gidgiddy:
The British officers at Kaduna kept wondering what an Oxford graduate was doing as a private in the Army and sent him for officers course in England. Ojukwu returned in 1957 and was commissioned a second Lieutenant, the first graduate to join the Nigerian Army.

Ojukwu rose rapidly through the Army. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1958, Captain in 1960, Major in 1962 and Lieutenant Colonel in 1964.

Ojukwu was commander of the 4th battalion, Kano, when the first coup happened in January 1966.

As the coup unfolded, Major Nzeogwu called on Ojukwu to join the coup to which Ojukwu refused. Ojukwus refusal to join Nzeogwu is one of the major reasons why Nzeogwu's coup eventually failed.

General Ironsi then siezed power and appointed Ojukwu Military Governor of the Eastern Region.

6 months later, mid-level officers of the Nigerian of Northern extraction conducted a coup that led to the overthrow and killing of Ironsi, and the installment of Lt Yakubu Gowon as head of state. The coup also greenlighted a pogrom in which over 30,000 Easterners, mainly Igbos, were killed all over Nigeria, particularly in the North.

The inability of Gowon to stop the killings, the resentment in the Eastern Region against his government and the fact that Ojukwu was senior to Gowon caused bad blood between both men

The crisis became so bad that the then President of Ghana, General Joe Ankrah, intervened and invited both Gowon and Ojukwu to his Hiltop Mansion in Aburi, Ghana, for peace talks in January of 1967.

After two days of discussions, Ojukwu and Gowon signed an agreement that was to be known as the Aburi Accord.

A few months after their return from Ghana, Gowon broke the Aburi accord they signed by issuing decree 14 of 1967 which abolished all the 4 Regions, created 12 states, reversed the fical federalism practiced, changed the revenue sharing formular, all in a bid to increase the power of the North over the rest of Nigeria

For Ojukwu, it was the last straw. Ojukwu convened the Eastern Nigerian Consultative Forum, a body that comprised of all the chiefs and head of the 20 provinces that made up the Eastern Region. They sat and discussed for 2 days and mandated Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a separate country. On the 30th of May 1967, Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region a separate country called the Republic of Biafra.

In retaliation, Gowon declared war. The war raged on for 3 years and ended in January 1970 with Ojukwu handing over to his deputy, General Effiong, flying into exile in Ivory Coast and the subsequent surrender of Biafra.

Ojukwu later returned from exile 12 years later. He died in London in 2011 aged 78. His burial remains the greatest ever witnessed in Nigeria

Ojukwu is still revered by most Igbos because they believe he fought for their freedom.

and that define the kind of people we are. We glorify cowards.

Bewiseedet:
Don't get me twisted but these Black American most of 'em are into some kind of BROTHERHOOD.

Freemason. I should i say Goat-pan Cult.

Damfostopper:
Rivers state na igbo?

River state is a creation by Nigeria Government. He is an Igbo. Go check his parent's name on wikipedia.

HarryDuce:
There's nothing on his Wikipedia page that points Igbo as his origin.

He's from Akinima in Ahoada West; occupied by the Egenni people not Igbos.

you are just funny. And what are his names?

HarryDuce:
He is not Igbo

Go check his Bio on wikipedia.

uyams:
I taught is only igbos that likes money, but see how this one betrayed the whole Africa by taking his sweet music to that xenophobic nation for the pay .

I personally feel betrayed because those people did my uncle over there bad thing and he wants to go and entertain them.

let me stop here before the tag me tribal bigot for saying the truth

He is an Igbo

The capitalist thugs( caucasians)

we Aboriginals have a long way to go

igbodefender:
As long you quote me, expect to be quoted back. Amd you have been quoting me.

You can't even spell muppet and you expect people to submit to your diktats.

you are the one who first mention me in ur wack post. lol, you see what am saying. Inferiority complex. What's my business with speaking correct English? Huh? The white man doesn't give a Phuck about you. They can't even pronounce Igbo As Igbo but Ibo or Yebo or Hebo.
Saying that Igbo is from Hebrew is like saying that your grandfather is from you.

pazienza:
Actually, OnyeOga is making a whole lot of sense.

