kettykin:
With all this metal scraps yet biafra still woefully lost the war, which simply makes technology not the sole means of winning a country backed by Britain and Soviet union.
If Biafra had built more of Airborne vehicles and rockets that could haul payloads and hit with precision, targets that are more than 100 km away in dodan barracks, Kano, Kaduna etc possibly the war could have been prolonged, if biafra had mastered the art and technology of building under ground tunnels with fish ponds , poultry farms, water purification plants, refined pharmaceutical plants , nuclear power stations, nuclear arsenals, nuclear powered submarines that could blow up all the naval ships of the invaders, biafra would definitely have won the war after just 6 days.


Any body promoting biafra must be a mad and insane person. Igbos should just be contented in nigeria

Bros were you born on the same day with bigotry and ethnicity? Did you read the write up at all??If they could create this back then what stops them from doing more now?? Beliefs like yours impedes progress . You need to change??

Following your ill thought logic the Bunkers where also assembled. Monkey.

Aigbofa:
Those were parts bought from the international market and crudely put together by the Biafrans. If those parts were indeed made in Biafra what happened to the foundries that made the parts? Did anyone destroy any factory after the war?
I don't understand why people are lying to themselves.

OBAFEMIawolowo:
go back to elementary science, it will help you.

Hope you can be my Elementary Science Teacher, and teaches something I'm missing here?!

uduokirika1:


In your bid to sound intlligent you guffed big time! I can see the effects of not studying history in Nigerian schools!

1. M. Mohammed never. Succeded to land on the banks of River. Niger @Onitsha. Rather after 3failed attempts he had to swallow his pride and adopt an earlier advise of crossing the R.Niger @Lokoja-Nnsukka-Enugu-Udi-Awka-Abagana-Ogidi-Onitsha it took him 4months serious battles b4 he got to Abagana where he lost close to 4000men. Onitsha was later captured.

2. His fall out with Gowon was basically the unneccssary loss of men had he heeded the earlier advice such casualty wouldn't ve occurred, more so the Ogbunigwe was first used @Udi on the Mammu river bridge just b4 d fall of Awka! The federal govt believd that had Murtala agreed in. The. Initial plan they should ve captured onitsha b4 d arrival of d Ogbunigwe! Also note Onitsha was d. Last town captured. By the 2Division till d end of the war 2years later! Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Ihiala and Orlu which were all towns within the. 2Divisional area remain intact till d end of the war! This simply meant that after the devastation @Abagana the 2Division were contnted in defending held territories rather than being on the offensive like her conterpart in the 1stDivision and 3rd Marine Commandoes!

3. Everyone knows that Japan lost the war but America were wise enough to assimilate and harness their pontentials!

The question now is, what did the Federal government do to harness the potentials of. Those whom had shown signs (no matter how little) of. Technological. Advancement?

I will. Tell you some;

1. Chemical Engineering delisted from courses in UNN
2. An Airport that will. Arguably be the first airport biult from the scratch by. Africans was levelled to. D ground!
3. No commitment to encourage indegenous technology
4. History technically erased from curricular (@least u. Can attest to that)

And so many others!
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Thank God for the internet we are now learning daily!

Smh oga I like your tales pls back it up with facts... it is on record m.mohammed was only beaten back twice he succeeded the 3rd time.

If he didn't land @ onitsha OK... but I know it look less than 5/7months(not 2 years like u claim) to capture vast parts of present day anambra.(including onitsha) the war ended in 1970 na and onitsha was a strategic city...I don't need to Google it.

As for the airport it was a major logistic tool for the biafran force, it had to go... even the Germans targeted industrial areas of allied nations. It's war

#2- ojukwu (the coward) never surrendered like the Japanese emperor...if he had then post-war nigeria would have been different, it's just like radio biafra broadcasting their propaganda there was the fear ojukwu would be coordinating missions from cote d' ivoire so the people first had to be subjugated.


Ask yourself how come Japan doesn't hate america despite 2 a-bomb? Simple the americans didn't prosecute their emperor, he stayed on and thereafter the people could be tamed because their leader was tamed.

Also america had special strategic interest because they knew the soviets became stronger after eliminating germany and usa were right since the cold war started almost immediately after. They needed a stable n developed japan.

