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MinorityOpinion:


Old Eastern economy is living in glory past. Unless igbos will leave trading and go back to agriculture.

What are they manufacturing? Goods coming in for China and they slap Eastern company name on it. Still that wouldn't balance your import because you're not exporting it outside Nigeria after importing the materials from outside Nigeria.

Listen to the rant and rambling of kanu? Thank you.

Bro, I like they way you approach the topic, u b senior man.

I mentioned constitution...this is due to exclusive and concurrent list..

Oil and Gas acts under the mineral law has affected a lot of people not just igbo but even ijaw, itshekiri.

There are a lot of marginal field and big field within d region but the so called oil companies operating dz field are in lagos island...
The will claim that its because of insecurity but I ask you the Oil servicing firms in Ph and Warri, are they attacked by the locals..the answer is no, why?..because the kip to their own of agreement..
It will shock you to know dz Oil and Gas is everywia in the region even up to from the Ijawland, Kalabari to Igbo land.

Igboland also have other mineral resources like coal, limestone.

Manufacturing:
Car plant: cutting off Japan, , US, Sweden and even South Korea automobile influence in Africa
Drugs: its not in doubt. Infact in imo state majority use Dr Agnes Nwama herbal dental paste against d closeup and MacLean toothpaste:

Cables
Car Battery
Textile
Shoes
A lot of things you wil not see if u are not in d region

Untapped resouces:
Guns: though locally made guns are done illegally, its still a technology dt will ensure almost zero importation of arms
Explosives: same too.

Have you ever asked yourself why was it that of all of the ethnic groups in Nigeria, it was only the Benin and People of the Old eastern region that gave the colonial masters tough time.

Simple the brought Trade, the two fellas proved sophisticated in trade...the brought war and yet after the conquest their was never peace of mind.

The Aba women riot or should I say revolution ending the taxation of women and the prelude to other crises..

MinorityOpinion:
We all know how the Igbos want to secede from Nigeria, the first declaration of independence from Nigeria resulted in civil war between Biafra and Nigeria. But let's look at it in this manner, what if the federal government of Nigeria granted them the permission to leave, what are the likely scenarios to happen?

First of all the South South have witnessed what Igbo-dominated state will look like so they would rather stay away from seceding with the Igbos after what they suffered as minorities during the Nigeria civil war.

We have read how Biafran Soldiers killed and raped minorities and subjected many of them to torture. This experience will make them not likely to follow the Igbos and secede with them. So igbos is only getting their five states landlocked country. No access to sea and no port to import goods.

Igbo trades contributing nothing to Nigeria economy because it only weaken the value of their Naira. Because igbos majorly import their goods with little to nothing to export in return for Balance of Payment

What is Balance of Payment?

Let me explain



Immediately igbos secede from Nigeria, there would be no port for them to use again from Lagos. So its either they dredge their rivers or negotiate with South South(Nigeria state) to import. This will weaken the Biafra Currency quickly because they have little to nothing to export in return to balance their trade.

But let assume the South South followed the South East after very much persuasion. The moment oil is not available, Nigeria will find something else but igbo will want to satisfied the Hunger of many years of not having access to oil thereby leading to oil war with the South south. By this time South south will be already regretting their actions.

Lastly with the kind of leader the IPOB have. The future of Biafra doesn't look great. Recently the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday celebrated the release of the Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu after he recorded victory at the apex Court. This is same Orji Kalu that was prosecuted and found guilty of looting his state fund. Are this the kind of people Nnamdi Kalu will enforce on new Biafra?

The only thing holding Nigeria back in granting secession to South East five states is because other tribes will want to follow suit there by destabilizing Nigeria. Nigeria is not worried of Biafra because actualization of Biafra is a self-destruct mission.

#minorityOpinion

Early this Morning, nawa oo

1. Go read about the economy of the Old Eastern region under Michael Okpara
2. Bear in mind that their is nothing like SS and SE..mention all the ethnic groups in the region
3. Check list of manufacturing centres in igboland
4. Read your 1999 constitution
5. Listen to IPOB broadcast from 2017-date

9japride:
These hateful agents are very funny and childish. They say Kanu is dead, yet again they say Kanu congratulated Kalu for being released. Confuse people. Hatred can make someone not to think properly. They accuse Igbos of hatred. But they are the wicked ones, just imagine if those hateful zombies have a weapon, they can do very wicked actions with it towards their enemy. Let all Nigerians please take note of their actions and really see those who are bent on sowing seed of disunity in the society. They have a mission in nairaland to spread falsehoods and hatred. Dangerous and wicked elements.

