Biafra Or A Better Nigeria, Which Way Forward? By Magnus Oraka (Please Comment)

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We want a restructured Nigeria, that's a better Nigeria, Peter Obi or other politicians can't restructure Nigeria

Anyone talking about restructuring is a dreamer who has not yet read the constitution of Nigeria. Nigeria cannot be restructured

In other to restructure Nigeria, the constitution must be changed. When you read what must be done to change the constitution, you will run away

To change the constitution, you will need at least two thirds of both the upper and lower houses of the national assembly to vote for it, and it does not stop there. You will also need at least two thirds of the 36 States assembly to also vote for it

With the core North totally against restructuring, and controlling 40% of the national assembly, and at least 13 States, restructuring is mission impossible

The only way out is to divide Nigeria so everyone can go their way and restructure themselves how they like

But if you decide you want "one Nigeria", better forget restructuring as it cannot be done

Biafra we want . Nigeria will never work . We ll continue to hate and kill ourselves . Where there is no love and peace there ll never be progress

gidgiddy:
Anyone talking about restructuring is a dreamer who has not yet read the constitution of Nigeria. Nigeria cannot be restructured

In other to restructure Nigeria, the constitution must be changed. When you read what must be done to change the constitution, you will run away

To change the constitution, you will need at least two thirds of both the upper and lower houses of the national assembly to vote for it, and it does not stop there. You will also need at least two thirds of the 36 States assembly to also vote for it

With the core North totally against restructuring, and controlling 40% of the national assembly, and at least 13 States, restructuring is mission impossible

The only way out is to divide Nigeria so everyone can go their way and restructure themselves how they like

But if you decide you want "one Nigeria", better forget restructuring as it cannot be done

- It depends on the leader. It can be done by executive order under emergency powers.

Or

- A military regime can implement it.

Or

- A northern political consensus could emerge (and there are early signs of this), on the need to restructure the federation, making it easy to pass through national and state assemblies. Recent gold, lithium, and oil and gas discoveries in the north buttress a growing sense of resource independence in the region, further loosening their resistance to restructuring.

I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

Just go to Biafra, we don't want you.

Biafra all the way. There is a saying that if God wants to punish a people he sends fulani's towards them.

Staying with a people who values the life of a cow to that of human is a key point to hold, we are in the 21st century and some people are still practicing nomadic cattle rearing hmm.

If nigeria divides the value of life will be bullish. For a country to develop there must be a common interest which is not found in nigeria instead our common interest is Britain

Napata77:
I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

Nigeria is poverty capital of the world and second most terrorised country on earth, nobody is looking up to it

This so called "giant of Africa" is a meaningless title if the vast masses are suffering, na giant we go chop?

Since it is clear to even the blind that Nigeria has failed, why keep Nigeria together? Why keep the British colonial contraption created by the white man together? We write our destiny, not the whiteman.


Nigeria is a failure and it is time to end it

Do you know the tiny country called Luxembourg? They have about the highest standard of living in the world(if not first then second). They are smaller than Delta State so biggest doesn't always mean better. You cant compare tiny European countries with India,
Nigeria even in 50yrs!

Napata77:
A restructured Nigeria is the best for all of us.

A restructured Nigeria will be stronger and richer than 20 Biafras, in the long run.

Nigeria is projected to become the 3rd most populous nation on Earth after China and India by 2050.

The 3rd biggest consumer market on Earth.

This means that she will be a target of investment for every major company on the face of the Earth in the years ahead.

Nigeria will be the place to be, for all of them.

Igbo entrepreneurship and industrialism will blossom 1,000 times more within the GIANT NIGERIAN MARKET than outside it, where they would need to compete with China, India, Germany, US, and others for world market share. (good luck with that).

And with rising Igbo economic power will come political power and influence, as a matter of course, negating the need for IPOB and other brutish methods of power acquisition.

So, as a South East man, I'd go with restructuring Nigeria, most definitely.

gidgiddy:


Nigeria is poverty capital of the world and second most terrorised country on earth, nobody is looking up to it

This so called "giant of Africa" is a meaningless title if the vast masses are suffering, na giant we go chop?

Since it is clear to even the blind that Nigeria has failed, why keep Nigeria together? Why keep the British colonial contraption created by the white man together? We write our destiny, not the whiteman.


