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Soso990240:
Because d Corrupt politicians have polluted the senior military officers. Just as d senior officers now are into embezzlement of funds for military equipments. Danjuma is not saying d whole truth. Majority of d People dat took part in d 1966 coup are young Northern Soldiers, led by Kaduna Nzeogwu( an Igbo). Nzeogwu grew up in d North, he had many Northerners as friends in d military. So it was easy to convince them of the need for d coup. I got this details from 3 different account.

And the corruption polluted only officers from other tribes, but Igbo officers were unaffected by the pollution?
Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, Brig. Zakariya Maimalari, Col. Ralph Shodeinde, Col. Kur Mohammed, Col. Abogo Largema, Lt. Col. James Pam and other officers embezzled funds for military equipments, while General Ironsi, col. Ojukwu and other senior Igbo officers were saints.
In the coup speech, there was no mention of corruption military officers, it was only politicians that was mentioned.
In all the reports and articles I had read, I had never heard the coup January 66 plotters accusing their collages of corruption.

Kennedyiheme:
what has yoruba people done...? You're saying we didn't invent tanks.. ok great we didnt but we made them ourselves.. attempted to make a fighter jet... when you yoruba cowards do nothing... no wonder babangida said when a yoruba man makes noise he just goes back to sleep.. don't worry fulani will soon clear you people and take over your lands..

No be only attempt to make fighter jet, biafrans attempted to make nuclear submarines and hydrogen bomb.

Techsunny:
Such evil acted against ndi Igbo could nt stop them remain a head of all tribes in Nigeria. Obasanjo eyes open on friday.How many successfully archived greatness in north and south west today? Federal goverment asisted looters> Dangote, otedola, adenuga, 15 out of 1000 igbo billionires surpass them all.

Considering your population and achievements, you are not ahead of other tribes in Nigeria, but if that's what make you sleep well at night, keep believing it.

Mrjo:
imagine, he said he arrested his oga for questioning,

It was a coup.

Ikenna0b:
Their biggest fear is that Igbos will retailiate against them against the evil they did after the so called "Igbo coup". Unfortunately for them, Karma has a different plan for them and doing the retaliation on our behalf. GOD is truly wonderful!

You will make a very bad judge. You are very critical and angry at the party who committed wrong against the igbo, but you are not even ready to listen to the grievances of people who felt the igbos also wronged them.

SmartyPants:
Ostensibly, a strategic move to prevent these senior officers from stopping the coup. Rememebr that the coupists were just majors.

It's a horrible strategy. You don't kill your fellow officers and comrades, because you want to take over government, especially innocent soldiers.
You will elicit anger, resentment and distrust. A government created by such bloodshed could never last.

How many other coups had that level of bloodshed?

PeaceNexus:
You are very correct. I am convinced beyond doubt that all the gang up against south east is for the fear of what would happen if ever an IGBO man is in charge. Right from all federal force apparatai, they ensure that Igbo's are not allowed to be the head no matter their qualification and experience. But definitely, this is the worst they can do. One day the Igbo will rise and they won't be given a second chance. It will be total recolonization. One day their fear will certainly be before them and there will be no escape route.

Is this an admission that the first chance was simply because of the ambition to colonise?

You are simply reinforcing the fear of other Nigerians, even the south south tribes.
Why will the Igbos want to colonise other tribes?

eagleu:
While we wait for Gowon and Danjuma's official account of the coup, it's sad to see persistent distortion of history and abuse of common sense in this reasoning.

Labeling it Igbo coup was a long formulated Fulani plan to use people like Danjuma, even the adjunctant officer did not take control of events all by himself, he was following a plan, long designed by unseen hands determined to foist Fulani hegemony on Nigeria.

Of course the Igbos made their own mistakes, because they were never really organized as portrayed by unseen Fulani masterminds. If they were organized, why would some Igbo officers like Ojukwu be fighting the coupists, his own people?

If you had 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader as Igbos at that time, simple statistics would tell you that you couldn't have a coup without having majority of them identified as Igbos.

