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[size=20pt]Baba Suwe excretes again without any drug[/size]

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Written by Shola Adekola, Lagos
Sunday, 16 October 2011
The popular Yoruba comic actor, Alhaji Omidina Babatunde otherwise known as Baba Suwe who is being held at the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday made his second excretion without any trace of drug found.

Yesterday excretion has made it the second Baba Suwe has excreted since his arrest by the anti-narcotic agency.

Sources in the NDLEA said even though no drug has been found in the excretion he passed out that the actor will still remain in the agency’s custody until they are convinced otherwise.

When asked what the agency should no drug is still found on him, the source said the Yoruba actor will be left off the hook.

While saying Baba Suwe is still a suspect up till now, the NDLEA source lamented that the media should be blamed for blowing open the case while it was still under investigation.

According to the source, ordinarily, the anti-narcotic agency will never make open to the public any case under investigation until such has been proven.

There has been conflicting reports on the true position of things with the ace actor with a section of the media reporting on Saturday that Baba Suwe made the first excretion on Friday while others said he was yet to.

The Sunday Tribune has however gathered that the excretion he passed out on Friday and yesterday did not contain any drug.

When asked when the actor will likely be released, the NDLEA source said there was no time yet as he will still continue to remain in the custody of the agency.

The ace actor was to board an Air France flight to Paris at about 10pm on Wednesday October 12, 2011 at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos when he was arrested on the suspicion that he carried drug.

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/5350-baba-suwe-excretes-again-without-any-drug

Wonder shall never end. Nna the man don jazz them

[size=25pt]Baba Suwe excretes, no drug found[/size]

IFEANYI OKOLIE & Daniel Eteghe
Ace Actor and comedian, Omidina Babatunde a.k.a Baba Suwe now in the custody of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over alleged possession of cocaine was said to have made his first self excretion but no drug was found in it.

Disclosing this development to Saturday Vanguard, the Head of Public Affairs, NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju however said Suwe was still under close observation by the agency to know what actually went wrong.

Baba Suwe was nabbed aboard an Air France aircraft to Paris at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos at about 10pm on Wednesday when he allegedly tested positive to drug ingestion and had been placed under observation since then.

Earlier yesterday, the NDLEA had expressed concern that Suwe who was on his way to attend the naming ceremony of his close friend in Paris had not been able to excrete despite the fact that he was ‘’eating very well and co-operating with narcotic investigators.’’ ‘

’There is reasonable ground for suspicion and the actor is currently under observation. He is fine and had been eating but has not excreted.

‘’We have invited our doctor to examine him. This is crucial to ascertain the true position.

Further up-date on the matter shall be made known to the general public. “.the Agency told Saturday Vanguard, shortly before he ecreted.

NDLEA’s Airport Commander, Alhaji Hamza Umar also confirmed that Suwe was in safe custody even as it was learnt that he was to the act as a compere during the naming ceremony which he missed as a result of his arrest.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/baba-suwe-excretes-no-drug-found/

Nna, this is juju, how did the drug disappear after been picked up by the scanning machine

[size=25pt]Baba Suwe excretes, no drug found[/size]


IFEANYI OKOLIE & Daniel Eteghe
Ace Actor and comedian, Omidina Babatunde a.k.a Baba Suwe now in the custody of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over alleged possession of cocaine was said to have made his first self excretion but no drug was found in it.

Disclosing this development to Saturday Vanguard, the Head of Public Affairs, NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju however said Suwe was still under close observation by the agency to know what actually went wrong.

Baba Suwe was nabbed aboard an Air France aircraft to Paris at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos at about 10pm on Wednesday when he allegedly tested positive to drug ingestion and had been placed under observation since then.

Earlier yesterday, the NDLEA had expressed concern that Suwe who was on his way to attend the naming ceremony of his close friend in Paris had not been able to excrete despite the fact that he was ‘’eating very well and co-operating with narcotic investigators.’’ ‘

’There is reasonable ground for suspicion and the actor is currently under observation. He is fine and had been eating but has not excreted.

‘’We have invited our doctor to examine him. This is crucial to ascertain the true position.

Further up-date on the matter shall be made known to the general public. “.the Agency told Saturday Vanguard, shortly before he ecreted.

