₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
You really think this is something to rejoice over, don't you? The claim you made there would indicate that many more in the S.E depend to a great deal on hando

Your analysis is so dumb and silly but I didn't expect less.Is that your spin on what he/she wrote?

The sooner we break up peacefully,d better for all of us.With the way things are going,another civil war is inevitable.Unity is not compulsory.

Ngodigha1:
Shameless pig, must you contribute.

Don't mind the jobless pig.Always seeking relevance.Stupid skunk

alj_harem:
LOL this is the question NO SE PERSON would answer, they would rather curse you than give u an answer.

It is a case of being desperate for an[b] icon[/b] that is why someone like OJUKWU can be loved. Well at the end of the day, I guess since we are not SEerners, we cannot say much.

You are one of d dumbest people I have ever come across.U should be worried about your own tribe and d legacy or lack of it that awolowo left for u.

This is my first time of hearing this.

@nakedall,may your father and generations burn in hell.Fool!

sheyguy:
seconded

i have lots of real life experience with these ibos confronting me with their hate attitude cos they feel am yoruba. Too many of them hold grugdes againsst the yorubas 4 no tangible reason.
shut up, [b]it was ibos who betrayed the yorubas, go back and read how awolowo was caged in the east [/b]and how they massacred the yorubas along with their traditional enemies, no yoruba leader knew what the ibos were up to politically except that they wanted to use the yorubas for thier selfish interest. I suggest u quit that crap of yoruba betrayed ibos this is 2011

You are still desperate to exhibit your ignorance.You have shown yourself to be a confirmed illiterate.Read your history books.Anu mpam

The Gentleman Rebel: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933-2011)
By GILLIAN PARKER / ABUJA Friday, Dec. 02, 2011


When, in May 1967, he declared that eastern Nigeria would henceforth be known as the independent Republic of Biafra, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu's intention was simply to break with a northern Nigerian military dictatorship that was violently discriminating against the south and the east. But his action would help set in motion events that led to a civil war in which more than a million people died and presented Africa to a world, already in the television age, as a place of famine and genocide — an image which, to the frustration of a billion Africans, persists to this day.
Ojukwu, who died in London on Nov. 26 at the age of 78, was born in Zungeru, northern Nigeria. His father, transport millionaire Sir Louis Ojukwu, was one of the richest men in Nigeria. Schooled at King's College, Lagos, then Epsom College, in the English town of Surrey, before reading history at Lincoln College, Oxford, the younger Ojukwu returned to Nigeria in 1956 to pursue a career, first in the colonial Eastern Nigeria's administration service, then the army. By 1963 he was commander of the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian army.
(See photos of the two sides of Nigeria.)
In 1966, six years after independence from Britain, Nigeria's military staged a coup led by ethnic Igbo officers from the east. The junta installed Ojukwu as leader of the east. Six months later, a violent northern campaign against the Igbos culminated in a countercoup. The insurgents killed Nigeria's head of state Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, an Igbo, and a northern general, Yakubu Gowon, took power. Ojukwu refused to accept Gowon's regime and on May 30 declared independence for Biafra, a region that included parts of the oil-rich Niger Delta. The announcement was the spark for a civil war that lasted two and a half years. It was an uneven contest. With superior forces and weaponry, Gowon's forces tightened a stranglehold around Biafra, and after a year, the republic had lost half its territory. As part of their siege strategy, the junta also frustrated humanitarian efforts to alleviate suffering, preventing food and supplies from entering Biafra. Pictures of children with distended bellies and stick limbs reached Europe and North America. That prompted the world's first privately organized large-scale relief operation, a campaign in which several leading humanitarians, including the future founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (and future French Foreign Minister) Bernard Kouchner, got their start.
Despite the appalling misery endured by Biafra's population, Ojukwu held fast to the notion of independence, portraying Biafra as a nation threatened by genocide. "The crime of genocide has not only been threatened but fulfilled," he told journalists in 1968. "The only reason any of us are alive today is because we have our rifles. Otherwise the massacre would be complete. It would be suicidal for us to lay down our arms at this stage."
(See TIME's Biafra covers.)
Ojukwu was also a contradiction. He was a well-heeled Oxford-educated man fighting a grassroots rebel campaign. In an August 1968 cover story on him, TIME reported his secessionist views were more a response to popular Igbo opinion than something that arose from personal conviction. Ojukwu was, the magazine wrote, "a calm and reasoned voice pleading for a united Nigeria long after Igbos had arguably given up hope of preserving the union."
By 1969, Biafra was on its knees. Sensing defeat, Ojukwu fled into exile in the Ivory Coast days before Biafra surrendered in January 1970. With the rebellion over, in a moment of pragmatism Gowon declared there had been "no victors and no vanquished." Rebels were quickly reabsorbed into society. Ojukwu was granted a pardon 12 years later and made a triumphant return in 1982. He returned to politics, forming the All Progressives Grand Alliance in 1999, which he led until his death.
Ojukwu's hand in events that helped create a perception of Africa as a place of endless suffering is a mixed legacy. Although the image is humiliating, and increasingly inaccurate, it was that same image that gave birth to the idea of international humanitarian intervention. Inside Nigeria, Ojukwu's legacy is viewed more positively. The Biafra war cast a mold for much of Nigeria's subsequent internal strife. The dynamic of north-south rivalry and authoritarian state vs. secessionist rebel persists to this day in the conflicts between the government and rebels in the Delta and Muslim militants in the northeast. By the stance he took, Ojukwu personified the understanding that Nigeria is often a nation often divided, sometimes violently, by genuine grievance. That insight led President Goodluck Jonathan to pay him an unusually nuanced tribute. Ojukwu's "immense love of his people, justice, equity and fairness," said Jonathan, "forced him into the leading role he played in the Nigerian civil war." For many Nigerians, and certainly for the Igbos, Ojukwu will be cherished as someone who refused to compromise on freedom to an overbearing state. "He will be remembered for many things, top of which is freedom and emancipation of our people," said chief Ralph Uwazurike of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra. "The Igbo can never forget him for that."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2101162,00.html

