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@OP

Where is Okwu Nkikere Agba (Okwu) in Ikeduru?

Anyway, it is not Iho but Ihuo Dimeze.
I am Eze Dibia and proud son of Ihuo Dimeze.

@SAFEGO

It is very disheartening to read the craps you post on this forum. Thank goodness that Africa in general and Nigeria in particular have scholars that are more intellectually endowed to speak on the issues of human nature than an imbecilic slowpoke such as you.

The level of idiocy you have displayed on the forum calls for redemption as well as a measure of self control. If I had to say that you are a domesticated dimwit, such a statement would have tantamount to understatement. I could have suggested that you embark on a little academic research but this would be akin to sending a vulture to a barber shop.

In fact this whole exercise of debating with a deluded homo-sapiens such as you amounts to waste of Internet bandwidth. I should have known better when you failed colossally to even identify your sexual makeup why registering your avatar on this board talk less of understanding the intrigues surrounding the word; race. Any scientist that does not know that the universe is filled with one race, thus human, is a slowpoke. By the way, it is an irrepressible idiocy for anybody to attempt to classify human beings based on the hue of their skins. I am of the view that scientists are well set at home dwelling on species rather than race.

You are a dirty Osaka swine that leaves off the pieces of newspaper clips that do not worth a cent more than the conjectural craps contained within. Based on your posts on the forum, there is no doubt you are a certified lazy slowpoke that has regarded the Internet Wikipedia as your ultimate source of enlightenment. Please you have done enough intellectual damage to the people of your stock on the issue of genocide alone and I beg of you not to further grind it to mud by tangling with military parlance.

@ SEFAGO

Lady SAFEGO, I honestly think that your idiocy is irredeemable. You are simply making a slowpoke out of your irascible self. Please be informed that Ojukwu did not attend RMA Sandhurst, UK.

It appears that you were not properly schooled in the subject of history. If you did and still come up with these conjectural craps you have been posting on this forum, I suggest that efforts your parents showered on you were in futility.

Lady SAFEGO of the United Nation caliber, do you realize that there is only one race in the universe? I am of the view that the intrigues of this discussion are well above your pedigree. I shell not waste my precious time on a stinking road-kill such as you. For an umpteenth time, the 1966 pogrom that took place in northern region of Nigeria was genocidal.

revomind:
Genocide. Nazis committed one on jews, the ruling hutus on tutsis in rwanda,milosevic of yugoslavia on the muslim bosnians. Whatever arises after 2 groups declare war can hardly be seen as genocide. Pearl Harbour and Hiroshima,Japs struck then the Americans in vengeance. The american response was more severe because they were stronger. Mr Eziachi, it was the Biafran War not a Genocide on Igbo people. Nixon, senator kennedy and a 'reputable newspaper' calling it one does not make it one. A far higher casualty on one side can never qualify war as a genocide. You should know this.
One more thing,i see you are trying 2 suggest to young non-igbo people that their fathers are rapists. Ludicrous! You sound like a serious bigot who would have done worse than your perceived enemies. You specifically mentioned yoruba people and that got me wondering. Since you are the master of digging out hidden historical truths,i'm suprised that you didn't know that the bulk of foot soldiers were from the north and even neighbouring countries like Niger. And that to be fair,they have always been the least represented in the nigerian army. I maintain that it was a regrettable war situation fuelled by mutual hatred. It could have been either way.

This is a matter of comprehension or lack thereof. The ever eloquent Ezechi had never construed Nigeria-Biafra war as genocide. However, like any person with a formidable social order, Ezechi has reiterated that, though with documented factual facts dotted with timelines, the pogrom of 1966 in the northern region of Nigeria was genocidal.

If you choose to remain in denial of this fact, you are entitled to such a drama.

Opinion is a privilege accorded to all human beings even when such act depicts the idiocy in human nature. It is even funny that deluded minds often form deluded opinions. However, opinion born out of fundamental delusion and induced by inherent social disorder remains an opinion. Indeed SEFAGO, you have an opinion.

For example, SEFAGO quoted “man a bunch of dumb cows. You are talking of the UN charter of the right to self-determination issued after WW1. THis is not the same as the right to secede.  It only becomes the right to secede when fundamental basic human rights are no longer guaranteed i.e when it is definitely a genocide”. Does this lady think before she writes? 

