₦airaland Forum

NIGERIAN  CORRUPTION

Nigeria  was  indeed  a  very  wicked  and  corrupt  country  in  spite  of  the  glorious  image  given her  in  the  European  press.  We  know  why  Nigeria  was  given  that  image.  It  was  her  reward for  serving  the  economic  and  political  interests  of  her  European  masters.  Nigeria  is  a  stooge of  Europe.  Her  independence  was  and  is  a  lie.  Even  her  Prime  Minister  was  a  Knight  of  the British  Empire!  But  worse  than  her  total  subservience  to  foreign  political  and  economic interests,  Nigeria  committed  many  crimes  against  her  nationals  which  in  the  end  made complete  nonsense  of  her  claim  to  unity.  Nigeria  persecuted  and  slaughtered  her minorities;  Nigerian  justice  was  a  farce;  her  elections,  her  census,  her  politics    her everything    was  corrupt.  Qualification,  merit  and  experience  were  discounted  in  public service. 

In  one  area  of  Nigeria,  for  instance,  they  preferred  to  turn  a  nurse  who  had  worked for  five  years  into  a  doctor  rather  then  employ  a  qualified  doctor  from  another  part  of Nigeria;  barely  literate  clerks  were  made  Permanent  Secretaries;  a  university  Vice Chancellor  was  sacked  because  he  belonged  to  the  wrong  tribe. Bribery,  corruption  and  nepotism  were  so  widespread  that  people  began  to  wonder  openly whether  any  country  in  the  world  could  compare  with  Nigeria  in  corruption  and  abuse  of power.  All  the  modern  institutions    the  Legislature,  the  Civil  Service,  the  Army,  the  Police, the  Judiciary,  the  Universities,  the  Trade  Unions  and  the  organs  of  mass  information    were devalued  and  made  the  tools  of  corrupt  political  power.  There  was  complete  neglect  and impoverishment  of  the  people.  Whatever  prosperity  there  was,  was  deceptive.

Unemployment  was  growing.  Thousands  of  young  schoolleavers  were  drifting  away  from the  villages  which  had  nothing  to  offer  them  into  towns  with  no  employment  openings. There  was  despair  in  many  hearts  and  the  number  of  suicides  was  growing  every  day.  The farmers  were  very  hardhit,  their  standard  of  living  had  fallen  steeply.  The  soils  were perishing  from  overfarming  and  lack  of  scientific  husbandry.  The  towns  like  the  soils  were wastelands  into  which  people  put  in  too  much  exertion  for  too  little  reward.  There  were crime  waves  and  people  lived  in  fear  of  their  lives. 

Business  speculation,  rackrenting, worship  of  money  and  sharp  practices  left  a  few  extremely  rich  at  the  expense  of  the  many, and  these  few  flaunted  their  wealth  before  the  many  and  talked  about  sharing  the  national cake.  Foreign  interests  did  roaring  business  spreading  consumer  goods  and  wares  among  a people  who  had  not  developed  a  habit  of  thrift  and  who  fell  prey  to  lying  advertisements. Inequality  of  the  sexes  was  actively  promoted  in  Nigeria.  Rather  than  aspire  to  equality with  men,  women  were  encouraged  to  accept  the  status  of  inferiority  and  to  become  the mistresses  of  successful  politicians  and  business  executives,  or  they  were  married  off  at  the age  of  fourteen  as  the  fifteenth  wives  of  the  new  rich. 

That  was  the  glorious  Nigeria,  the mythical  Nigeria,  celebrated  in  the  European  press. Then  worst  of  all  came  the  genocide  in  which  over  50,000  of  our  kith  and  kin  were slaughtered  in  cold  blood  all  over  Nigeria,  and  nobody  asked  questions,  nobody  showed regret,  nobody  showed  remorse.  Thus,  Nigeria  had  become  a  jungle  with  no  safety,  no justice  and  no  hope  for  our  people.  We  decided  then  to  found  a  new  place,  a  human habitation  away  from  the  Nigerian  jungle.  That  was  the  origin  of  our  Revolution.

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NEGRO  RENAISSANCE

Luckily  too,  all  African  states  not  like  Nigeria,  Algeria,  Egypt  and  Sudan,  sworn  enemies  of the  Negro,  willing  tools  of  white  racism,  white  economic  imperialism  and  ArabMuslim expansionism.  We  salute  the  shining  and  enduring  examples  of  Negro  renascence throughout  the  world.  To  Tanzania,  to  Gabon,  to  the  Ivory  Coast,  to  Zambia  and  Haiti,  we wish  more  success  in  their  soldiering  for  all  that  is  right,  just  and  honourable. We  do  not  claim  that  the  Biafran  Revolution  is  the  first  attempt  in  history  by  the  Negro  to assert  his  identity,  to  claim  his  right  and  proper  place  as  a  human  being  on  a  basis  of equality  with  the  white  and  yellow  races. 

We  are  aware  of  the  Negro’s  past  and  present efforts  to  prove  his  ability  at  home  and  abroad.  We  are  familiar  with  his  achievements  in prehistory;  we  are  familiar  with  his  achievements  in  exploring  and  taming  the  African  and American  continents;  we  are  familiar  with  his  achievements  in  political  organisations;  we are  familiar  with  this  contributions  to  the  world  store  of  art  and  culture.  The  Negro’s  white oppressors  are  not  unaware  of  all  these. But  in  spite  of  their  awareness  they  are  not  prepared  to  admit  that  the  Negro  is  an  man  and a  brother. 

This  is  why  we  in  Biafra  are  convinced  that  the  Negro  can  never  come  to  his  own until  he  is  able  to  build  modern  states  (whether  national  or  multinational)  based  on  a compelling  African  ideology,  enjoying  real  rather  than  sham  independence,  able  to  give scope  to  the  full  development  of  the  human  spirit  in  the  arts  and  sciences,  able  to  engage in  dialogue  with  the  white  states  on  a  basis  of  transparent  equality  and  able  to  introduce  a new  dimension  into  international  statecraft. In  the  world  context,  this  is  Biafra    the  plight  of  the  black  struggling  to  be  man.  From  this derives  our  deep  conviction  that  the  Biafran  Revolution  is  not  just  a  movement  of  Igbo, Ibibio,  Ijaw  and  Ogoja. 

It  is  a  movement  of  true  and  patriotic  Africans.  It  is  African nationalism  conscious  of  itself  and  fully  aware  of  the  powers  with  which  it  is  contending. From  this  derives  our  belief  that  history  and  humanity  are  on  our  side,  and  that  the  Biafran Revolution  is  indestructible  and  eternal.  From  here  derives  the  support  we  enjoy  from  the brave  and  proud  peoples  of  Tanzania,  Gabon,  the  Ivory  Coast,  Zambia  and  Haiti  who  share these  ideals  and  visions  with  us  and  who  are  already  engaged  in  realising  them. We  have  indeed  come  a  long  way.  We  were  once  Nigerians,  today  we  are  Biafrans.  We  are Biafrans  because  on  30th  May,  1967,  we  finally  said  no  to  the  evils  and  injustices  in  which Nigeria  was  steeped.  Nigeria  was  made  up  of  peoples  and  groups  with  very  little  in common.  As  everyone  knows,  Biafrans  were  in  the  forefront  among  those  who  tried  to make  Nigeria  a  nation.  It  is  ironic  that  some  illinformed  and  mischievous  people  today  will accuse  us  of  breaking  up  a  united  African  country.  Only  those  who  do  not  know  the  facts  or deliberately  ignore  them  can  hold  such  an  opinion.  We  know  the  facts  because  we  were there  and  the  things  that  happened,  happened  to  us.

