The Biafran: 13% Oil Derivation

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

ABSURD!!! Oil-barren North-East Nigeria demands for 13% derivation from Buhari

ABSURD!!! OIl-barren North-East Nigeria demands for 13% derivation from Buhari

Currently sans oil resource North East Nigeria has demanded for 13% oil derivation funds from Muhammadu Buhari. 13% oil derivation was meant to cushion the environmental and health impacts of oil exploitation on the oil producing states in Nigeria. However, the Borno State governor, Kassim Ibrahim, yesterday asked to the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), to allocate 13% of petroleum revenue to the North East region which according to him has been ravaged by insurgency when he assumes office.

Republic of Biafra Anthem

Land of rising sun, we love and cherish,
Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;
We must defend our lives or we shall perish,
We shall protect our hearts from all our foes;
But if the price is death for all we hold dear,
Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,
O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:
Defending thee shall be a dedication,
Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;
The waving standard which emboldens the free
Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,
And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;
When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,
We shall remember those who died in mass;
Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song
Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,
Guide all our movements lest we go astray;
Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:
To give and not to count the cost’ each day;
Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,
To make this clime a land of righteousness.

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

ABSURD!!! Oil-barren North-East Nigeria demands for 13% derivation from Buhari