₦airaland Forum

Paretomaster1:
You see that is where the problem is, the Igbos keep feeding their children with lies, hate, and propaganda, painting other tribes black.

I thought K the Northerners haveoved on despite losing respected figures like Sardauna, Balewa, Maimalari etc, evidtly is how they allow the Igbos settled in Northern cities comfortably....

The Igbos cannot learn, they cannot change..

Supan:
Honestly, you are the ones hating here. If the Igbos hate the north, will they buy their lands and build houses on it. If the Igbos haven't moved on will the NGOs they have in the north be giving free meal, cloth, medication etc to the less privileged in the north.

Ipob is different from igbo.

Ipob are still agitating because of the injustices that are still being meted to them.

If there is justice and fairness, ipob will die a natural death.

NGpatriot:
ibo people don't hate northerners, but they insult, abuse and ridicule them everyday.

The only reason you are in the North is for survival and your daily bread which pretty much doesn't exist in ibo land. You are not there to help or give medicine to anybody so stop condescending as if you are better than them.

franchasng:
Zik and Ironsi were more western than Igbotic reason for their stupid actions. Because they spent much time with the whites, they started thinking they can make Nigeria to be like the UK, but Ojukwu despite his long stay and study in Britain never threw away his Igbo thinking cap and heritage and reason Igbos celebrate him till tomorrow

NGpatriot:
Another comedian.






Who was this non ibo?

Dedetwo:
This moronic names in bold letters are the cardinal reasons Nigeria remains dilapidated.

Dedetwo:
This moronic names in bold letters are the cardinal reasons Nigeria remains dilapidated.

NGpatriot:
Even after admitting that he was an ibo man, you still want us to convince us that he was a northerner.

Unfortunately for you, Northerners did not see it that way.

ipobs can be really really funny and comedic sha,

NGpatriot:
Tafa Balewa must be so moronic when he commissioned the dilapidated 2nd bridge bridge in 1966 shortly before he was slaughtered by the ibo blood thirsty and sadistic ibo murders.

NGpatriot:
@ OP, they are generally self destructive and you can not prevent them from being self destructive no matter what, it's part of their DNA to be.

ZIK wanted ONE Nigeria so he teamed up with the North to form One Nigeria

Aguiyi Ironsi wanted One Nigeria so he abolished regional administration and joined us together with decree 34 to create the unitary system with power in Abuja, precisely what we have today.

ibo people created all the all the problems and the One Nigeria they cry everyday that they don't want.

Paretomaster1:
You see, but Ojukwu, Zik, Ironsi, etc are not moronic? I pray you push yourself to a part 2.

NGpatriot:
No need to pray, they'll repeat the same thing because they are self destructive per their DNA.

itsme01:
you were once radical, but with facts you are speaking, you have seen what ibo power Azikwe saw (dominance), he was the only leader that knew how powerful ibos were, he tried and tried but many don't get it... you see Azikwe was well trained by Herbert Macaulay he saw things as a pan Africanist who was ready to dominate like the Fulani or the west

British, Romans , Egyptian civilization don't revolve around just an ethnicity , it revolve stretching boundaries through building bridges and not bombing it

NGpatriot:

ibo people don't hate northerners, but they insult, abuse and ridicule them everyday.

The only reason you are in the North is for survival and your daily bread which pretty much doesn't exist in ibo land. You are not there to help or give medicine to anybody so stop condescending as if you are better than them.

blasted12:
Banjo never participated in the coup, he was arrested 3 days later for trying to gain entrance into Ironsi's headquarters with a loaded pistol

blasted12:
Banjo never participated in the coup, he was arrested 3 days later for trying to gain entrance into Ironsi's headquarters with a loaded pistol

shekauvsbuhari:
the person that taught you this Lie mohammed will not make heaven.

Paretomaster1:
You r buying lands ND building houses because u were accommodated, can u swear u gv the same freedom to Northerners in the East?

Nzeogwu killed Sardauna, and your brothers in the North troop out singing, Dancing, and mocking the Northerners.

NGpatriot:
Feel free to call it ijaw coup, ibira coup, hausa coup, afonja coup or whatever tribe coup you like, I care less, I just pointed out your illogical, confused and senseless post where you admitted that he was ibo while trying to fool yourself that he was a Northerner.
Just pick one and stop confusing and tripping all over yourself.

That's all.

NGpatriot:
lol...

That poster no get sense at all, must be a 2 year old kid.

NGpatriot:
In their laughable and comedic world, anything is possible.

Sometimes you just have to enjoy the drama and entertainment on NL.

franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu), first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

Davash222:
Come 2023, we will support Northerner over South Wasterner.

echibuogwu:
U don’t know anything u just go about spilling nonsense, who told u it was an “ Igbo coup” yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth, he was born in Kaduna and he grew up in Kaduna, intact he dressed always like an Hausa man and he didn’t know how to speak Igbo, but he was very fluent in Hausa. I don’t know what’s wrong with u people, u don’t know anything but u go around spreading rumor.

Kwon1999:
Franchasng everything in this post is true. Actually I tried to pass this message before you, but I was afraid that our brothers will call me Afonja or Aboki.

Whether or not Kaduna Nzeogwu is an Igbo, he executed that coup because he considered himself a member of one of the three major tribes in Nigeria which is Igbo.

