Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by cheruv: 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Lalasticlala Stop peeping and put the stuff on FP! |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by qualityovenbake(m): 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by menix(m): 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
It is written....
In the last dayz there shall be Protest, rumours of war...
Guess u know what it is...
END TIME PROTEST... |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Nobody: 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Una dey waste una time oh 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by rileyy(m): 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Who take dem serious, noise maker 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by dotcomnamename: 10:17am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Smh |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Dottore: 10:18am On Nov 19, 2015 |
This man is becoming more and more popular. I guess his picture will make it in one of Biafrans currency denominations when its finally actualized 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by johnstar(m): 10:19am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Noted 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by j4sure(m): 10:19am On Nov 19, 2015 |
HMMMMMMMMM is kay ooooooooooooooooooo EasternLion:
Pro-Biafra supporters hold a poster of jailed activist Nnamdi Kanu during a protest in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, calling for his release on November 18, 2015 ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) Thousands of protesters took to the streets in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday to demand the release of an activist who operated an illegal radio station calling for a separate state of Biafra.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation.
A previous unilateral declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967 led to a brutal civil war that left more than one million dead in nearly three years of fighting.
In Aba, the commercial hub of Abia state, some 2,000 people carried placards with slogans such as "Biafra or death" and waved the Biafran flag -- a golden rising sun on red, black and green.
Others wore t-shirts and caps with the image of Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) pressure group.
Some sang freedom songs and carried the outlawed Biafran pound currency.
"Getting our leader out of detention is our immediate concern but ultimately we want to be free from Nigeria," IPOB's Abia coordinator, Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, told the crowds.
"We are tired of this forced marriage imposed on us in 1914 by the British colonial authorities. We don't want anything to do with Nigeria again because we have not benefited from Nigeria."
- Criminal conspiracy -
Radio Biafra was taken off air in July this year after the government accused it of being a "seditious pirate radio station" which broadcast "unsavoury hate messages".
Kanu was arrested last month and charged with criminal conspiracy, membership of an unlawful society and criminal intimidation.
A judge in Abuja on Wednesday ordered Nigeria's secret police to produce him in court next Monday.
Tension has been building since Kanu's detention, culminating in demonstrations in major southeastern cities and fears of a crackdown against protesters.
In Port Harcourt last week, police fired shots in the air and teargas to disperse hundreds of pro-Biafra supporters.
The Aba demonstration came after a planned blockade of the Niger Bridge on Tuesday was cancelled because of warnings from security personnel.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP)
The bridge crossing the River Niger which links the southeast with the rest of Nigeria was the de facto border during the civil war.
Pro-Biafran sentiment has persisted among the dominant Igbo people in southeast Nigeria because of perceptions they have been punished for breaking away.
But the man who led Biafra during the civil war, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, warned against a second bid for secession in an interview before his death in 2012.
Nigeria's military ruler at the time of the civil war, Yakubu Gowon, last month said he recognised people's right to protest but the concept of Biafra was "finished".
"I don't think it (the increased pro-Biafran sentiment) is any threat," he told Nigeria's Channels television on October 23.
"If there is anything of this sort, anywhere in any part of the country, just like the problem of Boko Haram, we, Nigeria, should deal with it in a mature way."
- 'No going back' -
On the streets, however, there was defiance. IPOB member Jude Chukwu Akiaba tore apart the green and white Nigerian tricolour, calling the country "dead and buried".
"The Nigerian government has neglected the Igbos for long," the group's women's leader, Uzor Amaka, told AFP. "There are no social amenities like roads, electricity, hospitals and jobs in the east.
"Our people are still being made to suffer for the civil war. So, it is better to call it quits with Nigeria and put our destiny in our hands."
Osmond Lekwauwa said he was ready to die for the cause.
"What's the point of belonging to a nation where you cannot have basic necessities like good roads, water, electricity and jobs?" he asked.
"I left school (university) six years ago and have not been able to secure a paid employment. I have been doing menial jobs to survive. At 32, I cannot even raise a family.
