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NwaAmaikpe:
I don't misinform people,

I stand by what I said.
You got your definition of paying of dues...
I didn't at any point imply she wasn't good at her job, I never called her a quack, I just said she schemed herself into places.
You can verify same too.
I never also said Frank Olize was the pioneer host of NTA Newsline, you don't have to give me the genealogy of the show. I know that and I have featured on it at least once.

Thanks and God bless.

And my question to you, remains the same. What do you mean by she 'schemed?' Please define the so-called 'scheme,' and how it was hatched.

hilroy:
I also want them to have their Biafra. But I want them to have it peacefully, and the only way to have it through that means is by inclusion of referendum clause in the constitution. Our present 1999 constitution doesn't have referendum clause. For the referendum clause to be included in the constitution the bill has to be passed in the legislative chambers. So what Igbos need to do is to compel their legislatures and political leaders to fight for inclusion of referendum in the constitution. Cownu inciting the political scene or violating the laws of the country won't give them their Biafra, it will only make others to hate them. The 2nd option they have is to take up arms against the country which will result in alot of casualties.

May God continue to increase the wisdom He has deposited in your life! This is the same gospel, I have been preaching to those IPOB crew, for quite a while. Compel your House of Reps members and all the Senators from your zone to present a bill on the Biafran agitation and the need for referendum, both in the green and red chamber. Let them lobby others to buy into their views, and debate it successfully in both chambers, until they can muster enough support to get an assent to it. Have they done so? No! Instead they keep insulting other ethnic groups up and down, thinking that insults will work in their favour... _mtcheew.

Igboesika:
Exactly, if these people are not opposing Biafra, trust me, we wouldn't have gotten to this level.
It's just like a situation where someone is angry and shouting,the more you oppose that person, the more the person's anger increases and the more outsiders are paying attention to the quarrel . But if you ignore the person, the motivation for anger won't be there.
Those opposing Ipob is obviously helping them indirectly.
As for that professor... Check him very well, he's a product of backyard. This is Nigeria where you can obtain any qualification as long as you have the cash or the connections. How can this poo come out from someone who claims to be a professor ?

If you do not agree with a person's comments, then state exactly the reason for your disagreement. There is no need to deride him or denigrate his qualifications.

Professor Akin Oyebode is a highly qualified legal practitioner and an academic. He was former Head of Department of International Law, in the University of Lagos, as well as Dean of Law. He is a graduate of Harvard University USA. He has taught Law for over 40 years, and among his former students are 20 Judges in Lagos State. Some of them are in the Court of Appeal, while others have either been Governors or Deputy Governors. There was a time about seven Attorneys General in this country, were recorded to have passed through his class.

Some of his old students are Professors Taiwo Osipitan, Imran Smith, Amos Utuama, who have all taken silk as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) too. Professor Akin Oyebode also served as former Vice-Chancellor of Ekiti State University.

Born on December 9, 1947 in Ado-Ekiti, Profesor Oyebode attended Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti from 1960 to 1966; Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine (1967 -1973); Harvard Law School, Cambridge, United States of America (1974 – 1975); Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada (1981 – 1988) and Nigerian Law School, Lagos (1990 -1991).

His professional and academic qualifications include WASC Grade One (1964); HSC (1966); GCE ‘A’Level (1966); LL.M. with Highest Distinction (1973); Diploma in Russian Language (1973); LLM (1975); Doctor of Jurisprudence (1988) and Certificate of Call to Bar (1991).

The renowned Professor of International Law joined the services of the University of Lagos as an Assistant Lecturer in 1973. He was appointed Lecturer Grade II in 1976, Lecturer Grade I in 1978 and Senior Lecturer in 1981.

He moved to Ondo State University (now University of Ado-Ekiti) as Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law from 1992 to 1997. In 1998, he returned to the University of Lagos as a Professor.

His academic and administrative acumen earned him top positions within the University of Ado-Ekiti including Vice-Chancellor (2000 – 2004); Pioneer Professor and Dean of Law from 1992 to 1997; Chairman of Security Committee (1994 – 1997) as well as member of the University Governing Council (1994 -1997) and Senate (1992 -1997) among others.

