₦airaland Forum

IspitonCowards:
Stop forcing people to be part of whatever it is IPob is doing, stop making a mockery of the Igbo nationalism, the IPob biafra map is a big joke, other minority tribes in the SS don't want anything with IPob biafra is that too hard for you to see?.....and you say you are not living in Dreamland

The only people forcing people to be part what they dont want is Nigeria that was created by the British. Nnamdi Kanus agitation is not about Igbo nationalism, it is about the old Eastern Region, or much of what we now call SE/SS. He wants a referendum held there so that various ethnic groups can decide if they prefer Nigeria or Biafra. Those who say that Kanu is wrong to include all others in that referendum are the same people whose forefathers were never even asked through a referendum if they want to be part of Nigeria. At least Kanu wants everyone to have a choice about Biafra, nobody ever had a choice about Nigeria

The only thing Buhari is looking foward to is to run to Daura in 2023 to be with his cows

Governing a complex and challenging country like Nigeria has long overwhelmed the man.

IspitonCowards:
I'm Igbo and I share his sentiments, IPob is living in Dreamland, kanu is brainwashing people

It is dreamland for one to seek a seperate and independent country? Its called self determination and is recognised in international law. Kanu is not brainwashing anyone, everyone can see that Nigeria has failed. IPOB are simply the people who dont want to be part of that failure any more

When a man leaves the comfort of London to return to a country where he is a wanted man, he gets arrested, charged to court for treason, and spends almost 2 years in jail, all of which he could have avoided by staying back in London

All I know is that we Igbos have every right to have our own independent country. Thats how it would have been had the British never come to West Africa to create Nigeria

Rocksvibes234:
“We will surprise the World in November over Anambra State Cargo Airport.” —C. Don Adinuba

The above statement was made by the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba.
Mr Adinuba was speaking at an Elombah TV Zoom interview held on Friday 24th July, 2020.
The topic of the Zoom meeting was “The Achievements Of Governor Willie Obiano Administration“.

He was asked about the condition of the cargo airport which the Obiano administration promised Anambra people.

Adinuba, who was full of praises for the administration he represents, smiled and said that a big surprise awaits the people but chose not to let the cat out of the bag.

Watch video of the full interview below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J90tWGmDesg

He did not refute that Peter Obi left the money but he is adamant that Peter Obi left unfinished projects which Obiano was saddled with. As long as the money is used for what it was meant for, thats what matters

naijanaso:
Some people are the bigger fool for letting the statement of one man make them think that every other person is that man. Amaechi like every other man can say what he wishes...that is for that person. Don't make generic assumptions bro. You cannot define another person's background. Mind you, Igbo has no history.

Its not just Amaechi. The Secretary General of Ohanaeze is an Ikwerre man called Barrister Uche Okwukwu. Famous Ikwerres in the entertainment industry like Tonto Dike, Monalisa Chinda and Duncan Okechukwu(Duncan Mighty) have all said they are Igbos

IspitonCowards:
Bros ikwerre is not Igbo give this thing a rest, I don't understand why you are so bent on making ikwerre people become Igbo by force, is your girlfriend ikwerre? Are you in any way related to ikwerre by blood? If not please rest this ikwerre matter they don't deserve even half of this attention you are giving freely

Did anybody force an Ikwerre man like former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to come out publicly and say he is an Igbo man? Did anyone force an Ikwerre man like Uche Okwukwu to become Secretary General of Ohanaeze? Did I force an Ikwerre girl like Tonto Dike to say she is Igbo?

So how are we all to know which Ikwerre is Igbo and which one is not?

Igboid:
Stop the delusion already.

Ogini di! Ana agwo gi bu onye ibi ibi gi, ina eto afor!

Ikwerre is not Igbo. 90% of Ikwerre people will hate you the moment they realize you are Igbo.
These lots were raised from childhood by their parents with distorted falsehoods of how Igbos took over their lands before the war and tried to annihilate them during the war and how Gowon and Nigerian Army saved them from Igbos.
They were also told that Igbos are trying to take their land annihilate and replace them with Igbos in their land, if given an opportunity.

