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omoeko001:
To be honest this Biafra of an issue is tiring, if you ask an igbo person in diaspora especially igbos living in Lagos what is their take on this Biafra issue, the reply I get is that they don't want the break they are not concerned about the Biafra of an issue....... from what I have seen the most people agitating for this break up are the igbos staying in the South East . if you select 20 igbos in Lagos and asked them what their take on Biafra is, 15 will tell you they are not interested in it...... So why are the igbos in the South East pained than their fellow brothers in diaspora,

The thing is confusing. please I need answers

Biafra is about Igbos living and present in Igbo land, not about Igbos living in China

The reason why IPOB cannot do what SNP did in Scotland is that Nigeria is structured differently from Britain.

Britain practices full fiscal federalism with devolution of powers to the 4 Region of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

So the Scottish National Party (SNP) only had to fight to win enough seats in the Scottish parliament for them to use their majority position to pass a motion for a referendum which was granted to them in 2014


But in Nigeria, we run a unitary system. Even if IPOB became a political party and won every political position in the SS/SE area, it still would not be able to secede because it would have to go to Abuja and move a motion at the National Assembly which will be voted down by the other 4 zones who would want Nigeria to reman one.

Nigeria will never be restructured, the North will never allow it.

So IPOB is left with no choice but to use pressure tactics such as demonstrations, election boycott and civil disobedience to get Nigeria to grant referendum

MayorofLagos:
This is the foundation for the article. Everything here is embellished and spawn in falsehood.

The first Nigerian billiionaire was a shipping magnate by name Henry Fajemirokun. The first to own RollsRoyce was Kano Emirate, followed by Fajemirokun. Sir Ojukwu never had a Rolls.

Dont say what you dont know. I have seen old pictures of Sir Louis Ojukwu in his Rolls Royce when he was going to court (he took the colonial government to court)

What are the federating units?

My take as an Igbo man. I dont care how well Igbo corpers have been treated in the North. Nigerian history tell us all that countless tbousands of Igbos have been butchared in the North since 1945. Waves upon waves of remorseless genocide. How many Northerners have ever been killed in Igbo land? Not a single one

This is ONE NIGERIA for you

People keep trumpeting that Nigeria is highly blessed with human and natural potential, all that remains is for us to get our act together. Only a united people with a common cause can get their act together and the ethnic groups thst populate Nigeria arw neither united nor do the have a common cause. We are divided along religious, tribal and and traditional lines. What ONE NIGERIA means to a Yoruba man is not what it means to an Igbo or Hausa man.

Unity is not something that is forced, you are either united or you are not. After 103 years as a country and 57 years as a nation, if we are not yet united then we are wasting our time together. Therefore, Nigeria cannot work as a nation.

Nigeria is just the mere creation of the white man, we dont have a common goal, common philosophy, common interest or love for each other.

It is only fair then that we all give something else a try. The Igbo nation should consider becoming independent. A failed independent Igbo nation is much better than a failed Nigerian nation. At least, we will have our sovereignty and destiny in our hands.

Its good that Chibuike Amaechi has finally come out to tell the world that he is an Igbo man.

Let this be a warning to all the morrons out there who will ask

"Is Rivers Igbo land?"

Parts of Rivers is Igbo land

Graduated at the age of 18? That is rare

Ebubedike Biafra!

Na ga n'iru! Anyi kwu gi n'azu!

QTEST007:
This can't be true

What do you mean it cant be true? Who doesnt know that it is the the Hausa/Fulani core North who control Nigeria?

The only peoole who stood up to them were Igbos and some minority tribes such as Ijaw.

They rest of Nigeria willing chose to be their slaves

For a minute there, I thought it was going to be one of those "we are not part of Biafra" statements that certain minorities use now and again to attract cheap publicity.


It is quite unfortunate for the Urhobo nation. They want restructuring but it wont be up to them if Nigeria is ever restructured. They dont have the luxury of seceding as this can only be achieved by any one of the 3 majorities as they are the only ones who have the numbers to pull it off.


In a essence, this entire statement by UPU or should I say Urhobos can be summarised as

"We Urhobos want a restructured Nigeria where we control our resources and politics. We are aware that the North will never allow restructuring to happen in Nigeria so we have resolved to become minority slaves who will eternally beg the North for control of our own resources.

Hopefully, 200 years from now, when North finally find Oil in the North, our slavery status will finally be lifted and Nigeria will be restructured"

I laugh in Swahili

maclatunji:
I forgot to ask all these days. Please educate me on what Donald Trump said to the delegation.

They resolved to buy you a new Tooth Brush

Look at how the Northern Youths were given full Police 'Horseride' protection

At the same time this was happening, an Igbo man called Charles Oputa AKA Charlie Boy who denounced Biafra, was almost being tear gassed to death by the same Nigeria he believes in

Obiano should be ashamed of himself. He went to the hospital and confirmed that people were shot and killed. Instead of him to come out and condemn extrer- judicial murder that took place under his watch, the Champaign drinking Governor went to inspect Onitsha Mosque.

