₦airaland Forum

Mcowubaba:
This is what many people don't understand, people like Mynd44 nd his tribesmen, up till today still says/believes Igbos are suffering from persecution complex, I just laugh.
Some Commenters, call Igbo people cry babies, or Oliver twist, many say we are hate-filled, I guess the are loved filled.
Hypocrites
Because their people weren't wiped out from earth.
It's always convenient for people to oppose and speak big English Grammer in issues that are not really valuable to them.

The will analyze it to suit their own ideologies and political affiliation.

As I earlier mentioned, just like you, I'm not an IPOB member, neither do I subscribe to all the ideologies of Nnamdi Kanu - but anyone downplaying the feelings of an average Igbo man on Biafra is insane and ignorant.

My father lost almost his entire family, same with many others, the useless Nigerian Army killed women and children, the scars of the wars are still visible in many Families today.
Biafra is not what you just wish away, or you just Press a button everything about Biafra will disappear .
It can't work like that
It's in our hearts and souls.

Black Americans in USA till today still play the Race card and remind Caucasian/Whites that the humiliated them and made them slaves in ancient Times. These events happened many years ago ahead of Biafra war, but the haven't forgotten, some haven't even forgiven the whites..
And some Lunatics just think, Igbos will be so happy with Nigeria for all the genocide. Nigerian army left soliders and start attacking women and children.
Rick Ross said "God forgive, I don't"

myhotbrain:
Most of these IPOB members are stark illiterates... At the end of his epistle, Wole Soyinka clearly stated his preference for Nigeria's Unity by actually conceding to rational reasoning of the great implications of IPOB's wishes.

Prof. Soyinka, sir with all due respect, these current IPOB agitators are mostly simpletons, who lacks the ability to think critically of the pros and cons of their actions.

If my last statement were to be true, then you, our erudite professor has also failed in your primary obligation as teacher, a scholar and an activist cum social crusader! There is no doubt that the greatest affliction on the youths of this nation is the miseducation, and rot in the educational system. Not only were you reputed to have been the co-founder of confraternities in Tertiary Institutions, you have not a, so done enough in your unique capacity as a scholar of repute, to arrest the ugly situation by, exposing your colleques or even an open campaign against them.

If most of Nigerian youths are well educated all roundly, our society, in general, would have been better for it and we would have been saved from this unnecessary bickering and threat of doom.

Now, sir if you wish prosperity to judge you aright, please dont add fuel to fire: its time you come down from your high horse and boldly and frankly inform the secessionist in plain and clear understandable grammar: IPOB's dont campaign for secession again. It will be painful and destructive and remotely possible to achieve even a semblance of Biafra, if at all.

I rest my case. For now, at least!

modik:
You can never win 21st century war with 20th century tactics .

The tactics have changed.

Sadly, you did not read that piece as penned by Prof.



God bless NK

God bless lovers of freedom

God bless lovers of equity, fairness, fair play, justice and peace.

God bless Biafra.

Cooly100:
On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria. Malnutrition, Red Cross, kwashiorkor, relief flights, genocide, the Uli airstrip used by Biafran planes to elude the Nigerian blockade, mercenaries, the Aburi accord that broke down and led to war—these are some of the memory triggers of the Nigerian civil war of secession that we would like to re-assign.


Over a million lives perished—a shameful proportion of them children—mostly through starvation and aerial bombardment. The Nigerian federal government, committed to the doctrine of oneness, had boasted that the conflict would last no longer than three weeks of “police action.” We had learnt much from the politics of other nations, but apparently not from history; the war lasted more than two years. Noble Laureate, Prof Wole Soyika Tormented by the image of a herd of human lemmings rushing to their doom, as a young writer, I made the “treasonable” statement warning that the secessionist state, Biafra, could never be defeated. The simplistic rendition of that conviction in most minds—certainly in the minds of the then-ruling military and its elite support—was that this applied merely to the physical field of combat. Thus it was regarded as a psychological offensive against the federal side, an attempt to demoralize its soldiers while boosting the war spirit of the enemy. That “enemy” had also boasted that no force in black Africa could defeat them. My visit to the Biafran enclave in October 1966 resulted in arrest and detention.

