₦airaland Forum

ayobabas:
The same thing can be said about Igbos from the SE.
Many of them all over Nigeria would prefer one Nigeria to the repeat of Ojukwu's debacle.
Even without war, half of Igbos or more across the country who are doing well would rather remain one with Nigeria than break up and pack to the SE where majority are traders with no one buying from one another, shortage of food and heavy industries! It is a recipe for disasters!

Who told you that the formation of Biafra calls for all indigenous biafrans to return home?
When Nigeria got her independence from britain, did that happen?

eluquenson:
The Rich are getting Richer, while the Poor are getting Poorer.
Same old poo

The rich are getting poorer, the economy is defined by oil and oil is getting cheaper.

OZAOEKPE:
You guys are losers, biafra is a failed project

You are incapable of reason, the default anti-Igbo mentality of the average bini person is showing all over you.

osemwengie1:
This Op is sick, dont ever bring my state into this rubbish biafra talk. If the other states want they can join biafra today is none of our biz. Iye osalobua e mwian weh. People who cannot pay salary without federal allocation is talking about independence. Please oh.

Yet Anambra increased the salaries of her workers by 16%.
The reason why states are not economically viable is the parasitic and almajiri federal system Nigeria has.

OZAOEKPE:
#proudly Niger Delta

I am a die hard supporter of Biafra.
#proudly Niger Deltan

OZAOEKPE:
We(Niger Deltans) will only support Biafrans if they agree to make Edo state the headquarter of proposed Biafra project. That is only when we can support Biafra, anything short of that is not going to go well with that "project".

Orzuor who made you a spokesman for the "niger delta'.

mekaboy:
If they are above tribal politics why didnt they divide their votes?

Because of Buhari's utterances - monkey and baboon, 97%, sharia e.t.c

I feel that direct comparisons with other ethnic nations are distasteful, but I see nothing wrong with one bragging about his tribe's achievements.
If you feel intimidated, state your tribe's own or be challenged towards achieving more for your tribe.

Our sense of belonging and patriotism does not lay with the geographical impression - Nigeria, but with our ethnic groups.
We should come to terms with this.

Sweetlemon:
That's the funny thing. On top Ijaw man?! Haba!

Yes, Ijaw man!
That proves that the Igbos are way beyond tribal politics, and this scares you.

NgeneUkwenu:
My people keep embarrassing us, on the internet daily, because one useless Ijaw man lost an election! Very Shameful!

I don't see how the Igbos bragging about their achievements relates to GEJ losing the election.

CuckoldMaster:
Interesting to see how the UN and Amnesty International will view this. Does Slovakia have the right to ban Muslims from entering their country?

Does Saudi Arabia have the right to ban churches in their country?

Ivoryd1:
I'm surprised @ d@...so how sensible should it be for a government to support and help promote crime....do you know the effect of adulterated fuels on engine....Lolzzzz....I fink we should all learn to make constructive and meaningful criticism .....bunkering and illegal refineries operation are illegal n against the constitution.....d@ there is high unemployment should not make the government resort to using crime as tool for development....blocking all loop holes is one of many ways of growing the economy and making it strong...hmmm

Would the fuel be adulterated if the refinery is regulated by a government agency?

Time to start thinking outside the box.
law was made for man, not man for law.

atbu1983:
Biafra Occupation of Midwest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967

On August 17 Governor Okonkwo installed a dusk to dawn curfew in which only citizens with passes would be allowed to move freely at night. Non-Igbo citizens, especially the Hausa community, were subject to harassment from Biafran soldiers while women were often molested and sometimes raped, this in retaliation for the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom. Resistance groups began springing up constantly consisting of mainly ethnic Urhobos and Ijaws. Because of a series of uprisings against the occupying Biafrans in Benin City, General Okonkwo began raising a force of loyal native inhabitants to combat the rebels. By August 18 Okonkwo had assembled a force of 780 reliable volunteers to keep natives from attacking or killing Biafran soldiers. Loyal inhabitants donated whatever weaponry they has to the Biafrans, which consisted mainly of single-shot rifles and double-barreled shotguns. Cooks began poisoning Biafran soldiers whenever they had the chance to and it was because of this that Biafran soldiers began only eating food that was cooked by ethnic Igbos or self-cooked. Rebellious natives who did not wish to fight would often seduce Biafran soldiers to get information out of them and tell Nigerian authorities. On August 20 a group of Urhobo/Ijaw rebels raided a Biafran camp and were successful in killing 50 soldiers while 16 rebels were killed in the skirmish. Due to these rebellions Biafran soldiers began raiding and pillaging villages throughout both the Mid-Western Region and Niger Delta inhabited by anyone other than Igbo civilians. The Biafran government began broadcasting Biafran propaganda in the region while the Nigerian government broadcast anti-Biafran propaganda as well. On September 19 President Ojukwu declared Governor Okonkwo President of the Biafran puppet-state, the Republic of Benin, in an attempt to make citizens of the Mid-Western Region loyal to a government other than Nigeria.

