Igbos have had enough.
Igbos say no more to Nigeria.
Non-violence is not terrorism
You can force a horse to the river, but you cant force it to drink.
Wars, and threats of war will not blackmail Igbos
Igbos are taking no prisoners.
Igbos will not look back as Nigeria crashes and burns. The train is leaving the station.
Igbos will go it alone. Allied ethnic nations are preferable but not mandatory.
All hail Biafra!

Give the guy a break. He is in "ghost mode"

Ever8054:
if they impose an administrator so will it be and nothing will happen.. what worse are you even referring to?.. if they try to create nuisances on that day.. trust me our soldiers bullet would never miss its target...

Then you don't know the power of non-violence.
You can force a horse to the river, but you cant force it to drink.
IPOB can no longer be blackmailed with violence or threats of violence.

ColonelDrake:


The Yoruba muslims outside Ilorin are not different from the Kwara muslims. The same religion has been used to put the soul and mind of the Yoruba moslems into perpetual bondage. The head of all the muslims in Nigeria is the sultan and yet Yoruba muslims have no problem with this becuase they are very docile and have deep inferiority complex.

Ilorin is gone! Forget it! We should only think of calving out a new territory out of ilorin solely for the Kwaran Christians.

That's a whole lot of ground to give up.
Use the current agitation in the country " smoke and mirrors" to sensitize the people.
Then declare it when the time is right. My lords cannot mount a 2-3 prong attack.

All Kanu is saying is don't vote to IPOB youths.
INEC and Nigeria can still set up the election, but IPOB youth plan to boycott it.
IPOB is not threatening violence to prevent INEC holding elections. IPOB will simply not vote.
< 25 % turn out will make the election not legally binding.
If Nigeria imposes an " administrator" in this scenario, they'll just be making things worse.


“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”- Albert Einstein.

Up Up Jesus
Down Down Satan.
100 John Deere tractors, Wow!
1 John Deere utility tractor (2012 model) = $ 50,000
100 tractors = at least $ 5,000,000 + shipping
Man Hours saved per tractor: 6-8 hours /day
Productivity increase: 25-40 X.

This is what we want to see the governors doing!
God bless you Governor Bagudu.
Let us feed Nigeria!

TWO 30-year old men including the father who wanted to sell his son in order to get money for the burial of his mother were Wednesday arraigned in Iyaganku Magistrate Court, Ibadan. The names of the accused were given as Haruna‎ sule and his friend Abdulfatai Quadri. The duo were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and alleged attempt to sell his six-year old son.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/father-puts-son-sale-befitting-burial-mother/

Beans nko?

May their souls RIP
How can humans be so inhuman?
There is no law in Nigeria.
Things have got to change, Nigerians.
What kind of people are we becoming?

Have you wondered why it is that Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in Zungeru, Niger State?
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu was also born in Zungeru, Niger State.


The answer lies in the fact that Igbos were the bulk of the civil service during the colonial administration.
They were the rail porters, messengers, court clerks, and postal workers of the colonial administration.
How did this come to be? Well the answer is that the Igbo embraced western education.

The truth is that the White man first came to our shores through Western Nigeria.
Yoruba were exposed to Western education prior to the Igbo, but education in Yoruba land was mostly for the elite.
In fact, Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, was among those who worked to translate the Bible to Igbo language to
help the Igbos convert to Christianity.

Once exposed to Western education, The Igbo had a voracious appetite and came to excel such that they were
the preferred workers in colonial Nigeria. In any case, during independence Northern Nigeria found itself unable to handle the challenges without skilled workers. They had come to resent the Igbos and did not want the Igbos to be the professional class in Northern Nigeria.

As a background, Uthman DanFodio had conquered the Hausas and the Sokoto Caliphate was on a march to conquer large swathes of Africa e.g Illorin, Oyo when the white men came. The Caliphate, being no strangers to state-craft were able to extract concessions from the British such as home rule thus preserving the sultan and emirs. They also did not let missionaries in their territories.
On the eve of independence, Igbos were seen as haughty, christian infidels, and Sir Ahmadu Bello started his "northernization policy" or what you might call quota system today to limit Igbos in the north. The period of British colonial rule was "half-time" for the Sokoto Caliphate's march to conquer West Africa, which they hoped to continue once the white men left.


