₦airaland Forum

macfarland:
Well the agitation for Biafra is right and not against the law of any land. Biafra has protested in 102 countries so far plus Abuja Nigeria. It's simple a step in affirmation of right for self determination as enshrined in the United Nation charter. The new resolve for Biafra is total escalated by Buhari style of divide and rule system. GEJ in his wisdom ignore Nnamdi Kanu and went ahead to try to balance the heterogeneous country like Nigeria by holding a sovereign national conference which was successful. But Buhari in his military mentality and with the support of some Yorubas threw this report and implementation to the dust bin. Buhari appointment awakened the consciousness of most southerners that this is not one Nigeria. The feeling and resolved to get out of a country u are not considered in d the scheme of things became unquenchable for many in the south. It is no longer about oil. A lot people 'will say take the oil and give me Biafra' because Biafra now stands for freedom.... A sense of belonging. If a person want something u want to tell him to come to Abuja or Lagos something that can be gotten at his own backyard. Some government strategic jobs and portfolio are reserved for a particular section of country. Call a security meeting of the Nigerian nation today and u will see how the southeast are totally excluded from the army, Navy, airforce, SSS, police, common civil defense, etc. In the helm of affairs of the National oil for where? Where do u see Ibo people. This was d order of things in during the military rule. With the way things are right a Nigerian of Igbo extraction can never win an election in Nigeria nation meaning that an Igbo can never become President. What a way to isolate a people using a powerful orchestrated techniques of voters figure. Now in democracy GEJ tried to balance some of these injustice during his administration but Buhari government just turned a sleeping dog upside down in a democracy not considering the complexities of d Nigerian state. The quest for Biafra is seen as the only way out by its people both small and might... The youth and old. Those close to government circle like governors and ezes or the Ohanezes will never support Biafra in the public but d truth truth be told they are Biafra at heart and secretly. The Hausa Fulani will fight to kill... The Yorubas will hate and aid the Northerners.... Army will kill.... Police will maim.... Nnamdi Kanu may be killed.... Many may as well die... But d soul of Biafra will never die again. There is no going back. The fight for freedom will take a lot of struggle but not long for Biafra to come. It will happen like a dream to even the Biafrans. All hail Biafra!

Jolllyjoy:
Mtheeeeew waste of valuable resources...

wallex1983:
@that cake, the last line says from all of us at Sahara? Could it be that Abati was behind Sahara reporters that partly sent his boss packing?

basilo101:
I laf at ur ignorance. all the multistorey buildings that fill up Aba and Onitsha were not built by abuja politicians but were built by ppl like the man on the pic above. These ppl built up two big cities from the scratch to places of reckoning in terms of money in circulation and u call them jobless? Its only in Biafra that u see millionaires rising from the families of MR and MRS Nobody

ArodeTsolaye:
The life of every awusa Fulani man depends on the air Nnamdi kanu breaths.

We are not yorrobers, who you can just kill at will, like you did to MKO, Kudirat, Dele giwa etc. We will pay you back disproportionately. Biafrans are the only group of people who have fought your caliphate and still resists it till today. Let them do their worst and wait for Biafrans to do theirs. C'est fini.

Serendip:
Barely one week after their formal inauguration, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Wednesday, espoused his vision for the country, saying that Nigeria has no reason to buy weapons from other nations.

The Minister who spoke during his inaugural meeting with the directors and heads in the ministry, said Science and Tech Ministry is at the centre of three major promises of security; job creation and fight against corruption, which were made by the new APC administration.

He assured of his resolve to explore the nations’ potentials in science and technology in tackling the issue of insecurity across the country.

‘‘When we needed weapons to fight insurgents in the North East, it was difficult, even with our own money. Why do we need to go outside to buy weapons? When we have able men and materials that can manufacture most of the military equipment that we need.

‘‘India was buying weapons before but is now in a position to produce what they need, the defense industry we have in Kaduna was established at the same time with that of Brazil, but today theirs can manufacture aircraft, ships, tanks but ours will take a very long time unless we act very urgently.

