₦airaland Forum

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.

Please be serious,
I'm sure you have reasons, that only you know which are buried inside the recesses of your heart, why you don't want the Biafrans to go? Could it be that you're afraid that the free ride you get from the Biafrans will come to an end? Are you afraid to stand by yourselves as a country (Hausa/ Yoruba) and for once, start working for a living/lack of, like the Nigeriens, and the Chadians? Do you need the Biafrans to survive ?
Please check my posting above regarding the lack of commonality between the Biafrans and the orther ethnic group. Did you forget that Ndigbo has always been a successful Nation unto themselves. They have also succeeded in all aspect of life.
Your feeble "balkanization" excuse is exposing your selfish hypocrisy

AjaraEwuro:
and you are a what? a fool.

My chemistry teacher used to say those days tha an atom was indivisible, now we know that scientists are actually capable of splitting atoms.Now about an indivisible country, I have never seen that before.My question to you is, who is responsible for the lack of freedom and injustice in that country?

could your people really submit to the leadership of an infidel who does not believe in sharia ? if not are we to pepertually remain your subjects?Even now we are about to transit from an uncouth dunce to a carreer thief as leader is this the price we must pay for remaining in an indivisible country ?

I believe your people can do very well, they have land and lots of resources.We do not have much but we believe we will get on just fine if left alone. Why don't we just shake hands and say good bye,it's been nice knowing each other this last 81 years.

Rosabelle:
Where do you get your facts from? The war ended because of many factors. One being foreign pressure because the nigerian army was killing 'biafrans' who had NO WEAPONS. Ojuku RAN AWAY TO THE UK. The man wasnt there. What rubbish are you talking
My father was one of the so called Biafran 'soldiers' wearing slippers with no gun in hand. He was taken off the streets and promised by Ojuku and company that Biafra would be their free world etc. NA LIE. It was all a lie. Ojuku ran away when it got hot and left the Igbos to their faith.

Go read Chimammanda Adichie's : Half of a Yellow Sun. Dont come here and talk nonsence, cos even Chinua Achebe had to commend the book.
She put down the facts of the Biafran war. Ojukwu hoodwinked the Igbos into a war they had no weapons to fight HE is responsible for those peoples lives.

It is very easy to write with the intention of ruining people on the internet. This has become common, as people who are unable to confront their adversaries due to incompetence on their own part take the cowardice and uncivilised route of making unfounded allegations to accomplish their goal. It could take time but justice is power.

While I was engaged in a tete-a-tete with a couple of friends here in South Africa, a Yoruba man with little ones were having a hard time getting over a culvert of surviva, I did what the Igbo do best I broke my conversation and ran to their rescue. It was the Igbo in me and all Igbo that propelled me as I am sure she and her family are not enemies of mine. Can a Yoruba/Benin speak similarly? Hmmm?

The war ended many, many years ego. But some Nigerians continue to remind the Igbos that they lost the war.But has it ever occured to you that the person/persons that brag most about the outcome of the war are mostly Yorubas, such as Obasanjo and others. Here come the latest, Rotomi, the Ambassador to Washington. Read about his fiasco with Ojo and you decide who is actually tribalistic.
And to those who don't know how the war ended, it ended because Biafran Civilians were hopelessly killed by the Nigerian army, compounded with the starvation by the Nigeria government. The Nigerian army could not defeat Biafran soldiers. Ojukwu ended the war because of the suffering on the Civilians.

Hey guys you could all say whatever you like, but when the time comes, the Igbos would be begged into becoming The Republic of Biafra again. Like an Ibo saying, "Ogechukwu rue akwa ungbochi ekewa" translated as, "When God's time arrives the dividing blind will split". We were all living witnesses to it in the US where just a decade ago if one went down south and told a white American there that in the year 2009, there woud be a black president, they'd have hanged the person. The thing is, that country Nigeria is suppressing all the good that should have come out of the black continent. If Biafra has existed, many of us living in self imposed exil would have been home. Come what may, I believe in from the dept of my heart that the nation known and called Biafra would return again, this time peacefully before the enemies of progress and emessaries of chaos would realise it. Wait and see, just don't take my words for it
Biafra will com back to stay for Good.

They have an impressive industrial and manufacturing base that requires a radical upgrade and diversification, a disciplined workforce and an indefatigable intellectual, entrepreneurial and managerial class. The Igbo youth, 16-40, makes up part of Africa’s most educated and talented grouping. Despite the occupation, Igbo male and female students out-perform the rest of Nigeria across the entire spectrum of the education system. (On this, see particularly Okechukwu Agbor’s excellent study, “Look who is going to school in Nigeria,” in [accessed 13 Februar 2009] a change of the title of Agbor’s essay to, for instance, “Igbo education during the era of occupation”, underscores, even further, the historic relevance of his study.) Strategically emplaced in Igboland is a resourceful engine of creativity that has immense possibilities for the future wellbeing of Africa and the rest of the world. It is therefore incumbent on the world to support the Igbo’s arduous efforts presently to free themselves from the Nigeria occupation.

