₦airaland Forum

Our heroes and heroins must be remembered and honoured. This is our decision.

OALandAgents:
Who appointed this clown as a spokesman for ndi Igbo?

So who is the spokesman for Igbos?

Yes I remember this day very well. I was at Oluwa Glass factory Igbokoda Ondo state that very day. That was the day Oluwa glass began glass production. How time flies. How is Oluwa glass now?

Many Nigerians would want Oyibo to colonise us again.
Many Nigerian workers would want Oyibo man to be their managers or supervisors.

MetaPhysical:
Aguiyi Ironsi kept innocent Yoruba soldier in prison but allowed Ibo coupists and murderers their liberty. Azikiwe, Ironsi, Ojukwu, Okpara, Mbadiwe...all these people had fore knowledge of the coup. They sponsored the massacre of Western and Northern politicians as well the senior Military Officers.

This was an Ibo coup with full political backing from top.

Read this :

The video is Banjo saying that he was arrested while waiting in the ante-room to see the "supreme commander", the title Ironsi went by while head of state. Banjo was arrested by Lt Col Kurubo and Major Anwunah on 17th of January, so obviously, the letter was addressed to Ironsi since that was the same day Ojukwu was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. Banjo was in jail throughout the 6 months of Ironsi's regime.


What some people may not know is that Ojukwu actually helped Banjo, and Banjo repaid Ojukwu with treachery. Ojukwu ordered Banjo's release after Ironsi's death, gave Banjo an apartment at Government House Enugu. When Ojukwu declared Biafra, he promoted Banjo to Brigadier in the Biafran Army and charged him with the task of capturing Lagos

Banjo, Ifeajuna, Alele and Abam all plotted to remove Ojukwu. What Banjo did not know was that one of the people he recruited into the plot, Major Bernard Odogwu, was loyal to Ojukwu. It was Odogwu who recorded Banjo and other plotters in a meeting where they were putting finishing touches to their plans and took the evidence to Ojukwu. All 4 men were arrested and faced a tribunal where the tape was played. All 4 men were found guilty of treason and executed

Bernard Odogwu survived the war and wrote a book called "No place to hide: Crises and conflicts inside Biafra"

In this book, Odogwu detailed not only Banjo's plot to overthrow Ojukwu, he also included the transcripts of Banjos trial

Ekpeitit:
Before you write rubbish you should first of all learn the difference between Australia and Austria.MUMU IGBO MAN.

So because he is an Igbo man he should not make mistakes? Is he an angel.

Mille,
When will you say the truth. Did I hear you that non of the coup plotters was arrested?

....Aguiyi Ironsi who later seized power through the coup was also Igbo and did not execute or even arrest any of the coup plotters (A very big mistake considering that plotting coups =Death).....
Do you know that Gowon was chairman of the investigative panel?

Na waa for this kind of reporting.

0ppa:
You must not be proficient in the use of English lingo, thus be grandiloquent or even possess oratorial dexterity before you are regarded as being schooled. Do you see how you just disgraced me?
My man, repeat after me, say: 'my case is different.'

Ok try sophi maaroons. God gave all of us brains. It looks like your own is in a box.

michoim:
Evidence by hacking...stupid people

Go and have a look at the evidence act.

0ppa:
That is not what the law says. Buhari, upon inauguration (notwithstanding his incumbency) becomes president. The man is politically right.

The man is right but the sophisticat mooroons can say whatever they want.y

OP very soon you will get hundreds of attacks

Take Amerthem.
Your malaria is plus Plus PLus

Guestlander:
It was Nigerian food. The same Nigeria you were running away from. It wasn't surprising that the rebellion ended when the food stopped arriving from Nigeria.

This shows that you lack knowledge. Nigeria that had a policy of starvation against Biafra. Nigeria that blocked air land sea borders against Biafra. Sorry man .

I do not know what connects Edo to Niger delta.

damoobaba:
I think what we need in Nigeria is true federalism.As a yoruba boy,what I'll canvass for is that every ethnic group/zone should form a mini country,manage their own resources and give a percentage to the federal government.This is the way countries like Britain is run,you have smaller countries like Wales,scotland,ireland,england which makes up britain,Each of them have their leaders or presidents. This present arrangement in Nigeria is seriously killing our cultures and our creativity.Imagine,as a yoruba boy whose official language is supposed to be yoruba,you're being forced to speak english every darm place you go.Bad enough,alot of our local languages have gone into extinction because of this trend.we hav to wake up.

Can you define true federalism?

Guestlander:
He should actually but he should also have told them that the food meant for the populace was being diverted to feed Biafran soldiers.
Have you ever seen a picture of a malnourished Biafran soldier?

