Lordlexyy: That's what he is. The joke is on you to disprove his integrity and honesty. His stallion qualities are chronicles for us to see except for folks who finds fault when there is none. He remains the only leader so far in the history of this country that nobody has been able to bring any charges against. If you think there's any both as an head of state and ptf chairman, oya mr. Find fault, do justice to my curiosity.

Lordlexyy: That's what he is. The joke is on you to disprove his integrity and honesty. His stallion qualities are chronicles for us to see except for folks who finds fault when there is none. He remains the only leader so far in the history of this country that nobody has been able to bring any charges against. If you think there's any both as an head of state and ptf chairman, oya mr. Find fault, do justice to my curiosity.

booqee: Most pathetic people are those who concoct dirty lies to buttress a stupid point. tf??!!

pls give us proof of that bullsh!t u wrote up there..

IGBOSON1:

'Nairaland' as you put it is just a manifestation of the problems the colonialists left us with, and not the cause of those problems!

Osarieme415: As George Santanyanah said,"those who would not learn from their past are condemned to repeat it."
There is no shame in defeats

Bliss4Lyfe:

A lesson for Nigeria.

prophetone:
Nigerians have always loved to wear their very best to church. Here is a picture in Lagos of a Yoruba family going to church on a Sunday.


Hausa man with the fossil of a pre-historic animal (2000)


Transporting cocoa by automobiles, Western Nigeria 1920s


On the border between Niger and Libya. Illegal immigrants from Nigeria and South Niger flee their hunger stricken homelands and cross the Libyan border on trucks, in the hope of finding work. The truck drivers often abandon them in the desert, 200-250 kms from the cities, if they see any sign of control. The migrants are used to living in forests and are completely unprepared for the desert. Amazingly, this practice goes on till this day.


Nigeria Airways receives it's first long range widebody jetliner.


No comment. *sighs*


Aerial view of the east side of Ibadan (1970).


Princess of Kent with accountant general of Nigeria (1963).


There was a time when the Nigerian police was very friendly towards its citizens, now from recent behaviour that ceases to exist. Here is a picture showing Nigerian children peering through the legs of a policeman to catch a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II of England who was in the Lagos Cathedral for a service in 1956.


Elementary School Class Being Conducted Outdoors in Northern Nigeria.


People celebrating after the end of the Nigerian civil war. One placard says ''Hail one Nigeria Ibos welcome''. Another
says 'Gowon-12, Ojukwu-0"

prophetone:
A stallion of integrity and honesty. The man who lives to see another day. Here is a picture of Gen Buhari when he was young.

Ojukwu left becos the war would have raged on had he stayed after an agreement was reached to stop the war due to the blockade.

Secondly, Gowon words was no victor, no vanquish precisely becos Nigeria never won any war. U don't win wars by begging cameroon and giving dem oil rich bakassi to blockade ur opponent.

The blockade killed more Biafrans dan any Nigeria weapon and that was the reason the war ended. How can Nigeria commit any genocide wen the feared Biafrans still had their guns in plain view of the Nigerian Army after the war? Go and learn ur history

Calculia:

A no brainer. Even if it engages in trade by batter with an oil rich territory(Bakassi) with a neighbouring country(Cameron) in return for blockade and border closure? Even if, it loses its entire military with only reservist(conscript) to reoccupy the eastern region? Over half a million Nigerian soldiers died at the hand of Biafrans.


Nigeria lost the war before it started and the blockade brought the biafrans home to Nigeria nothing else. In the words of Gowon 'no victor no vanquish'. Biafra true to its name defeated Nigeria, Russia, US AND UK. It sure feels good to be a Biafran.

Bakassi Oil rich


Illiterates who have access to the internet

Osarieme415:

Let me purge you of your ignorance,the term; "NO VICTOR,NO VANQUISHED" underscored the absurdity of the avoidable war,"the igbos were Nigerians,and the war was to unite and integrate them with the rest of the country." Would you have been pleased if the Nigerian army, following the axis forces, proceeded to wipe your race off the face of this earth?
Then the cause of the war would have been defeated. There would have been nobody to integrate.
You can go on raving that Nigeria didn't win;the army of kwashiokor kids,starving women,thoroughly subdued army and overflooded refugee camps says otherwise.
You are ranting over a blockade of forty-four years,you should ask yourself why the Nigerian army didn't use the crudest form of chemical weapon;if the FG wanted to eliminate its ibo citizens afterall Salin was used in World War One.... .
You wouldn't understand.... No need trying to educate you
P.S. I hope your first nasty improperly constructed sentence wasn't directed at me... Don't start what you can't finish ooooh. ... That was how Biafra started looking for trouble

Calculia:




hahahaha! Let us get one fact right about the war. Nigeria was persecuting a war for the Bristish and America with an oil interest in the Niger Delta.

