Never knew he was a catholic. RIP sir.

TINUBU, the failed civilian backdoor coup plotter. Buhari should be wary of him. he would be crying on his bed as buhari is back

The funniest thing is that, no matter how the afonja media try to twist happenings around buhari regime. The north still see afonja as the number 1 enemy of Buhari government. they know they are wicked, untrustworthy and chameleons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXntXSZsxnw

Like @NtoAkwaIbom, Like @Barfibassey..

same person, different handle. Same wee sat sat crew, bloody afonja.

Remembering Okokon Ndem
By Emeka Obasi

The words of Okokon Ndem come in handy here as some continue the fight against injustice. We all abhor a system that marginalises individuals and groups. It is also true that while we cry for equity, there must be a touch of wisdom and diplomacy. With awareness created, bridges should be built and walls destroyed.

Okokon Ndem was the most popular voice within and outside Biafra. He was not the Head of Radio Biafra but Radio Biafra was on his head. There was the popular jingle: “Onye ndi iro gbara gburugburu, na eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile.” Sasa Nwoke’s translation is: “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” This is the message from Okokon Ndem to IPOB. The broadcaster,dubbed Lord Haw Haw,by the General Yakubu Gowon Administration, used his voice to defeat Federal troops on air even if the battle was being lost on the ground. He also drew global attention to Biafra. Okokon Ndem was not Igbo.

The journalist hailed from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. He died in August 2003 and was buried on Igbo Day, September 29, 2003. One prominent guest at the funeral was General Emeka Ojukwu, Head of State of Biafra. Burial ground was Calabar. Also in attendance were prominent politicians from the South East, including Chief Chekwas Okorie and Onwuka Kalu.

The lesson from this is that Biafra was never an Igbo movement. The last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, Akangkang of Ibiono, though born in Aba was an Akwa Ibom son. Chief Frank Opigo, the man who named Biafra is from Bayelsa State and is today Dawai the Third, Amanaowei of Angiama. He was Administrator of Yenegoa Province. The most popular voice on Radio Biafra was a Cross Riverian.

The war started at 5.30am, July 6, 1967 in Garkem, Cross River State no thanks to Lt. Gado Nasko who fired the First Artillery shots. The last officer to leave Nigerian detention ,Col. Beneth Ochei, was from Delta State. One of the first ever hijackers, Captain Ibikari Allwell-Brown had Rivers blood in his veins. The trio seized a Nigeria Airways flight bound for Lagos from Benin. Allwell Brown flew the aircraft to Enugu.

Some top officers in Biafra were not from Igbo lands. Starting point should be Ibiono, home town of Gen. Effiong. It is also the place of Chief Ntienyong Akpan, Secretary to the Biafran government. The environment will shock all. There were civilians like Chiefs Ekukinam Bassey, J.E. Udoh-Affiah,Dr. Thompson Akpabio, and S.J. Edoho.

There were crack officers and soldiers from Akwa Ibom. Lt. Col Nsudoh,was described as “tough, courageous and iron willed, “ by General Alexander Madiebo, Biafra’s Army Chief. Col. Akpan Utuk was all bravado and was said to have committed suicide when news of the surrender got to him. There was one teenage Commando, Edet, who fought in Uzuakoli under Col. Emeka Ananaba.

From Cross River, there were civvies like Dr. Sam Imoke, Governor Liyel’s dad,from Itigidi, Abi.Chief Matthew Mbu, Professor Eyo Bassey Ndem, Justice Ndoma Egba, Senator Victors father and Frank Ugbut.

In the military, they had Lt. Col. Archibong, who according to Madiebo, was “one of the bravest officers I have ever met.” The young man on wheels of the dreaded Corporal Nwafor armoured car, Daniel Lawrence, better known as ‘Pampas of Argentina’ was an Ikom boy, born to a British mother from Liverpool. And Clement Ebri of the Biafra Airforce. There was one armourer, Arikpo, from Mpaghni, Ugep who was ready to die for Biafra while his kinsman Okoi Arikpo defected to Nigeria to be appointed Commissioner for External Affairs.

Mention must be made of Lt. Peseke Ita Ikpeme and Sylvanus Eta, one of the crew of the Panhard armoured car, Oguta Boy. Then the train moves to Port Harcourt to see the family of Emmanuel Agumah. Other sons of the soil,among them Ignatius Kogbara, S.N. Dikibo and Sylvanus Cookey. The warriors included Col. Joshua John (J.J) Brown, Capt. Willy Murray Bruce, Senator Ben’s brother and Victor Masi.