Professor Oyebode who is actively involved in research, teaching and supervision of students at all levels including doctoral candidates is a writer per excellence. He has to his credit over one hundred and seventy (170) publications including Theses and Dissertations (2); Books and Monographs ( ; Chapters in Books and Published Proceedings (37); Articles in Journals (; Technical Papers (commissioned, 110) Book Reviews (3) and unpublished major Conference/Seminar Papers (.

He is a member of learned societies and professional associations such as the Nigerian Society of International Law, American Society of International Law, International Law Association, Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, Nigerian Bar Association and Nigerian Institute of Management.

The Chairman of the Office of International Relatons, Partnerships and Prospects, University of Lagos, Professor Akin Oyebode has been appointed member of the Governing Council, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA).

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, approved the appointment of Professor Oyebode as a member of the Governing Council, in line with the First Schedule, Section 1 of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Act (Cap 311). The formal inauguration of newly constituted NIIA Governing Council was held on Thursday, September 20, 2012. http://www.unilag.edu.ng/newsdetails.php?NewsID=972

NwaAmaikpe:
Abike Dabiri explains why I don't trust women.

This single mother schemed her way up into the juicest newscasting position in NTA, and replaced the legend Frank Olize in hosting Newsline.
She schemed her way into the minds of the people with the useless Miracle baby story.

Not done, she ensured she covered juicy VIP functions, ensured she visited governors and covered their exclusives
Next thing, she became a politician and has remained in the corridors of power.

She is also a story of hope... A lady who from interviewing the great has become the great.
From the lounges of NTA to the corridors of power.
She has also schemed her way further by hitching her son with a governors' daughter.

Fear women.

What do you mean by she 'schemed?' Please define the so-called 'scheme,' and how it was hatched. Abike Dabiri is a well-qualified broadcast journalist, who paid her dues in NTA in those days. She did NOT scheme anything, anywhere. She merely worked hard, went after unusual feature stories with a human interest angle, and followed up on such stories till it got to a logical conclusion, unlike many broadcast journalists of these days. After she left NTA, she went into politics and it was while she was in politics, that she made a lot of contacts. So what do you mean by she 'schemed', in order to get contacts with important people? She broke a lot of stories, not just the Miracle Baby story. There were stories of people searching for their missing relatives, and even one story of a child with a 7-inch nail, in her head!

For your information, Newsline was not started by Frank Olize, but by the late Yinka Craig and Patrick Oke, who travelled around Nigeria to bring different stories about various communities, and their cultural festivals to their viewers. It was after the duo left, that Frank Olize was invited to host the show. Kindly crosscheck the facts, and stop misinforming people...!

EI:
BJMotors, good to tweak your business/advert strategy.

You repeat copy and pastes yet never appear to either state prices for marketed vehicles or engage curious buyers with price related enquiries.

That approach is a bit frustrating, and quite noticeable with your threads...

Don't mind him. One of my friends called him yesterday and he said the price was 5 million naira for the vehicle. People like him keep forgetting that any customer can call or visit his showroom to inspect the car, and then post the price online afterwards, if he refuses to do so.

Olu317:
Historian of the 21st century, we've heard you. Thanks for your information and kindly stop derailing this forum with your baseless egocentrism....

Hehehe.... don't mind him. He and his crew are specialists in revisionism. Only God knows who he spoke to in Epinmi, that agreed with him that their language is Edoid. Was it one of their traditional chiefs, market women or students? How many people did he speak to? It was probably someone as uninformed as he is...

SalamRushdie:
As expected the article is empty and doesn't explain how her solution works

She has NOT even discovered a treatment for cancer, yet. She is still conducting research into the whole thing! And the daft OP is reporting it, as if the girl has found a cure..... chai!

Diademk07:
Lmao..

A prison man was masterminding a coup? Yet he was still in the prison after the coup? Yet his no. 1 enemy which is Zik was still alive after the coup? LOL!

Bunch of manipulative weasels!

