Poverty is bad and can push people into situations they do not want to find themselves. In summary therefore, it can be argued without fear of contradiction that it’s to IPOB’s credit, that Nigeria is now on the table for discussion to determine its future. Therefore, it is important that all parties, from the federal authorities to the new Biafrans, show good faith and meet and listen to each other. But what can be done, and done fairly easily, is to show through electing people who believe in self-determination and self-governance to the state houses in the East and to represent the East in Abuja. Without going too far, Nigerian graduates can signup on Hubpages to start publishing articles and earn money from advertisers as one of the means of earning through ICT. We risk the top position going to the Igbo in 2019,“ the source noted. Most of these schools have top notch facilities and quality staff. In the country’s south, protests have been met by a bloody response from the Nigerian military, stoking the fire and galvanizing support for an independent state of Biafra. Today, we should reflect back and ask ourselves what benefits and gains have we got from all these?
Also, shortly before the civil war, Zik warned his kinsmen from the east against secession because he didn’t want the country he had fought for all his life dismembered. The idea of a referendum is the best test of whether Nigerians really want to remain in one country or go their separate ways in peace. Two of the daughters were virgins and one was already carrying a three-month-old pregnancy. My Lords, I do not apologise for speaking on this subject, even at this late hour, because it is one of great importance. It is politically correct to say we want to remain together (without scientific proof) and treasonable to say I want to go. Prior to independence, and afterwards, many threats of a Northern secession were made by the Northern politicians because they did not want to be part of Nigeria. Note that the South East region will still be part of the loan repayment for the construction of the railway line in other regions. We were part of the Congress in Ikom that led to the AkwaCross Declaration.
The eminent cleric lamented that the plight of Igbo had become worse under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Recently, former President Olusegun Obasanjo emphatically stated or pontificated that Biafra is dead. However, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found no evidence of genocide in Bosnian towns as the verdict was read out Thursday. Read the full statement below. Kanu would be appearing at a Nigerian Federal High Court in Abuja today to face trump up allegations of treason preferred against him by the Nigerian government. He appeared at an Abuja Magistrate court on 22nd November, 2011 to face terrorism charges. I won’t say more than this because we are in court. They are dying daily that say "over my dead body shall Biafra come to pass". Let them always remember my word, if you love me, keep my commandment and Biafra must come under my watch. The truth spewing from the daily broadcast of Radio Biafra appears to be hitting their consciences and tormenting them. That singular act, catapulted Biafra to an unexpected height.
Later as years went on and on the people begrudged to admit this and the relationship faded. The fire service police station went in ‘flames’ and they told me that they could no longer handle the matter and that they would await further directives. Police journals and protocols, 1892-1917; and correspondence, 1915-17, from St. John. Immediately as I walked away from the immigration scanning area two plain clothed men walked to me; they brought out a photograph of me printed, I guessed, printed from my blog. So the children all came out to greet me and my wife. The Farm is registered as “Turkur & Turkur Farm Limited” and comprises of “a huge construction site, featuring a tarred road, a zoo, a guesthouse, chalets, a restaurant, a cinema hall, a mini-stadium and other leisure facilities,”. When you look at it biblically all the people who wanted more of God spent long times alone with Him, being broken, engineered, rebuilt. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions.