₦airaland Forum

christistruth01:
.

The British were the best Government Nigeria had only Gowon did as well as the British

Anyone who thinks the British were bad should just take a good look at their own Nigerian leaders from Village to National level

If anyone wants to insult the British it shouldn't be somebody whose forefathers the British had to forcefully Stop from Going to the Market Naked and also had to stop from eating human flesh as a staple diet

.

british was the worst government ever... there were riots and killings of Igbos during their time...

British sponsored the Civil war in Nigeria, they burnt villages and cities in the Bini, Oyo to the ground and killed thousands of children, men and women...

Awolowo was the best government the SW had... that time Nigeria was governed by regionalism..

Reference:
Abeg sit down and read your history before speaking.
America was a nation of British want aways, persecuted folks who would not bow to the crown on account of religion. That is its origins.
Australia on the other hand was dumping ground for British castaways, those who will not conform to society where sent there to eternal exile.
See what both nations have become today, friends and allies with their former tormentors.
It is not only blacks that have suffered in this world. All humanity has been inhuman to man.

Most blacks think history started in 1887 and that it is only Africa that was plundered and her people enslaved.

What you're saying is not different from what I'm saying.

U.S.A and Australia and New zealand are ethnically British.

Africa was plundered and still continued to be plundered after independence by the same colonialists.

Why didn't the British or France advise Azikwe and Ojukwu to create an Eastern Nigeria Petroleum company or Igbo petroleum company instead of advising and encouraging war.... Because they ( British and France ) wanted their own oil companies to get the oil blocks in Nigeria and despite Azikwe and Ojukwu been educated they weren't intelligent enough to know this..

The other countries you see are doing well because the U.S.A and Britain transferred their manufacturing to those countries which allowed those countries to acquire knowledge to build their own version of those things.

While the major thing they give to African countries is aid not knowledge transfer.

Reference:
America fought a brutal war with Britain between 1775 and 1783 that secured her independence and ended the First British Empire.
Since then America has developed itself to the point that today their President is given special privileges.

Much of Africa meanwhile negotiated its independence in and around the 1960's and ended the second British Empire in the process but has seen a steady decline ever since till the point they have assumed the position of third world nations whose leaders ride the bus.

Instead of introspection, her citizens are still punching at shadows.
In a world where everyone was practically conquered by the British at one time or the other from Asia to the Americas, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, in a world that is all but english speaking, with english customs and traditions dominating, it is only Africa that still cannot surmount this fact of history. Every other continent has moved on and are all bigger and better than the British today except Africa.

The endless whining and groaning and sighing is the clear sign where the problem is.... in the African head, the African mentality that has lent itself to excuses for failure and the inability to take responsibility for becoming great in itself.

I have said it time and again.
Britain did not become Great by excuses. They were overrun by the famous Roman General and Emperor Julius Caesar. Before then the Kelts, Vikings, even the French all at one time in antiquity conquered Britain and enslaved its people. They too fought to become what they are today. I do not see any Briton today hate on these people, the sons and daughters of their former foes for things done in generations past.

WHEN WILL AFRICA LET GO AND BEGIN TO RE CREATE ITSELF TO BECOME GREAT.
Every day of excuses will never move us forward as a national continent of blacks. FACT.

America didn't fight with Britain...

It was Britain vs Britain.. just that one decided to call itself America while the other maintained their identity...

Britain and U.S.A are one..

stamapro:
When you are able to put and build your house, and prove to the whites that you don't need them, but they need you, that is when they will look for you to shake hands with, other than that they shake hands with only their mates. A bitter pill.

learn from history...

when black americans were doing well for themselves , white Americans killed them and their businesses..

When Africa was doing well in the Egyptian Pharoah times, they attacked and destroyed Egypt.. then they demonized Egypt and its pharoahs and its totem ( the snake ) in their religious books..

that's why today, snakes are seen as devilish and evil animals and you also pray against Pharoahs...

mhizandrea1:
We all know most of these whites you see are racists, especially in the UK.
I was 'pained' when I watched the video
Imagine the way your fellow man who is not even God snubbed you, chaiii
The black man himself ehhhn you carry your two legs go meet person wey snub you, even their daughter in law received same all because she is coloured.
Nobody is superior to another, learn to treat people equally.
It's just doing me like I should knock his head mtcheeeew
We "blacks" should learn to stop seeing these "whites" as superior over everything. Nonsense..........
Look at the video closely.....it's as if he pushed the black man's hand when the man attempted to shake him again

people can never treat each other equally..