No two ways about it, Kaduna Nzeogwu wouldn't have had the courage to plan and execute that coup if he didn't view himself as a member of a major tribe in Nigeria.

Again, I think the reason for jubilation among our people after top men from North were killed in 1966 is because the northerners killed many of our people during the Jos and Kano riot before independence. To me that jubilation which angered the north more wasn't necessary; our people should have revenged the killings of 1945 and 1953 when it was still hot, not rejoicing in 1966 after the coup when it was cold.


I am not saying that we are bad people; all I am trying to say is that our brothers should absorb this truth so that the truth will set our people free.

Before the coming of the white men in this lands, if a man commits crime in another clan his people will kill him just to protect the image of their clan. We shouldn't have protected or kill the men, we should have have handed them over to the victims of their naivety.

Lastly, we southeasterners should unite and ask our brothers from Delta and Rivers if the are one of us and if the say no we should take it like that. No need for DNA test.

It is wickedness or hatred that makes people to believe that everyone bearing Igbo name caught abroad disgracing this country is from Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia; many of them have never stepped feet in south east but when the are caught southeast will be blamed and on top of that the will say they are not Igbos.

latitidejavu:
My brother may you live long.
I am Igbo from a well titled Nze family. My grandfather who was a police officer under the colonial authority fought in the war, my father and his three brothers fought fought too. All came back. I was my grandfather's favorite grandchild because I am his first grandson. Before he died in 1997, my grandfather basically downloaded Nigerian history to me. He also kept diaries. His library in my village is like a two bedroom apartment full of books, minutes of meetings and what have you.

I have read and read and got tired of reading. I also read with tears just like you. I am so happy another Igbo man has come to the same conclusion. That coup was a stupid, ill-advised, silly, daft move by Igbo officers. The war led by Ojukwu was daft, egostical and completely bereft of strategic thinking.

Before I continue, nobody should come here accusing me of not being Igbo. I am nwa afor so much that I can lay claim to the prime minister title of my grandfather tomorrow if I ever want to.

We destroyed the federalism of this nation when our leading lights Ben Nwabueze and go advised Ironsi to turn this country into a unitary system. We destroyed the foundation of this country when the shots of that first coup was fired. A new nation dealing with distrust amongst the three main tribes and one tribe takes it on ourselves to shoot other officers and we expect them not to strike back? We threw everything we had away. Threw away all our advantage and dragged the new country down with our thoughtless actions.

This has always been our problem as Igbos we lack strategic thinking! We are still making that mistake today. We make a looooot of noise and act without caution. It's not bravery! It's madness! I have read the colonial reports on a lot of those Igbo officers that led that coup and it was not impressive. Who are we to kill the leaders of other tribes and somehow our leaders survived? As in? The country was having political challenges and because we are the Messiah of the world we took it upon ourselves to undertake a coup when the obvious beneficiary will be an Igbo man. Are others stupid? Na only us Waka come?

This is why I get irritated by a lot of political moves we Igbos make even today. We have learnt nothing. Let me stop for now. Next thing my Igbo brothers will come here and start insulting me but nobody here can claim to be more Igbo than me!

We should officially apologize to this country

ProudDick:
And the Hausa/Fulanis cannot make themselves rich. They live in poverty. Igbos are even the errand boys of those heads of states. Remember Arthur eze? Daniel kanu? They could not made their Igbo slaves rich.

BLS1:
Every few months we go through this cycle.

Nzeogwu was a patriot and probably one of the greatest patriots we ever had in this country.

The 1966 was never envisioned by him or the other idealist to be an Igbo coup or a power grab by the Igbo; but unfortunately for him and later the Igbo as a whole, a lot of his Igbo collabarators showed the typical selfish Nigeria tendencies which ensured it will always be seen as an Igbo Coup and power grab.

Nzeogwu had by far the hardest job of all the coup plotters and completed it masterfully and successfully like only a true idealist moved by genuine passion could. While his selfish brothers allowed their tribalistic nature to get the best of them and come up will silly stories of crosses and bishops not allowing them to execute the easiset of objectives in their own backyard.

The only moral of the Nzeogwu story and his subsequent death and rejection by his tribe is to choose your friends more wisely. He will always remain my greatest young Nigerian of that era.

Even the snake and northern puppet OBJ cannot say bad things about him. Infact no northern officer that knew him at that time ever did. It's his kith and kin that betrayed him in life that keep spoiling his memory in death

Sokosuji:
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nku5:
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So much intellectually lazy nonsense online these days.

1. Igbos did not carry out any coup. Nigerian soldiers with a sizeable number of Igbos overthrew the corrupt, violent first republic to save Nigeria from imploding due to the crisis in the Western Region. The plotters were men like Nzeogwu, Ademoyega, Atom Kpera, Fola Oyewole, Ifeajuna etc. Igbo commanders like Ironsi and Ojukwu helped frustrate the coup.

2. Ironsi's Supreme Military Council appointed a special panel to investigate the coup from top to bottom. Gowon was the one in charge of reporting the progress to the council. M.D. Yusuf was in charge of the investigation. Gowon and co were planning their coup so they didn't bother investigating.

3. The only thing I agree with you on is that the Igbos were in charge of everything before the coup. Why would people with everything risk it all to take over what they already control See as you take dribble yourself