House where Lugard signed amalgamation of Northern Southern Nigeria needs attention


Dear Sir,
My name is Pelu Awofeso, travel journalist and publisher of waka-about .
In the light of the federal government’s plan to mark Nigeria’s centenary in 2014, we sent one of our writers on assignment to Zungeru, the historic town.
Among other landmarks, the tour brought her to the building , where Frederick Lugard supposedly signed the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria on 1 January 1914.
We like the idea of a centenary celebration. if anything, it will help to unite our dear country even more. Already, there is a whole raft of centenary everything:centenary city, centenary slogan, centenary song, centenary logo/emblem, centenary lottery,centenary website.
But so far no mention has been made of Zungeru, Niger State, where Frederick Lugard actually signed the amalgamation into effect.


Zungeru should be the ideal CENTENARY CITY, a town that should be properly prepared ahead of the 2014 commemoration. I do hope this image will be published in your respected medium to draw attention to an unfairly neglected but significant town in our country’s history.


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CountDracula:

To do dat wud b a waste of tym, u guys wil nt last a year... unless ur slave masters come to ur rescue

PLS, IS IT BY FORCE TO CO-EXIST TOGETHER? DO U KNOW WE EXISTED INDEPENDENTELY BEFORE LUGARD AMALGAMATED US?

WE ARE BIAFRA BEFORE BEEN A NIGERIAN, AND SINCE NIGERIA HAS EXPIRED NOTHING CAN STOP US FROM BEEN WHO WE ARE EARLIER!!!

CountDracula:

U can't even communicate well, SLAVE boy, didn't ur slave master get u a good teacher or ure jus so adamant and short sighted dat uve refused to learn SLAVE boy

I DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR PEOPLE LIKE U.

crownprince102:

A lot to fear bro.


* Fear those who will loot Biafra
* Fear those who will corrupt Biafra
* Fear those will spoit Biafra's image
* Fear the greedy once among the citizens
* Fear the traitors in Biafra
* Fear everthing, Fear the unknown.


I 'm not a Biafran but I guess this is what Ojukwu never took note of and why he failed. He didn't give himself time to plan for the nation and only made the people suffer.


If you guys want Biafra, plan it very well, gaining independence now will be suicidal. Give urself the target, aim to gain independence in 4 or 5 years time.


By that time you people should have planned how Biafra will develop in the next 50 years.


You need Unity, even the relationship btw Igbo and Ijaw is still shaking, how can Biafra be achieved.


Various move at the moment will result to all but nothing.

I HOPE U KNOW THAT THE ENTITY CALLED NIGERIA AS EXPIRED. WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING. NO MATTER HOW BIAFRA IS IT WILL BE BETTER THAN NIGERIA 100*. GOD WILL HELP US.

CountDracula:

I understand why u wud think everybody who tells u d truth is an hausa man! Ure jus like ur kinsmen, short sighted and condescendin
But ure just a SLAVE

No body needs ur truth just keep to salvage nigeria when leave which I believe is sooner than later.

walemoney007:
what move are d ibos takin,to leave Nigeria?

EVERYTHING IS INTACT.
WE HAVE OUR CURRENCY, EMBASSY, INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT, RADIO STATION AND MANY MORE.

WE HAVE PETITION TO UN,
WHEN BIAFRA IS DECLARED A NATION THATS ALL.

CountDracula:

Which country are u from? And uve nt answered d question, why pounds?

HOW IS IT YOUR PROBLEM ABOUT THE CURRENCY WE ARE TO USE U BETTER FOCUS ON HOW U PEOPLE WILL MAKE 1 NAIRA EQUAL TO 1 BIAFRA POUND.

FriedPlantain:
what is the use of Biafra's money paper if it isn't generally accepted as a means of payment by everyone.

It is even higher than the UK's pound sef according to this deluded goons. This sh1t is the biggest joke ever.

Where is your proof?
YOU CAN HATE BIAFRA BUT YOU CANN'T STOP HER COMING BECAUSE GOD IS ON OUR SIDE.

YUNGLURD:
A Child's play

20 CHILDREN CANNOT PLAY FOR 20 YEARS. . .
WAKE UP AND FACE REALITY, NIGERIA HAS LEGALLY EXPIRE LAST YEAR, WE ARE NOW FREE TO GO. THANK YOU GOD.

