₦airaland Forum

EdoBoyJazzie:
I'm scratching my head for this but can't find an answer.
Does anybody know why the camera man and ushers don't fall?

Go and watch it it on EmmanuelTV
TB Joshua abi na TV Joshua please tell me the answer.

lalasticlala Mynd_44 please help me here. I need to know the answer.

naso2:
This story cant be true. someone please confirm.

efighter:
When you picked up arms against the Federal Republic, what were you expecting? Hugs and kisses? Well, some of your women and ladies were actually used as sex slaves within the period, so they got the hugs and kisses you were expecting when you declared war against the Federal Republic.

Everything is far and just in War and in Love.

Adaibeku:
Someone from okpanam delta carried out the political killings and they told u igbos are the cause n u believed them shouting one Nigeria ,
....fulani get sense ,just to collect power from igbos they pushed yorubas and co to act of nonsensical genocide ,

Asaba people no mercy from me ,u are all wicked ndi Nzuzu ,

For the past 52 years, the people of Asaba in Delta State have been living in deep sorrow and anguish. They have been swimming in the ocean of misery and trauma as a result of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war.

Honourable Chike Osadebey, son of Dennis Osadebey, former premier of the now defunct Mid-Western Region of Nigeria, told Daily Sun in Asaba last Thursday that because Asaba is a closely-knit community, every family was a victim of the “abomination in Asaba,” as Chinua Achebe described it.

“If you dig deep, it seems that everybody in Asaba is related to one another, so we were all affected. I had uncles, aunties and cousins, who lost their lives in the attack. We are pained that such a thing could happen that at point blank people could just be rounded up and wasted summarily in such a manner. It is genocide. We are from Asaba and it touched every family,” he lamented.

Indeed, five decades after, the Asaba mass murder is still a living trauma and tragedy. “Every Asaba woman, man or child carries a memory of genocide…a communal memory of loss and anguish,” said Ogbueshi Ofili Okonkwo.

Journey to genocide
It was alleged that the massacre was carried out to teach the Mid-Western region a bitter lesson “for their sympathy for the Biafrans.” Barely three months into the war over the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, the federal troops descended on the small town on the west bank of the River Niger.

Like possessed beings, the federal troops went on rampage, ransacking and vandalising homes, killing every man sighted and destroying homes, among other things.

The killings took another horrendous dimension on October 7, 1967. That day, hundreds of men, women and children came out chanting “One Nigeria” in support and solidarity with the federal troops. Many of them came out in their best customary white attire (akwa ocha). But the military had other plans.

They took the innocent citizens to Ogbeosowa area of the town. There, they killed hundreds of men in cold blood. And Asaba laid prostate, in ruins. A town without men.

The order for the killing was reportedly given by Maj. Ibrahim Taiwo. Ironically, Taiwo, as military governor of Kwara State, was beheaded during a coup in 1976, reinforcing the saying that those that kill by the gun will surely die by the gun.

A witness of the mass murder, Dr Cyril Uchenna Gwam, said: “The Nigerian troops that came into Asaba came with the aim of eliminating every Asaba man as they thought they were fathers, brothers and uncles of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, the leader of the first Nigerian coup in 1966 that killed Sarduana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello.

“Major Nzeogwu was from Okpanam town, which was five kilometres drive from Asaba. It would interest you to know that every Okpanam person regards himself or herself as an Asaba person. I would rather say those soldiers that came to Asaba were on a revenge mission and not after the Biafrans. But the question everybody is asking is, why would they descend on unarmed innocent civilians? It was an international calamity of which the International Criminal Court should have passed serious sentence against Ibrahim Taiwo and his cohorts for the implacable crime.”

Gwam, who saw death with his eyes but escaped by the whiskers, said that one of his uncles, Okonkwo, and himself were about to join those dancing at the square when his uncle spoke Hausa and one of the soldiers, who heard him, asked them to return to the house.

He further said that when the federal troops opened fire on the defenceless residents, Ibrahim Taiwo was excitedly shouting: “Kill them all! They are all unbelievers.”

According to him, the mass murder was not a one-off thing. “At Ogbeosowa, the mayhem was on October 8; at John Halt, it was October 9, 1967; at Saint Patrick’s College, Asaba, it was in 1968 and at Umujia, it was also in 1968,” he said.

The Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Edozien said the people did not know that the attempt to embrace the federal troops was a game of death. According to him, every village prepared and went to Ogbeosowa Square, thinking that they were coming to receive their friends but the reverse was the case.

The monarch, at a point, wept profusely as he reflected on the horrendous civil war.
He said that he narrowly escape being slaughtered. “When we got there, they separated the men from the women. The next thing we saw was that they opened fire. They surrounded our people with machine gun and they slaughtered them in thousands. Some of us who were able to escape were those that dead bodies fell upon.

