NewStats: 3,260,844 , 8,172,777 topics. Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 07:57 PM 4l3w4u

Bendeco02:


Oga blame some of our Igbo people that sworn not to have sense.

Why can't they limit their migration to Middle Belt and some part of North East?

Why would a reasonable person enter Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Northern Kaduna, Northern Niger, Zamfara, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi state to settle?

They don't care about their lifes, so losing it shouldn't be a big deal.

Edo people have nothing to lose because the number of all the Edo residing in North West as a whole may not be upto 1k

After lamenting how thousands of Igbos were killed in the North before and during 1966/67 they still went back there to settle. Are those men cursed or what?

You honestly stated the truth. It doesn't make sense going back to where you escape being killed

franchasng:


Most of you Yoruba kids and youths of today always think and talk like misinformed kids you lots are.


To you uninformed Yoruba kids, Presidential election in Nigeria started in 2015.

Now let me educate you for free so you won't continue to brag foolishly or remain uninformed.

From the time Nigeria got independence, Igbos ran the show with Hausa, go back and read your history to every word I say.


Yorubas has always been in opposition crying till 2015 that Tinubu betrayed Goodluck Jonathan and the whole South to align with The North to dislodge Goodluck.


Before then, Yoruba have always been in opposition crying and organizing protests in Lagos.


No Yoruba chosen candidate has ever emerged President until 2023 that Tinubu snatched it from a weak Buhari.



Zik floored Awolowo severally and Awolowo had to go to jail for making noise lol.


Igbos still called the shots, after the civil war, Igbos were begged and pampered with a Vice Presidential slot in 1976 which Alex Ekwueme became Vice President to Shagari.

Ekwueme was already inline to become President before unfortunate Buhari disrupted it with his military coup and returned Nigeria back to military regime.


1999 came, Yorubas nominated Olu Falae for President, Igbos and North rejected Falae and chose Olusegun Obasanjo instead and made him President.


Tinubu kept running from pillar to post desperately looking for a ladder to help him climb to Presidential power and that ladder he later got through weak Buhari that never even liked Tinubu but foolishly allowed Tinubu through through the help of El Rufai.


And a baby like you is here chestbeating and bragging without wisdom and information, all these Yoruba online miscreants self lol



Before I drop pen, please use Google and ask the below questions:


1.) Who is the first Indigenous Governor General of Nigeria?

2.) Who is the first Civilian President of Nigeria?


3.) Who is the first Civilian Vice President of Nigeria?


4.) Who is the first Military Head of State of Nigeria?


5.) Who is the first Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria?

6.) Who is the first Senate President of Nigeria?

7.) Who was the first documented richest man in Nigeria?


8.) Who was the first documented billionaire in Nigeria?


All these positions were all occupied by Igbos and yet you are here making empty noise that Yorubas are known for lolz cheesy



Whatever a Yoruba man aspires to become in Nigeria today, an Igbo man has first became that very thing many years ago, so get that into your arrogant uninformed skull

I like how you chronicled the numerous instances proving beyond reasonable doubt that Igbos have been the ones aligning with the North since independence and till today. But what I find uncomfortable is that whenever it comes to the question of which part of the South aligned with the North in the North's misrule of Nigeria, most Igbos on nairaland would labour very hard to accuse Yorubas of being the ones despite the fact that Yorubas have largely been in opposition since independence as you yourself itted above. So why do you Igbos always peddle the lie that Nigeria was destroyed by the collusion of Yorubas with Northerners?

Baxilexi:
Agreement is an agreement - such a foolish consistency adored by slaves. I guess we should still submit or commonwealth to the British by this maxim.

If an agreement is detrimental to the people, the constitution, convictions, oath of office and personal contrition. Should it still be honored?

Personally this saga has opened my eyes to the multifaceted nature of our problems.

Nigerians don't want a good society, they just want someone they know to access the treasury, by hook or crook and share. David Cameron couldn’t have said it better- “fantastically corrupt.”

How we are not vexed that people can boldly speak of putting others in office, like we run an oligarchy or monarchy is bemusing. Instead we vilify the unwilling or repentant subject for turning a new leaf.

Even the 3 wisemen in the Bible didn’t honor their promises to Herod because of his inimical intent. So what do we actually pray for concerning Nigeria as Christians and Muslims? To change whose heart?

