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[quote author=Only-Rebel link=topic=856221.msg10060805#msg10060805 date=1327674063]@Dede1, who will be there to lead you this last time to the front line? Which war have you fought and won? For your information, its all going to be collateral damage anyway.[/quote]Worry about who will lead your sorryarse tribe to the frontline this time. Quit worrying about who will lead Ndigbo. By the way, you have not made your idiotic ethnic group notable yet.

I shall be glad to hear which war you and your forbearers fought and won, collateral damages inclusive.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=856619.msg10061144#msg10061144 date=1327676388]Where are you guys ?

Dede1
Onlytellslies
Afam4eva
ezeagu
Nchara
ak47kid
lucenzo

your region is on fire o.[/quote]You are one bloody son of a loudmouth. Ibadan ceased to function as a municipality when few suspected members of Boko Haram went into hiding in the city.

Did you hear either Nsukka or Enugu ceased to function because of few misguided Boko Haram members who actually on their way to Akure, Ondo State? olodo

Anybody who believes in the baseless unity of country such as Nigeria with no bright future is a compound fo.ol.

Statement accredited to IBB is a mere ranting of an old fool who has no business wearing a military uniform baring the nepotism of Balewa Tafawa administration. IBB should consider himself lucky for carrying bullet in his lap. If his wish should come through this time around, he is bound to carry bullet in his empty skull.

[quote author=Only-Rebel link=topic=856221.msg10058594#msg10058594 date=1327656904]I have reiterated many a time that all the folk tales concocted in lies told to these young generation of Igbos by their fathers/mothers/grandfathers/grandmothers and the run away general that declared the Biafra war against Nigeria makes them a confuse and angry people whose life is knitted in hatred courtesy of these propaganda, a reason to declare the war on the nation. I'm sorry for this people if they allow another propaganda to lure them into another civil war. Igbos, mind you, this is 21st century- expect a campaign of no mercy this time as the real genocide may unveil. Bunch of Yanmirin tribalist.[/quote]I am not a pal to boastfulness however I shall state categorically that Ndigbo will kick the arse of your tribe, ethnicity or lineage of your forbearer in moment notice of war whether the period is 15th or 21st century. You are worse than a tribalist, olodo.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=856223.msg10057042#msg10057042 date=1327631633]What does "Floors" mean?

Did Ngige "ceiling fan" her?[/quote]It comes as no surprise that dumbass ikebe of Ekiti does not know the opposite word for floor. 

What happened to roof instead of ceiling fan? olodo 

It is pure act of asinine to insinuate Ndigbo play victim. Ndigbo are not readily spurred into action of societal disorder. However, when Nidgbo react to provocations it usually leads to war or unnecessary lost of lives. Have Ndigbo ever sought any help from deluded ethnicities in Nigeria for anything?

It is very amazing to read how Nigerians talk from both sides of their putrid mouths. The orchestration of Ndigbo being targeted and killed in northern region by Boko Haram on this forum gained speedy momentum when it was alleged that south-east and south-south traders/people were not interested in the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy by GEJ's government of Nigeria.

In attempt to spur the Ndibgo into or.gy of wanton destruction of lives and properties that belong to northerners, mainly Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri, living within eastern region, mostly non-Igbo commentators flamed the ember of ethnic bait by literally denigrating Ndigbo for lack of reprisal. Such attempt came in the form of false allegation that Ndigbo were solely targeted and killed by Boko Haram in northern region of Nigeria.

The alleged killing of 13 Igbo businessmen in Mubi, Adamawa State by the Boko Haram did not help matters. Most non-Igbo commentators on this forum intentionally and ridiculously reframed the acts of Boko Haram against Nigeria saga to mean Boko Haram against Ndigbo in northern region of Nigeria. If non-Igbo commentators are not passionately writing about Ndigbo being stranded at motor parks in northern region, it should be about Ndigbo being killed trying to escape on foot.

The ranting from non-Igbo commentators about the massacre of Ndigbo by Boko Haram was so loud and clear that I even posited if Ndigbo were so massacred as the ninnies would want us to believe why Igbo land has not been filled with Igbo corpses from the northern region of Nigeria.

