₦airaland Forum

Olabestonic001:
Beautiful! Its obvious you are one of those with brains that Biafrans needs to listen to. FYI: my fiancee is Igbo and I want my kids to have mother relations; that's my major concern with Biafran agenda.
Do you not think Biafra should follow a flow chart model than a "call-their-bluff-pattern" Kanu is promoting? Having a Biafra is a Project than a vendetta. Let me suggest for my intending in-laws what best to do (as a Project Personnel):
(1) Develop massively your Region and ensure your best brains are domiciled in that place.
(2) Knowingly, embark on empowering massively one of your states. This will serve as the new country's capital.
(3) Remove your hatred from other Nigerians. No nation can prosper that was build on hate for another nation. Rather, foster love amidst each Igbo.
(4) Rapport with other smaller tribes. Let there be Terms and Conditions. Never make the mistake of Lugard and the people of South Sudan.
(5) Tone down the arrogance. Its not necessary telling others you are superior to them. Drumming that to their ears will make them frustrate your agenda on days they are supposed to lend a helping hand or give a support.
(6) Scrap the Osu system. one of the people that can sabotage Of Biafra's struggle.

Thanks for your response.

But imagine giving all these suggestions to a woman that is tired of marrying you before she gets a divorce. What do you think? Let Biafra be free and they will sort any problems arising.

Olabestonic001:
Wonderful write-up. Do you have these documented and passed as Constitutions or just your own version of how you want Biafra to be treated? You know leading a group of people is much more than one person's ideal; its always what will be fair to all. One fight with Biafra concept is that the freedom fighters and secessionists' only intention is to spite others that they were unhappy about the Last Election. It reminds me of Libyans who wanted a Revolution that will remove Gaddafi without having any alternative strong government in place or South Sudan who fought for 20years and thought being declared a nation will mean liberation or APC thinking defeating GEJ would automatically solve their problems. While I love your ideals for the purported new Nation but its obvious that those wonderful concepts are your own and not that of the Biafran Fundamentalists.

GOD Bless your ideals.

There is no constitution to that effect. The constitution will be drawn by active participation of those comprising Biafra. It will be a people's constitution that very few would think of violating. Unlike your ragtag military constitution being used at the moment. As good as tissue paper.

"Nothing good to sing about" --- Fela Kuti (that was in the 80s). Now in 2015, still Nothing good to sing about.

OP is real mugu.

If someone can volunteer to go to atm for you and withdraw, clearly someone from the crowd can alsol volunteer to go and verify the hotel or where you spent the night with her to burst or assert her claims.

You fall real mugu OP.

OP is right in proofing Nnamdi Kanu right that these are baboons and monkeys.

Anyways no matter the passport, the issue is Biafra and freedom. For your information, the train has left the station, Passport ni passport ko can't stop it.

Happening now, pandemonium in Eha-Alumona, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State following an attack on the Umabor Police Station by angry youths.



According to DailyPost reports, the youths also blocked the ever busy Enugu-Makurdi Expressway yesterday, crippling vehicular movement.

A source said that trouble started when a team of policemen stormed a viewing centre and arrested some residents, a development that angered the youths. According to the community source, “what happened yesterday was accumulation of anger. The police have been in the habit of making indiscriminate arrest in the Eha Community.

“Each time they come, they would pick so many young men and force them to pay N5,000 for bail; if you refuse to pay, they will detain you for those. That’s what they repeated Tuesday night.”

He further disclosed that on getting to the Police Station, the angry youths demanded immediate release of their brothers, a request turned down by the police.

It was learnt that at that point, the youths went wild and started vandalizing property; even as they reportedly engaged the police in sporadic shootings.

However, report gathered that though no life was lost in the sporadic shootings which lasted for several hours, police vehicles, including a hilux van and some parts of the building were destroyed.

Frantic efforts made to obtain reaction from the police failed as the Enugu Police Spokesman did not pick several calls put across to him.

http://abacityblog.com/2015/10/tension-in-enugu-as-youths-attack-police-station-block-makurdi-expressway/

Man hunt for Abobaku.


ABOBAKU OOHH come and answer your calling!!!

ozy4christ:
may God keep us alive and let see he who laugh last,i pity u ppl,dream dat can never be actualize.hahahahaha

No my dear, even if i die in this struggle may my Children and other biafran children be raised in a decent, productive, energized Biafra that respects the right to freedom and expression, that believes in "onulu ube nwanne agbana oso" (Do no flee when you hear the cry of your brethren). I choose to die that my kids and other kids may never see what i have seen or see daily in this Zoo called Nigeria.

