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alfred5:
I'm from Anambra State.

Go to Anambra thread, you will see me.

Check my Facebook with Amb Adichie, Izuchukwu.

ok, nwanna uzo isi achụ ihe a, adịghị mma. Onweghi ebe ọzọ ị hụrụ ewezuga naịralandị? Ihe gbasara ọgụ biafra a bụghị ihe iche ọ bụ. Tule ihe ndia nke ọma
* ole otu osi dị gị na ndi igbo ga a puta lụwa ọgụ na-enweghi ihe kpatara ya.

gidgiddy:
Forget the so called Ambassador Izuchukwu. I won't be surprised if it's a Yoruba man masquerading as an Igbo man. Only an ignoramus will say that 30,000 deserve to be killed over the actions of a few Igbo officers. Only an ignoramus will say that Ojukwu went to war when it was Gowon who came down to the east to fight. Only a complete fool will say that Ojukwu did not consult the people before he declared Biafra when it was the Eastern Nigeria consultative forum that mandated Ojukwu to declare Biafra. He didn't even mention that Ojukwu went to to Aburi and signed an agreement with Gowon to have peace but Gowon broke the agreement. People just twist history to justify the joke called 'one Nigeria'

You made a great point... Gowon once said recently that ojukwu said what was contrary to the accord that was why the war broke out... I was like how will a sensible man make such comment, was it that there was no other way he could air his view. I think amb. Is also having this warp mind set. Though i don't believe he is Igbo.

@alfred5 this mis interpretations and the hype of negative events pertaining to Igbo lead to the counter coup and killing of igbos and other southerns in the north.
Ironsi was killed on July 29, 1966. But the war was actual spurned by these two factors,
*the incessant killing of Igbo in Northern Nigeria
*the refusal of the then military head General Gowon to mobilize security personnel to stop the killings. You see the coup wasn't exactly what lead to war.

alfred5:
I am the author of this article.


Check it on my Facebook.

Amb Adichie Izuchukwu.

There's nothing more to tl us here about our Igbo coup.

I studied Political Science. I was able to take a lecture on Nigeria Military and Politics in my final year. There, Military involvement was highly discussed.

Thank you!

You read political science clearly has nothing to do with your biases. I have read, discussed and studied some books on biafra war and i found out there are too many inconsistence in most of the stories especially on this 1966 coup... As an political analyst you should know that january 15,1966 coup was not the cause of the war but just mere event that lead to some misinterpretation of the nationalist effort...

alfred5:
Thank you!

Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu's Coup might mean well for Nigeria as of then, but the murdered were mainly oprominents men's of other tribe.

No Igbo prominent men was assassinatrd. Zik, Mbadiwe etc were all alive and kicking. Igbo's at Kano and other parts of the north went on to celebrate the killings, that lead to Pogrom of 1966, subsequently lead to Civil War.

Before i will write anything let me show you a cut of late major C. K. Nzeogwu's speech on January 16, 1966.
" We seized power to stamp out tribalism, nepotism and regionalism...there were five of us in the inner circles and we planned the details. On saturday morning the officers and men thought they were going out only on a night exercise. I was not until they were out in the bush that they were told the full details of the plan. They had bullets, they had been issued with their weapons but i was unarmed. If they disagreed they could have shot me..."
clearly it shows that the coup wasn't done by one ethnic group but was lead by mostly igbo as out of the five inner circle 4 was igbo and 1 yoruba.(do not forget the soldier lead for the coup were mostly northerns).
... January coup was given different interpretations, at first everyone had it as nationalist effort Not until BBC hausa gave it its ethnic terms. It did not see it as bid to clean govt but as an Ibo power play to smash the northern grip on the country...
There was a media hype on Igbo activities, the north elites used the media effectively to smear the image of Igbo's. |

alfred5 you opinion is highly needed here. We will want you to take us on a lecture on 1966 coup

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Why Ironsi seized power
*There was ensuing chaos following the january 15 1966 military coup due to the ethnic colouration.
* With President Nnamdi Azikiwe lost of intervention in turn hampering civilian rule, ironsi had little or no choice than to take over power from senate president Nwafor Orizu who was the acting president in the absence of Azikiwe who was on official

Igbo involvements...
*1966 coup was carried out by junior officiers, lead by mostly Igbo stock (4 igbo majors and 1 yoruba major). Nzeogwu actually led a group of mostly northern soldiers to coup. Clearly the grieviances here is that no Igbo high profile politician died in the coup.
*Major general Johnson-Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-ironsi stopped the coup in lagos and was against the coup.
*lt-colonel chukwuemeka stopped the coup in the north and was against the coup also.
* All the coup plotters were arrested except Ifeajuna.

laviecontinue:
This is just the truth. Though its kind of sad may God open our eyes to see the truth and may we all be save from bad leaders.

really? Hmmm was what he wrote how really happened? Just ask yourself how a whole tribe/region will slide to war just because of ojukwu or any man's ego. The author is well aware that people have little or no knowledge of what happened that is why he made so much blanket statements. Ask him questions not just saying it is true.

