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

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

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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.

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.

For over 50 years nobody has used the resources from the Niger Delta to the interest of the region. It is high time we understood that we cannot sustain Nigeria on the back of the Niger Delta.

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