it is Area boys OPC Hudlums like you that are giving one Nigeria a bad name. OPC area boys turggs like you going around disrespectiong other ethnic groups in Nigeria and provoking people in the name of one Nigeria. You are an as-- ho-- which I think don't even believe in one Nigeria. I doubt seriously if you do believe in one Nigeria, you are just using one Nigeria to provoke this people.

It is coward yorubas like you who kill our people in shagamu and Ibadan then you will come here to pick up fight with our Igbo brothers/sisters in the name of one Nigeria. Personally as a northern I will trust an Igbo before I will trust your coward as-- Yoruba.

I have read every post you have made on this board and I am yet to see any intelligent post from you. All you do is going from thread to thread with one liner provocation rubbish. Stop this your phony one Nigeria insanity some of us who truely believes that Nigeria can be save doesn't buy it. Give me one sound argument you have made on this board to promote understand and dialog among Nigerians. Instead you cowardly go from thread to threading engaging in hit and run. That is what your Yorubas are known for hit and run. They talk the talk but will never walk the walk. When the going gets tough they are usually no where to be found.

Disciplined mind don't engage in insult tirades, and principled mind don' patronize in order to be accepted. Please be a man and stop the patronization. I will rather be lonely than to join multitude to commit evil.

Furthermore, stop making assumptions to look like reality. Assumption will always be an assumption, and reality will always be a reality. We have probably never met and yet, in the figment of your imagination, you have concluded what my ethnic background is.

I am glad that at least, we are on the same side that Nigeria should remain one. I am more than willing to learn from you on how to convince my “Biafran Brethrens” to abandon the course to divide my beloved Nigeria.

An Evening with Biafra: A Reporter’s Notebook
By Rudolf Okonkwo http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/okonkwo/042401.html

“I have seen the future. I am happy to say that the future is Biafra”, so
proclaimed a witness.

n Friday, April 20, 2001, I was present at Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New
Jersey, where Igbos from the New York – New Jersey axis hosted Chief Ralph
Uwazurike. I came, I saw, I believed. Ralph Uwazurike, Uche Ukwukwu and
Prince Longinus Orjiakor epitomized courage. By their words, thoughts, and
actions, the trio is obviously determined to take the dead country called
Nigeria to its final resting-place. I heard Uwazurike say to the audience,
again and again, “I will surprise you!”

The spirits of dead Biafrans must have smiled. Igbos from all walks of life
came out en masse to welcome the leader of the Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). Organized by the
Igbo USA of New Jersey in conjunction with other pan Igbo groups like
PANDEM, World Igbo Congress, and Igbo Organization of New York amongst
others, it was an evening of reawakening. The once proud and progressive
people of the lower Niger, again, resolved to regain their freedom, their
homeland and their manhood.

In his address to the gathering, Chief Uwazurike explained the mission of
MASSOB as the actualization of Biafra. He revealed that MASSOB has 23 steps
towards Biafra’s actualization and wondered how the powers that be would
behave when MASSOB gets to step 6, if already there is panic in the land at
step 3 where MASSOB currently is. Igbos, he said, would remain slaves in
Nigeria if Biafra is not actualized. He announced the new policy of
establishing frontline states essential to the struggle. “You cannot do
anything in Nigeria without the frontline states”, he said. The concept of
the frontline states is part of MASSOB’s strategy for mobilizing all the
diverse ethnic groups in the former Eastern Nigeria for the challenge ahead.
MASSOB, he said, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ijaws and
is looking to do the same with all the other groups in the former Eastern
region. This, he said, would help establish a unifying front against all who
feed on the resources of eastern Nigeria while leaving the territory
desolate and in ruins.

“There is nothing like one Nigeria”, says the MASSOB leader. “It is the
absence of oneness in Nigeria that makes people shout one Nigeria.” He
described Obasanjo as an enemy of the Igbos and warned, “Your enemy cannot
take care of you.” To Igbos who ally themselves with the Hausa- Fulani
ruling clan, Chief Uwazurike admonished that the time is coming when they
would explain to Igbos the Hausa that they speak. “We have to show our anger
to them and until their sabotage is ended, Igbos will remain slaves. Let the
voices of dissent move to Yorubaland or Hausaland.”

Chief Uwazurike appealed to Igbos abroad to begin to formulate the policy of
Ndi Igbo from their bases. He described Igbos abroad as the refined ones who
would be difficult to corrupt. “Design the policy”, he charged, “and leave
the implementation for us”. He described the current fuel shortage in
Eastern Nigeria as a shameful thing. “There was no fuel shortage during
Biafra” he lamented. The current friction MASSOB is having with fuel dealers
in Eastern Nigeria, he said, was as a result of the greed of these dealers.
Governors, ministers and senators, own most of these fuel stations, the
MASSOB leader stated. Because of that, they use the might of the government
to descend on MASSOB members who are trying to ensure that people in the
East buy fuel at the price people in other parts of Nigeria pay for fuel.

During the reception, an appeal fund was lunched in support of MASSOB and
over $10,000 dollars was raised on the spot. “We are proud beggars,” MASSOB
leader said. “If you give us money, we shall continue. If you do not give us
money, we shall also continue.” He revealed that his organization was yet to
receive any form of support from Igbos at home and abroad. Neither was any
country backing MASSOB. “All we had were things we sourced out ourselves.”
He narrated instances where the government tried to bribe him. “I do not
like money”, he said, “because money brings evil… I had only one bus but the
police shattered it.” Chief Uwazurike however asked Igbos to support Biafra
because it is good.

