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Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by gidgiddy: 9:34am On Sep 17, 2018
On May 30th 1967, Lt Col Emeka Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra. With this announcement it was no longer possible to call the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) by this name, it was renamed the University Of Biafra. In June of 1967, Ojukwu went to Nsukka to address the students of the University of Biafra. He told them that he had recently also addressed the students of the Enugu Campus. He reminded the students that the essence of Biafra was for the people to free themselves from the Northern Nigerian oligarchy that was out to enslave everyone in Nigeria.

He told the students that Nigeria was likely to start war soon and ended his speech by shouting "be ready!"

A Month after Ojukwu made this speech, the Nigerian Army invaded the Biafran border town of Gakem in Ogoja and the civil war started.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by Racoon(m): 9:37am On Sep 17, 2018
"..He reminded the students that the essence of Biafra was for the people to free themselves from the Northern Nigerian oligarchy that was out to enslave everyone in Nigeria..."

Eze gburugburu ndigbo. smiley The man that saw today's Nigeria many years ago.Rest on great man.Late Maj.Patrick Chukwuma "Kaduna" Nzeogwu is another icon.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by alhassanyusuf29(m): 9:37am On Sep 17, 2018
this was before he snorted the drugs that made him sacrfice 3m flat.head jews cheesy

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by CodeTemplar: 9:39am On Sep 17, 2018
Missed opportunity.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by ibedun: 9:41am On Sep 17, 2018
Thief! University of Biafra ko, Biafra University ni.

He stole UNN not knowing 3m flattinos will pay for it.

I dey play oooo, before my igbo friends begin call me ����

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by nnachukz(m): 9:44am On Sep 17, 2018
alhassanyusuf29:
this was before he snorted the drugs that made him sacrfice 3m flat.head jews cheesy
Yes, it was before Awolowo took the rat poison ingredients.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by DrRasheed: 9:50am On Sep 17, 2018
He sacrificed the biafra ambitions cus it doesnt worth the blood of his people not like kanu sacrificing kids and rest in uk.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by nnachukz(m): 9:51am On Sep 17, 2018
ibedun:
Thief! University of Biafra ko, Biafra University ni.

He stole UNN not knowing 3m flattinos will pay for it.

I dey play oooo, before my igbo friends begin call me ����
You will see Afonjas flood here, something they couldn't do when Awolowo took rat poison for liquor and Abiola got fed with another rat poison.
These guys like dying disgracefully. I'm sure if they were the one fighting the whole country for just a day, all of them out of cowardice would have preferred taken poison to fighting. All Afonja race would have been wiped off.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by saaron(m): 9:51am On Sep 17, 2018
As it is right now, no army officer past and present is as intelligent and articulate as Ojukwu. The manner in which he speak alone is enough to convince any doubting Thomas that this guy is one of a kind.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by coolcharm(m): 9:56am On Sep 17, 2018
This Ojukwus head has got me laughing grin

How can a man who's head is a replica of the map of Nigeria be fighting against Nigeria?

No wonder he chickened out. cheesy

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by saaron(m): 9:57am On Sep 17, 2018
DrRasheed:
He sacrificed the biafra ambitions cus it doesnt worth the blood of his people not like kanu sacrificing kids and rest in uk.
That's how you One Nigeria addicts keep deceiving yourselves as if Nigeria is any better. Biafra is not Ojukwu's project. Biafra is a project of the people, by the people and for the people of BIAFRA.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by BiafraIShere(m): 10:01am On Sep 17, 2018
Chai, so emotional. Ojukwu was a great man who saw tomorrow when his peers couldn't see beyond their noses!! If only the people of the Niger Delta knew what Nigeria would later become, if only the people of the middle belt knew how their ancestral lands would later be turned into killing fields, and if only the Yorubas were courageous enough to stand on what they believed in (remember that Awolowo and indeed the majority of yorubas wanted Oduduwa republic but we're afraid to challenge the North). They all wouldn't have ganged up against the Igbos and all these people would probably be enjoyed peace and progress but look at where we are today!! Indeed a coward dies many times before his actual death! Ojukwu has been vindicated, Igbos opting out and fighting to defend their land for good three years have been vindicated as well. Just take a look at the Nigeria Gowon and Awolowo among the rest fought to keep as one and tell me if it is worth it?? Well, they won the battle and yet still lost the fight because we are more divided today than we have ever been and the country is still headed for the rocks.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by buharitill2023: 10:06am On Sep 17, 2018
This was when ojukwu was a terrorist like the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of bia-fra terrorist useless leader kanu,
But today ojukwu is my favorite igbo son after setting his brain in the right position.
Maybe i will accept terrorist kanu as my friend after his resurrection, by then his brain must have be fixed in the right position.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by benben1000: 10:14am On Sep 17, 2018
ibedun:
[s]Thief! University of Biafra ko, Biafra University ni.