Awolowo started his free education in Western Nigeria to educate the masses for fears of Igbo domination after the Egbe Omo Oduduwa saw the threat of Zikism. Zikism and One Nigeria was seen as an Igbo supremacy agenda.
Awolowo was also noted for building the first television station in Africa. Then Zik/MI OKpara built one in Enugu that described itself as "second" to none.

Then the Civil war which gave birth to the Nigeria we had today.
Since the civil war, Nigeria has operated mostly on a North/West axis without any meaningful input from Eastern Nigeria.
The free education in western Nigeria ensured parity with Western Nigeria and Eastern Nigeria. Northern Nigeria remains today handicapped with respect to western education.

All that is missing is the healthy competition that gave Nigeria a number of firsts in Africa i.e. (positive politics)
What we have now is mostly tribalism i.e.(negative-politics).
Biafra is a call for restructuring from negative politics to positive politics.

E be like say Army don dey recruit mechanic, vulcanizer and welder dem.
Na small small sha.

AlwaysUltraPad:
go and read that book before telling us if the retaliation was commensurate.

Nothing justifies using the military against a civilian population. That is a war crime!
If the crime was that the civilian population gloated.
Northern Nigerian could have retaliated and gloated too, without targeting innocent civilians.

AlwaysUltraPad:
go and read that book before telling us if the retaliation was commensurate.

Nothing justifies using the military against a civilian population. That is a war crime.
Northern Nigerian could have retaliated and gloated too, without targeting innocent civilians.

Adekamkpe23:
Can Ibo people survive if they were asked to remain in Biafra alone?
No other Nigerian travels to Ibo land but yet half of those born in Umuahia today will end up in Lagos tomorrow. Why?

1. The siege on Igboland since the war including land and sea blockade has not being lifted.
-No federal infrastructure.
-No parastatals, No large manufacturing plants (those existing prior to the war e.g. Aba textile mills, 33, Standard shoes, etc could not survive the economic blockade)
-No functional airports, or seaports.

2. The formal sector (civil service, professional jobs, economy) in Nigeria, was based in Lagos and since 1991 also in Abuja.
There needs to be an informal sector to meet the needs of the local formal sector (retail, goods and services) thus attracting surplus labor in Igboland.
In addition, exclusion of Igbos from the security apparatus (military, police, customs etc) and from management in civil service pushed Igbos mostly into academics, and industry and retail. Due to poor infrastructure in the East, the cost of business in increased in the East thus attracting everyone to Lagos


3.The only link between Nigeria and the outside world (airports, embassies) were in Lagos, Abuja, so Igbos first sought opportunity in West Africa and Central Africa (Cameroon, Gabon). Lately due to market forces and globalization, Igbos have also migrated to North America, Europe. Now the world is an oyster for the Igbos because they are have penetrated the rest of Africa, Middle east and Asia.


I hope this helps,
Otherwise, there wont be the pressure in Lagos. Lagos just happens to be the escape valve from the blockade in Igbo land.

supereagle:


You should have said this before. The was using his personal money to better our lots in ABH.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Na we be Zikites. Greatest Zikites!

quid:


Why "we" struck

What is your point?
I made my point. My position is that irrespective of the reasons for the coup. The counter-coup was excessive and evil in as far as it was used as a ruse to pursue a genocidal campaign against the Igbo.

What is your point?
I made my point. My position is that irrespective of the reasons for the coup. The counter-coup was excessive and evil in as far as it was used as a ruse to pursue a genocidal campaign against the Igbo.

RisingSun1:
LET'S FACE THE TRUTH

If Igbo majority army officer erred by killing political leaders from the North,one would have thought that the best punishment is for the north to retaliate by killing same political leaders from the East.

Now for the North to include in their retaliations the slaughter of 300,000 igbos civilians in north during the 1966 pogrom who are innocent and who got nothing to do with whatever political happenings in the country is an unforgivable SIN.

THIS IS WHAT GAVE BIRTH TO BIAFRA AND THIS HEINOUS SIN CANNOT BE FORGIVEN FOREVER AND EVER!

