Osita Ebiem

In this New Year 2019 we should take some time to restate some of the basic points on the current movement for Igbo independence from Nigeria.

It is a fact that for some of the participants, those involved in the struggle, many are finding it difficult to come to terms and accept the obvious realities of these changes when they seem to go against some of their assumed or preconceived notions of what the struggle should be about.

Since the last 19 years, there has been a revival of the quest for the reestablishment of the defunct Republic of Biafra. Between 1967 and 1970 Biafra existed as an independent state apart from Nigeria.

The need to restructure the Nigerian state has gained populist currency in the past few years. Especially, since the beginning of 2017,  it has become a consensus call coming from almost all the ethnical, political and geographical sections that make up the corporate Nigerian state.

At the end of the Biafran War (1967-70) many experts came to the conclusion that a genocide had been committed against the Igbo by the Nigerian government.

For more than 25 years the people of South Sudan fought their powerful common enemy to a standstill.

President Muhammadu Buhari led his country’s delegation to the United Nations 71^st General Assembly meeting in September 2016 in New York.

Ikpa oke ani, that is mapping out the boundaries and ownership of lands, is an important function in Igbo society. In the process of doing this, a lot of factors are taken into consideration.

By mid-1945 when the Allied Forces had helped to liberate the last vestiges of the German occupation of Europe and end the atrocious concentration camps and gas chambers in Auschwitz and other locations, more than 6 million European Jews had been murdered in the genocide, which became known as th

Nigeria has just transitioned into a new political regime on May 29, 2015.