₦airaland Forum

mentorandfriend:
I have seen how Biafran agitators are going about the business of pushing for freedom of self determination and rule. In Portharcourt on Tuesday, I watched the protest live from the safety of my friend's car. We both were shocked at the crudeness on display.

I thought on these fifteen short points and I'll like to draw my Igbo brothers' attention to them. Let's reason together.

1) First of all, I am a Nigerian. I believe in the sovereignty and indivisibility of our country; the giant of Africa.

2) The almagation of the Northern and Southern proctorates in 1914 by Lord Fredrich Lugard has been termed as a marriage of convenience in some quatres in different times, by different leaders of thought. I cannot agree less.

3) A nation has been defined as a group of people with same culture (language, dressing, food, etc) and religion existing together within a geographical space. Nigeria is not a nation; agreed! We have have a lot of differences among us. Several people in times past have mounted on this to stir messages of hate, division, polictical chauvaunism and manipulation, etc.

4) In this line, we have on our hands in recent weeks, the agitation by some people of mainly Igbo extraction of the South Eastern part of Nigeria who are vigourously agitating for their rights to self determination and rule.

5) Yes, I am Igbo, but I do not wish to use my space to endorse how they're going about this Biafra struggle.

Do I support Biafran claims? Yes!

But do I support how they're going about it? No. We are creating hardship for traders, creating more hatred for Igbos who work in National institutions and public cooperations. I stand for peace, unity, equity, and progress in the one entity, Nigeria......

God bless Nigeria.

mentorandfriend:
I have seen how Biafran agitators are going about the business of pushing for freedom of self determination and rule. In Portharcourt on Tuesday, I watched the protest live from the safety of my friend's car. We both were shocked at the crudeness on display.

I thought on these fifteen short points and I'll like to draw my Igbo brothers' attention to them. Let's reason together.

1) First of all, I am a Nigerian. I believe in the sovereignty and indivisibility of our country; the giant of Africa.

2) The almagation of the Northern and Southern proctorates in 1914 by Lord Fredrich Lugard has been termed as a marriage of convenience in some quatres in different times, by different leaders of thought. I cannot agree less.

3) A nation has been defined as a group of people with same culture (language, dressing, food, etc) and religion existing together within a geographical space. Nigeria is not a nation; agreed! We have have a lot of differences among us. Several people in times past have mounted on this to stir messages of hate, division, polictical chauvaunism and manipulation, etc.

4) In this line, we have on our hands in recent weeks, the agitation by some people of mainly Igbo extraction of the South Eastern part of Nigeria who are vigourously agitating for their rights to self determination and rule.

5) Yes, I am Igbo, but I do not wish to use my space to endorse how they're going about this Biafra struggle.

Do I support Biafran claims? Yes!

But do I support how they're going about it? No. We are creating hardship for traders, creating more hatred for Igbos who work in National institutions and public cooperations. I stand for peace, unity, equity, and progress in the one entity, Nigeria.

6) We must ask ourselves salient questions: Who are the leaders and strategists behind these seccesion movement? Are they responsible thought leaders? Are they people who have succeeded in their own right as leaders and captains of industries or are they a bunch of bitter, directionless, disgruntled elements looking for gain or who to pass on the blame for their failures in life?

7) I'll say this once, may be till another opportunity comes. This movement is being spearheaded by jobless graduates and traders facing a backlash of the recent austerity measures put in place by the new government due to dwindling oil prices in the international market.

However, successful Igbo traders in Lagos and Abuja and Kaduna, academicians, career civil servants and policticians of Igbo extraction care less.

7) I have not heard Slok boss, Capital Oil boss, Coscharis boss, Innoson, Chikason, Ibeto, TREM bishop, musicians with national appeal in the market and millions of other successful Igbo people who have investments worth billions of naira in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Portharcourt, Jos and Kano promoting Biafra.

God has blessed their hustle. Pray that God will bless your own hustle too so you won't rise up to blame another person for your failures.

8.) Is Nigeria really our problem in the south east? In what specific ways? There are bad roads in the south west, north west, south east, south south, everywhere. Our challenges are not peculiar to us. Our collective problem in Nigeria is bad leadership, no more no less.

