₦airaland Forum

blackprowler: I felt a personal sense of shame and injustice the day Ojukwu was given a state burial. There's no better evidence of a lack of sense of history that bedevil this country and personified by the incredibly dumb president who has no sense of history whatsoever. Even an enlightened Ibo president would never give Ojukwu a Nigerian state funeral with a restored rank from 1967. Nothing can heal my pain of being identified as a Nigerian at this stage we're in

blackprowler: My soul hurts for all time for what happened in the East in the '60s but I think the Ibo don't deserve my sympathies. They still worship the worst traitor they've ever produced and still blame others for what they brought upon themselves. Read about wars before Nigeria's. The wise avoids a war even if he might win. For you to champion one you can't win is beyond me. Reminds me of today's Hamas. I cry for myself and for Nigeria

IGBOSON1: ^^^Oh please, just shut your mouth! Nigerias' history is replete with examples of how some peoples from certain ethnicities absolutely hate Igbos, so don't give me any of that 'Nigeria could have wiped out the Igbos but didn't because of love' crap! They carried out a lot of evil and war crimes against Igbos which peeps like you would either want to ignore or just gloss over as amounting to no more than a smack on the wrist!

The only reason why they couldn't go the whole hog and use chemical weapons was that it would be too obvious to the outside world, and could possibly tilt world support in favour of the Biafrans! Don't think using chemical weapons didn't cross their minds though.....they are that remorseless!

IGBOSON1: ^^^Nigeria was built on faulty foundations from the get-go, and primarily for the interests of the thieving british of the time! The 'nostalgic' pictures you're seeing that's making you well-up show the period pre and just after Nigerias independence when we went from being 'slaves' of the white man to being slaves of the wicked and greedy Nigerian elite that took over from them!

From post independence we were on a downward trajectory, and the rot that had already set in can't be seen in all these 'lovely' pics because the white man that 'helped' save us from ourselves had just left!

Calculia: hahahaha! Let us get one fact right about the war. Nigeria was persecuting a war for the Bristish and America with an oil interest in the Niger Delta.

U do only wat they permit, as they provide the weapons. The British will ask Gowon, 'is the war over' and Gowon will reply 'just two more weeks' and they got fed-up of his unending two more weeks. Despite Biafra having only manual riffles, the Niggarians with their automatic machine guns, fighter jets and war ships could not win the battle or the war that lasted three and the half years. They were so afraid of the Biafrans after the war, becos they did as they were told else, the manual riffles and some automatic guns confiscated from the niggarians will be out.


The Biafrans on the other hand were masters to themselves. They were not reporting or taking instruction from anybody other than the lion of Biafra. The Ikemba of Nnnewi General Ojukwu.

Osarieme415: Let me purge you of your ignorance,the term; "NO VICTOR,NO VANQUISHED" underscored the absurdity of the avoidable war,"the igbos were Nigerians,and the war was to unite and integrate them with the rest of the country." Would you have been pleased if the Nigerian army, following the axis forces, proceeded to wipe your race off the face of this earth?
Then the cause of the war would have been defeated. There would have been nobody to integrate.
You can go on raving that Nigeria didn't win;the army of kwashiokor kids,starving women,thoroughly subdued army and overflooded refugee camps says otherwise.
You are ranting over a blockade of forty-four years,you should ask yourself why the Nigerian army didn't use the crudest form of chemical weapon;if the FG wanted to eliminate its ibo citizens afterall Salin was used in World War One.... .
You wouldn't understand.... No need trying to educate you
P.S. I hope your first nasty improperly constructed sentence wasn't directed at me... Don't start what you can't finish ooooh. ... That was how Biafra started looking for trouble

Calculia: A no brainer. Even if it engages in trade by batter with an oil rich territory(Bakassi) with a neighbouring country(Cameron) in return for blockade and border closure? Even if, it loses its entire military with only reservist(conscript) to reoccupy the eastern region? Over half a million Nigerian soldiers died at the hand of Biafrans.


Nigeria lost the war before it started and the blockade brought the biafrans home to Nigeria nothing else. In the words of Gowon 'no victor no vanquish'. Biafra true to its name defeated Nigeria, Russia, US AND UK. It sure feels good to be a Biafran.

Bakassi Oil rich


Illiterates who have access to the internet

Ojukwu left becos the war would have raged on had he stayed after an agreement was reached to stop the war due to the blockade.

Secondly, Gowon words was no victor, no vanquish precisely becos Nigeria never won any war. U don't win wars by begging cameroon and giving dem oil rich bakassi to blockade ur opponent.

The blockade killed more Biafrans dan any Nigeria weapon and that was the reason the war ended. How can Nigeria commit any genocide wen the feared Biafrans still had their guns in plain view of the Nigerian Army after the war? Go and learn ur history

royalsweetness: If its you won't you run? Being quarantined by Nigerian government would be equivalent to putting every contact person together to infect themselves and die together

Tizak: Sweetheart, I will not bring myself down to the level of insulting you to get my points across.