The fundamental basic human rights of southern Nigerians in the northern region of Nigeria as of 1966 were not guaranteed that regional government of the north and federal government of Nigeria had to degree that all non-indigenes should return to their respective home regions. At least, by her admission, the pogrom and lack of guarantee for basic fundamental human rights in northern region for non-indigenes of the region were makers of secession. 

It is a person such as lady SEFAGO that makes secession a thing of cantankerous and war. In layman’s term secession is breakaway from a nation state. If a lesson has to be learnt about the intrigue of secession as exemplified by the secession movement since the fall of iron curtain in some communist countries, I guess you and your forbearers have secured a front row seats in such a class.

I had to applaud the courage shown by Alain Akinrinade in publicly expressing his regrets for fighting the war against the Biafra. I would also pray to the evil spirits that are numerously abounded in Nigeria to continue the merciless flogging of those morons that would get twisted out of human form when Biafra is mentioned.

Poor Akinrinade used to be a very fine officer but equally lacked the intellect found among few people of his stock such Wole Soyinka who vehemently kicked against the war foisted on Biafra, Lt Col Ayo Ariyo who had rather resigned his commission into Nigerian army than fight against Biafrans and Ijebu Ode cocoa farmers, yes peasant farmers who staged courageous opposition to Gowon’s war against Biafra.

Nigeria will never see progress because it is the amalgamation of evil incarnates

For sake of this thread, development is a process of growth. And the process is a series of events to produce a result in a given system or set of procedures used to produce result.

Let us examine Nigeria in the lights of development. The issue of process is paramount to growth, hence developments. There are factors and variables that will combine to represent events within a process that will manifest into a good or bad result. It is the strength of dynamic cohesion during the process that will fuse the factors and variables together to produce the desired results.

Nigeria is an entity that is required to grow. The factors and variables included the people, form of education, land, climatic conditions, culture and method of government.

Until the inhabitants of the geographical expression known as Nigeria take critical look at the factors and variables that are lodged into a process in the country, the development we all envisaged for the nation would remains as elusive as a mirage. However, if the personal wealth is a resultant of a process that saw any bit of growth, then it is a form of development.

I am not a legal operative but this case does not take a lawyer to understand that the entire political shenanigans and court proceedings involving Ngege and Obi were con jobs. The Ngege or Obi has no legal standing to declare that either person was the winner of an election or had the wherewithal to ascertain that electioneering fraud had taken place during the process without dwelling on hearsay or conjectural evidence.

The so-called Supreme Court did fathom that it is not the legal responsibility of the respondent to prove a case but petitioner. In the case involving Ngege, Obi and INEC, the respondents were Ngege and INEC and Obi was the petitioner. However, the unfortunate Supreme Court wanted the INEC to prove the results.

It is a shame that it took two years for entire county of Nigeria to recount a ballot numbering less than 650,000 votes. The Supreme Court would have weighed heavily why it took that time for the brains in Nigeria and INEC to recount a mere 650,000 votes. It did not occur to the Supreme Court that so-called statisticians employed by the INEC suddenly lost the value of numerical differences between 245,000 and 175, 0000 after Ngege had fallen out with Obasanjo, Uba and PDP.

What stopped Obi from going to court in seeking injunction against the gubernatorial election in Anambra State? Was Obi not impeached by legally constituted body? When has it become the duty of Supreme Court to determine the term limit of office holders in Nigeria?

The paramount of electing candidates into offices in Anambra State lies with the electorates. In this case, election has been conducted and a winner declared. My stand remains that the corrupt and activist justices of the so-called Supreme Court had no business truanting electoral wishes of Anambra State people. It is funny to read that the only constitutional matter in this case was Obi’s term of the office.

I care less if Obi, Ngege or Uba is declared the holder of any office in Aanmbra State or Nigeria for that matter but very much concerned about unfortunate decisions in cesspit called Nigeria stemming from judges, elected individuals or commoners.

If the cesspit called Nigeria will break into pieces because of rightful carriage of justice, I say so be it. The unfortunate justices at the so-called supreme court of the hopeless country known as Nigeria started this ball rolling. Courts do not conduct elections and returning Mr. Obi to serve a term after the legitimate authority had concluded elections in Nigeria is a miscarriage of justice of the highest order. 

