patrick89:
Oya cat face troop in and course your heart and soul out!

9jacrip:


The emboldened is actually wrong, relationships have been affected, orientations have changed and outlooks have been altered.

I am glad we both share the same mind state, I hope it spread across to where we'd stay out of their business and not antagonize if we cannot support until we are given a reason to meddle in their affairs.

Aareonakakanfo:



I agree with you but i was referring to when I said nairaland is not reality is when I hear things like. we control 80% of lagos, Yorubas cannot do without oil and blah blah. at the end of the day, its all chest beating.the guys at DAWN Commission will just look at comments like that and smile

kestolove95:
Nigerians shud allow dix cursed erosion people to go jare..nothing positiv has eva come out of dia self

sunnyb0b0:

Your mama toto

kestolove95:
better pass ur decay mama own

sunnyb0b0:


This is what you get when contraceptives fail.

Atlantian:


Biafrans are in many countries because they are marginalized and are travelling outside their torture zones to earn a living. Currently, the coal deposits and the unexplored deposits oil in the Biafran region will catapult that region to a great country. I agree, they will need a visa to enter Nigeria and do business. But Yes, you will need them to sell your spare parts and develop your real estates. That is how it should be. But Biafrans and Biafra allies are ready to move on. I personally will like to apply for citizenship of Biafra as far as we have a better living condition than the present comatose.

9jacrip:


You almost made me feel like I'm ibo with your post. For corrective purposes, I'm Yoruba. My post history should tell you that.

I can only wish my fellow humans well until they wish me otherwise. So right now, my wish is that they get their country.

My question is, why do some if not many of our people throw fits when Biafra is mentioned as if we are going to lose something if they succeed? We act lie Biafra is our business and its failure or non realization is our goal - can't we just ignore their biafra threads, marches, posters and if possible broadcasts until they drag or mention us in it?

The more we continue to act like it is our business the more they'd continue to get unnecessarily someway towards us.

At times, many Yorubas act like the British charged them with the duty to keep the colonial legacy in existence, as though we all did not occupy these lands before Nigeria came into being.

I weak sef.

laudate:


[s]Thanks for letting us know that you view Nigeria as a "torture zone". Those were your words, not mine. The best thing would have been to move back into the South-East and develop it, into a sheer heaven on earth, instead of jetting out to other countries.

However, they prefer to reside in those other countries where they have no say in how their own affairs are run, where their opinions do not count, where they can be deported at the drop of a hat, and where they would have to devise many schemes in order to get residency or valid papers. But then every man to his own.

Trust me, there are too many non-Igbo who are ready, willing and able, to move into the spare parts business & real estate industry, once your brothers leave Nigeria. Selling spares is not rocket science, honestly. Non-Igbo Nigerians can easily develop a new Alaba market, if need be. And there have always been people from all ethnic groups in Nigeria, selling real estate. The Igbo do not have any extra-ordinary or special skills in this area.

Yes, Biafra has unexplored oil deposits in Anambra & Imo. But then, so does Nigeria too in other parts of Ondo, Edo etc. Don't forget that part of the oil wells in Anambra, also flows straight through to Kogi land. And seismic data from Kogi has confirmed that commercial deposits of oil exists in that area. Last time I checked, the Igala in that part of town were not ready to leave Nigeria, for anywhere else. Badagry has also been found to have small deposits of oil and gas. An agreement to set up a processing plant in that area, is being signed as we speak. In Lake Chad at the northern part of Nigeria, there has been no oil but massive pockets of trapped gas which can be processed, piped and tapped for future use in gas-to-power schemes. After all, there are countries without a drop of oil that still survive. Does anyone remember Japan? Or Singapore?