He is now running around with Ojukwus face on his dress campaigning for second term. But at that crucial time his people needed him, he kept mute and disappeared from the scene.

Months to the election, he confesses.

Obiano is very lucky that this boycott is not about removing him from office.

Terkimbi01:
I keep saying we need an Nnamdi Kanu in the Middle.Belt.

Sorry bro but people like Nnamdi Kanu only emerge amongst those who seek self determination

aribisala0:
The IRA or Irish republicaan Army for years terrorized the UK with their agenda to break away from the UK and join the Republi of Ireland. Why has there not been a referendum in Northern Ireland but there has been in Scotland where there was no violence. ? After many years of bombings the IRA were forced to push their agenda through elections and consistently have failed to secure a majority in the devolved government.Rather the Pro-Union Democratic Union Party DUP have won all elections and they reject calls for referendums.

The IRA are like IPOB full of sound and fury but no substance. If you want to leave you must push that agenda through a political party. IPOB should form a party ,contest for Senate and House of Representatives and when they win those seats refuse to sit and boycott the institutions. The IRA party Sinn Fein does not want to be merged with England in the UK .Its elected MPs to London refuse to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen and so they never take their few Westminister seats even though they are a minority compared to the ProUnion Democratic Union Party DUP.

Today the Government at Westmnster is a coalition between the Conservatives and the DUP. Back home in Belfast in the local government the DUP dominate snd so there has bee no call for referendum Despite the fact that the IRA were for years very destructive and as a result Northern Ireland was essentially occupied by the British Army as a result. When push came to shove the IRA was not as popular as it believed.

In summary REFERENDUM WILL NEVER HAPPEN via street protests but through politics and elections. Elect IPOB Senators and Governors then we will take you seriously. Stop pretending to yourselves that other Nigerians don't want you to leave

I guess nobody told you that Northern Ireland had a referendum in 1973? Britain is a civilised country that does not hold people against their will, unlike Nigeria.


Referendum will never come politically the way Nigeria is constituted because even if IPOB forms a political party and wins every political position in the SS/SE, it will still come back to a Nigeria National Assembly where the other 4 zones will vote against the disintegration of Nigeria. A complete waste of time.

The only way to get referendum is to keep up the protest, keep boycotting elections, putting the pressure up until Nigeria collectively decides to give Biafrans a referendum

Eykillz:
i get what you are saying, i really do, but think beyond where we are now, the divided country would be veering into untested waters, with numerous challenges from all sides. coupled with the fact that each would be open to attack. the shortest distance between any 2 points is a straight line. i think we can move forward united, with no hate from the north, south, east, or west. every problem Nigeria has has now is as a result of hate and selfishness. why do you think there has been no eastern president or eastern chief of armed forces from after the civil war till date?

All this is nonsense talk. Who is open to attack? Igbos are well over 40 million people, much greater than the population of many countries in Africa.

Gambia is less than 2 million people. Igbos are over due for their own country

Eykillz:
This is the kind of mindset we need to change, you can't reset the past, you can only move forward and make it better.

Look let me tell you something. Unity is not by force. If it is by force then it is no longer unity. Nigeria should be by those who are happy to be known as Nigerians. Those who wish to go a different direction should be left to go.

Nice one by Uche Mefor, able IPOB deputy leader

Deadlytruth:
What makes us distinct people is the very fact that we are a multiplicity of tribes yet have a strong bond of harmony and identity which Nigeria's diversity failed to confer on it. You think having genuine unity in diversity is banana?

Dont make me laugh. Which of the 4 Regions of old wasnt a "multiplicity of tribes"?

The Midwest is gone forever and in the event of Nigeria restructuring or disintegrating, we Igbos are are not going to part with one inch of Anioma.

Look at Charlie Boy almost gassed to death while protesting for a better Nigeria but the Northern youths are given full police escort.


Everything in life is negotiable except the eventuality of death

Im between 30 and 40. Got married last year and Im expecting my first issue.

The way I see it is a man should check 3 things before he gets i to marriage.

1) Marriage is not a game for boys, it is for men. If you are still a young boy chasing everything in skirt, living the high life, partying hard, coming back late. Marriage is not yet for you. It is when have become a man and everything is no longer about 'living it up', thats when to consider marriage.


2) Finding the right person is not easy. Finding wife material is not easy to even talk about who you jell with . I searched for years, so many disappointments. I will never advice anybody to marry for the sake of marrying because if you rush into marriage without taking the time to study and find if your partner is right for you, you could be crying for a very long time.

3) Finance. You dont have to have all the money in the world but you have to have some sort of financial stability.


I feel it is better that a man achieves all these 3 points at 45 and marries and is happy rather than marry at 25 and is misreable for a long long time

maclatunji:
Simple scientific extrapolation. If you cannot live in a country where other people are doing better without being disruptive, your effect as an independent state with an army would be worse.

