dokiOloye:

If it were possible, you lazy,envious lots would've done so since..
Cool down,Igbos have bought 30% of Lagos,by d year 2100 it will be 90%.
Then we will deport all yellowbat muslims to Borno and Katsina

Dtribeless:


But balkanization will never work non-violently, we will all become small entities. Some of us might live better, but we'd also be smaller with less clout. Yorubas have been asking for restructuring forever. Please don't say Tinubu brought Buhari into power. He does not even speak for the Yoruba intellectual base, but the intellectual base do NOT have thugs. Tinubu cannot win a fair election in Lagos state; the intelligentsia know better.
Yorubas complain, but not in the Kanu style of insulting everyone.
Even if we break up, that will stop the suspicion issue, which is largely created by elites of all ethnicity to keep us barking at each other (as often happens on this site), but they'd still be plundering treasuries for their family and selves per usual. Are Igbo governors/leaders less prone to stealing than governors of other ethnicity? So that will still be an issue, but you're right the suspicions issue will reduce.

As an example, if Oduduwa breaks, the Lagos & Ogun axis will instantly claim superiority, and division will continue per usual. So, my brother, it's elites vs masses; hausa masses are suffering too but religion keeps those ones going. Apologies if I have sounded hostile earlier; I confused you for an extremist.

lx3as:
The landlocked status of the SE should just be accepted in good faith. Most of the landlocked countries also have rivers that flow to sea, these do not make them litoral countries.

The Biafra was initiated to be for SE and 4 other coastal States in the SS. It's no longer feasible except the SS join.

Even the present SE has nothing in common with the name 'Biafra' which is for a town in coastal Cameroon called 'Mafra' but change by Portuguese to Biafra and called the coastal areas to Gabon 'Bight of Biafra' just like Bight of Benin, all in the Gulf of Guinea.


Bight of Biafra
... ...
The Bight of Biafra (officially Bight of
Bonny) is a bight off the West African
coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf
of Guinea.

Geography
The Bight of Biafra, or Mafra (named after
the town Mafra in southern Portugal),
between Capes Formosa and Lopez , is the
most eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea; it
contains the islands Fernando Po
[Equatorial Guinea], Prince's and St
Thomas's .
The name Biafra – as indicating
the country – fell into disuse in the later
part of the 19th century [1]
Early map of Africa depicting a region
named Biafra in present day
Cameroon
A 1710 map indicates that the region
known as "Biafra" ( Biafra ) was located in
present-day Cameroon .
The Bight of Biafra extends east of the
Bight of Biafra from the River Delta of the
Niger in the north until it reaches Cape
Lopez in Gabon...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Biafra

maestroferddi:
The republic of Benin was named after the Benin Empire...

Ghana got her name from an ancient African kingdom of Gana...

So what are you talking about?

Igbochief001:
Honestly why do yorubas want one Nigeria really ...it's something I can't really understand ...

What have they benefited from one Nigeria ?

Allow igbos do their thing abeg

Parisian:
Lmao....Ignorance will drive ya'll into your own slaughter houses.

Let me make this clear. If a country is bordered by the sea, then anything 200 nautical miles into that sea is its territory.
Do you understand that? When biafra becones independent, it will "obviously" be landlocked (assuming no SS state choses to go with them). With that, they will be at the mercy of their SS neighbors and come into an agreement on tax/levies to pay whenever they want to use SS ports.

Trust the SS to slap huge taxes on them. It will be business as usual. Read up, so you don't get lost.

gidgiddy:


Not true. The same law that gave Nigeria a certain number of nautical miles as Sea territory also denies Nigeria the right to use that sea territory to deny another sovereign country access to the Sea. Article 125 of UNCLOS(United Nations Convention On Laws Of The Sea) states:

Article 125: Right of access to and from the sea and freedom of transit
1. Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea
for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention
including those relating to the freedom of the high seas and the common
heritage of mankind. To this end, land-locked States shall enjoy freedom of
transit through the territory of transit States by all means of transport.