How you would treat your brother or sister will be different from how you treat your friends and strangers..

izuu20:
Before you judge...let's have the full video where the started shaking hands and where he stops... Don't come and show us the part you want us to see...

his bodyguard also prevented the black man from extending his hand..

the black man had to stretch his hand after charles pretended to be distracted.. charles still touched the black guy's hand after the black man stretched..

midehi2:
I am not checking any link, this video is enough for me

I didn't want to download the image.. it is a link to another NL user KingAzubuike post on the 1st page who first posted the image...

tofolo:
He was distracted that was why.

midehi2:
What have you build in your country


That video shows he was carried away at the moment, he still tapped the black guy with his left hand

he wasn't distracted.. he pretended to be distracted just to ignore the guy.. even his bodyguard prevented the black man from extending his hand..

check the post in the linkbelow

https://www.nairaland.com/7341685/did-king-charles-ignore-handshake#116824864

gidgiddy:
You were shown an official government document that proves that it was Gowon that abolished Regionalism

But you are bringing online comments as your of proof? You guys are laughable

another comment below.

femisplash:
The British authorities feared Awolowo's intellectualism and sagacity that they conspired and he was rigged out. Here was a man that was a century ahead of his peers. Don't take my word for it, visit your history- The NTA you have on your TV screen today was formerly the WNTV, the first in Africa. Under Awolowo, the King of Saudi Arabia came all the way down to Nigeria for medicals in the old University teaching hospital, Ibadan. Free medical care for all, free and compulsory Education, including scholarships for students abroad (UK) funded by the Western Government. Agriculture was the major revenue earner with commodity boards directly buying off agricultural produce from Farmers profitably and selling to consumers at reasonably prices.
Wait for this, Awolowo was the first to establish an Embassy in the UK aimed at promoting diplomatic relations between the UK Govt and the Govt of Western Nigeria but unfortunately, ALL of these gains and more were eroded when a section of the country led by Aguiyi Ironsi destroyed regionalism and replaced it with Unitary System of Government through Section 34 of Unification Decree. Now, SW has become" be as I be" but we muuve!, God pass dem.
At the time the British were leaving us, they gave to each section of the country her own regional autonomy while handing the affairs of the central government to the duo of Hausa/Fulani and Ibo as Prime Minister and Governor-General respectively. However, unfortunately, three years into our budding republic, some greedy folks from a section of the country, in their wiles and clannish egoistical attempts at dominating the rest of the country- According to Azikiwe who had said in 1947 that " it seems as though the God of Africa had created the ibos to dominate and lead the African Continent", hatched the very first and bloodiest coup ever known on Nigerian soil whereby both Military and democratic leaders of Western, Midwest and Northern were gruesomely murderer leaving "their own" to spare.
Bashir Elrufai has every rights to bask and be boastful not because the North were greedy with power but because ibos introduced a needless coup and would later collapse a functioning regional system and above all kicked against secession clause into the 1959 constitution, which allowed the North took advantage of the lapses created, thus entrenching their grip on power. Power is sweet, they tasted it and loved it. I could remember that the North were contented with the progress of the regional Government with cotton, hides and skin providing the major source of revenue. Until Azikiwe and his Ibo comrades threw Awolowo under the bus to align with the North.
The likes of Prof. Uju Anya is only paying for the sins and the carelessness of her ancestors, ( especially the stupidity of Ojukwu during the war) so, she should kindly STFU and take a back seat.
Your forefathers were already regretting making you a 4th class citizen at the gate of their graves.

which registrars accept chipper cash

gidgiddy:
Then you better read Decree 34 well because there is nothing in it taking resource control away from the Regions. Ironsi kept all 4 Regions he met with full resource control and their revenue

It was Gowon that came in and promulgated Decree 14 which abolished all 4 Regions, created 12 states to replace them, and scrapped resource control

Gowons Decree 14 can be found on the internet but the first page is below, read it and cure your ignorance

read your fellow igbo supremacist comment below accepting Ironsi's culpability maybe you'll understand his explanation the problem with his explanation that I have is that he says it was by mistake and it wasn't by mistake...

the funny thing is that you commented before him on the thread I took his comment from..

CSTRR:
True.
The British tried very hard to put the North on top.

But those guys were too dumb to actually grab it.

It was ironsi with his unitary policy that ensured that the economic disparity between the North and the South that promoted southern superiority was dissipated on the altar of one unitary country.

And once the economic advantage moved from regions to federal control, it created an equilibrium that empowered the populous north.

