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The mindless slaughter of 10,000 or 100,000 innocent Christians in Nigerian by Muslim jihadists does not amount to terrorism according to Dora Akunyili. The looting of churches, private homes and businesses of Christians and the destruction of their property worth hundreds of billions of dollars for no justifiable reason than to intimidate and coerce them to convert to Islam by force is not terrorism according to Dora Akunyili. The willful demolition of hundreds of Christian churches by Islamic jihadists is not terrorism according to Dora Akunyili. What can we say? You be the judge.
Dora Akunyili, the Nigerian minister of information reminds us of “Bagdad Bob”; Saddam Hussein’s minister of information who as Coalition forces were closing in on Bagdad and bombs were landing few feet behind the building in which he was giving a press conference with the walls, tables and even blinds shaking like leaves in a wind storm, kept telling the world press conference that Saddam’s forces have wiped out the American and coalition forces that had invaded Iraq and that Iraq forces were chasing the remaining stragglers into the desert. Few minutes later he ended the press conference and ran away.


Dora Akunyili, the “Bagdad Bob” of Nigeria may ultimately be forced to run away from her own lies.
All the information here is public knowledge. It is a surprise that it took the US this long to realize that the terrorists in Nigeria will sooner than later metamorphose into international terrorists ripe for the picking by Al Qeada especially as Bin Laden openly expressed interest in Nigeria. It is really a surprise.

• June 2001, Gawaram (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack Christians, burn down dozens of churches and kill Christians.
• February 24-25, 2001, (Gombe) A visit to Gombe state by an Israeli ambassador sparked a riot by Islamic jihadists. During the riot the jihadists kill Christians, loot and burn down churches, loot and burn down Christian homes and render thousands of people homeless. The Calvary Baptist Church and the Bishara Baptist church are among those looted and burned.
• September 2000 Gombe (Northern Nigeria) In Bambam, Gombe state Islamic jihadists attack and kill Christians, burn down and loot churches and private homes and businesses of Christians.
• May 2000, Kaduna (Northern Nigeria) For several days Islamic jihadists attack and slaughter hundreds of people in Kaduna. They loot thousands of Christian people’s homes, churches, businesses and then burn them down. Thousands of Christians are mindlessly slaughtered and more than 200 churches are burned
• February 2000, Kaduna (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack and slaughter Christians opposing the implementation of Sharia law in Kaduna, northern Nigeria. Christian homes, businesses and churches are looted, and burned. Thousands of Christians are mercilessly slaughtered and property worth billions of dollars are looted and destroyed by the jihadists.
• 2000 Damboa, Maidugiri, (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack and slaughter Christians, loot and burn Christian homes, businesses and churches
• We will stop at the year 2000. This is not even comprehensive. There is documentation of numerous other attacks by Islamic jihadists including: Kano, 1994; Ibadan, 1993; Lagos, 1993; Funtua, 1993; Zango Kataf 1992; Kano 1991; Katsina, 1991; Bauchi, 1991; Kafanchan, 1986; Kaduna, 1986; Gombe, 1985; Yola, 1984; Maidugiri, 1982; Kano, 1980. If you are interested you can go as far back as May/June; July/August; and September/October 1966 when Moslem jihadists slaughtered 100,000 Christian Igbo and other Easterners in Northern Nigeria. We suspect that Dora and her parents may have been escapees from Northern Nigeria during the jihad of 1966 in Northern Nigeria.

We challenge Nigeria’s minister of information, Dora Akunyili to deny or disprove any of the documented acts of terrorism committed against innocent Christians in Nigeria by Islamic terrorists. Some official sources have estimated that between 1980 and 2009 about 10,000 Nigerians were slaughtered in these barbaric attacks. But more reliable independent sources have put the number at closer to 100,000 most of them Christians from Eastern Nigeria (Biafra).
This record of terrorism in Nigeria is what Dora Akunyili is defending, telling the world that Nigeria doesn’t have people who indulge in terrorism; that it is not in their culture; that it is not part of their system; that Nigeria does not have any terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, Maitasine, Taliban, Kala Kato, Hisba, Hezbollah. She is telling the world that only once in a while, has there been what she calls “religious conflicts” in Nigeria and of course that they have died down. And then she goes on to assert authoritatively that this is not terrorism; and that there is no terrorism in Nigeria.

