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One:  Eri is not the father of ALL Igbo. There were autochtonous Igbo of the Nsukka and Ehugbo areas who were existing before Eri arrived in the Omabala area of Igbo land, if we are to measure by all the available records and dates of his arrival. Two:  It appears Eri was the first man to successfully organize and popularize A culture of the Igbo to other areas of  Igbo lands, subsuming OTHER Igbo cultures in the assimilation process. This even goes down to the Eri creation myth being popular in many parts of Igbo land than other Igbo creation myths. Three: It appears Eri might have had contact with Egypt or Israel or contact with a culture that had had contact with Egypt or Israel. Many aspects of the culture made popular by Eri bear the Semitic mark. Four: The Igbo is not one nation. It is made up of many smaller cultures and peoples. Only two known attempts have been made to bring all the groups into an empire-like union for religious and commercial purposes. Thes...

became exactly %0 years on July 8, 2017 Exactly 50 years ago day before yesterday, the Nigerian Biafran war began in earnest. Actually by July 8, 1967, the New York Times reported the following: "Fighting between Nigerian Army troops and Biafra forces entered its third day today, with both sides saying they had inflicted heavy losses on the other and neither side boasting on conclusive victory. Military spokesmen in the federal capital in Lagos confirmed that their troops had invaded the Eastern Region, which has called itself the Republic of Biafra since its declaration of independence May 30, at several points along the northern border. They said federal troops had captured Eastern army trainees at a camp on the road between Obudu and Ogoja in the eastern part of the northern border yesterday morning but that the captives were mostly raw recruits. American diplomatic personnel studied the possibilities of evacuating an estimated 1, 040 Americans from the Eastern Reg...

Mbadiwe was the last to leave before midnight,and was verbally abused by a private secretary for keeping his master up so late. At about 1 o’clock, after telephoning the Sardauna and relaxing into some dazed chattering with the madaki of Bauchi about how ‘ “friend Akintola” has got us into this mess, and now only God can get us out of it’, Abubakar complained that his body was  aching, and retired; one of his children shared his room, and two wives slept elsewhere; Inni was in Bauchi, eight months pregnant. The army’s leaders had been preoccupied throughout the evening, since it had been suggested to General Aguiyi-Ironsi that he should be the guest of honour at a party at the Ikoyi home of the popular Kanuri Brigadier Maimalari, to celebrate the brigadier’s marriage to a new wife from Kano; Lt-col Gowon was only one of many high-ranking officers who went with sundry pressmen and foreign guests to the fairy-lit festivities, which l...

Of course the war was already on, and even if anyone wanted to change his mind at that stage, it was already too late. I was ordered to move down to Opi junction with the remnant of my men. There, we had some refreshment, food and water. We also had some reinforcement of men and arms. Then I was detailed to move down to  Lejja area, from Lejja to Ibagwa-Ani, covering Enugu Ezike road. After a few days, we were asked to pull out completely. After pulling out, all of us converged at Opi junction, moving further into the hinterland. Later, we got an order to move back. We continued until we made contact with the enemy. Those at Orba Nsukka also continued until contact was made with the enemy. At this point in time the 7th Batallion that had been in the field since the first shot continued until we got back to Queen of the Rosary College, Nsukka. One evening, I was summoned to the Brigade Headquarters under Colonel Eze who was the Brigade Commander. We were to launch an a...

"Yes. I played a prominent role in Biafra for the unity of the country in order to restore peace and bring about unity of the country. That’s the role I played. I advised Ojukwu. I said well look, you have declared secession. What we should do is to get the elder statesmen and women of the nation to reconcile you and Gowon. I said by declaring secession, you get so man y people who do not believe you to remain there. You see all of us were interned. As we were interned then, we couldn’t express our own views as we see it because, he made Decree Number 5 which vested absolute powers in himself and if you were against his views, it then constituted an act of subversion and the penalty was death by shooting. Well, it was a war-time measure and that is understandable. So, I advised him. I said go to the conference table and iron out your differences. Allow elder statesmen and elder stateswomen to bring the two of you to the conference table and settle this matter so that there wil...