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39? Let me check. She made a movie with Genevieve Nnaji, Rita Dominic and Ramsey Nouah in 1999 where she falsely accused Nouah of rape. She couldnt have been 21 in that movie, she looked more like 26. She should be in her 40's but either way, she still looks very good for her age

greatergoal123:
The Future and sustainability of Anambra state is in the hands of Sen. Dr. Andy Uba.

He is the best man for Ndi-Anambra.

Anambrarians, do go and register a copy of voter's card for urself as it will soon commence across Nigeria. It is mainly for those who do not have voter's card.

Ndi-Anambra, Sen. Dr. Andy Uba loves u all.

Vote Sen. Dr. Andy Uba 4 Governor Anambra state.


#iStandWithAndyUba

Andy Uba joined APC, by doing that, he made it impossible to win Anambra elections. Im an Anambra man and I can say that APC has no hope in hell of winning elections

APC has no hope of winning the Anambra Governoship elections unless they use federal might to rig elections. You can only win elections where you are popular

Even though they tried to hide his face from the angle of the photograph, anyone can see Buhari has shockingly emaciated.

Anyone can see he is a very sick mam who needs to go on extensive health leave and forget the busy office of President for now

RosaConsidine:
You may be right about some of the minority tribes that make up the South South being tired of Nigeria but neither are they clamoring for a Biafra. They don't see themselves as Biafrans as they consider themselves NigerDeltans. The original Biafra idea may not have been about Igbos alone but right now, both we Igbos and non-Igbos consider Biafra a primarily Igbo project.

You think Igbos, Hausas and Yorubas can't live together? Are you for real? Some of us have theae views go abroad and live in peace and harmony with complete strangers, we become law-abiding, we pay taxes and we contribute to the development of the society but we come back to Nigeria and suddenly, we can't live with our neighbors that we have more in common with than those in Europe, Asia and America? Come on!

You have bought into this lie that our regional leaders have sold and keep selling us that we cannot live together in peace and harmony and build a united, developed country. These same leaders relate very well with each other, regardless of tribe, religion or political affiliation then tell us we can't do the same amongs ourselves and we are buying it wholesale.

Nigeria, Niger Delta, SS, SE all have one thing in common, they are all ficticious names created and imposed on the people by military thieves. When Lugard came to West Africa, he did not meet any Nigeria, Niger Delta, SS or SE. What he met were Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio and various other tribes.

Lord Lugard then used the barrel of the gun to force all these various tribes into an illegal union which he called Nigeria.

The argument of Biafran argitators is that since Lugard has gone back home, it is time for us all to do the same. If there must be Nigeria, it must be by the will of all those tribes that Lugard forced together, not by the will of Lugard himself. How can a white man come from Europe to tell me, an Igbo man, what my country will be? That is an insult. Did I say that I cant create my own country? All those ethnic groups Lord Lugard forced together against their will have the right to exit Nigeria since they never agreed to be part of Nigeria in the first place. They can do this individually or collectively.


Biafra is about the tribes who want to leave the colonial contraption they were forced into. And if Nigeria holds them back from exercising their God given right to freedom, then Nigeria is nothng but an instrument of oppression.

A country must be by consensus, or it is no country at all.

Im a proud Igbo man and Biafran! As far as Im concerned, Nigeria is a colonial fraud and an instrument of bondage that is holding my freedom!

shadeyinka:
All those clamoring for Oduduwa or Biafra republic are over optimistic. Let's go our different ways then things will be better.

You will have a point if we start with your new republics unity. If you can unite to produce the next president of Nigeria: whether he wins or not, then you are almost ready other than that, its just a eutopian dream.

The presidency of Nigeria has not helped those who held it before and is a useless agenda. The only agenda now is freedom

RosaConsidine:
If someone gave you a badly damaged car but after analysis you realize that the car can still work completely fine if you fix it, would you throw away the car saying "why would this person give me a bad car? Let me go and buy my own car" when you know you don't have the resources to buy your own car or that the car you would buy might not be as good as the one you were given and it would cost more and take longer for you to get a new car?





This is laughable. It is simply a recipe for failure. It's like a student saying "let me register for JAMB first, then i'll start reading my books". Countries don't work that way. We have to first ask ourselves amongst ourselves "what do we want for our country? How do we want to run it? Who will our allies be? What will drive our economy? What will we do to make sure we don't repeat the mistakes that brought Nigeria to where it is now?" and all such pertinent questions before clamoring for a secession. This failure to plan will only result in the failure of Biafra which would end up being costlier than Nigeria's current failures.