U do only wat they permit, as they provide the weapons. The British will ask Gowon, 'is the war over' and Gowon will reply 'just two more weeks' and they got fed-up of his unending two more weeks. Despite Biafra having only manual riffles, the Niggarians with their automatic machine guns, fighter jets and war ships could not win the battle or the war that lasted three and the half years. They were so afraid of the Biafrans after the war, becos they did as they were told else, the manual riffles and some automatic guns confiscated from the niggarians will be out.


The Biafrans on the other hand were masters to themselves. They were not reporting or taking instruction from anybody other than the lion of Biafra. The Ikemba of Nnnewi General Ojukwu.

IGBOSON1:

^^^Nigeria was built on faulty foundations from the get-go, and primarily for the interests of the thieving british of the time! The 'nostalgic' pictures you're seeing that's making you well-up show the period pre and just after Nigerias independence when we went from being 'slaves' of the white man to being slaves of the wicked and greedy Nigerian elite that took over from them!

From post independence we were on a downward trajectory, and the rot that had already set in can't be seen in all these 'lovely' pics because the white man that 'helped' save us from ourselves had just left!

IGBOSON1:

^^^Oh please, just shut your mouth! Nigerias' history is replete with examples of how some peoples from certain ethnicities absolutely hate Igbos, so don't give me any of that 'Nigeria could have wiped out the Igbos but didn't because of love' crap! They carried out a lot of evil and war crimes against Igbos which peeps like you would either want to ignore or just gloss over as amounting to no more than a smack on the wrist!

The only reason why they couldn't go the whole hog and use chemical weapons was that it would be too obvious to the outside world, and could possibly tilt world support in favour of the Biafrans! Don't think using chemical weapons didn't cross their minds though.....they are that remorseless!

blackprowler:


My soul hurts for all time for what happened in the East in the '60s but I think the Ibo don't deserve my sympathies. They still worship the worst traitor they've ever produced and still blame others for what they brought upon themselves. Read about wars before Nigeria's. The wise avoids a war even if he might win. For you to champion one you can't win is beyond me. Reminds me of today's Hamas. I cry for myself and for Nigeria

jpphilips:

I agree with you completely, the truth is this, it bears noting that the Biafrans who actually fought the war were very Ignorant (not uneducated) at the time except for Achebe, the rest of the Biafran elites never supported Ojukwu, Zik, Nwobodo,Onoh just name it. The other elites who fought was when It became a situation of kill or be killed, If anyone had conducted a referendum at the time, Most elites would have rejected the war.

A Biafran war veteran I met was singing to me "on Aburi we stand" then I paused and asked him, did you see the transcript of the Aburi conference before the war? he replied an emphatic "NO", I asked, do you know anyone who saw it, he retorted, not even his commanders,
so you were this close to death, lost everything you worked for without even seeing or understanding the premise of the war, he replied, "WE believed what Ojukwu told us, after all he went to Ghana alone", It was this bad I tell you, I was deeply ashamed!!

Notice that whenever there is a MASSOB rally or its likes, it is concentrated at ABA or Onitsha, do you know why? that is the area in the East with the highest number of ignorant traders.
It was ignorance that finished Biafra, from our Biafra experience, I fear Ignorance more than Ebola. Ojukwu was supposed to be shot when he returned from his ivory coast brothel but his ignorant brothers rewarded him with a title.

Liken it to Hitler abandoning his Nazi campaign or Napoleon abandoning his french revolution or Ghadaffi abandoning Libya, or Assad abandoning Syria then return a few years later to take a title? if they did, it will be a life exile, knowing what awaits them at home.
It is only a dumb group of people that rewards cowardice with a title.

jpphilips:

I agree with you completely, the truth is this, it bears noting that the Biafrans who actually fought the war were very Ignorant (not uneducated) at the time except for Achebe, the rest of the Biafran elites never supported Ojukwu, Zik, Nwobodo,Onoh just name it. The other elites who fought was when It became a situation of kill or be killed, If anyone had conducted a referendum at the time, Most elites would have rejected the war.

A Biafran war veteran I met was singing to me "on Aburi we stand" then I paused and asked him, did you see the transcript of the Aburi conference before the war? he replied an emphatic "NO", I asked, do you know anyone who saw it, he retorted, not even his commanders,
so you were this close to death, lost everything you worked for without even seeing or understanding the premise of the war, he replied, "WE believed what Ojukwu told us, after all he went to Ghana alone", It was this bad I tell you, I was deeply ashamed!!

