iLegendd: 6. Finally, you're here on Binance. I already assume you have a verified Binance account and you know how to use it. Transfer your USDT from Spot wallet to Funding and sell it on P2P.
With this method, if Amazon sent you $5,000, you'll end up getting around $4,995 in your Binance. This means you only spent $5 on total fees. If it's $500, you'll get up to $495 or more in your Binance account.
Isn't this better than using Payoneer to bank, Payoneer to Paxful, Lócal Bitcóin dot com, etc.?
It's a known fact that when a working method is introduced to Nigerians or Indians, it won't take more than 8 months before they abuse it and Nigerians get banned.
I always prepare for the worst while praying for the best.
The end.
Modified:
Oh, I forgot, we buy PayPal and Transferwise funds. You send us your Dollar, we send you Naira. See the screenshot of our rate below.
iLegendd: 5. Since it's EUR you sent to CDC, you'll convert it to USDT by clicking on "Sell." Sell your EUR to USDT and finally send your USDT to your Binance via BEP20 network. You'll be changed $0.80 transfer fee (80 cent).
iLegendd: 4. Now you're verified and CDC has given you your EUR account number, open your Wise.com app, click on where the money is, click on "Send," click on "Add a New Recipient," and add the account number you copied from CDC. Now, make your transfer.
The charge from Amazon to Wise and from Wise to CDC and from CDC to Binance is so small that you won't even notice it.
After 35 minutes or less, the money from your Wise will arrive your CDC.
iLegendd: 3. When the money arrives, send it to your Crypto dot com account number. CDC means Crypto Dot Com. To use the CDC app, your phone must have Android OS 10 or above. I think Android 8 works too. Install the app, create an account and verify with your driver's license or int'l passport.
I know some of you will be saying: Sir, I don't have a driver's license or an int'l passport. What should I do? My reply is: My dear, go and sleep — making money online is not for you if you don't have any of them — focus on agriculture. Making money online is not for people who can't cough out small money to get an int'l passport or a driver's license.
iLegendd: 1. Create a Wise account and verify it with your ATM card to generate your foreign account numbers. Sadly, Nigerians have made Wise to stop accepting our ATM cards. The new method is to create an account with Barter by Flutterwave. Click on virtual $ card and fund it with 20 or 25 Dollar. Use this Barter virtual card to verify your Wise dot com account and they'll give you your USD account number. It's not only Barter that works — others do too, but not a typical Nigerian debit card.
iLegendd: PAYONEER: Why I Stopped Using Payoneer and What I Use Now. TransferWise Wise + Crypto.com
This post will be deleted soon. It's too precious to be be made public and free for that matter. Read it now or regret later.
Payoneer is a company owned and managed by a depressed and frustrated sets of people.
I used to use it some years ago. I still do, but as my 4th option. One day, I wanted to link my Publishdrive to it and they ended up banning my account after multiple attempts to link it.
When I was using it, I receive my Amazon royalties through it. My GTB was the bank I withdraw the money to, but they a terrible exchange rate — below CBN's official rate.
I lost lots of money because of this poor exchange rate. I'm glad they banned me — this pushed me to dig out better options.
While digging out other options, I called a female friend and created a Payoneer account for her with her details and that was what I was temporarily using to recieve my Amazon royalties for the mean time.
With this girl's account, she had her UBA attached to it and their exchange rate was worse than GTB. This made me to start using Paxful to withdraw.
With Paxful, I'll sell my Payoneer Dollar to someone on that platform and he will take around 2% or less of my total money and give me USDT.
I'll send this USDT on Paxful (they charge $5 per transfer), to my Binance account and sell it with black market rate (P2P) and make much more than using GTB or UBA to withdraw directly from Payoneer.
This method above was 10 times better than direct Payoneer to local bank transfer.
My Current Method
I have registered on sites that give me USA, UK, Canada, etc. account numbers just as Payoneer gave me.
I'll only reveal 3 of them (I have more than 6).
1. Dukascopy dot com 2. Crypto dot com 3. Wise dot com (formerly Transferwise)
These three above will give you foreign account numbers. How do you use it?