Yes Nigeria has 200 nautical miles, it it has no right to use it to deny the SE access to the Sea.

lx3as:


Then you will need to go back to secondary school if you've not gone yet.

Why not Google how Republic of Dahomey name was changed to Benin Republic instead of unnecessary argument..

Benin Republic (named after Bight of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea to reflect all groups not only Dahomey) is a litoral country just like the Biafra of 1967-70...but the present SE isn't without SS. No need being emotional about this.

lx3as:


Then why is Niger or Mali or Ethiopia not doing there business, importing/Exporting through Niger Delta or Alexandria using river Niger and Nile?

gidgiddy:

According to you, they can do as they like there since there is one law somewhere; they can even move with there forces to trade on the rivers because of the law...

Why would Mali or Ethiopia be using the River Niger or the Nile when they have much shorter routes? Why would Ethiopia use the Nile when Eritrea is next door to them?

lx3as:


I can quote thousands of functionless international laws for you; don't be deceived by such. The article writer, Okonkwo has said it all.

Then why is Niger or Mali or Ethiopia not doing their business, importing/Exporting through Niger Delta or Alexandria using river Niger and Nile?

Landlocked countries can cope but it's so challenging getting stuff like heavy stills and machines across; they are overtaxed. What do you think make Ethiopia so bitter about Eritrea?

lx3as:
@Makemefit12op

The landlocked status of the SE should just be accepted in good faith. Most of the landlocked countries also have rivers that flow to sea, these do not make them littoral countries.

The Biafra was initiated to be for SE and 4 other coastal States in the SS. It's no longer feasible except the SS join. Otherwise, the SE should just go alone.

Even the present SE has nothing in common with the name 'Biafra' which is for a town in coastal Cameroon called 'Mafra' but change by Portuguese to Biafra and called the coastal areas to Gabon 'Bight of Biafra' just like Bight of Benin, all in the Gulf of Guinea.


Bight of Biafra
... ...
The Bight of Biafra (officially Bight of
Bonny) is a bight off the West African
coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf
of Guinea.

Geography
The Bight of Biafra, or Mafra (named after
the town Mafra in southern Portugal),
between Capes Formosa and Lopez , is the
most eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea; it
contains the islands Fernando Po
[Equatorial Guinea], Prince's and St
Thomas's .
The name Biafra – as indicating
the country – fell into disuse in the later
part of the 19th century [1]
Early map of Africa depicting a region
named Biafra in present day
Cameroon
A 1710 map indicates that the region
known as "Biafra" ( Biafra ) was located in
present-day Cameroon .
The Bight of Biafra extends east of the
Bight of Biafra from the River Delta of the
Niger in the north until it reaches Cape
Lopez in Gabon...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Biafra

Makemefit12op:
Bro all this energy you are wasting claiming that SE is landlocked can be channel into a useful resources.The SE is landlocked yet the federal government wanted to drench river niger so as to create onitcha seaport with aba seaport.
On the claim that the present SE has nothing in claim with Biafra,can you please ask Wikipedia about the history of Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (Biafra) knowledge is power bro.
And can you also Google the history of abaribe clan in abia state to show you that Igbo efik and Ibibio has same heritage.

Makemefit12op:
Bro all this energy you are wasting claiming that SE is landlocked can be channel into a useful resources.The SE is landlocked yet the federal government wanted to drench river niger so as to create onitcha seaport with aba seaport.
On the claim that the present SE has nothing in claim with Biafra,can you please ask Wikipedia about the history of Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (Biafra) knowledge is power bro.
And can you also Google the history of abaribe clan in abia state to show you that Igbo efik and Ibibio has same heritage.

maestroferddi:
Half-knowledge is not good.

The Bight of Benin was named by the Europeans after the Benin Empire so what are you talking about?

The Bight of Biafra has been known to history before it was chosen as a name for the defunct enclave in 1967 so what is the point of your argument?

Who is being emotional and irrational here?

You who has chosen to be blinded by petty envy and squabbles or myself who is trying to dusabuse your mind and educate you?

