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It's confirmed. I called a contact there. The army has actually been shooting since morning.

Question: Why would a person give a knife to his "mentally ill" brother while in close quarters?

I wasn't there though, but I doubt that guy is mentally ill.

More insight is needed!

Unityroad:
Learn to read well before you type next time

The author did not specify where he wanted to buy the land. So the responder is still correct in assuming he is planning to buy it in Germany!

If you work strictly with the write-up of the author, without presumptions, you will see this!

- Seplat has built gas plant in Imo.
- Walter Smith Petroman has built a modular refinery in Imo
- Shell Gas Is building gas plant in Aba

See the trends.

CodeTemplar:
This looks 60 years late to me but better late than never. Some things are commonsense.

It’s not late at all.

Gas is the future of fossil fuels and for the south east, this means gas-to-power projects delivering electricity and enough gas for industrial applications. The rise of fast-paced manufacturing!

Even though one may want to reference the energy transition to renewables, having the largest gas reserves in Nigeria for a small area as the southeast is a huge advantage.

The gas would produce electricity which can be used to key into the electric future for transport, manufacturing etc.

Why have we left the key news here (which is that Imo has $700M investment that would create jobs and expand the gas and power in the region) and are discussing where ABC is from, how the gas would go to the North and if the governor is from Supreme Court or not!

Please y’all should just keep still and focus on what matters most.

Gas for fuel and power stations in Imo is coming up. This will bring the necessary infrastructure for manufacturing etc.

That’s all that matters. Hope is the Governor now and he is administering the state side of things for the project. Doesn’t matter he politics, we want the economics in Imo. Simple!

He is an actor naa but has been losing those skills since joining politics

xjiggy:
It is total wickedness for a girl child to be denied an inheritance and yet when she sends money and goodies back home, they accept. For her to get married, they give the would be husband a list longer that the Nigerian constitution, placing so much demands as if the girl is a piece of property to be traded off. The fact that she's married doesn't even guarantee her anything because I've seen igbo women driven from their matrimonial homes upon the death of their husbands and the property confiscated by the man's family. The life of an igbo girl child is one of perpetual slavery. Forget the ones you see smiling in public and well taken care of. They are just trophy wives. The husbands do it to boost their Egos. You'll see an illiterate spare parts dealer boasting in the market about his graduate wife. The stupid sense of entitlement you see among igbo men stems from these wicked traditions. That's why a lawyer would want to argue a judgment based on Gender as a thing of single and married.

The challenge with many of us is that we don’t do research and understand prior to blanket statements.

Let me clarify the culture to you:

1. All ancestral land Owned by the father is inherited by the sons.

2. Other property including estates that are not ancestral land are shared among children.

3. At their Traditional marriage , the family gives the daughter her inheritance to go with to her new home. This goes from cash, purchased houses/land, shares, furniture, cars etc according to the family’s wealth So that she can go build her new home.

4. All the mother’s estate is exclusive preserve of the daughters including land, houses etc provided they are not ancestral land bearing the family name. Only exception is in the case of a polygamous home where a house is built by the man for each wife. In this case, that house owned by the wife is inherited by the last son ( because it’s built on ancestral land).

5. All daughters have a seat at the family table to influence the direction and growth of their fathers houses. These are the Umu Ada who continue to earn proceeds of economic property ( Agric plantations of old) from their fathers house. Daughters own these and get the yields. Their sons can be given inheritance lands. Again,these same Umu ada culture Upheld in Igbo land to preserve the strength of daughters is being attacked by these same people who don’t understand the inheritance culture when they say a wife has the only say in her husbands house.

So, this culture creates a balance where all ancestral land is kept to promote the family name and inheritance along the male lines while
Other estates are given To daughters.

The key is to understand what “father’s estate” means first in Igbo land. Again an Igbo man builds his wife up with business etc and all that is totally inherited by the daughters. The sons don’t even look in that direction. E.g: Most if the big shops that have been set up and grown By a husband for his wife when newly married Is totally owned by a wife and shared to daughters only, no sons!
No one looks into those.

In summary, most people don’t research but go ahead to denigrate a culture that has kept balance in the society from day 1.

The truth is that Igbo people will Keep their culture regardless

PearlStreet:
Igbo culture is not superior to the Supreme Court. If you write a will and disinherit your female children, they would take it to court and the court will appoint Executors to share your property since you want to be stupid.

That’s where you don’t understand law. My will is my will and it’s final legal document! The Supreme Court cannot force it legally.