This is how every single Ikwerre man was raised. They were raised in deep Igbophobia rooted in falsehoods where Ndiigbo were projected in the image of the mythical big black wolf.

Stop being ridiculous, emotional , lazy and stupid trying to pretend there can ever be any level of genuine brotherhood between Ndiigbo and these people.

These people are very dangerous to Ndiigbo overall well being, and I blame our parents for not telling us the truth about these people. Because most of us had to experience this toxic hate first hand, and I tell you. Its a very traumatic experience you will never recover from as an Igbo.

It's worst when IPOB plays the ostrich and keep misseducating our people about these Ikwerres when most of IPOB leaders know the truth on ground.
I know Ipob and NK know the truth, because when Nnamdi Kanu claimed to have visited PH, he cunningly stuck to Obiigbo where the Ndoki and Asa indigenous are proud Igbos and not Igbophobic, while he stylishly avoided Obio Akpor LGA and all the Ikwerre Rumu villages there.
Nnamdi Kanu is a con artist for this shameless miss education of our people and exposing gullible ones to this Ikwerre hate.
He knew those Igbophobic Bini Ikwerre boys would have disgraced and stoned him to death had he attempted to cross into Ikwerre land, so he stuck to Oyiigbo. Very insincere human being. His cup will soon full.

This has nothing to do with love or hate or who was raised on falsehood to hate who. Thats beside the point. The argument here is that that being Igbo cannot be reduced to who wants to be Igbo and who doesn't. If that narrative is allowed to stand then what it means is that the Ezza people of Ebonyi can get up tomorrow and declare that they are no longer Igbos because they choose not to be. The Ngwa man of Abia can get up tomorrow and say he is no longer Igbo because he chooses not to be. The Nsukka people of Enugu, the Oru man of Imo, the Abiriba man of Abia can all decide any time they like that they are no longer Igbos. It doesnt stop there, since we have now reduced Igbo to who chooses to be and does not choose to be, what it means is that the Nupe man of Niger state can get up tomorrow and proclaim to be Igbo because he now chooses to be one. Igbo is all about who chooses to be one, right?

We cannot reduce being Igbo to an auction where anybody chooses what they want and what they dont want. If that is the case, then meaning of being Igbo is lost. The Ikwerre can claim to be "distinct" but if their "come" is "Bia", they are fooling nobody. It doesnt matter who the Ikwerre love or hate, it doesnt matter how Igbophobic they are. The only thing that matters is that Igbos are the group of people, contiguous to Southern Nigeria, who speak a variant of the Niger-Congo branch of language known as Igbo, as their ancestral language, and have a surname or family name derived from that language

This definition is the only thing that makes me Igbo, it is the only thing that makes the Nsukka man, the Oru man, the Abakiliki man, the Ngwa man, the wawa man and of course, the Ikwerre man, to be Igbo.

Ethnic stock is not by choice, I can deny my father from now to eternity but it wont change the fact that he is my father. We should acknowledge the Ikwerres such as former Governor Chibuike Amaechi, Secretary General of Ohanaeze, Uche Okwukwu and actress, Tonto Dike, who have all come out publicly to declare they are Igbos. We should pity the the Ikwerre still denying being Igbo because they are suffering from identity crisis. How they will ever be able to convince anyone in the world when their "come" is "Bia" is beyond me.