Nevertheless, there were Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Tiv, Ijaw, Idoma, and Nupe officers involved in that coup, but it was easier to label it Igbo coup, especially after it failed in some parts of the country.

While history would forgive Gowon and Danjuma for retaliating against Igbo officers, God in heaven would never forgive these inept and mediocre officers for the massacre of helpless children, women, and old people simply because they were Igbos.

Whoever supported the genocide against Igbos, because of the coup allegedly planned by Igbo officers in 1966, should also support a genocide against Fulanis, because Fulani herdsmen have been actually terrorizing fellow Nigerians without any provocation today.

How come you say unseen hands were determined to foist Fulani hegemony on Nigeria and at the same time 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader were Igbos. How would that have been possible?

If 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader were Igbos at that time, why weren't 67% of officers killed during the January coup Igbos?

Gowon, Danjuma and other northern soldiers retaliated only against Igbo officers, it was the northern masses that killed innocent Igbo civilians. Although you could accuse Gowon of not doing enough to stop the killings.

RZArecta2:
Strategically released article to destroy any traction of unity in the south against rampaging jihadists backed by the fg, this too shall pass away



No to RUGA

This is why I sometimes don't believe it is actually humans behind some usernames in nairaland. They sound more like bots that repeat the same thing irrespective of topic.
This is the same Danjuma that is at odds with Buhari because of Fulani herdsmen. This same Danjuma has told people to defend themselves against Fulani herdsmen. But every topic must contain RUGA, even when we are talking of events that happened more than 50 years ago.

MarieSucre:
You mean the tank you created after the white man had invented it over a hundred years and ago and you stole the schematics. My friend sit your forest dwelling, leave tying ass down! Nonsense! Why didn't you meet the white men with tanks when they came to ala igbo idiot!

Who are the people oppressing women in Saudi Arabia? Abi are the women oppressing themselves? Is it not men like you?

You have time to be engaging ignorant IPOB youth. Created tank Ko, created tanker ni.
He is telling us that they created (or is it invented which is their favourite word ) battle tanks in a few months. The war started July 67, and in just a few months the " highly innovative" biafrans were already rolling out tanks (and don't forget fighter jets) from their assembly plants.

This is the summary of what lead to the counter coup, the pogrom and subsequently, the civil war.

Northern soldiers! Remember, Igbos did the killings that took place in January (1966).
They killed non-Igbo senior Army officers. Only one Igbo officer was killed but Igbo wiped out almost all the senior non –Igbo officers . We rounded up all the people, who did the killings because we all helped Ironsi to abort the January coup. They were rounded up and put in jail, where they were being paid their full salary

They had television, they had everything there despite being detained and nobody was talking about court marshalling them. Instead, the newspapers including the Daily Times wrote to the effect that the boys being detained were national heroes. National heroes because they killed corrupt politicians! He didn’t say anything about Army officers… ” they killed corrupt politicians and replaced them with lronsi whom we would call Iron-side”. Very insulting and, in my own opinion, provocative!

we wanted to interrogate him, to find out the role he played in the coup (January 1966 ); his stories didn’t add up about how he escaped from Flagstaff House where he was staying at No.1, Glover (Ikoyi), and ended up in Ikeja. How it came about that Njoku, who was supposed to have handed over the command of the largest garrison in Lagos, which was then the Ikeja Garison, did not handover. Njoku was still in command and he (Ironsi) went to join him. We were going to interrogate him about all those.


What would you do when you went to bed and woke up and found that all the people from your area in the Army, innocent people were killed in their beds, some of them even with their wives – all done by Igbo officers? We bottled up this for six months from January to July. Then, the opportunity came for revenge.
In the Army, you are taught that when you are fired upon, you take cover and return fire. We didn’t return fire immediately. We gave Ironsi a chance to deal with the people who killed our seniors. He did not. We couldn’t understand! If politicians were corrupt, why didn’t you confine yourself to killing politicians? If it was necessary that the Army should take over, why was it that this same Army should eliminate the cream of that Army and leave us with absolutely useless people, like Ironsi who was a desk-clerk Head of State?

God questions. If the coup plotters killed politicians because they were corrupt, why then did they kill senior military officers, especially those from non Igbo areas?

MelesZenawi:
Danjuma said they used him, and he lost control .


This his story na pure wash....

But you that your mother was not even born then knows the true unwashed story?

Temple1288:
Corrupt Cummings didn't think he'd be remembered but unfortunately for him, he's been exposed.. He was busy 'chopping' the money meant to develop his hood..

You think the US is like Nigeria that legislators are given constituency project money.
Who would give legislators money to develop his hood in the US?

What of United Nation Office for South South Corporation?

South-South cooperation is a broad framework for collaboration among countries of the South in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technical domains. Involving two or more developing countries, it can take place on a bilateral, regional, subregional or interregional basis. Developing countries share knowledge, skills, expertise and resources to meet their development goals through concerted efforts. Recent developments in South-South cooperation have taken the form of increased volume of South-South trade, South-South flows of foreign direct investment, movements towards regional integration, technology transfers, sharing of solutions and experts, and other forms of exchanges.
http://unossc1.undp.org/sscexpo/content/ssc/about/what_is_ssc.htm

onegig:
Lol me anticapitalist?

Innovation thrives when there are humans who can actually use these products.

You seem to think like a country can exist in a silo. You speak with too much emotions. And you talk about failures and peers doing better? Lol you forget Siemens, Nokia, Spotify, trivago, Skype, ASOS are actually European coys? So what failures are you actually talking about?

Yeah the US has more tech companies and that's because of the differences in risk aversion and the BS open market the US peddles to EU countries. It takes a knee jerk reaction to push them into action. It doesn't take lots to create a search Engine or Social media app for the EU alone. Yeah it takes time but if there was to be a need. Then it would thrive. China has shown that.

Businesses don't run with emotions. These tech firms would not pull out of France. They would rather negotiate. You don't need to travel far to see how most tech firms are lobbying to get a slice of the Chinese Markets even with state sponsored competitors and the Chinese governments shutting them out.

The taxes been levied on them is a small price to them. They would adjust.

Small businesses and enterprises in France currently pay 20% in taxes and there are still millions of them. They are still innovating and making profits. The tech companies should pay their fair share. If the USA puts any tariffs up against an EU country, in this case France, the entire EU responds in kind to maintain the integrity of the single market. That's the point of the EU.

Xi jinping is a genius. He already forsaw that the US domination of tech, would eventually lead to bullying and added security risk, and so limited the influence of US tech giants in China. For every tech company, the Chinese created a corresponding Chinese version and then put strict restrictions on the US companies. You think the US would not jump for joy, if the Chinese government remove restrictions on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Uber, etc, and just decide to impose a 3% tax on revenue alone. Just because Chinese phone companies rely on Android Operating system, you see how trump is using that to blackmail Huawei. They started developing their own operating system too late.


The EU are now seeing the stupidity in relying too much on the US for tech and military. I hope European has smelt the coffee and start massively investing in home grown tech and military hardware.

Under normal circumstances, the US government should have used diplomatic channels to hear France's concerns and reasons for the tax, and then negotiate a settlement acceptable to both sides, but trump is feeling too arrogant to even talk to macron.
I see this issue if not handled maturely leading to a trade war between the US and EU.

Aparche:
O boy! I always marvel at all these atheist's that will always jump on thread's like this; if you don't believe in God why do you keep bothering yourselves with any topic that has anything to do with Him? Surely, there are countless diverse topics (that has nothing to do with God) on nairaland that you can give your attention to?... It's almost as if you are trying so hard to silence or convince that subconscious part of your being that keeps bothering you and asking: "what if you are wrong?".

Where did anyone mention atheist. How does atheist concern this topic? Are you insinuating that to prove you are a Christian, you must believe every cock and bull story every hungry blogger post on the Internet. Even Thomas insisted on touching jesus before he believed, does that make him an atheist?

A 2 year old baby killed a snake by just stepping on it, and then saying "Mommy I marched it and it died like this." The boy must be from krypton.

Penboy:
This one that y'all are mentioning allies allies since morning. Mention the allies of USA presently and let's analyze their strength both in Economy, Technology and what have you. Combine them all and they're not as half as the USA.

