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OP post all the article here. Nobody is going to that newsrecue junksite owned by a GEJ/Igbo-hating hausa/fulani man that is now probably coming to his senses probably because of the shiite massacre which now affected him.

Newsrecue was the first junksite to claim that Kanu was caught with 3 prostitutes and bags of cocaine. They ridiculed the death of innocent protesters shot at Onitsha, now the scales of sycophancy and rabid buharism are falling off from your eyes after the shiite massacre and you want our empathy? God punish you there!

Whether he hates Igbos or not is irrelevant. Let him just respect the constitution that he is currently tearing apart with his tyranny. Igbos will outlive him whether he loves or hates Igbos.

jpphilips:
You must be a hypnotized goat to believe that Naira existed alongside the Biafran pounds.
Nigerian naira came into existence in 1973 while Biafran pounds went extinct in 1970, how could your yoruba Journalist friend compare an existing and nonexistent currencies?
Is it lack of Education or you guys are born without brains by default?

Mr Gorrilla, Read up carefully, this time very slowly. We are talking about November last year when a yoruba journalist visited West African francophone countries. Not in the 70s'. Scroll up and read, carefully this time.

Nice one from Emma Powerful.

Princewill1:
You are the real mugu here.

Palestine is not yet recognized as an independent country by UN.

But countries of the world allows Palestinians to travel into their country with Palestinians passport.

Like i told dabullit, legitimacy is relative. If Putin, Trump, Iran or even Gabon or haiti wakes up tomorrow and recognizes the passport, there is nothing anybody in nigeria can do about it.

NB: I am not promoting Biafra here, i am only stating facts as it is.

DABUllit our wishes are not usually realities. Have your read this?

November 12, 2015

Biafran Pound as a Legal Tender in
West Africa


“Produits Fanmilk a vendre…des
produits de Fanmilk a vendre. Nous
acceptions Naira, Cedi, CFA, Dollars, et meme du Biafra Pound…Fanmilk
products e dey for sale…fanmilk
products e dey for sale….we dey
accept am for Naira, Cedi, CFA, Dollar, and even Biafran Pound”, the dairyproducts’ vendor shouted to the hearing of everyone, in apparent attempt to get persons to patronize him. This was at Ilacondji, at the very frontiers of Benin-Togo. The vendor, a Togolese employee of the Fanmilk company, a Nigerian international dairy firm, could speak some pidgin English and good French. He wasobviously a well-travelled West African,
who had probably worked in Nigeria
and lived in Ghana. I needed to find
out more about his Biafran Pound.
“Mon ami”, I politely called him, “avez- vous dit que vous acceptez Livre du Biafra”? (Did you say you accept
Biafran currency here? “Oui”, he
quipped, adding, “i lest legal ici au
Togo et d’autres pays Francophones.
Elle est belle et precieuse. Il est notre
monnaie preferee” (It is a legal tender here in Togo and some other French-speaking countries in West Africa. It is beautiful. It is our favourite currency).

I probed further: “S’il vous plait, pius
je le voir? Quelle est la valeur a Naira?
(Please, let me see it. What’s its value
compared to Naira?) The response
dazed me: “It is currently N368 Naira
to a Biafran Pound!!!” This was the
most explosive part. N368 Naira to an illegal currency of a non-existent
state? Who could be behind this mint and which Central Bank is regulating and standardizing it to the extent of
giving it such a global value?
I took a snapshot of the money and
handed it over to the Fanmilk vendor.
I bought two products from him in
Naira and looked around me to find
out that a startled crowd was looking at me, JJC, who was just finding out for the first time that Biafran Pound
was a major means of exchange in
the Francophone frontiers in West
Africa. The persons crossing the
border like me were just wondering
what drama I was putting up and
soon took their eyes away from my
spectacle the moment I bought my
Yoghurt and allowed the poor vendor
to be.
For me, it was a moment of rare
discovery. I was lost in thought,
perturbed, worried at the deeper
implications of the seemingly
interesting finding I just made. Who is behind the Biafran Pound? Which
Central Bank is printing and regulating
it? Why is it a legal tender outside
Nigeria? Why are Francophone
countries, our so-called good
neighbours and co-members of
ECOWAS the ones recognizing and
accepting it as a means of
transaction? How come it has so
much value, even higher than the
British Pound and other western
currencies? Who and what is Biafra in the present-day Nigeria?