You deh mind them
They should tune in to tomorrow for live lectures not the prerecorded live broadcast from NTA and Channels

I wonder how a man who said the simple truth derails from his agenda.

The same Nigeria were loot of an ex-head of state is called asset.

Nnamdi Kanu's message is simple..if you want to fight corruption, let every corrupt person be in prisoner..not selective fight against corruption

It does not change the desire of general Igbos and by extension the entire region, which is True Freedom

He has been released for a reason.

I am sure it has to do with 2023, Biafra and Spoiler role.

Only time will tell..

1. He is d closest igbo politician to the political Maradona
2. His title in Duara
3. His acceptability in the North.
4. His activities from 1999-2007.


Well sha time will tell

Let our President do a live press interview with the media present.

Not recorded speech (according to Femi Adesina)

All these faceless group formed in beer parlour should demand for their president to address them..is that not d beauty of democracy.

This issue never still end.

To the OP..whether you get top position or not..ideally what you people should be agitating from the operators of oil field in your village/LGA/ state/zone

1. Relocation of operation bases and offices to your land. This will bring additional income to the people in of rent, transport, market and other related services such as logistics.

2. The rubbish CSR of menial job should be thrown away for a %cut in both revenue and employment.. I recall an oil and gas firm that gives host community 8% cut.

3.. Meet up with the required academic qualification to avoid any story

IDENNAA:


Wake up and smell the coffee nwokem!! You need to sit quiet and observe what is going on here!

Nwokem aghotara m okwe ha n'eti nga a.
Mana eziokwu na-achupu asi ha

Juliusmalema:



Go and work on yourself pls

Am trying to get you but I am not..

They brought Niger-Delta, we revealed that its a term associated with Oil producing states
The brought SS, we told them that Igbos are in the SS.

omonnakoda:


IS Edo not part of the SS

Why the SS/SE ATTACHMENT
Wherever Ibos they are they will be EVACUATED to a space that will be measured for them

Brother what is SS again...we are talking about ethnic group..you are busy talking about geopolitical zone.

Some of you dont even know the history of Igbos and Benin..

You dnt even know that Igbo is in Benue and Kogi.. Judging by your logic then they are not Igbos again.they are NC or Arewa

Juliusmalema:




You must be new on nairaland to be asking about my ethnicity.

Lol.

I never bothered to in nairaland, but I av been active as a guest person.

Thats why I ask the question

omonnakoda:


Ibos existed with Edo?

Who mentioned Edo again...
Their are Igbos in Edo state..

Igbos in part of Edo state are they once that will choose...not Benin or Esan

Juliusmalema:



Why will you force referendum on another person.

In that case , North also needs referendum to decide since you want to force referendum on everyone.


pathetic lots.

I dont get the logic for these ignorance

Before the creation of States..was the east not an aggregate of all ethnic groups in the region..

What is wrong in referendum for same people that have existed even before Nigeria existed self..

I will like to know your ethnic group as I responded earlier. It will help us to understand ourselves

Juliusmalema:




Continue dreaming.

It is now obvious Igbos can't stay alone that's why they keep attaching others to biafra.

I would like to know your ethnic group..

Doc10q:


That guy is a confused fake ibo guy...arguing with him will yield u no fruit. The confused guy even said SS is not ibo.. Heheheheheheh... So as I am now,im no ibo jus because I came from d SS? Some ppl are really funny

You deh mind the guy.
In a bid to show loyalty to their master they are willing to claim anything..

Lajet:


Ipob have no right to decide where they will conduct Referendum. If there will be any Referendum it will be in South East and parts of Igbo speaking area in South-South. Unless other ethnic group in South-South request for Referendum.

Ipob should stop brainwashing Igbo youths

I don't get the confusion from you here.
IPOB is freedom fighting movement
The are seeking referendum to determine who will Biafra and who will remain in Nigeria.

Igbo and the other ethnic group have existed together since even before the white man sailed to Africa. Igbos shared the same thing in common.

Its only natural and normal for referendum to be across.

The solution is simple, if you dont want to Biafra den..you vote against d referendum..
We should stop making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Yesterday it was 5-SE state.
Today is Niger-Delta.
Who knows what tomorrow

Those who live by propaganda will die by propaganda.

