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Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by gidgiddy: 7:55am On Jun 16, 2021
There is this age old narrative that has been peddled for far too long, that Igbos shouldnt be seeking Biafra because they are spread out all over Nigeria. Even Buhari mentioned something like that in his recent interview

Who says you cannot seek an independent homeland because of migration?

There are many Eritreans all over Ethiopia, but Eritrea left Ethiopia. Infact, many Eritreans still use Ethiopian passports to this day despite leaving Ethiopia over 25 years ago.

There are millions of British people living and working in the EU, but Britain left the EU

There are millions of Israeli-Jews spread across the world, but they have the State Of Israel

Theres no country in the world that doesn't have Nigerians, but there is the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

So what is the basis of this talk that because Igbos are spread all over Nigeria, they cannot have Biafra?

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by TzPalo: 8:00am On Jun 16, 2021
cheesy grin grin grin grin

Dot Nation is really great ooooh
They sleep and wake up on it

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by theTranslator: 8:33am On Jun 16, 2021
You are not serious with your biafra yet



You are can't antagonise and hate everyone yet you want to enjoy
Nigeria is a zoo
Then keep of



You can't eat your akpu and have it

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 8:44am On Jun 16, 2021
Jews that don't want to leave egypt....

Dot people in panic mode....the fear of going back to their erosion waste land is hurting them.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by bastardmod: 8:46am On Jun 16, 2021
theTranslator:
You are not serious with your biafra yet



You are can't antagonise and hate everyone yet you want to enjoy
Nigeria is a zoo
Then keep of


Address his points or shut up


You can't eat your akpu and have it
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by pricklewane: 8:48am On Jun 16, 2021
We're the Eritreans insulting the Ethiopians daily like Igbos do tto the rest of Nigeria.

The only alternative I see for Igbo freedom is Rwanda. Example of the Tutsi n Hutsi is what I forsee from the division of Nigeria n those that get razor mouth with Lil or no security to their existence be beta worried.

gidgiddy:
There is this age old narrative that has been peddled for far too long, that Igbos shouldnt be seeking Biafra because they are spread out all over Nigeria. Even Buhari mentioned something like that in his recent interview

Who says you cannot seek an independent homeland because of migration?

There are many Eritreans all over Ethiopia, but Eritrea left Ethiopia. Infact, many Eritreans still use Ethiopian passports to this day despite leaving Ethiopia over 25 years ago.

There are millions of British people living and working in the EU, but Britain left the EU

There are millions of Israeli-Jews spread across the world, but they have the State Of Israel

Theres no country in the world that doesn't have Nigerians, but there is the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

So what is the basis of this talk that because Igbos are spread all over Nigeria, they cannot have Biafra?

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Leybari: 8:51am On Jun 16, 2021
Same way the world said that the Jews cannot have their own country because they are scattered all over..

Where is Israel now?

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 8:55am On Jun 16, 2021
Leybari:
Same way the world said that the Jews cannot have their own country because they are scattered all over..

Where is Israel now?

Majority of the Jews were willing to go back.... despite the fact that Isreal was a semi barren desert, they weren't trying to gum body with their oil rich neighbors....

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Leybari: 9:09am On Jun 16, 2021
WesternOligarch:


Majority of the Jews were willing to go back.... despite the fact that Isreal was a semi barren desert, they weren't trying to gum body with their oil rich neighbors....