Loopholes are opened when the father dies without a will

Shellsploit:
Wrong quote bro.
No be me kill monkey na, u come dey quote me.

Lol. I know. I just missed stating that I concur with you first.

Shellsploit:

This is utterly shameful. You can’t replace these animals yet you kill them.

If our ancestors; who Didn’t have our level of progress in agriculture, kept hunting rules & Abhorred stuff like this, why can’t we do better than them?

At this rate, our kids won’t see live wildlife in Nigeria.

Shame to the Admins that promote the reduction of our wildlife

CoolAmbience:
Why have the Igbos and other cultures not sustained the killing of twin children in the name of culture?

All of these international cultures have been modified severally at different times.

Nothing is set in stones, especially when there is no measurable value addition to humanity.

Fair point, they adjusted from the cultures Like killing of twins because these were found to be superstitious.

There is no superstition involved in the inheritance culture. It’s actually segmented whereby everyone gets a share; both men and women but for different things.

The point I am making is that most people don’t have these details Of the inheritance culture I have listed ( which are actually the base level) yet go out screaming that females are marginalized and get nothing of inheritance in Igbo land.

The only inheritance technically off limits to females in Igbo land are ancestral land. This is so that each geographical location keeps the history of their ownership; key for people to maintain Their paternal origins for reference and maternal affiliations For back-up. Every other thing Females inherit. Essentially females have lots of several inheritance items

Knowledge is like light in the darkness.

CoolAmbience:
Omenana indeed!

What is omenana about gender discrimination?

There nothing to research. Such cultures shouldn't continue as they have no real value in societies.

Well, when it comes to African cultures we become super “woke”.

Now I have given you a clear description of what inheritance is in Igbo land and in its balance. No comments about each point made just a blanket cover of gender inequality. Please counter them 1 by 1.

Go check the traditions in Japan, in China, the monarchy of England, the aristocracies of Europe etc., not even talking the Arab monarchies all holding sway today which many of our people feel are sophisticated. Go and tell them to change their cultures. And by the way, their countries are still lots ahead of Nigeria.

Summary is that Igbo traditional laws on inheritance are not shifting. Because it is already balanced for the people and it is accepted. Just that many don’t know the details, apparently from this thread!

LordSamuel:
calling our fathers and mother's confused people is the height of ignorance,
Little wonder, they say that The Igbos wake their fathers with a sliding kick,
And I'm beginning to see reasons to why the insertions and maybe, you're among those that wake up their fathers with the said sliding kick.

If a man shares his properties or better still make a will while, alive,
I don't think if there will be a room for all this Jabberwocky.

The character is not Igbo at all! It is a charade behind a screen

CoolAmbience:
I agree with you completely.

I am from Anambra state, and a strong advocate for an egalitarian society.

Ndigbo are largely a confused people.

How on earth did they come up with such obnoxious culture of disinheriting the female child?

How is that even supposed part of any culture? Isn't that the height of insensitivity, intolerance and gross senselessness?

I am still in shock that there are no jubilations happening all around Igboland by woman groups and female Igbo elites around the world.

This is indeed a landmark achievement. But the big question is; do our women even know this? I am ashamed for them.

I have two children; a boy and a girl. God in heaven knows that I will give them equal inheritance.

There is no jubilation on the streets of Igboland By Igbo women because we all know that Supreme Court judgement is on paper.

The problem is that Many people don’t study yet jump to conclusions.

The real question is what inheritance are we speaking about?

It’s broken into several parts:

1. Native land owned by the father is for the males Only. Non-negotiable.
2. Bought-over land, cars, liquid assets, etc Owned by the father is for all the children.
3. Bought-over land owned by the mother is at her discretion.
4. Houses built on native land for the mother is bequeathed to her last son.
5. All other properties of the mother E.g Bought-over land, Jewelry, cars, clothing, shares, trade equipment, shops etc are inherited by the daughters only. Non-negotiable.
6. At every daughter’s traditional wedding, she is given her inheritance in cash, goods, car, home furnishing etc as much as her family can afford to go and build her life in her new family.

This is at the basic level.
So, if you are indeed from Anambra state, you should have known this as Omenana! This is the egalitarian culture you seek. You should research more on it if you haven’t already and gain more knowledge.
This creates a balance in the Igbo society.

BabaRamota1980:
When next igwe call a meeting of the autonomous village please table these before him. Supreme Court has spoken! Ibo women and daughters are free to sue any family member that trespass and want to deny their rights of inheritance.

