by Femi Aribisala
Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious. Indeed, this has often been the cause of their envy and dislike by others. However, more enlightened non-Igbo Nigerians see this as a cause for celebration.
AMONG the different ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo are without a doubt, one of the most remarkable. So remarkable, indeed, that some have even traced their ancestry to biblical Israel, as the far-flung descendants of Jacob, the Jewish patriarch. Gad, Jacob’s seventh son, is said to have had three sons who settled in South-eastern Nigeria.
These sons; Eri, Arodi and Areli, are believed to have fathered clans in Igbo-land and to have founded such Igbo towns as Aguleri, Arochukwu, Owerri and Umuleri.
Igbo genius
Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious. Indeed, this has often been the cause of their envy and dislike by others. However, more enlightened non-Igbo Nigerians see this as a cause for celebration. While today, the centre-point of Nigeria’s manufacturing is situated in the Lagos/Ogun axis, there is no doubt that the real locomotive of Nigeria’s indigenous industrialization lies farther afield in Aba and in the mushrooming cottage-industries of the Igbo heartland.
In one of the paradoxes of Nigerian history, the terrible civil war provoked homespun industrialization in the South-East. Military blockade left the Igbo with little alternative than to be inventive in a hurry. While Nigeria as a nation failed woefully to harness this profitably after the war, it has nevertheless ensured that the Igbo are at the forefront of Nigeria’s economic development today.
Indeed, the way we disregard “made in Aba” today is the same way we disregarded “made in Japan” yesterday. For those of us who believe against the odds that Nigeria is the China of tomorrow, we equally recognize that the ingenuity of the Igbo is an indelible part of the actualization of that manifest destiny.
Hall of fame
The Igbo have been a great credit to Nigeria. They have given us a great number of our favourite sons, including international statesman Nnamdi Azikiwe; military leader Odumegwu Ojukwu; regional leader Michael Okpara; vice-president Alex Ekwueme; mathematical genius Chike Obi; literary icon Chinua Achebe; world-class economist Pius Okigbo; world boxing champion Dick Tiger; international statesman Emeka Anyaoku; and world-class artist Ben Enwonwu. Permit me to include in this illustrious list even some of my very good Igbo friends: Pat Utomi, Ojo Madueke, Olisa Agbakoba, Joy Ogwu, and Stanley Macebuh.
Let us get one thing straight: Nigeria would be a much poorer country without the Igbo. Indeed, Nigeria would not be Nigeria without them. Can you imagine the Super Eagles without the Igbo? Not likely! Who can forget Nwankwo Kanu, Jay Kay Okocha and our very own Emmanuel Amuneke?
Can you imagine Nollywood without the Igbo? Impossible! Just think of Stella Damascus-Aboderin; Rita Dominic and Mike Ezuruonye. And then there are the diaspora Igbo who many are unaware are of Igbo descent, including concert singer and actor Paul Robeson; Oscar award-winner Forest Whitaker; mega-pastor T.D. Jakes; Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu; and BAFTA actor award-winner Chiwetel Ejiofor.
You may well wonder why I have found it necessary to present this small litany of Igbo who-is-who. I think it is important to emphasise how the Igbo have been very vital to the Nigerian project. They have more than represented Nigeria creditably in virtually all walks of life. This makes it all the more absurd that this same people have been consistently denied the position of executive president of the country in all but six months of Nigeria’s 54 year history.
Civil-war legacy
Of course, a major reason for this was the 1967-1970 civil-war which had the Igbo on the losing side. But that was over 40 years ago. If there is really to be “no victor, no vanquished” in anything more than mere rhetoric, then the rehabilitation of the Igbo back into post civil-war Nigeria will not be complete until an Igbo man finally becomes president of the country.
That imperative should be of interest to every Nigerian nationalist, committed to the creation of one Nigeria where everyone has a deep sense of belonging. The problem, however, is that the Igbo themselves seem to be their own worst enemies in this regard. They appear to be doing their very best to ensure that this inevitable eventuality continues to be denied and delayed.