In fact, I am not surprised the same loudmouthed intellectual midgets are still here but this time to start another plank of irresponsible accusation.
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belabela:
bashr8

If your story is true then why do Igbos complain that Nigerian army killed many of them? You now tell us that Biafra committed more crimes than Nigeria yet it's Biafra that continues to complain of being killed by Nigeria.

You also said Biafra killed "hundred of thousands soldiers" Are you serious? How many were in the Nigerian army during the war? Are you saying Nigeria had more soldiers then than now?

While the civil war would always remain a history it is important to say it as it is.

The Igbos are not as courageous as you now claim today. The fact remains that the civil war was a power struggle within the Nigerian army. Those who died in the process were just victims of power struggle. Nigeria soldiers in eastern Nigeria under the command of the governor Col Ojukwu had to fight for Biafra and if you care to know some of them were from western and northern Nigeria. Just as you have some soldiers of eastern Nigeria origin fighting on the Nigerian side

When I see bloody civilians spilling e-threats on nairaland I just laugh because if there would be a war the army must be divided. It's only when soldiers make sure complains of tribalism or ethnic prejudices that you know problem is around the corner.

You displayed unbelievable and ridiculous ignorance with the above post.
Unequivocally, Nigeria has more soldiers during the war than it has today. The statement that “Biafra killed "hundred of thousands soldiers" is a mere exaggeration of the fact allowed storytellers.

Nigeria’s misfortune should be blamed on any idio.t that fought Nigeria/Biafra war to keep Nigeria as one entity.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=855343.msg10053086#msg10053086 date=1327587456]The Biafra agenda itself is a fraud initiated by the grand theft master oju-iku who wanted his major ethnic group in the old eastern region to dominate the Ijaws and other smaller groups who own the oil.Biafra is an ibo agenda,oju-iku made money from it alone but now that he is dead,the ibo from Israel are in for a long battle with Nigerian ibos.abi which one be Zionist again ?[/quote]Only the lazy dimwits talk about the ownership of crude oil when meaningful issue of disintegration of Nigeria shows up in debate. Most economically healthy nations do not have a gallon of crude oil. Ndigbo will give off the oil wells in Igbo land for sovereign entity, agabya oloshi.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=854903.msg10045411#msg10045411 date=1327503236]First,  

. . . .they postponed Ojukwu burial from Feb 3rd to an uknown future date so there will be no conflict with attendance at this event, and now this event is also postponed. . . ?   Ezioku?  

 

. . .ooh!!  Then why the hullaballoo


At a time when boko has its tentacles out there fishing for trouble and upset at western education principles, you want representatives of western education ideologies to come to Nigeria for a conference in which the honoree himself has stayed away for self-preservation.  Really??  

Its a waste to pump money, oil money for that matter, and support into a conference in which the only people in attendance will be Uwazuruike and his MASSOB folks, and then they turn literary conference into Biafran rally,  . . . Kwenu![/quote]It is good to know you keep sleepless night because of Biafra. I hope you get afflicted with hypertension due to this silly endeavor.

Aigbofa:
LOL

I stand to be corrected. Biafra was finished militarily ( as a fighting force ) within a year.

You are funny as hell. However, correction you shall get in large dosage. I do not believe the period from 1967 to 1969 sums a year.

I remembered vividly in 1969 at Owerri and Oguta sectors where Biafran forces did serious numbers on 3MCDO.

Nigerian armed forces of 16, 15, 17, and 13 brigades were rendered useless by Biafran forces within a year.

Aigbofa:
So, I have to be in Berlin to known Germany was defeated in the second world war?

What a bonehead analogy. Nobody was in doubt about the defeat of Biafra. So you do not need to leave in Biafra to comprehend such fact. However, a statement born out of stupidity that Biafra was done within a year of the war was daft at best.

[quote author=Sam_Ikenna link=topic=855268.msg10049026#msg10049026 date=1327537348]Dede1 my brother we all are in trouble and therefore any solution now is better than nothing. No region in Nigeria is currently ready for all-out war of separation for reasons you and I know and to that extent I would be willing to accept any idea that would bring this Nigerian carnage to a quick halt. We've already lost 50 yrs in this wilderness and to waste even a second more is unacceptable.[/quote]Mazi Sam_Ikenna I understand your sentiment but I had rather take the fight of nationhood to the battle field than settle in conference room when the agenda had to be set by trolls who already insinuate that Muslim northerners are marginalized after ruling Nigeria for more than 40 years of its 52 years existence as a country.

