Fluency: *_30+ men are the hardest to date_ - Ladies share relationship experiences with the opposite sex*
Nigerian Ladies on social media have revealed their relationship experiences with 30 years old men and above. Most of them believe 30+ men are the hardest to date sometimes.
A Lady on the popular microblogging platform, Twitter identified as @Julesbangz said that 30+ men are so straightforward and have no chill at all when it comes to relationship.
She tweeted; “30+ men & straightforwardness
"30+ men: Hey I like you. Me: I would think about it. 30+ men: Okay I would give you 5 mins to think about it. (5mins later) 30+ men: Hey, are you done thinking about it? Me: I am sorry I really can’t 30+ men : Okay Bye nice meeting you.”
See comments below;
In reactions to the above post, fellow ladies took to the comment section to share their relationship experiences with 30+ men.
@glorivicky1 tweeted; “It’s their straight forwardness for me o This one I met Ehn….There wasn’t even a talking stage Oga just said he’s not interested in getting married He just wants a mutually beneficial adult relationship. The guy finish me with grammar Ehn”
@youaremore__ said; “30+ men are the hardest to date sometimes…it’s like they’ve exhausted every patience in their early/late 20’s..”
@PwettyTem opined; “Most of them are very indecisive. I repeat, most of them.”
@QveenJosey reacted; “Most of them are unnecessarily rude, want things to be done their ways and always want to get away with whatever they do that my sister is not straightforwardness they are so indecisive”
@a_dunnii says; 30+ guys are hard to date. It’s either they have a full blown relationship somewhere and are lying to you or they’re just unnecessarily insecure which is irritating.
In my opinion, I don't think that men in 30's are the hardest to date. I can testify to the fact that most of them are strict hence, their reason for misunderstanding it for complexity. The above comments by some fraction of women folk is a clear show of misunderstanding and does not in anyway depict the accurate nature or character of men in 30's.
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All news about crypto I have seen on nairaland front page are always bearish news. Pka "FUD"
A 10% pullback on bitcoin or ANY other coin for that matter is not new to most all crypto investors. It is common knowledge that the crypto market is highly volatile. 200% - 500% price jumps happen quite frequently.
The crypto market is here to stay. Now i may be wrong about the above, but I don't expect a notoriously backward and non-innovative platform like nairaland to support a 22nd (yes 22nd) century idea like bitcoin and most crypto.
There hasn't been any improvement on the nairaland interface ever since I joined in 2016. More than 5 years.. Most people who joined way back would likely say the same.
Most crypto tokens are backed by heavy projects that will revolutionise the entire world in a few years. Cardano (ADA) is backed by peer reviewed scientific research. Smart contracts will reduce corruption even where corruption is deeply ingrained in the culture, like Nigeria. Bitcoin can and will replace Gold as the safe haven asset. The opportunities that exist for both rich and poor in crptocurrencies are immense. Axie infinity (AXS) for example is earning people in Burkina Faso, Philippines and other poor countries at least, $100 monthly. DeFi will save us from the tricks banks use to rip us off.
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AltMon2: I tried to kill myself two times. I was really depressed - Tiwa Savage Confeses
Nigerian songstress Tiwa Savage has recently confessed in a video of attempting to commit suicide on multiple occasions.
The songstress revealed in an interview with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on ‘Bounce Live Radio’ where she disclosed that she nearly took her own life after she was bullied as a black kid in London. She said she moved to London with her mother at age 10 and also stated that her strong Nigerian assent was being mocked by her friends in school.
In her own words: “I was teased so bad. They used to call me ‘African girl’, ‘Foo foo’, ‘Your food smells’ and so on. It was terrible. It was so bad that I literally tried to kill myself two times. I was really depressed.”
Well kids all over the world do this thing and foolishly think it's fun. Some black British kids or British-Nigerian kids may even have been responsible for taunting her back in the day when she was 10 years in London.
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The promoters are desperate to earn referral bonus.
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Well, as a female, it’s only natural for you to trade based on emotions but it’s really bad. To earn more from cryptos, you need to have some set rules and a third mind. The cryptoverse is an entirely large world on its own you know There are some Foolproof trading system that i can show you (if you are ready to allocate from $2k upward into crypto) that doesn’t require you sending out your funds from your wallet (only wallet such as coinbase and blockchain supported for now) which will have you smiling each and every time you look at your wallet and I’m sure you’ll bless me with prayers when you follow this simple trading system I’ll show you (only if you show interest).
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The Answer is still E-2 visa!
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Nigerian constitution allows dual citizenship, so it is not illegal for nigerians to become a national of more than one country.
Grenada offers citizenship to Nigerian investors who can afford $150,000. These are the only citizenship by investment schemes with E-2 visa option. All the ot are quite expensive!