The Igbo need to forgive Nigerians. No one who lived through the horrors that precipitated the secession of Biafra and led to the civil-war cannot but admit that the Igbo were abused and maltreated in one of the worst pogroms ever. It was not just that they were senselessly massacred in their own country; it was that they were butchered.
I remember vividly gory pictures of scores and scores of the Igbo with hands chopped up and with legs amputated. And then there were the ravages of the three-year civil-war itself, resulting in the death of millions of Igbo; many through starvation and attrition.
The end of the war brought no respite, as the Igbo were pauperized by fiscal decrees that wiped out their savings and their properties were blatantly sequestered by opportunists. All this is more than enough to destroy the spirit of any group of people. But God has been on the side of the Igbo.
It is a testament to their resilience that, in spite of this terrible affliction, they have survived, bounced back and have even triumphed in Nigeria. Forty years have now gone by. The Igbo may never forget what happened to them and, indeed, should never forget. But it is past time for them to forgive.
We are sorry
This is one voice in the Nigerian wilderness saying to the Igbo from the depth of his heart: we are sorry. We are sorry for the way we mistreated you. We are sorry for the way we abused you. We are sorry for starving your children to death. We are sorry for killing your loved ones. We are sorry for stealing your properties.
We are sorry for making you feel unwanted in your own country. Please forgive us. It is time to forgive us. It is way past time for the Igbo to forgive Nigerians. We beg you in the name of God.
There was a civil war in the United States, but the defeated South rose from the ashes. Five of the last nine presidents of the United States have been from the South, including Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George Bush from Texas and Bill Clinton from Arkansas. The time is overdue for an Igbo president of Nigeria, but it is not going to happen as long as the Igbo continue to hold a grudge against Nigeria and Nigerians.
There is no question about it: the Igbos cannot elect a president of Nigeria on their own. To do so, they have to join forces with others. They have to form alliances with people from other parts of Nigeria. That is not going to happen as long as the Igbo continue to bear a grudge against practically everybody else.
The Igbo have a gripe against virtually all the people they need. They have this tendency to antagonise their possible alliance partners. They keep dredging up the past, refusing to let sleeping dogs lie. Until they drop these gripes, they are not likely to realise their dreams.
Demonising Yorubas
For example, the Igbo have this tendency to demonise the Yorubas. It is alarming when reading the Vanguard blogs today to see the animosity often expressed between Igbo and Yoruba contributors. The hatred is most unhealthy. Insults are traded with abandon. What is the point of this? For how long will the Igbo demand emotional retribution from every Yoruba for the betrayal of Awolowo? Most of the contributors were not even born when the civil-war took place more than a generation ago.
There is now even transferred aggression against Babatunde Fashola, who made the blunder of repatriating some destitute Igbo from Lagos back to their home-states. The man has apologised for the infraction. He should be forgiven. Blunders are not the exclusive preserve of the non-Igbo. The Igbo have made more than a few themselves and will yet make others.
Paradoxically, the redemption of the Igbos to prominent national office moved apace under President Obasanjo; a Yoruba man. Recognising that Igbos are some of the most seasoned, competent and experienced public-servants, Obasanjo relied heavily on their expertise.
Thanks to him, we got Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at Finance, Charles Soludo at Central Bank, Obiageli Ezekwesili at Education, Ndidi Okereke at the Stock Exchange, and Dora Akunyili at NAFDAC. Indeed, Igbo statesmen came into more prominence under Obasanjo than did Yoruba statesmen. But for some strange reason, this does not seem to have succeeded in assuaging the ill-feeling of the Igbos toward the Yorubas.
Bad politicians
Within the framework of Nigerian politics, the Igbo also have a fundamental problem. Out of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo have by far the worst politicians. They have no recognizable leaders, and have no discernible strategy as to how to negotiate power at the centre. As a result, the Igbo have tended to be short-changed at the federal level. Traditionally, the inconsequential ministries, such as the Ministry of Information, have been zoned to them.
