₦airaland Forum

tammyf:
So English is a sign of intelligence..ok.

Lol of course it is. Intelligence is directly expressed by your ability to learn things, including how to speak English. Now, is everyone who speaks English well necessarily very intelligent? Not necessarily, but they are clearly intelligent to a certain degree, particularly if English is a second language for them.

AntiChristian:
English lesson for early momo!

Abeg, impeccable English is not a sign of literacy!

Learn skills, work hard and be useful!

English is just our lingua franca!

Abeg!

Do you know the meaning of literacy?

Racoon:
What else does the gullible citizens expected from a monopoly? Free petrol? You hears that NNPC is not selling crude oil to Dangote Refinery because the Nigerian reserves have been mortgage for future loans and you think there is a future for energy needs as the mummified zombies of the Tinubu’s government overhyped this Refinery to the heavens? Aha unu wu sorry.

Once in a while try to drop your agenda and make a reasonable contribution to the topic at hand. You must be at least 50...try to be normal. Please.

Neduzze5:
Abeg na only me wey nivsee the largest drawing!??

It's the white canvas in the third and fourth pics on the grass.

Tokunbo seems to understand that if you live for the praises of men you will die by their criticisms. For someone with such a sensitive job as his, this is essential.

doggedfighter:
The speed with which the judge directed that the poor doctor be arrested is baffling.

Is the doctor the cause of inflation ?
I was reading to find his crime but didn't find any.

His crime is clearly stated. He disobeyed a court order!

joseph1832:
I'm curious who is going to go to jail for concealing a sexual offense, the victim or the person who carried it out, or witnesses?

Statements like this will make people not want to report things like this. I'm just curious.

Obviously, the victim cannot be charged and the perpetrator will be charged with a far more severe punishment, so who do you think it is meant for if not witnesses? How will things like this make people not want to report - is the law meant to punish those who report or those who do not report?

SocialJustice:
NBS na liars before na. Even the blind knows inflation is over 90%

Inflation was over 90% from May to June? Or you didnt read the article?

Thundafireseun:
Who else noticed that he was already calling Trump “ President Trump”

I don’t think Biden would like this news

In the US its customary, albeit informally, to be referred to as president for life.

dominique:
So he planned for a sniper to shoot at him such that the bullet would miss his skull by a fraction of an inch? As much as I find the shooting shady, (no sharp shooter ever misses his target) there's no way he would want to take such risk to prove a point.

What do you mean no sharpshooter ever misses his target? Even the sharpest shooter will miss a shot or two, particularly one where he has so little time to prepare.

In the first place what qualifies a 20-year-old from down the street as a sharp shooter?

confusedlady:
He will come here now and start turning eba. He will come here and twist this simple and straight forward passage into something else OR better still He will pretend not to see the mention....

He's obviously here with an agenda so you can't expect him to agree. The essence of countering people like him is actually to protect the neutrals and the people who are genuinely seeking information from getting misled.

ChukwuEmeka00:
60 years after, Danjuma is still peddling petty lies.

As I write this, I have "Why We Struck" by Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (who plotted the coup with Nzeogwu) in my hands.

He categorically said, "The coup was not an Igbo coup" and insinuated that northern politicians loyal to Ahmadu Bello (who was plotting a coup according to another source) concocted those lies and fed the media to garner sympathy.

There were 3 coups being planned.

Ademulegun's version was slated for January 17th. Col. Victor Banjo was the recruiter for that coup (even though he was wrongfully arrested for the Nzeogwu coup).

Ahmadu Bello's version was called a jihad because it was basically a coup that was meant to continue the Uthman Dan Fodio conquest. Murtala Mohammed was to led that conquest packaged as a coup.

Recall that the Tiv massacre was ordered by Tafawa Balewa, the then Prime Minister who was a puppet of Ahmadu Bello. The Tivs at the time were Christians. After the massacre, they miraculously became a Muslim majority.

Go figure!

Back to Ironsi, Maj. Ademoyega stated the following in Chapter 6:

"From the dawn of the coup, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo had been fired by the little amount of success that we had and he was determined to stretch our success further, to bring about the realisation of our objectives.

