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They are confused!

lygn19:
I thought u used to be a mod?

now this is a good jab lolz!

EdCure:
Wisdom and commonsense are the most scarce commodities among biafrans.

they rush into conclusions which leave them with a bloody nose. This makes them return to the drawing board and still return with something dumber.

What they need right now is development in their region and not biafra.

Some posters above are saying they are teaming up with senators and MPs abroad. This same people can't even form an alliance with their fellow country men talkless of foreigners who gives no fvck about them. $$

The skills you learn at home are what you use outside. The biafrans failed to learn alliance politics in Nigeria, so they can't align with foreigners cos they lack the skills. That is why you see them insulting the Americans and the UK thesame way they insult Yorubas and Hausas. Who would want to help such folks?

Idrismusty97:
Hehehe see this child of Light . If not for the UK your women would have been wraped in Hijab and you would be here confessing the greatness of Allah . The Fulani's should just resume their Jihad down south. The British stopped that.

SHUT DA FCVK UP, YOU COULDN'T CONQUER TIV WARRIORS WITH YOUR FULANI JIHAD, YET YOU WANT TO CONQUER REPUBLICAN IGBOS WHOSE WOMEN MADE THE BRITISH SWEAT THROUGH THE ANUS? ISLAMIC JIHAD CAN ONLY SUCEED IN MONARCHIES.

THE FULANI CAME, CONQUERED HAUSA KINGS BY TURNING THEIR PEOPLE AGAINST THEM, EVERYONE FELL IN LINE, THEY CONQUERED YORUBA KINGS IN KWARA EVERYONE FELL IN LINE. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO CONQUER MAN-BY-MAN IN REPUBLICAN IGBOLAND AS THERE WERE REALLY NO KINGS TO CONQUER, SO THEY FAILED. THEY'VE RESORTED TO BRIBING IGBOS WITH MONEY TO CONVERT AND BUILDING EMPTY MOSQUES IN EBONYI BUT IT IS NOT WORKING. REPUBLICANISM IS THE REASON ISLAM CAN NEVER PENETRATE EASTERN NIGERIA. GIVE IT UP MALLAM.

u guys cant see the clear picture but are blinded by what u see now, u guys have been making wrong decisions since independence and u guys want to continue, I dont want to list them out because they say do not wash ur dirty linens outside. Stand down.

lygn19:
as an average Biafran am not surprised by your thinking . I always say this before and I would say it again anybody that does not want the progress of igbo land is not my kin.

Who want to have an illiterate like u as a kin.
You should go to the north an stay with them there, moreover I will recommend sambisa forest for u, they are ur brother's too idiot!!!!

There is no relationship between the children of light and the children of darkness.

juicee1:
they rush into conclusions which leave them with a bloody nose. This makes them return to the drawing board and still return with something dumber.

What they need right now is development in their region and not biafra.

Some posters above are saying they are teaming up with senators and MPs abroad. This same people can't even form an alliance with their fellow country men talkless of foreigners who gives no fvck about them. $$

The skills you learn at home are what you use outside. The biafrans failed to learn alliance politics in Nigeria, so they can't align with foreigners cos they lack the skills. That is why you see them insulting the Americans and the UK thesame way they insult Yorubas and Hausas. Who would want to help such folks?

If you're not biafran you're a foriegner. what do you have to offer as an ally? garri?
trash.

Ikengawo:
If you're not biafran you're a foriegner. what do you have to offer as an ally? garri?
trash.

garri can be useful in times of war.

Vulu:
SHUT DA FCVK UP, YOU COULDN'T CONQUER TIV WARRIORS WITH YOUR FULANI JIHAD, YET YOU WANT TO CONQUER REPUBLICAN IGBOS WHOSE WOMEN MADE THE BRITISH SWEAT THROUGH THE ANUS? ISLAMIC JIHAD CAN ONLY SUCEED IN MONARCHIES.

