₦airaland Forum

Christistruth00:
There were 4 Premiers of the region's (Akintola in the West, Sardauna in the North Osadebey in the Midwest and Okpara in the East) of the 4 Premiers 2 were Igbo speaking but only the non Igbo Speaking Premiers Akintola and Sardauna were Murdered in their houses by Igbo speaking Soldiers in an Army with an Igbo Chief of Staff Gen Ironsi

If it had happened in the West Gen Ironsi would have been Politely asked to resign


That was why Gen Ironsi didn't even announce the deaths of the Murdered Officers for months

These are serious allegations. Do you have corroborating evidence like an nterview with the Cyprus Prime Minister or anything indicating Ojukwu and Ironsi planned the coup and used Nzeowgu. Nothing of this was mentioned by Major Adewale Ademoyega; one of the 3 major planners in his book.

Ojukwu being at that location is probably after the fact; especially since you said it was AFTER the killing.
Any interview showing what Ademelegun's wife said?

thesicilian:
What you won't see from the pictures are the tens of bodyguards and bouncers around him, there's probably even a security drone flying over his head every time.

Exactly, security there is not gragra...you can travel 1000 kilometres and live there for 10 years and not see one police road block.
Security is a community affair and technological /intelligence based ;even criminals know their limits.

Chai; thank God say the civilized world don eradicate kidnapping for ransom. Because if na some places, wahala go burst o!!!

nku5:
Ademoyega in his book confirmed that the coup was supposed to take place later in the year but he found out from H.O. Davies that Sardauna, Balewa and Akintola were planning a very bloody crackdown on the Western Region and the Middle Belt. They then rushed their plans and staged it on January 15

Hmmm...ironic that the 2 coups carried out by mid level officers and revolutionary in nature were rushed and both failed! 1966 and 1990.

kettykin:
If the 1966 coup did not happen, the state of emergency and chaos in the west would have grown out of proportion to an insurgency.

Awolowo would have probably died in prison.
The eastern economy which was the fastest growing economy in the world as at then would have transformed the east to where south Korea's economy is today or something higher.

The sarduana would have continued his unbridled March to bury the Koran in the Atlantic.

Nigeria would have generally been a much better place and country.

Lessons learnt. Igbos should mind their business even when Nigeria is on fire ,mind your business.

Igbos repeated their mistakes in the end SARS protests and the revisionist almost made it an igbo sabotaging lagos economy but for the social media

Hmmm. Interesting perspective.

rossipki:
Just another sign of the ongoing decline of western civilization.

And which civilization is rising up
This same western civilization you said is declining provides EVERYTHING. you are using right now; Tesla, Internet, WhatsApp, Facebook, Movies, SpaceX, Vaccines etc...

AdaugoChisom:
Anyway, see how Okoro and Adeyika are uniting Nigerians to achieve their goals but on Nairaland here....na war, Tunde who has never crossed river Niger since his life will be telling you that Anambra belong to Igala while Emeka that was welcomed to Lagos will be calling his host Afonja... Muhammad will be instigating both of them....Nigerian Thing.

Nigerian people...na wa!

Litmus:
"Exposing his buttocks, ass or butt", is a Nigerian metaphor meaning, revealing his inner self, private issues. Someone exposing Dangote's bottocks therefore means someone dishing the dirt on Dangote...

Haha...okkkk! Hmm!

Where's the buttocks? Why lying headlines? He's on a couch, so what?

PartnerusIsBack:
Wale of tracais shey na you be this? I been won counter you on some things until I see the name wale...na me your boy oscar reporting live from Dublin...but sha, not everything you stated in your write up is correct ooo...I rest my case. Enjoy boss

Thankyou!!!

Odewaleadesoye:
There are many things people don't understand about living in abroad. People think life is rosy over there. No, it's not. Let me tell you some few things with my little knowledge of stay at Dublin, Ireland.

1. You won't be able to attend the same school with the oyinbos.

2. Your credit score will always drop sha.

3. Government will give you a special apartment meant for the

7. Here in Nigeria, you can piss anywhere but try that in Dublin, you're a gonna.

My fellow Nigerians, honestly, you can make wave and ways in this country with the little that you have. Don't stress yourself absconding to abroad.

I'm talking from experience.



ODEWALE ADESOYE

And pissing anywhere is a good thing? Isn't that what animals do? Are we animals in Nigeria

Na wa o!

Nairalandian:
American justice system is quite annoying when it comes to punishing this bastards, pardon my word.
They hardly give the death penalty.
See the way he's being treated like he committed a petty crime.
I don't even like the way criminals like him are executed. Quick death; I hate it.
Bludgeon their head, stop for a while so they can recover, repeat again, till the beast is half dead. Then call a doc to help revive him.
Continue this process for months till they wear out and die painfully and slowly.
A slow painful death is what suits them.
Vicious idiots.
There was a time I took my time to read about this serial killers, omo, I nearly choke. Funny thing is that some were released after some decades and are still roaming around looking for who to devour.

