5. South-West. The Republic of ODUDUWA.

sweetsell:
People like you will always make shameful useless m senseless comment on reasonable post. Did your father tell u the person you quoted is stopping you from letting you go or why is foolishness ingrained in your DNA like this ?

Don't you think you were a bit excessive with your response? The guy only answered the question from his own point of view, the least you could have done was to counter his assertion with a superior argument and not to attack his personality

Yobabad:
Landlock, yet you all want them to remain in this unserious Nigeria, just let them go so that hunger will finish them since you all forgot that necessity is the mother of invention

Oga no one is stopping anyone from going. The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is to blame others for his misfortunes.
Let met me ask you this rhetorical questions,
1: has any of your elected leaders ever even remotely demand for a secession?
2: have they been any binding political consensus among the Igbo leaders on the need to leave Nigeria?
3: has majority of the igbos seriously and vigorously made any demands on there leaders to initiate the move to secede?

Now can you honestly answer yes to any of this questions?

The most that has been done is by people like Nnamdi kanu and Asari dokubo, people who have no moral or legal rights to speak for the generality of the Igbo race.

I don't know much but I think nation building is not fanciful stories like everything that we're painting here. People really think a part of Nigeria is the problem and so when you cut it out, the problem ceases to exist but I'm imagining what Mandela would think in his grave when he sees the lifestyle of most black South Africans. If we all have the attitudes we have as Nigerians, we shouldn't expect anything to change soon just because our country has split Nigeria is not the problem, it's the people there. More so, new unprecedented challenges will arise and since we've found it difficult to build Nigeria with discipline and dedication, majority will give up their newly formed country easily and go again looking for succor outside. Everything here is fantasy and thus it will remain. The reality might be scarier than you think. Or do you think we'll manufacture ideal leaders to govern those new states?

traihit:
I don't know much but I think nation building is not fanciful stories like everything that we're painting here. People really think a part of Nigeria is the problem and so when you cut it out, the problem ceases to exist but I'm imagining what Mandela would think in his grave when he sees the lifestyle of most black South Africans. If we all have the attitudes we have as Nigerians, we shouldn't expect anything to change soon just because our country has split Nigeria is not the problem, it's the people there. More so, new unprecedented challenges will arise and since we've found it difficult to build Nigeria with discipline and dedication, majority will give up their newly formed country easily and go again looking for succor outside. Everything here is fantasy and thus it will remain. The reality might be scarier than you think. Or do you think we'll manufacture ideal leaders to govern those new states?

May God bless your soul for this wonderful assertion. If just 20% of Nigerians reason along this line, I can guarantee that half our problems will be solved

I believe the mods will do the needful concerning him

lexyking:






Don't you think you were a bit excessive with your response? The guy only answered the question from his own point of view, the least you could have done was to counter his assertion with a superior argument and not to attack his personality

Many will be busy keep talking of Nigeria as a piece of map that exist on paper. What they don't think about is that it isn't just that.

Nigeria is a business place for our cabals, former generals and leaders. PDP or APC, or whatever, they have shared it amongst themselves. The resources have been allotted and allocated to each of them. Emirs owning oil wells in the south south, IBO billionaires running business in kano and Kaduna.

Don't be deceived, Nigeria is a business organisation. Our leaders will just create one problem like covid 19, boko haram and so on, and continue to use it to collect money from FG.

To think that they care about you is just a waste of time. And stop thinking about the country, think about your life, your family and how to make them better. Nigeria only exists on map, most of our leaders hardly talk about Nigeria, they only care about their business and themselves.

rdokoye:
Yorubaland as a nation will be no better than Benin, the country. Northern Nigeria will be like Niger. The Middle Belt, if it's able to split from the North, would most likely be better than both the North and South-West. The South-South, would be better off splitting into several nations. South-East will be the best off, due to it's high human development. Igboland already has everything required to build and sustain a nation. All the other nations, will require a lot of foreign assistance, if they're to survive.

Can you please explain to us what you mean by human development.

Tell us the about the presence of human development in igboland.

horsepower102:
Point 1:
The south East will be the most successful Nation hands down. I am saying this based on the reality on the ground and not based on hatred or love.

I see a lot of igbo hating people quick to tell us how the south east will suffer when the south east pound for pound is doing better than their regions in overall development.

Igbos will have the largest cargo airport Chain in the west African region. Watch out!!!

Let’s watch an see. The plan is on the table already.