Nigeria is a failure and it is time to end it

Anyone can play this silly game, once they feel hatred for their country.

If I was an American who hated his country, I could reel out 5 heavy reasons why the country is a 'useless failure'.

I could start with the fact that an estimated 70,000 Americans are shot dead every year in gun violence. Followed by the fact that 80,000
are killed in drug overdose annually. Followed by the fact that there have been nearly 2,000 mass shootings this year alone in the country, etc etc.

So anyone can play that game.

MANY OTHERS look at Nigeria and see the cultural capital of the continent, with world class entertainment, music and film industries, Africa's largest economy, tech capital of the continent, and rising manufacturing and industrial power.

Go to Lagos airport. It is filled with people from all over the world trooping into Nigeria to do business,

So not everyone sees Nigeria the way YOU see Nigeria....

Napata77:
I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

All full of crap to deceive the docile ethnic groups and before they know it, they have lost their lands and forced into servitude.
I'll always tell those who are still confused about Nigeria to study the story of the Hausa people from before they chose to coexist with the fulanis and their current situation. Your own story will be worst in the future because if they did what they did to Hausas who are their fellow Muslims, imagine what they will do to you.
Bottom line is that there's no future in Nigeria because there's no restructuring that will happen. They will never ever want you to be able to control your future. Read up what is happening to the Armenians in Nagorno- Karabakh even when Azerbaijan knows the truth.

Napata77:
I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

lmao some of you are calling Nigeria faint of Africa in this age of technology and social media?

Look at thw slavish conditions for restrucrtuing to be done! So you're saying Nigerians will have a better standard of living through restrucrtuing if the North decides to be magnanimous?

Southern Nigeria has really suffered!
BTW, no emergency powers can be executed by any president to restructure by executive order. Not gonna happen but I agree that resources being discovered in the North will release their chokehold on the South

Napata77:


- It depends on the leader. It can be done by executive order under emergency powers.

Or

- A military regime can implement it.

Or

- A northern political consensus could emerge (and there are early signs of this), on the need to restructure the federation, making it easy to pass through national and state assemblies. Recent gold, lithium, and oil and gas discoveries in the north buttress a growing sense of resource independence in the region, further loosening their resistance to restructuring.

Ability of the black race to succeed and find its place does not depend on the size of the country but on their unity of purpose.

Can two walk together unless they agree?
Clearly, the different major nationalities in Nigeria hate themselves and there was no referendum in bringing them together like the British criminaly did.

Someone that hates meritocracy, western education and kills for blasphemy would have the capacity and capability to move the black race forward?

Napata77:
I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

Who is we? Which people gave you the mandate to speak on their behalf?

Ekpeitit:
Just go to Biafra, we don't want you.

Biafra is the answer and the only hope for Ndigbo and those who can see what we can see.
The idea of Nigeria at the beginning was excellent but with some lazy sections believing they will continue with their conquest so that while others labour, they only eat the riches of the country, destroyed it right from the inception. There's no hope currently and ever again to wean them off that mindset leaving the only options of either cutting them off from the rest of Nigeria like Gideon Orkar wanted or to defeat them in war and restructure Nigeria to a workable framework. Choose for yourself which is more possible. As for me, dividing Nigeria remains the best and only workable option.

These things you mentioned about America are done by the citizens. If a govt tries to change the gun laws, that govt would be removed, Americans love their guns!

What the govt promised them during campaigns are most time fulfilled and thats what you hold the govt accountable to.

Irrespective of the reason why people hates Nigeria, the facf that some people wants out is enough to say there's no unity without which nothing substantial can be achieved.

Napata77:


Anyone can play this silly game, once they feel hatred for their country.

If I was an American who hated his country, I could reel out 5 heavy reasons why the country is a 'useless failure'.

I could start with the fact that an estimated 70,000 Americans are shot dead every year in gun violence. Followed by the fact that 80,000
are killed in drug overdose annually. Followed by the fact that there have been nearly 2,000 mass shootings this year alone in the country, etc etc.

So anyone can play that game.

MANY OTHERS look at Nigeria and see the cultural capital of the continent, with world class entertainment, music and film industries, Africa's largest economy, tech capital of the continent, and rising manufacturing and industrial power.