• December 2001, Yola (Northern Nigeria) Muslim army soldiers from the 23rd Armored 7th Brigade in Yola, burned a Christian church building, which was constructed in the army barracks. They justified the act by saying it was an illegal structure. However, the army officially allows both Islam and Christianity to be practiced in the barracks.
• December 10, 2001, Kano, (Northern Nigeria) Truck driver Uche Nwama was killed by Islamic jihadists for allowing the exhaust from his truck to drift into an open-air Islamic meeting. Islamic jihadists claimed the exhaust had desecrated the Quran.
• November 6 2001; Ibadan (Western Nigeria) Islamic jihadists hold a massive rally in Ibadan in support of Osama Bin Laden and his attack and slaughter of thousands of Americans during the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. They condemn the United States for attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan and vow to fight alongside Bin Laden and his fellow terrorists.
• November 2001 (Northern and Western Nigeria) Islamic jihadists hold massive rallies in Osogbo, Sokoto, Kano, Zaria, Kaduna, and other towns in Western and Northern Nigeria in support of Osama Bin Laden and his attack and slaughter of thousands of Americans during 9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. They condemn the United States for attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan. They also vow to fight alongside Bin Laden and his fellow terrorists in a jihad against America.
• November 28, 2001Enugu (Eastern Nigeria) Christian Biafrans organize a peaceful rally in Enugu in solidarity with and support of the government and people of the United States over the terrorist attack in New York on 9/11/2001 and in support of the United States action against the terrorists. The Nigerian paramilitary police brutalized the participants, disbanded the rally and arrested the leaders.
• October 14-18, 2001 Kano (Northern Nigeria) Massive anti-American protests in Kano by Islamic jihadists. Thousands of Christians are slaughtered and scores of churches are burned. Property of Christians worth billions of dollars are looted and destroyed.
• October 2001, Kaduna (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack Christians in churches, on the street and in their homes. Thousands of Christians are slaughtered, scores of churches are burned and looted, and thousands of Christian homes are looted, and burned.
• September 2001, Kano (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attack Christians burning down churches slaughtering thousands of people, looting churches and private homes. Kano State government demolishes the few remaining churches.
• September 2001, Jos (Northern Nigeria) In a well planned and highly coordinated program Islamic jihadists attack Christians in the city of Jos, burning down churches, and private homes of Christians, looting the churches and private property of Christians. Hundreds of churches were burned and thousands of Christians were slaughtered some burned while worshipping in their churches.
• August 2001, Bauchi, (Northern Nigeria). The Bauchi state government is alleged to be using Muslim mercenaries to attack Christians in the Tafawa Balewa and Bogora districts. On several occasions vehicles loaded with Islamic jihadists were intercepted by vigilant Christians. Several hundred Christians were killed and houses, shops and churches looted, burned and destroyed.

• December 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria). Muslim Jihadists attack Christians. During the attack Rev. Bitrus Manjang, his son, daughter-in-law and their six-month old child were shot to death outside their home. The jihadists went on killing people looting and burning churches and Christian’s homes.
• November, 2002 Kano, Kaduna (Northern Nigeria) Muslim jihadists went on a rampage after an article in the This Day newspaper suggested that the prophet Muhammad would probably have married a contestant from the Miss World pageant scheduled to be held in Abuja. Muslim mobs ransacked the newspaper’s office, issued a fatwa on the author of the article, Miss Isioma, killed Christians and burned down numerous churches.
• October 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria) Hundreds of Christians were killed when a mob of several Muslims jihadists attacked the town of Fajul in Plateau State. Mercenaries from Chad and Niger were believed to be among the group, which burned down homes, churches, and raped several women.
• September 11, 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria) A bomb exploded at the Church of Christ in the Laranto suburb of Jos. No one was injured, but there was some structural damage to the church building.
• August 2002 Kano, (Northern Nigeria) The government of Kano State ordered half of the churches in Kano State closed because of Muslim complaints about “too many churches.”
• June 2002, Jos, (Northern Nigeria) Several Christian communities in Plateau state including Yelwa, Shendam, Wase, Barakin Ladi, Vom and Miango were invaded by Islamic jihadists who killed people and burned down homes and churches.
• June, 2002, Minna, (Northern Nigeria) At least 75 Christians were arrested in Niger state for opposing the state’s Islamic sharia law.
• April 8-22, 2002, Kano (Northern Nigeria) At least seven churches in Kano State were destroyed by authorities. There is a growing trend in states that have enacted Sharia law to destroy Christian churches on the pretense that the churches have violated building codes. Christians believe it is a step toward wiping out the Christian faith in northern Nigeria.
• April 2002, Sokoto (Northern Nigeria) Two Christians in Zamfara State were tried on the charge of apostasy, converting from Islam to Christianity. According to Islamic law, the penalty for apostasy is death. However the two Christians, Lawali Yakubu and Ali Jafaru, claim they were never Muslims to start with. The two belong to an ethnic group that has practiced Christianity for many years.
• February, 2002 Ilorin (Northern Nigeria) Muslims in Ilorin turned violent while celebrating Eid-el-Kabir and began attacking and killing Christians and burning their houses and businesses.
• February 2002, Kano (Northern Nigeria) The Kano state government revealed that it had closed down 122 Christian schools for failing to meet state requirements. The requirement in question is the compulsory study of Islam. Christian schools have refused to allow Muslim clerics into their schools, thus risking closure.
• February, 2002, Gombe, (Northern Nigeria) A Christian lady, Esther Bulus was kidnapped from her school by four Muslims who slit her throat and left her to die. Esther had refused to marry a Muslim politician in Gombe on grounds of religious differences. She was murdered because of this.
• December 30, 2001, Jos, (Northern Nigeria) Armed Muslim jihadists attacked the Christian community in southern Jos, killing people, looting and destroying property worth several million dollars.

