Workch:
I usually do not make posts on nairaland politics section but I have to address this charade of Senator Ndume as regards undermining the the contributions of southeast in Nigeria. I’m going to do this with Figures vis-à-vis the figures come north to show that northerners are conning people into staying in Nigeria, which is obviously failing.

Oil revenue and other
In 2017, the NBS released oil revenue figures of all Nigerian oil producing states which totals 32billion USD, assuming that we share the sentiment of subtly dissociating igbos in southsouth from their counterparts in Southeast, IMO and Abia combined accounted for 1.7% of this revenue, 1.7% of 32billion is 544million USD. It means that Imo and Abia brought 544million USD to Nigeria in 2017.

In this same year, southeast states received a total federal allocation of 152.9billion which is 459.1million USD using 333per dollar rate as it was obtainable in 2017.

Imo and Abia alone made 544million USD, this figure indicates that south east actually generated their own federal allocation. This cannot be said about the north’s humongous allocation, they feed from other south southern states


This will help create a picture to help you see who steals from who? Southeast earned every allocation they get, north steals from southsouth.
This is clearly seen as the total revenue generated in 2017, 65% of this was from oil while a substantial remaining Came from Lagos ports and business which igbos also contributed a large stake in terms of Importations of goods and federal taxes. Northerners don’t do importation a lot and they don’t have business paying taxes a lot.

We can hardly see the contribution of the northern states and their people here vis-à-vis the amount they get in term of allocations.


I am not an Igbo guy but it’s totally irrational to think that north is not the parasite here. They never earn whatever they get in Nigeria.

As matter of fact, aside Lagos and maybe ogun state and the oil producing states, other states include all 19northern states are parasites. None of them earn whatever they get.

You get time

This thread was inspired by the above post on this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6569352/reply-ndume-north-obviously-parasite

The calculation showed that even with careful stripping of oil producing areas from SE and identity Crisis instigated there by FG and Igbophobic entities in Nigeria post civil war.
Igboland even if only consisting of SE and proudly Igbo groups in SS ie( Obiigbo, Egbema, and Enu-ani, Igbo in Benue and Isobo in Cross River) would still be very very much economically viable and would not lack in revenues to atleast be in same level as we are currently under NIGERIA.

Interesting.
What this shows is that Igbo republic is much viable without Minorities.
Once we get our Igbo people in Obiigbo and Egbema on board and get Enuani on board. We offset the Deficit in FG allocation immediately.
And we would still be sitting on gargantuan untapped natural gas reserves in Abia, Imo and Anambra to extract and even add more to our revenue generation. Oil exploration in SE has even been very poor. In BIAFRA we would intensify the effort in crude oil potentials of LGAs like Ugwunagbo and Ukwa East in Abia that have shown big promise, in Ohaji and Oguta LGAs of Imo, in Ogbaru, Anambra East, ANAMBRA west, and Ayamelum of Anambra, etc.
I'm sure we would find enough to quickly get more than we are currently getting from FG.

With an international airport of our own, more forex poured into the country by our humongous and resourceful diaspora population. Omo!
Biafra is very very viable without Minorities.
With Fulani herdsmen rounded up and sent to MALI, we can finally revolutionize our agricultural sector form of high tech agricultural system like they have in Netherlands and even earn more revenue. And we haven't even started talking of the skill capacity of Aba and industrial capacity of Nnewi. Innoson can be given all the support and power to become a truly global leading brand in technology. They can even be helped to diversify to other home electronics like refrigerators, TV, etc. Improving our balance of trade in the process as we would import less things from outside Igboland, ensuring a very strong Biafra pounds.

The potentials of independent republic of Igboland, aka Biafra is mind-blowing.

Someone should show IPOB and co this.

Look at the advantages:

1.We would have an income to start off the country with, thanks to our onshore oil Wells that Nigerians forgot to carve into Delta or Rivers State because those places were not oil producing as of 1970. It was God who fought for us.

2. With more intense exploration in Anambra: Ogbaru, Anambra East, Anambra West, Ayamelum and even Ihiala.
Abia: Ugwunagbo, Ukwa West, Ukwa West.
Imo: ,Oguta,Ohaji/Egbema we would discover more oil Wells to offset any deficit decrease in allocations we might temporary encounter.

3. With our vast undeveloped huge natural gas reserves in Imo, Anambra and Abia fully developed, our income and forex would quadruple.
Remember Natural gas being a green energy and not crude oil is the future.

