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EzeUche:
I am Igbo (Aro) and Ibibio and I support this.

But Igbos must apologize to the Ibibios about the Eyo Ita saga, and not recognizing the suffering that Ibibios suffered in defense of Biafra. They were staunch Biafrans, but we rarely hear about their suffering. My materinal side that is Ibibio suffered more than my Igbo side.

That's one thing that should be looked at in meetings, bringing up grievances he because the disunity did not come about over night. Every group in the east has contributed to disunity in some way.

plaetton:
Exactly.
Nigerians would rather live as slaves and caged animals, than to stand up and fight for something.
The greatest revolutions in history were won against incredible odds.

Imagine these boys, whom, for all their lives, have fought for nothing and will fight for nothing, having the guts to mock brave men, whom despite the odds against them, stood up , fought for and died for something.

And people in a zoo can never understand the honour in that, because they are trapped, what? Zoo Animals.

ceejayluv:
What do you call bombing of schools, markets and innocent civilians?

How can you reason with zoo dwellers? All you will get is the response of monkeys and baboons.

cupid1:
All of you insulting them cos of their stature and the sticks they're carrying should stop for a moment to think. If they could hold off the Nigerian Army who had foreign help for more than two years with just sticks and a few Awka made Guns, just imagine what they could have done with real ammunition. I rep Biafra- Land Of The Rising Sun

Can you help people who cannot understand fighting for the survival of a people? They can never understand, that is why they are envious of the cause for Biafra, because they have nothing, and have fought for nothing.

Roland17:
Sheer ingenuity and brilliance by a people who have the right to secede from a nation that never sought to protect its people from the face of violence and tyranny.

Please, Nigeria is not a nation, it is a zoo.

Vicotex:
And these guys held the lazy NA for years.
Nigeria should be thankful to other countries that helped them

Of course, upon all the strafing by imported Egyptian pilots, and all the British ammunition and tactics. These kids actually believe Nigeria had any autonomy in the 60s. This same Britain that used the Sokoto Caliphate like a houseboy. That is why they continue to be kicked about in a zoo.

mulattoclaro:
ijo my foot. If not for Obj did anyone even knew they existed? Ijaws have always being slaves to the Bini people. As a matter of fact they live in camps and settlements in edo state. Edo State alone generates over 50 billion naira as internal revenue. They've not even started exploiting the oil they have. Ijo ass kisser.

That they have settled Bini lands does not mean they are slaves. What is the average condition of a person in this damned state?

mulattoclaro:
what sizeable chunk? Read about the south south very well. Edos are the largest ethnic group in south south followed by the Ijaws. Do you hear edos making noise like the Ijaws? Don't edo state has the same oil that they have? Oil was discovered in three communities in edo state worth over 10 billion barrels. Do you hear of edos bragging about it?

Do not insult Ijo people, their lands fuel your useless bush republic.

joeyfire:
500,000 Skinny niggas can be deadly o

And can hold up a banana republic and its European handlers for 3 years. Please, don't waste time on these people.

That is why till this day Nigeria remains a shit hole, because no one is willing to die for a cause for the worthless failed state.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Dr Okezie Ikpeazu was never ASEPA boss rather a deputy.

What powers or roles do deputies have / play in decision making in Nigeria?

The manifestations of hatred against Ngwa people by their Igbo tribesmen continues.

Give them a chance to prove themselves before mourning their failures.

They tried Ogbonnaya Onu from Afoikpo - he failed

Orji Uzor Kalu from Old Bende, Abia North - he failed

T. A. Orji from Umuahia, Abia Central - He failed

Are Ngwas the new Osu (caste system) in Igboland?

This governorship is being mourned simply because Ikpeazu is associated with TA, onye Ibeku that is unanimously hated, not because o wu onye Ngwa. Ask yourself, TA is from Umuahia, but what did he do for Umuahia except for buying land everywhere and clearing out markets. All these 'my people must rule' nonsense needs to go.

These guys, 'bird chest' and all, held off the Nigerian army for more than two years with sticks and stones. Nigeria should continually thank Britain, Egypt and Russia, if not for them there'd be no Nigeria. Abeg, Ndigbo let's go to igbobuofu[dot]com.

If Nigeria wasn't a zoo, you wouldn't even care about this because everywhere would develop to suit its capacity.