Areosapien:
I dey laugh this Sheyguy illiterate. From your dumb rants above, it's pretty obvious you've never stepped foot outside that Makoko slum or whatever Yoruba bush village it is you languish.
Cuz when you said "You got no oil"? I realized you were just a shallow illiterate for real. Cuz if you weren't, then you would've known for sure that Imo and Abia ARE oil producing states . If we were to isolate the South East from the rest of the country, then the oil produced by these two states would be enough not just to sustain the entire South East, but also serve as decent foreign revenue. I bet you didn't know that, did ya?
Coupled with that, the large deposits of coal in Enugu, when hydrogenated, would also produce that same oil you lazy worthless animals glorify to high heavens. How else do you think South Africa produces her oil?
And as if that isn't enough, the massive gas reserves recently discovered in Anambra is also enough to sustain the economy.
You see? When GoLOST split the East, he thought he was going to successfully render us insolvent. But as Baba God dey work things, it has turned out to not be the case.
It's only a question of time before the ultimate happens. And I'd really like to see who would want to align with you spineless Yoruba gutter pigs, after history has shown you to not just be a backstabber to the South East, but also a greedy cowardly traitor to the South South and yourselves. Una time dey come.

Abiola 2.0 is coming again

Don't mind that dirty yoruba illiterate.He is just exhibiting their legendary ignorance and absolute stupidity.They go nowhere and still have the audacity to talk.Deranged skunk

Okija_juju:
Dear God

Its your humble servant Alusi Okija. I am begging you to afflict these MASSOB boys with the foolishness to try something silly enough to make the Nigerian Police open fire and wipe away these fools from amongst us. Dear God, ever since that coward Ojukwu led us astray, I have been looking forward to a day when your justice would prevail. Please lord, on the day that MASSOB decides to act a fool, please let Uwazuruike, Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas Okorocha, Chris Uba and Torch1 amongst other eediots be present. I pray you bless the Nigerian Police with steady hands, anoint their AK-47's to be as deadly as Davids slingshot. Father let no bullet of the Nigerian police miss hitting a MASSOB target. Father God use the Death of Ojukwu as a point of contact to kill off the remaining fools left. And in the end, let the entire SE be left with young men and women, who can see beyond themselves, full of love, wisdom and understanding. Young men and women who can bring about change without mass blood shed. Men and women who can look beyond the errors of our fore-fathers and like Joshua take the entire eastern states to the promise land.

Thank you baba.

Your Son Okija, praying through Jesus christ.

Amen!!

Another fool

sheyguy:
Ibos will always chicken out nytime there is about to be anytin +ve in Nigeria, this is the time for them to start boasting about biafra this, biafra that again.
U guys should all wake up and stop being childish, biafra will hardly work this time around, u guys got nothing to make the western power side with biafra, u got no oil, u got no friends and u r too proud to make one. Your best bet is to join southern Nigeria and continue the struggle u guys sabotaged in '66.

Forget the concept of biafra for now, matter of fact forget it forever.
i really do hope u guys have gone this far.

You think Igbos are cowards like u people?Nkita ara

I am surprised that this dumb hausa man keeps on winning these awards.It shows what being a loud mouthed bigot can achieve

@poster,u are asking questions with obvious answers.He was a yoruba man and apart from their natural or unnatural hatred of Igbos,they are extremely tribalistic which is borne more out of their legendary ignorance and absolute stupidity.It's a pity that war criminal adekunle never faced the international criminal court for his crimes.

silly poster.Learn your own language first.Yoruba lap dog

bashr8:
yeah right after bombing the farms and food stores,blocked the sea ports then still sent food abi? are you that slow ,international organisation were initially bringing in food through lagos port when the cases were being reported cause it was passing through the army till biafra rejected foods passing through there.they had to start flying it in especially at night as they were being shot down by nigerian forces.

