Rugaria:

You will pipe low a bit when you realize that this whole struggle is still at its infancy. This is not 1966 anymore..
Do your turn by turn lootocracy next year and the rest of the igbjs standing in the middle will make that jump.
Your likes will then join the army to fight for once in your lives with your hands rather than with your machine gun mouth waaaaawaawaawaa

don't back down .well done love

Rugaria:
Britain has never hidden her disdain for the former Eastern Nigeria since the colonial era and the reasons are very obvious; the former Eastern Nigeria and her surrounding neighbors like The Benins, gave the invading British army some of her most brutal and bloody military confrontations during the early stages of colonialism. It was hell for the colonial empire. While corrupt local leaderships elsewhere quickly signed agreements to allign with the British to subdue their people, lots of Igbo clans fought tooth and nail to resist colonialism and restore African traditional governments. This cost the British a lot of time, energy, resources and lives and ultimately led to the categorisation of these groups as being obstinate and anti British and as such, groups to be dealt with.

The poor Igbo relationship with the British was not helped by events at the start of the struggle for independent rule. The fact that the leading lights that instigated all sorts of anti colonial movements in Nigeria through different relatively sophisticated tools, like the media and broader diplomatic contacts were mainly igbos and the "returnee slaves" was not lost on the colonialists. This only increased the disdain with which the British viewed the men from the East. On the contrary, most indigenous fiefdoms in colonial Nigeria, already comfortable with their pro-colonial agreements with the British that put them on top of their downtrodden populations, lacked the zeal and impetus to take the British head on. As a result, at the initial stages of the struggle for independence, the charge was led in the main by such returnee slaves like Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Sir Herbert Macaulay and ofcourse such igbos as the ebullient Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and his cousins. These characters will later motivate others to join. Infact, Chief Obafemi Awolowo once claimed that he got motivated to start his own party for independence, after covering Nnamdi Azikiwes political campaigns from a tree branch!

All these agitations caused the British a lot. Nigeria was their prized asset. Nigeria was big, produced a lot of needed raw minerals for British industries, commanded a strategic position in regional scheme of things in Africa and was basically a fertile ground for British colonial exploits. The discovery of an unbelievable amount of hydro carbon in the Eastern parts of Nigeria towards the end of colonial rule, only put the icing on the cake. All of a sudden, a country in Africa, had more oil than many middle eastern countries. The British wanted that oil and planned to stay longer to exploit it. But all these came to a shattering halt with Nigerias independence, led in the main by the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Mathew Mbus of these world and ofcourse the Micheal Okparas. Britain was chased out, some of her colonial assets were seized and a very robust indigenous movement to exorcise Nigerians of their British trappings was unleashed. The Igbo elites, full of firebrand Africanists were leading this movement. British ego was massively bruised and they waited for their time to strike back at these obstinate igbos that have led this charge..The Nigeria - Biafra war provided The British with the one in a lifetime opportunity they badly craved for to "teach the igbos a lesson"...

Many igbos don't know this, but the total blockades of the Bight of Biafra that caused Biafra more than ten thousand lives a day, was done by the British navy! The Nigerians were basically bystanders in that war, forget their big mouths.. The Nigerian navy as at this time was almost non existent with just few friggets. The British did not just provide for the blockade, it is on record that the British dumped more ammunition in Nigeria for free during the war than the amount they used during the second world war. The amount of ammunition was so massive that at a point, some British MPs and even top celebrities, started to openly voice their anger with the genocide going on.. This led to such characters as John Lennon retuning his MBE award to the queen! Bruce Mayrock set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building because of these. The man who founded The Apple organization, Steve Jobs, changed his total worldview after witnessing the British evil support for genocide in Biafra! That didn't stop the British, they only added more military assistants in men and armor until almost five million Biafrans were slaughtered. Today, The British banks, companies and businesses, own most of Nigerias Oil and gas deposits today, either directly or by proxies, all these as paybacks for their unflinching support in this first "black on black genocide".. How do the people from these oil communities disentangle themselves from the parasitic imperialistic claws of this wayward neo colonialist? Time to bring in the Russians!?

With the new massive discoveries of gas in Igboland, the east is now a subject for both the Western countries and for Russia and China. It has been stated by the governor of Imo State that the new discoveries of gas in Imo State might be the biggest not just in Africa but in the world. This is a massive bargaining chip! We don't have to fight the British, all we have to do is to find ways to cultivate a good reasonable relationship with the British on sundry issues related to hydro carbons. If it means promising them a bigger cut compared to what has been already promised to them by the Fulani, let's do it. Folks should stop fighting the British as Nnamdi Kanu once did. It makes no sense. The British is still strategically positioned to ruin any struggle in the East as they have now shown with their muted attempt to limit Igbos reach. What folks aspiring for a better deal for igbos and her minority neighbors should do is to open channels for communications with their British contacts and reach deals just like the fulanis did, that made the British support them this far in Nigeria. But if in the unlikely event, the British insists that it's "head over hills" with the fulanis, we in the Eastern part of Nigeria that seek for freedom to live in peace should deal with the Russians and find ways to neuter British growing negative influence in Nigerias politics going forward..

my on thinking too. It makes more sense and it will be the game changer

Idiots that put fetters and chains and death on the very people they claim to be liberating, aggravating the wounds of a long suffering people.

