₦airaland Forum

Cowards are colorful story tellers. They can easily turn a festive wrestling match into an epic war.

Amumaigwe:
And we have seen where cowardice has led
General Oladipo Diya who genuflected before a major so that he woulld be allowed live. He is now more or less a living DEAD.
We are also seeing where cowardice is leading Mr. BAT; to obvious shame, forced SILENCE and opprobrium. Only the DEAD is always silent.

Can you now see the point the OP is making?
There is a vertical relationship between COWARDICE and DEATH. Only the brave is allowed by nature to LIVE.

Before Oladipo Diya, there was one Babafemi Ogundipe who was scared out of wit by a mere sergeant.

OkuFaba:
History has no place for cowards

Certainly not in Nigeria, bro.

helinues:


We hardly train bastards/Ingrates in Yoruba land...

In life,you win some, lose some and life goes on..

Edo can never be Lagos......

Lots of maturity amongst our politicians

The bolded kept me laughing for a while. If I had not lived in Yari.ba land, the silly remark in the above post would have been words for keep.

The truth about Nigeria\Biafra war scared the federal government of Nigeria into pulling the plug of history curriculum in elementary and secondary schools. I guess federal government of Nigeria seemed to have gathered enough falsehood to counter to truth of Nigeria\Biafra that it decided to reintroduce history curriculum to Nigerian schools. Or maybe the visit to Umuahia war museum by Yemi Osinbajo has something to do with the change of heart.

pricklewane:
Biafra can think whatever they like the constitution of Nigeria guarantees that. I can also think the biafrans that initiated the coup all deserve to die by hanging with their dead bodies facing a firing square before being electrocuted n finally diced into shreds never to be remembered in the history of this country for toppling a democratically elected government by all Nigerians.

An idiotic thought process is not guaranteed by the silly Nigerian constitution. It is unfortunate you were wrongly educated on the guarantees by 1963 Nigerian constitution. If you were not a delusional Nigerian, I would have tried to make sense out of your babbling about the guarantees or lack thereof in 1963 Nigerian constitution. For dumbass learner, there was no such provision as hanging, firing squad or electrocution for coup plotters in 1963 Nigerians constitution. The maximum punishment could have been life imprisonment. It was dumbass Obasanjo and his moronic northern elites who introduced death sentence for coup in Nigeria. Ironically, when the jackass was implicated in coup plot, he wept like miserable child in wet diaper. In addition, you seemed totally confused about Biafra and January 15, 1966 coup in Nigeria by Nigerian soldiers. I urge you to reset your stream of thought.

LEXYLOV:
It is unfortunate that many reply from this topic seems from people below 40yrs old at least. But its better to ask the elders who familiar with this historic incident and get the facts, before commenting. It was clear case of setup by ibb, against his bosom friend vatsa, vatsa got trouble with ibb and Co when he counter the dimka coup that assassinated murtala Mohammed, in 1976, and he was the tribunal secretary that sentence dimka and Co to firing squard. Don't foget, M G Bisalla was ibb boss and dimka was more close and intimate to I b than vatsa as a point. However, ibb was also part of that 76 coup and was safe by the same vatsa, even after many evidences link ibb with the coup and notably when he was task to expelled and arrest dimka at radio Nigeria Lagos be then he let him escape. Vatsa was threatening by ibb clique for mobilized his battalions from east to quell the coup and ever since he as been in a very black book of ibb clique. He actually resigned from the army because he knew his stand when ibb overthrown buhari. But ibb refused to accept his resignation and keep him in the army by force, when he was trying to leave and concentrate on his poetry job, he was frame up with bitiyong and co, and evidence emerged as a setup. Even MG Charles later confess, and many senior army office later testified after ibb booted out of power. Just a shot of the story it's long I can't tell it all, hope this bit help to shed some light.

Who threatened who and for what reasons? Who mobilized his battalion from east? It did not take a battalion of soldiers to flush Dimka out of the radio station in Lagos.

Most Nigerians are simply tomfools. The judgment is not for David Lyon and his APC. This tribunal judgment has good chance to be overturned at the appeal's stage.

