FOREWORD The full story of the organised and brutal massacre – Pogrom – of Eastern Nigerians in Northern Nigeria and elsewhere will never be told in our life time. It is an impossible task to recapture in print or even in pictures the cruel fate and agencies of more than 7,000 ordinary men, women…
December 7, 1966 Visit to Desolate Sabon Gari, Kano After the Massacre of over 2000 Igbos in Kano on September 29, 1966 and the massive exodus of Igbos that immediately followed, New York Times Correspondent, Lloyd Garrison, visited a deserted and desolate Sabon Gari, Kano, the eastern Igbo quarters, and filed this report:…
In 1966, over fifty thousand Biafran men, women, and children were rounded up in several cities, towns and villages in Northern and Western Nigeria and slaughtered like chicken. Young girls were gang raped by scores of men and then corralled to leper colonies to be raped by lepers before being killed. Nursing mothers had their…
POGROM – 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1966 On 29th September, as the Constitutional Conference was still sitting in Lagos, events occurred which will always rank as of the utmost significance in the social and political history of Nigeria, events which made fundamental changes in the structure and pattern of Nigerian society and government. On that…
At the time when Benue State is burning, with the Fulani people killing Tiv indigenes in their own land, the Nigerian military under the authority of a Fulani President Muhammadu Buhari and a Fulani Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai have declared they will be sending military personnel to South- South and…
Nigeria is currently in the midst of deceit. She is currently in the hands of one who is limited but that has chosen to deploy doctrinal “Taqiyya” ahead of the 2019 elections. Now he pretends to agree to restructure, to have state police, even agrees to employ lopsided appointments and promising to…
October 8, 1966 Easterners Stunned by Northern Atrocities The coal city of Enugu is stunned by the nightmare experience of returning kinsmen fleeing from the vast Northern Region. The refugees arrive daily by plane, train and by open-sided wagons bearing slogans like “Sea Never Dry” and “Not by Bread Alone.” Their memories are…
And it stated that, “the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and only the violent taketh it by force!” Many a times, I hate to accept the truth blatantly glaring in my face but it is simply the truth. The so-called elders of Igboland have failed the youths. They refuse to speak the truth nor…
It is with utmost love, care, respect and immense concern that I am sagaciously constrained to make this clarion call to you all. The present political journey which Nigeria is apparently navigating through has warranted the spontaneous articulation of this call. It will amount to a very great disservice if I should fail on…
You see no one can be perfect, and Nnamdi Kanu is no exception. As much as I love him as a person, and admire the great work he has done in building Radio Biafra, and IPOB, there are many things I am not sure of, and even things I dislike. To say I follow…