"I will rather die being a Biafran than to remain in Nigeria," he said, urging local political leaders to back their campaign.
"There is no going back on the struggle," he added.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3323962/Thousands-protest-Nigeria-pro-Biafra-detainee-independence.html |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by kushma(m): 10:19am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Biafra have come to stay cattle rearers and yoloba should take note. 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Nickymezor(f): 10:19am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Free Nnamdi kanu mk we hear word 4 dem |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by ruggedboy01: 10:20am On Nov 19, 2015 |
King bubu should release kanu |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by obinnashady(m): 10:20am On Nov 19, 2015 |
I'll just say End time |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by pinpinkay: 10:20am On Nov 19, 2015 |
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Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Nobody: 10:21am On Nov 19, 2015 |
EasternLion:
Pro-Biafra supporters hold a poster of jailed activist Nnamdi Kanu during a protest in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, calling for his release on November 18, 2015 ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) Thousands of protesters took to the streets in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday to demand the release of an activist who operated an illegal radio station calling for a separate state of Biafra.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation.
A previous unilateral declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967 led to a brutal civil war that left more than one million dead in nearly three years of fighting.
In Aba, the commercial hub of Abia state, some 2,000 people carried placards with slogans such as "Biafra or death" and waved the Biafran flag -- a golden rising sun on red, black and green.
Others wore t-shirts and caps with the image of Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) pressure group.
Some sang freedom songs and carried the outlawed Biafran pound currency.
"Getting our leader out of detention is our immediate concern but ultimately we want to be free from Nigeria," IPOB's Abia coordinator, Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, told the crowds.
"We are tired of this forced marriage imposed on us in 1914 by the British colonial authorities. We don't want anything to do with Nigeria again because we have not benefited from Nigeria."
- Criminal conspiracy -
Radio Biafra was taken off air in July this year after the government accused it of being a "seditious pirate radio station" which broadcast "unsavoury hate messages".
Kanu was arrested last month and charged with criminal conspiracy, membership of an unlawful society and criminal intimidation.
A judge in Abuja on Wednesday ordered Nigeria's secret police to produce him in court next Monday.
Tension has been building since Kanu's detention, culminating in demonstrations in major southeastern cities and fears of a crackdown against protesters.
In Port Harcourt last week, police fired shots in the air and teargas to disperse hundreds of pro-Biafra supporters.
The Aba demonstration came after a planned blockade of the Niger Bridge on Tuesday was cancelled because of warnings from security personnel.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP)
The bridge crossing the River Niger which links the southeast with the rest of Nigeria was the de facto border during the civil war.
Pro-Biafran sentiment has persisted among the dominant Igbo people in southeast Nigeria because of perceptions they have been punished for breaking away.
But the man who led Biafra during the civil war, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, warned against a second bid for secession in an interview before his death in 2012.
Nigeria's military ruler at the time of the civil war, Yakubu Gowon, last month said he recognised people's right to protest but the concept of Biafra was "finished".
"I don't think it (the increased pro-Biafran sentiment) is any threat," he told Nigeria's Channels television on October 23.
"If there is anything of this sort, anywhere in any part of the country, just like the problem of Boko Haram, we, Nigeria, should deal with it in a mature way."
- 'No going back' -
On the streets, however, there was defiance. IPOB member Jude Chukwu Akiaba tore apart the green and white Nigerian tricolour, calling the country "dead and buried".
"The Nigerian government has neglected the Igbos for long," the group's women's leader, Uzor Amaka, told AFP. "There are no social amenities like roads, electricity, hospitals and jobs in the east.
"Our people are still being made to suffer for the civil war. So, it is better to call it quits with Nigeria and put our destiny in our hands."
Osmond Lekwauwa said he was ready to die for the cause.
"What's the point of belonging to a nation where you cannot have basic necessities like good roads, water, electricity and jobs?" he asked.
