₦airaland Forum

Ioannes:
Goodluck Jonathan was there for 6years, they didn't remember that things weren't working well for them.

I'm sure everybody would love to see them go, just let them go about it peacefully and legally.

Stop the lies. MASSOB was operating since the days of Obasunjo long before GEJ became president.

keally:
. I don't blame you, I only blame your illiteracy. Ignorance kills faster than ebola virus. Point out anywhere in the constitution you need permit to excercise your right to freedom of expression, freedom of movement and freedom of association. Right to self determination is guaranteed by the UN charter which Nigeria is a signatory to. So get schooled and quit ignorance.

Forget illiterates, ignorant people who dont know the law.

There was a world wide protest by those who support Trump and those who dont support Trump. It was only in Nigeria that unarmed people were killed, why?

They will be all released in good time because its not possible for one to overthriw a Government or commit treason by holding peaceful protest

Nice one from John Nnia Nwodo. However, Igbos have moved past any cry of marginalisation. How can the great Igbo nation be crying about marginalisation when a small nation Gambia with just a population 1.8 million people (probably the population of the city of Enugu) is an independent nation?

Tufiakwa!

Some people are funny. Almost everyone they mentioned are not even card carrying members of APC. APC as a party shoukd stop dreaming, they cant win any election in Igbo land outside Imo state.

I dont think that Ojukwu would have ordered all 'non Igbo' to leave the Eastern Region. No way Ojukwu would have done this for one simple reason, the Eastern Region was comrised of Ijaw, Ibibio, Ogoni, Annang, Oron, Ogoja and other non Igbos. There no way Ojukwu would order these Easterners out of the Eastern Region which was their home.

What Adegboye should say is that is Ojukwu ordered 'non Easterners' out of the Eastern Region. That would make more sense.

It is disgraceful and equally shameful that a country like Nigeria which claims to be the Giant Africa but is still a country where the Army and Police still kill unarmed people just for protesting. Whst makes the Nigerian security agencies any better than Boko Haram?


A good measure of a country that will develop is its human rights record. That of Nigeria is so bad that it is shocking. A country were an amed forces is not yet diciplined enough to respect the sanctity of human life. Shocking!

saintmark88:
Foolishness is wen u try to invent an excuse that doesn't make sense.... I have read all of u say this foolish, d igbo never wanted to be a part of a forced marriage.

Wen Azikiwe was d executive governor, u wanted to be a part of it, wen Aguyi Ironsi was head of state ur pple wanted to be a part of it, wen PDP ( Obj, Yaradua, GEJ) was on power u and ur lying pathetic people wanted to be a part of a forced marriage that u never really wanted to be in.

You want a referendum, from 2010-2015 u never asked for a referendum even wen u had a man from the south south n power, u were fully part of the forced "marriage". All of a sudden the PDP loses election, all of a sudden it's a forced marriage........ Na una get sense pass abi...... Wen it's going ur way u dnt complain, wen it's not u cry marginalization.

Unfortunately u dnt get referendum from d internet, u have to push it through a constitutional means....

Like I said this ipob tin isn't bout biafra, it's a political tool used by politicians to pay back the goby, too bad innocent but foolish pple like u r losing their lives over a political struggle for politicians who dnt give a Bleep about u

Dont peddle this falsehood you people keep doing. When a man and woman are married, either party can walk out of the marriage at any time and seek divorce. In the case of Nigeria, there was no wedding in the first place to even talk about divorce.

This talk that when zik was Governor General or when Agu Iyi Ironsi was there Igbos wanted Nigeria is nonsense. Even if it were true, it is still does not take away the right of the Igbos to walk out of Nigetia at any time. Igbos have no binding agreement to be part of the colonial creation called Nigeria so what right has anyone to dictate when they go? Even Scotland which has been part of the Britain for over 300 years, nobody shouted 'one Britain' when they went for a referendum in 2014 and this is Scotland that even has a binding agreement to be part of Great Britain.


