₦airaland Forum

igbodefender:
Who said Awolowo recruited them? Maybe you. There is no evidence to suggest that Awolowo recruited them.

But there is ample evidence to suggest that the plotters, Wale Ademoyega, Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeanyi Ifeajuna planned to use their January 1966 coup to spring Awolowo from jail where he was after being convicted of coup plotting in 1962 and make him Prime Minister.

And we are saying these dudes should have resigned from the military and joined Awolowo's party to campaign for him instead of trying to use force.

T9ksy:
Una don start again, huh. which ethnic divide are u reffering to? The inner circle of the coupists comprises of one yoruba and four Igbo Majors. And this constitute your idea of "cutting across the ethnic divide within the country"? I beg, carry go jo with your twisting all logic on its head, ojare. Its a pity/coincidence that the killings didn't "cut across the ethnic divide within the country"  

Here we go, again. No way could Ademoyega be made to wear the toga of "leader of the coup". Yeah, he was the co-ordinator but that does not make him the "leader". To put it bluntly, what influence does one yoruba major have over four igbo majors, two of whom (Nzeogwu and Ifeajunna) were his senior in rank. He was the last major to be recruited and at the eleventh hr so by no stretch of the imagination can Ademoyega be conferred with that hideous title "leader".
Onibara  e nba ole bo. Your beggar is surreptitiously morphing into an armed bandit!!!  

Another fallacy. Major Ifeajunna was the original creator of the coup. Ademoyega was recruited at the last minute, probably as an afterthought to give a semblance of the coup "cutting across the ethnic divide within the country".

source pls
The Police report stated differently.

igbodefender:
Colonel Wale Ademoyega would tell you it was not an Igbo coup. The only reason propagandists were able to get away with the fraudulent scammism [sic] that it was an Igbo coup was because Igbos dominated the officer corps then. That is also why Ironsi became President after crushing the coup.

igbodefender:
Nzeogwu coup was meant to install Awolowo as Prime Minister of Nigeria – Dr Ezeife


A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has disclosed that the failed Major Nzeogwu-led coup of 1966 was never an Igbo coup, stressing that it was meant to install Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the Prime Minister of Nigeria.

He made this known at the second day of the Igbo-Israeli Economic Summit titled South East Youth Economic Summit 2016 (SEYES 2016) which ended in Enugu yesterday.

Ezeife asserted that “it is not true that Igbos plotted the 1966 coup. The coup was planned by some elements within the military disenchanted with the drift of Nigeria who felt that Awolowo was in the best position to move Nigeria forward. The problem was that the execution of the coup got awry at some axis and everybody now claimed it was Igbo coup.”

He stated further that “the coup failed and General Ironsi carved provinces in Nigeria to help each group govern themselves better. They said that he was running a unitary system and killed him, yet Nigeria s practicing the same system for which...

Source: https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2016/10/07/nzeogwu-coup-meant-install-awolowo-prime-minister-nigeria-dr-ezeife/amp/

igbodefender:
Do your research. They planned to make Awolowo Prime Minister, taking Balewa's seat and giving him. Don't pretend you don't know. This issue has been over flogged in Nairaland.

igbodefender:
Balewa was killed by military supporters of Awolowo. These guys should have dropped their uniforms, joined Awolowo's party, campaigned for his release from prison where he was jailed for coup plotting and campaigned for him in election.

We are talking of Ademoyega, Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna.

kerry57:
I am not asking u to vote for him. He is certainly getting mine because I had seen him portray the guts that most youths of our days won't dare to. I have seen him take on the president, Senate president, members of both houses of assembly, past leaders of this country without fear. I think it's what we need for now, someone with courage to tell the world that u are a thief and proof it and then prosecute the thief if he has the power. Jonathan was competent,buhari is too to u I guess when we voted them? There are so much to learn on the seat of power only if u really want to make a change. Donald Trump isnt competent but was elected the American president. American economy has never been this good for decades and top American companies that left for China are coming back home and unemployment rate is drastically decreasing. He might be controversial but he is really what Americans need for the now to get better cos he has got the will to match his words. I see something similar in Sowore but not exactly the same as Trump though.