• December 30 2009, Bauchi, (Northern Nigeria) Radical Islamic sect Kala-Kato a branch of Maitasine attacked Christians and burned Churches; 70 people were killed.
• July 26 2009 Maidugiri, Yobe, Bauchi, Kano, (Northern Nigeria) Radical Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram [translated “Western civilization is evil”] goes on rampage burning churches, and looting homes belonging to Christians and murdering them. Three Christian pastors including George Orji (Igbo) were killed by beheading. Officially 800 people were reported killed.
• 2007, Adamawa (Northern Nigeria) Moslem jihadists invade Christian community of Yugor killing hundreds of Christians, looting and burning churches and Christian’s homes and property.
• 2006 Maidugiri, (Northern Nigeria) Islamic fundamentalists protesting cartoon of Prophet Mohammed by Danish cartoonist killed hundreds of Christians, burned down scores of Churches, and looted shops and homes belonging to Christians.
• 2006 All over Northern Nigeria. Similar riots by Islamic jihadists were held in numerous towns in Northern Nigeria – Katsina, Bauchi, Minna, Potiskum, Kano, Kotangora. Thousands of Christians were killed, scores of churches were looted and burned and personal homes and businesses of Christians were looted and burned. One week before that Nigerian MP’s burned Danish and Norwegian flags in the parliament premises.
• June 28 2006, Abuja (Northern Nigeria) The Federal government of Nigeria accused Kano State of Northern Nigeria of collaborating with foreign powers to train 100 Muslim militants in “intelligence gathering” and the "practice of jihad". In a news release, Information Minister Frank Nweke said the "Hisbah", a group employed by the mainly Muslim state of Kano to enforce sharia law, was "a parallel security outfit that poses a potential threat to national security".
• April 2003, Kano (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists go on a rampage A pastor, Sunday Madumere (Igbo) and six of his family members were killed
• April, 2003, Jos (Northern Nigeria) Armed Muslim insurgents attacked Wereng village near Vom a suburb of Jos killing people, burning homes and looting people’s property.
• April, 2003, Langtang (Northern Nigeria) A group of armed Muslims attacked a village in Langtang killing people and burning down homes.
• 2003 Gusau (Northern Nigeria) Governor Ahmed Sani, who came to the United States and used the VOA to advertise the introduction of fundamentalist Islamic Sharia Law in Nigeria promising that it will never be applied to Christians gave an order that more than 20 of the Christian churches in the State be demolished. They were demolished promptly. No reasons were given.
• March, 2003 Jos (Northern Nigeria) Thousands of jihad warriors attacked the town of Kardako in Wase Local Government Area (LGA) shouting “Allahu Akbar” killing Christians and burning down homes.
• February, 2003 Ibadan (Western Nigeria) Muslims jihadists from the National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations attacked Christian schools in Ibadan in an effort to force the schools to require women to wear Islamic head coverings. Hundreds of students and teachers were injured in the attack.
• December 26, 2002, Bauchi, (Northern Nigeria) Islamic jihadists attacked Christians concluding a Christmas celebration in Bauchi killing Christians, looting and burning churches and Christian’s homes.

