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rozayx5:
and Otobo the nonentity has returned to Ashaawo work

Her work is not what is important. What is important is if Suleman paid for her 'services'

Even Britain might break up soon, Scotland has asked for a second referendum.

Gowon is a hypocrite and a war criminal.

While Ojukwu was fighting to liberate his people from the shackles of Northern domination, Gowon was fighting for Oil money on the guise of 'keeping Nigeria one'

This same hypocrite called Gowon who is claiming to be a 'principled man' was not principled enough to honour the Aburi agreement he signed in Ghana. And this led to the war

Let Gowon tell Nigerians the truth instead of lying through his teeth. Gowon was an opportunist who exploited Murutala Mohammeds counter coup to get to power. Despite just being a Lt Colonel with several people senior to him like Brigadier Ogundipe, Colonel Adebayor, colonel Imo and even Ojukwu, Gowon siezed power to represent 'The Northerners'.

Gowon in his first broadcast announced that 'There is no basis for Nigerian unity'. Two days later, Gowon suddenly changed his mind when he was informed of the huge Oil wealth in Eastern Region and he started singing the tune of 'one Nigeria' louder than a Canary. Till today, Nigerias unity is still all about oil.


In other to control Nigeria, Gowon and his Northern goons decided to break the Aburi agreement by introducing 'divide and rule" through the dissolution of the 4 Regions and creating 12 states.

With the breaking of the Aburi agreement, the 3 Regions in the south (Western, Mid West and Eastern) were faced with 2 sad realities, accept Northern domination or declare your freedom and fight for it. The Western Region and Yorubas along with the Mid West chose the cowards way out and readily accepted Northern slavery. Ojukwu stood up, declared his people free and fought 3 years to hold on that freedom. At the end, Ojukwu flew into exile and Biafra agreed to a ceasefire. The cost was millions dead, just because of Oil.

50 years on, Nigeria has not progressed, it has not moved foward, it has not united, the agitation for Biafra is still strong. The Northern Region that was fighting to contol the economic and political life of Nigeria is the poorest, least educated and hotbed of sectarian violence and terrorism. Nigeria failed as a nation just like Ojukwu thought it would, the man must be laughing in his grave.

Gowon the lier, Northern hegemonist, war criminal and disaster of a leader is still alive to see the Nigeria he kept one and what it turned out to be

aribisala0:
Nothing to do with us Eboes can go back to Jerusalem for all we care. Just don't create violence in our neighbourhood. We cannot ignore irresponsible actions that would have consequences for our peace and security .
We have not forgotten the attack on Ore or Laos. Any future
Eboe nation MUST be demilitarised and will not be allowed to have any military forces

The attack in Ore? Igbos had already packed up, returned to the East, declared their own country and left Nigeria in peace. You Nigerians would not leave us alone and came down to the East to fight. When we retaliated, you people started shouting Ore!

It was the Nigerian/Biafran war and Ore was in Nigeria. You guys are lucky we didnt attack Ibadan

coolscott:
They didn't go anywhere. Igbos are liars, especially in cultural issues.

Most people of the south had established kingdoms which the white man came and had to politically deal with.

Igbos on the other hand, did not even know the boundaries of igbo land until the white man came and made Nigeria and injected some enlightenment. Igbos remained organised into villages and clans, the highest political form they could attain as a people till date.

That is why they don't even know how to in a civilized way, relate to other ethnic groups, as an ethnic group themselves.

When other ethnic groups were doing this over the years before colonisation, they did not, because there was no Igbo nation.

Now they know the area that they cover and they want ethnic identity like the other more established ethnic groups. But they know at the back of their mind, they have no collective "glorious" history.

So all this pettiness from them is just a mordern day quest for identity. They are an ethnic group on a quest in this day and time for ethnic pride and historic identity..

