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joefelin2345:

Dear Nairalanders, these type of posts will not help us. Let's us respect ourselves n stop being ethnocentric. I am a Yoruba, went to UNN n did my NYSC in Kadawa Kano state. I had also have other opportunities to travel to other parts of the country. Every tribes in Nigeria has good n bad people. I will enjoy everyone to read Arthur Nwankwo's book: Nigeria The Challenge of Biafra to borrow some lessons from it. It was these types of posts that led to killing of more than 3m innocent souls in the senseless civil war of the late 1960s. Let us see good things in other tribes n work together towards the betterment of our great nation. Thank you n God bless you all real good.

How nice of you.

You gallantly ignored the jibes and insults from your eastern brothers and now you are forming "I am Yoruba" to attack my post.

Ma tan ara e.

There is nothing I have written there that's a lie or insulting.

Maybe you should read Chinua Achebe's "There was a Country" so that you can hear it from the horse's mouth. Read how he describes his people despite the fact that the book was meant to denigrate other ethnicities.

It is my singular post that is going to cause another civil war.

The myriads of insults against the Yorubas, particularly the Yoruba Moslems will bind Nigeria together more closely abi, or maybe your eyes filter out those ones.

I am sure you are not Yoruba.

Keep hanging on to one Nigeria like it's a talisman while the people you are defending here are labeling you as a "unity beggar".

Supersymetry:
Foolish people always think they're smart. There's IGBO proverb that says:
Asị gị, ghọta ụka g'echuw'aka n'elu.meaning you are told to catch the topic (understand it) instead you raised your hands literally.
What he meant was that IGBO men are independent minded and have self-respect.

Lol...Independent, Maybe..... but they lack complete self respect....I have a tenant who is Igbo....after owing me rent for a year I asked him to move out....then he called lawyers to argue for a compensation saying the shop he built ( built without my permission and only told me when it was completed) was a modification and he should be compensated for it.....is that part of your self respect? Or is the Igbo client I rendered service to for a cost and has refused to pay me part of the self respect....Na you all just like using people till they get tired of you and your ways and it's hurting your standing as a people but you all keep your shoulders high.....I guess that's about the only good thing about the igbos even in great shame they stand tall like they did not just sh*t the bed.

antadiop2:


You haven’t been following the debate from the beginning. I said from the start that Biafra had already called off the war ! So why would they return to a war they’ve already called off ?

Hence no one on this forum has been able to answer my first question?

Which battle did Nigeria win to end the Biafran war ?
Please name the battle the date it took place and location it took place.

I tired of the hide and seek comments. If I don’t get a factual and historical answer, I’m out folks.

God bless you all

Lol....thats your excuse sounds like something my 6 year old nephew would come up with.....it's like saying because I wasn't holding the pad so your last goal doesn't count....they should have continued and added another million to the already lost 3 million souls.

antadiop2:


But you’re wrong and he’s right! If Biafra had allies as you said why were they always short of weapons and why did they not ever have game changing and war winning weapons?

But Nigeria on the other hand was armed to teeth by world powers.

The British sold weapons at 75% discount to Nigeria, virtually free and even ran out of ammunition to sell it sold its own armed forces munitions.
Russia sold heavy guns 122mm artillery pieces the best at the time and mig and illyshin fighter jets and got the unfinished Ajaokuta steel complex.
But Biafra manufactured 56% of her own war weapons and bought 40% on the black market at exorbitant prices and the rest from etc.

God bless

Google is your friend and it's 2020....please stop been stupid and shaming us as a people because when you go out there they won't categories you as an igbo man but a Nigerian.

I thought kneeling and prostrating for your fellow men was part of your culture and nothing is wrong with it? Why so offended at a simple sentence?

PapaBaby:
Abaribe and FFK can never be crushed, they're two of a kind.

You are right.

Two irrelevant nonentities

Again I ask, if nothing is wrong with kneeling for your fellow man as you always claim, why are you triggered?

FrLukas:


Of course you read Obasanjo's book, My Command. I have read it. I have also read Alabi Isama's book, "A tragedy of Victory". One of the most complete first eye witness narrative of what happened at the theatre of war.

That book has over a thousand real life war pictures taken by the author himself. It was him and Akinrinade who did most of the job before Obasanjo, came and took victory for what he did not do.

If as you claim you have read many of the civil war memoirs and books and you haven't read that of Alabi Isama, then I have to it to you that you haven't read any.

