₦airaland Forum

Welcome, Guest: Register • Login • With Google • Trending • Recent • New

Stats: 3,344,626 members, 8,512,848 topics. Date: Wednesday, 04 November 2026 at 06:18 AM

Toggle theme

Authoreety's Posts

Nairaland Forum › Authoreety's Profile › Authoreety's Posts

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 (of 320 pages)

Education › Re: What Is The Name Of That Iron Pipe Under The Car Where Smoke Comes Out Called? by Authoreety: 8:47pm On Jun 05, 2020
CERLISER kwa?

Silas mana nko?
Autos › Re: 2007 Land Rover Lr3 1,600,000 Dm Now Buy And Drive by Authoreety: 8:38pm On Jun 05, 2020
recievesense:
wrong interior pix
U gbab am
Career › Re: I NEVER KNEW: She Was The Boss And Not The Worker by Authoreety: 8:37pm On Jun 05, 2020
Nice one,
I hope it's true though
Crime › Re: BREAKING!!! Police Arrest Richest Man In Abba With Illegal Gun (photos) by Authoreety: 8:35pm On Jun 05, 2020
This guy na correct big boy o..
Best aluminum, obuya bu okpueze uno
Crime › Re: Police Arrests Child Kisser (VIDEO) by Authoreety: 8:30pm On Jun 05, 2020
I believe that was an innocent kiss..

The offense the guy committed was posting it online...
While growing up, me dey kiss my babies wella oo, suck all spittle in dia mouth join sef...
I mean junior siblings
Travel › Re: Check Out Top 10 Countries With The Best Electricity Supply In Africa. by Authoreety: 8:17pm On Jun 05, 2020
Amotolongbo:
Even with the most powerful microscope on earth, one won’t see Nigeria on that list
grin

I will report you to osibanjo, that's hate speech u know
Education › Re: What Is The Name Of That Iron Pipe Under The Car Where Smoke Comes Out Called? by Authoreety: 8:13pm On Jun 05, 2020
PricyTech:
Exhaust pipe
Seconded
Crime › Re: My Bestie Got Raped by Authoreety: 2:42pm On Jun 05, 2020
If she knows the guys then, her problem is 30% solved
Politics › Re: THROWBACK Nigerian PHOTOS you might love to see by Authoreety: 2:40pm On Jun 05, 2020
Good to know...
Nothing, I mean nothing lasts forever
Celebrities › Re: Nollywood Actress Uche Elendu Buys New Lexus SUV Jeep(photos) by Authoreety: 12:45pm On Jun 05, 2020
1daful....
No be the same nollywood o... Let's all be guided.
Crime › Re: 12-year-old Girl Was Hid And Raped By 12 Men For 2 Months In Jigawa. by Authoreety: 7:41pm On Jun 04, 2020
Insanity ti takeover o
Foreign Affairs › Re: Special Interview With Idi Amin Of Belgium, King Leopold Ii by Authoreety: 7:39pm On Jun 04, 2020
Anytime, I read about what whites did to our forefathers,


yahuu yahuu go just begin hungry me
Foreign Affairs › Re: Special Interview With Idi Amin Of Belgium, King Leopold Ii by Authoreety: 7:34pm On Jun 04, 2020
Chai
Family › Re: Husband Bites His Wife’s Fingers In Port-Harcourt For Refusing Sex by Authoreety: 7:33pm On Jun 04, 2020
Lord have mercy.
Celebrities › Re: Ex-girlfriend Of Comedian Ebiye Accuses Him Of Sexual And Physical Assault by Authoreety: 7:29pm On Jun 04, 2020
After seeing the gals pix

Celebrities › Re: Young Boy Helps A Pregnant Lady Deliver Her Child By The Roadside In Abakaliki, by Authoreety: 10:48am On Jun 04, 2020
Wetin Person no go hear for Nigeria
Politics › Re: Cross River Assembly Rejects Ikpeme’s Confirmation As CJ, Again, Post Vacant by Authoreety: 10:45am On Jun 04, 2020
Dem go hear for the guy hand
Health › Re: See Banana Health Benefits For Your Skin by Authoreety: 9:18pm On Jun 03, 2020
Omoh, see as those banana fresh
Family › Re: Getting My Child From Wedlock Affair by Authoreety: 9:11pm On Jun 03, 2020
LawBreaker:
If I can't get the child, I may marry the girl, collect my child, and divorce her.
Hmmm, sounds like a nice idea, but u may not live to tell the remaining part of the story
Romance › Re: Why I Got Married To Annie - Tubaba Innocent Idibia by Authoreety: 9:08pm On Jun 03, 2020
Very inspiring

But u do deserve some slaps for making her go thru all u put her thru during ur fame
Celebrities › Re: Davido Displays Beautiful Interiors Of His House: New Banana Island Mansion by Authoreety: 2:05pm On Jun 01, 2020
nosagold:
I'd rather have Jesus
Than silver and Gold...
God will bless us bro
Sports › Referee Apologizes For Booking Jordan Sancho by Authoreety(op): 1:48pm On Jun 01, 2020
The referee who booked Jardon Sancho for celebrating his goal with "Justice for George" apologized According to Goal . Com official Facebook page - All details shared in this article.



It was a very painful moment for the whole world following the untimely dismissal of George, death that could have been avoided if little carefulness was taken. Ever since this unfortunate incidents, people are all the the global have been craving for justice, many peaceful protests has taken place in many nations, many public figures has condemned the act.



A host of athletes has joined in this campaign, recall last Sunday in Dortmund match against Paderborn (Germany League), Jordan Sancho was booked (shown) yellow card for removing his jersey to celebrate "Justice for George" after he scored the second goal of the match.

Today, the same referee has apologized to the world especially to sports lovers for showing yellow.



See what the referee has to say:

"I felt devastated as I booked him with yellow card but I am following the Football guidelines. I hope that Germany football Association will review and revoke this yellow card. If it was for me I wouldn't have shown card to him but it's my duty. George's death deserves some respect"



Although the match eventually ends with 1 - 6 scoreline in favor of Dortmund, with Jordan Sancho scoring his first senior career hatrick goal. After the yellow from the officiating referee, Sancho was able to find the net for the second and third time. Fans of football, most especially Dortmund fans has expressed displeasure over the card and hope that something will be done timely by the relevant authorities.

Source of Information: https://Goal.com

Crime › Re: Graphic Photo:22yrs Old Lady Raped In Church by Authoreety: 6:10pm On May 30, 2020
Ah ah, wetin she do them na..?


Na kill dem been Wan kill am so o..


I just hope say no be bad mouth put am for ds condition

Crime › Re: Bus Driver Refuse To Drive After NYPD Loaded Protesters They Arrested In Brookly by Authoreety: 6:05pm On May 30, 2020
Before nko?, if na you, you go drive?
Crime › You Committed Attrocities Against Igbo, Frederick Forsyth Blasts His Own Country by Authoreety(op): 6:21pm On May 29, 2020
Ademola Adegbamigbe

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, the English journalist and author, will be 82 this year. He was born on 25 August 1938. At such age when a man is moving closer to his grave or Maker, his conscience becomes sharper, his propensity for remorse gets greater. He tends to make all past crooked ways straight. He confesses his sins or does so vicariously- that is, on behalf of his clan or community or country.

That is exactly what Frederick Forsyth has done, blaming his country, Britain, for its bias against the Igbo during the Nigeria-Biafra war that spanned three years, 1967 to 1970. Another Briton who became contrite was Harold Smith, a colonial officer who admitted that Britain deliberately made the North to dominate the South here in all ramifications, using well choreographed policies of demography, appointments and politics.

Forsyth is a household name in the Commonwealth countries and beyond for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil’s Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra, The Kill List, The Biafra Story and others. According to William Okugo Okereke: “This is the Man who has the true history of the 30 months genocide against Biafrans. He is not an Iboman! His books on Nigeria/Biafra are Emeka and The Making of an African Legend.”

It was when he covered the war in Nigeria as a BBC correspondent that the bias of Britain became clear to him. He revealed this in a recent article in The Guardian of London: “Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war.”

It was for this reason that the writer walked away from the BBC, narrating, “Six months later, in February 1968, fed up with the slavishness of the BBC to Whitehall, I walked out and flew back to west Africa. Ojukwu roared with laughter and allowed me to stay. My condition was that, having rejected British propaganda, I would not publish his either. He agreed.”

