Biafra: Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, orders embassy move for US

December 7, 201

• President Trump: Jerusalem is the  capital of Israel
• President announces efforts to move U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, saying it's time to "acknowledge the obvious" as he ordered the State Department to begin moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” the president said during a speech in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.

The move fulfills a campaign promise made to religious conservatives. But it could also inflame tensions across the Middle East.

“This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality," Trump said. "It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.”

'I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.'
- President Trump
Trump acknowledged the opposition from other countries in the Middle East to his decision, saying Vice President Mike Pence will be “traveling to the region” in the coming days.

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“There will of course be disagreement and dissent regarding this announcement,” Trump said. “But we are confident that ultimately, as we work through these disagreements, we will arrive at a peace and place far greater in understanding and cooperation.”

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During his remarks, Trump emphasized he is still committed to a peace deal between the two sides.

“This decision is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement," he said. "We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians.”

The U.S. would be the first country to move its embassy to Jerusalem, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians. Other countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Fox News' "The Story with Martha MacCallum" that Trump's decision was "acknowledging something that’s common sense to everyone."

Insight from the United States ambassador to the United Nations on 'The Story.'Video
Nikki Haley on the decision to move US embassy to Jerusalem

"The [Knesset] is there, the prime minister is there, the Supreme Court -- that is the capital," Haley said. "And by us putting the embassy there, that’s a U.S. decision."

But the embassy move would not be immediate and could take at least three or four years.

The U.S. officials said there are currently about 1,000 personnel in the embassy in Tel Aviv. They added that there is no facility in Jerusalem ready to serve as the embassy site, and it will take time to address security, design and cost concerns.

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“This will immediately begin the process of hiring architects, engineers and planners so that a new embassy when completed will be a magnificent tribute to peace,” Trump said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised message, thanked Trump for what he called a “courageous and just” decision.

“This decision reflects the president’s commitment to an ancient but enduring truth,” Netanyahu said. “The president’s decision is an important step toward peace, for there is no peace that doesn’t include Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”

He stressed there would be no change in the status quo at the holy sites and Israel will ensure “freedom of worship” for all faiths.

Ahead of the announcement, Trump spoke Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Jordanian King Abdullah and Netanyahu.

Abbas has warned of the “gravity of consequences” should the move become official for “the peace process and security and stability in the region and world.”

"Courage doesn’t come by doing what everybody else says," Haley told Fox News Wednesday night. "Courage comes by doing what you know is right. This is the right thing to do and what the president’s doing is he’s showing leadership."

The controversy surrounding the move of the embassy dates back decades. A law passed in 1995 under the Clinton administration considers Jerusalem the capital, and even mandates the move of the embassy there.

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But the law allows for a loophole used by former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – an option to issue waivers every six months to delay the move from Tel Aviv.

Trump also took advantage of the loophole, which Republicans have long called to be closed. Trump’s first waiver was signed in June, which drew praise from the Palestinians and some disappointment from Israel.

The administration officials said Tuesday that Trump will still sign a waiver to keep from jeopardizing State Department funding while the relocation process begins.

Source: Fox News

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Biafra: Where Are Those Voices Echoing The Deceit Called "Restructuring?"

By Chukwuemeka Alex Okeke || For Biafra Writers

October 26, 2017

Days have gone, weeks gone and months swiftly passing away without a single voice further echoing that beautiful "Package" called 'Restructuring' any more. What has happened? Who has spoken again? Where are the agents and proponents of restructuring as an alternative to the Hausa-Fulani-styled and carefully skewed 'One Nigeria'? The voices are now cold, has grown feeble, the fake and watery venoms calmed, the grammarian students has gone berserk, the professors asleep to awake God-knows-when, the El-rufai restructuring package committee are no longer on the news! What has happened to all of them? Have they suddenly gone missing?

Where are the Bendel-warriors declaring Bendel State? Where are the Conveners of the Odua Republic? Where are the Northern illiterate theorists and their Northern Youth groups? Where are the Chameleonic campaigners for political alternative (APC)? Where are those drawing the boundary between Biafra and Biafra(South-South political errand boys)? Where are the Military spokespersons, hopping from one lie to the other and from one denial to another?

Where are the Eastern political jobbers and the errand boys in the mould of 'OHANAEZE-NDI-IGBO', where are the members of the Southeast governors forum? What has become of their "ghostly Amnesty packages?" Are the pack of dust-bins called the Southeast governors so quickly through with their Amnesty package? Has the Igbo socio-political group, Ohanaeze, given up so quickly on their crusade for Restructuring? Why all these sudden evaporation of the voice of strength from these campaigners of one Nigeria?

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Too many questions still contesting for space on my mind cannot be exhausted in this piece alone! What is happening? Did anyone of the aforementioned campaigners for political alternative forgotten the spelling of the deceitful package? Wait here is the spelling R-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-I-N-G or beckon on a Biafran kid schooling outside of Nigeria via the kid's guidance or parents as the case may be and inquire from the child, the spelling of the word you most frequently muttered each time you visited Aso-Rock or whenever your names appeared on the pages of the Nigerian media outlets.

Summon all the Igbo slave professors and economic refugees hiding behind the popularity of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the great and IPOB to spew their illiterate gibberish called alternative 'Modus Operandi' as against the approach been divinely inspired through Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (THE GREAT). Also call the Lagos economic refugee and old slave-boy with the nomenclature Joe Igbokwe to take the podium now! Call all the Northern-money-has-bought Igbo leaders to come forward and take the podium for alternative 'modus-operandi' in the restoration project for Biafra!

Summon all the Igbo slaves, anti-Biafra and Nigeria-bought internet warriors to come up now! I also have not seen nor heard from BIM's leader, Raphael Uwazuruike, the sworn-in errand boy. Where are all the Abuja-based political contractors for the One-Nigeria and Biafra critics? Come up now or remain silent forever.

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Wherever a proponent of 'One Nigeria' sees a Biafran, I require that the former must stoop low or prostrate and say to the citizen of IPOB "Good morning Sir, live long!" If you are an IPOB, beat your chest and say "I'M A HERO!" Because what we do, no man dares!

By the time Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released by Nigeria to commence the second phase of his campaign, which I believe must be the final round, thunder of hypocrisy must destroy any of the groups I mentioned earlier and their cronies who have not done anything in the alternative up until now, If they ever criticize the living Hero, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when we shower him with accolades and love.

Therefore when you hear the name, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, prostrate and pay obeisance to him or die in envy, jealousy, strife and shame.