ANGLOSAXON  GENOCIDE

If  the  white  race  has  sinned  against  the  world,  the  AngloSaxon  branch  of  that  race  has been,  and  still  is,  the  worst  sinner  of  all.  The  AngloSaxon  British  committed  genocide against  the  American  Indians.  They  committed  genocide  against  the  Caribbs.  They committed  genocide  against  the  Australian  Blackfellows.  They  committed  genocide  against the  native  Tasmanians  and  the  Maoris  of  New  Zealand.  During  the  era  of  the  slave  trade, they  topped  the  list  and  led  the  genocidal  attempt  against  the  Negro  race  as  a  whole. Today,  they  are  engaged  in  committing  genocide  against  us.  The  unprejudiced  observer  is forced  in  consternation  to  wonder  whether  genocide  is  not  a  way  of  life  of  the  AngloSaxon British.  Luckily,  all  white  people  are  not  like  the  AngloSaxon  British.

To be continued...

RUSSIAN  IMPERIALISM

And  now,  Bolshevik  Russia.  Russia  is  a  late  arrival  in  the  race  for  world  empire.  Since  the end  of  the  Second  World  War  she  has  fought  hard  to  gain  a  foothold  in  Africa  recognising, like  the  other  imperialist  powers  before  her,  the  strategic  importance  of  Africa  in  the  quest for  world  domination.  She  first  tried  to  enter  into  alliance  with  African  nationalism.  Later finding  that  African  nationalism  has  been  thwarted,  at  least  temporarily,  by  the  collusion between  imperialism  and  the  decadent  forces  in  African  society,  Russia  quickly  changed  her strategy  and  identified  herself  with  those  very  conservative  forces  which  she  had  earlier denounced.  Here  she  met  with  quick  success. In  North  Africa  and  Egypt,  Russian  influence  has  taken  firm  root  and  is  growing.  With  her success  in  Egypt  and  Algeria,  Russia  developed  even  keener  appetite  for  more  territory  in Africa,  particularly  the  areas  occupied  by  the  Negroes.  Her  early  efforts  in  the  Congo  and Ghana  proved  stillborn. 

The  NigeriaBiafra  conflict  offered  an  opportunity  for  anther  beach head  in  Africa. It  is  not  Russia’s  intention  to  make  Nigeria  a  better  place  for  Nigerias  or  indeed  any  other part  of  Africa  a  better  place  for  Africans.  Her  interest  is  strategic.  In  her  challenge  to  the United  States  and  the  Western  World,  she  needs  vantage  points  in  Africa.  With  her entrenched  position  in  Northern  Nigeria,  the  Central  Sudan  of  the  historians  and geographers,  Russia  is  in  a  position  to  coordinate  her  strategy  for  West  and  North  Africa. We  are  all  familiar  with  the  ancient  and  historic  cultural,  linguistic  and  religious  links between  North  Africa  and  the  Central  Sudan. 

We  know  that  the  Hausa  language  is  a  lingua franca  for  over  twothirds  of  this  area.  We  know  how  far  afield  a  wandering  Imam  preacing Islam  and  Bolshevism  can  go.  When  Russia  gives  the  Nigerians  Illyushin  jets  to  bomb  us, the  MiGs  to  strafe  and  rocket  us  and  AK47  rifles  to  mow  us  down,  we  should  see  all  this  in proper  light  that  Russia,  like  other  imperialist  powers,  has  no  regard  for  the  Negro.  To  her, what  is  important  is  to  gain  a  vantage  point  in  Negroland  from  which  to  challenge American  and  Western  European  world  power  and  influence.  The  Arabs  also  in  this  find further  attraction  in  that  it  gives  to  them  a  backdoor  entry  eventually  into  Israel.  In  this jungle  game  for  world  domination  and  black  man’s  life,  let  alone  his  wellbeing,  counts  for nothing. Fellow  Biafrans,  these  are  the  evil  and  titanic  forces  with  which  we  are  engaged  in  a  life  and death  struggle.  These  are  the  obstacles  to  the  Negro’s  efforts  to  realise  himself.  These  are the  forces  which  the  Biafran  Revolution  must  sweep  aside  to  succeed.

AFRICA  EXPLOITED

Our  struggle,  in  an  even  more  fundamental  sense,  is  the  culmination  of  the  confrontation between  Negro  nationalism  and  white  imperialism.  It  is  a  movement  designed  to  ensure  the realization  of  man’s  full  stature  in  Africa. Ever  since  the  15th  century,  the  European  world  has  treated  the  African  continent  as  a  field for  exploitation.  Their  policies  in  Africa  have  for  so  long  been  determined  to  a  very  great extent  by  their  greed  for  economic  gain.  For  over  three  and  half  centuries,  it  suited  them  to transport  and  transplant  millions  of  the  flower  of  our  manhood  for  the  purpose  of  exploiting the  Americas  and  the  West  Indies.  They  did  so  with  no  uneasiness  of  conscience.  They justified  this  trade  in  men  by  reference  to  biblical  passages  violently  torn  out  of  context. When  it  became  no  longer  profitable  to  them  to  continue  with  the  depopulation  and uncontrolled  spoilation  of  Negro  Africa,  their  need  of  the  moment  became  to  exploit  the natural  resources  of  the  continent,  using  Negro  labour.  In  response  to  this  need  they evolved  their  informal  empire  in  the  19th  century  under  which  they  controlled  and  exploited Negro  Africa  through  their  missionaries  and  monopolist  mercantile  companies. 

As  time  went on  they  discarded  the  empire  of  informal  sway  as  unsatisfactory  and  established  the  direct empire  as  the  most  effective  means  of  exploiting  our  homeland.  It  was  at  this  stage  that with  cynical  imperturbability  they  carved  up  the  African  continent,  and  boxed  up  the  native populations  in  artificial  states  designed  purely  to  minister  to  white  economic  interests. This  brutal  and  unprecedented  rape  of  a  whole  continent  was  a  violent  challenge  to  Negro selfrespect.  Not  surprisingly,  within  half  a  century  the  theory  and  practice  of  empire  ran into  stiff  opposition  from  Negro  nationalism.  In  the  face  of  the  movement  for  Negro freedom  the  white  imperialists  changed  tactics.  They  decided  to  install  puppet  African administrations  to  create  the  illusion  of  political  independence,  while  retaining  the  control  of the  economy.  And  this  they  quickly  did  between  1957  and  1965.  The  direct  empire  was transformed  into  an  indirect  empire,  that  regime  of  fraud  and  exploitation  which  African nationalists  aptly  describe  as  NeoColonialism. Nigeria  was  a  classic  example  of  a  neocolonialist  state,  and  what  is  left  of  it,  still  is.  The militant  nationalism  of  the  late  forties  and  early  fifties  had  caught  the  British  imperialists unawares. 

They  hurried  to  accommodate  it  by  installing  the  ignorant,  decadent  and feudalistic  HausaFulani  oligarchy  in  power.  For  the  British,  the  credentials  of  the  Hausa Fulani  were  that  not  having  emerged  from  the  Middle  Ages  they  knew  nothing  about  the modern  state  and  the  powerful  forces  that  now  rule  men’s  minds.  Owing  their  position  to the  British,  they  were  servile  and  submissive.  The  result  was  that  while  Nigerians  lived  in the  illusion  of  independence,  they  were  still  in  fact  being  ruled  from  Number  10  Downing Street.  The  British  still  enjoyed  a  stranglehold  on  their  economy. The  crises  which  rocked  Nigeria  from  the  morrow  of  “independence”  were  brought  about  by the  efforts  of  progressive  nationalists  to  achieve  true  independence  for  themselves  and  for posterity.  For  their  part  in  this  effort,  Biafrans  were  stigmatised  and  singled  out  for extermination.  In  imperialist  thinking,  only  phoney  independence  is  good  for  blacks.  The sponsorship  of  Nigeria  by  white  imperialism  has  not  been  disinterested.  They  are  only concerned  with  the  preservation  of  that  corrupt  and  rickety  structure  of  Nigeria  in  a perpetual  state  of  powerlessness  to  check  foreign  exploitation. 

