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Politics / Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra BBC News by ragiluhivo1: 3:39am On Dec 11, 2015 |
NOBODYY: Poverty is indeed a disease. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Photos: Reasons Why We Believe And Insist on One Nigeria by ragiluhivo1: 7:55pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
NnaXmas: No lets give Nigeria 1 million years it will be more developed than the UK 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Photos: Reasons Why We Believe And Insist on One Nigeria by ragiluhivo1: 7:39pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
One Nigeria or death |
Politics / Photos: Reasons Why We Believe And Insist on One Nigeria by ragiluhivo1: 7:33pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
Politics / 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra BBC News by ragiluhivo1: 7:21pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
Millions of people face starvation because Nigeria has banned night flights of food aid to Biafra, a breakaway state at war with federal Nigeria. The Nigerian Federal Government has taken charge of relief operations on both sides of the front line and in doing so has stopped the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from co-ordinating aid to starving civilians. General Yakubu Gowon, leader of Federal Nigeria, refuses to recognise Biafra which declared independence in May 1967. His forces have managed to shrink the rebel state to one-tenth of its original size, cutting it off from seaports and other supply lines. Food aid can only brought in from the air. Nigerian Information Commissioner Chief Anthony Enaharo told representatives of relief organisations in Nigeria's capital, Lagos, that only "authorised relief operators" would be allowed to take in "permissible relief items" for fear of any supplies getting into the hands of Biafran troops. This means all relief supplies will be inspected by armed forces before being allowed on to Biafra and then only between 0800 and 1700 local time. There are three million people who are going to starve to death in the next few weeks unless something is done. Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal Party leader Acting president of the ICRC, Jacques Freymond, said the world must put pressure on Nigeria to allow his organisation to carry out its humanitarian mission. In London, more than 80 backbench MPs signed an all-party motion urging the British Government to take action towards resuming the relief operation and to stop selling arms to Nigeria. The Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart, said representatives in Lagos would try to mediate between the ICRC and the Nigerian Government. Yesterday, Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe said he had written to the head of the United Nations, U Thant, asking him to organise a major relief effort with the Red Cross. He said he was making his appeal independently of the British Government whose involvement in the Nigerian civil war was "immoral". He told the Times newspaper: "There are three million people who are going to starve to death in the next few weeks unless something is done." Biafra, under Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, is made up of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria mainly inhabited by Igbo, or Ibo, people. In September 1966 thousands of the Igbo minority in the Northern Region were massacred by the majority Hausa who resented their relative prosperity. As a result, a million Igbo refugees settled in the Eastern Region and expelled non-Igbos.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30/newsid_3733000/3733321.stm |
Politics / Re: I Have Lost Respect For Seun And Nairaland by ragiluhivo1: 6:34pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
No Worries...No Biggies We will stay here and frustrate all his underpaid mods until they resign. Lets see who go tire. It doesn't take me 1 minute to create a new email and signup to Nairaland to promote Biafra. Plus am a freelancer so am always online with constant electricity ( I don't live in the zoo where all this mods and even him lives) First they ban ragiluhivo Now its ragiluhivo1 Let's go there. As long as Nairaland is a PUBLIC FORUM operating in the INTERNET, no baga can take away my freedom of speech not even the COWARD called SEUN!! 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Why SEUN Is Wrong About BIAFRA by ragiluhivo1: 6:13pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
No Worries...No Biggies We will stay here and frustrate all his underpaid mods until they resign. Lets see who go tire. It doesn't take me 1 minute to create a new email and signup to Nairaland to promote Biafra. Plus am a freelancer so am always online with constant electricity ( I don't live in the zoo where all this mods and even him lives) First they ban ragiluhivo Now its ragiluhivo1 Let's go there. As long as Nairaland is a PUBLIC FORUM operating in the INTERNET, no baga can take away my freedom of speech not even the COWARD called SEUN!! 3 Likes |
Politics / Why SEUN Is Wrong About BIAFRA by ragiluhivo1: 6:04pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
"Those that believe in Nigeria have every right |
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