THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

Nice write up OP.
Igbos love to skip what led to the war as well.

The war was the Nigerian/Biafran war, so what is this talk that Ojukwu was not supposed to attack Lagos or anywhere in Nigeria?

And lest we forget, many Yoruba officers were top commanders fighting for Nigeria

Obasanjo

Adekunle

Taiwo

Akinrinade

Ishola Williams

Bamigboye

To mention a few

Yes... We must get our freedom out we Igbos please let's bring ourselves out to stand as we the Biafrans let me as one

[color=#990000][/color] This is serious

gidgiddy:
The war was the Nigerian/Biafran war, so what is this talk that Ojukwu was not supposed to attack Lagos or anywhere in Nigeria?

And lest we forget, many Yoruba officers were fighting for Nigeria

Obasanjo

Adekunle

Taiwo

Akinrinade

Ishola Williams

Bamigboye

To mention a few

The fact here is Igbos has made a terrible mistake from their greed to just try rubbish with south west. I don't know how they ll get away with this mess cos it ll hurt them for life and any attempt by them to use force, trick or any ride means ll backfire and hurt them so bad than the civil war. The Yorubas are awaken to their treachery.
Anyone can misquote me but it's the truth. They ll find it difficult to look convince Yorubas of what their agenda really is.

Writer606:
Yes... We must get our freedom out we Igbos please let's bring ourselves out to stand as we the Biafrans let me as one

Will you get out of here.

EquitableTech:
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

I have read over 6 books written about the Nigeria/Biafran civil war, detailing the events that culminated to the outbreak of the conflict ranging from Omogui, Forsyth, Gbulie, Ademoyega and one of the most compelling "in Biafra Africa died" never have I seen a tribally warped account as this. I stopped reading this ethnically biased bullcrap the moment I saw colonel Y'ardua. Was he a colonel before the war? Of course not. This write up can only be convincing to minions who don't read.

EquitableTech:
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

These southwestern tribe are experts at rewriting history .
At the outbreak of the war , the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council was located at Dodan Barracks in Ikoyi Lagos which was the official seat and residence of Yakubu Gowon, head of the SMC. Dodan Barracks was a legitimate target.

Go and tell your children whatever you like . The truth has a way of rearing its head when you least expect it.

BitterTruth01:


These southwestern tribe are experts at rewriting history .
At the outbreak of the war , the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council was located at Dodan Barracks in Ikoyi Lagos which was the official seat and residence of Yakubu Gowon, head of the SMC. Dodan Barracks was a legitimate target.

Go and tell your children whatever you like . The truth has a way of rearing its head when you least expect it.

besides that.. which other part they vex u? The part Adekunle showed u , una b toothless bulldog or the part Yoruba still took your ppl in even after una don fuckup , don overdo? 🙄

Dindondin:

The fact here is Igbos has made a terrible mistake from their greed to just try rubbish with south west. I don't know how they ll get away with this mess cos it ll hurt them for life and any attempt by them to use force, trick or any ride means ll backfire and hurt them so bad than the civil war. The Yorubas are awaken to their treachery.
Anyone can misquote me but it's the truth. They ll find it difficult to look convince Yorubas of what their agenda really is.

This is one of the reasons Igbos like me want Nigeria to disintegrate. The only reason we are here talking about civil war, genocide, wrongs and rights is because we were all unfortunate to have been brought together by the British

What is the point of now staying together in this British colonial fabrication called Nigeria only to be fighting and killing each other for eternity?

Let us all come together and agree for Nigeria to disintegrate peacefully, everyone goes their seperate ways and we can all finally rest.

gidgiddy:


This is one of the reasons Igbos like me want Nigeria to disintegrate. The only reason we are here talking about civil war, genocide, wrongs and rights us because we were all unfortunate to have been brought together by the British

What is the point of now staying together in this British colonial fabrication called Nigeria only to be fighting and killing each other for eternity?

Let us all come together and agree fir Nigeria to disintegrate peacefully, everyone goes their separate ways and we can all finally rest.

You think bigots like that guy want Nigeria to end? NO, they want Igbo people to be subservient to them, that's all. This is about supremacy, not equity.

gidgiddy:


This is one of the reasons Igbos like me want Nigeria to disintegrate. The only reason we are here talking about civil war, genocide, wrongs and rights is because we were all unfortunate to have been brought together by the British

What is the point of now staying together in this British colonial fabrication called Nigeria only to be fighting and killing each other for eternity?