This wasn't a bluff: https://www.nairaland.com/2273846/south-east-south-south-leaders

mulattoclaro:
it's only the Ijaws that are the ones constituting a nuisance. Other tribes in the Niger Delta are not complaining. If you wan to know the nuisance in the Niger Delta then the Ijaws are number one. Have you heard the Urhobos, the Binis, the Itsekiris, the ikwerres, the Isokos or any other tribes in the Niger Delta complain? As for Ndigbo, we all know they're town criers and noise makers. Pay no attention to them.

Yes, pay no attention to them ad they make a sizeable chunk of your fictitious "Niger Delta".

chrisdera:
Thank God for giving Ngwa people mandate to rule Abia State

A governor is (supposed to be) a governor, not a ruler.

SkyBlue1:
Certain sections of French society have issues with Africans sure, just like pretty much every european country. And you think clamping down on satirical magazines solves the issue? I see all you wrote there and it is moving an all, but it is misplaced because it doesn't answer the question. Where would you legally draw the line, and what makes your line more legitimate than the lines of others? You want to claim this causes "micro aggression"? How far do you want to extrapolate? Because there are a whole list of other things I can claim cause that as well, does that mean we scrap those all too? Seriously . . . are people only just realising we live in an imperfect world? I don't get these attitudes especially coming from someone who I assume has lived in Nigeria where people say almost anything. Soon you will claim using the word "fat" causes micro agression towards rotund people and should be banned.

Once again, this is Charlie Hebdo and not Le Monde.

This was a satirical piece about the deaths of hundred of people. Hundreds of people who did nothing, and to take that and add a satirical spin like a 'family reunion at the bottom of the ocean' while depicting the victims in racist caricatures is just not amusing. It's not attacking a particular ideology, it's simply a cynical view from a group of people who do not identify with the suffering of black people. To argue against that is to support racists.

Now your point about 'fat' becoming micro-aggressive is ahistorical, Europeans lock up and kill African immigrants till this day, in the olden days the Nazi party used the same racist caricatures to recruit Germans ("Negermusik" ).

[img]http://sitemaker.umich.edu/artunderfascism/files/entartmu.jpg[/img]

That is how this is aggressive. These things are never harmless jokes. They always end up with people being attacked because their image has been slandered and dehumanised. How about you don't humiliate people who are already a minority.

SkyBlue1:
Where I do or don't live should not be your concern, the issue here is freedom of speech. That picture up there is not calling for violence over a particular group of people or any such thing. It is a satirical picture in the style Charlie Hebdo is very well known for, I mean, what were you expecting their take on the issue to look like?

My problem here is people who go about looking for ways they can be offended, then continuing on to express horror at said offence when their expectations have been met. You are not being forced to read the magazine and it is not even under huge circulation, ironically the terrorist incident only made the magazine more popular. My take is, spare us the "righteous anger" please. You can NOT look at the picture if it offends you so deeply.

You obviously don't know what violence is then. This is what is known as a microagression. If you think there are no repercussions to satirising the deaths of hundreds of people including children (they even drew a baby on the mothers back) while employing racist stereotypes and imagery then you must not be well versed with Europe's history. France is a very hostile country to black people in general. The country regularly harasses and locks up African immigrants and to add insult to injury a major publication like that is making fun of a major tragedy.

Pictures such as these magnify France's general attitudes to black people, they are not people who are to be valued and they are dehumanised. They can be used as jokes, even at times of great suffering. Stop making this seem like this is an unconnected isolated issue. Jokes like these are embedded in the countries wider ideological and moral framework. It reveals what a very large percentage of France thinks of Africans and it leads to people being killed and beaten up on the streets. The FN gaining momentum in France isn't a shock then.

It makes me wonder how people like you would probably see no wrong in the 'Je Suis Charlie' march or have any comment on how such marches are underlied with racism and make a hostile environment even more hostile for immigrants in a country where they are pushed to the margins, but you can defend this as freedom of speech because you want to seem "progressive". This is how I know you do not have experience with direct racism, or if you do, you're an apologists, because if you did you wouldn't be trying to play a 'liberal post-racial negro' card with me.

SkyBlue1:
It is their brand of satire and no one is forcing you to read it.

You're incorrect. You probably don't live in a country where you are different and are made to know it.

Missionary works from 100 years ago shouldn't be the primary source for anything apart from pictures and missionary attitudes.

Ihuomadinihu:
Well,we can't really point at any group. But if you read G.T Basden's 'Among the Ibo',he gave a detailed report of the existence of Cannibals in Southern Nigeria. These stuffs happened in the past,we shouldn't let it create problems now.

