icon aus: Soyinka rules .Igbos beleive in justice . If a yoruba man stands for justice and accept the truth- it is the beginning of wisdom. Soyinka just re affirmed what Achebe said .He just summarised it without going into the nitty gritty of the whole history . He said before the war and the genocide . Please for once let the the yourbas be honest . This is coming from one of you - an internationlly aclaimed writer . Igbos are not crying about the war . Igbos have long moved on . The war had been a catalyst for igbos success in nigeria today . Imagine people surviving on only 20 pounds which was planned and executed by AWO; it was clear indicator that AWO who repreent yorubas hated igbos; planed for complete anihilation of igbos both physicaly and economically ( 20 pounds policy). No wonder he commited suicide because he would not have been a happy man should he be living today seing the progress of igbos he wanted to destroy excel in all human endeavours including leading in education where he did a lot for yorubas . Igbos keeps on marching forward from strength to strength and as long as nigeria state continue to exist, igbos will continue to forge ahead lead in every thing in nigeria . It is question of time igbos will get presidency . Yorubas should know that igbo presidency is the offing. Going by the present situation igbo president is close compared to yoruba presidency and nothing is gonna stop that unles nigeria splits and this is the fact. The hatred yorubas have against Jonathan presidency is his root to old eastern nigeria and his seemingly close relationships with IGBOs . Thats just the bad politics yorubas are playing while as we re all southerners . Yorubas hate igbos; now yorubas are fighting with south south people because of GEJ and hope to form alliance with the North ( ACN and Buhari) . You guys are digging your graves politically. Fighting with your felow southerners . This political dispensation has really exposed the yorubas to south south people and this is what the igbos have been suffering in their hands for years. It is a suicidal politics that ever haunt the west But u know what? igbos are the emerging force in Nigeria , nothing is gonna stop that . it is just a question of time .You all know . The earlier you guys note that , the better for you yorubas. I dont want secession of igbos from Nigeria . I want igbos to remain in nigeria and assume the right position as the most progressive in nigeria entity . Long live Soyinka . We need more soyinkas in yourba land and not awos then yoruba land will be good and progressive.

sleek29: Ibos, supremacist tendencies, they want to secede yet they don't stay at home and develop their home, If the north refuses them food, they'll die of kwarshiorkor (they grow only yams), as long as biafra can't get yorubas to back them, till Jesus comes, biafra would keep deceiving itself, if they want another secession, I would propose another blockade, block all food supplies!, Achebe ought to make yorubas biafra's friend not create more animosity. Why do I need to throw a punch when I hold the ace? The only tribe that accommodates this ibos remains the same yoruba they so much castigate, an ibo man is fashola's commissioner, they enjoy free health care where I live in lagos!, I'm really angry, if they want to go, let them go!

icon aus: Soyinka rules .Igbos beleive in justice . If a yoruba man stands for justice and accept the truth- it is the beginning of wisdom. Soyinka just re affirmed what Achebe said .He just summarised it without going into the nitty gritty of the whole history . He said before the war and the genocide . Please for once let the the yourbas be honest . This is coming from one of you - an internationlly aclaimed writer . Igbos are not crying about the war . Igbos have long moved on . The war had been a catalyst for igbos success in nigeria today . Imagine people surviving on only 20 pounds which was planned and executed by AWO; it was clear indicator that AWO who repreent yorubas hated igbos; planed for complete anihilation of igbos both physicaly and economically ( 20 pounds policy). No wonder he commited suicide because he would not have been a happy man should he be living today seing the progress of igbos he wanted to destroy excel in all human endeavours including leading in education where he did a lot for yorubas . Igbos keeps on marching forward from strength to strength and as long as nigeria state continue to exist, igbos will continue to forge ahead lead in every thing in nigeria . It is question of time igbos will get presidency . Yorubas should know that igbo presidency is the offing. Going by the present situation igbo president is close compared to yoruba presidency and nothing is gonna stop that unles nigeria splits and this is the fact. The hatred yorubas have against Jonathan presidency is his root to old eastern nigeria and his seemingly close relationships with IGBOs . Thats just the bad politics yorubas are playing while as we re all southerners . Yorubas hate igbos; now yorubas are fighting with south south people because of GEJ and hope to form alliance with the North ( ACN and Buhari) . You guys are digging your graves politically. Fighting with your felow southerners . This political dispensation has really exposed the yorubas to south south people and this is what the igbos have been suffering in their hands for years. It is a suicidal politics that ever haunt the west But u know what? igbos are the emerging force in Nigeria , nothing is gonna stop that . it is just a question of time .You all know . The earlier you guys note that , the better for you yorubas. I dont want secession of igbos from Nigeria . I want igbos to remain in nigeria and assume the right position as the most progressive in nigeria entity . Long live Soyinka . We need more soyinkas in yourba land and not awos then yoruba land will be good and progressive.

