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owodokiri:
I should be telling you that. There is no single book on that event written in Nigeria that I havent read.. You have read none. You are just following hearsay.. Ojukwu insisted that Ogundipe take over after Ironsis death. Murtala and Gowon refused, Ojukwu called fpr confederation, the same people refused,.. The first shot that started the war was fired by NIGERIAN SOLDIERS! That is the historical facts they dont want people like you to read and be informed. Thats why the banned the study of history in secondary schools across Nigeria..

kingsouthie:
He is likely from a minority northern tribe,like ron in jos or michika in adamawa n trust me,their views are totally different from those of the typical hausa-fulani muslim

diogonwa:
Since 1966 to 2017 and you don't think the story has been altered...see how other tribes are bashing igbos for what happened a decade ago forgetting the genocide happening in the north...my people,our leaders both igbos,hausas,Yorubas and other tribes are living well and we are here ebashing ourselves(this should be our major concern)...our mods una welldone for pushing this topic knowing what will happen

owodokiri:
How did Ojukwu declare a civil war? By insisting that Brigadier Ogindipe who was the most senior in the army should take over after Ironsis assassination?

kingsouthie:
U need to understand that this sarduana was more like the founder of the northern agenda which the ibbs,abdusallami,indimi n co are benefitting from...u wont expect core northerners 2say anything negative abt him

Justdulla:
Impersonation ma foot. Meanwhile,do to you now,its only people that dip their hands into public purse you term corrupts.
It seems you don't have an Idea the meaning of the words Nepotism and Ethnocentrism which are the worst form of corruption. Check your dictionary and quote back.

5 unfulfilled promises of the Jan 15, 1966 coup | Six years after Nigeria became a sovereign nation, the country witnessed an unprecedented development, which still haunts it 50 years after.Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, a major in the army, led some of his colleagues to overthrow a civilian government.

The casualties of that coup d’etat, which occurred on January 15, 1966, are Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, then the prime minister; Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto; Samuel Akintola, the premier of the Western Region; Festus Okotie-Eboh, the finance minister, among others.

Between then and now, Nigeria has witnessed at least eight coups and the objectives given for carrying out the coups were not achieved, meaning that military intervention is far from the solution that a country needs. In this piece, we highlight five lessons that Nigeria ought to have learnt from the first ever putsch.

COUPS DON’T WIPE CORRUPTION OUT

In his speech, Nzeogwu said the aim of the revolutionary council was to establish “a strong united and prosperous nation, free from corruption and internal strife”.

But corruption is far from over in Nigeria despite the efforts of successive governments to rid the country of the menace. The problem of corruption is even getting deeper, proving that the the coup failed to achieve what was perhaps its most important aim.

THE ENEMIES ARE STILL WITH US

“Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds,” Nzeogwu said.

The coup leader made it clear that through the support and assistance of Nigerians, the so-called enemies would be defeated. One look at the polity and all these people are still intact.

THE NIGERIAN SHAME STILL A REALITY?

Whether the coup plotters meant it or not, one of their objectives was to make the citizens “no more ashamed to say that they are Nigerians”.

But the present realities show otherwise. Fifty years after that event, many Nigerians do not have patriotic spirit. While many countries which were at par with the country in the 60s have since joined global economies, Nigeria is still grappling with numerous challenges, leaving many with nothing but just associating with the country through identity. In any case, too many Nigerians are not proud of their nationality; not that they are unpatriotic, they’re just finding it hard to pinpoint how their country is serving them.

REFORMATION OF THE SOCIETY

As a measure to check immorality, the military regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, which seized power after the coup, introduced death penalty to prevent excesses such as looting, arson, homosexuality, rape, embezzlement, bribery or corruption, obstruction of the revolution, sabotage, subversion”.

Has the maximum sentence restored orderliness into the country? Everyone has the answer!

OPPRESSION EVERYWHERE

“We are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law-abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression,” Nzeogwu had said.

Like other promises, the short-lived regime could not liberate the people in the exact manner it promised, and signs of oppression, even by the military itself, remain commonplace.

The plotters of that coup hinged their action on marginalisation of their ethnic group. Incidentally, there is a renewed campaign against this same ‘marginalisation’, with attempt to resuscitate the Republic of Biafra.

Nigeria’s unravelling over the past decades has shown that coups are far from the solution to any of the country’s problems. Hard to say if Nigerians have learnt this lesson, but time will surely tell.

