₦airaland Forum

Bestmanfornow:
When you combine Ondo and Lagos oil production equal to Anambra oil production

When you combine Imo and Abia to Anambra oil.
And also combine oil from Igbo areas of Rivers state and Delta state to the above, Igboland will collectively be contributing nealy 1 million barrels per month.

This means Igbos have more oil resources than any other ethnic group in Nigeria.

Apcshit:
Abeg Rivers people should go and sit down one place.Cowards should not talk when we ibos are talking.

Agbado man playing your usual games

Mercisharelove:
Such wisdom is not a proactive person or of a great leader

Fubara should not only cry when the unfairness is meted out to him.

What goes around comes around.

Everyone knows that Wike is the person causing the instability in Rivers, but the truth is that both Wike and Fubara hurt Obi

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Such wisdom is not a proactive person or of a great leader[/quote]If Obi were to call names, he ought to mention both Fubara and Wike.

Fubara was happy joining Wike in thwarting Obi's victory in Rivers state.

Fubara should not only cry when the unfairness is meted out to him.

What goes around comes around.

Everyone knows that Wike is the person causing the instability in Rivers, but the truth is that both Wike and Fubara hurt Obi

helinues:
Lagos is smelling, Lagos is no man's land, SW is a slum bla bla bla.

In all, na SW dey dictate Nigeria media narration

GROK begs to differ

peleson1:
The same history told us that ibani ijaws people of bonney ,the ruling house of bonny bought the slave boy jaja and then decided against selling him into slavery like others like him.
He was kept and he was cultured and given ijaws name and he later became a head of house and then civil broke out and the igbo slave that ijaws bought and made later became king .


That jaja a once igbo slave boy bought by the ijaws became king as an ijaw did not make ijaws igbo .
That Obama of Kenyan decent became the US president,that does not make all Americans Kenyans.


Pls no land grabbi

First of all, every ancient document rightly stated that Bonny people are Ubani Igbos, and this includes Bonny kings, middlemen and most slaves. So don't come here and claim Bonny kings were Ijaws. That's impossible.

Ndoki and Ngwa people are Igbos and still speak Igbo till this day. That makes Bonny people Igbo, as Bonny people migrated from Ngwa and Ndoki.

Another major point to make is that Jaja practised Igbo omenana till he died, so he never converted to Ijaw, as you lot try to claim.

peleson1:
People can clearly see that some persons in this nairaland are lunatics and as mad as wike.

What so the ijaws in Ondo ,akwa ibom and other places that did not join bayemda are what?

Opobo and bonny are ibani peoptof ijaws.

Nonsense divide and rule politics.

Weak man like wike . Fubara an ijaws man is the governor. Wike can hang himself

Whilst I am not in support of Wike, truth be told, Ubani people of Bonny and Opobo are Igbo people.
History even notes it that Opobo was named after a former Igbo king of Bonny, by Jaja.

One of these days DNA analysis will be carried out to prove this satisfactorily.

Tinubuadvocate:
Obi will not even get what he got last time election.

You are absolutely correct.

We expect Obi to get way more than he got in the last election

Obiedun:
We are talking of killing of Christians and you are talking of marginalization. You are mixing things up. You politicize everything just because obi lost. Tell me if Nigeria is sanctioned today that Christians will not be affected

The Muslim killers of Nigerian Christians need Muslim presidency to help them cover their tracks.
That's why a Christian farmer was sentenced to death for defending himself against Fulani Muslim terrorists

Factcheck0001:
dey play

When next presidency is coming to the south, yorubas will gladly support south south

But Yorubas did not support the SS in 2015, when the north was undermining the only SS president ever in the history of Nigeria.

Your gaslighting won't work

Obiedun:
Imposing crippling sanctions on Tinunu or Nigeria? Imposing crippling sanctions on Nigeria will affect both Christians and Muslims. We don't need any crippling sanctions now. Imposing sanctions on Tinunu himself is unfair. Tinunu has no hand in killing Christians and he will never support it. His wife and children are christians

But Tinubu chose a northern Muslim as his running mate I. A clear attempt to marginalize the Christian community of Nigeria.

He deserves to be sanctioned

seunmsg:
Well, Tinubu dropped him from his cabinet and that was a right call. Guess who he’s frolicking with now? Igbos. The crooked and desperate Peter Obi is his new political ally.

Nwokem Peter Obi is not in SDP.
In fact, Tinubu issued a birthday message to El-Rufai just a few weeks ago in an attempt to keep him on his side.
Peter Obi didn't send any such messages. That's class.

However El-Rufai seems to want to join the bandwagon of those that want to get rid of the Yoruba certificate forger and drug peddler in Aso Rock, in spite of his birthday message grovelling

It's all good

After Nigeria, igbos will never be a part of a nation that has Lagos as her capital.

Igbos will form a nation whose capital will be firmly rooted in Igboland.

Enough of all this marginalisation. Every ethnic nation can go and answer their papa name

IGWEbigorty1:
The particular day Akintola the pig made this broadcast, igbos were still fighting a war with Nigeria forces .

The pain is the few igbos in government in Lagos state who failed to go back to the east .

