On 30th May, Biafrans arrived at late General Effiongs country home. In a brief ceremony, they played the Biafran anthem, raised the Biafran flag and said a prayer the traditional way using libation(those who speak Ibibio can tell us what was said)
After that, they met briefly with Effiongs wife who thanked them for coming.
General Philip Effiong was the Vice President of the defunct Republic of Biafra and its last President.
factormatt6: So I had a conversation with someone from Sokoto today and I was shock to learned that indigent of Sokoto state only pay for accommodation and feeding in the higher institution. What stop most of their youths from gaining university education? They now control virtually everything government agencies but why are they still poor? Clearly southern leaders are naive and so wicked that they can't fight for what rightly belong to them. Niger Delta leaders are the mostly useless leaders I Never see. Tell a true: if oil were located in any state in the north or even in the South western state will they be one Nigeria? How do we get here gave me a nightmare.
If the oil had been in the North, long time them for don commot Nigeria
Chef2000: The northern politicians are taking us for granted and I think it high time we tell them that we are not fool..
Be you from SW, SE or SS northerners doesn't give a Bleep, the only Bleep they give is to exploit you and dump you...
The Northerners are enjoying and looting oil money, money from the ports in Lagos, money from Costums etc.
I don't know what the Southern politicians are doing to stop this rubbish.
You don't have a drop of oil in your region and you want to control other people's natural resources, you don't have a sea and you are controlling other people's seaports.
This rubbish has to stop now or in the future Northerners will their children how they exploited and enslave southerners
Save your breath man. When Ojukwu was shouting the same in 1967, no be you Southerners gang up with North fight am?
Uwazurike and Nnamdi Kanu go shout the same, una go gang up fight them.
The North will keep dominating you guys until una get sense.
WeneDiali: I know why yorubas have been lamenting nowadays about hausa-run ports and NNPC. The truth is they believe that since they are more educated than the north and voted for buhari by helping him kick out GEJ and with the Ibos out of the way, they should be the ones heading all cerebral positions. Reality hit them hard.
They are not doing it because they love southerners, we must not be hoodwinked by these sons of bilial and put our necks out for them to reap political bounties.
They should stop lamenting, by 2023 we are going to help the north strangulate their greedy ambitions.
Sebi dey want one nigeria, dem go chop am belleful.
The "our oyel" people should come and see what they have done to themselves. Northerners occupy 80% of the top jobs in NNPC but some of them still think the problem is Igbo lol
StreetFight: Pick up arms against the Federal Republic again and see a repeat of the 1967 to 1970 episode. I thought you people posted several headings about how you massacred the Federal Forces with your superior fire power, why are you crying that you were killed again? You you were just chest beating and praising yourselves over your own death.
Boko haram that took up arms almost 10 years ago, Nigeria has not been able to do anything
VaselineCrew: So let’s just pick the most popular devil abi?
Then in 2050, they will still be promising Nigerians electricity, but if all you want is just to win elections, then maybe we really don’t need things like electricity, security, great health care...
Let’s just win elections
Now you understand why Nigeria cannot work. Buhari is a terrible leader, but if the constitution was changed to allow him a third term, all those who voted for him in 2015 and 2019 will vote for him again in 2023 and ensure he wins. They know he wont do well, all they care about is being politically relevant.
People like Moghalu and Sowore have chance of ever becoming president, the North will never vote for them
VaselineCrew: Nobody is even calling the likes of Sowore, Moghalu and the rest.
You guys are always eager to support the worst of the worst and you wonder why Nigeria is what it is.
Maybe the black man never fully evolved into fully developed humans, cause you all can witness your own madness, at least on this thread.
Gosh, you lot are something else, I’m telling you
What is the point of calling Moghalu or Sowore when they have no chance of winning any state in the North in a million years? Any Southerner who wants to be president must first have a plan about how to win some states in the North or they are just wasting their time and money
Petal: Some people blame it on the economy, some blame on the politics, some poeple say it is religion, while others say it is lack of education, good health, etc. But do say.
Incite anyone? I really think if you don't know the root cause of a problem, you can never find the solution. to start from the scratch.
What is the problem, how did it all began and is there any solution?
Nigeria was coming together of people who should never have been brought together, thats why it can never work.