4. A fully functional international airport. Our people being a well travelled people with embassies and consulates of all countries of the world opening branches in ENUGU our capital City. Our revenue generated can only go up.

5. A massive diaspora population who would send funds in Mass at home out of patriotism and work with the Igbo government to transfer skill back home, our ceiling should be very high.

6. Fulanis routed and sent out of our forests. We can leverage on first class diaspora experience and expertise to build a high tech agricultural system that would not only ensure food security for us, but also yield forex in form of processed agricultural products exports. https://www.nairaland.com/652704/how-east-feed-itself-without/10#up

7. A rapid rise in real estate in Alaigbo to accommodate our people who would return home from across all parts of Nigeria.

Disadvantages:

Really none than we are currently facing or have faced in Nigeria.

1. Loss of property and investments in Nigeria?
We already witnessed this in 1970 and continue to witness it everyday in Nigeria as our property and investments get usually burnt down during riots.
Biafran government would be better positioned to fight against Igbophobic neighbors destroying Igbo property and investments than current Nigerian government can ever be.



2. Food from the North? We can develop our own high tech agricultural system well financed by the Biafran government using our highly skilled diaspora population Manning these agricultural programs in developed countries.
On the short-term, we import from Cameroon if need be. ;
Or simply wean ourselves off Northern sourced foods. I'm aware that all ingredients needed to cook a traditional Igbo soup are all grown and sourced in Igboland.

3. Electricity shortage from dams in the North?
We are sitting on ridiculous Natural gas supply. And we would have Afam power plant in Obiigbo. We would just build numerous gas powered plants as we like and we still have coal in Enugu to handle too.

So basically speaking no real disadvantage to having Biafra.

You said, "figures"

I’m going to do this with Figures vis-à-vis the figures come north to show that northerners are conning people into staying in Nigeria, which is obviously failing.

But I see none for this:

Northerners don’t do importation a lot and they don’t have business paying taxes a lot.

budaatum:
You said, "figures"


But I see none for this:

You are obviously blind if you don't see the figures.
Lol!

Igboid:
Look at the advantages:

1.We would have an income to start off the country with, thanks to our onshore oil Wells that Nigerians forgot to carve into Delta or Rivers State because those places were not oil producing as of 1970. It was God who fought for us.

2. With more intense exploration in Anambra: Ogbaru, Anambra East, Anambra West, Ayamelum and even Ihiala.
Abia: Ugwunagbo, Ukwa West, Ukwa West.
Imo: ,Oguta,Ohaji/Egbema we would discover more oil Wells to offset any deficit decrease in allocations we might temporary encounter.

3. With our vast undeveloped huge natural gas reserves in Imo, Anambra and Abia fully developed, our income and forex would quadruple.
Remember Natural gas being a green energy and not crude oil is the future.

4. A fully functional international airport. Our people being a well travelled people with embassies and consulates of all countries of the world opening branches in ENUGU our capital City. Our revenue generated can only go up.

5. A massive diaspora population who would send funds in Mass at home out of patriotism and work with the Igbo government to transfer skill back home, our ceiling should be very high.

6. Fulanis routed and sent out of our forests. We can leverage on first class diaspora experience and expertise to build a high tech agricultural system that would not only ensure food security for us, but also yield forex.

7. A rapid rise in real estate in Alaigbo to accommodate our people who would return home from across all parts of Nigeria.

Nwanne, there is no point in talking about this here, maka ndi anya ufu.[/I]

In any case [i]Chukwu ekwela ka we would have to depend on primary resources alone to build Alaigbo. Actually, the less we have the better, to better avoid another "resource curse" situation. We need to avoid another heterogeneous mish-mash cursed by a wasting resource by all means.

Collyweed:


Nwanne, there is no point in talking about this here, maka ndi anya ufu.[/I]

In any case [i]Chukwu ekwela ka we would have to depend on primary resources alone to build Alaigbo. Actually, the less we have the better, to better avoid another "resource curse" situation. We need to avoid another heterogeneous mish-mash cursed by a wasting resource by all means.

Nwanne. Our enemies already know all the above.
They know we are better off without NIGERIA which is why they try to keep us in Nigeria.
These people are naturally Igbophobic. If for any reason they believe Biafra would be a failure where we would gnash our teeth and beg them for crumbs, nwanne, these people would have sent us packing out of NIGERIA.

