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Now you want to waste your parents efforts in sending you to school by joining the Nigerian army infested with Boko Haram members; and become a sacrificial lamb for the propagation of "Sharia rule" in the whole of Nigerian

It's either you are frustrated due to unemployment, you want to commit suicide without the courage to do it yourself or someone has taken your matter to your "village people" deliberate on.

In all of this, all I can do is to give you my "RIP" in advance and say my "take heart" to your poor parents who would be grieving very soon because of your decision to waste your life joining the Nigerian Army.

This proves that UGM are not Easterners. The government has failed in providing security for citizens.

Very soon now we will hear that UGM are from the middle belt because there is a prison break and killing of security personnel there

It's either the UGM are known to the government or they are being allowed to operate freely in order to blame residents of affected areas of carrying out the attacks.

Facts!!!

Not trying to defend any ethic group but most fraud in the US has been committed by yoruba's... Our ibo brothers are more focused on their agitation right now from the look of things.
Just my opinion.

Fake News!!;

Fake News!!!

Shame on all of you selfish brates... If it's a woman now he will find the money Sharp sharp... A man that has spent his entire life slaving for you to be somebody...
Let me tell you what I'll do- I'll make it a million so he can offset the other loans and have the 500k to trade with... Whether he can pay or not. As my way to say a little thank you for his love and support through the years.

IGBO SLAVES AMONG THE ITSEKIRI?

According to the British historian P. C. Lloyd in his paper, "The Itsekiri in the Nineteenth Century: An Outline Social History":

Lloyd wrote: "A further change in Itsekiri social structure during the century was the development of domestic slavery. At the turn of the century the king held a large number of slaves, but the number owned by the chiefs is not known. The kingdom must have exported at least a thousand slaves annually. But with the decline of the slave trade, the supply did not cease, and slaves were integrated into the Itsekiri economy. Thus of Jakpa's 5000 people, Burton estimated that 600 - 700 were slaves of Diare. Olomu's slaves were variously numbered at 1000, 3000 and 4000.

"The slaves were never Itsekiri, rarely Ijoh. Most were Urhobo, often being men and women expelled from their communities for serious offences and sold in the riverside markets. Some were given to the Itsekiri as pledges for debts. The Itsekiri usually equate the price of a slave with a puncheon of oil. They assert that they never went to a war to capture slaves, though a favourite method of settling a debt or a quarrel was to seize a man's slaves. Other slaves came through the trade routes from Benin and Yoruba country where they had been captured in inter-tribal wars. Nana's most senior slaves were Ologun, a Yoruba, and Sagay, a Benin."

*Sagay is very clearly a corruption of the Bini name Osagie.

So there you have it. Itsekiri's slaves came primarily from the Urhobo; secondarily from the Yoruba and the Bini; and sometimes (though rarely) from the Ijọ. These are the people in the same geographical area as the Itsekiri and the people with whom they were involved in regular interactions. But our Itsekiri friend went over the heads of his neighbours to look for slaves among the Igbos located farther away.

So some days ago, an Itsekiri fellow on Facebook made the interesting claim that his people had many (emphasis on 'many') Igbo slaves. He went further to say that some of the descendants of these Igbo slaves still live in Delta State, and speak a hybrid language which he refused to mention. In the interest of intellectual discourse he probably should have mentioned it, and given interested parties the opportunity to verify or debunk the claims.

I was going to just laugh at the story and go on with my business, but I realized there are Igbo people who may not be informed enough to see that this man lied through his teeth, hence my decision to talk about it here.

By N. C Nnajide.
Good morning. ☕

Found this and other historical works in this same school of thought.