So the body hasn't been in Naija all this while?
Somebaddy help me here Biko
Who has been lying in state at all these locations?

"He stood for justice. He refused to compromise. He challenged man's inhumanity to man. ... He stood his ground and fought.."

Wow! What else is left to be said about a man who presented a bulwark for the oppressed?

FL,
Could you have expected Ikemba's body to have been taken all these rounds all these days?

Nobody. The body has just arrived. May his soul rest in peace.

Interesting. The pall bearers according to the Vanguard newspapers were ten serving military Generals.
My special gratitude to my president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCON, GCFR. May God bless you, and all the progressives in the land.
There's nothing left more. Vindicated.

RIP Ikemba, that's it.

They can bash Goodluck all they want,he has his faults but I still insist he is the man ordained to be there at this time
RIP Ikemba
God bless Azikiwe Goodluck Jona

Honestly I thought so
and I had been praying make dem no get mishap transporting him from place to place
Good to know


Bianca my sister ndo
Chineke gozie unu

Ikoro Bende will sound, in cacophony with all Ikoro ala Igbo wide......
The unspeakable Okonko furious beat will be heard all night long.......Ikperikpe Ogu, oh! Ikperikpe Ogu nde Ohafia will tell tall tales of valour and heroism at perilous moments. Ikperikpe Ogu will narrate in high pitch, the moment when NIGHT visited DAY and made himself at home! Overpowering Darkness settled deep down in the hearts of the men, threatening to neuter a whole tribe. As the whole world prepare to enshrine night as the "NEW" day, there shone an implacable light that refused to be snuffed out. That light, the IKEMBA, Odumegwu Ojukwu.

As your tale is recounted by Ikperikpe Ogu and history vindicates you in no uncertain terms, your light will burn brightly from generation to generation.

Thank you for standing up for me.

RIP

and can we then move on ???

does the country have no other problems ?

Prof

Ojukwu goes Home: From left, Anambra State Governor , Peter Obi, Vice President Namadi Sambo, Senate President David Mark, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekwueremadu wife at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.*



Ojukwu goes Home: Traditional Rulers paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



Ojukwu goes Home: From left, Anambra State Governor Peter Obi paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



Ojukwu goes Home: From left, Ambassador Terence P. McCulley paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.*

*From left, SGF , Senator Anyim Pius Anyim paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



From left, First Lady Patience Jonathan paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



From left, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekwueremadu, Senate President David Mark and Vice President Namadi Sambo paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.*



*From left, First Lady Patience Jonathan and others paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



Traditional Rulers paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



From right, First Lady Patience Jonathan, wife of senate President Mrs. David Mark, Wife of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu and wife of Anambra State Governor Mrs. Peter Obi at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



First Lady Patience Jonathan, at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.*



Vice President Namadi Sambo paying tribute to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu



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Most Rev. Bishop John Oniyekan spraying corpse of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.





Children of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu –Ojukwu at Abuja International Airport as Corpse of Late Ojukwu arrives Nigeria.



Photos by Gbemiga Olamikan/Vanguard

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Onye ije nno
Welcome home

REST IN PEACE MY HERO!

OJUKWU MEMORIAL IN ATLANTA AND NEW YORK

ATLANTA


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NEW YORK


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May his soul rest in peace.

The full military reception and recognition given to him is just and a great thing to see. Kudos for that.

I think the full military honour should go to the millions of igbo people who ojukwu led to their early deaths by his ego driven war that he later ran away from. In decent societies he would have faced genocide charges, I suppose he is a local champion in a backward country like Nigeria so anything goes.

God bless Goodluck Jonathan.
None of the aboki presidos would have done this

@ osibi and lol,he is your fellow man
stop hating
The biggest difference is that the day both of you die,the news may not go beyond your immediate family
gerrof the thread
Igbos are celebrating him
Osibi u should be more worried about your 14th century Boko Haram enclave

FIRST LADY...

I don't want to derail this thread and don't in anyway try to do same.........I thanked Lol for a part of his post that i agreed with and it has nothing to do with the person of Ojukwu. What i agreed with is a matter of principle and nothing more, but in your magical ways you thought you could read my mind.... so please apologize immediately for attacking my person for no just reason ELSE Amadioha will repeat what it did.......

Finally, for your memory upgrade and edumacation... it was Boko Haram Shagari that granted Ojukwu pardon... so watch your fingers in your haste to castigate anything North

Nice, colorful pictures. Even the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria was there to pay his respects. I especially liked the presence of the traditional rulers. Ojukwu himself could not have asked for a more fitting send off.

But somebody please explain to me why on earth the first lady of Nigeria has her own seal.

Onye Ije nno. Eze Igbo gburugburu laa nke oma. May your Gentle soul rest in perfect peace, Amen

RIP Odumegwu Ojukwu.

You lived and died for what you believed in and a grateful Igbo nation will always remember.

The full military honour is well deserved.

He was a General and a Head of State of a nation for over three years.

He deserved no less than what he is getting.

Adieu, great Ikemba!

He was ready when he was called to serve.
And he gave not just his best; but his life.
Ojukwu...go, knowing that you had your flow,
And in every part to its entirety.

