They will always beat their chest and open their loud mouths thesame way their leaders did. Ojukwu claimed to be having the largest infantry in Africa prior to civil war and when it was time to display his acclaimed bravery, he cross dress, puts on his " Aso Oke" like aba market woman and bolted to Abidjan in the middle of war like the coward he was , after leading more than 2 million ibos to death.

Gaddafi and Saddam died side by side with their people, while the overly fed Ojukwu ran to Abidjan and even shamelessly took a new wife. These brainless ediots can't still understand that their leader played " ibo sense" on them.

He was well fed like a swine, the glutton grabs every food coming as aid leaving poor children to die helplessly . what sort of leader will abandoned war fronts and relocates to a safer environment, leaving his people at the mercy of snipers? Like their leader and that old senile crippled fool, most of the ediots writing rubbish here are doing so from a safe heaven outside the country. when the time to commit and show their worth comes, they will shout genocide.

Look at how all the bytche assrrs ediots shouting Awolowo all over the place , I thought you said, the Yorubas don't possess superior intellects? How comes these ediots are crying all over the place claiming a mere civilian(Awo) defeated " the largest infantry" in Africa?

Thesame way they boasted about possessing " large cache of guns" capable of protecting their investments in Kano before elections , only for the 3 million parasites to start sending SOS from Kano after a single attack from boko haram. Pathetic!

That's ibo for you. The worthless people will beat chest all day, but look at them. They are nothing but empty souls with nothing to show for their existence. The foolish people even brags about what they have in other peoples land while their villages remain empty. And this is how the foolish people lose everything when wahala start... Foolish people indeed.

Ah, Now let's not start a tribal war here.

Loud mouth, chest beating fools.

Is their really a moderator here?

hardywaltz: Why can't Nairalanders just leave these dead people alone for God's sake, most of u guyz weren't even born when all theze happened....
Can't the time & energy used in debating these topics all the time be used for meaningful endevours.

These dead people's mistakes are very relevant in charting a new course for Nigeria. Awolowo was released by Ojukwu after the second pogrom of 1966. He was driven in a mercedes benz car to Enugu and had "fruitful" discussions with Ojukwu. It is believed that Ojukwu and Awo agreed to force a constitutional conference to discuss the future of Nigeria by threatening to secede Western and Eastern regions if their demands are declined.

Awolowo suddenly accepted to become a finance minister and became a most rabid anti-Igbo. This sudden change in character shocked Igbo people to their bones and has severely made an Igbo/Yoruba unity in Nigeria to become wishful thinking.

Awolowo didn't stop there, Gowon advocated a "police action" to clear Enugu of the rebels and invited the former OAU to discuss Nigeria's crisis, but Awolowo pushed for an escalation of military hostilities, which made the war last longer and bloodier. In the course of the war, he became the champion of starvation as a veritable instrument of war.Which led to the death of 1 million Biafran infants and children.(Which constitutes a war crime and crimes against humanity).

After the same war, Gowon advocated the restoration of the bank accounts of surviving Biafrans to whatever amount they had left in the account prior to the war, but
Awolowo as Nigerian finance minister decided to pay only 20 (Nigerian) pounds into such bank accounts and instructed the Nigerian soldiers stationed inside Biafra to buy their provisions in Lagos before leaving for Biafra.In his desperate attempt to make sure he impoverished the Igbos for ever.
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/6779049/Frederick-Forsyth-Biafra-Story )

Regardless of the insults from urchins,Prof. Achebe had the courage to speak the bitter truth, and all men who love the truth will listen to him.

I love Achebe, he is never afraid to say the truth

The Lagos we see 2day shall b no more in the next 45 years!:-D

bobby17: I love Achebe, he is never afraid to say the truth

and the truth is always bitter! Whenever the truth is said,the guilty ones either bury their head in shame or fearfully defend themselves.

cjrane:

These dead people's mistakes are very relevant in charting a new course for Nigeria. Awolowo was released by Ojukwu after the second pogrom of 1966. He was driven in a mercedes benz car to Enugu and had "fruitful" discussions with Ojukwu. It is believed that Ojukwu and Awo agreed to force a constitutional conference to discuss the future of Nigeria by threatening to secede Western and Eastern regions if their demands are declined.

