₦airaland Forum

dave P: Romanciella,Rokiatu,and kingTom,iceman abi Iceberyln never show face!

I dey!

mz mariah: I missed you like crazy I swear, I tot the wind blew your moniker again. I missed you

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Guykhena: Na so..
I know say you lose plenty things

Thunder fire that virus wey do NL. Chai make I find way upload my pic

Guykhena: Bros how far ,glad to see that you weren't extinct

A King never dies

mz mariah: I missed a lot of people, I can't even remember some monikers right now

I missed you dave p
Miracy
Obayaya
Jbluv55
Bukatto
Dre11
Cdamsel
Miz tola
Miss more
Odilafta
Francis Tony
Joecutie
Dygeasy
Oga antelope

I miss so many people including my cute diary

I have learnt to always keep my friends closer, I never expected such a thing to happen. I even have some monikers I don't follow but I admire the personality behind those monikers I miss a lot of people and I hope to meet them again with time.

You could not remember me
**Sends another virus to Nairaland***

dave P: where's king tom and gang? Oya jst list small.literature section suffer.

Shebi una say you want me!
You miss me!
See me I don come!

France 0 Nigeria 1

****Clears Throat***
Americans will never learn. I can write a similar epistle about baseball copy copy cricket.
Who knows if tomorrow they will not invent the kind of Football that players wear skirts. Mtcheew .
#Real football is the one where the ball is played around with feet.
#Super Eagles.
#Welcome back Nairaland!

My beloved compatriots, it is no longer news that we as a country are experiencing one of our worst periods, infact only the civil war period(1967-1970) can be said to be worse. My people, I want to appeal to all of you, Men, Women and children, citizens of all tribes to put aside your differences, and embrace one another let there be comradeship, friendship and brotherhood. Friends, let us break the ethnic barrier and be our brothers' keepers, only then shall this country reach its true potential. Thank you and God Bless.

Sloan: You are talking to your cursed father and mother, ko? Not surprised, after all you folks wake up your fathers with a sliding tackle every morning! And you father failed for not letting you get education, hence your English is abysmally poor and downright sucks!

It seems you guys do not know when to stop the insults. Well my damage control is over. If una like kill yourselves, Good night.

Oshodia: Sloan u re a full by saying that , we re not here to cause ay tribe, your father who brought you to this world is an animal fucking you mother with out respect that was why they born monkey like.Are you more that a lot of Yoruba and ibo guy in this nairaland we re here to solve differences but you come with you family fulish nonsense .

Lagos is capital and GOWON was in Lagos. Do you think if capital was in Enugu or port harcourt the soldiers will locate Lagos. All soldiers some Yoruba some ibo are friend.

With this you fulish idea if it now you are gong be the first full to make a big mistake

Mr Oshodia please express your views without resorting to insults. I will once again state that I did not write this post to conjure up ethnic sentiments, therefore I want to appeal to you to follow in the footsteps of sloan, and tender an apology so that peace will reign.

Sloan: Guy, I spoke my mind (and no doubt a lot of others) BUT I stand down on your very gracious appeal.

I understand your position, and you are entitled to speak your mind, but please try to be a bit more subtle next time.
I thank you for standing down, it shows real character and indeed maturity.

Sloan: Wait, did you mean to write that or it dropped out from your head while you were subconscious? Why do you people not see common sense and use it prudently? So, you mean the Yorubas should give you free passage through their land? Why did you not give free passage to all the minorities to keep their land and people away from biafra? No, you had to grab those lands and force their people to become biafra soldiers but you are begging a bigger power to close their eyes so you can go through their lands? The height of irresponsible stupi.dity! What is free in war? Did Ojukwu not have that planned and figured out before he declared secession and brought war? Oh, and you trying to gain access to our land because you are interested in attacking the Northerners but you first come West? If it is not madness, then it means you and your ilk have no grey matter upstairs! If you want to fight the northerners, then go directly to the north; not miss your way to another man's land because that is why you were handed your ass on a blood stained platter! Ibos should stay away from Yorubaland, YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOME IN OUR LAND simple and I don't care what you or anyone thinks about my position!

