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Ubenedictus: sorry, i dont agree, ofeimu wont behave like ojukwu. Ojukwu didnt plan b4 excuting, that is how he caused and executed a genocide against his own people.

Lame,that's a lame remark from you (although you are far far better than DAYOKANU)! So in your own eyes, a group of people were busy killing your tribe systematically and at the same time telling you to be part of them all in the name of 'it is well' and you as the leader will believe that? Well, I perceived you are from another Planet, here on Planet Earth we are told, "Trust not a reconciled friend, for new turns cannot blot out old grudges". Looking at your Nigeria of today, has the likes of Ojukwu, Wole Soyinka and those who believe Nigeria is a failed State not been vindicated now? Be a REALIST and not an IDEALIST in an UTOPIAN WORLD where nothing is real, that's who we are in NIGERIA and that has been our problem!!!

semid4lyfe: October 19, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday said recent developments in Nigeria portrayed it as a country at war.

Soyinka also described the current killings in parts of the country as an ongoing war between the forces of good and evil.

Speaking at the presentation of Port Harcourt as the UNESCO World Book Capital for 2014, he said Nigerians would cease to be human beings if they yield to evil forces.

Soyinka, who condemned the murder of four students of the University of Port Harcourt and the Mubi killings, noted that the forces of evil were out to wipe out any trace of enlightenment and creativity in the country.

The Nobel Laureate urged literary minds in the country not to see themselves as authors, writers and readers, but as part of a creative army against the forces that had come to extinct creativity.

He said, “I believe quite frankly this country is at war; the war is between the forces of darkness and the forces of light, the forces of intellect, the forces of rationality and the forces of atavism, retrograde thinking, the forces of hatred against humanism.

“I believe that if we surrender to these banal forces in our society, we cease to be human beings because we succumb completely to fear and it is the same message we must take to those in this nation, who believe that books are wrong.

“I don’t care whether they call themselves the final defenders of the pure road and the ultimate salvation or call themselves Boko Haram.

“Boko Haram and all organisations, all movements that wage war against books, against literacy, against education and enlightenment in any form have declared war, not on the state, but on humanity itself and in spite of such setbacks, in spite of such horrors, we have the responsibility to support and to sustain efforts such as being made by the Rainbow Club and allied societies and organisations.”

He stated that the recognition of Port Harcourt as UNESCO’s World Book Capital was an indication that something was going right in the country.

Soyinka added, “One plea that I want to make to my fellow writers, authors everywhere is that we are not just engaged in the business of writing books; we are part of a large army of creative people.

Earlier, the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, said his administration had been investing in the education of the people of the state.

Represented by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, the governor explained that such investment was aimed at growing a literate citizenry that would be able to take the state to the next level of development.

http://www.punchng.com/news/nigeria-is-at-war-soyinka/

Who are those GOONS, [/b]Our Own Wole Soyinka is referring to here? Only the Deep can Call to the DEEP!!! Nigerians have a common enemy, [b]"THE FUNDAMENTALIST CORE NORTH" (KADUNA MAFIA AND CO)

logica: 1. Returning to the killing fields of the North is not bravery; it is stup!dity of the highest order because it indicates you are incapable of learning.
2. Kidnapping does not indicate bravery; it is a criminal offense. How brave can you be when 5 MEN with GUNS go pick up a WOMAN?
3. You obviously suffer from some sort of complex; I pointed out to you that Igbos live in far away Osun state and you begin to rant about "crimes committed by Yorubas".

Men this troll no get LOGIC at all very ILLOGICAL in his approach to issues, can you imagine this? Kai, this boy is bringing shame to the intelligence of a race noted for brilliance. Simple question was asked see irrelevant ranting here!

Really love to be all over the world before I quit!

Coutonou
UK (London, Birmingham, Norfolk)
The Netherlands (Amsterdam - dem like Bicycles for that place)
Iceland (Keflavik and Rejykavik - very cold but sweet place to be, even in summer, it was 7 degrees Celsius, the place I witnessed for the first time in my life 20 hours of daylight and 4 hours of darkness)

Mad Cow: Nigeria.. (Home Base)

Ghana.. (Lived there)

France [Paris] - (Lived here)

Italy [Rome] - Vacation

Egypt [Valley of the Kings... Sight to behold] - Vacation..

Switzerland [Zurich] - Vacation

England [London] - Vacation/lived

USA [New York/Jersey/Atlanta] - Lived here

Canada [Toronto & Alberta] - Second home

South Africa (Durban) - Vacation

Dubai - Vacation

Kenya [Nairobi] - Vacation



NEXT TARGET.. Jamaica, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iran & Mexico

MadCow dey travel too? Omo nothing wey no dey this world, how dem take receive you there sef?

ichidodo: HE IS NOT A WIZARD BUT A YERIBA CYBER-TROLL

That one no be human being, ignore him next time!!! Always preaching (alongside his demonic partner, DAYOKANU) the message of 'virtues of vices and rightness of wrongs', you can imagine the set of people you are dealing with!!!

Ngodigha1: Don't mind the lil boy.