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pazienza: The post of Secretary of Government of the Federation was indeed rightly meant for Okwadike Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife but Anyim Pius Anyim ridiculously maneuvered himself into the position and subsequently became the symbol of Igbo abuse and misuse of the unfathomable magnanimity and opportunity offered by President Goodluck Jonathan which no previous Federal administration had offered the Igbo of Southeast since Nigeria’s independence in 1960. Under the official oversight function of Senator Pius Anyim as SGF none of the major eye-sore trunk “A” Federal Highways throughout the Southeast was rehabilitated, but he found time to construct non-existent link-roads from his remote Ishiago Village to both Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway and Uturu town.
This was paradoxically the authentic Igbo leader saddled with the task of defining who are and, who are not true Igbo and, which Igbo group should contest or not contest the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Needless to engage him seriatim his befuddling intellectually catastrophic presentation titled “Identifying the Political Interest of the Igbos of the South-East Geo-Political Zone in Nigeria and Strategies for its Actualisation.”However, it is on point to put him squarely in a square hole and his outbursts roundly in a round hole before the judgment of posterity and those Igbo of Southeast who have become drunk with the purgative wine of illusion of superior Igbo caste and mirage of 2023 Igbo Presidency. First, it is important to inform the likes of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim that being Igbo is like two sides of the same coin—one with head and the other with only inscriptions and, in this case concerning the Igbo—the positive side represented by the head and the other side defined as negative represented by the inscription side.
The Igbo of the South-South strongly accept the fact that they are full-fledged Igbo but only in so far as it concerns the positive side of collective Igbo identity. Under this circumstance Senator Anyim Pius Anyim thus lacks every facet of human capacity—intellectually, politically, or culturally to define or redefine the identity of any Igbo sub-group. That job professionally resides with anthropologists and historians, of which Percy Amaury Talbot (1926), Daryl Forde and G. I. Jones (1950), Simon Ottenberg (1959), Adiele Afigbo (1986), and the present writer (2007) are prominent.
Talking of Igbo heartland therefore it is important to let Senator Anyim Pius Anyim know that his Ishiago Village and the wider Afikpo Senatorial District he once represented do not form part of the Igbo heartland in culture, language, and physiognomy, but a transition culture zone between the Igbo and Ekoi groups of Ogoja District of Northern Cross River State. This explains why his present Senatorial Zone including his home-village was once part of the defunct Ogoja Province of Eastern Region. Even his physical body frame which is ridiculously larger than normal Igbo body side with strong non-Igbo strain, is a clear testimony of his remote ancestral origin among the Ekoi ethnic groups of Ogoja in Cross River State. So it is instructive to let Senator Pius Anyim know that mere claiming to be Igbo or having one’s home-village situated within the Southeast geo-political zone does not make one better or more Igbo than others. After all the Southeast itself has many people and communities whose ancestors were Igala, Benin, Idoma, Efik/Ibibio, Jukun, and Ekoi among others as in the case of Senator Anyim’s Ishiago.
There are core and fundamental indices that define an Igbo and, Anyim Pius Anyim did not mention any of these as lacking among the South-South Igbo, except of cause the incident of geography.
It therefore amounts to intellectual foolery for someone of his high status to begin to decide who qualifies and who does not qualify to partake in the share of an animal yet to be hunted down in the bush. It was the height of political ignorance and irresponsibility clad in undignified sense of over-blown ego for Senator Anyim to speak as if the Southeast are the reason for South-South Igbo’s relevance in national politics. What really made him to believe that the Southeast Igbo are better suited to be President of Nigeria than the Igbo of South-South is beyond the least of anyone’s imagination. It is important to state that the Southeast by their weird culture of politics have over the years constituted political liability to the Igbo of South-South rather than the other way round. No Southeast State employs indigenes of South-South Igbo in her State civil or public service, but there are a lot of Southeast indigenes employed in Delta and Rivers State till date. Similarly the trend of migration and settlement has always remained Southeast to South-South and not South-South to Southeast. So the question of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim coming to dictate which Igbo are ripe for Nigeria’s Presidency is as fortuitous as the achievement of that objective is to the Southea
It is essential to let the likes of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim to know that at no stage of their history did the Igbo of South-South demand to join the Southeast Igbo or solicit for their political mentorship. The Igbo of Delta, Edo, and Rivers States have always been contented and happy with their geo-political home-base and identity as a distinct Igbo sub-group and thus do no owe any allegiance to the Southeast Igbo, a status which could have elicited the kind of reckless utterance from the person of Senator Anyim’s status. For Senator Anyim Pius Anyim to arrogate to himself the power to decide for the Igbo of South-South the right to the Presidency of the Nigerian nation is the height of Southeast Igbo iniquitous arrogance painted in vainglorious sense of superiority complex—a complex for which reason they are mostly loathed by other Nigerian ethnic groups, including of course their South-South Igbo kinsmen.
