Do you remember the following posts of yours? In your warning to BiafraNigeria about "Biafra Internet, Inc.," and the "Rampage of BiafraNigeriaWorld" you boasted and congratulated yourself for containing what you called "Oodua Revanchism" in Ilorin Do you remember those posts?

Now fast-forward. "Biafra Internet, Inc." is still very much around and the Yoruba are macheting your people out of Lagos. Is oil really worth all that to you Hausa-Fulani rogues?

I'll hate to think we've heard the last of this war.....not with that bloodied awusa boy. I expect Muhammadu Buhari to respond soonest.
Those OPC boys don't know what they are doing. The weapons in the cantonment has been destroyed and the foot soldiers have publicly disobeyed their Brigadier-general who fled to Atiku's car. Atiku had spent the previous weekend at Minna in the company of messrs IBB and Abdulsalami and from there he issued a statement ruling out Sabotage in the fire incident.

Meanwhile Bola Tinubu who hails from Mushin had been advised there'd been a coup and according to this Reuter's report yoruba warlord Obasanjo now agrees Sabotage "may" be the cause of the EXPLOSIONS.

After hearing that an Awusa boy set a petrol Station ablaze beacause the queue was too long, I do not hesitate to predict that the nomads will fight back.

And I hope this funny man will have more stuff to write about his confident Yoruba people. Things like this will always happen when they tell a big lie.

I now have cause to believe that all the so-called errors in Abati's trash were deliberate. What with this "DR" writing from Jos(or so he claims) stating categorically that the Biafran Igbo has no oil. Geez, what has he been smoking? Even in the Shagari days, Mbakwe's Imo was the third largest oil producer behind Rivers and Bendel.

This new Oduduwa revisionism and fascination with Biafra and secession must be the product of a well thought out plan (which also sells their drab tabloids). Little wonder Obasanjo boasted in Kwara that Biafrans should prepare for a long struggle.

I read the same article and could not believe the convenient way Biafra was explained away.

I strongly believe the focus on Igbo/Biafra (when we clearly have other self determination groups in Nigeria) is deliberate. We must be very careful, the ground is being prepared for something; your guess is as good as mine!

However, to be fair to this particular writer, when comparing his article to many other articles from the Lagos-press, the writer did seem to have done some home work.
Therefore, we cannot discount his piece outright.

We are told, we should prefer Nigeria to Biafra and Igbos/Biafra (and I guess, other nationalities who care to join) will face hostile neighbours they were on there own. Where does this absurd logic come from!

According to archological evidence (and following strictly scientific evidence), Igbos are in there second/third millennia at
their present homeland. We (Ndi'Igbo) do not have an imperial past (unlike some) and have lived with our sister-nationalities for a very, very long time.

Assuming for a moment, the wrong assumptions we have read about were correct; why were the Igbos not denied access to the sea by their sister-nationalities in pre-colonial one-Nigeria? Better still, our sister-nationalities could have starved us (Ndi'Igbo) out of existence. Remember, trading in pre-colonial one-Nigeria was well established before the arrival of the British colonialist and Igbo were involed in commerce well before the advent of one-Nigeria.

I'm not surprised that the article was written at all, one-Nigeria is place where rumours and falsehoods hold sway, and distortions and perversions are left unquestioned.

The fascinating thing for me is simple; here is a writer trying to convince Ndi'Igbo not to "secede" from Nigeria and ends up resorting to patronising and scare-mongering as a means of achieving his goal.

Food for Thought: Should we decide the time is right, we (Ndi'Igbo) have suffered unimaginable anguish and death in great numbers, under the roof of your one-Nigeria. No pain will be new pain to us.

Mon Feb 4,10:04 AM ET

By Tume Ahemba

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces fought gunbattles with rioters Monday as they tried to quell tribal clashes which have left dozens dead on the heels of a catastrophic armory fire in Nigeria's biggest city.

The fighting has dealt a new blow to Africa's most populous nation, already reeling from the bloodiest violence in 30 years, a police mutiny and the munitions dump blasts which caused at least 1,000 deaths.

Fighting erupted overnight on the outskirts of Lagos between Hausas from northern Nigeria -- some armed with bows and arrows -- and militia members from President Olusegun Obasanjo's Yoruba tribe in the southwest.

Police joined by troops at first appeared to have restored calm to the smoking, corpse-littered streets of the Mushin district during the morning, but then violence exploded again.

"There were about three dozen militia members and they started shooting at police. The police fired back and the gunbattle lasted about 15 minutes," Reuters photographer George Esiri said.

"The police pulled out to get more armaments, then came back and resumed firing."

Police sources said some 20 people had died since Saturday. Residents put the toll at dozens.

Governor Bola Tinubu lamented the timing of the ethnic bloodletting, a week after the January 27 explosion at the Ikeja military barracks in which hundreds died. Most of the more than 1,000 dead were killed in a stampede to escape flying shrapnel.

