₦airaland Forum

AFONJAboiy:
na only God knw wetin all dis pastors dey take 4 corner.

richidinho:
Govt sponsored Massob, uwazurike is a criminal that cannot be taken serious by real freedom fighters

lol! You'll say this same thing about ipod very soon. Na so una dey. Everything na business.

Those guys are from that region; fraudsters.

Wrong caption!

Paperwhite:
And what about Buhari now?-Super clueless and daft.

give buhari 6 years like you gave Jonathan, then we'd know if he's clueless as Jonathan.

He's always clueless.

Wallade:
Do you still wish to be a Nigerian soldier?

urennankoli is embittered cos she was not selected after serving every rank and file with her pussy.


I made some findings already. And it seems she was an easy target for the officers to use to while away time , and some started running away from her because she degenerated and appear not healthy enough. The cause of her unhealthy look? Your guess is as good as mine.

profolaolu:
When buhari captures KANU

lol

osundu:
UrennaNkoli:
lol.. I don't know why I just dislike Nigerian soldiers. Most especially those non-comissioned officers wey no go school.. Even the commisioned ones, na God-fatherism thy used to get there. Many of them can't even spell their names correctly. I've had something to do with NAEC. Nigerian Army Education Corps so I know what I'm saying. Is obvious dat u are naive of the military. U can not come here To show us dat ur father was a peasant farmer and unconnected for ur family members to join the military. There are PhD holders in the military. I have masters In security management and am in the military.

The useless girl dunno how many of our officers have gone abroad to show their academic excellence.

I don't know how they allowed that stupid girl with a leaking mouth to even have anything to do with them in the first place. I hope she's traced. She could give other security information to the public and the enemies.

UrennaNkoli:
lol.. I don't know why I just dislike Nigerian soldiers. Most especially those non-comissioned officers wey no go school.. Even the commisioned ones, na God-fatherism thy used to get there. Many of them can't even spell their names correctly. I've had something to do with NAEC. Nigerian Army Education Corps so I know what I'm saying.

clap for yourself. You just breached a code. You should have informed the authority about this, instead of coming here to show one principal consanguinity of prostitutes, which is Amebo.


Do you write better? Check again.


Have they failed in what they're trained for? Their missions in foreign lands give the answer.


Military is about physical and a bit of brilliance, you talkative who has a mouth diarrhea should know. They have their intelligence unit, what do they need your so called "perfection in English language" for?


Cheap thing, I wish I knew when you worked with NAEC, so I can have them track you.

oz4real83:
The Nigerian police needs total overhauling!!! It seems all their divisions across the country dont work together. This guy's pics have been everywhere after his first arrest and his later escape. The police in plateau state were not still able to recognise him despite the fact that he didn't do anything to alter his appearance! Suppose he gave them a wrong number or an accomplice number,he would have been released! Imagine it was his aunty in Rivers state who had to tell the police the guy was a wanted criminal!!!

just my thoughts. A wanted criminal in their hands but they couldn't identify him. Poor policing.,

ignis:
Why should the soldier kill them without court trial?

Its very wrong. No one is guilty until proven otherwise by the court of law.

even as they confessed, you still need them to be "proven" , sent to jail and allowed to escape to kill more.


Political correctness shouldn't throw you into foolishness.

If the victim was your brother, would have said all these?

eezeribe:
But they won't shoot the Herdsmen who are killing people at freewill....
They probably shot the so called ritualist without trial because the said Okada rider in question is from the same geographical zone as the soldiers...
No wonder they cannot stand to hear the word Restructuring or Breakup

may what befall that okada man befall you and see how ethnic reasoning from a fool like you means.

