odysey: Biafra is a state of being. Until we have achieved that state of being, the desired geopolitical region remains at risk. So we must pursue both tasks together.
And the State of Being is as follows: We have to do as the Catalonians do in Spain. When they realized that the Castelianos (Madrid) will never voluntarily or easily give them Independencia, the Catalonians (Barcelona) decided to turn inwards and develop their region Technologically, Economically and Infrastructurally - and now they are the economic powerhouse of Spain.
The same thing is with Bayern in Germany. When Germany was declaring itself as a nation, Bayern (Bavaria) had the choice to stay out and be a country on its own (like Austria did) . Instead it opted to stay within a greater Germany and become it's best part. Today Bavaria is the most technologically and economically powerful region in Germany - and it has the whole of Germany now as its primary and biggest market.
The same thing is with California in the USA. It's not only the biggest economy WITHIN the US, it's also the 6th largest economy in the World! However, this is only because it is within the US and can leverage on all the synergies that come with that, that it can be so powerful. If it were suddenly to try to break away overnight stand alone, as a competitor against the rest of the US, things would not be so easy.
Nigeria does not fear IPOB as is. Infact they WANT IPOB to challenge them, so they can militarily wage war on the Igbos. IPOB at present is not the Biafra that Nigeria fears. They fear the Biafra that becomes like Catalonia, like Bavaria, like California. That's the Biafra they fear. So they NEED this militant IPOB to give them an excuse to come and reduce Ala-Igbo to a wasteland again and turn back the hands of our clock once more to Zero, like they did in the last Civil War. Even if we don't want and don't start any hostilities, they will use the slightest excuse or provocation or accident to send in their troops. Britain will support them and in the end USA will establish a military base in Igbo Land, to keep the peace. And that is how we will become occupied territory.
We have to be smart, and shift the battle to the field where we can win.
What I am saying is this: yes we will continue to ask for Referendum, like Catalonia does in Spain, like Scotland does in Great Britain. But it is not Referendum that will give us the Biafra we need. And of course It is not guns that will give us Biafra, that we know. As Igbos we have to conquer our chronic Individualism - and we have to pool our wealth, intelligence and efforts together to turn Ala-Igbo into a First World region, right here and now. But this is the most difficult thing for us because we are individualists! It is easier to protest.
The second point is: Our Governors. As much as we don't like them, we have to work on them.
If IPOB mobilises the people against the Governors, the same way it is mobilising them against the Federal Govt, you will see how fast things will change. What will the governors do? Will they start shooting their own people? If a governor does that, where will that governor run to hide from the people's revenge? They have nowhere to go and hide. Your state is your home - so they MUST listen to the people. If the people are united. And IPOB can unite the people.
Instead of going to Abuja, the Governors should come together, put money together from their budget and start building a second Niger Bridge.
Computer Village in Lagos is full of Igbos. The governors and leadership should put their moneys together and build TECHNOLOGY TOWN in Aba.
Put their money together and elevate Enugu Airport to a level HIGHER than Lagos or Abuja airport. Things like that.
We need a world class Stock Exchange in Ala-Igbo. We can achieve that without the fed govt, because we own trading.
IPOB has already come up with a blueprint for an Igbo-wide democratic customary govt, the people's govt, very republican in nature, and this is good. This is power. Ironically, it might even be according to the nigerian constitution. If peacefully achieved, this can be the leverage with which to control the elected executive and legislative levels, if Nigeria stays together. And if Nigeria falls apart, then automatically we already have a framework state in operation.
If we are doing things like all this, Arewa will not need to issue quit notice - Igbos will come back in droves to build up Alaigbo.
The Igbo governors can execute and implement ANTI-OPEN-GRAZING LAWS in their states, and call on all indigenes to participate in monitoring it. This will empower all Igbos and we will rid ourselves of these Fulani Herdsmen in no time. This is a priority. Every passing day is too much.
Ekiti State did it. Benue State has done it. It's not impossible. Why cannot the States of the South-East ALL do it as ONE? Anti Grazing Law. This will shake the Nigerian Govt more than asking for referendum.
IPOB has power. If they use it wisely they can bring about tremendous change in Ala-Igbo without a single drop of blood shed.