Notice that whenever there is a MASSOB rally or its likes, it is concentrated at ABA or Onitsha, do you know why? that is the area in the East with the highest number of ignorant traders.
It was ignorance that finished Biafra, from our Biafra experience, I fear Ignorance more than Ebola. Ojukwu was supposed to be shot when he returned from his ivory coast brothel but his ignorant brothers rewarded him with a title.

Liken it to Hitler abandoning his Nazi campaign or Napoleon abandoning his french revolution or Ghadaffi abandoning Libya, or Assad abandoning Syria then return a few years later to take a title? if they did, it will be a life exile, knowing what awaits them at home.
It is only a dumb group of people that rewards cowardice with a title.

jpphilips:


The illiterate thought that "no Victor no vanquished" actually meant that Nigeria did not win, jeez!! is education this bad in Nigeria?
Be careful, this guy might be Terry G!

blackprowler:

I felt a personal sense of shame and injustice the day Ojukwu was given a state burial. There's no better evidence of a lack of sense of history that bedevil this country and personified by the incredibly dumb president who has no sense of history whatsoever. Even an enlightened Ibo president would never give Ojukwu a Nigerian state funeral with a restored rank from 1967. Nothing can heal my pain of being identified as a Nigerian at this stage we're in

jpphilips:

You are just a toddler who doesn't know anything about the war, that is not surprising though, the bemusing part is that for over 40yrs you refused to educate yourself, shameful huh!
Are you aware that Gowon's mission was to capture the Biafran territories? with Snr Yaradua and Buhari capturing Abakiliki, down to present Ebonyi, Obasanjo, owerri (and the capture of Achuzie), Murtala Mohammed capturing Asaba into Onitsha before retreating to join Snr Yaradua, Isaac adaka boro capturing Rivers, Ibb, tried but failed in the calabar sector but was replaced, and his replacement fought down to Anambra, the fall of Onitsha bridge and the Abagana massacare was Anambra's saving grace, Imo was over run except for Orlu which was the trading hub for the soldiers, and Nnewi was not over run too, Nigerian forces got to Uli airport where Ojukwu took off from.
If Ebonyi, Rivers, Imo, Cross river and most of Anambra all fell what was left of Biafra to warrant the audacity to state that Gowon did not win that war?
No victor no vanquished clap trap was a ploy to make Biafrans feel good in the spirit of reconciliation, without their monies in the bank though!
I cant believe that someone can actually twist history this badly, shame on you!!

Calculia: Wars are not won on the count of civilian casualty but military casualty. Biafra suffered heavy civilian loses caused by the blockade equivalent to an international strangulation sanction but Nigeria suffered far more military loses at the hands of Biafra with over half a million Nigeria recorded military death. On that count Biafra was victorious.

dontjealousme:

U sir are a re.tard. Gowon captured the territory after how many years through blockade not fighting, that is the point.

what does r@tard mean? is it a compliment? where was the blockade that captured Onitsha mounted? something is telling me you don't know what blockade means! till you answer this simple question?

For the lies that @calculia sold to you that you are pasting everywhere that Biafra killed more Nigerian soldiers, it is not worth discussing, you know why? because it makes you sound like someone with very fresh pubic hairs.

It is an insult to myself to discuss such because a drunk lizard will never think that Biafrans who were sharing dane guns two people to one, could actually kill more people from a more sophisticated Nigerian side, Like I said, it is an insult to disgrace myself discussing it with you, perhaps you should be having that discussion with your secondary school mates.

For the picture you and your cohort showed up there, the event is called the "Abagana Massacre", I am pretty sure your father just gave you the gist whom most likely was hiding behind women at the time, that picture is not an evidence that Biafra killed more Nigerian soldiers, it is preposterous to even think it is possible.

What happened in that picture was that after committing a lot of atrocities in Asaba, Gen.Murtala Muhhamed decided to to cross the River Niger with a 10boat Armada into Onitsha, after 8days of constant bombardment of Onitsha, the biafran forces took to their heels leaving Onitsha defenseless, part of the reason they ran was that a foreign mercenary whom Ojukwu assigned the Onitsha front got injured and was evacuated, that broke the ranks of the Biafran forces, coupled with Murtala's intense fire power.

Murtala did not pursue the fleeing soldiers rather he went to the Onitsha market to loot and burn down the market, on getting the news that his mercenary was down, Ojukwu drafted Joe Achuzie and his warriors to hold the Onithsha sector at all cost.

Joe in a bid to avoid an open confrontation with Murtala's men went and laid ambush at Abagana enrote Enugu, Unfortunately, as if the gods of Asaba was after murtalla for r@ping and killing their women, there was a tanker laden with petrol on that convoy of 96cars carrying supplies most of which was looted from the Onitsha market, Joe Achuzie triggered the "Ogbunigwe" (an improvised Biafran bomb) which exploded the tanker and burnt the convoy.