One HE-GOAT don finish you here, his name, DAYOKANU he even went as far as linking you to me in an incriminating manner; https://www.nairaland.com/1077097/soyinka-backs-achebe-civil-war/7 you will marvel at how far my fellow Yorubas can go when it comes to scamming!!!

dayokanu: You can adore anyone you want. I am sure some people adore idi Amin till today

But that cant change history that he was a bloody coward who fled warfront

What is this BABOON insinuating now? Trying to be wise or what? Indeed, your crassitude must be legendary perhaps it runs in the family!

Eko Ile: I agree with you about soyinka and he is our pride and joy, we are very proud of him and his many accomplishments' but we can not say the same about the lying, bitter, old, senile and zero Nobel winning ashebe who is still lost in his failed biafran dream and carrying scorn and bitterness to his grave. That's the difference my dear son of old and senile ashebe the failure....

Are you here to learn or to make a fool of yourself? A tribe were targeted for 'total elimination' in a place they were part and parcel of, and all you can spit out in your literary life is a miserable post (just check out your total posts from other threads)as this! Are you a born wizard or a trained wizard?

Where is that RABID DOG called Dayokanu, a psychopath of the deepest dye? Indeed, truth is bitter!! Great thanks to a real man who choose to condemn injustice against the innocent souls, Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka you are indeed a defender of the defenseless, you have been vindicated at last, so am I!

Eko Ile: The way these ibo losers keep posting this rubbish every where means they are all can't read and comprehended waec rejects....

Who is this? Did you miss your way here? Soyinka stood vehemently against evil he is a detribalized Nigerian (Omo Yoruba Rere) whom I hold in high esteem till tomorrow! Unfortunately, a diabolical-minded, typical dolt like you do not see anything wrong in the Northern Agenda to wipe an entire race, but choose to join in the killing spree!

dayokanu: [size=28pt]Honestly, I am Yoruba simply because I studied at UI, My other names are Andre Uweh, Abadaba and ngodigha[/size]

e wa woo, e wa woo, DAYOKANU sofofo ya were, e wa woo, gbagije were were, gbagije!!!

phreakabit: Scammer No1 of Nairaland Africa. Roflmao! You did it with class. Thats all that matters.

Oh you recognized that too!!! Most times his views on issues makes me feel like shedding tears that why on earth would God waste clay to create a certified dolt like this, but who am I to query God! That Guy dull no be small, just watch out for his next post!!!

dayokanu: What can Andre Uweh do? Andre Uweh aka Tomakint, Abadaba, ngodigha has been outed already, Get busy and create another username. This time claim Ibibio or Edo cos studying in UI is not enough to be Yoruba.

Igbo kwenu? Umi Igbo? Why are you so ashamed of your ancestry that you have decided to claim Yoruba.

Is being Igbo that shameful. Amadioha ko Amalinze the cat ni

Bros Walahi Allah kwa.

OMO I dey laugh in Yoruba here, you are fast becoming a lunatic in case you don't know! Oh by the way, what did you have to say to the topic in question?

Zeus I: That is to show how foolishly you think, so you would let your worst enemy to supply your food and feed your children in times of hostility? Barbarians never had brains which why they act like robbot and end up commiting sucide like their paragon(an antagonist in regards to his pre-conceived sheme against Igbos) and sage. Tell me one true yoruba man who has never been a fool? Of course you know that OBJ is fathered by an Igbo(until proven otherwise), and i doubt Soyinka is a full yoruba man. Hoards of dullardic-barbarians.

Thanks a trillion for opening up the thick skull of a certified dolt, and injecting some senses (that is if he would accept sha) into it. Imagine you are fighting someone and you still want that person to feed you.....not even a baboon will accept that offer!

gboss4sure: One of the few undeluded yourobas that speaks the truth. Let's wait for reactions from awo camp. In Nigeria when you speak the truth you will be crucified but when you lie you are given an award and yet the people wants change for good but they are not ready for it.

1 Billion likes, just watch out for DayoKanu, Prof Corruption and the likes you will not be disappointed, damn too Yorubacentric!

dayokanu: [size=28pt]Honestly, I am Yoruba simply because I studied at UI, My other names are Andre Uweh, Abadaba and ngodigha[/size]

Honestly, you are feeling the heat no wonder you have resorted to innuendos, typical Yoruba man, if Andrew Uweh, Abadaba and Ngodigha [/b]curse you in the name of Amadioha....men you will regret coming into this world, dirty liar from the pit of hell, just like father and son, [b]Omo ale, Ogede a lai nironu

rallymento: Instead of him to die with the truth just like Awo and others did, he decided to speak up. Gen. Yak Gowon is still alive, he can as well write his own truth and share wt us. To be sincere and truthful, I believe that the SW played a big role in that genocide and adequate punishment awaits those that masterminded it.