Just the other day in Lagos, a group of men voiced their position beyond the veil as being the grundnorm of authority in the Lagos assembly and no one sees the inanity in their statement.
Same in kogi, an ex-governor uses the current governor as a vassal and no one sees anything wrong with it.
And now port harcourt.

This is sad.

We lack norms, we lack values, we lack integrity.

Think for a minute, if Wike’s angst is for better schools, hospitals, jobs, welfare of his constituents or personal gains.

What you are missing is the fact that godfatherism is a form of corruption and that Fubara's acceptance to be godfathered into office by Nyesom Wike in the very first instance was a manifestation of corruption and lack of principles on Fubara's path. When Fubara was accepting Wilke's offer of being anointed and godfathered into office, didn't he know that it was an act against the very spirit of democracy and injurious to genuine nation building, anti-people, demonic and a suppression of the sovereign will of the people? A truly principled politician and a sticker for the ideals of nation building you have elucidated above should have simply and honourably declined Wilke's offer at that time and asked him to throw the entire process open. Fubara is a beneficiary of a form of corruption which was perpetrated by Wike, and therefore there is no morality in his attempt to fight the very evil helped to perpetuate. Corruption does not ever fight itself and win.

docdes:
Trash

All of you ing this nonsense, go and read this article: Imagine Trump Suspended The Governor And State Assembly In New York and be ashamed. We copied our constitution from the US but we practice a different thing and wonder why we are where we are. In a democracy like ours, true loyalty is to the people and not to any godfather.

Unfortunately, you forgot that the New York governor was not railroaded to office by any godfather.

Believeintruth:


Oga even Yorubas adjusted Tinubu not to have done anything when he was governor. Even PO the statistics that showed his performance at the time it was published in 2017 showed that he performed.

So the people in the thread below who unanimously adjudged Obi a failure as Anambra Governor are not Igbos?

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/870945/what-exactly-peter-obi-doing/47

Brendaniel:


Then why don't you run for one and go and make the change?

I don't necessarily need to run for office in order to make a change. Changing a rotten society like ours is a collective efforts thing and before you can get everyone to work together to solve the problem, you must first make sure they even understand the problem in the first instance. If they don't understand the problem, there can't be a consensus among them as to what the solution is. You and I are very well educated on Nigeria's history hence we understand correctly that Nigeria's problem is fundamentally about the faulty structure we currently operate. But those who are not very educated on Nigeria's political history assume that our problem is corruption or bad leaders without knowing that we equally had very bad leaders during the First Republic we all agree was when good governance really happened especially at the regional level with the likes of Michael Okpara, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello as Regional premiers. Not that these three regional premiers were saints but the structure back then compelled them to offer their best in the atmosphere of healthy competition among the regions. But most indomie generation youths of today don't know all these hence you hear them shouting corruption is our problem, bad and selfish politicians are our problem, Tinubu is our problem, Atiku is our problem, Obi couldn't govern Anambra very well but he wants to govern a bigger Nigeria, Kwankwaso is not fit to rule, Tinubu stole all the money in Lagos so he can't rule, etc. So I am already making a change here by educating people about the power of a right structure in bringing out the best in even satanic and devilish politicians.

Believeintruth:


Nigeria was not destroyed at national level by one man Zik. Bros stop the lies

Zik and Balewa destroyed Nigeria because they were the first public office holders in an independent Nigeria to knowingly violate the constitution and disobey court orders in a new democracy thereby setting the bad examples we complain of about our politicians, governors, president, etc till today.

Believeintruth:


You are so filled with hatred that you taint your discussions with lies. By the 1964 elections the NPC/NCNC alliance had broken down that even Zik refused to accept to form the government and he called on the military to help restore law and order. The military advice that they cannot be involved then. You conveniently in your bid to tell lies hid that fact.
Again you failed to tell people that AG and NCNC formed an alliance in the 1964 elections, where Adegbenro was the candidate. [/b]There was no way Akintola would have been impeached. [b]He had the backing of Balewa and his breakaway part formed an alliance with NPC.
With the violence already happening in the West and the fact that Balewa and Sardauna had perfected plans to take out AG guys in the plans to wallop the West.

