thebosstrevor1: The religion the Southern Nigeria was practicing before the Christian jihadists from western nations came was the African traditional religion. When a child was born in the South, the child is born into a traditionalist home, at the end, he or she becomes a traditionalists, the religion of their family. This religion has its closeness to nature,the protection of the environment, respect for hierarchy and other traditions, the religion was not perfect but it helped in bringing harmony to their society.
Then the Christian jihadists from Europe came, at first, they sent their christian missionaries and explorers to come spy, after that they sent in traders, the traders acted on the spy note sent by the missionaries and explorers.
With trading, the Christian jihadists saw that they could colonize the natives, so they sent in administrators and soldiers for control, in the name of creating a trading route.
The jihadists started their work, Christian schools and churches were built and people forced into them, if the kings disagree, they either kill the kings through Rivalries or remove him and give his throne to an entire new family.
The natives were taught English in the Christian schools which made them get ready for the Christian church which was closeby, the Christian jihadists, forecefully destroyed shrines, arrested herbalists and made laws that stopped them from being useful.
What happened next? They started a massive war and propaganda campaign, join the Christian church and receive recognition or be isolated, kings in the south because of fear of being isolated and of superior guns joined the church and encouraged their people to join, the bible became a propaganda book, the Christian jihadists translated the bible to local languages and then used African traditional gods as the antagonists in the newly translated bible, this created fear of the African religion among the natives and made them run to the Christian church. The Christian population started growing, funds from christian nations started pouring into southern Nigeria to propogate and spread christianity by all means, schools, dispensaries were built, clothes were given, hoes, cutlass for farming were given all to attract them to come to ocme back to the church,some natives revolted but the power of the jihadists gun subdue them and made them loyal.
Today, we have lot of forcefully Converted Christians who grudgingly obey their Christian gods, they don't read the bible, neither do they practice what is written in the bible, in the morning, they go to church, at night , they go to the shrines for power.
At least they didn't throw bombs at anybody nor cut anybody's limbs
I really love it when I see African women speaking up when it comes to things like This. Believe me, most of those girls you think are very happy just because they have money, are actually dieing of loneliness. That's because most men are afraid to approach them, for fear of embarrassed.
OyigboUpdate: An IPOB media representative who goes by the name Austin Okonkwo who has led so many IPOB rallies in Amsterdam as you can see below. He is also an IPOB broadcaster as u can see one of his broadcast flyer and him broadcasting below.
He has come out today being the 17th of August 2021 to say the majority of the sit at home violators are the keke riders and okada riders and this time around no mercy. Austin Okonkwo further said any keke driver who wants to live long shouldn't come out on their sit at home as they will be killed.
With tears in my eyes, but with gratitude to God for a tough journey that has finally come to an end, I Hereby denounce any affiliation with Arsenal from this day henceforth. I'm no longer an Arsenal fan and I intend to return any Arsenal clothes or other items in my possession. Goodbye Arsenal
gidgiddy: This is amongst one of the most foolish things I have read this year. Three Israeli filmmakers who came to Nigeria to film a documentary about Igbo jews were arrested, held for 20 days without charge, and someone writes the nonsense above to defend this flagrant human rights abuse by the DSS.
How can you arrest a person and lock them up for 20 days with no charge? Are we in a democracy or military rule? In a civilised country, you arrest a person when you have evidence they have committed a crime. In a backward country like Nigeria, DSS arrests you to find out if you have committed a crime. This is absolute madness.
Arrest should be the end process of evidence gathering. In Nigeria, arrest is the start of evidence gathering.
The DSS disgraced themselves internationally by arresting the three filmmakers for no reason
The way some Nigerians reason is shocking
You dey mind these backward elements; always trying to defend tyranny, even when their arguments are baseless.
We may shout and quarrel on nairaland, but that doesn't change the fact that IPOB is a great force in the East. Even if all the Governors in the south East decide to share money every Monday to the people, I bet you the people would rather stay indoors than disobey the order given by the IPOB
Hmmmmmm, this is so true and deep. You are a Prophet of our time. #RESPECT.
It is always good to see we still have reasonable and sensible members like you here sir. God bless you for always being on the side of the truth. Posterity will judge everyone. Those evil ones can never escape the consequences of their evils.[/quote]Have you ever wondered why every responsible nairalander hates you
Maybe you need to research on apprenticeship, to know what you're talking about. Go to any line of business dominated by Igbos and ask questions on how they started. You'll be shocked to find out that 97% of those in that business where trained and shown the way by the remaining 3%. I won't even talk about gigantic projects scattered across Igbo communities by well to do individuals.