₦airaland Forum

seunmsg:
Ojukwu is a bloody coward that ran away in the middle of the war he started. A gallant general would have committed suicide when defeat became imminent. He led others to their death but ran away when it was obvious he was about to be captured. He is a good example of how to be a coward general.

He ran away in the middle of the war? Ojukwu fought for 3 years, I don't remember the war lasting 6 years. Ojukwu left Biafra 2 days before the war. Only a very stupid Soldier will stay back to be captured and killed when they have a way to escape. No Soldier is taught to be a myter unless absolutely necessary. The only reason why a Soldier will commit suicide is if there is no other option. There are two things about Yoruba perception of Ojukwu that amuses many Igbos like me. For the Yoruba nation that has never had any of there son's fight a war of liberation in Nigeria talkless of even getting to the stage of running away, their perception of a coward is incredible. The second thing is that the vast majority Igbos are not pained at Ojukwu for leading then in war and losing over 2 million souls. Infact, Ojukwu is like a God to many Igbos. But it is the Yoruba man who Ojukwu did not lead who is pained about the 2 million souls lost? Who is kidding who? If Nigeria had gone on after the war to be a happy prosperous country where we all saw each other as brothers, I would have admitted that Ojukwu had been wrong to go to war. But we are even more unhappy with each other, less prosperous than before Ojukwu declared Biafra.

[b] A lot of people may not know who Sir Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu is besides the fact that he was the father of late Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. But the fact is that he was one of the greatest Business men ever produced in Africa and one of the richest. It beggars belief that Sir Ojukwu went to Lagos with nothing in 1929 aged just 20 but 10 years later aged just 30, he was already managing his own chain of businesses which included, Ojukwu
Stores, Ojukwu textiles and Ojukwu transportation company. By 1950, just Ojukwu Transportation company had over 200 trucks in its fleet. How did he do it?

Born Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu in Nnewi in 1909, the only boy and second of four children,Sir Ojukwu went to Government primary School Asaba. In 1922, he proceeded to the only secondary School in the Eastern region at the time, Hope Waddell training institute, Calabar. After completing his secondary School education in 1928, Sir Louis secured a job as a tyre sales clark with John Holt Lagos in 1929. It was working as a tyre clark the Sir Louis Ojukwu noticed that many Igbo traders who came to Lagos to buy tyres also bought textiles as well. With his meagre saving, Sir Louis travelled down to Onitsha where he opened his first business venture called "Ojukwu stores" and employed one of his relatives to oversee it. He then returned to Lagos and started sending down textiles on Lorries to his shop while still working for John Holt. Sir Louise's textile boomed. By 1930, Louis bought a second hand truck and employed a driver in other move his goods himself and 'Ojukwu transport company' was born. Sir Ojukwu worked tirelessly and by end of the 1930's, was the major transporter on the East-West Road. In 1939, on the outbreak of world war 2, the British Government requested the use of Sir Ojukwus fleet of trucks for the War effort to which he agreed. When the war ended in 1945, the British Goverment recognised the sacrifice he made and he was awarded a KBE (Knight of the British Empire). The end of the war also created a high demand for raw materials from West Africa and sir Ojukwus Transport business exploded sky high and he diversified into other businesses. Some of Sir Ojukwu's early drivers such as Chief Ilodibe (Ekene Dili Chukwu) and Chief Izuchukwu (Izuchukwu Transport) would later become Transport moguls themselves. Sir Ojukwu was so rich that in 1956 when the Queen visited Nigeria, the British authorities had to borrow his Rolls Royce and personal driver to chauffeur the Queen around. Sir Louis was also a financial pillar of Ziks NCNC party and when the party came to power in 1960, Sir Louis was offered the position of Finance Minister which he turned down, the position ultimately went to Okotie-Eboh. Sir Louis died in Nkalagu, present day Ebonyi state, in 1966. Sir Louis CV is the most intimidating I have ever seen and probably will ever see. He was:

1)The first President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange
2) President, African Continental Bank
3) Chairman, Nigerian cement company (NIGERCEM)
4) CEO, Ojukwu Transport company
5) Chairman, Nigerian National Shipping Line
6) Chairman, Lion Of Africa Insurance Company
7) Chairman, BISCO Nigeria Limited
Chairman, Nigerian Industrial Development Bank
9) Vice President, Lagos Chamber Of Commerce
10) Chairman, Palmline Shipping company
11) Chairman, Nigerian Produce Marketing board
12) Chairman, Eastern Nigerian Development Corporation
13) Chairman, Costain west Africa
14) Director, Shell D'Arcy Petroleum
15) Director, Thomas Wyatt & Son
16) Director, Nigerian Coal corporation
17) Director, Guiness Nigeria Limited
18) Director, Nigerian Tobacco Company
19) Director, Daily Times of Nigeria

The man was simply larger than life. Sir Louis also owned numerous building, landed properties and stocks. It is estimated that as at the time he died in 1966, he was worth about 40 Billion Dollars in today's money.