Maybe this piece would throw more light on the issue. Those alleging that the coup was done with Awolowo's knowledge are dead wrong. Awo didn't know about it. It was just wishful thinking on the part of the coupists, to think they would have been able to install Awo as head, if their coup had suceeded.

...... Ifeajuna fled to see Okigbo in Ibadan and then Ghana to see Brigadier Hasan Ghana’s Director of Military Intelligence and Lt Col David Zanlerigu, commander of Nkrumah’s Soviet-trained-and-equipped presidential bodyguards. (He was Ghana’s equivalent to Major Donatus Okafor, Commander of Federal Guards). Ifeajuna was intent on raising a specialised expeditionary force of 100 troops to finish the job while Okafor remained in the East until his arrest by Ojukwu two weeks later and subsequently transferred to Kirikiri.

It must not be ruled out that Ifeajuna was already suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder so his sanity was no longer steady. For instance, from January 14 – 18, he did not sleep at all.

Even before that, being the chief engineer of the Revolution, he worked harder than anyone plotting the moves, recruiting and mobilising resources, planning cocktail, organising brigade conference and other cover-ups, yet still fulfilling his duties as Maimalari’s chief of staff to give the appearance that nothing unusual was going on. The accumulated stress must have prevented him from being normal and ensured he continued to make relentlessly irrational decisions.

Ifeajuna could have gone to team up with Nzeogwu in Kaduna where the Revolution was fruitful; he would not only have had a battalion to himself but the whole 1st Brigade which was the most powerful in the Army. But he and Nzeogwu had diverging egoistic agendas. The master plan was:

Phase 1: kill all senior military officers, abduct the Prime Minister, Finance Minister and the regional premiers;
Phase 2: the abducted would be forced to willingly sign and transfer power to the new highest ruling body in the country, Supreme Military Revolutionary Council which would then unite all the four regions under its dictatorship. Make a national broadcast to this effect and suspend the Parliament.
Phase 3: Free Obafemi Awolowo who had been unjustly stored in jail; manufacture their long-awaited Revolutionary Prime Minister out of him. Their ally S.G. Ikoku was there to persuade him if he disagreed.

But Nzeogwu went on air with a pre-recorded broadcast announcing his takeover of the Northern government and listed the public offences punishable by death (corruption, peddling rumours, homosexuality, etc)...

The unbridled clash of egos compelled Ifeajuna to disdain seeking support from Nzeogwu whom he thought was flawed and blindsided by the zeal for glory.

Ifeajuna absurdly chose to go to Ghana for help. Spending a day in Dahomey, he was picked up by David Zanlerigu and SG Ikoku one of Awolowo’s henchmen, after being driven there by Okigbo dressed as a young and stressed lady.

He quickly sat down to write a book as a ferocious critique of Nzeogwu who had gone on air and into the limelight to claim leadership of the North and the Revolution. (Achebe ignorant of the context later described the manuscript as self-serving; he did not know it was written against the self-almightyfication of Nzeogwu who was claiming what was not his. Only an ego roar could achieve that ferocious critique). The coup plotters wanted to manage Nigeria better than the politicians; they could not even manage themselves first.http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/06/nigerias-first-coup-biafra-british-secret-files-part-two/7/

PFRB:
Ejoor was not a major character in that coup.

Ejoor was one of those who played a role in thwarting the coup plotters' plans, in the old Eastern region.

Nigeria’s first coup, Biafra: British Secret files (Part Two)| The NEWS | Jun 19 2016 -|

To the political establishment in Enugu, the capital of Eastern Region, the first omen of the coup was at the airport. In the afternoon of 14th January, the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios arrived for a visit in the Prime Minister’s plane to great pomp and pageantry. He had come to Lagos to attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference and intended to use the opportunity to visit all the regions in Nigeria. Enugu became his first and last point of call....

But this time around while awaiting the plane of the Archbishop Makarios, there was no guard of honour in place even though Okonweze was there representing Ejoor. Okpara was so angry that he summoned Okonweze and berated him publicly. “You say Lagos put a ban on guard of honour. What are they afraid of? That Enugu will be mistaken for the capital of Nigeria?” This was according to Charles James Treadwell, the Deputy British High Commissioner who witnessed the incident at the airport. Okonweze did not tell Okpara that he was keeping the troops ready for the confirmation of the H-hour.

