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Employing all the 'dirty tricks' perfected by Abacha: blackmail, threats, and various forms of intimidation and harassment, the Obasanjo regime has targeted outspoken Igbo Catholic bishops, priests, and lay people for reprisals.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aalozie/2004aug04.html","",0,120,300); Menu2_2=new Array("Dr. Emeka J. Amanze","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu2_2_1=new Array("From the First Restatement: Of the Politics, Territories, and Sociology of the Biafra and Nigeria Issue: What is BiafraNigeria?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ejamanze/2002sep27.html","",1,70,200); Menu2_2_1_1=new Array("BiafraNigeria is a case of 'Res ipsa loquitur' [the thing speaks for itself]...Perhaps, it should be left to political philosophers to answer the question: whether it is possible that an internally uncolonized mind could fully grasp the concept that the secessionist and Shariarist Gusau, under Sani Yerima, is a part of Nigeria, and yet have the same mind be foggy about the meaning of 'BiafraNigeria.'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ejamanze/2002sep27.html","",0,135,300); Menu2_2_2=new Array("Your Constitution or Your Republic -- the Shagari-Buhari Paradox","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ejamanze/2002may05.html","",1,36,200); Menu2_2_2_1=new Array("Former President Shehu Shagari and former dictator Muhammed Buhari recently declared that the decision reached at the last Council of State meeting in Abuja are legally unenforceable against the Northern states that are seeking to impose Sharia law. For his part, Buhari added that Sharia was not even discussed at the Council of State meeting. The reason adduced by Shagari and Buhari for their un-statesmanlike stance is that the Council of State lacks the constitutional authority to rescind or even suspend state Sharia law. I am referring of course to the face-saving compromise concluded between Vice President Atiku and the Northern Governors and 'ratified' at the Council of State meeting held in Abuja following the massacre in Kaduna and the Aba retaliation.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ejamanze/2002may05.html","",0,235,300); Menu2_3=new Array("Okechukwu E. Asia","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_3_1=new Array("Chief Francis Nzeribe: A Locust on the Farm","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/okechukwu-e-asia/2004nov07.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_3_1_1=new Array("One wonders why Chief Arthur Nzeribe is praise singing the songs of Ndiigbo at this time. Some questions came to my mind. Is he real? Can he transform from Saul to St. Paul over night? Has he become unwanted specie that his Hausa masters don’t want to identify with him anymore, and is he looking for a place to perch? Can you use soap and water to wash dog’s nose from black to white? Is he talking about MASSOB and Igbo Presidency as a job-wanted ploy to attract the attentions of the Hausa presidential aspirants so that one of them will appoint him a coordinator of his campaign? Needless to say that that’s how Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyawu landed his South- East coordinator job for the re-election of Obasanjo in 2003. And what does Chief Arthur Nzeribe really want?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/okechukwu-e-asia/2004nov07.html","",0,235,300); Menu2_4=new Array("Dr. Ndukwe Azuewah","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_4_1=new Array("Seeking to Succeed Senator Anyim: Dr. Ndukwe Azuewah's Senatorial Candidacy","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nazuewah/2003jun05.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_4_1_1=new Array("Upon getting to Isiagu, I was met by the following people: Linus Okorie, Ray Akanwa and Emma Kanondu [the Senate Presidents confidants in Ebonyi South]. They took me to a room in the Senate President's house where I was to stay and wait for the Senate President. After waiting for about thirty minutes, the Senate President entered the room and sat down. Before I could request a private meeting with him, he asked the trio of Okorie, Akanwa, and Kanondu if they had shown me the budget of fourteen million naira (N14,000,000.00) they prepared for the Senatorial election. They informed him that they had and he asked me how much of the money I was prepared to give to the trio...After thinking for about sixty seconds, I responded that...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nazuewah/2003jun05.html","",0,235,300); Menu2_5=new Array("The Biafran Institute for Strategic Studies [BISS]","index.html","",2,40,160); Menu2_5_1=new Array("FOBP: THE FUTURE OF BIAFRA PROJECT","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BISS/2004may30.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_5_1_1=new Array("The Biafran Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS), in partnership with the Biafra Central Intelligence Agency [BCIA], and the Biafra Liberation Movement (BLM) are delighted to announce the commencement of the Future of Biafra Project [FOBP]. The FOBP is a long term project that is expected to provide both initial and continued intellectual...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BISS/2004may30.html","",0,202,300); Menu2_5_2=new Array("NIGERIA: THE RISE OF THE WARLORD STATE","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BISS/2004apr24.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_5_2_1=new Array("In 2003, Nigeria formally completed its transition to a warlord state governed as a collection of fiefdoms with differing judicial systems. The collapse of law and order has accelerated the previously hypothesized weakening of Nigeria’s 4th Republic, and will hasten the disintegration of the Nigerian state. With a complete loss of confidence in all branches of the...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BISS/2004apr24.html","",0,120,300); Menu2_6=new Array("BNW Staff","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu2_6_1=new Array("State-sponsored Harassment of General C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu: A BNW Editorial","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2004sep13.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_6_1_1=new Array("[W]e note that 1. the Obasanjo regime has to date failed to enforce a court order to restore Police protection to the Anambra governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, 2. the regime failed to enforce the summons to the country's former dictator, Ibrahim B. Babangida to appear before the Justice Oputa Panel...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2004sep13.html","",0,80,300); Menu2_6_2=new Array("BNW Face-2-Face: MASSOB Leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike Takes the 'Hot Seat'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2002sep11.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_6_2_1=new Array("My organization is most active now because the organization grows day by day. Like I said before, in law, we say 'Nemo dat qui non habet' [one does not give what one does not have] --- MASSOB Leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2002sep11.html","",0,80,300); Menu2_7=new Array("Dr. Renee Bridgeford","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_7_1=new Array("Cultural Diversity in Nigeria: Perculiarities: of the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/rbridgeford/2003jan10.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_7_1_1=new Array("When the Yoruba man goes to bed at night, he takes with him a pot from the kitchen. During the course of the night, if he should feel the need to relieve himself (number one or number two), he simply uses the pot. In the morning he empties the pot and then uses the same pot to cook his breakfast, lunch or dinner","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/rbridgeford/2003jan10.html","",0,100,300); Menu2_8=new Array("Osita Chiagorom","index.html","",4,20,160); Menu2_8_1=new Array("A Word of Advice to 'Osita H. Olisa:' A Repy to 'NDIGBO, OJUKWU & BIAFRA: WHERE DID WE GO WRONG'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2003sep21.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_8_1_1=new Array("Were you not informed that Ojukwu was initially accused of being against secession? Tongues started wagging that he did not want to lose his father's investments outside the East. This was used to blackmail him to declare Biafra. At the time time Biafra was declared, there was no alternative to secession. Secession was on everyone's lips long before Ojukwu was dircted to declare Biafra. The war was not Ojukwu's making. Ojukwu did not kill thousands of Easterners in the North. Ojukwu was not the one that sent blood thirsty vandals who raped pregnant women and opened their wombs. Ojukwu was not the cause of that nightmare that forced them home. It was an act of providence that he found himself as the governor of the East at that time.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2003sep21.html","",0,202,300); Menu2_8_2=new Array("A Reply to Oyeyemi's 'Ethnic Journalism et al.'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002oct10.html","",1,40,200); Menu2_8_2_1=new Array("Mr. Oyeyemi, I read your article with utmost interest. In the beginning, you were making a point, but as you progressed you suddenly changed course and ended up as being a part of what you were trying to criticize. Knowingly or unknowingly to you, your article ended up containing the same tribal sentiments that you claimed to be against.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002oct10.html","",0,120,300); Menu2_8_3=new Array("To Obasanjo and His Fellow 'Tourists' -- Charity Begins at Home","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002aug31.html","",1,42,200); Menu2_8_3_1=new Array("That the president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the world's most populous black nation, Nigeria has spent a year of his 3 years in office chasing foreign investors outside is longer news. The only thing very disturbing is the over-emphasis on 'foreign investors' to improve our economy. With the way our dear president traveled to all hooks and corners of the world one could easily draw a conclusion that he has so much belief that until foreign investors step into Nigeria, our economy will never improve.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002aug31.html","",0,175,300); Menu2_8_4=new Array("A Reply to Professor Omo Omuruyi's --- Neither a Candidate Nor an Office Holder Be!! [1]","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002aug07.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_8_4_1=new Array("Sir, I have always admired you as one of the outspoking Nigerians of our time and a HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVIST. I have always loved reading your articles but I must say that your article, NEITHER A CANDIDATE NOR AN OFFICE HOLDER BE!! [1], is full of serious errors which I feel you have to address as not to great a wrong impression. One who knows nothing of Nigerian politics on reading your article will conclude that in the Nigerian context, the IGBOS have always been a spoiler when it comes to the YORUBA man's affair. Prof,that is of course an opposite if we can really put ethnic sentiments apart and face the truth.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ochiagorom/2002aug07.html","",0,202,300); Menu2_9=new Array("Stephen St. Denis","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/sstdenis/2003feb26.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_9_1=new Array("On Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis: Nigeria's Government has Dropped the Ball","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/sstdenis/2003feb26.html","",1,40,200); Menu2_9_1_1=new Array("Malaria causes over 2.7 million deaths annually, making it along with HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis (TB), one of the major public health challenges undermining development in Africa. Malaria is the leading cause of child mortality in Africa and those who survive often have learning impairments and brain damage in acute cases. In addition, malaria puts pregnant women at high risk. All of this puts an enormous strain on a country's health care system.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/sstdenis/2003feb26.html","",0,138,300); Menu2_10=new Array("Dikando Wa Dikando","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_10_1=new Array("For an African Currency: the 'Afro'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/dwdikando/2002jun05.html","",1,20,200); Menu2_10_1_1=new Array("Little by little, humanity understood that it could only survive in a world governed by Law and not by Strength. Military conflicts have given way to economic conflicts. The war of the economies has favorably replaced military conflicts. From now on, it won't be the more aggressive or imperialists countries that will become richer but rather the smartest ones. Not those who maintain a great military power, but those who invest in research, modernization and education. Not those who maintain an army of generals, but those who train scientists, inventors and bankers. It is the slow revenge of the intellectuals vs. the beasts covered with medals just as a quail is barded with lard.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/dwdikando/2002jun05.html","",0,220,300); Menu2_11=new Array("Aloysius Asonye Duruji","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu2_11_1=new Array("The July 1966 Coup: A Full Account and Chronology of Massacre and Mayhem","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aaduruji/2002jun17.html","",1,50,200); Menu2_11_1_1=new Array("The aim of the July 29, 1966 coup (massacre) was two-fold: (1) to split the country and effect the secession of the North from the rest of Nigeria; and (2) in the alternative, to re-establish the hegemony and domination of the North in the federation. In accordance with these aims, the Federal Military Government, as led by General Aguiyi Ironsi had to be overthrown and the General himself must be eliminated. Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon was selected as the man who would replace Ironsi. He had been General Ironsi's Army Chief of Staff (Defense Headquarters) and a member of the Supreme Military Council. He had returned to Nigeria from Britain less than forty-eight hours before the Revolution of January 15, 1966, and subsequently a member of the Supreme Military Council. This shows the amount of confidence General Ironsi reposed in him - a confidence he betrayed. His position gave him the opportunity to study the inner workings of the National Military Government, preparatory to his revolt.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aaduruji/2002jun17.html","",0,300,300); Menu3=new Array("E - H","index.html","",9); Menu3_1=new Array("Ambrose Ehirim","index.html","",12,20,160); Menu3_1_1=new Array("The Igbo Presidency Debates","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2004sep28.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_1_1=new Array("To produce an Igbo president on consensus, that is if it's really what Igbos want, Igbo leaders of thought would have to coordinate the enormously complex divide within the Igbo nation and bring about a one united Igbo front. The troubled state of Anambra must be taken care of. The case of the MASSOBians...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2004sep28.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_1_2=new Array("ABURI ACCORD PLAYS ON","http://magazine.bnw.biz/aehirim/2004feb01.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_2_1=new Array("Arthur Nwankwo is a man of ironies and multiple loyalties. From his recent writing on the pogrom, the quest for Biafran sovereignty, Igbo reintegration and equality.... and the many contradictions in those writings, one must now conclude that Arthur Nwankwo is a man who has lots of explaining to do considering that Nwankwo’s flirtations with arch enemies of Nd’Igbo persist.... It is in that context that one encounters Nwankwo’s more recent effusions as they expose his...","http://magazine.bnw.biz/aehirim/2004feb01.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_1_3=new Array("WIC's Nashville Picnic: A Gathering of Igbo Efulefu","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003sep06.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_3_1=new Array("WIC officers see the decrepit state of roads in Igboland. Yet, they make statements that Obasanjo is doing a good job. They witness Obasanjo’s hate and bigotry and are aware that Obasanjo is a bloodthirsty criminal. Yet, they sneak through the backdoor to endorse Obasanjo. It all came to a head when Anambra State indigenes, including those in Diaspora, could not carry out a mass rally and revolt, or denounce Chris Uba and his colleagues' act of treasonable felony, or the criminal behavior of Chris Ngige in agreeing to surrender Anambra to Chris Uba.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003sep06.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_1_4=new Array("Otokoto Saga: the Family Fights Back","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003jul12.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_4_1=new Array("BNW: Now the report was that when Ekeanyanwu was arrested, he told investigators he was taking Okonkwo’s head to one Leonard Unogu in Lagos. How was your father involved? Otokoto: My father was not involved at all. The story was like when he (Ekeanyanwu) was arrested, he said, according to the story I heard, that he got this bodiless head, went to his village supposedly to deliver it to his maternal uncle, Chief Leonard Unogu, “the Ochiriozuo 1 of Eziama.” He left this body at his village and his mother peeped into this bag and found this body and called one for his relatives to go get him, and said take this out of my house.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003jul12.html","",0,200,300); Menu3_1_5=new Array("The Cultural Order","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003may16.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_1_5_1=new Array("In contrast, the Igbos have quickly forgotten the evisceration of a pregnant woman, the widespread bloodletting, the 'Asaba male death march and drowning,' Benjamin Adekunle's proclamation of shooting at every moving creature in Igboland and other horrible cases of that nature, finding solace having an affair with a people who never acknowledged what they did was evil and must not be entertained. Just like the Diaspora Jewish kid who has learned about the Holocaust and the state of Israel, its migration and persecution over the years, a Diaspora Igbo kid and second generation immigrant to be exact, ask who the Igbos are or who is Francis Akanu Ibiam and you likely would hear 'never heard of him.' Or speak Igbo to these lost generations and you will hear 'I don't get it, man!'....","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003may16.html","",0,250,300); Menu3_1_6=new Array("Igbos, Igbo Charter, and the Igbo Nation, Part 2: The Troubles, Community, and Faith","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003apr01.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_1_6_1=new Array("But, the Diaspora Igbos who were in a much better position considering press freedom could not take up the responsibility to establish a powerful Igbo press. Igbo Diaspora proved to be incapable of building community awareness or setting an agenda that could be said to serve Igbo unity and 'Igbo common good.' The press in this case, would reach out to ime ala Igbo, Igbo heartland, spreading the news in the communities and encouraging education, hardwork and values. Sadly, most people I have encountered in the past showed signs of having no clue regarding....","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003apr01.html","",0,175,300); Menu3_1_7=new Array("Ekwueme's Defeat and the Blame Game","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003jan13.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_7_1=new Array("The Igbo intellectual heavyweights, particularly of the Diaspora extraction who either spent quality time and money for Ekwueme's presidency in return for political appointments and inflated contracts should have themselves to blame. They should not blame the hard working Igbo who is out there making the best of a bad situation, struggling to survive, and with no 'Godfather' on his side.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2003jan13.html","",0,130,300); Menu3_1_8=new Array("Angelenos and Cyber World: It's all about Nothing?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002nov22.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_8_1=new Array("The case of BiafraNigeria Angelenos, the Hollywood wannabes should be cause for concern, especially when their East Coast and European counterparts are in cyber land, 'battle-ready' to tell you why George W. Bush should not attack Iraq without the consent of the Kofi Anan led United Nations; why all of a sudden Olusegun Obasanjo's impeachment generated by Ghali Na'Abba had degenerated to Pius Anyim v. Arthur Nzeribe, or the loss of Bakassi Peninsula was payback to Yakubu Gowon's so-called war strategy to seal the fate of Biafra.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002nov22.html","",0,178,300); Menu3_1_9=new Array("An Evening to Remember","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002oct08.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_1_9_1=new Array("The crowd, the music and entire environment made body and soul one. There was no hard feelings, no intimidation, no red cap 'chiefs,' no flowing gowns, no pussy-footing, but fun all night long. I ate all I could, danced my blues away to the music...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002oct08.html","",0,85,300); Menu3_1_10=new Array("Igbos, Igbo Charter, Etc., and the Igbo Nation","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002sep06.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_10_1=new Array("Much has been said already, much has been discussed so far, and many Igbo writers have written extensively and enough about a guideline, a principle, a constitution or as the case has been, a charter for the Igbo nation wherever they may be on the face of this planet called Earth.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002sep06.html","",0,100,300); Menu3_1_11=new Array("BNW Face-2-Face: Dr. Julius Kpaduwa","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002aug16.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_1_11_1=new Array("On August 11, 2002, Dr. Julius Kpaduwa met face-to-face with BiafraNigeriaWorld and talked about his experience when he was shot during his guber-race campaign to unseat the corrupt regime of Achike Udenwa. He spoke extensively on his plans for medical care if elected governor of Imo State. He also talked about the role women would play in his administration. Dr Kpaduwa runs medical missions and other charity-based projects in Biafranigeria and the United States of America.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002aug16.html","",0,160,300); Menu3_1_12=new Array("Udenwas's Holiday Inn Bash","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002jul06.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_1_12_1=new Array("Before Achike Udenwa became governor of Imo State while Olusegun Obasanjo took the nation's top job, and before General Abdulsalami Abubakar handed over power to a democratically [s]elected government, we were all tongue-tied because of General Sani Abacha's reign of terror. At the distance of more than thirty-seven years when the nation bid bye to colonization, finding a soul was quite a job. Abacha devoted no little space to the soul, he had a very different kind of soul, he had no feelings of pain and pleasure. A stoic, one would say.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/aehirim/2002jul06.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_2=new Array("Kelechi Ehirim","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu3_2_1=new Array("Igbos, Wake Up from your Slumber","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/kehirim/2003jan25.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_2_1_1=new Array("The current leaders of Ohaneze are not credible as far as recent happenings in the South-east are to be considered. They are under some kind of economic pressure, many of them are still marrying new wives and paying school fees and that is why they'll always be available and vulnerable to the highest bidder in the political arena. The situation will continue to get worse until 'Ohaneze is restructured to have credible leaders.'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/kehirim/2003jan25.html","",0,142,300); Menu3_3=new Array("Peter Ejirika, CPA","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu3_3_1=new Array("Anthony Ukpabi Asika's Obituary","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/peter-ejirika/2004nov14.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_3_1_1=new Array("...Anthony Ukpabi Asika's Obituary written by an organization that holds a different view on the role of Asika in the Nigeria Biafra Crisis. May I make a correction on the views held by some of your subscribers regarding Asika's position on the Nigeria-Biafra question? I asked Late Mr. Asika in 1992 why he did take the stand he took in the 1967 political Crisis. He replied that he was aware that certain elements in Northern Nigeria went beyond the threshold of civility in their response to the 1966 military coup. However, he did not believe that secession was the answer to the Nigerian problem.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/peter-ejirika/2004nov14.html","",0,145,300); Menu3_4=new Array("James Ekechukwu","index.html","",8,20,160); Menu3_4_1=new Array("Disabled Veterans of Biafra: beyond WIC's Political Rhetoric [From Oji River]","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2004aug16.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_4_1_1=new Array("Some have foolishly inputted that the plight of these victims is a clear demonstration of the uncaring nature of the Igbo people. Others who seek to rubbish what Biafra stood for and accomplished under very difficult circumstances have even gone to the level of absurdity by placing the...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2004aug16.html","",0,245,300); Menu3_4_2=new Array("Obasanjo, Shikarau, Ohanaeze, and Mass Graves: This Dust Will Not Settle","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2004jul29.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_4_2_1=new Array("How could Obasanjo and his security apparatus claim not to know that Kano was going to explode; how could the self appointed 'Igbo leaders' notably Orji Uzo Kalu and Ojo Madukwe in particular and their co-travellers in the PDP/Ohanaeze that gathered in Umuahia on the 29th of January, 2004, to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2004jul29.html","",0,245,300); Menu3_4_3=new Array("Omo Omoruyi vs. Omo Omoruyi, Part I: Our Perennial Lackey and His Yucky Graffiti","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2003may07.