₦airaland Forum

Deadlytruth:
For example, Adegboyega wrote somewhere in that book that Ifeajuna and some other different military officers started nursing the idea of staging a coup as far back as 1961. In another page of the book, he claims that the coup plot was to arrest the official corruption of the day.
From October 1960 to the middle of 1961 was just a 9 month period. Now what level of corruption could a nine month old government have so much perpetrated to warrant being sacked by a coup?

Secondly, he claims in the book that the coup was also aimed at releasing Awolowo and making him the Prime Minister. The question now is, how could a set of coupists whose objective was to impose a national government with a strong center (i.e. unitary system) have rooted for the most consummate and unrepentant federalist (i.e. the foremost advocate of weak central government) in the land to head such a government?
I can go on and on

Nigeria may have become an independent nation in 1960...
But politics and internal self-governance did not start in 1960.

By 1957, full internal self-governance had been installed in both the Western and Eastern regions (and subsequently in the North) before political independence in October 1960. Even prior to that, there had been partisan politics and general elections electing regional representatives in 1954 (and even further back to partisan political elections into the Legislative Councils going all the way back to the 1920s). Nonetheless, perhaps the reason the coup did not actually happen until SIX YEARS after independence in 1966 was that many of the plotters (and prospective plotters) shared your sentiment that 9 months was too little a time to properly judge and/or condemn the government.

Either way, how is that a “contradiction”? Some people may think that one month of corruption is too much, while you obviously do not.
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KingAzubuike:
I just pity the number of women that will be raped in the process.

Your comment is disgraceful...
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9jaBloke:
Is it her album

ValCon888:
I thought the album belongs to Beyonce. Is it her's to dedicate? Women and oversabi.

Dude, you are the one doing "oversabi"...
Because if you bothered to reed the post she refers to "this beautiful SONG" and further lists the song title in the graphics.
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jibrilELsudan:
We don't want. She should dedicate it to her expired kukunase.

Crude and disgusting misogyny...
Were you not born by a woman who is probably older than Tiwa? SMH
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Kendumazy:
Hypocrisy everywhere. Celebrating Men yet feminists won't fail to show their feminism traits.

How is celebrating men while standing up for the rights of women mutually-exclusive?
Don't you celebrate your mother and wife/girlfriend (if you have one)? Does that mean you don't show male traits?
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advocate666:
Shut up. Songs will not make Africa better.

We have been singing for thousands of years.

Stop singing and invent something useful.

What are you waiting for? Are you not African? Right after you then...
Tiwa's music gives joy and creates JOBS (producers, promoters, DJs, OAPs, sound technicians, etc), while you only "contribute" hate! SMH
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SultanOfAbia:
We the African Men wish to Trade Tiwa Savage for Toni Braxton

The Good Lord forbid bad thing...
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DateMynd44:
nobody should listen to these satanic songs...
playing these songs will quicken your journey to hell

mimilogistics:

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I do not even watch BBN, but nonetheless find it interesting that...

Nigerian youths/kids can watch mass destruction, wars, murders, robbery, etc., on TV without hassle...
But ADULTS kissing on an adult (18+) TV program is just too far and the cause of Nigeria being a Third World Sh*thole!
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rita25:
see what is important to our youths ? and then we will be asking what is wrong with Nigeria? EVERYTHING IS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly! Watching people kissing is what’s wrong with Nigeria...
Useless youths should be engaged in Yahoo, political thuggery or watching people kill each other. SMH
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KidsNEXTdoor:


That's all the show is about

Promotion of immorality

Rewarding immorality

Only fools watch this evil show

www.nairaland.com/attachments/9861017_7048323bbnaijajpeg4aca4b22695ec42f59d4dec61ca64016_jpeg48a4da4cd69f8ab6809c37cd86bce1d5

Money is not everything (while education is a lifelong invaluable self-investment)...
And if kid brother actually STUDIED (not just pass through school), he would grasp that.
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Luckily, it was not cattle...
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Deadlytruth:
I quite agree with the guy you quoted. If you critically examine Adegboyega's claims in that book, you can't but notice the logical self contradictions and inconsistencies which actually give him away as trying to rationalize an ethnic cleansing which was presented as a nationalistic project to him.

Please share said “self contradiction and inconsistencies”. Thanks...
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Patrioticman007:
First I have a copy of why we struck, and we all know that he sugar coated the ethnic kill of Northern leaders by claiming it was for national interest.

What do you expect from vampires sucking blood of defenseless civilians. Only a fool will believe Ademoyega lies. Nzeogwu had the power to place these Northern leaders to house arrest. But he refused. Karma served Igbo's right via the civil war, The killing of Northern leaders was avenge, by Gowon, TY danjuma, PMB & others.
If not hypocrisy, why single out PMB ?. Why not mention TY Danjuman & Gowon, who were Christians that partook in the killing of Igbo's during the war.

BTW, funny how you proclaim that Ademoyega who actually was an active participant in the events is "lying"...
While you who likely wasn't yet born (like most of us) during those events know the "truth"! Guess 'history' means only what you agree with.
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Patrioticman007:
First I have a copy of why we struck, and we all know that he sugar coated the ethnic kill of Northern leaders by claiming it was for national interest.

What do you expect from vampires sucking blood of defenseless civilians. Only a fool will believe Ademoyega lies. Nzeogwu had the power to place these Northern leaders to house arrest. But he refused. Karma served Igbo's right via the civil war, The killing of Northern leaders was avenge, by Gowon, TY danjuma, PMB & others.
If not hypocrisy, why single out PMB ?. Why not mention TY Danjuman & Gowon, who were Christians that partook in the killing of Igbo's during the war.

Dude, you seem to have all kinds of primordial tribal issues...

