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THE MEANING OF BAAL?
The word ‘Baal’ was mistransliterated from the Igbo words: bụ alụ, meaning ‘it is sacrilege’, this suggests that Holy things
were treated with disrespect. There is a related Igbo word: alụsị, meaning ‘carved representation of a spirit or deity’.
The words: bow (ụta), sword (mma agha) and land (ala), are object forms of the subject expression: e bu alụ ụta a ghaa Ama, a laa n’udo, meaning ‘presenting sacrileges and wrongdoings, to leave them at the Church, and go in peace’.

Ibaka seaport my interview with Godswill Akpabio #Biafra24

Message to all Biafra activist #Igbo #Biafra #Whatdowewant #Referendum Emeka Gift Kingsley Ezeoma Mazionyema

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Hillary Orji Wrote



Chuka Umunna a product of a Biafran and a member of Uk parliament who has remained silent on annihilation of his kinsmen in order not to offend the establishment/British Empire just got married today, wish him well but after this race; we must count the miles.

This is great,but is the beginning

#Biafra

Ifeanyi Chijioke

I am not a man that would deny a good action or right action in the right direction, restructuring Nigeria is the solution to Nigerian problem but I don’t see it as solution to Biafran question. While some people who don’t know the essence of power moan at the prospect of restructuring because they would lose a bit power to solve the problem bedeviling them, they prefer to hold onto excess power at the detriment of the people because they value power more than the well-being of the people. While the call for restructuring is raging as an alternative to addressing Biafra issue, I see this as medicine after death. Restructure will save Nigeria and never will it end Biafra, restructure may fight Kanu’s plan, but it cannot win his ideology that has been replicated in over 70 million Biafrans.

Restructure is a move that would give every region sense of belonging and the need to cherish their contraption and work hard as what you have or can do makes you what you are. The Northern region will then be exposed, they have so much lied that they are food producing machine, but tomato to the least of them are imported. It would give them the opportunity to farm and take credit of their products, this is a sort of power diversification that would strengthen the centre because nobody would account for anybody, but somebody will be accounting for anybody. This is the mathematics behind restructuring, it is a good move for Nigerians but it doesn’t concern Biafrans as sovereign state of Biafra is our focus.

I have no problem with the people calling for the restructure of Nigeria but I am angered at their selfishness; they are simply taking advantage of Nnamdi Kanu’s agitation and sacrifice. This however defines a black man from Africa, the ability to thrive on the perdition of others. Jerry Gana was fair when he told me that the first step to restructuring is the release of Nnamdi Kanu, then once he is released, the government would sell restructure to the people to counter Biafrexit. Those calling for restructure should put things in place to have any hope of Biafrans buying the idea. One of the things that should be in place is releasing Nnamdi Kanu to cast a neutral ground upon which the restructure will grow. The first agitation should not be restructuring Nigeria; the first step should be releasing Nnamdi Kanu to restructure Nigeria.


Meanwhile Biafran youths are being killed by Buhari on daily basis, they are forced to disappear and executed out rightly. We suffer assault and torture, we have more widows and widowers, we have more orphans and one thinks he can take advantage of our adversary for the restructure arrangement. Hence Nnamdi Kanu continues to be in prison and one is talking about restructuring and hoping Biafrans will buy the idea is a dream that will die at the touch of reality. Continued incarceration of Nnamdi defines Buhari’s readiness for war or the worst and believe you me, he would get the worst at the appropriate time. I won’t discourage those agitating for restructure because that is the last hope for Nigeria, but I will sufficiently feed them the fact that for restructure to take place, parties must be given sense of peace.

We have lost a lot and paid more price than normal, independence is everything we want and there is nothing that can substitute that. Restructuring Nigeria would have worked if Kanu was not arrested, if Biafrans were not massacred and continuously arrested and executed. There is hatred that cannot bring us together no matter the difference the unity carries. It is important to know that referendum is the solution to problems like this. Self-determination is a sacred right and opposition to due self determination is modern slavery. And in a situation you have a slave that is exposed to weapons, he would fight with the last drop of his blood to be a free man and that is what Biafrans shall do.

Finally, it would be unwise to rule out everything but I can bet that even the restructure in place won’t work out. Nigeria is a business establishment and the present structure gives meaning to the establishment. I win as the president of Nigeria to use my power and do anything I want, acquire wealth and favor my friends and family. Give oil blocs of the conquered Biafrans to my mistresses, siblings and region. The call for restructuring is to end the business venture called Nigeria and it would be fought squarely by the business men in government.

It would be golden for everybody agitating for restructuring to forfeit it and stand behind Nnamdi Kanu. We must accept the simple fact that Nigeria cannot stand as one anymore, we are not more intelligent than the man that made the treaty that after hundred years, if it is not working, we are free to go our separate ways to make life work. Look around you and tell me what Nigeria has done for you, has it given you drinking water or electricity? There is nothing good that can come out of this contraption except terrorism and genocide.
http://www.thebiafratelegraph.....co/2016/07/hence-kan