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_4_3_1=new Array("[M]ost matured BiafraNigerian citizens cringe in shock each time they read Omoruyi’s 'essays' as he signs off boastfully: 'Former Director General, Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS) (Abuja).' Yes, adult BiafraNigerians know only too well that the period shrouded by 'former' was arguably the most repressive era under a brutal maximum ruler, an awusa fulani called Ibrahim Babangida. Omoruyi’s credentials are as laughable as that of a man who would introduce himself as 'former Director General, Centre for Democratic Studies, Kabul' when Osama Bin Laden was in charge. .... It is disingenuous for Omoruyi to claim he was 'studying democracy' under the supervision of a gap-toothed despot known to all BiafraNigerians as the Evil...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2003may07.html","",0,245,300); Menu3_4_4=new Array("New Igbo and Obasanjo: Of Signatures and Sour Grapes - Part II","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2003apr26.html","",1,46,200); Menu3_4_4_1=new Array("Obasanjo’s brutal murder of Ezera as a ploy to bully the Biafran contingent into signing some fraudulent surrender document still failed to achieve the desired effect. Writing about the Biafran Chief Judge, Sir Louis Mbanefo, as recently as April 2002, Ekong Sampson recounts the signature moment thus...From the fraudulent signature which mutated from 'no victor no vanquished' to a surrender instrument all the way, Obasanjo’s own mutation as a democratic leader, his brazen hatred for the Igbo is legendary...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2003apr26.html","",0,160,300); Menu3_4_5=new Array("New Igbo and Obasanjo: Of Signatures and Sour Grapes - Part I","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002nov05.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_4_5_1=new Array("I watched BiafraNigeria devour Chinwuba Okadigbo when Obasanjo v. Democracy played out. The Obasanjo v. Zamfara ended with both men still standing....As the Igbo would ask, 'obu nani udara muru nwa ana apiwa onu?' (Why must the mouth of the udara's offspring be squeezed at every turn?).","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002nov05.html","",0,100,300); Menu3_4_6=new Array("Et Tu, Ike Omar Sandar Nwachukwu!","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002sep09.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_4_6_1=new Array("Like most of my generation, I was peeved to read that ex BiafraNigerian General, Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu has lately been parading himself as a BiafraNigerian Presidential candidate for the 'Igbo quota'. A sense of disgust and deep revulsion was triggered in me by this development in which Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, a man who scandalously aided the genocidal Nigerian army in decimating his father's people could have the nerve to announce himself as the Igbo champion. In as much as it is too early to determine how many 'brown envelopes' have changed hands, it is, however, not in doubt that the branding process of Omar Sanda's 'sexy Igboness' is in full swing.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002sep09.html","",0,215,300); Menu3_4_7=new Array("Ojo Maduekwe's Limo: A case of 'osondi-owendi'!","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002jul19.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_4_7_1=new Array("...During the Second Republic politics when the Igbo wanted to restore some self pride by identifying with Mbakwe's NPP and 'ebe esere madu' (masses) symbol, Ojo opted for umaru Dikko's NPN and 'oka n'ulo' (food and shelter) symbol. The highly corrupt NPN found in him a willing tool in their effort to penetrate Mbakwe's Imo State. Then NPN had a corrupt Bendelite and Police officer called Fidelis Oyakhilome who aided Ojo and the inflated balloon Ibrahim Tahir in their quest to destroy ala Igbo. Ojo emerged from that regime with more weight in his pocket...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002jul19.html","",0,190,300); Menu3_4_8=new Array("Local Flights in Nigeria: Come, Fly, Die!","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002may07.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_4_8_1=new Array("This is not about the slogan at the duty free shops in Amsterdam schipol airport: See, Buy, Fly. This is about local flights in Nigeria. Come, fly, die!. Oh yes, that's the motto of the internal aviation industry of the failed state called Nigeria.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/jekechukwu/2002may07.html","",0,85,300); Menu3_5=new Array("Ifeanyi Ekenasi, Attorney at Law","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu3_5_1=new Array("Does the Military Baron in Agbada Understand what Nigerians are Saying?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ifeanyi-ekenasi/2004oct17.html","",1,40,200); Menu3_5_1_1=new Array("Nigerians suspect and rightly so, that the extra money you demand from them by way of oil increases will go down the drain as usual. This suspicion sounds valid to me, does it not to you, Obasanjo? Further, Nigerians believe that you and your 'team' may not account for the extra petroleum money you plan to collect since yours is a culture of lack of...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ifeanyi-ekenasi/2004oct17.html","",0,142,300); Menu3_6=new Array("Nkem Ekeopara","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu3_6_1=new Array("Tears of a Country","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/nekeopara/2002may28.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_6_1_1=new Array("By the time he got back to the lodge, his books laid at his doorsteps in ashes, the door to the flat he shared with acolleague was ajar and from a distance he could see that his material belongings were all gone. He counted himself lucky because his flat mate from a neighboring ethnic grouping in the east was still missing. He knew that most of those corpses buried in mass graves within the week were mostly people from his part of the country, east.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/nekeopara/2002may28.html","",0,142,300); Menu3_6_2=new Array("Emeka P. Echeruo (1939-2002): A Tribute to a Pathfinder to a Generation","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nekeopara/2002jul13.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_6_2_1=new Array("I was overwhelmed with shock when I learned of the transition of Senator Patrick Emeka Echerou (1939-2002), the Okigwe-born Nigerian Envoy to Germany, who died on July 10, 2002, a day short of his 63rd birthday. That news filled me with emotion and awesome reverence for a man that most of my generation, Ndiigbo Generation 60-70+, held up like we do with Chris Okigbo, as a symbol of great sacrifice made at the time of most need.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nekeopara/2002jul13.html","",0,142,300); Menu3_7=new Array("Peter C. Eze","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu3_7_1=new Array("Obasanjo's 'Broadcast' on War Declaration on Igbos","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/peze/2004oct06.html","",1,20,200); Menu3_7_1_1=new Array("How can people who are not Nigerians agitate for the president of Nigeria? In view of all these, I have ordered my A-G and the minister of injustice Mr. Innocent Olujimi to declare MASSOB a rebel organization. I have Advertise here also ordered Alhaji Mustapha Balogun the head of my private police to get...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/peze/2004oct06.html","",0,142,300); Menu3_8=new Array("Chioma K. Ezeilo","index.html","",4,20,160); Menu3_8_1=new Array("A Footnote to Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part II 'Father of the Internet'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2004jan02.html","",1,70,200); Menu3_8_1_1=new Array("In either case, this footnote to my article about Philip Emeagwali is rather significant. It so happens that today, December 31, 2003, BBC News reported that '[t]he inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded a knighthood for his pioneering work.' Never mind that Philip Emeagwali may soon begin to innundate us with unsolicited details about the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. Don't be fooled. The way Emeagwali states his megalomeniacal claims of Internet fatherhood...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2004jan02.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_8_2=new Array("Political Ambition and the Betrayal of Trust: Information Failure in the 2003 Ojukwu Presidential Campaign","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003dec31.html","",1,70,200); Menu3_8_2_1=new Array("the problem Ojukwu faced during the last presidential elections is common to all Igbo political candidates of his hue, i.e., Igbo candidates with Igbo interests at heart. This analysis does not necessarily apply to Igbo candidates such as the ones who de facto abandoned Nd’Igbo and gave their allegiance to the Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba under the guise of PDP party loyalty, and whose successes, and I use the term loosely, have nothing to do with the actions of well meaning Nd’Igbo, and everything to do with the crude will of the Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani to rig elections in Igboland and use force to impose the result. It has become clear to every thinking Igbo person that nearly all government officials in Igboland today are under the pernicious influence of Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba godfathers in Abuja...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003dec31.html","",0,260,300); Menu3_8_3=new Array("Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part II 'Father of the Internet'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html","",1,70,200); Menu3_8_3_1=new Array("In comparing the Gordon Bell Prize and the A.M. Turing Awards, I discovered that the Turing Award has been awarded since 1966, while the Gordon Bell Awards were established in 1987, more than twenty-years later, to reward practical uses of parallel processing and are given for the best performance improvement in an application in parallel processing. Thus, it is clear that the Gordon Bell Prize is given for improvements on an application in parallel computing, NOT for original ideas or inventions thereof, as...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_8_4=new Array("Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part 1 A Certain 'Biafra House'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov05.html","",1,70,200); Menu3_8_4_1=new Array("This abuse disturbs me greatly because 1. those perpetrating this fraud are not being held accountable, primarily because most readers of their 'literature' are unable to investigate the information being propagated online, and 2. the activities of these gangsters have deadly consequences for some ill-informed persons back in Nigeria who rely upon that information to take to the streets 'in support of Biafra'. Therein lies the danger. Thankfully, the means has not yet been invented to hide buildings...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov05.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9=new Array("N. Ndubueze Godson III","index.html","",14,20,160); Menu3_9_1=new Array("The Nigerian Four 'Ds': Disgruntled, Disgraced, Disowned, and Disserted, a Sad Review","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004nov12.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_1_1=new Array("In Nigeria someone who lacks the credential to even represent his local government usually ends up representing the whole country based on his northern connection yet when things go kaput they turn around and blame their punch bag, Igbo. How can a northern chap whose sole claim to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004nov12.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_2=new Array("Tribalist vs Nationalist: A case of Two Misplaced Nouns in Nigeria","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004oct30.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_2_1=new Array("Before I go into my usual discussion of the lying liars’ lies and debaucheries, an open and direct challenge will be thrown at the loudmouths out there who claim to love that wobbly land more than the rest. A simple challenge that would, I hope, put to rest and shame the flawed and false notion that positive things abound yonder. Try to answer with sincerity of purpose in mind, no spin allowed. If you can’t come up with an answer that’s Ok too but you must try. No term paper is expected either it would be unfair to you. You are equally not required to make your answers public if you do not feel comfortable, all you gotta do is look in the mirror as you answer the question as best you can as possible.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004oct30.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_3=new Array("A Straight Reply to Ahmad Kollere's 'A Rejoinder to World Igbo Council'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004oct06.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_3_1=new Array("If we are to buy the lemon Ahmad Kollere and his fellow students of Islam attempted to smuggle through our psyches, how in the hell could they dismiss the obvious violence associated with Islam? The ideology behind Islam most scholars agree is the propellant behind the violence associated with...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004oct06.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_4=new Array("Truth: The Phenomenon that Continues to Elude the Regime of obasanjo","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep26.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_4_1=new Array("Well, I got news for Wunmi Akintide, since he’s in constant loggerhead with the U.S. policy towards real terrorists and terrorism why don’t he get the hell out of the U.S.? This writer hates the governance and leadership of Nigeria so much so I remained outside her shores, could Wunmi do similarly?