It was an Igbo man that ironically created Northern dominance by mistake.

gidgiddy:
Its not possible for Ironsi to have abolished Regionalism, all 4 Regions were still existing the day Ironsi died, with full resource control

The person who abolished Regionalism was Gowon, who came after Uronsi died, and used decree 14 to abolish all 4 Regions, created 12 new stated and scrapped resource control

Ironsi created the unification Decree 34 of 1966 and created a SINGLE civil service for the whole country..

regionalism is about each region keeping its revenue and been able to make decisions to develop their infrastructure without interference from the FG......

the unification decree meant that each region no longer keeps its revenue and now needs permission from FG before they can develop their infrastructure and that only the FG can hire people into each regions public institutions.

creation of states doesn't remove the laws and guidelines that make regionalism...

If states in Nigeria start receiving 90% - 97% of their revenue from the federal institutions in their states then that means we are practicing regionalism...

Grandmeister:
Is it that you enjoy lying or that you are just ignorant? How can ojukwu and ironsi who were ahead of nzeogwu( a major) be amongst the coup plotters? Ironsi was in the west and ojukwu was in the east. They can’t take orders from nzeogwu because he was a junior officer to them. Everybody that orchestrated that coup were either majors or lieutenants! This is basic military hierarchy.

its not about who is junior or senior, its about carrying out successful coup ( tribal war ) and controlling the revenue and resources of the other tribes...

In summary, it was no longer a military and political war... It was a tribal war..

A tribal war to violently and forcefully take control of the revenue and resources of the other tribes.


you are the ignorant one....

Truthdeypain:
Of course they did bro. War is to soldiers not to civilians, kids women and children.

"The all is fair in war" and "Starvation is a legitimate" weapon of war both slogans of AWOLOWO are great fallacies which he himself knows as the lawyer he is.

Bro what do you think of the HOLOCAUST and the the RWANDAN GENOCIDE.

Some of these heartless fools on this forum claiming that the Nazis did not apologize and make repatriations after the war, are obviously being intentionally ignorant.

There nothing to say sha. I have been good to all the Yorubas I have met all my life but I am seriously having a reconfiguration of heart. These People were not only evil in the past but perhaps the most evil minded people today anywhere I don't speak of Northerners because I know they love to spill blood. But this time around BiAFRA wasn't a fair fight it was a Genocide.

The bastard who was equatikg countries that fought and supported each other is obviously disinforming his illiterate audience. All those countries he listed there none officially supported BiAFRA. Infact the french they said we're trying to support BiAFRA didn't even have the guts they went through I don't know whether it's cameron now abi na ivory cost to take in some arms every now and then BiAFRA really was struggling with getting international help

YET had AWOLOWO not carried out his starvation policies BIAFRA would have certainly lived free from it's enemies today. On its own free from wicked people who hate progress in their lives but will only kill another man because if oil.

Truthdeypain:
Of course they did bro. War is to soldiers not to civilians, kids women and children.

"The all is fair in war" and "Starvation is a legitimate" weapon of war both slogans of AWOLOWO are great fallacies which he himself knows as the lawyer he is.

Bro what do you think of the HOLOCAUST and the the RWANDAN GENOCIDE.

Some of these heartless fools on this forum claiming that the Nazis did not apologize and make repatriations after the war, are obviously being intentionally ignorant.

There nothing to say sha. I have been good to all the Yorubas I have met all my life but I am seriously having a reconfiguration of heart. These People were not only evil in the past but perhaps the most evil minded people today anywhere I don't speak of Northerners because I know they love to spill blood. But this time around BiAFRA wasn't a fair fight it was a Genocide.

The bastard who was equatikg countries that fought and supported each other is obviously disinforming his illiterate audience. All those countries he listed there none officially supported BiAFRA. Infact the french they said we're trying to support BiAFRA didn't even have the guts they went through I don't know whether it's cameron now abi na ivory cost to take in some arms every now and then BiAFRA really was struggling with getting international help

YET had AWOLOWO not carried out his starvation policies BIAFRA would have certainly lived free from it's enemies today. On its own free from wicked people who hate progress in their lives but will only kill another man because if oil.

Truthdeypain:
You are actually super stupid. And you reason like a shit eating slowpoke.

Is she angry at Nigerians, just imagine the daft questions you are asking, when a woman explained herself to pieces.

As for me I am happy at Nigerians for constantly denying burying distorting twisting and falsifying historical certainties. I am happy for having people who do not understand the plan and torture our parents and grandparents went through make statement like this. " Awolowo should have sacrificed more of those bastard kwashiokor babies" those mockeries are even being made on these threads. Those are hate speeches those things are being mad eon twitter do you know you cannot say such stuff about the RWANDAN GENOCIDE or the Holocaust.

So you are telling me that this woman shouldn't be angry. There is no human being with a heart who has watched or followed the civil war and documentaries and has not been reduced to tears. It is only you devilish children of hate and Genocide who have the spirits of AWOLOWO and Ahmadu Bello inside of you who express emotions differently (on favour of the (GENOCIDERS) Keep deceiving your useless self.

