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Overself:
1. Browse http://www.bop.gov
2. Enter 54313424.
3. What u will see is hush puppy prison id number.
cc: Mynd44, OAM4J

What of Obinwanne Okeke,Woodberry and ors Prison id?

13 Year Old Hacker in Norway Is Offered Job in a Bank

When the Bank was hacked, they later employed the student who stood behind. Now the bank is looking for new talents for the future. – Obviously the 13-year-old has a talent, says the digital director.
Last fall, a 13-year-old student from Bergen received national attention when he revealed that personal information of 35,000 students and employees of schools in the city was openly available.

When he later entered the system, the police confiscated the 13-year-old’s computer with the claim that he damaged the municipality’s reputation

Now he has been offered a summer job at the online banking company Sbanken, writes NRK.

-It is obvious that he has a talent within a field of expertise we are investing heavily in, says digital director Christoffer Hernæs to NRK.

The purpose is to develop the student’s skills, says Hernæs.

The 13-year-old sees the job offer as fantastic opportunity and looks forward to starting, says the boy’s father to NRK.

https://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/13-year-old-hacker-in-norway-is-offered-job-in-a-bank

Many big name companies have started snatching up hackers to try to develop their talents for safe and legal use.
These hackers often get notoriety by hacking the systems of big name companies like Apple, Google, or Microsoft.

Some companies might even be enlisting hackers to sabotage competitors, and one in four hackers online might even be working for the US government.

Either way, we've compiled a list of some of the biggest hackers who got recruited by big name companies.

Chris Putnam built some annoying worm-like pranks that spread like wildfire from Facebook profile to Facebook profile. He was a student at Georgia Southern University looking for something fun to do.

He also built a hack that made Facebook profiles look like horrible MySpace profiles when you'd view an infected profile.

Dustin Moskovitz at Facebook contacted Putnam with a friendly, but slightly peeved tone. They continued talking for a month or so. Before he knew it, Putnam was in an interview with Moskovitz and was offered a job.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-hired-by-tech-companies-2011-6?r=US&IR=T

topmag2019:
YOU DON'T Mean IT.....This one Shock Me ooooo

EMPLOY THIEF

To Oyinbos it is brilliance and need to update their system with the help of the so called thief.

These Young Troublemakers Got Hired For Hacking Apple, Facebook, And Microsoft
https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-hired-by-tech-companies-2011-6?r=US&IR=T

topmag2019:
OOOOO partner in CRIME

#Hushpuppi BROTHER
#EFCC is Looking for you.

I can never engage in fraud.Nigerians are very myopic people who dont understand how the world operates.American legal system dont react based on emotions.
A Nigerian,George Abrue engaged in defrauding British pensioners to the tune of £20 million in Sweden around 2009 was only jailed for 5 years while his accomplices were jailed for 18 months.Oyinbos are not Africans.The World banking system itself is based on yahoo yahoo.
A Norweigian hacker who hacked into a company system was never jailed but employed by the company.

Oyinbos dont destroy brilliant minds they keep them for future purposes.
13 Year Old Hacker in Norway Is Offered Job in a Bank
https://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/13-year-old-hacker-in-norway-is-offered-job-in-a-bank

topmag2019:
#20Years In Jail HUSHPUPPI

I dont know why Africans always rejoice about the downfall of another.Hushpuppi will only spend 2-5 years in prison.No judge will give him the maximum sentence of 20 years.Hushpuppi was only an accomplice(Providing bank accounts) not the real perpetrator of the fraud.if he gets a good lawyer he might go scotfree sef.

justiniyke29:
Were they under scholarship for academic excellence?

They were sponsored by a Federal Government parastatal as employees.

deeva1:
So lecturer cant date or marry a student again..ok ooo

Lecturer can only date marry the student after graduation or the lecturer can quit his job to work in another school.

BRIEF HISTORY OF NCS
What is now known as the Nigeria Customs Service – a paramilitary organisation, could be said to have been established a little over a century ago when the British Colonial administration appointed Mr. T. A. Wall, in 1891, as the Director-General of Customs for the collection of inland Revenue in Niger Coast Protectorate. This is the formalization of the duties which the Department had been performing under the Royal Niger Company under the leadership of the past Chief Executives.