If Nigeria stays together, we Ala-Igbo have to become the most advanced region of Nigeria. If Nigeria breaks up, we have to be ready to survive on our own. And at the moment, we are not yet ready. This is where we need to put our eyes into. Because the ball is already rolling.
What we want is for people to come and start investing in Ala-Igbo, from all over the world. If that happens, everybody will protect Igbo land. Biafra will grow from within. - Hon. Barr. N. Ezike
You mean your jobless grandfathers no get better things to do beyond sitting around the village square messing around with some useless village fabricated baby toys you clowns are calling rocket?
Btw, ignorant ipobitch. I love ewedu so much I fit eat am 3 times a day.
You think you are abusing me with ewedu when in fact you are basically admitting that we are smarter and have better nutritional judgment than you losers..
Ewedu get unlimited benefits while your rancid and worthless akpu no get any human benefits beyond carbohydrates and diabetes.
These ignorant village ipobitchies sef..
[/s]Poor kid. I didn't even touch you and you're doing like this.
I was thinking it's something only peculiar with all the gtbank here in my location.
Why is only GTBank the one doing this down here? and how have they been able to maintain this same similar standard of having gateless branches nationwide?
They probably want to keep the same design throughout their branches just like that. Obviously design statement from their management.
Okoroawusa: Where is Nnamdi Kanu? Its seems that Nnamdi Kanu has disappeared.After a unanimous rejection by all the stakeholders in SE/SS.Also,another is the indefinite postponement of the trial that made him popular.FG has chosen to ignore him.
One evidence is the reduction of topics with Kanu as the subject- matter in major online platforms and newspapers. Is this the end of Kanu's relevance like Daniel Kanu of YEAA during Abacha's regime?
Only time will tell...
Chekitaut: Only the poor agitate Biafria, Rich business men will never support. Any showing support is only protect him or her self in public but strongly against in hidden.
hollah123: just imagine the level of stupidity in u, somebody Dat was born b4 ur father gave an account of what happened then n u are here screaming unity beggar. u people are the real unity beggars cos Hausa's told u to leave but u said u are going nowhere. tell me what's the definition of that. unity begging n cowardice combined. ishi omo
The "war" Nigerian almajiris of south.waste and core north are always calling whenever Biafra is mentioned is not here yet and Biafran secondary school students are already manufacturing missiles on their own.
Let's see if Britain and Russia will side you guys again.
Adekamkpe23: Can Ibo people survive if they were asked to remain in Biafra alone? No other Nigerian travels to Ibo land but yet half of those born in Umuahia today will end up in Lagos tomorrow. Why?
So if they cannot survive or can survive, they will tell you? To do what exactly?
This kind misyarn makes me sometimes I don't feel bad when yo.roba grandfathers harvest the skull of their young ones over there in eweduland.
"For the sake of Nation building, I expected our Igbos compatriots to remain remorseful, with broken spirits and contrite hearts. They should emulate the Japanese and Germans, who after the 2nd World war, that they caused, have adopted pacifist Constitutions and behaviors. They have realized the folly and worthlessness of war mongering.
The activities of IPOB and MASSOB are not in the interest of the Igbos. Rather, unfortunately, old historical wounds have been ruptured. They have inadvertently resuscitated their past inglorious roles in the national disintegration. I don't blame them, because they were not born before the war, rather I blame their parents that lived through that period. And who should have cautioned them.
I was 9 years old, when Lt Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Governor of the then erstwhile Eastern Region of Nigeria seceded and declared the Republic of Biafra. In my youthful foolishness, I staked my life to a worthless cause and enrolled in OJUKWU VANGUARD. By the time I returned to my parents in our village which had been liberated by the Nigerian army, I lost 2 academic years, with war scars physically psychologically and mentally inflicted on me.
To start with, the agitation for Biafra is gross insults to the minorities of the then Eastern Region and worse still on the memories of those gallant men and women that paid the Supreme prices. Though Biafra was created by the Igbos, the minorities mostly from the present day Akwa Ibom and Cross River States, sustained it militarily, administratively and diplomatically.
