₦airaland Forum

T8ksy:
No mind that yeye man, coming here to blow grammar like him and the queen of england are cousins.

Meanwhile, beneath all these grammars lies pure fallacies. When asked to prove his asertions, the yeye man starts

muttering, "I still believe bla bla bla. . . . , . . . . . . . ". The man has no shame and lack integrity. Yet he expects

others to accept his rubbish as Gospel just 'cause he said so. What a slimy git!

See my pal, a kettle calling pot black. Are you not the only human being who does not know about the genesis of 1951 carpet-crossing in western regional house of assembly after the regional election?

Katsumoto:
Dede1 is a funny character; he has never accepted positions from any book, those written by foreigners, Nigerians including Ndigbo. If it doesn't fit in with his version of events, he will attempt to discount it. Just this week, he discounted Alexander Madiebo's account of how Owerri was recaptured even though Madiebo was the GOC of the Biafran Army? 


Have I ever used Wiki to support my argument? We have had many debates on these forum and on every single one, I have used several books while you are yet to use one. If I were to keep scores, it would be like Dede 0 Kats 3008.   

In any case, wouldn't you agree that it was tad silly trying to use Wiki to prove that Biafra built airplanes?

I hardly go with recorded account of events or books written basically on conjectures aimed at boasting egos or achieving personal interests. So keeping scores of the books quoted to support a statement is a futile endeavor. 

Alexander Madiebo’s account about recapture of Owerri was among such self-centered rubbish. Granted Madiebo was GOC of the Biafran armed forces, in his book and accounts of the events, he indicated to be everywhere and in every sector of the war at the same time.

I had wished Col T Onwuatuegwu, Lt Col Archibong, Lt Col T Atumaka and Captain Okorie were alive. Also I had wished that Lt Col Okoi, Lt Col Ihieancho, Lt Col Ugokwe, Major Onwuka, Major Osuagwu, Major Igweze, Major Ikeji, Captain Iwuagwu, Captain Ebbe, Captain Okwusa, Lt Akpan etc could have written the accounts of the recapture of Owerri, I believe their accounts of the event would have collaborated my accounts.

sheyguy:
i don't see anything thing special in the said planes, they simply modified (minimally) the planes in question to accommodate a passive device. i believe every state in Nigeria can achieve that in a war situation.

What an arrant nonsense. Which other ethnic group in the cesspit called Nigeria can singlehandedly withstand the military onslaught Nigeria and its allies bought to the door step of Biafra? We are talking about serious military business of war and you are thinking about kidnapping and child’s play seen in creeks of Nigerian deltas.

lagcity:
What does Biafra's peaceful existence have to do with what I said. Okay let me break it down for you: Neccessity is the mother of invention. Biafra modified planes because they had no other choice; Biafra couldn't acquire ready made bombers.

I could not fathom the effort you seem to employ in breaking down a useless conjecture. Please try to invalidate the mental stability of a person who posed a question about what Biafra produced before the war. Biafra was not yet 1year and 6months old when idiotic Gowon-led Nigeria visited the state of Biafra with war of attrition.

Harold Wilson told every colonist with interest in Africa that the defeat of Biafra must be accomplished by any known means. Did you think the slimy Briton had the interest of Nigeria in mind when he made such statement?

The fact remains the colonists and would-be colonists saw a rare potential in Biafra never seen in African country till this moment.

Onlytruth: “Tiger’ Battalion
Interestingly, both Nigerian and Biafran units used this nickname.  The Nigerian 82 Battalion under Major Ibrahim Bako at Uzuakoli was nicknamed the “Tigers.”
Similarly there was a “Tiger” Battalion in the 66 Brigade under Major Osuagwu during Biafra’s Operation Do or Die.

I remembered the 74th Battalion a.k.a Tigers along with 79th battalion that halted vandal's 33rd and 34th battalions advance at Orji/Umudagu junction.


"Ojukwu Bucket" for Ogbunigwe

Katsumoto:
Are you for real? You are quoting wikipedia to prove that Biafra built planes? Biafra did not have the technology to build planes? Biafra modified all kinds of vehicles/aircraft.

Did you really frown at people quoting documents posted for public consumption through Internet and famed the Wiki? I did not know a day such as this will come to pass.

