Heartbender:
Yen yen yen...and how did you pay them and their folks? how were they treated? Why do the "biafrans" call them betrayers? What happened to the raping and maiming of women, children, men andd destruction or seizure of Niger Deltan property and renaming their towns and villages? Now you've realised you NEED their help you're applying cheap pity. We die here for this Naija. Biafra is now Igbo. We have MEND. You have IPOB. Every aboki to him kettle. We can't be twice shy. We sef our mumu don do

Heartbender:
Yen yen yen...and how did you pay them and their folks? how were they treated? Why do the "biafrans" call them betrayers? What happened to the raping and maiming of women, children, men andd destruction or seizure of Niger Deltan property and renaming their towns and villages? Now you've realised you NEED their help you're applying cheap pity. We die here for this Naija. Biafra is now Igbo. We have MEND. You have IPOB. Every aboki to him kettle. We can't be twice shy. We sef our mumu don do

Vinstel:

Pls nobody is begging you guys to join Biafra, the op was just remembering and honouring those who played a vital role for Biafra during the war. If you want to die with Nigeria, goodluck to you. For us, we can't be content with the anomaly that is the Nigerian nation

LaudableXX:


"Make everybody hol' im mama brezz!" - Graphiti, 2017.

Heartbender:
Hahaha I laugh in Kolanut and ugba. Yet, you get angry and even lie when residents in Rivers state, especially Port Harcourt or any of the south-south states refuse your anti-country amalgamation and claim of biafraland Protests. Bikon hapum aka...onye iberibe people*in Okorocha's voice*

Vinstel:

Common sense should tell u that you can make your point without resorting to insults. But know this that there are people from the South south, especially the igboid groups who believe in Biafra. I know a lot of them personally and that's why I say, let those who don't believe in Biafra like you continue with your one Nigeria while those who believe in Biafra continue with their struggle for freedom. Nobody is begging or forcing anyone to join what they don't believe in

Heartbender:
Hehehe...my dear, no food for lazy man no be person wey him mama get restaurant. Nigeria, if you wan divide, par sisi, ejor, biko, danala, divide into 5 or more sef. Biafra wan leave Nigeria but wan force Niger Delta. they keep saying they held Nigerian military for 3 years forgetting that as soon as Adaka Boro and the Niger Deltan unsung heroes left them, the war was determined.

Vinstel:

You're just exposing your ignorance here:

1. Major Isaac Adaka Boro was never part of Biafra

2. The Niger Deltans who did not support Biafra like Elechi Amadi, UJ Esuene e.t.c left Biafra very early in the war and their departure had nothing to do with the collapse of Biafra. Also note that many Igbos like Ukpabi Asika also didn't believe in Biafra and joined the Nigerian side

3. The "unsung" Niger delta heroes you speak of never left Biafra, they fought to the bitter end for the survival of Biafra. Nsudoh, Archibong, Philip Effiong, Achuzia, Ochei, Nwawo, Albert okonkwo e.t.c all of them Niger deltans never left Biafra. Indeed, some like laid down their lives for Biafra. Major Nzeogwu a brave Niger deltan was killed fighting for Biafra. You really need to go and read about the history of Biafra because it is clear that all you know about Biafra are fairytales told to you by God knows who

Vinstel:

Common sense should tell u that you can make your point without resorting to insults. But know this that there are people from the South south, especially the igboid groups who believe in Biafra. I know a lot of them personally and that's why I say, let those who don't believe in Biafra like you continue with your one Nigeria while those who believe in Biafra continue with their struggle for freedom. Nobody is begging or forcing anyone to join what they don't believe in

Heartbender:
Yen yen yen...and how did you pay them and their folks? how were they treated? Why do the "biafrans" call them betrayers? What happened to the raping and maiming of women, children, men andd destruction or seizure of Niger Deltan property and renaming their towns and villages? Now you've realised you NEED their help you're applying cheap pity. We die here for this Naija. Biafra is now Igbo. We have MEND. You have IPOB. Every aboki to him kettle. We can't be twice shy. We sef our mumu don do

Heartbender:
Hahahaha...e pain am! is that the delusion they've been telling their umunna as folklore for upcoming generations? History. And myth always have a person's belief mixed with reality. Continue. Na only you waka come

Heartbender:
See my problem with you people? Another catastrophe looms. Don't plow your farms okay? Keep making boundary adjustments. Odaro o.

Heartbender:
See my problem with you people? Another catastrophe looms. Don't plow your farms okay? Keep making boundary adjustments. Odaro o.