THE BIAFRA TIMES
Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
Publisher: Chijindu Benjamin Ukah
Contact us: [email protected]

Kurdistan Referendum: A Snapshot To Biafra Agitation In Nigeria

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
For Biafra Writers

September 30, 2017

Not minding the threats, jubilant Iraqi Kurds celebrated their vote on independence from Iraq, shooting off fireworks and parading in vehicles festooned with Kurdish flags late into the night. They had stepped out on Monday, 25th September 2017, in their overwhelming numbers to cast their votes at the polling stations. The vote played out on a historic day for several million Kurds in northern Iraq and was a pivotal moment in the Kurdish dream of a politically independent state.

Often called the world’s largest ethnic group without a homeland, some 30 million Kurds are spread across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. They were denied statehood when the Middle East map was redrawn after World War 1. Isolated and marginalized, Iraqi’s Kurds are now demanding a path to self-determination. Therefore, for several million Kurds in the autonomous enclave of Kurdistan, the referendum vote is a downright payment on a dream deferred and according to reports, an overwhelming 93 percent “Yes”, against 7.3 percent “No” votes casted to exit Iraq.

Similar to the Biafrans seeking independence from Nigeria, the Kurds has suffered various demeaning treatments ranging from torture and even genocide. As stated earlier, they were denied a homeland after World War 1. Additionally, almost every Kurd in northern Iraq can trace a family history stained by treachery and dispossession: Kurdish women and children were killed in chemical attacks, some with biological weapons, their villages razed, Kurdish men detained and murdered, families deported or banished to internment camps. And now they are determined to escape their tortured past to fulfill a national destiny, a country to call their own.

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However, their vote for a referendum has been faced with strong opposition from not only Iraq but the Iranian and Turkish governments. While they threatened military action against the Kurds, the Iraqi officials, have regarded the referendum as unconstitutional, vowing to ignore the results. They fear losing a third of the country and a major source of oil should Kurdistan breakaway. On the other side, Turkey and Iran fears the vote is capable of fomenting unrest among their own Kurdish minorities and are now conducting military exercises on their borders with Iraq near Kurdistan. It appears that the aforementioned countries are most concerned with their interests and benefits while neglecting that of the Kurds.

Meanwhile, Rashid Ali, a retiree who voted at a public school on Monday morning shown on the Television said, “When I voted, I didn’t think for one second of Turkey or Iran and their threats. I’m not worried about them.” Also, according to a former American diplomat, Peter W. Galbraith who is close to the Kurdish leadership and also supports Kurdish independence, “If the vote does go forward, there’s no going back on independence.” Predicting a solid majority in favour of independence, he asked, “Would you want to be a part of a country that committed genocide against you?”

For decades in Nigeria, the issue of Biafra has been a constant phenomenon among Nigerians. The population of Nigeria has been divided on the idea of Biafra for ages. Some say that the concept is hurtful for the Nigerian nation, as it causes dissension and fuels hate. On the other hand, there are people with the school of thought that Nigeria was not even meant to be, that they were forced to become a single nation. Ultimately, Biafrans no longer have faith in Nigeria, so they want Biafra to be independent.

Since the past six months, another word apart from restructuring that has continued popping up in the Nigerian media is the word “referendum,” for Biafra. However, it will not hurt to mention that Biafra used to be an independent republic that existed between 1967 to 1970. Since then, a lot of people who still consider themselves Biafrans have been trying to revive the defunct republic.

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Among those people, the most active set of agitators that really stands out is the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who have been working effortlessly to restore its long-lost freedom and political independence without violence. For IPOB, Biafra’s independence is of extreme importance. That is why they were doing everything in their power to make Nigerian government officials recognize the need for a referendum.

Being faced with genocide during the war, coupled with the recent threat of annihilation by the Nigerian government who has extrajudicially killed a huge number of Biafrans agitating for their rights to self-determination. Some of them have been extrajudicially killed and detained for months running into years for simply embarking on protests, rallies, evangelism, etc. While there have been reports of forced abduction of Biafra agitators by the Nigerian security agencies.

“We Biafrans in pursuit of our inalienable, irreducible and God-given right to restore our stolen sovereignty do hereby state that we do not require the permission of the Nigerian State or her government officials to grant us our natural freedom,” as contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful.

However, it has been severally argued on various platforms and debates that unlike other countries, the Nigerian constitution has no express provision on referendum despite series of constitutional amendments, thus until the constitution is further amended to make provision for referendum, the 1999 constitution of Nigeria being the supreme law of the land has no window or room for referendum.

According to a debater, “Since the only possible move to that regards is amending the constitution and the National Assembly has the power to review and amend it, those who want a referendum have to follow the process of constitutional amendment bill.”

But with the “indissolubility” of the country emphatically inserted in the constitution, it is doubtful, if the authorities will acquiesce in any action or suggestion that directly or indirectly results in the destruction or rather separation of the Nigerian State. It is in this regard that the referendum demanded by IPOB on the prospect of a sovereign state of Biafra might have fallen on deaf ears. The smart bet is that they will not be granted referendum from the Federal government, and the principle of self-determination, elegantly crafted in international laws, such as the African and United Nations Charter, has not been the easiest of principles to invoke or implement especially in Nigeria where these laws are being neglected.

However, not only IPOB has called for a referendum in Nigeria. The Yoruba Assembly; an umbrella platform for the coalition of socio-political groups in Nigeria’s South-West, rejected the statement ad nauseam by President Muhammadu Buhari who noted that the unity of Nigeria was not negotiable.

According to the Coalition led by General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), “That statement cannot hold true under a civil setting or democracy. Nigeria’s unity is negotiable. We can negotiate it to remain together or otherwise. If however, we choose to remain together, the terms of engagement must be clear and acceptable to all Nigerians.”

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But the fact still remains that Biafrans are being marginalized, humiliated, maltreated and killed in Nigeria of today by government-sponsored policies and agencies. And so, Biafrans wants to opt-out. The country has been severely polarized along ethnic and religious lines and therefore cannot uphold its unity. A clear case is the infamous quit notice being handed to Igbos inhabiting the North by some Arewa Youths which has attracted a lot of condemnation by conscientious minds. One of those who spoke in condemnation of the act was Senator Walid Jibrin; the National chairman, Board of Trustees, BOT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In his reaction, “If Igbos(Biafrans) want their own independence as Biafra, is it enough for the northern youths to give them quit notice to leave the North to their states?”

In these past few years, IPOB and other pro-Biafra movements have been actively rallying for the recognition of Biafra. Many people want Biafra to be independent, and the government cannot sit on their hands much longer. Sooner or later, they will have to acknowledge Biafra in one way or another, if they want to avoid what happened fifty years ago. Somehow, the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the world to gaining their own separate nation in the actualization of their rights to self-determination, as enshrined under the provisions of the AU and UN, which Nigeria is a signatory to, has to be invoked to end all these controversies. But until then, the country will live in continuous tumult.

