Amumaigwe:


You are dangling the same rotten carrot Igbos have flatly rejected. Of what use will be Nigerian citizenship? Mcheeew

NGELEBUBE:

common sense is like a rose flower it doesn't grow on everyone's garden, Nigerians that stay abroad are those countries their country of origin? dead brain roaming everywhere!

flokii:


Who is holding you back not to leave to your biafra?
Na your people dey carry their legs waka go North, South and West go live, nobody forced them. So stop the senseless talks of people holding you back, it's very annoying.

If you think you'll have biafra and still stay put in Nigeria for whatever reason, then you're joking.

benuejosh:
So this guys are actually waiting for people to talk on their behalves. This is serious!

Nigeria asked for Independence. If they need Independence, they should come and meet Buhari in Aso-Rock one on one and ask for it instead of sitting somewhere and saying we want this.

My major concern again is this, why didn't they do all of this during Jonathan's regime. This clearly pin point to the fact that they hate Buhari and every other Nigerians as far as I know. This even makes me to accurately assume that even the hike in the prices of commodity can not be far reached without the involvement of this people 90%. But we will bear it all together. United We Stand! ONE NIGERIA.

benuejosh:
So this guys are actually waiting for people to talk on their behalves. This is serious!

Nigeria asked for Independence. If they need Independence, they should come and meet Buhari in Aso-Rock one on one and ask for it instead of sitting somewhere and saying we want this.

My major concern again is this, why didn't they do all of this during Jonathan's regime. This clearly pin point to the fact that they hate Buhari and every other Nigerians as far as I know. This even makes me to accurately assume that even the hike in the prices of commodity can not be far reached without the involvement of this people 90%. But we will bear it all together. United We Stand! ONE NIGERIA.

pacespot:


Nobody is saying the secession of Biafra should bring about a total banishment of Igbos from doing business in other parts of the country as it is today. But ask yourself a critical question, would you allow foreigners to dominate your country market the way igbos are currently dominating major markets all across Nigeria? I think igbos will be allowed to continue doing their business after Biafra-exit but with a proper documentation that will put some restrictions in place to give preference to domestic business owners in certain areas of the economy.

flokii:


Who is holding you back not to leave to your biafra?
Na your people dey carry their legs waka go North, South and West go live, nobody forced them. So stop the senseless talks of people holding you back, it's very annoying.

If you think you'll have biafra and still stay put in Nigeria for whatever reason, then you're joking.

MRDEE01:
Orishirishi.

There should be a poll to that effect like it was done in the UK before brexit.
#My2cents.


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flokii:


Who is holding you back not to leave to your biafra?
Na your people dey carry their legs waka go North, South and West go live, nobody forced them. So stop the senseless talks of people holding you back, it's very annoying.

If you think you'll have biafra and still stay put in Nigeria for whatever reason, then you're joking.

lloydtruth:
Once South East exits, that is when you'll realize that most people want to exit as well, just that they are too cowardly to speak up now.

benuejosh:
So this guys are actually waiting for people to talk on their behalves. This is serious!

Nigeria asked for Independence. If they need Independence, they should come and meet Buhari in Aso-Rock one on one and ask for it instead of sitting somewhere and saying we want this.

My major concern again is this, why didn't they do all of this during Jonathan's regime. This clearly pin point to the fact that they hate Buhari and every other Nigerians as far as I know. This even makes me to accurately assume that even the hike in the prices of commodity can not be far reached without the involvement of this people 90%. But we will bear it all together. United We Stand! ONE NIGERIA.

EmekaA125:

Are Igbos among ur One Nigeria??

benuejosh:
see Mumu!

benuejosh:
where are there? Show me Biafra on the map.

drlateef:
They should let them go please. Enough of tarnishing of Nigerian image abroad. Let’s see who develops fast. Lagos also needs to secede from Nigeria. We are being held back by criminals and corrupt inept leaders.

Zooposki:


Biafra was in Cameroon on the old maps.

APCNig:


Like the cowards that used over three million stubborn goats from the East for pepper soup and suya? I wonder why Eastern goats are so stubborn, but they are good for pepper soup.

Don't end up the way of your grandfathers.

Millimann:
You say they are not important to you. Oya let them go nau, Mba.

IbileIfe:
Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps and mangrove forests border the southern coast; inland are hardwood forests.
Government
Multiparty government transitioning from military to civilian rule.

History
The first inhabitants of what is now Nigeria were thought to have been the Nok people (500 B.C.–c. A.D. 200). The Kanuri, Hausa, and Fulani peoples subsequently migrated there. Islam was introduced in the 13th century, and the empire of Kanem controlled the area from the end of the 11th century to the 14th.


The Fulani empire ruled the region from the beginning of the 19th century until the British annexed Lagos in 1851 and seized control of the rest of the region by 1886. [/b]It formally became the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914. During World War I, native troops of the West African frontier force joined with French forces to defeat the German garrison in the Cameroons.

[b]
The Kano Riot of 1953
The Kano riot of 1953 refers to the riot, which broke out in the ancient city of Kano located in Northern Nigeria, in May 1953. The nature of the riot were clashes between Northerners who were opposed to Nigeria's Independence and Southerners made up of mainly the Yorubas and the Igbos who supported immediate independence for Nigeria. The riot that lasted for four days claimed many lives of the Southerners and Northerners and many others were wounded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Kano_riot

On Oct. 1, 1960, Nigeria gained independence, becoming a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and joining the United Nations. Organized as a loose federation of self-governing states, the independent nation faced the overwhelming task of unifying a country with 250 ethnic and linguistic groups.

