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The situation presently is no longer what Ndiigbo wants collectively but what “I want for my family” -- our brothers fought for the collective interest of Ndiigbo; a situation that is very much contradicting presently among Ndiigbo. The Southeast was the only region that Obasanjo so manipulated to the extent that he was able to dictate who will be who in the East.  An unconfirmed source quoted him as saying: “Igbo no get leader, so anybody can be leader”! He is right of course; no thanks to these “errand boys” in Abuja. There can be no better confirmation of those words than the National Assembly “selection” in Anambra State. It is really shameful that such a thing will happen to a state like Anambra. If the Anambra situation is so sad, the manner and method for the selection of the Senate President was a stab to Ndiigbo. A man who did not win an election emerges Senate President and the highest ranked Igbo political appointee. Is this a curse or a course? Sometimes, I used to ask myself whether our so-called leaders or elders are indeed Igbo. Ohanaeze to me has failed as a group towards actualising the Igbo interest in Nigeria and should be dissolved and replaced by the Igbo National Assembly, where men of integrity will have to decide for Ndiigbo. Men born  from 1960 and above, except for “Joshua” and “Caleb” --  that is to say, those born before 1960 but still believe by grace and faith:  Biafra shall one day be actualised even against the “seven mighty Canaanite nations.” This is the type of spirit that must be injected in Biafra because Biafra is still alive.

Biafra is a legacy and cannot be wiped from the history of Nigeria whether as a nation or a divided entity. I cannot truly give a personal account of what actually transpired within that period of darkness in Biafra history because I was born after the war. Even at that, I have refused to accept the fact that I was not physically present during the war as long as reincarnation (ino uwa) is a reality in Igboland. My spirit within me testifies that. But we are living in a physical world that we have to accept realities more of the physical than the metaphysical. Thus I have been able to decipher the truth about Biafra from people who survived the War. These people, most of them wander the streets in Onitsha, where my focus is, in search of menial jobs to survive. It was at the instance of one of them, who came to repair the roof of a building, that I was able to know that most of the old men sitting at Ogbommanu -- a popular street in Onitsha, are Biafran veterans. He did not say much, but the little was enough to write a book. “It was like… you see a brother in pains, and you ask him… Kedu and he replies, Obi siri m ike; and, in less than a minute, the news flows in… He is dead!” They were killed by the science of destruction – war, yet their minds were stronger than the minds of the elites or elders of our land today.

There is not gonna be any war in Nigeria. The only war will be civil disobidence as a result of crippled enocomy. Nigeria will have no choice than to dissect amicably. The experiment is over. The North to Niger Republic, The West to Oduduwa and of course the most obvious the East to Biafra. Then black race will be respected and become a global force to reckon with. I hope I answered your question ? Now have a direct response to this posting."Why do you need Biafrans in Nigeria"?

Hail Biafra

Beautifull Biafrans

Nigeria wants the Biafrans in Nigeria, to use them and dump them. They want to take advantage of our technical prowess, but at the same time, deny us the credit. This why I am against this clarion call for an Igbo president of a dying Nigeria. The Nigerian system is irredemmable, only a foolish Biafran would think that he/she can salvage that garbage of a country.

Umu Biafra ibem,

Its has obviously dawned on all and sundry that the one Nigerianer status quo parasites are unable to make a case (seriously, tangible or convincingly) why they need the Igbos in Nigeria.
We gave them the benefit of the doubt, and as expected, they had no case hence they resorted to empty threats and rhetorics.

Fear and desperation has gripped them as everywhere they turn, they see signs of emerging Biafra Republic.
Now, my advice for these disgruntled Nigerians is to start adjusting to the reality of Biafra Nation.
Their acts during this period will weigh in a lot in our future relations with them as fellow ECOWAS country/neighbor.

na_so:
So in this your seperationist theory, the only way Igbos can develop and become the envy of all is when we split the country and a state of Biafra is born. Tell me what do you intend to achieve then, that you cant start now?

I find it somewaht insulting that a Yoruba man has taken it upon himself to teach Ndi'igbo democracy. How annoying! Is it not in yoruba land that once a few elders with out-moded concepts have spoken, then the thinking has been done and all will follow? No wonder they get on well with the servile people of the far north where the satanic chant of one drunken emir is enough to send many young people to commit suicide in the hope of going to paradise.

