OGHENAOGIE:
lol even America was a British creation too but they have moved on strongly...my own is if u guys want biafra do am with sense and don't colonize others into it...just use the five eastern states achieve am simple

bros, you’re making no sense, go and sleep... and what’s the definition of referendum that we’ve been clamoring for, do you guys just enjoy being stupid.. omg

Not much has changed, Nigeria is still a business venture. The share holders are still the British and the board of directors are the Northerners

selemempe:
awo is ziks political rival...he forced zik out of western politics unfairly...in a highly tribal political move. He also wanted ag to form alliance with bello....bello called zik and told him that he just received a delegate from awo....zik told him he was currently receiving one from the same awo...thats hw awo became oposition...it was politics...not to spite anyone....it didnt result in deaths...it was either zik did that or zik became opposition

of course all dem awo zik bello were regional lord... but this ur awo wanted to pitch tent with bello I no agree...

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ContentedK:
bros, you’re making no sense, go and sleep... and what’s the definition of referendum that we’ve been clamoring for, do you guys just enjoy being stupid.. omg

you very foolish if u want referendum talk to ur nass reps to change the constitution and include referendum...countries of the world has it in their constitution unfortunately Nigeria doesn't have it...mind u referendum is not only for voting for splitting decision it's for many issues..pple can vote to legalize things like abortion gay etc... u guys don't know anything

Nnamdi Kanu should have put it in an album. In his Biafra broadcasts he tells Nigerians how the British put up the contraption called Nigeria but Yoloba Muslims will say it is hate speech

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OGHENAOGIE:
you very foolish if u want referendum talk to ur nass reps to change the constitution and include referendum...countries of the world has it in their constitution unfortunately Nigeria doesn't have it...mind u referendum is not only for voting for splitting decision it's for many issues..pple can vote to legalize things like abortion gay etc... u guys don't know anything

now you’re just telling every body how uninformed you are.. your shiit hole runs a democratic govt as they would want the world to believe and is a signatory to United Nations charter that recognizes the right to self determination of indeginous people.trust me it’ll happen like a flash and we don’t need no nass to achieve that, just once the time is right.. I’ve asked you to go to bed, you’re too shallow for this conversation

HappyPagan:
Lol.


Na Israel and Jerusalem full their head. Nigeria, like many other Africans, were European creations - businesses for them.

More dollars and pounds.

The problem is that zoogeria has deliberately refused to break out of the yoke of British imbalance because of greed. Many African countries changed to their native names after independence. Zimbabwe was formerly named Rhodesia during colonialism. Zaire now consists of Congo, DR Congo etc. Gold coast changed to Ghana; French upper volta change to Burkinafaso. Zoogerians are nothing but business transactions going bad.

ContentedK:
now you’re just telling every body how uninformed you are.. your shiit hole runs a democratic govt as they would want the world to believe and is a signatory to United Nations charter that recognizes the right to self determination of indeginous people.trust me it’ll happen like a flash and we don’t need no nass to achieve that, just once the time is right.. I’ve asked you to go to bed, you’re too shallow for this conversation

u are funny...is Saudi Arabia that has Human Rights issue not a un member...you think UN has authority on Nigeria... why did UN not stop Russia from annexing Crimea...why has UN not aid catalunya independence from Spain...how about Palestine in Middle East

OGHENAOGIE:
u are funny...is Saudi Arabia that has Human Rights issue not a un member...you think UN has authority on Nigeria... why did UN not stop Russia from annexing Crimea...why has UN not aid catalunya independence from Spain...how about Palestine in Middle East

i gotta get busy, watch Biafra come before your cowardly face .... it must happen.. cry rivers of blood, we don’t care... Biafra is our home..

It is the plan of some peoples to have us believe our history started in 1960.

I'm not buying this unity crap. There has been a plan for so called majority tribes by 'their' forefathers (not mine) to collectively milk the resources and choke the daylight out of minorities at Fed level. That is what is keeping this country nothing more, they are all guilty and this dominance started wayy before colonials arrival, the only difference now is the agreement between the three is suddenly looking like a one man show.

Fvck this shlt let everyone go their way. About every northern state towers above Rwanda- a land locked country sandwiched between giants DRC, Tanzania etc. Heck, Taraba is more than two and half times the size of Rwanda, yet, you wont believe what they've been able to accomplish for their over 12 mil popl some 25yrs after the genocide. Its won't pan out for everyone but I'll take the chance cos as far as this country is concerned we're going nowhere!

The peeps who keep preachin unity are those in power (dah!), multinationals, businesses focused on population, politicians, religious rulers (offering time....) or the just plain foolish etc. Just there to cream us nothing more. To the guy from two regions asking where to go in the case of a split? here's a suggestion... pick one.

rentAcock:
Using the Bank of England's Inflation calculator, that £865,000 from 1900 is worth £104 million or N47.5 billion today. Mark Zuckerberg can buy Nigeria 581 Times. We were sold for peanuts.