Okpara then compensated for the humiliation at the airport with a sumptuous party in the evening the same time in Lagos, a cocktail party was starting at Brigadier Maimalari’s residence. Treadwell was there too. He wrote his report on 16th January a day after the mutiny:

“The gathering was the largest I ever witness at the Premier’s Lodge and included the Governor, Sir Francis Ibiam, most of the Ministers and Ministers of State, the senior civil servants and a host of political leaders summoned from all parts of the region. As a social occasion it was a grand affair.

Just before dawn the next morning, – Saturday 15th January – after the first shot had been fired in Lagos, Kaduna, Ibadan, troops of the 1st battalion moved into Independence Layout, Enugu, and took up positions outside the imposing residencies of the Premier and his Ministers. A barricade was set up across the access road into the area.

Other troops sealed off all the road connecting Enugu with the rest of the Region; others still closed down the transmitter of the Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Service(ENBS) and a guard was mounted at the entrance to the studio building in one of the main streets of the town. In carrying out this operation, the Army achieved complete surprise.

“At seven o’clock, following a telephone call from Chief Justice of Eastern Nigeria, Sir Louis Mbanefo – who apart from the Ministers is the only Nigerian living in Independence Layout – I was in his house discussing strange turn of events with him. Independence Layout was already teeming with troops, (the Chief Justice did not know it but there was even one soldier standing behind a bush in his own garden), and the barricade, past which I had readily been permitted to drive, was protected by a strong army contingent carrying automatic weapons.

The Chief Justice was understandably puzzled. He had been told on telephone that the Army had seized power in Lagos and elsewhere in the country. He himself had been awakened at six o’clock by a rumbling of heavy lorries on the road outside and had seen troops spilling out into the Ministers’ houses. After we had spent some time in fruitless speculation, Sir Louis Mbanefo telephoned the premier and asked if he knew what was happening. No, answered the premier, it was all a mystery to him. He could see troops moving about his garden but he could not guess their purpose....

Seeing so many soldiers around the city, Treadwell and the American consul in Enugu Mr. R.J. Barnard decided to go the barracks to find out what was happening and if British and American citizens in the East needed to start getting worried. This was around 11 o’clock, 30 minutes before Ejoor arrived. Treadwell wrote:

“We were admitted without difficulty into the office of the acting commanding officer of the battalion, Major G. Okonweze, an Igbo from the mid-west, and spent a quarter of an hour with him and his adjutant, 2/Lt A.B. Umaru, a Hausa. In answer to our questions, Major Okonweze confessed that he was completely in the dark about the wider implications of the army move. He had received a single message during the night from Lagos instructing him to intensify internal security measures in the town and to restrict the movements of the ministers....

Ejoor had arrived and had taken charge. To annul the designs of the mutineers and to alleviate the anxieties of Enugu peoples, he ordered all soldiers back into the barracks.

Political leaders of NPC and NNDP persuasion had been assassinated in Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna. Northern army officers had been put to death in these places. It was an Igbo plot, people whispered, and innocent Igbos would pay for it with their lives. The absence of any reference to the events in news broadcasts from Lagos heightened anxieties. During the afternoon, the ENBS relayed a BBC announcement, still tentative, about the coup; this was the first radio report heard by medium-wave listeners in Enugu. Ministers had meanwhile panicked badly.

Under restraints no longer, they poured out of their houses and headed for the countryside. Dr Okpara [abandoned his official limousine and] slid out of the town in a Volkswagen and went to Umuahia. He spent the next fortnight there moving from house to house each day in a bid to go to the ground completely. Chief J.U. Nwodo, the minister of local government, drove to his house at Ukehe, on Nsukka road, where he changed clothes with his gardener and made for the bush. ...