Who has seen such evil before? Tufia!

You never begin cry. All the innocent blood and the Igbo tears will come for you all. Ndi ara

Brilliant post, OP!

The Russian Ukraine conflict puts UK on a long rope. Which ever way they take is difficult for them. They need gas like mad. If they decide to back Biafra totally, Nigeria could stop playing neutral and join the BRICS to further isolate them(UK). Moreover, one of the contentions in Ukraine is separatism. Nigeria can make argument against such 'double standard'. And they could end up loosing Nigeria, their milk cow to Russia.

Again, will the UK decides to make u-turn against IPOB and declare it a terrorist organization in order to make way for seamless gas supply, the fears of walking alone in that path will deter them. US doesn't have energy problem and will likely not be dragged along that path. Israel's fear against west is manifesting increasingly and this could be seen from their neutrality on Ukraine crisis. US is cozying up to Israel's arch enemy Iran for oil while making nuclear agreement with them. This will not only empower Iran but other anti Israel proxies like Hezbollah, Hama's etc and Increase the morale of anti Israel Islamic extremist element in Northern Nigeria. Therefore Israel position in Biafra will not change. It will rather become tougher and UK knows this. That is why they are being very careful. You will notice UK started acting like they support Biafra after Israel sheltered Kanu. They also played neutral at the beginning of the civil war until the Russians started supporting Nigeria. Their policy on Biafra vs Nigeria has been more of who has more support among the leading nations. Also if UK goes totally against Biafra in this current situation, Russians who are already in Mali will feel threatened as the dominant gas suppliers and play some spoilers. Remember, any additional backing to Biafra could make a lot of difference bearing Nigeria's numerous challenges in mind. So their low key support for Biafra is best for them.

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midolian:
Making hell of a noise like the disk jockey scratch sound effect. Long talks with no sense.

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naijapips04:
Another Bingo.

Britain just outlawed IPOB. Other countries would follow suit immediately.

Bingos about to be deported in droves.

No country whatsoever is supporting your struggle. The little leverage you had, you have destroyed with KANU oshi's gang of louts.

A ga akpapere unu film.

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naijapips04:


You must be very bad at reading with understanding or you are just plainly daft as IPOB are known to be. Go back and read those declaration again.

You are loosing international support and to you it's just a mere obstacle? You Igbo smoking IPOB louts are really senseless.

No international pally. You have being designated internationally as a terrorist group.

You idiotas have taken the struggle way way back.

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naijapips04:


Britain is local abi? And you think most Europeans will not adopt Britain stand on terrorism? What do you Bingos smoke?

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Armaggedon:
The Russian Ukraine conflict puts UK on a long rope. Which ever way they take is difficult for them. They need gas like mad. If they decide to back Biafra totally, Nigeria could stop playing neutral and join the BRICS to further isolate them(UK). Moreover, one of the contentions in Ukraine is separatism. Nigeria can make argument against such 'double standard'. And they could end up loosing Nigeria, their milk cow to Russia.

Again, will the UK decides to make u-turn against IPOB and declare it a terrorist organization in order to make way for seamless gas supply, the fears of walking alone in that path will deter them. US doesn't have energy problem and will likely not be dragged along that path. Israel's fear against west is manifesting increasingly and this could be seen from their neutrality on Ukraine crisis. US is cozying up to Israel's arch enemy Iran for oil while making nuclear agreement with them. This will not only empower Iran but other anti Israel proxies like Hezbollah, Hama's etc and Increase the morale of anti Israel Islamic extremist element in Northern Nigeria. Therefore Israel position in Biafra will not change. It will rather become tougher and UK knows this. That is why they are being very careful. You will notice UK started acting like they support Biafra after Israel sheltered Kanu. They also played neutral at the beginning of the civil war until the Russians started supporting Nigeria. Their policy on Biafra vs Nigeria has been more of who has more support among the leading nations. Also if UK goes totally against Biafra in this current situation, Russians who are already in Mali will feel threatened as the dominant gas suppliers and play some spoilers. Remember, any additional backing to Biafra could make a lot of difference bearing Nigeria's numerous challenges in mind. So their low key support for Biafra is best for them.

South Sudan is still pumping her Oil and gas through the other parts of former Sudan. Russia is still pumping her oil and gas to Germany through Ukraine. You can break away from the former country or even in a conflict with a given country and still transact with your economic and business partners effectively, even if the means of transporting these products, run through the adversarial territories of your political enemies. All you need is a concrete agreement on the negotiable percentage payable for such.

Essentially, if the Biafran gas becomes a badly needed resource for the West and The Nigerian government continues to be very adamant with her virulent hate towards the east, Eastern leaders should calibrate a diplomatic response that is similar to what The South Sudanese had with the West. That is even if the route through the North becomes indispensable, which is not the case. But, first thing first, the so called Ohaneze and sundry igbo money loving emergency Leaders, should start communicating with foreign powers and doing something in this regard...


At the moment, they are all stuck in Abuja angling for crumbs from Buhari..