This is what new nation will look like

The name Biafra comes from the ‘Bight of Biafra’—the Atlantic bay on the south, toward the east end of the Gulf of Guinea.

Scholars believe that the word ‘Biafra’ is derived from ‘Biafar’ or ‘Biafada’. Both words are from the language of the Tenda ethnic group who reside in Guinea-Bissau.

‘Biafar’ is believed to be a common Portuguese word used in the 16th century.

The 1967-1970 civil war in Nigeria was premised on the realisation of a Biafra nation. The war ended without Biafra being realised.

However, in recent times, there have been renewed agitations for a sovereign State of Biafra.

If we have a Biafra nation today, this is what it will look like…..

Slogan

‘Land of the rising sun’.

Population

Biafra had about 13.5 million people in 1967 when the war commenced. Today, the Biafra nation could boast a population of over 70 million inhabitants.

Biafra States

A Biafra country will have the following States within its borders:

Bayelsa

Rivers

Cross River

Anambra

Delta

Abia

Enugu

Imo

Ebonyi

Akwa Ibom

Benue

Kogi

Biafra Provinces

The original idea behind Biafra was to run the place as Provinces and not States.

So, Biafra will have 25 provinces.

Let’s run through them quickly:

Agbo

Asaba

Owerri

Umuahia

Orlu

Ikot Ekpene

Uyo

Eket

Ogoja

Calabar

Enugu

Oji River

Awka

Onitsha

Nnewi

Okigwe

Annang

Abakaliki

Yenegoa

Warri

Ahoada

Ughelli

Degema

Port Harcourt

Aba

Capital

The administrative capital of Biafra will be Owerri.

Please, don’t ask me why. That was the original plan.

Political parties

APGA and PDP will be the major political parties in Biafra land.

APC will be banished and all APC offices in Biafra land will be converted to Ugba (African Oilbean seeds) storage facilities.

Language

Like Nigeria, Biafra will be a very multilingual country with diverse tongues from Urhobo, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Ejagam, Ikwerre, Delta Igbo, Eket, Oron, Abiriba, Mbembe, to Efraya and Adun.

Area

Biafra will sit on 77, 306 kilometer square or on over 29,400 square miles of land.

President

At this moment, no one knows if Biafra will have a Supreme leader like Kim Jong Un Nnamdi Kanu or a democratically elected president like Muhammadu Buhari.

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Will Biafra run a democracy, a parliamentary system of government, a monarchy or a dictatorship?

We’ll pass.

Currency

The Biafra currency will be called the Biafra Pound.

Resources

The people of Biafra will have plenty of Crude Oil, Oil Palm and other cash crops like Yam, Cassava, etc, to play with.

Biafra will have enough food to feed itself because its people are predominantly farmers. Fishing will also be encouraged because the new nation will have the Atlantic passing through it.

However, the activities of oil majors will pollute the living environments and livelihoods of the locals. But because the new nation will need the oil money so badly, they won't complain so much.

And then, there’s taxation to shore up the Biafra government revenue when doing business with neighbouring Nigeria becomes a problem.

Rich nation? Nah, cross that. Very wealthy nation, this Biafra.

Law enforcement

The Biafra Secret Service(BSS) will be in charge of keeping the peace and stopping neighbouring Nigerians from getting through the porous borders without passports.

A herculean task.

A Trumpian wall will have to be built to keep the nosy, meddlesome Nigerians out.

Football team

Biafra will probably have a football team called ‘Super Leopards’, ‘Mighty Elephants’ or something along those lines.

The Biafra football team will be a strong one on paper and on the turf. It will have Alex Iwobi, Ogenyi Onazi, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Mikel Obi; with Kanu Nwankwo and Jay Jay Okocha as Coachand football federation president respectively.

That’s the entire Nigeria team donning the red, black and green of Biafra.

Imagine the scenes if they beat Nigeria in the final game of the Africa Nations Cup....