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Any link to watch the match

Joke taken too far .

It is this judiciary and a corrupt police force that will destroy this democracy

I lived in the Biafran enclave during the Nigerian civil war until our part of the world was liberated by Nigerian soldiers. The transistor radio was my inseparable companion as it was the companion of most of our people during that war. We needed to hear from the radio where we were in the shifting map of the war so that we would know where to run to next. But you could never be sure of the information you got from your radio because propaganda was an important part of the war. A lot of the information we got was simply passed from mouth to mouth and in the process the meat of the message may be mangled or messed up entirely. So information was one of the casualties of the war. But even after the end of the war we did not fully understand what went on at other theatres of the war. That is how the horrendous massacre of close to 1000 people at Asaba in Delta State, South South Nigeria remained unknown to most of us who were not close to the place of that pogrom.
In the last few days I have visited a few bookshops looking for a book that has given life to that mass murder. The book titled, “The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memories and the Nigerian Civil War” is jointly authored by an anthropologist, Professor S. Elizabeth Bird and a historian, Professor Fraser M. Otlanelli, both of the University of South Florida, USA. It is a book of history, 50 year old history of something that happened which should not have happened and which could happen again if we do not learn the lessons that we need to learn.

Here is the story. During the Nigerian civil war the 2nd Division of the Nigerian Army led by Lt. Col. Murtala Muhammed entered Asaba on October 4, 1967. Between October 4 and 6, there were reports that Nigerian soldiers had killed some men and boys based on the allegation that they were sympathetic to Biafran soldiers. In order to stop the killings the Asaba elders decided to embark on a rally on October 7 through the streets of Asaba in a show of solidarity with Nigerian soldiers. The parade was to terminate at a place called Ogbe-Osowa Square. They, men and women, were all dressed in white chanting “One Nigeria.”

At the Square they were addressed by a certain Major Ibrahim Taiwo whose voice traded strings of malevolence. It was an aggressive machine gun speech in which he accused the people of hiding Biafran soldiers in their houses. As he spoke, according to eyewitnesses, his anger rose like an awakening giant. He threatened to kill all of them. In fulfillment of his threat the soldiers separated the men and boys from the women and girls. He ordered the soldiers in Hausa to take the boys and men in groups of 10 for slaughter. Dr. Ify Uraih, one of the survivors recalls that his elder brother who resisted joining the first group of 10 was immediately gunned down. Some others who tried to escape were similarly killed. Dr. Uraih was 15 years old then. His father Robert and his two brothers, Emma and Paul, were killed. Dr. Uraih managed to escape. He came back the next day with a wheelbarrow to pack the bodies of his father and two brothers for burial. The young man with granite strength wanted to avoid the possibility of their being buried in an unmarked mass grave.

The killing reportedly lasted three days. Every family must have lost a son, a father, a brother, an uncle, a nephew. Every family must have left a widow or an orphan behind. Only the sick and aged who could not come out for the parade survived. The other survivors were those who had fled the city before the soldiers arrived. Fifty years later, the people of Asaba are flipping their memory file and recalling this sight from the deepest part of hell. As they rewind the tape the tears are rolling again but the people have done more than shed tears. They have a group called The Asaba October 7 Memorial Group led by Mr. Alban Ofili-Okonkwo. They had a series of events with the theme “Remembrance and Forgiveness.” Professor Wole Soyinka and Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah were the keynote speakers.

At one of the events, Mr. Ofili-Okonkwo announced that a Maternity and School of Midwifery will be established at the place of the pogrom. It is to be named The Place of My Birth Hospital. As a hospital it will save lives and give birth to a new set of lives but the lives of those taken on October 7, 1967 are irrecoverable.

The Asaba Massacre emphasizes the bestiality, the irrationality and the beastliness of war. In that exercise there was neither rhyme nor reason. Both the guilty and the guiltless were summarily condemned and summarily executed. War does not ever decide who is right. It only decides who is left. War almost always never kills those who start it. The Biafran war never killed Yakubu Gowon or Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. They lived to tell the story of the war. Many others did not. Also, many soldiers who fight wars never truly know why they are fighting. They are simply told to fight and because they have sworn to fight, fight they must. William Lyon Phelps says that the “only war where the men knew what they were fighting for was the Trojan War: it was fought over a woman.”