JovialJune: Happening to a friend of mine right now, she and the guy have been battling this tribal issue since 2018 that they started dating, she is Yoruba and he is delta, but his mum wants him to marry from either Edo or Delta cos she is Edo and his father is Delta, you see how some mothers can be, my friend and the guy keeps breaking up and coming back every time cos they are so much in love with each other, and time is no more time on their side as they are in their 30s, she doesnt want to marry into a family that she is not accepted, he doesnt want to break his mum's heart, so they don't even know what to do again cos fate abi God keeps bringing them back together, I'm just pitying her cos I don advice tire
This unnecessary tribal differences championed by mostly parents on their kids should be discouraged and stopped, let grown adults make mistakes and learn from it or let them marry who they like and live happily every after, we are humans first.
A significant number of Delta and Edo indigenes marry especially Yoruba men and to a lesser extent Yoruba women.
Itsekiri, Bini, Esan, Etsako, Urhobo, Isoko, Agbor (Ika) and other Anioma areas. Ijaw.
The guy is a weakling. Period. He can't even take a stand.
On the other hand, it's important to know what conservative cultural practices exist in each ethnic group... E.g. widowhood practices and the osu outcaste system among Ibos. This is the reason Ibo carry out family investigations because every Ibo is seen as a potential osu until cleared by the elders.
Ibos have refused to stop the practice (despite the so-called ban which was first implented over 50 years ago).
olabrinks: 1. Maintain your weight whilst your young. Not watching your weight will give you series of problem later on in life. Exercise and eat properly.
2. Dont be with someone who’s family do not like you. It is an everlasting battle that you will eventually lose.
3. You will not gain respect trying to please everyone. Stand up for yourself and always speak your mind.
4. Only share things when you are established. People are envious and will try to destroy your plans if you share too quickly.
5. Listen more than you talk.
6. Social skills are paramount for getting further in life. You must learn how to make solid connections.
7. Elders do not know it best
8. Confidence is more valuable than looks
9. Your family doesn’t always want the best for you
10. No one will values you until you hit it big.
11. Be careful with alcohol. It is addictive and very accessible, probably the worst drug out there.
These are just some of mine, feel free to contribute some of yours.
I just watched this video. The narrator made some comparisons which were filled with historical fallacies. This is a classic case of half-education being dangerous!
NOTE: 1) As of 1870 when Jaja a former slave (who became Ijawnised in an Ijaw initiation ceremony) from Amaigbo in today's Imo State, fled Bonny Island for Ibibioland, Opobo was well known to be a part of Ikot-Abasi which is Ibibioland. Opobo in Rivers is made up of people of Ibibio, Ijaw and Ibo ancestries or descent.
It was the Ibibios of Ikot Abasi that gave Jaja (and the Ijaw and Ijawnised people who fled with him from being killed in Bonny) their land to stay! A powerful Bonny war party would have WIPED out Jaja from the face of the earth at Opobo but he was saved by the superior weapons of the European traders who Jaja had traded with while in Bonny.
These facts are on the Internet and the history books of over 100 years ago. In 1976, Opobo was eventually carved out of the larger Ikot Abasi (now in Akwa Ibom State) into the Old Rivers State.
Opobo and Bonny were never originally Ibo (like the FALSE video narrative portrayed), but had slaves or Ijawnised freed slaves. The slaves came from different ethnicities and the Ibos were the largest. The slaves also brought their different languages and cultures into Bonny and later Opobo (from a mere 1870s).
The Aros who organised the notorious slave trade had a more comfortable presence in Bonny, and in the 1980s, I first read in one of the respectable history books that an Aro woman was given out in marriage to King Pepple (Perekule).
2) While Bonny was and is Ijawland with a large presence of slaves that were brought there by the Aro who brought Ibos and other ethnicities to be sold by the Ijaws to the European and American slavers. It was the Ijaws that acted as middlemen because they owned Bonny.
This fact actually tallies with Asari Dokubo's angry comments that his people (Ijaws) sold and used Ibos as slaves. The Europeans who came to buy slaves in Bonny in the late 1700s also wrote the facts in their ship log books.
At the end of the slave trade, the Ibos and other ethnic groups that were fortunate not to have been sold to the Europeans were converted by the indigenous Ijaws of Bonny to grow and harvest palm fruits in what became the Oil Rivers area. It is dubious for any Ibo to do a video while engaging in historical revisionism. Some Ibos have been accused of blatantly falsifying and magnifying historical events and this video is one of them! Even the Europeans clearly stated that Bonny is Ijaw.
How did Jaja become Ijawnised in an Ijaw initiation ceremony if Bonny was or is Iboland?
