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EzeUche:
This can never happen in a million years in Nigeria, but it could happen in Biafra.

Do you ignorant dolts understand there is a $25 billion high speed national rail network CURRENTLY under construction in Nigeria? It will outclass anything Kenya is currently doing, while connecting every state in Nigeria by high speed rail. This is why you and your ilk need to study and research before commenting.

OVI75:
The First unfortunate thing is been Born Black,

The next unfortunate Thing is been Born A Nigerian...

You can always bleach your skin. Animal.

Denko2721987:
Whatever it is, something seems certain. The controllers of the United State government (the guys that really pull the dtring at the top of the pyramid) are having a hard time dealing with Trump so the possibility or chances of them taking him out is justh as high as it was with J.F. Kennedy. He needs to be very careful..

You are very naive. The "controllers" put Trump there and allow him to remain in office despite his criminality and conflicts of interest for which he could easily be removed. So he is there because the hidden controllers of the US want him there.

Messi is better than Ronaldo. Pure and simple. OP, too much grammar.

kingzizzy:
You keep saying Ojukwu had a choice, didnt Gowon have a choice? Peace is a two way thing, it is not something that is down to one side to keep.

Wrong. Pragmatism dictates that the weaker side must seek all means to avoid military confrontation.
Your arrogance and narcissism made you imagine you were a match for the Nigerian military. The colonialists that enslaved you, massacred you, and looted your resources for 70 years straight, why didn't you go to war with them, or declare secession when they were in charge? You respect white authority, but disrespect black? Well, Gowon gave you your answer.

As an Igbo man, if I am faced with the choice of being a slave of the North and fighting with my bare hands, I will choose the latter.

Ojukwu said the same thing, just before he boarded the plane to Ivory Coast.

There is this impression that Nigeria would always decimate Biafra in the event of war. This isnt accurate. Ojukwu had the people solidly behind him, Ojukwu had the manpower, Ojukwu had the Oil.

He did not have the weapons. That should be first on your list. Your claim that he had the people "solidly behind him" is unverifiable. Who asked the old women in the villages if they were prepared for war?

If it were not the fact that British Naval Warships blockaded Biafra and prevented Ojukwu from exporting Oil and importing food and arms, Nigeria would never have won the war. Gowon would have eventually ran out of money to procecute the war and gave up. Britain virtually won the war for Nigeria

Stop lying. There were no British warships blockading you. It was NIGERIAN warships that did. Nigeria had a Navy, unlike you.

The Nigerian army has no history of winning any war without at least 2 countries coming to their military aid.

What history of war has the Biafran Toy army of rag tag child soldiers with catapaults and machetes got?

The Nigerian Army could do nothing against the Niger Delta militants. They couldnt enter Sambisa until Chad, Niger Republic and Cameroon became involved in the fight against Boko Haram.

The Nigerian army showed restraint in the Delta to prevent mass civilian casualties. Chad and others were needed against BH to check their cross-border activities. The US army always fights alongside allied nations and coalition forces for similar reasons. You need to study and understand the complexities of military operations before commenting on them. Just like your Biafran leaders needed to study the complexities and consequences of military conflict with Nigeria prior to declaring secession. The problem with you and your ilk is that you know nothing, you don't study, you don't research, you don't plan. You choose to be ignorant and reckless, and merely bank on your lazy assumptions and prejudices, and it will always backfire on you.

