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lexy2014:
Kindly explain

thaoriginator:
Davido is not a King in any industry.

F u c k his money! But, we love him as a person though.

The industry is full of cow shitttt

Syphax:
So in your opinion, 2 million civilians died as a result of hunger not because of aerial bombardments from the Nigerian Air force? If 2 million died because of hunger, how many Biafrans died from gunshots and bombs? Seun, this your agenda is dead on arrival. Don't blame Ojukwu, blame Awolowo that advised the Federal Government to use hunger and starvation as a weapon of warfare. It was inhumane!

naptu2:
Nzeogwu wasn't the leader of the coup. He didn't even know much of what was going on. He was only brought into the plot because they needed troops in Kaduna and he was in command of troops in Kaduna. The leader of the coup was Ifeajuna and the coup was the brain child of Ifeajuna and Captain Oji.

The only reason that people think of Nzeogwu as the leader is because the coup failed in Lagos, so there was no broadcast from Lagos. Nzeogwu waited for a broadcast from Lagos, but when he didn't hear any, he went ahead and made his own broadcast.

That coup was the biggest mistake in Nigeria's history.

Seun:
The significant difference I’ve noticed is that I stated as fact some things that were very strongly implied by the report. Also, out of context, I made it seem as if Nzeogwu was the sole mastermind of the coup.

What are the key facts you learned from that book, which you want me to learn when I read it?

What kind of person orders soldiers to shoot anti-tank weapons at a governor’s house and then executes one of them on the spot for being reluctant to comply? What kind of person shoots at a group of civilians including women and children? What kind of person executes an unarmed leader who is beloved by his people, and his senior wife, instead of just arresting him?

Seun:
I’ll try to find his account and read it and see how it differs.

This report is my main source:
Source: www.waado.org/nigerdelta/Nigeria_Facts/MilitaryRule/Omoigui/1966Coup-Part1.html

Here’s Nzeogwu’s proud description which convinced me that he’s a monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2pcLO9HSc

Seun:
Zik was aware of the first coup and did nothing to try to stop it. Instead, he went on an extended trip outside the country. He didn’t warn the other leaders who were targeted for assassination by the coupists. He only cared about saving his own skin. One of the coupists, Ifeajuna, was a ‘cousin’ to Zik and probably warned him.

Nzeogwu was a heartless beast who thought his military training gave him the right to execute the elected leaders of the land and the wisdom to select a better leader for the country. He personally killed three of the security guards at Ahmadu Bello’s house, shot war weapons at the house, setting the roof on fire, shot dead a fellow coupist who hesitated to follow his murderous orders, shot at women and children running away from the house, and shot the Sardauna dead along with his wife. The plan was to arrest the leaders and kill them if they resisted, but Nzeogwu wanted them dead, so he killed them.

When Nzeogwu’s coup “failed”, General Aguiyi-Ironsi immediately conducted his own coup by forcing the civilian leaders who were supposed to take over to hand over power to him instead. Our democracy would have survived if he stood by the government and allowed the democratic leaders next in line to the those murdered to rule, but he did not. He captured the coupists who had murdered numerous leaders but didn’t put them on trial. He then created a decree that would concentrate power in his hands, which infuriated the north.

Igbo have suffered a lot in this country. Thousands of Igbos were killed in the north in 1966, and many more have been killed in religious riots since. 2 million civilians died in the civil war. Sadly, the Igbo men above contributed greatly to their troubles.

I am reluctant to add Ojukwu to this list. With the massive killing of Igbos, their return to the South East, and the failure of Gowon to respect the terms of the Aburi accord, his decision to secede was understandable and popular. However, it was a mistake. Once Ojukwu realized that he could no longer feed his people, he should have negotiated terms of surrender, but he waited until 2 million civilians had died.

Kaycee7:
Jet Li played 2 contrasting characters in that movie but Jackie who played another iteration of what we've been seeing from him and 5 minutes as an old man was the better actor? Are you for real right now?
Have you seen Jet Li in Fearless, Hero and The Warlords?
Even Jackie's best acting outings in New Police Story and Shinjuku Incident couldn't top those.

Fekego3320:
Good morning

kombats:
Hello Nairaland, this post is mainly to know the Demographic of Nairalanders in this forum.
Please like the post below according to your age.
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newguy1:
exactly Washington fought himself n almost killed himself if not for Robertson stopping him n don’t say no contact was there.there was enough,n the contact dey talked about is meeting even seeing each other( this have been said a lot in different movies n series like fringe, time travelers wife’s n more)

newguy1:
yes I know was telling a friend yesterday. Nolan over conceptualized the movie too much even with time travel u can’t be bending it anyhow like that n there was a point where it was said that if a time traveler meets him self it will b bad which actually happen like twice n nothing did happen