Opobo even uses the Ijaw title of Amanyanabo. All the European books I read refered to Jaja as a middleman-Chief not a king.
I was shocked to even realise from a fantastic documentary in 2017 that Jaja as an adult actually went back to his village in Amaigbo, Imo State in the late 1800s and built a house there. Jaja's Ibo father was also a slave trader! I consider Jaja to be really Ibo by birth though... Ijawnisation at Bonny or not.
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While working in harmony with others, think of yourself as well.
The world will always be a battlefield. Go within you to gain inner peace!
As I speak, Poland and Hungary have allowed visa-free entry for these young Nigerian students fleeing Ukraine.
Thanks to Ifedayo Olarinde (Freeze) who is half-Romanian via his mum for working hard to see to the comfort and safety of Nigerians trying to get into Romania as well.
MeghaneMorgane: I am a young lady in my mid 20s. I don’t live with my parents. I live alone because I work in another city different from where my parents live. My problem now is immediately I get back home from work, I begin to feel lonely. Because of this, I like to close late from work just to keep my mind busy. I close early only if I have other errands to run or if I am very tired.
When I get home, I speak with my parents who try their best to keep me company. But there is still lots of time left before I go to bed. In the height of my boredom, I come to nairaland. Then I go to other blogs to read the news. I read all the news blogs I normally follow. I check out my chats on WhatsApp and Telegram. Usually there isn’t anyone chatting with me because everyone is busy with their lives. I go to Youtube which I have become tired of watching. And at some time I’m just bored to my mind. I don’t like to impose myself on anybody and so I only chat with people who come to chat with me including neighbours.
Sometimes I just want someone around that I can talk to but I’m alone by myself. Single people, how do you cope with boredom. I mean single people who are really single not the ones cohabiting or visiting their partners. Some tips will be very helpful right now.
Very intelligent questions... and I like the way you write with clarity.
You will even see young girls of 18,19,20,21 years doing runs whereby they're supposed to be with their parents or in University. Even most graduates are into it both working class. These days only God can give you a wife, even the one you're seeing to be decent is directly or indirectly into hookup.
Come to think of it most girls on nairaland aren't commenting on this post, that's to show you some are directly or indirectly into hookup. Assuming it's a post concerning a guy breaking a woman's heart or buying a car for a woman then you see them commenting saying most guys are broke and can't afford it.
meobizy: Stupid questions are a resource in this forum. All to oil Seun’s pockets so he can pay moderators. The ones who volunteered freely have all resigned after seeing how hard the work was.
ololo12: Yes, it does have a website. It depends on the kind of martial art you're interested in. Personally, I'd recommend Krav Maga for you. But you can choose between Krav Maga and Wing chun. I do both martial art style. Here's the website for both martial art styles http://www.wtkungfu.co.za/ https://www.stormcombat.com/
Munamoqel: With the high level of prostitution, runs hookup, how do guys cope when getting married to avoid marrying a run girl. Some sites have increased the tempo of transactional sex by ladies. This has increased the probability of marrying a woman that has slept with hundreds of men.
Lagos men how do cope?
It's almost all over the world.
Aside from transactional sex, women love good consensual sex. Coded levels... It is what it is and a man musn't stress himself. Just do your due dilligence and get to know your potential woman's love language.
That's the plan eventually. It wouldn't be wise of me to trust someone who I don't have an established business relationship with a huge sumnof money.
I already have someone in the market who does most of the buying and were working towards him shipping them to Lagos without me being present. For now, I have to make those trips and oversea things myself.
That's awesome @Veryfied. I'm glad you had the foresight to think things through before hand. My vast use of business intelligence gathered from years back shows that most of those goats come into Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, etc, from Niger Republic (including the hides and skin).
There's a big informal trade between the North of Nigeria and Niger Republic, hence the lucrative LAKAJI (Lagos, Kano, Jibia) trade route connecting to Maradi in Niger Republic.
Dsalvo: Bro, I am fed up of it and I won't lie. I feel Seun indulges these people all in the name of one Nigeria even as he does not appreciate the damage Igbo Mods are doing on his behalf, on Nairaland, against Yorubas in particular.
You'll easily get banned for engaging a rude and uncouth Igbo poster, who attacked you first, only to then notice that said poster is active and still posting despite their unprovoked attacks others were forced to respond to.
We Yorubas do this in real life too and it has to stop i.e over-accommodate Igbos who only know how to be ingrates and to abuse privileges accorded them enroute to trying to control any platform they are allowed to be a part of.