NDLEA’s Airport Commander, Alhaji Hamza Umar also confirmed that Suwe was in safe custody even as it was learnt that he was to the act as a compere during the naming ceremony which he missed as a result of his arrest.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/baba-suwe-excretes-no-drug-found/

[size=15pt]Tufiakwa Yoruuubaaa[/size]

Normally Igbo specialty is drug trafficking/armed robbery, Yoruba- 419, Hausa - ritual murder, Benin - prostitution. Now Yoruba want to add Igbo mandate: drug , to their own.

Na God go punish all the people doing bad bad things in Nigeria, irrespective of their tribe.

[size=20pt]Nigerian woman dies after buttock enlargement[/size]

US police investigating death of 20-year who had silicone injection to enlarge her buttocks

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - Police say they've questioned one of two people in the case of a Nigerian-British woman who died after receiving cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport.
 Investigators said officers issued a search warrant Tuesday night at the Bergen County, N.J., home of a woman they think set up the appointment online. The woman has been questioned but is not under arrest.

Philadelphia police Lt. Ray Evers said police believe she acted as a coordinator of buttocks and hip enlargements for the victim and another woman, communicating with them overseas by e-mail, text messages and phone calls to set up the visit - their second in recent months.
"Our information tells us these girls were here in November and did receive treatment from the same individuals," Evers said. The second woman who was being sought for questioning "was the actual person who performed the enhancements," he said.

Authorities are still pursuing a second woman they believe performed the procedure. Police sources say that person is a transgendered woman who lives in the Philadelphia area.
Action News was there at the Hampton Inn on Bartram Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia, where police believe the incident occurred, on Wednesday as two police detectives arrived. They went inside around 11:00 a.m. and left shortly before noon. It is not known what they did during that hour.

The woman who died has been identified as 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi who lived in London but was not a British citizen.
She was originally identified as Claudia Adusei. There was no immediate word on why police initially misidentified her.

According to officials, Aderotimi and three other women flew from Great Britain to Philadelphia and checked into the Hampton Inn on Saturday.
Police say two of the women came specifically for enhancement procedures while the other two went shopping in New York.

At noon on Monday, police say two women performed the enhancement procedure on the two British tourists. One received hip and buttocks injections and Aderotimi received injections just to the buttocks.


At around 1:30 Tuesday morning, medics were called to the hotel. Aderotimi was rushed to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Evers said investigators were not sure why the women came to Philadelphia to undergo the procedures and added it was the first such case city police have come across. "This is something that's completely unregulated," Evers said. "If nothing goes wrong, if no one dies, we're not going to find out about it."


Miss Aderotimi was born in London of Nigerian parents. Yesterday detectives raided the home of the woman they believed set up the illegal operation.
Computer files, emails and telephone records were seized from the house in Bergen County, New Jersey.  Emails from Miss Aderotimi arranging the procedure were among the material seized, but police said no formal arrests had yet been made.

Dr Rajiv Grover, president-elect of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said: ‘Buttock augmentation isn’t a very commonly done procedure here, which is probably why these girls have resorted to going abroad.
'If correctly done, it involves implanting solid silicone implants into the buttock just like bosom implants.
‘The correct procedure would be done in a fully equipped, sterile surgical theatre in a hospital and the patient would be fully anaesthetised.’

In her last message on Twitter the day she had the jab Claudia tweeted: “I’m goooonneeeeee so faR away.” Popular Claudia, believed to be of Nigerian descent, had performed with hip-hop stars Akon and Sisqo.
She used the stage-name Claudiyah “Superstar” James, and said on a website: “I’m really interested in becoming a full-time actress and model. I also dance and write music.

“I truly believe I can take the world by storm – I just need an agent.” She also boasted that rap star 50 Cent had called her an “African princess”.
Claudia’s devastated family were still coming to terms with the tragedy at their home in Hackney, East London, as they arranged for her body to be flown home.

Her tearful sister Vivian said: “We’re still in shock. We need to think about what we have to do.” A relative added: “Her mother is inconsolable. She has had to be sedated. We are still trying to find out what exactly happened.”
A 17-year-old neighbour who did not want to be named said: “Claudia was a really pretty girl. I don’t know why she felt she had to have the treatment. It seems such a waste.” Friends posted dozens of messages on networking sites.
One read: “RIP Claudiyah,  i will never forget u,  gone too soon love u always – rest in perfect peace.”