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep26.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_5=new Array("The Tragedy of a Wicked Man and his Country, Part II - The Treacherous Journey of a Sychophant","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep25.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_5_1=new Array("The banal excuse these shameless screaming sycophants spew when the atrocious behavior of their thieving master hits them in the face is 'if you are given the chance you will do the same or worst.' The first and last time someone said this nonsense around me I was like, huh? One of these...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep25.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_6=new Array("A Response with all Due Respect to Tunde Adenodi's 'A Lunatic Defending Biafra to Death'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep17.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_6_1=new Array("[N]o effort would be spared to drive this point home. The common fact is that someone who lacks enforcement power of an order cannot claim credit for such. Had Emeka Ojukwu exercised the option to eliminate the sage, Chief Awo that is, the same thing that happened when the Yoroba Awusa lords killed Moshood...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep17.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_7=new Array("The Tragedy of a Wicked Man and his Country - Part I","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep13.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_7_1=new Array("I stand self-corrected to inform you that I forgot the police used to be the most corrupt until the Obsanjo led junta and his assembly members took over this title. But wait, all indications point to the dogfight of the police to reclaim its title from the assembly members and so far the winner is hard to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep13.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_8=new Array("A Story about a Leper [IBB-Obasanjo] and His People","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep03.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_8_1=new Array("And Obasanjo-IBB think they are so loved by the hangers-on that presently surround them with some even crashing the door to be noticed? If IBB believes Omo Omoruyi loves him, he’s more twisted than I thought. As for Obasanjo, the same level of love the Iraqi people had for Saddam Hussein when he...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004sep03.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_9=new Array("Tony Anenih: Certainly not a Statesman","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004aug20.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_9_1=new Array("Somewhere I read how Anenih has become Mother Theresa of Nigeria, Nelson Mandela of Nigeria and the Bill Clinton of Nigeria with some considering it an insult to call him anything short of God. Isn't this the same Anenih, who squandered three hundred billion naira entrusted on him for road constructions and...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004aug20.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_10=new Array("Tunde Adenodi's 'Igbo: Dating Yoruba but Marrying Hausa/Fulani': A Response to a Rejoinder by one Sylvester Omosun Fadals","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004aug02.html","",1,36,200); Menu3_9_10_1=new Array("Here’s part of the irritation that won’t go away until they come to a satisfying conclusion beyond every and/ or any reasonable doubt. Did Oduduwa drop from heaven chained as posited by the respected monarch Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II? Or was he a run away thief as stated by...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004aug02.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_11=new Array("Monuments and Recognitions: The Nigerian Way, the Wrong Way","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jul29.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_11_1=new Array("Even as a youngster I wondered what Ironsi was thinking or was he practicing Obasanjo’s 'One Nigeria' joke when he encircled himself with 'Murder, Inc.,' didn’t his mother taught him better? Could you then tell us sir, in your usual embarrassingly heavily accented broken-pidgin English what...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jul29.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_12=new Array("Double Barreled Pump Action!: A Banana Republic, her National Assembly, and Matters Arising","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jul09.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_12_1=new Array("A good place to start before confronting the assembly head-on since a relationship exists would be the Awusa desecration of cities with their annoying Malu-Cow rearing in urbanized areas. C’mon guys in what world would the government allow and or tolerate this uncivilized parading of wild disease...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jul09.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_13=new Array("The Nigerian Conspiracy on the Igbo...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jun18.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_13_1=new Array("It is not in any way unusual in their Nigeria to see four or more boys in an Igbo family all with sublime university educations and in their forties, unemployed, unmarried and in a state of “ama gi kee ome” - despair. Thanks to the evils of the Yoruba/Awusa/Bini who see nothing wrong with a society where mediocrity is rewarded with pomp and elegance. It is...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jun18.html","",0,180,300); Menu3_9_14=new Array("The Anambra Saga: An Affront to Democracy","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jan24.html","",1,50,200); Menu3_9_14_1=new Array("It is rather unfortunate that a state that produced men like Sir Louis Mbanefo, Professor Kodiliye, Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu, Professor Chike Obi, Cyprian Ekwensi, Professor Chinue Achebe, and host of others would let a compound illiterate, someone that's supposed to be a community reject, a common thief, Chris Uba hold the entire state hostage. I say it's about time all the indigenes of this great state came together and fought these criminal fools. How much should be enough? Are you going to let Obasanjo and this Uba...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ngodson/2004jan24.html","",0,180,300); Menu4=new Array("I - M","index.html","",3); Menu4_1=new Array("The International Coalition of Igbo Organizations [ICIO]","index.html","",2,40,160); Menu4_1_1=new Array("Igbo Solidarity with Dim C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu","http://pressreleases.biafranigeriaworld.com/ICIO/2004sep28.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_1_1_1=new Array("In your current encounter with the Nigerian security outfit, the SSS, we are proud of your tenacity and insistence that the Nigerian State comply with the law and proper procedures before depriving any citizen of constitutionally protected freedoms. We believe that if those freedoms are so easily taken away from one of...","http://pressreleases.biafranigeriaworld.com/ICIO/2004sep28.html","",0,128,300); Menu4_1_2=new Array("The Nigerian State Security Service [SSS] Harassment of His Excellency, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu: A Subversion of Clemency","http://pressreleases.biafranigeriaworld.com/ICIO/2004sep24.html","",1,70,200); Menu4_1_2_1=new Array("The ICIO warns that any threat, harassment, or attacks on Ojukwu’s freedoms by the Nigerian State constitute a subversion of the unconditional pardon and clemency that Ojukwu received insofar as those attacks are a subterfuge used to reach General Ojukwu’s role in the Nigeria-Biafra War...","http://pressreleases.biafranigeriaworld.com/ICIO/2004sep24.html","",0,128,300); Menu4_2=new Array("Ugwumba Irondi","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu4_2_1=new Array("Orji Uzor-Kalu and his Determinate Flippancies","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/uirondi/2003sep25.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_2_1_1=new Array("In the long run, even if Orji Uzor-Kalu achieves his life ambitions; lives for a century or more before he kicks the bucket, every true Igbo alive who knows the facts about the Nigeria-Biafra war would regard his death as a good riddance of bad rubbish. And if he chooses to be interred in Igboland after his determinate flippancies aimed at promoting his personal interests and conclusively arrayed against his kinsmen, that portion of land due to him in death would be mystically transformed to evil space. In the authentic Igbo world, he would deserve no less, for what he has done is a sacrilege. And that is what he would get in death for unwittingly bringing a curse to himself...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/uirondi/2003sep25.html","",0,150,300); Menu4_2_2=new Array("BBC's Souleimanu Habuba, His Lies, and His Partisan Reporting on APGA's Choice of General Ojukwu","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/uirondi/2003jan17.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_2_2_1=new Array("Understandably, the entry of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the former Biafran leader, who was endorsed as the consensus candidate in APGA's convention is sending waves beyond the waters of BiafraNigeria. That endorsement was reached without the acrimony and confusion that attended the convention of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, which produced...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/uirondi/2003jan17.html","",0,128,300); Menu4_3=new Array("Rev. Fr. Eusebius C. Mbidoaka","index.html","",5,20,160); Menu4_3_1=new Array("A Comparative Survey of John Locke and David Hume: On Miracles in Relation to Christianity in Igboland of Nigeria","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004nov09-comparative-survey-john-locke-david-hume-miracles-igboland-africa.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_3_1_1=new Array("John Locke’s [1632-1704] contribution to religion and indeed miracles can be seen in his famous epistemological treatise, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1690. Here, his views on miracles could only be sieved in the entire work. However, in his edited work of 1823, a section has been devoted specifically on miracles. Basic for Locke is his distinction of the three types of human knowledge...","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004nov09-comparative-survey-john-locke-david-hume-miracles-igboland-africa.html","",0,128,300); Menu4_3_2=new Array("Teaching Business Ethics in the Church: An Imperative for the Church in Nigeria","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct26.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_3_2_1=new Array("Theology is life! As a priest coming from an African background (Nigeria), with a theology that teaches a sharp separation of the spiritual world from the profane has been maintained, the teaching of business ethics in churches becomes a necessary panacea...This paper is therefore an attempt to marry the Christian commitment with the practice and ethics of business. It is a challenge to reawaken the issue of business ethics in ecclesiastical quarters so that the society could be bettered than what it is at the moment in the Nigerian society. More so, I am posed to challenge the traditional schism between the spheres of faith and business. This challenge is intensified in the words of Anton van Niekerk, that, 'the rise of an industrial economy and the collapse of traditional religion are two of the most important hallmarks of our time'.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct26.html","",0,150,300); Menu4_3_3=new Array("Religious Education and Religious Socialization among the Igbo-speaking People of Eastern Nigeria","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct18.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_3_3_1=new Array("The concepts of 'religious education' and 'socialization' look very simple at first sight but upon exploration, becomes very difficult and tactical. Many Educationists have propounded theories and hypotheses with regard to the above concepts and each one sees the different concept from a particular bias and societal orientation. However for religious education to be really effective in any given culture or society, it is necessary to have alongside a clear educative vision, one formulated to meet the needs of the culture or society in question. The church in Igboland is more traditional, family centered, faith sharing and community-oriented. Religious education and socialization operative in the western world according to the various schools of thought cannot adequately serve the catechetical needs of the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria. The reason being that the meaning of religious education varies from place to place.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct18.html","",0,150,300); Menu4_3_4=new Array("Towards a Religious and Social Balance: A Challenge to the Church in Nigeria","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct13.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_3_4_1=new Array("The pope, among many other religious leaders, has repeatedly maintained that the future of the Church is in Africa. Nigeria as an African country has the highest number of religious sects. It then follows logically that Nigeria and the Church in Nigeria should set the pace of good leadership balanced with an adequate social well-being of the populace. A cursory look at the streets of Nigeria affirms the fact that religious affluence is at its peak. Many new generation Churches are springing up everyday, with corresponding evangelists to minister to these hungry and thirsty people of God; people who sometimes are driven to these Churches for want of material satisfaction, the spiritual already presumed.