| A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Isoko1stSon(m): 1:54pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
A Look Back At History...
Today is the 29th of July... And 51 years ago, the bloodiest pogrom that ever took place in the history of Nigeria, happened!
Soldiers of Northern extraction, led by Murtala Mohammed, with active involvement of Yakubu Danjuma unleashed a terror that left over 300 Igbo soldiers, Dead!
This indeed was the beginning of the journey that led into the Civil War that began in June of 1967.
As a fallout of this slaughter of Igbo officers in the military, in Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos, Northern youths also went on rampage, killing an estimated 3,000 Igbo residents in the north, with this pogrom, it was inevitable that a war of sorts will ensue, which in fact happened..
Today, 51 years after, echoes of war are being sounded, and majorly by another set of Northern youths, this time around however, there is no counter coup to a perceived Igbo coup of January 15, 1966, rather the Northern youths' reaction, is to a National cry for the need to Restructure the country along a peaceful, Fiscal and political lines...
This time around however, it is a completely different situation.
It is the need to right the wrongs, to balance the Equity, eliminate Inequality and establish True Federalism, which FOUR ZONES, out of the SIX ZONES, that make up the Nigerian political demography, actively support against the other two of the core North, in which seemingly the North East and the North West appear to be very much against...!
It is also a reversal of sorts, while the cry from the EAST is loudest, it is mostly peaceful, with the West also engaging in Intellectual discourse of it, pamphleteering it... And from every hall, one could hear portions of Yoruba intelligentsia’s colloquy about the need to Restructure. The South South have been mostly militant but never declaring war on the whole, while the Middle Belt have also expressed the wish to be free of the clutches of the feudal core North.
The drums of war this time is being beaten by the Northern youths who have also given an ultimatum to the Easterners to leave the North or stay at the Risk of Death..
As I ponder on these realities on a day of remembrance such as this, my mind was cast to a period in time, in far away Paraguay, when a leader of the feudal kind, wanted to show his Machismo at it led to the most singular devastation of the kind never seen in modern times that nearly 90% of the male population perished..
This to many was the most unnecessary war ever fought.
I hope the Northern youths, who issued a threat recently that the North will rather go to war than allow Restructuring can take a pause and see that if such should happen, they will be the ones to suffer it all and, Lose...
The fact is that 60% of Paraguay’s population (and whopping 90% of the male population) perished from effects of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870).
Up to 300,000 Paraguayans died in that war. If the Soviet Union population in WW2 suffered as heavy losses as the Paraguayans, that would mean that about 100 million Soviet citizens would have died instead of 20 million deaths.
In some regions, the male population was so devastated that the women outnumbered men 20–1.
In a typical region in post war Paraguay, women outnumbered men 4–1....The Catholic church even lifted the ban on polygamy in Paraguay with hopes of increasing the devastated population.
Paraguay also lost 40% of it’s territory to the allied nations of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
At this stage in the war, most Paraguayan troops would have been completely malnourished, little uniformed, and very few weapons. Most Paraguayan soldiers were expected to find weapons from their dead comrades.
This unnecessary war occurred all because a Paraguayan president once wanted to show his machismo to his neighboring counterparts ,who demanded that they adjust boundaries and allow free trade..
And to prove that he has what it takes to win a war despite not having military experience himself he boasted That He Would Rather Go to War Than Adjust Boundaries..
Just A Reminder To The Northern Youths,The Commanders of The Nigerian Army That Won The Civil War For Nigeria ,Where Not If Northern Extraction , Murtala Muhammed Failed Heavily and Was Disgraced Out Of The War Front,Those Who Won The War Where Commanders Such As Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Gen.Victor Adekunle ,Gen Obasanjo Etc...
NB: Before U Label Me IpoD or Some other Derogatory Remarks, I Am An Isoko Niger Deltan Who Doesn't Like The Nigerian State. 7 Likes |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by ashjay001(m): 2:25pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
War in any form, with any excuse, shouldnt be d way |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Warship: 2:32pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
Will those Fulani herdsmen terrorists hear
Those baying for blood should know that the Biafrans aren't a weak or coward people. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by oladeebo: 3:11pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
@ op.
your conclusion show what you were in your write-up!
