History of Nigeria: 1914-2012

[Arinze]

Originally Posted by dan katsina

i guess i am right, because you can not prove me wrong. if that is what you think i will reveal, then sorry, you are way off target

Of course you are right because you are so much smarter than the rest of us thank God we have you around to lead us down the right path

I predict that you will revel that you haven't changed your underwear for 3 days :

[dan katsina]

Originally Posted by Arinze

Of course you are right because you are so much smarter than the rest of us thank God we have you around to lead us down the right path

I predict that you will revel that you haven't changed your underwear for 3 days :

it is 12am so its time to sleep, be prepared for information later, im sure you can not wait

[Arinze]

The suspense is killing me I tell you

[dan katsina]

what a good sleep i had, knowing that the truth is out their. this goes out to people like arinze, if you think i given wrong information or anything, just point out, or everything will be assumed as the truth, it is just my own opinion on things from 1914 to 2012, im being fair, so if you think im unfair, point out, im tired of people only pointing at one part of nigeria, lets look things from all angles

[dan katsina]

1966


january coup: first it should be clear, that the intial planning of the coup was not 100% ibo, but it was more or lese 90% but that is still a significant majority, as i have already mentioned, what happened in 1965 was marred by alot of violence with the crisis in the west boiling over, the government had basically dysfunctioned, the pm and president were not looking at each others eyes, accusations from all sides, the military saw this as a opportunity, and a coup, plotted by a majority of ibo generals overthrew the government, in what was a planned operations, akintola (the leader of nndp) was killed in ibadan, ahmadu bello (influential leader in npc), killed in kaduna, and tafawa balewa (prime minister), killed in lagos, various northerners and also westerners belonging to the nndp or allied to the npc were also killed in the january coup, as such, azikiwe was also overthrown as president but he was in london at the time as such it did not really matter, the initial announcement of the killings during the coup was kept secret, in fact balewas body was discovered by luck 6 days later, dumped in a forest near a roadside with that of several other men, the bodies of some leaders like sardauna were only official announced to most of the north after the counter coup, the initial coup did not directly announce the deaths, a day after the coup ironsi was appointed leader, other players in the coup included ifeajuna and nzeogwu, lets get in details, some things that ironsi did included, making his army considerably more eastern (but he had a few westerners and northerners on his side as well), some of the things he did however that were unacceptable and against the set up that kept the former government working, like he removed hausa from being compusory in the civil service test it meant that many northerners would lose some positions in civil service to non indigenes a mistake because he put all civil servants part of one civil service, colonel ojukwu used this change in policy to make it clear to civil servants in enugu state, that they were free to spread across nigeria including lagos, kano etc. to take up positions, he also gave many ibos within his circle key posts like making francis nwokedi sole commissioner for administrative review and i can go on , those that were captured in the coup and not killed, were transported to the east (mostly), during the coup emotions were high, the wives of northern soldiers were being taunted by the wives of southern (mainly eastern) soldiers (words of general danjuma), the picture of the nzeogwu standing on the body of sardauna was widely distributed in the markets, songs were being sang taunting northerners, to the point that ironsi threatened people 3 months in prison that were provoking northerners, the sound of machine guns was the theme of taunting for northerners, basically saying, those are the bullets that killed northern leaders in the january coup, it was turning into a ethnic over a very sensitive issue and ironsi was losing control over the situation, it turned to the worse, nelson ottah's drum magazine featured articles and photographs which directly taunted and provoked northerners, nelson ottah was sent to prison for this by ironsi, but damage was done, this directly caused a riot which killed hundreds of people, mostly of eastern extraction, another key point is that despite the initial coup, awolowo was still in prison, most would have expected him to be released because of his initial commitment to the east, but that did not even happen in the january coup, because the killings of most people in the january coup was a secret, and many people did not really have the exact details, things were going to turn for the worse in the coming months

ironsi adresses the country after the coup, on live tv

[Arinze]

Yep fair is not in your vocabulary

[dan katsina]

this is why im saying if you consider it unfair, point out where i said things unfairly please

remember you did not want us (me and ghostx) to speak in your thread about ojukwu, i am allowing you and anyone else to come here and challenge history

[Arinze]

Don't worry it's coming, being objective is the last thing you are

No just you I didn't want in that thread

[dan katsina]

come, if you can not challenge me i will go ahead with the counter coup and it means i am right with the events of the january coup

[Arinze]

If you believe your version of the truth you'll always be right

[dan katsina]

i did not say i completely right, but im not speaking trash either it is the other side of the story and i know what i am talking about, i said if you can't challenge me then that means i am right, you can laugh, but it is not a laughing matter, you are busy pointing fingers at the north everytime but here i am providing your opportunity to make it interesting im not like you i prefer people to be educated, you prefer to keep people dumb because that plays in your side, you like to call other people names but here you are provided the platform to show us what you know about nigeria and you are just quiet laughing with yourself. i dont have time, i want to move to the counter coup

[Arinze]

You are always right in fact every word you type is ordained by God himself:
This thread will have more balonea than a NYC deli and its only 2 pages in, oh boy I can't wait to read the Dan Katsina sanctioned and approved version of Nigerian history where the North is an innocent bystander in every event that takes place in Nigeria the riots during Ms. World an evil plot to blemish the North's good reputation by the South. The 2011 riots, Southerners disguised as Northerners who yet again were trying to disrupt the piece of the North

In fact the South should write a formal apology for causing the North such emotional distress with its slanderous lies and falsehoods.


