Latest: More Biafrans murdered by Nigerian genocidist military in Igwe Ocha, Biafra

THE CURRENT orgy of massacres of Biafrans by the Nigerian occupation genocidist military, begun on Wednesday 2 December 2015 in Onicha, westcentral Biafra, has continued unabated. Multiple reports in the media in Nigeria indicate that a number of Biafrans in the south oil port city of Igwe Ocha, participating in a mass solidarity rally for today’s (Friday the 20th) inauguration of new US President Donald Trump, were murdered by the genocidists. A Vanguard (Lagos) reporter, quoting eyewitnesses at the scene,  puts the figure of Biafrans shot dead at 11 and “... 27 with bullet wounds while 57 people were arrested” (Vanguard, Lagos, 20 January 2017). Two other news organisations have indeed recorded higher fatality numbers from the massacre as a fuller picture continues to emerge...

 

(John Coltrane & Don Cherry, “Focus on sanity” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Cherry, pocket trumpet; Percy Heath, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; recorded: Atlantic Studios, New York, 28 June/8 July 1960])

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Nigeria – failed state on all scores…

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Nigeria’s countrywide 2016 WASSCE certificate (school certificate/WASC/WAEC/high school/GCE “O” Level/GCSE “O” Level equivalent) results have just been released (Vanguard, Lagos, Friday 16 December 2016). They show that 106,222 students or  61.5% of the total 172,719 candidates who sat for this examination failed their Mathematics and English Language – two mandatory subjects required for post-secondary/pre-college/pre-university education in Nigeria.

In many countries of the world, the secretary of education would resign immediately in response to these appalling results; in some countries, governments could fall if such results ever occurred. But not in genocidist Nigeria would either of these consequences happen.

Does one really expect a Nigeria, which appears to spend most of its time planning the next murdering escapade in its expansive genocide field of operation against Igbo people of Biafra, has the mindset and resource to build a world-class education for its own children? 

Primer

Perhaps the following primer underscores the extent of this Nigerian tragedy: a crucial component of the country’s electoral law states, categorically, that the minimum educational qualification for an aspiring/occupier of the position of head of regime or the state’s highest “elected” office is the school certificate equivalent; Muhammadu Buhari, the current head of regime, does not have this qualification but insisted he would run, regardless, in March 2015 for the post, and was robustly endorsed and his quest enforced by the then British Prime Minister Cameron and US President Obama, expectedly, two well educated persons in their respective publics, and Buhari of Nigeria was “duly elected”...

(Sam Rivers Sextet, “Effusive melange” [personnel: Rivers, tenor saxophone; Donald Bryd, trumpet; Julian Priester, trombone; James Spaulding, alto saxophone; Cecil McBee, bass; Steve Ellington, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 17 March 1967])

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