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wirinet:
If president Trump did not ban Muslims from entering the US, what is Iran doing on the list? How many refugees have entered or applied to enter the US from Iran? How many Iranians have carried out terrorist attacks on the US or even in Europe?

Nobody is questioning his planned deportation of illegal immigrants, what people are complaining about is singling out Muslims and Mexicans. Furthermore he fails to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants as far as Muslims from his targeted countries is concerned.

how many times have you complained about UAE for not accepting people with Israeli passport? how many times have you complained about Saudi Arabia not allowing the construction of churches in her kingdom? you Muslims are hypocrites

ozoneboy:
Its unfair ,and dictatorial signs,He should have beefed up security more,what of americans working in Oil companies in these arears?.I dont believe in segregation no matter its reason,what of the good hardworking onse?.

why should he beef up security and spend more money to buy more weapons to protect America when he can easily close the 'gate'.

Eledan:
The level of ignorance in the South East of Nigeria can only be rivalled by the ignorance of the vast population of almajiris in Northern Nigeria.

the victim here is Etim, a journalist and a south southerner. so what's your view on the topic?

dropshot

lovat:
myright stingman please provide this lady here with the letter by Ipob to Nigeria Police for the protest.


Also show her a court ruling where it was said protest the right of everyone.

sunnewsonline.com/rally-for-trump-ipob-seeks-dss-police-clearance/

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nrexzy:
So ur were @ Garrison or Rumuokuta junction or rumuokoro 2 know how shit went downu no get talk

so the editor is lying? remember the guy is not from the south east. is name is Etim

nrexzy:
Believe me i ws driving pass some of d places d boys occupied some of them where just miscreant.. they barge into people shops , super mart n jst collect stuffs... so army brutalizing them i didnt shaa see...

are you related to lai Mohammed?

nrexzy:
My igbo people shaaa i srill dont understand d relarionship between trump and biafra

what is your view about the army brutality?

DropShot:
Una only sabi to talk trash.

I thought by 21st of Jan, Trump would have instructed Buhari to free Dilector Kanu as you guys made us believe.

Sooner, you people will realize that Trump cannot do Jack when it comes to our internal affairs.

face the topic pls.

this is not them say. the editor was there live.

OmidinaKayode:
Allah thunder must fire you oo. We yoruba muslimd don tell you say make you delete Biafra from these American people brain, you still do smey...smey.

See na, FOX news Trumps number one channel don carry IPOB news.

Chei! Allah God must punish you oo.

lol

OmidinaKayode:
Allah but you promised we yoruba muslims that you will delete Biafra from the skulls of international Journalists. What is happening Allah?

lwkmd

drss2:
fixed.

thanks

Pro-Donald Trump rally in Nigeria leaves 20 dead, many missing: reports
By Associated Press The Associated Press
WARRI, Nigeria – A Nigerian separatist group says the death toll has risen to 20 after a demonstration in support of U.S. President Donald Trump turned into clashes with police.
Friday’s demonstration in southern Rivers state was organized by the Indigenous People of Biafra, which
wants Trump to support the creation of an independent Biafran state for the Igbo people.
READ MORE: Women’s March on Washington: 500,000 expected to participate
Member Ugochukwu Chinweuba said Saturday that lawyers were working to locate and release those arrested by police. He said more than 200 people remained missing.
Nnamdi Omoni, a spokesman for Rivers state police, denied that anyone was killed but said 65 people had been arrested.
Neither of the competing accounts could be independently verified.
One million people died in the 1967-70 civil war over efforts to create a Biafran state. globalnews.ca/news/3197026/pro-donald-trump-rally-in-nigeria-leaves-20-dead-many-missing/?sf52177219=1

