Ugosample:


So Ojukwu just took one part of the country out, and that is not declaration of war

Don't you know that anywhere in the world, when this is done, it is declaration of war?

How can you just wake up one morning and just take out one part of the country out of the map Use your common sense na

No president will tolerate that at all.

austin2all:



osikwagi n'obi.
anu mpama

i wish you could communicate your thought to your leaders

bantudra:


now you are kidding...right??...their are igbo muslims all around the globe....

swedbase:


Idiot shut up. You fool

ZombieTERROR:


God forbid bad thing
We have nothing in common
Don't be a unity beggar
Have a little shame nah

pchukwudi:
Go and research your history, kid. The coup that brought Gowon to power failed totally in the Eastern region, so Ojukwu and the entire Eastern region never recognized Gowon (a junior soldier) as head of state prior to the war.

So when Nigeria systematically cleansed Eastern soldiers in both North and West, massacred tens of thousands of Eastern civilians in the North, and still had the guts to mess up the Aburi accord and other peace effort, it became morally and politically mandatory for Ojukwu and the Eastern region to declare independence, since it was clear that the Federal government was against the interest and security of the people of the Eastern region.

bantudra:


about what??....you are free to migrate to other countries but biafra on nigerian soil is impossible.....

OjukwuWarBird:



When Nigeria was created, were the ethnic nations consulted.?

Some of you guys need to have your heads checked again

You don't force unity

pchukwudi:
Igbos cannot go to war to stop notherners from seccesion. Even Zik made that point clear prior to independence.

pchukwudi:
You are lying.

Ojukwu did not declare the civil war. Gowon did. Ojukwu merely declared the independent state of Biafra - and the West was NOT part of the terriotry.

The Biafran army that moved towards Lagos was led by a Yoruba man, and Ojukwu's aim was to liberate the West from nothern domination. He thought you guys would stand up for yourselves in the West the way he was doing in the East. But obviously he over-estimated your folks.

lightblazingnow:
We must uphold







Our unity

slurryeye:


The bolded is so funny that calling it ridiculous is an understatement. The west doesn't know how to liberate themselves that they have to wait for Ojukwu to come and liberate then. The west that have been in existence before Ojukwu fore father was born doesn't know how to liberate themselves that they have to wait for one 33 year old boy to come and liberate them. You see, comment like yours is the reason why people take your guys has joke.

pchukwudi:
Go and research your history, kid. The coup that brought Gowon to power failed totally in the Eastern region, so Ojukwu and the entire Eastern region never recognized Gowon (a junior soldier) as head of state prior to the war.

So when Nigeria systematically cleansed Eastern soldiers in both North and West, massacred tens of thousands of Eastern civilians in the North, and still had the guts to mess up the Aburi accord and other peace effort, it became morally and politically mandatory for Ojukwu and the Eastern region to declare independence, since it was clear that the Federal government was against the interest and security of the people of the Eastern region.

donborg:
greivances or not, killings or no killings, d fact remains that ojukwu had no authority (although he had d power) to declare biafra, just like he had no authority(although he had the power) to slap his white teacher for racially abusing a fellow black student at kings college lagos

modik:


Is marriage by force?

donborg:
you are just beating about the bush by being clever by half. if hassan katsina seceded, it will be an affront on the authority of the federal govt led by aguiyi ironsi who will have no choice but to quell the secessionists just like he did to adaka boro and his niger delta republic. back to ur question abt zik, the act of independence as signed by awolowo, zik and ahmadu bello strictly stipulated that d secession of any of the 3 regions was an act of treason and an act of war(this was d main reason zik neva supported biafra). ojukwu clearly knew what he was going to get when he seceeded but as a warmonger he thought it better to sacrifice millions of lives instead of playing by the rules of the game.

pchukwudi:
No authority has the legitimacy to deprive indegineous people the righr to self determination. No law under the sun is superior to the need for preservation of lives (even if it means bearing arms to preserve those lives).

If you cannot understand those two points, then keep on fanning the embers of anarchy.

pchukwudi:
No authority has the legitimacy to deprive indegineous people the righr to self determination. No law under the sun is superior to the need for preservation of lives (even if it means bearing arms to preserve those lives).