From the Garden City, next stop is Asaba. Col. Joe Achuzia is still bouncing. We all remember the Asaba massacre of 1967 and what followed in Isheagu and Igbodo. Delta is the land of Brigadiers Conrad Nwawo, Okonjo, Auntie Ngoo’s papa,and Mike Okwechime. And Navy Chief Wilfred Anuku who was also an Army Commander just like Ben Nwajei. Bini man Sam Loco Efe too.

Yenegoa should not be skipped, at least for the sake of Chief Frank Opigo and Major Okilo who led the 63 Brigade. He was as steeled as Captain Ebube who chose Nigeria while his brother-in-law, George Ozieh (NAE 232) flew Nigeria Army boss, Col. Joe Akahan to death. So was Capt. Chris Ogbolu, brother to Col. Gab Okonweze’s wife, Carol.

Onward to Ado Ekiti. The soil of Col. Adekunle Fajuyi and Ayo Fayose. No condemning the Yoruba. They gave Biafra Prof. Wole Soyinka and Tai Solarin. Col. Adebayo helped out after the war as much as Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya. Maj. Ganiyu Adeleke was on the same side with his course mates Majors T.I. Atumaka, Okonkwo and Ogbonna.

There was also Capt. David Brown, the American Red Cross pilot who was downed across Opobo on June, 5, 1968 alongside his crew of two Swedes and a Norwegian. Count Von Rosen was a hero, with his minicons. So were the Portuguese, Artur Alves, Manuel Reis and Gill Pinto de Sousa among many others.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/remembering-okokon-ndem/

Barfibassey:
we don't welcome propaganda people in our mist and set of people think they are better than others,i bet those tout you see are not akwa ibomites,cause our people are busy doing somthing good with their lifes and not making senseless dramatic noise about a defuct state that cause them heavy lost of their lifes and means of living stop draging others or blaming them for your misery failure,as for the crude oil is just a blessing from nature to us.

you mean you want to deny your elders? fake efik/ibibio man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUNA7GMkr3Q

MyNewJackeT:
OP you dont have the same food, language, tradition and culture with an Efik or Ibibio man, stop lying, in fact you are closer in culture and tradition and language to the south south than Efik and Ibibio in those two you mention, don't underestimate their silence of the fourth largest ethnic group. Because it shows its a 50/50 chance that they are with you.

secondly you need access to the sea because if you get Biafra you need access to bring imports and to also export things.

OP you dont have the same food, language, tradition and culture with an Efik or Ibibio man, stop lying

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5553340_govgodswillakpabio545x352_jpegbecb25d5cbd58a026efbb07d66805537

the nsibidi was used by igbos, ibibios and efik......we dont have anything in common

The picture i posted of former governor akpabio, on a good day if you dont know him and he is dressed like that which is his traditional dress, where will you think he is from? .....we dont have anything in common

The ekpo festival observed in some igbo communities was adopted from the efiks.........we dont have anything in common

Abiriba people of abia state share a mixture of igbo and ibibio ancestry same as Arochukwu and Aro ekot ekpene.......we dont have anything in common

Whats of religious pilgrimage to Arochukwu(which was like the Jerusalem of the old) observed by ijaw, ibibios, efiks,ogonis and igbos? ..........we dont have anything in common.

and by the way Ibibios are republican and individualistic in nature like the igbos

its either you are not ibibio or you are plain ignorant of our history and culture?

We both bear names like Inyang, Nya, Abasi, Obasi


in fact you are closer in culture and tradition and language to the south south than Efik and Ibibio in those two you mention

Please stop displaying your ignorance in the public. Who are the south south? do you mean ijaw? ogoni? which i dont want...they can go. They are so obsessed with oil that they cant see far..

the Midwestern delta, shares abit with some of our western igbo brothers but that still, I dont want oooooo. They can go on their own. We are fine alone or with the efiks, ibibio, and idoma if they will join on their own volition. The rest can do as they care.

Barfibassey:
As a efik and ibibio person we are not part of biafra,and we don't share any fvck,
that why your so call ebot'namndi kanu will never dare set is stinking foot in our land cause we are not ready to welcome he-goat in our mist .

By their words we shall know them..

The wee sat sat goons.

My wish is for the leadership of IPOB to remove all these Niger delta people.. I see them as a people who are not yet ready for their emancipation and are even more divided than any other region in Nigeria..Some want Nigeria, some want Bendel republic, some want akwacross republic, some want ijaw republic, some want Nigerdelta republic while some want Biafra.