THERE IS NO TERRORISM IN NIGERIA – SO SAYS DORA AKUNYILI, NIGERIA’S MINISTER OF (DIS)INFORMATION .






On December 25, 2009 the world woke up to the shocking news that a Nigerian citizen, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab had attempted unsuccessfully to detonate a bomb on board a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam as the plane was descending into Detroit airport in preparation for landing.

As the Nigerian man was arrested and questioned he claimed that he acquired the bomb from Yemen while collaborating with Al Qeada. The United States Government conscious of the seriousness of this failed terrorist attack and the devastating consequences on its citizens and their property if it had been successful immediately instituted security measures to protect its citizens and other passengers flying into the USA.

On Tuesday January 5, the United States President Barack Obama after consultation with his top security team announced additional measures to further strengthen security of the lives and property of people flying into the United States. One such measure was the expanded security check of people flying into the United States from a list of fourteen countries one of which is Nigeria.

On Wednesday January 6, 2010, Dora Akunyili, the Minister of Information in Nigeria’s Federal Government gave an interview to Steve Inskeep of the National Public Radio. During the interview Dora Akunyili expressed her strong disapproval of the action taken by the President of the United States in including Nigeria in the list of 14 countries the United States had shortlisted for extra security measures. She described the US action as discriminatory and punishment for the 150 million Nigerian.citizens.

When reminded by Steve Inskeep that experts have been concerned about the possibility of Al Qeada recruiting terrorists from within Nigeria because of the record of numerous conflicts involving Islamic groups in Nigeria and asked how she would describe Nigerian problems with extremism she retorted: “Which terrorism groups are you referring to? We don’t have people who indulge in terrorism or any form of suicide bombing. It is not in our culture. It is not us. It is not part of our system.

We don’t have any terrorist groups. Once in a while, not too often, we have religious conflicts which have died down. Yes I accept it has happened in the past. It has not happened for some time now. But that is not terrorism. That is conflict. We in this country we don’t have terrorist tendencies. We know that this child was influenced outside this country. There is no terrorism in Nigeria. Which terrorist group are you referring to?”

Anybody who has dealt with Nigerian government officials will not be surprised by this response. It is the rule among Nigerian government officials to – deny, obfuscate, deceive, lie even when the lie makes them sound delusional, psychotic, mentally retarded or plain stupid. They will still lie.

The so-called president of Nigeria has been missing for more than 40 days. Nobody knows where he is. If you ask Dora Akunyili, the minister of information she will lie to you. That is how bad the Nigerian situation is.

Back to the issues of terrorism in Nigeria: Dora Akunyili is well educated and should at least have looked up the definition of “terrorism” in the dictionary. If she did she would have known that “terror” means violence or threats of violence used as a means of intimidation and coercion; Terrorism, the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce; Terrorize, to dominate or coerce by intimidation; and terrorist, one who uses terror against another.


Dora Akunyili should know that in the context of international terrorism Nigeria’s Umar Farouk AbdulMuttalab has cemented Nigeria’s place as a major strand in the web of international terrorism. Yes Dora Akunyili has a point about the unfairness of subjecting all Nigerians to discriminatory treatment because of the action of one person.

However the US government has not said that it will discriminate against all Nigerians. Surprisingly it is Dora Akunyili who as Director of NAFDAC shut down the entire Medicines Section of Onitsha Market because a few individuals were selling fake drugs.

or four months she sealed the entire section of the market off with hundreds of soldiers and when traders who were selling genuine drugs complained that she had destroyed their livelihood she boasted that she did not care but will subject them to collective punishment even if there was only one trader who sold fake medicines – and she did. Akunyili has also been trying desperately to rope in Ghana, and Togo into her scheme to extricate Nigeria from the actions of Nigerian citizen, AbdulMutallab. Her actions do not make for good politics or international relations.

As she engages in her delusional claims that:” We don’t have people who indulge in terrorism or any form of suicide bombing. It is not in our culture. It is not us. It is not part of our system. We don’t have any terrorist groups. Once in a while, not too often, we have religious conflicts which have died down. Yes I accept it has happened in the past. It has not happened for some time now.

