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Penaldo:
Op, I will suggest itel A48 going by your budget. Pls don't buy used phone

how much is itel A48 and is it avai in Nigeria now

Thank you so much for this

yinkaadesegha:
There maybe someone that will need your assistance and this will be very important in her life..... You may need to assist the person for future sake. Don't deny anyone of help during this season. Bless u

Please help me with this dream.
i found myself among my former neigbhour(entire family members), one of the family member called me to assist her in explaning the details of the contribution and loan card she had with her ( because that is what i do in real life). i explained to her that the contributions is for 8yrs, and the money is huge, but i also showed her the loopholes in the cards where the credit officer played smart. i wake up after that.

I'm interested, pls send details to me at helphandventures@gmail.com

hailay01:
Throw pillows available Location: Ibadan Price: 500 each Serious buyers only, WhatsApp/call o8o-6212-4oo1

Where in Ibadan

If you have interest in micro loan business, i can put you through the business line.

Good morning guys, an installer just installed my new fta decoder for me. He set it on asiasat 7ku, majority of d station i get are boring ghana stations. Please how do i reset it to get interesting stations

1kinggy:
Peace sat, Ogunpa
08-03_
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Thanks

1kinggy:
Which area do you live? There's a seller at Lebanon street, Ogunpa and another at Iyana-Church, Iwo-Road.

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i stay around sango, i will prefare to go to ogunpa. Pls do you have his phone number

please house, where can I get decoder in Ibadan

yinkaadesegha:
1...pray against spirit of backwardness very urgent
2..develop a listening hear to people around u and pray for unexpected blessings for your family. Bless u

thanks

Pls I need interpretation for these my dreams
1. I went to my former place of work, my former coworkers were happy to see me, one of them came to me and said "Oga, I haven't someone to relief my girlfriend at work for the party day( they planned to attend a party together). I told him I will help him do it but I will collect #4000 not #3000 he wants to pay, he agreed and gave me the money, but when he called the girl to inform her, she said her company have make arrangement for her. I returned the money ( but returned #3k not the whole #4k he gave me). He then gave #2500 out of the money to keep for him because he didn't want to spend it at the party. ( he used to save money with me then).
2. I sat down with 2 celebrities, they were discussing how the knockdown is affecting their show biz, and how their parents want them to resume work at their company, I didn't join them in their conversation. Later, my little daughter came, she said to me"daddy is that not....?" she mentioned on off the celebrities name. I told her to meet the person her self and not to disturb me, she went to ask him, she was right, they both laughed over their discussion. Later, he brought a male toy as gift for my daughter to me, a voice told me to reject it since my child is female, I said she will use it like that, it is a gift, I gave the toy to my daughter, she was happy.

President Buhari shares paternity with Paul Biya of Cameroon in leadership style. Both men are joined by the umbilicus of repression and abrasion.

In 2010, Bertrand Teyou, an author, was sentenced to two years imprisonment for insulting the wife of Biya, Chantal. The Cameroonian Government filed charges against him for this spectacular reason.

Under Biya, Southern Cameroon has become the scene of a volcanic crisis – killings, illegal detentions and arrests. Specifically, the government is zeroing in on dissenting voices in effecting these violations.

I think, the situation is much more execrable in Nigeria than in Cameroon.

Amnesty International encapsulates it in these words: ‘’The human rights situation in Nigeria is marked by serious human rights violations such as extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, violence against women and girls, restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, mass forced evictions, environmental pollution and lack of accountability for human rights violations and abuses.’’

As a matter of fact, the Buhari government has racked up egregious human rights records more than any other administration before it. In 2017, the United States Department of State released a convicting exposition on this villainy.

“Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government.

"The government did not adequately investigate or prosecute most of the major outstanding allegations of human rights violations by the security forces or the majority of cases of police or military extortion or other abuse of power.

“Authorities generally did not hold police, military, or other security force personnel accountable for the use of excessive or deadly force or for the deaths of persons in custody.
"State and federal panels of inquiry investigating suspicious deaths generally did not make their findings public," it said.

I have studied the charges levelled against Omoyele Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters, and they ossify my position that the gentleman is being put through a mill of thistles and thorns for being a relentless critic of the administration.

He is charged with ‘’insulting’’ the President, and for transferring money from New York to Nigeria? What a phenomenal charge? Obviously, Sowore’s only crime is that he has a roaring voice which puts the foundations of Aso Rock to fright.