PLS CHECK THIS AGAIN.IMPLICATIONS OF THE DOCUMENT
OF AMALGAMATION
1. BY 2014, NIGERIA WILL NO
LONGER LEGALLY EXIST
2. NIGERIA WILL BE BACK TO
PRE-1914 STATUS OF TWO STATES
OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA
AND NORTHERN NIGERIA BOTH
LEGALLY AND TECHNICALLY,
ALTHOUGH THE RULING ELITES
MAY IGNORE THIS REALITY EXCEPT
*THERE IS REVOLUTION FROM THE
PEOPLE*.
3. PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AND
NORTHER NIGERIA MUST COME
TOGETHER TO ENTER A NEW
AGREEMENT UNDER THEIR OWN
TERMS.
4. JOIN THE REVOLUTION

www..com/talk/topic,138153.0.html

bonesofdavid:


How can this be achieved at this time oh
Its about time!!!!
Biafra Andiamo pre forza

BIAFRA CAN BE ACHIEVE ANY TIME FROM NOW BECAUSE NIGERIA HAS EXPIRED LAST YEAR (1914 -2014).

IMPLICATIONS OF THE DOCUMENT OF AMALGAMATION

1. BY 2014, NIGERIA WILL NO
LONGER LEGALLY EXIST
2. NIGERIA WILL BE BACK TO
PRE-1914 STATUS OF TWO STATES
OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA
AND NORTHERN NIGERIA BOTH
LEGALLY AND TECHNICALLY,
ALTHOUGH THE RULING ELITES
MAY IGNORE THIS REALITY EXCEPT
*THERE IS REVOLUTION FROM THE
PEOPLE*.
3. PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AND
NORTHER NIGERIA MUST COME
TOGETHER TO ENTER A NEW
AGREEMENT UNDER THEIR OWN
TERMS.
4. JOIN THE REVOLUTION
www..com/talk/topic,138153.0.html
THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR TO PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.

BIAFRA IS NO GOING BACK.
THAT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.

CountDracula:
Why are dey using "pound" are they admittin dat dey ar still slaves under Great britain(england) where it originated?

When nigeria was using nigeria pounds is she under britain?
Using pounds is not an element of slavery.

I AM STILL WAITING TILL BUHARI MAKE 1 NAIRA EQUAL TO 1 BIAFRA POUND.

GOD REALLY BLESS BIAFRA.
1 Biafran Pound = 682.66 Naira

www.nairaland.com/2163049/here-latest-exchange-rates

Before u condemn the post pls visit: https://m.facebook.com/hopefornigeria/posts/913717005353089

The British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) has
related the current hate attacks
on Africans living in South Africa
by the locals to Muhammadu
Buhari and Shagari, who gave
the same treatment to Africans,
mostly West Africans in 1984.
They claimed that the 'Ghana-
must-go' policy against Africans
was Muhammadu Buhari's
Legacy to Africa in 1984.

SOURCE:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013t60w

j

.

HMMM

MOST OF OUR LEADERS HAVE REALISE, THIS YOU CAN CHECK FROM THIS:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MOSUNDI?p=s.
BUT WHAT I KEEP WANDERING ON IS THAT IF THEY DON'T DEVELOP THAT PLACE WHEN THERE IS OIL WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE OIL FINISH

I THOUGHT THE NIG*RIA AMALGAMATION IS MEANT FOR 100 YEARS (1914 - 2014).
THIS IS THE YEAR TO DECIDE WHETHER NIG*RIA IS TO CONTINUE BY THE MASSESS AND NOT BY ANY POLITICAL LEADER. FOR PEACE TO REIGN.

His friends & colleagues reached
out to LIB to publish his demise.
He was assassinated a day
before the Guber elections on
April 10th. Read below...
Ugonna Omereonye was the
leader of the 10,000 jobs
employees during Ikedi Ohakim's
government, and Rochas later
dissolved it. Since then Ugonna
being the leader has been in
court with the present governor
since 2011 till date. He was
assassinated on Friday night
before the governorship election
on his way back from Hope
Uzodimma's house. He was
carrying the mobilization money
given to Akatta youths in Oru
east Imo state. We the 10,000
youths will miss him forever. He
is the PDP youth leader of Akatta
ward in Oru east. His
assassination was because of the
money given to him. Please Linda
help us spread this Ugonna's
demise and his photos." See the
graphic pic after the cut.

