₦airaland Forum

Cofactor:
What is this one ranting and wailing about? Can't comprehend.

nomadic sch dropout

rlauncher:
We Yorubas are not stupid. We were grossly underrepresented in the military then with Lagos the then FCT littered with soldiers of northern extractions.

Before going to war with a determined foe, you have to calculate the risks which we did. The odds were not in our favour, so we decided to play the game with maturity, sophistication and sophistry.

All we'd expected then was for the Igbos to defend their territory which they were already doing very well. We would deal with the Northerners later as soon as is practicable The Western Region had already secured agreement with the FG that there would be no attack on Biafra from western side, meaning Yorubas will not participate in the war against the Biafrans. Before you say jack, the Biafrans were charging westward with their war machines which prompted the Yorubas to enter into the war.

Now tell me, who is to blame for the loss of Igbos in the civil war.

They will never agree that they err by invading Ore, ' sure they don't even know the boundary of the so called Biafra.

zendy:
Anyone hoping for restructuring is wasting their time because everyone knows that the core North will never agree to it. The only organ that can restructure Nigeria is the National Assembly and the Core North control over half of its membership. So how will anyone pass a bill on restructuring if the North does not support it? Its impossible

So, that leaves self determination. Eventually, most ethnic nationalities in the South who think Nnamdi Kanu is a fool will eventually have to do what he did, or remain slaves of the North forever.

The North will accede to regionalization if they discover crude oil in the north.

Self Determination doesnt equate to bashing of our brothers and sisters.

Christianity and Islam are tantamount to an illicit trend that found their way into our pyche by ways of 'hook and crook', once the evil trend is scraped and erased from our thought process, we will be back with these same people that are our brothers and sisters.

That is to say, mostly all of us Nigerians are brothers and sisters in a tightly knitted szygy, a history that predates both Islam and Christianity.

When the smoke screen is lifted, all our priorities are the same and we should support each others right of self determination, regardless of the bigotry caused by our exposure to the Abrahamic religions.

Self Determination works.

Self Determination works best in a coalition system similar to our great country, Nigeria.

There is always a way to blame the Igbo man.

ReubenE:
Good write up, no doubt. However, the psychological background of the piece is part of the problem. I expected the writer to rue the actions of those young Nigerian soldiers that ceased power in 1966 without playing the ethnic card. From what I know, the coup plotters were from more than one ethnic group. Because it suits the regular narrative, it is no longer Nigerian soldiers, but Igbo soldiers. This is one among the many reasons why there is so much hate in the country.

Is Major. Nzeogwu the reason why the Nigerian government has failed to do anything right since 1970, even the rudiments of administration? Is the coup responsible for the massive stealing that the country has witnessed in the past? Is the coup responsible for the so many deaths we have recorded in the nation? From political motivated, to the ones with ritual and religious undertone? My brother, Nigeria was bound to fail from the day she was created.

The Kano riot of 1953, the election crisis of 1964, census crisis and several others had the potentials to lead us to where we are today. Neither the Igbo nor the Yoruba is solely responsible for our political cum economic desertification, but our collective refusal to agree that Nigeria is not a nation but a mere territorial space where each ethnic group try to grab as much as they can from its belly.

As long as we continue to pretend that Nigeria will get better, the more pernicious and complex our problems would become.
The big question is whether there is hope for this country; frankly it does not look likely because the minorities killed Nigeria in their minds the day the WAZOBIA nonsense was propagated, and it will remained buried until when we stop the pretence.


Nonetheless, I support the writer's call for self determination because Nigeria has proven herself to be an expired product.

And nothing hs changed ever since!!

Amujale:
Self Determination doesnt equate to bashing of our brothers and sisters.

Christianity and Islam are tantamount to an illicit trend that found their way into our pyche by ways of 'hook and crook', once the evil trend is scraped and erased from our thought process, we will be back with these same people that are our brothers and sisters.

That is to say, mostly all of us Nigerians are brothers and sisters in a tightly knitted szygy, a history that predates both Islam and Christianity.

When the smoke screen is lifted, all our priorities are the same and we should support each others right of self determination, regardless of the bigotry caused by our exposure to the Abrahamic religions.

The best i have read so far!!

7lives:
They will never agree that they err by invading Ore, ' sure they don't even know the boundary of the so called Biafra.

Yoruba revisionist.



You mean yorubas were not involved in the war until biafrans attacked ore?