Adamu, which slavery are u talking about?
Adamu do u know the meaning of slavery?
Please get a dictionary and read the meaning, u parasitic islamic ingrate.

If they are slaves, where are the chains and shackles?
Who sold them?
Do u know them?

Should the children work? Oh yes.
In Biafra we are raised to work hard and achieve our goals. A Biafran will not sit back and expect wealth to come to him/her.
He/she will work hard get what he wants. That's why the Biafrans are the most successful in BiafraNigeria.

BBC Story:

Under Sharia, men and women do not mix in public

An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a man to be stoned to death for sodomising a seven year-old boy.
The Upper Sharia Court 1 in Kebbi State handed down its decision on Wednesday.

This is the first sentence of death by stoning to be made since Sharia Islamic law was introduced in 12 states across northern Nigeria in the past two years.

The man, 35 year-old Attahiru Umar, now has 30 days to appeal against the sentence.

Confession

Court officials told the French news agency, AFP, that Umar had confessed to the offence after being identified by two witnesses.

Judge Mallam Abubakar Bena decreed that the name of the victim and details of the offence should not be made public.

Huge crowds welcomed the introduction of Sharia in Kano

Following the sentence, the case will be passed to the Kebbi State Sharia Implementation Committee and finally the state governor.

Zamfara became the first state to adopt Sharia in January 2000.

Nigeria's President, Olusegun Obasanjo, a born-again Christian, is currently on his first official visit to Zamfara.

Ban defied

Zamfara's Governor, Sani Ahmed, told women not to attend the welcoming ceremony because women and men mixing in public would be "unIslamic".

However correspondents say some women defied the ban and turned up to greet Mr Obasanjo and were not arrested.

Islam has been strong in northern Nigeria for hundreds of years

Supporters of the Islamic code have sought to downplay Christian fears by saying Sharia would only apply to Muslims and followers of other faiths would be covered by the existing criminal code.

But the spread of Sharia has inflamed tensions between Christians and Muslims.

Read this. The onward march toward the inevitable disintegration of Niger Area peoples has picked up gusto. It's unlikely your Adamu and Bature friends would differentiate you from an Igbo man.

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Most of us were not able to go church service today because of the treat by the muslim to attack christians in Abuja. In almost all the churches today there were polie official hanging around. There was intelligent report at about 2.00am yesterday night through telephone calls of the muslims plan to attack christians today.

The city remains quiet while everyone walk with suspicion on the street. With the look of things there is tension in the land.

(Name deleted).

Abuja, Nigeria

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One comment about Kwara. The threat to introduce sharia in that state represent in your face stupid on the Yorubas. First they are internally colonized by the few and here comes the sharia. While this is a dream and sucidal, I do not particularly foresee it happening without red. This time, I predict the christians will humiliate the moslems. Why? the OPC will see it as a way for chaos and mayem possibly to redeem back the disgaced Gani. Secondly, the introduction is closest the bastard have come in the South. I bet you CAN will not broker for peace, the Moslems will be singing the blues.

Biafra will remain beautifully christianed make no damn mistake about it. I wonder, why the call Abia God's Country?. Or should it be that the phrase was extracted from christian belief?

Hail Biafra

I like your analysis. However high on hashish these murderous shariarists are, they'd not dare bring their sharia to Biafra soil. What we should endeavor to do is make sure that the one nigerian Beninois do not cross over to Biafraland for refuge. As it is, we have enough saboteurs within our territory, already. We hardly need that kind of albatross on our neck.

What I am trying to let u all know especiually the Ednuts, Yorubas, Ikpatts and other confused One Nigerians that whether u like it or not Biafra is right. If we don't take our time Nigeria will become The Islamic Republic of Nigeria. Why should that Arab boy be call Nigeria a Muslim nation if the Hausas (the blood suckers) are not giving them the impression that BiafraNiegria is an Islamic nation.

You may have visited Biafranigeria, but you have not lived in Biafranigeria long enough to understand its nuances.

There is no doubt that most forumites here are passionate about the positions they defend vis-a-vie the Nigerian state.

Nigeria was surreptitiously alligned with the OIS, Organisation of Islamic States, without the consent of over 65% of its population.

