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mercyville:


I am talking about lawyers,technocrsts etc and you are posting wannabe lawyers.

SW is the least in poverty and it has been like this for donkey years.

ManirBK:
APC still maintains a lead and remains the majority party in the Senate.
APC will soon add the 2 Vacant positions to her List. One in Katsina and the Other in Bauchi, both PMB Strongholds!!!
House of Representatives
APC.....192
PDP....156
Mark my words, Kwankwaso has ended his political career. He can't deliver even his state.

Stnomso:
Upload new pictures of development in Anambra and stop all this childish noise. I believe as long as you are igbo you are my brother.

mercyville:
You sound innocent so I would not burst much of your bubbles but Ekiti has the highest numbers of professors,both living and dead.... according to what scholars have been saying until Igbos changed it about 4 years ago without proof that it is Imo state.But the authentic statistic from NYC showed that Yorubas have far more professors than the Igbos.

Nobody knows the richest tribe in Africa,it could be Bantus,Ashantis,Igbos,Yorubas,Hausas etc but according to Forbes and statistics,South Africa has the highest number of billionaires followed by Nigeria with 4 billionaires.Out of the 4 billionaires...Dangote-Hausa,Otedola-Yoruba,Adenuga-Yoruba,Alakija-Yoruba....no Igbo.

mercyville:
You sound innocent so I would not burst much of your bubbles but Ekiti has the highest numbers of professors,both living and dead.... according to what scholars have been saying until Igbos changed it about 4 years ago without proof that it is Imo state.But the authentic statistic from NYC showed that Yorubas have far more professors than the Igbos.

Nobody knows the richest tribe in Africa,it could be Bantus,Ashantis,Igbos,Yorubas,Hausas etc but according to Forbes and statistics,South Africa has the highest number of billionaires followed by Nigeria with 4 billionaires.Out of the 4 billionaires...Dangote-Hausa,Otedola-Yoruba,Adenuga-Yoruba,Alakija-Yoruba....no Igbo.

mercyville:
I say...congratulations.

YORUBAS have been at the helm of affairs of education in Nigeria for a long time and they still do but do not make noise.

According to statistics,Yorubas have the highest number of professors,lawyers,engineers etc.
Yorubas have the highest number of best black mathematicians in the world.
Yorubas have about 7 geniuses who have gotten the world highest score of 5.0 cgp from universities both home and abroad.

Yorubas are the only people that have 5 youngest PhD holders in the world and the list goes on and on...

I say congratulations again because the educational world was not created for Yorubas only but they have a very enviable position in the scheme of things.


I am sure if you have the type of Yorubas' achievements,you will say you are the the smartest and most intelligent humans..

mercyville:
Oh my! Are Igbo people dunces for God sake.Are weapons,rockets made out of thin air without steel,tools etc to manufacture them? Oh gosh,these people seem duncer than I think.

Strikethem:
Your question instead answered. Lol from China ko, from Cambodia ni. This guy is marveled hehehehe. Here is your China. No be by shouting. Anyone that use aba made wears here is being laughed at . No one dreamed of using aba products. Come to Suite 12, lamlat complex beside stanbicIBTC bank, new gbagi market, old ife road, ibadan, Old Ife Rd, Ibadan, oyo state. And see small boys at work at itele footwear.

Strikethem:
Your question instead answered. Lol from China ko, from Cambodia ni. This guy is marveled hehehehe. Here is your China. No be by shouting. Anyone that use aba made wears here is being laughed at . No one dreamed of using aba products. Come to Suite 12, lamlat complex beside stanbicIBTC bank, new gbagi market, old ife road, ibadan, Old Ife Rd, Ibadan, oyo state. And see small boys at work at itele footwear.

