tomakint:
Are you not a foolish fool already, when the same Megalomaniac Sardauna was secretly preparing an army to take over the whole of Yorubaland where were you? When he engaged your grandfather, Chief S.L Akintola to rig Awo's election where were you? When the same bigot was busy sneaking in catchment of ammunition so as to perpetuate his stooge, Tafawa Balewa in power where were you? You must be a goat in your former life, the curse is still on YOU!

Catch 22.

nagoma:

Despite your strong claims to education and civilization the south with a so called PhD as president have failed abysmally in providing a healthy democracy and a real government for Nigeria. The Almajiri would probably do better than the southern PhD.

You would never recognize a true democracy, except it was being run by a Northerner. We are running a democracy, but it is the likes of Buhari and NGF who are bent on turning the country into a polarised bloddy wasteland.

Røtten_egg: I'm impressed, never knew an aboki man could be so fluent.....

What do you mean? Pls compare the fluency of Current CBN Governor and current president of our great nation....

dayokanu:

What Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu did was never heard of in Nigeria pre Jan 15 1966. They introduced the evil of coup into our polity

Cursed are they. cursed would they remain especially those that killed political leaders in their bed. Cursed would their relations be up till the 6th generation

What Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu did was never heard of in Nigeria's history? As a matter of fact, Awolowo introduced the term coup to Nigeria's polity. Just that his attempt was truncated in the planning stage. He was subsequently jailed after he was found guilty in the civil court. So that curse should start with Awolowo, his descendants and his supporters down to the 6th generation.

PS: I have strong reason to believe that you are disturbed. Why can't you seek help?

DR PYGRU: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.” ---Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto in THE PARROT of October 12, 1960

I av nufin 2 say than dz country wz destroyd by d sardauna nd 4 dz simple reason,we nid nufin than

Ibo-Killer:





But Ibos have been telling their offspring that Hausas have always hated them and their religion. Wow!!

Christianity is nt a religion for Igbos only; hausa christians abound too mallam.

don't confuse yourself with the hypocricy of that message. its all eye service. the real man within despices your christian religion. that's who they are. bloody hypocrites.

DR PYGRU: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.” ---Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto in THE PARROT of October 12, 1960

Unity, togetherness, selflessness, humility, nobility, team spirit, and the One-Nigeria attitude all lacking here... Hmmm, God is truly a Nigerian. We always find a way out of precarious situations in this country. This statement is capable of re-enacting ethnic/religious violence but, thank God for events that happened thereafter to reshape Nigeria.

Nutase: I used to have a great deal of respect for this dude until I watched an interview he granted to the BBC in 1960. If the likes of this guy continued in leadership position, this country would have been worse than it is today or probably been split into several entities.
They are the ones who sowed the seed of discord along religious and tribal lines.

If you really take your time to research on this country you will see Gods hand in everything that has happened from 1960 till date in keeping Nigeria as one united entity.

If u can't praise this gentleman for the good things he has done to this nation, u don't have any genuine bases to condemn him. Haba! Let's try n jettison the sprit of sentiments in our dealings.

If yorubas are to beleive Awolowo killed himself,Igbos are to beleive Fajuyi protected Ironsi becaus both speculations are UNCLEAR !

Nutase: I used to have a great deal of respect for this dude until I watched an interview he granted to the BBC in 1960. If the likes of this guy continued in leadership position, this country would have been worse than it is today or probably been split into several entities.
They are the ones who sowed the seed of discord along religious and tribal lines.

If you really take your time to research on this country you will see Gods hand in everything that has happened from 1960 till date in keeping Nigeria as one united entity.

I agree completely I ve seen the interview myself, immediately after his, came kaduna nzeogwu's interview on how they killed him.
sardauna of sokoto does not believe in religious tolerance and political equality.
The way he stressed those parts in the message made it more apparent.
how the mofo ended up on the 200 naira note is most baffling.

dayokanu:

Akintola was voted in by his people. He was Deputy Premier and his NNDP swept the polls which shows how popular he was.

