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BNW Banned in Nigeria,Yes, in BiafraNigeria

Thursday, November 16, 2017
Those Who Make Peaceful Protest Impossible Make Violent Revolution Inevitable
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Medicine After Death: Buhari Approves Payment of Pension to Biafran Police.
Medicine After Death: Buhari Approves Payment of Pension to Biafran Police.
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Muhammadu Buhari |
Succour has come the way of police officers who served in the defunct Biafran Police during the 30 months Nigeria Civil war as President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of pension to the police officers who were granted presidential pardon in 2000.
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) Wednesday announced that about 162 of such retired police officers and 57 Next of Kin of those who have died will be paid their pension benefits in the first phase of the payment with effect from Friday, October 20, 2017 in Enugu.
A statement from the management of PTAD said after their pardon, a verification exercise was conducted for them by the defunct Police Pension office and recently by PTAD and the Police Service Commission.
The statement reads: “The general public would recall that Nigeria witnessed an ugly civil war between July, 1967 and January, 1970 and as a result of that unfortunate period in our history, some members of the Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police and paramilitary officers who took part with the Secessionist were dismissed from the service.
“The dismissal of those officers was commuted to retirement in the year 2000 through a Presidential Amnesty granted on 29th May, 2000 by the Administration of the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
“A verification exercise was conducted for the pardoned officers by the defunct Police Pension Office and recently PTAD on one hand and the Police Service Commission on the other.
“Despite the Presidential pardon and verification of these officers, many of them remained unpaid years after the pardon. However, the present administration under the able leadership of President, Muhammadu Buhari has graciously given approval for the payment of pension entitlements to these officers and their Next of Kin.
PTAD is commencing the payment of pension benefits to the retired war affected police officers on Friday October 20, 2017 in Enugu. 162 officers will be payrolled and 57 Next of Kin who have also not been paid their death benefits will be paid in the first batch.
The Nation
Friday, September 15, 2017
Nigerian Army's Operation Python Dance: the Catalog of Genocide and Torture in Biafra
16 September 2017
Onenigeria, Osondi Owendi
Biafrans Being Flogged
Hausa-Fulani Celebrating
September 15 2017
What was her Crime?
Mass Grave
September 14 2017
Bruce Fein on the Genocide
From Turkey
September 13 2017
People walk with arms up in the air and still get shot by the Army
Nigerian Troops in Kill and Go
Hausa-Fulani Soldiers Cart Away Bodies of Biafrans they Slaughtered
Collage
Death March: Nigerian Soldiers March Biafrans to their Death
Nigerian Army Invades Nnamdi Kanu's Home
Nigerian Soldier with Boot on a Dead Biafran
Hausa-Fulani Soldiers Escort their People to Safety
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
As October 1 Looms: Python Dance in the Southeast Represents Boko-haram, Herdsmen, Arewa Youths, and Hausa-Fulani Advance Force
BY CHINEDU
NWOKORO
The ominous October 1,
2017, is just weeks away. The Arewa Youths had on June 6, 2017, issued a quit
notice to Nd’Igbo resident in the North to leave the North on
or before October
1, 2017, or face forceful ejection. Although they had since said that they’ve
suspended the quit notice, the demands that followed the suspension, made it a
nullity. It should be recalled too that shortly after the quit notice was
issued, anti-Igbo songs for genocide in Hausa Language were released and
circulated in the North. Those songs are still being circulated, and no one has
been arrested. And there is no clear effort being made by the government of
President Mohammadu Buhari to protect the Igbo living in the North in the face
of real threat to their lives and property.
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Hausa-Fulani Army Kills Unarmed IPOB Protesters |
While Nd’Igbo in the
North are still in the throes of the quit notice, and the anti-Igbo songs, the
Nigerian Army under Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai has declared operation Python
Dance II in the five states that make up the Southeast. According to a press
statement signed by Major-General DD Ahmadu, Chief of Training and Operations,
Nigerian Army, operation Python Dance II, “has been made more expedient by the
rampancy of assassinations, attack on security personnel, theft of weapons,
violent agitations, armed banditry, and kidnapping.” The exercise is scheduled
to take place between September 15 and October 14, 2017.
No one should be deceived
by the criminal activities listed above as the reasons why the Nigerian Army is
conducting the operation Python Dance II in the Southeast states. It’s obvious
to every keen observer that there is only one reason for this exercise. It is
to primarily ‘tame’ the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu and his supporters. The heavy presence of Army personal, equipment
and activities in Afara-Ukwu, Kanu’s community, since Sunday, September 10,
2017, exposes the Army on the real reason why they’re in the Southeast. They
are here to implement the mandate contained in Buhari’s speech on his return
from his 104 days medical tourism in London.