I  am  certain  that  if tomorrow  I  should  promise  that  Biafra  is  going  to  be  a  servile  and  sycophantic  state,  these selfappointed  upholders  of  the  territorial  integrity  of  African  states  will  sing  a  different tune.  No...I  shall  not  oblige  them.  Biafra  will  not  betray  the  black  man.  No  matter  the  odds, we  will  fight  with  all  our  might  until  black  men  everywhere  can,  with  pride,  point  to  this Republic,  standing  dignified  and  defiant,  as  an  example  of  African  nationalism  triumphant over  its  many  and  ageold  enemies. Fellow  countrymen  and  women,  we  have  seen  in  proper  perspective  the  diabolical  roles which  the  British  Government  and  the  foreign  companies  have  played  and  are  playing  in our  war  with  Nigeria.  We  now  see  why  in  spite  of  Britain’s  tottering  economy  Harold Wilson’s  Government  insists  on  financing  Nigeria’s  futile  war  against  us.  We  see  why  the ShellBP  led  the  Nigerian  hordes  into  Bonny,  pays  Biafran  oil  royalties  to  Nigeria,  and provided  the  Nigerian  Army  with  all  the  help  it  needed  for  its  attack  on  Port  Harcourt.  We see  why  the  West  African  Conference  Lines  readily  and  meekly  cooperate  with  Gowon  in the  imposition  of  total  blockade  against  us.  We  see  why  the  oil  and  trading  companies  in Nigeria  still  finance  this  war  and  why  they  risk  the  life  and  limb  of  their  staff  in  the  war zones.

To be continued...

ARAB-MUSLIM  EXPANSIONISM

The  Biafran  struggle  is,  on  another  plane,  a  resistance  to  the  ArabMuslim  expansionism which  has  menaced  and  ravaged  the  African  continent  for  twelve  centuries.  As  early  as  the first  quarter  of  the  seventh  century,  the  Arabs,  a  people  from  the  NearEast,  evolved  Islam not  just  as  a  religion  but  as  a  cover  for  their  insatiable  territorial  ambitions.  By  the  tenth century  they  had  overrun  and  occupied,  among  other  places,  Egypt  and  North  Africa.  Had they  stopped  there,  we  would  not  today  be  faced  with  the  wicked  and  unholy  collusion  we are  fighting  against.  On  the  contrary,  they  cast  their  hungry  and  envious  eyes  across  the Sahara  on  to  the  land  of  the  Negroes. Our  Biafran  ancestors  remained  immune  from  the  Islamic  contagion.  From  the  middle  years of  the  last  century  Christianity  was  established  in  our  land. 

In  this  way  we  came  to  be  a predominantly  Christian  people.  We  came  to  stand  out  as  a  nonMuslim  island  in  a  raging Islamic  sea.  Throughout  the  period  of  the  illfated  Nigerian  experiment,  the  Muslims  hoped to  infiltrate  Biafra  by  peaceful  means  and  quiet  propaganda,  but  failed.  Then  the  late Ahmadu  Bello,  the  Sarduana  of  Sokoto  tried,  by  political  and  economic  blackmail  and terrorism,  to  convert  Biafrans  settled  in  Northern  Nigeria  to  Islam.  His  hope  was  that  these Biafrans  on  dispersion  would  then  carry  Islam  to  Biafra,  and  by  so  doing  give  the  religion political  control  of  the  area.  The  crises  which  agitated  the  socalled  independent  Nigeria from  1962  gave  these  aggressive  proselytisers  the  chance  to  try  converting  us  by  force. It  is  now  evident  why  the  fanatic  ArabMuslim  states  like  Algeria,  Egypt  and  the  Sudan  have come  out  openly  and  massively  to  support  and  aid  Nigeria  in  her  present  war  of  genocide against  us. 

These  states  see  militant  Arabism  as  a  powerful  instrument  for  attaining  power in  the  world. Biafra  is  one  of  the  few  African  states  untainted  by  Islam.  Therefore,  to  militant  Arabism, Biafra  is  a  stumbling  block  to  their  plan  for  controlling  the  whole  continent.  This  control  is fast  becoming  manifest  in  the  Organisation  of  African  Unity.  On  the  question  of  the  Middle East,  the  Sudanese  crisis,  in  the  war  between  Nigeria  and  Biafra,  militant  Arabism  has succeeded  in  imposing  its  point  of  view  through  blackmail  and  bluster.  It  has  threatened African  leaders  and  governments  with  inciting  their  Muslim  minorities  to  rebellion  if  the governments  adopted  an  independent  line  on  these  questions.  In  this  way  an  O.A.U  that has  not  felt  itself  able  to  discuss  the  genocide  in  the  Sudan  and  Biafra,  an  O.A.U.  that  has again  and  again  advertised  its  ineptitude  as  a  peacemaker,  has  rushed  into  open condemnation  of  Israel  over  the  Middle  East  dispute.  Indeed  in  recent  times,  by  its performance,  the  O.A.U.  might  well  be  an  Organisation  of  Arab  Unity.

To be continued....

SELF-DETERMINATION

The  right  to  selfdetermination  was  good  for  the  Greeks  in  1822,  for  the  Belgians  in  1830, and  for  the  Central  and  Eastern  Europeans  and  the  Irish  at  the  end  of  the  First  World  War. Yet  it  is  not  good  for  Biafrans  because  we  are  black.  When  blacks  claim  that  right,  they  are warned  against  dangers  trumped  up  by  the  imperialists    “fragmentation”  and “Balkanization”,  as  if  the  trouble  with  the  Balkans  is  the  result  of  the  application  of  the principle  of  selfdetermination.  Were  the  Balkans  a  healthier  place  before  they  emerged from  the  ruins  of  the  Ottoman  Empire?  Those  who  sustained  the  Ottoman  Empire considered  it  a  European  necessity,  for  its  Eastern  European  provinces  stood  as  a  buffer between  two  ambitious  and  mutually  antagonistic  empires    the  Russian  and  the  Austrian.

For  the  peace  and  repose  of  Europe,  it  therefore  became  a  major  cncern  of  European statesmen  to  preserve  the  integrity  of  that  empire.  But  when  it  was  discovered  that Ottoman  rule  was  not  only  corrupt,  oppressive  and  unprogressive,  but  also  stubbornly irreformable,  the  happiness  and  wellbeing  of  its  white  populations  came  to  be  considered paramount.  So  by  1918  the  integrity  of  that  ancient  and  sprawling  empire  had  been sacrificed  to  the  wellbeing  of  the  Eastern  Europeans.  Fellow  Biafrans,  that  was  in  the  white world. But  what  do  we  find  here  in  Negro  Africa?  The  Federation  of  Nigeria  is  today  as  corrupt,  as unprogressive  and  as  oppressive  and  irreformable  as  the  Ottoman  Empire  was  in  Eastern Europe  over  a  century  ago. 

