₦airaland Forum

imhotep:
Because of the fear of Biafra, communist Russia temporarily reconciled with their enemies USA and Britain.


Igbo amaka


Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed

tayebest:
So to you, bravery is when someone ran for something he actually signed for?


Ojukwu signed for death, I don't think he should have run when he called for civil war. He just wasted 2million souls and flee without looking back.

imhotep:
Ojukwu fought the combined forces of Nigeria, Britain, USA, Russia, Canada, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc for three good years.

In other words, the so-called world powers needed to combine forces in order to face the republic of Biafra.

Long live the memory of Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu.
Long live Biafra.

Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed adaibeku

@ bolded above.............must have been world war III.

Oh btw, 30months is not 3years.

gidgiddy:
You dont know what you are talking about. Ojukwu did not go to war, war came to Ojukwu. I have read Hillary Njoku's book 'Tragedy without heroes'. The problem Hillary Njoku had with Ojukwu was more of seniority. Njoku was senior to Ojikwu and never got over the fact that by the declaration of Biafra, Ojukwu had become senior to him. Both men clashed on issues such as the preparation for the looming war amongst other things and Ojukwu had no choice but to fire him and place him in detention for the duration of the war because of the fear that Njoku might defect to the Nigerian side.

It should be noted that the only reason Nigeria won the war was due to the fact that British ships blockaded Biafra and Russian planes dominated the sky. Had Britain and Russia stated neutral, there no way Nigeria would have won. Nigeria wouldn't even have had the money to fight a war

ManirBK:
Some names from a particular region will dominate the list. they're used to it.

seunmsg:
Hillary Njoku was the best military tactician of that era. Military strategist on the federal side like Adekunle and Alabi-Isama were scared of facing him. Ojukwu out of his insecurity locked him and many other brilliant officers up throughout the war.

MelesZenawi:
He did the right thing by killing them.

please did Ojukwu grant this interview from his grave?

helinues:
Is he a footballer?

notoriousbabe:
why? Didn't I wrote what I WROTE well? For your information I tooked got A1 in English when I wroted wrote/sat (for my) GCE sum some years ago. You that is talking what did you tooked took in English when you wroted wrote/did your GCE? Maybe you have not even wroted it self and you are hear correcting me. Mtcheeeeeeeew

Geez! You got A1 in English at GCE level and you don"t know the Past tense of "take" and "write". Am flabbergasted !!!

notoriousbabe:
Is it a seen for one to defend his father especially as a mail child ?

Babe, you should have stayed in the Romance Section.

No offence intended but your bomb fit give man serious headache

Brugo:
THANK YOU.

You have educated that whiteangel1234 who reasons with the pettiness of a 5 year old.

Where were they when arewa youths gave igbo people ultimatum to vacate the north? They have short term memory when it suits their petty, juvenile politicking.


Biafrans will shoot themselves in the foot again and again, because of their penchant for politics of exclusion, hate and delusion.

Now they want the centre. Hilarious! All their candidates in the past suffered avoidable defeats because they preferred to cut their nose to spite their face. One cannot forget the debilitating defeat Ojukwu suffered at the polls. Same thing happened this year, to Moghalu (even though he played the ethnic card throughout to curry their favour). They preferred to zone their PDP “birthright” to the north for a pot of atikulated porridge. Watery Porridge that later burned their lips.

Azikiwe thought himself to be the bride of the parliament and aligned his party with the NPC for a ceremonial title. Reminiscent of Ekweremadu’s eagerness to be the butt of the north, seeking the post of deputy Senate president to yet another northerner. Who are the real slaves? All accounts of the civil war clearly state that the killings started in the north. What did the biafrans do? They turned around and faced the west to wage a war they had no chance of winning. This unreasonable animosity towards the west did not start today or even in 1960. Lord knows why they feel the need to hate on people who cannot be bothered about them.

Watch as they make yet another ill-informed, hate-inspired decision as 2023 approaches.

Abi o jare!!! who are the real slaves

We all still remember azikwe who styled himself as the " beautiful bride from the east" who is open to all suitors but in actual fact has only penchant for sniffing fulani bu.ll.ocks. In spite of the way and manner the north decimated their population, barely a decade after war, the ibos were back sniffing fulani bo..ll..ocks as they aligned with the same fulanis in the second republic.

