The ones you've voted what came out of it? We are in 21th century yet you don't have palatable water. Our infrastructure is as primitive as that of 19th century when compared with whites. There is no good hospitals for the populace but these ruthless and self-centered politicians will loot/exploit the whole money and travel abroad to treat themselves why we die of malaria that stopped existing in the western world in 19th century. There are no jobs any longer because all tangible industries in Biafra has gone rust.
Hey Come on...some guys (Biafrans) think they are wise but I must tell them that they are the cause that Biafrans are still killed, marginalised and backward till today despite our immense talent and education.
Because there are no jobs/industries these politicians use our youths as thugs/mercenaries to earn political relevance, sit or positions, while some (youths) die in the process. These After all these inhuman and despicable things politicians have done to us you still go voting. Are you not mad? They want their selves alive/healthy but they don't want you and me. But you are still credulous to believe that voting will liberate Biafrans. That is complete hallucinations/dementia!
We have tried Nigeria's voting/politics for past 50 years but still nothing to write home about. After studies some Biafrans go to north to look for job and won't be given despite being adept in the field. Some Biafrans has been slaughtered by hausafulanis in that north for no just reason. What type of hell is this so called country #Nigeria!?
Now, I suggest we try boycott which the selfless and brave leader mazi #Nnamdikanu Stand on/urge. Let us boycott Nigeria elections Biafrans as this brings us nearer to Biafra and also sends a conspicuous remark/message to the world that indeed we are resilient/determined to restored Biafra ..We are talking about permanent/everlasting advancement, civilisation and all sorts of goodies, which you can never get in this forceful, inhumane & deceitful amalgamation/concoction Nigeria... An hausafulani average Muslim will never stop killing a Biafran man because they see us as infidels. Hausafulanis 60% are beyond civilisation and they don't respect human rights/life (E.g the hausafulani security operatives shooting at innocent children and mothers during protests/rallies).
Biafra is our last hope.. Miss it now and stay slaves to the illiterate #hausafulanis for ever, while the facinorous Igbo politicians you voted will fly out with their families either to London, US to live large/enjoy our money.
Biafrans embrace #Nnamdikanu , embrace #Biafra. Nnamdi kanu is tested and trusted and he's never jeopardise the cause to restore Biafra. Let's support him and restore back our original/father's identity "Biafra".. A nation where life will be treated precious like (#mmadu). A nation where all politicians will treat themselves in the same hospital I treate myself and my children, that nation was before the concoction of Nigeria, that nation to be restored is Biafra. I love Nnamdi kanu, I love my father land Biafra. Father Ojukwu and other fallen heroes & heroines will be proud and rest In perfect peace when Biafra is finally restored. Our heroes & heroines fight must not be in vain. #Totalboycott #Biafrexit #sitathome #referendum.
Emmanuel Sixtus Okechukwu
Prof. Soludo Bares It All: Buhari’s Lack of Education and No Ideas Crippled Nigeria Today {Must Read}
May 22, 2017
A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Chukwuma Soludo, has stated that the poor economic ideas implemented by the present administration, is the reason Nigeria fell into recession.
He lamented that fixing the nation’s economy is not as difficult as the administration’s policy makers would want Nigerians to believe.
Soludo made the observation while presenting a paper at the 2017 International Conference of the Department of Business Administration, of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
The theme of the conference was “Managing a recessed economy; options for Nigeria.”
According to the renowned Economist, Nigeria began to witness economic downturn barely a year after President Muhammadu Buhari took over power, because the country’s policy makers were unable to rise to the challenge.
The recession, Soludo noted was avoidable had proactive steps been taken by the government in its early days.
“Poor ideas transcended over superior ideas, and we went into recession which was slightly avoidable. That is why academics must be alive to their responsibility of nudging us to reality; the reason I commend you for this international conference.
“Success and failure are all in the mind and only those who persist get to their destination.
