pus96:
Stop talking about Biafra
It is a dream of fool. Like the former army chief , foolishness is not igbo


I would let Biafra go.. But no food. How do you feed 30 million , on water.


For how long

carnegiefan:


UN can "force" Nigeria to conduct a referendum if the permanent members agree to that. Any number of things can make them agree... or not.
It is left to the Biafrans to find out what those things are.
Personally I believe that the shortest route to Biafran freedom from Nigeria is for the Biafrans to "convince" the Nigerians that they want out and even if it takes 100 years that they want out. Once the Nigerians get convinced that we hate them enough they will ask us to leave.
Right now they hate us, but we haven't returned the favor yet.
Even foreigners notice that Nigerians hate us, but the problem is our people who carry on as if life can go on under the burden of such hate.
Our region is the most neglected in Nigeria in terms of federal infrastructure.
Things that North and West take for granted (eg airports, roads and bridges) are pies in the skies in our region.
And if we complain, we are killed.
It is only if we return the hate that the writing will become clear on the wall.
Maybe then, they would know that we are humans with dignity too, and maybe let us go ('cos frankly they don't like us).

carnegiefan:


UN can "force" Nigeria to conduct a referendum if the permanent members agree to that. Any number of things can make them agree... or not.
It is left to the Biafrans to find out what those things are.
Personally I believe that the shortest route to Biafran freedom from Nigeria is for the Biafrans to "convince" the Nigerians that they want out and even if it takes 100 years that they want out. Once the Nigerians get convinced that we hate them enough they will ask us to leave.
Right now they hate us, but we haven't returned the favor yet.
Even foreigners notice that Nigerians hate us, but the problem is our people who carry on as if life can go on under the burden of such hate.
Our region is the most neglected in Nigeria in terms of federal infrastructure.
Things that North and West take for granted (eg airports, roads and bridges) are pies in the skies in our region.
And if we complain, we are killed.
It is only if we return the hate that the writing will become clear on the wall.
Maybe then, they would know that we are humans with dignity too, and maybe let us go ('cos frankly they don't like us).

fr3do:


No one needs to soldiers to bind any country to international law.
Economic sanctions are enough, and for a consumer economy like Nigeria, it would be brutal.

fr3do:

Was it them that fuelled it in the 60s?

kernel501:


THEY CAN FORCE UN MEMBERS TO SHUN NIGERIAN OIL AND ANY COUNTRY STRONG ENOUGH TO WAVE THE SANCTION WILL BID A BARREL BELOW $20 KNOWING FULLY WELL THAT PRO AMERICAN STATES WON'T BUY.
REMEMBER 80% OF OUR REVENUE COMES FROM OIL.

FORCE INTERNATIONAL BANKS AGAINST DOING BUSINESS WITH NIGERIAN BANKS, THAT ALONE WILL BRING OUR ECONOMY TO HER KNEELS.

McTobe:
The big powers knows only their interest only and nothing more. like I argued before only if they see what they will benefit more from Biafra that their relationship with Nigeria have not offered them. For me China can easily support Biafra and the same goes for Russia with their new posture in international affairs. Saudi Arabia is under US manipulation and they will do US bidding but I don't know yet how US and their allies can forgo their interest in Nigeria. If the Niger Deltans(SS) willingly come into Biafra as I know that there is a likelihood, then Biafra must convince these big MNC oil companies to convince their home countries to support the Biafra course that their interest will be highly protected under the Biafra state and even woe them to establish a military base in Biafra and of course secret deals will be signed. without taking care of these big power interests the achievement of Biafra will remain a mirage

kernel501:


WHY DIDN'T THEY HOLD BACK ON BAKASSI? THEY WOULD BE ECONOMIC CONSEQENCES THAN NIGERIANS WILL NOT STAND, CHECK ZIMBABUE AND IRAN.

AyakaDunukofia:


If no international law takes predcedent over a country's constitution, why is Sudan's president Albashir hiding like a rat for years or why was Slobadan Milosovich of Yugoslavia arrested.

The UN was established after the second world war given that once in a while murderous tyrants and sado-masochists like Buhari appear on the political radar, just like Hitler.