Truly, Who are the real (fulani) slaves??

adoboy04:
Igbo man will say Yoruba are traitors now U can see. Zik betrayed Awo to align with north and today Igbo would be crying fowl saying Yoruba is betrayal

gidgiddy:
It is good that FFK now realises that Nigeria is an unworkable disaster of a country.

However, I dont think Yorubas have the backbone to agitate or strive for their own separate country

mrvitalis:
Firstly it was not ojukwu that defeated boro go check ur history

Yes, it wasn't Ojukwu. Small time from now, you and your duplicitous ilk will be telling us, it was Awo- your greatest nemesis that pulled down Boro's insurrection

Ojiofor:
You meant the Grade II teacher the infamous hydra headed snake (Awo)went to Kadnuna to beg for a coalition government with his party?

AntiBalaka:
This here is a five star post.


Here's your medal for being promoted to A Field Marshal

meccuno:
this man. the only time you pop up is on Igbo threads. are you cursed?

truth hurts, abi? pele, biko

Go hug a wet transformer, for all i care.

Success1020:
Some of you afonjas are very very daft with low IQ. Just take a look at what you wrote? Why do you guys reason like this? Haba...Jesus Christ, no wonder you people are competing with Zamfara for 36th position in WAEC. Have you ever heard about House and Field Negro? Afonjas are House Negro; yes they may be getting crumbs but you are still a slave. Far worst because the field slaves see you as a traitor,and won't help you when the master start dealing with you!

Samunique:
Why will anyone be surprised?

He came from the region where they use bicycle kick to wake their parents from bed.

sarrki:
The mystery of some wailers.

They want the 'best' for other States but either ignore or pay lip service to their own States.

adoboy04:
And Igbo were running to southwest for free education then........

Sleevia:
I am sure you are from the south. That is the problem with you Southerners. Does the North even share this nonsense you just spewed here that you are first Nigerian?

nku5:
The people of the midwest (Edo-Delta) campaigned for decades and fought tooth and nail to leave your western region in 1963 and be on their own because of marginalization. See the landslide victory in their referendum

Uchek:
"The animosity between the Igbos and Yorubas is borne out of the fact that the Yorubas thought if they don’t align with the north the Igbo will. Same thing the Igbo thought if they don’t align will the north, the Yorubas will. It’s just a political game by the leaders and we are just pawn in the game."

Your comments on this issue is level-headed and issue-oriented. But l totally disagree with you on the assertion above. The foundation of animosity between the Igbos and Yorubas is the deceitful role Awolowo willingly and purposely chose to play in the Nigeria - Biafra Civil War that should have been an opportunity for the south to permanently deal with the Hausa/Fulani nuisance created by the British Colonialist.

SamNaijaboy:
The Igbo man unlike the African American was served just deserts for being supremacist towards other tribes. They just met their match with the Fulani who had similar expansionist culture.
The Yoruba were caught in between.
If Ojukwu had attacked Kaduna, the northerners would have made a beeline back to the North and that would have helped the Yoruba take control of their land

meccuno:
so the seat of power then was not in Lagos? Please don't quote me again.

It's either you have reading problem or comprehension deficit 'cause i can't see anywhere in my post above where i claimed

the seat of power was not in lagos. Even a 10 yr old nigerian knows this . My premise is that northerners were running the country, first by the

sardunna who stayed behind as a regional leader (whilst he sent his stooge TB to lagos) until your kinsmen decided to snuff the life outta him.

Nevertheless, his minions continue to strategise how to wrestle power from the ibos, from their northern enclaves.

meccuno:
dude,i am not here for back and forth on Nigerian history and geography. i think i made my point. i wonder why when Igbos are trying to set things straight with the Hausa-fulanis, there would always be a Yoruba man that would pop up somehow.like i told your bro who quoted me first. we dont care if awolowo took you all to hell, just mind your damn business.

meccuno:
gosh...are you this daft? i repeat no one cares if he took you to hell. we just wanted to be left alone. and who was killing you? and which war did we bring to your land? if you are talking about the movement of Biafran troops to Lagos then you are a slowpoke. where exactly was the seat of power? was it not Lagos? were you expecting them to go to Kano? if you didn't want crises or blood shed as you want us to believe then you would have told the F.G to relocate the seat of power to any northern state and remain neutral. you just like to put your mouth where it does not consign you.

meccuno:
The Igbos expected him to remain neutral. No one cares if he took them to hell fire.