but for the destructive Ibo 1st coup of January 151965 Nigeria would have still remain a single entity.

madone:
Igbo have problems nit only in Nigeria but in organizations. Just employ an igbo man into ur company. Give him sometimes you see how he LL start scheming to overthrow u cos of money. They are never loyal,and LL always have the feeling that they are the live wire of ur organization.

Lols @live wire....more like grandiose delusions...

datigbogirl:


Lols @live wire....more like grandiose delusions...

its as simple dat

ofwest47:
but for the destructive Ibo 1st coup of January 15 2015 Nigeria would have still remain a single entity.

Are you sure about that? The 1945 Jos massacres, the 1953 Kano massacre, the fall out of the 1963 census and the 1964 election violence and opration wetie of 1965 all point to the fact that Nigeria had a date with destiny in 1966. I dont support the first coup, but lets not pretend that there wasnt already 'fire on the mountain' by the time that coup happend.

We have to talk about the long long time again
we have to talk about it for us to understand
Oba Kosoko dey for Lagos when Englishman arrive
Englishman and Akitoye come drive Kosoko away
U.A.C come JOHN HOLT come others dem come too
eo dey many many many years Africans dem no gree
why you take our land by force dem ask di Englishman?
we have to come to some kind of an arrangement
Englishman no want gree dem start to hire yeye Africans
to fight your brothers and kill dem too
dem give dem guns, uniforms and law
to fight your brothers and kill dem too, we dey behind your back
we be government be governement be government be government
be government

If you be African man from better family
dem say better family no de join police force
dem say better family no de join soldier force
dem say better family no de galavant around
police for small fight

CHORUS: Small fight
Army for big fight

CHORUS: Big fight
Navy for water fight

CHORUS: Water fight
Airforce for air fight

CHORUS: Air fight

Police college establish too brainwash Africans
army school come start to train di Africans
inside dem school dem start to teach dem nonsense things
di uniform you de wear na him be di authority
authority for you to beat at any time
authority for you to kill at any time
remember na we go de give you di order all the time
di thing wey we dey teach you make e dey your heat all di time
England is di best place, America is di best place too
di black man is inferior to us
you must dey beat dem and kill dem and beat dem and kill dem
na order na order you hear
dise zombies dem start galavanting around
when dem see European you go dey see dem start to shake
wetty dem thick thick boot and dem yeye uniforms
guns for dem hands and dem batons for dem side
vexing and sweating dem walking in di sun by force
vexing and sweating dem walking in di rain by force
di things wey dem dey teach dem e dey ringing in dem head
Englishman is good

CHORUS: is good
Afrika is bad

CHORUS: is bad
English e civilize

CHORUS: civilize
Afrika is bush

CHORUS: is bush

Now let us ask ourselves wetin be government
government na father of the people father must like him son
son must like him father too
but di things wey dey happen for Afrika I will make an EXPLANATION
di government wey we get na overseas sense dem get
dem no be father, we no be dem son
dem be di master, we be di servant
food na plenty money not enough houses to stay
di houses wey e dey dem dey cost plenty money
you go for any town no water for di town
di governent wey we get dem be black man for di face
di government wey we get dem be white man for di YANSH
dat is why you go see o judge dey go

CHORUS: One police go follow am
Assembly man dey go

CHORUS: Two police go follow am
Senator dey go

CHORUS: Three police go follow am
Speaker dey go

CHORUS: Four police go follow am
President dey come

CHORUS: Hundred police go follow am
Thousand police go follow am o

CHORUS: Thousand police go follow am
Riot police go follow am o

CHORUS: Riot police go follow am o
Riot soldier go follow am o

CHORUS: Riot soldier go follow am o
Maja Maja go dey hide someplace o

CHORUS: Maja Maja go dey follow am

N.S.O go dey hide some place

CHORUS: N.S.O. go dey hide some place
C.I.A. go dey hang around

CHORUS: C.I.A. go dey folllow am
Maja Maja go dey stand someplace

CHORUS: Maja Maja go dey follow am
N.S.O go dey hide somewhere

CHORUS: N.S.O. go dey follow am
C.I.A. go dey hand around

CHORUS: C.I.A. go dey follow am
Dem dey

CHORUS: Take chance
Take chance

CHORUS: Take Chance
Dem dey

CHORUS: Take Chance
Take chance

CHORUS: Take Chance

Inside police station dem dey take chance o
inside magistrate court dem dey take chance o
inside High Court o dem dey take chance o
inside Supreme Court dem dey take chance o

[quote author=PatriotTemidayo post=57872165]So the MALOs that later destroyed the military with corruption, coups and counter-coups were not there when real men signed for 'one bullet'?

And now, they have loaded the army with goro chewing minions that can't speak good English, bringing them in trucks from their stench-drench slumbs.

Pitiable. [/quote

Well the Malos and other good officers like democrats ogundipe were out on foreign assignment when the photo was taken

We took over when the flatiron corrupted the military with a coup and we showed them how. It's really done.

Wellington Bassey is. Not the first commissioned officer

He was after the queens army is renamed to Nigerian army

[quote author=adamshuaib post=57883856][/quote]
You watch too much box office stuff.

You speak too much English,

In a nutshell, you are not making any sense.

kingzizzy:


Think of it this way. Someone with HND and another with masters degree start working in the same organisation. Which of them is likely to be be promoted faster? Of course the Master Deegree holder.

Take Bassey(N1) and Maimalari(N5) for example. Bassey was a serving soldier when he was selected from the lower ranks and sent on a 3 months "short service" officers course to England. On completion of the course, he became the first Nigeria officer and was given the Army number (N1).

Maimalari finished secondary school, was recruited into the Army and sent to :

Regular officers training school (ROSTS)

Eaton Hall military cadet school, England

Royal military Academy, Sandhurst.

It took Bassey only 3 months to be an officer while it took Maimalari 3 years.

Maimalari was far more qualified than Bassey. Thats why by 1965, Maimalari was already a Brigadier and Bassey was still a Lt Colonel

You have simply arrested the curiosity of many by this explicit & in depth historic analysis.
Thanks!

mikoyems:
Dis anyone noticed there are actually 31 Military Officers?

Yes, but one of them isnt Nigerian

Wow, just like yesterday

Looking at the picture, I can't help but notice that the men who have shaped Nigeria's history for good or evil depending on your disposition can be connected by a longitudinal line joining JTU Ironsi through Ojukwu to Yakubu Gowon.

That wasn't what happened.
You don't add civil service to military service.

Ojukwu was always junior to Phillip Effiong. He only became senior to Effiong when he declared himself Head of State abd C-in-C of an Igbo dominated breakaway republic

kingzizzy:


Philip Effiong was commissioned in 1956 while Ojukwu was commissioned in 1957.

The reason Ojukwu leapfrogged over Effiong was that Ojukwu had joined the civil service as a graduate in 1955. So when Ojukwu moved over to the Army, it was seen as a continuation of his civil service and his commission date was backdated from 1957 to 1955 thereby becoming senior to Effiong.

Throwback

What a mess these guys and the kids who joined after them made.

Before CIVIL WAR.

Paperwhite:
See the best from the then cherished value system but people like Buhari came & destroyed it with the unmerited "quota system".

You havnt still learn! They weren't the ones that destabilise the colonial military legacy and truncated the republic, but nzeogwu and co...