Kanoro:


Why do you refer to each other as "tribes?" Calling each other "tribes" is a European invention to downplay the powerful kingdoms, empires, and civilizations that you come from. For example the Yoruba have historically been one of the most urbanized people in the world for at least the past 1000 years and most of them come from many different kingdoms like the Oyo, and Owu. You never hear Europeans calling the basque of Spain a "tribe" even though they only number a few million vs the Yoruba who have more people than entire European nations.

Thank you sir. I agree with you. "Tribe" is a demeaning and offensive word. Let me use my Igbo nation for instance. If you refer to the nkanu, ngwa, abakiliki etc as tribes, you're correct because these groups are all Igbo people though they speak different dialects of the same Igbo language. This example is somewhat similar to the tribes of Israel in the bible.

But as you rightly noted, the Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Ibibio, Ashanti, Tuareg etc should be more appropriately called ETHNIC NATIONS because they're equal to the English, Scottish, French and other ethnic nations.

Yet I understand why Europeans would call us tribes. At the time, the had little understanding of Africa in addition to their agenda of enslaving and colonizing us.

The real tragedy in all this is that we Africans continue to address our great nations as mere tribes. We've seemingly refused to right the wrongs that the European slave/colonial masters did to us.

We even worsen issues by glorifying a European who identifies with his own ethnic nation a PATRIOT (showing patriotism) while we tag an African who identifies with his own ethnic nation a TRIBALIST (showing tribalism). Lol. It's funny but sad.

Wow! Thanks for this article Aunty Naijacutee. These are the types of economic-empowerment threads that should be on Nairaland front-page.

This is great news. I guess those participants with as much as N1million in the system (e.g. MC Galaxy) may have to wait till as long as February 14th before MMM go show them love. Lol.

Afam4eva, I don't think changing Enugu state's slogan will automatically erase its history of coal production. The same way changing the name Gold Coast to Ghana didn't erase that country's history. But a question I must ask is:
Is coal the reason why Enugu city is so developed or did its history as the capital of Igboland cause that development?

Nonsobaba, you made a strong point when you said that cashew generates more revenue for Enugu state than coal. Please suggest a new slogan.

Recently, I was arguing with my friend from Abia state about the Fulani attack on Enugu and Governor Ugwuanyi's response to it, when he said, "Enugu is Coal City. No wonder you people behave like charcoal". I laughed so hard that day. Lol.

Yet, on a serious note, that "The Coal City" slogan of Enugu state no longer serves its former purpose. Enugu state has since grown beyond the era of coal. We even celebrated one hundred years of existence in 2009. I think that was the best time to change the slogan but it's better late than never.

Anambra state, for instance, changed its slogan during the Peter Obi administration. Everyone will agree that "Light of the Nation" is a far more powerful and inspiring slogan than "Home for All". Better still, Anambra state seems to be doing its new slogan justice by shining the light for the nation to follow through its exploits in agriculture and business.

Similarly, I suggest that my dear Enugu state should change its slogan from the old and dull "Coal City" to a more significant one like "Rising Sun". Or even "Golden City" if the Nigerian government fears the association of "Rising Sun" to Biafra. Lol.

Are you from Enugu state like me, a resident of Enugu state or a stakeholder in Enugu state? What do think about my suggestion? Please also feel free to suggest a new slogan for our dear Enugu state.

I am Ngene Chibueze John, the light of Africa.

2017. Happy new year to all of us. I declare this year my year of akunuba. I declare this year the year of akunuba for ndi-Igbo and all friends of ndi-Igbo. Akunuba means wealth and wealth is richer than money. For me, wealth encompasses money, property, connections, power, health and peace of mind.

In the spirit of akunuba, I've put up a for-sale notice. I aim to sell the container for nothing less than N80,000 (eighty thousand naira). If I don't get a buyer, I'll pay my rent and continue business in my small-but-mighty container. Lol. If I get the N80,000, I'll consider other options.

Octavo and Whirlwind7, when I started this business newly, I used to display the empty pack of the vi*bra*tor in my showcase. I had to stop doing that when I noticed that little children who passed near my shop would keep pointing at it. Plus, the sun was also changing the pack from coloured to black-and-white. Lol. I also used to tell almost all my customers that I sell vi*bra*tors in case they hadn't seen it in my showcase. Many would be interested and ask me to show it to them. At that time, I'd not yet sold it so I'd bring it out, insert the batteries and watch as my customers either screamed with excitement or looked at strangely as it vibrated. Lol. Now, I've devised a better strategy. I hang the pack near the mirror alongside the packs of the vaginal lubricant and arousal gel. Una know sey women love mirror die na. That way, I'm sure that even a blind customer must see it. Lol.

Today is the beginning of my second year here in Igboland. I relocated to Enugu on the 30th of December 2015. (I have a picture of myself in the village that day. That's why I know the exact date. I was looking so fresh then thanks to my friend and his wife wey wan kill me with over-feeding when I dey with them for Lagos. Lol)

The business-boom season has come and gone. From my record book, it started on December 1st and ended on December 24th. Within that period, I sold a total of 75 items at an average of four items per day. Wow! I wish sey every month go dey like that. Lol.

I also noticed that I made a good decision switching to girdles, waist-trainers, body-magic, paded pants (bumbum or yansh), nighties, s*e*x toys etc. The demand is high and I'm the only one meeting that demand here in Agbani. I haven't finished selling the tops, gowns, skirts, bumshorts, jackets, jumpsuits and trousers I have though.

I'm still confused on whether to sell this Agbani container before February when the N30,000 rent is due and relocate. Or to give Agbani a second chance now that I have customers. Sighs.

Dear Lord, please give me direction.

Its that time of the year again o! Time to storm the Main Market Onitsha for cheap-cheap things. Lol.

The MTN contractors came back yesterday to continue work. It seems they've finally settled the Agbani youths. Lol.

As promised, they repaired the broken floors and tiled them. They returned this morning to finish up the repairs.

In the first picture, the MTN contractors were fixing the mess they left two months ago.

In the second picture, you can see the sand and cement.

The MTN contractors came back yesterday to continue work. We hadn't seen them since two months ago when we forced them to stop work. This time around they came prepared with the tiles, cement and sand needed to repair any damages done.

Unfortunately, they were interrupted by some young men who called themselves "Agbani youths". The Agbani youths insisted that they must be settled by MTN before the work will be allowed to proceed. We begged the Agbani youths to at least allow them fix the cable and cover up the grounds the MTN contractors had already dug up. They refused, saying that MTN was supposed to settle them even before doing the digging that morning. Furthermore, they lamented that MTN had already settled Obe youths and were trying to outsmart Agbani youths.

Wow! Thank you so much Chriswazo. I don't feel insulted at all. Your words are like bitter pills of truth to me.

You're right about God leading me to my village. If anybody told me five years ago that I would be in Enugu, talk more of Agbani or even my village, I wouldn't have believed it the same way the whole world didn't believe that Donald Trump could become the president-elect of the USA.

I was even surprised yesterday when I was going to the village from Agbani and noticed that caterpillars had dug some gutters beside the road near the ESUT back gate. I had to ask the okada man what was going on.

Me: Do they want to repair this road?

Him: Yes o! They have awarded the contract to build it down to Amurri.

Me: Na lie!

Him: You'll see it with your own eyes.

Truly, I saw that more gutters had been dug even after we passed the ESUT back gate and continued into Amurri. We've been praying for this for so many years. I pray they don't abandon it. If they finish it, then it means God brought me here at the perfect time. That road will definitely transform my village from Amurri to AMURRICA. Lol.

I'll think deeply about your suggestion and pray about it because I suspect that God is speaking to me through you. Thank you once again.

I host with GoDaddy too.

I think another disadvantage of hosting with Nigerian hosting companies is that if your content is controversial, the Nigerian government can easily bully them into shutting down your site.

Good morning everyone. I have good news. My Agbani garden has produced its first three ripe tomatoes. A rat or something bit into one so I've kept it so I can plant the seeds. While I ate the other two raw. Lol.

As for the ugu, the first set of seeds I planted, rotted because I wasn't watering them. I had to plant a new set of seeds on my birthday and have been watering them diligently since then. Five have sprouted so far out of the about twenty seeds I planted. I suspect that the soil doesn't suit the ugu so well.

Merry Christmas to everyone o!

I know sey una go dey wonder wetin dey worry me, abi? Lol. Well, I've decided to start XMAS BONANZA this November for all my customers. I've slashed the prices on all my clothes. It's like a clearance sales because I'm planning to stop selling clothes. I'll either be focusing on underwears, corsets, girdles, waist-trainers, body-magic and intimacy gadgets or I might just sell off my Agbani container for at least N70,000 (seventy thousand naira) and relocate to Onitsha to continue business there.

Whirlwind7, this clothes business is too too slow here in Agbani. And the worst thing be sey expenses pass profit. The bitter truth is that the business is not bringing in the capital needed to sustain it. Sighs. The underwears, corsets, girdle etc branch of the business is not yet saturated here and gives higher profit for now.

I'll really be sad to leave my home state Enugu but my only consolation is that Onitsha is still Igboland and is a more populated and international business city. I'm not abandoning Enugu forever sha. John who fights and runs away will live to fight another day. Lol. I'll come back to my village with a bang when I raise enough capital to establish the agricultural and business empire of my dreams.

As for now, I'm preoccupied with thoughts of how to clear my debt. Though my loving friend is not putting any pressure on me. Thank God for that. But God knows I'll never be at rest until I pay him back his money with a carton of wine and other gifts to thank him for investing in me.

Moving forward, if I eventually sell the container and relocate, I might open another thread probably titled "My Enugu to Onitsha Business Move". Thank you all for following my story. Thank you for your financial contributions and gifts. Aunty Naijacutie, I'm now wearing that watch you gave me o! I couldn't sell it since that time so I decided to keep it as a birthday gift. Lol. Thank you ma.

God bless you all.

FakoMaybach1:
When u shot them why didnt u report it...una go find trouble if them retaliate u go rush put am for blog

oga carry clock oo

SMH. Is that all you have to say? Imagine a scenario where an Igbo man blatantly trespasses on a sacred ground in the North. Wouldn't they kill that Igbo man and even other innocent Igbos around?

There is tension in Umuigbo village located in Amurri, Nkanu-West, Enugu at the moment as Fulani herdsmen have threatened to attack the villagers.

Trouble started last week when Fulani herdsmen led their cattle into the sacred Isi-Ngene stream to drink. Isi-Ngene is an ancient stream which is highly revered by the Umuigbo people in particular and the whole of Amurri in general. The legend of Isi-Ngene is such that nobody (indigene or visitor) is allowed to go near the stream without first pulling off their footwear. Nobody is allowed to fetch Isi-Ngene with plastic buckets or gallons. You're only allowed to fetch it with an earthen pot. So you can imagine the anger of Umuigbo people when Fulani herdsmen defiled Isi-Ngene by stomping it with their cattle and leaving their cattle to drink directly from the water-hole.

When the herdsmen refused to heed the warning of the Umuigbo vigilante to leave the sacred area, the vigilante were left with no other choice but to shoot down one of their cattle. The Fulani herdsmen immediately fled but have promised to attack the community. The Nimbo massacre clearly comes to mind. As at today 11th November 2016, many of the villagers have fled their homes in fear.

Ngene Chibueze John

https://enugwu./2016/11/11/fulani-herdsmen-preparing-to-strike-umuigbo-amurri/

I know all eyes are on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump today but please I also need votes to win Etisalat's pounds o! Lol. Remember I entered for their flash fiction competition. Voting ends by November 30th. You can read my entry and vote for it here: https://prize.etisalat.com.ng/flash-fiction/voteall.php?id=367

Thanks in advance.

Bugatie, Chimaruoke Nnamani transformed Agbani but he didn't build any road into Amurri. The road stopped at ESUT back gate. That's why we're angry with him and my people refused to support him when he ran for senate last year. The most painful part of the story is that Amurri people lost their lands to ESUT without being adequately compensated. My uncle lost about ten plots of his land.

Pidggin, I think this recession is a big reason. Plus maybe the saturation of clothes-sellers here in Agbani.

Cutiesoglam, amen o!

LKO, I don't buy in bales o! Have you finally started yours? I'm thinking of focusing on underwears, corsets, girdles, waist-trainers, body-magic, paded pants and intimacy gadgets. I'll advice you to give it a try as well.

Egbon mi CoolDipo, no vex abeg. I love it when you people comment. I definitely agree with you that starting small is the key to growing big.

Chief Bobug28, thank you my brother.

Uncle Renegade09, I really really really appreciate your phone call. Thank you sir.

Let me share a tip.

HOW TO CHECK THE OWNER OF A DOMAIN NAME

Go to WhoIs.com.
You'll see two search boxes. One is for searching for information on the owner of an already-taken domain name. The other is for searching for available domain names.
Type the domain name and click on "who is".
It'll display when the domain name was registered, when it'll expire and domain registration company used.
The domain name owner's information may also be displayed. That's if the owner hasn't paid to hide his/her identity.

For example, if you search for my domain name "NgeneFarms .com" on WhoIs, you'll see my name, address and phone number.