kingzizzy:
There is a limit to seeking peaceful resolution. Somebidy cannot carry on slapping your face and you keep taking it because you want peace. It doesnt matter who you are, a time will come when you will say enough is enough. We all have our breaking point. Ojukwu did so much so that there would be peace. In the first coup of January 1966, Ojukwu refused to help Nzeogwu and even helped foil the coup. When the first wave of massacres happend to Igbos in the North, many Igbos ran back to the East. Ojukwu as military Governor of the Eastern Region convinced many Igbos to returned to the North. Ojukwu even escorted a large number of Igbos to the Northern border with Eastern Nigeria and told told them to go back in the spirit of 'one Nigeria' only for them ti killed in greater numbers a few months later. In the counter coup of July 1966, over 300 Igbo officers were murdered including the Igbo head of state, Aguiyi Ironsi. Enugu baraks had about 800 Northern Soldiers. It took the tireless efforts if Ojukwu and Lt Col Ogunenwe to hold the Igbos from descending on that Barrack and killing all of them. Ojukwu even arranged the safe departure of all of them from Enugu train station back to the North. Over 50, 000 Igbos were massacred but Ojukwu defied the cry of his fellow Igbos to pull them out of Nigeria and went to Ghana to meet Gowon and find lasting peace. After 2 days of meeting, they reached an agreement. Before they signed this agreement, the president of Ghana, General Ankrah asked all parties 'do you all agree with this agreement?', they all said yes and signed. Only for Gowon to retirn to Nigeria and start talking about honouring 80% of the agreement. The final straw that broke the Carmels back was when Gowon unilaterally changed the structural agreement of Nigeria by abolishing the 4 Regions and creating 12 states! Something he signed not to do in the Aburi agreement.


Haba! What was Ojukwu to do? What else could that man have done after all he had done for peace was rebuffed? What was Gowons imput as head of state so that there would be peace? He was ready to go to war to kill those he called brothers.

Ojukwu went over and above what a normal person would have done so that there would be peace.

What you people expected Ojukwu to do was roll over and surrender to the dictates of the Northern oiligarchy like Awolowo did? Sorry but an Igbo man cannot do that, not without a fight.

If I am surrounded by 5 big men who wish to bully and subjugate me, how long do I let them intimidate me before I stand up myself?

Ojukwu was faced with 2 choices, accept Northern controlled Nigeria or declare your sovereignty and fight for it. Ojukwu did what he was supposed to do

You are STILL not using your common sense.

You are still trying to justify the unjustifiable.

Ojukwu HAD A CHOICE. He did not HAVE to declare secession from Nigeria. THAT was what precipitated the conflict.

If he had not declared secession, three million Igbos would have lived, and not been killed in conflict.

You can claim everything you like and say he did, to avoid war, but guess what? It wasn't enough. HE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE END OF THE EARTH AND BACK TO AVOID WAR, IF HE TRULY CARED ABOUT HIS PEOPLE.

The truth is that going to war was SIMPLY NOT AN OPTION for the Igbos. Why then did it come to that? Because of the poor decision-making, incompetence, narcissism, and arrogance of Ojukwu and his cohorts.

It's not as of it was a secret at the time that Biafra would be decimated in a conflict. Zik warned Ojukwu to avoid war at all costs. A few senior officers in the Biafra army, such as Major-General Hilary Njoku, warned against going to war. Ojukwu ignored and sidelined them, claiming that ''no power in black Africa can defeat Biafra.'' This was a country with no functional army, no navy, no airforce. I mean, it was pure madness. A collective psychosis that gripped the East at the time, fuelled by Radio Biafra propaganda broadcasts. A bout of collective narcissism that backfired spectacularly. And now, like typical narcissists, you still refuse to accept you made a mistake. Go on. Go and declare another secession.

kingzizzy:
What does it take to push the Igbos out? The 50, 000 of them that were slaughtered? The Aburi agreement that was broken? An agreement is an agreement. You dont sign an agreement and come back and say you offering 80%. If Ojukwu had accepted that, what stops Gowon coming back a week later to offer only 40%? If Gowon felt that the agreement he signed in Ghana was to be ammended, it was incumbent on Gowon to call another meeting and discuss an ammendment. The break down of the Aburi agreement was because of the inability of Gowon to implement what he signed. Blame Gowon not Ojukwu.

Gowon left Ojukwu with no option than to declare Biafra when Gowon changed the structural arrangement of Nigeria by abolishing the 4 Regions and creating 12 states. Even as at that, Gowon could have tried other acenues for peace such referendum, plebicite ir a second Aburi meeting. But Gowon rushed to war as his first resort when it should have been his last resort. If Ojukwu had really wanted war, he would have never agreed to go to Aburi where he signed an agreement ti recognise his junior, Gowon, as head of state.