Hahahahaha
I am not even sure if we've been able to rise above peanuts since then.

Difrent:
NO BIG DEAL., MANY STATES IN USA WERE BOUGHT AND SOLD


how can anyone be surprised about this?,,,,,,google berlin conference of 1884, you will understand more

When people are using songs to educate themselves, isn't that a shame, many won't even read further. Its good the song started a conversation. Almost all countries that were colonized by Britain, France, Germany and Portugal was doe through these companies. You have the east India company, dutch east indies company, British east African company, French west African company, new Zealand company, Massachusetts bay company etc. These trading companies are given rights by their respective govts to trade exclusively like a patent in the territories they occupy and administer it and when issues arise they can count on the support of their home govts to enforce their rights. Eventually these rights to administer these territories were taken from private hands by the govt and it happened all over the world. It was totally not unique to Nigeria or africa.

ContentedK:
i gotta get busy, watch Biafra come before your cowardly face .... it must happen.. cry rivers of blood, we don’t care... Biafra is our home..

Biafra can come but not all through the bogus claim of UN recognizing shit. UN will not do Jack, so many examples abound. Don't repeat the mistakes of 1967 to 70. There is no savior anywhere or higher powers to fight your war, you plan it, you fight it and deal with the success or failure.

LongThickPenis:


You cannot blame descendants for crimes committed by their ancestors especially where the affected parties ' ancestors were implicitly complicit. For example, everyone blames whites for slave trade, but Africans were their source of slaves who raided hinterlands and war conquered territories with slave parties to supply coastal slave ports.
The Port Harcourt Briggs family wealth was from slave trading. Yes the descendants have benefited from the atrocities but those close to the then Briggs merchant supported him for pecuniary gain
The point I'm trying to make is that, we are stronger as a people of diverse origins and if anyone like KANU wants to change the system, he should come home sell his non divisive ideas to the people and if they buy into it, will vote for him. Not hide in a foreign country and incite rebellion. He accuses Nigeria of being a British business contraption yet hides in Israel that is a political fraud to inflict the same barbaric policies on Palestinians.
All this talk of splitting should stop. The most advanced countries are those that embrace diversity e.g. USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, they had the most colonies back then. These nations have blacks, whites, Moslems, Christians, Asians, other religions, yet prosper. Not our holier than thou attitude that seeks to divide and rule for selfish reasons.

This is why I don't take namdi kanu serious, the isreals are very much scums also your a brilliant, if the Nigerian populace was politically oriented and know their right, set aside their tribal differences and work together for a place not only form themselves and for future generations to come things in this country won't be like this, I never support Biafra it brings nothing war and misery, namdi kanu should go and sit down and not try to foster the agendas of greedy mofos, Nigeria needs strong to take this country forward.

Kendrick80:

Like how the US govt bought Louisiana from the French.

On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl.

DeOTR:
My great grandfather used to work at the Royal Niger Company.
Well, this is not News and I wonder why some people are just finding out.

Where are u let me take my share of the money since your grandfather worked for dem bcoz me I know receive d share of d money wey dey take buy Nigeria..

Blankstare:
It's an ordained punishment to be a black man
- ibn batuta

Hope you know ibn battuta was Arab and they viewed blacks as slaves then even as Arabs still view black Muslims today?

Dem nor teach dem GST...what a generation.... Abeg Prof burna still sing say southern Nigeria get independent from British before the north get their own independent

gaetano:
Royal Niger company is now trending on twitter and is seems Nigerians are not really aware that their country was bought in business deal. The tweet started trending after people listened to Burna boy's song ANOTHER STORY, in his recently released album.

The intro of the song gave a brief history on how Nigeria as a country was bought by the British via a company called Royal Niger Campany , and that company is today regarded as UNILEVER.

Reactions from twitter follows

Dpharisee:
Nnamdi Kanu should have put it in an album. In his Biafra broadcasts he tells Nigerians how the British put up the contraption called Nigeria but Yoloba Muslims will say it is hate speech

Do you have a brain at all?
How has this information improved your life?
Did Kanu also tell you that the British fought against Sokoto caliphate and won?

Isn't it ironic that your god lives in the land of the oppressor and is also their citizen?

Most of Canada and parts of USA was owned by the Hudson bay company and they administered the territory before selling it to the govt.

I have been interacting with the youths of today. They know nothing about themselves not to talk of the country. This information is not so special cause I have read about it long ago even as am just 30.
I can even relate the story of the Nigerian civil war from different perspectives as if am there even though I was not born during the period. There was a book by Alexander A. Madeibo or something who relate it from the Igbo perspective. There is another one from a Yoruba Journalist who uses a different perspective.
Let us be reading. Am sure there are books where this can be found. I recommend the book by Major Ademoyega, Why we Struck to the you to go and read.

codemaniacs:


azikwe (son) was the one.

it was not 1954 constitution. it was for independence in case the country didn't work out.

the 1954 constitution was the independent constitution basically

selemempe:
are the north ready to live and let live? They cause all thesw talk of division.

