₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
Doesnt it look strange to you that a Yoruba man who was the most senior officer in Nigeria at the time, and should have been president, only got support from an Igbo in the East?

YeeboMuslim:
The idiot is not even an osu pig . He's an aboki masquerading as an ipob pigdiot

Anambralstson:
More

Ikinternational:
Blah blah blah...opinions are like as..sholes
Starvation and 20 pounds couldn't kill us off
But it's your mouth that will...abi

Lagos Lagoons are filled with bodies of the igbos abi
They just can't handle the struggle..smh

Our dna is different. (failure is not an option, the will to succeed etc) That's a fact

Keep on deceiving yourself with drivel

frosbel2:
right about ?

frosbel2:
Brain dead statement "And you would be looking for who will build your infrastructure"

Are we handicapped, that we cannot build our own infrastructure ??

MelesZenawi:
Answer my question Mr.

MelesZenawi:
Few lines of my submission and you are here writing composition.

Is that also part of the intelligence?

Dedetwo:
Only a fool would believe the free education crap. The people in western region were so humanly taxed that few were able to send their wards to the secondary. The so-called free education was fraud. All so-called investments were converted into personal properties.

gidgiddy:
This is no fake news but a well known historical fact.

One thing I have often wondered is why Yorubas let the Northerners roll over them like that?

Brigaduer Ogundipe was the highest ranking officer after Ojukwu. He should have been head of state. But his fellow Yorubas just let a handful of armed Northerners chase him away like that and install a junior ranked Northerner like Gowon as head of state in Lagos

MelesZenawi:
Maybe that was why awolowo was so intelligent to take rat poison....and the current ones were so intelligent to form a toothless bull dog called amotekun.

MelesZenawi:
In voice of IBB “ Can yorubas fight”

EagleSquare1:
Of course it will resurrect into a paramilitary force under the supervision of the Ministry of Interior. A huge recruitment process will be carried out and the rest shall be history.

gidgiddy:
On July 29th 1966, there was a military coup, led by Northerners, in which the Military head of state, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed.

For the next 2 days after the death of Ironsi, Nigeria had no President. The Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Lt Col Ojukwu, called Ironsi's deputy and Chief Of General Staff, Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe

Ojukwu told Ogundipe that in the absence of Ironsi, he(Ogundipe) should declare him President as the highest ranking officer of the Nigerian Army.

Ojukwu also told Ogundipe that should he(Ogundipe) make a nationwide broadcast declaring himself president, he(Ojukwu) would make a broadcast on the Eastern Nigerian Radio 2 hours later declaring total support and allegiance to the administration of Ogundipe.

Ogundipe told Ojukwu over the phone that he had no troops under his command, to which Ojukwu told him to remember he was in Lagos, which was in the South, and not in the North.

Sadly, Ogundipe did not have the backbone to declare himself President. Two days later, the Northerners chased Ogundipe out of Lagos to London and a much junior Lt Col Gowon declared himself president.

AFONJACOW:
Dream of cowards that never have a cause