₦airaland Forum

Jub101:
When it comes to sheep farming your feeding operation takes up to 70% of the whole venture followed by house management, deworming regime and use of salt lick. Also early detection of diesease before outbreak will definitively help you prosper in this venture.

Jub101:
I mainly use lablab for my legumes. I Have tried other legumes but due to its vigorous growth and it’s drought resistance I prefer it

Golan007:
Oga, don't use it when implemented.

gabbyfarms:
You can grow stevia in a container for home use, we have the seedling in abundance.

mokinde:
Beware of puk number
Beware of 3 failed attempt
Beware of misplaced phone with the intention to return it and itrequested pin to power it on after low battey

GUNITGuy:
#saynotoanimalcruelty
why shoot the innocent dog
the security man should be charged for the crime under our extant law as stated in the Nigeria Animal Right Act of the 99 constitution as amended

It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in the course of time and generations – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie and brazen propaganda, institutionally purveyed (against the Igbo) since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the Atlantic Ocean.

Just recently, this vexatious lie became predominant in the wake of the ethnic baiting of Igbos in Lagos following the dubious 2023 presidential and governorship elections. Igbo, a merchant race, is being taunted again and told to leave Lagos and its seaports and go back to their ‘landlocked’ homeland. In other words, Igbos are being told that they are trapped in Nigeria as if Nigeria is one hellish jail for the Igbo.

The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to rebut this fat lie with some simple historical, geographical and topographical evidence that are in plain view, if you care to dig into the archives or conduct some basic physical explorations of your own. In the same vein, those that mock the Igbo on this account might as well imbibe the truth and pedal back to reason and reality.

Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-civil war Igbos never bothered to check but seemingly swallowed this brazen institutional falsehood, line, hook and sinker. They never reckoned that it is aimed at frustrating the merchant spirit of the Igbo. A few older Igbos that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore, having been weighed down by the debacle of the civil war fought by their generation.

What also unwittingly enabled this lie to persist to this day is that most people don’t take physical geography (or even adventure) that seriously anymore, otherwise they would have easily discovered that Abia, Imo and Anambra states have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic through Imo, Azumiri, Niger and Urashi Rivers. Igbani island, a diaspora Igbo enclave, corrupted to Bonny by the British, is unarguable.

It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read Google Earth or you conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot. If you try, you will discover that there are many hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Urashi rivers (at Oseakwa, Anambra state) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the south-eastern beginnings of the Atlantic waterfront or beachhead.

These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic and in some cases, are far shorter, nautically (and even on footpath) than the Port Harcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their sides of the Atlantic. Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri Rivers, terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 nautical miles to the beachhead. [/b]To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometres. So, all you need is some old-fashioned dredging that the colonialists did without a whimper generations ago. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

[b]Thus, the contiguity of south-east (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is nautically less in distance than the Atlantic is to the dredged seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Port Harcourt. If you discount the territories unfairly excised from Igboland during states creation and the damnable boundary adjustments that followed, it will be far less.

During his tenure as governor of Imo state, Dr Ikedi Ohakim singularly did so much to spotlight this matter in a bid to galvanise the federal authorities to build a seaport that abuts core Igboland. For the avoidance of doubt, seaports are in the exclusive legislative list of the constitution and therefore outside the legislative reach of the states.

To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Port Harcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was partially dredged some 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaport dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic. This is not to say that some dredging was not easier or harder than the other.

Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia state, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri Rivers, of which Azumiri, on its separate merits, lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront. The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa (Urashi) in Ihiala, Anambra state which is mere 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, arguably incomparable to no other River in Nigeria.

Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and is constitutionally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, William Balfour Baikie – one of the earliest and most credible geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say: “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north it borders on Igara, Igala and A’kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race.” If you’re in doubt, google it.

But with that infamous post-war abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in the subsequent boundary adjustments, coupled with the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically (and even psychologically) lost geopolitical hold of the delta lands that had vested in their ancestors for generations. It was such natural contiguity of Igboland to the Atlantic that enabled Igbo ancestors to behold the Atlantic Ocean and, in wonderment, they named it Oshimiri – The Great Sea or the Infinite Sea.

