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Agbaletu:
Magistrate Court is under the State Judiciary Commission. The State should be responsible for it.

Thanks a lot.

Please I be fine if I can get either a link or write up or laid procedures to that effect from ant one here.

I am also researching but have not gotten what I want.

#Still waiting for contributions

Ah! Does it mean we don't have those who are learned in the judicial system in Nigeria here?

Please I need answers to the above questions.


Thanks again.

Please learned ladies and gentlemen in the house, please I will like you to educate me on whose responsibility it is to build /provide and furnish court hall or house?

Is it the community or Local government or state?

What does the law say concerning the establishment of magistrate Court in a community?

Thanks.

Please it still available? I need one urgently. Get back to me ASAP. Thanks

VERY WELL THEN.
LET HIM TAKE PMB TO HIS ARAB COUNTRY AFTER ALL WE DON'T NEED HIM HERE ANY MORE.
GOOD RADIANCE TO BAD OMEN!
LOL!

The World Ridicules Buhari On Biafra By SKC Ogbonnia
Rather than embrace simple dialogue, as canvassed by well-meaning Nigerians, Buhari chose to attend to the current Biafran crisis by brute force.


An Igbo proverb goes that, Ijiji ne nweghi onye ndumodu n’eso ozu ana (The fly that ignores wise counsel always ends up at the grave with the corpse). That is where Nigeria finds itself today with President Muhammadu Buhari.

Rather than embrace simple dialogue, as canvassed by well-meaning Nigerians, Buhari chose to attend to the current Biafran crisis by brute force. Not unexpectedly, human casualties ensued, thereby swelling global sympathy for Biafra. To douse the current, Buhari quickly proscribed the Biafran youths as terrorists. As if that singular act lacks in folly, the Nigerian government listed the sponsors of the terrorists as the leading opposition party in the country, the People Democratic Party of Nigeria (PDP), France, Britain, and the Nigerians in the diaspora, et cetera.

Not surprisingly, the inane attempt has turned Buhari into the subject of ridicule at home and abroad.

From the home front, the PDP has already done a return-to-sender, admonishing the president to look within. Without much incertitude, the opposition party inferred that if indeed it is the sponsor of the Nigerian terrorists, Buhari is then the Osama bin Laden proper.

But the opposition party is no longer alone. Even notable members of Buhari’s own party, the leadership of the Nigerian Senate, Nigerian Bar Association, the Nigeria Labour Congress, religious groups, the crème of the Nigerian civil society, and well-informed Nigerian masses—all beg to differ with the president on his approach to the Biafran crisis. To the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), a group most credited to the country’s return to democracy, Buhari’s action is “inconsistent with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and may be the beginning, if not checked, of the unwitting or witting subversion of democracy in Nigeria.”

On the international scene, Buhari is being roundly rebuked. Great Britain, France, and the United States of America, for instance, have quickly reminded him that the activities of the Independence People Of Biafra (IPOB) in their respective countries are within the ambit of the law. The US added that while it stands for a united Nigeria, the country should explore dialogue in resolving the Biafran crisis and devising lasting ways for equity and fairness. The European Union, as a body, also weighed in, charging that labeling the Biafran activists as terrorists is a naked rape on democracy and human rights.

But the crescendo of the mockery brimmed when Buhari was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The first sign was the use of his speech to plead for dialogue to contain the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un while at same time employing the use of force to resolve the Biafran crisis back in Nigeria. The second sign was when the president eked out time at the UN — to proclaim the Biafran activists as terrorists. Yet, the president could not muster the courage to introduce the matter in his speech at the assembly, especially considering that his brand of the Nigerian terrorists are of international dimension. After all, the leading UN security nations, particularly the Great Britain, France, and the United States were fingered as the Buhari’s “axis of evil.”

To rub salt into the open injury, thousands of diaspora Nigerians, most of whom are card-carrying members of IPOB or, rather, the Nigerian terrorists, were openly protesting against Buhari’s dictatorship in in the front of the UN Assembly and in all major cities across the United States. Can you imagine members of terrorist Al Qaeda or ISIS resident in the US protesting at the UN? The answer alone ought to make Buhari to have a rethink. But he may still not get it.

But how far can this ridicule go? How much more, please? Is Buhari’s government saying things for the sake of keeping the sinking ship afloat? If not, when is Nigeria going to sever diplomatic relations with the UK, France, and the United States for sponsoring or harboring the "terrorists"? Why did Buhari journey back to London from the UN for another round of medical vacation if indeed Great Britain is sympathetic to those terrorizing our country, Nigeria?

Moreover, if the PDP is truly funding the Nigerian terrorists, as accused, what is the delay in arresting or at least quizzing the chairman of party, Ahmed Makarfi? If the Biafran activists are terrorists, as proclaimed, when is Buhari going to arrest their prominent echo chambers, particularly Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Femi Fani-Kayode or Governor Ayo Fayose? Or, could it be that the Biafran activists are terrorists only if they are Nigerians of Igbo descent—and, more specifically, those who hail from the Southeast?

Without any iota of doubt, the logical answer to the last question sufficiently addresses all the other questions. That answer is Buhari’s seemingly Igbo problem. But this where I pity the president as well as myself. For there is no aspect of the man’s misery with Biafra today that I did not labor to forewarn.

But we have all come to find out the hard way: Muhammadu Buhari does not listen. He does not.

Fortunately, however, he has nowhere to go this time but to listen. In short, unless the former First Lady Patience Jonathan was right all along about the state of Buhari’s brain, it is about time nonsense paves way to common sense. The president should recognize that his current campaign against Biafra outside the shores of Nigeria is mere talk-n-go. He must recognize that the Nigerians in the diaspora have become the country’s Biblical Joseph in terms of relationships with the outside world. Faced with injustice at home, most of these diaspora Nigerians—the Igbo obviously not marginalized this time—have found favor in the foreign land, gaining profound prominence in all facets of global economy as well as politics.

Thus, if Biafra is synonymous with the Igbo, crushing IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu at the local front is no longer enough. For example, besides other Biafran groups in Nigeria, how about the many more in the Diaspora? Are such other Biafran organizations and their leaders in different countries, most of whom are distinguished in their chosen careers, including, high-ranking members of the armed forces, professors, doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, and business leaders also terrorists?

Similar questions might have been hovering in the mind of the veteran Nigerian philosopher, Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba, where he wrote that, “Biafra is not a Person. It Cannot be Killed by a Bullet.” Mazi Aduba noted that the growing popularity of Biafra has nothing to do with IPOB or Nnamdi Kanu but gross injustice in the land.

President Muhammadu Buhari needs help. He must be encouraged to listen—for a change. The current Biafran explosion is a self-inflicted wound that only he can heal. He must also admit that his hope of using the teetering exigency of terrorism to curry sympathy from international community is the height of hypocrisy. Unlike Buhari, the world knows that the true problem with Biafra is far from terrorism but the quest for equity and fairness which are vitally essential for a truly united Nigeria.