Source: "In quest perpetuity- Bio sketches of Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu" by Ifeze [/b]

Someone should tell Ben Bruce that Orient Oil is in Otu Ocha in Anambra state. Someone should tell him that Ogbaru has huge amounts of Oil. Someone should tell him that Anambra has one of the largest deposit of Gas in the whole country.

OP, as Oguta man and from Imo state, what do you have say about your sister that was recently beheaded in Kano and her head paraded around town? 'One Nigeria' dey sweet abi?

coolitempa:
If I respond to this idiotic post....they will say Coolitempa don start wahala....and kpam....another long ban will follow by the biased mods on this board...

Everything I said in my post are historical facts. It's not like I made anything up. So what is there to be angry about? These things have happend

[b] The Yorubas are a tribe of great people no doubt. History tells us that they were a tribe of warriors who once controlled a vast empire that stretched from Bini to present day Republic of Benin under the Oyo empire. They have achieved a lot. So it beggars belief, particularly to an Igbo man like me who never had an 'empire', that the present generation of Yorubas have gone from champions of sovereignty to mere 'Northern followers' of 'one Nigeria'. What happened to the Yoruba man who was self Governing under the Oyo Mesi long before there was anything called Nigeria? How is it that these people have thrown away their right to self determination for a foreign identity called 'Nigerian' which the White man gave them? One would have thought that it would have been Yorubas that would be declaring "Oduduwa Republic" long before Igbos declared Biafra? There are many incidents that have happened since 1960 that should have propelled the Yoruba nation to rise up, assert their sovereignty and challenge the excesses of North, but they did nothing. To make matters worse, most of these incidents happened in Yoruba land! They include:

July 1966, Northern elements kidnapp and kill the Governor of Western Nigeria, Lt Colonel Fajuyi, a Yoruba man. Yorubas did nothing.

July 1966, General Ironsi is killed by the Northerners. The next two highest ranking officers are Yoruba men (Brigadier Ogundipe and Colonel Adebayor). By law, it should have been Ogundipe who should have taken over. Right in Lagos, Yorubaland, Ogundipe is chased away to London by the Northerners while Colonel Adebayor is made to replace the murdered Fajuyi, all to pave way for the much junior Gowon to take over. Yorubas did nothing.

January 1967. Gowon, Ojukwu, Adebyor, Katsina amongst others meet in Aburi, Ghana. An agreement for the most true form of federalism (confederation) is reached, signed and sealed. But few months later when Gowon and his Northern goons break this agreement, the Yorubas did nothing. They even helped Gowon fight Ojukwu so that unitary rule could be fully implemented. Today, Yorubas are shouting for the same true federalism they helped to take away.

1967: Amid the massacre of Easterners by the Northerners, the father of the Yoruba nation, Pa Awolowo comes to Enugu and said that if Igbos walk out of Nigeria, Yorubas are going the same way too. When Igbos walked out of Nigeria, the same Awolowo accepted to become deputy to Gowon who was young enough to be his son. Awolowo who witnessed thousands of people being murdered by Northerners was convinced that the same Northerners were the best thing since the invention of sliced bread! Awolowo would later go on to be frustrated from ever becoming president of Nigeria by the same Northerners he diligently served.

1976: After the death of Murtala Mohammed, Obasunjo is the next highest ranking officer. The Notherners try again to do what the did 10 years earlier when Ogundipe and Adebayor were bypassed because they were Yorubas by insisting that General Danjuma who is junior to Obasunjo should take over. Danjuma refuses, which is the only reason Obasunjo became head of state.

1993: The brightest political star in Yorubland, MKO Abiola is kidnapped and murdered in detention after winning free and fair elections. The Yorubas nation did nothing.

