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It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by eventsms(op): 5:56am On Sep 30, 2015
Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, gave what he termed as genuine reasons the United Nations should allow Biafra to be separated from Nigeria.

One of the reasons, he stated, was that the population of the former Eastern state, now South East and part of South South that make up Biafra land can currently boast of over 10 million people, adding that the Biafran people naturally do not share similar culture and tradition with Hausa-Fulani of the North and Yoruba of the South West as to continue to remain together under one country called Nigeria.
Uwazuruike

Uwazuruike

According to Uwazuruike, another reason was that MASSOB, as a separatist group, had all it takes to run a sovereign state of Biafra, having had enough instruments, structures, flag, currency, coat of arms and defence to assume a status of an existing government.

Uwazuruike, who spoke to newsmen, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, through MASSOB’s Deputy National Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, ahead of the on-going UN General Assembly, renewed his call on the world body to accord a recognition to Biafra as a sovereign state, just as it did to South Sudan which had been accorded a sovereign status since July 9, 2011.

He recalled that US had classified Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan as failed states which needed to be divided between 2011 and 2015, adding that it was only from Sudan that South Sudan was carved out on July 9, 2011, remaining Nigeria, Ethiopia and Somalia.

He cited examples of carving out of East-Timor with only a population of about 821,000 from Indonesia on May 22, 2002; carving out of Serbia with a population of about 10 million from Montenegro on July 2006; carving out of South Ossertia from Georgia and carving out of Kosovo from Serbia on February 17, 2008.

He, therefore, urged UN to grant the sovereignty of Biafra to save the people from further annihilation in Nigeria since there was no basis whatsoever for Biafra people’s continued stay with Nigeria, adding, “Nigeria cannot make any appreciable economic progress until Biafra is allowed to go, particularly now that Lord Fredrick Luggard’s amalgamation of 1914 has since January 1, 2014, expired after 100 years of the amalgamation.”

He wondered why the UN had not been proactive in tackling the knotty problems of the oppressed in Nigeria and asked rhetorically: “is UN waiting till things degenerate into full blown war again or to continue as genocide before they will act?”

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Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Bambless1(m):
Hey Igbo kwenu! Listen To Me "The ZOO will never fall. But All The ANIMALS are free to go" Feel free to move to Sambisa Forest. tongue

#QuoteMeAnywhere





MASSOB E-warlords Go Attack Me Now
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by leokennedi(m): 5:58am On Sep 30, 2015
Long live Biafra.....
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by tos4u(m): 6:03am On Sep 30, 2015
This issue of biafra is caisung nuisance to dis country , this people should go and sit down
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by agarawu23(m): 6:07am On Sep 30, 2015
Nonsense!!!
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by salisy: 6:09am On Sep 30, 2015
Seconded.... I hate this noisy yeeboes
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by agarawu23(m): 6:09am On Sep 30, 2015
tos4u:
This issue of biafra is caisung nuisance to dis country , this people should go and sit down
the problem is, can they survive it? UN should grant their request if they will not form their Biafra on Nigeria soil.

One Nigeria sweet die kiss
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by eleko1: 6:33am On Sep 30, 2015
undecided I'm IGBO from Nsukka.Dis BIAFRA noisy tire me oooo.No wonder,dey kal us Igbos due to our stubborn attitude angry sad huh
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by ifex370(m): 6:39am On Sep 30, 2015
Pharaoh let my people go
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by DEXTROVERT: 6:40am On Sep 30, 2015
Sometimes I wonder wat is the problem, it's not corruption it's Tribalism, the south East never thought of Biafra when Jonathan was president for 6yrs, since he lost, unnessary agitation began, if he had won, nothing of such will resurface.
Far in the North, it's Boko Haram believed to be manipulated to bring down Jonathan govt, as u can see, even with PMB it has not disappeared.

Let's put Tribalism apart, South Eastern brothers please for the sake of peace Nigeria has come to stay, support the PMB even if you don't want him but because he'll be there till 2019.

