₦airaland Forum

kedeojo:
kwale is igbo speaking tribe in delta north. The pains of obi loss is still affecting them. Delta Centra with the highest voting strength are for Tinubu and the governor, same as delta south, Tompolo's senatorial district.

Maysdevices:
There is no darkness in Kwale

Smh. What sort of foolish news is this

kingbee90:
In 2027, it will be every well-meaning Nigerian VS Tinubu & INEC.

Tinubu is completely Clueless and grossly incompetent.
No levels at all.

Jaylord12:
The truth is that we really don't need all this...let us as people demand for transparency and accountability from the political class

Ndokwa people in Delta State no wan gree for their state governor and tinubu's billboard at all😄

Naija youth done dey vex

ernieboy:
people from edo state labeled as igbos? That is laughable
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ernieboy:
so because there might be pockets of igbo communities u want to forcefully coerce the other ethnicities into ur I'll fated Biafra?

Konquest:
This will be my last convo on this issue because I was very SUCCINCT in my earlier clarifications. I'm a veteran of Nigerian Civil War history so you are NOT having a conversation with a youngster here and I hit people with virifiable PURE facts not disinformation here. You are even wrongly using "over 3 years" as the duration of the Nigerian Civil War when in fact it lasted for EXACTLY 2 years and 6 months (OR 30 months) from July 1967 to January 1970. So, where did you get the extra 6 months you and some others have been padding into the duration of the war for bragging rights from?

Those figures are NOT old UN or relief agency estimates of 1.5 million deaths or underreported figures. That so-called undereporting is a pure fabrication of history. Those are the official death figures we ALL knew officially in school books and other credible documentations and even Ibos quoted these figures in their books that I've read right from the early 1970s throughout the decades and is still official till this moment. They are hard FACTS of history.

The revisionism and propaganda to inflate the figures for bragging rights to 3 million Ibos dead while some Ibo propagandists claim 4 million dead Ibos as if it's a badge of honor which is just delusional started with the rise of Massob in 1999 and the insidious ipob in 2012 and Nnamdi Kanu was an expelled member of Massob before creating ipob as a splincter group and he took the hate rhetorics and disinformation right into ipob as well.

There are 3 notable Ibos (one based in the United States) who indeed confirmed over the years that the Aburi Accord was largely implemented at over 90% and there was NO need for Emeka Ojukwu to declare that war. It was obvious that regardless, Ojukwu wanted war at all costs to take place and he had planned it months before BUT he miscalculated because he never expected the Soviet Union and other Western countries assistance to Nigeria in terms of weapons while he had overrated the presence of his own White mercenaries. Before the war, he had boasted into the video cameras that "the other side will be surprised when the war finishes quickly," BUT once he started losing on the battlefield he started wondering and appealing to the international community to come to his aid!

Last but not least, just because Philip Effiong and the Ijaw guy Opigo who suggested the name biafra and a few other minorities such as Mathew Mbu were on the secessionist side does NOT mean ALL of them were in total support of the secessionist rebels due to the fear of being called a "saboteur"and killed. The Ibibio man who was made the head of service of the" rebel enclave" stated these FACTS clearly in his personal memoirs. It also doesn't mean over 99% of the ethnic minorities population were in full support of that illegal biafra secession of May 30, 1967. Many of them were even forcibly conscripted to fight on the rebel side and I personally know Ibibio folks who say that they will NEVER forget the brutality they suffered in the hands of the rebel soldiers which led to them losing their relatives to gunfires from the rebels. Many Old Eastern Region minorities fought on the side of Nigeria as Federal troops like Colonel Etuk, Captain Elechi Amadi who is Ikwerre and several Ijaws of the 3rd Marine Commando led by Benjamin Adekunle, etc. The highly irresponsible invasion of the Mid-West by the biafra rebels who renamed it as "Benin Republic" was another declaration of war and the brutalized indigenous ethnic groups of the then Mid-West (Benin-Edo, Esan Edo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Iroko, and parts of Ukwuani, Ijaws etc), got united to defend themselves and joined the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Airforce in large numbers because of that invasion.

ernieboy:
your blood runs through bayelsa, rivers and akwa ibom? When did ijaws, calabari, efik, urhobis St in these places become igbo?

Konquest:
There are NO indigenous Ibos either in Benue State or Kogi State... Just migrants due to the shared borders with both states. The official gazette and population statistics of both states do NOT list the Ibos as one of the official indigenous people in both Middle Belt States. Enough of this irresponsible ipob propaganda. Period.

Konquest:
I have to come in right here to correct some historical revisionism in your post so that younger ones are NOT misled.