let's see what they have to say

Igbos:
Na dia you go fear "wheel screen"
Op its windshield lol

thanks

The man fighting for independence of the tiny West African nation of Biafra... from a council flat in Peckham
Protests for the release of Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, south-east Nigeria, in 2015 CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
By Colin Freeman
21 JANUARY 2017 • 9:00AM
It has been nearly 50 years since Biafra’s bitter independence struggle, the inspiration for Frederick Forsyth’s bestselling The Dogs of War. Now a south London DJ currently imprisoned in Nigeria has taken up the battle, and Biafrans are once again fighting – and dying – for the dream of their own country
ucked between the bus garage and the Christ Miracle Gospel Ministries church, Sandlings Close is one of the more non-descript parts of Peckham . There are no gritty high-rise flats, no bearded hipsters running pop-up restaurants. Instead, there are rows of modest, semi-detached council houses, most now privately owned.
It’s the sort of place that SE15’s best-known fictional resident, Derek Trotter, might have retired to had Trotters Independent Traders ever turned a profit. Behind the door of one of these homes, however, lies an organisation that dreams far bigger than just New York, Paris and Peckham.
Welcome to the unlikely headquarters of Radio Biafra , broadcasting every night to an army of Nigerian listeners – not just in Little Lagos, as Peckham is sometimes dubbed, but in 100 countries around the world. It looks like a pirate-radio station, but its agenda goes far beyond music and chat. In the words of Nnamdi Kanu, its director and former DJ in chief, ‘We want a free and independent Biafra. Or death.’
Biafran troops resisting federal attack in August 1967 CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
A free and independent where? Mention Biafra today, and most Britons would probably struggle to find its place on a map, never mind its place in one of Britain’s bloodiest colonial epilogues.
In fact, finding Biafra on a map is impossible these days. It existed for just two and a half years, from 1967 to 1970, when, less than a decade after Nigeria gained independence from Britain, the mainly Christian Igbo people formed a breakaway state in the south-east.
Angered by the massacre of tens of thousands of Igbos in the Muslim-dominated north, Biafra formed its own army, produced its own currency, and declared independence. The Igbos, who often describe themselves as the ‘Jews of Africa’, wanted their own Israel. They got something closer to holocaust.
Britain, which had drawn Nigeria’s borders arbitrarily, had little patience with locals trying to reshape colonial frontiers. London backed Nigeria’s army in strangling Biafra at birth, supplying weapons and turning a blind eye to a military blockade that resulted in the starvation of about a million people.
Long before Live Aid , it brought the world images of African famine, with emaciated children dying in front of the cameras. Mercenaries and weapons smugglers also ran amok, inspiring a young reporter on the ground called
Frederick Forsyth to write his bestselling novel The Dogs of War. For the next few decades, the dream was all but abandoned, with many Igbos leaving Nigeria altogether.
Igbo's around the world unite
Today, Igbo people live everywhere from Canada and Dubai to China. The original Radio Biafra, a true pirate outfit, which broadcast propaganda from a jeep-mounted studio to avoid Nigerian warplanes, fell silent. But eight years ago Kanu restarted it from London, and as the 50th anniversary of the conflict looms, it is once more campaigning for secession. As Kanu once put it, ‘No amount of intimidation, arrest, torture, deprivation will stop Biafra from coming.’
This time, the campaign is also enjoying its very own ‘Brexit boost’. For if Britain doesn’t want to be part of the European superstate, supporters ask, why should Igbos remain part of a disastrous behemoth like Nigeria, with its 250 different ethnicities, 500 tongues and 170 million people?
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president since 2015 CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
After all, five decades on from the war, the Nigerian state has become a byword for inept, corrupt government, with the world’s 10th biggest oil reserves, yet 60 per cent of people living on less than $1 a day.
‘Brexit asked why Britain should remain in a system that does not fit it,’ says Emma Nmezu, a Radio Biafra DJ and supporter of Kanu’s movement Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). ‘Kanu says it is the same with us and Nigeria.’
Until recently, Kanu was politely ignored by the outside world. To many Igbos, he was at best an expat dreamer, at worst a rabble- rousing shock jock. Then, after years in which nobody took him seriously, the Nigerian government did just that. During a visit to Nigeria 15 months ago, he was arrested by its feared Department of State Security at a hotel in Lagos.
Ever since, he has languished behind the peeling walls of Kuje Prison, where he is now awaiting trial for ‘treasonable felony’, punishable with life imprisonment. One plank of the case against Kanu, 47, is a recorded speech to the 2015 World Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, in which he effectively gave a call to arms.
‘We need guns and we need bullets,’ he declared. ‘We now know that the best way to defend yourself is to be armed, because [Islamist terror group]
Boko Haram is everywhere.’ Kanu’s lawyers say that it was just overexcited rhetoric, and that no shiploads of weapons ever crossed the Atlantic. But justified or not, his arrest has turned him from a loudmouth expat into a political prisoner.