By the way, IPOB's agitation is about the former Eastern Region, not about who loves Igbos.

agadez007:
I once watched an old Award video on Youtube where Tonto dike was about to be presented an award on Stage and she corrected the Announcer that Her surname "Dike" Should be pronouced Different from the Igbo's own,that ikwere is a Distinct ethnic group from the Igbos,even your Duncan okechukwu was asked what Language his song(Jesus bu Eze) was on Youtube and he replied Ikwerre that it sounds like Igbo language but is not(the video is still there on Youtube)
Why do you guys keep deceiving yourselves that these guys are Igbo when in reality they are not,I schooled with many of them back then at Imsu,and they would always want to tell you how they are very different from Ndigbo
Better still go and search for Ikwerre groups on Facebook and see their view on Igbo
Better learn now before you come and claim betrayal tomorrow
thank you

If the Ikwerre language is not Igbo, then how do Igbos understand it? How is it that all Ikwerres understand Igbo? How can two different people speak two different languages but understand each other? "Come" in Ikwerre is "Bia"

Of course some Ikwerres say they are not Igbo while others like former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi say they are Igbo. The Secretary General of Ohanaeze is an Ikwerre man called Uche Okwukwu.

Ikwerres are not distinct in any way. They all speak Igbo as their ancestral language and have Igbo surnames.

eagleu:
If you have not been following the denial of Ikwerre people that they are NOT Igbos, maybe you should look in the mirror for the big fool here.

You mean like an Ikwerre man such as Chibuike Amaechi who says he is Igbo? Or an Ikwerre woman Tonto Dike who says she is Igbo? Or maybe Duncan Okechukwu(Duncan Mighty) who says he Igbo?

Remind us again which Ikwerre denied being Igbo and the one that accepted to be Igbo

Igboid:
Ipob is a big liability and disappointment to Ndiigbo.
Bunch of deluded people led by a blind man.
So disappointing.

Most Igbos dont share your sentiments

ajokebelle:
Most Ikwerre's I know get pissed off when you call them Igbo.
It seems even Wike denies the fact that they are Igbos (not totally sure though)..

Some Ikwerres deny being Igbo, others like Chibuike Amaechi do not. Then there are Ikwerres who dont care either way

The funny thing is that some people will run here to say he is Ikwerre, which he does not deny. Even when an Ikwerre man like Amaechi says he is Igbo, some fools will come to tell him he is not

IamWonderful:
Despite all shenanigan, compaign of calumny and unabated chest-beating, their millions of votes could not save Jonathan from shameless flawless humiliation in 2015 and couldn't usher in Atiku and Peter Obi in 2019, can such votes that was inconsequential during those election stop Tinubu from becoming president if he wish to? or what exactly will they use to stop?

You forget that Tinubu is not a Northerner, a fact that will weigh heavily on how the average Northerner will vote

The leader of the indigenous people of Biafra(IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, stated that he believes that Portharcourt will eventually become the capital of Biafra. Kanu stated this during his broadcast of Sunday July 26th. Kanu said that although it will be up to Biafrans to decide where their capital will be, he believed that Igweocha(Portharcourt) would emerge as capital.

Kanu said that Portharcourt, as the centre of the Oil and gas industry in Nigeria, should have developed on the level of Abuja, if not more, but that the Oil wealth of the area was taken up North to build Abuja, at the expense of Portharcourt indigenes

Kanu ended by saying that when Portharcourt becomes the capital of Biafra, the Biafran government would initiate a 75 year development plan that will see most of the houses and substandard structures in Portharcourt knocked down and a world class city built in its place

Ken Saro Wiwa was a foolish man, typical of some people in the South South. He was complaining that Igbos want to take over their Oil in Biafra but he could not see that the war was about the North taking over their Oil in Nigeria. Ken Saro Wiwa was so worried about Igbo domination that he could not see he was that he was stepping straight into Northern domination.

Gowon then tricked people like him by creating Rivers state and they were jumping up. They never knew that by creating Rivers state, Gowon and his fellow Northerners had perfected the plan to steal their Oil wealth. With the creation of states, resource control disappeared. Wiwa then watched as his Oil wealth was used to build a brand new capital in the North while poverty destroyed his people

By the time Ken Saro Wiwa realised that he had jumped from frying pan into fire, it was too late. He now tried to fight back with MOSOP and they hanged him.

