₦airaland Forum

udezue:
Biafra is not just Igbo please.

Thank you very much. That is why I laughed at his post.

mens dept:
Excuses excuses. Those "born after the war", did they not have mothers, fathers, aunties, etc. that survived, fought and died during that era? I know many Igbo youth that arent angry at all, and instead, enjoying the wealth Naija has. They just arent holding on to the past or getting worked up on newspaper reports.

Igbo leaders have failed their own people (as the case is with SS and Middle Belt, and even Yoruba). Those 6 Igbo govs that have been in power since 1999, what have they done, along with the 5 Senate Presidents una produced?

So Biafra was noble, but time to move on and hold your current leaders at all levels accountable. Duh?

Rubbish. . . Rubbish and more Rubbish.

You just enjoy spewing rubbish don't you?

comechop:
in your haste to correct - you missed the point of his post. *palm to forehead*

I already knew what he was saying. Simply correcting his erroneous errors.

Back to sender.

ShangoThor,

Your post were at first amusing, but now they are starting to pisss me off. Sorry to burst your bubble, but a Southern Nigeria federation will never work, because of the mistrust of the Yoruba by Eastern groups. Biafra is more feasible, with the exception of the Ijaw. The Ogoni, Ibibio/Efik/Annang and Cross River community are perfectly fine in joining the Igbo with a nation. That is why Biafra can be likened to Southern Sudan.

Plus, Southeastern Nigeria is majority Christian. The same cannot cannot be said of the South-West. That is why we cannnot say it is a "NON ISLAMIC ALLIANCE."

I would have thought you would have known that already.

fstranger1:
Never in your life should you make the mistake of mentioning Boko Haram and Igbos with Yorubas in the same sentence. Yorubas are way too sophisticated for that.

Please take note.

And this is something I can agree with you on finally. Do not make this a habit.

honeric01:
^^^^

In your part of the world, have you ever heard of assassination before? what makes you think the killers aren't hired Igbo assassins or even Yoruba assassins?

Please we that claimed to be educated should always show that in the way we reason and type.

Actually, the fingers are pointing to members of Boko Haram, in which the man angered many of their members. This is a fact. Maybe you think before you write. It will go a long way.

Andre Uweh:
They are young and militant, most were born in the city. But mind you, nairaland is not the ideal place for this, just get in touch. It is a different Igbo world now.

Well I hope to hear more from my Igbo brethren up north. Let a new Igbo man be born though this conflict.

Tsiya:
I thought u are looking for people with balls not christain's radicals.

The christain radicals in the south killed innocent Nigerians on the road, kiddnapped innocents

Just support whoever is meeting your wish

Your post is nothing but gibberish. Write clearly so I may understand.

Jah Man:
@fstranger,bluetooth,Aigbofa 'la nwoke',etc,

Do you really represent the yoruba tribe?If yes,then shame on 'you' all.
I called a yoruba colleague to come and see what you guys type in NL and he was shocked.Why?He thought that the majority of NLs are enlightened,and if they can be this tribalistic,then,there seems to be little or no hope for this country.

I like ignoring tribalism,though I have been a victim.After NYSC,I passed Arthur Andersen test,and we were only 4 that passed,but one senior manager then(names withheld) from the west felt I wasn't so good at the 3rd stage.
I applied for CBN job via phillips consulting and they refused to call me and my guys,however my guy had someone from Abuja call phillips and he was allowed to take the test without IV.He came out and told me that 90% of those invited were just from 2 schools, OAU Ife and UI.
The same consulting firm refused to shortlist me for Mobil and LNG test and in the process even omitted my yoruba friend because he studied from UNN.
I passed FCMB test and went for interview panel constituting of westerners only.Aside Bolaji Balogun who was thrilled by my result,others were behaving like they saw shyt.I never got the job.

My 1st test after NYSC was for National Bank,and I was the 3rd nationwide(WAEC exam) but never got the job.
I wrote Nolchem test(now Conoil) but they deliberately brought my offer letter the same day I should be having the interview(and ofcourse I was already working) and so tried the next day,but they couldn't attend to me.

I wrote FBN test(WAEC also) and 15 minutes when we entered the hall,some yoruba boys were already submitting.We later found out that their relations in WAEC 'leaked' the exam for them.

I will go on and on.That is where tribalism pains me most.If it's about politics,let anybody enter there and if he performs,who cares about his tribe.But I am indeed really sorry to say this,the yorubas take this tribal sentiment too far even into professional business/career.
The North, yes, is doing it so as to get a slot even when they are not qualified.I sympathise with them.But the yorubas keep 'cheating' people with the myth that they are the 'better educated' ones and so should ordinarily have more share of whatever job/career.This is not true.
Let me stop here,but I will advise, those guys I mentioned above should learn to keep tribalism out of what they are known for in NL.

Now this is the truth. Yoruba tribalism knows no bound.

May his tender soul rest in peace.

Ikengawo:
lol this whole site is always going on and on about how someone needs to shoot these politicians. Someone does it and you're all 'awww' lol. smfh.

