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Mariory (m)
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Treason of land that was carved up in the Berlin conference without prior knowledge or consent of the natives? If I was in Nigeria, I would say everything I have said before. Unlike you losers, some of us are actually willing to die for what we believe in.
Dude STFU and get a job. |
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Bialegend (m)
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Mariory, you better STFU and get a life. To hell wit ur niheria.
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Mariory (m)
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Remove that pointy object from your rear end. Life would be more pleasant that way.
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LePhilippe (m)
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Lol, Biafra Republic would no doublt be the most backwards country in Nigeria!!!! No offence meant truth spoken!!!
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luckyCO
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But why did former leaders signed that no Easter will be president of Nigeria after being intercepted from killing all the male children above 10yrs by ZIK after the civil war?. But think of it, it that not working for them? Anyway it is just like that. I can assure you that there is no one Nigeria here.
If Nigeria has secluded some part of her Nation as being unimportant won't they check their body? Biafra is not the problem but corruption. Even if they jail, kill or wound anybody who mentions it, it is by that it is being made popular. Which mean there must be element of truth in what the so called Biafrans are saying. They only spent Nigeria's resources to kill Nigerians in the name of Biafra all will later boil down to waste.
Paying an eastner to fight eastener with Nigeria resource it is healthy enough? Nigeria should prescute all those whose hands are sioled with corruption not killing those who are simply agitating because of imbalances in the society, we know the truth.
Somebody who doesn't get what others get can say or do anything such that he will be fair treated.
So my brothers the problem is not Biafra but corruption.
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4 Play (m)
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Why is that some people insist on defending a country whose boundaries were created by foreigners.
Nigeria was created by the British,some Nigerians don't want to continue with this British creation
Some people are terrified because they can't see how they are going to survive without oil
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adconline (m)
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Lagos indigenes fault appointment of non-indigenes to cabinet- One Nigeria Abi. http://odili.net/news/source/2007/feb/8/27.htmlI am tired of people who have not done anything to make Nigeria indivisible. I am tired of people who have not shaken hands across Naija. Born , bred and buttered in your enclave. Have never been to other parts of Nigeria with the exception of ABuja and Lagos. People who have not built relationships beyond their ethnic enclave. don't have businesses and families beyond their enclaves. People who have not voted for any president that is not from their enclave. I think Igbos are more diversified in Nigeria than most ethnic groups, yet people who don't even believe in Nigeria say so many outrageous things about them. I say to these people put your money where is mouth. Diversify and invest in Nigeria like Igbos have done are still doing. Lagos Elders do not want a non indigene but cherish the investments and developments non indigenes bring. I want to see equal representation with taxation. I have families in south and north who have built their lives around their domains. People should not be stiffled for voicing out that Nigeria is living a lie that was bestowed on it by Lady Lugard. Nigerians must agree to be Nigerians not to accept that we are one, when we know we are not. There can be unity in diversity, like S/African Airways " we speak eleven tongues, but we fly one fly" |
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Seun (m)
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Bloodshed is what I am against. War is what I am against. Biafra as an excuse for bloodshed, I strongly oppose.
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Seun (m)
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Bloodshed is what I am against. War is what I am against. Biafra as an excuse for bloodshed, I strongly oppose.
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dblock (m)
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Some people are terrified because they can't see how they are going to survive without oil That's hilarious, survive without oil, hmmmmm. There is no part of Nigeria that doesn't have resources to support proper development. I think that is why some people want to split in the first place, they believe if they are self goverened they'll succed better, implying thatNigeria is a dump and they know how to run a country. Nigeria is not surviving off south Eastern Nigeria or the Niger Delta to be be specific. Oil will be a thing of the past in the next 20 years so. Nigeria may have being created by the British but that doesn't mean it can't prosoper, Niger can propser, and anyone that thinks it can't is obviuosly uneducated, Nigeria is how it is today bacuase of some fools, ot bacuse it wasn't meant to be a united federation. |
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luckyCO
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The fact here is not mainly because of oil but because pretensive acceptance Nigeria has for those regions so mentioned. You cannot tell that those areas if allowed to partake and have their own share they will agitate again. Even if they do as a result of greed it will be unnoticed.
How do you want northers to feel if Federal goverment lead by a souther(Easten) over many years invade into their region and declare all their animals,Farm land Federal property, reform it only to use it to develope souther(Easten) part of Nigeria with droplets to them. Are you sure they will not agitate? Do u think they will not form SSA(Soverign State of Arewa)?
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adconline (m)
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Seun,
" everyone is crying out for peace, none is crying out for justice" Peter Torch. U have to treat all regions equally . I tell you no Nigerian is ready for a bloodshed, but at the same time nobody wants to settle for inequality. What has this country achieved in the last 46 years? The schools our parents went to, we cannot send our kids to, the hospitals that served as institutions of learning and research don't even have drugs today. The questions should be do we continuously live a lie that was coined by Lady Lugard for administrative convenience or do we look for commonalities that will propel us into a great a nation. We have federal character commission on political appointments but not on power sharing or revenue generation. We have an affirmative action on educationally less developed states but on federal projects, that's why Bayelsa was connected to national grid.