From his comments on the DG of NIA, mamman Daura isn't a very bad cabal afterall as he's made to appear.

bounty007:
[s]now I've come to believe say.. truly Afonja muslims are real on nairaland.

all this investigation won't change anything a bit..
all na noise..based on envy and unity begging.

anyone can choose a name for himself.. if igbos chose Biafra. wetin concern Afonja muslims with it.

what is even the essence of this thread.. make you debunk wetin or prove wetin.. losers!!

your fear is real.i tell you guys.. so real.
this country will definitely divide not mouth or chest-beating..is like death.. very very inevitable.
no choice.

you fit gather all your fellows..to feast on una ignorance..

but it ends here..on this thread and by tomorrow the thread will be push to the 2nd page.. dead an buried.

but you know what about Biafra.?

the sun would soon rise..


IPOB is the movement..

the spirit is alive..

Kanu is our leader..[/s]

balderdash!

victorvezx:
This article is very educative and needs to be pushed to the front page. It will debunk Kanu lies of how Biafra existed before Nigeria, instead if was the night of Biafra that existed which had nothing to do with igbos. The real Biafra was the fraudulent one created out of Ojukwu greed in 1967.

lalasticlala, mynd44 should do the needful.


Give those people a wrist to hold and, they'll ask for your shoulder.

JPENG:
full pot.. Snake plus Chicken

disgusting.

Where are the names na? She de fear. She can't stop looking for attention. Lol


Is there where there are no homosexuals?

an article in the Africa Journal of October 1946 titled Les Portuguaisdans la Baie de Biafra au XViemeSiecle (‘The Portuguese in the Bay of Biafra in the Fifteenth Century’), Monsieur J. Bouchard had stated that the word, Biafra, is not of Portuguese origin as some people think, and does not come from any place or tribe within the region. It is simply a corruption by the cartographers of the sixteenth century of the word Mascha, which was the name of a mountain marked near this region on the map of Africa by Ptolemy.

This piece was written by Frank Aig-Imoukhuede. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 360Nobs.com.

‘By 1515, Mascha had become Mafra and by some error, Biafra. It is pertinent to note, for example, that Benin’s famous inland port, Gwato (also often written as Gatto), is a corruption of Ughoton, its Edo name. Similarly, although not many people know it, the oldest iron mining centre in Africa, Taruga, lies within the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja and its local name, from which it was corrupted, is Takunshara which Europeans found difficult to pronounce and approximated to ‘Taruga’.

Hearing the news of the success of the Portuguese attracted to the coastline known as the Bight of Biafra by trade, some English and French merchant adventurers came to the Guinea Coast early in the 16th century; but it was not until the later part of that century that the English, French and Dutch came in any number. By that time, following the discovery of the Congo by Diego Cao, the Cape of Good Hope by Bartholomew Dias and India by Vasco da Gama, the West Coast had lost much of its importance to Portugal.

‘The British gradually gained ascendancy in the region and their position became consolidated by their efforts to abolish the slave trade. This position continued after the end of the slave trade, when they became middlemen traders in palm oil and kernels and dominated the markets far inland up the New Calabar, Sombreiro and Orashi rivers.

In the latter river, following a war with the Nembe people, their influence spread as far as to Oguta, north of Owerri Division’. Like the Kalabari who claimed Oba Ama (land of the Oba) as their place of origin, the Oguta people in their oral tradition (see Nzimiro) claim to have also come from Ado n’Oba (their name for Ado or Benin where the Oba lived).


Talbot, in his History of Southern Nigeria, Volume I, in tracing the origin of the name of present-day Calabar-which was also mixed up-states: ‘what in all probability actually happened was that the word was taken from the (New) Calabar river which was so named from the town of the Kalabari who lived on it and seems to have been more important from a trading point of view than the Cross river. Through some error, this name was applied to the Cross-river estuary which was finally called ‘Old’ Calabar to distinguish it from the Kalabari River, which was then named the ‘New Calabar River’.

The map at page 242 of Talbot’s History, described as a ‘New and correct map of Calabar River, shows the New Calabar and Old Calabar rivers as two channels of the same river, again shown West of Bandy (Bonny) and Dony (Andoni), issuing out at the same mouth called the Calabar River or Rio Real’.

