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"Shore Battery’


Biafran home-made weapon system. It was a combination of many different weapons including Ogbunigwe, conventional bombs, rockets etc. set up together for mass effect, electronically connected in series along coastlines and detonated in predetermined sequences. The idea was to make casualty evacuation, retreat and tactical dispersal extremely hazardous from secondary detonations.

Taffie” or “Taffy”

Nickname for a Welsh born South African mercenary (Major Williams) fighting for Biafra along with Steiner.

"Tel”

An important chemical used in petroleum blending by the Biafran Refinery and Fuel Group

"To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done”

Federal Nigerian wartime slogan that is still regurgitated till date by staunch Pro "One Nigeria" and anti Biafrans alike.

"Tortoise Division”

Federal Nigerian Army HQ nickname for its 2nd Infantry Division – which made very little progress after March 1968.

Uzuakoli Boy


Biafran nickname for a recommissioned Federal Army Ferret armored vehicle captured at Uzuakoli

Vandals


Name frequently used on Biafra radio to describe federal forces.

"You are keeping Unity between us”


Federal Nigerian wartime slogan derived from YAKUBU, Major General Gowon’s first name.

Operation “Zaki”


Zaki is the Hausa word for Lion. This was the alleged Igbo inspired ethnic cleansing operation against the North to follow-up ‘Operation Kura’ in 1966. The existence of such an operation has never been independently confirmed. Nevertheless such propaganda was widely disseminated in certain northern circles and may well have been believed.

That's all I got...

Feel free to add yours.

APCLyingBastard:
RAP


Acronym for Biafran “Research and Production” Organization. This organization brought together and coordinated the efforts of different science groups focusing on Airports and roads, chemicals and materials, Heavy equipment and industrial materials, weapons production, biological processes, fuel refining, rocketry, explosives, electronics and essential foods.

Insightful

APCLyingBastard:
"Sabo”

Nickname for “saboteur”, a common Biafran tendency, encouraged by the Ojukwu regime, to refer to any Biafran commander who lost a battle to federal forces irrespective of the odds. Virtually all senior Biafran commanders (except General Odumegwu Ojukwu) were branded saboteurs at one point or another. The custom began after the disastrous withdrawal of the Biafran 101 Division from its ill-fated Midwest campaign of 1967.

Even civilians were hounded and branded as saboteurs or 'sabo,' most times without any just cause. Especially those from minority groups....

laudate:

Even civilians were hounded and branded as saboteurs or 'sabo,' most times without any just cause. Especially those from minority groups....

Savior of minority group....lol.

laudate:

Even civilians were hounded and branded as saboteurs or 'sabo,' most times without any just cause. Especially those from minority groups....

Ojukwu was a charismatic individual but not in any form a good commander and leader.

He became very paranoid during the course of the war but we can't blame him totally because there were too many Marxists within the Biafran ranks who were against Biafran indepence chief of which was Ifeanjua.

As for the minorities, the Igbos h cause to worry about their loyalty because the advancung Federal forces played a game of hearts and minds when they occupied those areas by pampering them with food, medicine and retuning life back to normal. But this stopped when the federal forces took over any Igbo area as the policy was to bring in the Gwodo-Gwodo Chadian jihadist to kill and rape to their hearts desire.

You should also factor one very important fact and that is the Biafran declaration did not consider the views and opinions of the minority tribes in eastern Nigeria.

The minorities had no need to fight for what they saw as an Igbo war. After all the Igbos did suppress the Adaka Boro Ijaw insurgency towards seccesion, Igbo "dominance" also saw Western Cameroun plebiscite and Enugu which replaced the more historic and economical relevant Calabar as an Igbo plot to further concentrate power to themselves. This is akin to how we southerners cry over Abuja and Fulani dominance of governance.

OMANBALA1:
Savior of minority group....lol.

APCLyingBastard:
Uzuakoli Boy


Biafran nickname for a recommissioned Federal Army Ferret armored vehicle captured at Uzuakoli

So much has been said about Uzuakoli , how the federal Army was given the beating of their lives ,the rallying of biafran heroism with a peom , the injury to Babangida and how uzuakoli people gave me first aid and saved his life .

I’m heading to Uzuakoli for a battle
I’m heading to Uzuakoli, but My lover cries out, she didn’t want me dead.
My lover begs me to flee,
But who will defend the land When I flee?
My sweet heart begs me to Flee,
But who will do battle when the Hausas come

With this song Biafran men marched into battle to defend their fatherland as Northern troops led by British tanks and Russian planes invaded their land to continue the Genocide that they started in the North in 1966.