SOURCE
http//:www.lindaikeji..in/2015/04/graphic-photo-pdp-youth-leader-in-imo.html?m=1

pacharles1:
Biafra.. Make una Leave us Alone nah!!


One Nigeria
Great People
Great Nation.

Oh! U mean they should keep quiet and accept evil everything that happens to them in this expired nigeria.
IS THERE NO LONGER FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION FOR THE IGBOS?
This has shown that one nigeria is meant for, but don't worry BIAFRA SHALL RISE AGAING COME RAIN COME SHINE.

There is urgent need for the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to ferry and register its President-Elect, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, for intensive training at the National Democratic Institute based in Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC, USA or its equivalent elsewhere in overseas. This public call of ours is of uttermost public importance following blunders inherent in Mr. Buhari’s recent public comments following his presidential emergence in the highly divisive and ethnicised presidential poll. The President-Elect’s comments are also found to be highly ethnical, divisive, sectional, vindictive, undemocratic and unfriendly to rule of law and due process. The totality of these is against the spirit and letters of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, which the President-Elect will swear to uphold, abide by and enforce at all times come 29th May 2015.

Apart from promising Nigerians heaven and earth when sworn in, the President-Elect also completely lacks democratic pedigree needed to blend and bind and smoothly govern highly multi ethno-religiously divided country called Nigeria. For instance, it is correct to say that the President-Elect is notoriously ignorant of the sanctity of the ballot box and the need to respect and uphold same at all times. Till date, the President-Elect has not ceased in making provocative, divisive and vindictive remarks against the electoral decisions of Nigerians who voted for political parties other than his APC particularly the voters of the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones. He is also very bitter and unhappy with the pattern of voting in Lagos State where his party – APC – was given a hot chase by his opponent party – PDP – with difference of 160,000 and 150,000 votes in favour of his party against his opponent party in the Presidential/National Legislative (792,000 votes for APC & 632,000 for PDP) and the Governorship/State Legislative polls (811,000 votes for APC & 659,000 for PDP) respectively.

The President-Elect must have expected a one party voting pattern in Lagos State in total disregard to the irrevocable rights of the citizens of Nigeria to vote freely and conscientiously not minding the ethno-religious backgrounds of their preferred candidates. Mr. Muhammadu Buhari has also continuously made highly negative references to the voting and its patterns in “the South” particularly the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones. Each time he speaks, he describes the voting in the area as “a sham” on account of the massive rejection of his APC by the people of the two zones. In his recent press interviews to a number of foreign news agencies including the BBC Hausa Service, he made same negative and provocative comments. In his interview last Saturday (11th April) after his voting in Daura, he singled out for extensive attacks the South-South and the Southeast including the states of Edo, Rivers and Imo where his party governs no thanks to defection (in Rivers and Imo states).

The President-Elect’s perceived primordial sense of reasoning and judgment totally makes it very difficult for him to pause and ask: “Why are the people of the South-South and the South-East both home and outside rejecting my party and candidacy at polls and how can they be pacified for the sake of united, purposeful and prosperous Nigeria?”

It is extremely important to state here that those gifted and equipped to govern well in multi ethno-religious democracy should fundamentally x-ray and see the electoral decisions of the ethnic nationalities against them as early warning signals that must be bottled and removed from transforming into triggers of intractable socio-value conflict and other disturbances now or in future.

Conversely, under the President-Elect and its party, the reverse is grossly the case. For instance, while the two referenced polls in the South-East and the South-South zones are “a sham” in the eyes and perception of the President-Elect and his Party – APC; those held in the North are seen by them as “very credible”. In Mr. Muhammadu Buhari’s interview under reference, he saw nothing wrong in the polls held in the North, but saw everything wrong in those held in the South. That millions of voters in the North who voted in the two polls are under-age children do not amount to poll rigging in the eyes and perception of the President-Elect and his party; likewise other widespread complaints of electoral malpractices in his zone and the South made against his party and its agents.