In Igboland, the ancient first places are usually called "Uru" . Uru means Home in precolonial Igbo, though recently, it's not used often in contemporary Igbo as "Uno" is preferred.
Throughout Igbo land, you hear of places with "Uru"as prefix. Eg "URU -ani , URU-eze, Uru-Egbe, URU-mmili, etc.
In some parts of Igboland, this usage of "URU" underwent a dialectical mutation to "UHU".


UR was an ancient Sumerian city, even Abraham the father of Hebrew nation migrated from UR. Job in the Bible was from that same region.
It's possible Igbo early men migrated from UR, and since Igbolanguage always tries to end a word with a vowel,, for example "Cup" is "Kupu" in Igbo, "Whot" is "Whotu", Malt is "Maltu".
It is the Igbo way to add "U" to any word not ending in a vowel. Maybe we added "U" to Ur, to create "Uru", which we began naming our new abodes after in commeration of the old one in Sumeria.

I'm not saying OnyeOGA is right or wrong. But his hypothesis of Ur, including that of Nubia, is not far fetched.
If people can believe we came from Israel, then why can't they believe we came from a place of birth of the father of Hebrews ?

am not saying that we came from anywhere. Am actually saying that we gave the world civilisation. We Are Not From The Middle East. West AFARAKA = KWA-Civilization = 0 = Source = The Origin Of The Sojourners, With Matrix=USORO.
Traveled, And Left Sophisticated Legacies All Over The Seven Continents. Older Than Neolithic Period. Older Than Writing Systems. Older Than Modern Man.
Almost All The Most Important Ancient Egyptian Deities Are With Igbo Names. Such As, "Hathor / The Apis", In Ancient Egypt. Hathor = Ato. With The Head Of A Bull / Cow. Apis = Efi. AEEA and Ph / F sound tone. Efi is The Igbo Word For Bull or Cow . Like A Big Cow. Nne Efi. Mthr Cow. Hathor Was Derived From Ani - The Mthr Earth Goddess. Hathor = 3 Is The Primeval GODDESS From Whom All Other Ancient Egyptian Goddesses Were Derived. She Is Auset/Isis , Sekhmet, And Many Others.
IS - RA - EL
IS - S = ISIS - Greek Sound Code Of The Iconic
Goddess "AUSET". Derived From An Iconic Igbo Word, "ISISI" = Head Of All Heads = The First - The Embodiment Of "EKE" - Idemiri - The Messenger Of "ANI" - The One True God(dess). RA - Earliest Egyptian Sound Code Of The Sun God. Derived From Igbo Afa Dibias words for the Sun, "oRA".
EL - Northwest Semitic deity. Known As The King Of Gods. Derived From The Igbo Word, "Ele - Elu - Elo".
Example: IJELE = IJE - ELE - The Journey Of The Infinite. "ELU" - Sky. The Sky Is Infinite. "ELO" - Idea.Look up the sky. Nothing is still. Everything is moving. Infinite journey!!!
Everything Is Meaningless And Pointless.
What has no end is meaningless and pointless. 0=0=meaningless and pointless=endlessnes=eternal
Just like paper money is meaningless and pointless because the pursuit of money has no end.
The Most Horrible Thing That Happened To The Minds Of AFA RA KA is, Following Western
Methodology, and Ways of Reasoning. It Is Not The Fault Of The Western Civilians To Follow The Fraud Capitalist System That They Were Born Into. But It Is Your Fault As An African, For Abandoning African Sacred Methodology, That Was Generated From The
Divine Infinite. E.
Igbo People, If You Are Seeking For Truth About Igbo, You Should Do As Eye Do. Look Into The Language, The Words And It's True Meanings. Look Into Your Last Names. Divide The Syllables, And The Truth Will Reveal Itself To You. Igbo Is Math. Igbo Is Codes.
If Eye Tell You That Igbo People Are Great People, That Is Because Of What Eye Saw In The Nouns.
For Example, The Word "Rich And Poor" Cannot Be Compared To "Ogara-Nye / Ogbe-Nye."
There was no poor in ancient igbo and the word poor cannot connote the word "ogbe-nye"( onye ogbe na eyere aka) he who get assistance from "Onye ogaziri"(English fake word for rich) within the community.
Therefore western definition of poor and rich is strange to igbo society.
Morever the Destruction of our society by Ndi nkiti corruption of igbo philosophy and adoption of western ideology in our society brought about the poverty,greed,selfishness,self center and individualism we see today which is against igbo ancient collective community action(igwe bu ike)
we were known to practice.

