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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J We are all Biafrans, Chido Onumah tells us. In a sense, at least, one would think we are, as Biafra has become a metaphor for that which ails us as a people. We have chosen to focus more on that which divides us rather than that which unites us. We are seeking to take refuge in the arms of a yesterday we really do not know but desperately yearn for, even when our eyes should be on tomorrow. Rather than configure how to shape our future through innovation, we have opted to be stuck behind, spewing bile at will, fuelling the contradictions that face us with outdated tools. Some will ask- Can there be a tomorrow without a yesterday? No doubt that there cannot be but I will argue that ours is the burden and choice of what from yesterday we choose to let determine our tomorrow. For, he who spends more time and energy on the rear-view mirror rather than the front windshield makes an accident in the future more an inevitability. It is in that sense that we are all Biaf...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By John Mkom J alingo— Over 11 persons have been killed and 15,000 others displaced in the herdsmen and farmers’ clash in Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. Zaki David-Gbaa, the Chairman of Council of Tiv Traditional Rulers Forum in Taraba, who disclosed this at St. Paul’s Catholic Church’s camp for the Internal Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Bali town, headquarters of Bali Local Government, claimed that 11 farmers had died since the crisis started. According to him, scores of people injured in the five villages are receiving treatment at the Bali General Hospital. The local chief said 1,765 people displaced by the crisis were taking refuge in three centres in Bali. Chief Gbaa said the dispute started among the Tiv and Ichen people of Megoge village in Bali when an Ichen man was reportedly killed by unknown persons in his house. He said: “The victim’s kinsmen accused the Tiv people of the crime, leading to the fight among the people of Megoge.” He sai...