Islam as a young religion craves expansion, its weak tenets does not win converts readily. Its adherents are insecure, and in a perpetual state of percieved threat by modernity.

there will be more killings as the poverty and dissatifaction spreads in the north.when they get intoxicated with the opium of islamic fundamentalism it will be difficult to stop the flow of rivers of blood in the name of God.

as long as the economy is stagnant and the the kleptocrats keep handing out crumbs we will hear the words if it is bread they want give them bread the lady who uttered these words lost her head.the mismanagement contiues NEPA is not going to meet its deadline to provide the required power despite the heavy investment by the government.where is accountability no one is being fired or dismissed. this is why I love the white man you dont do the job on time you pay.

as long as the government does not hold people responsible for their actions this will continue.we have not forgotten the NEPA scam it has fadded from the news as the yoruba press has as usual covered up for their incompetent leadership. If na okadigbo them go sack am for thirty thousand naira and when it is one of their own the tune changes

I was even more shocked and amazed that their leadership could come out and support a known killer in the name of adams how they be such base tribalist and expect any support from any other tribe except the igbo sabos and moderates who rush to learn to speak yoruba so the can look cool.

Yoruba and hausa leadership has destroyed nigeria and they have created a segregated immoral state that needs new ideas and change in character from the top to the bottom.

Like I said before u are a total outsider who knows nothing about the BiafraNigerians or even Africa. U are just as ignorant as most of your young people about many issues that concern other people. There is no moral justification for the East, West, and North to be together. Let me make it known to u that before the British came with their trouble and forced us into a federation with the feudal Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani (the most uneducated and bloodthirsty Africans), we the Igbos had our own system of government. U need to learn about our history and Nigeria before u come to talk trash. What makes u think that we�ll listen to a freaking outsider who knows nothing about us? What in the world do u have to offer to us other than your continued trash talking.

The Igbos have no King but Kings so our nation was more like a lose federation. The British should have left us where we were �cause life would have been a lot better without the parasitic Northerners and Western Nigerians. Even our minority brethrens like the Oron tribe had their own form of govt.
Who the hell gave u the right to tell we the Biafrans what to do. U better stay out of our business if u don�t have any idea about what u are saying.

I�m sure your only interest in Nigeria is business that�s all. Who knows u could be interested in the oil sector, no wonder u want Nigeria one even when u are no Nigerian or even African. When ignorant people like u are done milking our oil dry with your Hausa and Yoruba allies then u�ll say goodbye Nigeria. U�ll definitely deny that African-Americans are originally Africans. Go back to the projects and solve your own problem before coming here to tell us to remain in a nation that hates us. A nation that has treated us like second class citizens. Use your so called Human resources and solve your own problems.

U think we the Efiks, Igbos, Ijaws, Ogonis and the Easterners/biafrans will quietly fold our arms and allow u and the Hausas enslave us. No sane African should listen to your crap.

Here are some instances of the progroms that have been committed against the Igbos by other Nigerians:

1945 -General Strike-
Disctrct officer representing the Colonial administrator blames Nnamdi Azikiwe (a pro-independence Nigerian politician of Igbo descent) and Igbos (who are mostly bisinessmen/traders) for food scarcity and housing for Hausa traders. Attack and killing of people of Igbo origin carried out in Jos (north-central Nigeria).

1953
On March 31, 1953, Chief Anthony Enaharo (a Southern minority ) of Actioin Group (a Yoruba Political party) tabled a motion for Nigera's independence for 1956. The Northern Nigerians leaders were not ready. The Sarduana of Sokoto (a trado-politician from northern Nigeria) moved for amendment to the motion replacing 1956 with "as soon as possible." the motion was rejected by the Southern leaders. Violence and attacks on Igbo people erupted in northern Nigeria. These attacks lasted from May 16-19 1953, caused by a motion made by a member of parliament from a Yoruba party.

1966, May 24 Zaria (northern Nigeria)
Systematic and planned execution of Igbo people in northern Nigeria, following a military decree that was aimed at a unitary government for Nigeria (the so-called unitary decree) by General Aguyi Ironsi ( a Nigerian military Head of State of Igbo descent) after the failed 1966 'Igbo coup'. These attacks originated in Zaria and spread to other northern cities. This was the beginning of the genocide against the Igbo people.

