If you have come to learn Nigeria history of what and how the civil war started please press the like button. Such a nice thread but the hate between Afonjas and Biafra's no be here.

That one no prevent Afonjas from marrying Biafra's. One Nigeria is mission impossible.

Osagyefo98:




Please nzeogwu is not an igbo man....he is from Niger delta

Let me see whether you have a little sense.Is Okonjo Iweala an Ibo woman? We know she is from Niger Delta.Is she Ibo?

Officialgarri:

And where did you learn your own history from?

Same place u learnt yours

Ritchiee:


Let me see whether you have a little sense.Is Okonjo Iweala an Ibo woman? We know she is from Niger Delta.Is she Ibo?

Okonjo is a Niger deltan

DeeMain:


I don't like speaking on sensitive threads like this but comments like yours tug at me.


Igbo people did not kill Balewa and co. Coup plotters killed Balewa. The coup plotters were led by some Igbo soldiers. Coup plotters don't come to their tribesmen to seek for permission to carry out a coup.

The coup and the killing of select people is condemnable but the generalization and condemning of and the eventual massacre of a whole tribe for what few soldiers did is atrocious and unjust. This is at the heart of the ethnic bitterness and hatred that have strangled the building of a united progressive nation.

It is false logic to say that a few = a whole.

Does Boko Haram = Hausa/Fulani?
Are Fulani Herdsmen = The entire Fulani?

If so should we go on reprisal attack on all Fulani to get justice?
The same evil logic wiped out Odi in Rivers State. Few soldiers killed by militants. Justice meant wiping out the entire Odi village, raping and torturing and even killing their women?

Some blame Ironsi, the man who led the offensive that aborted the coup, for not decisively dealing with the perpetrators of the coup. True, Ironsi should have been quicker and more decisive in handing out judgment.

So the Igbo nation deserved to be punished for the weaknesses of the commander in chief?

Another false logic.

Does Buhari's weaknesses in arresting Fulani herdsmen and bringing the killings in the Middle Belt to a halt justify a coup in which Buhari is killed and almost all Hausa/Fulani soldiers are wiped out and a pogrom is sanctioned against the entire Hausa/Fulani?

The injustice at the root of that war still festers today - see many comments on NL about 'Children of hate', terrorists and 'fear north' and even the perennial Yoruba vs Igbo fights here.

Until we realize where the rain started beating us and find creative ways to solve them and reconcile these anomalies nationhood will continue to elude us and charlatans like Nnamdi Kanu will continue milking the Biafra story for lucre. Until there is no country left.

We need a different kind of thinking and leadership to move this country forward.

Thank you. According to Yoruba and Hausa logic, it’s okay to kill innocent IGBO civillians because of the actions of random soldiers. Some of whom never even grew up in igbo land.

If you hate a group of people already, all you need is just any slight excuse to kill them.

The only thing stopping them today is the fear of Biafra actually coming. They know it will be the perfect IPOB trap.

Osagyefo98:




Do this claim make jaja nwachukwu igbo or are u not sure Google is not deceiving you.


These guys u calling are Niger deltans.

Bro stop this thing! There is no ethnic group known as 'Niger delta'. Niger-delta is the name given to the area where the River Niger forms into a delta while emptying into the Atlantic; and there are Igbos, Ijaws, Urohbos, Ogonis etc. in this geographical area. There is a Nile-delta in Egypt too.

nku5:


Correction. There was no battle at Niger Bridge the battle was Onitsha waterside. Achuzia blew up the bridge to slow the advance of the Nigerian forces. Murtala then sent thousands of soldiers across to Onitsha where they started to loot and destroy like they had done in Asaba. Biafran soldiers rallied and totally massacred the Federal forces. Some managed to swim back to Asaba to tell what happened.

Murtala the butcher of asaba, high on drugs and overconfident after his babalawo assured him he would win, sent wave after wave of men in boats across to Onitsha but they were massacred also.

There was a 8 month battle in Onitsha bridge

raumdeuter:


The killer of Murtala was executed without delay about 3months after the coup unlike Ironsi and the Ibo plotters

The Ironsi followed the mandate of 1963 Nigerians constitution and Military code of conduct. There was a striking difference between Ironsi and juntas of 1975 who kicked Nigerian constitution to the gutter and decided to go against the lay down rules on how to handle coup plotters. This lawless act by Obasanjo and his goon mates ushered into Nigeria the period of lawlessness as well disrespect for the rule of law. Today, Nigeria has been reduced to shithole by the acts of lawlessness perpetrated by military and paramilitary personals on their fellow citizens.

raumdeuter:

Does that stop him from being ibo
Pastor Oyedepo is from North central, does that stop him from being yoruba

Oyedepo is a middle beltan

mightyhaze:
igbos didt kill balewa u morran. Nzeogwu did.