Well when Muslim radicals do this, of course we are alarmed. They already been targeting Christians. Now they are targeting their own!

If they can do this to their own people, what do you think Boko Haram can do to Igbos?

Andre Uweh:
, 67 dead bodies?. Where is this fictitious figures coming from?.
Reports reaching me as at 11pm last night from Ndigbo in just suggest retaliatory attacks from Ndigbo has claimed the enemies lives x2.
Thanks to Ndigbo in Jos for this brave act.

Tell me about these brave Igbo warriors taking the fight to the enemy. I wish to hear detailed information.

Biafra shall rise again. I know it will happen. God has ordained our nation.

At least Nigerians in the Diaspora are protesting.

JomoGbomo2:
i still believe Nigerian problems will continue to linger on until we start looking at things from the right perspective,
the poster is making me to think that the yorubas and hausas are the ones governing Abia, Imo, Anambra, Enugu and othe SE states.

what difference did the igbo governors in their respective states make. Abeg, ok, tell me they are the bad igbos, right?

Our problem with leadership will continue in this current state until we remove tribal appellations from it. I dont think the tribe of the leader will help in solving our problems.

Surely, there is an intrinsic trust issue when it comes to the "igbo tribe" but i believe just like all wounds, it will heal with time.
the challenge is for us to build leaders within ourselves that will be ready for tomorrow irrespective of their tribes and religion.

Most of these posters were born after the Civil War and they continue to hate the Ndigbo. You said time heals everything. No. There is real anger amongst Igbo youth. Everyday we are hearing our people are being targeted in the North. I thought we were Nigerians?

Everyday, we have to suffer the ridicule, the slaps in our face and the disrespect of our people. Enough is enough. There will come a day when the Igbo rise up, and you better hope that day is not not near. Because the way things are looking in the world, Nigeria could implode at any moment.

SOUTHERN SUDAN: A NOBLE PRECEDENCE

by Osita Ebiem

n the 9th of July, 2011 a new nation will be created on the African continent. It will be called the nation of Southern Sudan. Its emergence will be an important landmark on the continent in more than one way. It will be about the first Black African nation of an African creation. It will mark the coming of age of the Blackman in his own home continent after centuries of disarray; the time when he began to think for himself and to have enough confidence in himself to choose what he wants for himself. On the 9th of July 2011 the world will salute a people who knew what they wanted, demanded for it and fought for it.

The peoples of Southern Sudan fought for more than twenty years within which more than two million of their population was killed. No, they fought for over five decades starting from 1955. They fought resolutely. They fought astutely. They fought assiduously. They fought resiliently. They fought stoutly as men and now they must have what they wanted. From the outset they saw clearly what is good for them and would not settle for anything less.

All along they knew that the greatest and most precious of all possessions by any people is their culture and way of life. They knew that to loose such invaluable inheritance is to loose life itself. Indeed, life is worth nothing when the people have been dispossessed of their ancestral culture and ways. It is in such occasions that wars become justified, (this might sound controversial to some but nothing can be truer and I am not ready to tender any apology). The two million people killed are just the price the Southern Sudanese had to pay to take back what had been taken away from them; their sovereignty.

From the beginning the Southern Sudanese saw out of the experience of centuries that the Arab world; because they had embraced an oppressive, intolerant and retrogressive way of life, that it would be insane to share the same political space with them and expect anything from them that is better than bigotry, slavery, exploitation, bad governance and backwardness. Southern Sudanese have proved that they are no fools and are capable of making their own choice rather than let some colonial outsiders sit down somewhere in Berlin in 1885 and choose for them who they should associate with.

Finally Southern Sudan has shown the rest of Black Africa the way to go. The rest of the black peoples of the continent must take back their lost sovereignty and re-divide the continent, if need be, by force of arm as in the example of South Sudan. You are free and independent only when you can choose out of your own freewill who you would associate with and not when someone else had yoked you together with whom you have nothing in common.

Right now as we write the Igbo people of Old Biafra Republic have just rented four tour buses to convey the 67 dead bodies of their brothers and sisters back to their homeland in Biafra. The people were murdered in the ongoing Islamic Jihad in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria.

On the 30th of May 1967, the peoples of Southeast of Nigeria declared independence as the Republic of Biafra based on two reasons; they wanted to exist in a political space where they would be free to live their lives in their own way and on their own terms without molestation and they wanted to preserve their race from extermination. Earlier in 1966, Nigeria and Nigerians had embarked on a project of ethnic cleansing to rid their society of every person of Biafran extraction.

The Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, Tiv, Idoma, etc peoples of Nigeria killed, never maimed, every Biafran in their midst unremittingly for a period of one year before the inevitable declaration of Biafra´s secession in 1967. After Biafra´s declaration, Nigeria intensified the killing and by 1970 when the great Biafran General Philip Effiong announced Biafra´s decision to stop the war, the field was covered with the dead bodies of 3.1 million Biafran children, women and men who were murdered because they wanted to choose what they considered good for themselves; their sovereignty.

