The massacre began at the airport near the 5th Battalion’s home city of Kano. A Lagos-bound jet just arrived from London and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed a wild-eyed soldier stormed in brandishing a rifle and demanding ‘Ina Nyamiri?’–Hausa for ‘where are the damned Ibos?.

There were Ibos among the customs officers, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers. Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles bayonetting Ibo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors and hauling Ibo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot.

From the airport the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Ibos in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Landrovers to the railroad station where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train and cut them down with automatic weapon fire.


Read more: https://thebelltimesng.com/2019/05/31/biafra-by-femi-fani-kayode/

All these cause u marry Igbo woman? Bianka Ojukwu and your wife puna sweet well well

Stupid talk were you on the plane when it happened. Precious have used this one head.I'm concerned about his psychological well-being.

My grand father tell me the story

Remembering how barbaric our forefathers were, is one of the reasons to study Nigeria's history. So we can blame the ancient men and learn from their stupidity.Ignoring our dirty history is the reason the present generation has failed. Totally.

There was no need for that needless war, and there is no need for the stupidity we call Federal Government. There is no Federal Government, just a bunch of people at Abuja sharing resources among themselves and their associates.

In countries where there are Federal Governments, like the United States, Canada, Mexico, etc, we know how governance works.

So, the tribalism, a superiority war of the Blackman based on egotistic assumption of self-worth of one tribe against another, not based on the Cerebral capacity shows how difficult it is, to change a low bandwidth version of humanity.

It's a fat shame, how we forget our history just to spite our fellow citizens, simply because they speak a different language or support a different interest. Nigerians should be ashamed of what they are. They have forgotten that not everyone can support the same view point, there is no beauty in that, So what is cardinal is Tolerance. Tolerance capability is absent among illiterates, who incidentally are the tribalists who lead us now.

We are where we are, I wish we were where we where.

Hmm this was once a minister the time of Pdp. Yet they will tlk say Nigeria became more devided after 2015. We can all see who r fueling hatred by bringing back memories of tragedies that should be buried for the sake of peace!

BuhariAdvocate:
Stupid talk were you on the plane when it happened. Precious have used this one head.I'm concerned about his psychological well-being.

Are you denying that this happened son of lucif!

warship

the US conscripted a lot of german scientists to work with them in defeating Hitler in the second world war in operation paper-clip

this guy, at the bolded portion of his post, shows that he has not yet made his mind up about where he stands

we are his elder brothers and we must accept the good, bad and ugly

the ends justify the means

Billy0naire:
Remembering how barbaric our forefathers were, is one of the reasons to study Nigeria's history. So we can blame the ancient men and learn from their stupidity.Ignoring our dirty history is the reason the present generation has failed. Totally.

There was no need for that needless war, and there is no need for the stupidity we call Federal Government. There is no Federal Government, just a bunch of people at Abuja sharing resources among themselves and their associates.

In countries where there are Federal Governments, like the United States, Canada, Mexico, etc, we know how governance works.

So, the tribalism, a superiority war of the Blackman based on egotistic assumption of self-worth of one tribe against another, not based on the Cerebral capacity shows how difficult it is, to change a low bandwidth version of humanity.

It's a fat shame, how we forget our history just to spite our fellow citizens, simply because they speak a different language or support a different interest. Nigerians should be ashamed of what they are. They have forgotten that not everyone can support the same view point, there is no beauty in that, So what is cardinal is Tolerance. Tolerance capability is absent among illiterates, who incidentally are the tribalists who lead us now.

We are where we are, I wish we were where we where.

don't bother reasoning with this guy

he is the biggest mumu on nairaland

talks like a mentally incapacitated fellow always

Bridget95:
Are you denying that this happened son of lucif!

This scene was low key depicted in the movie Half a yellow sun.
Special recognition to Chimamanda Adichie for telling our story.

Thousands of Igbos were butchered

this is why we should be careful how we treat each other....

And you wonder why an average igbo man or woman doesn't like northerners. They have a solid reason and I don't blame them.

Femi Fani-Kayode is a very useless man. He said he remembered how igbos were shot by hausa solders in kano as if we was there, but forgot how igbo soldiers brutalised his Father in his presence and took him away to be shot.
So his father's murder was sitting insignificant to him, so much so he does not remember.

Something tragically gruesome happened more than this,they killed Igbos ,even those who were suppose to spared are killed and want us to be eating from the same pot.
If all this atrocities were addressed and maybe unity cohesion were enshroud into the system then peace and love would have prevail but for now its tit for tat

wirinet:
Femi Fani-Kayode is a very useless man. He said he remembered how igbos were shot by hausa solders in kano as if we was there, but forgot how igbo soldiers brutalised his Father in his presence and took him away to be shot.
So his father's murder was sitting insignificant to him, so much so he does not remember.