In the article, Forsyth reveals the sins of Britain: “I arrived in the Biafra capital of Enugu on the third day of the war. In London I had been copiously briefed by Gerald Watrous, head of the BBC’s West Africa Service. What I did not know was that he was the obedient servant of the government’s Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which believed every word of its high commissioner in Lagos, David Hunt. It took two days in Enugu to realise that everything I had been told was utter garbage.

“I had been briefed that the brilliant Nigerian army would suppress the rebellion in two weeks, four at the most. Fortunately the deputy high commissioner in Enugu, Jim Parker, told me what was really happening. It became clear that the rubbish believed by the CRO and the BBC stemmed from our high commissioner in Lagos. A racist and a snob, Hunt expected Africans to leap to attention when he entered the room – which Gowon did. At their single prewar meeting Ojukwu did not. Hunt loathed him at once.

Read a related story here

“My brief was to report the all-conquering march of the Nigerian army. It did not happen. Naively, I filed this. When my report was broadcast our high commissioner complained to the CRO in London, who passed it on to the BBC – which accused me of pro-rebel bias and recalled me to London.

“What is truly shameful is that this was not done by savages but aided and assisted at every stage by Oxbridge-educated British mandarins. Why? Did they love the corruption-riven, dictator-prone Nigeria? No. From start to finish, it was to cover up that the UK’s assessment of the Nigerian situation was an enormous judgmental screw-up. And, worse: with neutrality and diplomacy from London it could all have been avoided.”

Like Forsyth, Harold Smith, an accomplice in the lopsidedness of Nigerian politics, confessed (as quoted in thenigerianvoice)

“Despite seeing vast land with no human but cattle in the north, we still gave the north 55 million instead of 32 million. This was to be used to maintain their majority votes and future power bid. The West without Lagos was the most populous in Nigeria at the time but we ignored that. We seriously encouraged the north to go the military. We believed that the south may attend western education, but future leaders will always come from military background. Their traditional rulers were made influential and super human. The northerners were given accelerated promotions both in the military and civil service to justify their superiority over south. Everything was to work against the south. We truncated their good plan for their future. ‘I was very sorry for the A.G.: It was a great party too much for African standard. We planned to destroy Awolowo and Azikiwe well, the west and the east’. And sowed the seed of discord among them. We tricked Azikiwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa is the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria”

Below is Forsyth’s article on the bias of Britain against the Igbo, entitled:

“Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war.”




By Frederick Forsyth

It is a good thing to be proud of one’s country, and I am – most of the time. But it would be impossible to scan the centuries of Britain’s history without coming across a few incidents that evoke not pride but shame. Among those I would list are the creation by British officialdom in South Africa of the concentration camp, to persecute the families of Boers. Add to that the Amritsar massacre of 1919 and the Hola camps set up and run during the struggle against Mau Mau.

But there is one truly disgusting policy practised by our officialdom during the lifetime of anyone over 50, and one word will suffice: Biafra.

This referred to the civil war in Nigeria that ended 50 years ago this month. It stemmed from the decision of the people of the eastern region of that already riot-racked country to strike for independence as the Republic of Biafra. As I learned when I got there as a BBC correspondent, the Biafrans, mostly of the Igbo people, had their reasons.

The federal government in Lagos was a brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1966 in a bloodbath. During and following that coup, the northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of resident Igbo were slaughtered. The federal government lifted not a finger to help. It was led by an affable British-educated colonel, Yakubu Gowon. But he was a puppet. The true rulers were a group of northern Nigerian colonels. The crisis deepened, and in early 1967 eastern Nigeria, harbouring about 1.8 million refugees, sought restitution. A British-organised conference was held in Ghana and a concordat agreed. But Gowon, returning home, was flatly contradicted by the colonels, who tore up his terms and reneged on the lot. In April the Eastern Region formally seceded and on 7 July, the federal government declared war.

Biafra was led by the Eastern Region’s Oxford-educated former military governor, “Emeka” Ojukwu. London, ignoring all evidence that it was Lagos that reneged on the deal, denounced the secession, made no attempt to mediate and declared total support for Nigeria.

