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Biafra Provisional Government Announcement at the Washington DC National Press Club: August 28 2007
"Dream of free Biafra revives in southeast Nigeria" by Estelle Shirbon Reuters July 10 2006 Washington Post
Excerpts: "...the idea of an independent Ibo homeland has regained strength in recent years...A separatist group, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), formed in 1999 and has drawn increasing support, especially among young people..."We have many graduates in Biafra but many of them are in the market pushing wheelbarrows because they don't have anything else,"..."We should have our own country so everyone can have the opportunity to show what they can do," ...Full Article

ALERT! Emerging Genocide in Nigeria ALERT!  June 29 2006 by CWIS (Center for World Indigenous Studies)
Urgent intervention must be initiated now to prevent massive, government sanctioned killings [of the Igbo and Biafrans by the Nigerian armed forces]...  Full Article

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See also the "ageless":

Biafra Charter
Biafra on You Tube
International Support for Biafra, 2006
Chronicle of MASSOB Casualties, victims of the Nigeria Police and Nigerian Armed Security Agents.
Human Rights Watch and Human Reports, August 2005--"Nigeria: Obasanjo Confirms Torture, Killing by Police
Requiem for Nigeria: The Last of Africa’s Pseudo-Federations
Marginalization of Igbo-Biafraland by Nigeria: a succint testimony by a non-Igbo
Biafra Currency: Biafra never dies--current money circulation and a history of Biafra threaded through Biafra Currency
Worldwide Demonstrations (WWD) May 27 2005: A report of pro-Biafra worldwide protests
US Intelligence predicts total collapse of Nigeria within 15 years: we could've told them that
Mid-year Evaluation and Update on MASSOB and Case for Biafra: 2005: an email to BAF
Clippings from 2005: Telling the story of failing--with words in slow motion
2005: the diary continues
3 Incredible Years of Biafra--excerpt from one of Dim Ojukwu's speeches.
MASSOB, 2004: Why MASSOB? and MASSOB post-August 26 in the words of MASSOB leader in interviews
August 26: "This changes everything"--Biafrans stunning success at civil disobedience (2004)
Sovereign National Conference  (with Honesty)--a three-part essay.
Human Rights Report--Nigeria, 2003.
Ironsi, 1966--2004 on Aguiyi Ironsi
1968: The American Jewish Report on Biafra, December 1968.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Posted every Saturday--fresh stuff: don't miss!!
April 17, 2004 message following up on Communiqué from the first International Conference on Biafra (Oct 18, 2003) 
New Year Message to the People and Nation of Biafra 2004 from Biafra Foundation (BF)--text
New Year 2004 Message -- the full broadcast--Audio
Biafra Conference 2003: Conference proceedings of the first postwar International Conference on Biafra, Oct 2003, USA
Road to Perdition: General Obasanjo drags, pushes and forces Nigeria along...
2004: A running diary of salient events of the year, 2004
Grim Reminders: Quotes from news accounts of the genocide against Biafra during 1966-1970
June 1967: another look at history

US National Intelligence Council Report on Sub-Saharan Africa, 2005

Summary as pertains to Nigeria:

• Prediction of “outright collapse of Nigeria as a nation-state within the next 15 years...”
• States that: "while currently Nigeria's leaders are locked in a bad marriage that all dislike but dare not leave, there are possibilities that could disrupt the precarious equilibrium in Abuja.”

US Intel got it quite right.

Nevertheless, we will make sure that it does not take anywhere close to 15 years to put Nigeria in its grave, because Nigeria has already caused, and continues to cause, unfathomable physical and psychic suffering, anguish, and trauma to all peoples of ethnic nations forced by the British colonial government, without the peoples' consent, into an unworkable union, half a century or so ago.

Incidentally, Peter Smithers, a British colonial officer who was one of the persons of reference in this colossal mistake, just this month owned up to the fact that it was an egregious error to have forced these ethnic nations with nothing in common into one country, lamenting that the British lacked the hindsight of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in those colonial times. He also stated that without serious restructuring, Nigeria as presently configured will continue to pose a serious and insurmountable problem resulting in ongoing loss of lives. He authored a document titled "Nigerian Lessons."

By coincidence, Mr. Smithers' statement came within 24 hours of a similar admission by General Obasanjo at an unrelated function. General Obasanjo, while lying to the peoples suffering in Nigeria, had two months earlier claimed publicly that God put Nigeria together, hence, the "oneness" of Nigeria was an indisputable and untouchable subject. In the aforementioned admission, the General was to lambast the British for being responsible for forcing different ethnic nations and regions "with nothing in common" into one unworkable union called Nigeria, and at that, without the consent of the peoples, and only for the sole benefit of the British who cared nothing about the interest of the ethnic nations. He blamed this cobbling together of Nigeria by the British--hence, the British--for all the problems of Nigeria today. He also suggested radical restructuring as necessary in order to overcome these problems.

The US intelligence report therefore is consistent with the British evaluation, and even with Obasanjo's recantation. One would therefore assume that the General would see the merits of the report; rather, he lashes out at the US, and uses the report to score cheap political points. He achieves this by presenting the US as a common enemy to the Nigerian Senate and National Assembly, based on this report, thereby getting them to close ranks around him, at a time when  both houses were working on impeaching him for egregious constitutional infractions. These officials now try to outdo one another in their condemnation of the US. In so doing, by refusing to read the handwriting on the wall, and by refusing to face the problem that is Nigeria, the very so-called leaders of Nigeria revel in their hypocrisy and denial, hence, witlessly contribute to the ultimate fulfillment of the prediction of the intelligence report.

We post the response to the report by Obasanjo as carried by a Nigerian Newspaper, and the link to the Intelligence report itself:

http://www.cia.gov/nic/confreports_africa_future.html .

We also post our response, in the form of the Voice of Biafra International (VOBI) broadcasts News Analysis transcript of May 28 2005, to Obasanjo's response.

Nigeria is failing, is falling: no question about that. The only question is whether she will meet her demise with an implosion, an explosion, or a whimpering sigh. Either way, Biafra actualization is our goal and our destiny; it is set..