Be that as it may, so much is at stake. The masses, including this writer, invested so much hope on the current attempt for change in Nigeria. We truly want our president to have a successful tenure before he bids farewell at Yar’Adua Square in May 2019. The worst thing that can happen to Nigeria is neither the fear of IPOB nor Nnamdi Kanu. It is a failed Buhari presidency which can potentially signal the return—so soon—of the virally corrupt empire in the name of Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria. True.



SKC Ogbonnia writes from Houston, Texas and can be reached at SKCOgbonnia1@aol.com.


http://saharareporters.com/2017/09/27/world-ridicules-buhari-biafra-skc-ogbonnia

One day Nairaland will be dead because it a breeding ground of "HATE SPEECH".

NAIRALAND HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH IN DIVIDING THE NIGERIAN ETHNIC NATIONALITIES MORE THAN IPOB, FULANI HERDSMEN, ARẸWÀ YOUTHS, MASSOB, NIGER DELTA AVENGERS.

WHAT IS THE USEFULNESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE NAIRALAND WHEN ITS ADMINS LACK WHAT IT TAKES TO BRING SANITY, LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY.

THERE WAS A TIME I USE TO BE HAPPY VISITING NAIRALAND, NOT NOW.

BUHARI AND HIS APC GOVERNMENT HATES IGBO RACE! SIMPLE AND SHORT!
IT IS OBVIOUS! IT IS GLARING AND VERY CLEAR! E. G. 97% AND 5% MINDSET

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BUHARI AND HIS APC GOVERNMENT HATES IGBO RACE!
SIMPLE AND SHORT!

IT IS OBVIOUS! IT IS GLARING AND VERY CLEAR!
E. G. 97% AND 5% MINDSET
BUHARI AND HIS APC GOVERNMENT HATES IGBO RACE!
SIMPLE AND SHORT!

IT IS OBVIOUS! IT IS GLARING AND VERY CLEAR!
E. G. 97% AND 5% MINDSET
BUHARI AND HIS APC GOVERNMENT HATES IGBO RACE!
SIMPLE AND SHORT!

IT IS OBVIOUS! IT IS GLARING AND VERY CLEAR!
E. G. 97% AND 5% MINDSET

"I do not understand those who are calling on the Nigerian Army to stop the Python dance. Nnamdi Kanu is running an illegal government in our nation, complete with his own Army, Police, Secret service, Anthem, coat of arms, passport and currency. If that is not an affront on our collective existence, I don't know What is.
Nnamdi Kanu appears to have a tie with a country where arms and ammunition seized by the Nigerian Custom originated from."
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It is not in my character to say that you, Madam Patriotism, that you are a disgrace as Igbo womanand your Apc government.
Let me ask you, is it only Nna ndị Kanu that is residing in the South East? What about those innocent youth the soldiers have killing, maiming, torturing, intimidating and forced to swim and drink dirty mud water?
Keep on lying. Karma will soon locate you.

nengibo:
Hahaha, Niger delta will not work but Niger delta + Biafra will work, poor logic, the beautiful thing about Niger delta is dat we are all minorities and we know our differences and boundaries, if splinter nations come up from Niger delta so be it, everyone can go back to how it was pre-Nigeria, its still better dan Biafra

As for ur own Biafra, it will be divided into like 5 or 6 countries, the Abakiliki igbo will be oto, the superior anambra igbo oto, imo ppl that hate anambra like another thing will be oto, let me not even talk about Ikwerre & Anioma dat dislike even been called igbo

Please I like you to read my comment carefully. Thanks

This is just another stupid blackmail talk. You forgot that after the war the Igbo speaking were treated like out cast by almost all Nigerians including people from the south south. Majority of them did not want to be associated with anything Igbo. They said they are not Igbo just because we lose the war. But when anything good is associated with Igbo so they will smile and be happy to identify with Igbo.
It is a Sheer hypocrisy on the side of the poster to say that Ndị Igbo refers to include Effiong's for pension and gratuity and restoration of rank in the Nigerian army. Where was Effiong's then when Ojukwu went out alone to repossess his father's property seized by the government at V/I. Who are you expecting to blow your trumpet for you.

I thank God for the kind of survival spirit He gave the Igbo people. If not who would think that the Igbo speaking will ever amount to anything again in Nigeria and the whole world after the Civil War? Other tribes who fought the war on the Biafra side lost hope on the Igbos, therefore didn't see reason to continue to associate with Igbos. Then they were happy when the military governments of those created new states out of the old East Central State. They thought they were helping them to erase Igbo influence and association from them.

Even the people of Rivers State(P/H) in particular seized houses and other properties belonging to Igbos. We were all Biafrans(but they turn out to be saboteurs). Even the Ikwere people who speak Igbo dialect said they no longer Igbos. After being brainwashed by the North they turn their back against their own blood. Since then they have not known peace and they are still shedding their own blood. They think they can recreate what God has done by changing their names from "Umu" to "Rumu" etc. Confusion everywhere.

Till today I still respect Mr. Effiong and he will remain so. But his kinsmen and others will have to learn their lessons. God gave you guys the Igbo nation to protect you, to be your big brother, to fight for you. But you simply can't get it. Take it or leave it, Hausa/fulani are leading all the Northerners. The Yorubas are leading other tribes in the West. Why are the South South people rejecting the Igbo leadership? What? Just mere fear of domination. Who's even dominating you. Look at it again, during the Biafra Era, Ojukwu=Igbo was head of state.
Effiong=I ibi was vice/deputy and another Ibibi of man was Secretary of state etc. Where is the Igbo domination? Check your history or Google it and see that even during Era of Eastern Region and East Central state governments majority of the key government positions and appointments were occupied by other tribes who are not core Igbos.

So enough of all this blackmailing. Let Igbos be. If you can't support Igbos aspirations and struggles, don't stand on their way. Stop seeing Igbos as your problems. You are the architect of your own. As you make your bed, so you will lye on it. Let Igbos be! If they want freedom from Nigeria, it's their choice. If they still want Republic Biafra after the first Civil war ended 50 years ago, then you need no prophet to tell you that it's their destiny.
Come to think of it have the Igbos not be living since 50 years after the Civil War ended without the help of the government? The Gowon government gave a mere £20 to each Igbo person who had money banks out of the millions and billions of pounds and the rest was by federal might. And you want Nigeri economy to blossom? Did that happened to any Ijaw, Ibibio, Isthekiri, Isoko, Ikwere man? No!