Last night more than a dozen distraught friends and family gathered at Miss Aderotimi’s home in Hackney, East London.

Miss Aderotimi’s mother, a healthcare assistant at Homerton Hospital in East London, said she was too upset to speak about her daughter’s death.
A neighbour said: ‘We are struggling to cope with what happened. One girl died and one girl lived.’

A preliminary examination found the silicone filler had leaked into her bloodstream, leading to heart failure.
American detectives are investigating whether she was treated with cheap ‘industrial’ silicone, normally used as a sealant, rather than medical-grade material used in bosom implant surgery.

It was not the first time Miss Aderotimi had had the procedure.  She is believed to have been treated in November and the latest injection on Monday may have been a ‘top-up’ procedure.

Accompanied by three friends, she travelled from London to Philadelphia for the treatment, thought to have been an early present to herself for her 21st birthday, which was due later this month.
But a day later she was dead.

Buttock enhancement surgery is becoming popular in the U.S., among women who aspire to the shapely curves of Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce.

It is only legal when the silicone gel is contained and sealed within an implant. But illegal injections of the material are also widely available from unlicensed back-room medics.

The tourists who came with Aderotimi have been asked to stay until at least Saturday, when they have pre-purchased tickets to return to Europe. Aderotimi's friend who received the enhancement on the hip and buttocks has been medically cleared.
Commonly in these cases, silicone or silicone oil is injected, neither of which is FDA approved to inject in the skin, but police are awaiting toxicology reports on the exact makeup of the substance. Those toxicology reports may take a few weeks.

Specifically, these underground, and very illegal clinics will use a type called hydro-gel, which gets rave reviews from people on the internet who claim to have undergone buttock-enhancing procedures.
Doctors have told Action News injecting any sort of thing directly into one's body poses great risk, especially if the substance makes contact with a blood vessel.

The Food and Drug Administration is advising Philadelphia Police, so that detectives are at speed with exactly what the law allows, and does not allow, in relation to this case.
Neither the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the U.S. Food and Drug Administration keep data on injuries or deaths caused by illicit cosmetic injections. Besides liquid silicone, injections of substances including paraffin, petroleum jelly and hydrogel have been illegally used to enlarge women's bosoms, hips and buttocks.

Cases in recent years of illegal cosmetic injections causing death, disfigurement and health problems have been reported from New York City to Los Angeles and beyond. Solange Magnano, a 38-year-old model and former Miss Argentina, died in Buenos Aires in 2009 from complications after having cosmetic injections on her buttocks.

bakare is a shameless clown

the guy is a clown, shameless

the guy is a clown, shameless idiot.

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[size=15pt]2 Nigerian students invent fueless power generator[/size]


BusinessNov 20, 2010
By Akoma Chinweoke

Two students of Doregos Private Academy, Lagos, Olajumoke Adebayo and Eniola Adewale has invented a fueless power generator. The invention was showcased at the Pan-African Women Inventors & Innovators Network Symposium, Expo & Awards at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja. Eniola Adewale (left) and Olajumoke Adebayo with the fueless power generator they inventedThe event titled Innovative Women with Innovative Solutions for Africa was witnessed by the minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, and Mrs Josephine Anenih., minister for Women Affairs, It was indeed a commemdation galore for the students as other youths were advised to emulate them.

The students both in SS3 and members of the Junior Engineers, Technicians & Scientists (JETS Club) said the idea was born out of a need to minimize the cost spent of the usage of fuel generators as an average amount of N10, 000 is spent on fuel weekly adding that their invention does not emit any toxic and poses no threat to human health.

According to them, the idea was conceived through the JETS club to which they belonged as coordinators. “We used magnetic flux to generate electricity which the conventional magnet cannot. It consists of a shaf fixed with eight neodymium magnets which rotates when an initial current is passed through the field coils. The electricity is then passed from the copper coil to a step-up transformer which steps up the power voltage from 32 volts to 200 volts to power the output of the generator”. They said.

