The icon, general and freedom fighter was born on the 4th of November, 1933 in the northern Nigerian town of Zungeru to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Nnewi businessman and one-time richest man in West Africa. He joined the Nigerian army in 1957, rising to become its first indigenous Quartermaster. Following the January 1966 coup that toppled Nigeria's maiden independent civilian government, Colonel Ojukwu became the military governor of the old Eastern Region.

Following the failure of the Aburi accord in Ghana and the ceaseless pogroms of ethnic Easterners in some parts of Northern Nigeria, Ojukwu, in accordance with the demands of the elders of the Eastern Region, declared the Republic of Biafra and became its first leader. Overlapping the territory of the Eastern Region, the Republic was reabsorbed by Nigeria following a bitter civil war.

Ojukwu passed away in the United Kingdom on the 26th of November, 2011. He was accorded one of the most elaborate burial ceremonies in the history of Africa by the Nigerian army, his Igbo people and the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government. He is widely considered a legend, icon and freedom fighter, especially by his native Igbo people who see him in the same light as the Americans see George Washington, the Britons see Winston Churchill, the Indians see Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi and the Chinese see Mao Zedong.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Odumegwu_Ojukwu

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Happy Birthday Ikemba Of Nnewi

A Great Leader

Happy birthday Ikemba!

Happy Birthday to Ikemba! In your feats we boasted and yet in your shortcomings,we followed. Long live our Nation. You are not forgotten.

I reserve my comment. Make children no begin cry for my ears again.




Lol. Even without saying they are still weeplng.

Ojukwu 1967

Ojukwu could not equip his army properly, he could not feed his civilians adequately yet he was boasting before the commencement of hostilities that he had the largest army in black Africa and that the other side(Nigeria) would be shocked as to what they would get from him.


Ojukwu, the initiator of the Biafra civil war, who once boasted that he would fight till the last drop of his blood, eventually ran away to Abidjan after commandeering a plane that was meant to airlift sick Biafran children.


Alhaji Shehu Shagari later granted Ojukwu amnesty in 1982. In 1983, Ojukwu contested in the Senatorial election, he also contested in the 2003 and 2007 Presidential elections and lost woefully on all occasions. It is highly prepostrous that a man who fought against Nigeria later came back to Nigeria and participated at various elections in the same country he fought against

omenka:
I reserve my comment. Make children no begin cry for my ears again.

guy be matured pls. Whatsup with these childish behaviours?

omenka:
I reserve my comment. Make children no begin cry for my ears again.

This guy sef., are you this jobless??





Happy Birthday to great Ikemba nnewi and the ezeigbo gburu gburu of igboland!!

Ok

Clinton9000:

Ojukwu 1967

he died a coward wrapped in the nigerian flag he fought against. i just pity nnamdi wasting his life at kuje for nothing. one nigeria dole

patriotic9jaboy:

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he died a coward wrapped in the nigerian flag he fought against. i just pity nnamdi wasting his life at kuje for nothing. one nigeria dole[/s]

Afonja...

Odogwu bu Odogwu,Dike Eji ejemba,Ochi aya ndigbo,igwe gburugburu ndigbo!
An avatar that comes once in a life time,a man of the people,an icon of freedom,an embodiment of knowlege,a man friday,
I salute you...the struggle continua,victoria acerta!!!
Happy birthday dikeora!!!

patriotic9jaboy:




he died a coward wrapped in the nigerian flag he fought against. i just pity nnamdi wasting his life at kuje for nothing. one nigeria dole

atleast he didnt drink poison like Awolowo who served nigeria with all his heart,a*ss licked his Fulani overlords and was made useless or Gen.Adekunle who fought for his fulani masters and yet died in acute poverty and confessed he wld never had fought on the side of Nigeria,if he knew the truth.
For Ojukwu,he has written his name in gold and will forever be remembered.For us whom he left behind, the struggle continues,till victory is certain.

patriotic9jaboy:




he died a coward wrapped in the nigerian flag he fought against. i just pity nnamdi wasting his life at kuje for nothing. one nigeria dole

What has one Nigeria done for you?

Lalasticlala please come and help us put this to the FP. Let us celebrate the memory of Ikemba Nnewi

Lalasticlala, OAM4J, Mynd44 this deserves the front page. What are you guys still waiting for?

Still better than ojuku who died lame, lonely deaf, dumb and blind on the hospital bed in london while his harlot of a wife, bianca was busy sucking FFK's prick here in Nigeria

AustineE1:

atleast he didnt drink poison like Awolowo who served nigeria with all his heart,a*ss licked his Fulani overlords and was made useless or Gen.Adekunle who fought for his fulani masters and yet died in acute poverty and confessed he wld never had fought on the side of Nigeria,if knew the truth.
For Ojukwu,he has written his name in gold and will forever be remembered.For us whom he left behind, the struggle continues,till victory is certain.

It should be noted that Ojukwu did not fight to become a Nigerian hero. He fought to be the hero of the Igbos and the minorities that once made up the Eastern Region. The hero of a persecuted people.

So Westerners and Northerners who insult the memory of Ojukwu do so out of ignorance or stupidity.

I will wish the great Ikemba well tomorow since today is the 3rd.

This is one of the greatest men to ever live in Nigeria. A man who sacrificed all he had in his quest to save his people from being killed into extinction. Happy birthday Ikemba Nnewi

To die is to live. Happy birthday Ikemba.

Agu,odogwu,mgba dike,nwoke oma,anya ndigbo......a man of intergrity,the fighters fighter,the warriors warrior,a man's man,the man who saw tomorrow.
Happy birthday as you rest in the bosom of the almighty.
May God bless the land of the rising sun.

I'm still wondering why the mods have refused to send this thread to the front page. lalasticlala your attention is needed here

Jakpon:
Lalasticlala please come and help us put this to the FP. Let us celebrate the memory of Ikemba Nnewi

Today is 3rd and not 4th.

This thread is going to be war

I still don't understand why this man is being celebrated

After leading your people into a needless war where close to 3million of your people died and then you ran away when the battle got close to you, abandoning your people to their fate, how did these acts become worthy of honour and emulation?

frleopardo:
he is worthy of honour and emulation because you are such an oblong-headed afonjamudeen with amala and ewedu for what should be the brain in your coconut head. Hahahaha Lol.

I don't exchange words online with spoilt brats who have access to their mommy's phone. Now toddle off.