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EUROBOMBER:
Big lie!!!! Yorubas cried and shouted.

@onenaira3, please provide all the evidence available.

Wetin sef, "if u too give respect for a woman with big pun.ni, na who go Bleep am kwanu?"

Oya take am

http://thestreetjournal.org/2013/03/yorubas-in-europe-decry-jonathans-marginalization-of-the-south-west/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/now-were-the-marginalised-yoruba-elders/
http://www.naij.com/334439-jonathans-attempt-to-persuade-yoruba-too-late-afenifere.html

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/tunde-fagbenle/ugly-signs-of-yoruba-marginalisation.html
http://ketekete.com/why-yoruba-will-never-support-goodluck-jonathan-in-2015/
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=145688

When they deliberately stopped Speaker, House of reps from going to SW, dem no complain, an later dem begin yan rubbish

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/tambuwal-elected-house-of-representatives-speaker/92761/
https://ogala./2011/06/06/aminu-tambuwal-elected-speaker-against-pdps-wish/

lygn19:
Leopardd and EasternLion, let's talk on private.

Still about the plan?

Futureleader1:
you shall live long my brother

and you too,

ITS name is synonomous with the declaration of independence and updates on the brutal conflict that followed, but nearly 50 years after Nigeria’s civil war, Radio Biafra is again making headlines.

The modern-day version—broadcasting online apparently from London and, many suspect, retransmitted inside Nigeria—was taken off air last week after regulators called it illegal.

President Muhammadu Buhari was also forced to issue a statement, denying the station’s claims he had criticised Igbos, one of the country’s three largest ethnic groups, in a recent BBC interview.

“The illegal broadcasts from the seditious pirate radio station… shattered the peace… with unsavoury hate messages,” the National Broadcasting Commission said last Friday.

The messages were “designed to create disunity among Nigerians and mislead young people in a deliberate act of subversion. Nigerians do not need another round of heartache and bloodshed”, it added.

The existence of the station, which was easily picked up in Nigeria’s southeast, is a reminder of the country’s bubbling ethnic tensions and the still-raw wounds of history.

Listeners said its anti-government propaganda showed the dream of a separate Biafran republic is still alive, 45 years after the end of the bloody civil war.

“Although the radio did not have good programmes lined up, its listenership was growing by the day and the government felt threatened by its popularity, especially among the youths,” said Chijioke Amadi, 32, in the southeastern city of Enugu.

‘A state of our own’

With Nigeria’s young demographic, most listeners to Radio Biafra will not even have been born when Igbo General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967.

But memories linger of the anti-Igbo pogrom in the mainly Muslim north that preceded secession and the war that followed.

When the fighting ended in 1970 with more than one million Igbos dead of disease and hunger, Nigeria’s military ruler General Yakubu Gowon declared there was “no victor or vanquished”.

But the Igbos claim they have been unfairly treated—even punished—ever since.

“Our grandfathers and fathers adopted the ideology of Biafra,” said Uchenna Madu, spokesman for the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

“We believe in their vision and we have continued to build on the foundation laid by our parents. We are being denied our fundamental rights of being Biafrans,” he told AFP.

“We love Nigeria, we want to contribute to its development but the Nigerian state is paying us back with hatred. We want a state of our own.”

One Igbo former military officer, who participated in the so-called “Igbo coup” in January 1966 and later fought for Biafra, said the sense of injustice had been passed down generations.

“The children who were born after the war ask their parents why the five states in the region are underdeveloped,” the 72-year-old said, declining to give his name.

“Their parents tell them of the pogrom and devastation that took place during the war and these children, now adults, feel bitter and demand to go their separate ways.”

‘We shall prevail’

Most “Biafra” agitators assert their region is overlooked in the provision of infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity, medical care, education, as well as senior political posts.

There was criticism recently from the southeast of Buhari’s appointments to senior military roles.

Emeka Umeagbalasi, head of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of the Law, said Igbos had been “totally excluded with impunity”.

The appointments were “undemocratic and unconstitutional,” he added, referring to a contentious constitutional provision for posts to be shared among Nigeria’s regions.

For Eze Onyekpere, director of the Centre for Social Justice pressure group, the situation demonstrated how Nigeria has failed to come to terms with its past and diversity.

“They have been swept under the carpet. These are national questions which Radio Biafra has sought to highlight,” he added.

In such a powder keg of competing ethnic and religious identities, dissent—whether on radio or via Biafra Television—can thrive.