Murtalla lost 150men out of 200, miraculously, he survived the explosion, you can read more about the Abagana massacare from the book "There was a country" by chinua Achebe. Biafrans celebrate that Massacre till date which in turn made Achuzie and his crew the Biafran war heroes, I know that you are a product of a failed education system so I don't expect you to know that 150 soldiers is a drop in a basin in a war of that magnitude.

As an individual who must have attended roofless classes, I don't equally expect you to know that Most Biafran writers acclaim that the Abagana massacre was the Biafran's highest kill, through out the conflict, it is only m0r0nic to juxtapose it with the kills from Biafran cities upon cities that fell afterwards.

I know your type, you must be looking for an avenue to learn either because you are too poor to afford books or you are too d@ft to understand them, bottom line, i am not gonna give you any more free classes, you can continue discussing the blockade victory with your fellow m0r0ns.

the only thing the Massacre achieved for the Biafran forces was the three months break needed for the Nigerian forces to regroup, and continue their onslaught from where they stopped, personally, I don't see the Abagana massacre as a big plus for the Biafrans, in the usual Biafran way, always Boasting with Irrelevant things, OR they never believed they could kill that much number of the Nigerian forces, hence the the whole generational jubilation .

jpphilips:


what does r@tard mean? is it a compliment? where was the blockade that captured Onitsha mounted? something is telling me you don't know what blockade means! till you answer this simple question?

jpphilips:
what does r@tard mean? is it a compliment? where was the blockade that captured Onitsha mounted? something is telling me you don't know what blockade means! till you answer this simple question?
For the lies that @calculia sold to you that you are pasting everywhere that Biafra killed more Nigerian soldiers, it is not worth discussing, you know why? because it makes you sound like someone with very fresh pubic hairs.
It is an insult to myself to discuss such because a drunk lizard will never think that Biafrans who were sharing dane guns two people to one, could actually kill more people from a more sophisticated Nigerian side, Like I said, it is an insult to disgrace myself discussing it with you, perhaps you should be having that discussion with your secondary school mates.
For the picture you and your cohort showed up there, the event is called the "Abagana Massacre", I am pretty sure your father just gave you the gist whom most likely was hiding behind women at the time, that picture is not an evidence that Biafra killed more Nigerian soldiers, it is preposterous to even think it is possible.
What happened in that picture was that after committing a lot of atrocities in Asaba, Gen.Murtala Muhhamed decided to to cross the River Niger with a 10boat Armada into Onitsha, after 8days of constant bombardment of Onitsha, the biafran forces took to their heels leaving Onitsha defenseless, part of the reason they ran was that a foreign mercenary whom Ojukwu assigned the Onitsha front got injured and was evacuated, that broke the ranks of the Biafran forces, coupled with Murtala's intense fire power.
Murtala did not pursue the fleeing soldiers rather he went to the Onitsha market to loot and burn down the market, on getting the news that his mercenary was down, Ojukwu drafted Joe Achuzie and his warriors to hold the Onithsha sector at all cost.
Joe in a bid to avoid an open confrontation with Murtala's men went and laid ambush at Abagana enrote Enugu, Unfortunately, as if the gods of Asaba was after murtalla for r@ping and killing their women, there was a tanker laden with petrol on that convoy of 96cars carrying supplies most of which was looted from the Onitsha market, Joe Achuzie triggered the "Ogbunigwe" (an improvised Biafran bomb) which exploded the tanker and burnt the convoy.
Murtalla lost 150men out of 200, miraculously, he survived the explosion, you can read more about the Abagana massacare from the book "There was a country" by chinua Achebe. Biafrans celebrate that Massacre till date which in turn made Achuzie and his crew the Biafran war heroes, I know that you are a product of a failed education system so I don't expect you to know that 150 soldiers is a drop in a basin in a war of that magnitude.
As an individual who must have attended roofless classes, I don't equally expect you to know that Most Biafran writers acclaim that the Abagana massacre was the Biafran's highest kill, through out the conflict, it is only m0r0nic to juxtapose it with the kills from Biafran cities upon cities that fell afterwards.
I know your type, you must be looking for an avenue to learn either because you are too poor to afford books or you are too d@ft to understand them, bottom line, i am not gonna give you any more free classes, you can continue discussing the blockade victory with your fellow m0r0ns.
the only thing the Massacre achieved for the Biafran forces was the three months break needed for the Nigerian forces to regroup, and continue their onslaught from where they stopped, personally, I don't see the Abagana massacre as a big plus for the Biafrans, in the usual Biafran way, always Boasting with Irrelevant things, OR they never believed they could kill that much number of the Nigerian forces, hence the the whole generational jubilation .