somegirl1:


Great.
I've searched for the book online. I would like to see reference to the shipments actually reaching Biafra via Ivory Coast.

Ritchiee:
Most of you Igbos are traders and mostly illiterates.So we 'lazy'ones are the ones who were and are more developed than you..even lent your real lazy people money two times dueing regional system....laziness has gotten another meaning from the hard drugging and in-drug-ious Igbos.. ah ah ah

Yorubas are far more developed than Igbos and far more intelligent.If you say you are good,you give reasons and not propaganda and we will attest to the facts enumerated.
Let us compare...
Before colonialism:
Yorubas built empires like Britain,Rome etc up to Dahomey,Ghana and Togo while Igbos were very primitive during this period and practising great primitivities that you are conversant with.
2.Yorubas were civilized and living in organised environment,used higher materials for building e.g what you call brown roof now as against palm tree leaves been used by Igbos.
3.Yorubas were never Unclad or half Unclad as against Igbos who were still half Unclad as near as1921...you can visit wikipedia and see pix of some of their women in 1921.
There are still more but let me go to when each region was controlling its destinies..
1.Yorubas were first in everything development-wise..
2.They built the first skyscraper in tropical Africa.
3.First Olympic swimning pool.
4.First Television in tropical Africa.
5.First newspaper etc
Had many firsts in almost everything and still having it till date.

20th and 21st centuries till date..
1.Yoruba has 2 Nobel Laureates Igbos have none.
2.Yoruba has several youngest phd holders in Nigeria and in the world Igbos have none
3.Yorubas have more than 10 gramny awards in their kitty from a couple of Yorubas.Igbos have none.
Yorubas are the only ones who have repeatedly broken the records of universities and polytechnics home and abroad by taking 5.0 and 4.0 CGP respectively.THE FUNNY THING IS IGBOS HAVE NONE.
Yoruba even controls 70% of the ICT world in Nigeria.As we speak,SW is the 3rd economy in Africa
The list is endless.
Anybody that says Igbos are anything near the Yorubas should compare and contrast...

Marcelini:


That's for you gullible ones that keep trooping to all these Yoruba mega spiritual houses.

These people hatred for your kind and in terms and in turn you, can never be erased by spiritual scams they practice.

Once any Yoruba man hear's the word "Igbo", his reasoning capacity blanks out, his primordial hate nature takes over.

You are naive to think that sukkot is capable of rising above his Yoruba nature.

Pylony:
The pictures of those 1st world war gears i guess.

dadaha:
French military policy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970 by
Christopher Griffin
Page 114-135 | Received 12 Jul 2013, Accepted 14 Nov 2013, Published online: 12 Dec 2014

Do you have a link to the book or a snapshot of the page?
I can't find it in google books

sukkot:
when donald trump receive sense.

somegirl1:


You offered. Why would you offer what you can't deliver?

sukkot:
its called ' sarcasm ' sweetheart

sukkot:
ok i am not yoruba. i am part yoruba on my mothers side. i have recently found out my fathers family in the 1600s moved to the ikorodu area but are benin. so for a long time while thinking i was yoruba, i was actually benin. so i have benin dna in me. so i guess that makes this post moot

having said that i feel like a yoruba guy. i am more comfortable with identifying myself as a yoruba person because thats what i thought i was all my life .

Kaysalas:

Now I quite disagree with you, on quota recently, I read about soldiers improvising their battle tanks right there on the battle field(not exactly while fighting was on), to meet the field ops requirements, now we can agree that while the top scientific team of the Germans were in protected kabs doing their work, combatants on the battle ground were not dullards either who couldn't apply some level of scientist knowledge to daze the enemy. Hope you get my drift

PaulIdu:


Now you send me the link to a wiki input written by an ignorant person like you ..the writer doesn't doesn't even know the different types of rocket propellant and goofs further by saying the ogbunigwe delivers a payload weighing from 5kg to 500kg from that small launcher and it could deliver it to a max distance of 8 kms and yet it obliterated everything in a 50km stretch..hahahaha Ogbunigwe must be a spiritual weapon ooo ..very poorly written article ... you have still not told me the type of charge and fuse used on the ogbunigwe oo..

Horsesmouth:


Traitor

thedarksider:


give me a break....the igbos were never ready for a war..

hitler planned 10years long and modernized the german army 5years long before going to war....15year!!!,,,you wan go to war in only 1year?

all what biafra did was reverse-engineer.......by 1960 western nations had more advanced tanks than this biafran-invention...

it doesnt even cross your mind that the rest of nigeria can reverse-engineer too...not only igbos have smart-heads in nigeria..

Ritchiee:
lol....inbreed and factory baby,you lose,you lose..... ah ah ah

somegirl1:


Do you have a link to the book or a snapshot of the page?
I can't find it in google books

Aigbofa:
Those were parts bought from the international market and crudely put together by the Biafrans. If those parts were indeed made in Biafra what happened to the foundries that made the parts? Did anyone destroy any factory after the war?
I don't understand why people are lying to themselves.