He went all out to assist Ironsi to take over the Federal government and went further to urge the old man, not only to accede to Nzeogwu's demands, but also to bring the latter (Nzeogwu) into the federal government. This was were he disagreed with others (like Danjuma) who had Ironsi's ears and who alleged that he was with us.

As such, on a flimsy accusation that he entered the office of the Supreme Commander with a pistol in his pocket, he was arrested and sent to the same prison where some of our own group were already detained.

This happened even before Nzeogwu was arrested. Thereafter, Banjo was treated as if he was one of us."

If you understand the above quote, you'd realise that Danjuma is a snake who lies to get away with his secret agendas.

First, he claims the coup was an Igbo coup, but here's a Yoruba man who was co-plotter in the coup debunking his lies. Another Yoruba man who believed that the coup plotters were patriotic even helped the Igbo man (Ironsi) to take power and urged him to bring the coup plotters into the federal government.

Now, why did Yoruba soldiers and Igbo soldiers work together (with few northerners) to eliminate the politicians who were destroying Nigeria?

Ademoyega stated the following on page 92 (before the coup) during his chance encounter with Chief H. O. Davies, a Yoruba politician who was also a federal minister:

"Chief Davies made it clear to me that the federal government had no solution to the political crisis. He said that everybody was just waiting to see what would happen next and nobody knew what that would be."

He went on to state that:

"After extensive prodding (around 3rd January,1966), we discovered that the Balewa government had a terrible plan to bring the Army fully to operate in the West (Yoruba majority region) for the purposes of eliminating the elites (top leaders) of that region, especially the intellectuals... people like Tai Solarin of Mayflower school, Ikenne were among those marked down."

He continued, "It was also intended (by the Balewa government) that if the plan succeeded in the West, the next target would be the East (Igbo majority region). The federal government was to use loyal troops for this purpose and the 4th Battalion in Ibadan commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Largema and the 2nd Battalion in Ikeja temporarily commanded by Major Igboba, but soon to be taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Gowon, were designated for this assignment."

The Ahmadu Bello connection comes next...

"The operation (to use the army to subdue West & East) was fixed for the 3rd week of January 1966, when the Sardauna (Ahmadu Bello) would have returned from pilgrimage, and Lieutenant Colonel Gowon would have completed his take over of the Ikeja Battalion.

In preparation for this, the high echelons of the Nigerian army and the Police were being reshuffled."

Danjuma also tried to make it look like Ironsi was part of the coup and was supporting the coup plotters. Here's how Adewale narrated the D-day and how they failed to get Ironsi:

"Major Okafor came along with bad news that General Ironsi had not been found at home when he went there. He was said to have gone to another party after Maimalari's. But he had since surfaced at Dodan barracks and succeeded in raising troops against us."

This Theophilus Danjuma was used by Yakubu Gowon to fulfill the wishes of the Federal government under Balewa to take out Ironsi and spin the 1966 coup as an Igbo coup.

He's a shameless man not worthy of the honour of soldiers.

You have Ademoyega's book in your hands you say? Turn to page 142 - what does Ademoyega list out as the reasons the coup failed?

Here's a quote to help stimulate the thinking process:

"The next most important cause of our failure was the behaviour of Ifeajuna himself. Having seen that Ironsi had got loose and was already raising troops against us, Ifeajuna took Okafor with him and both of them suddenly disappeared from our midst. This raised the serious question of whether or not there was a collusion between them, and whether Okafor's failure to arrest the GOC was not a case of deliberate or wilful commission."

Justbehave:
Be deceiving yourself. Offcoures he is. Why won't he be joking with such things when some of you are stupid?

Rest. It has now reached the point where if you don't find reasons to complain you won't feel at ease. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what Ajuri said -except the fact that he represents a person you hate. Rest I say!

Justbehave:
Una shame dey shame me.Is this supposed to be an achievement? Shameless government

You can see he is just joking but of course how woukd you miss any opportunity to be sadistic?

mrvitalis:
Seems you have comprehensive issues...
Those who were killed where those who failed to surrender...

Mind you the coup failed in the eastern and western region... The coup online succeeded 100% in Northern Nigeria


Nah but it's pretend it wasn't Igbos that stopped the coup too

But again igbos are bad and should not be trusted is that not more reason to divide Nigeria?