THE FULANI CAME, CONQUERED HAUSA KINGS BY TURNING THEIR PEOPLE AGAINST THEM, EVERYONE FELL IN LINE, THEY CONQUERED YORUBA KINGS IN KWARA EVERYONE FELL IN LINE. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE STRENGTH TO CONQUER MAN-BY-MAN IN REPUBLICAN IGBOLAND AS THERE REALLY NO KINGS TO CONQUER, SO THEY FAILED. IT IS THE REASON ISLAM CAN NEVER PENETRATE EASTERN NIGERIA.

Once upon a time your forefathers said the same about the British and Christian crusaders. But here you are praising Yahweh as the one and only god. There is no god, it is just an ideology. Which colonial masters doesn't know when they come for you it is certain you must fight back? They are coming for the future generations not you dumbfvck, You will fight back definitely but your children will grow up to love and worship the one and only true god Allah . Whatever the young is trained to believe in they would grow up to even love it even if it is a stone. Wait till we separate, The Fulanis must get to the Atlantic ocean. That's the sad reality of how nations get their territory, from USA to UK to France and even China. We all migrated from somewhere anyway, the lands belongs to the strongest .

Ikengawo:
your mother is a victim of forced prostit*tion

You're a product of ïncest. Your grandfather and your ïmbecile uncles rapéd the demented woman responsible for your miserable birth.

Anu ofia!

juicee1:
garri can be useful in times of war.

Hey!! I knew for sure ur not Igbo, so I will like u to move outta from this thread" and be fast about it.
"Ur a foreigner to me"

lygn19:
u guys cant see the clear picture but are blinded by what u see now, u guys have been making wrong decisions since independence and u guys want to continue, I dont want to list them out because they say do not wash ur dirty linens outside. Stand down.

if you don't wash your dirty linen outside, then it means you will continue to wear it that way.

Do you want such for your tribe? Making that list will help right some wrongs even though other tribes might make jest. Pls do

Ikengawo:
condemn that amalgamation, but lobby the UK of today to support you. The UK amalgamated Sudan and supported South Sudan because the South Sudanese lobbied their as$ off. They didn't pre-emptively decide everyone, including churches that supported you in the past, were your enemy. The UK amalgamated Pakistan and India and supported their partition. Nigeria is not special and is not different.

Uk will have no choice when this agitation reaches it's peak.

2015 is not 1967. The west including UK have gone a long way in 'marketing' ideas such as democracy, freedom, equality, self determination etc to the world, any attemp to deny Biafra this will be seen by the east and the rest as double standards and hypocrisy.

In an event of was uk might no longer help Nigeria. Our oil is almost becoming usless to them owing to the global fall, they couldnt even provide aid to NA in our counter insurgency campaign. Also illegal weapons suppply is easier now than ever. UK know even if they stick out their neck to help nigeria, any cladestine support of biafra by another power could jeopardice their efforts

EdCure:
You're a product of ïncest. Your grandfather and your ïmbecile uncles rapéd the demented woman responsible for your miserable birth.

Anu ofia!

Hey!! ewua si ebe puo osiso.
"And be fast about"
Gambaris

gab264:
Hey!! I knew for sure ur not Igbo, so I will like u to move outta from this thread" and be fast about it.
"Ur a foreigner to me"

this is Nairaland not biafraland. So, excuse me mr.

juicee1:
they rush into conclusions which leave them with a bloody nose. This makes them return to the drawing board and still return with something dumber.
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The skills you learn at home are what you use outside. The biafrans failed to learn alliance politics in Nigeria, so they can't align with foreigners cos they lack the skills. That is why you see them insulting the Americans and the UK thesame way they insult Yorubas and Hausas. Who would want to help such folks?

Surely they can neither give nor use what they don't have - wisdom; diplomacy & commonsense!
Not when they're this ultra-daft!

The current Biafra movement is Onitsha market politics taken to an international visibility.

Why do these albino gorillas always find ways to attach Yorubas with their biafran failure?

Attache by force people.

Attache to SS by force.

Attache to Yorubas by force.

