₦airaland Forum

It seems like since Nnamdi Kanu dragged the federal Government to court, every Tom, dick and Harry has jumped on the bandwagon.

Olenzzy:
Since d revival of the BIAFRA question, many opinions have been aired both by Nigerians and non- Nigerians as to d possibility of d dismembering of d contraption called Niger- Area or better still, Nigeria. One reality that stares one in d face is d post- disintegration era. In otherwords, which region will rise up first after d dusts of going our separate ways must have settled down? As someone who believes in d power and prospects of diversities in terms of human and natural resource contribution and contradictions, i humbly request Hon. Nairalanders to use their logical and intuitive abilities to help find answers to this poser.

If Nigeria breaks up, which I pray for, it could end up with more than 4 or 5 pieces. The so called Niger-Delta, excluding the Delta Igbos and River Igbos can divided broadly into the edoid/Ijaw regions and includes Ijaws,Binis,Ogonis,Itsekiris, Urobos etc and the Efik/Ibibio nation which includes Oron,Annang,Efik, Ibibio etc. How these groups would vote in a referendum is still subject to debate but I know they won't vote to stay in Nigeria. They can't vote to for a Niger-Delta Republic either since no one is canvassing for that and I doubt if the Efik/Ibibio nation will want to be with Ijaw/Edoid that have little or no connection with. Another option is voting to leave with the greater Igbo nation. I think it is more likely in the options available that the Efik/Ibibio nation will vote to leave with Igbos, however, the Ijaw /edoid are going to be more problematic since most Igbos do not want Edo state in any new country with them(except Igbanke). I think that what might eventually happen is that Edo state will have to be left in Nigeria while the Ijaw/ Efik/Ibibio nation will form a confederation with the greater Igbo nation. But this is just my opinion.

mapet:
I believe it became an issue when FFK was accused of being a bigot, especially a hater of the Igbos. In a bid to defend himself, FFK mentioned the fact that he had Igbo friends and girl friends and specifically mentioned a "passionate relationship" with Bianca (Now that I don't support). Now Bianca not only denied, she claimed she NEVER met FFK and instructed her lawyers to write FFK, threatening a law suit if FFK does not withdraw the statement.

FFK apologised for the embarrassment yet stood his grounds. That I believe is what led to this...........

So this issue is who lied and who told the truth..............

I think there's no shame in Bianca accepting that they went out in their teens, if it's true...but you never know, she might be ostracized from Igbo land....

Nobody is going to ostracise Bianca for a relationship she had while in School. Who doesn't have a romantic relationship while at University? FFK said she was his girlfriend while Bianca said she has never met him. It's his word against hers. I wonder how FFK had a 'longstanding' relationship with Bianca but cannot produce one single picture they took together? Why can he produce one paper written by Bianca such as a love letter, romantic card or something? How is it that FFK and Bianca, both of who come from wealthy, influential and political heavyweight families were having a relationship but it wasn't headline news? All these leads me to believe that FFK was just looking to score cheap points by mentioning Bianca. He most probably has never met her. Most men have at one time or the other lied about sleeping with a girl that they didn't, FFK is no different.

Caseless:
anything that will distort the territorial configuration of Nigeria is not only a treasonable 'felony', but terrorism. What do you call the killing of other ethnic group in the name of seccession?

Oh really? So it is Lord Lugard who has the right to come to West Africa to distort the lives of the people in other to create Nigeria?

I don't know the OP is talking about. MASSOB and IPOB are organisations set up to agitate for a separate political union outside Nigeria for the indigenous Igbos and some other minorities in the south of Nigeria. Everybody accepts that self determination is a right of man, so what is the problem? These organisations need funds to function and they get it by soliciting funds. They have not stolen from anybody, they have not killed anybody, they have not forced anyone to join them. Everything has been done on voluntary basis yet someone in the SW who has no sense of self determination will create a thread about an issue that does not concern him or her. Very funny. The indigenous people of the land have the inalianable right to decide their destiny and no matter how anyone feels, it is a fact that cannot be wished away.