All this was because the Northern oligarchy wanted to dominate the political and economic life of Nigeria. Unfortunately for them, neither Ojukwu nor Igbos were about to take it laying down like slaves as the rest of Nigeria were prepared to

Use your common sense Mr Man. Insofar as you did not have the military wherewithal to confront the Nigerian military, it was incumbent on Ojukwu to seek a PEACEFUL RESOLUTION of the crisis, even if the Aburi agreement was broken. Even if Gowon created 12 states. Even if Gowon kidnapped Ojukwu's daughter. The ONLY VIABLE SOLUTION for the Igbos at the time, was a PEACEFUL RESOLUTION of that crisis. PURE AND SIMPLE.

Instead, your dictator, Ojukwu, unilaterally declared secession from Nigeria, knowing full well he lacked the resources to back such a dramatic, provocative act. Look, there are over 700 secessionist movements on earth. The US alone has over 30. Why has none of them actually moved to declare secession from their respective countries? Because they lack the military capacity to enforce such an action against the parent state. BASIC COMMON SENSE, which you, Ojukwu, and many other Igbos, have somehow failed to grasp. Is it an IQ problem with you people?

If Nigeria had a couple of nuclear weapons, and was using them to challenge America, while Nigerians were starving, with no elections or human rights, no free speech, no internet, plus a brutal military dictatorship in power, how many of you here would be praising Nigeria?

seunny4lif:
Like they told you on CNN just like they told you about Libya right?

Forget CNN. Enter North Korea and see if you can last two weeks there without begging to be returned to Nigeria. A place that even Igbo traders fear to tread. Good luck in your adventure.

capip120:
How did you know dey are starving? Because BBC and CNN said so? Why haven't the world declared emergency like they do in Somalia, Mali and Sudan? Abegiii make we hear word.

Ignoramus, because the North Koreans have barred foreign aid organisations, NGOs and journalists from the country, and have severely restricted movement of anyone entering the country. If you were a North Korean, you couldn't even use the internet. The people have zero rights. No elections are permitted. No free speech or freedom of assembly. But hey, they have some shiny objects like fancy military gear, which is enough to wow thoughtless dullards like you. And you must be really dense to be mentioning IDP camp when millions of North Koreans are systematically starved and malnourished year in year out to fund the military.

Stoicbaba:
Honestly...I don't think we can match them o. We are so backward...not only with weapons...We are good in double rolling civilians and also 'peacekeeping"

Dumbo. We are so backward we can feed your fat belly all year round while in North Korea people are starving so the govt can build weapons. I wonder how long your fat belly will last in their "forward" country. Thoughtless dunce.

$250 million? This man must be a thief.

wirinet:
I am highly disappointed with your mindset, you talk as if you are still living in 19th century colonial Africa.

I am not dictating to anybody how they choose to live their lives.

Yes you are.

At least be honest.

We agreed to come together as a nation to help each other to advance the wellbeing and development of our people. Socio political entities are not form so that one part can depend on another perpetually for survival. Even within a family, the younger and weaker members will eventually have to fend for themselves.

You are making all sorts of assumptions here.

Just a random Google search brought up these headlines on Sokoto:


Sokoto approves N63m for tricycles, sanitation tools

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/sultan-inaugurates-trauma-centre-in-sokoto/200148.html



Sokoto Spends N10 Billion on Education

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/05/30/sokoto-govt-spends-n10bn-education/

''Sokoto State Government has spent about N10 billion on the provision of infrastructure in schools over the last two years, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, has said.

Tambuwal said at a media parley on Monday night in Sokoto, that the huge investment was in line with the government’s declaration of a state of emergency in the sector since December 2015.

” These huge funds were expended on the construction, renovation and expansion of schools, at all levels across the state.''

”The money was also spent on the provision of school furniture, instructional materials, training and retraining and other motivation strategies for teachers, pupils and students, among others,” he said.

Tambuwal declared that the government had cleared the backlog of NECO and WAEC fees, as well as scholarship allowances for its students.

”Students studying both within and outside Nigeria are not being owed, as their tuition and upkeep allowances were being paid as at when due.

”The state government has also scaled up the level of engagement with the various development partners.

”In this direction, we will never waiver in routinely meeting all our obligations to them, all in the bid to further revamp the sector,” the governor stressed.

According to him, the attention being given to education has made the people more aware on the need to send their children to school, thereby, raising enrollment, retention and completion rates of students including girls.

