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humilitypays:
With all due respect sir, you are very wrong on what caused the Nigerian civil war.

Agreed, some Igbo military guys made some mistakes that triggered the counter-coup of January 1966 which led to the brutal murder of then Head of State- Aguiyi Ironsi.

What was the mistake some Igbo military officer(s) made?

Maj. Ifeajuna leaking the 1966 coup info to his cousin- President Nnamdi Azikiwe which made Zik to flee and avoid the military coup that led to the death of Tafawa Belewa, Akintola Williams and co...at least if Ifeajuna hadn't leaked the info to Azikiwe, Azikiwe would have been killed, and the Hausas wouldn't have seen that first military coup of 1966 as an Igbo-military coup to oust northern political leaders at the national level.

So I blame Ifeajuna.

Another Igbo military officer that made a big mistake was Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi by not listening to Ojukwu and went ahead with his national peace tour to re-unite Nigeria that was already on fire after the first bloody coup. If Aguiyi Ironsi had listened to Ojukwu and called that national tour off and focused on securing his Head of State seat first before embarking on unnecessary national reconciliation tours.

The imminent cause of the war was the 1966 pogrom in Nigeria. You can google it.

What was the pogrom all about? It was a mass killing of ordinary Igbo civilians, traders, businessmen/women and children living in the northern states for no justifiable reason...the north as we all can see till date have always enjoyed spilling of innocent peoples blood for no reason....courtesy of Almajiri system and their Jihad mentality and mass mobilization for everything.

Now, after the counter coup which led to the death of Aguiyi Ironsi, there was a pogrom (mass killing of Igbos living in the northern states)....and Gowon who took over power after Ironsi was murdered refused to call northerners to order in order to stop the mass killing of igbo civilians in the north.

Everyday, trucks brought back loads of igbo youths, men, women and children killed in the north by northerners...tears and cries became the order of the day in the south-eastern part of Nigeria between January 1966 - May 1966.

Colonel Ojukwu was the governor of Eastern region of Nigeria, and just like the Igbo leader...he called Gowon to call northerners to order and stop the brutal killings of igbos in the north and in military barracks, but Gowon couldn't do anything.

There was so much pressure on Ojukwu from the Igbos...Ojukwu summoned an emergency meeting of all Igbos at UNN Nsukka to seek for their opinion on the way forward...and they unanonymously agreed to secede from Nigeria and be on their own since the people they saw as their countrymen don't want them and kept killing them for no justifiable reason.

That was how Ojukwu with the support and encouragement of other top Igbo/Niger Delta leaders declared their interest to secede from Nigeria and form their own region- Biafra!

Awolowo was in jail @Enugu...he agreed that if Igbos secede from Nigeria, that Yorubas will have no other option than to secede too....Ojukwu was happy that it was going to be a peaceful secession since Yorubas will be leaving as Igbos are leaving too.

Ojukwu then released Awolowo from jail and escorted him back to his home in southwest....Awolowo got home and changed words...because he got a political offer to become Nigeria's finance minister.

Gowon agreed that Biafra should go!

They went to Aburi Ghana...another topic all together...

Britain and America knowing that crude oil was recently discovered in Southeastern Nigeria, and knowing that Ojukwu was not ready to dance to their tone of allowing their BP, etc oil companies to operate, advised Gowon not to allow Biafra secede from Nigeria.

Britain and American then promised Nigeria military support to return Biafra back to Nigeria through military action.

That was when Gowon then declared war against Biafra to return them back to Nigeria, and the war begun.

Ojukwu never declared war against Nigeria...Ojukwu only did the will of the Biafran masses to defend their territory and become their own country, which Britain and America fought against using Gowon, (northerners/Middle Belt) and Yorubas to fulfil.

So stop saying the wrong thing just to make it seem fair to all that Ojukwu declared war.


Biafra had no formal military to declare war...all Biafran soldiers were volunteers who volunteered willingly to defend their falling fate.

So get it right: Nigeria declared war against Biafra for deciding to go in midst of mass killing and discrimination by their fellow countrymen.

If not for the 1966 pogrom that followed after the counter coup of 1966, there wouldn't have been the civil war.

Thank you Humilitypays, for this brief expose. I hope those who are ignorant have been enlightened now.

Bonga4:
Eeyaah, So na the big grammar OJUKWU dey blow, na im be your problem?
Now I know that in addition to being DEMENTED you are probably a rank illiterate as well, suffering from an inferiority complex.

I can see you are obsessed with OJUKWU. It is this his video that you keep watching, and his big grammar that is destabilizing you.

BELIEVE ME, YOU WILL END UP WALKING THE STREETS N@KED. This is your curse, and it will SURELY come to pass.

which grammar see as d man dey spit with the holes in his teeth anyhow....

