alj harem:

yes we are aware of these. I would not dispute this fact but THAT HAS NOT ERASE THE FACT THAT ACHEBE LIED TO AGAINST THE INNOCENTS THAT ARE DEAD TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

I pray Igbos rise above any circumstance they preceive to be in. I really do but don't just involve Yorubas in this petty games of ethnic superiority you people inculding the older generations are doing

WE SEE ALL NIGERIANS ARE AS EQUALS AND THAT FACT WOULD NOT CHANGE. WE ARE NOT LIKE IGBOS THAT ARE IN COMPETITION WITH OTHERS. Just learn to stop persecuting and trying rule the yoruba people and we would do the same.

masu:

AM FROM PLATAUE STAE:
now listen stop geting angry for nothing that is the why i see the danger in igbo vs yoruba fight,
i some how doubt your yoruba identity for real bcus you accept yoruba versus igbo war too easy while you vehemently object fulani/hausa been a problem to us all.
am scratching my head to blv or not if you are yoruba for real but for now let me look the other way.

as a plataue man i can tell you with first hand info that we are regreting the war, we fought wrong people.
let me point out for you atleast 4 state in the belt: kwara/nasarawa/plataue and benue has seen the true color of fulanis till date read news bro.

you yorubas are a bit far away from this monsters now but i promise you if they finishes with us there will be no where the south can hide.

ak47mann: i have nothing much to tell you because you have a multiple personality disorder,am not insulting you but am telling you truth,when i was much younger at the age of remembering things,i use to think then that igbos are not wanted in nigeria it was a common slang then, but at that age i couldnt understand the harsh history behind it.I was too young to understand meanings and reason behind it,even some nwafors started shying away from anything to do with there culture,language and so on, just because your people succeed on propaganda and spreading lies even using continues rioting, to gain more political power.You people brought corruption to nigeria because with corruption there will be no accountability no proper documentation,politicians can manipulate census numbers and they can amend laws that suits them,in that way they can keep the power for themselves not for you (al harem) but for themselves and families..

Mr if you want nigeria to survive you got to change,there is no two ways about it or else you dont want nigeria to survive!the ball is your game

masu: Alj harem blv me when i say fulani's are a deadly virus to us all not the south nor the beltans.

you can see how difficult it is for you to remember the igbo vs yoruba tribal fight, but last year alone
fulani's fought in many states in the south and beltans(enugu,imo,delta,edo,ogun,ondo,oyo,ekiti,kwara,benue,plataue,nasarawa etc)

can you see it pal. Gideon Okar knows better and we knows it too and that is whay i try to inform any southern and beltans that want to know.

what i see in yoruba and igbos is just life normal competition that is blown out of propotion.
this two group has made nigeria proud to the world.

i cannever be a party that will fight southerners again or choose core north(fulani/hausa/kanuri) above southerners or beltans.
it will be dificult for igbos to name 3 things yorubas did against them and also dificult for yorubas to name 3 things igbos did against them.

but fulanis has delt with us all uncountable times even in our remote villages. bro if you come to plataue we have more to tell the nation.

Alj harem:I doubt if you are from plateau and even if that is the case. What exactly are you saying ?
We should accept Igbo rule over Yorubas or what Please be clear
Or we should accept the lies of ACHEBE ? Make yourself clear. I don't think you understand even the people of plateau's position not to talk of yorubas cus if you do you would not be talking out of ignorance here.
Ok let me make myself clear now so it is easy for you and anyother pro-southern Nigeria
1. Yorubas would not accept Achebe's lies. This is not an attack on the Igbos or debunking Achebe's lies
2. If Igbos knowing how tribalistic Achebe sounded still support him, then it shows the sort of people we are breeding in Nigeria and that would not be accepted as well.
3. Yorubas don't likes Hausa or fulanis nether do they hate them. We would support any group that fights for justice.
4. VERY IMPORTANT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS POINT * Yorubas would not form a southern Nigeria with Igbos current attitudes of victimization and superority complex they have on themselves. I do not want to wake up and be told that "we are the best" we are this we are that every day. I want a country were I can meet my Itsekiri or Ijebu or Ijaw etc brother and we can walk beside each other as equals beside financial statue.
5. Yorubas don't hate the Igbos infact Yorubas are the only group that love Igbos the most because we UNDERSTAND THEM well. That is the truth and we understand the way they think even better. As an igbo poster rightly stated here "oil (yoruba) and water (igbos) can never mix" (Onlytruth quote) that is the case of southern nigeria.
Also as Achebe rightly said "His yoruba people" showing he did not see us as one people.
6. A yoruba man JUST WANT PEACE OF MIND AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIS PEOPLE. We do not like wars, chest beating and lies. Just peace so we can live normal lives.
I hope I am clearer now

masu:
but igbos should quit crying like babies though anygroup that lost upto two million kitts/kins in a
war can never wipe it under the table truth be told.

7842I:

You must submit yourself to the reign of Achebe, or be forced to eat your words as Keshi made you bigots to.

bushwailo: Can't read this very lengthy Opinion of a Nobody !

ACM10:
The reason why the eastern leadership escaped the coup had been overflogged. The coupist did a poor job in the east and lost their element of surprise. I'm surprised that this so-called Damola is indirectly branding the coup an Igbo agenda.

ACM10:
Mr. Damola, how many coups took place in Nigeria before the Jan. coup? Remember that Nzeogwu was convinced to hand over the troops under his control to Ironsi. Common sense should have told you that executing Nzeogwu would have triggered a violent revolt in the army.

ACM10:

Point of correction! Awolowo was imprisoned of treasonable felony for conspiring to overthrow a duly elected government. He was tried in a civilian court of law and found guilty.

ACM10:
I expect more from my intelligent friend. Where did the normal practice assertion come from? Convicts were sent to random prisons. Region had nothing to do with it.

ACM10:
Evidence pls?! I have low tolerance for fantasies.
Some Yoruba analysts claims that Ojukwu killed him.

ACM10:
Why were these names part of an Igbo coup?
1. Lt-Col V. Banjo
2. Major W. Ademoyega
3. Capt. G. Adeleke
4. Lt. F Oyewole
5. 2Lt. T. Katsina
6. 2Lt. O. Olafemihon
7. Capt. G. Jalo
8. 2Lt. H. Eghagha
9. 2Lt. Dambo
10 2Lt. J. Kpera

ACM10:

We are learning everyday. I would want to get the names of those who sat on the negotiating table with Ojukwu? I knew that Ojukwu was at the table with his secretary, while Gowon came with all his top government functionries.

The term 'full reprieve for the coup plotters put on the table' does not mean that the coup plotters sat down at the table

berem: please where in Lagos can i get the book?

masu: Alj harem blv me when i say fulani's are a deadly virus to us all not the south nor the beltans.

you can see how difficult it is for you to remember the igbo vs yoruba tribal fight, but last year alone
fulani's fought in many states in the south and beltans(enugu,imo,delta,edo,ogun,ondo,oyo,ekiti,kwara,benue,plataue,nasarawa etc)

can you see it pal. Gideon Okar knows better and we knows it too and that is whay i try to inform any southern and beltans that want to know.

what i see in yoruba and igbos is just life normal competition that is blown out of propotion.
this two group has made nigeria proud to the world.

i cannever be a party that will fight southerners again or choose core north(fulani/hausa/kanuri) above southerners or beltans.
it will be dificult for igbos to name 3 things yorubas did against them and also dificult for yorubas to name 3 things igbos did against them.

but fulanis has delt with us all uncountable times even in our remote villages. bro if you come to plataue we have more to tell the nation.

ACM10: For a while, I thought that I was reading an article on www.dawodu.com. I never knew that Nowa Omoigui has many followers. The article is filled with lies, misleading accounts, half-truths and exaggerations that I felt bored reading it. This is an article designed to appeal to the rabid tribalists from the other side of divide. Objectivity is foreign to Mr. Damola. I would love to meticulously tear apart & shred the article if time permit me. We all know that Awolowo is a flawed character(so is my kinsman Ojukwu and Zik). There is no point defending his questionable and coldblooded policies like 20 pounds policy, indigenisation policy, banning of trade of 2nd hand cloths, banning of trade of stockfish, etc.
Furthermore, there is no justification to make bogus claims. I've never heard any northern historian claim that Igbos massacred their civilians after coup. This is a classic Nowa Omoigui junk. Even, after the 2nd coup, Igbos gave a free pass to Nigerian soldiers stationed in Enugu. By making that claim without proof, Damola has earned my disrespect.

Olaolufred:

THANKS FOR AGREEING THAT THE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE BOLDED PART ARE NOT INFALLIBLE.
WHAT I HATE IS WHEN THEY CALL SOMEONE WHO RUSHED INTO A WAR WITHOUT THOROUGH REASONING AND PLANING A HERO,
THEY WANT THE OTHER TO BE THE DEVIL.
OJUKWU IS A BIG CULPRIT OF THE UNFORTUNATE WAR.
AWOLOWO'S ALLEGED ACTIONS OR INACTIONS ARE REACTIONARY.
EVEN ZIK, THOUGH HE WAS MADE TO ESCAPE THE JANUARY 1966 COUP BY PLAN DID NOT SUPPORT BIAFRA WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
IF WE MUST HEAL WOUNDS, THEN BALMING OTHERS ONLY FOR WHAT YOU CONTRIBUTED TO IS AN INJUSTICE.

donedy: I'm still confused why the only people complaining about this book are the Yourubas. I'm from Kogi and I have nothing against the book.

alj harem:

what part of Kogi ? Moreover you are stu.pidity because did the book lie about Kogilites or Yorubas ?

All this Igbos self, I tire

alj harem:

what part of Kogi ? Moreover you are stu.pidity because did the book lie about Kogilites or Yorubas ?

All this Igbos self, I tire

donedy:

Do you think all people here are tribal bigots like you people. I even expect the Hausa's to be one making noise, but the opposite happened. Tell me if you know everywhere where people from Kogi have criticized the book.

You Yorubas are all alone.

Dede1:


You are wastefully educated. When did Yoruba translate into one of 36 states in Nigeria? Anyway, it is your freaking right to display stupidity.

alj harem:

I think you meant that for donedy "I am from kogi" LOL. Very difficult set of people. Always biased and tribalistic

Dede1:



The above post is one of the series of conjectural craps cull from Nowa Omoigiu's figments of imagination. Is it not inherently moronic to term anything that mainly consisted of imaginary figures from western, midwestern and eastern regions without even a doorman from northern region as “National Conciliation Committee”?

alj harem:

You see, YOU ARE IGBO. I told you before that Yorubas especially people like me and likes of Awolowo know how the Igbo man thinks. Who care who is alone or not, who cares about allainaces here, have you been reading my post at all ?. An old biafran man published a book full of lies and you expect people to keep shut about it. You are one funny set of people I no go lie

Whatever you call me does not change who I am. I am Alj harem a nairalander that can chose to be anyone at anytime. I have stayed in Kogi so that is why I ask, what part of Kogi because they don't think like you bigots.

A book published to insinuate Genocide on a well respected former leader among the yorubas should now be sweept under the carpet because it is an Igboman that wrote it ? LOL indeed funny set of people

I just pray this country split so people like you and Achebe can have your country.

Any other group be it Ijaw, Ibibio and co that want to join a country where Igbos believe they are better than other groups can join and likes of Achebe can keep writing crap BUT YORUBAS WOULD NOT ALLOW SUCH if you involve them. Fact

Dede1: I do not know any Biafran who is clamoring for the healing of civil war wounds. The war has been fought, lost and indelible enemies made. I do not care how anybody tries to slice the civil war it shall remain a mirror before us and reflects the scars from the war. The intellectual tonic surrounding the civil war has been adulterated by tribalism. The only way to bury the hatchet is to disintegrate the Nigeria so that citizens of different nation states out of dismembered Nigeria can channel the brazen hatred for each other into productive energy geared towards mutual competition.

Those who cherished Awolowo’s crafted policies of starvation and 20 naira can build a park for his remembrance. The followers of Gowon will erect life-size statue to memorialize Go-On-With-One -Nigeria. In the other hand, those who cherished the efforts of Biafrans could build parks and monuments for the fallen Biafrans and dedicate a week to mourn and remember them. In so doing, nobody shall give hoot what the others are doing across the border.

Dede1:


The initial jabs were meant for ignoramus such as you who thought there were no ancestral Yoruba peeps in Kogi State. Donedy had indicated he\she is not tribally bent by going with state instead of tribe hence I am from Kogi. Do you think Donedy does not know Kogi State is multi-tribal?

donedy:

Do you think all people here are tribal bigots like you people. I even expect the Hausa's to be one making noise, but the opposite happened. Tell me if you know everywhere where people from Kogi have criticized the book.

You Yorubas are all alone.

kunlekunle:

you are another fictional historian like Achebe.
my advice stop distorting history.

alj harem:

You see, YOU ARE IGBO. I told you before that Yorubas especially people like me and likes of Awolowo know how the Igbo man thinks. Who care who is alone or not, who cares about allainaces here, have you been reading my post at all ?. An old biafran man published a book full of lies and you expect people to keep shut about it. You are one funny set of people I no go lie

Whatever you call me does not change who I am. I am Alj harem a nairalander that can chose to be anyone at anytime. I have stayed in Kogi so that is why I ask, what part of Kogi because they don't think like you bigots.

A book published to insinuate Genocide on a well respected former leader among the yorubas should now be sweept under the carpet because it is an Igboman that wrote it ? LOL indeed funny set of people

I just pray this country split so people like you and Achebe can have your country.

Any other group be it Ijaw, Ibibio and co that want to join a country where Igbos believe they are better than other groups can join and likes of Achebe can keep writing crap BUT YORUBAS WOULD NOT ALLOW SUCH if you involve them. Fact