By the time you leave, the rest of Nigeria would have to take other sources of revenue (such as tin, solid minerals, feldspar, gold, iron ore mining etc,) much more seriously, as well as Agriculture. Rivers Niger and Benue can be nurtured to supply adequate fishing stocks. Ogun River, Epe waterside, Yewa River, Osun River etc, can also do the same job. Don't forget that Argungu is where you find the largest fishing stocks, every year. The Atlantic Ocean also flows through the shoreline of Lagos and a few other places. Malaysia made a fortune from non-oil exports. So can we. The Lagos Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and the Olokonla FTZ are all here in Nigeria. The bitumen deposits in parts of Ondo State, are enough to tar our roads if properly harnessed. Your departure will spur us to concentrate on these things. Construction work has already started on Dangote's refinery in Olokonla area of Ondo State.

Remediation of lands affected by oil spillage, would then take centre stage. Buhari is leading the way by implementing the clean-up of Ogoni land. After the remediation, if the non-Igbo parts of the Niger-Delta choose to increase their fish farming activities, then there should be no issues. But then, it would depend on which of the minority tribes in the Niger-Delta, wish to remain in Nigeria. It is solely their call.

So you can see, that the remaining parts of Nigeria would survive quite well without the Igbo. Once they leave, we would reinforce our borders, increase trade restrictions on in-bound foreign items in order to foster local development of goods and services, and place a ban on any products manufactured in Biafra, from coming in. So forget about having your cake and eating it.

Therefore, your folks do not need to wait forever to apply for citizenship of Biafra. Ask them to renounce their Nigerian nationality, right now. Tear up their passports. And ask your director to issue each of them with a new travelling document, without further delay.

Don't forget to remind them to excavate their shops on the way out, and take them along. We will keep ourselves busy, building new ones. When it is time for us to review their visa applications, Biafrans will be forced to be polite and vice versa. Rudeness would lead to visa denial on the spot. And once they arrive, they would restrain themselves from preaching hate-filled epistles, since they know that deportation is a reality.

So nobody should prevent Biafra from becoming a reality, abeg!! We are more interested in those who would be left behind.[/s]

carnegiefan:


Honestly your long epistle is totally unnecessary on this issue.
We have plans to sell our products, repeat PRODUCTS (not oil alone) to ALL countries of the world. In fact we shall sell to the rest of Africa, America's, Asia, Europe etc. You will not be in a position to impose economic embargo on us because you PRODUCE NOTHING. You only consume with money raised from sale of oil and gas which will be gone, but even if you have it, we don't need to sell to you. It is like Yemen or Syria threatening to embargo Israel.
We need our freedom to be able to use what God has given us -OUR BRAINS.
Thank you for supporting us.

laudate:
Interesting! What is the proportion of oil blocks in Anambra & Imo?

Is it greater than the ones on the outskirts of Lagos, or the ones in Ondo, Edo, Kogi etc? It would be interesting to check the seismic data results. Last time I went through comments in the media, there was no confirmation that Igala and Idoma people had any intention of leaving Nigeria. So those drawing mental boundaries through their land believing it would form the northern part of their new country, need to have a rethink.

And the largest number of private oil or fuel depots were concentrated in the South-West, last time I checked. So also were LFTZ, Olokonla FTZ Tin Can Ports, Apapa ports etc. Anyway, there are countries without oil, that have survived.

Ah, well...what do you know?

Aareonakakanfo:



I agree with you but what i was referring to when I said nairaland is not reality is when I hear things like. we control 80% of lagos, Yorubas cannot do without oil and blah blah. at the end of the day, its all chest beating.the guys at DAWN Commission will just look at comments like that and smile

OfoIgbo:


Well, in the event of Nigeria not restructuring soonest, Igala and Idoma people will vote to indicate which country they want to belong to, in the all-important referendum

Btw, in addition to oil, Anambra has the hugest gas reserve in Nigeria and they are located further within Anambra around my area of the state.
I accept it must be a painful knowledge for Igbo-haters, na God ooooh.