“I didn’t know there another killing field, CMC Field at Ogbeosowa. Men and women filled the place. They told us to dig graves, face the graves and start saying our prayer. I was praying with other people when one Land Rover arrived. It was Barb Ali, my classmate at New Ethel College, Onitsha. He called me Sunny and asked what I was doing there. I told him I was from Asaba, that I came to join my people. He commanded me to enter the vehicle immediately and I did. One other person, John Okonyia, entered too. A few seconds after we drove out of the place, they opened fire on our people. The whole people there were mowed down. The women buried those men killed. The women went through the bodies looking for their own people because everybody wore akwa ocha. So, if you recognised anyone that you know, you take the body and bury. Vultures were feasting on the dead, puncturing their stomachs,” he lamented in Igbo.

Take this from Femi Adebajo: “The Asaba massacre was more than a single orgy of wholesale and premeditated slaughter of civillians but a series of mass killings over several days, preceded by brutality from the invading 101 Division, and separated by a background level of occasional murders, rape, looting and destruction/expropriation of property including house,”

Trophy wives
Although the soldiers raped so many women, both young and old, they “married” so many others.

Compensation
After 52 years of living with the trauma, it appears do not want to dwell in bitterness and would rather move on. Therefore, the leadership of the Asaba Development Union Worldwide seeking some form of reparation from the Federal Government apart from tendering an apology. The President General of ADU, Professor Epiphany Azige, said the least they could ask for is a university at Asaba.
Last line: When Daily Sun visited Ogbeosowa last Thursday, a cenotaph had been erected in memory of the victims, with their names inscribed on the wall.

26 year old Isa Sulaiman Panshekara wey wan marry 46 year old American citizen Janine Sanchez tell BBC for exclusive interview say e no fit love any Nigerian woman again after wetin e don taste.

"Di truth be say our women no sabi wetin be true love, it is either dem dey eye somthin or dem get plans but if white woman tell you say she love you, bros she mean am from di bottom of her heart."

Di former barber say fear catch am small after Hisbah and DSS invite am go dia office but say na just advice dem give as per say media just dey carry im news anyhow.

Di couple first meet for Instagram about one year ago.

"We meet after i start to follow her for instagram and if she post pishure i go like am, den afta small time I come see say some Yahoo boys dey try scam her, so I send her message say make she no mind those pipo so dat tin come attract her, e show her say na honest pesin I be. Na dat one first attract her."

"From dia we come dey chat wella, video calls and na all dat one lead us to this level wey we dey."

On whether dem don sleep for di same room since she come Kano 6 days ago.

"We no dey sleep for di same room, i dey stay with her till night before i go tell her good night, even dis one wey we dey do (small hugs and holding hands) pipo dey tok tokless of sleeping togeda."

Isa say im family don agree for am to marry Janine and by March di wedding go hold before im and im wife move to America.

"Afta di wedding for March by God's grace na US straight for dia I go get work, go back to school na just secondary school i stop and hopefully get soccer team wey i go play for."

On her part Janine tok say dis na her first time to visit Africa and she happy with how pipo dey treat her. She say e sweet her for belle say Isa family don gree for dem to marry.

"I don meet im family more dan 100 of dem and e sweet me say all of dem gree for us to marry, many of dem neva see white woman before, na so dem come dey play wit my hair, dey touch my hand."

Di chef for California wey dey work for Afghani Restaurant, say she dey go back America next month before she return by March for di wedding.

"I dey go back by next month and i go return for March for our wedding before me and am go move to America finally."

Finally Isa yan say im love wit Janine na proof say true love dey exist for social media and e good make pipo dey try dia luck.

Ohimai Amaize, a former AIT presenter who fled Nigeria last year, has been granted asylum in the United States, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

The journalist confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES in an e-mail Sunday. “I have just received notice of my asylum approval,” he said.

Mr Amaize, 35, departed Abuja in June 2019 following claims he was being trailed by Nigerian security agents with intention to arrest and charge him for treason and incitement. The alleged plots stemmed from a confrontation between the government and AIT and its flagship morning show, ‘Kakaaki Social’, a user-generated programme which Mr Amaize was anchoring at the time.

The Nigerian broadcast stations regulator, NBC, shut down the station for about 24 hours, alleging multiple infractions on federal guidelines for broadcasters. Although the station was reopened following a court order, its headquarters in Abuja was besieged by armed officers from the State Security Service, SSS.

Mr Amaize criticised the guidelines as arbitrary and repressive and subsequently fled to New York on June 11, citing threats to his safety by the SSS, police and other state agents and supporters. His wife, an Abuja-based fashion designer, also left Nigeria a few weeks later to join him.

American government grants asylum to individuals who have been able to substantiate claims of persecution in their home country, especially where such attacks are linked to their political opinion, religious beliefs and other fundamental rights.

“My forced exit from Nigeria last year has been a very traumatising experience for me and my family,” Mr Amaize told PREMIUM TIMES. “I am very happy and I thank God for this development.”