The Igbo need to work out a plan that will take them to Aso Rock. First, they need to choose and groom a de-tribalised leader of the Azikiwe mould who can be sold to non-Igbos. Then, they need to give him undiluted support. At the moment the internal politics of the Igbo militates against this. The Igbo seem to hate themselves as much as they hate others. They seem to fight themselves with as much venom as they fight others. Every potential Igbo leader seems to have more enemies within than without. This must not be allowed to continue.
The Igbo need to help themselves in order that their friends can help them. In this centenary of Nigeria’s amalgamation, as we embark on the arduous process of crafting our future through a National Conference, we salute the Igbo for their fortitude and implore them to stake their claim in Nigeria. Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbo.
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Yes It Is True
It is not a question of mass killings of the Igbo just before and during the war. The killings started in 1945 and have even intensified since the end of the war; and no one has ever been prosecuted for killing an Igbo. (Akaluka’s head is still missing perhaps hidden in a fanatic’s closet in Kano) And neither has the Nigerian government apologized to the Igbo nor paid compensation. Rather most Nigerians live in self denial about their crimes against Ndigbo as more and more Igbo lives and property are serially destroyed in the north and the threat of bodily harm becomes their lot even in Lagos. This is not merely a matter of forgiveness or of being president; I think the Igbo are the most forgiving and peaceful people on earth; otherwise they would have made Nigeria ungovernable by now as NADECO and Boko Haram have done. Rather it is about guaranteeing security, the most basic obligation of a state, to the Igbo in a country where they are supposed to be citizens. How would you expect a people to feel a sense of belonging in a country that hates and murders them for sport? The Igbo do not need the Nigerian presidency. All they need is either to be left alone in security in their own country or in a Nigerian political structure that gives them and others the independence to develop at their own pace away from the murderous Moslem fanatics. It is telling that the Igbo are more secure and successful outside Nigeria than within it. What a country! What a life!
Peter Ojo You definitely do no know the History of the Civil War. Ask those who know better the agreement between Papa Awo and Ojukwu when Ojukwu released him from Prison in Calabar. Then you will truly know that Awo betrayed the Ojukwu and the Igbo. But that is all in the past now. The writer of this piece surely deserves commendation and people like him are what we need to move forward as a nation.
It's not only Nigeria that cannot survive without the Igbos, it is the world that will not survive without the Igbos.
Yes This Is True
Tђis is a wonderful piece of writing. Like Τ̣̣ђё author said, it shudnt be an avenue to verbally assault one anoda bt to take correction. Igbos shud luk into the negative criticism and wrk on deir weakness cos evrione's got a weakness. As for ruling the world, they are a blessing indeed to Nigeria. Even the likes of award winner Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie…. God bless Nigeria!!!
Femi I believe that almost all your line of thoughts are cogent,Thank you for your sincerity even though you are not an Igbo man.I think good co patriots should emulate u. Igbo’s we need to forgive ourselves and forgive Nigeria and Civil War.I know that d solution to Nigerian epilaptic governance lies in the hands of an Igbo man,as Nigeria Epilaptic banking sector yester years was solved by an igbo man Prof. Charles Soludo.
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what is this man talking about? what do you know about Biafra? Rochas is going about his normal business. He is free to remain a Nigeria for all eternity after all, He is a moselm. He will have no honor in the History of Biafra if He continue His sabotaging attitude. Let me ask you as a Yoruba man, will not not stand where your brothers are standing. WE IGBO'S WANT BIAFRA FEDERATED STATE. AND ON MAY 30TH 2014, THE WORLD WILL HEAR OUR VOICE.
Peter Ojo, you are not disagreeing with me but with Femi Aribisala who is the author of the article. They were his words. And one does not have to be born in an era to learn the history of events.
Chuks Onugha, I disagree with you that Papa Awolowo betrayed the Igbos. You did not get your fact, that is why you Igbos today are criticising Papa Awolowo that he betrayed you. I want to ask, in which way did Papa Awolowo betrayed you? And who or what caused the civil war? Is Papa Awolowo that caused the civil war? Before you comment on Awolowo, are old are you I believe maybe you are under 50 years. If you under 50 years Papa Awolowo was born in 1909 and died in 1987 at the age of 78. Before you could say anything concerning Awolowo should be a person of 60-70 years. Let me tell maybe you care to listen, Papa was the in care of finance by the time of civil war, Ojukwu went to oversea to say that the civil war was religion, Papa said no, it was not that he himself was Christian that the war was religion war. Then when you Igbos are to Ore where the battle was so much. Then Papa said why you are fighting with somebody and you give him food they stop giving you Igbos food, to worst the matter, you (Biafrian) have your currency which was rejected and the Nigeria currency was accepted, then the (Nigerian) government change the currency whereby you people cannot buy anything with your currency, that was what finished the Igbos. Then Papa do his job as the finance minister then under Gowon. So go and read the fact about the history of Nigeria civil war. You Igbos should stop making accusation about your failed civil war on Papa Awolowo. Thanks for reading this message.
Phil Emeagwali did not invent the internet. Please check your facts. He was a scam artist that got a lot of press time because he was smart at conning people.http://www.rense.com/general81/dnt.htm
I can see that you are very senseless and you don't know yourself,does the Yoruba own or contribute to the growth of the so called ZOO called (Nigeria)?why then do you speak such about the people that are feeding you and your family after much betrayer from your Awolowo?well we will see what happen soon if Nigeria does not allow the Biafra to go,I promise you that we don't have any option than to kill you,your family and all other parts of Nigeria and to make sure that every body go down with us. Stupid and dirty Yoruba's.
This is what we have been talking about,why don’t you embrace peace and forget the past,instead u ar institing to revenge,to bring another blood flow
@Adegoke Adebowale Tolulope I can see that you are a fool and you don't know yourself,who do you think that you are by telling us whom to follow,you dirty and smelling yoruba family that knows nothing, and you are coming here to advice the igbo. An advice to you,you better go and tell that your Okorocha to follow you to your Oduduwa home or else he will die in that land were him find himself. Look at dirty,sticky and smelling Yoruba advising the Biafra. May God have mercy because you are also going to die before you know it.
This man you are a big fool,why don't you go for a medical check up to know what your problem his. In a broad day light you are stealing what does not belong to you and you are here written to us to come and buy your stealing vehicle,why don't you go and open the grave of your father and bring him out so you can sell the car to him?Scammed like you and you are not ashamed of your kind of job,if you were here with me I would have called you thief,thief,thief. Olori buruku. Barawo. Oyori.
Well… you people called Nigerians are fools and we the Biafrans have nothing in common with fools like you people,it's either you live us alone to go in peace or that same war will commence again and this time I promise you that every body will go down including the stupid and coward called Yoruba.We are Biafrans and we have nothing in common with Ariwa republic or the stupid Oduduwa family,we must go and we don't need Nigeria right from ages and we can never need that so called ZOO. I promise you so called Nigeria that the innocent blood of the departed Biafrans before,during and after the Civil war will continue to trouble and destroy Nigeria until you allow the children of God to go to their promise land,a land full of milk and honey. This is the place that God has given to us and he have bless all the lands with natural resources and if he never bless your own land,you can go and ask him to know the crime that you people called the Ariwa and Oduduwa have committed that makes him never to bless your land with Natural resources. For we the Biafrans,we are the children of Israel and no weapon formed or fashioned against the Children of God that will ever proper. The word of God says,Oh Nigeria……………… let my people go and you must all answer to the call of God or else you all will be crushed down. Warning to all of you stupid Ariwa and Oduduwa to live the Biafrans alone or something terrible will repeat itself.
Keep the award to your self that Nigeria cannot survive with out igbos we the people of igbo land have never remember one day asking for your promotion in Nigeria, or to tell us how to provide a president of Nigeria because in our villages is not you who tell us how to provide our chiefs and Kings keep your advice to your self and for your people on how to provide a president because we the people of the eastern region we have our president all ready that's goodluck who knows who send if bohari or A.P.C members for your apology we the people of baifra we don't need it because is not important, you and your weekend ancestors betrayal killing of our son children women raping our female we will never forgive you people forever until you all pay back with own blood,blood of your children men and women pregnant and un pregnant raping them so that you people we have the test of evil and see how it test then you can talk of forgiveness as for being together hence isreal can't be one country with Palestine so baifra cannot be one country with Nigeria mostly you yorobas the tribes know as people of betrayal or is it the hausas people with evils mind how can we be one country with this caind of evil men evils does blood surckerse????
