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FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has said that one of the reasons the Government of former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon was overthrown was the appointment of of Engr. Odoh, a Kalabari man from Rivers State as the General Manager of Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC), which became Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).

Clark who noted this in his 688 page Brutally Frank, his autobiography, said that late former Head of State and Federal Commissioner for Communications in Gowon’s government and some others were not happy with the appointment of Odoh, whom they saw as a Igbo man and therefore a security risk to the country. He said that when Gowon announced Engr. Odoh as the new General Manager which was accepted by a majority of Council members, the then Brig. Gen. Muhammed immediately took his case and swagger stick and walked out without saying a word.

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GeneralPula:
ESBS? Mtchew. We have Igbos here as Permanent Secretaries. SA. Commissioners. HOR. Etc..

So cut that little slack..

Where? Be specific.

This is too on point 👌🏽

RedboneSmith:
Piece of advice: Don't jump into discussions about African linguistics if you do not know anything about African linguistics. That would be like me trying to correct people about quantum physics that I clearly do not know anything about.

Fulfude belongs to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. This is an established linguistic fact that no one argues anymore. The language is closely related to the Wolof and Serer languages of Senegal.

Piece of advice: Experts once declared that the earth was flat. Man must question conventions. It is unimaginable to group igbo language with Fulfude; they might as well include tuareg, french, and japanese into the so called kwa.

I like when people think out of the norm. Humans should've the hearts to challenge norms.

RedboneSmith:
This might sound bizarre, but Fulani language is actually closer to Yoruba, Edo, Ibibio and Igbo languages than it is to Hausa. This is because it belongs to the same Niger-Congo language family as these languages.

Hausa on the other hand is closer to languages like Somali, Arabic and Hebrew, since they all belong to the same Afro-Asiatic language family.

Including fulbe in niger-congo language cluster rendered that classification a joke, except if it's proven that fulanis achieved their dialect from indigenous central africans.

tonicyril:
Doctor in the house please help. For the past 7 or 8 months now I have bn having this serious rashes on my body, fully concentrated on my genitals and my inner laps those I am feeling the tingling sensation all over my body but that of my laps and genitals are unbearable.

Now I don't wear boxers again else I will regret my decision, even without wearing the boxer I am always in pains and feel uneasy as I always scratch my body every minute.

The tins shows on my body like I am having measles but it's not measles

I have gone to our local doctor he prescribed drugs for me but it did not go, I went to the chemist I usually patronise and she sold drugs to me, now I use to buy the drugs every weeks still this tin refuses to go.
My woman called another nurse of her, she prescribed an injection for me and my woman, each injection is 14k, now I have bought two of it yet the symptoms persists

What do I use pls, doctor in the house.


Now I can't stay for 10sec without scratching my body as I use to feel the tingling and biting sensation all over my body..pls help me

This is likely scabies, if so, it is curable. Get ivermectin, bath regularly with hot water, iron your clothes including your underwear. Give it time it'd go away. You probably shared soap with a scabies-afflicted person. I'd have advised you visit a pharmacy but it seems you've done so already and that didn't help - they were mostly after ya pocket.

Sooner or later bloodthirsty dark age cultures as this must be cancelled for people to move ahead. If the country had genuine and firm willed leaders normally any rites that crosses the rights of others is out of place. Like I said earlier people are just brainwashed to be uselessly dogmatic. For example twin killing was once law, so should that practice continue because your deluded ancestors practiced it?! Some tribes still approve of torturing and disowning little children in the name of demon possession, pure evil perpetuated before our eyes. There are cultures in this country where if a traditional ruler dies human parts are sought after as part of the official burial rites. Use your heads, the people who concocted those rules were never special.

You people that keep asking others to leave lagos for your papa to reap where they did not sow. Lagos was built foundationally from the combined resources of the whole country of which the minerals from the niger-delta holds the lion share.

Abuja today is a real time example. Abuja was a ruthlessly rural area before it became the fct.

Every ethnic group today are in abuja enjoying the opportunities that the development there provides, and as a matter of fact, almost all of the public infrastructure in abuja was built from crude oil proceeds.

I wonder how yorubas who have invested in abuja would see it if tomorrow the fct is relocated, and gbagyi or 'hausa usurpers' instigate xenophobic attacks on others.

The country is stagnated and even retrogressing cause people are uselessly biased with indoctrination. Lagos is a place where several factors would compel people to be on the streets at late hours, so how do people make allowance for oro shenanigans as early as 8:30pm/9pm.

Yorubas gleefully shutting down a mega city for oro cult is absolutely no different with what hardliner muslims up north or sit-at-home ugm down in the southeast are doing.

They all openly threaten death as the penalty for crossing their evil, depraved machinations.

The longer the official authorities condone internecine acts such as this all in the name of tradition and religion the more the country is pruned to harvest stagnation.

And tinubu does the worst.

My wife and I vacationed in Jamaica for a week a few weeks ago both to decompress from our busy lives here in the United States and to explore and soak in the gorgeous, pristine beaches and rich, riveting history of Jamaica, the island nation of fewer than 3 million people, which nonetheless has an outsized global cultural influence that belies its modest size and population.

When we landed in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, it felt like I was in Nigeria, which I haven’t visited since June 2016. The sights, sounds, and smells of this brisk, bustling city struck me as distinctly West African, even Nigerian. Everywhere I turned, I saw people who reminded me of the family members, friends, and acquaintances I left in Nigeria.

I shouldn’t be surprised because it’s common knowledge that a little over 90 percent of Jamaicans trace ancestral provenance to West Africa. The ancestors of most modern Jamaicans were enslaved to the Americas mostly from the Akan and Ashanti people in Ghana and from the Yoruba, Igbo, and Ibibio people of Nigeria. But it’s still astonishing how remarkably West African these people still are after hundreds of years of separation from their origins.

Kingston looks and feels like the stereotypical African city. The hustle and bustle of the city, the open markets, the street food, the ever-present, often needless, honks from the horns of motorists, the haggling over prices of most things, the uneasy co-mixing of spotless prosperity and grubby poverty, etc. remind you of a typical city in West Africa even though Jamaica is just a two-hour flight from Atlanta in the United States.

We went there as tourists, but we were indistinguishable from the locals—until we spoke, that is. I had never felt more at home in a foreign country than I did in Jamaica. It wasn’t only redolent of home, that is, Nigeria, it felt truly like home. Even the flora and fauna of the country evoked memories of my growing up in Nigeria because Jamaica is in the tropics.

I saw weed, grass, flowers, and fruits that I grew up with in my hometown whose names I don’t know in English and that I have never seen in the United States. In some parts of the country, we encountered savannah vegetation. In other parts, we saw rainforest vegetation—like you would in many West African countries. This redounded to the sensation of familiarity we felt throughout our stay there.

Afrocentrism is mainstream here. So are Rastafarianism and belief in African spirituality even for people who profess Christianity. For instance, Obiism, which we call juju or jazz in Nigeria, is rife not just in Jamaica but in the entire Caribbean islands. Juju men or medicine men are called “Obeah men.” Scholars have traced the etymology of Obeah to dibia, the Igbo term for medicine man.

Skin bleaching is negligible. Race pride is sky high. People here embrace their Africanness with fierce pride. When people discovered we were Nigerians their attitudes changed toward us: they became exceptionally friendly and protective without expectation of reward.

For example, when we visited the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum, a Kingston neighborhood where Bob Marley grew up and which has the distinction of being the birthplace of reggae music, the head of the place called my wife and I “queen and king” because we said we were from Nigeria.

She was sitting comfortably in her easy chair when we were ushered into her office. She probably first assumed that we were Black Americans. The moment we said we were from Nigeria, she instinctively got off from her seat in a show of reverence that both discomfited and surprised me. She said we were their brother and sister from the motherland, “our queen and our king.” It later occurred to me that it wasn’t us as Maureen and Farooq that she was in awe of; it was what we represented to her. We symbolized her West African ancestors.

She wasn’t alone. Everyone in Trench Town, from the tour guide to random people in the streets who recognized us as Nigerians, treated us with noteworthy kindness and fraternal love. One man whom our tour guide told we were from Nigeria gave us his umbrella for free because it was drizzling as we walked toward a part of the town Bob Marley memorably described as a “concrete jungle” in one of his songs.

When I asked how he would get his umbrella back, he said we could take it with us. He was overcome with emotions that we were Nigerians who came to visit Jamaica and connect with our long-lost cousins. It almost made me shed a tear. We gave the umbrella back to the tour guide to return it to him.

It was an inexplicably surreal sensation when we walked the streets that Bob Marley walked as a child and sat on the bed he slept in for years after he left his mother in Delaware in the United States and returned to Jamaica. The room, which is just a few meters away from his guardian’s room in a multi-family, tree-studded compound that is reminiscent of a traditional West African home, inspired the famous “Three Little Birds” song.

The dingy little room is located in a part of the compound that causes, even forces, you to rise up in the morning “with the risin' sun.” And the verdant, arboreal abundance of the compound invited, still invites, birds to perch on trees and descend on the ground to sing sweet songs. That was the sentiment Marley captured when he sang, “Three little birds/Pitch by my doorstep/Singin' sweet songs/Of melodies pure and true.”
taxi driver told us that Jamaicans love Jonathan because when he visited the country, he offered to sell petrol to the country at cheaper prices than they get from Venezuela but that their leaders spurned the offer.

They also said he kept his promise to enable direct flights from Nigeria to Jamaica. I haven’t confirmed the accuracy of these claims, but Jonathan is by far the most popular Nigerian leader in Jamaica.

You can’t write about Jamaica without talking about Jamaican Patois, which shares historical and linguistic affinities with West African Pidgin English. I thought because I could make sense of written Jamaican Patois based on my knowledge of Nigerian Pidgin English, I wouldn’t have trouble understanding spoken Jamaican Patois. Wrong.

