₦airaland Forum

olapluto:
Its a matter of time. Nnamdi will be thoroughly unraveled. We're getting there.

....then it shall be business as usual...You are a big joke...

izutex007:
lol. time will expose everything

..like Nigeria staying the same as it has been since 1914...even when it is going backwards faster than could be imagined...Why won't you like it the way it is...so long as the central government continues to invest in the west and north where you come from...and ignoring other regions....why not?

ipobarecriminals:
waste of time.confused set of people,.Today church, tomorrow jew, next okija shrine,Kanu and his people are fraudsters.

Afonja juju man..how that one take concern you....better return to your fetish osun-oshogbo thing...

On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria. Malnutrition, Red Cross, kwashiorkor, relief flights, genocide, the Uli airstrip used by Biafran planes to elude the Nigerian blockade, mercenaries, the Aburi accord that broke down and led to war—these are some of the memory triggers of the Nigerian civil war of secession that we would like to re-assign.


Over a million lives perished—a shameful proportion of them children—mostly through starvation and aerial bombardment. The Nigerian federal government, committed to the doctrine of oneness, had boasted that the conflict would last no longer than three weeks of “police action.” We had learnt much from the politics of other nations, but apparently not from history; the war lasted more than two years. Noble Laureate, Prof Wole Soyika Tormented by the image of a herd of human lemmings rushing to their doom, as a young writer, I made the “treasonable” statement warning that the secessionist state, Biafra, could never be defeated. The simplistic rendition of that conviction in most minds—certainly in the minds of the then-ruling military and its elite support—was that this applied merely to the physical field of combat. Thus it was regarded as a psychological offensive against the federal side, an attempt to demoralize its soldiers while boosting the war spirit of the enemy. That “enemy” had also boasted that no force in black Africa could defeat them. My visit to the Biafran enclave in October 1966 resulted in arrest and detention.

During interrogation, I insisted that my statement was meant as a counter to the surge of emotive nationalism and a slavish sanctification of colonial boundaries. Biafra was therefore an expression of that rejection and its replacement with a people’s self-constitutive rights. This specific challenge owed its genesis to memory at its rawest, the memory of ethnic cleansing, whose remedy could not be sought rationally in a campaign of subjugation against an already traumatized community. One question, rhetorical in tone, stuck in my mind for long afterwards. It went thus: “Why should you take it on yourself to make such a statement? Is it because you’re a writer? Who are you to take a contrary stance to the government?” I replied to myself that I had learned to listen. The young man countered that he was on the side of history, and Biafra would be crushed. Not quite, as it turned out.

The Biafrans were indeed defeated on the battlefield, but crushed? Today, most Nigerians know better. Biafra has not been defeated. If anyone was left in any doubt about this, the last work of my late colleague, Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country, has left us re-thinking. New generation writers, born long after that brutal war, have inherited and continue to propagate the Biafran doctrine, an article of faith among the Igbo populace, even among those who pay lip-service to a united nation. Millions remain sworn to uphold it. Many have died at the hands of the police and the military as succeeding guardians of that legacy troop out to reclaim it in defiant manifestations. Amnesty International estimated that at least 150 pro-Biafra activists have been killed since August 2015. Some of their leaders, including the director of their official mouthpiece, Radio Biafra, remain on trial for alleged subversion and treason. Others have gone underground. The war is not over, only the tactics have changed. One could claim that a project of internal secession is unfolding, one that skirts the peripheries of Nigerian laws, testing what they permit, and daring what they do not.


