Referendum Is Constitutional Answer to Unfinished Decolonization of Nigeria – Bruce Fein

Bruce Fein, Constitutional lawyer & Author. His law firm is based in downtown of Washington, DC, USA.

Britain’s failure to offer the right to self-determination to Nigeria’s indigenous peoples violated the United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples adopted on 14 December 1960. Paragraph 5 of the Declaration required that immediate steps be taken by the colonial power “to transfer all powers to the peoples of those [colonized] territories…in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire…in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.”  The 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations emphasized that, “By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all peoples have the right freely to determine, without external interference, their political status….”

Militants Overpowers 4 Soldiers In Niger Delta, Takes Them To Creek & Shot Them Dead.. Details

A couple of Nigerian soldiers operating in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria have been gruesomely murdered in an ambush by suspected militants.

Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have reportedly killed four soldiers and a civilian in Bayelsa State.

The suspects were said to have laid an ambush for the soldiers along the waterways of Letugbene, Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state.

Some security sources confirmed that a team of soldiers returning from Letugbene community on Monday became victims of an ambush laid by armed youths believed to be militants.

Breaking: ECOWAS SLAPS NIGERIA ON THE FACE

In a move aimed at humiliating Nigeria and diminishing its influence in the West African Sub region, Morocco a northern African country has been admitted as a member of ECOWAS.

President Buhari's uncolourful foreign policy has contributed to the lowering of the image of the country as he has refused to pay Nigeria's financial responsibility to the sub regional organization which currently stands at about $700,000.

With Morocco as member of ECOWAS, the strategic place of Nigeria in West Africa as a Big Brother can no longer be guaranteed.

Biafra protest: Buratai, 13 others charged to US district court

- Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai has been sued to a US district court 

- Buratai was sued alongside 13 others, for complicity in the torture and extra judicial killing of pro-Biafrans 

- The torture and killings were allegedly carried out in 2016, during a pro-Biafra protest 

Ten Biafra supporters have charged Lt General Tukur Buratai to a United States (U.S.) District Court for the District of Columbia.

BREAKING!!! 8-Man UN Delegation To Storm Nigeria Over Agitation For Biafra Referendum, Arewa Quit Notice

A United Nations delegation are set to storm Nigeria for talk with the FG following the intensified agitation for the sovereign State of Biafra spearheaded by Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB, a UN correspondent reveals.

TRANSCRIPT OF PROF. ODENIGBO'S SPEECH ON THE 29th OCTOBER, 2013. THE BIAFRA QUESTION, A DETAILED INSIGHT

Written by Professor INNOCENT ODENIGBO

Right now, I feel it is important to draw the attention of all Biafrans and in fact the international community as well to what the Biafrans are fighting for i.e the restoration of the Republic of Biafra. The series of injustice perpetuated against the people of Biafra was initiated by a mercenary soldier working on behalf of the British government. His name was Fredrick Lugard.

In the year 1914, Lugard as colonial administrator and friend of the Hausa-Fulani using his connections with the British colonial office committed the most outrageous fraud in human history by unilaterally declaring the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate in our part of Africa and naming these territories NIGERIA. This British mercenary did not consult the people before forcing them into an unholy union of his dreams. The name Nigeria was really a coinage from two words, Niger i.e the river Niger and area meaning the area of land around the river Niger.

Kanu rejects Southeast govs’ plea, insists on Biafra

From left: Deputy Governor of Anambra State Nkem Okeke; Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; Ebonyi State Governor/Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum, Dave Umahi; Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu; Prof. Ben Nwabueze; and Deputy Secretary- General, Igbo Leaders of Thought (ILT), Evangelist Elliot Uko, after a meeting between the South-East governors with the IPOB leader at the Government House in Enugu yesterday

The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) headed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yesterday rejected the plea of the governors of the Southeast zone of Nigeria during a meeting between the pro-Biafra group and the politicians.

Biafra Choice writers was reliably informed by an insider that after long hours of the closed door meeting at the Enugu Government House, the governors were unable to convince Kanu to drop his agitation for Biafra.

What we discussed with Nnamdi Kanu, by South East governors

The South-East governors on Wednesday met with the leader of

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu at Government
House, Enugu, calling on him to eschew confrontation with the
federal government.
The meeting began at about 2 pm and ended by 4:30 pm.
The governors said dialogue and not confrontation was needed to
solve the problem and that IPOB’s demands must not be
‘absolute’.

Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Have Not Committed Any Crime, His Rearrest Will Be A Crime Against Our Judiciary- Binta Nyako Breaks Silent

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has withheld its ruling on the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s immediate return to Kuje Prison, for breaching his bail conditions.

This came as the Federal Government urged the court to revoke the bail it granted to Kanu, for not only breaching his bail conditions, but for conducting himself in manners that threaten public peace.