One wonders why the Yoruba nation have never confronted the Northerners despite all the above? Why have they always been willing tools of the Northerners? Why do they never think about their right to self determination? I need answers. [/b]

mrvitalis:
The two most educated tribe in Nigeria (igbos and Yorubas) keep fighting themselves while the far less educated ones (hausa fulani) rule over them

The greatest fear of the fulanis is a united igbo-yoruba cos that will librate the hausas from their bondage

Now it is obvious we are brothers
( but that won't stop me from abusing them)

Hausa/Fulani are only ruling because they managed to get Yorubas to do their bidding.

Very nice one!

Yorubas have a thing for Igbos. They can't let the Igbos go but they can't let them stay either.

Mmadu k'ana ya.

Buhari made A1 in Igbo language?? How? Please don't make me laugh.


The Lawyer who took Buhari to Court said in his complaint that Buhari never sat for WASC. The Lawyer, said that Buhari was accepted into the Army based on a recommendation from his principal but that Buhari began his military training but could not return to take his WASC.

lecther:
why are you blaming Yorubas for a viable economy growth plan that shows how hardworking your people are.

The only person I blame is the cursed LUGARD who put us Igbo in one country with Yorubas and Hausas.

Chei! Okorohausa again? Anything to please his Northern kingsmen

Why do the Lagos/Ibadan expressway media keep calling it 'baby factories'? Most of these are just homes that girls who fall pregnant and rejected by their families as a disgrace run to for help. These media houses make it look like the girls go there to get pregnant and have babies.

Ngozi Okonjo -Iweala. True Igbo woman and Biafran. Many people may not know Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was a cook for the Biafran Soldiers during the War. Her father was Brigadier Okonjo of the Biafran Army.

HurtgenForest:
Exactly my brother, for instance Igbos will take back our lands of Obigbo & Egbema carved into Rivers state in 1976. These were part of old Imo state.

Of course. There are many Igbos that have fraudulently put in other so called geopolitical zones. Igbos of the lower Benue, the Umu-ezeokaha people in the NC, Anioma, Obigbo and others in the SS. The must all be returned to where they belong, therefore, before the creation of any region, all Igbo elements must given the opportunity to vote to join their Igbo brothers in their region. Nigeria has divided the Igbo nation for far too long

HurtgenForest:
There is a loud call from different parts of the country for true federalism while others have called for regionalism.

I support regionalism where we will have six regions in Nigeria and each region would be free to make their own laws, create as many states as they want, control their resources and develop at their own pace. A certain percentage will be paid monthly to the FG which will then be not too attractive.

Under this system, there will be less tribal bitternes because for every election, all the candidates will be from among the indigenous people so whoever wins would be accepted by all. There will be no need for MASSOB/IPOB, MEND, NDA, boko haram, OPC/Agbekoya, fulani herdsmen, etc.

While I support the call for regionalism, I support a regional system whereby the present FCT(Abuja) and all other former capitals i.e Lagos & Calabar would be under the control of the FG.

This way, everyone will be happy and Nigeria will move forward.

Shalom.

I support regionalism too, even six region as the case maybe. But where there will be a big problem is if anyone expects that the six regions will be this so called SW/SE/SS etc.

Ironsi was killed in July 1966 but it took the Aburi meeting for the Government to make a formal announcement that Ironsi had died and released his body to be buried. The Government has always tried to cover the events leading up the was because they knew that if the younger generation analysed the events from the Aburi meeting to the declaration of Biafra, they would see that the problem was not Ojukwu but the power greedy North. Good thing that Ojukwu insisted that the meeting should be recorded.

hagm0nd1:
another useless post by the low self esteemed tribe.
let me remind you yeebos that your useless zik preferred to ally with the north to form one Nigeria,when the hausas,and Yorubas made it clear they want no part if Nigeria, he even refused a secession clause,thinking with the hausas he would lord over Yorubas but his undoing was the first coup,the hausas quicked suyanize the useless yeebos in millions.
so we are telling you move in drove to the useless alayeebo,we've been flogging in akure yet you still prostrated to beg.
fulanis well keep using you as shooting practice because of your leaders greed.
Soyinka and solarin even protested for your useless biafla ,so tell me how Yorubas are scared of you leaving to your villages.