The book is out in the stores. Go get one and read. Then maybe you will see the war from another perspective.

Note that while Akinrinade and Alabi Isama engaged the female of the military in signifying duties, Obasanjo got there be turned them to easy lay for the tired soldiers. I bet Obasanjo didn't include that in his "My Command".

I have read both. And I can authoritatively tell you that you haven't read any civil war book if that's the only one you read.

Go get Isama's book and come back for a debate.

You said there was a shouting match. After the shouting match, the Biafran side signed that the war was over. Does that make sense to you?

What were they shouting over?

What was the topic of discussion that led to the shouting match.

We have pictures of Obasanjo g and receiving the surrender of Biafran soldiers.

Where are the pictures of the shouting match?

I actually have Alabi isama’s Book which though is a good book, fall down because it starts out as a disrespectful rebuttal to Obasanjo and is very emotional book coming from a military man.
Anyway he wasn’t at Dodan barracks so was not a witness to the heated debate that took place.

Like I said I’ve given two books one Yoruba and one Igbo to create balance.

God bless

J111333:
Oh yes we don't.


Those who mock us about the civil war which we held down for good three years can never last 24hours in a war with the rest of the country.

Chest beating continues

leokid866:

Google is your friend and it's 2020....please stop been stupid and shaming us as a people because when you go out there they won't categories you as an igbo man but a Nigerian.

For some reason I knew you’ll take the bait and expose you lack of academic prowess by quoting Wikipedia.
My friend that is the worst thing to do! Do you know that if you reference Wikipedia in academic research, you’ll fail ?

Why ? Because anyone can edit it to suit their personal desires.
So please I suggest you do more serious reading and research and come up with a better rebuttal.

Sorry google hasn’t been your friend this time!

God bless you

leokid866:

Google is your friend and it's 2020....please stop been stupid and shaming us as a people because when you go out there they won't categories you as an igbo man but a Nigerian.

I won’t be replying Wikipedia based answers and you’re also hurling insults instead of decent fact etc. But I’ll try answering you one more time if you drop the insults and stick to facts.

God bless you

antadiop2:


For some reason I knew you’ll take the bait and expose you lack of academic prowess by quoting Wikipedia.
My friend that is the worst thing to do! Do you know that if you reference Wikipedia in academic research, you’ll fail ?

Why ? Because anyone can edit it to suit their personal desires.
So please I suggest you do more serious reading and research and come up with a better rebuttal.

Sorry google hasn’t been your friend this time!

God bless you

So it's obvious you have been living under a rock for a long time and have long since left the modern world behind...ps the attachment is from a times write up.....there are also several videos online of French soldiers fighting alongside biafran soldiers and bringing in aid via air....I'm sure you will find them if you get closer to Google....

leokid866:

Google is your friend and it's 2020....please stop been stupid and shaming us as a people because when you go out there they won't categories you as an igbo man but a Nigerian.

Chai so despite their foreign they lost

Osaze007:


Chai so despite their foreign they lost

Galanty.

Yea, it's not in the culture of an Igbo man to kneel down....
Mba nu.

leokid866:

So it's obvious you have been living under a rock for a long time and have long since left the modern world behind...ps the attachment is from a times write up.....there are also several videos online of French soldiers fighting alongside biafran soldiers and bringing in aid via air....I'm sure you will find them if you get closer to Google....

Igbos and truth is like salt and worm

leokid866:

Google is your friend and it's 2020....please stop been stupid and shaming us as a people because when you go out there they won't categories you as an igbo man but a Nigerian.

Can also point out an error in the Wikipedia page you posted and why it’s an academic faux pas ?

Your page says ed Biafra when as a country clearly didn’t exist in 1967.

So take note and stand corrected and stop � quoting Wikipedia in serious debate etc

God bless you

ABARIBE. God’s Gift to Ndiigbo

antadiop2:


Can also point out an error in the Wikipedia page you posted and why it’s an academic faux pas ?

Your page says ed Biafra when as a country clearly didn’t exist in 1967.

So take note and stand corrected and stop � quoting Wikipedia in serious debate etc

God bless you

So it's now obvious whatever money your parents spent on your education is lost.....cause a simple Google search would tell you as a country was formed January 18 1871.

leokid866:

So it's obvious you have been living under a rock for a long time and have long since left the modern world behind...ps the attachment is from a times write up.....there are also several videos online of French soldiers fighting alongside biafran soldiers and bringing in aid via air....I'm sure you will find them if you get closer to Google....

But french investment in Nigeria during the war was £200m so what are you on about.

They never recognised Biafra, if so show it, they never sold us war winning weapons but rather small arm to help us survive but Biafra even used those small arm to stalemate Nigeria in mid 1968 hence after operation OAU by Nigeria, they never captured any serious Biafran objectives till late 1969.

Mind you never gave us any discount on weapons sales unlike the British 75% to Nigeria.

God bless

leokid866:

So it's now obvious whatever money your parents spent on your education is lost.....cause a simple Google search would tell you as a country was formed January 18 1871.

Ha ha ha !
Ok seriously let google be your friend this time. Please check what was in 1967 and get back to me.

I can’t believe I’m having this debate. The world has really gone backwards cerebrally and you had the temerity to also insult me whilst showcasing world class ignorance.

God bless

antadiop2:


But french investment in Nigeria during the war was £200m so what are you on about.

They never recognised Biafra, if so show it, they never sold us war winning weapons but rather small arm to help us survive but Biafra even used those small arm to stalemate Nigeria in mid 1968 hence after operation OAU by Nigeria, they never captured any serious Biafran objectives till late 1969.

Mind you never gave us any discount on weapons sales unlike the British 75% to Nigeria.

God bless

Please go to bed.....and then tomorrow sign up to any generational university to have yourself re-educated.

antadiop2:


Ha ha ha !
Ok seriously let google be your friend this time. Please check what was in 1967 and get back to me.

I can’t believe I’m having this debate. The world has really gone backwards cerebrally and you had the temerity to also insult me whilst showcasing world class ignorance.

God bless

Okay I'll bite educate me ....seriously I'm here with a pen and paper in humble spirit waiting to learn from you what was in 1967. In all humbleness. Truly please educate me.

leokid866:

Please go to bed.....and then tomorrow sign up to any generational university to have yourself re-educated.

Ha ha ha, I take it you’ve seen your world class error and why Wikipedia is not academic?

It was east and west even Buhari knows this but you don’t.

No wonder you people insult each other on this forum than debate facts learn and grow and build a healthy nation. Each day it’s Yoruba this igbos that etc hate multiplies and is it any wonder there’s so much death and destruction and poverty in the land?

It’s the energy you guys give off that is part of malaise we’re all suffering.

Noticed that I’ve never insulted you all through I may have pointed out your ignorance but no personal insult and if I did forgive.

God bless

antadiop2:


Ha ha ha, I take it you’ve seen your world class error and why Wikipedia is not academic?

It was east and west even Buhari knows this but you don’t.

No wonder you people insult each other on this forum than debate facts learn and grow and build a healthy nation. Each day it’s Yoruba this igbos that etc hate multiplies and is it any wonder there’s so much death and destruction and poverty in the land?

It’s the energy you guys give off that is part of malaise we’re all suffering.

Noticed that I’ve never insulted you all through I may have pointed out your ignorance but no personal insult and if I did forgive.

God bless

Please go back to school....please I'm begging you for the sake of the future of your kids.....

goodnessme1:
Don't mind cowards and boko haram.


If the war was against Amotekun,will they survive a week.

If it was against boko haram people,will they survive three weeks.

Aunty hermaphrodite, you don't beat chest on a lost battle.

goodnessme1:
You think afonjas get sense.

Osu bringing out herself kikikiki

antadiop2:


Ha ha ha, I take it you’ve seen your world class error and why Wikipedia is not academic?

It was east and west even Buhari knows this but you don’t.

No wonder you people insult each other on this forum than debate facts learn and grow and build a healthy nation. Each day it’s Yoruba this igbos that etc hate multiplies and is it any wonder there’s so much death and destruction and poverty in the land?

It’s the energy you guys give off that is part of malaise we’re all suffering.

Noticed that I’ve never insulted you all through I may have pointed out your ignorance but no personal insult and if I did forgive.

God bless

You are dumb to use the issue of the cold war as an excuse to say did not exist as a nation during the Nigerian civil war....that was an internal struggle much like our civil but less blodied. but when it came to their foreign policy like helping the biafrans lose a war they were classified as .....not east or west ....just .....now please go to sleep and make sure you enroll in some history classes in the morning and stop shaming us as a people

Obiagu01:




the battle British fought for you under three years you mean?.

Yes na. We all saw the British armies in war front fight biafran cockroaches.

leokid866:

Please go back to school....please I'm begging you for the sake of the future of your kids.....

Refresh your memory