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Nsofor should be put on a NEPA transformer. What a miss!!!

Yakubu should start considering another line of trade - maybe tairloring

Yea Osaze, is the best player on the pitch, very unfurnate

Tosh nwa mama, get your drugs near by, i see a last minute equalizer

Obi nwa has no choice but to deliver

Tosh i pity you

This sad news, why is CIV doing this to us  

Postponing our dooms day

Ify i di funny

O na imaghi na onye tara amu ebule ji ibi ugwo!
He who eats the penis of a bull, will be indebted to the elphantaisis of the scrotum

Ekene!

Biko, oga adi mma na anyi jisike na akowa ilu obula anyi tulu na bekee. Kashif please take note.

Ify amaghi m na akabiri m ome ji gi? Hapukwa nu m aka ka nuo mmiri togbo iko

O dighi m ka onwere ihe ndi Igbo na akpo table, ma na uche nkem, e nwere ike ikpo table "mgbidi"

Ify

Marakwa na mbe abuo putara igba mgba, otu ga akariri ibe ya mbamba afo

as for youngies,hehe onye ahu bu agadi ekwe nka.[/i]

hmmmmm, wepukwa aka n'oku n'ihi na oku na erere

The Republic of Biafra was declared as a response to the non comittment of the Nigerian government headed by northerners to stop the progrom in the north

Slow down, don't get it muddled up. The aim of ndi Igbo as at that time was neither independence nor to colonisation. There goal was simply to adopt a defensive mechanism that will prevent the Nigerian State from driving them into extinction.

No bro, you don't attack the north, you attack the heart of the problem - which is the seat of power. . . Lagos

Maybe this a prelude to the drama that will happen in court on Feb. 28

thanks for being polite in your disagreement. This way we can debate issues. Ist of all, armies look at themselves and imagine if they have what it takes.

Hitler had used about 6yrs for re-armament before he declared war in Europe and he actually did conguer Europe before the US came. He never wanted to fight the US at the time. May be later. But not at that time.

Good to hear that Hitler had it all figured out but still failed because of some unforseen circumstances. Therefore there is no guarantee that had Ikemba and the elders waited to stockpile arms and train soldiers like you recommended, it is still possible that due to some other factors they could have also failed.

Bush actually destroyed saddam and Afghanistan. But the issue is that he won the war but did not win the peace. So he was deemed a failure. But militarily he won.

Either you are simply being dishonest or you are simply playing with words

Infact, the Iraqis were wiser than Ojukwu at some point. When the war came to Baghdad, the defence disappeared and the marines virtually walked in. they changed tactics. Americans controlled the city while they used guerrilla warfare. They knew they were no match for the Americans face-to-face.

Meaning that ndi Igbo could have waited patiently until the rampaging northern murderers bring the progrom to Owerri or Abagana before they will react. I fail to see the correlation and your point here

Soviet union and even the US knew that each had nuclear capability. Watch the movie I3 days. It’s about the Cuban missile crisis. There you’ll see how much both sides did not want to go to war . . BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE RESULT OF DOING SO.

dafur, you know you could be very funny and insulting atimes, it has reached the point of recommending a movie (make belive) acted by Americans in order for me to understand the intrigues of the cold war. Thanks for the movie, but it simply a movie and not the war coded transcript.

Yeah, the igbos say that “ejighi ekwo maka mgbagbu ghara i ga agha” (you can't avoid war b/c of the possibility of death) but why, why,why,why in God’s earth, why is it that when the war enters the door steps of the leaders, they surrender or vamoose.why?whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

I don't think you really want to know why

MLK led the demonstration for the civil rights movts. He had fears of death. Yet he led the demonstrations and eventually got killed.sadly. why do war leaders hide. Hitler was even better, after the war, he did not beg to live. The coward shot himself. Ojukwu did not even shoot himself. He so loved life that he ran away, came back, joined politics, went for a beauty gueen,( young enough to be his daughter even against the advice of her dad, which is very very very un-igbo take note)

I now see your grouse with Ikemba, but you could have been kind enough to tell us the age of Bianca when she got married to Ikemba. I'm sure she wasn't 12

And while the innocent igbos were fighting to protect themselves Ojukwu, the hero, ordered the invasion of western Nigeria. The mid-west was overrun by biafran soldiers and they went as far as Ore. Closing in on lagos. Hmmmn open your nose and smell some imperialistic appetite bro

You have simply expresses your ignorance of military tactics, you have never heard that "attack is the best form of defence?"

dafur

I stand to be corrected, I can't remember any of the wars fought in the recent time that the protagonist of the war didn't think that they will triumph, but alas they fail.

