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I thought this was about showing off your fancy bathrooms.
Or speaking privately in the bathroom

My first fp in a loooong time

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LET ME BREAK THE CAMEL'S BACK HERE.

RIVERS IS AN IGBO STATE.


THE IJAW ARE THE LAST MIGRANTS TO ARRIVE IN THE STATE FROM NEMBE AND BRASS AXIS, ACCORDING TO VERIFIABLE ACADEMIC RECORDS.


THESE NEMBE AND BRASS IJAWS MIXED WITH THE IGBOS ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN KALABARI AND THE EFIK TO FORM MODERN DAY KALABARI.



BONNY AND OPOBO SPEAK IGBO FULLY AND FLUENTLY, THAT SHOULD TELL YOU THAT IJAWS ARRIVED THERE ABOUT THE SAMETIME THEY DID KALAABRI OR SLIGHTLY LATER.


THE OGONI WILL TELL YOU THEY CAME WITH THE BRITISH FROM GHANA TO RAID FOR IGBO SLAVES.


OKIRIKA ARE NOT IJAWS, THEY ARE MAJORLY IGBO TOO.


SO, WHO AND WHAT IS RIVERS STATE IF NOT IGBO WITH MIXES ALONG THE COAST.


ALL ACROSS NIGERIA YOU HAVE IJAWS JUMPING AND SETTLING ON THE COAST, DOES THAT MEAN AKWA IBOM IS NOW IJAW OR CROSS RIVER IS NOW IJAW OR LAGOS IS NOW IJAW?


ANSWER THAT QUESTION.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH43l5hlr-Y

You did well you mixed half truths with lies to deceive people who don’t know.

Everyone migrated from somewhere and till today people continue to migrate you can’t stop it.
However the ijaws have been in what is modern day Rivers state far longer than the Igbo’s have. History can attest to this fact, the first mentions of Igbo’s in what is now known as old rivers state was them being sold and shipped as slaves.

The main reason we have some Igbo speakers is because we had slave markets, slave barracoons, slave warehouses, in Modern day Rivers state and Delta state, upon abolition of slave trade those slaves refused to return home to Igbo land where they were seen as ghosts, osu etc. Go and read about the long juju of Arochukwu abi the long god of Arochukwu, read about the Aro Confederacy.

Sad to say but Igbo’s were nothing special you were commodities we sold. After the abolition and British sailing the seas intercepting and diverting slave ships business tanked people started focusing on other things Manila, palm, fish, imports of foreign wares etc. Do you think all the Igbo slaves left in the warehouses (barracoons), slave dungeons, sea port and the ones of ships turned back were killed?
Very few returned home, some died or were killed, others married into or integrated into various other communities.

Well that aside let me explain something we aren’t confused all of us I’m speaking for every single one in the South South and every Niger Deltan

We are all saying one thing, it is you guys who are trying to force your identity on us that are confused.

Stay with me: I will break it down for you.

Bonny and Opobo people= have Brass & small Igbo ancestry
New Calabar (Kalabari)= Efik (Old Calabar)+Ijaw
Brass= mainly Bini + Ijaw & small Efik
Ijaw = are very likely to be descended from Bini

I can go on and on and on.

My point is we know we are not a monolith, we know where we are from, we with our mouth say Bini we are your people we are from Bini, Bini no send us they have never one day insulted us or forced us to be part of them.

We use our mouth say Efik we are your people, how many times have you seen Efik people insult us into accepting to have descended from them?

Same for Ijaw, after They got their Bayelsa dem no too send us again, we Rivers state are the ones building roads to Bayelsa, helped them with their law school before we got ours. To keep that relationship. Ijaw people have never claimed to own us na we dey use our hand call them for relationship.

That is mutual respect they respect us we respect them. Rivers+Bayelsa+Edo+Delta+Cross River+Akwa Ibom parts of Ondo+Parts of Lagos+Parts of one of the South East states I forget which one

What I said can be verified by dna Test and History. I myself have taken my heritage Dna test and had it analyzed for African heritage what I saw was largely Bini and I am from Rivers state others from rivers who have taken similar tests also have come out with similar results infact I had some Yoruba but absolutely no Igbo. I will be the first to admit that this doesn’t mean Rivers people cannot have Igbo dna or ancestry but it goes to show how little in comparison to others it is
we have far more Ijaw+Bini than any other group and then maybe Efik and others, and I have a feeling we have other indigenous and non indigenous groups that aren’t even talking about.

Just as an aside: Jonathan (GEJ) (Ijaw) and Sim Fubara (Opobo) if you hear them speak their accent can you tell the difference?

