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These Nigerians are jokers. When Nnamdi Kanu was in London they said


"He is hiding in London, he will never come to Nigeria to fight"

"He is coward and internet warrior"

"He can never come to Nigeria"



The man has proved all of you wrong by leaving his comfort zone and coming to Nigeria! That's what is known as bravery, something that Yorubas know nothing about. Hate him or love him, Nnamdi is passionate about Biafra and is ready to sacrifice his life for it.


How many of you Nigerians would sacrifice your lives for the Lord Lugard created fraud called Nigeria? Jokers

kkkp:
He must be punish according to law

Where did you so called country get its sovereignty from? You think that a white man called Lugard can come from Britain to give you sovereignty? Nigeria was created on stolen sovereignty. That's why Nigeria has no legitimacy and is a fraud.

Kagawa10:
Like how Aguyi Ironsi centralised power and destroyed the true federalism of Nigeria?
Like how ibo plotted the first coup to kill every tribe leaders save for theirs?
Like how Zik truncated the Niger delta secession?
Shameless conquered chest beating apes!

And yet, after all this. It is you and your people who begging for the Igbos to stay in Nigeria. It is you and your people who fought a 3 year war to bring Igbos back into your shameless 'one Nigeria,. It is you and your people that will still fight tomorrow if the Igbos declare Biafra again. Hmmmmm.............. I understand man, I really feel you. You can't live without Igbos. You and your people will just have to find a way to do without Igbos because we are certainly going back home to Biafra. If you don't like it, find the nearest well and jump inside.


One more thing...... For the benefit of those don't know history. The four Regions were still in place the day Ironsi was killed. The four regions still had autonomy,resource control and federal fiscal policy. Ironsi never destroyed the regions, all four regions still the essentials of Regionalism. Ironsi only centralised Government because that is the only way a Military Rular can Govern. It was Gowon that came in, abolished the four region, created States, took away resource control,destroyed all the essentials or regionalism and created a unitary Government.

RichyRodman:
Nnamdi Kanu is fighting a futile war he will not win,he wants to gain popularity,Nigerians don't know him,am from Anambra,I see myself as a Nigerian definitely not a Biafran am not in a Zoo as he call us Nigerians,they shouldn't take Nigerians back to the civil war days,people died and Nigerians aren't ready for his jamboree. If u listen to the ministerial screening u would agree that Buhari chose men that would take Nigeria forward and we're in the verge of doing so,Nigeria is more united now we don't need to disintegrate to move forward as a people,so whoever knows him should advise him Nnamdi Kanu or whatever his name is,we don't need his agitation to move forward,we don't need his ideas,we can succeed as Nigerians HOHA!

Don't be a fool. We are Anambrarians, we are not known for stupidity. How can you see your self as a Nigerian? A slave name Lord Lugard gave you? What were you before Lugard came to create Nigeria? Look around you and open your eyes! You have Yorubas who deep down don't like you. You have Boko Haram up in the north who want to kill you. You have Notherners and their Yoruba co-conspirators who want to politically subjugate you. So why do you, as an Igbo man, want Nigeria? What is it that Nigeria can do for you as an Igbo man that Biafra can't do for you 100 times over? As an Igbo man, you can never president of Nigeria but in Biafra, it is you that will even be letting others become president. Look at our so called leaders begging for political appointments like fools. Wake up from your slumber, only a fool decides to stay in a bad situation and not do something to change the situation

jpphilips:
Ojukwu started Biafra, how is Biafra not about Ojukwu?

Use your brains. Lord Lugard started Nigeria, is Nigeria about Lord Lugard? Biafra is about the God given right of Igbos and certain minorities that Igbos share an understanding with to go and create their own country. Lord Lugard had no right to come from Britain to tell me that the Hausa or Yoruba man are my brothers. It is my right as an Igbo man to decide who is my brother. Nigeria is a fraud that the Yoruba and Hausa man are running because they want oil money. That's all the care about.


I hail Nnamdi Kanu! I hail him same way I hail Ojukwu because both men stood up to the British created fraud called Nigeria. I remember many people said "Nnamdi Kanu is in London enjoying, he can never come to Nigeria". Nnamdi put them to shame by coming back unafraid! He may have been arrested but all great freedom fighters have been arrested before. Mandela was arrested, Martin Luther king was arrested, Fidel Castro was arrested. All these men later triumphed in the end.