Strikethem:
, See quality, not quantity.

mercyville:

There you go again.Hullabaloo is what you are known for.
Azikiwe did it,Ojuku did it, Achebe did it,Kanu did it so who am I to restrain you doing it when it is a DNA thing.
The truth is the wears of Yoruba are far more superior and known all over the world than your fake wears that cannot not pass the test of time.Your Chinese Autos that have you crying all over the media for customers?
Proforce of Yoruba stock has gone international a long time back and been patronized by countries even the UNO.
What else have you?
Yorubas are more technologically advanced than the Igbos but they do not make noise.

mercyville:
Yes Igbos are intelligent just like Bantus,Edos,Ijaws and other tribes are also intelligent but Igbos' problem is exaggeration and wanting people to believe and suck in everything they claim even without authentic evidence.I have learnt that nearly every tribe in Nigeria has the ability to produce guns and even explosives.
Most of what you have been posting about your technological feats were taken mostly from what your people relayed and wrote but white people(France,Israel etc)who witnessed and helped you prosecute the war had never said anything about Igbos producing any rocket,plane and all the stupid lies you and your people have been fed for a very long time.They have only shown sympathy and talked about the need to help.
We have read authentic documents from dependable neutral sources neytralising your lies and giving us the real picture of how France brought in most of those things you are claiming to have built.It is because of this civil war propaganda that we have all thought that you are technologically good but events have shown that you are a fluke. Necessity begets creativity and war has brought out the best in humans at different periods,I am sure Igbos put in some effort labour wise and fabrication wise but the bulk of everything Igbos are claiming came from France and Mercenaries.In recent times,the Yorubas have shown remarkable technological advances more than the Igbos and they are not shouting or intimidating the other tribes with'we are the best'..'Nigeria cannot stand without the Yoruba'...Yorubas are the smartest black race' and all jargons that your people have been spewing all over the place without evidence to show their claims except noise.

mercyville:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/amp.rfi.fr/en/africa/20170525-how-france-armed-biafras-bid-break-nigeria



France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa, documents seen by RFI reveal 50 years after the beginning of a war that cost up to two million lives.

The ethnic Igbo-majority Eastern Region declared its independence on 30 May 1967, following a military coup, a counter-coup and what French diplomats described as “pogroms” of tens of thousands of Igbo living in northern Nigeria the previous year.

The attempt to break away led to a 32-month war, which was to see about between 500,000 and two million deaths from starvation caused by Nigeria’s blockade of the breakaway region.

Nigeria’s former colonial ruler, Britain, backed the Lagos government’s One-Nigeria policy, covertly providing weapons and military intelligence.

The US declared itself neutral, while the Soviet Union gave full support to the Nigerian government.

Although France – unlike allies Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire -- never recognised Biafra diplomatically, it backed what then president Charles de Gaulle called its “just and noble cause.”

Anglophone giant

De Gaulle saw the conflict as a means to weaken the “anglophone giant” of west Africa, which was surrounded by former French colonies closely aligned with Paris through a policy of defending French interests that would come to be known as Françafrique.

While French Foreign Affairs Minister Maurice Couve de Murville declared that his country was observing a “complete embargo”, the presidential palace’s notorious “Africa cell”, headed by the controversial Jacques Foccart, sent large quantities of arms to the Biafran side, taking care to keep the operation secret from the Quai d’Orsay.

The planes carrying the weapons had to pass through the airspace of several countries that opposed the process, prompting a complaint by Morocco, which had not granted them access.

They landed at Uli, “Africa’s busiest airport”, according to Biafra supporters. But it was in such a poor state that pilots flying for Nigeria, including South African mercenaries, sometimes mistook it for a stretch of road. Pilots recruited by Biafra were in the know and managed to bring 75 tonnes of rifles, assault rifles, bazookas, grenades and cannon in just 11 days in 1969, documents show.

Appeal for more weapons

But, with the Biafran side losing ground, Foccart’s men appealed for more.
Warning that the breakaway territory could fall “before the end of October [1969]”, one of them Philippe Lettéron, wrote in a note now in the national archives and seen by RFI, “to take back control of the situation and have some hope of regaining the lost territory, a massive effort of at least 600 tonnes of arms and munitions would be needed in a very short space of time.”