So basically, there is nothing to hide under the sun here.
The purpose of my post is to make Ndiigbo to see more reasons why Igbo only Biafra is more than Viable than NIGERIA itself and why they should not allow themselves be manipulated into becoming fifth columnists in Igboland by our detractors because they fear that Igboland might suffer outside NIGERIA.

Every available analysis would show that Igboland would be more than economically viable and rewarding if we leave Nigeria without the Minorities and Biniphilic Igbophobic Igboids in SS.
We are more than good to go.

I wish there was an alternative to IPOB that is strictly for Igboland republic.

Nnamdi Kanu’s involvement of non igbos in his IPOB movement has remained the biggest setback for that organization.

I think that the monopoly that Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB enjoys today needs to be seriously challenged.

horsepower102:
I wish there was an alternative to IPOB that is strictly for Igboland republic.

Nnamdi Kanu’s involvement of non igbos in his IPOB movement has remained the biggest setback for that organization.

I think that the monopoly that Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB enjoys today needs to be seriously challenged.

IPOB inclusive BIAFRA with minorities have given some people the misguided sense of entitlement that Igboland is not good to go without them.
An Igbo only Biafra agitation is needed to balance the narrative and puncture a lot of people senseless ego.
So yes,I get your point.

https://www.nairaland.com/652704/how-east-feed-itself-without/10#up

Good topic on how helpful Igbo massive, highly educated, resourceful and most of all patriotic diaspora population would ensure Republic of Biafra economic Viability, growth, development and sustainability post Biafran independence from Nigeria.
Biafran government task would simply be to provide welcoming environment and logistics support to these resourceful Diaspora Igbos to come home and transfer their skills to Biafra and help build her up into first world status like returning Jews did for Israel in 1948.

IGBOSON1 i see you peeping bro.
Say something.

This is a very nice analysis and an eye opener.
Indeed a republic of igboland aka biafra will thrive at the optimal level but the people have to come together first.
Both the politicians, elites and renowned sons and daughters of igboland need to be bold and work together.It shouldn't be individually championed as MNK is trying to do.
Igbos in diaspora especially the ones in high places should use their positions to broadcast and support it. Both igbo celebrities,sportmen,musicians, actors and others home and abroad are not left out.
All hands must be on deck for BIAFRA to actualize and not the other way round.

Igboid:
Workch:
I usually do not make posts on nairaland politics section but I have to address this charade of Senator Ndume as regards undermining the the contributions of southeast in Nigeria. I’m going to do this with Figures vis-à-vis the figures come north to show that northerners are conning people into staying in Nigeria, which is obviously failing.

Oil revenue and other
In 2017, the NBS released oil revenue figures of all Nigerian oil producing states which totals 32billion USD, assuming that we share the sentiment of subtly dissociating igbos in southsouth from their counterparts in Southeast, IMO and Abia combined accounted for 1.7% of this revenue, 1.7% of 32billion is 544million USD. It means that Imo and Abia brought 544million USD to Nigeria in 2017.

In this same year, southeast states received a total federal allocation of 152.9billion which is 459.1million USD using 333per dollar rate as it was obtainable in 2017.

Imo and Abia alone made 544million USD, this figure indicates that south east actually generated their own federal allocation. This cannot be said about the north’s humongous allocation, they feed from other south southern states


This will help create a picture to help you see who steals from who? Southeast earned every allocation they get, north steals from southsouth.
This is clearly seen as the total revenue generated in 2017, 65% of this was from oil while a substantial remaining Came from Lagos ports and business which igbos also contributed a large stake in terms of Importations of goods and federal taxes. Northerners don’t do importation a lot and they don’t have business paying taxes a lot.

We can hardly see the contribution of the northern states and their people here vis-à-vis the amount they get in term of allocations.


I am not an Igbo guy but it’s totally irrational to think that north is not the parasite here. They never earn whatever they get in Nigeria.

As matter of fact, aside Lagos and maybe ogun state and the oil producing states, other states include all 19northern states are parasites. None of them earn whatever they get.

We igbos agree we would suffer ...why do people who hate igbos so much no longer want igbos to suffer

If biafra wouldn't favour igbos Nigeria for done divide long time ago

Sylraph1:
This is a very nice analysis and an eye opener.
Indeed a republic of igboland aka biafra will thrive at the optimal level but the people have to come together first.
Both the politicians, elites and renowned sons and daughters of igboland need to be bold and work together.It shouldn't be individually championed as MNK is trying to do.
Igbos in diaspora especially the ones in high places should use their positions to broadcast and support it. Both igbo celebrities,sportmen,musicians, actors and others home and abroad are not left out.
All hands must be on deck for BIAFRA to actualize and not the other way round.