One thing I do know is that the Yoruba people can never produce someone like Nnamdi Kanu, they don't even have enough sense of self determination to ever fight for Odua Republic which is why Igbos regard them as cowards. The Northerners cant survive without the South anyway so they don't even have any relevance. The major reason why Igbos don't like Yorubas is that Yorubas are co-conspirators with the Northerners in maintaining the fraud called Nigeria. They ran Nigeria into the ground for 50 years. The Nigeria of today is the combined 50 year misgovernance of Nigeria!


The struggle for freedom continues, Nnamdi Kanu or no Nnamdi Kanu!!

We must exit this burning house of Lugard !!

God bless Biafra!!

simplex2:
Stop dragging igbos with your Biafra nonsense! Not all igbos have this silly dream of Biafra
And why didn't the agitation start since GEJ was president? Biafra my foot!

So you didn't know about MASSOB and Uwazurike even before GEJ became president? The agitation has long been there

IGBOSON1:
^^^Ain't it funny how you consider Biafra a fraud, yet believe Nigeria is a nation! Given your insane hatred for Igbos, one would have thought you'd be in the forefront of those agitating for the realization of the Biafran project!

Exactly why Nigerians, particularly Yorubas, are all hypocrites!!!



I knew the day would come when they would arrest and detain Nnamdi Kanu. It was inevitable. But all they are doing is making the man more popular and the Biafran cause more attainable. Biafra was never about Nnamdi Kanu same as it was never about Ojukwu. Biafra is all about the right of a people to be free. So the Nigerian authorities can arrest Kanu, detain and torture him, deny him his civil rights as they usually do, but the legitimacy of to be free can not be taking away by anybody except God.

Detain 1000 Nnamdi Kanu's but Biafra shall be free!!!

I don't know if the OP is trying to be mischievous. The man pictured here is General Okonkwo, wearing his commemorative Biafran uniform and Rank and addressing fellow Biafran war veterans. My father, an ex Biafra Soldier, also has such a uniform. They usually meet a couple of times a year where they socialise and share war experiences. General Okonkwo or major Okonkwo as he was then known was one of the Biafran officers Banjo led as he made his way towards Lagos to capture Gowon. After Biafran forces overran the Midwest, Ojukwu declared the area "The Republic of the Mid-West" and Major Okonkwo was appointed as its Military Governor. Many people from what is now Edo and Delta States probably don't know it, but for a brief period, they were actually an independent nation. Now, they have been reduced to relying on Federal Government subventions

Dictionary definition of Nigeria

Nigeria: A British experiment in West-Africa that turned out to be the face of tragedy it's self

Yoruba hypocrisy can be incredible. Yorubas shout "one Nigeria!" From side of their mouth and "my land!" From the other side of the mouth. Shouting 'we are all one!' all over the place and calling Igbos 'strangers' at the same time. Where does 'one Nigeria' start and where does your land stop? It is not my job to respect the culture of the Yoruba man, it is my job to respect the laws of Nigeria. The Eze Ndigbo of Akure is in Nigeria not Oduduwa Republic. If the Yoruba man feels that the Igbos are taking too much, help agitate for Biafra so that Igbos can go back home and leave you alone. What's all this nonsense? You want your land but you want 'one Nigeria' at the same time? It won't work!!

MightySparrow:
Good we want to see the Igbos on battle field again to prove their military prowess. Idiots like you are pushing innocent Igbos into war.
When you talk about war in Nigeria mention one big name of Igbo extraction. We have big names and conquests of El - kanemi, Queen Idia, Ogedemgbe, Lisabi, Fabunmi Okemesi and other war lords. Is it your Ojukwu that ran away from battle when the likes of Obasanjo, the Black Scorpion and a civilian strategist Awolowo used hunger to defeat your ill - motivated Biafra, flat headed, army.

The days of reckoning are here. Igbos start a fight in any part of Yorubaland. We dare you. We want to see what stuff you are made of.

OP mobilise your people home and abroad. You want to see for once cowards in action.

Look at this one comparing old wars were the used bows and arrows against modern warfare of machine guns,mortars,battle tanks,ferrets and land mines. You should have done stand up comedy. Comparing Ojukwu who held Nigeria and all her allies for 3 years with Ogedemgbe. If the Yoruba people ever fight modern warfare, come back and tell me what you know about bravery.



