₦airaland Forum

Fremancipation:
You can insult me all you want but it won't change the love I have for akwa ibom people. There are lots of them in aba doing business and working hard. Both men and women. They have the "can do spirit" i see amongst Igbos. They dont have the igbophobia I see in some other groups and they are confident people just like igbos.

You on the other hand need to ask your mother who your father really is. Something went wrong with you.

spot on.

dont mind that Ruse!

ExpiredNigeria:
Thrash! again I said thrash, gone are the times we wanted this reasoning and to be frank with you most or everything written above there is utter nonsense

seconded!

If only PMB's mid term performance stands at 80%??

Thumbs up for determined Biafrans world over.

I can feel you bro.

with one voice, Biafrans world over, made just one statement:

Determination!

In Obama's voice: "Yes we can"

[quote author=Henrybright post=57040074][/quote]One thing is guaranteed as benefit to all ND federating states under Biafra:

Resource Control.

This is a mirage in Nigeria.

Henrybright:
so funny, while all this will be sponsored by d money from Niger Delta just as it's happening right now in Nigeria, and you don't fink Niger Delta states in Biafra will do exactly what is happening now by also wanting to leave Biafra??

The way you chant this Niger Delta is nauseating.

You itemized the 9 states in ND, Is ND a complete region without the 9 states?

Haba!

Tell us your Tribe and stop this claptrap!

Suffice it to say that Nigeria needs Igbo badly to survive.

Does Igbo Need Nigeria badly to survive?

Honest response pls.

God bless the Land of Rising Sun

watching in 3D


vox populi, vox dei

Edu3Again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVE1qMJXkgM

Biafra is Great

God bless NK

wale101010:
Something Tells Me That A Powerful Foreign Intelligence Agency Is Behind IPOB. I have never seen a movement so well organized, disciplined where everything goes in phases with sheer perfection and incredible grassroot mobilization. Something is fishy. Why is Nnamdi Kanu so fearless? Did a powerful person in the world assured him that nothing will happen to him? You can't be so fearless in this world unless you are supported by some powerful forces that run this world.

Can you imagine how fearless Moses of old was then?

Pharaoh in all his awe and glory, who can stand before him and utter any word in defiance?

Think!

finaly01:
Are u on a mission to get back @ ewedu people? pls concentrarte on the point and Stop derailing the tread. Believe it or not the ewedu people controls Nigeria media and Sincerely, Some are already showing sympathy to our course.


Stop being childish in ur post biafra or not We need southern unity. Nigeria is a failed state even the afeniferes knows this. If we really want to archive biafra, we need to cease this opportunity to build bridges. La

Zik, Awo, Ojukwu and Gowon may have failed to allaign do to their personal ego but this is a new generation.

God bless u

nyben4eva:
If Nigeria as a country can't solve electricity problem since 1960 till date,It simply tells how useless a country she is, yet some egg heads will still open their mouths to insult others agitating for their freedom from this hopeless country.Well,Fela said it,"suffering and smiling";that's what they're known for.Biafrans,I believe in you guys and your undying spirit!

God bless you!

mikeycharles:
No one is insulting them, if they wanna leave, they should leave but I prefer they stay

@enboldened

Old story!

Why should they stay is the question begging for answer!

Read This:

knightsTempler:
What A Treatise:



I was speaking with a very young pharmacist from the South East yesterday. I advanced the restructuring/true Fiscal Federalism as what I believe is the way out of Nigeria's muddle. He would not buy it.

"Forget it ma'am. It's better we just go. Give us ten-fifteen years and see how Biafra would be transformed." He spoke with conviction. His eyes shone with what I thought was longing. "Just forget it. There is no need dragging this thing with them," he concluded.

A good number of Igbos, and I dare add, other young Nigerians, are totally not understanding Nigeria as it is right now. It is not enough to make dismissive remarks like "They were not even born when the war happened." Or remarks like "They don't understand what they're asking for."
Make them understand. That is, if you understand what you're asking them to understand. If it makes sense to you. It even gets more annoying when you hear the older ones, the actors and spectators of the unfortunate war, urge the younger ones to learn from history.