Unfortunately, that can only be forged from within, and not from misdemeanours without - not by relationship misbehaviour with any and every who happen to live in Nigeria with them

This long epistle of yours and you still made no point except state the obvious which everyone already knows. Igbos have always been confederates. Igbo land is a confederacy. We are not empire builders and neither are we empire chasers. Before the white man came, Igbos rarely had kingdoms. Igbos are a different breed, republican, highly democratic and firecely independent. We are not looking for historic identity, every Igbo sub- group has its own identity and history. We are not looking to be established either, thats not what Igbos about.

Which of the three ethnic groups knows its boundaries? The boundaries of Yorubalabd stretches into Benin Republic, the boundary of Hausa land stretches into Northern Ghana. The boudaries of Igboland stretches into the lower Benue, CrossRiver, Rivers, Delta and even Edo state.

As I said, you made no point except state things anyone in secondary School already knows


As for Itsekiris and Biafra, I will echo what Asari Dokubo said last time he called Radio Biafra.

Asari Dokubo: Itsekiris are not original members of Biafra, only a referendum will allow them to join us

Afriifa:
that's a political scheme. we all know the real Niger Deltans are the South South (six States) anything outside that is known to us

You mean the Niger Delta and South/South, both of which are not recognised by the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria?

Dont make us laugh

Slonge2:
The fact is that the Igbo's are too uncultured, unpragmatic, emotionally unstable, cry babies and politically unsophisticated to be in any kind of alliance with the Yoruba's.


They lack hindsight and foresight, and are experts in blame shifting. They hate taking responsibility for their actions and inactions and would rather blame others for their inadequacies and limitations. They also aren't strategic thinkers and lack comprehension of the dynamism of Nigeria political system.

And of what is point of all this if Igbos are saying they dont want to be in the same country as you?

Chukwu Okike be praised!

profhezekiah:
Of course Igbo presidency 2029

Igbos dont care about the useless presidency of Nigeria any more.

aribisala0:
Again more Eboe lies, suicidal behaviour is not bravery. Ojukwu's war was the zenith of folly.
Eboes are the ones who tried to take over Nigeria a misadventure which we are still paying for to this day. Eboes introduced coups to Nigeria. It was an Eboe that abrogated fiscal federalism and introduced unity government. Whilst Ironsi was in power Ojukwu had no problem with decree 34 and unitary government. You folk always think you are smarter than everyone when the exact opposite is the case
If Eboes are so smart why are they oppressed in Nigeria ?
Is that not like the case of the chicken that believes it knows more than the person that put it in a cage ,makes it lay eggs daily and takes the eggs away yet the chicken insists it is smarter

All this is beside the point. The point is that during the counter coup, the Northerners went to Ibadan and killed the Governor of the Western Region, chased away the man who should have been head of state, Brigadier Ogundipe, a Yoruba man. The Northerners then dissolved the 4 Regions and 12 states were created.

It was plain to see that the Northerners were plotting the domination of Nigeria.

Yorubas should have been angry that their Governor was slaughtered in Yorubaland. They should have been angry that their most high ranking officer was driven out of Yoruba land and out of his righful place as head of state by the Northerners. They should have been angry that their western Region was dissolved.

All Yorubas could do was meekly bow down to the Gambari Northern Lords and say " Dear Northerners, I cant fight for my sovereignty. Spare my life and I will agree to one Nigeria"

Overnight, Awolowo became deputy to Gowon who was young enough to be his son and Colonel Adebayor was reduced to saluting Gowon who was by far his junior in the Army.

Yorubas were held hostage in their own land after their Governor, FA Fajuyi was slaughtered like a Chicken.

But Ojukwu refused to deliver his people to Northern domination. He stood up for them and fought for 3 years. If Igbos were going to go down, it would not be without a fight

Yorubas surrendered like slaves to the Gambari Lords

To this day, the average Yoruba man is proud of himself for surrendering without putting up a fight and thinks that Ojukwu who fought for three years is a coward.