These 2 facts above are the ONLY REASONS why usa rehabilitated japan

Now let's go to intra-state affairs cos we talking civil war not world war did the American reconstruction after their own civil war succeed? No! Blacks were still being restricted and killed so let's know exactly what changed?
Yes blacks got elected into parliament but were still powerless. The south were coastal states and as such were needed, till today the southerners still pride themselves in fighting the war...difference is vast majority accepted they lost and focused on reintegration with the north.

Attoricities were committed on both sides same with the nigeria-biafra war they even annexed a territory and turned mid-west to a puppet state and subjugated the majority(benin tribes) and foisted a minority igbo as president. But Such is war

Since the man who started the war that cost his people their lives n respect couldn't surren der himself put yourself in gowons shoes...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO??
If he hadn't done what he did best guess is another war would have started shortly after.

The igbos still haven't gotten over losing a war and are obviously spoiling for another round...I encourage them to continue.

letsbet:
Thats quite an impressive looking tank right there. Our Igbo brothers are really the front runners of I.T in Nigeria.

WE KEEP LYING TO OUR SELF IN NIGERIA SINCE 1960. IF YOU THINK BIAFRANS BUILD ALL THOSE EQUIPMENTS DURING THE WAR WHO STOP THEM NOW FROM BUILDING THEM? OJUKWU HIRED ALOT OF WHITE MEN WHO WHERE TO EXPLORE THE OIL AFTER HELPING BIAFRA TO WIN THE WAR, YES THERE WAS BLOCLADE BY NIGERIA AGAINST BIAFRA SO THIS HIRED WHITE MEN STARTED MOUNTING GUNS ON NIGERIA ABANDONED MILITARY EQUIPEMENTS. THEN USE PROPAGANDER TO FOOL THEIR SUPPORTERS TO MAKE THEM BLV THAT THEY ARE PRODUCING MILITARY EQIUPMENT LOCALLY. NOW THAT THE WAR IS OVER WHY ARE THEY NOT MANUFACTURING? OR IS IT ONLY WAR EQUIPMENT THAT THE CAN MANUFACTURE? IF THEY MANUFATURE JEEP AND TANKS DURING THE WAR WHY DONT THEY USE THOSE IDEAS TO MANUFACTURE HUMMER JEEPS OR RANGE ROVER OR EVEN CATARPILLER FOR THEY GOOD OF THE IBOS AND NIGERIA AS A WHOLE, IF YOU THINK THAT THEY IBOS MANUFACTURED ANYTHINF DURING THE WAR THEN WAKE UP BECAUSE THEY DID NOT MANUFACTURE A PIN TALK MORE OF A TYRE SO DONT BE DECIEVED. IF THEY MANUFACTURED REFINARY OR REFINED CRUDE OIL IN THE SIXTIES ANDY UBA WOULDNT BE IMPORTING REFINED PRODUCT INTO THE COUNTRY TODAY.

zeongeon:
The reason why Nigeria is backward and will continue to be is HATRED. This country can't move forward with out love and unity. Let's face the truth there is still silent hatred going on between tribes and within Nigeria.

The solution would be disintegration OR wipe out states and lets fall back to regions. North, South, Mid and Easter region.

Nigeria is a very complicated country and it will hard for the country to move forward with the apparent hate, envy and flawed views of its citizens like what we see on Nairaland.

There's hatred because we practise a distorted form of federalism where all powers and resources are concentrated in the centre(Abuja). It has become a grab-by-any-means to produce the one who controls Abuja.

It will inescapably breed hatred, distrust and suspicion.

Prior to the civil war, there was a healthy sense of competetion as the centre wasn't so powerful.

Striping Abuja off her dictatorial powers is a good way to start.

I hope these guys are not planning to start what they can't finish? Just saying, please don't quote me!

new2020:


Typical yorubba...can't contain their envy of Igbos. Keep disgracing your kinsmen!