"I Am An Isoko Niger Deltan Who Doesn't Like The Nigerian State."
but you forget to tell us the first coup and the event before the counter coup you narrated!
be fair next time! 2 Likes |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by tinz: 10:14pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
Oga stop being biased. There's was never anything as soldiers of North. It's was a war both Yorubas and housas soldiers fought against the East. Stop painting ur self with white paint when you are full of black paint |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by ZombieTAMER: 11:59pm On Jul 29, 2017 |
There is nothing any sane person will like about the current Nigerian state 1 Like |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by FakoMaybach1: 1:16am On Jul 30, 2017 |
Abeg is paraguay still having more women than men?, not that i am looking for girlfriend o, i am just liking this curent affairs |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by juman(m): 1:49am On Jul 30, 2017 |
ZombieTAMER:
There is nothing any sane person will like about the current Nigerian state |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Desyner: 3:22am On Jul 30, 2017 |
tinz:
Oga stop being biased. There's was never anything as soldiers of North. It's was a war both Yorubas and housas soldiers fought against the East. Stop painting ur self with white paint when you are full of black paint What about tiv, ibira, bini, badagry, urhobo, berom, and other soldiers. It was a war btw the rest of Nigeria and Biafra. The igbos like to claim that Awolowo promised them to follow suite, but can awolowo speak for the Yorubas if he ever did promise that. |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Learnstuffs: 5:34am On Jul 30, 2017 |
There was a country 1 Like |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Learnstuffs: 5:36am On Jul 30, 2017 |
Nigeria is a typical example of a failed marriage. No matter how much we come together, we notice that these tribes have major irreconcilable differences 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by Onyenna(m): 7:30am On Jul 30, 2017 |
I'm just tired of this country.....The only happy people here are those looting us dry..... 1 Like |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by igbeke: 10:31pm On Jul 30, 2017 |
Isoko1stSon:
A Look Back At History...
Today is the 29th of July... And 51 years ago, the bloodiest pogrom that ever took place in the history of Nigeria, happened!
Soldiers of Northern extraction, led by Murtala Mohammed, with active involvement of Yakubu Danjuma unleashed a terror that left over 300 Igbo soldiers, Dead!
This indeed was the beginning of the journey that led into the Civil War that began in June of 1967.
As a fallout of this slaughter of Igbo officers in the military, in Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos, Northern youths also went on rampage, killing an estimated 3,000 Igbo residents in the north, with this pogrom, it was inevitable that a war of sorts will ensue, which in fact happened..
Today, 51 years after, echoes of war are being sounded, and majorly by another set of Northern youths, this time around however, there is no counter coup to a perceived Igbo coup of January 15, 1966, rather the Northern youths' reaction, is to a National cry for the need to Restructure the country along a peaceful, Fiscal and political lines...
This time around however, it is a completely different situation.
It is the need to right the wrongs, to balance the Equity, eliminate Inequality and establish True Federalism, which FOUR ZONES, out of the SIX ZONES, that make up the Nigerian political demography, actively support against the other two of the core North, in which seemingly the North East and the North West appear to be very much against...!
It is also a reversal of sorts, while the cry from the EAST is loudest, it is mostly peaceful, with the West also engaging in Intellectual discourse of it, pamphleteering it... And from every hall, one could hear portions of Yoruba intelligentsia’s colloquy about the need to Restructure. The South South have been mostly militant but never declaring war on the whole, while the Middle Belt have also expressed the wish to be free of the clutches of the feudal core North.
The drums of war this time is being beaten by the Northern youths who have also given an ultimatum to the Easterners to leave the North or stay at the Risk of Death..
As I ponder on these realities on a day of remembrance such as this, my mind was cast to a period in time, in far away Paraguay, when a leader of the feudal kind, wanted to show his Machismo at it led to the most singular devastation of the kind never seen in modern times that nearly 90% of the male population perished..
This to many was the most unnecessary war ever fought.
I hope the Northern youths, who issued a threat recently that the North will rather go to war than allow Restructuring can take a pause and see that if such should happen, they will be the ones to suffer it all and, Lose...
The fact is that 60% of Paraguay’s population (and whopping 90% of the male population) perished from effects of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870).
Up to 300,000 Paraguayans died in that war. If the Soviet Union population in WW2 suffered as heavy losses as the Paraguayans, that would mean that about 100 million Soviet citizens would have died instead of 20 million deaths.
In some regions, the male population was so devastated that the women outnumbered men 20–1.
In a typical region in post war Paraguay, women outnumbered men 4–1....The Catholic church even lifted the ban on polygamy in Paraguay with hopes of increasing the devastated population.
Paraguay also lost 40% of it’s territory to the allied nations of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
At this stage in the war, most Paraguayan troops would have been completely malnourished, little uniformed, and very few weapons. Most Paraguayan soldiers were expected to find weapons from their dead comrades.
This unnecessary war occurred all because a Paraguayan president once wanted to show his machismo to his neighboring counterparts ,who demanded that they adjust boundaries and allow free trade..
