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1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by c33b33(m): 9:08pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
1969: Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra Millions of people face starvation because Nigeria has banned night flights of food aid to Biafra, a breakaway state at war with federal Nigeria. The Nigerian Federal Government has taken charge of relief operations on both sides of the front line and in doing so has stopped the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from co-ordinating aid to starving civilians. General Yakubu Gowon, leader of Federal Nigeria, refuses to recognise Biafra which declared independence in May 1967. His forces have managed to shrink the rebel state to one-tenth of its original size, cutting it off from seaports and other supply lines. Food aid can only brought in from the air. Nigerian Information Commissioner Chief Anthony Enaharo told representatives of relief organisations in Nigeria's capital, Lagos, that only "authorised relief operators" would be allowed to take in "permissible relief items" for fear of any supplies getting into the hands of Biafran troops. This means all relief supplies will be inspected by armed forces before being allowed on to Biafra and then only between 0800 and 1700 local time. "There are three million people who are going to starve to death in the next few weeks unless something is done. Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal Party leader" Acting president of the ICRC, Jacques Freymond, said the world must put pressure on Nigeria to allow his organisation to carry out its humanitarian mission. In London, more than 80 backbench MPs signed an all-party motion urging the British Government to take action towards resuming the relief operation and to stop selling arms to Nigeria. The Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart, said representatives in Lagos would try to mediate between the ICRC and the Nigerian Government. Yesterday, Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe said he had written to the head of the United Nations, U Thant, asking him to organise a major relief effort with the Red Cross. He said he was making his appeal independently of the British Government whose involvement in the Nigerian civil war was "immoral". He told the Times newspaper: "There are three million people who are going to starve to death in the next few weeks unless something is done." Biafra, under Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, is made up of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria mainly inhabited by Igbo, or Ibo, people. In September 1966 thousands of the Igbo minority in the Northern Region were massacred by the majority Hausa who resented their relative prosperity. As a result, a million Igbo refugees settled in the Eastern Region and expelled non-Igbos. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30/newsid_3733000/3733321.stm |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by c33b33(m): 9:09pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Hmm...Yakubu Gowon your people you should be glad they have food in their refugee camps IPOB Youth 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by madridguy(m): 9:10pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by lincolnj88: 9:12pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Still yet we are here ..... I am a biafran living in nigeria but bu his grace i will be a biafran living in biafra 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by xpac01(m): 9:20pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Now what is the aim of this news ![]() |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Nobody: 9:26pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Read about Doctors without borders , they are a fallout of Biafran Civil war. Red cross was in complicity with Nigeria govt which led to formation of Doctors Without Borders (MSF in french) that are now helping to fight Ebola. 1 Like |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by kettykings: 9:33pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Fast forward to 2015, 44 years after biafra the people who once employed starvation as a weapon of war are now refugees in their own states, some have been slaughtered and displaced by herdsmen and janajweed militia in the north east while in the south west side of the country a lot of states are now bankrupt while insecurity gives them night mare about biafra. While the biafrans are now prospering beyond their borders and owning real Estates in former enemy territory. 9 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by T9ksy(m): 9:43pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
kettykings: Eventually, when you biafrans finally get your so-called utopia, you will have to carry your purported real estates in former enemy territory back to your land of the rising sun. 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by basilo101: 1:46am On Sep 11, 2015 |
T9ksy:no, we will giv it out to u lazy lots as a parting gift 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by c33b33(m): 2:07am On Sep 11, 2015 |
excel234: Do you have a link about your above claim? I'll like to read IPOB Youth 1 Like |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by c33b33(m): 2:09am On Sep 11, 2015 |
xpac01: There are bad and good news. Maybe this one falls into the bad for you. You have to deal with it yourself. IPOB Youth 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by SUBWAY101(m): 5:37am On Sep 11, 2015 |
[s] kettykings:[/s] Moronic oaf, yet your cursed people cant stop trooping to the SW daily. You cant make it until you go to there land. You have no shame at all, with all your chest beating you are still on a forum owned by people you hate. Shame on your father. 8 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Yujin(m): 5:37am On Sep 11, 2015 |