He added, ”The state House of Assembly had recently passed the compulsory free education law and I will assent to it in the next few days.

”Under the law, parents who refuse to enroll their children in school are liable to prosecution; and parents can seek for legal redress if they think that their children are denied educational opportunities by the state government.”



Sokoto state governor flags off ten important projects to mark Democracy Day

Ten important projects were flagged off to mark Democracy Day in Sokoto state - They are:

1. Flagging off of Sokoto-IML Organic Fertiliser factory by Senator Adamu Aliero.

2. Presentation of 45 buses and instructional materials to public secondary schools by Governor Tambuwal.

3. Commissioning of the dualized Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki Road by Sultan Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar. Governor Aminu Tambuwal flags off ten projects as part of activities to mark Democracy Day and his second year in office

4. Unveiling of new library complex and blocks of classrooms at College of Nursing, Sokoto by Navy Capt Raji, former military administrator of Sokoto state.

5. Commissioning of Western Bye-pass/Keystone Bank road by Hon Emeka Ihedioha, former deputy speaker of House of Representatives.

6. Commissioning of Gidan Dare roundabout and Sokoto Furniture Factory road by Hon Emeka Ihedioha, former deputy speaker of House of Representatives.

7. Commissioning of Government Secondary School Gumbi. Renovated, remodelled and upgraded from Junior Secondary School to Senior (Boarding) Secondary School by CP (rtd) Usman Farouk, former military governor of old north-western state. One of the ten projects was the commissioning of Government Secondary School Gumbi

8. Flag off of student biometric data collection by CP (rtd) Usman Farouk, former military governor of old north-western state.

9. Commissioning of Government Model School, Tudun Wada, Sokoto. 10. Unveiling of Sabon Birni Road.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/1107196-sokoto-state-governor-flags-ten-important-projects-mark-democracy-day-photos.html




See? They are actually making progress. Doing some good things. But you've read one article about ''mosques'' and all of a sudden, they've turned into lazy parasites who don't want to do anything useful except attend mosques - all based on nothing but your prejudice, ignorance and arrogance.

You still hold the view that natural resources leads to wealth creation and thus rich countries, but this is untrue. Countries depending on natural resources will eventually turn out poor and unstable. Most of the failed and failing states of the world are countries with huge natural resources. The only viable and sustainable long term resource is the human resources and good education and good health is the measure of human resources.

Thanks. As you can see from the above, the Sokoto state govt spent N10 billion on education. If they want to spend half a billion naira on mosques, let them do it and stop attacking them.

Are the social cohesion and harmony those mosques will provide not part of development? Development is not just about material things.

If oil in the niger delta should dry up today, I would never advocate depending on oil or other mineral resources from other regions to sustain my people. We survived well before oil and we will survive better after oil.

It's not about if you will advocate or not. You will have no choice but to depend on Sokoto for your sustenance. Without them, you wouldn't be able to pay salaries, pay teachers, buy food etc. Nothing on this earth is permanent. One day your turn or your children's turn will come, to depend on another region for one thing or the other, since no man is an island. You would not wish them to be under the arrogant dictates of those supplying the resources of the day.

wirinet:
If we were not operating a skewed federation where money earned in other regions are used to fund the idiosyncrasies of other regions, it will not have concerned me. Furthermore, the effect of illiteracy and poverty in one region is not only isolated to the affected region but is felt all over the federation in the form of terrorism, armed robbery, and other social vices.

If Sokoto state earns it own money and decides to built sand castles with it, then nobody has the right to complain, but where we dash Sokoto money to develop itself so it can be independent, but decides to waste it on unproductive ventures, then I have the rights to ask questions.

The problem with this worldview is again, that you are imposing your values on them, because you see yourself as ''dashing them'' money. You still do not see yourself as being in a NATION with them. In a NATION that's united, it matters little where the resources are based. What if tomorrow, the oil and gas runs out in the south, or becomes inaccessible following some sort of natural or man-made disaster, leading to widespread poverty and economic collapse, and then shortly afterwards, untold billions of barrels of oil are discovered in Sokoto, which the nation then uses as a revenue source?

And what if, as we all come to depend on Sokoto's oil, the people there start to DICTATE TO YOU how you need to change your lifestyles, and become more religious, or even Islamic, in order to continue receiving the money they are ''dashing'' you?

