Hague! You honestly think the west is your friend. Have they finished trying each other for what they did and continue to do?

saaron:
Only a rotten country like Nigeria you will see war criminals like Gowon living like kings and granting interviews. People like him should have been arrested, tried/prosecuted in the Hague and executed for crimes against humanity long ago.
The fact, that he's still walking free is a pointer to the fact that Nigeria as a country does not value human life. Nigeria is one of the few rotten countries where murderers are celebrated and rewarded.
It's for this reason no single fulani terrorist have been prosecuted for genocide across the country till date.

What will the 6 countries be? How you take divide am? I'm interestedin hearing yoir view

spafu:
I sincerely wished Gowon had not been over zealous in helping the North achieve its grip on this nation by holding on to other regions. I see no reason why we can't have six country out of this present sh_thole, where a president who cannot to be effective as a WhatsApp admin is busy messing this country up. The rate of hardship is increasing on a daily basis. Look at what has become of our electricity situation, he has completely eroded the gains made by the past administrator, which the present administration was claiming to be body language, because they knew they had contributed nothing.
Well, let me concern myself with what matters most to me - Taking Care of My Family. Nairalanders, kindly help my hustling by clicking my signature.

Gwilym:


That's one of the most interesting events of the Nigerian Civil War, and these are my reasons

1.Propaganda: The Feds were sending a message to the Igbos that the war was not a vendetta against them...see we buried one of your gallant heroes.

2.During wars, millitaries have often times buried the bodies of their opponents with full millitary honors. Not all the time , but it does happen.

3.The honest truth is that before January 15 1966, the Army was a very close knit unit. Many of the officers and men fighting with each other during the civil war were friends and pals during the First Republic. Add the fact that Nzeogwu was actually very Northern in culture. (he was born and bred in Kaduna, and spoke Hausa very fluently...). The coups messed the Army up (which is why over the years many Nigerian Army officers haven't really been fond of coups.)

It still doesn't make sense for people claiming revenge to bury and honour the very object of their vengeance

Perhaps if they really liked Nzeogwu they shouldn't have gone around killing Igbo soldiers and people

fjjc:

A lot people have read the story about what happened before and after the war. In all fairness, if Azikwe was killed along side other politicians then, there wouldn't be sentiment as regards the intention of the people that carried out the operation, but different things came to play as who and who that were killed from the North and Southwest. Afterwards, Ironsi action also showed that the nation had been hijacked by one section of the country. So, my brothers from the East need to analyse the whole thing very well and stop apportion blames.

Oga what of Lt Col Unegbe some where from orlu, if u dont know ifeajuna killed him along with gen maimalari
it was never a one sided coup

Racoon:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/why-we-have-no-regrets-fighting-civil-war-gowon/amp/

Rubbish, instead of Saying u fought for Nigeria to be one or u killed millions because you know that the poor North can't stand on its own without the rich south. U are now here talking lies and jargons,*Spits*

xpmode:


No regret.... as long as the Minority Christian North is safe. in one Nigeria, who cares about oyel

but they are not safe and will never for ever and ever be safe

LordVoldermort:
It still doesn't make sense for people claiming revenge to bury and honour the very object of their vengeance

Perhaps if they really liked Nzeogwu they shouldn't have gone around killing Igbo soldiers and people

And if Nzeogwu did care about how bad things were in the First Republic, perhaps it would have been better if he resigned and had gone into politics, instead of seeking to overthrow the government.

The run up to independence was filled with lots of competition between tribes...which led to violence occasionally (see the 1952 Kano riots for example). Nzeogwu by organizing his coup ended up pouring kerosene on a smouldering fire .

Of course, it would also have been better if Northern politicians and people had waited for the Law to take its course against the murderers, and also it would have been better if the political class at the time just did not hand over to Ironsi, or Ironsi had punished the coup plotters .immediately...and so on

naijaguy123456:
Nigeria doesn’t need that civil war but greedy Ojukwu mislead his people into a war they can never win .

Iidiot

Racoon:
Perhaps Gen.Yakubu Chinwa Gowon is still having Deja vu or Stockholm Syndrome.So lets paint the picture for you again sir.
-The core northern blood & power thirsty elements used you as their stooge to hold unto power in the 1966 Nigeria only to consolidate their griphold & shove you aside on 29th July 1975.

-Despite fighting the civil war to force the eastern region back into the Nigerian state even with the progrom and marginalisation up till date, the bastardization of the Nigeria state by these same clique as before the pre-1966 era have only gone from bad to worst.