1966, May 29-30
Massive escalation and organized killings og Igbo people following overthrow of Ironsi's government as retaliation for the January 1966 'Igbo coup'. Approximately 5,000 Igbos were killed in two days of massacres and mayhem in northern Nigeria!

1966, September 29- November
all out genocide committed against thew Igbo people in ALL parts of Nigeria except in the then Eastern Region and the Igbo speaking parts of Mid-West ( Nigeria at that time had six administrative Regions). Nigerian soldiers of mostly Northern origin joined in these massacres whever they were stationed. Igbo civilians, men, women and children were killed in cold blood in churches, at train stations, in schools, buried in mass graves, gathered and burnt alive in places like Katsina (northern Nigeria). It is estimated that close to 100,000 Igbo people were massacred during this wave of attrocities against humanity.
Unlike the lies President Obasanjo and other misinformed Nigerians have been spreading that because Ojukwu was "power drunk", he singularly and unilatarily decided to take the Igbos away from Nigeria by declaring Biafra Republic. The truth however is that it was this attempt to exterminate the Igbo race from the face of the earth that actually forced most Igbo Leaders of Thought to ask the then Governor-General of Eastern Region (where majority Igbos come from), Lt.Col Odumegwu Ojukwu to declare a sovereign State as a safe heaven for returning traumatized Igbos. That was how the Republic of Biafra and its agitation came about .
The West, including your America was uncerned, indifferent and did not intervene to save us!

1967-1970 (Duration of the Nigeria-Biafran war)
Blockade and starvation of Igbo children. Over 1 Million Biafran children perished. This cruel policy was crafted by the then Nigeria Minister of Finance Chief Obafemi Awolowo, with Chief Anthony Enaharo (the mover of Nigeria's independence motion) as its poster boy. International organizations and NGO's were prohibited from sending food and medicine to dieing Biafran children.
This attempt at Igbo extarmination has since become the standard by which human cruelty and suffering are measured: from thence originated the phrase "ethnic cleansing".

1970, January 15 (After the Nigerian Civil war ended)
Cessation of hostilities and the end of the Nigeria - Biafra war. General Gowon (the then Nigeria military Head of State) intentionally ordered overzealous Nigeria Army officers in the war theatre to engage in unspoken atrocities and widespread massacre of thousand of Igbo people across Igbo land for 2 days after the war had been declared over and Igbo combatants/defenders had put down their arms.

This trend of using the Igbos as scape-goats whenever there is a political disagreement amongst the ruling class or economic difficulty amongst ordinary Nigerians has continued unabatted through the early and mid-eighties.

1987
Some Igbos were massacred in Kafanchan (northern Nigeria) becuase they demostrated against Nigeria changing from an 'observer' at the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to a full member.

1990
John Kaluka (n Igbo) was beheaded by some northern religious fanatic after it was rumoured that the former used a sheet from the Qaran to clean himself at visiting the toilet. His beheaded head was carried around Kano (northern Nigeria) for days until some Igbo residing there asked that the beheaded head be returned to them for proper burial, in he ensuing fracas, there was attack on the properties of Igbos, the Igbos instead of running back to the southeast as usual retaliated. Hundred of Igbos were killed and properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed.

1993
After the annulment of the 1993 election, which was alleged to have been won by Chief Moshood Abiola (a Yoruba from south western Nigeria) by Ibrahim Babagida (a Northerner) The Yorubas instead of attacking the tribe of the annuller (Babangida) of that election rather started killing confistcating Igbos properties. Thousands lost their lives as direct and indirect result of the mayhem. Ever since then there has been sporadic but sustained massacre of Igbos by the now banned Odua Peoples' Congress (a pan-Yoruba militia group).

2000
Following the imposition of strict Islamic laws on Muslims and non Muslims in Zamfara State (northern Nigeria) and other parts of northern Nigeria, there was nation-wide opposition (especially from the south) to such primitive law in a supposed secular Nigeria. In Febuary of 2000 the northern religious fanatics started attacking churches and other non-muslim places of worship after some christians demostrated on the streets of Kaduna against the unconstitutional Sharia laws. As usual, the Igbos were the scape-goats. According to eye-witness accounts, over 3000 people, most of them Igbos lost their lives in that intigated Kaduna riots.

