My own is, it will not be bad if the Igbo start investing home. When I say, investing home I am talking about human capital development not just business. As you are clamouring for secession, it will be nice too, if all of us start investing in human capital development, now.
You don't wait after you get Independence before you start developing ala Igbo in all ramifications. Stop telling me when Biafra come you will do this and that. If you don't start it now, you will never do it later. Promote Igbo language now.
Promote Igbo culture now. Language and culture go with ideology and reorientation. They go with economic development and human capital development. You don't need these only when Biafra comes, you need it now.

Igbo don't need only Biafra. Igbo need human capital development. .
I even prefer Igbo Republic—a homogeneous Igbo society.

All the same....

But...

Have centers in Igbo land to train our young ones in skill acquisitions. Restructure our apprenticeship system and make it educational and tech savvy. Give scholarships to our best brains.
These things can be done with or without government. It will benefit ala Igbo now and later.

We have the resources. This is very important. It can be done.

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14 Jun
Who Killed Adaka Boro? Why the Blame on Igbo Accusing them of Betrayal? Was Adaka Boro Betrayed?

I have read many false history that breeds hatred against the Igbo, regarding Adaka Boro. Majority of Ijaw believe the Igbo betrayed Adaka Boro and killed him. This makes me laugh.
Ignorance is a disease. Lack of history, Maazị just shuddering in disbelief that people can be so gullible to peddle falsehood for what gain?

Let's go to history.

Who is Adaka Boko? Isaac Adaka Boro was a University of Nigeria, Nsụka's student.
He was also the SUG president of the said university. He failed election two times before he won, then blamed his failure on Igbo, claiming he lost because he was Ijaw and suffered tribalism in his region. Remember, Adaka Boro was enjoying the scholarship of Eastern Region Govt.
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This is Ọkpọsị Salt Lake. It has great historical narrative. During the war, salt was like gold. Biafrans suffered from kwashiorkor. There was a need for salt. There's something called ahịa attack. Women went in search for and traded in salt.

Now let me tell you something... ImageImage
Salt was a great business of women during the war. They trekked from different part of ala Igbo and found themselves in Uburu and Ọkpọsị to get salt for their own survival. It was a risky journey. They mostly went by night, following bush-path and forests for fear of Army.
The lives of their children depend on salt. Kwashiorkor was striking them. They took the risk. If anything want to happen let it happen. Women trek from Ajalị, Okigwe, Agụata, and different parts of Biafran land to Uburu and Ọkpọsị to get salt.
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His name is Ebitu Ukiwe, the first Nigerian politician, Igbo& first Chief of General Staff to resign honourably because he couldn't give in to intimidation neither could he compromise his dignity. He was a Vice President under IBB regime, he resigned. Couldn't allow him box him
He served as Vice President from 1985—1986.

He served as Governor of Lagos State, July 1978—October 1979. He also served as Governor of Niger State December 1977—July 1978.

He joined the Nigerian Navy in 1960 as a cadet officer. He was commissioned sub-lieutenant in 1966.
In 1966, he defected into Nigerian Army. He fought on the Biafran side in 1967—1970. He was one of the few Igbo officers to be readmitted to Navy in 1972.

He was a member of the Supreme Military Council 1975—1977. Obasanjo appointed him military governor of Niger State.
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4 Jun
I have never seen a grown up man cry this way. A man in his 50s, crying like a baby. I can't also remember the last time tears rolled down my cheeks in the public, not even in the public transport. But it happened to me today.

He lost his two sons.
Two sons. One 16, the second one 13. Just today. Just this morning. Just in Kaduna. Just in Kaduna South. In Kafanchan...

In...

"They killed my two sons! My only hope. All I got in this world. I am finished. I am gone", he roared in the vehicle.
It was around Nicon Park Junction someone waved our vehicle on his behalf. He was going towards Bwari to connect Kaduna from there. I was to make a stop at Gwarinpa to tidy up few things for the day. The man first pleaded with the driver to remind this fellow his bag.
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ASABA MASSACRE

This happened between 5-7 October 1967. The main name of Asaba is Ahaba.

The Federal troops entered Asaba and claimed to be Biafran sympathisers. They were ransacking houses and killing civilians.

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Several hundred were killed individually and in groups at various locations in the town. Community leaders summoned the people to assemble on the morning of 7th October 1967, hoping to end the violence through a show of support for "One Nigeria."
Hundreds of men, women, and children, many wearing the ceremonial akwa ọcha dress paraded along the main street, singing, dancing, and chanting "One Nigeria."
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7th Oct. 1966 Time Magazine wrote:

"The massacre began at the airport near the Fifth Battalion’s home city of Kano. A Lagos-bound jet had just arrived from London, and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed a wild-eyed soldier stormed in,
brandishing a rifle and demanding ‘Ina Nyamiri?’ – the Hausa for ‘Where are the damned Ibos?’.

There were Ibos among the customs officers, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers.
Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem Holy War, the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles, bayonetting Ibo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors, and hauling Ibo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot.
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