Ena Ofugara, you have done well for yourself. You mentioned of compatriot or lack thereof. One of the things I hated about Nigeria is to have jackasses as compatriots.

T9ksy:
Same old narratives that we've all heard before. nothing new.

Shebi na pesin wey look at the bride's face , go notice say, she dey cry.

I, as a true "shoin of the shoil" don't give a ra.t a.r.s.e about where the ibos came from or their intended destination, as long as they keep their inherent mischief outta my region.

The above crap would have been gold if either any of your forbearers did not participate in a Nigeria\Biafra war or you have not gloated about the defeat of Biafra by Nigeria and its allies. You are what the Biafrans thought you were all these times.

koning:
Stop replying to post after smoking Ganja!. What did you just write.


Vasta's wife is simply an Igbo woman from Calabar. Igbo tribe extends way beyond core Igbo states. There are Igbos in Southern Cameroon.

You could not be more correct. I wanted the loudmouthed Yari.ba peeps to read about Igbo woman from Cross River via Calabar. When the loudmouths are up to their heaps with mischiefs, they tend to blow their trumpet about Igbo land which did not spread beyond their five imaginary states.

manikspears:
Muritala Muhammad coup plotters were killed and so as the rest.what makes vasta's own unique was that there was no tangible evidence.

You don't sentence a man to death based on suspicion or rumour without proper investigation and confirmation.

That was part of ojukwu flaws during the Biafran war.

And military tribunal is the mouth piece of the commander in chief, so there are under his influence.

This is not true in the military parlance. Under UMCJ, any soldier could be convicted of coup on circumstantial evidence. You should be very carful with what you say or see in the military environment. If you see or hear what looks out of order in military circle, please go to your chain of command. Lt Col Gowon did it to his so-called friend Lt. Col. Ojukwu.

Explorerx:
nee means her birth name bfore she marry

I know the connotation of "nee" hence my question about her being an Efik. Nee Nwaeze Onwuka does not look like Efik surname to me.

techmo:
Muritala a signal corp boss, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua signal corp boss... I laugh at your ignorance MKO in terms of communication owned Nigeria then and the military used him same as CIA, Shagara's coup was planned and perfected at MKO's child naming ceremony with his full funding


I really laugh at your ignorance, you know nothing

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I shall not educate you on military parlance. The signal corps not corp is like artillery battery but not up to the half of regimental strength. In addition, signal commands of the Nigerian army are not crack combat squads such as recce or armored groups. The two chaps you mentioned were historically nobodies in combat regiments of Nigerian army. The chaps were failures in 2nd Division theater at Asaba during the war.

techmo:
Lol MKO was the richest man in Nigeria all through 70s and 80s, as the "Adenuga of today* communication through ITT and RCN.. you basically can't conduct a successful coup without him, most of Soldiers in Signal brigade are his boys

You better ask your elders who MKO is and how he is directly involved in coups and counter coups

I know one Yari.ba bebe in Lagos MKO and I, probably other guys, took turn to address. The bolded completely buttressed the fact Yari.ba peeps are not called loudmouths for nothing. It is safe to say you know very little about Nigerian army or any army for the matter. When you wrote "Most of Soldiers in Signal brigade are his boys", I cease to take you very seriously.

helinues:

Cos their buttons are hard to press..

As always, you are very hilarious. By the way, which buttons are you on about? I guess when it is not "Igbo" button on Yari.ba, it is hard to press.

It is funny how Yari.ba peeps abstained from this thread. Since it is an Omo Oduduwa who had foreseen that Nigeria needs to breakup or is at the verge of breaking up, the loudmouthed warriors of Afonja had decided to look the other way.

Chapii:
hey what are you trying to say? Go back to Military? Can't you allow a growing baby to be Mature?

This is not a baby but a broken adult. The present government is the worst one in Nigerian history. It is very expensive to run and highly incompetence. I had rather go back to the military government than this silly Dumbcracy.

kutchs:
Is Nigeria on the verge of breakup or already broken? Can anyone sincerely call what we have today a United country?
While we've not always been one, but it got bad from 2015 due to the actions and inactions of the current govt.
All we need do now is to man up and accept the reality and stop the pretence. Restructure the system or split.

