₦airaland Forum

xborr:
The aggregators are not even as informed and prepared like you that's the reason why they keep making mess of the whole thing.

Christistruth00:
Lack of History produces a lot of Foolish Self destructive fighters


There is a Yoruba Proverb

“ If a Son who has not learnt how to handle a Sword well insists on going after what killed his Father
It is very Likely that What killed his Father would also end up Killing him “


Biafra was Finished the Moment Ojukwu Labelled the South South People “Saboteurs”


Biafra Stood on Two Legs and both Legs belonged to the South South

LottiOk:
Sir your submission is spot on. I'm an Igbo Man & have noticed this emotional ego tripping among my fellow Igbo youth & it saddens me to see that we are still hell bent on making the same mistake twice. They refuse to see how they are indirectly egging the other tribes to a fight which they are ill prepared & not ready to fight. You don't have a single tank or anti aircraft missile & you want to go to war? They think they'll wait for them to arm themselves before the pogrom will start? Or they think they'll play fair when it starts? All these and more are things the antagonists don't want to reason and keep fanning the embers that would ignite a forest fire. I keep begging them to take a chill pill now that they've gotten the states attention and restrategize,plan and politically break away from Nigeria "IF" things still don't improve like Scotland almost did, but they refuse to listen(nairaland Ipob sympathizers are the worst). They think it's cowardice because it won't affect most of them directly and they refuse to think of the fallout/ripple effects in this COVID-19/reccession recovery era. Even now that they've got a state that is recognizing their grievance and wants to acced to most of their demands they are still taunting them to a needless fight. I'm forced to watch the sad reality of how they led millions to an avoidable conflict. They keep beating war drums from their comfort zones.

I'll keep trying to do my part by speaking up that enough is enough from all parties be it state or non state actors. Let's come to the round table, put all the cards ♠️♦️ on the table and decide how to cohabit this Blessed country and maximise our potentials to create that almost perfect society we desire, which our people run to other countries to enjoy.

Even siblings of the same parents have issues, not all of them see eye to eye but they still have to learn how to live together because they need each other even if they don't like each other. Strength in Numbers.

xborr:
MANY THINGS OUR YOUNG READERS IGNORE ABOUT THE BIAFRA CIVIL WAR
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)
Movement for peaceful change (MPC)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/many-things-our-young-readers-ignore.html?m=1

I often run into Igbos who would like to refer to the Achebe’s book “There Was A Country”, as their argument in support of the view that Biafra as a country is still a realizable and desirable objective. I shake in frustration whenever I read such ignorant position. I have been very close to the book in question. It was written by Achebe and published after Achebe had been my client for about seven years. I wouldn’t say that I knew the rich and complex mind of a man like Achebe. But I can tell that he could not have held the views wrongly attributed to him based on a misreading of his book.

However, recently, I made the book one of the few books I keep on my desk at any given time so I can read them each moment I am free. I was reading the book this morning as I gradually made it out of bed. Of course, there are numerous passages in that book that are deeply thought provoking, which should not be a surprise given that it was written by one of the best writers in human history. In page 124 of that book, Achebe wrote:

“There are a few other factors that merit consideration. There was an obsessive tendency by both belligerents - Gowon and Ojukwu – to seek positions of strength and avoid looking weak throughout the conflict. I am not referring to the propaganda statements, however over the top, which one expects in times of war, but to the ego-driven policies that were clearly not about the conflict at hand. Some of Ojukwu’s and Gowon’s civilian advisers aggravated the crisis by transforming themselves into sycophants. Rather than encourage their respective leader on each side of the conflict to consider a cease-fire, they massaged their egos and spurred them on to ever-escalating hostility”

I doubt that most of those who use Achebe’s book to justify any of the things that the neo-Biafran agitators have been saying or doing have actually read the book. And if they did, they certainly did not read passages like the above in quote. And if they did read them, they certainly did not understand them. Otherwise, in the above passage, Achebe drew our attention to the danger of poor-quality leadership in moments of conflict. During the civil war, Nigeria and Biafra were led by men in their early 30s, who lacked maturity that usually comes with age and experience. Driven by their egos, they did not care about the lives wasted. Driven by their youthful exuberances, they did not understand the importance of restraint as the ultimate expression of strength. Though Achebe did not say this, I personally hold Ojukwu more responsible for the failure of restraint because the three million lives lost came from his people. He lost more than Gowon. So, he must bear greater responsibility for the failure of restraint as a measure of strength.