As for the victorious side, analysts continue to cite the lingering consequences of the war of secession among the main causes of the nation’s instability, alongside contemporary factors such as mismanagement of petroleum resources, corruption, visionless leadership, etc. Today, secession simmers openly, and is moving steadily beyond rhetoric. It has already taken on a dangerous complement—ejection. A number of combative youth organizations in the northern part of Nigeria recently called for the expulsion of the Igbo from their lands for daring once again to talk about secession. Mainstream leaders have disowned them, but some support has been voiced by individuals within the same adult cadre, including its intelligentsia. Debate is intense, often acrimonious. Sadly however, one is left with a feeling that most participants in this discourse shy away from a fundamental component of nation being, one that transcends the Biafran will to corporate existence. That principle virtually gasps for air under the wishfully terminal mantra that goes:

“The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable.” I have never understood how this is supposed to differ from the dogma of certain religious strains that declare conversion from faith to be an act of apostasy, punishable by death. Nationality, like religion, is only another construct into which one is either born, or acquires by accident or indoctrination. Those who insist on the divine right of nation over a people’s choice seem unaware that they box themselves into the same doctrinaire mould of mere habit, just like religion. In the Nigerian instance, however, the matter is even more troubling. Since the absolutists of nation indivisibility are not ignorant of the histories of other nations and are immersed daily under evidence of the assertive factor of negotiation—be it in the language of arms and violence or the conference table—since they know full well that this process straddles pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial histories, such speakers unconsciously imply that Africans are sub-citizens of the real world and are not entitled to make their own choices, even in this modern age. This smacks of an inferiority complex, if not of a slavish indoctrination, when we additionally consider how today’s Africa came to be, a land mass of constitutive units that were largely determined by alien interests, and thus, hold possibilities of fatal flaws.


Also requiring contestation is the implicit equation of supreme sacrifice with supreme entitlement: Those who say, “We have shed our blood for Nigerian unity, and will not stand by and watch it dismantled.” My observation is that in civil warfare—indeed in most kinds of warfare—civilians pay the higher price in lives, possessions and dignity. We need therefore to eliminate the distracting lament of professionals of violence and confront, in its own right, the issue of the collective volition of any human grouping. This leaves us with the other line of approach, the line of frankly subjective or reasoned, pragmatic preferences. It is a positioning that admits, quite simply, I am a creature of habit and prefer things as they are. Or: I like to be a big frog in a small pond, and allied determinants. Such individual and collective preferences for nation validation offer sincere basis for negotiation and resolution. Once conceded, we proceed to invoke the positives of cohabitation that render fragmentation mostly adventurist and potentially destructive. Habit is a great motivator, but it should not be permitted to transform itself into categorical controls that make any existing condition “non-negotiable.”

Should Biafra stay in, or opt out of Nigeria? That is the latent question. Even after years of turbulent co-tenancy, it seems unreal to conceive of a Nigeria without Biafra. My preference for “in” goes beyond objective assessment of economic, cultural and social advantages for Biafra and the rest of us....


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/biafra-has-not-been-defeated-wole-soyinka/

Trill2b:
Power generation is no big deal where there's capital and political will. Negotiations and deals will be made to get it done.

We know all that...I just needed to know why they would be the first to have power 24/7 that other provinnce...Also if it is no big deal, why is it so difficult now...

Trill2b:
Heavy foreign investments in power generation from a mixture of hydro and gas turbines will do the job.

Gas from where...? You need to construct a dam for hydro system...The EP has huge gas and coal...already...so...?

A question for you..Where will the WP get their power from..as you claim they will be the first to have 24/7 power? They need gas... The EP has Geometeric already....It just needed to be extended to the areas in the province...

This is your Nigeria, we don't want part of it...

oladeebo:
Can igbo have the right upon other's right?
Why igbo exercise her right of self determination and stampede on the right of other Nigerians?
Is land grabbing part of the self determination right?
What about forcing people of Nigeria against their will?
So if igbo want the war it's must prepared for it!
If they want peace with Nigeria they must come out of their territory of 5 states and agitating!
anything sorts of that is pushing Nigeria towards war!
Igbo must exercise their right within their right according to international law,
as Nigeria is bound to respect the law Nigeria is still have the right to exercise their right of protecting their territory and their nationals against internal and external threats provided by national and international law...including war!
igbo must get it right now!
Biafra with it's 5 states of igbo nation with peace or
Biafra with parts of Nigeria with war!
oladeebo

No war omonile...

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Gamesmart:
It appears all the major tribes in the South South reject and do not desire to be part of Biafra and prefer to be part of Nigeria instead despite the desperation to include them in Biafran maps.

