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 Politics / Re: Britain Toys With Woes Of Another Biafra War - Sun Newspaper by Ngwaukwu1(m): 2:08pm On Nov 08, 2015 |
lastpage: I know the highlighted question above was addressed to someone else, but for the sake of clarity are you able to answer why YOU think the Igbos should agree to secede without their kith and kin from none "core Ibo (sic) states"? 4 Likes |
| Politics / Re: The Most Provocative & Stirring Images That Is About To Cause Another War -photo by Ngwaukwu1(m): 9:27am On Nov 08, 2015 |
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| Politics / Re: Re: Biafra. Why Are Ibo Leaders Silent. by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:46am On Nov 08, 2015 |
aresa: citizenY: I suspect you are unaware of the fact that the UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination, on which this current agitation is hinged, was only made in 2007 so could not have been invoked in 1966. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Dear Biafrans What Next After Biafra? by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:54pm On Nov 07, 2015 |
PLANETMARS: When we get Biafra, we'll start the process of building a nation with pride. 12 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: If You Think You're Getting Biafra By Attacking Britian by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:52am On Nov 04, 2015 |
Ikengawo: There may be a few things that the 'radio Biafra movement', as you call them, may be getting wrong but one thing that can't be taken away from them is that they've been very successful in exciting a renewed interest in Biafra and in recruiting an increasing number of people from all walks of life, both at home and in the diaspora, who otherwise would have remained indifferent or even indignant to the issues of Biafra at this time. I think that all who believe in Biafra should for now give Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB all the support we can, first because the other options out there are not really that better and also because even with all his imperfections he has been able to achieve a lot more for the cause than any of his co-agitators like Uwazurike or Onwuka did before him. I believe that when Nnamdi Kanu is done or forced to retire, another will pick up the baton. And perhaps from among his new recruits will emerge the right man for the hour. But while we await the man, let us be mindful of the saying; 'show me a perfect man and I'll show you a liar'. . . 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: NNPC: Buhari Set To Replace Kachikwu, Shortlists Three Northerners - Daily Post by Ngwaukwu1(m): 4:07pm On Nov 03, 2015 |
gsparks01: The heading or the intended action itself is an "attempt to instigate tribal hate and nepotism"? Before you answer, kindly check up the meaning of the word 'nepotism'. |
| Politics / Re: Pro-jonathan Elements Behind Renewed Agitation For Biafra - Senator Sani by Ngwaukwu1(m): 11:47am On Nov 03, 2015 |
higherpower: Here's what the current Emir of Kano has to say about these same people at the National Conference on the 1999 Constitution in September 1999: “. . . they have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity. The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb . . . There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity . . .” This here is the reason for the lingering agitation for Biafra. What Jonathan's loss did was to make some of the new agitators to reflect on their stake in project Nigeria and realise that it's a project that they had never really been part of since the end of the war in 1970. The agitation for Biafra predates the coming and demise of Jonathan's presidency. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: A Worthy Alternative To Lugard's Cage by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:10am On Nov 03, 2015 |
krusdamax: No offence taken |
| Politics / Re: A Worthy Alternative To Lugard's Cage by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:05am On Nov 03, 2015 |
DaBullIT: Yes. |
| Politics / Re: A Worthy Alternative To Lugard's Cage by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:53am On Nov 03, 2015 |
basilo101: I prefer to focus on what he said about the Igbos. Let every man carry his cross! 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: A Worthy Alternative To Lugard's Cage by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:50am On Nov 03, 2015 |
krusdamax: Ok. The gist of wetin I write be say there was a victor and a vanquished in the civil war of 67 - 70 in spite of wetin Gowon tell the whole world. Since then the so called one Naijeriya don Pafuka finish and this affect both victor and vanquished!! I come talk how Oga Sanusi, highlight the problems wey Igbos still dey face for Naija and the reason why some people still dry agitate for Biafra. People like me see Biafra as an ideal worth fighting for. The rest of the things wey I write na quotations and colourful language!!  2 Likes |
| Politics / A Worthy Alternative To Lugard's Cage by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:03am On Nov 03, 2015 |