"I left school (university) six years ago and have not been able to secure a paid employment. I have been doing menial jobs to survive. At 32, I cannot even raise a family.
"I will rather die being a Biafran than to remain in Nigeria," he said, urging local political leaders to back their campaign.
"There is no going back on the struggle," he added.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3323962/Thousands-protest-Nigeria-pro-Biafra-detainee-independence.html Unemployment is massive in SE just like north east.............. This is how boko haram started. When 2 elephants fight, is the grass that suffer. People living in SE should get ready for insurgence. |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by bayinq25(m): 10:21am On Nov 19, 2015 |
EasternLion:
Pro-Biafra supporters hold a poster of jailed activist Nnamdi Kanu during a protest in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, calling for his release on November 18, 2015 ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP) Thousands of protesters took to the streets in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday to demand the release of an activist who operated an illegal radio station calling for a separate state of Biafra.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation.
A previous unilateral declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra in 1967 led to a brutal civil war that left more than one million dead in nearly three years of fighting.
In Aba, the commercial hub of Abia state, some 2,000 people carried placards with slogans such as "Biafra or death" and waved the Biafran flag -- a golden rising sun on red, black and green.
Others wore t-shirts and caps with the image of Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) pressure group.
Some sang freedom songs and carried the outlawed Biafran pound currency.
"Getting our leader out of detention is our immediate concern but ultimately we want to be free from Nigeria," IPOB's Abia coordinator, Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, told the crowds.
"We are tired of this forced marriage imposed on us in 1914 by the British colonial authorities. We don't want anything to do with Nigeria again because we have not benefited from Nigeria."
- Criminal conspiracy -
Radio Biafra was taken off air in July this year after the government accused it of being a "seditious pirate radio station" which broadcast "unsavoury hate messages".
Kanu was arrested last month and charged with criminal conspiracy, membership of an unlawful society and criminal intimidation.
A judge in Abuja on Wednesday ordered Nigeria's secret police to produce him in court next Monday.
Tension has been building since Kanu's detention, culminating in demonstrations in major southeastern cities and fears of a crackdown against protesters.
In Port Harcourt last week, police fired shots in the air and teargas to disperse hundreds of pro-Biafra supporters.
The Aba demonstration came after a planned blockade of the Niger Bridge on Tuesday was cancelled because of warnings from security personnel.
The demonstration in Aba was the latest by separatist groups on an issue that has again exposed deep and longstanding ethnic fault lines in Africa's most populous nation ©Pius Utomi Ekpei (AFP)
The bridge crossing the River Niger which links the southeast with the rest of Nigeria was the de facto border during the civil war.
Pro-Biafran sentiment has persisted among the dominant Igbo people in southeast Nigeria because of perceptions they have been punished for breaking away.
But the man who led Biafra during the civil war, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, warned against a second bid for secession in an interview before his death in 2012.
Nigeria's military ruler at the time of the civil war, Yakubu Gowon, last month said he recognised people's right to protest but the concept of Biafra was "finished".
"I don't think it (the increased pro-Biafran sentiment) is any threat," he told Nigeria's Channels television on October 23.
"If there is anything of this sort, anywhere in any part of the country, just like the problem of Boko Haram, we, Nigeria, should deal with it in a mature way."
- 'No going back' -
On the streets, however, there was defiance. IPOB member Jude Chukwu Akiaba tore apart the green and white Nigerian tricolour, calling the country "dead and buried".
"The Nigerian government has neglected the Igbos for long," the group's women's leader, Uzor Amaka, told AFP. "There are no social amenities like roads, electricity, hospitals and jobs in the east.
"Our people are still being made to suffer for the civil war. So, it is better to call it quits with Nigeria and put our destiny in our hands."
Osmond Lekwauwa said he was ready to die for the cause.
"What's the point of belonging to a nation where you cannot have basic necessities like good roads, water, electricity and jobs?" he asked.
"I left school (university) six years ago and have not been able to secure a paid employment. I have been doing menial jobs to survive. At 32, I cannot even raise a family.