Will this get better with a Biafran country? The probability is half! How far have our own governors gone in fixing our roads and paying workers' salaries as at when due? States like Abia state has been written off by its residents and indigenes alike. Perhaps it is an Hausa man's fault or a Yoruba man's fault too. Who knows!

How many of our South Eastern governors have created massive job opporrunities for the teeming graduates being turned out each year? Nigeria has a projected population of about 170 million people. It is estimated that there are about 15 million Igbos living outside the five core eastern states, with about 4 million alone in Lagos. Where are the jobs in the South East for these people who will experience a bitter reprisal movement by the Nigerian government when we have our Biafra which will force them out of their places of abode back home. Can they be contained here?

As you take to the streets to protest, think outside the box first.

Could it be that we are our own problem? Have we addressed our problems of greed, kidnapping, hatred for one another? Have you not heard the proverb among the Igbo people that if you see a snake and an Mbaise man, kill the Mbaise man first before the snake? Have you heard about the Osu caste system and how they are avoided like plague? No one wants to marry them, except among themselves. I can go on and on.

How much have our senators represented us? Any visible constituency project? If these people can loot with brazen impunity in Nigeria with strong institutions as the police, judiciary, EFCC, ICPC, NDLEA, etc, don't even begin to think of how they will loot with freedom in baby Biafra. Who will stop them? You? Dream on.

10) OK. I've seen a map of the 25 provinces of Biafra. I laughed till I had no more strength to laugh. Imagine Warri, Yenegoa, Portharcourt, Benin city, Eket, Ogoja, Uyo, on our map. Are our expectations realistic at all?

11) I work for a multinational health agency and I have stayed for weeks and months in Warri, Yenegoa, Benin city and Portharcourt. I have interacted with the people on the street and anyone who promotes the talk of Biafra happened to be a core Igbo man from any of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo. I can summarily say that the talk of Niger Deltans leaving Nigeria to follow Igbos to form a new nation is laughable. They will rather demand for Niger Delta Republic than trust Igbos. They don't want to be part of this!

If you get what I'm driving at, you should know that the hope of huge oil revenue for the new country is simply a busy-body talk!

12) If Biafra is thus about the five south eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo, then we must brace ourselves because we're on a long thing. It seems we've been deceived through the stirring of our emotions by someone who is making cool pounds sterling and American dollars in far away UK by just talking into some gadgets from the comfort of his room.

I learnt financial donations keep pouring in for Radio Biafra's Nnamdi Kanu. Dude has discovered a cool business idea. After all, he is an Igbo man, a son of the soil so money must be made. Lol.

While he is receiving financial donations in hard currency to do nothing in particular, some misguided and misinformed traders are closing their shops for protest. (Shaking my head).

13) But on the other hand, the Nigerian government must call Ohaneze Ndigbo and other influencers in Igbo land (I mean academicians, top civil servants, policticians and captains of industries) to the negotiation table at the State House so that ways to curtail this uprising that threatens our collective peace can be discussed.

Their agenda should include looking into the total breakdown of infrasture in the south east (roads, airports, universities, etc). Work on second Niger bridge must be hastened, visibly! Friendly policies that favour businessmen must be formulated because the Igbo man is a trader; inherently. Import waivers should be encouraged and custom duties relaxed.

Buhari and his new cabinet should go to work immediately. The ministries headed by Fashola, Okechukwu Emenalah, Dr Chris Ngige, and Rotimi Amaechi are key.

14) I believe in Nigeria. Millions of Igbo people are making billions of naira in Lagos, Abuja, Portharcourt, Jos, Kaduna and Kano. They have risen above hate and helplessness.

15) Pray that God blesses your own hustle too so you won't cast blames on another person for your failures tommorrow.

God bless Nigeria.

mentorandfriend:
I have seen how Biafran agitators are going about the business of pushing for freedom of self determination and rule. In Portharcourt on Tuesday, I watched the protest live from the safety of my friend's car. We both were shocked at the crudeness on display.

I thought on these fifteen short points and I'll like to draw my Igbo brothers' attention to them. Let's reason together.

1) First of all, I am a Nigerian. I believe in the sovereignty and indivisibility of our country; the giant of Africa.

2) The almagation of the Northern and Southern proctorates in 1914 by Lord Fredrich Lugard has been termed as a marriage of convenience in some quatres in different times, by different leaders of thought. I cannot agree less.

