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dream of my youth but no regrets

Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

You could see how the list was balanced when the Fulani republic has not taken over.

There was truly a country.

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Racoon:
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Nigerian Army Graduates of Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst; before the Establishment of the Nigerian Defence Academy.

hope they learnt the rule of law and civil rights there before coming back

I have nothing to type...ni

Sandhurst produced the most rugged and finest Nigerian commissioned officers before the advent of the Nigerian Military Training Centre which later metamorphosed to the NDA.

Nyesom Wike was very lucky he didn't confront a Sandhurst trained combatant.

His story would have been in past tense by now.

The British intention was to uplift the Eastern region above every others, and they really did a great job of it according to this list.

No wonder the igbo coup plotters had the courage to do what they did. They had the Nigerian military on lock down.

No recent graduates? Nothing since '64

I get it now. Those that finished from there after NDA was established are not listed

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

Na lie, it was because they were in charge, they put their name everywhere there is opportunity.
Same way north did when they retained power

I used to think the Nigerian government have stopped taking the country's young military cadets to Sandhurst until 2nd Lieutenant Uchenna Owowoh graduated last year.

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

Must you be tribalistic about everything

I thought the likes of obasanjo, ojukwu, buhari, babangida, and all those popular warlords of years ago finished from Sandhurst, UK

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

Southerners and middlebelt had many Brilliant people the Army just didn’t appeal to them
until the War was brought to their doorstep

So Obasanjo Did Not Attend Sandhrust

prophetic69:
Must you be tribalistic about everything...

This was the solemn reality staring the country then.

Why are most of the SE first names omitted ? Is it for security purposes ?.

Sirjamo:
The British intention was to uplift the Eastern region above every others, and they really did a great job of it according to this list.

No wonder the igbo coup plotters had the courage to do what they did. They had the Nigerian military on lock down.

the British handed Nigeria government to the northerners go and read your history

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

23 or more Igbos, and the rest are either Hausa Fulani Yoruba, Calabar etc

prophetic69:
Must you be tribalistic about everything

it’s a curse. No reason am . Kanji koh

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

a very big lie.

Yoruba was not interested in military. If it was by brilliance, Yoruba would dominate.
Moreover, the igbo brought nepotism into Nigerian administration, the very reason they dominated the civil service and it was easy for them to slot in their tribesmen.

Most people may not like this statement: The action of the January 1966 boys destroyed this country for good.

The first republic politicians should have been left alone by the military to continue with their so called corruption and face their military activities. Their intrusion into politics have destroyed this country. The first republic politicians, despite the corruption, were making progress as the regions were developing at their own respective paces.

This seems very accurate to me and corresponding to when NDA was opened and Nigeria stopped sending cadets to Sandhurst

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

Brilliant people will not join military. Olusegun Obasanjo said he was pushed to join the military by his family elders because he was stealing goats and fowls on the village

mayor1814:
I thought the likes of obasanjo, ojukwu, buhari, babangida, and all those popular warlords of years ago finished from Sandhurst, UK

No, Ojukwu was a graduate and joined as direct entry. Buhari, Obasanjo and Babangida went to different Military academy for short service officers called Mons Offocer Cadet School

Sandhurst was for elite cadets and regularofficers,
, to get in there was tough. Those who couldn't make it there were sent to Mons

Racoon:
Only the most brilliant goes to the Royal Military Academy - Sandhurst UK. The Igbos really dominate that list. Take a look @ the list and make your inference

Dem don start. And what happened afterwards?

Mtchewwwwwww.. oversabi

Edoreborn:
Not complete..Where is col imadiyi omo erabor's name? Ok i went back to read itand understand

see my grand father name and my wife grandfather too

The coincidence was a mystery

Lyrics: Movement of The People Political Statement Number 1 (Fela Kuti and Egypt 80)

Before dem turn us into monkey with tail o
make we hear some important news we e dey o
wey our big government dey hide from us o
we go expose dem o

CHORUS: Gbe won Sita
we go expose dem o

CHORUS: Gbe won Sita
we go expose dem o

CHORUS: Gbe won Sita

We have to talk about the long long time again
we have to talk about it for us to understand
Oba Kosoko dey for Lagos when Englishman arrive
Englishman and Akitoye come drive Kosoko away
U.A.C come JOHN HOLT come others dem come too
eo dey many many many years Africans dem no gree
why you take our land by force dem ask di Englishman?
we have to come to some kind of an arrangement
Englishman no want gree dem start to hire yeye Africans
to fight your brothers and kill dem too
dem give dem guns, uniforms and law
to fight your brothers and kill dem too, we dey behind your back
we be government be governement be government be government
be government

If you be African man from better family
dem say better family no de join police force
dem say better family no de join soldier force
dem say better family no de galavant around
police for small fight

CHORUS: Small fight
Army for big fight

CHORUS: Big fight
Navy for water fight

CHORUS: Water fight
Airforce for air fight

CHORUS: Air fight

Police college establish too brainwash Africans
army school come start to train di Africans
inside dem school dem start to teach dem nonsense things
di uniform you de wear na him be di authority
authority for you to beat at any time
authority for you to kill at any time
remember na we go de give you di order all the time
di thing wey we dey teach you make e dey your heat all di time
England is di best place, America is di best place too
di black man is inferior to us
you must dey beat dem and kill dem and beat dem and kill dem
na order na order you hear
dise zombies dem start galavanting around
when dem see European you go dey see dem start to shake
wetty dem thick thick boot and dem yeye uniforms
guns for dem hands and dem batons for dem side
vexing and sweating dem walking in di sun by force
vexing and sweating dem walking in di rain by force
di things wey dem dey teach dem e dey ringing in dem head
Englishman is good

CHORUS: is good
Afrika is bad

CHORUS: is bad
English e civilize

CHORUS: civilize
Afrika is bush

CHORUS: is bush

Now let us ask ourselves wetin be government
government na father of the people father must like him son
son must like him father too
but di things wey dey happen for Afrika I will make an EXPLANATION
di government wey we get na overseas sense dem get
dem no be father, we no be dem son
dem be di master, we be di servant
food na plenty money not enough houses to stay
di houses wey e dey dem dey cost plenty money
you go for any town no water for di town
di governent wey we get dem be black man for di face
di government wey we get dem be white man for di YANSH
dat is why you go see o judge dey go

CHORUS: One police go follow am
Assembly man dey go

CHORUS: Two police go follow am
Senator dey go

CHORUS: Three police go follow am
Speaker dey go

CHORUS: Four police go follow am
President dey come

CHORUS: Hundred police go follow am
Thousand police go follow am o

CHORUS: Thousand police go follow am
Riot police go follow am o

CHORUS: Riot police go follow am o
Riot soldier go follow am o

CHORUS: Riot soldier go follow am o
Maja Maja go dey hide someplace o

CHORUS: Maja Maja go dey follow am

N.S.O go dey hide some place

CHORUS: N.S.O. go dey hide some place
C.I.A. go dey hang around

CHORUS: C.I.A. go dey folllow am
Maja Maja go dey stand someplace

CHORUS: Maja Maja go dey follow am
N.S.O go dey hide somewhere

CHORUS: N.S.O. go dey follow am
C.I.A. go dey hand around

CHORUS: C.I.A. go dey follow am
Dem dey

CHORUS: Take chance
Take chance

CHORUS: Take Chance
Dem dey

CHORUS: Take Chance
Take chance

CHORUS: Take Chance

Inside police station dem dey take chance o
inside magistrate court dem dey take chance o
inside High Court o dem dey take chance o
inside Supreme Court dem dey take chance o
(chorus continues...)