FACT CHECK: Is Nigerian govt violating court orders by detaining Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu?

April 16, 2017Evelyn Okakwu

Nnamdi Kanu [Photo: TODAY.ng]

On February 28, some prominent Nigerians led by former Central Bank Governor, Charles Soludo, addressed a press conference where they demanded the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who has been in detention for over one year on allegations of treason.

Mr. Soludo’s group, Uzuku Umunna, which also included former presidential candidate, Pat Utomi and former chairman of the electricity regulatory commission, Sam Amadi, gave reasons for their demand; one of which is the alleged ‘illegality’ of holding Mr. Kanu in detention despite ‘court orders.’

“A situation where the state refuses to obey clear and legitimate court orders for his release and holds him until it gets a favourable order; moves the goalposts endlessly through endless amendment of the charges against him; and now seeks to try him in secret clearly constitutes circumstances that would fall well short of the constitutional guarantees of due process,” Mr. Soludo, who spoke on behalf of the group, said.

The call by the Uzuku Umunna is similar to that by other Nigerians who have challenged the federal government to seek better ways to resolve the Biafra agitation in the south-east; with many insisting Mr. Kanu’s detention is illegal as it allegedly violates court orders.

But, does his detention violate any court order?

FACT CHECK

Like Mr. Soludo, Mr. Kanu’s lawyer and indeed Mr. Kanu have reiterated that stance since an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court ordered his (Kanu’s) release on December 17, 2015.

Charles Soludo

Reacting to his continuous detention, Mr. Kanu and his lawyers accused several judges of refusing to toe the line of the December 17 judgement by Justice Adeniyi Ademola, in a bid to fulfil the aspiration of the current government.

“After Kanu was granted bail on December 17, the president was heard saying at the presidential media chat that he (Mr. Kanu) will not leave the prison cell for any reason. That bail was made known to Federal Government on 18th December 2015 but they failed to grant the bail,” said Mr. Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.

The defendants also filed various requests, both at the Appeal Court and the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS, demanding that the judgements sanctioning the continued detention of Mr. Kanu be regarded as a flagrant abuse of the order made by a court of coordinate jurisdiction.

The argument by Mr. Kanu’s lawyer was that the defendant was granted bail by the court but was not allowed to enjoy the bail till the prosecution secured a contrary order from the same court.

“A situation where the state refuses to obey clear and legitimate court orders for his release and holds him until it gets a favourable order…”

The above excerpts from Mr. Soludo’s remarks regarding Mr. Kanu’s detention echoes the point of view of Mr. Ejiofor, and indeed the IPOB leader on the matter.

REVIEWING COURT RULINGS

The first court ruling discharging Mr. Kanu was on December 16, 2015.

On December 16, 2015, a Magistrate Court in Abuja discharged Mr. Kanu, after he was first arraigned, following the withdrawal of the charges against him by the prosecution.

The Magistrate, Shuaibu Usman, struck out all criminal charges levelled against Mr. Kanu after counsel to the State Security Service, Moses Idakwo, filed for discontinuation of the matter on the instruction of his client.

Mr. Usman said since the SSS, through its lawyer, had filed for a discontinuation of the case, he had no option than to discharge the accused.

SSS operatives

Mr. Idakwo had in that court hearing stated that further investigations by the SSS had shown that charges against Mr. Kanu could not be entertained by a Magistrate Court due to lack of jurisdiction.

A day later, a Federal High Court presided by Justice Adeniyi Ademola directed that ‘Mr. Kanu be charged to court or set free in the absence of a valid charge against him before a court of law’.

Delivering his judgement on December 17, Mr. Ademola hinged the grounds for his decision on the fact that the defendant had not been charged before a court of law.

The judge further said it was against the provisions of law for any party, including the state, to hold an accused captive for so long without a valid charge.

In other words, the judge said Mr. Kanu was to either be promptly released or charged to court.

A day after Mr. Ademola’s ruling, the federal government filed fresh charges against Mr. Kanu at the Federal High Court, in what appears an obedience to the court order.

The Federal Government filed a formal charge against Mr. Kanu on December 18, 2015. The new case was filed at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

In that first charge at the Federal High Court, Mr. Kanu was accused of committing various offences bordering on alleged treason.

Reacting to the new charge, Mr. Kanu cast a vote of no confidence in the court, saying he preferred to remain in prison than to be subjected to a court hearing whose decision would not be respected.

Following Mr. Kanu’s remarks about the court, the judge, Ahmed Mohammed, recused himself from the matter, resulting in the transfer of the case file to the chief judge who then reassigned the matter to Justice John Tsoho, another judge of the Federal High Court, FHC, in Abuja.

REPEATED BAIL REFUSAL

On January 29, 2016 the court presided over by Mr. Tsoho refused Mr. Kanu’s application for bail, allowing his continued detention in prison.

On May 25, 2016, Mr. Kanu’s request to be granted bail at an appellate court in Abuja was also refused by a three-member panel of justices of the Appeal Court led by Abdul Aboki.

According to the judges, Mr. Kanu’s dual citizenship would increase the chances of him leaving the country, thereby jeopardising his case.

They also ruled that the allegation of terrorism earlier included in the charge against the defendants made it imperative that they should not be allowed bail.

On June 21, 2016, Mr. Kanu made another request for the replacement of Mr. Tsoho as judge in his trial. The case was adjourned till September 26, when the first defendant reiterated his request asking that the judge be investigated.

In a petition addressed to the National Judicial Council and made available to journalists, Mr. Kanu said the conduct of Mr. Tsoho amounted to judicial rascality.

He cited the revocation of a previous decision against secret trial by the judge, as well as failure of the court to promptly avail the defence of court proceedings as grounds for the alleged offences in Mr. Kanu’s petition.

Subsequently, on that day, Mr. Tsoho withdrew from participating in the matter.

On November 17, 2016 Mr. Kanu made another request for bail after his case was transferred to Justice Binta Nyako’s court.

On December 1, 2016, the court refused Mr. Kanu’s application for bail yet again.

After his charge was amended to exclude terrorism allegation on March 1, Mr. Kanu again demanded to be granted bail.

The request, made at the FHC in Abuja, venue of his ongoing trial, will be decided on April 25. There will be hearing on April 27 on a similar application pending at the ECOWAS court.

Mr. Kanu was first arrested on October 14, 2015 upon his return to Nigeria.

He was detained in the custody of the SSS until January 20, 2016 when the Federal High Court ordered he be transferred to Kuje Prison where he has since remained.

While the continuous detention of Mr. Kanu may not be illegal and not in contravention of any court order, the calls by prominent Nigerians including the Uzuku Umunna, for a political solution to the Biafra agitation remains.

CONCLUSION: The Nigerian government is not violating any known Nigerian law by holding on to Mr. Kanu. His bail applications were refused, and the pending ones are yet to be decided.