It is funny that the same Supreme Court later ascertained that conducting elections does not fall within its jurisdiction in Nigeria when its decision on the gubernatorial election in Anambra State was challenged before the justices of the unfortunate apex court. Court of Appeals are the highest courts in the land to handle electioneering matters unless there is a constitutional conflict. In this case, there was no constitutional conflict with Obi and Ngege and would have allowed the ruling of Court of Appeal to stand in this matter.

blackspade:
^^ You think people's rights to live how they like should be questioned? Please, explain where you get your knowledge, or lack of I must say?

"Right" is privilege to do as a person wishes within the law. Of course, the peoples’ right to live how they like should be questioned. I do not think it would be a matter of judgment if married adults (men and women) were harassed for having intercourse in middle of the street during the day or night for that matter. They could be infringing on a particular law.

Good to know that every reasonable Nigerian has come to terms with decree #34. The level of human perception or lack thereof is the most dangerous circumstance facing mankind.

If there is an award for “ultimate dunce”, it should go to OPCman for stating that any war between Igbo and Yoruba would not proceed beyond a month before Igbo capitulation.

Could someone remind the slowpoke that Yoruba, Ijo, Hausa, Fulani, Nupe, Tiv, Idoma, Igala, Kanuri, Bachama, Efik, Urhob, Edo, Itsekiri, Arab, British, Aussie and Russian labored mightily for three years to earn cessation of hostility from Ndigbo and Biafra?

It is only a drooling fool that will overlook the tenacity and internal fortitude of Ngibo to fight and survive as in the case of civil war of attrition despite all odds and still beckon a lazy ethnic group to take up arms against Ndigbo. Believe me trading in such line of risky business is simply suicidal.

I am struggling to restrain myself from believing that all these altercations were against the act of remembrance of peoples’ past experience. If all these postulations were stacked against the sincere sense of remembrance on the part of Biafrans who have audacious pedigree to revisit history, then the conjecturers are filled with mind of iniquity and must be watched closely because evidences suggested that they are piqued that some Biafrans are still walking the earth.

I could not fathom the impetus that warranted one of the haters of Biafrans in general and Ndigbo in particular to insinuate that Midwestern region was neutral entity during Nigeria/Biafra civil war. I thought stupidity has limits but I was obviously wrong. The last time I checked though, Midwestern region of Nigeria was not a sovereign state and this idea of being neutral is at best idiocy.

During the peace conference in Aburi, Ghana, the military governor of Midwestern region sat on the conference table as a representative of Nigeria. About the beginning of July 1, 1967, Gowon sat in Lagos and issued orders to 1st Area Command to launch attack on Biafra and 2nd Areas Command to move Lagos Garrison Organization under Major Adekunle to Escravos, Midwestern region as the launching pad for amphibious attacks on Onitsha and Port Harcourt. At the time, Gowon issued order to 2nd Area Command to move 8th battalion under Major Ochefu to Warri as a support unit because the battalion is made of soldiers who have experienced battle field jitters in Congo.

I can not believe the reason behind the shameless fanning the factor of neutrality on the part of Midwestern region when it was obvious that the region remained part of Nigeria and every part of the country was a legitimate open season. I honestly believed that most of these induced senses of falsehood perpetrated against Biafrans were born out of inherent hatred against Ndigbo in particular and Biafra in general.

There are many Ndigbo who still think of Nigeria as in the mold of Azikwe and would behave like Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi. If you are one of such Igbo persons, I do not wish you a day of progress.

Please can someone who has the ears of No2Atheism tell the dimwit to stop wasting the Internet bandwidth by posting the pictures of the ancient African village empires?

dblock:
This is an Outrage.

My chief from my clan, should be the President of this country not some Hausaman . he is not from my clan.

I can't be represented by people that don't come from my village.

The only Nigerians I recognised are the 50 or so people from my clan.

The benign of socio-politico-economic progress in the cesspit called Nigeria is boldface hypocrisy. If the present Nigerian government headed by Yar Adua or the government headed by Obasanjo seemed to deviate from the cardinal principles of the so-called federal character, although a phrase I termed sectionalism, then well meaning Nigerians with correct social order have the audacious pedigree to raise issue about such deviation.