In a recent interview with the Channel’s Television, the out-going governor of Kano State, Mr. Musa Kwankwaso, admitted that “Almajiris” (millions of uncared and abandoned children in the North) were used to vote out President Goodluck Jonathan.” Despite the fact that the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act of 2010 totally ban and forbid children under the age of 18 years from voting, the likes of the President-Elect sees nothing wrong in it criminally, morally and socially. The international observers have also turned blind eyes over the issue and concentrated in the South. The Northern political leaders including the President-Elect appear worried over efforts to educate and develop the “Almajiris” and prefer using them for political violence and roguish and illegitimate voting for the purpose of grabbing democratic powers. This can be inferred from Gov Kwankwaso’s statement under reference.

In Rivers State, over one million, four hundred thousand votes went to the opponent party (PDP) of the President-Elect while a paltry number went to his party – APC following the referenced Presidential poll. As expected, the President-Elect and his party described it as “a sham and massive rigging”. Again, in the governorship poll held in the state, another one million plus votes went to the party opposing the APC and the same labeling rented the air. Rivers State is a state under APC control by defection with all security apparatus under its fold. The referenced state’s out-going governor ascended to governorship through judicial coronation. The State as APC State by defection; is also reported to have bankrolled recent APC State and national polls owing to its status as the richest oil state in Nigeria. Lagos State is also said to be the second APC sponsor state. It is important to state here that the loss of the two polls in Rivers State by the President-Elect and his party-APC is likely to go beyond allegations of widespread rigging.

The President-Elect and his party-APC are also very intolerant, undemocratic and alarmist. Their constant reference to poll results where they lost as “sham” and “widely rigged” is not only a case in point, but also despicable and condemnable. For instance, when the President-Elect and his APC was in a verge of winning the presidential election, incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan called and congratulated him and conceded defeat; when Mr. Samuel Ortom of APC was in a verge of winning the Benue State gubernatorial election, incumbent Gov. Gabriel Suswan of PDP called and congratulated him in advance.

When Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of APC was in a verge of winning the Kaduna State gubernatorial election, incumbent Gov. Mukhtar Yero of PDP called and congratulated him in advance; when Mr. Bindo Mohammed Jibrilla of APC was in a verge of winning the Adamawa State governorship poll, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu of PDP who came third, conceded defeat and congratulated him; when incumbent Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his APC was in a verge of winning the governorship poll, former Governor Alao-Akala of LP called and congratulated him in advance; when incumbent Gov. Ibukunle Amosun was in a verge of winning the Ogun State governorship poll, Mr. Gboyega Isiaka of PDP called and congratulated him in advance.

Conversely, when Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of PDP won the Enugu State's gubernatorial election, Mr. Okey Ezea of APC called for cancellation of the results on account of alleged malpractices; when incumbent Gov. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of PDP won the Gombe State governorship the APC supporters burnt down an Emir’s Palace; when Sen. Gyang Pwajok of PDP was taken an early lead in the Plateau State governorship poll, Mr. Simon Lalong of APC, who eventually won, called for outright cancellation of the poll; when Mr. Udom Emmanuel of PDP won the Akwa-Ibom State governorship poll with 996,000 votes, Mr. Umana Umana of APC who scored 89, 000 votes called for cancellation of the entire election.

Further, when Mr. Nyesom Nwike of PDP was in a verge of winning the Rivers State governorship poll, incumbent Gov. Rotimi Amechi called the election a sham and demanded for outright cancellation of the entire exercise; when Gov. Peter Ayodele Fayose and his PDP swept most, if not all the seats in the State House of Assembly in Ekiti State, APC cried foul and alleged malpractices and called for cancellation of the poll; and when Gov. Olusegun Mimiko and his PDP won majority seats in the Ondo House of Assembly, the APC rejected the outcome and called for cancellation of the exercise. This is just to mention but a few.

In all, the truth about the just held 2015 general elections in Nigeria is that while the projected explosion of widespread violence was avoided owing to political maturity and civility of Igbo race and the country’s minority ethnic nationalities that were demographically and systematically rigged; the referenced polls fundamentally failed the litmus test of international best practices. As it stands now, three governorship polls have been declared inconclusive owing to poll malpractices and INEC’s gross incompetence.