Deep down, some of you know it but the fear of that happening makes you speak against the south east because you want to discourage them from self determination.

With all these bullshit you wrote up there, one would thing igboland is the most developed presently.


See as the e dey right everything.

Biggest cargo airport, as if they presently have one.

Tah Tah Tah yen yen yen.

Baba goan find somewhere to sit down.

Among all the region, which region is seeking for independence. You can't invest on what is not profitable to you

Benevento:


Can you please explain to us what you mean by human development.

Tell us the about the presence of human development in igboland.

he is talking of four corner shops..
Don't mind that goat.. same SE i have been to or another one?

Benevento:


Can you please explain to us what you mean by human development.

Tell us the about the presence of human development in igboland.

There's a list in Wikipedia that he is referring to Abia and co are in the top 10.....that's the load they are carrying on their head this morning

leokid866:

There's a list in Wikipedia that he is referring to Abia and co are in the top 10.....that's the load they are carrying on their head this morning

This fake report you are talking about has 2 Yoruba states in the 1st and 2nd position respectively, so what's the point exactly.

What are the criterions used, any stats apart from Nigeria bureau of stat or Hdi is not reliable.

Even 2 SW states occupied the first two spots.

It was even conducted by one useless American University.

Efewestern:


When I see some of their claims I just shake my head in pity, these guys aren't only delusional, but dumb, there's no family in the Delta without a graduate. Deltans are leading in Medical and engineering courses.

In Tech, I have seen So many people from South South who are damn good, in entertainment, these same people are representing, Isoko has so many celeb, Don jazzy, Orezi, Solid Star etc.

In movie, they aren't left behind, not now that the movie industry is no longer being dominated by any group, now with your talent, you can reach your full potential, all thanks to the diverse marketing strategy.

In food production, we produce most of the things we consume. we only import yam, beans and some few other things, I just laugh when the major ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria try as much as possible to downgrade the minorities, as it stands today, the minorities are the only one that can stand without any region, reason you never see them attaching to anybody.

E go clear for their eye.

You and darfay maybe right.

But I personally think, there might be sort of internal division in Niger delta.
Cos, the Ijaws are aggressive in nature, or should I say they have this sense of entitlement.

If Niger delta were to be given independence.
The situation will just be like our current Nigeria.
Other minorities might unite against Ijaws or People like Edo/Benin forming coalition with Ijaws against others.
You grab.

Just like Hausa Yoruba
Hausa Igbos

Currently

BeautifulMind2:
Many dummies on nairaland, so dumb to research, several international treaties have established freedom of navigation on semi-enclosed seas. The Copenhagen Convention of 1857 opened access to the Baltic by abolishing the Sound Dues and making the Danish Straits an international waterway free to all commercial and military shipping, Other international treaties have opened up rivers, which are not traditionally international waterways. The Danube River is an international waterway so that landlocked Austria, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Slovakia can have secure access to the Black Sea, only illiterates with no idea of Nigeria geography will be arguing that Igbo land is landlocked.

Tell them.
Most tribalist educated illiterates argue blindly.
Ask them to back up their argument with stats and documents, next thing you will hear is 'leave that thing' or they ll post derogatory words or pictures.
In oil industry we call this 'kick or Blowout'
You really gave them a knock-out.

West have the most industrialized cities?

ifiokjohn:
Do you want me to also bring up the ones in Yoruba land? cause I can see you are Yoruba.
the Irony of it all is that the west has more slum

bolaayenimo:
West have the most industrialized cities?

yes of course Lagos State (cities) Ogun state (cities) are the most industrialized state(cities) in Nigeria.


and Oyo (ibadan) should be in the top 7.

#fact.

Cosbyrich:
lol
Abakaleke man,hope Lagos matter will not kill you as it killed Azikiwe the no man's land first rapper

I have a higher stake in Lagos than you can ever have. I must be on top of the game and informed at all times

MRAKBEE:

Shut up uhhh..
Sudan is a landlocked independent nation.

South Sudan had to wait for many year for John Garang to be born before she could gain independence from Islamic nation, Sudan.
The messiah is yet to come for the south east and when that time comes, the factor you have listed above will not come close to being regarded as a challenge...

Wow, Sudan landlocked? Since when? Guess u mean South Sudan

nku5:


You must be a jambite. Go get some knowledge and stop posting silly memes.