Mod. Please help move it to the front page biko
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Please do the needful

THE ABURI ACCORD THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED NIGERIA FROM ALL HER PROBLEMS…( but aborted by the Fulani Oligarchy)

By FEMI ADESINA( current spokesperson to President Buhari)

In December 2009, I was at Aburi, while holidaying in Ghana. We Nigerians call it A-b-u-r-i, but the Ghanaians pronounce it as E-b-r-i. For those who have read widely about the civil war that we fought between 1967 and 1970, Aburi is a significant place. This was what I wrote about Aburi, after returning from that journey:

“Aburi. Beautiful, serene Aburi, set daintily atop a hill. It is home to a botanical garden that is 119 years old. But for us in Nigeria, Aburi goes beyond just nature and its preservation. It is the town where General Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met, to try and avert the Nigerian Civil War that lasted between 1967 and 1970. They came out with Aburi Accord, which later broke down. And a shooting war started. You could see the Presidential Lodge on a hill, where the Nigerian leaders had parleyed at the behest of Ghanaian leaders. It all ended in futility.”

As one of the key parties to the Aburi Accord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, returns to mother earth today, it is also apposite to return to Aburi, and look at the letter and the spirit of the accord once again, an agreement that was violated by the Federal side, and which made a bloody internecine war inevitable.
For most part of 1966, the northern part of Nigeria, particularly, had been turned to killing fields. Non-natives, especially Igbos, were killed in thousands. Many fled, many others were displaced. There was complete anarchy in the land. The average Igbo looked up to Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of the Eastern Region, to provide leadership and direction. He did not fail. He picked the gauntlet and championed the cause of his people.
By January 1967, the drums of war were loud and clear, reverberating across the length and breadth of Nigeria. But there was a last ditch effort to prevent what was imminent. There was a peace meeting hosted at Aburi, in Ghana, by the then Ghanaian head of state, Gen J. A. Ankrah. At the meeting were Gowon, Ojukwu, all the military governors of the regions, and some top civil servants, both from the Federal side and the Eastern region. The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.
The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.

The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides. Among others, it was resolved that legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government was to remain in the Supreme Military Council (SMC), to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided it is possible for a meeting to be held, and the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence. What does this mean in simple language? The SMC would run the affairs of the country, but not without consulting the regions as represented by the military governors. This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government.

Other terms of the agreement include that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporations must be approved by the SMC. What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.
Other matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: the Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements.

Using the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service, Ojukwu played the tape recording of the proceedings at Aburi repeatedly, to educate the populace on who was playing Judas. Later, he made a broadcast in which he said: “we in the East are anxious to see that our differences are resolved by peaceful means and that Nigeria is preserved as a unit, but it is doubtful, and the world must judge whether Lt. Col Gowon’s attitudes and other exhibitions of his insincerity are something which can lead to a return of normalcy and confidence in the country.

“I must warn all Easterners once again to remain vigilant. The East will never be intimidated, nor will she acquiesce to any form of dictation. It is not our intention to play the aggressor. Nonetheless, it is not our intention to be slaughtered in our beds. We are ready to defend our homeland.”

In a piece I did last December, shortly after Ojukwu passed away, I said he was virtually pushed into war by the infidelity of the Federal side to the Aburi Accord. I still stand by that position. Ojukwu was called ‘warlord’ for many decades, but he was by no means a warmonger. He only did what he needed to do for his people–and for the country.

As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country. There is agitation for the review of the revenue allocation formula. There are strident calls for the convocation of a sovereign national conference. Even some component parts are threatening to pull out of the federation if anything happened to their ‘son’ who is now in power. Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi? Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.
Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude. Unfortunately, he did not see the Nigeria of his dreams. Will we? Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa.

By Femi Adesina
Friday March 02, 2012

Poser by Patriot Carl Oshodi;

“THE QUESTION IS, CAN HE ( FEMI) STILL BOLDLY WRITE THE SAME ARTICLE NOW OR ADVICE HIS PRINCIPAL ON WHAT HE WROTE?

▪This article was written by Femi Adesina the current Spokesperson to President Buhari in 2012 after the demise of Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu.

End of the road for the wicked.

Though hand join hands, the wicked will never go unpunished!

Now let's see how his going to become rich over night.

Work and pray hard, mba, some lazy folks want become rich without labour simply because they believe everyone who is rich is a ritualistic.

I have never insulted anyone here and hate to do so. But this old punk of Paul unoongo is a parasite of hopelessness to his people.
It is an insult for him to open his mouth to say that borno state is bigger than the whole of South East. How dare you pual? And he went on to add Adamawa. Who told you that Adamawa is bigger than the whole South East? Old men are known by the wisdom they display. But not this pual. Poor northern parasite.

When has it become a crime for some people to ask for their rights of existence? I am not an IPOB member nor Nnamdi Kanu's spoke person. But let the truth be said. People like pual unoongo have been misrepresenting Nnamdi Kanu and IPod peaceful agitation. There has never been a time when IPOB OR KANU called for war the Nigeria state. Posterity will judge everyone of us.

A wise government will give ear to their demands and see how things will settled amicably. And some people are some where vomiting trash like this pual.

IPOB AND KANU said they want REFERENDUM in the South East. Which I think is their right. I think what the government should do is to conduct the referendum and see for themselves how many Eastern ears that want exit from Nigeria. Simple as that. Unless if there's something else they want from the Igbo nation.
Before the amalgamation of different ethnic nationalities into Nigeria, the Igbo nation as well as Yoruba, Hausa etc have been living and governing themselves. So if Igbo or any other group wants to exist from Nigeria so be it. There is no reason whatsoever to keep a friend who is no longer interested in your company.

Nigerians are selfish people that is why they are berated of truth. Denial of truth is not the end of it.

If Igbo and others are still talking about about Biafra after 50 years, then there is more to it. I required sober reflection and heart searching. Has the Nigerian state being fair to the Igbo? Have they not marginalised the Igbo for more than 50 year?

STOP RELATING EVERY MENTION OF BIAFRA TO WAR.
IF YORUBAS ARE PROUD TO BE CALLED ỌMỌ ODÙDUWÀ.
IF HAUSA ARE PROUD TO BE CALLED ARẸWÀ.

THEN NDỊ IGBO SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE CALLED BIAFRANS.

awesomely:
You always quote retaliatory attacks on Igbo. But you always forget Newton's third law of motion, which says "action and reaction are always equal and opposite."

Nobody is against your agitation for Biafra. But the way you go about it also, put other peaceful southern tribes living in the north at risk. Of all the attacks against your kinsmen you have listed, was it only your tribe that was attacked?

You provoke northerners to violence through hate speeches, when they retaliate, every southern tribe gets a share of the fracas, including innocent tribe like mine. But you always claim victim of the whole thing.

To get your Biafra, pls approach relevant bodies like UN or whatever, to conduct referendum. That is a more sensible approach, rather than subjecting other peaceful tribes living in the north, who have nothing to do with your Biafra to untimely death through your terrible hate speeches.

WHY NOT MENTION ONE OF UR INNOCENT TRIBE THAT SUFFERED UNJUH

awesomely:
You always quote retaliatory attacks on Igbo. But you always forget Newton's third law of motion, which says "action and reaction are always equal and opposite."

