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Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:20pm On Feb 06, 2021
Hero

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:21pm On Feb 06, 2021
Biafran soldiers leave their positions to advance on Nigerian soldiers, who are 100 yards away during the Aba offensive, in the Nigeria-Biafra war, August 1968.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:23pm On Feb 06, 2021
A Starving Twenty-Four-Year-Old Mother Feeds Her Child, Biafra, 1968. #HistoryVille

Photo Credit: Don McCullin

Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Fahdiga(m): 1:23pm On Feb 06, 2021
OP we know you opened this thread to mock the dead but whether you like it or not, millions of people world over loves and adores Ojukwu. He is a rare gem

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by helinues: 1:25pm On Feb 06, 2021
He is a coward who ran away during the heat of the war.

A good commander always have the necessary things before embarking on war.

Same way Kanu fled when Python visited...

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:26pm On Feb 06, 2021
General Yakubu Gowon with his wife, Victoria, 1969.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:27pm On Feb 06, 2021
helinues:
He is a coward who ran away during the heat of the war.

A good commander always have the necessary things before embarking on war.

Same way Kanu fled when Python visited...


No, I disagree. He is a hero, he stood against the injustice and nepotism being meted on the Southerners by the then Northern Government.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Madibah(m): 1:28pm On Feb 06, 2021
Ojukwu and his Biafra, ipob or whatever are all Cowards

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:30pm On Feb 06, 2021
Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu announces the introduction of new Biafran currencies and postage stamps in Owerri, January 29, 1968.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Nobody: 1:30pm On Feb 06, 2021
helinues:
He is a coward who ran away during the heat of the war.

A good commander always have the necessary things before embarking on war.

Same way Kanu fled when Python visited...

Are you preparing to relocate to the refugee camp?

Cc lzaa

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:30pm On Feb 06, 2021
Fahdiga:
OP we know you opened this thread to mock the dead but whether you like it or not, millions of people world over loves and adores Ojukwu. He is a rare gem

No bro, I love Ojukwu.
Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:31pm On Feb 06, 2021
Madibah:
Ojukwu and his Biafra, ipob or whatever are all Coward

Stop being sarcastic.
Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Fahdiga(m): 1:32pm On Feb 06, 2021
ihateniggov1:


No bro, I love Ojukwu.
But you knew that those cowards from that side of the country will be insulting him yet you went ahead and opened this thread.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Madmohamed419(m): 1:35pm On Feb 06, 2021
helinues:
He is a coward who ran away during the heat of the war.

A good commander always have the necessary things before embarking on war.

Same way Kanu fled when Python visited...

the coward is the one who trying to eat Fulani poo just like your ancestors. Ojukwu remain my hero

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by landmark86: 1:37pm On Feb 06, 2021
HERO


Am a yoruba man
People like Ojukwu are really scarce in Nigeria of today.
All we have are polithief with selfish interest.
So the man is a brave man.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:41pm On Feb 06, 2021
Sir Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo (May 13, 1911 - March 28, 1977) knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961, was the first lawyer from Onitsha and the Eastern Region. He was called as Justice to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1952, until 1967 when he became the Chief Justice of Biafra.

Mbanefo remained in Biafra till the very end after Ojukwu fled and left him and Maj. Gen. Phillip Effiong to negotiate the terms of surrender with Nigeria.

After the war, he refused to return to the bench as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria but remained in Biafra to spend his later years in charity and church work.
Sir Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo, died in 1977, aged 65, as a knight of the British Empire, with his pride and integrity intact.

Pic Credit: Historic Images

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by BigSarah(f): 1:41pm On Feb 06, 2021
Hero, he did what was best for the Eastern region at that time....
But he should have expected betrayals and planned better...

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:42pm On Feb 06, 2021
Fahdiga:
But you knew that those cowards from that side of the country will be insulting him yet you went ahead and opened this thread.

I don't give a fvck about anybody. I opened this thread to entertain people and to engage people intellectually and gain more knowledge. Who cares what anybody says?

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:43pm On Feb 06, 2021
BigSarah:
Hero, he did what was best for the Eastern region at that time....
But he should have expected betrayals and planned better...

That was his only downfall, he should have planned better and carried everybody along.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ojun50(m): 1:45pm On Feb 06, 2021
ihateniggov1:


I don't give a fvck about anybody. I opened this thread to entertain people and to engage people intellectually and gain more knowledge. Who cares what anybody says?
Entertain people?
Am in good right now
Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by BastardWike: 1:47pm On Feb 06, 2021
ihateniggov1:
Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu announces the introduction of new Biafran currencies and postage stamps in Owerri, January 29, 1968.