The simple reasoning here is that Nigeria is a fraudulent creation of the British, and since none of the ethnic groups gave their permission to be included in the colonial creation called Nigeria, they have been held against their will since 1914. The Government of Nigeria should then do what the British should have done in 1960, organise a referendum and allow the ethnic groups forced into Nigeria to decide if they want to continue with Nigeria or go a different direction.

How can you tell me to go to a national assembly to get my freedom when you cant show me the national assembly where lord Lugard went to move a motion for the creation of Nigeria?

You cannot get legality from an act of illegality, it doesnt work like that.

But there is another question you must ask your self, why do you want to be with people who dont want you? You cant do without them? Or is it because Lord Lugard came in 1914 to announce that we are all Nigerians?

Hunger is killing Imo state people and Okorocha is busy commissioning whit elephant projects.

sarrki:
I don't like mentioning tribes...

Of course you dont like mentioning tribes so that you can use fictcious names like Niger Delta to represent several groups of people and continue to justify the fraud started by the British in 1914 called Nigeria.

saintmark88:
I hope u realize one day that this question is dumb

What do you mean the question is dumb? How do you think you and your ancestors became Nigerians? Where do you think the name 'Nigeria' comes from? Are you aware that Lugard butchared thousands of people in other force different ethnic groups he met in West Africa together?

My ethnic group, the Igbos, never gave Lugard permission to join us with strangers called Hausas and Yorubas in his colonial project called Nigeria. So why should we be seeking a referendum to get out of something we never joined in the first place?

Look if you want to answer the colonial name, 'Nigeria', invented by the whiteman, that is your business

If you want to claim the British colonial fabrication known as Nigeria as your country then be my guest but do not expect all ethnic groups who were forced into Nigeria to accept the same.

Since you are telling me as an Igbo man to seek referendum to get out of a Nigeria I was forced into, I then ask you, what referendum created Nigeria?

If the people never agreed to be together then you have to admit that Nigeria is fraudulent entity which is holding people against their will just like Lugard did.

I laugh people who say that "Nigerias strenght is in diversity".

Its only someone that herdsmen havent dealt with will still believe in that nonsense.

saintmark88:
This IPOB r just political tools used by d PDP, isn't it obvious??..... They say an owl cried in the night and a baby died n d morning, who killed the baby??. GEJ lost election and the next tin Nigeria bcame a zoo... Who is fooling who. They said buhari and APC destabilized their govt, so it's time to repay the favour and they r openly and brazenly doing so.

If u truly want biafra den it has to be done the right way, it's either thru war or through a referendum. War has been used and it failed woefully, so d only option available to them is thru a referendum.... Nd wen I see dem asking for a referendum on social media, it just shows they r irresponsible and it just buttresses my point that they r just a tool used by d PDP.

They have representation in d Senate, d house also, these r d pple who r legitimately empowered to fight for a referendum, but no, they will not, they will eat and those fools will b on d street protesting

Did Lord conduct any referendum when he was making you a Nigerian?

Toketimt:

Shut ur trap. What do u know except what those fools feeds u on? So because I didn't record anything simply because of my safety or Av any pictures it automatically means I am lying? Will those fools show recordings of their charge on officers at Artillery? Will they show pictures of how some of them snatched ladies handbags and forced shop owners to lock up?
Besides, who asked u to believe me? U think am here for ur pleasure? I Av stated what I saw and to hell with anyone that chooses not to believe me. Will that stop me from stating what i saw again? Of cos not.
Biko kiss my arse.

Like I said.............. I just returned from a holiday to the moon this morning.

AnanseK:
You want to overthrow the Nigerian government and you are limping from a mild encounter with security people. Better think seriously about the level of your determination and readiness.

How exactly do unarmed people overthrow the Nigerian Government? How is it possible?

NNVanguard:
Is protest a crime? Did American government gun down the anti-Trump protesters?

So its now you know that Nigeria is not a civilised country?

A country that cant even manage a simple peaceful protest without shooting unarmed people is what wants to be a superpower nation some day? I laugh in Igbo

Toketimt:

Oooo I see. So in ur daft state, as those illegality were going on coupled with tensed confrontation btw those criminals and police, what is expected of me is to bring our my mobile and take pictures right? Av u ever heard of stray bullets?
Seriously u sound really foolish.