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct13.html","",0,150,300); Menu4_3_5=new Array("Upholding our Nigerian Values in Foreign Lands","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct12.html","",1,50,200); Menu4_3_5_1=new Array("Granted there are quite a lot of good things to learn from west, let us not forget that public displays of affection and its likes are best left to these westerners. They are experts in this field. As children, they are not brought up to be embarrassed by the naked bodies, or by sex and romance in the...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ecmbidoaka/2004oct12.html","",0,128,300); Menu5=new Array("N","index.html","",9); Menu5_1=new Array("Dr. Nehlah S. Nchami","index.html","",4,20,160); Menu5_1_1=new Array("BNW Face-2-Face: Ohaneze on the 'Hot Seat' - Part II","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002jul02.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_1_1_1=new Array("Welcome back to the BiafraNigeriaWorld 'Hot Seat'. This is the conclusion of our interview with Honorable Emma Okocha, Publicity Secretary for Ohaneze and Author of 'Blood on the Niger.'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002jul02.html","",0,65,300); Menu5_1_2=new Array("BNW Face-2-Face: Ohaneze on the 'Hot Seat' - Part I","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002jun25.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_1_2_1=new Array("On June 19, 2002, the Honorable Emmanuel Okocha, Publicity Secretary for Ohaneze Nd'Igbo, took the BiafraNigeriaWorld 'hot seat' and spoke at length on issues including the 2003 presidential elections, MASSOB, the Biafra movement, and efforts to mobilize Nd'Igbo for 2003 and beyond. Hon. Okocha took the opportunity to respond to Ohaneze's critics, while shedding light on the candidacy of John Nwodo. He also talked about his bid governorship of Delta State under the APP platform, and much more. Hon. Okocha is the author the book, 'Blood on the Niger', and publisher of the USA Africa magazine.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002jun25.html","",0,190,300); Menu5_1_3=new Array("The Fleecing of BiafraNigeria: the Case of Kogi State Governor Abubakar Audu - Part II","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002apr10.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_1_3_1=new Array("In recent reports, Governor Audu has acknowledged ownership of a $1.72 million mansion in Potomac Maryland, United States. In these reports, however, representatives and spokespersons for Audu have stated that 'contrary to media reports that the properties were recently acquired, they were listed in the assets declaration forms which [Audu] submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau on his assumption of office in 1999.' When I wrote Part I of this piece, the question on my mind was how Audu could afford this mansion on his salary. Today, the question on my mind is: How could Audu have listed this house as part of his assets in 1999, prior to assuming office as Governor of Kogi State, if the house was built in 2000, and Audu purchased it from Par Development on March 15, 2001? Inquiring minds want to know.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002apr10.html","",0,280,300); Menu5_1_4=new Array("The Fleecing of BiafraNigeria: the Case of Kogi State Governor Abubakar Audu - Part I","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002mar28.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_1_4_1=new Array("The January 2002 issue of Washingtonian Online reported top house sales of 2001 by VIPs. Among the sports stars, former presidents, and princes mentioned was BiafraNigeria's Kogi State Governor Abubakar Audu. According to Washingtonian Online, Governor Audu purchased a $1.72 million home situated on more than three acres in Potomac Maryland, United States.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nsnchami/2002mar28.html","",0,128,300); Menu5_2=new Array("Uzochukwu J. Njoku","index.html","",7,20,160); Menu5_2_1=new Array("World Igbo Congress and Visions of Social Change","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004aug31.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_2_1_1=new Array("Another way of looking at the cluster of politicians at the yearly World Igbo Congress is that the unseen hands of the Nigerian government are gradually hijacking this body, trying to turn it more into a jamboree of shaking hands and roll calls of ‘who’s who’ while the lives of a greater percentage of Igbo people...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004aug31.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_2_2=new Array("Igbo Language: Beyond the Odenigbo Lectures","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004aug27.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_2_2_1=new Array("It once painfully struck me, when two European colleagues of mine were listening to my conversion with an Igbo brother, who came to my study desk. Little did I know that there were more English words than Igbo wordl in our conversation. One of the European colleagues asked the other about the language.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004aug27.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_2_3=new Array("Lent: Let's Think about Lent","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004mar01.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_2_3_1=new Array("Fasting presupposes that the one who fasts is well fed.... How can a Nigerian civil servant who receives his/her salary on an irregular basis and who has not been paid his/her salary for over 3 months embark on fasting during the Lenten season? If lent means fasting and penance, then one can say without fear of...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004mar01.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_2_4=new Array("The Education Question and Igbo Way Forward: Re-Examining the View of Justice Oputa","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004jan10.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_2_4_1=new Array("He is noted as one of finest brains during his time as a Supreme Court Judge. He was often referred to as the philosopher judge. However, in the final analysis, Oputa spent a good part of his public service handing down sentences as they are written in the book of law. Judges simply declare what the law states. They neither question the law nor why the law exists. This background could make it difficult for Oputa to raise questions about structural deficiencies in the country. Oputa understands that one of the driving forces of...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2004jan10.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_2_5=new Array("The Loss of Bakassi Peninsula as a Nemesis of Biafra","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002oct18.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_2_5_1=new Array("Th[e]... opportunity of the entire African continent rising up and questioning colonialism, its treaties, boundaries and legacies were painfully lost when the Nigerian government pressed on the Organisation of African Unity to declare at the wake of the Biafran crisis that all colonial treaties and boundaries must (ought to) be respected. By this declaration the OAU and the Nigerian government officially gave legitimacy to the criminal act of colonisation, its effects and features.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002oct18.html","",0,145,300); Menu5_2_6=new Array("From Lost Opportunities to the Hope of a New Dawn: Reflecting on the Igbo Reality in Nigerian Politics","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002jul23.html","",1,55,200); Menu5_2_6_1=new Array("...as we are gathered in this church to pray for our brothers and sisters, umu Biafra, who were killed, not just in the war front between 1967-1970, but all umu Igbo, who in the course of the history of the enclave called Nigeria, have lost their lives. They lost their lives not for committing any crimes but because of their identity - being Igbo (nyamiri). We recall pregnant women whose bowels were cut open, those beheaded, burnt or buried alive. We recall children who died of kwashiorkor or other sicknesses related to malnutrition. We recall all, both children and adults who died through the effect of the blockades, the bomb attacks on churches and marketplaces (contrary to all International War Conventions). We recall those who died out of frustration of loosing everything they owned, frustration due to experience of seeing their landed property being taken over by others as abandoned property and the 20 Pounds to which all their money was reduced. While our hearts bleed and will continue to bleed on account of these, we cannot but raise a fundamental question, namely, how and why did all these began?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002jul23.html","",0,345,300); Menu5_2_7=new Array("Between Speaking the English Language and Intelligence: The Crisis of Interpretation","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002may15.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_2_7_1=new Array("Today, it has become a source of worry that many Igbo people may not be able to make two straight Igbo sentences without the flight into the world of the English Language...Some Igbo families who live in Lagos and Port Harcourt do not speak the Igbo Language in their homes, while on the other hand, Yoruba families who live in England or in the USA speak their Yoruba Language happily in their homes.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ujnjoku/2002may15.html","",0,135,300); Menu5_3=new Array("Tobe Nnamani","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu5_3_1=new Array("Biafra in Retrospect: Still Counting the Losses - Part II","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tnnamani/2004mar25.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_3_1_1=new Array("In the first part of this essay, losses such as human casualties with regard to loss of life and personal injuries and destruction of manpower, infrastructure and development were examined. Part two takes a cursory look into the areas of health and environmental disasters, disruption of political and psycho-social life. All these impacted negatively on the life of Ndigbo. The present chaotic political situation in Igboland, in which ‘mercenaries’ and the wrong people are empowered to continue the suppression of Ndigbo is not unconnected with these painful disruptions","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tnnamani/2004mar25.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_3_2=new Array("Biafra in Retrospect: Still Counting the Losses - Part I","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tnnamani/2004mar15.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_3_2_1=new Array("What is even more horrifying about the pogrom was the orchestrated and coordinated planning aided and abated by Northern leaders with the instigation of erstwhile colonial officials especially lecturers at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Worthy of note also is the fact that there had been incidents of such unprovoked killings dating back to 1945, 1953 and...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tnnamani/2004mar15.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_4=new Array("Rev. Aham Nnorom, Ph.D.","index.html","",7,20,160); Menu5_4_1=new Array("Biafra: The Bones Shall Rise Again","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2004may30.html","",1,20,200); Menu5_4_1_1=new Array("Soon with a rattling the bones came together, bone joining bone. The sinews and the flesh came upon them, and a new skin covered them. But there was no spirit in them. And the Lord said to him: “If you believe that faith works wonders, pray to the Lord to breathe his spirit into these bones that they may come...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2004may30.html","",0,155,300); Menu5_4_2=new Array("Hebrew Congregations, Others Grace Igbo Landing","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2003oct18.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_4_2_1=new Array("'You are suffering in Nigeria,' he said, 'because you have broken away from the covenant. Do not let anyone legitimize you. Legitimize yourself.' The spiritual leader invited Ndigbo to come to Israel next year 'so that we can reason together.' The Head of the House of Israel in Charleston, South Carolina, told the participants: 'For future ceremonies, do not waste your resources on hotels and other needs. Call on us and we will provide you with accommodation, food and all you need.' Charleston, South Carolina...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2003oct18.html","",0,155,300); Menu5_4_3=new Array("Islam in Igboland: Lessons in History","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2003apr25.