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quote:
Originally posted by Patrick:
Waypoint:

This one is a sarcastic ‘Nas-ism,’
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The Igbos must show appreciation, at least for the number of their sons in military command positions and in the National Security Council. They should also show appreciation that while supporters of MASSOB are being chased all over the place, for re-demanding for Biafra, the poor chaps of OPC, who have been demanding for an Oduduwa Republic, have been having sound sleep. No one dares touch them. Again, for the murder of one priest, the Bakassi boys are being rounded up while OPC leaders, whose followers murdered about 600 “Northern Jews”, in Lagos, recently, are being, set free. Can Kalu say that these are not achievements? Discrimination is certainly a great achievement and we all know that Mr. President has been recording high score here. Nobody can deny this. --- Wada Nas, in Why Obasanjo Must be Given a Second Term.

WE ARE NOT AFRAID : [I See The Light]

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“Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now - and starvation is the grim reaper. This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or to go through channels or to observe the diplomatic niceties. The destruction of an entire people is an immoral objective even in the most moral of wars. It can never be justified; it can never be condoned." -- President. Richard Nixon, September 9, 1968


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quote:
National ID to become VisA card .........> EL RUFAI
....meaning, one can have more than one id or more than one visa card and the common man with no bank account or source of income need not apply or is counted. Whats the difference between social security card and national ID, none.

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quote:
Originally posted by Usman Kadiri:
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I want him to know from me that if he continues along this line the events of 1967 to 1970 will be a child's play to what will be unleashed, not by me but by the massive anger of the Nigerian masses--------------The Warlord Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Now would this be a promise or a threat?
hello usman,could yo tell me were this quote comes from,and if the words the warlord,were also included in the quote,or added later.the reason i ask is that ,internationaly,ltn.general,is the correct way to address Chief. Mr.Ojukwu,when discribing him in military terms.In answer to the question,is it a promise or a threat?I would have to say it is a statement,or as this subject is quotes,it is a quote.Haveaniceday [Smile] (QUOTE:patrickonwudiwe)

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quote:
Originally posted by Waypoint1Biafra:
"It was the work of ALLAH". A 50 year old moslem man in Niger Republic responding to his marriage to a 9 year old baby girl who does not know that the principles of pleasure equals pain.

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WaypointBiafra,WELL EXPOSED [Smile] .were i live they are called Phedophiles [Eek!] .(they get locked up).haveaniceday

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"My name is Joăo Vidal, I'm Portuguese and live in Belgium where I am an airline pilot, flying as captain for SABENA, the Belgium flag-carrier. During the Biafran War, I was a military pilot in the Portuguese Air Force and met several Biafran Pilots. Two of my friends joined the BAF and I did not volunteer to join only because I was still in active service at that time. My friends were not mercenaries on the wrong way they are taken these days.

In Portugal we were very much aware of the struggle of the brave Igbo nation to build a civilised country and many people were willing to help. Nevertheless there was a contract with payment foreseen for the volunteer pilots. Obviously, in the last three month of war, all the bureaucracy was disturbed and the due payment was not made to the volunteers. At that time, due to the misery and contrarieties the Biafrans were enduring, nobody cared if they would be paid or not.

My friend Artur Alves Pereira, squadron leader on T-6G and Minicon, left Uga on the 9th January 1970 and flew to Gabon. After his arrival in Lisbon, although the war was over and all the Biafran offices in Portugal were closed, when he never could expect, the ex-Biafran Government sent him the correct payment to the last penny for all the war missions he had flown.
This small example shows how special a people the Igbo are. Which country in the world, let alone in Africa, would bother to fulfil its commitments to this extent? Which messenger wouldn't fill tempted to keep part or even all of the money (quite a lot at that time), mainly when the future seemed so uncertain to everybody involved and obviously there would be no court to complain to?"


-Joăo Vidal

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"Otara amu ebele ji ibi ugwo."


--------Agba ochie Igbo

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quote:
Originally posted by Igboblood:
"My name is Joăo Vidal, I'm Portuguese and live in Belgium where I am an airline pilot, flying as captain for SABENA, the Belgium flag-carrier. During the Biafran War, I was a military pilot in the Portuguese Air Force and met several Biafran Pilots. Two of my friends joined the BAF and I did not volunteer to join only because I was still in active service at that time. My friends were not mercenaries on the wrong way they are taken these days.

In Portugal we were very much aware of the struggle of the brave Igbo nation to build a civilised country and many people were willing to help. Nevertheless there was a contract with payment foreseen for the volunteer pilots. Obviously, in the last three month of war, all the bureaucracy was disturbed and the due payment was not made to the volunteers. At that time, due to the misery and contrarieties the Biafrans were enduring, nobody cared if they would be paid or not.