First off, the official total figure of those who died (civilians and military combatants on both sides) in the exactly 2 years and 6 months OR 30 months Nigerian Civil War was NOT more than 1.5 million! This includes credible figures from the United Nations agencies and other relief organizations that got involved in providing relief materials to refugee camps in areas that had been liberated by Nigerian Federal troops. This bogus, inflated or padded figure of deaths by ipob and other propaganda Websites ONLY started appearing online after the year 2000 due to the influence of the Internet. I know all these because as far back as 1981, I have been reading and collecting books on the Nigerian Civil War indicating the events before, during and after the war when Ojukwu finally fled Nigeria through the Uli airstrip with his family and close associates while telling people through the propaganda radio that he was going to get more weapons Meanwhile he cowardly ran off (leaving Philip Effiong behind to surrender to Federal troops led by Olusegun Obasanjo of the 3rd Marine Commando otherwise officially called the 3rdDivision of the Nigerian Army and others) to Cote d'Ivoire looking VERY chubby and well fed along with his immediate family. Before Emeka Ojukwu started the war by declaring the secession speech on May 30, 1967 forcibly and without any referendum while Illegally taking the other ethnic minorities of the Old Eastern region, Ijaws, Annang, Ibibio, Ogoni, Ejagbam, Efik, Efut, Kwa, etc, who were half of the total population, and NEVER wanted to be under any secessionist agenda. Ojukwu even ordered in April 1967 the hijacking of two Nigeria Airways and Ghana Airways planes and forced them to stay in Enugu while later improvising by turning them into bombers with bombs being thrown out manually and one of them was shot over Lagos on its way to bomb specific locations in the newly created Lagos State. Those hijackings were already a war declaration on Nigeria.

Second, while it's inappropriate to minimize the sufferings the folks from the Ibos East of River Niger faced, the Ibos are NOT totally blameless due to the historical facts that the January 1966 Coup which was initially supposed to be a nationalistic one was hijacked by a majority (over 95%) Ibo-dominated group of couples plotters and all the officers who opened gun fire on the military and political leaders of the Old Northern Region, Western Region, and Mid-West Region leaving anybody from the Old Eastern region largely untouched.

To make matters worse, some Ibos in the North of all places where taunting the Northerners openly after the assassination of Tafawa Balewa and the Sardauna of Sokoto alongside the most-senior Northern and Middle Belt officers. Ibrahim Babangida in his recent book (and many Northern and Southern military officers whose books I have read on the Civil War since 1980/1981) also talked about these public tauntings of Northerners. This is why Aguiyi Ironsi who took over from the coup plotters and declined to hand over to the next politician in hierarchy to take charge of Nigeria had to promulgate a decree banning the use of "slander and tauntings of any kind through publications OR music broadcasts by some of his Ibo kinsmen which was very irresponsible for endangering the lives of innocent Ibo people who just wanted to go about peacefully in a conservative society such as the North and that FINALLY triggered the massive anger and attacks on Ibos in the Northern region. The same negative thing (overbearing character) is still being done by a large number of younger Ibos especially online as of today who openly taunt others via cyber bullying, fabrication and deliberate spread of massive disinformation through paid ipob troll farmsvspread from Nigeria to Europe, North America, etc, that the 'BBC Global Disinformation Team" investigative video of 2022 exposed for deliverately triggering ethnic tensions in order to cause ethnic wars to split Nigeria up.

aswani:
I totally agree the pogrom was wrong, completely unacceptable.

However, the only people that should have been in your Biafra were Igbo speaking people's in ala igbo.

With the utmost respect, you cannot drag all of the Eastern region into an Ndigbo project because all of the Eastern region isn't ala igbo. You know this yourself. I

Wickedfact:
During the war, did Biafrans not kill people in the same Midwest you call your people?

Or, have you forgotten how you committed genocide in the Midwest and buried people alive in the current South South region?

You are trying to play victim, but in certain parts of South South, they celebrate the defeat of Biafra and liberation of their people till today.

See, the fact that you travelled somewhere and built a house there doesn't mean yí Are indigenous there. One day, you will be pointed to where you came from if you pretend to have forgotten.

aswani:
This is a false equivalence. You dragged Eastern Region minorities into a Biafra they never asked for.

Warrior99:
Her mum was right 🤔 .......................

DeepSight:
Hahahaha

What women will not say doesn't exist.

They can even tell you that they are not in the mood.

Oh, please can I marry you?
Next thing is you come from the wrong tribe, the wrong religion and that didn't buy a Benz two seconds after you saw her, for her.

After that, she blocks your number for ten years.

Women are complicated creatures.
A woman can ask you why you said Good Morning.

And then thereafter say that you raped her by saying Good morning.

Fear woman oh.

BrutusOj:
Are we going to continue to refer to what our great grand fathers and grandfathers did to ruin this country? Why can't you guys move on from the Biafra war?

olatade:
With all due respect, what you said sounds more like an excuse than the truth. Real reforms are meant to make life better for people, not harder. You say things were bad before, but now things are even worse for ordinary Nigerians. Food is expensive, transport costs are high, insecurity has increased, and many people can’t meet their basic needs.

You talk about removing subsidies like it was the only solution, but the government is still spending money,just in a way that doesn't help the poor. If reforms don’t improve the lives of the people, then they’ve failed.

Also, blaming people for caring about what they eat is unfair. People are not selfish,they are simply struggling to survive. The truth is, the suffering is too much, and many leaders are not feeling the same pain. If states are getting more money but the citizens are still poor, then where is the progress?

This is not about being negative, it’s about facing reality. Nigerians are not asking for too much. They just want a country that works for everyone, not just a few.

ledaman:
Conscience and emotions are two different things.
Conscience, gives right direction and thorough understanding.
While emotions could send right or wrong consequences.