Yes, we are saying the same thing. Somehow, it was only Igbos who managed to surrender and were spared, while those of other tribes were the stubborn ones. You should be ashamed that you cant think of a better lie to tell.

Secondly, those who "stopped" the coup were not real patriots. the real patriots were the likes of Nzeogwu, Ademoyega, and as this essay above suggests, Anuforo, who genuinely did what they did out a belief in a great Nigeria. They were subverted by Ifeajuna and others who held a secret agenda, in collaboration with Ojukwu and Ironsi.

Ojukwu was the commander of troops in Kano. He was informed of the coup by the plotters - he could have stopped it if he wished but it was necessary to use them to eliminate those he needed gone before he would then step in to "stop" the coup along with Ironsi.

I am not one of those who would lay the blame for the actions of a few men on an entire Igbo nation. That doesn't make sense. But you cannot deny that a few Igbo men were guilty of nursing an ethnic supremacist agenda, and that drove their actions on that fateful day.



Someone listening to you people talk may come to the conclusion that it is SmartyPants on Nairaland preventing Igbos from leaving.

Afonjananawerey:
Why insist to share country with such evil people? funny set of people

1. I don't see Igbos as evil. Those are your words and your own thought patterns.

2. I have no issues with anyone leaving Nigeria.

mrvitalis:
Is its not better we go our separate ways like the Balkans

It makes zero sense sharing a country with people u don't trust

First things first igbos had by far the majority of military officers then by far more than any other group mind you the British recruited all of them based on merit

So if military officers planned coup igbos would be the majority

Those who were killed died because the refused to surrender to the military officers

But that's too infancy let's blame the Igbo nation

So you had by far the greater number of officers but when the casualties among military officers were counted, other regions had by far the greater number of casualties.

You just proved his point.

Melagros:
COMRADES, no matter what, I can't lodge in this hotel, I am not 'hydrophobic', but I can't imagine staying where there's no biodiversity for a whole month

It's literally on the ocean... tons of biodiversity.

Gagare1:
Why should I pretend to be something I am not? I stand to gain nothing from pretending to be Hausa, but I have already lost much from being complacent while the ugly lies about Hausa and Fulani imaginary marriage based unity keeps spreading.

Oga you are so transparent. The only question is what you think you will gain from this. Na you know o.

Gagare1:
What is Hausa/Fulani? Is it a hybrid seed or a type of poo? May God punish any idiot lumping the noble Hausa people with the barbaric Fulani tribes. Why not use a Northern community if you are confused? Please separate Hausas from Fulanis in your writings.

Why are you pretending to be Hausa?

MrEverest:
A Yoruba man as managing director? What happened to all the experts in Arewaland? They like dominating others yet always crying wolf that others want to take their land.

Spit!

When you finish spitting everywhere, go back and read that article. This company is already in Lagos is just expanding to Kano.

kushme:
Shia is another form of the word Shiite. The other one is Sunni.

Oh thanks, that's what I meant

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Same military that spent huge funds, close to two decades in Afghanistan yet failed massively.

Afghanistan shares a border with Iran. The Taliban is sunni, while Iran is shia, two sects eternally at war. That's all I will say.

Tokskob2008:
Nonsense....... You catch yahoo boys without the help of police but to arrest politicians you need to scream online for police assistance

It's obvious that a lot more is at stake when it comes to arresting a politician than in arresting a Yahoo boy. In the first place, there are conflicting Court orders protecting this person. He has political protection as well. So obviously the system is rotten, but talking as if the EFCC are to blame is wrong. On this matter, it is clear the problem is a lack of political will from above.

Elsueno:
You are typing to the wrong person, I make sure I absolutely differentiate between the incompetence of all administrations...This current one is the worst I have seen in my entire life.....

Now tell me, Mr agbado patriot..which of these so called factories was started or even acquired license during the administration of ur corn master?

Thought you had the information already? Here I am asking you and you are asking me back! Unserious!

Elsueno:
Half of these have already being built & functioning for years now.....Why the unnecessary lies to make it seem like new stuff?


Infact even the other half were already being built before this current administration...Omoh, even propaganda materials dey hard for some people

Which ones were already built and functioning before now?

