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Can we circulate this far and wide so America, France and the UK see it?

See full article in the link http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/stop-killing-boko-haram-members-buhari-tells-fg/

Kagawa10:
Just telling you the reality on ground!
The best thing ibo can do is to tell their senators who keeps opposing Federalism bids to support such bids!
Once every regions could stand on its own and with their resources under a confederation, to archive secession would be more easier and with no bridges burnt!
However, this secession you are carrying out by preaching hatred would carry you nowhere even if you were granted secession!

Do you mind stating where Igbo senators oppose federalism? I am interested to know because this seems like one of your Yoruba lies.

softvio:
nairobi is much more intelligent city than lagos and any other african cities.... Talking about Kenya and Lagos that is B.S

Correct.

That man claims 25 years? He definitely lives in Britain with oluwole papers. Yoruba ehn!

Missy89:
How does this change the fact that Lagos is richer than Kenya?

Lagos richer than Kenya? Certainly more disorganized and uncivilized.

US Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is trying a new tactic to boost his faltering campaign: claiming his African roots. The retired neurosurgeon announced that he will be visiting Kenya, as well as Nigeria and Zambia, later this month. “My ancestors are from the Kenya, Tanzania region… I’ve had all of that traced back,” he said in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Dec 7.


In Kenya, where president Barack Obama’s father was born, reaction online ran from excited to sarcastic:



The point of Carson’s trip, which starts Dec. 27, appears to be to bolster his foreign policy knowledge, which he has admitted is a weak spot. Carson says he wants to learn about Boko Haram from Nigerians directly.

Another important goal may be to streamline his personal narrative. Carson, once a popular black American icon who grew up in inner city Detroit and became one of the country’s leading neurosurgeons, may be thinking of the president he routinely criticizes. Obama’s Kenyan roots, at first ammunition for his detractors, eventually became a credit to his worldliness and ability to relate to immigrants, as well as to African Americans.

Carson first claimed his East African ancestry—specifically his roots in Turkana, a semi-nomadic pastoralist community—after critics accused him of not understanding slavery when he called the president’s healthcare law, the Affordable Health Care Act, “the worst thing since slavery.” Defending his comment, Carson said in July that his family had experienced slavery. Two of his ancestors, a brother and a sister, had been sold to different slave owners. “The pain and the heartache associated with that era… There is nothing that compares to it,” he said at the time.



http://qz.com/568351/ben-carson-will-visit-his-ancestral-homeland-of-kenya/?utm_source=YPL



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First it was Obama (POTUS) having his ancestry from Kenya, now it's Ben Carson (a wannabe POTUS) tracing his roots again to Kenya. Whereas 90% of slaves taken from Africa to America were from West Africa, principally what is today's Nigeria. How luckier can Kenya get? Crying for Nigeria, giant of the liliputians

Buhahahaha! I can't fit laff

Has Jonathan really handed over to Buhari? By Ahmad Sanni

Goodluck Jonathan is still president. Scratch that. Has he handed over power to Muhammadu Buhari? This is not amnesia but the synopsis of a text message (in Hausa) that has been going round among members of the Northern elite in the last one week.

It is from an elderly woman in Katsina still in shock that in the last 6 months of hardship, skyrocketing food prices, unpaid salaries, fuel queues and suicide attacks, the ordained “Moses” of “Change” from her home town has been in the saddle.

“Wata tsohuwa taji matsin rayuwa, kuma sai taji ance bom ya tashi acan da can, ga wahalar mai, Abinci ya na neman gagarar talaka, malamai na kukan ba albashi, don haka yaran ma sai dai suje makaranta suyi wa sa su dawo.

“Sai ta kirawo babban danta (Auwalu) tace, nasan baza kamin karya ba, Auwalu ka fadamin tsakaninka da Allah, Wai Jonathan ya ba Buhari mulkinna kuwa?”

The foregoing text message narrates the story of the old woman when she summoned her first son, Auwalu, and said “I know you would not lie to me, Auwalu, so answer me truthfully. Has Jonathan handed over the government to Buhari, or is he still holding on to it?”

For the old woman, the symptoms of the promised “change” are yet to be felt, hence her disappointment in finding out that Jonathan had handed over to Buhari in the last 6 months of unprecedented sufferings.