Copyright 2017 TheCable. _{Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.thecable.ng as the source.}https://www.thecable.ng/5-unfulfilled-promises-of-the-jan-15-1966-coup

Justdulla:
Lol. If na Gun that one na our toy.
Meanwhile the problem is that Nigerians have always avoided the truth that's why nothing works. We don't ever face reality that's why nothing works. This is the same reason that Donald Trump is vexed with us. We don't our issues,we keep asking for aid and extendingnour suffering. Everyday cost of living soars,No one takes to the street. We keep saying e go better. If America was saying e go better would they be at the fore front now?
Face the reality and brace up. Its either Corruption destroys Nigeria or Corruption kills Nigeria. We would never be free from corruption cos its in the DNA

CXLVII:
Laudate nailed you to calvary! You just looking for a place to hide.

owodokiri:
A moderator moved this nonsense to the homepage irrespective of the fact that this so called "conversations" are nothing but hear says.. Nobody was there in the dead of the night to record all these nonsense. The same moderator has been going all over place banning and yanking off posts that run against his wishes.. Some peoples level of ethnic hate is amazing..

Justdulla:
the reality you avoiding is that it is that same power of the gun that will eventually destroy Nigeria. 46 years after the war we have not gotten anything right. We are still playing politics of 1960. If you think this democracy would last forever. Then your Alice in wonderland

Justdulla:
Hahah oga abeg..I won't argue with yah.
Its futile flogging a dead horse.
Am sure you are those sortbof Nigerians that expect every Northerner to think and act like an Aboki,sorry ah burst your bubbles.

AkinPhysicist:
What about the east? There was no corruption is the east?

Justdulla:
And if Someone from Katsina isn't a northerner,then I guess we would find kangaroos in Ibadan.

BOJO123:
He doesn't even know that sardauna and Ahmadu Bello are the same

Justdulla:
Oga if its matters bothering in Nigerian History,ave studied it back to back. So shut your trap lemme school you.
If Gowon had not dishonored the Aburi conference would there have been a civil war?

NaijaMutant:
He was a half Hausa man, Half Igbo man and a full blooded Delta man.
He was originally from an Igbo speaking town called Okpanam in present day Delta state but grew up in the north.

Justdulla:
Madam which my people. It it cos am defending Ibos, you now assume am Ibo as well. I laff. Am from the north, a dull fledged one at that. But thats doesnt mean when i see the truth, i shouldn't say it.
Do you know the Idea of the counter coup was to seperate Nigeria, Murtala Muhammed was supposed to assume leadership and do that, but since Gowon was ahead, they settled for him. But power got to his gead, he disrespected the Aburi Conference, the British and westerns wanted the oil, they gave him left over weapons from world war to and he went to a needless war that should have been settled amicably.

Fedayeen02:
Shut up go back to the poster i quoted and what he wrote.
I don't do kids. Look for your mates

Fedayeen02:
Your brain is running on a low processor.
Was Ademola a member of the Coup plotter?

Fedayeen02:
What was Major Ademola doing there? Since you call it Igbo coup. Turning history on its head.
I thought old age begets wisdom but you are no different from those i watch in a circus

Ddaji:
...The invading soldiers had come face-to-face with her husband, Lt Col Pam, led by a man very familiar to him, Major (HC) Humphrey Chukwuka, his second-in-command, and Deputy Adjutant General (DAG)1 whom Major Benjamin Adekunle who was DAG 2 had earlier warned him to beware of and Major Anuforo.

The rest of the party comprised 2nd Lt G. Onyefuru, Sergeants NN Ugongene, H.Okibe, B.Anyanwu, L.Egbukichi and P.Iwueke

Major Humphrey Chukwuka (HC): “Sir, we have come to take you with us.”

JY: “Why? What is the meaning of this?”

HC: “Sir, please come with us.”

JY: “Ok. Allow me to dress”

Lt. Col JY Pam at this point was joined by his heart-broken wife, Elizabeth as he retreated into the bedroom and changed swiftly into a pair of trousers, a vest and shirt and put on his watch. He returned to the waiting soldiers as Elizabeth pleaded with Major Chukwuka who was well known to her to spare her husband’s life.

Elizabeth pleads: “please don’t kill him, please don’t kill my husband”

HC: “No. We won’t Madam. Don’t worry. I will bring him back to you.”

Major Chukwuka, who had rather become impatient began to march Lt Col Pam out of his home but not without first advising him to put on a coat because it was the harmattan season and was cold outside.

As Pam was led out, Kaneng, his daughter, aware of the present danger, ran to her father and hugged him. Col Pam promptly turned to Elizabeth his wife and said in Hausa: “Liz, ki lura da yara,” which means “Liz, look after the children.”

These as it were, became the last words that she will hear her husband speak. And that was also the last glimpse he would have of his family that comprised Jummai, six years; Yusufu, four years; identical twins Ishaku and Ishaya, one year nine months and Ibrahim (Gambo), four months and two weeks.

The abduction party left the house, leaving behind the wailings from the Pam family. On the journey of a few kilometres from Ikoyi Crescent to the Federal Guards Officers Mess Ikoyi, Lt Col Pam sat in the back of a camouflage green Nigerian Army Land Rover under armed guard. They remain in the premises of the Officers Mess for less than an hour when Major Christian Anuforo arrived of from Apapa, where he had gone to execute Colonel Kur Mohammed. Upon discovery that it was Lt Col JY Pam who was under guard, Major Chukwuka expressed surprise that Lt Col Pam has not been eliminated.