He has not put forth any ideology or blueprint to show he can govern this nation effectively, or turn its fortunes around.

AlexCk:
Lovely.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie should have taken some notes from Olu and Joké .

Hehehe.

But op, which love vibe e give us kwanu?

Cromcruach91:
There are many tribes scattered around the major tribes that speak the same language,but technically speaking are distinct people.

Example...the Ikwerre of Rivers state. (If you want two Ikwerre people to fight, just get them to discuss whether they are Igbo or not...).

I once worked under a guy who came from the general area that Nzeogwu came from. Had an Igbo sounding name, spoke the lingo...but did not identify as Igbo

Cromcruach91:
The 'ibos' did not kill him....Ifeajuiana, and company (which included at least two Yoruba guys) did.

Plus Ifeajuana and Nzeogwu were from minority, Igbo speaking tribes domicilled in what is now Delta State. Techincally speaking, they were not Igbo.

kerry57:
Are u agreeing to the fact that Sowore is too young to become a president? We had better woke up and collect our future and that of our future generations from these old thieves. As youths, we can fight it out with Sowore if he messes up because he can understand our pains as young people. These old thieves still sees Nigeria from the eyes of the 70s,80s that is why they see us as fools. I refuse to be a fool. I am going with a young Nigerian president this time.

amnesty7:
Humble. Eloquent. Knowledgeable. Educated. Foresighted.

Abbeybailey:
That was the time of Pilot Tunde Amusa piloting the flight from Murtala Muhammad Airport to JFK Airport. Good old days indeed. Hopefully, Nigeria will get her groove back.

Rosskii:
I miss Nigeria Airways. Their signature Jollof Rice and Beef or Chicken serving was unforgettable. It turned many a foreigner into a lover of the national dish.

Nigeria Airways flew everywhere - Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg, London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Cairo, Jeddah, Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich, Kampala. Everywhere.

lonlytroy:
You mean their is no Aboki pilot?

polinpo:
Not true ! Billy Eko was second to Capt. Ore.

Capt. Ore was Nigeria's finest. He was the captain of Nigeria's boeing 747 to New York. Capt. Billy Eko was merely his co-pilot. In fact, Billy Eko tried to implicate Capt. Ore in his hard drug runs by giving him one of his bags to hold and having Capt. Ore's finger print on the bag. but luckily, Ore was acquitted though he was later dismissed by the Nigerian Airways.

diamond88:
When abokis and sectional employment of staff from the north full there,why won't it get ruined. Nigeria never employ the best brain but put there family members there. Go to FAAN. u see many abokis occupying many post.

CodeTemplar:
Ha ha ha! This is delusion at it's peak.

daewoorazer:
A Nigeria Airways ticket...

A one-way economy class ticket in the year 1990. Its cost was NGN3400

Feeling Nostalgic?

Euouae:
Whatever institution can make the tricycle available can also make a better ambulance available. And moreover, what will be the excuse when a tricycle is available but cant ply the road due to weather conditions or terrain? Its a substandard initiative and that you "MUST" agree with me. Responding to emergency's rapidly entails a lot a safety precautions, pace and standard hardware's, and needs not to be cheaply managed. If the tricycle is the only & best option in your opinion, you have a right to it. But when analyzed down the line, I repeat, its substandard. You talking about peoples life here.

CodeTemplar:
Who started the insults? You have further confirmed your inferiority to the world. You disagree with my "faulty premise" but can't provide yours and think Govts should usher microbiology grads into world class laboratories.
Keep dreaming and defending a faulty and failed system for personal reasons there. In your narrow mind driving a Keke and applying as a cashier to a bank (microfinance inclusive) is better than getting experience that can easily land you an Intl job.

I must ask are you a microbiologist by training or did you enjoy subsidized education at tertiary level?

Euouae:
I still find it difficult that you still just dont want to accept the glaring fact that the ambulances are not safe. If deploring a tricycle to a village with untarred roads looks okay to you and good, I respect your opinion. But by standard, It is rubbish especially being a government initiative. If you really meant "remote village", do you think those tricycle can rough that road? Cos I also did youth service in a remote village and do what the terrain looks like. Stop applauding quantity.