Then dont come here to make statements you cannot back up especially when it concerns the loss of human life. Bullets where flying but IPOB were making recordings on their phones to prove they did nothing wrong because they knew that people like you would make unfounded allegations.

I went to the moon yesterday and came back this morning. I will only believe your allegation against IPOB if you can believe what I just said.

Poweredbrew:
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Your forefathers came to Ore and that was the cause of their demise, you cant eat your cake and have it. You flood to every corner of the country and still making noise online. Your worthless leaders are in Abuja eating your destiny away and you are online making noise and disgracing your parents.

Never knew Germany, London e.t.c are all in Nigeria. Why are you ipobs senseless and have no working brain? You want to live in the SW and still want biafra same time. Foolishness in 3D.

We live in the SW because you people came to East to fight for 3 years to being us back. If you guys had left us alone when we left in 1967 and went home, we would not be here having this argument. The Ore you people are talked about, you guys came for us first. And when we came for yoy in Ore you start complaining.

Tbe good thing about all of this is that everyone now realises that there is nothing like 'one Nigeria'

Poweredbrew:
You ipob animals have no shame. You run away from your cursed land to other region and still beating your chest. Who the mess is holding you criminals from going, you have been told many times to f.uck off but shame wont let you go. You cant litter the SW and other region and still shouting biafra. Go back to your cursed land and stop disgracing yourself online. Dont you have shame?

You are telling us to go back to our lands? The last time we did that, you guys came down to the East to fight a 3 year civil war to bring us back. Now you tell us to go back to our lands again? God knows what sort of suicide you guys are planning in other to bring us back again.

The so called 'SW' you are talking about, how come you people are trooping to to places like Germany, London and America when you have 'SW'? Are your lands cursed? Mr 'one Nigeria' apologist

Slottersign:
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Most of you ipod are slow and have no working brain. So we are holding you and you are even bold to spew this trash. Why did you run to the UN when you were deported from Lagos? Why didnt you cry this way when GEJ was the president. Shameless people, from GEJ till 2019 to biafra of we die. More reason no one take you dummys serious anymore.

Of course you will always take us serious. Who do you think will be eternally shouting 'one Nigeria' between you and I?

The map is funny for different reasons

The first is that the contitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria does not recognise anything like South East, South South or Niger Delta. What the constitution recognises are tribes such as Igbo, Ijaw, Anang, Ibibio etc. So in essense, anyone talking about SE/SS or Niger Delta had better know in what context that comes in because anything not recognised in the constitution is illegal.

Another reason I find this map funny is that both my parents are proud Igbos. But this funny map put my fathers community in Biafra and my mothers community in the Niger Delta. How come? What is the map based on?

The final reason why the map is funny is because the area refered to as Biafra in the map is largely an Igbo area. Biafra has never been an Igbo only thing like many have come to believe. The last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, was not an Igbo man. The person who came up with the name 'Biafra' was an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo. The Chief secretary of the Biafran Government under Ojukwu was Mr N Akpan, an Annang man. Biafra is not even an Igbo word.

lastpage:
You can do the same thing in 2017 instead of wining like cry-babies!

Pack yourself "Home" and declare Biafra........ and never come back.
End of story.


Lastpage!

Whats the point of doing it again so you can repeat what you did in the past? You guys will shout 'one Nigeria' and come down to the East just like you did last time to fight to bring the Igbo man back into Nigeria.

You guys cant do without Igbos, if you could, yoy would not be fighting civil wars to be with Igbos.

Funny thing is that if Yorubas decide to pull out of Nigeria, nobody will fight to bring them back because no one considers them important.

lastpage:
Even a flatheaded Galla Seller should not say this in public!

Thousands of people are in AJIL right now, for what they SAID..... but should not have said.

Have you ever heard of "incitement to murder"? Slander? Hate Speech? e.t.c


Anyway, u be IPAD, l am not surprised.





Lastpage!