To tell you the bile foolishness in this people

Helinues see o

Please be commenting with accurate information. Akintola had already died more than a year before the civil war broke out

kettykin:
Please was this Against Ghana or igbos or who?

Initially I thought it was about Ghana, but once I started listening to it, I heard him mention Igbo and Michael Okpara, so he must have been talking about Igbos.

Lifestone:
And non of you could say this when Awolowo was alive.
That's what revisionist do, they only talk when the other party can't defend themselves. Whatever the case maybe, Igbo Officers committed mass murder of leaders of other ethnic groups, and benefitted from it. If the coup was foiled, power should have returned to the politicians.
Your attempt failed woefully. Try again

Thank God Babangida ha already set the record straight on this issue.
Awolowo also confirmed he was to be the major beneficiary of the coup. So we are not saying anything Awolowo did not say when he was alive

Lifestone:
This did not remove the fact that no single Igbo leader was killed, while Igbo Officers wiped out leaders of other regions including military leaders

You can blame Awolowo for that. He only killed his opponents

T9ksy:
Sorry, but am not taking any Bs from you. Banjo was definitely pro-akintola.

Yeah, Awo would have been the major beneficiary of the Jan coup even though, IBB himself admitted that there was no action in the eastern region where he was in jail.

Ironsi, an igbo man was the major beneficiary of the Jan 15th 1966, igbo coup.

But Awolowo's coupists made sure to brutally murder all of Awolowo's political opponents, even though the coup wasn't totally successful

T9ksy:
@ bolded.........this is about the 4th time this month alone with igbos like your good self roping in Banjo as part of the Jan 15th coipists even none of the coupists (Jan. 15th) has ever named Banjo as involved in their dumb and ethnically lopsided coup.

Fyi, Banjo was arrested for allegedly, attempting to topple Ironsi' s illegal govt with two pistols and 5 orderlies on the 17th or 18th of Jan.1966.

Banjo was from ogbomosho hence he was unashamedly, pro- Akintola whilst Ademoyega, an ijebu man was pro- Awo. Ademoyega was therefore easy to recruit by Ifeajunna who only had to sell him the Bs that a bunch of igbo boys are willing to risk their lives in a coup that will bring forth a yorubaman at the helms of our national affairs..

This your argument is like me saying that Soludo must be pro-Obi because they are both from Anambra state. Secondly do you really think Ojukwu would have given a pro-Akintola man command of a Biafran army group?

Banjo and Fajuyi were diehard Awoists. Take it from me.

Banjo was obviously not happy that the Jan15 coup did not succeed in installing Awo as the prime minister of Nigeria, which was obviously why he tried a last-ditch effort to know whether he could topple Ironsi, thus making it more likely that the original objective of bringing in Awolowo would be achieved

Even Babangida that took part in the so-called revenge coup, noted that Awolowo would have been the major beneficiary of the Jan 1966 coup.

Counterigbolies:
so awolowo planned coup from prison?

So even when d coup happened it was ironsi that took over n ojucrook can't even release awolowo

It was Gowon that released awolowo

So are u telling me AWOLOWO planned coup from prison to make an Igbo President?

Then y didn't the coup kill any Igbo leader?

Awolowo's coupists did not kill Igbo leaders because Awolowo was in an alliance with NCNC around that time, so Awolowo spared Igbo leaders.

However Awolowo made sure that all his opponents in the north and western regions were eliminated. He even eliminated some senior army officers who were aligned to those politicians that were his opponents.

The two highest ranking members of that coup were Yorubas namely Banjo and Fajuyi, who were Awolowo's linkmen.
Fajuyi even trained ALL the coupists.

Pazienza

Counterigbolies:
y did Igbos kill other people's leaders n leave their own?

Awolowo's oup was used to eliminate all of Awolowo's enemies.

All the coupists were trained by Fajuyi.

We thank Babangida for buttressing the fact that the coup was planned by Awolowo supporters

ElSudani:

I feel your anguish. Facts are unfortunately too stubborn. Generations unborn will know what ibo officers did in January 1966. How they went 🗡 daggers in hand in the middle of the night to murder people in their beds.

When they learn all the people massacred were Awolowo's enemies, they will add one and one together and finally come to the realisation that Awolowo was a monster.

President Babangida's book will help them reach that conclusion. They will not see ElSudani's inconsequential rantings.

Pazienza

Counterigbolies:
but ibb in the same book made it clear it was originally ethnically motivated n he even made it clear that Igbo people were mocking northerners in the north

It's like u Igbos only read a page in that book

Ademoyega, Awolowo, Gbulie and lately Babangida have already revealed that the major beneficiary of that coup was Awolowo.

To this end, all of Awolowo's political opponents were massacred. Awolowo, who was a sitting duck in jail was spared.

What am I doing with the gossips of military wives?

The two highest ranking military people associated with that coup were Yorubas namely Fajuyi and Banjo. They outranked the foot soldiers that carried out Awolowo's coup.