Every Month of May, we Over 45, 000 innocent people, men, women, children of old Eastern Nigeria , butchered in 1966 all over Northern Nigeria just in 3 months in the first govt ed genocide in Africa.

Many were laid on rail tracks and crushed by train, men buried alive, pregnant women had their bellies ripped open,Children clubbed to death, Innocent souls whose only crime was belonging to a different ethnic group and Faith,

To the 45,000 Innocent souls whose blood was used to irrigate the deserts of Northern Nigeria, although the conspiracy of silence continues by most Nigerians, although no monuments are erected, although no atonement has been made for that unprecedented horror,their Blood continue to cry out against this nation, a nation that pretends it never happened - but we, your kins, forced to bury empty coffins, we your brothers-
WE

The Thousands and thousands uned for- in unmarked graves, from Kano to Maidugiri, to Jos to Markudi, to Zaria, to Kafanchan,to illorin,

Although Nigeria sits on these graves and pretends it didn’t happen but we in whose home steads you left empty spaces-
WE

To the he brave hearts who stood up to the British armoured cars with matchetes

Two Boys who shared a riffle so when one fell the other will pick up his gun to defend his freedom. To the men who went into battle with five rounds each and must only shoot when he was sure to kill. The men who laid down their lives so I may live
WE

My three kinsmen who volunteered in Oguta and Ontisha sectors,brave men Who never returned-still on patrol
YOUR FAMILIES

To Bruce Mayrock, an American student who set himself on fire, laid down his life to protest against the Genocide by Nigeria against its own people
WE

Artur Alves Pereira and Count Von Rosen of the Biafran airforce who came to Biafra in protest against the state sponsored pogrom
WE

To Wole Soyinka, who stood alone and insisted” the man died” who kept silent in the face of such a pogrom
WE

Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Zambia and Haiti, nations that hoisted our flags against the silence of the world
WE

All of the Research And Production unit (RAP),
with no outside help YOU demonstrated that the black man can do wonders if only he looks inwards; Home made armoured cars, rockets, beer from cassava, engine oil from coconut, the Biafran Red Devil (Amoured vehicle), the Shore Batteries, the Ogbunigwes. Your ingenuity, your bravely, today-
WE

To our brave mothers , who cooked and sent to their sons in the trenches, knowing it could be their last meal-
WE

The little boys who went “combing” many returned, many did not
WE

The World Council of Churches, The Caritas, The Red Cross who saved millions of children with food aid, despite the blockade,
WE

Millions of our Children who had no milk and died before their time
WE

Ah! Corporal Nwafor, you took in the hail of bullets from the vandals yet continued your final run towards their armoured car with a grenade in your hand, until you successfully threw the grenade into the troublesome vehicle and disabled it before you let your bullet riddled body fall to the ground and your comrades captured the precious armoured car and renamed it “Copral Nwafor”
WE

Col Patrick Achuzie-, General Alexander Madiebo, Gen. Philip Effiong, Col. Onwuatuegwu, Nkonko Ndem and all brave men who stood in the gap
WE

Odumegwu Ojukwu switched from Ball rooms to Bunkers, leaving behind a tremendous wealth to give shelter to a people faced with death, you turned artisans into fighters and scientists, your mission, to build the first black nation with an indigenous technology.

Under the pressure of mortar shells and in less than three years, you demonstrated that the black man can hold his own, but the whites didn’t seem to be comfortable with an indigenous African technology, so UK and USSR suspended their enmity and empowered their Northern stooge to distract you. The Arab League threw its weight behind the North, the rest is history

General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,Eze igbo gburugburu, oguejiofo..
WE REMEBER

May justice prevail, may peace reign, may we NEVER find a need to shed blood,May God open the eyes of this Nation to see that like the blood of Abel, the blood of the innocent Easterners shed needlessly in 1966 calls for atonement and until the Nation collectively owns up to it, it can never be free from this vicious circle.

APCLyingBastard:
"ROB”


Biafran pneumonic for “Republic of Benin”, the republic declared in the Midwest State on September 20, 1967 by Major Albert Okonkwo, acting on behalf of Ojukwu. It was a last ditch effort to win from the minority ethnic groups in that State by purporting to change its “status” as Biafran “Occupied Territory” to one of an independent nation. Less than 24 hours later the “ROB” collapsed when federal troops took Benin City, its capital.

