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Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:55am On Nov 19, 2015 |
eltemur1: Needless opinion, whether it is a fruitless one or not, real change will come, either Nigeria gets restructured for good, or total dissolution. So you can test the dividends of good governance that takes care of grassroot development, instead of "News Time" developmental projects that the funds get embezzled half way through. |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:49am On Nov 19, 2015 |
miqos02: No the guy is saying the truth, must our all and all be "2x2" shops and maybe hit it big, gbaa China, Hong kong, Taiwan, tuo Malay. We have other dreams, nothing is working, other people get chances to work at multinationals, government agencies, easterners are confined with buying and selling and our whole life just depends on it. The truth has to be told, buying and selling is good all the same, but not everyone has that dream, for how long are we gonna always take care of things ourselves, fix our roads, build community schools, fix our own poles, fix wires, buy transformer, pay Power company to fix it, work our ars.es off and send our kids to highest level of education. It seems like as if you know you can't aspire for other things if you an Easterner, Nigeria has failed us. She has, it it time to shift back a little, go thru other route of self-governance to see if we can realize our full potentials. We do everything ourselves, while others get help from government, and at the end of the day, instead of giving praise and accolades when do, we receive hate and scorn, jests, more jests and more insulting speech to our people. It is well. 5 Likes |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:33am On Nov 19, 2015 |
sukkot: Like Aregbe and that one from Ondo, right? 7 Likes 1 Share
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Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:32am On Nov 19, 2015 |
DgreatObserver: Where this one come out from? Wetin this one dey talk sef? 4 Likes
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Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:28am On Nov 19, 2015 |
sochima1989: Have you gone thru my profile? I was even on the street yesterday, I post videos and photos whenever I go out to protest with others. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:13am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Lalastic-lala, I see you peeping, this is worthy of FP, right? Edited: Done. 8 Likes |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 10:12am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Baboo13: I did, but it is very demeaning, to put IPOB (agitating for a worldwide recognized legitimate course) AND a group of ragtag madmen (murdering their people and bombing the whole place back to stone age). 103 Likes 6 Shares |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 9:59am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Baboo13: Oga, do not compare us with Boko Haram, i take Chukwu Okike Abiama beg you. 125 Likes 6 Shares |
Politics / Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 9:54am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Come see oh, we going international! I can see alot of "Shildren hof ate" saying we are wasting our time. In Biafraland, we say in the Igbo-speaking part "Onye Kwe Chi Ya Ekwe", which when translated to English means "If you accept/agree, your god also accepts". We are not wasting our time, remember the line that says "Vox populi", right? Biafra on my mind 107 Likes 7 Shares |
Politics / Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by EasternLion: 9:49am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Pro-Biafra supporters hold a poster of jailed activist Nnamdi Kanu during a protest in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, calling for his release on November 18, 2015 ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) Thousands of protesters took to the streets in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday to demand the release of an activist who operated an illegal radio station calling for a separate state of Biafra. The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation. A previous unilateral declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967 led to a brutal civil war that left more than one million dead in nearly three years of fighting. In Aba, the commercial hub of Abia state, some 2,000 people carried placards with slogans such as "Biafra or death" and waved the Biafran flag -- a golden rising sun on red, black and green. Others wore t-shirts and caps with the image of Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) pressure group. Some sang freedom songs and carried the outlawed Biafran pound currency. "Getting our leader out of detention is our immediate concern but ultimately we want to be free from Nigeria," IPOB's Abia coordinator, Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, told the crowds. "We are tired of this forced marriage imposed on us in 1914 by the British colonial authorities. We don't want anything to do with Nigeria again because we have not benefited from Nigeria." - Criminal conspiracy - Radio Biafra was taken off air in July this year after the government accused it of being a "seditious pirate radio station" which broadcast "unsavoury hate messages". Kanu was arrested last month and charged with criminal conspiracy, membership of an unlawful society and criminal intimidation. A judge in Abuja on Wednesday ordered Nigeria's secret police to produce him in court next Monday. Tension has been building since Kanu's detention, culminating in demonstrations in major southeastern cities and fears of a crackdown against protesters. In Port Harcourt last week, police fired shots in the air and teargas to disperse hundreds of pro-Biafra supporters. The Aba demonstration came after a planned blockade of the Niger Bridge on Tuesday was cancelled because of warnings from security personnel. The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) The bridge crossing the River Niger which links the southeast with the rest of Nigeria was the de facto border during the civil war. Pro-Biafran sentiment has persisted among the dominant Igbo people in southeast Nigeria because of perceptions they have been punished for breaking away. But the man who led Biafra during the civil war, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, warned against a second bid for secession in an interview before his death in 2012. Nigeria's military ruler at the time of the civil war, Yakubu Gowon, last month said he recognised people's right to protest but the concept of Biafra was "finished". "I don't think it (the increased pro-Biafran sentiment) is any threat," he told Nigeria's Channels television on October 23. "If there is anything of this sort, anywhere in any part of the country, just like the problem of Boko Haram, we, Nigeria, should