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_4_3_1=new Array("Many scholars, including those of Igbo extraction, have been concerned with the resurgence of militant Islam in the Sudan, Indonesia, Palestine, and in the northern states of Nigeria. An increase of academic interest in Islamism and terrorism is noticeable since the bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dares Salaam, of the US warship Cole, and most importantly, the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In Nigeria, in particular, while most scholarly and media attention has been focused on Christian-Muslim dialogue, Sharia and the violence it incited, very little is known about the danger lurking within Igboland: the phenomenal increase in the number of Igbo Moslems and mosques, an incredible development unknown before the Biafra-Nigeria War. This paper examines a bitter historical irony: That while Ndigbo are being religiously, ethnically and economically cleansed from the predominantly Islamic states of Nigeria, Igbo Imams, Sheiks, Alahajis, Alhajas and mosques, once few and exotic, are now a common sight in one of the most homogeneous Christian regions in Africa. It argues that the quiet, secretive but aggressive Islamization and Arabization of Alaigbo, is a clear and present danger to Igbo interests and survival.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2003apr25.html","",0,390,300); Menu5_4_4=new Array("'Freedom's Warriors: African American Churches and U.S. South Africa Policy'","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002nov11.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_4_4_1=new Array("When in the summer of 1974, Martin Weil asked that haunting but prophetic question: 'Can the Blacks do for Africa what the Jews did for Israel,' it seemed apartheid South Africa was impregnable, Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) irreversible, and Portuguese colonialism in Africa indestructible.","http://writersblock.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002nov11.html","",0,110,300); Menu5_4_5=new Array("Never Biafra?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002may05.html","",1,20,200); Menu5_4_5_1=new Array("I am sure you remember the TV ad about teachers featuring a little boy saying: `They said it would never be done. But what do they know? They said man would never fly. But what do they know?'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002may05.html","",0,65,300); Menu5_4_6=new Array("4th of July Afterthought [revised]","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002may03.html","",1,20,200); Menu5_4_6_1=new Array("Today, all freedom- loving people sing the praises of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and others, for their strength of character and dedication to the pursuit of liberty and freedom. Indeed all immigrants to America, including 2 million Igbo, are beneficiaries of their selflessness and commitment to the eternal principle that 'all men are created equal.' For even though they were flawed in many ways (some were slave owners), yet, their courage and vision turned the American dream into reality.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002may03.html","",0,155,300); Menu5_4_7=new Array("Journey to Biafra","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002apr23.html","",1,20,200); Menu5_4_7_1=new Array("I am writing to share with you my journey to Biafra. It was an exciting but sobering adventure that took a long and circuitous route: from Soweto to Abuja to Biafra. In relating this epiphanal journey, I will, for the first time in my life, reveal the academic and activist experiences that led me to Biafra. I write freely. I do not need status or popular acclaim. But, if you see my revelation as that of a concerned fellow Igbo brother who was once pro-Nigerian like you but has now seen the RISING SUN, I would be satisfied.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/revnnorom/2002apr23.html","",0,155,300); Menu5_5=new Array("Amuzie Nwachukwu","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu5_5_1=new Array("Nigeria's Technological Advancement","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwachukwu/2002sep16.html","",1,40,200); Menu5_5_1_1=new Array("Since the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo came into power on May 29, 1999, Nigerians are still waiting, looking to see the direction the present government is going towards revamping the country's economy.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwachukwu/2002sep16.html","",0,90,300); Menu5_6=new Array("Aham Nwankwo","index.html","",3,20,160); Menu5_6_1=new Array("Advancing Nd'Igbo in a New Century: Of Igbo Presidentists, econo-Politicians, neo-Biafrans, and neo-Federals","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004jul02.html","",1,80,200); Menu5_6_1_1=new Array("In their confusion, the neo-federals attempt to draw analogies between Nigeria and the US. They insist that things will work in Nigeria the way it has worked in America. To the neo-federals, Biafra should be memorialised, not actualised. Their reasoning is that the fruits of improvement in the Nigerian situation must surely have a trickle down effect on...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004jul02.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_6_2=new Array("Probe: The Death of Igbo Society","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004mar10.html","",1,70,200); Menu5_6_2_1=new Array("At the end of the Obasanjo supervised murders, Obasanjo began cultivating a group of Nd’Igbo whom he intended to install in positions of authority in Igboland. These people were characteristically misfits in Igbo society, and their ilks are appropriately described as 'Efulefus' by...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004mar10.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_6_3=new Array("Nd'Igbo: Of Leaders and Pretenders","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004feb27.html","",1,60,200); Menu5_6_3_1=new Array("Political opponents of Nnamdi Azikiwe founded Ohanaeze during the defunct second republic to fight the re-emergence of Nnamdi Azikiwe as the primary political leader of Nd'Igbo following Azikiwe's rise as the flag bearer of the Nigerian People's Party (NPP). Thus, it was no surprise that Ohanaeze practically...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/anwankwo/2004feb27.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_7=new Array("Ogbonna George Nwogu","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu5_7_1=new Array("Ohanaeze Nd'Igbo: From Teratism Toward a Rebirth for a Fecund Igbo Agenda","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ognwogu/2003mar06.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_7_1_1=new Array("The current geriatric leadership of Ohaneze lacks the form that is needed to toggle at the doors of prolific political warfare in Nigeria. This has been demonstrated by the organization's numerous missteps to the detriment of the Igbos, which supporters have blamed on the interregnums in the development of Igbo political leadership. However, given the caliber of the people that constitute the leadership, the political stakes, and the collective destiny of the third largest ethnic group...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ognwogu/2003mar06.html","",0,160,300); Menu5_8=new Array("Uche Nworah","index.html","",8,20,160); Menu5_8_1=new Array("The Enugwu-Ukwu on my Mind","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004nov19.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_1_1=new Array("How very sad I am, and I am sure you must be too, to hear about all the atrocities that have been committed in your land, the lootings, killings and burnings, your name has been in the news lately for the wrong reasons, some people that never heard your name before are now hearing it, but only in association with mayhem, your honour has been tainted, your glory dented, you have been brutally ravaged and raped by dark forces, masquerading in the name of politics, you surely deserve better.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004nov19.html","",0,150,300); Menu5_8_2=new Array("We Hate Politics: Do We?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004nov12.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_2_1=new Array("From Aba to Zakibiam, Oturkpo to Kubwa, Umunede to Ajegunle, it is the same feelings, the same voices, the same anguish, to borrow from Sean McBride's book; it is many voices, one word. We have let our government deny us of our joy so much and for so long. It is almost as if they get their kicks and highs (just like cocaine junkies) from our sorrows anytime they read all the venoms and invectives we pour on them. Now we are beginning to turn these on our selves, it's a dog eat dog world now, a fratricidal process.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004nov12.html","",0,150,300); Menu5_8_3=new Array("The Rising Profile of Igbo Women","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct30.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_3_1=new Array("How nice and refreshing it is to see that Igbo women are doing very well both in Nigeria and in Diaspora. For all the right reasons, the names of Igbo women are constantly being mentioned in the local and international media for excelling in their different career fields. It is not though as if our women have not always been this hardworking and enterprising, the economic downturn of the 80s and 90s, coupled with the 419 influence and scourge in Igboland helped turn a lot of Igbo women into women of easy virtues, sisters began to create headlines for all the wrong reasons, as drug pushers and semi-commercial sex workers.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct30.html","",0,150,300); Menu5_8_4=new Array("On Nzeribe: A Rejoinder to Engobo Emeseh","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct22.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_4_1=new Array("A quick clarificationbefore I offer my opinion on Emeseh’s EFCC and NZERIBE piece. I am not a politician and do not plan to become one. My reasons are that I don’t have the money to win elections in Nigeria and also my Christian faith forbids that I visit Okija or any other ogwugwu for any kind of pact signing with the devil. I am only a concerned and ‘poor’ teacher but one that is already receiving his ‘rewards’ here on earth.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct22.html","",0,128,300); Menu5_8_5=new Array("Nnamani: The 'Sabo' and Enemy Within","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct15.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_5_1=new Array("How hateful and insensitive can the governor be? Coming at the heels of pending and yet unresolved differences between the Ikemba and the Nigerian government, to speak about a man revered by Ndigbo in such unsavoury manner at this point in time in Nigeria [NLC strike, Ojukwu-SSS saga]...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct15.html","",0,128,300); Menu5_8_6=new Array("The Business of Government","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct11.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_6_1=new Array("Why have we not yet been able to effect the desired change in Nigeria, especially in the new democratic dispensation, when our freedom of expression and assembly has been guaranteed and further enshrined in the constitution? Why was it possible for Carl Bernstein and...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004oct11.html","",0,128,300); Menu5_8_7=new Array("Self Enterprise & Self Help: The Business Aspects of Igbo Culture","http://essays.igbonet.com/unworah/2004oct02/","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_7_1=new Array("Going back to the roots and basics [Introduction to Business 101] Humble beginnings & Grass to Grace stories – fetchers of water-Hewers of stone & wood-sellers of ‘pure water’, akara & bread Indicators: Are Igbos in the town? No! Pack your bags and leave...","http://essays.igbonet.com/unworah/2004oct02/","",0,128,300); Menu5_8_8=new Array("Maka Odi Mma Ndi Be Anyi","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004sep26.html","",1,50,200); Menu5_8_8_1=new Array("Umunne mu na umunna mu, odoro mmadu nile anya, dokwa ewu na okuko anya na Obasanjo kporo anyi bu ndi Igbo asi, obidoro na iwe na onuma ojiri were buso anyi aha na uzo nke ya mgbe ana alu aha Biafra, tinye kwuo ro na umu okwu di ichi iche ya na ndi oru ya na ekwu, onwe be gi otu ihe o mere ma...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/unworah/2004sep26.html","",0,128,300); Menu5_9=new Array("Nnamdi N. Nwuda","index.html","",3,20,160); Menu5_9_1=new Array("Back Down Memory Lane: the Music and Times of the Wings and Superstar Spud Nathan","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nnwuda/2004jan16.html","",1,60,200); Menu5_9_1_1=new Array("The Wings of the early 1970s was perhaps the greatest assembly of talented musicians of all time. With Spud Nathan as the lead singer, Mannford Best on Lead Guitar, Arinze Okpalla on Bass Guitar, Emma China on Percussion and drums, Charles Fleming on Keyboard, Charlie Effie Duke on keyboard Synthesizer. This ensemble started dishing out tunes like no man's business. From their album 'You'll really really want me back some day,' came their smash hits of the same title and 'Tell me why you are so cruel.' That...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nnwuda/2004jan16.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_9_2=new Array("Where Are they Now?: A Review of the Music and Lives of Eastern Musicians and Songwriters of the Post Nigeria-Biafra War Era","http://kaleidoscope.igbonet.com/society/okorieandnwuda/2003dec20.html","",1,70,200); Menu5_9_2_1=new Array("The Igbos and their Minority neighbors did not despair over their plight even though they had every excuse in the world to feel sorry for themselves. After all, Nd’Igbo were not the aggressors; we were attacked and we defended our homeland against the invaders. Easterners refused to wallow in self-pity after the war; they got back on the horse and rode on. One of the major areas of post-war survival was music. Yes, MUSIC! While Easterners were busy fending off the vandals’ indiscriminate air strikes during...","http://kaleidoscope.igbonet.com/society/okorieandnwuda/2003dec20.html","",0,170,300); Menu5_9_3=new Array("Requiem for General Philip Effiong: A Tribute to the People's General, War Hero, and all Round Good Guy","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nnwuda/2003nov17.html","",1,60,200); Menu5_9_3_1=new Array("[T]he People’s General never left us. My only fear is that what we are going to have running around will be the efulefu, efulefu who apologize for a war they did not fight, efulefu like Orji Uzor Kalu running around apologizing for something they knew nothing about. My fear is that we are going to have efulefu who are willing to sell their souls to the highest bidder in order to become Governor of a local government fraud called a State in BiafraNigeria. My fear is that what we are going to have...