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NewDawn2O21:
an igbo man is behind that letter

Sincinnati:
Borno and Bornu? So from the whole of this letter only Bornu instead of Borno makes it a false threat? So because Borno wasn’t spelt correctly the security agencies should go to sleep and no bother take proactive measures?

You’re disgustingly petty.

This government is just wasting tax payers money on airheads to defend their indefensible inanities.

See Wetin garba Shehu dey employ.

Sincinnati:
As expected.

Brainfarts like you can’t stand facts.

Abakelawal:
So dis pple Sabi English

Sincinnati:
My friend quit the rants please!

Were you not here when an Amuoteku Lieutenant General said that fulani have besieged the whole of South West?

You probably were among the people that sold my South West brothers the taqqiya that it’s a lie. What happened next? The same fulani marauders killed 30 women and children just in less than one week after that warning.
And you’re here ranting.

And who the fück are you self? What has been your take on the incessant slaughtering of people of Benue State by fulanis?

If you strongly believe in Nigeria, then I pray your life and that of your family end as the same as those these fulani animals have visited in the middle of the night.

defcon4:
This is fake.
Why do people cook up stuff like this. I am not a fan of Fulani terrorism that has plagued Nigeria of recent. But thunder fire the thief who concocted this rumor, to steal sleep from Deltans. May pile catch your anus

The moment I read Bornu instead of Borno, I knew the source of the letter.. No Northerner will ever spell Borno as Bornu

kettykin:
I hope this will not lead to a very big revolution against the military does not get ignited, when the people are pushed to the wall they will react so badly

ygowon:
We all know what's going on, even the south south already know your divide and rule tactic. That was why Bayelsa governor replied your Buhari after claiming that the south south leaders and youth have assured them of not joining biagfra. You fulanis will loose Las las

PeaceforNigeria:
We the people , i.e 95% of all Igbos will gladly welcome a new and prosperous Biafra .

Stop begging , it’s making you look cheap , stay in your one Nigeria or whatever shit hole you want to call it.

Dauraking:
By BY ALOY EJIMAKOR
It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the civil war, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the sea.

The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk this lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some basic physical explorations of your own.

Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-War Igbos never bordered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore.

And that history was constructively banned since the end of the civil war made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical geography (or even adventure) that serious anymore, otherwise they would have discovered that Abia, Imo and Anambra states have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic through Imo, Azumiri and Niger Rivers.

It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read (or plot) Google Earth; or you conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot.

There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Urashi River at Oseakwa (Ihiala) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the south-eastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront.

These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Portharcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic.

Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri Rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 Nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometers.

Thus, the contiguity of south-east (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is nautically less than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Port Harcourt. If you discount the territories unfairly excised from Igboland during state creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less.

To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Port Harcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged some 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic.

Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia state, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri Rivers, of which Azumiri, on its separate merits, lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront. The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa (Urashi) in Ihiala (Anambra state) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other River in Nigeria.

Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, Baikie – one of the earliest and credible geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say – “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north, it borders on Igara, Igala and A’kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race” (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty’s Government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-war abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments, coupled with the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost political hold of their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called ‘Oshimiri’ – The Great Sea.

The psychological beat-down and gang-up got so bad and institutional that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside Southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not.

The worst injustice was in 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighboring states of the south-south. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They missed the southernmost south-east lands that possess Rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly south-south territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly (and luckily) placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons and realms of customary international law.

As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully through any of the various short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous south-south territories.

For the avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia state) that flows through greater Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom state before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Biafra (officially corrupted to Bight of Bonny, after the War).

Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is therefore bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of the Igbo as an identifiable (and protected) indigenous group within Nigeria. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983.

The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious protections relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within a Treaty nation. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria.

So, international law will surely come into play should a belligerent or legal conflict arise out of Nigeria’s oppressive institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland – an issue so fundamental and compelling that it bears the fulcrum of what is agitating the Igbo to the point of seeking an alternative to Nigeria.

Ejimakor, a lawyer, writes from Alaigbo

https://www.thecable.ng/igboland-is-not-a-dot-and-its-not-landlocked/amp

TheGoodJoe:

I don't give a F if the failure resigns or not. Buhari fails with ease. If he decides to stay longer, he will just keep tarnishing his name.

I am addressing your point and showing you why Sowore and who ever protest that Buhari Must Go is Right.

duni04:
He doesn't need to commit any impeachable offence. In Ukraine Yanukovych fled the state house after days of prolonged protests by people that didn't want him again. In georgia, Shevardnadze fled the state house in a chopper after protesters camped outside the state house and said they didn't want him there again. In Tunisia Ben ali fled in a chopper after protesters came out enmass and said they didnt want him again.
The power belongs to the people in a democracy! It is very unfortunate that you do not know the power you hold.

