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Business and economic activities were literally shut down as Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members protested in Aba, Abia State, on Monday.

The protest caused vehicles to move slow pace.

Details later…

http://thenationonlineng.net/pro-biafra-protest-ground-aba/

I joined another protest today, it was like the whole city came out.

The whole banks shut down, govt offices, all shops and market all locked.

The police and soldiers, it was as if they know Aba no dey fear them again, the boys that used to stay in Colombia street in Aba, were all with us, we were fearless.

We were in Brass when Okezie and his entourage of Military men passed, we kept of singing, playing drums and blowing our vuvuzela flutes (I will the picture of mine in the morning)

We marched from Flyover to Uratta, then the groups divided into 3.
Group A marched to Ogborhill, Group B took Ariaria axis
Group C were made up of thousands of young boys and girls, these ones ensured no shop of office was left open, be you who, they went to all markets and notable business centers and anybody seen flouting the order was forcefully made to close down business.

There were many buses with us, motorcycles and keke with us were massive, we marched all the major nooks and crannies of Aba.

We were blowing our flutes, some news agencies followed us for a while, then went off.


Today was massive, and I hope Owerri replicate theirs tomorrow.


On a side note, I didn't take pictures or videos unlike the first day. But I personally went to the major banks in Aba and snapped their gates, all locked, and people were outside, one of the banks in St. Michael had its staff playing football on the street.

I will post it tomorrow.

Coolabbie:
Fierce protest here?
I trust my governor to nip dat nonsense in the bud.
Unlike the south west, we dont value you people here.

hahaha, and what of thousands of Akwa Ibomites in Aba for example that carry am for head, guy u be nobody oga, u can't be an issue to love between us and mmong people.

Coolabbie:
As long as this nonsense does not reach Akwa Ibom or Cross river, nothing concern me.
And as for those bastàrds above continously trying to lump our state into their fraudulent stupîdity, una no go die beta.

IPOB family in Akwa Ibom are making preparations.

More fierce protest dey come.

Keep that in mind.

asha80:
hope you guys do not make ikpeazu angry

Why?

Ekafine, deal


You know Director Love Akwa/Cross people so much.


He even said if he can CE to this earth again, he will rather be an Ibibio person.


Me I love una so much too, my babe na from Uyo

Her family supports Biafra too, and that is just fine for me.

simplycarro:
Well done guys. Continue. Shut the whole of the SE down, no school, no market, no hospital, no bank. Everyone remains indoors till next year.
Bunch of fools.

Blah blah blah.

DaBullIT:
Economy wey no dey, una still dey shutdown every way wey money go use enter


Na you do you

Well Baba, e no be ur state, shebi na una say Igbo man can't leave his business..
For 2 days Onitsha traded minimally because of or struggle.

Aba closed down in entirety today.


We are united in our struggle, of cus if you fail to, you will be termed "Anti-Biafran".
And seriously, no one wants to be seen as such.

lygn19:
the way u guys think at times marvels me...
are u sure most of u are educated?
The ignorance u guys display scares me.

You can't be more educated than I am, if we are to list it by certificates and degrees.

We really want to push the fat buffoons at the state houses to go and tell Buhari our message, that's why they are there, to intercede on the on the center on behalf of the state electorates.

ELTON123:
IPOB is hear!!! we no de talk wetin we no fit do.

Just as Biafra is trending again on twitter, we told them, they will be forced totalk about us.




Guess what?


They are.

Lol, no cry again.

We will have mercy tomorrow,
All schools in main Aba metropolis are shut down, same as markets.


The will of the people.

chinedu1nig:
i play pity to this biafra miscreants, some set of disdained fellow who are yet to appreciate their local value... they better don't pray for what will befall them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz4XHCgrok

For the sake of non idiots demanding proof. Pls watch esp.1:04 - 1:11 PMB > Kanu in Evil

Holding a spear up in Minna, before 2011 general elections, Buhari incited his followers into violence by saying

"Anybody who stops you, kill them.....anybody who stops you, kill them" - Muhammadu Buhari (CPC Presidential Campaign, Minna, 2011)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz4XHCgrok

speedyGonzales:
yah! the Niger Deltans suffer, white people and fellow Nigerian exploit them... yet, everyone taunts them with one Nigeria! One Nigeria indeed!

