₦airaland Forum

fratermathy:
Because Ibibios were geographically contiguous to each other unlike the Opobo/Bonny people who were alienated in Isles.

TonyeBarcanista:
It is disrespectful and insult to tag our land what you wish to tag it and not what we want you to tag it. It is our land and the only thing for you to do is to respect it. It doesn't matter whether it was given us by the Brits or congolese, what matters is what we(as owners) view it. We view it as PortHarcourt and Not Igweocha or whatever. The least you can do is to respect our position. We can't accept such open show of disrespect Sir! It is Our land, PHC belongs to us and it is exclusively in our place to determine the name of the city.

TonyeBarcanista:
It is a straightforward case! I maintained that Respect for SS as a group and as individuals. If you an Anioma man believe in casting aspersion on ND Greats like Boro and Wiwa is your choice. In fact, it has even put a fence and has knocked out ANY proposed country between us(Ijaws specifically) if the mainstream Igbos hold on to this belief. As long as Ijaws, Ogonis, Ikwerres, Binis, Urhobos etc are concerned, Isaac Boro and Wiwa are part of the heroes of Niger-Delta. I wish Abacha had granted the proposed Warri state. As for the treachery aspect, you(Anioma) may accept it but my people and others from the region are saying that they don't accept it. It is unacceptable for anyone to insult our forebearers and present generation unjustly. If this is held by mainstream Igbos, then I have to restate that the proposed united country won't work. Maybe an Igbo only and/or those that agrees with this position. But it is a No-No for the Ijaws especially

TonyeBarcanista:
I am not speaking for you! Neither am I speaking for others. But I am telling you that the position of the Ijaws, Ogonis, Itsekiri, Urhobos, Binis, Auchi's, Ikwerre, Ekpeye etc must be respected WHATEVER it may be.

TonyeBarcanista:
I neither disputed nor agreed by the claim that some IPOB youths arrested were indigens of Rivers state. I won't comment on that.

My position on this subject is very clear and wouldn't want to drag it. It is not about PDP or APC but about outhe South-South people. If the Igbos want a united SSSE front(which is very good), then we must define terms of agreement. Some of the terms are;

1. They stop calling PHC as 'Igweocha' because the status of Portharcourt as the exclusive property of Rivers people as presently constituted is non-negotiable.

2. Respect for our Greats like Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro Wiwa and every other Niger Deltan Heroes. Also respect for our fathers and stop calling us 'Traitors' because I can't remember any treachery. The respect must also be to our present generation that have been bearing pains to swallow pills they never bargained for.

3. Respect for the decision of South South people as a whole and as individuals on this subject irrespective of their/our/my position. Irrespective of whether they agree with some of your position or not.

These to me are very fundamental to real unity. We don't have to fight each other.

Ikology:
I understand your drift! My appeal is for us to tune down on this agitation as regards to PH. Let the natives who are pro IPOB/ Biafra do the agitation. As for the mentioned guys they are from Rivers state probably Ikwere stock.

Ikology:
The level of hatred and disunity being spread by the recent IPOB activities believed to be championed by southeast Igbos is increasing at an alarming rate. Worst of it all is the belief that it was the southeast Igbos that protested in Port Harcourt for Nnamdi Kanu to be released, even though names released proved otherwise. Though Mr. Truckpusher, Hopeathand and Jpphilips believed the protest was masterminded by southeast Igbos. My appeal is for southeast Igbos to follow Abagworos argument line when issues bordering portharcourt is discussed. Yes there are indigenous Igbos in Rivers State, please allow them to determine their faith. Stop making them feel intimidated. They should be the one voicing it out.

ezeagu:
An apparent minority is pushing for secession of eastern Nigeria as Biafra, while the majority of the Igbo remain silent, and let's be honest, the silence is as a result of a people who would ideally like to be on their own but understandably do not want to invest in many different ways in something that may end up bad in also a variety of ways including a repeat of the 60s. The problem however is that not only is the movement very chaotic at the moment, but there is confusion as to where Biafra is. Many are saying that the whole of eastern Nigeria is Biafra, but I think this is really a mistake the Biafra secessionists are making. I believe that the area known as 'south south' are not as enthusiatic about a Biafra as the secessionists would like to believe. In fact all the major protests have taken place only in Igbo land, and particularly in the five Igbo states. And I'm sure some would say they know someone in Ogoja or someone from Calabar who joined them in protest somewhere, but to be honest these minute amount of people doesn't change the point that overwhelmingly the sentiment about seceding or a 'Biafra' has been and has been perceived as an Igbo thing. Check the names on any 'Biafra' message for example. I have encouraged an idea of an 'eastern' unity within Nigeria here before, but following from the sentiment that eveyone should respect themselves and the autonomy of others, it my deep belief, considering history even before the Nigeria-Biafra war, that the Igbo people, if there were ever a secession, should form a nation on their own, or at least a federation as a country like England in the United Kingdom. I believe the nature and goal of an Igbo person will continue to be misunderstood by anyone and I do not want a situation where an Igbo person will feel they are held back because they don't want to be seen as overdoing anybody.