Indeed a company commanded by Captain Joseph Ihedigbo was heading towards Enugu. But they were the ones which Okonweze had dispatched to Benin to achieve the mutineers Midwest objectives. Since Ejoor had ordered their immediate return, they were travelling back to Apankwa barracks. But the top government functionaries mistakenly thought the feared reprisals from the barracks was about to begin.

The following day – Sunday 16th January – around 10am, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu called. He was surprised Gabriel Okonweze was not the one who answered the phone but David Ejoor. According to the coup script, at that time, hungry worms supposed to be convening over the decomposing carcass of Ejoor and feast as they were doing to the others dead.

Nzeogwu then asked Ejoor to confirm whether he was loyal to the Revolution or against it. Ejoor answered he was loyal to Ironsi and the government of Nigeria. He then asked Ejoor if he wanted to go on air to that effect. Ejoor banged the phone on him. He did not feel the least answerable to a Major even as reports confirmed that they had killed Brigadier Ademulegun and his deputy Col Shodeinde, and Nzeogwu had become the de facto Brigadier and King of North. Ejoor then tried to update Ironsi in Lagos. It was Gowon the centripetal force behind stamping down the mutiny who came on line...

According to Ejoor, all the places he asked troops to be placed, his 2ice Okonweze negated them all. His suggestions were places that were strategically meaningless and tactically useless in defence against Nzeogwu’s aggression. It was then Ejoor said he concluded his 2ice was certainly with the mutineers. Okonweze even suggested that they disarm all the soldiers and publicly destroy the ammunition so that civilians would feel safe...

There had been rumours that since the death of Sardauna was announced, that Northern soldiers in the barracks will break loose and avenge his death. But Ejoor frustrated all Okonweze’s efforts to aid the Revolution’s agenda while Okonweze kept on denying he had anything to do with them. To Okonweze, Ejoor had become eligible for fresh death. He was too much in the way. http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/06/nigerias-first-coup-biafra-british-secret-files-part-two/6/

Pheals:
And who killed Fani kayode? Your father history!!!

In the early hours of the morning of 15 January 1966, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, a Nigerian Army officer of Igbo extraction, attempted to effect the first military coup d'état in the history of Nigeria. The attempt, though ultimately unsuccessful, resulted in a lot of bloodshed and many senior members of the ruling party, the military and the government of the day were brutally killed. Early that morning the coupists, under the command of Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi, attacked and stormed the home of Chief Remi Fani-Kayode, the Deputy Premier of the Western Region. Fani-Kayode was brutalised by the mutineers in front of his whole family and in the presence of his son Femi Fani-Kayode, who was to become Nigeria's Minister of Aviation 40 years later[

Source :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi_Fani-Kayode

Don't mind FFK. His father Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, Q.C., SAN, CON was lucky to have escaped death, the day Nwobosi and other coup plotters stormed their residence, threatening to kill the man in January 1966. The man lived for many more years and later died in the UK in 1995. Assuming those Igbo coup plotters had used his dad for target practice, he wouldn't be spewing this empty grammar.

Una dey mind FFK? In fact, if not for the mercy of God, FFK would have been left fatherless at the age of 5 years, by coup plotters from the same ethnic group, whose cause he has decided to champion today. And since he is asking others to apologise to the Igbo, he should also ask the descendants of the Biafran soldiers to apologise to the people of Kogi, who lost some of their ancestors to the Biafran guns.

The 13th battalion under Ivenso secured itself at Auchi and Agenebode, then crossed the border into then Kwara (West-Central) state (now Kogi) in the former northern region. By August 13th, they had captured Okene, Atanai and Iloshi, arbitrarily killing some civilians in the process . Their role was to protect the northern flank of the main force while cutting off supply lines to federal troops at Nsukka http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

Optimist88:
It's unfortunate that most people on this thread can't read and comprehend!
The lady is Fayose's sister but he calls him dad because he(Fayose) is their family's figure! Fayose only has 5male children!

Hello, please point us to the specific sentence in the article where the lady said she was Fayose's sister. Where did she write it? In the article, she called 'her dad.' So how do you expect people who do not know the lady personally, to say she is now his sister? So what do you mean by people cannot read & comprehend?