In the neo-Biafran movement, we see, though at infantile levels, the same sort of ego-tripping, sycophancy and tendency to push for conflict instead of restraint. We have in Nnamdi Kanu a man obsessed with power and a magnet of sycophants. This is seen in the many images he has of himself – the Supreme Commander, the Prophet, the Savior, Ohamadike, Onyendu, etc. He publicly referred to his movement as the Class of 2021, in comparison with Ojukwu’s administration which he referred to as the Class of 1967. He publicly boasted that he was a very powerful man who had the power to choose who would live and who would die. Indeed, Nnamdi Kanu’s megalomania reached the point of acute mental health crisis. Yet, the ego-massagers massaged his ego to no end.

Again, I insist that the Igbos, especially the Igbo youths, should be properly educated and properly oriented. From what I have seen in the past three years, there could be a war again and the Igbos will lose again, and this time, maybe worse than the last time. Human conflict takes emotions to start and brains to resolve. The problem is that the emotions come before the brains. But if we can bring in the brains to bear early in the process, war will be avoided and lives saved. All I have done in my many posts on Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB was to bring the brains to bear early in the chain of events so we can avoid violence and bloodshed.

Asgard73:
Tinubu as President will take it to 550.. fact and his Yoruba press will support him.. even Yoruba people.. on empty tommy..

He will be sharing rice and garri for them.. and they will call him savior.

Chris525:
All murderers must die. If you take a life you must pay, blood is scared. Beyond that I would never wish death on anyone or a people.

Death to ESN/UGM (not Igbos in general) who go about killing people and creating havoc? Yes twice everyday of the week, make it once on Sunday, as per church things

BKayy:
Of course, there is nobody that can afford Lexus and still go for Corolla.

The greatest dream of a Yoruba man is to make money in order to marry an Igbo woman.

If he fails, he settles with his fellow Yoruba women and complete his life in regret

mrvitalis:
But he is richers ,more educated and more recognized than your whole F@mily

Tingotoe:
I really wonder why Buhari didn't just execute the terrorist in Kenya and dump his dead body in the Atlantic ocean. God knows how much I hate Nnamdi Kanu and everything he stands for

ba7man:
Isn't it ironic? The people that scream the loudest, calling the north parasites happen to be the bigger parasites.

DOTian:
Is this not worse that otokoto?
Why is the Lagos Ibadam expressway section of Nigeria Media not shouting themselves hoarse while painting the area where this happened as a place for savage existence as was the case with otokoto and okija shrine??

I remember how they used the okija shrine to mess up that beutiful town but when soka forest was discovered with more heinous crimes , the same people went dumb! That's what happens when you employ double standards in every thing you see or do.

Imagine what the press will be doing with this story if it happened at Owerri and the owner of the hotel is a prominent figure too! By now, they will be passing endless inuendos about how the concept of "making money at all cost" is the problem of the east. Yet, skull mining is now an epidemic in Ogun State and environs..

WesternOligarch:
I noticed this Ad in politics section and on clicking it, it happens to be one of ipobs numerous propaganda sites....has seun osewa changed his stance on successionist groups? Or is it part of the woke fever to show how liberal and progressive he is? It's most likely purely for the money.....but I implore Mr Seun osewa to take down the Ad as to not attract the attention of the government. Because it will be a pity if nairaland is seen to be sympathetic to a blackmail project called biafra.

Cc Mynd44 laslasticlala seun

GidiCars:
Okadas need to be banned in the Western region cause they're becoming a nuisance, same with Keke. They're polluting our region.