In his supporters’ eyes, he is now Peckham’s own Nelson Mandela. Since his arrest, there have been pro-Biafran demonstrations in nearly every country with an Igbo presence, and bigger ones in the Igbo homelands of south-east Nigeria. In the city of Onitsha – the scene of heavy fighting during the war – crowds of 20,000 turned out, holding placards of the saviour from south London alongside the Biafran flag, a red, black and green tricolour emblazoned with a rising yellow sun.
And the blood has been flowing once again. Since the autumn of 2015, at least 150 Nigerians have died in clashes with security forces at pro-Biafran rallies, according to a report in November by Amnesty International, which accused the government of heavy-handed policing and ‘extrajudicial executions’. Hundreds more have been injured and arrested, and several police killed.
Further violence is a near-certainty if Kanu is convicted, a prospect security forces can ill afford while their hands are full with the fight against Boko Haram. Yet the furore over Kanu’s arrest has gone all but unnoticed in Britain, where the 200,000-strong Nigerian community is generally much seen but little heard. In areas like Peckham, though, Nigerians now vie with hipsters for dominance.
Nnamdi Kanu’s father and wife at the family home CREDIT: TOM SAATER
Within the community, Igbos also stand out from Nigeria’s other two big ethnic groups, the Yoruba and the Muslim Hausa (the latter is largely absent from London). ‘Igbos are very entrepreneurial, and they also produce a lot of writers and British politicians,’ says Nels Abbey, a British-Nigerian businessman and former columnist on the black weekly newspaper The Voice.
Most British-Nigerian MPs are of Igbo descent, he points out, including Helen Grant, Britain’s first black female Tory MP, and Chuka Umunna , the former Labour shadow-cabinet minister occasionally tipped as a future PM. Other prominent figures include the rapper Tinie Tempah and the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor , who starred in the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s account of the Biafran war.
‘In Britain, these people are just seen as “black” MPs, writers, actors, sportspeople, etc, but they’re not,’ Abbey adds. ‘They’re not even just Nigerian – they’re Igbo. Igbos are also sometimes perceived as a bit snobbish, as if they think they’re capable of anything. But it isn’t snobbery if you can back it up. Nnamdi Kanu is a case in point – a guy living in a house in Peckham who thinks he can be a saviour to a nation. That beautiful audacity is typically Igbo.’
Boko Haram: 'Biafrans are still being killed'
Tune into Radio Biafra and that sense of otherness combines with a feeling of persecution. There are frequent references to Boko Haram’s campaigns of church-burnings across northern Nigeria, which have forced up to a million Christians to flee. While Boko Haram has targeted Christians in general rather than Igbos in particular, it has revived memories of the pogroms of 50 years ago.
Radio Biafra DJs like Nmezu insist they are simply highlighting Islamist violence – something they say Britain now fights shy of doing. ‘It was the British who first brought Christianity to us in Biafra,’ said Nmezu, who moved to Britain in 1975.
A pro-Biafran activist at a veterans’ cemetery in south-east Nigeria
CREDIT: TOM SAATER
‘But then they made us part of an Islamic country, where even now Biafrans are still being killed, and where our leader has been thrown in jail. Is Britain a country that still defends freedom of speech? We fear it’s moving away from the values of Christianity towards those of Islam.’
Part of the problem is that Nigeria’s president,
Muhammadu Buhari, is not only a Muslim northerner but an ex-general who fought the Biafrans during the war. He was also a military dictator in the 1980s, ordering soldiers to whip people who did not form orderly queues at bus stops. Much as he now styles himself as a democrat, with such a past, it has not been hard for Radio Biafra to portray him as the enemy.
Like the original station, the modern-day Radio Biafra is mobile, broadcasting sometimes from Peckham and sometimes from Croydon, also home to a big Nigerian community.
Radio Biafra and the dangers of broadcasting
Its DJs are security-conscious, which is perhaps understandable, given Buhari’s record for hunting down opponents abroad. In 1984, his government sent agents to London to kidnap Umaru Dikko , a former minister accused of embezzlement.
They were only thwarted when customs at Stansted opened a crate the Nigerian government claimed was ‘diplomatic baggage’ and found Dikko, drugged, inside. In protest, Britain broke off relations with Nigeria for two years. The Kanu affair has not had the same fallout, but has put the British Government in an awkward spot.
While Kanu’s supporters have lobbied Peckham’s MP, former acting Labour leader Harriet Harman, to press for his release, Buhari’s government is irked that Radio Biafra, banned in Nigeria, is allowed to broadcast from the UK.
British officials say that, as it is internet-based, it needs no broadcasting licence, and is legal as long as it does not breach hate-speech laws. Kanu’s home city is Umuahia, an urban sprawl of 400,000 that was a centre for the colonial administration. In his absence, the mouthpiece of the IPOB campaign is his brother Prince, 43.
Nels Abbey
Like many better-off Nigerians, the brothers spent time as students in Britain, where Nnamdi settled and took British citizenship, dabbling in property by day and politics by night. ‘My brother was singled out by God for this mission,’ Prince says. ‘Nigeria has been a pretty dire concept from the start – it’s like asking Brits to live together with Kosovans.’
Prince is vague on exactly why his brother was chosen, beyond saying that he had a ‘vision’ around 2006, which took place in Croydon, of all places. But visiting the family home, a compound where geckos prowl in the lush garden, it is clear that both boys were steeped in the Biafran cause from an early age.