How will that sound to you?

wirinet:
Are you aware of the appalling developmental indices of sokoto state? Poverty rates, infant and maternal mortality rates, poverty rate, literacy level, etc. Meningitis is still killing people in Sokoto, and you ate talking about living in Sokoto being less expensive.
The N566 million would go a long way into solving some of these problems, instead of wasting in on building mosques.

You do realise we live in a democracy, right?

Were you there when the governor was campaigning?

How are you sure he did not promise the people there 500 new mosques, which made them to elect him?

Now that he's in office, what should he do? Forget his promise, and start speaking grammar to them?

So he's only fulfilling his campaign promises.

We are in a democracy. He's in that office because of that promise he made to build those mosques. If it wasn't something the PEOPLE wanted, he would not have built them. This is democracy in action. Leave the people of Sokoto alone, please. Nigeria is a huge country of 200 million people. Must we all think alike? There is enough room for all types of belief systems, practises, and lifestyles. That is what makes a nation GREAT.

Is it by force that they must embrace IT, industrialisation, materialism, commercialisation, to the detriment of their spiritual practices? It is their right to determine what is most important to them.


If we embrace the philosophy of Live and Let Live as a country, instead of being judgemental, it will make us a greater nation.

FFKfuckedBIANCA:
it just does not make sense. Why should Governors build Mosque and churches? Why should Governors-- some cannot pay their workers salary--continue to budget millons of Naira for Christian and Moslem pilgrims going to Jerusalem and Mecca from their respective state every year?

Kenya recently commissioned a Chinese built express Railway linking the Capital, Nairobi to the Port city of Mombasa. This Railway would further link up Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi to the Indian Ocean. Why are we not embarking on grandiose project like this instead of wasting limited state funds on religious matters and other frivolities

Actually....we are embarking on exactly this project. The national rail network is a huge project that is currently ongoing. The Abuja - Kaduna line is an example of what the system will look like.

tinsel:
This is not senseless post. I am an Igbo man, and when I lie down and think of massive Igbo investments all over Nigeria and what will happen, I am gripped with fear. When I lie down and and think of massive exodus of Igbo's from Nigeria to biafra states I am gripped with fear.
During Abiola episode, I slept on road for two full days travelling from Lagos to Onitsha because of the exodus of the Igbos.
People doing this are children not beyond 20 years and people that has nothing to lose. They never owned anything in there whole life.
please we need to take it easy.

This is one of the many Igbo voices of reason that have been drowned out in the loud cacophony of noise emanating from thuggish, thoughtless Ipob elements who parade in threats and insults to all who question them.

laudate:
Kindly remember this. All countries are equal, but some are more equal and more strategic than others. Do you think a newly formed Biafra on the west coast of Africa, would wield enough clout or strategic importance to make the Western world send in armed units in response to your country's call? Do you honestly think the EU will rush down to rescue your properties that are still on Nigerian soil? When the chickens come home to roost, assumptions will not automatically be transformed into solutions...

LOL... well said. The problem is that Igbos have a collective narcissism that makes them imagine they are more important or relevant than they really are on the world stage. It can be quite amusing to behold at times. For instance, they seem hardly aware that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of groups with a secessionist agenda in various countries around the world. Most of them are realistic enough to know that their agitation will not lead to separation. Not the Igbos. They think they are unique in wanting ''their own space'', and that the world needs to pay special attention to their demands. In North America alone there are nearly 35 secessionist groups, each with a long list of 'grievances' against the US or Canadian governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_North_America

So why will the world stop for 'Biafra'?

And then someone put it into their heads that Trump would be backing their movement. Boy did they go with that one.... I wonder how much the guy made selling the T-shirts.

Voldamos:
We lost the battle, but the war is not over.

We lost millions of people, but we've multiplied ten times over.

We lost our properties, but now we're wealthier than many "Nigerians".

Mind you, this is 2017 not 1967.

Shalom.

