"Killi-We" Nwachukwu, is from Oboro Umueze Ogwa, IMO state.

“Killi-We” Nwachukwu was for more than two decades celebrated as a homegrown Nigerian “superman.” Some of his legendary feats of strength included lifting buses, having cement blocks crushed on his head, and allowing cars to drive over his body.

Superman Killi-Wee Nwachukwu was the strongest man in Nigeria–Philip Emeagwali

Killiwe in action
He was a superman who was going from place to place to perform. People paid to watch him. I saw him perform at our primary school in those days. I think his real name was Nwozuzu Nwachukwu (or something like that). I heard that “Killi We” was a nickname he got after a fight with a certain man, one commentator said.

A great natural Superman! Nwozuzu Nwachukwu (Son of God). “Killi We” was a nickname he got after a fight with a stubborn man “Tick man” who refused to pay him his money for a truck load of goods he conveyed from the market to the man’s home.
He used to push a wooden two wheel truck with which he carried goods for people. Then, Truck vehicles were not around, or were not affordable. So, after dropping off the goods, the man would not pay what Nwachukwu charged claiming it was too high. He tried to walk away and Nwachukwu grabbed him by the hand insisting he must pay. A fight ensued and he pinned the man to the ground. The man’s wife ran in and came out with a wooden pestle to assist her husband. Nwachukwu snatched it from her, lifted the woman up and pinned her on top of her husband on the floor. Powerless, she started screaming, Killi We Nwachukwu, Killi we Nwanchukwu” meaning, Nwachukwu, kill us!

In the early 90’s, we were asked to pay some money so that he will come and display his power. We gladly paid the money. On the D day od his assuMed coming, we waited, we couldn’t see him, so, we left. The following day in school, some students that were patient enough narrated how he came, how he carried four students on each of his hand and some many power acrobat . Menn….. It was like a hell to me that I didn’t wait to see this man.

He is real. That was anothr commentator.

And yet another.
He existed. Back in eighties, he came to our school, we paid 50 Kobo to watch him. He carried 10 bags of cement on his stomach and toyed a 504 peugeot SR with a rope on his teeth. Story had it that when he died, his body was deposited in Aladinma mourtuary, he in the night, will carry don all other corpeses and strech himself on them. He continued this till he was rejected by the morgue. He was real.

I remember hearing stories about Giant Alakuku as a child. But I don’t recall ever seeing him.

I remember Killiwe. He was a fat dude and used to tour the country performing stunts like grabbing cars by the bumper and preventing it from moving as someone stepped on the pedal.

I also remember a Seven-Seven song about Killiwe:

“Killiwe Nwaozize Nwachukwu
Abeg make you help me carry my load”

Great Ibeabuchi alias Pistor Killer of Ngodo Isuochi the Lion of Africa who was a great Superman who contested and won the mighty Kill-We Nwachukwu in the sixties.

Did You Know That?

In pre-colonial Igbo societies, yam are seen as men's crops, while cocoyam and cassava are seen as women's crops.

Yam is the staple food crop in Igbo land.

Njọkụ is the deity in charge of yam in Igbo land.

Successful yam farmers are called Di ji, Ezeji, etc.
Yam is revered in Igbo land.

Ndi Igbo annually celebrate New Yam festivals (Iri Ji Ọfụụ/Ifejiọkụ) in thanksgiving to Njọkụ or Ajọkụ, the yam deity.

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Cc. Richiez
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LESSON FROM THE KOLANUT

ChukwuOkike created the kolanut well.

And from among all seeds, our ancestors chose the kolanut well as the greatest sacramental for the rite of Holy Communion among Umunna, and beween the living and the dead.

Observe, the kola, usually is made up of diverse coteyledons or divisions , interestingly, each division is unique in its size and shape, and sometimes shade. Yet, they all manage to bond as one perfect nut .

Notice also, that despite their fussion into a single seed, each part retains all the traces of its individuality.

As a matter of fact, the more the divisions in a nut, the more it is appreciated and honoured.

So "he who brings kola brings life " by bringing fairness and justice.

This is the wisdom of Chukwu okike and the spirit of our fathers. It is these characters of the sacred kola that NDIGBOO transcribed into the spokenwords for our understanding when they declear:

"Onye biri, ibe ya biri",

"Egbe bere ugo bere",

"Otu nne na amụ mana otu chi anaghi eke".

So each time an Ochie-dike consecrates the kola in the gathering of the umunna, he asserts that, though our faces may be different, yet we like the kola seed, must live as as one people, knowing that..

"Agbatobi onye bu nwanne ya ".

Therefore, it doesnt matter how you feel about our differences we must accept each other's freedom to choose.

Among Ndigbo, as it stands today,there are

Ndi Odinani Igbo,
Jewish Igbo,
Christian Igbo
and even Muslim Igbo.

As unpleasant as this may sound to some people, this is the reality of our time. Therefore as we deal with one another, we must, at all times remember that IGBO, is the common denominator in all the groups, we remain one people. We are first descendants of NDIGBOO, before we are anything else. We must be like the kolanut seed.

Never must we allow ourselves to slide into hate on account of faith. For this will break completely what is left of the backbone of our race from past colonial unslaught.

But I dare say, Unfortunately , the deep guiding principles of the Kolanut has left Christian Igbos, this is why they invade and burn the shrines of odinani with impunity , kill sacred animals and trees and in their frenzy destroy our historical artifacts. Also, this is why there is bitter division even among their own many sects.

But this cannot continue, Christians must live and let live, else some ọdinani youths might soon put aside the principle of Egbe bere ugo bere, and repay them with their own coin. I hope reason will prevail with christians. I hope they repent and imbibe the "spirit of the kolanut"

Onye anwụna ma ibe ya efuna.

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On 19th September 1996, during the regime of late General Sani Abacha’s, in the city of Owerri – Imo State, an innocent 11-year-old boy named Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo was murdered for Ritual purposes.