Rioting broke out in 1966, and military leaders, primarily of Ibo ethnicity, seized control. In July, a second military coup put Col. Yakubu Gowon in power, a choice unacceptable to the Ibos. Also in that year, the Muslim Hausas in the north massacred the predominantly Christian Ibos in the east, many of whom had been driven from the north. Thousands of Ibos took refuge in the eastern region, which declared its independence as the Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967. Civil war broke out. In Jan. 1970, after 31 months of civil war, Biafra surrendered to the federal government.

Gowon's nine-year rule was ended in 1975 by a bloodless coup that made Army Brig. Muritala Rufai Mohammed the new chief of state. The return of civilian leadership was established with the election of Alhaji Shehu Shagari as president in 1979. An oil boom in the 1970s buoyed the economy and by the 1980s Nigeria was considered an exemplar of African democracy and economic well-being.

The military again seized power in 1984, only to be followed by another military coup the following year. Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida announced that the country would be returned to civilian rule, but after the presidential election of June 12, 1993, he voided the results. Nevertheless, Babangida resigned as president in August. In November the military, headed by defense minister Sani Abacha, seized power again.

Corruption and notorious governmental inefficiency as well as a harshly repressive military regime characterized Abacha's reign over this oil-rich country, turning it into an international pariah. A UN fact-finding mission in 1996 reported that Nigeria's “problems of human rights are terrible and the political problems are terrifying.” During the 1970s, Nigeria had the 33rd highest per-capita income in the world, but by 1997 it had dropped to the 13th poorest. The hanging of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 because he protested against the government was condemned around the world.

As leader of the multination peacekeeping force ECOMOG, Nigeria established itself as West Africa's superpower, intervening militarily in the civil wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone. But Nigeria's costly war efforts were unpopular with its own people, who felt Nigeria's limited economic resources were being unnecessarily drained.

Abacha died of a heart attack in 1998 and was succeeded by another military ruler, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, who pledged to step aside for an elected leader by May 1999. The suspicious death of opposition leader Mashood Abiola, who had been imprisoned by the military ever since he legally won the 1993 presidential election, was a crushing blow to democratic proponents. In Feb. 1999, free presidential elections led to an overwhelming victory for Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, a former member of the military elite who was imprisoned for three years for criticizing the military rule. Obasanjo's commitment to democracy, his anticorruption drives, and his desire to recover billions allegedly stolen by the family and cronies of Abacha initially gained him high praise from the populace as well as the international community. But within two years, the hope of reform seemed doomed as economic mismanagement and rampant corruption persisted. Obasanjo's priorities in 2001 were symbolized by his plans to build a $330–million national soccer stadium, an extravagance that exceeded the combined budget for both health and education. In April 2003, he was reelected.

Nigeria's stability has been repeatedly threatened by fighting between fundamentalist Muslims and Christians over the spread of Islamic law (sharia) across the heavily Muslim north. One-third of Nigeria's 36 states is ruled by sharia law. More than 10,000 people have died in religious clashes since military rule ended in 1999.

In 2003, after religious and political leaders in the Kano region banned polio immunization—contending that it sterilized girls and spread HIV—an outbreak of polio spread through Nigeria, entering neighboring countries the following year. The Kano region lifted its ten-month ban against vaccination in July 2004. On Aug. 24, there were 602 polio cases worldwide, 79% of which were in Nigeria.

Since 2004, an insurgency has broken out in the Niger delta, Nigeria's oil-producing region. The desperately impoverished local residents of the delta have seen little benefit from Nigeria's vast oil riches, and rebel groups are fighting for a more equal distribution of the wealth as well as greater regional autonomy. Violence by rebel groups has disrupted oil production and reduced output by about 20%. Nigeria is one of the world's largest oil producers and supplies the U.S. with one-fifth of its oil.

In Aug. 2006 Nigeria handed over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, in compliance with a 2002 World Court ruling.

slim75d:


nothing special? Why not agitate for secession of s/east alone if other ethnic nationalities want to join biafra they should ask ibos for acceptance that'll be honourable

Don27tiky:
is any one stopping them from resigning and leaving where ever they are in Nigeria and relocating to the east? It’s simple if you don’t wanna be part of this country just relocate to the east stay there. If every Igbo person do that I think it will be actuallize faster than you think

flokii:


Who is holding you back not to leave to your biafra?
Na your people dey carry their legs waka go North, South and West go live, nobody forced them. So stop the senseless talks of people holding you back, it's very annoying.

If you think you'll have biafra and still stay put in Nigeria for whatever reason, then you're joking.

einsteine:


Because Nigeria is not going to have an amicable split. If you are looking for a template for the disintegration of Nigeria, think of Yugoslavia. That means war will happen. Igbos will have to move en masse back to the South East, a small piece of land that won't contain its huge population. Most of the people campaigning for disintegration seem to be doing it in the wishful thinking that Nigeria will break up and they will just continue to live outside their region except that their country won't be ruled by Fulanis again. No, you will need a Visa and work permit and given the acrimony that would result from the split, it won't be granted.

It should also be taken as a given that any property in the North by Igbos will be lost.

buckeyemedia:
Secession today, presidency tomorrow? No wonder Nigerians don’t take these people seriously. Nonsense.