We are talking about GENOCIDE, STARVATION, WAR CRIMES you go go dey here dey talk rubbish, person dey traumatized, una go still dey ask useless questions. There's no point trying to explain anything to you. For the fact you fit dey dismiss that tangible explanation that women gave shows you are as useless and stupid as the rest of the idiots in this forum if not more.

Children of the devil and Genocide.

like I told gidgiddy.

for you and people like you, you prefer the killing of millions of Binis, Yorubas and other tribes in Nigeria than to say and accept that Ojukwu and Azikwe were wrong to start a war by killing other tribes and seizing their lands...

what food did the families of Ojukwu, Ironsi, Azikwe and Nzeogwu eat while other igbos were starving to death

If the Ojukwu, Ironsi and Nzeogwu war was successful it means millions of southern tribes would have killed and this would have led to retaliation by these tribes and the killing of Ojukwu, Ironsi and Nzeogwu which would have also led to another more bloody war on Igbos all over Nigeria and southern Nigeria and it will be a lot more than 3 million igbos killed...

gidgiddy:
Same as many Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers and other professionals are fleeing Nigeria to gi abroad daily?

like I told anonimi

Yorubas and other Nigerians are working abroad because Ironsi, Azikwe and Ojukwu were so jealous and envious of wealthy Yoruba people and other wealthy Nigerians they decided to abolish regionalism and centralize the wealth of all the regions which led to the destruction of wealth distribution among southern Nigerians which is also one of the reasons your fellow I:gbos are dealing drugs and doing armed robbery and cultism, prostitution outside Nigeria..

Grandmeister:
You have repeated this Igbo coup so much that it is beginning to look like the truth, and aided with your devious removal of history to challenge such lies. Because nzeogwu was the leader made it an Igbo coup?? What about Brig. Ademulegun?? What about Brig. Maimalari? These were nzeogwu’s right hand men who carried out the coups and actively pulled the triggers, BUT no! You all now made it look like nzeogwu was at different places at the same time shooting people?

Grandmeister:
Your opinion is yours and you are very well entitled to them. Back then Nigeria was still in the full grips of the British government. America wouldn’t have done zilch if the British didn’t sanction it then. Gowon and ojukwu were less than 33 years old when that war started, gowon wasn’t even married then, most of the top military guys were either newly married or single at that age so it is understandable, the ego and lack of diplomacy they possessed for men their age. Nobody is excusing them but that war could have been averted if the British government stayed out of it. An agreement was reached at Aburi for goodness sake! Only to be thwarted by the behest of the British government.

the Aburi accord happened after the killing of leaders from other regions by Ojukwu, Ironsi, Nzeogwu and his gang and Gowon is from a minority tribe in the north while the leaders the Igbos killed were from majority tribes so it was out of Gowon's hands or the major tribes would have killed him and put their own people and the war would have still happened without Gowon...

The war could have been averted if the Igbos did try to colonize Nigeria by killing other tribes and seizing their lands and removing regionalism..

gidgiddy:
You might want to revisit your Nigerian history. The killing of Igbos started as far back 1945 when they were massacred in Jos, and in 1953 when they were massacred in Kano. But the only coup you Nigerians remember is the first coup that was tagged "Igbo coup". Other coups that claimed far more lives dont bother you people





The Regional government where every Region controlled their resources and paid the government at the centre was removed by Gowon. It was Gowon that used Decree 14 to abolish all 4 Regions of the time, replaced them with 12 states, and scrapped resource control. No military government writes constitution, they rule by decree




It was the Biafra/Nigeria war, Ojukwu was entitled to invade Benin, Ore or anywhere in Nigeria same as Nigeria invaded Enugu and Onitsha

If anyone was killed in Benin, their relatives are free to do what Uju Anya did on Tweeter, she is not stopping them.





Ojukwu never declared any war, Gowon was the one who declared war and sent Soldiers to the East. Ojukwu only wanted to go his way with his people. At least Ojukwu fought for the freedom of his people before running away. You people cant fight for even 3 minutes to even talk about getting to the stage of running away



You should be thanking them for calling Nigeria a zoo. Nigeria is poverty capital of the world and second most terrorised country on earth, much worse than a zoo

"The killing of Igbos started as far back 1945", why did Nnamdi Azikwe reject Secession Clause since he already live through this "killing of Igbos" events

It was Ironsi that removed regional government..

for you and people like you, you prefer the killing of millions of Binis, Yorubas and other tribes in Nigeria than to say and accept that Ojukwu and Azikwe were wrong to start a war...

mind you, the relatives of the people killed have already taken their revenge between 1966 - 1970 by killing millions of i:gbos, they don't need to rant on t:witter...