According to Osibanjo, "experience is the best answer for a fool. History is a much gentler teacher.' I agree.

But comments like that could even draw the ire of the young ones who have today been denied history classes in school. Who keeps a people ignorant of their history? But even more annoying is the fact that those who urge this learning have themselves not only failed to learn from experience, but have bluntly refused to learn from history, the much gentler teacher.

And what is there to learn? What is there to understand?

That a boy from Anambra State aspiring to get some education at the prestigious Unity schools has to score about 139 marks in the entrance examination while his counterpart, perhaps even his classmate or neighbour from Zamfara State would only have to score 4 marks. And that it takes an even weirder turn when they're done with school, at which point the Zamfara boy would have over 80% more chance at a federal job than the 80% more studious boy from Anambra. How do you explain that to a young Nigerian so that he may understand?

How can they understand that a State like Kano, created at about the same time as one like Lagos, has about 44 local govt areas while Lagos State has a paltry 20 constitutionally recognized local govt areas. Bear in mind that Kano state has long been sub divided into two states of Kano and Jigawa. Jigawa alone has 27 LGAs of its own. You can say that the old Kano State has 71 LGAs while Lagos still lags behind with 20. And that the entire South East of five states has only about 94 local govt areas? Did it strike you that the South East is the only region still dawdling with five states? It would not have mattered of course if the National cake wasn't shared on the basis of local governments. Only if it was baked on that same basis. How would any young person without a brain for understanding twisted things get this?

How can they understand that in the present Govt, the entire South East has no representation in the security body of the country. So when the security chiefs sit to discuss security, the primary role of any govt, there is nobody from the entire SE region in attendance. How can anyone understand this.
How can even a gentle teacher make anyone understand that a South South youth would die for daring to steal crude oil from what used to be his fertile and arable farmland, while his Northern counterpart can freely mine minerals from his backyard. We only get to hear anything about it when lead poisoning begins to ravage communities.

How do you understand that we have Petroleum Equalization Fund which ensures that petroleum products get to the people in the North at the same price at which it gets to those in the South but we do not have Tomato Equalization fund or Carrot Equalization Fund to trim the cost for people in the South? Break it down for me so that I may understand since I didn't witness the war.

How do you break down the brazen massacres of Igbos, Christians and other innocent Nigerians any time the North wakes up from the wrong side of the bed? Or when an artist draws a denigrating sketch of Mohammed in countries some of the victims have never heard of? Or when a group of girls decide to bare their bodies in beauty pageants? Or when a man cannot win elections? Or when a farmer must till his farmland? Or just about when anything... Just unbelievable impunity. And no one ever gets justice.

But we can start by explaining how Katsina State alone just got allotted more slots that the entire SS, than the entire SW, than the entire SE, than the entire N.Central in the ongoing (or is it completed?) recruitment by the DSS.

And a host of flustering matters.
So what is it you want History to help you teach? That the oppressed should stay calm and "ask nicely" like Obasanjo put it? They should ask nicely for their share of a piece of cake jointly baked by all? They should treat Nigeria with love like Obasanjo again suggested. It shouldn't matter that they get only rebuffs in return. I don't blame Obasanjo. It's probably the way he knows love and reconciliation...one sided. Any wonder his daughter would literally disown him publicly?

I listened to all the speeches made at the Biafra@50 event. They were all rich in flowing grammar, beaming with rhetorics but glaringly bare on commitment. Nobody but Nwodo dared point a way out. Osibanjo's speech had no mention of restructuring, something I can bet my last finger that he believes in. It would seem like we don't want to find a way out of our predicament yet.

