Oga sir, does this mean that you have since had a change of heart after introducing Sharia to Yobe state in 2000? Shouldn't Sharia Law apply here?

Benekruku:



He doesnt know Biafra is not a member of ECOWAS

LMAO. He assumes it is automatic once you are in West Africa. Even Morocco had to beg and beg to join. Nigeria will not allow them join for another 200 years if at all. Oops, I just gave them another hint.

LOL. What happens to the properties of illegal aliens deported from Europe and America? Go figure.

Wallade:


Are you kidding me.Let me ask again: how many salary jobs pay above 50k in Abuja? Abuja is predominantly civil service state where average salary is about 70k.

We are not speaking of paper monthly basic (speaking of bribes and other "incentives" ). In fact, many of these people have humongous housing allowances.

ivolt:


Here lies the difference between humans and animals.
Human act rationally while animal acts impulsively.
I won't blame you same way I won't blame a snake
for biting people.

Hear, hear. Speaking of rationality...

MrDickman:

Assuming my fellow passngers backed me up and supported me that day I would have been more gingered to fight back but everybody just dy look like mumu. We were so helpless.

How do you confront armed people who can kill and get away with it, when you are not armed?

Pidgin2:


What's wrong with your thinking, is there something like cheating on a husband? Don't tell me you are accursed

Polygamy is not the same as polyandry last time I checked. The law allows the former but does not allow the latter. If it hurts you so bad, go change the law.

Wallade:
If I may ask: which state is more expensive in terms of house rent among the two - Abuja and Lagos?

Abuja rent may be higher; but the ratio of the rent to salary lower.

Jajayi:
Being caught is not the only crime, he was cheating on his wife (if he has one)

Excuse you? This is Nigeria. There is nothing like "cheating on your wife" when polygamy is allowed.

bounty007:


Imagine Abiola and Awolowo..come be yardstick..even included tinubu.

Haba, no need for fight na. Just follow the example of Ojukwu and see how many votes you can get.

When did the police take over the job of the coroner?

E k'abo. You just woke up to that realization? I guess you no longer have guaranty of lucrative government contracts once you dole out your kickbacks disguised as "financial aid".

jumobi1:
Then his State needs to wake up or rejoin Enugu

I have also made similar comments of certain states being merged with others; but the fact is what ever state has been formed should sit up and get independent. If you cannot add value to yourself and you have to be merged with others to survive, you can then best be described as a parasite and become a burden to the others you are merged with.

post=57949950:
You see this kind problem is from the parents of the child. Parents please stop talking down to your children if they get low positions in result rather encourage them to do better. And schools self stop putting position in result. Stop grading the children.

This kind of incidence and jealousy could have been totally averted.

We have all been bested in various endeavors including academics and sports; but not all of us went the route of attempted murder simply to come tops. If we all had that mindset, less than 10% of kids will be alive by the end of each term.

I don’t know what to say about that. I knew I would stop one day. I knew God’s time is the best.

Kobicove:
This can't be true!

No wonder why CR7 wants to leave Spain...

The raid took place in Argentina.

pocohantas:
Nawa.
Man wahala again?

A young lady in her late 30s is his niece?
Then how old is the said fiance?

I hope you're not about marrying your forefather?

OP no vex, the age of the niece confused me. Please leave that man alone. If she's truly his niece, such a man can have sex with his own daughter, your sister and any stray pussy. I don't even want to talk about his unfaithful nature. This one his parents are begging you, them wan dash you big baby be that.

Your niece can be older than you.

Jakumo:


Seeing the effect of laziness and sloth on an entire nation and indeed a continent is heartbreaking in its own right, and that ain't no lie.

What's the solution?

Jakumo:
Lack of regular exercise will age ANY human being twice as rapidly as normal, and when it comes to exercise, Nigerian women over the age of 25 simply refuse to even think about the idea, with predictably depressing results, in terms of how they start to look as the years roll by.

Nigerian women under the age of 23 can rank among the most beautiful black women ANYWHERE on Earth, with athletic bodies and firm jiggly breasts untouched by any surgeon, HOWEVER, the instant they marry, or turn 25 years old, 95% of them rapidly balloon up in body weight and become clinically obese in short order, due to sheer laziness that prevents them engaging in any form of exercise, for LIFE. This rapid degradation from beauty to beastly is one of the more depressing phenomena to observe, yet is the NORM in most of Africa, Nigeria inclusive.

