sarrki: Nigerian Govt and the International community should
Declare Ipob has a terrorist organization .
Reasons are as follows
-They are worse than ISIS & BOKOHARAM
-They constitute nuisance to the society
-They are epidemic to global peace
Olukayode Ominia Aka Biafraudexposed, how far now? How's things going in Mbaise local Govt? I wonder if you have shaved that your silly beard of yours on your picture that is circulating here on Nairaland? Look I know you love trolling the issue of Biafra using your various monikas, but can't you make it even less obvious? You write in the same style all the time. BTW, tell your sister hi for me.
Yorubamafia: I thought they said all lands in the Niger delta has been polluted by oil exploration. How come agriculture is thriving in bayelsa and big fishes getting caught? We can see beyond the propaganda that Niger Delta is not as bad as been painted by IPOB on radio biafra
They probably would have been 100 times better off if they didn't have to share their Oil and Gas wealth with the likes of you. They probably would have been paying you to catch their Fish for them by now.
So because you lots are "Fighters"....you cant be sacked by the Fulanis?
Not while we are inside a Hausa/Fulani dominated country like Nigeria, being protected by a Hausa/Fulani police force, under a Hausa/Fulani controlled Military under a Hausa/Fulani president. We don't stand a chance in that condition.
But an independent Igbo controlled country under an Igbo police force, backed by an Igbo military under an Igbo president, that's a game changer. That's the type of country Hausa/Fulani dare not mess with. At least you now know why some Igbos wish to have their own country and control their destiny.
bi0nics: And who is going to save your ass from the Hausa/Fulani?
Haven't you heard? Igbos are fighters, they have fought a civil war before for 3 years. They can take care of themselves. But you guys who can't fight, it's game-over
They finally got tired of using TRIPOB and REIPOB, now it is coalition of MASSOB and IPOB? Jokers. They didnt even want to address the issue that it is the federal Government that is killing Biafran agitators.
Nigerians are not even happy that IPOB is using sit-at-home method? Go and tell Boko Haram, Herdsmen and Niger Delta Avengers to use sit-at-home method
Bujumbura: This same guy has been bursted as OmidinaOlakayode mrkayusufit joboorskill and irunoboo.
He is always on biafra matter
Lemme invite those who know him very well to go after his brother and sister on Facebook
Decibel attackgat omenkata
His last thread was a yoruba man from mbaise
Oh yeah! Olukayode Omidina. The Yoruba man who decided to carry Biafran matter on his head like a bag of Rice. He claimed to be from Mbaise Local Govt when no such thing exists. As they ban one of his many Monikas on NL, he jumps to the next one to open anti-Biafran threads. It is all a reflex action. Yorubas are scared out of their minds about Igbos leaving Nigeria, the thought drives them mad. If Igbos go, who will save Yorubaland from being overrun by Hausa/Fulani? You have to feel for them, if Biafra is declared, they are finished.
uyiekpen26: He went further to say we bear igboid names, speaks igbo dialect along with our native dialect but we are not real igbos
Another Yoruba man comes with his 'divide and rule'. Which one is "real Igbo"? Why didn't you ask the Ikwere Man to explain to you the difference between real and unreal Igbo?
Please stop confusing the biafrian agitators that are aware of your resources
Late Major Gen Philip Effiong said in his book "Biafra:My story" that on the day that Ojukwu declared Biafra on 30th May 1967, the largest contingent that came to Enugu to celebrate the creation of Biafra were Ikwere people.
Please no ethnic bashing on this thread I beg of you..God bless you as you comply. Here are the ethnics and List of indigenous peoples of Rivers State:
Abua
Andoni
Bille
Ekpeye
Eleme
Engenni
Etche
Ibani
Ikwerre
Kalabari
Kula
Ndoni
Nkoro
Nkoroo
Ogba
Okrika
Saro
As you all see no igbo amongst them...God bless the Republic of South South.