Make no mistake, the clamour for Biafra is getting more tumultuous by the day that I fear that the voices of some of us preaching 'restructure' may soon be drowned.
And this house may come crashing on us all.

shaddoww:
I am very very impressed, as a yoruba, I feel proud of wat u guys are doing, cos it takes Unity of purpose for u to agree like dis, though a lot of Yorubas are nt openly showing u support bt I can tell u, majority of d Yorubas too want to go, don't mind dos yeye ones dat call themselves social media influencers, dey av been bought n dey are only influencing their pockets. I just wish dat my igbo brothers can stop dis tribal fight with we Yorubas, ignore wat u see on social media, dos ones only make abt 2% of our population. As the SUN as already RISEN from the EAST, my hope is that it can SET in the WEST. Then d sky will be our limit, it's nt compulsory we stay together in d South, but we can join hands to fight a good course. #WE ARE ALL BIAFRIANS

GOD BLESS YOU!

willibounce1:
Ipod rascal. You did not see the part where I wrote that only responsible igbos work in banks and other companies.

In your opinion, EVERY RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN MUST WORK IN THE BANK AND OTHER COMPANIES WHILE NO RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN ENGAGES ON ANY OTHER TRADE BA?

NOW RUN AWAY FROM BIAFRA MATTER

drss2:
"one step for freedom, a GIANT step towards Biafra!"
God bless all those who suspended their work n business activities to remember dis day in our history. history dat was deliberately removed from our school curriculum to keep our young stars in perpetual ignorance. today's total compliance to Biafra remembrance day has shown dat d oppresive govt of nijeriya has FAILED. they do not teach history to our children in school, yet expect our children to learn from history. is dat not madness a govt dat is afraid of its own history is a govt dat has somtin to hide. so not matter how long they denied our children history in schools, history will always be part of us.
as we remember our fallen heros, may d spirit of freedom shine on us to move towards a greater future not only to dis generation but d generation unborn.
God bless lovers of freedom!
God bless IPOB!!
God bless Nnamdi Kanu!!!
God bless Biafra!!!!

...And God bless YOU!

9jakohai:
Nigeria's problem is not division. Nigeria's problem is that people want to share money. And they are ready to fight over it. Which in my mind is what is driving all this secession things...as well as the Boko haram, religious, etc crisis. We are a lazy people. We want to eat money. And if we don't get our money we will fight....together or apart.

Now Read This:

knightsTempler:
What A Treatise:



I was speaking with a very young pharmacist from the South East yesterday. I advanced the restructuring/true Fiscal Federalism as what I believe is the way out of Nigeria's muddle. He would not buy it.

"Forget it ma'am. It's better we just go. Give us ten-fifteen years and see how Biafra would be transformed." He spoke with conviction. His eyes shone with what I thought was longing. "Just forget it. There is no need dragging this thing with them," he concluded.

A good number of Igbos, and I dare add, other young Nigerians, are totally not understanding Nigeria as it is right now. It is not enough to make dismissive remarks like "They were not even born when the war happened." Or remarks like "They don't understand what they're asking for."
Make them understand. That is, if you understand what you're asking them to understand. If it makes sense to you. It even gets more annoying when you hear the older ones, the actors and spectators of the unfortunate war, urge the younger ones to learn from history.

According to Osibanjo, "experience is the best answer for a fool. History is a much gentler teacher.' I agree.

But comments like that could even draw the ire of the young ones who have today been denied history classes in school. Who keeps a people ignorant of their history? But even more annoying is the fact that those who urge this learning have themselves not only failed to learn from experience, but have bluntly refused to learn from history, the much gentler teacher.

And what is there to learn? What is there to understand?

That a boy from Anambra State aspiring to get some education at the prestigious Unity schools has to score about 139 marks in the entrance examination while his counterpart, perhaps even his classmate or neighbour from Zamfara State would only have to score 4 marks. And that it takes an even weirder turn when they're done with school, at which point the Zamfara boy would have over 80% more chance at a federal job than the 80% more studious boy from Anambra. How do you explain that to a young Nigerian so that he may understand?