@POSTER

Even a blind dog could easily realize the poster of this thread is an imbecilic gudgeon. The title of the article where the dullard culls the story says “Nigerian Taxi Drive murdered in Washington US”. However, the drooling ninny of the poster would add Igbo cab driver to the gist. There are many Yoruba as well as other ethnicities and nationalities of West Africa that drive cab in Washington, DC.

lagcity:
I'm sure nobody in their right mind would tell you it is not something as long as you don't lie and tell them that they made their own chips and that assemling computers is a miracle in the 21st century. It is the lies that tick ppl off. State the achievement correctly and move on. No need to stretch the truth.

What lie are you talking about in this lengthy discuss? Biafra manufactured Ogbunigwe which was electro-detonated landmine capable of destroying a column of motorized battalion even though the detractors kept refereeing to ogbunigwe as surface-to-air missile. No supporter of Biafra ever said ogbunigwe was a missile.

Biafra did not manufacture any war-plane but retrofitted some DC3 and WW2 bi-planes with bomb pods. Biafra converted flat Bedford truck into a fearsome-looking armored vehicle.

In the same era, Biafra was able to convert palm-oil into diesel before USA starts tweaking with corn to produce fuel in the 70s.      

The only people injecting unfounded crap into this debate are the moronic dullards.

lagcity:
But Nigeria doesn't need to. We have access to whatever planes we need and we are not fighting any war as underdogs. Did Biafrans modify any planes b4 the war?

If you have any human brain cells in the skull you would have realized that Biafra existed as a peaceful country for only 1 month and 5 days when Nigeria visited with war.

@OP

Now I know you are a misguided joker, pal. I was living in Lagos and very much around UniLag when prof. Ayodele Awojobi tweaked a Nigerian military Styr utility vehicle into that laughable junk you called invention.
I guess peeps from the same stock such as you shall never fail to make ridiculous claims.

Aigbofa:
Isn't it about time we stop celebrating mediocrity and get back to real basics? That ogbunigwe thing was as crude as they come and yet people come here to celebrate it as the height of technological achievement of Biafra!
And when you think about how the contraption probably killed more Biafrans than Nigerians, even Biafrans should condemn it.

You seem to tilt on intellectual balance when attempting to ridicule the achievement of Biafra via ogbunigwe. Of course, nobody with correct social order will speculate ogbunigwe was the start and end of state-of the-art technological iteration. However, it was an achievement of era that marveled few Europeans who did not think an African country was capable of wielding two ends of steels together. Is it not a borderline idiocy for someone to demand pictures of improvised war materials produced by Biafra as cameras were only functional when mounted on tripod stand.  

Any fair-minded person would easily conclude that Nigeria is an absolutely wasted entity for 51 years which could not point to any attempt to produce indigenous stake to technology, not even hoe.  

I am not surprised at your effort to throw silly probability of misshape where many Biafrans lost lags and hands or lives during the construct of ogbunigwe. Anyway, such wishful thinking did not materialize besides many Biafrans would have wanted to die in order to see the crude and rudimentary ogbunigwe, as you would wants us believe, reached operational status that could send many Nigerians vandals to their makeshift graves.

I have always loved the passion the Biafra issue engenders among so-called Nigerians. It gives me a screen spectrum to juxtapose the people who will constitute danger to Igbo land or Biafra if such entity will ever exist.

It is unfortunate some folks have branded the revisit to the history of Biafra as chest-beating and boastfulness. However, I wonder what had quenched such interest on Nigeria after 51years of existence. I must say something is very wrong if passion Biafrans seem to exude is totally lost on Nigeria.

airmark:
Dude, i hope u are investing back home , iboland. If u rely on the above, you are a gonner. Your kind of reasoning is why no one trusts an ibo man (aerial destroyer).

As long as Nigeria is concerned, I only invest in Igbo land and companies with Igbo background.

The fact remains Lagos and Abuja are politically federal territories that would be contested if Nigeria should suddenly witness disintegration.

I pray the issue of Lagos and Abuja should be settled amicably on the bilateral engagement among the emerging countries without resorting to war. 

By the way, what had trust got to do with the fact that Lagos and Abuja are federal territories? Is there any other place in Nigeria where federal government had spent more capital funds to develop than Lagos and Abuja?