Allies that almost crumbled during the WWII if not for the interference of the USA. Agreed, allies are needed but you just gotta understand the dynamics of US.

Bro's face it. US right now can take on any nation in the world.

Are you insinuating that the interference of Russia is not as important (if not more important ) than the interference of the USA during the WW2?
The US alone can not take all the credit for the defeat of Germany during WW2.

Laurene:
so who won the war

Google is free.

tyup:
The first thing you should ask yourself rn is if Iran atm can afford to fund a war

think of this and give me feedback

The answer is no, but the war we are talking about will be inside Iran Itself, so they will have no choice to to fight to death.
Now, answer this also, do you think the US can afford to fight a full blown war in a foreign national today?

Do you think that a US - Iran war will only affect Iran? Are you aware the war will destabilise many African nations including Nigeria.

Are you aware that an Iran - US war will destabilise the world economy? Oil prices would double if not triple.

tyup:
Lol funny US don't need to even fight Iran.....their boy Israel will do so smoothly

The way Israel did so smoothly during the Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2005.

tyup:
Nothing happened as how? are you just ignorant or just been lazy as said

for your info US don't need any country to respond to Iran plus saying nothing happened is just so incredible well I'll urge you to read on what UK and US did to Iran aftermath

You think the US will win a war with Iran without its regional allies?

duni04:
Oga please stop talking like this. [b] The only reason America and Russia are enemies today is primarily because of NATO and EUROPE. [/b]The Europeans fear Russian dominance or occupation. America is the big brother that keeps watch over Europe. You will never find the Russians killing people on the streets of America like they have successfully done in England. Or invading a country and killing it's President like they did in Romania during the cold war. Europe needs America for protection. That's why NATO was created. How on earth can the Europeans support Russia on the U.N. council? That's like a death wish.

SMH. Ignorance at its fullest.
The major reason America and Russia are enemies is due to ideological differences - communism vs capitalism. They took the ideological war to other countries like Vietnam and Korea. During the cold war, you could be arrested on the streets of US for being a communist.

dermmy:
Europe needed America during the world war. And remember the 2nd world war was won by alliance not US alone. The muscle US flexes around the world today is due to the fact that it has support of its European allies under NATO. Unilateralism is what US thrives on, whenever US ditches United Nations and takes a Unilateral move on the world stage with support from its allies be rest assured that US actions would be justified.

Without the cooperation of European countries during the cold war US wouldn't have been able to put Soviet expansionism in check. After the 2nd world war ended USSR under Joseph Stalin started expanding eastward, eastern Europe was falling to Communism and this was a threat to Western europe and America, the main reason that led US to create NATO in 1949. And this NATO really boosted US power during the cold war years because the USSR would think twice before unilaterally taking actions that undermines US powers and influence.

Emmanuel Macron once said that Europe should create its own military force, a military force that can defend europe even from US, why? Because they are not happy with the US under trump. If that should happen that would be the beginning of the end for NATO and the end of US dominance on the world stage militarily. The reason US is running its madness around the world is because of the strength of the NATO alliance. And i can tell you US has achieved its selfish interest around the world through this NATO alliance. Bro let me cut it here. US needs Europe the more but Trump does not see this because he doesn't know intl politics. Putin a brilliant tactician knows the importance of alliance when he said some years back that

"The dissolution of the Soviet Union is the biggest political disaster of the 20th century"

Look at Putin today he needs alliance badly so as to project Russia's interest around the world. What US is still enjoying.

You are still one of the reasons, I know that my time on this forum is not a waste of time. The youth just refuse to learn and openly and arrogantly display their ignorance. I am sure a few would learn something from people like you.
The US strength is basically because of its alliances, destroy those alliances and the US would be ordinary. The current position of the US has gotten ìnto the heads of trump and his white nationalist, that they think they are bigger than all the nations of the world. The countries that would benefit from Trump's stupidness is Russia and China. I just feel sorry for the Europeans and even more sorry for Britain who put their hopes on the "special relationship" mantra.