It's only in the SW you see people riding keke Marwa and okada en-masse. This is not good for our region. If they go, we would adjust.

vedaxcool:
This man is compound fool, worshipped by many morons. Imagine this are the leading light of IPob and beerfraud land of fantasy!

KanoFirstSon:
Presently,The media is agog with the spate of drug abuse in the south east. South east youths now abusing Methamphetamine Hydrochloride which is a very addictive stimulant drug so prevalent in the South East according to most reports.
Drug abuse, including drug addiction and trafficking, has a universal ramification that transverses socioeconomic, religious, cultural and ethnic boundaries (Oyakhilome, 1990). The Nigerian Government and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), through policies, have tried to stem its tide in the country but despite these efforts, there has been a consistent rise in the number of cases especially among adolescents (10-25 years of age) (NDLEA, 2012).
Now the major question being asked is why this drug is currently abused among the youths of the South East and so popular in the region. Most quarters are insinuating that the cause of this drug abuse could have arisen from the unrest and violence carried out currently in the region.
Youths of the east are now so restless and most out jobs due to the ceaseless activities of the proscribed group in the region. This group called IPOB is believed to have contributed majorly to this drug abuse by always shutting down means of livelihood of the people of the region in the name of sit at homes. Businesses in the region are shutting down on the daily,people are rendered jobless,Youths of the region don’t seem interested anymore in helping their lives either by going to school or finding meaningful things to do...they’ve now resorted to drug abuse to relieve stress, to ward off frustration and feel happy.

Youths say no to drug abuse...Nigeria must prevail.

nairalandankrah:
Alhaji Lawal Usman, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, has described Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB as a great joke with members who just want attention from the Federal Government.

Usman who also said the group’s threats to break away from Nigeria, was not real spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Zaria

He added that IPOB’s campaign lacked support from the leaders of the South East.

“We have Igbo people living and doing business in all parts of the country, are you saying that this people are ready to fold their businesses and fortunes and just go back empty handed from Nigeria.

“The whole thing about IPOB is a great joke, they just want attention from the Federal Government.

“I don’t take them seriously, left to me, they won’t last more than one week, especially if the government is serious about dealing with them.

“There are millions of people in South East who believe in oneness of Nigeria, I think that IPOB is made up of some trouble makers, making noise trying to seek government attention,” Usman said.

He said that the group had no knowledge of Nigeria’s politics.


“They are young men who have no knowledge of the country’s history, especially the Civil War, I think they needed to be educated on the history of the country, because they are acting blindly.

“They are also seeking for foreign funding from enemies of Nigeria who do not wish the country well,” he said.
Usman said that Igbo business men were scattered across the country, doing legitimate businesses and ownership property.

“There are Igbo businessmen and women in Kano for example doing business and living peacefully for years and they are not talking of Biafra.
“There are Igbo businessmen in Abuja, in Yola, Kaduna, Sokoto and all-over the North owning property and living like Kings in the areas, they are not talking of Biafra.

Usman advised IPOB to channel it grievances through the South East representatives at the National Assembly rather than engage in violent campaign without results. (NAN)

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/11/14/ipob-a-great-joke-says-kaduna-pdp-chieftain/

ifinger:
After nysc she go drop ur az

MrRobot:
I have stopped having soft drinks for over 4 years now. Soft drinks are more dangerous to the heath than fatty food

MasterRahl:
Good evening Nairalanders. So, I've been a chronic Pepsi addict over the years. I usually take two plastic bottles daily. One during breakfast, and one at night.

I usually take it alongside rice, noodles, any food eaten with spoon. I'm 27. Three years from now, I'll be 30, meaning I'm on my way to middle age.

I've decided to stop drinking it. It's hard but I will try. I now take my food with very chilled water.

I need tips on how to win the fight over my addiction to Pepsi. Today is Day 1. I'm writing this post by 11:30pm, and I've not taken any Pepsi today.

costandi:
Arsenal would have sold their entire team to buy messi

Chris525:
All murderers must die. If you take a life you must pay, blood is scared. Beyond that I would never wish death on anyone or a people.