@POST

Sheep does not beget Lion. The question would have been “Is Nigeria a 5-Star country”. Nigeria is not a 5-Star country and can not erect a 5-Star hotel. The Transcop Hilton hotel in Abuja is not even a 1-Star hotel.

@POST

If a person can not afford the headache of bride price, how on earth could the person be able to feed and clothe a wife? I hope some Africans are not thinking about being freeloaders.

alj harem:
Haba nwanne, I don apologise na.

We all learn to tolerate ourselves. I was just carried away by like of "lord naya" and co

It is nothing personal nwanne.

Btw did you attend the new yam festival this month ?

Please accept my apology if my indulgence did not cordially resonate with you.

alj harem:
Why are you calling me a Losser

you are calling that an anti-aircraft missile launcher ?

abeg go siddon for one corner

Because you are being disingenuously naïve. Ogbunigwe was not missile. It was a powerful landmine incorporated with electro-detonator. It also seconded as maritime mines for anti-ship.

alj harem:
Oh sorry I see you point. I sincerely apologise for the misunderstanding.

Biko nu nwanne

Apology accepted. At least, you have human brain cells in your skull to understand you gaffed.

aribisala0:
i instruct Sango to afflict you and yours in the next 3 days

1diot

You are just useless dirt urinated upon by a mad woman. I could invoke Amadioha to set your dilapidated body on fire but it is worthless endeavor and wasting of my kolanuts and white chalk on fellow who is a walking dead.

You can jump the Lagoon if you wish, jackass. Lagos shall remain federal republic of Nigeria’s domain and must be contested for financial remuneration by other possible nations that shall emerge from disintegrated Nigeria.

aribisala0:
your cancerous mother will never pay her hospital bills.
you think you can hide behind the internet and vomit anyhow.
hopefully a trailer will strike her before sango catches her
if you have nothing to say shut up

I guess it takes one whose cancerous mother could not pay her hospital bill to know another. I pray Almighty God to grant your mother what you wish another person’s mother because of useless Internet rants.

alj harem:
Hey can you stop this crap you are posting

what does ethnic affairs got to do with yorubas and Igbos in Lagos ?

Are reasoning at all ?

Let me remind you that hausas, ibibios etc are all in Lagos and are far more than Igbos or yorubas

why are they not talking ? Why the Igbos ?

Why bring ethnicity to Lagos ?

DO you think in Lagos people care about the ethnic group you are from be it yoruba ?

Has an other group complain discriminated against in Lagos apart from the Loud mouth leaders of urs ?

Trust me don't start what you cannot finish be it would not be easy I would make such Arewa support the Yorubas along side the Ibibios and co.

What the hell are you talking about Yoruba and Igbo with respect to my post? Did my post even mention Igbo? My post was in respond to the usual loudmouths who previously posted to the thread with silly references to Igbo or Hausa. I stand strongly by my post that Lagos is a replica of federal character and belong to all Nigerians despite the fact it is physically situated in Yoruba territory.

I not surprise about your silly post because bigots will be first to refer to another person as bigot.

If Nigeria should see a sudden demise today, ownership of Lagos and Abuja will be hotly contested for “money back” or be aerially destroyed.

alj harem:
thank you, that is why it is best you allow them to delude themselves in self appraisal

it is funny isn't it
here is the anti air craft missile they are shouting about

just disgracing Nigeria all over with there false claim

any non- Nigerian would think it is one big tecnological feet just like the Jewish scientist or Nazi ones
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What a loser!! A farmhand such as you could not differentiate a land mine ordinance from a missile.

Aigbofa:
It is what it is. Ogbunigwe would have been an impressive weapon if the war was in 1867 and not 1967. The mallams would have shouted Allah Akbar at the sight of ogbunigwe, but in 1967 it was like bringing a cudgel to a gunfight.

You are a very funny chap. The folks on the receiving end of damage the famed ogbunigwe commanded thought about it as bringing, at least, six-shooter to DAO’s gunfight.