And  in  contrast,  the  Nigerian  Federation  in  the  form  it  was constituted  by  the  British  cannot  by  any  stretch  of  imagination  be  considered  an  African necessity.  Yet  we  are  being  forced  to  sacrifice  our  very  existence  as  a  people  to  the integrity  of  that  ramshackle  creation  that  has  no  justification  either  in  history  or  in  the freely  expressed  wishes  of  the  people.  What  other  reason  for  this  can  there  be  than  the  fact that  we  are  black? In  1966,  50,000  Biafrans    men,  women  and  children    were  massacred  in  cold  blood  in Nigeria.  Since  July  6,  1967,  hundreds  of  Biafrans  have  been  killed  daily  by  shelling, bombing,  strafing  and  starvation  advised,  organised  and  supervised  by  AngloSaxon Britain.  None  of  these  atrocities  has  raised  enough  stir  in  many  European  capitals.  But  on the  few  occasions  when  a  single  white  man  died  in  Africa,  even  where  he  was  a  convicted bandit  like  the  notorious  case  in  the  Congo,  all  the  diplomatic  chanceries  of  the  world  have been  astir.;  the  whole  world  has  been  shaken  to  its  very  foundations  by  the  din  of  protest against  the  alleged  atrocity  and  by  the  clamour  for  vengeance. 

This  was  the  case  when  the Nigerian  vandals  turned  their  Britishsupplied  rifles  on  white  Red  Cross  workers  in  Okigwe. Recently  this  has  been  the  case  with  the  reported  disappearance  of  some  white  oil technicians  in  the  Republic  of  Benin.  But  when  we  are  massacred  in  thousands,  nobody cares,  because  we  are  black. Fellow  countrymen  and  women,  the  fact  is  that  in  spite  of  their  open  protestations  to  the contrary,  the  white  peoples  of  the  world  are  still  far  from  accepting  that  what  is  good  for them  can  also  be  good  for  blacks.  The  day  they  make  this  basic  concession  that  day  will  the nonAngloSaxon  nations  tell  Britain  to  her  face  that  she  is  guilty  of  genocide  against  us; that  day  will  they  call  a  halt  to  this  monstrous  war. Because  the  black  man  is  considered  inferior  and  servile  to  the  white,  he  must  accept  his political,  social  and  economic  system  and  ideologies  ready  made  from  Europe,  America  or the  Soviet  Union. 

Within  the  confines  of  his  nation  he  must  accept  a  federation  or confederation  or  unitary  government  if  federation  or  confederation  or  unitary  government suits  the  interests  of  his  white  masters;  he  must  accept  inept  and  unimaginative  leadership because  the  contrary  would  hurt  the  interests  of  the  master  race;  he  must  accept  economic exploitation  by  alien  commercial  firms  and  companies  because  the  whites  benefit  from  it. Beyond  the  confines  of  his  state,  he  must  accept  regional  and  continental  organisations which  provide  a  front  for  the  manipulation  of  the  imperialist  powers;  organisations  which are  therefore  unable  to  respond  to  African  problems  in  a  truly  African  manner.  For  Africans to  show  a  true  independence  is  to  ask  for  anathemization  and  total  liquidation.   

To be continued...

THE  MYTH  ABOUT  THE  NEGRO                     

On  this  occasion  of  our  second  anniversary,  I  shall  go  further  in  the  examination  of  the meaning  and  import  of  our  revolution  by  discussing  the  wider  issues  involved  and  the character  and  structure  of  the  new  society  we  are  determined  and  committed  to  build.  Our enemies  and  their  foreign  sponsors  have  deliberately  sought  by  false  and  illmotivated propaganda  to  becloud  the  real  issues  which  caused  and  still  determine  the  course  and character  of  our  struggle.  They  have  sought  in  various  ways  to  dismiss  our  struggle  as  a tribal  conflict.  They  have  attributed  it  to  the  mad  adventurism  of  a  fictitious  powerseeking clique  anxious  to  carve  out  an  empire  to  rule,  dominate  and  exploit.  But  they  have  failed. Our  cause  is  transparently  just  and  no  amount  of  propaganda  can  detract  from  it. Our  struggle  has  farreaching  significance. 

It  is  the  latest  recrudescence  in  our  time  of  the ageold  struggle  of  the  black  man  for  his  full  stature  as  man.  We  are  the  latest  victims  of  a wicked  collusion  between  the  three  traditional  scourges  of  the  black  man    racism,  Arab Muslim  expansionism  and  white  economic  imperialism.  Playing  a  subsidiary  role  is  Bolshevik Russia  seeking  for  a  place  in  the  African  sun.  Our  struggle  is  a  total  and  vehement  rejection of  all  those  evils  which  blighted  Nigeria,  evils  which  were  bound  to  lead  to  the  disintegration of  that  illfated  federation.  Our  struggle  is  not  a  mere  resistance    that  would  be  purely negative.  It  is  a  positive  commitment  to  build  a  healthy,  dynamic  and  progressive  state, such  as  would  be  the  pride  of  black  men  the  world  over. For  this  reason,  our  struggle  is  a  movement  against  racial  prejudice,  in  particular  against that  tendency  to  regard  the  black  man  as  culturally,  morally,  spiritually,  intellectually,  and physically  inferior  to  the  other  two  major  races  of  the  world    the  yellow  and  the  white races.  This  belief  in  the  innate  inferiority  of  the  Negro  and  that  his  proper  place  in  the  world is  that  of  the  servant  of  the  other  races,  has  from  early  days  coloured  the  attitude  of  the outside  world  to  Negro  problems. 

It  still  does  today. Not  so  long  ago  the  fashion  was  to  question  the  humanity  of  the  Negro.  Some  white theorists  attributed  the  creation  to  the  Devil,  others  even  identified  the  Devil  as  the  first Negro.  Later  they  derived  the  Negro  from  the  accursed  progeny  of  Ham.  Nearer  to  us  still  in time,  it  became  a  topic  for  serious  debate  in  learned  circles  in  Europe  whether  the  Negro was  in  fact  a  man;  whether  he  had  a  soul;  and  if  he  had  a  soul,  whether  conversion  to christianity  could  make  any  difference  to  his  spiritual  condition  and  destination.  By  the nineteenth  century  it  had  been  reluctantly  conceded  that  the  Negro  is  in  fact  human,  but  a different  kind  of  man,  certainly  not  the  same  kind  of  man  as  the  white.  Pseudointellectuals went  to  work  to  prove  that  the  Negro  was  a  different  kind  of  man  from  the  white. 

They uncovered  the  abundant  socalled  anthropological  evidence  from  archaelogy  which  “proved” to  them  conclusively  that  the  Negro  was  no  more  the  same  kind  of  man  as  the  European than  a  rat  was  a  rabbit. It  is  this  myth  about  the  Negro  that  still  conditions  the  thinking  and  attitude  of  most  white governments  on  all  issues  concerning  black  Africa  and  the  black  man;  it  explains  the  double standards  which  they  apply  to  presentday  world  problems;  it  explains  their  stand  on  the whole  question  of  independence  and  basic  human  rights  for  the  black  peoples  of  the  world. These  myths  explain  the  stand  of  many  of  the  world  governments  and  organisations  on  our present  struggle.

