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Initial protest build up Imo

juicee1:
liar.

You pictures are aba road and not owerri. Why are you lying to cover your shame.

The rally in imo was a flop. Admit it.

Yoloba boy did any of your Oduduwa ancestor come from that part of Alaigbo? Respect yourself O...

Owerri greeets IPOB

sunnyb0b0:
Abagworo will soon come here and post that picture of his umunna gathering

Dont mind the Okoroawusa.

More from Owerri in imo.

holarmy10:
Una never tire for this thing abi?

One Nigeria must not be by force. WE are tired of Nigeria, All we are saying, give us Biafra

Owerri Give us Biafra

Biafra
lalasticlala Seun

Pro-Biafra agitators demonstrate in Owerri

on November 12, 2015 / in News 4:40 pm / Comments

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Hundreds of supporters of Pro- Biafra groups on Thursday marched along major streets in Owerri and called for the release of Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the acclaimed operator Radio Biafra.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/pro-biafra-agitators-demonstrate-in-owerri/

obailala:
lol... Wailer Alert!
The federal ministry of health has warned that early Monday morning wailing is dangerous to your health.

U are a Wailee! Always Wailing on every thread.

1) Using the Abuja Court to continue Election Rigging, even after election.

2) Sectional Leadership not National.

3)Bombing quiet Cross River and Akwa Ibom with fighter Jets, leaving Boko Haram to move freely.

4) Calling the South East 5%

5) Ignoring National Crisis in the East whilst authorising the Army to shoot to kill

6) Holding Political Prisoner on accusation that himself is guilt of. (Dogs and Baboon soaked in Blood vs Nnamdi)

7) Ignoring calls to reprimand the Fulani Herds men by Afenifere

8 ) Took one year to select Amaechi, Ngige and Fashola Ministers

9) Economy down turn and heading to collapse.

10) Refusing to pay the militant Amnesty.

11) Flying Sudan President wanted by the International Criminal Court to Sudan before heading to Nigeria. (Air Cab Service)

All this in just 6 months. May God help us and Nigeria before this man conclude one term. I doubt there will be a Nigeria.

Dbboy:
Are you expecting me to answer this question, when a sitting president call a region 5% then every decerning mind would understand we are back to the civil war era where the north feel they can Lord them self on Nigeria and most especially IGBOS that's why we are asking for proper federalism or Biafra by force. My fate should be left in my hand to decide not the FG Hausa/ Fulani man that's all am asking for and about the national conference, why is the North sitting on it or were they not part of the dialog and just because they are now president they decided to toss it away, why are Nigeria not demanding for true federalism simply what IGBOS are clamouring for is freedom to self determination is it too much to ask as a black man, if it is practice all around the would why are we scared of adopting it in Nigeria. @ 55 we can't boast of constant power supply are we cursed no good road, loan facility by our banks are exorbitant, no good hospital 90% of our drugs and things we use in Nigeria are all imported. We are not one when a particular region would clamour for the death of his fellow Nigeria just because they are of diff tribe then there should be rethink of our one Nigeria, when only the Igbo man is seen investing in another region while others anticipate war so as to steal what the Igbo man has toiled for years then there is every reason to rethink our common existence even though I know I have invested heavily in the North.

Gbam! Nigeria have past its sell-by date. Time for it to die a natural death.

BlackMaria:
Where is Asari today,tot he said he will turn Nigeria upside down,if gej is not returned. Ooh I 4got,the pig has moved back to Benin republic,where the bulk of his investments are.

All we are asking for is our right.

godjb:
On Biafra we stand

No retreat no surrender. Forward!

new2020:
I love the rising sun badge on Ojukwu's uniform. Even as far back as 1967, Biafra was very organized and fashionable. Was destined to be a powerful nation!

My Brother sometimes, i wonder how they were able to put all that together with perfection. Igbos were truily cheated by the world becos there would have been a great nation. The only nation on the easter coast of west africa called Biafra and the Bight of Biafra.


The world cheated us and we must rewrite that wrong by demanding our right to self determination. Our right to be called Biafrans, free from the zoo and lugard cage.

Igbos produce heros... Nnamdi of Ojukwu school of thought.

Biafra Icon...


Nnamdi Kanu reminds me so much of Ojukwu. Both men are fearless.

Biafra holds a bright future for our kids. Where their life, culture and education will not be threatened.

They kill our body but not our spirit.


Biafra is who we are, what we represent.


Nigeria is our past, but Biafra is the Future.