The name Department of Customs and Excise emerged in 1922 when the first Comptroller of Customs and Excise, Federation of Nigeria was appointed. Towards the end of 1945, the Customs and Excise Preventive service was established under the leadership of Mr. Nicol – a Briton. This was made up of two divisions – Maritime and Preventive. The maritime Division has the responsibility of collecting import and excise duties and other related functions while the Preventive Division was responsible for enforcement duties which included prevention of smuggling as well as arrest and prosecution of smugglers.

Sequel to the promulgation of the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) No. 55 of 1958 the affairs of the Department were brought under the management of a Board. The Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise was made the Chief Executive Officer of the Department. Mr. E. P. C. Langdon, a Briton, was appointed the first Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1959. Mr. S. G. Quinton succeeded him.

The attainment of independence in 1960 led to the Federal Government’s Nigerianisation policy which brought about the appointment of the first Nigerian Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in the person of Mr. Ayodele Diyan in 1964. He died in 1968 and was succeeded by Mr. Henny Etim Duke.

Decree No. 7 of 1970 granted additional powers with the definition of the membership of the Board. Additional members were now to represent the Federal Ministries of Economic Development and Reconstruction, trade and Industries. The intention of this decree was to broaden the scope of the national interest which will make for better guidance in the Board’s decisions.

NCS PAST CHIEF EXECUTIVES
YEAR NAMES DESIGNATION
1 1819 T. A. WALL Director Gen. of Customs, Niger Coast Protectorate
2 1900 H. L. SEAL Collector of Customs and Post Master Gen. Southern Nigeria
3 1903/ 1913 G. E. H. MIGEOD Customs Officer Northern Nigeria
4 1906 C. E. DALE Financial Commissioner Southern Nigeria
5 1909 T. F BURROUES Comptroller of Customs. Southern Nigeria
6 1914 T. F BURROES Comptroller of Customs. Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
7 1921 J. D. M STEWART Comptroller of Customs. Southern Nigeria
8 1922 F. A. CLINCH Comptroller of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
9 1929 W. K. DANCOMBE Comptroller of Customs, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
10 1931 E. C. F BIRD Comptroller of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
11 1939 A. E. V BARTON Comptroller of Customs. Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
12 1944 J. McLAGGAN Comptroller of Customs. Colony and Protectorate Nigeria
13 1946 W. T. MARTIN Comptroller of Customs. Colony and Protectorate Nigeria
14 1950 F. BISHOP Comptroller of Customs. Southern Nigeria
15 1954 F. BISHOP Comptroller of Customs. Southern Nigeria
16 1955 D. W. MILLER Comptroller of Customs and Excise Federation of Nigeria
17 1958 E. P. C. LANGDON Comptroller of Customs and Excise Federation of Nigeria
18 1959 E. P. C. LANGDON Chairman Board of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
19 1961 S. G. QUITON Chairman Board of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
20 1964 A. DIYAN Chairman Board of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
21 1968 H. E. DUKE Chairman Board of Customs & Excise Federation of Nigeria
22 1975 S. A. MUSA Director, Dept. of Customs & Excise, Federal Rep. of Nigeria and Chairman Board of Customs and Excise
23 1976 OYEBODE OYELEYE Director, Dept. of Customs & Excise, Federal Rep. of Nigeria and Chairman Board of Customs and Excise
24 1982 ABUBAKAR MUSA Director, Dept. of Customs & Excise, Federal Rep. of Nigeria and Chairman Board of Customs and Excise
25 1988 Dr. BELLO H. MOHAMMED Director, Dept. of Customs & Excise, Federal Rep. of Nigeria
26 1993 Major – Gen. S. O. G. ANGO Sole Administrator
27 1999 A. Aliyu. MUSTAPHA Customs Comptroller-General
28 2003 D A Ogungbemile, a Deputy Controller-General was acting Controller- General.
28. 2004 Jacob Gyang Buba ,Customs Comptroller-General
29. 2008 Hamman Bello Ahmed,Customs Comptroller-General
30. 2009 Dr. Bernard-Shaw Nwadialo, Comptroller-General
31. 2009 Dikko Inde Abdullahi , Comptroller-General
32. 2015 Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali ,Comptroller-General

https://customs.gov.ng/?page_id=497

Drchristian:
Igbo companies nowhere in Lagos

Ekene dili chukwu
Young shall grow motors
Obioma
Ladipo markets,One man biz
Alaba International,One man biz
Trade fair complex,One man biz
Beloxx Biscuit supported by bank of Industry.