Does it not sound ridiculous that such a Fulani personality like Senator Sani would tell off Senator Anyim for creating unholy segregation among the Igbo when other ethnic groups in Nigeria are busy with the in-gathering of their peoples outside their zones? Is it not a truism that neither the Fulani nor the Yoruba accept the existing six geo-political zones as effective political divisions? It is only among the Igbo of Southeast that such divisions are ingloriously put on as robes of ethnic identity For the Yoruba, as far as they are concerned, the concept of Southwest is only relevant in matters pertaining to State affairs and not ethnic identity or matters of collective Yoruba interest.
The Yoruba in Kogi, Kwara, Edo, Delta and the Anago of Benin Republic are one and the same people without defining who is and who is not a core or of heartland Yoruba. Ogun State alone has produced Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Obasanjo on two occasions, and Chief Ernest Shonekan and, none of the other Yoruba States ever talked about domination or the Southwest Yoruba passing a fiat stating that the Yoruba sub-groups in Kogi, Kwara, Edo, and Delta States should not vie for the office of President. Similarly, the Northwest geo-political zone has produced Ahmadu Bello, Murtala Mohammed, Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari on two occasions, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Umaru Yar’Adua, yet without anyone section of the Fulani and Hausa attempting to draw lines of separation with their kinsmen in other geo-political zones.
What Anyim does not know is that the greater part of Nigeria today has more faith in the South-South Igbo than their Southeast Igbo kinsmen for obvious reasons. First is the fact that the popular political definition of an average Southeast Igbo politician is “unreliability.” And it is this culture of unreliability that more than Fulani jihad scheme brought untold negative political consequences on the Igbo as a group in Nigeria. If the Igbo of the Southeast had been reliable, principled, and above all patriotic to the letter of their identity like their rival Yoruba ethnic group, perhaps the Fulani would not have had the leeway to break through the Southern political wall of defence. From Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to the present crop of Southeast Igbo political leadership their political identity stigma has remained “unreliability.” Every trend of events that brought about the series of Nigeria’s post-independence crisis right from the Western Regional crisis of 1962 to the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war had had the sore imprint of Igbo unreliability. Mention could be made of the shameless roles played by the likes of Chief Arthur Francis Nzeribe and his infamous Association of Better Nigeria (ABN) gang-up against Chief M. K.O. Abiola’s June 12 mandate and, Daniel Kanu’s Two Million-Man March for General Sani Abacha’s dictatorship. Perhaps one can take a short historical promenade on some special Igbo leadership on this matter of political dishonesty.
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe: The Secretary of State for Colonies Mr. O Lyttelton in his Memorandum to the 1953 London Constitutional Conference PREM 11/1367, no. 375 of 17 August, 1953 described Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe as: “an American-educated demagogue, who makes few interventions but able, persuasive, apparently moderate and wholly unreliable.” Dr. Azikiwe agreed with Chief Obafemi Awolowo in their Joint NCNC-AG Memorandum to the 1953 London Constitutional Conference to support the creation of additional Regions out of the three Regions after independence, but went ahead to betray Chief Awolowo by joining Sir Ahmadu Bello to create only Midwest Region out of Chief Awolowo’s Western Region; while abandoning the Middle Belt and CORE State Region agitations respectively in Northern and Eastern Regions. Dr. Azikiwe even directed his NCNC Members of the Federal House of Representatives to join the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) to vote for the 1962 Declaration of State of Emergency in Western Region all his bid to eclipse Chief Awolowo’s influence in the Western Region. He clandestinely joined the NPC to form a Coalition Government in 1960 against the collective interests of Southern Nigeria, and later broke it up in 1964 to form UPGA Coalition with the same Awolowo he betrayed. In 1979 he repeated the same act of betrayal when he joined the same Fulani-led Political Party form NPN/NPP accord and later realized that he could not really work with the Fulani, and then came back to Chief Awolowo again to form Progressives Party Alliance (PPA.) In both cases it was already too late to make the required political impact. Dr. Azikiwe’s culture of medicine after death has remained a cancerous political nightmare among the Southeast leadership till date.
Major GeneralJ. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi: Characteristically described as a Tally-Clerk by the patriotic and ever brilliant Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, General Aguiyi-Ironsi was indeed the most unreliable gift of human treasure God Almighty ever bestowed on the Southeast Igbo. The tragedy of his death was not that he died in the hands of those who indeed were destined to kill him, but that he died in his foolishness sending millions of innocent Igbo citizens to their untimely grave. He blatantly refused to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo and all those Action Group activists imprisoned with him for trumped up charges of treason in spite of Lt Col Fajuyi’s advise that such release would widen their support base but instead listened to the callous advice of Lt. Col Usman Katsina who advised him that releasing Chief Obafemi Awolowo would anger the Fulani leaders. He also in the same foolishness refused to release the thirty-five Tiv political activists detained without trial by Sir Ahmadu Bello for the reason of placating the Fulani leadership and even threatened to arrest Joseph Tarka for demanding constantly for the release of his kinsmen; yet went ahead to abolish the Regionalism and unified the Civil Service against the strong opposition of Lt Col Usman Katsina and the same Fulani leadership and, people are blaming the North for the counter-coup of July 29, 1967 and General T. Y. Danjuma for leading the operation. Indeed if the present writer had the chance of being there, he should have joined Major T. Y. Danjuma in that operation. To state the obvious fact, if General Aguiyi-Ironsi and the likes of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. Michael Okpara, Chief Dennis Osadebe, and Dr. K. O. Mbadiwe were killed during Major Nzeogwu’s coup of 15 January, 1966, together with Ahmadu Bello and the others killed, perhaps there wouldn’t have any need for the pogroms, counter-coup or the civil war. It was the Southeast Igbo mentality of clannish exclusivism than more than any factor brought about their untold alienation today and it seems quite paradoxically that history is fast repeating itself.