Mad Cow: Soyinka is a Nobel Prize winning drug addict and Yoruba cultist...

icon aus: Igbos are happy that ojukwu ran away not to be killed by awo and gowon . Because to us Ojukwu represents the igbo . Ojukwu is our model . ojukwu has the real igbo blood . He retreated to fight again . If ojukwu was killed in the war, the igbos would not have recovered from the war so easily . no matter what u people say about ojukwu , he is our hero and the nigerian hero if people want to face the truth . He proposed confederation in nigeria ( Aburi accord) which led to civil war ; nigeria under gowon and awo said no , Now people esp the west is asking for what ojukwu said 45 yrs ago . There u re . He understands that with the moslem north ; nigeria as a country will not survive . Tell me what is happening now BOKO!. He lived ahead of his time .A man who saw tommorrow . Educated , inteligent , rich , smart and brave . No nigerian like him . He got every thing .

Eko Ile:


Another rubbish from gran pa dundie 1 ...lmao

icon aus: Enough of this yoruba claiming of being accomodative . If not for lagos , igbos would not have migrated to the west in good number . Have you people forgotten that Lagos was the capital of nigeria for yrs hence the migration of many nationalities to lagos including igbos being migratory in nature . To say the truth , the igbos are more in north than the west .The north are more easy to deal with and the most honest tribe in Nigeria to work with or do business with if not because of their religion ( Islam) which tends to mislead them some times . Igbos are in the west because of Lagos which happened to be the capital of Nigeria. Other tribes tends to avoid residing in the east because they cannot compete with igbos in business and other human endeavour . Not in terms hostility . igbos are not hostile to their visitors .They accomodate other tribes in the east . They dont attack them as long you stay and do your business. Even despite immense provocation by the northerners against the igbos residing in the North , igbos still keep calm and wouldnt reteirate in the east . The bottom line is that other nationalities esp yorubas are scared of coming down to east to invest because of cowardice .

icon aus: Enough of this yoruba claiming of being accomodative . If not for lagos , igbos would not have migrated to the west in good number . Have you people forgotten that Lagos was the capital of nigeria for yrs hence the migration of many nationalities to lagos including igbos being migratory in nature . To say the truth , the igbos are more in north than the west .The north are more easy to deal with and the most honest tribe in Nigeria to work with or do business with if not because of their religion ( Islam) which tends to mislead them some times . Igbos are in the west because of Lagos which happened to be the capital of Nigeria. Other tribes tends to avoid residing in the east because they cannot compete with igbos in business and other human endeavour . Not in terms hostility . igbos are not hostile to their visitors .They accomodate other tribes in the east . They dont attack them as long you stay and do your business. Even despite immense provocation by the northerners against the igbos residing in the North , igbos still keep calm and wouldnt reteirate in the east . The bottom line is that other nationalities esp yorubas are scared of coming down to east to invest because of cowardice .

icon aus: For some of you who are saying that igbos should deveop their homeland . Who told you that east is not developed? In igbo culture ,the first money or riches you acquire is used to bulid a mansion in your village before building any house in the township be it in the west , or north or eastern townships . As i write , there is more villages in igboland as copmpared to other parts of Nigeria. The peolpe some of you -yorubas have is that you dont travel to other parts of nigeria . you mahe ur judgement based on what u heard . Go to east and see development . My friend who is a yourba went to east for youth service and was shocked . He confessed that from enugu to owerri he could not see a bush . What does that portends ? Answer is development. In the actual sense , igbos are the only people who beleive in one nigeria than any other tribes because they develop any place the dwell in nigeria and make it look like home.

