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mightguy:
bro it seems kanu ipob is the only pressure hitting Nigeria only if he could listen and stop fighting for every Tom .dickkkkkk.and Harry and focus on emancipation of ndi igbo.we would Ave gone a long way

Eziokwu li kwuru nwannaa.

Area4Area:
Adaka Boro's Niger Delta republic was an only Ijaw thing, no other group was invited, read more about it. The Igbos of the SE have never told you they want a country of their own, how much more the SS Igbos but you feel you can speak for everyone.

Nobody ever agreed to be Nigerian but we are all Nigerians today, not of our own making, but the making of the British

The Biafran agitators want referendum where everyone can finally have the opportunity they have never had of choosing what they want to be

Unless people like you think it is a bad thing for people to choose their destiny

pazienza:



An independent Niger delta free from Abuja control,serves Biafra interest more than Niger delta still a part of Nigeria and controlled by Abuja.

It is to Biafra interest that Niger delta becomes independent once we leave Nigeria.
It will make things easier for us, as per our quest for a negotiated sea corridor through IMO river, to Atlantic via minority controlled Rivers down south. An independent Niger delta republic will be easier to negotiate with than one controlled by Abuja that will be tinted with lots of myopic Igbophobia, I would imagine.

I agree that an independent Niger Delta Republic is to Biafras interest. What I disagree with is that it is anybody's job, except themselves, to give it to them.

IPOB and MASSOB have been bleeding and sweating for years to bring Biafra to the national consciousness. There isnt one single organisation out there championing the cause of a Niger Delta Republic

What have these tribes ever done to promote Niger Delta Republic? Nothing

The only time you ever hear of Niger Delta Republic is when Ijaws celebrate Adaka Boro day.

Everybody should carry his own cross

Chiwude:
My brother, the deed has been done. If and if led us to entrusting leadership on a marxist and young Ojukwu. The federal forces, had we acted tactically had no business defeating us in that war. All our father's needed do was allow the elders taken seat by guiding Ojukwu, failure to accept that would have pushed him to the back seat while someone else takes the realm. The federal forces would have been decimated with the elders agreeing a deal with the Soviets.
The same thing that panned out then, is still happening now with Nnamdi Kanu. When anybody questioning his pattern is castigated in similar way our father's cheered Ojukwu while chastising the elders.
We seem not to have learnt our lesson and rather following similar path with Kanu.

Thank you....

I ve always had my reservations on Nnamdi Kanu.

I really realy want Biafra but not with Nnamdi as Captain. That guy lacked the desired qualities of a leader....which is listening to ideas aside his own.

I wish i can go back in time and warn that Foolish Zik.

Thanks.
This is on part that is usually missing in the genesis of the Nigerian civil war.

APCLyingBastard:
Exercise Damisa


Damisa is the Hausa word for “Leopard”. Code-name for the Kaduna component of the January 15, 1966 mutiny

MoIbrahim:
Thanks.
This is on part that is usually missing in the genesis of the Nigerian civil war.

No. This was just a brash reaction to the northern Fulani supremacist agenda.

Ahmadu Bello and his stooge Tafa Balewa were bent on fulanization agenda.

This is what led to the coup.

Funny how the same Fulanis then switched the tables round to accuse the Igbos of trying to dominate Nigeria while they had been doing the same exact thing since 1960!

Zik(Mr one Nigeria, fought against self government even when the golden opportunity was presented to him by the British... the fool rather opted for alliance with the North) and Aguiyi Ironsi(this idiot was warned repeatedly by his people against pandering to the North just to be on their good side... the signs of a revenge coup were clear, yet he failed to impose his authority and stop it before it escalated... at the end the same Northerners whose aSS he was ignominiously kissing... ended up wasting him) those two men were the biggest mistakes to Igbos, infact we can argue that those two characters, are the reason why we are stuck in these predicament and mess of a country today. Honestly in hindsight, I wonder why Nzeogwu and his boys didn't kill Ironsi and Zik... only if...