THEY THINK SAY DS ONE NA TO USE BROOM COOK SOUP

bigdot1759:
U people sabi lie pass anything. Which factory in igboland then during ojukwu built this is the factory still operating u beta stop all dis trash we've heard of INOSSON, PRO FORCE ETC...... So which factory did dis one ooooo

lol...na underground factory.The problem of the Igbos are the educated Yorubas who when you say you are flying..would look if you are really off the ground unlike some people that will tell you to believe whatever you hear..IGBOS LIKE TO BELIEVE THEIR LIES.THOSE THINGS WERE BROUGHT IN BY THE MERCENARIES....

new2020:


**** you need heavy machineries to make those parts abi? If B!afrans engineers and scientists reasoned like your amala brain, they would not have manufactured a simple device. Whenever Ojukwu will tell them to manufacture a weapon or device for the survival of the B!afran nation...they will all reply with you amala thinking brain " WE NEED HEAVY MACHINERIES TO MANUFACTURE THAT DEVICE" ****You see why Igbos don't reason like you people? ****

Go and see if Innoson uses heavy machineries to manufacture aviation parts for Nigerian Airforce. Only if you will travel out of your amala region to Nnewi...do you know that car, trucks mechanical parts that most Nigerians use...gear box, fuel pumps, water pumps, transmissions are manufactured in Nnewi and branded as made in Japan? Go and tell Abdsulami Abubakar he doesn't know what he was saying when he visited Nnewi last week.

Permit me to say that up till today innoson does not manufacture his engines. Innoson vehicles are anything short of durable, the forces on most of his components are poorly analysed thereby leading to failure at the slightest stress. Not that am bad mouthing biafra but we all should be careful with exaggerations. I'd rather we pick our technological innovations from the scratch and start with little things. E.g tricycles, motorcycles, portable generators. The mastery of this simple devices will lead to even greater innovations and sufficient understanding.

ojinuocheibi:
WE KEEP LYING OUR SELF IN NIGERIA SINCE 1960 IF YOU THINK BIAFRANS BUILD ALL THOSE EQUIPMENTS DURING THE WAR WHO STOP THEM NOW FROM BUILDING THEM? OJUKWU HIRED ALOT OF WHITE MEN WHO WHERE TO EXPLORE THE OIL AFTER HELPING BIAFRA TO WIN THE WAR THERE WAS BLOCLADE BY NIGERIA AGAINST BIAFRA SO THIS HIRED WHITE MEN STARTED MOUNTING GUNS ON NIGERIA ABANDONED MILITARY EQUIPEMENTS. THEN USE PROPAGANDER TO FOOL THEIR SUPPORTERS TO MAKE THEM BLV THAT THEY ARE PRODUCING MILITARY EQIUPMENT LOCALLY. NOW THAT THE WAR IS OVER WHY ARE THEY NOT MANUFACTURING? OR IS IT ONLY WAR EQUIPMENT THAT THE CAN MANUFACTURE? IF THEY MANUFATURE JEEP AND TANKS DURING THE WAR WHY DIDNT US THAT IDEA TO MANUFACTURE HUMMER JEEPS OR RANGE ROVER OR EVEN CATARPILLER FOR THEY GOOD OF THE IBOS AND NIGERIA AS A WHOLE, IF YOU THINK THAT THEY IBOS MANUFACTURED ANYTHINF DURING THE WAR THEN WAKE UP BECAUSE THEY DID NOT MANUFACTURE A PIN TALK MORE OF A TYRE SO DONT BE DECIEVED. IF THEY MANUFACTURED REFINARY OR REFINED CRUDE OIL IN THE SIXTIES ANDY UBA WOULDNT BE IMPORTING REFINED PRODUCT INTO THE COUNTRY TODAY.

Thank you. This is all I needed to read. Yeebos & empty chest-beating are like toto & black-bushes.

new2020:


**** you need heavy machineries to make those parts abi? If B!afrans engineers and scientists reasoned like your amala brain, they would not have manufactured a simple device. Whenever Ojukwu will tell them to manufacture a weapon or device for the survival of the B!afran nation...they will all reply with you amala thinking brain " WE NEED HEAVY MACHINERIES TO MANUFACTURE THAT DEVICE" ****You see why Igbos don't reason like you people? ****

Go and see if Innoson uses heavy machineries to manufacture aviation parts for Nigerian Airforce. Only if you will travel out of your amala region to Nnewi...do you know that car, trucks mechanical parts that most Nigerians use...gear box, fuel pumps, water pumps, transmissions are manufactured in Nnewi and branded as made in Japan? Go and tell Abdsulami Abubakar he doesn't know what he was saying when he visited Nnewi last week.