It would just be war on all sides of the border and civil war within the entity. We refuse to subsidize the folly.

We will have to give independence a try and what happens. If we dont try, we shall never know.

Look at these fools. Which one is "we are a distinct people"?

You have several tribes in the old midwest, so what is distinct about it?

olayanju22:
please let us always remember January 1966 too!

You mean the one Major Ademoyega, Captain Adeleke and Lt Oyewole participated in?

win2kwire:
Timeline of violence in Nigeria:

Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and his band of ibo killers carried out the 1966 Coup that wiped out many Northern leaders, and the refusal of a desk chair ibo head of state called Ironsi was the reason for counter coups that killed the same Ironsi and many of his people.
IBOS SOWED THE SEED OF HATE, DISTRUST AND POGROM BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF NIGERIA! Many other ethnic groups who never participated are today the target of northern aggression!

Ibo actions led to the Civil war, and Ojukwu who made the same statements that this 419 small boy is making fled the scene.
If you want to talk about "killings and atrocities", ibos have killed and are still killing more people in Nigeria than any other groups.
The NAFDAC indices on fake goods, poisonous items, contraband and dangerous imports mostly done by greedy ibo traders has killed more Nigerians since 1970 than all ethnic groups (including terrorists)

Ibo hard drugs imports from abroad has led to the illnesses and deaths of many Nigerians, infact ibos help to kill 50 Indonesians people daily dealing drugs in Asia!
NDLEA has fingered ibos as the leading drug dealers, importers and exporters in Nigeria, leading to the deaths and incarceration of many Nigerians!
Greed in ibo chemists means many uneducated and unqualified ibos REuse infected syringes on people seeking treatment, leading to high rate of HIV infections and AIDs deaths in Nigeria.

ibos introduced the human head for ego to Nigeria, many shrines and baby factories help to murder people and little babies daily - more than even boko haram!

Jos Riots of 1945- Hundreds of Igbos killed

Kano massacre of 1953- Hundreds of Igbos killed.

This was long before Nzeogwu. So tell us again who sowed the seed of hatred right after you tell us who still wants ONE NIGERIA?

Only a cone head could have written such utter trash. The fear of this up coming boycott and the politicial revolution it may spark is giving the cone heads and their gambari northern masters nightmare

Ramos16:
That is a stupid assumption, you Igbos feel you were the only one killed in those riots? I was in the middle of all the crisis that has occurred in Kaduna, from Zango-Kataf in 1991 to Sharia 2000, miss world crisis, church bomb explosion crisis, post election crisis etc I was in the middle of them all and every non-hausa man suffered alike, especially non-hausa northerners and Yoruba muslims, you make it seem like those were targeted attack on Igbos, you fools, it is one thing for you to fight for you freedom it is another for you to assume you are the victim in crisis that rocked the whole nation, I feel pained because I lost people in those crisis and I nor anyone of those people that lost their life are igbos. please get your facts right.

Im talking about situation where my people, Igbos, were killed. It is not for me to speak for other ethnic groups who were killed, they can speak for themselves.

maclatunji:
Even if you were in a different country, your lack of decorum and empty pride would still lead to brutal war within Igboland and its neighbours.

Perhaps, the only thing protecting Igbos from near-extinction is Nigeria.

Well since we are yet to have our own country, any prediction of what will happen is just speculation.

It is safe to say that for now, anything is far better than Nigeria that has already consumed millions of Igbo lives since 1945 and in a civil war. Igbos are far better in their own country than a Nigeria that offers them nothing but suffering and death.

teebaxy:
more reasons to know that more igbos will die if they dont drop there wicked and selfish agitations 4 biafra

They were been slaughtered in 1945 , long before there was any Biafran agitation. They were slaughtered long after they dropped the agitation.

Bottomline is, Igbos will be slaughtered until they get out of Nigeria and form their own country.

jarkata:
na u wan provide for their needs if dem come home? Those one Dat left during insurgency are Still lamenting. Nobody dey help. I meet few of dem in aba here Dat left d North. Dey are just broke no one dey help.
Every one dey find watin im go chop. Poverty is on d higher side in Africa. After graduation if ondo state government give me job, watin I go con dey find for abia state. Na so it be for igbo in d North. Make dem leave dem I beg.

Better to be broke at home but be alive than be rich in the North but end up slaughtered like Sallah Ram

maclatunji:
Yet Nnamdi Kanu instigated this new threat to Igbos and many ignorant youths especially helped him with it . Now, you are whining.

The leaders of the region are absent and charlatans are now leading the way to near-calamity.

No you got it wrong. If one man can cause violence to be unleashed on a whole a ethnic group such as Igbos then it means that Igbos are in the wrong country.

Igbos should be in a country where it takes much more than one man or organisation to instigate violence.