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Lemon12:
your father is the coward here bro...

are you sure he has a father.

IbnSultaan:
Biafra Day! The defunct Republic was created 48 Years ago on 30th May 1667 by Colnel Ojukwu in response to claims of progrom against the people of South East Nigeria. Ojukwu fled for exile after Federal troops captured all of Biafra. Ojukwu later returned to Nigeria. He joined the National Party of Nigeria to represent his people at the federal level but was rejected by his people as he lost every election. Biafra is marked internationally by Nigerians of Igbo extraction

Biafra was a mistake we must not repeat

why can't you leave we Israelites alone?

Young?
Guy if you don't like Biafra, don't insult us please.
That u grew up in Niger doesn't make you Hausa man, it's a shame you are from Delta but thinks like a Northerner.

speak2emmalex:
Why are the Igbos soo loved this way? Am surprised that those people who claim to hate Biafrans soo much are the same bunch that will come and tell us why not to have Biafra.

[size=15pt]Nigeria is a mistake that must be corrected no matter how long it takes, it must surely disintegrate[/size]

I hate been a Nigerian. God Bless the Republic of Biafra

may God bless you too ezi nwannem.

It is happening live in Aba.

Remembrance service will soon kick off in CKC.
I will post pics later.

basbone:
You sultanic monkey!! Who gave you the effontry to post such a crap Nigeria is a mistake you all will live to regret!!

Don't mind the cheap attention seeker. Them and their fake 'one Nigeria'

Ymodulus:
Why insult him? This is the one of the problem I have with majority of people from the South-East.

Yet if someone writes something about you guys, you go on shouting and making empty noise that they hate you and your people.
Do you know he even dignified Biafra by creating this post?

A terrorist organization and terrorism fanatics such as Biafran Movement and Biafra radio respectively should not be allowed in a decent country. Or even praised as such actions should be seen treasonable by law.

I don't know how reasonable humans should wake up and begin to support an organization whose leader made them commit genocide, by killing millions of his people. I really don't understand why you people should still be clamoring for the death of another millions. People who their leader abandoned them and ran out to a safe spot to enjoy his life and let his people suffer.

Biafra my Foot!!! They want sovereignty yet have not showned the world they are capable of sovereignty. Nigeria has come to stay accept it or not. Its your problem.


Awôn Dreamers.
My guy IbnSultaan Dan Allah Chi gaban. Ina bayan ka.

nagode

Ymodulus:
Why insult him? This is the one of the problem I have with majority of people from the South-East.

Yet if someone writes something about you guys, you go on shouting and making empty noise that they hate you and your people.
Do you know he even dignified Biafra by creating this post?

A terrorist organization and terrorism fanatics such as Biafran Movement and Biafra radio respectively should not be allowed in a decent country. Or even praised as such actions should be seen treasonable by law.

I don't know how reasonable humans should wake up and begin to support an organization whose leader made them commit genocide, by killing millions of his people. I really don't understand why you people should still be clamoring for the death of another millions. People who their leader abandoned them and ran out to a safe spot to enjoy his life and let his people suffer.

Biafra my Foot!!! They want sovereignty yet have not showned the world they are capable of sovereignty. Nigeria has come to stay accept it or not. Its your problem.


Awôn Dreamers.
My guy IbnSultaan Dan Allah Chi gaban. Ina bayan ka.

On May 15th 2015, Yakubu Gowon was quoted at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Nigeria gloating about his “One Nigeria”, that Nigeria did not disintegrate in 2015 as was predicted. Then in his pathological obsession with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong and that Gowon and his One Nigeria were right he once again in his characteristic folly claimed that he knew what was going on in Ojukwu’s mind or for that matter in the minds of the people of Eastern Nigeria in 1967. What do you call a person who goes on claiming that they know what is going on in another person’s mind without that person telling them? But omniscient Gowon knew what was going on in the minds of Ojukwu and the people of Eastern Nigeria without asking them. And that was how he as the head of state of Nigeria played God and consequently destroyed Nigeria.


