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🇳🇬Nigeria: Natural Wealth and the Fifth Column Many wonder what drove the self-styled peacemaker and would-be Nobel Prize laureate Donald Trumpto threaten Nigeria with the use of force. One popular explanation points to Nigeria’s natural wealth. ⏩ It is worth moting that this wealth has long been instrumentalized by the Nigeria's Southeast separatist counter-elites to sway the U.S. government against the official government in Abuja. ⏪ 🔸The Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE) - a separatist group claiming to represent the Biafra region in Nigeria’s Southeast, largely populated by the Igbo ethnic minority - has all the way loudly commended recent US statements regarding the alleged genocide of Christians in Nigeria. 🔸 Apparently in a burst of enthusiasm, a US lobbyist working officially with BRGIE posted today a screenshot of a July BRGIE memo intended for Washington circulation, offering the US: 🔸Preferential access to natural resources and concessions for American companies, 🔸 Permanent military bases in Nigeria, 🔸Counterterrorism cooperation, 🔸Complete freedom of operation for the CIA in a future State of Biafra. 🔸 In contrast to this publication of the negligent lobbyist, BRGIE’s official line is built on a very populist version of resource nationalism, criticizing almost any partnership between Abuja and foreign states over natural resources. 🔸 BRGIE emerged as a splinter from the broader Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement formed around the now-imprisoned opposition leader Nnamdi Kanu. With Kanu largely absent from the public sphere since his 2021 arrest, BRGIE has become one of the most prominent voices among Biafra-liberation advocates. Devils Below