Yet you an igbo man will be insulting the ijaws ridiculing the fact that they dwell close to the rivers and oceans something you wish you had access to but don’t. And you think the Opobo people will be happy to associate with you? Even if they have small Igbo heritage or ancestry? No now. They know your forced emergency relationship is one for your convenience that seeks to subjugate them.

You insult the Hausa/fulani for being desert dwellers
And Same you insults the Ijaws for being Riverine dwellers
In Wike’s voice “Haba haba haba”.

Chest beating and noise will not get you anywhere it will only make you notorious.

If the fact that You have been claiming everyone comes from you and nobody is claiming you back and the Ijaw, Efik, Bini etc. Who haven’t been chest beating the way you have been have people claiming to from them isn’t proof of this then I don’t know what is.

So correct you wrong perception/false narrative, I am a Rivers man born and bred, Rivers state is not 40% Igbo or 40% descended from Igbo

Like I highlighted we are a mix of Ijaw+Bini+Efik to various degrees, some more Ijaw than others some more bini than others some more Efik than others but we are so far gone now that we decide to identify ourselves by ourselves and not by your Igbo identity,

South South as a region is more developed, more economically viable, more secure, more stable, more hospitable, than the South East.
So we are doing fairly ok for ourselves even though we can do much better we believe people who are in a far worse position than us cannot help us improve when they themselves have not helped themselves.

How can you them help us? Is it with Monday sit at home?

Arobaga:
As long as Rivers State is concerned



I’ll gladly accept the South Easterners as our brothers




Moreover 40% of Rivers people bear Igbo names




If we need more brothers to accommodate we go manage to accommodate the Hausas because they respect themselves in Rivers state




But you see those dirty coward backstabbing people we chase and jettison them in our soil




Retired but never tired SKP Alpha marine says so nobody twatt my orders

How did you arrive at 40%?

Do Ogoni’s bear igbo names?
Do Kalabari’s bear Igbo names?
What of Obolo people? And the many other groups?

Tamuno ehhh!!! Who do Nigeria?

Customs should not be a revenue focused agency.
The aim and duty of customs should not be to generate revenue.

Who, where and how are they generating this revenue? From stifling business growth, from multiple taxation, fines and fees.

Which only adds to price inflation for Nigerians. Whatever you charge businesses and importers are customs will still fall on the everyday Nigerians to pay.

These businesses will merely shift those fees to the final consumers.

If a car is 100,000 and customs says pay 10,000 to import instead of 1,000 just so they can “break record” and increase revenue do you think the car seller will still sell that car at 101,000 or he will sell it for 110,000

Customs thinks they are doing good and generating profit not knowing they are adding to inflation.

tojahh:
Don't listen to stories like this. The next thing is to make you feel pity for him and send him money. These guys do this for a living, don't fall for it.

Stay woke

I want to tell him to drop account number that’s why I am asking for proof

Mrwhite09:
bro i swear to God i am not lying and I get paid 3500

3,500 daily?
Do you have any proof at all?

Mrwhite09:
I do 7-7 carrying blocks everyday

Na lie I no believe you

No be even aje be the problem the guy naturally just no like anything work at all, no one drop of hustling spirit in him.

Na him nature be that.

A pregnant woman in hijab dey work the work too the same 8 hours.

Write ups don’t always convey the entire nature and emotions or circumstances of a message or situation.

The job involves standing in front of a machine that shoots out clothes into a box your job is to close the box when it is full and push the box forward a little and the machine will move the box somewhere else.

You get paid a little over $120 per day for doing this you get 3 breaks 15 minutes, 30 minutes and another 15 minutes break. You get paid for both 15 minutes break but not the 30 minutes break. So… people do much laborious jobs all over the world and even here too and get paid same amount or much less.

So the way it was easy to me I was surprised to hear someone else say the job hard, but it’s understandable like I said he doesn’t have the same hustling spirit and he is visibly over weight and probably his upbringing too. So those play huge roles.

I’m not castigating him I’m just shocked that a man will consider such a job difficult when old women and pregnant women full here enjoying the job

I just realized again just how different people are.

2 hours ago I sent my ex a message about how she would have loved this job I found, it was the easiest job I had ever done in my life.

2 hours after sending this message this Nigerian guy comes to me telling me how stressful the job is, I was shocked then it dawned on me.

Na ajebo and he is fat on top.
Aje butter dey grade by grade me too I am an aje but my own grade has seen some level of hardship so I know what it is to be poor and what it is to be rich so I have both perspectives.

But this guy probably has never worked a day in his life back home in Naija and this probably is his first and only job he has ever done and as a result of you ask him he will tell you the job is stressful.