Fajuyi trained all the coupists, so they obviously carried out Fajuyi's orders on the D - day

lawani:
He did the right thing by accepting to be Gowon's deputy. Ojukwu himself was governor in the East. Gowon was Awo's benefactor. Being Gowon's deputy did not mean Nigeria would have ultimately survived. Awo had already said if the East goes the west will go. He got the Northern soldiers out of the west.
The fact is that before the invasion of the west, the west did not allow Northern soldiers to attack the East from the west

That is a weird way of showing his dissatisfaction with Nigeria......accepting to be Gowon's deputy in protecting Nigeria.

And by the way, Gowon who was the commander in chief of the forces that attacked northern Igboland, was resident in Lagos, which we all know, is generally to the west. So Biafrans retaliating by attempting to get to the west, was very legitimate.

Yorubas and the west allowed Gowon to initiate aggression against Igbos, while residing in the west. To make matters worse, the supreme Yoruba leader accepted to be Gowon's deputy in their aggression against Ndigbo.

Pazienza

lawani:
Awolowo died peacefully in his sleep. He did not do any wrong that I can decipher. He asked Northern soldiers to leave the west and they did, to go and station themselves in Ilorin. They had already passed their boundary by attacking Igbos in the west. Then the liberation army moved into the west and Midwest even when those two regions were supporting Biafra. Colonel David Ejoor had said he will not allow any attack on Biafra through the Midwest and Awo had gotten Northern soldiers out of the west. The liberation army's invasion of the west and Midwest forced the two regions to join the war. What did Awo do wrong to attract all the abuse and insults?. Awo was a great man that did right for his people and Nigeria. If no invasion of the west, then Nigeria would have broken up easily

Awolowo was already Gowon's deputy before the Midwest invasion, so this your attempt at deceiving people into believe the west supported Biafra before the Midwest invasion will not wash.

How can the west and Awolowo be supporting Biafra, and at the same time Awolowo was Gowon's major minister?

lawani:
There was angst in the west because their leader was in prison. It was a fertile ground for a coup but when the coup came, their leader was not released from prison. It is actually the second coup that could be called Awo's coup. There was initial support for the coup across Nigeria including the west before people started to calculate who were killed and who escaped. It will not be right to say the west instigated the first coup but there was fertile ground for it in the west.

The Jan 1966 coup was Awo's coup because all his political opponents were killed. Unfortunately the coup didn't succeed and that was why he was not released immediately to take over the government.

Awolowo was obviously a very wicked man who knew all these, but chose to starve innocent people who were fighting a war of survival. His suicide was obviously a curse that came to pass.

Softmirror:
The 1966 coup is like saying 2022/23 Obidient movement is not an Igbo movement simply because there are a pockets of other tribes in the movement.

You can imagine how it all turned out, for example Lagos which Obi came first. The chest beating of Igbos in mockery of even the Yorubas who stood side by side to vote Peter Obi.

Which ever perspective anyone may want to look at it. The 1966 coup was an Igbo coup. The only reason why Igbos don't want to associate themselves with the 1966 coup is because of how it ended up as an humiliation.

Unfortunately for you Babangida's opinion on this issue carries way more weight than yours.

All the major actors from Ademoyega to Awolowo himself, have all confirmed that the major beneficiary of that coup was Awolowo, thus making it a Yoruba coup. CASE CLOSED

Thiefobi1:
U ibo people are criminal minded and liers.


Same awolowo was release by Gowon , driven to his home ikenne by miritala Muhammed and finally made deputy to Gowon.

So awolowo will plan a coup and Gowon will not deem it fit to try him.

U S.E are BST.

The same Gowon that did not try all those that committed pogroms against Igbos in the north, you expect to go try Awolowo, when he was looking for an alliance with the west.

Planning coup was not new to Awolowo
1. Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and Akintola imprisoned Awolowo because he was planning a coup
2. Awolowo was to be installed as the president if the January 1966 coupists had succeeded. All his political opponents were killed in that coup, and all his political allies were spared.
3. During Babangida's tenure, Awolowo was also caught planning another coup. This led to his suicide, as he knew he couldn't rope in the usual Igbos into his devilish plans.

Pazienza

Lifestone:
Most of the accounts show that the coup was planned and executed by Igbos. The outcome and lopsidedness of the fatalities was crucial to determine who owns the coup

Babangida has already written a book that made it clear that the greatest beneficiary would have been Awolowo.
Awolowo even confirmed this.
Ademoyega also confirm this, so you cannot call it an Igbo coup.

Thanks to Babangida for helping shed light

Lifestone:
We should ask Danjuma. He died protecting Aguyi Ironsi

He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza

seunmsg:
Seems you can’t read and understand very well. Please read again slowly “ From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by "outsiders" to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region”

The part in bold is IBB’s conclusion that it was clearly an Igbo coup.

Of course we all know the outsiders that labelled it an Igbo coup. They are the same people that starved millions of Biafrans to death.

You still don't want to point out the fact that it was Igbo people that scuttled Awolowo's coup. How can an Igbo man scuttle an Igbo coup.
Awolowo's coup will remain so, thanks to Babangida.

The major point is still the fact that Awolowo eliminated all his political opponents and those who were responsible for imprisoning him, in that coup