"I will rather die being a Biafran than to remain in Nigeria," he said, urging local political leaders to back their campaign.
"There is no going back on the struggle," he added.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3323962/Thousands-protest-Nigeria-pro-Biafra-detainee-independence.html Endtime protest |
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Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Billygee2u: 10:21am On Nov 19, 2015 |
vkeydon: Buhari will soon start experiencing the 10 plagues of Egypt |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by chesterlee(m): 10:21am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Let's just pray nothing has happened to Nnamdi KANU because as it stands now there would be massive pandemonium if its revealed that he died under DSS detention.
I just Pity Buhari...He could have avoided all this, rather he chose to act like a stubborn dictator. 3 Likes |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by warrior01: 10:22am On Nov 19, 2015 |
The Nigerian government headed by Buhari has been begging the Boko haram terrorists to come for negotiation but has chosen not to engage and assuage these legitimate protesters in a dialogue to assure them of government's support and readiness to develop all parts of the country irrespective of political and ethnic divides. Shame on Mr Buhari and his advisers. Are we all going to keep quiet until this gets out of hand too? 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Billygee2u: 10:23am On Nov 19, 2015 |
kushma: Biafra have come to stay cattle rearers and yoloba should take note. |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Nobody: 10:23am On Nov 19, 2015 |
ify2016: No be small thing o... protest everywhere... Me I don dey mind my biz o LOL... FTC on first day of joining Nairaland. I dedicate free shit to everyone wey wan shit for our toilet. just to increase the ministry. are u here for olosho biz? |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by sukkot: 10:23am On Nov 19, 2015 |
the walking dead |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Nobody: 10:24am On Nov 19, 2015 |
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Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by sauskyjoe(m): 10:24am On Nov 19, 2015 |
These protesters are just confused. They dnt know wat they want. 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by sochima1989(m): 10:25am On Nov 19, 2015 |
you count yourself as part of them? and na for naira land you dey talk am....enter street with your flag abeg or else the guy that tagged you boko haram is kinda not far from hmmmmmm EasternLion:
Oga, do not compare us with Boko Haram, i take Chukwu Okike Abiama beg you. |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by dollarathe(m): 10:25am On Nov 19, 2015 |
I don't understand d protest, did Nigeria hold anybody from moving ? pack ur families and business from Kaduna, Lagos, akure, sokoto, etc and settle down in Onitsha, aba, Enugu etc. what's d crime in this. why beg Nigeria to leave u ? 4 Likes |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by DgreatObserver(m): 10:26am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Desiving ur self, if dey divied did u think yoruba man will allow igbo man to rule or igbo man to alow yoruba, d division will end up by d 2 or even 3 group of the south killing them selfs cus calaba ppls also have about 5 states |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Baboo13(m): 10:26am On Nov 19, 2015 |
ify2016: No be small thing o... protest everywhere... Me I don dey mind my biz o LOL... FTC on first day of joining Nairaland. I dedicate free shit to everyone wey wan shit for our toilet. just to increase the ministry. Lol how do you know about FTC on the 1st day of joining nairaland? And some people here will still fall for this 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by sukkot: 10:27am On Nov 19, 2015 |
chesterlee: Let's just pray nothing has happened to Nnamdi KANU because as it stands now there would be massive pandemonium if its revealed that he died under DSS detention.
I just Pity Buhari...He could have avoided all this, rather he chose to act like a stubborn dictator. nnamdi kanu was killed on the first day in custody. he is swimming in the belly of the sharks in eti osa lagoon like jonah |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by ki02020(m): 10:28am On Nov 19, 2015 |
I dare them to blow up the niger bridge if they really want bihafa 1 Like |
Re: Thousands Protest In Aba For Pro-biafra Detainee, Independence - Dailymail UK by Amack(m): 10:28am On Nov 19, 2015 |
Many will weep on that day and at the same time that day will be a day of happiness and joy to many. This is the word of God. 1 Like |