Please Ladies and Gentlemen, I have stated earlier that this post was not meant to stir up ethnic tensions. Having read the past post-civil war comments and witnessed harsh words that were traded. I have decided to do what I call damage control. Therefore, Sloan I urge you to toe the path of Debetmx and tender an apology. This is meant to be a panel of interesting debates, not a mini war theatre where insults are hurled from one to the other.

debetmx: Obasanjo never supported biafra. For any reason Yoruba officers had been bypassed during the promotion promo by Aguiyi Ironsi for ibo and ibo speaking Officers. Victor Banjo had sent Wole Soyinka to Obasanjo to seek free passage to Lagos for a fee because there was no way the ill trained and equipped biafra forces could get to Lagos without being crushed but Obasanjo rejected the offer. It's totally condemnable that biafran propagandists, the cantankerous coward and even unborn ibos have accused Banjo of treachery. Victor Banjo at any point never supported secession which he showed in his speech to the Mid-West, words and deeds. Victor Banjo had stayed in the State House with ojukwu but moved out when the cantankerous coward declared secession. ojukwu probably chose Victor Banjo to lead the suicide expedition to Lagos so as to have him (Banjo) killed, which he finally succeeded by accusing of planning a coup. God bless Victor Banjo he took the bullet with his chest buffed out. That is an example of a man died for what he believed in.

Governor Adebayo Adeyinka was pro- Federal and never supported secession and war. Awolowo initially sympathized with the biafrans until the treacherous bastard tried to occupy our land using a Yoruba Officer.

My friend, I did not write this book to stir up ethnic sentiments. Vedd has already warned you to keep off.

Let me start by saying sorry, sorry because it took so long to read the voluminous book by the retired Brigadier. The book (The Tragedy Of Victory) is no doubt a fantastic war memoir, I must say that the way battle strategies and maps are presented shows that this man was or rather is a good soldier.
Now let me get down to business, Alabi Isama spoilt his book in my opinion by dedicating a large chunk of it to "exposing" Obasanjo. Obj never wanted to be part of the war, Isama and Akinrinade coaxed him into joining the battlefield. This was after Col. Benjamin Adekunle Alabi isama's darling, had attempted to assassinate him along with Akinrinade. According to Isama's account, he and Akinrinade went to see Gen. Gowon to request a change in command, in their division(the Iconic 3rd Marine Commando). Gowon did not want to cause ethnic tensions by removing Adekunle a yoruba man, so he asked these two gentlemen to suggest a Yoruba man. Akinrinade suggested Obasanjo, an engineer. He did not suggest Oluleye or Olutoye. I am of the school of thought that postulates thus:
1. Isama and Akinrinade saw Obj as a weakling that they could easily control.

2. These two young men wanted to be in charge of that division.

Thus, when Isama and Akinrinade went to see Obj. He told them the truth that an engineer was not fit to command a war division. Isama then proceeded to tongue lash a man who is not only his senior in rank but in age as well. After analyzing Isama's fall and Akinrinade's rise in the army. I feel(and this is just me) that maybe, perhaps after isama had given his superior a dressing down, Akinrinade must have gone to obj and apologised for his colleague's temperance, like a true yoruba man, that is why Isama was sent packing from the division and Akinrinade made the GSO1(general staff officer, and de facto deputy). That is also why Akinrinade was a member of the Supreme Military Council, and Danjuma the COAS booted Alabi out. Mind you Danjuma was a key guest in Alabi Isama's book launch. And Adekunle's laughable apology was "I almost had you boys Killed". Obj as a civlilian president was a nightmare in the opinion of some Nigerians, but you can hardly call a man who defied Abacha a coward, when Lt. Gen. Diya was crying and begging his junior Maj. Al-Mustapha.

Sirniyeh: Exactly! It's just that Nigerians don't understand the love of Awo to the nation. Awo was jailed as well, fought for independence but denied to rule Nigeria. May God polish all enemies of Awo black

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Oga sirniyeh it's punish not polish.

Sirniyeh: sorry to say, you may still be baby during the reign of Awo.. The apartheid Mandela fought for is not more than Awo's struggle for Nigeria independence.
Lets get it cleared that only Mandela's name was heard, he had subordinates who teamed up with him to succeed.
Historically, Awo remains only politician in Nigeria who has the record of policies that favoured the general common nigerian

yes just like the £20 a head policy. Mr please, Awo was great no doubt but Mandela's impact was felt in all of south Africa, Awolowo on the other hand was not liked that much in other parts of Nigeria, and i am putting it mildly.