OP, you are right about our people going to other places to live and suffering embarassment as a result but I hasten to add that the fact that there are many Igbos in the SW has nothing to do with the belief in "one Nigeria". It has more to with opportunity. There are many Igbos in other countries suffering the same indignity. While we are still in Nigeria, it is incumbent on any Igbo man to advantage of any opportunity, anywhere in Nigeria. However, the more we get closer to Biafra, the more we should all prepare to go back home

The Zoo must fall!!

A Yoruba man wants me as an Igbo man to respect his ways and custom in Yorubaland. For what? Am I begging you people to stay in Nigeria? Didn't I go back home in 1967 to face my Biafra? You people fought for 3 years to bring me back into your 'one Nigeria'. You people will have accept me the way I am or agree to Biafra so I can go back home, but you cannot shout 'one Nigeria' and tell me that one Nigeria stops at Lagos or Akure. As far as we are in this one Nigeria, there is no difference between Enugu and Ibadan, they are all one and I will act in Ibadan same way I act in Enugu.

DonPedro21:
I hate it whenever I see Igbos and Yorubas going at each other.This is the reason why this country still remains in doldrum despite all our potentials. Chinse, Lebanese and Indians come here and treat us like poo.yet we worship them. But when it comes to a fellow Nigerian from another tribe, we spit fire.

Fellow Nigerians lets be wise. The earlier we understand that our strength is in our diversity, the better for us and generations yet unborn.

God Bless Negeria! God Bless Hausas! God Bless Igbos! And God Bless Yorubas.!

Newsflash!!! You don't have a country. What you have is an 'opportunistic venture' dreamt up by a British thief called Lord Lugard. The fact that he called it 'Nigeria' doesn't change what it is.

Mcowubaba:
Nd u Ikwerrian, i don't seem to understand ur grievances with Igbos...that is stupidty of the highest order...Ikwerrians are the CLOSEST TRIBE to Igbos....we share similar culture, names, boundaries etc...
Its' just politics, illiteracy, bigotry that will mak a Ikwerre man say he is not a Igbo man or he is not Igbo...Some1(my frnd) answering Amadi Ifeanyi that clearly understands Igbo nd speaks Igbo excellently, will tell me he is not Igbo ...i weep for this Country!!

Ps...I nd Millions of other Igbos, don't, i repeat DON'T care or give a damn whether Ikwerre people agree to be Igbos or not..
We care less abt Ikwerre, Igbos are NOT looking for brothers or OYEL.....
If Ikwerrians say the are not Igbos..-that's good for them.....
I wish u knw, hw much me nd 'millions' of Igbos don't give a damn abt Ikwerre people- u will be amazed
Stop feeling important to the igbo tribe ...#IkwerreisNOTIGBO

The Ikwere people who speak Igbo and have Igbo surnames say they are a 'distinct' ethnic group. Where is the distinction between me as an Anambra man and an Ikwere man? The really funny thing about the Ikwere Man is that their neighbours, the Ijaws,the Okirikas and the Ogonis all consider them to be pure unadulterated Igbos. They even laugh at Ikwere people who claim not to be Igbo. If there is a riot in the north and Igbos are targeted, an Ikwere man will not be able to convince anybody he is not Igbo. This disunity is all the fault of the British contraption called Nigeria

OfoIgbo:
Thank God the Anambra gas reserves, are not in that territory.

Anambra and Imo have the largest gas reserves of any state in Nigeria and in fact, Nigeria is more of a gas-laden nation than oil-laden nation.

Once gas infrastructure is developed, Anambra and Imo will invariably be the richest states in Nigeria

Sometime during the Obasunjo administration, I heard an Oil executive say that Anambra has one of the largest Gas reserves in Nigeria but I was sceptical about that at the time

Ndipe:
My people would call such an attempt by the EzeIgbo as an "Usongeyin" (insult). I highly doubt if a Calabar man would seek to be crowned an "Obong" in Ibo land, without raising the ire of the citizens. Geez, I mean, for what reason is all this for, except to start some controversy? Be a ruler in your region.

I'm an Igbo man, versed in Igbo culture. If the Calabar community in Onitsha decided to elect an 'Obong of Onitsha', no Igbo man would give a Rats-a$$.

Every Nigerian knows that the contraption set up by Lugard known as Nigeria is the worst mistake in Africa, but as the clueless Africans they are, they live in denial.

Yorubas never cease to amaze me. If Yorubas feel that Igbos are disrespecting them in their land, they should join the agitation for Biafra!