Omofunaab2:
Wow, my paternal grand mother is from ikarre-akoko.. ilepa side of the town.. You are correct, isua is not far from ikarre and arigidi even though dialect differs... They are never any edoid nonsense... I understand the ikarre dialect perfectly well but can only speak little..

Yeah... during my project, I stayed at the Igbede side of town in Ikare. I was part of a project team installing different cell sites for a telco. We went from Ikare to Akungba-Akoko, Oka-Akoko, Supare and a few other places. Their language is just a dialect of Yoruba. That is why those ascribing an Edoid origin to that area, must be joking.

Masterclass32:
'' Igbos are Nupe and originated from kinupe''.
Can you imagine?

Isn't Nupe closer than Israel?

cytell56:
Mumu2, so because she wrote my dad means she is his daughter, How did i know then? Odensy!!!

Obviously, you were raised on a diet of insults, or you threw the home training you were given into the gutter. Show me point blank in her article, where she said she was Gov. Fayose's sister. Other people pointed out the fact that she was his sister in a polite way, but you had to insert insults into your response. Thanks for letting us all know that you were baptised as 'Odensyn' from birth!

Olu317:
who told you that the group f people you mentioned are EDO stock? Epinmi,Ipe were never Edo. Go get your facts correct.

Isua, Epinmi, Ipesi, etc, in Akoko area of Ondo State speak a Yoruba dialect, and they all bear Yoruba names. I spent 2 years carrying out a project in Ikare-Akoko which was not far from Isua. Some of the best pounded yam I ever ate was from that side! There is nothing Edoid about them, o! Don't let anyone deceive you with their tales by moonlight on this thread. Some of them are well known for ascribing a false identity to other ethnic groups, except their own...

cytell56:
Do you have brain at all? Is there no difference between sister and daughter?

You are the one that lacks a brain. Did you not read where the girl herself wrote: "my dad Gov Fayose?" Did she write it there that she is his sister? How is anyone else supposed to know that she is not his daughter? Receive sense, abeg!

typumps:
She is fayose younger sister, just used dad as a respect for him

Charity05:
Fayose don't have female child

ok, thanks for the correction!

May God rest his soul! That brave man late Major-General Philip Effiong (Obong Akangkang Ibiono Ibom) did what was necessary to stop the carnage, and bring peace to a war ravaged area, while others ran from the battle field. Very few folks could have done what he did. May his tribe increase! May his lineage and family never know sorrow or shame.

It was on January 15 few days after the surrender at Dondan Barracks in Lagos, in the presence of General Gowon, Philip Effiong announced the end of the Biafran conflict.

“I, Major-General Philip Effiong, Officer Administrating the Government of the Republic of Biafra, now wish to make the following declaration: that we affirm that we are loyal Nigerian citizens and accept the authority of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria. That we accept the existing administrative and political structure of the Federation of Nigeria, that any future constitutional arrangement will be worked out by representatives of the people of Nigeria. That the Republic of Biafra hereby ceases to exist.

The situation seem hopeless and prolonging the conflict would have only led to further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra so Effiong believed. “I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end...”

“General Effiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it, may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated." Many observers had expected wholesale retribution at war’s end by Nnaemeka L. Aneke. http://thescroll.reportsafrique.com/2016/09/29/philip-effiong-the-hero-that-ended-the-biafra-war/

MetaPhysical:
Someone need to remind FFK that his father, Fani Power was penciled down as one of the Yoruba leaders to be assassinated in January 66 coup. In fact, they bundled him into a truck and took him down with them to an Army unit and awaited arrival of the assassins that will throw him in a military jeep and drive him into middle of a field somewhere or in a bush and pump bullets into him. By stroke of luck, Gowon stopped at the Army unit, asked why he was there, not satisfied with answers, Gowon snatched and took him along with him. Thats how close FFK father was to ending like the rest of leaders wasted by Ibo.

FFK is a prodigal son. He has not honored the memory of his father.

Has the Ibos apologized to his family for kidnapping and targeting his father for assassination? Have they apologized for assassinating Akintola and other Yoruba, civilian and military?