I agree 100%
What started in the military should have stayed in the military.
Undoubtedly, the young Igbo Majors erred in carrying out the coup. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Northern Nigeria had every right to retaliate since their political leadership was decapitated. The Igbos did not have a meeting where the coup plot was hatched and endorsed. The retaliation should have been limited to the army and perhaps the political leadership.
Using the organs of the state, in this case the Army to target Igbo civilians in all of northern Nigeria in a genocidal campaign, coupled with state-sanctioned starvation of children is the worst kind of evil. It is an unpardonable act. Northern Nigeria and by extension the Federal Government of Nigeria has not paid for this act, and must come to terms with the legacy of this act.

supereagle:


We would know. Those close junior STAFF would talk about it.

Well, maybe his secretary thought i was an easy mark, because him secretary chop my money using Baba name, even after i jand when i needed documents from UI. Since he was a customer, he was the only one I could use to facilitate getting documents promptly.

IgboticGirl:
If u dont have Igbo woman as wife.....i am sorry for u



Ibo woman are best

I agree 100%

supereagle:


Hmm, He was my provost when I was having my clinical training, I am not aware of this. He supervisor for my own supervisor, I didn't hear this.

If you dey chop egunje, you go broadcast am? Egunje na the Naija way na.

Germany fought WW1. The proximate and remote causes of WW2 were that the German nation felt cheated by the Treaty of Versailles.
The Igbo nation has fought its WW1 i.e. Biafra vs Nigeria, UK, USSR. The Igbo nation feels it has been shortchanged after it capitulated to the Federal Government of Nigeria. I hope there is not a Biafra 2.
WW2 eventually consumed all of Europe,USSR,Asia, until the US might prevailed.
If there's a Biafran War 2 (Igbo WW2), It would consume everyone because the Igbo are in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, as well as a large vibrant and nationalistic diaspora that can alter the dynamics of a war.The FG should not take the matter lightly, but seek every avenue to address the situation before it gets out of hand.

Na wa o
Naija men can sleep with anything!
They'll rationalize it by saying... the head might not be good, but the toto is good!
Na wa for WAEC.

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the famed technocrat, has returned to the pulpit. The gospel of good governance, like that of Christ, is easily preached. Technocrats come into public service in Nigeria brandishing reputations and clutching unto self-righteousness.
But they often prove too sterile to affect the filth, and always leave as ineffectual as ordinary politicians. Okonjo-Iweala came richly credentialed. Iweala was hardworking. She was one of our best ministers. But she is perhaps oblivious of the concept of collective responsibility. And she was gutless. She tamely supervised the squandering of national resources.
She has sauntered out of the wreckage with the gaiety of a bride. She is now preaching her way to redemption. Grace abounds in Nigeria. The masses are too forgetful. Glory is milked for little achievements and hypocrisy is let loose to deflect blames for woeful failures.
When Nigeria paid her debts and swelled her foreign reserves under Obasanjo, Iweala was exceptionally savvy. That was the impression. She concedes obliquely that Jonathan’s was an era of gross mismanagement but she won’t take any blames. She, the coordinator of the economy. They didn’t listen to her admonitions. And she stayed on coordinating!
There was “zero political will to save”. She says it oozing the righteous indignation of a jilted seer proven right by disaster. It is supposed to be an exculpatory revelation. Obasanjo had managed to conjure some ‘political will’ .
But with Jonathan? No, it wasn’t him, it wasn’t Okonjo Iweala either. It must have been the special breed of greedy governors that unlucky Jonathan inherited. They drained all the “political will”. But you would think Okonjo Iweala’s insights won’t be that simplistic. That she must be too stricken , too sober, to tell trite tales. Because the federal government got almost 50% of oil boom revenues and Okonjo Iweala was coordinating minister. That arm of government later resorted to borrowing to pay salaries.