It is only in the mind of a Yoruba man that someone like Ojukwu who fought for 3 years is a coward while him that surrendered without a fight is brave

I laugh in Igbo

bantudra:
their will be no referentin in the delta..we none igboid tribes have already made up our minds...

WE DONT WANT BIAFRA!!!....period....

Well it seems you have already used your mouth to do the 'referentin' for them.

Afonja

odduduwa:
what is written has been written afonja Ikwere,urhobo,itshekiri,ijaw,annag,efik,ogoja,some parts of idoma MUST JOIN BIAFRA sad a thing you can't do anything about it

Not 'must'. Their is no 'must' in the issue of Biafra. When referendum comes, they will have the option of going with Nigeria or Biafra.

Biafra can never be a country like Nigeria that was created by forcing people against their will to join.

Organs:
KingZizzy: JpPhilips is indeed smart and articulate. He gave it to you big time. Kindly listen to his words of wisdom and free yourself from mental and psychological slavery. Ojukwu and Biafra lost for a reason, it was all based on lies and propaganda. God almighty is on the side of Truth and Justice. IPOB and Biafra cannot and will not succeed.

He maybe articulate but he is far from smart. Just another Nigerian trying to justify why Lord Lugard made him a Nigerian.

Biafra is based on the lies and propaganda of Ojukwu? If that is true, then you can imagine how we should feel about Nigeria that was based on increasing Lord Lugards Bank Balance.

Nigeria is far worse than Biafra.

ibson99:
the main struggle for Biafra is to have the Niger-Delta, without it even the agitators wont want biafra anymore.

It all depends what you mean by 'Niger Delta'. If you ask someone like Adaka Boro, he will tell you that Niger Delta is only Ijawland

My parents saw Biafra, I must see Biafra!

Agumbankembu:
I HAVE JOINED THE TEAM OF DEFENSE LAWYERS IN THE CASE OF NNAMDI KANU, AS HIS COUNSEL.




https://web./133527986816712?view=permalink&id=763780953791409&_rdr

Lalasticalala


https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17523480_1442922962446329_7661922983477592048_n.jpg?oh=c3515bdf4ab8a38848ead3f9cb3751d0&oe=5998A806

Emeka Ugwuonye pictured wearing dark eyeglass

I like it, Emeka Ugwuonye looks 'bad' in shades

Nice one by Emeka Ugwuonye. I wondered why he didnt join Kanu's legal team much sooner. Still better late than never.

Afriifa:
I will only take the agitation of Biafrans serious when they start respecting the Niger Delta people.

I will only take people like you serious when you tell me what 'come' is in Niger Delta language

It is Zo on Hausa
It is Wa in Yoruba
It is Bia in Igbo

What is it in Niger Delta?

comos:
only If these people know the true cause of Biafra, then they should have be on their knees begging the FG and the rest of Nigerians to forgive them of the sins committed by their grand fathers (Aguyi-Ironsi, Nzegwu, Ifeajuna & co)

If you are mentioning these people then it means you dont know the true cause of Biafra

sarrki:
The truth is this is not how to go about agitation

You have to consider the political arrangements

Nigeria needs total cleansing of our crop of political leaders we have now

Then we will all be good for it

It's like singing a lord song in a strange land

Really? Are you not a Nigerian? How did Lugard agitate to create Nigeria? He used macine guns, cannons, Horsewhip (koboko) amongst others.

So really, Nigerians who became what they are by violent agitation should not be advicing Biafrans who have so far kept it peaceful

ElsonMorali:
Stop fooling yourselves.

Ojukwu fought a war to further his ambitions of ruling Nigeria, otherwise he won't have left the east. He would have stayed there to defend his territory.

But no, he sacrificed millions of Igbo lives to achieve his ambition.

Even a 20years old student, Bruce Mayrock set himself ablaze in front of the UN building in support of Biafra, yet your leader, sighting the opposition army from afar ran away to another country with his tail between his legs. leaving you lot to die.