But that is not terrorism. That is conflict. We in this country we don’t have terrorist tendencies. There is no terrorism in Nigeria.” We simply point out these facts and ask her as minister of information to characterize these events and define them to her self and to the world.

Yes there is know doubt that we have be in one bus call Nigeria for over50yrs taking us to unknown destination and the journey has not been healthy one and will never be.

If we continuo in this one Nigeria we will never get out of this dark tunnel.

chosen04:
Am choosing my Top 3 politics section NLers with his quote by JOHN COHEN at the back of my heart =======

"The man who first abused his fellow with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundation of civilisation"


1) Eziachi
2) Ezeagu.
3) Aloy_emeka

*****I will post the post that made me choose these guys later.

Thank you for choose this guys

kosovo:
@babaa2, ketsho, emyah, and oko1
i want to believe that you are one, and your nominations would be treated as one.
No spammers.
thank you

We are all born into history. We did not choose to be born into our own unique history. We did not choose to be born literally, believe that there is a king in every man and a queen in every woman This is why they have always guarded their freedom jealously. We are simply born into who we are. We were born into who we are free of coercion, compulsion, or persuasion. We simply became who we are.

Onlytruth, Wly Wily, Beaf

Their democratic system of government must be rooted in clearly articulated philosophy of life that gives meaning to their everyday existence.

As a result of who we are we inherited specific social and cultural values, beliefs, and philosophies that gave meaning to our lives. These values, beliefs and philosophies complete the existential circle that encapsulates who we are. Without them we will be like just any other animals roaming the wild. Who we are is what gives us the framework to intelligently and efficiently interpret events in our environment, navigate the treacherous seas of interpersonal and international relationships, and strive to protect ourselves, survive and thrive in a rather dangerous world.


Being born into who we are without coercion, compulsion or persuasion and inheriting specific social and cultural values, beliefs, and philosophies form the bedrock of our Identity, the totality of who we are. It is this bedrock that gives rise to our Freedom, and Liberty to be who we are and who we want to be. We do not have to ask anyone’s permission to be who we are. We do not have to apologize to anyone for being who we are. We have the Freedom to be who we are because we are who we are. We do not have to pretend to be who we are not. We do not have to act who we are not. The only way in which we can truly be is to be who we are.

The Igbo and their kin are famous for their respect for their laws, and ethics. Acting through their elected representatives they develop a system of laws, ethical codes and practices which are universally acceptable to the people under a constitutional arrangement approved by the people. They interpret and apply these laws, ethical codes and practices in a most transparent manner to everyone without regard to ethnic, gender, class, religious or other characteristics. This ensures justice, stability and peace in the society. The Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchs and the Sokoto Caliphate on the other hand have a handful of dictators articulate whatever laws, ethical codes and practices they want according to their whims, without consultation with and input from the people and impose these on the people in a secret constitutional arrangement unavailable to the people but still imposed on them.





May God bless all you smart people of Biafra and the sovereign independent State of Biafra!

The dictators interpret, and apply such laws, ethical codes and practices in a most arbitrary, selective and nontransparent way. The application of these laws is never universal and is dependent on the individual’s class, gender, ethnicity, religious, and political affiliation, and other characteristics important to the dictators. The selective application of these laws, ethical codes and practices creates a spring well of injustice, corruption, and human degradation whose magnitude is comparable only to the capriciousness and greed of the dictators. Igbo and their kin, please take a look at your society today and you will have no doubt in your mind that the Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchy and the Sokoto Caliphate have poisoned your society with the primitive, dark age legal system that has reduced your once vibrant and peaceful society to chaos and anarchy.

Time and space will not allow us here to enumerate the other dimensions in which our society has been destroyed by the Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchy and the Sokoto Caliphate, the rulers of Nigeria.

Let us truly sound this warning: “Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Ogoja, Itsekiri, Isoko, Esan, and Urhobo you societies are dying at a very fast pace.” When you think of kidnappings, killings, armed robbery, internet scams, stealing, prostitution, divorce, collapse of marriages, unwed mothers, massive corruption, embezzlement, bribery, breakdown of law and order, insecurity of life and property, brigandage, massive unemployment, decayed and decaying infrastructure, collapse of education, collapse of social services remember one thing – the only cause is continued stay in Nigeria. So long as we stay in Nigeria so long will the decay and death of our society continue until we decay and smell so badly that no one will venture to come close to us.

