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If you travel through aeroplane ✈ or if you're using a smartphone —know that approximately 60% of the raw materials used in the production of your smart phones are gotten from the D.R.C. !!!

Congo's cobalt is used in the production of lithium-ion batteries used in smart phones such as iPhone and other gadgets.

There are many foreign companies in DRC such as Apple, Glencore, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin etc who looting their resources and carrying away all the money while underdeveloping the region to keep the people in extreme poverty in order to maintain the status-quo of cheap labour in the D.R.C!

1) Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

2) Glencore plc is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company

3) The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide.

4) Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, defense, arms, security, and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests.

Poverty and child labourers has become a norm in the D.R.C. Many children revealed horror of working in mines ⚒ because they have to risk their lives to mine cobalt for the multinational foreign companies in order for them to earn money to buy food and provide shelter for themselves.

Many Congolese child die when some these mines collapsed.

Due to the abundance of natural resources in D.R.C, these multinational companies are sponsoring insurgency in the region in order to keep the people in fear of controlling their own resources!

It has been estimated that over 6 million people have died in D.R.C since 1996 till now! Why is the turning blind eyes to the Congolese people? Why is nobody questioning or petitioning these multinational companies?

What is happening in D.R.C is happening in many other countries in Africa, but when a leader rise to nationalize these resources for his people, the rogue dictators from the outside world will demonize him and call him names or they'll get rid of him by assassinating him!

That was how Belgium assassinated the first Prime Minister of D.R.C, Patrice Lumumba who refused to be their puppet. He was murdered, buried, his remains was later excavated, cut into pieces and dissolved in sulphuric acid. What kind of evilness and injustice is that?

Why do African Union continue to accept this indignity? I think African Union needs to understand that any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult, is an acceptance of inferiority! When are you going to stop these parasites from impoverishing our people?

I keep asking the United Nations and United Nations Human Rights — why is it that our lives don't count in Africa? What exactly is the purpose of your organization if we as African people are being treated like second-class citizens of the world?

HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Written by Mustapha Chagos Hajji

Can a civil servant afford this building. Can an a honest politician afford this building. God help us in this country. Nigerians are turning into slave in their own country. Accommodation has even skyrocketed, that you have to use six months of your salary to pay for a year rent. God help us

Atiku is not yet serious. They should first restructure PDP first with equity and fairness first.

shakir0802:
Last week a friend of mine ran away from home to my side, his new babe gave home back to back and he was like no I can't hold this anymore after 4 round the lady said she wasn't satisfied my guy said okay he wanted to get something in kitchen, that how my guy used exist back door to escape with boxer and singlet

your friend na two minutes guy. Lol. As a man never do the work alone.

Arab slavery had already begun in Africa more than 700 years before the European transatlantic slave trade.

The slave trade began when the Arabs invaded North Africa for the first time in the 7th century AD.

The first Arab entry into Africa was through Egypt.

An Arab military general named General Amir Aben Alas invaded Egypt in December 639 AD.

Amir had successfully conquered Egypt and went ahead and conquered other places such as Tunisia and western Libya.

Once these areas had been completely conquered by the Arabs, they imposed tributes of 360 slaves in all regions they occupied and controlled.

With this Islamic slave trade in Africa, North Africans were Islamized by their Arab slave masters.

Today, many Africans pose as Muslims without knowing how the owners of such a religion brutally enslaved their black African ancestors for over 700 years.

Remember that every time you see a modern Egyptian claim to be of North African origin,

We will counter attack you back with fact. Urchins on the loose. Lol

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Niger

Realmi:
May God not give us children that will kill us

amen. The incident was bad

Ge0rgeN0ra:
chai igbos and crime

are you really okay. Abi una sabi read?

MALIGNANTGuest:
That can only happen when a man wifes a prostitute.
Such wouldn't exist if you marry a VIRGIN.
That's the advantage of marrying a virgin.
U can never satisfy a domestic prostitute not to talk of the International variety.

where you wan see virgin girl for Nigeria. Lol

Women don't joke with their happiness which is their Toto. Know this and have peace. If you're not pounding the Toto well she go carry am go give another person.
Cheating is a psychological addiction, very hard to erase.

European has shown my tribe shege but we will never forget

Our gallant history

VictorUSA:
IPOB terrorists and afonja skull miners are nuisance

person way in girlfriend father dee give money dee come follow me dee talk nonsense. Bro go and drink your garri in peace

MufasaLion:
Same way Eedris Abdulkareem's wife left when he had kidney failure?

lol shift abeg. Una hate truth.

HolyMan12:
Harry too married a used kpekus.