The polls generally speaking, have been marred by ethnic and religious divisions, political exclusion, mass disenfranchisement, under-age voting, ethno-religious balkanisation, scientific rigging using electronic technology configured along ethno-religious segregation, widespread rigging, violence, as well as impartiality and gross incompetence on the part of Independent National Electoral Commission. Truly speaking, the roguishness associated with the 2015 general elections in Nigeria is comparable in most respects with the 2007 general polls. The 2011 polls, other than its post poll violence; remains the best among the Nigeria’s highly tainted civilian-to-civilian polls of the immediate past.

In view of these, therefore, we wish to state firmly that although the short-term negative outcomes or consequences of the 2015 general elections in Nigeria appeared bottled in terms of projected immediate large scale explosion of violence; there are still long term aspect that must be escorted and cocooned at all times. We seriously doubt the competence and statesmanship potentials of the President-Elect and his party in handling them.

For the President-Elect to handle the referenced long term triggers, he must be made to change his present vengeance or vindictive and primordialist dispositions. In view of his perceived lack of statesmanship, his Party-APC and its foreign backers must come to his rescue by offering him thorough tutorship in democratic principles including political tolerance, rule of law, respect for voting rights and sanctity of the ballot box, respect for civil liberties, due process and multi ethnic democratic governance and ethno-religious and cultural pluralism.

As the President-Elect, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, ought to be a statesman and father of all to be able to govern smoothly, happily and prosperously a country like Nigeria, which has over 250 ethnic groups and multi religions to its credit. The President-Elect also ought to be fair and accommodating in his referenced public comments. Open exhibition of ethnic, sectional, religious and political disdain against other ethnic nationalities through unfair and primordialist public comments particularly directed against those that voted against him and his party; constitutes a political battle-line with far-reaching consequences both in short term and long terms. When a people feel threatened, culturally, economically and religiously, they can do anything to repel it no matter their size and geopolitical landscape.

The President-Elect ought to have congratulated all Nigerians for successfully voting the candidates and parties of their choice and conscience irrespective of their geopolitical landscapes and ethno-religious groupings. If he thinks that the 2015 general polls in Nigeria were rigged in whole or in part; he should have avoided making sweeping and inciting public comments and implored and allowed the rigged to seek their mandate recovery from poll tribunals.

Interestingly, in all his public comments, he did not see any foul play involving his party-APC in the referenced two polls. In other words, it is only the PDP and others, excluding the APC that rigged in the 2015 polls. The fact that some INEC returning officers with pricking conscience have publicly revealed how they were forced by APC chieftains in places like Oru East LGA of Imo State to write results in favor of their candidates including Gov Rochas Okoroacha; does not mean anything to the President-Elect or constitute rigging. Mr. Buhari’s condemnation of poll rigging should have been made across board including riggers in his party. Till date, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who once revealed that “election that brought him into office was rigged” is still seen in many quarters as a conscientious statesman and a major contributor to Nigeria’s anti poll rigging therapy.

To avoid disasters of leadership hovering around the President-Elect, which may explode during his Presidency, we pray his party – APC – and its foreign backers in USA and Europe to quickly ferry the President-Elect to the National Democratic Institute in USA to be drilled and mentored in democratic governance and principles.


Interestingly, till date, there are no records of the President-Elect attending any local or international workshop, seminar or fellowship on civil governance, democracy and rights related issues. All his records started and ended with the military. As closed as China is in its politics, its President, Mr. Xi Jinping (62), who was born on 15th June 1953; attended the United States’ Department sponsored International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) (on democracy, good governance & rule of law) 29 years ago at the age of 34.

•Being text of a statement issued today in Onitsha by Intersociety, signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi (Board Chairman); Barr Uzochukwu Oguejiofor-Nwonu (Head, Campaign & Publicity Department); Barr Chiugo Onwuatuegwu (Head, Democracy & Good Governance Programme); and Barr Obianuju Igboeli, Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Programme. Poto shows President-Elect Buhari.

