What Happens If Biafra Gains Its Independence From Nigeria?

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

None of those nations you listed are military powers. And Venezuela is quite big.

Israel is a military power...

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

lol.... its funny how you couldnt refute a single fact i posted , you just posted insults...

when the so called Cabal didnt want johnathon a Yoruba man put him in power .... not an Igbo or Delta man ....

and when it was time to remove him it was a yoruba man that got rid of him

thats the difference .... unlike some we dont just talk and beat our chests


like i said If you are representative of how bitter and angry an Igbo/Biafran is Im glad im not one of you ......

and once again no shade but I really feel sorry for you and your people..... hope it works out


we yorubas are happy , we aint got time for all the anger and noise

Osinbajo can't even appoint 2 new ministers. He's just a "national coordinator". You can't refute the fact that Yorubas are being used by the North like a cheap whore. Again

 

[EndGame]

So with the eventual disintegration of Nigeria, there goes the last hopes of a Black super power?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

So with the eventual disintegration of Nigeria, there goes the last hopes of a Black super power?

Yes.

The story of Nigeria is a tragedy. It could've been great but use wealth and power was squandered.

But I choose not to dwell on it. My people existed before Nigeria and we'll surely exist after it.

 

[generic-username]

So with the eventual disintegration of Nigeria, there goes the last hopes of a Black super power?

This is true. Nigeria has(or had) the potential to be the first Black superpower.

 

[Bonk]

The propaganda and misinformation on this thread is too much. If you're not Nigerian and don't know the history of country, it's always better to stay out of the topic. The problem of Nigeria is deeper than religion, Igbo vs. Fulani (I don't know why everyone keeps saying 'hausa', when the Fulanis are the ruling class of the North and they're the problematic ones), evil vs. bad, etc. And Igbos aren't saints, they're just as culpable as whoever they're pointing the fingers at.

1). There wouldn't have been a Nigeria, without the Igbos forcing the issue. Prior to independence, at the pre-independence conference in London, Yorubas never wanted Nigeria and they believe they're a nation on their own and wanted to be alone. The Hausa/Fulani were sceptical about Nigeria and being in the same country with Christian especially Igbos. Only the Igbos were pushing for Nigeria and they colluded with the Hausa/Fulani and voted 2-1 against the Yorubas - to form Nigeria. Yorubas also wanted an opt-out clause at the pre-independence conference and they also voted against that.

2). Igbos were the first to plan a coup in Nigeria, killing the leaders of all the other ethnic groups, while leaving their own leaders alive. And that was the reason for the first civil war, when the Fulanis retaliated and went on a killing spree of Igbos.

3). Igbos don't own the resources in Southern Nigeria. Most of the resources belong to minority groups in the South.

If Igbos want out, it's a good thing since Nigeria shouldn't have been a country in the first place. But they're the architects of their own misfortunes and they have to rally all Igbos to subscribe to it and then push for it. Not a case of some Igbos wanting Nigeria and the rest clamoring to stay in the same country. Igbos created Nigeria and they should fight their way out of what they signed up for when the rest were vehemently against it.

This is from an Igbo elite:

Again, in 1957 when the British Colonial Government, under intense pressure from Southern politicians pressing for independence, attempted to uncouple the union between the North and South forged through Lord Lugard's Amalgamation of 1914, with the offer of independence to the three Regions individually provided any two accepted the offer, a political crisis loomed large on the national horizon. The Northern Region, led by the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) took the position that the North was not ready for that level of political and economic independence. The Western Region, led by Chief Awolowo's Action Group (AG) promptly, declared its readiness to accept the offer. It was the Igbo-led NUNC that held the balance. It was an issue that could make or break Nigeria if the three Regions chose to go their separate ways to independence.

The NUNC leader, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe took the stand that although the Eastern Region was ready to assume the responsibilities of Regional independence, its attainment without the North would lead, in his own words, to the ''Baalkanization of the Nigeria Nation'' and conceivably a break-up of the country. The Eastern Region would rather suppress it's appetite for independence and the obvious gains it would entail until the Northern Region was ready. That was how Nigeria Independence was delayed until 1960. In short, the Igbo-led Eastern Region would rather forgo the advancement of its own political economic interests than risk the break-up of Nigeria.

Had the Eastern Region opted for Independence at that time, the territory under its control would have comprised in today's terms the following nine States with their enormous human and natural resources: Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Rivers state. It would also probably include Southern Cameroun with the oil rich Bakassi Peninsula. If not for Zik, by 1960, the three Regions would have become separate sovereign states and there would have been no question of Biafra's attempted secession in 1967 from a non-existing Nigeria federation and the devastating civil war fought to stop it.

HOW ZIK STOPPED NIGERIA FROM BREAKING UP IN 1957

So, Igbos got everyone else in this mess in the first place.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

The propaganda and misinformation on this thread is too much. If you're not Nigerian and don't know the history of country, it's always better to stay out of the topic. The problem of Nigeria is deeper than religion, Igbo vs. Fulani (I don't know why everyone keeps saying 'hausa', when the Fulanis are the ruling class of the North and they're the problematic ones), evil vs. bad, etc. And Igbos aren't saints, they're just as culpable as whoever they're pointing the fingers at.