Lol. Nice one.
But if you have the experience and deep knowledge of the culture, you would know that people would continue to practice the culture including the ladies affected, Supreme Court judgement regardless!

The Supreme Court missed some key opportunities:

It assumes it’s only the father‘s estate that is being shared. No mention of the mother’s. Now from my earlier post, I mentioned the mother’s estate.

When an Igbo girl is being married off, the same tradition people are trying to denigrate gives her her own inheritance to take to her husband’s house. It’s called Idu uno or Idu ulo depending on the accent.

And like I said, Igbos won’t give ancestral lands to their daughters as inheritance. They inherit other property.

BabaRamota1980:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/supreme-courts-decision-on-female-inheritance-divides-igbo/amp/

The judgement And the reactions show the poor understanding of culture and society by the current Nigerian system including Igbos.

In Igbo tradition, there is a balance.

1. Native land is only inherited by male children. Emphasis on Native land. This is to continue the family name in the same of location of ancestry.

2. Daughters and sons can inherit any other things. Including land that was bought by their father not within the native land!

3. Daughters inherit all their mother’s belongings From gold to cars to clothing to houses owned by their mother outside the native land. The only inheritance that goes to a son from the mother is a house built by or for the mother In the native land and this goes to the last son only.

4. Daughters’ sons could be given native land to live in and inherit in a situation whereby they Have trouble in their father’s land.

5. Now, the concept of daughters not inheriting native land is that by marriage they sojourn to another family and it is expected that they build that family to growth; reason why most Igbo Women are industrious! Once she is married into a family, she is a apportioned farming land, built a house for (in the olden days of polygamy) and given resources for a trade. So her focus is to build that family and Co-own the sources of livelihood for that family.

6. There is an eternal inheritance given to daughters in such a way that they are highly entitled to anything they ask for in their father’s house except native land.

7. Now it all depends on how wealthy a father is. The standard Igbo man would Share native land amongst his sons, share money, other property and liquid assets among all children; typically giving more to his daughters.

In the event that a man dies before his will, and all he has is native land, that is where daughters lose. Otherwise, daughters receive more liquid assets than the sons. Only greedy people try to undermine this culture.

It’s only people who don’t understand the Igbo culture that are screaming here.

It’s attitudes like this that promote mediocrity. Not holding leaders to account.

Americans are holding Trump to account for the over 170k citizens that have dies

winterfell007:
Even though i'm not particularly fond of Buhari, but i kind of agree with you. He's got no blame in this. The global GDP growth was expected to slow down. Nigeria inclusive

Samorobo2:
See this one...even Singapore declined by 30%..it's a common occurrence all over the world at the moment..it is not unique to Nigeria alone.

Ok. Without going into the complex issues to prove y’all wrong, let’s take a simple line of examination:

Questions: Of all the other countries that we are saying declined, as compared to Nigeria:

1. What social palliatives did they provide to their citizens in terms of food, medicines, delay in bills payments etc?

2. How much did they inject into their economies to stimulate SMEs like restaurants etc to survive?

As the pandemic hit, those governments were stimulating their economies to achieve medium to long term improvements and providing palliatives to cushion short term challenges.
What did we hear in Nigeria? billions of Naira for “Feeding school children at home”.

Other economies were shrinking and they were working, ours is interesting things like renovating parliament buildings and offing our mics!

Chief, as at the late 2000s, that rail line had been built all the way into Kogi and remained only 42km to join up AJaokuta. That’s a distance of Lekki to Airport of Standard gauge rail track.
It’s not a big feat.

Which money do you have? Check my earlier posts to estimate what needs to be done.

Like I said, get the full details and measure against what could be done.

Until I see liquid metal flow out of the tap holes of the AJaokuta Blast furnace and oxygen lanced into that liquid metal in the steel making shop, every story told about AJaokuta is politics.

It takes just 12 months to achieve that if the government is really serious!

NGpatriot:
1. PMB in less than 4 years completed the rail line that was supposed to be supplying the plant with raw material from Delta, before PMB, it was abandoned for 30 years.

That's progress and regardless of your ill informed APC/PDP rant, I credit PMB for doing what many admin before him failed to do, it showed his commitment and determination fo make Ajaokuta functional.


2. PMB traveled all the way to Russia for a government to government and a president to president consultations and won a commitment from the Russian government and president to complete the project.

3. That's progress and regardless of your ill informed APC/PDP rant, I credit PMB for doing what many admin before him failed to do, it showed his commitment and determination fo make Ajaokuta functional.