Source http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=10745&title=Buhari-has-drawn-the-battle-line-with-South-East,-South-South;-he-should-be-sent-to-the-USA-for-lessons-%E2%80%94Intersociety&scid=16

Former Minister of Defence, Gen.
Theophilus Danjuma, has come
under attack by the Movement
for the Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra,
MASSOB, over his statement that
the Nigerian/Biafran Civil war
was prolonged and caused
bloodbath because the Biafran
warlord, the late Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu, did not concede victory
when Enugu fell.
MASSOB Leader, Chief Ralph
Uwazurike, warned him to stop
insulting Ojukwu, adding that
MASSOB would not keep its hand
akimbo and watch the name of
its founder being dragged to the
mud in the name of politics.
Speaking in Onitsha, Anambra
State, Uwazuruike recalled that
Gen. Yakubu Gowon, refused to
abide by the Aburi Accord
because people like Danjuma and
others advised him not to abide
by the accord which prolonged
the war that caused the blood
flow mostly in South-East.
Uwazuruike, whose views was
expressed through his personal
Assistant and the Nnewi North
Regional Administrator,
Emmanuel Omenka said, “he has
been insulting Ojukwu, what is
the concern of Ojukwu in the
conceding of victory to Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari by President
Goodluck Jonathan.
“If Danjuma and his cohorts did
not support Gowon, the war
would have been averted,” he
disclosed.
On the statement which was
credited to the Oba of Lagos,
Rilwan Akiolu that Igbo in the
state would perish in the lagoon
within seven days if they did not
vote for the All Progressives
Congress, APC gubernatorial
candidate, MASSOB reiterated
that the monarch’s threat was
that of a dreaming man.
“The threat is null and void and
of no effect because the Oba has
no such power to threaten an
Igboman”, he stated.
“Is he not ashamed of himself
that it is the Igbo in Lagos that
are developing his Lagos State?
This singular act of his has
exposed him to the world as a
monarch that is playing partisan
politics and a confused man.”
SOURCE
http//:www.nigerianpilot.com/attack-on-ndigbo-ojukwu-massob-warns-danjuma-oba-of-lagos/

godgiftedigbe:
MOVEMENT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE NIGER DELTA INDIGENES (MOSUNDI) and our brethren from the SOUTH EAST are
now ready for self determination.

I CONCUR WITH YOU AND BY GOD'S GRACE WE SHALL MAKE IT. AMEN

Demand release of Oru East LGA
Result and Ask for the
Cancellation of IDEATO NORTH
LGA AND IDEATO SOUTH LGA
results.
They claimed that the Results of
the two LGAs in ROCHAS
OKOROCHA HOME TOWN did not
reflect field reports/ results.
That Rochas OKOROCHA replaced
the Results in IDEATO NATION
and Some LGA's of Orlu Zone in
connivance with INEC Officials.
He was accused of using
Students of Rochas Foundation
to thumb print ballot papers at
his Ogboko Country Home.
Result sheets written their and
swamped with the one done in
the field across polling stations.
That field results of Orlu LGA,
ORU WEST LGA was changed
with the one written at
OKOROCHA's Ogboko House.
They demand for outright
cancellation and order for a
rerun.
Ifeanyi reporting from OKIGWE
road.

SOURCE: www.informationng.com/2015/04/etcetera-the-country-might-soon-be-plunged-into-another-biafra-vs-nigeria.html

