Pupils of a school in Igweocha also known as Port Harcourt were seen singing the Biafran national anthem during their morning devotion on Friday 15th November 2019.

it was a great experience to come across this school children in IGWE-OCHA during their morning devotion, paying allegiance to their great Nation Biafra, by singing the Biafran national anthem.

The national anthem ” Land of the Rising Sun ” was the proclaimed national anthem of the state of Biafra, in Eastern Nigeria. The tune was adopted from Jean Sibelius’ ” Finlandia “.

The anthem sings:

“Land of the rising sun, we love and cherish,
The 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,
Oh, 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 have 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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Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting Obinwannem News