₦airaland Forum

Skull mining - our heritage that must be protected and allowed to thrive at all cost.

Umahi, you cannot twerk for Tinubu more than Amaechi twerked for Buhari. But see Amaechi today filled with shame and waist pain.

Rented crowd on Bala blu - when you see them, you would know them.

STRATEGIC MEETTING ko, FOOLISH MEETING ni. Strategic meetings that they always had with Buhari that brought the present monumental failures of the Buhari’s government.

There’s no further evidence to prove that Buhari and his government aid and abet terrorism and terrorists. Still, they extraordinarily renditioned MNK from Kenya.

Now you dey wish. God no dey talk to you again? Wayo Jerry curl pastor cum failed husband.

Buhari's critics divided Nigerians with mouth, according to Femi AdeSinner. But Buhari divided Nigerians with mouth and in actions.

The HEAD, I mean the SKULL, was it intact or was used for Skullarship. Was the HEAD mined as usual?

Where’s the green auto hydraulic soup?

Going, going, gone. Nigeria is gone. The Zoo has collapsed. And it’s riddled with debts, humongous unpayable debts.

Afonjas are already crying after shouting egbami upandan.

Tinubu crying to Bubu for presidency!

Nigeria’s crude oil is not called Devil’s Excreta for nothing.

Because the roads are good. Can you say of same from Onitsha to Lagos which is about same distance.

Northern businessmen on the beat.

What manner of political solution, Mr. Ekweremmadu? I no marry again, na fight? Biafrans want exit from Nigeria and MNK is championing that. Nigerian state abducted him. What political solution are you looking for again. Free MNK and organize a referendum in Biafra. That’s the solution. QED

Thunder fire Orji Uzo-Kalu and his amnesty deceit.

Only 34 boarding secondary schools in Adamawa State. That’s grossly inadequate for the whole state. Onitsha Archdiocese alone in metropolitan Onitsha has more boarding schools than the whole Adamawa State.

Fame99game:
What's the 10 year educational plan of Biafra?

How's the business terrain going to be?

What's our competitive advantage?

Which foreign governments are willing to back your currency.

How will our youths not suffer from the breakaway?

Show us these things.

Let us see our future and the future of our kids in this plan.

Make it appealing and you won't need to kill, maim, abuse people.

So far it is just propaganda, shouts, violence unfounded accusations and name calling

First answer that for the terrorist state called Nigeria before you, the chief terrorist would be considered for receiving any answer from anybody.

This is the stupi.d government that claims the road has been completed. That their useless Sukkuk funds are being used for the road. This is what you find in the East. Why didn’t MTN construct the Daura - Niger Republic rail line. The East is always used as a guinea pig for projects that are known to fail. Buhari is devils incarnate.

Leave them. Na Kanu be our problem. Idiots everywhere.

By BY ALOY EJIMAKOR
It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the civil war, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the sea.

The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk this lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some basic physical explorations of your own.

Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-War Igbos never bordered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore.

And that history was constructively banned since the end of the civil war made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical geography (or even adventure) that serious anymore, otherwise they would have discovered that Abia, Imo and Anambra states have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic through Imo, Azumiri and Niger Rivers.

It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read (or plot) Google Earth; or you conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot.

There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Urashi River at Oseakwa (Ihiala) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the south-eastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront.

These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Portharcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic.

Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri Rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 Nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometers.

Thus, the contiguity of south-east (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is nautically less than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Port Harcourt. If you discount the territories unfairly excised from Igboland during state creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less.

To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Port Harcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged some 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic.

Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia state, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri Rivers, of which Azumiri, on its separate merits, lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront. The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa (Urashi) in Ihiala (Anambra state) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other River in Nigeria.

Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, Baikie – one of the earliest and credible geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say – “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north, it borders on Igara, Igala and A’kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race” (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty’s Government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-war abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments, coupled with the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost political hold of their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called ‘Oshimiri’ – The Great Sea.

The psychological beat-down and gang-up got so bad and institutional that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside Southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not.

The worst injustice was in 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighboring states of the south-south. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They missed the southernmost south-east lands that possess Rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly south-south territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly (and luckily) placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons and realms of customary international law.

As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully through any of the various short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous south-south territories.

For the avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia state) that flows through greater Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom state before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Biafra (officially corrupted to Bight of Bonny, after the War).

Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is therefore bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of the Igbo as an identifiable (and protected) indigenous group within Nigeria. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983.

The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious protections relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within a Treaty nation. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria.

So, international law will surely come into play should a belligerent or legal conflict arise out of Nigeria’s oppressive institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland – an issue so fundamental and compelling that it bears the fulcrum of what is agitating the Igbo to the point of seeking an alternative to Nigeria.

Ejimakor, a lawyer, writes from Alaigbo

https://www.thecable.ng/igboland-is-not-a-dot-and-its-not-landlocked/amp

Why would Coach Robr stay in Nigeria. Has Buhari, your President stayed in Nigeria?

These people didn't that what they were praising was APC audio train that has been dismantled and shipped back to manufacturers. They didn't know that what we have is locomotives. The type that belches smoke like a chimney used in making charcoal. Only if they knew that Nigeria is lying.

Some years ago Deeper Life years never allowed their member to watch television or appear in one. The church said that television was evil. Today, Kumuyi talks to his member from his location through the television. Today every Deeper Life church has giant television through which they view Kumuyi.

The university lecturers must enrol for IPPIS. What are they trying to avoid. Are these not the professors that were used by INEC to rig elections. It's payback time now. Nonsense and lecturers!

Igbos want an independent homeland. Biafra offers that.

See what Buhari has reduced his people. Soon northerners will resort to carnibalsm.

Foolish Benue people. You’d fight the war yourselves. You brought the ant infested wood home. So you’ve got to dine with the lizards. During the Civil War, you fore fathers were the foot soldiers. Now you should do the fighting. Your foolishness stinks to high heavens. You voted the supporter of APC Muhammadeen into power. Reap you fruits in abundance.

Just reading the comments of these Benue citizens makes me puke. See the cowardice and fear. They're there shouting God hel us, it's bad etc and these herdsmen are slaughtering them. If it were Biafra topic you'd see them jump up like erected phallus. Idiots.

Jibiti Bank = GT Bank