THE BIAFRA TIMES
PUBLISHER: CHARLES OPANWA
CONTACT: [email protected]

Biafra: IPOB Hails Turkey's Support Towards Biafra Agitation, Urges Other Nations To Follow Suit

Turkish government officials In Solidarity with IPOB in Turkey

April 16, 2017

When the unexpected begins to happen all of a sudden it is seen as a miracle. This is the case with Turkey and her people who recently and officially recognised Biafra as a nation and support the call for her freedom.
What is more intriguing is the fact Turkey is the first Islamic nation to openly support the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Biafrans before now never assumed that the Turkish government would ever talk about the Biafra agitation, much more giving them Boats and setting up other logistics in place for IPOB movement in Turkey; alas it has been proven wrong.

While the so called christian countries are busy fighting each other and sidelining with enemies of their fellow christians who needs to be free from annihilation, Turkey, a muslim country has seen the need to support a people yearning for freedom; a phenomenon which Buhari the Islamic fundamentalist has vowed never to let happen unless he dies.

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Following this noble gesture of Turkey, Nigeria has to understand that a time will come when those aiding and abetting the massacre of the Biafran people will equally turn against them. The Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu wishes to express our profound gratitude and appreciation to the Turkish government and her people for this great show of love.

Their recommendations and support to Biafrans will never go unnoticed and unappreciated. Their solidarity towards IPOB's cause is a great source of encouragement at a time when the world seem to have turned against us with a deafening silence, while Biafrans are faced with a threat of extinction in Nigeria.

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Biafra Writers in conjunction with IPOB leadership are also beckoning on other nations to tow Turkey's path and show solidarity with IPOB in the quest for freedom from slavery, marginalization and impending annihilation. Biafrans are being massacred on a daily basis and it has taken a whole new dimension ever since Muhammadu Buhari rigged himself into power in 2015 with the aid of Britain.

The right to self determination is for all and not a particular race as the world has made it seem and it is pertinent to state that Nigeria is a signatory to this charter and must adhere to it.
When good people maintain grave silence in the face of  evil, watching keenly while Biafra killings is on rampage, it becomes a license for anarchy.

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Nigeria is officially a theatre of gladiators as humanity continues to watch a fight where one fighter must die and it is wrongly permutated that Nigeria will come out of it alive again like it did in 1970. Amid this deafening silence of the world, Nigeria is allowed to come against the defenseless people of Biafra with all forms of modern weaponry for demanding Nnamdi Kanu’s release And Biafra freedom.

Our only offense being legitimately seeking our independence from an evil British empire called Nigeria. Thanks to the Turkish people for singling herself out of this conspiracy and to this end, others are enjoined to follow suit or be held accountable for the consequences of their silence and inaction.

By Ejike Ofoegbu
Edited & Published By Nwosu C.S 
For Biafra Writers

Biafra: IPOB-Trump Rally: The Horror, Carnage And Destruction of U.S, Israel, Russia & Biafra Flag, A Proof of Buhari's Extremism

22 January, 2017

The widely publicized IPOB-Trump solidarity rally which was held on the 20th of January with pre-notification letters to Nigerian security agencies and other relevant bodies was confronted with excessive use of lethal force by Nigeria joint security forces. As early as 8:30 am, Biafrans had gathered at Rumuola junction in Igweocha otherwise known as Port Harcourt with America, Isreal, Russia and Biafra flags for the rally but all over the junction were surrounded by agents of the Nigerian army, DSS, Police and the Airforce team hovering all over the sky with their gunboat choppers.

THE KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS

Close to Rumuola is a street by the name “Timothy lane;” where the DSS agents shot dead three Biafrans and forcefully abducted over eleven of them. The remaining of those they shot were whisked away in their white Ford pickup van to unknown destinations.  The event forced Biafrans to move down to Hotel Presidential junction where we all gathered for the peaceful solidarity rally.

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Biafrans from all works of life including mothers, fathers and children joined the rally in thousands as planned. From hotel presidential junction, those who were mandated to see non-disruption of free flow of traffic did a perfect work as Biafrans were organised to maintain sideway walks.

From Hotel Presidential, they got to Waterlines junction where we met huge build-up of security officers attached to the Nigerian Police Force who were armed to the teeth with fierce look. We peacefully passed by, marching to “Garrison Junction”.  Between St. Johns and Garrison were presence of the Nigerian army blocking the road with their armoured vehicles and guns.

Sighting their presence, our Coordinators pleaded with them to allow us pass as we are on solidarity rally for the US President Donald Trump’s inauguration. But on hearing the name “Donald Trump,” some of them shouted “To hell with Donald Trump”, “Thunder fire una and that useless man” (sic), “Tell him that this is not America”, “God punish you and Trump”,” etc.

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At this point, we were muffled as there were enforcement of other army personnel and their armoured vehicles in front of us. Behind Waterlines junction were fierce looking police officers, while the army officers were making their expressions. Biafrans were only holding flags and placards with the pictures of Nnamdi Kanu, Donald Trump, Vladmir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Wasting no further time, these soldiers started firing live bullets at us. The point at which we stood being a bridge before Garrison junction, many seeing their compatriots falling dead, ran disparagingly.

While the soldiers were shooting from the front, the Police we crossed at Waterlines junction were shooting from behind. Our mothers, children and the disabled were helpless as many of them lost their lives and were abducted by the police and army to an unknown place. The incident was horrific!

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I saw many disabled persons as they jumped over the bridge for safety in fear of the soldiers and the police bullets. Those who were in their pool of blood were captured by the forces, beaten to stupor and whisked away to unknown locations. Only God knows what they are passing through in the hands of the terrorist Nigerian army.

Why were innocent people being terrorised? We were killed, maimed and abducted by the Nigerian federal troops simply because we are on a solidarity match for Donald Trump and were holding American, Israel and Russian flags! When has these insignias constitute threats to International or Nigerian laws? When has solidarity rally for the US President amount to criminal cause? Those who celebrated over 9/11 attack on US in Northern Nigeria were not killed. Is our crime simply because we are Biafrans?

The loss of lives and abduction of Biafrans on Trump’s rally is a clear indication that the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal government will stand against the newly sworn in US President, Donald Trump and has dared him by their unscrupulous actions.

The Nigerian army’s boldness in destroying US, Russia and Israeli flags as often done in the Arab world is a clear indication that Nigeria and her president are extremists. The world in her entirety should prevail on Nigeria to release the dead bodies and free over hundreds of innocent Biafrans they kidnapped.

By Chika Austine 
Edited by Chukwuemeka Chimerue 
Published By Nwosu C.S 
For Biafra Writers 

Biafra: The Unholy Alliance Of Britain, U.S (Under Obama Administration) & Arab Nations Against IPOB And The Restoration Of Biafra: A Story That Must Be Told

27 November, 2016

History is in the making, and I quite agree with Theresa May that “there is change in the air.’’ Whatever is her source of information that led to her assertion, I am carefree to know, but I strongly agree with her that indeed “there is a change in the air”. Any one at her political level as a British Prime Minister, privy to information as regards the unholy alliance against Biafrans and the sudden change of event that followed the conspiracy, will reverberate as she did.