Lovely .

Tinubu is trying . We only wished he came in though the front door ..

Good news .

May they enjoy good health and prosperity .

I know they all wished to come back to an OBI presidency . But their dreams were hijacked .

God will restore

Yoruba had 8 years of p

8yrs of VP

And now they want 8yrs of p?

Naaa.

This a mixture of greed and lack of political sagacity

Dittodat:
You go wait tire. FBI report will be mostly redacted documents that will show nothing of importance.
Better start preparing for another loss to Tinubu in 2027.

Yoruba cannot rule again . They have to caged for at least 32yrs politically .

Omokri Na woman wrapper. At least I know 3 ladies in Asaba that slept with him during his days with Jonathan.. they all say the guy is a fooll

Everyone in Africa knows peter obi won.. only Yoruba Muslims think otherwise

We are just waiting for the FBI Damning report

I always remember when ex governor of cross River State , Ben ayade was touring the country and dancing "Joh Soapy" .. such a useless man

The SW is gone

Good

The SW is the worst place to raise a child at the moment.
Despite all you done , your darling child could still end up as a thug ..


Lagos is a thug mansion ,where killers run wild :aided and abetted by the police and politicians

You can call Tinubu all you want . But you see the matter of appointing Yoruba Yoruba, these Hausa Fulani politicians should just STFu

And so what ?

Buhari did worse ..

jeff1993:
.... living in a Fools paradise!!!

Prolly u are in one of the western states commenting rubbish .... I pray something like this happens in your village so that when Nigetian army comes, they will ransack and destroy everything dear to you..... Anuman!!!

during Buhari regime , Hausa Fulani soldiers flogged and frog jumped at entire Yoruba LGA for daring to chase herdsmen out of their farms

ReligiousCritic:
Some suspected thieves were made to dance while being flogged in Rivers state, Port Harcourt.

According to information available, they were caught stealing generators in a neighborhood in the state capital.

In a video sighted, the suspects were tied and asked to dance as they were paraded on the streets.

WATCH VIDEO BELOW


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qan-2-q5h14

hahahah

This drunkard Mr Peacemaker5128 needs to be forced and caged In a rehab asap

Seun Love lust with Reno omokri is now visible like full blown AIDS

georgeakins:
People move from all parts of Nigeria to settle down in Yoruba land, while no one is thinking of moving to settle down in CURSED Ibo land except only the Ibos.

Only Ibos live in CURSED Ibo land.

here you're seen insulting a tribe ..

georgeakins:
I won't be surprised to see his followers coming online on empty stomachs to defend this disgusting and shameless self-indulgence

here you're insulting pastor EA Adeboye

georgeakins:
Why won't there be fraud in the church. These pastors are idle and they want to live big like politicians. Those genuine men of God in the Bible were not depending on their followers for survival, unlike the parasites that parade themselves as G.O and pastors today.
I was pissed off the day I saw Olukoya moving around with 6 mobile police. Where will he get money to live this fake life if he does not steal from his followers?

. Here you're insulting DK olukoya of mfm.

georgeakins:
Oyedepo likes to react to all issues even when it is not necessary. He keeps embarrassing himself all the time. Genuine men of God only exist in the Bible. These modern pastors are all thieves

. Here you're seen insulting oyedepo of living Faith church ...

Nice one ... at least Se is proactive regarding security ..

Where are the Judas troops seen frolicking with Fulani terrorist in Katsina recently

Just be careful with Akure girls.. let me not talk yet shaaa

Austineva:
exactly, we must have our Biafra by all costs

Biafra with only 5 states ? Biafra is an ideological thing. Not real persay

Tinubu is not holy afterall

Lok

Rubbish.

Let them head toward Niger State where Allahu Akbar screaming fulanis shot down a $150m dollar attack helicopter 🚁🚁🚁 killing airmen in the melee

That should be obi .

Not Tinubu.
.this rigging must be reversed

Lagos is a gangster paradise

The most useless place to live and raise children is in the SW.. your child may end up as a thug

Lagos is a thug paradise ...

A shanty town.

Gangs of Lagos is real