How can they understand that a State like Kano, created at about the same time as one like Lagos, has about 44 local govt areas while Lagos State has a paltry 20 constitutionally recognized local govt areas. Bear in mind that Kano state has long been sub divided into two states of Kano and Jigawa. Jigawa alone has 27 LGAs of its own. You can say that the old Kano State has 71 LGAs while Lagos still lags behind with 20. And that the entire South East of five states has only about 94 local govt areas? Did it strike you that the South East is the only region still dawdling with five states? It would not have mattered of course if the National cake wasn't shared on the basis of local governments. Only if it was baked on that same basis. How would any young person without a brain for understanding twisted things get this?

How can they understand that in the present Govt, the entire South East has no representation in the security body of the country. So when the security chiefs sit to discuss security, the primary role of any govt, there is nobody from the entire SE region in attendance. How can anyone understand this.
How can even a gentle teacher make anyone understand that a South South youth would die for daring to steal crude oil from what used to be his fertile and arable farmland, while his Northern counterpart can freely mine minerals from his backyard. We only get to hear anything about it when lead poisoning begins to ravage communities.

How do you understand that we have Petroleum Equalization Fund which ensures that petroleum products get to the people in the North at the same price at which it gets to those in the South but we do not have Tomato Equalization fund or Carrot Equalization Fund to trim the cost for people in the South? Break it down for me so that I may understand since I didn't witness the war.

How do you break down the brazen massacres of Igbos, Christians and other innocent Nigerians any time the North wakes up from the wrong side of the bed? Or when an artist draws a denigrating sketch of Mohammed in countries some of the victims have never heard of? Or when a group of girls decide to bare their bodies in beauty pageants? Or when a man cannot win elections? Or when a farmer must till his farmland? Or just about when anything... Just unbelievable impunity. And no one ever gets justice.

But we can start by explaining how Katsina State alone just got allotted more slots that the entire SS, than the entire SW, than the entire SE, than the entire N.Central in the ongoing (or is it completed?) recruitment by the DSS.

And a host of flustering matters.
So what is it you want History to help you teach? That the oppressed should stay calm and "ask nicely" like Obasanjo put it? They should ask nicely for their share of a piece of cake jointly baked by all? They should treat Nigeria with love like Obasanjo again suggested. It shouldn't matter that they get only rebuffs in return. I don't blame Obasanjo. It's probably the way he knows love and reconciliation...one sided. Any wonder his daughter would literally disown him publicly?

I listened to all the speeches made at the Biafra@50 event. They were all rich in flowing grammar, beaming with rhetorics but glaringly bare on commitment. Nobody but Nwodo dared point a way out. Osibanjo's speech had no mention of restructuring, something I can bet my last finger that he believes in. It would seem like we don't want to find a way out of our predicament yet.

Make no mistake, the clamour for Biafra is getting more tumultuous by the day that I fear that the voices of some of us preaching 'restructure' may soon be drowned.
And this house may come crashing on us all.

What about that?

willibounce1:
Nothing serious. It's just a public holiday for hopeless and jobless rascals. As we can see from the pics, the place shut down are in shambles already. Even if they are not shut down, what reasonable activities would be going on there? You can see the rascals playing football. Once it's 2 or 3pm, them go begin open shop one by one. Do they sell mango or fuel in those filling stations I am seeing? Go to banks and companies and show us th senseless compliance by ipod touts. On a second thought, ipods can't work in a bank or any reasonable company...only responsible igbos are qualified to work. Ipods do menial jobs and that's why they are so bitter and hateful. They think biafrua.d will save them from extreme poverty. Tell us what nnamdi kanu does for a living again.

Drinking Panadol^(R) for other people's headache!

You keep mocking those courageously standing up against their oppression!

Think!

Ekinematics:
Ipobs you guys should stop disgracing yourselves.
See the filt you are showing us.
Is this how dirty biafra look?

....That's why Biafra must Go....

They deserve better.

Amarabae:
Go to NNPC headquaters and see young hausa/fulanis working there, they occupy 75% of the workforce there.
How many drop of oil is in the north?
Evil country that hate Fairness and Justice.

Don't get worked up because of some paid rapacious and acquisitive hands!

