₦airaland Forum

I love the truth, and Achebe spoke the truth. The problem with Nigeria is our age long tradition of covering the truth and pretending things will somehow end well, well, I have news for you guys, the truth will always wash up somehow and mar the little peace foisted on the truth.

If we have up to 100 Acbebe s in the country, things will turn out right for us, say what you know in a transparent, bold write up and shame the devil. Without this bare all approach, this nation will always be operating on a fake foundation.

cjrane: Awo was described as a "Hawk" in Gowon's government by many accounts of the civil war.
(http://www.africamasterweb.com/CounterCoup.html )

He advocated a complete annihilation of Biafra,whereas the Head of State Gowon,actually wanted a situation where he would take measured actions against Biafra to make reconciliation and peaceful co-existence of all the major tribes would be possible after the conflict.

Unfortunately, the voice of people like Awolowo prevailed and became official policy of total war of annihilation against Biafra.This hardened Biafra's resolve to fight to the finish and unfortunately led to colossal loss of lives on both sides.As Gen. Gowon had predicted, that policy of all out war had continued to haunt Nigeria and make reconciliation almost impossible from all the hatred bred by the wicked things that had happened from Awolowo's all out war stance that has ruined our country.

That is my major fear, no sane igbo man will ever contribute his full quota to the Nigerian nation which has been so brutal to the innocent civilians. And because of this all other tribes are also afraid to commit to this disjointed entity called nigeria. The housa wants to grab while the yoruba wants to hold on to the power they acquired from the igbo after the war. in all we all lose and continue to suffer poverty in a land of plenty.

I fear for this country, the whole country might never ever fully recover from the events of 1966-1970.

Prof Corruption: Ngugi is actually a better writer than Achebe. Read their books side by side and judge for your selves. Soyinka is an all rounder from prose to drama, poems and poetry. The best among the best, the first among equals.

Achebe bitterness is incurable.

I also respect Ngugi, soyinka and achebe but that is not the point of this whole debate.
achebe spoke his mind, he said the truth and instead of some people to objectively deny and correct him where he is wrong, every yourba man pounced on his word and started to give it an ethnic undertone. Achebe has spoken and if you dont like it, go and take a flying nosedive in the lagos lagoon!

felifeli: Little Igbo bros. Your comments all day show that you were not even born before Awolowo died. In which case Biafra , you probably have read about from Nairaland. To cap it all you have not even read Akebe's controversial book. What is your problem ?You dey smoke something ?

I may not have been born during biafra, but i heard stories and read lots of books. What annoys me is the level of insecurity the yoruba exhibit whenever they hear an igbo man talk, them go run for una? never again, instead we shall scatter this nation wella

Prof Corruption: Ojukwu fled to Ivory coast. We don't run. We send our general to take the surrendering spoils of war!

When you type your usual nonsense and I don't response, it's because you don't worth the effort.
I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead.

You dont run? thats why they capture you guys, torture you, shame you taint your name in history,
what has mko, diya, adisa, and akintola got in common?
they were all thiefs, coupists, cowards, rascals and cry babies in their lifetimes, history is there.

Akshow: guy stop fooling yourself. Nobel prize Na beans? Now i understand achebes bitterness to yorubas the more. Shey e was in the Runnin for the prestigious award along side ngugi. A yoruba man beat him to it. Settin the pace as the first African Nobel literature Prize winner. Bitter senile achebe why not let go of such hatred and spend the remainin of your crippled days wit love and peace?

Booker prize na beans? what have you yourself ever won?

if achebe is bitter he would be for soyinka but he directed the facts to the right quarters, awo was a snake and someone should say it the way it is, period.

Prof Corruption: Classic my a$$? I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead.

Talk to me foool, stop the copy and paste, abi you wan run like your yoruba coward brothers

Akshow: Achebe is a bitter, pitiable, senile, crippled old man. Dont blame him too much, he had to Get the bitterness of decades off his chest b4 e dies. with such bitterness i Imagine it will be soon. Terrible unforgivin retarded old man.

at least he is better than your leprous, idiottic, hopeless, a$$wipe, fooolish ancestor awolowo

felifeli: You mean Ofada rice ? Ofada is just a few kilometers from Lagos by the way .

Ofada rice is in ogun, abakaliki rice is in ebonyi, abi you wan steal them glory like your fathers always do?

Prof Corruption: What a completely certified fool? An author who write a great piece of book is destined to win awards. Nothing a shallow metricious mediocre book full of copy and paste proverbs that is being overly hyped here and there.

Can you negotiate without approval foooooooool? You are not bright.

Achebe also won awards and is still being begged to come take up some more, his books are classics and you are impotent to that fact

Without Okonjo iweala, you would still be in debt, obj is a leper in international finance circles, you are a big fat foooooooool

Prof Corruption: Oh God rice! That's part of commerce the brought to Lagos. Fooools.

Yes, the local rice with brown look very rich in vitamins and not your Tai rice

Prof Corruption: I almost fainted! When did the first Igbo man cross the niger and arrived in Lagos? I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead.

before the likes of your bush men from ogun and oyo knew where lagos was located, check the land ownership stats and the population

Prof Corruption: can Achebe compose a compound complex sentence? Read Achebe books, they are full of one sentence structure. Have you read Soyinka's The Man Died? It's a great piece of work that every reasonable fellow should possess. Oyinbo man is not a fool. They know intelligence can not be sustained on copy and paste. Who gave Iweala the approval to negotiate Debt relief? OBJ. When OBJ was done with her, he pushed the fat a$$ in Foreign Ministry? It's only a clueless GEJ that's recycling OBJs dead woods-Okupe, Okonjo et al.

I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead. Where is Okigbo? Killed in action during Biafra war.

Thank you for exposing soyinka, he was writing for the white man to read while achebe made sure our people understood him.

Who negotiated the debt relief was the question and not who gave the approval? The yoruba are good at stealing the glory of others but we know what happened.

Prof Corruption: We don't rely on brutal force. We use wisdom. When you speak idiocy, we speak policy.

copy and paste, is your brain failing you




copy and paste, is your brain failing you

demmy: This is laughable because according to National Bureau of Statistics poverty is as high as 73% in certain igboid area like Ebonyi. No part of Yoruba have that kind of poverty. Considering you're that poor how the hell are you going to afford to buy up Eko Atlantic?

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/information/details/Ebonyi

Lies, there is no igbo state with that kind of figure, ebonyi produces rice, enough casava to feed the nation and every type of food staple, they are only catching up because the state is new. but ebonyi will beat oshun, ekiti and ondo states in riches anyday.

Prof Corruption: Igbo people put the sea in Lagos. You guys put the seaport in Lagos. I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead.

you fuul, cant you think? igbo people put the COMMERCE in lagos!

Prof Corruption: popular than who? Even in the field of literature, he is yet to achieve what a Yoruba son achieved several years ago-a Nobel Prize! Deal with it.

In politics, where were your former leaders? Okueniyan.

Is it not the same Finance Minister portifolio that Awolowo controlled during war without borrowing a kobo that Okonjo Iweala is holding but has been a total embarrassment to the whole world? They are even borrowing money to run recurrent expenditure.

Soyinka? I respect him for his achievement but the white man must find his writings easier to understand hence the nobel price. I can proudly say that Okigbo was a better writer than soyinka?

Okonjo iweala negotiated a debt relief for this useless country after your fathers embezzled the money after the war. It was so easy to be finance minister back then, how many banks did we have then, how many people even knew what a bank was?

emmatok: Then GOWON and GOWON alone should take responsibilities for tha War .
Awo was just a minister, not even a Military officers like OBJ.
I have noticed that it is easy for you Ibos to confront the Yorubas than the Hausa/Fulanis.

Gowon has his hands full with the whirlwind his people are reaping after sowing the wind. He backed the wrong horse and now his people are enjoying some deadly romance with his fulani allies in the war.
It is easier to confront the yoruba because they are snakes, if a snake comes into your house and a yoruba man enters at the same time, first kill the yoruba man and leave the snake, the yoruba man is much more poisnous than a snake!

emmatok: Just like that cripple call Achebe, you are all delusional.

if you have any shame in you, you will note this irony, how come achebe, a cripple is much more popular than the best yoruba man? food for thought

demmy: What an ignorant bunch these igboids are? Decieving themselves again like last time. Haven't they learn from the last time? They think that Lagos is sustain by their petty trading and road side hawking. wonder. Are you the one developing Eko Atlantic too?

and those containers and ship loads are street trading also, just watch who will buy up eko atlantic, can you guess? ho ho ho

Prof Corruption: A fool like you would never know there was lagos before Igbo. Are you smoking Igbo?