I wished government had removed the quota system on the officers’ cadet intake at Nigerian Defense Academy since the army officer from Gombe State represents a Nigerian from Delta State. Remove all forms of quota systems in Nigerian institutions including parastatals and replace quota with competitive and meritorious examinations.

It would not be hard to ask for the discarding of institutionalized tribalism in the jungle called Nigeria after all the professor or professional from Oyo State also represents the a person from Cross River State. Please before you embark on the holier than thou social and political shenanigans, try to inform the western region of Nigeria that a new light is about to shine on Nigeria.

The world has only ONE RACE and it is HUMAN. There is nothing such as White, Blue, Pink, Red, Green or Black race. Only twisted ignorant people would like to indentify human beings with hue.

I think that Gene and Environment are fundamental factors.

Duduknight:
What is unsubstantiated facts? Did NCNC not form a government with NPC? Was Awolowo not the leader of the House, while Akintola was the Premier of the Western Region?

Crisis in Western Nigeria - Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Awolowo

Prior to independence, he was persuaded by prominent members of the Action Group to lead the party as Leader of the Opposition at the Federal Parliament, leaving Samuel Ladoke Akintola as the Western Region Premier.

Awolowo was jailed in 1964, here is my proof
Shortly afterward, in 1964, Awolowo and several others were charged and jailed for conspiring with some Ghanaian authorities under Kwame Nkrumah to overthrow the federal government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Awolowo

You ARE NOT  the repository of all knowledge as you may think you are. There are others on this forum with a brain and who also read. Stop acting like you had first hand knowledge of all events in Nigerian history.

You refer to the propaganda of the publishing houses in the west. So the opinions you have been spewing on this forum ARE what exactly? I have said it before and I say it again, you will argue for no reason other than to appear credible. You want us to disbelieve what is in print and believe you instead. Were you with Awolowo when he sent his emissaries to Bello and Zik? Please provide sources and stop arrogating all knowledge to yourself.

You also went off-tangent again; were we discussing when the mid-western region was given autonomy? What was the point of introducing that? Awolowo went to prison in 1964 and the mid-western state was created in 1963; so what can you deduce from that?

There is no intent to embarrass you if I may plead with you to tread carefully with Wikipedia. Nonetheless if you want to continue to embarrass yourself, it must be you call. I would have endeavored to ignore your posts but it would not be good idea if such ill-informed conjectures should be left to the detriment of young Nigerians.

Contrary to your beliefs, I have never regarded myself as the repository of Nigerian history. However, I would audaciously reference the fact about Nigerian history which its veracity has been corroborated accurately. 

Please find time to disabuse your mind with the listed links.

 
http://www.answers.com/topic/obafemi-awolowo

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Obafemi_Awolowo.aspx

http://www.onlinenigeria.com/PEOPLE/ad.asp?blurb=49

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/obafemi-awolowo-chief/

Duduknight:
Ok I understand you now. Let us look at a few facts:
1. The loss of life is always regrettable, whether it is one or 10,000.
2. The igbos joined the Hausas and formed a government in 1960. That led to the AG asking Awolowo to become the leader of the opposition in the House culminating in his Deputy becoming the Premier. This in itself led to the problems in the west in 1964. Awolowo went to prison for this.3. A group with a core of Igbo officers organised a coup and wiped out core northern political and military elite
4. The leader of the group was Ifeajuna. The fact that Nzeogwu was the one who completed his task did not make him the leader. In fact, Nzeogwu joined the group late. I say this because some people argue that Nzeogwu was a mid-western (never mind his antecedents) and that he was the leader of the group.
5. Ademulegun, second to Ironsi in the army was killed; Shodeinde (Nzeogwu's boss) and his pregnant wife were murdred. Akintola, the western premier was also killed.
6. Ifeajuna warned his cousin, Azikiwe, about the coup. Azikiwe went on holiday to the carribean claiming he went for medical reasons. The eastern premier was not killed.
7. Ironsi was not killed, Ademulegun, his next in command was killed.
8. The northerners had a counter-coup

When a man has a fight with his wife, do you expect the other woman he could have married, to come to the aid of the wife? Igbos chose to go with the hausas, why should the Yoruba's get involved if the marriage between the Igbos and hausa's break down? Moreso, when that arrangement led to problems in the west. Also, you are forgetting the fact that Senior Yourbas were killed in the January 66 coup. Why are you not suggesting that the Yoruba's take a stand on the fact that their leaders were also killed? Instead, you accuse the Yoruba's of back-stabbing the Igbos because the Yoruba's decided to take a softly softly approach.

