Wow, I'm loving these protests
You can't intimidate Igbos into submission because we are too many, too resourceful, too connected and too educated to be subduied by a tribe that is globally recognized as the world's poverty capital and has the worst developmental indices.

I pity the fossil that wants to be the modern day othman Dan fodio. Let him travel on his sick leave again and see if he won't have protesters following him about and disgracing him.

kennyify88:
[s]Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is dreaming by including the South South states in map of Biafra.



The Nnamdi Kanu-led IPOB is agitating to break out the Old Eastern region from Nigeria to form Biafra Republic.



And Clark, who spoke in an interview with BBC Pidgin, said the IPOB is very unrealistic in their quest to break the South South and South East out of Nigeria, adding, “To me, IPOB is not pursuing the right thing.”




However, Clark maintained that Nnamdi Kanu is fighting a good fight, adding that the people of the South East are being neglected in Nigeria.




Clark explained that South East only has five states, whereas other regions in the country have six and seven respectively, “Based on what? Nobody knows.”


“For every appointment that is being made in this country, the Igbo are shortchanged.

If Universities are being distributed per state, they will have five. Others will have six while North-West will have seven. This is despite the Igbo forming the third leg when this country was created.




“So, they have a good complaint, but going about it wrongly.”
Speaking further, he said,




“How can Delta be part of Biafra? In what way? Is Biafra older or bigger than Delta?


“How can Rivers State or Akwa Ibom become part of Biafra?

They are dreaming for still thinking about the Eastern Region of those days.”[/s]

Old man still talking rubbish. So, Edwin Clark thinks he can speak for everyone in the so-called SS including Igbos there but Nnamdi Kanu can't? If the old Eastern region boundary can't be used then why does he think that a new one that will comprise of all Igbos in SE and SS can't be used?

Edwin Clark, you can only speak for your Delta State Ijaws, but you will be foolish to also think you can speak for Delta Igbos or Rivers Igbos.

I don't see how Nigeria can overcome this. The issue is gradually escalating and it may eventually result in a diplomatic row.

The noose is tightening

Semikolo:
Billion Dollar Railway at Oshodi, Lagos Destroyed By Floor.

Lagos Floor no be here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4k15FZ_nt8

Look at how dirty everywhere is . Even pigs won't be comfortable in such disgusting environment and to think this is the overhyped Lagos

Lol, what some gullible Igbos are not understanding is that your enemies are envious and jealous. It is an open secret that Igbos have the largest number of wealthy people per capita unlike in the North where only a minute fraction controls the wealth while the overwhelming majority languish in biting poverty.

Currently, Nigeria is facing severe economic hardship yet the Igbos they love to hate gathered their people both rich and poor, and where throwing bundles of money around for everyone to grab!!

If it is not witchcraft and undiluted envy, tell me why a burial that had both the rich and poor in one place, where the rich shared money to the poor became something to be condemned. Many struggling people got enough money to pay rents, buy food or even establish business because of that burial.

Bastards are not happy that Igbos are prospering, love themselves and seem to be relatively better off.

Loosers!!!

These protests are seriously gathering momentum and it continues to embarrass both the UK and Kenya for the ignoble roles they played and also indicts Nigeria as a rogue state

Lolz, this is the beginning of the end. So they've graduated to shooting down airforce jets

No wahala Sha, Niger Delta oil money will be used to replace it ASAP.

But I want Southern slaves to pause for a moment and imagine this jet was short down in the East, West or Niger Delta by any Southern group. By now, body bags of the innocent villagers where it happened would be piling up while the entire community will be blockaded and starved. But you fools won't ask why same treatment won't be meted out to that Zamfara community where this outrageous crime happened. Why? Because they see you all as conquered slaves!!!

BKayy:
My brother don't judge from Nairaland. DSS has infiltrated here.
The Resistance is now stronger than before

I'm not talking about Biafran agitators or IPOB, of course the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu was devastating initially but they're gradually bouncing back getting their mojo back. However, I'm referring to other Southerners, particularly Yorubas, Igbo politicians, and some Niger Delta minorities who were riding on the back of Nnamdi Kanu and his group to be putting up some elements of resistance. They were using the buffer to be making noise but the moment MNK was no longer there, they all disappeared like smoke.