Plus balewa built the bridge from his personal wallet,didt he ? And only igbos use the bridge,no be so ?

The bridge was likely built by the eastern regional government

AbuAeesha:

but u need to remember that the igbos were the first to embark on bloody coup on once peaceful Nigeria

who lied to you sir??....... Nigeria?? Peaceful b4 the coup


Haba!!!!!!!! Nigeria was miles away from being peaceful....

akinegba1:



we Ibos are despicable cowards.Ask ojuku

Yes,everybody knows that.We don't have to ask the Abidjan tourist.

Officialgarri:


This bridge was commissioned by the then Prime Minister late Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and opened for traffic in December 1965... barely 15 days after, The same Balewa was assassinated by the people he commissioned the bridge for.

Two years later, the same people destroyed what was built for them.

I still dont know why u all conclude the 1966 coup was masterminded by the whole Igbo community...a coup was carried out by five military officers,1 was a not from the east,,the champion master minder wasn't even an igbo man..yet y'all dumb fellas keep saying what you were told..
Wise up man..the same selfish bullshit of 1966 still on till date.,,what happened 1966 still happens till date..just that the people championing it are the assumed strongest of the country,.the funniest thing is that no one rises against them..

olajizz01:
operation wetie was between two men of the same tribal group,so that doesn't say,ezeagwu should go and murder other tribe in govt.
Had it been the murdered politicians were Igbo extraction, their wouldn't be tension built-up all over the country then.

That was the genesis of hatred.

You know nothing bro. The crisis in the Western Region had pushed the whole country to the precipice, and it was the biggest factor that pulled Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Ademoyega and co. from their barracks... The civilian government was deemed to have failed, as it was even taking sides in the crisis in the West.

Well, history is almost non-existent in Nigeria.

MetaPhysical:


What culture bear Nzeogwu, is it fulani?

I don't care what culture he bears, he is no IGBO

DeeMain:


I don't like speaking on sensitive threads like this but comments like yours tug at me.


Igbo people did not kill Balewa and co. Coup plotters killed Balewa. The coup plotters were led by some Igbo soldiers. Coup plotters don't come to their tribesmen to seek for permission to carry out a coup.

The coup and the killing of select people is condemnable but the generalization and condemning of and the eventual massacre of a whole tribe for what few soldiers did is atrocious and unjust. This is at the heart of the ethnic bitterness and hatred that have strangled the building of a united progressive nation.

It is false logic to say that a few = a whole.

Does Boko Haram = Hausa/Fulani?
Are Fulani Herdsmen = The entire Fulani?

If so should we go on reprisal attack on all Fulani to get justice?
The same evil logic wiped out Odi in Rivers State. Few soldiers killed by militants. Justice meant wiping out the entire Odi village, raping and torturing and even killing their women?

Some blame Ironsi, the man who led the offensive that aborted the coup, for not decisively dealing with the perpetrators of the coup. True, Ironsi should have been quicker and more decisive in handing out judgment.

So the Igbo nation deserved to be punished for the weaknesses of the commander in chief?

Another false logic.

Does Buhari's weaknesses in arresting Fulani herdsmen and bringing the killings in the Middle Belt to a halt justify a coup in which Buhari is killed and almost all Hausa/Fulani soldiers are wiped out and a pogrom is sanctioned against the entire Hausa/Fulani?

The injustice at the root of that war still festers today - see many comments on NL about 'Children of hate', terrorists and 'fear north' and even the perennial Yoruba vs Igbo fights here.

Until we realize where the rain started beating us and find creative ways to solve them and reconcile these anomalies nationhood will continue to elude us and charlatans like Nnamdi Kanu will continue milking the Biafra story for lucre. Until there is no country left.

We need a different kind of thinking and leadership to move this country forward.

after making some sense,you come spoil an with the second to the last paragraph.

even if you kill Nnamdi Kanu,yolobas and hausafulanis will never like.






God bless mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
God bless all ipob family.

MetaPhysical:


Nzeogwu is Igbo name. Is it not?