Benjamin Adekunle who destroyed Biafra was from the same town as Akintola and he took the killing personal

Fajuyi was not voted and doesnt enjoy the type of followership Akintola did.

And just the same way ibos kept quiet when their son/president Aguiyi ironsi was killed

Dayolodo,

It appears you have added another notorious wig to your inherent loudmouth. Only this time, it is called delusion. Benjamin Adekunle was forced into traffic warden by resilient young Briafran tigers. I now know why Caliphate foot soldiers turned Ogbomoso into a pickup point.

yakosteal: All someone did was post something for celebration and it's already being torn apart.

that is why its a forum and the reason most people are here.
"to tear things apart"

Nzeugwu and his criminal friends were cowards who could only attack unarmed men and women in their sleep. When Nzeugwu went to joined the Biafran Army the dude was filled with bullets by the Nigerian recruits within no time. He was one of the casualties in the first 3 months of the 30 month war. A coward who could only kill civilians.

Røtten_egg: I'm impressed, never knew an aboki man could be so fluent.....

Get off such parochial thoughts. Even a Grade 2 teacher - Tafawa Balewa had a better oratory power and confidence that the "PHd"-brandishing GEJ!

Røtten_egg: I'm impressed, never knew an aboki man could be so fluent.....

Not only rotten but deluded. You may forge certificates but that doesn't mean you are educated.

