Mujtahida:

All the States of the Southern region were formerly known as the Eastern region. Upon the declaration of Biafra, Gowon in a deft move created the Cross Rivers and Rivers States and coralled Biafra.
Mention those facts. I've always had an intellectual interest in Biafra Read about it growing up- the books written by Frederick Forsythe and Alexander Madiebo

amazingspiderma:
A lot has been said on igbos been landlocked. But one thing is for sure. The potential residue of Nigeria will be dominated by so-called North.
I am really wondering how elections nomination and results will play out in the the southwest, south south and middle belt region. I am still wondering how you guys will keep up with the lopsided appointments,conflicting interest of the Nigerian and sharia constitution. Where your fundamental human, in alienable right to freedom and pursuit of happiness will be guaranteed.
How you guys will be locked by security agencies up for defending yourselves against northern / fulani indigenes who attack you in your own ancestral land.
I believe the op is better off thinking about how his region will survive all these man made tsunami, in the potential residue of Nigeria.

I think, people like the op really want the Igbo to stay.I really wonder how he will survive been minority in potential hostile country. This write up has fear written all over it. The fear not of the Igbo, but of the unknown for Nigeria.
The middle belt is better off, most of them are religiously homogeneous. They can share some bilateral relationship with Biafra.
But if peradventure, the Yoruba decide to leave, it won't work,because there is no clear boundary to control religious controversy hence their case is worse off. Theirs will be the continuation of struggle for religious supremacy. And be sure , the north will not be neutral.
For the south south region, they have a choice to chose which is the lesser evil between Biafra civil friendship and North hostile dominance.
Land locked you said, I think in the bigger picture, it is the Igbos that will have the last laugh, because food can be manufactured, trade can be made, but cultural and religious conflicts are almost impossible to handle in Nigeria.
In the end, not choosing is also a choice.
Enough of all these Igbo talk, its meaningless talking about somebody as future, when you don't know about yours.

Dedetwo:


I guess one of the reasons Gen. Ironsi was overthrown remains the issue of unitary government. How was the current system is Ironsi when he was overthrown to change the government? Are you still living on the fake news of yesteryears without adequate research or the acts of insincerity Nigerians are known remain part of you too?

lx3as:


A very poor submission! The North will be wise enough to know that it's time for restructuring and true federalism. The exclusive list will surely be reduced to few things like diplomacy and defence with all regions having their fiscal policy, policing and ministries.
I don't know what you mean by Yoruba not having clear boundaries?

lx3as:


A very poor submission! The North will be wise enough to know that it's time for restructuring and true federalism. The exclusive list will surely be reduced to few things like diplomacy and defence with all regions having their fiscal policy, policing and ministries.
I don't know what you mean by Yoruba not having clear boundaries?

Dedetwo:


Of course, I am a Biafra's sympathizer and a student of history. It has been established in the moment of history that what complied certain individuals to support a course might not be present in second stanza. For example, One-Nigeria, a phrase coined in 1967. In today’s Nigeria, most people are wiser than in period of 1967, could not be fooled with silly One-Nigeria and certainly will not fight for such crap. Most of the factors that created the favorable outcome on Nigeria’s side are no longer obtainable today or virtually not in existence. Again, I stand by my last sentence that in an event of second civil war in Nigeria, Nigeria will cease to exist as we all know it and certainly will give rise to Biafra we have not seen before the war.

JANK23H:
Going through this thread i have come to a conclusion that the Igbos are the most arrogant,ignorant,undiplomatic and foolish tribe to walk the surface of the earth.

Porthacourt is Igweocha and Bonny...Igwenga?

The pogrom of 1967-1970 will be child's play when una madness ripe.This time, you lot will realize that the battle will be between the SS and Igbo and not with the North as you think.

Such stupidity!Never seen any people this arrogant.

We are waiting...

HopeAtHand:
@ezeagu, If it becomes certain that Igbos will get that referendum, you might actually be shocked that certain Niger Deltans will join. Not because we love the Biafran dream but Nigeria is messed up and once in Biafra, Igbos cannot hold us back from whatever we choose to become after Biafra.

Biafra referendum once certain to happen, ultimately, becomes that means to the desired end.

kingzizzy:


Instead of you talking like a fool, why dont you do a little reaserch to find out what the original names of the place before the white man came? How do you think these places got English names like Portharcourt or Bonny?

What is the meaning of South South? Another English name? Where is North North?

nengibo:
Igbos and their usual show of stupidity, Bonny is now Igwenga, let this their referendum come sef so dat abandon property part 2 will begin

HarryDuce:
There are Igbos in Onne and Bonny just as there are Igbos everywhere else.


Another mans labour you say, the insecurities couldn't be more glaring. Anyways there is more than one side to an argument.


Debunking not-so-clever lies is what i can see. I dont know where hatred comes in.

JANK23H:
Going through this thread i have come to a conclusion that the Igbos are the most arrogant,ignorant,undiplomatic and foolish tribe to walk the surface of the earth.

Porthacourt is Igweocha and Bonny...Igwenga?

The pogrom of 1967-1970 will be child's play when una madness ripe.This time, you lot will realize that the battle will be between the SS and Igbo and not with the North as you think.

Such stupidity!Never seen any people this arrogant.

We are waiting...

JANK23H:



Those place have never belonged to Igbos.Igbos who claim Bonny as their ancestral home are descendants of slaves.Go and study your history.

igbodefender:
And so what? Are they not Igbo (from the Great Ethnic Group)? And who made them slaves, you? The Bonny Igbo Bible tells us all we need to know.

JANK23H:


Obori!
https://bonnykingdom.com.ng/history/
https://www.britannica.com/place/Bonny

https://www.britannica.com/place/Port-Harcourt

Those place have never belonged to Igbos.Igbos who claim Bonny as their ancestral home are descendants of slaves.Go and study your history.