3) A nation has been defined as a group of people with same culture (language, dressing, food, etc) and religion existing together within a geographical space. Nigeria is not a nation; agreed! We have have a lot of differences among us. Several people in times past have mounted on this to stir messages of hate, division, polictical chauvaunism and manipulation, etc.

4) In this line, we have on our hands in recent weeks, the agitation by some people of mainly Igbo extraction of the South Eastern part of Nigeria who are vigourously agitating for their rights to self determination and rule.

5) Yes, I am Igbo, but I do not wish to use my space to endorse how they're going about this Biafra struggle.

Do I support Biafran claims? Yes!

But do I support how they're going about it? No. We are creating hardship for traders, creating more hatred for Igbos who work in National institutions and public cooperations. I stand for peace, unity, equity, and progress in the one entity, Nigeria.

6) We must ask ourselves salient questions: Who are the leaders and strategists behind these seccesion movement? Are they responsible thought leaders? Are they people who have succeeded in their own right as leaders and captains of industries or are they a bunch of bitter, directionless, disgruntled elements looking for gain or who to pass on the blame for their failures in life?

7) I'll say this once, may be till another opportunity comes. This movement is being spearheaded by jobless graduates and traders facing a backlash of the recent austerity measures put in place by the new government due to dwindling oil prices in the international market.

However, successful Igbo traders in Lagos and Abuja and Kaduna, academicians, career civil servants and policticians of Igbo extraction care less.

7) I have not heard Slok boss, Capital Oil boss, Coscharis boss, Innoson, Chikason, Ibeto, TREM bishop, musicians with national appeal in the market and millions of other successful Igbo people who have investments worth billions of naira in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Portharcourt, Jos and Kano promoting Biafra.

God has blessed their hustle. Pray that God will bless your own hustle too so you won't rise up to blame another person for your failures.

8.) Is Nigeria really our problem in the south east? In what specific ways? There are bad roads in the south west, north west, south east, south south, everywhere. Our challenges are not peculiar to us. Our collective problem in Nigeria is bad leadership, no more no less.

Will this get better with a Biafran country? The probability is half! How far have our own governors gone in fixing our roads and paying workers' salaries as at when due? States like Abia state has been written off by its residents and indigenes alike. Perhaps it is an Hausa man's fault or a Yoruba man's fault too. Who knows!

How many of our South Eastern governors have created massive job opporrunities for the teeming graduates being turned out each year? Nigeria has a projected population of about 170 million people. It is estimated that there are about 15 million Igbos living outside the five core eastern states, with about 4 million alone in Lagos. Where are the jobs in the South East for these people who will experience a bitter reprisal movement by the Nigerian government when we have our Biafra which will force them out of their places of abode back home. Can they be contained here?

As you take to the streets to protest, think outside the box first.

Could it be that we are our own problem? Have we addressed our problems of greed, kidnapping, hatred for one another? Have you not heard the proverb among the Igbo people that if you see a snake and an Mbaise man, kill the Mbaise man first before the snake? Have you heard about the Osu caste system and how they are avoided like plague? No one wants to marry them, except among themselves. I can go on and on.

How much have our senators represented us? Any visible constituency project? If these people can loot with brazen impunity in Nigeria with strong institutions as the police, judiciary, EFCC, ICPC, NDLEA, etc, don't even begin to think of how they will loot with freedom in baby Biafra. Who will stop them? You? Dream on.

10) OK. I've seen a map of the 25 provinces of Biafra. I laughed till I had no more strength to laugh. Imagine Warri, Yenegoa, Portharcourt, Benin city, Eket, Ogoja, Uyo, on our map. Are our expectations realistic at all?

11) I work for a multinational health agency and I have stayed for weeks and months in Warri, Yenegoa, Benin city and Portharcourt. I have interacted with the people on the street and anyone who promotes the talk of Biafra happened to be a core Igbo man from any of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo. I can summarily say that the talk of Niger Deltans leaving Nigeria to follow Igbos to form a new nation is laughable. They will rather demand for Niger Delta Republic than trust Igbos. They don't want to be part of this!

If you get what I'm driving at, you should know that the hope of huge oil revenue for the new country is simply a busy-body talk!

12) If Biafra is thus about the five south eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo, then we must brace ourselves because we're on a long thing. It seems we've been deceived through the stirring of our emotions by someone who is making cool pounds sterling and American dollars in far away UK by just talking into some gadgets from the comfort of his room.