Ibibio rejection of Biafra
http://sunnewsonline.com/including-ibibio-in-biafra-map-an-affront-group/

Efik rejection of Biafra
https://www.naij.com/1113743-nnamdi-kanus-ipob-warned-by-efik-group-leave-biafra-shenanigans.html

Urhobo rejection of Biafra
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/urhobo-denounces-inclusion-in-map-of-biafra/

Anioma rejection of Biafra
http://sunnewsonline.com/stop-dragging-us-into-biafra-anioma-people-of-delta-tell-agitators/

Ogoni rejection of Biafra
https://www.naij.com/1109544-stop-associating-ogoni-biafra-agitation-group-warns-asari-dokubo.html

Isoko rejection of Biafra
http://mashable.ng/isoko-is-not-part-of-biafra-isoko-development-union/

Annangs rejection of Biafra
http://tribuneonlineng.com/not-ready-slaves-biafra-%E2%80%95annang/


Surely this means Biafra is not viable?

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You are a joke...You should focus on Nigeria without the Biafrans..

MediumStout:
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Dey deceive yourself IPOB can finance a whole Nigeria yet you people scream marginalization. Why not finance your tiny five states first and lets see mordern infrastructures and development instead of blaming Buhari for calling you 5%

When that is done the commissioner of Police, DSS, Customs, Immigration, Civil defense corp managers well all be from the north...What is the point...We want a complete separation...and then you watch...

lofty900:
then what about these ones who don't want it

How man are they compared to these ones who want it....

lofty900:
it's only few rich that wants biafra. Majority, infact over 98% are the poor

If you are so sure...a referendum would prove your statement...Let me reveal as secret to you today....95% of Igbos supports Biafra...5% are politicians who want to continue looting, few are married to other tribes and few business men who have serious investments across Nigeria...It would be 100% if they are sure of keeping their investments in Nigeria...

For instant an Igbo man own this estate in Abuja..Do you think he will support Biafra...even when he knows Igbos are second class citizens in Nigeria? Of course not...but in spirit he is a Biafran..

CutieGuy:
Ipob can finance Nigeria as a whole.
We are in over 88 countries of the world please don't underestimate IPOB Diaspora.
They are the once funding IPOB.

Isreal as of today is still recieving monthly contribution from there diaspora programmes.

I agree bro...I was just referring to those in the particular pic posted...and not the entire IPOB family...Of course I know what the entire IPOB are capable of...

To you local champ...these people in this pic are poor....? They can finance your entire local government area..

MediumStout:
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Biafra will never come

...but Nigeria will remain forever...? If you believe this, then you can believe anything...There is no harm in you consoling yourself...It's like me saying you will never cum!

hakanai:
Creepy remarks. Hope you will keep the same tone and remarks when the gullies in your area begins to collapse buildings or mudslide off your hills.

Natural disasters are not something you take for laughs or joke or even claim glory over. It affects anyone no matter how prepared or your geographical setting. All we can hope for is the disasters are not so devastating.

May the almighty make it easy for them.

If the evil country is fair to all...why would people be talking like this...Don't you think...? Though I agree people shouldn't be talking any how...but a lot of people are frustrated right now with the central government...

vanbonattel:
Watch as afonjas will try to prove you wrong now

They are compiling their own words or those of the Fulanis right now to tell you they are also Hebrew...Watch out!! But you need to be lucky before this post will be deleted...

Is it Igbos intolerance that told the central government not to invest in their region? Not to repair the roads in their region? Not to build the 2nd Niger bridge? For power to be shared between the north and SW? To exclude them from security positions? To include high cut off marks to children from their region? To exclude the region in rail network? Etc, etc...Now tell me? I am waiting...

For Biafra agitation to stop, there must be level playing ground for all to prosper...Igbos are tired of being slaves in their own country...When you watch videos of the crowds with Kanu, you will see the young and the very old...All are sick and tired with Nigeria...Nobody is happy seeing other regions gain while their own region is not treated well...If you doubt me...Take a bus from Lagos to Enugu...Once you are back to Lagos...tell us what you observed in terms of road infrastructure....

