₦airaland Forum

EVarn:
@jpphilip,do you lack tact?.what i wrote was "Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu",clearly stating his rank as a Nigerian army officer,I then further went ahead to say "..was a trained Nigerian army general...",clearly stating his position as the leader of the Biafran revolution.what is so hard to understand in those two statements i typed?,i wasnt calling ojukwu a ranking general,i was simply highlighting his position as the topmost Biafran warlord.
kai!,do you call the leader of a revolution,a 'colonel'?,immediately ojukwu declared the sucessionist state of Biafra,he ceased to be a Nigerian army colonel,and became a general of his people.ojukwu was the hero of your people and that of your father.
[b]Ojukwu took a sizeable portion of the Nigerian armoury,otherwise what did Biafran soldiers fight with for 3 years?,are you saying that biafran soldiers butchered over 50,000 Nigerian soldiers with only kitchen knives?
If you are still confused,then i rest my case.
[/b]PS: Nigeria had over 200,000 infantry men after the war,learn!.

Colonel Odumegwu Ogukwu,the then leader of the Peoples Army of Biafra was a trained Nigerian Army general,

EVarn:
@jpphilips,Ghadaffi proposed the disintegration of Nigeria,we had to recall our ambassador over ghadaffi's inciting statements.Did people really expect us to side against NATO and support ghadaffi?,to forfeit our interest,foreign policy and national pride all in the name of a non-existent african solidarity?,what brotherhood do we share with libya?,have you forgotten that libya is an arab country?,these people dont even consider themselves as africans!.
A country that makes decisions based on petty emotions will collapse..
at that time,libya was our enemy,and as the saying goes: the enemy of my enemy is my friend,so we supported NATO
tomorrow,libya could be our ally,thats how international politics works.
would you advocate that we should support palestinian invasion of isreal too?,that we should support islamic thugs masquerading as palestinians to surround isreal by inhabiting gaza and westbanks,all in the name of an imaginary brotherhood?.
use your sense,if you actually have one.

judiciarypalava:
Because it seems JEGA is no more clean. With the card readers pointed to INEC central server in Abuja or state INEC offices, you are suppose to vote anywhere irrespective of where you registered.
Why are they not working like POS machines?

MizMyColi:

No person who believes in the finished work of Christ should subscribe to the concept of Karma in its [size=14pt]totality.[/size]

***Modified***
I just don't have ample time on my hands right now to correct some of their erroneous misconceptions about karma
especially the one the OP made and ridiculously used Christ's crucifixion to buttress her error, not knowing that it is
Christ's crucifixion that makes the concept of karma useless!

Nobody is saying actions don't have consequences but you have to put it in context and not chalk up every
or most unfortunate circumstances plaguing someone as a function of karma. If that is the case then why do
bad things happen to "good" people. - [size=14pt]InZA[/size]

anwo247:
GEJ all the way till Buhari finds his Certificate.

lezz:
As much as your account of the biafran war might be more accurate, your swift impulse to lecture Evarn numbed your sensitivity to what he was saying. His emphasis was on the Nigerian army. He never sided or implied Ojukwu was a hero.

I would love to see more detailed account of military history and standing from you just like in your last post, that is, hoping your penchant for putting a patriotic Nigerian down doesn't become the overwhelming compulsion.

dubemivan:
You must be extra-stupid to think you can just insult and abuse anybody you meet in social site. That you have mouth doesnt give you the right to speak anyhow. Better watch your mouth before I summarize your destiny!!!

EVarn:
@jpphilips,i thought that we arrived at a mutual concensus?,there was no misinformation in anything i posted,i wasnt around during the civil war,but nevertheless,i recieved the undiluted account of events from sources who personally participated heavily in the war.
I wasnt hailing Ojukwu,neither did i aggrandize his insane lust for power,infact,i detest him for the act of cowardice he performed towards the end{though i respect his intelligence}.
Revolutionaries such as Adolf Hitler,Napoleon Bonaparte,Moussoulinni etc....fought and died for their cause,they didnt run away like wimpering dogs when they tasted defeat.
I dont understand the reason why you are being so unfairly antagonistic towards me,did i ever offend you?.
You spun a sobering tale about how ojukwu was a selfish coward with an oversized ego{a notion which i duly support},yet you failed to document the reason why he started the war in the first place,as much as Ojukwu was a power monger,he didnt just wake up one morning and decide to start a war.