Nobody is against your agitation for Biafra. But the way you go about it also, put other peaceful southern tribes living in the north at risk. Of all the attacks against your kinsmen you have listed, was it only your tribe that was attacked?

You provoke northerners to violence through hate speeches, when they retaliate, every southern tribe gets a share of the fracas, including innocent tribe like mine. But you always claim victim of the whole thing.

To get your Biafra, pls approach relevant bodies like UN or whatever, to conduct referendum. That is a more sensible approach, rather than subjecting other peaceful tribes living in the north, who have nothing to do with your Biafra to untimely death through your terrible hate speeches.

WHY NOT MENTION ONE OF UR INNOCENT TRIBE THAT SUFFERED UNJUH

awesomely:
You always quote retaliatory attacks on Igbo. But you always forget Newton's third law of motion, which says "action and reaction are always equal and opposite."

Nobody is against your agitation for Biafra. But the way you go about it also, put other peaceful southern tribes living in the north at risk. Of all the attacks against your kinsmen you have listed, was it only your tribe that was attacked?

You provoke northerners to violence through hate speeches, when they retaliate, every southern tribe gets a share of the fracas, including innocent tribe like mine. But you always claim victim of the whole thing.

To get your Biafra, pls approach relevant bodies like UN or whatever, to conduct referendum. That is a more sensible approach, rather than subjecting other peaceful tribes living in the north, who have nothing to do with your Biafra to untimely death through your terrible hate speeches.

WHY NOT MENTION ONE OF UR INNOCENT TRIBE THAT SUFFERED UNJUH

edunwablog:
https://m.guardian.ng/news/militants-set-october-1-deadline-to-declare-niger-delta-republic/

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THESE ONES ARE SERIOUS. THEY ISSUE THREATS WHEN EVER THEY POCKET MONEXW FROM FG.
WHERE IS UR C SENSE?
U RE NOTHING BUT COWARDS AND ATTENTION & SETTLEMENT SEEKERS.
U THINK BH

SYLLABUS OF DECEIT! (THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FIRST COUP) BY OLISA AKUKWE


The broadcast on Biafra by Al-Jazeera must have hit home. I know this for sure with the rush by apologists of the Military-North Complex to indulge in their favourite revisionism. The first Nigeria coup is always their takeoff point.

However, we Ndi Igbo will never stop telling our story. The first couple that they keep labeling the Igbo coup because some of its leaders were Igbo, was never an Igbo coup. If the Military-North Complex that ruled and ruined Nigeria is willing to defend their assertions, let the Federal government of Nigeria muster the will to set up a Commission that will interrogate the first and second coups, since they always claim ALL our problems started then. This may help to bring a final closure to the claims and counter claims!

Indeed Major Kaduna Nzeogwu was reputed to have led the coup. The revisionists never fail to recollect how he invaded the home of Sir Ahmadu Bello and murdered him. They however always fail to mention that Nzeogwu didn’t act alone. Nzeogwu shot his way into Sir Bello’s home, with Lt Atom Kpela, a Tiv man, amongst others shooting with him.

Nzeogwu was murdered by northern troops at Nsukka sector, and his eyes plucked out before burial, during the war. What of Atom Kpela? He ended up as Military Governor of East Central state I.e Igbo land! And you will never hear members of the Military north Complex mention Atom Kpela when they describe the horrors of that fateful night in Sir Ahmadu Bellows home.

The Military-North Complex will always breeze through the fact that Lt College Unegbe contributed most immensely in the failure of the coup in Lagos. Not only because he paid with his life, the ultimate sacrifice by an Igbo man
against an “Igbo coup”. His refusal to grant any access to the ammunition store, for which he was in charge, as the Quarter-Master General,
singularly ruined the coup in Nigeria’s capital
then.

We acknowledge the horrors of that first coup. It is also on record that the fatalities of that coup was 15 persons. A very sad outcome! However you will never hear the revisionists mention that the counter-coup had fatalities of 214 persons, mainly Igbo officers. About 17 times the
fatalities of the first coup. A clear case of Crime against Humanity, under current UN charter! No other coup in Nigeria has ever had up to 20%
of that level of fatality. Even the violent. attempted Orkar coup.

The revisionists will never mention that the coup failed in the north because the coup failed woefully in Kano. The failure of the coup in Kano
was because Lt.Col Ojukwu refused to mobilise the 5th battalion to join the coup. Gen Olusegun Obasanjo in his book “NZEOGWU” wrote that a Lt Ude was sent by the coup plotters to kill Ojukwu. Luckily he was arrested.

The Kano Airport which the coup plotters had hoped to secure was secured for Nigeria by Lt Ike Nwachukwu, whom Ojukwu detailed to do that duty.
All these players that played pivotal and patriotic roles in debilitating the coup were Igbos.

You will also hear them saying that M.I. Okpala, the Premier of Eastern Region was not murdered because the Igbo coup executors in Enugu refused to touch him. However in the biography of Shehu Musa Yaradua, Yaradua
narrated the events of that night. Yaradua was a Lieutenant and he stated that he was practically in charge of the Enugu battalion that night. He
narrated that his commanding officer, Lt.Col Fajuyi was in Lagos. The 2nd in command, who was Major Akonobi, was according to Yaradua’floundering’.
He, Yaradua, was the one that received the signal from the Brigade command in Lagos. And he REFUSED to obey it. He said he refused to obey because he wanted to hear from the Brigade Commander directly, but they could not put him on.

He also narrated that it was him that secured the Archbishop of Cyprus and his entourage, as well as the Premier of Eastern Region. Otherwise the Premier would have been murdered. So much for the conspiracy theories that Igbo officers & men refused to murder M.I. Okpala because they are same tribe. Or is distinguished Major Gen. Shehu Musa Yaradua, of blessed memory a liar?

Meanwhile the coup failed not only in Enugu, but also Kano and Benin. Of course Kano and Benin are Igbo land.

You will never hear members of the Military-North Complex that ruined Nigeria mention the IFEAJUNA MANUSCRIPT, which detailed their true plans and intentions. The document detailed clearly their intention to hand over
power to Chief Obafaemi Awolowo. No less a person than Odia Ofeimun, Chief Awolowo’s private secretary for a long time, and renowned poetry revealed this. Obasanjo had also referred to this document, most likely in a Freudian slip.

All other coups in Nigeria, led by different tribal elements, non bears a tribal moniker. Only the first coup. An institutional attempt to justify
all the genocides and official discriminations against Ndi Igbo. All these continue to fuel the burning quest for Ndi Igbo to leave this vindictive union.

It’s time Nigeria officially stops the revisionism. If the Military north Complex thinks their version is the right one, let them have the courage
to open an official truth inquest, into the events of that cold January night.