Deadlytruth:
The federation of Nigeria, in 1960 as at when Ojukwu believed in one Nigeria, was already as corrupt, as oppressive and as
irredemable as the Othoman empire. Corruption, oppression, etc started in Nigeria as far back as 1914 yet Ojukwu believed in and defended one Nigeria.
If Ojukwu's thwarting of Niger Delta Republic was justified on the grounds that he was subject to the order of Ironsi, then Awolowo's refusal to allow Biafra stand was also justified based on your logic as Awo too was subject to the orders of Gowon under whom he was serving. Is what is good for the goose no longer also good for the gander?
As at the time Ojukwu initially believed in one Nigeria it was already crystal clear that Nigeria was not really one and could never really become be one. Ojukwu was alive when Northerners massacred thousands of Igbos in 1945 and 1953 in Jos and Kano riots respectively, and even in 1966 right under Ironsi's nose and despite the innocent Igbo lives lost in those riots he continued believing in one Nigeria up till 1967. So was it not therefore hypocritical for the same Ojukwu to start disbelieving in one Nigeria only when his brother was killed and overthrown? That means loss of lives of his own brothers was not as important to him as Ironsi's remaining in power.
We are talking of morality here which supersedes any military seniority theory. If Ojukwu truly valued innocent civilian lives over position why then did he not resign from the army in protest to Ironsi's inaction in the face of the 1966 Igbo-targeted pogroms that happened right under Ironsi's regime? After all once he resigned he would not be bound by any military laws again and then he could rally against Ironsi as a civilian the same way he himself later expected Awolowo to have, as a civilian, rallied against Gowon.
Your claim that Isaac Boro was just reckless is the biggest comedy. When has it become an act of recklessness to strive to free one's people from oppression and domination? Boro rightly felt the Ijaws were being trampled upon in the Eastern Region by the Igbos and once the opportunity seemed to appear he declared Niger Delta Republic. The way he sought freedom from Nigeria and Eastern Region oppression was the same Way Ojukwu sought freedom from Nigeria. And mind you that Isaac Boro never at anytime believed in one Nigeria hence was not hypocritical like Ojukwu. Also Ojukwu did not consult all the traditional council of chiefs and rulers of the tribes that made up the Eastern Region but consulted only the Eastern Regional Assembly which Boro and many other Eastern minorities already viewed as not truly proportionally representative of the ethnic groups in the entire Eastern region.

This long epistle just for you to make no point. You are saying that Ojukwu was alive when the Igbos were massacred in 1945 and 1953? What did you expect Ojukwu who was then a teenager to do in a time that Nigeria was still a British colony? Even Zik, Dr Okpara and Dr Akanu Ibiam who were great Igbo nationalist were still championing one Nigeria (for reasons best known to them) and you are talking about Ojukwu who at the time had no political clout? Laughable. I said that Ojukwu as a Soldier was subject to Ironsi who was his superior but but not subject to Gowon. Awolowo on the other hand was not a Soldier and was subject to nobody. Awolowo willingly accepted to serve under Gowon when he could have declined the offer and rallied the Yoruba nation to seek their right to self determination in the face of the massacre happening. Yet Awolowo chose to serve them. To this very day, the Yoruba man will always run to Northerner for political expedience. How Awolowo could have witnessed genocide on such a scale after Nigeria had achieved self rule but still went for 'one Nigeria' under the same people commiting the same atrocities. You said that Ojukwu should have resigned because of the massacre that happened under Ironsi? Go and read Philip Effiongs book "Biafra:My story" and you will know that Ojukwu vehemently protested the killing of easterners to Ironsi's face during the Executive meetings. One more thing, Military officers are not allowed to resign. The Military has its own rules that different from civilians. A Military officer can apply to be discharged for reasons such as health, incapacity or incompetence but they are not allowed to resign. If Ojukwu had resigned, he would have been arrested , detained and court martialed and jailed. That would not have helped him or anyone so that idea of yours is nonsense. The same Ojukwu you are talking about went to Ghana to sign an agreement with Gowon to keep Nigeria one and maintain the peace despite thousands his people being massacred. Does that look like man who only cares about power and not his people? Why did you not blame Gowon for breaking the agreement? As for Boro, what Boro did was stupid. Anyone can go to a market square, read some form of independence statement and take some men with guns into the Bush to start causing problems. That is not secession. Secession is declaring independence from Nigeria, not declaring independence from Igbos. I'm not even sure Boro knew who he was declaring free? His fellow Ijaws or who? In Ojukwus case, he declared Biafra after his belief in Nigeria had been shattered, amist wholesale slaughter of his people, the breaking of the binding Aburi agreement and after due consultation.