@OP its called Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB. Not independent people for biafra!!

ozy4christ:
and u think u wil get biafra just like dat?y didnt u ppl get it after d war?and u said u lost ppl and planning 2 loose more abi?even if u ppl make noice frm nw til christ,dia wil be no biafra,those who fought biafia hates 2 hear biafra again because of bitter experience,think about ur childrens future and nt biafra.one Nigeria

Sorry my dear, take it easy is my advice to you. Avoid biafra issue if you are truly Igbo and faint hearted. For your information, the train has left the station.

Please permit another child to reply you.

moscow37d:
3. According to Wikipedia, youth age range is between 18-35. Hence no present day Nigerian youth saw the civil war.

My first question: since over 90% percent of us neither saw the civil war nor participated actively, and our youth were born 10 years after the war, where is all the hate and agitation from?

The hate comes from the youth witnessing what those that fought the war witnessed. They feel a man/woman should get a divorce once he or she is tired of the marriage especially a forced marriage he/she never consented to. Imagine how hateful your wife will be when she is not allowed to divorce you and she believes you are maltreating her day and night.

moscow37d:
4. The major driving force of Biafra is the igboland, but the Biafran map includes states like Cross river, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom state. This makes Biafra a culturally diverse state. I am igbo and i currently live in Akwa Ibom state, and we share no similarity in custom or language. How then can we live together as "one Biafra" when we can't tolerate the cultural diversity of Nigeria.

They have lived together for thousands of years, there is no recorded history of igbo trying to conquer them or them trying to conquer igbo land in the years they existed before the British experiment. But those states are also free to decide to be on their own.

moscow37d:
5. The Igbo tribe would become the majority tribe in Biafra, while the others who constitute the oil producing states hence the 'rich boys' would become minority. "How can the wealth most especially that from oil be distributed, when the majority is in power and the minority have the resource?"
So therefore, a time may come when the "minority" may decide to be free, because no man wants to live in another man's shadow.

In Biafra every one will control his or her own resources. The rubbish practised in Nigeria can never see the light of the day. Even in Igbo communities now, its impossible for a community to labour and others eat the fruits in the name of sharing. You manage your own. So those 'rich boys' will never feel they are minority or cheated.

moscow37d:
6. Igbos are generally regarded as traders, and the lifeblood of their markets like Onitsha Main market and Ariaria international market is found in Lagos seaport where most of the goods come from. In Biafra, Lagos becomes another country hence tax and import/ export levies would increase drastically and logistics would become more difficult.
The other option is to trade via the Calabar Port, Delta Port or Rivers Port at Port Harcourt, and Onne. These ports are only found in the non-igbo states, hence another potential challenge.

Once Biafra is restored, the river niger will be dredged with lightning spead so as to add more ports to the ones that will exist in Calabar, Delta, Rivers etc. And meanwhile bilateral agreements will be reached with the 'non-igbo states' to allow free movement of goods while they collect their port revenue. Its that simple.

moscow37d:
7. What happens to Biafrans that have their livelihood rooted deeply in non biafran states? What happens to the igbos that constitute the majority of Alaba international market?
Would naturalization take place or would they liquidate assets and return to Biafra and start afresh?

Please what happened to Nigerians outside Nigeria when Nigeria got independence?? Are all Nigerians in Nigeria?? Are all Americans in America?? Are all Chinese in china doing business?? Are all russians in Russia?? Any Biafran that wants to return returns, if he prefers where he is no biggie.

moscow37d:
8. Finally, the question of rulership. Who rules Biafra?
Currently, most Igbo people especially those in Abia and Imo state are dissatisfied with the condition of their states. They complain of bad government, massive looting, poor infrastructures etc, and they are currently ruled by Igbo governors.
If Biafra is formed who would rule then?

No my dear, those things cannot happen in Biafra, take for example the igbo communities and town unions, No one acts with impunity no matter how highly placed you think you are. If as a town union president you mess up, they take you down immediately. The igbo/biafra society leaves little room for you to Lord it over others and they take it.
Now you may ask whey are their governors getting away with it, the answer is simple, cause they are protected by Nigeria federal police and army. If the biafra people are the ones protecting them, they will never try that.

Finally i want to advice you to focus on your own problems, cause am sure you have plenty. Leave Biafrans to focus on their self determination.

Similar to: The recent goals conceded by chelsea is as a result of my winning strategy and upper hand in matches. --- Mourinho.

How stew pidas

"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry 1775


"I dont know what these people think we are here for, It's either Biafra or Death we all perish" --- Nnamdi Kanu 2015

I am not a Biafran and neither am I igbo. I do however believe that it is the inalienable right of any human being or ethnic nationality to aspire to be free and to be able to determine their own destiny.

