Maurice

Stand for what is right and you will never be ashamed.

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

BIAFRA — BY BALLOT, BACKED BY AMERICAN DRONES

Biafra must not return through another war.

If the people of Biafra want self-determination, it must come by referendum, by democratic mandate, and with international protection — not through massacre, forced submission or another tragic civil war.

That is why I say:

By ballot — backed by American drones.

Not for conquest.
Not for revenge.
Not for escalation.
For deterrence. For protection. For freedom of choice.

The message is simple:

🗳️ let the people vote
🛡️ protect civilians
✝️ protect Christians and all minorities
🤝 guarantee minority rights
🚫 no forced transfers
🕊️ no new Biafra war
🇺🇸 credible Western security guarantees to prevent mass violence

If Abuja cannot guarantee justice, security and genuine self-determination, then the international community must ensure that democratic choice is respected and protected.

BIAFRA: OUR RIGHT. OUR FUTURE. OUR CHOICE.

BY BALLOT, BACKED BY AMERICAN DRONES.

#Biafra #SelfDetermination #Referendum #ExNigeria #ReligiousFreedom #MinorityRights #WestAfrica #Democracy #Protection

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

AN OPEN LETTER TO KASH PATEL, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Letters from Stockholm

Dear Director Patel,

I write to you as a Nigerian of the diaspora, a Swedish citizen, and the founder of Worldview International, on behalf of millions of Nigerians at home and abroad who have watched your Bureau's conduct before Judge Beryl Howell with growing disbelief.

On August 20, 2026, your agency filed a motion asking the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for permission to explain, in secret, ex parte and in camera, why it continues to withhold records concerning Bola Ahmed Tinubu, records dating to 1992 and 1993, records connected to a Chicago heroin trafficking investigation, records a federal judge ordered you to process more than a year ago. You claim their release could endanger lives and reveal law enforcement techniques. Techniques from 1993, Director. Thirty-three years old. The rotary telephone was still in service.

So permit me to ask you the question every Nigerian is asking.

Why is Bola Tinubu's file more sacred to your Bureau than the Epstein files?

Your administration promised the American people transparency on Jeffrey Epstein, files in which your own President's name has reportedly appeared, alongside the names of some of the most powerful men in the Western world. That promise collapsed into memos, redactions and retreat. And yet here you are, three years into Greenspan v. Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, deploying the full machinery of the Department of Justice, extension after extension, Glomar responses that Judge Howell ruled improper, sealed declarations, secret submissions, all to shield the file of a foreign head of state who, in 1993, forfeited 460,000 US dollars to your government in a civil action alleging the funds were proceeds of heroin trafficking.

He was never charged, you will say. Correct. He simply handed over the money and walked away. Innocent men do not ordinarily pay the United States Treasury nearly half a million dollars to make questions disappear. And your Bureau's conduct since, producing not a single processed page despite a court order, despite your own promised timetables of January, March and June of this year, despite the open irritation of a federal judge who noted this case has been pending for over three years, tells its own story.

Why is this man so important to your agency, Director?

What service has Bola Tinubu rendered the United States that earns him protection your own citizens cannot obtain about their own government? Was he a source? An asset? A cooperator? If so, say it. If not, release the file. The Freedom of Information Act does not contain an exemption for the embarrassment of foreign presidents.

Let me tell you what your lawyers in Washington may not have explained to you. Nigerians are not fools. We are among the most educated diasporas in the United States, your own census data confirms it. We read court filings. We know what a Glomar response is. We know what ex parte means. We watched Judge Howell rule in April 2025 that your refusal to confirm the existence of records was, in her words, neither logical nor plausible, because your agencies had already acknowledged that Tinubu was a subject of investigation. Playing games with our intelligence will not work.

And understand this clearly. You may have leverage over one man. You do not have leverage over 230 million Nigerians. Nigeria is Africa's largest democracy, a trading partner worth billions of dollars annually to American business, the anchor of West Africa. Bola Tinubu will leave office, whether in 2027 or before. The government that follows him, and the generation that elects it, will remember precisely who shielded him, and why. A partnership built on the concealment of one man's past is not a partnership with Nigeria. It is a partnership against her.