"I have carried a lot of blame for Biafra. And before you ask me, I will tell you plainly that if Nigeria is not better, then Biafra is a worthy alternative," - Chief Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, January 15, 2001. 55 years ago Biafra went silent. Even before the sounds of guns dissipated into the air, as the sun set in the lands of the East, the victors of the fratricidal war declared sanctimoniously to the hypocritical accolades of their colonial masters, ensconced in Whitehall, that there are “no victors, and no vanquished” . . . before quickly rushing off to divide the spoils of war. But since January 15, 1970, the region that hosts both victor and the vanquished has turned into a nightmare in which the over 250 diverse ethnic groups that populate it still struggle to find a common sense of identity and nationhood. Here they are demarcated by ever widening fault lines, patched up with failed promises with those that dare challenge the status quo shouted down by monotonous crazed chants of “one Naijeriya . . . one Naijeriya”, singing hollow anthems and pledges of servitude as Muslim fundamentalists in the North East continue on their unrelenting crusade to establish a Caliphate, while marauders pretending to be cattle herders decimate minority ethnic groups in the regions around the plateau; and the polluted lands of the exploited peoples of the Niger Delta of once thriving fishing communities are poisoned daily, with their means of livelihood destroyed forever, while their promised liberators grow obscenely silent, perversely satisfied by crumbs falling from the tables of their inheritance. Is it a wonder that the Igbos of the South East and parts of the South South, some of whom still nurse scars that have refused to heal, embrace the spirit of Biafra? Senator Ahmed Sani ignorantly states that the agitation for Biafra is because Jonathan lost in the recent elections in which his tribesman Buhari ascended Aso Rock. https://www.nairaland.com/2708220/pro-jonathan-elements-behind-renewed-agitation. I ask, how ignorant can one be about the plight of the people he shares a country with?! This is what his Fulani brother and current emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi said in September 1999 in his speech during the “National Conference on the 1999 Constitution”, regarding the plight of the Igbo within the Nigerian polity: “. . . this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity. The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb”. For those who genuinely want to know what gives rise to the cry for Biafra and why now, my response would be; "why not now"? Is there a perfect time to ask for justice and to be treated with respect and dignity? If Nigeria is not working and things are heading in the wrong direction, why not allow those that want to, chose something different than the status quo? During an interview to mark the Armed Forces Remembrance Anniversary on 15 January 2001, Ojukwu declared; “if Nigeria is not better, then Biafra is a worthy alternative". So who decides for us when we should ask for something better? Biafra is not about Jonathan. For a growing number of us, it represents a nationalistic ideal, the essence of which was captured in the Ahiara declaration, written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra and delivered by Ojukwu on 1st June 1969. In that declaration Ojukwu stated that the struggle for the realisation of Biafra; “is the latest recrudescence in our time of the age-old struggle of the black man for his full stature as man. We are the latest victims of a wicked collusion between the three traditional scourges of the black man - racism, Arab-Muslim expansionism and white economic imperialism. Playing a subsidiary role is Bolshevik Russia seeking for a place in the African sun. Our struggle is a total and vehement rejection of all those evils which blighted Nigeria, evils which were bound to lead to the disintegration of that ill-fated federation. Our struggle is not a mere resistance - that would be purely negative. It is a positive commitment to build a healthy, dynamic and progressive state, such as would be the pride of black men the world over... ...Since in the thinking of many white powers a good, progressive and efficient government is good only for whites, our view was considered dangerous and pernicious: a point of view which explains but does not justify the blind support which these powers have given to uphold the Nigerian ideal of a corrupt, decadent and putrefying society. To them genocide is an appropriate answer to any group of black people who have the temerity to attempt to evolve their own social system. When the Nigerians violated our basic human rights and liberties, we decided reluctantly but bravely to found our own state, to exercise our inalienable right to self-determination as our only remaining hope for survival as a people. Yet, because we are black, we are denied by the white powers the exercise of this right which they themselves have proclaimed inalienable. In our struggle we have learnt that the right of self-determination is inalienable, but only to the white man”. This here is the spirit that feeds our agitation. It is a spirit that wants to define its own destiny and be shed of the last vestiges of colonialism and slavery. Hear Sanusi again, regarding the Igbo: “There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity . . .” 3 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Pro-jonathan Elements Behind Renewed Agitation For Biafra - Senator Sani by Ngwaukwu1(m): 9:06pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
The senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial zone, Kaduna state, Senator Shehu Sani, at the weekend alleged that the new agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra was being sponsored by pro-Jonathan forces who lost the 2015 general elections. According to him, their aim is to destroy the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari by igniting a national conflict, chaos and confusion in the country. Sani, who spoke on Sunday when a youth group from southern Kaduna paid him a courtesy call in his office in Kaduna, described the renewed agitation for Biafra as misguided and ill conceived. "The Biafra agitation is a new attempt to destroy the Mohammadu Buhari administration and to ignite a national conflict and cause chaos, pandemonium, confusion in the country. It is possible that some pro-Jonathan forces of Igbo ethnic origin are sympathetic to the cause of Biafra but it is wrong to conclude that the current agitation for Biafra is all about Jonathan and is therefore being sponsored by disgruntled pro-Jonathan politicians. If one were to follow this line of thinking one can also conclude that the escalation of Boko Haram after ex-president Jonathan ascended power in 2011, was wholly sponsored by pro-Buhari Northern elements who felt betrayed by the outcome of that election. Biafra has never been about Jonathan’s loss. In fact there are a few people who are unapologetically pro-Buhari but even on this forum have not shied away from associating with the reawakening Biafra agitation. "I see it as a plan B action of the pro-Jonathan forces who lost election in the 2015 national elections. No Mr. Sani, this is not a plan B of pro-Jonathan forces most of whom have since joined your party because you know as well as I do that it’s all about the money for you politicians! Biafra on the other hand is a lot more profound than mundane pecuniary pursuits. It represents a people’s new found belief in the right to self-determination and the right to be able to decide with whom they will live and under what conditions. It represents a quest to be liberated from the last vestiges of the colonial shackles and mental slavery that has burdened many African nationalities, including the proud nations that have been bound within Lugard’s cage without having first sought their consent. For me, Biafra is about my sense of worth. It is therefore very personal. I resent having to be told what to call myself and who I must associate with and under what terms. I think every self-respecting person, irrespective of what ethnic group they identify with within the Niger area, should see this new quest for Biafra not as a threat to their own sense of identity but as an opportunity to renegotiate the conditions of our association within this part of Africa. It is an opportunity to right the wrongs of those who impose boundaries on us and their lackeys because it favours them, having dismissed us as beings barely evolved beyond the grunting brute. I will also say that the agitation is not reflective of the generality of the interest of the Igbo people of the south-east," Sani said. Mr. Sani, with all due respect you do not know what the “generality of the interest of the Igbo people of the South-East” is. According to him, since after the Nigerian civil war which ended in 1970, the Igbos have made tremendous progress in business, entrepreneurship, academics, politics and very sphere of life The Igbo man made progress in post war Nigeria in spite of the fact that things were skewed against him since the end of the war. Starting from the indigenisation decree of 1972 which the Igbo’s were factored out of benefiting from and the outcome of Gowon’s so called 3R’s (Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation) and policies that were deviously put in place in an attempt to strangulate Igbo businesses and to drive away foreign investments from the lands of the vanquished in war. At a Silver birds award earlier this year, Senator Akpabio had something to say about the Gowon’s 3R’s; “how come reconstruction started in the West when the war was actually fought in the East? They started the Third Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20?” stressing that their future is better guaranteed and sustained within a united Nigeria. Mr. Sani, forget about the future of Ndigbo. The future of Nigeria itself can only be guaranteed if the “one Naijeriya” you hold tenaciously on to is restructured to reflect the wishes of the majority of the ethnic groups that make it up. There are too many fault lines that currently complicates the relationships between the different proud ethnic groups that make up the Niger area, a lot of which are big enough to form their own nations. The process that led up to the recent “change” of power, exacerbated the situation and has revealed the extent of the cracks within these fault lines. And anybody who arrogantly dismisses the underlying issues that give rise to agitations of some of the nationalities within one Naijeriya, such as the current one being championed by Nnamdi Kanu, will only be contributing to the eventual demise of this fraudulent entity. Jonathan’s loss may have served as a catalyst for one of such agitations but Biafra has never been and will never be about Jonathan . . . |