After the Benin River and the Sangana outlet and before coming to the Nun, there is a projection of land called Cape Formosa. According to A.R. Mockler – Ferryman in ‘British Nigeria’ published in 1891, ‘The Bight of Biafra extends from this Cape, which is in latitude 40 5’ North longitude 60 East to Cape St. John, in latitude 10 15’ North, longitude 90 3’ East, a distance round the coast line of 400 miles, and in a straight direction, of 280. The Bight of Biafra also includes within it Fernando Po, Principes, Sao Thome and Anno Bon Islands’.


[b]‘Within the Bight are the rivers Nun, Brass (or Bento), St. Nicholas, S. Barbara, St. Bartholomew, Sombrero, New Calabar, Bonny, Andoni, Old Calabar, Rio del Rey, Bimbia, Cameroons, Balimba, Boreah, Campo, Bati, St. Benito and Bassakoo’ some of which feature in both Ptolemy’s map of 1513 and the MERCATOR 1619. In strict sense, these rivers and the land through which they run, mark the boundary of the ‘Bight of Biafra.’

[b]With the rise of British activities and the career of the Royal Niger Company, and British ascendancy in the adjacent coastal regions, which were incorporated in what became the British Protectorate of the Niger between 1884 and 1885, the various rivers of the Bight of Biafra became known as the Oil Rivers.

‘The Oil Rivers-from west to east-were ‘the Benin, Escravos, Warri (Forcados), Brass, St. Nicholas, St. Barbara, St. Bartholomew, Sombrero, New Calabar, Bonny, Andoni (St. Antonio), Opobo, Kwa Ibo, Akpayafe, Kwa, and Cross, the last four of which empty themselves into the Old Calabar before reaching the sea.’

In the neighbourhood of the Benin river, the people who lived in the Bight of Biafra were Bini. To their west were the Ilaje, Ikale, Mahin and the people of Okitipupa; eastward come the Urhobo and between them and the sea, the Jekri or Itsekiri. In the Niger Delta section of the Bight were the Ijo (with several off-shoots), and in their north west the Ibo, who are sub-divided into many minor tribes.

In the eastern division of the Southern Protectorate were a great variety of people mostly allied in language with the Ibo. Among them are the Aro who inhabited fourteen towns which encircled an oracle called the Long Juju, the bam, Edda, Abriba and Ohafia who fought battles for them; and the Ngwa.

In the immediate neighbourhood of Old Calabar, the ‘Biafra’ inhabitants were the Ibibio, Annang and the Efik who are ‘supposed by some to be connected with the Ibo, but by others to be a distinct people;’ while in the country watered by the Upper Cross River and the Cameroon River were the Ekoi and allied semi-Bantus.

Talbot quotes John Barbot as writing in 1699: ‘the territory of Calabar or Calbari, lies on and about the river called by the Portuguese ‘Rio Real,’ by the English ‘Calabar’ and by the Dutch ‘Calbary’ from the town of New Calbari or Calabar situated on that river’.[/b]



The Bonny River, which has the same mouth as the New Calabar, was originally called the Rio da Carmo. The Cross River is shown on old Portuguese maps as the Rio da Cruz. (Most of the names given to rivers and islands by the Portuguese were of a religious nature- the Cross river receiving its name not because it was supposed to have ‘crossed over from the Niger’, an erroneous suggestion of the origin of the name which has often been repeated.

The map in Talbot’s History earlier referred to, also states that some leagues north of Calabar Town is Hackbous (Ibo) country. Thus, the boundary of the Bight of Biafra is more clearly defined than it has often been made to look. Issues tagged ‘Biafra’ therefore, are within the competence and jurisdiction of the Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Delta states in which the Bight of Biafra is housed.

‘In the first Portuguese maps after the ‘discovery’ of Nigeria, as well as of their Dutch successors, the whole of the present southern Nigeria, at any rate down to the Bonny River, was shown as the Benin Kingdom.’ (Page 156, Talbot’s Southern Nigeria, Volume 1).