The little boy was hawking boiled groundnuts, which was his daily routine. He strolled along, selling his groundnuts for peanuts to whoever wanted to buy.

When he got to Amakohia area of Owerri, his eyes lit up with joy when a customer beckoned on him to approach. That ‘customer’ was named Innocent Ekeanyanwu, aged 32.

The boy was called into the famous Otokoto Hotel and the little groundnut seller was visibly very excited since it was a hotel, it meant that the new ‘customer’ would probably be buying plenty groundnuts which will mean more money to take home to make his parents happy and assist his struggling family.

While waiting, the boy was treated like a guest, he was given a bottle of Coca-Cola to cool off from the punishing heat of tropical Africa.

Innocently, he took the Coke and gulped it with relish.

As he was sipping his soft drink and taking a look at the glittering surrounding of the hotel, he could have imagined having a hotel of his own too later in the future. As he was dreaming, his vision became blurry and the sounds around him became muzzled and dull.

In a matter of minutes, he dozed off, never to wake up again. His tray full of groundnuts was lying in a corner.

Observing the boy from a safe distance was the man who had called him to buy his groundnuts. He had spiked the boy’s drink and once he saw he was asleep, he took the limp body of the drugged lad into one of the hotel rooms and what followed next remains one of the evilest things anyone can ever dream up.

A sharp cutlass emerged from nowhere and the boy’s head was severed from his body. He was beheaded in a matter of minutes.

After the boy’s head was cut off, he disembowelled his torso, removed his liver and other parts he needed. Not done yet, the boy’s genitals were not spared as well.

After butchering the boy, and sorting out the organs, he packed his head inside a polythene bag and buried his remains.

The Butcher, Ekeanyanwu then took the polythene bag containing the boy’s head and headed for the next destination: to the house of the man who needed the fresh head. The man who is behind it all.

HOW DID THE INFORMATION LEAK OUT:

After the grisly murder of the little Okoronkwo by Mr Innocent Ekeanyanwu (what a name, innocent indeed), he left the hotel to deliver the head where it was needed. He then Stopped a Bike man (Okada rider) to convey him to the place.
It was the Okada man named Opara, whom he stopped to take him to his destination in Eziama that realized that was his passenger was carrying inside a polythene bag was a fresh human head. It was still dripping with blood. When he alighted,the Okada man quickly alerted the police. The Police then intercepted Ekeanyanwu on his way back in a Peugeot 504 car, he was carrying the head with him in the polythene bag.

He was going to the residence of a highly-influential figure named Chief Leonard Unaogu at Eziama, Ikeduru Local Council Area with the head but upon arriving, he was told Mr Unaogu had gone to Lagos.

So Ekeanyanwu had no other option but to return to Owerri with the boy’s head.

When it was time to take the headless body of Ikechukwu to the local mortuary, there was a massive procession and protested by Owerri people.

People came out in 1000s to protest the boys ritual killing. They stayed around and within the hotel premises, waited for the police to confirm that it was indeed a ritual murder while more were matching and trooping to the scene of the Ritual Murder as the news was spreading.

It was in the midst of this tension that the local media station made its miscalculation. They showed the image of Innocent Ekeanyanwu holding the head of his victim.

The goal of the media was to assure the people, assuage public fear, ask the public to help identify the boy and show official transparency but what followed next was a catastrophe. All hell broke loose as the enraged people of Owerri went haywire after the image was the first broadcast on the 24th of September.

All Owerri residents abandoned their businesses and congregated at the town’s central marketplace. It was there they decided on the next plan of action and outlined their strategies to deal with the Otokoto ‘headhunters’.

The news spread rapidly, every home in Owerri had heard the news or seen the image of Okoronkwo’s head or his shallow grave.

Unemployed and disgruntled youths took over the parks and issued threats to the Owerri millionaires.

From the Owerri main market, the riots exploded and spread. The pattern of destruction was neat.

The rampaging crowd first went to the morgue and from there, they rushed to the Otokoto Hotel and burnt it to the ground. From there, they went to the nearby palatial mansion of Chief Vincent Duru and destroyed his property, his expensive cars were wrecked and Duru himself narrowly escaped.

From there, the crowd split into attack groups and spread out to other sites of the privileged elite and unleashed maximum destruction.

The well-known Piano Plaza and Stores, alongside another hotel, Chibet Hotel, and various businesses linked to the Otokoto and their associates were utterly destroyed.

The Zubairu-led government later confiscated all the properties as recommended by the panel which was headed by Justice PC Onumajuru.

From there, they rushed to the palace of the traditional ruler and chairman of the state council of traditional rulers, Eze Onu Egwu Nwoke (later indicted alongside Aneke and Abure by the panel of inquiry) and burnt down his residence and his petrol station. They also destroyed the king’s 15 air conditioners and many of his cars.

They were not done yet. From there, the crowd ‘troops’ headed for the residences of former Imo State officials.

These administrators were targeted because of what was described as ‘their alleged unwillingness to properly tackle several cases of ritual murder, kidnapping and robbery while in office.’ The angry rioters only agreed to calm down when the military administrator (MILAD), assured them that a full, state-level investigation of the incident was going to be launched.

Ekeanyanwu, who murdered the boy, was aged 32 and he worked as a gardener inside the Otokoto Hotel.

THE OTOKOTO HOTEL

At the time of its existence, Otokoto Hotel was located in an upscale area of Owerri, specifically the Amakohia side, and it was a favourite location for the rich and wealthy youths to meet, drink and have all manners of fun.

Duru’s hotel was made up of three buildings, (3,5 & 6 Stories each, one behind the other).
It was owned by Chief Vincent Duru, the father of Obidiozor Duru, the leader of the Black Scorpions secret cult that was responsible for robberies and kidnapping of children in the state.