‘‘Our ministry is very strategic as far as securing the nation is concerned. In the area of growing our economy, for too long, we have been a consuming nation; we import most of our needs.

‘‘We export wood but we import tooth pick, we export crude oil and import petroleum products, we export cocoa but import chocolate, this can be very disturbing.

‘‘The missing link is that the key we need to open the door for prosperity is missing, despite having all it takes to be a great nation.’’

In terms of economy, reducing poverty, creating jobs, ‘the Minister maintained that science and technology are vital in actualizing the objectives of the government and promised to leverage on the available opportunities to achieve the objectives.

source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/we-have-no-reason-to-buy-weapons-outside-nigeria-onu/

moderation2020:
When I listened to Radio Biafra for the first time, I had a lot of misgivings and disproval about the methods of IPOB Radio Director – Nnamdi Kanu, as a result of his use of strong words. He had this style of arrogance and an air of rooted animosity that seems to be coming from a man that has a total hatred in him. I loathed all these and decided never to listen again.
But what surprised me is that after the first day, notwithstanding my misgivings and disproval of his methods, I found it difficult to stop trying to listen again the next day. One may be surprised to believe that after disapproving of his approach on first contact, I still decided to listen again. The answer is simple. I leant some heartbreaking-stack-naked-truth behind those strong words, some of which I already knew but couldn’t believe why nobody was speaking about them. I continued to tune in daily to learn more truth until it became a passion, I got addicted to listening because everything I heard was the truth. And what made this man very special is that he told the truth, no matter whose ass is gored. In his words “We will remain resolute before our enemies, whiter than white and whiter than snow”. I love learning, I guard my mind well enough to avoid indoctrination or undue influence over my mind, but I love the truth.
People began to congregate, a day without hearing Nnamdi Kanu’s voice became like a wasted day, if Radio Biafra goes off air for a day; people will go sick for a week. That alone made a strong case for the power of truth.
I will not say all the truth I learnt about Nigeria here, but I will suffice all to say that I learnt the irreducible fact that TRUTH is the only price to set people FREE as expounded in the Holy Book – Bible (You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free)
I learnt that it is fallacy for foreign people to be telling Africans that all we need to move forward is good leaders. Nnamdi Kanu argued that no leader is good, but the law compels them to act good even against their choices because they are not trying to be in conformity with law out of their own goodness, but out of the fear of the wrath of breaking those laws. That is why the interest of everybody in civilized worlds is protected irrespective of race, gender and creed. But in Africa, mostly Nigeria, the law is made for just a select few, and the poor masses.
I know many will wonder today why Nnamdi Kanu has within the shortest time on Radio turned the mind of the oppressed Biafrans into strong followership, even when people like Uwazurike, Tompolo, Dokubo etc has tried and failed over the years. The answer is simple – He spoke the truth and remained resolute even at the point of possible death. He refused to succumb when others failed through compromise of accepting money and little comfort in lieu of what they believed to be fighting for.
To further buttress the irreducible power of truth, which is of course my main reason for writing this piece. I witnessed first hand, the protest in Aba today the 9 th Day of November 2015. I experienced that for the first time in Aba after the 1929 women riot, Aba was shut down and at a standstill. Nigeria had always counted and betted on the fact that the Igbos are too serious with their Business to close their shops for a whole day. It worked for them over the years until Nnamdi Kanu came on Radio Biafra and told them that the mentality of “Buying and Selling” was sold to them to continually hold them in perpetuity and oppression. At first it seemed it didn’t work when a youth was shot dead in Ariaria by a trigger-happy Hausa Policeman but Aba refused to heed the call by Nnamdi Kanu to shut their shop for a day. He continued to hammer on the truth until he was arrested. The TRUTH began to dawn on Biafrans. I have seen a full stadium in a football match, but I haven’t seen a crowd like the one I saw today, a multitude. I see no need to give it a number so that it will not seem as if I am trying to justify my point. But the funny thing is that these lies that has kept Nigeria backwards and undeveloped for over 55years has become part of their DNA that even when the truth is staring them in the face, they still prefer the lies.
It speaks volumes to learn that a group of people has turned up in millions all over the South East and South-South to protest the detention on one man, yet Nigeria Media like National Dailies and TV Stations (NTA in particular) has refused to air it or write about it even for a day. That tells you all you need to know.
A ZOO?
The next pressing and burning issue is the incessant habit of Nnamdi Kanu calling Nigeria a Zoo. The big question is – IS NIGERIA ACTING LIKE A ZOO? In Igbo tradition, when a fellow man calls you a bastard, you may pick a fight. But the wisest thing to do is always going back home to ask your mother “Who is my father?”
