alj harem:

LOL it is very common on this site to find Igbos claim origins they know nothing about not to talk of being from that place.

Example

Akin egba
Adejoro
Ngodigha
tomakint
policewoman
etc

You all are the same, it is the same pattern. Tell him/her to answer my question of her place of origin and I would ask some questions about the place if truly he/she is sure of herself

kofoshi: bukkyade too.

I suspect Tomakint being pointb

Afam4eva: Since this Damola guy is soo intelligent how come his intelligent has not made him world acclaimed? @justasking

GARRI (x7):
Nice article!!

I love the way this guy exposed Achebe's lies and deceit.

Achebe truly deserves his place in the "2012 Politics Section Hall of Shame".

What he calls a book is a "body of lies", meant to poison the minds of folks who lack the ability to reason rationally, folks blinded by ethnic bigotry and a supremacist mindset.

Dede1:


Ojukwu was always magnanimous and equally sarcastic in every statement he altered to the press during and after the war. Typical example was a statement such as “president Nigeria never had”. When I said a coward will die 10 miserable deaths before the actual death, I meant every word.

Awolowo displayed the inherent niche for cowardice and total ignorance on military issues when he allegedly claimed that western region was occupied by 35,000 soldiers. This is ridiculously laughable. I doff my heart for loudmouth antics of Yoruba peep. In 1966, Nigeria had two considerable less in strength Brigades and other formations such Recce and Garrison Organization.

A standard battalion takes at least 500 men. The 2nd brigade in the southern Nigeria comprised three battalions namely 1st battalion in Enugu, 2nd Battalion Ikeja and 4th Battalion Abeokwuta. There were small formations such as Recce and Garrison organization at Lagos and Ibadan. It takes at least 500 men to form a battalion. In case of Nigeria in 1966, the battalions were considerable undermanned.

For posterity sake, let me allot the number of full battalion to 2nd and 4th which sum up to 1000 men. Since both the Recce and two Garrisons are smaller formations than battalion, I shall be generous in granting 1000 men to the combined formations. Now those of you who studied mathematics, can 2000 men translate into 35,000 armed men? Bear in mind also that another battalion that made up the 2nd Brigade was 1st Battalion at Enugu with at least 500 men.

Dede1:


Ojukwu was always magnanimous and equally sarcastic in every statement he altered to the press during and after the war. Typical example was a statement such as “president Nigeria never had”. When I said a coward will die 10 miserable deaths before the actual death, I meant every word.

Awolowo displayed the inherent niche for cowardice and total ignorance on military issues when he allegedly claimed that western region was occupied by 35,000 soldiers. This is ridiculously laughable. I doff my heart for loudmouth antics of Yoruba peep. In 1966, Nigeria had two considerable less in strength Brigades and other formations such Recce and Garrison Organization.

A standard battalion takes at least 500 men. The 2nd brigade in the southern Nigeria comprised three battalions namely 1st battalion in Enugu, 2nd Battalion Ikeja and 4th Battalion Abeokwuta. There were small formations such as Recce and Garrison organization at Lagos and Ibadan. It takes at least 500 men to form a battalion. In case of Nigeria in 1966, the battalions were considerable undermanned.

For posterity sake, let me allot the number of full battalion to 2nd and 4th which sum up to 1000 men. Since both the Recce and two Garrisons are smaller formations than battalion, I shall be generous in granting 1000 men to the combined formations. Now those of you who studied mathematics, can 2000 men translate into 35,000 armed men? Bear in mind also that another battalion that made up the 2nd Brigade was 1st Battalion at Enugu with at least 500 men.

masu:

AM FROM PLATAUE STAE:
now listen stop geting angry for nothing that is the why i see the danger in igbo vs yoruba fight,
i some how doubt your yoruba identity for real bcus you accept yoruba versus igbo war too easy while you vehemently object fulani/hausa been a problem to us all.
am scratching my head to blv or not if you are yoruba for real but for now let me look the other way.

as a plataue man i can tell you with first hand info that we are regreting the war, we fought wrong people.
let me point out for you atleast 4 state in the belt: kwara/nasarawa/plataue and benue has seen the true color of fulanis till date read news bro.

you yorubas are a bit far away from this monsters now but i promise you if they finishes with us there will be no where the south can hide.

toothpaste: Yoruba people eh! hehe very timid and always like hiding behind

Dede1:

You can knock yourself silly with sacrifices.

dayokanu:

Quotes from the Kogi boy. I dont understand why some people would deny their own region Are you ashamed of being Ibo?

donedy: I'm still confused why the only people complaining about this book are the Yourubas. I'm from Kogi and I have nothing against the book.