I arrived in the Biafra capital of Enugu on the third day of the war. In London I had been copiously briefed by Gerald Watrous, head of the BBC’s West Africa Service. What I did not know was that he was the obedient servant of the government’s Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which believed every word of its high commissioner in Lagos, David Hunt. It took two days in Enugu to realise that everything I had been told was utter garbage.

I had been briefed that the brilliant Nigerian army would suppress the rebellion in two weeks, four at the most. Fortunately the deputy high commissioner in Enugu, Jim Parker, told me what was really happening. It became clear that the rubbish believed by the CRO and the BBC stemmed from our high commissioner in Lagos. A racist and a snob, Hunt expected Africans to leap to attention when he entered the room – which Gowon did. At their single prewar meeting Ojukwu did not. Hunt loathed him at once.

My brief was to report the all-conquering march of the Nigerian army. It did not happen. Naively, I filed this. When my report was broadcast our high commissioner complained to the CRO in London, who passed it on to the BBC – which accused me of pro-rebel bias and recalled me to London. Six months later, in February 1968, fed up with the slavishness of the BBC to Whitehall, I walked out and flew back to west Africa. Ojukwu roared with laughter and allowed me to stay. My condition was that, having rejected British propaganda, I would not publish his either. He agreed.

But things had changed. British covert interference had become huge. Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all. Much enlarged, with fresh weapons and secret advisory teams, the Nigerian army inched across Biafra as the defenders tried to fight back with a few bullets a day. Soviet Ilyushin bombers ranged overhead, dropping 1,000lb bombs on straw villages. But the transformation came in July.

Missionaries had noticed mothers emerging from the deep bush carrying children reduced to living skeletons yet with bloated bellies. Catholic priests recognised the symptoms – kwashiorkor or acute protein deficiency.

That same July the Daily Express cameraman David Cairns ran off a score of rolls of film and took them to London. Back then, the British public had never seen such heartrending images of starved and dying children. When the pictures hit the newsstands the story exploded. There were headlines, questions in the House of Commons, demonstrations, marches.

As the resident guide for foreign news teams I became somewhat overwhelmed. But at last the full secret involvement of the British government started to be exposed and the lies revealed. Wilson came under attack. The story swept Europe then the US. Donations flooded in. The money could buy food – but how to get it there? Around year’s end the extraordinary Joint Church Aid was born.

The World Council of Churches helped to buy some clapped-out freighter aircraft and gained permission from Portugal to use the offshore island São Tomé as a base. Scandinavian pilots and crew, mostly airline pilots, offered to fly without pay. Joint Church Aid was quickly nicknamed Jesus Christ Airlines. And thus came into being the world’s only illegal mercy air bridge.

On a visit to London in spring 1969 I learned the efforts the British establishment will take to cover up its tracks. Every reporter, peer or parliamentarian who had visited Biafra and reported on what he had seen was smeared as a stooge of Biafra – even the utterly honourable John Hunt, leader of the Everest expedition.

Throughout 1969 the relief planes flew through the night, dodging Nigerian MiG fighters, to deliver their life-giving cargoes of reinforced milk powder to a jungle airstrip. From there trucks took the sacks to the missions, the nuns boiled up the nutriments and kept thousands of children alive.

-Read Forsyth‘s full article in the London Guardian
Source. https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/05/29/you-committed-attrocities-against-igbo-frederick-forsyth-blasts-his-own-country-britain/amp/

Jokes Etc › Re: Abeg Which Matter Una Dey Settle For Area Today Cos Since 5am I Don Dey Settle M by Authoreety: 9:02am On May 29, 2020
Landlord tell tenant make him pack all him load comot for house, tenant enter house go carry landlord pikin, na the matter we dey settle since xtday evening
Celebrities › Re: Lady Slaps Husband Multiple Times, Pours Soup On Him For Going Out (video) by Authoreety: 8:58am On May 29, 2020
Rozz:
some women don't take shit,this is how men invites trouble into their homes,not supporting the woman's reaction though.
OK Aunty we have heard, keep it up o, u hear?
Christianity Etc › Re: The New Creation Does Not Have Human Life by Authoreety: 8:57am On May 29, 2020
HALLELUJAH
Politics › Re: Gov. Wike Loyalist, Odiari Princewill Dies From COVID-19 In Rivers by Authoreety: 8:55am On May 29, 2020
Wike go Don provoke

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 (of 320 pages)