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      - tundemash
        
        Cl0wn, stay on point ! Where did u see $50m in this article ????
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        Choose between baboon or monkey which one you are
      - tundemash
        
        Whichever your parents were.
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  - tundemash
    
    yawn !
- David Adeniran
  
  So in essence there is no existing release order for this fake Kanu from any court? These people are so misguided and misinformed! They thrive in propaganda just like they fought their Biafra war on propaganda. Of course a political solution is recommended but for multitudes of nonentities to be masquerading online as intellects arguing senselessly that the Federal Government is dosobeying an imaginary court order in favour of their imbecile hero is not only misleading but completely crazy and irresponsible.
  - omodele awosakin
    
    @abiodunadeniran:disqus :
    
    CAN YOU REMEMBER ANYTIME before WHEN BUHARI regime HELD ITSELF BOUND BY THE LAW?
    
    THERE IS NONE! BUHARI GOVERNMENT IS LAWLESS, ILLITERATE AND THIEVISH TO THE BONE.
    - David Adeniran
      
      Wike lost his election case at the Tribunal it was the Supreme Court that reversed the decision and gave him victory. Was he not allowed to remain as Governor despite the Supreme Court’s questionable decision? Get your facts before commenting. Just a friendly advice.
      - Man No Telende
        
        You are a baboon
      - David Adeniran
        
        That is the same language that sent your Kanu to prison! When you speak the language of human beings people will start respecting you. Hardly will you find anyone in your generation that speaks a decent language.
    - Julius
      
      You need to think before you make an easily disputed comment. I’m assuming that you are capable of doing that.
      - Man No Telende
        
        You are a complete baboon
  - Okokondem
    
    If you despised these people as much as you have demonstrated why didn’t you (your ancestors that is since you weren’t born at the time) let them go 50 years ago.
    - David Adeniran
      
      Maybe because they wanted to go with people who never wanted to go with them. Up till now they cannot present their purported Biafra’s map includes Ondo, Edo, Delta, Balyesa, Rivers and Cross Rivers. Ole, Olosa. Very soon it will include Abuja, Lagos, England and Israel. When you put your house in order you will definitely get your Biafraud.
      - obiora
        
        Biafran are not looking for help from your Tribe Yoruba who can not help themselves.
      - David Adeniran
        
        I know that you are not even looking for help from God bcous you so full of yourselves and you make your boast in Amadioha.
      - Julius
        
        lolz.
      - Man No Telende
        
        You are jumping up and down in a country created by man. You are beyond civilisation.. That is why Nnamdi kanu call you people baboons and monkeys, because you lack the ability to reason the a human should. Zoo called Nigeria has succeeded in reconfiguring your brain to reason like animals. Shame on you baboons.h
      - Wale
        
        How many times you gonna repeat this nonsense.
        Cut and past no dey tire you?
      - Man No Telende
        
        Wale, do you see the type name that your parents gave you and you are jumping up and down with. A name with no meaning and no history. Sorry for your yourself.
      - Wale
        
        Now you don confirm how coo-coo you be.
        Man No Telende be watin.
        Nut case.
      - Man No Telende
        
        Wale have you ever ask yourself this question, what is wrong with Nigeria that the biafrans want live without minding what they will loose. Wale are you so retarded to the point that you are beyond civilisation. You thing is because oil. Ask your self this question is it from oil money that biafrans used to buy your fathers properties?
      - Wale
        
        I’m not in the habit of conversing with people like you that are not all together up there.
      - Man No Telende
        
        You can’t understand my name because you are either a baboon or a monkey
    - Julius
      
      Just who is holding them back ? You know they can start by moving out of all the states in Nigeria to their prefered biafraud land. Tell me who is holding, preventing them from doing that .
  - Victor Nathan
    
    wow…i am 101% standing behind your statement.
  - Julius
    
    Please, say it again !!!!
    - Man No Telende
      
      You are jumping up and down in a country created by man. You are beyond civilisation.. That is why Nnamdi kanu call you people baboons and monkeys, because you lack the ability to reason the a human should. Zoo called Nigeria has succeeded in reconfiguring your brain to reason like animals. Shame on you baboons.c
      - Wale
        
        Ol’boy, who come dey inside cage for Zoo.
        wonders shall never end, baboons and monkeys dey lock a very strong man wey dey buy buy all SW for cage. Na wa ooo.
  - Man No Telende
    
    can you properly reason like a human being when your brain has been reconfigured to reason as animals. You people claim to be intellectuals but you wallow in ignorance. Your incapacitated brain can never understand what is called frivolous charges. Your fact finding is garbage when presented to us who are infinitely more intelligent than you are. Nnamdi kanu was right when he called you baboons and monkeys in zoo called Nigeria. Shame on you, because you are beyond civilisation. Since the almagamation by the useless drunking lugard you have nothing to show. even tooth pick your animal brain cannot manufacture. Shame on you baboons and monkeys with inability to reason. Baboon that is what you are
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      He is hurt because The great Ikemba did not commit suicide like their god Awolowo who preferred to take his life than stand being court martialed by IBB
  - Man No Telende
    
    Black monkey like you will always a monkey. You are a son of a backward father
    - David Adeniran
      
      At least you still acknowledge that I have a father! So I am by far better off than you who have no father but manufactured from a Baby Factory.
      - Man No Telende
        
        It is better not have a father than to have a father with slavery mentality. You are a slave and you will remain a slave forever.
- Albert
  
  Are you not even ashamed of yourself? Did you even read your comment to yourself? “…If anyone has anything contrary, state it with clarity and dates as Premium Times…” Laba laba laba. Parrot mouth! No shame! Yeye Fowl.
  
  I just watched a documentary on Discover channel, and I watched how the American Government threw a challenge to the Engineering companies on the eve of World War 2 by setting a deadline of 49 days within which the companies should DESIGN & MANUFACTURE a War time rugged Car. A company took the challenge and the Jeep was born. That was in 1940s. BUT 77years after, a brainless dumb sick man has put Nigeria on reverse gear with everything falling apart – incarcerations of political opponents, indiscriminate mass murders and mass burial by the Army (confirmed by Amnesty Int’l) etc, etc… and sick minds like you can’t rationalize but support blindly. When countries are busy setting up industries and large scale manufacturing centers/laboratories, Nigeria is investing on Pilgrimages and grazing routes. Nigeria still imports every single bullet, gun, gunpowder, and any form of armament for its military. Yet, we have 180 million people and billions of Dollars buried in toilets and other locations in private buildings all over Nigeria.
  