The mark of intelligence is the ability to use experience as a learning tool to shape ones future thought and behavior. Thousands of years ago our ancestors learned to avoid eating poisonous fruits, roots and berries by noting and remembering the deadly effect specific fruits, roots and berries had on them or their children when they ate those things. They noted the color, shape, smell etc. of those fruits, roots and berries and learned never to touch them, talk less eat them. Animals also learn to survive by doing the same thing. Survival of organisms depend on this basic level of intellectual functioning.

That Yakubu Gowon still runs around Nigeria pounding his chest about going to war against Biafra and starving three million children and old women to death is evidence of his level of intelligence. His preoccupation with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong when all indices in Nigeria today prove that Ojukwu and Biafra were and are still right about separating incompatible units in the terribly flawed Nigerian amalgam of Nations, is testimony to the inferiority complex that dogged and still continues to dog Gowon; the complex that played a determinant role in all the decisions that Gowon made between 1966 and 1975. He has told these lies for so long and so many times that he apparently has started believing his own lies. These lies need to be repudiated now.

After one hundred thousand civilian men, women and children of Eastern Nigeria origin (Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja), were brutally and barbarically slaughtered in cold blood all over Northern Nigeria in several waves of horrific ethnic cleansing and two million others driven out of Northern and Western Nigeria back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria; after Gowon had set up a constitutional conference in Lagos and then promptly and unilaterally dismissed the conference as it resolved to adopt a Confederal Political arrangement for the regions of Nigeria; after Gowon had made absolutely no effort to stop the continuing massacre of Easterners all over Nigeria (not one Nigerian civilian or soldier was ever arrested, tried or punished for the genocide on Easterners); after all these, Gowon and all the military governors of the four regions, (Col. Robert Adebayo (West); Col. David Ejoor (Midwest); Col. Hassan Katsina (North); Col. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (East); Major Mobolaji Johnson (Lagos Capital Territory); Commodore Joseph Akinwale Wey, (Representing the Navy); Alhaji Kam Selem, (Representing the Police); P. Odumosu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria); D. Lawani, (Under Secretary to the Military Governor of Midwest Nigeria); Alhaji Ali Akilu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Northern Nigeria); N. Akpan, (Sec. to the Military Gov. of Eastern Nigeria); S. Akenzua, (Permanent Under Secretary Federal Cabinet Office); and Mr. J. Omo-Bare (Secretary) in attendance, agreed to go to Aburi, Ghana on the invitation of the head of state of Ghana, Gen. Ankrah, to find a solution to the crisis rocking the country. The historic date was January 4th and 5th 1967. At that meeting Gowon revealed that Lt. Walbe had reported to him more than six months earlier that Nigerian Army officers from the North had murdered the head of state Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi and Col. Adekunle Fajuiyi, Governor of Western Nigeria. In spite of that, the meeting went on and produced amazingly substantive agreements the highlights of which are as follows:

1. The Army shall be governed by the Supreme Military Council the chairman of which shall be known as Commander-in-chief and head of the Federal Military Government. There will be a Military Headquarters on which the Regions will be equally represented and which will be headed by a Chief of Staff. In each Region there shall be an Area Command under the charge of an Area Commander and corresponding with the existing regions. During the period of the Military Government, Military Governors will exercise control over their Area Commands in matters of internal security. The Supreme Military Council also reaffirmed its commitment to an earlier agreement reached on August 9th 1966 by representatives of all the Military Governors that Army personnel of Northern origin should return to the North from the West as the West engages in a crash program of recruitment and training in order to meet the security needs of the West (Army personnel of Northern origin in the East had already been given safe passage back to the North and Army personnel of Eastern origin who survived the murderous rampage in the North, West and Lagos had escaped back to the East).

2. That the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government shall remain in the Supreme Military Council to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is not possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.

3. All appointments to senior ranks in the armed forces, police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to super scale posts in the federal civil service and equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

4. All decrees passed since January 15, 1966 and which centralized power in the Federal government and detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, will be repealed and replaced with decrees restoring the autonomy of the regional governments.