Long life Federal Republic of Nigeria
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by badnature: 6:44am On Sep 30, 2015
@eleko1 your no longer a yolooba? so today your igbo,for your information we don't want coward people around us
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by truefact: 6:46am On Sep 30, 2015
Is it must to be together? Why can't other ethnic groups form their own country? This zoo will surely fall, those can't survive without igbos should be ready to die...it is not by force to be together
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by size40: 6:49am On Sep 30, 2015
Keep dreaming Mr IPOB. I have said it severally that the Igbo's will get Biafra only on one condition. Which is; only counting on the 5 Igbo speaking states of Anambra, Enugu, Imo , Abia and Ebonyi States. But any attempt to include my state of Rivers state and other south-south states, will never work. We in the south-south are more than 10 million in population. We can as well become our own country if it comes to that. The Biafra should form their own country and look outside of my region.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by eleko1: 6:50am On Sep 30, 2015
undecided undecided .I'm a yebos from Nsukka.We shud put an End to dis Biafra madness.
badnature:
@eleko1 your no longer a yolooba? so today your igbo,for your information we don't want coward people around us
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Feranchek(m): 6:51am On Sep 30, 2015
It shall definitely come to pass
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by eleko1: 6:54am On Sep 30, 2015
Burger01 come warn yo pipu
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Onyejiuwaokoh: 7:04am On Sep 30, 2015
Continuous unity means continuous killings, corruption and religious war. Let us do like the India and Pakistan to save more lives.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by MayorofLagos(m): 7:04am On Sep 30, 2015
Here is my opinion.

At such an important gathering where the 70th UN General Meeting coincided with a renewed effort by Biafrans for UN recognition, the prudent thing to do would be to stage a public rally in Manhattan, right there in Times Square, just walking distance of less than ten blocks from UN Hq, and also flood internet and social media with tag #biafra and draw public attention and make Biafra the new Palestine in the global conscience. If this had happened, global leaders attending UN meeting and the accredited Journalists covering the event would notice and the Nigerian delegate would be cornered to address questions unofficially and off camera. This will create a task agenda for investigative journalists who might end up championing the Biafran cause for global awareness.

Instead of thinking proactively along this line, Ibos, as typical for them to do, choosed to position their cart before the horse by beating down on Nigeria and using internet and radio to harass Yorubas and Hausas and thereby position Nigeria as the victim of Biafran aggression instead of the other way around.

When will these cowards get some sense and understand how to turn political opportunities into gains that favor their interest , when? angry
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Yomboy4ever(m): 7:07am On Sep 30, 2015
badnature:
@eleko1 your no longer a yolooba? so today your igbo,for your information we don't want coward people around us
So for not supporting d madness makes him a yoruba.
U just sit inside ur room dey call for biafra pls what steps have u taken to achive that?
Post any picture of u participating in a protest and I will knw you are serious abt ur agitation.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Bambless1(m): 7:10am On Sep 30, 2015
Lalasticlala Abeg Kick This Thread To FP
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Nobody: 7:24am On Sep 30, 2015
is dis joblessness or wah?u love oga jona so much y did he not give u a 6th state to improve ur political strength atleast?d problem wt d country is greed n d fact dat ders 2much power in d centre, nt our cultural or religious differences
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Haishophem(m): 7:41am On Sep 30, 2015
eventsms:
He recalled that US had classified Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan as failed states which needed to be divided between 2011 and 2015, adding that it was only from Sudan that South Sudan was carved out on July 9, 2011, remaining Nigeria, Ethiopia and Somalia.

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If one of the basis of this people leaving is based on US opinion, I don't think they opened their eyes to see what has been going on ever since with US interference in most countries affairs. The WEST have never wanted a United Africa ever since, cos they are very much aware of the great strength we possess when we're together. If Biafra want to really leave make them leave and stop coming out quote some power drunk that call themselves world ruler.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Burger01(m): 8:50am On Sep 30, 2015
eleko1:
Burger01 come warn yo pipu
I think it's better they calve out their Biafra from Isreal.... not from Nigeria smiley
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by wirinet(m):
eventsms:
Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, gave what he termed as genuine reasons the United Nations should allow Biafra to be separated from Nigeria.
Let me give my own opinion on the genuiness of the reasons. I would like to ask, have MASSOB and Chief Ralph Uwazurike made an official presentation to the UN stating these genuine reasons?
One of the reasons, he stated, was that the population of the former Eastern state, now South East and part of South South that make up Biafra land can currently boast of over 10 million people, adding that the Biafran people naturally do not share similar culture and tradition with Hausa-Fulani of the North and Yoruba of the South West as to continue to remain together under one country called Nigeria.
Uwazuruike
Poor reason. Population in itself is not a valid reason for secession. There are many sovereign states with population less than 1 million and there are sovereign states with population of over 1 billion.

Sharing similar culture and tradition is not necessary a basis for secession, else countries like USA, South Africa, Canada and most African states with multicultural and multiracial population would not exist.