This is precisely what I feel Igbo mods are doing here. As a Yoruba over-accomodator, I am sure Seun will never see the unfairness of his Igbo mods against others.
It is the way of some Yorubas and it is what has gotten us where we are today where a vindictive and malevolent soul you graciously sell land to can brag he has now "enslaved" you in your own land after attaining a modest degree of success.
I am sure the Igbo mods here are cackling at Seun for giving them the platform to sabotage Yoruba posters to their heart content...... especially those who hit them hard factually and dont do political correctness . But for Mynd I am pretty sure Nairaland would have a totally Igbo outlook and anti-Yoruba dispositjon today.
Word!
Greetings again Dsalvo. I'm on the same page with you. Direct contacts must be made by Yorubas and other folks to Seun and Mynd44 by DM or phone calls. Seun used to interact very well on NL with others from 2005 until about 2012 when I noticed he started scaling back. He needs to get more involved.
I've gained from this Website since 2005 and this is the reason I've stayed on here, even though I wanted to stop visiting after I got pissed off at the relentless invasion of NL from 2015 till now by the fake account users who make highly inciting posts.
I noticed as of 2002... (before Nairaland was created) that Ibos had already created several hate websites for indoctrinating their people and they spread a lot of hate speech and fake information against Yorubas and other ethnicities. NOTE: The fake Awolowo coup plotter and rat poison suicide propaganda story was invented and spread by Ibos on those websites when "massob" was active before "ip*b."
I was mature in 1987 when the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN passed on peacefully at home and NOT from suicide. He also NEVER plotted any coup against Gen. Babangida. Even IBB and his wife Mariam Babangida paid condolences to the Awolowo family in 1987. The mass media never reported the criminally false stories that these young indoctrinated Ibos are spreading all over the Internet!
The irresponsible accusations by some of these Ibos trolls that NL is responsible for hate speech being spread against Ibos is all lies because the Internet doesn't forget and like I stated above, indoctrinated Ibos started the hate speech online and offline! Yoruba people worldwide can press charges in court for criminal defamation of character and hate speech by these group of Ibos because there's a backlog of digital evidence over the years.
Monthly Zoom meetings can be done by Seun (and his mods such as Mynd) so that genuine NL users can interact with him and provide useful intelligence info to expose any sabotage or hate speech.
Dedicated Nigerians of Yoruba, Esan, Igala, Urbobo, Ibibio, Efik, etc, must be recruited to rapidly monitor and remove useless tribalistic threads or topics in the Politics, Crime, Culture, and Romance Sections of NL.
If NL is sanitised, more high-quality people like us will join this Website and there will be more advert revenues for NL. NL MUST also prevent the registration of new NL accounts by requiring the use of mobile phone SMS authentication, instead of allowing free throw-away emails which creates major loopholes for these tribalistic dweebs to create multiple fake NL accounts. Most people don't have more than 5 SIM cards so this would prevent 1 troll from creating up to 20 fake NL accounts! A phone number should not be used to register more than 1 unique NL account.
I see no reason why NL cannot have up to 5 million or more unique user accounts by now since 2005. Other foreign discussion forums that I belong to, before and after NL was created in 2005 (have more than 5 million members).
JoyIsSweet: A lady on twitter was dumbfounded after her twitter followers refuse to grow to satisfaction even with numerous nude pictures she has been posting.
Could this be another issue of low self extreme or where exactly is our world heading to?
sarrki: Nigeria hostess in 1973, Nigeria leaders are among the best in the world. They have turned Nigeria airways to a super intercontinental carrier with 1500 destination across the globe, generating 150 billion naira yearly and providing jobs to 10,000 Nigerians, Kenya and Ethiopia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates have indicated interest in learning the magic industrious Nigerians, now the towering pride of the black world.
Woah... 1973! That's a Nigeria Airways Fokker plane.
The new Nigeria Airways Airbus A310 was an iconic plane I first flew onboard in 1988 on an international flight from Lagos, MMIA. Nostalgic moments.
I have been directly and remotely involved in the Niger Delta struggle for over two decades and still counting.
While I may not have carried arms like my Ijaw brothers, I can beat my chest and say that I have made very constructive contributions to the region’s struggle through the instrumentality of my twin addictions – journalism and advocacy.