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nnwuda/2003nov17.html","",0,170,300); Menu6=new Array("OA - OM","index.html","",9); Menu6_1=new Array("Chinelo Obialor, Pharm.D.","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_1_1=new Array("Alex Ekwueme and Babangida's Electoral Fraud Machine: Has IBB Found an Igbo Errand Boy?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cobialor/2002dec03.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_1_1_1=new Array("Some say that Ekwueme has attained the holy grail of individual political accomplishment in Nigeria - the holy grail also known as 'support by the North' - the same 'support by the North' that rigged Obasonjo into power without the support of his Yoruba tribesmen. Judging by Ekwueme's choice Minna for announcing his ambition, it is evident that Ekwueme's way to Aso Rock will be paved by the vaunted Babangida electoral fraud machine...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cobialor/2002dec03.html","",0,140,300); Menu6_2=new Array("Most Rev. A.J.V. Obinna","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_2_1=new Array("Building a Just Democratic Nigeria: Restoring the Rights of the Igbo People","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ajvobinna/2004feb09.html","",1,70,200); Menu6_2_1_1=new Array("SWe note with sadness the continued concern of the Igbo people about their systematic exclusion, since the end of the Nigerian civil war, from certain substantive positions in the nation’s administrative set-up such as the Head of State of Nigeria, heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Chief Judge...","ttp://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ajvobinna/2004feb09.html","",0,140,300); Menu6_3=new Array("Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh","index.html","",3,40,160); Menu6_3_1=new Array("Bolaji Aluko and Achebe's Rejection of a National Horror: A Response to Habitual Hypocritical Grandstanding","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004nov08-mobolaji-aluko-and-achebe.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_3_1_1=new Array("When the topic shifts to Ndigbo, this greatly endowed nation of men, the petty jealousies and platonic hatred of their detractors is invariably given a free reign. This bunch of despicable hypocrites, appoint themselves as superlatively prejudiced and irredeemably opinionated judges of cant, to sit in the tribune of perjorative bias, against Ndigbo and all they represent. The parameters they deploy to that end, smacks of the highest form and expression of undiluted pharisaic and sanctimonious hypocrisy. This was the kind of hypocrisy which so much affronted the fragile sensibilities of Jesus the Christ, that he reproached the Pharisees, with righteous indignation, to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004nov08-mobolaji-aluko-and-achebe.html","",0,200,300); Menu6_3_2=new Array("Napoleon is Always Right","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004nov02-Napoleon-is-Always-Right.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_3_2_1=new Array("George Orwell's Animal Farm was...taking a literary snipe at the extravagant historical failure, which Communism bears at the core of its genetic blueprint. Today, anybody that happens across that masterpiece, who is a little conversant with the Nigerian situation, cannot help jumping into the conclusion, that George Orwell was a clairvoyant who looked far into the future and saw Nigeria.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004nov02-Napoleon-is-Always-Right.html","",0,128,300); Menu6_3_3=new Array("Chimaroke Nnamani as Obasanjo's Latest Cheerleader","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004oct18.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_3_3_1=new Array("The annals of history has borne witness to the rise and fall of bloody sycophants and hypocrites, callous tyrants and spineless traitors. They configured themselves into the crooked timbers, out of which history’s worst crimes were hewed and sculpted. They prided themselves in their self-delusional allergy to goodness. Their ruthless greed created monsters of deceit out of them.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/e-franklyne-ogbunwezeh/2004oct18.html","",0,128,300); Menu6_4=new Array("Austen K. Oghuma","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_4_1=new Array("That Attack on Dr. Julius Kpaduwa","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/akoghuma/2002oct04.html","",1,20,200); Menu6_4_1_1=new Array("On July 13, Dr. Julius Kpaduwa was assaulted by a band of assassins who had invaded his country home in Mbano, Imo State and proudly announced that they had 'come to put an end to your governorship aspirations with a death sentence.' They followed with a smack on his head with gun butt after which they shot his leg and left him to die in the surrounding shrubs. By the time Kpaduwa got back to the United States his hemoglobin count had dropped to 8 from its normal level of 14, which means he would have died but for the timely intervention of his numerous associates and professional colleagues.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/akoghuma/2002oct04.html","",0,190,300); Menu6_5=new Array("Nwachinemere Iheahuta Ohia","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_5_1=new Array("Enough is Enough for All Igbo Traitors: It is Judgment Day","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nwachinemere-i-ohia/2004nov05.html","",1,40,200); Menu6_5_1_1=new Array("The simple truth is that with the exception of a select few the old generation of Igbo leaders have failed us in totality because they 'sold out' a long Advertise here time ago. Subsequently the people who are not in any way our equals in natural abilities and blessings continue to be our slave masters. Tufiakwa! Igbo traitors ought not be having peace in Igbo land today because they have murdered sleep, hence they ought not sleep anymore until they come out in the congregation of...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nwachinemere-i-ohia/2004nov05.html","",0,190,300); Menu6_6=new Array("Dr. Chidi Okorie ","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_6_1=new Array("Where Are they Now?: A Review of the Music and Lives of Eastern Musicians and Songwriters of the Post Nigeria-Biafra War Era","http://kaleidoscope.igbonet.com/society/okorieandnwuda/2003dec20.html","",1,70,200); Menu6_6_1_1=new Array("The Igbos and their Minority neighbors did not despair over their plight even though they had every excuse in the world to feel sorry for themselves. After all, Nd’Igbo were not the aggressors; we were attacked and we defended our homeland against the invaders. Easterners refused to wallow in self-pity after the war; they got back on the horse and rode on. One of the major areas of post-war survival was music. Yes, MUSIC! While Easterners were busy fending off the vandals’ indiscriminate air strikes during...","http://kaleidoscope.igbonet.com/society/okorieandnwuda/2003dec20.html","",0,170,300); Menu6_7=new Array("Obinna Okoro","index.html","",6,20,160); Menu6_7_1=new Array("Igbo Landing 2003: Being a Paper Delivered by NwaMazi Obinna E. Okoro, the Administrative Officer of MASSOB on the 2ND Igbo Landing Ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003oct11.html","",1,100,200); Menu6_7_1_1=new Array("This event is specially celebrated to commemorate the bravery of some Igbo Martyrs who in the dark ages of African history in the 17th century resisted being used as slaves in a foreign land faraway from home (Igbo Land). These great people of the Igbo race plunged into the Waters in Georgia, South Carolina and many other places in the United States of America (then known as the New world) and the Caribbean Islands were some of our brethrens are presently citizens today. The resolve of these very wonderful people’s of blessed memory should be commended as not only being Heroic but also Cosmic as they exhibited very reserved 'Will' which is presently lacking in the Igbo race today and some part of the African Continent.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003oct11.html","",0,240,300); Menu6_7_2=new Array("Militarization of the East and Delta","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003jul10.html","",1,20,200); Menu6_7_2_1=new Array("The Militarization of Aba in Abia State, Owerri in Imo State, Onitsha, Nnewi & Awka in Anambra State, Enugu in Enugu State, Uyo, Eket & Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State, Calabar, Ogoja and Ikom in Cross River State, Port Harcourt, Elele, Bori & Choba in Rivers State, Yenegoa in Bayelsa State, Warri, Ugheli, Abraka, Sapele and Asaba in Delta State and Other places in the former Eastern and Delta regions of Nigeria, violates the spirit of the Nigerian Constitution and democracy. The recent militarization is being justified by government apologists as necessary to ensure a hitch-free transition from civilian to civilian rule given the background of the call by some politicians for a mass action and civil disobedience to protest...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003jul10.html","",0,240,300); Menu6_7_3=new Array("Between the National ID Card Figures and Registered Voters Figures: the Big Fraud","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003may28.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_7_3_1=new Array("how also can the Federal Authorities explain to the generality of Nigerians that a population which stands at an estimated 100 million people, going by the 1991 population census of 88.2 million people, recorded such tremendous figure of over 60 million eligible voters' strength, if the figure is right, then among the remaining about 40 million people, how many are toddlers, enfant, children, adolescents not to talk of the very aged whom we all know do not bother about voting but who turned out for the ID cards project. A little truth will do for the ragging electoral confusion in the country presently. Remember, You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool them all the time...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003may28.html","",0,220,300); Menu6_7_4=new Array("Political Violence in Ikwere Land","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/crido/2003may28.html","",1,20,200); Menu6_7_4_1=new Array("The Civil Rights and Development Organisation (CRIDO) received several petitions touching on the rights of citizens during the last April 2003 general elections in Nigeria. These petitions were considered on their merits after due investigations and consultations, and with background information collected from two Ikwerre groups in respect to such violation of rights in Ikwerre Land during the elections;...Ikwerre is the largest ethnic group in Rivers State and occupies four Local Government Areas in the State, namely; Ikwerre, Emouhua, Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt L.G.A’s and had its son Chief Sergeant Awuse as a Governorship candidate of the leading opposition party, the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), who...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/crido/2003may28.html","",0,240,300); Menu6_7_5=new Array("Deceit Begets Fraud! Fraud Begets Distrust!! Distrust Begets Anger!!! Failure to Control Anger Begets Pandemonium!!!!","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003may29.html","",1,50,200); Menu6_7_5_1=new Array("Like a dream, it came to pass, that Nigerians, then United or was the Unity Tribal? But for the first time ever, Nigerian Civilians were going to carry out a civil rule to civil rule transition, the stage was set, the elections took place quiet alright, but disregards of the results and shouts of fraud rented the air, more pronounced was the war of words between the then incumbent Premier of the Western Region, Sir, Akintola and Chief Adegbeinro, the country was tense; there was an Operation Wetie and the Tiv Uprising, led by J.S. Tarka against the Hausa-Fulani political dominance; there was a swearing-in ceremony and the commencement of another legislative and executive government, and from no where, the first ever Martial Music of the Khaki Boys rented the air, . .","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003may29.html","",0,260,300); Menu6_7_6=new Array("The Whirlwind of April 2003 General Elections: The Spilt Milk","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003apr28.html","",1,40,200); Menu6_7_6_1=new Array("The Afenifere/AD betrayed the ANPP by not paying them back their 1999 generosity with a 2003 alliance even when the APP had more States in 1999 than the AD. .... Gov. Bola Tinubu retained due to .... Ahmed Bola Tinubu; 'A o merin joba eweku ewele'. Since this betrayal of the century is that of Yoruba versus Yoruba, the cry of foul-play would not be so strong and taken Afar; if it were to be from another tribe, then we may have been getting set for the emergence of another Operation WETIE; YES!! Another NADECCO...