The same job that one Indian girl is doing 15 hours shift daily and one man does 20 hour shifts on some days. Is what the boy just 5 hours with 2 breaks he is complaining.

The job is watching boxes get filled up and when it is full you close the box and push it to the rollers.

If someone asks this guy about abroad and working and all that he will probably tell you it is hell don’t do it.

If some asks me I will probably tell you it is heaven do it 🤣

So long story short, na you know your body what is good for me may not be good for you and what is easy to me may not be easy for you.

So all those saying Nigeria is bad or good or abroad is bad or good the moral of this story is ‘IT DEPENDS on you’

Rt

lomprico:
Must he recoup his capital under few years?

Must your father get paid his salary in full?

Investors need return on investments?
People who gave Dangote loan need the loans paid back + interest?
Don’t you know he has workers to pay salary?

Politicians too LOVE themselves they aren’t tribalistic at all.

See how he is trying to protect the interest of the late senators family even though they are off different tribes but later they will tell you tribe A vs Tribe B when in reality it is ruling class vs the masses

astute28:
Wetin you dey do wey make u see 10m continue doing am

You know whether na dash dem dash am, you know whether na pick him pick am?

Some things in life don’t come by twice.

If too say him know him for remain for him UAE oh

When the wife finishes her program she joins him he would still be alive today.

Tell his friends or people who knew him in UAE that he was killed for the sum of 39 Dirhams or 10 US dollars and they will not believe

Abroad better pass Naija abeg how many other countries in the world can you pay someone $10 to kill a full grown human being??

Not $100 not $1,000 but $10

SMH

Send Aza make I pay my own 😌

Kobojunkie:
Intentions of creating jobs? Or going in with some sort of savior complex— thinking you can make all of the problems disappear if you only gave some people work?

I watched a video some days ago where Isaac Fayose told of how he invested Naira 50 million of his money into a business of his. He created jobs as you suggested but guess what? That business was run down in just a matter of months. Great business plan, and an excellent location as well, but unfortunately, he had Nigerians working for him, and they, according to him, ate up the business before it could even take off, and it is not for him not trying his best to make certain it worked. 🤔

That’s true I also saw part of that video and it’s true,
I have many similar experiences of family members with similar stories an uncle of mine who is late now he used to have a fairly large poultry the guys managing it always told him the birds aren’t laying
When he retired he started living in the farmhouse and suddenly the chickens were laying more eggs than ever before 🤣 but still he caught several workers stealing the eggs but they no longer had freedom to steal as much as they used to steal before.

my mom had a small farm she paid had someone looking after it the same issue the guy would harvest the plantains and claim this year was bad year for plantains or someone jumped the fence and stole it when he was not around meanwhile he has cooked them.

A friend of mine who owned a small shop his worker used to steal the fuel he bought and did not use to remit all the money it was when he put his mom in charge she caught the boy.

I’ve also seen videos of a madam and her sales girl online where they went to the girls house and saw she had stolen shoes, bags, slippers, clothes etc from the shop and some where with her some she “dashed” her sister. The madam told her to demonstrate how she used to steal from the shop.

It is your comment that refreshed my mind to all these things, bro you are very right there are many more I don’t have time and space to type her Uber and bus, the guy claimed he wasn’t working for 3 days now because he was sick or something only for him to have accident and that was how madam owner of bus found out he had been working all these while and he wasn’t sick he then lied that he needed the money for his pregnant wife and mothers burial only for the madam who is a police officer to call police in the area who confirmed after holding the bus drivers brother that the mother had died loooooong ago and was already buried and the wife wasn’t pregnant. By the way the madam had to repair the bus because the driver had no money at all allegedly, he was willing to sleep in cell rather than pay money for repairs or remit the money for the 3 days he was working and claiming to be too sick to drive.

And imagine all these stories are of people who are in the same country and state as the business yet they are reaping them imagine aid they were abroad 🤣 the workers will eat everything run it down 💯

OkanlawonB:
If you find yourself abroad, especially in one of the Western countries, one of your

priorities should be to obtain the citizenship of your host country.


With your dual natiionality at hand, relocating back to Nigeria should not Pose any

challenge to you.

For financial security at home invest only in low risk, low returns sector like

landed properties.

True

Pentagon007:
It will be a very costly mistake for anyone to come back to Nigeria from wherever you are. From those that i have come across, they mostly regret it. One of my close relation who came back from just Gabon after spending many years there and persistent callings from family to come back. 15 years later, he is still regretting making that move to come back to Nigeria. It will be a situation of loss and no gain whatsoever.
Before you come back, ask yourself - what are you coming back to? Even from the daily news you get from Nigeria is enough intel to tell you whats up.

