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The only solution is having 3 dinstinct countries,

Oduduwa-Benin kingdom
Biafra Republic
AREWA Islamic state

Trailblazer1:
we all know you have no guts to raise a finger against a fulani, i'm sure you and i know the consequence

even if they kidnap your father like Falae, you can only sue for peace

I blame Oduduwa elders who are now political jobbers for these insults

Nice analysis. Obasanjo, Gowon and co were not educated like Ojukwu, Efiong, etc. so they did not understand the full meaning of the agreement. Just as was the case with Aburi accord which Gowon signed and later violated. Illiteracy on the part on Nigeria caused the civil war

This Fulani people again Soon Yoruba will deal with them

This is a very compelling piece. Kudos to the writer.

Buhari is destined to divide Nigeria and rightfully so.

BIAFRANS KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND ARE GOING FOR SURE

Buhari is wrong on this. Why would he use his executive power to be robbing Establishments ?
So sad he is still thinking like a dictactor

Nigeria do not have option, Biafra is gone already.

Oduduwa warming up if bold enough though.

GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari, long after he is gone, will be remembered by two profound statements he made while alive. The first is this: “The present and future generation of Nigerians have no other country than Nigeria.

We must stay here and salvage it together”. He made this statement in 1984 when he was a military head of state who overthrew a democratic regime. His austere regime occasioned a massive brain drain when many Nigerians started trooping abroad for greener pasture.

The second was made when a group of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, loyalists from Niger State paid him a visit in his Kaduna residence recently. He was quoted in the media as saying: “God willing by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way.

If what (happened) in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood”.

Coming exactly a year after the 2011 general elections when his supporters killed many innocent Nigerians in the North, including some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, mainly Christians from Southern Nigeria, this statement must rank as the most irresponsible ever made by a political leader in this country. Unfortunately, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has cleared Buhari of wrongdoing, saying it was merely a warning that the next elections should be free and fair. Surely, there are many more responsible and effective ways of passing the message? How do Buhari and his supporters in the ACN, CPC and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, expect the parents of the slain NYSC members to feel after reading a statement that effectively says Buhari has no regrets for what his supporters did?

After nearly 10 years of active partisan politics, it is increasingly clearer that Buhari is not psychologically prepared to carry out the necessary adjustments that will make him a successful democrat. He is very experienced, and many people believe he has the capacity to bring about change needed in the system. The question is: How does he get into the presidency, since he has shown he cannot win elections and is not prepared to do so?

It is a job you cannot get through appointment or coup. You need votes to get there. How does Buhari get the votes? And why is he not doing the things he needs to do in order to get the votes? And what are the things he is not doing?

Number one: He is not up to the off-season politicking that will earn him relevance. Immediately after the polls and his usual legal pursuits he goes home and is not heard of again until the next election. And yet, many opportunities exist during the off-season period for him to show Nigerians he is the leader they should have in the State House. How many times has he expressed an opinion on the economy? Power generation? Ways out of fuel imports? Ways of bringing the Boko Haram insurgency to an end?

Why did he not attend the
Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu burial with a large delegation of his party chieftains and make a nice speech to show his personal reconciliation with a man he battled on the war front 45 years ago? Does he think that the role which President Jonathan played in the state burial of the hero of the Igbo nation will be forgotten in 2015? Does he think his continued exclusion of the South East, South-South and North Central from his political calculations is something for which he will be rewarded with votes from these areas in 2015?

Number two: When was the last time Buhari wore an Igbo, South South or Yoruba attire to public function? Why is he always making his most profound political statements in Hausa? Why are there no interactions between him and prominent politicians, businessmen and leaders from anywhere else apart from the North East and North West? During the previous elections he hardly campaigned outside the North. On the other hand, his opponents, Obasanjo, Yar’ Adua and Jonathan swept the entire landscape over and again campaigning.

We have heard Buhari’s threat about bloody dogs and baboons. It will be a foolish parent who will allow his child to do his/her NYSC in Arewa North in 2015. Those who are forewarned are fore-armed. When Buhari’s al Majiri army hits the streets in 2015, we hope Buhari, his children and relations will be at the forefront. We hope it will no longer be the children of the downtrodden who will kill and die for him. The earlier that Buhari realises that he, not external forces, is responsible for his series of electoral defeats, the better for him and the would-be victims of his dogs and baboons democracy.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/dog-and-baboon-democrat/

yanabasee:
Dude was rich..... Iduno what stopped him from sitting back to enjoy his father's wealth?

Mtchwwwww.... Its nanaf my effing beeniz!

It is called honour.