If Ojukwu "only wanted to go his way with his people" then he won't be attacking other tribes in the south and seizing their indigenous lands, attacking other tribes and seizing their land is declaration of war... H:erdmens are doing similar which has led to tribal vigilantes, who are rising up and fighting back and killing them..

the comment below answers you

quickly:
that woman is a fool

that civil war started with the killing of all the northern leaders including the then prime minister and sadauna of sokoto. who was like the regional governor in a time of 3 regions. also other top northern soldiers.

What is funny is that azikiwe was president and senate president was a man called nwafor. Head of miltary too was Nzeogwu.

kingthreat:
If Uju were in the UK, there is a possibility that a nationalist would have assassinated her. You encourage people to keep talking anyhow. At least you cannot do the same to Islam in public.
On the Benin invasion, the Bini kingdom was already weak in the late 19th century. Ovonramwen killed tens on British soldiers. On expecting war with the British, many innocent indigenes were sacrificed to appease the gods to favour him in the war. Then the British came with a force and showed him the Art of War and looted. To the victor, all the spoils. That was the story. There was a provocation.
You should be lucky that it is the British empire in power. If Hitler had succeeded, a rebellious tribe would have been exterminated. If you have a problem with colonization, then your people instead of fighting stupid battles, looting resources and being corrupt should create a formidable military. From Day 1, Earth has been about conquest. We speak English because our ancestors were weak.

We speak English because the leaders allow it not because ancestors were weak if ancestors were weak we would have been colonized since the 1500s.

If English is not used then people will have to learn the language of the region they are in which should be the norm but because of " one Nigeria" its not the norm.

Igbojew:
If you like try by using your last line where you said that you don't have any hatred for Igbos and that you still support Peter Obi to water down the enormous hatred you have against Igbos the fact is Igbos have seen you people's hatred against them finish and they don't give a f*ck...............I am that Igbojew the table shaker

The comments below answers you.

onuman:
Laugh over your foolishness.
Aburi Accord in Ghana would have averted the Nigerian civil war.
But Nigeria reneged after signing the accord. Nigeria started the war against Biafra.
Arewa leaders were about declaring Arewa Republic when the colonial masters advised them to stick to one Nigeria, including the resource rich Biafra area.
Uju Anya recounts how her pregnant mum carrying two other children was running as refugee from one town to the next, each time Nigeria's soldiers arrived.

But after the war, Nigeria's Finance Minister ordered that any Biafran who could find documents to prove that he/she had account with Nigeria's bank before the civil war, should be paid a paltry sum of £20.
The Finance minister knew that only a few of the refugees running from one town to the other, would be able to still have any proof of having account in a Nigerian bank before the civil war.

Till today, Nigeria has waged economic and political war against the Igbo.
The British had a referendum over membership of EU. Why does Nigeria fear referendum on who wants to be a Nigerian?

The comments below answers you

Nairanation2:
Are our Igbo brothers aware that this war was completely needless & avoidable had Nnamdi Azikwe through his Eastern Nigeria party NCNC not thwarted d much fought & debated 'right to secession clause' championed by Awolowo's The Action Group. This was to be part of d Constitution then. Azikwe formed an alliance with d North through the Northern party, the Northern People's Congress this clause never saw d light of d day. In d end, who suffered? There's Karma. The Igbos inadvertently played themselves.

Morphinne:
Apologize to you for a war you started? Ojukwu should be the one to apologize for foolishly leading your blind fathers into a war they were never going to win.
What were they thinking when they killed one of the brightest minds the northern Nigeria had ever produced, sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and 19 others while sparing their own people in power at the time?
They even installed an Igbo man to be the head of government yet these set of vile people keep playing the victim cards on us.
The Igbo race owes the Southwesterners, the South-south people as well the Northerners an apology for killing their sons and revered leaders in the event that marked the first ever bloodshed disguised to be a political struggle. You can’t keep claiming to be victims when indeed, you started the madness but got yourselves whipped and tamed and reduced to dots in a circle ever since. Pls swallow your L in peace and move on. Nigerians too deserve a profound apology from you pigs.

Grandmeister:
Biafra declared war on Nigeria? Some of you Nigerians especially from the west are very demonic! Even the northerners who benefited more from the aftermath of the war are not this crass and foolish.

The comments below answers you

onuman:
Laugh over your foolishness.
Aburi Accord in Ghana would have averted the Nigerian civil war.
But Nigeria reneged after signing the accord. Nigeria started the war against Biafra.
Arewa leaders were about declaring Arewa Republic when the colonial masters advised them to stick to one Nigeria, including the resource rich Biafra area.
Uju Anya recounts how her pregnant mum carrying two other children was running as refugee from one town to the next, each time Nigeria's soldiers arrived.