Nwanne, every revolution is usually started by one person through one group.
They generate enough critical mass that would now force everyone else to key in and give the process the final push needed to birth a new age.

MNK has taken upon himself to be that man who has selflessly offered his head to be used to break the proverbial coconut.
We should criticize him constructively when needed, but we should not antagonize him. If he made IPOB free for all and not a dictatorship, Nigerian agents would have used selfish Igbo undercover agents to infiltrate and internally destroy the organization.

I too criticise MNK one man show actions at times, but deep inside me, I know it's a necessity for the times we live in.

We southerners are tired of feeding killer Northerners! We want our republic immediately. We're the ones feeding them, and yet they have the AUDACITY to attack South West and and South East, who are obviously our brothers. They think we aren't watching em. We will leave this zoo to create our own country, were we will be allies with biafra and oduduwa leaving the north to remain in the zoo! Nonsense!

mrvitalis:

We igbos agree we would suffer ...why do people who hate igbos so much no longer want igbos to suffer

If biafra wouldn't favour igbos Nigeria for done divide long time ago

Gbam.

It's only in Nigeria that those who assigned the title of Hosts to themselves cry and fight to prevent those they labelled PARASITES from leaving them.
While the so called PARASITES are fighting to leave the HOSTS.

You don't need anyone to tell you that there is a mislabeling somewhere.

Biafra will come faster if kanu can scrap any tribe that is not Igbo off the map
Am married to Ogbaru and I can tell you that Ogbaru lga has a lot of untapped oil and gas.
Even some of them are drilled to Ndokwa in delta state, Anambra state government recently discovered that, that's why he met timipre Silva last two weeks.
We will be 100% fine, even if we are landlocked, we can partner with Equatorial quinea or Cameroon(or ambazonia) to be importing from their seaport, then pack the imported goods into cargo airplanes and fly it into our cargo airports.
We will be fine.
I don't understand this unnecessary persuasion of minor tribes by Ipob members, let them be.
We will be diplomatic neighbours with them
Good fences make good neighbors!

The weakest arguments offered against Biafra by our unwanted advisers is that Igbo people don't love themselves and aren't united. They forgot that the Igbo Apprentice System cannot function without trust, and unity can't function without trust.

A system through which Anambra business man will take up Enugu young man he never knew from Adam, train him in business and at the end of the apprentice, settle him not only monetary but in networks. A system that distributed riches to every nook and cranny of the Igbo land.

My brother's if the Igbo people that loves money so much is able to selflessly teach his brother how to make that same money, won't sort of love is then lacking?

Truth be told, if we are in the situation which North finds herself, we would have not only gotten Biafra but would have been chased out of Nigeria siiiince. Nigeria depends on the Igbo people.

I am always joyous whenever Ignoid starts one of this his posts about Igbo land republic and restrict it to an only Igbo populated Republic. It drives a knife through the heart of the "we south south don't want you Igbos and you will suffer." Whenever we come from this angle they are completely defeated right from the onset and all they could do is avoid these threads.

Like somebody already submitted , Nnamdi Kanu's inclusion of these Igbophobic minorities into his Biafran dream has dragged us back and attracted insults from people who couldn't hold a candle to us. They discovered an opportunity to vent the hate they always held against us. These people come up with the most ridiculous reasons like "they are boastful" , "they want our oyel" , "they are drug dealers" etc. But these are mere excuses they find convenient to use and unleash their inherent hate towards us. The republic of Igbo land is not only viable but is a potential African power house.

I don't want any God forsaken minorities and their useless oil which they don't even have control of but Nnamdi Kanu has dragged us through the mud and these inferiors have grown the balls to insult us, the Igbo. We are Igbo , a Republican natured people with unlimited hunger to achieve greatness.

But we must maintain good friendship with our Akwa-Cross neighbors. I appreciate these people and their calm nature.

Omanambala:
But we must maintain good friendship with our Akwa-Cross neighbors. I appreciate these people and their calm nature.

