Eziachi:

Admire your faith in prayers but all prayers must be realistic before you expect an answer, as you will be wasting your time praying for an ocean in the middle of Sahara desert. We all knew what Nigerian problem is and how we can instantly solve or at least halve it, but we had continued to ignore it, asking for divine help instead and forming meaningless development movements to no avail.

Nigeria is a country of nations that are too much apart in everything you can think of. Horribly divided and loved to hate each other and this elements formed the foundation of Nigeria, that you cannot lay your hand on anything positive in our past history to go back on as the basis for a change.
Americans will positivelyand often invokes their founding fathers when things are bad. Can we do the same? when our own founding fathers are the ones that laid the seed of what the children are reaping today.

I have said this, time without numbers that, you cannot use a similar method all the time and expect a different outcome.
Nigeria is too big, divided and different to exist as a unitary state as obtained today,  even though they still blindly calls themselves a federation.

For a start, we had to revisit Aburi or Addis Ababa accord- Nigeria should be confederated into Arewa, Biafra, Delta and Oduduwa.
And let each confederate unit figure out the type of govt and life they wish to live. The type of economy they will like to pursue. Let us then have a Nigerian Union of these four confederate nations.

Some have argued that it's the same people dominating Nigeria today that will take over their confederate states.
Maybe yes, but let each group now be a burden on their own people and let their own people figure out how to deal with their own leaders without the usual accusation of tribalism injected in between that had allowed rogues to get away for the past 50 years.
If one of the confederate states managed to breaks from the norm and make progress, it might be what others needed to kick them on their backside to start competing.
But today, what we got is collective failure.
There is nothing that bring the best in man and progress than competition for success.

brein:

@Sam milla, u equested a mail from me u forgot to lend me your email add, ?? Since am a part of your commitee.

youngies:

Damn, I have been relegated to the background just because i went off for a few hours. Sky Blue and BOSS!

NDM - Get Involved!

youngies:

LOL. . . yes I'm still among the living. I have read the entire thread, kudos to y'all.

I need to be part of the daily meetings, I have also inform Sam that my new account with the NDM forum seem to have been suspended, deleted, banned or something ugly.

My interest is on "Awareness, Image Laundering and Media."

Tommorrow is the day.

Get Involved!

Bhola:

HF, how about you register, and come find out yourself? Come on in and share with us. We will be glad to have you.

I am sure you have the best interest of Nigeria at heart.

Thanks,

Nigerian Development Movement - Get Involved!

bawomolo:

shawap or sign up if you want to. isn't their registration free

beneli:

And your solution is dividing Nigeria into 4 confederating units.

What informs your choice of 4? Why not 6 or 8 or 250?
Are each of the units you've identified homogenous? That is, If ethnic homogeneity is what you seek. If it's not ethnic homogeneity, then what? Even in Biafra, there would be rivalry between the Northern Igbo's and the Southern ones. Or between those who claim to be the true Igbo's and the fringe ones.

And what makes you think that the fundamental problem that have caused Nigeria to fail will not remain within those your confederating units, even if they are able to overcome the problems of inter-ethnic rivalry, because believe me, it will continue to exist.

In Abia State for instance, the Ngwa's believe they've been marginalised by the Northern Abians and the agitation for inclusion could potentially boil over into something else. And yet Abia State is just a mere state-probably a fifth of the Biafra you propose.

Biafra and its scars is a tragedy. A Nigerian tragedy. It's story can fill one with nostalgia of what might have been. But then, we don't know what might have been, because the guns went silent on January 15, 1970 and Biafra ceased to exist. Maybe the dream of it still lingers in the minds of some, and maybe some people bare the scars from that tragic time in our collective history, but people are moving on.  

While we are still together, some people are daring to believe that inspite of our tragic past and the pessimisms of the moment, that we can still salvage a future from the mess called Nigeria. That is what this movement is about-that while we are together, we should demand better from those (from all the ethnic groups in Nigeria) who lord it over us. That is why we have come together, irrespective of our ages, ethnic or religious backgrounds, level of education, country of residence. We have come together because we deserve better.

You see, you and i know that the cause of the problem is not something other than ourselves and our attitudes to development. It has absolutely nothing to do with breaking up into regions.

If we do not change ourselves then even within those confederating nations we would still fail to develop. You see, development is in the mind and that is what we need to change.

For your information:

India at a glance:
31 States
1618 Languages
6400 Castes
6 Religions
29 Major Festivals
1 Country

Nigeria deserves better. So join us, to make it better.

Sam Milla:

As it stands now, i do not subscribe with anybody who proposes division of a country struggling to unite. There is hope. Someone will have to make the hope come true,
@eziachi,
your opinions can bring immiediate solutions to small problems. USA as they are is made up of so many states with different people and different lifestles. So is INDIA- CHINESE.
Europeans are uniting with speed. What do you think is going on,
We are not interested in dividing anything. Infact i am more interested in bringing the whole of Africa together as one nation, (we will still be less than the population of the chinese).
I also believe that you should be thinking towards how to solve the solution at hand instead of bringing in more ideas that is practically impossible. We have enough human and natural resources to sustain all of us if properly managed.
Drown your division ideas and accept the fact that the name of our nation is Nigeria. I am from biafra too but we have different ways of dealing with the problem of Nigeria. We will be better in times to come, far more better if we stick together as a nation

ajadrage:

Please, I would rather that serious minded folk disregard and ignore posts made by those who are intent on causing confusion up in here. [b]Lets keep the thread clean and maintain the focus that we share. Do not dignify such posts with response as it merely encourages more replies. [/b]This is an appeal, I implore all to hearken to

Lets keep doing what we're doing, okay. This is Naija, what does one expect?

you picked USA, thats smart,  what about INDIA AND THE CHINESE.
Formed by immigrants too i guess,

Why do you refuse to fall in love with the name Nigeria?

how many states do you intend to take along as Biafra?
I guess RIVERS, BAYELSA, DELTA who are not IGBOS ARE INCLUDED,
Because they have oil.
You greedy man. Biafra will be like DUBAI as soon as they have Independence

Did you hear me say that we are no more interested in division, we are more interested in addition.
That means that if you can convince TOGO and BENIN REP to join us, you will become  hero,

Naijex:

)Jensen
2)percussive
3)Keens
4)Charlesmud
5)LaTeX
6)Naijex
7)Young's
proudly9Jae
9)Busy body
10)Ampex
11)acreage
12)Agata123
13)innocent oh
14)sashbaby
15)B.O.S.S
16)Bernelle
17)hatches
18)Sky Blue
19)cube
20)Homeric01
21)Bola
22)Sam Millay
23)Brien
24)Fe32
25)Sanger
26)juju
27)Moves
28)PAPABrowne
29)superb
30) Oink
31)abdurrazaq
32)gongo aso
33) Gilgee
34)Kola

I recruited Kola and added his name to the list because he not a nairalander