What this list means is that there are no Ijaws or Ogonis in Rivers? How will you explain that one to an Ijaw man like Asari Dokubo? By the way, where is Republic of North-North?
simplycarro: Enjoy the holiday bro! But calamity with befall IPOB if they should harm Nigerians living in the SE on Friday, especially the very few Muslims doing biz there that may be going to observe the Friday Jumat prayers
IPOB is is yet to harm anybody, it is now they will do it? BTW, I don't see you speaking up when those that are actually harming people such as Boko Haram, Herdsmen, Nigerian Police and Army are in operation. It is when you hear IPOB that you suddenly become security cautious.
LoveMachine: I keep telling people IPOB is bad news. This is tyranny at its infancy stage. If allowed to grow we will have a taliban type group on our hands. I don't like it one bit.
The important question you should be asking is why Nigeria is a country that breeds discontent and militancy in every part of it.
badman007: Dude, I'm not fucking biafran. My and ancestors were not biafrans too... Where the hell does that name even come from? Look everywhere around you. Africa is so blessed yet we cant even feed ourselves. All we want to do is focus on the things that divide us and fight.
You should look deeper into history. Biafra was an ancient Kingdom that existed long ago and covered much of what is now South Cameroon and South East Nigeria. Nigeria is just a word that came about because some British opportnunist called Frederick Lugard came to West Africa to make money.
Africa is blessed alright, but much of the continent is still in the hands of political gangsters and slave masters. Until we become free to manage our selves, we are heading nowhere.
timeman: Answer the question you've all be shelfing: Who brought the war to his house? Kiss the truth!
Just like I thought, you can't answer the question but you are looking for truth, hypocrite. But I will answer your own question. Nobody can bring war to themselves. The person who comes fighting is the one who brings war because if that action were not taken, there would be no war. The instigator of a war is always the person who attacks first, no matter what the dispute is. The reason it is this way is that the person who attacks first could have chosen other methods of conflict resolution such as, dialogue, discussion, concession or outright inaction. Anyone who commenses military action against another, for whatever reason, is the one who starts a war.
Yorubamafia: The Igbo's need to realize that unity is the key to obtaining development. America instead of breaking up decided to Unite and form a powerful and developed country. Nigeria is the next big power to emerge from Africa. We need all regions of the country to contribute it's qouta to hasten development. The British Empire merged us because of the diversity and potentials we have which shows we have a promising future. Biafra is not what the Igbo's should demand but presidency so they can have a sense of inclusion in the Nigerian project
You have been trying that same "unity" for 102 years, where are you today?
3 million people were killed for that "unity", where are we today?
Others that have held the Presidency of Nigeria in the past, where are they today?
The British only merged us in other to exploit us.
Any sort of union is always an experiment to see if two or more entities can actually stay together, it failed woefully in the case of Nigeria. It is only natural to explore other alternatives...............
oginineme: The news that Governor Fayose passed a bill making illegal grazing a criminal offense came as shock to many, personally i think it is good to take measure against these attacks since the Federal government does not give a damn. So yesterday i saw the news on palmchat that the state government just sentenced a herdsman to 2 years imprisonment for illegal grazing. I still believe that his case will be appealed and the FG will use its might to get him out of bail just like the case of Ese. But i want to hear from us, do you think Fayose's law is out of serious concern for his state safety or is it political. Thanks for your replies.
The Herdsmans case was in court before the grazing law was passed. It should also be known that the herdsman was not jailed for grazing, but damaging farmland which is a criminal offence. When someone goes and destroys another persons property, wether with cattle or not, it is a criminal act.
Most Nigerians are forever trapped in their "Lord Lugard made me a Nigerian" slave mentality. That is why when they see someone like Kanu who is preaching self determination, they can't understand it. No wonder Kanu describes them as Baboons and Monkeys.
I don't know if Kanu is actually sick in Jail but that is beside the point. He is a freedom fighter and all freedom fighters suffer persecution from the authority of oppression they fight.