5. The Ad Hoc Committee working on the constitutional future of the country will be reconvened immediately.

6. Payment of salaries to all staff and employees of governments and statutory corporation who had been forced to abandon their duty posts as a result of the disturbances be continued to the end of March 1967.

7. We the members of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria hereby renounce the use of force as a means of settling the present crisis in Nigeria and hold ourselves in honor bound by this declaration. We reaffirm our faith in discussions and negotiations as the only peaceful way of resolving the Nigerian crisis.

All the members of the Supreme Military Council including Gowon agreed and signed this agreement. As if acting on premonition Col. Ojukwu had insisted that the entire proceedings of the meeting be audio recorded and that a transcript of every word uttered at the conference be produced and made available. It was done. The audio recording and transcript are available for all to hear and see. Every author of repute, every historian of character, every honest and impartial observer or commentator who has analyzed and commented on the Nigeria-Biafra War whether they liked or disliked Ojukwu or liked or disliked Gowon, agree on one thing – the Aburi Agreement was a golden opportunity for stability in Nigeria. Yakubu Gowon recklessly, and foolishly threw away this golden opportunity by refusing to implement the Aburi Accord and reneging on all planks of the agreement. Few days after arriving Lagos from Aburi, traditional rulers from Northern Nigeria and federal permanent secretaries in Lagos prevailed on Yakubu Gowon to abandon an agreement he made with his fellow soldiers and which he had sworn he was in honor bound. He refused to implement item 1 – no area commands; he refused to implement item 2 claiming that he did not understand the meaning of “concurrence”; he ignored item 3 and went on making federal appointments without reference to the Supreme Military Council; he refused to implement item 4 and retained all the decrees passed since January 15 including decree 34 (the so-called unification decree) which the North claimed was the trigger for their massacre of Easterners; he partially implemented item 5 by reconvening the Ad Hoc Committee working on constitutional arrangement for the country. But then as the committee was once again moving toward an agreement on confederal structure for the country he abruptly, and unilaterally dismissed the Ad Hoc Committee; he refused to implement item 6 and thus created enormous financial burden on the government of Eastern Region which had no choice but to pay the salaries of the thousands of displaced workers or watch them and their families starve; on July 6, 1967 Gowon broke the last major agreement of the Aburi Accord by launching a war of genocide against the government and people of Eastern Region, then Biafra.

Gowon’s repudiation of the Aburi Accord and refusal to implement an agreement he willingly acceded to and appended his signature is one of the worst acts of perfidy of the twentieth century. Had Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord there would have been no Nigeria Biafra War; Gowon would not have starved 3 million Biafran children, pregnant women, nursing mothers and old men to gruesome, slow death, an act that has put him squarely in the “Hall of Shame” of the worst butchers of the 20th century (Gowon is actually listed as No. 10 on that list); there wouldn’t have been all the coups and counter coups, hundreds of thousands of innocent people wouldn’t have been slaughtered, and most probably there wouldn’t have been any Boko Haram. All the problems that Nigeria has had from January 1967 till date can be traced to the disgraceful, shameful, perfidious act of Gowon refusing to implement the Aburi Accord.

Listening to and reading Gowon engage in his pathological obsession with Ojukwu and Biafra is indeed becoming irritating. Jack, (may be calling you by your British pet name will get your attention) please the Nigeria Biafra conflict was not about Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. No, no, no. It was about millions of Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja and other people of Eastern Nigeria, men, women and children, who were murdered, brutalized and chased out of all parts of Nigeria, their personal properties looted, and burned; who fled back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria as your government refused to offer them any protection of their lives and property and actually participated in killing them; who sent their representatives to negotiate with you and reach agreement on the way forward; who after securing far reaching agreements with you were shocked to watch you renege on every item in that agreement; an agreement that you entered into voluntarily and swore on your honor as a soldier to keep. The Nigerian problem is not a democracy problem or any of that stuff. The Nigerian problem is a STRUCTURAL and JUSTICE problem.