Fantasticcc:
then why did your fathers fight the igbos when we wanted to leave,OK even when we saw yorubas and the Fulani's can't stay with out us we gave them "aburi accord" the same regional control we gave your fathers and they refused is what you are here crying for.you people are not serious.total disintegration is what we want any other thing is a scam, the Fulani's will never accept it.

Yorubas never fought Ibos for wanting to leave Nigeria.Yorubas were neutral until Ojukwu soldiers started to kill Yorubas in Ore on their way to lagos,we were dragged into something which didnt concern us.Fulanis are the greatest beneficiary of one Nigeria.

As a Yoruba,I will be very glad if everyone get their own country so everyone can hold its leaders accountable and punish them accordingly .This will be force us to develop at our own pace based on our resources.

When you have security challenges in Yorubaland/Iboland /kanuri land you have to call on Buhari in far away Abuja to protect your people in their homes and farms.This unitary govt has led to injustices and unnecessary bloodshed.

The fulani herdsmen situation in Nigeria is similar to what happened in Darfur crisis of Sudan.only God knows if the fulani dont plan to recreate the Darfur crisis in Southern Nigeria.

Fantasticcc:
Sweden is a country with sovereign right. is Yoruba land a country?agitate for disintegration only then can all this work if not the wailing will continue..I support Biafra but Yoruba's I see hate anything odua republic even here on nairaland and it makes me wonder if one Nigeria is a saving grace to Yoruba people?

Yorubas want regional govt like in the 60’s where we control our resources and mind our business,regulate migration and protect our borders.
Yorubas soldiers never conduct coup d ’etat to take control of the FG.We want to use our resources for our children.We dont care about South South oil,Ibo taxes or fulani taxes.

Fantasticcc:
Lagos was never part of yorubaland,ok if they develop Lagos like they claimed why can't they do same in Ibadan,ogun,osun and the rest, Yoruba's are not manufactures thats why they need other Nigerians to survive.build modern seaport like the British did in Lagos in other region and allow us fly from our land, Lagos will become another dessert.the only handful companies in Yoruba land excluding Lagos which belongs to aworis are owned by the Chinese,Indians,Lebanese..yarribas are slaves in there land,from the Igbo's to the Fulani's to Chinese etc.the only thing Yoruba's are good at is audio portfolio company and audio igr but yet they have the highest jobless youths association like 1million boys,awawa boys,omoniles..just two weeks lockdown we saw what happened,no food trucks dared pass through Yoruba land or risk getting mobbed by these audio billionaires.like the Chinese we are everywhere,when we get our country Una eye go clear then.every osun indigene is here claiming "we lagosian" like they have a land in lagos.

The major companies in Sweden are owned by America and other allies except Ericsson but full bloded Swedes take priority in good jobs.They sieve through your names and appearances during interview.

Swedish study confirms foreign name CV bias
Researchers have found that job applicants with Swedish sounding names are 50 percent more likely to be called back for an interview than people with Arabic names, based on a randomly generated experiment with CV and cover letters.

The ranking for high level employment in Sweden is as follows
1.Swedes
2.Nordic Citizens
3.EU nationals
4.Other Europeans
4.Americans/Australians/Canadians
5.Refugees
6.others

Edyice:
Northerners will pay the price

Though it has started sha but more are coming

I think the Southern leaders are also responsible because they sold their birthrights and that of the unborn children.

justiniyke29:
Hmm this is serious, do you have any proof to back up your claims?

It was my experience during university and law school days .This happened over 16 years ago.
Ask your Northern friends who are in school at the moment.

Studying abroad also in 2007,the Govt sent 5 Nigerians to my school 4 were hausas(North East/West),1 Edo.

One Nigeria has always been a scam since independence.The North are the biggest beneficiary of One Nigeria according to the FG allocation and projects they receive in their region compared to what they generate as tax revenue.

Before a Northerner goes to University,the job he/she will do is already waiting for them.Southerners are just studying very hard with no job in sight waiting for Allah/Jesus to grant them a job and favour them after studies.

In the University days,Northern states except North central get bursaries from their state Government every year .Lagos also pays this.

During my law school days in Nigeria in 2003,I remembered all Northern students(exc North central) got a minimum of 180,000 -500,000 when the school fees was N63,000.A friend of mine bought a car before she graduated from the school.A year before us,we were told Yerima(Zamfara) paid 500,000 to its indigenes.

Kaduna at the time had 100 students to claim funding from their state Govt ,Kwara also had the same number.

