₦airaland Forum

Kestolovee95:
All these APC sponsored emergency groups, RELEC, NCIC, UBID etc. Igweocha remains gallant regardless.

Abagworo:
Those are Aba pictures not Owerri. I've already posted the Owerri protest and it was a flop.

eluquenson:
I'm not qualified for this service.

Helltel & Emptyhen are birds of a feather.

I still prefer Etisalat to all those thieves.

niggi4life:
We are all One, Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba, All the tribes in Nigeria.
United we stand, divided we fall.. I am a Yoruba, I married an Ibo woman. My mum is Hausa and My Dad is Yoruba.
Una see as every every join wella?

naijapips02:
Yes, Zik, Awolowo, Balewa, Ahmadu Bello were powerful in the colonial days. The were among the very few educated/enlightened Nigerians we had in those days. Emirs and Obas couldn't fight for independence cos most were grossly uneducated/enlightened. Zik for instance was the leader of Nigeria's foremost political party; National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) alongside Herbert Macaulay in 1944. Same with almost all the other leaders of the Nationalistic movements. Now the question is, How many leaders of political parties, top politician, Top Igbo technocrats are supporting your movement?

naijapips02:
Let still go down a bit. What were the nationalist fighting for? Colonialism. Another man from another continent governing you and making you a slave in your own land. No matter how hard you try, you can never govern yourself. Now is it the same with what we have in the Nigeria of today? Does the average igbo man have the chance to govern Nigeria if he tried? Are the Igbos in Leadership Positions as we speak?

naijapips02:
You cannot build a country on NOTHING. Do you know how long it would take a Biafra to get to put those offices in place. And using what revenue to set them up and get them running? What are your plans for revenue? Or do you still think Nigeria would be sending you monthly allowances if you get your biafra?

naijapips02:
The igbo business, most of the time, is sustained by Nigeria. If there were ever going to be a Biafra, those Nigerian contacts would be lost. It would be very cheaper and easier for Nigerians to do business with ghana than biafra.

naijapips02:
If SE is not improvised, what then is the justification for the call for secession? If we are among the most prospering states in Nigeria, how then are we being marginalized?

naijapips02:
You cannot succeed alone. No man is a forest. No matter how ingenious the igboman might be, He need collaborations. We need partnerships. And Nigeria, offers us most of that, right now.

naijapips02:
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How many members of your immediate community have you helped? how many has Nnamdi Kanu helped. Igbo man would always want to prove his superiority even to his brothers. You can never find Anambra state helping Imo state, rather, if there were things coming to imo to make it mightier, you would see a typical anambra man blocking it, to seem to remain on top. [/s]
i didnt notice that during the protest


[quote author=naijapips02 post=39937024]It is well evident that we igbos are very selfish. Last governorship primaries in IMO state had almost 24 candidates coming from just one Owerri political zone. An Ngwa man would rather vote for yoruba than vote an umuahia man.....it's the same everywhere.

naijapips02:
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Trash. Would reply you later

LAGOS — Protesters in southeastern Nigeria
are demanding the release of a jailed radio
station chief who advocates restoration of
the nation of Biafra and its independence
from Nigeria.
Nnamdi Kanu, director of Radio Biafra, was
arrested last month by Nigeria’s secret
police. A spokesman for the agency could
not be located prior to publication, but local
media reports say Kanu was charged with
offenses related to his station's broadcasts.
A civil war over the self-styled Republic of
Biafra ended in 1970, but the cause, which
has persisted for decades and remains a
sensitive issue, has seen a recent
resurgence.
A spokesman for the Indigenous Peoples of
Biafra chapter in southeastern Anambra
state, Ugochukwu Chinweuba, says their
goal is independence.
“We don’t want to be in Nigeria anymore.
We want to be on our own,” he said.
Forty-five years after the end of the civil war,
Chinweuba says people in the southeast
have not benefited from being part of
Africa’s most populous country.
“Everyone knows that what Nigeria have,
like crude oil and resources of anything,
comes from Biafra land," he said. "And we
do not benefit anything of [it].”
Sporadic pro-Biafra rallies over the past few
years have occasionally led to arrests. The
government banned Radio Biafra in July.
Laja Odukoya, a lecturer in political science
at the University of Lagos, says the protests
are a symptom of Nigeria’s economic
problems. Like much of the rest of Nigeria,
rates of unemployment and poverty are high
in the southeast.
“Biafra, for me, is not necessarily a situation
whereby you have a secessionism, but
calling attention to the dysfunctionalism
within the state and the need to address it,”
Odukoya said.
The Biafran war remains a dark and
controversial chapter of Nigeria’s history.
The three-year conflict killed over a million
people, many of them from starvation.

Paretomaster:
and who is holding gun to ur head to stay? leave nigeria territory, stop spending our money, and recall ur ppl in our Govt.

just go already, must u seek our blessing for that?

lygn19:
what are they protesting for?
that the country should break up?
if the country didn't breakup despite a war is it protest that want to break it?

lygn19:
they are begging u guys now and u people think u are winning, that Nigerians are cowards and they don't have sense, the time u guys finally provoke everybody and they turn violent on u guys u people would start running up and down saying Nigeria hate u people.

Yeske2:
Not divide and rule as you put it, if you've been listening to radio Biafra lately you'd realise that the use of vile words, destruction, death etc has reduced, Uche Mefor is doing a great job.