"I have asked security forces to deal decisively with acts of violence and public order," Tinubu said in a broadcast address. "Enough is enough."

Police, returning to work after an unprecedented strike the government had branded a mutiny, made dozens of arrests on Sunday.

The precise cause of the fighting was unclear, but residents said it followed a minor row between a Yoruba and a Hausa family.

LAGOS TENSE

Lagos has been tense since the Ikeja blasts, which sent tempers soaring among soldiers at the key barracks in the coup-prone country. Thousands of army families had their homes flattened by cascading rockets and bombs.

Nigeria has been ruled by the army for all but a dozen years since independence from Britain in 1960, and many who panicked during the armory blaze thought they were fleeing a coup attempt.

Since its return to civilian administration under Obasanjo in 1999, Nigeria has suffered repeated spells of bloody ethnic violence, costing thousands of lives.

Confirming the estimated armory disaster toll of about 1,000 civilians killed, Obasanjo told a television panel on Sunday that it was too early to say what started the inferno.

"It could be negligence, it could be an accident, it could be sabotage, it could be anything."

He said the conclusions of a secret military inquiry into one of Nigeria's worst disasters would be made public.

Human rights lawyers said last week they suspected saboteurs were responsible for the armory blast. They made a link with the alleged shifting of military stockpiles from the north, which had dominated power under army rule, to Obasanjo's southwestern region.

There was no official comment on their statement.

Home to more than 110 million people, Nigeria is a patchwork of more than 250 ethnic groups that have tussled for power and control of its mainstay oil resources since independence.

From the egbeomo.com article, I noticed that Mr. Tunde Orogundade made a great deal of effort to tell us that the pogroms were "sins committed against the Igbos in northern Nigeria." One then wonders if Ikeja where Igbo soldiers were butchered is also in northern Nigeria. Is Diya a northerner? Was it the Hausa that stole Igbo property in Lagos and called it abandoned? Recently, an Igbo from Nnewi wrote about his family's ordeal in Lagos, in the days before the war. Was it the Hausa that told that fellow or so made it that he and his family's safety could not be protected in Lagos?

The only thing certain in these Hausa-Yoruba clashes in Lagos is that they inexorably reaffirm the primacy of the Hausa over the Yoruba. If necessary, the Hausa-Fulani murderers and their Middle-Belt cohorts will use tanks to crush the Yoruba OPC thugs in Lagos. Mr. Ogundade is advised to focus on the issue of Yoruba political impotence and stop worrying about Biafra. Biafra is ours to worry about, and if indeed there is more activity about Biafra in the US than there is in BiafraNigeria, that is because we are better able to see through the Nigerian ruse and we have established necessary initial chasm between us and the barbarities of Abuja and Lagos dare not cross.

IBB's rejection of Abiola election victory established that the Yoruba are an emasculated race. In the illusion of Obusonjo's ascendancy, the Yoruba believe that they are on the same footing with their Hausa-Fulani co-conspirators. Nothing could be more ridiculous. The Yoruba had no say in Obasanjo's (s)election, and they will have none in his removal from office. Obasanjo is the only Yoruba that the Hausa are able to tolerate. Once he is gone, the fight will return to where it always was - between the north and the East. We hold the Awusa and Yoruba equally responsible for their torture, murder, and pillaging of Nd'Igbo, as well as their despoliation of BiafraNigeria. We continue to recognize the inconsequential status of the Yoruba in BiafraNigeria.

But, When Obasanjo's tenure comes to an end either naturally or as a result of the north's exercise of its coup privilege, the Yoruba will once again start to see their second-fiddle status as starkly as I do. Biafra WILL BE ACTUALIZED. Neither the Yoruba nor the Awusa will be able to stop us.

One more thing. No Nigerian who has murdered an Igbo or Biafran should go to bed and hope to wake up peacefully the next morning, merely because he believes that we are all followers of Ghandi. Some of us read Ghandi only as an intellectual exercise, and in the fullness of time, the Nigerians will learn that the campaign for Biafra is NOT a contest for the Nobel Peace Prize.

…And then it will be said that no one knows who that knife-wielding barbarian is.

You can expect more of this as long as the Yoruba and Hausa remain in the same country. In 1967, the opportunist, Awolowo, took the easy way out. The saga of BiafraNigeria will end, not in Igbo military defeat of the Nigerians, but in the Hausa conquest of the Yoruba or the mutual annihilation of the Hausa and the Yoruba.

Hail Biafra

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Fighting between the militant Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and the Hausa community which erupted in Idi-Araba Saturday entered its third day yesterday, spreading to Onipanu, Mushin, Lawanson and Itire areas of Lagos.

The death toll has hit 55 and more than 200 wounded, 57 seriously.

Daily Trust observed that economic and social activities have grounded to a stand still as schools and commercial houses were under lock and key throughout Idi-Araba, Lawanson, Mushin and Itire yesterday.