“The recession Nigeria went into was largely avoidable and for things to change for the better, Nigeria cannot afford intellectual isolation because there is a need for exchange of ideas among intellectuals from various fields to put things right.
He continued, that “The Nigerian economy was growing because of the power of ideas of the people in charge. Instead of sustaining the growth, we drove the economy into this recession.
“For example, between 2010 and 2014, oil price was above $100 per barrel but we were unable to accumulate foreign reserve. When I took over as the CBN Governor, foreign reserve was about $10bn and we kept growing it on an annual basis as a deliberate policy such that it was over $45bn by the time I left.
“In 2010, I warned that if oil price went down to below $40 per barrel, most states would not be able to meet their obligations and that was exactly what happened. So, the problem was that we were not saving and we were even borrowing to implement recurrent expenditures.
“We were borrowing for consumption and for capital projects with the result that all the money we spent was borrowed at a time.
“When the oil price slumped, some people in government even felt that it was not going to last and continued their spending spree. Some also felt that the exchange rate could be fixed and some of us warned that doing so would result to high inflation.
“And when the problem manifested, a fire-fighting approach was adopted by the CBN which decided to give bailout to states. Because of these responses, the economy witnessed a shock and we thought we could reinvent economic theory and principle as a unique Nigerian approach.”
Soludo also subtly put in a word for resource control by the states, which he said should be allowed to take control of the mineral deposits in their states, and in turn pay taxes to the federal government.
The former CBN boss condemned a situation in which all tiers of government gather in Abuja to share allocations.
“We do not have to be running to Abuja for everything and that was why I was surprised when some people canvassed that local governments should be going to Abuja to take their allocations directly,” he noted.
He was however optimistic that the economic recovery plan recently launched by the Buhari administration would lead to recovery, especially as the elections are close at hand, and there would be pressure on government to perform.
By Amandikwa Chukwugoziem
(Abia Writer)
Edited by Livingrich Ezeikpe
There is an adage that the truth always shines like a moon and cannot be hidden.
A BBC news presenter by name Stephanie Hegarty reported how mazi Nnamdi Kanu founded the IPOB movement.
First, the indigenous people of Biafra is a nation fighting for the restoration of Biafra to her originality. Again IPOB is not a constituent of Igbo people alone rather she is a constituent of eleven (11) tribes: Efik, Ibibio, Idoma, Igbo, Igala, Igbanke, Ijaws, Itshekris, Kalabari, Okirika, etc that make up the nation of Biafra.
It is also noteworthy that IPOB is duly registered and certified in many countries of the world where she is found like USA, Russia, Spain, Germany to mention but a few. How can one call Biafra illegal movement?
The indigenous peoples of Biafra (IPOB) are not secessionist/separatist. Biafra has been in existence 5000 years before the creation of nigeria by one man, named Luguard in 1914, so you cannot say Biafra is seceding from Nigeria rather we want to restore Biafra, a nation that once existed. IPOB and Biafra restoration is not about protesting, neither is it about war but for the restoration of Biafra to its original nationhood.
BBC also reported that Nnamdi Kanu, called on "Biafrans to take up arms against the Nigerian state". Can BBC and Stephanie give evidence where any IPOB was caught in any of their rallies both in Biafraland and diaspora with any form of arm? It is on record that the Nigeria murderous security agents kill Biafrans constantly. The killing in Aba, Abia state, Nkpor in Anambra state, Igweocha (portharcourt) in Rivers state and other places of rallies are just examples. The various videos available online and on demand are evidence and the people are there to testify.
when Nnamdi kanu said and I quote (I will destroy Nigeria with THE TRUTH), the Nigerian government and their British slave masters thought he will bring bombs to fight Nigeria. A man of his words, Nnamdi Kanu destroyed Nigeria with the weapon that never fails, TRUTH.