Yeske2:
This is why i think Uche Mefor is better than that idiotic Nnamdi Kanu who would've been shouting for deaths and destruction if he were the same person handling these protests, let them hold him there, charge him to court and straight to prison.

fratermathy:
Exactly. I thought so too. Anyway, I'm aware that the isles were originally inhabited by Ijaws and that's why I treaded carefully and balanced both sides in the edit of the post.

Truckpusher:
No inch of Rivers State belong to the Igbos , and if you want it so badly it would be under blood an sweat and you'll pay the price for greed.

Go figure.......

malton:
. OP, you go hear am today! I hope that you are ready for the myriad of insults that will flood in? How dare you speak ill of he that has come to deliver us; our very own Moses?

Going by just numbers, IPOB cannot claim to represent Anambra, small a state in the SE as it is, let alone the entire Igbo nation.

I'm sure that Nnamdi thought in his mind, errrr... what better way to be famous and endear myself to miscreants than to champion the Biafran cause seeing as there's a vacancy to be filled. How much does it cost to open a Facebook or twitter account sef? Well, I can run a radio frequency even from my garage. An albino gotta make a name for himself mehn. No time for stigmatisation!

It's really bad when you're bald and cannot ascertain your race. Low self esteem can drive people to do crazy things for fame.

tonychristopher:
I know a lot of my people who know me will be surprised by my position ...I do not understand what this Biafra thing is ...I mean how can some dude in London will come and start tormenting trouble for us Igbo by establishing a pirate radio that it's aim is to talk down on people both Igbo and non Igbo. To me this Nnamdi KANU isn't the freedom fighter I envisage . you can't want a country on the alter of insulting your neighbours and even your self. To me I see it as infantile and childish approach . Ojukwu never insulted anybody he had an agreement with them

But this KANU approach is something else . I have not listened to him and I do not think I have that time to listen to him. Pls whoever is reading this shouldn't get it twisted ...we can't have it the way of Sudan or that of south Ossetia nor that of east Timor nor that of Eritrea and Ethiopia. We can also have it the way of north and south Korea . I know that Igbo are assets to Nigeria though they won't want to agree with that and Nigeria is asset to Igbo though we igbo won't admit that but the fact is that we have a bigger market and eco space to exploit Biafra shrinks this market from 180 million to 60 million and this we have to understand

If we can have a multi lateral and billeteral understanding between the emerging nations that will be OK instead of going this Biafra way. Biafra is very OK and I as an Igbo dude support it . what I am against is having a pyromaniac in charge of Biafra . this we have to look before we leap.

We as a country have many non violent approach and they varies left for me I think we can go confederation or united nation way. What do I mean ..we can do it like UAE where Dubai, Abu dabi which are different countries but maintain single military and security and imigration..this is workable or we can have it united kingdom way where Wales, Ireland and other independent countries like Scotland have their independent paliarment but with same currency and visa regime .


We must guarantee free movement between independent states , we must guarantee the bond and brotherhood between the constituent nations . we can't fight ourselves again but as we do this we have to develop independently . if north want sharia and Islamic economy so be it , if west want monarchial capitalism so be it and if igbo wants Republican capitalism so be it. The bottom line is that we won't fight and we have to find a way out of quagmire. We may even have independent passport in this unity if it will ever come but there must be automatic residency and business permit in constituent nations


One of the first law of nation is : SELF PRESERVATION


These are few options available and let us rest on this online Biafra and tribal bashing


Que Sera Sera ...what will be will be


If Biafra will be it will be ..if it won't be it won't be

But if it be we have to also know that good neighbour matters and left for me I think confederation of states like USA, UK and UAE is the best . Africa and the world is watching and waiting for Nigeria to crumble

We can't crumble we have to find peaceful ways to get things done


Good morning all

Ioannes:
instead of using the name of Biafra as a cover why don't you call it something like
Nigerian youths march against unemployment.

Ikengawo:
condemn that amalgamation, but lobby the UK of today to support you. The UK amalgamated Sudan and supported South Sudan because the South Sudanese lobbied their as$ off. They didn't pre-emptively decide everyone, including churches that supported you in the past, were your enemy. The UK amalgamated Pakistan and India and supported their partition. Nigeria is not special and is not different.

Ikengawo:
I don't doubt the movement has been exceedingly successful is gaining grass roots support. It's not the #1 station in the world for no reason, but the 'gaining support' phase is ending and the actualization phase is one I can't wait any longer for. I have reached the point that I view being called a Nigerian (N#gger Areian) as a wholesale insult and can't have them lose focus. I'm saying this as a supporter, not as someone against them and if you support something you want it to get better.

if the UK supports Nigeria, the US France, and the entire world supports Nigeria. Radio Biafra as carrying a vendetta with Fredrick Lugard and putting it on Britains head. The world powers have a pact with each other that states whatever a former colonial master decides about their former possession is what the rest of them will agree one, so that they don't fight each other over crossing issues. So what the UK says about the entire territory called Nigeria is what everyone, from Russia to China will agree to follow unless they risk the UK not recognizing their territory

so insulting the UK over Fredrick Lugard is very brainless. There are 3 Igbo people in the UK's government, we can't loose the UK as a supporter.

johnmartus:
SEEMS YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND HE STATED IT CLEARLY THAT BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAFRA WHICH INDICATE THAT THEY ARE TOTALY AGAINST THEIR ACTION.

biafranking:
so the guy name is chizoba and he shortened it to chizi? And still did not know the meaning of chi di?he s nothing but a pretender.
That s how some ikwerres behaved my dear,like dis naughty guy called hopeathand,he can speak igbo fluently and he knows the similarity between ikwerres and igbo linguistically but still denied himself and his origin...

What a great shame to some of them...