The OPC militia who re-launched their attack on the Hausa community in Idi-Araba Sunday night killing many more people and burning more houses, also attacked Northerners selling onions at the Babalosa market in Mushin and those selling live fowls in Onipanu area of Somolu Local Government.

Several dead bodies were still littering the ground at Idi-Araba and Onipanu when Daily Trust visited both places yesterday.

Many of the displaced Hausa residents of Idi-Araba were seen being evacuated in military trucks to Abalti barracks prepared for victims of January 27 Lagos bomb explosions.

Army trucks made several trips yesterday evacuating victims to the Abalti barracks. Even those whose houses were not burnt were seen trooping out of the troubled area into the premises of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) under police protection.

Some of the victims now taking refugee at LUTH whom Daily Trust spoke to, gave a gory account of the incident. One of them, Malam Saqig Abubakar told Daily Trust that all his house and other properties had been burnt by the OPC militia.

According to him, he and his family managed to escape by scaling a fence when the hoodlums invaded his house at about 2.00 a.m yesterday, when the curfew was supposed to be in force.

Another victim, Hajia Biliki Susule told Daily Trust that her husband was killed and their properties burnt down. �gWe just heard �ekill them, they are Hausas�f and before, we could know what was happening, they had started beating my husband until he eventually died.

Police joined by soldiers tried to quell the riots and at first appeared to have restored calm to the smoking corpse-littered streets of the Mushin during the morning, but then violence exploded again.

�gThere were about three dozen militia members and they started shooting at police. The police fired back and the gun battle lasted about 15 minutes,�h an eye witness said.

�gThe police pulled out to get more armaments, then came back and resumed firing,�h he added.

The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed over Idi-Araba by the Lagos State government to forestall further violence was ineffective as the police were overwhelmed by OPC militia.

A fleeing resident told Daily Trust that they were only asked to go into sleep early but that there were no police to enforce the curfew.

Miscreants capitalised on the collapse of law and order to unleash further terror and mayhem on the people.

Meanwhile, Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu met with leaders of the OPC and Hausa communities who were said to have agreed on the evacuation.

However, Daily Trust gathered yesterday evening that the Nigerian army had quelled the three days of fighting between the ethnic gangs that left more than 55 dead and more than 200 wounded.

Dozens of heavily armed soldiers and police patrolled the streets, bringing an apparent end, at least, to violence that had raged since Saturday, an AFP correspondent said.

Soldiers and police staged joint patrols through the Mushin district after three days of Yoruba-Hausa violence.

�gWe have restored order,�h one of the patrolling soldiers said. Lagos State Information Commissioner, Dele Alake confirmed that order had been restored.

�gWe have joint military-police patrols going on in the affected areas and they will continue. We have mop-up operations going on,�h he added.

Army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Olukolade told AFP that the soldiers had been ordered onto the streets to bring a swift halt to violence which erupted Saturday in Mushin.

Let us assume, all he wrote is true, Biafrans are better off going away from the present fraud called Nigeria. No amount of blackmail and lies will change the mind of any right thinking Biafran. What are these people afraid of? Can't the Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani exist without Biafrans?

Can't these people read the hand writting on the wall? Everything points to Nigeria as a failed country. We have been in this marraige for over forty years, yet it is still the same rubbish we are facing. If we do not act now,Our children yet unborn will not forgive us if we fail to take them out of this hell called Nigeria. Mr Arogundade the present predicament of Biafrans in Nigeria is very temporary, time will prove me right, Enjoy the current stealing of Biafran resources, someday this looting will be over.

[ February 05, 2002: Message edited by: chima njoku ]

I fancy them killing each for one thing they deserve each other but being a menace to Igbo businesses makes me wana puke. It demonstrates more than joblessness and hopelessness in the Yoruba/Hausa community. It simply depicts their undeniable and unbearable envy and of course a vindictive desire to steal from hard working people.

Will someone tell me the reason why these parasitic race are fighting each other? There is no simple reason but their status of chronic unemployment and joblessness. No skill, no attempt to creat one or become self support by any means reasonable. The Hausa appear to have an edge because they tend to be street hawkes in smoke shops and suya but the Yoruba youth will rather savage from others than find means of becoming self sufficient.

These bastards will not have time to fight each other if they have skills. Now why would any one with trade have the time to destroy and fight another person instead spend time expanding his trade. The Hausa and Yoruba are the reason Nigeria will not progress. They both lack the motivation to discover, be creative and take chances in business adventure.

These two groups have come to hate each other to the open. And it is dangerous for Igbo business and waypoint one towards the bulkanization of this country called Nigeria.

These riots have been going on for too long and each time we are told it's disgruntled ex soldiers, when is Aremu going to go after them. Like Benbella asked at egbeomo is it the retired generals that refused to pay the police and civil service salaries while buying jets and travelling the world? I guess the generals also tampered with the electoral act.

A poor workman blames his tools. Obasanjo has made his bed with thorny roses he should now go sleep on it.