Onlytruth:

You have done irreparable damage to your people by your gloating and mocking of innocents who were starved to death by your father Awolowo. Keep up the good work!

Onlytruth:

You have done irreparable damage to your people by your gloating and mocking of innocents who were starved to death by your father Awolowo. Keep up the good work!

beeke:

I can't use d word silly no cos is not in my nature neither will i use foul language on dis ANTI IKEMBA NNEWI CHIEF DIM CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU i will rather ask some of u how OLD RE U WEN DIS WAR WAS STILL ON 4 sure i know dat some where not yet born then some based their argument on wot they were told while some speak becos dey feel dey actually know d TRUTH let me tell u guyz dat in d whole wide world wen it comes 2 TRUTH surpression nobody does it better dan d goverment dey can only tell u wot is gonna be convenient to them,let me avoid makin a GENERAL STATEMENT HERE d reason why some northern elite and some yoruba rulers hate this man called OJUKWU was simply becos he was not kill during the war mind u dat he {OJUKWU} did not RAN away nope, he left 9ja cos he was BETRAYED by dos he thought were his allies NDIGBO's was, is, and will alwaz b WARRIORS even though within ourselves who hav leadership problem if d civil war was fought btw nigerian and d yorubas i stand 2 b corrected to say dat d yorubas will have been exterminated from d face of dis earth but lo and behold after more than four decades of dis atrocities commited against d IGBO NATION and how nigerian gov continue their cold war [b]against one of the twelve tribes of ISREAL {IGBO} [/b]we still remain the best enterprizin pple in 9ja without gov support as u all know some of the warlords as they are called are coolin their azz in d world court even dos as far back as d nazi's so my question is why cant the world court laid charges of genocide or wot have u on my DEAR IKEMBA NNEWI maybe some will say is neva to late for him to b charged but the simple truth is dat both UN AMERICA and other so called world power know wot some of us d lead in 9ja dont know wen i was 15 i ask my granny about d BIAFRAN WAR she just look @ me and said nwam meanin my son i will tell u everytin wen your mind is matured four years later i ask again and she told me everytin becos she was some how involved from dat day up untill now i am still battlin with myself to block dos shocking revelation my now late granny told me MAY HER GENTLE MOST LOVING SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE AMEN  

bawomolo:

10 pages of the same old poo you guys argue about everyday?

RichyBlacK:

And your point is?

RichyBlacK:

And your point is?

Soulstarr:




SHUT UP!!!!

olafolarin:



What role did the Yoruba's played in the civil war?Obasanjo as the last commander of the Nigerian forces,lead the largest and final attack on the Biafran Army.Thousands of lives were lost .The same OBJ contested for 1999 elections and won with huge votes in all eastern states while he lost in his ward,village,contituency and state.

I think the biafrans cant read within the line.Yorubas love and accommodate everybody.Biafras problem is BIAFRA itself.

olafolarin:


In 1999 PDP lost in all SW states.OBJ got majority vote in East and North.Because of that ineptitude,Nigeria is today 10 years backwards.






You must be living in a fool's paradise.Awolowo(like  many politicians of his era )did nothing to worsen Biafra's case.
Can you please tell me anything Awolowo did against you fools.

Dereformer:

Very soon, the storm will gather, and when it does, it will be total ARMAGEDDON. BIAFRANS SHALL BE FREE.

With plans by the north to eliminate GEJ, we are totally prepared for the HAUSA/FULANI rascals.

NEVER AGAIN WILL BIAFRA LOSS ANY BATTLE. WE ARE PREPARED!

Afam:

I think there is an urgent need to include the Nigerian/Biafran war in our education system because it is sad to note that even the simplest of facts are unknown yet everyone seems to be in a hurry to trade blames and become experts on the civil war.

bawomolo:

10 pages of the same old poo you guys argue about everyday?

RichyBlacK:


1. Nigeria was all peaceful and calm, but some Igbos, an aggressive bunch, just wanted to secede and started planning the rise of Biafra.

2. Igbo soldiers exclusively from Biafra executed the first coup in January 1966 and killed all the prominent leaders from the Northern, Western and Mid-Western regions, only.

3. General Ironsi, a Biafran, took over after the coup and awarded medals and gave honors to all the Igbos who planned and executed the coup.

4. To correct this wrong, Northern soldiers executed a coup in July 1966 and killed only Ironsi for awarding medals and honors to the January 1966 coup plotters.

5. Some Biafrans were harassed only in a few cities in the Northern Nigeria, but kini big deal?

6. Then out of the blues Ojukwu declared war on Nigeria! Biafra was going to war against mighty Nigeria.

7. Gowon, being man of peace, invited Ojukwu for talks at Aburi, Ghana.

8. Gowon and everybody pleaded and begged Ojukwu not to go to war, but the stubborn son of a millionaire refused to listen and insisted on going to war with Nigeria.