Apart from my investigative and human interest stories that highlight the depredations of oil exploration on the region’s land, water and air and the concomitant effects on lives and livelihood of the people, I went a step further to lead international media organisations to produce far-reaching and very revealing news features and documentaries to draw attention to the atrocities committed against our people.
I have reported severally for CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Associated Press and Jane Country Report, and they brought to the world firsthand images and stories of the wickedness of multinational oil companies and the tyranny of the Nigerian government against the people of the region.
I tend to agree to some extent with my friend, brother and former colleague in The Punch, Fidelis Soriwei and others who say that Ijaws have invested and sustained the region’s struggle for justice with their blood more than any other tribe.
But I disagree, and so vehemently, with those who tend to think that the Niger Delta struggle started and ended with Ijaws or that what happened and still happening affects only Ijaws and so they must corner everything that comes to the region.
No one should also hold the distorted belief that the region is and will always be about Ijaws by Ijaws for Ijaws. That is highly ridiculous.
For those who don’t know, the Niger Delta region is one of the most populated areas in the world and home to over 31 million people of more than 40 ethnic groups and peoples who speak in excess of 250 dialects.
Some of the ethnic groups in the region include the Bini, Itsekiri, Efik, Esan, Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Ijaw, Igbo, Isoko, Urhobo, Kalabari, Yoruba, Okrika, Ikwere, Etche, Ogoni, Epie-Atissa, Obolo, etc.
Besides, the region’s struggle can never be construed to be all about militancy or the arm struggle that led to the killing of thousands of people including women, children, the aged and the sick in many parts of the region.
The genuine agitators who paid the supreme price for the struggle they believed so much and fought on the frontlines were not only Ijaws. People from every ethnic stock in the region died, lost sources of livelihoods and got their environment destroyed.
Some of the killings and destruction that occurred in many parts of the region were not connected to the struggle in the real sense of the word.
No one can justify the killings and brigandage that were unleashed on several communities by militant groups as part of the region’s struggle for justice, equity and fair play.
Militants who killed Niger Delta people, sacked whole communities and blew up oil pipelines to further degrade the region’s environment cannot be said to have fought in the interest of the region.
Such actions were pointblank criminality. You can’t kill a fisherman who went to look for food for his starving family in the creeks and say it is a Niger Delta struggle.
It was common for militant leaders who were fighting for supremacy or economic space to level communities, destroy businesses and blow up oil installations sending tons of effluents into the environment.
Such incidents were widespread in many parts of Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Ondo states and some of those atrocities were nebulously ascribed to the genuine struggle for the liberation of the region. Nothing can be farther from the truth than such a deprecating assumption.
But the real struggle wasn’t about the killings and counter-killings among armed gangs and cult groups that mushroomed into militant groups or political thugs who fell out with their paymasters and turned the guns they used in rigging elections on their people.
We have people like Isaac Adaka Boro and his compatriots, Ken Saro-wiwa and his compatriots and others all over the region that paid the supreme price for standing up to the oppressors.
Others like John Pepper Clark, Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Patrick Naagbanton, Oronto Douglas among so many others, also fought during their lifetime and passed on the baton to those alive.
While militant groups were killing and maiming their own people and blowing up oil pipelines and also stealing crude and making billions, Akwa Ibom youth adopted constructive engagements with IOCs operating within the state.
I recall when youth blocked the Qua Iboe Terminal operated by ExxonMobil and stopped production for close to two weeks.
The police opened fire on the peaceful protesters just as the then Governor, Obong Victor Attah intervened and brought the situation under control.
At a point, host communities deployed their deities to the Qua Terminal gates and the management of the IOC and their workers could not access the facilities until outstanding issues were resolved. That was how Akwa Ibom youth approached the struggle and that was the same reason they were excluded from the Amnesty of the Federal Government.
They did not kill and maim their people. They did not kidnap oil workers for ransom. They refused to blow up oil facilities. They were not stealing crude and making billions from it.
When the leadership of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited then justified their employment policies which gave undue advantages to Yorubas on the grounds that Akwa Ibom lacked qualified persons to take up its top jobs, Akwa Ibom people did not declare outright war on the multinational oil firm.
Though we felt insulted as a people, youth from the state mobilised and peacefully protested against the management of the oil firm. But the state government did something amazing.
Obong Attah commissioned a team and they came up with a long list of Akwa Ibom people who were eminently qualified but were never considered for appointment.