Awolowo suddenly accepted to become a finance minister and became a most rabid anti-Igbo. This sudden change in character shocked Igbo people to their bones and has severely made an Igbo/Yoruba unity in Nigeria to become wishful thinking.

Awolowo didn't stop there, Gowon advocated a "police action" to clear Enugu of the rebels and invited the former OAU to discuss Nigeria's crisis, but Awolowo pushed for an escalation of military hostilities, which made the war last longer and bloodier. In the course of the war, he became the champion of starvation as a veritable instrument of war.Which led to the death of 1 million Biafran infants and children.(Which constitutes a war crime and crimes against humanity).

After the same war, Gowon advocated the restoration of the bank accounts of surviving Biafrans to whatever amount they had left in the account prior to the war, but
Awolowo as Nigerian finance minister decided to pay only 20 (Nigerian) pounds into such bank accounts and instructed the Nigerian soldiers stationed inside Biafra to buy their provisions in Lagos before leaving for Biafra.In his desperate attempt to make sure he impoverished the Igbos for ever.
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/6779049/Frederick-Forsyth-Biafra-Story )

Regardless of the insults from urchins,Prof. Achebe had the courage to speak the bitter truth, and all men who love the truth will listen to him.

And did you learn anything from all these misfortune that befell you and your petty tribe? No. Here you all still are bragging about how you own Lagos and Abuja. And how Yorubas are cowards. Omode o mogun oun pe lefo.

Thump up Achebe for nailing and putting Awolowoa into the dustbin of history where he truely belongs. The future generation will have to know who caused mass murder in the eastern region.

Awolowoa = Satan

I think we should stop fighting old battles and prepare for new ones. The civil war is over and gone, the disputed legacy may or may not live on; that's a previous chapter in a history book. Let's look around at whats going on now. For example, the exodus from the North increases every day due to insecurity and killings with people selling up property at rock bottom prices and getting out, Lagos is being slowly turned into Eko Republic while the federal government adopts a policy of siddon look, what with the deportations of people to Onitsha, Kaduna and Abeokuta and the order for all cars on Lagos roads to have Lagos number plates, and the draconian laws and heavy taxation whose obvious aim is to make it prohibitively expensive to live here and drive people out, Bayelsa has adopted a separate state identity with a flag and an anthem, etc, etc. I do believe that the internal strains pushing and pulling on this huge, artificial construct called Naija are too strong to be resisted indefinitely and the whole edifice will come crashing down. The only question is - when?

P.S. For any of those who wants to read Achebe's book, its available on Amazon for 10 pounds. Amazon delivers to Nigeria.

An evil man's devilish legacy has now become internationally documented through this memoir.
Achebe owed it to the spirits of dead Eastern Nigerian children, starved to death through a federal policy designed and implemented by Awolowo -a man whose hide was saved and freed by an Eastern Nigerian son, Emeka Ojukwu.

By this memoir, Achebe has earned yet another feather to his "Ichie" hat.
Whenever he passes on now, he will become indoctrinated into that special immortal space in Eastern Nigerian hearts.

Congrats to the Eagle on top of the Iroko tree!

THERE ARE TOO MANY RABBLE-ROUSERS HERE! ONLY FOOLS LET BAD HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF.

The only Nigerian with GCFR without being a president. The man whose picture is on the currency you spend.
The man who won civil war for Nigeria without borrowing a kobo. The man who formulated the policies that brought Biafra to her knees.
The man who built the first TV station in Africa, the first social security system in Africa.
The man who conceptualize the institution known as OAU today.
A man who built industrial estates in Western Nigeria. A man who introduced the very first free education policy in Nigeria.