It's not my job as an Igbo man to respect Yoruba norms and culture, it is my job to respect the contitution. By being supporters of 'one Nigeria', Yorubas gave up their sovereignty a long time ago.



So I say to all Yorubas everywhere! Put up or shut up! If you don't want Igbos, join the agitation for Biafra so that we Igbos can leave your lands and go back home! You cannot have 'one Nigeria' and have your land at the same time! You have to choose one. If the Yorubas choose one Nigeria, then all of Yorubaland is "no mans land"

bokohalal:
You are dense. Actually, you are denser, with this argument

That's what people who have nothing to counter usually say

bokohalal:
You are mistaken as to my belief. I only punctured your argument with superior and logical ones.
We did not bear surnames before Europeans came to Africa. An Ateke-Tom is a recent entry into African culture. It does not determine heritage.
Many RETURNEES ended up answering the names of places they were residents of. An IDEMUDIA-COLE could have originally been Fante.
A cursory check of the names of Obis in Delta would reveal lot of Edo names until recently. Why did they not continue to use the Edo names?
Your surname as an alpha answer to heritage is illogical.

We did not not have surnames in Africa before the White man came? Who told you this? Olauda Equiano was born in Isi-Eke in present day Anambra state in 1745. He was sold into slavery in 1756. He later wrote a book called 'The interesting narrative of Olauda Equiano' in which he talked about Igbo culture and how important the last name or family name is to differentiate between family branches. In 1798 when EquIano wrote his book, the White man was still trading and buying slaves on the coast and had not even come inland to what would later be Nigeria. Igbos have always had surnames long before the White man came to West-Africa.

bokohalal:
You are getting more entangled in your own web. That you disagreed does not change anything.
Do you realize that there is hardly an Ika person of say,fifty years and older, some even younger than that, that does not have an Edo name?
If you agreed that INTERACTION could lead to name change, why would the case be different in a Bini /Igbo situation?
Is it in all situations that people are TOBYFIED from Kunta Kinte? Cassius Clay to Muhammed Ali and then LAILA ALI?
Do you need to build empires in order to travel,trade and interact with other cultures?
Edos careless if people say they are not Igbo. It is Igbo problem. However, your attempt at persuading neutrals like me as to why they are Igbos and not what they said they were, is porous.

I don't know what you are finding hard to understand. A few Ijaw people bear English surnames with most of then attaching their Original Ijaw names to the English ones e.g, Soboma-Gearoge, Ateke-Tom. But some how, you believe that Delta-Igbos, who number well over a million people migrated from Edo,abandoned their ancestral surnames in favour of the ones adopted from their Igbo neigbours. I find that absolutely impossible to believe. It maybe well be that many Ikas have Edo names as first or second names but what I'm interested in is the last name which is what we are born with.

bokohalal:
It is not really a logical argument that you are making because GOODLUCK JONATHAN is neither Jewish nor English. Many people's ethnicity cannot be gleaned from their surnames in Hausaland. Blacks in diaspora have no African names. Whatever happened to the Igbo,Yoruba or Mendes surnames that they took across the Atlantic?
Also, surname is European. People were known by their OWN name in many African societies. The family name was required when dealing with total strangers.

I don't agree. GEJ, Ben Bruce and others in the Niger-Delta have English surnanes they took as a result of interaction with Europeans, but I'm sure that if you ask GEJ's family what their ancestral Ijaw name is, they will tell you. Many Ijaws still Attach their Ijaw surname to English one. The Europeans forced African slaves to lose their African surnames. The difference in the Nigerian context is that unlike Hausas and Yorubas, Igbos were never empire builders. The Igbos never tried to conquer the smaller tribes around them. So how could the Igbos have forced anyone to change their surnames to Igbo? If the Ikas and Ukwuanis are Edo descendants, why would they change their surnames to Igbo when the Igbos never ever forced them to do so?

HopeAtHand:
Factors responsible.

1) Areas of settlement: from writeup Akalaka and his young family travelled from Benin and settled in areas already inhabited by locals..The locals were more in number and as such were able to dominate in language.(to interact with them, you need to learn language).

2)Intermarriage: again from writeup, Akalaka had to marry his second wife from within the community he settled to gain love and trust of the local population..Akalaka and sons were supplied wives by Igbos.


3) Slave trading: It was common practice then to buy slaves for ecoomic and domestic purposes and Igboland were relentless selling its people as slaves (Igbos can sell anything for money).A man with maybe 2wives and 14 children can own more than 200 male and female slaves..Akalaka and Sons took hundreds of Igbo slaves.