Forty years ago, Igbo people singularly and cruelly bore the brunt of the savage politics of mass murder, organised and executed meticulously and ruthlessly by the central coordinating operatives of this movement under the racist and chauvinist imprimatur of religious fundamentalism and exclusivity. Twice, during the course of two decades earlier, these operatives had staged murderous campaigns against the same Igbo in the north Nigerian towns of Jos and Kano – in dress rehearsals for the 1966-1970 “final solution”, As the virulence of this politics has since spread globally and indeed defines the dominant concern of international relations in the current epoch, the world no doubt needs to learn quite a lot from the Igbo experience. How have the Igbo “coped” with the visceral politics of hate and death in the past one-half century of a cataclysmic history? Despite the present Nigerian occupation of their homeland, the Igbo possess the critical indices for the far-reaching socioeconomic transformation of this region of Africa.

''God bless , Abia State

Nigeria is a cleptocracy.

Nigeria is no Canada, Nigeria is no USA and Nigeria is not actually not fit the definition of a homogenous society.
Canada speaks two languages, English and French and USA speak one language English, well of course, Mmmmmmm a slight Spanish. Both of these countries have too many in common than Nigeria. They eat the same food, they have the same culture, they love their country, they have leaders that care about their destiny, they dress the same, they enjoy freedom,they enjoy one religion [Christianity], the have a constitution that includes all, they work hard to be perfect, just too many mutual feelings.

Nigerians, do not have anything in common but the color of their skin and soccer. Nigerians do not love their country or die for it, their fashion is quite different from one another, Their religion is the most hotly contested in the world. They speak too many language/dialect, the Nigerian government can't count, yet they claim they are about 150 million or more people inhabited in the country. Nigeria has three nations in embedded in one country. The Igbos in the east, Yoruba in the west and Hausa in the north, Their work habit is way too different
If Nigeria want to live to together as one nation, something's gotta give. Find what works, and what works are in two ways, split the country or go confederacy.

oh God, not my will but thine

When the Change Nigeria Organization talks about writing a new true federal constitution and claiming that it is the panacea that will cure all the ills of Nigeria it is being deceitful, and disingenuous. In fact you could say that it is purposely lying to our people and deceiving them. All the members of the Change Nigeria Organization are old enough to know that between 1957 and January 1966 we had a federal constitution and that each of the three and later four regions had its own constitution, assembly, governor, premier, judiciary, civil service and the North had its own police force. Yet was Nigeria able to organize one single non controversial census? The answer is No. Was Nigeria ever able to organize one single non controversial federal election? The answer is No. In fact it was the use of the federal government police and army to rig the Western Regional Elections of 1965, and the imposition of the Akintola government on the people of Western Nigeria by the Federal Prime Minister, Malam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Sarduana of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and the Sokoto Caliphate which sparked uncontrollable rioting all over Yorubaland and lead to the army coup of January 15, 1966. Members of Change Nigeria Organization know this. They know that the federation of Nigeria was not working even pre 1966 when you could say there was true federalism. But they keep lying to themselves.



So why are they still mouthing this lie that somehow true federalism [whatever that means] will make Nigeria work for our people? Why? Why? Why? Selfishness and total absence of balls! They just don’t have the courage to call a spade a spade rather than a garden fork. When General Abacha drove Lt. Gen Alani Akinrinade out of Nigeria and he ran to the United States he addressed a conference of Yoruba people at Houston. There he literally told them that it is time for the Yoruba to secede from Nigeria. Today he is talking about true federalism. Bishop Gbonigi was the chairman of the committee that wrote the Oduduwa National Constitution. Why will he not tell the Yoruba that Oduduwa Republic is the only sensible thing for them today? No they are sneaking around talking about true federalism. As they waste their time kowtowing to the Hausa Fulani and the Sokoto Caliphate the barbarians are busy stealing everything that is worth anything in Eastern Region Biafra. Malam Sulaiman recently revealed that the federal government will establish three natural gas stations in Katsina State – one in Katsina, another in Funtua and the other in Malumfashi to supply energy to industries in Katsina. How many natural gas outlets are there in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Baylesa, Delta, Abia, where the gas is mined? Yes how many? Tell us! Every important industry is located either in Northern Nigeria or in Western Nigeria. Take a look at Abuja and Lagos; which city in the Eastern Region comes close to their level of development. Those cities were built with your money from the Eastern Region. That is why your children are running to Northern Nigeria and to Lagos and Western Nigeria in search of jobs. The Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero recently called the Niger Delta freedom fighters criminals and accused them of bringing shame to Nigeria. Ado Bayero should know that it is the loafing parasites like him from the Caliphate who steal millions of dollars of our money every month, money that rightly belong to the oil producing communities in Eastern Region Biafra that are a disgrace and a shame to any country including Nigeria.