In order to contain and keep Nnamdi Kanu quite, the nigerian government kidnapped him, leveled bogus and spurious charges against him. According to his lawyer Barr.Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the charges against Nnamdi Kanu are "frivolous" they were concocted to ensure his detention. These are smoke-screen charges that will not see the light of the day".
BBC as an international media organization must investigate and be objective in their reportage.
IPOB and Biafrans are set for only one goal THE TOTAL RESTORATION OF BIAFRA NATIONHOOD.
Published by Family Writers
Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), warned on Wednesday that the governorship election in Anambra may not hold if the Federal Government fails to recognise the Republic of Biafra.
He also said his members and other eligible voters in Anambra State would boycott the state gubernatorial election slated for November if the Federal Government fails to hold a referendum before the election.
Kanu, who spoke at his father’s palace in Afara Ukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State, added that people of South East and other under the old Eastern Region would not participate in the 2019 general election if the government ignores the demand for a referendum.
He also faulted his exclusion from the ongoing stakeholders meeting in Aso Rock, saying he would not relent in his agitation for Biafra.
The IPOB leader said: “Nigerian government should build as many prisons as possible to jail all Biafrans because there is no going back and we are ready to go there (prisons) unless the Federal Government gives us Biafra.
“We are starting with Anambra come November this year. There will be no governorship election in Anambra State. In 2019, the whole of Biafra land will not vote for any president. There will be no senator, there will be no House of Reps, there will be no House of Assembly and there will be no councillorship elections in Biafra land if they (Federal Government) fail to call for a referendum.”
He urged his members to remain steadfast and calm as Biafra remains their only hope.
“We are not like any other people. People like us don’t come twice. That’s why I know that with the last breath in this very body that Biafra will be restored. There’s nothing anybody can do about it. Tell them that’s what I said. Nobody on this earth can stop Biafra,” he added.
Femi Fani Kayode wrote
TO THOSE WHO THREATEN TO JAIL BIAFRANS
A man called Nnamdi Kanu and his movement called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) single-handedly brings the whole of the south-east of our country to a standstill with his one day "stay at home order" and someone in the Presidency says they don't consider him to be a leader of thought? Clearly the Villa curse has set in.
Delusion is a terrible affliction and treating those that have won the hearts and minds of millions of Igbo youth in our country with contempt and disdain will prove to be a costly mistake for the Buhari administration.
This is all the more so because those that are expressing their desire and agitating for Biafra have broken no law. They have not killed or threatened to kill anyone, they are not waging war on the Nigerian state, they are not involved in any form of rebellion and they are not undertaking an armed struggle.
They are simply exercising their inalienable and undeniable constitutional right of free speech, freedom of association and self-determination and they are doing so in a peaceful and passive manner.
These rights are not only sacred but they are also guaranteed and protected by international law and custom. Consequently the threat, by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, to send those that exercise those rights to jail is not only an exercise in futility but also provocative and unacceptable.
The truth is that their grievances and aspirations are legitimate and lawful and so are the grievances and aspirations of all other self-determination groups in the country such as those in the south-west that believe in the establishment of the Republic of Oduduwa.
I strongly advise the Acting President to manage this matter very carefully and to stop trying to please or cow-tow to the cabal that have encircled him.
Osinbajo ought to know that even if he jails and kills every Biafran in the country others will rise up and carry on the fight. He cannot succesfully intimidate or threaten a growing movement and philosophy with words and threats. Matters have gone far beyond that now.
He cannot keep Nigeria together with violence or threats of violence. He can only keep her together by the constant expression of love and the regular repetition of regrets for past actions and injustices.
The operators of the Nigerian state cannot strip a man bare, take everything away from him, including his dignity, brutalise him morning, day and night and still expect him to keep quiet.
Whether anyone likes to admit it or not the truth is that Biafra is a reality. It is a spirit that has captured the hearts and minds of millions of young Igbo people: it burns in their souls and has ignited their passions.