And does it mean words cannot change the General, but they get to him?

Really, the cyberstalking law, by which Sowore is charged, was fashioned under President Jonathan. This was, perhaps, the former President’s response to social media criticism at the time. But the law, being defective, was never applied under him.

Jonathan was vilified, abused and defamed but not one Nigerian was incarcerated or charged with ‘’treason’’. In fact, in the North, coffins with photos and semblances of Jonathan were coursed through the streets by dissenters but not a single protester was detained. And he was even stoned in Yola on his way to Taraba.

These were clearly grievous offences that are punishable by the law. But a democrat will see beyond an act and ask, ‘’why is this happening? Why are citizens angry?’’

Although Jonathan was not without freckles, he exercised his own brutish aspect with the clampdown on media organisations.

Really, only a non-performing government will be afraid of citizens’ protests or interpret civil actions as subversion. Only a failing administration will be extremely irritated by criticisms and divergent opinions.

In the case of Sowore, he has exercised himself in the discipline of civil opposition. He has only used his voice as a protected child of the Nigerian constitution.

Section 39(1) of the 1999 constitution establishes that "Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information without interference."

This is the grundnorm to which all laws submit. This is the pillar on which our democracy is built.

The charges cannot stand. But why do dictators rise in AFRICA? It is because of the people, who do nothing; who enable them and who only pray for an end to their suffering.

Source:
http://saharareporters.com/2019/09/21/alert-%E2%80%98insult%E2%80%99-buhari-and-get-charged-treason-fredrick-nwabufo

BBC Reality Check
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been active in north-eastern Nigeria for well over a decade.
President Buhari says its activities have been largely brought under control since he assumed office in 2015.
His political opponents disagree and say the situation has recently deteriorated both in terms of the number of attacks and kidnappings by the group.
Ahead of Nigeria's elections on 16 February, BBC Reality Check examines the competing claims over the security situation in the country.
What is Boko Haram?
Formed around 2002 as a non-violent organisation with the aim of purifying Islam in northern Nigeria, it became increasingly radicalised and eventually adopted militant tactics in pursuit of its aims.
It has been active not only in Nigeria, but also in the neighbouring countries of Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and more than two million displaced over the past decade.
Boko Haram has been notorious for kidnapping schoolchildren and attracted global media attention in 2014 following the abduction of almost 300 girls from a school in the town of Chibok, in Borno, the state where the militant group has been most active.
In 2015, Boko Haram was ranked the
world's deadliest terror group by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
Since then, territory controlled by the group has declined and it has splintered into competing factions.
However, the Islamist militants remain active in the region, defying attempts by the army to bring the insurgency to an end.
To underline this continued activity, in 2018 more than 100 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the northern town of Dapchi. Most of the girls were eventually released.
The competing claims
The former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is supporting main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has strongly criticised President Muhammadu Buhari's record on tackling Boko Haram.
"The security situation has deteriorated, with kidnapping everywhere," said Mr Obasanjo in January.
But President Buhari's view of the security situation is very different. He says the militants have been "decimated" since 2015 in their stronghold of Borno State.
So what are the available facts regarding both attacks on civilians and on kidnappings?
Have attacks by Boko Haram declined?
Insecurity and poor communications in rural areas make assessment both for the government and independent organisations particularly difficult and many incidents go unreported.
The Nigerian government's National Bureau of Statistics provides public access to economic, social and general security data gathered within Nigeria but a spokesman told BBC News it did not collect data on the activities of Boko Haram.
However, research by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) tracks information by monitoring local media and other reports.
Boko Haram killing
From a peak in 2015 of more than 5,000, the number of deaths attributed to Boko Haram has fallen off significantly to below 1,000 a year for the past three years.
This decline followed a military campaign launched against Boko Haram in 2015 by the Nigerian government, with international support.
Large areas of territory previously controlled by Boko Haram were recaptured during this offensive.
So, President Buhari is right to say killings by militants have declined substantially since he came to office in 2015.
But these attacks have not ended completely and there have been several in the early weeks of 2019.
"In terms of the current situation, I do think the current trend line is quite dangerous and that they are far from defeated," says Alex Thurston, a visiting assistant professor of political science and comparative religion at Miami University of Ohio.
What about kidnappings?
The Nigeria Security Tracker , used by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), in Washington, monitors kidnappings through local media reports.
These indicate a peak in the number of kidnappings in 2014 and 2015, when Boko Haram was at its strongest militarily.
However, despite a dramatic fall in reported kidnappings in 2016, the level has risen since then, with 310 reported last year.
One theory put forward for this increase is that as Boko Haram has lost territory and military influence, its tactics have shifted away from direct confrontation with security forces.
Instead, the militants have turned their attention to soft targets such as schools and rural villages, taking hostages from these locations.
So, when Mr Obasanjo says "the security situation has deteriorated with kidnapping everywhere", he's right in the sense that the level of kidnapping is on the increase and that major incidents such as the kidnapping of more than 100 schoolgirls in Dapchi, in 2018, do give serious cause for concern.
This fear is particularly heightened given Boko Haram's use of children as suicide bombers. In 2017 and 2018, there were 77 and 26 incidences respectively of children being used in this way by the militants. In 2016 this figure was nine, according to Unicef.
Are kidnappings 'everywhere'?
Looking at the distribution of all kidnappings across Nigeria, this is clearly not the case, with Boko Haram operating largely in the far north-east of the country.
Kidnappings have also been regularly reported in the country's oil-rich southern Niger Delta region - but these are unrelated to the activities of Boko Haram.
So, looking at the overall picture of kidnappings, not just by Boko Haram, you can see that the distribution is more geographically widespread - but it's certainly not the case as Mr Obasanjo says that kidnappings have been taking place "everywhere" across the country.
Overall, the picture of Boko Haram activity in the north-east of Nigeria appears to be one of declining military activity.
But along with this has come a recent rise in kidnappings although it's not clear whether this indicates a resurgence in the strength of the group or a re-focusing on softer targets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47047399?iorg_service_id_internal=624173547714020%3BAfqt5fabvKro1uGC