Nice one brouh. Am equally following you on this one. Thumbs up!

Eshinwaju:
which grammar see as d man dey spit with the holes in his teeth anyhow....

ESHINWAJU OLODO, it is the green eyed monster that has wrapped itself all over you.
You probably attended one backwater school somewhere....
OJUKWU that is giving you sleepless nights was an Oxford graduate.
You can never smell Oxford university in your entire life

Like I said, YOU WILL FIND YOUR FINAL RESTING PLACE IN ONE DITCH SOMEWHERE.AFTER ROAMING THE STREETS N@KED. YOU CAN NEVER AVOID THIS.

Eshinwaju:
......what did I do....only saying da truth about d iboe hero......

there goes another madt man!..u like seems many on NL these days!

ravgach:
Thank you Humilitypays, for this brief expose. I hope those who are ignorant have been enlightened now.

God bless your mother

The only Nigerian who saw tommorow and fought to make tommorow a better day. Even tho he lost the battle, we won in our hearts the respect and fear no other people have/has!


OJUKWU my HERO, OJUKWU my ROLE MODEL, SOFTYSPARKY my WIFE...

Eshinwaju:
never shall my tribe choose this murderer .......as our hero.... ...a criminal mastermind...a paedophile...an opportunist...back to sender

SHUT-UP!!! Go through the history and stop posting rubbish here. Gowon is the murderer not him!!

Eshinwaju:
iboes need to stop telling lies.......ojukwu never went to Harvard...... ...he attended oxford becus of his rich father...he studied history...and came out with a third class degree... .....before ojukwu....there have been thousands of Africans who had attended oxford even Nigerians.... ...he killed and starved his people....n ...ran away...after federal pardon...he joined NPN d party of his 'enemies'...and shunned the iboes party of azikiwe NPP.... ..he even lost as senator...in his own ward....and tried to remove ekweme d iboes VP...but failed....he was a failure...failed marriage...failed Biafra dream...failed at presidency attempts...n died knowing his wife was cheating on him after she poisoned him....

Story for baboons!! Not for humans.

Eshinwaju:
never shall my tribe choose this murderer .......as our hero.... ...a criminal mastermind...a paedophile...an opportunist...back to sender

Who is your role model? I guess the man that killed Funsho Williams.. Innit? Go figure brov...

ekenedegreat:
SHUT-UP!!! Go through the history and stop posting rubbish here. Gowon is the murderer not him!!

You don't know what you are saying. Gowon that faught to save and preserve the terretorial integrity of Nigeria? You dared let loose your unguarded and ill-bred mouth to insult Gown?

Gowon that took back the weeping, remorseful, regretful and surrendering biafrans with open arms? Guy, you are a bad case for biafra!

It really does not matter whether you call a spade a spade but it is universally acknowlegded that Gown kept Nigeria one while the cowardly and hemp-smoking ojukwu ran away from the war he started and left his dying people to their fate. GOWN IS A NIGERIAN HERO!!!!

ekenedegreat:
Go and rear your masters cattle that is already in the bush waiting for you!! I don't want to see you here until those cows are properly fed.

Ok na lemmi start feeding my bull first(you)

ravgach:
PassingShot: You have to realize that Igbos are by nature totally, finally, completely different from Hausas and Yorubas. Igbos are democrats by nature. Igbos are Republican. Igbos do not have follow-follow mentality. If an Igbo leader goes against the wishes of the people, it will be told him in his face. If Igbos hold anyone in high esteem and he goes the wrong way, depending on his standing the Igbos will let him know one way or the other.

The Igbos have told Ojukwu to leave active politics since his return in 1982, but he refused and joined partisan politics. His action though did not diminish the love the people have for him in anyway but the vote was like a protest vote against his decision. You must realize that he was not a perfect man. The love for him did not stop Igbos from disagreeing with him on some issues. That is who Igbos are. In one of his visits to Onitsha during his political days, there was serious traffic that made people stay on the road for many hours. When the people in the Market near the road he was using noticed, he was the one, they demolished the market to enable him pass and rebuilt the market. That is the extent he was loved!

Destiny has made him what he is today. If Igbos were like the Hausas or Yorubas, Ojukwu would have become a god to be worshiped. But Igbos are not like that. He will be their hero for a very long, long time!

This reply is confusing.

But maybe it's because I'm not Igbo .

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

your stupid...

Balkan:
Ojukwu was rigged out. the whole Igbo voted for him. APGA his party never lost any election in the East but the power of incumbency keep rigging him out fro the Federal. The fear of Ojukwu in government was a problem to non Igbos

Ojukwu was never rejected.

Who are those that did the rigging?