His half-cast wife is a former divorcee

reason they chased him out of the country. Lol

NEIGHBOUR:
Grow up!!! Mention any Igbo lynched in Lagos. ? It is you people serving hatred all over.

lol eee pain am. Them dee beat Igbo people steady for Lagos. Reasons Hausa people gathers when their brothers have issue with any Yoruba person. Go and verify. Lol

I spread the Gospels of all tribes on my page whether Yoruba, Benue, Hausa or Fulani all I'm trying to is redirect people to their origin

Verify you go know say we have been running things from way back. We are bringing our history back for everyone to verify.

jerseyboy:
Another Ibo Chest Beating Orgy

as eee dee pain you, eee go dee sweet us. Lol

We have been running the world before you. Lol

Go and verify urchins.

Do you know that an Igbo man planned and proposed a modernised self-governed Nation/Empire/Republic of Igbos 39 years before the birth of Nigeria as a country? His name is JAMES AFRICANUS BEALE HORTON (1835–1883).

He published and sent the British government his proposal titled, “The EMPIRE OF THE EBOES/HACKBOUS/Igbos/IBOES/IGBOES/EGBOES, with the Requirements Necessary for Establishing that Self Government Recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons, 1865: and a Vindication of the African Race.”

This proposal included a plan for
· A Self-governed independent nation
· an army,
· currency
· Support for modern civilisation and economic empowerment.

His proposal was hinged on his research showing that the Igbo race was the most emulative, intelligent and adaptive "race" in West Africa, and with modern support, they will vindicate the black race. He also supported the hypothetical but controversial Jewish migration origin of the Igbos at that time.

Horton was born in the then British colonial Sierra Leone, near Freetown. His parents were former recaptive Igbo slaves. Horton lived in Gloucester until 1847 when he moved to Freetown to attend the local Church Missionary Society School (CMS). In 1853 he was moved to Freetown’s Fourah Bay Institution to train for a ministry in the Church of England. His seminary studies ended two years later when the CMS selected him to study medicine in preparation for a medical career in the British army. Horton attended Kings College in London for three years and then Edinburgh University for a fourth year to earn an MD.

In 1859 Horton was commissioned back to West Africa as a staff-assistant surgeon in the British army. His works led him to correlate topography and human health, developing theories that eventually would earn him a reputation in the medical world and a promotion to the army rank of surgeon-major.
Horton became more concerned with politics during his military service in West Africa. Horton refutes the derogatory racial theories about Africans life in Victorian Britain and its empire.

However, Horton also consider himself, a loyal subject of the British establishment and envisioned that Britain should have a strong cultural and technological influence in the development of Africa. Thus his philosophies, radical when colonial powers were dominant, have acted as a basis for the future advancement of African independence and nationalist ideologies.

At 45, Horton retired and returned to Freetown, where he continued to promote African education as the key to self-governance, and he further provided scholarships to hopeful young Africans. He also took a keen interest in Africa's technical and economic development and Opened a bank called the Commercial Bank of West Africa. His business and gold mining exploits made him one of the richest men in Africa by 1880.

Although his dream of an independent Self-governed Igbo nation was not realised in his lifetime, his political thoughts birthed the African political thoughts during the colonisation of Africa after his death.

James Africanus Beale Horton died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1883.

Sources
Beverton, A. (2021). James Africanus Beale Horton (1835-1883) •. Retrieved 12 September 2021, from https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/horton-james-africanus-beale-1835-1883/
Horton, J. (1868). West African countries and peoples, British and native : With the requirements necessary for establishing that self government recommended by the committee of the House of Commons, 1865; and a vindication of the African race. London: W. J. Johnson.

Obidents are not after party rather they are movement that want to take over. Eee go clear for una eyes soon

Labour party don't do propaganda politics. All those defection are fake.

Alusiizizi:
Look, let's not resort to ad-hominen attacks and discuss this like rational beings. Mind you I am for IPOB and I am a fanatical supporter of Biafra and Nnamdi Kanu, but why is any sensible Igbo man even paying attention to this lesbian with dubious academic credentials that are meant to deceive only the gullible? Note that nowhere in my response to your post have I directed any attack towards you, just an honest question.

because she's a lesbian you're attacking a lady that put her life and job on the line for her tribe. Do you think people chose to be lesbian or gay by themselfs . Learn to love people by not judging them with the sexuality they chose for themselves. Your kind will kill an intersex person, who was created that way by nature.

Na you be the disgrace urchin.

They should force him back to the red carpet, we won't accept such down east. Jubri should be cautioned

Wilson500:
This story is for those who give a f**k about the British empire

this story teaches men not to carry love over family. Most Women will naturally abandon you when things are going bad. Love shouldn't be all you dream about.

Never let a woman's private part destroy your sense of reasoning.

This is a Wikipedia story of the said King before urchins say I posted a fake news

Zee0007:
That's why I pitied Harry. Forget love. When you are down to nothing. That's when you will now what existed wasn't love but infatuation.

you're right. He might regret it on the long run.