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Just read Philip Efiong's small work, Integration: True or False.
Efiong was a General in the #Biafra army & was second to Ojukwu in Biafra's leadership hierarchy.
I found certain information in the work revealing, like Gowon's reply to Efiong's memo to him.
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Efiong was a General in the #Biafra army & was second to Ojukwu in Biafra's leadership hierarchy.
I found certain information in the work revealing, like Gowon's reply to Efiong's memo to him.
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After Biafra’s ‘surrender’, Efiong requested that undamaged airports in #Biafra be used for daylight & night flights for bringing in food & other supplies into Biafra.
He made d request to Gowon bc the humanitarian condition during d tail end of the war & after was catastrophic.
He made d request to Gowon bc the humanitarian condition during d tail end of the war & after was catastrophic.
1/ "As the commanding officer and leader of the troops, I have no apology for those massacred in Asaba, Owerri and Ameke-Item.
2/ "I acted as a soldier maintaining the peace and unity of Nigeria," Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Haruna.
3/ Haruna said this at the Oputa Panel on 9 October, 2001.
1/ Politics and governance took centre stage this week, with the FG under fire for a slow response to floods in Benue,
2/ and Amnesty International serving a reminder, where none was needed, of the catastrophic human toll of Boko Haram’s insurgency.
3/ Finally on the reminder trail, Nigeria’s states have always had a thing for debt, and Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are Nigerian after all.
2/ The story contains a video of a woman, mother of eleven children, Nwada Chukwudi.
3/ According to her, she was involved in the Anambra State Traffic Agency, but, crucially, her salary was cut short for no reason.