We are in the era of 'Information Age' I can bet many shocking revelations concerning the 'Biafran War will still be unravel unlike the hogwash that has been display in many books, I have always maintained that for Wole Soyinka (Omoluabi) to take that stand then, he earns my respect till death!

dayokanu: Someone is obviously obseesed with me. I am not gayy. Try and check your brother Chika Nwafor he might be interested in your arse

Are you trying to be funny or being bountifully stoopid, I am only interested in exposing you, you and Katsumoto can 'do' yourself till eternity, we all know you guys are 'homo', don't push your luck!!!

dayokanu: There was Genocide in Biafra

And Ojuku that useless bastardd an illegitimate child was the cause of the genocide

You are here again "Mr Yoruba Man" sometimes I wonder if you have fufu for brain or something, just exposing yourself all around Nairaland!!!

logica: Your papa dey mad. You put up a post. If I quote your post, is it ThisDay that will show? You better go get help at ARO. Please respond very aggressively. E no go better for you if you don't.

Oh you are here quarreling as usual, well here is another link may be it will work this time around; http://allafrica.com/stories/201210170161.html

shymexx: He said BEFORE the war, not DURING the war...

Everyone knows Wole Soyinka don't really like the Northerners(born to rule mentality) and their religion - and I see why he's biased against them..

Read and read through what you just typed and slap yourself as many times as possible!!! You need quick deliverance just like DayoKanu!

Prof Corruption: Tomakint aka I am Yoruba, stop lying! Ajasin emerged twice: first in 1979 and then in 1983. His mandate was initially stolen by NPN (Omoboriowo) in 1983 but was retrieved when Supreme Court ruled in his favor.

Corruption, 'the IGBO Man' you have forgotten to add that Agagu too emerged twice!!!

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has backed his literary colleague, Prof. Chinua Achebe, in the raging controversy over the roles of some prominent Nigerians during the Nigerian civil war.

Soyinka, in an interview published in The Telegraph of London, but obtained by THISDAY yesterday, said the Igbo were victims of genocide during the three-year civil war, which was fought to break up Nigeria.

Achebe had stirred the hornet's nest in his civil war memoir, "There Was A Country", when among others, he accused wartime Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and the then Finance Minister, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, of carrying out a genocide against the Igbo.

The claim has generated considerable controversy, with many commentators accusing Achebe of re-writing history.

Soyinka, however, justified the secession bid and described Biafrans as "people who'd been abused, who'd undergone genocide, and who felt completely rejected by the rest of the community, and therefore decided to break away and form a nation of its own."

He also condemned religious militancy, saying now is the time to tackle Boko Haram, the insurgent group that has visited terror on the North, killing over 1,500 since 2009.

According to him, what Boko Haram is doing is not religion, but criminality.

He said: "All religions accept that there is something called criminality. And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour. Let me repeat something I first said at the meeting organised by UNESCO a few weeks ago, which was prompted by the recent film insulting the religion of Islam and depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very crass way.

"The first thing to say is that we do not welcome any attempt to ravage religious sensibilities. That can be taken for granted. But you cannot hold the world to ransom simply because some idiots chose to insult a religion in some far-off place which most of the world has never even heard of. This for me is a kind of fundamentalist tyranny that should be totally unacceptable.

"So a group calls itself the Boko Haram, literally: 'Book is taboo', the book is anathema, the book is a product of Western civilisation, therefore it must be rejected.

"You go from the rejection of books to the rejection of institutions which utilise the book, and that means virtually all institutions. You attack universities, you kill professors, then you butcher students, you close down primary schools, you try and create a religious Maginot Line through which nothing should penetrate.

"That's not religion; that's lunacy. My Christian family lived just next door to Muslims. We celebrated Ramadan with Muslims; they celebrated Christmas with Christians. This is how I grew up.

"And now this virus is spreading all around the world, leading to the massacre of 50 students. This is not taking arms against the state, this is taking up arms against humanity."

He said the unrest in Nigeria following the Boko Haram insurgency had attained a critical mass and criticised the way the Federal Government was handling the terror war.

"The president of Nigeria is making a mistake in not telling the nation that it should place itself on a war footing. There's too much pussyfooting, there's too much false intellectualisation of what is going on, such as this is the result of corruption, this is the result of poverty, this is the result of marginalisation.

"Yes, of course, all these negativities have to do with what is happening right now. But when the people themselves come out and say we will not even talk to the president unless he converts to Islam, they are already stating their terms of conflict," he added.

Soyinka said if religion were to be taken away from the world, he would be one of the happiest people in the world.


http://allafrica.com/stories/201210170161.html

@amor4ce, you have done a great job for supplying a revealing, detailed, unbiased, articulated and captivating material as this (Odia Ofeimum's account)! The propaganda employed by both factions were very unfortunate in those days but as usual the reason he cold apportioned blames was because of the useful tool we have now-HINDSIGHT! Ojukwu to me, did what was best for his people, I am sure if Ofeimum was to be in Ojukwu's shoes, he will likely do the same. WAR is not funny!

still the usual 'discriminatory factor' that cuts across virtually everything human! the good looking discriminates against the not-too good looking, the rich against the poor, the normal-skinned against the albino, the six-packed guys against the fat guys,the tall ones against the shorts, the employed against the un-employed the list is endless in a world we are all expected to believe we are EQUAL!!

naijababe: Eegun taa so si aja di bibuje. I no get time for your types jare..........

Typical!!!