TonyeBarcanista:

My Dear Sweetheart, I never said Igbos supported GEJ for ulterior motive. Everybody have right to political alignment of his/her choice(after all, I was once a vocal supporter of APC/Buhari. I never left APC for tribal sake but based on other issues). My argument is that political alignment shouldn't be a tool of blackmail. I love my people, my land, brothers, neighbors and everyone. I have always advocated for right to self determination of every group as long as it is confined within the acceptable terms. Even the militants armed struggle, I was not in support cos violence has never brought solution to any problem, despite the fact that I agitated for the implementation of Kaima Declaration/MOSSOP Bill of Rights and other declarations. You will agree with me that we have the responsibility as people to "defend"(in quote) our territory and decide for ourselves without any external interference. I see no ambiguity here.


How are you love?

FREEDOM4BIAFRA:

That's my view also, however, I still make it clear to them, that we shall not abandon our Igbo brothers and communities in other states.

FREEDOM4BIAFRA:


See them living like paupers, digging up buried chicken.
Anambra has gas and a private refinery, Enugu has abundant coal, imo and abia have oil and gas.
Biafra is self sustainable. We have more than we need.

TonyeBarcanista:
God bless the Good People of Niger-Delta and the entire Nigeria State.

For those abusing the Ijaws and other Southern minorities, make una continue o.

size40:
As a south-south man and a Rivers state in particular, I knew when the Igbos were showing GEJ's govt every kind of love and support that they were up to something even when the whole saw that GEJ wasn't doing much. But the Igbos stood by him not because they love GEJ, but because there an ulterior motive to everything. If not, why didn't the Igbos gave late Ojukwu such massive support when contested under APGA? Instead they chose to support OBJ and d PDP. All d so called love d Igbos claimed to love South-south people and GEJ was just to pacify us towards forgetting the Atrocities the committed again us in d old eastern region. The Igbos love for south-south is like the love monkey has for banana. Everything is all about Oil. Short and simple. My people let's be wise and never play into d hands of those who never meant well to us.

juicee1:
nobody is joining you.

Who would leave an oil rich SS with access to the sea to join a landlocked region? Only fools. Last I checked, there aren't any in the SS.

kingzizzy:
It's quite laughable that a group of Ijaws will gather somewhere and claim they are speaking for the more than 30 ethnic groups that makes up this so called South-South. The even said that an ancestor of the South/South is Adaka Boro. This is so funny because Boro never heard the words South-South before he died. South/South came about kong after his death. Bunch of disgraceful people! The Almajiris up north are carting away their oil and Gas wealth everyday but they are busy begging for their own oil money from the same people stealing it.

kcowen:

Seems u need psychiatrist Evaluation,you are not better than dis man that defies his daughter,what's d relationship between an Igbo man & an Akwa Ibom Man...Abeg get Sense even if na small

francizy:
Am perplexed, angry and at the same time disgusted at comments insinuating Buhari hasn't achieved anything this year. When:

- boko haram members are running Maiduguri and Yola down (haven killed over 3 thousand people since May 29)?
- Fulani herdsmen are distroying farmlands and killing farmers with full force?
- the economy is already on recession?
- fuel scarcity and increase in fuel price is the order of the day?
- DSS is been used to fight perceived enemies?
- our media no longer dish out reliable news?
- the Nigerian Army is now been used to deceive gullible Nigerians and also, instead of fighting boko haram head on, they are busy issuing warnings?
- it took the president five - six months to release his thank you/noisemakers' list in the form of ministers (having some of the most corrupt and senile politicians just like the president himself)?
- no project has been commissioned?
- refinery that was due for operation in 2016 was forcefully put to operation and subsequently shut down?
- body odour generated power has declined back to it's epileptic state?
- de-marketing Nigeria to foreign investors?
- confusion everywhere as most statements released by one media aid of the president is refuted by the second aid before the day runs out?
- all campaign promises has been denied?
- the president converted Nigerian economy to a northern empire by choosing mostly northerners to head important posts and tagging the regions that didn't vote for him as 5 percent?
- crime rate has quadrupled?
- the only economic direction of the president is blames, blames and multiple blames?
- the president misses important functions and goofs at important meetings/interviews abroad?
- the president only speaks to Nigeria via BBC Hausa or via foreign media stations while only his aids speak to us via Nigerian stations?
- job losses/job creation is at it's lowest since 1984 (talk about breaking his own record)?
- JP Morgan delisted Nigeria from its bond index?
- fighting perceived enemies and using judges to criminally upturn elections in opposition states?
- further deplating our researves by embarking on fruitless journeys outside Nigeria?

Truthfully, Buhari has achieved a lot but unfortunately/sadly, the achievements were negative ones..

utenwuson:
EFCC, ICPC, Judiciary is the most corrupt commissions in Nigeria!

Agwoden:
Mouth action government dishing out 'kworuption' propaganda just to impress their zombie followers.

Mogidi:


They have no strong case against Suswan, but they have one against Fashola and Amaechi.

johnydon22:

Wow nice one, found it really educating and beautifully entertaining....
.I always have a sudden rush of deep adoration for my people when ever i am taken down historical line with works like this.

Thanks BiafranQueen, i am hoping you will be joining my team of volunteers who are to research deeply and together work out a well approved book on the actual

History
Culture
Tradition
Evolution

of the Igbo land and people. . . . Would you care to join us?

Officers of Aro Expedition, Southern Nigeria, West Africa, 1901-02. A group taken at Old Calabar before leaving for the front.