Yes we will build relationships with them just like Portugal and Spain.
Let them be on their own.
Enough of this Ipob embarrassing Igbos as if we can't breathe without them

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nairametrics.com/2020/01/11/nigeria-receives-17-5-billion-diaspora-remittances-in-2019/%3famp

The above is amount NIGERIANS in Diaspora remitted to Nigeria in 2019. A whopping 17.5billion dollars.
No group travels out of this country and have more diasporan distribution worldwide than Igbos,and no group have more knitted and tight monogamous family set up that thrives on elderly ones remitting funds to help parents back home to train younger ones and afford them luxuries they themselves missed while growing up than Igbos. Ndiigbo always always send money home to mama and Papa and siblings, our monogamous family settings makes this possible.

I would stick out my neck and say that atleast 30% of that diasporan remittance was made by Igbo diasporan population. That checks out at 5billion dollars remitted that could be easily remitted to Biafran economy. Calculate this in Naira and see for yourself.

Imagine how much more they would remitt to help Independent Igbo republic to kick off! If need be?


Ndiigbo! Republic of Igboland is and will always remain very very much Viable and more beneficial to us than NIGERIA.
Let no one tell you otherwise. With or without the Minorities,we are good to go.
The success or failure of BIAFRA is not tied to any Minority group. It is tied to Ndiigbo, our patriotism towards our motherland, our highly skilled diasporan population, our very resourceful artisans in Aba, our industrialists in Nnewi,our very fertile soils in Ebonyi and Enugu,our humongous Natural gas reserves in Anambra,Abia, and Imo.

Ndiigbo, we are good to go.

Igboid:


You are obviously blind if you don't see the figures.
Lol!

I am blind.

Show me the figures to support your "Northerners ... don’t have business paying taxes a lot".

They only people I want in united states of Biafran is Southeast Igbos , southsouth Igbos,northern Igbos, akwaibom and cross river people . This type of biafra is balanced ,there will be no problem in it

OriakuAmara:
Biafra will come faster if kanu can scrap any tribe that is not Igbo off the map
Am married to Ogbaru and I can tell you that Ogbaru lga has a lot of untapped oil and gas.
Even some of them are drilled to Ndokwa in delta state, Anambra state government recently discovered that, that's why he met timipre Silva last two weeks.
We will be 100% fine, even if we are landlocked, we can partner with Equatorial quinea or Cameroon(or ambazonia) to be importing from their seaport, then pack the imported goods into cargo airplanes and fly it into our cargo airports.
We will be fine.
I don't understand this unnecessary persuasion of minor tribes by Ipob members, let them be.
We will be diplomatic neighbours with them
Good fences make good neighbors!

Yes . Many Anambra crude oil have been drilled from Delta State for years now with remittances going to Delta State Government in form of derivation fund.

I agree fully with your last statement.
Good fences makes for good neighbors indeed!

Izuchukwu18:
They only people I want in united states of Biafran is Southeast Igbos , southsouth Igbos,northern Igbos, akwaibom and cross river people . This type of biafra is balanced ,there will be no problem in it

You guys get deep issues

Izuchukwu18:
They only people I want in united states of Biafran is Southeast Igbos , southsouth Igbos,northern Igbos, akwaibom and cross river people . This type of biafra is balanced ,there will be no problem in it

Nnnaa. BIAFRA should be strictly SE and Igbos in SS who accept they are Igbos. At the moment,only Egbema,Obiigbo, Enu-ani and Isobo ( Indigenous Igbos of Obubra LGA of Cross River) fufill these criteria in SS.

Any non Igbo group that wants to join would have to send us a written proposal. Then we sit down and discuss terms and conditions with them.
USA we know today started with about just 13 states,other states saw how good it was and applied to join. Puerto Rico was the last to join or so. Success has many fathers.
Let's kick start it ourselves. And then give anyone else who wants to join criteria to meet to be part of us. We can even turn some of them down in the end if we don't think they have something to offer us or that they habour innate Igbophobia.
We are good to go on our own. Anyi Zulu ka eme! That's the Central theme of this thread. Ndiigbo anyi Kariri okwu! Anaghim agwa gi ka I Hari I gwa onye Ozo! Anyi akpughi mmili n'onu nwe n'ekwu. Obughi etom onu! Anyi na ekwu ihe mere eme life!

Ka Chineke mezie Okwu.

Igboid:

I agree fully with your last statement.
Good fences makes for good neighbors indeed!

What amuses me is the fact that once we get this Igbo land, we shall then build fences to keep Osu from Nwadiala.

Osu caste system