Check these links and educate yourself:

http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19690603-01.2.8&e=------

https://www.nairaland.com/3121131/biafra-hero-20years-old-man

Ojukwu fought to rule Nigeria? Is that what they told you?

I dont need to check links, I know who Bruce Mayrock is.

The real thing to think about is that when the Northerner decided to take over Nigeria, Igbos under Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Dr Okpara etc declared the East a separate country and fought for 3 years to keep it


Yorubas under Awolowo, Adebayo etc surrendered straightaway to a small boy called Gowon


Now who is more of the coward in this scenario?

jpphilips:
I understand how desperate you guys are to garner sympathy for profound buffoonery, let me make your suicide very easy.
Amnesty international got hold of videos posted by IPOB lunatics like you, being a credible organisation, they drew the world's attention to it calling for an investigation. Stop asking me to view a video your minions posted, tell your deputy director and his minions to go and sit with the Nigerian authorities to determine the authenticity of the video.
A riot scene in 2012 can be tilted, IPOB riot in 2016, Amnesty was not on ground, they relied on the same video evidence to make their assumptions, so do your sorry ars@ a favour and attend the inquiry. let us not misunderstand ourselves again, anybody who believes a lunatic like Nnamdi kanu will give him independence is not worthy to live amongst humans, whichever method of natural seggregation necessary to separate such elements are welcomed by my standards, comparing those !diots with tasty guinea fowl is an insult to the animal kingdom.

At least you now know why nobody is going to support the outcome of any investigation by the Army. They are going to behave exactly like you, argue from a point of ignorance, reject any evidence without proper vetting, hold tightly to their biased point of view and claim they are saints.

Nobody has forgotten how things work in the zoological Republic of Nigeria where nothing ever changes.

The unfortunately for you Nigerians, the people Lugard 'baptised' after a common River, change is one constant. Some day, the colonial fraud called Nigeria is going to crash and from it, the indigenous people will reclaim their sovereignty. That time not so far away any more. In the meantime, Nigeria will remain the zoo where its inhabitants have nothing to look foward to except suffering.

Ndi Nne ma mma!

Umu nwanyi Chukwu goziri!

Basic123:
lolz...yinmun for you..who do you trust self...do you guyz even trust yourself?...if not ojukwu will not absconded to ivory coast for his followers to be massacred by nigerian army and the same party founded by ojukwu you claim to love is grasping for breath while you are embracing PDP created by fulanis all around.

Well at least Ojukwu fought for 3 years before absconding. Unlike Awolowo and Adeyinka Adebayo who bowed down to Gowon and the Gambari masters without even a single protest.

jpphilips:
The onus of proof is on you, so dont send anyone to research youtube for you. First you lied Amnesty said they have incontrovertible evidence yet amnesty is asking the federal government to investigate those claims how does that make any sense to you?


This is an excerpt from the Amnesty report;



Did Amnesty say they acquired the video footage? Is it not the same footage Uche meofor was asking them to circulate in one of his broadcasts? Who did the video? How credible is that evidence? Is that not what the inquiry will unravel? If it is authentic, why is IPOB running?
You lie to yourself so much that you are beginning to believe your own lies. Amnesty got hold of IPOB propaganda and did a report based on that, it behooves common sense for IPOB and the Nigerian authorities to sit and determine the authenticity of the so called evidence, should the army discredit its authenticity, IPOB would have proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.stop Lying to yourself, it is not good for your health.

Some people like to argue blindly and make a fool of themselves. Thw data you used in writting the nonsense above, you could have used it to go to youtube to watch the Amnesty International report on the IPOB shootings and how the reached their conclsions. Yoy could have watched either the Aba, Porharcourt or Onitsha shootings, all of which are youtube.

Video evidence is one of the most powerful things anyone can tender because although pictures can be manipulated or photoshopped, although statements can be forged, videos are very difficult to manipulate.