It is interesting you describe yourself as a “Christian soldier” and claimed that it was prayers from the people of God that helped you win the war. Well, my dear Christian soldier can you recite the Lords greatest commandment? Here it is for you: “Thou shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:36-40. Mr. Christian soldier, was this what you were doing when you gave your Nigerian soldiers this marching song which they gleefully sang as they invaded Biafra and slaughtered unarmed civilians? (Asaba , 700 men, the cream of Asaba community; Christ Apostolic Church, Onitsha, 300 men, women and children praying inside the church) and numerous other cases:


Source: Biafran Foundation

These men should be pardoned in commemoration of this day. Ohaneaze should suggest this to President Buhari. Ko yaya ka gani ibnsultaan?

[quote author=QuotaSystem post=34244937]These men should be pardoned in commemoration of this day. Ohaneaze should suggest this to President Buhari. Ko yaya ka gani ibnsultaan?[/quote)bad idea

God is with us biafra




up biafra

FreeGlobe:
We do you love igbos like this when they dont give a fvck about you. You and the op should go and die. Biafra will rise

hmm

pazienza:
Currently listening to Radio Biafra! A caller from Ghana just finished calling, an Aba caller is currently on the line.

My people are really fed up with Nigeria, many callers on the program sound so educated, I am impressed.

Guy, instead of coming to NL to campaign, you all should rather sensitize all your kinsmen in other parts of Nigeria about your ambitions, key them into it and then decide on a date they all should relocate back to the East.

For as long as you all keep talking from both sides of the mouth, calling for Biafra from the comforts of your locations outside igboland (yet within Nigeria territory), then you won't be taken seriously.

Ojukwu did more than all these noises, yet he failed. Get serious guys.

Biafra Remembrance Day

Today we remember our fathers, mothers , brothers and sisters who paid the supreme sacrifice to defend our today during the short lived but Productive Biafra Republic.. without their ultimate supreme sacrifice there may not be us today for the forces in array against us is a determined force gearing towards total annihilation of our people- Ifeduba

OP, Nigeria was a mistake made by Slave Traders who treated us as monkeys and created a "country" suitable for slaves for us.

Biafra is our own country, founded by our own who fought and died to give us freedom!

Can you see the difference?

today we honour them!
but don't be deceived by the so called "honour".
Today, we are actually fanning the embers of our freedom.
Each new year, it it getting better an stronger.
Today we are having lectures on Biafra.
Tell our children the history of our great nation.

You know, in primary school, they never mentioned Baifra, rather they presented the Jihardists called Usman Dan Fodio as a hero.
Imagine a man who soaked th lands of the North with the blood of the innocent an forced them into Arabian colonization in the name of religion.

We are shaking off both the British colonial masters and the Arabian colonial masters.
Biafra is a the symbol of a true African nation.

You guys should not fold your hands, do something about Nation now.
If you are counting on shedding the blood of the innocent just to keep Nigeria, be my guest.

Ymodulus:
Why insult him? This is the one of the problem I have with majority of people from the South-East.

Yet if someone writes something about you guys, you go on shouting and making empty noise that they hate you and your people.
Do you know he even dignified Biafra by creating this post?

A terrorist organization and terrorism fanatics such as Biafran Movement and Biafra radio respectively should not be allowed in a decent country. Or even praised as such actions should be seen treasonable by law.

I don't know how reasonable humans should wake up and begin to support an organization whose leader made them commit genocide, by killing millions of his people. I really don't understand why you people should still be clamoring for the death of another millions. People who their leader abandoned them and ran out to a safe spot to enjoy his life and let his people suffer.

Biafra my Foot!!! They want sovereignty yet have not showned the world they are capable of sovereignty. Nigeria has come to stay accept it or not. Its your problem.


Awôn Dreamers.
My guy IbnSultaan Dan Allah Chi gaban. Ina bayan ka.