The post-civil war psychological beat-down and gang-up against the Igbo got so bad and institutionalised to the extent that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now geopolitically lying outside south-east) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not. This is how the notion of Igboland being landlocked quickly gained traction and became a weapon used to mock Ndigbo and down their merchant spirit.


The most brazen injustice was in 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a deliberate business of carving out some core Igboland territories into some neighbouring states of the south-south. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They (luckily for the Igbo) missed the southernmost south-east lands that possess rivers and tributaries that meandered through slices of Igboid or Igbo-speaking south-south territories and terminated at the Atlantic.

For the avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia state) that flows through greater Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom state (which has slices of Igbo communities) before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. You can also reckon with the River Niger which remotely washed into the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored delta creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Biafra, now officially corrupted to Bight of Bonny (that is: Igbani), after the Civil War. To be sure, Igbani or Bonny is Igbo, whether you deny it or not.

On a side note and in conclusion, it is pertinent to make it crystal clear that the persistent taunts, mockery and ‘ntoor’ that Ndigbo are hopelessly trapped in Nigeria because their native land is landlocked (Buhari called it a ‘dot’), coupled with the misguided refusal to build a seaport into core Igboland are some of the major factors that have justifiably agitated the average Igbo to the point of seeking an alternative to Nigeria.

Ejimakor, a lawyer writes from Alaigbo. He can be reached via aejimakor@gmail.com

Views expressed by contributors are strictly personal and not of TheCable.

Eviana:
My "no-nonsense/trouble" attitude...lol.
Not trying to be rude, or nasty.
You know it sometimes becomes necessary to use wisdom when deciding to engage in certain things and other things not so much.

He absolutely knows that the God of Abraham gives mankind nothing but "free-will" based out of nothing but pure love. Mr. Phoenix just wants to be an agitator.
So it then becomes my decision on how I want to respond.
He's on my prayer list though....as well as for individual hearts of Nigerians to surrender & return to the Lord.
You will make a difference, the Lord willing, if you honor and keep Him first.

Nigerians have been advised by Police to activate locks on their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards.

Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin gave the advice in a Twitter post after the arrest of a syndicate.

The spokesperson revealed that members of the syndicate pick phones and discard them after removing SIM cards.

With the stolen SIM cards, they use bank USSD to buy airtime as it usually does not require PIN.

Hundeyin said the criminals proceed to empty their victim’s account one way or the other after gaining access.

“The only SIM cards the syndicate never succeeded with were ones with SIM lock. Activate your SIM lock today,” he urged.

There’s a sharp increase in unauthorised transfers and bills payments causing banks to issue reminders to customers on how to safeguard their accounts.

oluseyiforjesus:
Could it be true that all Israelites will make heaven?
Father forgive them for they knw not wat they are doing...

ALBAWABA - As Palm Sunday and Easter are around the corner, two Israeli Knesset members proposed a bill to outlaw talk about Jesus.

Under the new bill, if approved, people who talk about Jesus in Israel could face jail, All Israel News reported on Sunday.

The new bill was widely criticized by Christians and human rights activists who described it as "anti-religious tolerance" and "Sick in the head."

Some advocates said that this bill could further anger people in Israel who are already protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government due to its controversial plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system.

Furthermore, the Israeli outlet said that the new proposed bill could create a crack in the relationship between the United States and Israel.

A social media user criticized Israeli Knesset members for sharing a bill to outlaw talk about the Gospel mentioning the fact that Jesus was born and raised in the holy land.

Aquadude16:
New year, new blessing

Jub101:
Napier grass

jeromestarks:
Forget long story.

Assuming you met two ladies (Sera and Christy) who both have good characters that suit you but Sera is a virgin while Christy has been fvcked, fingered, licked and mounted by many men.
Who would you use your hard-earned money to pay her bride price?