Nawah

kingzizzy:
It was July of 1967, Biafra was still less than 2 months old and the war had just started a week before. Young famous writter, Wole Soyinka, decided that he would be able to stop the war if he could get to Enugu, the Biafran capital, and speak to his old friend, Colonel Ojukwu, Head of State,Republic of Biafra. It was a journey that almost cost him his life. What happend next was captured on page 23 of Bernard Odogwu's book "No Place to Hide: Crises and Conflicts Inside Biafra". Bernard Odogwu was a senior intelligence officer in Biafra

One mid-morning in late July, I was alerted by our security agents that a Nigerian 'saboteur' had been located. They had `tailed' him all the way from his entry point to Enugu and had decided to pull him in at the Military Police Headquarters at Abakaliki Road, Enugu, for questioning. I instructed that he be kept there until I arrived. By the time I arrived at the scene, a large Biafran crowd had already gathered there, and without waiting to find out what was involved were already demanding that the 'saboteur' be handed over to them for instant justice. When I stepped into the office, the 'saboteur' turned out to be none other than Wole Soyinka. I had never met Soyinka in person before that day nor have we met again since the incident, but it was not too difficult to recognize his celebrated face which I had seen many times before on the pages of some national dailies and on the covers of some of his books. Although I was convinced that Soyinka was no 'saboteur' yet I still had to go through the motion of an interrogation if only to please and calm down the irate crowd outside. My interrogation of Wole Soyinka as recorded by me went this way:

"Question: Mr. Soyinka, what brings you to Biafra? And do you realize that you are in enemy territory and subject to being treated as a spy?

Answer: Hell! I am in Enugu, and I have come to see my friend Colonel Ojukwu. You see, I was away on tour in the United States and Europe when the civil war started. While abroad, some mutual friends of ours (Col. Ojukwu and himself) could not believe that Emeka would allow the Nigerian crisis to degenerate into a shooting war. We must all do something urgently in the interest of our nation and people

Question: What nation are you referring to Mr Soyinka?

Answer: Nigeria of course. Which else?

Question: You mean you don't recognise the existence of Biafra? But in any case don't you think you have come rather too late in the day? Where were you when some of your colleagues, Achebe, Okigbo, Ekwensi and Nzegwu to name a few, were being pushed put of Nigeria? What did you do?

Answer: Yes. I have come to tell Emeka off. I will do the same to Gowon when I get back to Lagos. It is really a pity and very sad that our fatherland is being destroyed by chaps of our own age and we have not tried hard enough to do something about it. We must try and stop them before it is too late.

I was just about saying to Soyinka, that I did not think he had answered my questions, when he interrupted and asked , "Where is Chris Okigbo? Is it possible that I could see him?" I told him Chris was at the war front, but then if even there was anything like an invocation as claimed by magicians, I was to witness one that day, for no sooner had Soyinka and I finished mentioning Chris Okigbo's name than Chris in person fully arrayed in battle gear, appeared through the door. Chris had been to my office to see me and when told where I was, decided to track me down. What happend the between the two friends, Chris Okigbo and Wole oyinka, cannot be adequately described in words. Even till this day, I still relive that scene with relish and nostalgia. The two geniuse went into an automatic embrace and while still in that position, went into a jig dance around the room with the two military Policemen and myself self watching in profound admiration. They made so much noise that some of the military Policemen standing guard outside came dashing in thinking that something had probably gone amiss inside. In the process the rifle of one of them was "accidentally" discharged and yet both writters were still in their act oblivious Of the pandemonium they had caused. Finally, when the jigging ended, both went into Iong argument on the merits and demerits of the on-going war. I remember Soyinka asking Okigbo, why he was fighting when he 'should have used his personality and influence in preventing it. At the end of the debate, Soyinka apologised for being carried away: — "I recognise that you people had gone through hell in the last one year and that fact most of us in Nigeria were guilty because not many people had the guts to speak up when the damage was being done." "I hope" he continued, "that pretty soon we shall be able to find some sort of formula to unite the country once again!' We all laughed when Wole Soyinka, concluding his remarks said that he hoped it would not happen in his lifetime when he would come to Enugu with a passport in hand and through an immigration post. The parting when it was time for Chris to go was a sentimental one, reminiscent of a typical Shakespearean scene. "Well dear Wole:' Chris said, "I hope we meet again, but if not, I hope this parting was well made. Keep the flag flying high as always!' I

Wole Soyinka is now 86 years old. I wish him longer life. But reality is that he doesn't have all the time in the world left.