Nigeria: We Must Discard Quota and Federal Character

This is page 6 of the Report Lord Lugard presented to the British Parliament in 1919 after the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria. According to him in the last paragraph, Ndigbo had not developed beyond the stage of primitive savages. The North had a wonderful literate class and administration while the West have natives practicing as doctors and lawyers.

Fast-forward to 1960 – How did we fare? Then 2000, how far did we go? When will the North catch up with educational disadvantage so we discard quota system and federal character? When will that gap close so that our kids from Anambra will be required to score same with kids from Adamawa for admission to federal schools.

“The south was, for the most part, held in thrall by fetish worship and the hideous ordeals of witchcraft, human sacrifice, and twin murder. The great Ibo race to the east of the Niger, numbering some three millions, and their cognate tribes had not developed beyond the stage of primitive savagery. In the west, the Kingdom of Benin - like its counterpart in Dahomey - had up to 1897 groaned under a despotism which revelled in holocausts of human victims for its fetish rites. Further west the Yorubas, Egbas, and Jebus had evolved a fairly advanced system of government under recognized rulers. The coast fringe was peopled by Negro traders and middlemen, who had acquired a smattering of education in mission schools, and who jealously guarded the approaches to the interior from the European merchant. In the principal towns (Lagos, Calabar, etc.) there were some few educated Native gentlemen who practised as doctors, barristers, etc.”

Igwe Silas Ezenwa, Obi of Awka Etiti, 1962

Chief Dennis Osadebay, Premier of the Midwest Region, campaign entourage, Asaba Ferry, December 1964. Note all the Mercedes's cars behind him.

Ikemba Nnewi Emeka Ojukwu's Super Bentley car with Nigerian Registration ON 1175 (Onitsha) seen in the 1940s, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nnewi 1963: Announcing the death of Igwe Orizu II

Transcript of Nigerian Outlook Newspaper:
Born in 1901 the Obi of Nnewi went on to the ancestors in 1963

ENUGU, Thursday, May 23, 1963

Obi Of Nnewi Is Dead

The death has occured at his palace,of chief Josiah A.N. Orizu, Obi of Nnewi and member of the Eastern House of Chiefs. Born in 1901, the late Chief Orizu was educated at the C.M.S. CENTRAL SCHOOL Nnewi and the Hope Waddell Training institute, Calabar. He became Obi of Nnewi in 1924 following the death of his father.

He has also served as president of the Nnewi District (Agbaja) Customary court for a number of years and was until his death a traditional member of the Onitsha Southern County Council. He was the first president General of the East (continued from page 8 ) ern Chiefs conference which was founded in his palace at Nnewi in 1952. In 1960 he became a foundation member of the Eastern house of chiefs.

Obi Okosi I on his instalation, 1913. The Roman Catholic caused drastic discontinuities in Onitsha Kingship tradition, and produced deep schisms in Onitsha community. Obi Okosi refused to perform most of the required Installation rituals (especially “Going to Udo” and receiving the “King’s Ofo), and his very crown for his initial Emergence was provided by the RCM, who moved physically into his new palace grounds. The crown he wore here does hold traditional bird feathers, but also features a prominent fleur-des-lis; he does appear to be holding the traditional horsetail switch of mourning, Otinri. At that time, a very large number of Ndi-Onicha refused to give the new Obi his customary tribute, ridiculing him as “the Book (educational) King” (Eze Akukwo) and “Foreigners’ King” (Eze Oyibo).

chaberry:
please keep up with this ur marvelous work, it's being appreciated and one day u will be celebrated

In 1857 British palm oil traders established a permanent station in the city, Christian missionaries joining them headed by the liberated African bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba recaptive) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo Recaptive).[11] In 1900 Onitsha became part of a British protectorate.[12]{ The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.

24 Feb 1905. Ikot-ekpende. [Aro-Igbo] bride and her mother. [In Ibibio territory where the Aro (originally from Arochukwu from what is now Abia State Nigeria, but settled all over eastern Nigeria) were known as Inokun, now Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria]
— Charles Partridge
Location: Ikot Ekpende | Date: 24 February, 1905

The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British Protectorate in the Oil Rivers areas of modern day Nigeria. It originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884 and this was confirmed at the Berlin Conference in the following year. It was renamed the Niger Coast Protectorate on 12 May 1893 and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 01 January 1900 to form the protectorates of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria.
David Prothero, 08 Dec 2002

The first contact between Igboland and Europe came in the mid-fifteenth century with the arrival of the Portuguese. From 1434-1807 the Niger coast acted as a contact point between African and European traders, beginning with the Portuguese, then the Dutch and finally the English. At this stage there was an emphasis on trade rather than empire building, in this case the trade consisting primarily of Igbo slaves. With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 came a new trading era, concentrating on industry (palm products, timber, elephant tusks and spices). At this point the British began to combine aggressive trading with aggressive imperialism. They saw the hinterland as productive, and refused to be confined to the coast. In 1900 the area that had been administered by the British Niger Company became the Protectorate on Southern Nigeria, also incorporating what had been called the Niger Coast Protectorate. Control of this area then passed from the British Foreign Office to the Colonial Office. Long before it had officially been conquered, Igboland was being treated as a British colony. Between 1900 and 1914 (when Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated) there had been twenty-one British military expeditions into Igboland. In 1928 for the first time in their history, Igbo men were made to pay tax – they were a subject people.