[size=18pt]GOWON KARMA IS A BIT.CH.... U AND ALL YOUR POSTERITY WILL SURELY SUFFER.


THIS IS JUST A TASTER.


SINS OF THE FATHER UNTO THE SON, 22 YEARS IN PRISON, UR SON NA MANDELA?


PERHAPS HIS BIRTH WAS A CRIME.
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They are saying Biafra.. No amount of intimidation can stop a people after a revolution.


They are singing Biafra. In God we put our trust.

Freedom is a Journey but we are marching together as one nation under the rising sun to Freedom.

gocac:
This Igbo people should leave the south south alone, what the igbos don't know is that even if there was a division in Nigeria today, the south south will go their way. Wake up and stop thinking me a Rivers man would want to be a part of biafra. Never oh.... Igbo man can never be trust with POWER!

Hearing a yoruba man talking about south south is like hearing a Togo Man talking about Nigeria. Go and educate yourself.

In Biafra, the south has full resource control, and they can turn their land to be better than Dubai. Nobody is disturbing them.

Power will rotate between regions to every locality so nobody is marginalised.

Traditionally power shifts, even in our traditional system of rule.

It is only British Nigeria that we have born to rule. This is inherited from the colonialist tradition.

Give us Biafra...

[size=18pt]Nigeria is a cesspit for injustice, Biafra will be an embodiment of Justice. [/size]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITiEDuGyTI&ab_channel=nwokedioliveremeka

Fulani should go back to Mali, they are not Nigerians.

Is anybody afrad of Buhari wen the mighty Americans are next door? Hell no!


See Buhari packing all the post and giving Muslim Northerners, end game things. Nigeria is about to finish.

Amalgamation contract and birth of Nigeria

Africa Biafra map
A map of Africa in 1827 shows the territories of Biafra before the creation of Nigeria by BritishWikimedia Commons
Pro-Biafrans cite the expiration of a so-called "amalgamation contract" as one of the reasons to justify their will to separate from the rest of Nigeria.

The contract was issued by Britain during the colonisation era and aimed at integrating people from the north and the south within 100 years since it was issued despite cultural, religious and economic differences among the various ethnic groups.

The contract, now at the National Archive of London, was created in 1914 by Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the governor general of modern-day Nigeria. The document, opposed by the political class and the media in Lagos, expired in 2014.

The term "Nigeria" was created by Lugard's wife, British journalist Flora Shaw, in 1897 when she suggested to replace the "British protectorate of the Niger River" with a shorter term.

According to the British Nigeria amalgamation contract have expired. Biafra is now.

Nnamdi arrival and US arrival is no mistake.

Their support for the certificateless, brutal general and ex dictator with poor human rights record is no mistake.

Buhari is the last president and ultimately he will break Nigeria.

lalasticlala obinoscopy

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nnamdi-kanu-arrest-radio-biafra-director-ipob-legend-fraudster-1524831
Nnamdi Kanu arrested
Nnamdi Kanu is the director of London-based radio station Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Facebook
Hundreds of Nigerians who support the independence of Biafra have taken to social media to voice their dissent over the alleged arrest of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. It is believed he was apprehended by the Department of State Services (DSS) after he had flown from the UK, where he lives, to Lagos.

The Biafran territories were independent from Nigeria from 1967 until 1970 and re-annexed to the African nation following a civil war that killed between one and three million people. Groups that advocate for the independence of such territories are scattered across Nigeria's south east. One of them is the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), of which Kanu is the leader.

Kanu is also the director of London-based radio station Radio Biafra, which he founded in 2009 with the help of members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob). Kanu explained the station, which the Nigerian government deemed illegal, aims to "bring hope, enlightenment and knowledge to our people".

The Nigerian government claimed in July that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had managed to jam Radio Biafra's signal in Nigeria, while President Muhammadu Buhari denied he had made remarks against the Igbo (the biggest ethnic group in the Biafran territories) as claimed by the radio station.

Legend or fraudster?

Little is known about Kanu's private life. Speaking to IBTimes UK on conditions of anonymity, an Ipob member said he is regarded as a "legend in the making" and "he may not have given a detailed biography of himself to media, website or journalists". In an open letter to world leaders, Ipob members described Kanu as "a law abiding leader who has disciplined indigenous people of Biafra to strictly abide by local and international law". His official Facebook page is followed by more than 30,000 people.

In the midst of the Twitter storm following Kanu's alleged arrest, some people spoke out against him, claiming he is "a fraudster" who uses the Biafra cause for his own interests. Some also accused Radio Biafra of promoting hate speech.