Well we aren;t doing a good job of jettisoning all these so-called Nigerian values now that we are still a part of Nigeria and if we aren;t different now, they will also become Biafran values in Biafra. It's not Yorubas or hausas or fulanis that are perpetrating the corruption that goes on in the South East - it's our fellow Igbo men and women. We are equally complicit in the failure of the Nigerian project but when clamoring for secession, we claim saintliness. Even Ojukwu who led us into civil war and went into exile returned to run for the Nigerian presidency. If he believed wholeheartedly in Biafra, then under no circumstance would he run for Nigerian presidency. Just imagine if Nnamdi Kanu were to be released from his unlawful incarceration and then decides to run for the Nigerian presidency? What would that tell you about his agitation for Biafra? We also need to ask those selling us the Biafra what their true motives and intents are else we would just be led like sheep not knowing what we are doing or why but following anyway.



Scotland has done well enough for itself as a part of the UK so if they say they can do much better as a sovereign entity, they have a pretty good case. The baltic countries are a lesson in how not to take off to build your own house when you don't even know what it will look like. A lot of Eastern European countries are still struggling with underdevelopment as evidenced by the high rate of emigration by their nationals to other countries. The more ironic part is that despite them being sovereign countries, Russia still wields overwhelming influence over them, their economic activities and their political life. The Russia they were running away from IS STILL WITH THEM because they didn't chart their future outside the USSR before its breakup.



My brother, let's face it, Biafra is mainly an Igbo thing. The South Southerners consider themselves NigerDeltans, not Biafrans. Their language and culture is remarkably different and distinct from ours. Roping them into project Biafra just amounts to Nigeria all over again.

We may not all need to speak with one voice but we need to have a general consensus about our future - which we don't. We are still very fragmented and right now, we are murmuring different things so what the rest of Nigeria hears is incoherent noise with Biafra mentioned here and there. That's not good enough. History has provided us with ample examples that we need to learn from instead of trying to learn on the fly. If Nigeria were working as it should, do you think there would be a clamor for a secession? I strongly doubt it - which is why I see Biafra as being a fantasy to many people disillusioned with the current Nigeria.

Your problem is that you are looking at Biafra as an 'Igbo project', it is not. As I said before, the last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, was not Igbo. How can Biafra then be termed to be an Igbo thing? The word "Biafra" was suggested as a name by Frank Opigo, an Ijaw man. If Biafra had been just about Igbos, the name would not be Biafra but something Igbo, the national anthem would be Igbo, the flag would not have the rising sun but rather, something Igbo. Biafra is not and has never been about just Igbos. If Igbos decide to go for an Igbo only country, the agitation will be very different from the Biafran agitation.

Most of the minorities you are calling South/South are even more tired of 'one Nigeria' than Igbos. They have nothing to show for the many decades of their Oil and Gas wealth being explored and exploited in the name of 'one Nigeria'. As everyone knows, there is a broad consensus amongst Biafran agitators that before Biafra is declared, there must be a referendum to allow everybody choose their destiny. There over 40 tribes in the south of Nigeria, if given the opportunity to leave for Biafra with the majority Igbos or to stay back in Nigeria doing South/South, what would they choose? It should be noted that Biafra is only for those who are tired of Nigeria. Any ethnic group that has a majority that is happy with Nigeria is not welcome in Biafra and should vote accordingly when referendum comes.





Nigeria ia a country that has never and will never work, Igbo/Hausa/ Yoruba are too different to ever be united and anyone hoping that will change isnt ready for reality. Im quite confident that Igbos and the minorities who are comfortable with us will do well outside Nigeria. If a country like Gambia of less than 2 million have not starved to death, we shall be fine

Hardeysolution:
LETTER OF AN AGGRIEVED NIGERIAN TO ALL NIGERIANS.

This is not a letter to probably support a political party or a letter to throw shades at anybody. It's a letter with free mind and sincere heart.

The following questions I need to ask at first;

When as a country will we be realistic and non sentimental?
When as Nigerians will we approach matters correctly?
When as Nigerians will we understand that we are for one another?
When As Nigerians will we eradicate political sentiments and tribalism?

When, I ask when

Hasn't it crossed our minds why we tend to remain the same despite some vision moved leaders that we've got in the past and now? Isn't it high time we started thinking straight?

I was ashamed to be a Nigerian when comments arising from current corruption fight by the president show that Nigerians, at about 90 percent of us are not real. As wicked as we could be, no matter the mistakes of Mr President, as long as he's from our side, we tend to always support. If appointments are made and not our people are appointed, we flare up.