He outlived his compatriots like Chris Okigbo, Chinua Achebe and Cyprien Ekwensi, who all fought for Biafra.

But the "one Nigeria" Wole Soyinka preferred, that came after the war, where there is massive corruption, disunity, endemic poverty, Boko haram and herdsmen killings.....

Was Chris Okigbo, Achebe and Ekwensi right to try and fight for what could have been a better future in Biafra?

I hope he someday answers.

Kentursky:
Barring any last minute change of plans, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano is set to dump the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) for the All Progressives Congress(APC)

Arrangements are in top gear for his defection billed for August.

Modalities being worked out for Governor Obiano's defection include his request for the party structure in the state to be handed over to him, a request that was turned down.

The Governor is expected to summon a meeting of House of Assembly members elected under the platform of APGA, commissioners as well as Local Government Transition Chairmen to intimate them of his move.

From a grapevine source.

Details later.

You are ignorant. Why would a Governor in his last term of office, who has no future political ambitions, resign from the popular party of his state that has been in power for 15 years, join an unpopular party like APC which most Anambrarians hate?

IamWonderful:
It is senseless complaining on nairaland, you have senators and house of representatives members mount pressure on them if you are significant

They are at the NASS for their pockets, not the people

KwaraRat:
1. Proselyzing Christian doctrine or converting a Jew to Christianity is a criminal offence punishable with a prison sentence

2. Desecration, vandalism and burning of churches and places of Christian worship , holy sites are a regular occurrence in Israel

3. Christian worshippers and clergy are subject to random abuse , spitting by Jews

4. Distribution of Christian tracts is banned in Israel

5. The New Testament is banned in Israel

6. Every year during Good Friday, Jewish mob gathered to burn the New Testament

7. Toledo Yeshu, a book that blasphemes Christ remains a best seller in Israel.

8. Jews are the most racist bastards on the planet

9. Jews consider Blacks to be subhuman without a soul

10. Slavery is widely approved of by Jews as their Torah and Talmud justifies ownership and sale of slaves. Jews dominated both the Atlantic and Trans-Saharan slave trade. They owned all the slave vessels, auction houses and plantations in the Americas. They were the staunchest opposers to abolition of slavery. They used both Biblical narrative of Ham and Darwinsm to defend the continued practice of slavery

11. Jews are genocidal maniacs who believe the world is theirs through their father Cain through Canaan and have no problem geniciding the gentiles

12. Israel is the number 1 destination for trafficked women and girls.

13. There is a thriving $15bn slave prostitution industry in Israel involving trafficked women and girls from across the world which both the Jewish political and religious authority approve of.

14. Israel is capital of fugitive pedophiles as the Israeli govt does not extradict it's citizens.

15. Epstein is well and alive in Israel. His escape was faccilitated by Mossad and deep state agents in the US

16. Israel accounts for majority of cybercrimes. Interpol is frustrated by the Israeli govt's refusal to cooperate in investigating and extradicting Jewish criminals. This is largely because in the Satanic Talmud, Jews are encouraged to cheat and dupe the gentile.

17. Israel is capital for organ trafficking. In Libya, Jews controlled the harvesting of organs from African migrants. Jews also used ISIS in Syria and Iraq to harvest organs which are later transported to Israel. In the US, the FBI broke a Jewish Mafia syndicate that involved Mossad and Jewish rabbis who where engaged in organ theft and trafficking

18 Jews are antichristian , genocidal, Satan worshipping liars who are a plague to humanity.

19. Christianity is not recognized as a religion by the state. There is a Sharia court in Israel that is fully backed by the Constitution

20. Christianity is considered as a pagan religion while Islam is seen as a lower sect of Judaism

Google is your friend .

