A result of civil war.

So this is going to be a major rant!!
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Nigeria imports more generators than any other country in the world. The fumes kill 100's of thousands of people every year. This is because the Hausa/Fulani backwards government who have been controlling this god forsaken country since 1967 steal all our money and all the good people of the Niger deltas oil (the ijaw, the ogoni etc) while totally destroying their land and livelihood. Despite the oil boom of the 70's Nigeria has steadily been going down hill. Nothing can save this stupid country unless you send all the northerners back to the sahara dessert with their cattle, and send them obasanjo and other area boys that want to steal nigeria and africas resources and destroy the great black race. We don't need that shit. In the 21st century we have an apartheid system where the hausa/Fulani minority rule the Negro majority of the south. Think about it. I want nothing to do with your stupid country. No electricity, no running water. In the 50's (urban areas) this was unheard of. That was when decent morally conscious folk ran shit. Before the illiterate thick odious lot came to power. We need to stop them. Enough is enough. Time is running out. And this is before even looking at the climate change issue, I was talking to ken saro-wiwa jnr last night, he advises the gov on climate change and foreign affairs and he says particularly in Naija climate change is potentially the biggest threat we have ever faced in this part of the world. And you think someone like yar'adua would understand or even care about something like that? Effed.

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The Hausa/Fulani actually make up 29% of the population of Nigeria followed by the Yoruba at 28%(CIA Factbook) therefore they are not a minority. Actually we have had non-Hausa military leaders. The leaders of the Niger Delta have sold them (the people) to the rest of Nigeria,for example, Alamieyeseigha and James Ibori(he had a private jet might we add!need we say more). There is more to the North than cattle, agriculture is a big part of their society as well- cotton, soy beans are two examples of the products in high demand in the world and which are produced by the North (national encyclopaedia). This 'uselessness' of the North adds 32% to Nigeria's GDP. Africa's resources...that's a bit far-fetched. Nigeria being the second largest African economy does not need 'African resources' to survive. Nigeria in the 50s was under colonial rule,how was that a good thing, 'forced mis-modernisation'. Climate change is the least of our problems, Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Female genital mutilation,Polio...those are our issues. Ken- Saro Wiwa Jnr clearly is just interested in climate change. To conclude, before you make these types of arguments, have your facts right and don't make general points about a group of people. We could say that we wanted all Igbo people to stay in the east and just do 419 but because it is an uninformed statement, it won't be posted on the world wide web. Lastly, you don't want to have anything to do with 'our country', then why bother to write such an uninformed epiphany on facebook...

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Sorry who are you? The CIA is a terrorist organisation. Like most 'official' data in Nigeria, the figures have been manipulated and falsified for political gain. It is a well known fact that the census carried out in 63 was rigged to give the north a majority of the seats in the house of reps and to allocate a larger proportion of the national wealth to developing that region. Balewa and Bello fucked those figures in the most criminal way. Let us not forget the north did nothing in the fight for independance and even objected more than once to the abolition of colonialism in Nigeria. They were happy being ruled by the British like good little servants. It was nnamdi azikiwe who had to literally beg them to accept independance and this meant much compromise on his part. How can population figures in one region go up/down by 10 million in one year? You are so blind if you think they have done anything for Nigeria other than destroy it and support the genocide of three million innocent Igbo men, women and children. The Igbo have always been the most industrius, hardworking, rightous, morally guided people south of the sahara. Go and study some proper African history before coming and insulting the most oppressed people of so called Nigeria. You insinuate that the igbo are the main offendors of so called 419, well I tell you when it becomes a question of survival I can't blame them. The igbo have never been a poor people and under 'one nigeria' they have been relegated to second class citizens which is not in our makeup. The igbos are the backbone of Nigeria don't you ever forget that. They built this stupid country which wants to repay them by wiping out half their people, enslaving the other half and yes governers like Ibori in delta and many other eastern region governers are a bunch of shortsighted, greedy twats as well I know. They are just as bad if not worse than the obadanjos, gowons, yar'aduas etc. Nigeria was a colonial experiment that frankly was never going to suceed because where there is injustice there can be no peace. Nigeria was built on injustice where European governments and oil multinationals backed a docile northern government to suck out and sell out all there supposed brothers ancestral wealth while taking a small cut and shutting up. Happens all over Africa. Wake the fuck up. Why else do you think Britain backed the federal government war against Biafra. It was to secure their oil and other mineral resource interests in that region, and no eastern government would ever give away their birthright to the west. We are just to proud and moral a people to sell out our African brothers and sisters. CIA factbook. You are brainwashed beyond belief. The proportional population figures still mostly used are the 1963 census. And if you don't see a pattern here with 30 thousand Igbo people (human beings) being slaughtered like animals by illiterate northerners simply because they were threatened by their industry then fleeing to the east where the Nigerian army then came to kill and rape them, if this is not systematic genocide then nothing is. My grandfather was a very prominent Lagos based doctor pre civil war. Indeed my father was a young boy when the war broke out. You have no idea what it was like for innocent Igbo people. They did nothing wrong and my family had to flee to our home in Enugu then when Enugu came under attack we had to abandon our home. After the war the audacity of the goverment beggars belief... They offered each Igbo man 25 pounds to restart his life and feed a whole family. All our property in Lagos till this day has not been returned bar one house. You have no idea what you're talking about and you sound so thick supporting such an immoral government and unjust system. Read the real facts, not the lies and cover ups that history has told. Nigerian history is disgusting and the country is entering the apocalypse, finally. Stop supporting injustice and the destruction of our continent. Africa is bigger than your stupid Nigeria.

There is nothing I hate more than uninformed statements and talks of division. I may not be Igbo and so I may not fully understand what it felt like to be Igbo in the Biafran war but I do know one thing, my mother is Itsekiri and would rather die than be referred to as Igbo. I hate the way, the Igbos always come out as the victims of this war when in fact the real victims were people who had no business being dragged into it, the Niger-Delta. The people of the Delta are not IGBO. If anyone is to talk about moving out of Nigeria, it is they. A number of the people killed in that war were not just Igbo, they were from the Niger-delta. The post and reply are so typical of the victimised Biafran family, like slavery, the Igbos need to move past it so they can develop as a people. Igbo militants raped their women. It irks me that these issues are never addressed- the Biafra is always glorified as an act of martyrdom by a group of people. Maybe so but they should not have followed so blindly in the first place- their leaders used them as pawns in a stupid power tussle. You can't have so much anger and hate and progress...its psychologically impossible.
Ok so it was bad for us to be amalgamated because of the large ethnic divisions but guess what, its been done and we have to learn to live together. Nearly 40 years after the end of the war and we are still arguing about it being a genocide or not (the war was not a systemic killing might I add, they were both fighting) or whether we should secede or not.
God forbid a secession or a war in our country. I am a product like many other Nigerians of inter-ethnic and inter-racial marriage. My mother is of Itsekiri-Sierra-leonean-Benin Republic descent and my father Fulani-Yoruba. My dad's sister is married to a very Catholic Igbo Anambra family- their son has an arabic name- so tell me where are we seceding to? if we can inter-marry, we sure as hell can live together. Ethnic divisions are present throughout the world but people have dealt with it-look at the Irish, Scottish and English- a tension filled relationship that will not end in a war or secession because they have learnt to work with the system in place. Africans like to stay victims which is why they will not progress.

Peace, love and live in peace!