This blaming everybody (hausa and yoruba) for the issues in 1966 has gone on for too long. You have to accept the the Igbos threw the first punch, the hausas decided to retaliate while the yorubas didnt. You went and looked for trouble and when the other side fought back, you cry of being neglected.

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
Niccolo Machiavelli

Here you go again with unsubstantiated fallacies. One of the reasons that found Nigeria in a retrogressive projection is the filth laden propaganda being disseminated by the publishing houses in western region of Nigeria. I am sorry to say that most of your postulations are ill-informed conjectures. By the way, Awo went to prison about late 1962 or early 1963. Awo was already in prison when Midwestern region gained regional status in May, 1963.

Based on my knowledge of recorded events, Zik had known Awolowo’s political treachery from 1938 to 1979 elections. After 1959 federal elections, none of the contesting parties appeared to have won out right majority. Parties were engaged in coalition talks in order to emerge as partners with majority vote. Awolowo, as in the cases of 1938 and 1952, pulled his treacherous plots by sending Ayo Rosiji/S Akintola to Kaduna to strike a deal with Alhaji Bello of NPC and Chief S. O. Gbadamosi to Onitsha to strike a deal with Azikwe of NCNC.

When Bello and Zik realized that Awo was playing double prong game and up to no good politically, both men refused to go into alliance with Action Group.

Duduknight:
It appears that you will debate with yourself issues that were not raised. Can you point to anywhere in this thread where Murtala's role before the war was discussed?You are arguing on points that nobody was debating with you. I have only been discussing about the Nigerian Army divisions during the war.

I said Murtala was commander of the 2nd division and you have agreed with me. What is the point of talking about Murtala's role before the war?

With the statement in bold, you state that by the time of the offensive, the army had not been constituted into divisions and then you contradict yourself with the statement below

First you say there were no divisions at the time of the offensive and then you say the army became divisions at the time of the war. Which is it? Was the offensive before the war. It is not every point that must be debated. What exactly did you prove? Nothing.

I do not think there is a misunderstanding about the fact that at some point Nigeria army was structured into divisional units after the opportunity to realign Nigeria was lost at Ore in western region by Biafran units. However, you tend to have issues with chronicles order of events hence the display of disjointed knowledge of the history of Nigeria/Biafra during 1967.

I would have no regrets to label you as one of detractors of Biafra and ill-informed Nigerians who believed and occasionally stated that Ojukwu and Biafra stated the civil war.

For the sake of posterity, on July 6, 1967 while sitting in Lagos as capital of Nigeria, Gowon ordered the attack on Biafra with 3 battalions of 1st Area Command. Each of the battalions was commanded by Majors Martins Adamu, Sule Apollo and Capt. Wushishi.

During the same period, Gowon ordered the Lagos Garrison Organization under the command of Major Benjamin Adekunle to move into Escravos, mid-western region serving as a launch pad for amphioxus assaults on Onitsha or Port Harcourt.     

At this juncture, any breathing human being would realize that Gowon and Nigeria had kicked off the civil war. As in the case stated previously, neither western nor mid-western region was neutral to Gowon’s machination of the war against Biafra. There have been disingenuous efforts by few misguided peeps in Nigeria to establish the fact that Ojukwu and Biafra started the Nigeria/Biafra civil war. Ojukwu did not order the operations of Biafra 101 division until August 8, 1967

I am raising these points in response to your previous posts where you tabulated Ojukwu's blunders and reasons why Biafra collapsed.

Duduknight:
Ojukwu did not need to seek alliance with Yoruba because the faith meted to easterners in the northern region was the same handed to westerners. For the westerners, it was the repeat of Ibadan debacle when the son of soil was killed. As the case remains today with Islamic riots in northern region, one group chose to fight back others decided to have their tails in between their legs.