Death to ESN/UGM (not Igbos in general) who go about killing people and creating havoc? Yes twice everyday of the week, make it once on Sunday, as per church things

post=104636154:
Gbamsolutely!
That is the crux of the matter.
They are not seeing money to steal and loot anyone.
They ate nothing but pained , frustrated swines and idiots.


Done and dusted

DOTian:
Some ESN members are getting killed while involved in firefights with fulani herdsmen. They're not being paid a dime for that!
Your only contribution is to stay indoors for a day and you are out cooking nonsense. You asked for it!

Chris525:
Can you imagine? I feel sorry for the person but I’m glad all of this is happening. The few bastards who are pro-ESN/UGM will not hesitate to destroy the rest to achieve their devilish aim.

Same south easterners have been cheering ESN/UGM when they kill policemen and burn stations. Now its their turn. You don’t cut your nose to spite your face. The chicken has come to roost!

The earlier you lots begin to oppose these criminals and stand your ground the better for you. They’re doing the same damn thing they’ve been accusing the Fulani of. They don’t care about you Igbos or your welfare, its the power they want.

houseontherock:
We know your tactics now, Abokey

TarOrfeeek:
Just when we thought that Presidency and parasitic dependence on the South would cure ignorance and illiteracy in the North.

Boom!

Another surge of the evil disease bares itself.

The sorts of policies being advocated for in recent times vindicates the clamour by well meaning Nigerians for the North to have its own Republic.

Because how can any positive thing come from a place where lawmakers and elected leaders think in this manner?