The bane of African politics isn’t academic insufficiency. No, good theories abound everywhere, even in Zimbabwe. Often it’s authoritarianism and gross inefficiency. But more often it is moral bankruptcy. It is immoral to be silent in the face of conspicuous evil.
The political will to enthrone rectitude is where the snare lies. So when technocrats come with abundance of academic talk and sermons about global best practices they are no more than soulless mercenaries. They get the perks of office, the privileges of power and do not bother about practical freedom and concrete empowerment of the poor. They mouth capitalist ideas but treat democratic ethics with contempt. They will not stand against election rigging, they stay aloof, ready to serve whoever wins, however he wins. They will not fight corruption frontally, they pay lip service. “We are doing their best in the circumstance”.
Their characters are tested when their principals begin to subjugate national interests to private considerations. Corruption and theft of public resources will be clothed with the garments of lofty policies provided by technocrats. Nepotism, they cannot resist.


The poor will be harangued about the virtue of sacrifice in nation building while monies meant to fight insurgency walk into private pockets. Flimsy poverty alleviation programmes that fatten only politicians will be trumpeted. A multitude of workshops and seminars to pretend to intellectualism will be thrown around. Spurious data would be spawn to deny the grim reality of life on the streets.
They will close their eyes to absurdities like Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) and join in mouthing gibberish like Transformation Agenda. They will wring their hands like Pilate. Yes, a finance minister will sign a memo that opens up the vault of the Central bank to the carting away of stacks of dollars to private homes, without compunction. Or was there? She sneaked in a dubious “my hand no dey inside” clause by reminding them of the need to render accounts. She retained her sainthood, lapped up international awards. They never get fed up, technocrats, never get angry. They always play along.
Corrupt regimes love them. They lend them legitimacy. When in such governments they lose scrupulousness. Who would have thought that after the financial commonsense exhibited during the Obasanjo regime that prodigality would return with vengeance with Iweala on the saddle? Okonjo Iweala attributes our present woes to recalcitrant governors. Iweala’s second stint was a chronicle of wastefulness. Impunity institutionalized corruption and theft in public service. 350 million dollars Abacha stole came back to the country and was reported re-stolen under Iweala’s nose. Iweala had been in government long enough to know what happens during elections. Yet she crafted a memo seeking approval to ‘lend’ 350 million dollars to the NSA three weeks to the original date for national elections ostensibly for the procurement of arms.
Since politicians disregarded her, why didn’t Okonjo Iweala resign? When the then CBN governor spoke about widespread looting , she was irritated. As irritated as she was when foreign journalists pestered her about Chibok girls. If Iweala had put the interest of the nation above the benefits of remaining a minister she would have easily resigned. She knew the country was clearly headed in the wrong direction . Her cowardice was even more baffling because she, apparently, did not need the job. Why are these technocrats never really patriotic beyond mouthing? “I have come to contribute my quota to national development?” And having failed pitiably as finance minister to do that which was most important , why is Okonjo Iweala not mourning? Why is truthful sober reflection , an ingredient of intellectualism , so lacking amongst our political technocrats? Why can’t Okonjo Iweala keep quiet if she isn’t ready to tell the whole truth yet?
Okonjo Iweala, international civil servant, substantially immune to the troubles and potential fallouts of outspokenness at the highest levels. She was in Aba campaigning for the return of Jonathan and the same set of circumstances she now cleverly refers to as ‘zero political will’. She has been one of our best ministers. And that is why our politics has remained a study in sycophancy.
Let the technocrats in Buhari’s government know that a president is not a deity. Their ultimate loyalty is to the nation. And sometimes the nation is best served by a principled noisy resignation.

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/110712/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-and-the-sin-cowardice