Oil wise, Imo alone has more oil reserves than all the Yoruba states put together. The same goes for Abia

laudate:


Why should Igala and Idoma vote in a referendum to join any other country? Did they tell you that they were tired of belonging to Nigeria?? Is Biafra no longer a South-East Igbo/SS Igbo affair? Why is Igala and Idoma being mentioned??

As for Anambra having the largest gas reserve, that remains to be seen. Only relevant data from expert geologists, can prove that.

It is really not a big deal however even if it is true, as there are countries without oil that have survived and are still surviving till date. Apart from that, the remaining oil & gas deposits in Nigeria as well as non-oil minerals would be adequate, all things being equal. And more people would have to be a lot more creative in providing intellectual or knowledge-based services, and generating ideas that can create wealth.

Finally, it takes a lot of energy and a myopic mind, to hate. So hatred for the Igbo does not exist in the dictionary of many of us. We prefer to expend our energy on more constructive things.

We just want them gone, so that everyone left can have a breathing space from their clamour, hate and rancour on the internet and in the media.

OfoIgbo:


For four decades, the west and the north hypnotised the SS into believing that Igbos didn't't have oil and gas and as such were hellbent on forcefully acquiring theirs.
But God made sure to give us ours and in fact we have way more than we need.

Talking about human resources, this has always been the major hope for the Igbo source of wealth for and the human resources in the east is by far, the most productive in Nigeria.

Now regarding the Igala and Idoma, that shouldn't really bother you, as the referendum will be the best way and solidly empirical way of determining which country they want to be in

laudate:


Thanks for letting us know that you view Nigeria as a "torture zone". Those were your words, not mine. The best thing would have been to move back into the South-East and develop it, into a sheer heaven on earth, instead of jetting out to other countries.

However, they prefer to reside in those other countries where they have no say in how their own affairs are run, where their opinions do not count, where they can be deported at the drop of a hat, and where they would have to devise many schemes in order to get residency or valid papers. But then every man to his own.

Trust me, there are too many non-Igbo who are ready, willing and able, to move into the spare parts business & real estate industry, once your brothers leave Nigeria. Selling spares is not rocket science, honestly. Non-Igbo Nigerians can easily develop a new Alaba market, if need be. And there have always been people from all ethnic groups in Nigeria, selling real estate. The Igbo do not have any extra-ordinary or special skills in this area.

Yes, Biafra has unexplored oil deposits in Anambra & Imo. But then, so does Nigeria too in other parts of Ondo, Edo etc. Don't forget that part of the oil wells in Anambra, also flows straight through to Kogi land. And seismic data from Kogi has confirmed that commercial deposits of oil exists in that area. Last time I checked, the Igala in that part of town were not ready to leave Nigeria, for anywhere else. Badagry has also been found to have small deposits of oil and gas. An agreement to set up a processing plant in that area, is being signed as we speak. In Lake Chad at the northern part of Nigeria, there has been no oil but massive pockets of trapped gas which can be processed, piped and tapped for future use in gas-to-power schemes. After all, there are countries without a drop of oil that still survive. Does anyone remember Japan? Or Singapore?

By the time you leave, the rest of Nigeria would have to take other sources of revenue (such as tin, solid minerals, feldspar, gold, iron ore mining etc,) much more seriously, as well as Agriculture. Rivers Niger and Benue can be nurtured to supply adequate fishing stocks. Ogun River, Epe waterside, Yewa River, Osun River etc, can also do the same job. Don't forget that Argungu is where you find the largest fishing stocks, every year. The Atlantic Ocean also flows through the shoreline of Lagos and a few other places. Malaysia made a fortune from non-oil exports. So can we. The Lagos Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and the Olokonla FTZ are all here in Nigeria. The bitumen deposits in parts of Ondo State, are enough to tar our roads if properly harnessed. Your departure will spur us to concentrate on these things. Construction work has already started on Dangote's refinery in Olokonla area of Ondo State.