I understand that the truth is difficult to accept hence you accuse me of hate.
Per the first bolded; your attempt to was Zik's hands away from the Central Governments' unlawful intrusion in the Western Region Assembly crisis is dead on arrival because the crisis in question started in 1962 and it was the same year that the governing coalition at the center intruded. And as you correctly said, the Balewa-Zik (NPC-NCNC coalition) broke down in 1964, meaning that Zik only parted ways with Balewa two years after the Western Region crisis started. So that means Zik was still 100% with Balewa when Balewa unlawfully intervened in the Western Region Assembly crisis and started trying to kill AG. So Zik and Balewa did it together.

Per the second bolded, the AG-NCNC Alliance was formed in 1964 as you correctly said. However, that was at the point where Balewa had used and dumped Zik and was still pummelling Zik and using Akintola to rid the Western Region of Igbos in public office and elected positions in Yorubaland, so much that Zik realized that for him and his Eastern Region to survive politically and be able to match Balewa s unrelenting onslaughts, he had to go back to his vomit ( of rejecting Awolowo's proposed AG-NCNC coalition in 1960) which if he had accepted when it was proposed, he as Prime Minister together with Awolowo as finance Minister, would have first of all nipped the North's born to rule agenda in the bud and proceeded to offer the country a very good governance that would have immediately placed Nigeria on the path to massive industrialization and all-round development such that less than fifteen years into post independence nationhood, Nigeria would have become at least a superpower in Africa. But Zik's return to his vomit was an afterthought too late as Awolowo was already in prison through his collusion with Balewa.

Per the third bolded. We are saying the same thing. Without Zik behind Balewa, Balewa's Baking alone wouldn't have saved Akintola. Recall that it was a Zik's loyalist called Ebubedike that physically disrupted Akintola's impeachment process on the floor of The Western Region House of Assembly.

Believeintruth:


Regional government is what has caused deep seethed tribalism and hatred starting from 1951. We cannot have regional government. What Nigeria needs is a confederation system, which was agreed at Aburi. It was because of the selfishness of the perm secs then that they convinced a naive Gowon to renege on it. That would have solved Nigeria's problems since.

Wrong. Long before we adopted regional Government, tribalism and hatred was already in existence even from 1914. Was there regional Government in 1945 when tribalistic sentiments inspired Northerners to massacre Igbos in Jos? Tribalism comes naturally where people are cemented together without their consent. Tribalism is always built on lack of security and guarantee of ones group's interest. Once you bring people together without them first negotiating and agreeing mutually without duress to how they are going to coexist, the seeds of tribalism is automatically sown. That is human nature and it is a scientific phenomenon. So this idea that tribalism was introduced into Nigeria by one individual, one particular tribe or one particular system of government is very illogical and unscientific. It is peddled by uneducated people who have a very simplistic thought about everything in their lives.
So anyone who ever wished that Nigeria was going to be free of tribalism after being brought to existence without the consent of the people needs to have his education qualification certificate reexmained.
On the issue of Regional system: what is actually meant is federalism and not the mere existence of regions in name. We currently have six regions in Nigeria but would you agree that the present day six regions automatically means we are practicing regional system as we were doing at independence?
On your talk about Confederacy: you are very wrong because if Confederacy was the best for us, how come in the 1957 London Constitutional Conference, even your very Igbo forebears in attendance in representative capacities of their federal constituencies didn't vote for it but made a case for unitary system just that they were defeated by the West and North which voted for federalism? Unitary system makes the centre too powerful while confederalism makes the subnational units too powerful than the center hence these two systems frequently lead to misgovernance and failed state status, hence the representatives to the London Constitutional Conference chose federalism by which the center and subnational units share powers almost equally and are able to checkmate and balance each other's excesses thereby ensuring a stable polity and genuine nation building. Federalism brings healthy competition which many folks like yourself mistake for tribalism.

Aburi Accord had nothing on how the country was going to return to democracy. It was just an agreement on how soldiers were going to be sharing powers far into the future, thus it was meant to forever entrench military rule and a militaristic oligarchy on Nigeria. It even proposed regional army. Where on earth do people operate regional army? So Aburi Accord was an aberration in every sense and was rightly thrown into the dustbin.

Brendaniel:


Since you claim to know the solution, what have you done with it ?

What power do I, without an elective position, have to return Nigeria to regional Government?