Before joining AIT in 2018, Mr Amaize was amongst top opposition voices highly critical of the Buhari administration. Between 2011 and 2015, he served as a media aide in the government of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria’s erstwhile ruling party which Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress defeated during the 2015 elections. He formally joined the PDP as a card-carrying member in 2015.

Although Mr Amaize was never arrested, he alleged regular threats to his life. He also frequently cited several other critics and journalists who were arrested and charged under repressive laws.

“I can now live and carry on with my life without the fear of being persecuted by the Muhammadu Buhari regime for the opinions that I express or the work that I do as a journalist,” Mr Amaize said. “Of course, I miss Nigeria so much because there is no place like home.”

Media rights advocates quickly saw Mr Amaize’s asylum breakthrough as a positive development for press freedom.

“This is a victory for press freedom, one that rekindles the hope of all defenders of civil liberties across the world,” Martin Obono, an Abuja-based rights activist, told PREMIUM TIMES. “We congratulate Mr Amaize and his family.”

Mr Obono said the expeditious manner Mr Amaize received asylum from the U.S. should put the Nigerian government on the notice that America and other nations of the free world would not tolerate any acts that stifle freedom.

The Buhari administration has continued to deny allegations of repression, saying the country’s civic space has flourished since 2015. The government said only those guilty of subversive plots were arrested, a claim that failed to hold up against mounting evidence of attacks against citizens’ fundamental rights.

“Asylum is usually a long and cumbersome process that could take years for an average seeker,” Mr Obono said. “That Mr Ohimai was able to receive it within a short period should evoke introspection of a government that is capable of reading signs from the international community.”

While wishing Nigeria a prosperous future, Mr Amaize appreciated those who supported him, especially AIT, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Human Rights First and his American attorneys Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP.

“I hope that in the not too distant future, Nigeria will return to a true democracy where a free press, freedom of expression and the rule of law are respected”, he said.

pwansunriseteam:
Of all the evil happening in the Country mbaka could not see any of them including the killings by fulani herdsmen at his backyard but can quickly see the victory if his party member at the supreme Court. He should tell us another story, as an insider of APC they have told him to go head and prophesy about the Court case and that is why you can just imagine the boldness and audacity of his fixed prophesy.

The Catholic Church should as a matter of urgency caution Mbaka or possibly ask him to step down to join politics fully.

For those of you regarding him as a real man of God, I am still waiting for the fulfilment of his prophesy about Mbuhari been the Messiah that Nigerians have been waiting for.

Nigeria is bleeped
Democracy is raped
Justice is assassinated

APCNig:
No one wants to associate with Flattinos. Even their step brothers are denying them.

Atouke:
This topic has been over flogged and I am here to end it all. Ikwerre is an ethnic group in River State in the old Eastern Nigeria but fraudulently said to be in the South South.

A creation of the Fulani caliphate to disconnect us properly from the Igbo because of the oil, I have never seen South South on the compass or map anywhere in the world.

We the Ikwerre don’t have anything to do with the Igbo, we have our ancestry through Akalaka (Destiny in Igbo language) who came from Benin and settled in the present Ikwerre land.

‘The fact that Akalaka was the direct father of Ihru ọha (Ikwerre). Iwhnurọhna, in Ikwere parlance, means the face of the community (town, city or village). Nigerian colonial history records that the name “Ikwerre” was given by the colonial administration when they wanted to acquire the Rebisi waterfront to build the wharf. Using an Ibo interpreter to talk to the illiterate Rebisi (Port Harcourt) chiefs, they asked them: Would you permit us to use the waterfront to build the wharf for ships to berth? And the Chiefs answered: A KWERULEM , meaning – “We have agreed.” (In Igbo

https://naijapolity.com/stop-dragging-us-ikwerre-is-not-igbo-and-thats-the-gospel-truth/?fbclid=IwAR0mAY6SanDH2CjGmSK8Xl1a4FKdEMEn-i8mytoYt2yQaPBqmdkiwYN-W0k

Flyingngel:
who are the south south monarchs that went there?

NGpatriot:
I have no problem with PMB taking out loans to generate economic growth and build infrastructures, but I do have issues with looters like atiku and his gang shedding crocodile tears after looting us dry and accumulating wealth and luxuries at the expense of Nigerians while people like sat quietly and said nothing.

There's a difference between the 2.

NGpatriot:
Useless man and his Oga including the looting and stealing PDP stole the largest oil earnings in the history of Nigeria and left us with nothing but darkness and abandoned projects all over the country, this clown and his boss built universities, but his own children graduated form foreign universities, now all of a sudden, he's concerned about Nigeria and the future of our kids.
So because he & PDP looted some decade ago,he should keep quiet while Buhari take the borrowing and looting to another level. Remember, the Obasanjo administration negotiated Nigeria out of debt. If every preceding govt were borrowing at the rate Buhari is borrowing, by now Nigeria would have been so indebted tthat she'll have been auctioned.


What a disgusting looter and hypocrite.