But after the war, Nigeria's Finance Minister ordered that any Biafran who could find documents to prove that he/she had account with Nigeria's bank before the civil war, should be paid a paltry sum of £20.
The Finance minister knew that only a few of the refugees running from one town to the other, would be able to still have any proof of having account in a Nigerian bank before the civil war.

Till today, Nigeria has waged economic and political war against the Igbo.
The British had a referendum over membership of EU. Why does Nigeria fear referendum on who wants to be a Nigerian?

The comments below answers you

Nairanation2:
Are our Igbo brothers aware that this war was completely needless & avoidable had Nnamdi Azikwe through his Eastern Nigeria party NCNC not thwarted d much fought & debated 'right to secession clause' championed by Awolowo's The Action Group. This was to be part of d Constitution then. Azikwe formed an alliance with d North through the Northern party, the Northern People's Congress this clause never saw d light of d day. In d end, who suffered? There's Karma. The Igbos inadvertently played themselves.

Morphinne:
Apologize to you for a war you started? Ojukwu should be the one to apologize for foolishly leading your blind fathers into a war they were never going to win.
What were they thinking when they killed one of the brightest minds the northern Nigeria had ever produced, sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and 19 others while sparing their own people in power at the time?
They even installed an Igbo man to be the head of government yet these set of vile people keep playing the victim cards on us.
The Igbo race owes the Southwesterners, the South-south people as well the Northerners an apology for killing their sons and revered leaders in the event that marked the first ever bloodshed disguised to be a political struggle. You can’t keep claiming to be victims when indeed, you started the madness but got yourselves whipped and tamed and reduced to dots in a circle ever since. Pls swallow your L in peace and move on. Nigerians too deserve a profound apology from you pigs.

onuman:
Laugh over your foolishness.
Aburi Accord in Ghana would have averted the Nigerian civil war.
But Nigeria reneged after signing the accord. Nigeria started the war against Biafra.
Arewa leaders were about declaring Arewa Republic when the colonial masters advised them to stick to one Nigeria, including the resource rich Biafra area.
Uju Anya recounts how her pregnant mum carrying two other children was running as refugee from one town to the next, each time Nigeria's soldiers arrived.

But after the war, Nigeria's Finance Minister ordered that any Biafran who could find documents to prove that he/she had account with Nigeria's bank before the civil war, should be paid a paltry sum of £20.
The Finance minister knew that only a few of the refugees running from one town to the other, would be able to still have any proof of having account in a Nigerian bank before the civil war.

Till today, Nigeria has waged economic and political war against the Igbo.
The British had a referendum over membership of EU. Why does Nigeria fear referendum on who wants to be a Nigerian?

The comments below answers you

Nairanation2:
Are our Igbo brothers aware that this war was completely needless & avoidable had Nnamdi Azikwe through his Eastern Nigeria party NCNC not thwarted d much fought & debated 'right to secession clause' championed by Awolowo's The Action Group. This was to be part of d Constitution then. Azikwe formed an alliance with d North through the Northern party, the Northern People's Congress this clause never saw d light of d day. In d end, who suffered? There's Karma. The Igbos inadvertently played themselves.

Morphinne:
Apologize to you for a war you started? Ojukwu should be the one to apologize for foolishly leading your blind fathers into a war they were never going to win.
What were they thinking when they killed one of the brightest minds the northern Nigeria had ever produced, sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and 19 others while sparing their own people in power at the time?
They even installed an Igbo man to be the head of government yet these set of vile people keep playing the victim cards on us.
The Igbo race owes the Southwesterners, the South-south people as well the Northerners an apology for killing their sons and revered leaders in the event that marked the first ever bloodshed disguised to be a political struggle. You can’t keep claiming to be victims when indeed, you started the madness but got yourselves whipped and tamed and reduced to dots in a circle ever since. Pls swallow your L in peace and move on. Nigerians too deserve a profound apology from you pigs.

Awoniyi and other Nigerian players need to learn to celebrate with their teammates when they score..

ZombieSlayer1:
I want to ask questions concerning the rubbish going on in Nairaland

Why does it seem like the Yorubas and Igbos are the only tribes who are always squabbling here?

Why does it seem like the Yorubas bear animosity towards the Igbos but the other tribes don't?

Why is it that on any thread concerning a crime involving an Igbo man or Igbo land, the Yorubas will take over the entire front page castigating the entire Igbo tribe but you hardly see same on threads concerning Yorubas?