Nigeria is made up of over 250 ethnic groups and not just Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba, so you cannot bases your argument for secession based on your dislike for just 2 ethnic groups. Besides, you people always add other ethnic groups in the South South to your Biafra, like the Annangs, the Ijaws, the Calabaris, etc. Are you not still creating a mini Nigeria?
According to Uwazuruike, another reason was that MASSOB, as a separatist group, had all it takes to run a sovereign state of Biafra, having had enough instruments, structures, flag, currency, coat of arms and defence to assume a status of an existing government.
Biafra does not have a currency, nor a central bank, Biafra does not have any military or police, so this is a white lie. A flag and logo does not connote instruments of states as every organization has them.

Uwazuruike, who spoke to newsmen, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, through MASSOB’s Deputy National Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, ahead of the on-going UN General Assembly, renewed his call on the world body to accord a recognition to Biafra as a sovereign state, just as it did to South Sudan which had been accorded a sovereign status since July 9, 2011.
Where did he call and re-call the UN to accord recognition to Biafra? Why did he not go to Newyork and protest in front of the UN building during the General Assembly.
He recalled that US had classified Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan as failed states which needed to be divided between 2011 and 2015, adding that it was only from Sudan that South Sudan was carved out on July 9, 2011, remaining Nigeria, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Nigeria had never been classified as a failed state. Even Sudan and Ethiopia had never been classified as a failed state. A failed state is a state without a recognized government. Only Somalia fit that classification.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by laudate: 5:19pm On Sep 30, 2015
MayorofLagos:
Here is my opinion.

At such an important gathering where the 70th UN General Meeting coincided with a renewed effort by Biafrans for UN recognition, the prudent thing to do would be to stage a public rally in Manhattan, right there in Times Square, just walking distance of less than ten blocks from UN Hq, and also flood internet and social media with tag #biafra and draw public attention and make Biafra the new Palestine in the global conscience. If this had happened, global leaders attending UN meeting and the accredited Journalists covering the event would notice and the Nigerian delegate would be cornered to address questions unofficially and off camera. This will create a task agenda for investigative journalists who might end up championing the Biafran cause for global awareness.

Instead of thinking proactively along this line, Ibos, as typical for them to do, choosed to position their cart before the horse by beating down on Nigeria and using internet and radio to harass Yorubas and Hausas and thereby position Nigeria as the victim of Biafran aggression instead of the other way around.

When will these cowards get some sense and understand how to turn political opportunities into gains that favor their interest , when? angry
Stop teaching them what to do. Haba! Let them figure it by themselves. cheesy They will just turn around to attack you unecessarily, for even teaching them how to get support, that will enable them actualise their dream. shocked shocked

I don talk my own!! angry
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by englishmart(m): 5:30pm On Sep 30, 2015
agarawu23:
the problem is, can they survive it? UN should grant their request if they will not form their Biafra on Nigeria soil.

One Nigeria sweet die kiss
who be this mumu? shey south Sudan form their own for your nyash abi?
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by englishmart(m): 5:32pm On Sep 30, 2015
eleko1:
undecided I'm IGBO from Nsukka.Dis BIAFRA noisy tire me oooo.No wonder,dey kal us Igbos due to our stubborn attitude angry sad huh
commit for there. you be woman and na fear dey catch you so....
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by Strongfaze(m): 5:46pm On Sep 30, 2015
Carve out from where to where? Waiting for Biafra to be established is like waiting for hell to cool over. Don't you guys know geography at all? Wake up and build a productive region instead of shouting Biafra till thy kingdom come.
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by saintfizzo(m): 6:04pm On Sep 30, 2015
undecided they should find pencil and ruler and carve the nonsense out naaaa..... enuf of d brags alrdy.... we sef no want u
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by eventsms(op): 6:50am On Oct 01, 2015
STORY STORY . BIAFRIA IS GOING NO WHERE
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by laudate: 2:14pm On Oct 01, 2015
size40:
Keep dreaming Mr IPOB. I have said it severally that the Igbo's will get Biafra only on one condition. Which is; only counting on the 5 Igbo speaking states of Anambra, Enugu, Imo , Abia and Ebonyi States. But any attempt to include my state of Rivers state and other south-south states, will never work. We in the south-south are more than 10 million in population. We can as well become our own country if it comes to that. The Biafra should form their own country and look outside of my region.
Ehn??! shocked Issokay... the pro-Biafra internet group that will panel beat your submissions into the ground, are on their way.

Wey my mat, make I siddon enjoy this coming fight? shocked cheesy
Re: It’s Time To Carve Out Biafra From Nigeria by cjrane: 4:36am On Oct 02, 2015
[size=18pt]Biafra needs to be allowed to govern itself.

The injustices and oppression is now too much.

No matter what they do, more people have realized Nigeria is a fraudulent enterprise and must be fundamentally restructured or give freedom to all the constituent nations that made up Nigeria.
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