He stole UNN not knowing 3m flattinos will pay for it.

I dey play oooo, before my igbo friends begin call me ����[/s]

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by gidgiddy: 10:35am On Sep 17, 2018
BiafraIShere:
Chai, so emotional. Ojukwu was a great man who saw tomorrow when his peers couldn't see beyond their noses!! If only the people of the Niger Delta knew what Nigeria would later become, if only the people of the middle belt knew how their ancestral lands would later be turned into killing fields, and if only the Yorubas were courageous enough to stand on what they believed in (remember that Awolowo and indeed the majority of yorubas wanted Oduduwa republic but we're afraid to challenge the North). They all wouldn't have ganged up against the Igbos and all these people would probably be enjoyed peace and progress but look at where we are today!! Indeed a coward dies many times before his actual death! Ojukwu has been vindicated, Igbos opting out and fighting to defend their land for good three years have been vindicated as well. Just take a look at the Nigeria Gowon and Awolowo among the rest fought to keep as one and tell me if it is worth it?? Well, they won the battle and yet still lost the fight because we are more divided today than we have ever been and the country is still headed for the rocks.

The real tragedy however is that 50 years since that speech by Ojukwu, some people still don't understand what he was talking about.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by frankfrancis871: 10:40am On Sep 17, 2018
alhassanyusuf29:
The greatness Ojukwu achieved at the age of 33, I alhassanyusuf29 a tribalist, racist and lazy man will never achieve that neither have my ancestors nor my descendant. I envy Igbos! cheesy
grin grin grin ;DJust say it this way, nobody will kill you sir! Don't know why some people enjoy destroying the reputation of nairaland by protraying it as tribalistic in nature
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by frankfrancis871: 10:41am On Sep 17, 2018
alhassanyusuf29:
The greatness Ojukwu achieved at the age of 33, I alhassanyusuf29 a tribalist, racist and lazy man will never achieve that neither have my ancestors nor my descendant. I envy Igbos! cheesy
grin grin grin ;DJust say it this way, nobody will kill you sir! Don't know why some people enjoy destroying the reputation of nairaland by protraying it as tribalistic in nature

IGWE OJUKWU WAS AND IS ALWAYS A GREAT MAN

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by frankfrancis871: 10:50am On Sep 17, 2018
nnachukz:

You will see Afonjas flood here, something they couldn't do when Awolowo took rat poison for liquor and Abiola got fed with another rat poison.
These guys like dying disgracefully. I'm sure if they were the one fighting the whole country for just a day, all of them out of cowardice would have preferred taken poison to fighting. All Afonja (you mean yoruba?) race would have been wiped off.
please take it back, it hasn't gotten to this. The venoms the yorubas and Igbos spit on social media is disheartening and sometimes I find it hard to believe that a reasonable busy Igbo has time for all this, please you guys should desist from such acts
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by deedy111: 10:56am On Sep 17, 2018
Reality just gave me a stern stare.

That should be about 51 years ago, so it's obvious more than 30% from that crowd are dead the remaining are old
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by kayfra: 11:05am On Sep 17, 2018
Man. This Ojukwu dude is butt ugly

Dayum!!!
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by benben1000: 11:09am On Sep 17, 2018
deedy111:
Reality just gave me a stern stare.

That should be about 51 years ago, so it's obvious more than 30% from that crowd are dead the remaining are old

Awolowo killed 90% of them.
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by Bane2020: 11:29am On Sep 17, 2018
idaramfon598:
Man. This Ojukwu dude is butt ugly Dayum!!!
Your papa fine pass am?

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by 10kbelow: 11:35am On Sep 17, 2018
benben1000:


Awolowo killed 90% of them.

And later died by ......................... so pathetic

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by triblehaul1: 3:10pm On Sep 17, 2018
The foolish jerk that wanted to wipe out his entire tribe due to foolishness.
Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by CSTR1005: 4:42pm On Sep 17, 2018
And the funny that is that All the Yoruba on this thread would go on another thread and ask igbos to leave Lagos.


Schizophrenic people.

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Re: Ojukwu Addressing Students Of The University Of Biafra In 1967(pic) by kernel001: 4:57pm On Sep 17, 2018
alhassanyusuf29:
this was before he snorted the drugs that made him sacrfice 3m flat.head jews cheesy

That was before the like of Buhari and Babagida made Northern Nigeria the poorest site of the world.
Headquarters of terrorism in Africa
Epidemics
Illiteracy ground
Global Third highest ID, first in Africa.
Hunger strickend land...
So who won?

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