Marcelini:



Stats is in conflict with your Yoruba lies:

Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407 ." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965)

Marcelini:



Stats is in conflict with your Yoruba lies:

Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407 ." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965)

Aigbofa:


Show me the factories, show me the stamping and extrusion factories, show me the assembly lines. Did you make the tanks inside Ojukwu Bunker out of the prying eyes of the "jelos" Yoruba?

dadaha:

It's not an online book, but abstracts are published online

You can't use a reference unless you have access to it. You must have read it yourself, unless it's common knowledge. Because, the wikipedia or other article could have cited/ quoted it out of context which the rest of the paragraph or chapter would expose.

So screenshots or a google books link would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

LorDBolton:


Smh oga I like your tales pls back it up with facts... it is on record m.mohammed was only beaten back twice he succeeded the 3rd time.

If he didn't land @ onitsha OK... but I know it look less than 5/7months(not 2 years like u claim) to capture vast parts of present day anambra.(including onitsha) the war ended in 1970 na and onitsha was a strategic city...I don't need to Google it.

As for the airport it was a major logistic tool for the biafran force, it had to go... even the Germans targeted industrial areas of allied nations. It's war

#2- ojukwu (the coward) never surrendered like the Japanese emperor...if he had then post-war nigeria would have been different, it's just like radio biafra broadcasting their propaganda there was the fear ojukwu would be coordinating missions from cote d' ivoire so the people first had to be subjugated.


Ask yourself how come Japan doesn't hate america despite 2 a-bomb? Simple the americans didn't prosecute their emperor, he stayed on and thereafter the people could be tamed because their leader was tamed.

Also america had special strategic interest because they knew the soviets became stronger after eliminating germany and usa were right since the cold war started almost immediately after. They needed a stable n developed japan.

These 2 facts above are the ONLY REASONS why usa rehabilitated japan

Now let's go to intra-state affairs cos we talking civil war not world war did the American reconstruction after their own civil war succeed? No! Blacks were still being restricted and killed so let's know exactly what changed?
Yes blacks got elected into parliament but were still powerless. The south were coastal states and as such were needed, till today the southerners still pride themselves in fighting the war...difference is vast majority accepted they lost and focused on reintegration with the north.

Attoricities were committed on both sides same with the nigeria-biafra war they even annexed a territory and turned mid-west to a puppet state and subjugated the majority(benin tribes) and foisted a minority igbo as president. But Such is war

Since the man who started the war that cost his people their lives n respect couldn't surren der himself put yourself in gowons shoes...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO??
If he hadn't done what he did best guess is another war would have started shortly after.

The igbos still haven't gotten over losing a war and are obviously spoiling for another round...I encourage them to continue.

Marcelini:


What empire exactly did Yorubas build? Mud house empires built by defeating fellow Yoruba speaking tribes?

Yes, it was Banjo who killed the Biafran march to Ore, he compromised the march after he had round table discussions with his Yoruba people, stationed the Biafran troops at Bini for days, taking away the surprise element the Biafrans had in their favour, giving the Nigerian Army enough time to re strategize.

Handling such crucial part of the war to a Yoruba man to lead, was Ojukwu's greatest military blunder.
And Biafra paid dearly for it.

somegirl1:


You can't use a reference unless you have access to it. You must have read it yourself, unless it's common knowledge. Because, the wikipedia or other article could have cited/ quoted it out of context which the rest of the paragraph or chapter would expose.

So screenshots or a google books link would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Marcelini:


That's for you gullible ones that keep trooping to all these Yoruba mega spiritual houses.

These people hatred for your kind and in terms and in turn you, can never be erased by spiritual scams they practice.

Once any Yoruba man hear's the word "Igbo", his reasoning capacity blanks out, his primordial hate nature takes over.

You are naive to think that sukkot is capable of rising above his Yoruba nature.

Warship:


If Biafra had survived, she would have repeated the Japanese miracle in Africa. Causing Africans to catch up with other advanced nations

revolt:
he's still onw of those ppl spreading beer parlor gist that yorubas are more educated than bla bla.... does he even know who the pioneer indigenous lecturers of the 1st universities in nigeria and the west were? They love to rewrite history sha

dadaha:
so I can't reference da Vinci's works?

somegirl1:


I haven't joined in the original debate because I don't know enough about the subject to make an assertion. It would be advisable if others would borrow a leaf.
I'm doubtful that the tanks were created from scratch. However, I believe they were significantly modified, which required innovation.

sukkot:
lolzzz so because Joe Igbokwe a honorable igbo man has the integrity to tell the truth, he is now a yoloba man ? am sure you will start calling him Joe Yolobakwe like these crazy igbo guys i encounter on nairaland

dadaha:
French military policy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970 by
Christopher Griffin
Page 114-135 | Received 12 Jul 2013, Accepted 14 Nov 2013, Published online: 12 Dec 2014