Nazeren:
But why these stupid people come pick May 30 of all days. You hate Nigeria (May 29) yet you're grovelling after it? I nor get.

Modified: some bastards have been quoting me with the stupid assumption that I'm their father or that I care what biafra is or the fork it stands for. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat...nobody gives a flying fork what may 30 means to you. It's irrelevant to the rest of us...just get the shit off our backs....pick another date to mourn. Nigeria's may 29 and "your" 30 don't relate. Disgusting at best.

Oyindidi:
There is school here. Where in ph are you let me come and confirm your claim

9jakohai:




Nigeria's problem is not division. Nigeria's problem is that people want to share money. And they are ready to fight over it. Which in my mind is what is driving all this secession things...as well as the Boko haram, religious, etc crisis. We are a lazy people. We want to eat money. And if we don't get our money we will fight....together or apart.

knightsTempler:
What A Treatise:



I was speaking with a very young pharmacist from the South East yesterday. I advanced the restructuring/true Fiscal Federalism as what I believe is the way out of Nigeria's muddle. He would not buy it.

"Forget it ma'am. It's better we just go. Give us ten-fifteen years and see how Biafra would be transformed." He spoke with conviction. His eyes shone with what I thought was longing. "Just forget it. There is no need dragging this thing with them," he concluded.

A good number of Igbos, and I dare add, other young Nigerians, are totally not understanding Nigeria as it is right now. It is not enough to make dismissive remarks like "They were not even born when the war happened." Or remarks like "They don't understand what they're asking for."
Make them understand. That is, if you understand what you're asking them to understand. If it makes sense to you. It even gets more annoying when you hear the older ones, the actors and spectators of the unfortunate war, urge the younger ones to learn from history.

According to Osibanjo, "experience is the best answer for a fool. History is a much gentler teacher.' I agree.

But comments like that could even draw the ire of the young ones who have today been denied history classes in school. Who keeps a people ignorant of their history? But even more annoying is the fact that those who urge this learning have themselves not only failed to learn from experience, but have bluntly refused to learn from history, the much gentler teacher.

And what is there to learn? What is there to understand?

That a boy from Anambra State aspiring to get some education at the prestigious Unity schools has to score about 139 marks in the entrance examination while his counterpart, perhaps even his classmate or neighbour from Zamfara State would only have to score 4 marks. And that it takes an even weirder turn when they're done with school, at which point the Zamfara boy would have over 80% more chance at a federal job than the 80% more studious boy from Anambra. How do you explain that to a young Nigerian so that he may understand?

How can they understand that a State like Kano, created at about the same time as one like Lagos, has about 44 local govt areas while Lagos State has a paltry 20 constitutionally recognized local govt areas. Bear in mind that Kano state has long been sub divided into two states of Kano and Jigawa. Jigawa alone has 27 LGAs of its own. You can say that the old Kano State has 71 LGAs while Lagos still lags behind with 20. And that the entire South East of five states has only about 94 local govt areas? Did it strike you that the South East is the only region still dawdling with five states? It would not have mattered of course if the National cake wasn't shared on the basis of local governments. Only if it was baked on that same basis. How would any young person without a brain for understanding twisted things get this?

How can they understand that in the present Govt, the entire South East has no representation in the security body of the country. So when the security chiefs sit to discuss security, the primary role of any govt, there is nobody from the entire SE region in attendance. How can anyone understand this.
How can even a gentle teacher make anyone understand that a South South youth would die for daring to steal crude oil from what used to be his fertile and arable farmland, while his Northern counterpart can freely mine minerals from his backyard. We only get to hear anything about it when lead poisoning begins to ravage communities.

How do you understand that we have Petroleum Equalization Fund which ensures that petroleum products get to the people in the North at the same price at which it gets to those in the South but we do not have Tomato Equalization fund or Carrot Equalization Fund to trim the cost for people in the South? Break it down for me so that I may understand since I didn't witness the war.

How do you break down the brazen massacres of Igbos, Christians and other innocent Nigerians any time the North wakes up from the wrong side of the bed? Or when an artist draws a denigrating sketch of Mohammed in countries some of the victims have never heard of? Or when a group of girls decide to bare their bodies in beauty pageants? Or when a man cannot win elections? Or when a farmer must till his farmland? Or just about when anything... Just unbelievable impunity. And no one ever gets justice.

But we can start by explaining how Katsina State alone just got allotted more slots that the entire SS, than the entire SW, than the entire SE, than the entire N.Central in the ongoing (or is it completed?) recruitment by the DSS.

And a host of flustering matters.
So what is it you want History to help you teach? That the oppressed should stay calm and "ask nicely" like Obasanjo put it? They should ask nicely for their share of a piece of cake jointly baked by all? They should treat Nigeria with love like Obasanjo again suggested. It shouldn't matter that they get only rebuffs in return. I don't blame Obasanjo. It's probably the way he knows love and reconciliation...one sided. Any wonder his daughter would literally disown him publicly?