Oga tok the one u know

Anyone who wants to remain relevant in the scheme of things knows he has to press the mumu button of some Igbos.

This one will never talk about his Ile-Ife people or Osun state or even the Yorubas but always bring up issues inorder to make Igbos angry and they can hail him and he can feel important.

Reno Omokri would never discuss his Itshekiri people and how to help them but always focused on Igbo affairs to remain relevant.


Fayose would rather be seen famzing with Nnamdi Kanu and be given praises but would not want to have anything to do with other Yorubas, no wonder his people booted him out of politics.

Press the mumu button of some Igbos and you are God to them, even if the devil tries it too, they'd fall.

achi4u:
Oga tok the one u know

And Femi Fani kayode is talking the one he knows.

This is an interview by Fani kayode himself, where on a rare occasion he remembers the murder of his father.

January 15th 1966: A Night Of Blood And Slaughter, By Femi Fani-kayode


Sadly, the mutineers came to our home that night as well and they brutalized and abducted my father, Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode, the deputy premier of the old Western region. What I witnessed that night was traumatic and devastating for me and my family, and, of course, what the nation witnessed that night was horrific. It was a night of carnage, barbarity and terror. The events of that night set in motion a series of events which changed our history. The consequences of the events of that night are still with us till this day. It was a sad and terrible night: one of blood and slaughter.
https://www.legit.ng/amp/700660-january-1966-blood-slaughter-femi-fani-kayode.html

Conveniently, he labelled, the murderers "mutineers" instead of ascribing their tribe, but when it came to murders by northern soldiers, he remembers their tribe and not label them "mutineers".

wirinet:
Femi Fani-Kayode is a very useless man. He said he remembered how igbos were shot by hausa solders in kano as if we was there, but forgot how igbo soldiers brutalised his Father in his presence and took him away to be shot.
So his father's murder was sitting insignificant to him, so much so he does not remember.

Leave that idiot o
What about Ademulegun whose pregnant wife was hacked to pieces by Igbos

OAUTemitayo:

Leave that idiot o
What about Ademulegun whose pregnant wife was hacked to pieces by Igbos

He and Omokri are trying to push the if igbos to anger and violence by stroking pent up emotions. The irony is that if violence starts, all the those stroking the violence are safe, they have foreign citizenship and have stashed monies abroad, it is me and you who have no where else to go, that will suffer the brunt.

wirinet:

He and Omokri are trying to push the if igbos to anger and violence by stroking pent up emotions. The irony is that if violence starts, all the those stroking the violence are safe, they have foreign citizenship and have stashed monies abroad, it is me and you who have no where else to go, that will suffer the brunt.

Very right.
But trust me, if Igbos start any war now, we will make sure it is restricted to their erosion ridden enclave

OAUTemitayo:

Very right.
But trust me, if Igbos start any war now, we will make sure it is restricted to their erosion ridden enclave

Igbos dont start wars, all they do is go their way

It is you Nigerians that run after Igbos to fight and bring them back to Nigeria

kingzizzy:


Igbos dont start wars, all they do is go their way

It is you Nigerians that run after Igbos to fight and bring them back to Nigeria

Who went to Niger Delta to bring back Ijaws when Isaac Adaka Boro declared Nigeria Delta Republic?
Ironsi and Igbos

OAUTemitayo:

Who went to Niger Delta to bring back Ijaws when Isaac Adaka Boro declared Nigeria Delta Republic?
Ironsi and Igbos

No, the federal government of Nigeria. Ironsi was president of Nigeria, not president of Igbos.

kingzizzy:


No, the federal government of Nigeria. Ironsi was president of Nigeria, not president of Igbos.

Same with Gowon. He was Head of State of Nigeria not Northerners .
Now that's a good analogy

BuhariAdvocate:
Stupid talk were you on the plane when it happened. Precious have used this one head.I'm concerned about his psychological well-being.

When you narrate an event you read in a book, do you expect people to ask if you were physically present to witness it?
Were you there when Yusuf Buhari had an accident? But you read the account and you believed it, right? Does that make you stvpid?

I don't blame you though. Your government expunged a lot of documents from its history archives. Since you may not be interested in reading up about documented historical facts, you are not any better than an illiterate.
For your info, the books detailing all those atrocities exist. Read and be enlightened. You don't have to believe what FFK says (I mostly don't)
But I won't argue against documented historical facts.

Those documents/books exists!

This guy need to walk into rehab home based on this comment. Imagine throwing fuel into a burning fire.

Susu888:
Hmm this was once a minister the time of Pdp. Yet they will tlk say Nigeria became more devided after 2015. We can all see who r fueling hatred by bringing back memories of tragedies that should be buried for the sake of peace!

God punish you!

We will never forget. Nigeria has a date with history

Mraphel:
All these cause u marry Igbo woman? Bianka Ojukwu and your wife puna sweet well well

It is the truth.....
You would rather he lied?