| Politics / Re: See 20 Countries Currently Agitating For Their Independence worldwide (pic) by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:23pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
AyeeIdris: I'll mention two countries. Finland and Estonia. Both countries were at one point in history part of the Russian empire - Finland (Tsarist Russia) and Estonia (Soviet Union). Both countries have since prospered more than what is left of Russia. It's interesting that you mention Bosnia. The Bosnians are part of the over 10 incompatible nationalities that make up the southern European region known as the Balkans and from which the word 'balkanisation' is derived. I'm sure you're familiar with that word. It loosely means fragmentation or dismembering of a region. This region has a population of less than 60 million people, one third the population of 'one Naijeriya'. Think about it. The interesting thing about the Balkans is that this region is much more identical to the current grouping of incompatible ethnic nationalities within the Niger area and they have the common sense to break up into smaller viable nations, after having gone through a lot of wars and blood shed. The question you should be asking is not how many countries have broken away and is succeeding, but how many countries populatesld by numerous incompatible large nations within them have survived? Many of the nations within Nigeria are larger than many countries that stand alone. The Igbo nation is arguably larger than the whole of the Balkan region and will prefer to look to the successes of Finland and Estonia as examples than the failures of South Sudan . . . 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: See 20 Countries Currently Agitating For Their Independence worldwide (pic) by Ngwaukwu1(m): 6:40pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Observant: Thanks! |
| Politics / Re: See 20 Countries Currently Agitating For Their Independence worldwide (pic) by Ngwaukwu1(m): 4:25pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Enahi: I don't see the relevance of your questions to be honest. I would have still obliged you with attempts to answer them but i usually find responding to rhetorical questions very boring. Have a nice weekend. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: See 20 Countries Currently Agitating For Their Independence worldwide (pic) by Ngwaukwu1(m): 3:58pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Enahi: To be honest, i find your response to my post quite amusing! You clearly did not understand anything i wrote!! I find it difficult to be angry with people who are ignorant. What i feel is usually sympathy. It's all good. . . 5 Likes |
| Politics / Re: See 20 Countries Currently Agitating For Their Independence worldwide (pic) by Ngwaukwu1(m): 2:44pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Enahi: You lack the authority to make such an assertion or decide for all the ethnic nationalities that make up the Niger Delta about their stake, or lack of it, within Biafra. You are probably unaware that the 'Niger Delta land' include lands of many ethnic nationalities among which are indigenous Igbos.So even if you wanted to speak for others or for the peoples that are aboriginal to the areas within the geopolitical 'South South', i'm sure you understand that you lack the authority to speak for all the Igbo and Igboid groups that inhabit that area. I do not begrudge you your apparent ignorance. But i do feel the benevolent need to advise you to learn to be a bit restrained in the things you say. In case you didn't know, it is mostly people who are deficient in some aspects of their personality or who have other mental health difficulties that go on and on rehashing the same things that are not based on reality or common sense. It's also very unhelpful for any self respecting individual, which i am hoping you are, to prance around the internet in search of attention through the kind of posts they make. Your clear obsession with Biafra is pathological. More so because Biafra is actually none of your business. Give it a rest and go and get a life. 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: A State Of Alaigbo (Igboland) [Map] by Ngwaukwu1(m): 11:57pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
Duru1: Dede, I think the person you quoted, was actually implying that Anioma people were wrongly excluded in the initial map by Ezeagu! That's how it comes across to me any way. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: A State Of Alaigbo (Igboland) [Map] by Ngwaukwu1(m): 11:22pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