MY FRIEND, U NEED NOT REPLY ALL THESE NEW GENERATION SW KIDS ON NL. D STUPIDITY OF MOST THEM IS UNBELIEVABLE, IT MAKES U WONDER IF MOST THEM R ORPHANS. PLZ MY IGBO PPLE LETS NOT ADVERTISE OUR ABILITIES TOO MUCH TO THEM SO AS NOT 2 REVEAL SO MUCH.

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Where these things built all within 3 years of the war? 1967 - 1970? I doubt

InyinyaAgbaOku:


anybody promoting biafra must be mad because at 1960,with all the blockade, they didn't go nuclear?
How come Nigerian soldiers couldn't face biafran soldiers but resorted to defenceless women and children if these were mediocre?
what is it to be contented abt Nigeria?

Forget Nigeria soldiers, Nigeria has no military, this is what I keep saying, the day nigeria goes to war with a medium power country without the backing of Britain and Soviet union will mark the end of the country. The Mali military once rejected assistance by Nigerian forces to fight malian rebels, there are reasons which the developed world never bothered when bakassi peninsula was awarded to cameroon.

I keep getting annoyed when I hear you compare biafran forces with inept nigerian military commanded by Benjamin Adekunle, TY Danjuma, Obasanjo and the obviously empty murtala mohammed, which empty military bscked by egypt, britain, soviet union , sudan, chad, niger, Arab world, OAU, would starve women and children to death in order to force a side to surrender in a war.

Afonjas:




Ibgo states is free and opened for all Nigerians, ''only the strong survives'' oder tribe won't easily make it there because it's full of supper humans, the hausa people there only do the little poor job igbos refused to do

True talk! Super humans na ni! Served in Imo, under Udenwa, I had to be super human truly! At least, I learnt how to skillfully ride a bicycle: long distance, no-hands, 360, obstacle jumps! Lol!

And d babes! I still get calls, 11yrs after! Real super human!

kettykin:
With all this metal scraps yet biafra still woefully lost the war, which simply makes technology not the sole means of winning a country backed by Britain and Soviet union.
If Biafra had built more of Airborne vehicles and rockets that could haul payloads and hit with precision, targets that are more than 100 km away in dodan barracks, Kano, Kaduna etc possibly the war could have been prolonged, if biafra had mastered the art and technology of building under ground tunnels with fish ponds , poultry farms, water purification plants, refined pharmaceutical plants , nuclear power stations, nuclear arsenals, nuclear powered submarines that could blow up all the naval ships of the invaders, biafra would definitely have won the war after just 6 days.


Any body promoting biafra must be a mad and insane person. Igbos should just be contented in nigeria

mental

Warship:



Cameroon was pro-Nigeria because they had a Fulani president then who helped blockade Biafra by land.

Why did you think we lost Bakassi peninsula

Go back to your history classes

Sometimes I laugh at these non Igbos who think that one Nigeria must be guaranteed by force of Nigeria army.


As they refuse political restructuring and share the office of the presidency at the exclusion of the Igbo, when they provoke katakata again, the British, Russia, Egypt USA etc can't come to fight for Nigeria again. Neigbouring countries may not behave like in 1966 given what northern Nigeria do with Boko haram and sharia criminal laws.

A new Biafra army may sack all of Nigeria in a swoop. It's not enough assembling Janjaweeeed army in the Niger delta to harass people out there.

parrotsquare:
Talk is cheap and laying claims to lie is the easiest. How can it be that such ingenuity can be exhibited at that time and yet we are still importing Tokunbo cars. Abeg sit straight my people and stop living a lie. In every war of successions the warring parties will always have allies, people that will support you because of the benefits they stand to gain. Am sure and feel Ojukwu and his members had such allies that gave them the effrontery to stage such idiotic war. If I am right I would say the Germans; they were casualties of a dastardly staged war to conquer the world but lost like fowls. It is possible they wanted to win some small wars to get back to where they were and so would want to form allies with grieved souls like we had then so they decided to support some divisions and supply them with weaponry especially and machines to stage that war. If only we had technology to ascertain the origin of those machines then you see that am not far from the truth. Nobody in Nigeria at that time could manufacture match stick not to mention bullets. Abeg, I wish Ojukwu could give up is allies before his death, then nobody will have that boldness to post a lie like this but I will assume that not giving up his allies was the bravest he did in his lifetime. God bless the state of Nigeria and help us out of these lies so we can foxus on a better future for our generations to come.