It is an idea and concept that has also kindled the imagination and dreams of millions of southerners and Middle Belters who have come to appreciate the fact that there is a credible alternative to the nebulous and unjust status quo and the shattered dreams, cruelty and bondage that the Nigerian state continuosly throws up and offers.
Those in power today must live with this new reality and pray hard that these young men and women have a change of heart. Other than that they cannot stop Biafra and, when the time comes, neither will they be in a position to stop Oduduwa.
Finally this point has to be made. It is a mistake to equate the lawful and legitimate aspiration and agitation for Biafra with the unlawful and illegitimate quit notice and threat given to the Igbo people to leave the north by the Arewa youths.
The former is the peaceful exercise of ones God-given and constitutionally-guaranteed freewill to determine ones own fate, future and destiny whilst the latter is the unlawful and violent imposition of the will of one people against another through the use of violence and threats.
The former is a righteous, wholesome and noble quest whilst the latter is nothing but wickedness, tyranny and witchcraft.
Simply put the brazen threat and quit notice given to the Igbos in the north by the Arewa Youths is manifestly unlawful, immoral, dangerous and irresponsible whilst the expression for the establishment and creation of the sovereign State of Biafra is not only lawful but also legitimate and desirable for those who believe in it.
The two cannot be comapared and neither can it be logically argued or inferred that one led to the other.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with an aside.
I have the greatest respect for Pastor Tunde Bakare and he knows how much I love him. However he is in grave error when he compares Buhari to King David as has been reported.
David was an annointed servant of the Living God and a member of the Kingdom of light.
Buhari is an annointed servant of the devil and, like Pharaoh and Herod, he is a member of the Kingdom of Darkness.
Bakare is also wrong when he says that Buhari is "on the path to recovery" and that he will return to lead the nation. This is false.
Buhari has been rejected by the Lord and he is suffering the judgement of God for his injustice and wickedness to others.
He is not on the road to recovery, I fear that he is in a vegetative state if not already dead and he will not be coming back to lead the nation. Sadly that is the position and the sooner we learn to accept that fact the better it is for us all.
As fawning and weak as Osinbajo is, as a Southerner and a believer, he needs our support and encouragement and not subtle condemnations and discouraging words from his fellow Pastors.
I’ll Not Stop Until I Destroy Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu Roars
Leader of secessionist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has once again reiterated that no governorship election will be held in Anambra state come November 18th, 2017.
Kanu also threatened not to stop his activities until he finally destroys Nigeria.
The Radio Biafra Director who spoke all through in Igbo language made this statement Thursday while addressing the Igbo youths who gathered at his residence in Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, the capital of Abia state.
In his words: “We’ll never stop until Biafra is actualized. I will never stop until Nigeria is completely destroyed”.
“We are sent to restore Biafra and there is nothing anybody can do about it”.
How to permanently end Biafran agitation
A Yoruba friend asked me: Under what conditions would you support "One Nigeria" and let go of the Biafra agitation and let it die down and finally laid to rest for good?
Here was my response:
1. Close down Lagos ports and open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri ports.
2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports only local connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Calabar, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights direct and major connecting flights.
3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos, Kano and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.
4. All federal governments’ agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC, e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
6.All oil companies must relocate their head offices to PH, as the oil capital of Nigeria.
7. Let the northern children gain admission into federal schools with 300 score points while the South Eastern Children should gain admission with only 20 score points .
8. Let all federal road projects in the North/SW should be handled by one local companies and the one in the SE/SS should be handled by Julius Berger and foreign construction companies.
If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented for 50years , we can try one Nigeria and let see if you the North and SW will like it for a month. Meaning that Yorubas and Hausas needing to get international visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, etc etc.
The Yoruba friend replied: You can’t be serious, this is wickedness and I said... Really? Don’t you think South South and South. Eastern part of Nigeria have been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 yrs?
He was quiet for a few seconds and said: Wow, you are right but it never occurred to me.