  Now a part of Nigeria says it wants to secede and you shameless lazy parasites are resisting. You want them to remain stagnant like Nigeria where dumb heads can become president? Biafra has come to stay. Lets wait till 2019, I hope Buhari or anybody from the North will step foot on Biafra land to campaign. Lets wait and see!
  - Man No Telende
    
    Thank you for lecturing the baboons and monkeys in the Zoo Called Nigeria, a country that is beyond civilisation.
    - tundemash
      
      Your parents lived and brought you up in same zoo; what specie of animals were they ?
  - tundemash
    
    Mor0n, the article is about your folly claiming govt has disobeyed a court order releasing the cl0wn Kanu.
    - Man No Telende
      
      How can you properly reason like a human being when your brain has been reconfigured to reason as animals. You people claim to be intellectuals but you wallow in ignorance. Your incapacitated brain can never understand what is called frivolous charges. Your fact finding is garbage when presented to us who are infinitely more intelligent than you are. Nnamdi kanu was right when he called you baboons and monkeys in zoo called Nigeria. Shame on you, because you are beyond civilisation. Since the almagamation by the useless drunking lugard you have nothing to show. even tooth pick your animal brain cannot manufacture. Shame on you baboons and monkeys with inability to reason. o
      - tundemash
        
        Mor0n, this article stated clearly there is no subsisting court order granting the cl0wn Kanu a bail. Instead of ranting, tell us which court/judge granted him that subsisting bail on what charges. Your noise changes nothing !!
      - Otile
        
        Are you therefore saying that Odudwa Republic has died a natural death because of your treachery and cowardice? Ifa ri omo yin oo.
    - Man No Telende
      
      Is there anything we have not done to bring you up and civilise you? We came to your village and turned it into a city in order to civilise you. We tried to inculcate the spirit of hard work into your coward and lazy fathers, but they chose to be selling their properties to us because they lazy. Now we have bought all their lands and build houses there , they now turn around to envy our success. You want biafran to remain in your Godforsaken zoo called Nigeria. Shame on you, because you are beyond civilisation. Baboons and monkeys with inability to reason with reason. Sorry we want to move forward now. Unfortunately you cannot survive without our support because we make things happen.
- Man No Telende
  
  You are a baboon if you think that self determination means Calling for war. You are beyond civilisation. Shame on you baboons and monkeys.
  - tundemash
    
    Mor0n, the article is about your folly claiming govt has disobeyed a court order releasing the cl0wn Kanu. So give us your own version of events that prove otherwise.
    - Man No Telende
      
      How can you properly reason like a human being when your brain has been reconfigured to reason as animals. You people claim to be intellectuals but you wallow in ignorance. Your incapacitated brain can never understand what is called frivolous charges. Your fact finding is garbage when presented to us who are infinitely more intelligent than you are. Nnamdi kanu was right when he called you baboons and monkeys in zoo called Nigeria. Shame on you, because you are beyond civilisation. Since the almagamation by the useless drunking lugard you have nothing to show. even tooth pick your animal brain cannot manufacture. Shame on you baboons and monkeys with inability to reason.
      - tundemash
        
        Mor0n, this article stated clearly there is no subsisting court order granting the cl0wn Kanu a bail. Instead of ranting, tell us which court/judge granted him that subsisting bail on what charges. Your noise changes nothing !
- Truth&Justice
  
  Here are some other facts which were left out by this deceptive writer because it didnt butress her position:
  Oct 14 ,2015-KANU arrested.detained for 72hrs without charge.
  Oct 17,2015-granted bail by magistrate Shuaib Usman.
  Oct 20,2015-all bail conditions completely met.DSS refuses to verify and to comply with bail thus disobeying court decisions.
  Oct 23,2015-Shuaib issued an express production order to DSS to produce Nnamdi KANU in court and explain why he is still in detention.court bailiff chased away by DSS.
  Nov.23 2015-DSS Lawer Idakwo draws the attention of Shuaib to a surreptitious federal high Court order, by justiceAlfa Ademola to detain Nnamdi KANU for 90 days .
  He equally asked Shuaib to hands off case.
  Dec.17 2015-kanu’s Lawer Obeta approached Justice Ademola and argued successfully that since his clients has been held for over 80 days without any substantive charge,he should be release. Justice ademola ruled in his favour an ordered UNCONDITIONAL release of Nnamdi KANU.
  Many jubilant IPOB members were shot dead in Onitsha head bridge while celebrating this court pronouncement.
  Nzuko ummuna was right. The Nigerian government has not obeyed any court order in respect of KANU.
  Justice Tosho promised accelerated hearing. He ruled against DSS presenting masked,anonymous witnesses. But he was forced to eat his words.imagine a judge reversing himself.
  - tundemash
    
    Give us links to the stories please. Anyone could get high on drugs, as you d, and compile fictitious dates.
Shawn

2019 LOADING: BUHARI AND OTHERS!
By == Godwin Onoghokere
******************************************

Anyone that thinks Buhari should not contest for reelection in 2019, are apostles of impunity and corruption!

Who would have the lion heart of Buhari to face these huge corruption empire of Nigeria?

If the PDP comes back in 2019, your guess is as good as mine!

For now, no alternative anywhere but Buhari in 2019!!!

If Buhari’s trend continued till 2023, Nigeria may see a major improvement (if not significant) in Nigeria history.

Buhari 1% performance achievement is billions percentage far above 100% performance of either PDP or other candidate eyeing Aso Rock in 2019.
- Man No Telende
  
  May thunderstorms strike the hand you used in writing this garbage.
  - Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
    
    Hey,hey mr.thunder go and meet amadioha to continue your good work.
    - Man No Telende
      
      Baboon
Okokondem

What is puzzling to me is the insistence on fighting the inevitable decoupling of a hodgepodge of incompatible ethnic nationalities known as Nigeria. There’s no doubt the current arrangement makes it much easier for the ruling class to carry on with their pillaging by manipulating the people’s emotions by pinning one group against the other.

Such machinations work very well for the perpetrators of malfeasance as is evident here and other social media platforms where groups would rather target one another rather than the people looting the country. Let’s face it no country stands a chance of survival with this much thievery by their rulers, and this much divisiveness among the people.

I’m particularly disappointed with the likes of @David Adeniran and the views he espouses.
- LLLeon
  
  The British did this, creating an artificial state; the British are also guilty of creating the artificial states of Syria and Jordan.
  - Man No Telende
    
    You are jumping up and down in a country created by man. You are beyond civilisation.. That is why Nnamdi kanu call you people baboons and monkeys, because you lack the ability to reason the a human should. Zoo called Nigeria has succeeded in reconfiguring your brain to reason like animals. Shame on you baboons.
Mazi Nnamdi Chukwuka

Biafra: The Quest For Freedom!

By Mazi Nnamdi Chukwuka

(long1live2biafra@gmail.com)

As a proud Biafran one must not fail to express his indignation as regards the lingering injustice, marginalisation and psychological trauma the Igbos have been subjected to by the ruling elite in Nigeria.
The hostility and animosity toward us continues unabated even up to this
day. They hate us yet they don’t want us to go our seperate way. We
must hate them in kind and force our way out of the federal zoo they
call a nation. Exposing the monumental century-old Lugardian lie
unilaterally told in 1914 should rather constitute a “task that must be
done” than keeping Nigeria one. The ‘gospel’ according to ‘prophet’
Gowon (preached decades ago and now by ‘saint’ Buhari) must be proven
wrong!

The Nigerian federation as presently constituted was not
made or meant to favour our people’s general aspirations. It’s a
confused so-called country with irreconcilable ethnic and religious
differences. Only a peaceful or violent dismemberment could provide a
lasting solution to the question of identity and diversity. To hell with
unity! The federal ‘marriage’ of convenience or inconvenience isn’t
working and can never work! Using brute force to make it work is akin to
kicking a dead horse!