SW made a deal 54 years ago with the north and the north never forgets. They plan generational, not yearly and they owned Lagos waterways for years and now the new road to the port will be owned by them and you shall soon start paying a toll to use it

You talk like an illiterate, reasons why you look all discussion from your narrow myopic view. The Hausa-Fulani north will not be able to even to persuade the tribes in what is presently called Northcentral to stay with them not to talk having access to Lagos port. The moment the Nigeria states dies, the moment other ethnic nationalities other than the Yoruba stop having access to Lagos. They will all come as foreigners at the whims of the host the Yorubas.

Fools everywhere, paying tolls to access a road in your own country. This internalized fair for the Hausa-Fulani north are the reasons for the hate and love relationship between the Igbos and the north. When Nigeria stop being a country, western foreign policies will block out any destructive element from the north. Take this to the bank

bolaayenimo:
West have the most industrialized cities?

Lol! go to Aba and Onitsha you will see industries too

BeautifulMind2:



Far north is landlock, middle belt is not, if middle belt choose to stay on their own that's where north will have major problem

Middle belt and southern Kaduna will never join the North

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Ezewuzie01:
South East is landlocked. And as long as SS refuse to participate in Biafra, it remains a mirage. Only the north can break away from the country without stress but they will be landlocked too and they don't like that. The SW has the brightest prospects if they are independent.

who told you south east is landlocked,dullard,even if we were, is switzerland not landlocked but still far ahead of your shithole.

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gidgiddy:
I think that all 6 geopolitical zones can become a country. The idea of financial difficulties will depend how prudently the use their resources, human and natural.

I noticed how some people are rushing to say that the SE is landlocked without equally mentioning that the NW,NE and NC are all landlocked. For them, it is only the SE that is landlocked. But no worries, Niger Republic, Chad and Mali are all North of Nigeria and are all landlocked. They are all still surviving as independent country

But is the SE truly landlocked? No it isnt, the only people who think that the SE is landlocked are those who dont look at the map of Nigeria well.

What some people dont realise is that neither Imo state nor Abia state are landlocked. Oguta in Imo state and Obuaku in Abia both have access to the Sea.

If you look at the picture of Abia state below, you will see that a tributary runs from the tip of Abia, separating Rivers and Akwai Ibom states, and into the ocean. Dredge that tributary, build a Sea port and and any ship can sail to Abia state.

thank you very much,I wonder how you knew dis, because only few people do,I laugh when they claim south east is landlocked,we even have abundant gas,which is the future..there elders died to keep us in this country for a reason..

ChristianNorth:
Middle belt and southern Kaduna will never join the North

Speak for the Igbos, leave North out of your words.

They have palm oil and coal in the highest quantity

egalitarianism:
Remove South East out of the zone, else they merge with South South. It'll be VERY hard for South East to survive because they have no useful natural resources.

bolaayenimo:
They have palm oil and coal in the highest quantity

What's the Economical value of coal these days, if I may ask?
Palm oil is all across the South.

egalitarianism:

What's the Economical value of coal these days, if I may ask?
Palm oil is all across the South.

Black man and natural resources. So, all the developed countries depended on natural resources to become great?
The greatest resources you have on earth are human resources and Gas for power generation which igbo land is not lacking.
This country should have been better than its present condition if development/greatness is dependent on natural resources.

Peace

Ibechris2:



Your hate is very glaring that it has drained u of common sense and reason that is why u can't verify this before reply. Mumu!

So e pain u?

How does a tribe being the richest be my problem? It seems you woke up from the wrong side of your bed. You guys just bring up so many false rhetorics that make one imagine how lowly una self esteem is really is as a tribe. Tueh!

south east landlocked, some people are naturally stupid,read up international (waterways)treaty,igbo's has acess to river Niger and azumili in abia state has access to sea after dredging,our igbo tribes in south south(not all south south because we don't really need them) will definitely join us in biafra and they also has access to sea,we have abundant gas which is the future,we survive any situation,
Even the yorubas dieing for one Nigeria are shouting oduduwa republic,just two weeks lockdown they started skull mining and stealing from eacthother,imagine when everybody leaves Lagos and the north/dangote laying claim to their land because of the deal they signed. ,I just pity yorubas because if they form oduduwa they will be up for a rude awakening,Yoruba's are already divided with the Muslims fighting the Christians

I've followed the discussion and it has been interesting. However, I would chip in a point most people are missing. Human resource is what a nation needs to thrive. With that key factor they can surmount most of the challenges they may face.