I listened to all the speeches made at the Biafra@50 event. They were all rich in flowing grammar, beaming with rhetorics but glaringly bare on commitment. Nobody but Nwodo dared point a way out. Osibanjo's speech had no mention of restructuring, something I can bet my last finger that he believes in. It would seem like we don't want to find a way out of our predicament yet.

Make no mistake, the clamour for Biafra is getting more tumultuous by the day that I fear that the voices of some of us preaching 'restructure' may soon be drowned.
And this house may come crashing on us all.

aribisala0:

You are so correct

Eazybay:


So when u said orho vor vwon Nurhe u wea asking for what? My friend just move over, dis is NOT the subject of discourse. U are even hoping u can confuse me with ur funny spelling.

I have made my submission and I don't want to go beyond dat.

plessis:
The axe forgets but the tree remembers....


May the souls of our gallant brothers continue to rest on

aribisala0:

You are so correct

Ekinematics:

Leave them to keep spreading their lies.

vayne:

you dey mind fratermathy?
Last year,people from asaba,ph,etc where seen spearheading the protest for NK's release.
But he stays in his swamp,bleating about who belongs where.

Tiny urhobo does not meet the UN minimum requirements to become a country,(maybe you are hoping on other tribes,but i can assure you igbos and some other tribes will never go with you)it doesn't have the numbers,so it has no choice than to either fall in line or remain in nigeria,period!

vayne:

with just over 2milion,urhobo will just be anexed by the bordering nation!
I don't wish urhobo bad,but the way you overflogging the issue of dissassociation is damn irritating to we igbos,your approach will lead urhobo to an unwarrantd crisis between urhobo and its neigbouring igboid groups,urhobo is small,don't be decieved so choose your words carefully!

IgboSubmarine:
Unity Beggars come and start begging

akandi4u:
WHO DARE MENTION CROSS RIVER AND AKWA IBOM AS PART OF BIAFRA?

IF I CATCH U?

JUST LEAVE LEAVE EVERY PART OF THE SOUTH SOUTH STATE AND EVERY PART OF THE NIGER DELTA OUT OF YOUR STRUGLE, OUT OF THIS BIAFRA THING!

WE SOUTH SOUTH DON'T LIKE IGBOS AND CAN NEVER EVER BE PART OF BIAFRA.

I REST MY CASE FOR NOW. TILL THEN!

modik:


Drinking Panadol^(R) for other people's headache!

You keep mocking those courageously standing up against their oppression!

Think!

Oyindidi:
There is school here. Where in ph are you let me come and confirm your claim

uglyafonja:


Afonjaman claiming nigerdelta....

Qelvin:

They are only in your region cause they are survivalist, such is the Igbo spirit; similar to the Jews, Indians, Chinese etc who are everywhere taking advantage of opportunities, heck you will even see an Igbo hustling it out in South Sudan cause it's the adventurous spirit to go out and dominate, subdue economically , and bring back the spoils back home...but of course these alpha mindset is alien to your useless side of the divide, little wonder an average Yoruba man is seen as weak, your women pretty much have the testosterone lmfaoo, man don't let me even start with you today .

vantage001:

And you will start arguing on another thread that yorubas don't care about biafra and does not deserve IPOB hate.
Look at this thread and weep at your ethnic group who can't mind their own business.

keep kwayet....this is Nairaland and not Biafraland.....it is a public forum. If you want only Biafuros to comment then head to Igberetv or Biafra platform where you will get what you want...now swerve

vayne:

with just over 2milion,urhobo will just be anexed by the bordering nation!
I don't wish urhobo bad,but the way you overflogging the issue of dissassociation is damn irritating to we igbos,your approach will lead urhobo to an unwarrantd crisis between urhobo and its neigbouring igboid groups,urhobo is small,don't be decieved so choose your words carefully!

Toks2008:


What about Alaba market Ojo Lagos?

I can bet it will be busy as usual....Igbos and disunity since the days of Noah

ehie:
take your pick from the Jewish billionaires

sirugos:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1670393352985900&id=100000457557574

TsaTrinity:


;Dit's just the truth sir.....if naija was like China, igbos will hate the idea of biafra
And I tell people that if biafra is eventually created, it will be better than Nigeria. Tho the looting and other corruption practices will continue but it will surely be better. Nigerians, especially igbos, are natural hustlers. Give them light, good roads, education, security, food, good medical facilities, they will work their ass off even if the govt doesn't invest in their doings
I drop my iPad here.....hustle continues

drss2:
"one step for freedom, a GIANT step towards Biafra!"
God bless all those who suspended their work n business activities to remember dis day in our history. history dat was deliberately removed from our school curriculum to keep our young stars in perpetual ignorance. today's total compliance to Biafra remembrance day has shown dat d oppresive govt of nijeriya has FAILED. they do not teach history to our children in school, yet expect our children to learn from history. is dat not madness a govt dat is afraid of its own history is a govt dat has somtin to hide. so not matter how long they denied our children history in schools, history will always be part of us.
as we remember our fallen heros, may d spirit of freedom shine on us to move towards a greater future not only to dis generation but d generation unborn.
God bless lovers of freedom!
God bless IPOB!!
God bless Nnamdi Kanu!!!
God bless Biafra!!!!