Won't you be ashamed of that Nigerian who boldly could say the SGF was suspended so that suspension of the NIA DG won't look bias? Won't you have thought in like manner that the Nigerian who boldly said all money recoveries are propaganda? Won't you feel like the world is against us when the so called leader of tomorrow could arrogantly say the President isn't working?

A political party which could not successfully tackle corruption advised that the SGF AND DG NIA be arrested. Who will be the first to call Mr President a tyrant?

Where exactly shall we be selfless?

Nigeria

A country where someone served a jail term abroad and comes back but to be given a chieftaincy title.

A country where monies are being kept underground for personal use.


A country where banks are no longer safe but private houses are better.


A country where everyone wants to 'chop' from the national cake.


A country where hate governs the heart of many; party interest, selfish interest and sectional interest.

A country where trust exists not.

Yet! Yet! We shout, this doesn't happen abroad! Are they as deluded as we are

I am sometimes forced to believe that as black as we are, so is the brain of many of us.

We're behind yet we disregard moving forward.

Nigerians! Fellow Nigerians. Let's love this country. There must be a sacrifice. Let us in love and peace make use of the social media. Enough of wailing. Enough of the hate. Let's come together as one.

It's my desire that this letter captures a larger number of Nigerians. Thank you as you share.

God bless Nigeria!


From a CONCERNED NIGERIAN

You have given your message to concerned Nigerians. Now, what message do you have for concerned Biafrans such as myself who desperately want to exit the British created colonial fraud people refere to as "Nigeria"?

The struggle continues, ever foward until the sovereignty stolen by the British criminal called Frederick Lugard in 1914 in other to create his phantom colonial dream called 'Nigeria' is returned to the people.

Sovereignty must be returned to the people!

shadeyinka:
I guess you don't understand me.

A small country need technology to leverage on local population (they can at least export globally and be self sufficient internally). In the case of Biafra or Oduduwa republic, its still a dream far away.

We need population to kick start our technology just like China.

If you need the population then you must ask the indigenous people of the land via referendum. You cant force people be part of your 'one Nigeria' dream just because Lord Lugard told you so

Nice one! Southern Cameroon must get its independence as the Republic of Ambazonia!

For those who think Nigeria is the only country thst will break up, check the below link


http://www.oeas.info/

shadeyinka:
The OP has spoken the TRUTH, sentiments aside. The same unfortunately goes to those who clamour for Oduduwa republic.

In terms of Economics, the population of Nigeria is a big asset which cannot be replicated if we fragment.

I understand the feel that some sections of the country have brought almost nothing positive into the pool of our Commonwealth, however we still need each other to be a great country.

God forbid that we reduce yourself internationally to the weight of counties like Togo and Gabon through fragmenting Nigeria.

But you have had each other for 103 years yet you are not a great country, is it in another 103 years you are hoping the greatness will finally come?

Switzerland is just a landlocked country of 8 million people but Switzerland is far richer than Nigeria.

What is the point of having Nigeria of 200 million but nothing is working? Far better to have a country of far less people but things are working, like in Switzerland.

"Na population we go chop?"

The is another misguided 'one Nigeria' apologist. It is funny how these people keep running in circles trying to justify why Lugard made them Nigerians.

1) THERE IS NO PLAN FOR BIAFRA: It

Only free or independent people make plans. You dont make plans while you are in bondage unless you know when you will be free. The only plan for Biafra at this time is freedom, there will be enough time to draw up a comprehensive blue print for Biafra later.

"BIAFRANS" ARE STILL, ESSENTIALLY, NIGERIANs

Biafrans are not Nigerians. Biafra means the rejection of Nigeria and what it stands for. The Nigerian way of reasoning and acting are some of the many negatives that Biafrans want to jettison which is why they agitate for a separate state. Biafrans are not Nigerians, if they were, they would not agitate for Biafra

3: WE HAVE BASICALLY NOT DONE BETTER IN OUR REGION:

You dont have to do basically better in your region to decide if you want to part of Nigeria or not. Scotland that is agitating to leave Britain has not done better than England. Baltic countries like Lithuania and Estonia were not doing better than Russia when they left the USSR. Nobody needs to be doing better to seek their freedom.

4) BUT IGBOS ARE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! NO - ALL COMMON NIGERIANS ARE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS

Biafra is not just about Igbos. Igbo is just one tribe amongst many in Biafra. Most of these minorities will tell anyone who cares to listen that their Oil wealth has been stolen while they are marginalised. Marginalisation is as a result of Nigeria not been run equitably

WE STILL DON'T SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE

I have never seen any family, let alone people, who speak with one voice.