We do not need a bloodshed I repeat, but cannot keep living in illusion that Nigeria is one. Tell me how many presidents has your family voted for that are not from your tribe? Our federal system has go to stop. The federal govt should allow states to control their resources. The feds should control basic agencies like health, army,international relations. Russia did it without blood shed, why can't we?
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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The heck with Biafra, must of its supporters are in the diaspora anyways, if they were serious about their ambitions they would be back home facing the real music. Again the most tribalistic mugu's are here abroad.
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adconline (m)
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Gov Orji Kalu appointed someone who is not from eastern States in his cabinet, no Abia State elders complained about it. Chimaroke did same thing in Enugu, nobody complained, Tinubu folowed suit even though he should have done it before all these governors because non-indigenes make up 50% of Lagos. Lagos so called elders stated complaining. Do we need to be told that these so called elders do not believe in oneness of Nigeria.
That same thing that is being said of Biafra cannot be said of Odua Peoples Congress or Arewa. You see the way they are calling Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) all sorts of bad names without looking for a way to tackle some of these problems in Niger Delta. Nigeria must be restructured to accommodate its heterogeneity
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Donzman (m)
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Funny enough, on page 1 someone asked who is responsible for developing S.Eastern Nigeria and another answered Igbos.
If the FG has no responsibility in S.Eastern Nigeria, what are we doing in the country then?. . .We're just here so our resources can be taken away on the condition that we should not expect anything back? What hypocrisy, since we're responsible for us and the FG of Nigeria has no responsiblity in Eastern Nigeria, why are we part of the country again?. . .Let us leave and form our nation then.
Silly people!
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LePhilippe (m)
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Biafra republic will never and i repeat never be a threat to Nigeria in the near future!!
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toshmann (m)
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u can't continue to give paracetamol to treat recurrent headache without trying to find out the cause of the headache. it may be he has malaria, or typhoid, or even hunger. and until the underlying cause is taken care of the headache will never disappear.
the ibos in nigeria today feel sidelined. so that feeling for their own country is only natural. the yorubas will feel the same if they were in ibos shoes, same for hausas etc. the average ibo today has a soft spot for biafra. though most wont say it openly b/c of the fear of violence. and until the inequality in nigeria is taken care of, that urge for "our own country" will always be there.
same thing happens in the international arena- everybody talks of terrorism and terrorists but nobody is talking about the unfair foreign policy that is tilted against the arabs. everybody talks about illegal immigration but nobody is talking about the unfair global trade that tilts the global economy to favor the west to the vast disadvantage of the rest.
until these unfairness/injustice is addressed there will always be terrorism and illegal immigration. and for nigeria there will always be agitation in south-south and south east.
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Planner (m)
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Biafra republic will never and i repeat never be a threat to Nigeria in the near future Hey, are you very sure? You must know that histroy always repeats itself. |
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Drusilla (f)
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I support Biafra Republic because I love Chinua Achebe so much and he supported it.
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ZuluNation (m)
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God bless Nigeria and the Federal republic of
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4 Play (m)
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Long Live Biafra Death to Nigeria  |
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paddy_lo (m)
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@everyone
Biafra is a pipe dream,and it will do igbos good to be part of Nigeria(i am igbo by the way),last i checked 5 eastern landlocked states cannot be a viable country,with no access to the sea,and hostile neighbours,i think people forget that the original biafra contains,cross-river,rivers,akwa-ibom,people who are not igbo,and want no part of biafra. . .
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Uche2nna (m)
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Last time I checked it is not only the Igbos that r tired of the Nigerian system.
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Planner (m)
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Biafra is live becuase Nigeria is increasingly a Big-for-Nothing country and a failure too.
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LePhilippe (m)
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If a whole Nigeria is a failure so far, Imagine Biafra!!  |
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dblock (m)
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The reason why the Igbos wanted out of Nigeria is because of the political dominance of Northern Nigeria and not entirely on the state of the country. Igbos struggled to remove corrupt bastards only to have another one come in. And after studying history, I don't blame them, but I don't blame the government for acting the way they did after the split. The problem isn't Nigeria, the problem is the political system. If Nigerian states were governed by Governors that would operate as presidents, then the political system would heal. It wouldn't be splitting from Nigeria, because the states would still be partially controlled by the Federal Government whose main Job would now be to focus on things like Foreign Trade and so on. Nigeria would still be a country as it is today and practically nothing much would change, the governors would only have more power and say over the resources in their states, ofcourse the EFCC would become more active to prevent more corruption and all  . This is what Nigeria needs and i am 100 percent sure that 90% of states would crave the idea. |
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LePhilippe (m)
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@ dblock
Nigeria would then become a cooperation somewhat like the United States and I think most people are against that!!
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dblock (m)
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It seems to me that a lot of Nigerians are profiting of the current state of Nigeria. If Nigeria was to suddenly become an America tommorow, they wouldn't be able to earn the amount of money or the equivalent of the money with the new system in place. It'D be difficult to perform Arm Robberies and have 50 cars, It'D be impossible to steal millions of Government money, It'D be difficult to practice a lot of the illegal activities that take place in this country today. The fact is you can earn more money as a yahoo yahoo Leader than you would as an Average American. I think that's the reason why corruption persists in Nigeria, because the minority of people are profiting of the state of the country  |
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