Nigerians in Nigeria love TRUMP. Here is why...

[Ugo Ogugwa]

This is what trips me out

If they hate stuff like trash being on the street, what's stopping them from getting with some friends and getting it cleaned up?

Is there something else going on that I'm not aware of?

That's one thing I hate about some other countries from pics I've seen

Someone pick up a expletive broom!


I see it with Asian countries too

Always has me

It's a mindset breh. Instead of banding together as a community to clean the town they create their own level of comfort on their own property. Shared property doesn't get addressed.

To their defense, in the US we don't go on streets and push brooms. We wait for the government/people who get paid or punished do that.

 

[MikelArteta]

Depends where you are, and I move differently since my father was killed in Nigeria.

my condolences

 

[Skooby]

That said, there is plenty of reasons why guys like @bdizzle left and happy and will never come back to America.

He really left to Africa? I always wondered where he went.

 

[thekyuke]

One big factor that I haven't seen mentioned is that Nigerians respect wealth and displays of wealth above anything else. And Trump's name has been synomous with "rich" for the last 30+ years...

In Kenya,along with Congolese Naijjans are famous for this-clubs,weddings and ishyt they dress like its a GQ shoot!

 

[thekyuke]

Israel when financially in ruins got a lot of money and resources from Nigeria from my uncle who was the President and understood we were brothers away from home. The issue was when the war took place, Biafra was whooping ass. The US put pressure on Israel to end its support of Biafra. China and South Africa was weaker than Nigeria at that time, their support didn't mean shyt. France support was bogus, they just wanted to do business with the Igbos and they didn't really give us weapons like that. Biafra lost because of three countries.

1. Great Britain - Trained, funded, and helped Nigeria.
2. USA - See GB
3. Russia who was two-face. Selling weapons to both sides, telling the North where, and all types of fukkery.

The US then made Biafra the face of poverty and hunger.

'

You should read the papers in America at that time about the Biafra War. They were watching like a hawk but acting like they were blind to help. bytch ass nikkas. LA Times still has clippings.

You should have seen Nigeria when Igbos ran the country.

Ebony

Umm,no. I keep seeing this Biafraud BS AND MUST SAY NO! If Kaduna Boy hadn't murdered the Sultan of Sokoto and his wife during the 1966 coup don't you think things would've turned out differently? I saw his interview cold bloodedly admitting his double murder and changed my mind about the whole civil war history realising I'd been fooled by the MSM.



See how cold that nikka is! He was born and raised in the north,Kaduna and even spoke Hausa-what did you expect the Northerners to do especially after Igbos in the North openly celebrated? Why do you trust Cacs so much;even now constantly appealing for their help? What makes think they owe you anything? What made you think they were trustworthy?


As a Kenyan,I say this love you guys have for the Chosenites really isn't a good look!

Tell the Biafraud leader Nnamdi Kanu to fall back from the Impostors,for real!

Edit:how could Ojukwu a pro military man assume Biafra had a realistic future?

What made him imagine he could realistically prevail against much greater Federal forces?

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Umm,no. I keep seeing this Biafraud BS AND MUST SAY NO! If Kaduna Boy hadn't murdered the Sultan of Sokoto and his wife during the 1966 coup don't you think things would've turned out differently? I saw his interview cold bloodedly admitting his double murder and changed my mind about the whole civil war history realising I'd been fooled by the MSM.



See how cold that nikka is! He was born and raised in the north,Kaduna and even spoke Hausa-what did you expect the Northerners to do especially after Igbos in the North openly celebrated? Why do you trust Cacs so much;even now constantly appealing for their help? What makes think they owe you anything? What made you think they were trustworthy?


As a Kenyan,I say this love you guys have for the Chosenites really isn't a good look!

Tell the Biafraud leader Nnamdi Kanu to fall back from the Impostors,for real!

Edit:how could Ojukwu a pro military man assume Biafra had a realistic future?

What made him imagine he could realistically prevail against much greater Federal forces?

As Kenyan, why are you so passionate about this matter?

 

[Billy Ocean]

To the Average Nigerian

Of course this fake, frauding fakkit @Hiphoplives4eva would dap up this bullshyt from this pasty faced cac.

 

[thekyuke]

As Kenyan, why are you so passionate about this matter?

Because I realised I'd been fooled for the longest, my dude! Once I looked beyond the cries of "genocide/Yoruba betrayal (were they to sacrifice themselves for Biafra?)/Igbo hate" I realised you were the architects of your own problems!
After all this time many of you still haven't learned a thing: the indig Biafrans are agreed to be the Ibibio. They've categorically rejected anything to do with Biafra. Nikka, will you go to war over someone else's land?