A zoo in my definition is a man-made habitat where the animals are kept to give them false comfort of still living in their natural habitat. Most times it is either to keep them from extinction and/or to use them as a tourist site for the purpose of satisfying man.
In the case of Nigeria, the only thing that makes us different from Zoo in the natural sense is that we walk on two legs, eat cooked food and wear cloths. Besides that, one can clearly observe the similarities that make a zoo what it is. Therefore I see his term as a metaphor. Examples.
Nigeria is the only country that has sold oil for over 30years and still have up to 80% living as paupers.
Nigeria is the country where a politician can steal a total allocation of a State and go scotch free.
Where there are 4 international standard refineries but they still import petrol products because few men benefits from the process.
The country where past leaders have working private refineries but the country lack one.
Where the state of hospitals are in shamble, no medical treatment because the few rich people can fly abroad to treat themselves.
Where a politician can be brought to court with 50count charges and go free if he can give the right percentage of the loot to equally corrupt judges.
Where a man said that he will soak monkeys and Baboons in blood if he loses an election and went ahead to do it by killing innocent Nigerians in the North and still became the president.
Where a man says that an attack on Boko Haram, “a group of terrorists” is an attack on the North and still rose to lead same country without educational qualification as prescribed by the constitution of Nigeria.
Where they are two laws of Sharia in the North and Circular in one country of much ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.
A country where only people from a particular part of the country (Biafra) are adjourned corrupt in office whereas their counterparts from the North and West do worse looting and nobody even mention it.
A country where admission into universities is based on the State you come from.
A country where over 3million innocent people were starved to death for asking to be free in1967, and to date the matter is still being swept under the carpet.
A country where a supposed head of anti-crime fighting body stole all the money in the EFCC treasury and goes free because he is from the Northern extract.
A country where people are clamped into prison for mentioning Biafra or running a violent free protest, whereas people from the North kill at will in the name of Islam and go scotch free.
A place where you must denounce being a Biafran before you can get a federal contract like Sunday Oliseh did to become Super Eagle’s coach.
A country where people like IBB, OBJ and Buhari still boast about committing war crimes and still walk free and detect the fate of the country.
A place where a particular part of the same country does not have right to build any industry to make sure they are never self-reliant.
Where coal mining was banned to make sure the particular area of Biafra become unproductive.
A place where you are told that your brothers are your enemies whereas the people saying it are the ones killing you.
Where Cattle headers are free to carry AK47 around and have every right to kill, encroach on your land to feed their cattle even if it means grazing down your cash crops.
A place where the word of a president if above the order of the Supreme court on the right of citizens.
No good roads, No clean drinking water, No infrastructure, No good hospitals, No employment, No good education. But one of the highest world oil producing countries with two houses of law makers whose salaries is 4 times higher than that of the America’s president and yet they have nothing to shoe for it.
Where a particular group of people has been forced to abandon their land to foreign countries because surviving in Biafra has become a crime.
Where you drill oil from a particular region (Biafra) and use the proceeds to enrich and develop the North, leaving the area producing the oil to lay waste in use through environmental degradation, poverty, oppression and neglect.
A country where people are arrested and locked up for listening to Radio Biafra or having the App on their phone.
Where a man was discharged by the court for committing no crime but remained held by DSS for exercising his human right to freedom of choice and association.
With all these stated above, one wonders why Nigeria was made to satisfy the interest of another.
What was in Buhari’s mind when he called Nigerians “Monkeys and Baboon?”
What more do I need to count? Nigeria has blinded and blanketed people in lies for long. Now people has heard the truth and seen the lies. I don’t think it is going to be possible to continue to hold them. What we need to do is to do the needful. FREEDOM. Educated people are easy to lead but difficult to drive. They had drove Biafrans in the time of their ignorance, now that Nnamdi Kanu has given them education in truth. Free them.
Ijaws, Ibibios, Ikweres, Izons, Idomas, Igalas, Ibos, Effik, Urhobos, etc has learn that they were never enemies with their brothers but were only told so and has decided to reunite. Which power can stop the spirit of resolve and ideology? The time to be wise is now before the inferno consumes all that breath in Nigeria. LET NIGERIA GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND RIGHT THEIR WRONGS.