The right of self-determination is enshrined in international law and it is guaranteed by every moral stricture known to man. It is a right that has been exercised successfully over and over again in world history and it has led to the creation of new nations which were carved out of older ones.

The denial of that right and the suppression and persecution of those who attempt to exercise it leads to nothing but defiance, dissent and resistance and, if not properly managed, it eventually spills over into war and carnage.


This has been the primary cause of most of history's most brutal civil wars, including the American, Russian, French, English, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Nigerian, Angolan, Congolese, Zimbabwean, Yugoslavian, Ukrainian, Nicaraguan, Cuban, Irish, Syrian, Libyan, Indonesian, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Iraqi, Italian ones and countless others.

I do not believe in violent change and neither do I believe in war, revolution, terror or the use of arms in the pursuance of even the most noble causes.

I do however believe in the power of ideas and the right of any man, woman or people to yearn to be free from bondage and to peacefully and freely express that yearning.

It is in this context that I situate my belief in and support for those that view the Nigerian Federation as an oppressive entity which has effectively enslaved its people in an attempt to create what is essentially an artificial and unworkable state.

Those that believe in Nigeria have every right to continue to do so and to voice their resolve to keep Nigeria one. What they do not have the right to do is to refuse to offer the same degree of freedom of expression to those that do not believe in a united Nigeria and who instead believe in the peaceful dissolution of our nation to speak their minds and voice their views.

What is good for the goose is surely good for the gander. You cannot grant one side of the divide freedom of expression whilst you deny it to the other.


This is all the more so because freedom of expression is the lifeblood of any democracy. It must be accorded in equal measure to those that believe in Nigeria and to those that do not.

It is in this light that we must consider the plight of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra and the man that has been described by the Igbo World Assembly as ''Buhari's first political prisoner''.

We may not like his style, we may not like his radio station, we may not share his views or approve of his methods but one thing that we cannot take from Mr. Kanu is his right to hold such views and to express them in a peaceful and lawful manner no matter how distasteful those views may be to some.

To deny him this most basic human right is not only an act of intellectual terrorism but it is also the most grave and barbaric manifestation of what is essentially an evolving police state where different or contrary views cannot be accommodated by those in power.

When Mr. Alex Salmon and his Scottish Nationalist Party began the agitation for the dissolution of the United Kingdom and for the establishment of Scottish independence many years ago they were not charged to court, locked up indefinitely or murdered by the British authorities but instead they were eventually given the opportunity to participate in a referendum and test their ideas.

The same thing happened in the Catalan region of Spain where the agitation for the establishment of a new nation is compelling and very popular. Sadly President Buhari who, like most in his generation, are still stuck in the mindset of a civil war general, has refused to learn from this.

The biggest mistake and miscalculation of his administration so far is not the ruthless implementation of its patently and monstrously unapologetic northern agenda but rather its absurd resolve to lock up Mr. Kanu indefinitely and to effectively throw the key away simply because he dared to call for the establishment of Biafra.

As far as I am aware Mr. Kanu has not used or advocated the use of violence whilst expressing himself and neither have any of his supporters. One therefore wonders what has panicked the Federal Government to such a point that they not only have to lock him up but that they also have to violate the law of the land by not allowing him to see his lawyer and by not presenting him before a court of law and charging him within the constitutionally-prescribed three days.

State-sponsored violence and intimidation, the violation of human rights, illegal incarceration, the murder of innocents and the vicious suppression of legitimate ideas leads to nothing but hardened hearts, greater defiance and the spread of anger and dissent.

The principle is simple and clear: the more you fan the flame of tyranny and repression the more the passion and fire for liberty spreads.


It follows that the biggest favor that President Buhari's security agencies could have done for the Biafran cause was to lock up Mr. Kanu and thereby transform him from being a little-known secessionist into the living symbol of the Biafran struggle, a respected freedom fighter, a champion of the Igbo people and an internationally-acclaimed political prisoner.

It is no wonder that leading politicians from all over the world, including the former Home Secretary and former Leader of the Labor Party in the United Kingdom, Mrs. Harriet Harman, have called for his release. President Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel have done the same.

Their call was the right and proper thing to do and I add my voice to that call. I have never met or spoken to Mr. Kanu but I am moved by his passion and courage.

I am also persuaded by the logic and force of his public assertions. He has made a compelling case for the establishment of Biafra and millions of young Igbos from all over the world have bought into it.


It is left for those that do not agree with him to make a better case and to stem the Biafran tide. That is the monumental challenge that those that do not agree with Mr. Kanu's views or his methods have.