Of course Biafra is a total failure:

1) You insult Yorubas, Fulanis, Hausa, Ijaws, Edos, Middle-beltans, etc. You hateful people abuse anyone you can lay your hands on. Who in their right minds would support that failure called Biafra? Making you stay in Nigeria is punishment enough.

2) You act as if you DESERVE Yoruba's indirect/direct support after discussing how you can kill Yorubas on radio biafra. Are you crazy? Why don't you weak soldier ants go and protest in the SW/ North? Brave hearts only protesting at home eh? Dem no born any igbo to trespass Yorubaland land with their badly-written placards.

3) Fulani support? hahahhahahahah....... next one.

4) Ijaw support? Lmao......support land grabbers? After you don abuse Ijaws finish? Sure Ijaws will use [and dump, as usual] Igbo people to free their oil from Nigerian clutches. They ought to be careful tho because Biafra really wants that oil. Greedy, wicked and selfish briafrans.

Not all of them are sleeping and facing one side afterall.

@ Ikengawo

There's Massob, there's Ipob, there's Lower Niger Congress, etc.
You can start your own movement for the actualization of Biafra you support and put all these your ideas in use.

We will support you.

ezeagu:
The current Biafra movement is Onitsha market politics taken to an international visibility.

Obiagu1:
@ Ikengawo

There's Massob, there's Ipob, there's Lower Niger Congress, etc.
You can start your own movement for the actualization of Biafra you support and put all these your ideas in use.

We will support you.

So divided! No respect for their leaders. No loyalty. No unity.

By next year, Ibo Union For Peace will pop up too.

IlekeGD:
So divided! No respect for their leaders. No loyalty. No unity.

By next year, Ibo Union For Peace will pop up too.

IlekeGD:
So divided! No respect for their leaders. No loyalty. No unity.

By next year, Ibo Union For Peace will pop up too.

... and why are you crying for us?

superstar1:

Lol I hope they keep dividing themselves. Anyone that wants to "kill Yorubas", may Sango continue to cause confusion and division within their camps. Awon oloshi.

Obiagu1:
... and why are you crying for us?

Why una bring Yoruba for the matter? una craze?

IlekeGD:
Lol I hope they keep dividing themselves. Anyone that wants to "kill Yorubas", may Sango continue to cause confusion and division within their camps. Awon oloshi.



Why una bring Yoruba for the matter? una craze?

You are on fire mode for those clowns.

IlekeGD:
Lol I hope they keep dividing themselves. Anyone that wants to "kill Yorubas", may Sango continue to cause confusion and division within their camps. Awon oloshi.



Why una bring Yoruba for the matter? una craze?

If you are really exposed, you'll know that you hardly have a single organisation fighting for freedom of a people.
You can read about Palestinians for a start, your education will start from there.

To be honest, I'm really tired of all these 'free education', they often lack common sense.

superstar1:
You are on fire mode for those clowns.

Yeah, she is already wet down there (literally) on seeing my moniker, like in the good old days.

Obiagu1:
If you are really exposed, you'll know that you hardly have a single organisation fighting for freedom of a people.
You can read about Palestinians for a start, your education will start from there.

To be honest, I'm really tired of all these 'free education', they often lack common sense.

Please tell us other secessionist group as confused and divided as Igbos. Do these groups attack every other groups in its country? Do these groups blame others for its failures?

[size=14pt]This New Biafra is a confused cause [/size]

On May 30, 1967, Biafra also known as the land of the rising sun in South Eastern Nigeria became a secessionist state. Two and the half years after the deaths of more than a million civilians felled in the war by enemy bullets, air strikes and starvation resulting from blockades, Biafra agreed to a cease fire with Nigerian Federal Military Government. Subsequently they were re-integrated into Nigeria. 45 years later, they long for recognition again, only that this time it has nothing to do with the power play in the military or the Northern plot to eliminate Igbos in the mid- 60’s.