At least Kanu is fighting a noble cause of freedom. The rest of Kanu's critics are just slaves who are still thanking Lord Lugard for coming to West Africa to 'nickname' them Nigerians.
badman007: Dude, I'm from that part of the country you like to call Biafra, but I'm 100% Nigerian. I believe so much in my country and I don't think breaking it up would help any of us. Times are hard but I know we are very though. I wish my people would all come to see the strength we have in our numbers. Perhaps the best bet for now would be to decentralise our government. Give more powers to "responsible" states or regional governments and the sky would be our limit.
You are 100% Nigerian? 100% of what were your ancestors before Lugard came to create Nigeria? And 100% of what would you be today if Lugard had never come?
Our people have produced some notable Pilots over the years. The same Igbo man who flew Ojukwu into exile at the end of the war was the same person who flew Gowon into exile when he was ousted from power
A lot of people, especially in the South do not know that it is the intention of the Hausa/Fulani Empire to one day conclude their uninterrupted conquest of Nigeria. That is why I laugh at my fellow Igbos who talk about 'one Nigeria'. Unless the Igbo nation becomes independent of Nigeria, it will one day become part Usman Dan Fodios empire.
Ok so Northern soldiers under the command of Mohammed Shuwa attacked Nsukka and Garkem from the north. Then biafrans decided to retaliate by attacking Benin and Ore to the west, Yet Awo and his kinsmen get to take the blame? Isorait
Since you believe the bolded, why are you still fixated on Awo and the Yoruba?
No one is fixated on Yorubas or Awo, on the contrary, we have been trying to get away from you guys and your Hausa/Fulani overlords since 1967. This is all about recalling history. Awo exposed himself as a lier and hypocrite before the war began by his utterances, actions and inactions. This was a man who came out of jail when over 50,000 Igbos were being slaughtered by Northerners, but this same Awo was the same person who suddenly believed that the same Northerners were the best people to do 'one Nigeria' with lol. Who is fooling who? Awo should have come out like a man to confess that he is a 'northern a$$licker' who believes in 'one Nigeria' because he was too much of a coward to do what Ojukwu did. At least, we would have known that he is a man of his word. But instead, like the two faced politician he is, he went to Enugu to tell Ojukwu he would secede the Yoruba nation out of Nigeria if Igbos did so while returning to Lagos to tell Gowon and his band of Northern criminals that he for 'one Nigeria'.
Oh well, we all know that it was all about Oil anyway
Who attacked those places in bold first? Did you expect the Yoruba to remain neutral after the attack on their soil? Was the mid west not even preaching neutrality? why the attack on Benin?
This is why i keep telling the juveniles ranting about war on here that war isn't a tea party. You can predict the start of a war but you can never predict when or how it will end. All is fair in war and love said the sages. If you doubt, ask the USA why it used the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and has refused to apologize till date
You are the one getting things twisted. Nigeria opened the theatre of war by bombing the border town of Gakem in Ogoja which was part of Biafra. By invading Biafra, Biafra was justified in invading any part of Nigeria including Bini, Ore and Lagos. There was no neutrality anywhere.
The leader said it himself before he died in his interview
It is you who should have listend to what the Great Dim Ojukwu said. He said "we should have learnt from the first one" . Nigeria did not learn from the first one and ever remains an intrument of oppression and subjugation just as much as it was before Ojukwu declared Biafra. If Nigeria wasn't an instrument of oppression, the Igbo man would free to decide if he wants to be part of it or not. After all, Nigeria only exists because Lugard forced us all into it, and a forced union we remain.