Avidcolz: Obviously it does but that does not mean we the southerners wouldn't continue to seek for devolution of power for even and efficient development
You can continue seeking but unless you get a two thirds majority vote at the National Assembly to restructure Nigeria, you will seek forever. Just the core North, NE and NW, control 40% of the NASS
Ekpeitut: This and many other ills plaguing Nigeria should caused a violent revolution or massive nation wide protest (like what we're seeing in US and Hong Kong) but no, we'd rather suffer and be smiling. The moment Nigerians put aside tribal differences, religious inclinations and start demanding accountability form our politicians 90% of our issues will end. Common now An army commander who has made sure the book haram war is non ending for financial gains, the police chief who has refused to rein in on the excessive force and corruption bedevilling the force or governments at different levels embezzling what was meant for the masses shouldn't retain their positions. Call the mofos out, get them tried and punished. This will serve as deterrent to others.
Its impossible to put aside tribal differences because we have never seen each other as one
Whiteangel1234: no we have to agitate for our rightful place in Nigeria . If other Nigerians dont want restructuring there is nothing we can do about it .
And if other Nigerians dont want you to be president, particularly the North, there is nothing we can do about it. Restructuring or seperation is far better, if you are controlling your resources, you wont care who the president of Nigeria is
Avidcolz: POSITIVE THINGS RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA WILL BRING! - FOREIGN DIPLOMAT REVEALS
If Nigeria restructured into provinces - 1) Northern Province 2) Middle Belt Province 3) Western (Oduduwa)Province 4) Eastern (Biafra)Province 5) Niger Delta Province (Atlantic) Then Central Government at FCT.
10 positive things that would happen within 5 years (primarily due to inter-province competition)
1. The first province to experience economic explosion would obviously be the Western Province. The Oduduwua Master plan will be revealed. There would be trans-regional 4g internet fiber connection/rail/subways/highways/power grids etc. Yoruba will become the 2nd official language. They are relatively united. They have oil. They own academia. They have mega corporations. The WP would be the first to have stable 24/7 power supply! Foreign money will flood the province. More Forbes recognized billionaires will arise. Some of them will be internet billionaires. Lagos will be relieved a little from overpopulation as railway lines from other states will make living elsewhere and working in Lagos a breeze.
2. The Northern Province will have stronger islamic laws. Sharia will be entrenched and this will make the NP become the least corrupt province. The middle east (Arab) nations will move in to partner with them, bringing major development. Jaiz bank and Unity Bank will become mega banks. Arabic and Hausa will compete with English for dominance in schools. This province will generate more solar power than any other province. After the west, this province will be the 2nd to have 24/7 electricity. They will start exporting food as a major revenue generator.
3. The Middle Belt Province will have a development conference. Focus will be given to solid minerals development/ exports, tourism development and food production/exports. This will become a food hub in West Africa. They will export more food than any other province. Mega mining and food corporations will arise. This province will have foreign inflows through tourism development greater than any other province. It will host the most beautiful places to live in Nigeria.
4. The Eastern Province will transform into the Auto Industry Hub of Africa. Indigenous manufacturing of vehicles that will start competing with foreign vehicles will commence in earnest. This will grow to manufacturing of airplanes, helicopters, tractors, cranes, heavy duty construction equipment etc. Forbes recognised billionaires living in Anambra will arise. The Biafra agitation will fizzle out since formation of the EP will be seen as a Biafra success in another form. There would be so much development that villages (as we currently know them) will quickly cease to exist. This province will be the first to semi-urbanize all their rural areas as all the Igbos living abroad will rush back to take advantage of the changes.
5. The Atlantic Province will take the Uyo blueprint and run with it. An abundance of oil wealth and opening up of major sea ports at Rivers and Uyo will enable this region to revamp their infrastructure quickly. There will be more monorails here than anywhere else. This will be the 3rd province to achieve 24/7 electricity generation in Nigeria (mainly from gas turbine technology).
6. With provincial indigenous security forces in control, kidnapping, Armed robbery, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and the Niger delta militancy attacks will all fizzle out. Nigeria will become the most secure and peaceful African nation; thus attracting more foreigners.
7. Each Province will have their own airline professionally managed. And with better roads/rail, air and land transport costs will crash.
8. With the rapid development occurring all over, Nigerias GDP will shoot up. Obtaining visas to travel out will become easy as more people will want to come in than go out. A worldwide immigration into Nigeria will commence, as Nigerians living abroad will be struggling with foreigners to enter the country. ''Nigeria will become the most desirable Nation to live in".