My friend Artur Alves Pereira, squadron leader on T-6G and Minicon, left Uga on the 9th January 1970 and flew to Gabon. After his arrival in Lisbon, although the war was over and all the Biafran offices in Portugal were closed, when he never could expect, the ex-Biafran Government sent him the correct payment to the last penny for all the war missions he had flown.
This small example shows how special a people the Igbo are. Which country in the world, let alone in Africa, would bother to fulfil its commitments to this extent? Which messenger wouldn't fill tempted to keep part or even all of the money (quite a lot at that time), mainly when the future seemed so uncertain to everybody involved and obviously there would be no court to complain to?"


-Joăo Vidal

on the point of Biafran pilots,let me tell you of one that never made it to sign up,Peter Obi,married to a German lady,with 2 children,whom i played with as a child.he was in the nigerian air force,lived in the air force compound near Ikeja,opposite the Mugambo country club.when things in lagos started to get out of hand and Igbos were being killed in the streets,he was leaving the compound with his wife and children,he was stopped at the entrance post by soldiers,taken from his car and shot dead,in front of his wife and children.I imagine he was on his way to Biafra to join up there.his children will now be close to 50 years old,thier father died for Biafra in the first days,just thought it would be nice to let Biafrans know there are unsung heroes of the cause,who couldnt pick up any wages.haveaniceday.

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quote:
just thought it would be nice to let Biafrans know there are unsung heroes of the cause,who couldnt pick up any wages - patrickonwudiwe
Patrick,

Yes, Igbo history is replete with examples of heroism. Unfortunately however, these heroes + heroines of ours will remain unsung as long as Nd’Igbo remain in the lie that is Nigeria.

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My dear Obodo5000,
You need not have apologised for placing myself, Wacko and Greg in the same "category" , whatever that means because I dont have a problem with that. That was a wasted apology. --Ochiwar

And I, for my part, am in good company with Wacko and Ochiwar.

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What Amadi O left out from the Ozodi Osuji article:
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Let us put aside our Igbo sentiments, and for the purposes of academic discourse, ask some hard questions. I support Igbo independence, yet, I must ask: Was Ojukwu a true leader? As a boy-child during the civil war, we sang: “Ojukwu wu eze anyi, ndi munso ana azoya”. So, was Ojukwu our king? If so, why did he run from Biafra? Was his life more important than the life of each of his soldiers? If he was a real leader, in as much as he gave orders that led to the death of one Igbo soldier, shouldn’t he have stayed to experience the fate of his soldiers? If he was a heroic leader, he probably would have committed Hara Kari, killed himself, instead of run away. He was, obviously, a lily-livered coward. A defeated Japanese military general would cut off his useless head than live to see another day. A defeated German general would put a bullet into his shamed head, rather than chicken and run, as Ojukwu did. The Japanese and Germans are probably the world’s two most warrior races? Those two alone probably can take over the world. Was Ojukwu a leader? I don’t think so. What do you think? Do you respect the man even though he abandoned his soldiers to the fate of the victorious Nigerians? Please remember that Ojukwu’s propaganda machine had told the Igbos that Nigerians were going to kill all Igbos when they enter Igboland. A day did not pass in Biafra when Okoko Ndem, Ojukwu’s Goebels, did not tell Igbos that Nigerians came to murder all of them. Assuming that that was not mere propaganda, and Ojukwu fled, to go protect his life and permit Nigerians to kill the Igbos he left behind, what does that make him? I actually do not see how Ojukwu carries his head high. He ought to live in shame. Look, Ojukwu’s death would have made him a martyr for all Igbos and given Igbos a hero to rally around. As it is, some of us see the man as chicken **** and as beneath contempt.

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Nnamdi Azikiwe aka Zik, an Onitcha man, a man who ought to know better, in his autobiography, My Odyssey,[19] argued, without convincing the reader, that the Onitcha were descendants of Edo people, hence that their seeming more evolved political institutions reflected the evolved political institutions in Edoland. Azikiwe seemed to accept the colonialists’ assessment that the Igbos were primitive and tried his best to distance himself from the Igbos and associate himself with what seemed to him a more civilized people, the Bini ruling class.



Mr. Azikiwe tended to seem lacking in understanding of the implications of what he was saying. By claiming Bini origins for his people, in a misguided effort to seem as civilized as the Binis allegedly were, he, in effect, said that the Bini were better than the Igbos; and, more importantly, bought the self serving nonsense propagated by the British that Africans were primitive. I read Zik’s book in high school, and even as a teenager recognized that Zik was not very sagacious; that he was impulsive and not really thoughtful. Still untrained in psychology, I recognized that Zik felt inferior, perhaps, due to the alleged backwardness of the Igbos, and since Lugard claimed that the Bini were more advanced than the Igbos, that Zik felt that he could be seen as advanced by claiming Bini origin. This is the usual compensatory reaction of those who feel inferior, those who are not proud of their real selves. See Alfred Adler, the


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Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Igbo man, went to the United States in the 1920s. He studied at black American universities (Howard, Lincoln) and obtained a master’s degree in Political science. He also obtained some training in journalism and then returned to Africa, first to Accra Ghana and eventually to Lagos, Nigeria in the 1930s. Mr. Azikiwe was the first Igbo man of note to obtain some sort of Western education. When he returned to Nigeria, therefore, he was the pride and joy of all Igbo people.