There are also questions this file may finally settle that go to the heart of our 2027 presidential election. Questions about identity, about credentials, about a biography that has never withstood scrutiny, questions currently before Nigeria's own Federal High Court in the Atiku Abubakar suit over his eligibility. Nigerian voters have a right to the truth before they vote, not after.

Director Patel, you built your public reputation denouncing the deep state, secret files, and two-tiered justice. You wrote a book about government gangsters. Here is your test. The box is already open. The dots are already connected. Every day of delay, every sealed declaration, every extension request is itself an answer, because no agency fights this hard, this long, to conceal a clean record.

Release the Tinubu files. All of them. Let Nigerians judge for themselves.

History is watching you, and so are we.

Yours faithfully,

Kio Amachree
Founder and President, Worldview International
Stockholm

[aloy ejimakor @AloyEjimakor]

MONDAY ESSAY:

BIAFRA WAS NOT DEFEATED

I have said this before and I am repeating it. I commanded the last battle for the defense of Uli airport, so anything I talk about, concerning the end of the war, is more of an eye-witness account. I am telling young Nigerians particularly, young Igbo people who continue to read all these books citing the ‘fall of Biafra’, ‘the defeat of Biafra’, ‘the surrender of Biafra’, those are not true.

Strictly for the purpose of history, those narratives are not true. the truth about it, is that Nigeria was better equipped than Biafra, Nigeria had upper hand but Biafra was resilient. We fought like people who had no other choice. The way we perceived the war was such that we were rejected, we did not feel safe in Nigeria anymore. Our people were slaughtered and massacred for a cause they know nothing about. They said Igbo people caused the coup, of course that was also a lie, we did not cause the coup. Thousands of Igbo people were killed for no reason. So we did not have any choice, we resolved it was better to die fighting in defense of our people. That’s why we, the young men of those days joined the army and took up arms. We already made up our mind to pay the supreme price in defense of our fatherland, so in spite of our shortcomings and inadequacies, we were a fearless and resilient army of passionate young men who were willing to die for their homeland.

So like I said, the end of the civil war was negotiated and I say this because I was on ground. If not for the negotiation, Biafra war could have continued for 10, 12 or even 15 years because it is not that easy to utterly defeat somebody in his own ground without a long-drawn hostilities. If you come to one place, he will go to another place, and guerrilla warfare was an option. Our own generation of young people at the time were so determined and there was no way we would have surrendered at the time. We couldn���t have surrendered.

The type of people we had in Biafra were not people who could have surrendered like that. I will also like to add that when the negotiation came to our attention, we the younger officers held a meeting, we didn’t want to surrender, we wanted to go on but it was General Effiong that saved the situation. He told us that it was not defeat, that it is a negotiated ending for the war. So it is not a question of history recording it that our generation were defeated while fighting for survival. So we want our young people to know that we their parents fought well, willingly placing our lives on the line and we were not defeated.

It was Effiong that first told us that there will be no victor, no vanquished. It’s important to note that Ojukwu did not have a Biafran secession plan ab-initio, he believed in Nigeria. But it was the Nigerian government that forced him into the Biafra struggle, in defense of his people who were being slaughtered across the country. Infact, Ojukwu helped to neutralize the Chukwuma Nzeogwu coup alongside Aguiyi Ironsi who led the army at the time. But Nigerians plotted and killed Ironsi. So we didn’t feel any safe at all.

So there was no defeat, there was no surrender. It was a negotiated settlement to have one Nigeria. I am saying this again; we were not defeated. Yes, Nigeria had upper hand but we were resolute, we manufactured our equipment and military hardware. So I do not want our children tomorrow to say we were defeated. I am one of the people privy to all the meetings held. The end of the war was negotiated by both sides in the war.