APCLyingBastard:
Gwodo-Gwodo


Biafran nickname for very huge Sahelian mercenaries recruited mainly from Chad, Niger Republic and Mali by Nigerian Federal forces during the course of the war.

The Gwodo-Gwodo were implicated in numerous gross war crimes and operated under a Jihadist mentality on the hapless Christian civilian population. They were rarely engaged in military operations in retaking Biafra but as an "ethnic cleansing" and genocidal unit on Biafran towns and villages following their capture by Federal forces.

Those are Fulani herdsmen of today....their Deal with federal government is to be allowed grazing of their cattle in South East after the war

BoboNkiti19:
Zik(Mr one Nigeria, fought against self government even when the golden opportunity was presented to him... the fool opted for alliance with the North) and Aguiyi Ironsi(this idiot was warned by his people against pandering to the North just to be on their good side... the signs of a revenge coup were clear, yet he failed to impose his authority and stop it... at the end the same Northerners whose aSS he was ignominiously kissing... ended up wasting him) those two men were the biggest mistakes to Igbos, infact we can argue that those two characters, are the reason why we are stuck in these predicament and mess of a country today. Honestly in hindsight, I wonder why Nzeogwu and his boys didn't kill Ironsi and Zik... only if...

Ironsi was at a dinner party on board a vessel anchored in the Lagos Marina.

They waited for him to disembark but he never did and other events diverted the coup plotters.

Azikiwe was not in the country on the day of the coup.

You must know that the Nigerian Army back then did not have any intelligence unit that could supply them up to date information on their targets and so the coupists just went and barged on the doors of their targets hoping to meet them in bed with their pyjamas.

In hindsight, it was the worst coup ever staged!

The Nigerian Police E-Branch (Espionage) already knew months back that a coup was about to take place.

The coup leaders had been brazenly recruiting officers and men into their folly by interacting with them in mess halls trying to gauge their political leanings and perceptions of the govt.

Kaduna Nzeagwu had been doing military drills in the dead of the night around Ahmadu Bello's residence for weeks prior that the Sarduna had to raise an alarm and report the troop movements to the Police.

There was no way such an amateur coup plot would have succeeded anywhere on earth today!

Unless it was meant to happen.

I am damn sure Nzeagwy's coup just like Dimka's was backed by MI6.

They knew that the coup will definitely result in outright war.

They knew the Coup plotters were die hard Marxists who wanted to usher in a powerful central govt which will inevitably end with northern control from where the recently discovered oil Wells can be exploited at the expense of the relatively more intelligent southerners.

Just like Dimka's coup which was meant to usher in another round of war beteen middle belt and Muslim north, they knew very well that war will break out from where they would supply obsolete WW2 surplus weapons to sell to the Nigerian govt in return of control of the oil Wells.

Nzeagwu was a fool.

letu:
That's exactly also my line of thought because this online/ nairaland strategy of sending such messages to Igbo' s and there South South Nigeria is/ may not be enough.

How about we form a closed Facebook group on one hand, to go together with a close WhatsApp group on another hand. At least it will be solely on hip and stringent face verification. Let's start from there. What do you say to that effect.

Area4Area:
Adaka Boro's Niger Delta republic was an only Ijaw thing, no other group was invited, read more about it. The Igbos of the SE have never told you they want a country of their own, how much more the SS Igbos but you feel you can speak for everyone.

What about,why are you speaking for and about the Igbos?!

All your posts are ALL ABOUT IGBOS, ain't you ashamed!?
Don't you have something else to do with your life?!

APCLyingBastard:
'Good morning’ artillery barrage

Biafran nickname for highly predictable Federal Nigerian Army harassing artillery fire aimed at nobody in particular, usually the trees and bushes, but occurring at exactly the same times every morning. Used as an “alarm clock” by Biafran units.

ha this cracked me up

Whatever, Operation Damisa is one act that is usually deliberately left unsaid. And, was that really a coup or a mutiny?

APCLyingBastard:


No. This was just a brash reaction to the northern Fulani supremacist agenda.