The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, an indigene of Ondo State , as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
Also confirmed as members of the board are Grace Chinda from Delta State , Okolo Titus ( Enugu State ) , Obiora Igwedebia ( Anambra State ) , Olubukola Balogun ( Lagos State ) and Justice Adamu Bello ( Katsina State ) .
Others are Hannatu Muhammed ( Jigawa State ) , Abdullahi Saidu ( Niger State ) and Yahaya Dauda ( Nasarawa State ) .
Senate Leader , Ahmad Lawan , explained that the issue of lopsidedness raised by the senators , who halted the confirmation of the nominees about two weeks ago , had been resolved .
The Senate also confirmed the appointment of Justice Uwani Abba as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and passed a bill for the establishment of Federal Polytechnic Aba , Abia State .

https://punchng.com/senate-confirms-owasanoye-as-icpc-chairman/

To keep politicians accountable at the vice- presidential and presidential debate, TheCable
was live-checking the supposed facts and figures being bandied by those seeking the highest offices in the land.
The participating parties are; Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressives Party (YPP).
Peter Obi of the PDP, and APC’s Yemi Osinbajo are debating alongside Ganiyu Galadima of ACPN, Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya of
ANN and Umma Abdullahi-Getso of YPP.
CLAIM BY OBI : There are about two million vehicles in Nigeria.
CHECKED: False. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria has a total vehicle population of about 11,547,236 as at the third quarter of 2017.
CLAIM BY OSINBAJO : Lagos-Ibadan expressway was “practically” abandoned for 16
years under PDP.
CHECKED: False. The Goodluck Jonathan administration made many interventions on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, awarding a multi- billion naira contract to Julius Berger and RCC.
The administration fixed the Ibadan to Ogere section of the road.
CLAIM BY OSINBAJO: Bag of fertiliser now sells for N6,000 to N7,000.
CHECKED: Largely correct. Price of fertiliser has experienced a drastic drop following the Nigeria-Morroco fertiliser deal. As at 2016, a bag of fertiliser sold above N10,000
CLAIM BY OBI: Nigeria has fallen on the global competitive index from 124 to 127.
CHECKED: False. According to the latest (2018) World Economic Forum, Nigeria rose on the index by 10 places. Obi’s stance was true in 2016.
CLAIM BY OBI: Total loans from the banks in Nigeria is N19trn and only 0.5% goes to SMEs
CHECKED: Unverified.
CLAIM BY OSINBAJO : There is a tax threshold for SMEs, SMEs get to a level before they pay taxes
CHECKED: Unverified.
CLAIM BY OBI: Nigeria’s foreign direct investment for 2015 was $21bn, while it fell to $12bn in 2017.
CHECKED: Partly False. According to NBS capital importation reports, Nigeria’s total imported capital stood at $9.6 billion in 2015, and $12.3 billion in 2017. Perhaps Obi meant 2014, when Nigeria’s total capital imported stood at $20.7 billion.
CLAIM BY GALADIMA: AFCTA will not benefit Nigeria
CHECKED: Cannot be proven by facts.
CLAIM BY OBI: African trade today is less than 9 percent
CHECKED: False. According to Afriexim Bank, Intra-Africa trade is around 15 percent. In 2016, intra-African exports made up 18 percent
of total exports according to Brookings Institution.
CLAIM BY OSINBAJO: Nigeria went down by 64 places under PDP, but has risen by 24 places under APC