BREAKING!!! Israel Reacts To Fresh Move By FG To Re-Arrest Nnamdi Kanu

Following the unscrupulous move to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu, an international offshore battle commandant of the Isreali Defence Force (Name Withheld) Has issued a serious stern warning to the Nigerian government and her security forces, stating that any attempt to arrest Kanu will ignite and trigger the beginning of an unwanted situation with the country. 

Arewa ultimatum was hate speech – UN

Two UN bodies, the UN Office of Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), have denounced an ultimatum issued by members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum for demanding that Igbo resident in all parts of northern Nigeria vacate the area by October 1, 2017. The two UN bodies also condemned death threats targeting members of Nigeria’s Igbo ethnicity.

On June 6, 2017, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum issued the ultimatum at a press conference in Kaduna, capital of Kaduna State. Despite calls by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna for the arrest of those who issued the ultimatum, the police and other security agencies declined to act.

IPOB Press Release

We Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu condemn in its entirety the statement credited to the clueless and uninformed Arewa Consultative Forum and their decorative happy-slave chairman Chief Paul Unongo for daring to attack Ohaneze Ndigbo Chairman Chief John Nnia Nwodo for rising up in defence of the truth.

This truth is that IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has not committed any crime to known to the laws of Nigeria to warrant his rearrest. If Nigeria ever had a case against our leader, why have the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) not commenced the trial since October 2015 when our leader was first arrested? Instead the Arewa North thought they could intimidate this present Ohaneze Ndigbo as they did to previous executives, into allowing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be arrested. They miscalculated miserably because all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria today including some of the most ardent critics of our leader have conceded privately that IPOB has given enslaved ethnic nationalities in Nigeria the impetus to rise up and question their slave status. The Fulani/Arewa born to rule mentality has been broken by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. People are no longer intimidated by the disproportionate number of Arewa sons in the military and other armed forces who are in essence the foot soldiers of the Caliphate and not Nigeria.

Breaking; Alhaji Yerima Shettima, Has Finally bowed pressure In support Of Biafra Referendum

Alhaji Yerima Shettima

The national president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has urged the Nigerian government to organise a referendum arguing that this is the best way to put to an end the agitation for Biafra.

“The referendum is the only means to resolve this challenge once and for all,” he said. “It would be easy to know those who support Biafra and those who do not.
“A referendum will help Biafra to go peacefully and avoid war.

BREAKING: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI

HATE SPEECH can be defined as a speech which attacks a person or group of people on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender. Hate speech can trace its roots to a long standing disputes, injustices, cheating, marginalizations and unsettled scores perpetrated or committed against a person, people or community which have the capabilities and capacities to drag on for a long period of time. The emergence of hate speech in Nigeria is traceable to this nation's faulty foundations in the worst fraud committed by the British colonialists in amalgamations against the collective will of the Nigerian people.

Biafra: Abia North; All Roads Lead To Elu Ohafia, As Grass Root Mobilization Hits The Rock

By Kelechi Okorie

For Biafra Choice writers

IPOB has taken the Biafra agitation to another unique dimension hence, the root remains the nourish source and backbone of branches that cannot do without, for survival. It is ultra varied and inconsequential should only major cities in Biafraland are well assimilated with awareness of Biafra restoration while those in rural areas are left out to embrace the revolution gospel of redemption that 

Hausa Fulani oligarchy slave status quo entangles everyone.

Nigeria Set To Run Into Immediate Bankruptcy, As 12 London Aides Of Buhari, Earn Shocking Allowances Every Night

Alleged report from Sahara Reporters’ Twitter handle, has revealed that 12 of President Muhamamdu Buhari’s Aides staying with him in London, are allegedly paid at least $1000 (N363k) nightly estacode, and they have stayed for 100 days.

We Forced Igbos to Remain in Nig but Have Continued to Deny Them Equity – Emir Sanusi Drops a Bombshell

The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution.

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.

FULANI HERDSMEN TERRORIST ? : As ICC Commences Probe On Fulani Herdsmens Attacks

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has commenced investigation into the incessant attacks on diverse farming communities across the country by armed Fulani herdsmen, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has revealed.

Have black historians been wrong all along?

With American racism and black history, there are no happy endings.

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, GA on April 23, 2016 [AP Photo/Mike Stewart]

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Donald Earl Collins

@decollins1969

Donald Earl Collins is an Associate Professor of History with University of Maryland University College.

I have been a black student of black history for nearly 30 years. Yet, I find myself with a question that feels like a splinter lodged in my nail bed. For all the examples of African American success and American racism reduced, blacks are as far away from the "Promised Land" as their great-great-grandparents were 150 years ago.