All of these thoughts were solidifed by the recent writings of Alabo Abiye Akkio-Abbey here https://www.facebook.com/alaboabiye.akkioabbey/posts/10153267949980028 and the replies by people from his community, some I have attached.

Elosky20:
Nigeria is the only place
where a child will be beaten
and at thesame time ask the
child not to cry!!!! How
foolish they can be?
Igbo's and some other
South south tribes ask for
Biafra, Nigeria refused and
said the country must be
one. Danish man draws
cartoon of Mohammed in
faraway Denmark, you
people go around killing
Igbos and destroying their
properties in the North.
Philips Emegwali invents a
super-fast computer, you
say a "Nigerian" invents.
Igbo student in diaspora
makes good grades, you say
a "Nigerian" graduates top
of the class. But Ikechukwu
Abia is caught trafficking
drugs, you say an "Igbo"
man is caught with drugs
abroad. Igbo man do his
business and prosper, you
people say they want to
steal your land and rule
over you.
90% of oil blocs in the
South are owned by
Northerners, you people do
not say they have stolen
someone's land and
resources. Igbos ask for the
Presidency, you people
laugh at them and say "over
your dead body."
The North has rule Nigeria
for over 38years and they
keep threatening everyone
else that they are being
marginalized, and so they
start bombing everywhere,
you people say let's
negotiate with them.
Igbos vote for Jonathan, you
people say they are myopic
and tribalistic. The North
and the West voted for
Buhari, you people say it is
called "change" and
democracy.
Igbos rally behind Jimi
Abaje, you people say they
will drown in the lagoon.
Ambode won, you people
start cursing them.
Adamu Ciroma and co said
"The North would make this
country ungovernable if a
Northerner does not become
President" and "They'll be
no Nigeria if power does not
return to the North". You
people call them "Elder
Statesmen","Party Stalwart",
"Northern leader", etc.
Nnamdi Kanu says the same
thing but you people call
him "a retard", "treasonable
criminal", "war-monger",
"evil" and so on.
During the last elections,
Radio and TV stations in the
North play jihad songs while
making anti-GEJ campaigns,
say all sorts of things in
Hausa, no newspaper
headline asked for them to
be banned. Of course you
people call it politics.
Radio Biafra does same, all
hell is let loose. You people
say they spreading bigotry
and dangerous propaganda.
Do you people have an
IGBOPHOBIA? Of course not!
No one will agree. But do
you think the Igbos are
problems, everyone will
raise their hands.
But we ask, why don't you
let the Igbos separate and
go their way, you people
give me that terrorist look.
Dear landlords, just one
question: What do you want
the Biafrans to do to please
you?

donphilopus:
Hadn't been your father was a bigot and an illiterate maybe he would have been opportune to be made the Councillor representing your ward since those are the criteria for holding a political position in Nigeria. A literate like you can't even spell 'fast-forward'. What a shame!

Ballmer:
Search each name on Facebook match it with their display picture. I don't want any Igbo to assassinate me because of how i dey tackle dem here.

https://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Biafra-700x336.jpg

…4 shot, 15 injured in Onitsha as agitators storm Port Harcourt, Asaba

From Chris Anucha & Tony John, Port Harcourt; Paul Osuyi, Asaba and
Aloysius Attah, Onitsha

Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, was literarily shut down for several hours yesterday by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who now preferred to be known as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Members of the group defied the early morning rain to protest the arrest, detention and trial of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
This is even as the protest in Onitsha, Anambra State, turned bloody, four people were shot and 15 were injured by policemen.
Kanu was arrested in Lagos last Wednesday by the Department of the State Security (DSS), arraigned in Abuja court and granted bail.
The protesters, drawn from different parts of Rivers State, assembled as early as 7am before they took over the major streets of Port Harcourt, causing heavy vehicular and human traffic in Aba, Azikiwe, Ikwerre, Rumuola roads, among others.
The protest was said to have also been replicated in Oyingbo and Ogoni areas of the state.

The group had on Monday warned residents and traders to stay at home yesterday or risked incurring the wrath of the group.
At the popular Ikoku junction, along the Ikwerre Road, policemen fired teargas to disperse them at about 12:27 pm; but it seemed not to have effect on the number of protesters.

The protesters, who were non-violent, alleged that the Federal Government was determined to relegate Igbos to the background, vowing that no amount of intimidation and harassment could dampen their spirits.

Security operatives were seen in patrol vans and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) behind the protesters to avert possible breakdown of law and order.

In Asaba, chanting songs of solidarity, the placard-bearing protesters described Kanu’s arrest as uncalled for and totally unacceptable, insisting that they were no longer comfortable with the Nigerian government.