CHECKED: Partly False. Nigeria went down from 120 to 170 between 2008 and 2015, under PDP rule. Under the APC, ease of doing
business has risen from 170 in 2015 to 146 in 2018, according to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report.
CLAIM BY OBI: Oil give you 80% of foreign exchange earnings
CHECKED: Point valid, figures near accurate.
As at 2017 NBS figures showed that Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings from oil the oil sector stood above 90%.
CLAIM BY OBI: To bring out goods from Apapa cost more than it takes to bring goods from Europe
CHECKED: Unverified
CLAIM BY GALADIMA: We have four refineries in Nigeria, and none is working.
CHECKED: Dicey. The refineries according to NNPC reports are working at sub-optimal levels. Not totally dysfunctional.
UMMA GESTO: Nigerian Airways was one of the largest in the world
CHECKED: Unverified.
CLAIM BY OBI : The federal government spends only N5 on the health of each Nigerian citizen per day.
CHECKED: True. Based on budgetary and population calculations done by TheCable, the
federal government allocates N4.7 to every Nigerian’s health per day.
CLAIM BY OBI: Apple Inc’s market cap is bigger than the economy of Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt
CHECKED: Dicey. Apple’s market cap today is $788.57 billion. The economy of these three countries are bigger than Apple. When Apple
was $1 trillion a few months ago, it was bigger in dollar terms.
https://www.thecable.ng/live-fact-check-verifying-osinbajo-obi-vice-presidential-candidates-at-2019-poll-debate

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Adams Oshiomhole , has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to remember he swore that God should punish him if he ever supported Atiku Abubakar to be president .
Oshiomhole spoke after receiving APC women leaders from Edo State and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Aso Drive , Abuja. He said the country could not afford to return to the era where owners of private jets had business addresses but just because they had connections with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation or the likes .
“ We know there are people across the divide who are fighting back . There is a gang up by those who are used to sucking the system without adding any value but Nigerians will not allow that ,” he said.
Oshiomhole boasted that the 2019 election would be a smooth sail for President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC because ethnic and religious sentiments that characterised the 2015 election lost by former president Goodluck Jonathan would have no place this time around .
“ The two candidates are from the North and they are both Muslims . People are now going to look at the character . Nobody has ever say Buhari is a thief.
But who said the other person is a thief? it was his boss .
“ When you are working with me and I said you are a thief , God will punish me if I support you . And when you are confused because your supply line has been chopped off , you now turned around to support the same person.
That God that you called with your name to punish you if you supported the person is about to go to work . And HE will go to work in February and HE will punish him thoroughly and the person he is supporting , in favour of Nigeria .”

https://punchng.com/obasanjo-inviting-gods-punishment-for-supporting-atiku-oshiomhole/