Let us see if it can help us get an acceptable closure to that painful and fatal epoch.

Olisa Akukwe.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/syllabus-deceit-truth-first-coup-olisa-akukwe/

http://independent.ng/sex-husband-killing-wife/[/quote]There's error in the dates please.
The incident happened on 27th May 2017 and someone reported to the police on 12th May, 2017.

I don't understand!

Kimcutie:
Tonto Dikeh is gorgeous in this new photo!

The actress who said she’s now for Christ days ago, wrote;

‘GOD HAS MADE ME A WONDER, HE HAS BEAUTIFIED MY LIFE AND A SURPRISE TO MANY. GOD WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU EMPTY. HE WILL REPLACE EVERYTHING YOU LOST. IF HE ASKS YOU TO PUT SOMETHING DOWN, IT’S BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO PICK UP SOMETHING GREATER. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH, THERE’S NON LIKE HIM. HE IS MY MIGHTY PROTECTOR. HAPPY SUNDAY NEIGHBORS’


Source:- http://www.thearticle.com.ng/entertainment/beautiful-photo-born-actress/

I remembered this lady blocked me on Twitter fees years ago because I preached to her. What a world! She and her friends laughed me to scorn but never bothered me.
And she's confession good to be born again. Yes I am happy for if it's true she's what she said she is. Let the name of God be glorified.

I know also that a day is coming when those of who claim to be atheists will realize your mistakes and repent and ask God to forgive you.

koladebrainiac:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-70-of-plateau-s-new-certificates-of-occupancy-for-igbo/204799.html

And so what?
Show us the statistics otherwise I don't believe you.

This is a mere propaganda to patronize the Igbos.

Nigerians have been in the wuru wuru business even before Lord Luggard's arrival.

70% of land c of o.?
1. Means the Igbo people are trustworthy. They make official what ever property they acquired(nice one). Jisie nụ ikẹ

2. It means the Igbo population is equally 70% in Plateau State (applause)

3. Hope same Igbo 70% is reflected in the census statistics of that State too?

4. No alarm! Any Lebanese can own 80% of V/I in Lagos. There's no crime in it. Likewise any Yoruba can own 90% of properties in the East if they have the will power.

It doesn't need multitudes to say and stand for truth. FFK has proven himself a very formidable factor to reckon with.
He has been consistent in saying exactly what is in the heart of the most hated ones Biafrans.

Take it or leave it he's saying things majority of haters are afraid to say and acknowledge.

I doff my hat for FFK!

WORLDPEACE:
Been on this forum for a minute and I see the inter-tribal fights never end. I think it is really slow and I hope I can appeal to your common sense. Here are a few reasons if you care about upgrading your intelligence.
1. E-tribalists are cowards.
Faceless forums help people become anything they want to be. Some people think they can become supermen of their tribes, combing every nook and cranny of the internet, defending their tribes and attacking others. No sane person in real life goes about attacking other people 24/7 without ever caring what people think of them. Even an insane person would have to work really hard at it. We might attack others in moments of careless insensitivity that can be chalked up to temporary insanity, but no one is temporarily insane all the time.
So if you fight people of other tribes here all day but keep your mouth shut in the streets, you are just a coward. Don’t be a coward masquerading as an insane person. Cowardice is not an admirable quality.

2. Many E-tribalists are minors.
By this I mean many nairaland tribalists have not yet reached the legal age of maturity which is 18. Unfortunately, the forums membership rules does not include being an adult before you can comment on topics. So by law many of the guys fighting here are not yet fully responsible for their actions. Being able to read and write is all you need to be here, and you don’t even need to be proficient at it. Once you can string together a few social media abbreviations you are good to go.
A young person’s views on things changes very fast. Seven years from now, they probably wouldn’t believe half of the things they believe right now. That also includes the way they feel about other peoples. So before you start getting irate and loading your virtual clip at a minor, remember that.


3. You don’t want to be a weak and sentimental person
The war you are fighting is as old as man and will never be won. You are never going to silence everybody who feels some type of way about you. You can’t prove a point to everyone who thinks they are better than you just by virtue of their belonging to a particular tribe.
If someone says something derogatory about your people and you dwell on it you are just going to want to get even. Instead of that, just look at it as a chance to prove to yourself that you have self-control.

4. It’s not that important
Really, it is not. All that noise you’re making, the Fagani people of the Solomon Islands don’t know about it. I had to use google to know the Fagani people exist. They don’t know about how annoying that tribe that occupies the territory not far from yours is. You don’t know about the Fagani people and their enemies either. They know that they are not the only humans on this earth though. That’s all that counts. We are all humans and we are related. In a two thousand years, all Nigerian tribes may not exist anymore, but their genes will continue. That’s what’s important

That’s it for now. You can add yours.
Mods let this one set my people free.

Thanks so much for making out time to penned down these words of wisdom.

I have come to realize that most people on Nairaland are fake and faceless individuals who have no conscience.

Just check out names like ”IgboPeopleare bad67" YorubaPeoplearecowardsxxx, etc.
Is this the kind of people one will want to take serious?

Seun should watch it because Nairaland has become something else. There's serious need to purge Nairaland of the many unwanted elements.

Nairaland should be a place for sane and matured people and not for agberos and alomo bitter drinkers social circle.

Prof. BIC Ijomah.
Elder statesman and renowned academic of Igbo extraction, Professor Benedict Imeagwu Chukwumah (BIC) Ijomah, has taken Arewa nationalist leader, Prof. Ango abdulahi, to the cleaners.

In an Open Letter dated June 21, 2017, Prof. Ijomah, the 80-year-old renowned Professor of Political Sociology, author, scholar, academician, and institutional administrator, used facts and figures to demolish claims recently made by the controversial Prof. Abdullahi while defending the quit notice served Igbos living in the North by Arewa youth leaders. Prof. Ijomah wrote thus:

OPEN LETTER TO PROF. ANGO ABDULAHI

Prof. Ango Abdullahi,

OUR attention has been drawn to your statements in Vanguard of Saturday, June 10, 2017. You are alleged to be in support of the call on the Igbo to quit. It is unfortunate, grossly

unfortunate, that a scholar of your calibre will be so partisan as to be unable to see the wisdom in retaining Nigeria as a corporate entity. I know you have, in the past, been anti-Igbo.

One would have thought that our education exposes us to a level where we can live even with our enemies. You said in the alleged publication that, “each year up to the time Nigeria

gained its independence, none of the two regions East and West was able to produce for its self. I mean none of the Western and Eastern Regions had the money to effectively run the affairs of the region until they got financial support from the Northern Region.” It is this assumption of yours that I want to address.

First of all it is not true that the North had bailed out Eastern Region or the Western Region. But you claim that even before independence none of the regions could live without Northern

subvention. Let me draw your attention to the facts before independence. You should read W.M.M Geary’s work titled “Nigeria under the British Rule” published by the Cass and

Company Limited, London (1927).