Nigeria is the mistake because it wasn't borne out of the resolve of its constituent peoples

Can their be real progress without an agreement

Biafra is at least an agenda that had the blessing of the majority from that region; while I disagree with its process and even timing I believe in its basic leaning being that of self-determination

QuotaSystem:
Hopefully today the Igbos will do a soul search to reflect on how they can relieve themselves of the burden of vindictiveness and vengeance which has led them to make costly decisions to this day,

48 years later.

Nonesense! Are igbos sense of vengeance not justifiable. Why deny dem federal presence in a highly centralized con3 and abuse dem wen dey migrate towards federal infrastructure? A second Biafra war is coming but not nw, wen all d generation of those dat participated in d first war r gone. Read Sanusi's article on Yorubas and see d prophecy there in, Biafra may not be created after d second way but Nigeria will be re negotiated

If being a #Biafran is a sin, I will never ask for forgiveness

kebrocity:
If being a #Biafran is a sin, I will never ask for forgiveness

Iseeeee!

NormalCodes:
Ymodulus?
Guy if you don't like Biafra, don't insult us please.
That u grew up in Niger doesn't make you Hausa man, it's a shame you are from Delta but thinks like a Northerner.

KastinaState. My State of Origin says so. I can upload if you need me too.


Also you people live in Delusion. Just Imagine them celebrating over nothing.

Celebrating the Genocide of over a million innocent individuals. Their own brothers murdered like fouls and they are celebrating. See kids suffering

[img]http://1.bp..com/-tllymZFjDWk/VSEhTRSqmEI/AAAAAAAE5MY/cd-GHbB5AUg/s1600/a.jpg[/img]

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See the jubilation when Nigerians heard the rebels Biafrans have been caught and bundled. Joy flowed down their chicks. Even the children were happy.




www.nairaland.com/attachments/2333876_16869749193686983380483983357838443247086n_jpeg3c4a5b58d0bcbf997c21236637882849

QuotaSystem:
At the end of the day, you're just an alarmist.

Keep consoling yourself bro.
But we are going home to Biafra

Ymodulus:
KastinaState. My State of Origin says so. I can upload if you need me too.


Also you people live in Delusion. Just Imagine them celebrating over nothing.

Celebrating the Genocide of over a million innocent individuals. Their own brothers murdered like fouls and they are celebrating. See kids suffering

[img]http://1.bp..com/-tllymZFjDWk/VSEhTRSqmEI/AAAAAAAE5MY/cd-GHbB5AUg/s1600/a.jpg[/img]

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See the jubilation when Nigerians heard the rebels Biafrans have been caught and bundled. Joy flowed down their chicks. Even the children were happy.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2333876_16869749193686983380483983357838443247086n_jpeg3c4a5b58d0bcbf997c21236637882849

On this day, 30th of May, our independence was declared.
Do not be deceived, the celebration is not about the dead, it is about the living.
The living Biafra,

Biafra was an avoidable event

My fellow Igbos, we must not forget Biafra but we have to move past that. We have to drop this victim mentality that we portray. We are letting it hold us back and we may not be able to move past that to become integrated into Nigeria.

We say that Nigeria doesn't recognise us when in actual fact, we are the ones who exclude ourselves. We are our own enemies. Our leaders in the Ohaneze, for example, are just betraying us and enriching themselves.

We brought the war upon ourselves.
Our brothers in the Army killed Northern leaders while our own SouthEastern leaders, by a stroke of luck, were spared. Instead of sympathizing with the Northerners, we were mocking them on their own soil.
Now, as evident from the last National Conference, we are talking about returning to regionalism. But it was our own brother that abolished the regional governments of the first republic.
Ojukwu knew we did not have enough weapons to fight the war, yet he led us into the war where our people were slaughtered in their numbers. And to show how self-serving he was, he couldn't stay to surrender by himself. He had to go into exile.

My brothers, I'm not saying Nigeria did us any good. Far from it. But all I'm saying is that we need to forgive Nigeria and also forgive ourselves and come together with others to build our country. Nigeria won't be better without us. And having Biafra will not solve our problems.