Remediation of lands affected by oil spillage, would then take centre stage. Buhari is leading the way by implementing the clean-up of Ogoni land. After the remediation, if the non-Igbo parts of the Niger-Delta choose to increase their fish farming activities, then there should be no issues. But then, it would depend on which of the minority tribes in the Niger-Delta, wish to remain in Nigeria. It is solely their call.

So you can see, that the remaining parts of Nigeria would survive quite well without the Igbo. Once they leave, we would reinforce our borders, increase trade restrictions on in-bound foreign items in order to foster local development of goods and services, and place a ban on any products manufactured in Biafra, from coming in. So forget about having your cake and eating it.

Therefore, your folks do not need to wait forever to apply for citizenship of Biafra. Ask them to renounce their Nigerian nationality, right now. Tear up their passports. And ask your director to issue each of them with a new travelling document, without further delay.

Don't forget to remind them to excavate their shops on the way out, and take them along. We will keep ourselves busy, building new ones. When it is time for us to review their visa applications, Biafrans will be forced to be polite and vice versa. Rudeness would lead to visa denial on the spot. And once they arrive, they would restrain themselves from preaching hate-filled epistles, since they know that deportation is a reality.

So nobody should prevent Biafra from becoming a reality, abeg!! We are more interested in those who would be left behind.

laudate:
Interesting! What is the proportion of oil blocks in Anambra & Imo?

Is it greater than the ones on the outskirts of Lagos, or the ones in Ondo, Edo, Kogi etc? It would be interesting to check the seismic data results. Last time I went through comments in the media, there was no confirmation that Igala and Idoma people had any intention of leaving Nigeria. So those drawing mental boundaries through their land believing it would form the northern part of their new country, need to have a rethink.

And the largest number of private oil or fuel depots were concentrated in the South-West, last time I checked. So also were LFTZ, Olokonla FTZ Tin Can Ports, Apapa ports etc. Anyway, there are countries without oil, that have survived.

Ah, well...what do you know?

Duru1:


For once, get your moronic mind off crude oil. How does it concern you to the point of skipping sleep that Biafrans sell spare parts? How does what the jackasses do in the zoo called Nigeria affect most of Ndiigbo who had left for Biafra? If the goons in the jungle called Nigeria want to knock themselves out with spare parts business & real estate industry establishments, it will only amuse the Ndiigbo.

Atlantian:

Biafrans are in many countries because they are marginalized and are travelling outside their torture zones to earn a living. Currently, the coal deposits and the unexplored deposits oil in the Biafran region will catapult that region to a great country. I agree, they will need a visa to enter Nigeria and do business. But Yes, you will need them to sell your spare parts and develop your real estates. That is how it should be. But Biafrans and Biafra allies are ready to move on. I personally will like to apply for citizenship of Biafra as far as we have a better living condition than the present comatose.

Duru1:


If Biafra is actualized today, the first order of business will be to shutdown all the crude oil wells in the land. Biafrans must chart a different course from dumbass entity such as Nigeria.

laudate:


Nobody hypnotised the South-South into believing the Igbo did not have oil. In fact, the specific details of oil in Ala'Igbo emerged when 2D and 3D-seismic analysis became widely used. New technologies are developing all the time, in the exploration and production field.

Don't be suprised if the small oil and gas deposits currently off the coast of Badagry metamorphose into a major oil discovery, by the time 4D & 5D seismic systems are developed.

As for the Igala and Idoma, why for goodness sake are you insisting that they take part in a referendum when they have not expressed any desire to do so, and neither have they expressed any desire to leave Nigeria? Since when has the pro-Biafra group started speaking for them, in such a cavalier fashion??

Save your referendum for all the minority groups in the South-South like the Izon, Efik, Ibibio, Etche, Ikwerre etc., whose input you need for Biafra to happen. Last time I checked in the media, the Igala and Idoma were not looking to the South-East or Biafra for salvation. They really don't need your referendum.

