“There was a time we had 90 million turnover and we had to pay back 22 million per year for the stadium, I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the champions league to pay back the money. We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016”
Arsene Wenger
I am glad @BBC made this documentary titled “Surviving Biafra” on the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. So, kudos to my brother, the award winning Nigerian filmmaker, Meji Alabi.
It is difficult for me to watch as I see my people slaughtered like dogs simply for seeking freedom and the preservation of their lives.
Pogrom was committed against my people following the unfortunate first military coup of January 15, 1966 that was termed an “Igbo coup” even when the authorities and anyone who cared for the truth and followed events in the country at the time knew it was not an Igbo coup. Our Igbo people and anyone who looked like them were hunted down, killed, beheaded, maimed, babies violently cut from their mother’s womb and killed across northern Nigeria for simply being Igbo.
I look forward to more documentaries on this war imposed on my people because of the discovery of crude oil in the then Eastern region.
While not a complete account of the war, and while I would have wanted to see more from the people who were slaughtered in the millions and subjected to genocide, yet it is worth watching by all who seeks truth and justice, to understand Nigeria then and now.
I am gratified that perhaps the powers in London are beginning to realize that this injustice cannot go on and be hidden forever.
The Biafrans were not defeated by the Nigerian Forces. Biafrans were defeated by the British government, the British Military and the Blockade orchestrated and imposed on the Biafran people by the government of General Yakubu Gowon.
I have long urged Nigeria’s government to begin the process of healing the incalculable disaster perpetuated against the Igbos of Nigeria and other Easterners. Other Easterners suffered during the war as much as the Igbos because it was difficult to tell who was Igbo from the Efik or Ibibio for example.
I urge everyone to watch this documentary.
Calling Ofe Akwu “Banga” is cultural misappropriation.
Calling Ofe Onugbu “Bitter Leaf Soup” is cultural misappropriation.
Calling Ofe Nsala “White Soup” is cultural misappropriation.
Calling Abacha “African Salad” is cultural misappropriation.
Respect Igbo culture!!!
If as a Nigerian I cannot make a documentary about the Holocaust,
If as a Nigerian I cannot make a documentary about the Rwandan genocide,
If as a Nigerian I cannot make a documentary about the Armenian genocide,
If as a Nigerian I cannot make a documentary about the Somali civil war,
If an Igbo woman cannot even have the word “Owanbe” in an exhibition she is holding in Lagos without getting attacked,
Then Meji Alabi-Isama and Leke Alabi-Isama have absolutely no business making a documentary about the Biafran genocide as Yoruba people.
Biafra is not some neutral historical topic to us. It is generational trauma, starvation, massacres, displacement, grief, and pain that still lives in Igbo families today.
If they are so desperate to tell a story, they should tell the story of how Yorubas were enslaved and sold by the Fulani. They should make a documentary about the fall of the Oyo Empire instead of inserting themselves into Igbo history.
Ndi Igbo we need a petition to stop BBC from releasing this.
The title ‘Surviving Biafra’ is erasing the reality of the genocide.
BBC hired someone whose tribe has constantly mocked starving Biafran children all over social media.
BBC hired someone whose tribe used their newspaper media to mock starving Igbo children during the crisis.
They shouldn’t be allowed to profit from our pain.
Biafra is one of the darkest chapters in Igbo history, and it should be told by Ndi Igbo and not by a Yorugba.
Biafra was never a Yorugba experience, it was an Igbo experience.
We are Petitioning for a cancellation!!!!!!
🗣️Thierry Henry condemns the Premier league decision on the POTS award:
“Ladies and gentlemen, what a season for Arsenal Football Club. After 22 long years, we are Premier League champions once again.”
“But today, I have to speak plainly about the Player of the Season decision. Declan Rice has been world-class all year, the anchor, the leader, the heartbeat of our title-winning side. His control, his leadership, his consistency in big moments helped deliver this trophy. To overlook that for Bruno Fernandes, no matter how good his numbers were for Manchester United, feels like a deep disrespect to what it means to be the best in a champion team.”
“Football is about the collective. When your team wins the league, the standout performer from that side should be recognized. This decision doesn’t just rob Declan — it undermines the very achievement of becoming champions. Arsenal deserved this recognition, and Declan Rice deserved this award.”
🚨The days after the 2-1 home defeat to Bournemouth were probably the worst of the campaign, all the more so because it was before that huge trip to Manchester City that had been weighing over the team for months; the great nemesis that had to be overcome.
A growing problem at that point was not just psychological, though. It was physical. Arsenal’s players looked and felt exhausted.
That was partly because of the schedule, but also Arteta’s own training demands. The Basque’s response to any setback was to work even harder on the training ground. It was an ethic that could be construed as admirable in other circumstances, but not with finely tuned athletes. The effects could be seen in the injury crises endured every April.
