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Second, the eastern leadership was spared when others were brutally wasted.

Third, the head of state Major-General Aguyi-Ironsi, an Igbo, didn’t try and execute the coup plotters as was the practice if it were a pure military affair.

(Ojukwu told Suzanne Cronje, the British-South African author that he asked Aguyi-Ironsi to take over and told him how to unite the army behind him. That was the reason he made him the governor of Eastern Region.)

Four, when Awolowo, Bola Ige, Anthony Enahoro, Lateef Jakande, etc were imprisoned for sedition,

they served their terms in Calabar away from their regions as was the normal practice. When Wole Soyinka was imprisoned for activities at the beginning of the civil war, he was sent to faraway Kaduna and Jos prisons but the ring leaders of coup plotters were moved from Lagos back to the Eastern Region, among their people on the advice of Ojukwu.

Five, during the Aburi negotiations, why was full reprieve for the coup plotters put on the table?

Six, a freed Nzeogwu by April 1967 before the secession joined in training recruits in Abakaliki for the inevitable war with Nigeria.

He later died on the Nsukka front fighting for Biafra.

Yet that was Achebe’s Hausa-speaking, kaftan-wearing Kaduna man, who is Igbo in name only. It was an Igbo coup. (The same repackaging was attempted for the invasion and occupation of the Midwest. It was called liberation of the Midwest from Hausa-Fulani domination when it was simply another Igbo coup for Igbo ends planned in Enugu albeit headed by a Yoruba, Colonel Victor Banjo)

First, it was not mysterious that Azikiwe left the country in October 1965 on an endless medical cruise to Britain and the Caribbean. Dr. Idemudia Idehen his personal doctor, abandoned him when he got tired of the endless medical trip. Not even the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference never held outside London but hosted in Lagos for the first time in early January was incentive enough for Azikiwe to return and yet he was the president of the nation. In a revelation contained in the American secret documents, it was Azikiwe’s presidential bodyguards that Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the coup’s mastermind, used to capture the Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa. Once Ifeajuna and Major Donatus Okafor, the Commanding officer of the Federal Guards tipped off Azikiwe about the planned bloodshed, Okafor, Godfrey Ezedigbo and others Guards became freer to meet 12km away in Ifeajuna’s house in Apapa to take the plan to the next level. The recruitment for the ringleaders was done between August and October 1965. Immediately Azikiwe left, planning and training for the execution began.

Ejiné: Damn!

113 pusssys? Let's do the math:

When Mikel collect 1
And Emenike collect 1
And Victor Moses collect 1
And Onazi collect 2 (one for himself, one for TB Joshua)
And Sunday Mba collect 1
And Keshi, as the don, collect 3
And Enyeama collect 1
And the other 4 players go each collect 4
While the other technical crew, home journalists and the others share 27...

...that effectively leaves 72 for Ahmed Musa himself, mehn. #MuslimTins

#AshawoMathematics

Prof Corruption: Do you know how many threads you have opened struggling and panting laboriously to sell a dead idea that a clueless, moronic, intellectually lazy and outright corrupt president is doing well? If you must know, a good government needs no advertisement.

Okija_juju: That Post was classic...







I have found a girl like that.. And come this Saturday, I will make her my wife..

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I know, I was just letting you know about the Google street view. After hearing someone talked about it. Hopefully it will come soon in Nigeria, when it does come, you will forget about Google Map.

naptu2: The area above MMIA and Dodan Barracks always seems to be cloudy. I've only ever seen a clear satellite pic of Dodan Barracks once.

One of my favourite pics of Lagos is the satellite pic of Wilmot Point (showing NNS Aradu and NNS Obuma).

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Google Street only Available in South Africa and Botswana in the African continent. Its way much better than this.
Go to www.vpike.com to experience it, it out of this world. They have covered the whole of SA at the moment, any street in SA.

autchman144: united nations office