Something terrible had happened some weeks back (precisely 27th
February 2017) to a gentle Biafran at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos. Upon his arrival from the United
States one Charles Chuma Opara, a prominent member of the Movement for
the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB), was
pounced on by operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) promptly
arresting and detaining him. His crime? Belonging to MASSOB and being a
brother to Ikechukwu Opara, another active prominent member of MASSOB in
the US. The SSS had desperately sought information as to the activities
of the seperatist movement based at home and abroad.

And to obtain the information Charles, a Pastor, was
blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination. And during gruelling
moments of interrogation the SSS goons used horse-whips, night-sticks
and riffle butts on his head and body! He was asked violently to give
names and addresses of MASSOB militants in America. They refused the
polite request of the man of God to call his family or a lawyer and even
refused him treatment after days of excruciating torture sessions. They
told him that he was on their hit-list like his brother. According to
Pastor Opara he was lucky to have escaped from captivity because of one
sympathetic SSS man who discreetly intervened on his behalf upon
learning of his ecclesiastical calling. He was hospitalised for days as he recuperated from the manhandling and humiliation.

The respected man of God is alive to tell the dreadful story
but thousands of his compatriots of Biafran origin were not so lucky.
Many had lost limbs and lives and others languishing in prisons across
the federation for asking for Biafra! The security forces are always too
happy to employ brutal means to quell any agitation for Biafra. They
fire live bullets into the crowd often killing unarmed demonstrators and
taking prisoners. And gloating over their murderous exploits! Some
international human rights organisations like the Amnesty International
had risen in strong condemnation of this flagrant violation of the
people’s right to demonstrate in a democracy.

But the spirit behind Biafra remains
immortal! The idea is a great one in all its glory; it can never die for
whatever reason least of all state repression or intimidation.

It would be recalled that in 2003 the SSS
operatives had stormed the village home of Charles Opara demanding to
know his and Ikechukwu’s whereabouts from their aged mother and brother
Emeka. They were both arrested, tortured and subjected to interrogation.
Though the late Mrs Opara was released later Emeka remained in
detention and up until now he’s reported missing! Mrs Opara died as a
result of this SSS invasion and cruel methods and tactics!
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB)
still remains in solitary confinement for years running for his vocal
advocacy for Biafran independence. Despite court orders releasing him on
bail the Buhari regime is still holding him captive. He was arrested
and charged to court but judge after judge had found him worthy of bail
yet he’s still suffering detention in the Buhari gulag!

Buhari has never been known to be a friend of the Igbos. In
deeds and utterances he has manifested, time after time, his loathsome
disposition towards our dreams and hopes. His abhorrence of
the Biafran idea is proven by the scorn and derision with which he
treats the agitation for freedom. It goes to demonstrate clearly his
resolve never to let our people go like Pharoah did to the Jewish people
during the years of slavery in Egypt. But today Israel has reached the
‘promised land’ with or without a Moses!

Buhari dislikes our natural guts, cultural
greatness and economic wizardry hence the need for the continuation of
the barbarism and subjugation. But everything that has a beginning must
have an end. We’re too great a people under the Almighty God to accept
permanently to be glorified second-class citizens in the land of our
fathers and fore-fathers. Freedom must, therefore, ring from Onitsha to
Owerri, Aba to Abakaliki, Enugu to Umuahia. The boundless energy and
ingenuity of our people can only be released in full under the Biafran
nationhood.

If the Fulani terrorists (herdsmen, madmen, gunmen
et al) could be invading households and villages — as thieves in the
night — setting homes and farmlands on fire, raping, maiming and
killing innocent citizens and evading arrest and justice then one
wonders why those fighting for independence non-violently should be
hounded down, tortured, imprisoned or killed gruesomely at the slightest
provocation. Many towns and villages had fallen victim of this
marauding terrorism with governments doing little or nothing to curb the
violent invasions and encroachments. No one has ever heard of any
Fulani herdsman being arrested or prosecuted for committing arson, rape
or homicide anywhere!

Is it a crime, if one may ask, the genuine
agitation for self-determination of a people? Isn’t it legitimate and
normal in the case of Biafra? No one can ever succeed to force
togetherness upon a people determined to govern themselves otherwise. No
one can wish it away either! The dream is still very much alive in the
hearts and minds of millions of our people despite the organized state
terrorism to quench the fire. Personally I’ve got no doubt in my mind
that we shall overcome somehow, someday.

Some instances would suffice here to buttress a relative
point. Bangladesh and Pakistan were formerly ruled by Indians under the
Indian sovereignty but today they both rule themselves after prolonged
battles for self-determination. South Sudan fought years of brutal war
with the Arabic establishment in Khartoum to liberate themselves from
the Sudanese cultural and political domination. Today Juba has achieved
national independence in tears and blood! Kosovo once suffered from the
Serbian administrative diktat only for external forces led by the United
States to bomb Slobodan Milosevic, the late “Butcher of the Balkans”
into submission.

The defunct USSR existed, much like Nigeria now, as a
convoluted federation. Dreams and hopes were stifled and suffocated as
peoples struggled to bring down the unsustainable system that put them
in an open prison against their will. Today out of the ‘womb’ of the
USSR were born nations like Ukraine and Georgia. Few people had shed
tears (if any) for the disappearance of the Soviet Union. Perhaps only
Vladmir Putin, the Russian strongman, in elusive search of global
military dominion, that regrets the fall of the Soviet state nonsense.
If Nigeria collapses today maybe only the Hausa/Fulani would have any
cause, for obvious reasons, to mourn the demise of the “mere
geographical expression”.

We, Biafrans, we challenge the indisposed lanky Mallam from Daura
pretending to be presiding over a divided federal house to put his
credibility on the line by organising a referendum in the south-east to
test the popularity or otherwise of the quest for freedom of our people.
I dare say the outcome will definitely vindicate MASSOB and IPOB. The
‘yes’ to secession, without any iota of doubt, will win the majority
vote. If the Katsina sick old man and his northern anti-Biafra elements
believe in the unity in diversity they’re hypocritically preaching then
the way to go is for the people to decide for or against as it’s done
democratically elsewhere.
Okokondem

To Premium Times and Evelyn Okakwu, the supposed writer of this news article…Nnamdi Kanu is not the “leader of Biafra” as there is no entity currently in existence known as Biafra. There’s agitation for Biafra but there’s no Biafra today. So labeling Nnamdi Kanu the leader of Biafra is a wilful attempt to misrepresentation.

The headline could easily have been, “Nnamdi Kanu, the Biafra agitator.” Nnamdi Kanu is one individual, like many others, who believes there should be a country called Biafra. He is not leading a any group. He was exercising his right under the freedom speech provision of the constitution.
- LLLeon
  
  Biafra exists in the minds of Nnamdi Kanu and his fellow activists. Agitation is their method of fighting for their cause, and its far better than violence.
  - Man No Telende
    
    May thunderstorms fire and clean up your entire generation for saying rubbish.
    - Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
      
      A whole generation? Yo must be the real thunder firing people.
      - Man No Telende
        
        Sorry for your miserable life because the zoo has reconfigured your brain to reason like animals. Shame on you people, because you have gone beyond civilisation.
      - Eze Kingsley
        
        Don’t mind the useless people
      - Eze Kingsley
        
        The government should obey court order and release the innocent man
        If not out of hate why should the president seek a secret trial while freeing killer boko Harams
- Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
  
  And his right to own a permanent apartment in n kuje or any prison of his choice,
Citizen (ungoverned territory)

@mazinnamdichukwuka:disqus

Is BIAFRA really a bad idea, let’s see!