Neighbors or blood brethren?
You can call the north neighbors of the Easterners and I'll accept..we're not fools OK, we know our blood!
https://igberetvnews.com/1392999/dot-circle-s-south-leaders-lampoon-buhari-say-united-igbo/#forward

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 9:13am On Jun 16, 2021
Leybari:


Neighbors or blood brothers?
https://igberetvnews.com/1392999/dot-circle-s-south-leaders-lampoon-buhari-say-united-igbo/#forward

Forget the bvllshit optics...... it's what's on ground that matters, left to me you guys can have biafra from Edo state down east, It's a matter of you guys not killing each other as soon as the biafran flag goes up.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by liketerm: 9:20am On Jun 16, 2021
I support Biafra and can't wait for it to come,so that all their kins and brethren can leave all the places they occupy in Nigeria and converge at Biafra. You can't have Biafra and still want to benefit from Nigeria, you can't eat your cake and have it. Something must go in order to gain another thing.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by gidgiddy: 9:30am On Jun 16, 2021
liketerm:
I support Biafra and can't wait for it to come,so that all their kins and brethren can leave all the places they occupy in Nigeria and converge at Biafra. You can't have Biafra and still want to benefit from Nigeria, you can't eat your cake and have it. Something must go in order to gain another thing.

But you can have Federal Republic Of Nigeria but have Nigerians in America, Europe, Asia and other African countries?

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 9:36am On Jun 16, 2021
gidgiddy:


But you can have Federal Republic Of Nigeria but have Nigerians in America, Europe, Asia and other African countries?

Nigerians over their go there with visas and permits you dumbo....your logic is daft, early morning foolishness.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by gidgiddy: 9:45am On Jun 16, 2021
WesternOligarch:


Nigerians over their go there with visas and permits you dumbo....your logic is daft, early morning foolishness.

Exactly, when we get Biafra, we will apply to go to Nigeria as we would any country.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by liketerm: 10:00am On Jun 16, 2021
gidgiddy:


But you can have Federal Republic Of Nigeria but have Nigerians in America, Europe, Asia and other African countries?
No problem about that, when they exist and those who decided to remain behind will be given the GHANA TREATMENT.
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 10:03am On Jun 16, 2021
gidgiddy:


Exactly, when we get Biafra, we will apply to go to Nigeria as we would any country.

First go back to biafraland and agitate for biafra over there.....the issue is that unlike the jews, nobody is stopping you guys from going back to the east, but you probably won't go back for fear of your lives. Even me as an ibadan man I prefer my ibadan any day any time over Lagos even though I have strong family ties over there..... I always wonder what's chasing flatin0s away from their land to the lands of people they claim to hate them. Jews left eygpt.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Nobody: 10:49am On Jun 16, 2021
The reason why the OP opened this thread is because he is afraid of a certain side effect of Biafra.

And it is called....treatment of foreigners.

Once Biafra is declared, Ibo and non Ibo citizens of Biafra would have to pay taxes, fees, etc at foreigner rates instead of citizen rates....which means that an Ibo man doing business in Nigeria could be paying higher taxes.

They may also be subject to foreigner laws...and restrictions.

At the end of the day, many Ibos living outside Biafra would have to take up Nigerian citizenship.

Think it won't happen? We have ECOWAS....yet countries like Ghana recently expelled non Ghanaians , who were bonafide ECOWAS citizens from their country.

There is nothing wrong with agitating for Biafra, but be aware of the consequences.
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by EdoDefence: 10:56am On Jun 16, 2021
Beancounter93:
The reason why the OP opened this thread is because he is afraid of a certain side effect of Biafra.

And it is called....treatment of foreigners.

Once Biafra is declared, Ibo and non Ibo citizens of Biafra would have to pay taxes, fees, etc at foreigner rates instead of citizen rates....which means that an Ibo man doing business in Nigeria could be paying higher taxes.

They may also be subject to foreigner laws...and restrictions.

At the end of the day, many Ibos living outside Biafra would have to take up Nigerian citizenship.

Think it won't happen? We have ECOWAS....yet countries like Ghana recently expelled non Ghanaians , who were bonafide ECOWAS citizens from their country.

There is nothing wrong with agitating for Biafra, but be aware of the consequences.