Panadee:


Gambling Analysis

Payunsin:


What's 'GA'?

Gut Analysis

zendi:

Who will you sell to ?

All these your fellow trap victims liking your post will come to try and dump their own before you, since you can't keep your plan to yourself.

So you too share the sentiment that NSEMPA have enough financial muscles or stock holdings to cause any price movement, price stagnation, scarcity or glut of shares in the market?

With the intensity of the commendations received here by PRESCO on of its all ramifications fantastic results, and the pledge by our heavyweights here to accumulate it, you would have thought that PRESCO would be in the neighborhood of N1200 by now, but here we are still battling to break out.

Insightful

EmeeNaka:
NCNC led by Zik liberated the Mid west from Western Region hegemony and marginalization.

And Ironically the same NCNC led by Zik stood against the liberation of the COR areas from the Eastern Region. So liberation was only meant for minorities in the West but not for minorities in the East? Mind you that the quest for Midwest creation was started by Oba Akenzua and Zik only rode on it opportunistically to attempt killing the AG in favour of his NPC-NCNC ruling coalition with Balewa . The ruling coalition would later crumble and the same Balewa used that very Midwest to fight Zik by way of getting the Midwest to the NNA alliance which had just been consummated between Akintola's NNDP and NPC to frustrate the UPGA which Zik had rushed to form with the same AG he rejected at independence. In conclusion, much as the creation of Midwest was desired by the natives, Zik's of it was with sinister intentions which later boomeranged on him.

Even when Adaka Boro declared Nigeria Delta Republic from the Eastern Region, Zik and his cotravellers like Ironsi and Ojukwu stopped him with the federal military might of one Nigeria

essentialone:


These 4 Companies, though Suspended, are supposed to be showing on stock bubbles. Please resolve it:

1) African Alliance Insurance Plc
2) ASO Savings and Loans Plc
3) STACO Insurance Plc
4) Standard Alliance Insurance Plc

It Standard Alliance finally gets back on trading mode, I won't waste time getting off its bus and from that moment I will be completely free from the 2008 trap as this is the last school fees stock still in my portfolio.

Payunsin:
Na Cadbury I dey gamble on now oooo.
I no nothing about its fundermentals, I just believe it's yet to move n his time go come

That's GA

mikeapollo:


It is not a bonus in the real sense i.e. they are not creating or issuing new shares to shareholders.
Rather, they are withdrawing existing shares from some related parties (subsidiaries) and redistributing same to other shareholders pro rata. Hence, the total number of shares outstanding will not change.
It seems like a ''bonus'' to the recipient shareholders, but it is ''redistribution'' from the company's perspective.
They will be redistributing (sharing) about 4.3 billion shares to holders of about 8.132billion shares, pro rata

Wow! That will be very rewarding. Thanks for the clarification. Then what am waiting for to overload my portfolio? At least overload will not cause accident in this case.

yMcy56:

The bonus issue is not a newly created one....
It's still from the 12.4bn....
I Blvd the management must have put the effect the bonus will have on the entire shares into consideration.
Good News that may eventually take people's negative attention away from the bonus may be released as well.

For now, we don't even know the number of shares that will be distributed self.
Whatever the ratio allotted, our focus should be on the future potentials of the company much more.

Thanks for the clarification

yMcy56:

If the Board did not sit, I don't think they would have released the Q4 Unaudited in the first place.

Board Meeting outcome is supposed to have been out but maybe it's experiencing some delays due to the bonus issue.
It's still within normal timeframe since AUDITED is yet to be released.
No rule was violated as yet.

Anyone investing in OANDO should do so because of the enormous future potentials and not primarily because of share distribution........my amateur advice I think.

But with Oando's about 12bn OS already, I am afraid a bonus issue will not help their fundamentals in immediate term. Just my wild imagination anyway even though I too am heavy in Oando and shall only disembark if Tinubu loses reelection in 2027.

kettykin:


He didn't change party as an elected official. Even Tinubu and Buhari changed parties at some point in their political career.

From your claims that Tinubu changed party at some point and that Awolowo introduced crosscarperting, it is obvious you really don't know the difference between defection and political alliance/merger.