Biafra's won't be the first for Nigeria. The southern Cameroons were granted their right of opinion through the 1961 plebscite in a referendum by Nigeria, and was conducted UNDER UN's Supervision and NOT NIGERIA(no magomago)

kernel501:


YEA... NOW YOU ARE GETTING ME, ONCE BIAFRA CAN ASSURE ONE OR TWO TOP GUNS OF THERE INTEREST, NIGERIA IS GONE.
RUSSIA IS A BETTER BET LIKE YOU SAID, NIGER DELTA AND BIAFRA WILL RATHER PAY TO RUSSIA OR CHINA AND MOVE FORWARD INSTEAD OF STAYING IN UNMOVING ENCLAVE IN THE NAME OF MOST POPULUOS BLACK NATION.

McTobe:
Nigeria have all it takes TP reject that ICJ ruling and stand their ground without little or no sanctions. Sanction from who, France? the truth of the matter is like I said before Nigeria is not as aggressive as they should be in foreign policy. we are just too lame and dull and acts before thinking. ordinarily Nigeria would have refused to go to ICJ no body would have forced them to go. look at Liberia and Siere Leone what is Nigeria's interest in taking the leading role they took in quenching the crisis there with all our human and material lost there. I have never seen a country so lame in foreign policy. IRAQ's case is different altogether the matter being NUCLEAR related issue that threatens the whole world

kernel501:


YEA... NOW YOU ARE GETTING ME, ONCE BIAFRA CAN ASSURE ONE OR TWO TOP GUNS OF THERE INTEREST, NIGERIA IS GONE.
RUSSIA IS A BETTER BET LIKE YOU SAID, NIGER DELTA AND BIAFRA WILL RATHER PAY TO RUSSIA OR CHINA AND MOVE FORWARD INSTEAD OF STAYING IN UNMOVING ENCLAVE IN THE NAME OF MOST POPULUOS BLACK NATION.

kernel501:


THEY CAN FORCE UN MEMBERS TO SHUN NIGERIAN OIL AND ANY COUNTRY STRONG ENOUGH TO WAVE THE SANCTION WILL BID A BARREL BELOW $20 KNOWING FULLY WELL THAT PRO AMERICAN STATES WON'T BUY.
REMEMBER 80% OF OUR REVENUE COMES FROM OIL.
FORCE INTERNATIONAL BANKS AGAINST DOING BUSINESS WITH NIGERIAN BANKS, THAT ALONE WILL BRING OUR ECONOMY TO HER KNEELS.

superstar1:



There is no world power that can support secession openly because they also have secessionist cry in their back yard.

In US, the Sourthern States want to pull out of the Union, In RUssia, you have Chenchya, in China you have Tibet and Taiwan and even hong Kong; in Britain, we had Scotland; in canada you have Quebec; in Spain you have the Basque Region and the Catalonia.

Which one of them will support secession without fueling hat they are contending with at home?

The road to secession is simple but tortuous and calls for intellectual argument rather than show of brawn that will never lead to any where.

kernel501:


THIS THREAD HAS PROVEN INDEED THAT WE CAN BE LOGICAL FOR ONCE AGAINST BIAS, HURLING OF UNHEALTY REMARKS.

EVEN HIDDEN SUPPORT IS OK, PROVIDED IS SUSTAINABLE AND REASONABLE.

superstar1:


All these are your wishful thinking that can NEVER happen because you are a product of the British and the British will never agree that they made a mistake by creating this contraption.

Your Biafra does not have any bargaining chips with any world power than Britain, so your proposition is dead on arrival with them.

I repeat the road to secession is extremely simple but calls for high level international and local diplomacy, doggedness and intellectual argument.

superstar1:


The truth is, there won't even be any support AT ALL (from any world power). Don't you understand?

Or else the whole of Nigeria decides to go through that route of dissolution willingly.

kernel501:


I DON'T WISE YOU TO BELIEVE IN BIAFRA. BUT THEN, THE SIMPLE QUESTION IS THIS, WHERE IS BIAFRA RADIO AND TV STATION BASED? ANWSER : BRITAIN
BRITAIN CANNOT STAND CHINA OR RUSSIA IF BIAFRA OR NIGER DELTA CUT A DEAL WITH THEM, THAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FRANCE AIDED AMERICA AGAINST BRITAIN.

kernel501:


SIR... AM PAINED WHEN A MAN LIVES IN DENIAL.
A NATION LIKE BIAFRA CAN'T GET INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT,OK.

superstar1:


You are very funny.

