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Only a fool would support such a vessel being destroyed when it could be confiscated and used for something else

Have the Navy got enough ships?

Africans only know how to destroy, but not to build

chiagozien:
Ronu people where are you.

They are waiting for what Simon Ekpa will say next

The problem is sit at home

No fewer than 555 Nigerians have been killed and 267 kidnapped across the country between when President Bola Tinubu assumed office on May 29 and July 3.

These include attacks by bandits, Boko Haram insurgents, gunmen and others.

In a report by Global Rights, titled ‘Mass atrocities in Nigeria from 2019 to July 2023’, it noted that under the Tinubu administration, the North-Central geopolitical zone ravaged by banditry had been the most impacted with 312 deaths recorded in 35 days under review.

The North-West recorded 123 deaths, followed by the South-East where 66 residents were killed; 38 deaths were recorded in the North-East; in the South-South region, 11 persons were killed while at least five persons were murdered in the South-West.

An analysis of the trend of killings done by our correspondent showed that regions ravaged by bandits recorded more deaths than other regions. The North-West and North-Central had a total of 435 deaths.

The Programme Manager, Global Rights, Edosa Oviawe, said struggle for power and poverty were part of the factors fuelling mass atrocities in the country.

He stated, “Ethnic and religious divisions; political interests and power struggles; 20 million out-of-school children; 130 million multidimensionally poor; 90 million absolutely poor; 33 per cent unemployment rate and over 50 per cent youth unemployment among others are drivers of mass atrocities in Nigeria



A security consultant, Group Captain Sadique Shehu (retd), said the spike in non-state actors’ activities when a new government and service chiefs assumed office was not new in the country.

He called on the service chiefs to quickly map out their plans to address the situation.

Shehu, who is a former spokesperson for the Nigerian Airforce, stated, “Usually, when there is an exchange of batons either at the political level or with service chiefs, during the transition period, there is usually a lull. However, you would observe a spike in lawbreakers’ activities when the new service chiefs or political head is trying to find their footing. This has been the trend in the country. What should be done is for security chiefs to quickly draw out their plans.

“There is no doubt the former president (Muhammadu Buhari) was unable to rid the country of insecurity, although there was an improvement in the North-East. This means Tinubu is inheriting a big challenge, especially with banditry.”

He urged Tinubu to ensure he appointed a competent hand as the Minister of Defence, adding that this was an albatross of the last administration.

Shehu added, “I will urge the President to do proper supervision of the security agencies, which if I must be sincere, did not happen under Buhari. Yes, he spent more on security but did he put his eyes on it? He gave out money but did not follow the money. I will also advise him (Tinubu) to appoint a capable person as Minister of Defence. The two ministers under Buhari were powerless.”

https://punchng.com/555-nigerians-killed-in-one-month-report/

optionalY09:
I will send you my picture when i was there last year.

Post it on this thread

Igbos are adventurous, they can go anywhere. Two wealthy Igbo men broke records when they ventured to ends of the earth, one went to the North Pole, while the other visited the South Pole. To go to either Pole is very expensive, very hazardous and very dangerous. Many people have died trying to reach the North or South Pole where average temperature is - 50 centigrade

Chinedu 'Ned' Nwoko:

Popularly known as Ned Nwoko, he is a billionaire international Lawyer, property tycoon and businessman. He hails from Idumuje-Ugboko in Delta State and is also the serving Senator for Delta North. In 2020, Ned Nwoko became the first black African to reach the South Pole.

Ogbonnaya 'OG' Amazu:

Popularky known as 'OG', is a billionaire oil mogul and CEO of AMAZOIL, is an indigene of Nnewi in Anambra State. In 2015, he took his wife and two children to the North pole and broke record as the first family to ever reach the place

Have you heard of Cudjo Lewis? He was the last surviving slave of the "Clotilda", the last slave ship to leave Africa for the Americas after slavery was abolished. He was also a Yoruba man. His story is Below


Cudjo Lewis was born Oluale Kossola in the modern West African country of Benin to Oluale and his second wife Fondlolu. He was the second of four children and had 12 stepsiblings. He was a member of the Yoruba people, more specifically the Isha (a Yoruba sub-group), whose traditional home is in the Banté region of eastern Benin. Kossola was born into a modest family, but his grandfather was an officer of the town’s king. Kossola and his siblings had a happy and active childhood. At 14, he began training as a soldier and learned how to track, hunt, camp, shoot arrows, throw spears, and defend his town, which was surrounded by four tall walls. The teenager was also inducted into oro, a secret Yoruba male society whose role is to police and control society. At age 19, Kossola fell in love with a young girl he saw at the market, and at his father’s urging underwent initiation that enabled young men and women to get married. In April 1860, in the midst of Kossola’s training, Ghezo, the King of Dahomey, and his army attacked the town, killed the king and many of the people, and took the rest of the townspeople prisoner.