Aigbofa:
This is not true, Biafra was done militarily within a year. You know the rest of the story.

You had claimed never to set feet in Biafra. A person wonders how you arrived at such empty conclusion that Biafra was done within a year.

Aigbofa:
What external protection? Who is talking about external protection? Am talking about leveraging American technology to take out the bad guys you are talking of protection. Boko Haram is not like a country you can just invade, and the Americans have the type of weapons tailor made for the type of war the Boko people are waging. All am saying is they don't even have to come to Nigeria, just give us the hellfire missiles.

This post aptly validated what was written in the post titled “You Lazy (intellectual) African Scum!” Have you glanced through the aforementioned post? If not, please endeavor to do so rather quickly. I guess Nigeria has schools of university level and a person wonders why Nigeria has such schools.
If you can not manufacture a version of hellfire in Nigeria as a sovereign nation, please allow Boko Haram to see an end the cesspit called Nigeria.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=854342.msg10048384#msg10048384 date=1327528588]kai Mallam Dede1!

You have to remember that without the help of foreign friends among other strategies, biafran troops would have lasted longer during the civil war. I submit to you that we are at war and any help to defeat the enemy should be more than welcomed.[/quote]Mazi ndu_chucks

You can spin this issue 360 degrees to suit your misplaced fancy, Biafra was capable of kicking Nigeria’s backside without help from its foreign friends if no similar help went to Nigeria. Granted Nigeria is a whimpering junk that can not subdue a unit of armed Boy’s Scout, Biafra was no Boko Haram which consisted of religious rascals.

@POST

This article is good as plain sheet of paper except for the goofier stuff such as “The U.S. must call time-out and bring a diverse array of Nigeria's leaders -- including the marginalized Muslim northerners and the militant evangelical Christians of the oil-rich south -- to a meeting room.”

Mere insinuation Muslim northerners are marginalized in Nigeria left me with no doubt British still think Nigeria is an object of 1940. I wondered aloud why author of the article should inject the instances of USA inviting Nigerians to a conference instead of Russia. There is no doubt blood of colonialist runs in writer’s veins.

I hope misguided bunch in southerner Nigeria had opportunity to peruse this article.

I had rather have Nigeria divided into nation states than see American troops in the country. It is funny that liver-hearted punks who claim nationality of Nigeria are already yarning for external protection from USA.

ocelot2006: @ Dede 1, please count the SS out of that pipe dream called Biafra or whatever.

I usually do not respond to posts initiated by idiotic troll who is very mush ashamed of his or her ethnicity such as you.

In my previous post which seemed to have twisted you out of human form did not reference SS in the sentence with Biafra. I do not recognize the crap known as SS. Rather I had reiterated the need to create Republic of Igbo land or Biafra mainly consisting Igbo and few other ethnic groups with expressed interested in forming alliance with Igbo such as Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni, Ijo (Okirirka and Kalabari) and Idoma of Benue State.

Again if Nigeria should disintegrate today, I have no interest in claiming the same nationality with northern region of Nigeria and southern region except former eastern region, Igbo in Delta State and Idoma in Benue State.

You should have been on the right track if you have hinted my pipe dream is Republic of Igbo land. Believe me; Republic of Igbo land would not lack anything of interest.

This silly appointment of MD Abubakar as acting IGP of Nigeria because of his geopolitical block in Nigeria by GEJ is one of the reasons I had adamantly called for disintegration of Nigeria. Merits and quality of service or performance are no longer the yardsticks to determine promotion in Nigeria.

The aforementioned acting IGP had been recommended for dismissal from Nigerian police by a legally constituted body due to incompetence. It must be recalled that MD Abubakar, along with notorious Zakari Biu , had been allegedly implicated in the covering of brutal killing of Dr Omoshola by car bomb. The so-called Acting IGP, after all, could be the fellow who taught Boko Haram members the means of preparing and detonating car bomb.

