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If you've not read the report on the 2014 confab on restructuring that is yet to be implemented, you can follow the link to download the pdf format of the document. It's 898 in pages and contains very detailed explanation on how every region should operate. It also includes the idea of a restructured supreme Court. Download and read


https://media.premiumtimesng.com/national-conference/wp-content/uploads/National-Conference-2014-Report-August-2014-Table-of-Contents-Chapters-1-7.pdf

If another civil war should happen, it will be a confused war.

Shia vs sunnin

Christians vs Muslims

Fulanis vs Yorubas


Igbo people reaction when they are asked to join the war...

That's how my uncle's stubborn wife died. She allowed her pastor fill her head up with that Hebrew woman nonsense. Woman refused to be operated on. Shebi the guy don marry another wife now.

Morenikeji070:
Lol liar there is south south.....

Look at the cardinal points properly and answer this question. Between akwa ibom and enugu, which state deserves to be called SE?

everything is just political divide. There's no such thing as SS, it's just created to weaken the igbos and the old Eastern region.

Why don't we have NORTH NORTH or EAST EAST or WEST WEST? Why must it be only south south, oga reason with your brain.

Buhari looking at the protesters....

Me looking for the mission

The dullard in chief should be setting examples

SUPERPACK:
christian terrorist

Yes, Miyetti oluwa

SYRIAN MOSQUE in Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria

what the fúck is that?

Popular political Twitter enthusiast chxta is from anioma and he tweeted something not so long ago

Abokis can loot ehn. Central Bank of babariga

It's always meaningless things like these our youth chose to engage themselves. Currently, Kenya has the bragging rights. Kano state alone has more poor people than Kenya as a country.

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Lalasticlala mynd44 your attention is needed here.

All y'all that don't know your history, your minds must be fed.

It's woke season people.

Twitter user @billachusim drops a very insightful thread about how the name NIGERIA came to be. He learnt this from an American professor of African history on board a flight. He started the thread by tweeting..

If you want to know about Royal Niger Company, then you have to go way back to the beginning of how Nigeria got her name as Nigeria.

Hint: it's not "Niger-Area"

A THREAD!

The thread rolls down below. Drop your comments on your take.





https://twitter.com/BillAchusim/status/1154792945452748800?s=19

Is it not the responsibility of the FG to fix the runway. Why didn't they close Abuja Airport, why did they fix it?
Anti igbo sentiment kill una dia

jlinkd78:
Truly divide and rule has been age long

It has always been a British tool. I like what they are going through in Europe in the hands of Germany.

Ugosample:
the day the founding fathers agreed to our declaration of independence
That was the day the "white man" was absolved of blame.

black folks are good at blaming others for their failures

Nigeria and indeed Africa failed because Africans failed it

the foreign piwres only helped us to destroy ourselves further


someone up there was talking biafra

was that not also a creation of some man?

But zik, awo and Co are not our founding fathers. They were children as at 1914.

By Cheta Nwanze

The history of palm oil production is a good way into the story about the founding of what became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later.

By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo, became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With wealth comes influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie (1846 – 1925) formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modeled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the British got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organization’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to “The National Africa Company” and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorized the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was “Royal Niger Company,” which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind the scenes, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, who’s king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, and like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the the Royal Nigeria Company, and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun.

By 1894 the the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets.

In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity, and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Beford attacked Brass, and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £26,825 in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£10,730 today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly under way.

The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£46,407,250 today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN12,550,427,783.81 at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria.

https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/historyclass-who-sold-nigeria-to-the-british-for-865k-in-1899

Mods will never take topics like this to FP, they prefer threads that don't open the Nigerian minds.

Cc lalasticlala mynd44

See also.. Who Sold Nigeria To The British For £865k In 1899 https://www.nairaland.com/5323631/sold-nigeria-british-865k-1899

These are the kind of issues youths are suppose to discuss

Royal Niger company is now trending on twitter and is seems Nigerians are not really aware that their country was bought in business deal. The tweet started trending after people listened to Burna boy's song ANOTHER STORY, in his recently released album.

The intro of the song gave a brief history on how Nigeria as a country was bought by the British via a company called Royal Niger Campany , and that company is today regarded as UNILEVER.

Reactions from twitter follows

RealLordZeus:
Seems u have comprehension issue or u forgot to reason properly before replying

I'm being specific here
Anyway! If u are an Atheist or a Christian, Y can't you be so in peace. Y insulting others coz of their faith. Hardly will you come across a Muslim post insulting a Christian or their faith yet they are being tagged as the intolerant ones.
Are u seriously okay, Does being a Christian or an Atheist made someone to be abusive.
I will be glad if u can spare me of your mentions coz I don't like joining issues with ppl like. Thanks in advance

And I maintain my stance. YOU ARE

RealLordZeus:
Despite making an abusive post, the guy gave u an intellectual reply but u still went ahead and call him stupid, pls reason well and reply who is "very stupid" between both of u!

You i guess

Bragalane:
Another thread 4 foolish tribe of lost jew to wail on

Y'all deserve the killings you are getting in the SW. I hope they move swiftly and establish their Emirates on time.