Once a Nigerian woman has borne children, forget it, as far as beauty goes, because those firm breasts will droop and sag so bad they are best covered up from there on out, while she starts to pile on pounds of ugly lard so fast it is alarming. This is the rule to which there are precious few exceptions.

Personally I would never contemplate dating any woman who is over 23 years old, who is overweight, or who has borne kids at any time in the past, so help me God. The older they get, the ANGRIER they get, the FATTER they get, and the UGLIER they get. My hat is off to any man who can live with all of that, for they are far braver souls than I will ever be.

Who broke your heart? You know, these days stating it as it is is a sign of heartbreak and frustration.

fastgyal:
You sound like a poor man. sorry about your predicament

Yeah! Get those legit moneybags to fvck you silly. That's how to roll!

An Ibibio man never loves an Igbo man.
God has put the Ibibios under the Igbos for life and you can not do anything about it.

Looks like a bull to me.

mikoyems:
Dis anyone noticed there are actually 31 Military Officers?

It was already stated in the OP that one of them is not Nigerian!

sunnyb0b0:


So 20 out of 29 from Eastern region (later Biafra) is not significant enough to you?

Good observation! And out of those 9 non Biafrans, 7 were murdered in one night of January 1966. Very balanced killings if you ask me.

Guestlander:


This was a passage taken from Awo's autobiograhy which was published in January 1960. Read it and ponder on it, that was your nationalist.
His attitude and tactics are eerily similar to what we read from Igbos today.


An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.

Wow.

bumi10:


After all, when that fo.olish and inconsequential Lord Lugard merged Biafra with Northerners and called us Nigeria, who did he consult?

le kwa numu ashishi ooo

Abi? So you just admitted that you think like Lord Lugard; a colonialist. So Biafrans are modern day colonialists of South South Nigeria.

munas:

Madam Tina was also rumoured to be the girlfriend of one of the robbers.

That was why she worked out their release.

Interesting. Any idea where she is now?

DogsOut:

You're a fool. A man just released from Prison should declare oduduwa republic without planning. You're a goat. Your akpu infested brain is turned upside down. No wonder your flat heads couldn't save the asses of those 3 million idiots who died.

Everything that needs to be said on this matter is right here:

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/generaltopics/why-biafra-failed-%E2%80%93-uwechue/

Why Biafra failed – Uwechue
Being excerpts from the book: Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War – Facing the Future, written, by Chief Raph Uwechue, president-general, Ohanaeze, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization.
By ONUOHA UKEH

It is a sad but instructive irony that Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwn, one of Africa’s one-time most brilliant political promises, was the man who led his own people with such a lack of ingenuity into what was clearly a foreseeable disaster. This agonizing paradox is resolved only by an understanding of the man.

There are scholars who hold the view that the personality of Adolf Hitler was the factor, which, more than any other, determined the destiny of Second World War Germany, as much indeed, as they argue that Winston Churchill’s determined that of Great Britain. Leaning a little on the basic hypothesis of this school of thought, it can be said for the Nigerian Civil War that the personality of Odumegwu Ojukwu, more than any other single factor, determined much of the course and certainly the character of the end of the Biafran adventure.

Avid for power, he paid more attention to the politics of the war than to the one basic question of security. Biafra’s efforts were trimmed to his size and through much of the conflict reflected his own strength as well as his own weaknesses. This personification of the struggle and the lethal cloud of illusion, which it created around him, were to persist until the end. Thus on the same day as his more down-to-earth successor, General (Phillip) Effiong, signed the formal act of Biafra’s surrender, General Ojukwu was still declaring: “While I live, Biafra lives. If I am no more, it would be only a matter of time for the noble concept to be swept into oblivion.”

Ojukwu’s political genius was, therefore, at once, his making and his undoing. Because he was an extremely able politician and knew this fact too well, he tended to trust only his own judgment. This fact, coupled with an exaggerated personal ambition blinded him to the sickening realities of Biafra’s last days. In Biafra, two wars were fought simultaneously. The first was for the survival of the Ibos as a race. The second was for the survival of Ojukwu’s leadership.

Ojukwu’s error, which proved fatal for millions of Ibos, was that he put the latter first. A good deal of the war effort was diverted into promoting Ojukwu and his leadership. Be it the question of starvation and relief or other vital matters affecting the population at large, propaganda considerations took precedence over cold realities. Calculation as a method was replaced by hopeful interpretations of ambitious wishes. Personal ambition thus adroitly grafted onto the genuine grievances of an injured people produced a mixture, which lacked the purity and sanity that the Ibos needed badly in so unequal a fight. The result was that in the end Biafrans secured an undisputed head but not the body of their state.