So because they blocked the convoy of the chief of Army staff is a good enough reason to gun down almost 1000 people? Some people are insane! If the people of Daura had blocked the same convoy, would they have been massacred in the same way?

Yorubas have sworn to die on top of Biafran matter simply because they can't bear to see Igbos walk out of Nigeria and leave them at the mercy of the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy. Even the Abia state Government has refuted this stupid story that IPOB murdered anyone. A Yoruba man is now claiming to be a minority who wants to drag IPOB to court? Wonders shall never end.

Deadlytruth:
Unfortunately that Journalist who conducted this interview deliberately forgot to ask Ojukwu why he believed his secession bid and thus declaration of Biafra Republic was morally justified after he (Ojukwu) himself had crushed Isaac Adaka Boro's Niger Delta Republic secession bid, forced him back into Zik's 'one Nigeria', charged him with treason for trying to break away from Zik's 'one-Nigeria', and had him sentenced to death all within 15 months prior to when he himself later declared Biafra.
Ojukwu, to me, was a hypocrite who was looking for sleep after he himself had murdered sleep. He denied others freedom but later wanted the freedom himself. Thankfully he law of Karma thwarted his actualization of Biafra. Those who deny others freedom don't deserve it themselves............Abraham Lincoln.

That is highly unfair to Ojukwu. How can you say that Ojukwu should have allowed Boro's so called declaration to stand? Are you forgetting that Ojukwu was a Soldier who was subject to the orders of his superiors and also was a man who once believed in one Nigeria? Who was Ojukwu to to go against the directives of Ironsi? However, with Gowon, it was a different ball game. Ojukwu was senior to Gowon (even though they were both Lt. Colonels) and Ojukwu didn't have to listen to Gowon. As the interview says, Ojukwu declared Biafra out of the necessity to protect his people. Ojukwu also sought the mandate of the people through the Eastern Nigeria consultative Forum before he did so. What Boro did on the other hand was just pure recklessness. Ojukwu was a great man, he literally dismantled Nigeria with the following


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

Bianca has said that she has never met Fani Kayode in her life. It baffles me that FFK and Bianca, two people who come from influential political families had a long standing relationship but only one person knew about it.

But let's just assume it is true that they had a relationship, that was like 30 years ago! Of what relevance is that today? I have had a relationship with the daughter of a late chief Justice of Nigeria. She moved on and is now married with kids. What would be the point of me going to papers to broadcast that I used to sleep with her? Some people are small minded

Nigerians make me laugh. So you people are telling me that a bunch uncultured Fulani Shepards will come down to Igboland with their cattle, destroy our farm lands, rape our women, shoot at us and kill us and you people still expect us to dancing to the song of 'one Nigeria'? I cannot be one Nigeria with Fulani people! Not now, not ever! We are going to shame this evil contraption created by the British opportunist called Lugard and named Nigeria by his deranged wife. Igbo land and the minorities who agree with us must become self Governing!!

Daura shoe shiners

As most people know, the area now known as Nigeria was a collection of ethnic groups conquered by the British using their point man, Frederick Lugard who was head of the West African Fronteer force. After Victory, Lugard declared the area a "protectorate" with the name 'The territories of the Royal Niger company by the River Niger'. At the suggestion of his girlfriend (later wife) Flora Shaw,who was then a journalist, the name was shortened to "Nigeria" so that the upper Niger became the Northern proctectorate as in the lower Niger. In 1914, Lord Lugard who was then Governor of the Northern and Southern protectorates amalgamated all the territories together and created Nigeria. He became the first Governor General of the new country until 1919. The country was later to be dominated by three men who in a way, came to represent the 3 main ethic groups which in turn represented the tripodal system of 3 regions Nigeria started off with.
Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (Igbo) was born in 1904
Obafemi Awolowo (Yoruba) was born in 1909
Ahmadu Bello (Hausa-Fulani) was born in 1910.