Our  disagreement  with  the  Nigerians  arose  in  part  from  a  conflict  between  two  diametrically opposed  conceptions  of  the  end  and  purpose  of  the  modern  African  state.  It  was,  and  still is,  our  firm  conviction  that  a  modern  Negro  African  government  worth  the  trust  placed  in  it by  the  people,  must  build  a  progressive  state  that  ensures  the  reign  of  social  and  economic justice,  and  of  the  rule  of  law.  But  the  Nigerians,  under  the  leadership  of  the  HausaFulani feudal  aristocracy  preferred  anarchy  and  injustice. Since  in  the  thinking  of  many  white  powers  a  good,  progressive  and  efficient  government  is good  only  for  whites,  our  view  was  considered  dangerous  and  pernicious:  a  point  of  view which  explains  but  does  not  justify  the  blind  support  which  these  powers  have  given  to uphold  the  Nigerian  ideal  of  a  corrupt,  decadent  and  putrefying  society.  To  them  genocide is  an  appropriate  answer  to  any  group  of  black  people  who  have  the  temerity  to  attempt  to evolve  their  own  social  system. When  the  Nigerians  violated  our  basic  human  rights  and  liberties,  we  decided  reluctantly but  bravely  to  found  our  own  state,  to  exercise  our  inalienable  right  to  selfdetermination as  our  only  remaining  hope  for  survival  as  a  people.  Yet,  because  we  are  black,  we  are denied  by  the  white  powers  the  exercise  of  this  right  which  they  themselves  have proclaimed  inalienable.  In  our  struggle  we  have  learnt  that  the  right  of  selfdetermination  is inalienable,  but  only  to  the  white  man.

To be continued....

BeautifulMind2:
I guess you need to visit Awka-Etiti in Idemili North, Anambra

nnaaa, stop talking, go and bring us your own videos!

THE STRUGGLE

Fellow  countrymen  and  women,  the  signs  are  auspicious,  the  future  fills  us  with  less foreboding.  I  am  confident.  With  the  initiative  in  war  now  in  our  own  hands,  we  have  turned the  last  bend  in  our  race  to  selfrealisation  and  are  now  set  on  the  home  straight  in  this  our struggle.  We  must  not  flag.  The  tape  is  in  sight.  What  we  need  now  is  a  final  burst  of  speed to  breast  the  tape  and  secure  the  victory  which  will  ensure  for  us,  for  all  time,  glory  and honour,  peace  and  progress. Fellow  compatriots,  today,  being  our  Thanksgiving  Day,  it  is  most  appropriate  that  we pause  awhile  to  take  stock,  to  consider  our  past,  our  successes  notwithstanding;  to consider  our  future,  our  aspirations  and  our  fears.  For  two  long  years  we  have  been  locked in  mortal  combat  with  an  enemy  unequalled  in  viciousness;  for  two  long  years,  defenceless and  weak,  we  have  withstood  without  respite  the  concerted  assault  of  a  determined  foe.  We have  fought  alone,  we  have  fought  with  honour,  we  have  fought  in  the  highest  traditions  of christian  civilization.  Yet,  the  very  custodians  of  this  civilization  and  our  onetime  mentors, are  the  very  selfsame  monsters  who  have  vowed  to  devour  us. Fellow  Biafrans,  I  have  for  a  long  time  thought  about  this  our  predicament    the  attitude  of the  civilized  world  to  this  our  conflict.  The  more  I  think  about  it  the  more  I  am  convinced that  our  disability  is  racial. 

The  root  cause  of  our  problem  lies  in  the  fact  that  we  are  black. If  all  the  things  that  have  happened  to  us  had  happened  to  another  people  who  are  not black,  if  other  people  who  are  not  black  had  reacted  in  the  way  our  people  have  reacted these  two  long  years,  the  world’s  response  would  surely  have  been  different. In  1966,  some  50,000  of  us  were  slaughtered  like  cattle  in  Nigeria.  In  the  course  of  this war,  well  over  one  million  of  us  have  been  killed;  yet  the  world  is  unimpressed  and  looks  on in  indifference.  Last  year,  some  bloodthirsty  Nigerian  troops  for  sport  murdered  the  entire male  population  of  a  village.  All  the  world  did  was  to  indulge  in  an  academic  argument whether  the  number  was  in  hundreds  or  in  thousands.  Today,  because  a  handful  of  white men  collaborating  with  the  enemy,  fighting  side  by  side  with  the  enemy,  were  caught  by our  gallant  troops,  the  entire  world  threatens  to  stop.  For  18  white  men,  Europe  is  aroused. What  have  they  said  about  our  millions?  18  white  men  assisting  the  crime  of  genocide! What  does  Europe  say  about  our  murdered  innocents?  Have  we  not  died  enough?  How many  black  dead  make  one  missing  white?  Mathematicians,  please  answer  me.  Is  it infinity? Take  another  example.  For  two  years  we  have  been  subjected  to  a  total  blockade.  We  all know  how  bitter,  bloody  and  protracted  the  First  and  Second  World  Wars  were. 

At  no  stage in  those  wars  did  the  white  belligerents  carry  out  a  total  blockade  of  their  fellow  whites.  In each  case  where  a  blockade  was  imposed,  allowance  was  made  for  certain  basic  necessities of  life  in  the  interest  of  women,  children  and  other  noncombatants.  Ours  is  the  only example  in  recent  history  where  a  whole  people  have  been  so  treated.  What  is  it  that makes  our  case  different?  Do  we  not  have  women,  children  and  other  noncombatants? Does  the  fact  that  they  are  black  women,  black  children  and  black  noncombatants  make such  a  world  of  difference? Nigeria  embarked  on  a  crime  of  genocide  against  our  people  by  first  mounting  a  total blockade  against  Biafra.  To  cover  up  their  designs  and  deceive  the  black  world,  the  white powers  supporting  Nigeria  blame  Biafrans  for  the  continuation  of  the  blockade  and  for  the starvation  and  suffering  which  that  entails. 

They  uphold  Nigerian  proposals  on  relief  which in  any  case  they  helped  to  formulate,  as  being  “conciliatory”  or  “satisfactory”.  Knowing  that these  proposals  would  give  Nigeria  further  military  advantage,  and  compromise  the  basic cause  for  which  we  have  struggled  for  two  years,  they  turn  round  to  condemn  us  for rejecting  them.  They  accepted  the  total  blockade  against  us  as  a  legitimate  weapon  of  war because  it  suits  them  and  because  we  are  black.  Had  we  been  white  the  inhuman  and  cruel blockade  would  long  have  been  lifted. The  mass  deaths  of  our  citizens  resulting  from  starvation  and  indiscriminate  air  raids  and large  despoliation  of  towns  and  villages  are  a  mere  continuation  of  this  crime.  That  Nigeria has  received  complete  support  from  Britain  should  surprise  no  one. 

For  Britain  is  a  country whose  history  is  replete  with  instances  of  genocide. In  my  address  to  you  on  the  occasion  of  the  first  anniversary  of  our  independence,  I touched  on  a  number  of  issues  relevant  to  our  struggle  and  to  our  hope  for  a  prosperous, just  and  happy  society.  I  talked  to  you  of  the  background  to  our  struggle  and  on  the  visions and  values  which  inspired  us  to  found  our  own  State.

To be continued...

THE  STRUGGLE

Fellow  country  men  and  women,  for  nearly  two  years  we  have  been  engaged  in  a  war  which threatens  our  people  with  total  destruction.  Our  enemy  has  been  unrelenting  in  his  fury  and has  fought  our  defenceless  people  with  a  vast  array  of  military  hardware  of  a  sophistication unknown  to  Africa.  For  two  years  we  have  withstood  his  assaults  with  nothing  other  than our  stout  hearts  and  bare  hands.  We  have  frustrated  his  diabolical  intentions  and  have beaten  his  wicked  mentors  in  their  calculations  and  innovations.  Shamelessly,  our  enemy has  moved  from  deadline  to  deadline,  seeking  excuses  justifying  his  failures  to  an  ever credulous  world. 