2001
Religious related riots again flared up in the volatile north. This time the city of Jos (north-central Nigeria) was the theatre of what most people have rightly described as "a national disgrace". at the las count a couple of weeks ago, over 500 mostly Igbo innocent lives were wasted by those who are bent on making Nigeria an "Islamic State". Whether we the non muslims like it or not.

Ndeewo nu!

I am not here to join in the so-called EgbeOmo(oduduwa).com bashing - what a name! - but rather I am here to teach, to inform, to amuse, to provoke, to express my point of view, and to inquire - and if there are genuine teachers here, not propagandists and rumor-mongers - then perchance to learn. From what I have read here, learning here will be difficult, but trust me, I shall try. O ezioku!

Nwa Aro:

I read your diatribe (masquerading as a history lesson) to Mr. Williamson, and I was severally amused by your spread of blatant Oko Oko Ndem-like propaganda and facile Ogbete-Market rumors in a number of instances.

But assuming - and it is a big assumption - that all what you wrote was the truth and nothing but the truth, why have the Igbos been so ill-treated in Nigeria since 1945?
Why has it been your lot to be so "massacred" in Nigeria?

Thank you in anticipation. Try not to be rude, biko, otherwise I go "lawa" from here!

Ndeewo nu, BiafraNigeriaWorld!

Bolaji Aluko, FITCC

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In chains like animals
canned and brutalized
We were no animals
And we were no criminals

Look at the motion
Of the ocean
And the cold wind blows by
In chains and bare bodied

Don't worry your head. If you are a good student, you will learn a lot from the excellent teachers in this forum. I have learned a lot from them. I expect to learn a lot from you too. But, if you are Olodo, we cannot help you. As some have warned you, if you dish it out, be prepared to get it back. You may not be banned, but no one will be banned to please you either.

One more thing! your Igbo stinks. So, please talk to us in English. That way, there will be less confusion about what you are trying to say.

Now, what do you think about the Sharianization of [y]our country, BiafraNigeria? As you may have read, this will be a topic at sympozia this weekend at Howard University School of Law. Will you be attending the sympozia? That, after all, is related to the topic of this thread.

"Ehn, abialam!" (in post-response to Amanda Wekson. :-))

Thanks for welcoming me! I remember Biafra inviting me many moons ago when he and I were banned elsewhere, and BIafraNigeriaWorld was just being established, but I quietly let the invitation slide. But I am here now for a time and a season - which might be short or long depending on how you all behave! :-)

Biafra:

I am not here to fight - or re-fight - a war, of the Earth or of the mind - so all this "attack...attack" as if I should be charging up and down Uli Airstrip or shooting up Ugba Junction with an Ogbunigwe from Milliken Hill is not exactly my cup of tea. These days, I discuss Nigeria and Biafra at all to shed light, not generate heat, which I find many Biafrans (of the mind) wont to do.

Patrick:

Thank you too for welcoming me.

1. Did you say that my Igbo stinks? That is not very nice, and is an "obubo" way of welcoming an "omo", don't you think?

2. No, I will not be attending the Friday Symposium or the Saturday Pep(permint) rally. I am otherwise engaged. The Saturday Gala event is a possibility though, provided I get free admission, and an assurance that Ezeigbo Gburu-gburu COO himself go dey dere. Greet Ralph for me otherwise.

By the way, Mr. Udenkwo of the Biafra Foundation is a good friend of mine from the NDAC/NDM days.

3. To state that Nwa Aro might be spreading a local-market rumor or war-time-like propaganda is to describe his political proclivities. However, to describe an action of mine as similar to "Onye Ara Ogbete" or "Were Mushin" is to declare me probably biologically incompetent. Do you note the distinction with a big difference?

I generally engage in robust philosophical and political debates, but I do not extend them to describing the bodily parts or biological functions of my co-debaters. It would be uncouth and "infra dig".

I trust that you understand.

Nwa Aro:

In attempting to "educate" Williamson, you stated some historical facts, whose truths and interpretations I call SERIOUSLY into question. There is a difference between what-where-when-how and why. I sense a persecution complex. Nevertheless, my central question to you, which might guide the discussion along is this: "Why the Igbos?"

I ask it because while there is little we can do about past history, there is something we can do about avoiding its repetition.

I await your response, and will focus on it like a laser beam, despite (I am sure) many attempts to get me discussing in all six and seven directions.

Ndeewo nu!

Bolaji Aluko

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