She was briefed as protocol demands of the alliance that exist between Saudi Arabia, United States under Barrack Obama, Britain and Nigeria against the Biafran people. Such humanly well-coordinated plot was to be acted at the supervision of the United Nations and well known media giants with tactics of downgrading the number of human lives lost. While Obama was to kick start it, Hillary Clinton was to bring the plot (which is the extermination of Biafrans) and regenerate a crop of remnants which were to be nurtured in the Islamic faith.

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Already, the foot soldiers from nearby Arab states were positioned strategically under the false flag of ‘herdsmanship.’ Others conscripted in the Nigerian Army were briefed on the mission and warned not to deviate from the status quo. Buhari’s government, being the host institution, had already lied to the rest of the world that the herdsmen are aliens, just to plead ‘not guilty’ to these atrocities. The major social media sites like Facebook and Twitter; main stream media houses like CNN, BBC, Aljazeera, New York Times and local media outlets were all lobbied to shutdown Biafra news. The conspiracy and its strategies were primarily to exterminate Biafrans.

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They all proposed and Chukwuokike Abiama(The Almighty God) disposed! Sure… they do not know God nor His ways; hence, they never imagined that the Mighty Hand of God is able to deliver Biafra from all their machinations. The table has turned around; the first has become the last and the last has become the first. They have fallen into their own pits. As it is written; “because Syria (Britain), Ephraim (Nigeria), and the Son of Remaliah (United States), have taken evil counsel against thee (Biafra) saying, let us go up against Judah (Biafra), and vex it, and let us make a breach (the oil and other resources) therein for us, and set a king (Ohanaeze) in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal(Rochas Okorocha): thus saith the Lord God, it shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim(Nigeria) be broken, that it be not a people...if ye will not believe, surely, ye shall not be established” (Isaiah 7:5-9).

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Indeed their conspiracies never saw the light of the day, despite the resources they have put into it. To Britain, God rewarded her with ‘Brexit’ which forced out the Satanic agent (David Cameron) out of 10 Downing Street. Since then, Britain has not risen again -she is struggling with multifaceted issues ranging from what will be her fate after legally pulling out from EU, the Scottish question and the seriously declining British economy. Britain is internally engaged with too many issues, so much that what is happening outside the Island seemed not much attractive to her. Courtesy of Chukwu Okike Abiama!
To the United States, God decided to punish the individual and spare the entire nation as majority of Americans are not aware of where Barrack Obama has committed their country. Unlike Britain, United States had and is still having men and women who believe in morality and righteousness. “The scripture can never be broken’, God once told Abraham that if He (God) ‘’could see just a single soul with a right heart, He will spare the nation.’’ Despite Obama’s wicked and ungodly rule, US still have men and women of good will, and for that reason, God humiliated Obama as an individual as against the collective punishment of the Britons.

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Today, Obama is struggling with his image -the woman he projected and funded was humiliated out of her ambition to Oval office. As Billy Graham’s son stated it, what happened in America’s Presidential election was “an act of God”. Obama was indeed humiliated by his maker and more humiliation is coming until he recognizes and humbles himself like Nebuchadnezzar, that there is God who made and owns the heavens and the earth.

What of Saudi Arabia? Of course the kingdom is sucked in Yemen and the fall in global oil price has trimmed her arrogance. It is widely reported that there is austerity measures in the kingdom and her real headache is how she is going to manage her returning foot soldiers (ISIS). Trump, Putin and Netanyahu are already in the move to send them back to the kingdom with their hard and soft bludgeons. She is no longer keen on the Biafra extermination project, rather the holocaust that is at her door step! The offender is now the defender. What a Mighty God we serve!

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Then to the protégé and proxy called Nigeria, whose glory is already emitted and made lifeless, what will be her fate? Well, the prophecy above promised that “within threescore and five years shall Ephraim (Nigeria) be broken, that it be not a people”. Already she is 95% close to the fulfilment of this prophecy. Her economy is gone, Naira is now a tissue paper, Military officers have become soft targets to Boko Haram, the budget was padded and later, missing along with the mystic Chibok ladies.

Today, Nigeria is in a big mess. It is a shame on the African continent to regard Nigeria as her giant. What else is left of the contraption other than total collapse? Her soldiers are unpatriotic to her as her enemies. These are the consequences of conspiring against the elect of God, Biafrans. It will be important that Nigeria releases Nnamdi Kanu quickly and free Biafrans before it will be too late for the occupants.

To Biafrans, Chukwu Okike Abiama (The Almighty God) warns us in the prophecy that “if ye will not believe, surely, ye shall not be established”. We must believe in the restoration of Biafra state, believe in the prophet of our time, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and believe in Chukwu Okike Abiama (The Almighty God) so that his kingdom will be established upon the face of the earth.

Long Live Nnamdi Kanu!
Long Live Biafra!

Written By Austine Okoro
Edited By Chinedu Ewulu
Published By Nwosu C S
For Biafra Writers.

Principles of the Biafran Revolution (Ahiara Declaration)

Gen. Odumegwu Ojukwu 

We have indeed come a long way. We were once Nigerians, today we are Biafrans. We are Biafrans because on May 30, 1967, we finally said ‘no’ to the evils and injustices in which Nigeria was steeped. Nigeria was made up of peoples and groups with very little in common.

As everyone knows, Biafrans were in the forefront among those who tried to make Nigeria a nation. It is ironic that some ill-informed and mischievous people today will accuse us of breaking now the facts because we were there and the things that happened, happened to us.

Nigeria was indeed a very wicked and corrupt country in spite of the glorious image given her in the European press We know why Nigeria was given that image. It was her reward for serving the economic and political interests of her European masters. Nigeria is a stooge of Europe. Her independence was and is a lie.

Even her Prime Minister was a Knight of the British Empire; but worse than her total subservience to foreign political and economic interests, Nigeria committed many crimes against her nationals, which in the end made complete nonsense of her claim to unity.

Nigeria persecuted and slaughtered her minorities. Nigerian justice was a farce, her elections, her politics her everything was corrupt. Qualification, merit and experience were dislocated in public service. In one area of Nigeria, for instance, they preferred to turn a nurse who had worked for five years into a doctor rather than employ a qualified doctor from another part of Nigeria. Barely literate clerks were made Permanent Secretaries.

A university Vice Chancellor was sacked because he belonged to the wrong tribe. Bribery, corruption and nepotism were so widespread that people began to wonder openly whether any country in the world could compare with Nigeria in corruption and abuse of power.

All the modern institutions the legislature – the civil service, the army, the police, the judiciary, the universities, the trade unions and the organs of mass information were devalued and made the tools of corrupt political power. There was complete neglect and impoverishment of the people. Whatever prosperity there was, was deceptive.