CodeTemplar:
Are you this mentally derailed? What is faulty in saying Microbiology is easier to set up a business than some other fields.
You think I care about your useless rants about govt not providing jobs for microbiology grads?
You are the one to provide how much you think it cost to set up a microbiology lab since you claim I had a faulty premise in claiming it "easier" than some other fields. Stop posting what beyond your intellectual capacity.

CodeTemplar:
Next time you want to sample my post as facts please sample relevant posts and stop the desperate facing saving tactics.

Euouae:
What is bad is bad. You wouldn't also want to hear that the ambulance had an accident. The vehicle is not safe. Thats my point. It can be physically seen. The height of the ambulance alone with relation to its center of gravity alone tells you alot that its just a mobile coffin and not an ambulance.

CodeTemplar:
I knew u were going to derail soon. My post u replied initially was in response to the guy who talked about the IT and Agric needs of Nigeria instead of celebrating the business scientist who is the focus of this thread.
You jumped in as if my illustration involving microbiology grad was a personal thing. You already attest to the fact microbiologist support the Agric, Health and Beverage Industry. That is in line with my example of courses required by nation where graduates are wasting away.
Re-read our convoy and stop derailing any further.

CodeTemplar:
There are some field where it is easier to startup a venture. IT is one of them and Microbiology is another...... .

CodeTemplar:
Is the govt suppose to create jobs for them or locate jobs for them and offer them the jobs. Stop taking discussion beyond your level. You speak as though the govt is suppose to adopt microbiology grads as sons and give them job. How much does the microbiology graf need to employ himself in his own field? Juxtapose that against the subsidy they enjoy all through undergrad days and tell me that we need to after business scientist instead of microbiology grads.

Euouae:
Safety of the patient like I pointed out, you have not addressed. The communities you talking about have standard hospitals kilometers away from them which this tricycles will be forced to ply roads they are not fit to ply putting the lifes of all occupants in danger.

I have been opportune to work in few central African countries where Toyota Land Cruiser (HARD-BODY), plays such vital role. Its just about putting more into health-care and not sub-standard medical Hardware's that put peoples life in danger. Moreover, available space within is not sufficient for emergency operations if need be.

Jakumo:
We're all bound to die, croak, expire or kick the bucket at some point in time, BRO, so there is no need to get all sanctimonious about that basic fact of human existence, unless of course you have a cure for death or some chit.

Your relative Mrs. Olejija was a frigging hairdresser, to whom a military dictator-cum-president's now deceased wife ILLEGALLY handed out oil drilling blocks that were, and ARE, national property. This brazen variant of nepotism remains, to an extent, a time-honored tradition in the murky world that is Nigeria's oil industry, where absolute impunity has merely been supplanted by selective prosecution for graft.

I hope you find that bit of trivia "interesting", BRO, whilst bearing foremost in mind that stolen money remains dirty and blood-stained, regardless of how much desperate laundering of the loot is attempted by perpetrators and their nervous parasitic criminal beneficiaries, after the fact.

The long arm of the law will one day catch up with Mrs. Alaakijale, BRO, and then she will get slam-dunked in jail where she belongs, along with other felony embezzlers both large and small.

There will be plenty of opportunity for you and other treasury-gnawing rodents to prove before a presiding judge in court of LAW, that y'all are ENTITLED by "hairdresser connection" to just TAKE national oil fields, so I would suggest you spend less energy struggling so paint your thieving benefactor Mrs. Alaakijale as a saint, here in the court of internet public opinion, where few would give a flying phuck what folks like your good self have to say, truth be told .

The documented historical facts speak for themselves, about the sudden enrichment of this one-time hairdresser, Mrs. Alaakiijale, along with that of numerous other former and current government cronies just like her, all similarly hidden in plain sight.

CodeTemplar:
There are expensive Comp Sci equipments also.
Govt is subsidizing the public uni grad with hundreds of thousand per session as undergrads so we should talk about those grads.

Euouae:
The bitter truth remains that tricycles being used as ambulance makes no sense with regards to our terrain. Considering the safety of the patient and other occupants, and the location of standard hospitals.