ikwere militant: my frend adekunle attended holy ghost college owerri.besides all dis ur ijebu history is not suprising cos becos d ink ure writing with is as slipery as oye soup nd am not expectng any diffrence frm a grguate from a university situated at ijebu ode so ur school library will even tell u hw oyo empire colonised d french nd defeated d british.state mugu

T9ksy:



Kats,

The bolded portion of your post is news to me.

Can you elucidate further, please?

Legit1:


This couple look awesome!!!

Rugged and real

Katsumoto:


That explains the determination of the British to Islamize the rest of the nationalities that inhabited the upper Niger through colonial education. This assertion raises the question of why the Yoruba Muslims failed to meet the bill for recruitment into colonial military forces. By no means are we saying that adherence to or association with Islam was all that it took for members of a nationality in the Niger basin to qualify for recruitment into the military forces of the supra-national state during colonialism. [b]There are some socio-political factors that account for why Yoruba Muslims were deemed unsuitable for the military forces at the time. [/b]The version of Islam that the British deemed unthreatening to their imperial design in the Niger basin was noticeably conservative in content and approach, which was why it provided the bases of legitimacy for Fulani authority in the Caliphate society. Islam’s conservative traits produced the situation in which “the cult of the Muslim led to support for men and institutions that were despotic and corrupt” (Gutteridge 1970: 304). There were still versions of the faith that posed threats to both Fulani authority and colonial rule in Hausaland (Adeleye 1972). As soon as it was introduced in Yorubaland Islam was quickly reconditioned by the indigenous ‘norms’,
‘forms’ and ‘practice’ of authority. Yoruba Muslims never looked to the Fulani for guidance in the practice of their faith. A people who adhere strongly to norms that support Participation and Responsiveness in the practice of authority could not be found suitable for recruitment into military forces meant for enforcing Compliance to regimented Directiveness that emanate from an autocratic system of governance.


The Roots of Political Instability - Emmanuel Ejiogu.


Think about it, all the Yoruba officers in the Army were christian and had followed British Christian missionaries.

Ademulegun, Adebayo, Shodeinde, Ogundipe, Shodeinde, Johnson, Wey, Fajuyi, Rotimi, Akinriade, Ariyo, Obasanjo, Banjo, Adekunle, Abisoye.

T9ksy:


Thanks Kats, for the clarification and the reference. Much appreciated.

Dede1:


I am the authority on my facts. There is no need to copy and paste junks from obscure sources. One of your fellow disciples of Nowa Omoigui who goes by handle –Koruji cited Awolowo’s rant that included 35,000 soldiers of northern region origins that had occupied western region in 1966.

Quaritch: Major IA Boro

dabriggs:
Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro. He is of Izon (Ijaw)origin- Kaiama. He led the 12 day revolution, the first major Niger Delta Struggle and upsrising.Especially after the murder of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa that Isaac loved and thought would grant the Niger Delta people the recognition and emancipation they deserved .Corruption, Tribalism and other vices were rife in Nigeria and Isaac felt emancipation of the Ijaws was necessary in the socio-economic and political situation in Nigeria at that time. He died as a Major while fighting on the Nigerian side against Biafra.

Quaritch: The burial of Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu.




Nzeogwu's grave at the Military Cemetary, Kaduna.

tomakint:
Just to add to it that he was the man that 'unjustly sacked over 10,000 civil servants in 1975' with the promise to the nation that he is trying to 'sanitize the heavily corrupted civil service commission' only for him to replace the sacked officials with majorities of his fellow mallams and indirectly introducing 'ghost workers' to the polity! He remains the same man that unilaterally decided to move the federal capital territory to Abuja without due consultation thereby wasting billions of naira in the process at a time a naira was exchanging for $2 when Lagos (then capital) was begging for serious structural developments! I would surmise that his short exit really saved Nigeria a collossal collateral damage that would have brought Nigeria on her knees!

tonte:

We shall always identify with the cause, by the way I'm from the Tom Briggs House.

Quaritch: Gen. Ironsi watching a mortar concentration at Kachia near Kaduna in 1966, shortly before his overthrow and assassination. Some Northern soldiers wanted to make attempts on Ironsi's life on this trip, but were dissuaded by Northern elders who warned against spilling Ironsi's blood in the North. This was why Ibadan was chosen as the theatre for the July 29 1966 coup.

The murders and subsequent hounding of most of the men in this picture (and their kinsmen) led to the need for the Aburi Accord, its failure, and the resultant civil war, which lasted for three years.

L-R: Lt. Col. Imo, Major Obioha, Lt. Col Okoro (with umbrella), Lt. Col. A. Madiebo, Major Ogbemudia (with map), Col. Wellington Bassey, Maj. Gen. A. Ironsi, Lt. Col. O. Kalu, Lt. Col. M. Shuwa, Lt. Col. J. Akagha etc.

Ninilowo:
Yes! Ibadan was the slaughter slab for him and Theo Danjuma was the agent of death! Once again, Danjuma will not die well. I remember he was also the idiot that led the troop that burn Fela's shrine and threw his mum from the storey building. OMO ALE.

Katsumoto:

He gave the order, he wasn't physically present.

Quaritch: [size=13pt]The Lioness of Lisabi[/size]
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (25 October 1900 - 13 April 1978) teacher, political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat. She served with distinction as one of the most prominent leaders of her generation.

Mrs. Ransome-Kuti's political activism led to her being described as the doyen of female rights in Nigeria, as well as to her being regarded as “The Mother of Africa.” Early on, she was a very powerful force advocating for the Nigerian woman's right to vote. She was described in 1947, by the West African Pilot as the “Lioness of Lisabi” for her leadership of the women of the Egba clan that she belonged to on a campaign against their arbitrary taxation. That struggle led to the abdication of the Egba high king Oba Ademola II in 1949.

Kuti was the mother of the activists Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a musician, Beko Ransome-Kuti, a doctor, and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a doctor and a former health minister of Nigeria.

This photo was taken shortly after the attack on Fela's compund, Kalakuta Republic at Ojuelegba Lagos by soldiers during the Military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo in 1977. Mrs. Kuti was said to have been thrown from a second floor window and sustained a broken leg and other injuries. She passed on the following year at age 78.