Kaysalas:

I wasn't being sarcastic, I actually meant that, and as regards being fed from mother's breast, lol, nor be everybody drink im mama breast, and they still live fine. If u wan yarb person, u need to upgrade ur thought process, its obvious your way still Far.enjoy ur day.

P0intBlank:


As requested

CC Marcelini Kaysalas

Ilovemystate:

Thomas open this website to cure ignorance

http://www.cutixplc.com.ng/home/photos#prettyPhoto

Warship:


That your mother can cook ewedu soup does not mean she can cook egusi soup

A technologist might know how to produce soap does not mean he knows how to produce perfume.

Nigeria saving grace was that no Biafra knew how to produce bullets/shells/jet technologies. If they knew, the war would have ended differently.

kjhova:
There is too much knowledge gap in this country that you wonder what people do with all that voluminous data they buy from the TELCOs. The Nigerian Civil War remains a badly told story 36 years after the last shot was fired. War is a bad thing and it only brings forth the evil in us all. There are never saints nor are there ever angels. just evil and evil all through. These generation should not make the mistake of glorifying the many evils of the old days. Don't wish unto yourselves what you cannot handle. Refer to Syria and South Sudan for your repost. Nobody will be a hero should we make Allepos or Homs or Fallujas of Enugu or Ibadan or Kaduna. See how much harm rag-tag bunches like BH and the so-called Avengers have caused us all already.

In the 60's, Nigeria was a poor, low technology and largely illiterate society. We had the few universities, the groundnut pyramids, cocoa bags, rubber, timber, tin and the developing oil industry, but we were still largely behind times and pretty new to the international community. By global standards, our army was also not of much value. Our armed forces distinguished itself in Katanga and Uganda in that era but then again this accolade was more as peace keepers rather than as a fighting forces. However, when our leaders found ways to lead us into war, a great chunk of the idling and wasting WW2 materiel of a few European powers found their way into the hands of both sides of the war. Many shady European businessmen turned into gun runners piled stock & stock of aging arsenal from London to Paris to Moscow to Rome to Berlin to Bonn to Porto via Cairo and Libreville to the ultimate destination which was either Lagos or Ulli. It really didn't matter to these killers who won, be it Nigeria or the rebels; no. It was all about their greed to make money. The British and American governments staked their policy on the believe that Nigeria will win so therefore funded the winning side to curry favours later. They also sincerely believed that disintegration of the colonial borders may be counter productive to Africa's stability. The Russians & East Germans did their bit to aid the rebels, not out of interest in the rebel cause but as the prevailing policy of the cold war era. The French also aided Biafra a bit in the faint hope that should the Anglo-Americans loose interest in the whole business, they can benefit from their position later. The Egyptian Airforce was in the pocket of the Brits and were therefore deployed considerably on the Nigerian side.

Nigeria was wealthier than the rebels and had more legitimacy to buy arms in the international market. Therefore, before and during the war, Nigeria remained far better equipped than the rebels. The critical thing the rebels had on their side was that the war was being fought in their backyard so they knew the terrain better. Also Radio Biafra's successful propaganda made them believe that surrendering to the Nigerians meant horrible torture and death. With backs pushed to the wall, poorly armed guys were willing to fight to death against all odds. This war was a fight that Biafra was always going to loose from day one. It has even been suggested in some quarters that the Nigerians deliberately prolonged the war as a matter of High Command policy to prolong the terrible suffering of the rebels. The Biafran Army also resorted to mostly guerilla tactics which brought devastating repercussions to their civilians as the Nigerians continually begin to view all Biafrans as combatants with no protection under the Geneva Conventions.

Did the Biafrans locally produce weapons during the war? Yes, but nothing of the supposed sophistication that the OP suggested. Necessity is the mother of all inventions so as rhe Biafrans were cut out of the international market due to the biting Federal blockade and the lack of FX, they resorted to home based fabrications. The pictures the OP posted are real, of course but these are all WW2 materiel which were mostly 30 years old models when our war started. Non of the two sides had state of the art equipment. The leading weapon on the rebel side of the war front was mostly the bolt-action rifle which is a WW1 (1910) relic! However the rebels did truly produce the interesting ogbunigwe classes of bombs, missiles and landmines locally. However you analyse them, these were still mostly what we today call IEDs. So so many rag tag armies produce IEDs today all over the world. The shrapnel attached to the so-called coffin ogbunigwe was nothing more than ball bearings and nails which however still carry so much devastation to the enemy if exploded in the midst of a crowded company. The flying ogbunigwe also did not come with a guidance system thus it often misfired and blew off the Biafran defenders rather than the intended enemy forces. These was the kind of war we fought in the 60's.