In the MERCATOR 1619 (Redrawn 1925) – (also featured in Talhot’s History) left, next to what was described as Benin Regnum (Kingdom), was Dauma (Dahomey). In the book, the King of Benin is described as ‘the Lord of seven kingdoms’ and ‘Chief King of all that coast.’

According to Dapper (1668), ‘the kingdom of Benin was bordered to the North West by the kingdoms of Ulkami (Olukumi or Oyo), Yaboe (Ijebu), Isago whose army on horseback Benin had fought and defeated, Udobo (Urhobo), and east beyond the Niger, the kingdom of Istamia.

No kingdom or principality by the name of ‘Biafra’ was mentioned in the accounts of visitors to Africa between the 14th and 18th centuries and the 19th century accounts of Baikie, Lander, Crowther, Hutchinson, or other explorers and Claude Macdonald’s assistant, Mockler- Ferryman.

At a time when Europe scrambled for territories and ‘spheres of influence’ in Africa and land was grabbed along the coast to link with land in the hinterland, maps which feature Biafra were not consistent as to the position of ‘Biafra regnum’ or kingdom. A few had it spelt ‘Biafara’ and stretching from Adamawa’s present-day position to the coast next to the kingdom of Benin.

In one of the maps, the Benue River flows from west to east and into Lake Chad! However, one or two maps had on them a ‘River Kebbi’ flowing (correctly) from Yola to a village among the Tuburi swamps in German Cameroon called Bifara. This map had been surveyed by Major Claude Macdonald during his expedition to the Benue River. It was remarked in a footnote of ‘British Nigeria’ by A.F. Mockler-Ferryman where it appeared, that no Frenchman or German had stepped on Bifara soil before 1894.

The foregoing was extracted from the 1935 Intelligence Report on the Kalabari clan by Capt. V.C.M. Kelsey, District Officer and from the publications of Capt. (later Lt. Col. and then Barrister-at-law A.F. Mockler-Ferryman, who was assistant to Major (later Sir) Claude Macdonald, who at one time had served as Commissioner and Consul General of the Bights of Benin and Biafra. Capt. Mockler-Ferryman was the author of the books from which some of these facts were gleaned.

It is clear that the Bight of Biafra refers to the coastal space between the Benin River and the Cameroon River occupied mainly by the Bini, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Kalabari, Okrika, Andoni, Ogoni, Nembe, Brass, Efik, Ibibio and the Ekoi and the inhabitants of the land between Bakassi and the Cameroon mountains. It starts from the Benin River and ends at the Gabon River and is fringed to the northeast by some Ibo groups.

It is clear from the foregoing that matters and issues relating to Biafra are not the exclusive concern or preserve of any single ethnic group but belong to all the entities, territories and peoples within the area tagged the Bight of Biafra – the Bini, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Ijo, Okrika, Ogoni, Efik, Annang, Ibibio, Ododop, Ekoi and some Ibo who at one time were also part of the Oil Rivers; and today are integral parts of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River States.

Unfortunately, as far as the question of self-determination is concerned, secession is being imposed on the indigenous people by elements with fewer claims to indigeneity.

Any matter, especially secession from Nigeria, involving the geographical space known as the ‘Bight of Biafra’, must also include the participation in the ensuing debate, dialogue and negotiation of its constituent elements, entities and all the peoples of the country.

Some people have described Biafra as a metaphor of national growth and development. Our experience of it, however, has proved very costly in the loss of lives; and very costly in its divisiveness and destructiveness what with the energy and resources it requires and has exacted and is required to unravel its conundrums and defuse its time bombs and booby-traps.

In fact, with the origin and antecedence of the word ‘Biafra’ and our bitter experience the last time, the best thing for Nigerians to do – once and for all- is to leave Biafra well alone!


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Nemesis1:
How did he escape if they want him dead?

they're always not ordinary people.

iluvpomo:
Innoson/Innoson dealers should just pay for an advert instead of creating these obvious marketing threads. There are cash safety tests performed by various standards bodies and so Innoson should just let their cars be evaluated there instead of making unsubstantiated claims of quality & safety.

gbam . They can't pay for advert, why?