Sunday Igboho is now on the run, militants are now being used to destroy each other while at the same time, crazy bills are being passed and the North that was begging is now issuing threats on how another Northerner will succeed Buhari.

Instead of the gutless fools to understand that Nnamdi Kanu is the general who is leading them in confronting an evil behemoth instead they will join the enemies in attacking him.

SMH!

Anazp:
can biafra go to war one on one with Kenya??

How old are you?

While at it, they need to be showing in their placards that Kenya is not a safe country for tourism and tourists should avoid going there at all costs considering their terrible gross violations of human rights.

They don buy market!!

SWDude:
I earlier saw the news here on Nairaland, but didn't really believe it due to the source. This morning, I was sent the video. See below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvKOlOIgAE

The video clip is quite chaotic and I didn't hear or understand very clearly what was happening. So, please who moved the motion and what's his name and constituency/state?

Why didn't the government arrest Sunday Igboho or go after him while Nnamdi Kanu was still attacking the foundations of Nigeria with facts and truths?

Why did they keep quiet only to go on the onslaught immediately Nnamdi Kanu is no longer available to give it to them hot and expose their shenanigans?

Why is Southerners now acting timidly and passive while Fulanis are now issuing threats and bullying everyone?

Mark it today that the presidency will remain in the North after Buhari because they no longer see any threats.

appishani1:
If you are writing about Nnamdi kanu never put Jesus there.
Jesus is never like Nnamdi kanu please.
I know you are in pain but calm down.
Nnamdi kanu mouth kill him.
He kill many innocent people and you expect God not to repay him back? That blood must come back to haunt him.

That's why you scored zero in your comprehension. The Jews were screaming kill Jesus, someone who didn't do anything aside preaching salvation while they demanded for Barnabas, a condemned criminal to be released to them.

Is that analogy any different from how you all have been screaming kill Nnamdi Kanu when he is only advocating for freedom while you all do nothing as Boko Haram fighters are released and sent abroad?

theTranslator:

Mba miri is "no to water "hates sea"
I understand some igbo

Mba means people!
Miri means water!

Mba miri loosely means people that live by the waters!!

Depending on the contest it is used, Mba also means no. Like when one says "mba, ekweghim" which means "no, I disagree". But the "mba miri" 100% means people that live by the waters!!

Gosh, unbridled hate has really done serious damage on many people.

I have never seen a group of people that are so myopic, senseless, unreasonable, thoughtless and shortsighted like the ethnicities that make up the areas known as Southern Nigeria. These people are so unbelievably timid and suffering from gross Stockholm syndrome!

Any observer who watches how most Yorubas of SW, many minorities of SS and few Igbos of SE joined Hausa/Fulani owners of Nigeria to be attacking Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB would assume that they're responsible for all the woes bedeviling Nigeria. But in reality, they were risking all to be challenging an evil status quo that has not only ensured we keep going in circles but now have our very existence under serious threat.

Nnamdi Kanu has remained consistent, even at great risks to himself and those of others in his group in challenging the Nigerian state. Naturally, those benefiting from the terrible status quo saw him as a threat to their choke hold on us and the pillaging of our resources for the exclusive enjoyment of their immediate families, friends and cronies. So, they became desperate in looking for ways to bring Nnamdi Kanu down. What baffled me beyond every reasonable thought was why on earth other Southerners who are being exploited, cheated, harrassed, intimidated and all would also join in the crusade to bring Nnamdi Kanu down by all means necessary.

Because of Nnamdi Kanu's attacks on the evil system being operated in Nigeria at the detriment of the peace and progress of the South and even the Middle Belt, Southerners began to get bold in questioning why lots of crazy things were happening in Nigeria with little or nothing done to stop it. For the first time in a long while, the South began to look eyeballs to eyeballs with the North. People like Sunday Igboho started rising and Southern governors started issuing threats and making emphatic demands. However, now that Nnamdi Kanu has been arrested, any careful observer can see that all those resistance that was growing has collapsed like a pack of badly arranged cards!

Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB group was and still is, a massive buffer protecting the South's interest at great risks to themselves but just like the Jews who shouted 'kill Jesus' (who was actually their savior who didn't nothing wrong to them) and release Barabass (a condemned criminal), Southerners kept shooting at themselves and now they've committed suicide

Have you all now seen how Fulanis are all over the place issuing threats, giving ultimatum and making press releases about how the presidency would remain in the North yet Southerners would only complain in hushed tones?

Have you all seen how 30% was tactically given to the North without a single oil well yet only 3% was given to the oil producing region. Worse still, they also smuggled in Northern states to enjoy the same 3% with them in the name of pipelines crossing their states

Southerners behave like gutless cowards, irredeemable fools, and thoughtless zombies under a spell.

You all will suffer for 600 years for being so senseless

zhike:
Other countries like South Africa have many tribes and many religious but they are not killing each other.

Why are Nigerians fighting in the name of religious and tribe?

Zulus are planning to give Nigerians weapons so that they can continue killing each other.

Because they live in a zoo in a jungle and thus behave like wild animals and cave men

KillMNKnow:
[s]So those every other criminals. The business is to wash the ill gotten money. The Bratva, Sinaloa cartels, MS 13, COSA nostra, triads, Yakuza, D company, Camorra, hells angels, they all have clubs using it to push drugs, guns, assassinations, robberies, prostitutions, pornos, just about any crimes you can think of.

This one Cubana have added advantage, operating in lawless, corrupt environment with archaic security system, borderless country. With his shrine engaging in Juju it's makes them more dangerous than D company and MS13[/s]

If you continue with this bitterness, walahi you will die with your poverty o. Many young Igbos are cashing out LEGITIMATELY! It's not every rich man out there made his money through dubious means. Stop consoling yourself with that archaic and redundant mindset and go hustle like your mates instead of wailing and crying on nairaland.

"Start thinking big even though you're starting small" that the mentality of many of these Igbo money bags you see today. Most of them started from poverty just like you but they didn't give up and remain in poverty like you've chosen!!

Doraty1:

https://twitter.com/akinalabi/status/1416454687960801282?s=19


https://twitter.com/akinalabi/status/1416811181210230788?s=19

Oloye Akin Alabi, is the lawmaker representing Egbeda/Ona Ara Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.
Lalasticlala
Mynd44

A breath of fresh air coming from another self made billionaire while frustrated haters who are still battling poverty and deprivation keeps hating for no reason.

SMH!

The envious bastards are only angry that the stimulation took place in Igboland. They're even more angry that the famed talk about Igbos having the highest concentration of rich people is indeed a fact.

Many of this unfortunate haters now open one stupid thread after another and keep lamenting how Obi Cubana didn't build a highway in his village instead of lavishing money during his mother's burial. Another re.tar.ted fool called rossikpu or whatever even opened another ridiculous thread about how rich Igbos don't help their people like the hausas

rosinkkit:


While you keep displaying your illiteracy and bushness.

I believe the world should be 'ignorance'..

You're such an almajiri illiterate who got hold of a cheap chinko phone.

Imagine who is trying to correct someone yet wrote world instead of word

"I believe the world word should be 'ignorance'"

If you're not an unfortunate almajiri whose brain is totally messed up, you will never in your life compare Hausas or Fulanis with Igbos in terms of wealth transfer, community development and self help. You're only making a mockery of yourself. If Hausas and fulanis engage in just 10% of what Igbos do to help themselves, Northern Nigeria won't be in such sorry state today as the world's most miserable region. You're not even ashamed to compare a rotten region that is globally recognized as the poverty capital of the world, a place where over 10 million children are out of school, a place that has totally collapsed and is now a hotbed of terrorism due to donkey years of irresponsible lifestyle.

Shame on you for disgracing yourself and embarrassing Northerners by opening this self mocking thread!!!

nengibo:


Before Rivers people were mba miri, but now because of access to sea, they love ocean pass Ijaw man

You see how most of you dwell in ignorance? You don't know what "mba miri" means but you concluded it's something insulting.

SMH.

Nonsense!!!
Divide this contraption now and save Africa from anarchy and refugee crises!!!

obiekunie01:
[s]The Igbos and Yorubas are always at a logger head on political issues. We seem never to agree.

Now 2023 is fast approaching and there is still serious divisions in the south especially if one look at the Yoruba supposed candidate which the Igbos don't accept at all.