Lt. Col Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu: Chief Richard Akinjde described Col. Ojukwu as someone who “suffers from Hitler-like megalomania.” For Klaus W. Stephan, “Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had harboured an ambition to ‘alter the political constellation of power He presided over the sabotage of Major Nzeogwu’s coup in the North to placate his Fulani friends and then turned around to lead his people into a devastating civil war that claimed millions of innocent lives against the same North. He fled to exile after his defeat abandoning his officers and men to languish in detention for many years, with someone like the brilliant Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu being callously executed after the war.
He later returned from exile after thirteen years celebrated as a hero, and then turned around to betray the same people he led in the civil war by joining the same Fulani enemies to work against them in NPN. This was the reason Chief Jim Nwobodo referred to him as OGBOSO I. Not only that, he became General Sani Abacha’s political messenger working against the struggle for the actualization of the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election won by Chief M. K. O. Abiola, and ended up betraying his kinsman and Chief of Naval Staff then Admiral Alison Madueke who was subsequently removed unceremoniously from officer to pave way for General Abacha’s ascendency to power. Yet this same man is celebrated and exported as a hero by the same Igbo of Southeast. This cannot be tolerated among the Igbo of South-South no matter the circumstances. It either you are a hero and remain so for life or you are a villain with no fixed patriotic objective.
Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu: A Southeast Igbo 2023 Presidential Aspirant. This is one Igbo person who was bold and proud to state that he would support the Fulani Ruga colonization scheme against the wishes of his Igbo kinsmen because the former helped him to become wealthy in material things of life. But he failed to specify from which source they wealth came—Fulani cattle or petroleum resources deposited by nature in his father’s land? He is a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the votes of his Southeast Igbo kinsmen but ostensibly representing the interests of his Fulani mentors. On 17 June, 2015 Orji Uzor Kalu an acclaimed devout Roman Catholic joined his Igbo-Fulani kinsman Chief Rochas Okorocha to force nineteen youngIgbo men to convert to Islam at Abuja with both men giving them the sums of one and two million naira respectively to the new converts. This is the man that wants to lead Nigeria as President in 2023. Igbo kwe Nu! Abia State Mma Mma Nu!
Mr. Peter Obi: A Southeast Igbo 2023 Presidential Aspirant. This is a man who roundly fits the description of a green snake under the green grass. A shrewd businessman not uncommon with the culture of his Anambra State native home-base, he exhumes a pretentious carriage of an Angelic politician founded on the precepts of Conservative Roman Catholicism, yet he is the most crudely dogmatic politician in Southeast dangerously delineating the political terrain of Anambra State with sharp lines of denominational division between Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism. Always enchanting with a deceptive tiny soft voice clad in ostentatious humility that lives him with the simple title of “Mr”, he has underneath a fearsome character of a dictator woven in self-additive arrogance. Indeed this was clearly exhibited when he refused to render the account of the campaign money given to him during the 2019 Presidential election as demanded by both the PDP leadership and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. He was once said to have secretly granted a large expanse of land to the Fulani leadership for the establishment of an International Islamic Centre in his Agulu home-village in return for their support for his Presidential bid, an allegation he is yet to debunk. Igbo Kwenu! Ndi Anambra State Ekene Mu Nu!
The Five Southeast State Governors: Of all the State Governors of the six geo-political zones the five Southeast State Governors without exception are the most colourless and most primeval in carriage with the striking facsimile of Colonial Provincial Governors.
They speak and act as if mentally caged and with the subconscious mind of leaders whose positions are not dependent on the will of their people but existing by the grace of the Fulani leaders. They do not seem to possess any positive idea about the collective future of the Southeast they preside over. They move with the garland of Executive Governors and multiple sobriquets of political invincibility yet have not been able to define a common political framework for their zone in case the need for “go your separate ways” arises, thereby creating a deeper gorge of insecurity in the zone.