So then, anyone asking of Igbo influence should understand how it came about..But we know our history.

Im perjectly jaded with Ikwerre this, Igbo that.

So how do you explain surnanes? The major way of knowing the ethnicity of a person is the surname of the person because this is something that is handed down from our forefathers and hardly ever changes. Why would an Edo man migrate somewhere and take up an Igbo surname? Even if language can be explained by Igbo influence, surname cannot. They said that the king of Agbor descended from the Bini Royal family yet, the surname of the King of Agbor/Ika people is Ikechukwu.

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]War against Islamic terrorism does not end
It can only be postponed.
It is a monster with countless heads.
When one is cut off, another one replaces it.
Nigeria has never had 10 years of peace without one sect or another going on rampage in one region of the country.
Ignorance of the truth is the major problem of Nigerians and not corruption.
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That is why any southern Nigerian, particularly the SE/SS, who is not yet thinking seriously about Biafra had better do so. I'm an Igbo man. Anyone who is telling me to be a part of a country like Nigeria with ever growing Islamic fundamentalism needs to have his head examined

Lagos is Yorubaland? Since when? A Badagry man once told me that it is Badagry and Egun people that own Lagos. Yorubas are just settlers same as Igbos. Is it the same Lagos that Oba Dosunmu sold to the British in 1861? But why must the Lagos state Assembly conduct their sittings in Yoruba? Are they there to represent Lagosians or Yoruba people? If there is any indigenous language that has to be used, it has to be Igbo since Igbos make up half Lagos and are the largest ethnic group in that state. Yorubas want one Nigetia? They should be prepared to accept the consequences of it

Kagawa10:
Ukwuani dey speak ibo? Lol!
Not to mention that majority part of Ika like Agbor don't speak ibo!
Yeye people!

No the Ika people speak Hausa. I did my NYSC not too far away from Agbor, which is the heart of Ikaland. How did an Anambra man like me go to Ika markets to buy food stuffs from Ika people while speaking only in Igbo language? Or maybe we all learnt to speak Hausa overnight. Even the name Dein of Agbor is Ikechukwu. Or maybe Ikechukwu is a Hausa name?

Because most Yorubas have never crossed the river Niger into eastern Nigeria, they don't know what the make up of the place is except what they have been led to believe. On the converse, most Igbo guys would have visited a SS,SW and at least one Northern region before the age of 25. There is hardly any Yoruba presence in the SS or SE but it is them who will open threads to say who is Igbo and who is not.

Omololu007:
where you ibos they always get this fable from sef

What tribe is "Ibo"? Are they Chinese? I'm 'Igbo' from Biafra, so you must be talking about some other people

It was a long read but worth it. There's just one thing that no one has been able to explain. The Ukwuanis,Ikas,Ikwere and Ekpeye all speak Igbo (or dialects of Igbo) as their ancestral language. Some people say it is because they have interacted with Igbos for a long time. The question that nobody ever seems to answer is, if the "SS Igbos", the Ukwuanis,the Ikas,the Ikweres,the Etche, the Ekpeye and Ahoada are not Igbos but descendants of the Bini Kingdom, why do they all have Igbo surnames? Why is it that these people don't speak Bini or have Bini surnames? Did the Igbos force them to change their names to Igbo? The Ikwere say they are a 'distinct' ethnic group. I was at an Ikwere persons funeral less than a month ago. Many Ikwere people picked up the microphone, introduced themselves, before talking about the person that died. Even though I'm an Anambra man, I understood 80 to 90% of what they all said and they all had Igbo surnames. So how can the Ikwere people be distinct when they speak a dialect of Igbo and have Igbo last names?

maupe:
Yeah sure, you are one brave hero.
War is about poor starving boys, killing each other, so that the rich get richer. Its not about ideology, or freedom. Ojukwu, as Gowon had his own financially motivated agenda. The only difference was that Gowon had more important allies than Ojukwu.

Not everyone is moved by money or financial gratification and one of those people was Ojukwu. When Ojukwu was serving in the Congo, he captured a Congo rebel leader who offered him (Ojukwu) two buckets full of Diamonds to ensure his freedom. Ojukwu turned the offer down and handed the man and his Diamonds over to the authorities. Ojukwus father, Sir Louis Ojukwu, was one of the richest men in Africa, yet Ojukwu turned his back on his fathers money and joined the Army.