Preamble: The Igbo Civil Society Coalition, a coalition of Igbo activists, civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith-based organizations, town unions, etc held her monthly general congress in Enugu and after due deliberations resolved as follows: 1. The ICSCO fully recognizes and respects everyone’s right to peaceful self-determination in line with extant international laws. 2. That the declaration of an unarmed and non-violent group as a terrorist organization is an afterthought whose basic intention is to shield those committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against Ndigbo from prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and divert attention from the bad governance and attempts to truncate the democratic process in Nigeria. 3. That ICSCO totally condemns the use of state terrorism to create a unilateral state of war in Igbo land and intimidate, gag and silence the Igbo nation from self-expression in Nigeria....
IGBOS, THE ENDANGERED SPECIE. Any reptile that feeds on the mother hen can never spare its chicks neither can it love them. The natural order of things in the jungle is that the younglings follow after their older kind so that as a tiger pounces on an antelope, her cubs are not just waiting to feed but are also learning how to kill the offsprings of the same antelope too. Enmity is trans-generational. So when a killer reptile starts making some unfamiliar love gestures to its usual prey, there is trouble. No. Danger. Few days after the successful GTbank boycott by the Igbos in protest against the gestapo style invation, arrest and detention of Dr. Chukwuma Ifediaso Innocent, I watched in awe as the Islamic government of Nigeria invited him to Abuja. It was at the FHQ. Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai was there to sign a contract with INNOSON MOTORS and to collaborate with them in building APC's, gun mounted SUV's and some other military maneuver vehicles for the Nigeri...
Femi Fani-Kayode “ I f you thought oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1959, you could pass your high school economics with that information. It was, however, actually discovered 50 years earlier. Did you know that oil from the territory was sold for almost 50 years before the approach of Independence in 1960 forced the disclosure of Oloibiri by Britain? Even at that, the quantities were concealed from the newly Independent Nigerian governments, until the counter coup of July 1966, when the North packed their baggage to head back North in the famous ARABA putsch. The then British High Commissioner to Nigeria, of course on the promptings and direction of his home government, zoomed in upon Gowon halfway and prevailed on him to reverse the decision of moving the North out of Nigeria, at a time Gowon already hoisted the Arewa flag in a temporary capital city, Ilorin . In the hurry to announce this reversal, the Gowon’s speech that was originally designed to take out the North, was...
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