First of all i care for the imprisonment of Nnamdi Kanu because i care for humanity.
This detailed newsreport shows his bail application was denied at the third attempt.
We are not told of a subsequent order of court latterly granting him bail from prison.
Therefore Nnamdi Kanu is still in lawful prison custody by the order of a court of law.

But is his imprisonment since the year 2015 legitimate despite that it is legally made?
The facts are not clear and won’t be until the SSS discloses the threat he constitutes.
Those disclosures will only be more properly made in the course of the criminal trial.
For now I will withhold judgment on the legitimacy of his legal incarceration in prison.

I withhold judgment too because IPOB Biafran Movement has carried on the campaign.
The IPOB campaign is for independence of a futuristic separate country called BIAFRA.
According to IPOB the Biafra country will cut Nigeria by a third from Kogi to Cross Rivers.
Biafra is Igbo homeland that’s not approved by states lying between Kogi and Cross Rivers.
And so Biafra is tribal imposition on those states, warranting Police protection against IPOB.
In consequence, Biafra is a bad idea because it implies Igbo supremacy by ethnic imposition.
- Okeyisokey
  
  IF BIAFRA COULD BE LIMITED TO THE FIVE CORE IGBO STATES, THEN,
  
  IT WILL BE FAR EASIER TO PERSUADE EVERYONE TO ACCEPT BIAFRA
  
  AS A CLEAR RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION BY THE IGBO PEOPLE.
  
  IMO, EBONYI, ANAMBRA, IMO AND ENUGU STATES ARE ALL OF BIAFRA.
  - Man No Telende
    
    You are a complete goat.
Haba mallam

There is one and only one solution to this, HANG KANU period, This loser from London, a British citizen and a DJ from the hoods 419
kingpin and a pickpocket, came to my country Nigeria and started a terrorist organization that is responsible for kidnapping arm robbery bank robbery and several rape, he committed treasonable offence and he must die, hang the sob nothing will happen just like sarowiwa.
- Otile
  
  Who is this stinking desert donkey, why are you braying mindlessly on this holy day of Easter? Your breath continues to stink from Malumfashi to Katsina Ala. Go
  and wash yourself in River Benue, animal. You don’t make sense. Dan
  iska mututu.
  - Haba mallam
    
    Creek monkey so you’re Igbo not ijaw, well Kanu will be kill right before your eyes, we will use your own people to finish this SOB and wallahi nothing will happen. We defeated and decimated you before and will do it again if the need arises. Happy Easter to you
    - Otile
      
      Islamic terrorist this is how you bragged to wipe Israel out of the surface of the earth and nothing would happen. Today you terrorists are being hunted down in every part of the world. Parasite.
      - Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
        
        When the time comes,no sigle isrhelli will remain,and to kanu,he must be hunged,period!
      - Otile
        
        Oluwa ma je o. I thought you were an educated man not knowing that you are one of those noise-making dunderheads. Henceforth I will ignore you as I have been ignoring your fellow slow-witted tribesman Abdul who calls himself julius. Omo, odabo.
      - Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
        
        Coward,or ignorant
    - ita ekpo
      
      Do you know what you are saying. You think Igbo is yuroba where IBB killed their man. And action was not taken. We are difference people. Do not just pray that to happen. If it does you people will know is not only talk but action is to be taken. All what Hausa fulani is planning we are looking. ALL what buhari is doing is joy to you people. No one tell him what you are doing is not good. What l think his time will come to answer his call. That where gbagbo is residing.
- sta
  
  Terrorist go and hang him. Brainwashed imbecile child of prophet mohammed, the most useless prophet of all time. Servant of the Egyptian bar god called Allah. Meningitis and all the worst disease of all time will continue to ravish your people.
  - Haba mallam
    
    Wawa mumu burn in hell
  - Abdulmojeed Nojeemdeen
    
    I support “HANG KANU” period! Let him be hunged till he is confirmed dead,and his miserable body thrown to pigs and dogs,while his bones are packed and converted to glue and be sold in ABA.
- Mike Obi
  
  May God Pusinsh and destroy you amd you god forsaken nigeria, imbecilic uncircumcise dirty alamajiri
- serubawon70
  
  No, I beg; he is not like Saro Wiwa
SE&SS Economic Summit

Are you a Biafran? Are you a Niger Deltan? The 1st ever East & South Conference dubbed South East and South South conference begins on April 18, 2017 in Biafra Republic. UNITY of purpose – Economic, Political, Culture, Military, and Secessionist etc are what we seek. The agenda is clear and irrevocable. The time to act is now. The Nigerian structure is strangulating and skewed against us (East & South – Wealth owners) . Our destiny lies on our action or inaction. To delay in acting now will be spell doom. With purported grazing routes met to run across the nation, be sure all they want is to establish legal ground close to our oil wells. You & I know what that means. Should we allow them?.

Be there!!! God bless the United East & South. Things will never be the same again.
- Ti
  
  Any free Lunch? Where is d actual address(venue)?
- Gibson Bosah
  
  Next time ends with #Copied
- Bahaushe
  
  Permission for we in the North west to participate cause we have over 5 million Ndi Igbo’s in our zone with 3 million permanent residents and 2 million economic migrants.Please note these figures excludes non igbos from SS whom decided for reason best known to themselves to curb niche in our zone.Therefore without our active participation, the conference would have no bearing.
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tundemash

Whichever one your parents were when they brought you up in same zoo.
- Man No Telende
  
  There is no future for you in Nigeria without biabra
  - tundemash
    
    You are free to hallucinate as much as you want. Your parents wailed this several years ago and by the Grace of God, you also shall handover the wailing to your children !
  - tundemash
    
    Stop smoking cheap drugs ! If you were born into hopelessness, that is your cup of tea.
Haba mallam

Mr president please Hang Kanu, dead to this SOB
- Otile
  
  ISIS agent, are you back? Islamic terrorist banza,
- David Adeniran
  
  Lol!
  - Man No Telende
    
    When you laugh over serious issues you expose your stupidity to the world. Fools
    - David Adeniran
      
      Serious people always laugh over BIAFRAUD stupidity. It’s more of a comedy than anything else!
      - Man No Telende
        
        Who are the serious people? The self styled intellectualistic baboons and monkeys in the zoo called Nigeria, who can not manufacture even took picks. You have been serious since the almgamation of the zoo called Nigeria by the useless drunkered called Lizard, yet you have nothing to show the world. Shame on you.
      - David Adeniran
        
        Please remember to take your mediation.
- Man No Telende
  
  Your president is afraid of kanu. If he dares kill him, that will be the shortest way to restoratiøn of biafra. Fools.
PolyGon2013