My final advice: if you are based anywhere outside Nigeria, Never come back!!! At least not for now. Its a DEAD country and will remain so for a very long time to come.

Wow 15 years later 😮 🙆🏾‍♂️
See hooge mistake wey person dey regret for 15 years
No be small thing oh
It reminds me of that one tv show in Nigeria were one of the characters who is a mechanic usually says “I miss abroad” whenever Nigeria happens to him or someone else, he will immediately have flashback of his time abroad and shake his head in pity and say “I miss abroad”. Kate henshaw was in the show as a restaurant owner.

Back to the matter you know what makes what you just typed even more pitiful? Nigeria has only gotten worse in those 15 years oh.

So if the guy was hoping “e go better” in year 1, year 2, year 3 till 10 then 15 omo I can’t imagine how he is feeling now.

Another thing is people who could have afforded to japa with ease just 2 years ago, will need to struggle to japa today and people who would japa with ease 15 years ago in 2009 when 1 U.S dollar was only 154 Naira will not be able to japa at all today that 1 dollar is 1,641 naira

Everything you typed is on point.

All the news about Nigeria are Negative even today the Children held in police cell for 90 days and told to bring 10million naira each for bail with 2 sureties of grade level 15 in civil service with employment letter and last promotion letter and a family member. To the black out in the North for weeks abi months because allegedly terr*rists blew the transmission lines and are stopping the Nepa officials from going to fix it, to fuel price hike and even though Dangote has fuel Ipman and govmt are refusing to buy from him , Naira devaluation, police accidentally crushing 35 year old woman to de.ath etc. etc.

All bad news the sad part and the reason for this thread is some times people forget why they left in the first place, they forget what their life’s were on day to day basis they get used to the 24/7 electricity, getting paid salary on time every week or every 2 weeks, they get used to good roads, good security, clean environment, job availability abroad and mistakenly think “well life will be the same in Naija as it is abroad but with family & friends & good weather.

When they start thinking of Nigeria they have nostalgia they only remember “good times” parties, clubbing, family, friends, food, entertainment they forget every other thing I listed earlier, the power failure, insecurity, the police check points and bribery, the fact that it takes years to get a job. The sachet water wrappers, plastic bags and dirt everywhere, people throwing refuse in the drainage and the sides and center of the roads, the traffic, the heat, election violence etc.

Add to the fact that some in Nigeria will say leave that dish washing job, that cleaning old people yansh that pays you 11pounds an hour for 20 or 40 hours a week = £440 (938,000 naira a week) (with all the infrastructure safety and amenities the UK or similar countries have) come and be a manager of a bank for 300,000 a month you will not do anything just sit in the office and people will worship you.

Some Nigerians abroad when they face one or two challenges (weather, lack of social life or man and woman) will start to fall for it.


Will you rather have social life & “good weather” and be able to save between 0 - 50,000naira every month from your 300,000 monthly salary if you even see work that will pay you 300,000 per month or sacrifice that social life small, endure the cold weather and have the opportunity to be able to save one week salary or half of one week salary of £200-£440 (420,000naira to 940,000naira) every month out of your monthly salary for those who work full time.

ednut1:
Nigeria is hard business wise. Without government patronage , connect or contracts you will likely fail. During Yardua presidency many Nigerians came back from abroad. They have all mostly returned after 9ja shower them shege

People came back to Naija during Ya’adua time? I wasn’t aware oh

ednut1:
Nigeria is hard business wise. Without government patronage , connect or contracts you will likely fail. During Yardua presidency many Nigerians came back from abroad. They have all mostly returned after 9ja shower them shege

I know bro, I told someone I wanted to buy a rental property for 10m some small apartments but the rent yearly I will receive was 180,000 to 200,000 per year

Which will mean it will take me 50 years to get back my 10,000,000 naira I put into the house

Not only that the 200,000 naira will not be enough to do anything significant in my life, in the international market that 200,000naira is $121 today not enough to pay my one months rent abroad. Not enough for anything

I have thought of so many investments in Nigeria but all of them are loss making ventures.

Another problem is the devaluation of the naira, if you invest $10,000 in Nigeria let’s assume you get 100,000 naira weekly or monthly from the business assuming that 100,000 naira is $100 today by next tomorrow it will be $98 four days from today it will be $80 3 weeks from today it would be $50

So the money you make in Nigeria just keeps losing value due to no fault of yours.