The Igbos are the wandering
Jews of West Africa… gifted,
aggressive, Westernised; at best
envied and resented, but mostly
despised by the mass of their
neighbours in the federation –
Henry Kessinger (famous
American diplomat)
Back in the days, men made
fortune out of war, war was
business. But today, the Igbos
are making fortune out of
business, because business is the
new war.
Before we talk about the plight
of the Igbos in Nigeria, let us
start by defining a word that has
been frequently used by the
Igbos to define their situation in
the country, marginalisation!
According to a good number of
dictionaries, to “marginalise”
means “to treat someone or
something as if they are
unimportant.”
It also means “to take or keep
somebody away from the centre
of action.” Another dictionary
defined it as “relegating
someone or a group of people to
a lower or outer edge of a
community or society.” For so
long, the Igbos have bitterly cried
out against apparent
marginalisation by the Federal
Goverment of Nigeria. There is
almost a zero federal presence in
the east, despite the fact that the
eastern region is the most
technologically advanced of all
the regions.
This suggests unequivocally that
the Igbo-speaking Nigerians
have been unjustly treated. There
is a well calculated ploy by the
powers that be from other ethnic
nationalities to ensure that the
Igbo region stays perennially
underdeveloped.
What the Igbos are going
through can be traced to none
other than Yakubu Gowon.
Gowon should explain why a
people who were by far the
dominant majority ethnic group
were suddenly relegated to only
one out of the three states
created by him in the old Eastern
region. Why alter demography
just to make the Igbos a minority
in a region where they were the
majority?
Since then, the Igbos haven’t
been able to get this injustice
reversed and till date, they have
seen more states and local
governments created in other
regions across the country.
Nigerian historians are
unanimous that the 1963 census
remains the most transparent in
the country till date.
The 1963 census stated that one
out of every four Nigerians was
an Igbo, which means that if
things were done equitably in
this country, the Igbos should
have a 25 per cent
representation in all federal
institutions as well as a 25 per
cent share of all states and local
governments created since
independence.
We must tell ourselves the truth
and stop living in denial. Nigeria
as it stands today is sitting on a
keg of gun powder and if we
must stay together as a country,
we have to sit down and discuss
the terms and conditions of our
coexistence. No section of the
country should be treated better
than others. I have heard some
northerners mutter several times
that power belongs to them.
“Born to rule,” the old Sokoto
State slogan is a clear
confirmation of what has been
psyched into the system of every
northerner.
And they keep saying “One
Nigeria?” Isn’t it obvious that the
northerners are more Nigerians
than other Nigerians? That’s why
they could openly threaten the
nation with violence like they did
in the just concluded presidential
election. It was peddled about
that if Buhari had lost the
election, there would have been
trouble in the country and as a
result, a lot of people voted
against their wishes especially in
the north.
So many issues need to be
addressed in this country. For
example, how do you explain
why Arabic is on the naira when
the official language of the
country is English? How do you
explain why an Hausa man is
allowed to carry daggers freely
when others get arrested for
carrying a razor blade?
Please, can someone explain to
me who the real Hausas are? I
have travelled to virtually all the
northern states and in most of
the states, the people I met
claimed not to be Hausas but
from other tribes. According to
them, that they spoke fluent
Hausa doesn’t mean they are
Hausas. Nancy who’s from
Kaduna always makes it known
to whoever cares to listen that
she’s not Hausa but Zango Kataf.
My guitarist who’s from
Nasarawa State grumbles
whenever I call him an Hausa
man. Amina, my Fulani neighbour
screams and curses whenever I
call her an Hausa lady.
So who then are the real Hausas?
What states are they occupying?
Stop using politics to bamboozle
me that Hausa is a majority. Stop
using politics to lump Hausa and
Fulani together because you
want me to think you are highly
populated. In the just concluded
presidential election, Katsina
State had over two million
eligible voters, I have been to
Katsina several times and I can’t
remember ever seeing so many
people there. How did they come
about the figures in the
presidential election?
May God save this country from
desperate politicians because it
doesn’t make any sense
politicising the population of the
North when we see otherwise
each time we travel there. It is in
the same light they claimed Kano
was more populated than Lagos
in the census conducted during
Obasanjo’s regime. We are tired
of these lies.
If we must remain an indivisible
country, the true population of
the Hausas, Igbos and Yorubas
and every other ethnic group in
this country must be made public
as well as the number of
Christians and Muslims. Enough
of the Hausa-Fulani scam or the
Zango Kataf man being counted
as Hausa.
Finally, the fact that other ethnic
groups see the marginalisation
of the Igbos as relative or just a
perception and not based on the
objective realities on ground is a
shame. The Nigerian army today
cannot produce a bullet but the
boys in Awka are producing not
only bullets but guns. An
unbiased Federal Government
would have taken advantage of
that and create employment as
well as exporting to generate
money for the country. With a
little government
encouragement, Aba can easily
rival the industralised nations of
the world in production.
If Ndigbo won’t be allowed to
enjoy the freedom, to develop
and maximise their collective and
individual potential through
unfettered access, use and
exploitation of God-given
resources – human and material,
the country might soon be
plunged into another years of
Biafra vs Nigeria and this time
around, there will be a victor and
a vanquished.