The itinerant luxury bus medicine dealer starts with prayers, sings choruses and sells fake ‘omnipotent’ drugs to both the sick and the healthy. He touts a particular knowledge of staphylococcus and expertise in improving watery sperms and weak erections. He will suggest his bag contains cures for every known disease. He will jump off the bus but not before he is done . He tells tales like the ‘zoo’ story, playing on the vulnerabilities of an impoverished and ignorant society.
The police escort on the bus stands aside and lets his aloofness authenticate the scam . The consequences will fall on pockets but more on public health. When they realize it is not benevolence the nomad has dropped off the bus. The sons of Sceva have taken center stage.
It is noble and often effective to ignore obnoxious attention seekers. But when rabble rousers show signs of lunacy they deserve attention. Because when speech comes to be filled with hate and incitement to violence , continuing silence becomes recklessness.
When the rabble is roused, devilry is afoot and typically dissent is not brooked. Soon Igbos whose opinions contradict radio Biafra and its reprobates will become enemies of the land, saboteurs or Efulefus (misfits).
And since hysteria occludes reason, fellow Biafrans , supposedly shackled by ‘zoo’ keepers , would be the first targets because , like the Hutus and their interahamwe theorized, an efulefu is worse than the real enemy.
Biafra should be sacred because at the cost of over a million lives with torture and horror on scales that make Rwanda pardonable , Biafra should be strictly ‘out of the reach of children’. Biafra should not be trivialized or desecrated, neither by conceited scoffers nor by peripatetic con men with confused minds and mobile radio transmitters.
When shadowy megalomaniacs given to flimsiness and gifted with volubility run out of life options but seek emergence from obscurity, nothing is sacred. You can wonder if they contemplated opening a church and selling fake gospel before opting for Biafra . Yes, shed anonymity like Simon the socerer , the man from Gitta, by holding people bound with spells of charm, magic and sophistry until those who can find them him out.


But I guess Igbo politics is so bereft of integrity and purpose and destitute of true apostles now that radio Biafra can continue with its sorcery for quite sometime . But the tragedy is that, like Simon who later took to following the apostles with magic in his pocket and greed in his heart, these latter day Biafran magicians insinuated themselves into Ojukwu’s politics, temporarily and only for ulterior interests.
Simon, the wolf, needed apostolic clothing . His flirtation with Christianity, like the pimps hawking Biafra, would yield money but will adulterate doctrines and values . There is no pogrom. Igbos are not under any life threatening siege. These hustlers are enticed by Ojukwu’s fame. Yet they wont form a political party as he did and mobilize the people. No. They do not even want a referendum. They want guns and bullets. They , with irritating nonchalance , say violence is unavoidable.
Their Biafra is a sham. Simon, like many fake pastors today, profited from hoodwinking the public, selling the counterfeit . Like fake pastors , these Biafran speculators do incalculable damage to the authentic concept by inviting mockery and scorn rather than belief, dignity and conversion. Radio Biafra has made a laughing stock of the Igbos.
Charlatans, whether on buses selling fake drugs or on Radio Biafra polluting Biafra , selling adulterated toxic freedom, can be charming. And many susceptible to razzmatazz succumb to the seduction of the false promise of paradise. Biafra is dear to many Igbos and is guarded jealously. Though perhaps a mere vent for ethnic chauvinism for those devoted to chest beating and superficiality.
For many thoughtful Igbos and many who saw the war or its aftermath, the attachment is more meaningful and deeply emotional. A struggle against murderous oppression. An excruciating toil to withstand death before a ‘no victor no vanquished’ gallant capitulation . A collective resolve to overcome annihilation, to grasp at freedom, to pursue greatness undeterred by staggering odds. Biafra is hope in the face of impossibility. Hopefully, the scar of a bad wound.
Igbos are sensitive to the contempt Biafra receives from others whose sense of patriotism or of conceit , as conquerors, mandate a disdain for the supposed vanquished and anything Biafra . All who cant help but see Biafra as real nuisance as an impracticable fantasy , a manifestation of the perceived greed and domineering tendency of Igbos whose crude penchant for disregarding bounds of propriety is consuming.
These victors are often confounded by the egotism and vainglory they read in the attitude of Igbos towards Biafra, and the incongruous air of triumphalism they furnish themselves even from that defeat. When scorn is poured on Biafra rather than the fraudsters peddling its counterfeit ,Igbos are forced into defensive sympathy with charlatans.