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/ookoro/2003apr28.html","",0,160,300); Menu6_8=new Array("Barrister Uche Okwukwu","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_8_1=new Array("Political Violence in Ikwere Land","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/crido/2003may28.html","",1,20,200); Menu6_8_1_1=new Array("The Civil Rights and Development Organisation (CRIDO) received several petitions touching on the rights of citizens during the last April 2003 general elections in Nigeria. These petitions were considered on their merits after due investigations and consultations, and with background information collected from two Ikwerre groups in respect to such violation of rights in Ikwerre Land during the elections;...Ikwerre is the largest ethnic group in Rivers State and occupies four Local Government Areas in the State, namely; Ikwerre, Emouhua, Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt L.G.A’s and had its son Chief Sergeant Awuse as a Governorship candidate of the leading opposition party, the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), who...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/crido/2003may28.html","",0,230,300); Menu6_9=new Array("Ifeanyi Omoregie","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu6_9_1=new Array("I Cry for my Country","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/iomoregie/2002dec20.html","",1,20,200); Menu6_9_1_1=new Array("[W]e should have no doubt in our minds that our colonial masters explored and exploited our nation for their own personal good and greatly for the good of their home country. That greedy spirit was inherited from our colonial masters by our past and present day politicians, but were misdirected to be absolutely personal greed, which has resulted in an unspeakably desperate situation for the majority of unfortunate Nigerians, who are now roaming the streets of our father land in search of any jobs, while the 'fortunate ones'...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/iomoregie/2002dec20.html","",0,180,300); Menu7=new Array("ON - OZ","index.html","",5); Menu7_1=new Array("Nnaemeka M. Onumonu","index.html","",4,20,160); Menu7_1_1=new Array("Biafra Movement - A Report 4: A Report to the People's General, Maazi Philip Effiong [Obong] - Putting it all Together","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec15.html","",1,70,200); Menu7_1_1_1=new Array("General, August 31, 2002 will be considered 'The Land Mark' on this journey to self-actualization, self-realization, and the end of the sojourn in the desert of despair by Igbo. On that very day, in St. Simons Island in Georgia, Igbo performed a ceremony that should have been performed hundreds of years ago. Our fore-parents said, that when a man/woman wakes up is his/her morning. On that very morning, Igbo worldwide woke up; on that very morning, the tear in the Collective Psyche of Igbo...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec15.html","",0,170,300); Menu7_1_2=new Array("Biafra Movement - A Report 3: A Report to the People's General, Maazi Philip Effiong (Obong) - Which Way Forward?","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec08.html","",1,70,200); Menu7_1_2_1=new Array("Nothing must be taken for granted where the lives and destiny of more than 100 million people is concerned. It is extremely important that the assumptions on which this revolution is built on be continuously revisited and questioned to prove that they remain valid. We must each continue to examine and re-examine ourselves to make sure that our goal has not changed from Collective to personal - Is the revolution still about the betterment of Oha or has it become a personal ego trip to immortalize and enthrone...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec08.html","",0,170,300); Menu7_1_3=new Array("Biafra Movement - A Report 2: A Report to the People's General, Maazi Philip Effiong (Obong) - Ideology","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec01.html","",1,70,200); Menu7_1_3_1=new Array("[F]olklore creates two important periods in Igbo history, before and after the 'spirits' settled among and became part of the Igbo nation. This might explain both the contention by some that Ndi Igbo have always lived in that area called Ala Igbo, and the contention by others that Ndi Igbo came from somewhere else and settled in that area. The journey into trying to uncover the Igbo question is more like trying to solve a puzzle with many missing parts. Fortunately, there are answers if one is willing to take the...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003dec01.html","",0,170,300); Menu7_1_4=new Array("Biafra Movement - A Report 1: A Report to the People's General, Maazi Philip Effiong (Obong)","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003nov27.html","",1,60,200); Menu7_1_4_1=new Array("The People's General - When it was fashionable for Biafran leaders to deny Biafra, You stood your ground. When other Biafran leaders sold their souls and got in bed with Biafran/Igbo oppressors, You stood with Oha at great cost to you. You never wavered in your belief of the justness of the Biafran...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/nonumonu/2003nov27.html","",0,120,300); Menu7_2=new Array("Ted Onyeji","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu7_2_1=new Array("Farewell My Mentor: Adieu, Chuba Okadigbo","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tonyeji/2003sep30.html","",1,40,200); Menu7_2_1_1=new Array("He was the youthful, vibrant, educated new breed infusion, appointed to the position of special adviser on political affairs in the second republic, during the Shagari regime. In his charming characteristic attributes, he became the darling of the young people, and almost single-handedly embodied the hope and aspirations of the youth of Nigeria in general, and especially, that of the Igbo youth, who were still grappling with the notion of one Nigeria, and a sense of political rebirth. It therefore did not come as a surprise, when Chuba Okadigbo embarked on a quest to encourage the youth to participate in the new government, by making himself accessible to them. Growing up poor, in the trackless jungle...","http://essays.igbonet.com/EzeNriNriEnwelanaIIObidiegwuOnyeso/1005thIguAroNdIgbo/","",0,220,300); Menu7_3=new Array("Nri Enwelana II, Obidiegwu Onyeso","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu7_3_1=new Array("1005th IGU ARO ND'IGBO: 2004 AD","http://essays.igbonet.com/EzeNriNriEnwelanaIIObidiegwuOnyeso/1005thIguAroNdIgbo/","",1,40,200); Menu7_3_1_1=new Array("NRI KINGDOM is the oldest Kingdom in Nigeria. It was founded around 900AD by the progenitor, Eri, the son of Gad. According to biblical accounts, Jacob had Leah as his wife who begot four sons for him. When Leah noticed she had passed child-bearing age, she gave her maid – servant, Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and through Zilpah he had a son named Gad. Gad then bigot Eri, who later formed a clan known as Erites vide Genesis Chapter 30 verse 9; 46 verse 16 and Numbers chapter 26 verses 15-19. Eri was therefore amongst the twelve tribes of Israel via Gad.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/tonyeji/2003sep30.html","",0,220,300); Menu7_4=new Array("Peter Opara","index.html","",2,20,160); Menu7_4_1=new Array("Flouting Truth, Twisting History, and Spoiling for Blood","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/popara/2004nov20.html","",1,40,200); Menu7_4_1_1=new Array("Mohammed Haruna, in an article entitled – 'Igbos, Biafra and the Presidency' pretended to 'contextualize' - according to him - 'the events that led to Biafra' – events known to the peoples of the world, among them the deaf, the dumb and the blind – that is the mass slaughter of innocent and defenseless Igbo men, women, children, infants and fetuses in 1966 in northern Nigeria...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/popara/2004nov20.html","",0,220,300); Menu7_4_2=new Array("A Thug in the Land of Lincoln","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/popara/2004oct15.html","",1,40,200); Menu7_4_2_1=new Array("To those groups or individuals whose minds have been conditioned to believe that Odumegwu-Ojukwu 'caused a war and ran away', shame on all of you, you are nothing but pitiful indolent souls. None of you could ever find your way out of an enclosure even if you were led to an exit door.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/popara/2004oct15.html","",0,220,300); Menu7_5=new Array("Michael Ozulumba, Esq.","index.html","",5,20,160); Menu7_5_1=new Array("Obasanjo vs. Nigeria Constitution","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2004nov13.html","",1,60,200); Menu7_5_1_1=new Array("We have been attracted in drones to the same beehive from whence our deafening stings have emanated. You either belong to the ruling Peoples Demolition Party, excuse me, Peoples Democratic Party PDP or you must be a nuisance to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2004nov13.html","",0,180,300); Menu7_5_2=new Array("US Visit of Anambra Governor, Chris Ngige: Moving Anambra Forward","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003oct31.html","",1,60,200); Menu7_5_2_1=new Array("THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF DR. CHRIS NGIGE SHOULD, AS MATTER OF URGENCY, PROPOSE A BILL TO HIS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, TO CREATE A DEPARTMENT OF DIASPORA AFFAIRS. This department shall be headed and chaired by our approved director. His/her mission is to liaise between the government and our various brothers and sisters worldwide, to create the enabling contact for small scale and medium scale entrepreneurs wishing to locate in the State. This department shall have the duties to...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003oct31.html","",0,180,300); Menu7_5_3=new Array("Pure Murder!: A Nest of Killers","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003sep27.html","",1,30,200); Menu7_5_3_1=new Array("Why should Muhammed Buhari and his supporters not be allowed to hold rallies? Is it not guaranteed in the Chapter 4 of our Constitution for the freedom of assembly and expression? By suffocating opposition activities, what will be the difference between a Nigeria where everyone is a member of the PDP and a Nigeria led by Military Junta intolerant of opposition? Poor Dr. Okadigbo. At 61 years old, and with the contribution he had made to our country, his death by alleged inhalation of noxious tear gas in political rally, is pure murder! Professor Wole Syinka once called the PDP a nest of Killers! President Olusegun Obansanjo should take serious steps to reign in the lose cannons in his Party and...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003sep27.html","",0,230,300); Menu7_5_4=new Array("Homeward Bound?: The Myths and Realities","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003jul05.html","",1,40,200); Menu7_5_4_1=new Array("On my mission to return to Nigeria regardless of the conditions, I have enrolled at the Prestigious Nigeria Law School in Bwari, Abuja in order to fulfill the ed requirement for foreign trained lawyers. The experience thus far is overwhelming. Having lived in the USA for close to two decades, it is astonishing to live under a controlled environment. You must attend classes in suit and ties (black for that matter under the intense heat). Full shoes and no sandals. Women must wear long sleeves and no trousers to class. No TV allowed in the hostel rooms and no refrigerators or cooking stoves either. This school, which is built on a massive land in the outskirts of Abuja ought to be the pride of the now three or four Law schools established in the country. Life is slow and the teeming workers seem very busy at doing little...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2003jul05.html","",0,250,300); Menu7_5_5=new Array("The Persecution Against Igbos Continues...","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2002oct12.html","",1,40,200); Menu7_5_5_1=new Array("As I sat and pondered the future of my life, torn between the desire to return to my homeland that I have left since almost 20 years ago to attend College in the United states and the prospects of a life in United States filled with continued economic prosperity in my chosen legal profession, the events in Nigeria seem to have cast a compelling decision on me to choose death in Nigeria rather than wealth in the United States.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/mozulumba/2002oct12.html","",0,146,300); Menu8=new Array("P - T","index.html","",1); Menu8_1=new Array("BNW Staff","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu8_1_1=new Array("BNW Face-2-Face: MASSOB Leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike Takes the 'Hot Seat'","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2002sep11.html","",1,50,200); Menu8_1_1_1=new Array("My organization is most active now because the organization grows day by day. Like I said before, in law, we say 'Nemo dat qui non habet' (one does not give what one does not have) --- MASSOB Leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/BNWstaff/2002sep11.html","",0,80,300); Menu9=new Array("U - Z","index.html","",1); Menu9_1=new Array("Chukwkere Uche, LL.B","index.html","",1,20,160); Menu9_1_1=new Array("Biafra Lives: A Life Mission","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cuche/2002oct17.html","",1,20,200); Menu9_1_1_1=new Array("The future of the Republic of Biafra is intertwined with the future of Africa. I have written this to enable you to pass a fair judgment on the crusade we of MASSOB have embarked upon for the emancipation of the Republic of Biafra in the life-time of those crusaders who have made this a life mission.","http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cuche/2002oct17.html","",0,100,300);