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ojehmario1969:
Comon gerrout

Your name doesn’t like you are a Nigerian

Wiseandtrue:
I saw this. Hence my comment. Please reference the person next time.

An Urhobo officer General David Akpode Ejoor introduced the Islamic (Arabic) inscription and the Star emblem into the Nigeria Army crest. Meanwhile, Reno and co have been lying and spinning everything upside down since.

N people like you

That are fanatical and religious bigots

GamalNasser:
My father always tells me stories about Ejoor and how Ejoor almost expelled him from the Nigerian Defence Academy to fulfil Fulani instructions

They have lived there live

Let’s live ours

That’s the reason I will continue to post history

GamalNasser:
Ejoor was a a Fulani puppet

Wiseandtrue:
But you are making a strong case for an Islamic inscription

Anyways, As at that time, the country was united, there was no nepotism as widely pronounced now

And if there's anything constant, then it's "CHANGE"

So let's have it inscribed in our 3 main indigenous languages

What is wrong in posting what someone posted

Wiseandtrue:
Sarrki if you are reminiscing, change the word "introduces" in the title to introduced.

Back to the topic, I just have one question, currently, if the inscription was of the Christians, will the Muslims take it lying down

Because we see the chaos, being created over hijab by the Muslims over an official FORMAL dressing code

So I ask again, will you have accepted it in good fate

I am a moderate and a tolerant Christian

So I don’t know what you mean by your question

May be you rephrase

Nigeriabiafra80:
Lol you are smart in reasoning,please who also introduce tribalism in Nigeria politics?hhhh

Azikwe and Ahmad bello

Nigeriabiafra80:
Lol see how your brain be
So a book written by unknown,is now a source

Ipobians are daft in reasoning

Nigeriabiafra80:
No source
Lie small so others can

The name of the book is there

The page is also there

You guys hate the truth

All you want is anti others

Tissaia:
too old u want people like lamidi cownu, wike, Ebele, Evans, tompolo, boyloaf, in the position

Abi mukaila aka auxiliary in Ibadan

Even Sef Mc oluomo

This was the visit yesterday

Late mazi rip

The impostor is daft

An Urhobo officer General David Akpode Ejoor introduced the Islamic (Arabic) inscription and the Star emblem into the Nigeria Army crest. Meanwhile, Reno and co have been lying and spinning everything upside down since.

Page 16 of his autobiography has details...

" In the colonial days, the cap badge of the army was a palm tree. This could be interpreted to represent the wealth of the country which the British were to exploit. For that reason, the palm tree had to go. Besides, the Action Group party had a palm tree as its symbol, and it was important that the army and a political party should not have the same symbol. My job was to seek a new meaningful design for the cap badge of the Nigerian Army. I set to work."

"In seeking a new design, I was anxious that the symbol should reflect the duty of the army and should be capable of inspiring officers and men. As I searched, I remembered the battle between the British and the Sokoto forces in 1903. At that battle, the Sokoto forces had carried the Sultan's flag with an Arabic inscription on it. That Arabic inscription I learnt meant, "VICTORY IS FROM GOD ALONE". This, I thought was an excellent symbol that had meaning and could inspire. What is more, the British had themselves incorporated the symbol into the regimental colour which the Nigerian Regiment carried on parade. I decided to incorporate the Arabic INSCRIPTION INTO THE CAP BADGE TO REPRESENT DEFENCE..."

Next, I searched for a symbol that would depict unity. I found and answer in Lugard's interlaced triangles which he designed at the amalgamation to represent the coming together of NORTHERN and SSOUTHERN NIGERIA. In choosing this symbol for the Nigerian Army cap badge, I hoped it would remind the Nigerian Soldier that his duty was to defend the unity and integrity of his country. I now had two symbols representing DEFENCE AND UNITY."

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Dedetwo:
Am I intellectually bankrupted to post links of articles written by characters such as you? If you are smart enough to know anything about military parlance, it would be army of dead majors in a normal condition for a Captain to command a unit of army division. Why is Nigeria not disintegrated so I cannot have such ninnies as compatriot?

You are yearning opata

Speak like someone reasonable

JAMO84:
It's only in Nigeria that people continue to tell the sad story of a fifty year old civil war like it's some kind of great achievement

We must not bury the truth

Beremx:
which side of the world is that Ogbeni. It can mean so many things

Across ( over the sea )

Dedetwo:
Why do loudmouths from certain section of shithole called Nigeria infatuated with Biafra and Ojukwu? S Division was not commanded by soldier with rank of Captain. Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho was no longer the commander of 63rd Brigade, 14 Division of Biafran Army during the final days of fighting. Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu did escort Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip since the major did not have a command of combatant troops at period. I do not know why certain goons love to trade in falsehood.

What is your source ?

Link ?

That you want to change time of event

Beremx:
You will not understand because in 2023, you will still be writing about Ojukwu on nairaland. Wise up!!

Am not doing all this to spite anyone

Anything interesting I come across I bring it up

If you remember vividly I was the one that brought the Aisha Buhari story and Alaafin to the forum

So see me as a patriot

Still waiting for you on this side of the world anytime you are here

kettykings:
if crying could save a soul then by today there would never have been a state of israel ,South Africa, United states.
if crying could save a soul why did Abiola die like a stray dog without an owner of family

Abiola was poisoned by the military and the same people we still have in government

So I maintain my stand that late Ikemba actions was baseless and not rational

gidgiddy:
Do you see the people he wasted their lives complaining? So why crying over another persons headache?