Since these 3 men were born before the creation of Nigeria, it is safe to say they were not born as Nigerians. Infact, one could say that neither of them was a Nigerian. According to law, a person can only get Nigerian citizenship in 3 ways:
By naturalisation
By birth
By parentage

Neither of these apply to Zik, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello( Sarduana) so technically, none of them was a Nigerian.

The Delta Igbo community of Ubulu-Uku discovered that their king was abducted by the Fulani heardsmen who then murdered him. Nobody is saying anything about it. For how long will these people keep commiting all these atrocities in Igboland?

I'm happy me and my fellow Igbos didn't vote for this 'president of tourism'

steppins:
Fake news...

Of course its fake. How can DSS say that IPOB killed 5 people unless they were there when it happened to confirm it was IPOB?

OAFMods:
What is the name of that which is forcing you to be a Nigerian ? Is he/she your local councillor, state rep, fed rep senate or governor ? The truth is with your education and religion you still do not have the intellingence of how to stop being a Nigerian, you even do not have the intelligence to comprehend your demand.

Is it to stop being a Nigerian or expecting a part of Nigeria is seceded to you just because you asked ? Do you have any idea how long Catulunya, Scotland as been seeking succession from their parent country without success ? Mr Man if you want to stop being a Nigerian you have options such as suicide or marriage to a Somali or Rwandan.

Stop talking like someone suffering from mental slavery. How can a white man called Lugard come to Africa to tell what your country should be? It is for you to decide what your country should be. I'm indigenous born Igbo man, how can I go to a Yoruba or Hausa man and tell them we "one" just because a white man said so? Is that not madness? You mentioned Scotland and Catalonia. Scotland asked for a referendum and their right to self determination was aknowledged and respected. They are even planning another referendum. Catalonia is also on its way to conducting their own. But in Nigeria, mention referendum and some Yoruba man in Ibadan who doesn't even know where Igboland is will start shouting treason. The important thing here is that we have all have the right to self determination and if I don't want to be with you, then you have no business being with me.

How can they have a memorial for the millions killed during the war? Nigeria can't because if they built it, they would have to justify why they had to kill so many people to keep an articificial creation of the White man called Nigeria as one.

DaBullIT:
Iif you had any sense whatsoever


You would realize Buhari is just beginning his own government

This is the first Budget he'll actually be compiling and approving by himself

I won't loose hope on #40 Petrol per Liter just yet even if the fraudsters in the importing / independent marketing are intentionally frustrating Buhari's efforts

Buhari is just begining his Government? He took almost one year to 'begin' his Government? Do you know what a man of vision can do in a year? I weep for Buhari supporters, you people are in for 3 more years of pure hell.

ogmaskman:
Abeg make una leave this minority thing. Fight your biafra battle alone. No minority tribe will follow u pple. Did you pple confer with the minority bfor you went to war in the late 60s? Did you see them as a pple u should talk to one a pple to be subdued. History is a biatch. You can preach all you want, the minorities are better protected in Nigeria. How will the minority strive in a situation were even the igbos have no unity of purpose.

The minorities can decide for themselves what is best for them in a referendum. One more thing, we never went to war, You people brought war to us.

ogmaskman:
That you do not want to be a Nigerian does not mean your brother also want to opt out. You need to hear all sides and come up with a balanced view. That's the point.

That is what a referendum is for.

ariesbull:
Any igbo man that you see a Muslim ...it's strictly a business venture and i am igbo and I say this authoritatively

You could be right. I only ever of two Igbo Muslims in my life, chief Abdulazeez Ude and Chief Hassan Onyeama. Both of them are now late but they were both wealthy business men.

Joe Igbokwe is a disgrace to all Igbos!

The Eze Okpoko of Oba. Probably one of the longest surviving king in Igboland. I remember years ago there was a giant picture of him at Oba junction. I wonder whatever happened to the proposed Oba airport?

omololu2020:
who and who be brothers If igbos want biafra,let their SHOA and representative in HOA pass a bill concerning referendum

They can't pass a bill on referendum even if they wanted to. If a bill on referendum was brought before the House, the North and the SW will just vote it out so that idea is dead in the water.

DLondonboiy:
in other words, it no longer about competence.... its now a brother and sister thing...because u are my brother I won't impeach u...abi?