Crucialgem:
Well it could be the mixture of both when i was in varsity i stayed in the school hostel throughout so i wasn't expose to the outside world because everything i want is between the four walls of my school that time. I didn't even used to think of girls or sex much, maybe sometimes when i leave my room to read in the midnight and i see love birds hanging around the dark corners of some buildings i begin to wonder what they were doing

I thought i would still have that self control when i finished school and started living alone. Hmm there is this carefree girl in the same compound that will come to the window of my room to dress up purposely, because i was sure she has mirrow in her room. Hmmm when temptation was becoming too high she started entering my room to watch movie she has big boobs and it was a point of attraction for me i couldn't resist one particular night she slept on my bed under the pretence of not feeling fine i knew something was fishy about the whole thing but as a virgin that has been expose to things online i couldn't resist the urge it was too overwhelming i moved closer to her and touched her and started kissing her and she didnt protest hmmmmm na so comrade fall for temptation and end up loosing my virginity

Dammy wherever you her i have not forgiven you ooo😞😞😞😞.

That time i was working from home and i was always at home then she kept on coming and coming. It was only when she left the house i realize what i have been doing

jeromestarks:
Men are able to reason outside their emotions. Women can't.
Once you are the first to enter the pvssy of a woman, she's bound to you.
Her body will be at default to yours.
Her body controls her emotions.
Her emotions controls her actions.

Get her emotionally and she will use her witchcraft to help you not to destroy you.
You think the hymen is there for decoration?

It is the gate to her life. Open the gate and all her blessings and glory will be yours.

Marry a non virgin and she will pack your blessings and glory to the first man who opened her gate of glory.

Be wise.
Once she's not a virgin, fvck her and let her go when you're tired of her overused pvssy.

Farmerakinloye6:
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Shine Bridge Global is a US-based food science and agribusiness company established in 2018 by Dr Tony Bello, a native of Nigeria. The company specialises in producing products made from cassava sourced in Nigeria. Bello recently spoke with Jeanette Clark about his plans to produce and sell food items made from Nigerian cassava in the US and other countries.


According to the latest report from research group IMARC, the global cassava starch market is projected to reach US$6.5 billion by 2028. Bello believes this number should be much higher and can be achieved by developing the right products to capture market share from potato-derived items.

Cassava, a root crop that looks like a large sweet potato, is one of the most widely grown agricultural commodities in Africa. The roots can be processed into a variety of products, including cassava flour, starch, ethanol and glucose syrup.

Bello, who was raised in Nigeria and now resides in the US, holds a doctorate in food science. He has previously worked as a food scientist for Frito-Lay and Kellogg before transitioning to the consulting side of the industry. In 2010, he assumed the position of CEO at Heritage Agro-Allied Foods Incorporated (H2A Foods), a food science technology company that focuses on creating opportunities for cassava smallholder farmers in Edo State, Nigeria.

In 2017, H2A Foods facilitated a loan from the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc.) for a group of smallholder farmers to develop their available land for cassava production. H2A Foods guaranteed to buy all the cassava they produced. It was during this time that Bello recognised the need for further development in the cassava value chain, as the existing market was still too limited. Consequently, Shine Bridge Global was established in 2018.


In recent years, Shine Bridge Global has focused on converting high-quality cassava flour (HQCF) into instant tapioca flakes. Tapioca is derived from the cassava root and the resulting flakes, according to Bello, have similar applications to potato flakes. Potato flakes are utilised as a food ingredient in the production of various commercially available items, such as pasta and snacks, as well as a thickener in gravies and desserts.

From idea to production
In 2018, the initial phase of developing and testing the tapioca flakes was conducted in the Netherlands, utilising cassava flour imported from Nigeria. Now that the product development has been completed, production will shift to a factory in New York. While the flakes will be processed in New York, the cassava flour used to create the flakes will continue to be sourced from Nigeria. The flakes will be branded as a Shine Bridge Global product and sold to companies that specialise in the production of consumer packaged foods.


Cassava flour preparation in Nigeria for processing into instant tapioca flakes.
The company is also busy developing a few other cassava-derived food products such as crackers, pizza crusts, ready-mix fufu, fried snacks and flatbreads – all using its tapioca flakes.