I ignore an obvious fool and move ahead.

lagos became what it is because of commerce and access to the sea when there was very little air transportation and the port was used by the colonilists to shift everything in and out. after independence and with increased local business, the igbo came in and sustained the tempo while the average yoruba lazy azz was busy romancing fat buttocks of women

alexola20: Pa Awo.The greatest Nigerian ever lived.It will be only in Igbo dreams to have a man like Awo.
Even the respected ojuku sef ran away and left his pple behind.But asebe no go see am like a wrong thing because he was and still a secesionist which make him still bitter cos he would have contested for presidency had it been biafra succeeded.And it's bitter because he'd never be a relevant person in Nigeria apart from being a lilliputian writer.
shame on asebe!Sorry asebe Pa Awon killled ur selfish dream.

RIPP Pa Awo.We love you forever.

if awolowo was the highest yoruba can offer, they aint gat nattin!
the sh1thead was a betrayer and political turn coat. Maybe all yoruba are like him

Prof Corruption: Egbami oooooo! The same ranting that Ojukwu said that he had the greatest black army only for the coward to run away. Spoils of war, your loud mouth is legendary. It's not new. We don't shout, we formulate and execute policy. Simple, straight and direct. A policy is stronger than a missile, get it?

you only scheme and plot to commit murder, but it will not work again, this time around, your well known cowardice will be exposed and you will keep shouting o pa mi o!

Ngodigha: They are well known cowards. Whad did they do when Ijaw militants attacked them and blew up Atlas cove building?.
It is better they don't try it because the UN is not ready to accommodate 25 million refugees that will come out of Yorugba land.

just chase them into the ocean

the 40 laptops were a product of the opposition propaganda and never really existed in real life.

[quote author=9ja_I_hail]This is part of the failed education awo introduced in the south west we are talking about today. I asked you a simple question. When is yooooroba's KA Yoruba CONFRONTING IGBOS'IN REAL BATTLE. MIND YOU THAT ONLY AGULERI IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE YOOOOROBA LAND IN A SPACE OF ONE WEEK.[/quote]I will prefare the warriors of Ezza/Ezillo tackle them

Prof Corruption: Why are you wasting your time on a certified fool?

Are we not living in Nigeria again? Hausa Fulani has shown times without number that if you don't dominate the politics, you don't dominate anything.
Nonsense! It takes just a policy to reverse anything. We used policy to defeat them on the war front how much more when there is no raging war.


Fasola has even started deporting some of them. spoils of war, take heart.

you won the war and lost the peace, the igbo are marching on and no stewpit fashola can stop them

without igbo, lagos will turn to cotonou in 10 years

tyson55: Hmmm! I see...
So, the guilt of million of children that died b'cuz of starvation during the Biafran war made him commit suicide. And then nemesis caught up with him...interesting.

nemesis caught up with his dead body when respectable people like achebe opened a can of worms on him

demmy: If the highlighted were true you wouldn't whine about how Lagos landlords are not renting houses to you igboids.

And believe me from now on its going to be even more difficult for you.

That was then, who is begging yoruba landlords when the igbo people increased their buying spree of lagos in the last 5 years, by the next 10 years yoruba people will be crying that igbo people are refusing to rent houses to them

Dede1: It appears you are bouncing off the wall. Who gives a rat-azz about what IBB thinks about turncoat such as Awolowo?

Dont mind them, IBB himself was a very useless leader just like awo. it takes a dunce to identify a dunce

[quote author=e_prynce]Well, I should like to know when calling a spade a spade means bitterness? It's one of the many reasons we are where we are, we never want to tell ourselves the truth as a nation! Our leaders play down all our problems but they keep staring us in the face regularly...we've got to keep hammering on the issues before us...they cannot be wished away, we must talk about them and confront them head-on starting with truth about Nigeria. Ever heard of the saying that "conscience is a wound, only truth can heal it!"[/quote]see this mumu?

you must confront them head on bla bla bla

from the comfort of your borrowed flat in london slum