The Damage being done to US interests and reputation would take decades to undo.

Damfostopper:
Wetin concern Akwa ibom state and Calabar with una..... una no go seek for una biafra in peace without dragging others into it

Akwa ibom and calabar have oil, and IPOB no dey take ear hear OIL, make their prick no stand. Imagine including Itsekiri into Biafra and excluding Benin, how exactly will that work?

SunFlow:
The West African Examination Council has said that, of the 1,590,173 candidates who registered and sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates, female candidates outshine their male counterparts in getting a minimum of five credits, including English Language and Mathematics.

This was made known by WAEC’s Head of Nigeria National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, at a briefing on Friday at the Council’s national office in Yaba, Lagos.

Adenipekun also disclosed that 64.18 per cent of the candidates who sat for the examination obtained five credits, a 14.18 per cent increase from the 50 per cent of 2018.

“A total of 1,596,161 candidates registered for the examination from 18,639 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria.

Of that number, 1,590,173 candidates sat for the examination, among which 822,098 were male while 768,075 were female, representing 51.70 per cent and 48.30 per cent respectively.

“No fewer than 1,309,570 candidates representing 82.35 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects, i.e with or without English Language and/or Mathematics; while 1,020,519 candidates, representing 64.18 per cent, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

“Of this number, 507,862, that is 49.77 per cent, were males and 512,657, that is 50.23 per cent, were female candidates.

“The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE for School Candidates was 50 per cent in 2018,” Adenipekun said.

The WAEC Nigeria boss further disclosed that the results of 1,468,071 candidates, representing 92.32 per cent of candidates that sat for the examination, were fully processed; while 122,102, representing 7.68 per cent of candidates that sat for the examination had a few of their subjects still being processed.

Source: https://waecinfo.com.ng/waec-result-2019-statistics-females-outshines-males/

Highly unrealistic figures? Even more advanced countries like the US and UK and post such impressive figures. I am sure most of the 64.18% that passed both maths and English can't fill a regular bank former by themselve or know what sin30 means.
Nigeria's educational standard is falling, but exam performance is raising astronomically.

The curious thing about this year's figures is we are not seeing cancelled or withheld result. Are they telling us there were zero exam malpractice this year?

Let me add this;
During the end of session party at my children's school last Thursday, the proprietor told us, that students that went to sit for the junior WAEC exams came back and complained that at the examination Hall students from other schools came with their teachers to help them with the exams. They were the only students that came alone. The proprietor told us, she does not condone exam malpractices.
Tomorrow WAEC will say they have 99% pass in their junior WAEC exams.

imam07:
Males prefer texting waec expo to females in exchange for kitty and female will never do that for guys. Male school teachers will prefer giving his female students waec expo to male students.
Waec fall my hand this 2019.a female student wey no sabi 4 raised to power of 3 got B3 in math. I am afraid about what is happening in Nigeria education now. I saw a girl that knows nothing congratulating herself on fb that she got all her results. Hmmm

This result is statistically unrealistic. What happened within one year in our education sector to account for an almost 50% improvement in performance?
It simply shows exam malpractice is on the increase.

grandstar:
What Macron did was wrong but with Trump's bravado, it will have nationalist appeal in France and to rescind it may prove difficult.

There are institutions to deal with matters like this. Trump would have done better by shutting up. Well, he never does.

That's what Trump asslickers fail to understand, you don't run a government on Twitter, it only complicates issues. There are various diplomatic offices to handle such matters, it shouldn't always involve the president directly. Everthing could have been done behind the scenes. It will now be very difficult to deal with, as Trump is now threatening and insulting. Pride will now take over reason.
The US can fight the whole world at once, it will fail.

franchasng:
stop arguing baselessly, it was Gowon that abolished regional government and created states instead.

You are just arguing with prejudice and biased mind, open your mind to learn. I know you are writing based on past lies told by Northern and Yoruba history re-writers who peddled this lie that Ironsi abolished regional government, it is a pure lies, empty it into the thrash can from today!

