₦airaland Forum

Victornezzar:
He should better calm down oo
I know dat if Gej was in office
Kanu won't say something like dis

christejames:
Wow!
This is enlightening. Didn't know our soldiers had the knowledge of ceasefire which they even adhered to...
Football is not just a game that unites Nigeria but our way of life.

pazienza:
1. Because they were already in prison, isn't that already punishment?
I think want you meant to ask was why he didn't hand them over to the The Northern military boys that were demanding for their head.
I'd I would ask you why wasn't Awolowo imprisoned in the North rather than Calabar?
The polity was hot then, you wouldn't expect Ironsi to take harsh decisions.
Why did Gowon refuse to punish( atleast imprison) the Northern military boys that went on over drive killing Igbo soldiers and inspired the killed of many Igbo civilians?

2. Orizu never had any say on that hand over. Ironsi was a military commander with troops at his beck and call, Orizu was a feeble civilian with no power whatsoever. Orizu had no option but to hand over to Ironsi, no sane man stands between a military man with guns and power, even Ogundipe that was next to command when Ironsi died relinquished power and ran away, yet he was a military. But demonic Igbophobic entities expected Orizu to defy Ironsi and hand over to Dipcharima, simply because Orizu was Igbo. Like we haven't seen even siblings kill each other for power.

3. Tell me, how many regions did Nigeria have at IronsI death? What was the post of Ejoor, Ojukwu, Hassan at the time of Ironsi death?


4. Igbos were adjudged the problem of Nigeria by all( excluding non) Nigerian group in 1970, decimating the power the Igbo wielded and handling it to Arewa( political power) and Odua( Economic and government parastatals) was supposed to be the cure of Nigeria malaise.
To this end, Awolowo ensured the Nigerian public and private sector came under full control of the Yorubas after the indigenization policy, the North held the power, Igbos were onlookers, sometimes getting the VP position.
Yet Yorubas through sheer incompetence killed all the foreign companies they inherited through the indigenization policy. The North through docile political orientation and subservience to imperialistic powers, allowed Nigeria to be f***d by imperialists, such that she never amounted to any thing tangible.

You both ruined Nigeria, accept it and move on.
Had you created a first world country, after you inherited Nigeria post civil war, we wouldn't be having this discussion here today.

pazienza:
No one made Ironsi the head of state, Ironsi took power by force, stop twisting historical accounts.

Ironsi was the one who was naively too trusting of Northerners and he surrounded himself with too many of them, against Ojukwu better judgement, making his death at their hands rather too easy.

Well, written records had it that men like Fajuyi were among those pleading with Ironsi to free Nzeogwu and co. They were his boys and Fajuyi did lend them advice during the coup planning stage, moreover there were accounts of Ironsi reaching agreements with Nzeogwu and co to spare their lives in exchange to them handing over peacefully to Ironsi.
Either way, Nzeogwu and co were jailed.
Only Igbophobic entities read tribalism in Ironsi handling of the case, historical accounts from many sources proved otherwise.
I also noticed how you ignored Ademoyega involvement in the coup conveniently.


Ironsi met Nigeria as a country of 4 regions, with four premiers, by the time he died, Nigeria had 4 regions with 4 military governors of which Ojukwu was one of.
So pray tell how Ironsi dissolved Nigeria regional system?
It was Gowon with active support of Awolowo and men like Akenzua and Enahoro that dissolved the Nigerian regions and created dysfunctional entities called states.

No, the bloodshed started in the North in 1945, then 1953 and the SW in 1964.
It was the wild wild west caused by political immaturity and greed of Awolowo and Akintola that created the vacuum and turmoil that resulted to the Jan Nzeogwu coup.
Get your facts right.

Zik wanted one Nigeria and went on to diplomatically persuade the North and west to buy his concept, he also conceded power to the North to make prospects of one Nigeria palatable to them.
He wasn't threatening war on any who wanted out of Nigeria.
See the difference between Zik idea of one Nigeria and those of Arewa-Oduanistanis that is all about threats of war and zero diplomacy nor willingness to concede power to make the prospect of One Nigeria palatable to those who want out.

Nzeogwu actually was from present day SS, yes he was Igbo, but Fajuyi and Ademoyega were Yorubas.

Yes, Ironsi did centralize power, as is norm for all military dictators, but the regions were still intact, structurally by the time he died.
It was rather Awolowo and other Hawks like him, who maintained that Gowon should centralize power, encouraged the tampering of the territorial integrity of the regions by creation of states and standing firmly against Ojukwu demand for decentralization of power.

Awolowo and his fellow hawks, helped Gowon create the very failure that Nigeria is today. Accept your responsibility and deal with it. Cos either way, Ndiigbo won't share in this failure called Nigeria with you, Biafra we want, Biafra we will get.

The Nigerian unity Ndiigbo created was a progressive one, built on diplomacy and persuasion of component groups and not on threat of war and forceful union, and shedding of blood.

Nigeria is already reaping the fruits of the seed Awolowo and Gowon planted between 1967-70. The war and blood of Igbo they had to shed to keep the British colonial estate intact will always ensure that Ndiigbo will never ever come to accept unity with you lots, forever making Nigeria an unstable state.
The poor economic policies, Awolowo made immediate post 1970 had truly set Nigeria on a path of failure, and nothing can reverse that.
The Northern USA inherited a fragmented New country after the civil war, with the Southern USA weakened, the North went on to build a great nation that both the South and North are proud of today.
Arewa-Oduanistanis as represented by Gowon-Awolowo inherited a fragmented Nigeria, where the so called national problem( Igbos) had been politically and economically devastated, and still they( Arewa-Oduanistanis) driven by Igbophobia, incompetence and greed created a failed colonial entity that even they themselves are ashamed of today, but rather than accept responsibility for their failures are looking to push it to Igbos.

The earlier Arewa-Oduanistanis take responsiblity for Nigeria failure, the better for them and their failed colonial entity.

hunniebun:
I hate that ikorodu,hardly would you hear goodnews. no good news ever comes out of there!
its a bad place to be in..because it is a cheap place to live in people are now moving there anyhow, why risk your life for a dangerous place?

most of them are usually razz

Soljaboi44:
Hurraaaaaayyy!!First to comment I wanna thank God for the opportunity to comment first. I also thank my mum and dad for bringing me into this world and also feeding me since infancy to grow to become the manI am now. Once again thank my parents for teaching me to be time conscious so I can be first in everything,evenin commenting. I thank my siblings for not letting me down in my quest to comment first. . I thank my teachers from nursery till level 400. Thanks for the discipline instilled in me. I thank my SHS headmistress very much. Thank you to my neighbors and the woman who sells akara at the junction. We made it. First to comment. Hurraaaayyy!

itsJude:
Make i hear word abeg , which one dem come snap with the pilot and poverty looking air hostess are they the first


All this broke people wen they book ticket 6 months ahead so dem go get cheap ones , forming posh look him fake tshirt self spits

DieBuhari:
A Yoruba Muslim is asking this question, as if you don't know

deebsman1:
WHERE IS 112

feran15:
Does anyone know where I can get the machine and materials for making button badges? In Lagos to be specific