Right from the start the problem that faced the Ibos in Nigeria was one of security. Sovereignty was only a means to attain this end. As the struggle progressed, it became evident that the chosen means was obstructing progress towards the desired end-security. When this fact became clear, many friends inside and outside Biafra began to urge a compromise solution that would recognize Nigeria’s territorial integrity but at the same time grant to the Biafrans adequate local autonomy and security. The failure of Biafra’s leadership to acknowledge the absolute necessity for a compromise, even in the face of overwhelming odds, not only prolonged the war but also ensured that it ended the way it did.

At the beginning of the struggle, the Ibos had a very good chance, if not of winning against the authorities in Lagos, certainly of avoiding a humiliating defeat. Politically, Ojukwu inherited considerable assets. The political alignment in Nigeria just before the introduction of military rule was by no means unfavourable. Up until the eve of the civil war, Nigerian politics were dominated by the three big tribes: the Hausa-Fulani of the North, the Ibos of the East and the Yorubas of the West. In this triangular fight, the key to victory was the combination of any two sides. It did not matter which two.

Only the then Northern Region, led by the NPC (Northern People’s Congress) appeared to have fully appreciated and exploited this golden rule. After the inconclusive results of the 1959 eve-of-independence federal elections, the NPC brilliantly out-manoeuvered its two Southern rival, the NCNC (National Council for Nigerian Citizens) then led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and the AG (Action Group) under the leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Thwarting a coalition of the two Southern progressive parties, the NPC tinkered out an incongruous alliance with the NCNC in a lop-sided federal coalition government. This move allowed it to rule the country riding on the back of a docile NCNC when, two years later, the strain of the burden began to tell on the latter the sensitive rider sought to change horses. The only alternative was the AG. But strong-willed Awolowo was an obstacle.

An attempt to circumvent his rigid political hostility to the NPC led to the vigorous wooing of his deputy, Chief S. L. Akintola, and in turn to the split in the AG. Backed by the NPC controlled Federal Government, Akintola succeeded in installing himself and his faction in power in Western Nigeria. Soon, Chief Awolowo and his ablest aides, including Chief Anthony Enahoro, were politically liquidated – incarcerated allegedly for treason. But as events were soon to prove, the people of the West did not want Chief Akintola. Thus, despite an impressive sleight of hand, the NPC succeeded in pulling with it the headship but not the populace of Western Nigeria.

The less sensitive NCNC dominated by undisciplined, individualistic and greedy federal ministers woke up too late to appreciate the full political import of the battle for Western Nigeria. Nevertheless, the struggle itself revealed to it the risk of isolation involved in its passivity. It set to work for an East-West alliance to fight the federal elections scheduled for 1964.

The result was the UPGA (United Progressive Grand Alliance), uniting the two powerful Southern parties – the NCNC now led by the dynamic Dr. Michael Okpara and Chief Awolowo’s Action Group, led, in his absence, by Alhaji Dauda Adegbenro. UPGA represented by far the bulk of the population in Eastern, Western, and Mid-Western Nigeria, as well as articulate minority elements in the North, all of whom found common cause in opposing the domination of the conservative and feudal NPC.

The military coup of January 1966 swept civilians out of power and dissolved political parties but the undercurrent of East-West solidarity represented by UPGA remained. Chief Obafemi Awolowo was still serving his 10-year prison sentence. The majority of the Yorubas supported him and his Action Group continued to enjoy abundant popularity in Western Nigeria. His friendship with Dr. Michael Okpara, the Ibo leader of the NCNC, continued to sustain the Southern solidarity. When the counter-coup of July 1966, which brought General (Yakubu) Gowon to power occurred, the spirit of that solidarity was still high. The coup itself not only killed the Eastern Ibo leader, General (Johnson Thomas) Ironsi, but also the popular Yoruba military governor of Western Nigeria, Lt. Col. Adekunle Fajuyi. In this setting, it was clear that the Yorubas of the West were potentially more inclined to ally with the Ibos of the East against the power of the North from which both had suffered so recently.

General Gowon sensed this mood and acted swiftly. Not only did he release Chief Awolowo immediately from prison, he wooed him with the unprecedented flattery of welcoming him, with a guard of honour, at Ikeja airport. Gowon’s clever release of Chief Awolowo had the effect of reducing but not eliminating Yoruba dislike for the North. This fact soon became evident. In March 1967, Chief Awolowo, now free and still the undisputed leader of the Yorubas, made a public statement, which reflected very clearly his sympathy for Col. Ojukwu’s Eastern Region. In an open letter to the government, he demanded that the two battalions of northern troops stationed in the West should be withdrawn from that region which, according to him, was being treated by the northerners as an occupied territory.