From the foregoing there is no gainsaying the fact that the Igbo of the Southeast are the most politically corrupt, culturally disconnected, economically blindfolded, socially cosmetic, and clandestinely unpatriotic, all of which are woven in the pitiable garb of religious bankruptcy, of all the six geo-political zones. They are the most fictional in character— claiming to be traditional in cultural carriage but only as it pertains their dressing mode. They lack a sublime sense of moral judgment hence it does not matter to them if they betray their own people, or engage on actions that would clearly bring negative consequences on their people. Politically they are dearth of any concise ideological orientation and so represent what the physicists refer to as scalar quantities which have magnitude but lacking in direction.
As individual businessmen—hundred percent success; but as corporate business managers—zero percent. Yet even their so-called individual business successes do not often outlive their proprietors but die as natural a death as their owners. The evidence is there and clear. Where are the Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Group of Companies, the C. C. Onoh’s Reno Drinks, Joseph Nwankwu’s Olympic Drinks and Packers, Augustine Ilodibe and his Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport Company and other subsidiary industries, Izukwu Chukwu, Chidiebere, and Osondu of Umulolo Transport Companies, to mention just a few? Above all what has happened to the once domineering Zik Group of Companies with all its subsidiary newspapers? Have they not all gone to eternity leaving their inheritors only saddled with the business of final burials through deadly disputes over inheritance and illicit sales of assets they knew not how they came about?
Bump. An article originally written by Professor Nwaezeigwe, an Ibusa man from Delta State.
pazienza: The big question here is if an Owerri man could draw such a bizarre distinction between Mbaise and Owerri—two people from not just the same Igbo sub-culture zone but within the same nuclear Uratta Clan, then what makes Senator Anyim Pius Anyim’s incendiary tantrum against the Igbo of South-South worthy of attention? Perhaps one could say because of its timing and by extension its sinister motive. Otherwise the Southeast Igbo are well known for their dog-eat-dog political culture and brazen carriage of self-crucifixion.
Just as the Owerri money lender warned the present writer and his Ngwo friend to be wary of Mbaise people so it is the common culture of the indigenes of Enugu and Ebonyi States to warn their people to be wary of people of Anambra State origin whom they refer to as” Ndi Ijeko Ebei” of which Delta Igbo are included. Similarly other indigenes of Abia State warn their people and strangers to be very cautious of Ngwa people because they eat human beings. It is also a common scenario to see the so called free-born telling strangers to avoid the other person because he or she is of Osu and Slave origin. The Roman Catholics often tell their members to be on guard against members of the Anglican Church and even warn them not to marry Anglicans. This is the core mentality of the average Igbo of Southeast. They have never taken time to ask themselves this one simple question: why is Yorubaland more developed and advanced than the Southeast and who were the agents of Yoruba development?
Thus as the Igbo would often say, “Agwo ga-amurili ife so ogonogo”—the snake must beget something long, Pius Anyim’s political paroxysm did not bring out any new conceptual character of what the Igbo of Southeast are not known for. What only makes it look novel in political terms is the fact that such hate-filled convulsion was coming out of someone who although of homunculus intellectual quantity, was once entrusted with two noble leadership responsibilities for which he exhibited colossal catastrophe.
The tragedy of Anyim Pius Anyim’s political ascendency is the tragedy of present-day Nigeria where educational disadvantage becomes the grooming ground for mediocrity in political leadership. Ordinarily within the wider Igbo intellectual and political contexts Anyim Pius Anyim should be the least person to be presented as Igbo political masquerade at the exalted level he so opportunistically or better stated accidentally attained. But coming from one of the least intellectually developed zones of Igboland Pius Anyim saw himself clad with the scary robes of political Ijele masquerade first as a Senator and then Secretary of Government of the Federation. Otherwise if his kind of person were to come from either Anambra or Imo State, including to some appreciable extent Abia State, he would have been in either Ochanja Main Market Onitsha, or Ariaria Main Market Aba selling one article or the other; or at best based at Abakiliki or Onitsha as “Charge-and-Bail” Lawyer.
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim’s opportunistic journey to political stardom only began with his oath of slavish allegiance to Sokoto Caliphate during his sojourn in Sokoto Caliphate for his National Youth Service Corps in 1987/88 Service Year. It was this oath of allegiance that eventually gave the job of Protection Officer with National Emergency Management Agency from where he widened his roles as one of the staunch members of Pro-Abacha Daniel Kanu’s Two Million-March for Abacha Presidency. Known for his habitual sleeping-on-public-occasion syndrome (SOPOS), as President of Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Anyim Pius Anyim could not point to one single achievement of collective Igbo interest. The only remarkable feat he still boasts of as a Senate President was his instigation of and presiding over the failed impeachment against President Olusegun Obasanjo.
pazienza: SOUTHEAST IGBO 2023 PRESIDENTIAL MIRAGE AND ANYIM PIUS ANYIM’S DELUSION OF TRUE IGBO IDENTITY
Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD Institute of African Studies/ Dept of History and International Studies University of Nigeria, Nsukka Odogwu of Ibusa Clan nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com ******************************************************************************In 1982 while working as a Trainee-Assistant Superintendent of Civil Aviation Signals at Enugu Airport, Emene, the present writer had one funny, yet most instructive encounter of his life that summed up the characteristic debilitating mentality of self-destruct among the Igbo of Southeast.