You are wasting your time with what you are writting, 95% of IPOB are Christians and most are very tolerant of Judaism. Another reason why this write up is a waste of time is that unlike Jews/Judaists who only use the old testament, Christians heavily use both the old and new testaments so much so that the difference between Judaists and Christians is often lost. The last reason is that most IPOB are Igbos and Igbos practiced many aspects of Judaism long before Christianity came.

Basically, most IPOB are what is called "Judeo-Christians" and both Jews and Christians worship the same God. So if you are hoping to get IPOB to hate Jews, Judaism or the state of Israel, its not going to ever happen.

Nigeria has since upgraded from zoo to animal kingdom

AmericanQuarter:
Courtesy visit;

Today, 24/7/2020, the Distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing the good people of Anambra central, Sen. Uche Lilian Ekwunife alongside the Ambassador designate from Anambra state, Chief Nduka Anyanwu (ASCON Chairman) HE Elijah Onyeagba, PHD paid a courtesy visit to the AIG, Zone 13; headquarters Anambra, Danmallam Mohammed fdc.

They said they came to familiarize and show support for the AIG. They promised to work harmoniously with the police to reduce crime in the new zone.

In his response, the new police boss promised that the police will carry all the law abiding citizens along in the discharge of his duties.

Picture speaks.

I see this zone 13 another police headquarters for extortion, intimidation, torture, illegal detention and extra-judicial killings

Nnamdi Kanu should be careful of these Oduduwa Republic people, less than 1% of Yorubas care about Oduduwa Republic

Minsk24:
Exactly, if we unite, omo this people no fit get mouth..

True, but we will never unite. Nothing will make us Igbos ever unite with Yorubas for any reason

IkwerrePikin:
Both yoruba, Igbo and north are parasites to we the Niger deltans

And it shows the foolishness of the Niger Deltan who sits down all day talking nonsense while the rest of Nigeria drains their oil wealth. You guys should keep supplying us all with free Oil money, thats what you are good for.

Minsk24:
Hello everyone...
While thinking about possible scenarios that might play out in Nigeria if we keep going in this direction, i thought about the possibility of the South uniting together to rebel against the north...
My Question is this: Can The North-Led FG successfully Quell a United South Rebellion? Do they Have enough Influence to control the Security Agencies In the South?

No they cant. If the SW, SE,SS actually stood together, they could crush the North. The only way the North could defeat the south if one of the SW,SS, SE joined the North to fight the South and everyone in the South already knows the zone that is most likely going to join the North to fight the South

To show you how daft and stupid the average Nigerian is, he still answers to the colonial name "Nigerian" which the British used guns, bullets, intimidation and killings to impose on him.

Yet, that African who calls himself a 'Nigerian' doesn't even know, or want to know, that the name Nigeria is a "British imposed insult" on his forefathers who were attacked, killed, subjugated, enslaved, dehumanised and colonised in that name, "Nigeria"


And yet some people continue to proudly answer to that colonial slave name "Nigeria"

Nnamdi Kanu was right, it is hard to find an African that can reason with his head, and not sentiments.

Thats why the Nigerian who wants "one Nigeria" will fight to his dying day to answer to colonial slave called "Nigeria"

Guestlander:
This is precisely why a lot of the criticism directed at the leaders in Lagos are unfair. 20 million people in such a small area and some people are still packing their belongings right for the next trip with Ekenedili Chukwu.
If you can lead Lagos successfully, leading Nigeria shouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately, no area in Nigeria had the incredible advantage Lagos had for being the capital of Nigeria since 1914 that Nigeria was created. Look at the incredible development Abuja had from being designated Federal Capital of Nigeria

If the British had not made Lagos the capital of their Colonial Nigeria, maybe nobody would be their packing their belongings on Ekene dili Chukwu to go to Lagos because it would have been just another coastal wasteland

IkwerrePikin:
That is why the Igbos want Niger delta to be part of them so much that Ojukwu forcefully included we Niger deltans to their Biafra.

