₦airaland Forum

rudebouy:
So you upload a blured picture and cover ur face with a sun glass on top of the blurrness, and you expect anybody to take you serious.

My friend take a clearer picture without the sun glasses and hold a piece of paper with ur monicker boldly written on top of it, den we'll take u serious as a correct biafran soldier.

obailala:
What freedom are you talking about?

What is your definition of freedom?

Can you point out to me 1 or 2 examples of the captivity in which you need freedom from?

1bunne4lif:
Freedom from this zoo called Nigeria. If you're not comfortable with it don't quote me ok, just back off

obailala:
ok

SLIDEwaxie:
U may have laid some valid points, but it's none of my concern...

With all my life, I wish they start a war...

It will be fun, watching them being blown into pieces on CNN...

Do they for once think they are ready for another civil war?

What they failed to realise is that the war will be on their soil again..

I hope they will be annihilated this time..

obailala:
In the late sixties, Igbos were attacked and slaughtered on the streets all over Nigeria as if they weren't humans. Surviving Igbos in large masses fled back the the south east for safety and sequel to that, the independence of Biafra was announced. There was a pogrom against the Igbos in the late sixties and in view of that, the declaration of Biafran independence was absolutely necessary then. Igbos willingly fought for their survival in the late sixties and there was absolute unity because the cause was justified.

What I do not understand however is the motive or the driving factor behind this present clamour for Biafra 45 years after. Is it just because an Ijaw candidate supported by Igbos lost a presidential election, or is it because Igbos have been prevented from carrying out their businesses peacefully in other regions?

I would have preferred a clamour for true federalism instead of this senseless xenophobic incantations by the young man in London. There are more Igbos living outside Igbo land than within the south-east, if there are any hostilities between Igbos and non-Igbos in the Nigeria of today, Igbos would definitely be the losers. We have more investments outside Igbo land than we even had prior to the civil war. Yet Nnamdi Kanu calls for Igbos to attack non-Igbos in the east and some individuals genuinely think this man is a smart man?

Anyway, I would be interested in seeing how Mr Kanu can convince oga Chike or Chukwuemeka or Livinus in Alaba market Lagos to close their shops, relocate to the south east, pick up arms and start fighting Nigerian military.

1bunne4lif:
You think of investment, i think of freedom. FREEDOM I SHALL HAVE; IN BIAFRA I TRUST

obailala:
ok

All these ones because the incompetent Ijaw man lost election?

I see someone jumping inside a lagoon very soon.

1bunne4lif:
Mind you, the struggle has been on before the emergence of the clueless one as president

SLIDEwaxie:
U may have laid some valid points, but it's none of my concern...

[s]With all my life, I wish they start a war...

It will be fun, watching them being blown into pieces on CNN...

Do they for once think they are ready for another civil war?

What they failed to realise is that the war will be on their soil again..

I hope they will be annihilated this time..[/s]

EUROBOMBER:
May the gods inflict you with elephantiasis of the scrotum your frustrated beast of burden fit only to be fed to crocodiles.

Why the curse uhn

londoner:
Why are people talking about 'freedom'? Igbo's that chose to neglect their land have ALWAYS been free to build up all of their states. You are not actually competing with any tribe in your region .......all this Biafra talk is nonsense and if you are honest with yourselves you will admit that Igboland is lacking because if lack of unity, selfishness and because above all else money rules.

Igbo's are our own worst enemy.....no one else.

People would be telling of activity all over Igboland of people investing and giving their best years to their region if Igbo's really wanted a better region. Even those in London advocating for Biafra have given their best to Queen Elizabeth.

Igboland is not what it should be because WE IGBOS HAVE FAILED and instead of this much needed awakening to build our region they HIJACK it for their own thirst for blood, or do you not think their wives and children will not be in the UK US and anywhere but Nigeria while they encourage those who have no option of fleeing to pay the sacrifice?

Such hypocrites and I am immensely ashamed of them.

Rilwayne001:
Nigeria belongs to nobody but everyone, South-east inclusive.