I've heard some of your young people cry silently about the lack of youth and dynamism in Yoruba politics, but off course they dare not cry out loud for fear of antagonising the corrupt elders who they must 'dobali' to.

The wind of change is sweeping across Biafra and every Biafran knows it. That is why Kalu got a standing ovation when he took the stage at Enugu while people read their newspapers when Ojo and Anyim spoke. If you are still keen on numbers, then you must've read that Onitsha market literarily closed down @ mid day because Ralph uwazurike was passing through.

If you call typing a few lines on the WWW high technology, then you ain't seen nothing yet. We have wasted about 49yrs sticking around with you guys and it is time to move if we won't fossilize in a set up that consider owning a telephone luxury in the 21st century!

na_so:
So in this your seperationist theory, the only way Igbos can develop and become the envy of all is when we split the country and a state of Biafra is born. Tell me what do you intend to achieve then, that you cant start now?

Do you guys think we care about your sleepness nights regard our decision for self determination. There is no going back in our quest to be left alone. If you have not seen a country of never do wells. It is your Nigeria. Sometime ago an Igbo kid forteen years old, who schools in England was here on vacation. He told me he read about all what Ndi-Igbo as a people have gone through in Nigeria.

I then told him more of the tragedy called Nigeria and what our people have lost just for being part of Nigeria. This kid was so upset, that he asked me, what we are still doing with Nigeria, cant we have our own country he asked? That is our next move. We are fedup with hoping against hope.

WilyWily:
Train a Goat till thy Kingdom come, Goat will Still be Goat

We commend professional teachers. They must have the patience of Job to be able to keep hammering into empty sculls of dullard/dunce students on common sense facts without splitting their sculls open.

Such is the case of these pretentious one Nigerianers on this board. And they say they received western enlightenment! You go figure! I hate to teach their illiterates, then.

All the same, its Biafra Republic all the way!

na_so:
SPOT ON. I HAIL U 4 THIS.

You are expected to tell us why you need Igbos in your Nigeria. We are waiting.
Don't worry about th Igbos and their wants. They know it already and are working toward its achievement.

There's more for us all to gain in the overall, as ECOWAS countries, and as African countries in general. The glory of pacesetting Biafra will buy her neighbors into active, healthy, and progressive competitors which can potentially transform them from third world aids/grants recipients to Nearly Developed countries.

In times to come, Republic of Biafra will be desperately needed for economic, military, and technological stability of West Africa, and that of Africa, as a whole.
Therefore, the country of Nigeria need her as a good friend, not as an enemy.

there is no doubt that Nigeria as its presently constituted has been a complete monumental failure thus why would anyone in general or Igbo's in particular want to remain there my answer is none.
I am a complete believer in the issue of self-determination I completely favour of it. I admire the drive and entrepreneur spirit that Igbo's have I was in Uganda and Kenya a few weeks ago and my Igbo brother were trading and engaged in business and doing very well for themselves I felt nothing but joy to see these individuals succeed in a distant land.

Rosabelle:
When I read stuff like this, I wonder.
Have you people looked around Africa? See our neighbouring countries and how they plunge from one war to the next. All these people speak the same language oh. I feel Nigerias greatest strength is her diversity, and those who want to split the country should simply stay where they are and not go to other parts.
And then these Igbos who constantly go on and on about Biafra, remember oh, when you people wanted to go and become your Biafra, nobody was going to hold you, but you wanted to take Bendel with you and THAT was what started that brutal war. If you people had simply left, ase we will all have had peace. So all these tales of woe you people are crying about, you people should go to the Ojuku's who were promising you what they couldnt deliver.

On a lighter note @ Poster, if you think Nigerians have nothign in common, take a stroll round NL and see. There is a pattern of madness that can only be Nigerian.
Theres sooo much more to the country than this constant 'Yoruba', 'Ibo' 'Hausa' secterianism.

That's exactly the point.
Rationally, you should not be against our peaceful movement for Biafra Actualization. Rather, you should encourage your leaders and grassroots to extensively assist and encourage Biafrans to attain their Nationhood.
That way, you can continue to obey and uphold your very own specially designed democratic rule of law.

