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Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Nobody: 9:08am On Jul 07, 2020 |
Deebwebb: See why Awo said that statement.. Read what led to the statement LegendHero: Frlukas see the reason Awolowo also rejected Igbo secession 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Nobody: 9:26am On Jul 07, 2020 |
Dedetwo: Block head IPOB |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Nobody: 9:27am On Jul 07, 2020 |
FrLukas: Yeah after they had moved southwards first and debased the indigenes over there. Wasn’t Jaja a slave before taking over 12 of the 18 Bonny trade houses? Then they tried taking over lagos before Awo dealt with them, even now they are still trying lol 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Nobody: 9:35am On Jul 07, 2020 |
Constantjohn: I read it and it's accurate. |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Balogunodua(m): 9:50am On Jul 07, 2020 |
Kai... Osu pipu don japa bcuz of Legendhero Legend oko iya awon olori pelebe 3 Likes
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Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by ifko: 12:04pm On Jul 07, 2020 |
Can't u people express your opinions without throwing tantrums |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by tutudesz: 6:33pm On Jul 07, 2020 |
bigpicture001:He should have stated that the article was from the Guardian Uk |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by WizzyVine: 7:28pm On Jul 07, 2020 |
engrchykae: The issue here really is not just about Benjamin Adekunle but the Yoruba race whom you called a coward. Whether Adekunle or Obasanjo, the victory of that war is credited to the exploits of the Yoruba. And FYI, Adekunle was dealt with that way, not because he failed, for he really devastated Biafra, but because he was presumptuous, taking orders from himself and blatantly disobeying orders from his Superiors. The Yorubas are a peace loving race, and other tribes in Nigeria equate that with cowardice. A tribe that created an empire so vast that it stretched as far as Togo couldn't have done it without a lion heart. To know more about the Yoruba, go read about Oyo Empire. Even the Fulanis, who are laying claim to the whole Nigeria know from history that their invasion was impeded by the Yoruba. At the first invasion, the Fulanis had the upper hand because they had the advantage of fighting on horses while the Yorubas fought on foot. However, the surprised Yoruba learnt from that attack, and in their second attempt, the Fulanis were cut to size by the Ibadan army. Despite the fact that the Ibadan army was warring on 3 major fronts. Holding Ibadan city against the Ẹgba, defending Modakeke against Ife and holding the Fulanis at bay in Offa and Ikirun, all at the same time, yet the Fulanis could not penetrate. If the Yorubas had not stopped them at Offa, the Fulanis would have made great inroads into Nigeria. It was the Yoruba who kept the Fulani to the North. The only reason why they were able to capture Ilorin was because Afonja had long dissociated himself from his own people, so when Ilorin was under attack, Afonja had no support from any of his kinsmen. The Yoruba nation is a nation of gallant warriors, with a rich history of amazing military achievements. The Yorubas are no cowards. Any race that can sustain a vast empire for a long period of time can only do so through military might and political genius. The British themselves knew this of the Yorubas. They handed Nigeria over to the Hausas, because they knew that with Yorubas at the helm of affairs, in no distance time, Nigeria will be a nation to reckon with among the nations. The Yorubas were the fear of the British and not the Igbos. We are peace loving and hate shedding blood but when occasion calls for it, the Yorubas will rise gallantly to the occasion. Yoruba is never a coward and never shall be. 1 Like |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by engrchykae(m): 7:40pm On Jul 08, 2020 |
WizzyVine:image laundering at its best. The fulanis were stopped by the benue plateau people of jukuns,tivs,igede,idomas. It's nothing new stopping fulanis. It was the Benin empire that rattled the colonial masters, not any ibadan empire. The Portuguese before the Brits had to co operate and play along with the Benin empire until the Brits felt they have thoroughly understood the Benin and could defeat the Benin. THE YORUBA ARE TGE THE ONLY AFRICA RACE WHO WERE CONQUERED BY MISSIONARIES. ITS ONLY IN OGUN STATE,WHERE A PARTICULAR SUBGROUP FOUGHT THE BRITISH, WHEN A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION WAS CARRIED OUT AGAINST THEM,THE REST OF THE YORUBA CALMED DOWN. why the Brits feared Yoruba is simply because the Yoruba are rabble rousers,they can instigate others. As for your claiming to be the one who stopped fulanis,it was the British that stopped the fulanis. You were always fighting among yourselves because of your treacherous nature since time immemorial, even till date,ffk is fighting osibanjo,I can't understand why. Finally, Britain fought, sponsored and covered the civil war because of oil,not any coward adenkunle whom we send to early military retirement. A failed soldier who wasted the entire division under his command,his superiors even suspected him of intentionally wasting the 3rd Marine. The Igbo is tooo big and blessed to be undone by the Yoruba just like the Germans are too blessed to be undone by evil France |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by Nobody: 8:35pm On Jul 08, 2020 |