He had two very close friends from Southeast then. One Sunday Ogbu from Ngwo in the present Enugu State, and Joseph Okonkwo from Mbaise in the present Imo State. Sunday Ogbu was his fellow Trainee-Assistant Superintendent while Joseph Okonkwo was a Cleaner. In spite of the professional disparity the three moved on as very close pals. However of three, Joseph Okonkwo was the most extravagant in life-style and so always had as his guest one professional local money-lender of Owerri origin.
One evening as the three men were cooling off at the Transmitter Station situated at the outskirts of the Airport very close to Chief Ene’s Destiny Hotel and Quarters, the Owerri money-leader quietly appeared from nowhere with his 504 Peugeot car apparently rolled down towards them noiseless with its engine switched off and parked about half a pole distance from where the three men were sitting. The three highly perplexed men quickly took a sorrowful glance at each other and watched with confounded attention as the man opened the door of his car to step out.
It was later revealed that Joseph Okonkwo had accumulated so much interest on the amount he borrowed from the man beyond what he could conveniently pay and so had artfully been evading the man. But that very evening luck ran out of his way, and it was like the heavens had fallen down on him. Both the present writer and his Ngwo friend Sunday Ogbu were very much aware of Joseph Okonkwo’s relationship with the man and so were palpitating with anxiety over what would befall their pal in a moment. However, just as the man was stepping out of his car Joseph Okonkwo confidently and quietly got up from his seat and gently walked into the Transmitter Building like someone going to get something for the man, which was indeed what everyone else thought. As soon as Joseph Okonkwo entered the Transmitter Building the money-lender joined the present writer and his friend, and after formal exchange of pleasantries stood waiting for Joseph Okonkwo to come out of the building.
The Transmitter Building had only one exit door and only a tiny ventilation outlet quite impossible for a normal human head to pass through, which was meant to provide minimal ventilation during power outages, since the Transmitters work under strong air-conditioning cooling system. So the question of Joseph Okonkwo being in the building was out of place.
After standing for close to twenty minutes without Joseph Okonkwo coming out, the agitated guest requested the two men to go inside the building and call Joseph Okonkwo out. The two men who thought Joseph Okonkwo might to be sitting there refusing to come out since it would be impossible for the money-lender to take any rude action against him while there moved in to meet their friend, but on getting inside meet no body. Since the Transmitter Building was an open apartment housing transmitters without additional office rooms or partitions, there was no question of searching for Joseph Okonkwo. If he was not seen, it meant he was not there; and that was what was conveyed to the anxiously waiting money-lender.
Not satisfied with the message the Owerri money-lender decided to go inside the building to see by himself. On entering the building he was greeted with four standing Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) Aviation Transmitters in an open space with no reserved place for hiding. He stood motionless and speechless for a moment, and then turned towards the only opening in the building outside the main door—a tiny ventilation hole with metal protector and said “you mean that boy escaped through here or that he disappeared.” Moving outside charged up with fearsome rage, he turned to the present writer and his Ngwo friend and said, “My children listen, fear an Mbaise man! I say fear an Mbaise man! We all say we come from Owerri but when we get to Owerri, we say Mbaise one side, Owerri one side.” With these words of evergreen memory he jumped into his car and zoomed off. The next day when confronted by the present writer and Sunday Ogbu on how he made possible his escape, Joseph Okonkwo simply laughed and casually told them that he just jumped up, squeezed his head through the hole and once his head was off, his body followed and the next moment he was on the ground. Falling off from the hole, he quietly trekked into the adjoining tall grasses and took a decoy to Destiny Quarters and off to his home. ccept the fact that they are full-fledged Igbo but only in so far as it concerns the positive side of collective Igbo identity. Under this circumstance Senator Anyim Pius Anyim thus lacks every facet of human capacity—intellectually, politically, or culturally to define or redefine the identity of any Igbo sub-group. That job professionally resides with anthropologists and historians, of which Percy Amaury Talbot (1926), Daryl Forde and G. I. Jones (1950), Simon Ottenberg (1959), Adiele Afigbo (1986), and the present writer (2007) are prominent.
chimebube: A video of Nnamdi Kanu reportedly preaching ‘hate’ during his radio shows before now, have been dug out. The IPOB leader who was visibly angry in the video, said “Yoruba people are worse than Boko Haram, Any Igbo Person who attends any Church Pastored by a Yoruba Man is an Imbecil.e”.
This video has sparked lots of controversy on social media, as some people are calling him out for this. Here's the video;
This neurotic person has indeed been very careless with a long chain of recorded hate speeches including the day Lagos and other Nigerian states were devastated by the EndSars protest, using a lot of mind control on gullible followers... Loads of BS. SMH.