There was despair in many hearts, and the number of suicides was growing every day. The farmers were very hard- hit. Their standards of living had fallen steeply. The soil was perishing from over-farming and lack of scientific husbandry. The towns, like the soil, were wastelands into which people put in too much exertion for too little reward. There were crime waves and people lived in fear of their lives.

Business speculation, rack-renting, worship of money and share:) practices left a few people extremely rich at the expense of the many, and those few flaunted their wealth before the many and talked about sharing the national cake. Foreign interests did roaring business spreading consumer goods and wares among a people who had not developed a habit of thrift and well fell prey to lying advertisements.

Inequality of the sexes was actively promoted in Nigeria. Rather than aspire to equality with men, women were encouraged to accept the status of inferiority and to become the mistresses of successful politicians and business executive, or they were married off at the age of fourteen as the fifteenth wives of the new rich. That was the glorious Nigeria, the mythical Nigeria, celebrated in the European press.

Then worst of all came the genocide in which over 50,000 of our kith and kin were slaughtered in cold blood all over Nigeria and nobody asked questions; nobody showed regret; nobody showed remorse. Thus, Nigeria had become a jungle with no safety, no justice and no hope for our people. We decided then to found a new place, a human habitation away from the Nigerian jungle. That was the origin of our revolution.

From the moment we assumed the illustrious name of the ancient kingdom of Biafra, we were rediscovering the original independence of a great African people. We accepted by this revolutionary act the glory, as well as the sacrifice, of true independence and freedom.

We knew that we had challenged the many forces and interests, which had conspired to keep Africa and the black race in subjection forever. We knew they were going to be ruthless and implacable in defense of their age-old imposition on us and exploitation of our people. But we were prepared, and remain prepared, to pay any price for our freedom and dignity.

Our revolution is a historic opportunity given to us to establish a just society; to revive the dignity of our people at home and the dignity of the black man in the world. We realize that in order to achieve those ends we must remove those weaknesses in our institutions and organizations and those disabilities in foreign relations which have tended to degrade this dignity. This means that we must reject Nigerianism in all its guises.

The Biafran revolution is the people’s revolution. ‘Who are the people?’ you ask. The farmer, the trader, the clerk, the businessman, the housewife, the student, the civil servant, the soldier you and I are the people. Is there anyone here who is not of the people? Is there anyone here afraid of the people anyone suspicious of the people? Is there anyone despising the people? Such a man has no place in our revolution. If he is a leader, he has no right to leadership, because all power, all sovereignty, belongs to the people.

In Biafra the people are supreme; the people are master the leader is the servant. You see, you make a mistake when you greet me with shouts of ‘power, power’. I am not power you are. My name is Emeka, I am your servant, that is all.

Fellow countrymen, we pride ourselves on our honesty. Let us admit to ourselves that when we left Nigeria, some of us did not shake off every particle of Nigerians. We say that Nigerians are corrupt and take bribes; but here in our country we have among us some members of the Police and the Judiciary who are corrupt and who ‘eat’ bribes.

We accuse Nigerians of in ordinate love of money, ostentatious living and irresponsibility: but here, even while we are engaged in a war of national survival, even while the very life of our nation hangs in the balance, we see some public servants who throw huge parties to entertain their friends; who kill cows to christen their babies.

We have members of the armed forces who carry on ‘attack’ trade instead of fighting the enemy. We have traders who hoard essential goods and inflate prices, thereby increasing the people’s hardship. We have ‘money-mongers’ who aspire to build on hundreds of plots on land as yet un-reclaimed from the enemy; who plan to buy scores of lorries and buses and to become agents for those very foreign businessmen who have brought their country to grief. We have some civil servants who think of themselves as masters rather than servants of the people. We see doctors who stay idle in their villages while their countrymen and women suffer and die.

* Being excerpts from the Ahiara Declaration, a document written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra, which was delivered as a speech by then General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in the Biafra town of Ahiara on June 1, 1969.

Source: Vanguard, November 28, 2011

BUHARI: THE DEATH OF NNAMDI KANU WILL BE THE END OF NIGERIA

Nnamdi Kanu The Leader Of The Indigenous People Of Biafra

Five months on, the Nigerian government still have been unable to provide proofs to substantiate the concocted allegations, failure in providing legal requirements of witnesses to testify against Nnamdi Kanu. Making matter worst is the censorship of the Nigerian judiciary by inducing the presiding judge in the person of John Tsoho of the federal high court Maitama, Abuja in altering and misinterpreting laws to favour their inconsistencies, lies and deceits. As all these ill-conceived plans are improbable, they have resorted and conspired to finally silence i.e to summarily kill Nnamdi Kanu. Is this not a big shame to Nigeria?

It is pertinent to note that the outcome of any eventuality on Nnamdi Kanu's life or health will definitely be met with defiance as never witnessed before in Nigeria. May I remind Nigeria that Nnamdi Kanu himself told them that "...he will rather remain in detention than to subject himself to their erroneous trial which the outcome will never be respected".
The conspired plot to assassinate Nnamdi Kanu which took place on Saturday 26th March 2016 at Abuja in a secret organized by Muhammadu Buhari had Messrs: Lawal Musa Daura, Governor Willie Obiano, Governor Rochas Okorocha, Governor Victor Okezie Ikpeazu and Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in attendance concluded on a false flagged hijack attempt on the vehicle that will convey Nnamdi Kanu to court.

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 They concluded to contract some assassins that will camouflage as IPOB members and stage the false flagged hijack. In the process, the operatives of Department of State Services (DSS) will kill Nnamdi Kanu and then claim that he died in a crossfire during the purported hijack. The second option is to kill Nnamdi Kanu by poisoning his food. The same treatment that was meted on late M.K.O. Abiola.
But then again, the Nigerian government under the auspicious leadership of the ex coup plotter, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari must understand that the death of Nnamdi Kanu, either intentional or otherwise will be the end of the british creation called Nigeria.

History is gradually repeating itself again in Nigeria. It is thus high time the world understood that the Biafrans are not ready to take things for granted again. Prior to May 1967, Biafrans were pursued and hounded in all their habitats, streets, churces, workplaces and markets in Nigeria. These systematically orchestrated massacres of Biafrans led to a defensive genocidal war by Biafrans against a well-supported Nigerian military majorly backed and supported by the British government and her allies.

This genocidal war resulted in the destruction, displacement and death of more than five million (5million) innocent and defenseless children, women and men of Biafran extraction. The Red Cross and other relief agencies were prohibited from flying into Biafra to supply the much-needed supplies. All these that happened between 1967-1970 were a result of execution of all Biafrans in most cities in Nigeria. The same history is gradually ushering itself in again. There is a red alert on Nnamdi Kanu's life. It is therefore the reason why we the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is using this medium to reach out to the entirety of humanity to understand what is going on withing and with Biafraland and her people.

