₦airaland Forum

Some Nigerian states have equally done great works on road construction but can we get the poor and downtrodden that live at suburbs have the same feeling of importance and pride—Chinolization 2014

The Land is Always Green

Naija Adigo Mma whether Aboki or Ndiofe like it or not.

I have come to realize that you do not need to travel abroad for you to have a feel of Western society and community! I think we need not just political will but economic will to transform greater part of Nigeria to this level—Chinolization 2014

zendy: A lot of people make ignorant comments on Nairaland. I was born after the war and so was not a living witness to it but that did not stop me from reading books and researching about it. I also got first hand accounts about the war from my mother who was a refugee in camp similar to the one in these pictures and my father who was a captain in the Biafran army. I know all about the war. The important question to ask is "why was the war fought?" The counter-coup of 1966 saw northern officers rise and butcher any Eastern Nigerian officer or soldier they could lay their hands on but that didn't stop there. Easterners were butchered across the north and western region. Ojukwu was then military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. Ojukwu told Gowon to stop the killings but he didn't. Ojukwu even encouraged the Easterners who ran back home to return to the north only for them to be killed in greater numbers. Ojukwu sat down with Gowon in Aburi,Ghana and discussed the escalating crises and they came up with an agreement called the 'Aburi Accord' that would bring peace and keep Nigeria as one. Gowon signed this agreement only to return to Lagos and turn his back on it. With easterners being massacred in their thousands all over Nigeria,what would anyone expect Ojukwu to do? He did what he could to bring peace but it didn't work. How many of you would have stood by and watched your own being killed in the name of 'one Nigeria'? Ojukwu did the only thing any sane man would have done to protect his people after all peace initiatives by him had failed and that was to ask his people to return home and declared Biafra. Biafra was about the right of a people to self determination,freedom of association and the right to protect ones life and property. If any of us had been Ojukwu,we too would have declared Biafra. The war followed and the only reason that Nigeria defeated Biafra was the overwhelming support it got from super powers such as Britain and Russia. I want to add that it was the God given right of anyone or a people to decide if they want to be Nigerians or not,you can't force someone to be Nigerian. The war was fought for one single reason. For the oil resources of Eastern Nigeria. That's all it was, the northerners need the economic resources of the people of the South-east and South-south like fish needs water. Anyone who believes that the northerners and their Yoruba collaborators fought this war because of the 'everlasting love' they have for the Igbos and the people of the SS is a fool. 2 million people died,millions more suffered and for what? To give northerners and Yorubas control over the rest of Nigeria for 40 years. Look at the Nigeria they presided over,a country riddled with corruption,incompetence,porverty and insecurity. This is the so called dream of 'one Nigeria'? I pray that there will not be another war in Nigeria but we all know that Nigeria is living on 'borrowed time'. We will all go our different ways in peace or in pieces.

The £20 policy of murderous and treacherous Awo denied Ndigbo from owning a single property from their dubious indigenization policy. Thank God that He NEVER sleeps nor slumbers. we shall overcome

Awo, Gowon and the Abokis their slavemasters and their generation unborn shall never be forgiven for these atrocities they committed against Ndigbo until they atone for their sins. The blood of the innocents are still crying over the country

Chino nwanne

They starved the Igbos, looted their properties, and the treacherous Awo and his puppetry General Gowon embarked on their wicked.Indigenization policy to scheme out the Igbos from owning a single company during that era. Thank God he died miserably

Mynd44: They signed Eto last year and got nothing. When will they learn that these "pensioners" can't save em

Nna u no mercy for this guy o

Let him go ahead. That's a good news

Finally

FINALLY THE SLEDGE HAMMER HAS LANDED ON HIS HEAD

Well is not a big deal, still recovering from janjaweedism

With all these money in their hands yet no meaning development in some of the states

Mynd44

Mynd44: I remember when we lost Tessy.....hell the whole house was in tears, dad, mum and all.....I was not told since I was not in the state then. I knew 2 weeks later when I got back.

I felt like digging her body where it was buried.

Nna u no dey mercy for person

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