All hail the land of Rising Sun

Agumbaa:
Even on twitter, Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra have been trending, and guess the people wey carry am for head?
your guess good as mine.

Lol.


They know themselves!

cc
abagworo
tonyebarcanister
seun
mynd44
lalasticlala
ngeneukwenu
gamegod
ipobexposed
sarrki




...speechless!

Abagworo:
There's nowhere known or called Oyibo in Rivers State. The Oyigbo I wrote about is a shanty town located at boundary of Abia State with natives being Ndoki and Asa. The town also and more popularly called Obigbo encroached into Etche LGA at Umuebulu but shares common boundary with Iriebe in OBALGA. It is considered a lowlife town by Port Harcourt people.

Is Photo evidence of your claim too hard!

Maybe you are using "Palasa" phone! Just guessing.

TonyeBarcanista:
How can you wake up early morning and snap a bridge in PH rush to NL to claim sit at home.

There is no sit at home in PH or anywhere around Rivers state. Information I get on ground is people going about normal businesses.

Banks are in operation, schools are opened, offices are opened for business etc.

I won't rule out the possibility of a pocket of Igbo traders that are sympathetic to Biafra to stay @ home. But that is their business.

I wish Biafra supporters well in their aspiration anyway... God help you!

For us, we shall continue to struggle for a better Nigeria.

do well to support your claim with verifiable pictures from your feelers!


Niralanders here would surely verify your claim.

No hard feelings tho!

Abagworo:
I drove to my office at Onne transversing through a large part of Port Harcourt but businesses are on as usual, schools are open and community markets are on. God bless Nigeria. Expect photos later.

APC supporters and Propaganda are like..............


......Pls where is that President Zuma's meme........?

Thinking Igbo must!


A peep into the bustling Ariaria market now confirms/corroborates this!

Igbo enweghi Eze,

but

here comes Eze Igbo.

chesterlee:
Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters in the red, black and green of the Biafran flag hail him as their saviour.

Eighteen months in custody does not appear to have affected his fight against Nigeria.

"I am more determined than ever," Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, tells AFP calmly.

Kanu, who was released on bail at the end of April, still faces trial on treason charges.

But there is no question of his remaining silent as a key date approaches on Tuesday: the 50th anniversary of the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra.

The secession of the Igbo people in the southeast sparked a bloody civil war that lasted nearly three years until 1970. More than one million people died of the effects of war, famine and disease.

Kanu says his aim is "civil disobedience until we get a referendum (on self-determination)", calling it "the only way forward".

- 'Deliberate' retribution -

After the war, Biafra was reintegrated into Nigeria, an ethnic and religious hotch-potch of nearly 190 million people where sectarian tensions regularly flare.

But in "Igboland", the dream of independence never really disappeared, fuelled by a sense that the Nigerian government had abandoned them -- perhaps deliberately -- after the conflict.

Veterans and young supporters crowd around in turn to hear the bespectacled Kanu speak.

In the living room where he receives guests, a life-size painting covering an entire wall depicts the prodigal son in military uniform.

He variously denounces what he says are the "killings" and "rapes" of Igbos by the security forces, and President Muhammadu Buhari's "deliberate policy to impoverish the people".

Kanu, who is in his 40s, spent his childhood in Umuahia, which was the former Biafran capital, a stone's throw from the separatist forces' bunker, and was clearly no stranger to politics.

He refuses to give his exact age but as the eldest of five children, he grew up from a young age with stories from his father, who gave logistic support to the resistance.

- 'Demi-god persona' -

Unknown to most Nigerians even two years ago, Kanu had long launched virulent diatribes against Nigeria from London, where he settled after his studies and founded the pirate radio station Radio Biafra in 2009.

He worked in real estate and campaigned on the airwaves at night. For a time he was a member of another pro-independence group, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

He left MASSOB and founded IPOB in 2013.

Two years later at the World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, Kanu crossed a line with an apparent call to take up arms. "We need guns and we need bullets," he said.

He was arrested at his hotel during a visit to Nigeria in October 2015.