If the so-called and famed Nigerian armed forces and police can not provide ordinary security to the citizenry of the country, there is no need to support existence of Nigeria as a country period.

Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno is spot on this issue. Those who have leveled scintillating criticisms on the stance of the Borno elder statesmen should be ashamed of themselves for an attempt to invite the colonialists back to Nigeria. Again, I say shame onto critics of Monguno for embracing neo-colonialism idiotically.

@OP

You can not create a leopard out of a goat. Most Nigerians are steely funny. What the hell do you think Nigeria is? Nigeria is a practical joke. I had wished it does not exist.

buy4me:
You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!
Posted on January 18, 2012 | 503 Comments
So I got this in my email this morning…



They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished. In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa is the trailblazer. Some still call it “the dark continent” for the light that flickers under the tunnel is not that of hope, but an approaching train. And because countless keep waiting in the way of the train, millions die and many more remain decapitated by the day.

“It’s amazing how you all sit there and watch yourselves die,” the man next to me said. “Get up and do something about it.”

Brawny, fully bald-headed, with intense, steely eyes, he was as cold as they come. When I first discovered I was going to spend my New Year’s Eve next to him on a non-stop JetBlue flight from Los Angeles to Boston I was angst-ridden. I associate marble-shaven Caucasians with iconoclastic skin-heads, most of who are racist.

“My name is Walter,” he extended his hand as soon as I settled in my seat.

I told him mine with a precautious smile.

“Where are you from?” he asked.

“Zambia.”

“Zambia!” he exclaimed, “Kaunda’s country.”

“Yes,” I said, “Now Sata’s.”

“But of course,” he responded. “You just elected King Cobra as your president.”

My face lit up at the mention of Sata’s moniker. Walter smiled, and in those cold eyes I saw an amenable fellow, one of those American highbrows who shuttle between Africa and the U.S.

“I spent three years in Zambia in the 1980s,” he continued. “I wined and dined with Luke Mwananshiku, Willa Mungomba, Dr. Siteke Mwale, and many other highly intelligent Zambians.” He lowered his voice. “I was part of the IMF group that came to rip you guys off.” He smirked. “Your government put me in a million dollar mansion overlooking a shanty called Kalingalinga. From my patio I saw it all—the rich and the poor, the ailing, the dead, and the healthy.”

“Are you still with the IMF?” I asked.

“I have since moved to yet another group with similar intentions. In the next few months my colleagues and I will be in Lusaka to hypnotize the cobra. I work for the broker that has acquired a chunk of your debt. Your government owes not the World Bank, but us millions of dollars. We’ll be in Lusaka to offer your president a couple of millions and fly back with a check twenty times greater.”

“No, you won’t,” I said. “King Cobra is incorruptible. He is …”

He was laughing. “Says who? Give me an African president, just one, who has not fallen for the carrot and stick.”

Quett Masire’s name popped up.

“Oh, him, well, we never got to him because he turned down the IMF and the World Bank. It was perhaps the smartest thing for him to do.”

At midnight we were airborne. The captain wished us a happy 2012 and urged us to watch the fireworks across Los Angeles.

“Isn’t that beautiful,” Walter said looking down.

From my middle seat, I took a glance and nodded admirably.

“That’s white man’s country,” he said. “We came here on Mayflower and turned Indian land into a paradise and now the most powerful nation on earth. We discovered the bulb, and built this aircraft to fly us to pleasure resorts like Lake Zambia.”

I grinned. “There is no Lake Zambia.”

He curled his lips into a smug smile. “That’s what we call your country. You guys are as stagnant as the water in the lake. We come in with our large boats and fish your minerals and your wildlife and leave morsels—crumbs. That’s your staple food, crumbs. That corn-meal you eat, that’s crumbs, the small Tilapia fish you call Kapenta is crumbs. We the Bwanas (whites) take the cat fish. I am the Bwana and you are the Muntu. I get what I want and you get what you deserve, crumbs. That’s what lazy people get—Zambians, Africans, the entire Third World.”

The smile vanished from my face.