Don't deceive ur self, Kaduna is not am igbo name

UltiMax:
Why is history no longer taught as a subject in our secondary schools?

so our generation won't know about the past, but trust me, i am interested and i wont let any fool lie to me....

nku5:


Correction. There was no battle at Niger Bridge the battle was Onitsha waterside. Achuzia blew up the bridge to slow the advance of the Nigerian forces. Murtala then sent thousands of soldiers across to Onitsha where they started to loot and destroy like they had done in Asaba. Biafran soldiers rallied and totally massacred the Federal forces. Some managed to swim back to Asaba to tell what happened.

Murtala the butcher of asaba, high on drugs and overconfident after his babalawo assured him he would win, sent wave after wave of men in boats across to Onitsha but they were massacred also.

when you come across people that have spent time to read about that war,,u know them...

AbuAeesha:

but u need to remember that the igbos were the first to embark on bloody coup on once peaceful Nigeria

so you think Nigeria was peaceful at that time, abi? Go and ask your elders about the wetie and wild wild west. It was the politics of bitterness between akintola and awolowo, that made the military strike with a coup. Opposition party members were being attacked with acid, there was brake down of law and order. And the politicians were only concerned with looting and corruption. The military had to step in to restore law and order. I don't blame you, I blame the shameless Nigerian govt that expunged history from our education curriculum. So that uniform novice like you can come online and spew rubbish.

Stingman:


[s]1966 coup plotters planned to make Awolowo Head of State — Retired general Olutoye (Owa of Ido-Ani, Oba Olufemi Olutoye)

See that and rethink..Mr Betrayal[/s]

olajizz01:
I think that's overstatement, military will never plot a sucessful coup and installed civilian afterwards.

Dont mind him. Lolz ....... They planned to Install Awolowo' as president my foot! Was it the coupists that forgot to kill Igbo politicians including zik that wouldve done it?
Small pikin talk!

DeeMain:


I don't like speaking on sensitive threads like this but comments like yours tug at me.


Igbo people did not kill Balewa and co. Coup plotters killed Balewa. The coup plotters were led by some Igbo soldiers. Coup plotters don't come to their tribesmen to seek for permission to carry out a coup.

The coup and the killing of select people is condemnable but the generalization and condemning of and the eventual massacre of a whole tribe for what few soldiers did is atrocious and unjust. This is at the heart of the ethnic bitterness and hatred that have strangled the building of a united progressive nation.

It is false logic to say that a few = a whole.

Does Boko Haram = Hausa/Fulani?
Are Fulani Herdsmen = The entire Fulani?

If so should we go on reprisal attack on all Fulani to get justice?
The same evil logic wiped out Odi in Rivers State. Few soldiers killed by militants. Justice meant wiping out the entire Odi village, raping and torturing and even killing their women?

Some blame Ironsi, the man who led the offensive that aborted the coup, for not decisively dealing with the perpetrators of the coup. True, Ironsi should have been quicker and more decisive in handing out judgment.

So the Igbo nation deserved to be punished for the weaknesses of the commander in chief. Another false logic.

Does Buhari's weaknesses in arresting Fulani herdsmen and bringing the killings in the Middle Belt to a halt justify a coup in which Buhari is killed and almost all Hausa/Fulani soldiers are wiped out and a pogrom is sanctioned against the entire Hausa/Fulani?

The injustice at the root of that war still festers today - see many comments on NL about 'Children of hate', terrorists and 'fear north' and even the perennial Yoruba vs Igbo fights here.

Until we realize where the rain started beating us and find creative ways to solve them and reconcile these anomalies nationhood will continue to elude us and charlatans like Nnamdi Kanu will continue milking the Biafra story for lucre. Until there is no country left.

We need a different kind of thinking and leadership to move this country forward.

point of correction, boko haram are the kanuris..... Don't let the north deceive you

Elemosho478:


Do you personally know those that killed Abiola? Abiola's death is full of controversies no one know who actually did it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2018/03/17/fani-kayode-reveals-killed-mko-abiola-abacha/amp/

We know who killed him.

We also know who threw him in jail.

Officialgarri:


This bridge was commissioned by the then Prime Minister late Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and opened for traffic in December 1965... barely 15 days after, The same Balewa was assassinated by the people he commissioned the bridge for.

