kmariko:


Kindly remind me of the ports of Switzerland.. Not investing in the east by the easterners due to " lack of access to seaport" is a very lame excuse.

ezeagu:
Food and lack of access to the sea/port is what killed Biafra, it's the same reason why people are running away and building castles in foreign lands. Until there is a viable port in Igboland, Igbo people won't come back and that's just practical.

kmariko:


Kindly remind me of the ports of Switzerland.. Not investing in the east by the easterners due to " lack of access to seaport" is a very lame excuse.

Cjrane2:


Lame excuse.
But they will relocate to Abuja and kano to build castles, but leave Warri and Sapele that have ports! that is why it gbastas me not , when they kill them and burn their buildings up north. Na dem sabi.

BTW, What Ports does Austria or Switzerland have? yet, their people have invested there and made it a prosperous place?

ezeagu:


How can you compare Austria and Switzerland to a place that can barely tar its roads?

kmariko:


They believed in themselves and ability to overcome at all odds. They stayed away from all the destructive alliances that bedeviled waring European nations. They focused on making things, food processing (nestle), steel, textile, machines that make other machines, electric machineries ABD, financials and Commodity trading... The list is endless.

ezeagu:


They didn't 'believe in themselves', they sat back and soaked in all the blood their fellow western Europeans were drenching from all over the globe. Those people are rich by default, Switzerland is basically ethnically French and German, Austria is Germanic, so they can afford to be landlocked, especially with their disposition allowing foreigners to amass mounds of wealth in their countries with no questions asked. You can't compare Austria and Switzerland to Igboland.

kmariko:


Mr. Nestle was not rich by using peoples money.. Brown and boveri used there business acumen and the list goes on... No group of individuals are rich " by default ". You have to work extremely hard to maintain that affluence even if it was handed over to you on a silver platter.

ezeagu:
Food and lack of access to the sea/port is what killed Biafra, it's the same reason why people are running away and building castles in foreign lands. Until there is a viable port in Igboland, Igbo people won't come back and that's just practical.

BuddahMonk:


Very funny, childish and watery assertion, what about Kano and Kaduna are there seaport or indian ocean there

Think of it Aba one of the top 4 most industrialized cities in Nigeria have no access to the sea or seaport but more industrialized than those with access to the sea except Lagos.

ezeagu:


Except Lagos. You've just terminated your own argument. Lagos is the only place with something worthy of being called a sea port. So are you trying to argue that Aba would not benefit from a closer seaport or that all those treacherous journeys from the east to west would not be minimised? The thing about some of you people is that you don't like telling yourselves the truth. You'd rather give false equivalence to privileged places which you know are false and dig your head in the sand. A bulk of the Igbo wealth relies on import/export. The reason you people are even moaning about a second Onitsha Asaba bridge is because the current one is so taxed by people rushing to Lagos to receive their containers that it's on the verge of collapse. Nobody on the other side is as concerned, ask yourself why.

Bishop42:


Hope you know Ethiopia is landlocked and still has the highest FDI in Africa plus its very sophisticated Air tranport system.

ezeagu:


Why is nobody on the other side of the Niger bridge concerned about a second bridge? Answer this question before presenting incompatible case studies.

Unemadu:


Seaports are important but doesnt mean a country cannot survive without it. That igbos are running from their homeland because od lack of seaport is absolutely ridiculous.
Its like saying because a country has no mineral resources then its doomed.

Unemadu:


Seaports are important but doesnt mean a country cannot survive without it. That igbos are running from their homeland because od lack of seaport is absolutely ridiculous.
Its like saying because a country has no mineral resources then its doomed.

Bishop42:


Hope you know Ethiopia is landlocked and still has the highest FDI in Africa plus its very sophisticated Air tranport system.

Abagworo:


Because their neighbours allowed them to use their roads, ports and air space. Will Nigeria allow Igbos if we go about the biafra the way some of you are doing?

BuddahMonk:


Do you think that if Igbo got Biafra today that Nigeria will ever remain the same

Once Nigeria disintegrate different countries will spring up with different orientation and value system as well as political and economic policies that will better their lots.

If Biafra happen today how will people in Akwa Ibom or Cross River survive without Biafra because those people are not in for everlasting servitude in Nigeria.

If Nigeria breaks today new friendship will emerge, new international relationship will set off, Biafra can't do without neighbouring countries neither will others do without Biafrans.