I believe FG is wrong to have kept Kanu this long, without trial. With that said, even if Biafra agitation is limited to the 5-states in SE, it won’t happen. Carving parts of another state like Kogi, Cross-River’s state and/or any other parts of SS is even worse. So, IPOB/MASSOB/BIM is/are in between the rock and a hard place. Any nation, group of people or ethnic group has the right to self-determination. However, a peaceful approach must be used to prevent any bloodshed.
- Tunji Olarewaju
  
  Did you read this report at all? He has been duly arraigned in court !He is responsible for delaying his trial by going judge shopping
  - PolyGon2013
    
    I didn’t know he was delaying the trial. I just think that we are giving this guy unnecessary recognition by keeping him in jail forever. Thanks.
    - Man No Telende
      
      Fools you are and Fools you will always be. The more you Godforsaken government keep him the more people talk about him. If you kill him you fine yourself in trouble.
      - PolyGon2013
        
        Killing him will be raising his status. Government should just release him by dropping him off some bridge in Onitsha.
    - Man No Telende
      
      How can you know the facts when your brain is reconfigured by the Zoo to reason like animals l
      - PolyGon2013
        
        So, you are.saying that Kanu was the one delaying his trial so that he can get.more.recognition. Wow, he must be a smart guy.
  - Man No Telende
    
    You are a complete baboon
    - Tunji Olarewaju
      
      You are a complete orangutan
      - Man No Telende
        
        Tunji , that is a name without meaning. Your ability to learn is very tin, because you are a baboon. Biafran want to separate from The zoo called Nigeria, because civilization has eluded you. Since the the amalgamation of the zoo called Nigeria you still import tooth pick. Shane on you hûuuuuuuuuuuu.
      - Tunji Olarewaju
        
        Thin,not “tin”,shame not “shane”,Prof
David Adeniran

Coward? Please go and have dialogue with your super hero Ojukwu who thought a war is fought with mouth and yet he abandoned the battlefield and ran away naked to Ivory Coast. He should be able to tell you who a true coward is!
Lazy? So by engaging in hard drugs businesses and fake products is the evidence of being hard working? You lied! Evil, ungodly, heartless and very disdainful generation!
Who cannot survive without your support? When you all ran away from Lagos in fear of your lives during at the height of the June 12 crisis, did Lagos collapse? Rather it was good riddance to bad rubbish!
- Obele Ojukwu
  
  How old were you when igbos sent their wives and children to the east after the June 12 crisis?. Because if you are honest, you will remember that Lagos was like a ghost town as a result of business shut down by the Igbos. If you call the people who own over 50% of the private property in Lagos, and about 60% in Abuja lazy I wonder what you call your fathers who have been selling your villages to the so called lazy people.
  
  If Ojukwu was a coward then Idi Amin is too, do you want to know the meaning of that word?. Go ask the people that are still bowing down to emir of Ilorin. If I were you, I would still be crying until the Yorubas are delivered from the Gambaris or are you one of the funny people who say that the emir of Ilorin is a Yoruba man?.
  - David Adeniran
    
    Mr Ojukwu thank God you can only compare your hero to Idi Amin. That is a perfect comparison coming from you!
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      My reason for mentioning Idi Amin is just one thing, for you to reflect on people that have gone on exile after losing a seat of power. If you were reasonable or not running away from the truth you would understand what I mean. Check the list of all these people and tell me what makes them cowards, do you know meaning of the word at all?.
      
      When Ojukwu went on exile after the war, Gowon called him a coward but when Muritala came calling he couldn’t show bravery. Also when Muritala was assassinated he remained on the same exile but failed to call himself a Coward. Only a child will call a man that fought Nigeria USAR, Britain and the Arab world for three years a coward. You know you never had and can never have a strong leader like Ojukwu even if you choose to deny it and lie to yourself, go ask Obasanjo why he ran to go hide in a ship when he got the news of Muritala’s murder. Or should Ojukwu had committed suicide like your god Awolowo when he preferred to take his life rather than face being court martialed and apparently sent to jail by IBB?. ( no be me talk am, na true confession from a staunch Awoist, Ayo Adebayo. The secret has been made open since!!!)
      I do not joke or lie with facts and figures. We own about 50% of the Lagos property and over 60% of that of Abuja. Go check statistics and be informed.
      
      Meanchile, I still demand you answer my other questions especially that about Ilorin.
      Don’t try to avoid it please since you claim to know history.
      FYI, before you lie, always remember that there’s a search engine called google and that there are scholars of history everywhere.
  - Tunji Olarewaju
    
    Ok we don hear…can you please replicate that relocation now? Thanks
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      How hypocritical can you be?. Your fathers sold their lands to igbos , your generation is doing the same. Statistics has is that the Igbo own over 50% of the private properties you see in Lagos today, generate about the same percentage to the Lagos IGR and you are abusing and telling the same people that you and your tribe are benefiting a lot from to relocate. Are you a thief that will eat a loaf of bread and still want to have it back. For instance, how was Trade fair complex before Ndi Igbo were allowed to develop it to what it has become now?. Just one, of course you know there are so many more.
      
      What you should be doing is tell your people to come down to the east and replicate what ndi Igbo have done in Lagos. You can start with Enugu so you can also say that you are part owners of Enugu and nobody will ask you to go.
      
      I have been hearing this nonsense “Igbo go leave Lagos for us” since I was a kid and now I am a grown man , own a house @ Mayfair Garden Estate Awoyaya Ibeju Lekki where I live plus other landed properties. You guys are still saying the same thing. Una no dey tire???.
      
      Your Igbo hate cannot stop us rather you watch as we succeed the more because you cannot stop the children of YAHWEH!! Amen.
      - Tunji Olarewaju
        
        I’m sure you didn’t listen to yourself, or you are particularly dumb, no surprise there, anyway, you people are known for extreme stupidity.
        You and your fathers before you left your jungle to develop Lagos in the south west, isn’t that an award winning stupidity? If the South West were to be as wild as your jungle would you and your fathers before you have stayed? If your jungle had been conducive would your fathers before you have left? Now you are foolishly expecting ME to go and help develop your evil land where crimes and criminality that made your fathers leave and made it impossible for you to own a ‘mansion and other landed properties ‘ there, has been advanced into the 20th century sophistication .What a laugh.
        You’re sitting pretty in Lagos and yet you are shouting biafra, you are afraid to relocate back home… to me, that’s the height of wanting to eat your cake and still have it, moron
      - Obele Ojukwu
        
        Every learned Nigerian knows why Lagos is the center of attraction. And if you are bitter kindly go ask your people to stop selling.
        
        If am from the jungles, where are you from? Africans and their funny way of talking. Na de Oyibo way first start the development of Lagos be ya Papa?
        
        Your words are full of insults and they are words of a lazy man. Landlord travel around and see.
        
        Come drive me out of Lagos if you can. Truth is bitter that is why you are hurt. I am way too mature to exchange abuses with a hypocrite.
        
        Achieve something with your life and help your generation.
        The only way to stop seeing Ndi Igbo successful is to do one thing, KILL YOURSELF for no one can stop the children of YAHWEH!
- Obele Ojukwu
  
  Yoruba no dey deal in hard drugs and they do not commit crimes huh?
  