BACKGROUND TO THE STORY

Before this horrible incident, the people of Owerri were already very mad at the bizarre actions of some loud, extremely powerful and obscenely wealthy individuals in the state. These people were highly-connected and oppressed everyone where they went.

Rumours were all over the place as to their very dark dealings and even the possibility of ritual murders and killings but no one really had any hard evidence yet or probably those who had it were too jittery to say anything.

Whatever the case, these rich people who had no real tangible or easily traceable sources of wealth kept on living large and instilling an atmosphere of terror and fear on the Owerri populace.

This was how Owerri was described at that time:
When the people heard of what happened inside the hotel to the boy, Owerri exploded with anger and resentment that had been piling up for years. For two straight days, the people of Owerri trooped out in their thousands, protesting and rioting.

Not even the strong-arm tactics of the Imo State military administrator, Colonel Tanko Zubairu, could stop them (the administration of the former military governor Navy Captain James Aneke was already seen as corrupt, 419-based and even complicit in the protection of the Otokoto men.

They simply ran amok and the national and international media focused on the Owerri riots of 24th and 25th of September, 1996, also known as the Otokoto riots. The people felt they had had more than enough.

Any property suspected to belong to the ’Otokoto men’ were set ablaze, from posh hotels to luxury supermarkets, their flashy automobiles, palatial mansions, everything was destroyed and burnt to the ground. Any suspected member of the Otokoto gang was lynched.

Prior to the riots, the youthful members of the Otokoto gang & other secret societies (believed to be offshoots of campus secret cults) involved in ritual killings went everywhere oppressing others with their ill-gotten wealth and making other hardworking youths look clueless & silly.

The Owerri public had no faith in the police and as a matter of fact, the commissioner of police at that time, David Abure, was seen as the personification of corruption who wined and dined with the evil ones.

THE INVESTIGATION

Following the arrest of Ekeanyanwu, he was remanded in police custody while awaiting trial. But while he was in the police custody, magic happened! He was killed by food poisoning 4days after.

He killed the boy on Thursday and by Sunday morning, he was found Dead. But luckily for the interrogators, before he was killed, Ekeanyanwu confessed and mentioned Leonard Unaogu as the brain behind the ritual killing syndicate.

He confessed that the ritual killing ring was a well-organized machine that specialized in the harvesting of human body parts and sold them to those interested in using them for rituals and all the usual nonsense they claimed to be using them for. He also said it was Unaogu who ordered him to get a human head.

Reports have it that the Otokoto saga had been in place as far back as 1976.

Confessional statements revealed that no one was spared at the Otokoto Hotel. Innocent guests and unsuspecting travellers who lodged at the hotel were drugged or attacked in the middle of their sleep and hacked to death after which they were cut into pieces for sale.

Police officers who swooped upon the hotel discovered not only the shallow grave containing that of the little boy but also graves containing other victims with their decomposing and dismembered corpses.
No one knows the exact exhumed at Otokoto Hotel was up to 24 bodies. Some were buried at inconspicuous locations such as under the flowerbeds. Such evil, such horror!

The man that Ekeanyanwu mentioned before he was poisoned to death, Leonard Unaogu, was a business tycoon. And he was the junior brother to Laz Unaogu, a serving minister under Abacha.
Leonard Unaogu was eventually arrested by the police.

When the police arrested Unaogu, he lied with a straight face that he never knew anyone called Innocent Ekeanyanwu and that he was not even in Owerri when the crime was committed, saying he was in Lagos.

THE TRIAL AND JUDGEMENT:

The trial started on the 9th of December, 1996, with Hillary Ngozi Opara as the first prosecution witness.

Nine people testified before Justice S.O Ekpe, who took over from Justice Gabriel Ojiako, the retired chief judge of Imo State, during the trial. The court also admitted the confessional statement of Innocent Ekeanyanwu.

Margaret Acholonu, a receptionist at the hotel, stated that two spots were dug at the hotel premises and it was from the second one that the body of Okoronkwo was exhumed. She also implicated Chief Duru.

She also said that on that fateful day, she saw Ekeanyanwu with a black bag and he told her he was going to his village at Eziama

A sergeant, Sunday Onwucheka, told the court he was in the office when Ekeanyanwu was arrested with a fresh human head of the innocent boy.
According to Onwucheka, before the police took Ekeanyanwu to Otokoto Hotel, the crime scene, he confessed to killing the boy at Mba River in Ikeduru and dumped the body inside the river. The police followed the false trail but found nothing at the Mba River.

So at about 7:00 pm on the 20th of September, they returned to Owerri. The following Monday, they continued with their investigation and took him to Otokoto Hotel where the headless body of the boy had already been identified before the police team arrived.

On 20th August 1997, a senior magistrate court in Owerri docked 9 police officers.

For the murder of Ekeanyanwu.

They were:

Ifeanyi Anozie, an assistant commissioner of police

Chukwu Obasi, an assistant superintendent of police

Kevin Ezirim

Christian Nnazi

Clifford Odiaka

Felix Nnorom

Christopher Aguobi

Ignatius Igwe

James Ibezere

Josephat Nwosu

The case snailed on till 14th October 1997, over a year, and after series of adjournments, absence of lawyers, the Presiding judge, suspects or even the retirement of judges or their transfer etc.

When the case finally resumed, many were pissed off. Leonard Unaogu, the minister’s brother, was transported in a new station wagon from the prison to the court like a royalty. Vincent Duru and other suspects were brought in a Black Maria from prison to the court, with handcuffs.

Duru protested the preferential treatment given to Unaogu.

Many judges handled the case. First, it was Gabriel Ojiaku, then Simeon Ekpe who was almost done with the prosecution until he was elevated to Court of Appeal.

Then finally on 28th April 1999, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme.

Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme Judgment:

She Sentenced All the seven suspects to death, they were:

Chief Vincent Duru. The owner of the Otokoto Hotel and Unaogu denied knowing each other, but Justice Nwosu-Iheme said that was a lie.
He appealed the sentence in 2012 but he was unlucky as the sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court

Leonard Unaogu: He would later die some years ago at the Port Harcourt Prisons in what has been described as very mysterious circumstances.