And to prove that he has what it takes to win a war despite not having military experience himself he boasted That He Would Rather Go to War Than Adjust Boundaries..
Just A Reminder To The Northern Youths,The Commanders of The Nigerian Army That Won The Civil War For Nigeria ,Where Not If Northern Extraction , Murtala Muhammed Failed Heavily and Was Disgraced Out Of The War Front,Those Who Won The War Where Commanders Such As Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Gen.Victor Adekunle ,Gen Obasanjo Etc...
NB: Before U Label Me IpoD or Some other Derogatory Remarks, I Am An Isoko Niger Deltan Who Doesn't Like The Nigerian State.
What an insightful piece. A stich in time they say, saves nine. NB: you said you don't like the Nigerian state. Personally, I hate Nigeria. I hate to be seen and addressed a Nigerian. |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by tensazangetsu20(m): 10:41pm On Jul 30, 2017 |
Isoko1stSon:
A Look Back At History...
Today is the 29th of July... And 51 years ago, the bloodiest pogrom that ever took place in the history of Nigeria, happened!
Soldiers of Northern extraction, led by Murtala Mohammed, with active involvement of Yakubu Danjuma unleashed a terror that left over 300 Igbo soldiers, Dead!
This indeed was the beginning of the journey that led into the Civil War that began in June of 1967.
As a fallout of this slaughter of Igbo officers in the military, in Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos, Northern youths also went on rampage, killing an estimated 3,000 Igbo residents in the north, with this pogrom, it was inevitable that a war of sorts will ensue, which in fact happened..
Today, 51 years after, echoes of war are being sounded, and majorly by another set of Northern youths, this time around however, there is no counter coup to a perceived Igbo coup of January 15, 1966, rather the Northern youths' reaction, is to a National cry for the need to Restructure the country along a peaceful, Fiscal and political lines...
This time around however, it is a completely different situation.
It is the need to right the wrongs, to balance the Equity, eliminate Inequality and establish True Federalism, which FOUR ZONES, out of the SIX ZONES, that make up the Nigerian political demography, actively support against the other two of the core North, in which seemingly the North East and the North West appear to be very much against...!
It is also a reversal of sorts, while the cry from the EAST is loudest, it is mostly peaceful, with the West also engaging in Intellectual discourse of it, pamphleteering it... And from every hall, one could hear portions of Yoruba intelligentsia’s colloquy about the need to Restructure. The South South have been mostly militant but never declaring war on the whole, while the Middle Belt have also expressed the wish to be free of the clutches of the feudal core North.
The drums of war this time is being beaten by the Northern youths who have also given an ultimatum to the Easterners to leave the North or stay at the Risk of Death..
As I ponder on these realities on a day of remembrance such as this, my mind was cast to a period in time, in far away Paraguay, when a leader of the feudal kind, wanted to show his Machismo at it led to the most singular devastation of the kind never seen in modern times that nearly 90% of the male population perished..
This to many was the most unnecessary war ever fought.
I hope the Northern youths, who issued a threat recently that the North will rather go to war than allow Restructuring can take a pause and see that if such should happen, they will be the ones to suffer it all and, Lose...
The fact is that 60% of Paraguay’s population (and whopping 90% of the male population) perished from effects of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870).
Up to 300,000 Paraguayans died in that war. If the Soviet Union population in WW2 suffered as heavy losses as the Paraguayans, that would mean that about 100 million Soviet citizens would have died instead of 20 million deaths.
In some regions, the male population was so devastated that the women outnumbered men 20–1.
In a typical region in post war Paraguay, women outnumbered men 4–1....The Catholic church even lifted the ban on polygamy in Paraguay with hopes of increasing the devastated population.
Paraguay also lost 40% of it’s territory to the allied nations of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
At this stage in the war, most Paraguayan troops would have been completely malnourished, little uniformed, and very few weapons. Most Paraguayan soldiers were expected to find weapons from their dead comrades.
This unnecessary war occurred all because a Paraguayan president once wanted to show his machismo to his neighboring counterparts ,who demanded that they adjust boundaries and allow free trade..
And to prove that he has what it takes to win a war despite not having military experience himself he boasted That He Would Rather Go to War Than Adjust Boundaries..
Just A Reminder To The Northern Youths,The Commanders of The Nigerian Army That Won The Civil War For Nigeria ,Where Not If Northern Extraction , Murtala Muhammed Failed Heavily and Was Disgraced Out Of The War Front,Those Who Won The War Where Commanders Such As Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Gen.Victor Adekunle ,Gen Obasanjo Etc...
NB: Before U Label Me IpoD or Some other Derogatory Remarks, I Am An Isoko Niger Deltan Who Doesn't Like The Nigerian State.
