₦airaland Forum

Kaduna1stson:
Yoruba people kept fighting Abacha government, now they are fighting Buharri.

Where will Nigeria be if they didn't fight while folks like you hid out of fear and tribal loyalty?

Kaduna1stson:
Why will they be attacking a northern government every tine?

Where did he attack the "northern government"? The issue at hand is beyond one particular government, it affects all of Nigeria and Nigerians.
Besides, Yorubas played a significant role in bringing about your so called "northern government"

AfonjaConehead:
Keep on making all the noise over the Igbos as that's all you people know how to do best..
This is a modern world Andy same people that chased away that paper warrior afonja from his own land and forced an emir gambari on the people are now all over the west doing what they like lolssss but here you are, looking for ipob rats and cockroaches what a shame baaaahahahahahahahahhaahahHahahAaaaa....



I ain't Igbo,but I can tell you that the igbos don't have time for you....the day they will have your time will be horrible.....

You can't even admit you are Ibo! Is it that bad?

Amah70:
O yea.

Same way Lagos has been removed from the SW region and Lagos now no man’s land.

Who removed Lagos from the SW and when?
Comedian.

MelesZenawi:
I never said emir of ilorin.

I said kwara state is a northern state and majorly fulani with emirs

How is Kwara a Northern State? The old Midwest was part of Western Nigeria, does that make them Yoruba?
The old regional structure is long gone, anyone using it to justify anything is only deceiving himself.

JaffyJoe:
What an ignorant statement. Emir of Ilorin, not Emir of Kwara.

Most of the comments here are from trolls. The others cannot differentiate their left from right.

Atlas9:
The fulani rampage of domination, subjugation of others, bloodshed and deliberate economic instability will be the legacy of the present junta.

If you rule well, people will not be offered the dubious privilege of 'love him or hate him.'

There's no human being that is absolutely loved by everyone.
Fulani rampage and Fulani domination? This is so annoying, how can a minority group in Nigeria dominate you? Are you a bunch of babies?
You know what happened to people who cannot defend themselves, don't you?
It is your fault in this day and age if you allow yourselves under any circumstances to be decimated and dominated.
If in fact Fulanis are trying to run you over, it is your fault to stand by and let it happen.
As for the railways, Buhari will be remembered for doing his part.

Love him or hate him, people will remember him for this.

The same Nigeria where a certain Dasuki went to the central bank and took out one billion dollars to be shared for someone's reelection.
Tbe same Nigeria where each of our lawmakers are earning more money annually than the president of United States.
Nigeria can afford to connect every city in Nigeria by railway if we manage our resources wisely, and we can do it without borrowing.

Arrewa:
It had been investigated and the hotel was found guilty of holding such party... Involving teenagers and even underage.

That's why the Hotel was demolished!!

God bless Arewa!!

Found guilty by which court? While I don't agree with the sex party, tearing down the building is an extreme punishment done with impunity.
What if the organisers of the sex party does not own the building?
The crime has not even been committed! The owner of that building should sue the government.

princeade86:
pls stop this because with this useless hyping, we going nowhere. where is buhari. the country is on fire.

What hyping? Can't you see these things with your own eyes?
Must you always condemn the government even when they perform well?
Nobody is hyping anyone, we all agree that insecurity is still a big problem in the country but that doesn't mean we should condemn everything, even positive initiatives.

He certainly did well in terms of infrastructure. I give that to him. No country can develop without these things he is putting in place.

He was so good that he lost reelection. What a load of crap! Trump is probably the most inept leader in the history of USA.
Impeached and lost reelection. So much for being a good leader.

odogwux:
Even a boy scout will laugh at this kind of question. Kaduna was the capital of the north but the 5th battalion was the muscle. Kaduna had the NDA and training facilities and Nzeogwu worked there as an instructor but Ojukwu had the heavy weapons and a full battalion

As a soldier you think of securing your captured position. It was in 1967 that the 1st division was formed in Kaduna.

What prevented Ojukwu from marching to Kaduna and arrest Nzeogwu?

CharleyBright:
So why did the coupist took over Enugu and Kaduna and tried to take over Lagos and Ibadan and not Kano? As in, you mean they didn't need to be in control of Kano Battalion as they took other divisions so as to be fully in control of the Army Stations? That would have been careless for well trained Military officers engaged in a coup.
Mind you, Nzeogwu and the bunch of the coupists when the best trained personnel from Sandhurst as at then. They knew what they were doing, but they failed to fully get control of the Army divisions that's why they failed.
Nzeogwu needed to take hold of Kano Battalion, but he couldn't.

We can go on and on with these argument and it won't help any of us.
So I will let you have your opinion, so l let me let the matter rest.

The coup happened on January 15th, just two days after Nzeogwu and his gangs were in Lagos to surrender. This should tell you that a lot of things happened within that 48 hours.
Lagos was the prize, if Lagos had fallen the coup would have been successful regardless of what happened in Kano. The coup failed largely because they failed in Lagos though they were successful in other regions.