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last —Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer and politician.
If we go by what our politicians (the major presidential candidates notably) are saying about each other this campaign season, we can’t but conclude that they are all ‘misfits’ for office in 2019. They have smeared themselves.
They have used invectives dug from the gutter to paint themselves. They have cancelled one another from the log of men and women of integrity. They have thrown away their gloves and bruised their faces with bare fists. They have either asked the umpire to stay off or have left the ring altogether to slug it out in the mud. Now it’s a bloody street fight all the way.
When the vote is cast and the result declared, both the winner and defeated as well as the spectator would be losers, none a victor, even if there is a coronation. Why? It would be a pyrrhic triumph, where you’d ask yourself if you haven’t run all this marathon race only to end up with a mistake as your leader.
But that is our cyclical experience. We hail our leaders when they come in. Soon, the scales fall off our eyes. We then begin to see them again in the soiled garment the opposing side put on them before the poll. Mistake or not, we are stuck with them for four years. Unless he resigns. Which is rare in our clime. Or unless he’s impeached. Which is uncommon.
Some worried compatriots have said that we don’t have to be glued to an underperforming leader for four years, if they wouldn’t leave on their own or allow themselves to be removed legitimately. They are suggesting a new constitutional provision to make way for midterm polls to serve as a referendum on a ruling party, as it is done in the United States near the midpoint of a president’s four-year term of office. Dissenting critics however argue that because it generates a lower voter turnout, a halfway ballot cannot be a valid or democratic gauge of the mood of the electorate. They refer to the history of these ‘sub elections’ in the US. Less than 36% of the poll-eligible community voted in 2014, said to be the lowest in 76 years. In 1966, only 48% were available to vote. The 70s were worse, recording severe drops, reportedly because of the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon.
I think no matter what these statistics point to, they send powerful signals to a leader, a faltering one especially, that his days are numbered if he doesn’t sit up. That’s the instruction from the recent midterm poll in the US. Rulers must be put on their toes. They don’t daily realise they are in power only because the people want them there. But the people’s vote can’t be taken for granted. It is capricious; it can swing the opposite way to correct an electoral error.
And in Nigeria, we have inflicted serial ballot blisters upon ourselves that we futilely attempt to cure in quadrennial elections. Nigerians say each new government they usher in is worse than the previous one voted out. They loathe the fresh administration and begin to grumble it is not catering for their interests. Then in a year or two, the traditional parting of ways occurs. As the government prepares for its fourth anniversary, expecting a second term, there is open rebellion that sounds its death knell.
It is a pattern that we have lived with in our recent history. It is astonishing that members of the pools community in Nigeria have not discovered an inherent business of subjecting this predictable succession trajectory of our politics to a betting game. They could have made a merchandise of this, seeing we’re a country of commercial risk takers with excessive faith in luck or fate. After all, other less fickle human activities such as the top football leagues of Europe have not only emptied the pockets and bank accounts of Nigerian fortune seekers, but also they have occupied their days and nights.
Some of our compatriots fear this seasonal search for the ‘right’ man at the helm would be an endless journey, that generations to come would be trapped in a similar will-o’ the wisp, that we are tethered to a jinx to last forever.
False prognosis, according to science! There is hope one day we shall get the right man. The great scientific and technological discoveries of our age never came as finished products. They went back and forth as one failure to another failure, receiving knocks and rejections that finally brought them into some level of acceptance, which, as time has proved, would itself be displaced for a more suitable acceptance.
So let’s draw immeasurable solace from what we gather in these castles of science and technology. That is what moves us to continue to go to the poll, despite the challenges thrown at us before, during and after elections, knowing most on offer are ‘errors’ preparing us for the ‘truth’ hidden in the close future.
So, as the politicians go on the hustings, spewing scurrilously searing side issues, ahead of the 2019 ballot, we ask: who will be our next mistake?
By Banji Ojewale
https://www.independent.ng/who-will-be-nigerias-next-mistake-in-2019/amp/

10. Niger Rating: 189/189 Life expectancy: 60.4 years Education: 2.0 years spent in school out of 5.4 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $906

9. The Central African Republic Rating: 188/189 Life expectancy: 52.9 years Education: 4.3 years spent in school out of 7.2 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $663

8. South Sudan Rating: 187/189 Life expectancy: 57.3 years Education: 4.8 years spent in school out of 4.9 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $963

7. Chad Rating: 186/189 Life expectancy: 53.2 years Education: 2.3 years spent in school out of 8.0 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $1750

6. Burundi Rating: 185/189 Life expectancy: 57.9 years Education: 3.0 years spent in school out of 11.7 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $702

5. Sierra Leone Rating: 184/189 Life expectancy: 52.2 years Education: 3.5 years spent in school out of 9.8 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $1240

4. Burkina Faso Rating: 183/189 Life expectancy: 60.8 years Education: 1.5 years spent in school out of 8.5 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $1650

3. Mali Rating: 182/189 Life expectancy: 58.5 years Education: 2.3 years spent in school out of 7.7 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $1953

2. Liberia Rating: 181/189 Life expectancy: 63 years Education: 4.7 years spent in school out of 10 expected years of school Gross National Income per capita: $667

The prospects of better-developed countries are informed by good health, improved economy and good education. Unfortunately, not all African countries have these in place and thus, they suffer in terms of development and opportunities to make the life of the inhabitants better.
According to the United Nations Development Program’s annual Human Development Index,
Here is how the bottom 10 African countries on
the list performed.