Ahmadu Bello and his stooge Tafa Balewa were bent on fulanization agenda.

This is what led to the coup.

Funny how the same Fulanis then switched the tables round to accuse the Igbos of trying to dominate Nigeria while they had been doing the same exact thing since 1960!

gidgiddy:


I agree that an independent Niger Delta Republic is to Biafras interest. What I disagree with is that it is anybody's job, except themselves, to give it to them.

IPOB and MASSOB have been bleeding and sweating for years to bring Biafra to the national consciousness. There isnt one single organisation out there championing the cause of a Niger Delta Republic

What have these tribes ever done to promote Niger Delta Republic? Nothing

The only time you ever hear of Niger Delta Republic is when Ijaws celebrate Adaka Boro day.

Everybody should carry his own cross

this is to show u that they are not serious .and should be Left

fx45:
You're such a pathetic eyesore... How do you even sleep at night with all the hate and bitterness?

APCLyingBastard:


No. This was just a brash reaction to the northern Fulani supremacist agenda.

Ahmadu Bello and his stooge Tafa Balewa were bent on fulanization agenda.

This is what led to the coup.

Funny how the same Fulanis then switched the tables round to accuse the Igbos of trying to dominate Nigeria while they had been doing the same exact thing since 1960!

, , What were the Igbos doing in the civil service of the north, even after the exit of the British?.
Igbos keep replacing one Igbo civil servant with another, or have you guys not heard?.
Amodu Bello spoke against it and he was labelled an Igbo hater, was it not the same reason why AKINTOLA had to die?, he only asked a simple question, HOW can Yorubas be employed as gardner's and cleaners only, at the University of Ibadan?, are there no Yorubas that can qualify as an ordinary clerk?
Is this not the same reason, why your people are organizing o to ge, for Tinubu in Lagos.
What I have come to understand about you people, is that any leader that has the interest of his people at heart, is an enemy of the Igbos.
Thank God apart from history, our discussions, are now in the open.
We can now sit and analyse whats going on now, to help us have a better understanding of what happened in the past, and why we are where we are now.

Best thread I've read through in a while.

BoboNkiti19:
Zik(Mr one Nigeria, fought against self government even when the golden opportunity was presented to him by the British... the fool rather opted for alliance with the North) and Aguiyi Ironsi(this idiot was warned repeatedly by his people against pandering to the North just to be on their good side... the signs of a revenge coup were clear, yet he failed to impose his authority and stop it before it escalated... at the end the same Northerners whose aSS he was ignominiously kissing... ended up wasting him) those two men were the biggest mistakes to Igbos, infact we can argue that those two characters, are the reason why we are stuck in these predicament and mess of a country today. Honestly in hindsight, I wonder why Nzeogwu and his boys didn't kill Ironsi and Zik... only if...

Ifeajuna and Okafor were responsible for taking care of Ironsi and not Nzeogwu. Again, Ifeajuna was the leader of the mutineers and not Nzeogwu. Nzeogwu executed his part of the mutiny excellently while Ifeajuna failed woefully due to incompetence and clannishness.

APCLyingBastard:


Ironsi was at a dinner party on board a vessel anchored in the Lagos Marina.

They waited for him to disembark but he never did and other events diverted the coup plotters.

Azikiwe was not in the country on the day of the coup.

You must know that the Nigerian Army back then did not have any intelligence unit that could supply them up to date information on their targets and so the coupists just went and barged on the doors of their targets hoping to meet them in bed with their pyjamas.

In hindsight, it was the worst coup ever staged!

The Nigerian Police E-Branch (Espionage) already knew months back that a coup was about to take place.

The coup leaders had been brazenly recruiting officers and men into their folly by interacting with them in mess halls trying to gauge their political leanings and perceptions of the govt.

Kaduna Nzeagwu had been doing military drills in the dead of the night around Ahmadu Bello's residence for weeks prior that the Sarduna had to raise an alarm and report the troop movements to the Police.