SOURCE:
www.informationng.com/2015/
04/etcetera-the-country-might-
soon-be-plunged-into-another-
biafra-vs-nigeria.html

SOURCE: http://conservativetribune.com/congressman-moves-to-impeach-obama/

After 7 years of numerous high
crimes and misdemeanors, a
member of the U.S. House of
Representatives finally just made
a move that could set off
impeachment proceedings
against Barack Obama.
Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., is
preparing to introduce a
resolution setting forth the
House’s definition of “high
crimes and misdemeanors,”
drawing an unmistakable line in
the sand that would directly
challenge Obama’s actions.
This is the single most
significant action taken by a
Republican towards
impeachment to date.
The resolution introduces 11
different specific actions that fit
the Constitution’s standard of
“ high crimes and
misdemeanors,” and several of
them apply directly to Obama.
For example, the resolution lists
“failing to take care that the laws
be faithfully executed through
signing statements or systematic
policies of non-enforcement”
and “substituting executive
agreements for treaties” as two
of eleven potential high crimes
and misdemeanors the House
would be declaring
“impeachable,” according to
Breitbart.It further adds that the use of
military force without
congressional authorization, the
use of funds in defiance of
congressional appropriations,
and the defiance of
congressional subpoenas during
oversight investigations are all
impeachable offenses.
Sound familiar?
Obama’s refusal to enforce
America’s immigration laws
, his threat of bypassing
Congress on Iran, his illegal war
in Libya, and his consistent
defiance of congressional
investigations
into executive branch scandals
like the IRS, Fast and Furious, and
Benghazi all fit squarely within
Yoho’s 11 criteria for a “high
crime.”
Yoho said that the most
frequently recurring argument
against impeachment by experts
was that Obama’s actions are
similar to actions of previous
presidents. This, he says, is why
the resolution is a necessary
first step to impeachment. Once
Congress has defined its criteria
for “impeachable” offenses, the
“Bush did it, too” argument is
immediately destroyed.
This resolution was crafted with
the assistance of legal experts
like Fox News’ Judge Andrew
Napolitano and civil liberties
attorney Bruce Fein.
Yoho added that he expects the
resolution will cause a liberal
“firestorm” and will draw the ire
of the race baiters, who will
inevitably claim that the only
reason the GOP wants to
impeach Obama is because he’s
black.
But Yoho won’t back down,
declaring, “This is strictly about
the rule of law.”
He noted that executive amnesty
was the final straw in a litany of
abuses against the Constitution.
It was a “blatant, in-your-face
‘I’m above the law and I’m going
to do what I want. I’m a dictator,
I’m a king’” act, Yoho said.
This brave congressman should
be commended for his efforts to
fulfill his oath to defend the
Constitution. Now, his colleagues
who claim to love liberty and
represent the interests of
Americans need to step up to the
plate and give this effort their full
support.

calebo101:
They all voted along religious and ethnic choices.

One Nigeria is a very big joke. See how that small Niger Delta produces the wealth that feeds the nation and that same region consists of the hardest working region in Nigeria,The Igbos . Now i see why the other regions can't do without Niger Delta and the East. As dem big reach dem nor fit feed themselves .

Niger Delta and Biafra wake up, form a merger and demand your sovereignty. Those parasites up there will never let you go because you feed their lazy asses. If they had what you have they would have chased you away since time immemorial. Form a merger and sail away ooooooo

We can even lobby a section of the middlebet for economic reasons as well and become a big federation on our own. Niger Delta/Biafra it's time to act oooo, those vampires up there will suffocate us. Chai, no wonder na the North shout One Nigeria pass, because they bring nothing to the table. (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF DELTA BIAFRA )

THANK YOU MY DEAR ITS TRUE WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE DOING ABOUT IT.
SS AND SE WE BETTER REASON NOW BEFORE THINGS GO WORST. N*GER*A HAS EVEN EXPIRE.
ONE NIGERIA IS ONLY A NATION THAT EXIST ON PAPER AND NOT IN OUR MIND.

APC AND THEIR STRATEGY! IT WON'T WORK. WHY SAYING WE MUST VOTE FOR A PARTY, IT IS A MATTER OF CHOICE.
BUT AS FOR OKOROCHA HE OUGHT TO BE VOTED OUT FOR INSULTING THE WHOLE IGBO FOR NOT VOTING BUHARI.