Two years later, the same people destroyed what was built for them.

stop your evil agenda

else you shall die

raumdeuter:


Exactly. Let them tell who categorically killed Abiola and not speculations

But we are certain ibos killed Balewa Bello Akintola and others

Nzeogwu put Abiola in prison

[quote author=Cadec007 post=77546101] who lied to you sir??....... Nigeria?? Peaceful b4 the coup


Haba!!!!!!!! Nigeria was miles away from being peaceful.... [/quote
peaceful in the sense that, even though there was political crisis it was only in the parliament and no loss of life, there was no religious,tribal riot/fight amongst her citizens, since after the first coup the country is still suffering from horrors of tribalism till date.. thanks

DeeMain:


I don't like speaking on sensitive threads like this but comments like yours tug at me.

Igbo people did not kill Balewa and co. Coup plotters killed Balewa. The coup plotters were led by some Igbo soldiers. Coup plotters don't come to their tribesmen to seek for permission to carry out a coup.

The coup and the killing of select people is condemnable but the generalization and condemning of and the eventual massacre of a whole tribe for what few soldiers did is atrocious and unjust. This is at the heart of the ethnic bitterness and hatred that have strangled the building of a united progressive nation.

It is false logic to say that a few = a whole.

Does Boko Haram = Hausa/Fulani?
Are Fulani Herdsmen = The entire Fulani?

If so should we go on reprisal attack on all Fulani to get justice?
The same evil logic wiped out Odi in Rivers State. Few soldiers killed by militants. Justice meant wiping out the entire Odi village, raping and torturing and even killing their women?

Some blame Ironsi, the man who led the offensive that aborted the coup, for not decisively dealing with the perpetrators of the coup. True, Ironsi should have been quicker and more decisive in handing out judgment.

So the Igbo nation deserved to be punished for the weaknesses of the commander in chief. Another false logic.

Does Buhari's weaknesses in arresting Fulani herdsmen and bringing the killings in the Middle Belt to a halt justify a coup in which Buhari is killed and almost all Hausa/Fulani soldiers are wiped out and a pogrom is sanctioned against the entire Hausa/Fulani?

The injustice at the root of that war still festers today - see many comments on NL about 'Children of hate', terrorists and 'fear north' and even the perennial Yoruba vs Igbo fights here.

Until we realize where the rain started beating us and find creative ways to solve them and reconcile these anomalies nationhood will continue to elude us and charlatans like Nnamdi Kanu will continue milking the Biafra story for lucre. Until there is no country left.

We need a different kind of thinking and leadership to move this country forward.

thank you for speaking out my mind ..I keep asking same questions,,??

Xander85:

Care to show me links to prove that Ndigbo voted in a plebiscite for Nzeogwu and his gang to go and murder anyone?
Classic case of giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it!

do you mind those fools ? thier problem is that the northern soldiers killed thier own brothers but the southern ones did not do thier own part cos of some technical issues. to think about it is it the same nzeogwu'S people that they are trying hard to make them denounce thier igboness? just like when you tell them that boko haram is doing the north's/islamic bid, they say no and call them few miscreants

PrecisionFx:


Okonjo is a Niger deltan

IAdeboye is from North Central and a Yoruba.
Is Okonjo Iweala an Ibo woman or not?

[quote author=AbuAeesha post=77546283][/quote]again another half truth.... There was riot and break down of order.... And in one instance troops were deployed from ibadan to restore peace in one of the riots..!!!!

raumdeuter:


Exactly. Let them tell who categorically killed Abiola and not speculations

But we are certain ibos killed Balewa Bello Akintola and others

oga use your head..and please be reasonable..oya generalise boko haram killings ,,and herdsmen to the whole hausa/fulani..was the counter coup a Hausa coup??or the Hausa's killed Ironsi..the 1966 coup was carried out by five soldiers..Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Timothy Onwuatuegwu, Chris Anuforo, Don Okafor, Humphrey Chukwuka, and Adewale Ademoyega..even a Yoruba officer is among..then how is the coup an Igbo coup.

Ritchiee:
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He was deceived in believing that.The leader of the coup,I believe knew that they wanted to dominate the Hausas who were their co-travellers in the government of the day then
Okay,why did they kill all the leaders of the other ethnic group and left Ibo leaders untouched.That is real wickedness and grave betrayal.

Don't mind him. Same way sw fought tooth and nail to ensure gej was made president when yaradua died in line with d constitution. Once gej got there, his govt was hijacked, making it a tribal/ethnic govt. Please, if d likes of tunde bakare, wole Soyinka etc who fought for the cause had forseen such treachery would result, would they have moved an inch?