₦airaland Forum

Tiny23:
okay,so educative.

ZoneBslayer:
a car without an engine is actually harmless..

leofab:
now you want to grill me over guriela? When you wrote gorilla in your last quote.. every military have their fast and precision tactics.. the Nigerian army have makeshift base and camps too.. so it's a full blown conventional civil war between the Nigerian state and the Islamic state..

leofab:
smart Mugu.. if it's not convention then who owns camp Zairo? It's full conventional.. boko haram has their flag and their base and was launching coordinated attacks from there ? Case of Fulani herds men is guriela(hit and run with no trace) not boko haram that has a know base with a governing body.. donate your school fees to charity

slimfit1:
Leader that doesn't know his job description. Tell him to go and join the police and fight harm rubbers.

muller102:
Technically defeated.

leofab:
This is worrisome, this isn't guriella warfare.. it's full conventional.. these boys has wit!!! The government and all those rented crowd in Abuja owe this a nation an apology!!

Kizyte:
Will caption this photo below later

revivalistdee:
wetin concerns government and the church. this our country self ......... Dia Ris God O,

CecyAdrian:
No matter how they want to coat this thing, it's simply not right!

It's just like Peter who is the rock on which the church is built on saying that he is no more the rock/leader in Jerusalem but he is stil the rock on which other church over the world should be built on.

RCCG stop using government as an excuse. What am I even saying

When are they IDGAF crew arriving please

Ngozi123:
I found it! It's from Max Siollun's "Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966-1976)".

I advise you to read the whole book but if you don't have much time then I'd direct you to the middle of page 42, where it says that Aguiyi-Ironsi actually circulated a letter, warning other senior officials of the some trouble ahead. It's not his fault that they didn't take the treat seriously. It also says that Aguiyi-Ironsi's wife housed the orphaned Ademulegun children and set up government scholarships for them up to the university level. That's something that's not talked about a lot and suggests that Aguiyi-Ironsi may not have been guilty of what he was accused of.

Edit: Sorry, he's not British, he's Nigerian and he specialises in the Nigerian military, which is probably better. His name caught me off guard.

Ngozi123:
I highlighted the contradiction in my previous post. Btw, I did study the Biafran War in depth, that's why I know that the coup was more complex than what was first thought. Let me find that book for you; it was written by an British historian who specialises in the histories of militaries from around the world.

How am I a tribalist for saying that there's no such thing as a 'half-Igbo'? Anyone who has any understanding of the Igbo culture knows this.

Ngozi123:
1) There is no such thing. You're either Igbo or you're not.
2) You contradict yourself here.
I remember reading somewhere that the coup was actually more complex than first thought, in that it was actually conducted by a group of young officers from quite a few tribes, not just Igbo. What united them was their interest in politics and their nationalist outlook, not their ethnicity. I think that most people just call it an 'Igbo coup' because four out of five of the major leaders were Igbo. It wasn't a grand conspiracy from the Igbos as a whole. I'll look for the source to show you.

pentlumpro:
Afonjas like distorting history to suit them
Another afonja called this trash brilliant
Go and read the book why we struck written by your sensible brother ademoyega
If after reading the book you are not convinced then go for deliverance from bigotry

ceejay4real:
Why do you people always like distorting history? Go and read Adewale Ademoyega's WHY WE STRUCK. Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega were the originators of the coup! Stop misinforming the public ok? On the question of Igbo coup or not, don't the Igbo have a right to stage a coup or revolution in their own country? Or are they not Nigerians again? So all the other coups that occurred in Nigeria were what? Maybe the Dimka coup was a Plateau coup, Orkar's coup was a Tiv coup, Vatsa's coup a Gwari/Nupe coup abi? You people are just mad! Let it be on record that the Nzeogwu group never planned to eliminate any particular tribe, all the killings were done to facilitate and enable their coup gain momentum. Just a twist of fate that Ironsi slipped through their fingers! You guys should stop hating the Igbos unduly, it's becoming nauseating! Go read Why we struck and Nigeria's Five Majors by Ben Gbulie another of the Nzeogwu boys. Get informed! Knowledge is power my friend! While ignorance is bliss in stupidity! Shalom!

edudguy:
I disagree First and foremost, Aguiyi Ironsi did not take part in the Coup. He had no idea there was a coup until he got the wind of it. The five Junior Officers otherwise known as The Five Majors with ImNzeogwu as their ring leader also wanted to kill Ironsi as he had killed other officers from other tribefortunately Ironsi got wind of the Coup and botched the Coup, assumed power and decreed a Unitary Constitution. What made the North angry was that after the Coup was botched Ironsi did not Court Martial the Plotters of the Coup instead the Northerners claimed he promoted the Coup Plotters. Ironsi tried to pacify the North by offering the some Northern officers key position in his office and he released some officers who had been thrown in Prison by the Five Majors.. The Northern Officers - humiliated did not care and those released from Prison planned a way to carry out a Counter Coup which was carried out in July 1966.. A very bloody Coup. The Northerners saw the January 15 Coup as an 'Igbo Coup' but in reality Nzeogwu the ring leader of those that carried out the Coup was just an Igbo in paper. Spoke Hausa fluently, dressed like an Hausa when he was not on Uniform had lot of Hausa friends.
Let this be known: Ironsi did not partake in the coup he just got the wind of it as he too would have been killed..
When the Northerners staged a Counter Coup Igbo Officers were killed in hundreds including Ironsi The Northern Officers demanded that Gowon be made Head of State although he was not the most superior officer, a Yoruba Officer - Ogundipe was but the North rejected him and made Gowon Head of State.
After the Coup, Progroms were going on in Major cities in Nigeria, Northerners and even Yorubas were killing the Igbos in large numbers.. Ojukwu, the Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria alerted Gowon. Gowon promised an end to the Progroms but it did not stop it only got worse... Ojukwu, seeing that the safety of the Igbos could not be assured declared the state of Biafra.. The rest is history

One can clearly see that the wounds of days preceding the war and after the war are yet to be healed. That's why when I see tribes insulting each other I kind of feel sorry for them..
To understand the Nigeria 'story' better, read 'There Was A Country' by Chinua Achebe

sayemma:
There is no sack in the body of your news but the subject highlighted sack...ops..ops...ops how many times have I warn you on fake news

Oluwasegun21:
Sue? Stop joking.What proff does he have dat he works for the firm? Dnt u get it, he doesnt have an employment contract.

Catalin:
I'm not sure about number 3. Husbands don't like entering kitchen. I remember one saying that his wife belongs to the kitchen. Now you expect him to enter the kitchen

Lordsocrates:
it is staged...

how on earth would kids see snake and the first thought is to catch it ? when you see snake the first thought is stone.

the man: immediately someone shouts snake!!! will he not be the one to take over from there ?

how on earth do you say " don't hold it on the earth you will suffocate it, while you go on to say look at this children playing with poisonous snake ?' does it add up ?

to further show that it is staged he went on further to say leave the tail let it dangle.... to show it is alive, who was he planning to show it to ?

sumarry, the snake is a pet, considering the posh house and cars, its non poisonous, and the man thought he could pull a fast one on "non critical thinking folks" shaa he succeeded... shame some Nigerians still think Critically..

ShakaZullu:
wait ooo is the defeated bokoharam?

from the news you'll think that bokoharam can never fire a shot again

well like i said nobody is buying apc propaganda nowadays they can only fool zombies

hopeless government

Toketimt:


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slimthugchimee2:
this thread makes me to remember that dude

whitebeard