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Catalan referendum: Riot police 'fire rubber bullets' at crowd as they block voters at besieged polling stations
Spanish police in riot gear seized ballot boxes and surrounded activist-held polling stations in Catalonia Sunday as thousands flooded the streets to vote in an independence referendum banned by Madrid.

As the vote officially opened, scenes of chaos erupted as police began moving in to prevent people from casting their ballots, forcing their way into one sports centre in the town of Girona where the region's separatist leader was due to vote.

Video footage from journalists on the ground appeared to show police firing rubber bullets at the crowd outside the Ramon Llull polling station in Barcelona, with one person said to have been injured.

Several people have suffered minor injuries, including cuts and bruises, as National Police and Guardia Civil security forces push their way through crowds of referendum supporters to access the interior of polling stations.

Spain’s interior ministry has asked people not to obstruct members of the security forces as they seize electoral material from polling stations across Catalonia, appealing for “cooperation and respect so that a direct court order can be enacted peacefully”.

smartty68:
Such a lengthy piece of crap from Mr Daura. He has told lies he can't remember anymore! Fighting corruption when the state house clinic barely has nothing in it yet N3 Billion Naira was approved for it.

Iamzik:
Bros if you think that US is not better than Nigeria then you need to travel and see for yourself..... You leave me speechless...

God did not create Nigerian. The colonial masters did without seeking my opinion or yours and made sure that there is sufficient inequality that will break the country eventually.

Self determination is not madness. Staying in one Nigeria with a bunch of non progressives stuck in 19th century is the real madness!

Iamzik:
Well that your analogy is faulty but let's even assume that it's not.... Are you still in your father's house? Will you Keep relying on your father to pay your bills rather than striving to be an independent man who can support his father. No matter how rich your father is, it is unbecoming of a child to become a perpetual liability on his father!

Well for your information that is how federating units are originally designed to operate. The state should be more powerful than the federal when it comes to internal affairs. The federal is more powerful when dealing with external affairs.

Each state in America has its own police and elects it's own Sherifs and they don't report directly to Washington DC. They control their natural resources and are in total control of their IGR. They don't receive monthly allocation from Washington.
If we want to copy, let's copy correctly

It may sound strange to you but in federal system, the federal government does not control all state apparatus as we have in Nigeria. Feel free to do your own research

zionmade1:
@ bolded
See how human beings reason

BornAgainMay:
Lucky them

If it was in Nizoojungleria they for don see wetin dullardness dey cause...

Since they started this issue, I have Neva hear them saying Soldiers... All they say is police. Don't they have soldiers to goan dance Python dance on armless citizens or they want Nigeria to borrow them soldiers.


Africans for real evoluted from monkey. Our reasoning is just different from white ppl.

Soldiers r kept to protect the country from external aggression n not to be used against her own citizens

zionmade1:
Every human being was born a free man and should have the responsibility of demanding freedom any time he feels oppressed" That quote is from the 21st century
But its appalling that nigeria is still in the 19th century where everything is by force thanks to the homo sapiens from the north and the glorified backwardists from some parts of the west who would not want nigeria to attain a 21st century status

obonujoker:
But these Catalonia people are serious o
....

princechurchill:
A certain country run by those who are dumb and stupid will classify them terrorist..

OjukwuWarBird:
Giant of Africa that can't produce car battery, is that one a giant.?

LionDeLeo:
And who is stopping them?

What actions have the reps/leaders of SE taken to initiate this process?

Pls don't tell me about those criminals parading themselves as ipobs busy insulting everyone and constituting nuisance, no govt views the criminal actions of illiterate thugs as legitimate anywhere in the world.

They have leaders at all levels of govt duly elected/selected by them, let those ones initiate the process, then the agitation will be genuine, fully recognised and formal. Afterwards, if they are denied biafla, they can complain.

Adiola:
I think this is the problem we Yoruba's have we are not united forget this omoluabi changing deep down our heart we know we are religiously divided ondo and ekiti are Christian Yoruba's while osun,Ogun and Oyo are predominantly Muslim so Yoruba's Christians are skeptical of our Muslim brothers...they are prone to betrayal

BornAgainMay:
Ogbodo Maryann Chinenye wrote.............. And i concur!

Ordinarily, I had retired to un-analytical write-ups that send direct and obvious message to Buhari's handlers and his jihadists Nigeria Army. But the Kurdish referendum which no Nigerian Media is talking about due to the "bad market" the outcome of the event meant to them.

Because Biafrans deserved to know what actually played out in the just concluded Iraq Kurdish referendum, I decided to pen down this work. First and foremost, Kurdish people are people of inhuman treatment from where they are found in Middle Eastern States of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Mostly in Iraq, they were dehumanised during the Saddam Husein era that they were victims of state sponsored terrorism as Biafrans are experiencing today in Nigeria. Iraq under Saddam Husein used chemical and biological weapons on the kurds. it was gory!

During the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, US and Israel found the Iraq Kurds as a better alliance to oust and destroy Saddam Husein who was an anti semantic. They Kurds used the opportunity to avenge their brethren bloods in the hands of "Sadman" and established a sophisticated regional army (pershmerg) that did well in the war against ISIL.

Having build up a strong military and region, they decided to seek an exit from the rest of Iraq. I want to say here that the Kurds have the highest oil resources Iraq survives with. When they initiated for the referendum, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and comatose Syria threatened hell on them if they dare conduct the referendum. Guess what! Israel told them to go ahead and conduct the referendum as she is there for them.

Today, it is done without any barking from the roaring lions. Those countries who threatened hell went to their shelve when it was obvious to them what Israel will do to them. Even the security council reservation over the referendum was swept under the carpet by Israel and Kurds. In life, what you need is a powerful friend and ally, believe you me, the sky is your stepping stone. Iran and Turkey could step down from their threat due to Israel's involvement, then what happens to Nigeria if Israel gets involve? She will just disappear!

I want to tell you in case you don't know, Israel is a trusted friend to Biafra. Shalom!

SalamRushdie:
All you know how to do is threaten people up and down like a barbarian

ezenwajosh:
JUSTICE NYAKO BLASTS ARMY: "Produce Nnamdi Kanu Before Court Or I Will Hands Up His Case"


The Judge of Abuja High Court, where the supreme leader of IPOB, MAZI NNAMDI KANU is facing trial, Justice Binta Nyako has expressed her displeasure as how the Nigerian Army will invade the house of a man who is about to appear in court in three weeks time.

According to a close confidant of the high court judge, "this is never done, you never can attack a client who has a case to answer. Now he has been declared missing and am putting it on those that invaded his home to provide him before the court or I will will hands up anything about his case."

The source said that she questioned the intelligence of the Nigerian military by entering into a trap set for them, stressing that how can Nnamdi Kanu be setting a trap for Nigeria and they will be trapped in it?

She said the Army should have consulted the court first before any attack on him, as he is well educated and knows which trick to use to pin Nigeria down, and they are always trapped in.

Since the aftermath of the invasion of Kanu's residence, the international communities eyes are now beamed on Biafra, as she is gaining more sympathy.

"The Army are to provide him next in court or I hands off," Nyako was quoted as having maintained

limeta:
This is a big lie
We will be closer to power

limeta:
The title was enough for me to know where you going
How can you be further from something centerd around you

otosa:
We don't want any confusion at this level all we want is restructuring. Thus, when we get to the river we will surely know how to cross it.