We are well aware of what the evil Nigerian government did to our people. This is the worst form of civil war ever fought in recent times. Total extermination was their target and the then British government was very complicit. Many of her parliamentarians were against but the prime minister was adamant. Supplying weapons to Nigeria while aiding a blockade of Biafra. It was hell on earth. How can we just forget what transpired? Its not possible. I will always remember this clause: all is fair in war. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by kettykin: 5:59am On Sep 11, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: The actualisation of Biafra will finally stop the trooping of Biafrans to the south west, your support for biafra is needed to actualise that. 4 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by betty202020(m): 5:59am On Sep 11, 2015 |
xpac01:the aim is that u have to know how it all started and knw ur history. America still remember 09/11 1 Like |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by zendy: 6:07am On Sep 11, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: Of course we shall troop to the SW or should I say, Lagos. While we are still in the fraud called Nigeria, we shall make the most of it. After we get Biafra, you people can eat Lagos for all we care. I'm Actually going to enjoy watching Lagos turn into Ghost town after Biafrans leave it enmass 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by QuotaSystem: 6:22am On Sep 11, 2015 |
kettykings: It must be an Ibo dream to see the North and SW consumed by war and violence ![]() The question you should ask yourself is why scores of the same Ibos have been flocking to the North and SW daily, in their Young Shall Grow, Chisco, ABC buses etc. despite going to meet 'displaced refugees' in a war zone as you claimed. The only region prone to a massacre is the SE if Nnamdi Kanu continues to toe the foolish line of provocation and treason against the people and Government of Nigeria instead of negotiation and dialogue. 1 Like
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Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by kettykin: 6:31am On Sep 11, 2015 |
QuotaSystem:Biafra will finally resolve the problem of igbos flooding the south west instead you will witness massive and unconditional migration of igbos out of the south west to biafra, 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by QuotaSystem: 6:34am On Sep 11, 2015 |
kettykin: What about the Ibos flooding the North with fake medicines and spare parts? |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Caseless: 6:34am On Sep 11, 2015 |
What do you think the govt should have done at that time? Allow aid to reach the enemies? No! All is fair in war. |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Caseless: 6:37am On Sep 11, 2015 |
kettykin:biafra has not solved the problem in aba right now. Aba de smell. |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Caseless: 6:44am On Sep 11, 2015 |
zendy:the way you guys paint this biafran picture , it appear too rosy. From okigwe to aba, the pictures around there shows a dead imaginary country called biafra. |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Beremx(f): 6:47am On Sep 11, 2015 |
kettykin:the way you people reason can be very disgusting. I hate to comment on Biafra threads but this idiotic comment of yours got me shocked. Biafra or no Biafra, Igbos will continue to travel far and wide for business and residing including other parts of Nigeria. Please stop underestimating Igbos just because you wanna actualize Biafra. |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by dreamteam5: 6:50am On Sep 11, 2015 |
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Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by dreamteam5: 6:53am On Sep 11, 2015 |
were is this lie coming from. |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by zendy: 7:21am On Sep 11, 2015 |
Caseless: Dead imarginary country? That's what Britain said about America when the Americans were agitating for their independence. Don't imargin, Biafra once existed 1967-1970 and it is coming back 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by Caseless: 7:58am On Sep 11, 2015 |
zendy:make i hear word! You cant compare the american struggle at that time to the present day biafran struggle that's been overseen by an effete called kanu from london. You and I know that, if america was still part of britain till today, it will be difficult for them to break away. Btw, americans migrated to another land and settled there. Can you guys do that? |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by SUBWAY101(m): 8:12am On Sep 11, 2015 |
kettykin: I dont know how the SW is holding from getting your biafra. You guys just make noise online to feel happy, it would have been out fault if its the peeps from the SW that are rushing to your cursed land. Stay in your region and clamour for your biafra instead of throwing insult around like a sissy. 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by SUBWAY101(m): 8:14am On Sep 11, 2015 |
[s] zendy:[/s] Shutup your smelly mouth, what have you achieved in your own miserable life? Running after molue in traffic selling pirated cd is your own achievement in life. Go find a job and stop disgracing your family online, many of you are in Ibadan, Ijebu and many SW land. Go back to your cursed region to clamour your biafra instead of splashing smelly spit everywhere. 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by zendy: 8:25am On Sep 11, 2015 |
SUBWAY101:. And yet when we left your SW for you people and returned to the east in 1967, you people came fighting that we will not have Biafra. If we declare Biafra tomorrow, you people will come fighting again for your "one Nigeria". Let the Igbo man go, no Let the Igbo man stay, no You Nigerians are something 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by SUBWAY101(m): 8:29am On Sep 11, 2015 |
zendy: You attacked my region in the 60s and suffered for it, have not seen anyone from SW asking you not to go. We have been screaming it to your ears daily to go away, you hate us and we hate you so much. Yorubas are not holding you yiibos from going, return to your cursed region and declare your biafra instead of making noise online. Whats hard in declaring your biafra instead of throwing insult online? Na wao 2 Likes |
Re: 1969: Nigeria Bans Red Cross Aid To Biafra - BBC by SOUNDKING: 8:33am On Sep 11, 2015 |
SUBWAY101:use the money u make from oil in our land and build just one seaport at Uyo,,,,and see if your land woun't lie desolate,,,,,,,,God bless Biafra. 1 Like 1 Share |
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