sjeezy8:

What is biafra if the ijaws efiks ogoni and co . . . dont want to join biafra? Its landlocked right! ok then simply said.

No big deal, just face the facts and stop living in la la land.

Justcash:

I know that some ND areas speak and claim to be Igbos. Like the Opobo areas. They are close to the Ocean. 
If they don't want to Join Biafra, We will negotiate our way through their ports to the international waters. No be Cash kill am? If I find it difficult to export my products, I will enter into the Niger-delta and invest heavily in any of the ports in Opobo, Calabar, Oron etc. They will sell it or concession them once they see too much of free money.

My point remains that being landlocked or not depends on the refusal of ND Igbos to Join Biafra. From all indications, most of them will join. They are all playing active parts in Ohaneze ndigbo, infact the current president is from Delta state.
Even if they don't want to  join, it will only be a mild constraint, not a major obstacle. There will always be a way.

That the Ijaw Nations strongly recommends that eight ( 8 geo-political zones be created in the country as follows: (a) North-East, (b) North-West, (c) North-Central, (d) East, (e) West, (f) South-West comprising Delta, Anioma and Edo States, (g) South-East comprising New Rivers , Akwa Ibom (including Ibeno and Eastern Obolo Local Government Areas and Cross River States, (h) South-South comprising Bayelsa, oil Rivers, Torube and Itsekiri States subject to the proviso that the proposed States within the proposed zones can opt out of any particular zone in preference for another.


http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/iarticles/ijaws%20spout%20fire.htm

otukpo:

I laugh.
Lets wait until Nigeria divides to know which nation is landlocked?
U pple are just looking for a way to feel more advantaged than the igbos, unfortunately for u, none.
Oil, Igbos dey.
Limestone, Salt, Igbos dey.
Coal, igbos dey.
Water resources, Igbos dey.
Agriculture, Igbos dey.

And why on earth will igbos want to be with ND or what will igbos do with ND, nothing.
So NDeltans shld stop feeling that igbos need them for anything.

It is only a foolish igboman that wld want to be with ND

sjeezy8:

igboland in delta state doesnt stretch to the sea ijaws urhobos and itsekiris are there.
Im sure you can work something about though. . . . probably not

~Bluetooth:

Justcash
are you making a personal comment or a gener observation?

Beaf:

We must all form alliances in our own interest across the board, Igbos's, Yoruba's. Ijaw's, Isoko's, Urhobo's, Ibibio's, Edo's etc. . . Every group in the South.

For Igbo land, River Niger leads to the sea, things can be worked out; also, there is no reason why sea access wouldn't be worked out with an Igbo nation if it turns out to be land locked.
There's still some bad blood between Ijaw and Igbo, but it is rapidly melting away. The other ethnic groups in the SS have no issues at all with Igboland, so no biggies.

Beaf:

We must all form alliances in our own interest across the board, Igbos's, Yoruba's. Ijaw's, Isoko's, Urhobo's, Ibibio's, Edo's etc. . . Every group in the South.

For Igbo land, River Niger leads to the sea, things can be worked out; also, there is no reason why sea access wouldn't be worked out with an Igbo nation if it turns out to be land locked.
There's still some bad blood between Ijaw and Igbo, but it is rapidly melting away. The other ethnic groups in the SS have no issues at all with Igboland, so no biggies.

sjeezy8:

haha funny comments I know the igbos dont want to be landlocked but also its about the Oil.

If the igbos had good intention about biafra then they would leave the Crossriver,Akwaibom, maybe and rivers state.
The ijaws are complaining that the igbos have migrated to rivers state and imposed themselves on the ogoni and ijaws.

Wily*Wily:

You are a complete Yoruba Cockroach, You don't need to tell us where to belong, we will Choose where we want.
Biafra is by Choice and not by force, many of our people prefer today to be Biafra than have anything to do with Yoruba liars again in life. Your people 'Yorubas' are completely deceiver and Liars, we have learned our lesson.
You devils deceived some of our people, of all the help they gave to Your Devilish people only to reward them with death.
As your people and their dirty stinking ally Hausa/Fulani North paid our people good with bad, so shall Satan pay you people with his Wrath million times, Yeye people.

Onlytruth:

I never even knew that the MEND is killing some south south Igbos. I hope this is not true because it would really mean the end for them. Ndigbo don't even need to fight them. All we need do is stand back and give green light to the federal government. There is too much urgency in Abuja to deal ruthlessly with MEND once and for all. This topic is really educational.

What about the native Igbo groups of the Niger Delta? Ekpeye, lkwerre, Ogba, Egbema, Ndoni, Etche, and other other groups? Well they fought and died on both sides of the Nigerian civil war too. People like Elechi Amadi (clearly Igbo) fought against Biafra. He was viewed as a traitor by the Igbo people and he helped start the "independent Ikwerre ethnic nationalist movement" to exclude themselves from the Igbo people. Many other Igbo people in the "South-South" excluded themselves from the Igbo to avoid discrimination. However, these efforts have been a blatant failure. These "Igboid" groups in the region, are still being discriminated against. That is why Anioma people or Midwestern Igbos want to create an Anioma state. The leadership crisis between the Ijaw and Igbo groups in Rivers state and the "South-South" has been very bad. After the war, Southern Igbo communities were divided and carved in the new Rivers state and disclaimed their Igbo heritage. Rivers Igbo communities like Obigbo becoming Oyigbo, Umuola becoming Rumuola, Umueme becoming Rumueme, and etc. While the trend continued, Ijaws held control over Port Harcourt (Igwe Ocha). However, when Bayelsa state was created in 1996, the Igbo groups have been dominating Rivers state. This has led to political and cult battles between Igbos and Ijaws in the state. Even in Bayelsa state the dominant Ijaws are discriminating against Igbo groups. Edwin Clark, Tam David West, MEND, Atiku Tom, and other Ijaw nationalists and extremists were against Odili (former Rivers state governor) in his campaign for 2007 presidency because of his Igbo background. Recently, there has been a report that 973 (and likely more) Ikwerres have died between 2003-2008 because of attacks by militant groups such as MEND and Atiku Tom. Aren;t these militant groups supposed to be fighting for justice? Why are they killing native Igbos in the Niger Delta? It seems that the Ijaw rebels are fighting for their own selfish interests against Nigeria and the West.