9. The central government at the FCT will become smaller and less powerful. There will be a mini-exodus from Abuja to the provinces as the action is now elsewhere. The outskirts of Abuja will no longer be heavily overpopulated. Abuja will become awesome again.
10. The 10th positive thing that would quickly happen positive idea.
Pls share for the sensitization of the benefits of Restructuring.
Nigeria must flourish again.
The North does not want restructuring, the current system favours them.
Whiteangel1234: We have to recreate our destiny and our name . they divide us and call us South East and South South people
But no where else in the world do we have North North or West West people only in the Old Eastern Region
But we must reject the name of the oppressors and take a new name we are not South South or South East Igbos but we are one undivided people and in 2023 we want to move forward under the name of SESS IGBOS FOR PRESIDENT
This can be a new strong political movement in Nigeria we are SESS IGBOS
Restructuring or seperation is what the SS/SE should be agitating for, not the President of Nigeria.
Osibanjo is no longer of any use to Buhari. Buhari is not coming back in 2023 and Osibanjo has been used to sway the SW votes. Osibanjo has been relegated to the background, he no longer serves any purpose
Cyberterror: If we are the biggest Bloc, then PDP should do the sensible thing by giving an Igbo man their presidential ticket in 2023 with someone from northeast as Vp.
lawalosky: His excellency barrister Sullivan chime, former governor of enugu state and former deputy Senate president serving there former boss. Moral of the story, patient is mostly a key to greatness.. . Cc:lalasticlala
All 3 of them went to secondary school together, they attended CIC Boys Enugu. Chimaroke went on to study Medicine while Ekweremadu and Chime studied Law. Chimaroke returned from America, where he was practising Medicine, in 1998 to aspire to become Senator for Enugu East constituency. As faith would have it, the then God father of Enugu state politics, Chief Jim Nwobodo, decreed that the next Governor of Enugu should emerge from Enugu East. Nwobodo convinced Chimaroke to drop his Senatorial ambition and go for Governor with his full backing. When Chimaroke became Governor, he remembered his old secondary school class mates, Ekweremadu and Chime. He made Ekweremadu his chief of staff and Chime, his attorney general. Chime would succeed Chimaroke as Governor while Ekweremadu would become deputy Senate president. The rest is history
MetaPhysical: Igbos should, therefore, not allow our political, emotional, and cultural consciousness to be plagued by a homegrown nemesis. Rather, we should speak out, in unionism, against IPOB’s collateral damage to the Biafran Spirit (the Igbo brand in Nigeria). This 53rd anniversary of the declaration of Biafra is an excellent time for Igbos to come together and protect and preserve our common resource – the Biafran Spirt.
In Igbo cosmology, there are many gods e.g. Amadioha (the God of thunder), Ani (the Earth Goddess), Idemili (the lady of the waters), Upkaka Ndam (African oil bean that protects kindred’s of Ndam), Ogwugwu (a female god), etc. It is very common, in Igboland, for someone to be in good stead with one god and not the other. As such, Ogwugwu could kill a person despite an excellent relationship with Udo.
The Igbo sociopolitical landscape has produced “god-like-figures” like the gods in Igbo cosmology. Examples include Chief Dr. Nnamzi Azikiwe (The Zik of Africa), Mike Okpara, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi), Chief Sam Mbakwe, Chinua Achebe, etc. Akin to the Igbo cosmology too, despite the excellent relationship of Igbos with these godlike-figures that we have come to love and admire, Igbos are witnessing our slow annihilation after we embraced the cancerous ideology of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB).
To say that Igboland is in grave danger is an understatement. We are currently facing a self-inflicted annihilation. The Igbo nation has been hoodwinked by a group who is not only erratic but one that is led by an embattled and paranoid leader, who is going down the tubes and is hellbent on dragging the entire Igboland down as well. Their political ineptitude, mediocrity, indiscipline, and ethnic bigotry is legendary and destructive.
This is, therefore, one of those pieces that I set out writing with the future Igbo generations on my mind. It is for the sake of the future of Igbos in Nigeria, for our children and grandchildren, that I, once in a while, steps in to present a different narrative, an insider’s view of the inside, on the state of Igbo land. On the remembrance of Biafra, at 53, I am particularly worried about the generation in Igbo land that is being fed with so much misinformation and outright lies that it may take an eternity to rectify.
The main purpose of IPOB’s campaign of misinformation is to confuse many Igbos with contradictory lies that will be repeated here and there until Igbos do not know what the truth is. For years, Igbos have allowed IPOB to spread lies that have poisoned the trust between us and the rest of the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.