Economic relationship over political rivalries

BuddahMonk:


Do you think that if Igbo got Biafra today that Nigeria will ever remain the same

Once Nigeria disintegrate different countries will spring up with different orientation and value system as well as political and economic policies that will better their lots.

If Biafra happen today how will people in Akwa Ibom or Cross River survive without Biafra because those people are not in for everlasting servitude in Nigeria.

If Nigeria breaks today new friendship will emerge, new international relationship will set off, Biafra can't do without neighbouring countries neither will others do without Biafrans.

Economic relationship over political rivalries

Abagworo:


The reason the Biafra of old failed is because Igbos thought others(especially Niger Delta) would join them in secession. Most of you know little about the South-south hence the persistent mistakes of counting on them in Igbo affairs.

Bishop42:
From Wikipedia...

"Countries have made particular efforts to avoid being
landlocked,by acquiring land that reaches the sea:
The International Congo Society, which owned the
modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, was
awarded a narrow piece of land cutting through Angola to
connect it to the sea"

This easiest way Igboland can have "full acess" to the Sea is adobt thesame approach. We could easily aquire a narrow land from Akwaibom or Calabar that stretches to the Sea. It's 100% possible

Abagworo:


The reason the Biafra of old failed is because Igbos thought others(especially Niger Delta) would join them in secession. Most of you know little about the South-south hence the persistent mistakes of counting on them in Igbo affairs.

BuddahMonk:


I wrote if Igbo got Biafra. I didn't include them in my write up aswell, its you that is forcing them into my write up.

If Igbos got Biafra, minority tribes in SS will pursue their own goals and destinies, they musnt be in Biafra.

Bishop42:


Imo,Anioma,Portharcourt,Abia etc are all in Nigerdelta and are certainly going to join Biafra, mark my words, this is gauranteed.

Akwaibom,Crossrivers and Ijawland joining a Biafra will depend on referendum. Am not so certain Ijaw wuld want to join

Abagworo:


I wish you are grounded in Rivers State enough to get my point. Asaba and Aniocha is the only area outside Southeast I consider reliable brothers. We should always plan with only 5 Southeastern States and mind you Oguta/Egbema might not vote to join Biafra. It is 70% pro-Nigeria/Niger Delta and 30% pro-Biafra.

Abagworo:


Most of Nigeria outside Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are minorities and they are all pro-Nigeria while everyone checkmates each others excesses. The issue is that there will be total blockade from all angles unless we are at peace with Nigeria. Assuming that Southern minorities will secede is like Ojukwu's assumption of Awolowo establishing Oduduwa or Delta/Edo establishing Benin republic during the 1967 saga.

Stop working on such assumptions. Igbos are better off thinking on how to secede and still live peacefully with Nigeria.

BuddahMonk:


oguta a town of less than 10000 people can vote against Biafra while other Igbo cities, towns and villages numbering millions voting for Biafra. The votes of the so called oguta/Egbema is like ant and Elephant on a seesaw when you compare with other SE states.
If Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi are 98% for Biafra, Imo 95% for Biafra and Anioma 70% for Biafra, who need Oguta again mr man, they can join Middlebelt all I care.

Abagworo your mischievousness is becoming clinical, wake up before it turn genetic

Abagworo:


https://www.nairaland.com/2615117/photo-president-buhari-receives-dein

SMH. Your type needs experience to understand since you still don't get this glaring reality.

BuddahMonk:


oguta a town of less than 10000 people can vote against Biafra while other Igbo cities, towns and villages numbering millions voting for Biafra. The votes of the so called oguta/Egbema is like ant and Elephant on a seesaw when you compare with other SE states.
If Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi are 98% for Biafra, Imo 95% for Biafra and Anioma 70% for Biafra, who need Oguta again mr man, they can join Middlebelt all I care.

Abagworo your mischievousness is becoming clinical, wake up before it turn genetic

milychocs:



Like, seriously, who is that guy?

I have been reading his posts and a few others' (supposedly Igbo folks) on this forum with complete bafflement...and sometimes plain horror even
O dukwa egwu ooo

BuddahMonk:


He is deep in Igbo culture and geography but he is using it for mischievous purposes, the guy bu ezigbo okenye alulu ana

He needs to be checkmated all the time lest he cause great division and enmity among Ndigbo