tomakint: Where is that RABID DOG called Dayokanu, a psychopath of the deepest dye? Indeed, truth is bitter!! Great thanks to a real man who choose to condemn injustice against the innocent souls, Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka you are indeed a defender of the defenseless, you have been vindicated at last, so am I!

tomakint: It is no longer news that the N’digbo are warming up to present a candidate for the 2015 Presidential race, in my own candid opinion it is a dream project that has long been overdue. Indeed, [size=18pt]this is the time we as a people [/size](should rally round our Igbo brothers and sisters in unison and see how this dream can be actualized come 2015 but still on one ground, that is, if and only if the entity called Nigeria will still be ONE!

How I wish my Igbo brothers and sisters will stop pursuing different agenda and come together under a unified voice for the common good of their FUTURE! [size=18pt]To my Igbo compatriots I say to you all,[/size] it is never too late to put your house in order.

icon aus: Enough of this yoruba claiming of being accomodative . If not for lagos , igbos would not have migrated to the west in good number . Have you people forgotten that Lagos was the capital of nigeria for yrs hence the migration of many nationalities to lagos including igbos being migratory in nature . To say the truth , the igbos are more in north than the west .The north are more easy to deal with and the most honest tribe in Nigeria to work with or do business with if not because of their religion ( Islam) which tends to mislead them some times . Igbos are in the west because of Lagos which happened to be the capital of Nigeria. Other tribes tends to avoid residing in the east because they cannot compete with igbos in business and other human endeavour . Not in terms hostility . igbos are not hostile to their visitors .They accomodate other tribes in the east . They dont attack them as long you stay and do your business. Even despite immense provocation by the northerners against the igbos residing in the North , igbos still keep calm and wouldnt reteirate in the east . The bottom line is that other nationalities esp yorubas are scared of coming down to east to invest because of cowardice .

ajoguegbe: Let's bury the hatchet. Learn from our past and plan for the future. Nigeria is blessed

icon aus: @ sleek29
I am not surprise you re getting married to an igbo . Dont misunderstand me , there many soyinkas in yoruba land and majority of my friends in overseas are yorubas and one the that treat me well i retrun it. Marrying an igbo woman is blessing and a good investment . Some of my yoruba friends asked me to link them to igbo girls for marriage . So it is not new that a yoruba is marrying igbo girls . It is a common trend in Nigeria today . As long u re able to convince the igbo girl go ahead ; u need that elusive and valuable igbo blood man.

icon aus: @logica

Note that igbos are not cowards like you people and besides, this is one nigeria!!!! for which many nigerians lost their lives . As per the kidnapping , yorubas are the insiders in the kidnap . They recruited the brave igbos to do the job . The real story will eventually come out . Ok what about 2 yourbas that were involved in Alu atrocity lawal and segun . Who invented 419 , drug trafficking and oluwale thing ( fake passport , fake documents etc ) Are they not yorubas based in lagos?

When Biafra's military resistance collapsed, [size=28pt]Ojukwu fled to Côte d'Ivoire[/size].

Efiong assumed leadership in this situation of turmoil, starvation, and collapse. He became Head of State of Biafra on 8 January 1970 and on 12 January announced surrender.[1]

At the time of the surrender, Efiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra. At that time Effiong said, "I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of the war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end."[1]

Nnaemeka L. Aneke wrote, "General Efiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated."[2] Many observers had expected wholesale retribution at war's end.
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Later life


In a 1996 interview, Efiong reflected on those events:

I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .

I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .

At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and [size=28pt]Ojukwu had fled[/size], I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . [2]

Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday.

icon aus: @logica

Note that igbos are not cowards like you people and besides, this is one nigeria!!!! for which many nigerians lost their lives . As per the kidnapping , yorubas are the insiders in the kidnap . They recruited the brave igbos to do the job . The real story will eventually come out . Ok what about 2 yourbas that were involved in Alu atrocity lawal and segun . Who invented 419 , drug trafficking and oluwale thing ( fake passport , fake documents etc ) Are they not yorubas based in lagos?

icon aus: @ Dayo kanu

Igbos are migratory in nature.

icon aus: igbos moved again after the war to other parts of nigeria beleiving in one nigeria