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The inability of the Nigerian government in proving  him wrong in the court and the squeezed plot to assassinate Nnamdi Kanu who in all legitimacy anchors the call for the restoration of Biafra will definitely erupt to another war which no one will escape from. The Nigerian Government with these Eastern Governors will not take anything as an excuse this time around as the infuriation is getting high. Recently, governor Willie Obiano killed more that 25 peaceful protesters at Onitsha, Victor Okezie Ikpeazu massacred a great number of Biafrans while praying and fasting in Aba, Abia state and Rochas Okorocha killed many Biafran in Imo state as well. As all these killings are ongoing, the (IPOB) had remained law-abiding and peaceful till date but we will surely respond to any eventuality against Nnamdi Kanu.

Written By Amalahueze Akaeze.
Edited By Obioma Ebere
Published By Nwosu C.S
By Biafra Writers

Nigeria: How Nigerian Politicians Squandered N118.2 Trillion ($600 billion) Between 2005 & 2016

(Onitsha Nigeria, 2nd February 2016) The leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) wishes to inform statistically that the Nigerian political leaders holding forth at the Federal, States, Local Government and Federal Capital Territory have between January 2005 and December 2016; a period of 12 years, squandered a whopping sum of N118.2 trillion or $600billion. The squandered public funds are made up of generated and borrowed funds secured for the purpose of budgetary expenditures in all of the country’s public offices, between January 2005 and December 2016. The political leaders under reference include the Federal authorities, the authorities in charge of the country’s 36 States and 774 constitutionally recognized Local Government Areas (LGAs) as well as the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja); numbering 17,500, made up of elected and appointed public office holders in the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government.

The political authorities under reference, have also between June 2007 and December 2016; a period of  ten years, incurred staggering public debts of over N10trillion or $50billion from local and international sources; comprising States and Federal Government’s local and foreign loans. Nigeria’s official or public total debts as at May 2007 stood at $23.5billion; comprising local debts of N1.8trillion ($20billion: 140.00/US$) and foreign debts of $3.5billion. This was after its $30billion foreign loans were liquidated in 2006 courtesy of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and leading international lending institutions.  But by the end of December 2016, Nigeria’s current total public debts must have risen to over N14.6trillion or $73billion. The Buhari’s federal Presidency alone has proposed a public borrowing of over $9billion or N1.84trillion in the 2016 budget proposal. Average of 20%-30% of 2016 budget proposal of each State in Nigeria is also expected to be funded from local or international borrowings.

When added, the country’s total official or public debts will be raised to as much as $80billion or N16trillion by the end of December 2016. The country’s current official public debts as at June 2015 were quoted by DMO as “N11.1trillion or $63.8billion”, using old official exchange rate of N155/US$. This is no longer fiscally realistic. Crookedness is also associated with government local borrowings in Nigeria; making it difficult for DMO to appropriately capture every kobo borrowed locally particularly by State Governments. As a matter of fact, totality of public borrowed funds in Nigeria both openly and illicitly borrowed; is strongly believed to be in the neighborhood of $80billion to $90billion or N18trillion or even more. Nigeria had also spent a whopping sum of N2.95trillion or $15billion in the past five years (2010-2014) in debts servicing. It is also feared in many informed quarters that Nigeria’s current public debts may most likely double at the end of President Buhari’s embattled administration by 2019, owing to alarming rates with which loans are being borrowed by his administration and subordinates of his administration particularly the State Governors.

On the other hand, by the end of December 2016, a total of N118.2trillion or $600billion borrowed and generated public funds in Nigeria since January 2005 would have been squandered by the named public office holders. These public office holders are majorly and dually controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). The two major political parties are also “two fingers of a leprous hand” used by those 17,500 public office holders particularly the elected; through back and forth membership and political trading, to squander the princely public funds under reference.

This grounded finding of ours is built on similar facts laden finding made on 13th January 2013 by the Vanguard Newspaper, which corresponded with data available at the Federal Ministry of Finance. The report found that the referenced tiers of government and their agencies in Nigeria had between January 2005 and December 2013 budgeted, generated, borrowed and squandered a whopping sum of N80trillion ($400billion); out of which N56trillion ($280billion) was spent on recurrent expenditures, while paltry N24trillion ($120billion) was spent on capital expenditures. In our expanded and extensive investigation following the foregoing, we further found that another N38.2trillion or $190billion had been squandered between January 2014 and December 2016; a period of three years. Of this amount and by the end of December 2016, the Federal Government would have spent N16trillion or $80billion; South-south zone N5.6trillion or $28billion, Southwest N4trillion or $20billion, Northwest N3.1trillion or $15billion, 774 LGAs  N3trillion or $15billion, North-central N2.1trillion or $10billion, Northeast N2trillion or $10billion, Southeast N1.66trillion or $8.01billion and the FCT N625billion or $3.1billion which includes a 2016 projected budget of N180billion; totaling N38.2trillion or $190billion in three years.

Our grounded findings were arrived at using the main public budgets of the Federal Government, the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory; while in the case of 774 constitutionally recognized Local Government Areas (LGAs), their statutory federation allocations was used. For instance, in the 2015 federal allocations to the LGAs in Nigeria, a total of N953billion or $4.5billion was so allocated. On the other hand, our grounded finding did not include supplementary budgets of some of the 36 States and the Federal Government (some) as well as the internally generated revenues of the 774 LGAs. That of the LGAs was informed by total castration of the independence and functionality of the LGAs system in Nigeria; worsened by the provisions of Sections 162 (6) (State Joint LGA account) and 7(1) (management of LGAs by State Government). Also, in the course of our findings, the official exchange of N199.00/US$ was applied or used. We also hold that if the “missing points” are added, the budgeted and squandered public funds in Nigeria in the past 12 years will be higher than the figure under discussion.

Further breakdown of the above findings statistically indicates that by the end of December 2016, the Federal Government would have budgeted, generated, borrowed and squandered a total of N48.1trillion or $240billion; having budgeted and squandered N1.8trillion in 2005, N1.9trillion in 2006, N2.3trillion in 2007, N3.58trillion in 2008, N3.76trillion in 2009, N4.6trillion in 2010, N4.48trillion in 2011, N4.7trillion in 2012, N4.98trillion in 2013, N4.92trillion in 2014, N4.5trillion and the Buhari’s supplementary budget of N575billion in 2015 in addition to his 2016 budget proposal of N6.07trillion; all totaling N48.1trillion or $240billion in 12 years or from 2005 to 2016.

The South-south or Oil Niger Delta Region emerged the second largest squanderer with a whopping sum of N17.1trillion or $85billion; comprising N11.5trillion budgeted and spent between January 2005 and December 2013, and N5.6trillion between January 2014 and December 2016. The constitutionally recognized 774 LGAs emerged third largest squanderer with N14.4trillion or $70billion allocation in 12 years; comprising N11.4trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N3trillion between January 2014 and December 2016.