One last thing, war is something that Nigeria causes. In the last civil war, it was Nigeria that came down to the East to fight
Edogi001: My dear brothers from the east! Let me greet you in a more familiar manner: “Kedu, how market?” In my last open letter to you, I tried to convince you of the need to unanimously push a leader to the center. But, surprisingly, instead of focusing on how we can strive for political relevance during the new administration, some of my fellow brothers clamoured for the Biafra movement renewal. I asked myself: “Do the Igbo actually need Biafra now?” The answer my mind gave me with 100% certainty was: “No, we don’t.” Umu nwannem, have we completely forgotten our history? The Biafra movement emerged as a result of serious urgency. It came up to save our people from the genocide developing in the North. That’s why when the late General Ojukwu moved the motion of Biafra to the Igbo elders, there was a unanimous approval. But today, throw up the issue of Biafra to the Igbo elite, and you are sure to get a different response. It means the people are divided on the Biafra issue, and it will never enjoy such massive support as it did in 1967. I don’t support the Biafra call, but that doesn’t make me “less Igbo”. More importantly, that does not mean we should forget the zeal of our fathers fighting in the Biafra war with self-made weapons against sophisticated automatic rifles of the Nigerian armed forces. The agitation Gen Gowon thought was going to end soon turned into a full-blown war that lasted for 3 years, and was fought by farmers and blacksmiths with no technical support. Nevertheless, our people showed resilience and held on for a unanimously shared belief. It is that very Igbo persistent spirit I urge us to always remember. Whatever life endeavour we find ourselves in, be it in business, in academics or in spiritual life, the spirit of the Igbo nation will always see us through. We the Igbo are conquerors; we never say “never”. Today, we are the first-class entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Now imagine there is a country called Biafra. Where are we going to start from? How much will Biafra pound be to dollar? Do you think the southerners with their oil-rich land will follow us to Biafra where they will be seen as minority? Who will be the leader of Biafra? I know most of us don’t see Uwazurike as the leader. I wonder how he actually managed to emerge as a leader in the first place. So I am convinced it will be next to impossible for Biafra to become a developing nation. After 54 years of independence Nigeria is still struggling to stand on both feet. I must admit that the issue of Biafra has always been difficult to the southeasterners. As for me, Biafra will always be dear to my heart for I grew up with the touching war stories. Nevertheless, Biafra was a situational approach to a problem, and even its founding father, Gen Ojukwu, accepted that our beloved Biafra became memories. That’s why he ran for executive presidency in 2003. Ojukwu’s wife Bianca after his death was made the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain. His son, Mr Emeka Ojukwu, contested in the 2015 Federal House of Representatives election in Nnewi North and South constituency. These actions by the supposed Biafra leaders mean they now believe in Nigeria and its unity. Can anyone beat their chest and say Chief Uwazurike won’t accept a presidential ticket of the APC or the PDP if given? If no, then who is fooling who? My dear brothers from the east! Let us start seeing Nigeria as an organic whole. After all, the first President of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ubah, an Igbo man, grew rich in Nigeria. Prince Arthur Eze is also an Igbo that made his money here in Nigeria, not in Biafra. A lot of people got rich without clamouring for Biafra. And who said we can’t join them? Umu nwannem, I can assure you today that we can. Biafra does not guarantee you absolute success. Umu nnem, I urge us to “stick with the devil we know rather than the angel we don’t.” Let us see ourselves, Yorubas, Hausas and other ethnic groups in this country as one indivisible Nigeria. Together we can fulfill our founding fathers’ dreams. May God be with us all. Read more: https://www.naij.com/469518-open-letter-to-igbos-forget-biafra-focus-on-national-unity.html
It's funny how people are asking Igbos to forget Biafra , yet, the Nigeria they want Igbos to accept is a complete 102 year old disaster. I wonder if these people have any sense? You have been trying to make something work for 102 years but no headway. You continue doing the same thing. How long before you try something else? Nigeria is but a disasterous British experiment started by Lugard, it did not work. It is time for Igbos to return to the confederation they were before Lugard merged them with 'strangers' called Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani.
simplycarro: That is the reason some people think you guys are 5th class citizens in Nigeria. Imagine that Kanu is Ijaw, do you think he will sleep in the cell for a week?
Well it is good that people like you admit that you don't have any country at all. If you did, there would be no 'class of citizens'. Everyone would be equal under the law.
So who can blame Kanu for wanting to pull his people out of such an abysmal contraption?
A country were Boko Haram suspects are released. A Country where herdsmen openly brandish AK 47's and kill people. But when someone like Kanu expresses his right to self determination, that's when the roll out the drums and look innocent Biafran protesters to shoot, torture and lock-up.