₦airaland Forum

otokx:
So WIKE could not get any musician in Port Harcourt to perform at the convention despite saying that the hosting was to empower we people.

You be musician?
Your share abi?

Who LEAKED the exam papers to them?

APC way as usual

Ndi Imo sorryyyyy

What will life be like for Oshiomole when his tenure as APC chairman ends?

Boeing takes about 396 passengers
Each paying €493

If you add it up, a full flight nets about - N93. 7 million

Bros, the N12 million cost of fuel na change oooo

Sharing the ancestral land between male and female siblings is strange in Igboland.
It's application paints danger.

Will he vote for her from Abia state

Remy Ilona, the Astitute Igbo Historian Wrote :

Ohaneze Please Rise To the Challenge

Remy Ilona

In this essay which has to be brief I will try to illustrate how Omenana (Igbo culture) has been negated, and supplanted even when it is not a threat to the Nigerian state, because since colonization of Igbos by the British we have been orphaned. The British supplanted our traditional institutions of leadership as it subverted our culture. Wiping out ours, it placed in authority over us institutions which are at best adversarial.

As orphans, traditions which are opposite, contrary, to ours, and even injurious, have been imposed on us via the Nigerian constitution, and court judgments. This has led to avoidable hardships and conflicts afflicting us at every turn. I was moved to write this article after waiting in vain for the Ohaneze leadership, to reject a Supreme Court decision, which if implemented would shatter whatever remaining stability the already troubled Igbo people have. Threatened, I felt that it is necessary to alert our people, and get everyone and especially those in authority to know that agwo no na akirika (that there is danger), so that everyone would sit up.
Hopefully, members of Ohaneze; a socio-cultural organization which presents itself, and is widely accepted, as the apex socio-cultural association of Igbos will read this, and take more germane interest in Omenana. Other individuals who also present themselves as custodians of Omenana, such as traditional rulers should also earnestly begin to study Omenana. With all hands on deck we can nip dangers in the bud.

Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that Igbo daughters would henceforth have the same rights to inheritance of their fathers properties as their brothers. In some newspaper reports I read that this right extends to inheritance of property which their fathers only hold in trust, i.e, what is called ana obi in Ozubulu, my community, and viewed as ancestral lands in English language. This judgment is a spear aimed at the heart of Igbos. If it is implemented, it will intensify Igbo loss of control over their own lands, further reduce fraternal feelings among Igbos, and increase the rupturing of bonds between Igbos. Even more ominously it will weaken the institution of marriage in the already troubled ethnic group. There are customs which protect Igbos that forebears of Igbos want to safeguard by tying them around exclusive transfer of ancestral lands to only the male issues. There was a time when people lived off the land, almost exclusively. You plant on it, and live in it. Don’t we still do? Why did Iraq invade Kuwait? Why is Nigeria still so violent? People want to control the land, and the resources on, and in it! Omenana figured out that a family would only retain its lands if its males possess them, but would lose them if their females get portions of them, because their husbands who were/are not members of the family, may not even be Igbos, would get control of the lands bequeathed to their wives. Igbo families together make up the Igbo people! The lands of the various Igbo families are what we regard as Igboland! Let us look at this through the following illustration. A daughter of a family marries a man who is an adversary of her family, an adversary of Igbos, and she inherits a portion of the ancestral land, going by the Supreme Court decision. She is free to dwell on it with her adversarial husband. Her husband is free to import more of his kind to dwell on the land of his wife which has become his own too. As you can see the family has been sundered apart, and has lost part of its land, to an enemy, who can at best sell it to people who may be even more adversarial than himself. Meanwhile, if this enemy has another culture, which its customs are at variance with those of the family, there will be conflicts. He has rights to dwell on his land and practice his culture, even though his culture is at variance with that of the family. Imagine the conflicts that would arise if the Hausa and Fulani did not create the sabon garis, strangers quarters, where strangers could live, and practice their own cultures!