I learnt financial donations keep pouring in for Radio Biafra's Nnamdi Kanu. Dude has discovered a cool business idea. After all, he is an Igbo man, a son of the soil so money must be made. Lol.

While he is receiving financial donations in hard currency to do nothing in particular, some misguided and misinformed traders are closing their shops for protest. (Shaking my head).

13) But on the other hand, the Nigerian government must call Ohaneze Ndigbo and other influencers in Igbo land (I mean academicians, top civil servants, policticians and captains of industries) to the negotiation table at the State House so that ways to curtail this uprising that threatens our collective peace can be discussed.

Their agenda should include looking into the total breakdown of infrasture in the south east (roads, airports, universities, etc). Work on second Niger bridge must be hastened, visibly! Friendly policies that favour businessmen must be formulated because the Igbo man is a trader; inherently. Import waivers should be encouraged and custom duties relaxed.

Buhari and his new cabinet should go to work immediately. The ministries headed by Fashola, Okechukwu Emenalah, Dr Chris Ngige, and Rotimi Amaechi are key.

14) I believe in Nigeria. Millions of Igbo people are making billions of naira in Lagos, Abuja, Portharcourt, Jos, Kaduna and Kano. They have risen above hate and helplessness.

15) Pray that God blesses your own hustle too so you won't cast blames on another person for your failures tommorrow.

God bless Nigeria.

theDEVILisHERE:
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Are you people not tired of this long writups here and there

Stop stressing yourselves

Biafra is coming
Nothing can stop it

udokpuenyi:
ONE NIGERIA FOR HAUSA/FULANI YORUBA, ONE NIGERIAN FOR BIAFRAN GOVERNORS, HOUSE OF REP/SENATE , ASSEMBLY MEMBERS, ONE NIGERIA FOR THE FEW HAVING FUN IN IT? ONE NIGERIA MY FOOT ;-
Great Biafrans, My Hausa friend asked me: Under what conditions would you start believing that One Nigeria is working? Here was my response:
1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri; so that when you clear your goods, cars and containers, you can drive it all the way to Lagos even when there is a seaport there!

udokpuenyi:
2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports...only local or minimal connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights...direct and major connecting flights.

udokpuenyi:
3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.!

udokpuenyi:
4. All federal governments agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC,e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.

theDEVILisHERE:
[s]Are you people not tired of this long writups here and there

Stop stressing yourselves

Biafrra is coming
Nothing can stop it[/s]

simplycarro:
Rubbish from Opiaoku as usual.
Grow up.

simplycarro:
Rubbish from Opiaoku as usual.
Grow up.

Olabestonic001:
sure! you are cultist has op has said. You comments are devoid of sound reasoning but rather you are hate-filled and a never do well. With comments of idiots like you, I nearly hate my prospective in-laws but having rapport with who is who in Igbo land, I must confessed I'm ashamed of myself for joining issues with your ilk. Miscreants like you have no future and the only future you can create is crisis-filled. You can now continue as others match on in destiny while you cry foul play. I never knew you are a never-do-well.

MAY GOD SAVE YOUR SOUL!

xtrorse:
I can see you that you wrote from a pained heart after I have relentlessly exposed and dealt with your hypocrisy and lies to your eternal shame.

Not withstanding the engineering job you're into I can take care of you.

You know that your Yorubaland is replete with blood sucking occultic groups. With your uncanny disposition online you might not be unconnected with a bloodline of Ogboni fraternity.

No matter how pious looking and smooth talking you appear I regret ever having to engage a hypocritical cretinous savage like you.

Of a truth I really pity that Igbo lady that came in contact with a double-faced, snaky beast like you.

You can continue your masked hatred for anything Igbo; it may prematurely send you the way of your fathers - that's the path you currently tread. This is a statement and not an advice.

Olabestonic001:
You are d hate-filled one here and Igbo's dt matters don't know miscreants like you. Job your leagues of miscreants otherwise good people will buy into such bigots as you.

FYI; My fiance loves me despite d division miscreants like you fan and I love her too. If you have half as much as my good heart then you will live well.

Igbos in real life are good people while miscreants on NL like you are just hateful lots who needs CHRIST