That's the way it's always been. It has never been about competence, it's always been about political interests. How do you think a 72 year old illiterate cattle rearer became your president when there are far more competent people out there?

DLondonboiy:
OK many Nigerians made mistake...
can we not kick them out?

Not a chance. You need 2 thirds of the national assembly to kick him out and Buharis fellow northerners have more than that number. You think they are going to kick out their brother so that Osibanjo can get in? Everybody will have to endure for another 3 years and pray to God that the suffering will reduce.

omololu2020:
you must be the most fool!sh person on earth to think aworis are not yoruba.oba akinolu is an awori man,is he a yoruba or not? We have aworis not just in lagos state,but also in ogun state.90percent of the land in lagos state,belong to the western region.lekki,ikorodu,epe etc belong to ijebus

I actually heard a funny story that Oba Akiolu and the entire ruling family of Lagos are from Oyo. It is still a question mark about Yoruba claim of Lagos. If it is true that Yorubas are invaders or visitors to Lagos, I might also stake my claim to Lagos as an Igbo man since it has been reported that Igbos now make up an estimated 45% of Lagos and are the largest land owners. If the original ancestral people of Lagos are not identified then Lagos is 'open game' to anyone who can prove their stake there. Chances are that 50 years from now (wether Nigeria is still standing or not), Lagos might be renamed to 'New Enugu'

DLondonboiy:
The truth is we can't continue like this till 2019..We just can not.
Most Nigerians were deceived into voting a mad man. Buhari is literally mad ( I think senility would be more appropriate)
Heat wan kill person..No light, no fuel..

if we continue like this many people would be out of business in no time, many good Nigerians..because of their mistake...innocent mistake which can be corrected.

we need buhari out...let him at least handover to osibandee or osibanjo or who ever the vice president is...

Was this not the reason IBB and his boys struck when they did that year?
is the tourist even in the country?

Buhari and APC promised 'change'. Nobody bothered to ask them if they meant change for the better or change for the worse.........

No wonder they are all messing up. They all asked each other to run but had no agenda about what happens when they cross the finish line

T9ksy:
Meaning ibos can't stay on their own, ba? They still need "some of the minorities" (who just happens to be oil -rich) for their Land of the rising sun to be viable.

In essence, we are both saying the same thing.

Oh well, i wish those minorities whom you have been interacting with, for donkey years, all the best of luck for they surely going to be needing it in bucketful, as you turn their region to another "No man's land".

Biafra is a no-hoper without the (oil-rich) minorities!

The greater Igbo nation has the wherewithal to stand on its own. But this is not just about what Igbos want, it is also about what the minorities want. It is strategically important for me to know who my neigbour is. So those minorities must be given their say as I demand my own say. It is not for you as Yoruba man to come to an area you have no historical connection with and talk about who should go with who. Last I heard, the Aworis,Eguns and Badagry people still regard Yorubas as 'invaders' who stole Lagos from them. You should be talking about offering these people a referendum so they too can have their own say.

iyb:
so because there is no white man stronghold in kaduna that means there is no gold in kaduna last time i checked Nigeria has far more natural resources than south Africa yet they are more whites in south Africa than Nigeria.
the next time you want to post about something do us a favour and research about it don't let ignorance cloud your judgement

I don't know about Kaduna having more Gold than South Africa but I know that the North has huge amounts of solid minerals including Gold. Has anyone wondered why Mining companies are not falling over themselves to rush to North same way Oil companies rushed to the Niger-Delta to get Oil? The truth which El Rufai and other Northerners don't want to tell Nigerians is that nobody is interested in their solid minerals. In the Norths desperate bid to control the economic and political life of Nigeria, they had to employ violence on a grand scale. By doing this, Northern Nigeria earned the unenviable position of a 'no go area' for international investors. The solid minerals might be there but unless big mining companies go in there with their heavy machinery and technical expertise, nothing will come out of the ground. Which international investor is going to risk billions of Dollars in investment to go to a region which has been in news for sectarian violence since the 50's? The North destroyed their region with their penchant for unnecessary violence and greed for power. Anyone thinking that the solid minerals in the north will one day help anyone should forget it.