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Because I realised I'd been fooled for the longest, my dude! Once I looked beyond the cries of "genocide/Yoruba betrayal (were they to sacrifice themselves for Biafra?)/Igbo hate" I realised you were the architects of your own problems!
After all this time many of you still haven't learned a thing: the indig Biafrans are agreed to be the Ibibio. They've categorically rejected anything to do with Biafra. Nikka, will you go to war over someone else's land?

I'm not clear on what you are talking about or who you think you're talking to.

 

[thekyuke]

I'm not clear on what you are talking about or who you think you're talking to.

The Ibibio were in todays Biafra as far back as 7000 BC!

"Located in Southeastern Nigeria, the Ibibio people seem to be related to the Anaang, the oron, and the Efik peoples because of the great similarities they share among themselves.

But reflecting on the tales of oral tradition, it is easy to agree with Robert McKeon statement which states that the Ibibio are probably the indigenous natives from whom most small tribes of Qua Ibom and Calabar are descended.

After all, Talbot suggests that by 7000 BC permanent settlement of some of the ethnic groups in Ibibio land had already begun and notes that the Ibibio language is probably the most ancient of all the semi Bantu languages."
Ibibio Culture: A brief walk into the lives of one of Africa's oldest people - Pulse Nigeria

These Ibibio WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH KANU,BIAFRA,MASSOB OR WHATEVER ALPHABET SOUP IGBO GROUP IS CALLING FOR SECESSION!

"1. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio considers it an affront, an act of extreme provocation and a stretch to the breaking point of the tolerance limits of the Ibibio people for some self-serving individuals in the cloak of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and indeed any bunch of avaricious persons howsoever called to wake up from an intoxication-induced sleep to hurriedly put out to the public a map of their dream Republic of Biafra.Their utopian republic implicitly conscripted, without any modicum of respect to consult, our own prided land of heritage of Akwa Ibom State as well as those of our blood brothers along the Atlantic Coast of Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta and and Rivers States."


They're not playing,srsly!

" 2.We wish to remind the concerned Igbos that this senseless arrogance and callous disrespect for the Ibibio person, an endemic and pathological trait of their extraction has been at the core of the differences of our two nationalities. And so as it was in the first republic, so it is now and so shall it be in times to come. Ibibio has nothing in common with Igbo. To wit we differ in ancestry, culture, beliefs, character traits, language, food, names, dressing and all."

Also,the first definitely Igbo cultural artefacts are dated 900 AD. Earlier pottery from 2500 BC isn't considered totally Igbo.

"Archaeological evidence suggests that Nri influence in Igboland may go back as far as the 9th century,[37] and royal burials have been unearthed dating to at least the 10th century. Eri, the god-like founder of Nri, is believed to have settled the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following after in the 13th century.[38] The first Eze Nri (King of Nri) Ìfikuánim followed directly after him. According to Igbo oral tradition, his reign started in 1043.[39] At least one historian puts Ìfikuánim's reign much later, around 1225 AD.[40]"
Igbo people - Wikipedia

Chief Awolowo backtracked on seceeding with Yorubaland which was to form the Oduduwa republic which would've effectively killed the Naij national project while indirectly actualising your Biafra and you guys have blamed him and Yorubas ever since! You ask why I'm passionate about this? 2 decades ago,late 90s I met a white commodity broker looking for 10k T of rice in Nairobi. I hooked him up along with several other deals and we became friends. After 6 Tuskers he'd always call himself a Rhodie and moan how they were betrayed by everyone,the Press,the Queen,South Africa,the UN and humanity at large.
I checked him one time and he seemed to recognise the fallacy of his argument and accept that while force may lead to a ceasefire there can never be true lasting peace without justice for the majority-this was just after the Zim' army interceded in the DRC on behalf of the Congolese like Putin in Syria today.
This reality distortion field,the mental space of emotion,false narratives and outright BS is also common with Somalis as you may have noticed here,though tbh,they've quietened down last couple of years. Nothing is ever their fault- ex Rhodies,Somalis and now Ibgos inhabit a self made reality actually a parallel universe of BS.
Pls,answer my question on Maj. Nzeogwu,aka Kaduna Boy,who coldbloodedly killed the Sultan and his wife-how did you expect the Hausa to react when an Igbo son born and bred amongst them murdered their leader?