TheGoodJoe:
Buhari Must Go is simply a request for the failed dictator to save what is left of the name Buhari and resign.

We can not expect a rubber stamp National Assembly and representative to do that when Buhari has a track record of breaking the Constitution.

Sowore is right to demand Buhari must go.

Buhari is a total failure.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop talking National Assembly. Those guys are part of the problem. Protest is the best way to go when the whole system is corrupt.

You can not get good from an evil body.

duni04:
Bro i think you really need to read up on what democracy is. I don't think you know what it is. Because what you're saying angers you is exactly what democracy is. The basic principle of democracy is the "people". The people decide to elect you, the people decide you're good or not good enough and the people remove you. It's all about the people. The fact that we have cowards in Nigeria that mistake monarchy for democracy doesn't mean that is the true colour of democracy. How can a President that enjoyed a democratic ascent to power suddenly say protests are not allowed in the same democracy you piggubacked off to become President. The day even 50% of Nigerians realise what real democracy is and how bad they've been cheated. They will be really angry.

TheGoodJoe:
Stop deviating from facts.

I did not contest an election but I am tired of how irresponsible and evil Buhari's Government is.

Protest against poor governance is a fundamental right.

Even you know that Buhari is terrible as a President. Or you don't have conscience to notice how destructive his Government have been.

If you feel Buhari is awesome, then you are part of the problem.

If you feel Buhari has been a terrible President, then why are you shocked people are protesting?

duni04:
Bros you have no idea what democracy is. Protest is one of the manifestations of a democracy. When people are freely able to express their views about their leaders and demand change. Democracy is a system of government where it is the people that decide. If the people don't want you, they protest and then you either resign and leave or they instruct their reps to impeach you. That is how a democracy should work. You guys have been so oppressed for so long that you have no clue. Buhari is not a monarch! He was elected by the people. The people can also say they don't want him again. An election is not fait accompli until 4 years. All through those 4years you are still accountable to the people.

Jostoman:
I just hope the world can see the type of democracy we are celebrating today in Nigeria.

Mikecold:
This junta hates anything freedom of speech or press


It is currently thrending globally

Northernblood3:
looks like your tiny dick inside your trouser

Northernblood3:
Looks like the size of ur dick

Sleyk:
Open Twitter, go to your settings and privacy, click on proxy, tick enable proxy then type in the digits...

Host type 205.134.191.237

Port, type 80

We're BIAFRNS, we create and we produce.

Northernblood3:
We love treating the symptoms instead of the problem.

nigeria as a country is the problem, fulani herdsmen, bad governance are symptoms.

Igbos said, be a country of ur own and control ur affairs including resources and security. Everyone started shouting "Igbo man is the problem of the zoo"

You people are yet to see what we saw sitting down.

Tomorrow, the Securities backed by Fg are going to waste many protesting fools,when the news break out, same Nigeria Fg will be asked to investigate it.

The shock in all this is that, Foolish nigerians will expect Fg to indict themselves. Isn't the masses more foolish than you thought before

BonPatrick:
#BREAKING_NEWS

Tears!!!!! GUO, Ezenwata and Young shall grow luxurious buses Hijacked to unknown destination by Fulani Bandits at Lokoja express way after Okene.
Pray for Igbos. We got info that they separated all the passengers of northern origin and made away with those from the south east after executing d drivers. Right now, nobody knows their whereabouts
Details below!

G.U.O, the young shall grow and Ezenwata luxury bus has been reportedly taken hostage by bandits.
If you're an Igbo Man or Woman Travelling to any part of Northern Nigeria it is better for you to suspend it for the sake of your dear Llife.

information reaching everybody in Onitsha right now had it that Ezenwata luxury bus, G.U.O luxury bus and the young shall grow luxury bus that just left couple of hours ago, traveling from Onitsha to sokoto has been hijacked along Lokoja road Kogi State of Nigeria and taken to unknown destination. According to the report all the people of northern origin were discharged without harm. However all the southerners in the bus were taken away to an unknown destination.up until now there is no information about their whereabout.

Nigerians are admonished to check on their family, friends and well wishers who boarded any luxury bus enroute Sokoto from Onitsha to be sure about they safety.

RightChannel:
All these abookis self, there phonetic worst pass anything

VillagePipu:
The man you call your father, you think he's your father? I laugh.

VillagePipu:
You must mistake me for your father