As for our elders they are lying to themselves and to their children. Our elders have sold themselves and us for pennies. Zik gave his children Yoruba names. How many of Awolowo’s children did Awolowo give Igbo names: how many of their children did Abubakar Tafawa Balewa or Ahmadu Bello give Igbo names? Go to Lagos and Abuja and you will find that almost all the rich elders from Eastern Region Biafra have mansions there and actually live there. They only visit their towns and villages in Eastern Region once or twice a year. How many Hausa Fulani and Yoruba have mansions in Calabar, Ikot Ekpene, Umuahia, Port Harcourt, Warri, Degema, Onitsha, Asaba, Awka, and Enugu and actually live there? How many? Are you people so stupid that you can’t even see?

Last week we showed you how our elders have lost the balls to stand up for the truth, for justice and for their rights and the rights of their children. Here you see it again. The question we want the younger generation to ask these elders from all over Eastern Region Biafra is when will they stop lying to us, deceiving us and when will they stop talking about the failed state called Nigeria and start talking about our sovereignty, independence and freedom for our people in their own sovereign independent State. When? Every young person should ask his parents and other elders this particular question.

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

We in Biafra are convinced that the black man can never come into his own until he is able to build modern states based on indigenous African ideologies, to enjoy true independence, to be able to make his mark in the arts and sciences and to engage in meaningful dialogue with the white man on a basis of equality. When he achieves this, he will have brought a new dimension into international affairs. Biafra will not betray the black man. no matter the odds, we will fight with all our might until black men everywhere can point with pride to this republic, standing dignified and defiant, an example of African nationalism triumphant over its many and age-old enemies

We believe that God, humanity and history are on our side, and that the Biafran revolution is indestructible and eternal. Oh God, not my will but thine.

Nigeria was indeed a very wicked and corrupt country in spite of the glorious image given her in the European press We know why Nigeria was given that image. It was her reward for serving the economic and political interests of her European masters. Nigeria is a stooge of Europe. Her independence was and is a lie. Even her Prime Minister was a Knight of the British Empire; but worse than her total subservience to foreign political and economic interests, Nigeria committed many crimes against her nationals which in the end made complete nonsense of her claim to unity. Nigeria persecuted and slaughtered her minorities; Nigerian justice was a farce her elections, her politics-her everything-was corrupt. Qualification, merit and experience were dislocated in public service. In one area of Nigeria, for instance, they preferred to turn a nurse who had worked for five years into a doctor rather than employ a qualified doctor from another part of Nigeria. Barely literate clerks were made Permanent Secretaries. A university Vice Chancellor was sacked because he belonged to the wrong tribe. Bribery, corruption and nepotism were so widespread that people began to wonder openly whether any country in the world could compare with Nigeria in corruption and abuse of power. All the modern institutions-the legislature the civil service, the army, the police, the judiciary, the universities, the trade unions and the organs of mass information-were devalued and made the tools of corrupt political power. There was complete neglect and impoverish ment of the people. Whatever prosperity there was, was deceptive. There was despair in many hearts, and the number of suicides was growing every day. The farmers were very hard- hit. Their standards of living had fallen steeply. The soil was perishing from over-farming and lack of scientific husbandry. The towns, like the soil, were waste-lands into which people put in too much exertion for too little reward. There were crime waves and people lived in fear of their lives. Business speculation, rack-renting, worship of money and share practices left a few people extremely rich at the expense of the many, and those few flaunted their wealth before the many and talked about sharing the national cake. Foreign interests did roaring business spreading consumer goods and wares among a people who had not developed a habit of thrift and well fell prey to Iying advertisements. Inequality of the sexes was actively promoted in Nigeria. Rather than aspire to equality with men, women were encouraged to accept the status of inferiority and to become the mistresses of successful politicians and business executive, or they were married off at the age of fourteen as the fifteenth wives of the new rich. That was the glorious Nigeria, the mythical Nigeria, celebrated in the European press.

pls identify youself completely,  for us to know how to help you

zinco:
i can see that my state is going be one of the best in the country. if militants will not be an obstacle

air port alone, is not going to make ur state the best state . wake up

Yaradua and Yoruba's should publicly tender an apology on behalf of the north and the military for all the atrocities commited in the Niger Delta by them (the north and the military) against the indigence - including failure to punish severely multinational oil companies for the mass pollution of their lands and the unprecedented level of poverty in the region despite the fact that Nigeria earns more than 80% of its foreign revenues from this region.

agor1974:
brothers stop fighting over tis issue of oil or no oil,the problems are complex can the black people generaly manage there resourcess if given the opportunity,yes we can,resoucess can not develop a nation but human does.looking at the north today with all the resourcess at thier disposal what have they done with it.the north remains the most poverty stricken region in nigeria today.the igbos have single handly develop their region productivty in all field of endeavour.this to show the strong will of the people of that region.so niger deltans should do the same and take charge of what naturaly belong to them.they should fight to the last man.amensty or no amensty they should stick to their demand.

but is a reality that oil belongs to Niger Deltal's,whather we can manage it or not.