Well we the people of baifra have heard what you said but we don't ask you to remind us whom we are or tell us our history because we knew who we are and we know our history more than you, so Mr please tell the history of your people not ours
Well we the people of baifra have heard what you said but we don't ask you to remind us whom we are or tell us our history because we knew who we are and we know our history more than you, so Mr please tell the history of your people not ours
Well we the people of baifra have heard what you said but we don't ask you to remind us whom we are or tell us our history because we knew who we are and we know our history more than you, so Mr please tell the history of your people not ours
Well we the people of baifra have heard what you said but we don't ask you to remind us whom we are or tell us our history because we knew who we are and we know our history more than you, so Mr please tell the history of your people not ours
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Stop accepting any apology. This is deliberate means to woo you back and all of you here are saying apology accepted. Nonsense. We can only accept their apology when we slaughter their daughters and sons the way they did to us many years ago. My broda open your eyes and move to Biafra. This is coming because national conference is taking place soon. So it is media tricks not from heart. I am more wiser than this fools called themselves Yoruba. The game is over and there is no looking back. My people think and think and keep thinking.
The Yorubas is who carrying their GENERATIONAL HATRED for the Igbo. It was on Tuesday I was on a friend profile and a Yoruba went into a fight with me because I was telling him exactly what you wrote about the Igbo. I told him that they are the Backbone of Nigeria. He started speaking with the HATRED he was taught. I told him go and READ to have understanding because ALL that I know about the Igbo is from READING. Yet here you come saying the same thing. Nigeria cannot do without the IGBOS and it is Nigerians who are backbiting against the IGBOS. As I said before I will said AGAIN "Nigerians are afraid of the IGBOs". It is not only about being a PRESIDENT of Nigeria it is to be RESPECTED as the way they MUST BE RESPECTED.
Nigerians have no RESPECT unto them because they have NO LOVE. Tell Nigeria to let go off the Igbo let them go and form BIAFRANS then you all shall see that it is not about being PRESIDENT it is about being SUCCESSFUL having a nation where our children can be feed in comfort and security.
BIAFRANS have nothing against NIGERIANS, you have treated them as the dogs you think they are and they shown unto you people that they are the SILVER that is dusted from the dust which is SHINING and the GOLD that have been through the FIRE and is FIRM because it was TRIED and proven to be STRONG.
Tell Nigeria to let go the people of Biafran and you shall see a Land that is PROSPERITY. Hugs
Femi has a penchant for over-reaching himself! First is his gratuitous "apology" to our Igbo brethren. One is not here to vilify the Igbo but they've equally done a lot of damage to Nigeria. What happens in a war situation? Kisses and hugs? They had their eyes on the oil wells in the region with the French egging them on. One of their own Onovo was the first from among them and the shortest reigned IGP because kidnapping,armed robbery and other crimes thrived during his short tenure. Our Igbo brethren will do just anything for "ego". It is also an insult to continue to talk about "Awolowo's betrayal". There's nothing like that. Finally,as long as the Aribisala's of this world continue to refer to some ministries as "inconsequential",greed and what's-in-it-for-me;not service will remain the key driver in government appointments. Ever heard of an inconsequential position in a TEAM of 11 footballers on the field of play?
we welcome your apology and thanks for knowing that igbo is the bed rock of Nigeria also, for accepting the bettered from awolowo. if you can also go back to check the history or relationship about we and yoruba on till the white come and dived us and still join us starting from 1906, you will know how God feel when David kill Uriah married Bathsheba his wife and that is the consequent that is failing apart now in Nigeria. And AU can never stand as well as a group in this world until the settle the dispute how it suppose to be and open up the trust of the first conference hold in Ghana in conjunction with Britain that called there self a mother without no root, check since then britain fight us 1967-1970 ''Biafran'' they have not hold and stand as a world brain power again.