This comment confirms what I have long suspected, i.e. that Biafra proponents really don't value the lives of their fellow Igbos. They value the perceived interests of the Igbo ethnic group over the actual lives of its flesh and blood members. Just see how callously you dismissed the millions of Igbo casualties of the last war, by claiming that you've "multiplied ten times over". Again, the interest is on ethnic strength, not the individual Igbo lives destroyed in the carnage. The millions of young and old flesh and blood Igbos killed, are for you, mere numbers to be "multiplied". No need to inquire into how their deaths could have been prevented through better planning, no introspection, no revisiting of strategy, nothing. After all, they can be "multiplied".

It was this same callous disregard for the lives of the Igbo masses that led Ojukwu into a conflict for which his people were utterly unprepared, with no weapons, no army or airforce or navy, with catastrophic results. For him as well, the Igbo 'tribe' came before the Igbo people.

It is a terrible trait to have, and it could lead the Igbos into further trouble in future.

I now understand what the Israelites in the bible experienced when Moses was seeking for them to leave Egypt.

They​ must have been mocked by the Egyptians, same way it's being done on this thread if not worse.

They must have​ been asked questions like "your tribe is too small, how will you fight off​ bigger tribes?" "You don't have a homeland, where will you go?" "How will you feed yourself as you pass through the wilderness?" "Your God is just setting you up to die in the wilderness".

Yet still Israel is a sovereign country presently. They survived the Holocaust. They have been fighting off enemies and counting victories.

To my Igbo brothers and sisters, have no fear. God is with us. He has brought us this far, and He is taking us further.

Gaining our sovereignty as a Country will be the first prove that God Almighty (Chukwu Okike) is with us.

Shalom.

The same God was around when you lost 2 or 3 million people in the civil war due to your lack of planning. If you fail to plan or use your heads again this time, the same God will watch as you are dealt with.

blueseacats:
Quick question, why did Russians allow Ukrainians access to their property in Crimea?, why were Georgians given access to their property in South Ossetia. There are international laws that has guaranteed world peace since World War Two Nigeria is too small for United Nations, remember Bosnian war. Biafrans just needs to know which buttons to press. This is not 1967.

You don't understand how these things work. Nigeria can easily circumvent any international regulation by imposing administrative bottlenecks on their implementation. Failures can then be attributed to incompetence, corruption etc, while not directly opposing/contravening the regulation.

barragan:
I believe the reason @rossikki opened this thread is to point out the obvious flaws in the biafra quest, please guys don't let us in the process ridicule the whole Igbo nation.

For those of you IPOB enthusiast, know that your agitation will be putting millions of innocent people at risk. Although I know that in reality this biafran thing is just a phase that will soon pass as soon as an igbo man reaches the oval office but still enough with the bad blood guys there's no point to it.

You are a wise man.

deomelo:
East Timor is not Nigeria or Indonesia and it's even ridiculous to compare your own situation and environment with others several thousands miles away from you.


The problem with you people is always lack of critical thinking, you formulate your thoughts based on sentiments and emotions instead of well though out reasoning and strategies.

Ojukwu took millions of your people to war without weapons and clear cut ideas and strategies and millions perished because of that foolish and irresponsible act.

Another clown is asking you to risk everything and your and your people are not asking critical and crucial questions, you are not asking him for the necessary ground work and planning necessary to sustain a Nation.


Have you asked him what he's going to do or how to resettle millions of your returnees?

Have you asked him anything about customs, borders, military, law enforcement, judicial system, education and health policies, governing body and elections, tax and IGR policies and the constitution needed to govern you from day one or he's just going to make that up from thin air?


Do you people really think beating chest and abusing people on the internet and home video is all you need to run a country.


You are heading for another self destruction. I don't even know why you people are hard learners.

Great points. I've always found it strange that I've never seen or heard a discussion among Ipob people regarding the system of government their new country would operate, or its economic policies. Or its foreign policy. It's a disaster waiting to happen. These are things that should be ironed out years in advance of the actual separation. Instead, there seems to be this religious faith in the magical abilities of 'Professor' Nnamdi Kanu to miraculously materialise a fully functional nation they can all be proud of. If only it were that easy...

Fremancipation:
All these spit and venom just because biafra wants to have their independence. lol

I feel your pain and frustration... But know this that BIAFRA will trade and expand rapidly to the rest of the world while the remaining nigeria crumbles from within.