Very sad, but "our oyel" no dey gree dem reason and work with like minds.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2010/4/19/1271689282212/Oil-spill-in-Oloibiri-Tow-001.jpg?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=df18e083df0982a3c84e4c3d65081d34

Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1bn to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report.

The UN Environment Programme (Unep) has announced that Shell and other oil firms systematically contaminated a 1,000 sq km (386 sq mile) area of Ogoniland, in the Niger delta, with disastrous consequences for human health and wildlife.

Nigerians had "paid a high price" for the economic growth brought by the oil industry, said Unep's executive director.

A leaked summary of Unep's Ogoniland study, the first large-scale scientific study of pollution in the area, has been seen by the Guardian. It calls for a clean-up fund of $1bn (£614m) for spills in Ogoniland, and says it will take 25-30 years to restore the environment. Much of the funding for the clean-up is expected to come from the oil companies.

The three-year investigation found:

• Heavy contamination of land and underground water courses, sometimes more than 40 years after oil was spilled.

• Community drinking water with dangerous concentrations of benzene and other pollutants.

• Soil contamination more than five metres deep in many areas studied.

• Most of the spill sites oil firms claimed to have cleaned still highly contaminated.

• Evidence of oil firms dumping contaminated soil in unlined pits.

• Water coated with hydrocarbons more than 1,000 times the level allowed by Nigerian drinking water standards.

• Failure by Shell and others to meet minimum Nigerian or own standards.

The study wants emergency measures taken to warn communities and to clean up drinking-water wells, and says Shell and other companies working in the delta should overhaul the way they operate.

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Achim Steiner, a UN under-secretary general and Unep's executive director, said the report provided the scientific basis for a long overdue restoration of Ogoniland. "The oil industry has been a key sector of the Nigerian economy for over 50 years but many Nigerians have paid a high price. It is Unep's hope the findings can break the decades of deadlock in the region. [The study] offers a blueprint for how the oil industry and public authorities might operate more responsibly in Africa and beyond at a time of increasing production and exploration across many parts of the continent."

Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International and director of Environment Rights Action in Nigeria, said: "The widespread pollution of Ogoniland as documented does not come as a surprise because the manifestation is physical and people have been living in that putrid situation for decades now. Now we know it will take up to 30 years to remediate the impacts, especially on the mangroves of the region." He said the pollution had decimated the livelihoods of the Ogoni people."Unep's recommendation that an environmental restoration fund for Ogoniland be set up with a take-off sum of $1bn is applauded. But we need a larger fund for the entire Niger delta."

Responding to the Unep report, Mutiu Sunmonu, the managing director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said it was a valuable aid to improving understanding of oil spills in Ogoniland. "All oil spills are bad – bad for local communities, bad for the environment, bad for Nigeria and bad for [the company]. Although we haven't produced oil in Ogoniland since 1993 we clean up all spills from our facilities, whatever the cause, and restore the land to its original state.

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"The majority of oil spills in Nigeria are caused by sabotage, theft and illegal refining. We urge the Nigerian authorities to do all they can to curb such activity, and we will continue working with our partners in Nigeria, including the government, to solve these problems and on the next steps to help clean up Ogoniland."

Environment groups and Ogonis welcomed the report but said $100bn was needed to clean up the entire delta, beyond just Ogoniland. Friends of the Earth International called on Shell to come up with an action plan with the Nigerian government to commence remediation actions immediately.

The Guardian has revealed that Shell accepted responsibility for two massive oil spills in the region that devastated a 69,000-strong community. Combined, the spills could be larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, and Shell faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.

The Unep team collected more than 4,000 samples of soil, fish and air, and investigated, in depth, 69 of the many hundreds of oil spills in Ogoniland over the past 50 years. They studied 5,000 medical records and had 260 meetings with communities.