A lot of our brothers have been cowed into silence but once they see that we are resolute in our intentions to form our own nation, they will come. By our brothers I mean all Igbo and Igbo speaking peoples across the lower Niger. |
| Politics / Re: A State Of Alaigbo (Igboland) [Map] by Ngwaukwu1(m): 11:19pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
ezeagu: We don't know yet those of our kith and kin who would want to go with us. We should not be swayed by propaganda, championed by those who are hostile to us. |
| Politics / Re: A State Of Alaigbo (Igboland) [Map] by Ngwaukwu1(m): 11:10pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
ezeagu: Your map is essentially based on arbitrary boundaries created by others for us. The boundaries were imposed on us by hostile tribes and their lackeys who view us as vanquished people. A generation ago our fathers were forced into a fratricidal war, in which they were outgunned and the outcome of which was that they ceded part of their ancestral lands to those who saw themselves as the victors of that war. But we that have grown out of the rubble of that war, built lives out of the ashes and now stand proud, some of us a lot better off than the so called victors, do not agree with the boundaries. My brother we have seen the pictures of the war, the swollen and protruding stomach of our starving fathers, grounds littered with the bodies of the innocents slain just because they wanted to go their separate ways, and we the descendants of the survivors must make up our minds that no more shall we live as vanquished people. No more, shall we bend our backs and turn our cheeks in humiliation, allowing others to decide who we are and how we must live. When the time comes, every piece of our ancestral lands on which the blood of our fathers and uncles and brothers and mothers were spilled; every piece of that land, will be reclaimed. So my brother, put away the map you have drawn. For though it is not your intention, that map insults the memory of over 2 million of our flesh and blood that were slain by the same people who see us as vanquished in war, and carve the boundaries of our inheritance for us. My brother, put away this map, biko, and go back to your drawing board. 11 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Eziachi: My Open Letter To Nigerian Biafra Fantasist by Ngwaukwu1(m): 5:13pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
obailala: Your analysis is interesting. Not wrong. It's a point of view so cannot be dismissed as wrong. Here's my point of view. I say without any apologies to anyone and with a strong sense of conviction that it is not in the best interest of Ndigbo to aspire to the presidency of Nigeria in its present structure!. If by any accident an Igbo person were to become president of Nigeria in 2019, the recent misadventure of Jonathan in Aso rock would be like child's play compared to what he'll have to contend with! There would be an explosion of discontent, accusations of corruption and nepotism, counter accusations of tribalism, screams of marginalisation from North, West and South, blackmailing from the media and escalating unrest and chaos, calls for a military coup etc to the point where he would either be forced to resign from office or end up disgraced out of office before the end of his tenure! This may sound far fetched or even a tad paranoid but any really discerning follower of the dynamics of power and politics in Nigeria will tell you that such a scenario cannot be completely dismissed if a president of Igbo origin were to occupy Aso Rock. I believe that the reasonable thing to do for those Igbo politicians who still believe there is a role for them to play within the Nigerian space, would be for them to stop thinking of the presidency and start focusing on political and economic integration of the Igbo speaking areas of Nigeria. This is the only way they can achieve a semblance of respect. And paradoxically this would be the easiest way for them to broker themselves into more power at the centre. We don't need to look too far down the well of history to see who this approach has worked for. But hey, you can dismiss this point of view as it is without doubt biaised and has been proferred by someone who makes it clear he no longer believes in project Nigeria. . . 7 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Eziachi: My Open Letter To Nigerian Biafra Fantasist by Ngwaukwu1(m): 1:17pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