There's a big problem with your assumptions here. Most serious trading nations have set up protectionist barriers that prevent the "trade and expansion" of your imagination. Plus, you will struggle to compete with China and the like, for access to those markets. With Nigeria, you have a 200 million-strong market at your disposal. Nigeria is projected to be the world's 3rd most populous nation, after China and India, by 2050, with a population surpassing 1 billion. Those statistics are GOLD for the industrious and entrepreneurial Igbos. But they want to abandon this huge market, this world class opportunity to really explode their wealth and reach, to retreat into some tiny ethnic kingdom, for reasons best known to them. Not smart at all.

Agumbankembu:
Then you take them and run them aground, like you ran all the companies u got after the war, you ran them all aground, and still remained a cesspit.

Sure. A cesspit which 15 million Igbo 'adventurers' can decide to evacuate this very minute and return home to the south east. But instead still remain in, from Kano to Ogbomosho to Ibadan.

It's like you love the smell of the cesspit even more than us.

Agumbankembu:
My brother deport every single one u see outside Igboland.
If that will make them bring all their investments back home. All the Igbos that come home during Christmas don't cry of where to sleep, we have enough land for inhabitation and business districts.

Who said they will be allowed to go with their investments?

Sorry, you cannot make money on the back of Nigerians, and then decide you want to "go with your investments". The FG will make it nearly impossible for Igbos to repatriate their investments in Nigeria. Of that you can be sure.

Narcissistic dolts who think the world revolves around them.

Curlieweed:
Yes we are. There are over 200 countries, I can't stroll to casually. So what difference does one or two more make? Please get serious and stop making up nightmare scenarios.

Forget those 200 countries rubbish. If it's like that why haven't the millions of Igbos in Nigeria left the "zoo" and moved to those 200 countries? Or they prefer zoo abi? Abeg make we hear something o jare.

kingzizzy:
Of course I expect them to discuss the terms of disengagement. Both sides have debts, liabilities and assets to share. They have to meet to discuss who owns what

Hahahaha....What terms of disengagement? So let's assume you declare Biafra, and take possession of the oilfields which provide 90% of FG revenue. The FG will not be sitting down with you to "discuss terms of disengagement". They wil be sitting down with their foreign partners discussing the best BOMBS and MISSILES to drop on you, to end your secessionist misadventure.

You seriously need to think straight, dude.

The Biafra thing will be a disaster for the average Igbo guy, who will just turn to a local champion.

No more shuttling around Naija. Once you leave Owerri, Enugu, Aba, Onitsha etc, you are a marked man. You enter Jos, trouble. Find yourself in Benin, wahala. Kaduna, forget it. Abuja, who dash you? Lagos, the worst. Na bulala dem go take drive you.

Are you guys really ready for that kind of life?

kingzizzy:
If you take Britain that just left the EU, over 3 million EU citizens in the UK. Will Britain deport them? No, not really.

In the event of Biafra seceding from Nigeria, both sides will have to discuss the sharing of assets, liabilities and debts. This means that there will be a discussion on 'Biafra/Nigeria' reltionship and the status of its citizens. A 'transition period' will have to be agreed on to allow the agreemwnts take effect


It is not likely that Nigeria will start deporting all Igbos straightaway as this could illegal under international law. Another reason why Nigeria wont do this is because it will damage Nigeria and the Nigerian economy irreparably before the international community. No international investor will ever step foot in Nigeria ever again when hear that Nigeria deported millions of people it once called brothers.

Such mass deportations only destroys the credibility of a country

You sound like a dreamer. You actually expect the Nigerian govt to sit down with you and discuss terms of secession? I mean, you are just deluded. The rest of your post is similarly delusional.

menxer:
You are reasoning from the point of hate, don't forget by then international diplomacy would play its role as Nigeria would be dealing with Biafra as a sovereign nation and all the diplomatic abracadabra would play out.

Every nation has the inalienable right to deport all illegal immigrants from its territory. In fact, Nigeria will have the right to build a huge, lengthy, southern border WALL to protect itself from Igbo immigrants, just as Trump is doing in America to keep out the Mexicans.

laudate:
I no know say you sef see am!!

It's strange that they still see some civilised qualities in the 'zoo'.

It will hit them hard when they see how truly uncivilised this 'zoo' can be.