Subsidizing the North

May I draw your attention especially to pages 124 and 125. You will see published, General Revenue for the Northern and Southern Protectorates before the

Amalgamation and the Percentage of Total Revenue originating from the North. You will see that contrary to your argument, it was indeed the South that was subsidizing the North. I am reproducing the tables here for clarity.

I also draw your attention to Abstracts of Revenue, 1809 to 1913. You will also see that the North could not have survived without the Imperial grant and the support of the South. When

you look at the third table, Northern Nigeria revenue paid by the South and the Imperial grant, it will disabuse your mind and show you that without the South and the Imperial grant,

the Northern government/states could not have existed.

Indeed, one of the reasons for the amalgamation was the fact that the British colonial government was tired of carrying the burden of the North and they thought that by merging the Southern and Northern protectorates, the country would be stable. Indeed, the circumstances that forced the British government to amalgamate the Northern protectorate and the Southern protectorate on January 1, 1914 were motivated neither by political exigencies nor by a closer cultural understanding among the diverse elements of the

conglomeration that was later to be called Nigeria. It is obvious that the primary interest of the British government was economic.

It was also obvious that the Northern protectorate, because of its geographical location and cloudy economic prospects, was not likely to be viable. In fact, the Lugard administration was finding it rather difficult to maintain the Northern protectorate which was already

running into deficit. Testifying to the financial difficulty of the North and the anticipated prosperity that would follow the projected amalgamation of the Northern protectorate with the Southern protectorate, Lord Lugard reported that “the prosperity of the Southern protectorate as evidenced by the liquor trade, had risen by 57 per cent. In fact, the liquor trade

alone yielded a revenue of One Million, One Hundred and Thirty-Eight Thousand pounds (£1,138,000) in 1913. This he believed was the result of amalgamation of the Lagos colony

with the Southern protectorate.

The Northern administration could not have survived without the imperial grant-in-aid which in the year before the amalgamation stood at One Hundred and Thirty Six thousand Pounds (£136,000) and had averaged Three Hundred and Fourteen Thousand, Five Hundred Pounds (£314,500) for the eleven years ending in March, 1912. Besides, the burden of financing the North seemed to have been resisted and bitterly criticized by the Southerners. The expenditure of the British tax payer’s money in financing a colonial territory was a contradiction of the British colonial policy enunciated sixty (60) years before by L. Gray which stipulated that “the surest test for the soundness of measures for improvement of an

uncivilized people is that they should be self-supporting.”

Economic position

This is by L. Gray in The Colonial Policy of the Administration of Lord Russell, London: Cass and Company Limited, 1853, page 281″ . Further, the Northern protectorate was not only land-locked but bounded by territories that fell under the influence of other European powers. It was, therefore, inconceivable how the economic position would have improved without aid from the South.

The only alternative open to Lord Lugard was to amalgamate the North and the South and thus have a legitimate reason for the expenditure of revenue from the South in developing the

North. Details of this manouevre was laid bare in a letter written by Lord Lugard on November 22, 1912 to his wife explaining how he had used the Southern resources to finance

the Northern deficit.

Regardless of the merit which Sir F.D Lugard saw in his financial amalgamation of the South and the North, the prevalence of bitter criticism in the South shows the unpopularity of the amalgamation. At that time, the export from the South stood at Five Million, One Hundred and Twenty-Two Thousand Pounds (£5,232,000) while the export from the North stood at Two Hundred Thousand Pounds (£200,000) in 1910. This was very discouraging to the colonial system and called for urgent remedy. On Tuesday, January 31, 1911, there were attacks on the colonial secretary’s suggestion that the South should advance a loan of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds (£200,000) to the North for the completion of the Baro to Kano railway, in addition to the sum of One Million, Two Hundred and Thirty Thousand which was required from the South.

One of the criticisms of the Northern dependence on the South was voiced out by Honourable Sapara Williams who contended that before the loan was to be granted, the Secretary of State should settle the type of relationship that existed between Lagos and Zungeru, the two administrative headquarters for the South and the North respectively.

Existing hostility

He contended that as far as he was concerned, that the Southerners were strangers to anything connected with the railway after it has passed Offa, the last Yoruba town on the line. He referred to the existing hostility between the North and the South, particularly as regards the issues of extending the Northern boundary of the Southern protectorate to incorporate Yoruba territories now locked up in the Northern protectorate. My dear Professor, the hostility of the

Northerners towards the Southerners is not new in the Nigerian history. Even during the time of Sapara Williams, the Northerners did not see anything reasonable in the relationship with the South.

You will recall the massacres of the Igbos in Jos in 1945; you will recall the massacres of the Igbos in Kano in 1953; you will recall the massacres that preceded the civil war. If we cannot

live together, Mr. Professor, don’t you think that it is high time we told ourselves the naked truth.

You will also recall that in 1964, after the crisis that followed the elections, that Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe had called on Nigerians to call a round table conference to discuss how we could share our assets if it was impossible for us to live together. We kept on patching this unpatchable relationship. In my honest opinion, this relationship has soured enough that it will take the wisdom of God to make us love one another.

We went to Aburi and there the leaders agreed that the only solution to our problems was to have a confederation but Gowon reneged. You will recall also that the British government, after the crisis of 1951-1952, realized that this country could not be a unitary state and they brought in the 1953 constitution which gave us regional autonomy. If the colonial masters in their wisdom knew that we could not be a unitary government and gave us what we had at

independence, we should have respected their wisdom.

You will also recall that after the civil war, the regional autonomy which our independence conferred on us was violated by the military government led by the Northern soldiers. We ended up having this contraption that we are having now; it has not worked. It will not work, unless there is proper restructuring of the nation. We should stop pretending.

I believe in all sincerity that if we cannot accommodate every segment of the federation in one Nigeria, we should call a constitutional conference to decide how this country can be

restructured so that every area can take care of itself and we can relate on certain agreed basis.

We have slaughtered ourselves enough. We do not want another civil war in order to justify the existence of “One Nigeria”.

May I humbly call on all Nigerians to examine the last constitutional conference which addressed the issue of restructuring. Let us not leave it to our youths to tell us when we can stay together or when we cannot stay together. The youths in Biafra are crying; the youths in the North are crying; the Niger Delta youths are crying. The middle belt is not happy with what is happening to them.

Added to these, the strategies of the herdsmen to penetrate every nook and corner of Nigeria, is raising some issues for national discourse. The Federal Government has deliberately refused to call the herdsmen to order. They have killed many people and ravaged many communities. None of them has been arrested. Why? In May 2016, I published two articles and warned that the activities of the herdsmen was a plot which would soon cover the whole country. The heavy silence of the Federal Government tends to support the view that the

herdsmen are on an undisclosed mission which only time would tell.

The Government must listen to the call for restructuring in order to have a workable nation.