Lagos, a replica of Nigerian federal character, belongs to all Nigerians. Yoruba people can not be able to repay the interest on the capital spent in developing Lagos as capital city to other states in Nigeria talk less of the principal fund. Few loudmouths who had negatively responded to this thread should shut up their putrid mouths.

chino11:

"Abagana Ambush

On March 31, 1968: Biafran army won their biggest battle. by ambushing and destroying a 96-vehicle column of Nigerian soldiers with locally hand made bomb called [Ogbunigwe or bucket bomb]. The humiliating Abagana defeat to Nigerian soldiers prompted General Yakubu Gowon to remove Col. Murtala Mohammed as the General Commanding Officer of the Onitsha sector."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abagana

So research before you post rubbish.

Bros, what do you want me to say when few ill-informed and loudmouthed trolls seemed desperate to belittle the achievement of Biafra through the famed Ogbunigwe

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=800402.msg9524432#msg9524432 date=1320946610]An hausa man one-handedly invented one of the best 21st century cars in american about 3 yrs ago. Cant remember the thread, you can search for it if you want. [/quote]This is arrant nonsense. A well-skewed bold face lie from a person afflicted with mental feebleness. The Hausa dude did not single-handedly sketch the vehicle in question. Rather he was among the GM studio designers who drew the sketch of Chevrolet Volt. This car is not even best designed car in USA talk less of the world.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=800402.msg9524235#msg9524235 date=1320945159]Dude, how desperate can you be. Even enough to resurrect a yr old thread (that you were posting in a yr ago) just to quote me. Always following my expensive shiot like a Biafran fly. Get a hang on your demon. If I cause you too much emotional instability on the net, talk it out with your pastor.

*Back to ignoring a pathetic loser*
[/quote]You amount to nothing enough to even pose infinitesimal emotional discomfort

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=800402.msg9524109#msg9524109 date=1320944229]So what stops SE'ners 50+yrs after? They could have continued with the construction of air planes. That's serious business if you ask me. It's not onto Nigeria alone.[/quote]What stopped SE'ners 50+yrs after the war are deluded jackasses such as you who sneaked onto the corridor of power in cesspit called Nigeria.

Aigbofa:
Biafra did not build any plane. Even the famed ogbunigbwe was probably no more than a glorified firecracker designed to scare rather than cause a serious damage.  

At least, it was a glorified firecracker designed to scare rather than cause serious damage. Some bombs manufactured during the WW2 were glorified dummies.

Beaf:
I hadn't heard about the planes before today, but thats one more item to research.
Biafra indeed, can be help up as a beacon of what the black man can achieve technologically. So many of the things they managed in their short lifespan leave one awe struck. Here are some:

Ogbunigwe (missile).
Refining of coal for petrol.
Local armoured cars.

When just the 3 above are considered, its hard to conclude the Nigeria is not a disgrace.

Biafra refined Palm Oil to diesel not Coal to petrol.

It built Ogbunigwe as anti-personal and ship mines not anti-aircraft missile.

^^^^If I say you are a moronic slowpoke, it is simply an understatement. Since you just realized that contributors have more than one handle identities and would probably vote to swell the imagery numbers to perpetuate the lies of seeing the war, it is an indelible indictment on your stream of thoughts and mental feebleness to start thread bereaved of intellectual worthiness.

Believe you me, you are a perennial clown.

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI link=topic=794649.msg9467384#msg9467384 date=1320252318]A man's game indeed.

GEJ won also depended greatly on GEJ's promise to step down for the SE come 2015. That's what the chaos was about on nl A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. A woman like myself, pointed out the utter foolishness of the SE to vote for GEJ based on his promise and his "middle name". Now the SE is rushing for 2015? I'd think they'd be more settled down since "GEJ promised to step down for the SE in 2015".

Your logical reasoning is that Silva is shifting to APGA for 2015, even if we're still in 2011 and the man may sooner move to Accord come 2012. Make less sense since Okorocha makes better opponent than Silva, so why should APGA fret if GEJ comes after Silva?

Only the person that sits on the fence can see what moves each side is making.[/quote]You are starkly blinded by idiocy and bigotry to the point sense is longer common to you. I guess when SE voted for Abiola in June 12, 1993, it was because Abiola boasted he could rule Nigeria without Ndigbo or his middle name was Kelechi Olachi instead of Kashimawo Olawale. What a gudgeon.