She crucified Jonathan for the litany of Nigeria’s problems and she embraced “change” as the best antidote, so now that Buhari come into power, the problem should have been nipped by now, 6 months into power isn’t it? She must have lost all sense of hope when Auwalu confirmed that Baba Buhari having come into power has lost touch with the masses. Hmm, it must be very painful for the old woman.

This reminds me of Professor Sheldon Wolin, the Harvard Professor, when he announced that elections can easily be an illusion after an era of change is ushered in. He said democracy can be what he termed “inverted totalitarianism” in which a powerful few or cabal lose touch with the masses and still use the concept of popular sovereignty to hold on to the reins of power.

The Naira is in free fall, manufacturers have downsized their labour force, leading to high levels unemployment, the CBN chief once warned we are on the cusp of recession and recent reports in the international media about the economy of our country are, to put it mildly, not flattering. Blame Buhari’s tacit economic direction. Suicide attacks have refused to plummet; we are all waiting for the Almighty December deadline too.

Fuel queues have refused to disappear and power supply has dipped. What happed to body language? Some say these problems were not created by this administration, but fail to remember that Buhari promised ‎to fix them once elected.

It is therefore not unreasonable to expect that he would act with a sense of urgency. The old woman has called for courage from Buhari to rise above his illusions to overcome the problem of the day.

Over to you, Baba Buhari.


http://www.post-nigeria.com/has-jonathan-really-handed-over-to-buhari-by-ahmad-sanni/

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phantonce:


Ewedu is kinda like a supplementary stew.
you eat it with soup.
maybe the one you ate has expiredd
or the cook is one nut job

Nope. Freshly cooked and by the same person who cooked the other Yoruba soups I could eat.

phantonce:
Gbegiri and amala is a no-no kee

Go and retry it and i promise you a happy ending experience

Tried and vomited each time. Medically not fit for human consumption.

I lived briefly in Ibadan. There I ate ifo and ila and ewedu soups with white amala occasionally. Not the best but were manageable. Gbegiri and amala dudu were no no for me.

The woman in the video should simply learn how to cook Ofe Owerri. Then they can make a time table for what soup to eat on what day. Lol simple matter

Please watch, very interesting

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1046333845463512&id=267978826632355

A few things have been confirmed from the events of yesterday at Onitsha.

1. There are mosques at Onitsha and all south east cities just like there are churches in the north.

2. Northerners bought land and built at Onitsha and other cities in the east. Even in my village they own properties.
Stop believing idiots who live from Facebook to their home area and yet will tell you who is selling land or not.
If you refuse to relocate to the East because you enjoy feeding on your mother's breast stop telling people Ndigbo don't sell land.
Any northerner or South westerner wishing to buy land for residential or investment purposes in Abia should contact me. We have lands to sell in Abia to all human beings created by God. But do you have money to buy? If you do come and buy.

3. It is clear certain individuals and groups hate anything Igbo and can go to any length to spread evil and hatred towards Ndigbo. That someone used Taraba violence pictures to deceive people that Ndigbo were killing northerners in PH while others who have never been to Onitsha swore on their grandfathers grave that central mosque was burnt to ashes confirms that there are fifth columnists plotting war and devastation in Igboland. Unfortunately for them we are not cold blooded killers but at the same time not noisy cowards.

4. Most Facebook Nigerians are scared of Ndigbo leaving Nigeria and yet do not want Ndigbo to be fully reintegrated into Nigeria.

Amusu people: either you allow all of us to be equal stakeholders in the Nigerian project or leave those who want to leave to do so.
It is really as simple as live and let live or let go.

5. Nigeria's problems are not from the elites but simply from all of us. If Abiola is arrested and Joe of efulefu fame protests with others for his release he is a good slavish Nigerian. But if Igbokwe is wrongly arrested and Kanu ask for his release then Kanu is a bad Nigerian. Is that the country of your dream? A country where some must do your bidding as your slave to belong?
Slave trade ended before you were born.

6. The rest of Nigeria prefer Igbo slaves who concur with them always but when they want to steal Nigerian money they "marginalize" their Igbo slaves. No wonder when money is stolen in billions the list of thieves does not include person's with Igbo names. Why is it that no Igbo man since 1999 was accused of stealing up to N1b from the Federal Government? Yet you abuse them daily.

Egbe piapukwa gi.....