Alphaoscar: First of all i appreciate your respect. It is indeed mutual. In my post i have not blamed the Yoruba for anything. I am intelligent enough to know that the vituperations of a few misguided people online does not represent the views of the generality of the Yoruba. A lot of my friends are well educated and accomplished Yoruba professiobals with whom i am able to discuss my views about Biafra. They respect this. And i respect the views of those of them who think the Igbo should forget Biafra and build instead Nigeria together with the rest of them. They are the voice of the Yoruba people that i take seriously and not those of the half baked mischievious tribalists, who if you must be honest, create the impression of not wanting the Igbo to pursue what they see to be the best for them. If it did come across in my post that i blame the Yoruba for the current problems of the Igbo, then i apologise. I actually think that both ethnic groups stand a far better chance of success working together as partners either in actualizing seperate soveriegn nations for themselves or in achieving a truly federal and just union of equals within Nigeria. The latter is the only thing that will stop the agitation for Biafra. Edited: On re-reading i realise that the poster was refering to Dede Eziachi when he stated he respects the OP. My bad! The content of my post is still relevant though. 4 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Eziachi: My Open Letter To Nigerian Biafra Fantasist by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:27pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
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| Politics / Re: Eziachi: My Open Letter To Nigerian Biafra Fantasist by Ngwaukwu1(m): 12:26pm On Oct 28, 2015 |
Alphaoscar: Only a few misguided agitators are 'dragging other people into (your) trouble'. A lot of us joining the agitation for Biafra make it clear that the route we are pursuing this time around for Biafra is through a UN backed referendum of ethnic nationalities; however our main interest is in our Igbo kith and kin all over the lower Niger, which includes the current SE and those who have found themselves, due to the mischief of those whose aim is to strangulate us, within some of the SS states. We are not interested in ethnic nationalities that have no sense of shared ancestry, history or culture with us. We are not interested in another Niger area. As to the question of whether your ethnic group, which i am guessing is Yoruba, has a problem with the secession of the Igbo and friends of Ndigbo from Nigeria, let whoever wants to know the answer use the evidence scattered all over the social media to reach their own conclusions. 3 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Gen Buhari Get Ready To Face UK Drone Strikes If Anything Happen To Nnamdi Kanu by Ngwaukwu1(m): 10:14am On Oct 27, 2015 |
GentleToks: I don't see the joke. It's the narrative that prevails about an individual that makes them hero or villain. So why exactly can Nnamdi Kanu not be compared to Mandiba? In his eyes and in the eyes of those who believe in his struggle, he is no less than what Nelson Mandela was for the disenfranchised blacks of Soweto and others like them, he fought for and was incarcerated for. So what gives you the right to decide what narrative people will choose to believe about Nnamdi Kanu? |
| Politics / Re: Gen Buhari Get Ready To Face UK Drone Strikes If Anything Happen To Nnamdi Kanu by Ngwaukwu1(m): 9:48am On Oct 27, 2015 |
GentleToks: Having a criminal record in the UK does not make one "as good as Britishless as far as gaining employment in the UK". It may limit your options but it certainly doesn't mean you can't get a job. Even sex offenders get jobs in the UK in spite of their offending history being evident on their "national crime data". So if Kanu is convicted of his crime and eventually returns to the UK he will not be unemployable. After all the "terrorist" Mandela went from being an incarcerated criminal to being a celebrated world icon. |
| Politics / Re: Federal Government Is Not Treating Igbo People Right - Yerima by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:13am On Oct 27, 2015 |
kingsolex: Why are these other peoples you mentioned silent? 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: Buhari Gives Ultimatum To South-east Governors On Biafra by Ngwaukwu1(m): 8:41pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
SkyBlue1: You clearly did not understand his post. 2 Likes |
| Politics / Re: South South Niger Delta will never Join Biafra. by Ngwaukwu1(m): 9:48am On Oct 24, 2015 |
Observant: Well said. I don't know why people exhaust themselves arguing over a fluid concept such as 'Niger Delta'. What is that any way? What does Niger Delta mean? A lot of the new agitators in this struggle for Biafra think in terms of 'ethnic nationalities' or tribes if you prefer, and not artificially created demarcations such as SE, SS, Niger Delta, Nigeria etc which will not stand the test of time and are quite frankly nonsensical to say the least. And anybody basing their arguments on such nonsensical nomenclatures are either being mischievious or just plain ignorant. When the time comes, all our peoples that live at the outreaches of ala igbo by which ever name they are called (Ika, Ekpeye, Etche or even my own people the Ngwa) scattered all over the so called 'lower Niger', with some dispersed in hostile states among neighbours that wish to claim them for their own, will be given a voice to decide their own destiny. When that time comes, nobody will take any inch of what belongs to us, unless the peoples themselves agree to be taken. |
| Politics / Re: Hurray!!! Republic Of Biafra Set To Become The Newest Nation On Earth. by Ngwaukwu1(m): 10:08pm On Oct 23, 2015 |
AfroBlue: Rest assured that a lot of us have not forgotten. 1 Like |
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