In 1966 a few igbos along with soldiers from other tribes did a coup....the north replied by killing 30,000 igbos living in the north...that was hw biafra was born.

U have seen how they forced their region to become a shariah region even tho christians live in it too...

U have seen the rough politics they have played from awolowo's disgrace to abiola family disgrace to killing of corpers in 2011 to varios riots because of politics

U have seen how they formed boko haram and are arming fulani miltias now.

Should we continue with the north to maintain the diversity that has kept the nation down?

Stop rewriting history, we are all not comfortable with the security problem and all the myriad of the problem affecting the north today but the truth still remains that the Biafra war was caused mainly by Igbo political elites that want to dominate the Nigeria state.

The military coupe of 1966, was an Igbo coupe that effect leaders from other ethnic groups, the aftermath of the coupe show the real intention of the Igbos, from the unitary government of ironsi to the marginalisation of other ethnic groups.

The north never disgrace awolowo, Nigerians play politics of sentiment, people vote base on either religion ( north) or tribe (south), Igbos are also as guilty as northerners in denying awolowo the presidency.

Bokoharam and Fulani herdsmen are as a result of the failure of government, deep extreme religious intolerance in the north, poverty and illiteracy. It wasn't directly created by the north to keep Nigeria backward.

The igbos, yorubas and the Hausas are all guilty in making Nigeria what it is today, stop blaming the northerners alone

Dem no teach me history for secoundary school. So many mystery is still hidden from we nigeria that dis people dont want us to know.i

Too many ignorant youths, learn history, it will make you more conscious.

Just side-tracking; someone said history may sometimes be "agreed-upon" lies handed down as facts....
Perception vs. Reality

Nice song and message tho

myobjective:


Stop rewriting history, we are all not comfortable with the security problem and all the myriad of the problem affecting the north today but the truth still remains that the Biafra war was caused mainly by Igbo political elites that want to dominate the Nigeria state.

The military coupe of 1966, was an Igbo coupe that effect leaders from other ethnic groups, the aftermath of the coupe show the real intention of the Igbos, from the unitary government of ironsi to the marginalisation of other ethnic groups.

The north never disgrace awolowo, Nigerians play politics of sentiment, people vote base on either religion ( north) or tribe (south), Igbos are also as guilty as northerners in denying awolowo the presidency.

Bokoharam and Fulani herdsmen are as a result of the failure of government, deep extreme religious intolerance in the north, poverty and illiteracy. It wasn't directly created by the north to keep Nigeria backward.

The igbos, yorubas and the Hausas are all guilty in mind Nigeria what it is today, stop blaming the northerners alone

yen yen yen....no wahala...we want to leave the union and forge our own part...we dont want to dominate nigeria again...u guys can hold onto it.

You can keep lying to urself that any tribe in nigeria wants to remain with the north

gidgiddy:
Not much has changed, Nigeria is still a business venture. The share holders are still the British and the board of directors are the Northerners

This is very far from the truth, Nigeria is a country of its own, trading with countries she chooses to trade with. Our largest trading partner is the Chinese, Indians and Americans.

Our system of government is modelled over that of America. The British Empire is long gone, they have close to zero influence on how Nigeria is been governed.

The northerners are not the board of directors, don't let your hatred of others killed you. The economy of Nigeria is run by southerners, the organised public sector is dominated by southerners, there are 36 states across the federation and each of these states reflect the ethnic demography of Nigeria, each of these states have governors democratically elected by the people of these states.

There are southern and northern politicians. Since the return to democracy in 1999, we have had 2 southern presidents and 2 northern presidents, tell me how the northerners are the board of directors

selemempe:
yen yen yen....no wahala...we want to leave the union and forge our own part...we dont want to dominate nigeria again...u guys can hold onto it.

You can keep lying to urself that any tribe in Nigeria wants to remain with the north

I am a Yoruba and I will be happy to see Nigeria disintegrate into manageable units. It will be better for Yoruba race to have a country of only Yoruba speaking people of Southwest and north-central Nigeria, so, I'm in support of Biafra struggle but I will not let you rewriting history and pointing accusing fingers at others

horsepower101:


79.8% of Indians living in India are Hindus. Comparing apples to oranges

This is wrong, India is a very diverse country with more than 2 thousand ethnic groups.

This is from a quick google search
India has more than two thousand ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages (Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan languages) as well as two language isolates (the Nihali language is spoken in parts of Maharashtra and the Burushaski language is spoken