pus96:
Stop talking about Biafra
It is a dream of fool. Like the former army chief , foolishness is not igbo


I would let Biafra go.. But no food. How do you feed 30 million , on water.


For how long

biafranking:
can i see the link where spain has refused to recognised the referendum

biafranking:
can i see the link where spain has refused to recognised the referendum

McTobe:
The big powers knows only their interest only and nothing more. like I argued before only if they see what they will benefit more from Biafra that their relationship with Nigeria have not offered them. For me China can easily support Biafra and the same goes for Russia with their new posture in international affairs. Saudi Arabia is under US manipulation and they will do US bidding but I don't know yet how US and their allies can forgo their interest in Nigeria. If the Niger Deltans(SS) willingly come into Biafra as I know that there is a likelihood, then Biafra must convince these big MNC oil companies to convince their home countries to support the Biafra course that their interest will be highly protected under the Biafra state and even woe them to establish a military base in Biafra and of course secret deals will be signed. without taking care of these big power interests the achievement of Biafra will remain a mirage

superstar1:



There is no world power that can support secession openly because they also have secessionist cry in their backyards too that they are grappling with.

In US, the Sourthern States want to pull out of the Union, In RUssia, you have Chenchya, in China you have Tibet and Taiwan and even hong Kong; in Britain, we had Scotland; in canada you have Quebec; in Spain you have the Basque Region and the Catalonia.

Which one of them will support secession without fueling hat they are contending with at home?

The road to secession is simple but tortuous and calls for intellectual argument rather than show of brawn that will never lead to any where.

carnegiefan:


UN can "force" Nigeria to conduct a referendum if the permanent members agree to that. Any number of things can make them agree... or not.
It is left to the Biafrans to find out what those things are.
Personally I believe that the shortest route to Biafran freedom from Nigeria is for the Biafrans to "convince" the Nigerians that they want out and even if it takes 100 years that they want out. Once the Nigerians get convinced that we hate them enough; D they will ask us to leave.
Right now they hate us, but we haven't returned the favor yet.
Even foreigners notice that Nigerians hate us, but the problem is our people who carry on as if life can go on under the burden of such hate.
Our region is the most neglected in Nigeria in terms of federal infrastructure.
Things that North and West take for granted (eg airports, roads and bridges) are pies in the skies in our region.
And if we complain, we are killed.
It is only if we return the hate that the writing will become clear on the wall.
Maybe then, they would know that we are humans with dignity too, and maybe let us go ('cos frankly they don't like us).

AyakaDunukofia:


If no international law takes predcedent over a country's constitution, why is Sudan's president Albashir hiding like a rat for years or why was Slobadan Milosovich of Yugoslavia arrested.

The UN was established after the second world war given that once in a while murderous tyrants and sado-masochists like Buhari appear on the political radar, just like Hitler.

Biafra's won't be the first for Nigeria. The southern Cameroons were granted their right of opinion through the 1961 plebscite in a referendum by Nigeria, and was conducted UNDER UN's Supervision and NOT NIGERIA(no magomago)

oyatz:
Niger Deltans have severally warn you against including them in your proposed Biafra.

Jaideyone:
no they can not. there are cases when referendum is conducted but the government of the country won't acknowledge it. there's nothing the UN can do. an example is Catalonia in Spain. the referendum conducted shows Catalonia should be a country but Spain has refused to recognise the referendum

oyatz:
Niger Deltans have severally warn you against including them in your proposed Biafra.

oyatz:
Niger Deltans have severally warn you against including them in your proposed Biafra.

Calculia:
Yes. Nigeria is a signatory country to the International Court and international law takes precedent over domestic law.

Thus, no need to amend constitution to hold referendum in the SS AND SE for Biafra.

AyakaDunukofia:


If no international law takes predcedent over a country's constitution, why is Sudan's president Albashir hiding like a rat for years or why was Slobadan Milosovich of Yugoslavia arrested.

The UN was established after the second world war given that once in a while murderous tyrants and sado-masochists like Buhari appear on the political radar, just like Hitler.