Go to Lagos airport. It is filled with people from all over the world trooping into Nigeria to do business,

So not everyone sees Nigeria the way YOU see Nigeria....

DMerciful:
Ability of the black race to succeed and find its place does not depend on the size of the country but on their unity of purpose.

Can two walk together unless they agree?
Clearly, the different major nationalities in Nigeria hate themselves and there was no referendum in bringing them together like the British criminally did.

Someone that hates meritocracy, western education and kills for blasphemy would have the capacity and capability to move the black race forward?

This is all stereotypical nonsense.

Oh sure the ''different major nationalities hate themselves''.

IT IS A LIE. THEY DON'T.

I am an Igbo, and I do not hate Yorubas or Hausas.

11 million Igbos live in northern Nigeria, according to Ohaneze.

How is that possible, if Nigerians hate each other? If Hausas hate Igbos, how are they letting 11 million Igbos live and work and build houses, and marry in the north? Same as the west with Yorubas?

In Lagos, every weekend there are Igbos getting married to Yorubas.

Go to Abuja, Nigerians from all parts of the country are mingling, and doing business and partying. Go to Kano. Igbo boys are everywhere doing business and clubbing.

You see, you people assume that because you come on nairaland to abuse each other based on ethnicity, that the Nigerian majority are also like that, but you're wrong.

There is of course ethnic rivalry in our polity and politics, but that is not ''hating each other'', because rivalry can actually be healthy, drawing out the best in each group.

Is it when you ''break up Nigeria'' that there will be no rivalries in your newly constituted small republics?

You could actually end up with worse and bloodier rivalries in those smaller nations you create. Ask Liberia, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan.

Its not assumptions! Better know your friends else you get burnt. The fact that there's an uneasy coexistence doesn't mean its borne out of genuine 'compatriotship'

People are trying not to rock the boat because of the feeding bottle system Nigeria is so as not to be cutoff from oil money if the country crashes. Why else will Christians be killed for a cartoon in Denmark?

Why have some people vowed Igbos will never be president?

Using your personal sentiments to judge the whole country by saying you dont hate others is pedestrian!

We can say that the Chinese and Americans dont like each other but it doesn't mean there are no Americans doing business in China and vice versa.

Napata77:


This is all stereotypical nonsense.

Oh sure the ''different major nationalities hate themselves''.

IT IS A LIE. THEY DON'T.

I am an Igbo, and I do not hate Yorubas or Hausas.

11 million Igbos live in northern Nigeria, according to Ohaneze.

How is that possible, if the Nigerians hate each other? If Hausas hate Igbos, how are they letting 11 million Igbos live and work and marry in the north? Same as the west?

In Lagos, every weekend there are Igbos getting married to Yorubas.

Go to Abuja, Nigerians from all parts of the country are mingling, and doing business and partying.

You see, you people assume that because you come on nairaland to abuse each other based on ethnicity, that the Nigerian majority are also like that, but you're wrong.

DMerciful:
Its not assumptions! Better know your friends else you get burnt. The fact that there's an uneasy coexistence doesn't mean its borne out of genuine 'compatriotship'

People are trying not to rock the boat because of the feeding bottle system Nigeria is so as not to be cutoff from oil money if the country crashes. Why else will Christians be killed for a cartoon in Denmark?

Why have some people vowed Igbos will never be president?

Using your personal sentiments to judge the whole country by saying you dont hate others is pedestrian!

We can say that the Chinese and Americans dont like each other but it doesn't mean there are no Americans doing business in China and vice versa.

Look, even within America, there are ethnic rivalries. Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Native Americans, Cuban Americans etc etc. They are always at loggerheads. WARS have been fought over those rivalries, including the US civil war.

The UK has its own ethnic rivalries, with the Scots, English, Welsh and Irish perennially quarrelling over one thing or the other.

So there are very few countries where everyone ''loves each other'' and there are no issues. Everyone is tolerating their fellow man. It is not only happening in Nigeria.

If somebody says Igbo will not be president, tell them they are not God and cannot make that pronouncement. Don't use that as a reason to flee the country.

You do realize Scotland has done two referendum to leave the UK and the last ond was so close. The next one will succeed and they'd leave.

Without killing tribalism, no country thats a tower of babel would succeed!