Moreover with the physical presence of this foreign person, the son in law, who may be a friend or an adversary the unity and cohesiveness of the family is weakened, and this impacts on the marriage of the daughter in more than one way. To Igbo people, a daughter marries to join a man in building a homestead, her own home. Her family wants her to give this assignment full concentration, and will do much to help her to make a success of it. If she is ill-treated by her husband her family will run to her aid. If she becomes impoverished her family would rush to aid her. As far as we know, the only portion of inheritance that Igbo culture rules that females may not get is the ancestral lands. Every Igbo family is mandated by Omenana, to give daughters shares of the family wealth through the custom of idu uno. The family would be able to do all these, if it is strong, united, functional, and has excellent relations with her. But if there is an in law, who is adversarial in the middle of the family, with the daughter who must of necessity decide to side with the husband in order for her marriage to have quietness, will the family be strong, united, functional, and have excellent relations with her? If she is embroiled in disputes over land with her brothers would fraternal relations be cordial? If she retains a stake in family ancestral land would she do her best to build up her own home? Among the Igbo people if the brothers begin to fight over the inherited property, the daughters would step in, and settle disputes. As one of the disputants wouldn’t the family lose a trusted and neutral arbiter? Meanwhile would a husband fear to mistreat a wife who is at odds with her siblings? Would an in law who resides with his wife’s family be treated with utmost respect which is demanded by Omenana? Igbos believe in uto na aka mma na ntowajelu (too much familiarity breeds contempt). Too many questions. If Igbos, Ohaneze, traditional rulers, were alive to their responsibilities, the case should not have even gone to any court. Igbos should have written down everything that I just wrote 100 years ago, and every Igbo child should have learned in school that while only male children would inherit ana obi, that both male and female children should benefit equally from all the wealth acquired by parents. The judges of the Supreme Court who ruled that the Igbo tradition violated the Constitution by discriminating against females should have known better. Those who wrote the Constitution would as well have known that Igbos existed as a nation before Nigeria came into existence, and that Nigerian laws have to be framed to accommodate Igbo interests. Unless we are told otherwise, the Nigerian Constitution is not supposed to destroy Igbo people-hood. In the recent past, for the well-being of their people, the leadership of the Hausa and Fulani and Kanuri decided to elevate Sharia law to cover offenses that are not just civil in nature. Confronted by the Nigerian state, they emphasized that their culture, and religious laws supersede the Constitution. Nigeria backed down.

We have not defended our treasures, as others have, largely because most of us do not know much again about our culture, and are wrongly of the view that what ‘culture is dynamic’ means is that Igbos can abandon Omenana, still remain Igbos, and have a healthy society. Of course this cannot happen. The needful must be done, and urgently too. With Ohaneze, Igbo governors, in the lead, Igbos must begin to pay serious attention to who Igbos are, viz, what is Igbo culture, and what does it say in this age and time?

I will write next about how the Land Use Act should not apply in Igboland, simply because an Igbo governor should not be given a right to take over a land that an Igbo got from his ancestors, and which he actually only holds in trust for unborn Igbos. And after that I’ll write about the Osu institution, which I published a book about recently.

Remy Ilona is at the University of California at Riverside. He is a lawyer, co-founder of Omenana Defenders, and founder of Hebrew-Igbo People, and an author of 10 books about the Igbo people.

I am an investor and a business man.
Instead of taking a loan @ 43.5% in 12 years, I will opt for the same amount at 47.5% in 38 years.

No wonder many Nigerians are better salary earners than successful investors.

generationz:
I doubt he makes up to this in profits every month
while he isnt the first to venture into this business , a lot of factors will determine if he would be able to make such a huge profit monthly.

The nature of that areas power supply ( erratic or constant), how much he spends on fuel monthly , where he is located ( marketplace or residencial area) , and his securitt measures to ensure no phone is stolen are some of the biggest factors that will affect his income.

You never read what was written before you started the attack.
* he made mention of epileptic power supply
* he uses solar installation to support the business
* he spends N1000 daily on fuel
And takes home N6,000 daily.
Is that rocket science?

Here near my street in Lagos, a woman does the same thing.
she has a board that has 60 suckets for charging phones, almost all of them are on duty from morning till evening.
She charges N50 per phone or battery.

Assuming she charges only one phone or battery on each point in a day, that will be 50 x 60 - N3,000
The Hausa boys who do Cole-Cole, Mai-Ruwa and Okada - 99% of them does not have a home or address thus permanent clients to the woman.

So N6,000 is quite possible

Seedworld:
A LESSON TO LEARN IN FARMING BUSINESS SHARED FROM A FARMER IN IBADAN ON LABOURERS.