Douglaufuoma:
words of advise from a nairalander: by MERCHANDISER
**NOTES to IPOBians
From ;Nnoruka Udechukwu SAN**
"I, like many other Igbos have stood on the side lines for far too long, wishing this Biafran breeze fizzles away, but it’s now dangerously turning into a major storm that constitutes an existential threat to Igbo civilization as we know it. Those of you IPOBians, Sympathizers, Rumour Mongers, Facebook Warriors, Facebook megastars, Opinion Leaders and Propagandists escalating the already tense situation must understand that in the end, you'll all be losers, victims and at the same time in more bondage than you ever were. Not my wish anyway, but
the perceptible reality. No war ever got won by emotions. Preparation and strategy does, ask any battle-tested soldier. Even the best of them get eaten. Little by little you guys are doing everything possible to attract avoidable conflict to our region hoping that the
international community will intervene. You'll be in for a shocker when this meal you've cooked for so long is served up.
Understand this, I have monitored many revolutionary conflicts around the world and know this for a fact, the
international community foot-drags at less than a snail pace, if at all, before attempting any interventions in internal conflicts in a sovereign nation and that includes America and Israel you're hoping on. War is a huge liability and no Country wants to meddle. The best they give these days are reliefs not military aids and that is after many must have died including those who started the fire. I watched it happen to Libyans, Yemenis, Syrians and till now they still don't have peace. Besides, you’d be stupid to believe that those countries, if ever there is any,
promising to support Nnamdi Kanu are really in for it. Some of them want to use him to initiate conflict and sell
their weapons to both sides and make blood dollars. War is an all-comers affair and all kinds of demonically vicious players come to the slimy field to play the hellish game of blood and death. In this case, Boko Haram that has largely been caged by the army will break free to roam with ambitions to finally establish their Caliphate across Nigeria, all because the Army now fighting on two fronts can no longer concentrate on them having become too stretched. Guess what, they’ll come with ISIS on their back. Nigerian Army will be fighting to keep Nigeria together on one front, Boko Haram (ISIS Nigerian Branch) with Caliphatist ambition on the other and Biafra with secessionist ambition on yet another front.
That was how Syria got so complex till date and any war in Nigeria today will have a similar picture. Whoever gets overwhelmed will face the other. It will be a long and difficult journey and unlike the first civil war without Boko Haram in the equation, no one can predict the tortuous
end. Other Jihadists from across Africa and Middle-East will join in as they always do wherever there’s instability to advance their different brands of Islam. In the end you’ll leave Nigeria and discover you’re fighting other strangers you don’t even know how they came into the picture.
The big boys (international players) like Iran will be there to get there pound of flesh from Nigeria in revenge for the Shiites, Saudi will be there to defend Nigeria, and all will play. Weapons merchants will the start smiling to the banks. Guess where the theatre of war would be,
Igboland. We must not allow this! Libyans thought they were fighting Ghaddafi but after Ghaddafi, they discovered other strangers fighting them to establish their different brands of Islam. Same thing in Syria. The words of Saif Al Islam Ghaddafi (Ghaddafi’s first son) keeps ringing in my ears as he forewarned Libyans of these grim possibilities, but okuko nti ike nánu ife n’ite ofe. I never took him seriously at the time but in retrospect, I now see he knew better because it panned out just as he predicted and Libya still isn’t out of the woods.
That’s the way it is these days of jihad consciousness across the world. If you ever experience war, you'll never take peace for granted. War is not a movie as some of you think. You could be the first victim. Can you stomach watching your loved ones maimed, killed, raped, tortured,
starve to death under slow and painful circumstances? Those are the grim realities of war and in Africa, it is executed with luciferous savagery and psychopathic sadism. The worst of peace is still better than the best of wars.
Funny enough, most of our chest-beating IPOBians will likely die off within the first month or two of the conflict leaving those who knew nothing or are on the sidelines to defend themselves. There will be nowhere to run to as no country in West Africa will agree to accept the ocean-sized volume of refugees. When the Rwandan genocide was looming, everyone was running his mouth until the death hurricane they courted so hard swept across their country, they wailed and shouted for international community to intervene but none came. That's the way it is. Paul Kagame, their current President it was who ended it. And they vowed to “never again”. They learnt from history and have completely removed tribalism from every facet of national life and are admirably making astounding progress as one of Africa's best.
My advice, agreed, Buhari hasn't treated us as well as we wanted, but wait till 2023 and make amends. I have listened to Nnamdi Kanu on several videos and my conclusion is that he is plain naive on how things roll in a conflict situation. On one occasion he bragged that it would take him only two weeks to reach Sokoto in the event of war. I don't know what weapons and extra- terrestrial strategies he has to execute that. War is an unpredictable undertaking that you'll be ignorant to estimate which direction it goes. As it is, he has no weapons just yet and is bragging. Many of you believe him and even ascribe infallibility to his words. I have lived a couple of years abroad and what some of you
don't know is that many of our people there egging you on don't have immigration papers and are praying for an outbreak of hostilities in Nigeria so they can claim asylum on the back of it.
We must advise ourselves on this current path of self-annihilation. Some of you think Biafra will be the end of all your problems, so South Sudan thought, as did Eritrea, but sorry it will be the beginning of new ones. Now take this to the Bank, it will even be far more difficult for any