Hilles:
Run town na clown..like he could actually do something else! always same beats and same sound, just different lyrics!

wizkid uses different beats but same lyrics, una complain. Runtown uses same beat and different lyrics una still complain. What do you humans want?

sonofluc1fer:
Just a myth.

your siggy got me laughing.

fashrola:
The swells at the place no be here....Ships going to the Mediterranean chose options like the French river rather than taking the route from Biscay Bay due to the legendary reputation of the bay...

is it that serious?

hotspec:
Cleopatra's Needle
In 1819, Mohammad Ali, leader of Egypt and Sudan, presented the UK with a gift. In honour of Britan's success in the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Alexandria, Ali kindly gave away a huge, carved Egyptian Obelisk. The UK was grateful, but couldn't cover the cost of shipping the ancient, 21 metre high, 224 tonne structure. In 1877, pioneering doctor Sir William James Erasmus Wilson agreed to pay for the obelisk to be brought to the UK. It was encased in iron, which was fitted with a rudder, a stern and masts. Cleopatra, as the vessel was dubbed, was essentially a bespoke ship made especially for the needle. On her way to the UK, Cleopatra, her crew and precious cargo almost perished in a storm in the Bay of Biscay. Thankfully, everyone made it home in one piece and Cleopatra's Needle remains a true London landmark.

isn't this in the US?

hemucology:
Good for them

Where is Infinex

See my signature for more

I'm looking to have this POP for an ongoing project; I'm selling the idea to someone. How does it go?

Evaberry:
so because I'm interested in football

it means I'm a guy?

you're a guy. Don't push us into bringing out details. We know how we do it here to prove your gender.

fiftynaira:
It's not for ladies

You can come as a fan

evaberry or what's her name, that one na lady?

SalamRushdie:
You have an impressive mind ..I am really happy .I am actually an accounting major but sound on every known field including spirituality (yes I can actually stop and make rain )

thank you! I'm impressed by an accounting major with so much in science inclined ideas or questions.

You're sound in every field? We've got a polymath here.

Spiritually you're sound too? Can you actually stop rain? Lol...if you literally mean that, then construction company can hire you.

Doghari:
Abeg 'Dr Nicky okoye' the 'sophisticated Ibo', can you tell us the name of the tribe that pronounces 'Ndigbo' as 'Indigbo' as you did?

Thank you as you remain a patriotic ' Ibo' ewedurudeen from the woods of oshogbo. Say mi hi to Aregbe's muslim beards.

I've seen many igbo on talk shows pronouncing igbo as "Ibo" cos it appear like the anglicized version. Most of them address themselves as "an Ibo man" not "igbo man". Quit it already.

momonny:
they blame everybody except them selves

their problems is always caused by outsider or other tribes.

SalamRushdie:
I like your answer but I had to do a reverse search on it and I pulled out many identical string from a site called Physics centre .If this is your original thought then you have a good brain on your head ..please what do you think drives the the distance that light can cover ? I like to see your thought on this

well Einstein said that the speed of light doesn't vary with time or space.

The distance light can cover depends on the density of the material or medium it's traveling through. As we know, light travel faster in a vacuum.

This might not necessarily or explicitly answer your question, it has a picture to it and can give a guide.


You have technical questions in your head or wherever you get them from. Lol


As for your search with respect to earlier question, I did not go there cos it's more of an applied question than a direct one. So , checking was out of the options. I read everything that concerns the earth cos I'm a geologist. Internet helps my kind of reading habit.

As a geologist, I know the earth rotate with everything within it- so I could paint a picture to your question. I know how long it takes for a complete revolution; it was easy to stay guided.

If you checked your question, the real deal was when you asked if it hovers for 12hr with or without inertia , what will happen. I told you what can happen and what won't happen . Everything came from me and the next time someone will search it, he's gonna see my illustration too.