Eleven men from a MASSOB splinter group are currently on trial charged with conspiracy to declare a breakaway republic when they stormed a state-run radio station in Enugu in June last year.

For Uchenna, the incidents show “the spirit of Biafra is alive and it cannot die”.

“We shall prevail,” he said. “We are no longer interested in Nigeria. No tribe in Nigeria has the interest of the Igbos at heart, hence our sustained campaign for our own separate republic.”

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/biafra-casts-long-shadow-over-nigeria-nearly-50-110721739.html#TG1Qg37

http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-07-22-radio-biafra-opens-old-wounds-and-casts-long-shadow-over-nigeria-nearly-50-years-on/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/biafra-casts-long-shadow-over-nigeria-nearly-50-years-on/

kolawaxxy:
supporters ignore
"DILECTOR" nnamdi Kanu's directive to
disrupt Buhari's US visit

;DI guess his supporters are too busy at US sea ports

Lol, actually the protest held, but u know, usual zoo newspaper, dem no go report, go to Radio Biafra London facebook group

You will see the videos.

Rizstar -

edit ur topic, add this

Biafra Cast Shadow Over Nigerian, Nearly Over 50 Years - Yahoo.

disumusa:
ibo boys stole my certificate and other credentials at gun point. They chase us with lady mechine, to me i hate ibos, infact i made up my mind not to travel across se regio with what ibo did to me. Ibo realy lack infomal tranin and have to single regard or respect for humanity, i was begen them to collect money and release my originals they refuse.

GO and die already, fool.

disumusa:
ibo refuse to accept defit, rather hiden under mechanical defence by calling awolowo name.


1) they refuse to understand that in any goverment three post are most mention president,finance minister, accountant general.


2) if ojuku is a serious person he will not war for 2 years and cowadly runaway he will fight till last person. We know some country that has been on war for more than 20 yrs

You are a tad-pole.
Go and Die.

Babatundetinubu:
We must kick the iboes out.....

Yah, we need more of your type sir, cone head inc.

They keep dredging up the past, refusing to let sleeping dogs lie. Until they drop these gripes, they are not likely to realise their dreams. Demonising Yorubas For example, the Igbo have this tendency to demonise the Yorubas. It is alarming when reading the Vanguard blogs today to see the animosity often expressed between Igbo and Yoruba contributors. The hatred is most unhealthy. Insults are traded with abandon. What is the point of this? For how long will the Igbo demand emotional retribution from every Yoruba for the betrayal of Awolowo? Most of the contributors were not even born when the civil- war took place more than a generation ago.

Do you see that this so called fake "oneness in diversity" and unity hasn't worked?

Good!

Biafra or death

It's in me, it's on me and that's love for BIAFRA.


Mwaah

Abiriba1stson, what's ur own take on Ala anti Biafra?

U no dey ever comment, why?

ArodewilliamsT:
are you no longer from the SS? anytime i see your username i be like lwkmdgmvjkbfdkuglvlkrhguhk!

Like this one commenting with Igbo name and spitting rubbish, until they visited his profile and found out he had scratched face.
Question is, when did Biafrans start having tribal mark?

micseyi:
Ofcourse its good to have a referendum. but I tink its a pure waste of tym. The igbos are only 18% of Nigerians. At then end, majority counts. well except if its only d igbos dat r takin part in it.

So, u will vote in a referendum meant for Biafrans?
Besides why do u guys attribute this Biafran thing to only Igbos.

Well time will tell.

lygn19:
If u guys continue with Biafra, me personally would vote dat a war is declared on Biafra, but for equity and fairness, I pray Buhari doesn't just send soldiers to invade, let d soldiers he wants to send Be igbo's against Biafra, we love our fellow igbos, so we won't attack a place and start raping our women and kids, so dat tomorrow nobody would say or cry abt genocide by anybody, we would simply mk sure we wipe out the enemies of progress then continue with Nigeria.
U guys against one Nigeria are enemies if d Igbo nation.

The soldiers Buhari will send, dem no dey bleed?
I have to let u on a secret.
There's a reason people go to IPOB meetings with cameras on.
Some powerful countries I won't name needs evidences of violation of U.N charter by zoo army for a start
Then u know mighty can also cry.

Besides, the whole army Nnamdi Kanu is funding their training, no be fight dem go fight?

You are talking genocide as if na only one people fit gather weapons, if dem kill we will, weapons can be sourced from every angle, see what is happening in Yemen, check Pro-Russia freedom fighters, Rebels in South Sudan.
ISIs and Boko haram are having heavy weapon almost at will.