At Ibadan where my farm is you can't get labourers to do the work that you pay them for. To clear one acre alone you pay about 30k_you transport them , you feed them, it is frustrating. I estimated about 1.5n for clearing and planting on 10 acres on paper from my house but reality when I get to the farm is a nightmare. I pay them, feed them, give them comfortable accommodation and tell them what to do and go back to Lagos. By the time I come back there is no labourer on the farm. I have spent over 3 m so far and succeeded in planting 5acres. To achieve that I have been on the farm now for the past 3 weeks, if my husband wants to see me he has to come to Ibadan. Yesterday, I had to get a new set of labourers, remove my fancy nails, remove my wig and dress and put on cut off jeans and sweaters and start digging in the dirt to clear the ground and show them how I wanted it done. From 11 am to 5pm I was in the rain with them, because I was there they had to stay as well. Thank God I got practical farming experience that is what helped me. The fancy consultant I got and paid 300k to come and teach my labourers was long gone, its my experience and practical farming knowledge that saved the day . farming without practical experience is like throwing money down the drain. Cassava, maize etc to me is a great waste of time and not commensurate to the hard work involved in farming. Till you are ready to get in the ground with labourers you are not ready to farm. Presently, there is a glut of cassava and maize in the market because every farmer is planting it. If you are lucky a capster will sell for 20k, that is about a ton like 200 tubers. Out of that you pay 10k for driver, 5k for labourers and you are left with 5k profit if you are lucky , after all the hard work and investment. That is bad business. My advice, get practical farming training, don't plant what everyone is planting. I have shared my experience on this platform before. From my backyard sack farm, I planted habanero, lettuce and kale and I make about 50k evey week. I also planted ugu, called the market women to come and buy, they harvested 5kg and offered 1,500. My husband chased them out of the compound, I packed the ugu they harvested in my boot and went to hawk it in the market. I sold for double. I learnt a bitter lesson that day, never plant what you don't have a market for, and make sure its a high value crop. In all your getting, get wisdom, get practical experience before you throw your hard earned money away.

Reality

Being a professor ain't same as astute investors.

Oga Prof. Ayade, what stops you from getting Donald Duke and Co to replan Tinapa?

You have a structure but can't make it functional.

Am learning

What could be the average earnings from Water leaf planted on a plot of land monthly.

Are you still in the business?

jefdr001:
I can't see any difference between this and Saraki s current response . Infact all I see here is a diplomatic expression of how tinubu was forced to relinquish the VP position to Osibanjo. Contrary to what you can understand this story confirms Sarakis current response to tinubu. If you know you know.

You saw it right

The spirit of APC is now upon Akpabio

Ngige, e go hard oooo

Your Juju is going blind the more - dem no de see well.

APC to win a Senate seat in Anambra - no way!

*Anambra people rejected you since you joined APC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system

This may help

My own no work ooo

After dailing *131*65#
On clicking to purchase 1gig for N200 - I was redirected to -
*131*1#

This information get k leg.

Are they not IPOB again?

kenny714433:
Everyone are just wishing him goodluck


Why cant someone wish him buhari

You no be better pikin ooo

This is one of the great wahala of marrying a woman with a child from another man

Oh, too bad!
We exchanged greetings on Thursday afternoon at your office.
I never know it was good bye.

Ever smiling and friendly
Good night lovely sister.

Mr. OP, No!
How much does it cost to build a duplex biko?
@6k yearly saving, in 15 years it's 90k

However, do you know what they call bones and rags?
That bringing in used stuffs?

Do you know how much cars are picked at auctions and ferried to Nigeria?
Camry 07/08 could be picked at $2k, while Sienna could be picked at $2500 do the maths of what it's sold here. Some people bring in Sienna with used items worth of N2 million and all these goes into such projects.

Do not be deceived, many of them do non tangible businesses and investment that yields money.

But do you know what 15 years is?
And your problem is just a bungalow?
When traders can easily do such invest.

Holuwahyomzzy:
We are proud of you Musa, 8th out of 169.

When will the performance of Buhari take 8th position among world presidents?

Whenever this topic comes up, Nnewi is reverred for one reason - they have more industrialists when compared to other town. And many of them have their factories at home.

Awkaetiti has a lot of mind blowing structures but little or no industries. So is Ichida and other neighboring towns.

Google - The Nnewi phenomenon

Madam shop owner, na one of your business partners or neighbors.
Check well one don die.

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