4. Now, I'd agree with you if you are able to show me what previous administrations before PMB did 16 years and decades before PMB to actualize this project and make it functional.

I know you can't, all you have to sell is negativity, misguided and ill-informed rants and hateful sentiments.

Sure, any government can set goals, but circumstances do affect our best goals, but what you can not sit here and tell me is that PMB did not commit himself or did not perform better than past admin to finish this project, no you can not.

The real question is, “What part of the plant is that figure referring to?”

I worked in AJaokuta steel and I can tell you that the phase 1 of the plant was 98% completed as early as 1990s.

Nigerians should learn to ask for details before jumping into excitement from government speeches.

First, the primary units are what we need to start i.e

1. the Blast Furnace ( the big fat hot pot that turns Itakpe’s processed iron ore + Enugu’s processed coal & Mfamozing’s processed lime) to pig iron.

2. The steel making shop that turns the molten pig iron to steel + the Continuous casting Machine that casts the molten steel to blooms and billets sizes.

3. All the supporting plants inside Ajaokuta that make 1 & 2 above work ( sintering plant, coke oven plant, lime plant, air separation plant, water plant, waste heat recovery plant, rubberizing plant, foundry, etc just to name a few ) need to start up.

1 & 2 above are not ready ( at around 95% completed but the key technology was withheld by the Russians at exit) and are needed to drive the mining of coal, limestone and iron ore in the country.

The secondary units of the 4 rolling mills namely

1. Billet mill,
2. Medium Section Structural Mills
3. Light Section Mills
4. Wire Rod Mills
...have only 3 & 4 working economically by importing billets but have now stopped . 1 & 2 have been tested only but never economically worked. All rolling mills are idle.

All of the above is just phase 1 of the project which was planned for 1.2 million tons of liquid steel per annum for structural rods and profiles only.

Phase 2 (~3.6M tons of liquid steel) for pipe and Phase 3 (~5.4M tons of liquid steel) for flat sheet. Around these figures.

That’s a total of 10.2M tons of liquid steel per annum planned for phase 1 to 3 and not 1 gram has been produced.

So the minister should tell us which one is 90% completed.

Aren’t you guys tired of wiping our wildlife off the earth ?

What’s wrong with people?

Must you eat everything you see?

jdstunt:
We just killed a Civet around my compound this afternoon. It camps in an undeveloped plot of land next to my compound. We also killed one like this last 3 years, I don't seem to understand how they get here cause the area is kind of developed.

I don't know much about Civets but I'm guessing it will land inside the pot.

Imagine all the narratives and excuses they are making for this killer! If na another race now, they won’t go this far in trying to paint al these excuses.

TheSourcerer:
The 16 year old student behind the Cleveland Elementary School Shooting in San Diego in 1979. Spencer came a troubled background and lived in almost absolute poverty. Acquaintances said Spencer expressed hostility toward policemen, had talked about shooting one, and had talked of doing something big to get on TV.

Although Spencer showed exceptional ability in photography, winning first prize in a Humane Society competition, she was generally uninterested in school; one teacher recalled frequently inquiring if she was awake in class. Later, during tests while she was in custody, it was discovered Spencer had an injury to the temporal lobe of her brain. It was attributed to an accident on her bicycle.

In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem pupils, to which Spencer had been referred for truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. That summer, Spencer, who was known to hunt birds in the neighborhood, was arrested for shooting out the windows of Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun, and burglary.

A psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition.

This gift would later encourage Spencer to commit two counts of murder, one count of assault with a deadly weapon and injure 9 others from her house across the street from the school.

Tried as an adult, she pleaded guilty to all charges and was given an indefinite sentence. As of 2018, she remains incarcerated. Her infamous motive for the shooting; “I don’t like Mondays” remains immortalised to this day in the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats:


But really who does? If not because of the lockdown another Monday just ends the weekends pfft

The quote below from this epistle just made me know it surely isn’t coming from the founder of Healthplus. How can you say Lemon and pineapple are alkaline foods and you are a pharmacist? This story is a scam!

“ My son researched information on what COVID survivors did and he shared the details with me. One of his findings is that they ate and drank alkaline foods and beverages and took a lot of hot fluids. We therefore shopped for alkaline foods such as lemon, watermelon, pawpaw, kiwi, pineapple, cucumber, kale and other green leafy vegetables. Other alkaline foods include broccoli, cauliflower, onion, garlic, root vegetables (sweet potatoes) and nuts. We avoided acidic foods such as sugar, dairy, processed foods, apples, grape fruit and drinks. We ordered a lot of juices from a popular local brand as some of their combinations ticked the alkaline box. We were determined to deal with this virus that was susceptible to heat and an alkaline environment.”