Today,  I  am  happy  and  proud  to  report  that,  all  the  odds  notwithstanding, the  enemy,  at  great  cost  in  lives  and  equipment,  is  nowhere  near  to  his  avowed  objective. In  the  Onitsha  sector  of  the  war,  our  gallant  forces  have  kept  the  enemy  confined  in  the town  which  they  entered  15  months  ago.  Despite  the  fact  that  this  sector  has  great strategic  attraction  for  the  vandal  hordes,  being  a  gateway,  as  it  is,  to  the  now  famous jungle  strip  of  Biafra,  and  the  scene  of  the  bloodiest  encounters  of  this  war,  it  is  significant that  the  enemy  has  made  no  gains  throughout  this  long  period. In  the  Awka  sector  of  the  war,  the  story  remains  the  same.  The  enemy  is  confined  only  to the  highway  between  Enugu  and  Onitsha,  not  venturing  north  or  south  of  that  road. In  the  Okigwe  sector,  from  where  the  enemy  made  the  thrust  that  brought  him  into Umuahia,  the  situation  remains  unchanged,  with  our  troops  making  the  entire  enemy  route from  Okigwe  to  Umuahia  no  joy  ride. 

In  Umuahia  town  itself,  fighting  has  continued  in  the township. In  the  Ikot  Ekpene,  Azumini  and  Aba  sectors  of  the  war,  the  vandals,  whilst  maintaining their  positions  in  Ikot  Ekpene  and  Aba  with  our  troops  surrounding  them,  have  continued  to suffer  heavy  casualties  in  their  attempt  to  hold  firmly  on  to  Azumini. We  now  come  to  the  Owerri/Port  Harcourt  sector.  After  the  clearing  of  Owerri  township  and our  rapid  move  towards  Port  Harcourt,  our  gallant  forces  are  holding  positions  in  Eleele town,  in  the  outskirts  of  Igirita  and  forward  of  Omoku. Across  the  Niger,  the  successes  of  our  troops  have  been  maintained  despite  numerous enemy  counterattacks.  Our  Navy  has  continued  to  support  all  operations  along  the  Niger with  good  results.  Our  guerrillas  have  continued  their  magnificent  work  of  harassing  the enemy  and  giving  him  no  respite  on  our  soil. 

I  salute  them  all. In  the  air,  the  Biafran  Air  Force  has  made  a  most  dramatic  reentry  into  the  war,  and  in  a brilliant  series  of  raids  has  all  but  paralyzed  the  Nigerian  Air  Force.  In  four  days’  operations, eleven  operational  planes  of  the  enemy  were  put  of  action,  three  control  towers  in  Port Harcourt,  Enugu  and  Benin  were  set  ablaze,  the  Airport  building  in  Enugu,  and  the numerous  gun  positions  were  knocked  out.  The  refinery  in  Port  Harcourt  was  set  on  fire. And,  more  recently,  three  days  ago,  the  Ughelli  Power  Station  was  put  out  of  action.  The brilliance  of  this  performance,  the  precision  of  the  strike,  the  genius  of  target  selection, have  left  Nigeria  in  a  daze  and  her  friends  bewildered.  Another  way  of  looking  at  this  is  that in  four  days  of  operation,  the  Biafran  Air  Force  has  destroyed  more  military  targets  than what  the  Nigerian  Air  Force  has  been  able  to  do  for  two  years. In  cost,  probably  twice  what  the  Nigerian  air  raids  have  cost  us  in  military  equipment  and installations. 

The  only  superiority  left  in  the  record  of  achievement  of  the  Nigerian  Air  Force is  the  number  of  civilians  and  civilian  targets  their  cowardly  raids  have  destroyed.  Proud Biafrans,  I  have  kept  my  promise. Diplomatically,  our  friends  have  increased  and  have  remained  steadfast  to  our  cause;  and despite  the  rantings  of  our  detractors,  indications  are  that  their  support  will  continue. At  home,  our  sufferings  have  continued.  Scarcity  and  want  have  remained  our  companions. Yet,  with  fortitude,  we  seem  to  have  overcome  th  once  imminent  danger  of  mass  starvation and  can  now  look  forward  to  a  period  after  the  rains  of  comparative  plenty.  Our  efforts  in the  Land  Army  programme  give  visible  signs  all  over  our  land  of  imminent  victory  in  the war  against  want.

INTRODUCTION

PROUD  AND  COURAGEOUS  BIAFRANS, FELLOW  COUNTRY  MEN  AND  WOMEN,

I  salute  you.  Today,  as  I  look  back  over  our  two  years  as  a  sovereign  and  independent nation,  I  am  overwhelmed  with  the  feeling  of  pride  and  satisfaction  in  our  performance  and achievement  as  a  people.  Our  indomitable  will,  our  courage,  our  endurance  of  the  severest privations,  our  resourcefulness  and  inventiveness  in  the  face  of  tremendous  odds  and dangers,  have  become  proverbial  in  a  world  so  bereft  of  heroism,  and  have  become  a source  of  frustration  to  Nigeria  and  her  foreign  masters.  For  this  and  for  the  many  miracles of  our  time,  let  us  give  thanks  to  Almighty  God.  I  congratulate  all  Biafrans    at  home  and abroad.  I  thank  you  all  the  part  you  have  played  and  have  continued  to  play  in  this struggle,  for  your  devotion  to  the  high  ideals  and  principles  on  which  this  Republic  was founded. I  thank  you  for  your  absolute  commitment  to  the  cause  for  which  our  youth  are  making daily,  the  supreme  sacrifice,  and  a  cause  for  which  we  all  have  been  dispossessed, blockaded,  bombarded,  starved  and  massacred.  I  salute  you  for  your  tenacity  of  purpose and  amazing  steadfastness  under  siege. I  salute  the  memory  of  the  many  patriots  who  have  laid  down  their  lives  in  defence  of  our Fatherland. 

I  salute  the  memory  of  all  Biafrans    men,  women  and  children    who  died victims  of  the  Nigerian  crime  of  genocide.  We  shall  never  forget  them.  Please  God,  their sacrifice  shall  not  be  in  vain.  For  the  dead  on  the  other  side  of  this  conflict,  may  their  souls rest  in  peace.  To  our  friends  and  wellwishers,  to  the  growing  band  of  men  and  women around  the  world  who  have,  in  spite  of  the  vile  propaganda  mounted  against  us,  identified themselves  with  the  justice  of  our  cause,  in  particular  to  our  courageous  friends,  officers and  staff  of  the  Relief  Agencies  and  humanitarian  organisations,  pilots  who  daily  offer themselves  in  sacrifice  that  our  people  might  be  saved;  to  Governments,  in  particular Tanzania,  Gabon,  Ivory  Coast,  Zambia  and  Haiti.  I  give  my  warmest  thanks  and  those  of our  entire  people. 

To be contined....

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:

In Tel Aviv discussing technology, innovation and partnerships with Africa in agritech and digital health with tech entrepreneurs, civil society, and public and private sector participants. At the Start-Up Nation Hub with Wendy Singer, Davidi Vortman and others.

only foools keep on doubting the naked facts. nigerians are foools and the world knows that!

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:

Wonderful to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy degree at Tel Aviv University for my work on Economic Development, Poverty Alleviation, Transparency and Inclusion.

With Chair Board of Governors TAU Dr Jacob Frenkel, President TAU, Prof Joseph Klafter and fellow honorees including Former Chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, Chair UBS and former Chair ECB and Bundesbank Dr Axel Weber.

President Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t deserve to be sworn in for another term as Nigerian President on the 29th of May, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said on Friday.

In his new broadcast, Kanu called Buhari an impostor and a deceptive leader.

He cited the controversial issue of Buhari’s West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) certificate, saying the president never presented it.

Kanu said: “Jubril/Buhari has no basis to present himself to be sworn in on the 29th. That was why the impostor said education is no longer important.