During interrogation, I insisted that my statement was meant as a counter to the surge of emotive nationalism and a slavish sanctification of colonial boundaries. Biafra was therefore an expression of that rejection and its replacement with a people’s self-constitutive rights. This specific challenge owed its genesis to memory at its rawest, the memory of ethnic cleansing, whose remedy could not be sought rationally in a campaign of subjugation against an already traumatized community. One question, rhetorical in tone, stuck in my mind for long afterwards. It went thus: “Why should you take it on yourself to make such a statement? Is it because you’re a writer? Who are you to take a contrary stance to the government?” I replied to myself that I had learned to listen. The young man countered that he was on the side of history, and Biafra would be crushed. Not quite, as it turned out.

The Biafrans were indeed defeated on the battlefield, but crushed? Today, most Nigerians know better. Biafra has not been defeated. If anyone was left in any doubt about this, the last work of my late colleague, Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country, has left us re-thinking. New generation writers, born long after that brutal war, have inherited and continue to propagate the Biafran doctrine, an article of faith among the Igbo populace, even among those who pay lip-service to a united nation. Millions remain sworn to uphold it. Many have died at the hands of the police and the military as succeeding guardians of that legacy troop out to reclaim it in defiant manifestations. Amnesty International estimated that at least 150 pro-Biafra activists have been killed since August 2015. Some of their leaders, including the director of their official mouthpiece, Radio Biafra, remain on trial for alleged subversion and treason. Others have gone underground. The war is not over, only the tactics have changed. One could claim that a project of internal secession is unfolding, one that skirts the peripheries of Nigerian laws, testing what they permit, and daring what they do not.


As for the victorious side, analysts continue to cite the lingering consequences of the war of secession among the main causes of the nation’s instability, alongside contemporary factors such as mismanagement of petroleum resources, corruption, visionless leadership, etc. Today, secession simmers openly, and is moving steadily beyond rhetoric. It has already taken on a dangerous complement—ejection. A number of combative youth organizations in the northern part of Nigeria recently called for the expulsion of the Igbo from their lands for daring once again to talk about secession. Mainstream leaders have disowned them, but some support has been voiced by individuals within the same adult cadre, including its intelligentsia. Debate is intense, often acrimonious. Sadly however, one is left with a feeling that most participants in this discourse shy away from a fundamental component of nation being, one that transcends the Biafran will to corporate existence. That principle virtually gasps for air under the wishfully terminal mantra that goes:

“The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable.” I have never understood how this is supposed to differ from the dogma of certain religious strains that declare conversion from faith to be an act of apostasy, punishable by death. Nationality, like religion, is only another construct into which one is either born, or acquires by accident or indoctrination. Those who insist on the divine right of nation over a people’s choice seem unaware that they box themselves into the same doctrinaire mould of mere habit, just like religion. In the Nigerian instance, however, the matter is even more troubling. Since the absolutists of nation indivisibility are not ignorant of the histories of other nations and are immersed daily under evidence of the assertive factor of negotiation—be it in the language of arms and violence or the conference table—since they know full well that this process straddles pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial histories, such speakers unconsciously imply that Africans are sub-citizens of the real world and are not entitled to make their own choices, even in this modern age. This smacks of an inferiority complex, if not of a slavish indoctrination, when we additionally consider how today’s Africa came to be, a land mass of constitutive units that were largely determined by alien interests, and thus, hold possibilities of fatal flaws.