Having gained independence in 1960, all seemed well with Nigeria though pretentiously, until 1966 when an Igbo Major who was born and bred in Kaduna and was popularly called Major Kaduna Nzeogwu led an Igbo dominated coup which prompted the killings of Northern elites and Military officers including the then premiere of the western region who was a Yoruba man. That coup won’t have mattered if at least one Igbo man was killed. Though Nzeogwu grew up in the north, he never mistook the northerners for brothers. Young Igbo military officers murdered the first and only Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. No Igbo political leader not even the then premiere of the eastern region nor Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, the then President who were all part of the corruption their administration was accused of, was killed in that coup. Hence, It was widely believed to be an Igbo coup.

Though Nzeogwu and his small group of Igbo officers put a wrong foot forward when a coup designed to rid the country of corrupt leaders in the first republic was targeted at mostly northern senior military officers who had no hand in the ugly situation back then, and worse still a Sarduana, however, the retaliation by the north was demonic. They went too far with their sport. It was a blood bath! It was like they had been waiting for the Igbos to falter.

And I ask; is that what you get for killing a highly respected Sarduana in cold blood and even having ample time on your hands to make a mockery of his death right in his domain?

Read also: This New Biafra is a confused cause (Part 1)

The Igbo military officers were enjoying bloody games and fatal jokes while it lasted. They didn’t know then that a Hausa/Fulani man does not react well to jokes. They don’t even have ears for sarcasm.

If an Igbo man makes the mistake of slaughtering a cow belonging to Fulani herds-men, trust me, they would kill 10,000 Igbos as compensation. Then, how much more a Sarduana, who was the most revered Islamic icon in the North?

The Hausas felt the Igbos played God in the North, however the north went overboard with the massacre that ensued. The ruthless Northerners went on a killing spree! Haba! 10,000-30,000 Igbos were murdered in broad daylight, depending on the account you choose to relate with. No doubt, there was indeed a grand plan to eliminate Igbos, we just can’t conclude if that plan was entirely Northern. Who wouldn’t go to war on that account? Which tribe in Nigeria would suffer that and still want to be under the leadership of such menacing region of the country?

Though they lost the war, the Biafran army was a gallant force and I believe their plan would have been successful if the war had been balanced. But like they say, all is fair in love and war.

The war was forced upon them and it’s sad that till date the Igbos are still held at arm’s length politically. The effects of a war doesn’t last till the end of a war, it lasts many years after and may not even have an end.

You want to know the truth; the problem with Nigeria and Biafra did not start during the civil war. The problem started in 1914 when the British selfishly amalgamated a then Northern region that was backward in every sphere of human endeavour and had no form of inclination towards the South with a more illustrious, vast and economically prosperous Southern region; it was indeed the greatest injustice of colonization.

Later, another problem sprang up in 1956 when oil was discovered in Oloibiri; that set the stage for the British spiral ball to roam recklessly on our fertile green land with no holds barred. If only we had no black gold, ‘boya ife wa ma gbono gidigidi’ (probably we would have been genuinely united)

Back to present day; so, this time what is the last straw that has hit the camel’s back that would warrant calls for another wanton loss of lives and properties; Jonathan’s loss in the April 2015 polls? Buhari’s presidency and his own supposedly unreserved and unmistakable hatred for the Igbos?

Or was it after the ones that didn’t really know what happened then, saw the movie-half of a yellow sun? Though I’m not sure half of a yellow sun told us what really happened before the pogrom, just like Achebe’s book,”There was once a country” only did justice to the part that grossly affected his kinsmen.

I respect Achebe; he remains my best Nigerian writer ever. In fact I liked him more than I do like a Soyinka, both in their writings and their deeds. But that doesn’t change the fact that his last book before his death could have been biased(Now, I’m not sure if it was his last); he told us the bitter truth about the war we needed to know; albeit it still didn’t change the fact that it was a one-sided account of what ‘really-entirely’ happened before and during the war.

Albeit, I still give it to the literary genius of the man of blessed memory. It was his personal history of Biafra; his own account of the civil war. Just like this article is my own account of what I think this renewed agitation is about; my own opinion. Probably I would have understood things better if my tribe was at the receiving end of the ‘1967-1970’ madness.

