₦airaland Forum

Alphanancy:
Beautiful town. Fully being developed without government support. A town that boasts of over sixty seven professors.

freshkpomo:

You this boy hold your peace, I nor want enter tribal talk with Igbos because I have very good friends from there so mind your tongue. Instead of talking why no go ask questions.

FalseProphet1:
Yet we've not seen a single picture of them in custody, jail or prison.

They should keep fooling themselves, I see this country dividing before the end of this year.

This I have seen.

freshkpomo:

You even know say til date some Igbos dey part of Benin Kingdom and some huge Chunk of Benin was in your old biafran map? I don't know about the current one because I don't concern myself with it anymore. Last last I know say Nigeria Go divide one day and that's my prayer too.

HydraFeeds:
Tinubu nor be Buhari ,Jagaban track records surpassed that of Okwute by far ,you can be a dumb ass ,e nor concern me .

freshkpomo:

You even know say til date some Igbos dey part of Benin Kingdom and some huge Chunk of Benin was in your old biafran map? I don't know about the current one because I don't concern myself with it anymore. Last last I know say Nigeria Go divide one day and that's my prayer too.

khalling2008:
Maybe you forgot that Fashola in lagos deported igbo beggers to Anambra during his term as a governor of lagos

HydraFeeds:
sorry Tinubu is known for standing by his words .

He has honour and respect ,he built a party from scratch instead of looking for easy way out by jumping from one dick to another like olosho wey nor Dey shame .

Are you the emperor of dumbass ?

freshkpomo:

Small boy go and read the testament of your fellow Igbo brother up there.

HydraFeeds:
don’t be a fool . A sensible person should not bank on the word of a known liar .

NaijaReCrminals:
ATROCITIES PERPETRATED AGAINST THE IBIBIO DURING THE BIAFRAN WAR:

WRITTEN BY RAY ISONG;-

The Nigerian-Biafran War started on July 6, 1967 and ended on January 15, 1970. The former Eastern Region of Nigeria seceded from Nigeria and declared its independence on May 30, 1967, following the massacre of the Igbo people who were living in the northern parts of Nigeria.

The dominant argument in the historiography of the civil War, both within academia and the popular media, is that the Igbo were targeted for extermination by the Muslim north. Yet, not much has been reported about the atrocities perpetrated against the “minorities” in Biafra, both by the Nigerian military forces and the Biafran militias. In particular, the ibibio people.

William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra, reported an eye- witness account in which some men of Ibibio ethnic origin were beaten to death at Umuahia on April 2, 1968. These Ibibios who included old men and young men were apparently suspected of collaborating with advancing Nigerian troops. They were reportedly frog-marched across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.

In a related account, B. J. Ikpeme, a member of a minority group and retired Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern Region revealed atrocities perpetrated by Biafran soldiers against the minorities in some towns in the present-day Cross River and Akwa- Ibom States. Ikpeme argued that Ojukwu’s declaration of the Republic of Biafra had been issued against the wishes of the majority of the people of Calabar, Ogoja, and Rivers Provinces, who for many years had agitated for a separate state of their own.

According to Ikpeme, the Igbo leadership, who did not like the minority agitation, decided either to force the five million non-Igbo minorities into the new republic or eliminate them. It was on this basis, claims Ikpeme, that Biafran soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to “keep down the people, detain or even kill all who dared raise a voice in protest against the idea of Biafra.” It was during this period that the non-Igbos started experiencing different forms of inhumane treatment, ranging from torture, detention, to killing.

Ikpeme himself was detained in what he described as a “concentration camp” and was later transferred to a prison cell where he was given urine to drink when he demanded water. Ikpeme described instances where the Biafra soldiers allegedly perpetrated atrocities against some members of non-Igbo groups. In Asang town in Enyong, from where Ikpeme originated, about four hundred people were carried away to an unknown destination. Another town called Attan Onoyon in the same Enyong was burnt down with many people killed by the Biafran soldiers.

In Ikot Ekpenyong in the present day Akwa Ibom State, Biafra soldiers were said to have shot many villagers. Ikpeme also recounted that similar killings carried out by Biafra soldiers took place in places like Ikot Okpot and Idoro. He equally alleged that when the Nigerian troops landed in Calabar on October 18, 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up and shöt by Biafran soldiers. This same allegation had also been published in The New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in New York. These two accounts, given by the survivor-victim of Ikun and Dr. Ikpeme, portray similar pictures of gross atrocities but with different underlying objectives.

Viòlencé towards the minorities was not perpetrated only by the Biafran troops. Approximately 2,000 Efiks were reportedly killèd in Calabar by the federal troops. The victims were said to be returnees who revolted against the federal occupation. The killing was reported to Gowon who subsequently appointed Dr. J. B. Ikpeme as Chief Justice when the killing had nearly been completed. According to Emeka Uhuegbu, the field administrator of the United Nations mandated demining project, the minority areas of Rivers State had the highest number of landmine victims. Akwa Ibom and Imo States follow on the list.