It is expected that the report will act as a baseline study for a massive clean-up operation required by the UN.

Oil drilling in Ogoniland ceased in the 90s after Shell was ejected for widespread pollution and failing to help regional development. More than £30bn of oil has been extracted from the area but the majority of people are worse off than before the companies arrived.

"Even though oil operations have ceased in Ogoniland, oil spills continue to occur in alarming regularity. Since life expectancy in Nigeria is less than 50 years it is a fair assumption most people in Ogoniland have lived with chronic oil pollution throughout their lives," the report says. "Ogoniland has a tragic history of pollution but systematic scientific information has been absent about the ensuing contamination." Oil company records and investigations of spills in the delta are heavily disputed and politically sensitive, and the UN has been careful not to apportion blame for any particular spill.

Because Shell's subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, which works in partnership with the Nigerian government, has been the largest operator in the region, the report will be seen as an investigation of their practices. The independent report was paid for in part by Shell, and commissioned by the Nigerian government.

The UN team was clearly shocked at some of their findings. In one place, Ejama Ebubu, the study found heavy contamination from a spill that took place more than 40 years ago "despite repeated clean up attempts". In Nisisoken Ogale, in Eleme, close to a Nigerian national petroleum company pipeline, researchers found 8cm of refined oil floating on groundwater that served community wells.

"Pollution of soil is extensive, widespread and severely impacting," says the report, which will be presented to Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja on Thursday and will be released on Friday in London.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/04/niger-delta-oil-spill-clean-up-un

texazzpete:
Lol. So these 'peaceful protesters' have to go around ringing bells in ariaria market to build 'quorum'

If it's as popular a cause as you IPOB touts claim, why are we still seeing relatively small crowds?

In fact, since day 1 of these protests, none of these e-warriors here that keep wailing about 'dying for Biafra' has posted any pictures from any protest they've taken part in. With names like 'EasternLion' and 'FreedomBIAFRA', one would think they would be on ground zero!

None of these ones have come out to protest. Their own is to stay on Nairaland to abuse their betters

Foolish dolt, here is my thread, infact the video on this thread, I recorded it myself, and if you wanna prove it, I upload another one, where i specifically shouted, "Nairaland, Easternlion reporting".

https://www.nairaland.com/2720945/updated-easternlions-video-photos-biafrans

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Of course they know, that's why they can't rest .

Umu Chineke.

Who doesn't know about that tank in Kaduna?

It is one of the most kept open secret.

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Live from PH

Johnrake69:
I wish they can channel this energy into something much more reasonable like demanding for a true federalism

Ok, we are the only people to die and fight for it, while you people throw scorns and jests.


Satan do punish people too.

Franklyly:
They said Biafra only exists online and that
Nnamdi kanu is chilling off in Uk, back to back protests for 3 days now in diff cities of Biafra land, who is still doubting our resolve ?

Only Oshogbo miscreants would!

deadZONE:
One million f00ls march!!!!

Thank you sir.

Our protest have massively started in Igweocha, protesters are around Airforce base, heading to Govt house and Borikiri.

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salisy:
U fortuneteller, soothsayer, naysayer or whatever...... How do you know my mind isn't clear

I'm pro biafra, I support it and I ain't igbo and no biz whatsoever with igbos

ok.

Yorubas are drinking medicine for another man headache eeehhh


Awo took medicine meant to cure rat madness, he died 'away'

Chappie:
Goodluck.
BUT I THINK YOU GUYS SHOULD USE AN HASHTAG ON TWITTER TO FURTHER YOUR CAUSE.

Go to twitter and search for Biafra, we have taken over twitter, no be small thing.

salisy:
Good!!! This is a welcome development, intensify your crusade and struggle, we want you out of our Nigeria asap.
Advice: be peaceful in your hustles


Baba Buhari grant them Biafra, we are tired of their rants and cries

if only you will tone down your mad rants and support it with a clear mind.