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

The Ibibio were in todays Biafra as far back as 7000 BC!

"Located in Southeastern Nigeria, the Ibibio people seem to be related to the Anaang, the oron, and the Efik peoples because of the great similarities they share among themselves.

But reflecting on the tales of oral tradition, it is easy to agree with Robert McKeon statement which states that the Ibibio are probably the indigenous natives from whom most small tribes of Qua Ibom and Calabar are descended.

After all, Talbot suggests that by 7000 BC permanent settlement of some of the ethnic groups in Ibibio land had already begun and notes that the Ibibio language is probably the most ancient of all the semi Bantu languages."
Ibibio Culture: A brief walk into the lives of one of Africa's oldest people - Pulse Nigeria

These Ibibio WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH KANU,BIAFRA,MASSOB OR WHATEVER ALPHABET SOUP IGBO GROUP IS CALLING FOR SECESSION!

"1. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio considers it an affront, an act of extreme provocation and a stretch to the breaking point of the tolerance limits of the Ibibio people for some self-serving individuals in the cloak of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and indeed any bunch of avaricious persons howsoever called to wake up from an intoxication-induced sleep to hurriedly put out to the public a map of their dream Republic of Biafra.Their utopian republic implicitly conscripted, without any modicum of respect to consult, our own prided land of heritage of Akwa Ibom State as well as those of our blood brothers along the Atlantic Coast of Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta and and Rivers States."


They're not playing,srsly!

" 2.We wish to remind the concerned Igbos that this senseless arrogance and callous disrespect for the Ibibio person, an endemic and pathological trait of their extraction has been at the core of the differences of our two nationalities. And so as it was in the first republic, so it is now and so shall it be in times to come. Ibibio has nothing in common with Igbo. To wit we differ in ancestry, culture, beliefs, character traits, language, food, names, dressing and all."

Also,the first definitely Igbo cultural artefacts are dated 900 AD. Earlier pottery from 2500 BC isn't considered totally Igbo.

"Archaeological evidence suggests that Nri influence in Igboland may go back as far as the 9th century,[37] and royal burials have been unearthed dating to at least the 10th century. Eri, the god-like founder of Nri, is believed to have settled the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following after in the 13th century.[38] The first Eze Nri (King of Nri) Ìfikuánim followed directly after him. According to Igbo oral tradition, his reign started in 1043.[39] At least one historian puts Ìfikuánim's reign much later, around 1225 AD.[40]"
Igbo people - Wikipedia

Chief Awolowo backtracked on seceeding with Yorubaland which was to form the Oduduwa republic which would've effectively killed the Naij national project while indirectly actualising your Biafra and you guys have blamed him and Yorubas ever since! You ask why I'm passionate about this? 2 decades ago,late 90s I met a white commodity broker looking for 10k T of rice in Nairobi. I hooked him up along with several other deals and we became friends. After 6 Tuskers he'd always call himself a Rhodie and moan how they were betrayed by everyone,the Press,the Queen,South Africa,the UN and humanity at large.
I checked him one time and he seemed to recognise the fallacy of his argument and accept that while force may lead to a ceasefire there can never be true lasting peace without justice for the majority-this was just after the Zim' army interceded in the DRC on behalf of the Congolese like Putin in Syria today.
This reality distortion field,the mental space of emotion,false narratives and outright BS is also common with Somalis as you may have noticed here,though tbh,they've quietened down last couple of years. Nothing is ever their fault- ex Rhodies,Somalis and now Ibgos inhabit a self made reality actually a parallel universe of BS.
Pls,answer my question on Maj. Nzeogwu,aka Kaduna Boy,who coldbloodedly killed the Sultan and his wife-how did you expect the Hausa to react when an Igbo son born and bred amongst them murdered their leader?

 

[#1 pick]

As Kenyan, why are you so passionate about this matter?

He got passionately negged too

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war | Frederick Forsyth

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Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war
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A million children starved to death. I’m haunted by the images I saw there – and by the complicity of the Wilson government

Tue 21 Jan 2020 01.00 EST
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It is a good thing to be proud of one’s country, and I am – most of the time. But it would be impossible to scan the centuries of Britain’s history without coming across a few incidents that evoke not pride but shame. Among those I would list are the creation by British officialdom in South Africa of the concentration camp, to persecute the families of Boers. Add to that the Amritsar massacre of 1919 and the Hola camps set up and run during the struggle against Mau Mau.

The northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of Igbo were slaughtered
But there is one truly disgusting policy practised by our officialdom during the lifetime of anyone over 50, and one word will suffice: Biafra.

This referred to the civil war in Nigeria that ended 50 years ago this month. It stemmed from the decision of the people of the eastern region of that already riot-racked country to strike for independence as the Republic of Biafra. As I learned when I got there as a BBC correspondent, the Biafrans, mostly of the Igbo people, had their reasons.


The federal government in Lagos was a brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1966 in a bloodbath. During and following that coup, the northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of resident Igbo were slaughtered. The federal government lifted not a finger to help. It was led by an affable British-educated colonel, Yakubu Gowon. But he was a puppet. The true rulers were a group of northern Nigerian colonels. The crisis deepened, and in early 1967 eastern Nigeria, harbouring about 1.8 million refugees, sought restitution. A British-organised conference was held in Ghana and a concordat agreed. But Gowon, returning home, was flatly contradicted by the colonels, who tore up his terms and reneged on the lot. In April the Eastern Region formally seceded and on 7 July, the federal government declared war.

Biafra was led by the Eastern Region’s Oxford-educated former military governor, “Emeka” Ojukwu. London, ignoring all evidence that it was Lagos that reneged on the deal, denounced the secession, made no attempt to mediate and declared total support for Nigeria.

I arrived in the Biafra capital of Enugu on the third day of the war. In London I had been copiously briefed by Gerald Watrous, head of the BBC’s West Africa Service. What I did not know was that he was the obedient servant of the government’s Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which believed every word of its high commissioner in Lagos, David Hunt. It took two days in Enugu to realise that everything I had been told was utter garbage.


I had been briefed that the brilliant Nigerian army would suppress the rebellion in two weeks, four at the most. Fortunately the deputy high commissioner in Enugu, Jim Parker, told me what was really happening. It became clear that the rubbish believed by the CRO and the BBC stemmed from our high commissioner in Lagos. A racist and a snob, Hunt expected Africans to leap to attention when he entered the room – which Gowon did. At their single prewar meeting Ojukwu did not. Hunt loathed him at once.

My brief was to report the all-conquering march of the Nigerian army. It did not happen. Naively, I filed this. When my report was broadcast our high commissioner complained to the CRO in London, who passed it on to the BBC – which accused me of pro-rebel bias and recalled me to London. Six months later, in February 1968, fed up with the slavishness of the BBC to Whitehall, I walked out and flew back to west Africa. Ojukwu roared with laughter and allowed me to stay. My condition was that, having rejected British propaganda, I would not publish his either. He agreed.

Harold Wilson
‘Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all.’ Photograph: Wood/Getty Images
But things had changed. British covert interference had become huge. Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all. Much enlarged, with fresh weapons and secret advisory teams, the Nigerian army inched across Biafra as the defenders tried to fight back with a few bullets a day. Soviet Ilyushin bombers ranged overhead, dropping 1,000lb bombs on straw villages. But the transformation came in July.


Missionaries had noticed mothers emerging from the deep bush carrying children reduced to living skeletons yet with bloated bellies. Catholic priests recognised the symptoms – kwashiorkor or acute protein deficiency.

That same July the Daily Express cameraman David Cairns ran off a score of rolls of film and took them to London. Back then, the British public had never seen such heartrending images of starved and dying children. When the pictures hit the newsstands the story exploded. There were headlines, questions in the House of Commons, demonstrations, marches.

As the resident guide for foreign news teams I became somewhat overwhelmed. But at last the full secret involvement of the British government started to be exposed and the lies revealed. Wilson came under attack. The story swept Europe then the US.


Donations flooded in. The money could buy food – but how to get it there? Around year’s end the extraordinary Joint Church Aid was born.

The World Council of Churches helped to buy some clapped-out freighter aircraft and gained permission from Portugal to use the offshore island São Tomé as a base. Scandinavian pilots and crew, mostly airline pilots, offered to fly without pay. Joint Church Aid was quickly nicknamed Jesus Christ Airlines. And thus came into being the world’s only illegal mercy air bridge.

On a visit to London in spring 1969 I learned the efforts the British establishment will take to cover up its tracks. Every reporter, peer or parliamentarian who had visited Biafra and reported on what he had seen was smeared as a stooge of Biafra – even the utterly honourable John Hunt, leader of the Everest expedition.

Throughout 1969 the relief planes flew through the night, dodging Nigerian MiG fighters, to deliver their life-giving cargoes of reinforced milk powder to a jungle airstrip. From there trucks took the sacks to the missions, the nuns boiled up the nutriments and kept thousands of children alive.