Was the food yours?

wifeesnatcher:
Your stupidity is out of this world. An intercontinental imbeciles Is who you're

You are just showing that you are a gutter and garbage personality.

Bede2u:
like who? I want to ask them. Igbos only atrocity in midwest was looting a cbn. They didnt have to kill anyone...the leadership of midwest was already an ally. Prove me wrong tho or show me the ''victim'' to ask.

U forgot that nzeogwu was from midwest...and that midwest was ncnc and osadebe...an igboman was the ex premiere

It was not them that looted the cbn. Even the Igbo hater Nonwa Omoigu confirmed that it was Nigerian soldires that did the looting.

Guestlander:
Dumb propaganda, this was Chinua Achebe's job during the war. He was responsible for sending images of dead and severely malnourished children to various news organizations in the world.
He failed miserably.

So he should not have sent the images?

MyGeneration:
Some people just like wahala. These thing time never reach to move on?

Nigeria itself has not moved on.

wifeesnatcher:
My issue with this incessant emotions post of these Igbo Op here is the victim drama they're playing

In the civil war, not only Igbo was victims of loss, a lot of soldiers died and other tribes living in Igbo land lost their people too. For the fact that they lost most which is expected because they called for it, they should let the sleeping dog lies and forgive forever

I urge Igbo to let love rule, play inclusive and liberal politics that would influence the federal govt to recognized the civil war day celebration.


If federal govt want to put this sit at home behind forever from this ipob then they should recognise a day to celebrate those that lost their lives during the failed disintegration of ojukwu lack of foresight plan

You are a superlative slowpoke.

MetaPhysical:
Even Ike Nwachukwu a man whose Ibo root is not clouded fought on Nigerian side. Arthur Nzeribe was an arms dealer for Nigerian Army during war. He supplied the guns and bullets Army used to wipe out biafran rebels.

This is an Afonja.

Cork and bull narratives.

This is plagiarism. Quote your source before we discuss this.

The name is Igbo. Ibo is the English version of it.

The fact that you are a lawyer makes me shake my head several times. Please go back to school. You did not learn anything in the last one you went.

I was thinking that Asari had something to say. Now I know the man is empty.

Skyfornia:
Na wao...why should any normal buzy human being take time to read all these Epistles concerning Ngige? This man has failed woefully as a minister of labour...I regret being a Nigerian not because of Yahoo boys but because of our leaders and most especially people like Ngige.

We are operating capitalism but expecting socialism results.From this we seem not to know what is expected of the minister of labour.

topstone4:
You mean the coup was stopped by the likes of Kaduna Nzeogwu? Stop acting mentally dump like a drunken relic from a side-street drinking joint.

The coup was stopped by Ojukwu ,Alex Madiebo and Aguiyi Ironsi. These are Igbos.

Giddy11513:
On 1st April 1953, Anthony Enahoro tabled a motion in the federal House of representatives to the effect that the house accept as a primary political objective the attainment of self government for Nigeria in 1956. This motion was seen by Northern leaders as being directed against them. The North and it's leaders were not ready for self government. Ahmadu Bello, the sardauna of Sokoto, leader of government business in the North as well as leader of the NPC, said so in the House. He amended the motion to read that the house accept as primary political objective the attainment of self government for Nigeria as soon as practicable. The Southern political conscious citizens booed and jeered at the northern leaders on their way back to Lagos.

Soon after this event, the Action Group sent a delegation to the Northern Region under the leadership of Chief S. L. Akintola. The main objective of this delegation was to show that the stand of the NPC on the self government issue did not represent Northern opinion. When the delegation got to Kano, they got a very hostile reception which led to bloody riots.

Extracted from Longman New Approach Government.

The victims of that riot were Igbos. Why are you shy of saying it?

MetaPhysical:
The different ethnic people of Delta have suffered one kind of discrimination and oppression or the other even before the arrival of Britain to colonize the land.

Asari has a very deep sense of pride in his ancestry and roots. He dials back often to the 1800s and reminisces on the past glories of his people and their power and control of the Eastern sea coast. The Dutch and Portuguese were the offshore merchants but Kalabaris, Ijaws were the onshore merchants and the Dutch and Portuguese traded through the coastal people who then retailed items upland to the people in the Eastrern interior, the Ibos, Igalas, Tivs and so on. There was a relationship stack....and Ijaw was at the top of that stack. So when Britain got here it was also the Ijaw Chiefs that signed protectorate treaties with them.

By order of things political, Yoruba was the Western leg for Nigeria and Hausa was the Northern leg for Nigeria, Ijaw ought to have been the Eastern leg for Nigeria. Why did it not?

He said that his great grand parents were from Abam. Abam is in Imo stste.

When it was reported that he was going to APC he said the same thing.