This picture was taken at the Ahiara declaration that took place in Mbaise. Ojukwu still had fond memories of Ahiara till his death.

Seeing these pictures always evokes nostalgic feelings in me. It was unfortunate the other mugu Nigerians, especially those in the South and Middle belt couldn't see beyond their noses then to understand that Nigeria was a terrible omen.
















50 years later, they are all still in confusion, as the country they fought to keep has become a killing field, kidnapping and rape jungle, and also the world's poverty capital.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by Biafrawemove: 1:48pm On Feb 06, 2021
Ojukwu went to aburi ghana to negotiate for restructuring
Which gowon signed ,came back and rejected it and was backed by awolowo
Benue hatred for igbos was a driving force and they were massively recruited to kill biafrans while core north are made their commander
Benue now is their killing field
Today westerners are still shouting for restructuring they rejected in 1967 be cause it came from ojukwu
Same way they accept sunday igboho while labeling kanu terrorists
The cowards are those that rejected that aburi accord of 1967,but now begging for restructuring in 2020 after 50+ years

Because of their control of media they called ojukwu all sort of names,
Rebel,separatist
The way they are vilifying kanu

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 1:51pm On Feb 06, 2021
BastardWike:


This picture was taken at the Ahiara declaration that took place in Mbaise. Ojukwu still had fond memories of Ahiara till his death.

Seeing these pictures always evokes nostalgic feelings in me. It was unfortunate the other mugu Nigerians, especially those in the South and Middle belt couldn't see beyond their noses then to understand that Nigeria was a terrible omen.
















50 years later, they are all still in confusion, as the country they fought to keep has become a killing field, kidnapping and rape jungle, and also the world's poverty capital.

He saw the future, he knew Nigeria was a mess right from the start.

Ojukwu a man that saw the future

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by GuyWise101(m): 2:00pm On Feb 06, 2021
Nna mehnnnnnnnnnn

Ojukwu was and is still a hero in the heart of Eastern people,...

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by elgramz: 2:01pm On Feb 06, 2021
Please you guys should mark this helinues character, he's not Yoruba oh, he is a Fulani coward pretending to be Yoruba in order to spread division between Yorubas and Igbos. He also has many other monikers that he is using.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 2:03pm On Feb 06, 2021
Major-General Phillip Effiong and Professor Eni Njoku look on as Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo signs the Biafran surrender, January 12, 1970.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 2:04pm On Feb 06, 2021
General Yakubu Gowon exchanges pleasantries with Sir Louis Mbanefo, the former Chief Justice of Biafra, at the Dodan Barracks, Lagos, as Major-General Philip Effiong looks on, January 15, 1970.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 2:09pm On Feb 06, 2021
Biafra's Head-of-State, Major-General Phillip Effiong declares "that the Republic of Biafra ceases to exist" at the Dodan Barracks, Lagos, January 15, 1970.

Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 2:09pm On Feb 06, 2021
Malnourished Biafran children after the Nigerian civil war, 1970.

Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by gidgiddy: 2:20pm On Feb 06, 2021
Ojukwu declared the freedom and independence of his people and fought a three year war of liberation under very difficult situations. What sort of coward does that? What sort of coward would fight a much bigger opponent, such as Nigeria, for 3 years? A coward would not fight at all

Freedom is one one of the most honorable things any man or people can fight for. Freedom is one of the few things in life worth dying for.

Ojukwu was a hero for fighting for the freedom of his people for 3 tears. Those who call him coward are those who have never fought for their own freedom for 3 minutes, let alone 3 years.

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Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by tommy589(m): 5:48pm On Feb 06, 2021
ihateniggov1:
Sir Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo (May 13, 1911 - March 28, 1977) knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961, was the first lawyer from Onitsha and the Eastern Region. He was called as Justice to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1952, until 1967 when he became the Chief Justice of Biafra.

Mbanefo remained in Biafra till the very end after Ojukwu fled and left him and Maj. Gen. Phillip Effiong to negotiate the terms of surrender with Nigeria.

After the war, he refused to return to the bench as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria but remained in Biafra to spend his later years in charity and church work.
Sir Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo, died in 1977, aged 65, as a knight of the British Empire, with his pride and integrity intact.

Pic Credit: Historic Images


I respect principled people
Re: Ojukwu: Hero Or Coward? Nigeria - Biafra War In Pictures by ihateniggov1: 6:05pm On Feb 06, 2021
GuyWise101:
Nna mehnnnnnnnnnn


Ojukwu was and is still a hero in the heart of Eastern people,...

Not only in the heart of Eastern people but in the minds of all meaningful southerners.

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