@Bashr8, leave these ignorant yorubas alone.U are just wasting your time arguing with them.I am suprised that deranged maggot called bluetooth hasn't joined in.

~Bluetooth:
That is if oju-iku has not infected her with HIV/AIDS !

may your mother get infected with aids.that dirty Yoruba prostitute u call a mother

To all those insulting Ojukwu,may you and your miserable families rot in hell.@Namfav,u plateau dog, may the Hausa Fulani cut your throat.u walking corpse.@Bluetooth,u dirty unkempt Yoruba dog,atleast he didn't die miserably like that pig awolowo.

Yorubas and their lack of business sense.If it's tribalism,they are experts.

My brother introduced me to nairaland but unfortunately,it has been hijacked by Yoruba tribalists.

Hatred of Igbo makes us stronger.To all those who hate Igbos on this Tribalistic site,we don't give a damn.We will forever flourish.You can go to hell if you don't like us.

namfav:
good ridance, where you want to stay is your own freewill, if you are insecure go home

What a fool.What do u guys have apart from polio and murderers?

President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has charged northern political and religious leaders to call the youths to order.
Oritsejafor said calling the youths to order was the surest way to deal with the incessant bombings and general insecurity in the country.

While dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility of most of the bombings, Pastor Oritsejafor said it was high time the northern elite reached out to the perpetrators, as they were not spirits.
Fielding questions from aviation correspondents, the CAN president said himself and numerous South-south leaders hit the creeks severally to talk to the restive Niger Delta militants who were disrupting the peace in the region.

“I believe that the northern elite has a very important role to play as to what is generally happening today in Nigeria. They must take the bull by the horn, when we had similar situation in the Niger Delta, some of us had to go to the creeks because we know these boys, we went to them and we started talking to them and gradually we are where we are today and we have come a long way.

“I believe that leaders in the North must wake up to their responsibilities. It’s a fact that these boys or people doing these things are not spirits. They are human beings.
“Many of them were taught in Koranic schools, there are sheiks; there are Imams that taught them and now I’m very sure they had gone beyond what they were taught. But some of those Sheiks and Imams still have some influence over some of them (boys).

“Our northern elite should make contact with those people who can make contact with some of those boys to find ways to begin to help them find a balance in the way they are thinking. They think their thinking are not things that are practical and practicable for Nigeria at this time.
“So, I say the northern elite have a very, very important role to play,” he said.

Oritsejafor also said the government must also look at the security agencies and reform them.
“The security agencies have been polarized along religious lines. We had said it before and we will continue to say it. It is unfortunate but a lot of the people who are supposed to help solve the problem unfortunately are looking first at their religion and when you do that then Nigeria, as a nation, would be in trouble. So, we must find ways to fish out those people in the security agencies so that that aspect can be dealt with.

“How can you tell me that the headquarters of the police was bombed without the police knowing, or without the people working with somebody inside. These are the questions to answer,” he said.
On the worries expressed in certain quarters about the possibility of the country breaking apart, he said: “We do not want it to disintegrate and we are praying that Nigeria remains one country. We want to be as optimistic as possible but I hope it does not happen,” he said.
On the death of foremost industrialist and Publisher of The Guardian Newspapers, Oritsejafor expressed shock, urging those alive to emulate his ways.

“It is difficult for the mind to comprehend that a man that has contributed so much to the development of this nation’s democracy or to be more specific, the labour at this time. I think this is the time when Nigeria needs everyone and anyone who can contribute to strengthening the democratic process that we have on ground. My heart goes to the family and his wife in particular, he had played his part. There is nothing we can do. My prayer is that we will not just spend our time praising him but we should learn from some of the stands he had to take like resigning at a time he had to resign; stepping away from certain governments when he ought to and did the right thing and at the right time,” he stated.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/nov/22/national-22-11-2011-0030.html

An acclaimed Islamic fundamentalist, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, currently detained by the State Security Service (SSS), said yesterday that a certain Senator and some politicians in the North are behind Boko Haram.

The alleged sect’s spokesman was paraded by the SSS in Abuja. He said that he was named Usman Al-Zawahiri to conceal his identity for security reasons.

The Islamist sect had claimed responsibility for the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja which killed 24 people and injured several staffers of the world body. It also claimed that it had a hand in last Sallah (Eid-el-kabir)terror attacks on Yobe State which claimed over 150 lives.