Joe Onwukeme
www.theparadigmng.com/?p=33414&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

carnegiefan:
If you are Igbo, just know this fact: Your sister Stella Oduah was hounded out of office because she had the guts to fund full internationalization of Enugu airport, all other alleged reasons are conspiracy, old conspiratorial strategy overused to keep Igbo down, which is why they leave SE! Stella had guts (or she may have forgotten what Nigeria is and attempted to work to be fair to SE), they made her pay for it. Tomorrow, other Igbo will not dare try her guts in federal position.
Your type cannot know this because even if the evidence was thrust into your face, you will prefer to ignore it and instead look for another reason that indict Igbo for it. It is called COWARDICE. It is not new.

Ndigbo have been unimaginably patient with Nigeria, and yes they hoped that the idea of a Jonathan's presidency would have ushered in a new era devoid of born to rule and northern/islamic chauvism, but guess what, the OLD GUARD STILL MANAGED TO WIN. We are back in 1984!
The Igbo are tired of all the nonsense, and if you have any guts at all to face the truth you will acknowledge this fact.

Any opportunity that shows up realistically (even if remotely), and even if led by a Kanu, the masses of Igbo will grab at it with both hands!
I hope you saw what happened at Aba on May 30th.

carnegiefan:
The real truth is that Nigeria belongs to Hausa/Fulani; the marauding top predator in the zoo.
Nigeria is worse than a zoo because in a zoo each animal is confined to its own cage; the lion in a lion cage; the porcupine in a porcupine cage etc.
In Nigeria, the lion roams freely and CONSTANTLY kills and devours the porcupines, herbivores, smaller cats, reptiles, etc. In fact each animal is constantly seeking to outwit the other for survival. A true nation is one where there is peace, same values/mindset, same life dreams and life goals.

I wonder where all these lies will lead people like you.

SLIDEwaxie:
U may have laid some valid points, but it's none of my concern...

With all my life, I wish they start a war...

It will be fun, watching them being blown into pieces on CNN...

Do they for once think they are ready for another civil war?

What they failed to realise is that the war will be on their soil again..

I hope they will be annihilated this time..

SLIDEwaxie:
U may have laid some valid points, but it's none of my concern...

With all my life, I wish they start a war...

It will be fun, watching them being blown into pieces on CNN...

Do they for once think they are ready for another civil war?

What they failed to realise is that the war will be on their soil again..

I hope they will be annihilated this time..

Rilwayne001:
www.theparadigmng.com/?p=33414&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

londoner:
In fact it is some animals that constantly keep going where the lion lives.

If you were to take a minute to look at our region on state, local and community level you will see that we are our own worst enemy. We are to blame for much of what we are experiencing in our region. That is not to say that there is no deliberate keeping down at federal level and that tribalism is not alive and kicking, but it is not as if outside of that we don't work against ourselves in a very peculiar way that even other tribes can't understand.

Aegon:
Mr Op, your Igbo name doesn't legitimize your assertions. Anybody can assume any name over the internet to publish politically bent articles. Anyway it doesnt matter your type is inconsequential. Your argument is founded on two major flaws. First radio Biafra started as far as 2011 in London. So what government are you talking about? Are you deliberately trying to misinform the gullible or are you yourself lacking the facts? Either way your have exposed yourself. Second people gathering over an issue is the first step towards any revolution. The civil rights movement, the Russian, French and even the uprising of Hitler in the 1930s all started with these gatherings.

zendy:
The northerner will never agree to true federalism or regionalism. The Biafran war was fought because of this very reason. Gowon and Ojukwu signed an agreement in Aburi Ghana where both agreed that Nigeria must be run as a confederation. Gowon returned to Nigeria and realised that what he had just signed was not in tandem with norths overwhelming ambition to control Nigeria. That's why he abandoned the Aburi agreement and created States which forced Ojukwu to declare Biafra. The North will never allow regionalism to ever come back. If a motion for regionalism is moved at the National Assembly tomorrow, you can bet the northerners will gang up and vote it down with their numerical strenght.