Biafra is not about speaking with one voice, it is about what the majority wants.

BIAFRA IS MAINLY JUST AN ESCAPIST FANTASY FOR DISILLUSIONED IGBO NIGERIANS

As said before, Biafra is not an Igbo only thing, it never was. The last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, was not even an Igbo man. Biafra is no escapist illusion, it is a dream. A dream of forging a new existence away from the disasterously failed British colonial experiment called Nigeria. How can it be escapist for one to seek their God given right to self deternination, freedom and self rule? How can it be escapist for one to seek to control their destiny? Biafra is a dream and God willing, it will become reality, again.

OreMI22:


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CC:Lalastical, please take note and ban appropriately.

BTW, which of these articles did Lugard use to ask for Nigeria?

Kingsley10000:
peter obi hates obiano passionately

Not surprising, that how all political God fathers end up feeling about their political son's

Remarkably, despite the mountain of evidence (Chat messages, pictures, Bank records) Pastor Suleman has decided not to address this issue of him and Otobo. I wonder why?

And which of those "Articles" specifies the shooting of unarmed people?

First condemn your armed forces for commiting murder before dishing advice on how to ask for Biafra

yourexcellency:
Akeredolu and Betty have proven that Nyamiri and Afonjas can Co exist if there is love

Of course! The point is that they dont have to be "one Nigeria" to do so

Orji Uzo Kalu is a traitor!

Biafra is not negotiable!

Besides Oil money and Seaport, the other thing the Fulani desperately need from the South is the abundance of rich vegetation and grazing fields which is no longer obtainable in the North due to desert encroachment.

"One Nigeria" is the scam of the century

kaze4blues:
op is a fool for excluding obafemi awolowo and putting nnamdi azikwe.

that alone rubbishes everything you put up there.

Zik if far well known in Africa than Awolowo

Phyll247:
Listen broda, education and research will do you more good than being ignorant. I'm sorry for using the word "ignorant". Go and read the book "THE LOWER NIGER AND ITS TRIBES BY Major ARTHUR GLYN LEONARD LATE 2ND BATT. EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT AUTHOR OF 'THE CAMEL, ITS USES AND MANAGEMENT/ AND HOW WE MADE RHODESIA pulished in 1906"...Rhodesia was the initial name for Nigeria. Isuama, in which the purest Ibo is said to be spoken, is to be found the heart of the Ibo nationality ; consequently it is quite reasonable to look among its people for the original fountain-head from which all the other clans have sprung. This inference too is supported not only by the purity of the language, but by this right of dispensing or rather of conferring royalty which is undoubtedly the prerogative of the Nri or N'shi people.

Once more let us return to the vicinity of the Niger, to a place called Onitsha-Mili, lying a few miles to the north-west of Asaba. Here the tradition is that this place, along with the towns of Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha-Ukwu, Onitsha-Ugbo, and Onitsha-Ukwuani, migrated or were driven out, presumably between two to three hundred years ago, from the near vicinity of Benin City, which they speak of as Ado-n-Idu.

Crossing over the river to the east bank, some four or five miles below Asaba, is another community, comprising a principal town and several outlying villages, which is merely called Onitsha, that in olden days was undoubtedly the parent stock from which those now on the western side had been derived. According to its elders, fourteen generations since Ado-n-Idu was the capital of an extensive kingdom embracing many countries, but having religion, customs, and language in common, over which Oba ruled as king. At the time in question Onitsha, situated to the westward of Benin, and between it and the river, was one of these countries. It happened one day that Asije, the royal mother of this great monarch, went on to one of the farms belonging to Onitsha-Mili, for the purpose, it appears, of gathering sticks, for which she was seized and beaten by the people to whom the farms belonged. On her return to Benin she reported the matter of her ill-treatment to the king, and he at once ordered his younger brother Gbunmara, the commander-in-chief of his forces, to punish the insult which had been offered to his royal mother. Gbunmara immediately mustered a large army, and lost no time in invading the territory of Onitsha, the king of which, with all the available men whom he could collect, opposed him. After two days' severe fighting, however, the latter were defeated, and, sooner than surrender, the entire community retired to the locality on the western bank which is now occupied by the greater majority of their descendants, but a small portion made their way southward towards Abo. Chima the king, however, with his two sons Ekensu and Oreze and their households, retreated right across the river, and settled in the same spot that their successors now occupy.