Fred Anibeze, a Nigerian political scientist, called the arrest "unwarranted and uncalled for".

"He is using the Biafra struggle to garner cheap publicity for himself via broadcast from Radio Biafra, and this has been further buttressed with the demi-god persona he has been getting since his release," he told AFP.

Kanu's detention caused widespread anger among Igbos, and a series of protests calling for his release ended in bloodshed.

According to Amnesty International, Nigerian security forces killed at least 150 IPOB supporters in 2016. Abuja flatly rejects the claim.

For Don Okereke, a security analyst, Kanu "embodies aspirations of a new generation, more activist, more radical" than their elders, who fought in the war.

"He tells people just what they want to hear," he added.

- Lost tribe of Israel -

The extent of Kanu's support in the southeast of the country is difficult to gauge but his followers have virtually worshipped him since his release on bail.

Kanu does not do anything to stop the myth-making and is protected round the clock by an impressive security detail, who thoroughly search all his visitors.

Religion is ever-present in his speeches, and Kanu now wears the talit (Jewish prayer shawl) and observes the sabbath.

IPOB followers also wear the kippah (skullcap).

It all dates back to a "divine revelation" Kanu says he had during a trip to Jerusalem: the Igbo -- most of whom are Christian -- are descendents of a lost tribe of Israel, he says.

Biafra is the "promised land" and it is his mission to restore it.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4551182/Nnamdi-Kanu-new-voice-pro-Biafra-independence.html

chesterlee:
As Biafrans are getting ready to remember our fallen heroes on May 30th 2017 worldwide. One of such hero and martyr is the late Bruce Mayrock. Bruce was a 20yr old Hebrew student at Columbia university, New York, who immolate himself in front of the U.N. building while protesting against the 1967-1970 Biafra genocide.

Bruce doused himself with a flammable liquid shortly and set himself on fire on the lawn outside the U.N. building. Even when two guards chased him with fire extinguisher while engulfed in flames, Bruce eluded them, whike hundreds of horrified delegates and onlookers watched. He finally fell down to his knees and the guards extinguished the fire. He was rushed to the Belleone Hospital where he died shortly after midnight of May 30th, 1969, nine hours after he set himself ablaze. His family said that Bruce worked actively to protest the war in Biafra, writing letters about the war to the president and leading government figures. He felt that people were being killed in Biafra and no one was doing anything about it.

His placard read " Peace is where there is an absence of fear of any kind.", "You must stop genocide, please save nine millions of Biafra,.

Bruce, you are our hero and Martyr, you will be remembered for ever by true biafrans. You gave up your life for people you have never met. May God continue to rest your Biafran soul AND Biafra will be a Nation, and your name will forever be immortalized.

ON BEHALF OF ALL BIAFRANS, THANK YOU AND CONTINUE TO REST WITH THE ANGELS.

Lalasticlala

It is not about NK,
But all Biafrans world wide!

kingzizzy:
Removing Biafra from the history curricular was one of the ways Northern Military leaders hoped to kill any mention of Biafra. What they simply failed to understand is that once an ideology has taken root, cutting the stem off is of no use as it will grow back again. The only way to kill an ideology is to have superior ideology to the existing one. Nigeria hasnt got that

spot on!

Cheap/loud ranting in high places, can never override the faint voices of reason!

cc
lalasticlala
seun
mynd44





Those who want others to learn from history brazenly removed same history from the curriculum!

What an irony.


Hypocrites

knightsTempler:
What A Treatise:



I was speaking with a very young pharmacist from the South East yesterday. I advanced the restructuring/true Fiscal Federalism as what I believe is the way out of Nigeria's muddle. He would not buy it.

"Forget it ma'am. It's better we just go. Give us ten-fifteen years and see how Biafra would be transformed." He spoke with conviction. His eyes shone with what I thought was longing. "Just forget it. There is no need dragging this thing with them," he concluded.