That's serious.

Odewaleadesoye:
There are many things people don't understand about living in abroad. People think life is rosy over there. No, it's not. Let me tell you some few things with my little knowledge of stay at Dublin, Ireland.

1. You won't be able to attend the same school with the oyinbos.

2. Your credit score will always drop sha.

3.

ODEWALE ADESOYE

Don't understand you o.

You won't be able to attend school with Oyinbo? How? My nephews and nieces are only blacks in their class.

How will your credit score drop? For no reason? Why is mine rising? Pay your bills on time and don't over borrow.

You can't buy things even If you are extremely rich? That makes no sense , unless the person is a fraudster and is afraid to spend the money openly. Why would you not be able to spend YOUR money.

Anyway I assume you are in Ireland, maybe that's how Ireland is; but I seriously doubt that.

As you said YOUR experience.

Mokason288:
What about the ones killed in Nigeria every day?

This Afonja lady doesn't have Conscience

You never put out a statement to condemn the brutal crime police Officers commit on a daily

Charity begins at home

Meanwhile RIP bro ... BUHARI did this to you bro and it shall never be well with him IJN



I HOPE I MADE SENSE

Hm

Kriss216:
As long as my wife serves me dinner with red pant and bra, or red sexy lingeries, no woman in this world can seduce or make me cheat on my wife.

I doubt you are married sir.

Please what's really going on here? Who are you people? Is this madness or genius?
Since 2016?

Originalsly:
Bro... don't be so quick to criticize the country of your birth.... .and discourage others from pushing ahead to achieve their dreams. Nothing in life comes easy in any country.
I learn a lot from the streets ... in a decent society.....and getting a book published is not that easy for someone without deep pockets. That person will go to a small publisher and publish a small amount of copies... maybe 300 or 500.... he will then go to street vendors who sell books or any such store and drop a few... in the meantime... walking the street ... going to street fairs...etc and pushing his work. When that is almost sold out... he goes back to the publisher for a reprint and so on. The bigger publishing houses go to the smaller publishers to know which books are doing great numbers. They review them and contact the author if they find it has great potential. They then sign a contract with the writer and almost always repackage the book.... change the cover.. the title etc. before releasing the book.

@ topic.... I don't see why he should criticize the rich guy.... the guy never turned him down. The guy told him to return another time because he was busy at that time. He never did return. Why to date he can't see he missed an opportunity?...how was he humiliated?... he's too full of himself. Mr Ego.

Yes, I don't agree with the rich man's angle too. That's another problem in Naija; the idea that people must help us. What if the rich man has his own problems (bank on his neck for 100 million loan for example) or what if he just didn't like the manuscript

But I still stand on my point that in more decent societies there is help. You can self publish a book anytime there and if you get a few good reviews on social media; you will make sales. Maybe not become a best selling author; but your journey to being an author can start immediately.
If you write nonsense of of course, then you are wasting your time.

Interesting write up. You have done well. Please don't forget that EVERYONE faces rejection and disappointment including the person for whom we are celebrating Christmas.
The Great problem with Nigeria is we don't have a proper structure; in more decent societies you would not have to go round begging to be published like that.
We hope to continue hearing about your success and please don't forget those who are still struggling in Nigeria that you can help lift up too.

travelwaka:
Thank you, I have learnt my lessons no to talk about history again, there are so many conflicting stories I am always willing to learn more. Thanks

Nooooooo....haha! Please don't let anyone bamboozle you!!!! As Professor of Wakalogy, your work will be incomplete without pieces of history.

9gerian:
You are correct!

However, there is a context in which General Ironsi was accused of staging a coup (after the first/main coup) with the acting president Nwafor Orizu while taking over the reigns of power:


Ironsi told us that” you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force”. Those were his words. Is that voluntary hand-over? So we did not hand over. We wanted an Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word advisedly, to hand over to him. He was controlling the soldiers. The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not cooperate with us, cooperated with the GOC. Dr. Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast handing over the government of the country to the army. I here state again categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not hand-over voluntarily. It was a coup”.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/hand-over-or-took-over-power-2/amp/

You may be right. He definitely wasn't a part of the Nzeowgu coup and was himself a target; but by the end of the day on January 15th; he may have taken advantage of the situation whether for himself or the good of the country and forced a handover.

@travelwaka. I commend your efforts. Keep doing your thing. Yes we disagree on some facts, but I fully support your efforts.
True historians are impartial, they say it the way it happened or at least the way they learned and willing correct themselves when necessary.
King David was a great King and a man after God's own heart, but was also a murderer- that's history.

travelwaka:
This post was inspired by the other post of the Photos of the burial of Aguiyi Ironsi. the name Adekule Fajuyi may not ring bell like that of Aguiyi Ironsi, He was the first Military Governor of the Western Region. I will not go into details.
Aguiyi Ironsi organised the first military coup in Nigeria.