Blackking98:
A REFERENDUM in Nigeria for every ethnicity to decide where they want to go is acceptable by us, where we have issues is where IPOB and some of your brothers say we must first biafra then have a referendum, that's just bullshit

You people are misunderstanding it..
IPOB is pushing for Referendum for Biafra.
Other tribes can decide to push for referendum and still invite Igbos to .

Even this assumption about going to Benue , Kogi and Edo

IPOB is proposing that coz of igbo communities in those places..

Beside the referendum stuff in the event dt it.comes will be based on ethnic group

pazienza:


IPOB are confused . 6 wasted years and counting, yet they don't know that Biafra starts and end in Igboland. There is nothing like SE/SS, we have SE and then SS. SE/SS only work when SS is posed to benefit from the union, like when we all ed GEJ in 20011 and 2015, while they left Zik to hang and dry in 1979 and 1983.And will probably repeat it again should an Igbo become a major presidential candidate in the future.

I don't know what type of people managing IPOB, but its obvious you lots don't have Igbo progress and welfare as your aim. If IPOB don't sit up, soon you will also be rejected in Igboland.
What we need is a Biafra group that will make peace with homogeneous Igbo Biafra, reach out to Igbo groups in SS, try to convince them to come on board, and publicly denounce any Igboid group that choose to remain with Nigeria by releasing a Biafra map without their land on it.
Pursue Igbo agenda in Nigeria and harmonize it with Biafra struggle. Catalonia leaders in Spanish government are on majority of Catalonia secessionist movement. Thats the future of Biafra movement.
This whole Buhari clone, Atiku Cameroon origin, No election, Trump , etc, while Abia is under worst istration known in Igboland with nothing done to address that, is all becoming annoying and stupid.
Ndiigbo deserve much more better than IPOB and NK are offering. What worth doing is worth doing well.

Am not an IPOB family member, but I love what they are doing so far particularly in of news


IPOB is pushing for the interest of everybody particularly in tfee
aspects of enlightenment and education.

Just yesterday Demi Adesina came out to tell Nigerians that they do not have the right to call the president to a live address, when governor Cuomo address New York live everyday

IPOB called Nnia Nwodo and so people traitors, people doubted not until Juniad Mohammed revealed that they he knelt down and begged them to make him president.

IPOB talk about Igbos always schemed out in things of national interest... It took people d 22.7 billion$ loan saga for eyes to clear..

Even d militarization and economic war claim was justified by the toll gate fee

For the case of abia state: its a constitution based problem..the governor cannot be held responsible..its everywia.

Election boycott: what happened in Imo state( which is even my state of origin)

Summary: You do not expect IPOB to do everything for you..IPOB is focusing of liberation and freedom
Ipob have made a statement that they don't want to have anything to do with Nigerian election and system

I know of groups such as Alaigbo Development Foundation and Peoples Restoration Movement focused on developing Igboland.

I will also advice you to follow BVi channel one

pazienza:


Oga they don't need your referendum. What's wrong with us.
Restrict your referendum to Igboland.

You can't be calling for referendum outside your area of .
Scotland referendum was conducted within Scotland, Catalonia referendum within Catalonia.
You don't see Catalonia trying to conduct referendum in Basque country because Basques also want to leave Spain.

I don't know the kind of misinformation IPOB and NK are feeding my people. This is painful.

If you want Biafra referendum, restrict it within Igboland. If Niger Delta want a referendum, they will call for it themselves and conduct it within Niger Delta.

Well sha anyone that shows whether Igbo nation or Biafra nation...

One thing am sure is that it would be 10 times better than Nigeria in all ramifications.

pazienza:


On the contrary, a Biafra with non Igbo speaking parts of SS will be useless. It will be another Nigeria.
Igbos who put non Igbo groups in Biafra are misinformed and are making a big mistake.
SS is like a modern day tower of Babel, multiplicity of language and culture is a big disadvantage to nation building, even in the bible, men were stopped from achieving set target of building to heaven by introducing multiplicity of languages amongst them. I don't have anything against SS, I wish them all the luck, but I don't want a nation with them, I am an Igbo purist.

I want a country where my children will be taught in Igbo language from nursery school to University, where the presidential address will be made in beautiful Igbo language. Where Igbo language will be the lingua franca, where English will be downgraded to asecond optional language alongside other alien European languages, where our national football team would sing our national anthem at the world cup Igbo language.