The young stars noted that JETS club afforded them a vantage avenue to think, analyze and work on scientific research before embarking on the project based on their scientific knowledge that a generator can still exist without using fuel. They stated that it is possible to produce cheaper and more dependable source of electricity for both domestic and industrial use.

The invention the students admitted was not an easy scale through as they had to make several presentations and seminars on the project to the audience comprising their teachers and the school authority before they were finally selected to defend the significance of their project.
Both students hinted that they intend pursuing a career in Engineering in the near future, to develop a bigger generator that can power the whole school.” This is just a prototype to showcase our endowments and potentials. The materials used for the invention according to them are a locally fabricated step up transformer, capacitors with total capacity 400,000 uf, neodymium magnets, copper wires transistors battery, oscillators, bulbs and several other materials.


The coordinator Junior Engineers, Technicians & Scientists (JETS Club), of the academy, Mr Lawal Olaide noted that the problem of high cost usage of fuel generators and unemployment in the country coupled with the burning desires of the students to make something unusual was responsible for the feat. according to him, “the main objective of this project is to produce a generator that can produce cheap and sustainable electric power to solve the problem of power supply permanently in the country, adding that it is also of great importance as it does not emit any waste (toxic) products as with conventional generators”.

The Principal of the academy, Mr Jide Adebayo said the school is committed to its mission of creating a learning environment which maximizes individuals’ potentials to meet the challenges of education and life.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/2-students-invent-fueless-power-generator/





Eniola Adewale (left) and Olajumoke Adebayo with the fueless power generator they invented

OJUKWU & IGBO LEADERSHIP

By

Tochukwu Ezukanma

I am ambivalent about the past because on the one hand, the past is irretrievably lost, but on the other hand, the present is only a reflection of the past, and an understanding of the past provides necessary tools for resolving the problems of the present. So, while there are many more contemporary issues that should rivet the focus of most imaginative writers, I cannot help to retrospect, and glean insights from the events of the past. As we ponder the vast scene of confusion that is our beloved country, are we not confronted with the inexorable reality that our present problems are the direct results of the happenings of yesteryears. Not surprisingly, as I brood over the plight of the Igbo nation, I am irresistibly drawn to the past, to the civil war. While there may be some fundamental cultural and historical factors that militate against Igbo political progress, it was the civil war that actually deal the Igbo a bludgeoning blow. To really address the present Igbo political problems, we cannot escape an objective assessment of that war and the central figure in that war, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.



Ojukwu's recent presence in the Washington DC area did not inspire much enthusiasm within the Igbo community. The Igbo's earlier perception of him was shaped through the distorted prisms of the Biafran propaganda. The Biafran propaganda apotheosized him, so, in the Igbo minds, he became something of a deity, an invaluable political asset. But, over the years, he proved himself a political profligate, improvidently spending his political capital. His repeated political blunders, especially, that his infamous waltz with Sani Abacha demystified and stripped him of much of his political legitimacy. It left him devoid of any political good will, except for the lingering grip of the Biafran propaganda on some Igbo minds.



As an emissary of the Abacha government, he was in Washington DC. His mission then was to burnish the badly blemished image of the Abacha government, evidently for a consideration. It was 1995, and he stood before an exclusively Igbo audience. As usual, he was a riveting presence: a consummate orator, a captivating demagogue. With credulous and adoring listeners, he was spouting some half truths, twisted facts and some downright falsehood; and his audience in their gullibility were applauding.



That forum reinforced my earlier conviction that the problem with politicians is that they generally lie too much, that the problem with their following is that they barely think, and that it is the volatile mix of these two worrisome realities that has brought the world most of its political calamities.



He said that the Igbo will provide the next Nigerian president. Surprisingly, this statement drew a thunderous applause from his audience. I was appalled by this brazen piece of demagoguery. I crafted some questions for him. I wanted to rattle him with some pointed questions. I raised my hand frantically, but I was not allowed the opportunity to ask any of my questions. The self-appointed Igbo leaders of Washington DC were at work. It was their evening, and they were putting a spin on it. They have a penchant for ingratiating the Nigerian Embassy, and fawning over every important visitor from Nigeria. So, in their customary sycophancy, they orchestrated the event in a way that will preclude serious questions that may disconcert the August visitor. Applicants for the most menial jobs are subjected to rigorous interviews. Lamentably, men who lay claim to the leadership of a people are shielded from meaningful questions from those whom they supposedly lead. Evidently, we carried across the Atlantic elements of that hero-worshipping that imperiled accountability in Nigeria public life.



