oduasolja:

he was definitely right that nigeria needs to break up. but biafra was wrong.


nigeria can only be broken up in a negotiated function.

kingoflag:

To begin with, Nigeria was never meant to be.

Lasinoh:

I thought his burial would have started this week?
Something to keep NL buzzing for weeks.

Lasinoh:

I thought his burial would have started this week?
Something to keep NL buzzing for weeks.

kingoflag:

To begin with, Nigeria was never meant to be.

oduasolja:

that was not what your grand father nnamdi azikiwe thought . after all he was the one that described Nigeria as an indissoluble union.

sheyguy:

Unfortunately the igbo pple are still blaming another set of pple for their mistakes, even the way they av played their politics to date shows to everyone they will likely make the same mistake they made in '66 if it happens allover again.  The forces and factors of pre-1966 politics are the still there today 100%, from all regions. The ignorance, the love, the hate, the greed, the hurt and every single feeling that shaped the decisions that lead to the war.

So your own people are squeaky clean?

Guys, you people need to get a life. Every kid now has unsolicited opinion,

9ja_I_hail:

Silly you,Cmon answer a simple he asked you.I thought as you live in a civilized country like America this Africa mentality of answering questions with question would have wipe out of your dump brain.Below is the question answer it first. 

if you begin to packout from the building as to save your life from these murderers and enjoy your peace and safety, will that be a bad idea?
can there be another better action to take? pls be sincere in your ans.

Lasinoh:

COW!
You know I live in a civilized world. . .America!!!
Sooooo, how can your 'PRIMITIVE' problems for Safari monkeys affect me?
I cannot answer such a question for cave dwellers!

The reason I asked another question which concerns me.
Free entertainment on NL.
Now, BUZZ OFF!!!!

mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!

When are you guys going to start posting stuff that are geared towards ethnic healing and reconciliation?

young igbos and yorubas are busy bashing themselfs with bitterness,
while their major enemy(hausa/fulani) are busy killing us all more and more and gaining secret grounds politicaly.

oduasolja:

why was biafra wrong ?? good question.

the fact that the igbo had a legitimate reason to seek a new situation for themselves outside Nigeria , does not automatically  give them rights to non igbo land. The only land igbos have an absolute right to is ancestral igbo land. Not ijaw land , not efik land , not eket land and so on and so forth. Eastern nigeria or not.

In the face of minority opposition to the declaration of biafra. Ojukwu was wrong to unilaterally declare their lands as part of biafra. I am convinced that ojukwu was being an opportunist in trying to use the tragedy of the progroms to hold on to as much land and resources (oil)as possible for his people the igbo. Afterall, he was  very willing to use violence against minorities to intimidate them into supporting biafra  
and there was very little that was open, transparent or democratic about  his claimed mandate.

9ja_I_hail:

Your foolishness this days is going out of hands.this is why most of you display monkey attitude in the mix of civilized people, that's why they see Africans as lawless or monkey's .Look it simple you came in to a thread and a question was asked answer the question before you vomiting trash if you don't have clue to the question you move out instead of bring your shyt into every thread, is it a die or die that you must comment in any thread that relate to Igbo's or Biafrans. Now i can figure out what your problem is,please visit a mental specialist, earlier you do the better it is for you

naijaking1:

It's hard to ignore your uninformed and persistently false position on the Biafran situation.
First, Biafra was not an Igbo affair, because even the title name was suggested by an Ijaw assembly man. While the Igbos were the majority in the then eastern Nigeria, the rank and file of the executive were filled by people from Ogoja, to Calabar, to Uyo, to PH, to Onitsha, to Nsukka. When the easterners were massacred in the north, every tribe, county, or group in eastern Nigeria suffered losses, but since the Igbos were statistically more in number, it was not surprising that they were mostly affected. So, every group had a need to support Biafra.

These groups you outlined as being opposed to Biafra never had any problem living, schooling, and making a living as eastern Nigerians despite shallow political differences. You seem to misunderstand the effect of the war on easterners, because just like the western and northern Nigerians, the easterners too had their own minority issues and agitations.

The discovery of oil, the relentless pursuit for domination by Hausa/Fulanis, and Yorubas' myopic and self-serving approach to everything exaggerated the minority issues in eastern Nigeria. Granted that Zik and other politicians played a key role in carving the midwest out of the western region( against the protest of western politicians who thought supporting eastern minorities was pay-back time), there was not any difference between the minority agitation of the Ogonis in PH and those of the Aworis in Lagos.

When these so-called minorities depended on the revenues from coal, palm oil, agriculture, and yes taxation from the majority Igbos, there was no complaints or agitations for separation, but all that changed when oil was discovered in commercial quantity in what was seen as their lands
Despite your earlier and false write-up about the iniquities of Igbos against their fellow easterners, the only compaints I have ever heard from some of these so-called minorities includes: Ojukwu's disrespect to some of their leaders, because he refused to see them in Enugu at some point in the early 1966s. Until the Justice Mammam commission came to town, most of the oil producing areas were unquestionably in Igbolands.

Like I said above the mandate for Biafra was given by the eastern house of assembly as a measure to save themselves from extermination, please review your history well. Effiong, MT Mbu, Chief Jumbo, and other minority high ranking officials of the era were not "financially induced" as you falsely claimed in your previous article, they were serving their people. If you thought they were bought, then go ask as them, because some of them are still alive

Negro_Ntns:

Soon as we back off from these attacks ibos are known to reemerge under newly registered names and with new attacks.  I have witnessed that here on numerous occassions and many other Yorubas in here will tell you the same.  I know you like to stay in middle and address your reconciliatory messages to both.  I believe you need to direct it pointedly to your people.  

ak47mann:

Una just dey wake up  good morning if you like answer if you like no answer,the music is on we are dancing it those that thought ojukwu was bad are now changing their views on ojukwu after 40 years after biafran war.

Sam_Ikenna:

However, what I would not do is to go about insulting or hating on your own people because I love mine. If I truly love my people I would try my best not to bring carnage to them, I would make friends for them, negotiate for them, take insults because of them, take beatings from you or anyother person because of them. So, I'm not in the middle, I'm with my people and there is no shame in that just as you are with yours and you're loving it. [size=18pt]I believe since you love yours, hopefully you respect mine, and I love mine (you know I respect yours) we can help in separating them a little. We can do this by calling out any NLder from our respective groups that enjoys ethnic bashing. Its not going to be the silver bullet but it sure will make a little difference. For a start you can start by writing Igbo in capital [I], need I tell you that I always write Yoruba in capital [Y]? I do so because respect, they say, is reciprocal[/size].