My points above do not in anyway remove from the brilliance and ingenuity of the Biafran rebels who fought a loosing war with the grit and tenacity worthy of respect. But the story must not be retold with undeserved glorification of nothing lest we elevate our collective madness to a class of its own.

Do we want to fight a war again? Do you want a Syria in the heart of Africa?

I wish you our young people well.

Ritchiee:


Comparing those trash with these...na wah o....

Ikechukwu48:




This guy actually didn't know why he's been laughed at. Damn, you truly are brain dead.

Dude, ALL you posted excluding the smartphone are CRAP!!! One is even a dude masquerading a bought assembled drone as his incention. It's all equivalent to what HIGH SCHOOL IGBO STUDENTS are making hence image posted.

It's like this Nigga is trying to kill me with laughter.

I tried to be nice..I seriously did.

Leo Stan Eke – Computer Guru and CEO of Zinox Technologies

Damian Anyanwu – Inventor...building Nigeria’s first private radio station – Radio Mbaise Fame in 1979. A radio that used herbs sef to work

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh – “Father of Modern Chip Interconnection Technologies”, World-class scientist and prolific inventor holding over 100 US patents.

Augustine Njoku-Obi – Developer of cholera vaccine

Bartholomew Nnaji--inventors of the E-Design concept.

Bisi Ezerioha--- Bisimoto Engineering

Charles Ume---Development of Superimposed Laser Sources Technique.

Sebastine Chinonye Omeh--Hybrid Micro Machine Products Limited

Ndubuisi Ekekwe--development of microchips used in minimally invasive surgical robots.

Samuel Achilefu--cancer-visualising glasses, now commonly known as ‘cancer goggles’

Philip Emeagwali---self explanatory [world fastest computer]

Chinedu Echeruo---Hotstop


This is just even 5 minutes of research..imagine what I would have found in 2 hours of researching.

While I'm at it, there are currently 7 Nigerian scientist working for NASA....hilariously enough, they are all Igbo.

http://communityvoiceradio.com/there-are-currently-over-7-scientists-working-at-nasa-who-are-of-igbo-decent/

Nigga you people are not even remotely close to our level. What level you have is what our HIGH SCHOOL and PRIMARY SCHOOL students are building in their village even.

. Abeg stop trying to kill me with laughter

socrates007:

The tittle of one of the films is"the real story of nigeria"

fkj950ax:


What's afonja?
A word immature people adopted on Nairaland to insult people of a different ethnicity from another.

I won't stoop low to be immature and insult you.

Where did you deduce dismantling and assembling... I can't find it nor remember writing that in my post.

Be kind to point it to me. Thank you.

chiefobdk:



shut up. afonja

Kaysalas:

@ Ritchie, Abeg they are all d same thing . Yoruba and igbo can't produce a pin all by themselves without machinery or influence from the whites & Asians.infact, no African is able to do that a beg. Let's stop celebrating assembly lines abeg.

panditocracy:


A fool who lives under a brown roof thinks every other person found in Nigeria lives under the same type of roof.
Yoruba make una go invent una own. Even good food no gree una invent let alone good technology.

Na so one useless afonja from Sahara reporters dey vomit rubbish about Philip Emeagwali. Who knows, the idiotic afonja may be one jobless shout wasterner who has not even gone outside the confines of the shout WASTE not to talk of winning an award of international repute while the Igbo genius, Philip Emeagwali, he is badmouthing is currently working for NASA.

Afonjas must hate. It is inborn in them.

jelal007:
Oga,u can LIE oo. U're the kind that'll believe anything. Chaaiiii, how can u eliminate an entire division of over 5000 men with that? Says who murtala proceeded to Britain on self imposed exile? LINUS MBA.lies full ur blood.

dadaha:
don't praise yourself over nothing, those are refurbished tanks and weapons of World War II supplied by France. Biafra never manufactured any weapons. The ogbunigwe is a mere crude landmine that was so unstable that it was lethal to the makers. The war was only lost because of greed. They were so greedy they even killed the only yoruba in their army, Victor Banjo, who took over Benin city just in a day

Real2020:
Great people. What they will manufacture in 2017 will be unprecedented.

Real2020:
Great people. What they will manufacture in 2017 will be unprecedented.