Kizito2nv:
yes they get dere money from donation and free gifts from mostly well to do persons and organisation truth b told dere are many men of God who get same donations spend it on personal and family living extravagant but if u realy think mbaka is cheating on people den may b u can do a reserch on him then compare him with others that get same donations and tithe on daily and monthly bases den u make ur conclusions cos know he has enough to buy luxury cars and private jets d reason why he has private security was becous we was almost mobd by d crowth who came to reciv him and he made his reasons clear and am nt saying he is saint yet but he is a good man with a hrt very close to d poor thankx

Money40:
ignorance is a disease, have you heard of mgbuka? They look dirty in there shop looking like that, always comes to market with ladies machine, but when you go to his house you find out he has A Four, decking building which his the landlord, don't underestimate igbo spare parts dealers,

1. She has not used pathos nor appealed for anyone’s sympathy. She is just a sick woman that even delayed her hospital photos till she had a slight break from the chemo. While, in office she was undergoing chemo in the UK. The cancer seems to have progressed.

3. Sick people are prosecuted. Buhari’s army even court martials dead soldiers. Deziani has not told anyone she cannot stand a trial.

5. Deziani is facing ZERO charges in the UK. The National Crime Agency said they had NO plans to prosecute her.

6. The Nigerian Senate cleared NNPC of any fraud under Alison-Madueke as petroleum Minister.

7. External world-reputed auditors, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, audited Diezani’s NNPC. They did not find her wanting.

8. For 6 months, since the media lynching began, Buhari, Oshiomole, and associates have been unable to bring up charges against her.

9. We understand that more international auditors have been commissioned to investigate her. The silence from the All Progressives Congress (APC) is deafening on this. Could it be they are finding ZERO evidence of wrongdoing?

10. Six months after Buhari took office, No single indictment traced to her!

12. The SUBSIDY FRAUD Buhari and associates accused her of, they are paying the same amounts she paid even when crude oil price has been halved.

13. It is the same arrangements for refining fuel abroad, and so on that NNPC is still using under Buhari The same contracts and idea Diezani signed.

14. Buhari having shot from the hips, banned all the vessels she approved to lift crude oil. All the vessels have been given a clean bill of health, by the same Buhari, and cleared to continue lifting crude.

16. Fuel scarcity was minimal in her time of service with prices remaining constant even through Christmas period.

18. The oil theft has not abated since she left, showing the intractability of that malaise and that she is not to blame. As a matter of fact, oil theft has increased under Buhari.

20. Again, not one “subsidy cabal” has been linked to her or her company, the way Lagos tax collection companies are linked to Tinubu and Fashola.

21. Buhari and Nigeria in six months have not been able to show how removing her from office as Petroleum Minister has led to increased earnings in anyway. They have not told us the production quotas declared under her were short. It is same volume of crude oil production under Diezani that continue under Buhari.

22. There is evidence of fraud against Fashola placed on public notice by his successor ranging from grossly overpaid for websites,boreholes and footbridges paid for but never built. There is a standing judicial decision against Amaechi in Rivers. None yet on Diezani Madueke.

23. Evidence of the Monorail of Amaechi and Fashola trains are there as monuments to their failure. Diezani successfully fixed four refineries to very appreciable extents that Buhari was credited wih doing them with body language. While Amaechi’s monorail has been declared a waste of state resources and moneys being voted to clear the billion Naira worth of debris, None of Diezani's project have been question til date.