CyberG:

Shut your USELESS PUTRID ibo mouth! Your previous posts clearly show you are an ibo man, why are you pretending to be from Kogi? Just to make it appear that other Nigerians support the senile Ashebe who wrote LIES against all other Nigerians on behalf of his iboz? Wake up from your nightmare because the war is NOT over but in the next one, there will be no remaining iboz to write propaganda like Ashebe!

donedy:

Just keep deceiving yourself by classifying any reasonable person as Igbo. it's obvious that the only people jumping and scratching themselves about the book are some, not all, deluded Yoruba. For goodness, I expected Hausa and Fulani to be the people acting this way.

Kogi has nothing against the Igbos.

Dede1:

It is good you reminded us about Yoruba’s propensity for ritualistic indulgence.

CyberG:

And yet they whooped your ass so badly! 3M retardeens dead and their ojuku saviour fled killing 2 small children in the process! Haha...we know iboz definitions are usually upside down!

donedy:
Just keep deceiving yourself by classifying any reasonable person as Igbo. it's obvious that the only people jumping and scratching themselves about the book are some, not all, deluded Yoruba. For goodness, I expected Hausa and Fulani to be the people acting this way.
Kogi has nothing against the Igbos.

alj harem: I told you I know these people very very well BTW
PointB = Tomakint = Ezeuche. This I know. Trust me, Tomakint is NOT ANDRE UWEH
Andre uweh is not a politician but an ethnic person. Ezeuche aka Point B aka Tomakint is a politician ( a stu.pid one as a matter of fact)
The difference is clear, I know every single one of them both on Nairaland and REAL LIFE.

kofoshi:

bukkyade too.

I suspect Tomakint being pointb

tomakint:
Really? just like that tomakint is no more andre uweh but now ezeuche, typical

kunlekunle:


since you are a better Igbo fictional historian, kindly assist me to confirm how authentic this piece is

As part of the exclusive revelations from the 21,000 pages of US documents on the Nigeria-Biafra war, Richard Akinjide the Ibadan lawyer and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the former president of Nigeria told the American consul Mr Strong in Ibadan what that they thought of Ojukwu: Akinjide said: “Ojukwu suffers from Hitler-like megalomania.” He explained that Ojukwu was rejected as a child because he was an offspring of a mistress his father Sir Louis Ojukwu acquired in one of his business trips to the North. The father, a devout catholic, refused to accept the pregnancy that led to Ojukwu was his alone; other mysterious forces may have been at work. So he did not recognise Ojukwu nor took him into his home. Instead he sent the mother and the baby back to the North where the mother made her living as a trader and where the boy was born. Ojukwu like Nnamdi Azikiwe, was born in Zungeru. As the boy grew up, friends of the business mogul prevailed on him to recognise the boy as his own son. He then agreed to do so but the boy was something of an embarrassment so he sent him off to school in England where the boy eventually made it into Oxford University.

Akinjide, the former NNDP politician said “he knew Ojukwu well” when he was a federal minister under Tafawa Balewa. He continued: “When Ojukwu returned back to Nigeria he tried to get a job with the Nigerian Tobacco Company (NTC) but was turned down. Akinjide speculated on how Nigerian history might have been different if NTC had given Ojukwu a job. “Instead he drifted into civil service and was given a post as Assistant District Officer at a bush post in the East. He was unhappy in this position,” Akinjide said because he felt his talents were not recognised. Seeking a better road to power and influence he joined the Nigerian army and because of his good educational background, he was soon sent to the elite Royal Academy Sandhurst in the UK.