Biafra is an Ibo affair, no non ibos are joining them

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by theTranslator: 11:03am On Jun 16, 2021
skywalker240:

you cant marginalize and show open hatred for a region and still stop them from leaving

you cant lick your ewedu and still have it

and yes Nigeria is a zoo

they dont want to be with you? then let them go cheesy
Marginalize?
How exactly?
I am not holding you
If you want Biafra
Show that you're serious
Drop the Nigerian passport
Leave the West
Leave the North
When you were mocking Yoruba during GEJ you didn't think of consequences
Now you're antagonising everyone
You didn't think


You're not serious yet��

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Monogamy: 11:06am On Jun 16, 2021
If to say you have been answering all the questions related to Kanu, Igbos, ESN, the formation of the new country, I might have had something to say..

You won't still answer those questions
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by theTranslator: 11:41am On Jun 16, 2021
skywalker240:


they are willing to drop all those rubbish if the same stupid government wont call them fugitives in their lands

ESN was fighting herdsmen initially, before the zoo army attacked them


by the way, check my signature and register cheesy grin
They should attack the government not Yoruba
Not Ijaw
Not Bini


Antagonising only isolates
Even the US needs Nato
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by PetroDolla2020: 5:41pm On Jun 16, 2021
Let me educate you. Being an ecowas citizen does not give you a right to reside in another ecowas country beyond a period of 3 months. If the ecowas citizen wants to stay beyond that 3-month window, he/she is required to apply for resident permit and possibly work permit from the host country, or he or she will be living in that country illegally.

When an ecowas citizen enters another ecowas country, he/she cannot do any work in that country unless he/she applies for a residence permit and work permit. Go and read the ecowas protocols very well before you mislead people.

Are you aware that Nigeria also deports Ghanaians?

Beancounter93:
The reason why the OP opened this thread is because he is afraid of a certain side effect of Biafra.

And it is called....treatment of foreigners.

Once Biafra is declared, Ibo and non Ibo citizens of Biafra would have to pay taxes, fees, etc at foreigner rates instead of citizen rates....which means that an Ibo man doing business in Nigeria could be paying higher taxes.

They may also be subject to foreigner laws...and restrictions.

At the end of the day, many Ibos living outside Biafra would have to take up Nigerian citizenship.

Think it won't happen? We have ECOWAS....yet countries like Ghana recently expelled non Ghanaians , who were bonafide ECOWAS citizens from their country.

There is nothing wrong with agitating for Biafra, but be aware of the consequences.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Uchek(m): 4:37am On Jun 17, 2021
You reason like a fool

liketerm:

No problem about that, when they exist and those who decided to remain behind will be given the GHANA TREATMENT.
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Uchek(m): 4:41am On Jun 17, 2021
You are proudly ignorant. Igbos left Lagos, Yorubaland and the entire Nigeria in 1967 when we seceded from this zoo and established Biafra. You went to war to force back to Nigeria. So deal with our presence in Nigeria. That's why they call you folks SOPHISTICATED slowpoke.

Fulani has turned your kinsmen into refugees in Benin Republic. Instead of you to be focused on the state of Yoruba nation in Fulani-led Nigeria, you are rather Ndigbo-obsessed. What a slowpoke?

WesternOligarch:


First go back to biafraland and agitate for biafra over there.....the issue is that unlike the jews, nobody is stopping you guys from going back to the east, but you probably won't go back for fear of your lives. Even me as an ibadan man I prefer my ibadan any day any time over Lagos even though I have strong family ties over there..... I always wonder what's chasing flatin0s away from their land to the lands of people they claim to hate them. Jews left eygpt.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Wiseandtrue(f): 4:45am On Jun 17, 2021
gidgiddy:
There is this age old narrative that has been peddled for far too long, that Igbos shouldnt be seeking Biafra because they are spread out all over Nigeria. Even Buhari mentioned something like that in his recent interview

To be honest, the Igbos have shown and lived the life of oneness than any other ethnic groups

They live relatively peacefully with their neighbors

So if a one man fulani president is telling us otherwise, shouldn't we collectively boot him out before he destroy our peaceful co-existence

My fear is that all these stubborn traits we are seeing in Buhari are just foundation for a grand conspiracy they are planning

I just hope that one day, we will not wake up to hear that ISWAP or whatever has hijacked aso rock oooooo and rename Nigeria as United Nations of Arab!