BLACK SCORPION SECRETE CULT:

After judgment, the convicts all moved to the Port Harcourt Prisons in the middle of February 2003 pending their execution.

Prior to the case of Okoronkwo, several children had disappeared in Owerri, never to be found to date. Some were kidnapped and their wealthy parents will pay a ransom.

It was so serious that in May 1995, the daughter of Dr Okoh, a Physician in the city was kidnapped by the Black Scorpions, one of the elite secret cult, asked the doctor to pay $12000 before the girl Will be released.

Eventually, the police stormed the hideout of the Black Scorpions and months later, the leader of the cult, Obidiozor Duru (who happens to also be the son of Chief Vincent Duru, owner of the Otokoto Hotel) and Amanze Onuoha, were both arrested.
They were brought before the Imo State Robbery and Firearms Tribunal on the charges of armed robbery, a capital offence.

Businessman and politician Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu were also mentioned in the saga but he denied ever knowing anything about the case.
What happened next was nothing but a mockery of justice. Duru and Onuoha were treated like royalties in the prisoner rather than criminals awaiting the death penalty.

They got the most liberal visiting privileges, ate food cooked and brought from their homes. They were like lords and Duru (a PhD holder in psychology from California State University) even impregnated one of his female Jailers and did a ‘traditional wedding’ with her before he completed his case.

And while they were incarcerated, the rate of child kidnappings in Imo dropped drastically.

In 1997, six people were executed by a firing squad following a judgement by Justice Emmanuel Nnodim. One of those killed was Obidiozor, the son of Chief Vincent Duru, leader of Black Scorpion Cult.

WHERE IS OTOKO (Vincent Duru) NOW?:

Chief Vincent Duru(alias Otokoto), one of the men convicted in the celebrated case of the ritual murder of September 19, 1996, in Owerri, Imo State, was reportedly hanged.

His execution took place on Sunday, November 13, 2016. This was 13 years after his 2003 conviction. This was after the government approved the execution warrant.

For His Properties:

During the administration of Ikedi Ohakim as governor, he tried to revoke the right of occupancy of the police to the confiscated Otokoto properties but people were said to have kicked against it.

The Duru family was also said to have approached Governor Rochas Okorocha over the confiscated property saying the property belonged to the Otokoto Group and not Duru. Okorocha stylishly brushed the matter aside.

Each time the issue of returning the confiscated property to the Otokoto family, Owerri people rise and protests.

CONCLUSION:

Nigeria is still in the grips of ritual killers, almost two decades after the Otokoto saga. The same factors that gave birth to the 1996 Otokoto ritual killings are still in place today: poverty, irrational beliefs in supernatural powers that lead people to believe money can be made from flesh without doing any work, weak/corrupt law enforcement agencies and a super-slow judicial system.

The presence of these factors explains why after bloody Otokoto saga, the country still had to face the Okija/Ogwugwu shrine saga in Anambra State and the Soka forest horror of Oyo State.

The Nigerian disease is still there – yet to be healed.

We should stop our great pf “Getting Rich Quick” Syndrome.

Otokoto happened in as far back as1996 when many Youths who are involved in Yahoo-Yahoo, Yahoo Plus, Ritual Money etc, were not even born then.

Funny enough, all those who involve in Human Ritual Killing, doesn’t end well. This because ‘THE DEVIL HAS NO FREE GIFT’.
So Youths, be careful.

Say NO to Blood money
Say NO to Human Ritual Killing
Say NO to Kidnapping
Say NO to short-cut to Wealth

God bless You All

Lord Lewis Vernon Harcourt (1863-1922), the man whom Port-Harcourt was named after, was known in London Society as a sexual predator of the young of both genders. He attempted to sexually assault Dorothy Brett, the daughter of Viscount Esher (allegedly a fellow paedophile), when she was about 15. Dorothy Brett wrote of him that "It is so tiresome that Loulou is such an old roué. He is as bad with boys as with girls... he is simply a sex maniac. It isn't that he is in love. It is just ungovernable sex desire for both sexes".
He is rapist and paedophile who raped small girls and boys.

Faced with public condemnation, Harcourt committed suicide by taking an overdose of a sedative at his London home in Brook Street on February 24, 1922. He was 59.

Chief Titus Ike Ume-Ezeoke, Onyima of Amichi was the founder of Peoples Club of Nigeria. the younger brother of Sir Georfry Ume-Ezeoke former Accountant General of Old Anambra State also the elder brother to Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke former Speaker of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Shagari in 1979
They were direct sons of HRH Igwe Peter Umeorimili Ezeoke of Amichi the Paramount Obi of Amichi.

After the civil war, his business and that of his friends went down. one of the days he was lounging with Chief Umeohamadike Obieze, Azukaenyi of Unubi and his friends in Aba in 1971, the thought to form the Club came as a way to socialize and help themselves heal from the wounds of the civil war, coupled with the pain of receiving only 20 pounds from the Federal Government as a palliatives to build back their multi thousands and million businesses. Peoples Club was founded when it mattered most, at a time when Ndigbo lost faith, when they felt abandoned, raped, maimed and ravaged by the civil war, when they had no iota of hope, when the experience and remembrance of war nearly extinguished a race and people, it was birthed.
it wasn't founded only to socialize, but also to help heal the wounds of the challenging times of the post war era.

Okaa Society of Nigeria existed before the Peoples Club, but it was extinguished during the Biafran War, some of their members died during the war. Okaa Society of Nigeria was mostly young well to do Igbo traders who found common purpose to meddle together and built a fraternity. it died during the war and hope were lost. it's important to note that Peoples Club built the generation of wealthy Igbo Men and beyond who transformed to what we see today. Chief Titus Ike Ume-Ezeoke retired as the founder and Patron in March 1983. he was the first National President of Peoples Club of Nigeria, he handed over to Dr Chukwuma Obioha, Akajiugo of Arondizuogu as the second National President.