The bolded is very interesting statement. It means the war against Biafra was for a dopy reason.

Bagehot:
At the end of the day, Ghana is for Ghanians, and its in their right and interest to keep it that way. We are guests in Ghana, no matter how we try to twist it, and as the saying goes "Feel at home, no mean say make Visitor carry remote".

Being guest in anybody's country does not diminish the simple decency accorded to every human being. Ghanaians are guests to many countries of world and should not be happy if treated in this shabby manner. This simple action by moronic leaders in Ghana will have adversarial consequences against the citizens of Ghana outside their country.

Wiseandtrue:
If everything is to be based on execution then IBB shouldn't be alive today

The same thing he executed his friend for was the same thing he did to MKO!!!

So talk another one

This is a strange stream of thought. Who the hell was MKO?

TheAviator:
It doesn't have to.

Please expatiate for sake of camaraderie. There are nothing Efik in Nwaeza and Onwuka. Or do we also have Efik\Igbo as in Hausa\Fulani?

BlowYourMind:
The same IBB killed him, GOD deliver us from enemy like friend

There is a high probability that Mamman Vatsa would have killed IBB if he, Vatsa, was successful with the coup. This is an intrigue many people do not understand with life in military.

TheAviator:
Former President Ibrahim Babangida was the best man on the day his friend and coursemate, Major General Mamman Vatsa wedded his heartthrob, Safiya (nee Nwaeza Onwuka), an Efik from Calabar.

However, Mamman Vatsa was later implicated in a plot to overthrow President Ibrahim Babangida in 1985. Vatsa was arrested few days before Christmas in 1985 (four months after the advent of Babangida's presidency), tried by a Special Military Tribunal headed by Major General Charles Ndiomu, and was executed in March 1986.

Safiya, nee Nwaeza Onwuka, an Efik from Calabar does not make any sense to me.

OgbeniSamm:
What kind of reasoning is this? I'm a Yoruba person but I think this comment by you shows you have a serious problem and if you don't fix it, it will be hard for you to attain success in life. What kind of hatred and ethnic animosity is this?

I guess such idiotic stream of thought is one reason among many reasons Ndigbo agitate for independent country. Ghana would not have acted in this silly manner to citizens of Republic of Igbo Land because of the diplomatic fallout it will generate. Ghanaian actions were not targeted to Igbo traders alone.

kingzizzy:
So basically, what the man is saying is that the civil war was about fighting for Oil.

They won the civil war and thats why Bayelsa Oil belongs to Jigawa.

Must the man from Jigawa State spell it as in ABCDEF..... One has to fight a war for something tangible not on sentimental propaganda.

Bagehot:
Let's be fair, Nigerians are heavy-weights and come better-funded, so they can corner markets from locals pretty easily. In the end, Ghanian voters have the power to vote in whoever dances to their tune, and no responsible country would allow foreigners put their own local population out of work. What Ghana is doing is not much different from U.K's underlying motives for Brexit. How many Africans dominate Nigerians in most business sectors, especially low-scale retail? I cant think of any.

That said, I do feel empathy for Nigerians affected, and would like to say that this is just one more reason why Nigerians need to realize tat we cannot all run away, and at some point, would need to fix home.

What has Nigeria's entrepreneurship got to do with corruptible practice that engendered this draconian regulation or law in Ghana? Ghanaian actions stem out of jealousy and hatred or borderline laziness.

Azmanaty:
Arthur Eze is an American trained Engineer. Tell us the school you went to. Always quick to call people illiterate without knowing the meaning

I agreed to the fact Nigerians are dead wrong to call people illiterate when the people can write and read. However, you did not tell the school attended by Arthur Eze in America as you have demanded the school attended by the previous poster.

The so-called Arthur Eze is an unfortunate product of societal decadence.

Jaqenhghar:
In every country peole put their citizens first. So because you people dont value yourselves you expect it to be the same everywhere you go?

The law which is meant to target certain persons has nothing to do with citizen first ideology.

temptnow:
then Ghanaians should recall their own citizens in other people's countries, cos it's hypocritical to be in another person's country when you don't want them in yours

The Ghanaians were not only hypocritical in this saga but idiotic.