Nigerians, we are doing something but we can do better!
Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Gbagura: 5:35am On Jun 17, 2021
Uchek:
You are proudly ignorant. Igbos left Lagos, Yorubaland and the entire Nigeria in 1967 when we seceded from this zoo and established Biafra. You went to war to force back to Nigeria. So deal with our presence in Nigeria. That's why they call you folks SOPHISTICATED slowpoke.

Fulani has turned your kinsmen into refugees in Benin Republic. Instead of you to be focused on the state of Yoruba nation in Fulani-led Nigeria, you are rather Ndigbo-obsessed. What a slowpoke?

Obsessed with who? You can't keep bringing Biafra bvllshit to a Nigerian forum and not expect backlashes. All we're saying is simple, kid. If you don't want people to interface in your affairs, stay away from anything Nigerian and watch how you're gonna be forgotten in the twinkle of an eye.

You can't be wise and foolish at the same time, you're gonna have to choose one. You want to keep living in Nigeria and the same time want a seperate country. Who does that? Nigeria have the rights to accept or decline your citizenship, you can't force yourself on Nigeria when you're gone. Get that into your thick skull.

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by Difrent: 5:44am On Jun 17, 2021
gidgiddy:
There is this age old narrative that has been peddled for far too long, that Igbos shouldnt be seeking Biafra because they are spread out all over Nigeria. Even Buhari mentioned something like that in his recent interview

Who says you cannot seek an independent homeland because of migration?

There are many Eritreans all over Ethiopia, but Eritrea left Ethiopia. Infact, many Eritreans still use Ethiopian passports to this day despite leaving Ethiopia over 25 years ago.

There are millions of British people living and working in the EU, but Britain left the EU

There are millions of Israeli-Jews spread across the world, but they have the State Of Israel

Theres no country in the world that doesn't have Nigerians, but there is the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

So what is the basis of this talk that because Igbos are spread all over Nigeria, they cannot have Biafra?

You want to eat you Akpu and have it , NO WAY
if you really want BIAFRA
1. All your elected officials under nigeria constitution resign.....governor's ,NASS members
2. All Ibo ministers resign
3. Stop collecting federal allocation,start collecting your own IGR
4. Ibos relocate enmassse to the east

The next day you have your BIAFRA

The issue is that THIS IPOB AGITATION DOESNT HAVE THE BUY IN OF MOST IBO ELITES.....and until the elites buy into this idea, BIAFRA is a mirage ....... ojukwu was an elite reason why he could rally the elites around him then

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Re: Igbos Cant Have Biafra For Being All Over Nigeria? Really? by gidgiddy: 6:35am On Jun 17, 2021
Beancounter93:
The reason why the OP opened this thread is because he is afraid of a certain side effect of Biafra.

And it is called....treatment of foreigners.

Once Biafra is declared, Ibo and non Ibo citizens of Biafra would have to pay taxes, fees, etc at foreigner rates instead of citizen rates....which means that an Ibo man doing business in Nigeria could be paying higher taxes.

They may also be subject to foreigner laws...and restrictions.

At the end of the day, many Ibos living outside Biafra would have to take up Nigerian citizenship.

Think it won't happen? We have ECOWAS....yet countries like Ghana recently expelled non Ghanaians , who were bonafide ECOWAS citizens from their country.

There is nothing wrong with agitating for Biafra, but be aware of the consequences.

Do you know that there are already millions , Ghanaians, Benenoise, Liberians, Lebanese etc already living in Nigeria?

If those people can have their various independent countries and live in Nigeria, what makes think that Igbos cannot do the same? Lets hear word

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