G.T. Basden is a missionary, he never reported first hand accounts of cannibalism. There are no documented first hand accounts of cannibalism in Nigeria.

The cannibal things is a rumour that missionaries had blamed all Igbo and Ibibio peoples of. The origin of these myths comes from the slurs the neighbouring peoples threw/throw at each other. Till today Ibibio people say Anang people are cannibals, Anang people probably feel the same, Igbo peoples used to call Ibibio cannibals, and the Ibibio the same to the Igbo.

The thing is there has never been any evidence of cannibalism in eastern Nigeria. It's just a stupid colonial rumour that's been used to demonise the people of Isi Ala Ngwa, people in this day and age still fear going there despite the fact that there has never been any confirmed case of someone being kidnapped to be eaten. Now, being kidnapped for human sacrifice is a different story because probably all groups in southern Nigeria did that.

Danrizzle:
Except terms like 'hydrogen' 'nitrogen'

hydrogen: hydro (water) + genus (birth) = ohimiri.

nitrogen: nitro (from natron) + genus (birth) = ọfụakanwu.

mumbasa:
The greediest among these tribes is Igbo.

mumbasa:
When an Ikwerre, Ekpeye or Ukwuani man tells you that he is not Igbo it doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with the Igbo’s or it’s a bad thing to be Igbo but don’t just use your ignorance to discard my identity and give me yours. There are many very intelligent, successful, rich talented Igbo’s spread all over the world so you can see that there is nothing wrong with the Igbo’s.

Absolute confusion. Notice that these "X are not Igbos oh!" posters always have a jibe or a slur at Igbo people. It's because these people are stark raving mad! If you people continue to fuel the fire of lunatics, I will start opening threads on how Nri and Aro people are not Igbo with more conviction and evidence than these idle sentinels. Not to mention that many of these poster are dummy accounts here with malicious intent. Threads like this should be ignored.

It's possible.

Jones221:
Biafra comes from two Igbo words namely: Bia which means come and Fara meaning join. It was normally Biafara but later turned into Biafra. Biafra has been in existence since 5000years.

5000 years, where did you get this date from?

jaysniggs:
So the Israelites and the Egyptians practiced the same system of burials?

Were the Israelites not in Egypt for a while? That's not my point anyway, my point is that your most revered profits so called prophets have left absolutely no evidence that they ever existed. You are Christian because your people were conquered and missionaries came in as part of the conquerers force. That is why you can easily call yourself a slave for God, which is not even in your so called bible, because Christianity is a religion of docility and waiting for God to solve your problems. Do you not read from a slave traders Bible stamped with a tyrants name for the 'salvation' of your very essence?

So don't quote Roman propaganda for me, unless you can find your prophets.

jaysniggs:
Haha graves of people who died thousands of years ago?
Come on man

This is Ramses IV

https://www.bloomberg.com/ss/07/06/0606_foreclosure_findings/image/4-mummy.jpg

He died 3000 years ago, around 1200 years + before your disappearing prophets. He was not a "man of God" so where are the prophets?

The answer: They never existed. The bible and Christianity was invented by the Romans to unify the state religion, it spread through Europe and the British later used missionaries to keep Africans docile and in servitude to white power. You are probably in possession of King James bible or a derivation of it. King James sanctioned slave trading for England in Africa and was a power hungry murderer. That is why you pray to an Aryan. Do you know what an Aryan is? This is an Aryan:

https://www.imperialteutonicorder.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/jesus4.jpg

jaysniggs:
Lol the bible was written by men under God's ministration.

How do you know? Who are these people? Who told you? Where are their graves?

jaysniggs:
If you are gonna know what I know,
It cuts across ones spirit first before one's physical self.
The problem you're having is that you don't even believe in your spiritual nature for you to experience a communication with your creator.
John 4:24 "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the spirit and in truth"

Do not quote Roman propaganda for me. There is no way for you to prove that the bible came from your God, it came to you in the hands of armed robbers.

Do not assume what you are yet to understand.

jaysniggs:
Don't be silly
Its better for one to be an opportuned slave to a merciful and loving God rather than forfeiting ones total existence.

Good. Then you're a slave to something you know nothing about.

jaysniggs:
Don't blasphem.
Allow me simplify this to you.
God is a respecter of no man
God created this world to keep us in it and he created us to please him.
Whatever problem you have with Nigeria, tell God but know that his will is gonna prevail regardless.
And God is strongly against those that want to divide his people so be careful what you wish for.

This is slavery.