Kanu’s brother, Prince, and sister, Princess, in their home city of Umuahia CREDIT: TOM SAATER
Their father, His Royal Majesty Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, is a local chief who ran aid convoys during the war, and now hosts meetings for local war veterans. A minute’s walk down the road is the weed-covered underground bunker that was the Biafran forces’ HQ, from where the bulky old transmitters for Radio Biafra used to broadcast.
Prince takes me down its echoing corridors, showing me the modest private living quarters once occupied by the breakaway state’s leader, General Odumegwu Ojukwu. Ojukwu, an urbane Oxford graduate, is revered in Umuahia to this day.
Remembering the past
It was Western education, however, that set his people apart in the first place. While northerners shunned it as a challenge to Islam (a view echoed by Boko Haram), Igbos filled missionary classrooms and prospered, dominating clerical jobs in the civil service and also spreading their influence in the north. But power also bred resentment.
In 1966, following a short-lived military coup by mostly Igbo officers, 30,000 Igbos in the north were killed by machete-wielding gangs.
‘I was a trader in the north. Hausas burnt down my shed and forced us to flee, saying we were infidels,’ says Protos Emanaha, 72, a lieutenant colonel in the Biafran army. ‘I saw them butcher a pregnant woman, slashing her stomach open and taking her baby out to kill it.’
With a Sunday-best white suit hanging off his frail frame, Emanaha is sitting with a dozen other veterans in the Kanu-family parlour. They speak proudly of their David and Goliath war against the Nigerian army, using home-made landmines called ‘Ojukwu buckets’ and mounting ‘suicide squad’ raids in which tiny groups of soldiers would go into battle outnumbered. There is no pride in how things are now.
Despite a government pledge after the war that there would be ‘neither victor nor vanquished’, Biafrans claim they have been starved of state funds. The area claimed by Biafra includes the oil hub of Port Harcourt, yet most roads have potholes.
Even flying the Biafran flag is considered provocative by the police. And in the few cemeteries for the war dead, headstones have been swallowed by the bush. Living casualties of the war also say they got no state help.
‘From 1970 until five years ago, I was begging for alms by the side of the road,’ says wheelchair-bound Major Chuku Usim, 75, who now lives in a home provided by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, another pressure group.
‘Nigeria has done nothing for me – now all I am begging for is my freedom.’ Yet whether Nnamdi Kanu stays in jail or returns to Peckham, it remains to be seen how many Igbos really want Biafra back. Many accuse him of reopening ethnic wounds best forgotten, and few of his diaspora followers seem keen on direct action.
In the video from Los Angeles, many of the audience look aghast at his pleas to give up a comfortable life in the West and join an armed struggle. None the less, the dream of the nation that lived for just 30 months still has much romantic appeal. And be they in California or Croydon, many pro-Biafrans still often find themselves wondering how different west Africa might be today had Biafra survived.
Major Chuku Usim was injured in the Biafran war CREDIT: TOM SAATER
Among them is Frederick Forsyth , who embraced the cause and was once made an honorary chief by a Biafran group in south London. To this day he maintains that Britain badly let down the Igbos.
‘They are shrewd, hard-working business people who are dedicated to education and self-improvement, and Britain couldn’t have run Nigeria as a colony without them,’ Forsyth says. ‘Biafra could have been the most successful state in Africa.’
‘Some of what Kanu says is racist nonsense, some of it is Braveheart-style patriot,’ adds Nels Abbey. ‘But to the rural guy on the ground, hearing someone in London, who’s sophisticated enough to run a radio station, that ticks a lot of boxes. The dream Kanu taps into has never quite gone away, and if there was a peaceful referendum on independence, it would probably get carried.’
President Buhari ruled out such a referendum last year. Then again, as Britain itself now knows, referendum movements that once seemed marginal can quickly gather pace. In the meantime, every evening around 7pm, Radio Biafra’s remaining DJs are on air, broadcasting messages in support of the Peckham prophet. In Sandlings Close at least, the half yellow sun will never set.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/21/man-fighting-independence-tiny-west-african-nation-biafra-council/

copied:
nigeria soldier broke this man's windshied because he was listing to radio biafra

are our mothers also jobless?

cocaineaddict:
I mean how do I tune to get it

Listen Everyday live on 15325kHz (15.6MHz), 19 meters: Band SW at about (19.00-22.00 GMT) (7pm-10pm).

gustav25:
this is the highest form of stupidity and gullibility by my kinsmen ....i weep

why do you want to share the same country with the fulanis?

cocaineaddict:
Please what is the radio biafra frequency? Can I get it here in abuja?

yes you can. radio Biafra is on short wave.

culled from RBL:
Today in Rumuodara at Okporor road, the Nigeria police, SARS, DSS, attacked us, firing live bullets and canisters of tear gas, some in the air and some others at IPOB members. A canister was fired at my leg and I can hardly walk. One of our brothers was also fired with a live bullet, but Chiukwuabiama wouldn't let it penetrate. Some of our brother have been abducted and taken to the police station at Okporor road.

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someone should please tell these I'll trained men in uniform squatting to shoot at unarmed civilians that their services are needed in southern kaduna

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