Go and study the etymology of countries and stop embarrassing yourself...

American.......named after Amerigo Vespucci (Italian explorer);

Bolivia....named after Simon Bolivar (Venezuelan revolutionary and general);

Colombia....named after Christopher Columbus (Italo-Portuguese explorer and navigator )

And many other countries named after individuals, rivers, tribes etc...

I hope you are not drawing from the likes of Asari Dokubo who makes similar ignorant arguments...

lx3as:


You own Presbyterian church...and there is Onitsha seaport, hope you're ok now; I don't get time for emotional dude...
Google it broi,at least Biafra has an existence unlike Nigeria that was coin from the Latin word(Niger) meaning colorless by a harlot.

lx3as:


We all know that Portuguese called a part of Gulf of Guinea after Benin but where your intelligence is low is in the context of Benin Republic being named after Benin Empire instead of Bight of Benin. Go read their history.. there is difference between the two.. can't just continue to 'school' you.

maestroferddi:
The Bight of Benin was named after the Benin Empire and the Benin people decided to change the name of their country from Dahomey to Benin in 1975 in recognition of an important African kingdom...

Stop arguing blindly, this man.

Both gulf and bight refer to bodies of water...

lx3as:


We all know that Portuguese called a part of Gulf of Guinea after Benin but where your intelligence is low is in the context of Benin Republic being named after Benin Empire instead of Bight of Benin. Go read their history.. there is difference between the two.. can't just continue to 'school' you.

My point is Benin Republic you compare yourself with is a littoral country name after the sea but SE isn't open to sea except with SS.

lx3as:


To come to your level, the Mafra or Biafra in Cameroon you're naming yours after, is it an important African kingdom?

Parisian:
Lmao....Ignorance will drive ya'll into your own slaughter houses.

Let me make this clear. If a country is bordered by the sea, then anything 200 nautical miles into that sea is its territory.
Do you understand that? When biafra becones independent, it will "obviously" be landlocked (assuming no SS state choses to go with them). With that, they will be at the mercy of their SS neighbors and come into an agreement on tax/levies to pay whenever they want to use SS ports.

Trust the SS to slap huge taxes on them. It will be business as usual. Read up, so you don't get lost.

maestroferddi:
You are struggling to make sense out of the nonsense logic you were trying to promote...

I have completely neutralized you oga...

Accept, let's move...

gidgiddy:


Of course, its an international waterway and they are free to use the River. However it is for them the check the economic viability of doing so as Lokoja is much farther from the Sea than Oguta and Obuaku that are very near to the Sea

Area4Area:
I've educated that person you quoted about the nautical miles which is exclusively owned by any country with a seacoast but he has refused to learn. Biafra don't have a seacoast so how are the ships going into Biafra or coming out going to navigate that area without any agreement with Nigeria?

This is even if Nigeria allows Biafran ships through her land territories with no agreement

Area4Area:
Be it Niger, Imo, Azumini rivers all pass through Nigerian land territories, so you'd force through another country's territory without any agreement

Igbochief001:

We have lands all over Nigeria ....we can't leave our properties ...and the writer is no way Igbo

gidgiddy:


Not true. The same law that gave Nigeria a certain number of nautical miles as Sea territory also denies Nigeria the right to use that sea territory to deny another sovereign country access to the Sea. Article 125 of UNCLOS(United Nations Convention On Laws Of The Sea) states:

Article 125: Right of access to and from the sea and freedom of transit
1. Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea
for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention
including those relating to the freedom of the high seas and the common
heritage of mankind. To this end, land-locked States shall enjoy freedom of
transit through the territory of transit States by all means of transport.


Yes Nigeria has 200 nautical miles, it it has no right to use it to deny the SE access to the Sea.

lx3as:


No, it would have been cheaper for Niger in the long run to dredge a river in another country, Nigeria and start moving in heavy duty stuff... can you show me instances of countries doing these in a short distance land to sea?
That's, dredging a channel of numerous Niger Delta creeks and start using it without permission of the owner country.