According to a study on Nkari, an ibibio clan bordering Akwa Ibom and Abia State, in Ini LGA, the Nigerian Civil War military operation did not reach Nkari villages until late 1968. Before this period, the Nkari people only felt the effects of the war. Essential food such as salt, crayfish, sugar, bread and so on were lacking leading to starvation in the area. There was no army occupation of the Nkari clan during the early period of the war in 1967, the people only heard from news on the radio that there was a civil war going on in the country, later they experienced scarcity of goods and drugs in the market.

In late 1968, Nkari people started seeing soldiers in the community. The people, mostly men were asked to queue up for the exchange of currency, from Naira to Biafran pounds, and all men of the clan who queued up for the exercise were marched out of the community to an unknown destination.

(Inwang:2018) also added that some of the men in the queue who later escaped while they were led by the men dressed in military uniform wondered why only men were mandated and taken out of the community to exchange Nigerian currency for the Biâfrâ money. Therefore, some people escaped into the bush whenever they were out of sight of the soldiers.

Women waited for days, weeks and months and their husbands did not return. Therefore, they fled from the community leaving the entire area desolate. The study found out that they were Biâfrân soldiers hired by neighboring Igbo villages to carry out the nefarious and dastardly act, so as to evict the people from their land. Till date, Nkari people are still in land disputes with neighboring Igbo villages – Ariam/Usaka, Ntalakwu, Ibere.

Source: The Forgotten Victims: Ethnic Minorities in the Nigeria-Biâfrâ War, 1967-1970
Arua Oko Omaka; Nkari and Her Neighbours (1900 - 2000)

freshkpomo:

Here in Benin so many men started wearing skirts so they won't be forcefully recruited because the ones that were taken away never came back but instead they kept coming back to take more even up to boys the age of 12 were all taken from Benin by the Biafran soldiers. So many never came down from the ceiling, some lived the rest of their lives in the Forest and never returned home. People stopped using lights in their house at night some even stopped cooking and depended on fruits from bushes because they did not want anything to bring the attention of the Biafran soldiers to them.


The ones stationed at gelegele raped anything that can be raped including married women especially if you are not wearing long ugly gown to make you look unattractive. The day the Northern soldiers chased and killed them all there was a huge celebration, we still have the song here in Benin on how Hausa soldiers slaughtered the Igbos and set the people Free. The Hausa soldiers were seen as an hero and if not for the Fulani atrocities, many SS States actually had no problems with the northerners.


This is the reason South South will never be part of Biafra but will prefer to be a country in its own. I like Igbos Sha,but the Biafra war story cannot be twisted because multiple accounts from Benin were not really good what their soldiers did.

drlateef:
Did we not tell you MUMU people that Obi is an IPOB leader and that his campaign is a Biafra project.? Many of you who should know better by virtue of your position in society have disappointed us with your level of ignorance.

Jakpon:
Yes you are right. This sounds familiar. Reminds of how Peter Obi, when he was the Governor of Anambra State, ordered Police officers at the infamous Akwuzu SARS to shoot and kill Anambra youth, and then throw their dead bodies into the Ezu River

Saga16:
If you like say it was Kanu that killed John the Baptist.

That doesn't change the fact that Kanu's boys killed Dr. Akunyili.

HydraFeeds:
Anybody fit declare anything wey dem want like Asiwaju , but because sey person declare something nor mean sey e go happen cos grace dey different .

Like one person wey talk sey him nor go ever comot for APGA but he don defect two more times ,when such person declare sey “he must” do something,just go sleep cos failure dey such person body .

wman:
It's happening all over the western world. People are calling themselves dog mums and car mums instead of having kids.

Very weird.

Now most of these countries are having more elderly people than young people thus needing people to migrate.

Sonoyom:
These guys are a complete joke.

Just imagine what a terrorist is saying

khalling2008:
Maybe you are from the moon that don't know south East has the highest number of professional beggars in this country. Let me remind you;

1. Commissioners bemoan professional beggers in Enugu state;
https://tribuneonlineng.com/commissioner-bemoans-attitude-professional-beggars-enugu/

2. Ministry to propose street begging;
https://tribuneonlineng.com/ministry-to-propose-law-prohibiting-street-begging-in-enugu/

3. Roadside beggers crushed to death in Enugu Onitsha road;
https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2012/08/10/road-side-beggar-3-others-crushed-death-enugu-onitsha-road-mishap/%3famp=1

And many more.

LeoDeKing:
These northerners again.

President ~ SW
Vice President ~ NE
Senate President ~ SS
Speaker ~ NC or NW
SGF ~ NW or NC
Petroleum Minister ~ SS
They are ur lord and personal saviour nah...
Okpo