Biafra's won't be the first for Nigeria. The southern Cameroons were granted their right of opinion through the 1961 plebscite in a referendum by Nigeria, and was conducted UNDER UN's Supervision and NOT NIGERIA(no magomago)

jpphilips:


Where do you guys get all these lies from?

kingzizzy:
I can't comment on referendum as a process since I'm not an international Lawyer but I can comment on the 'right' to a referendum. I believe that any ethnic group in Nigeria can seek referendum based on the fact that Nigeria is just a mere colonial contruct. The argument for a referendum is that the people who populate Nigeria were never consulted before Lugard unilaterally created Nigeria. This renders the 1914 amalgamation illegitimate and thus, a referendum becomes the only legitimate way for the various ethnicities to define their political borders. A clause in the amalgamation document purpotedly claims that after 100 years, any of the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria who are no longer happy with the union can opt out. The fact that Nigeria is an illegal fabrication of the White man is at the very heart of why a referendum should be conducted. Referendum is the legitimate way to reverse the illegal amalgamation of 1914 and to decolonize Nigeria. I remember watching on YouTube an interview Asari Dokubo gave where he claimed that the Ijaw people sent a delegation to the colonial office in London in 1923 to ask the British Government why they included the Ijaw people in Nigeria. Dokubo also claimed that the Egba people of South west Nigeria never became part of Nigeria until that same year of 1923. My late grandfather was born an Igbo man in 1902, he told me before he died that he did not know he had been made a Nigerian until 1920. The fact that most people were made Nigerians without their knowledge also renders Nigeria as an act of fraud thus lending credibility to the notion of a referendum. On the whole, the case for a referendum is very strong and if the Nigerian Government eventually does not agree to a referendum, I believe it will later lead to a second civil war

carnegiefan:


I have to agree on the bolded.

For the ICJ at THE HAGUE, their ruling becomes binding on any country that willing go there for any adjudication on a case, usually a trans-national or international case. The Bakassi case adjudication became binding on Nigeria the moment Nigeria agreed AHEAD OF TIME to abide by its ruling.
That is why Cameroun kept persuading Nigeria to go there with them, and Nigeria "mumuishly" went there. The rest is history.

As for the International Criminal Court (ICC), that is binding on all countries that are SIGNATORY to it.
Nigeria is a signatory to ICC, so her leaders are subject to being dragged there for justice on issues of crimes against humanity.
That is why IPOB wear body cameras gathering shooting evidences against unarmed civilians by the Nigeria police and others.
One day "Sai Baba" go hear am.

EternalTruths:



Leave him to his incorrect view


Once Biafra takes up arms, UN will intervene. They will ask Biafrans what they want of which the Biafrans will reply referendum.

Pick up arms? on the contrary, Biafra will be designated a terrorist organisation, if in doubt ask the PKK

Proudlyngwa:


Kindly correct the lies.
Here to learn

McTobe:
quote any section of Nigeria constitution that recognizes international criminal court rule to be binding on Nigeria. u don't need to remind me that we are talking international law because I know before commenting, I also said that the decision of ICC is of persuasive authority on Nigeria and not of binding authority on Nigeria quote me any where. Do u know that Nigeria could choose to disregard the ICJ ruling on bakassi Peninsula? By the way who enforces ICC rulings?

jpphilips:


The right of opinion granted to the Southern Cameroonians does not in anyway interprete as a referendum or plebiscite, even by drunk standards.
Nigeria recognises only the 1999 constitution, whatever that was provided for in the Macpherson and Richard's are no longer binding, for someone to quote a 1961 event in 2017, is ecclipse of knowledge.

90% of those who posted on this thread have zero knowledge of international politics, there is absolutely nothing to learn here. Dont waste your time.

jpphilips:


Your illiteracy knows no bound, take heart!

Babacele:
these guys who are being misled by their rogue elites know nothing ,and this deliberate misinfo constipation of Igbos is the real disaster!

jpphilips:


Im no longer bothered about them, I think im Beginning to enjoy their entertainment value, when a man believes one lun@tic is right because he got his @rse on a radio, then others must be wrong despite not presenting any proof of his claims, then you must understand that this Biafra issue is an Aphrodisiac.

McTobe:
For where? No international law takes precedent over any country's constitution. it contravens the Westphalia treaty establishing the modern state structure thus any rule of the UN is only of persuasive and not of binding authority on Nigeria On the issue of a referendum to determine a seceding part's claim to right for self determination the truth of the matter is that a lot of political tricks can be brought to bear on the matter depending on the alliance that the seceding part have in the parliament with one or more factions in the house. I stand to be corrected but I don't think u need to amend any constitution. INEC can be used to settle the matter through referendum but like I said with the right political alliances.

kettykin:




if this is true , how come Nigeria had to bow to ICC rule giving out oil rich penisular with out much fuss, Nifgeria again bowed to UN in 1961 and after independence and conducted a referendum for the Souther Cameroons to leave Nigeria