zendy:
As for Igbos and their investment outside Igboland. I have read with constant amusement the way Yorubas say "leave Lagos and your investments and return to the east if you are serious about Biafra". In event of Biafra emerging, I believe that many Igbos will sell up and head home to build their nation. Lagos is just one of the many commercial hubs in the world. It is not the be all and end all of anything. The world is a much bigger place than Lagos. God knows what Lagos will become after Igbos leave it en mass.

zendy:
We shall make Biafra more attractive to the world than Lagos will ever be and I believe in the ingenuity of my people. Biafra shall emerge as a triumphant nation and we shall take much delight in proving our detractors wrong that we need Nigeria to survive

All Hail Biafra!!!!!!

obailala:
Permit me to break you argument into 3 parts...
1. The northerners will never agree to true federalism
2. Igbos will sell all their properties and investments and return home
3. We shall make Igboland (Biafra) much more attractive to the world than Lagos


Everyone knows the northerners would never support the idea of true federalism for obvious reasons. Everyone also understands the numerical capacity of the north. So what can we do about this?... Remember in the 2011 presidential elections, the northerners overwhelmingly supported Buhari while the entire southern Nigeria rallied behind GEJ. What was the outcome of that election?... GEJ gave Buhari a whooping 10million votes gap, the northern hegemony and numerical advantage was crippled. So how did southern Nigeria achieve that feat?... The answer is simple, UNITY!

Southern Nigeria united and overwhelmingly voted GEJ and the northern dominance was crushed. Fast forward to 2015 elections, it took just 60% of the southwest and 60% of the middle belt to support the northern candidate and the outcome was a historic defeat of the almighty PDP incumbency. In all these, all I am trying to say is that UNITY is the only key that can break the northern numerical advantage. A Warri proverb says, "na cooperation make rice full pot"

Unlike what we had in the 60's before the civil war, today the south-west supports true federalism, the south-south supports true federalism, a major chunk of the middle-belt supports true federalism and the south-east still wants true federalism. Presently, it is not the northern numerical advantage that stops us from achieving true federalism, rather it is the collective foolishness of the entire southern Nigeria to see the need for UNITY in order to achieve this great cause. I am particularly disgusted at the foolishness of some of my Igbo brothers who think the Yorubas are our enemies and who keep preaching hate against the SW. From history, the SW has always been our competitors and never our enemies. One wouldn't require much wisdom to know the difference.


Did you just say Igbos would sell all their properties first then head home?... Sell to who?... Where would the funds come from to buy Igbo properties?... I have an aunt who's been trying to sell off her house in Jos so she can relocate permanently to the SE. For the past 3 years she hasn't been able to get a reasonable buyer yet for a bungalow. But you think ALL Igbos can just automatically place all their businesses and houses and investments all over Nigeria for sale and then buyers would appear instantly with cash?... With over 70% of Igbos living and doing business outside Igboland, do you have the slightest idea of how much investments and properties Igbos have outside of Igboland?... Can the entire Nigerian budget even pay for the properties owned by Igbos outside the SE?... I am sorry to ask this but how old are you and what's your level of education?...

I'm sorry to say this but your current level of reasoning is sadly very common amongst most of the present proponents of Biafra; you guys have not spent a second to imagine the consequences but just keep reasoning like you are in dreamland.

Finally, you say we shall make Biafra more attractive than Lagos and I ask, "what stops us from making present day Igboland as attractive?"

Are you aware that if we still had reasonable and visionary leaders like Dee Sam Mbakwe leading us in the SE, the SE could have been miles ahead of Lagos by now?... Igbos have been begging successive central governments to build the 2nd Niger bridge and I ask, what stops the 5 Igbo states from coming together and building that bridge once and for all (even if it means placing a toll gate)?... Remember that even the GEJ who eventually wanted to build the bridge was going to put a toll gate to milk Igbos dry for the next 25 years and yet we were praising him. With the present crop of useless stomach politics leaders we have in the SE today, even if we achieve Biafra, what makes you think it would be any better than what we have today?...