alj harem:
LOOOOOOOL Yes you are ezeuche, Look I am not like every other person on this site, I know what I say when I say it and you are also Point B and ezeuche. Not that it matters anyway. So Tomakint why did you change your moniker? where you scared of your racist surs coming to hunt you later ?
I didn't mean to expose you my brother but you pushed me. I apologise

alj harem:
LOOOOOOOL Yes you are ezeuche, Look I am not like every other person on this site, I know what I say when I say it and you are also Point B and ezeuche. Not that it matters anyway. So Tomakint why did you change your moniker? where you scared of your racist surs coming to hunt you later ?
I didn't mean to expose you my brother but you pushed me. I apologise

tomakint:
Stop posting ur stu.pidity keeps magnifying per post, indeed you are a certified plague

tomakint:
Stop posting ur stu.pidity keeps magnifying per post, indeed you are a certified dolt!

Dede1:


I usually do not respond to junks written by characters such as Richard Akinjide but since you seek the truth, Akinjide is one reason people hold Yoruba in contempt. However, I shall disappoint you on the issue of Ojukwu’s parentage. Unlike the loudmouthed Richard Akinjide, I do not dwell on people’s mother and father.

A political love peddler and perennial decamper such as Richard Akinjide introduced tribalism in Nigerian academia as Awolowo introduced tribalism in Nigerian polity. When he decamped from NCNC and joined NNDP on the promise of ministerial appointment, his first action on duty as Minister of Education was to appoint a fellow Omo Yoruba and political decamper in Dr Biabiaku(sp) as Vice Chancellor of Unilag and pushing out Prof. Eni Njoku. Folks remember that the things that qualified Dr Biabiaku for a teaching position talk less associate professorship were, 1. omo Yoruba, 2. clipboard carrying member of AG, 3. a fellow political love peddler such as Akinjide and 4. average lecturer at UI not even an associate professor.

I love Yoruba peeps with loudmouth and Akinjide did not disappoint. Ojukwu as a master degree holder from Oxford and son of highly placed Nigerian with friends in high places can not drift for job. Ojukwu was given options and he chose to be administrative officer, a job reserved for Colonial masters. I gathered it was a plan to vacate all the colonial masters from the eastern region to the western and northern regions. He was posted to Udi in Enugu as an assistant district officer (ADO) where he allagedly slapped a Briton who was DO (District Officer). The Briton was transferred to northern region while Ojukwu was transferred to Aba as ADO under Chief Jerome Udorji. My father, who was a district councilor in Asa, informed me that Ojukwu had little issue with Udorji which made Ojukwu to leave Aba for the military.

I am amazed at the manner Yoruba peeps flaunt their collective ignorance in the public. It is laughable that a person in position of Richard Akinjide lacked the knowledge that Ojukwu did not attend British Royal Academy, Sandhurst. Anyway, laziness and loudmouth can be agents of delusion. Since Ojukwu had a master degree from Oxford University for that matter, he was sent to British Royal Academy, MONS, Aldershot just for the military regimentation.

Dede1:


I usually do not respond to junks written by characters such as Richard Akinjide but since you seek the truth, Akinjide is one reason people hold Yoruba in contempt. However, I shall disappoint you on the issue of Ojukwu’s parentage. Unlike the loudmouthed Richard Akinjide, I do not dwell on people’s mother and father.

A political love peddler and perennial decamper such as Richard Akinjide introduced tribalism in Nigerian academia as Awolowo introduced tribalism in Nigerian polity. When he decamped from NCNC and joined NNDP on the promise of ministerial appointment, his first action on duty as Minister of Education was to appoint a fellow Omo Yoruba and political decamper in Dr Biabiaku(sp) as Vice Chancellor of Unilag and pushing out Prof. Eni Njoku. Folks remember that the things that qualified Dr Biabiaku for a teaching position talk less associate professorship were, 1. omo Yoruba, 2. clipboard carrying member of AG, 3. a fellow political love peddler such as Akinjide and 4. average lecturer at UI not even an associate professor.