The Yorubas are the only tribe I've seen here who wish the total decimation of any other tribe, why is it so? I've not seen any Northern leader threaten to throw people from other tribes into the lagoon.
What's really going on here

OdefaGirl:
But this goes a long way to affect the mentality of so many here who takes things serious. It's psychological

julybaba:
You have not observe correctly. Be patient, and observe again. The hatred is mutual but not justified.

Don't take it to heart, social media is different from real world.
We are all children of Adam

MansoryMX:
Both tribes dey drag one particular Toto. I don’t know what else could make them exhibit stupidity in public forum all the time. Two set of stupid and foolish people

zombieslayer1.. it is i:gbos that bear animosity towards Yorubas. Yorubas have only recently started responding to them

in the 1960s , Nzeogwu exhibited such behaviors towards Yorubas.

below ( gotten from wi:ki ):

"According to a Nigerian Police Special Branch Report, Nzeogwu executed at least 4 army and police security personnel including one of the men on his team (Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke). nzeogwu also participated in the execution of Col. Raph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College and is reported to have shot indiscriminately at fleeing women and children.."..

the statement above shows pure hatred for Yorubas and a lot of igbos all have this similar behavior towards Yorubas and this was in the 1960s..

Just yesterday, there was a post about q:ueen of e:ngland staying in a castle in Ijebu and the first thing that came to the mind of an Igbo commenter was that the man is a beneficiary of slave trade despite the thread clearly say the man was an industrialist..

so don't mind julybaba, its not only on social media and from the comment above , it is the same I:gbo animosity towards the Yorubas that lead to the coup which also led to the civil war...

Although, its not described like this but in my opinion, the civil war was an Igbo vs Yoruba with Igbos trying to overrun the SW...

dinkyicon:
"If slavery was already part of Africa then E:uropeans would never ever have been able to colonize Africa because Africans" wtf bro to be sincere your point is lame... Can you read and re read again.

when people fight wars they get more hardened mentally and create more weapons and a bigger army..

if slavery was already part of Africa then Africans would have fought more wars amongst themselves and be more hardened and create more weapons which would have prevented e:uropeans from trying to fight any African nation because all of the African nations would be war-ready...

Lifestone:
Is this a revisionist theory or what? Pick the Era of the Old Oyo empire that went as far back as 1300, slavery has been enthrenched wars were prosecuted to capture slaves for farming and fight more wars. Your argument is not supported by any shred of History. Please go and read and do not use imagination.

Its not a revisionist theory... its the truth...

look at the first page of this thread a user named bergs2 commented "These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans", If Odutola was from his ethnicity he would never ever had said such a thing because he is someone that believes no African can be wealthy legally...

If someone like bergs2 decides to write history on the Yorubas do you think he will write anything good about Yorubas

even you yourself are forgetting that Africans grew their own food, so at least 90% of Africans had knowledge of farming and agriculture but you claim Africans captured other Africans for farming and fighting more wars which is wrong because most Africans in that era had at least 4 - 13 children from one wife not to mention the other children they would have with their other wives and girlfriends..

To you what the whyte man wrote about Africa and Africans is your truth... but for me, what the whyte man wrote is nonsense and is only supported by their own version of history which you have swallowed...

Lifestone:
This your argument is lame, you are obviously not a student of history otherwise you would have read about the brutal wars that Europeans fought among themselves for the purpose of dominance. Guns and explosives were invented to prosecute wars and already in use in Europe before they discovered most of the new world including most Africa countries. You also forgot that slavery was already part of our ways of life before the advent of the white people and only made international trade. It took the UK lots of efforts and resources to put an end to slave trade. Maybe you should know that it was the disagreement to free slaves that led to America Civil war

Lannister360 said something similar before your first comma so I will say what I said to him...

my point is not lame.. its difficult for you to accept my point.

If slavery was already part of Africa then E:uropeans would never ever have been able to colonize Africa because Africans would have developed weapons they won't be able to match.. Africans never fought or enslaved each other, Africans were too peaceful that's why they agreed to colonialism.. If a group of armed men storm your house right now are you ready to match them weapons for weapons or will you runaway from your house

Black Americans were enslaved in 1600s while Africans were fighting the E:uropeans until the early 1900s... If Africans truly sold black americans into slavery then all of Africa would have been colonized since the 1600s and not the early 1900s..

what you call colonialism is actually a peace agreement between African countries and E:uropeans to stop Africans from constantly fighting the E:uropeans.. If Africans were colonialized then Africans would have lost their indigenous languages completely the same way black Americans lost their languages..

Lannister360:
Lol, your sentences are incomprehensible, it's difficult to understand your point. If you can't communicate properly in English, use pidgen. Nobody will fault you for using pidgin to pass your message, after all English is not our language, it was only forced on us.

its not difficult to understand my point...

Its difficult for you to accept my point...