You will make yourself believe anything. The Yorubas had an internal problem - Awo's group versus Akintola's group. How is that analogous to the progroms in 1966 and 1967? You will make conjectures just to prove an erroneous point. Which group had their tails between their legs? You just clearly have a hatred for Yoruba people; that is your problem anyway. Anyone who carries hate around is likely to be bogged down by it.

Anybody that refers the offensive Biafrans undertook through mid-west and onto western region as unfortunate is merely clutching straw. The major element of any war is the moment of surprise. Nigeria in 1966 was as Nigeria today, a colonial contraption, and every part of the country remains an open season for attack in outbreak of a war.

Think about this for a second. How large was Banjo's unit? Even if they got past Ore, they would have been isolated from the remaining Biafran units. They simply would have been trapped between Murtala's unit and the units in Lagos.

By the way, during the said offensive, the Nigerian army had not been constituted into divisions. The Nigerian army was still structured in Brigades, Battalions, Garrisons and Squadrons.

This is also inaccurate. What was Murtala's unit called? Was it not called the 2nd division? Was Shuwa's unit not called the 1st division? What was Adekunle's unit called? It was called the 3rd division and Adekunle changed it to 3rd Marine commando. Please get your facts right. Do not be in a hurry to refute everything I type.

Surely, the act of constituting himself as the only policy-making body in Biafra was a strategic error Chief Uwachue pointed out his book.

You should be congratulated for exposing your wealth of ignorance on the recorded events that took place in the cesspit called Nigeria during 1966 era. For sake of the argument, many Yoruba lost their lives during the riots of 1966 in northern region of Nigeria. The trains that carried wounded/dead easterners to Enugu/Port Harcourt also carried wounded/dead westerners to Ogbomosho/Ibadan/Lagos.

Nigerian army formation into divisions came as a result of the civil war. There were two Brigades, 1st Brigade was headquartered in kaduna to oversea the northern part of the country while 2nd Brigade was headquartered in Lagos to oversea southern part of the country. Before Gowon and Nigeria declared war against Biafra, the army formation was denoted into 1st Area Command and 2nd Area Command. Within the 2nd Area Command was the Lagos Garrison Organization.

The Nigerian army divisional formation came after 3 battalions under 1st Area Command attacked Biafra on July 6, 1967 and on August 8, 1967 the Biafran 101 division launched an attack on Nigeria through mid-western region and western region in attempt to reach Lagos. The two factors that stopped the 101 from reaching Lagos were Col Banjo and 8th Battalion of Nigerian army under the command of Major Ochefu.

With this development, the 2nd Area Command formerly of 2nd Brigade became 2nd Division, Lagos Garrison Organization, under Major B. Adekunle  became 3rd Marine Commando (3rd Infantry Division) while 1st Area Command formerly of 1st Brigade under Lt. Col. M. Shuwa became 1st Infantry Division.

Lt. Col. M. Mohammed never commanded any unit in the army until Gowon made him the GOC of 2nd Division. Murtula was inspector of signal.

Duduknight:
I think Ojukwu meant well for the Igbos but he made several errors. He was an intelligent man but he made several strategic mistakes:
1. He should have sought alliances with the Yorubas. Most people with half a brain would have predicted the end result. It was always going to be a question of when.
2. He knew Britain was going to support the Nigerian forces. With the US engaged in a deadly war in Vietnam, the other super power, USSR, was idle. Before committing to war, he should have sought strategic military support from USSR and France. France would later help Biafra in the war but it was very little help because the French decided to help without being asked.
3. Authorising the offensive through the Mid-west to Ore. If that offensive ever got to Lagos, they would have been cut off from the East by another Division (probably Murtala's 2nd division). While the objective was to reduce the offensive from the 1st Division under Shuwa and it succeeded but it also brought other elements which contributed to the fall of Biafra - Two Divisions were formed (2nd and 3rd Marine Commando) which would then allow Nigeria to attack Biafra from three angles and the use of Yoruba and mid-western troups who had otherwise acted neutral.
4. Making Enugu the capital when it was too close to the North, the capture of Nigeria would have two effects - sapping morale of the Biafran people and retreating from Enugu would result in loss of resources and people.
5. He also seemed to act alone, which was somewhat curious, considering that the system of government in the East was Communal.


Ojukwu did, however, win the Propanganda war. This is just my opinion from information gleaned over the years and nothing more.