Rosskiki:


Stop being stupid, dumb, and immature. There is value in every book, even Mein Kampf by Hitler. The colonialists who invaded Nigeria were not the people who wrote the bible. They merely used the book as a political tool for conquest. Their exploiting of the book does NOT render its contents invalid or worthless. You're giving them way too much credence and power by implying it does. This is not to say the book is ''infallible'', but that its contents are very much separate from the manipulation of same.

And stop displaying ignorance by stating Israel did not exist till 1947. The modern state of Israel is not the same as the anclent land of Israel.

okay religionist. You can even believe that You came from a white man. Good luck. Don't mention me again

non of the thing in the Bible is true. All are Neanderthal fabrication.

igbodefender:
Cc Rosskiki OnyeOGA imhotep and all Igbo experts

mupet, don't you ever quote me again

Rosskiki:


No Israel/Judah before 1947? Are you well at all?

And yes, there was a Roman invasion of Jerusalem led by Titus, which led to over a million Jews fleeing into Africa.

ZEPHANIA 3:10

''From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. In that day shalt thou not be ashamed.''

''Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (ie River Nile)'' looking from Israel, is the region known today as West Africa.

Nubia was also a black African civilization.

stop quoting from a junk. A book that's used in turning u to a slave. israel was the creation of the Zionists ( Rothschild)

Rosskiki:


Stop displaying your ignorance. You have a lot to study and research. And you don't sound like somebody willing to learn, unfortunately.

teach me am all ears

igbodefender:
From the beginning, of course.

It is known that the earliest people = Kwa (Akwa -Nshi) Kwushi Kush bu ndi gboo bU ndi mBU = first people, bu ndi nGBOchi = the saviors who travelled
out of Igboland often name where they settled, depending on the result from the situation that warranted their stay and survival in the new land.. Nobody knows the accurate meaning of "NUBIA". This is where Nwa Di Ala, like myself comes in to
help the world. If I add N or U in front of Nubia, you will get "uNubia or nNubia" Literal Igbo translation: "IN MASSES, YOU ALL SHOULD COME."
u-Nu = MASSES. PEOPLE. GROUP.
Bia = COME. JOIN. FOLLOW.
NUBIA means come and follow along. That's how we got them together and built ancient Khemet. Inside Nubia, there you'll find all early African tribes travelling to build Khemet. Igbo, Yoruba, Akan, Fante, Dogon, Fulani etc. Anyanwu from Amana-Igbo, to when we traded with the Greeks, in Khemet, who couldn't pronounce "Igbo." Rather, from their own sound flux system is "Hebo = Yebu = Hebrew," couldn't
pronounce Anyanwu, but rather "Yahweh" from their own sound flux system. To a language developed from Igbo-Base-8 code, English, "I am that I am" =Anyanwu never spoke nor said the name "God."
Uptil today, Europeans still can't pronouce a tonal
sound. Igbo is still Ibo or Hebo, to them.
This is why our people are suffering from inferiority complex.

igbodefender:
Back up your statements facts not insults.

back it up with facts? Where do you want me to start?

Igbo is not Hebrew. Igbo is the ANKHcestors of Everything. Ancient Igbos bu <KWA> ar-CHI-tects, and pre-his-storic initiatives of many civilisations on your planet.
"o anyi kpolu'NUBIA" = We are the Ones Who Called You All To Come Along. $10,000 book said "Hebrew Is Greek" = always stealing Igbo legacy and inherent values = Uru = Ebube. Thus this generation of Blacks suffering from inferiority complex can't think outside the Abrahaminization of their minds.
Igbo was the One World language that was lost in the Babel incidents narrated in The Lost Book of Enki. Nimrud, King f Sargon, and many other Babylonian wankers were all thought Igbo sound fluxes. Like they teach English in foreign countries, in modern
time. That's why, black people in modern time, suffering from inferiority complex, can't stop shouting that Igbo is Hebrew. English is considered now as a universal language. Does that make me English? Ula Aka nti.
now ISIS = the Religionist THUGS destroyed the ancient city of URU in Syria and Iraq. And killed millions of innocent people. Uru means "Inherant Value" in Igbo language. "Uruka" means "Great Value" in Igbo language. "Urukaku" is an Igbo philosophy meaning "Inherant Value is Greater than Wealth." Uru is the outcome of your multiplications. Ancient Igbos put down...Sumeria/
Mesopotamia area...Pyramid building blocks were lifted through ma'ata matikal SOUND-CODES of the Igbo sound flux systems.. Ma lu mu atu If you are Igbo, and you are into Religion. Get out of that cult fast.