After much thought on the 2023 presidency, it seems the south will lose again to the North if we don't shed our differences and present a united front.

For the South not to lose to the North, the only option is for the south to present candidates that will be accepted by the entire south and possibly North.

As an Igbo man, we are known for our peaceful approach to issues and based on that, I wish to table this suggestions and hope it finds root among the southerners and some North.


PRESIDENCY: For Ndi Igbo to support a Yoruba presidency come 2023, then they must present Rotimi Akeredolu to vie for the office of the President and Babagana Umar Zulum as his vice president.

SENATE PRESIDENT: The Senate President must be an Igbo man from the 5 eastern state and must be the person of Eyinnaya Abaribe . Also, the Speaker of the House of Representative must also be an Igbo man from the 5 Igbo states.

CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF: The Chief of Army Staff must be an Igbo man from the 5 Igbo states - if there is none qualified for the post, an Igbo man from other ranks must be promoted to the position (Baba Bubu has shown us that everything is possible).

CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF: Can be from from the middle belt region but preferably a TIV man.

CHIEF OF AIRSTAFF: Can be from any State from the Middle belt but especially from Kaduna South - must be a Christian

CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF: Must be from South-South especially Akwa-Ibom or Rivers

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Must be from any of Yoruba States especially Ondo

ARTONEY GENERAL: Must be an Igbo man from any of the 5 Igbo States.

CHIEF JUSTICE: Must be an Igbo man from the 5 Igbo states.

SECRETARY TO THE GOVT: Can be Yoruba man

MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, MINSTRY OF WORKS, MINISTRY OF FINANCE: MUST BE AN IGBO MAN FROM THE 5 IGBO STATES.

CUSTOMS: MUST BE HEADED BY AN IGBO MAN FROM THE 5 IGBO STATES.

FCT MINITER: Maybe an Igbo man or a Gbagi man for the first time.

INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE: Must be an Igbo man or woman from the 5 Igbo states.

IN ALL THE STATED POSITIONS, IF NO ONE FROM THE 5 IGBO STATES IS QUALIFIED, THEN ANY IGBO MAN CAN BE PROMOTED TO THE RANKS - REF: BUHARI 2015 - 2023.

With the above stated conditions fully agreed and accorded all legal backings by the two tribes, the Igbos will cede their 2023 presidential ambition and support the Yoruba - otherwise, then the reverse will be the case and the Yorubas will promise to support any one the Igbos present to view for the Presidency and the Yorubas will take the listed Igbo positions under an Igbo Presidency.

This is fair enough in my view. What do you think?[/s]

Will you stop making a fool of yourself?! You just woke up in your small room and started writing trash on behalf of 40 million people?? What sent you? What sort of madness is that?

Uniswap:
After salaries
Rest will be looted to their various companies under the guise of contracts

4.63 Billion to north east devt commission?
To do what?

Summary of one Nigeria
Sharethemoneycracy

Next

Of all the people that posted in the front page, it's only you that asked this very important question. On what ground will North East be given extra 4.63 billion naira??

The other day buhari dashed billions of naira to Katsina his home state, and one begins to wonder why collective wealth or even wealth that belong to another is taken from them and given to others based on nepotism and bigotry!!

So, NE foisted Boko Haram on themselves which has cost billions of dollars in the name of buying arms and ammunition and other logistics yet the federal government still went ahead to be allocating additional billions of naira to them??

Local governments get similar allocations to what states get but Kano alone has 44 local governments, similar to Katsina and other arid states which means the governors will still get extra billions of naira!!

Southerners are fools!!!

selemempe:
I just saw this picture of Wike and Obi Cubana and it got me thinking again of what could have been if Ikwere didn't start denying their Igbo identity.

I'm from Enugu but we all in igboland know and appreciate how successful Anambra business men and women are.
People like
Arthur Eze, Innosson, Ibeto, and younger monies like Obi Cubana, Emoney, Jowizaza etc remind us all how far Anambra has come since 1970 when they got 20 pounds like the rest of Igbos.