“Good night” means “good evening.” If you understand “good night” to be the conversational expression of goodbye, there will be a communication breakdown, like there was between my wife and our hotel receptionist. And if you don’t understand anything, just say, “Yah, man!” It’s an all-purpose interjection for almost everything—or so it seems.

Read this piece by Farooqkperogi and I felt very much pleased so decided to share it here. Enjoy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

I've never been a woman but masturbation & porn has it's effects irrespective of gender, though the symptoms from those side-effects might not be as pronounced in females. Another thing is moderation which is key. Addictive masturbation diverts energy that could've been put to better productive use and if it gets to this point even women would suffer.

Candidlady:
See pretty woman


62 minus 52 just ten years difference

In ten years time this lady will still look posh but he that is celebrating 62 look like over aged √make ishut up here••


Someone like Samueltemi337 and miracrood2 are just 45 but gambling and begging don turn em to old papa

Tueh

Happy birthday Kate


Modified: talk from now till tomorrow you are only wasting your time.. isaid the truth cos iwanna free

Use your mother's current picture and state her age to further buttress and validate your point.

Fodio and his cohorts brought no dynamic change actually to the arewa society. Mode of governance, language, culture, etc remained just the same, and slavery continued in earnest.
All that changed was the ethnicity of the rulers.

In north west nigeria we are witnessing in real time the same trajectory of aggression by fugitive herders against natives. Many communities are currently ruled by these bandits. These sedentary farming communities are weak compared to their aggressors who have nothing but the shirts on their backs and weapons - their families if any, are far away in the desert.

At last an opportunity for them refugees to partake and sing the songs of their ancestors' old gods.

AutomaticMotors:
And is half caste not black abi wetin this one dey talk!! Even Lebanese no be white for Nigeria!!

I see you're one of those who don't use their senses, you need someone always to tell you what is what. Categorizing a mixed raced person as black was politics(one-drop rule) so as to discourage interracial sexual relationships.

AutomaticMotors:
It's only in south Africa this people would be classified as coloured, outside of your country they are Black!!

It's only in u.s.a that a person with mixed racial gene is categorized as black. In Nigeria such a person is called a half-caste respectfully.

Ihateheadslamer:
Damnnn niggar

It won't be a bad idea if other states can follow up with the law

Especially Abuja.

steno1:
You are an idiot

But why didn't you fight back for you own life and dignity.

I have a question for the muslim brethren and it's not at all from a place of scorn or mischief.

I was in north east some months back. During a conversation with an acquaintance I met there who's from the north(a christian) claimed that there was an established bias as to who has the authority to lead islamic prayers based on ethnic/racial profiling. He claimed that an ethnic group generally acclaimed to have earlier accepted islam cannot be lead in prayers by individuals from ethnic groups who accepted the religion later. Up to three other persons present at the time of this conversation agreed unanimously, including a muslim man from kogi.

According to their claims, a hausa is bereft of the privilege to lead prayers when fulanis are present, just as hausas won't have a yoruba lead them in prayer, or for a fulani to lead arabs in a prayer session. I'm asking this here cause I still have doubts about this and would want to obtain testimonies from a larger audience.

People are crazy. Was the driver on meth? Abeg somebody explain how this thing could happen.

Sycophantic slavish sub okowa standing like a p**** with a wide ugly opening.

Kinglying:
PDP all the way the only Party that has not fail in producing a right candidate in all political Positions.
We all stand Gidigba for the man dey call the Unifer a.k.a Wazirin ADAMAWA his Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate the man way dey always smile Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for the position as the Next President of Nigeria come February 25 2023.

REST F**L

FreshFarmAgro:
As I write i'm in a farming community. No loans nothing. I can produce 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 yams. I have the knowledge, lands and resources where do we turn to for projects funding? The southerns should continue suffering please

kodded:
When will this fools called hunters will realize that all this animal are gradually going into extinction

While the white are busy looking for were to preserve this endangered species we black enjoy killing them for money and merry

I wonder what will happen when the hunters kill all of them.........I guess they will start hunting fellow humans

#BabaNowThatYouAreThere please preserve our wild animals from all this blood sucking demons called hunters

That you think the world started today explains why you'd think Whites care about animal rights than Blacks. Same Whites that kill animals for fun and trophies, kidnap animals from their habitats and store them in private zoos for exhibition.
It is sad if these animals should go extinct but nothing lasts forever, even man!

On this forum it is not everyone you engage. Some accounts are not administered by humans, probably demons or extraterrestrial stowaways who by virtue of their alien origination are bereft of human sympathy.

The comments mocking the dead and this whole ugly and sorrowful incident are not from humans - don't let their insensitivity weigh down your soul. They're not humans.

The govt should outlaw bleaching cosmetics not only cause of its health hazards but its also a contributing factor to the worsening case of ugliness in the country. Poverty, bleaching, and caucasian adapted wigs are at the front line of monkeying women in this country. You see a young uniquely beautiful dark girl coming up and next you know is she's bleached her future to black red pink/purple