A quick review of the
list of criminal activities the Army purports to have come to check in the
Southeast will show that Kanu and his group are not engaged in any. Perhaps,
the Army is classifying them as engaging in “violent agitations”. But this is a
case of giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Kanu and his group have
continued their quest for self-determination in a non-violent manner.
Commendably, Kanu has addressed millions of his supporters in rallies across
the Southeast without a report of one individual being hurt. There are video
evidences on this claim.
Without doubt, the
secondary objective of operation Python Dance II is to provoke Kanu and his
group into violent action. This will give the Buhari government the excuse it’s
looking for to commence a genocidal onslaught against the Igbo in their
homeland while the Northern mob will be ready to attack the Igbo resident in
the North, simultaneously. IPOB and its leadership must not give Buhari this
opportunity he is apparently looking for. The core Northerners are not happy
that the United Nations Development Programme named the Southeast Zone as the
most human security secure zone in Nigeria. They want the Southeast to be
turned into a wasteland like the Northeast. They want it to be overwhelmed with
millions of internally displaced people (IDPs) like the Northeast. Nd’Igbo must
not let this happen.
It’s not a surprise
that the Army did not include checking of the rampage of Fulani herdsmen in the
Southeast. Fulani herdsmen have wreaked havoc in some communities in the
Southeast. The Army has not thought it “expedient” to include in their list
checking the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the operation Python Dance II.
It’s a well-known fact that Fulani herdsmen have destroyed farms, killed,
maimed, robbed and raped in some communities in Southeast. Rather, the Army has
a list in which this serious security threat is conspicuously missing. Do they
take us for fools?
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Nde Owerri and the Okporoko, Ugba, and Palm Wine Politics that Produced Rochas Okorocha
BY CHINEDU NWOKORO
He aburu
eri awuhu usa. So our elders say. A kindred cannot be said to have insatiable cravings
for what it loves to eat. Yes, Owerri people love eating okporoko.
They love
eating ugba. And they love drinking palm wine. But, must their understanding
and their politics seem like the consumption of these delicacies? Mbanu. It
should not. However, this is what played out in 2011 that produced Mr. Rochas
Okorocha as Governor of Imo State.
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Ugba na Okporoko |
Some
people have said that Owerri politicians, from Mr. Martin Agbaso to Capt.
Emmanuel Iheanacho down to the inconsequential Owerri-West, Owerri-North, and
Owerri-Municipal “stakeholders” were greedy and shortsighted in the run-up to
2011 gubernatorial election. This cost Owerri zone the ticket of a party, the
All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), which was a credible alternative to
Mr. Ikedi Ohakim’s Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and which was firmly in the
hands of Chief Martin Agbaso at that time.
Today,
many are crying that Okorocha has been a disaster to Owerri in particular and
Imo State in general. People are now remembering that former president, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo, was reported to have quipped that he gave Imo people a smaller thief
and they said they preferred a bigger thief in obvious reference to Ohakim and
Okorocha, respectively. Governor Okorocha’s destructive activities in Owerri in
the name of urban renewal
are making Owerri people in particular and Imolites
in general to remember where the rain started beating them. Sure, it started
beating them when Agbaso surrendered his ticket to Okorocha. This is the truth!
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Rochas Okorocha |
Had Agbaso
not surrendered the APGA ticket to Okorocha, he would have easily won, because
the platform was already enjoying mass following. People were endeared to APGA,
because Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was involved.
Besides, Agbaso had
previously ran on the platform in 2007 and won, but the election was cancelled.
In a re-run which he ought not to have participated having won initially and
could have successfully contested it in court, he lost to Ohakim.
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Chief Martin Agbaso |
If Agbaso
and Capt. Iheanacho had an understanding with Okorocha that he would govern for
one term as some people claimed, he (Okorocha) outsmarted them by joining a new
party, the All Progressives Congress, (APC), before his first tenure elapsed.
Not only did he join a new party, he moved to the new party with the APGA
structure that made it possible for him to become governor. This included
moving with most of the members of the State Assembly, who won their place with
an APGA ticket.
Therefore,
APGA had become a ghost of its former self by the time Capt. Iheanacho used it
to contest against Okorocha in 2015. Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu whose presence would
have improved Iheanacho's chances of defeating Okorocha or any other candidate
for that matter, was dead. So, in spite of his credibility, Iheanacho lost even
in his base, Owerri.
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Capt. Emma Iheanacho |
We’re in a
season of “no date for a referendum, no election in Igboland” as decreed by the
Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). However, this does not prevent politicians
from strategizing for future elections.
It behoves
Imo people, especially Owerri people to unite and present a common front to
ensure that come 2019, Okorocha does not continue in office through a proxy.
Already, there are serious signs that he is making efforts in this direction. It’ll take some real work by a technocrat and not a politician, to
redress the damage he has caused in the state. Therefore, the search for that technocrat
must begin now.
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