Nigerialabalaba: IPOB terrorists own don cast. Na IPOB terrorists dey behind all these hate speech and the terrorist attack on Lasgidi.
Read wetin the terrorist leader say before.:
https://www.nairaland.com/3854640/igbo-man-attends-church-pastored A video of Nnamdi Kanu reportedly preaching ‘hate’ during his radio shows before now, have been dug out. The IPOB leader who was visibly angry in the video, said “Yoruba people are worse than Boko Haram, Any Igbo Person who attends any Church Pastored by a Yoruba Man is an slowpoke”.
This video has sparked lots of controversy on social media, as some people are calling him out for this;
Nigerialabalaba: Nonsense. Na lie. Terrorist wey burn down Lasgidi? Lailai!
Sebi na sahareporters carry am sef. Who no sabi say Sowore and the terrorist are unpatriotic elements sef. Shiorr
If you dey confuse, we for Lasgidi no dey confuse. If dem even grant am bail, the terrorist go jump bail again. The case na criminal case no be political case o.
AUTHENTIC audio below are nnamdi kanu's orders to ipob on live Radio during endsars Protests
1hr 35Mins Destroy every bridge and kill all Police
1hr 46 mins burn down tinubu’s hotel
1 hr 42 min Burn down Nitel building and all Govt buildings in lagos, burn down Muritala Mohammed Airport
1hr 39 min kanu orders IPOB to Kill Army Officers and manufacture Weapons
1hr 47 min tinubu must go down
1hr 52 min kanu Confirmed information that Cele and Orile police Stations In lagos are on fire and Is delighted
Orders ipob to use green white green and blood as the Nigerian flag.
Tells ipob to target tinubu and Sanwo Olu and their Children
1 hr 56 min block every road kill Sabotuers
2hr.00 min Destroy everything holding the Economy of Nigeria. Burn all pipelines
2.hr09 min Kill the Army in Lekki [/b]Claims 15 people were killed in Lekki.,Set Dangote Trucks on Fire.
2.hr 15 min [b] Burn down Every Federal Govt Building attack Police.
2hr 18 mins Describes again how to make Molotov Cocktail bombs
2hr20min kanu asks where are the ipob People with Double barrel guns in Abuja?
2 hr 22 min ipob will make an example of Ikpeazu and Sanwo Olu all tinubu’s nvestments should be destroyed
2hr 24min build bombs and lay them by the roadside
2 hr 32 min kill any Governor that declares Curfew
2hr 56min kanu says tinubu’s hotel is on fire on his orders
3 hr 09 mins
burn everything tinubu owns and Dangote Trucks the war has started
Every Police Station must go down destroy all Federal Government Property burn down Lekki Toll Gate destroy Dangote refinery burn every Pastors Church that supports one Nigeria
pocohantas: I was just trying to shop for some new brassieres and the vendor didn’t have my size. I was scrolling through when I stumbled on a fine red one. Sent it to her because I wanted it. She quickly reminded me it wasn’t my size. I found myself educating a bra seller on something that would help her business.
38B... 40A. Mad cool.
Very educative Poco. Your post kinda simplified this esoteric aspect of bra size identification for me as a man.
On the other hand, wine, dark blue, pink, purple, lilac, caramel and red are bra colors that evoke sensuality for me as long as the fabric is lacy and/or silky.
Explorers: A recent discovery from an ancient castle in Austria has proven, that bras are not exactly new age.
In fact, the bras that they discovered, hidden in a vault of the castle, date back more than 500 years.
This is from the same period that Leonardo Da Vinci was still walking the Earth.
The discovery also revealed that not only is the undergarment older than previously thought but so is the ‘sexy’ This old-school bra were decorated with lace, proving Victoria had secrets half of a millennium ago.
There's no doubt women have been wearing underpants and breast supports in Europe and Asia especially in more advanced ancient civilisations such as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Atlantis and Lemurian eras going back to thousands of years ago.
Bras and underpants are way older than the mere 500 years stated here for the "sexy" Austrian castle underwears.
walkbrazil4k: I use Google translator and it is impossible to learn Portuguese in 3 months but in 3 months you can learn some A level stuffs, but if you focus on português for 3 months non stop you would get somewhere fast, determination is the key
Awesome @walkbrazil4k!
Thanks for the detailed insights on the strategies for learning Portuguese by tourists and non-tourists in Brazil.
If I visit Brazil, I'll def contact you just to say hello before returning to my country of residence.
Olu317: Awesome piece. Dubious as it is being speculated. The major reason on this issue are many but let me posit on two.
1. Inferiority complex: This is due to the fact that the founding fathers of the comprised unverified alternative faiths which basically embedded in Yoruba traditional Ela faith.
2. Language factor: Before English language became a known language, nothing heavy was known about this language which made it a challenge to speakers of Yoruba language to see English language as language of gods. After all, English language is the language of Evangelism.