Pls i call on any igbo that must comment here to shone any form of insult or name calling what so ever. Pls present your views objectively.
@alfred5 are you the author of this article? If yes, pls tell us more about this your Igbo coup.

Biased report:
I may not know this writer but i think his write up is too biased. He clearly painted Igbos as villan here. So technically you are telling us that the the indiscrimate killing of civilians was the best response from a military?
You made a blanket comment of Ojukwu declaring Secession of Eastern region... There must be something missing which you technically ignored.

You clearly did not state how and why abori accord came to place
I guess Ojukwu ego was also involved when there was break down of law within the rank and file of the military?
Ojukwu ego also made sure there were peaceful exit of northern soldiers from the the then eastern region.
Ojukwu ego also was what made the your all diplomatic Gowon to ignore the accord or seek other diplomatic options is he feels not satisfied...
Guess Ojukwu ego was also what caused Nigeria to break the Abori accord, i made the first shoot.
I hate when people write biased document about events just because the can put up things on paper especially on a very sensitive matter like this. MR amb. Pls go take another class on your civil war history and this time don't just go there this biased.

Incoherent and mischievous write-up.

Keneking:
But where is lalasticlala sef

Imagine Jonathan could not achieve this feat and commendation in five years plus

Under, one year the man they feared and called "dictator" has proven his mettle as Nigeria's finest in political leadership. Sai Buhari.

myopic!
You are talking just because you can talk... Clearly you do not know when and how Nigeria started having real freedom of speech...
Anyway don't forget that in the same buhari administration social media bill was brought up by your said APC senator.

Was extremely touched by the number 32, where the turkish was teaseing the kids with bread.

Can someone give me the number of this man umahi, we need to sort out things.
MODIFIED I have just gone to okezie ikeazu & ifeanyi ugwuanyi facebook handles. I called on them to caution this uburu man. Making reckless comments just for it's sake.

HopeAtHand:
This is how some of you fail exams in school and blame your teachers, whilst the problem lies in your inability to read and comprehend. I said Ikwerre alone makes up roughly half of Rivers state population. I didn't say we were the 5million.

And pls, im not in the habit of saying "we SS", matter of fact, i clamour against it since the SS ISNT MONO ETHNIC. Everyone talking about the SS should atleast speak for his direct ethnicity and not the generality.

If only you took time to read and understand my postings, you wouldn't have me explaining allover to you. Maybe because you're over-excited or you lack quick comprehension ability. Who knows, i may have been exchanging with an Ikokwu salesman.

....and I have never seen an Ikwerre politician claim Igbo, save for Amaechi when he went to Aba. And Amaechi was easy to understand.

Playing devil's advocate. IKWERE is never the largest ethnic group in rivers state.
I read down in this thread where you are claiming cousin, no one is ikwere cousin. Ikwere tribe is ikwere tribe which consist of only two local govt in rivers state (unless you are talking of ikwere clan which is a sub group of Igbo tribe). There is nothing relating ikwere tribe to Igbo tribe or your so called igboid(as if there is something like igboid) unless you are talking of ikwere clan.
Like i said no single ikwere man can come out and say he/she is not igbo and win anything in rivers. Tell me one that have said such and remain relevant. Or you could go tell wike to say such and watch how he will fall like a pack of card (That is if you will come out alive).
For the record Ikwere tribe is irrelevant in Rivers but Igbo tribe in which ikwere clan is among is the most relevant and most populated in rivers state.

Pls note the difference between Ikwere tribe and Ikwere clan.

HopeAtHand:
Lolz, funny you. Permit me to use 2006 census. Ikwerres are roughly half of over 5million Riverians. What percentage of Igbos make up deltas 4.0m population, bearing in mind that Urhobo is almost half delta population.Bayelsa is about 1.7million. Akwa Ibom is 3.9. So how does Ikwerre become minority in such distribution.

