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THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME, BIAFRA?

The town of Biafara or Biafra comes up in a 1584 map by Abraham Ortelius from Antwerp in modern day Belgium where it is shown to be located on the south bank (some later descriptions say north) of the 'Camarones River'.

This 1584 edition of an atlas by Ortelius is considered as the first proper atlas, depicting Africa with inland towns named. The Camarones River where Cameroon gets its name (from the Portuguese word for prawns), is known today as the Wouri River.

The Portuguese navigator and explorer, Fernão do Pó, whose name was given to Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, was the first European up the river in 1472. It was from a town identified as 'Biafra' or 'Biafara' on the river in the area east of the Benin Empire. Later on, the coast of these areas were known as the Bight of Biafra.

Biafra was described as the capital of a kingdom with the same name and this town continued to show up on maps in the same location on the same river. This kingdom, however, does not seem to exist today; if these maps are correct in terms of the location of this town, 'Biafra' would be somewhere near the Cameroonian town of Yabassi today, which is also on the Wouri River.

Certainly, 'Biafra' would be in the Nkam department of the Littoral Province in Cameroon, which is where Yabassi is today, which is also the Cameroonian department that the Wouri runs through.

The exact location of the town, or wether this town existed or not, has not been ascertained, it could be that the town and kingdom were completely made up or was an amalgam of various kingdoms such as the kingdom of Bamum and other territories. In any case, the town and 'kingdom' of Biafra was removed from maps in the 19th century. #HistoryVille

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That's true Mr president.




APC is stronger than before.



Thanks to Osho Baba

PrecisionFx:
Look at this one

Have u ever seen any Igbo man forcing or begging igbos to vote for anyone

As a people we take decisions on an individual basis and no one can ever influence us.

We decided on a personal level to be PDP n that's democracy.

At the bolded, yes you castigate and call anyone from your tribe disgusting names whenever they try to support another party aside from PDP.


Take OKorocha for example you don't like him because he is in APC.

The complete down fall of PDP is after the primaries.




I already prophesized it earlier.

PrecisionFx:
Are u that silly?

I am serious about the question.



How can a whole tribe support a single party as you stated.


Does that sound Democratic or political wise to you?

PrecisionFx:
No, U fail to see the real picture.

Igbos (The whole eastern nigeria) are United beyond measure, Thats why we are the only people in Nigeria to vote the same political party from 1999 till date.


IF POLITICS CAN'T DISUNITE US, NOTHING WILL.

Do you even know the meaning of democracy and politics

gen2lpat:
I keep saying it, the problem with some people is that they feel so comfortable with one source of income. Why? Ever since I got my job (started with 30k) back in 2013, I started looking for an alternative source of income until I found one in 2016. FREELANCING. Domain flipping is like an investment where the returns is uncertain. I suggest you start with Vanzal and Beatzone fiverr thread here on Nairaland.

If can be thinking of resigning come December this year, then trust me when I tell you that freelancing is one of many sure ways to make money online. I do hope you consider this. Good luck

Can you share the thread for me pls.

Will like to engage on it.

PrecisionFx:
We won't join hands n work for apc

That's the problem with your people always playing one party system.

Benekruku:
Yinmu


Comparing Roman Emperor to Russia


Like you don't know what Atomic bombs can do. Russia would turn Israel to dust in less than 1 minute excluding Nuclear missile flight time

You dey mind that Mumu.


Religion had blocked his thinking faculty.

Sharpshooota:
Lifeless defenders of corruption incorporated

Whatever

God bless PMB



Sai Baba

Tolexander:
The whereabouts is a misery no one has been able to unravel online

I will try my possible best to dig her whereabouts



She really made my childhood an interesting one.


Her songs is all about uniting the nation.

She sang in Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo not all singers can be that talented

resurgent2019:
What bigotry?

I am tired of correcting you lots.

Believe whatever you wanna believe about me.

Then why do you hate Islam and Igbo's.


Just give me a reasonable reason.