What happened in the case of Awolowo was not crosscarperting but a political alliance between Action Group and other smaller parties like Ibadan People's Party, Ondo Industrial League, etc which gave Awolowo the lead figures required to become premier of the Western Region. Go and read the book 'My Odyssey ' written by Zik in which he, at old age, later confessed that he didn't win that Western Region election as against his earlier claim that he won it but that Awolowo used crosscarperting to change the results. The same political alliance happened at independence when Zik himself used his NCNC to forces with Ahmadu Bello's NPC to form the NPC-NCNC alliance which became ruling coalition after their combined seats got majority which no single party separately could attain. Would you accuse Zik or his NCNC MPs of crosscarperting to Ahmadu Bello's NPC? Then also ask yourself how it even makes sense that an election was conducted and the electoral body declared Zik as winner, and Awolowo thereafter used crosscarperting to make that electoral body change the results and declared that Zik no longer won but Awolowo now the winner.

Furthermore, Tinubu and Buhari never left any party for another, they only formed mergers with their parties. Take for example when banks were merging in Nigeria during Soludo's reign as CBN governor. A bank like UBA and Standard Trust Bank went into merger. Would you say that the merger means that a person initially working for Standard Trust Bank had resigned from Standard Trust Bank and taken a new job at UBA?

WondaBeauty:
Please is there any stock trading app that gives a demo for practice?

I really need to know

Stocks are not exactly same as forex currency pairs.

ValarDoharis:
How is Ironsi Igbo president?

How did he split the 4 regions when Gowon inherited 4 regions?

Did Gowon kill the coup plotters after he took over?

Are you sure you're not dishing beer parlour gossips?

Was Ironsi not an Igbo man? Why asking how Ironsi was an Igbo president? Was he a Northerner or a Yoruba or a SS man? Are you trying to deny that Ironsi was an Igbo man or what?

Gowon inherited powerless groups of provinces and not regions. In fact at some point Gowon had to make a decree reverting the regions to their previous autonomy which Ironsi stripped them of. If Ironsi didn't tamper with the regions at all, then how come in his May 29 national broadcast he kept on referring to them as 'former regions'? What is the meaning of the word 'former' if I may ask? And why did he ask the heads he imposed on the groups of provinces to be reporting to him at the center? Were the premiers of the previous actual four regions reporting to Balewa at the center before the coup? Your position now is akin to claiming that Nigeria presently operates regional system just because things like NE, NW, NC, SE, SW and SS exist when in actual fact these regions are not federating units and are not legal entities. Don't use sophistry here to twist facts. So if, by the time Tinubu leaves office, he begins to claim that he left Nigeria with true federalism just because whoever will succeed him then will inherit the present six regions, will you agree with him? Why being this dishonest?

Does the fact that Gowon didn't kill the coup plotters change the fact that Ironsi's refusal to kill them led to his own overthrow and murder? Check very well, you are the one dishing out beer parlour and kain kain t gossip.

ValarDoharis:
Why was he killed just 6months as head of state while Gowon was there for 9yrs? Why was Igboland divided in 1967 in a deleberate way to cut them from sea access after reneging on what was agreed at Aburi?

Why did he refuse to try the coup plotters for up to six months despite having arrested all of them successfully within a week after the coup itself? Is there any other military government in the history of Nigeria that delayed trial of arrested coup plotters for up to a month talkless of a whooping six months?

Why Did Ironsi, the Igbo president split the preexisting regions to groups of provinces in the first instance? Why not just leave them exactly the way he met them?
If Ironsi the Igbo extraction head of government had tried the coup plotters quickly and executed them, replaced Tarawa Balewa with Dipcharima whom the parliament democratically threw up, replaced the slain regional premiers with their deputies, left the constitution alone and returned to the barracks to continue his career as a professional army officer, do you think Gowon would have ever had the opportunity to smell power let alone create 12 states?

Greenback:

With this analysis of yours,why is the north the only region against true federalism, resources control and total restructure? Why are you the only region afraid of disintegration?

The fear of disintegration was introduced into Nigeria by Nnamdi Azikiwe. Was he a Northerner?

igbosarejews:

Ask your federal government to remove his hand on anything south east. Let's govern ourselves. We no want one Nigeria

But when Azikiwe was myopically pushing the doctrine that The unity of Nigeria is perpetual and non-negotiable and that Igbos have been destined to dominate Nigeria, why did you his people not rise back then to ask him to shut up and tell him that the one-Nigeria he was preaching was a scam? Why did you first welcome one-Nigeria philosophy when Zik originated it and now you so hate it? What later suddenly changed your minds?