Half of a Yellow Sun summons a gilded age as well as an atrocious war
Karl Jaggi, head of the Red Cross, estimated that up to a million children died, but that at least half a million were saved. As for me, sometimes in the wee small hours I see the stick-like children with the dull eyes and lolling heads, and hear their wails of hunger and the low moans as they died.


What is truly shameful is that this was not done by savages but aided and assisted at every stage by Oxbridge-educated British mandarins. Why? Did they love the corruption-riven, dictator-prone Nigeria? No. From start to finish, it was to cover up that the UK’s assessment of the Nigerian situation was an enormous judgmental screw-up. And, worse: with neutrality and diplomacy from London it could all have been avoided.

Biafra is little discussed in the UK these days – a conflict overshadowed geopolitically by the Vietnam war, which raged at the same time. Yet the sheer nastiness of the British establishment during those three years remains a source of deep shame that we should never forget.

• Frederick Forsyth is a former war correspondent and an author

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[thekyuke]

He got passionately negged too

Nikka, whatever! We need to learn to examine ourselves honestly. I've seen more than once the same Igbo arrogance other Naijjans complain about here in Nairobi. Fyi,I could give half an eff about negs-I'm only interested in the truth and frankly some of us should change our ways. This fake victimology keeps Igbos looking for enemies like others suffering the effects of their own tendencies.
-Like Tutsis invading peaceful Rwanda 1990 to 'save' the remaining Tutsis who incidentally never asked for their help.
-Or the Chosenites stampeding into Palestine all cause Yawheh Himself left it to them and only them forever and ever!
And proud Rhodies,Somalis etc,etc. Take several seats,already!

 

[thekyuke]

Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war | Frederick Forsyth

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Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war
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Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war
Frederick Forsyth
A million children starved to death. I’m haunted by the images I saw there – and by the complicity of the Wilson government

Tue 21 Jan 2020 01.00 EST
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email
It is a good thing to be proud of one’s country, and I am – most of the time. But it would be impossible to scan the centuries of Britain’s history without coming across a few incidents that evoke not pride but shame. Among those I would list are the creation by British officialdom in South Africa of the concentration camp, to persecute the families of Boers. Add to that the Amritsar massacre of 1919 and the Hola camps set up and run during the struggle against Mau Mau.

The northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of Igbo were slaughtered
But there is one truly disgusting policy practised by our officialdom during the lifetime of anyone over 50, and one word will suffice: Biafra.

This referred to the civil war in Nigeria that ended 50 years ago this month. It stemmed from the decision of the people of the eastern region of that already riot-racked country to strike for independence as the Republic of Biafra. As I learned when I got there as a BBC correspondent, the Biafrans, mostly of the Igbo people, had their reasons.


The federal government in Lagos was a brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1966 in a bloodbath. During and following that coup, the northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of resident Igbo were slaughtered. The federal government lifted not a finger to help. It was led by an affable British-educated colonel, Yakubu Gowon. But he was a puppet. The true rulers were a group of northern Nigerian colonels. The crisis deepened, and in early 1967 eastern Nigeria, harbouring about 1.8 million refugees, sought restitution. A British-organised conference was held in Ghana and a concordat agreed. But Gowon, returning home, was flatly contradicted by the colonels, who tore up his terms and reneged on the lot. In April the Eastern Region formally seceded and on 7 July, the federal government declared war.

Biafra was led by the Eastern Region’s Oxford-educated former military governor, “Emeka” Ojukwu. London, ignoring all evidence that it was Lagos that reneged on the deal, denounced the secession, made no attempt to mediate and declared total support for Nigeria.

I arrived in the Biafra capital of Enugu on the third day of the war. In London I had been copiously briefed by Gerald Watrous, head of the BBC’s West Africa Service. What I did not know was that he was the obedient servant of the government’s Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which believed every word of its high commissioner in Lagos, David Hunt. It took two days in Enugu to realise that everything I had been told was utter garbage.


I had been briefed that the brilliant Nigerian army would suppress the rebellion in two weeks, four at the most. Fortunately the deputy high commissioner in Enugu, Jim Parker, told me what was really happening. It became clear that the rubbish believed by the CRO and the BBC stemmed from our high commissioner in Lagos. A racist and a snob, Hunt expected Africans to leap to attention when he entered the room – which Gowon did. At their single prewar meeting Ojukwu did not. Hunt loathed him at once.