  Philip Emeagwali created the fastest supercomputer and that has affected the worldwide wireless connectivity but you will only focus on negativity and insult the igbos using their son’s brainwork-the internet. Ask yourself why CNN calls Emeagwali the new father of internet.
  Sware that you and your Yoruba tribe have not been benefiting from Ndi Igbo and watch as the ground you walk upon punish you. How hypocritical can you be????
  - David Adeniran
    
    Vint Cerf Vinton G and Bob Kahn had first started the Internet in 1972. The invention of Emeagwali was in 1989! Computer predates his invention but he invented the fastest type. He is a genius just like God in His wisdom put few geniuses in every nationality. That is not the yardstick for the rate of the purported hardworking people in your generation. Rather dubious business practitioners are the one parading themselves are hardworking. The set of people like Emeagwali are even very quiet and humble and not in anyway louisy like your type or the many idiots who have make noise online.
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      Every person that is conversant with the internet knows that cerf and khan created the internet. Remember, CNN called Emeagwali the new father of internet because the supercomputers he created were faster that Clay’s therefore becoming the fastest and has made the internet and the entire wireless connectivity better than it used to be.
      
      Thank God you know that Emeagwali is a genius and I tell it to you and anybody that uses the internet– as long as you insult the Igbos on the internet, you are benefiting from the good work of an Igbo man in a very ungrateful way.
      You only focus on the negative rather than the positive. Google Ogbonnia Mobison, Jidenna the musician’s father and know that anybody that used nitel will always be grateful and thank God for what some Igbos have done and are still doing. The first and only made in Nigeria vehicles are being manufactured in the SE to mention a few but you won’t talk about it.
      Will I because of Buruji Kashamu or the two Yoruba terrorist brothers that killed a UK millirary officer some years back call Yorubas terrorists and drug dealers?.
      
      The mediocre world will always view the world of excellence as proud, arrogant and loud. But guess what?, we can never be stopped.
      
      Your Igbo hate will rather consume you with bitterness than stop us from being the most successful, productive and successful tribe in Africa. Igbo the most brilliant black African tribe- USA report of 2015.
      Go get informed so you will atop disgracing your tribe.
      I have some Yoruba friends and we go extra Miles to defend and protect each other. They are educated and widely traveled like myself and do not reason and lie the way you cyber rats do. Grow up and stop insulting people that you and your tribe have been benefiting from. How hypocritical can you be?
      
      Deny that you and the Yoruba tribe are not benefiting from the industriousness of the Igbos then watch the ground that you walk upon punish you.
      - David Adeniran
        
        When your brethren with their unbridled and uncouth tongues display their abusive words against other nationalities on the internet then you should expect commensurate reactions. They are fond of using the words COWARDS, LAZY, TREACHERY, BETRAYAL etc against others without looking inwards.
      - pheliciti
        
        Your level of idiocy is unparalleled if you can beat your chest on the basis of these fake achievements. Please fact check these things before you share and stop living in fool’s paradise.
        Meanwhile, it would be nice if all these were truly Igbo achievements and not just some dredged up mumbo-jumbo. In which case it would be easy to replicate in your Biafra….so, simple, all of you should relocate to Biafra and use this expertise to set the model country of your dreams.
      - Obele Ojukwu
        
        Truth is bitter and that is why you are doing what some of guys(cyber rats) do best, rain insults whenever you are presented with a superior argument.
        
        If my facts are fake , why can’t you prove me wrong instead of being petulant.
        
        Your bitter mind makes you believe that the people who are helping in the development of other regions are not developing their’s. Landlord travel and sea. Go to the East and witness the development that individuals are pushing on there instead sitting in your region and believe that you know everywhere.
        
        Let’s take the Lagos Trade Fair complex for example.
        How was it before Igbos turned it into what it is today?.
        Just one, of course you know there are many more.
        
        You sold your land and houses to a people, collected their money. The same people continue to help develop your place and the only way for you to say well-done is by asking them to leave and rain abuses on them. How HYPOCRITICAL!!!?.
        
        I have been hearing this nonsense* we go pursue Igbo out of Lagos* since I was a boy and now that I am a grown man, own my house where I live @ Mayfair Garden Estate, Awoyaya, Ibeju Lekki plus other properties in Lagos you guys are still saying this same thing. Una no dey tire?
        Nobody can stop the Igbos cuz we are the children of YAHWEH!
        
        Continue to hate the Igbo people. FYI, not just Ndi Igbo, other tribes are taking over Lagos while you cry and insult igbos.
        
        You and your people can go to the East, start from Enugu, buy properties and beat your chest as well. Then you can say that you also own Enugu and nobody will ask you to leave for the world is large enough for all of us.
        
        Igbos are not the only people agitating for self determination, SS people are included. Yoruba people too. Go to Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Akinrinade for you to be lectured on self determination. Are you more Yoruba than they are?.
        
        My stand will always remain this:
        
        Restructure Nigeria along regional lines(going back to regional system), Give resource control to states, Write a new constitution, make provision for referendum if we still want to have a country called Nigeria that will become a Nation.
        
        Failure to do any of the above, Nigeria will break up! Believe it or not.
        
        More grease to your elbow if you are agitating for an independent state of Biafra, Niger Delta, Oduduwa or any other one that might arise.
        
        Only a child and a clown rejoices over the travails of Freedom Fighters.
        
        Grow up and stop insulting people that you cn learn from, because they are wiser than you.
    - deji 3SC (Up shooting)
      
      Bro, please don’t be taken in by the Philip Emegweali fraudulent claims.
      
      Rense.
      Philip Emeagwali – Fake
      Computer ‘Genius’ Exposed
      Commentary
      By Jerry Abbott
      
      I have to admit that I was deceived when the story about Philip Emeagwali appeared. I thought that he was a genuine black genius. After all, even on a continent where statistics and data show the average IQ is 70 and the standard deviation is 12, one black in 3.5 million will have an IQ higher than 130, one black in 368 million will have an IQ higher than 140, it was a great thing for Africa to have a ‘genius’ recognized.
      
      Anyway, I’m ashamed to admit that I was suckered by the talk about Emeagwali inventing the supercomputer by watching the way bees build their hives. I didn’t understand the reasoning entirely, but it was something about the hexagonal shape of the beehive cells that, when you used it in computer memory, made the throughput a lot faster. It turns out that was all just jive.
      
      In 1989, Emeagwali was one of nine people to share a Gordon Bell Prize, worth about $1000. The Gordon Bell Prize is one of many small-time prizes that people who use computers can win, and it is the basis for a lot of hyperinflated self-promotional bogus claims that Emeagwali later made.
      
      The controlled media, including CNN, picked up on Emeagwali’s antics and gave them uncritical prestige. Suddenly, we were hearing that Emeagwali invented the idea of parallel processing. He did not. We heard that Emeagwali invented the supercomputer. He did not. We heard that he invented the Internet. He did not. We were invited to believe that Emeagwali’s Gordon Bell Prize was some kind of major achievement, on a par with the Nobel Prize. It is no such thing. There are even pseudobiographical anecdotes about Emeagwali to be found online, many of them intended to convey the idea that Emeagwali is one of the most brilliant men ever to live, on a par with, say, Karl Friedrich Gauss. He is not.
      