I have not always been on the same page with our Igbo brothers yet despite that one thing is clear: only the callous would deny the fact that they have suffered immeasurably in the Nigerian Federation over the last 50 years.

Only the uninformed would deny the fact that they have been butchered, murdered, persecuted, broken, humiliated, insulted, cheated and treated with contempt and disdain more than any other ethnic group in the country since July 1966.

What the Nigerian state is confronted with in the new generation of igbos who refuse to be cowed is a time-bomb. Unlike their fathers they cannot be appeased or intimidated.

They are not fearful of the prospect of a second civil war. They are not prepared to settle for crumbs and neither do they fear death, conflict, defeat, incarceration, butchery or persecution.

They are imbued with a spirit that cannot be suppressed and the more they cry ''Biafra'' the more the spirits of the millions that were slaughtered on the Biafran side during the civil war are invoked.

The more they cry ''Biafra'' the more the souls of the hundreds of thousands of their people that were butchered during the barbaric pogroms in the north in the mid-60's are remembered. The worst thing that the Nigerian authorities can do is to treat them with levity or contempt.


They are angry, they are fed up, they refuse to be enslaved, they want a brighter future and they have come to realise that they have nothing to lose.

The most inappropriate thing that President Buhari can do is to continue to underestimate the power of their resolve or the clarity of their intent. The worst thing that they can do is to begin to jail them, to shed their blood and to take their lives.

The more you lock up the Biafrans, the more they will rise up. The more you mock them, the more they will shout. The more you kill them, the more their anger will be kindled.

The more you deny them, the more they will wax stronger. The more you treat them with disdain, the more they will defy you. You cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

This is a fact that we must all accept and it is with this in mind that I urge President Buhari and the Federal Government to not only release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu but also to tread with the utmost restraint and caution when dealing with those that are agitating for Biafra.

Those that voted 5% in the election should get 5% increase.

Chai, Bokoharam, bokoharam, so you no dey fear the snake charmer and pushup master?? Ok oohh when you have an army/police force that is grade one in killing and arresting unarmed protesters.

Bokoharam eehh, i dont know what to tell you guys.

Every one knows naa. Is this one news?

When you hope on Nigeria, Sorry becomes your name.

Senate will now go on recess till December. Dogs and Baboons entertaining the world with comedy since they were not soaked in blood.

Story for the Gods. Tell that to Bokoharam. Is it those Chinese toys they are flying that bokoharam use for target practice?

Is that message truely from the COAS?? Cause i did not see where he mentioned the snakes and push ups. No pictures of it too.

mikolo80:
you are a failed experiment. does the lord of hosts turn back the lost sheep. which vengeance. the one you're mouthing here online. which violence have you ever seen. if violence stand you go fit stand. abegi make we hear word joor. if the samurai could be brought down to their knees without bloodshed, pdp na child's play

You see your problem?? All you think about is violence, where did i mention violence?? God's vengeance must not come with violence. The fact that all Nigerians think about is violence kill kill like you mentioned in your post shows how condemned you and Nigeria is. Innocent blood cries more for vengeance. If the samurai could be brought down to their kness without bloodshed, Nigeria na childs play.

After 55yrs nothing to show for it only to answer giant of africa for mouth.

mikolo80:
with this your attitude it is sure that my children will rule your children. is it their fault that political illiterates like you go about talking trash like above further teaching others nonsense.it's 44 milliom ppl like you that sat home on election day instead of putting your supposed education to good use by joining in the struggle for a better society for your children. oyinbo fought for their own. chinko fought for their own. Africans ran away from their own. SMH for you and the ppl agreeing with you

Nigeria is a failed experiment. Wake up! God has left Nigeria a long time ago. So many innocent blood crying for vengeance. Vengeance is mine said the Lord of Hosts.

APnsi and PDpings

Dullard and clueless.

No way for Nigeria to move forward. Its impossible to move forward if your life was handed over to a Dullard from a Clueless.

History shows Arrest and death of well known freedom fighters never stopped their movement. Jesus christ, Mohammed, Ghandi, Nelson Mandella, Martin luther, etc etc.
If Nnamdi Kanu truly is a freedom fighter, then his arrest and death is just irrigation and sunlight to the seeds of the movement he has been sowing.

The funny thing is that Nnamdi Kanu has been waiting knowing that this day will come.

numerical voting on this issue here:

http://www.roughtides.com/content/should-former-rivers-state-governor-rotimi-amaechi-be-confirmed-minister

Both.

The rate the attack is reducing ehhh...

I believe the ministerial list is a step in right direction.

i just voted so here http://www.roughtides.com/content/how-do-you-feel-about-ministerial-nominees-list

And when its called a zoo some say??