To the peoples of Old Biafra of 1967 the choice was an eternal choice, so said a Pro-Biafra activist in a conversation with this writer last week. He maintained that with South Sudan´s independence on 9 July later this year that the last vestige of doubt in the mind of all Biafrans everywhere as to the rightness of their 1967 choice has been removed.

In all fairness, with South Sudan´s precedence staring the world in the face, it becomes logical that Biafra´s case must be revisited now. The people have already paid enough price to purchase their freedom and independence. The oppressive Islamic culture of the peoples of Nigeria is not about to reform any time soon. From all indications the jihadist killings of none Muslims in Nigeria will go on till Biafra separates from Nigeria.

Already, to the majority of the people across the world, Nigeria as it is constituted today has outlived its usefulness, just like most other countries of Black Africa Nigeria must be split up along its cultural divides. Let the cultures that find themselves compatible fuse together and form cohesive and functional societies and put a permanent stop to the current wanton waste of lives of children and the sacrifice of progress and prosperity at the alter of an artificial and obscene "unity".

The rest of Black Africa, starting from Nigeria to Ivory Coast, to Senegal, to Cameroun, to South Africa, etc. must sit down somewhere, just as in 1885 in Berlin Germany, and redraw the political map of Africa, today. Black Africans must look the oppressive forces of this Arabian culture that subjugated the peoples of Southern Sudan for years without remorse in the face and choose to live their lives on their own terms. In all honesty, the Western colonial powers of 1885 could not have made a better choice than you can do for yourselves today, 2011.

South Sudan has shown that it can and must be done and Biafra must follow in this very noble example. Biafra has got oil too as does Southern Sudan and should use their oil to bargain for their freedom and sovereignty with whoever that would be enticed thereby. They have no reason whatsoever to remain any longer in any kind of unworkable and unprofitable association with Nigeria.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/212023

Righton:
Exactly. Why should Hitler (a white whose race invented aircraft, ships, automobiles, explosives, found cures for many diseases etc) inhabit the same earth with blacks who only remind him of disease and poverty!

False -

People have always been using ships. Even in Africa. Explosives were created by the Chinese, since they were the first to discover gunpowder. And many people have found cures for various diseases, EVEN AFRICANS. Our herbal recipes that have been past down from generation to generation have been used by European scientist to create medicine for the world.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

They are good at intercepting drugs, but not bombs. Rubbish Nigerian military.

Dede1:
What an unfortunate statement. But in the widest of your inadequate imagination, you saw multitude of qualified individuals from other Nigeria’s ethnic stock to assume the presidency in Nigeria. In fact, I do not blame anybody but Ndigbo who remained docile since the end of the civil war. This type of unfounded political shenanigan spurs many of us to agitate for a separate homeland so we can give the likes of kobojunkie the apple opportunity to tell us “we told you so” as Ndigbo wallow in their political stupor.

I agree with you my brother. And people wonder why the bulk of the Ndigbo do not wish to be in this nation.

Rhino.5dm:
Google operation Ajax and see the true face of USA. . . . .its okay to even over throw a democratically elected president if he is not yeilding to thier request and overlook a general ruling pakistan all in the name of allies.
What a shame!

Everyone who has studied history should know about Operation Ajax and how Mohammed Mossadeq, a very popular Prime Minister in Iran was ousted.

It is the hypocrisy of the U.S. The U.S. looks out for their own interest.

I actually believe you. This is not the first time a poster on Nairaland had the news before the news outlet.

soldee:
Igbos have already been rewarded  

Bianca Ojukwu is gorgeous. I can't say what I really want to say. 

I really want a wife who looks like that.

Yorubas do not deserve the position, because ACN controls your region. We Igbos have been more loyal to PDP, and deserve this position. This is what Igbo politicians should be arguing. Reward the Igbo for our support of GEJ.

We already know the Yoruba will vote for ACN, so why waste a position on them?

jason123:
Tribalism only exist on NL!!!

If only that was true!

RoadStar:
This shows that tribalism does not really exist in Nigeria.
It is just a tool our politicians use for personal gains.
And to promote their personal agenda.

What are you smoking? Because that must be some very potent herbs. Tribalism has always existed in Nigeria. It can be seen in the average man.

Ujujoan:
I wonder what the Yoruba tribalists would have said if they landlord was igbo

This thread would have been 5 pages by now. Double-standard. And they have the nerve to say that Igbos kill for money. I never heard of an Igbo being killed for a paltry N300 Electricity bill.

These people kill for such a small amount of money? What kind of nonsense is that?

jason123:
That is a lie!!!

Look at how quick we Igbos are able to cast off our corrupt lot. I would have thought by now that you people realize that it was the Igbos who pushed for Nwodo's removal.

You all see we Igbos as not being united. No. We hate corrupt officials. That is why by God's grace Ohakim of Imo State and T.A. Orji will be out of office before the year is out.

Aigbofa:
You know as well as I do that, there is not an iota of truth in your little epistle up there.

You can deny it all you want my nemesis, but we know it is nothing but the truth.

No, I cannot imagine an Igbo being president of Nigeria. That is the sad truth. A major ethnicity trapped outside of power. I never heard of such.