country to touch any conflict here with a long spoon than it was in the sixties. Reason? Then there was the prospect of oil but today oil is out of fashion and even as it is, Nigeria is begging for buyers and nobody's buying.
Osinbajo said that much a few days back. Now, tell me, if they spend their money intervening in your conflict to save your asses, what will they get in return? The best they can do for you is to condemn what is going on, then more out-pouring of condemnations and then more
unleashing of floodgates of condemnations, but NO ACTION while you die in numbers. You often argue that a call for referendum is not a call
for war. I agree completely! Very true! Referendum is a right not a privilege. Even Buhari asserted that much in favour of Palestine when he addressed the UN. However, it is plain naivety to assume that all that is enshrined in international law is enforceable. UN has no mechanism of enforcement. Countries and Dictators constantly flout it and nothing happens. Even if something were to happen you’ll all have decomposed in your graves by then. A show of bravado will not lead you anywhere Umunnem.
Call me a coward if you like, but Chinua Achebe told us that we often stand in the house of a coward to point at where a brave man ONCE lived. In any case, isn’t it foolishness to challenge an army that has been stockpiling arms since 1960 when you on the other hand haven’t bought a bullet just yet? Papa Achebe puts it this way, “Only a foolish man can go after a leopard with his bare hands”. As impulsive and as
tempting as it may get, tone down your rhetorics, invectives, acerbics, and cursing on social media. Cherish the peace you now have at least Igbos are not worse-off than other regions despite never being in power. While there is grinding poverty in other regions, the highest income per capita in the country is posted by Anambra and other Igbo states ain’t doing badly. Our people live well, build better houses compared to other regions and it's all a miracle given the scratch we started from after the war. Why do we want to throw all that away because of ego and start all over again? Is it a curse? The Hausas though having been in power do not even live a better quality of life than Igbos. Let's be wise and not give opportunity to destroy all we've achieved as a people.
I condemn in the strongest of terms the killing of unarmed people by Nigerian soldiers, killer herdsmen, and do not by any means say Nigeria is what we want it to be but understand Biafra wasn't Ojukwu's first choice. At Aburi his choice was a return to true federalism which he knew was a better deal for us than secession. Nigeria failed to honour that agreement and continued the killings forcing him to declare a Biafran Republic to save his people from slaughter and it's understandable. Nigeria owes us tons of apologies, I agree. But brothers, let's think again! A Biafra today will even be far less economically viable than it would have been then. Reason is because then we would have used oil money to jump-start the new country but today oil is so unsellable to the extent that Venezuela with arguably the largest reserves is grappling with severe economic problems. Kick-starting a new country from the basics would be painfully slow and may outlive our generation to even get the basic things in place. Arewa youths know that, the reason they have asked Nigerian Government to let Igbos go, only for Nnamdi Kanu to start asking for Benue and Rivers because he knows that Igboland alone isn’t viable.
Asking for Benue is laughable because they were never part of Biafra and have made it clear to all, as did different Rivers groups that they don’t want Biafra. A handful of his collaborators from those regions pledging allegiance to him does not equate to an entire people.
Majority of their people hate this Biafran idea and have made that much clear. Some funny IPOBians are also hoping on Asari Dokubo and FFK. What a funny bunch being used to fight other people’s fight. Why won’t they take up the gauntlet or is it only us that is suffering injustice? Don't even think corruption will suddenly disappear in a new Biafra as some naive IPOBians hope.
If they give you Biafra today, your eyes will open up to new unpleasant realities many of you haven't even factored-in in your agitation but then it would have been late.
I know voices like mine are often loathed and cursed by IPOBians but some of us who know the truth can no longer keep quiet while you drag us all into avoidable chaos. I owe our people the truth as I see it. Curse me all you want, it's OK. Umunnem, ka ako’n’uche na udo chianu biko! Patience solves all things, with time. Let our people think again and know what is looming. Stop your facebook and social media vituperations, cursing, grand standing and join me to educate others. De-escalate this situation and speak words of kindness to others. Even mighty America de-escalates after tensions with Russia.
It’s called wisdom. North Korea provokes South Korea most times but the South always de-escalates tensions knowing that the North hasn’t got anything to lose in the event of war but beautiful South Korea will lose quite a lot. In our case, all the beautiful houses and streets in Igboland will be razed to the ground. Why should we be starting afresh all the time? It will even be more painful if we lose again as was the case in 1970. As it is, it’s not looking good! One more thing. We can join other ethnic groups to demand restructuring. Let us not face our
common enemy alone. Britain is our enemy using minority Fulani to enslave Nigerians. We can together liberate Nigeria from Fulani if only we can unite. Let's stop all these provocative language and join forces with the West and the Middle belt. See all over where Igbos are killed on daily bases.

yanabasee1:
Malami should go and sleep....




Buhari tweeted and violated a rule of the platform and his tweet was deleted.... it was never anybody's business...Why are they dragging everyone into their nonsense?


Trump's handler was banned and deleted from Twitter community and USA didn't threaten it's citizens or ban Twitter back...


If Twitter had banned Buhari nko?

I feel this whole thing is because, jack said[b] he doesn't know Buhari and doesn't know which country his leading...[/b]

That line can be devastating... Perhaps, Buhari thought jack knew him and just maybe he thought he was that popular....

Ammishaddai:
There only two rabbits that can post this sort of news : Zombies and Head-slamming Afonjas