The Igbo producing the next president as of 1995? Staggering nonsense! After all, Moshood Abiola who was wasting away in jail as of then was a crony of the northern dominated military elite and an intimate friend of the northern aristocracy. Moreover, like the majority of the northerners, he was a Moslem. If the northern powerbrokers could not trust him with power, what Igbo could they have entrusted with it.



In the same speech, he also extolled the Constitutional Conference. The Constitutional Conference was tendentious rubbish, a gaudy political ploy that kept the politicians busy while Abacha tightened his hold on power. It was something of a nursery game at which a bunch of venal politicians played at the supervision of Sani Abacha. Ojukwu and the other Igbo leaders stampeded into the Constitutional Conference ostensibly to "enshrine" rotational presidency, and the devolution of power to regional units in the new constitution. What of the previous constitutions, and all the grandiose ideals enshrined in them? Were they not all violated, and shoved aside at the whims of the northern feudal lords and their military surrogates. If all previous constitutions were tossed away as worthless pieces of paper, what was to ensure the sacrosanctity of the one written by the Constitutional Conference? If the Hausa/Fulani as of then were refusing to rotate the presidency with the Yoruba who had been their allies for about 30 years, why would anyone expect them to rotate it with the Igbo whose presidency, in the words of Abubakar Umar (supposedly, a progressive), "will be too much for the country to bear"?



I had a feeling that Ojukwu left that forum dismayed by the quality of his listeners, that is, not knowing that it was the hero-worshippers in their traditional shamelessness who deliberately searched out mostly the incoherent, and inarticulate to ask questions. Is Ojukwu really a hero, or do we just glory in nonentities?



In a naval battle in the South Atlantic, the British Navy disabled a German warship, and the commander of the German warship, Hans Langsdorff shot himself in the head. In his suicide note, he stated that "for a captain with a sense of honor, his personal fate cannot be separated from that of his ship". Ship, captain, and honor. What of nation, leader, and honor? "In politics and statecraft", Richard Nixon once wrote "power means life or death, prosperity or poverty, happiness or tragedy for millions of people".



Honor linked the personal fate of a captain to that of his ship. So, quite naturally, honor should inextricably bind the personal fate of a leader to the life or death, happiness or tragedy of his people. Ojukwu led the Igbo in a war against northern domination of Nigeria. That war was not wrong in itself. However, while there were insinuating circumstances that impugned the basis for one Nigeria, Biafranism was not the only political option open to the Igbo. Eastern Region of Nigeria, even Igboland was not an ideological monolith. There were contending views as to the response to the mass murder Easterners in northern Nigeria. There were knowledgeable and respectable voices who urged for a more circumspect approach. Nnamdi Azikiwe among others disagreed with Ojukwu's methods, and counseled against his policy of secession. Ojukwu ignored and/or suppressed all such dissenting views, and set off on his own political course. So, he is liable for Biafranism, and all the pains, sorrows, and ravages it wrought on the Igbo. Even the qualified endorsement of secession by the Ojukwu appointed Consultative Assembly does not in any way exonerate him from this responsibility.



Yakubu Gowon was then an ill-baked, insecure and mild-mannered ethnic and religious minority foisted on Nigeria by the northern feudal lords and neo-colonial interests. He was inexorably beholden to his northern masters and Yoruba allies. Still, he is culpable for the war to keep Nigeria and all its concomitant horrors. Even in democracies where the leader's choices are circumscribed by the constitutional prerogatives of the parliament/congress, the leader is still held answerable to his political decisions and actions. For example, in spite of the intrinsic limitations placed on leadership by the institutional moorings of democracy, it will be most grotesque to suggest that Winston Churchill was not responsible for the British stance in the 2nd World War, or that President Roosevelt be not accountable for both the New Deal and American involvement in the 2nd World War.



