Many Nigerians Are Becoming Biafrans And That Probably Might Be A Great Thing
By DODOH Okafor 1. It’s been 53 years; 53 long years since Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Oxford University trained officer of the Nigerian Army declared Biafra an Independent State and announced an immediate secession from Nigeria. 2. A lot has happened between then and now but a few things remain constant- perhaps even more egregiously now than they were when Ojukwu, motivated by a near unanimous support from the elders of the old Eastern region, made up of large swathes of today’s south east and south south regions, denounced Nigeria and all of what it represented. 3. Sadly, more than five decades after, not much has changed in the geographic expression called Nigeria as Obafemi Awolowo, a foremost Yoruba leader put it. 4. Consider that between 2015 and the first quarter of 2020, several international groups estimate that over 30, 000 Nigerians have been butchered or bombed to death by terrorists and an amalgam of other criminal groups with very little coming from the state by...