You can run to Abuja or Lagos, you can join genocidist and baby killer Yakubu Gowon to castigate Ojukwu, you can fill every room in your house with dollars from bribe money from Soludo and thief James Ibori, you can relocate your family to London or Australia, you can fall down and beg for amnesty from the same Hausa Fulani Yoruba that have been slaughtering your people, you can do whatever you like only remember one thing we are telling you today – your house is on fire, your hair is on fire, your pant is on fire, there is no escape.

Our people in the armed services must think seriously about this. Our people in the academy must stop organizing conferences and talk shops and think of practical solutions. Our people in journalism must inform the world in clear terms that all we want is to throw off the yoke of imperialism by Nigeria and take our destiny in our own hands.

Our people in the movie industry must begin to project our people’s demand for freedom and independence in their movies and stop the nonsense about “dibia” and the occult. Every man woman and child must now focus on one thing and one thing only – how to separate ourselves from the evil called Nigeria and achieve independence, freedom, self determination for our people. No more, no less!

These Nigerians are monsters without soul or conscience. The British cobbled several, independent Nations into the nonsense called One Nigeria. It does not make any sense; it doesn’t fit and if it doesn’t fit, you must dissolve One Nigeria and allow the different Nations to assume their sovereignty once again.


May God bless all the smart people of Biafra and the sovereign independent State of Biafra!

Those who succumbed to amnesty wayo by leprous Umaru YarAdua; those who accepted the apple from the snake in the garden of Aden will forever live to regret it. It won’t be long now before they confess and start regretting. No, it won’t be long. The Igbo and their brothers in the Eastern Region Biafra are known for resisting tyranny, oppression and fighting until they liberate themselves.


Therefore the people of Eastern Region Biafra will never relent until they liberate themselves from the slavery to which they have been subjected by the Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchy and the Sokoto Caliphate.

Some people have been going around and preaching to our people that there is no point resisting the subjugation, persecution, and taking away of our freedom by Nigeria . They are telling our people that it is better for our people to submit to domination, persecution, and enslavement by the Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchs and the Sokoto Caliphate.

How can anyone who knows of the history of the Igbo and other people of Eastern Region even think of suggesting this to our people? It is an insult on the intelligence of our people to even suggest this.

sjeezy8:
lol wetin concern me abi? simple fact im tired of seeing these damn biarfa stuvs posted every damn where its annoying. and I said yoruba guy part not for tribal reason but to refute the opinion some igbos have that yorubas want to marginalize them, wipe them out, or whatever some paranoid people may think.

Whether the thread says ndigbo or not doesnt change the fact that EVERY IGBO comments on a page that has something to with a yoruba person in politics, this thread is no different.

tribalistic shallow amaka

In fact to  actualized Biafra

Go and ask honest elders in your towns and villages and they will tell you that the Igbo and their brothers in the Eastern Region Biafra had been practicing sophisticated democracy for thousands of years until the garbage, the filth called Nigeria was imposed on them. Nigeria has never been a democracy, is not a democracy, and will never be a democracy.

Nigeria is poison and anyone who wants the Igbo and their brothers in Eastern Region Biafra to continue to be in Nigeria is an idiot, and a fool deserving of no iota of respect from our people.

Nigeria government should seat down and address some certain issue'
1) Did the governor's Team evaluate this programme/policies before public consumption
If Yes why are we still ONE NIGERIA

texazzpete:
Human beings are by design supposed to learn from their mistakes. The important learning from the Biafra war should be the prevention in future of any similar war, to eradicate tribal and ethnic bias and to improve relations between all the tribes and groups in this country.

Let's be realistic; the chances of the Igbos seceeding again into another Biafra are pretty remote. So if that outcome is unlikely to occur, why not focus on more realistic goals like tribal integration and the promotion of amity?

I've read through most of the discussion so far, and i'm not impressed with the Moderator's contributions here. The same RichyBlack that goes on and on about the evils of the Biafran war is the same Mod that has steadfastly refused to do anything about the plethora of tribalistic posts here in the Politics section. If we assume that Nairaland is a reflection of the Nigerian society at large, how can encouraging topics that increase the disunity and division between ethnic groups help preserve peace and tolerance?