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

Gaskiyan ka abokina.... You are right, dis man promote genocide he must hv been in hell by nw

Was this picture taken after he ran away with his tails between his legs?

abduljabbar4:
And how does that concern you?
Sorry for the iboes who died for nothing

And how does Ojukwu's wife having stamina concern you?it seems you reason upside down..you better mind your business and stop your leaders from kidnapping innocent school girls for political power.

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

You are a bastard. Seems like you was raise with a goat milk, thats why you open this your dirty mouth to yawn poo. you are such an asshole, a born throwaway. We the Igbos are proud of Chief DIM EMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU.. AKA... EZEIGBO GBURUGBURU. Proudly Igbo, IN my next world : God please i want to belong to the Igbo tribe. God bless the Igbo's.

kestolove95:
Ojukwu d rebel

see eeh, if you enter house see you mama or your papa.. just call am papa or mama a rebel... if you no do am na there thunder go fire you. Mother f**ker.

ravgach:
You did not read that Nigeria declared war on young unarmed Biafra? Biafra was for dialogue and Aburi Accord would have been the panacea for a peaceful break-up but for Awolowo's treachery. The war was unfortunate. Ojukwu is a Hero forever! You cannot buy heroism with money or propaganda. He is and will always be the man after the heart of the Igbos. And for your information, Biafra will be whether now or in the future. There will surely be Biafra!

One Nigeria is a mirage in the face of injustice, marginalization, quota system, born to rule mentality, inequality, gang up against a section of the country etc. One Nigeria an impossibility in the face of all these.

BIAFRA LIVES!!

Honestly, I dont like replying senseless reply, because you just replied me out of contest and didnt follow what i posted. Well, Ojukwu is a great man to those who really want to believe he is, to those who want to think outside the box, will see clearly. Back to my post, Causes of the war should be focused on, Nigeria Govt declared war on Biafran Youths for no reason? You should always make a complete sentence please. Thanks.. Next time, reply me with your common sense working.

stwazobia:
see eeh, if you enter house see you mama or your papa.. just call am papa or mama a rebel... if you no do am na there thunder go fire you. Mother f**ker.

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

Missy89:
Was this picture taken after he ran away with his tails between his legs?

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

my guy you are what i call blessed foool

semitunde:
This reply is confusing.

But maybe it's because I'm not Igbo .

maybe your blocked headed

tonychristopher:
maybe your blocked headed

Eyah. Uche is mad again

humilitypays:
With all due respect sir, you are very wrong on what caused the Nigerian civil war.

Agreed, some Igbo military guys made some mistakes that triggered the counter-coup of January 1966 which led to the brutal murder of then Head of State- Aguiyi Ironsi.

What was the mistake some Igbo military officer(s) made?

Maj. Ifeajuna leaking the 1966 coup info to his cousin- President Nnamdi Azikiwe which made Zik to flee and avoid the military coup that led to the death of Tafawa Belewa, Akintola Williams and co...at least if Ifeajuna hadn't leaked the info to Azikiwe, Azikiwe would have been killed, and the Hausas wouldn't have seen that first military coup of 1966 as an Igbo-military coup to oust northern political leaders at the national level.

So I blame Ifeajuna.

Another Igbo military officer that made a big mistake was Maj. Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi by not listening to Ojukwu and went ahead with his national peace tour to re-unite Nigeria that was already on fire after the first bloody coup. If Aguiyi Ironsi had listened to Ojukwu and called that national tour off and focused on securing his Head of State seat first before embarking on unnecessary national reconciliation tours.

The imminent cause of the war was the 1966 pogrom in Nigeria. You can google it.

What was the pogrom all about? It was a mass killing of ordinary Igbo civilians, traders, businessmen/women and children living in the northern states for no justifiable reason...the north as we all can see till date have always enjoyed spilling of innocent peoples blood for no reason....courtesy of Almajiri system and their Jihad mentality and mass mobilization for everything.

Now, after the counter coup which led to the death of Aguiyi Ironsi, there was a pogrom (mass killing of Igbos living in the northern states)....and Gowon who took over power after Ironsi was murdered refused to call northerners to order in order to stop the mass killing of igbo civilians in the north.

Everyday, trucks brought back loads of igbo youths, men, women and children killed in the north by northerners...tears and cries became the order of the day in the south-eastern part of Nigeria between January 1966 - May 1966.

Colonel Ojukwu was the governor of Eastern region of Nigeria, and just like the Igbo leader...he called Gowon to call northerners to order and stop the brutal killings of igbos in the north and in military barracks, but Gowon couldn't do anything.

There was so much pressure on Ojukwu from the Igbos...Ojukwu summoned an emergency meeting of all Igbos at UNN Nsukka to seek for their opinion on the way forward...and they unanonymously agreed to secede from Nigeria and be on their own since the people they saw as their countrymen don't want them and kept killing them for no justifiable reason.