Vinstel:

Afonja coward claiming south south

Heartbender:
So you can abuse too . Hypocrisy is the mother of wailers

Vinstel:

You're just exposing your ignorance here:

1. Major Isaac Adaka Boro was never part of Biafra

2. The Niger Deltans who did not support Biafra like Elechi Amadi, UJ Esuene e.t.c left Biafra very early in the war and their departure had nothing to do with the collapse of Biafra. Also note that many Igbos like Ukpabi Asika also didn't believe in Biafra and joined the Nigerian side

3. The "unsung" Niger delta heroes you speak of never left Biafra, they fought to the bitter end for the survival of Biafra. Nsudoh, Archibong, Philip Effiong, Achuzia, Ochei, Nwawo, Albert okonkwo e.t.c all of them Niger deltans never left Biafra. Indeed, some like laid down their lives for Biafra. Major Nzeogwu a brave Niger deltan was killed fighting for Biafra. You really need to go and read about the history of Biafra because it is clear that all you know about Biafra are fairytales told to you by God knows who

kingzizzy:


When these people fought for Biafra in the 1960's, there was nothing called "A Niger Deltan". At the time, the Niger Delta was mainly regarded as the area of the delta in present day Bayelsa and some parts of Rivers. That's why Adaka Boro declared the place Niger Delta Republic.

All these people in Delta state, Edo state, Cross River state only started to be called "Niger Deltans" or "South-South" in the mid 90's during Abachas rule. The real Niger Delta area comprises of the 4 states where the river separates into atries and empties into the ocean and they are Bayelsa, Rivers, Imo and Abia.

Eastprince101:
its a sad reality most of us weren't born at this epic moment in our history ...we only depend on oral accounts of a few which would be distorted according to the author. however with tbe current happenings in Nigeria....i dont find it hard to believe that the IGBOS has been hurt by all... unjustly

Mayrock:


very unjustly.....
our family has lost many things to northern madness.....
no matter preaching....i hv outruled forgiveness from my mind....

wickedness is real....
the first mdical doctor in our villa was lost to northern madness....

Nigeria doesn't need to be one...it should split

ask ursef why history both biafran war and all these issues has been removed from sch curriculum uptill date

they doesn't want anyone to know the truth.

Heartbender:
See my problem with you people? Another catastrophe looms. Don't plow your farms okay? Keep making boundary adjustments. Odaro o.

Mayrock:
The words of Okokon Ndem come in handy here as some continue the fight against injustice. We all abhor a system that marginalises individuals and groups. It is also true that while we cry for equity, there must be a touch of wisdom and diplomacy. With awareness created, bridges should be built and walls destroyed.


Okokon Ndem was the most popular voice within and outside Biafra. He was not the Head of Radio Biafra but Radio Biafra was on his head. There was the popular jingle: “Onye ndi iro gbara gburugburu, na eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile.” Sasa Nwoke’s translation is: “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.”