JANK23H:

Great Ethnic Group.The same ethnic group our fathers sold as slaves in Bonny and Opobo?

Abeg shift jare....

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bonny

'A traditional trading centre (fish, salt, palm oil, and palm kernels) of the Ijo people, it was the capital of the 15th- to 19th-century kingdom of Bonny. Reaching its height in the reign of the Pepple dynasty in the 18th and early 19th centuries, its economy (and the kingdom’s) was based on the sale of slaves to European traders. It was one of the largest slave-exporting depots of West Africa—in 1790 about 20,000 people (most of them Igbo and other hinterland groups) were shipped to the Americas'.

Go through that link and do further research.I no get power to argue abeg.

macjive01:


Whether they are descendants of slave or not, that's now their land. Everybody migrated at some point.

GABON, LIBERIA and EQUATORIAL G, are all descendants of slaves. so becos they are decendents of slaves means its nolonger their land ?

using your argument, does that now mean Jamaicans dont own their land in Jamaica since most of jamaicans are descendants of slaves ?? Answer me please

JANK23H:


The answer is Bonny belong to the Ijaws.Simple.

igbodefender:
After you called them slaves why do you type this?

igbodefender:
You think we don't know? That doesn't remove a cubit from the Greatness of the Bonny and Opobo Igbos. We respect them Unlike You Who Seeks To Denigrate Them. They gave us King Jaja of Opobo, (Mazi Jubo Juboha, a nwafor Igbo from Nkwere); a man who made Opobo's educational system of the same quality with that of Britain! So great was he that Queen Victoria of Great Britain sent him a Sword Of Honour.

We are grateful to Bonny Igbos for giving us the first Igbo Bible, that helped introduce Christianity to the whole of Igbo Land.

JANK23H:


You seem to have comprehension problem.I provided you with links,go through them.Bonny is and always have been Ijaw land.The Igbo slaves can not lay claim and make it Biafra land.

JANK23H:


I am glad you agree with me.

nototribalist:
Abeg tell the Northerners that we (SS) and them can't be in the same country. It's not possible. Once the igbos move we move. That's for sure. We're just waiting for them to perfect their moves. SW and Northerners can carry on with their marriage

anibi9674:
Bonny is not igwenga, onne is not even ogoni it is eleme

JANK23H:


You seem to have comprehension problem.I provided you with links,go through them.Bonny is and always have been Ijaw land.The Igbo slaves can not lay claim and make it Biafra land.

JANK23H:

Great Ethnic Group.The same ethnic group our fathers sold as slaves in Bonny and Opobo?

Abeg shift jare....

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bonny

'A traditional trading centre (fish, salt, palm oil, and palm kernels) of the Ijo people, it was the capital of the 15th- to 19th-century kingdom of Bonny. Reaching its height in the reign of the Pepple dynasty in the 18th and early 19th centuries, its economy (and the kingdom’s) was based on the sale of slaves to European traders. It was one of the largest slave-exporting depots of West Africa—in 1790 about 20,000 people (most of them Igbo and other hinterland groups) were shipped to the Americas'.

Go through that link and do further research.I no get power to argue abeg.

Dedetwo:


Ogoni is not town or community but ethnic nationality in Nigeria while Eleme has been a town or community but not ethnic nationality. Eleme is Igbo by ethnic nationality.

Mujtahida:

My point is that the creation of the twelve States as a political and militarily strategic move. affected the prosecution and the outcome of the war both. Where was oil located? Since the discovery of oil it has always been very important in the prosecution of war. Now read the below:
On 27 May 1967, Gowon proclaimed the division of Nigeria into twelve states. This decree carved the Eastern Region in three parts: South Eastern State , Rivers State , and
East Central State . Now the Igbos, concentrated in the East Central State, would lose control over most of the petroleum, located in the other two areas. [73][74]
On 30 May 1967, Ojukwu declared independence of the Republic of Biafra .
The Federal Military Government immediately placed an embargo on all shipping to and from Biafra—but not on oil tankers. [72][73] Biafra quickly moved to collect oil royalties from oil companies doing business within its borders. [73] When Shell-BP acquiesced to this request at the end of June, the Federal Government extended its blockade to include oil. [75] The blockade, which most foreign actors accepted, played a decisive role in putting Biafra at a disadvantage from the beginning of the war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

Mind you I do not dispute your assertion that alien influences determined the outcome of the war but note that in a situation of this magnitude the influences are numerous and multi dimensional. So you'd be dead wrong if you posit that foreign influences were the ONLY reasons why Biafra lost the war. If you opine that it was ONE of the cause, I'd agree with you.

Dedetwo:


This is one of the reasons Niger-Area is aimlessly afloat. So-called students read from hack writers without subjecting their source of crappy information to serious scrutiny. From the crap you posted above, an undiscerning onlooker will think that only EASTERN REGION HAS MINORITY ENTITIES AND THE ONLY REGION DIVIDED INTO STATES. Baring the blockade and military support from countries such as Britain, USSR, Australia, Egypt, Niger, Tchad, Canada and Cameroon to Nigeria, Biafra would have stood till today despite the numerical advantage enjoyed by Nigeria. THE MAJOR REASON THE COUNTRY WAS DIVIDED INTO 12 STATES WAS TO MAKE SURE THE CENTER WAS STRONGER AND CONTROLLED BY THE ELEMENTS FROM NORTHERN REGION OF NIGERIA. In addition, it was to uphold the unitary government which was on of their idiotic and. deceitful reasons to overthrow the government of Gen. Ironsi. It is a pity that most Nigerians are irreparably gullible and will fall for anything due to undue pressures from tribal tendencies.