Is the station committing treasonable felony offence against Britain or Nigeria? The location of the station is immaterial, it is the message of the station that is pertinent.

What is the bargaining chips Biafra has with the world powers? None.


What is the bargaining chips Niger Delta has with world powers? None.

Virtually all the major of powers are oil producers apart from the Chinese that will rather buy from Iran and Russia, which are her natural allies.

kernel501:


I WOULDN'T WANT TO ARGUE WITH YOU, GOOGLE STATES IN NIGERIA WITH OIL RESERVE.

superstar1:


That is what I am telling you. Oil is not what you can use to entice majority of the world powers.

If you have Uranium now, they will be courting you.

Probably Gas, but Russia has enough to supply the whole of Europe and China and America has enough from. Natural to biological gas.

kernel501:


HAHAHAHA ... PEOPLE ARE YOU LISTENING?

egift:
If you want Biafra, go to UN headquarters and remain there forever. We do not need any Transistor Republic in Aligbo.

Calculia:
Yes. Nigeria is a signatory country to the International Court and international law takes precedent over domestic law.

Thus, no need to amend constitution to hold referendum in the SS AND SE for Biafra.

Calculia:


Dude we are not talking politics and UN here, we are talking law. Nigeria is a member state of the international court of justice and human rights and when matters fall under the jurisdiction of the international court, it take precedent over domestic court and constitution. The Nigerian constitution recognises international law.

South Sudan did not go into parliamentary politics to break away from Sudan and neither did Ethiopia. This is not the UK. Sadly other regions not included in the break away state have no say in the matter and their alliance nor required.

Jaideyone:
no they can not. there are cases when referendum is conducted but the government of the country won't acknowledge it. there's nothing the UN can do. an example is Catalonia in Spain. the referendum conducted shows Catalonia should be a country but Spain has refused to recognise the referendum

egift:
If you want Biafra, go to UN headquarters and remain there forever. We do not need any Transistor Republic in Aligbo.

kingzizzy:
I can't comment on referendum as a process since I'm not an international Lawyer but I can comment on the 'right' to a referendum. I believe that any ethnic group in Nigeria can seek referendum based on the fact that Nigeria is just a mere colonial contruct. The argument for a referendum is that the people who populate Nigeria were never consulted before Lugard unilaterally created Nigeria. This renders the 1914 amalgamation illegitimate and thus, a referendum becomes the only legitimate way for the various ethnicities to define their political borders. A clause in the amalgamation document purpotedly claims that after 100 years, any of the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria who are no longer happy with the union can opt out. The fact that Nigeria is an illegal fabrication of the White man is at the very heart of why a referendum should be conducted. Referendum is the legitimate way to reverse the illegal amalgamation of 1914 and to decolonize Nigeria. I remember watching on YouTube an interview Asari Dokubo gave where he claimed that the Ijaw people sent a delegation to the colonial office in London in 1923 to ask the British Government why they included the Ijaw people in Nigeria. Dokubo also claimed that the Egba people of South west Nigeria never became part of Nigeria until that same year of 1923. My late grandfather was born an Igbo man in 1902, he told me before he died that he did not know he had been made a Nigerian until 1920. The fact that most people were made Nigerians without their knowledge also renders Nigeria as an act of fraud thus lending credibility to the notion of a referendum. On the whole, the case for a referendum is very strong and if the Nigerian Government eventually does not agree to a referendum, I believe it will later lead to a second civil war

Ademusiwa1b:
I will let go of Biafra if they want. But there will be no food.

The north will cut you off of food.

Biafra is a suicide mission with no food.


The east or what they call Biafra own 18 television stations.

It own 18 universities., airport. Ownership in major bank..


Even while it is not official dead. The government still exist. It is just in a different form.

Many government don't own this. In term of business , they will be losers. They are loading more than they will gain in Biafra business wise