But in leaving Ado-n-Idu behind them, these people then and for ever abandoned their Bini nationality and language. For even those who have remained on the western bank, and who are therefore within easy touch of Benin, are Ibo in every essential, talking pure Ibo, and not a mixed language, or even a dialect, in which Bini words are to be found. Yet the spirit of chima, their more modern founder and ancestor, is still with them, living and embodied in the same tree which he planted with his own hand.

In chapter 4 page 46 of the book in quote "A still more striking example, however, is that of Onitsha. For here we find a whole community, numbering now, at the lowest computation, 100,000 souls, Ibo in every respect, who 250 years ago at the most were Bini in language, as in everything else." What will you say about this broda? There is also a village in present northern part of Edo state called Adaobi in Afemai to be precise, they bear Igbo names and also knows Akalaka, Ekpeye and Ogba who migrated further Southeast from Benin Cityand they went North of Edo. They bears names like Udochi, Ogbonna and more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afemai_people

These are all fairey tales. It is possible that Bini invaded Onitsha at some point, however, Onitshe people are native Igbos. The proof of tnis is their surnames. How can Bini people be answring Igbo surnames?

vantage001:
What is the obsession of yorubas with biafran matters?.
Is there something these guys are benefiting from Nigeria that the rest of us don't know about.?
This is a matter worth investigating to fathom the cause of these yoruba obsession with biafra that neither affects nor concern them.

You dont know why they are obsessed with Biafra? The Biafrans are doing something they have no spine to do, the Biafrans are seeking self determination. It kills them inside because they simply cannot do this. Man has to release frustratiion somehow na!

I have heard about this Stanley Uzochukwu. I heard he started his own Oil firm in his late 20's and was a Billionaire by the age of 30. He was once called the youngest billionaire in Nigeria.

The OP's epistle is one of the longest I have ever bothered to read on Nairaland. It is well written, which is one of its few merits.

I want the OP to know that Britain, our colonial masters have held two referendum since 2014 and another one is scheduled for 2018/19

Scotland is a constituent part of Britain, the 5th richest nation in the world. Despite all the advantages of Scotland being part of Britain, they still agitate to leave Britain. Why? The answer is in one word, sovereignty. The OP is talking about Nigeria, far below Britain, why would the Scots be even thinking of seceding from the 5th richest nation on Earth? And not just Scotland, elements of Northern Ireland want to leave too and join their kith and kin in the Irish Republic. If our own colonial masters can contemplate secession, then who are we that they brought together to say we are indivisible?

The question of Nigeria breaking up or the reasons why it shouldnt break up does not arise. Our colonial masters Britain voted to leave the EU, the single largest market in the world and the richest, who are we to question their democratic decision? It is theirs to make.

The same should be applied to the issue of those who agitate or are agitating to leave the Nigerian colonial contraption called Nigeria. Im an Igbo man, I dont deny that the activities if the colonial masters helped to unify the Igbo nation that used to be a scattered cluster of confederations, but that is no longer the point

The point is who wants to continue being a 'Nigerian' and who does not. Despite the huge potential of Nigeria as the largest black nation on earth, it should the decision of its constituent people to decide if the want to carry on with it same as our colonial masters, Britain, allowed Scotland to decide and will still allow them to decide again in 2018/19.

People can argue the pros and cons of Nigeria being together or breaking up from now to eternity but unless we accept that it is the ultimate right of the people to decide. We must trust the people to decide their fate rather than trusting Lugard to decide it for us. If the people are denied their God given right to decide their fate, then it all means that Nigeria is an instrument of bondage and it will never work

attacker321:
There's so much injustice in this country.

Why is it that the Nigerian army is always very quick to respond to IPOB, shooting down unarmed protesters but have been able to do absolutely nothing about the heavily armed Fulani militia aka herdsmen?

IPOB has not gone about destroying farms, raping women, sacking communities and occupying their lands.

Why is so much energy being channeled to IPOB while the AK 47 wielding demonic Fulani herdsmen are allowed free hand to operate?

So you dont know that the Nigerian Army is owned by the North? Majority of its members are Northerners. So how did you expect them to shoot their cattle rearing brothers?


IPOB on the other hand are not their brothers so they have no problem raining down bullets on IPOB


Welcome to 'one zoogeria'

We will not be intimidated by the gworo chewing terrorist of Daura!

How can they put Gowon at number 10? He should be at least number 5 on that list! Gowon killed well over 3 million people in the name of a British colonial fraud called "one Nigeria"