When you want to criticize bad things you say APC, when you want to withold praise you say "this current administration"

Unserious!

gidgiddy:
Look, Ojukwu was in Biafra, there was no way he could be threatened by former officers of the Nigerian Army, in Biafra. People like Nzeogwuand Ifeajuna were far junior to Ojukwu, even when they were in the Nigerian Army

I suggest you go read Ben Odogwu's book, read the chapter on the arrest and trial of Banjo, read the transcripts.

Ojukwu had nothing to gain by killing Banjo. Banjo was executed along with Ifeajuna, Alale and Abam for plotting to topple Ojukwu

In the military, if you plot to topple your boss, and you are discovered, you will be eventually executed, no sentiments.

Equally, go and read The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War by Alexander Madiebo. he details the great lengths Ojukwu went to undermine the Biafrans who had been in the Nigerian army, which was one of the direct and indirect causes of the failure of the war.

After the discussion, I learnt that Lt Col Victor Banjo was caught while forcing himself into the Supremo's office with a sub-machine gun and a beretta pistol, all loaded and cocked. George Kurubo and Major Anwunah had arrested him. Outside the building, Victor Banjo had a group of armed men seated in a landrover.

Just listen to this story...so a man armed with a sub-machine gun and pistol, with a large group of men with him, was arrested by two men without a single shot being fired. The extent to which persons have gone in justifying the injustice meted against Banjo is incredible.

gidgiddy:
Victor Banjo disobeyed Ojukwu, but that was not why he was killed. Victor Banjo actually returned to Enugu from the Midwest Region and was moving around freely in Enugu

The reason why Victor Banjo was executed can be read in the book "No PlaceTo Hide: Crises and conflict in Biafra" by Ben Odogwu, a young military intelligence officer in Biafra. After Victor Banjo returned, he held a meeting with 3 Igbo officers, Ifeajuna, Alale and Abam. All 4 men conspired to arrest and remove Ojukwu. They tried to recruit others into the plot, including Ben Odogwu. What they did not know was that Ben Odogwu was very loyal to Ojukwu. He went to a meeting with Victor Banjo and others at progress Hotel Enugu where they discussed the plot to arrest Ojukwu, they didn't know that Ben Odogwu was secretly recording the entire thing with a recording device in his briefcase. He took the recording to Ojukwu who immediately ordered the arrest of Banjo, Alale, Ifeajuna and Abam

All 4 men were tried by a Military tribunal headed by Lt Col Okonkwo. The transcript of the trial is also in Ben Odogwus book. Victor Banjo at first vehemently denied the plot, but when the recording was played at the tribunal, he gave up. The tribunal passed down death sentence for treason, and all 4 men were executed by firing squad at Enugu firing range

This is another thing that people don't know about Banjo's death. Victor Banjo was not executed alone, he was executed along with 3 other Igbo men for plotting to remove Ojukwu

Ojukwu did a lot for Victor Banjo, they were friends l. It was Ojukwu that released Victor Banjo from jail along with Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu, and others who were locked up in the East after the January 1966 coup. Ojukwu gave Banjo a suite in Government house Enugu to live. Ojukwu gave him a command in the Biafran Army and promoted him to Brigadier

Banjo rewarded Ojukwu with treachery

Lol. It's sad you chose to propagate lies but then I checked your monicker and of course, I wasn't surprised.

Victor Banjo maintained his innocence to the very end. There was never any point at which he accepted the charges as you've fraudulently claimed. Ojukwu was a paranoid egomaniac who felt threatened by the senior officers who had previously been in the Nigerian army. It is well-known and has been written about extensively.

Even Nzeogwu was eliminated in "mysterious" circumstances. And if you want to argue, I will give you evidence from the writings of Igbo authors.

ccollins:
funny assumptions. Who are you to grade another person's stance and achievement

Lol. Ridiculous question. I expressed my opinion and you are free to disregard it.

ojun50:
Read what the lawyer said

The Lawyer is talking rubbish. The ayo fellow made a threat to the life of her child and the silly attention seeking lawyer is pretending as if he was arrested for insulting her.

jasent:
I wanted to insult you,but declined for a very good reason. But,you well so?

Go ahead!