There was no way such an amateur coup plot would have succeeded anywhere on earth today!

Unless it was meant to happen.

I am damn sure Nzeagwy's coup just like Dimka's was backed by MI6.

They knew that the coup will definitely result in outright war.

They knew the Coup plotters were die hard Marxists who wanted to usher in a powerful central govt which will inevitably end with northern control from where the recently discovered oil Wells can be exploited at the expense of the relatively more intelligent southerners.

Just like Dimka's coup which was meant to usher in another round of war beteen middle belt and Muslim north, they knew very well that war will break out from where they would supply obsolete WW2 surplus weapons to sell to the Nigerian govt in return of control of the oil Wells.

Nzeagwu was a fool.

Nzeogwu was no fool. He was a very brilliant officer who executed his part of the mutiny successfully. He took effective control of the istration of northern Nigeria only to be betrayed by fellow Igbo officers like Ironsi, Ojukwu, Madiebo. Ifeajuna the leader of the mutiny ran away to Ghana immediately things went bad while Nzeogwu and others like Ademoyega stood back to face the consequences of their actions.

If Ifeajuna and Okafor had taken care of Ironsi as planned, the coup would have succeeded but no, Okafor deliberately allowed Ironsi to get away. Ironsi ed through the mutineers road block to get to Dodan barracks without anybody stopping him. So, your argument that they couldn’t get him because he was on a vessel is not true. He didn’t use magical powers to appear at Dodan barracks.

Even at that, the mutineers recorded partial success since they achieved their aim of changing the Balewa government. If Ironsi had kept his promise of incorporating Nzeogwu into the new government, things might have turned out differently. But no, he arrested him immediately he landed in Lagos and started listening to people like Ojukwu.

gidgiddy:


Nobody ever agreed to be Nigerian but we are all Nigerians today, not of our own making, but the making of the British

The Biafran agitators want referendum where everyone can finally have the opportunity they have never had of choosing what they want to be

Unless people like you think it is a bad thing for people to choose their destiny

So Britain made us all Nigerians which is their right BTW, but you think a bloody IPOB can make Niger delta Biafrans abi?
If you want a referendum, go for constitutional review not noise making.
The truth is this; most of you IPOB sympathizers are petty unlettered scums that think the opinion of a lunatic like Kanu counts for anything.

APCLyingBastard:


Ironsi was at a dinner party on board a vessel anchored in the Lagos Marina.

They waited for him to disembark but he never did and other events diverted the coup plotters.

Azikiwe was not in the country on the day of the coup.

You must know that the Nigerian Army back then did not have any intelligence unit that could supply them up to date information on their targets and so the coupists just went and barged on the doors of their targets hoping to meet them in bed with their pyjamas.

In hindsight, it was the worst coup ever staged!

The Nigerian Police E-Branch (Espionage) already knew months back that a coup was about to take place.

The coup leaders had been brazenly recruiting officers and men into their folly by interacting with them in mess halls trying to gauge their political leanings and perceptions of the govt.

Kaduna Nzeagwu had been doing military drills in the dead of the night around Ahmadu Bello's residence for weeks prior that the Sarduna had to raise an alarm and report the troop movements to the Police.

There was no way such an amateur coup plot would have succeeded anywhere on earth today!

Unless it was meant to happen.

I am damn sure Nzeagwy's coup just like Dimka's was backed by MI6.

They knew that the coup will definitely result in outright war.

They knew the Coup plotters were die hard Marxists who wanted to usher in a powerful central govt which will inevitably end with northern control from where the recently discovered oil Wells can be exploited at the expense of the relatively more intelligent southerners.

Just like Dimka's coup which was meant to usher in another round of war beteen middle belt and Muslim north, they knew very well that war will break out from where they would supply obsolete WW2 surplus weapons to sell to the Nigerian govt in return of control of the oil Wells.

Nzeagwu was a fool.