If you cannot understand those two points, then keep on fanning the embers of anarchy.

lightblazingnow:

A popular fallacy is that prior to the advent of the colonialists, Nigeria's ethnic groups existed in self-contained cocoons of utopian bliss unburdened by the necessity of interaction with others. But many of the ethnic and regional identities which are now presumed "sacred" are in fact colonial creations. For instance, it was only after colonization, that the term "Yorubaland" began to be applied to the realms of all rulers who claim descent from Oduduwa, instead of only to the Oyo Kingdom. Before the British came, the Egba, Ijebu, Ekiti, Ijesha and Ilorin peoples fought costly interstate wars among themselves. The longest pre-colonial civil war was the sixteen year Kiriji war which was fought between Yoruba city states. Yoruba nationalism was forged by Obafemi Awolowo who rallied the descendants of Oduduwa as a political force in the new nation. Similarly, Igbos were organized into separate and autonomous republics. Many of them had scant contact with each other with some entirely oblivious of others before the advent of colonialism. Consequently, Igbos fought no wars as a collective. Igbo national consciousness was largely the handiwork of Nnamdi Azikiwe who at one point preached the manifest destiny of the Igbo in Africa. Hausa city-states co-existed through times of war and peace. Even when Uthman Dan Fodio's jihad established the Sokoto Caliphate, the new emirates were never synonymous with "the North" which was a later British invention and was fortified as a political identity by Ahmadu Bello.

lightblazingnow:

It is intellectually lazy and astonishingly parlous thinking to suggest that the solution to our national crisis is disintegration. It is true that much life has been expended on the Nigeria project to no apparent redemptive effect but what we owe the dead and the unborn as well as ourselves is clear-minded thinking on the fate of our union rather than just emotive polemics.

The usual suggestion is that Nigeria be divided between a "Muslim North" and "Christian South" or among its so-called big three – the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. Beyond these imprecise propositions, there is little specificity as to what shape post-Nigerian nations would look like except perhaps for the preposterous suggestion that every ethnic group should become a nation. These arguments are fallacious. Nigeria is not and has never been a country of monolithic religious halves. Christians and Muslims are scattered in substantial proportions and ethnic variety across the country. There are Fulani Christians and Igbo Muslims. Millions of Yoruba families contain adherents of both faiths. Nigeria is far more complex and diverse than the Hausa-Yoruba-Igbo tripod. Making each ethnic group a nation throws up problems. What would we make of Ijaw communities who hug the coastline stretching from the south to the south west? The sheer diversity and interlocking spread of hundreds of ethnic nationalities makes tidy disintegration a virtually impossible proposition.

lightblazingnow:

Having said all this, nations are not eternal but finite, expiring when they have outlived their usefulness to history and humanity. Nigeria is no different. Nigeria does not currently face immediate disintegration but a slow and steady erosion of federal authority by sundry paramilitaries, warlords and terrorist gangs, until the nation slips inexorably into failed statehood. Already we see signs of this in the brazen terrorism of pseudo-religious extremists who seek to establish alternate governments as well as the rise of oil-bunkering pirate gangs in our southern coastal waters.

It would be a pity if we were to let Nigeria fail. No one who has studied her history, encountered her acute humanity, sampled her cultural riches and researched the dreams of her founding fathers would fail to sense her ordination for higher purposes. For us to abort this purpose would be nothing short of cosmic treason. As Eme Awa once remarked, "If we were to dissolve the federation, a future generation of people will pass the verdict that the Nigerian elites committed suicide while of unsound mind." Nigeria has not been tried and found wanting. We simply have not invested enough of our intellectual and moral energies into actualizing her promise.

bantudra:


they seem to dont understand that simple fact...biafra is a illegal dream.....

donborg:
mind you this was before the pogroms of d igbos in northern nigeria. need i remind u also that the basis of ojukwus declaration of biafra was as a result of d killings. so answer my question objectively

BMCskullHunter:
After writing all the jargon you put up there, better start thinking about how your region will survive without Niger Delta oil because there would be none for you soon.

GoodMuyis:
We Hausa and Fulani Christians say No to secession. We will continue to be, our parents forbid such to happen, and God forbid it too