The journey to Aflao was characterized
by mind puzzles. Could France,
Nigeria’s biggest threat in West Africa
be behind this pantomime? Could the Togolese government and its
counterparts in Ivory Coast and other Francophone countries be boldly supporting the re-emergence of Biafra in order to break Nigeria? Are these
governments doing the bidding of
France, their master or is it their own
hideous agenda to reduce the power and influence of the giant around them? If not, why are these
governments allowing the Biafran
Pound, a symbol of decapitated and
emasculated Nigeria, to be a legal
tender in their territories? If the
governments are not aware, the
citizens and other persons using the
coastal trade routes in West Africa
would not accept and spend the
Pound.
Is the Nigerian government even
aware of this development? If not,
what then are our embassies and
Ambassadors in these countries
doing? Do they have any business in
those countries if they could not
detect and report home such delicate developments that can affect the very foundations of the Nigerian State? Is
President Buhari even aware of all this nonsense going on around his
sovereign state?

My discovery at Aflao was more
worrisome. Ghana, a supposedly
most trusted fellow Anglophone
country also recognizes and accepts
the use of the Biafran Pound as a
means of exchange! However, most
Ghanaians and Nigerians of Igbo
origin, I learnt, use the currency
discretely. They are not as brazen
about it as the Togolese, Beninoise
and Ivorians. But the Biafran Pound is the most popular currency in Ghana.
My take on the Ghana episode is thatthe “friendly” government of that country cannot not say it does not
have any security report about a
Biafran Pound-business that is said to be as old in Ghana (Aflao in particular)
as immediately after the Civil War.

On return to Nigeria, I approached
some senior Igbo colleagues in the
academia, narrating my encounters
and expressed my worries.
Concerned but not new to them, they explained that it had been an old development, which has however
gained momentum in more recent
times. I was made to realize that the
Igbos have not yet given up on
“Biafra” and that there are grand
plans to “regain” their independence.
I gathered that the Pound had been a collectors’ item, which, ipso facto,
would give it a lot of value, but
explained that the tenability of the
currency along the West African
coastline is the machination of some powerful and unrepentant “Biafran leaders”, whose international goodwill and connections have pervaded West
Africa and beyond.
But, the situation is an
embarrassment to Nigeria, its
government and people. It is more
worrisome than Boko Haram because the popularity and value of the
Biafran money simply means that a
break-up is already established and
recognized, or is “at best”, imminent.
So, while the West African leaders
smile to Abuja, praising and hailing
Nigeria as a giant and dependable
neighbour, they go behind and mock
the country, gleefully sipping wine as
they manipulate its disintegration and
watch the ignorant and idiotic giant
cracking and bound for a collapse.
President Buhari is trusted to handle
this matter with fiat. The embassies ofNigeria in Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory
Coast and other places where the
Biafran Pound is acceptable must be
called to account for their negligence and dereliction of duty. The Foreign Ministry should be called to question
and the Nigerian military/intelligence attaches in these countries must be
fired immediately.

The Federal Government must invite first, the
ambassadors of these countries and later the leaders and sit them down in Abuja for a hard talk. The Igbo separatist leaders must be
apprehended and an international
network promoting the secessionist
bid, through symbols, insignias and
the Radio Biafra must be brought to
the table for another round of hard
talk. President Buhari must take
advantage of the visit of the UN
Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon to
address the issue of UN recognition of belligerents, which has been a factor goring the Biafran secessionist bid and indeed the acceptability of the currency of a non-existent state.

By sherriff Folarin

arresa:
Where is your embassy abu shey you even get ambassadors?

Who dey issue biafra visa?

Abeg no answer

Not all countries have embassies.

DaBullIT:
My brother , waste not your time

All those rumors about Biafraudian pounds being acceptable for exchange and has better rate than the Naira is a sham,

Any Biafraudian passport is less than or equal to a Novelty passport, Beautiful but useless

Again, Trust me , I know

By the time they cajole you to pay for express delivery , It will be more than 5K , that's how scam works

The nation newspaper (a yoruba media outfit) journalist made the observation when he travelled on the west african coast to Benin rep, Ghana. The article was posted on nairaland last year. 1 Biafran pound exchanged for about N680. Now have you conducted your own research to make me believe your statement.

Tell me why i should believe you instead of the journalist that made the findings in Cotonou and Ghana and wrote his article? I really want to believe your 'facts'. Help me

DaBullIT:
Some erdyots will believe this and fall for the scam



Oh. You don't know its a scam?


Well it is. Some people will start looking for Biafra passport office

And massob leader and his boys will be readily available to collect money for a passport that'll never be delivered. Simply because no country in UN charter is recognized as biafra



And by the way Seun this is some sort of advert.