Mr. Azikiwe was later awarded an honorary DLit degree and subsequently referred to himself as Dr Azikiwe. Thus he started the annoying practice of Nigerians calling themselves Doctors, when they are not so. Honorary degrees are not supposed to make one a Doctor. Moreover, academic degrees are only relevant within Ivory Tower. On campus, it is appropriate for students to refer to their teacher as professor (which in French means teacher and not the prestigious title Nigerians tend to think that it means, an elementary school teacher is a professor) or Doctor. But outside of the campus such men ought to be referred to as simply Mr. Osuji. Only Medical Doctors have a right to go by the term Doctor. This is so that we may know when a medical doctor is present and when there are medical emergencies easily access their services. We do not call them doctor to gratify their vanities, as is the case in Nigeria. In Nigeria, people are so vain that even illiterates want to be called Dr Professor, Chief Alhaji, Engineer and Architect this or that. Zik started this whole nonsense and must be faulted for doing so. He ought to have known better, since he had some exposure to academic nomenclature.


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Dear Mr Osuji,

Thanks for providing another Igbo voice needed to advance a Northern/Western polemic. I leave you with the full weight of your conscience...that should be punishment enough for you + your kind.

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MASSOB accusing Ochiwarlord of criminal ignorance:
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when those who know law look at your childish application of the definition of fraud, it will be clear that you are guilty of fraudulent ignorance.

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Daud i can see that you have not yet overcome the trauma I have instilled in you. And good to know that you and Massob are completely ignorant of the law having to wait for "those who know law" to prove me wrong. Well let us continue to wait for "those who know law" to correct me, and until they do, please keep your ignorant fingers off your keyboard on this issue, you are making a nuisance of yourself. Thank you.

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quote:
fraudulent ignorance--Quoted by Daud
LOL! Fraudulent ignorance? LOL!
Daud This is your famous quote? please what is fraudulent ignorance? In Law? [Roll Eyes]
Please note we are not talking about SHARIA LAW .
Only in sharia could such terminology exist.
LOL!
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show me how you can be ignorant and fraudulent at the same time Daud [Confused]
I will be gratefull for your expert opinion. [Efulefu Smash]

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From the ass's mouth:
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As to my penmanship, my spelling may be lousy and I dont bother to use a spell check --- Ochiwarlord

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...but my points are right on the money. Keep shaking in your shoes Daud.
By the way your own spelling is not too hot either and you dont have any constructive point. You are just a nuisance.
How about your " ignorant fraudulence"? Dont care to expantiate? Scared off making a fool of yourself again?

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Suddenly the junior awusa boy, idi amin daud realized there's something called TYPO? Only when he screws up so bad beyond relief does this word mean something, other times insults are poured on someone who made the same "typo," madam grammar.

Gotcha ya!-- MeBiafran June 20, 2005

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quote:The occupiers beging targetting and killing unarmed, doctors, lawyers, civilians: Topic: Quagmire in Iraq: the Guerilla War Begins.

One of our self imposed grammar police (idi amin daud) has blown it yet again. Hey! You mean “begin targeting?” Didn’t you and your friend tell us how good you’re when it comes to writing and all that? Wow!
--MeBiafran 20 June 2005

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Junior awusa boy, idi amin duad, thanks for alerting me though indirectly to my minor error. Any intelligent person who reads it will understand unless that person happens to be a junior awusa (tiv) boy, like you.--MeBiafran June 10, 2005


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quote:
Originally posted by Ochiwar:
...but my points are right on the money. Keep shaking in your shoes Daud.
By the way your own spelling is not too hot either and you dont have any constructive point. You are just a nuisance.
How about your " ignorant fraudulence"? Dont care to expantiate? Scared off making a fool of yourself again?

UUUMMM!!!! walk away,its decending into a forum about spelling.ANYWAY this is the internet, spelling as we knew it is GONE,so long as we get the point who cares(about the spelling).im saying this to cover my ass,as my selling is rubbish,but that doesnt mean a thing.to make the point,i know a man who makes $50000 a DAY,and cant read or write,spelling,big deal,walk away ,use ibo brains,if u NEED to argue ,argue for PEACE.haveaniceday. [Big Grin]

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