My brief was to report the all-conquering march of the Nigerian army. It did not happen. Naively, I filed this. When my report was broadcast our high commissioner complained to the CRO in London, who passed it on to the BBC – which accused me of pro-rebel bias and recalled me to London. Six months later, in February 1968, fed up with the slavishness of the BBC to Whitehall, I walked out and flew back to west Africa. Ojukwu roared with laughter and allowed me to stay. My condition was that, having rejected British propaganda, I would not publish his either. He agreed.

Harold Wilson
‘Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all.’ Photograph: Wood/Getty Images
But things had changed. British covert interference had become huge. Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all. Much enlarged, with fresh weapons and secret advisory teams, the Nigerian army inched across Biafra as the defenders tried to fight back with a few bullets a day. Soviet Ilyushin bombers ranged overhead, dropping 1,000lb bombs on straw villages. But the transformation came in July.


Missionaries had noticed mothers emerging from the deep bush carrying children reduced to living skeletons yet with bloated bellies. Catholic priests recognised the symptoms – kwashiorkor or acute protein deficiency.

That same July the Daily Express cameraman David Cairns ran off a score of rolls of film and took them to London. Back then, the British public had never seen such heartrending images of starved and dying children. When the pictures hit the newsstands the story exploded. There were headlines, questions in the House of Commons, demonstrations, marches.

As the resident guide for foreign news teams I became somewhat overwhelmed. But at last the full secret involvement of the British government started to be exposed and the lies revealed. Wilson came under attack. The story swept Europe then the US.


Donations flooded in. The money could buy food – but how to get it there? Around year’s end the extraordinary Joint Church Aid was born.

The World Council of Churches helped to buy some clapped-out freighter aircraft and gained permission from Portugal to use the offshore island São Tomé as a base. Scandinavian pilots and crew, mostly airline pilots, offered to fly without pay. Joint Church Aid was quickly nicknamed Jesus Christ Airlines. And thus came into being the world’s only illegal mercy air bridge.

On a visit to London in spring 1969 I learned the efforts the British establishment will take to cover up its tracks. Every reporter, peer or parliamentarian who had visited Biafra and reported on what he had seen was smeared as a stooge of Biafra – even the utterly honourable John Hunt, leader of the Everest expedition.

Throughout 1969 the relief planes flew through the night, dodging Nigerian MiG fighters, to deliver their life-giving cargoes of reinforced milk powder to a jungle airstrip. From there trucks took the sacks to the missions, the nuns boiled up the nutriments and kept thousands of children alive.

Half of a Yellow Sun summons a gilded age as well as an atrocious war
Karl Jaggi, head of the Red Cross, estimated that up to a million children died, but that at least half a million were saved. As for me, sometimes in the wee small hours I see the stick-like children with the dull eyes and lolling heads, and hear their wails of hunger and the low moans as they died.


What is truly shameful is that this was not done by savages but aided and assisted at every stage by Oxbridge-educated British mandarins. Why? Did they love the corruption-riven, dictator-prone Nigeria? No. From start to finish, it was to cover up that the UK’s assessment of the Nigerian situation was an enormous judgmental screw-up. And, worse: with neutrality and diplomacy from London it could all have been avoided.

Biafra is little discussed in the UK these days – a conflict overshadowed geopolitically by the Vietnam war, which raged at the same time. Yet the sheer nastiness of the British establishment during those three years remains a source of deep shame that we should never forget.

• Frederick Forsyth is a former war correspondent and an author

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I tried to tell you Cacs almost always have their own agenda!? Biafraud's biggest booster in the West was and still is a long time intel agent. You can see the heavy Caucanderthal in his bone structure.

"His life story tells of how he had assisted Britain’s overseas spying agency in the Nigerian region of Biafra, East Germany, Rhodesia and South Africa.
While working as a journalist in 1968, he was approached by an MI6 man called “Ronnie” who wanted “an asset deep inside the Biafran enclave” where there was a civil war between 1967 and 1970.

“When I left for the return to the rainforest, he had one,” Forsyth wrote in his memoirs “The Outsider,” extracts of which were published by The Sunday Times ahead of its publication next month.

While Forsyth was there, he reported on the military and humanitarian situation while keeping “Ronnie informed of things that could not, for various reasons, emerge in the media.”"
Author Frederick Forsyth reveals his missions for UK intelligence

Ofc if you think Forsyth is a better long term ally than your own Ibibios or Tivs its your choice.