Secretary of the group, Nnenna Nwaoha, said, “we have suffered enough in the hands of the Nigerian government and we are no more comfortable with it.

“We want our freedom, that is why we are here. We are not comfortable with the Nigerian government, the intimidation, killing and all that; that is why we want our freedom. We feel very bad about his detention and it is affecting each and every one of us. We are not comfortable, we want to go,”he said.

The protesters were, however, denied access into the Government House by security operatives who were on guard. No official of the state government addressed them.

In Onitsha, Anambra State, a similar protest was dispersed with teargas when police swooped on them. The IPOB members numbering about 500, mainly women, marched from Amawbia junction with placards and were getting close to the Government House gate in Awka when police mounting guards fired shots in the air and teargased them.

Speaking on the incident, the IPOB Coordinator in Anambra, Ikechukwu Okoye, told Daily Sun that they were marching along Government House, Awka when police attacked their members, shooting four and arrested about 15 others who are being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Awka.

He said they were on a peaceful protest, noting that the police have seized two of their vehicles.

He said one of their members, a pregnant woman, fell into the gutter during the attack and sustained injury with her two-year-old baby.
Okoye noted that they were dissatisfied over the treatment meted on their leader Dr. Kanu and had wanted to call on Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene on the matter.

According to him, “we are only freedom agitators who obey the laws of the land, this is democracy and there is freedom of speech, freedom of movement etc.”

donphilopus:
Hadn't been your father was a bigot and an illiterate maybe he would have been opportune to be made the Councillor representing your ward since those are the criteria for holding a political position in Nigeria. A literate like you can't even spell 'fast-forward'. What a shame!

By Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha
ASABA-PROTESTERS, Tuesday, stormed the entrance of Delta State Government House, Asaba condemning the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

Gathered under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Delta State chapter, the protesters, mainly women, demanded the immediate release of Kanu, describing his arrest as uncalled for and totally unacceptable.

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The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra Tuesdaay along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

Chanting songs of grievances and displaying placards which bore various inscriptions such as “Freedom for Biafra, free Nnamdi Kanu”, “We are not terrorists, we are freedom fighters”, “We are tired of intimidation and harassment by Nigeria Government”, “Biafra on the move” amongst others, the protesters said they were no longer comfortable with the Nigerian government.
Speaking during the protest, Secretary of IPOB, Delta State chapter Nnenna Nwaoha, said: “The reason for the protest is for Nnamdi Kanu to be released; we have suffered enough in the hands of the Nigerian Government and we are no more comfortable with it.

“We want our freedom that is why we are here. We are not comfortable with the Nigerian government, the intimidation, killing and all that; that is why we want our freedom. We feel very bad about his detention and it is affecting each and every one of us. We are not comfortable, we want to go.

“The federal government should release our Director, Dr. Nnamdi Kanu and we also want our freedom. As a nation that is due for freedom, we want to go; we are tired; the suffering is too much; it is not a crime to want our freedom; we want to go.”

Also speaking, Chineye Udeoba expressed bitterness at the detention of Kanu, saying “we are bitter and we are giving them a strict warning and order to release him.

“We are not Nigerians, we are Biafrans. My father is seventy-two years old and he is older than Nigeria. He is a Biafrian, I am a Biafran and we all here are Biafrans. We the indigenous people of Biafra are ready to go. We want to be on our own.

“The British came and amalgamated us with these Oduduwa and Arewa people, we are not one; we were never one, we are totally different in terms of tradition; we are Biafrans. We want to be on our own as indigenous people of Biafra. We want our freedom.

On her part, Mrs. Judith Ihebiehi said: “This man is our voice, he is our mentor. We have been in darkness all these while, so this man has been speaking for us, so the Nigerian government has no right to detain him; he has done nothing.

“Have they ever asked themselves if what this man has been saying is false? Have they bothered to verify what Nnamdi Kanu has been saying? So detaining Nnamdi Kanu will bring problems; we have been calming our husbands down, we have been saying ‘wait’ we women will go to the government, we will talk to them and say this is what we want; we don’t want problem that is why we are here.

“Our reason of coming here is to tell the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to help us take our message to the federal government. He is not the one detaining him but we are here to tell him to take it to Abuja.” The protesters were however, denied entry into the Government House by police officers

oluamid:
Have you ever read or researched the history of Nigerian motion picture? I very much doubt it going by your assertion above. To think someone even liked your post means you have succeeded in misinforming somebody.



Sometimes, it's nice to put the ethnic thing a

Jobos post=38888395:
it is your father that never educate you about nigeria. Ogunde film , Baba sala film and Ade love films were shown in many western countries before you were born.
Just tell me one igbo cinema firmthat was shown outside nigeria , l dont mean your english film .

side and discuss issues objectively. As an example, why do you think they named a popular area of Agege in Lagos Pen Cinema?

sigiyaya:
Oya all of you should relocate to OYO or OGUN state at once