Brother, the problem the SE in Nigeria today has is bad leadership and bad representatives and not marginalisation. A close look at Nigeria shows that not just the SE but all other regions are also marginalised by our useless leaders. If we cannot have good leaders today, we cannot still have good leaders even if we split into 100 countries.

zendy:
I don't think you are looking at the bigger picture here. I'm well aware that in the event of the emergence of Biafra, Igbos will suffer and make incredible sacrifices. But this is all about the future not the past. I know my people. Igbos are a resilient people. They are known to make something out of nothing. Ordinarily, what should obtain is that Biafra would immidiately join "ECOWAS" and guarantee that any Biafran can travel or live anywhere in west-Africa including Nigeria without need for a Visa. That's what the 'ECOWAS' in front of the Nigerian passport is their to remind everybody. However, we have to be prepared for anything. In the event of Biafra,we may have difficulty converting stocks and property to cash,we may even lose certain immovable investments but that is the price of freedom. God knows many people have paid a much higher price to be free. South Sudan fought for over 20 years and lost millions of lives to get the freedom they enjoy today. What matters is the future. Nigeria is cess-pit of deciet and incompetence bordering on the absurd. It has never worked as a nation and never will, not even if you make his Holliness, the Pope president. We have way too different personal interests and no one really has a 'Nigerian interest'. We cannot continue with this "British invented" hopeless faliure of a nation. Biafra represents hope, a new dawn,return of sovereignty and autonomy and freedom. It represents the right of choice and the opportunity to make a fresh start and to bring Governance closer to home. We cannot give up the the opportunity to administer our selves just because the way will be frought with hardship,danger and uncertainty. The average Igbo man goes through all of that in strange lands all over the world every day. Biafra, must come and the 'disaster' created by Lugard 100 years ago called Nigeria must come to an inglorious end.

londoner:
I say it again...Igbo's chose to neglect Igboland. Even the example of Stella Odua....did she run away to the UK? Or was that passion for the SE converted into an airport? An airport her people can use ( when they do not stubbornly opt to still go and use Lagos airport) ? Did she not make sure airlines did not come and are still wanting to fly from that airport?

Now that is FACT

She puts this KANU madman to shame along with others like her.
She did not have to drop one drop of blood to deliver it either. Our own Igbo govs can term after term swallow any money meant for their states and you people say and do need nothing, but it is instead Yoruba's you want to accuse. When SE govs eat the money and use it build hotels in Abuja or deliver substandard roads that become death traps, what does Kanumadman say?

Why is he looking towards SW and ignoring those administrations in our own region that have refused for many years to build Igboland?

Let Igboland become self sufficient first because talking about succession rubbish.

No one is talking about running after Federal appointments either build, your own region that is what EVERY OTHER TRIBE is doing. Stop giving your best years to others.

Igbo's that troop to Lagos or Kaduna do not do so in search of appointments. It is a long standing trend that has cost the SE region dearly....that is FACT.

asha80:
you call what is happening in south Sudan today 'enjoying freedom '?do you know what is actually happening is south Sudan today?make use of google my friend and believe many igbos who are at least comfortable will never subscribe to this your 'resilience' talk after crawling back after the civil war..
No one is that passed through that is ready to go through that process again

zendy:
What is happening in South Sudan is being engineered by Sudan same way that what is happening in Ukraine is being orchestrate by Russia. It's all about 'grabbing territory'. As I said before, no new nation has it easy. Not even America had it easy after winning their war of indepedence against Britain, but today they are the greatest nation on earth. I'm sure that many Igbos will not like the idea of Biafra, unfortunately for them, they are in a minority of maybe 10 to 15%. They will have go with the will of the vast majority of Igbos who are completely disenchanted with Nigeria. I wish Nigeria was a civilised Country like Britain that created it who offered Scottish people a referendum last year,but it not. The alternative might just be a violent break up.