heheheheh Mumu every fucking where

Afonjas:




Ibgo states is free and opened for all Nigerians, ''only the strong survives'' oder tribe won't easily make it there because it's full of supper humans, the hausa people there only do the little poor job igbos refused to do

Maybe that is why they were so backward during the regional system and even more backward now...
Yorubas do not beat chests but they are a very much achieved people than the Igbos and highly intelligent than the Igbos-HAROLD SMITH

betterABIAstate:
My dad will tell me, "the only thing that made Biafra lost the war was sobatage from within, else we would have dealt with Nigeria severely".

and the saboteurs are those we are dying for today SS.

ibehKachukwu:
E dey blood.

No be juju

Let me add.....
No be how many professors. .....na practical

Reyginus:
I think this thread should serve as a direction for Igbos who think Nigeria is one. Just imagine the hate. Smh.

Reygie why cant we all just get along ?

Aigbofa:


Other people can see through your vainglorious stupidity. It makes you more of a joker than people to be taken seriously. Even a bicycle factory should not disappear from the surface of the planet in such a short time without any concious effort by somebody much less a factory that made military tanks.

Any idea or concept can die prematurely when political interest is the priority.

aresa:


I was even shocked he did not say the whole of Nigeria...


Chest beating is serious business...

yeah we are chest beaters because we are achievers... after the pogrom which we all know how it was won, without western ally I wonder would have become of you by now... probably in shackle pounding fufu,
the only thing u can be proud of



1 ewedu and amala
2 owamber

Decryptor:
OJUKWU IS A HERO!

AWO-OLE-OWO IS A COWARD!!

Quote me negatively and die by a stray bullet!

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funny bro, but let Awolowo rest in peace na. walahi why ndigbo hate yoruba like this na ?

MChaze25:

you got it wrong!
They cut our food suplies from all angles.
Can you fight without food?
Even salt was totally absent.
Nigeria remain the cowards.
Why going around begging neighbouring African countries to block our food import as a nation?
Once again, there was a country!

I am not trying to paint the wrong picture, I am simply saying that biafra lost the war because it didn't have the right technology in place and the inept, ineffective Nigerian military capitalised on that to starve millions of innocent children and young women to death, despite being armed with enough ammunition to wipe 3 times the population of the Federation at that time despite being backed by soviet union, britain, Arab world, OAU, chad, sudan, Egypt, east Germany, niger. A very clear case of ineptitude and inefficiency.
More so biafra was contained and blockaded yet it took starvation for the nigerian military to win the war.

cassidy1996:
i can still remember those days when we used to see (Igbo made! products) in the markets, those products were far more better than the (Aba made) we see now.......Ojukwu my main man R.I.P

nazi's at work.... ojukwu (adult hitler).....another civil war might happen

Okeikpu:
THEY THINK SAY DS ONE NA TO USE BROOM COOK SOUP

lolzzzz bros that soup wen dem dey cook with broom dey sweet oooo

lolz these yoruba women sure is crazy lolzzzz. using broom to cook soup lolzzz

great

new2020:


Typical yorubba...can't contain their envy of Igbos. Keep disgracing your kinsmen!

YES,TYPICALLY INTELLIGENT YORUBA.CAN'T CONTAIN AND SWALLOW THE LIES OF THE IGBOS.YOU ASK YOURSELF...HOW SUDDENLY WOULD IGBOS BE TECHNOLOGICALLY SAVVY DURING THE WAR WHEN THEY COULD NOT DO ANYTHING BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR.AS WE STAND YORUBA CONTROLS 70% OF THE ICT WORLD IN NIGERIA.WHERE ARE THE IGBOS?
MOREOVER WE HAVE SEEN THAT MOST OF THOSE THINGS WERE BROUGHT IN BY FRANCE AND THE MERCENARIES.DON'T BELEIVE YOUR LIES...