Obong Attah did not stop at publishing the list in national dailies, he constructively engaged with top management of the IOC and the intervention paid off with the appointment of Udom Inoyo as the first indigenous executive director of MPNU. I was directly involved in that agitation but we did not shade any blood or destroy any facility.
That multilayered engagement took place at the same time youth groups masquerading as militants were blowing up pipelines, killing innocent community people, kidnapping scores for ransom. It was the case of the same ailment with differential treatments. While one group decided to be violent, the other deployed peace.
At the end of the day, oil production was brought to the lowest levels in many oil fields located in Ijaw land while production increased in Akwa Ibom and indeed provided a buffer for the national economy which was almost pushed into recession at the time.
I took time to highlight the above to show that every tribe and people in the Niger Delta region have made invaluable contributions to the campaign for better environmental practices, improved resource allocation and better corporate governance and such efforts have resulted in the gains made so far.
I recall the push by the South-south Caucus of the National Assembly under the leadership of Chief Nduese Essien, which rallied governors and other political leaders in the region including Obong Victor Attah, Chief Peter Odili, late Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, James Ibori among others to stand together and individually, to engage the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency for the 13 Percent Derivation and establishment of the Niger Delta Development Commission from the relics of the Oil Mineral Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC).
It is; thereforewrong to assume that the Niger Delta areas that did not blow up oil pipelines, kill their people, beat up their elders, kidnap and collect ransom and commit atrocious crimes were not part of the struggle.
One of the sad reminders and or manifestation of such cockeyed thinking was what turned the Amnesty programme of the Federal Government into an Ijaw diamond field. Over 70 percent of the beneficiaries are Ijaws in a region with over 40 ethnic groups.
Ijaw-based groups and individuals have made it a routine to fight every appointee into the Niger Delta Ministry and the NDDC except their own.
When late President Umaru Yar’Adua created the ministry and appointed a consummate bureaucrat and a son of Akwa Ibom State, late Uffot Ekaette as pioneer minister, Ijaw youth and elders started a fight almost immediately as if he was not from the region.
Militants threatened to bring down the sky. The same scenario played out when Usani Usani from Cross River State was appointed to head the ministry. It was when one of theirs, Godsday Orubebe was appointed minister that militants and many Ijaw leaders stopped fighting.
Today, the same groups who saw nothing wrong when Ijaws were occupying offices as NDDC sole administrators and minister of the Niger Delta ministry are swearing and fighting tooth and nail to remove appointees from Akwa Ibom State.
While I am not canvassing for the individuals occupying the offices of sole administrator of the NDDC and minister of the Niger Delta ministry as the case may be, I have an issue with the campaign of calumny waged against appointees from Akwa Ibom State.
There is hardly any appointee from Akwa Ibom or other parts of the region that Ijaw groups don’t fight and sometimes to the extent of frustrating genuine projects and initiatives for the development of the region.
For the records, Ijaw youth and fifth columnists who specialise in disrupting the tenures of Akwa Ibom appointees right from the onset of both NDDC and Niger Delta Ministry do not protest and issue ultimatums when someone from their ethnic stock is appointed either in acting or substantive capacity in the two government bodies.
For the record again, Ijaws have served more years in acting leadership positions in the NDDC than people from any other ethnic groups in the region.
Such Ijaw acting NDDC administrators include: Ibim Semenitari, Enyia Akwagaga, John Brambaifa and Kemebradikumo Pondei.
Throughout the time Godsday Urubebe served as minister of the Niger Delta ministry, no Akwa Ibom man or woman carried a placard or protested against him and they also didn’t carry placards when Ijaws were appointed to act in NDDC when it was the turn of the state to fill the position of MD.
Those who think that the Niger Delta region belongs to them alone should note that the seed of rancor and hatred they are sowing today may haunt them tomorrow.
I recall how the so-called militant leaders abandoned the Okah brothers who were in the same struggle and even betrayed themselves for some morsels of bread.
When Charles Okah was held in Kuje Prison for five solid years without trial, his tribesmen and those who claimed to be fighting the same cause abandoned him.
It was on the night I participated in the Presidential Media Chat that featured then President Goodluck Jonathan that I got a call from a man who identified himself as Charles Okah. He told me he had been held in prison custody for many years without trial and pleaded with me to follow up his case and bring media attention to it.
Mr. Okah is Ijaw and I am an Ibibio man. I don’t know how many Ijaw journalists reported on his case and why he singled me out to tell his story.