Nnamdi also doing the same thing Ojukwu did.

But just like we rejected Biafra, we will continue to reject fraudulent Biafra as we wish the Igbos goodluck in their Biafra struggle. We support and respect their struggle.

But the Igbos should know Niger deltans will not gain anything in Biafra! Absolutely nothing. This is the reality.

Niger deltans republic is the best thing that can happen to we the Niger deltans. That’s the truth. We have the landmass, we have the access to the sea, we have agricultural, we have mineral resources, not just oil even uranium was discovered in Akwa Ibom, we have the beautiful cities and beaches.

Why will a Niger deltan join Biafra were you have igbos become 60% of the said Biafra? They will dominate the Senate, Job opportunities, the markets, and so on!!!

Ask yourself how many Niger deltans in Igbo land and how many Igbos in Niger delta??

God bless Niger delta republic.

We wish you goodluck in your Biafra

There is no country that comes without people agitating for it. It has never happened that a country comes out of nowhere without some people agitating for it. Nobody is agitating for Niger Delta Republic. In 1966, a young Ijaw man called Adaka Boro armed some men and came out to declare a Niger Delta Republic for his Ijaw people. Him and his men were easily captured in less than two weeks because he had no support. To this day, nobody even knows the Ijaw Ijaw territory he was declaring Niger Delta Republic.

Whatever the so called Niger Delta people feared about Ojukwu and Biafra, they got 10 times worse in Nigeria. Their oil wealth has been shared by more number of people in Nigeria than Biafra, they remain poor, marginalised and get a paltry 13% derivation.

I actually hope that the many tribes of the Niger Delta can come together and agitate for Niger Delta Republic. But everybody knows that it is impossible because nothing actually brings them together. An Ibibio man doesn't know anything about a Bini man same as an Ijaw man knows nothing Ogojaman.

Lets hope they all come together some day and unite beyond having Oil and access to the sea because if they dont, both their access to the Sea and Oil will only be for the benefit of Northern Nigeria

vivilafrosh:
Biafra is not a bad idea. Following the total failure of the Nigerian state it is inevitable that regions would seek for divorce from these unhealthy relationship. Yet I strongly oppose to a BIAFRAN nation. As a result of these reasons.

1. UNITY: before you seek for a divorce you must have made consensual agreement with your partner in fulfilment to your decision. This is one area igbos have had issues. 90% of igbos living outside igbo land are strongly against the idea of abandoning there investment for a dreamland that might not even come. Theres no ethnic group that is as disunited as the igbo people. An Ebonyi man for instance sees himself as different from an Anambra man. The list goes on.

Are Nigerians united? Are Igbos,Yorubas and Hausas united? If there is there is no unity in Nigeria, but there is Nigeria, then there is no reason why there cant be Biafra, no matter the level of unity amongst Igbos

2 RESOURCE CONTROL : These is one question igbos seem to dulge because deep inside there hearts they see these as a big challenge. The idea of who takes what. If biafra is granted which region would produce leadership. Is easy to call names but igbos would always fight for these. The call for imolites to attain authority over anambra and so on...

In Biafra, there will be full resource control. When people control their resources, the issue of who leads wont be so important

[3. POPULATION : Igbos have failed to understand that if igbos should return home now. The five eastern state is too small to occupy igbos living outside. Only Christmas alone. Is a pointer of the verse population that is seen. It would be difficult or almost impossible to deal with there demands.

Lagos is by far the smallest state in Nigeria. But Lagos has over 20 million people. If just Lagos can contain more than 20 million people, then just Abia state, which is twice the size of Lagos State, can contain more than 40 million Igbos.

Is it really possible for a Governor to be begging another Governor for a car gift? Whether bullet proof or not