ANY BODY WHO STILL THINKS NZEOGWUS COUP WAS MOTIVATED BY TRIBALISM SHOULD READ THIS IT WILL CURE THEIR IGNORANCE


Interview with Major Nzeogwu
Another nugget from Nigerian history. This
is the text of Major Chukwuma Kaduna
Nzeogwu’s famous interview with Dennis
Ejindu in May 1967. This interview took
place just before the start of the civil war. It
is probably the most detailed question and
answer session with Major Nzeogwu.
Enjoy….
Ejindu: I am glad to meet you, Sir. How
would you feel if you knew that you are
being regarded as a hero?
Nzeogwu: Very pleased naturally. But the
truth is that I am not a hero. If there was
any famous Major Nzeogwu, I have never
heard of him.
Ejindu: It is rumoured that you have just
finished writing a book, what is it like?
Nzeogwu: Good gracious! Ninety-nine per
cent of all the stories you hear in this
country are false. I have not written any
book because there was nothing to write
about. You can only write about a finished
job. It would have been a useful means of
warding off boredom though, but one did
not do it for the fear that the authorities
might seize the papers. However I had
enough time to make detailed notes on
what happened, and one might use them if
in future there was any need to write
something.
Ejindu: Before you went into prison, the
cloud was so clear above this country that
one could see very far into the future. Now
that you are out, what do you see?
Nzeogwu: A job very badly done. If I may
borrow your metaphor, the atmosphere is
admittedly somewhat cloudy. But I don’t
think there will be rain. Indeed if you look
steadily up you will find that the sun is not
yet set and might still peep through. The
trouble is that people generally can’t tell
which is a rain cloud and which is not, and
as a result they tend to be confused. As you
know there is too much bitterness at
present in the country, and in the past
people had imagined that they could
conveniently do without one another. But
the bitterness will clear in the end and they
will find that they are not as self-reliant as
they had thought. And they will long to be
together…. The .same applies to the
Northerners. It may take ten or fifteen years
for them to come together again but there
is no doubt, as far as I can see, that they will.
You see, in this world of imperfection, it is
sometimes very difficult to capture the ideal.
But we can, at least start with the second
best.
Ejindu: What is the second best?
Nzeogwu: A Confederation.
Ejindu: Before I come back to that, may 1
take you back to January, 1966. What exactly
happened at Nassarawa (the premier’s
residence at Kaduna) on the night of the
14th?
Nzeogwu: No, no, no; don’t ask me anything
about that, I don’t want to remember it.
Ejindu: All right. A lot has been talked and
written about the January coup. But how
tribalistic was it really in conception and
execution?
Nzeogwu: In the North, no. In the South,
yes. We were five in number, and initially we
knew quite clearly what we wanted to do.
We had a short list of people who were
either undesirable for the future progress of
the country or who by their positions at the
time had to be sacrificed for peace and
stability. Tribal considerations were
completely out of our minds at this stage.
But we had a set-back in the execution. Both
of us in the North did our best. But the other
three who were stationed in the South
failed because of incompetence and
misguided considerations in the eleventh
hour. The most senior among them was in
charge of a whole brigade and had all the
excuse and opportunity in the world to
mobilize his troops anywhere, anyhow and
any time. He did it badly. In Lagos, even
allowing for one or two genuine mistakes,
the job was badly done. The Mid-West was
never a big problem. But in the East, our
major target, nothing practically was done.
He and the others let us down.
Ejindu: You must have anticipated that Gen.
Ironsi would let you down in the end. Why
did you surrender to him the way you did?
Nzeogwu: I was being sensible. The last
thing we desired was unnecessary waste of
life. If I had stuck to my guns there would
have been a civil war, and as the official
head of the Army, he would have split the
loyalty of my men. Again, you must
remember that the British and other
foreigners were standing by to help him.
Our purpose was to change our country and
make it a place we could be proud to call
our home, not to wage war.
Ejindu: It has been said that Gen. Ironsi set
out to complete your job for you. Was there
anything you did not like in his
administration?
Nzeogwu: Yes, everything. First he chose
the wrong advisers for the work he
halfheartedly set out to do. Most of them
were either mediocre or absolutely
unintelligent. Secondly, he was tribalistic in
the appointment of his governors. Thirdly
the Decree 34 was unnecessary, even silly in
fact.
Ejindu: But you wanted a unitary
government?
Nzeogwu: No. Not a unitary government as
such. We wanted to see a strong centre. We
wanted to cut the country to small pieces,
making the centre inevitably strong. We did
not want to toy with power, which was
what he did.
Ejindu: Tell me, what do you think of him as
a soldier?
Nzeogwu: I am afraid I cannot tell you that.
But I will say that as a person he was very
well liked and as the Supreme Commander,
his orders were promptly carried out.
Ejindu: If he joined the Army as a gunner, he
must have progressed as a military
strategist?
Nzeogwu: Yes, if he had, he could have
done so. But he actually joined the Army as a
tally-clerk and was a clerk most of the time.
Ejindu: From the present chaos, what type
of Nigeria do you envisage?
Nzeogwu: In the first place, secession will
be ill-advised, indeed impossible. Even if the
East fights a war of secession and wins, it
still cannot secede. Personally, I don’t like
secession and if this country disintegrates, I
shall pack up my things and go. In the
present circumstances, confederation is the
best answer as a temporary measure. In
time, we shall have complete unity. Give this
country a confederation and, believe me, in
ten or fifteen years the young men will find
it intolerable, and will get together to
change it. And it is obvious we shall get a
confederation or something near it. Nothing
will stop that.
Ejindu: Do you think there will be any war?
Nzeogwu: No. Nobody wants to fight. The
East which is best equipped and best
prepared for war, does not want to attack
anybody. The North cannot fight. And Lagos
cannot fight now. If they had attacked the
East in August or September, they would
have had a walk-over. Today, I think they will
be ill-advised to try.
Ejindu: An Englishman said to me the other
day that the best thing Ojukwu can do is to
take over Lagos. Do you think he can do it
even if he wanted to?
Nzeogwu: Yes, I think the East is strong
enough to do it if they want to. But it will
serve no useful purpose. It can only serve to
destroy life and property. You see, the
effective power does not lie in Lagos but in
Kaduna, and if you remove Gowon
somebody else will take his place. If you
capture the South against the North, all you
can achieve is civil war, disintegration and
border clashes.
Ejindu: Finally, let me come to the
controversy over your release. Much as it has
been a popular action you have been
released by the east government against the
wish of the federal government. What do
you say to that?
Nzeogwu: All I can say is that I am happy
and grateful to be out. We feel grateful to
the Nsukka students for their persistent
demand, and to the boys in the barracks for
their pressure on the authorities in the east.
And to the Nigerian public in general for
their concern over our welfare.