7. Why hasn't any media house gone to Onitsha central mosque where muslims worshipped even this afternoon to bring videos and pictures from the purportedly burnt mosque? Suddenly they don't have reporters at Onitsha with cameras.
All of you planning Rwanda will suffer it with your accomplices.

I am proudly an Igbo born Nigerian and not afraid of being called a Biafran. If you don't like it.....uwa ntoor unu nile.

Source: Facebook

Photo of when GEJ teaches Buhari and others how to be democratic

Is he from South West? Omogbo sounds like the name of one of 'em plentiful FAKE pastors in odualand?

immortalcrown:
I have a simple fact to render those silly questions useless. No one was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. Any country that newly gains independence normally faces hard times before becoming rich. Nothing good comes easy.

True, but the fact remains that experience of the last Biafra war taught us that hunger can kill more than bullets. This is likely going to repeat if there is no strategy to hold it off. What is the plan to feed people in the early periods, as we wage war with Nigeria? Keep in mind that 90% of the food production (agriculture) business in Nigeria happens outside Igboland and you cannot grow crops when you are fighting and busy at the war front (we saw that before). If non-Igbos in Eastern Nigeria do not go with you, from which seaport would you import food to solve immediate needs?

In the event we are attacked by Nigeria, which I predict would happen, are we going to start asking for help to feed ourselves from day 1? I feel there are realities we need to start confronting. We should first have a few things in place before starting such a weighty venture.

immortalcrown:
You are an enemy indeed. No true biafran will post those silly questions here because the questions can only induce more mockery of Biafra agitators. Hypocrit.

Hm!! Lets assume some Igbos are silly. Would answering some of these questions in a constructive manner help to jolt them from their ''silliness''?

See also


Igwe Orizu I (Eze Ugbonyamba; born 1881-1924) was the 18th[1] Obi of Otolo and the Igwe of Nnewi kingdom. He was the traditional supreme ruler and spiritual leader in Nnewi, an Igbo city in Nigeria. He was crowned the King of Nnewi and he took the ofo of Nnewi after his fathers death in 1904. He was a member of the Nnofo Royal lineage [2] and the successor to his father Igwe Iwuchukwu Ezeifekaibeya. Igwe Orizu I (Eze Ugbonyamba) died in 1924 and was succeeded by his first son Igwe Josiah Orizu II . One of remarkable events of his reign was the arrival of the British in 1905.[3]



Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Reign
3 Family Life
4 Legacy and memory
5 References


Early life[edit]

He was a young man when his father died, the British army led by Major Harry Moorhouse and Hugh Trenchard entered Nnewi in the same year. The British agreed to support the young King and Nnewi laid down arm soon afterwards. It was also in 1904 that Trenchard was involved in bringing Igboland under British control.

It was Eze Odumegwu, supported by some of his people with courage, that came forward to Nkwo Nnewi in December 24, 1904[2] to welcome the new master, bringing presents of food and such other things as previously directed. His young cousin, Eze Ugbonyamba, as well as some other Obis, was not in attendance. The Major was very impressed with the reception and accorded therefore to Eze Odumegwu the headship of the entire Nnewi town. He declined to accept the offer, saying that there was a higher Obi than himself. He promised to come along at the next meeting with the young Obi to whom the honor belonged.

Initially many of the inhabitants refused to surrender weaponry to the British and Trenchard's political advisor, R M Heron, arranged for the destruction of the houses of those who harboured weapons. In light of this policy, many guns and other arms were surrendered to Trenchard's soldiers at Nkwo Nnewi where they were destroyed. During this time the Igbo nicknamed Trenchard Nwangwele, meaning young lizard in Igbo, on account of his figure.

Reign[edit]

Nnewi thrived during his reign through land gains from neighboring towns like Ichi through wars, He also resettled soldiers in Abubo, Nnewiichi & Akabukwu. His reign marked the beginning of Christianity in Nnewi and his family and people would later gradually become Christians. He took the prestigious Nri Ozo title, with the Ozo name, 'Eze Ugbonyamba'.

Family Life[edit]

Eze Ugbonyamba married about an hundred wives among whom were (i)Uzoagbala the mother of Josiah (ii)Ejeagwu (iii) Mgbugo noted for her dazzling beauty and command of respect (iv) Uzumma (v) Nwabudu (vi) Afuekwe (vii) Esomeju (viii) Amini (ix) Anyaku (x) Oyilidiya (ix) olieukwu (xii) Onyeanu (xiii) Odife (xiv) Oliemma (xv) Akuzulumba (xvi) Ogbeanu (xvii) Ojinukanu and (xviii) Alozo.