You dey mind am? In fact, if not for the mercy of God, FFK would have been left fatherless at the age of 5 years, by the coup plotters from the same ethnic group, whose cause he has decided to champion today. And since he is asking others to apologise to the Igbo, he should also ask the descendants of the Biafran soldiers to apologise to the people of Kogi, who lost some of their ancestors to the Biafran guns.

The 13th battalion under Ivenso secured itself at Auchi and Agenebode, then crossed the border into then Kwara (West-Central) state (now Kogi) in the former northern region. By August 13th, they had captured Okene, Atanai and Iloshi, arbitrarily killing some civilians in the process . Their role was to protect the northern flank of the main force while cutting off supply lines to federal troops at Nsukka http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

Igboesika:
Not only that you are politically backward, you are also technologically backward.
So u didn't see the thread yesterday that says that Nigeria and other oil producing countries are in trouble due to invention of cars that won't be consuming petrol any longer which would make oil worthless come2025?. Google is your friend.
Who's still talking of oil?. The main issue is human resources.

Edos are wanted in Biafra? Tufiakwa! God will not allow the Edo people to fall for such deception. I reject it on their behalf! May the bad message, return to the sender 10 times over. Or has he forgotten what happened in the old Midwest region between August 9 – September 20, 1967? Do they want history to repeat itself?

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara - Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983-87, was a true hero and visionary. A man ahead of his time. It was so sad that his life was cut short, before he could achieve his dreams for his nation.

He said:

"We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even..." - Thomas Sankara.

"The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance." - Thomas Sankara

"Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt..." - Thomas Sankara

"You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future..." - Thomas Sankara http://www.azquotes.com/author/12971-Thomas_Sankara

May his soul rest in peace!

stephenduru:
Mo Fayose,a psychiatric nurse took to social media to her story/excitement after receiving Medal Award from University of Nottingham.She wrote...

'Wow!Finally the day is here the Vice Chancellor's Medal Award presentation ceremony.Thank you Lord.

Dedicating this award to God almighty, my children (Ebbyy and Jeb Adereti), my big mum Olufunke Oluwayose, my lil mum Mary Omowumi Akinpelu, my dad Gov Fayose, my lil dads Bimbo Oluwayose, Otunba Fayose & Isaac Fayose without all of you, I won't have achieved half of the things that got me this award.

Also to the Dean of School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham and my wonderful cohort lead, thank you so much for the nomination.

I say this to all reading, please follow your passion'

cc; Lalasticlala, mynd44

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/07/mo-fayose-bags-vice-chancellor-medal.html

So na Governor Ayodele Fayose pikin be dis? His own kids school abroad too, like Buhari's children? Why won't he have the guts to fight Ekiti State University lecturers? His own children don't school here....

Naijasinglegirl:
I was in Zanzibar for a few days two weeks ago. Being my first time outside Nigeria, this trip was special for me in many ways. I travelled via Ethiopian Airlines, transited in Addis Ababa for two nights and spent five days in Zanzibar. A quick summary of my experience during my short vacation.

LAGOS AIRPORT
When the immigration official at the airport said, "Virgin passport. Are you are a virgin too?" I knew my trip was about to get interesting. My virgin passport and I were asked the most random questions.
"Tanzania? Why you no go Dubai?"
"Sure you are not planning to run from Nigeria?"
"Does your father know you are travelling?"
"Is it your boyfriend that sponsored your trip?"
"Your face resemble person wey sabi that thing well."
The immigration officer said he wasn't going to release my passport until I find him something for his own vacation. He kept to his word one thousand naira later.
The last security check at MMIA was where I was thoroughly searched by a woman. She kept whispering into my ears, "You no go find me something?"
I said, "English, no speak." After all some of the officials kept asking me if I was a Nigerian or Tanzanian so where unnecessary tips were involved, the only language I was going to speak was Swahili.