I tried to celebrate but I'm mourning!
Dalu rinne.

in life like none other,in death like none other
I am so grateful to Nigeria for the honor and respect he is being given like none other
O si na nwata Buru ogaranya (the one who became a big man at childhood)
Ofu Onye a na asi unu abiala (A single man that is greeted with the greetings meant for a group of men)
Udo a kpu enyi (an elephant cannot be tethered by a rope)
Ya kpotuba! (let the noise reach a deafening crescendo)

The Ikemba of Nnewi deserves nothing less than the honour accorded his remains. He was the Soldiers' Soldier. He epitomizes tenacity in the pursuit of a persuasion or conviction. He was a "Misfit" in the Nigerian Army, at the time of the Aburi Conference saga, being an intellectual giant amidst a pack of nitwits who lacked the perspicacity to comprehend what should be the apposite political structure for Nigeria, given the peculiarities and uniqueness of our political milieu, in the light of the pungency of the disparateness of our Nation-State.
For many years since 1967, all efforts at attaining unity in Nigeria have remained a wild goose chase. The NYSC scheme exists today only to marginally reduce chronic unemployment in Nigeria, directly and/or temporarily, as ethno-religious crises have been on the rise ever since. By hindsight, we may wish to ask a number of questions, namely: (a) Could there have been a modicum of wisdom standing true to the Aburi Agreement? (b) Was there a need for the Genocide called The Nigeria/Biafra Civil War given the extant socio-political instability in contemporary Nigeria? © Would Nigeria have otherwise wasted and lost the leadership services of persons like Chief Awolowo, Mallam Aminu Kano, Chief M K O Abiola and their likes. There are too many questions begging for answers.
Chief Ojukwu stood up for what he believed. Today more than ever before, a National Dialogue has become fundamentally imperative. I stand to be corrected, but I dare say that beyond the toga of religion, the primitivism and barbarism called Boko Haram is a veiled protestation of the fact that the exalted seat in Aso Rock is occupied by a man from the south of Nigeria’s political equation. Conscience is that wound that only truth can heal, except and unless we would most dispassionately face up to issues that border on the basis of our corporate existence, for so long will Nigeria remain a celebration of mediocrity. I bid you farewell Chief Emeka Ojukwu, and so do many Nigerians. May it please The Eternal Spirit to rest your soul in Perfect Peace.

Africans are simply not meticulous; see the way the casket is messed up with solo tape…without prejudice to Africans, non Africans would have done it differently, very neat to the core.

Africans are simply not meticulous; see the way the casket is messed up with solo tape…without prejudice to Africans, non Africans would have done it differently, very neat to the core.

I saw a clip of the motorcade through Ala Owerri
It was humbling.people on their balconies waving their final goodbyes.
Onye ndu NdiIgbo
I would love to see the Aba celebration
I wish the great Sam mbakwe was still alive

Read more at premiumtimesng.com

Over 20,000 residents of Ebonyi State turned up at the Abakaliki Township Stadium on Tuesday to bid their final farewell to former Biafran leader, late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Governor Martin Elechi led other top government officers, politicians, students to pay their last tribute to the man many have described as a hero of the Igbo race.

Read More >> http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/ebonyi-pays-tribute-ojukwu

EzeIgbo for life. Jebe anyi na-abia.
You are more of a man than so many of us. Ikemba in death you still roar.

Ojukwu:Igbo market in India to close on March 2 in honour





The Igbo market on Mohammed Ali Road, Mumbai, India, will be shut-down on March 2 in honour of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.
The Eze-Igbo Gburugburu, who died on November 26, 2011, would be interred on Friday.

President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, India chapter, Mr. Kingsley Chukwuma, who made this known in a statement, also called on all Igbo sons and daughters in India to continue mourning Ojukwu in black shirts till March 2.
According to him, Igbo indigenes in their black attires on February 19, 2012 had a procession with olive branches and candlelights through some streets before gathering at the Igbo Hall, Cosmos Building at Khar Road, Mumbai, India, to mourn the Biafran warlord who meant so much to them.
He said the occasion which was attended by over 500 Igbo indigenes, was to pay their last respect to the late Igbo leader, whom he insisted, would be difficult to replace.

Chukwuma said the late Ojukwu sacrifice a lot by fighting for freedom and justice and urged Igbo indigenes in the Diaspora to keep his legacy alive by sustaining the struggle against injustice and oppression in Nigeria.

He extended his condolence on behalf of Ohaneze Ndigbo, India chapter to the family of Ojukwu especially his widow, Bianca, who was billed to visit India upon her appointment as Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Diaspora before the death of her husband last year.
The President of Nigeria community in Mumbai, India, Mr. Bless Agwuocha, described Ojukwu as the mirror of justice and requested every Igbo person to claim the greatness of Ojukwu in the course to achieve ethnic right in Nigeria by ndiIgbo

Naijanedu.com

Mammoth* crowd welcomed* the remains of late elder statesman and defunct Biafra Republic Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Aba in Abia state.

The secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, who proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967, was flown back to full military honours Monday, three months after his death in London and it is the turn of Abia State to honour the great leader.

The Odumegwu Ojukwu, secessionist leader, had earlier* requested that his remains be brought to Aba*rather than the seat of Government,* Umuahia.

MASSOB hails FG’s decision to give Ojukwu state burial

The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has lauded the Federal Government’s decision to give Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu a state burial.

Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, South-East Leader of MASSOB, made the disclosure at a news conference in Onitsha, Anambra on Monday.

He said: “we as leaders of the movement are comfortable with the Federal Government’s decision to give Ojukwu a state burial.

“We will ensure maximum co-operation with the Federal Government.

“There will be no confrontation, only co-operation,’’ Ezeonwuka, who is also known as `Ogirishi-Igbo’, assured.

It was learnt that the national leadership of MASSOB had ordered its members to wear only the designed mourning dress on the burial day, bearing the inscription: “Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (Eze Igbo Gburugburu) 1933 – 2011.”

Meanwhile, there will be no hoisting of MASSOB flags, badges, caps and other uniforms, bearing the Biafran rising sun logo on the burial day as a mark of honour for the late Igbo leader. (NAN)

*From the vanguard.