24. Nigeria has in six months paid N62 Billion to a company which owns REMITA from the TSA funds. The transaction have been flagged by the Senate and populace. With same Saraki in the 7th Senate, None of her project has been flagged til date.

25. While people say “the courts have not declared them thieves” on Fashola and Rotimi, those same witches and wizards have condemned (without any charge even brought against her) THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND ONE OF THE MOST EDUCATED AND ACCOMPLISHED WOMEN EVER IN NIGERIA. Ever, ever, ever!!!

c. She is THE FIRST FEMALE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SHELL.

d. She has held THREE MINISTERIAL POSITIONS SINCE 2007. Transport, Mines and Steel, and then the position Amaechi and Tinubu can murder someone over PETROLEUM. Buhari is stepping into her shoe as petroleum minister. This woman has put in 8 years of meritorious service to her country.

e. SHE IS THE Ever FIRST FEMALE OPEC PRESIDENT.

onlyson16:
Nigeria is corrupted so i have to comply but i wish my fellow nairander not to experience it ......i went to bank this morning to withdraw some amount for my clearance at shool.going forward to the ATM insert my card suprised to me the machine feed me back with this mesage(unable to complete your transanction) imediatly i got angry and meet the security man around there, but he quitly instructed me to go inside the bank and renue my bvn. deligiently i went inside to doing so, the lady i mate inside the bank gave me a form to filled.after filling the form i passed it through the lady that gave me the form,after some minite she ask me to thumbprint, after the thumbprinting she complained that the name i use initialy at the bank is not the same to the one in my bvn that cbn rejected it and if she make any atempt unlocking the acount she will be jailed
i said pls maa can u do me a favour by terminating the name pls she said that already cbn have registered the name that the only solution to it is for me to go to nearby court to obtain a form that will ordered the inclussion of the name.i ask her will they request money for doing that she said yes i told her but am koboless and strandend even my bic out there is fueless. not minding my condintion and complain she feel lessconcern. perplexly i left her but why going out of the door with mourmoring.one of the banker outside there called me and ask me while am i mourmoring i came back and narrete everything to him and end it by telling that am cashless,he ask me how much will be his own share for him to lead me through the escape door,i told him 1k quitly he lead me to another branch but same bank. Reaching there he told them that they own branch is having electrical fault same time wake to the bankers and greet them one by one.after everything i refilled the form again and he submitted it after the processing my acount came back again functioning, he aske me oya lets go, we want outside i withdraw and pay him up, blissfuly he greeted me again nd ask that i must not tell anybody that he did it.....in no distance time i recalled that it is able to work out for him just because the branch is not the main branch i opened the account i wish u reading this must not make such mistake,if the bank u open the acount complaine of ur names kindly go to other branches and unlock ur acount .............thanks
ishilove lalastclala oya do the needfull

Maxi112:
bubu should just negotiate with them and also free #Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally

nosiebaba:
NA LIE!!! The first way to fight for biafra as a biafran is to pack ur load and go to biafran territory.
A goat in Nigeria is still a goat in BIAFRA, a failure in NIGERIA is still a failure in BIAFRA

EzePromoe:
[color=#DC143C]This sounds like a false or exaggerated news.[/color]

EUROBOMBER:
The only reason why Nigeria fought with us in 1967 was crude oyel.

When the crude oyel dries up, the north will not waste hundreds of thousands of her youth fighting Igbos because of 'We SS' people. The Yoruba will never sacrifice her youth because of you either then you will understand the difference between khaki and leather.

Nuff said.

InLoveWithGod:
Now it is illegal, but once it is legalized it is legal. Thereafter, anyone who wish to start, will obtain operation license. Simple.

victoriousking:
the man has made commonsense.

iambabaG:
Dats how dey will be wasting tax payers money.. Is it d state governors duty 2 reward dem?
Dat money will set some jobless youths in motion!!
Nd Nigerian will hail dis? Such hypocrisy..