Also,
With oil money which Rivers state commands and with political power in Rivers state firmly in the hands of the Igbo subgroups, the Ikwere could have been in competition of wealth with the Anambra and imo state elite.
Igbo society weddings and burials could have been taking place every weekend in port Harcourt if they were integrated with the rest of Igbo nation
The swag of being Igbo would have placed Ikwere and the Igbos of Rivers state in the national limelight like it does for the Anambra group.

Port Harcourt could have been the Lagos of Igbos because of the port and oil....and Lagos would not have the high number of Igbos it has today.

What Igbos lost in 1970 still gives me pains. Ikwere officially left the Igbo ethnic nationality in 1979 and took with them some other Igbo groups carved into Rivers. They all are now playing creek, isolated politics and living that creek, isolated culture and only identify as Igbos when it suits them individually.

You're right, however they should go to hell. Like they say pride goes before a fall. We lost a war in 1970 and they found oil in large quantities same period which made them to conclude that they've arrived while we SE Igbos are finished. Now, over 50 years later, what is the scores? Are they better off in any way? No!! The windfall they expected never came for them instead outsiders outsmarted and outmaneuvered them. Today, oil era is almost over yet they're still in a sorry state.

We Igbos have nothing to do with them, so they should stay on their own and remain in obscurity.

Another one?
Yorubas need to act fast because these guys obviously want to turn their region into something similar to Southern Kaduna

What a country!!
So some people actually voted against or decided to abstain from voting in a crucial exercise that will promote democracy and rule of law

What's their reason? Isn't it obvious that this unfortunate country has no basis for existence and no future, but just a congregation of looters.

Tufiakwa!!!

omenka:
It is more appalling Seun looks the other way while his mods display obvious bias towards the terrorist organization. Why aren't OyigboUpdate's threads like this hitting the fp?

Seun, why isn't this thread on the fp?

Lol, see this bingo. Seun is far smarter than you and your likes and he knows A FAKE NEWS when he sees one! I can see you want nairaland to totally become a garbage site with zero credibility.

Oyigboupdate has been posting only fake news or propaganda at best and everyone except those who are bigots already know that!

It's either your dull with subzero IQ or you're a mischief maker who is driven by his bigot ways. Otherwise, you will know that this is FAKE NEWS!!

Chai, many Nigerians are so dull and re.tar.ded, no wonder why they packaged a dummy like buhari and sold to them as the best thing since slice bread.

Anyone with an above average IQ knows that this is 100% fake news!

1. How will ESN kidnapp someone, tag him sabotuer and then broadcast it all over the social media that they're going to kill him Is it to make people to fear them, respect them or for the international community to see them as terrorists? What will they gain?

2. Igboland is densely populated and open region and it will be very difficult to kidnap someone and publicise it this way without being hunted down and arrested. SE is not remote like NE where people can be taken to inaccessible places and kept hidden.

3. So with all the NIN and others, the facebook accounts or phone number of those that posted it can't be traced or what?

4. They claim the policeman in question if from Akwa Ibom yet those commenting and saying they're related to him has names of Yorubas and Igbos, how come?

5 Since he is Akwa Ibom, i.e. Ibibio, how is he a saboteur considering he is not an Igbo man? Don't you guys see what the mischief makers are trying to do by knocking our heads together?

Lastly, when it was reported by the Nation that this evil government has budgeted billions of naira to be used in propaganda against IPOB, some people thought it was a joke. But unfortunately for them, they're still not smart enough to pull it off intelligently.

Bastardized country!!

If this rubbish is true then it's enough reason to recall the wicked soul or at least ensure he never returns. So, despite all the tens of millions they receive as salary and even more as constituency allowance, this is what he could produce?

Shame on him!!

Your list of Igbo states is not complete. It's supposed to be 12 & not 8. There are Igbos in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Edo!

helinues:


My questions are based on two factors

1. Religion
2. Landmass

Would really appreciate if you can discuss on those 2

Your problem include both illiteracy and ethnocentrism. What has landmass got to do with population?

Remind me the population of Mali, Sudan, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger etc

Igboland and Nile Delta in Egypt have always been the most densely populated regions of Africa even prior to colonialists era. Egypt is the second most populated country in Africa yet most of its population is in the Nile Delta while the rest of the country, particularly the arid/desert parts are barren.

Continue arguing nonsense, rubbish!!