You made a lot of sense until you got to the second to the last paragraph. Great Britain won the war for Nigeria and not the individuals you mentioned. If no foreign country had intervened in that war. The country called Nigeria won't even exist |
| Re: A Lesson The North Should Learn From Paraguay' Before Rejecting Restructuring by fratermathy(m): 12:14am On Sep 09, 2017 |
Isoko1stSon:
A Look Back At History...
Today is the 29th of July... And 51 years ago, the bloodiest pogrom that ever took place in the history of Nigeria, happened!
Soldiers of Northern extraction, led by Murtala Mohammed, with active involvement of Yakubu Danjuma unleashed a terror that left over 300 Igbo soldiers, Dead!
This indeed was the beginning of the journey that led into the Civil War that began in June of 1967.
As a fallout of this slaughter of Igbo officers in the military, in Ibadan, Abeokuta and Lagos, Northern youths also went on rampage, killing an estimated 3,000 Igbo residents in the north, with this pogrom, it was inevitable that a war of sorts will ensue, which in fact happened..
Today, 51 years after, echoes of war are being sounded, and majorly by another set of Northern youths, this time around however, there is no counter coup to a perceived Igbo coup of January 15, 1966, rather the Northern youths' reaction, is to a National cry for the need to Restructure the country along a peaceful, Fiscal and political lines...
This time around however, it is a completely different situation.
It is the need to right the wrongs, to balance the Equity, eliminate Inequality and establish True Federalism, which FOUR ZONES, out of the SIX ZONES, that make up the Nigerian political demography, actively support against the other two of the core North, in which seemingly the North East and the North West appear to be very much against...!
It is also a reversal of sorts, while the cry from the EAST is loudest, it is mostly peaceful, with the West also engaging in Intellectual discourse of it, pamphleteering it... And from every hall, one could hear portions of Yoruba intelligentsia’s colloquy about the need to Restructure. The South South have been mostly militant but never declaring war on the whole, while the Middle Belt have also expressed the wish to be free of the clutches of the feudal core North.
The drums of war this time is being beaten by the Northern youths who have also given an ultimatum to the Easterners to leave the North or stay at the Risk of Death..
As I ponder on these realities on a day of remembrance such as this, my mind was cast to a period in time, in far away Paraguay, when a leader of the feudal kind, wanted to show his Machismo at it led to the most singular devastation of the kind never seen in modern times that nearly 90% of the male population perished..
This to many was the most unnecessary war ever fought.
I hope the Northern youths, who issued a threat recently that the North will rather go to war than allow Restructuring can take a pause and see that if such should happen, they will be the ones to suffer it all and, Lose...
The fact is that 60% of Paraguay’s population (and whopping 90% of the male population) perished from effects of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870).
Up to 300,000 Paraguayans died in that war. If the Soviet Union population in WW2 suffered as heavy losses as the Paraguayans, that would mean that about 100 million Soviet citizens would have died instead of 20 million deaths.
In some regions, the male population was so devastated that the women outnumbered men 20–1.
In a typical region in post war Paraguay, women outnumbered men 4–1....The Catholic church even lifted the ban on polygamy in Paraguay with hopes of increasing the devastated population.
Paraguay also lost 40% of it’s territory to the allied nations of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
At this stage in the war, most Paraguayan troops would have been completely malnourished, little uniformed, and very few weapons. Most Paraguayan soldiers were expected to find weapons from their dead comrades.
This unnecessary war occurred all because a Paraguayan president once wanted to show his machismo to his neighboring counterparts ,who demanded that they adjust boundaries and allow free trade..
And to prove that he has what it takes to win a war despite not having military experience himself he boasted That He Would Rather Go to War Than Adjust Boundaries..
Just A Reminder To The Northern Youths,The Commanders of The Nigerian Army That Won The Civil War For Nigeria ,Where Not If Northern Extraction , Murtala Muhammed Failed Heavily and Was Disgraced Out Of The War Front,Those Who Won The War Where Commanders Such As Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Gen.Victor Adekunle ,Gen Obasanjo Etc...
NB: Before U Label Me IpoD or Some other Derogatory Remarks, I Am An Isoko Niger Deltan Who Doesn't Like The Nigerian State.
You are not an Isoko. Isokos are not extremists like you. This guy is not an Isoko person. He is an IPOB youth from the East impersonating the good people of Isoko ethnic nationality. Everyone should take note. No Isoko person would create a username such as his. It's so sad that he is misrepresenting the collective wishes of Isoko people here on Nairaland. Disregard his posts. Things are like this are why minorities will always mistrust Igbos and their Biafra. Imagine the level of desperation and audacity. |