Kossola and his companions were marched to Abomey, Dahomey’s capital, then on to Ouidah on the coast, where they were held for three weeks in a slave pen known as a barracoon (a prison where captives were held before being sent across the Atlantic). Then he and 109 others from various regions of Benin and Nigeria boarded the slave ship Clotilda, captained by Mobile ship builder William Foster and embarked on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean, known during the slave trade as the Middle Passage. During his 45 days on the ship, Kossola suffered from terrible thirst and the humiliation of having been forced on board naked.

In Mobile, he was enslaved by James Meaher, a wealthy ship captain and brother of Timothy Meaher, the man who had organized the expedition. James Meaher was unable to pronounce Kossola’s name, so the young man told his new owner to call him Cudjo, a name given by the Fon and Ewe peoples of West Africa to boys who are born on Monday. During his five years of enslavement, the young man worked on a steamship and lived with his shipmates under Meaher’s house, which was built high above the ground.

In 1865, with general emancipation, Cujdo regained his freedom and took the name Lewis. He married Abile, a young woman who also had been on the Clotilda. Like their companions, the couple’s objective was to return home, but when they failed to raise enough money for the trip, they decided to stay in Alabama and create a town of their own. Because Timothy Meaher had been responsible for their ordeal, they decided to ask him for reparations in the form of free land. Cudjo was chosen as the spokesman. Meaher refused their demand, and they purchased land from him and others and established African Town on a hill north of Mobile. Cudjo worked as a shingle maker but after being injured in a train accident in 1902—for which he sued the railroad company—he became African Town’s church sexton.

He and his wife had five sons and one daughter. To mark their attachment to their culture, they gave American and Yoruba names to four of them and Yoruba names only to two. Sadly, all of the children died young: Celia/Ebeossi died of sickness at 15, Young Cudjo was killed by a deputy sheriff, David/Adeniah was hit by a train, Pollee Dahoo disappeared and was probably killed, and James/Ahnonotoe and Aleck/Iyadjemi died after short illnesses. Abile passed away in 1908, just one month before Aleck died. Cudjo again suffered the loss of his family.


Financial hardship forced Cudjo to sell several plots of land. By the early 1920s, all his companions from the Clotilda had passed away, leaving him as the only survivor. During the last years of his life, he achieved some fame when writers and journalists interviewed him and made his story known to the public. Alabama-born author Zora Neale Hurston filmed him, and he is thus the only known African deported through the slave trade whose moving image exists. Cudjo Lewis died of age-related illness on July 26, 1935, at about 94. Although he had always wanted to go back home, he was buried among his family in the Africans’ cemetery that opened in 1876. Today, a tall white monument marks his grave. Some of his descendants still live in Mobile. Two women, Sally “Redoshi” Smith and Matilda McCrear, were the last surviving members of the group, living until 1937 and 1940, respectively.

Idara Gold is a young girl who hails from Mbiafun Nkwono, on the outskirts of Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. She is a keen supporter of the Biafran movement. She shot into prominence in 2021 when she was arrested by the DSS because she celebrated her 20th birthday by posting pictures of her self on Facebook wearing a Biafran dress.

She spent 18 months in various DSS detention centres from Enugu to Abuja to Niger State, without charge, before securing bail recently. On her release, Idara Gold opened a new Facebook page called 'Gold Biafra' and has started a campaign for people held in DSS custody for months, even years, without charge.

She started by highlighting the case of husband and wife, Mr and Mrs Ifedi, who she says were arrested by DSS in 2021, and have been kept in Wawa Barracks, Niger State without charge to this day

The constitution of Nigeria says that the authorities must charge a suspect to court no later than 3 days after arrest

Christistruth02:
The British Governor General of Nigeria once Stated that of the 11 biggest Towns in Nigeria 10 were in Yorubaland

Kano was the only exception!