-The middle belt have remained a slaughter ground with senseless bloodshed & killings, heavy militarization, and ethno-religious & supremacist cleansing.Lt.Gen.TY Danjuma(Rtd) have said enough in that regard.

Thanks so much,

Gowon should be tied to a stake and shot,his intestine fed to crocodiles.Dan buruba shege kawai

Racoon:
Perhaps Gen.Yakubu Chinwa Gowon is still having Deja vu or Stockholm Syndrome.So lets paint the picture for you again sir.
-The core northern blood & power thirsty elements used you as their stooge to hold unto power in the 1966 Nigeria only to consolidate their griphold & shove you aside on 29th July 1975.

-Despite fighting the civil war to force the eastern region back into the Nigerian state even with the progrom and marginalisation up till date, the bastardization of the Nigeria state by these same clique as before the pre-1966 era have only gone from bad to worst.

-The middle belt have remained a slaughter ground with senseless bloodshed & killings, heavy militarization, and ethno-religious & supremacist cleansing.Lt.Gen.TY Danjuma(Rtd) have said enough in that regard.

The good thing I see in it is that in another decade time ...2030 to be precise. Most of them will be no more. Sooner or later their generation will fade away

engrchykae:
A house niggar is worse than the slave master.
When you watch the movie, Django,you will realize what I mean
Gowon is a house niggar sent from Sandhurst to do British bidding.
In this Nigeria, even the Yoruba are not favored to be leaders unless the Yoruba is an obasanjo who is Yoruba in body,fulani in soul.
This is the reason they killed mko and ousted shonekan.
If the Yoruba and Igbo youths come together,we shall control our destiny.
The political class of both Yoruba and Igbo are swines

interesting but it's better every man for himself

Now i know that there are fools even at 80. Gr8 men like obj,danjuma whom really fought the war unlike u that never graced the battle field wud neva glory the war . Posterity has already started dealing with u even in ur lifetime. Jos,benue whom were the major stakeholders during naija civil war is now a hunting ground for fulani herdsmen&terrorists. The herdsmen are jst doing promo in south and whole south is making all the noise. Do u know what the indigenes of plateau,benue& other middle beltans in the north central&north east go thru. If that war had suceeded, we wouldn't be here. One nigeria kill u there.

There is always a Victor in every war. The one shouting no victor, no vanguished is always the loser.

franchasng:
How do you nonentities from Yoruba land concort all these lies and feel so happy and proud of it Na wa o.

I bet, you find it difficult to feed, you earn less than 100k a month and you envy successful Igbos around you, and your only reason for faking love for Hausa-Fulanis is because they are poor and dejected like you. It is well with you and your household, but purge yourself of all these foolishness and focus more on improving your financial life so that you will become somebody valuable outside Nairaland.


Honestly, you Yoruba Muslims are the only reason people are disliking the great Yoruba tribe, Islam seems to be a very bad virus that corrupts people's thinking faculty, get help soon!

As for Gowon and the entire Middlebelt, they are paying hugely for their foolishness of joining force with Hausa-Fulanis to fight Eastern Nigeria between 1966 - 1969, you can visit Jos, Benue, Taraba, etc for evidence.

All this tears .. eyah i must have torched a nerve

abeg no time to throw insults i just press the report button.. when you finally read civil war journals and article then we can have a sensible conversation

Bye

Wait o who have noticed that the West is seriously against the North �

You take your no regrets with the 3 million dead from your useless civil war to your grave.
You are not still intelligent enough to understand that the unity of Nigeria you fought for still remains elusive

Gwilym:


And if Nzeogwu did care about how bad things were in the First Republic, perhaps it would have been better if he resigned and had gone into politics, instead of seeking to overthrow the government.

The run up to independence was filled with lots of competition between tribes...which led to violence occasionally (see the 1952 Kano riots for example). Nzeogwu by organizing his coup ended up pouring kerosene on a smouldering fire .

Of course, it would also have been better if Northern politicians and people had waited for the Law to take its course against the murderers, and also it would have been better if the political class at the time just did not hand over to Ironsi, or Ironsi had punished the coup plotters .immediately...and so on

You spoke a lot of sense there, and fair.
Bottom line though remains that, Nigeria as it stands today is a big disgrace, not a country any sensible fellow can be proud of, and from what we can see things are only getting worse as time goes.