Credits= Igbo History

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Odumchi

A massacre of unarmed Nigerian protesters – the everyday men that only asked for better working conditions and pay, men, who seemed replaceable by these disrespectful occupiers. This was the final straw.

This act would temporarily set aside, ethnic, regional and class divisions in Nigeria to collectively work to do away with British rule.

Meetings were held across the country to discuss the events at Iva Valley;

The Nigerian Women’s Union canvassed to boycott all foreign owned business; Riots broke out in Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt and Calabar;

Papers all over reported the high handedness and showed their disgust on their pages;

Ibadan Ex-Servicemen’s Association held meeting to express their dismay.

The backlash was growing .

The Governor General, John Macpherson announced that a commission of enquiry would be constituted and on the 12th December, 1949 it began.

The outcome of the Fitzgerald Commission was very clear. The time was coming for self-rule.

The committee also demanded the resignation of the Chief Commissioner for the Eastern Region and the return of every police officer involved in the killings to Nigeria for trial.

Newspaper headline of the time

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Did You Know That?

"Onuigbo" a song by Chief Dr. Stephen Osita Osadebe was in memory of defenceless 21 workers of Enugu Coal/Iva valley Miners killed by the British Police in November 1949. Their crime was that they demanded for a pay rise.


In the 1940s, the issue of workers welfare had been raised and the consciousness of Nigerians had been awoken by a series of protests, specifically the nationwide strike in 1945.

With that, the importance of trade associations in order to improve working conditions, pay etc grew. Workers knew that if they had the courage to stand up together they could bring about change.

By 1949 Enugu was already a cosmopolitan town with about 25,000 inhabitants and approximately 8,000 employed coal miners.

Enugu, the capital of the Eastern region had become the coal capital of West Africa and the mainstay of Nigeria’s production.

Of the two main mines, Iva Valley and Obwetti, Iva Valley had become the leading coal mine for the country.

The life of a miner was not an easy one, it was dangerous, depressing, working 6 days a week in the dark, with low oxygen and equally low morale.

All for little pay.

This was in contrast to the life of the clean cut, well paid Europeans who worked above ground and their only interactions were worse than that of one giving orders to a dog some may argue they treated their pet dogs with more respect!

There was growing resentment for the unfair treatment and equally unfair remuneration by Nigerian workers.

Demands were made regarding the dreadful conditions, pay and reemployment of workers unfairly sacked.

The demands were rejected.

Because the union was aware of the companies heartless methods of hiring and firing they devised a new method of protest. A Go-Slow .

The workers would technically not down tools but work very slowly affecting production. Literally, a hand full of coal was being produced daily instead of wagon loads. This was still legal, much to the annoyance of the Colliery company.

The Go – Slow received National attention.

After much negotiation, agreements were made and reneged on and between the 10th of November to the 12th, 200 more miners were sacked. The Go – slow method swiftly escalated to a stay in strike this also prevented the colliery managers from simply replacing the protesting miners this time.

It was decided that the police would be called in to remove the protesting miners and restore work with new workers.

To also support this move management had also insisted that some cases of explosives had gone missing.

On November 18th, 1949, 50 armed riot police arrived at Iva Valley led by a Senior Superintendent of Police, F.S Philips.

The miners had tied strips of red cloth to their helmets as a mark of protest and as was their custom, facing the mass of armed police they began to dance and chant to boost morale.

Philips decided that the miners looked menacing “indulging in a war dance” and started shooting.

21 miners were killed and many of them were shot in the back.

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Panda7:
how come the ancient stories had no modern traces or did war wipe them all of

How can there be when History was removed from our CURRICULUM. ?

How can we know, understand and appreciate what we don't know ?

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DanieleLorenzo:

100%. It was back in my SSS2. I remember I was awake in the middle of the night preparing for exams when I heard it.

The previous day, I was arguing with a friend about the veracity of his claim that such things exist.

I had to wake him up to come witness it.

I still believe it was a galago, but I've never heard of another experience.

The cry of Bush a baby with it small magical Matt was a common thing at Saint Theresa girls college jos and saint Louis college jos back in the 90s it was so popular then that some of us from other schools do come to hear and see the Bush babies and I believe there's a supernatural or a night version of Bush babies because the ones we saw are not that scary at all.

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beautyhd:
There is an English movie that almost depicted your story @op, a horror movie that kept me at edge, I’m yet to remember the name.

Believe this story and then believe the Nigerian Indian football game that ended 99-1

I think I know the movie you're talking about let me search the the name.

This are some of the reasons History was removed from our CURRICULUM.

But we will never forget.




Cc. Olawalebabs's
Richiez's.
Fynestboi's

THE ASABA MASSACRE, OCTOBER 7, 1967

The Nigerian troops had entered Asaba on the 4th day of October 1967, in pursuit of Biafran soldiers who had earlier crossed Ore after taking Benin and dislodging Nigerian troops there.

But because the Biafran soldiers had blown up the Niger bridge to make it impossible for the Nigerian side to pursue them, Nigerian soldiers led by Lieutenant-Colonel Murtala Muhammed simply settled in Asaba where they started going from house-to-house killing people of the town who were accused of aiding the Biafran soldiers.

On the 7th day of October, after the house-to-house killing had gone on for days, the leaders of the town, in a bid to convince the Nigerian troops of their loyalty and support, summoned their people to come out in the street.

Hundreds of men, women, and children obeyed the summon and came out, mostly dressed in ceremonial Akwa Ọcha attire, singing, dancing, and chanting "One Nigeria". But the moment they got to the Ogbe-Osawa village square where the Nigerian troops were gathered, the soldiers separated the men and boys of 12 years and above from the women.