The military, for partisan reasons, jettisoned the independence constitution and foisted an unworkable constitution on Nigeria. Let us be humble and accept that we made a gross mistake by throwing away our independence constitution. It is now clear that unless we return to a structure that guarantees regional autonomy, there will be no peace in this country. The earlier we returned to regional autonomy the better for us.

Regional autonomy

I want you to look at the tables I have given you to see that your postulation that the North, before independence, had been carrying the burden of the South is a fallacy. The statistics I have given you here were not compiled by me. They were compiled by the colonial government in 1809 and 1813.

They show that the North has always been the Southern burden. Even in this administration, without the resources from the South, the North cannot make it. This is a gospel truth. But if the North believes it can go without the South, what prevents us from restructuring so that the North can be on its own and the South can be on its own.

Let us call on our government to look seriously at this unworkable structure called Nigeria. We must not allow our youths to be slaughtered again defending the indefensible.

This federation, as it is, is unworkable.

My dear Professor, let us come together as scholars and look at our country very objectively. You may also want to read some of my works such as: Nigerian Nationalism & the Problems of Socio-Political Integration and Quo Vadis (Where Are You Going) Nigeria? & Other Essays.

My sincere regards

Prof. B.I.C Ijomah

Source News Express

Posted 28/06/2017 10:22:05 AM



http://newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=40556

Open letter to Arewa youths! BY Charles Ogbu.

Brethren from the north, I bring you greetings from the southern part of Nigeria. On behalf of the peace-loving people of the south in general and millions of Igbo youths in particular, I start this letter by commending you for your recent open letter to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, where you called on the pastor-turned politician to organise a referendum for the Igbo to enable them to determine their future in line with international laws on self-determination.

By that letter, you proved to be better versed in legal matters and ways of international laws with regard to the right of indigenous people on self-determination than many have given you credit for. Above all, your decision to resort to dialogue by writing a letter as against the option of violence is one I must not fail to commend.

Having said these, let me come to the main reason why I’m here. In your letter to the acting president, I noticed what I’ve been trying to figure out whether to classify as an innocent amnesia-induced oversight or a calculated attempt at revisionism on your part. The aim of this letter is strictly to put the record straight.

You cited the January 15th coup which you mischievously tagged Igbo coup and claimed was the Igbo manifesting their hatred for Nigeria. Quite frankly, when I read that part, I was left wondering whether to pause and die laughing or die crying. Contrary to your assertion, it was not the Igbo who manifested hatred for Nigeria’s unity. It is you and your kind who invented the word “hatred” and even went further to prove that indeed, it is not just a word. You started manifesting hatred for other Nigerians as far back as 1945 when your kind killed hundreds of innocent southerners mostly Igbo in the north central Nigerian city of Jos in an anti-Igbo pogrom, 15 years before Nigeria even got her independence from Britain. And of course, you would later rise again in search of more Igbo blood in 1953 when your people carried out another anti-Igbo pogrom in Kano which resulted in another hundreds of Igbo lives being wasted once again. This time, all you needed was a minor legislative disagreement at the Lagos parliament where your lawmakers were booed for trying to delay a motion for Nigeria’s independence by claiming the north wasn’t yet ready for self-rule.

Isn’t it a classic definition of irony that a people who started doing exceptionally well in the business of killing and maiming their fellow Nigerians as far back as 1945 when Nigeria had not even dreamt of gaining independence would now open their mouths and accuse others of manifesting “hatred for Nigeria’s unity”? If you ever believed in the so- called Nigeria’s unity, why kill and maim your fellow Nigerians for the flimsiest of excuses? Funny enough, it was your people who first romanced the idea of seceding from Nigeria in a movement that was popularly known as “Araba”.

Secondly, the January 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. It was a coup carried out by mostly junior army officers led by Major Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu and it had soldiers from Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Tiv, Esan, Ijaw, Urhobo, Bali etc on board. Hassan Usman Katsina, an Hausa/Fulani, who was later made military governor of northern region, was Nzeogwu’s right hand man and a major participant all through the period of the coup. Major Adewale Ademoyega, the author of Why We Struck was of the same rank as Nzeogwu. He was an active participant in the coup. There were Major Ifeajuna, Lt. Fola Oyewole of The Reluctant Rebel, Lt. Tijani Katsina and Saleh Dambo who were both Hausa/Fulani, there was Lt. Hope Harris Egheagha among other Igbo. And that same coup was foiled by two brave Igbo men, Aguyi Ironsi in Lagos (West) and Ojukwu in Kano (North).

Now, assuming without conceding that the January 15th coup was organised and executed by only Igbo army officers, does it not still amount to standing decency on its head for anyone to blame the whole Igbo nation for a coup carried out by few military men from the region?? How can anyone seek to justify the savagery visited on defenceless Igbo men, women and children residing in the north in the aftermath of that coup? Did Nzeogwu who was from Delta State consult the indigenes of the state before leading that coup?

How come we don’t blame Dimka’s coup on his ethnic group neither do we blame IBB and Buhari’s coup on the whole Hausa/Fulani?

Let me quickly remind you that in the evening of the January 15th coup, a Boeing 707 belonging to the Nigerian Airways arrived in Kano with almost the whole northern establishment back from Lagos where they had gone to attend Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference. Ojukwu, it was, who received them at the airport and even when orders from the coup plotters were to shoot all politicians, Ojukwu gifted them with protection. If there were a consensus among the Igbo to eliminate northern leaders, this would have been a golden opportunity. Yet, Ojukwu ensured they were safe all through the period.

In the said letter, you correctly stated that Ojukwu refused to recognise Gowon but you mischievously failed to state that Ojukwu’s refusal to recognise Gowon was in protest over the refusal of the Hausa/Fulani military officers who killed the Head of State, Aguyi Ironsi, to allow Brigadier Ogundipe to take over as the next in rank according to military tradition.
Still in that same letter, you stated that Ojukwu declared Biafra but you conveniently failed to tell the public that Ojukwu didn’t just wake up in the morning, smoke his Benson cigarette and rushed to declare Biafra. He (Ojukwu) did his best to de-escalate tension and even succeeded in reaching a landmark accord with Gowon in Aburi, Ghana, which if implemented, would have put an end to the Igbo genocide going on in the north and averted the moral tragedy that was the Biafra war. But, Gowon, unilaterally chose to defy the terms of this last-minute Aburi Accord, leaving the Oxford product, Ojukwu, with no choice but to pull his people out of a country that refused to protect them.

Let me quickly say this not just to you, the Arewa youths but to all Nigerians and foreigners alike:This current Biafra agitation is not a bait for Igbo presidency, restructuring or appointments. It is a cry against institutionalised marginalisation and state sponsored killing being perpetrated against the Igbo by a country that was and still is, deaf, dumb and blind to the sanctity of the lives of the same people it exists mainly to protect.