Shine Bridge Global has partnered with several cassava producers in Nigeria – specifically in Oyo, Ekiti, Edo and Enugu states – to ensure a sufficient supply of fresh cassava roots once full-scale production begins. These partners include H2A Foods, 365 Farms and Ocriv. In addition, Shine Bridge Global is in discussions with Nigerian companies that process the raw material into high-quality cassava flour including Aspuna, Niji Group and the Elephant Group.


The company aims to introduce both the tapioca flakes and final consumer packaged products to test markets in the US, UK and Nigeria within the next six months. Following this, it plans to gradually scale up production, selling to consumer packaged goods companies and marketers.

Regional expansion opportunities
Shine Bridge Global’s value chain development work is currently focused on Nigeria, but Bello has a wider vision for a continent-wide initiative. “Our primary targets will be the countries that produce cassava. In West Africa, this includes Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo,” he explains.

Rwanda, which sources some of its raw materials from Tanzania, is also emerging as a major player in the cassava market in East Africa. Shine Bridge Global is open to partnering with existing businesses in these countries.

“Commodities like potatoes are worth billions of US dollars when used in consumer packaged foods. We want to capture a share of that market and also improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and throughout Africa,” says Bello.

BigBrother9ja:
When this OLOSHO public commodity born?
Who be the father, abi na random sperm donor?


As a real Top- G and high value man, NOTHING in this life will make me feel comfortable birthing my children through someone that has been passed around like football by multiple men. No matter her status and beauty, GOD FORBID!
I could "mark" my own register with DOUBLE protection, but I'll make sure I don't plant any seed in her...



IF YOU WON'T LIKE TO HAVE A DAUGHTER LIKE HER, DON'T MARRY HER OR MAKE HER THE MOTHER OF YOUR CHILDREN.

Jub101:
25cm by 25cm double row

Jub101:
My ongoing dry season OKRO project. Planted on November 6. I planted it intentionally in the furrow for it retains water more than ontop of the ridges.

40Bullets:
It's Pa Elton sir..correct the title

Pa Elton’s prophecy Concerning Nigeria in 1986 Means there’s still hope for Nigeria
The nation of Nigeria is the most populous in Africa, with an estimated number of 201 million with a 2.6% annual growth rate since 2019.

The numbers do give a hint that Nigeria should be one of the top nations in the world because of its numerical advantage, especially when you compare her with nations like the United States of America (USA) and China, whose population is approximately 300 million and 1.3 billions people respectively.

Taking a walk down history lane, Nigeria gained independence in 1960 but had been a colony under the rule of the Britons from 1914.

However, long before Nigeria gained independence, in 1937, a young missionary – Sydney Granville Elton – who felt the burning passion of the Lord, left his home country, England, to come into Nigeria to fulfill his assignment.

History does have it Elton was an instrument used by God to spearhead various kinds of revival in Nigeria and was a father of faith to the ministers of God that were ever raised in Nigeria, the likes of Ayo Babalola, Benson Idahosa, E.A. Adeboye, W.F. Kumuyi e.t.c.

During the latter stages of Elton’s life, in 1986, he gave a prophecy concerning Nigeria, in which he said: “Nigeria and Nigerians will be known all over the world for corruption. Your name – Nigeria will stink for corruption but after a while, a new phase will come – a phase of righteousness. People from the nations of the earth will hold a Nigerian and say, ” We want to follow you to your nation to go and learn righteousness.’

One year after Elton gave this prophecy, he died. It has been over 30 years since Elton’s prophecy concerning Nigeria was spoken, but the situations in the nation have played out just as the prophetic words said they would.

Nigeria as a nation has been plagued with some negative happenstances, for example, corruption, money laundering, internet fraud, and scam, etc, and as a result, many nations do not want to be involved with Nigeria in business.

A careful look at Elton’s prophecy suggests that these all deal with the first phase of the statement, where Nigeria is deemed very corrupt. However, the second phase of the prophecy reveals that Nigeria will experience a drastic change, so convincing it will be that the nation will now be called ‘righteous”.

That is the phase we all still waiting for, and it is already beginning to happen, it is only a matter of time before it comes into full manifestation.