CharleyBright:
My dear young man, you don't need to resort to insults to prove your point. You don't say people are talking rubbish because you don't agree with their position. Be civil online cos you don't know when you are talking to your elders.
Firstly, let me inform and educate you. The Murtala Mohammed coup did not happen 6months after the Nzeogwu coup. After Nzeogwu coup, Ironsi took over. Then Ironsi was assassinated, then Gowon took over and was Head of State all thru the Civil War and after. When Gowon was removed thru a coup, Murtala Mohammed took over before he was assassinated 6 months into his govt. So your point that Murtala Mohammed coup happened 6months after Nzeogwu is wrong.
Secondly, the Dimka coup that assassinated Murtala Mohammed was the most flawed and badly planned and executed coup ever in the history of Nigeria and Africa. Even the Coup Message was badly written that when it was read, it showed that they were confused on their intentions. And these and other silly mistakes they made were many reasons why it failed. You made reference to Dimka coup as didn't bother to be in control of other army artillery in other locations in the country. My young lad, that was the very key reason why the coup failed. They were very incompetence and foolish to think they can do a military coup without disarming other military locations and taking charge. They failed in that coup cos other Military divisions rose up to close in on them in Lagos.
Now going back to the Nzeogwu coup, there were a few Army Battalions then during Nzeogwu coup. One in 2 Battalions in Lagos, one in Ibadan, One in Enugu, one in Kaduna and one in Kano. All these Battalions needed to be taken over as key to their coup plan. Enugu and Kaduna were taken over by the coupists. Lagos and Ibadan were almost taken over, but Ironsi fought back and overpowered the coupists maned in Lagos. Nzeogwu who was in Kaduna then tries to take Kano, but Ojukwu in Kano fought back and repelled him.
Go and read books written by Army Officers who were on ground and later wrote books about what transpired.
Knowledge is Power. Read and acquire knowledge and stop arguing blindly and insulting people unnecessarily.

I said Murtala because he was behind the coup. This is a fact, Murtala and his gang merely chose Gowon to lead the junta. He came back nine years later to kick Gowon out, this is another fact.
You are getting everything wrong, do you think well trained officers who got their education both in Nigeria and overseas are so naive that they didn't factor in how to take over important military formations when planning a coup?
Sir, Ojukwu was never a threat to Nzeogwu when he took control of the north. The coup was totally successful in the north and that is why Ironsi had to negotiate a surrender rather than forcefully taking Nzeogwu.

owobokiri:
You are trying to teach the unteachables... They will never agree to the truth unless you tell them the same story their uncles told them. Most of them are getting their real basic education about these events on this platform for the very first time! This means that all the conjectures and conspiracy theories they have been peddling all along about the Jan 15 coup and the other subsequent coups are utterly wrong! They won't own up to their misunderstanding of facts, events and of course history because by doing so, they will start to see and seem to agree to the treacherous roles played by their uncles during the follow up events. So rather than read and accept the facts as you have stated here continuously, they will argue and argeu and argeu and drag you from all sides till they mess up the whole thread!

What I will not understand is why somebody born many years after an event will choose to speak of the same event that happened years before he was born so authoritatively that even the recorded views of the participants in such events are discarded! Mischief much!? There are books written by participants of January 15, 1966 coup! Both by Ben Gbulie (Nigerias Five Majors) an Igbo and Adewale Ademoyega (Why We Struck) a Yoruba! None mentioned Ironsi as a member of their group!! They rather bemoaned the inability of the Lagos group to track him down and arrest him. Why are our resident revisionists here desperate to name Ironsi as a member of the coup plotters then?

Both of you are talking rubbish. Did Nzeogwu need to take Kano in addition to being in control in Kaduna?
Six months later when Murtala and his gang took control of Lagos even when the head of state was killed in Ibadan, did he also need to physically take other formations in the country?
Kaduna was the seat of power in the North, that is why it was taken by Nzeogwu. Whether Ojukwu was the GOC in Kano was irrelevant. Nzeogwu was most certainly ready for any pesky opposition from any quarters.
You are probably learning basic stuff on this forum yourself.

CharleyBright:
Mister Man, If Ojukwu was part of the Nzeogwu coup, why was he never arrested or named as one of the plotters long after the coup plotters were arrested? Why was Ojukwu still allowed to command the Kano Battalion after the Coup?
Why is it that till today, no one has ever linked Ojukwu to the Nzeogwu coup, except you?
It is you, that is coming with such erroneous narrative.
Sources and writers has it that Ojukwu who was commander of the Kano Battalion then, fought and repelled Nzegwu (who was said to be relieving Lt Col. Kurubo and temporarily overseeing the Kaduna Battallion the day the coup happened), as Nzeogwu tried to takeover Kano Battalion from Kaduna.


Point of information, Ojukwu left Kano to Onitsha after he protested the ending killings of many Ibo officers following the Nzeogwu coup.