Let us all come together and agree for Nigeria to disintegrate peacefully, everyone goes their seperate ways and we can all finally rest.

No doubt disintegration is imminent. But this is a fast means for Igbos or anyone willing to exit. Let Igbos befriend the govt, demand their requests to be remembered in development and mot called a dot nation and lastly, contest again without religious whip.
I v always told Obi to sell his manifesto from the north.
The earlier all these incitement and talks of Igbos fighting Yorubas stop the better.

Dindondin:

No doubt disintegration is imminent. But this is a fast means for Igbos or anyone willing to exit. Let Igbos befriend the govt, demand their requests to be remembered in development and mot called a dot nation and lastly, contest again without religious whip.
I v always told Obi to sell his manifesto from the north.
The earlier all these incitement and talks of Igbos fighting Yorubas stop the better.

Please shut up, who used religious sentiment in that election in not Tinubu running on a double Muslim ticket. Please answer why ?

There was never peace and will never be.. we have different languages and religions.. if we all spoke in the same mother tongue, we definitely won't be in this mess. We kill, intimidate, cheat one another jus to prove a point that still looks n sounds stupid. Look at ipob bandits, look at bokoharam, look at election riggings in the sw. All just to prove who's more superior? The circle will continue till Nigeria explods and I think the time for that boom 💥 is near

Dindondin:

The fact here is Igbos has made a terrible mistake from their greed to just try rubbish with south west. I don't know how they ll get away with this mess cos it ll hurt them for life and any attempt by them to use force, trick or any ride means ll backfire and hurt them so bad than the civil war. The Yorubas are awaken to their treachery.
Anyone can misquote me but it's the truth. They ll find it difficult to look convince Yorubas of what their agenda really is.

The great Igbos can survive without the yorubas. one problem with you yorubas is that you like threatening thunder and brimstone and after that everybody will go back to sleep. You are no gods to the igbo stop feeling funkie.

Stop talking and do your worse I want anything that can hasten the disintegration of nigeria.

enemybulldozer:
The great Igbos can survive without the yorubas. one problem with you yorubas is that you like threatening thunder and brimstone and after that everybody will go back to sleep. You are no gods to the igbo stop feeling funkie.

Stop talking and do your worse I want anything that can hasten the disintegration of nigeria.

Yorubas don't threaten. Morseso, they v matured to always seek peace first. Lastly, they aren't saying Igbos can't be on their own, Igbos are free to be on their own.

JoeyNaza:


Please shut up, who used religious sentiment in that election in not Tinubu running on a double Muslim ticket. Please answer why ?

And what stopped Obi from running a Christian Christian ticket?
What stopped Obi from picking a stronger northern Christian or a South West Christian?
I m a Christian & won't support blindly. Obi did poor calculations, permutations and campaigns. When he was running churches he forgot to court the north. It takes time to court the north and educate them. He started his campaign so late due to his poor calculations. He should have realised he can't get his ambition under PDP. He neglected APGA and focused on PDP. Now he has left PDP to nurture LP. Instead of uniting the 3 parties to come back stronger in 2027, all of you are blaming Yorubas cos you are all jealous a Yorubaman won.
Till date, it's still about chasing shadows for all of you.
Anyways it's not too late to come to reality. Put your house in order, unite with Yorubas. And if you think Yorubas are so soft you can harass them, do your worst!

Dindondin:

No doubt disintegration is imminent. But this is a fast means for Igbos or anyone willing to exit. Let Igbos befriend the govt, demand their requests to be remembered in development and mot called a dot nation and lastly, contest again without religious whip.
I v always told Obi to sell his manifesto from the north.
The earlier all these incitement and talks of Igbos fighting Yorubas stop the better.

The disintegration of Nigeria should not be just an Igbo affair, is should be the affair of all. The union of Nigeria has only brought no benefit, only tribalism and fighting. Such union is pointless

EquitableTech:
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

Revisionism and fallacies by a Yoruba man. There are dozens of books written by different authors, none of them as fallacious as yours.
If you are confident of this nonsense your pulled out from your anus, be bold to publish it in hard copy with your full names.

AdaojoTheUrchin:


Revisionism and fallacies by a Yoruba man. There are dozens of books written by different authors, none of them as fallacious as yours.
If you are confident of this nonsense your pulled out from your anus, be bold to publish it in hard copy with your full names.

For the sake of enlightenment, why not tell educate us about your own version.

homosapien:


For the sake of enlightenment, why not tell educate us about your own version.

There are tons of books written about the Civil war and precedent events that led to it. Go and read them and stop propagating revisionist gobbledegook.