Soldiers by both training and orientation are ill equipped for political leadership. Edward Gibbon, that 18th century man of letters, once wrote that ", the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and (servitude), renders them very unfit guardians of a legal or even a civil constitution. Justice, humanity, or political wisdom, are qualities they are too little acquainted with in themselves to appreciate them in others". In spite of these inherent handicaps, the soldiers were thrust into Nigeria politics by a political accident. They were neither expecting it nor prepared for it. Out of the confines of the barracks and the parochialism and regimentation of military life, these young army officers were overnight saddled with enormous powers and responsibilities. That mixture of military brashness, political power and youthful ebullience was to be a dangerous experiment. Yakubu Gowon, probably conscious of his limitations, sought the advise of the politicians - older men and experienced men. Ojukwu, on the other hand, befogged by his imperiousness, arrogance and superciliousness, ignored the counsel of older and experienced politicians, notably Nnamdi Azikiwe.



Azikiwe, although notorious for his equivocation and inconsistence, was still universally revered for his learning, prudence and experience. It was a profound act of irresponsibility for a 33year old soldier to rebuff the political advise of the father of Nigerian nationalism renowned for his political instincts and intellectual penetration. It smacked in the face of the traditional Igbo, actually African respect for age and the wisdom of the elders. He chose to tread his own political path, a path devoid of the foresight, staidness and somber reflection of the elder, but replete with youthful impulsiveness, wanton despotism and military license. Not surprisingly, he led the Igbo into a quagmire of powerlessness and helplessness.



By building an autonomous power structure that defied, and to some extent repressed the traditional Igbo political power structure, he disjointed and severely weakened the Igbo leadership order. Historically and culturally, the Igbo do not readily submit to a hierarchical social order, or coalesce around a leader. So, the pre-1966 power establishment in Igboland must have been painstakingly cobbled together over many decades. Ojukwu's repudiation of the established Igbo leadership form, rocked that traditional power structure to its core. Subsequent swipes at it after the civil war only furthered the deterioration of an already decrepit system. War is an infernal monster that racks, devours and devastates. It generally takes its highest toll on the youths. With their reckless idealism, impressionable minds and an excitability that can easily be kindled, they are readily whipped into a frenzy. Youthful idealism and exuberance are forged into combat material by military training, a zombification process that drills men into obeying orders unquestioningly. The word "infantry" evolved from the French word for child because of the child-like compliance instilled in soldiers. For every soldier thus trained, armed, and ordered into battle, his stake is clear. He is staking his life for some lofty ideals as made believe by the leadership. But, what are the moral obligations of that supreme commander who is ordering young men to their death in droves from the comfort and security of his bunker? What are the stakes for him that has convinced young men that the struggle was worth their lives, hundreds of thousands of them?



Some leaders in history dramatized the stakes of leadership under such circumstances. As the German Third Reich with all its attendant dreams tumbled down, Adolf Hitler took his own life, and Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister for propaganda, killed his six children,. and with his wife, Magda, committed suicide. When her revolt against Roman suzerainty ended in her defeat, the Icenic queen, Boudica, drank poison and died. But, as it all closed in on Emeka Ojukwu, he packed his bag and baggage and ran away.



The civil war exposed the Igbo to untold hardship. The Igbo persevered in the fight because they believed in the superior validity of their cause, and were acutely conscious of the unmitigated danger of northern hegemony. That war decimated the flower and promise of Igboland (it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Igbo youth died in that war), and the associated hunger took a devastating toll on the Biafran populace. It did irreparable damages to many families, and irretrievably shattered many dreams.



If the war for Igbo self-determination was worth that many lives, and such a colossal sacrifice, was it not worth Ojukwu's life? If Biafranism was not Ojukwuism, that is, if in Biafra, Ojukwu was not merely serving a personal interest, or realizing a personal ambition, if he was giving expression to the collective aspirations of the Igbo, then his personal survival of the war was not important, because there will always be men to lead the Igbo, and consequently give voice to the Igbo interests and aspirations in accordance with the social and political realities of the time. These men need to be guided by examples. Ojukwu should have therefore been prepared to die with Biafra as a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of men who died obeying his orders, an atonement for the pains and sorrow his decisions and choices cost his people, and above all, as an example to future generations of Igbo leaders. The example being that no Igbo leader should ever abandon the Igbo in times of adversity, that every Igbo man, especially, those in authority - those who have been entrusted with the fate of the entire ethnic group - must be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the Igbo nation.