Cone head half-wit! The same Awolowo you are talking about came to Enugu and said that if the Igbo nation leaves Nigeria, the Yoruba nation will leave too. When the time for action came, he accepted Government position and fought for one Nigeria. The same Hausa/Fulani came to Ibadan in Yoruba land and killed the Military Governor, Lt Colonel Fajuyi, a Yoruba man. You people did nothing. When Ironsi was killed, the next highest ranking officer, Brigadier Ogundipe, a Yoruba man should have taken over. The same Hausa/Fulani came Lagos, Yorubaland, chased away Ogundipe to London and installed a much junior Gowon. The Yorubas did nothing. To make matters worse, when Ojukwu decided that enough was enough and rose up to stand against the Northerners, you Yorubas called him a fool and a coward because he did not adopt the slave mentality you guys have for the Northeners. You people allowed the Northerners to hold you hostage in your own land. And after many years of the Northerners messing you guys and the rest of Nigeria about in Lagos, they finally transferred the capita to their lands. You guys are really something.

kaairoz:
Killing of unarmed citizens is a genocide,



Commander Issah M. Abdullahi (colonel)
Have committed a genocide for telling his
soldiers to killing unarmed individual, with major
C. O Ibrahim and others carried out the act.






I remembered some months ago in Eungu state.
when fulani herdsmen attack the people of
Ukpabi Nimbo, the commander there was
waiting for an order from the commander in
chief of the armed forces,




So whose order did the colonel Issah M.
Abdullahi, followed in this pro-biafra protesters,


Why is it that some individual in some key
position don't used their acumen very well.



God bless Nigeria

How can God bless a country where it's own armed forces are killing its own people unnecessarily?

I'm actually surprised that EFCC has the power to obtain a detention order and hold someone for over a month without charge.

It is inevitable that Igbos will one day reclaim their freedom and sovereinghty stolen by the British opportunist called Lord Frederick Lugard in 1914 when he was setting up his money making venture called "Nigeria". When that day comes when we are free, I'm going to personally enjoy reading the Newspapers to see how the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy are dealing with the Yorubas.

irunooboo:
Blame the 3 million on ojukwu who told his people to carry sticks to a gun battle

Blame Gowon who thought came down to the East to fight

Chynx:
Crap!

Complete crap! People who say that Igbos are everywhere don't seem to remember that Nigeria is just one country out hundreds in the world. If there is any reason why Igbos should return to their lands anywhere in Nigeria, then they will. The world is a big place and Nigeria is just a small dot on the world map.

If Nigeria is to be restructured, it must be on regional lines. All the states must be dissolved and a referendum held to seek which of the ethnic nationalities, who are actually the real federating units, would like to come together as a region.

Uduak2019:
I have said this a dozen times...there is no commercial quantity of oil in Lagos or Ondo. All these claims is to make ND think that them SW have oil too so that One Nigeria will continue. If SW really has oil, I promise you...they will championing for separation because they are very greedy people...they don't like to share. Now, to test if SW has oil as they claim, let federal government stop all oil exploration, drilling and production in SS and SE and let SW oil feed the nation for only one month...just one month. Nigerians will be shocked to find out that the oil will not be up to a barrel.

I don't really care who has Oil and who hasn't or in what quantity. What I maintain is that it is the God given right of the indigenous people of the land such as my fellow Igbos to decide if they want to continue being part of the colonial entity called Nigeria or not.

But beyond all these, I’m yet to make sense of your current agitation of not wanting to be part of Nigeria

Wait let me go and ask the husband of the Igbo woman beheaded in Kano

americanigga:
From the map I can't see any two rivers. In fact Abia is completely blocked by Akwa Ibom

The reason you can't see it is because the Map you are using does not show the Nigerian waterways adequately.

Below is a map that shows it better. As you see, the Azumini River runs through almost all of the southern side of Abia state and opens up at the southern tip of Abia from where it flows into the Athlantic Ocean. There has been talk about building a Seaport there for years. Google Obuaku Seaport.

I want to remind the Igbo nation that not all Ikweres say they are not Igbo. An example is Elele people in Ikwere local Govt who actually 'flaunt' their 'Igboness' and are proud of it. So it is not all Ikweres who have that 'I'm not Igbo' mentality. So it is very important to identify the Ikwerre clans who identify with being and forget the rest.

Nnamdi Kanu, the freedom fighter. We shall all see that freedom in the land of the rising sun. We shall get there in the name of Chukwu Okike because the colonial slavery called 'one Nigeria' cannot be the portion of Igbos.

Clentuzbaba:
Remember d same name & country has recorded great achievements .

Would that include the 3 Million that were killed because of "we must be one Nigeria at all cost"?