A man who was a family man to the call. He had just one wife! a faithful husband, an astute organiser, a political wizard, a fearless sage,
intelligence personified, the real fear of Igbo. A man who even in death remains the Nigerian issue. A man who came, saw and conquered.

Awolowo rest in peace.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQXnKSUB4s

When are they going to throw Bianca out of her residence by misguided Ojukwu sons? What a completely worthless life.

^^

Immortality can also be in HELL.

atuagbo: Renowned writer Chinua Achebe is not a man that runs away from controversy. In recent memory, his rejection of the national honours bestowed on him by Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan’s administrations became  subject of national debate.

He is in the eyes of the storm, again.

His long awaited war memoirs ‘ There was a Country’ , became public last week and, as expected, Achebe is getting the hits for accusing the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo of genocide in the book.

u should be charged for plagiarism.

what u copied and pasted here belongs to vanguard news. u shd have been honest enough to reference the source


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/attack-on-awo-has-achebe-gone-too-far/

Wetin concern agbero with overload,na as I wan take chop belle full I dey hustle for no be Awo and Achebe dey do me at all.
If Achebe like make follow Awo fight kunfu for grave na their cup of team,if Igbos like make dem carry matter wey don quench since for head na dem sabi ooooo

Reading my bible *wars and rumours of war, prays and goes to bed!*

Prof Corruption: Let the thread continues! The old racist bitter English professor who should be working to unite the nation but has found it a worthwhile effort to pull it apart is responsible for whatever happens to Igbo lot.

Did u ask chinua or research reasons why chinua has refused to associate with the nigeria craze?

Speech by Chief Obafemi Awolowo made to the Western leaders of thought, in
Ibadan, 1 May 1967. (Culled from Daily Times, 2 May 1967) and quoted in
"Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria (Volume 1), January 1966-July 1971" by A.
H. M. Kirk-Greene

Awolowo Promises West will secede if the East does in a speech to western
leaders
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The aim of a leader should be the welfare of the people whom he leads. I
have used 'welfare' to denote the physical, mental and spiritual
well-being of the people. With this aim fixed unflinchingly and
unchangeably before my eyes I consider it my duty to Yoruba people in
particular and to Nigerians in general, to place four imperatives before
you this morning. Two of them are categorical and two are conditional.
Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening
stalemate and restore normalcy. The Eastern Region must be encouraged to
remain part of the Federation. If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts
of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the
Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. The people
of Western Nigeria and Lagos should participate in the ad hoc committee or
any similar body only on the basis of absolute equality with the other
regions of the Federation.
[b]
I would like to comment briefly on these four imperatives. There
has, of late, been a good deal of sabre rattling in some parts of the
country. Those who advocate the use force for the settlement of our
present problems should stop a little and reflect. I can see no vital and
abiding principle involved in any war between the North and the East. If
the East attacked the North, it would be for purpose of revenge pure and
simple. Any claim to the contrary would be untenable. If it is claimed
that such a war is being waged for the purpose of recovering the real and
personal properties left behind in the North by Easterners two insuperable
points are obvious. Firstly, the personal effects left behind by
Easterners have been wholly looted or destroyed, and can no longer be
physically recovered. Secondly, since the real properties are immovable in
case of recovery of them can only be by means of forcible military
occupation of those parts of the North in which these properties are
situated. On the other hand, if the North attacked the East, it could only
be for the purpose of further strengthening and entrenching its position
of dominance in the country.

If it is claimed that an attack on the East is going to be
launched by the Federal Government and not by the North as such and that
it is designed to ensure the unity and integrity of the Federation, two
other insuperable points also become obvious. First, if a war against the
East becomes a necessity it must be agreed to unanimously by the remaining
units of the Federation. In this connection, the West, Mid- West and Lagos
have declared their implacable opposition to the use of force in solving
the present problem. In the face of such declarations by three out of
remaining four territories of Nigeria, a war against the East could only
be a war favoured by the North alone. Second, if the true purpose of such
a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, then these
ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the
recommendation of the committee which met on August 9 1966, as reaffirmed
by a decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5 1967 as well
as by accepting such of the demands of the East, West, Mid-West and Lagos
as are manifestly reasonable, and essential for assuring harmonious
relationships and peaceful co-existence between them and their brothers
and sisters in the North.