Meanwhile I "singled out" Buhari because he is the CURRENT president...
You clearly are not so challenged as to think that he single-handed executed the counter-coup and subsequent genocidal pogrom?
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Why does this feeding program require "branded" bowls?
We always find a way to award contracts and EMBEZZLE (or waste) money. SMH
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airsaylongcon:
Pure rubbish. Glad someone was bold enough to point it out

yemmie:
No subbase and basecourse before pouring asphalt !

Not a good work, it will wear easily in no time.

Even in the most advanced industrial nations, portholes are still occasionally patched up (see pics below)...
This is routine maintenance, and if you want the road essentially reconstructed/rebuilt, it would involve a tendered contract.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Pothole_patching.jpg/400px-Pothole_patching.jpg
https://asphaltmanagementinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/infared-faq-11.jpg
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Facidio:
This was how ambode started, and if you are a professional you will know that most of what they are doing there is just pure rubbish. It won't last even 2 months. And they will come back to it again just to siphon more money

These are PALLIATIVE measures...

That's not a construction company in those pictures but the public works agency engaged in occasional MAINTENANCE...
Understandably it looks strange and confusing to many Nigerians, as routine maintenance has not been part of Nigeria DNA for a minute.
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Eko oni Baje!
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tillaman:
Patron!! El chapo the short man! Taller than the Donald trump when he stands on his blood money!! Hope they treat you nice in Jail but Always remember never to pick up the soap whenever it drops!

Don't get how supposedly rational people can empathize with such a brutal MURDEROUS thug...
Hope he gets seriously f*cked in prison - and then is reincarnated to serve out the remaining 30 years!
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overdrive:
Money is good!

hacmond:
Money! Money!! Money!!!
Come to my house (Amen)

wickedtuna:
Money good o. Short man devil

NOT drug money (or even Yahoo money)...
Only the Good Lord knows how many people were killed/died for that "money"!

Meanwhile, how can you truly enjoy the money while always looking over your shoulder? SMH
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Barca was probably the best fit for his style of football and the need of the club...
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Patrioticman007:

Nzeogwu toppled a legitimate Government, for his personal & ethnic interest. No wonder out of the 5 coupists only one person, was a Yoruba man.

Nzeogwu specifically killed Northern leaders & some Yoruba leaders, but shamelessly left out his kins men .
And hypocrites call it revolution .

Unlike the dude currently in Aso Rock...
Anyway, since you claim you like reading, pick up a copy of Wale Ademoyega’s book on the 1966 coup.

BTW, even though I am neither Ibo (it should be irrelevant to this discourse but this is Nairaland and Nigeria) nor obviously personally around during the time of those events, let’s not forget that the present occupant of Aso Rock participated in the counter-coup that was effectively genocidal against officers of Eastern Region origin (and claimed a gallant Yoruba officer like Fajuyi, who apparently refused to abandon his guest and commander-in-chief), and which precipitated the genocidal POGROM that claimed tens of thousands of INNOCENT Ibo lives.
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TheFacelessMan:
I am just curious....

You said he believed in ONE NIGERIA but most politicians they killed were mostly from other ethnic groups.....

He spared his own people.

Correct me if wrong. We are here to learn.

It is doubtful that Wale Ademoyega signed up for the enthronement of Ibo dominance...

I am not Ibo, and obviously these were events well before our time, but from everything that one has read thus far (especially from non-Nigerian historians and commentators, since Nigeria unfortunately does not appear to value its own history), there appears to be considerable dissonance between the planning and execution of the coup, which, crucially with the failure of the coup in Lagos and the presence of the Cypriot President as guest of the Eastern Region premier, fortuitously but unfortunately manifested itself along tribal fissures. Ironsi’s subsequent indecisiveness with the fate of the coup plotters (and of Awolowo), coupled with the apparent reaction (reportedly bordering on jubilation) of some Ibos even in the North merely served to make the fissure even wider, and frankly a Northern reaction was not surprising.
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MAYOWAAK:
Your assertion is false.

While Nzeogwu was planning the coup, Obasanjo was not in Nigeria. He was away either in England or India for a course. Obasanjo returned to Nigeria on 14th January 1966 and Nzeogwu did not inform him of the coup he was about to execute despite the fact that they were roommates at Kaduna.

Obviously, I personally don’t know (and frankly don’t particularly care) if the story is true or false...
But how is OBJ being out of Nigeria during the coup mutually-exclusive with making a request before he was killed A YEAR AND A HALF later?!
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Patrioticman007:
You need to read history my friend. Ignorance of the facts is not, an excuse. No wonder Europeans mock us, that if you want to hide anything away from blacks, keep it in a book. For they will never find it.

You can SELF-HATE yourself all you want with childish racist demagoguery...
But NO one person (not even Lord Luggard) is responsible for the disaster that is Nigeria.
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Patrioticman007:
His mother would have done great service to the world, had she aborted him.
The cause of evil in Nigeria.

DISGUSTING!
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According to my older generation sources...
After OBJ published this book, some Northern states REVOKED land allocated to Obasanjo Farms.
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NASS and their toothless motions/resolutions...
Simply deduct part of the FAAC allocations of states that are not in compliance with the UBEC Act.

Meanwhile, I am not sure that I see this matter as most of the previous comments
Why can’t we MERGE Almajiri with formal education? Just entails adding Maths, English, Biology, etc., to Islamic studies.
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YoungLionken:
Did she still give you her number? If not you f-up, upon all the eye service.

Your incessant usage of the word "Misogynistic", suggests it could be your favorite word or your latest diction. Misogynistic my foot!

Even after pointing out the obvious you persist with obtuse ASSUMPTIONS...
But cannot blame someone raised obviously the product of a crude misogynistic (yes, misogynistic) and sexist upbringing. SMH
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Vikzz:
Boy

Was searching for the "boy" myself...
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