The cutting words of IPOB is worse than a bowstring. While a cut may heal, the cut of the tongue does not. Ultimately, what IPOB has succeeded in doing is stir up hatred between Igbos and the rest of Nigerians. So, I stand bold to state that IPOB is a disease; the lies and venom that they are vomiting through Nnamdi Kanu do not have to make sense to be successful as a disease.
IPOB tends to make frequent reference to other groups in Nigeria – usually in terms of outsiders and enemies. Most often, this reference is accompanied by a fear factor, a xenophobic perspective that is meant to heighten ethnic tension in Nigeria. This contributes to the creation of the ‘us versus them’ social divisions in Nigeria. They use a variety of tools and tactics to increase these schisms, or cleavages, in society at every given opportunity. It is a deadly disease.
There are two specific reasons why are I am worried about the slippery slope the Igbos are on. One is that the bug of misinformation and propagation of conspiracy theories and alternative facts has caught the educated and the enlightened strata of the Igbo race. The second is that ruin is the destination towards which IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu have pushed all Igbos, politically, economically, socially, and religiously.
According to Chinua Achebe, ...stories are not always innocent...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you. IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu have not only disposed of Igbos of their place in the community of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, but they have also destroyed our trademark, the Biafran Spirit.
A family is like a forest when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place. I am a member of the family and I can tell my brothers and sisters without hesitation that IPOB has destroyed the Biafran Spirit. Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. On this occasion marking Biafra at 53, Igbos should stop throwing ashes with IPOB.
The message from Biafran heroes to Igbos who are not speaking out against the desecration of the Biafran Spirit is that Ndigbo will continue to be incapacitated and paralyzed. The message to my Igbo brothers, from Biafran heroes, on this special commemoration of Biafra at 53, is that Igbos must ditch their blind support of the divisive political ideology, completely. Do not let anyone keep deceiving you that Biafra is coming, tomorrow. The Biafran heroes told me to tell Igbos that it is not coming. At least not as packaged and promoted by IPOB
On this occasion marking Biafra at 53, the Biafran heroes want Igbos to remember that knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. They told me to remind Igbos that a chattering bird builds no nest. They are reminding us that knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. Biafran heroes told me to tell Igbos that even though the Biafran Spirit is enigmatic and indestructible, we must not allow IPOB to drag its good name to the mud.
Finally, the Biafran Spirit is e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that IPOB is NOT. It is forward-looking, while IPOB is still looking back to 1960s; Biafran Spirit is progressive, IPOB is retrogressive; Biafran Spirit is fearless, IPOB fears even flies: Biafran Spirit is loving and unifying, IPOB is divisive and filled with hatred and anger; Biafran Spirit is positive and truthful, IPOB propagates lies and fear.
Igbos should, therefore, not allow our political, emotional, and cultural consciousness to be plagued by a homegrown nemesis. Rather, we should speak out, in unionism, against IPOB’s collateral damage to the Biafran Spirit (the Igbo brand in Nigeria). This 53rd anniversary of the declaration of Biafra is an excellent time for Igbos to come together and protect and preserve our common resource – the Biafran Spirt.
Its obvious that the person who wrote this long epistle is just another "one Nigeria slave". Thats why he is talking about Biafra as if Biafra is about staying in Nigeria. You are allowed not to like IPOB, but dont make out that Biafra is all about being a "good Nigerian"
This Churchill Okonkwo is an embarrassment. Even if herdsmen slaughter everyone in Igbo land, his eyes will never open to the fact that the unity of Nigeria is a complete sham
He advised them that as elders, they must make sure that they do not poison the mind of the young.
“Our children are showing us that is possible to forge friendship and bonds across ethnic and religious lines that are even stronger than family ties.
Osibanjo should not worry about the elders poisoning the mind of the young. Boko Haram, rise in Islamic fundamentalism, harsh economy, killer herdsmen, marginalisation, nepotism etc will all poison the minds of the young even more the elders can do
Politics › Re: 30th May: Biafrans Visit General Effiongs Wife, Raise Flag In His Compound(pics) by kingzizzy(op): 8:30pm On Jun 02, 2020
An army commander who has made sure the book haram war is non ending for financial gains, the police chief who has refused to rein in on the excessive force and corruption bedevilling the force or governments at different levels embezzling what was meant for the masses shouldn't retain their positions. Call the mofos out, get them tried and punished. This will serve as deterrent to others.