As a strategy to ensure that fuel scarcity is a thing of the past in Eastern
Nigeria, Chief Uwazurike declared that MASSOB would, from May 1st 2001, stop
all fuel tankers loaded with fuel from leaving Eastern Nigeria. He explained
that it is unacceptable for 75% of fuel from Eastern Nigeria to be taken to
the North while less than 7% is allotted to eastern Nigeria. “I will ensure
that our supporters see to it that fuel loading out of Eastern Nigeria is
stopped. We have to do that for the interest of the East.”

Also speaking at the occasion, Uche Okwukwu, the leader of the Congress for
the Liberation of Ikwere People called for the unity of the minorities of
Eastern Nigeria with the Igbos. “Igbos,” he said, “have not been protective
of the minorities, so they are running to Hausas and Yorubas”. The fierce
looking revolutionary who helped in the defense of Ken Saro Wiwa proclaimed
that the youths of the east must stop the flow of oil as a base for
negotiation. He described the members of the ruling caliphates in the north
as brutal self-servers who would use anybody at their disposal and dump them
after. “They used the Middle Belt to prosecute the Biafran War. Since 1976,
when they felt the area was no longer of any use, they have been crushing
the Middle Belt.” He went on to say that, “the Yorubas and the Hausas have
shared Nigeria. They now quarrel amongst themselves on who should rule
Nigeria…they are still looting. When these people finish Nigeria, when
Nigeria becomes dry, they will call for secession.” Uche Okwukwu called
MASSOB a rallying point for the entire East. “A divided East cannot stop the
North or the West”, he asserted.

Different dignitaries present at the occasion expressed their gratitude to
Chief Uwazurike who has staked his life to see to the actualization of
Biafra. “Since 1970, no Igbo man has done for Ndi Igbo what this man has
done since he began MASSOB” proclaimed, Uche Okwukwu. Also speaking at the
event, the President of Igbo Organization of New York, Chief Okike Nwankwo,
announced, “we shall support this war with Nigeria from now till time
without end.” The Chairman of PANDEM called Chief Uwazurike the essence of
PANDEM.

The smiling and amiable-looking Chief Uwazurike was not one of your regular
revolutionaries. He was soft spoken and warm. The mystery of his looks
concurred with the surprises of his convictions. He seemed fully committed
and, all through the night appeared reflective, pensive and undaunted.

Behind the euphoria of the night stood a steep mountain to climb. Uwazurike,
it seemed, had since identified Nigeria’s failure not just as a result of
poor leadership, but also as a conspiracy of the ruling Hausa elite whose
continued determination to decide the fate of the people of Nigeria by
collective deceit has thrown the country into a big mess. Uwazurike has
abandoned the illusion that Nigeria could possibly progress while still
giving any form of relevance to the Hausa-Fulani. His struggle is in line
with the struggle of all those who believe that Obasanjo should be the last
trick that should be allowed to emerge from the goatskin bag of the North.

The significance of Uwazurike is the ascension of a new thought process that
is deeply rooted in reality, devoid of emotional bias – a thought process
that has identified the incompatibility of the diverse cultures in a single
nation where prejudices are deeply entrenched, and the arrogance of the
different key players an obstacle to possible compromise. He has heaped in
the dustbin of history, the possibility that an arrangement could be worked
out to bring people whose existence and diversity is comparable to having
people like the Germans, the Saudis and the Irish under one country.

The singular fact that the Americans allowed Chief Uwazurike to visit the
United States and raise money was a sign of a possible shift in Washington’s
policy towards the fast evolving crises of legitimacy facing Nigeria. With
this visit, Uwazurike will cease to appear as a mere irritant to Nigerian
government. Now apparent to Nigerian government is the fact that, if
anything happens to Chief Uwazurike, it will answer to Igbos abroad and the
international community. Having received the overwhelming mandate of Igbos
abroad, Uwazurike is undoubtedly going to be reinvigorated and with the
right advice, he might surprise that nation called Nigeria and achieve a
goal he seemed destined to fulfill. As he made his final remark at the
occasion, Chief Uwazurike told his audience “From tomorrow, I’ll begin the
work of Biafra.”

That tomorrow is here. And chances are that Chief Ralph Uwazurike may
surprise us all.

Chukwu gozie a-ny'umu Biafra
Anyi kwere na gi ke-re anyi
Zota'anyi naka nd'iro ni-le
Bi-ko, nur'olu'mu gi
Bi-ko, nur'olu'mu gi

When the youths of South Africa were marching forward towards freedom their parents were scared to death and never believed they would succeed. Some did not even know it will happen in their life time.

When God's judgement comes as it is approaching in the case of Nigeria ABSOLUTELY no one can stop it.

All it takes for any visitor to know this is to first of read the "Ahiara Declaration", then read "Ekwe Nche" respond to Obasanjo lies about the cause of the war and then proceed to read the report on MASSOB leaders visit to USA and then read Bro. David West's article in Nigeriaworld entilted if am not mistaking "I have just returned from Nigeria" and then land on Bro, Chima Njoku's response to O/Tunde.