Orders were shouted. The guns were raised. The men and boys were showered with bullets, cut down in their prime. At the end of the bullet festival, more than 2,000 of them lay lifeless. There were dead bodies everywhere.

Most of them were later buried in a mass grave while the Nigerian troops still occupied the town, hunting down men and boys who escaped the October 7 massacre, and raping and forcefully “marrying” off women and young girls.

Ironically, those who led this massacre rose to become national heroes, with monuments named after them, and beautiful stories told about them.

However, for the Asaba people, the horrific and traumatic experience of the October 7 massacre still haunts them, even in silence, to this day, unless “something” is done and quickly.

It is Muritala Mohammed who carried the killing.

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DEROX:
No matter what happens i just want to see either PDP or APC win so i can witness the wailings of the Obi supporters in 2023
I really cant wait for it

Yes ooo
As they are wailing Even with their purchasing powers and comfort, you And your likes will be laughing at them in your slumps while in misery, poverty and hunger...

If a bag of Rice becames 100k tomorrow, we know those that can afford it.

We know those that the high exchange rate is favourable to their importation And exportation businesses.

So we pray they lose so we can laugh at them even though their lives are better than yours.

And finally please and please leave don't join Atiku with Tinubu.

We the Atikulates prefer to be joined with the Obidieants then with Agbado entities.

Meanwhile Atiku is coming.

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Staphylococcus:
Way to go!


I am aware of the capabilities of some unscrupulous politicians in the likes of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu


I will enjoin all Nigerians to make sure votes are collated and transmitted before living the polling booth.


2023 election is a battle between good and evil, and I will like to remind patriotic Nigerians that, Nothing good comes easy!


We must stand by our votes and make sure its transmitted!

Yes ooo we must resist the likes of kabaka and MC olumo from deciding the outcome of the 2023 Presidential election.

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9Pluto:


You don't need to be unnecessarily confrontational about issues you do not fully grasp. If you understood Nigeria history and how the British subdued the locals during the colonial era you won't be challenging his assertions.

Some of the new Generation children have this tendency to question historical events as if their opinions can change history.

There's a reason why it is called aba women riot and not Men riot.

The men fought their wars and they lost. Defeated and disgraced they had no fight in them anymore nor do they desire for it.

NWANYEREUWA: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE TACTICAL ABA WOMEN’S PROTEST

Ever heard of the Aba’s women’s Riot? Well, just like “the wives revolt”, when women decide to take action they do not go back on their word, the Aba women’s riot is an instance of this. There are actors to this riot and Nwayereuwa the brainbox behind the Aba women’s riot of 1929 is to be particularly remembered.

Nwayereuwa pursued with grace the interest of the women of the community. Spearheading this necessary and nonviolent riot through the cultural ‘sitting on a man’ tactics, by means of singing and dancing, ‘Yes’ singing and dancing like the Greek sirens to weaken and disarm their oppressors.

The struggle was ignited by the need to put an end to the abuse of the warrant chiefs, the tax system and the subjugation of women through this means. It was perhaps personal for her especially with the question she directs at Emereuwa [who came to tax her according to the British authority], “was your mother counted?”

Nwayereuwa had allies who helped strengthen the colonial resistance and these ladies are called the Oloko trios (Ikonnia, Nwannedie, Nwugo) – leaders of the ogu umunwanyi- when the protest first began at Oloko in Aba.

The Oloko trios bravely took to a protest demanding what rightfully should be, as it threatened to thwart the norms and traditions of the Igbo system. The taxation system was to be implemented thus the headcount to determine the tax to be paid by each household causing an uprising which spread to other regions affecting the Calabar, Ogoni, and Opobo women.

During this uprising, it is believed that over 25,000 women faced cruelty that had at the least over 50 women killed despite that they did not seriously harm anyone during the riot. Also, Okugo the warrant chief in charge of the Oloko district was sentenced to jail and women were put in to serve at court.
Locally called The Women’s War, the British labelled it the “Aba’s Riot” to silence the role of women and change the narrative.

The Aba riot, the women’s war, ogu umunwanyi whichever appeals to you, is not just any war, but it is the first historical public display of feminism in Nigeria. It is consequently a pivotal deed in the history of Nigerians most importantly, in the history of Nigerian women. It is the hallmark of the feminist struggle in Nigeria, possibly West Africa.

Affirmatively they not only spoke for women but for men too who were undergoing poverty due to the tax system because as women they nurture the earth and everyman great and small are born of a woman.

The Aba women’s protest was one of struggle, a demonstration which not only put women in the limelight but also elevated their status of being functional not only in the home frontiers but also as master strategists in moments of revolution, it was an epitome that women can do more than society has relegated them.

It would also be a source of inspiration for Ben N. Azikiwe (later known as Nnamdi Azikiwe)’s letter titled “Murdering Women in Nigeria” in The Crisis in 1930 about the “recent massacre of Opobo women by British commanded soldiers.” Again, as president of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe proposed a tax system for the men, where women intercepted and matched up to his office in Enugu at which a compromise was made and the talk of taxing was put to rest.
Consequently, the protest is remembered for resisting colonialism and acts as the pointer to the beginning of feminism.

Having affected so many lives and leaving an impact on all. Margret Ekpo was left with a great impression from the women’s war, being only 15 at the time and when older she formed the Aba market association in 1946, which was the point of politics for her. At the time, the market was the home of the Igbo woman a place outside the home where she took charge.

Already dealing with the poverty of their husbands and sons were subjected to due to the imposed tax system, the news of women to be added to the chain was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Unfortunately, one whose name will be forgotten by the history books is Princess Princess Nnete Okorie-Egbe of Akwete, the inspiration behind the Aba women protest.

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WhizdomXX:

This will be his 7th and final attempt for the Presidency and just like Raila Odinga he will fail again. Power is from God. Jagaban 2023.

Same thing was said about PMB in 2015.