TheSonOfMark:
Wrong! Igbos believe Biafra is theirs and that's why most people without Igbo ties in the South-South are reluctant to fight for the cause.

I joined the Facebook group and you all claim it as an Igbo cause.

Find out why the Ibibios stopped fighting for Biafra 6 months after the Civil War began.

Find out why MASSOB is outlawed in Uyo.

Note: I am a full-blooded Ibibio male and everyone knows this.

I never knew it was an Igbo cause only.

But why are Ibibio people in IPOB?


Well that's ur observation. Not how it is.

TheSonOfMark:
What do you mean by " Are the mods anti-Igbo?"?

So Biafra is for the Igbos alone?

Interesting revelation!

Lol, haha.
I understand what u mean, those angry dudes always tend to take anything Biafra as only Igbo affair.
U know how the "shildren hof ate" be mischievous, by attributing Biafra to only Igbos, maybe OP doesn't want them to start barking again, like dogs let out by the masters, to attack anyone who doesn't buy into their "One Nigeria" mantra.

Real Biafrans are coming out and are lending their voice, people can decide to stay in their abode and concoct what is different from reality, after all, who no go no go know.

People wey dey there know.

fulanimafia:
You know the funny thing is I love smart Igbos, some of my closest friends are Igbo, I just cannot stand the ignorant and arrogant ones.

Only Nigerians will see someone who is agitating for what they believe in and they label that person "Jobless", "foolish", "ignorant".

Then the useless govt uses the same arrogance and box themselves into a corner, where they will beg for amnesty or round table meeting.

lygn19:
LoL... I know d Biafran threads are annoying and u know, dat even in the next 100years dz country won't still break, but easy on my brothers abeg. if not I wud fight u o.

I will quote this comment again in Sovereign Biafra land.

U know deep down, monkeys and baboons will each go and answer his/her father's name.
To your tent oh Israel kinda thing.

lygn19:
Shachris, EasternLion, Cheruv, pazienza, and other well meaning igbos, whether pro biafra or against(igbos only, add me on bbm, it's on my profile, I want to show u ppl sth).
I want to show u, where Nigeria is heading to and how we d igbo's can turn things around for us.
GOWON.
Go On With One Nigeria.

U can achieve the same thing with Biafra as a sovereign nation.

Or like someone said here sometime ago, achieve it, then we will support u and see from ur end.

Else


We will stand our ground.

fulanimafia:
It sucks to be ibo.

It sucks to be Fulani cattle rearer, nomadic waka-abouts.

From a place that has only sand and flies.

That few of u are privileged to maybe live life outside normadic settings, doesn't cancel the fact that someone like u should be holding a stick commanding and shouting at a herd of cattle, drinking raw fura and blood of cattle.
What will u even gain agitating for separation,

The whole north will go on poverty over drive and settle to be mini Niger or Tchad Republic.

AshiwajuFoward:
Lol. Onyeara! Have you seen any Yoruba person even here on NL promoting the so-called Facebook group you referred to? Na una dey promote am coz of your by-force by fire attache agenda. Who knows whether no be one of una sef dey behind am.

Well I have lots of Pro-Oduduwa agitators I am following on twitter.

That u and ur fellow minions no dey talk about it, is becus u have been wired to believe in contraption called one Nigeria, creation of drunkard, named after ashawo gf

If only Sam Mbakwe continued as governor, Old IMO state would have been so developed now.

Same as Michael Okpara in Old Eastern Region.

AshiwajuFoward:
No amount of Nairaland or Facebook referendum will have any substantial impact until the SE lawmakers and elite become vocal about their support for this Biafra enterprise. I am curious as to why the SE elite are quiet about this? They can at least match Kanu's noise till they get their desired referrendum and give their dagitation some real teeth, rather making noise all over the Radio and Facebook.

Oduduwa group are meeting to demand support for Referendum, go and advice them.

Eyes, speck, log, wood.

Hypocrisy.

Oduduwa Group Launches Radio Station, Calls for Support In Secession Agenda/

https://www.nairaland.com/2469341/oduduwa-voice-radio-station

Oduduwa Group Launches Radio Station, Calls for Support In Secession Agenda/

https://www.nairaland.com/2469341/oduduwa-voice-radio-station

Oduduwa Group Launches Radio Station, Calls for Support In Secession Agenda/

https://www.nairaland.com/2469341/oduduwa-voice-radio-station

Oduduwa Group Launches Radio Station, Calls for Support In Secession Agenda/

https://www.nairaland.com/2469341/oduduwa-voice-radio-station