And we haven’t even touched on people ripping you off if you aren’t present in the country to watch/oversee your business yourself


I think the best approach would be move to Nigeria yourself and invest or find someone you can absolutely trust to carry on the business otherwise don’t invest

Emmanuel909090:
It's all about lack of proper planning.

If you plan to return, you should also plan a sustainable business or project that will sustain you.

Don't come back here hoping to get a job.

This is a very good point, I share the same views.
Don’t return to Nigeria hoping to get a job but return with the intention of creating jobs.

I feel like people aren’t being entirely truthful, there is a bit of ‘Survivor bias’ when it comes to stories of all kinds in Nigeria.

Stories of people wey make am always tend to trend more and get regurgitated like it’s the story of the majority.

Whereas the stories of those who failed to make it never get out, most times they never even get told at all. Because the people themselves are ashamed to tell it and we as Nigerians our culture of “God forbid, Not my portion” “if you listen to that you may become it” over spirituality doesn’t help at all.

And as a result I decided to start this thread.

Also because I know 2 people who have confided in me and told me, “I regret coming back to Nigeria”.

One was lured by “well wishers” who assured him he will be a big boy in Nigeria with his foreign degree, he will earn millions as a foreign trained doctor in the best private hospitals in Nigeria and especially due to the situation of things where he was at the time he obliged and returned he has been in Nigeria for 2 years now him and his foreign degree have been unable to find a job.

A second guy has a similar story, he was working menial jobs abroad but was able to pay his bills and have little saved up he returned to Nigeria and has been struggling to make ends meet.

People were quick to tell them “Come back, you dey there dey suffer when you suppose to they enjoy here”,
Girls in Nigeria where throwing themselves at them based on the pictures and knowledge that they are abroad always asking “when are you coming back” “I miss you”, “I will like to see you” but immediately they returned that attraction faded away quickly.

So if you have a similar story or even good story please share it. For us all to learn and be entertained. Thank you.

Vicotex:
We were nonexistent long before we were self-aware, so whatever death is, we've been there before.
This tpain go end soon sha, that one dey certain for me once I enter Canada, insha'Allah!

Canada wey done dey reduce acceptance rate, where for Canada you wan come?

lol human life has lost its value in Nigeria
Everything has lost value

November and December left for 2024 to end and they are still talking about re-presenting a bill for 2024 budget no be mumu be that?
The court should realize that Time is essential in this matter.

Wike please leave sim alone to focus on Rivers state,
You focus on Abuja.

Everything that has a beginning has an end including your hold on Rivers state treasury.

The same coin you used to pay Amaechi
Is the same coin Sim Fubara is using to pay you just accept it and move on.

Eteka1:
Opobo Judas running mouth às usual

So Wike is your Ikwerre Jesus ?
Mumu don’t go and find food to eat.

If una japa tell me why that woman no go leave you?

Later you will see headline of videos titled “Don’t take your Nigerian wife/Nigerian woman abroad”

A man that has money and is educated still beats his wife in front of his kids, and the woman too educated career woman with kids still choping beating

Na wa oh

Marry for love una no go hear una say una wan marry based on age, tribe and money ok now continue

I don’t think a man who truly LOVES his wife, the mother of his children will beat her.

I also do not think a woman who LOVES her husband will want to see him suffer, insulted and ridiculed.

Love is a beautiful thing my friends not very many people find it if you have it congratulations cherish it and keep it.

If the world has 1 billion married people I can assure you only 1,000,000 of them have true love. The rest are pretenders disguising to be in love but time will eventually reveal the truth.

Good 5/6 of the South south states now pay over 70K as minimum wage,
The highest minimum wage paying region in Nigeria big ups

ItisWell22:
So they’re also busy converting the currency to its naira equivalent, like we do here.

Sapa, nice one.

This is where you understand the influence of mind conditioning (mindset of lack and that of abundance).

Some of us are so used to lack that even necessary things seem like wastefulness, and end up spending on actual wasteful things.

God bless you.
I told someone this the person was too foolish to understand what I was saying.

I said when I came abroad the way food was excess and cheap compared to the salary we earn I was scared to eat chicken bucket, chicken roast etc. 🤣 my Naija conditioning and upbringing kept telling me this chicken suppose be Wetin full family go chop.

Oyinbo people will eat chicken, only chicken and maybe one small side dish as dinner me it took me a while to get over the Naija mentality of lack.

My mum like most Naija moms will not give me 2 meats because that’s for their husbands the head of the house so imagine me eating 6-12 chicken laps alone omo it was not easy my mouth was enjoying it but my heart, my brain was telling me o boy you dey waste chicken go use this thing chop rice, save some for tomorrow 🤣