They would be a bigger drag on Biafra moving forward if the so called Niger deltans are not speaking as one within themselves and with the igbos and on the same frequency and level

My suggestion to IPOB leadership is to work with the old map of Igboland...If at all we consider going along with any group at all, it should just be Efik, Ibibio and Idoma because these people are our closest cousins.Nature made us the same culture, similarity, food, religion,value system, geography except language which we still share similar words, meanings and intonation. They have always been there for us and dont show the much hatred and scorn towards us.

Those of mid-western (which shouldn't be there in the first place)and southernmost part of the Nigerdelta, suffer from deep inferiority complex, igbophobia and suspicion towards igbos, which to me seem almost permanent and wont change in the short term.Not even an igbo support for their son for presidency. They are not different from yorubas and hausa/fulani in resentment for Igbos. To them Biafra is igbo, so once they are not igbo, they are not biafra. even when they are the real Aborigines of biafra even than the igbos. The only difference between them and yoruba, hausa/fulani is they are minorities. if they have the numeric strength, i wonder the kind of evil they would have done to us. Old river state which they controlled is an example, we all saw what happened. From abandoned property in a bid to take our assets, they also instigated the locals to change street names. I doubt if igbos have ever exhibited such kind of hatred towards anybody or a people, or seek to take peoples land, asset or whatever.

There is warri crisis between ijaw and itshekiri who dont see eye to eye, is still there and a time bomb.

They are so sucked into oil that they cant think outside the box, in addition to having a very corrupt, greedy and ruthless set of leaders whose quests for oil allocation keep trading their children and future generations into slavery instead of seeking to liberate their people once and for all.

The same people will complain of been cheated, of their land polluted,of no roads and bad roads,absence of infrastructure, deteriorating health of their people because of pollution.

They are not stable, coordinated and organised. They are still living in denial and are yet to come to terms with their real identity, who they really are and what they want for themselves and their unborn.


Now my question is, what will happen if

By by 2019 IPOB calls for a boycott of election and it succeed in the whole south east and it fails in the south south region..

If igbo speaking parts of delta(anioma) boycott and others vote, delta election will be deem successful because Anioma is about 30/35% of delta. so they are not in the majority

In rivers the igbo speaking part are in the majority, but are they majority enough for a successful elections boycott and if other river state non igbo group vote, wont their vote be enough to deem the election successful?

All am asking is from a sincere concern...Am just curious...

Confused people. Today they want Nigeria, tomorrow they want Rondel, next they want Bendel, next they want Akwacross, next some want Biafra, some want Ijaw republic, others want resource control, some want restructuring, some want modular refinery and maritime university....

isn't it shameful that a people have to beg to get crumbs from what belongs to them? It is like a child begging for food from a stranger who has occupied and is feeding fat on his father's farm.

Truly, slavery is a thing of the mind. Once it is broken, the beginning of the journey to genuine freedom.

Lovers of freedom, wherever you are, be vigilant...The enemy is fighting his last battle. We will not give up biafra for anything not even in the face of death...

They will blackmail us in their media, lie against us, say things Nnamdi kanu did not say, twist the ones he said to fit their narratives,bring tv analyst that will analyse issues and events to suit their narrative to mislead the pubic.

They will create thousands of fake accounts on Facebook,twitter, Nairaland and other leading social media platforms with fake names, pretending to be igbo or Nigerdelta and would fight themselves online, post distorted narratives and lies all aimed at blackmailing the Igbos and dividing the S-east and the S-south.

They will form fake and paid civil organisations, NGO, right groups to issue out statements condemning our agitation.

They will bribe our leaders, elites, traditional rules and youth but they will all fail.

Ultimately,they will kill us but we will never give up because Biafra we shall have,Biafra we shall live in,Biafra we shall die for and Biafra we shall be buried in.

Cyynthia:
Fed govt is desperate to drag Nnamdi Kanu down, yet the man is busy growing stronger every day by day. How can you pay some miscreants money to say something against Kanu like you paid some hausas and my Yoruba Muslim brothers to engage in "I support Buhari protest" that took place in Abuja some days ago, saying that they are from Niger Delta while they don't know where SS is located in Nig map.?

This desperate steps by Fed govt won't stop Biafra from coming.
Biafra must come and we Yorubas must have our Oduduwa too, whether my muslim brothers like it or not. They can relocate to north if they don't want Oduduwa.
God bless my mentor, Adeyinka Grandson.

Below are the pictures of the so called Niger Delta youths that couldn't spell the names of their tribes correctly.
Shameless and desperate govt !!