Ojukwu did not need to seek alliance with Yoruba because the faith meted to easterners in the northern region was the same handed to westerners. For the westerners, it was the repeat of Ibadan debacle when the son of soil was killed. As the case remains today with Islamic riots in northern region, one group chose to fight back others decided to have their tails in between their legs.

Anybody that refers the offensive Biafrans undertook through mid-west and onto western region as unfortunate is merely clutching straw. The major element of any war is the moment of surprise. Nigeria in 1966 was as Nigeria today, a colonial contraption, and every part of the country remains an open season for attack in outbreak of a war.
By the way, during the said offensive, the Nigerian army had not been constituted into divisions. The Nigerian army was still structured in Brigades, Battalions, Garrisons and Squadrons.

Surely, the act of constituting himself as the only policy-making body in Biafra was a strategic error Chief Uwachue pointed out his book.

back2back:
Niger is a poor country.

It makes sense for them to use already established individual in UK who they dont have to pay to do their consular work there.

Dont forget Akinola Aguda was Chief Justice of Botswana for many years talkess of an ambassador!

Before Akinola Aguda got his law degree, Justice Udo Udoma had retired as the Chief Justice of Uganda

The essay that is currently making wave on nairaland and accredited to Chief Raph Uwechue had stranglehold on some of factors that contributed to the failure of Biafra but I think the statesman had it wrong on the issue of Gowon, Awolowo and release from Calabar Prisons. I had personally brought up some of the issues with Ojukwu and the abler statesman wished there was second round.

There is no doubt about Gowon’s intention of politicking when he announced Awoloow’s release from Calaber Prision while for intents and practical purposes Gowon’s authority did not fly in eastern region of Nigeria. As in this case, the Gowon’s announcement of the release did not affect Awolowo’s walk from prison until Ojukwu said so.

The Nigeria/Biafra civil war was winnable to either sides of the army if the common factor to the victory was observed, thus, surprise. Ojukwu’s tactical military naïveté denied the Biafra the sure victory or at least the alliance of an unwilling western region of Nigeria.

Those rejoicing on the woes of Biafra and pointing to the so-called inversion of Mid-western and western regions of Nigeria were deadbeats looking for a straw to clutch. Facts remain that Nigeria was a nation state and any part of the country was an open season.

Beaf

I would suggest you quit debating with few folks whose only background on history is Wikipedia. I had expected couple of dimwits to show up on this thread for the sake of being schooled but none of them were mature enough to bury the misguided ethnic ego which has engulfed them.

There is knowledge of history based on conjectural statistics and another based on constructive analysis.

I must say that anybody that claims emphatically that the returnees belong to a particular ethnic group needs to read twice.

There is a debatable peculiarity between the claiming of certain ethnicity by the returnees and British stronghold on certain territories in Africa as in the cases of Lagos, Freetown, Accra and Banjul during the 1600s and beyond.

babapupa:
What an olodo idiot!!


Instead of displaying to us how stupid and dumb you are, why not do your own research to counter mine and other's documented historical facts.


Obviously, you don't know your history. Only a perpetual ignorant and dumb head in the sand fool argues against history.


Btw, you didn't answer mu questions.

You are a deranged domesticated swine that have decided to constitute into a dirty public nuisance. Well you have woefully failed to comprehend one sentence directive and I would not waste my time leading a punk ass such as you into a complex history of the areas that metamorphosed into the cesspit known as Nigeria. In addition, I would not stoop low to your level of expertise of copy and paste off Wikipedia.

For the sake of the argument, I urge a lazy goon such as you to verify the reason behind the return to Sierra Leone by the returnees that had already acquired Yoruba name. Please check the reasons why the returnees chose to settle in Eko and Abeokuta environs instead of places such as Ogbomosho, Ibadan, Ilesha, Osogbo, Akure, Kaduna, Kano, Benin and Onitsha.

There was election for Lagos town hall in 1938 in which a seemingly new youth outfit defeated the well established outfit such as NNDP led by Herbert Macaulay. Most candidates for NNDP were Sierra Leoneans and returnees while NYM fielded candidates such as Messer Alakija, Ikoli and Adesanya. Also, remember that your political godfather was a street money-changer who fanned the issue that focused on the son-of-the-soil candidature.