I challenge you to give me the name of one pwrson who has been convicted in Nigeria based words they uttered

Police and Army shoots unarmed IPOB in Portharcourt, Herdmen shoot unarmed students in Kaduna. The story is all the same, in Nigeria, life means nothing

pkumase:
Ikwerre ppl are not Igbo's b4 u come up with ur write up do a proper research. Please correct ur write up. who are Igbo's ?

So are you saying that Ikwerre people are Bini decedants like a previous poster said?

5ublime:
Honestly, I'm quite fascinated at most of the comments made here.

...and it's alarming that a large number of Nigerians still have no sense, despite their level of education and exposure (sorry to say).

A combined protest to celebrate trump and pro IPOB Confused lot. Very funny.

I've seen some videos of the so called 'rally' online and I won't be surprised if anyone was shot or wounded in the process.

Some people he are calling others animals because they didn't type RIP or express their sentiments. .
A million RIPs can't raise the dead. Nobody gives a flying dog's shit about how u feel on a public forum. To each his own. Too bad the poor boy died over a worthless cause (in my opinion).

Peace, hope and love.

And your whole argument is that it is ok for the Nigerian security agents to shoot and kill unarmed people. You are saying the boy died over a wortless cause but you ignore the more important fact that it was your own police and Army are the ones killing innocent people just like Boko Haram.

Nigeria we hail thee

Organs:
Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois is currently serving 14 years in jail for saying he will sell Obama's Senate seat. Talk on things you know and those you don't know, ask or keep qwayet.

I actually googled him. He was actually sent to jail for corruption and abuse of office. He actually approached people to sell Obamas vacant seat. This different from what I said.

Nobody can be jailed based words alone. Criminal actions must have been carried out.

shurlermoz:
Haha hahahaha! you are funny o.

He was making inciting and inflammatory statements, there is no way a government will let that fly. You don't expect the govt to wait for him to buy the guns and start a war before taking action, do you?

What matters is what the law says, not what you and I or the government thinks. Kanu is allowed to make inflammatory statements. Making inflammatory statements is not against the law.

fabre4:
In recent times, there has been a call for secession by IPOB. But this has been resisted by Nigeria and has also produced bloody protest. There is a saying that "give the dog a bad name and hang him" since it is perceived that all members of IPOB are south easterners there has been some form of renewed hatred towards the south easterners or anyone sharing an opinion similar to theirs or sympathetic to the Igbo's.



While I share the same school of thought with General Gowon that Igbo's have been wronged, I don't believe in the secessionist idea and here is why

1) Nnamdi Azikiwe was a founding father of Nigeria and therefore it means we have a birthright as one of the first tribes in Nigeria and we can be better in Nigeria if only we exploit this opportunity or privilege through the right channel. And believe me if we continue in this part of downward spiral in no time the ijaws would over take us and make no mistake of thinking they are with us

Nnamdi Azikiwe is not a founding father of Nigeria. No African or Nigerian is amongst the founding fathers of Nigeria. Lord Lugard is the founding father of Nigeria and Nigeria is nothing but a 'British invention'

2)Since the war ended for more than 45 years we have been dwelling on biafra but the truth is we are just in a merry go round without a meaningful progress. Can u imagine someone called to negotiate biafran secession ripping people off by printing biafran passports and selling it to illiterate and the gullible. This shows that the fight for their belly not their country. Even Ojukwu couldn't continue the fight he created a party in Nigeria and contested for presidency cos he understood that the concept of Biafra was dead

How can you believe the story about the passport? How is it that anyone is selling Biafran passports yet no one has ever seen it?

3)Southeast is landlocked and an igbos are business people mainly involved in importation how would you transport your goods or import them . I purposely refused to include south South state in Biafra cos its obvious they won't secede reason being that they know they will fight another civil war with Igbo's only to breakout let us .

There is nothing like SE or SS. The constitution of Nigeria does not reconise any South East, South South or Niger Delta. What matters are the tribes. Biafra has never been an Igbo only thing, the last president of Biafra was not an Igbo man. Biafra is about Igbos and the minorities who comfortable with Igbos. Thats why a referendum is needed so that we can separate the wheat from the corn. Even if Biafra were just for Igbos, it still would not be landlocked because Igbo land extends past the so called SE into Benue, Delta, Edo, Rivers and cross River. I've even heard that there are Igbo communities in Bayelsa.

