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🚨 Are you shocked?
Vice commander Phillip Effiong in his memoir stated that
He refused an order to execute a “a Senior Biafran general”
There where only 3 Senior Biafran Generals
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu — Commander-in-Chief
Major General Philip Effiong — Chief of General Staff
Major General Alexander Madiebo — Army commander (who accompanied Ojukwu in exile
Can you guess the person that was meant to be executed was ?
Your guess is as good as mine but General Effiong didn’t state
Still reading his memoirs - more revelations to unfold
Chukwuma Ugokwe used a jackknife to stab Colonial Secretary Foot in 1950 in Lagos:
The victim was Sir Hugh Foot, who served as Chief Secretary of Nigeria between 1947 and 1950.
The attack took place in 1950 in Lagos, at Marina inside the Colonial Secretariat.
The record shows that on the 18th of February 1950, a young fellow called Heelas Chukwuma Ugokwe, working with the Posts and Telegraph Department, waylaid and stabbed Sir Hugh Foot with a jackknife right as the Chief Secretary was going into the Secretariat building in Lagos.
He was charged for attempted murder two days after. Then on the 13th of March 1950, Justice Rhodes at the Magistrate Court in Lagos gave Ugokwe a life sentence.
At that time there was a general clampdown across the country on anti colonial agitators and members of the Zikist Movement.
A messenger stepped in to rescue Sir Foot and he lived through it.
Incidents like this are why many argue that independence did not come on a platter of gold.
Not long after the stabbing, Sir Hugh Foot departed Nigeria and in 1951 he was named Captain General and Governor in Chief of Jamaica, where he remained until 1957.
Stay tuned for part two of the 1950 stabbing.
Now You Know.
This is an aerial view of the Port Harcourt harbour facilities in 1964, forty one miles inland up the Bonny River.
You can see several ocean going vessels berthed along the quay, lined up against the warehouses. Behind the warehouses is the railway line that directly connects the port to the hinterland, which was the main reason Port Harcourt was built by the British in the first place, to evacuate coal from Enugu and produce from the Eastern Region.
At this time Port Harcourt was Nigeria's second largest port and the gateway for the East.
Power was offered. He said NO.
Two years ago, economist Urum Kalu Eke from Abia State turned down an appointment by Bola Tinubu as a director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
He turned down power.
How many people would make the same decision?
The 40 soldiers on the frozen lake
Sebaste, Armenia. Around AD 320.
Forty Roman soldiers refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods. They were Christians, and they would not deny Christ, even under orders.
Their commander chose a slow death for them.
On a bitter winter night, they were stripped naked and forced onto a frozen lake. On the shore, within sight, stood a heated bathhouse. Any man who renounced Christ could walk off the ice and into the warmth.
Through the night, the soldiers encouraged each other and prayed that all forty would stay faithful to the end.
Then one broke. He staggered off the ice toward the bath. According to the account, the shock of the sudden heat killed him almost instantly.
But a guard on the shore had been watching all night. The ancient account says he saw a vision of crowns descending on the men on the ice and counted only thirty-nine. He tore off his clothes, declared himself a Christian, and walked onto the lake to take the empty place.
By morning, there were forty again.
Their story was preached by Basil of Caesarea within living memory of the event, and churches have honored them for 1,700 years.
One man had a warm room and lost everything.
Another had everything and chose the ice.
Which way would you walk?
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