I followed up that case, asked questions from relevant quarters and wrote reports for Premium Times newspaper where I was working as a senior editor at the time. I used that platform to draw public attention to his plight and was arrested in a most brutal and humiliating manner by the DSS and detained for my insistence that Mr. Okah should be given a fair trial.
I did not see any Ijaw reporter in Justice Gabriel Kolawale’s court on the day Mr. Okah almost committed suicide when his case was adjourned simply because the prosecuting counsel was going to London to attend the graduation of his (counsel’s) child from the university.
The professional protesters and militants kept quiet and or looked the other way while one of their own was standing trial for a cause they fought together.
I want to draw attention of those who are sowing seeds of division and discord in the region to one of the Ibibio adages, “Nuun ked isi sioho ndang,’ meaning “one finger cannot remove hair lice.”
They should know that the region cannot make progress when one group is constantly at war with all others just to advance their own interest.
I don’t want to write about my experience as the special adviser to former Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Gbene Joi Nunieh today. Perhaps I will tell the story in the near future. But she is one of the best minds in the region and had so much passion to deliver on the mandate of the commission. Alas!
I have so much respect for my Ijaw brothers and sisters. They are unique people, full of compassion, smart, hardworking and daring. They have contributed immensely to the development of the region but they should also support people from other parts of the region when the need arises.
The Niger Delta is our only home and we have suffered together for decades and we should share in the bounties that accrue to us a region on the table of brotherhood, peace and goodwill. That’s not too much to ask. Or is it?
Ibanga Isine, is a CNN Award-winning journalist and Media Aide to former NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Joy Nunieh .
helinues: You could have ignored the guy. That won't stop him of repeating same lies tomorrow.
How some of them don't even have time to reflect on their activities on this forum still dey baffle me.
Thanks for the feedback Helinues.
Even my use of the NL report button did not stop that dweeb of a boy and the others from spreading lies and hate speech. I had to call him out first after watching he and the other simpletons post nonsense on NL for several months now. If not challenged ASAP, these falsehoods and revisionism will remain permanently on the Internet!
NOTE: I copied you again in my last post directly above.
Dsalvo: Bro, dude is a clown not even worth taking seriously.
Nothing but a confused Igbo who wants to be Yoruba but still trying to pledge allegiance to the hateful brainwashing that has scattered his head from childhood in Lagos
Thanks for the feedback Dsalvo.
In my 17 years of using Nairaland, this has been the worse period ever when hate speeches and attacks against Yoruba folks and other ethnic groups by a section of Nigeria have taken. The 2014/2015 election period also witnessed a lot of hate and false info on NL to be honest!
I had to call out the dweeb of a boy because he was doing a lot of defamation and damage on NL and I recall that 2 weeks ago, 2 of his threads which were filled with hate speeches against Ogun State indigenes and Yoruba people made it to the Front Page on the same day! Seun couldn't have moved those hate speech-filled threads to the FP since he is from Ogun State. Mynd44 couldn't have done so too.
I began to wonder which Mod pushed those highly defamatory threads to the front page. Later I found out that boy usually quotes the name of just one of the super mods, and that was how those 2 hate-filled threads that the mods ought to have deleted made it to the Front Page on the same day.
There is a sabotage on this Website from one of the mods which will require discrete removal of the mod. I believe that more loyal mods have to be recruited to immediately close down any topic or thread that promotes hate speech in mainly the Politics and Culture sections of NL where I noticed falsification of history and vicious attacks on Yorubas, Ijaws, Edos, Igalas, Northerners, by some notorious boys of Ibo origin and they don't hide their identities.
Nairaland would be less toxic with hate speeches if the mods give these toxic NL user names or people (who were funded and sent to de-market NL) are BANNED from posting on NL again. Period.
Thanks for your time.
Cc: Helinues, thanks for your feedback. You can read this post too.
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walkbrazil4k: Forget about that boy, I have nothing to prove to him or to anyone, they can believe what they want, I am too old to start looking for validation from anyone, nobody is paying my bills
Well said @Walkbrazil4k... We all reach a point in age and maturity... and stop arguing randomly online and offline over little details.
I love reading your posts on NL whenever I have the time with my other NL account (and even had a convo with you in 2021 on Bahia and how the Yoruba brought akara (acara je) and their religion/culture to Bahia in Salvador State) but this is the first time I'll be using this user name on your thread.
Yup! I'll check up the Weblink you provided! Happy 2022 to you.
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