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You cannot restore what does not exist as the eastern region was defunct the day Rivers State was created. Nigeria was the northern region, western region & eastern region, whose idea was it not to create southern Nigeria and why? This was to keep us from our wealth and freedom.

— Ann-Kio Briggs

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Nigeria is on a high speed train that will soon hit the highest speed limit going down a slippery slope.

Nigeria is majorly Islam and Christianity, so why could somebody now want to impose one religion on the other.

Before us is a nation at war with itself but in denial because an inept government refuses to take responsibility for governance.

Nigeria on brink of self destruction over bad governance —Briggs (2018)

Our freedom is our ethnic identity and our ethnic identity is Kalabari Ijaw, not Biafra.

Our traducers not only balkanized the former Eastern Region, but also injected false and jaundiced propaganda that has effectively left us where are today.

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