Racoon:
Perhaps Gen.Yakubu Chinwa Gowon is still having Deja vu or Stockholm Syndrome.So lets paint the picture for you again sir.
-The core northern blood & power thirsty elements used you as their stooge to hold unto power in the 1966 Nigeria only to consolidate their griphold & shove you aside on 29th July 1975.

-Despite fighting the civil war to force the eastern region back into the Nigerian state even with the progrom and marginalisation up till date, the bastardization of the Nigeria state by these same clique as before the pre-1966 era have only gone from bad to worst.

-The middle belt have remained a slaughter ground with senseless bloodshed & killings, heavy militarization, and ethno-religious & supremacist cleansing.Lt.Gen.TY Danjuma(Rtd) have said enough in that regard.

Nothing like Middle belt North is one

itsme01:



All this tears .. eyah i must have torched a nerve

abeg no time to throw insults i just press the report button.. when you finally read civil war journals and article then we can have a sensible conversation

Bye

My little advice to you, this is new year, spend more time improving your financial life, you are struggling with your life and your only joy is hating on successful Igbos that you cannot measure up to....if you like take my counsel or not, but something in me tells me you are struggling badly to survive and if you don't change your ways, your destiny helper who will be an Igbo man/woman will pass you by, watch and see!

Your likes have made me to stop rendering help to any Yoruba, God forgive me, but you guys are annoying, so annoying and foolish, hating people that contribute to the growth of your region while hailing those that kill and destroy your people all out of envy, you guys are pathetic

Gowon is a bastadd


One Nigeria where criminals have bright futures

Drobitol:
Gowon, does he has any political value again, useless man, big for nothing, pig!

Yes, he has PMB has much regard for him.

Stop insulting someone's father that is old enough to be your grandad.

itsme01:


After what he saw in the Biafra Army after Ojuckwu released him from the luxury prison, he was rumoured to help the other side with Intels .. he felt his people where not prepared for war, kids and untrained people were armed all his attempt to reach out to Ojuckwu to persuade him proved abortive as Ojuckwu spared no time in killing anyone against his ideas

So its only right Nigerian Army took his body back for a proper cerimonial burial as he grew up in the North and was close to them

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u know nothing about history so u suppose to keep stop disgracing yourself, the man ask u a simple question, y did the government honour nzogwu since his the architect of the whole problems?everything has turned to politics to you,no conscious efforts to learn again, we suppose to learn from history, look at a man who supervised the killing of over 3million people is telling the world that he has no regrets in a bid to maintain one Nigeria, my question is how has one Nigeria help us as people that gowon is proud of?the yurobas are battling with amotekun today.?

hammerF:




GOWON MAKES NO SENSE.


PEOPLE LIKE GOWON DESERVE TO BE TIED UP AND SHOT DEAD.


U HAVE TO GO TO WAR TO FORCE A NON-EXISTENT UNITY AT THE COST OF 3 MILLION LIVES.


WITH THE STATE OF NIGERIA TODAY, IS IT JUSTIFIED?

And who why did Ojukwu tried to secede in the first place?

itsme01:




Gowon please tell them

Let them blame Nzeogwu he could have chosen a bloodless coup, but he killed many innocent leader from north and south, he try Tafa Balewa's corpse on Lagos Ibadan Express Way like a goat and Ojukwu for there woes for arming kid soldiers and fighting without basic supplies like food leading to millions dying due to starvation



.

Thousands of Eastern Nigerians were massacred in northern Nigeria beginning from 1914 amalgam till the 1966 coup.
No body told you?

Of course you won't regret
Does the north regret any mayhem they have committed against this country...
The military coups and retarding if the country's economic growth, Boko Haram insurgents, herdsmen clashes, greed for power ET el

gidgiddy:


The man is an old fool. What sirt of unity is worth 3 million lives?

Im just happy that Gowon lived long enough to see the Nigerian he was fighting to keep together become a complete disaster

Ojukwu should have given it a thought if he had the love of his people at heart before he led them to massacre

Oga didn't fight o while his mates where fighting he was busy uniting (getting married) with his.
Gown don't know what war is and he never stepped his foot on the war front

Openbusiness:
Since the launch of Amotekun, IBB came out of the shadows to talk about it, now Gowon. Maybe Tafawa Balewa will speak his own next week. But I trust OBJ, he will use letter to finish all of them . All hail Amotekun, the slayer of the Northern Terrorists

And who told you is about Amotekun?

Don't you know that 4 days ago it was remembrance day for our fallen heroes and also the 50th anniversary of the Biafra civil war?

the breakup of the zoo is inevitable,its just a matter of time,we go our seperate ways