Southwest zone was 4th largest squanderer and the country’s sub national largest debtor. It squandered a total of N11.3trillion or $56.5billion; comprising N7.3trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N4trillion between January 2014 and December 2016. Northwest zone was the fifth largest squanderer with N8.5trillion or $42.5billion; comprising N5.38trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N3.1trillion between January 2014 and December 2016; followed by North-central as sixth largest squanderer with N7.35trillion or $37.5billion; comprising N5.19trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N2.16trillion between January 2014 and December 2016. The Northeast zone was the seventh largest squanderer with N5.76trillion or $28.8billion; comprising N3.75trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N2trillion between January 2014 and December 2016.

This Southeast zone emerged 8th largest squanderer with N5.1trillion or $25billion; comprising N3.45trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N1.66 trillion between January 2014 and December 2016. The ninth largest squanderer was the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) with N1.96trillion or $9.5billion; comprising N1.33trillion between January 2005 and December 2013, and N625billion between January 2014 and December 2016; all totaling N118.2trillion or $600billion in the past 12 years or January 2005 to December 2016.

It is shockingly sad that Nigerians are groaning in abject poverty in their land of plenty, to the extent that a whopping sum of N118.2trillion or $600billion was budgeted and squandered in the past 12 years (2005-2016) with little or nothing to show for it. Nigeria is a country of squander-mania. It is also developmentally dead as 98% of its solid minerals and agricultural produce are acutely subsistent or non- industrialized. Creative wealth is also near-totally absent owing to promotion by Nigeria’s political office holders particularly President Muhammadu Buhari administration, of sectional mediocrity and primordialism; corporate and bureaucratic idleness and laziness. Nigerian politicians rely heavily on oil and gas revenues as well as serial borrowings to sustain their political offices and siphoning of public funds.

As a matter of fact, crude oil revenues account for 35% of the country’s Gross National Product (GDP); 75% of government revenues and 90% of its export earnings till date. The country has no traces of any foreign investment overseas and has become “a territorial non grata” for real foreign investors, owing to myriad of its man-made security threats and other unsafe conditions as well as the Buhari’s gross and unrepentant affront to rule of law, human rights and constitutionalism. The country’s foreign reserves have shrunk from $36billion in October 2014 to $28billion in January 2016. Oil price has also fallen from $144 per barrel in July 2014 to as low as $30.25 per barrel in January 2016; leading Nigeria to lose over $70billion in oil revenues yearly to plummeted oil prices and presidentially provoked oil militancy in the Niger Delta.

Nigeria is expected to earn a meager sum of about $33billion from crude oil in 2016, from $102billion in 2013/2014 at the rate of $110 per barrel into 2.3million barrels per day.  Also, out of the expected dwindling crude revenues of about $33billion for 2016,  oil companies and drillers of the country’s crude oil are expected to be paid about $15billion or about 49% as contractual royalties; leaving the country with about $18billion or N3.6trillion oil revenues for this 2016. The Federal Government of Nigeria is expected to take about N1.5trillion or $7.5billion (52.6%); leaving the rest to oil States, 36 States, FCT and LGAs, etc.

The grand import of this grounded findings of ours is to bring to bear and to the attention of all Nigerians and members of the international community the entrenched squander-mania culture of the country’s political office holders and their total neglect and abandonment of over 170million citizens of the country to continually wallow in abject mass poverty; with the most shocking being chronic allocation of less than 30% of the budgets and staggering public funds under reference to capital projects. Another shocking observation of ours was resort particularly by States and the Federal Government to reckless local and foreign borrowings for the purpose of funding recurrent expenditures, comprising of personnel and overheads expenditures. In the Buhari’s supplementary budget of N575billion of 2015, for instance, most, if not all of it was for recurrent expenditures and in his 2016 budget proposal of N6.07trillion or $30billion, N3.6trillion or $18billion was for non-debt recurrent expenditures; which include N1.83trillion or $9.1billion for personnel costs and N547.8billion or $2.75billion was for overheads costs. Only a paltry sum of N1.8trillion or $9billion (30%) was proposed for capital expenditures. This is totally unacceptable!

Nigerians and members of the international community are therefore called upon to  reasonably and sacrificially draw concrete comparisons between the expenditure of the staggering public funds under reference and level of socio-economic development  ( i.e. roads, aviation, railway, transport, health, education, energy, water, shelter, justice, security and human rights, jobs, industry, environment and technology, etc) of their areas in particular and the country in general and be able to stand up and ask their political office holders, numbering 17,500, to account for the squandered public funds of N118.2trillion or $600billion in the past 12 years. They should rise up in condemnation of reckless and serial public borrowings in Nigeria particularly the entrenchment by political office holders of despicable habits of “borrowing to squander and plunder”.

Signed:

Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman

International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

NIGERIA'S MEDIA BLOCKADE AGAINST BIAFRANS IS A FRUITLESS MOVE

Nigerian Army On A Media Blockade Mission In Aba

As a matter of fact the existence of Press and Media coverage in the world today are special ways to enhance freedom of speech and also it is a very significant means by which the masses can checkmate the excesses of its leaders. It is also a way by which the oppressed can raise alarm over suppression of ones rights in a civilized or democratic society.

1967_1970 during Nigeria and Biafra war, Nigeria and British government consolidated and committed the world most dreadful genocide against Biafrans when over 6 million souls were killed including our children, fathers and our mothers. The war indeed was a brutal one, and it connoted the level of wickedness by two parties (Britain and Nigeria)  against Biafrans, over their right to self determination. One may ask, how possible is it that such cruelty was perpetrated against the Biafran race and the world was not aware of what was happening?

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The world should understand that the hatred displayed against Biafrans, especially by the Muhammadu Buhari led Nigerian government did not just start recently.
One of the most offensive device which Nigeria government used against Biafrans during the war, was  the total obstruction of media coverage, which limited the free flow of information regarding the war within its geographical space. As a result of this, most part of the world was not abreast with the ongoing genocide as at the time.

As if that was not enough, Nigeria government also ensured that the story about Biafra is not being discussed in any mass media and the every story about the war  was either dilluted, or removed from its education board.
Today, While crying out over the killing of innocent Biafrans, shooting and victimization of unarmed peaceful protesters, disobedient of court's orders and bribing of judges to rule against Nnamdi Kanu the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nigeria government have also ordered their armed forces to clamp down on vendors selling newspaper with Biafra stories in it.

They are doing all of this to prevent the world from knowing what is happening, they do not want their crimes against humanity exposed like they did in 1967-70. The killing of Biafrans and the unlawful detention of Nnamdi Kanu cannot be buried as if nothing ever happened, the world must be alerted. To sustain freedom of press and expression, we are urging every Human right group to put the dictator in line, as he has shown that he can never be a president, but a millitary junta.