Babe!! You are such a gifted and talented writer! I was laughing all the way from the beginning of your article till the end. I pray you get enough funds to travel the world and share your experiences with us! I am sure when the immigration officer asked you: "Is it your boyfriend that sponsored your trip?" Inside your mind, you must have replied: "....And how is that your own business?"

PS: Have you noticed how law abiding Nigerians are, once they touch down in another country, but the minute they board the plane, on their return trip or incoming flight back into Nigerian airspace, (especially when the pilot announces that 'we are 5 minutes away from landing at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, please fasten your seat belts...') those same Nigerians become lawless, noisy and cantankerous?

rman:
This girl writing style and how she delivers her humor is excellent.

She is not a standup comedian but she has far superior content to the standup comedians in Nigeria.

Kudos to you naijasinglegirl

You are so right!!

farem:
The Redeemer's University leads the pack here again.

Where are the antagonists of Church universities?

In less than decades of existence, our premier universities are now queing behind them.

Where are the � moon- based universities sef?

Oga, read the story very well from beginning to the end. The lady has not developed an alternative treatment for the disease, she is still at the research stage, looking for solutions that could lead to the development of such treatment. The OP's title is highly misleading.

Godson222:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/tribuneonlineng.com/aust-student-develops-cure-breast-cancer-nigeria/%3famp_markup=1

Your title is highly misleading. She has not developed an alternative treatment for the disease, she is still conducting research that could lead to the development of such treatment. Please change your title.

Omofunaab2:
Bros, during the civil war, the biafran soldiers fought with the Holy bibles while Nigerian soldiers came with machine guns and bombs so as a result of that 3 million igbos died. .

We really need to beg the igbos

kingdom88:
Join me and my wife for our wedding 5th of august in warri..... William square hall Rice and stew very plenty

Why this babe come resemble your sister like dis? See as una skin colour match. Una don do DNA Test? I beg check am first, o!

afonjaheadhunt:
I will do that on any thread that you create, please if you have to comment again please stay on topic, however I must confess that you are the most intellectual Afonja on this board judging by this thread.

That said, there is this dude, jcurrency please enlighten him like you did totit.

Guy, I am NOT creating any thread. You are the one that made the assertions, so provide proof to back up your assertions, right here. He who asserts, must prove. And there are over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, so why are you calling me an Afonja?

perez100:
I think FFK is right. If Nigerians are wise, they must start begging Igbos now b4 it becomes too late. They must act now for their own good.

So the guns of the Biafran soldiers and the bombs dropped from jets flown by mercenaries on behalf of Biafra, did not kill anyone? Let them apologise first, too. As for FFK, someone should tell him that war is not a tea party. When a war happens, people die. That is why people do NOT go to war, without counting the cost. That is why people seek all means possible to avoid armed conflict. 'War does not prove who is right, it only reveals how many are dead.' Ojukwu had more than enough people advising him NOT to go to war. Yet he led innocent souls into an avoidable armed conflict, when he did not have enough soldiers, resources and ammunition to win that war. Ojukwu and his descendants should apologise to Nd'Igbo for this.

The rest of you should just ignore FFK. He has taken on the toga of a court jester. And has had too much pu'ssy from that Igbo babe, which is why he is misjiving like this. These days, he speaks like an intoxicated man.

afonjaheadhunt:
Guy I am really tempted to derail my thread but, no, I will not, create another thread mention me I will ridicule you with facts and tell you how his companies were also nationalized and give you a long list of properties you did not know about and also tell you about his national shipping line It office and what the state govt is currently using it for, like I said, I will not be a tool use to derail my own thread, so create another thread and mention me, I will kindly oblige you.

Why should I create another thread, when you were the one who brought up the issue of Ojukwu's properties, right here? Please I beg of you, list all of Ojukwu's properties as well as companies that were nationalised, and provide the source & url links for each story, so we can all read and verify! Daalu zi!

afonjaheadhunt:
from the picture you posted is it not clear that Ohaneze support my stance that Igbo's are going no where... we will have Biafra and live in Lagos no shaking.

If that is what you call eat you cake and have it, we don eat this one collect another one sef, is it not Lagos? No shaking....

You are dreaming, aren't you? Wake up!