Speechless3:


I've come to love a country ive not seen

I feel like a foreigner trapped in a country that does not love me and my ethnic/cultural identity.

Shine O'Biafra ! Let us see the rays of hope !

bamite:
It is my biz becos nigeria is my country and i cannot be travelling to lagos through onitsha and 1 imbecillic biafrian will block the road in the name of protest.
I will personaly shoot the fool myself

Saturn213:


Papa

I dont see anything wrong with flying the flag of the nation

Sheggy13:

But the country all this while under Goodluck Jonathan loved you, and the love has suddenly faded away since he lost reelection,isn't it?

Konjour:


Regarding the slaughtering you mentioned, do you have proof that shows that in peacetime and most especially in 'recent times' the attacks by Boko Haram plus any other attacks in general within this same time frame in the North have been targeted only at 'Easterners'?
Furthermore, how do you compare the break-up of a common economic, sociopolitical and historical region which is just a union of independent countries such as the UK to the break-up of a sovereign nation as Nigeria? Do you understand why, even though a referendum was given, the streets of Glasgow and other Scottish cities I believe were filled with more beaming, happy faces when the results of the referendum were announced? Do you understand the negative impact people feared that right-wing politics would have on their country (not region) if Trident was abolished, if a new currency was adopted, if Scotland was to be kicked out of the EU for an indefinite time window, if a visa is required to cross from Penrith into Loch Lomond, if the NHS was reformed drastically, and if the dependence on the oil from the North Sea got to an all-time high?

Away from my questions for a minute...In my own view, a case that would mirror that of Biafra would be Geordies/Cockneys/Scousers asking for a break-up of England because of what looks to be insufficient representation in Westminster whilst already claiming territories which are supposed to be theirs by planting flags in the publicsphere, or Glaswegians openly agitating for a break away from people further north in Inverness, Edinburgh or Aberdeen, or in more realistic terms, the struggle of the IRA in liberating Ireland (not just Northern Ireland) from the grip of the UK which is already quite similar to the Nigerian civil war in some ways.

You should feel free to answer my questions but I'm just trying to let you see the futility in comparing Scotland's referendum to any call for Biafra in Nigeria, and why even some of the most developed countries in the World will adopt guerilla, machiavellian methods in the bid to keep the country together, functioning as a unit regardless of whose oxen are gored.

P.S: Dreams of an utopian state being borne out magically from a decrepit, corrupt, dysfunctional mother state is generally always nothing but blind hope and faith in the grass being greener on the other side. So far that's proven to be correct by history. And as we say in the Navy, when you find yourself in distress at sea, don't be in unnecessary haste to launch your lifeboats because the best lifeboat there is, and your best chance of survival against the raging waters of the primeval seas is always the ship itself. Shalom.

Mrcdorv:
Obj know how to handle this kind of issue die I miss him so much.

pazienza:


The same coward Yoruba man that ran with his tails between his legs and hurriedly gave away Bakassi without firing a single shot because of the fear he had for the French backed Camerounian Army, especially with Britain refusing to supply Nigeria with military support?

Bunch of jokers.

Laid2001:
Where is Biafra? Those 5 tiny states, with land mass less than Borno or Adamawa?
Naa, forget it, that can't be a nation; too tiny to survive a second onslaught.!

vale20:
Those afraid of division are lazy, so Nigeria is a lazy country

sparkwil:

Once again, I deeply appreciate your insight on the issue at hand but your right up doesn't seem to address the complexity of the Nigerian state. I don't know if u live in Nigeria but let me say this ; Nigeria is a deeply polarized state that is less culturally integrated as an entity when compared to the UK. An illiterate Ibo man cannot communicate with his counterpart from the Hausa north of Nigeria. In Nigeria, tribal interests far supersedes national interests. Northern leaders have this conception that ruling (not leading) Nigeria is their right and that southern Nigeria is conquered region that should do their bidding.
Talking about sovereignty I can boldly tell you that the UK although made up independent States is more sovereign than Nigeria. The better together campaign was able to convince a little over 50% of Scots to vote for a united UK. If that happens in Nigeria be it known to you that over 95% of southeastern Nigerians will vote to leave Nigeria.

Lionsclaw:
Silly Nigerian government. Helicopter ko flying boat ni.
A wise govt will initiate a referandum in order to create peaceful coexistence of previously independent tribes.

Mumu-ness is when you think a people who were on their own but amalgamated by britian for their own selfish interest have no right to call for independence

bamite:
You people are just a bunch of jobless miscreants, instead of holding your leaders accountable for your under development, you are trekking all over the place shouting biafra, which even though impossible you people get it, you will still look for a reason to fight and kill each other

Lvlink:
Why are the mods editing and removing Biafra comments in the main thread the op created? Including the title?

chukwudi44:
Very funny government!! What do they hope to achieve with this?

chukwudi44:


So flying the Nigerian flags over helicopters would make the protesters to fall in love with Nigeria and discard their biafra agitations?

basbone:
Chai......govt don die for fear to the extent of flying flag with helicopters.......they no even use fighter jets to display their strength as the giant of africa.....

Na waoooh!!