1). There wouldn't have been a Nigeria, without the Igbos forcing the issue. Prior to independence, at the pre-independence conference in London, Yorubas never wanted Nigeria and they believe they're a nation on their own and wanted to be alone. The Hausa/Fulani were sceptical about Nigeria and being in the same country with Christian especially Igbos. Only the Igbos were pushing for Nigeria and they colluded with the Hausa/Fulani and voted 2-1 against the Yorubas - to form Nigeria. Yorubas also wanted an opt-out clause at the pre-independence conference and they also voted against that.

2). Igbos were the first to plan a coup in Nigeria, killing the leaders of all the other ethnic groups, while leaving their own leaders alive. And that was the reason for the first civil war, when the Fulanis retaliated and went on a killing spree of Igbos.

3). Igbos don't own the resources in Southern Nigeria. Most of the resources belong to minority groups in the South.

If Igbos want out, it's a good thing since Nigeria shouldn't have been a country in the first place. But they're the architects of their own misfortunes and they have to rally all Igbos to subscribe to it and then push for it. Not a case of some Igbos wanting Nigeria and the rest clamoring to stay in the same country. Igbos created Nigeria and they should fight their way out of what they signed up for when the rest were vehemently against it.

This is from an Igbo elite:


So, Igbos got everyone else in this mess in the first place.

There are a lot of lies in your post. Not surprising.

1 - Awolowo and others such as Fela Kuti's mother were in London too pushing for an independent Nigeria. In fact, the centre of Nigerian nationalism/independence movement was in Lagos. Stop lying.
2 - The first coup was not an "Igbo coup". Patrick 'Kaduna' Nzeogwu saw himself as a Nigerian nationalist. Not an Igbo nationalist. He was born in the North and didn't speak Igbo. Hence the nickname, 'Kaduna'. Michael Okpara, premier of the Eastern Region, narrowly escaped assassination in the January Coup of 1966. It wasn't an Igbo plot. Stop lying.
3 - Igboland has coal, natural gas and oil. Yes, oil!. There's oil in Northern Delta state (which is predominatly Igbo - I'm from there), Imo, Abia and Ebonyi. Again, stop lying.

Igbos didn't create Nigeria. The British did.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

This is from an Igbo elite:


So, Igbos got everyone else in this mess in the first place.

The real stupidity of your post either tells us that:
a) The Igbos controlled Nigeria in the 1950s
b) Other ethnic groups in Nigeria don't have brains and followed Azikiwe blindly


OR

Nigerian nationalists from all three regions in Nigeria saw a mutual interest in forming one independant state in 1960.

Typical. Now you're shifting the blame unto someone else.



However, everything you posted is irrelevant given that Igbo desires for independence stem out of events post 1966.

Yorubaman, don't tell me you cannot leave Nigeria because of a dead Igbo man.

 

[BigMan]

So do yorubas want an independent yorubaland too?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

So do yorubas want an independent yorubaland too?

Yorubas want to remain in Nigeria, for reasons which are beyond me.

 

[BigMan]

Yorubas want to remain in Nigeria, for reasons which are beyond me.

I don't understand Nigeria

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

I don't understand Nigeria

Nigeria is a zoo

 

[BigMan]

Nigeria is a zoo

Time to learn Swahili Amharic and Zulu
Nigeria a dub

 

[#1 pick]

The propaganda and misinformation on this thread is too much. If you're not Nigerian and don't know the history of country, it's always better to stay out of the topic. The problem of Nigeria is deeper than religion, Igbo vs. Fulani (I don't know why everyone keeps saying 'hausa', when the Fulanis are the ruling class of the North and they're the problematic ones), evil vs. bad, etc. And Igbos aren't saints, they're just as culpable as whoever they're pointing the fingers at.

1). There wouldn't have been a Nigeria, without the Igbos forcing the issue. Prior to independence, at the pre-independence conference in London, Yorubas never wanted Nigeria and they believe they're a nation on their own and wanted to be alone. The Hausa/Fulani were sceptical about Nigeria and being in the same country with Christian especially Igbos. Only the Igbos were pushing for Nigeria and they colluded with the Hausa/Fulani and voted 2-1 against the Yorubas - to form Nigeria. Yorubas also wanted an opt-out clause at the pre-independence conference and they also voted against that.

2). Igbos were the first to plan a coup in Nigeria, killing the leaders of all the other ethnic groups, while leaving their own leaders alive. And that was the reason for the first civil war, when the Fulanis retaliated and went on a killing spree of Igbos.

3). Igbos don't own the resources in Southern Nigeria. Most of the resources belong to minority groups in the South.

If Igbos want out, it's a good thing since Nigeria shouldn't have been a country in the first place. But they're the architects of their own misfortunes and they have to rally all Igbos to subscribe to it and then push for it. Not a case of some Igbos wanting Nigeria and the rest clamoring to stay in the same country. Igbos created Nigeria and they should fight their way out of what they signed up for when the rest were vehemently against it.

This is from an Igbo elite:


So, Igbos got everyone else in this mess in the first place.

Negged

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Israel is a military power...

That terrorist state would be food without the West's help.