“If truly no man is above the law and the Constitution of the land is supreme. If the constitution is supreme and is meant to guide the conduct of civilised men within a specifically defined geo-political area, then let me remind all the sophisticated morons in Nigeria that their constitution says every contender for the presidency must present a verifiable school certificate (WAEC) which neither the dead Buhari had nor his replacement Jubril ever did.

“Those that consider themselves as citizens of southern Nigeria has been butchered into fear and docility. I weep for the cowards but its their country, they can do whatever they like with it. Nigerians and certain individuals with Biafran names love slavery, we in IPOB don’t.

“How dumb are Nigerians and their miserable law enforcement and judiciary. When written laws are made not to apply differently to a section of populace like the Fulani, in the instance of Nigeria, then everybody is a fool. Why some people still pretend they don’t know what IPOB is fighting for is beyond me.

“I am afraid for the dwindling thinking capacity of your average miserable Nigerian. They can’t revolt, they can’t protest…..those that have the courage to protest are called all manner of unprintable names but they continue to suffer and complain but lack the courage to do anything about it.

“Until Biafra is completely set free, we shall continue to agitate because, to me, freedom means to be able to be yourself day in and day out. And not be punished for it. To live without mental, physical, emotional and spiritual shackles or constraints. And if I feel like my rights are being violated in any of those four realms, then I consider it a massive violation to my God-given right to live in freedom.”

Igbo Girl, Tobechukwu Philips, Breaks 125 Year Academic History In The US

“Do not be discouraged when someone speaks out against you, simply allow what they say to fuel your fire. But more than anything, do not remain tight-lipped. Stand up for what you believe in and take it upon yourself to be the change you’ve always wanted.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 16, 2019

Tobechukwu Phillips a Nigerian born teenager has broken the 125 academic history of her high school in Texas, US.

Phillips, who earned A's all through her stay at Alvin High School boasted a 6.9 GPA is now the first Black valedictorian of her school.

Alvin High School was originally established in 1894. African-American students were allowed to join the school in 1965.

Speaking on her success Phillips said: “Maintaining the highest GPA in my class is a difficult task. It truly takes time management but more importantly acknowledging what you do it for. I know that I am no longer just representing myself.

“My biggest advice to other scholars of colour is to truly adopt the mindset of Rosa Parks — ‘No.’ Do not conform to the stereotypes that have held us under thumbs for so long.

“Do not be discouraged when someone speaks out against you, simply allow what they say to fuel your fire. But more than anything, do not remain tight-lipped. Stand up for what you believe in and take it upon yourself to be the change you’ve always wanted. Say ‘No’ to the ways of the world and stick out.”

http://saharareporters.com/2019/05/16/nigerian-girl-tobechukwu-philips-breaks-125-year-academic-history-us

See a recent photo of Saraki with the presumed Buhari after he returned from London.
Is this Buhari?

be the judge...

Xander85:
Your bitterness and hatred for Igbos is apparent! You saw a thread on the true boundary of Igboland and went to click on it...is it to see if your hope that Igboland is ‘landlocked’ (just out of pure hatred) has been dashed!?

nnaaa, i tire, no be small...

MAY 30th Biafra Remembrance Day (Why I remember it.)

Being a British born woman and by the grace of God a representative for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) my memories/experiences of May 30th are somewhat unique.

Prior to 2012 I had little knowledge of the Biafran war despite being born in the late sixties, certainly I had no idea then, that Britain in 1969 was suppling 99.2% of all the weapons used by Nigeria to massacre over 3.5 million people.

SHOCKING ? Yes. I even doubt now many British people or even their MP’s today understand Britain’s creation called Nigeria and Britain’s role in ongoing slavery and genocide. Even during the Biafran war 1967 to 1970 the parliamentary members weren’t aware of the extreme amount of arms being sent to Nigeria it was at the time classified info. Even today many citizens and parliamentary members have very little knowledge of the amount of arms being supplied to foreign countries especially in Africa and the Middle East.

For me as a child our household having a television of which only then had two channels BBC1 and BBC2 our family saw the regulated news coverage of the genocide, to this day like many adults in their fifties can still remember their parents saying those poor children in Africa are starving make sure you eat all your dinner. I’m sure we had no idea then they weren’t starving because of crop failure or natural disaster but because Britain and Nigeria were purposefully penning millions of people into an area of Biafra to starve them as a war tactic even aid was blocked, shockingly even after the war the aid which was by a few right minded people reaching Biafrans at great risk was redirected to outside of Biafra to Lagos by the Nigerian General Gowon so he could clearly raise the Biafran death count despite the war being over.

BLUE PETER.. we all remember this fabulous children programme on BBC1, in fact my mum was a great fan of Valerie Singleton (one of the presenters) whom she’d once met in Farnham Surrey and admired, so defiantly my family would have been switched on to Blue Peter and all their appeals. In 1968 Blue Peter held an appeal for Biafra involving schools, banks etc.. and most families sent money to fund hospitals, trucks, aid etc.. or recyclable goods. (We still have a pot of used stamps collecting). In fact at the time there were many British charities raising money for Biafra and of course Biafra appeal with thanks to Bob Geldof morphed into Feed The World, Band Aid and Children in Need.

What you may NOT KNOW is the money raised by Blue Peter etc.. was at the time confiscated by the British Government, they felt they couldn’t have money sent to a country they were technically at war with. This was of course covered up, I also read that even the original tapes of those Blue Peter shows have been wiped. I could just imagine the British peoples outrage if they knew how their charitable funds were being spent (or not). I only learnt this fact a year or so ago from the daughter of a senior member of foreign affairs at the time of the Biafran war and frankly I still can’t swallow it, as for my mum she must be turning in her grave she like many other Brits without fail every year of her life gave 15% of her earnings (before tax) to charities like the Biafra Appeal.

Ahead a few years in late 2012 early 2013 I met Nnamdi Kanu, Mazi Mefor and others who were running Radio Biafra London and campaigning for the IPOB, my first personal remembrance of the 30th May was 2013 Nnamdi Kanu held a broadcast and a prayer vigil and I heard for the first time a very moving version of Biafran National Anthem not the one I often hear sung now but a melodic sorrowful version which if I heard this moment would have me in tears. I spoke to many Biafrans about their experiences how a young boy was spared his life by a Northern Governor/Emir who spilt cows blood onto the land to make out to the Nigerian Army that he had killed Biafrans in his Northern Nigerian town as ordered in 1966. The stories I have heard to date are keeping my hair grey and my soul weighted.

In the following years on the 30th May with Biafrans I have held that vigil and have been a part of the IPOB”s Worldwide Remembrance which is held in every country of the world for me it is most years in Trafalgar Square London. Biafrans in Biafra were massacred for many years for holding a remembrance day in their home land, one young girl in 2015 went with her two older brothers to a remembrance parade in Abia with her fellow brothers, they were together arrested but separated and taken away in different vehicles, the young girl was later released without charge but till today the same young girl has not found her brothers of which she has searched police stations, jails and morgues for like many Biafrans that have disappeared after arrest are most likely in an unmarked grave and a young girl now the only child left is struggling to support her ailing parents.

Given the enormity of kidnappings and killings on the 30th May Biafrans in Biafra land now respect their lost ones by sitting at home that day (whilst those in diaspora still vigil together), although Biafrans encourage others to mourn with them especially those that have lost kinsmen by war or terrorism this doesn’t always deter Nigeria which refuses to recognize the day of mourning and continue to threaten and intimate Biafrans last year a young boy was dragged of his front porch and killed all for being a Biafran and remembering he lost a father, a mother, an uncle, an aunt, a cousin to a pointless war.

For me and my children we will now always remember the 30th May regardless.

#WeRemember #30thMay

In Defense of the Autonomous Regions
That the average Muslim political office holder in the North, holds the Koran way and above the Constitution. When he attains office, he often rules (not govern) according to the dictates of the Koran. Then he only chooses the aspects of the Constitution that suits him.
And before anyone argues this fact, the Sultan of Sokoto said it himself; he's the permanent chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria.
The belief of the Caliphate North in the superiority of the Koran above all should be respected. In this belief, Sharia was declared in 12 states of the North in Year 2000. Over the past 2 decades, the activities of Northern governors and politicians have been dictated by their belief in the supremacy of Islam and the Koran. This too should be respected.
Common Sense says that with the declaration of Sharia, the country ought to have immediately moved towards Confederation and Autonomous Regions. The 12 Sharia States of Nigeria ought to, and really should be, a single autonomous region where the Koran shall be the regional Constitution, and Sharia Law shall be absolutely established.
We were careless, however. We allowed ourselves to be sucked into a dual system whereby the Sharia exists side by side with the Canon Law. Where the Hisbah Police has been established, funded and has rights over the citizens, Muslim or not. Alcoholic beverages among others are not freely sold but the VAT from the sales are collected. Where Islamic Banking is existing side by side with different rules from conventional banking. Where ladies in miniskirts are arrested and non Muslims tend to use the Hijab to feel safe. Where food is not freely sold during Ramadan fasting and bachelors are inadvertently made to fast for 40 days even while they ain't Muslims.
The establishment of Sharia, occasioned by the belief that the Koran is the ultimate book by which Islamic political office holders would govern, has gradually spread into the mainstream of government in Nigeria thereby pitching the secularists against the Islamists!
This is very obvious in the current federal regime that is ruling Nigeria like an Islamic fiefdom rather than a country with the desire for modernism!
While we do not quarrel with political Islam, it is our belief that those that believe in the Koran as the ultimate document of governance should be encouraged to do so and it should be formalized with the formation of the United Arewa Region where Sharia shall be the Law and the Koran the Constitution! Then other regions would determine their own Constitutions too and govern themselves the way they would. Then we would all share a common parliamentary center where the Constitution of the Federation shall be an agreement of all the federating regions.
This is the Principle of Living slightly apart so that we would survive!
The Arewa Sharia North should be respected in their belief in the supremacy of Islam and be restricted to their region. Our failure to recognize the obvious is causing us to clash incessantly and is leading to an almost obvious end!

Conflagration!!!

Hearken to my voice o'Nigerians
Let us have the #autonomousRegions now
So we could all live according to our beliefs
Ever so slightly apart
But at peace with one another
And a beacon of hope to the rest of Africa
The current structure makes no sense
We should have our autonomous regions already
As this is the only reasonable thing left to do
Otherwise we shall clash in a bloody way
And all there would be left would be regrets.
#thinkAgain my people
For we could avert this disaster yet.

Ultimatezlant:
lol, let me make it clear I am a full blooded Niger deltan ....

my dear, stop the nonsense! what's your ethnic nation?

From: The Time Magazine 10 November 1958
"INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT DIFFICULTIES IS A DREAM OF UTOPIA."

For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerians—some with necklaces of animal teeth, others with feathered straw hats, at least one with a jeweled crown—parade into Lancaster House for their historic conference.
Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home.

For the Colonial Office's big reception at the Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts and one paramount Chief—His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha —fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station.[?]

In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes, the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come.
From the start, there was a clash between the personalities of the Premiers of the three regions —each obviously more important than the scholarly Federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

In Western eyes, Obafemi Awolowo of the Western Region seemed the most statesmanlike: as the conference began, the London Times carried a full-page ad proclaiming his declaration for freedom under the title "This I Believe," prepared with the help of an American public relations man.

In contrast, U.S.-educated Premier Nnamdi ("Zik" Azikiwe of the Eastern Region seemed to have learned more in the U.S. about Tammany tactics than Thomas Jefferson, and was somewhat under a cloud as a result of a British tribunal's 1956 investigation into corruption in his administration.
The North's Premier, the Sardauna of Sokoto, a haughty Moslem of noble birth, could barely conceal his contempt for his less aristocratic colleagues.

Insults & Accusations. Under the great chandeliers of the Lancaster House music room, where Chopin once played for Queen Victoria, the Premiers bickered, shot insults back and forth like poisoned darts.

When the conference took up the ticklish problem of how to protect the rights of minorities among Nigeria's 250 tribes, Awolowo suggested creating three new states. The North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territories, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable only to him, can pop a man in jail with no questions asked.

At one point, the Sardauna accused Awolowo of sending his supporters to Israel to be trained as saboteurs in the North —a charge fabricated out of the fact that Western Nigeria has imported agricultural experts from Israel to advise its farmers. Awolowo countercharged that the Sardauna flogs his prisoners.

At receptions, the delegates sipped their orange juice, icily aloof from one another. In elevators, the conversation would suddenly stop if a delegate from another region got on.

Compromises & Contests. But as the weeks passed, the Sardauna grudgingly consented to let the constitution carry a bill of rights, though he was so thoroughly opposed to giving the vote to women that the conference decided that this was, after all, not necessarily a "fundamental" right.

The delegates then agreed on a centralized police force, but one that would be administered by a council of representatives from each region. Finally, with their own independence from Britain assured (as well as that of the adjacent British Cameroons, should they choose to become a part of Nigeria), the delegates started for home.

Until Nigeria's federal election takes place next year, the three Premiers will continue jockeying for power, and the fate of Nigeria could well, hinge on who comes out on top. Last week, even as the National Planning Committee of Independence opened its contest for the design of a national flag (first prize: $300), many Nigerians had grave reservations about what lay ahead.
For all its jubilation, Nigeria's West African Pilot felt obliged to warn: "Independence without difficulties is a dream of Utopia."
Time Magazine - Monday, Nov. 10, 1958

Me: The signs were visible; each region ought to have secured independence as a sovereign country. Apparently, the idea to have a single country called Nigeria did not seem to have emanated from the people of Nigeria. From the information above, neither of the 3 regions actually liked themselves enough to have wanted a shared country! It was said that the Sadauna of Sokoto (the Premier of Northern Nigeria) loathed both Awolowo and Azikiwe. Yet, they were compelled to form a country?
The Hovel of Horrors called Nigeria is apparent to all now! What a mess! Founding Fathers my foot!
#thinkAgain

black neanderthals should stop chasing rats while their houses are being stolen by terrorist fulani herdsmen...

“Before I came to Biafra, I was told that Biafrans fight like heroes. But now, I know that heroes fight like Biafrans” French Deputy Foreign Minister Raymond Ofroy 1969.

50 years on, we salute the immortal class of 67-70, for their legendary bravery against the combined forces of neo-colonialism still ravaging Africa till date. We will never forget.

#30MaySitAtHome

This you must know...

Rewarding Terrorism

The ranking of Miyetti Allah is Number 4 on the Global Terrorism Index...
...and the Federal Government of Nigeria is willing to reward them with 100 billion Naira.
Now, take your time and ponder this...#thinkAgain...very slowly this time...please.
So when next they ask you to vote, tell them to shove it and let's have the Autonomous Regions first! As a citizen of the Ala-Igbo Region, I do not want to have anything to do with terrorists, their supporters or their sponsors in the name of the despicable Book of Lucifer called the 1999 Constitution.
#restructureIntoAutonomousRegions

like this...that criminal jackass, Jubril/buhari, the impostor, should stop disturbing sane people...

The TRUTH will always prevail....