The world must not keep silent this time, we have been denied access to many rights as a people, our leader Nnamdi Kanu has been denied his right to freedom, his crime was establishing Radio Biafra, and preaching truth which the Nigerian government term 'hate speech'. Radio Biafra is the only place we can tell our story, to let the world know our plight in the hands of the Nigeria government. signs of what happened in the past abound, the world should know that the second genocide against Biafrans has once again began. It will be inexcusable for the world to stay mute in the face of injustice.

Written By Amalahueze E. Akaeze
Edited And Published By Nwosu C.S
By Biafra Writers

BUHARI DEMONIZES SELF DETERMINATION BY INSISTING ON ONE NIGERIA

Muhammadu Buhari with the minister of foreign affairs of Sahrawi, Mohammed Salem Ould Salek, alongside the ambassador of Sahrawi in Nigeria

Once again, Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has despicably displayed another staggering brand of hypocrisy in one of his usual globetrots. He has countlessly proven that he is utterly incapable of discernment and therefore unfit for the position he is occupying. The mobile president has shown the world that his style of leadership is one lacking in purpose and vision, a leadership that adds no value because he has nothing to offer.

 Since his assumption into office, he has been malingering and gallivanting from one country to another with no perceivable purpose. He has continued the proverbial “rat-chase in a house being ravaged by an inferno”. With all the evidences that abound, one can no longer doubt Buhari’s radical Islamic bigotry even if he denies it, because he has time and again, proven to the world by his actions and inactions, that he is a chauvinistic primordial tyrant, who can neither accommodate an opposition nor tolerate other views different from his. A man like Buhari should not be allowed to smell the corridors of power in a secular entity like Nigeria because his dogmatic religious views and gestures are completely malevolent and catastrophic in nature.

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During the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, held on the 28th of September 2015, Buhari in his address, declared that Nigeria has remained committed towards upholding the same principles upon which the United Nation was founded, which include peaceful coexistence and self-determination. He also went further to point out that no one has the justification to deny any people freedom, speaking about the Palestinian question and that of the Western Sahara. In his words, “the unresolved question of self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of the western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle.”

 He further explicitly stated thus, “…neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade.” In a similar vein, on the 28th of February, Buhari expressed the same interest during one of his visits to Qatar by making it clear, his willingness to support the Palestinians, by calling for a 2-state solution for the problem in Palestine. Recently, he has equally expressed support for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR, by assuring them that Nigeria will stand by them in line with the AU’s resolution on their right to self-determination. He stated this on the 11th of March, as he received SADR’s Minister of foreign affairs – Mohammed Salem Salek, at the presidential villa in Abuja.

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There is no doubt that everyone deserves the right to self-determination, we all acknowledge this fundamental fact of life and right as it concerns every people of the world. However, the problem is the hypocrisy that Buhari frequently displays, when he moves between countries and hangouts, preaching self-determination for other people but orders soldiers to eliminate Biafrans in Nigeria who are seeking for the exact same right. This is utterly nefarious and hypocritical. Buhari has again and again shown the world the height of his Islamic extremism and therefore should not be condoned.

 The world should not expect any meaningful achievement to come from Buhari as he is morally and mentally incapacitated. Apparently he still thinks he is a military junta and so he goes around the world without purpose, making careless comments without regard of its implications. Very recently, while in an interview on Aljazeera TV, he mentioned that he would not tolerate Biafra; this is completely malicious and obviously the height of his stupidity.

If Buhari supports self-determination for the Palestinian people because they are fellow Muslims, then orders his Islamic soldiers to exterminate Biafrans because they are Christians, does that not amount to animosity? If Buhari goes to the UN assembly to express support for the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people and the people of SADR who are fellow Arabs, then returns to Nigeria to kill Biafrans who are Christians and who are peacefully protesting for the same reason, wouldn’t that be cruelty in its heinous form?

If Buhari welcomes the people of SADR in the presidential villa and assures them of his total support towards their right to self-determination, then orders soldiers in Aba to kill peaceful Biafran-Christians having prayer sessions and who happen to be in the same plight as the people of SADR, does it not show that he is monstrous in nature? Why then should the world continue to listen to Buhari’s lies and pretentious plots while he continually eliminates innocent Biafrans who are peacefully protesting and simply seeking for their right to self-determination?

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How long shall we continue to wait for the UN to speak to the conscience of the Nigerian dictator cum president, letting him understand that he is actually demonizing what he is advocating for others? Is it not logical for UN and the world as a whole to tell Muhammadu Buhari to practice what he preaches, with respect to his hypocritical stance on self determination for other countries?  How long would the world pretend that Buhari is the man he claims to be even with all the evidences that abound? How long should the world listen to his lies before they prevail over him to end his atrocities and do the needful in order to alleviate the plight of Biafrans in the unfavourable union – Nigeria.

We are therefore calling on all people of goodwill around the world to intervene in this critical matter for an amicable resolution. Biafrans have respected and would continue to respect the principles upon which the United Nations was founded and therefore are calling on the United Nations to, as a matter of urgency, expedite action on the Biafran question. The Biafran question is peculiar and an age-long one at that, therefore we plead with the United Nations to live up to its creed and to prevent another possible catastrophe. We expect the United Nations to prove to Biafrans and indeed all the people around the world that its principles and policies as it affects religion and the people of the world, is not lopsided by giving the Biafran quest an urgent and scrupulous attention. There is no better time to do the right thing than now.

Written By: Kenechukwu .H. Okekenta
Edited And Published By: Nwosu C.S
By: Biafra Writers

JUDGE TSOHO, DISGRACE TO JUSTICE

JUDGE TSOHO, DISGRACE TO JUSTICE

We will never get tired to disgrace the unfair justice against the leader of indigenous people of Biafra in person of Mr Nnamdi Kanu who is innocent in all ramifications.

justice Tsoho is a disgrace to justice because he has fully displayed his sabotage on justice. He justice Tsoho has murdered justice and buried it in no remorse to show as a professor.

on 19th February, he ruled out an application presented by the DSS to secretly try Nnamdi KANU
on 7th March, he Tsoho has also made a U turn to grant the application even without a new application. just take a look at this issues here, Tsoho granted two different rulings on the same case on the same accused person.

How will one be assured of a good judgement when a judge starts displaying such abnormal attitude towards an accused person? I want someone to tell me where and when such law was enshrined in the Nigerian constitution. if there is, it needs to be changed but if not, justice Tsoho should step off this case because we have lost confidence in his judgement.

Justice Tsoho should give room to justice and democracy because self determination is a universal law or better still, go and arrest the UN for signing in such law.

Written Emmanuel Precious

for IPOB writers.