Often times, we choose to believe what we want to believe, not necessarily what our mind tells us; that is what they call sentiments, right? Invariably, I had to find a balance between sentiments and belief, in writing this piece. And this was what I could come up with.

Regardless, is this new clamour for the sovereign state of Biafra borne out of genuine concern, or is it just one plan of an overly ambitious, power thirsty man or group of Biafrans who want the innocent to suffer for their cause?

Kanu says Nigeria is a failed nation where nothing works; I hope Biafra holds more promise so he won’t have to eat his words. Moreover, do the majority of the Igbo people support his cause or is it only a cross section of Igbos in the east?

Though, I vehemently oppose President. Buhari’s alienation of a major ethnic group through his political appointments, albeit is that enough to lose rag?

In my minds’ eye, Nigeria has always being a mere geographical expression but will a civil war do us any good? Will Nigerians and Biafrans alike survive yet another civil war? Or is it that we’ve developed selective amnesia to forget so soon the dark era that lasted some 30 months; an era which still lives in the consciousness of the affected ones still alive; a time when over 1 million Nigerians of eastern descent and another 100,000 from the federal forces lost their lives to a war that could have been averted.

With the many groups/leaders clamouring for Biafra and the divisions even within the Biafrans, will they not face the same problems of wanton power-play, inequality and injustice, Nigeria has consistently been saddled with from time immemorial?

For 8 whooping years, Igbo leaders were unable to settle an intra-party disagreement; I wonder what a Biafra will be like with them at the helm of affairs.

I don’t have a problem with Igbos falling out of Nigeria because I have a problem with the so called country called Nigeria; A country that acts like a toddler who fails to learn from every fall. Yes! We should never have being? But that doesn’t change the fact that the Biafrans need to know and understand well enough what they are fighting for.

They need to first take care of the internal politics inherent in their domain before they face the Nigerian factor or else they would be no better than Nigeria if and when that region secedes.



I did say at the start of the first part of this article that I may lose my numerous Igbo friends to secession if it eventually works. Obviously, I don’t have to wait till the secession before I lose my Igbo friends; I have a feeling I’ve lost them already.

I still love you guys though, even more than my own people, you know yeah? And you know better than to let this piece come between us, right?

What God has joined together, let no article put asunder! Did I hear an Amen!

God bless Nigeria!

[size=14pt]Any Igbo person talking about Biafra today or tomorrow is confused and troubled[/size]

Today, the areas that made up the Republic of Biafra are 9 different states with 5 of them making up the South East geo political zone and the other 4 states are part of the South South geo political zone along with Delta and Edo states.

Things have changed and the condition that made it possible for the then military governor of the Eastern region to declare Biafra does not exist today and no single person whether in government or out of government has the power to declare any Biafra comprising of these 9 states today.

So, if you allow people who use the name Biafra to make money for themselves to deceive you and give you false hope then you should be pitied.

The only talk about Biafra that makes sense and can be justified today is when making reference to the period between 1967 and 1970.

Each time I ask proponents of Biafra to tell me the boundaries of this Biafra they talk about today they start speaking in tongues or tell me to wait until we get to the proverbial bridge.

A facebook friend of mine wrote this morning that I was being a coward for not agreeing with him that you don't have any Hausa doctors in Nigeria and maintained that I was against his ridiculous position because he was a bold Biafran.

I needed to post this update to make the bold Biafran realize that in the real sense he is a bold confused Igbo man that seems to be very ignorant of Biafra and what it represented.

If Nigeria ever disintegrates the only viable independent nation the Igbos can talk about remains the Igbo nation that could be given any name because the word Biafra is not even an Igbo name and referred to both Igbo and non Igbo speaking areas of the then Eastern region.

Na igbo person talk am o

[size=14pt]Igbos Are Not United -Gov Rochas Okorocha
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Until Igbos are united in one voice and aspiration, the highest political office in the country would continue to elude them, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said.