Some knowledgeable persons have likened an attack on the East to
Lincoln's war against the southern states in America. Two vital factors
distinguish Lincoln's campaign from the one now being contemplated in
Nigeria. The first is that the American civil war was aimed at the
abolition of slavery - that is the liberation of millions of Negroes who
were then still being used as chattels and worse than domestic animals.
The second factor is that Lincoln and others in the northern states were
English-speaking people waging a war of good conscience and humanity
against their fellow nationals who were also English speaking. A war
against the East in which Northern soldiers are predominant, will only
unite the Easterners or the Ibos against their attackers, strengthen them
in their belief that they are not wanted by the majority of their
fellow-Nigerians, and finally push them out of the Federation.

We have been told that an act of secession on the part of the East
would be a signal, in the first instance, for the creation of the COR
state by decree, which would be backed, if need be, by the use of force.
With great respect, I have some dissenting observations to make on this
declaration. There are 11 national or linguistic groups in the COR areas
with a total population of 5.3 millions. These national groups are as
distinct from one another as the Ibos are distinct from them or from the
Yorubas or Hausas. Of the 11, the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group are
3.2 million strong as against the Ijaws who are only about 700,000 strong.
Ostensibly, the remaining nine national group number 1.4 millions. But
when you have subtracted the Ibo inhabitants from among them, what is left
ranges from the Ngennis who number only 8,000 to the Ogonis who are
220,000 strong. A decree creating a COR state without a plebiscite to
ascertain the wishes of the peoples in the area, would only amount to
subordinating the minority national groups in the state to the dominance
of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. It would be perfectly in order
to create a Calabar state or a Rivers state by decree, and without a
plebiscite. Each is a homogeneous national unit. But before you lump
distinct and diverse national units together in one state, the consent of
each of them is indispensable. Otherwise, the seed of social disquilibrium
in the new state would have been sown.

On the other hand, if the COR State is created by decree after the
Eastern Region shall have made its severance from Nigeria effective, we
should then be waging an unjust war against a foreign state. It would be
an unjust war, because the purpose of it would be to remove 10 minorities
in the East from the dominance of the Ibos only to subordinate them to the
dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. I think I have said
enough to demonstrate that any war against the East, or vice versa, on any
count whatsoever, would be an unholy crusade, for which it would be most
unjustifiable to shed a drop of Nigerian blood. Therefore, only a peaceful
solution must be found, and quickly too to arrest the present rapidly
deteriorating stalemate and restore normalcy.

With regard to the second categorical imperative, it is my
considered view that whilst some of the demands of the East are excessive
within the context of a Nigerian union, most of such demands are not only
wellfounded, but are designed for smooth and steady association amongst
the various national units of Nigeria.

The dependence of the Federal Government on financial
contributions from the regions? These and other such like demands I do not
support. Demands such as these, if accepted, will lead surely to the
complete disintegration of the Federation which is not in the interest of
our people. But I wholeheartedly support the following demands among
others, which we consider reasonable and most of which are already
embodied in our memoranda to the Ad Hoc Committee....

That revenue should be allocated strictly on the basis of
derivation; that is to say after the Federal Government has deducted its
own share for its own services the rest should be allocated to the regions
to which they are attributable.

That the existing public debt of the Federation should become the
responsibility of the regions on the basis of the location of the projects
in respect of each debt whether internal or external.

That each region should have and control its own
militia and police force.

That, with immediate effect, all military personnel should be
posted to their regions of origin....

If we are to live in harmony one with another as Nigerians it is
imperative that these demands and others which are not related, should be
met without further delay by those who have hitherto resisted them. To
those who may argue that the acceptance of these demands will amount to
transforming Nigeria into a federation with a weak central government, my
comment is that any link however tenuous, which keeps the East in the
Nigerian union, is better in my view than no link at all.

