

SaintBishop:
The op is a hardcore igbo man. He's obsessed with south south people especially ijaws and I don't know why.

If you can't read, call your younger that are educated to do that for you.

Thanks for posting this historical article. I have never read the Wilinks Report but it is certainly an eye opener

Juliusmalema:


If you can't read, call your younger that are educated to do that for you.

[quote author=SaintBishop post=89454783]I'm sure you lack education because if you didn't, you won't have asked such silly question.[/quote

If you can't read, call your younger ones that are educated to do that for you.

You can as well solicit help for neighbors to do that for you..

Half education is dangerous.

SaintBishop:
The op is a hardcore igbo man. He's obsessed with south south people especially ijaws and I don't know why.

Hehehehe.
When you are at a loss of anything reasonable to say.
This same OP I have been following his posts for over 2 years? You're stark raving madd to say he is obsessed with SS or the Ijaws or any snotty group of twerps from whatever dark hole you crawled out from

What are you doing on the thread of a "hardcore Igbo man" that you despise?

You appearing on this thread shows you are the one obsessed with him. Otele

We have been deprived from a lot of awareness by the ban of history lesson in our schools. Very sad

This is certainly a big eye opener. So, the eastern region was the most peaceful region then. Well, all we have suffered is expected when you lose a war.

Anyways, we can't have a new nation with any south south minorities. Their constant bickerings and self esteem complexes would slow down development for the first few years. We need a nation that would fire down from the word "go".. A homogeneous biafran country.

It is clear why they banned the teaching of history in schools...

whirlwind7:


Hehehehe.
When you are at a loss of anything reasonable to say.
This same OP I have been following his posts for over 2 years? You're stark raving madd to say he is obsessed with SS or the Ijaws or any snotty group of twerps from whatever dark hole you crawled out from

You appearing on this thread shows you are the one obsessed with him. Otele

hey man I made my observation about that dude and I'm not wrong! who cares if you follow him forever?
Tbh I don't give a shlt about this thread.

whirlwind7:
We have been deprived from a lot of awareness by the ban of history lesson in our schools. Very sad

Banning of history in Nigerian schools is a proof that Nigerian government has so many things that they are scared of being revealed.

Teaching history will force children to start asking older people lots of questions.

Teaching history will burst so many lies and propaganda against igbos.

It’s really sad igbos found themselves in Nigeria.

whirlwind7:


Hehehehe.
When you are at a loss of anything reasonable to say.
This same OP I have been following his posts for over 2 years? You're stark raving madd to say he is obsessed with SS or the Ijaws or any snotty group of twerps from whatever dark hole you crawled out from

What are you doing on the thread of a "hardcore Igbo man" that you despise?

You appearing on this thread shows you are the one obsessed with him. Otele

Wtf are you going on about Obori man? your brother of recent has been shouting ijaw ijaw ijaw everywhere or you are just too slow to see it?