Napata77:


Look, even within America, there are ethnic rivalries. Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Native Americans, Cuban Americans etc etc. They are always at loggerheads. WARS have been fought over those rivalries, including the US civil war.

The UK has its own ethnic rivalries, with the Scots, English, Welsh and Irish perennially quarrelling over one thing or the other.

So there are very few countries where everyone ''loves each other'' and there are no issues. Everyone is tolerating their fellow man. It is not only happening in Nigeria.

If somebody says Igbo will not be president, tell them they are not God and cannot make that pronouncement. Don't use that as a reason to flee the country.

DMerciful:
You do realize Scotland has done two referendum to leave the UK and the last ond was so close. The next one will succeed and they'd leave.

Without killing tribalism, no country thats a tower of babel would succeed!

The difference between the Scotland situation and 'Biafra' is that the former has the backing of the Scottish political class and elite, who see their interest lie in exiting the UK. Hence representations have been made in the British parliament by high ranking Scottish representatives, regarding the need for a referendum.

With Biafra, the reverse is the case, with no representations or motions made in the state or national assemblies for secession, because the Igbo political and economic elite do NOT consider it to be in their interest to exit Nigeria.

The federal govt cannot be forced by IPOB thugs to call a 'referendum' without apriori motions or debates in the national assembly.

It's called the Rule of Law.

I'm not talking about Ipob and the demand for referendum, i made the Scotland example to show that it is ok for people to leave a country.

Croatia and 7 other countries left Yugoslavia where there was no peace but today living side by side peacefully and doing better than Yugoslavia. Infact Croatia has been in the last 3 world cup semifinals twice.

As bad as the Nigerian situation is, it has favored the political elites from all nationalities so its understandable why they'd wanna maintain the status quo.

You may not accept it but Nigeria is not designed to succeed. Too many strong tribal groups that hold onto their tribal leanings to the detriment of the state

Napata77:


The difference between the Scotland situation and 'Biafra' is that the former has the backing of the Scottish political class and elite, who see their interest lie in exiting the UK. Hence representations have been made in the British parliament by high ranking Scottish representatives, regarding the need for a referendum.

With Biafra, the reverse is the case, with no representations or motions made in the state or national assemblies for secession, because the Igbo political and economic elite do NOT consider it to be in their interest to exit Nigeria.

The federal govt cannot be forced by IPOB thugs to call a 'referendum' without apriori motions or debates in the national assembly.

It's called the Rule of Law.

RestructureNig3:
We want a restructured Nigeria, that's a better Nigeria, Peter Obi or other politicians can't restructure Nigeria

who can then ?

Napata77:
I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

At times, stupidity seems to be a virtue

If placed side by side to make a choice between a restructured Nigeria and Biafra I had choose Biafra because Nigeria will always go bad after at least 8years if restructured, Nigeria is irridimable

Napata77:


Anyone can play this silly game, once they feel hatred for their country.

If I was an American who hated his country, I could reel out 5 heavy reasons why the country is a 'useless failure'.

I could start with the fact that an estimated 70,000 Americans are shot dead every year in gun violence. Followed by the fact that 80,000
are killed in drug overdose annually. Followed by the fact that there have been nearly 2,000 mass shootings this year alone in the country, etc etc.

So anyone can play that game.

MANY OTHERS look at Nigeria and see the cultural capital of the continent, with world class entertainment, music and film industries, Africa's largest economy, tech capital of the continent, and rising manufacturing and industrial power.

Go to Lagos airport. It is filled with people from all over the world trooping into Nigeria to do business,

So not everyone sees Nigeria the way YOU see Nigeria....

No enforced union ever succeeds, unity must come from the heart. Nigeria cannot work because nothing brings us together. All we are is just a group of people Lord Lugard ambushed into an unholy union in 1914, which his wife called "Nigeria"

We have had over 100 years as a country, and 62 years of self rule as a yardstick to see if this union had been worth it

The result has been a complete disaster. What some of us are asking for is to be returned to how we were before Lugard came to create Nigeria

As an Igbo man, I am tired of "one Nigeria" and want the Igbo nation to return to independence, as it once was before the creation of Nigeria

Those of you who still believe in Nigeria are free to carry on.

This is why there should be a referendum to determine who a Nigerian is, rather than using colonial borders created by the white man