Credit: Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I met this 14-year-old boy, Okpako-Onyokoko Ovie Joel, from Graceland International School, Port Harcourt, and I have been so impressed by his exploits.

36 international awards in Mathematics at just 14 years old.

He is a star, and the world will know him.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We captured this beautiful moment of Chimdiebube Onwubiko arriving in Enugu yesterday to a hero's welcome.

He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

I love seeing education reclaim its rightful place in our society.

This is just the beginning of something great.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

At Sam Mbakwe airport Owerri, a billboard has been put up for our star boy, Egejurum Onyedikachi, to celebrate him as he arrived in Owerri today.

He is 11 years old and the world’s best in the Primary category for Mathematics.

He is so good that he finished the exam and fell asleep.

What a star!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We captured this beautiful moment as Egejurum Onyedikachi and Don-Anele Munachimso arrived at Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, yesterday to a true hero's welcome.

These are not football stars. They are not musicians. They are not politicians.

They are children.

Children who became the world's best in Mathematics in the Primary and Senior categories. Don-Anele Munachimso is also the world's best in Science.

The last literary figures from the South East to receive this kind of heroic public welcome were Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Watching our brightest young minds being celebrated like national heroes gives me hope.

For too long, we have celebrated almost everything except academic excellence.

That is beginning to change.

Education is reclaiming its rightful place in our society, and a generation of children is growing up believing that knowledge, hard work and excellence deserve standing ovations too.

This is bigger than two children.

This is the beginning of a movement.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Don-Anele Munachimso and Egejurum Onyedikachi were received like kings yesterday in Owerri.

They returned home with two gold medals from the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

Together, they are the world's best in Mathematics in the Primary and Senior categories. Don-Anele Munachimso is also the world's best in Science (Senior Category).

This is what excellence looks like.

These children are not just champions; they are proof that Nigerian children can stand shoulder to shoulder with the very best in the world when given the opportunity.

They are stars today.

The world will celebrate them even more tomorrow.

This is not the peak.

This is just the beginning of greatness.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Chimdiebube Onwubiko was received like a king yesterday in Enugu.

He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

He is a star, and the world will celebrate him even more.

This is just the beginning of greatness.

[Apostle Michael Olowookere @myk_da_preacher]

I made this post 2 years ago.
Nigeria is slowing the Igbos down. Excellence is configured in their DNA. Your APC sponsored ethnic slurs wouldn't affect them.

[Benkingsley Nwashara @Benking443]

These kids keep using xylophone to recreate legendary Chief Osadebe's classics. 🔥

What a talent.

Let's make them popular!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Master Chisom Unachukwu and Anthony Iwegbu are their maths teachers.

They helped their students conquer the world.

Their schools are Evergreen Schools Enugu and Diamond Special College Owerri.

What a day!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The wait is over.

We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.

We are the best in the world!

Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

More good news.

Don Anele Munachimso also won gold in Science.

He is the best in world science.

Remember, he is the best in IGCSE Chemistry in Nigeria.

The investment is worth it.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The South East is making a choice.

We will double down on eliminating illiteracy.

Every child who cannot read, write and reason represents lost potential for our economy, our security and our future.

We are studying the education systems that consistently produce some of the world’s strongest learning outcomes, including Singapore and China.

We are no longer educating children just to survive.

We are educating them to compete globally and lead.

That is the future we are building.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump called communism the biggest threat since our founding—bigger than Pearl Harbor, WWI, WWII.

Exaggeration? @BarbaraMBoyd shows why he's right, and why Mark Carney and the DSA want him gone.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince women that this is oppressive.

[Mike Arnold @MikeArnoldTruth]

This is my congressional briefing from today, delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. @Alex_Barbir gave a fantastic presentation - he will be editing and uploading soon.

Thanks to Stephen Enada with ICONS and all the great men of AVID.

#EarthShaker

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PHOTO I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).

2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.

3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL!).

4. NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.

5. NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION SURGERY ON OUR CHILDREN.