A good number of Igbos, and I dare add, other young Nigerians, are totally not understanding Nigeria as it is right now. It is not enough to make dismissive remarks like "They were not even born when the war happened." Or remarks like "They don't understand what they're asking for."
Make them understand. That is, if you understand what you're asking them to understand. If it makes sense to you. It even gets more annoying when you hear the older ones, the actors and spectators of the unfortunate war, urge the younger ones to learn from history.

According to Osibanjo, "experience is the best answer for a fool. History is a much gentler teacher.' I agree.

But comments like that could even draw the ire of the young ones who have today been denied history classes in school. Who keeps a people ignorant of their history? But even more annoying is the fact that those who urge this learning have themselves not only failed to learn from experience, but have bluntly refused to learn from history, the much gentler teacher.

And what is there to learn? What is there to understand?

That a boy from Anambra State aspiring to get some education at the prestigious Unity schools has to score about 139 marks in the entrance examination while his counterpart, perhaps even his classmate or neighbour from Zamfara State would only have to score 4 marks. And that it takes an even weirder turn when they're done with school, at which point the Zamfara boy would have over 80% more chance at a federal job than the 80% more studious boy from Anambra. How do you explain that to a young Nigerian so that he may understand?

How can they understand that a State like Kano, created at about the same time as one like Lagos, has about 44 local govt areas while Lagos State has a paltry 20 constitutionally recognized local govt areas. Bear in mind that Kano state has long been sub divided into two states of Kano and Jigawa. Jigawa alone has 27 LGAs of its own. You can say that the old Kano State has 71 LGAs while Lagos still lags behind with 20. And that the entire South East of five states has only about 94 local govt areas? Did it strike you that the South East is the only region still dawdling with five states? It would not have mattered of course if the National cake wasn't shared on the basis of local governments. Only if it was baked on that same basis. How would any young person without a brain for understanding twisted things get this?

How can they understand that in the present Govt, the entire South East has no representation in the security body of the country. So when the security chiefs sit to discuss security, the primary role of any govt, there is nobody from the entire SE region in attendance. How can anyone understand this.
How can even a gentle teacher make anyone understand that a South South youth would die for daring to steal crude oil from what used to be his fertile and arable farmland, while his Northern counterpart can freely mine minerals from his backyard. We only get to hear anything about it when lead poisoning begins to ravage communities.

How do you understand that we have Petroleum Equalization Fund which ensures that petroleum products get to the people in the North at the same price at which it gets to those in the South but we do not have Tomato Equalization fund or Carrot Equalization Fund to trim the cost for people in the South? Break it down for me so that I may understand since I didn't witness the war.

How do you break down the brazen massacres of Igbos, Christians and other innocent Nigerians any time the North wakes up from the wrong side of the bed? Or when an artist draws a denigrating sketch of Mohammed in countries some of the victims have never heard of? Or when a group of girls decide to bare their bodies in beauty pageants? Or when a man cannot win elections? Or when a farmer must till his farmland? Or just about when anything... Just unbelievable impunity. And no one ever gets justice.

But we can start by explaining how Katsina State alone just got allotted more slots that the entire SS, than the entire SW, than the entire SE, than the entire N.Central in the ongoing (or is it completed?) recruitment by the DSS.

And a host of flustering matters.
So what is it you want History to help you teach? That the oppressed should stay calm and "ask nicely" like Obasanjo put it? They should ask nicely for their share of a piece of cake jointly baked by all? They should treat Nigeria with love like Obasanjo again suggested. It shouldn't matter that they get only rebuffs in return. I don't blame Obasanjo. It's probably the way he knows love and reconciliation...one sided. Any wonder his daughter would literally disown him publicly?

I listened to all the speeches made at the Biafra@50 event. They were all rich in flowing grammar, beaming with rhetorics but glaringly bare on commitment. Nobody but Nwodo dared point a way out. Osibanjo's speech had no mention of restructuring, something I can bet my last finger that he believes in. It would seem like we don't want to find a way out of our predicament yet.

Make no mistake, the clamour for Biafra is getting more tumultuous by the day that I fear that the voices of some of us preaching 'restructure' may soon be drowned.
And this house may come crashing on us all.