My opinion is that you should remain with the micro finance bank.

Reasons:
1. Stability- firm offer letter, firm work structure,
2. Career progression in Finance

With the Government work your job security and accommodation is dependent on the SA’s job, budget and mood especially as you don’t have an offer letter directly with the government. Politics is fickle in Nigeria.

You may think that you could make good Government contacts. That’s a gamble.

Jarus:
Coastal road starts from around Oniru through Elegushi beach all the way to Ogombo (Abraham Adesanya Estate), but I don't think it has been completed beyond Elegushi side but SUVs still navigate when avoiding traffic on main Lekki-Ajah expressway

Thanks a lot. Would this road pass through directly facing the ocean or would it pass through inland communities?

Sweeetheart:
na only culture? or how some bastard Yoruba's are selling off their inheritance lands to Igbo. if Igbo sell lands to non Igbo I won't complain but you won't see these people sell their land out yet Yoruba's are selling their land out


I urge yorubas on this forum to educate their people, Yorubas in diaspora which land do you want them to buy if you sell all your lands to non Yorubas?


Yoruba ronu oooo

You see bro, you cannot eat your cake and have it. Lagos is priding itself as a cosmopolitan city; which indeed it is trying to follow in the likes of London, New York etc as per multicultural inhabitation though not measuring up in terms of facilities ; but we would get there. This is the no-man’s land naming that has been misconstrued. It is rather an “All man’s Land” even though the original inhabitants have never been Igbo but rather Yoruba/Yoruba-affiliated tribes.

But here is the dilemma; As an aspiring cosmopolitan city grows, it becomes less traditional and more urbanized/capitalist and has to get rid of certain sentiments to achieve the heights of cosmopolitanism. Everyone that can afford it is buying up land in Lagos including Igbos and what you buy, you own!

Now the Yoruba traditional institutions would continue to be in Lagos no doubt, but as more people try to turn Lagos to a New York, all the claims to land become less important rather tax contributions give you the power to remain; Now I mean State Government tax and not Omoniile extortions!

So in essence, if you have to truly become a real cosmopolitan power house, you have to let go of too much emphasis on the traditional over the legal/forward-looking venture. Anyone who buys land and pays tax in New York is an owner of New York and is from New York including his offspring; same with Lagos.

Leave the traditional to Ile Ife, Ibadan etc (where people would pay good money to go and experience the REAL TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST) and enjoy the cosmopolitan aspirations of Lagos! You just cannot take it away from people who are stakeholders there; Igbo not!

About the not being able to buy land in the East, I tell you it’s a full-fledged lie meant as propaganda. In the East it’s money for hand, land for ground, simple! You don’t even need to see any Baale or Oba! It’s just that most of you see it as “red mud, erosion-ridden area” and would not have the spirit of venture to go here, settle and compete with those who are making real dough there. That’s what differentiates the Igbo; venture spirit. Also consider that Lagos is a black silt flood-ridden mangrove swamp and foreigners have sandfilled it to current capacity; most of those foreigners from the “red-mud ridden East and the red-roof ridden West”. So don’t complain if you have not even tried to buy land there in the East. I encourage you to go to the East and buy land, you would find that it’s fairer and quicker than the scams in Lagos for real estate and as long as you have your cash, you deal. No omoniile sef !

Also the Federal Government is not investing there and so everything is compete and succeed rather than receiving “Owo mi da” and mama dash me!

So again, Lagos is an All man’s land with a traditional Yoruba history which is hoping to become a real cosmopolitan city but counteracting the paths to achieve those tenets of cosmopolitanism by a few alter-mentalities.

Boss, do you know how the coastal road went too?

Miarose:
Runs from behind vgc , oluwanisola to beside ebeano at Chevron then ajiran village agungi. Continues in front of pinnock to behind Nixon town, infront of cowrie Creek to freedom way@Jarus@ednut1

This is ridiculous! Apparently our children won't see these beautiful creatures!

Only kill what you can replace quickly.
Before cutting down a tree, plant a hundred of it.

Before hunting down a buffalo, rear back 10.

We can eat chicken because we can rear them back in 3 months or less. You may not be able to rear back this Buffalo as it's wild.

If this were true that he apologized, perhaps it's as a result of fear that the internet never forgets and that if he has anything to do with the authorities in the western world, that tweet is already a stamp on him for life