DR PYGRU: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.” ---Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto in THE PARROT of October 12, 1960

The true description of hausa/fulani/Muslim is..............


Two edged sword, chameleon, double tongue...

The thing about the coup,why did they have to kill Shodeinde's pregnant wife ? and some other women SMH,so wrong

Noneroone: ANY BODY WHO STILL THINKS NZEOGWUS COUP WAS MOTIVATED BY TRIBALISM SHOULD READ THIS IT WILL CURE THEIR IGNORANCE


Interview with Major Nzeogwu
Another nugget from Nigerian history. This
is the text of Major Chukwuma Kaduna
Nzeogwu’s famous interview with Dennis
Ejindu in May 1967. This interview took
place just before the start of the civil war. It
is probably the most detailed question and
answer session with Major Nzeogwu.
Enjoy….
Ejindu: I am glad to meet you, Sir. How
would you feel if you knew that you are
being regarded as a hero?
Nzeogwu: Very pleased naturally. But the
truth is that I am not a hero. If there was
any famous Major Nzeogwu, I have never
heard of him.
Ejindu: It is rumoured that you have just
finished writing a book, what is it like?
Nzeogwu: Good gracious! Ninety-nine per
cent of all the stories you hear in this
country are false. I have not written any
book because there was nothing to write
about. You can only write about a finished
job. It would have been a useful means of
warding off boredom though, but one did
not do it for the fear that the authorities
might seize the papers. However I had
enough time to make detailed notes on
what happened, and one might use them if
in future there was any need to write
something.
Ejindu: Before you went into prison, the
cloud was so clear above this country that
one could see very far into the future. Now
that you are out, what do you see?
Nzeogwu: A job very badly done. If I may
borrow your metaphor, the atmosphere is
admittedly somewhat cloudy. But I don’t
think there will be rain. Indeed if you look
steadily up you will find that the sun is not
yet set and might still peep through. The
trouble is that people generally can’t tell
which is a rain cloud and which is not, and
as a result they tend to be confused. As you
know there is too much bitterness at
present in the country, and in the past
people had imagined that they could
conveniently do without one another. But
the bitterness will clear in the end and they
will find that they are not as self-reliant as
they had thought. And they will long to be
together…. The .same applies to the
Northerners. It may take ten or fifteen years
for them to come together again but there
is no doubt, as far as I can see, that they will.
You see, in this world of imperfection, it is
sometimes very difficult to capture the ideal.
But we can, at least start with the second
best.
Ejindu: What is the second best?
Nzeogwu: A Confederation.
Ejindu: Before I come back to that, may 1
take you back to January, 1966. What exactly
happened at Nassarawa (the premier’s
residence at Kaduna) on the night of the
14th?
Nzeogwu: No, no, no; don’t ask me anything
about that, I don’t want to remember it.
Ejindu: All right. A lot has been talked and
written about the January coup. But how
tribalistic was it really in conception and
execution?
Nzeogwu: In the North, no. In the South,
yes. We were five in number, and initially we
knew quite clearly what we wanted to do.
We had a short list of people who were
either undesirable for the future progress of
the country or who by their positions at the
time had to be sacrificed for peace and
stability. Tribal considerations were
completely out of our minds at this stage.
But we had a set-back in the execution. Both
of us in the North did our best. But the other
three who were stationed in the South
failed because of incompetence and
misguided considerations in the eleventh
hour. The most senior among them was in
charge of a whole brigade and had all the
excuse and opportunity in the world to
mobilize his troops anywhere, anyhow and
any time. He did it badly. In Lagos, even
allowing for one or two genuine mistakes,
the job was badly done. The Mid-West was
never a big problem. But in the East, our
