dohyn:

Coming to nairaland always leaves a sour taste in my mouth, we are too tribalist in our thinking and replies, it's just sad cos we are the so-called "educated ones",(at least,u can be online and type) and yet,we spew trash online, how do we expect the man on the street to reason if we can reason like this.Nobody bothered to answer the op's questions,or even talk about the issues raised,well maybe marlboro attempted to sha.it's a shame.wondering if d responses would hv been d same if d op were Igbo?
Anyways,@op,I dunno where u are but I can assure u that Nigeria is nt coming to a standstill cos of the late ikemba, maybe the East,but def nt d whole 9ja.He has paid his dues nd so,should be accorded his due respect, I can't comment on the governors ish, I don't knw abt that,
P.s,I knw some peeps will want to take shots at me,pls feel free.

PointB:

@Op
Let me oblige you. I have a feeling you are Yoruba. So let me relate to you in the language you will understand:

Were we to live in ancient Yoruba era, Ojukwu will dwarf Sango and Obatala combined. On the account of his impact on the live and course of history of Igboman, nay, Nigerians, he will compete favorably with Oduduwa the son of Lamurudu. Bottom line, if Ojukwu was a Yoruba man of that era he would be a deity and would be worshipped as a god - a god of war and justice! But he wasn't a Yoruba man and indeed Igbo have no culture of heroes worship! So allow us the honour and time to accord the necessary rite of passage to a symbol! His burial in my opinion is under-hyped!

Were we to live in ancient Yoruba era, Ojukwu will dwarf Sango and Obatala combined

yemmy_ma:

Thank you everyone for your post, of course i did not know there are so many igbo people on this thread coming out to show their anger at my sincere post of governors squandering Nigeria's money.

If you want to know, his burial ceremony is termed: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Friday hosted the [size=15pt]National[/size] Funeral Committee of the Late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, pledging the support of the State Government to the Committee to ensure a befitting burial for the former Military Governor of the defunct Eastern Region.

The bold word says it all for all of you asking if Nigeria is going to a stand still. [size=15pt]The Governor who said the Late Ikemba Nnewi was as much a Lagosian as he was a Nigeria, also pledged to handle directly from his office the logistic challenges that would be posed by transfer flights from Lagos to Enugu for foreign dignitaries transiting to Enugu for the final funeral event of the deceased on February 29, 2012.[/size]

Remember, you people did not come out to fight with us when we were protesting for fuel subsidy. Yet our money and tax will be used to transfer foreign dignitaries to Enugu right?

All of you who just came out to exercise your english prowess just to yab me, you are not [size=28pt]ethnicomentally straight[/size].

When Biafra's military resistance collapsed, [size=28pt]Ojukwu fled to Côte d'Ivoire[/size].

Efiong assumed leadership in this situation of turmoil, starvation, and collapse. He became Head of State of Biafra on 8 January 1970 and on 12 January announced surrender.[1]

At the time of the surrender, Efiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra. At that time Effiong said, "I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of the war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end."[1]

Nnaemeka L. Aneke wrote, "General Efiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated."[2] Many observers had expected wholesale retribution at war's end.
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Later life


In a 1996 interview, Efiong reflected on those events:

   I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .

   I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .

   At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and [size=28pt]Ojukwu had fled[/size], I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . [2]

Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday.

yemmy_ma:

Thank you everyone for your post, of course i did not know there are so many igbo people on this thread coming out to show their anger at my sincere post of governors squandering Nigeria's money.

If you want to know, his burial ceremony is termed: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Friday hosted the [size=15pt]National[/size] Funeral Committee of the Late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, pledging the support of the State Government to the Committee to ensure a befitting burial for the former Military Governor of the defunct Eastern Region.

The bold word says it all for all of you asking if Nigeria is going to a stand still. [size=15pt]The Governor who said the Late Ikemba Nnewi was as much a Lagosian as he was a Nigeria, also pledged to handle directly from his office the logistic challenges that would be posed by transfer flights from Lagos to Enugu for foreign dignitaries transiting to Enugu for the final funeral event of the deceased on February 29, 2012.[/size]

Remember, you people did not come out to fight with us when we were protesting for fuel subsidy. Yet our money and tax will be used to transfer foreign dignitaries to Enugu right?

All of you who just came out to exercise your english prowess just to yab me, you are not [size=28pt]ethnicomentally straight[/size].
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This is very bad indeed, how could have Fashola of all people done that,   , there's just one thing you can do to remedy the situation,


walk down your ghetto street and embrace a wet TRANSFORMER

Valon4ego:

@yemmy did you just say "sincere posts". That's very funny! Trying to paint yourself as an innocent bystander and at the same time pointing fingers and making some accusations. Very very funny!

yemmy_ma:

Well did you not see the title of my post? Whatelse do you want me to state?

Mkpotu:

@Poster, which of them do you want?

Is it that you want to know who Ojukwu is or you want to know if his burial preparation hyped?

yemmy_ma:

Did you not read my first post about governors squandering money and Did you not see what i said about why his burial should not be hyped?

yemmy_ma:

Thank you everyone for your post, of course i did not know there are so many igbo people on this thread coming out to show their anger at my sincere post of governors squandering Nigeria's money.

If you want to know, his burial ceremony is termed: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Friday hosted the [size=15pt]National[/size] Funeral Committee of the Late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, pledging the support of the State Government to the Committee to ensure a befitting burial for the former Military Governor of the defunct Eastern Region.

The bold word says it all for all of you asking if Nigeria is going to a stand still. [size=15pt]The Governor who said the Late Ikemba Nnewi was as much a Lagosian as he was a Nigeria, also pledged to handle directly from his office the logistic challenges that would be posed by transfer flights from Lagos to Enugu for foreign dignitaries transiting to Enugu for the final funeral event of the deceased on February 29, 2012.[/size]

Remember, you people did not come out to fight with us when we were protesting for fuel subsidy. Yet our money and tax will be used to transfer foreign dignitaries to Enugu right?

All of you who just came out to exercise your english prowess just to yab me, you are not [size=28pt]ethnicomentally straight[/size].

Valon4ego:

@yemmy did you just say "sincere posts". That's very funny! Trying to paint yourself as an innocent bystander and at the same time pointing fingers and making some accusations. Very very funny!

lucenzo:

Sincerely, I'm dissapointed with the moderators of this section. You guys encourage bigotry in it's highest form. If i posted an artcle on the sarduana or awolowo it would be deleted. But anything against Igbos goes to the front page.  SHAME ON THE MODS. The President has been insulted on this forum and you encourage it directly on indirectly, but when someone's parents are insulted, you ban the person. Is the President not someone's father.SHAME ON THE MODS.[/color][/color][/color]

Real Mccoy:

From a topic of such, a blind man could tell that Africans are lazy and very envious of others. Very classless individuals ,sometimes I wonder if people that post bigot thread on NL are 2years old. He,Ojukwu has made his own contribution to uplift the greatness of his people,what have you done for yours? Same vultures that helped the Brit and Fulani military men slaughter innocent lives  are here displaying their ignorance. The day I will see your tribes men pick up arms to defend themselves, I will remove their name from the coward dictionary. Pretenders,always playing dead when the chips are down . Same idiots that will play dead when they hear the sound of bomb blast 250miles away are online beating their chest.