The Middle East crisis should show you how not to propagate hatred. The people killing each other today in Palestine and Israel were not alive during the Israeli Arab wars or the creation of Israel. They are merely acting out a script taught them by their parents who consigned them to a life of hatred. And they'll teach their kids the same things too. Similarly, dredging the memories of Biafra up to revisit the latent feelings of bitterness and rage may not be the best idea.

By the way, my cousin , and my uncle ,Igbo, were killed by Nigerian soldiers in that war. Years after the war, I saw my mother weep her kid brother on a few occasions. You judge me for the pain I feel inside? Can you show me anyone who could watch his mother weep for her younger brother and be so worried worried about being called a tribalism that he would padlock his mouth and throw his eyes over his shoulders.

Call me a tribalist, my guy, I don't care. God knows I have never pretended not to be pro-Igbo - in thinking, in my way of life, in my name. I will relate with people from any other part of the world, even some Hausa Muslims, but hopefully not those of them who as late as 2000, slaughtered my friend and work colleague  like a goat in Tudun Wada, Kaduna. Do you know what it feels like to learn that people you lived among, and worked with could cold-blooded slaughter your friend with the same knives they use to cut suya in street corners? A friend with whom you ate and worked with? I shall never understand what any Igbo person is still or could still be doing in the North.

I am yet to read Obiwu's "Igbos of Northern Nigeria", I should hope he expressed these surprise. I lived in Kaduna between 1991 and 1997, I shall not make that mistake again.

On your question about my nationality. I carry a Nigerian passport, that is the much I feel inside as a Nigerian. You see I have got yo come from someplace, not so? People like you make me feel more and more disinterested in that place.

Biafra is a dream that most be kept alive in the heart of the Igbo nation.

What i have to say is that Nigeria is a failed state to the detriment of the black world. No body should blame the easterners especially Igbo’s for this failure because they have sacrificed a lot to ensure the continued existence of Nigeria.

They chose to go their own way when they found out that their efforts are being thwarted by those with whom they think they could make a better Nigeria and give the black skin a positive meaning. The Hausas and Yoruba’s are always trying to portray the easterners as bad eggs who are bent on breaking up Nigeria. But the truth is that they (the Hausas & Yoruba’s) are the true enemies of Nigeria.

The Igbo’s believe so much in dialogue. Therefore a forced union is not acceptable to them hence the popular saying among them- Akpaa akpa, a rahu n'ute(it takes agreement for two to shear a mat.) All these are too obvious for anyone to doubt. As for Biafra, it has been ordained in Heaven and no earthly power can stop it.

I hereby call on all those who wish to see Africa move forward as well as those who are on the side of Justice, Equity & amp; Fairness to support Biafra without reservation. BIAFRA GA A DIRIRI!!!

the Nigerian government shows that it is a dictatorship. Now you know why the
Hausa Fulani Yoruba and the Sokoto Caliphate seized your land and the natural resources in them
and have been selling the oil and natural gas and putting the money in their pockets.

Now you
know why their police and army beat you like goats and cows and kill you whenever they like
without consequences. Now you know why they impose people you did not elect on you as
your leaders and if you complain they kill you. Now you know why they loot your goods and
products and burn your houses down.

Now you know. Now you know. What do they care about
the Igbo, Ijaw, Annang, Efik, Ogoja, Itsekiri, Isoko, Esan and Urhobo? Do they care about the
Ikwerre next door to Port Harcourt? If crude oil pollutes all the rivers and streams in Degema,
Abonnema, Isiokpo, and Bonny do they care? If all the people in Warri, Sapele, Bonny, P.H.
Calabar, Ikom and Obudu die of cholera do they care? If all the people living in Onitsha and
Asaba are swallowed up by the River Niger do they care; if the Nigerian vandals rape all the
women and girls in Biafra do they care? When fire consumed over 900 poor villagers scooping
spilled petrol in Jesse what did the Nigerian Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar say and do? He
called them thieves and threatened to arrest all those who survived and were taken to the
hospitals.

What did Olusegun Obasanjo do to the people of Odi? What did leper Umaru
Yar’Adua do to the town of Abaala in Aba Province few months ago? Now that you know would
you like to have dictatorship as a form of government in Biafra and a dictator as the head of State
in Biafra? Your answer is a resounding NO! NO!! NO!!!!!!!!
That is why you are working very hard to set up the Biafra Shadow Government; a
transparent democratic government