He went further to threaten that if “the Eastern Region was pushed out of the federation, Western Nigeria would quit the federation as well.” Faced with this threat of an alliance between the Yoruba West and the Ibo East, the Northern controlled Federal Military Government became visibly alarmed.

The seeds of Biafra’s failure took root from this point. Eastern Nigeria’s leadership failed to appreciate what Gowon saw so clearly – the vital necessity of securing the alliance of Chief Awolowo and the Western Region. Was General Ojukwu simply and innocently overconfident? Or, too anxious for his own position, did he feel that an alliance with Chief Awolowo, already a towering national figure, would dwarf his own fledgling personality and jeopardize his chances for supreme leadership? The fact remains that too little or nothing was done to woo Chief Awolowo. When on 7th May 1967 the Yoruba leader came to Enugu at the head of a reconciliation committee, Ojukwu had a handsome opportunity to play his card. He missed. Dr. Michael Okpara who still enjoyed popular support in Eastern Nigeria and whose friendship with Chief Awolowo had sustained the UPGA alliance was not even invited to meet Chief Awolowo. After a hurried reception, Chief Awolowo’s delegation left Eastern Nigeria. Ojukwu saw fit to describe the mission as an “ill-conceived child.”

General Gowon, on the contrary, studiously drew Chief Awolowo closer to himself. He offered him the highest civilian post in the Federal Military Government – the vice-presidency of the Federal Executive Council – with the unspoken understanding that Nigeria was his as soon as the war was over and the army withdrew.
By this act, the East-West alliance foreshadowed by UPGA was destroyed and a new North-West axis was born. From this moment on, Ojukwu’s Eastern Nigeria was isolated and when war broke out she had to fight it alone. Eastern Nigeria’s political choice of secession completed the region’s isolation. The struggle was no longer between the so-called Christian East and Moslem North. That decision united all shades of opinion in Nigeria, giving to them a sense of oneness – and to the Northern-dominated Federal Government an invaluable instrument-in the common fight to defend Nigeria’s unity.

Within Eastern Nigeria (Biafra), General Ojukwu’s tactics led to a quick alienation of many talented Ibos. From the very beginning, he set out to establish his authority with a heavy hand. Under his orders Dr. Michael Okpara, the popular former civilian Premier of Eastern Nigeria, was clamped in jail. So were a number of his ministers. The only notable exception was the former Attorney General, Mr. C. C. Mojekwu, Ojukwu’s kinsman, whom he retained and made Biafra’s Minister of Interior. Inspired insinuations went round accusing Dr. Azikiwe, Nigeria’s former President, of mismanaging the affairs of the University of Nsukka of which he was the founder-chancellor. These political figures were to remain out of favour and far from the corridors of power, except for their occasional utility as window dressing, such as posing for photographs with General Ojukwu or flanking him on ceremonial occasions. Their rich political experience was practically unused and they were called in to participate in the Biafran government in any effective way only when the first signs of collapse had appeared. This was late in September 1967, when Biafra experienced its first military reverses, which led rapidly to the fall of Enugu.

Within the army, General Ojukwu adopted the same tactics of eliminating his opponents. I have already related in the chapter on secession the trend of the struggle for power between Ojukwu and the Biafran army leadership. The result of his success was a timid army tamed to unquestioned obedience. Thus, only two days after General Ojukwu’s escape from Biafra, his Chief of Staff, regaining his freedom, was able to declare: “We have always believed that our differences with Nigeria should be settled by peaceful negotiations.”
On the diplomatic plane, events were not different. General Ojukwu rejected advice time and again on the need for timely compromise.

Dancos:
The yorubas are cowards. If awolowo had declared oduduwa when ojukwu reeased him from calabar prison everything would have been history today. If obasanjo who knows the truth can speak the same truth sith his mouth in yhe few days he has left. But no, dont trust a yoruba man

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/generaltopics/why-biafra-failed-%E2%80%93-uwechue/
Long read; but educate yourself.

seunmsg:

Soyinka supported them in the 60's and today, they can't do without insulting him.

This part I love so much. I am sure his eyes are now clear; just like mine.

Daboomb:

...

The examples you gave are of soldiers more or less under war conditions. Besides this same Evans had been arrested at least twice already. They had him, and released him only to catch him and then celebrate?

This happened the same year he married?