Entrance fee is 500 Naira, however, if you are planning to use your Digital camera, you will have to pay up to 20,000 to use it.

Source: https://www.travelwaka.com/fajuyi-memorial-park-a-beautiful-tourist-attraction-in-ekiti-state/

NO General Ironsin DID NOT organize the first military coup; he actually foiled it and was the reason the Nzeowgu boys did not establish government .
Major Ifejuna failed to arrest Ironsin and fled to Ghana.
ironically make Awolowo their Prime Minister. Captain Ude ( one of the plotters) was actually arrested in Calabar trying to free Chief Awolowo.
The foot soldiers used to make the coup successful in the North were all Northerners.
So whilst it was true, only Northern and Western military and civilian leaders were killed, Nzeowgu and Co were not tribalists. What Ibo tribalist risks his life to overthrow a government and makes a Yoruba man Prime Minister. ?
They were socialist leaning with great ideas , but poor execution.

Eriokanmi:
I'm not talking about languages but alphabets

Yes I know, alpha, beta, omega...it'd almost the same in every language.
Same root. Not unique to English- Hebrew-Greek-

That is the original Hebrew alphabet in the pix

Eriokanmi:
Greek and Jewish writings were synonymous with nowadays British alphabets. Look it up if in doubt.

All languages came from one source. Even Nigerian languages have similar alphabet to English.

Eriokanmi:
Wooow! So, most of the English alphabets were taken from Jewish age-long alphabets? I could see most of the English alphabets in the write up. They stole part of Jewish alphabets and merged it with Greek's to form their alphabet. Brtons don dey steal people's ideas and heritage no be now.

Pabambari, they abandoned their numerals and adopted Arabic figures which are in use widely today because its better and less voluminous.

That reminds me, where are those foolish boko haram terrorists saying western education is a sin? Someone should remind them that the Arabic numerals of 1, 2, 3, 4,...in use today weren't part of western education but adopted by the western world. What a wrong teaching and belief they've got.

That inscription was from the 1100s (900 years ago) when the site was occupied by Europeans.

Wind up a whole bank? Really?
Anyway what happened eventually?

Arrewa:
Yes...

Foreign herdsmen are not under the leadership of miyetti Allah...


The problem is that when foreign herdsmen strike... The locals attack local herdsmen.

And when they attack local Herdsman another circle of attack continues.

No sir,.the problem is we lack order in Nigeria. The lack of order is seen in a society with no consequences whether reward for doing good or punishment for doing bad.

In a normal decent society you get arrested for killing a human being and jailed or executed. Doesn't matter if the victim made you angry, stole your cow or even killed your friend. This is 2020, not 1654.

Secondly in a normal decent society, foreigners don't move about anyhow and commit crime with impunity, even if they look like and speak like the locals.
A Canadian or British man in the USA is easily identifiable even though they look like and speak same language as the locals. Why? Because it is an organized society, with borders and records.

The Governor did wrong. But I can't blame him, lawlessness has been rampant in Nigeria for decades.
People are threatening to kill human beings because their cows were killed and instead of arresting them and charging them with making threats (punishable by up to 10 years in jail ) and arresting those who killed the cows also if there is cause to; he is begging them and giving them money?? What nonsense. Only in Nigeria!

Difficult to do age cheat in the West. The day you are born, multiple records of your birth are made to different government establishments.
E.g. in the US, your local government school district will start hinting your family when it's time for primary school etc, how did they know your age? It's been sent every where.
At what point would a person start lying then?
When you are 23 and what to pretend you are 13? With all the record keeping, etc.
Every school in the West also has class photographs every year. If you are 13 in the equivalent of JS2 or 3; at 24 you want to claim JS2 again?
Age sports in the West is also by school. Infact all the sports in the West are by school. To get into the NFL ( National Football League), you must have gone to University, infact I think even to get into Major League Soccer.

Every American has a Social Security Number with your date of birth; it can't be changed. I believe similar in Europe.

The difference is diet. Check a 14 year old in America or England who was born there and if he has cousins that are same age in Ghana or Nigeria.
If our kids eat balanced diet, we can have 16 year old too who are developed.
Eating a bowl of eba with 1 meat at night won't make you develop well.

ToluNazzal:
More...

Well done!!! Where is that? What state?

Righteousness89:
Prayerfully read your Bible so you get Understanding of what you read..

There is no correlation to what you said and the topic

I was not referring to the Topic, but what YOU said.

Righteousness89:
UFO's, Aliens,etc are Real! Very Real!
They are Right being sighted all over the Nations..

I Believe they are gonna be the Major Strong Delusion that will put out after the Greatest Event to Hit Humanity ( The RAPTURE) happens.

I Believe those left behind will be sold the Delusion that Aliens took people to another planet or something like that!

We are in the Last Times!
Harpazo is upon Us!!
Don't be Left Behind!!
Surrender to JESUS now you Can!!

Bible says even the Elect would almost be deceived, so how will it be AFTER the Rapture.