Earlier in October, a woman claiming to be a former PR coordinator for Radio Biafra, Chioma Amaryllis, released an interview in which she claimed she left the radio station and moved back to Nigeria due to the "lies and misinformation". She alleged: "Money was being collected and used for other things. I was not going to be part of a ploy that was going to exploit the ignorance of people." Amaryllis, who claimed she had had a relationship with Kanu, criticised him for advocating an independent Biafran state from the UK instead of being on the ground.

Massob and Ipob are no longer collaborating and the two groups accuse each other of carrying out violent attacks that smear pro-Biafrans' reputation. Massob has been deemed by the Nigerian government as a violent group and authorities arrested its leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, in 2005 on treason charges. He was released two years later.

Following Kanu's alleged arrest, Massob released a statement arguing the man does not represent the group and he is "a rebel who had long been expelled by Massob for inciting violence among members". However, a faction of Massob has condemned the arrest.

IBTimes UK contacted the DSS for a comment but has not received a response at the time of publishing.

David Otto, CEO of UK-based global security provider TGS Intelligence Consultants, confirmed the arrest to IBTimes UK and said it might have been in relation to Kanu's role in the activities of Radio Biafra.

Unconfirmed reports claimed Kanu was granted bail on 20 October. Meanwhile, some Twitter users have posted pictures of protests calling for his release. It is not yet clear where the protests are taking place.


Nigerian government's position on pro-Biafrans

In an interview with IBTimes UK, government spokesperson Mike Omeri said the authority does not consider the separatist movements as a threat to the current leadership and defined pro-Biafrans as an "insignificant number of frustrated people who are not a threat to the existence of Nigeria".

The Nigerian police have been cracking down on pro-Biafrans amid allegations they are hosting violent protests. Earlier in September, dozens of pro-Biafrans were arrested after the inspector general of police, Solomon E Arase, released a statement urging authorities to clamp down on people who behaved violently across the country.

A perceived increase in pro-Biafran activities was also confirmed by Anambra State commissioner of police Hassan Karma during another interview with IBTimes UK. He said: "It is people taking laws into their hands and it's the same situation that generated Boko Haram today in the north east. People started like this, even in Niger Delta, where militants started kidnapping people for extortion."

Pro-Biafrans accuse the police of being violent against the separatists. The police denied the claims, while rights group Amnesty International said in an exclusive report by IBTimes UK that there is "credible evidence that pro-Biafran separatists in Nigeria are targeted by police".

Biafra history

Biafra map
The Biafra region in the south of Nigeria is shown in greenibtimes.co.uk
After the end of the British rule in 1960, Nigeria consisted of territories that were not part of the nation before the colonisation, resulting in escalating tensions among the communities.

People in the Eastern Region - a former federal division of Nigeria with capital Enugu - mainly from the Igbo community, wanted to secede due to ethnic, religious and economic differences with other communities in Nigeria. The Eastern Region gained independence following two coup d'etats in 1966 and 1967.

The fact that Nigeria's oil was located in the south of the country played a major role in the eruption of the war, during which medicine and food shortages in Biafra led to the death of thousands of people.

Biafra has been commonly divided into four main "tribes": the Igbos, the Ibibio-Efiks, the Ijaws and the Ogojas. The modern-day states that make up Biafra from the eastern region and midwest are: Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Delta, Bayelsa, Abia, Cross River, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Ebonyi, southern part of Ondo State, Igbanke in Edo State, southern part of Benue State.

Amalgamation contract and birth of Nigeria

Africa Biafra map
A map of Africa in 1827 shows the territories of Biafra before the creation of Nigeria by BritishWikimedia Commons
Pro-Biafrans cite the expiration of a so-called "amalgamation contract" as one of the reasons to justify their will to separate from the rest of Nigeria.

The contract was issued by Britain during the colonisation era and aimed at integrating people from the north and the south within 100 years since it was issued despite cultural, religious and economic differences among the various ethnic groups.

The contract, now at the National Archive of London, was created in 1914 by Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the governor general of modern-day Nigeria. The document, opposed by the political class and the media in Lagos, expired in 2014.

The term "Nigeria" was created by Lugard's wife, British journalist Flora Shaw, in 1897 when she suggested to replace the "British protectorate of the Niger River" with a shorter term.

#FreeNnamdiKanu


There is no grounds for his arrest. Dont expect Igbos to be happy with marginalisation.