Modified..... That first person that quoted me is my Yoruba Muslim brother. They are the least intelligent set of people in Yoruba land and they are very proud to exhibit their ignorance wherever they go..We Christians are ahead of them in all ramifications and they have chosen to drag us back in SW. There is nothing like Ogini but Ogoni.

Exposure is very important.

watch this video to the end. Nnamdi kanu had already predicted all these and talked about how people need not be distracted and keep their spirit high.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REWXy1gssA

this is more, this time Biafran daughters leading the peace walk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLoSDE72lck&t=475s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mlWdG7oO0

https://www.facebook.com/charles.ogbu2

From Charles Ogbu

Helloooooooo

Please, everyone,

Whether you are Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Urhobo, Edo or even Hausa/Fulani, as long as you have even the tiniest respect for the sanctity of human lives, I plead with you to open the link below and sign this petition.

This is but one out of number-less measures to ensure that those who seek to send Igbo race into extinction are stopped.

This measure is simply to protect every Igbo person living in the North.

You owe it to both God and man to help us do this.

Just open this link and sign after filling your few details and certifying that you are no robot.

After signing, please, distribute this petition to all corners of the earth. Send it even to your enemies to help us with their signature.

This is a matter of life and death, please.

We need to do this and we need to do it now!

Share this link with all your WhatSapp contacts, Facebook contacts, Instagram, Twitter, Imo, even 2go. We need as many signatures as we can get. And we need it now!

Just so you know, both the quit notice and the anti-Igbo hate song are as real as the fact that my name is Charles.

Your little role here is to sign this petition and get ALL your friends to do the same. EVERY OTHER ARRANGEMENTS ARE STILL IN PROGRESS by different groups.

Thank you everyone!




https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nigeria-quit-notice-to-igbo-people-stop-another-looming-genocide-now/sign.html#se

No picture, just gossip... hungry bloggers,fake news.

"After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first.

Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of history. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu.

There are Igbo men on the street, who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and maybe find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity"

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

ok..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO7VFaPQwFs&t=541s

Do you remember this video? most people see it as a joke. They dont know what is coming is bigger than they can ever imagine


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAD1wS-VBU

Do you remember this video? some people see it as a joke. They dont know what is coming is bigger than they can ever imagine


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAD1wS-VBU

Do you remember this video? some people see it as a joke. They dont know what is coming is bigger than they can ever imagine


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAD1wS-VBU

Do you remember this video? some people see it as a joke. They dont know what is coming is bigger than they can ever imagine


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAD1wS-VBU

BLOGGERS ESPECIALLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST, WHO DON'T GO OUTSIDE THE SOUTHWEST BUT ASSUME THEY KNOW EVERY THING..


HOW WILL REDEEMERS BE BIGGER THAN CARITAS UNIVERSITY OR MADONNA THAT ARE BOTH HIGHER INSTITUTIONS AND RELIGIOUS GROUNDS?

ESPECIALLY CARITAS THAT ALSO HAS A MONASTERY... TO ME CARISTAS UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE THE LARGEST PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN LANDMASS THAT I KNOW. IT ALSO BOARDERS GOFERY OKOYE UNIVERSITY AND AKANU IBIAM INTERNATION AIRPORT IN ENUGU

I HAVE BEEN TO REDEEMERS, COVENANT, AFE BABALOLA AND BOWEN SO YES I KNOW.

The same Egbema spited by the Nigerian state Imo, Rivers and Delta states...all of a sudden, the ones in delta and rivers are not Igbos because of Oil and they are not in the south east.....SMH

Khodorkovsky:
never wanted it tribal tho , let see south east states.

you guys are so insecured that you dont even know when someone is genuinely concerned and when it is a tribal bash....

you are comparing Lagos, your supposedly sophisticated and advanced city to random places in the east,is that not shameful?

To you the projections and predictions on paper are much more important than the threat of flood, outbreak of disease and its dirty environment.....Typical Afonja

instead of dealing with the threat of flood, dirt and outbreak of epidemic that will occur, they are there deceiving the public.

Government better get serious and dont get carried away by all these misleading titles, awards and projections.....In 20yrs time Lagos will be underwater

Third fastest growing mega slum....Mtchew

This a trending picture on Facebook, hence i want to share it here.

Facial and physical beauty does not mean beauty under and inside...There are many of them here on Nairaland.

GoldNiagara:
For those of you that want to argue who is the first in mathematics between Ezeilo and Olubummo, take this and keep shut forever, Olubummo got his PhD in 1955 while Ezeilo got his MSC in 1955. See the difference.

i get am before no be property.