Poor journalism by vanguard

But come to think if it, how come we've not heard of people been harrased abroad for using a Biafran passport. Biafran currency is banned in nigeria but i read a the nation's journalist's experienced about West african countries Money changers accepting Biafran pound. Maybe i'll investigate this myself. 5K is not a big deal. If it's a scam, i'll report it myelf. Though i don't like uwazurike, but i'll investigate.

Is he sunni or shiite?

MagicBishop:
That's the spirit .

Unwind with hoes and loud music while sipping volumes of alchohol to drown your loss.

I did this when I broke up with my cheating ass girlfriend back in 2006 and I can say it worked very well for me.

Damn! Bro you sound too intelligent to let a woman do that to you. I've never been emotional with hoes in whatever form they may come. I just chase them down, throw them a few bucks, bang their sorry asses and move on to the next ass. When i want to get married i'll go to the village and find a virgin. lolz

mekaboy:
Both EFCC and DSS are becoming unprofessional and childish under PMB.

Even the NAS and House of Reps. Today the budget is stolen tomorrow it is withdrawn. The news agencies can no longer report valid news. One thing is reported today, tomorrow another is reported.

CBN gives one directive today, tomorrow another is given.

Today they say Amechi did not spend 86m to host soyinka , tomorrow they say he spent.

Today they say fuel is 86.50 yet it's sold for 130.

They say subsidy is removed, 2 morow they say it is not.

Today they say they won the war 2 morow another.

When will we have stability?

This APC administration is the biggest lie that will ever happen on nigeria.

T8ksy:
[i] Here we go again! Don't you guys ever get fed up with giving meaningless threats?

Oju-Iku, the orangutan lookalike threatened worse to Nigerians but in the end, he legged it like a true hero, nay coward in the middle of the night to safety leaving the rest of you to carry the can.

Kanu the albino said worse but he is now languishing in jail with roaches and mosquitos as companions.

I dare Ipob to do their worst.i]

Keep pushing Buhari to kill kanu so that you'll later abandon him when the heat is turned on him. What else are you yorubas good at? lolz

The Zombies should pack to kano.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
This report said a writtenn statement was presented to him for endorsement.

How can unsigned statement be attributed to Olisah Metu without his signature?

Does EFCC arrest people before evidence or the opposite?

They interrogate you by mouth, write the statements by themselves and then give you to sign. Funny daurans!

You dey plait hair for women? BTW who took this trash to the FP!

Representing Dan fodio's Islamic estate of Nigeria you mean.

He is probably one the 150 kaffur soldiers of eastern descent purged out of the nigerian army by fulani generals who sent them on a suicide mission from warri division to the north east.

Buhari is a crooked deceitful criminal. Let him fooling himself thinking that everybody in nigeria is an almajeri.

our lazy yoruba nigerian youth and their usual owo da business. lolz

The rate at which Buhari creates Fake Igbo unions and associations these day to pretend that he is accepted in the East, makes me laugh. Lmao! in the past 6 months, i've seen a massive proliferation of fake pro-Buhari Igbo groups that is unprecedented in the annals of nigerian history. lol

EasternLion:

Go yeye and hide under your brown roof, for ye shall bring forth legs of bubu, son of hari to ICC, with your sycophancy

Lmao! I once said that yorubas are actually urging on buhari so that he can feel he is highly supported in his tyranny, but when Buhari falls into a ditch while fighting Easterners, his yoruba supporters will leave him to his fate and point to the constitution for Osibanjo to take over, we know their true nature of backstabbing. lol

lanrehamd:
People that are more important and relevant than Kanu have come nd gone. Nothing happened.

Worse case scenario, other Jobless IPOB will go with him......

You wish! , just like MASSOB have died even after losing hundreds of their members?

Listen man, the children and family members, immediate and extended family of anybody who has a hand in the eventual death of kanu will justifiably be hunted all over the world in more than 88 countries and hacked down on the streets like sewage rats.

IPOB have seen their faces, they know them, know their children and family members. Infact the only place they will ever feel safe is in daura. 65 million Easterners around the world will not take a fulani slap on the face lying low, Easterners are NOT yoruba. IPOB is NOT MASSOB what they say they will do, THEY DO! Enough said.

PassingShot:
Sometimes, the worst thing to happen to a man is not to die. It's to live with the consequences of his actions.

Kanu will not be killed but he will wish he's killed.

Keep running from pillar to post. just yesterday 'kanu must be hanged' today 'we will not kill him but we deal with him". You buhari sycophants should stick to a script for fuuuuck's sake! Are the Biafrans that formidable that they make you wobble everyday?

Many of you zombie Buharists had to wait for Buhari to affirm that there are indigenous Igbos in the SS before believed and agreed. We will have to wait for an Eastern president to affirm that there are hausas and yorubas in the SS before believing it too.