The public good requires the rigorous subordination of the individual to the nation. According to Richard Goodman, "the process of the individual life is bound by irrevocable limits"; it is but a blip in time inexorably sandwiched between birth and death - just a breathe that can be snuffed out by the vagaries of life. On the other hand, the life of the nation is eternal.



Therefore no sacrifice made by the individual for the group can ever be too much. The obsession by man to cling unto to life is laudable, even sublime as long as it is not given precedence to the welfare of the entire group. As the war ended, the issue was not Ojukwu's personal survival, but the future of the Igbo nation. Laying the ground rule for this future was more important for the Igbo nation than the continued existence of any one individual, because irrespective of any one's station in life, he is but a dispensable cog of history.



The future of a people is predicated on their collective attitudinal disposition (especially attitude towards sacrifice, honor and loyalty) and the quality of their leaders. Ojukwu led the Igbo through the most trying period of their history. To the Igbo, the civil war was both attitudinal and psychological watershed. Wars, especially of such devastation brings about a convulsive transformation of the society, a sharp break with the past. This break was obvious in different facets of Igbo life, but especially in the Igbo mindset; there was a psychological and attitudinal shift. Overhanging this shift was Ojukwu's abandonment of the Igbo.



Ojukwu's desertion of the Igbo had a subliminal, but profound effect on the Igbo psyche. It perverted the Igbo value system, and debased her public virtue. Subliminally, it impressed on the Igbo, especially those in authority that it was alright to use your people for personal advancement, and abandon them when things go wrong. It ushered into the Igbo ranks a new culture - a culture of opportunism. It is this culture of opportunism, more than any other single factor that has been the bane of the Igbo nation since the end of the civil war.



A man who was poised to cash in on power, grandeur and history if the "toil, sweat, tear and blood" of his people pay off, and prepared to run away if everything goes crashing, is not a hero, not even a leader, but an opportunist who gambled with human lives. On the other hand, we should always respect the courage, and determination of those men who made up that ill-equipped, but indomitable army that bogged down the Nigerian military machine for nearly 3 years. We should always appreciate the sacrifices of those young men who had their lives rent permanently, and their future turned bleak by the crippling and disfiguring injuries they sustained fighting for Biafra. Finally, we should always remember, and pay tribute to those fallen heroes who laid down their youthful lives for Biafra.



Dec 2002

At the time, there was a widely held belief (propagated by Ojukwu and other Biafran leaders) that defeat for Biafra would be met by mass indiscriminate massacres by the federal government. If Ojukwu believed this, then his escape at the end of the war is deplorable. After over a million Igbo were killed in the senseless war, Ojukwu fled in the last days of the war when his people were at their lowest ebb, despite repeatedly promising throughout the war that he would never leave his people to the mercy of the federal troops. If he believed that all his people would be massacred then his flight to a luxurious exile abroad and refusal to stand side by side with them to finish a war he dragged them into, cannot be applauded. Ojukwu is an iconic leader for his people, but has failed to deliver the aspirations of his people. The question remains – is Ojukwu a hero or a disastrous strategis

http://maxsiollun./2007/12/16/ojukwu-hero-or-villain/

During the Biafran war, Ojukwu encouraged Igbos to fight and die for Biafra, but when 0the federal troops come knocking on his door, the bald headed coward just ran away. He could not practice what he preached.

He's among the vultures, who benefited from the war: The coward ran away at the end of the war, millions lost their life. He got his properties back, thousand of Igbo properties are still classified as abandoned properties. He got his rank back, thousands former biafran soldiers are not recognise and wallowing in poverty. He got his pension and gratuity, thousands of former biafran soldiers did not get a penny, nor recognition.

He wasted hundreds of thousands of Biafran life, for what , for nothing.

Ojukwu is nothing but a cheap coward and betrayer.

Ojukwu is a useless idiot, shameless fool and a coward. Ojukwu care about nobody, selfish baboon.

The bald headed betrayer stole biafra money and ran to self imposed exile, only to come back after been bribed by Shagari and sell Igbo interest for peanuts.

In a normal country the shameless fool would be executed by his people for cowardice. Ojukwu thought the Igbos that its normal to betray your people and still be the leaders.