So, Eberechi Eze, one of the newer players who was also among the most laid-back, went up to his boss.
In so many words, he told Arteta, we can do this, but we need a bit of space.
The manager listened.
Days off were increased. The intensity of training sessions was lightened. In the week before they claimed the title, he gave them three days off followed by a barbecue.
It all worked out.
[@MiguelDelaney]
Calm Down. Football Did Not Start in 2005.
Every time Arsenal fans breathe, someone shouts “21 years without a league title!” as if Arsenal invented waiting.
But let’s remind every football fan of history, because some people started watching football after Wi-Fi was installed in their house.
Before you mock Arsenal, remember your own history.
🔴 Liverpool
1990 �� 2020
That’s 30 YEARS without a league title.
Three full decades of waiting before they finally celebrated again.
🔵 Manchester City
1968 → 2012
A massive 44 YEARS without winning the English league.
🔴 Manchester United
1967 → 1993
Yes, the same United that talk the loudest went 26 YEARS before lifting the league again.
🔵 Chelsea
1955 → 2005
The club people now call “serial winners” waited 50 YEARS before winning the modern Premier League.
Now suddenly Arsenal’s 21 years is being treated like a century of suffering.
Funny.
Football didn’t begin with Roman Abramovich’s money,
Football didn’t begin with Pep Guardiola,
Football didn’t begin with Klopp
Football has always been cycles.
Great club rise.
Great club falls.
Then great clubs rise again.
Arsenal have not disappeared.
We rebuilt.
We trusted the process.
We built a young team.
And now the world is watching again.
Hate us.
Mock us.
Laugh at us.
But remember this:
Every giant club in England has gone through long droughts far longer than we are on currently.
And when Arsenal finally lift the Premier League again…
The noise from the Emirates Stadium will shake the football world.
Mark this.
This is the season the joy returns.
This is the season the Gunners smile again.
Sing with me gunners
🎶🎵North London Forever, Whatever the weather🎶🎵
@HarmlessHQ While the Iranian regime hangs thousands of women for refusing the hijab,
the daughters of the Mullahs live in luxury and debauchery in the West.
Iranian women are executed…
while the tyrants’ daughters dance on their blood.
Unbelievable hypocrisy.
Gowon, if you had signed the Aburi Peace Accord that you and Ojukwu agreed on for regional autonomy,
so that every region could govern themselves, all these senseless killings wouldn’t be happening today.
But instead of peace, you chose the path of war in 1967, and 3 million Igbo people lost their lives, then everyone was forced into this one Nigeria.
God has kept you alive so you can witness what’s happening today, the people you call brothers are the ones massacring your own people in Plateau State.
The East remembers!
You're the chief/Obi of your Umu-nna....you adopted a son and later on your wife gave birth to son...
When you join your Ancestors...the son they will crown the next Obi is your biological son...if you don't have a biological before you join your Ancestors...your own brother will be crown and he will inherit the seat as the next chief/obi of your kindred...
An adopted child does not sit on Ancestral stool.
Trump just called Barzani & Talabani—Kurdish leaders. Not chit-chat. Iran war, border ops, boots on ground.
Forget exiled monarchists on sofas waiting for crowns. Kurds fight. Peshmerga hold mountains.
Southern Kurdistan reclaiming land & sovereignty—Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran—is the real path to a stable Middle East. Peace through strength, not fairy tales.
I back President Trump on this recalibration. This is the way.
The actions of Iran in this war have taught us 10 hard lessons.
1. Terrorists will rather die than change their ways.
2. You cannot Rehabilitate or negotiate with terrorists it only ends if you die or they die.
3. Terrorists will attack anyone including those who have not offended them.
4. The UK thinks by acting neutral out of fear of terrorists they will be spared. They have learned the hard way.
5. David Hundeyin told us that the US Army was not that strong, it was CIA and Hollywood that was deceiving us. Now the USA has kidnapped one president, killed 2 supreme leaders and leveled IRAN within 4 weeks. I wonder what David is saying now.
6. If a terrorist discovers that his time is up, he will take everyone around him down with him.
7. There is no amount of negotiation or accords that will stop the eventual eradication of Islamic terrorism in the world.
8. Any country where terrorists are being Rehabilitated or pampered will eventually fall to terrorists and then the USA and Israel will fall that country like they are doing Iran.
8. Despite all the death and evil that islamic terrorists have caused in Nigeria. There are still Nigerians criticizing the eradication of the terrorists Regime in Iran, just sound politically correct or enlightened. And because terrorists have not killed their families before.
9. The USA is no body mate in the world.
10. The IDF and Department of War do not play, those of you who talk anyhow because you live in a terrorist country shout take note.
They have said if you mess with them, they will find you and KILL you.
I rest my case.