How old are you?

pazienza:


I am not a fan of Zik.
But I don't see any wrong in his move to the East. You only see wrong in it because he is Igbo. And I ask, if he was the most capable hand for the post, why should his ethnicity matter? Is this the type of Biafra we want to create?
The Biafra where we would sacrifice competence,
at the altar of carrying unwilling partner along. this was how Zik got it in his mindset that the North was essential to Igboland and must remain in same geographical entity with Ndiigbo, even if it meant relegating Ndiigbo to backseat and handing all power to the North.

You later day Biafrans should watch it. I see similar trait in you as in Zik you are castigating.

In Zik era, the North had no interest in Nigerian independence, they preferred an arrangement under British colonialism.
The Niger Delta I know today are not interested in Biafra/Independence from Nigeria. They mostly want a renegotiated Nigeria (call it resource control or restructuring) under the Fulani control.

Zik was infatuated with the North vast arable mineral rich lands and felt it was a necessity for Igboland to stay attached to the North if we must become great.
The IPOB led Biafrans are infatuated with the sea coasts and crude oil wealth of Niger delta, and are today erroneously thinking we can't be great without staying attached to them. It's same Zik myopia.

Zik set out to do everything possible including happily playing the ceremonial role to woo the North into accepting Nigeria with Ndiigbo.

The Biafrans under Ipob are doing same. They will take all sorts of poo and insults from minorities, in senseless bid to keep them part of Igboland. You yourself are already conditioning Ndiigbo to accept ceremonial role in Biafra, if only to keep the minorities in it.


The North were comfortable with colonial Nigeria, but would gladly accept driver seat of new Nigeria that Zik and co fought for with their blood.

The Niger deltans are proudly one Nigerianists, but would gladly accept Biafra if Ndiigbo can guarantee them front seat and accept backseat, they will not fight or shed blood for Biafra with you. Yet They don't want share power in Biafra with you. To this end, the Capital of Biafra must be in Minority territory and not Igboland, and the leader of this Biafra must not be Igbo.Anything else on the contrary would be Igbo domination and God forbid they be part of it.
The minorities would rather stay in Nigeria under Fulani than share power in Biafra with Igbos. Don't even talk about Igbo becoming the first Biafran president of Biafra or in charge of Biafra.

The Nigeria Zik negotiated in bid to carry along unwilling partners in the North, was the one that condemned Unborn Igbo generations to a position in which they have to fight again for freedom from Fulanis.

The type of Biafra Ipob and all Igbos who are proposing a multi ethnic Biafra will bequeath us, will bequeath us with, will be one in which our Unborn generations would still one day have to fight to free themselves from the minorities.

It is not enough typing this here, please find a way of sending this message to that Nnamdi Kanu. His pattern and style is the reason why many intelligent Igbos have disowned him.

Kanu all the way from far away Britain, sat down and drew a map of Biafra without any consultations whatsoever. Just imagine all the insults we get from the minorities just because of this Kanu and his lunatics.

It is very difficult having a reasonable conversation with IPOB . I am wondering the kind of country they are trying to Form. It is definitely not the kind I want for myself and children unborn.

Thanks.

kettykin:


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 hate to read this.....
But it is the painful truth.....


My people being slaughtered and recompensated with 20 pounds....and yet someone said I should die for Nigeria...


I would rather die for Biafra a million times than to serve this bloody mere geographical area....


As Biafrans we must never forget...
DUM SPIRO SPERO

laudate:

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....

Will you shattaaaaappp and go back to school...

Ojukwu never invaded their land....
Onye ara

pazienza:


There is no evidence to prove that Igbos looked down or oppressed the Eastern minorities.

Igbos naturally are competitive and even amongst Igbo tribes, it would appear we look down on Igbo clans perceived as lagging behind others. This competition transends even to family settings.
That's how the Igbo society works.

Ndiigbo was fair in our dealings with the Eastern minorities. The Willink report confirmed this.
I currently have a book on the sittings of major projects across Eastern region by the Eastern region government, and it could be seen clearly that the distribution of projects and their completion were done on equity and fairness for all parts of the region.
The same was applicable in employment and scholarship programs.