Biafrexit?
By Obi Nwakanma Sam Omatseye’s piece in the Nation, “The Ghost of Biafra,” this past week adds to the growing discussion on the inevitable impact of the new secessionist movement in important ways. The kernel of that column is that Nigeria as a nation runs in vain from its obligation to effect closure on the Biafran experience. Omatseye, of course skirts certain issues, and fudges a few, including the important question he raises: “how could a people knowing that they did not have the arms still plunge to war against an overwhelming armed opponent?” Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, at St Peter’s Square Rome, during their visit to Pope Francis at theVatican.File photo In other words, why did the leaders of the East fight, when they knew they were outgunned? The simple answer is that (a) The East fought to survive. They did not levy war against Nigeria. War was levied on the East when the federal side reneged on the terms of peace arrived at in Aburi. The Federal Government initiated the war on July 6, 1967, by opening two fronts from the North: the Nsukka front and the Gakem front. Ojukwu evacuated Enugu, and responded with a defensive strategy; (b) as a means of easing the pressure of attack from the North, Biafra’s Liberation Army led by Brigadier Victor Banjo and Colonel Emma Ifeajuna as his Chief of Staff opened the Midwest corridor to foreclose the attack formation already planned from Jebba by the Federal forces, through the Midwest using the Military Division already established for that purpose led by Murtala Muhammed, circumventing Benin through Auchi, moving through Agbor to the East. The movement of the Biafran forces on August 9, into the Midwest, ruptured that plan. The Liberation Army would have arrived Ibadan and secured Lagos, and the tides of the war would have been dramatically turned, but for the extraordinary meeting between Banjo, Ifeajuna, and Mr. Bell, the Deputy British High Commissioner in Benin City as the Biafrans moved in a claw formation from Warri through Benin and through Auchi towards the West. Banjo’s dilemma, regarding the threat to bomb Lagos from the sea by the British frigate and turn the West into a theatre of war, and the threat to wipe out Banjo’s family still in Lagos left him with very little choices, other than to stymie the Liberation Army in the Midwest, order a haphazard withdrawal, and the rest is now history. As a matter of fact, one of the key actors in that event, the playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, already waiting in Ibadan with a “reception party,” has written about this in two of his very important memoirs, The Man Died and You Must Set Forth at Dawn. But Nigerians hardly read these days, except for religious tracts. But Omatseye is right: War is a messy business. The after effects linger and take doggone time and supreme effort to heal. Nigeria has not healed from the last major war. It is that war that is the ghost that haunts Nigeria. That war is also the spectre rearing up today in the self-determination movements that are now challenging the basis of Nigerian nationhood. The IPOB/MASSOB and the Niger Delta Avengers are now raising the question of a “Biafraexit” – the call for a referendum on Biafra to constitutionally determine whether Biafra should be allowed to exit Nigeria as a separate nation. The Separatist movement has been gathering momentum since 1999, and has been recently fueled by President Buhari’s adversarial, isolationist, discriminatory and conquistadorial domestic policies. It does now seem that the greatest threat to the continued survival of Nigeria is the president of Nigeria himself who seems bent on pursuing a narrow revanchist agenda, as well as the use of coercion to stop the secessionist movement which has grown as a counter force to his revanchism. Recently, the president declared that Nigeria’s “unity” was “not negotiable.” Happily many people, including Wole Soyinka, have told him that Nigerian unity is in fact negotiable. The president of course is not talking about real “unity.” He is talking about the unity which the late Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu once described as like the relationship between Jonah and the Belly of the whale. Unity cannot be legislated. Unity is the product of a felt sense of shared destiny and values. And this is the point that the Biafran secessionists are making. I’d like to say this: every Nigerian must support the right of the Biafrans to seek self-determination through the plebiscitory process. The Biafrans must have their referendum, as permitted in International Law, on the question of “Biafrexit.” In 1964, the founding father of the modern Nigerian nation, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, wrote in the US Foreign Policy magazine, warning that though he preferred an organic nation, it might yet be better for the leaders of Nigeria to meet, and sit, and negotiate how “we will all go our separate ways peacefully” rather than push Nigeria, then lurching towards a bloodfest, to the ultimate evil of a civil war that would claim millions of Nigerian lives. Azikiwe was prescient in 1964, and I stand with the great Zik on this. It is important to settle this question of Biafra’s secession once and for all by peaceful means through a referendum. To that end, I think that those calling for secession should do the right thing: they should collect the required signatures and write the National Assembly to initiate the referendum, with a copy forwarded to the United Nations. Thereafter they should campaign for support. Here is what the Biafrans are arguing: they are arguing for a restructuring of Nigeria because Nigeria in its current formation is oppressive to their interest and survival; if Nigeria does not want to restructure constitutionally, they are arguing for peaceful exit through referendum. They are arguing that the federal government failed to meet its own obligation under the truce called “No Victor, No vanquished” by not fulfilling the promised three R’s in the old East, and by launching policies that have discriminated against, and isolated the East, especially the Igbo people, since the end of the war. They have argued that the Federal government has repeatedly failed to protect Igbo lives and property from the indiscriminate attack nation-wide, and therefore they no longer trust the government of Nigeria to secure their lives. They have argued that as republican people, they have nothing in common, culturally, with the rest of Nigeria, and that they reserve the right to pursue their separate destiny, and redeem their society from underdevelopment and poverty using their talents and energy freed from the inherent draw-backs of a Nigeria with feudal and monarchical traditions and tendencies that squelches the Igbo spirit, and the spirit of their Biafran neighbors with long, cherished republican and democratic traditions. And they have also argued about the criminal exploitation and expropriation of resources from their oil rich region which has left the region very impoverished and ecologically devastated and they want the right of self-determination in order to have the power to restore the ecological balance of the delta. These are very powerful arguments, and I am quit

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/biafrexit/