This is the message from Okokon Ndem to IPOB. The broadcaster,dubbed Lord Haw Haw,by the General Yakubu Gowon Administration, used his voice to defeat Federal troops on air even if the battle was being lost on the ground. He also drew global attention to Biafra. Okokon Ndem was not Igbo. The journalist hailed from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State.
He died in August 2003 and was buried on Igbo Day, September 29, 2003. One prominent guest at the funeral was General Emeka Ojukwu, Head of State of Biafra. Burial ground was Calabar. Also in attendance were prominent politicians from the South East, including Chief Chekwas Okorie and Onwuka Kalu.
The lesson from this is that Biafra was never an Igbo movement.
The last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, Akangkang of Ibiono, though born in Aba was an Akwa Ibom son. Chief Frank Opigo, the man who named Biafra is from Bayelsa State and is today Dawai the Third, Amanaowei of Angiama. He was Administrator of Yenegoa Province. The most popular voice on Radio Biafra was a Cross Riverian.
The war started at 5.30am, July 6, 1967 in Garkem, Cross River State no thanks to Lt. Gado Nasko who fired the First Artillery shots. The last officer to leave Nigerian detention ,Col. Beneth Ochei, was from Delta State. One of the first ever hijackers, Captain Ibikari Allwell-Brown had Rivers blood in his veins. The trio seized a Nigeria Airways flight bound for Lagos from Benin. Allwell Brown flew the aircraft to Enugu.
Some top officers in Biafra were not from Igbo lands. Starting point should be Ibiono, home town of Gen. Effiong. It is also the place of Chief Ntienyong Akpan, Secretary to the Biafran government. The environment will shock all. There were civilians like Chiefs Ekukinam Bassey, J.E. Udoh-Affiah,Dr. Thompson Akpabio, and S.J. Edoho.
There were crack officers and soldiers from Akwa Ibom. Lt. Col Nsudoh,was described as “tough, courageous and iron willed, “ by General Alexander Madiebo, Biafra’s Army Chief. Col. Akpan Utuk was all bravado and was said to have committed suicide when news of the surrender got to him. There was one teenage Commando, Edet, who fought in Uzuakoli under Col. Emeka Ananaba.
From Cross River, there were civvies like Dr. Sam Imoke, Governor Liyel’s dad,from Itigidi, Abi.Chief Matthew Mbu, Professor Eyo Bassey Ndem, Justice Ndoma Egba, Senator Victors father and Frank Ugbut.
In the military, they had Lt. Col. Archibong, who according to Madiebo, was “one of the bravest officers I have ever met.” The young man on wheels of the dreaded Corporal Nwafor armoured car, Daniel Lawrence, better known as ‘Pampas of Argentina’ was an Ikom boy, born to a British mother from Liverpool. And Clement Ebri of the Biafra Airforce.
There was one armourer, Arikpo, from Mpaghni, Ugep who was ready to die for Biafra while his kinsman Okoi Arikpo defected to Nigeria to be appointed Commissioner for External Affairs. Mention must be made of Lt. Peseke Ita Ikpeme and Sylvanus Eta, one of the crew of the Panhard armoured car, Oguta Boy.
Then the train moves to Port Harcourt to see the family of Emmanuel Agumah. Other sons of the soil,among them Ignatius Kogbara, S.N. Dikibo and Sylvanus Cookey. The warriors included Col. Joshua John (J.J) Brown, Capt. Willy Murray Bruce, Senator Ben’s brother and Victor Masi.
From the Garden City, next stop is Asaba. Col. Joe Achuzia is still bouncing. We all remember the Asaba massacre of 1967 and what followed in Isheagu and Igbodo. Delta is the land of Brigadiers Conrad Nwawo, Okonjo, Auntie Ngoo’s papa,and Mike Okwechime. And Navy Chief Wilfred Anuku who was also an Army Commander just like Ben Nwajei. Bini man Sam Loco Efe too.
Yenegoa should not be skipped, at least for the sake of Chief Frank Opigo and Major Okilo who led the 63 Brigade. He was as steeled as Captain Ebube who chose Nigeria while his brother-in-law, George Ozieh (NAE 232) flew Nigeria Army boss, Col. Joe Akahan to death. So was Capt. Chris Ogbolu, brother to Col. Gab Okonweze’s wife, Carol.
Onward to Ado Ekiti. The soil of Col. Adekunle Fajuyi and Ayo Fayose. No condemning the Yoruba. They gave Biafra Prof. Wole Soyinka and Tai Solarin. Col. Adebayo helped out after the war as much as Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya. Maj. Ganiyu Adeleke was on the same side with his course mates Majors T.I. Atumaka, Okonkwo and Ogbonna.
There was also Capt. David Brown, the American Red Cross pilot who was downed across Opobo on June, 5, 1968 alongside his crew of two Swedes and a Norwegian. Count Von Rosen was a hero, with his minicons. So were the Portuguese, Artur Alves, Manuel Reis and Gill Pinto de Sousa among many others.

Vinstel:


I'm just taking time to reread all the absolutely nonsensical falsehood you're peddling here, Abeg tell us, which Niger delta property was seized by Biafra troops? Which Niger delta towns were renamed by Biafrans? I'm waiting for you to mention them o. If anyone's properties were seized, it was the property of the igbos seized in the name of abandoned properties and if anyone massacred Niger deltans, it was the Nigerian army that did so at Asaba

selemempe:
wat u said is gospel.

In I think 2006 when Abuja was to host miss world, these northern babarians went berserk and started killing igbos in the north to show their protest. Ask me if miss world is an igbo event?
A Dannish cartoonist caricatured mohamed and igbos living in north had to pay with their lives. Till today, no northerner has been sentenced to death for insurgency yet igbos, yorubas and ss ppl have all lost their lives for crimes.

Nigeria is the only country in the world that is 50-50 islam and christian...how can we progress

Mayrock:


we can't progress....as far as we remain this way....

look at Nigeria everything is stagnating.

Mayrock:
The words of Okokon Ndem come in handy here as some continue the fight against injustice. We all abhor a system that marginalises individuals and groups. It is also true that while we cry for equity, there must be a touch of wisdom and diplomacy. With awareness created, bridges should be built and walls destroyed.


Okokon Ndem was the most popular voice within and outside Biafra. He was not the Head of Radio Biafra but Radio Biafra was on his head. There was the popular jingle: “Onye ndi iro gbara gburugburu, na eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile.” Sasa Nwoke’s translation is: “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.”