eagleu:
Igbos, Ibos, Ebos, Hebrews: said my great grand dad, are the same!

hey! Go tell ur GGG that he lacks history

BigIyanga:
Clueless people everywhere.. Even though is biologically impossible for a white person to black... but possible for a black person to turn white since life started in Africa

he is even calling himself "Igbodefender" lol. Nairaland is full of Ignoramus.

Mcreloaded:
In the old days it is normal to see a SLAVE or group of SLAVES that have escaped from their masters still practicing their masters religion.

Over the years when the Israelites and Egyptians and other sourounding nation fought wars some slaves managed to escape and till today they still show characteristics of their days as slave even after all these years it is so difficult to let go of the shackles of their masters.

It is what you see in some traditions and culture of some Nigerians with slave mentality.

no. West africa gave Nubia civilisation. The ancient Egyptians are from west Africa. When the Greeks conquered Kemet( Ancient Egypt) they enslaved lots and equally stole a lot. They stole Mathematics. Today; those Greeks call themselves Jews. Judaism was created by Ptalomy after he conquered Kemet

goodnessme1:
My question is where oduduwa from.

Oduduwa and Igbo came from nowhere man. Aboriginals are aboriginals. Man, don't feel inferior

Rosskiki:
ZEPHANIA 3:10

''From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. In that day shalt thou not be ashamed.''

''Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (ie River Nile)'' looking from Israel, is the region known today as West Africa.

The 'dispersed' Jews of antiquity, forced to flee Greek and Roman invasions of Israel and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, fled to West Africa, an area that at the time was beyond Roman jurisdiction. Up to a million or more Jews fled to West Africa. That population 1,600 years ago would have ballooned to several hundred million people today.

So, not just Igbos, but a great many Yorubas, Binis, Efiks, Ashantis, and other West African groups are descendants of those fleeing Jews.

there was no Israel until 1947. Nobody flee any Israel. We are all in West Africa. We west africa gave birth to Nubia civilisation.

bunch of inferior aboriginals. The ancient Egyptians( Kemet) all came from West Africa. We are never a jew because Jews are white people who are the same Greek that invaded Kemet.
They are lots of things you guys don't know.
Phuck all wanna be Jews

Hameex:
Haaa eti gbana olorun

them no won die but dem won go heaven.

Hameex:
God pls biko come take me far away from this nonsense country ....

just commit suicide religionist,

same man who prayed for the death of those that kidnapped his fellow scam working for him

Wickedfacts:
They can protest but they can't attack Buhari cos they would be killed home and away.

He shouldn't be diplomatic with these criminals. I don't know why Igbo leaders find it difficult to hit the nail on the head when dealing with these Ipob miscreants. Ekweremadu was beaten and he couldn't specifically mention Ipob.

This is the same nonsense that Ohaneze man too did. They are either cowed by Ipob or have sympathy for Igbos.

Nwanne, all Igbos don't follow the foolishness and stupidity of Kanu and his disciples. Look them in the eye and tell them the truth.

Speak for yourself

fullofgrace:
It is high time for our youths to stop giving good attentions to all these so-called celebrities.
To be frank most of them are not pure and chased they were eluded with worldly benefits to be famous.
They inturned look for various ways to initiate our youths into their cults by signing them to labels belonging to them and still forced them to destroy our societies by uploading nude and senseless pictures and videos. The worse of it is most of our youths have used these so-called celebrities as their role model.
Brothers and sisters we should all pause to have a rethink. The rate at which people are dying these days is alarming. Even if they will deceive others don't be deceived too.
Just pray hard for God to bless you with His assured blessings.
God bless.

religious wacko

ubanigrant15:
God save the black man..

no one is coming to save your black ass. Save yourself

ElsonMorali:


Then let the Igbos on the forum come out to condemn them. Silence in most cases suggests acquiescence.

and how are gonna know who is igbo or not since this is a faceless forum. Man, don't let tribalism blind your view.

Only revolution will save us.