Eastern region was created in 1939, where was the capital in 1939?
It would appear to me that the only time Igbo- eastern minorities union work is when Igbos are the ones taking the backseat and the minorities are the ones taking the driving seat, like when GEJ was the president with Igbo full . Whereas whenever an Igbo takes a front seat, the minorities will never grant us but would start screeching Igbo domination from roof tops, like when Zik contested for president in 1979 and 1983, he got the least amount of votes from the then Eastern minorities states of Rivers and Cross Rivers, while Shagari and Awolowo got more votes than Zik from those ends, simply because to them, to an Igbo simply means Igbo domination.

This is why personally, I'm in of independent Niger delta republic and vehemently against a Biafra with Eastern minorities, because it would appear that such Biafra will be another Nigeria 2.0, where Zik(Igbo) had to become subjugated to minority Fulani, just to woo them to remain in Nigeria and to prove to them that he(Zik)/Igbo have no domination agenda.
If we accept such Biafra of Igbo perpetual subjugation in other to accommodate the minorities, then a future will come when Igbo generations unborn would again have to fight again for their freedom from the minorities,as we the current Igbo generation are currently doing against the Fulanis and their lackeys.

pazienza:


There is no evidence to prove that Igbos looked down or oppressed the Eastern minorities.

Igbos naturally are competitive and even amongst Igbo tribes, it would appear we look down on Igbo clans perceived as lagging behind others. This competition transends even to family settings.
That's how the Igbo society works.

Ndiigbo was fair in our dealings with the Eastern minorities. The Willink report confirmed this.
I currently have a book on the sittings of major projects across Eastern region by the Eastern region government, and it could be seen clearly that the distribution of projects and their completion were done on equity and fairness for all parts of the region.
The same was applicable in employment and scholarship programs.

Eastern region was created in 1939, where was the capital in 1939?
It would appear to me that the only time Igbo- eastern minorities union work is when Igbos are the ones taking the backseat and the minorities are the ones taking the driving seat, like when GEJ was the president with Igbo full . Whereas whenever an Igbo takes a front seat, the minorities will never grant us but would start screeching Igbo domination from roof tops, like when Zik contested for president in 1979 and 1983, he got the least amount of votes from the then Eastern minorities states of Rivers and Cross Rivers, while Shagari and Awolowo got more votes than Zik from those ends, simply because to them, to an Igbo simply means Igbo domination.

This is why personally, I'm in of independent Niger delta republic and vehemently against a Biafra with Eastern minorities, because it would appear that such Biafra will be another Nigeria 2.0, where Zik(Igbo) had to become subjugated to minority Fulani, just to woo them to remain in Nigeria and to prove to them that he(Zik)/Igbo have no domination agenda.
If we accept such Biafra of Igbo perpetual subjugation in other to accommodate the minorities, then a future will come when Igbo generations unborn would again have to fight again for their freedom from the minorities,as we the current Igbo generation are currently doing against the Fulanis and their lackeys.

I sincerely stand with you....

Non Ndi Igbo wouldn't understand how we work...

We Ndi Igbo should have our Biafra while the ND should have their separate country

Well I think so to. Calabar as capital would have done a lot of good to the unity of the eastern region. Minorities would have really felt a sense of brotherhood and even the southern Cameroon's would have voted to remain with us. Everything just happened so fast and before you could say Jack the spanner had found itself in the wheel.
I feel the eastern region was getting there before the arrival of Zik from the west. People now understood that Zik return to the Eastern region destroyed the fabrics that held us as a people. Eyo Ita's premiership would have taken us to greater heights. Zik should have remained in the federal and slug it out with Awolowo and Balewa and not coming home as a crybaby to seek for relevance. Even if he had return, it shouldn't be at the mercy of the leadership of the Eastern region. It's just a pity we lost the plot.

Zik was more of a problem than a good character

abeg...make Yoruba people see code names foe war events.

Not bow and arrow nonsense and they still lost ILORIN...spits