LienwaltAbel:
ndoo.

I wanted to quote your ignorance but I refrained so since you've quoted me, I will quote you under the comment I originally wanted to you..

seanwilliam:
were you there?? can you prove it? If you can’t shut up!

why else will twins die if they weren't dying at child birth

Killing is m:urder, If people killed twins they would have been arrested by the security agencies...

its common sense..

if you kill your child, will your relatives keep quiet or will they report you to the security agencies

MonsieurX:
So Mary Slessor didn't stop killing of twins in any part of Nigeria? I guess I am just lying then.

Mary Slessor didn't stop anything...

caracas:
Oga you yourself should get proper knowledge of what you type before typing….
There’s also a big difference between colonialism and missionary works… Africans benefited from the missionaries not colonialism.
Christianity and education were introduced to Africans by the missionaries not the colonial masters

your ignorance is unbelievable...

the colonialists used religion ( christianity ) to enslave Africans...

Africans already had their own education because Africans had their own indigenous languages...

Colonialists used their religion and education to ensure generations of unborn Africans continue to be enslaved even without them ( colonialists ) been present that is why in your head you have created a good version of the colonialists which you call "missionaries" and a bad version which you call "colonialists" no one forced you to create a good version or bad version you just did it on your own because the education you got came from them...

you're mentally enslaved..

foreign education and religion was created to create people like you ( people who will defend their enslavers without knowing it.)

pocohantas:
I can’t see the need for the hullabaloo. Africans were not entirely innocent in this supposed slave trade. We were actively selling ourselves.

I am indifferent to her death and her general existence. The reason some of us can survive Buhari is because these same colonial masters gave us a chance in modern times. If they give us small dosage of this market we want to buy, we would remember racism.

LienwaltAbel:
Wetin this one dey talk? . Name one moment throughout history that a bigger empire or nation simply went somewhere to teach the people instead of kill, rape and colonise. It happened in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

And do you know that Tuberculosis, Cholera, Typhoid, Meningitis, Yellow Fever, Measles, Smallpox and other small diseases were incurable a long time ago and always ended in death? Hell, even malaria that you clear in three days was incurable at a time. Infections could end people too. Make una dey read na.

Lifestone:
Thanks to her kingdom that fought the whole world to put and end to our parents selling themselves as slaves. UK ship blockage on Atlantic fastracked end to slave trade on the continent. They did well

drezzyx:
People working for him would be the slaves he purchased.
Working for free and making more money for himself.

Olorunjueda:
Yeah, that's what most people don't understand. Today I still believe that we caused everything.

Before they came, there were inter tribal wars probably because of land. Africans were fighting each other and keeping captives as slaves.

When the English settlers came, they started selling the captives in exchange for things like mirrors and guns.

Can you imagine, it got to a stage, the Africans dumped gold trade and started kidnapping people and selling them as slaves. Leaders were bribed and they started selling slaves.

I even read that there was a time slave trade was the major commodity for European trade. They destroyed our religion and converted many to christianity. What baffles me is that most of the English settlers were Christians.

The Europeans have done more harm than good. What they did to us is even better, read about the Native Americans, these people were living in America before Christopher Colomubus came.
Europeans owe the world an apology.

Lannister360:
You don't know this people
They are very smart and calculative
Ghana: Ashanti empire, Nigeria: Oyo empire, Benin Republic: kingdom of Dahomey

These where some of the kingdoms that participated in the slave trade.
What the whites did was that, if they come to you and you refuse to sell slaves to them, they will go to the next kingdom and buy slaves and exchange it with guns.

As a result, those other kingdoms become more powerful than the ones that refuse to sell slaves

So in other to stay strong(having guns) you have to sell slaves otherwise your neighboring kingdoms will be stronger than you and may one day invade.

That was the technique they used.

bergs2:
I was never even referring to the house.
I am only stating the obvious:
More than 90% of our early billionaires were the direct beneficiaries including our own Odumegwu Ojukwu

Is it the same whyte people that shooting black americans in 2022 out of hatred that will trade with Africans ( black people ) between 1600s and 1800s do you know how foolish that sounds...

you, Lannister360 and MonsieurX are filled with ignorance...

In that era, the moment a whyte person sees an African the first thought that will come to the whyte ( e:uropeans ) person's mind is to kill that African not to talk of Empires and Kingdoms filled with Africans they would have burnt such Empires and Kingdoms to the ground and killed every single African but they didn't have the population to do such so they resorted to " they sold slaves " mantra...

In South Africa, the e:uropeans specifically created what you call a machine gun today just to kill the indigenous South Africans..

I am 100% sure you and MonsieurX don't even know that the machine gun was created just to kill Africans quicker..