Also requiring contestation is the implicit equation of supreme sacrifice with supreme entitlement: Those who say, “We have shed our blood for Nigerian unity, and will not stand by and watch it dismantled.” My observation is that in civil warfare—indeed in most kinds of warfare—civilians pay the higher price in lives, possessions and dignity. We need therefore to eliminate the distracting lament of professionals of violence and confront, in its own right, the issue of the collective volition of any human grouping. This leaves us with the other line of approach, the line of frankly subjective or reasoned, pragmatic preferences. It is a positioning that admits, quite simply, I am a creature of habit and prefer things as they are. Or: I like to be a big frog in a small pond, and allied determinants. Such individual and collective preferences for nation validation offer sincere basis for negotiation and resolution. Once conceded, we proceed to invoke the positives of cohabitation that render fragmentation mostly adventurist and potentially destructive. Habit is a great motivator, but it should not be permitted to transform itself into categorical controls that make any existing condition “non-negotiable.”

Should Biafra stay in, or opt out of Nigeria? That is the latent question. Even after years of turbulent co-tenancy, it seems unreal to conceive of a Nigeria without Biafra. My preference for “in” goes beyond objective assessment of economic, cultural and social advantages for Biafra and the rest of us....


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/biafra-has-not-been-defeated-wole-soyinka/

NwaAmaikpe:



Point of correction Prof,
It's not Biafra has not been defeated

But

Biafra can not be defeated.

This ideology is ingrained in the mind and souls of toddlers and babies unborn,
The cry for liberation echoes from the anthills of Nsugbe to the mountains of Ngwo,
The cry of injustice is heard from the lakes of Oguta to the beaches of Buguma.

Never again,
Never again shall we see the Hausa-Fulani and call him brother.
We are not genetically identical
We are not psychologically identical
We are not spiritually identical
Those are no brothers of ours,
At best, they are neighbors but not our brothers

Our brothers don't mate with animals
Our brothers don't marry underage girls
A neighbor is not a brother.

Our lands are ravaged,
Our resources are exploited,
Our tomorrow is raped,
Our hands are tied,
Our mouths are gagged
They've made us believe all we can do is mumur
We can't shout or fight because we are powerless.
But our resolve is unflinching.

One day,
The sun will rise again,
Power will return to the people

Viva Biafra.

zeusdgrt:
I JUST READ AN INTERESTING PIECE BY DR. NDAGI ABDULLAH ON THE WALL OF Johnson Andrew. I POST HERE AN EXCERPT
THAT SOLVED A PROBLEM THAT HITHERTO BOTHERED ME.
It was Professor A.E. Afigbo, who is himself an Ibo man and who is also the greatest Ibo scholar of Ibo history ever, that wrote on
the 24th page of his book titled ‘ROPES OF SANDS’, that the Ibo people originated from Nupe. Professor Afigbo emphatically added
that the Ibo race originated from the general Bida area and not from Israel or the Middle East.
I want to repeat that Professor A.E. Afigbo categorically emphasized on that page 24 of his book that the Ibo people did not originate
from Israel or the Middle East but that the Ibo people originated from KinNupe.
Professor Afigbo is not a small authority – he is such an almighty authority in Ibo history that to this very day no Ibo man or woman
have equaled him in Ibo history. So great was his knowledge of Ibo history that he was made the first chair and HOD of the
Department of History at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He remained the emeritus professor of Ibo history at the University till his
death.
Go and get that book, Ropes of Sands, by Professor A.E. Afigbo and open to page 24 to read in his own words how this learned Ibo
Professor demonstrated in irrefutable terms that the Ibo people were a Nupe people who originated from KinNupe.
The book Ropes of Sands is available in all libraries across Nigeria, even at the College of Education, COE, Library in Minna.
Alternatively you can order for the book on Amazon.
Apart from Professor Afigbo, there is also Professor Gloria Emeagwali who is the Professor of History and African Studies at the
Connecticut State University in the USA. She is an Ibo woman and she is one of the greatest professors of Ibo history in the world
today.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali also wrote in several of her works that the Ibo people originated from KinNupe and not from Israel.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali is still alive and you can contact her for confirmation. Those of you reading this article and living in the
USA can easily walk into Professor Gloria Emeagwali’s office at the University of Connecticut so that she can tell you why she, the
leading Ibo professor of Ibo history in the world today, is saying that the Ibo people originated from KinNupe.
There are other internationally renowned Ibo professors, including Michael Achigbu and Frank Martins, who all wrote that the Ibo
people originated from Nupe and not from Israel.
So, we have all these internationally acclaimed Ibo professors with their formidable credentials all saying that the Ibo people
originated from Nupe and not from Israel…
… And, yet, here we are today with a stark illiterate called Nnamdi Kanu telling the Ibo people that they originated from Israel.





