Onlike other travellers, I am a what can be discribed as a discerning traveller, by this I mean if it requires goeing on foot, I will do; if it's on bike, I will ride; ion verhicle, I will drive or be driven and if happens that one need to fly, I will sure do that.What I am trying to say is that I am not one of those when they travel to such poor places like BiafraNigeria, they insist on be chauffer-driven, hence, they end up not being part of the environment they visit or live. I discovered that the safest and cheapest way to enjoy your stay in BiafraNigeria is one to go "local", both in dressing and in eating as soon as one arrives there.
INFRASTRUCTUE: From Lagos to Calabar and from Calabar to Sokoto, Nigeria is a country in tartters infratructure-wise, like is always the case, the most affected part is Igboland, there, there is virtually no evidence of the so-called "democracy divident", from the death-traps that goes for road to the non-functioning telephone lines to the completely brocken-down energy supply (electricity), etc, one counld't help than to ask "what are the Igbos still doing in Nigeria?". The abandonment is to say the least inhuman.

ECONOMY: Except for survival through buy-and-sell pervalent in most BiaNigerian "cities", theres just nothing to talk about the economy of the "giat of Africa". The Seaports are congested because the Nigeria Customs insist on discharging every container that arrives BiafraNigeria, and after that is done, the Customs them dis out custom tarrifs which make some importers to abandone their containers at the Warf for those greedy officers to later sell and bank in their private accounts and the most affected are the Igbos who happen to be majority of the importers - another war on Igbos ofcourse.
The good news is that most of the shoes and cloths worn in BiafraNigeria is either made in Aba or Onitsha. Were Nigeria to have purposeful leaders they would have encouraged those manufacturing these products so that the can compete or surpass the Italians and other western countries that earn their foreign exchange from this sector of their economy.
Though Nigeria is the sixth oil exporter in the world, there is accute scarcity of petrol (gasoline) and allied products throughout BiafraNigeria. Unfortunately, the places I saw the longest queue of vehicles waiting some for days and weeks at petrol stations to buy petrol are in the "oil producing" Delta towns of Port-Harcourt (Rivers State), Ikot-Ekpene and Uyo (Akwa Ibom), Calabar (Cross Rivers State), Asaba and Umunede (Delta state) and Benin-city (Edo State). Ironically, when I visited the northern towns o Abuja, Kubwa, near Abuja, Minna and Suleija (Niger State), the queues at the petrol stations were shorter.
A "one Nigerian" Igbo friend of mine who accompanied me to northern Nigeria almost came to shedding tears when she saw the wide, well-tared roads from Suleja to Minna and from Abuja through Ibadan to Lagos, ever since then, she has started re-thinking her "one Nigeria."

The Naira as at when I left sells for 136 Naira a Dollar and 62 Naira for a Deutschmark.

POLITICS: The news going arround is that Orji Kalu, the Abia State governor has been "ordained" by the anti-Obasanjo forces, e.g. Babangida to take a shot at the presidency come 2003. That is why he is now against MASSOB, unfortunately for him (Orji Kalu), MASSOB, unlike Ohaneze enjoys grassroot support especially in Aba and Umuahia (Abia State) and most of Igboland, therefor, me think he is starting a battle he will surely lose.
In return, as it is reported, Obasanjo has bribed Jim Nwobodo and Anyim the Senate president to re-launch his sagging acceptance in Igboland, from what I read and saw, Jim Nwobodo & Co will find that it's easier for a camel to pass through a neddle than for Obasanjo to win a free and fair election in Igboland come 2003 (that is if the election will hold in Igboland atall). From all indications and as agreed by most BiafraNigeria political watchers and pundits, the battle for who rules BiafraNigeria will be fought, won and lost in Igboland.

For the progress of Biafra, the likes of Jim Nwobodo, Anyim, Orji Kalu, Udenwa, Mdadinuju, Ekwueme, Ojo Maduekwe, etc, has to be neutralized from influence in BiafraNigeria.
Ohaneze should be read the riot act. They are the obstacle to Biafra progress. Awusa/Fulani/Obasanjo are no formidable obstacle to Biafra Actualization once these saboteurs are out of the way.
New Biafrans, this is your priority task.

It was in 2000 that I inspected, firsthand, the deliberate efforts by the governments of BiafraNigeria to keep Biafrans and Ndigbo down. In the area of human development, they have failed to keep Biafrans down. But, the reason for their failure is that much of Biafran human talent is now being developed outside BiafraNigeria where the infirmities of Biafranigeria cannot touch them.

It is our duty to harness this vast reservoir of human talent and use it to liberate our people. Again, unfortunately, even some of the people who fought in the first Biafran war have become disillusioned. They do not understand the struggle and cannot find a role for themselves in the struggle for new Biafra. Some of them are still hoping against all hope that BiafraNigeria will get its act together. They have become fatalists – ready to cast their lot with the moribund republic of BiafraNigeria. As much as we are grateful to them for their efforts of yesteryears, we cannot permit their defeatist posture get in the way of the struggle. Not even they will forgive us if we fail.

Guten morgen,
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