OfoIgbo:


First of all, I am happy you have come to the realisation that non-Igbo SS like Efik e.t.c. will take part in any such referendum. This contrasts sharply with your initial reply to me in which you only referred to se and ss Igbos as the only Biafran candidates. So at least I am happy we are making progress.

Getting back to Igalas and Idomas. How are you sure Igbos have not entertained nocturnal visits from influential individuals from those ethnic groups?
Btw, I am an Nri person and we share a common ancestor with Igalas , and cultural similarities with both the Igalas and Idomas. Both groups deserve to have the vote.
Again if they are not interested in joining their brothers in Biafra, they can all politely vote to remain in Nigeria

adamskutty:
Trash! Are they minority in those places or not? U can't tell me about my history. All i know is that majority of igalas, as the largest ethnic group in kogi state, does not share anything with igbos, yes we do business with igbo immigrants in kogi state but that doesn't mean we have anything in common with u people.
Majority of igbos are christain, majority of igalas are muslim
Our food,dressing, culture is different, mr.man!

Like i said earlier those igalas who got lost in igbo land as a result of war with the jukuns are even eager to trace their origin back to kogi, in order words, they ain't really indigenes, they were few unlucky people who got seperated from their kinsmen as a result of the mistake of the nigerian govt by drawing unnecessary boundaries.

From ur post, Those few, tiny, almost extinct minority u said are in enugu state self wants to leave biafraland, that is why they interacted with attah igala (his traditional outfit doesn't look anything igbo but hausa o) so they can be relocated back. And here u are claiming there support biafra, hehe! U shot urself right in the foot. And lastly, u can never use the decision of a tiny minority who make up less than 1 percent of igalas to judge the whole "real" igalas of kogi. . https://www.nairaland.com/search/igala%20biafra/0/0/0/3

adamskutty:
hehehe! Did i just see igala? My eyes must be decieving me, lmaooo! Is this a joke or what?
Igalas and idomas have nothing in common with igbos, biafrans, we are from north central nigeria and majority of igalas and idomas are muslims,btw!

torkaka:
idoma land now is part of biafra? i see that total lack of land is worrying you people! https://www.nairaland.com/987947/picture-new-biafra-map-covering

AndreUweh:
@The poster. Please stop making a mockery of Ndigbo here. People like you are the reason why Ndigbo are so much hated here. Stop creating useless threads that will result in Igbo bashing.

The Biafran nation that was declared in 1967 did not include Edo, Idoma, Tivland and entire Delta state.
Nevertherless, stop creating this sort of threads.https://www.nairaland.com/987947/picture-new-biafra-map-covering

laudate:


Guy, it is not a case of coming to any realisation. Your people have used NL to postulate their desire in several threads that Biafra is an SE Igbo/SS Igbo cause. No problem.

There are no Igala or Idoma groups that have come out en bloc, to claim that they want to be part of Biafra. So why do you want to drag them into something they have never expressed a desire to be part of??

If ancestry is your claim, well the Anioma Igbo-speaking groups claim to descend from Benin. Should they drag the Bini people along with them when they decide to head for the Biafra enclave.

So why are you laying claims to Igala and Idoma land, biko nu?? Whatever nocturnal visit may have taken place, it cannot be representative of the larger Igala/Idoma group. So please delete your plans of terriorial expansion that include these set of people. Or are you planning to re-eanct another Midwest annexation, like your folks did in the late sixties?

@LastProphet, are your people joining Biafra?? Kindly let us know.

This Igala issue has already been debated on several threads:

OfoIgbo:


The referendum will afford Igala and Idoma the opportunity to opt out.

btw, I prefer a restructured Nigeria.
Biafra or Lower Niger Republic is my second option if the powers that be fail to restructure Nigeria.

kestolove95:
useless amadioha wey no fit help him people..hungry and erosion won kill dem..see dem dey run from north to west just to survive and u hia calling one useless tin call amadioha...rubbish