Ur dream can be achieve, if we all be the agents of split, what? [Nigeria]

First up, it’s important to realise that crude oil is (almost) never used directly. Instead it’s refined into a wide range of products, most of which we burn in various engines, but some of which never get converted into CO2 (lubricant oils, plastics, asphalt, etc.). Different grades of crude oil will produce significantly different amounts of each. So a barrel of light / sweet crude might produce lots of petrol and kerosene but only a small amount of asphalt (as a very simple example). But a barrel of heavy / sour crude would produce more asphalt (still less than the amount of petrol produced, but more in comparison with the sweeter oil). This means that, ironically, less of the heavier and more sulphuric stuff, although it’s called sour (and sometimes “dirty”) oil tends to end up as atmospheric CO2 (we coat our roads with it instead).

So while we could, no doubt, work out a figure for the CO2 emitted by burning a given barrel of crude oil, it would be very much a red-herring. To get any meaningful figure for CO2 per barrel we’re going to need to do our calculations on the products of crude oil.

It makes sense to perform this calculation on oil that is of average quality (i.e. not some kind of heavy sulphuric sludge or tar-sand) to make it more generally useful. So taking Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry as our guide, we know that the average barrel (~159 litres) of crude oil to pass through U.S. refineries in 1995* yielded the following products:

1. Gasoline: 44.1% (70.12 litres)
2. Distillate fuel oil: 20.8% (33.07 litres)
3. Kerosene-type jet fuel: 9.3% (14.79 litres)
4. Residual fuel oil: 5.2% (8.27 litres)**

Percentage values from Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry, 2003 edition (Page 515, Fig. 15.6). Litre values based upon conversion rate of 159 litres per barrel.
All of the other products*** of refined crude have sufficient alternative uses to make it possible (even if not entirely probable) that they will not end up as atmospheric CO2. Of the four grades of fuel listed above, however, it’s fair to say all of it is destined to be burnt. It’s worth noting, therefore, that our final result will represent a minimum CO2 per barrel.

Now, the litre values are no good to us by themselves. Each of the fuels has a different specific gravity (a different weight per litre), and it’s the weight of carbon we’re looking for, not the volume. Once we’ve multiplied the volume of each fuel by the relevant specific gravity we’ll have a rough “kilogram per barrel” number for each fuel. So:

1. Gasoline: 70.12 litres x 0.74 = 51.89kg
2. Distillate fuel oil: 33.07 litres x 0.88 = 29.10kg
3. Kerosene-type jet fuel: 14.79 litres x 0.82 = 12.13kg
4. Residual fuel oil: 8.27 litres x 0.92 = 7.61kg****

Overall, this suggests that the average barrel of crude refined in the United States in 1995 yielded a shade over 100kg of liquid fuels (that’s an uncannily round number… 100.73kg to be exact). Now, we know that a carbon-based fuel will emit 3.15 times its own weight in CO2 when burnt.

I hope it can help

The cost is about $1.50/gal once the refinery extracts the gasoline from the Crude Oil.

Nearly 50% of a barrel is Gasoline. So if a barrel of oil costs $70 for 42/gallons, then about 20/gallons of gasoline is about $35. And $35 / 20gallons = $3.25/gallon base.

The price beyond that point is Taxes which usually run about $0.40 - 0.50/cents a gallon,  The station owner might only see a few pennies per gallon in profit. They make their money selling you $1.00 Twinkies they bought for $.10/cents.

Diesel is even more expensive because you only get about 10/gallons of diesel from a 42/gallon barrel of Crude Oil. Before diesel was cheap because the market was awash in diesel fuel. Now that diesel demand has grown world wide as the global community develops, diesel prices have gone through the roof,  That's why Diesel is about $0.50 - $1.00 more than Gasoline right now.

i hope u can start from here .

The free Rides and the Joy Rides of amassing EVERYTHING (resources, the Treasury, special/exclusive quota system, juicy govt undertakings, etc) within the Nigerian space, all the Foreign aids, grants, and subsidies, be they in agriculture, industrial, science/technology, infrastructure, health, other amenities, etc.
Yet, you have nothing to show for all these lopsided parasitical leechings.

Now, the Biafrans have decided that they are exercising their inalienable rights to Nationhood into action, since it is their democratic entitlement under the rule of laws of the United Nations of the world.
They have refused to be held down any longer by the "barbaric and retrogressive" engineerings and practices of the Arewa people.
They are moving on as a nation that they have always been, to peacefully realize their God-endowed potentials for growth and progress, unperturbed.

Biafrans, therefore, bid you goodluck in your sharia country while being thankful for their lack of commonality with you.
So, I didn't see that you need Biafrans to practise your sharia, or do you?