deal with it in a mature way." - 'No going back' - On the streets, however, there was defiance. IPOB member Jude Chukwu Akiaba tore apart the green and white Nigerian tricolour, calling the country "dead and buried". "The Nigerian government has neglected the Igbos for long," the group's women's leader, Uzor Amaka, told AFP. "There are no social amenities like roads, electricity, hospitals and jobs in the east. "Our people are still being made to suffer for the civil war. So, it is better to call it quits with Nigeria and put our destiny in our hands." Osmond Lekwauwa said he was ready to die for the cause. "What's the point of belonging to a nation where you cannot have basic necessities like good roads, water, electricity and jobs?" he asked. "I left school (university) six years ago and have not been able to secure a paid employment. I have been doing menial jobs to survive. At 32, I cannot even raise a family. "I will rather die being a Biafran than to remain in Nigeria," he said, urging local political leaders to back their campaign. "There is no going back on the struggle," he added. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3323962/Thousands-protest-Nigeria-pro-Biafra-detainee-independence.html 41 Likes 5 Shares |
Politics / Re: Video : Happening Now!! Massive Protest In Aba by EasternLion: 4:48pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Video : Happening Now!! Massive Protest In Aba by EasternLion: 4:44pm On Nov 18, 2015 |
ok. 1 Like
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Politics / Re: Biafra Protest To Hit Calabar by EasternLion: 10:42am On Nov 17, 2015 |
aristodavid: Rescheduled due to logistics. The CoC released the statement yesterday evening. |
Politics / Re: Why The Fight For Biafra Has Come At A Very Wrong Time by EasternLion: 1:48am On Nov 16, 2015 |
Curlieweed: 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Biafra Protest To Hit Calabar by EasternLion: 1:14am On Nov 16, 2015 |
This will basically put "We SS" squad into frenzy mode. 7 Likes |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 11:12am On Nov 15, 2015 |
HopeAtHand: U don't need to support Biafra before you say the truth. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Why I Pray For France And Not Nigeria. by EasternLion: 10:36am On Nov 15, 2015 |
ArodeTsolaye: Fatality 6 Likes |
Politics / Re: Jonathan And The Increasing Call For Biafra by EasternLion: 10:28am On Nov 15, 2015 |
Just as we have started pulling the required diplomatic strings, Biafra will come sooner than many thought, who doesn't want to belong can step aside. No shit, and the agitation didn't start with Jonathan. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 10:26am On Nov 15, 2015 |
AZeD1: Hahahah you don't know who owns Nigeria, boy, you don't and hey, this isn't about Biafra. STFU! 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 10:13am On Nov 15, 2015 |
HopeAtHand: Well, that's the first thing a Port Harcourt regional govt will make sure works. If that works, economic boom will be unprecedented. I just weep for my brothers and Nigeria in general, there are wickedness in high places, and devilish deals emasculated using monopolistic powers and agendas. We are just voyagers in the "One Nigeria Project", some other people own it. It is well |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 10:09am On Nov 15, 2015 |
attacker231: Iseee! Nwa Chineke, but change ur ways, you curse too much bruhh Easy! |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 10:07am On Nov 15, 2015 |
Wonder if all these have been done. Owners of Nigeria are enjoying. either you climb up there and take your own share for you and your family, or you fight dirty to change the devilish status-quo for your children and other people's children's future to be secured. if not, am sorry, in the next 10 years, we will still be discussing why Warri, Ph and Calabar Seaports aren't working. We will be asking questions why Onitsha and Ibaka deap seaports aren't making head way. Badagry and Lekki seaports are already being constructed! [size=18pt]OWNERS OF NIGERIA[/size] |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 10:02am On Nov 15, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Job losses. Non-utilization of Calabar and Warri ports.. [/size] |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:59am On Nov 15, 2015 |
Monopoly, corruption, impunity, everything. Atiku was GM of Nicotes. Smooth operator |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:58am On Nov 15, 2015 |
attacker231: We aren't protesting because it is Buhari, we are protesting because he is unlawfully holding our leader even after being fulfilling his bail termsn under a competent court of justice. For core Biafrans like me, I never voted, and hundreds of thousands of us who heeded to the advice on Radio Biafra boycotted the elections, during the election time, the popular phrase u will hear over here is "Boycott the election". I didn't vote, never liked GEJ, do not like Buhari, hate Nigerian politics... Buhari should just do his things, release our leader and preside over Nigeria as we pursue on our quest to extricate our land from Nigeria. By the Buhari didn't spend up to a week in office and make Radio Biafra more popular than it is, hey not my fault. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:47am On Nov 15, 2015 |
From Nicotes to Intels.. All Politics. Abacha dealt with some people and made some. Owners of Nigeria |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:46am On Nov 15, 2015 |
Monopoly and Politics |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:44am On Nov 15, 2015 |
EasternLion: Outsiders with political influence.. Meanwhile the economies of Warri and Calabar stay floating. Nigeria is an interesting place |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:43am On Nov 15, 2015 |
attacker231: We not blaming Yoruba here though, and again, majority of our people doesn't like docile attitude anyways, only that we just don't fancy Buhari and his antics. Sorry about that, I don't like politics in Nigeria, it is never helping anyone except the ones who are at the top. |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:41am On Nov 15, 2015 |
[size=18pt]Important to note that the decision to use Calabar/Warri Seaports is not being made by SS people. It is being made by "outsiders".[/size] |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:37am On Nov 15, 2015 |
CHM11: Well, the people who aren't landlocked gradually sold their rights off to others, in order to spite their immediate neighbours i laugh. |
Politics / Re: Exposé: Intel's Secret Documents Why SS Seaports Will Never Be In Use [must Read by EasternLion: 9:35am On Nov 15, 2015 |
attacker231: Well 'yeebhoes' were silent, but Igbos weren't silent, which is why we cried to GEJ to revive the seaports and also dredge Niger river at Onitsha for small ships to berth there. hmmm, nawa oh |
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