: unlike you I know Nigeria's problems are everyone's fault and not just one region's fault, but facts be damned you'll try and acheive sainthood in this thread with tricks that would put Houdini to shame

Continue jor

[dan katsina]

im in 1966 and you're speaking about the riots of november 2002 and riots of april 2011, wait i will give those riots when we get to 2002 and 2011, and i will give the true events that caused the riots, nothing is a-b-c or 1-2-3, i am not putting the blame on anyone, but i will try to make it easier for you to make up your own mind, but because you can not even argue against the historical events even small by small, makes me believe that i am in fact right and you are just doing damage limitation with your laughs

don't like, you always blame the north for most problems, if not, why did you get me removed from the ojukwu thread for giving a different version? you have your own bias and im even giving any easterners the opportunity to argue against me, if i am in any way proven wrong, i will not be shy to admit i am wrong, but i am confident

counter coup events will be next

[Arinze]

post jare, what version? You were posting opinions not fact

[dan katsina]

1966


counter coup: without a shadow of a doubt, the counter coup had a ethnic turn, if you look at the events of the january coup, you see how things turned ethnic, with provocations, taunting, the military was dominated by a single ethnic dimension. the leadership at the top of npc had been wiped off, some of the most influential soldiers in the north wiped off. the pressure was their, people were killed, civilians, wives, families and just your average soldier of northern origin was fed up by the events of the january coup, how could it happen, why isn't anyone answering? ironsi was too secretive, the problem was too big for him to handle, the damage was done. by june, northerners, some westerners allied to the npc, people from the middle belt had already had a plan, they saw ironsi as a man who was too focused on ethnicity rather than the nation. for example in ibadan, colonel largema was killed, the man who took over was major nzefili who is of eastern extraction northerners refused to take orders from him, so ironsi appointed a northerner (of tiv extraction) to take over, it went on some parts, like kano, were shuwa took over from major okafor, but the heartache from the coup in january was not to be removed, northerners in the army were voicing their disapproval of ironsi, colonel murtala mohammed for example was vocal in his disapproval for ironsi. the fact that as i mentioned, the deaths of alot of senior people in the army and the npc was very secret and their was no official annoucement, just raised more suspicion, more tension. initially, the implications of the january coup were minimal because people didn't have so many details, the army (northern side) did not even have the full details, some of there own men they did not have a idea were they were killed, buried or if they had in fact just escaped out of nigeria. let's get the the point, in july, with mass mutiny in the army, on july 28th lt ogbonna called lagos to inform them of mutiny in the army and of killings of some soldiers allied to ironsi, but the call was by mistake connected to a northern lieutenant, this directly prepared most northerners in the army (who had initially no idea of the counter coup plans) to prepare themselves, and alerady with many people looking for answers and already vexed by the january coup, on july 29, at the government house in ibadan, ironsi was arrested by soldiers under the command of danjuma, were he was questioned about all the details of the january coup and what happened in the initial coup. within hours ironsi was dead, with him few men loyal to him. in lagos, northern troops took over, and ibo soldiers were given clemency and escaped before things boiled over. because of the phone call, things were actually slower in the north, in kaduna it took about 2 days for the coup to take effect, senior ibo soldiers were killed, kano was initially under the command of a soldier of northern origins (shuwa) who was also loyal to ironsi, he also had to flee before kano fell. things however were slower in the east because very very few northerners were stationed in the east, in parts of the midwest and the east, colonel ojukwu (to name a few) had managed to stop any northern advancement in the east, with the news coming out of the counter coup, through houses, through streets, and the answers to the questions coming out about the killings in the january coup, emotions were highest, people took matters in there own hands, violence erupted between northerners and mostly easterners, scores were killed, many people of ibo origins, fled and went back to the east, then came colonel ojukwu


hassan katsina, ojukwu, gowon, ironsi

[HerachioBlo]

Dan you're a joke idk how sold his cow to send you to school but its not working. This thread sucks and nobody respects it clearly. You also left behind the part where azikiwe freed nigeria from the british and awolowo pioneered industrialization whie the saradoona begged the british to stay and declared he wasn't a nigerian. Then the part where the treacherous bastards head was cut off and his people liberated by yibos. Nobody is going to 'contribute' to this joke. Lol at Iwhy did you make the thread'. Dan you're not a nigerian, go back to Niger, you're not a nigerian. Your father polishes yibo made shoes.

[dan katsina]

civil war history coming

[èđđeůx]

Brief trollish history of Nigeria

1960: 40 million strong
1970:Idk
1980: Idk
1990: 90 million strong (I guess?)
2000: 120 million strong
2010: 160 million strong()

Damn you guys are on fire!

[Naijaborn]

source??

[èđđeůx]

You didn't even give me time to refresh the page before demanding that.