This is the message from Okokon Ndem to IPOB. The broadcaster,dubbed Lord Haw Haw,by the General Yakubu Gowon Administration, used his voice to defeat Federal troops on air even if the battle was being lost on the ground. He also drew global attention to Biafra. Okokon Ndem was not Igbo. The journalist hailed from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State.
He died in August 2003 and was buried on Igbo Day, September 29, 2003. One prominent guest at the funeral was General Emeka Ojukwu, Head of State of Biafra. Burial ground was Calabar. Also in attendance were prominent politicians from the South East, including Chief Chekwas Okorie and Onwuka Kalu.
The lesson from this is that Biafra was never an Igbo movement.
The last President of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, Akangkang of Ibiono, though born in Aba was an Akwa Ibom son. Chief Frank Opigo, the man who named Biafra is from Bayelsa State and is today Dawai the Third, Amanaowei of Angiama. He was Administrator of Yenegoa Province. The most popular voice on Radio Biafra was a Cross Riverian.
The war started at 5.30am, July 6, 1967 in Garkem, Cross River State no thanks to Lt. Gado Nasko who fired the First Artillery shots. The last officer to leave Nigerian detention ,Col. Beneth Ochei, was from Delta State. One of the first ever hijackers, Captain Ibikari Allwell-Brown had Rivers blood in his veins. The trio seized a Nigeria Airways flight bound for Lagos from Benin. Allwell Brown flew the aircraft to Enugu.
Some top officers in Biafra were not from Igbo lands. Starting point should be Ibiono, home town of Gen. Effiong. It is also the place of Chief Ntienyong Akpan, Secretary to the Biafran government. The environment will shock all. There were civilians like Chiefs Ekukinam Bassey, J.E. Udoh-Affiah,Dr. Thompson Akpabio, and S.J. Edoho.
There were crack officers and soldiers from Akwa Ibom. Lt. Col Nsudoh,was described as “tough, courageous and iron willed, “ by General Alexander Madiebo, Biafra’s Army Chief. Col. Akpan Utuk was all bravado and was said to have committed suicide when news of the surrender got to him. There was one teenage Commando, Edet, who fought in Uzuakoli under Col. Emeka Ananaba.
From Cross River, there were civvies like Dr. Sam Imoke, Governor Liyel’s dad,from Itigidi, Abi.Chief Matthew Mbu, Professor Eyo Bassey Ndem, Justice Ndoma Egba, Senator Victors father and Frank Ugbut.
In the military, they had Lt. Col. Archibong, who according to Madiebo, was “one of the bravest officers I have ever met.” The young man on wheels of the dreaded Corporal Nwafor armoured car, Daniel Lawrence, better known as ‘Pampas of Argentina’ was an Ikom boy, born to a British mother from Liverpool. And Clement Ebri of the Biafra Airforce.
There was one armourer, Arikpo, from Mpaghni, Ugep who was ready to die for Biafra while his kinsman Okoi Arikpo defected to Nigeria to be appointed Commissioner for External Affairs. Mention must be made of Lt. Peseke Ita Ikpeme and Sylvanus Eta, one of the crew of the Panhard armoured car, Oguta Boy.
Then the train moves to Port Harcourt to see the family of Emmanuel Agumah. Other sons of the soil,among them Ignatius Kogbara, S.N. Dikibo and Sylvanus Cookey. The warriors included Col. Joshua John (J.J) Brown, Capt. Willy Murray Bruce, Senator Ben’s brother and Victor Masi.
From the Garden City, next stop is Asaba. Col. Joe Achuzia is still bouncing. We all remember the Asaba massacre of 1967 and what followed in Isheagu and Igbodo. Delta is the land of Brigadiers Conrad Nwawo, Okonjo, Auntie Ngoo’s papa,and Mike Okwechime. And Navy Chief Wilfred Anuku who was also an Army Commander just like Ben Nwajei. Bini man Sam Loco Efe too.
Yenegoa should not be skipped, at least for the sake of Chief Frank Opigo and Major Okilo who led the 63 Brigade. He was as steeled as Captain Ebube who chose Nigeria while his brother-in-law, George Ozieh (NAE 232) flew Nigeria Army boss, Col. Joe Akahan to death. So was Capt. Chris Ogbolu, brother to Col. Gab Okonweze’s wife, Carol.
Onward to Ado Ekiti. The soil of Col. Adekunle Fajuyi and Ayo Fayose. No condemning the Yoruba. They gave Biafra Prof. Wole Soyinka and Tai Solarin. Col. Adebayo helped out after the war as much as Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya. Maj. Ganiyu Adeleke was on the same side with his course mates Majors T.I. Atumaka, Okonkwo and Ogbonna.
There was also Capt. David Brown, the American Red Cross pilot who was downed across Opobo on June, 5, 1968 alongside his crew of two Swedes and a Norwegian. Count Von Rosen was a hero, with his minicons. So were the Portuguese, Artur Alves, Manuel Reis and Gill Pinto de Sousa among many others.

selemempe:
why is it that once a topic like this is created, a Yoruba appologist (eg throwback) will come and polute it with falsehood and division? How often do u see igbos in other ppl's threads?