Kaduna Govt paid 180,000 to each students while Kwara (Saraki Govt)paid nothing ,they ask the student representatives what can they do for Kwara?

North Central,South West ,South South,South East Student didnot get a dime.Some of our southern sisters had to resort to olosho to pay for their upkeep at the school because they come from a poor background.

The Southerners got nothing despite several visits to the State House after contributing N100 each as transport fare.

Studying abroad ,it is majorly the Hausas you will see studying on Govt scholarship,Few yorubas,Ibos and other tribes except during Jonathan’s regime where he sent South South people to study abroad.

How can Southerners hold their leaders accountable because the suffering of our southern students is too much but the student unions are compromised.?

ZZ22:
see wailing, do Igbos force you to sell your land to them? lazyness and the urge to throw owambe have made you strangers in your land. Your ancestors must be rolling in pains underground as Igbos keep buying the land to their graves

If Ibos buy up all the land in Yorubaland,we will turned South East to our cemeteries to bury our dead.Shikena

kennysbst:
i wonder why igboos are living like a slaves in SW remote areas,i mean in our forest villages. and someone are claiming they have more induatries than whole of Nigeria.
truth most be told without SW igboos can never survive.

SW is like God sent angel to them.

Yorubas need to stop selling our houses to non Yorubas .We should only rent it to them so we dont become strangers on our own land.

thatigboman:
monatan market ibadan is a company? Awolowo deserves to burn in the hottest part of hell for his half-baked free education policy

Azikwe deserves the hottest part of hellfire for not educating the poor Ibos and dragging his people backwards by aligning with the North because of a blackmail.
Awolowo was a great mind chilling in heaven and happy his Yorubaland is awake from their slumber.

Qoute from your Slave Master,The British
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”

The FBI have solved the case and arrested the members who stole over $200 million dollars from MasterCard.

Habib Chaudhry and his accomplices stole hundreds of millions of dollars, falsified thousands of documents, led 20 federal agencies on a wild goose chase, and got away with it for far too long.

A number of innocent companies found themselves in serious financial hurt, all due to the shady actions of this crew of fraudsters. Banks and the FBI teamed up, creating the biggest ever anti-fraud coalition - and still, finding their main man wasn’t easy.

How’d it all play out? What happened to the money? And how can we avoid something like this happening to us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=snyeRfbuzAE&feature=emb_title

Masterkernel1:
Stop making it look like West contributed anything to the state of Lagos today. It was solely FG's initiative as the then FCT, there was deliberate concentration of infrastructures by Nigerian government then. Example there's no bridge close to Third Mainland Bridge in Nigeria, courtesy of FG. Lagos Government house has no rival in Nigeria, all thanks to FG. So... Stop telling me of concessions that doesn't translate into anything.
Has Nigeria government invested more money in any Airport(s) more than MM1 and 2?

Lagos generates tax revenue of two geopolitical zones combined excluding Airport,Customs and the waterways etc.

This is the official Young Yoruba For Freedom YYF RADIO station.. complimenting the works of Mr president, ADEYINKA GRANDSON and reaching out to the world.

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https://www.liveonlineradio.net/nigeria/yyf-radio-247.htm

omoharry:
Your kind is the reason why the clamour for restructuring has continued to be swept under the carpet becos of Block heads like your type who cannot see beyond their nose .
I wonder how putting only the yorubas in key positions in Yoruba land can improve your region and bring development to your various state .

If your way of reasoning is the way to go, then how comes our various states have not been developed since the governors are all children of the soil ? .
If you visit most civil service in various state, you will observe that it is filled up with indigenes of these state with few non indigene .How has that improve the quality of their services and their lazy and quake manners toward customers ?

Nigeria will remain backward and archaic in their way of reasoning becos people like waisted time and money going to school with the aim of just getting your papers and no nothings else .

If you are an intelligent man and not blinded by your bigotry ,you will realized that a great nation requires & need brilliant minds with hardworking, dedicated and efficient workers across all tribes and religion to move a country forward.

I wonder why you are pained about the post.If you own a company and your children are jobless staying at hóme for years,if you have a slot to fill in the company ,will you take your friend's children or your own children. for the job.I am learning from the European model and that is what is coming to Yorubaland in the nearest future.

You need to vent your anger on your politicians not me.You the intelligent man ,what have you contributed to your nation?

Masterkernel1:
Of all the bridges, Airports, Seaports, roads, Government Houses, Railway which of them was done with revenues from Lagos state?