Only a few doubt that the breathtaking ingenuity , imagination , creativity and resourcefulness worthy of veneration that Biafra unveiled can be owned, even fleetingly, without feeling special. Biafra , in spite of the horrors, manages to leave some room for some nostalgia. Some still regret the loss of a greatness that could have been or that had begun. That wistfulness must be more harrowing 45 years after, ‘one Nigeria’ still imports toothpicks.
The susceptibility of some Igbos to the incantations of radio Biafra is not therefore totally inexplicable Biafra isn’t just unity and oneness , it is justice, moral justice. Because regardless of the interpretation that may be given to the events leading up to the pogrom , the pogrom in itself, in being allowed to fester unrestrained, in its scale , was egregious evil. Innocent everyday people hunted and disemboweled?
The pogrom made Biafra almost inevitable. Then the agony of dying and death of infants in state sponsored starvation . Asaba saw savagery that the Hutus in their murderous prime may not have matched. Recurrences of disturbances and dislocations have continued to grate scars. And persistence of injustice and lack of equity continue to make the idea attractive to many. And groups are morally and legally entitled to right to self determination. Biafra is not necessarily treason.
But true freedom fighters are easy to discern. Personal sacrifice, dedication, honesty to the course and painstakingness make freedom fighting not just arduous and valorized but a vocation not undertaken by flippant merry making fellows attending wild and wet parties thousands of kilometres from where the shackles are. It doesn’t start and end with delusions of grandeur and with threats of making Nigeria worse than Somalia .



A shallow , scheming , manipulator remarkable for overt opportunism and glibness cannot be a freedom fighter. A man of promise? A visionary rather than a scoundrel? Mbanu, no. And because the number of many lives and livelihoods needed to service these delusions , to catapult to a position of some influence , money and crumbs of power is subservient to such outsized ambitions , mania rather than sheer cruelty could be responsible.
Desperation impairs diligence and cautionary appraisal. When frustration and hopelessness engender or entangle desperation even a drug addict hallucinating in the right direction , any direction of remote promise, will be embraced. And they, his zombies, believe that Nigeria is a zoo. Yes impunity reigns here. But there is no lopsided distribution of social evils.
Prophecy has taken the place of philosophy, even in universities. And practicing atheists clothe their guiles with the refrain “ to God be the glory”. It does appear that any hallucinating youth , incapable of sobriety and self reflection let alone charity, can , if he chooses, become an emancipator, a messiah. Igbos have a God that is exclusively theirs, we are now told . Europe has a secret she wont admit – the realization of Biafra would end human existence. When he speaks red herrings, syllogisms, fabrications and confabulations tumble over themselves.
“ We are being deported and killed in Lagos. Our shops have all been burnt. So we need guns and bullets …… Everything happens in triangles, Hausa Fulani fixed Rochas in Owerri , once they take Uyo and Port Harcourt , we are finished “. He pauses and lets a sardonic smile create an impression of wizadry. Inscrutability is lent to the mundane to create mystery. Everything , blasphemy included, is done so barefacedly that cringing is forced on the audience.



Archbishops now sprout overnight, like weeds. So a depressed charlatan can look at himself in a mirror in London and see an emperor and look in the atlas, see Igbo land , and say “ Yes I can”. Yes, he is the leader of a new farce. The fellow whose pedigree needs some archeological excavation to unearth, in a society where even confessed fraudsters publish colourful biographies and flaunt their habitation of the National Assembly.
He remains deliberately as rootless as a ‘UFO’. But pedigrees and values and convictions are superfluities where vice competes with virtue for honors. The last time a similarly named apparition hovered around Abuja, he was choreographing a charade that was earnestly, in all honesty, yearning for servitude.
A Nigeria where equity and fairness reigns, where lives and property are sacrosanct, where potentials are maximized, is Biafran. It is not a sin, however, to seek self determination. It is not a sin to canvass iconoclastic political options and alternatives. But these endeavours must respect the rights of the collective enshrined in the constitution. Boko haram wants a sharia region and they could have gone about it sanely.
When greedy politicians recruited sharia to exploit the people they laid foundations for radical Islamic fundamentalism because they sold the counterfeit. They sought not societal transformation but private political profit. And that was why even boko haram managed to attract sympathy rather than blanket scorn in their early days. They came selling fake sharia. Things have gone full circle and the northeast is decimated.
March visited gnashing of teeth on may southern politicians . Let these politicians leave Biafra out of their intrigues. Ojukwu we know, Achuzia we know , Okpara we know, Mbakwe we know, Ekwueme we know, Nwabueze we know. But who are these? Sceva’s sons have arrived.



https://www.today.ng/opinion/30375/nnamdi-kanu-radio-biafra-and-the-tragedy-of-charlatanism