I said, that’s the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting from it, love it and would love to maintain the status quo. Let each region develop at her own pace, with Airport, Seaports, industries, major projects open to be developed in any part of Nigeria without government interference or strangulation due to tribalism and nepotism!
Let Nigeria be fair to ALL irrespective of tribe, religion, and place of birth. Let there be true federalism and resources control, with the elimination of quota system and federal character in Nigeria. Let's have equal respect for one another irrespective of where the person is coming from in Nigeria. That is what Biafra agitation is all about.
IPOB Press Release on Quit Notice !!!we sincerely thank the Arewa Elders Forum, Arewa Youths and Arewa Consultative Forum for seeing sense in what IPOB has been saying
“Biafrans in general also wish to thank these vocal Northerners for at least having the courtesy to issue advance warning this time before embarking on their routine massacre of Igbos and other Biafrans living in Northern Nigeria; unlike what their fathers did in 1966 when death, destruction and mayhem were unleashed upon unsuspecting innocent civilian populations from the South comprising of mostly Igbo men, women and children.
Igbo massacres in Northern Nigeria has occurred so many times that it has almost become some sort of an annual sporting activity for blood thirsty Northern youths. That is why we are particularly grateful to Arewa Youths and Elders for having the decency to give us prior notice before the slaughter commences.
“We promise to adhere to your warning to leave Northern Nigeria because a word is enough for the wise. Biafrans and other Southerner should start packing their properties to come down to the South. We also advice the Northern youths and their Elders to keep it on because all they have done is exercise their right to free speech which is not a crime under any law known to man. We are therefore against those calling for the arrest of these Arewa Youths and their Elders.
“It is abundantly evident from the genocidal statements coming from certain influential segments of Northern Nigeria that the British socio-political experimentation and economic fraud we know today as Nigeria, should not have been created in the first place. IPOB is very much aware of the covert blackmail and implied threat inherent in the utterances emanating from Islamic Northern Nigeria.
“Furthermore, the assumption that economic investments of Biafrans in the Northern part of the contraption called Nigeria is an impediment to Biafra restoration project is misguided and most definitely misplaced. This is cheap blackmail designed to trigger rancour among Biafra populations because the North have always assumed and wrongly too, that Igbos will place economic well being over and above their life. This assumption is based on a false premise and one we are determined to prove same as events unfold in the coming weeks and months.
“IPOB under the divine leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the instrument Chukwu Okike Abiama (God Almighty) is using to restore Biafra, therefore we are not afraid of our enemies, neither will any threat or violence from any quarter deter us. We remain peaceful in our noble quest to restore Biafra but we must caution that we always retain the right as a people to defend ourselves should the need arise.
By COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
NNAMDI KANU AND IPOB WILL CRUSH OBASANJO IF
HE STANDS ON OUR WAY. By CHINASA NWORU
MEMBER IPOB DIRECTORATE OF STATE
By Chinasa Nworu
Nigeria and Obasanjo should not push IPOB to pick up arms if they do what happened in 1967-70 would be a child's play because we shall fight for revenge.
In fact, I can tell you that my father fought the war and I strongly believe am more smarter than my father because of the environment I found myself , I have traveled far and wide , I have heard the stories of the biafra war and I have seen the effects in my life and my environs . I now understood what our fathers fought for .
When you fought for nationhood revenge is always sweet and that we shall give to the killers of our people . Telling me that I was not born before the war is nothing but trying to scare me off not to fight for my survival. Nigeria should know that NNAMDI Kanu is a good man for this struggle , some people that follows him are hungry to revenge for the harassment and intimidation , killing and injustices melted out to our leader And our people . You can call us names but give us Biafra, I wonder how people like Obasanjo will be talking arrant nonsense that Nigeria should stop NNAMDI Kanu now or what happened in 1967 will repeat itself . Obasanjo what will happen? Is it war? Is it hunger ? or what ?