What I've just taught you now can help you if you're ever interested in buying an already-taken domain name.

I've noticed some comments on some threads here in the webmaster section complaining about inability to use Nigerian debit cards in this Buhari era. I don't understand the complaints. I haven't had the same experience with my GTB mastercard o! I bought a domain name last week (on 2nd November) via GoDaddy. It cost me exactly $16.34 or N5228.80. That means the exchange rate was $1 to N320 that day.

I just thought I should mention it in case any one here is facing challenges buying domain name with their Nigerian debit cards.

Why not buy your domain name through GoDaddy.com? It's easy and they accept Nigerian mastercard/visa debit cards. In fact, I registered a domain name for two years for about $16 (about N5,300) few days ago with my GTB mastercard. That means GTB charged me N320 per dollar.

Do you need a domain name? Or are you finding it hard to come up with a simple, memorable and brandable domain name for your site or blog? I can help you. Na my hobby. Lol.

To show you what I can do, I'm giving out the underlisted domain names FOR FREE in the spirit of my birthday (November 2nd). I checked them few minutes before posting this and they're all still available for registration.

SolutionDey .com
You can use this domain name for just about any niche you like.

Workuo .com
This one work work work works (apologies to Rihanna. Lol) for job-hunting focused sites/blogs.

forLagos .com
This domain name is self-explanatory. Need I say more? Eko oni baje jor. Lol

OperationSweep .com
I'd love to see a professional cleaning agency use this name.

ThankMa .com
Any Igbo person knows that "Mama thank ma" is said after eating mom's food. Lol. Therefore, this domain name will suit a food blog just fine.

I have many other shorter, sweeter and sexier domain names I can suggest to you. Whatsapp me on 09095000603.

Happy new year to me. I'm 28 today. No be football age o! Lol.

I went to a photo-studio yesterday and literally jumped for joy. You can see the moment captured in the picture. Lol.

Please bear with me. I'll update you all on business as well as reply your questions and comments as soon as I can. Many thoughts and ideas are battling like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in my mind right now.

Let's look at salary from another perspective. Someone once argued that salary-earners actually achieve more with their money than self-employed people. In the sense that salary comes in bulk at the end of the month and therefore it's easier to save and re-invest. While daily income comes in bit by bit and is used to solve daily needs and expenses.

Moreover, many salary-earners form saving co-operatives and are entitled to allowances, pension and loans.

In conclusion, I prefer being an entrepreneur or business-owner to being a salary-earner. Nevertheless, I think it's best to combine the two if possible. As salary-earners enjoy more financial security than business-owners or entrepreneurs. While business-owners or entrepreneurs enjoy more financial freedom.

Whether we accept it or not, blogging is the new journalism.

Many Nigerians don't understand the difference between and wordpress.org. Lol.

I started the small business today. I've been thinking about it long before now. I would've started it in August but I decided to wait until students return from their long holiday. They're returning now. Agbani is no longer as dull as it was last month and two months ago.

What is this small business I'm talking about? It's a business that deals with stomach infrastructure (as Fayose go talk. Lol). I mean FOOD BUSINESS. As in, beans and plantain. Believe it or not, I've improved drastically and exponentially in my beans-cooking skills. Lol. Thanks to the internet. Thanks also to my cousin and neighbours who tasted my beans and scored it high.

I initially wanted to be cooking rice which I noticed students love eating. However, I gave up on rice after scoring my rice-cooking F9 over and over again. Lol. Besides, I don't enjoy rice that much. Doesn't it make more sense for me to cater to fellow beans-lovers? Isn't it better I cook what I'll gladly download into my stomach even if people refuse to buy it? Lol.

From my observation of Agbani, every thing food moves here. Jollof rice, fried rice, rice and stew, garri/fufu and soup, okpa, moimoi, just name it. Students eat a lot and are lazy to cook by themselves. Even if them manage cook sef, na indomie. Lol.

I initially planned to be selling my beans and plantain every evening but after launching it today, I think I'll take a break this week and do it again next Sunday. Though my neighbours are advising me to sell it every morning. They say people prefer eating beans in the morning to eating it in the afternoon/evening.

I'm still contemplating if I should leave this clothes business totally after this year. I've sat down in my shop without selling a single item for two long weeks now. I come dey wonder if na bad-market juju person do me sef. Lol. Honestly, it's not encouraging at all.

GOOD NEWS:
The Eke Agbani mama sold the three ugu pods I gave her. She said she sold them N1,300. So I took N1,000 and told her to keep N300.