So instead of coming here to argue from a point of ignorance, go and view the videos that IPOB have put on youtube for the world to see.

If you cannot view them, then reserve your comments on their authenticity until a time you have seen them

It was human beings with family that where killed not Guinea Fowl

onadana:
TY Danjuma..was a military man who only obeyed orders.There is a chain of command.

He obeyed orders! Ironsi was the highest ranking officer in Nigeria at the time. Who's orders do you think Danjuma should have obeyed the most?

What kind of orders was Danjuma obeying when he could not obey that of a Major General like Ironsi?


Dont talk like an ignoramus

Sweetguy25:
The man who killed them is still alive and kicking. In fact, he's a billionaire enjoying his life to the fullest.

Thats the thing I will never understand. General TY Danjuma who killed Ironsi and Fajuyi is still walking about a free man and still being praised by the same people who are trying to immortalise the Palm tree where he commited doubble murder

Asking Igbos and Yorubas to unite is like asking oil and water to mix, not possible. The problem the OP has is that he is still trying to see Igbo/Yoruba from the context of 'Nigeria'

To understand why Yoruba and Igbo will never unite, one has to go back to when there was no Nigeria. What kind of people were Igbos and Yorubas?

History tells us that the Yorubas have never been able to exist alone. They once chased an empire from present day Nigeria to Togo. This 'empire creating' nature of Yorubas has never left them. Igbos on the other hand never had an empire and had no desire have one. The Igbo man is republican, egalitarian and very independent.

Unfortunately for Igbos, of the 3 main ethnic groups, Igbos are the only ones who are not empire creators and thats why Yorubas will continually unite with the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy of the North to undemine Igbos.

Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani are going to fight forever to keep the empire of Nigeria without caring about if the empire works or if Igbos want it.

Yorubas are no friends of us Igbos and we Igbos are fully aware of their antics. A people who threw away their right of self deternination to uphold the empire of Nigeria cannot be trusted

menxer:
It's called allies.
Who were his allies?

He didn't consider that before going to war?

Bible says he that wants to build a house must first count the cost.

Countries are not generally allowed to interfere in the domestic affairs of another. What Britain did by imposing a blockade on the sovereign waters if another was illegal.

Freedom is one thing that has no high or low cost. You just strive to get it no matter what.

Organs:
Tell me, so there are no Ibos in the Nigerian Army?? So, the whole Army is against the Ibos?? Ibekwe is right. Most of you guys are DELUSIONAL with all the 107 likes. If an independent body should investigate, and the result is not what you want to hear, you will say the govt bribed them or something stupid. You will continue to lose and run away like Ojukwu because you just cannot accept the truth as the truth.

What do you mean Igbos in the Nigerian Army? Is that the issue? The issue is that an accused organisation should not be the one investigating its self. There are several human rights NGO's that could have done this such as the NBA.

If an independent organisation concluded its investigation and said there were no unjust killings, at least the interested parties will be able to ask them how they reached their conclusion despite several video and picture evidence.

Will anybody be able to question the Army?

Dont bring Ojukwu into this, at least he fought for 3 years to liberate his people before he ran away.

The rest of you accepted the slavery of the Northern oligarchy without even an atom of protest

abiodunalasa:
Let us not oversimplify Nnamdi Kanu's offence by passing him as a mere "political prisoner". He committed treason in a way that could lead to, at best, anarchy, and at worst, genocide. He made it look like we are irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

We need to let him, and every one like him,in no oversimplified nor in overstated terms know that we will not allow our imperfect past sabotage our perfect future.
You have right to remain forever behind while we move on...but you have no right to hold us down with you !

Our imperfect past? You mean the one that cost Igbos over 3 million souls in the name of a meaningless colonial slogan called 'one Nigeria'?

Yeah, we know how simple that one is for you ', Nigerians', or should I say, the unfortunate West Africans Lugard named after a common River.