With what decree did Gowon abolish regional government and created states instead?

franchasng:
In all you wrote, I was able to deduce the only reason Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis shiver with fear and hatred whenever Igbos talk about seceding from Biafra; fear of losing Niger Delta crude oil!

For your info, majority of Itsekiri or Urhobo want to join Biafra peacefully.

I have friends from those region, they all agree they will join Biafra so long as Biafra runs the united nations kind of government whereby every region functions as an independent nation of their own, so stop crying more than the bereaved.

The people you mentioned prefer to go with Biafra than remain with blood sucking, violence loving, backward thinking Hausa-Fulani that Yorubas worship and adore

I am full blooded itsekiri, and I can tell you the itsekiris what's nothing to do with biafra. Our leaders and our youths have categorically made it clear.

I dare you to mention the friends who are itsekiri that wants biafra. We are even closer to the Binis and Yorubas than Igbos, so why will we want to be in an Igbo dominated country?

franchasng:
First, Aguiyi Ironsi did not abolish regional government , he only enacted a new decree 34 to grant him power to appoint governors for the regions.

Regional government and power to appoint governors is an oxymoron. They should not be said or written in the same paragraph. Once you arrogate the powers to appoint the rulers of other people, the people lose their independence.

But then, even if we agree that okay Aguiyi Ironsi made the mistake and abolished regional government, must you Nigerians of today continue on the same mistake that's dragging you backward and keeping you stagnant

I agree that the unification was a mistake and we should change it, but then the elites (from all regions) are enjoying it. It is only a mass action or a revolution that can force the political elite to change it.

Think, think for once, think and stop hating Igbos foolishly!

You guys loves throwing the word hate around, especially if people disagree with you. You guys attract some of that hate by dragging people who don't care into your biafra agitation, and then start insulting people who simply tell you to leave them alone.
What's concerns itsekiri or urhobo with biafra?

Dividing or restructuring Nigeria is for the good of all Nigerians to live in peace, have more security and have a better nation where they can work and succeed without migrating to foreign nations to labor to make ends meet, think!!

Even though I support the political restructuring of Nigeria, the states are too much and unviable. They all depended solely on Niger delta oil for their survival. I would prefer we restructure our minds first. We should let go of the greed, avarice and primitive materialism in our minds and soul. We need to value honesty, honour, hard work and contentment more that our present get money whichever way mentality.

franchasng:
Yes. That is why I hate UK. They are wicked. They hate Nigeria.

Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Wales make up the United Kingdom with each kingdom having their own independent government and charting their own progress.

For Nigeria to progress at all, Nigeria must be restructured to function like a United Region of Nations.

They can use the existing Geopolitical zones: Southeast, Southwest, Southsouth, Northcentral, Northeast and Northwest.

Each region can have their own Regional Prime minister, have total control of their resources, have total control of their regional security like Policing, etc while the central government focuses on external security, border protection and others

That was how they left us until our Igbos brothers felt otherwise. Northern, eastern, western and Midwestern Nigeria had their own governments and charting their own progress until General Ironsi brought everyone under a unitary government.

franchasng:
You are wrong, try to read history and learn. Stop believing lies some people peddle.

It was Gowon that abolished regional government system in Nigeria not Aguiyi Ironsi.

To clear your doubt, Ojukwu was the Eastern Region Governor, Fajuyi was Western Region Governor, which was where Aguiyi Ironsi was assassinated at Ibadan while on Presidential tour to Western Region.

You guys hate Igbos just for nothing and keep producing lies to hate Igbos for no reason, it don't help you go far.

Aguiyi Ironsi only created decree 34 to give him power as first Nigeria's Military Head of State to have the power to appoint regional government heads, he didn't abolished it, Gowon finally did

Can you use Google? Just search for decree 34 of 1966 and read it, at least I credit you with enough comprehension skills to understand it.

How did Ojukwu become the governor of the eastern region and Fajuyi the governor of the western region? Were they elected? What of their parliaments? Who was making laws for the states created by decree 34? What happened to the former premieres of the regions, were they removed constitutionally? Who did the new governors report to?

Gowon simply added to the states created by Ironsi, he was not the one that abolished the region's and converted them to states.