EIs Lagos the only city in Nigeria with Airports ,Seaports built with revenue from FG,Southwest,Loans and taxes?educate youself on how much each state generate from taxes,customs,Airport,etc.
Taxes generated by each state in Nigeria.
https://www.nairaland.com/5946284/lagos-needs-decongested-migration-need#90993154
The major ports controlled by the NPA include: the Lagos Port Complex and Tin Can Island Port in Lagos; Calabar Port, Delta Port, Rivers Port at Port Harcourt, and Onne Port. Operations of the NPA are carried out in affiliation with the Ministry of Transportation (Nigeria) and the Nigerian Shippers' Council.

There are seven (7) approved locations for the Inland Container Depots (ICDs) / Container Freight Stations (CFSs), which were concessioned to private sector operators by the ICD Implementation Committee of the Federal Ministry of Transport as follows:
IsialaNgwa, Aba
Erunmu, Ibadan
Heipang, Jos
Zawachiki, Kano
Zamfarawa, Funtua
Jauri, Maiduguri
ICNL, Kaduna
In addition to the seven (7) gazetted ICDs, there have been proposals from the private sector to establish ICDs at Dagbolu in Osun State, Lolo in Kebbi State, Onitsha in Anambra State and Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State.
Airports in other cities

lastcall:
You have my full support after all we are one Nigeria. Also advocate for oil money to be shared by ONLY oil producing states

Yorubas dont need oil money.One Nigeria only benefit the North and South East in terms of Monthly FG allocation.

Yoruba Jobs for Yoruba People: A snippet of what the Yoruba Conservatives will do with power:

As part of the change we the conservative Yoruba politicians are bringing to Yorubaland at large is the implementation of a policy on SELF-PRESERVATION.

All the companies and government agencies in Yorubaland would have to agree to our employment quotas before such organization can start and set up their businesses in Yorubaland.

The quotas include:

1. 90% of the job portfolios must be reserved for Yoruba citizens first and foremost.

2. All companies listed on the Lagos Stock Exchange must have Yoruba as Managing Director and Head of Human Resources.

3. 90% of the management staff positions must be reserved for Yoruba citizens.

The below image signifies that we are ready to change the course of history in Yorubaland for the good of our descendants.

Omo eni ki sedi bebere ki a fi ileke sidi omo elomiran, ni Yoruba wi but, only a very few Yorubas understand what self-preservation means.
Bisi Omo Olubadan
Director of Intelligence and Cyber Security
Young Yoruba for Freedom

Eziokwuegbuozoo:
This is why when I see all this evil and wicked Yorubas and Fulani terrorists jubilating over the genocide they committed with the likes of Britain, France and others against Biafrans as if they would have have done much if the fight was sincerely one on one, and they think that 2020 will be like 1967, that's why you hear them making foolish noise all over the places but we promise you hell this time around and that you shall get beyond your imagination, unless you decides to have sense and call for Biafra exit.

Cant you see Yoruba,Ibo,Efik,Hausa are victims of British evil?The British establishment want us to maim and self destruct each other so they can supply their arms and armunitions for a price and laugh their way to the banks.We can only win them if we destroy their businnesses on our lands.

53 Years after Biafra:You committed evil against Igbo, Frederick Forsyth attacks Britain, his own country.
By Ademola Adegbamigbe

On Monday, 6 July, 2020, it will be exactly 53 years since the Nigerian civil (Biafra) war started. One of the foreign journalists and writers who witnessed it was Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, the English journalist and author, who 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.

That war would have been averted, but the Aburi peace accord between Emeka Ojukwu and Yakubu Gowon failed. Read that story here

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.

“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

https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/07/04/53-years-after-biafra-you-committed-evil-against-igbo-frederick-forsyth-attacks-britain-his-own-country/amp/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth

babaRUNtinz:
community service of 10months is ok for them.

make dem do manual dredging for 4th mainland bridge

They should do the dredging in a village in abia or Ebonyi,we dont want them in Lagos.

KomonSense:
Rest on Papa

But Afonja people should stop this tribal mark thing naaaaaah...

It's disgusting ...

Meanwhile an Afonja betrayed an Afonja but a flat head came to rescue the people of zoo nation and killed the rebellious Afonja in a coup ..

The rest was history

What is the business of the flat head, if two brothers are fighting?Who send flat head to kill one of the brothers?