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whitebeard:
Mr genius, if he is not a human then what is he...!!

PDJT:
-Buhari's death that is already trending on Twitter? Just type: "Buhari is dead" on twitter search engine and see it for yourself.

Fleshly:
So the angst of the bishop against Nnamdi Kanu is that NK is yet to visit him. SHAME!!

GODSMILEFOREVER:
Very true I have been using it for about 3 months now though they said it is exclusive to me. I tried it on my friends' phone but it does not work it is suppose to last for 30 days.

Yyeske:
Hope they discussed about the IPOB miscreants' emperor Nnamdi kanu who is a dead man living. If not, IPOB supporters here are all dead because we are already waiting to lynch them all

CeoNewshelm:
Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God has laid curses on cultists and criminals making life difficult for Nigerians.


Speaking at the church’s monthly Holy Ghost Service at the new Arena, Pastor Adeboye said, “My Father, send down your fire on all every society or cult groups shedding blood of innocent Nigerians.




http://www.newshelmng.com/2017/07/pastor-adeboye-places-curses-on.html

bashbanks:
Our thoughts are with them.. Lol

PHILipu1:
Open your eyes.
This is compensation from APC to Sheriff
faction of PDP for destroying Wike,Fayose
and co faction.
Watch and see what will happen in
Anambra.
It's a game.
APC will win 6 elections then allow the
oppositions to win one so that Nigerians
will not complain of one party state.

How many people here will be able to call INEC riggers when they will announce Anambra election in favour of APC come November?

It's a game,they are ready to sacrifice a senatorial seat to gain a governorship seat either in Anambra or Ekiti state.

It's a game don't be deceive.
Adeleke will not stay in PDP for long and he may jump back to APC even before the supreme court judgement of who is the real PDP chairman.

Kudos to Sheriff,kudos to INEC,Kudos to APC for using some people head.
Watch how the game play out.

maasoap:
Coming from someone who probably has never set his feet in Osun State. I know what you are implying though.

jumper524:
Our news outlets are just causing un-neccesary tension. This quit notice issue has been resolved. but our news agency are not satisfied, they are hell bent on making people panic. Why take something serious from an un-known person as news. L

Caseless:
You'll have x20 of this for a burial of a 'nobody' in kano state.
Useless people!

googlepikins:
Why do I have the feelings that afonjas will soon arrive here

Buchi11:
Hello guys.
please any clue on where to download telenovelas?

bantudra:
what makes you think boko haram and niger delta millitants will not join nigeria to fight biafra..??..

both of them dont like you too...

when the igbo race get defeated,their will be enough spoil for everbody...

this will motivate everybody to fight against you to get something...

CaptainGOOD:
"The just shall live by faith"
All thanks to the vegetable...

"WithTHE TRUTH i will destroy Nigeria"..... NNAMDI KANU!

kalufelix:
I'll ride from Aba to Enugu on my decathlon mountain bike .... I swear

givbitcoin:
It was actually the impossibility of Biafran restoration that made them die. Shouldn't that be a lesson for the living? Or must you all die before you agree that Biafra is lie? See, we are just being considerate. Nigeria is big enough for everybody to thrive. Let's just bury this Biafra issue and move on.

ebukahandsome:
He is a man with a strong heart