I see. This girl is the woman Obianor connived with to kill his late wife. So sad.

She was Obiano's secretary...

Buhari releasing his boys

MY most vivid memory of Biafra was in its dying days. I was barely three years. It was January of 1970. My uncle, now a Professor of Geophysics, but then the platoon commander of the Biafran suicide squad, a task force under Tim Onwuatuegwu’s S Brigade, had found a little time in the raging battles at Owaza to be present in his elder brother’s wedding. I remember because of the ululation that went up that evening, as the sun sank under its balconies, when my uncle drove into my maternal grandfather’s compound, battle-drunk, with some of his boys. They bore strange names: "khaki," "Man-die-go," "kill-and-bury." They seemed like giants out of the book, the Grimm’s Tales that my mother found time to read to us, which still echoes deeply in my mind’s eye. I remember that evening, mostly because my grandfather’s compound shook with volleys of gunshot in the air. Then the song that broke out "Ojukwu wu Eze Biafra…" It was a heady song. It was a song of innocence. It was a hymnal of faith.

My family was in that war: my father, an operative of the Biafran Civil Defence forces. My uncles in the Biafran combat zones. My mother, the school mistress, a local organizer of the land army. Even my aged maternal grandfather, a knight of the church, a volunteer for the refugee camps, working with Caritas - the Catholic aid group - to feed the displaced from all over the Eastern region - from as far as Abonema, Opobo, Ikot-Ekpene, who came in search of safety and security in this town secured by ancient forests in Mbaise.



Somehow, the stories of the war came to me, because my house seemed always to be the gathering of many people, my father’s friends, mostly displaced from the rest of the federation, who came to share platitudes, and speak "great English." I heard tit-bits that have framed my consciousness in particular ways. I always sat to listen. One man was usually at the centre of much of that discussion: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Commander-in-chief of the Republic of Biafra.

It seems such a long time now. Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu entered the realm of myth through the front-door, by a single act of will: he chose to stand by the people whom he swore to serve, and to lead. It was an oath he took when he was sworn in, a young man of 32 years, as the military governor of the old Eastern region in January 1966 by the late supreme commander, General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi. Emeka Odumegwu-Ojuwku had hardly settled into his role, had not even defined his political and developmental agenda when the events of July 1966 opened up what might easily be his most defining moments. What we can glimpse from Ojukwu’s first acts was the frame of mind of a young, radical officer prepared to act with clarity and without fear. His first action spoke clearly: he removed Mr. Jerome Udoji, an Igbo and close friend and associate of his father’s, as the Secretary to the Government of the Eastern Region, and replaced him with Mr. N. U. Akpan, an Ibibio from the Eastern minority. There is the view that Ojukwu’s action was predicated upon the fact that Mr. Udoji was too entangled with significant foreign interests which Ojukwu thought to be too distracting and too deleterious to the administration of the East. Udoji’s accounts of that moment of course indicts Ojukwu as "too power-hungry."

Most people in Nigeria have been fed a distorted version of the story of events in Nigeria in which Ojukwu has been painted in various colours: as an arrogant, power-hungry monster who deceived an entire people into a tragic war (never mind that the Igbo, especially, are not people you lead easily by the nose.) He has also been painted as the arch-rebel who wanted to destroy and disintegrate Nigeria through secession. There is also the story of Ojukwu the tyrant, who did not take the Eastern minority elements into confidence before he committed them to war. In one particularly amusing example, one of those minorities had argued the basis of Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s evil against the minorities to be because he ordered the evacuation of the civilian population when the federal forces and the British mercenaries paid for by Shell bombarded Biafra from Bonny. For that act, Ojukwu is said to have committed sacrilege against the Eastern minorities.



But let us now put Odumegwu- Ojukwu in his proper historical context. Any serious scholar of modern Nigerian history will not fail to conclude that there have been three most definitive figures of modern Nigerian history since 1914: Herbert Macaulay, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. These individuals defined the character of their generation in far more significant ways than any of their contemporaries.

Around them and their actions, and the unique aura of their presence, we can tease out the very conditions which frame the basis of modern Nigerian history. In Ojukwu’s particular case, he has managed to convoke post-colonial Nigeria as a problematic space. Born to wealth, shunning wealth for service, and choosing the path of stone rather than the paved way which providence prepared for him, Odumegwu-Ojukwu is atypical of any leader ever born in Nigeria.

Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s father, Sir Louis Phillipe Odumegwu-Ojukwu was the wealthiest Nigerian of his generation: a multi-millionaire businessman, who had been chairman of UAC (West Africa), the Nigerian Stock Exchange, director of Shell-BP, had vast investment in property in Lagos, Kano, Port-Harcourt, Enugu, Onistha and other places and owned controlling shares in many of the top blue-chip corporations that still operate in Nigeria today, Emeka Ojukwu could have walked naturally to a life of ease and indolence. In actual fact, by today’s value, Sir Louis Ojukwu’s wealth would be in the range of about ten billion in proper sterling. But returning from Oxford University, where he had taken an Oxford M.A. in Modern History from Lincoln College, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu turned his back to all that, and chose service- because it was his own path to freedom, and to greatness, on his own terms.



Helpless father



His biographer, the English writer Frederick Forsyth has given an account in the book, Emeka, of how Ojukwu’s helpless father had tried to lure his Oxford-educated son to become a director in his company in 1956, and about how his restless son chose instead to enter the civil service. Seeing that his mind was made, Sir Louis goes to his friend, the British governor-general, Sir James Robertson to try and convince Emeka Ojukwu. The governor-general offers Emeka any job he wanted, including as senior assistant secretary in the governor-general’s office. Ojukwu rejects the offer, and on his own terms secures a rural posting to Udi, in the Eastern regional civil service. We have also come to know how Ojukwu entered the Army as the first Nigerian university graduate to earn a commission. At a time when the military was not too sexy, Ojukwu, apparently with an eye on history, sought a commission. His influential father once again intervened to stop his son, using the governor-general once again to block Ojukwu’s commission. Failing to earn an officers commission, Ojukwu decides to go through the lowly route - he joins as an other rank - a private with a Master’s degree in History from Oxford. This is hardly the act of an arrogant, power-hungry person.

It is apparent that Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was driven by a sense of destiny. He was in any case, a child of destiny. For those who are wont to see something magical and symbolic in coincidences, it is not for nothing that the two greatest leaders from among the Igbo in the 20th century - Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu - were born in the same month of November, in the same little town, Zungeru. It was as though Chukwu had forged a generational baton. Ojukwu’s political consciousness evolved very early, and very quickly. As a ten-year old boy in form one at King’s College in Lagos, in 1943, he too had already joined the anti-colonial struggle. That year, he joined senior students like Tony Enahoro and Ovie Whiskey among others, to stage an anti-war, anti-colonial protest against the colonial administration, for which some of the students were reprimanded, others conscripted to fight, and from which people like Enahoro emerged into national limelight.

Ojukwu was tried as a juvenile in the courts in Lagos for his participation, and two pictures essay that moment: when he lay sleeping at the docks, and when his father, Sir Louis, carries him still sleepy, on his shoulder at the end of proceedings. Ojukwu’s radicalised consciousness was possibly sharpened when his father sent him off to school in England, to Epsom College, soon after the King’s incident. Black, stubborn, and opinionated, Ojukwu might have earned himself some unsavory record. But he was a sportsman. He was brilliant. He was a rich boy. He was inevitable. In Oxford, Ojukwu joined the socialists, even though he rode about in a Rolls Royce.

http://emeagwali.com/biafra/nigeria-biafra-civil-war-34-years-later-1.html

Not surprised though. It is a common knowledge that Atiku, Buhari, Babangida are sponsoring bokoharam

This Biafra agitation has come to stay. Very determined youths are speaking up without fear.

I still wonder why Yoruba youth choose to remain cowards in the face of evil Nigeria is not working and will disintegrate soonest, hence let the agitation for
Oduduwa start...

Biafra means killing on the enslavement called Nigeria

Like always say, the youth has the ultimate right to decide about t their future. The current youth want Biafra and so shall it be. All these propaganda with old videos is not working again. Everyone now know the effect of propaganda by APC and nothing is working now.

So present youth want Biafra and Biafra they will get

okoloto:
unfortunately the elders of the niger deltan dont see that...they r only after their personal pockets....go to ogoni where almost 25% of the oil comes from and you will weep with the level of poverty.

So sad indeed

trapQ:
well said. if only they would speak sensibly like this more often, then Nigeria would grant them their Biafra, but of course without the SS states. But also we have to understand that it isn't just the Igbo's who are going through these pains, all of Nigeria goes through the same, poor health care, erratic electricity, bad roads, rotten educational system, corruption, and stup!d old leaders who want to die in power.

The Govt. should Grant the people their wish if they go about it without violence.

See boldes texts What is your argument

trapQ:
are you being intentionally daft?? that post was crystal clear and if you didn't comprehend, I'm sorry for you.