major target, nothing practically was done.
He and the others let us down.
Ejindu: You must have anticipated that Gen.
Ironsi would let you down in the end. Why
did you surrender to him the way you did?
Nzeogwu: I was being sensible. The last
thing we desired was unnecessary waste of
life. If I had stuck to my guns there would
have been a civil war, and as the official
head of the Army, he would have split the
loyalty of my men. Again, you must
remember that the British and other
foreigners were standing by to help him.
Our purpose was to change our country and
make it a place we could be proud to call
our home, not to wage war.
Ejindu: It has been said that Gen. Ironsi set
out to complete your job for you. Was there
anything you did not like in his
administration?
Nzeogwu: Yes, everything. First he chose
the wrong advisers for the work he
halfheartedly set out to do. Most of them
were either mediocre or absolutely
unintelligent. Secondly, he was tribalistic in
the appointment of his governors. Thirdly
the Decree 34 was unnecessary, even silly in
fact.
Ejindu: But you wanted a unitary
government?
Nzeogwu: No. Not a unitary government as
such. We wanted to see a strong centre. We
wanted to cut the country to small pieces,
making the centre inevitably strong. We did
not want to toy with power, which was
what he did.
Ejindu: Tell me, what do you think of him as
a soldier?
Nzeogwu: I am afraid I cannot tell you that.
But I will say that as a person he was very
well liked and as the Supreme Commander,
his orders were promptly carried out.
Ejindu: If he joined the Army as a gunner, he
must have progressed as a military
strategist?
Nzeogwu: Yes, if he had, he could have
done so. But he actually joined the Army as a
tally-clerk and was a clerk most of the time.
Ejindu: From the present chaos, what type
of Nigeria do you envisage?
Nzeogwu: In the first place, secession will
be ill-advised, indeed impossible. Even if the
East fights a war of secession and wins, it
still cannot secede. Personally, I don’t like
secession and if this country disintegrates, I
shall pack up my things and go. In the
present circumstances, confederation is the
best answer as a temporary measure. In
time, we shall have complete unity. Give this
country a confederation and, believe me, in
ten or fifteen years the young men will find
it intolerable, and will get together to
change it. And it is obvious we shall get a
confederation or something near it. Nothing
will stop that.
Ejindu: Do you think there will be any war?
Nzeogwu: No. Nobody wants to fight. The
East which is best equipped and best
prepared for war, does not want to attack
anybody. The North cannot fight. And Lagos
cannot fight now. If they had attacked the
East in August or September, they would
have had a walk-over. Today, I think they will
be ill-advised to try.
Ejindu: An Englishman said to me the other
day that the best thing Ojukwu can do is to
take over Lagos. Do you think he can do it
even if he wanted to?
Nzeogwu: Yes, I think the East is strong
enough to do it if they want to. But it will
serve no useful purpose. It can only serve to
destroy life and property. You see, the
effective power does not lie in Lagos but in
Kaduna, and if you remove Gowon
somebody else will take his place. If you
capture the South against the North, all you
can achieve is civil war, disintegration and
border clashes.
Ejindu: Finally, let me come to the
controversy over your release. Much as it has
been a popular action you have been
released by the east government against the
wish of the federal government. What do
you say to that?
Nzeogwu: All I can say is that I am happy
and grateful to be out. We feel grateful to
the Nsukka students for their persistent
demand, and to the boys in the barracks for
their pressure on the authorities in the east.
And to the Nigerian public in general for
their concern over our welfare.

Nzeugwu was a murderer , a common criminal , killing women and civilian men in their bedrooms at night. All he said above were proved wrong and he was one of the first casualties of the war. Killed by some Nigerian recruit and Nzeugwu is in he'll now.