AdaojoTheUrchin:


There are tons of books written about the Civil war and precedent events that led to it. Go and read them and stop propagating revisionist gobbledegook.

Since you can't find any different from that of the poster, I will go with him then. Thank you for time

EquitableTech:
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

Back then, you cannot win a war without capturing the capital city, so Ojukwu wanted to capture Lagos the capital city so that Gowon would run to Kaduna and surrender for ceasefire and allow Biafra to secede.



I know this because my late uncle was among the top Biafran soldiers that worked closely with Ojukwu. He was also among the first coupist, he and Nzeogwu were close in Kaduna.


They had no intention of invading Yoruba land, they only wanted to capture Lagos the then capital city to enable Gowon/Nigeria to surrender and allow Biafra to go.



But as always, Yorubas always misinterpret Igbo people's move, and I don't blame them anyway cos its human nature.



And what made Biafra loss the war wasn't military action but economic action based on Awolowo's advice to change currency which made it difficult for Biafra to buy food in the international market to feed Biafran population and this led to mass starvation and sabotage amongst the starving Biafran soldiers and civilians.

franchasofficia:
Back then, you cannot win a war without capturing the capital city, so Ojukwu wanted to capture Lagos the capital city so that Gowon would run to Kaduna and surrender for ceasefire and allow Biafra to secede.



I know this because my late uncle was among the top Biafran soldiers that worked closely with Ojukwu. He was also among the first coupist, he and Nzeogwu were close in Kaduna.


They had no intention of invading Yoruba land, they only wanted to capture Lagos the then capital city to enable Gowon/Nigeria to surrender and allow Biafra to go.



But as always, Yorubas always misinterpret Igbo people's move, and I don't blame them anyway cos its human nature.



And what made Biafra loss the war wasn't military action but economic action based on Awolowo's advice to change currency which made it difficult for Biafra to buy food in the international market to feed Biafran population and this led to mass starvation and sabotage amongst the starving Biafran soldiers and civilians.

So what the op said is correct

RAND250:



So what the op said is correct

Yes the op is somewhat correct but not entirely correct.



Biafran soldiers did match westward towards Shagamu before Banjo a gallant Yoruba soldier who was among the Biafran commanding officers delayed their advancement towards Lagos, which gave Nigerian army enough time to regroup and push back Biafran soldiers to Benin city. This and other reasons bothering around Banjo and Ojukwu's inlaw's alleged coup plot against Ojukwu that led to Banjo's arrest and later execution by Ojukwu, sadly



So he is right that Biafran soldiers did made advance towards Lagos, but he is wrong in some other of his points.



Biafra didn't carry out any air raid on Lagos because Biafra had only one fighter jet.


Biafra didn't have enough resources and preparation to allow the war to prolong, so Ojukwu wanted the fastest way to end the war and he thought taking over Lagos would push Nigerian government to call for peace and let Biafra go.



Ojukwu started the war with mostly his father's wealth because his father was like the richest man in Africa then based on British analysis which shocked Queen Elizabeth when she visited Nigeria cos Nigeria didn't even have a befitting car to carry the Queen, it was Ojukwu's father's Rolls Royce they used to welcome and ferry Queen Elizabeth around, which made his father to develop high bp and died later.



It will also interest you to know that Ojukwu's father contributed to second world war by donating his transport company's trucks to British government to use during world war II

franchasofficia:
Back then, you cannot win a war without capturing the capital city, so Ojukwu wanted to capture Lagos the capital city so that Gowon would run to Kaduna and surrender for ceasefire and allow Biafra to secede.

They had no intention of invading Yoruba land, they only wanted to capture Lagos the then capital city to enable Gowon/Nigeria to surrender and allow Biafra to go.

This makes more sense than that yeye write up. Nairaland Yorubas, you have been warned. I don’t want to hear pim from you guys for the next one week.

SWATMan:



I have read over 6 books written about the Nigeria/Biafran civil war, detailing the events that culminated to the outbreak of the conflict ranging from Omogui, Forsyth, Gbulie, Ademoyega and one of the most compelling "in Biafra Africa died" never have I seen a tribally warped account as this. I stopped reading this ethnically biased bullcrap the moment I saw colonel Y'ardua. Was he a colonel before the war? Of course not. This write up can only be convincing to minions who don't read.

Hello.. Please I need some names of the books I want to read them too, I also want the name of the the book written by Igbo British based Elizabeth about Service chives, The precolonial Rules in Igbo land..