Still on the ugu matter, I've expanded the Agbani garden. I planted the ugu in four cement bags inside the uncompleted building in the compound. Can you believe I caught a tiny snake while I was clearing the soil there. I no know whether na baby snake o! But I'm 100% sure it's not an earthworm. Lol.

BAD NEWS:
I've sold my village container. I sold it N68,000 (sixty eight thousand naira). It's a big loss for me and a huge gain for the buyer. (He would've spent about N120,000 if he chose to construct, floor, roof and pay rent for a new container now that things are more Buharized. All he needs to do now is call a welder to repair the damage and pay the rent to the land-owners). I gave my cousin N3,000 for bringing the buyer. Eye wey see go chop na. Lol.

The only good thing about the sale is that I now have the N50,000 (fifty thousand naira) I'll use to pay my shop rent (N30,000) and house rent (N20,000) next year. I can also use the remaining N15,000 to venture into another small business here in Agbani.

This is interesting. If this is true, then rice smugglers are indeed desperate. Lol. Or could it be that the government may have leaked out the false news to see how Nigerians will react to it?

I was actually disappointed when I heard of the reversal. Not because I supported the ban in the first place but because a reversal will do too much damage to local investments into rice farming and production.

We need stability in policies more than anything. Stability will attract foreign investors to come to Nigeria and set up rice farms.

Stability will attract a serious investor to either partner with me on my palm plantation here in Enugu or to buy the plantation for N5million and inter-crop it with rice. Agriculture is indeed the future.

Hmmm... You've lashed two comedians in one review. Lol.

However, I'd still love to see that Bovi's movie because I've always wished he was the lead in 30 Days in Atlanta. I believe he would have played the role far better than AY.

If you've watched Bovi in the "Extended Family" series, you go understand wetin I mean. Please google "Bovi Extended Family". Bovi is a very funny actor. Lol.

This plain beans prepared with groundnut oil sounds very interesting. Naijathings, have you experimented it yet?

Aydelicious, the third recipe you're hiding must be fried beans abi? Lol. I already know how to prepare it. It's the most delicious of the three. Though ewa-agoyin should be included as a fourth beans recipe.

aydelicious:

Okay.
I will teach you Three ways you can use to cook Your beans and the recipe
the first recipe of the beans,is call plain beans
the recipe follows
=>1 derica of beans
=>1 cube of Maggi
=>3 level of teaspoons of salt
=>1 medium of onions
=>185cl of water
= > 2 teaspoons of groundnut oil
the cooking arrangement
first things you will Do you will remove the shaft from the beans
Now place your pot on a cooking gas,add your water of 185cl in to the pot,cover it to boil
when is boiling now add your beans to it and slice the medium onion to it,cover it to cook about 25 minutes
after 25 minutes open it and add 2 teaspoons of groundnut oil and one cube of Maggi and 3 level of teaspoons of salt cover it to cook till soft the
the beans is ready to serve.


The second recipe of beans,is call Beans Porridge
the ingredients recipe follows
=> 1 derica of beans
=> 1/4 of palm oil
= > 2 level of teaspoons of salt
= >1 and half of cube of Maggi
= > grounded pepper of 30 naira or 1 service spoon of fresh pepper
=>1 big onion
=>250cl of water
= >small amount of ginger
= > small amount of garlic
= > pinch of nutmeg
=>1 cup of tin milk of grayfish,the yellow one ni ooooo
=>I want you to be noticed that all the spices content has salt in it so that when you are adding it to your cooking you must be careful by using the pinch of it.
let us now start to cook our beans Porridge
the first things you Will Do, you will select the shaft from the beans.
then grayfish too,you remove the hands and the scales of it
now boil the water,when the water is boild,now turn it to the grayfish you have peeled,
when you have do that,place then at a side
then your onion, your garlic and ginger,you will now grate then together
Now place your pot on a cooking gas and add your 250cl of water in to it,wait till water boil then add your beans to it and the onion, garlic, ginger you have grated to it
let it cook about 25 minutes open it,if is somehow soft,now add your salt,pinch of nutmeg and 1 and half of cube of Maggi with free pepper or grounded pepper cover it to cook about 4 or 5 minutes
Now open it to add your palm oil and the grayfish, to steam with the beans about 5 or 7 minutes,as you are looking it ,you too you will know is ready to serve.

I don't like your domain name at all. You need a better one that'll be simple and sounds more business-like for your niche. Contact me so that we can brainstorm.