Tolexander:
Sorry bro.

Many people don't know about her whereabouts for now. Not even the music producer of the album in 1989

So sad.

Governor Bindow pick his nomination form, few days after Aisha Buhari younger brother Mahmud Halilu picked his Gubernatorial nomination form.


Lalasticlala

Mynd44

Ryott:
Funmi Adams!!!

Hahanye yaro, Nigeria my beloved country, ina gizo ya ke e.t.c

Do you have any information about her now?

youngest85:
Comfort omoge

No Funmi Adams

Pls i need current information about this woman

She was a singer in the 80's/90's

Why are blacks this savage?




What will it profit a man to kill a fellow man just to make money.

May God protect us from evil people.

SW is leading

resurgent2019:
Dafuq is he talking about?

You should stop bigotry

deomelo:
According to the Nigerian constitution (Not ipob constitution), na who get more votes dey win election


We don't and won't hand you Aso Rock on a platter of gold just because you are ipobs.

Go out there and start loving your countrymen, start reaching out, start forming alliances with other regions, stop hating, stop tribalism, bitterness, bigotry and anti Nigerian way of life.

I am not IPOB

Fariq:
Ran maza yabaci. Beji ance northeast ba.

Hahaha ba haka bane fa. Ni fa ko Atiku ya fito as flag bearer Buhari zan zaba.

But what that guy said is irrational

Fashola i just like the man

Hmmmmm everyone wants to join politics

resurgent2019:
Igbos can do whatever they deem fit. But the final decision rests with Nigerians.

Personally, I feel the solution to igbo political wilderness is the restructuring of Nigeria.

Nigerians can’t vote igbo. Not that I hate the igbos but I shudder at the kind of thing that my tribe (yoruba) will face under an igbo President. We faced hell under Good luck Jonathan who wasn’t igbo let alone what will be faced under an Igbo President.

You igbos destroyed Jonathan’s Presidency by looting the commonwealth of Nigerians and you sacked Yorubas wherever they were found in the civil service. It was under Jonathan that igbos reminded Yorubas of the events of the civil war—an episode the present generation of Yorubas were unaware of. Apparently, igbo parents were inculcating hatred of the Yorubas into their children, and it took the presidency of an ijaw man to unleash the monster of hatred resident in igbo hearts.

It was also under Jonathan that so many Yorubas were radicalized upon finding out that our igbo neighbors and guests hated us with a passion. Now tell me, if you were yoruba, would you vote an Igbo President?

Under an igbo President, igbos might finally wage that long wanted warfare against the Yorubas, their southern nemesis.

I am not Igbo.

I am a Nigerian

resurgent2019:
Cc: CSTR & Precisionfx

No be me Talk am ooo. Na fellow Nigerian Talk am.

Why are you trolling on Igbo's.



If Igbo's vote APC in mass then i promise them they will clinch the presidential ticket come 2023.


They should just join hands and work for APC

thegoodone1234:
forget tribalism. he said the true. only north west and south west that have the number.

So because NW and SW get the number they should be ruling Nigeria till eternity right?

henchamb:
Atiku will receive same reply by next month
Infact pdp convention
Secondus to Atiku, go to USA first before you talk to me.
Secondus to saraki, you want to spread kwara poverty
Secondus to red cap, you have no electoral value
Secondus to mark, go and retire
Secondus to jang, go and baff, you look dirty
Secondus to turaki, you cant win your ward
Secondus to Ahmed, go back to your baze university

Are you trying to tell me that Tambuwal will win the primaries

Noel1:
You meant you were driving in your dream?

That's a good dream...

It was reality, it surprised me also.


I thought i was going insane or paranormal, until i googled it then i saw that it is a normal occurrences it happened to a lot of people.

Sleeping while i was driving, i don't know how it happened, i just found myself sleeping.



Thank God

zinnyzee:
Ivy league indeed.



I love my UDUSOK like that.

That one na school



Sokoto fa kikace