He was the father of Nigeria's second senate president and acting president, Prince Nwafor Orizu and the Grand father of Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III, the current Igwe of Nnewi.[4]

Legacy and memory[edit]

Before he died in 1924, he had a pleasure car bought for him from lagos. The European Provincial officer at Onitsha was invited to see the vehicle and share with the chief in his joy. He came to the palace on a motorcycle , inspected the car which, thereafter , had ON1 (that is Onitsha 1) as its registration number. Thus, it was the first car in Onitsha Province and , probably , in all Eastern Region of Nigeria.[5] He was succeeded in the same year by his son - Josiah Nnaji Orizu alias Igwe Orizu II as the nineteenth chief of Nnewi.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igwe_Orizu_I_(Eze_Ugbonyamba)

First Igbo to own a car

This 1912 picture was the approach to the palace of Igwe Orizu I (Eze Ugbonyamba; born 1881-1924) the 18th Obi of Otolo and the Igwe of Nnewi kingdom. He was the traditional supreme ruler and spiritual leader in Nnewi, an Igbo city in Eastern Nigeria.

Eze Ugbonyamba was crowned the King of Nnewi and he took the ofo of Nnewi after his fathers death in 1904. He was a member of the Nnofo Royal lineage and the successor to his father Igwe Iwuchukwu Ezeifekaibeya. One of his sons was Nigeria's politician and educationist, The Right Honorable Prince Dr. Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu (1915–1999).

Eze Ugbonyamba was the first Igbo to own a personal pleasure car. When the car was brought for him from Lagos, the European Provincial officer at Onitsha was invited to see the vehicle and share with the chief in his joy. He came to the palace on a motorcycle, inspected the car which, thereafter, had ON1 (that is Onitsha 1) as its registration number.

These are the types of things we need to be doing before we seek Biafra. Create the economic environment in Igboland and other things will fall in place easily.

UMUAHIA—SUCCOUR may be coming the war of the local artisans manufacturing shoes, bags, belts and other leather products as their product could soon be transformed and compared to intenational products.

This is because some Brazilian investors have shown interest in their products and are planning to make available to them modern equipments that will improve the quality of their products.

The investors were amazed at the quality of the shoes, bags and other products, the Aba leathers were able to produce with their hands and raw equipments and reasoned that with modern equipment, the sky could be their limit.

South East Voice leant that the investors really marveled at one of the shoe makers who produces over 200 shoes daily just with his raw hand and sensed that if such an artisan is provided with equipment, he will do much more.

The investors who were conducted round the Leather Cluster of the Ariria International Market, Aba by some aides of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, and officials of the Leather Workers Union, including Lawrence Odoemelem, SSA, Investment Promotions and Elder Emma Ezeala, SSA, Investment Facilitation and Chinedu Nwagu, SSA, Investment Planning and Strategy, showed genuine interest in partnering with the artisans involved in leather works in Aba.

http://naijapropa.com/made-in-aba-shoes-go-global-as-foreign-investors-show-interest/

Liars everywhere. What is the evidence that this photo was taken in India? Or that it was being presented to him in India? This was the same photo used for campaigns several months ago

Umuchukwu, a boundary community between Anambra and Abia State

Good gesture. But Abia and Anambra are not contiguous. No physical boundaries btw them. To get to Abia from Anambra, u must pass thru Imo.

Did you know that Amechi's wife is from Anambra?

Will that change how you feel, for good or for bad, about him?

PDP and APC supporters across tribal Iines, food don land

My Anambra peeps, what sayest thou?

This is a good development as suggested by Francis5 elsewhere on Nairaland.

Sall:
You are a bigger fool

Ode, the truth is bitter.

Igbos, Edo and Yorubas supply the North with cassava and chips
North supplies the south with beef and fresh tomatoes (but they can survive with imported tin tomatoes)
Igbos and SS supply the North and SW with palm oil
Yorubas do not supply Igbos with any food


Image from book written by some Yorubas and non-Nigerians

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3DyJIhE3y54C&oi=fnd&pg=PR4&dq=scale-up+strategies+for+cassava+agronomy&ots=NA6YUeETan&sig=u5FeYz3YyPy0ZU30SkG9pcIwnoo#v=onepage&q&f=false