We have seen all and as long as the restoration of Biafra is concern we are ready for anything and you should be ready also . You killed our people during the war , you killed our people in Odi and zaki Ibam you handed our land over to Dangote ,all our land has been destroyed by your policies and you still come up in this 2017 to tell us what to do and calling Nigeria to raise against us . We welcome this development and we shall teach you that this generation of Biafrans are called to restore Biafra . Obasanjo you are part of the cabal that appointed all the governors in Biafra , ask yourself are they performing well, you imposed Orji Kalu in Abia state years back , till today Abians are still suffering for that appointment. You brought Jonathan Goodluck can you show us his report card after 6years as a president.
Just count all your boys you imposed in Biafra what have they done to better the lives of the people . I can count your numerous sins and atrocities . We call all Biafrans to raise up against Obasanjo at this moment we are struggling to restore our nation . Bear in mind you will die if you stand on the way of Biafrans . Ask Buhari how far ? Ask Okorocha , Obiano and others the score card so far . We shall crush you if you stand on our way. It is Biafra or Death
Obasanjo Allegedly Calls For Nnamdi Kanu’s Assassination…IPOB Explodes
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has alleged that former president Olusegun Obasanjo wants its leader Nnamdi Kanu assassinated.
The group quoting an online news website said the former president during a speech at the launch of the biography of Brigadier Maimalari called for Kanu’s assassination.
In a statement signed by its Head of Directorate of State, Chika Edoziem, which was sent to ORIENTAL TIMES, IPOB called on the international community to take note of the development adding that the former president should be held account if anything happens to Kanu.
The statement read: “It has come to the attention of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that a news report which appeared on the daily post news online on 4th of July 2017 written by one Chijioke Jannah calls for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be assassinated.
“According to the report the former president Olusegun Obasanjo while speaking on Tuesday at the International Community Centre, Abuja during the launch of the biography of late Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari called for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu to be stopped by all means.
“The International Community is put on notice that former president Olusegun Obasanjo is calling for the assassination of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu. This call epitomizes the sorry state of the intellectual aptitude of those that like to be addresses as leaders in Nigeria. Because they lack superior reasoning to counter or persuade the Biafran people to give up their fundamental and inalienable right to Self-Determination, they resort to violence.
“The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby unambiguously and categorically state that should anything untoward happen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the former president Olusegun Obasanjo who has called for his assassination together with the Nigerian government should be held accountable.
The whole world is waiting for Biafra.
South East is not landlocked. Please, let it be known from today that South East is not landlocked. It is only our economy that is locked. One quick way of unlocking the economy of South East is through marine business. Contrary to the impression that the South East is landlocked, the truth is that it has one of the potentially deepest seaports in the country at Osemoto/Oseokwa in Imo and Anambra States.
A seaport was designated there in 1959, but the project was abandoned and the admiralty member erased for obvious political reasons. African Development Bank (ADB) feasibility report on this is unambiguous. Oseokwa (Ihiala LGA, Anambra State) and Osemoto (Oguta LGA, Imo State) are the deepest natural harbor in the country (over 20m deep) and offer real naval and marine transportation platforms if developed. Besides, it lies only 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean and a strategic hub for the oil industry and inland dry-docks to promote trade.
This potential seaport has the capacity of handling over 35 per cent of marine business in Nigeria. If Ndigbo pursue and complete the seaport, it will also open up over 3,000 square kilometers of the most fertile agricultural land that has one of the highest alluvial deposits which has been in existence for well over a million years. This deep seaport will create over two million jobs, directly and indirectly, in marine business, oil and gas, power, education, housing, agro-food industry, entertainment, tourism, etc. With that type of setting, Igbo youths will have no need to crisscross the country in search of jobs and in the process endangering their young lives.
Excerpts of his lecture delivered at the First International Chinua Achebe Conference held at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday 23 May, 2017. From Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu