RoyPCain: i am not a supporter of gowon and almost all the administrations since him. i think gowon was particularly corrupt if only measuring his wedding victoria [an igbo woman] with so much lavishness in the height of the war. gowon should even be seized now and charge to court in nigeria for his action.

i do not think ojukwu was a good leader either for not knowing how to keep peace. to you youth, i was almost in high school when the war started so this is not a history book thing or somebody embellishing a story to make himself look like a victim or a hero.

the people advocating biafra should know that if you get it, the igbo will discriminate against the minority ethnic groups as the dust settles. the yorubas who are mose homogenous among the 3 sectional countries that may emerge from the dissolution of present day nigeria may probably at some future point, discriminate among themselves by the ara oke and atoun rewa mindset.

every person thinks he is better in theory, if not in practice and that is attested within family structure; father thinks he must dominate mother because of gender. children do the same by birth right. there are many artificial proposition people use.


its high time the youths if they truly believe the future is for them to shape abandoned tribalism. go for nation building and build it faster than america did from first world war onward. france may bully nigeria today. if you youths make your nation of tomorrow emerge as powerful as france, by sheer nearness to the theater of war, france will be powerless and you can decimate her because you will have population advantage above all.

the disaster of the past, each of the leaders of the past has a slice of the blame. it is dishonest to imagine some are blameless. you have nigeria. work hard to make her great. america was not born great. it is by hard work that everyone wants to come to her.


best wishes to all of you.

IGBO-SON:


^^^Nuclear deterrent ke! See how it's rolling off your tongue with ease.....bros, you think say nuclear deterrence na beans?

Our bumbling officials being what they are......they'd probably press the wrong button on the day and end up blowing up the whole country back to the ice ages!

crackhaus:
Don't be so sure saying stuff you're not certain of.

The royal family had no communication with Germany, if you check right you'll see they were even ashamed that the press was insinuating they had ties with germany, reason for this was because the name of the Royal house then was of German origin through the Prince's side of the family (the Prince's arranged marriage to the Queen of England was done because he's a distant cousin of the British crown).

My point is, the present 'House of Windsor' which is like the surname of the British crown right now was chosen by the Queen then to replace the former German house name (can't remember that now, it's quite long), to eliminate the sentiment that there might have been an alliance between the Crown and Nazi-Germany.

The only person that can return to the german house name right now is Prince William if he becomes King and only if he wants to, because his grand-father Prince Philip's actual surname is of German oringin.

shymexx:

This is their German name: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

However, what would you say about King Edward VIII's romance with the Nazi's?

shymexx:

But do you think Nigeria would have been able to maintain its hold on the place after the ICJ judgement? I honestly doubt Nigeria can win a war against Cameroon with the French beside them. Nigeria isn't that militarily strong for that. Your navy would have been crushed within 24 hrs and your airforce is next to non-existent. Coupled with that fact that your poor air defense system is of French origin. So it would have been a one-sided affair with heavy loses on the Nigerian side. They probably would have annexed Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Biafra - to Cameroon as well.

onila: Attack By Cameroonian Gendarmes Displaces 1000 Bakassi Indigenes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toOC0U2CZcs

gratiaeo: Everybody is a general and commander in Nigeria. Nigeria that can not fight and defeat Boko Haram, they can only wage war against France in dream.
It su ck to be Nigeria

olopan: dude you have no point here, is boko haram a country | are they know!!! cameroon is a country with border etc...........please find something else to say than this rubbish you uttered

Licensed-2-Kill:
I see no sense in this post. Some dumbass jst dont understand how international politics works. The worst france could have done was to back cameroon up with weapons and tactical advice like they did in libya. They wouldnt dare raised a single finger against Nigeria and well, that's not because they can not.

chidindufrank: This is one reason we must get our Biafra back. Cameron and France will then know who owns Bakassi. Gowon may the sword never depart from your village,family and household

pheesayor: South south which cross river falls under will never join Biafra and that is even if Biafra becomes a reality which I'm not sure will happen.

shymexx:

Come on, now. I doubt Hitler really wanted to defeat the UK, to be honest. I believe he just wanted to bring the country to its kneels, but everything was more of a game than anything else. The Royal Family is German - and best believe they had direct communication with the Germans during the war. Heck, all of Germany's best military assets were deployed against the Russians in lieu of the UK.

That said, the yanks did help by selling weapons to the UK. However, without the brave Russians - there was absolutely no way the Americans would have defeated the Germans, trust me. Hence why most historians still question why Hitler attacked Russia. The Russians won the war.

Anyway, yes, the French used to great fighters, but since world war 2, they have been puzzies. Smashed in Algeria. Disgraced in Vietnam. Chickened out in Egypt during the Suez Canal crisis when the Soviets gave them a stern warning. France is puzzy!

eaglechild:
You are mostly right about the Russians, but I can see your sentiment lies with the Brits(The Brits are notorious for calling the French pu***).
Even the Americans were disgraced by the Vietnamese not just the French.
Was it not the French that struck the first blow against Libya while UK was still waiting for their American masters to give them a go ahead?
Truth is France has sworn never to lick anyone's buttt after WW2.
They have been testing their nuclear weapons since the 80s in the midst of controversies.
The French have had very embarrassing war records in the past just like every other world power.
It's just that the Brits make it a point of duty to rub it in their faces and being a former British colony, that's what we see.

alanmwene:
you are just trying to justify cowardice!Vietnameses took on French with all the odds stacked against them ,but they crushed frenchs in Dien bien phu:
A real army general in action:Vo Nguyen Giap!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG3mifrpGp0
Then they took on America,the most powerful state on earth,with zero chances of winning the war.But they came on too!Mind you,vietnam is a small country with just about 60 millions of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6zxKKfgFI
It is not enough to have big mouths.You have to back them up when the going get tough!

cap28: No wonder no one respects us and for those who are yet to understand how Europe and the us operate pls be aware of the fact that the us, France and the UK are allies and eill never go to war with each other over a colony as they have signed treaties agreeing not to interfere with each other's property- nigeria is Britain's property and Cameroun is france's

If nigeria had gone to war with france I can tell u now britain and the us would immediately impose economic embargo on Nigeria and make sure it is completely isolated a m not sure China wld even be able to trade with Nigeria at that point

shymexx:

After what happened during world war 2 and how the French didn't put up any resistance - I doubt their image would ever recover from that. Subsequently, they have been smacked around in almost every other country except militarily weak sub-saharan African countries.

As for the Libya fiasco, Sarkozy was just trying to get his mini napoleon complex on - and market the French Dassault Rafale jets at the same time. Don't forget the Dassault Rafale jets were also part of the fighter jets vying for the Indian fighter jets contract at that time. And what other way is better to show off those jets than defying the Libyan air defense system before the tomahawk cruise missiles started dropping on the Libyans? Add Gaddafi's refusal to purchase those jets from the French to the equation and you would understand the mindset of Sarkozy and why they struck first.

However, that doesn't change the fact that Libya was the UK's war; the UK launched more than 2 dozens of tomahawk missiles on the Libyans; and the RAF did more sorties than the French airforce.

shymexx:

I concur. And this is more reason why Nigeria needs to modernise its military. There will always be external threats and the Nigerian armed forces can't fight their way out of a paper-bag. That's how poor they're.

eaglechild:
The French did put up a resistance, Free French movement, fought throughout.
I agree WW2 will remain an indelible embarrassment, but come to think of it, perhaps if a proper battle was fought, the world would have lost the priceless treasures of Paris including the Louvre.
A large chunk of European history and civilisation would have been erased.
In any case, do you think if Britain and France were to swap locations, the same fate would not have befallen the Brits?

Lol at mini Napoleon complex. Sounds good.

shymexx:

Brother, when it comes to defending homeland - everything else becomes irrelevant. They can always rebuild another Paris and Louvre, however, when you lose your freedom - there's no coming back from that. You've to make sacrifices. Imagine if the Hitler and the Nazi's had not gone on their ego trip and attacked Russia, France would be a German colony now. The Brits fought with everything they have got despite all the bombs the Germans were dropping on all the UK cities. Heck, Buckingham Palace got hit, but they kept on fighting like warriors. Russia gave everything it had to defend the homeland - sacrificing 20 million people is not a joke. However, they had to pay that price for freedom.

If the UK were to swap locations with the French, trust me, the Brits would have continued fighting.

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill

shymexx:

Brother, when it comes to defending homeland - everything else becomes irrelevant. They can always rebuild another Paris and Louvre, however, when you lose your freedom - there's no coming back from that. You've to make sacrifices. Imagine if the Hitler and the Nazi's had not gone on their ego trip and attacked Russia, France would be a German colony now. The Brits fought with everything they have got despite all the bombs the Germans were dropping on all the UK cities. Heck, Buckingham Palace got hit, but they kept on fighting like warriors. Russia gave everything it had to defend the homeland - sacrificing 20 million people is not a joke. However, they had to pay that price for freedom.

If the UK were to swap locations with the French, trust me, the Brits would have continued fighting.

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill

vedaxcool:

bros 1billion likes it is a pity our leaders cowed so easily, to the same France that armed biafra instead of feeding them.

eaglechild:
Should Nigeria have attacked France?