That was how Ojukwu with the support and encouragement of other top Igbo/Niger Delta leaders declared their interest to secede from Nigeria and form their own region- Biafra!

Awolowo was in jail @Enugu...he agreed that if Igbos secede from Nigeria, that Yorubas will have no other option than to secede too....Ojukwu was happy that it was going to be a peaceful secession since Yorubas will be leaving as Igbos are leaving too.

Ojukwu then released Awolowo from jail and escorted him back to his home in southwest....Awolowo got home and changed words...because he got a political offer to become Nigeria's finance minister.

Gowon agreed that Biafra should go!

They went to Aburi Ghana...another topic all together...

Britain and America knowing that crude oil was recently discovered in Southeastern Nigeria, and knowing that Ojukwu was not ready to dance to their tone of allowing their BP, etc oil companies to operate, advised Gowon not to allow Biafra secede from Nigeria.

Britain and American then promised Nigeria military support to return Biafra back to Nigeria through military action.

That was when Gowon then declared war against Biafra to return them back to Nigeria, and the war begun.

Ojukwu never declared war against Nigeria...Ojukwu only did the will of the Biafran masses to defend their territory and become their own country, which Britain and America fought against using Gowon, (northerners/Middle Belt) and Yorubas to fulfil.

So stop saying the wrong thing just to make it seem fair to all that Ojukwu declared war.


Biafra had no formal military to declare war...all Biafran soldiers were volunteers who volunteered willingly to defend their falling fate.

So get it right: Nigeria declared war against Biafra for deciding to go in midst of mass killing and discrimination by their fellow countrymen.

If not for the 1966 pogrom that followed after the counter coup of 1966, there wouldn't have been the civil war.

Thanks for your post. According to your post, I realised you didnt do mathematics with your story, am going to ask you some question, according to your post. First, lets start from the pogrom, How many igbos were living in the northern part of Nigeria before civil war? I guess you dont know, as you claim igbos corps was fully loaded inside the truck everyday for 5months. Secondly, So Ojukwu plan of leaving Nigeria was a peaceful plan? Thirdly, You think all these foreign military countries were supporting Nigeria/Biafra, cos they care about us? if they have nothing to gain from us and if the Crude Oil was discovered in the North, will Ojukwu want Igbos to leave? Lastly, Do you think if Ojukwu had a better plan of leaving Nigeria, will he be successful without any Igbo man snitching on him?. Ok, Let me ask you the finally question, that you should think deeply. Why was the Nigeria central power was with the northerners even though, they didnt acquire much education like Yoruba and Igbos then? Answer: is because the British found them more civilized and more arranged.( They act like ant), They are one way people. Lets be honest with ourselves here, Igbos are not arranged, they dont have simple formation as the Hausa or the Yoruba, that why its hard for them to rule Nigeria. Hausa are few in the power, but they are more arranged than the Yorubas and Igbos. Conclustion to my post, Northerners have a foreshadow why Ojukwu want Igbos to leave, thats the crude oil. Every country that joined the civil war was because each party entices each nation of our natural resources and gain. Please dont be bias, but think neutrally and be open minded about the whole issue.

ojukwu is the hero haters from the north and west will never have.

Eshinwaju:
d rebel leader...abandoned his first wife......wasted his fathers wealth..... ...was a product of a baastard.......n...abandoned his first son like his father abandoned him..........killed 3million of his people.... ......abandoned his people.....sexually molested his best friends little daughter.....n died of dementia.....all hail the hero of d iboes.....

Can't you appreciate good effort so that tangible news may envelope your monumental poverty faculty

Haters of their destiny......

seriously....the abuse i have suffered here ........is too much... ..i need some amala n ewedu.....iboes abuse can finish a man... ....

milychocs:
Okay, he was the 15th or 159th African to do so
Now can we have a moment to revere our Igbo hero?
Thank you

A bloody coward. Nothing more. Nothing heroic about Odimegwu

EHINWAJU, ESHINWAJU, ESHINWAJU, , ELFENOMENO Or Not, YOUR FATE REMAINS THE SAME.

Mightymanna:
ojukwu is a hero in ibo land ? wonder shall never end i dont know why igbos are always moving to the oposite direction please can you compare ojukwu with Ahmadu Bello or Obafemi Awolowo.the difference is clear.Bello and Awolowo are are great leaders while ojukwu is a rebel that coused the death of millions of his people after he run away from the battle field

Obafemi Awolowo # Western Region, Nnamdi Azikiwe # Eastern Region, Ahmadu Bello # Northern Region.... These are the 3 heroes seen as gods by their respective regions then.. I love them

ElFenomeno1:
A bloody coward. Nothing more. Nothing heroic about Odimegwu

True.