"..Anyone who thinks Nigeria can stick together is either a fool or an enemy of the country.." — Falae

MediumStout:
People like this don't care about biafra. Only the frustrated and poverty stricken failures who have been brainwashed by Nnamdi Kanu's lies will scream biafra as if money will grow on trees for them to pluck in biafra. Successful igbo's like Psquare, Don jazzy and Alaba traders don't give a fvck about Nnamdi Kanu nor his fraudulent biafra agitations. One Nigeria is all we want and so shall it remain for life

One Nigeria, with inequality, injustice, suppression, subjugation, marginalization, exclusion and crude nepotism...? I pity you for inferring that those you mentioned don't care about Biafra...

989900:
Beware of those you call your friends . . . the bile was for long hidden.

I used to live in Lekki before...but have now relocated to my village where I have complete peace of mind, away from agberos, traffic, omonile, traffic robbers, LASG traffic agents and most importantly...FLOODING...

Uzy47:
Yes, I maintain that it's better for the Igbos to remain as a part of One Big and Unified Nigeria, for now.
I share this belief because the prevailing Biafran mind set clearly has no  plans for the Igbo people, after we, the Igbos would have returned to our land. The pro-secessionists have not told us how and what the multitude of Ndigbo would survive on, when we all return.
I have taken time to study how our people live and make a living in Igboland. I have researched the survival conditions in the East and I can tell you emphatically that "it's nothing to write home about". The rate of poverty and hopelessness already on ground is really terrifying. The 'Eastern Region' will clearly become another regional disaster if we cut off the current  chain of economic balance. The. Reaon is not far-fetched: there's no economic structure or sustainable system to accommodate the 'naive and vulnerable' multitude of the Igbos, who ignorantly believe that merely returning to Biafra Land, is the ultimate solution to their complicated problems.
Having said that, let is be on record that I believe that the Igbo deserves a better deal within the Nigerian social political arrangement. I am absolutely convinced that we need to renegotiate the famous "sharing and allocation formula". I totally support the restructuring of Nigeria; and I will always exercise my support for its realization.
As we restructure the Nigerian system, we must not also forget  to restructure our own mind set. if we must go,we must first learn why countries like South Sudan and their likes failed after secession. We must begin to learn what countries that have succeeded after break up practises, knows and does.
We must begin to restructure our own region through every available resources in our possession: with support from  individuals, corporate, governmental and non-governmental institutions.
We must realize that we must begin to learn how to build our desired paradise because it will never fall form the skies. We must begin to learn how to love and live together like brothers.
The true Biafran must begin to learn and understand how things work globally and the direction the world is headed.
The real Biafran must not be intellectually obsolete.
Before I round off this piece, let's goo down the memory lane a bit.
About three years ago, the Deputy Secretary-General of ACF, Abubakar Umar,  while addressing members of the South-South/South-East Arewa Coalition said.
According to statistics, the Igbos’ investments in Kaduna, Kano and Jos alone amounted to about N45 trillion and with such huge investments in just three States of the north alone.
“Take Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, for example, the Igbos occupy over 73 percent of the land.
My submission is that, the Igbos are a Major Stake holders in the project Nigeria- let's stay to reap the fruits of our labour- we can benefit more from "jaw-jaw" rather than "war-war". Once Bitten Twice Shy.

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Whe they went back to their land ravaged after the civil war...armed with just £20, they survived...Talk more of now...The thing is thay not everybody must come back, you are free to go to other countries, if you ust stay out...There re Igbos all over the world...so?

CplusJason:
The flag be like wetin one poor native doctor take do curtain.

You own flag has brought curse, suffering, misery and hopelessness, so far...Deal with it...If not why would people want out?

vanbonattel:
While I appreciate the interest and support of FFK, I will ask him to also start their own agitation for oduduwa republic now.

...started already...

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/18-houses-torched-renewed-aguleri-umuleri-war/[/quote]When will you write about Badoooo cult group ravaging the Yoruba land...

franchizy:
Even without been told, we already know kanu is a terorist and a criminal.

His days are numbered.

October 1st on my mind.

Cry me a river