Only the fools are not complaining

The ones that are bent on repeating history

In clear terms Ipobians

kettykings:
But at least the coward fought for 30 months before escaping , how about the useless General that wept before an ordinary major on his knees or the General Ogundipe that did not even wait for the sound of a gun shot before hiding under the bed of a much junior office in surulere.



Another useless Man who could not stand before his tormentors who gave him a 10 year jail term but waited to join his tormentors to fight against the people who released him.

Ogundipe, Oladipi Diya deserve the best places in Nigerian Military hall of shame , shameless useless generals.

How about the useless General who went into battle with about 33,000 soldiers and after vowing to shoot at things that move and things that dont move was disgraced out of the battle field with less than 300 soldiers only to head back to lagos and was given a red card by a much junior officer

It’s better to cry and kneel down to save a soul

Than chest beating and killing a soul

gidgiddy:
Cowardice is when you carry on fighting despite warnings? You need to buy a dictionary to find out what cowardice is. No coward on earth fights a 3 year war. Cowards do not fight at all, they bow to their Northern slave masters and shout "one Nigeria" to avoid fighting for their dignity

It is real cowardice

Wasting people lives for madness course

For pride and arrogance

Exc2000:
Afonja fell in a battle, Ojukwu borrowed his wife's wrapper and blouse to run off when Obasanjo's bullets where flying around killing hungry ibo soldiers

You sound like a historian

Are you one ?

Sunshineg5:
Do you know what Shallow means?

You better go and buy dictionary

You are a patriot

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Sarrki and attention are like Covid-19 and Onikan stadium

You had to copy and paste an article from 2016.

Today must be May 31st then [/color]

History can be revisited at anytime

mrvitalis:
U mean after England ,France Saudi and Egypt help ?

Ojuchkwu only lost that war because he refused to let China and Russia exploit Niger delta oil ...same Niger Delta that pushed him to war ...same people that back stabbed him

Do you just said Niger delta backstabbed him?

No I don’t agree with that

Niger delta protected their citizens been killed for unnecessary war

I will say a hundred times

I don’t support both party

Both the federal side and the Biafran side

The war was uncalled for

Beremx:
This is 2023 for crying out loud!!

Una no dey tire for Ojukwu matter?

Sarrki, shouldn’t you be thinking of your life and that of your family?

Haba!!

Calm down my dear friend

We should tell the story the way it is

We should not hide it

It will be on records for anyone that wants to follow that path to take a cue

Justiceleague1:
Worldwide hero he was.

Seriously even if he was to be my dad I won’t celebrate cowardice

I swear I won’t

Ow will will on earth will you go on after you have been warned

That’s cowardice

The sad part of this story is this


Seriously I feel bad reading this


The story has been told many times about how the leader of the struggle, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had turned deaf ears to suggestions from eminent Igbos to throw in the towel a year after the war began as it became apparent that it was a war they could not win. It is also on record that he remained resolute for three years before giving up in 1970 after a million Igbos had died fighting.

Yesterday, May 30, 2016 pro Biafra secessionists commemorated the 49th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Republic of Biafra with marches and protests.

Though the protests were hardly peaceful as some lives were lost in the process, their message was heard nonetheless; that they had not forgotten the three-year civil war they fought and lost in their bid for secession.

The story has been told many times about how the leader of the struggle, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had turned deaf ears to suggestions from eminent Igbos to throw in the towel a year after the war began as it became apparent that it was a war they could not win. It is also on record that he remained resolute for three years before giving up in 1970 after a million Igbos had died fighting.

Many still wonder how Ojukjwu managed to escape in the midst of all the chaos. encomium.ng recounts how the Ikemba fled Nigeria at the end of the civil war in 1970…

On January 7, 1970, the 3rd Marine Commando Division under Gen. Obasanjo, supported by the 1st Infantry Division to the north and the 2nd Infantry Division to the south, launched their final offensive against the Biafrans. The Biafran S Division under Captain Azum Asoya was operating along the Port Harcourt – Elele road. The Division found itself cut off and disorganized due to a quick envelopment by the Nigerian 17th Brigade under Maj. Tomoye, the Nigerians now began making their advance on Owerri. On the outskirts of Owerri, Biafran Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho’s 63rd Brigade came under withering attack by Maj. Tomoye’s 17th Brigade, supported by 122 mm Soviet artillery. In less than a day of fighting the 63rd Brigade became overwhelmed by the Nigerian bombardment and were forced to surrender.

While the Nigerians were preoccupied with attacking the 63rd Brigade, the Biafran leadership made their final meeting in which President Ojukwu announced his plans to go abroad “in search of peace”. Ojuwku handed over the Biafran presidency to his vice-president Philip Effiong and placed all remaining Biafran troops under the command of Maj. Joseph Achuzie.

On January 9 Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu escorted Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip where he boarded his private jet and fled to the Ivory Coast. Immediately after Ojukwu’s departure President Effiong called for a ceasefire to discuss the details of surrender. On January 12 Philip Effiong, Joseph Achuzie, Ogbugo Kalu, and other Biafran officers made their way to Amichi and later Owerri to broadcast their final surrender to Col. Obasanjo.



https://encomium.ng/how-ojukwu-escaped-from-biafra-in-1970/