He was mocked and called a serial loser by PDP. Same thing will happen in 2023 this time. APC will loser woefully.

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Goodnigga:
This election is dicey. If Atiku wins, I tell you many separatists will emerge again e.h. Yoruba Nation, IPOB, Niger Delta etc. It will set a pace for 16 years Northern rulership, which will make a southerner to hand over to a southerner. Also is Tinubu wins, there will be a foundation for Christian-Christian ticket in the future.

Tinubu health challenges will make it difficult for him to lead as he/us would have loved which means INDIRECTLY, sheitima would be the president by proxy. Thereby giving the cabals the powers to run the country as they deem fit.

Christian Christian ticket will never work.
It's just a trick the APC is using to justify their Muslim Muslim tickets.

Do you honestly believe the NORTH will accept and even vote for a Christian Christian ticket ?

Have it in mind that Muslims are not as tolerant and compromising as the Christians.

Regardless of who wins 2023 presidential election, Be it Atiku,Obi or Tinubu, many separaties will still emerge that is the reality of today Nigeria.

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frugal:

Atiku is not in this race. He's a distant 3rd at best. Deny all you want, 2023 will humble a lot of you. The best chance he had was SS & SE, not North.

If Atiku was wise, he would have chosen a vice from the south east, and made Wike (SS) his campaign DG. All those terrible choice of words in his Arise TV interview should never have happened. These steps would have given him a fair chance to spar with Peter Obi in the region.

It is Ridiculous for anyone to say Atiku has a better chance in ss/se than the North. Don't be deceive by media propaganda.

Even buhari with all his cult followers defected Atiku in 2019 with just 2 million vote and that is considering the fact that most people in SS/SE did not vote.

I still don't understand how you guys keep underestimating Atiku popularity up North.

Take it or leave Atiku will inherit buhari votes up North.

As it stands now, Governor Wike has no other choice than to work in favor of Either Tinubu or Peter Obi because regardless of any reconciliation between him and Atiku, PDP as it stands today will forever see Wike as a saboteur regardless the out come of the 2023 Election.. And after his tenure as a governor, he will likely lose relevance in PDP.

For those who think PDP will love a lot of votes in Rivers State because Wike switch Alliance, please have it in mind that just as Tinubu is trying to convince southern PDP politicians to work for him come 2023 election, Atiku is also convincing some APC governors up North to switch Alliance while still remaining in APC.

The difference is that While the Northeners are silent about this, the southern politicians are being extremely loud about their plans.

In 2015 almost all Northern PDP governors worked against GEJ and I can assure you Come 2023 majority of Northern APC will work in favor of Atiku.

Wike is not a threat to Atiku
Tinubu is not a threat to Atiku
Peter Obi is not a threat to Atiku.
The only threat Atiku might face is up North and that is Kwankwaso and his kwankwasiya movement....

Atiku will get the Needed 25% votes in most of the southern states And will likely get at least 60% votes up North.

Those of you thinking Northerners will choose VP over President are high on fantasies.

So when we say Atiku is coming we are simply stating the unavoidable facts.

As it stands now, Governor Wike has no other choice than to work in favor of Either Tinubu or Peter Obi because regardless of any reconciliation between him and Atiku, PDP as it stands today will forever see Wike as a saboteur regardless the out come of the 2023 Election.. And after his tenure as a governor, he will likely lose relevance in PDP.

For those who think PDP will love a lot of votes in Rivers State because Wike switch Alliance, please have it in mind that just as Tinubu is trying to convince southern PDP politicians to work for him come 2023 election, Atiku is also convincing some APC governors up North to switch Alliance while still remaining in APC.

The difference is that While the Northeners are silent about this, the southern politicians are being extremely loud about their plans.

In 2015 almost all Northern PDP governors worked against GEJ and I can assure you Come 2023 majority of Northern APC will work in favor of Atiku.

Wike is not a threat to Atiku
Tinubu is not a threat to Atiku
Peter Obi is not a threat to Atiku.
The only threat Atiku might face is up North and that is Kwankwaso and his kwankwasiya movement....

Atiku will get the Needed 25% votes in most of the southern states And will likely get at least 60% votes up North.

Those of you thinking Northerners will choose VP over President are high on fantasies.

So when we say Atiku is coming we are simply stating the unavoidable facts.

''THE ABA WOMEN RIOT"

I’m sure 90% of Africans, Nigerians and mainly people of Igbo origin who read the headline of this post will be like who the hell are these people?

Yes we wouldn’t know them because we’ve been busy learning about Mother Theresa and the fraudulent story of Mary Slessor.

About 93yrs ago, in the morning of November 18th 1929, a man called Emereuwa upon the directive of his boss Okugo the warrant chief in Aba District walked into the compound of a widow called Nwanyereuwa, ordered her for a census of all her livestock and household. The widow Nwanyereuwa knowing the census will determined how much she will be taxed by the British colonial government, embittered, shouted on Emereuwa “was your widowed mother at home counted?” An angry exchange ensued. Nwanyereuwa resentfully rushed down to the town and market square, consulted other disgruntled women, They with palm fronds quickly mobilised other women. And that marked the beginning of one of the greatest resistance, rebellion and uprising the British imperial colonial rule ever faced in Nigeria �� and Africa in general, Called “#The_Aba_Womens_Riot” otherwise known as "#The_women_who_went_to_war”

While the men were subdued, while the men died in the face of oppression and tyranny of colonialism. The women stepped up and in. Record has it that over ten thousand women were involved in this revolt, and about 50 women lost their lives in the war/riot. This resistance was orchestrated by ;
1) Persuasive #Ikonnia
2) Intelligent #Nwannedia
3) Passionate #Nwugo &
4) Wise, Counselling and strategic #Nwanyereuwa these were the women that led the Famous #Aba_Womens_Riot. Women from across Six ethnic groups were involved, the Igbos, Ibibio, Andoni, Ogoni, Bonny and Opobo Hundreds of British colonial courts were burnt down and destroyed, hundreds of warrant chiefs were ostracised and banished. On the aftermath of the revolt, the British were forced to abandon the proposed plans to impose tax on the market women, powers of the warrant chiefs were considerably curbed and more robust room was created for women’s inclusiveness in the grand scheme of things.