engrchykae: E pain you... Go shed ur tears in secret How did Benin empire rattled the British when it was even the British that sent Oba of Benin on exile... Is that possible?? Bros it WAs yorubas that stopped Fulani Read u wunt read |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by engrchykae(m): 9:02pm On Jul 08, 2020 |
igbobywedding:missionaries conquered yorubaland. Even you that is talking is obsessed with Igbo hence you want to be Igbo by wedding. That is how yorubas feel like men,when they marry Igbo women,akeredolu,ffk,davido them. |
Re: BIAFRA: Please Read What Guardian News Reported In 1967 by WizzyVine: 12:23am On Jul 09, 2020 |
engrchykae: No matter how you may try to distort history, history cannot be changed. Of course, you love the lies that have been sold to you, that's why you couldn't find the time to cross-check the facts before spewing out your own ignorance. If you are talking about the wars of Uthman Dan Fodio, you are correct. Uthman never set his foot on Yoruba soil. He was stopped by the Tivs and their allies, but ignorant people never knew that his descendants made a second take-over attempt. The Fulanis made several attempts to take over Yoruba land, but they couldn't because they were met with stiff resistance. The final war that broke out just before the close of the 19th century was a very decisive one. Why couldn't the Fulanis take Offa and Ikirun when they came with all their might and horses to invade those places? I dare say, there had never been any white man intervention in the history of Offa and Ikirun to this day. Additionally, the Fulanis have never been able to go as far as Osogbo, let alone entering Ibadan for war. Why? They were stopped at Offa. For further clarification, Fulanis didn't take over Ilorin by invasion. After Afonja dissociated himself from his Yoruba brotherhood, he brought in Alimi, a Fulani Islamic scholar who later betrayed him. Afonja gave Alimi land and houses, but in the end, Alimi brought in warriors from the north and attacked Afonja. Afonja fought gallantly all alone until he became weak, his hand still holding his sword while arrows were piercing his body. The gallant warrior died still standing with sword in hand. The Fulani attackers kept shooting arrows before they finally realized they were shooting a "Standing Dead". After killing his benefactor, Alimi installed himself as Emir (an intriguing allegory of what they still want to repeat in this generation by asking for lands). You claimed the Yorubas are the only African race who were conquered by missionaries. I guess the Igbos were never conquered by the missionaries, the missionaries just came to pack them up like chickens and started colonizing them. If what you meant was that, the Yorubas were the only African race who resisted the British and got conquered before colonization, you may be correct. That means, other African nations offered no resistance. They just quickly succumbed to colonization. Of course, if other Yoruba tribes mellowed after the British conquest in Ogun, that is wisdom. The Yoruba fight with common sense. There is no point going to war with an enemy that has automatic revolvers, when you only have Dane guns. Yorubas are not fools. To say that the word 'Warrior' is not equatable to the Yoruba is a mark of hypocrisy. No one ever created an empire by simply pouring water on people's heads. The warriors go to war, subdue an army and then annex the defeated territory. The Yorubas in Togo were Regents of the king of Oyo who after many generations, became citizens of that nation. Let's hear Wikipedia: "The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today Benin and Western Nigeria (including Southwest zone and the western half of Northcentral zone). The Oyo Empire grew to become the largest Yoruba state. It rose through the outstanding organizational and administrative skills of the Yoruba people, wealth gained from trade and its powerful cavalry. The Oyo Empire was the most politically important state in the entirety of Western Africa from the mid-7th to the late 18th century,[2] holding sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in Yorubaland, but also over nearby African states, notably the Fon Kingdom of Dahomey in the modern Republic of Benin to the west." We are talking about an empire that existed from mid 1600 - 1896 - approx. 300yrs, according to (Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Oyo_Empire). Anyway, I do not expect you to embrace the facts of history. You have every reason to deny the truth because of jealousy. You know, there had never been any Igbo empire and never shall be. Point of Correction: The missionaries, though British, never conquered anyone. They only came to preach and establish schools. They were only a minor section of a larger British race who conquered territories on the orders of the queen of England. |
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