1. Mozambique
Rating: 180/189
Life expectancy: 58.9 years
Education: 3.5 years spent in school out of 9.7
expected years of school
Gross National Income per capita: $1093

The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803.
The Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It is the site of one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people in history.
Historians say Igbo captives from modern-day Nigeria, purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding, arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship the Wanderer in 1803.
The chained slaves were then reloaded and packed under the deck of a coastal vessel, the York , which would take them to St. Simons where they were to be resold. During the voyage, approximately 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion.
They drowned their captors and caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek. The Igbo were known by planters and slave owners of the American South to be fiercely independent and more resistant to chattel slavery.
According to Professor Terri L. Snyder , “the enslaved cargo “suffered much by mismanagement,” “rose” from their confinement in the small vessel, and revolted against the crew, forcing them into the water where they drowned”. Led by their chief, the Africans then
marched ashore, singing. At their chief’s direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing mass suicide.
Roswell King, a white overseer on a nearby plantation called Pierce Butler plantation, is the first to have recorded the incident. He and another man identified only as Captain Patterson recovered thirteen bodies. The others remained missing, and some are believed to have survived the suicide episode.
For centuries, some historians have cast doubt on the event, suggesting that the entire incident was more folklore than fact. But a post-1980 research verified the accounts Roswell King and others provided at the time using “modern scientific techniques to reconstruct the episode and confirm the factual basis of the longstanding oral accounts”.
The site was designated as a holy ground by the St. Simons African American community in September 2012. The Igbo Landing is also now a part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.
The Igbo Landing has come to occupy great symbolic importance in local African American folklore. The mutiny and subsequent suicide by the Igbo people have been called the first freedom march in the history of the United States and local people claim that the Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek were haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves.
There are myths of “the water walking Africans”:
“Heard about the Ibo’s Landing? That’s the place where they bring the Ibos over in a slave ship and when they get here, they ain’t like it and so they all start singing and they march right down in the river to march back to Africa, but they ain’t able to get there. They gets drown,” one Floyd White, an elderly African-American interviewed by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s, said.
There is also the “myth of the Flying Africans” where people report that the Igbos flew to Africa. Wallace Quarterman, an African-American born in 1844 who was interviewed in 1930 about the Igbo Landing said, “Ain’t you heard about them? Well, at that time Mr. Blue he was the overseer and . . . Mr. Blue he go down one morning with a long whip for to whip them good. . . . Anyway, he whipped them good and they got together and stuck that hoe in the field and then . . . rose up in the sky and turned themselves into buzzards and flew right back to Africa. . . . Everybody knows about them”.
So powerful is this story of resistance that it is often referred to in African American literature. Writer Alex Haley recounts it in his high acclaimed book, Roots, and it was the basis for Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison’s, novel, Song of Solomon. Visual artists have also paid tribute to the Igbo's who endured this event. Below is Jamaican artist, Donovan Nelson’s illustrations paying tribute to the event. They are on display at the Valentine Museum of Art.
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-tragic-yet-resilient-story-of-igbo-slaves-who-committed-mass-suicide-off-u-s-coast-in-1803

10. Morocco
Ranked #123, Morocco is 10th on the continent. It has a life expectancy of 76.1 years, a mean of
5.5 against an expected 12.4 years in school and a GNI per capita of 7,340.

9. Egypt
Coming at #9 is Egypt, which is ranked 114 globally. The country posted a life expectancy of 71.7 years, a mean of 7.2 against an expected 13.1 years in school and a GNI per capita of 10,355.

8. South Africa
Ranked at #113, South Africa is 8th on the continent. It has a life expectancy of 63.4 years, a mean of 10.1 against an expected 13.3 years in school and a GNI per capita of 11,923.