ppogba:


Is Niger Delta part of Biafra?
Is there any cultural affrmity Igbos have with Itshekiri, Urhobos, Ibibio, Anang , Ijaws at least to mention but a few ?


The need for the teaching of history in schools indeed can not be over stated.

3ice9ce:


The fact that a slave was born in the palace doesn't make the slave a prince.

Go and stay in the East for 3 months and you will see how useless yourself kinsmen are.

You are already comparing the East to the North. Shows how stupid you are. Comparing your region to a war torn area. Smh.

Omoawoke:


I am a bigot to those who took it as a mission to start attacking Yorubas…
But a friendly to those with open minds….

dre11:
*Anambra State being the hardest hit, as families shelled out N350.2 million in ransom payments.

*Imo State paid N39 million as ransom, Abia State paid N25 million, while Enugu State and Ebonyi State paid significantly lower amounts, with N4 million and N1 million.

The South East region of the country witnessed a surge in violence perpetrated by separatist groups enforcing sit-at-home orders, which essentially attacked Nigeria’s sovereignty with effrontery and arrant disregard for constituted authority.

The alarming situation escalated on November 18, 2024, when unknown gunmen launched simultaneous attacks on Abatete and Ukpo communities in Anambra state, leaving a trail of destruction and death, including three vigilante members and an innocent citizen. These senseless attacks were recurring nightmares which instilled fear and uncertainty among the populace.

In the year under review, another devastating attack in Aba, Abia state resulted in the loss of 11 lives, including five military personnel and six civilians, with the Army blaming the outlawed separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, for the incident.

Many civilians among whom were youths were alleged to have been killed, harassed and assaulted by security personnel in a bid to end the reign of the separatist group in the region.

In fact, a report by SMB Morgen, an Africa-focused market/security intelligence gathering firm, revealed that a staggering N419.2 million ransom was paid between July 2023 and June 2024 in the South-East .

This alarming figure accounted for 40% of the total N1.048 billion paid across the six geo-political zones during the same period, with Anambra State being the hardest hit, as families shelled out N350.2 million in ransom payments, a whopping 88% of the N400 million demanded by kidnappers.

A breakdown of the ransom payments across the South-East states as revealed by the report, showed that Imo State paid N39 million as ransom, Abia State paid N25 million, while Enugu State and Ebonyi State paid significantly lower amounts, with N4 million and N1 million, respectively, as ransom in one year.
But in the regional breakdown of the N2.2 trillion ransom payments made in the same period.

According to another data from the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its 2024 Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey, the South-East paid N85.4 billion, an amount lower when compared to N1.2 trillion paid in the North West, which accounted for the highest share.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/01/mass-abductions-south-east-tops-ransom-payments-accounts-for-40-nationwide/

Obi1kenobi:


Yes. Just a decade ago, the SE was the safest region in Nigeria. And then some mass psychosis spread through the SE because Buhari won the 2015 election, and we empowered thugs and riffraff, led by a mentally ill charlatan, to terrorize their own people in the name of secession agitation. The chaos and anarchy they brought to the region has created fertile ground for criminality and banditry. Your conspiracy theories cannot negate the fact that residents do not feel safe in Anambra and there's a palpable climate of fear.
Also this impulse for many of you to water down the situation in the SE by pointing to insecurity in the North just shows how small-minded you are. It reminds me a funny cousin I had as a child who finished close to the bottom of his class in school and was telling his parents about the 2 or so students that did worse than him in school. That's exactly how juvenile and shallow you sound. I care about me and my family feeling safe to travel to our hometown when we want. I don't give a flying fucck about what's happening in the North and I don't know how any right thinking Igbo man would be spewing such apologetics.

IGBOPROMISE1:


There's a massive underground anti-Igbo effort aimed at demarketing the south-east! It began during the wasted Buhari years and hasn't stopped even in this emilokan era! A lot of all these reports are either doctored or outright lies....but that doesn't bother the authors and their supporters!

Think about it...the south-east that was adjudged the safest region BEFORE Buhari arrived the scene in 2015 is now, according to these vile and bigoted scum, the 'unsafest region' in Nigeria! Discerning and questioning minds will know what's going on here!

dre11:
*Anambra State being the hardest hit, as families shelled out N350.2 million in ransom payments.

*Imo State paid N39 million as ransom, Abia State paid N25 million, while Enugu State and Ebonyi State paid significantly lower amounts, with N4 million and N1 million.




https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/01/mass-abductions-south-east-tops-ransom-payments-accounts-for-40-nationwide/

Omoawoke:


Being born and bred in Lagos will never make you an indigene of Lagos.

wickedclown:


Stop lying yourself!
The UK recognizes Ipob as a terrorist organization.....

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nigeria-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-separatist-groups-in-the-south-east-nigeria-march-2022-accessible

Perezino:

Typical ibo man, always blaming others but never ready to admit wrongdoing.
It's a fact known to all that the SE is very very unsafe, hence the convoy of big men with armoured vehicles and security agents even going to their villages.

Keep fooling your audience pls.

IGBOPROMISE1:


Dude, STFU!

You inadvertently expose your impostor status and mission on this forum with the kind of conjectural bullshit and outright lies you vomit! According to this thing i’m quoting, ’Ndigbo began senselessly killing themselves enmasse and began kidnapping themselves for ransom….sometimes even murdering their captives, all because Buhari won the 2015 elections and they wanted to teach him a lesson’! I mean…do you actually go over the bullshit you conjure up in your sick mind before hitting the submit button!? So you’re tired of using the other line….that Ndigbo, or IPOB specifically, got a epiphany after Buharis’ unfortunate emergence in 2015, and agreed to start murdering and kidnapping their own blud because they want Biafra’! Only a vile non-Igbo cretin will come up with this tall yarn all in a desperate attempt to try and demonise IPOB and heap blame for all the high-profile red/flag attacks in the region on the Ndigbo! All diversionary bullshit that not even dyed-in-the-wool ‘one Nigerianist’ Igbo haters like your sad self will believe!

Dude, lay blame for insecurity in the south-east in particular and Nigeria in general where it rightly belongs….at the doorstep of the Buhari/Tinubu hegemonic alliance and their coven of winches that is APC! Tell me why prior to the emergence of Buhari in 2015, there was never any talk of IPOB, or MASSOB before them, being linked to any incidents of insecurity in the south-east region!? If you were discerning enough and not so daft or intent on mischief you’d realise the story just doesn’t add up! Even with the Ezu river killings provocation, IPOB under Mazi Kanu still never resorted to picking up arms! They were forced to pick up arms to defend themselves and their kinsfolk AFTER the Nimbo and Uzo-Uwani mass killings and AFTER Buhari send his Fulani army goons for python dance in the region! That’s the bigoted jihadists’ answer to everything violence and more violence! I strongly doubt if we as a region and as a country would be where we are today had Yar’Adua or even Atiku (both northerners) been the ones in-charge!

So this has nothing to do with anyone wanting to murder and kidnap their own kinsfolk and make their own region unsafe just because one Buhari plotted his way into ‘winning’ in 2015! It has everything to do with the mismanagement of the agitation and security situation by a clueless and incompetent political party and the two jokes they presented as ‘president’ to hapless Nigerians!

maasoap:


I'm in Osun state, tell me something new. The kidnappers that have been arrested in Lagos environment were your brothers and they have been weeded out. The few ones that happened outside Lagos state were carried mostly by other tribes other than Yorubas. And Amotekun made sure that they there was no place for them to hide in SW