Hitler with all his might, panzers, u-boats and Conc. camps believed that he will annihilate the Jews and conquer the world - of course you do not need to be reminded that he failed flat.

The Soviet Union believed so much that they will win the cold war - what happened? Instead they got disintegrated

From the President Bush's projections he told the American people that the Taliban in Afghanistan will be smoked out the caves and summarily finished off in 2 weeks - We know what has happened.

Need we mention Bush colossal failure in the war against terrorism in Iraq? While not forgetting what happened to the Americans in the Vietnam War or the Britons in the Falkland war.

You see dafur, it is so easy to sit in the comfort of you room with the luxury of a PC and be cranking texts over the internet with your distorted perception of events that you never witnessed first hand.

If you are truly Igbo, you know that our people say "ejighi mgbagbu agha ogu" meaning - you can't because someone will be injured or killed avoid a fight.
If ndi Igbo didn't go into the war as they did in 1967, it would have been recorded as the greatest act of cowardice in man's history.

Point to note for gullible minds: ndi Igbo did not go into the war because they think they will win as dafur will want you to believe, they were simply defending themselves from an impending annihilation from the Nigeria State.

dafur

You have an excellent command of English language and appear to also know how to present and express your views. Armed with these skills, how so easy it is to deceive gullible minds reading your apostacy.

The issue of what lead to the war in 1967 have been thoroughly dealt with in other threads, and you knew very well that it is not the topic of this thread. But in your desperate  but failed effort to distort and twist facts and records to discredit Ikemba you cleverly like every saboteur does chose to run when nothing is chasing you.

Whatever your new-informed views in 2008 of what happened in 1967 cannot change the facts and history.

Though like Ogidiboy said, I think you are an impostor

People let's stay on the topic of this thread.

ifyalways:
@youngies as if na i maghi ihe testimony bu before.

Ify gbara ogwu gi nuo biko

eldee:
Bro, u beat me flawless.
Mayne, I never even stopped to check out Mandela's profile.
But I think Mandela is no longer as active as he used to be.
More like Pope John Paul in his last days.
Oprah has a talk show, her voice is heard almost everyday.

I don't you also checked out thread topic very well, there was no clause attached like active or inactive

presido1:
Kariwa nwunne,
Ma cheta kwa na
Anaghi ahapu ebe ana echi nze gawa ebe ana aru agwu. ya gazie

I na m anu ihe o na da!

Mana odoro gi anya na aka gbajie igwe ujo atua osisi
If the iron is broken with bare hands, then the wood be scared to death!

ok try this:

okpara nze na nze n'eze ihe nze zere na nza nze

presido1:
Agadi nwanyi na eche ihe oga eme inine, inine ana eche ote oga eshi asa agadi nwanyi afo

o ka osiri mme!

Mana rotakwa na o bu ahu ihe ka ubi e re oba
If you discover what is greater than the farm, you sell off the barn

machi Echelon you are too much

I just checked my Igbo bible now and it is the same thing

Again,

Can someone help me out on the correct Igbo translation "Testimony"

Backslider:
This is an insult to the intelligence of the readership of Nairaland.

what is this?

why are we so biased.

we now see that education without a heart is Illiteracy of the Highest Order.

Let us read the initial post again with a heart.

Is it OBJ that Slept with his son's wife?

What disingenuity ? what an insult to a five year old child

The Issue of Odi is a Military question that needs a Military Answer.

So American Marines Kill civilians in Iraq and Bush is Prosecuted?

The Killing of the Guinean Immigrant by Police men should the governor be held?

Why the double standards?

The Police men were given a slap on the wrist

And your point is? That Gen. Obasanjo is justified because Bush is doing same? I failed to see your point

Is it OBJ that Slept with his son's wife?[/b]

Please read Gbenga's affidavict again

at the time Obj did what he did, thats in 1999, it was very incumbent it happened because odi was becomin the abode of the then growing militants, so something had to be done to check the situation,

So the justification is that Odi was becoming and not that it has become. Was Zaki-biam also becoming? Dude wake up!

idupaul:
GBENGA OBSANJO is not a stable character, so we need nt take him seriously

Though Gbenga Obasanjo is not a stable character, but he sure knows that his wife, father and father-in-law are also not stable.

Can OBJ go as low as this? Yes without a blink. A man that can wipe out an enitre village/town in cold blood without giving a hoot. OBJ is a demented soul.

The undisputable echeboy!

McKren:
I agree with most of your comments but disagree with just one thing

The victim here is not Ribadu, the victim is Nigeria

Yes the victim is Nigeria no doubt, but will their warped, myopic eyes allow them to see that? I guess not

gwam gwam gwam: tiiim yooom