Who is Ojukwu ?

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966 and the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. 

Who is Obong Philip Efiong

Philip Efiong was born on 18 November 1925 and he died on 6 November 2003 at Aba, Abia state. Hewas the first Vice President and the second President of the now defunct Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970.

Who is Kaduna Nzeogwu

Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was born on 26 February 1937 in Kaduna and died on 29 July 1967 in Nsuka sector during the Nigeria Civil War. He was a Nigerian military officer who played a leading role in the January 15, 1966 military coup. Nzeogwu was born in the Northern Region ’s capital of Kaduna to immigrant parents from the Mid-Western Region-Okpanam Town, near Asaba in the present day Anioma Delta State
The Nigerian Civil War

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War was a war fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. The war which began on 6 July 1967 ended on 15 January 1970. After two and half years of the war, about 3 million civilians died from starvation and diseases.


What caused the War

Immediate causes of the war in 1966 include a military coup carried out by Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu which led to the death of prominent Northern leaders like Tafawa Belewa, a counter-coup led by Yakubu Gowon, which led to the brutal murder of Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria’s first head of state, his deputy Fajuyi, etc and the persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria which is called 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom which was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in
northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966. These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war.

Chizuru01:
I love the way you specified it

Donald95:


Can you see how innocent ndi Igbo are in the War.

Chizuru01:


How? They killed some top northern leaders

kettykin:
now something similar is happening and the whole world is keeping quiet thinking the second civil war will be like the first

Donald95:


I love how ndi Igbo leaders restricted their resistance to only SE. It is high time every region stands up and speak for themselves, if they are too scared to do that, Let them perish.

The world is always watching and keeping quiet, All they care for in Africa is for us to come and buy weapons from them.

Chizuru01:


Am telling you brother, Militants led by Isaac Boro even fought against Biafrans in Portharcourt.

Donald95:


Thank God he received a payment equal to what he did to Biafrans in Portharcourt, While his useless body is rotten away and converted to oil , Danjuma his partner, is cruising around as one of the richest in Nigeria. And funny enough, he must have drained the body of Daka in other to increase his wealth

Chizuru01:


The bolded funny me die

Donald95:

[s]
Nzeogwu was born of by an Asaba woman from Mid Western part and unknown man who might even be an Hausa man. But my Question is, why would ndi Igbo and SS doing business suffer for what they are not part of[/s].

Juliusmalema:
All these Nnamdi kanus brother like Donald95 won't let us have rest here.

Nnamdi and his European gangsters are criminals and they remain terrorist as proscribed unless they are willing to adjust biafran struggle to igbos and igboland only, then he will have massive support and endorsement.

Donald95:


I learnt you are from South Africa. Let me tell you something, SA where raped, killed and made second class citizens in their land. They begged and begged and later they were allowed. Now, they saw Nigeria that contributed alot to their economy and started fighting them." Now you can see the foolishness defined

Freestainworld:
Igbos are born warrior's, they can survive any circumstance compared to the rest of the country, they are been persecuted because of envy, even those who say they will rule forever are still begging, their region's poverty is extreme, what have they been doing with all their political powers.

garfield1:
Mynd44 lalasticlala oam4j please close down this divisive thread

Juliusmalema:



Whatever you learnt lives and die with you that's all, it doesn't affect me in ayway.

But my concern remains that Kanu is a terrorist as far as hee doesn't study his map and regions well to know his boundaries then he is a criminal.

Donald95:


We are born warriors I agree. But we suffered heavily for what we didn't cause in 1966. [s]Even my Roommate from Ogwashi ukwu in Delta State said that he was told as he was growing up that Igbo man cannot be trusted and even now he is grown, he still believe that[/s].

Can you just imagine

Donald95:


We are born warriors I agree. But we suffered heavily for what we didn't cause in 1966. Even my Roommate from Ogwashi ukwu in Delta State said that he was told as he was growing up that Igbo man cannot be trusted and even now he is grown, he still believe that.

Can you just imagine

Juliusmalema:



How can a wonderful thread with diverse opinions like this be divisive.


I have said it countless times that Nobody gives a damn of what happens in SS. Her name been SS doesn't remove poverty index, unemployment, decayed and dilapidated infrastructure, militancy, kidnapping and robbery from there.


Whatever it has gained is same as that which they are losing.

So stay in your paradise and allow us dwell on our matters.

Donald95:


Can you see how innocent ndi Igbo are in the War.

Donald95:


Well, go to school first and learn what qualities someone will portray first or action he must do to be referred to as a terrorist. After that, come back let's discuss. I don't like it when I discuss with illiterates

Donald95:


You have proven once more that you are not Nigerian. That SS you attached poverty to is a region feeding especially northern Nigeria. Preventing them from starvation as Boko Haram has already destroyed their land.

helinues:
These are moderates story about the civil war but more extended than this

Tajbol4splend:




Innocent? Did you read the article at all? Perhaps you read it but couldn't skim the gist. The Igbos were the ones that started it by killing the northern leaders and then the northerners too retaliated and brutalized the Igbos residing in the north, but the northern leaders had edge because they were in power.

Ojukwu might be right about how wrong the Nigerian government was operating with decree but he was wrong about how he wanted to go about the secession, Biafra was supposedly the 5 SE and some parts of the SS, Ojukwu didn't make any deliberation with leaders of these other states but by decree, he brought Biafra, it was apparently illegal, even Ojukwu being the President of Biafra was by his command and decree and not by popular vote, when the situation was beyond his control, he handed power over to his deputy and fled with his family, what about the Igbos that sacrificed their blood in the war, what did Ojukwu do to compensate their families, nothing. Ojukwu was right to be angry but he exercised his anger wrongly, in a way that made him guilty. I know you are an Igbo but try for once to analyze the situation with an unbiased mind

Chizuru01:
I was once in a gathering and Some Igbo people were talking about Biafra and how necessary it is for us to leave nigeria. Then, One man from SS said, "The people Clamoring for Biafra is jobless." Just imagine

Chizuru01:
I was once in a gathering and Some Igbo people were talking about Biafra and how necessary it is for us to leave nigeria. Then, One man from SS said, "The people Clamoring for Biafra is jobless." Just imagine