      It’s all lies, mostly invented by Emeagwali and the controllers, and amplified by the Zionist media. I should have known better than to believe it. Well, I do know better now. Emeagwali has no Ph.D., having failed twice to convince the University of Michigan that he deserves one. He failed to convince a judge that he was the victim of racism in the matter of his being denied a Ph.D., so he wasn’t even able to use the courts to force the University of Michigan into giving him a doctorate, which probably means he fell far, far short of deserving one.
      
      (Bloggers comment – This shouldn’t come as a surprise to the informed reader, Michael King AKA Martin Luthern King was a serial plagiarist, so bad in fact, his own biographers admit to it. This doesn’t stop our public educational system from portraying him as a God to our children does it? Why would Emeagwali be any different?)
      
      Emeagwali did succeed in flummoxing some Nigerian government officials whose heads were even bonier than his that he deserved to have his image engraved on an official Nigerian postage stamp.
      
      While he was hyped with all this free Zionist publicity, he managed to get Bill Clinton to certify him as an official genius, which just goes to show you what a big liar Clinton is, in case you missed all those other lies he told us on television in the 1990s.
      
      Going back to his one actual claim to fame, small as it is, Emeagwali would not even have gotten his fractional part of that Gordon Bell Prize if the judges had not succumbed to a desire to make a minority group feel “included.” The contest was for economic efficiency in high speed computing, and the competitors, a team from Mobil Corporation, produced an entry that ran twice as fast as Emeagwali’s, with significantly more cost efficiency. The judges didn’t want Mobil to have all the prize recognition, though, so they cut Emeagwali in for a share out of sympathy.
      
      Now, the very fact that Philip Emeagwali can even program a computer puts him ahead of nearly all of his brethren the planet. But that’s small praise. Emeagwali isn’t a man who can be satisfied with small praise, so he tried to raise a worldwide fraud in which he gave himself some very big praise. And, since it was convenient to their “shame the white majority” agenda, the Zionist media used Emeagwali to echo his “great Black genius” lies internationally through broadcast and print media.
      - David Adeniran
        
        I’m speechless! I will do my research on him. Thank you so much my brother and happy Easter! I love facts and not fictitious and that is why I appreciate anyone who gives me genuine information.
      - deji 3SC (Up shooting)
        
        Happy Easter my dear brother. The facts speak for itself. I also posted another link by Sahara Reporters where the Fraud Emeagwali was exposed. But Premium Times is holding back the comment for now. But you can do the Google search like you wrote earlier.
      - Obele Ojukwu
        
        Chaii, what a shame. Your type is the reason why Africa is still backward. CNN and the controlled media, Bill Clinton, Nigerian government officials and so on were all deceived by Emeagwali what a man. How do you even reason?, where did you copy this crap from.
        
        Can you tell us who then created the fastest supercomputer?.
        CNN and the controlled media are yet to discover Emeagwali’s fraud and disgrace him while you and sahara reporters have.
        
        Emeagwali was allowed to share the Gordon Bell Prize out of sympathy and because they wanted a minority group to feel included. Do you think that the west applies anything similar to your ridiculous federal character when it comes to awarding people of excellence?.
        
        Philip Emeagwali is not a PhD holder the reason why a never attach Dr. to his name whenever but your campaign of calumny can never change the history of the greatest African scientist.A man with a higher IQ than Albert Einstein. He created the fastest supercomputer, please use Google or better still go learn how to do better research and stop relying on sahara reporters of all the media outfits. Stop being a hater, stop reading articles from jealous and hateful people. Finally, stop disgracing your tribe.
        
        According to Babajude Otitoju of TVC and my senior friend- one good thing about truth is that it can never be hidden and no matter how one tries, they can never rewrite history. What a hater you are, shame shame shame
- Man No Telende
  
  You are born to be slaves, because you generation are slaves, but we are free people. Ojukwu fought very hard to liberate you from slavery, but you forefathers chose to in remain in chains. Do know that without biafra that your life is miserable. Biafra is the hope for black race that have proven over time to be beyond civilisation. Ask your self why is that your forefathers are backward ? It is because they reason baboons and monkeys.
pheliciti

Oloshi…. the son of scroungers. Go develop you hamlets then and go settle there.
Your statement is the bane of the Igbo people everywhere. Its unfortunate the majority Igbos are suffering from the arrogance and idiocy of loudmouths like you.
You were welcome whole heartedly, given space to nurture your family and business yet you treat your hosts with insults and ingratitude? How can anybody trust you with power?
In terms of development, almost all major tribes in Nigeria have documented histories and political systems dating back hundreds of years be it Kalabari, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Ebira… not the Igbos. Yet, you offspring of a people without history and with contrived latter day efulefu leaders claimed to have exported development. Shocking…The Yorubas say that you can only take treasures out from a home that has it… In that case, if you know about development, let’s see it first in your ravaged homeland!
- Obele Ojukwu
  
  You are just showing the evidence of quantity education without quality of the people of sw Nigeria. That is why you do not know the meaning of history.
  
  Mr history, can you honestly tell us why the Fulanis are still in control of Ilorin- formerly Oyo empire????
  - Tunji Olarewaju
    
    Mr professor of history, so Ilorin is formerly Oyo empire? Better go back and seek forgiveness from your parents for wasting their money trying to educate a monkey
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      What is it then? or are you going to deny it as usual and tell me that it has a Yoruba Emir?.
    - Obele Ojukwu
      
      I am now a monkey cuz I have presented you with a superior argument and asked you a question you cannot answer, typical of your type but your insult will not change history. Is it funny how a person like you who mentioned all tribes as having written history but the Igbos. You claim to know that we do not have a history but you have not read and understood yours that is written in black and white.please read the Ilorin history or at least ask Google or encyclopedia for you to know how Ilorin, former military headquarters of Oyo empire became a northern protectorate.
      
      First history and now education. As your parents no waste their own money and you no come know history abi you no want read am? Who come be the monkey???. Please learn to dey face your own matter well and not anoda man own so you don’t end up disgracing and embarrassing your tribe like this again. I can see how well you know history and how well educated you are. And do not forget to tell me what a Fulani emir is doing in a Yoruba land. Please before you lie cuz that’s what you guys do a lot, remember that we are in the era of knowledge increase and that the history dey bold and clear on the internet.
- Tunji Olarewaju
  
  What do you mean? We were Jews before before, but they refused to accept us, now that Turkey has recognized our biafools Republic we are Turks. Bad belle man
Haba mallam

Am calling in Nigerians to sign the petition to Hang Kanu immediately
- Man No Telende
  
  If anything happens to Nnamdi kanu, you are doomed. You can have nigeria after another war with biafra. I’m educating the baboons and monkeys in zoo called Nigeria.
tundemash

What do u expect from a nonentity who addresses his parents as monkeys and baboons? God know whom your parents offended that cursed you this way. may your frustration be everlasting. Nigeria shall move on while you stew in your frustration.