Before the Western delegates went to Lagos to attend the meetings
of the ad hoc committee, they were given a clear mandate that if any
region should opt out of the Federation of Nigeria, then the Federation
should be considered to be at an end, and that the Western Region and
Lagos should also opt out of it. It would then be up to Western Nigeria
and Lagos as an independent sovereign state to enter into association with
any of the Nigerian units of its own choosing, and on terms mutually
acceptable to them. I see no reason for departing from this mandate. If
any region in Nigeria considers itself strong enough to compel us to enter
into association with it on its own terms, I would only wish such a region
luck. But such luck, I must warn, will, in the long run be no better than
that which has attended the doings of all colonial powers down the ages.
This much I must say in addition, on this point. We have neither military
might nor the overwhelming advantage of numbers here in Western Nigeria
and Lagos. But we have justice of a noble and imperishable cause on our
side, namely: the right of a people to unfettered self-determination. If
this is so, then God is on our side, and if God is with us then we have
nothing whatsoever in this world to fear.

The fourth imperative, and the second conditional one has been
fully dealt with in my recent letter to the Military Governor of Western
Nigeria, Col. Robert Adebayo, and in the representation which your
deputation made last year to the head of the Federal Military Government,
Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon. As a matter of fact, as far back as November last
year a smaller meeting of leaders of thought in this Region decided that
unless certain things were done, we would no longer participate in the
meeting of the ad hoc committee. But since then, not even one of our
legitimate requests has been granted. I will, therefore, take no more of
your time in making further comments on a point with which you are well
familiar. As soon as our humble and earnest requests are met, I shall be
ready to take my place on the ad hoc committee. But certainly, not before.

In closing, I have this piece of advice to give. In order to resolve
amiably and in the best interests of all Nigerians certain attributes are
required on the part of Nigerian leaders, military as well as non-military
leaders alike, namely: vision, realism and unselfishness. But above all ,
what will keep Nigerian leaders in the North and East unwaveringly in the
path of wisdom, realism and moderation is courage and steadfastness on the
part of Yoruba people in the course of what they sincerely believe to be
right, equitable and just. In the past five years we in the West and Lagos
have shown that we possess these qualities in a large measure. If we
demonstrate them again as we did in the past, calmly and heroically, we
will save Nigeria from further bloodshed and imminent wreck and, at the
same time, preserve our freedom and self-respect into the bargain.[/b]

May God rule and guide our deliberations here, and endow all the
Nigerian leaders with the vision, realism, and unselfishness as well as
courage and steadfastness in the course of truth, which the present
circumstances demand. "

Germans who fought two world wars that lasted years and years don't harp about it as much y'all with your how many months civil war.

Jeez!

Read this:

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call Homo Mortuus- dead living, oku eniyan, that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.

He was fulfilled before he died. He triumphed over their evil schemes. Who is even talking of Zik today? I can't remember the last time I encountered the name Zik in newspaper. A completely forgotten entity.

Chief Awolowo was described as "the main issue in Nigeria politics, you are either for or against him." Who gives the fck about Zik? The last time I checked some Igbo people went to beg GEJ to build a Mausoleum for him. Any Nigerian daily you grab in a day that does not contain a news item related to the name Awolowo does not worth it's salt. He was and still remains the issue in Nigerian politics, even several years after death. What a phenomenon. What a genius!

Stop accusing thé obong ikpa isong of iboland,whatever that title mean?

What he(Achebe) said is right, a civilian(who should be civil in his conduct) who claimed to be a paragon of an enlightened; but actually a barbaric-cowardly tribe to openly voice his desire to elliminate his fellow southerners and a race; for that matter, just because he was discreetly promised a post of presidency which he never became is a shame. The hatred his fellow barbariand still harbours for us will continue to disappoint them as was their revered leader(Awo), while Igbos' Glory(as the rising sun) will continue to prevail and bloom and be formidable in the face of conflict as did their leader(Ojukwu). Who was the best president Nigeria never had? And who said it?