My generation is simply sick and tired of being in a country where they are killed over the flimsiest of excuses such as the burning of the Koran in a far away Afghanistan, the shooting of a Palestinian boy by a murderous Israeli soldier in Gaza, the drawing of the cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in far away Denmark by a cartoonist who is neither Igbo nor Nigerian etc.

Igbo youths are not aggrieved with Nigeria solely because their parents were massacred in the Biafra war. We are aggrieved because almost 50 years after the war, the same people who killed our parents are still killing us even in our homes using Fulani herdsmen, in our churches and cities using soldiers trained and equipped with tax payers money, and our places of business using almajiris who slaughter us and burn our shops with state-sponsored impunity for no just cause other than the insatiable urge to spill blood.

My fellow youths, we have lied to ourselves for far too long. How about a little honesty here? All these killings point to one thing which is that our worldviews are world apart. If we cannot stay together as a country, we can always go our separate ways but it has to be in peace. No one wants war. War is an ill-wind that blows no one any good.

I love the concluding part of your letter where you rightly asserted that the Biafra agitation is not an issue over which a single drop of blood should be shed. We agree completely. We have all advanced beyond the primitive era of war. We are not asking for war. We are only asking that since the Nigerian state has repeatedly proven her unwillingness to treat us as equal partners in the Nigerian experiment, we demand to be ‘gifted’ with a YES or NO vote known as referendum to enable us to decide our future. Rather than merely mouthing off quit notice, prevail on your leaders who control every facet of the Nigerian government to allow for a plebiscite for the Igbo.
After they have voted and the YES vote carries the day, you can then give Igbo living in your region whatever condition under which you want them to live if they still want to continue living in your midst.

Dishing out quit notice to Igbos residing in your region when they are yet to be officially granted their referendum and Biafra is only tantamount to putting the cart before the horse. Until the Igbos officially get their Biafra, they remain Nigerians with all the right and privileges of Nigerian citizens including the right of living and doing business anywhere in Nigeria.

Lastly, let me conclude by reminding you that even in the event of a successful referendum for Biafra, all property legally acquired by the Igbo anywhere in Nigeria remain theirs and are protected by international laws. Nigerians did not lose their property in Britain when the latter granted her independence in 1960, did they? The world has progressed considerably. I would remind you that the ‘abandoned property’ era is over but I’m sure you already know that, don’t you?

Instead of killing ourselves and creating IDPs everywhere, let us peacefully do “To Your Tent, Oh, Israel!” That way, we will still do things together but as good neighbours under mutually agreed terms.

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IGBO ARE NOT FOOLS, THEY DO NOT HATE THEMSELVES AS WE THOUGHT. - BY IDRIS ABUBAKAR, DAKATA OF KANO

I think and believe that in Nigeria today, Igbos love themselves more than every other tribes. If you see any Igbo rich business man, listen to his story how he got to where he is today, he will always start with, 'I was a poor boy at home with my parents when my uncle, brother, or relation took me and brought me to the city to learn trade with him and finally settled me to start my own'.

IGBOS ARE RARE.
1] You will see one Igbo man who has trained and settled more than 100 young men and all are doing well in their businesses.
2] It is only Igbo man that I have seen who would train a child that is not his in schools up to the university level.
3] Only Igbo man would send a relation abroad to go and find means to survive without minding how much it cost him.
4] Every Igbo man want his brother to live comfortably and don't have to rely on others.
5] Igbo man would rather teach you how to catch a fish than to give you already caught fish.
6] When an Igbo man marries, he takes good care of his wife and children unlike the other tribes that doesn't respect their wives.
7] My sister Murna has always said that she would love to marry an Igbo man because they know how to take good care of their wives and those related to her.
8] Igbo man, no matter what and where he maybe would always have home at heart and wherever they see their people, they make themselves known.
9] Wherever they are, they would surely have Igbo meetings and gatherings of their local governments people.
10] Igbo man would go to meetings every Sunday where they meet with their people.

I wonder how anyone could say that Igbos don't love themselves, In fact we are jealous about Igbo people for how united and together they come all the time. When something happen to one of them, they would come together and assist. I have seen people from other tribes buried here when they died, but when an Igbo die here they must gather and take the body home in solidarity.
Things Igbo people do together I never see in other tribes in Nigeria. An Hausa or Yoruba rich man would never do anything to help you, they would rather be giving you 20 Naira every time they see you, that is after you must have greeted them tire.
If Biafra goes away from Nigeria, I will be the first to apply for their visa, I want stay with them, very intelligent people, they know how to make things happen. - Idris Abubakar, Dakata, Kano. - Hope For Nigeria.

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Anayordike:
Yes been trying but haven't gotten it. I don't even know the name

Yes! I have gotten it.

The name is "Amadeus MOZART - Pequeña Serenata Nocturna". You can find on YouTube as well the mp3 on Google.

martins18:
google search

Yes been trying but haven't gotten it. I don't even know the name

Please guys I'm looking seriously for one of the songs/hymns played when the ship Titanic was about to sink. I don't know its name but it has something like 3 cord tune.

It goes like this "Laa, lalala, Laa, lalalala".(something like that sha).

Help me out please

Breaking: Mayhem in House of Reps over South-East Devt. Commission

By Emmanuel Offor | June 1, 2017

HOUSE OF REPS
NAITONAL ASSEMBLY SEDC
SOUTH EAST

The House of Representatives was on Friday, engulfed in a rowdy session as members debated a bill concerning the South-East Development Commission (SEDC)
It is understood that those leading the protests in the chambers are members of the House mainly from the South-East geopolitical zone.
They are said to be upset over the abrupt withdrawal of a bill seeking to create a South-East Development Commission, despite the best efforts of House Speaker Yakubu Dogara in explaining that the bill was stepped down because its sponsor, Honourable Chukwuka Onyema, was absent from plenary.
Addressing the House on the matter, Speaker Dogara said the lawmakers were not against the bill, but that debates could not be continued due to the absence of the bill’s sponsor, Hon Onyema.
Order eventually prevailed in the House after about 15 minutes of pandemonium as the bill is now being considered by the lawmakers.
The SEDC has been one of the contentious bills in the legislature following its introduction in 2016 as a response to the North East Development Commission (NEDC) introduced in 2015.

Although its core objectives are yet to be debated, advocates of the bill say it will help tackle alleged marginalisation of the south-east and bridge the development gap of the region – a cry that’s been amplified in the present administration as manifested in the recent exclusion of the south-east in the
Federal Government’s modernisation policy of railway projects nationwide.
This also comes amid heightened separatist pressures in the region that saw a massive sit-at-home on May 30 (Biafra day) that crippled economic activities across all five states and parts of the south-south.
For now, the future of the bill is at best conjectural.

https://www.olisa.tv/2017/06/breaking-mayhem-house-reps-south-east-development-commission/

I think the Bobo is enjoying himself.