I love Yoruba peeps with loudmouth and Akinjide did not disappoint. Ojukwu as a master degree holder from Oxford and son of highly placed Nigerian with friends in high places can not drift for job. Ojukwu was given options and he chose to be administrative officer, a job reserved for Colonial masters. I gathered it was a plan to vacate all the colonial masters from the eastern region to the western and northern regions. He was posted to Udi in Enugu as an assistant district officer (ADO) where he allagedly slapped a Briton who was DO (District Officer). The Briton was transferred to northern region while Ojukwu was transferred to Aba as ADO under Chief Jerome Udorji. My father, who was a district councilor in Asa, informed me that Ojukwu had little issue with Udorji which made Ojukwu to leave Aba for the military.

I am amazed at the manner Yoruba peeps flaunt their collective ignorance in the public. It is laughable that a person in position of Richard Akinjide lacked the knowledge that Ojukwu did not attend British Royal Academy, Sandhurst. Anyway, laziness and loudmouth can be agents of delusion. Since Ojukwu had a master degree from Oxford University for that matter, he was sent to British Royal Academy, MONS, Aldershot just for the military regimentation.

lagcity:
The indefatigable Mr Dede I like this man, he never shies away from a fight. The one and only energizer bunny of Nairaland He must have been very troublesome during his youth. Give em hell, Dede!

Dede1:
I usually do not respond to junks written by characters such as Richard Akinjide but since you seek the truth, Akinjide is one reason people hold Yoruba in contempt.

texazzpete:

The reason why i hold YOU in contempt is because you have never truly grown up. You're an old man, older than many people in this forum and still you have never learnt the basic lesson that any mature person must learn: You cannot use one man or group of men to stereotype an entire group of people!

nku5:

Interesting you would call dede1 out for generalisation when other tribes, yorubas especially slag off on igbos day in day out. This thread is bursting at the seams with generalisations, this site is full of such.

nku5:
In a related way isn't the "igbo coup" you all are battling hard to prove, a generalisation?

Dede1:


I usually do not respond to junks written by characters such as Richard Akinjide but since you seek the truth, Akinjide is one reason people hold Yoruba in contempt. However, I shall disappoint you on the issue of Ojukwu’s parentage. Unlike the loudmouthed Richard Akinjide, I do not dwell on people’s mother and father.

A political love peddler and perennial decamper such as Richard Akinjide introduced tribalism in Nigerian academia as Awolowo introduced tribalism in Nigerian polity. When he decamped from NCNC and joined NNDP on the promise of ministerial appointment, his first action on duty as Minister of Education was to appoint a fellow Omo Yoruba and political decamper in Dr Biabiaku(sp) as Vice Chancellor of Unilag and pushing out Prof. Eni Njoku. Folks remember that the things that qualified Dr Biabiaku for a teaching position talk less associate professorship were, 1. omo Yoruba, 2. clipboard carrying member of AG, 3. a fellow political love peddler such as Akinjide and 4. average lecturer at UI not even an associate professor.

I love Yoruba peeps with loudmouth and Akinjide did not disappoint. Ojukwu as a master degree holder from Oxford and son of highly placed Nigerian with friends in high places can not drift for job. Ojukwu was given options and he chose to be administrative officer, a job reserved for Colonial masters. I gathered it was a plan to vacate all the colonial masters from the eastern region to the western and northern regions. He was posted to Udi in Enugu as an assistant district officer (ADO) where he allagedly slapped a Briton who was DO (District Officer). The Briton was transferred to northern region while Ojukwu was transferred to Aba as ADO under Chief Jerome Udorji. My father, who was a district councilor in Asa, informed me that Ojukwu had little issue with Udorji which made Ojukwu to leave Aba for the military.

I am amazed at the manner Yoruba peeps flaunt their collective ignorance in the public. It is laughable that a person in position of Richard Akinjide lacked the knowledge that Ojukwu did not attend British Royal Academy, Sandhurst. Anyway, laziness and loudmouth can be agents of delusion. Since Ojukwu had a master degree from Oxford University for that matter, he was sent to British Royal Academy, MONS, Aldershot just for the military regimentation.