With this, the roles of the following heros come to mind. Late General Philip Effiong,Ojukwu's 2nd in command, sustained Biafra militarily. Late Chief Ntieyong Udo Akpan, was the Secretary of the Government of Biafra. He was the defacto Administrator of Biafra. Late Chief Okokon Ndem Okon, was the Director General of Radio Biafra, and their Chief Propagandist. Late Dr Matthew T Mbu, was their foreign Minister and their foremost diplomat. Late Major Archibong was their most brilliant war tactician that liberated Ikot Ekpene six times from the Nigerian army.
With the exception of General Ojukwu, other Igbos used that war to make money. Left for the Igbos, the war would have ended in 1967, it wouldn't have lasted for 30 months. For instance Col Yakubu Danjuma , of the 1st Division and his Boys literally strolled into Enugu and occupied it. Ditto for most of the Igboland. But late Col Benjamin Adekunle of the 3rd Marine Commando, was frustrated in the present day Akwa Ibom state.
Wherever the battle was tough, most often a non Igbo was the Biafran Commander. The Igbos exhibited so much cowardice. They were saboteurs. It was such that General Ojukwu lost confidence in them, relied and confided only on the minorities, particularly the present day Akwa Ibomites. I am very happy that he appreciated their roles, as were conveyed in his orations at the funerals of late General Philip Effiong, Late Chief Ntieyong Udo Akpan, and late Chief Okokon Ndem Okon, my neighbor.
Again on the night of 15January 1966, 4 Igbos and I Yoruba Majors and their subalterns embarked on a killing spree. By the time it was over, they have assassinated the Prime minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the almighty Premier of Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Western Region, Chief Samuel Akintola, Chief Festus Okotie - Eboh. The two Igbo Premiers of Midwest region, Osadebe, and that of the Eastern Region, Chief Michael Okpara, were not touched.
The military casualties of that "coup", were Brigadier Maimalari, Commander of the 1st Brigade and the most senior Northern military Officer, Brigadier Ademulegun, Commander of the 2nd Brigade, and the most senior Yoruba military Officer, Colonels Shodeinde, Pam and Arthur Unegbe(the only Igbo casualty). Suspiciously an Igbo man, Senator Nwafor Orizu, the Senate President, (with President Nnamdi Azikiwe on vacation to Britain) handed over power to his Igbo brother, Major General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi. The Igbos were all over bragging about the superiority of their tribe. They waxed a record titled "EWU NEBE AKWA " meaning the goat is weeping.. That was a mockery of the Northerners over the assassination of their Leaders . And went about provocatively, openly hawking the tearful portraits of the late Prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
The Northerners violently rioted against the Easterners, derogatorily called "Nyameri". That was the remote cause of the declaration of Biafra and the bloody civil war. If the present Igbo generation knew the past inglorious roles their fathers played in the disintegration of this Nation, they should be hiding their heads in shame."
NECO Director, Muhammadu Umaru, Arraigned Over N4million Fraud. Photos
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 arraigned one Muhammadu Umar before Justice M. T. Salihu of the Federal High Court, Maiduguri on a 3-count charge of fraud to the tune of N4million.
NECO Director, Muhammadu Umaru, Arraigned Over N4million Fraud. Photos
Umar, an Assistant Director with the National Examination Council, NECO, allegedly approached the proprietor of Success Private School claiming that he had the instruction of his employer (NECO) to collect NECO SSCE registration fees of students in the school.
Without doubt, the proprietor knowing that the money if not remitted could lead to non-participation of candidates from the school did as Umar requested. But Umar diverted the money to his personal use. After arraignment and deliberations on the bail application, Justice Salihu ordered the defendant to be remanded in prison custody pending hearing of the bail application on July 6, 2017.
Policemen rob Nigerian student because he had Amber Rose’s photo on his phone
Narrating how Policemen who should be protecting him robbed him at gunpoint, a Nigerian student who was the victim of this incident disclosed it all happened because he had Amber Rose’s photo on his phone.
According to him, they called him a ‘yahoo yahoo’ boy, because he had the American star’s photo on his phone, pointed a gun at him and took him to an ATM where he was asked to withdraw.
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