This is not an issue of laziness, but of problem solving. The whites only have the solutions because they have been working with Ebola for a while. Also, they have better trained and experienced staff to handle such a dangerous and monumental disease. Do you think any indigenous company will not have started selling vaccines if they had it? At the moment, we are incapable of helping ourselves, so we must get our help from elsewhere.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is this: if the situation was reversed and we were hoarding the cure for profit reasons, do you think there will even be a discussion about the correctness or otherwise of my suggestion? The CIA would have long done the same.

You may not like the method, but when push comes to shove, you have to do what's best for your people.

Cheers.

SicilyNaija: Senegal and guinea have a common boundary but yet there is no case of Ebola in there country

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Nonybb: You People are now confusing Nigerians about this Ebola thing. MMA is far from Victoria Island, and how could such virus got there so soon? Any sickness that kills people are now Ebola, be it Tuberculosis, cancer, Skin rashes, name it. Assuming Patrick Sawyer wasnt in Nigeria until Today, and this corpse arrived some few hours ago, could you had said it was Ebola. Ebola is the most misconstrued disease now. What killed that man might not be Ebola but some other sickness, and even the cloths put on by those that took him with that van isnt enough prove. I was around when Tuberculosis was ravaging people. That one got solved medically. Malaria used to kill People until Artemeter-Lumefetrin came in to remedy the scourge. HIV was killing too until it was tamed and I survived and never got infected. Today people give Testimonies in churches for Missing Ebola to HIV. I shall survive this Ebola thing too.

Leopantro: my apologies for what you and the family is going through. can i have your permission to copy and use what you wrote. i want to link you up with thr proper officials. have also sent you a PM. kindly reply. thank you.

Kirinwa: Not that I support their running away but last time I checked ebola doesn't have a cure just like HIV virus.

Aggrippa: mumu country, mumu minister?, mumu medics, mumu people how can you dump force everyone you suspect has Ebola into one small area for quarantine without giving them proper care? and not expect the disease to spread?
solution: each case or suspect case should be singly isolated or quarantined in specified individual locations and also cautiously treated with great care!

Ashantiking: Did I ever say I was a nigerian. I already have my reasons for saying what I said if don't like it, don't quote me. I will continue to say what I have to say. Is people like you that allow the government to take u for a ride.


Even if they are not deliberately killing them, I believe they are not giving them the necessary care.

atlwireles: Coming from a supporter of APC like you, is actually a compliment.

atlwireles: The market has been saved from that constant pressure the Naira was under. Sanusi spent about $1.5B monthly supporting the Naria. Since the new CBN chairman came on board, exporters have become the regular suppliers of dollars to the market, not CBN.

atlwireles: Why do you vomit rubbish all the time?

1wolex85: simple question, nobody has answered.

Why are we borrowing 1bill dollars to fight bokoharam if the excess crude account has increased?

Someone who has a logical explanation should please post.

Sincere9gerian: Yes, through his actions or inactions as the then CBN governor

Alishachris: you mean now you can now lie and manifacture figures like okonjo is doing? Economy is growing yet things keep getting harder for the poor! hlthe cost of living keep increasing! And if I hear that dollar has been relatively stable, I will paint your face with patrick sawyers ash!

stevecantrell: you know, this ebola strain is a whole new strain, some experts say its has been 'weaponised'.

It bears some extra characteristics from older strains;

- it spreads well via the atmosphere (airborne)

-Its incubation period is shorter

-it destroys its host in a few days

Ashantiking: Thank you, that's what I said. I think once they find out you have it they just kill you.

Sweetlemon: Apart from the two doctors, I don't think any other persons are infected. They know what they are doing.

Okay..

Bats are carriers or hosts of the disease... Now they say bush meat(a.k.a Big rat) is a carrier also but people(nigerians) have been eating bush meat and nothing do them.

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The disease can be gotten through body fluids e.g. Sweat,cough, tears, blood, sneeze, human waste products e.t.c. That is why I think the lab uniform/gear for ebola been worn by doctors is substandard cos this body fluids penetrate the uniforms and infect the drs.

It's like catching cold,cough from someone else. U just have to be around the person.

Some points could be wrong... But I don't take chances..." everyone is a suspect".

Sincere9gerian: I think the report is not entirely correct. What is being reported on Channelstv is the death of one of the nurses that had primary contact with the Liberian.

Finally, it turned out that, in spite of the empty rhetorics and reassurances, the Lagos and federal health authorities made no preparations whatsoever for the management of possible Ebola epidemic in Nigeria. What a shame.

The situation is already bad but I hope it doesn't get worse than this. So far, it is 100 percent fatality in Nigeria, unlike the 90 to 60 percent being reported elsewhere.

Whereas we had all the time in the world to prepare for possible Ebola outbreak in Nigeria since March this year when the current outbreak was reported in Liberia, now we have no choice but to try to play catch up. That is what you get in a country that expends so much energy and time on SHARING of national cake. Always reactive, never proactive.