EVarn:
We crushed Republic of Biafra into smithereens,Biafra had the unholy support of france and other unscrupulous corroborators,yet we squeeze them hard until they became charred husks.

Dont forget that [b]Colonel Odumegwu Ogukwu,the then leader of the Peoples Army of Biafra was a trained Nigerian Army general,[/b]and prior to his declared sucession,he was also governor of eastern nigeria under the supreme military council.He had manpower numbering over 30,000 before the war,and 100,000 during the climax of battle.he had a large cache of the nigerian armoury in his control.Yet,we won the war,and the rest is history.

This is another lie, Ojukwu never attained the rank of a General in the Nigerian army, the best he got was a colonel, if Ojukwu raised upto 30,000 men, he wouldn't have resorted to kidnapping to make up for his fighters, why do you think Niger deltans like Isaac Adaka boro was vehemently against Ojukwu's revolution?
To believe you pushed the number to 100,000 is most laughable, Nigeria with a population of 170m in 2015 has 138,000 soldiers, if you subtract the Boko haram casualties, that number will significantly drop to 95,000, then in 1967, what is the population of Nigeria to think that Ojukwu's eastern region, 1/4th of the federation by land mass and population will raise that outrageous number?
I also found the "LARGE CACHE OF WEAPONS" laughable, when next you meet an Igbo man aged 60 and above, sing this song to his hearing" that was our chanting slogan and morale booster for every war front.

"Ojukwu nye anyi egbe, nye anyi mma, na - hausa abatakwala Awka" it means; "Ojukwu give us dane/local gun, give us machete that the Nigerian forces have over run Awka (the present day capital of Anambra state and the seat of improvised weapons for Ojukwu's army and till date, we fondly called it "Egbe Awka" " with that song still playing in my head, how do I ratiocinate your "LARGE CACHE OF ARMS" claims?
very laughable indeed!!
Nigeria won the war no doubt but if you want to be honest, that victory was not as a result of a superior war strategy, never mind that Biafra was militarily disadvantaged with no organised Navy and a tiny air force, that victory of the Nigeria side is attributed to Awolowo's crude Blockade policy, Kwashiokor killed more Biafrans than the Nigerian bullet, if you dont know that much, then I will excuse your ignorance.

EVarn:
We crushed Republic of Biafra into smithereens,Biafra had the unholy support of france and other unscrupulous corroborators,yet we squeeze them hard until they became charred husks.Dont forget that [b]Colonel Odumegwu Ogukwu,the then leader of the Peoples Army of Biafra was a trained Nigerian Army general,[/b]and prior to his declared sucession,he was also governor of eastern nigeria under the supreme military council.He had manpower numbering over 30,000 before the war,and 100,000 during the climax of battle.he had a large cache of the nigerian armoury in his control.Yet,we won the war,and the rest is history.
show me what the SANDF have achieved so far,aside from posing with swedish aircrafts and baseless paparazzi.

zendy:
Don't come on the Internet to showcase your ignorance. Buharis participation in the counter coup along with others like Murtala,Danjuma,Martin Adamu,Bako [b]and others has been public knowledge for many many years. [/b]Even Buhari in an interview just last year confirmed that he was a young lieutenant posted to the Army transport corps in Lagos and was there when the first coup and subsequent counter coup took place although he did not elaborate on his involvement. Buhari even said in that interview that one of his duties was to arrange military transportation for Ironsi and his entourage. Even Buharis Wikipedia web page puts him as a participant in that bloody coup.The police account of the bloody counter coup in which Buhari and co killed many Eastern officers cab be read :


http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Nigeria_Facts/MilitaryRule/Omoigui/NorthCounterCoup.htm

The above was written long before Buhari ever ventured into politics so it's not like it's some aimed at him because he now wants to be president. I encourage everyone to read it

Instead of coming online to indulge in petty name calling because you don't know how to use google,do some reading first.