Even if Igbo land were just Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Enugu, you might just be surprised to find out that Anambra, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi all have access to the sea and Onitsha in Anambra already has a River Port while Obuaku in Abia is even closer to the Athlantic ocean than Porthacourt.

4) marginalization: Our we marginalizing ourselves out of Nigeria or are the Yoruba's marginalizing us or is it the Hausa's nepotism? one irrefutable fact is that Nigeria has diverse ethnic group and they will always favor their own so how then do we survive ? Go to the ants and learn its ways simple. what makes Hausa's or Yoruba more successful in Nigeria is Unity. But southeast are too divided to even take a unanimous decision regardless of our party we would rather be servants to money and closed minded due our ethno-religious believe. its time for us to wake up and realise that the devil you know is better than the angel you don't . Everyone is using Biafra as an excuse for their failure let me remind you that upon secession the rich will still be the rich and the poor the poor which will lead to another chain of excuses.

Marginalisation is one of the greatest reasons for one to aspire for their own country. When you have your own country, there will be no more Hausa or Yoruba to marginalise anyone.

4) Hausa's have the population and politicians, Yoruba's have the scholars, Igbo's have the businessmen and also we have money .Igbos are naturally adventurous so imagine if we used our resources for technological advancement higher than the government level and give our research scientists the required help to make make giant strides in in technology rather than spending those capital in the Diaspora we would make ourselves needed and useful and of course other tribes would run to us for help . When I look at the the kind of innovation that took place during the biafran war I wonder how has the mighty fallen. we can be the tech giants of Africa only if we can spend more on our people reminds of Nazi and Hitler and how he grew with the help of scientist.

How can you be great if your resources and technology are controlled by Abuja? You want to control your destiny? Seek your freedom first.

in conclusion Igbo's have never been good politians because of their plain and emotional ideologies its left for us to unite and show we are bosses where it matters most technology cause that determines who is who in this century and not who is in power this is why I say that we are the hope of Nigeria and some may envy us for our ability to thrive independently. On the other hand in politics irrespective of our party always fight for the furtherance of Igbo and south east and remember there is no Islamic party if Igbo's flood into APC today it will never be regarded as an islamic party again.



long live the Igbo nation.

long live Nigeria


cc. lalasticlala mynd44

We dont need Nigeria, we need freedom and independence. To think Nigeria is to think small. I want to see the great Igbo nation indepedent. I want to see us signing trade deals with America, China, Germany and other world powers. I want to see our products in British shops, Russian supermarkets and French stores. I want our people to have full acces to their coal in Enugu, their Oil in Abia, their Gas in Anambra their Oil and Gas in Anioma and so on. I want true federalism practiced in our new country with the host communities keeping at least 75% of the proceeds of their land, resource control and full fiscal responsibility.

None of these things are possible in Nigeria where Igbo/Yoruba/Hausa dont even see themselves as brothers. Nigeria is a sinking ship that is heading no where but down into the abyss.

shurlermoz:
The man committed treasonable offences, if it were a military regime, his A.ss wld have been grass by now.

I am not against fighting for whatever freedom you want, but do it with sense. Barcelona is also fighting for independence from Spain, and Scotland from England but they are following due process.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fPQOPEH-0Y

He was trying to raise funds to buy weapon to fight Nigeria publicly, no president will let that fly......not one.

Sorry bro but no democratic country in the world can jail a person because of what they said. People can only be jailed for actions they take, not what they said. What Nnamdi Kanu said in this video does not mean anything in a court of law. The only thing that means anything is if he actually recieved money and bought weapons, and it has to be proved that the weapons were to fight Nigeria. The video does not mean aything under the law.

origima:
Am an IBO man but IBO's will not like this news at all as far Buhari is not was not mentioned as the Genesis of our troubles

There is no tribe in Nigeria called IBO