In his confession, Konduga said that he was a student under the late leader of Boko Haram, the late Mohammed Yusuf, averring that they were political thugs, recruited by some northern politicians, and that they were faring well before things fell apart between them and they resorted to attacking the state.
Alleging also that the sect was enjoying great sponsorship and patronage from these politicians, the alleged spokesman of the sect who, said that he was recently suspended by the Islamic terror group, which suspected him of giving information to security agencies, disclosed that the sect now has three official spokespersons, Abu Kaka, Abu Darda and Abu Zaid.

However, in her address, the Deputy Director, Press of the SSS, Marilyn Ogar, who told correspondents that security agencies never enjoyed any privileged information from Konduga before his arrest, said that he was picked up on November 3, at about 2030 hours at Gwange area of Maiduguri, Borno State, by a joint security operation.

Stating that he had made several revealing confessions, Ogar, who said that Konduga also confessed to being a former political thug operating under a group widely known as ECOMOG, said that his arrest, “further confirms the Service’s position that some of the Boko Haram extremists have political patronage and sponsorship. This is more as Al-Zawahiri has so far made valuable confessions in this regard.”
Ogar further said that Konduga confessed that, “he was recruited by a political party stalwart in Maiduguri, Borno State, that following the compulsory registration of all SIMs nationwide, he was asked to steal a SIM which he used in sending threat text messages.

“That the pseudo name, Usman Al-Zawahiri, was given to him by the said politician to portray him as an extremist as well as conceal his true identity.
“That one of his benefactors promised to pay him N10 million to work for his party, but by stint of fate, he sponsor died on his way to deliver the part payment of N5 million to Al-Zawahiri.
“That consequent upon this, suspect claimed a serving member of the National Assembly took over the running of his activities.

“That he (Senator) was behind the threat text messages sent to the justice of the Election Petition Tribunal in Maiduguri. His objective was to ensure that the tribunal sacks the present government in Borno State.
“That he was also behind other threat messages sent to Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, Governor Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Ambassador Dalhatu Sarki Tafida, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Justice Sabo Adamu (Chairman of the Election Petition Tribunal in Borno State).
“That most of the threat messages he sent to Justice Adamu, were scripted and relayed to him by the National Assembly member.

“That the same legislator promised to send him some telephone numbers of members of the Galtimari Committee on Security in the North-East, before he (Al-Zawahiri) was apprehended.
“That the telephone number and content of the text messages sent to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice were also given to him by the legislator to compel him (AGF) to influence the judgment of the tribunal against the government in Borno State.”
Meanwhile, Ogar said that analysis on Al-Zawahiri’s phone had confirmed constant communication between him and the legislator.

Thus, she reiterated the Service’s commitment to address the current threats posed by the Boko Haram and other forms of fundamentalism in the country, including the dimensions of political patronage and sponsorship of extremist and violent groups.
It would be recalled that security agencies had fingered some Northern lawmakers as being behind the terror group. They described their alleged conspiracy as sabotage as carried by Daily Sun in our yesterday’s edition.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/nov/22/national-22-11-2011-001.html

manchy7531:
This list is full of crap,where is Otedola?where is Orji Uzo Kalu?where is Tony Elumelu,even Artur Nzeribe(the lord mafia),where is andy uba?what of ABC transport or coscharis.

hey!! note.Dangote and Adenuga's money is not theirs,they have those money because their people are the ones ruling.when the SE starts ruling, then we will have a good number of people that will make their money from political contract.

let us forget Ibeto that he is quite and does not seek attention doesn't make him less richer.cos he is a definition of a hustler and entrepreneur

As for jim ovia, he is from anioma in delta state which is igbo.

Don't mind those ignorant fools.Jim Ovia is Igbo but that is not even the point.Wealth is widely spread in Igboland and like one contributor wrote,u will hardly find a completely wretched Igbo man.Go to the North, 95% of them r wretched.

People and their "i too know'.Fatal accident just means that there was a fatality in the accident not necessarily Stephanie.It could have been the occupant of the other car.

dayokanu:
And dem go say Sahara reporters dey lie

They are pathological liars.They just got this one right.

IbroSaunks:
umm, going by your "speech", it can also be inferred that the Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and all over the world that don't kill Christians are not real Muslims. no be me na Wetin u dey talk.
what i just wish is, that u open your mind and let people enlighten u first before u write speeches like this. u do not know a thing about Islam, its holy book, its Prophet (PBUH), anything! u access Islam by the behaviour of Muslims and not the teachings of the religion. you cannot understand the Quran by just seeing a few verses. you cannot understand the religion by doing that. you do not know anything, and im sure u let the media guide your train of thoughts.
so go back and ask, why Islam is the religion of peace, and who terrorists are.

Really?They don't kill Christians?Do you watch news at all?