Date: 7 October, 1967
Deaths: 700+
Perpetrators: Murtala Mohammed, Ibrahim Taiwo


The Asaba massacres occurred in early October 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, fought over the secession of Biafra (the former Eastern Region of Nigeria). Biafran troops invaded the Midwest Region of Nigeria, to the west of the River Niger, in early August, 1967. They spread west, taking Benin City and reaching as far as Ore, where they were pushed back by the Nigerian Second Division, under the command of Col. Murtala Muhammed.

The Nigerian troops gained the upper hand, and forced the Biafrans back to the Niger, where they crossed the bridge back into the Biafran city of Onitsha, which lies directly across from Asaba. The Biafrans blew up the eastern spans of the bridge, so that the Nigerian troops were unable to pursue them.

The Nigerian troops entered Asaba around October 5, and began ransacking houses and killing civilians, claiming they were Biafran sympathisers. Leaders summoned the townspeople to assemble on the morning of October 7, hoping to end the violence through a show of support for "One Nigeria." Hundreds of men, women, and children, many wearing the ceremonial akwa ocha (white) attire paraded along the main street, singing, dancing, and chanting "One Nigeria." At a junction, men and teenage boys were separated from women and young children, and gathered in an open square at Ogbe-Osawa village. Nigerian troops revealed machine guns, and orders were given by Maj. Ibrahim Taiwo to open fire. It is estimated that more than 700 men and boys were killed, some as young as 12 years old, in addition to many more killed in the preceding days.

The bodies of some victims were retrieved by family members and buried at home. But most were buried in many mass graves, without appropriate ceremony. Many extended families lost dozens of men and boys. Nigerian troops occupied Asaba for many months, during which time most of the town was destroyed, many women and girls were raped or forcibly "married," and large numbers of citizens fled, many not returning until the war ended in 1970.


Source: Wikipedia

atbu1983:
You should Jump into the lagoon and get lost. nobody will remember you

Lagoon? Why not the River Niger?
Are you sure you are a Niger Deltan brought up and bred in the Niger Delta?

babyfaceafrica:
just be careful with this your neighbours..they are not going to just leave u like that,they will claim the claimabbles,like saying delta igbos are igbos...

How has Aniomas being Igbos or not, helped the southeast?
The brainwashing is strong o.

Countries that are sensible will look towards regulating and taxing these private refineries, so as to provide employment and fuels instead of destroying them.

ayokellany:
Igbo man with cunie cunie brain so after Aguiyi Ironsi truncated the regional govt to unitary to sooth you people we should revert back to it to sooth you once again because Jonathan lost the election ? For God sake what exactly is wrong with the brain of some of you ?

Stop mentioning Ironsi or Nzeogwu, as if they held a townhall meeting with all Igbos before making their decisions.

So you feel that regionalism will not also sooth your people, why?

The dots are connecting

Cutehector:
peace.. Not war... Hav u tried to assk urselv abt d number of little children dat died in d biafran war? Dnt u hav little ones?

How many children died in Scotland because of their referendum? None!
You better start pushing for a referendum or regionalism or there will still be another war, and Nigeria will eventually break up.

shachris:
because they have all it takes to make a nation. what would the igbos bring to the table?

Coal, oil, limestone, technology, agricultural produce e.t.c

The SE does not ask for the same country with the Niger Deltans, all they ask is grab the bull by the horn by wanting out.

gmaribel:
Thank you op. When the Niger Delta struggled against the degradation of their land. They did it on their own in the creeks.

They fought and are still fighting against the Rape of their lands

How many Igbos joined them in the fight.

Now they want to use them to fight their own Battle. It is now they remember that there are their brothers.

When an Igbo man wants to help you say he wants to steal your oil, the same oil he has on his land.
This is also happening right now, you think Biafra is about your oil but you don't know that as soon as Nigeria disntegrates the SS will have the sole power to stop environmental degradation or even worsen it.

When I talk about pollution with my Urhobo friends, I get that 'you wan take our oil' look forgetting that Ika produces oil.

shachris:
you, a zombie parading to be an igbo. NIGERIA Deltans do not need biafra to be a nation.

WHY?

onenaira3:
I don't think I've ever seen a tribe as pathetic as yoloba. I swear you people are in another level of PATHETIC. Only God knows what poosesses another person to log on and pretend to be wtf they are not. Ashamed of your region and coming online to create fights between two other regions. No body is as shameless as you children of devils.

OP word of advice, next time you try to shamefully attache by force, make sure your full name is not online as well as make sure you didn't bust yourself by informing all your language is Yoruba, didn't refer sw as "my people", etc.

#spits on the floor. PATHETIC, SHAMEFUL, WORTHLESS, tribe yoloba are.

Busted!

olasmith10:
who buys the goods u sell?

emphasis on 'to some extent'

olasmith10:
Honestly, I c dis territorial fight btw d igbos and Yoruba as irrelevant and not needed..more disastrously like fanning d embers of war..the two erhnic groups lives inter dependently on each other meaning a unilateral survival is almost impossible..The earlier we both embrace peace and unity the better for d nation..

We don't depend on you people o!
Stop attaching!

We are different and should to some extent, run our things separately.
Biafra!

Nigeria will surely disintegrate