Why should I throw all these away to be hooked with alien languages in SS where we would be forced adopt pidgin English as lingua franca?
Sometimes I wonder what IPOB and those Igbos proposing heterogeneous Biafra are thinking.
Don't overestimate yourselves, Ndiigbo don't need you or anyone to make a successful country any more than you need Ndiigbo to create your own successful countries.
I understand that IPOB shortsightness and ignorance that mean they are always licking your ass , have given you lots an overbloated sense of importance to the Igbo, and this is exactly the reason IPOB is living on borrowed time , because alot of Igbos are no longer going to accept IPOB continually bringing embarrassment to the rest of us who know better.

IPOB do that sighting ARO- Confederacy
It does not mean that they will igbos in the end..IPOB is talking about referendum across the entire length of SS/SE not forcing anybody to anything..

Blackking98:
Uncle, it's common sense that when Niger Delta republic is mentioned we mean Cross river, Akwa Ibom, bayelsa,Edo and non Igbo speaking parts of Rivers and Delta, we also exclude the small Igbo villages in our states stop flogging a dead horse by bringing up the past, the past is the past, change is inevitable, leave us alone and live with it

Okay well defined
All we just need you people to do is when such opportunity comes..
just vote against going us.
Beauty of Referendum...

In opinion self every Nigerian should vote on whether they want to remain self for clarity sake

To further clarify all this.. What Nnamdi Kanu is doing is plain demanding for a referendum.

Which simply means if you want to stay in Nigeria, you click yes or no.

Afterall the Jada people that wia in Cameroon voted to move to Nigeria..

Nobody will force you..when ita time to vote...you vote for Nigeria.

Afterall people in Scotland voted to remain with Britain

Blackking98:
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE BIAFRA, IT'S EITHER YOU'RE ENUGU,IMO,EBONYI,ABIA OR ANAMBRA

You even make mistakes
Igbos in ancient time wia of three categories
Igbos that had kings( Igbo west in Agbor, Isseleku
Igbos that subscribed to NRI kingship/ spirituals.
Igbos that where economically, politically,culturally and spiritually linked with Efik, Ibibio, Anang, ijaw in the Aro confederacy

Biafra were strictly about district then.

For people lumping Nigeri-Delta republic
Imo,abia and Ondo are part of Niger-delta..
It would interest you to know that if oil was drilled in chad basin, it would be under Niger-Delta.

Obigbo/ Oyigbo are one people but sepated cause Oil was discover in the Oyigbo
Egbema, Degema and one other part in Delta were separated because of Oil..

Its just like people saying that Nupe in Niger, Kogi and Kwara are the same people..

To the OP
Their is nothing like Niger-Delta..
Niger-Delta includes Abia, Imo, Anambra and Ondo.

Niger-Delta are just oil producing region in the country..

Its either you say you are ijaw, Efik, Annang, benin, urhobo, itsekiri, kalabari, Esan, or Igbo

joeyfire:


In the East, 80% of the Igbos Biafra. It's the Igbos outside the East (especially Abuja and Lagos) that are generally not in of the idea

That's why I said igbos generally...
Seriously IPOB is doing a good job...enlightenment and mental liberation of people.

The fact is this

The day 65-70% of igbos backs Biafra, its all over.
The day 70% igbos unity both from SE and SS..it will be for Biafra
The day majority of igbos decides to go...even if all the political parties give them ticket and Nigeria get restructured, they will still go
When they leave, the will do dt with other ethnic group within the region.

These OYC self...so they did not see the recent IMF loan which is repayable over 5year.
When a new government spends almost 2yrs of istration paying debt..

No need..Igbos want out of Nigeria

I have observed that some people always try to change the narrative for their own gain

Kemi claimed Nnamdi Kanu was dead...he did a live video and audio broadcast which was visible to everyone.. Now some fellas hia claim he is not intelligent..barely threw days ago he cleared his name in the aspect of career, education,business and hia organizations.. People do not do research but only come hia to make a fool of themselves.

He made an allegations of imposter, but someone is already push narrative of clone.
Is Imposter and Clone the same thing..
Do you research and prove him wrong.

I will advice that we always do thorough research and findings before we dish out stuffs hia...

I recall one video of palliative that went viral with people complaining about the palliative given to the street but to my shock channels reported it as palliative distributed....