Major Anuforo who had taken charge at the Federal Guards’ Officers Mess, ordered the driver to take the party to Ikoyi Golf Course. At a convenient point he ordered the driver to stop and for Lt Col Pam to disembark. Though not in operational command of troops, Col Pam was the most senior administrative officer in the Nigerian Army, in charge of institutional support and personnel; and for reasons best known to them, Major Anuforo and his co-conspirators had ordained that he was to die.

Major Christian Anuforo (CA): “You are to be shot Sir.”

JY: “Chris why?”

CA: “That is our decision”

JY: “I have a young family of six. This makes no sense.”

CA: “I have no choice. I am simply obeying orders.”

JY: “Allow me to say my prayers.”

CA: “Please do.”

Dawn has not broken, and Lt Col Pam, 32, knelt on the soft, cold grass. His last thoughts were obviously for his devoted wife Elizabeth and their children. “Lord save them. Lord bless them and Lord keep them.”

Anuforo’s gun cracked, two bullets flew out in the first volley, hitting his chest and jaw. Pam crumbled to the ground and then eleven more bullets pierced through from his the back. And life was over....

saintmark88:
It's owned by a Catholic archdiocese, not necessarily the Catholic church

bettercreature:
Drop your number if you need one i will order it for you

bettercreature:
Ikeja local government! magodo to be precise

cheruv:
I thought we'd an unwritten agreement not to quote each other.. We can make references to each other but not a direct quote...moreover vicenzo leveled exactly the same accusations against you so I now wonder btwn us who's lying
Anyway don't quote me anymore...As for my "outrageous" claims,isn't it left for ehikwe and cire80 whom I made the claims to to debunk them Or are you trying as usual to be more Catholic than the Pope

saintmark88:
Dnt deceive others, D Catholic Church owns no university in Nigeria... Madonna is owned by Rev Father Ede, a priest in d church, not the church

bettercreature:
They are giving it immediately you make the payment here,i collected 6 last week at the rate of 47.000naira each For old ones
For new ones 37.000 naira but i chose the old one because its easy to bypass it unlike the new ones

cheruv:
That poster you quoted is the worst kinda person who'd meet...all he does in NL is go about looking for the next Igbo thread he'd jump into. And like you noticed he doesn't contribute anything except what I'd call intellectual hypocrisy of the lowest kind...just in case he tries to beguile you with sprinklings of Igbo phrases here and there know he's not Igbo.
Just thought I could give you a headsup

bigfrancis21:
You still do not get his point. He didn't say other tribes are not trilingual or bilingual as the case may be but the frequency of Igbos being able to speak other languages is the highest of all 3 major tribes of Nigeria. The Hausa tribe comes second and the Yoruba tribe comes third. That's just another interpretation of his point. It is not generalizing, he is just stating an observation which I myself have noticed to be true.

This parallel is similar to that of the Jews who are often speakers of many world languages, in addition to their native Hebrew and for this reason they make very good spies to other European countries as they blend in easily.

bigfrancis21:
I have read this post and to me this is just raising dust over nothing. If someone says tall people are most likely to be men. They did not say all tall people are men, but if you see a tall person, chances are high that the person is a man. It is just an observation being put into speech form. It does not say, however, that women are short or not tall. There are tall women too, but the ratio of tall men to tall women would probably be at 80:20. Most likely is English' own way of saying 'high probability' in math. I have seen people often make arguments out of nothing that is self-sufficient by itself. It is not generalizing, it is merely stating an observation. Truth be told, Igbos and Hausas migrate a lot and these 2 tribes, of the 3 major tribes, tend to be trilingual or bilingual as the case may be. They learn the languages of their hosts as it helps to boost their businesses. The Yorubas are not so keen at learning other languages especially Igbo, just a small percentage of them speak or understand Igbo fluently. It is not generalization, it is stating facts. Of course to every rule there is an exception, but the exception does not negate the 'rule' which represents the majority of obvious.

Afam4eva:
He has a point. It's not ONLY igbos but Igbos are most likely going to be able to speak different languages than other ethnic groups. It's just what i've noticed personally.

vicenzo:
[s]Hate comments? So says the Igbo hating one,that roams NL looking to make hateful or spiteful comments against Igbo.
You represent hate[/s].

carmag:
No section has the monopoly of polyglots but exposure is another determine factors

if someone from the East spend his entire life in the East he wouldn't have the need to study a foreign language

there is a Yoruba boy that practiced and established a mechanic work shop in Anambra State precisely but he later traveled abroad and luckily to him he does not have a tribal mark which would indicate he is not an Igbo because he speaks Igbo fluently and can mention some remote villages in his host community

As I'm telling you he is being favoured amongst Igbo communities and he serves as a bridge btw the two tribes

conclusion ! if he didn't live in the east he wouldn't have had the need to speak Igbo language