Tufiakwa.

Its too late my dear,
the matter is out of your hand

The beautiful one are not yet born, the ugly refuse to die

Who want a betrayer as a father?
Bianca Onoh's father fought tooth and nail to make sure Ojukwu never marry his daughter. He knew Ojukwu to be a useless old man, coward , selfish fool that would be of no good to his daughter. Mr Onoh does not want the like of Ojukwu as a grand child; and that is what some fools on the forum called hero.

Ojukwu is a bald headed coward and a fool

There is nothing to like about Ojukwu

No sitting president has ever lost election in Nigeria, and I can assure you, Jonathan would not be the first.

All the northern politicians are just bragging, there is nothing they can do. For 8 years OBJ did whatever he like, the north sulk, rant , scream nothing more. Single handedly, he install Yaradua / Jonathan against the wishes of the north , after scaring away northern heavy weight like IBB and co.

Real power in Nigeria reside with the presidency, numbers does not win votes its power that count. Its not the person that vote that its important , its the person who count the vote.

Jonathan is going to rule for 8 years, thats what scaring the north.

The Igbo people situation in Nigeria socio-political scene is pathetic. They are confused and desperate, they dont know what they want. Firstly, there are some dreamers who concocted the theory of Jewish ancestry and believe they should be allowed to emigrate to the holy state of Israel. Unfortunately the Israeli embassy in Nigeria is not in a hurry to issue visa.

There are those who agitate for a separate state. In their grand illusion they created this Utopia country called Biafra. They have their own coat of arm, their own currency, passport. The reality is: I have never seen anybody spending the currency nor travelling with the passport.

The socio cultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo wants the presidency. They are crying everyday, thats its their turn.

What exactly those the Igbo want.

Im pissed off that criminals minded Igbos on the forum like Igbo boy, Udezue, Hackney, Ikwikwikwi, should encourage their fellow Igbos to continue in the way of crime.

Have we not suffered enough, your Royal fathers are kidnappers and armed robbers, not one royal father, two, three , four , five ( I have only five fingers). This is pathetic.

People with conscience would  show a bit of remorse

Onye oshi

My Igbo cousins on the forum are showing their true colours. They are encouraging their people to continue in the way of crime. No wonder, their Royal fathers are kidnappers and armed robbers.

Igbo boy

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Abeg Ndi Igbo u are advised to chop, kidnap, steal, dagbo, scam, yahooo pesin sef anywhere/how,

Udezue

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Umu Igbo nma nma nu!!!! I love our ingenuity. These people will always hate us whether we are good or bad so it doesn't matter. Forever proud of Kwa-Igbo heritage.

Hackney

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While Obasanjo de gorilla has a refinery in argentina.
God punish all of you.
Ndi ihu abuo.
umu agwo.

Ive argued it before that Nigeria cannot afford a Igbo president. An average Igbo man has no concience, morally bankrupt, a desperado, would do anything for money, he would sell his mother, if he is assured of a profit. How can Nigeria hand over the presidency to such a group of people. Tufiakwa.

My Igbo cousins on the forum are showing their true colours. They are encouraging their people to continue in the way of crime. No wonder, their Royal fathers are kidnappers and armed robbers.

Igbo boy

Abeg Ndi Igbo u are advised to chop, kidnap, steal, dagbo, scam, yahooo pesin sef anywhere/how,

Udezue

Umu Igbo nma nma nu!!!! I love our ingenuity. These people will always hate us whether we are good or bad so it doesn't matter. Forever proud of Kwa-Igbo heritage.

Hackney

While Obasanjo de gorilla has a refinery in argentina.
God punish all of you.
Ndi ihu abuo.
umu agwo.

Ive argued it before that Nigeria cannot afford a Igbo president. An average Igbo man has no concience, morally bankrupt, a desperado, would do anything for money, he would sell his mother, if he is assured of a profit. How can Nigeria hand over the presidency to such a group of people. Tufiakwa.

Their Royal fathers are into kidnapping and armed robbery,
Atleast Okonkwo is still better, Its just oil bunkering
Igbo Kwenu

Their Royal fathers are into kidnapping and armed robbery,
Atleast Okonkwo is still better, Its just oil bunkering
Igbo Kwenu