And when you ask Yorubas where they developed that is not capital area, all they have is Sango ota? A place that cannot be compared with Nnewi

When a place assumes a capital area status, it attracts more governmental and private sector investment that triggers increased immigration, commerce and other ancillary activities that makes it develop at a faster pace than other areas. Sometimes an area may be developing at a faster pace than others, but gets a boost after getting capital area status. But sometimes, an area might develop at a fast pace without capital status, without increased government help, but by the sheer determination of the people of the area

North

Abuja: Federal Capital Territory

Kano: Capital of Kano State

Kaduna: Capital of Kaduna State

South West

Lagos: Former Federal Capital Territory

Ibadan: Former capital of the Western Region

Abeokuta: Capital of Ogun State

South East

Enugu: Former capital of the Eastern Region

Owerri: Capital of Imo state

Awka: Capital of Anambra State

But the South East develops these areas

Onitsha: Never was capital of anywhere, largest market in West Africa and more developed than many state capitals in Nigeria

Nnewi: Never was capital of anywhere, centre of the auto industry in Nigeria and developed far beyond the village it was before the war

Aba: Never was capital of anywhere but is undisputed capital of Artisanship in Nigeria and major commercial area

So the question for the North and South Westerners is this, where is that place you developed in your area with your ingenuity that isnt capital area status?

Where did you develop or build up without needing it to be capital of anywhere, or government investment?

Idara Gold, the young girl from Akwa Ibom and Biafran supporter, who was arrested by DSS and spent almost 2 years in detention just because she celebrated her birthday in Biafran attire

Idara Gold has since been granted bail, and in an apparent act of defiance to the DSS and authorities, created a new Facebook page called Gold Biafra, and reposted the same picture that made DSS arrest her.

She also told her followers that her old Facebook account had been compromised while she was in detention and she would no longer be using it.

Tough girl

Biafrans resident in the city of Malaga, Spain, took to streets and the central square of the city on 30th May to commemorate Biafran day

Biafrans living in San Pedro Region, Cote D'ivoire, have commemorated 30th May, Biafra Day, by visiting San Pedro Orphanage where they dontated cash and food items as well spending time with the residents

Where in Nigeria is this?

Biafrans took to the streets of the town of Linz, Austria, yesterday to protest for the release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Kanu has been discharged by the courts but is still been held as the government appeals the decision at the Supreme court.

Okun area of Kogi State is a place inhabited by indigenous Yoruba people. Youths of the area held a rally yesterday where they demanded that not only Okun, but all Yoruba areas of Kogi State should be included in Oduduwa Republic

More pictures

A massive protest by IPOB hit the commercial city of today. Unlike the usual protest by IPOB, this particular protest was led by a large group of men wearing white track suits with the Biafran emblem embossed on it, and white face-caps to match. The main protesters followed behind the men in white. The protesters demanded the unconditional release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

The protest was peaceful and without incident

President Gamal Nasser of Egypt, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region and Major Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Chief instructor of the Nigerian Military School, Kaduna

This was when Nasser visited Sir Ahmadu Bello in Kaduna in 1964

Shortly after the visit, Sir Ahmadu Bello would win another term as Premier and Ojukwu was promoted to Lt Colonel and posted to command the 5th battalion, Kano. The Nigerian Military School was renamed the Nigerian Defence Academy

President Nasser died in 1970 of a heart attack while still in ofice, Sir Ahmadu Bello was killed in the military coup of January 1966, and Ojukwu died of natural causes in a London hospital in 2011 aged 78

The Biafran community in Cork city, the second biggest city in Ireland, stormed the streets on March 17th to celebrate with the Irish people Irish independence day, also known as St Patrick Day

goodnessme1:
Nigeria is not one and can never be one.


It will surely go down

Definitely

A picture of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu relaxing at DSS headquarters Abuja has emerged online. Although nobody knows the name of who took the picture, it was revealed that a highly placed individual who recently visited Kanu is responsible.

A court of appeal sitting in October last year quashed all charges against the IPOB leader, ordered his unconditional release and also ordered that no court in Nigeria has the jurisdiction to try Nnamdi Kanu, on the grounds that the Federal Government brought him into the country illegally and unconstitutionally

Na so

Yoruba Nation members seeking the independence of the Yoruba people from Nigeria, as Oduduwa Republic, protested near no 10 Downing Street, London, Yesterday

Some IPOB members staged a protest in front of the South Korean parliament building, Seoul, today 13th February. Three of the them were allowed in where they presented a petition to the Justice office of the parliament, against the government of Nigeria.