Oga Balogun, you be mumu. Find someone else to scam.
Oga Balogun, you be mumu. Find someone else to scam.
Apart from Rochas okorocha,I can't see any igbo leader of repute that can be sold any part of naija,let them get their acts right and rally behind Rochas,who has showed time and time again that he is a detribalized nigerian,am also a fan of igbo presidency but pls stop internally generated fracas u guy are known for and rally behind a common front (ROCHAS OKOROCHA).
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This is another pranks to lure us back to Nigeria… NdiIgbo be more careful now….
This is another pranks to lure us back to Nigeria… NdiIgbo be more careful now….
If non igbo can tell our history why era we fueling our self in Nigeria I weep reading writthup and I weep 4 igbos
If non igbo can tell our history why era we fueling our self in Nigeria I weep reading writthup and I weep 4 igbos
This man femi
Aribisala has added his name in the book of life, is well with him for ever, !
wehther apology or know apology oooooooh the truth is that in this Movement of our freedom NO apology will be accepted and again Nobody shuled say something like forgivenss once u ar saying forgive u ar provoking the spirit of the indigenous people of biafrans worldwide so we the biafrans can never and ever forgive any one that joying hands in the killing of our belove noes in our own land that is all i have to say for now may the Chukwu Abhiama bless biafrans amen…………
Never may igbo;s must go in jesus name amen
There is no amount of preach Igbos will accept. Oil & water can't be together.
This is a good one from a honest man , but I disagree that the igbos don’t love one another , we do , for the forgiveness , the pains maybe too much for an easy forgiveness of I’m sorry , thank God we have survived but the history lives till internity, now we want to live on our own , the one Nigeria is dead for sure and I don’t think an apology could do the magic bcz even though outside Nigeria , no matter how much we pretends , we are different people , the Yoruba want us to behave like them and Hausas are crying that igbos are claiming superior over them , some say we love money etc , we know that all these are art of envy which will never stop , we can be good friends and respect each other only when we get Biafra, yes we will miss each other and then the value we be realized , when we looks clean they complains , we worked so hard and acquire good things they are angry , we too the risky to travel away from our home town to bring development in their cities they want to kill us , everything we do never make them happy , the worst is some of the so-called Nigeria ambassadors in their embassies , bcz the Hausa people never travel like us , due to this , the Nigeria embassies never work on our favor so what’s the meaning of Nigeria ? It retates Me to say I’m from Nigeria , Biafra is my country and thank God the name Nigeria has expired so we are good to go for good
Tell the trueth and it will set u free. The fact is that the souls of over 3.5million Igbos are not happy and thats why nigeria can not move foward and the only solution is to let the Biafran gooooo.
Thanks for your personal apology , but we can forgive but can't for one second forget not in this life never and will never ever happen . The only good thing people of your thought can do for us is to support our total independent state of BIAFRA where our generations upon generations to come is secured and our dreams to manifest and international community will indeed see who we are , thank you young man.
Femi, nice piece of writting, but u need to correct ur self the Igbos are not after nigeria leadership and I still want u to rephrase "say am sory" not nigeria are sorry, speak 4 urself. Even if the living igbo should forgive Nigeria, will the over 30 thousand souls wasted and dia blood scartared in dia father land forgive Nigeria.
For once I will agree with Mr. Aribisala. For the fact that a yoruba author of this piece accepts that Awolowo betrayed the Igbos during the civil war is enough apology. There still remains the apology of the northeners who were the most wicked to us. Even an acknowledgement of the atrocities done to the Igbo people will suffice for now. There are precedents! The whites apologised for slave trade. The Catholic church has apologised for the abuse of young mass servants. And the white South African regime apologised for aparthied. That is why these countries make progress and remain united.
Apoology accepted but sorry we are BIAFRANS we are not nigerians you knows it better.