The Aba women’s riot was on the scale never seen before. It prompted, encouraged and inspired subsequent agitations like;
1) The Tax protest of 1938
2) The Owerri & Calabar oil mill protest of the 1940s
3) The Onitsha Aba Tax revolt of 1956
Then consequently the Nigeria �� independence in 1960.

But unfortunately sad, when you drive through Aba today, you will see Faulks road, in owerri you will see Wetheral Road and Douglas road all of them are colonial relics. Imo state government house is called Douglas house, named after Harold Morday Douglas, a brutal British colonial district commissioner who orchestrated the Ahiara expedition of 1905 that saw villages wiped out.

Today one deranged former governor of Imo State is busy moulding status of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia �� and Jacob Zuma of South Africa ��, that has no connection or historical relevance to the people of Imo State. We’ve seen streets, roads, government buildings and and schools named after strangers, monuments raised for people of little or no importance to our history and future. But the real heroes, heroins and legends have been relegated to obscurity, sent to oblivion in a complete sheer and crass negligence.
I hope that one day, the Igbos, Ibibios, Andonis, Ogonis, Opobos and Bonnis will have a leadership that will remember these women, the fifty that lost their lives and all that paid the ultimate price, immortalise them. I hope one day I shall see Nwanyereuwa road, Ikonnia hospital, Nwannedia secondary school and Nwugo shopping plaza. I hope to see us name our children after these legendary women and mothers and tell them the story.

Today 25th August 2022, I remember the women who didn’t only fight against an oppressive British colonial rule, but also had to fight their own men (Warrant chiefs) who chose the side of the Oppressor because of crumbs that fall from the table of masser.

Aba women’s riot, the women who went to war. We remember.'


Cc. Fynestboi's Richiez's

Yes Tinubu has an impressive records both for good and Bad. but the issues here is that he is too old with health challenges related to old age.


Nigeria need a vibrant leader and not someone that will spend most of his tenure in a hospital or someone that will be isolated And be used by the cabals as they deem fit because of his health

If you have ever attended boarding school, or grew up in Eastern Nigeria you must have heard of the legend of
Madam Koi Koi.

Who was she? and how did she come about the name?
During my primary school in Onitsha in early 90s it was said that the woman who later came to be known as Madam Koi Koi was a fashionable teacher in one of the Federal Government Colleges – the exact one, no one knows – that her trademark fashion statement were lips painted blood red, which was equally matched with a pair of red-coloured high-heel shoes. They made the customary koi koi ka ka as she walked on the concrete floor to and from her classes.
But she was just as hostile, as she was fashionable. She beat students up at the slightest fault – usually hot slaps, rapping wooden rulers across their knuckles, or beating with a thin cane that had been soaked in a mixture of ogogoro and alligator pepper. Oh! How she was hated by students, who plotted to have her sacked. This they succeeded in doing when the PTA pressured the school authority to fire her after a certain student she slapped ruptured her eardrum, and whose parents were very influential.

As a result, she was relieved of her job though she was very bitter about it. Upon packing her belongings and making her way home – because she lived in the staff quarters, she was involved in an accident and died. But before she died, she vowed with her very last breath to avenge the ill done her. The affected girl was later withdrawn from the school by her parents, but Madam Koi Koi it seems has been on the hunt for her ever since – coming out only at night because her face was badly damaged in the accident, being a fashionable person.
And her hatred was not only reserved for the girl, but for every boarding house student – since they were the ones who plotted her sack, and whom to her are representative of the worst sort of students ever! Hence, students were enjoined to stay indoors at night after Lights Out – for that was the hour of her haunt.

But most people believe the legend of Madam Koi Koi was spun to keep students in bed after Lights Out , and deter them from wandering at night. But some students who are light sleepers swear that if you listen close enough, you can still hear the
koi koi koi click of this bitter, vengeful woman’s red heels on the concrete pavement as she seeks whom to devour.

Is this true?

Or it’s just another legend?

What do you think?


Cc Olawalebabs's. Richiez's. Fynestboi's

Peter Obi need to reduce all this talk talk and quotations it is becoming stale and a propaganda tool for APC supporters....

We understand what you mean sir.

The picture below says a lot about your plans for the masses

Very Good.

Meanwhile,

Gone are the days when APC have media monopoly to propagate their Evil agenda and And character assassination of other presidential candidates. And it has effected their propaganda agenda more than they are willing to admit.

Obi-dients taking full and total control of the social media space is something the APC media house did not expect and they are not finding it funny at all. Because for every 10 Tinubu supporters on social media, there are about 50 Obi supporters ( Not to talk of Atiku supporters) that will counter them.

That is one of the major reasons their attempts on Peter Obi personality did not work. First it was Pandora propaganda then it was tribal propaganda and now it is Ipob connection propaganda. If not for the large percentage of Obidients in social media to counter them, they would have succeeded in destroying Peter obi popularity just as the did with Gej.........

There's a reason why APC supporters are fighting extremely hard to label Peter Obi social media supporters as irrelevant as for as election is concerne but unfortunately for them, the Endsars protect has shown the youths the powers of social media....

Yes election are not won on social media but it has enabled Nigerians to full See, know and understand the qualities, personally and political agenda of all the presidencal candidates without the influence of APC propaganda media houses....

Lastly Atiku is Coming.

Good one because election must hold in North East same as every other places simply because Atiku is coming

The New electoral law has somehow reduced the Rigging powers of the APC.

Kabaka, Mc. Olumo , Asari And co can try to rig for their pay master but it will have very little or no effect to the election results.

Because las las Atiku is coming