I never said Ojukwu was part of the coup! Where did you get that from?
Ojukwu did not fight Nzeogwu because the north was effectively under Nzeogwu. Nzeogwu surrendered after some agreements with the authorities in Lagos.

CharleyBright:
Perhaps you have a personal beef against Ojukwu.... that's your cup of tea. Let me leave you to it.

Perhaps you have a beef with the truth. If Ojukwu foiled the coup in the north why then would Ironsi enter into an agreement with Nzeogwu to stand down.

CharleyBright:
You are entitled to your opinion, am not going to argue with you unnecessarily.
I have told you what happened as narrated by credible writers and sources.
Go and do your research.

What credible writers? Ojukwu did not foil any coup, if anything he could have acted as an intermediary between Lagos and Nzeogwu. Stop spreading lies and distortion of history.

candidtalk:
Indeed.



Not such a mystery. Africans have good immune resistance/response to the virus likely because they naturally get vitamin D from sunlight.

Secondly, most influenza viruses, which covid-19 is, thrive and spread quicker in colder climates. The very hot weather of most African nations prohibits rampant spread of the disease on the continent.

You are probably right.

CharleyBright:
Just a little point of correction:
Firstly, Nzeogwu didnt entirely capture the North in the botch coup. He had boys planted in Kano and Kaduna, but Emeka Ojukwu who was commandant of the Nigeria Army in North ( Kano and kaduna bases) didnt agree with the Nzeogwu coup plotters, so he fought back and foiled the coup from Kaduna, while Ironsi fought back from Lagos and ibadan. Onitsha and the entire South East and middlebelt was already in the hands of the coup plotters, but they needed to be in control of Lagos and kaduna for them to succeed.
Ironically, while many till today call the Nzeogwu coup an Ibo coup, what many dont understand is that it was IBO Military officers ( Ironsi and Ojukwu) that aborted the coup.

Secondly, Aguyi Ironsi was a little weak and indecisive in his bid to desperately please the officers of the Northern extract. He made careless mistakes by overlooking and undermining some officers who he was warned about as planning a coup. He failed to take decisive actions when neccessary. The Nigerian Military then was not where you played weak and indecisive.. Or you will pay dearly for your actions. Ironsi tried desperately to unified the divided army then, and he was caught in between accusations by the Northerners in the Military on one hand, and accusations by his fellow Ibo officers who said he failed to protect them.
While the Northern Military officers saw Ironsi as an impostor and beneficiary of the Nzeogwu coup, they found more reason to take him out on the basis that he failed want to conduct Military Trial for the coupists who were still being under arrest.
Ironsi used to walk with a Staff that was alleged to be Legendary in saving Ironsi in many battles he had fought outside the country where he was posted to, and rumours were rife in the army then that Ironsi was killed to test the potency of the staff and debunk the legendary tale about Ironsi.
All in all, Aguyi Ironsi was a fine soldier and meant well. He didnt deserve the kind of death he was subjected to.

Ojukwu did not foil any coup from Kaduna. Nzeogwu was effectively in control of the northern region, he was persuaded to stand down after the coup had failed in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria. This is probably one of the reasons why Ironsi was reluctant to execute the plotters, eventually leading to his own downfall.

thatigboman:
watch 76. Obasanjo was part of the coup, but his role was enshrouded in secrecy

True, this is because you were in the Army and Obasanjo directly recruited you to be part of the coup.
Radarada.

Aconomist:
Nigeria will soon ban fertilizer imports to allow Dangote to monopolize the markets for Urea and Ammonia. This will double the price of fertilizer and lead to rampant food inflation in Nigeria.

Where did you get this from?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIbVfQlEId0

JayJohnson:
This belongs to the dustbin

Of course, you are free to wear your ignorance like a badge of honor.

DuBLINGreenb:
In that case it's dead already, as dead as the person in whose honour it was built

Ok sir, everyone will die someday. Will there be any monuments in your honor when you are gone? I doubt it with your attitude.

DuBLINGreenb:
The place is empty oh, nobody as well as nothing to do.
Hopefully it will grow and have more activities if not I see it dying in a hurry.

Dying? Fajuyi park is not new, it has been there since the 60's or very early in the 70's. I actually liked the way it was as a somber grave not an amusement park.

And so? What if Tinubu is from Ikare or Iragbiji or somewhere else?
Much Ado about Nothing.

JayJohnson:
See what frustration has done to your life? Stop beefing people you will not hear

Many of you are just unbelievable. That guy is absolutely right about what he said. The lady is just a dumb drama queen. Some days are truly cold in Canada but not what I saw in that video. There's no doubt in my mind that there are some kids somewhere playing in that weather. I have seen white people do some road maintenance in worst condition than that.
If that little snow bothers you so much, it is time to come back home.

BKsoul:
Oga stop calling people stories nonsense.... should i tell you about my father's own i will even invite you down to come see things for your self

Please share your story.

AfonjaMuslim:
E shock the Yoruba muslim

Ojukwu said more than this. What happened to the largest army in Africa?
Besides, with that toy?