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Okeman, You're an exemplary Biafran, just a few like you will make the greatest impact on Biafran actualisation. keep the good job and may the Almighty GOD be on your side.
Ednut, The use of the thread is "chi na aka gi" inshort, ibu otule mmadu.
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The purpose of the thread is simple, Igbos are sick of the nonesense called Nigeria. They are demanding for their freedom, and want out of Nigeria hell. Even an insane person can make sense out that video. One thing is granteed Nigeria can not be the way it is today for too long. Time will definitely change events in nigeria. No normal people will tolerate the goings on in Nigeria for ever. This is the stark reality that faces Nigerians and their useless leaders.. Nigerians are in this mess for this long period because the average Nigerian do not know what a good government is all about. Nigerian's have not witnessed any good government since the inception of that useless country.
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Igbos acquire 75 percent of the land in Abuja, Good Business or bad investment? I say a very Bad business and a very high risk Investiment. History does not lie. The Hausas are not Allah fearing people, they destructive based on the satanic verses. No one, including me has noticed any change in behavior exhibited by the North before and after the civil war. They have the violent tendencies to slash and burn when Mohammed is either touched the wrong way or right way. History also shows that the Igbos have not recovered back their property deemed Abandoned Property by the Nigerian Government. I like to say times have changed but the Hausas have unpredictable violence behavior. Investment in a foriegn country; the North in particular is bad for the Igbos and good for the hoodlums
Hail Biafra
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I've just finished writing a non-fiction novel about Biafra the land of the raising sun, which started as my reminescenting about Biafra. While writing it, it took me back in time to the past and make me wonder how if we could achieve what we did in those horrible thirty months, why are are present leaders runing around the western world begging for handouts. My answer is we've let the blind lead the sighted. HAIL BIAFRA: The Land Of The RAISING SUN
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You don't have to tell us about a fabricated book that will only sell at Okija shrine. Enough of that crap. Let's move on.
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NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE Friday, Aug. 23, 1968 Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere RSS Guided by burning flares, a transport plane dipped down out of the night over Biafra last week and landed with a shipment of condensed food for the secessionist state's starving population. When soldiers guarding the airstrip saw its cargo, they burst unashamedly into tears. On a country road a few miles away, relief workers held out bits of food to a group of hungry children. They ran, not knowing what to do with it. "We are going to have to teach a generation of children how to eat again," said a Canadian nurse. In the border town of Ikot Ekpene, the emaciated bodies of a brother and sister lay side by side in a rough cradle. Their eyes had been pecked out by vultures still circling overhead, waiting to attack a line of wasted bodies in a ditch outside of town.
Related Articles EMERGENT Africa has known more than its share of strife and bloodshed, from the Mau Mau terror in Kenya to the carnage of Congolese secession. But in scope of suffering, in depth of bitterness, in the seeming hopelessness of any solution short of wholesale slaughter, there is no parallel to the tragedy that has been gathering force the past 14 months in Nigeria—once Africa's brightest hope for successful nationhood. One of the opposing forces, wielding a full array of modern weapons from Britain, Russia and much of Europe, is the federal government of Nigeria. It is determined to crush a rebellion that it feels will destroy its republic. On the other side, armed chiefly with determination, stands the secessionist state of Biafra, the home of Nigeria's Ibo tribe. The Ibos are convinced that they are fighting not only for independence but for their survival as a people.
The Biafrans are losing. Outnumbered and outgunned, they have been inexorably driven into a landlocked cir cle of rain forest entirely surrounded by federal forces. Their single remaining lifeline to the outside world is a widened stretch of blacktop road that serves as a nighttime landing strip for supply planes—when the planes can run the gauntlet of federal radar-controlled antiaircraft fire. But they are not only losing the war: slowly but surely, eight million Biafrans are starving to death. Gradually, the image of Biafra's human agony has unsettled the conscience of the world. That image is of Ibo infants and children with anguished, vacant eyes, distended bellies, shriveled chests and matchstick limbs crippled from edema. The world has protested in the form of silent marches of New Yorkers outside the United Nations building, impassioned debates in Britain's Parliament and West Germany's Bundestag, shillings and sixpences collected by Tanzanian schoolchildren and in the appeal of a "deeply distressed" Pope Paul VI. Despite the world's horror, the efforts of the Organization of African Unity, the personal intervention of Emperor Haile Selassie and four separate confrontations across the bargaining table, the fighting and the starvation go on.
Physical Ruin. The symbol of Biafran resistance is Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a brooding hulk of a man who leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably as
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the eastern region planning to secede from the rest of the federation and on the 30th day of May 1967, after exhausting all avenues to peacefully resolving the killing of the Ibos in the north and west, the eastern region seceded from Nigeria calling themselves the Republic of Biafra with these words from Ojukwu:
“Affirming your trust and confidence in me; having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic. Now therefore I Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of ‘THE REPUBLIC OF
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