“I see you are getting pissed off,” Walter said and lowered his voice. “You are thinking this Bwana is a racist. That’s how most Zambians respond when I tell them the truth. They go ballistic. Okay. Let’s for a moment put our skin pigmentations, this black and white crap, aside. Tell me, my friend, what is the difference between you and me?”

“There’s no difference.”

“Absolutely none,” he exclaimed. “Scientists in the Human Genome Project have proved that. It took them thirteen years to determine the complete sequence of the three billion DNA subunits. After they

were all done it was clear that 99.9% nucleotide bases were exactly the same in you and me. We are the same people. All white, Asian, Latino, and black people on this aircraft are the same.”

I gladly nodded.

“And yet I feel superior,” he smiled fatalistically. “Every white person on this plane feels superior to a black person. The white guy who picks up garbage, the homeless white trash on drugs, feels superior to you no matter his status or education. I can pick up a nincompoop from the New York streets, clean him up, and take him to Lusaka and you all be crowding around him chanting muzungu, muzungu and yet he’s a riffraff. Tell me why my angry friend.”

For a moment I was wordless.

“Please don’t blame it on slavery like the African Americans do, or colonialism, or some psychological impact or some kind of stigmatization. And don’t give me the brainwash poppycock. Give me a better answer.”

I was thinking.

He continued. “Excuse what I am about to say. Please do not take offense.”

I felt a slap of blood rush to my head and prepared for the worst.

“You my friend flying with me and all your kind are lazy,” he said. “When you rest your head on the pillow you don’t dream big. You and other so-called African intellectuals are damn lazy, each one of you. It is you, and not those poor starving people, who is the reason Africa is in such a deplorable state.”

“That’s not a nice thing to say,” I protested.

He was implacable. “Oh yes it is and I will say it again, you are lazy. Poor and uneducated Africans are the most hardworking people on earth. I saw them in the Lusaka markets and on the street selling merchandise. I saw them in villages toiling away. I saw women on Kafue Road crushing stones for sell and I wept. I said to myself where are the Zambian intellectuals? Are the Zambian engineers so imperceptive they cannot invent a simple stone crusher, or a simple water filter to purify well water for those poor villagers? Are you telling me that after thirty-seven years of independence your university school of engineering has not produced a scientist or an engineer who can make simple small machines for mass use? What is the school there for?”

I held my breath.

“Do you know where I found your intellectuals? They were in bars quaffing. They were at the Lusaka Golf Club, Lusaka Central Club, Lusaka Playhouse, and Lusaka Flying Club. I saw with my own eyes a bunch of alcoholic graduates. Zambian intellectuals work from eight to five and spend the evening drinking. We don’t. We reserve the evening for brainstorming.”

He looked me in the eye.

“And you flying to Boston and all of you Zambians in the Diaspora are just as lazy and apathetic to your country. You don’t care about your country and yet your very own parents, brothers and sisters are in Mtendere, Chawama, and in villages, all of them living in squalor. Many have died or are dying of neglect by you. They are dying of AIDS because you cannot come up with your own cure. You are here calling yourselves graduates, researchers and scientists and are fast at articulating your credentials once asked—oh, I have a PhD in this and that—PhD my foot!”

I was deflated.

“Wake up you all!” he exclaimed, attracting the attention of nearby passengers. “You should be busy lifting ideas, formulae, recipes, and diagrams from American manufacturing factories and sending them to your own factories. All those research findings and dissertation papers you compile should be your country’s treasure. Why do you think the Asians are a force to reckon with? They stole our ideas and turned them into their own. Look at Japan, China, India, just look at them.”

He paused. “The Bwana has spoken,” he said and grinned. “As long as you are dependent on my plane, I shall feel superior and you my friend shall remain inferior, how about that? The Chinese, Japanese, Indians, even Latinos are a notch better. You Africans are at the bottom of the totem pole.”

He tempered his voice. “Get over this white skin syndrome and begin to feel confident. Become innovative and make your own stuff for god’s sake.”

At 8 a.m. the plane touched down at Boston’s Logan International Airport. Walter reached for my hand.

“I know I was too strong, but I don’t give it a damn. I have been to Zambia and have seen too much poverty.” He pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled something. “Here, read this. It was written by a friend.”