You are as daft as Buhari

new2020:
Keep your hail mary to yourself. If you care about truth, look inward at your yoruba brothers...From heartless Awolowo who starved 3 million children to death, depriving Biafrans of their hard earned wealth while offering scholarships and free education to his brethren. Start your truth searching from these....hypocrites!

Read this too

BIAFRA : AN OPEN LETTER TO OBASANJO AND BUHARI By Kemi Omololu Olunloyo (Must Read)
By — Gist Exploits 1:24:00 P.m.




If they want a Biafra Republic, let them separate from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo youth have started a revolution the Yoruba and Hausa youth have long be scared of facing. It will take such a revolution to CHANGE Nigeria.

Jobs, education, quality of life has diminished in Nigeria. As a Social media influencer and community activist, I know that social media will take this into a new direction. We have a freedom of speech and expression in the Nigerian constitution.

The world will hear their VOICES. The youth own Nigeria. They have constantly been told by their teachers that they are the future of Nigeria but yet none are in government or gainfully represented. President Jonathan’s CONFAB was an example. No youth was represented, only old recycled leaders got the 12 million naira for a short useless job and two even died there. I had the opportunity to leave the country again.

They are stuck over there. 3 First Class U.S degrees and no opportunity to work in the meaningful area I wanted. Now the FDA and CDC are using my talents when the Fed Ministry of Health and NAFDAC could do the same.



My pension is here in the USA since I graduated at 22yo making $50,000 as a pharmacist to up to $125,000 in Canada 2012 in a 27 year career not adding my Journalism and PR salaries, two degrees I funded with my pharmacist salary. My social security statement says my monthly payment is now $25,000 a month if I were 65yo today. Imagine what I would get in 14yrs.

These youth have no jobs nor will they see a pension. If they do, many may lose it to the same kind of thieves who stole the N10B Oyo state pension. The EFCC already destroyed that case with corruption in the civil service not dealt with. We only see the EFCC successfully prosecuting fraudulent youth. Many are stuck in Nigeria and then you complain they are resorting to internet fraud, money rituals or brazen armed robberies as a means of survival. Let us learn from Burkina Faso and Sudan. Northern and Southern Sudan are thriving separately.



Even North Korea and South Korea are two totally different countries. This is not the Ojukwu era you President/Generals lived. This is their own era. Let them find their way. Free them. Lets not forget that many Igbos were slaughtered in Northern Nigeria when the BokoHaram insurgency started in 2009. Many perished in church explosions. RIP to their people and families.

To the Biafrans, please say NO to violence. It is well with you!

http://gistexploits..no/2015/10/biafra-open-letter-to-obasanjo-and.html?utm_source

trapQ:
I should be sad for you. propaganda has blinded your eyes. the same biafran soldiers who claim to be our brothers invaded our lands and murdered our people. why do that if they were on our side? Do you also know that a larger proportion of Delta state wasn't part of the old Eastern Region?? why claim it as biafraland? you need not quote me again.

You mentioned earlier that SS is not Biafra. Now you are talking of eastern region. So why the confusion ?

If Biafra is eastern region why were you excluding SS ?

You are confused I think but you can still salvage your situation by consulting literatures, learning your history and reading credible newspapers. Desist from listening to these illiterate generals...

trapQ:
lol.... Biafra is an Igbo affair. The whole country knows that. except for the igbos in the SS, no sane SSern buys the idea.
even the middle beltans that are soon to be dragged into their struggle have no correlation with them.

The garbage by illiterate generals cannot erase the facts available on credible media and literature worldwide. Poor you My people perish because of lack of knowledge

Emekamex:
Catalonia will likely fail since they share the same language and culture with their parent country; this is not the same situation with Biafra.

Exactly, Biafra is different from Yoruba and Hausa. That is why Nigeria Govt and the devilsh Britain is using intimidating against Biafra but Biafra will win

trapQ:
well said. if only they would speak sensibly like this more often, then Nigeria would grant them their Biafra, but of course without the SS states. But also we have to understand that it isn't just the Igbo's who are going through these pains, all of Nigeria goes through the same, poor health care, erratic electricity, bad roads, rotten educational system, corruption, and stup!d old leaders who want to die in power.

The Govt. should Grant the people their wish if they go about it without violence.

The author is a Yoruba and not a Biafran for your information. Biafra include SE and SS. It is never an Igbo affair. The last president of Biafra was Phillip Efiong, He is not Igbo...

Hotsparkles:
This is strong o

People with vision and honest are Supporting Biafra restoration struggle. Splitting of Nigeria for the forced nations to emerge is the only real CHANGE and hope for the youth. How can we allow these old wicked men to be feeling important and stagnating our future for their own selfish interest.