Amudeneogu:
Please ask our Igbo politicians they are our problem, some of them has been deceiving us but my God is his throne he will vindicate us at his own time.

This is the most honest and truthful comment I have so far seen on this thread. To corroborate your position; in 1998 an Igbo man (Alex Ekweme) was billed to become president of this country come 1999 as he alone satisfied by merit all the criteria put forward by the PDP national working committee for flag bearership of the party. But in the primaries IBB bulldozed the place with N5m per delegate towards influencing them to vote for Obasanjo the stooge and lackey of the North whom the Yorubas being said to be compensated for MKO's death would have themselves rejected in preference for Ekweme in the elections proper. Unfortunately the Igbo delegates collected the bribe from IBB and voted massively for Obasanjo against their own Ekweme who naturally stood a better chance and would have made a better president than Obasanjo. But ironically enough the same Igbos till today keep defending their choice of Obasanjo over Ekweme while complaining of being denied presidency and alleging it to be in conspiracy against Igbo race.
In addition, when Ogbulafor, as National PDP Chairman and as an Igbo man, took a principled and honest stand against the ambition of Jonathan on the ground that a Northerner should be allowed to complete the remaining 5½ years of Yaradua in defense of the PDP zoning arrangement so that it would be the turn of Igbos when that Northerner would be leaving office, it was mostly Igbos (not even Jonathan's own South South kinsmen) that insulted Ogbulafor and applauded Jonathan for going to dig out a phantom corruption allegation to charge Ogbulafor to court and get him removed as PDP national chairman so as to quieten him.
The truth is that Igbos have always taken self destructive decisions for the benefits of the North, SS and SW all for very ephemeral pecuniary gains only to turn around and allege being marginalized by these very other regions. How masochistic and self destructive a people could be?

essentialone:
There is one very wrong thing that most stockbroking firms do. When you previously have 1,000 units of Stock A at the Cost Price of N1.00 and you later buy same just 10 units of same Stock A, when the price is now N2.00, they just add up the 2 prices and give you a new Average Cost of N1.50 Am I the only one that sees this practice as being very wrong?

It should have been weighted average.

Racoon:

John Kayode Fayemi former Ekiti State governor said they fuel subsidy protests led by the like of Tinubu, Buhari, Adams Oshiomhole were just for politics sake. What can you say about that? What about that wickedness?

See how you distort facts? If anything, Oshiomhole was even in of Jonathan over the removal. In fact Oshiomhole, despite being in the opposition, was the only governor that openly came out in public to defend Jonathan over the subsidy removal in 2012. None of the PDP governors from the SE or SS was bold enough to do what Oshiomhole did and none of you Jonathan fans could call them out.
Then where did you ever see Buhari in the streets protesting against the subsidy removal back then? It was only after he became the APC flag bearer in 2015 that he criticized subsidy in response to journalists' question during a press interview. Then when did Tinubu enter the streets to protest against subsidy? Most of you GEJ ers just look for any means possible to demonize Oshiomhole and Tinubu just for political correctness.

mikeapollo:


Lol!
I didn't mean it in that context
I pray that God grants all of us good health. Without a good healthy life, none of our investments is safe.
[b]I pray none of us will experience any health or other emergency that could push or compel us to sell off our stocks prematurely [/b]to incur losses.

Words on marble. Without good health, everything else in life is meaningless including investment. It is when one falls so sick and on hospital bed that one realizes that health is the most important thing in life.

Streetinvestor2:
I am waiting to equally see chams results. Just my thoughts,stop dropping stock anyhow going forward. When you sense jijo stock buy and enjoy your ride.Or be dropping it coded to avoid too many name calling.
I no dey ready again to help anyone make or loose money because it adds no value to me..I have taken new position in some stocks in my jijo
portfolio as results come out for 2025 while I rebalance my investment portfolio

I have learnt today that there are two types of portfolio, namely: Jijo portfolio and investment portfolio.

Even investment gurus and fund managers in the corporate world would marvel at the investment terminologies used on NSEMPA.