Goodnight abeg.

huhuhu see ikwere man claiming 5 million in rivers state. If you are 5 million how many ijaw, igbo and other minority tribes come be? Hahaha dey there dey day dream. Etche(echie), ndoki,ndoni, egbema are not ikwere but Igbo tribe. The most painful thing is that no single ikwere leader can openly say "i am not igbo" do you know why? He will lose wolfly to anyone who claim igbo. So better keep your minority ass in Diobu, rumuogba or any of your rumu's minority ikwere tribe.

No offense to ikwere Igbo brothers am only refering to confused people from ikwere minority tribe. Yes i mean the minority that always make noise

Recommendation:HopeAtHand you fit still follow your people discuss about you clan or your can choose to remain your minority tribe hahaha. Mr we SS. https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=430670643680677&story_fbid=479324262148648

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogba–Egbema–Ndoni
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etchehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogba_people

HopeAtHand:
Sincerely, it is very difficult to understand what your argument is about. Its late in the night, i guess you're drunk. Goodnight.

My arguement is that you should not parade yourself or tribe as ss spokesman like you are doing here on nairaland and the thread. It is about time you note that ikwere is but a minority tribe in south south.

HopeAtHand:
So you draw my community inside your map without our permission.

Well, this is Nland, you're free to wallow in illusion.. in your imaginary army, has many battalion do you have??

I just told you that you should focus on ikwere and you talking non sense. Ikwere is not SS but is in SS. It is actually a minority tribe in south south. The majority tribe in south south are Ijaw, Igbo and Ibibio, you see i see no reason why minority tribe like yours is making noise shouting south south.

HopeAtHand:
Our problem for now is how to keep developing Rivers state and making the environment most conducive for Igbos and other Nigerians to come do busines and pay taxes and improve our IGR...and keep repeating the process.

You can be plotting how to unify with everyone, if it works, notify us to join. If it doesn't, life goes on...Money must be made.

Also ikwere is not rivers but one of the major tribes in rivers along side the Ijaw and Igbo. Like i said focus on your ikwere and stop talking about ss as if you own it.

People like HopeAtHand should focus on ikwere as there is nothing in common with ikwere and igbo or ibibio or efik or ijaw. Just focus on your ikwere.

The propaganda machine handling this diezani case has PHD in lies and it's related cases.

989900:
'Celebrating' is your own creation, no one mentioned anything related to celebration, rather, what you will like to see, or not see . . . pretty straightforward.

celebration may not be written but the undertone is what i am talking about. You could notice some people coming already to talk as if it is worth celebrating...
=> That aside i want to see a budget with minimal flaws especially in the aspect of padding. Infrastructure, Education, security and Agriculture should be given preferencal treatment.

989900:
The Budget Will Be Signed Within The Next 48 Hours (today, or tomorrow) #DHYB


What is the most important thing you would like to see?

we appreciate the information but it doesn't worth celebrating. For some months now this padded budget of shame has been a dent to the image of Buhari.

APC Fanatic once said they do things as if it is what should be done. They said we should be calm and take what ever we see else you become a wailer or corrupt or even an Ipob.
For months now the evil hand of fuel scarcity have been turned to culture. The inflation rate is beyond imagination but it is taken as a norm now. The economy is on its kneels but people quite talking about it. The main is that we are in the worse...

CSTR2:
Look at them standing as equals. The Queen and the Prince are obviously comfortable and relaxed. Education and sophistication has a way of showing.
not like a certain picture featuring a certain Oba and a certain premier with the Queen looking like she had seen a ghost and a savage, and afraid to even shake hands.
*with all due respect to the Oba *

bros chill do not drag this beautiful thread to the mud of bigotry.
Obi of onitsha is one of the the royal throne I respect the most in Igboland. And urge Us all especially the omambala not to boast beyond what is called for. But no one should turn a blind eye when any troll discredit our great leaders and culture.

Alot of states have not conducted Lga elections for considerable years now including sw.

Hungry man wey no get cloth see as in wear tan as if say in vote for them

HopeAtHand:
Direct your advice to those who are in the habit of saying "we SS/SE".

pointing reckless finger... Why are you in the habit of saying SS?

How come they are losing village again now? I thought lia said they are not holding any territory since they came onboard.

Zzyco:
Okowa is from Agbor. No igbo man can speak that lauguage.only if he had lived there.

how we go come grade people from ikwo, ezza or izzi all in ebonyi state?