He had written only the title: “Lords of Poverty.”

Thunderstruck, I had a sinking feeling. I watched Walter walk through the airport doors to a waiting car. He had left a huge dust devil twirling in my mind, stirring up sad memories of home. I could see Zambia’s literati—the cognoscente, intelligentsia, academics, highbrows, and scholars in the places he had mentioned guzzling and talking irrelevancies. I remembered some who have since passed—how they got the highest grades in mathematics and the sciences and attained the highest education on the planet. They had been to Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), only to leave us with not a single invention or discovery. I knew some by name and drunk with them at the Lusaka Playhouse and Central Sports.

Walter is right. It is true that since independence we have failed to nurture creativity and collective orientations. We as a nation lack a workhorse mentality and behave like 13 million civil servants dependent on a government pay cheque. We believe that development is generated 8-to-5 behind a desk wearing a tie with our degrees hanging on the wall. Such a working environment does not offer the opportunity for fellowship, the excitement of competition, and the spectacle of innovative rituals.

But the intelligentsia is not solely, or even mainly, to blame. The larger failure is due to political circumstances over which they have had little control. The past governments failed to create an environment of possibility that fosters camaraderie, rewards innovative ideas and encourages resilience. KK, Chiluba, Mwanawasa, and Banda embraced orthodox ideas and therefore failed to offer many opportunities for drawing outside the line.

I believe King Cobra’s reset has been cast in the same faculties as those of his predecessors. If today I told him that we can build our own car, he would throw me out.

“Naupena? Fuma apa.” (Are you mad? Get out of here)

Knowing well that King Cobra will not embody innovation at Walter’s level let’s begin to look for a technologically active-positive leader who can succeed him after a term or two. That way we can make our own stone crushers, water filters, water pumps, razor blades, and harvesters. Let’s dream big and make tractors, cars, and planes, or, like Walter said, forever remain inferior.

A fundamental transformation of our country from what is essentially non-innovative to a strategic superior African country requires a bold risk-taking educated leader with a triumphalist attitude and we have one in YOU. Don’t be highly strung and feel insulted by Walter. Take a moment and think about our country. Our journey from 1964 has been marked by tears. It has been an emotionally overwhelming experience. Each one of us has lost a loved one to poverty, hunger, and disease. The number of graves is catching up with the population. It’s time to change our political culture. It’s time for Zambian intellectuals to cultivate an active-positive progressive movement that will change our lives forever. Don’t be afraid or dispirited, rise to the challenge and salvage the remaining few of your beloved ones.

Field Ruwe is a US-based Zambian media practitioner and author. He is a PhD candidate with a B.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism, and an M.A. in History.

I can reiterate the above post is a perfect food for thought. The load of laziness aptly referenced in this post was inherently afflicted on Africans through the machination known as colonialism. Biafra tried to break the yoke of the referenced pathetic load of laziness in this write-up but certain European powers encouraged the sluggishly slothful and languorous group of Nigerians to resist it. Biafra would have been the trailblazer Africa lacked.

When some African leaders talk about building schools, as Gov. Okorocha would orchestrate in Imo State, I had always tempted to ask why should Imo State need additional schools when existing ones can not produce employable and productive candidates. It will be a stretch of the fact to write about invention and Nigerian schools in the same sentence.

[quote author=nud_chucks]This piece by Wole Soyinka is nothing but a bunch of crappy common knowledge. The man has added nothing tangible to the problem at hand. In an expression of intellectual cowardice, he avoided mentioning any viable solution to the problem at hand, rendering his article a bunch of crap. He concluded, "Only one choice remains: to ride, or else reap, the whirlwind." What da heck does that mean? ride ko, sour like a bird ni.



The answers to the questions you posed are why Nigeria can never split peacefully. Note that no one is willing to go to war for separation because the human costs will be unbearable. The government will kill 5,000 of you people rather than go to war and risk losing millions.[/quote]Of course, Biafra's experience has set peaceful disintegration of Nigeria unreachable. This is not because of unbearable humans cost as you have adduced but actions of certain people during the Nigeria/Biafra civil war.

There is no doubt in my mind if Nigeria will split contestably but when.