The 101 Division, which originally invaded the State under Colonel Banjo on August 9, 1967, was later renamed the “ROB” Division. Under Colonel Achuzia, it carried out numerous raids into the Midwest in 1968 and 1969 from across the River Niger

So the mighty ancient Benin could not hold ROB and was taken under 24hrs

Chibuzoc:

So the mighty ancient Benin could not hold ROB and was taken under 24hrs

They were never interested in gaining independence back then and up till now.

APCLyingBastard:


They were never interested in gaining independence back then and up till now.

Okay one Nigeria people

Chibuzoc:

So the mighty ancient Benin could not hold ROB and was taken under 24hrs

I think this took the federal Army 3 Months and not 24 hours to retake benin

kettykin:



I think this took the federal Army 3 Months and not 24 hours to retake benin

Okay nice to know that there was once a republic of Benin

Chibuzoc:

Okay nice to know that there was once a republic of Benin

Granted personally by Ojukwu.

APCLyingBastard:


Granted personally by Ojukwu.

Benin has a monarchical system hence the autonomy to avoid clash of interest but in nigeria I guess the monarchy is not too strong because the lack autonomy. I wonder why the prefer Nigeria to ROB

7lives:
Agbari Ojukwu, meaning a the " head of Ojukwu" a big black pot we used for frying a large quantities of meat or fish.

Bwaabwabwa

Chibuzoc:

Benin has a monarchical system hence the autonomy to avoid clash of interest but in nigeria I guess the monarchy is not too strong because the lack autonomy. I wonder why the prefer Nigeria to ROB

Monarchial societies breed subservient people.

That's your answer there.

Just consider how different in outlook an average bini man is to other Niger Deltan peoples (apart from Itsekiris).

Chibuzoc:

Benin has a monarchical system hence the autonomy to avoid clash of interest but in nigeria I guess the monarchy is not too strong because the lack autonomy. I wonder why the prefer Nigeria to ROB

They preferred Nigeria to Ojukwu's rubbbish offering, because Ojukwu invaded their land under the pretext that he had come to liberate them. Was Benin or the old Midwest ever in bondage?

Liberation from who.....or from what? Who begged him? On top of that, Ejoor the military of the old Midwest had told everyone that his region was neutral in the war, and should be avoided. Did Ojukwu listen? No. He invaded them....

laudate:

They preferred Nigeria to Ojukwu's rubbbish offering, because Ojukwu invaded their land under the pretext that he had come to liberate them.

Liberation from who or from what? Who begged him? And on top of that, Ejoor the military of the old Midwest had told everyone that his region was neutral in the war, and should be avoided. Did Ojukwu listen? No. He invaded them....

From the post we just read Benin was given autonomy before the federal troops invaded ROB.
How did Ojukwu invade Benin

Chibuzoc:

From the post we just read Benin was given autonomy before the federal troops invaded ROB.
How did Ojukwu invade Benin

Which dirty autonomy? From whom? Please stop recycling the petty propaganda that was deployed during the war.

Did the Benin people, or indigenes of the old Midwest ever ask Ojukwu to liberate them, or to invade their land? NO! So which dirty autonomy is being peddled around here?

And who appointed an to rule over Benin after their land was invaded? Wasn't it Ojukwu? He also looted the Central Bank in Benin to finance his war games.

Chibuzoc:
[s]
From the post we just read Benin was given autonomy before the federal troops invaded ROB.
How did Ojukwu invade Benin[/s]

The purpose of the thread is above your knowledge. Open another thread and argue with Laudate your wife there

laudate:

Which dirty autonomy? [s]From whom? Please stop recycling the petty propaganda that was deployed during the war.

Did the Benin people, or indigenes of the old Midwest ever ask Ojukwu to liberate them, or to invade their land? NO! So which dirty autonomy is being peddled around here?

And who appointed an to rule over Benin after their land was invaded? Wasn't it Ojukwu? He also looted the Central Bank in Benin to finance his war games.[/s]

The thread is not for your banters, it's to educate people on used during the civil war. I know you always troll threads likes this, but please your husband Chibuzor and argue with him in another thread or the romance section.

Chiwude:
The thread is not for your banters, it's to educate people on used during the civil war. I know you always troll threads likes this, but please Chiwude your husband Chibuzor and argue with him in another thread or the romance section.

I did not address my remarks to you, now kindly get out of my mentions.

Chiwude:
The purpose of the thread is above your knowledge. Open another thread and argue with Laudate Chiwude your wife there