Defeat did in fact come in January 1970 but not for want of French arms, as telegrams from the French embassy Lagos reported, notably when French expatriates in Port Harcourt, the region’s main port, notified it that the Bounty, hailing from Bordeaux, had broken the blockade and delivered weapons.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry did find out about the arms traffic and drew up an “inventory”, declassified at RFI’s request, in 1968.

It lists 16 Alouette and 12 T6-G helicopters and two planes for training pilots, delivered before the war, and two B26 bombers delivered after the independence declaration.
Support for the Biafran cause did not prevent France selling some arms to the Lagos government, mainly parts of orders placed before the war broke out.

And planemaker Sud-Aviation, then headed by Maurice Papon who was later convicted of war crimes during the Nazi occupation, lobbied to be allowed to sell helicopters, while sending a note the Africa cell, now declassified at RFI’s request, advocating “secret backing” through the supply of mercenaries to Biafra, to guarantee France a “privileged position” in an independent Biafra where high-quality, low-sulphur oil had recently been discovered.

Many French mercenaries

In fact, a number of mercenaries, many of them French, had been in the area since at least five months before the declaration of independence, as ambassador Marc Barbey had been informed by French nationals in Port Harcourt and a Soviet diplomat.

But Barbey, either believing or pretending to believe that they were working for the Lagos government, discussed their presence with Nigerian military leader Colonel Yakubu Gowon, urging him to refrain from recruiting French citizens.

Gowon warned the diplomat against any action that might threaten Nigeria’s territorial integrity but Barbey told his superiors that “France is certainly not the target” of the warning, since it was Israel that was sending mercenaries to the territory.



Once the war started, the US was alarmed to see a French crew fly a B26 bomber into rebel territory, leading the French Foreign Affairs Ministry to discover that three American-built bomber were there, two of them having been flown in from an airbase at Creil, near Paris.

More arms smuggling came to light when a plane that had formerly belonged to Air France exploded in Bissau due to the munitions it was carrying.

The most notorious of the French mercenaries, Rolf Steiner, a former Hitler Youth member who joined the French Foreign Legion, formed a 3,000-strong brigade that became the elite corps of the Biafran army.

But he and most of the other mercenaries left before the final defeat.

“After departure of Rolf Steiner and his comrades, there are only three European combatants with the Biafrans, two French and one English,” French Ambassador to Gabon Maurice Delauney, a Foccart loyalist, reported in a telegram on 15 November 1968.

Not all francophone countries in Africa sided with Biafra.

Senegal sent a diplomatic envoy to Enugu, the Biafran capital, with the hopes of convincing the separatists to backpedal. And landlocked Niger, which depends on Nigeria for its access to the sea, went further. It played a key role in the transfer of Belgian and Swiss arms supplies. Weapons were flown in on Sabena flights and held in storage in the Niger presidential palace before being sent by lorry across the border to Kanu, French cables indicate.

The war dragged on until January 1970 when a young Nigerian officer, Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo announced on Radio Biafra that the conflict was officially over.
Obasanjo became Nigeria’s head of state in 1976 and again in 1999.

mercyville:
Use your head.Suck up the message not the messenger... Read:

And Ogbunigwe was not a product of Igbo ingenuity; it was a “bespectacled” American mercenary from Massachussets Institute of Technology, uncovered by the Irish journalist Donal Musgrave ,that was secretly training Biafrans on how to use fertilisers to make bombs (cf 13 August 1968 cable from American Embassy in Dublin to the one in the Lagos).

mercyville:
Use your head.Suck up the message not the messenger... Read:

And Ogbunigwe was not a product of Igbo ingenuity; it was a “bespectacled” American mercenary from Massachussets Institute of Technology, uncovered by the Irish journalist Donal Musgrave ,that was secretly training Biafrans on how to use fertilisers to make bombs (cf 13 August 1968 cable from American Embassy in Dublin to the one in the Lagos).

PrettyCrystal:
A young girl has been arrested for selling Indian hemp to the students in Kano state. According to reports, the girl was apprehended following a tip-off as she was caught selling the illegal substance to students of the Federal College of Education. The girl was arrested and is currently in custody as investigations are underway.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/07/young-girl-caught-selling-marijuana-to-students-in-kano.html

mercyville:
He gave you real facts and docs.Reaalities other than propaganda also showed that you did not produce anything before the war or even after the war more than the other tribes especially Yorubas that you have called out.Even regional system of government showed that you Igbos are not intellectually savvy like the Yorubas. The Yorubas developed in leaps and bounds until your jealous uncle started the unitary system of government which you are trying to run away from now because it has grounded Nigeria,even the mumu Northerners that think they are at an advantaged position with the 'bury Nigeria totally' system.Even in this modern time,Yorubas are still technologically better than the Igbos who should have used the war to be technologically better than anybody else.If Yorubas had gone through Igbos' experience,I am sure Yorubas would have built technological machineries never seen in Africa.This is my thought.All evidences showed that France,mercenaries built and brought in some weapons which had to be Biafranised with a few emblems and coatings.Biafrans were mainly used as labourers.This is a fact and you know but like to hide under falsehood like the 'father of the internet'...lol



http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/03/05/biafra-the-facts-the-fiction/


And Ogbunigwe was not a product of Igbo ingenuity; it was a “bespectacled” American mercenary from Massachussets Institute of Technology, uncovered by the Irish journalist Donal Musgrave ,that was secretly training Biafrans on how to use fertilisers to make bombs (cf 13 August 1968 cable from American Embassy in Dublin to the one in the Lagos).

PrecisionFx:
Hundreds of warcrafts built by the igbos are still standing tall in Aba Biafra museum.

Visit the place n clear ur doubts....

At least u will stop deceiving ur self after the visit.

neyobills:
Absolutely because they obviously had a bigger stash of cash and better diplomatic connections.

And you are not ashamed that Nigeria troops comprises of North, Middle Belt, West, Egyptian air force, British military, USSR and others, for three years find it difficult to conquer East, this was a war Nigeria government boasted that they will run over east within three weeks It took them three years, they had to use food blockade to force them to surrender.And you what me not to be proud of our Biafra heroes. And same region they fought destroyed their land and properties are now the least in poverty in Nigeria, leading in commerce, industrious, innovative, and education and those areas that didn't experience war are today dying in penury and backwardness.

neyobills:
Dude u are not only running around in a vicious circle but also shooting yourself in the foot,here
are your earlier rants cos it looks like your memory isn't that retentive afterall


"Russia is helping Assad with air support.
Yet one idiot on nairaland believe France somehow helped biafra and even when there was virtually no sophisticated air support in biafrsa to suggest the input of a super power"

Are u Bi-polar or u just want to keep shifting the goal post to whatever rocks your boat,u just said there was no input of any super power because there was no air support and I rightly put it across to u that they was actually input from France and now with facts staring at you in the face u decide to eat your rants that there was some help after all,I'm sure if u were at the war front then u wouldnt have called whatever support u get some with sharpnel flying all over u.

It doesn't look like u are a very stable person anyway and there is absolutely nothing in Umuahia that irks my fancy to take a trip there as I have vacation goals of way better places to spend my valuable time at.

My grouse with folks like u is that u never seek knowledge and when u even get lucky to have some with facts staring at u right in the face u would rather bury ur head in the sand and continue with your ignorant illusions.

Fact is Biafra got external help from France with military hardware and boots on ground but met their waterloo in the hands Nigerian forces.

Kiss the truth.

BankeSmalls:
Abandoned property loading, Nigeria may split sooner than you think.

neyobills:
Likench-Biafran,this is just one of the many proofs to enlighten ignorant minds like you.

Kaysalas:
Forget his websites, use Google and please have an open mind. Biafra didn't invent jack. Just use Google and search Biafran mercenaries, u will be enlightened

totit:
Shm.

Shm

totit:
here is the document telling you all that biafran weaponry was supplied by france

https://afrolegends.com/2011/12/16/the-biafran-war/