asha80:
oh so it is no longer south Sudan enjoying freedom but Sudan that is now causing the problems?..by the way your 10 to 15 percent of Igbo that do not want Biafra have you a sample to reach that agreement? Has it occurred to you that there are son Igbo out there that want Biafra but not the way kanu is going about it?really kill kumuyi? Is he mad?take up weapons he tells his followers...weapons to fight who if I may ask?on whose soil os the war going to be fought?Igbo soil?...it I not about a new country having it easy it is about common sense...i was okay when kanu was approaching un but when he started preaching hate and taking up weapons I just put a brake

zendy:
I don't think you are looking at the bigger picture here. I'm well aware that in the event of the emergence of Biafra, Igbos will suffer and make incredible sacrifices. But this is all about the future not the past. I know my people. Igbos are a resilient people. They are known to make something out of nothing. Ordinarily, what should obtain is that Biafra would immidiately join "ECOWAS" and guarantee that any Biafran can travel or live anywhere in west-Africa including Nigeria without need for a Visa. That's what the 'ECOWAS' in front of the Nigerian passport is their to remind everybody. However, we have to be prepared for anything. In the event of Biafra,we may have difficulty converting stocks and property to cash,we may even lose certain immovable investments but that is the price of freedom. God knows many people have paid a much higher price to be free. South Sudan fought for over 20 years and lost millions of lives to get the freedom they enjoy today. What matters is the future. Nigeria is cess-pit of deciet and incompetence bordering on the absurd. It has never worked as a nation and never will, not even if you make his Holliness, the Pope president. We have way too different personal interests and no one really has a 'Nigerian interest'. We cannot continue with this "British invented" hopeless faliure of a nation. Biafra represents hope, a new dawn,return of sovereignty and autonomy and freedom. It represents the right of choice and the opportunity to make a fresh start and to bring Governance closer to home. We cannot give up the the opportunity to administer our selves just because the way will be frought with hardship,danger and uncertainty. The average Igbo man goes through all of that in strange lands all over the world every day. Biafra, must come and the 'disaster' created by Lugard 100 years ago called Nigeria must come to an inglorious end.

obailala:
Sometimes I just wonder the kind of utopian dreamland some people live in that make them churn out these Wonderland fairy tales. You just said I should look at the bigger picture yet you have been basing your arguments on illusions and not reality. Can you convince me why I or Emeka or Chibuzor or Kelechi or any other hardworking Igbo son living and hustling happily outside Igboland should make such huge economic sacrifice at this very time all just to satisfy the greed of a few political elite?... Why exactly should I make this sacrifice?...

You just live in a fantasy world and assume all our problems would be solved when we change our name to Biafra. You tried to assure me that because Biafra would be a part of ECOWAS, then I can move around freely without a passport. Is it not in this same country that Lagos state deported destitute non-indigenes and then you think that cannot happen when we impose an international border?... Is it not within this same country that Akwa-Ibom, Anambra and Rivers States deported non-indigenes?.... Was Ghana not a part of ECOWAS when a democratic Nigeria deported millions of Ghanaians in the 'Ghana-Must-Go' saga?... Is Niger Republic not a member of ECOWAS, yet every now and then, we deport their destitute?

With the present Igbo-phobia prevalent in Nigeria (which is obviously fuelled by some of our unnecessary SUPERIORITY COMPLEX), do you think other Nigerian ethnic groups (including the Ijaws) are very happy with Igbos?... With the prevailing Igbo phobia, if you are still 100% sure that Nigeria would be very friendly and cordial with Igbos even after we forcefully break away to form Biafra, then you must be living in a fantasy world called 'Wonderland.'

I maintain and I will continue to maintain that the problem of Igbos is a lack of good leaders. There is absolutely no zone in Nigeria that is not as marginalised as the SE and we need to stop this paranoid attitude of always feeling Igbos are most marginalised. If only we could still have visionary and patriotic leaders like Dee Sam Mbakwe, SE Nigeria would have been much more developed than it is today even with the unitary central government we practice today. What we presently need to progress in the SE is true federalism and the regional autonomy. In the late 60's, Biafran secession was a good idea considering the pogrom, but seceding and forming a new country now in 2015 would be too detrimental to our existence at this point in time.