This piece is good but you failed to mention one igbo son that turned the whole wide world around.. prof PHILIP EMEAGWALI, there would have been no INTERNET without him.
God will bless you for the truth
God bless you for these honest words.
@ Deji. You are spot on. Nigeria is Nigeria (for better or for worse) precisely because of its ethnic composition. However I believe Femi Aribisala’s editorial title was never used perjoratively. He is simply highlighting the strenghts of a major Nigerian ethnic group that has never had the opportunity to serve at the highest level like the other major groups.
Ndigbo will be mistaken if they assume that the article is bestowing on them some superhuman qualities that will suddenly wipe away all of Nigerias problems.
jeez… Mr Editor, i read ynaija bcoz it was meant to be youthful, that means a fresh energetic view point. Y won't these tribal apologists let us the youths feel like Nigerians.
You are an honest and honorable man keep it up Bro
Tell fren true nor kill fren
Nigeria will not survive without any of its ethnic components. Not just the without the Ibos. Have you imagined Nigeria without the the Hausa Fulani in the North or the people that make up the middle belt? Have you also considered that Nigeria may not survive if the Yorubas pull out of the contraption? My point is, no ethnic group is more important than the other. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. The Igbo is a strong tribe, industrious and energetic no doubt. But they don’t make Nigeria, they cannot make Nigeria, not without the support and complementary efforts of other tribes.
Nigeria without Hausa finani will be the sweetest place on earth bcz you are the cause of everything , you are the devil bringing every damages in Nigeria , your leader make those comments that causes killings , you are the worst uneducated people and easy to manipulate your brains , u killed the image of Nigeria home and abroad bcz terrorism is what u known for , u love easy money and u r lazy people , your land is dessert, u r dirty , your full of sickness , u r too jealous, u r too aggressive , I will be in the same country with people like you ,I am a Biafran man , for me , anything Hausa man or woman can do , other tribes will do it in a cleaner way and much better than you , So do not tell us how bad or good you are bcz I don’t need an Hausa man to live my life.
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Peugeot c230 N400,000
C300 N500,000
prices of some Honda cars
Honda Civic cars – N400,000
Honda Accord – N450,000
Honda Odyssey – N600,000
Honda CR-V – N600,000
Honda Pilot – N600,000
Prices of some Nissan cars
* Nissan Sunny sedan – N350,000
* Nissan Patrol SUV – N500,000
* Nissan Civilian 30 seater bus – N800,000
* Nissan Pathfinder SUV – N450,000
and lots more.
ALL BUYERS SHOULD NOTE THAT BUYING OF
NIGERIA AUCTION VEHICLES HAS NO
COMPLICATIONS WHAT SO EVER,SINCE ALL THE
NECESSARY DOCUMENTS WILL BE
HANDED OVER TO CUSTOMERS TO AVOID SUCH
INDIVIDUAL BUYING FOR HIS/HER PERSONAL
USE
All new buyer should make a scan copy of the
following:-
a. National ID card, international passport or driver's
license
b. Local Gov. of origin
c. Birth certificate
d. A single passport for your registration form
e. A filled copy of your request form to
[email protected]
INDIVIDUALS THAT WANTS TO BECOME A CAR
DEALER WITH THE NIGERIA CUSTOM SERVICE
All new dealers should come with :-
1. A valid international passport
2. Certificate of incorporation of company
3. A bank teller of #50,000 for the dealership
certificates
4. A well filled CUSTOM ORDER FORM
5. Original certificate and a good resume
6. Age declaration/Birth certificate
7. Local/State Gov. of origin
CONTACT 07068079158.
MODEL/YEAR OF MANUFACTURE…….1996 t0 2013
INTERIOR….LEATHER AND FABRIC
AC……….CHILLING FACTORY AC
WHEEL……….GOOD TYRE, ALLOY WHEEL
ASKING PRICE………………Ranging from one hundred
and fifty thousand naira above
SELLER COMMENT- The car are first hand tokunbo
which are in good
working and perfect condition. Contact MR BALOGUN on 07068079158….