9. After the meetings in Aburi, the Biafrans wasted no time to invade Ore and eying Lagos.

10. Gowon and the Nigerian military had superior everything - military, personnel, etc., and knew the fight would be unequal and made more pleas to the Biafrans to stop the war and continue peace talks.

11. The Biafrans then started their propaganda and it became clear that Ojukwu declared war against Nigeria so as to grab all the oil in Eastern Nigeria for himself - selfish bas.tard!

12. Then after much pleading and trying to prevent war, Gowon's hands were tied and he had no option but to defend Nigeria from Biafran aggression - those Igbos are just too aggressive!

13. If Ojukwu was not so greedy and those Biafrans not so stubborn as to want to wage war against a country, Nigeria, that did nothing to them.

dollz:

This is the plain truth. The Biafra war was a worthless war that was very avoidable. droppings happens a lot of times but division was certainly not the best answer. And yeah Ojukwu was a power-drunk coward then who's shallow decisions caused his people more than 2 million lives

Soulstarr:




SHUT UP!!!!

ndu_chucks:

Na wa for wayas.

(a)The South will never secede and form a new country as proposed by several people particularly those from the ND.  There will be no help or cooperation forthcoming from ndiigbo to promote that cause.

(b)Ndiigbo will never team up with  Niger Delta people to fight the rest of Nigeria under any condition. There is too much bad belle between these 2 groups.

(c)It will take at least 1 more generation before Ndiigbo and Yorubas begin to fully trust each other again.

(d)The rest of Nigeria needs Arewa to provide survival balance; with Arewa out of the picture, I submit that you people go kill all of una selves finish. awon olodo

God Bless ONE NIGERIA.   

Dede1:

@ndu_chucks
This is another juncture where I had blamed both Ojukwu, Ironsi and all Igbo officers in Nigerian armed forces for not engaging in equitable military hardware distribution or installation among the regions when they had opportunity. The doctrine of north-south divide of Nigeria was idiotic because it left most of the armored vehicles, fighting aircrafts and ships either in Kaduna or Lagos. They should have realized that both Kaduna and Lagos had no good intensions for the eastern Nigerians.

Dede1:

@ndu_chucks

Please inform us within the annals of military conflicts where blockade had decided the outcome of a war? Ojukwu needed not to surrender simply because the Nigerian side had to itself the few frigates and MIGs.

ndu_chucks:

The bolded part is a very major factor which contributed to Biafra's loss of the war. I have to admit that given the determination of Biafran troops, their bravery and engineering prowess, and their will to defend their people, it would have taken much longer to have defeated Biafra had millitary hardware been distributed equitably among the regions. Ironsi and other Igbo officers underestimated the wisdom of the Northern leaders in this matter.

Blockade is usually a tool to pressure the enemy into submission or to make the enemy more vulnerable to defeat in battles. If an enemy region is blockaded and the flow of weaponry is reduced, that will weaken their position and make their defeat easier. Blockade alone does not typically decide the outcome of wars. My own blame for Ojukwu and his commanders is that, they continued to fight when women and children were dying of starvation by the hundreds of thousands! That to me was a big blunder.

Having said that, I will state here that the man Ojukwu is a brave man. To say that he is not revered by the Igbos will be a gross understatement. This man remains one of the most influencial men in Igboland and I personally admire his commitment to his people.

okooyinbo:

@Dede1:

Ofcourse blockade has always proved effective in ending wars. I do not need to give examples because it is countles. The Romans, the Persians, the Greeks, the old Egyptians, the Ottoman Turks, the Europeans and Americans and even some precolonial Africans kingdom and States have won countless WARs using the blockade tactics. You got to read books on war strategies and tactics.

If it is a legitimate weapon is arguably another thing. However, it has been employed succesfully for centuries.


@Post:

War is not a good thing, but one must rise to defend oneself if threatened.

To those that think that YORUBAs are the true enemy, please answer these: The reason Ojukwu declared the war among other "things" was the killing of the Igbos right; where did that take place? Were Igbos targeted and massacred during operation "weti e"?

Dede1:


I had thought too that mere blockade does not and have never decided the outcome of a war. But I had to admit that it is one of the strategic tools of the war. Does it matter when both sides still think that the war was winnable regardless of strategy?

I would be first to tell you that Ojukwu committed unpardonable blunders during war but not surrendering is certainly not one of them. However, it would have been a wonderful sight to behold in Nigeria/Biafra war if blockade had not been invented.

Dede1:

There should be no argument about blockade be a legitimate weapon of the war. The issue in discourse is that since it is a strategic tool of the war and rightfully applied by the Nigerian side should not compel Ojukwu to surrender. Why is no argument that Ojukwu should have simply surrendered at the sight of NNS Lokoja in the waters of Bight of Biafra?