And the issue became stronger between Parents and children because there are account that stated that Christians as at 19th century compelled their parents to either accept the religion of christianity or they (sons and daughters) will severe their relationship with them (parents).
walkbrazil4k: Thank you and you are correct and for my Portuguese, I am not out of A level Lol
@walkbrazil4k You're welcome.
I want to visit the city of Bahia soon as a tourist because of the historical connections between the Brazilian city and Nigeria.
Lagos Island has a significant number of Brazilian-styled houses built before 1900 by business-savvy Yoruba-Brazilians who returned from Bahia to the Campos and Popo Aguda areas of Lagos Island, Nigeria, after regaining their freedom from Brazilian and Cuban plantation slavery.
Many of them came back to Nigeria as top craftsmen and builders of beautiful houses which they had learned in Brazil.
Candido Joao da Rocha (1860 -1959) was born in Bahia to Ijesa-Yoruba parentage, and his family returned to Lagos Island in the 1870s.
He built his magnificent Brazilian-styled mansion named "Water House" or "Casa d'Agua" on Kakawa Street, Lagos Island, with an exact replica of the mansion built by him in Bahia where he was originally born.
Candido da Rocha became a wealthy businessman, financier, land owner, and the richest man of his era (becoming the first Pound millionaire in modern Nigeria).
The Alakija patriach (he changed his Brazilian name from Placido Asumpcao to Ademola Alakija to reflect his Egba-Yoruba roots after his law degree in London), was the wealthy co-founder of the hugely popular Daily Times newspaper. He was later knighted by the British Monarch and became officially known as Sir. Adeyemo Alakija.
By the way walkbrazil4k, do you currently use any Portuguese to English/English to Portuguese Language Translation apps or software? ... Or did you pick the language from informal interactions with Brazilians?
How easy is it to learn Brazilian Portuguese within 3 months?
There are text and voice apps that tourists and business travelers have been using for interacting with the locals in say France or Italy, etc.
P.S.This thread on Brazil is newsworthy and insightful. It deserves a Front Page presence and maximum viewing. Lalasticlala and Mynd44, I trust you'll move this to the FP.
Pukkah: A gang of armed robbers stormed Redstar Estate in the Magboro area of Ogun State on Sunday, killing a senior pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, Tunde Olawuwo, was killed by the robbers for refusing to cooperate with them.
It was learnt that Olawuwo, who was the area pastor in RCCG Mount Zion Parish, Agiliti, Mile 12, was also a senior auditor at Redstar Express, a courier service company.
According to Police authorities, armed men stormed the estate around 2.55am and robbed two houses before attacking Olawuwo’s house.
A senior police officer, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said, “We were told that around 2.55am, robbers attacked the estate and started shooting indiscriminately. Olawuwo was said to have hidden inside the ceiling of his house.
“The robbers probably thought he had hidden a gun in the ceiling and ordered him to come down but before he could do so, they shot him and he fell down. Before he could stand up, they stabbed him in the stomach and his intestines were ripped out.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, who was also the president of the estate residents association, was in his 50s.
Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone, said the matter was being investigated at the Ibafo Police Division.
Adejobi said the police were able to intercept the robbers and kill one of them.
He said, “When policemen heard the shooting, they moved down to the scene and engaged the robbers in a gun battle. One of the robbers was killed in the process, while the others escaped with bullet wounds.
“The corpses have been transferred to the Sagamu General Hospital and investigations are ongoing. We also call on members of the public, especially hospitals, to alert the police of anybody seen with bullet wounds within the area.”
Meanwhile, PUNCH Metro learnt that some estates located off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have been experiencing robberies recently.
PUNCH Metro had reported last week that a gang of 20 robbers stormed Ascon Trailer Park tying up the policemen on duty and stealing an undisclosed sum of money.
It was also learnt that three weeks ago, robbers attacked Brentefield Estate, Oke Afa, Magboro, and robbed from house to house for several hours before fleeing.
postbox: LOTUS Bank, a Non-Interest Bank (NIB) in the country has expanded its operations by opening 3 new branches in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria.
The new locations are Idumagbo on Lagos Island, Allen Avenue, Ikeja and Oshodi Transport Interchange on Lagos Mainland, these locations are commercial nerve centers in Lagos and serves as a strong statement from Lotus Bank’s intention to throw its full weight in the financial services sector ring in Nigeria..
The bank said in a statement that these new branches will complement its digital capabilities and enable the offering of better services to its customer base. The Oshodi outlet is a purpose-built Digital Service Centre designed to offer customers an exciting banking experience.
Poised to have its customers experience banking with ease, LOTUS Bank launches with digital offerings, which enable customers to open accounts online on the its website and transact via USSD banking. This is in addition to the issuance of free debit cards to account holders and zero account maintenance charge.
The Managing Director, Mrs Kafilat Araoye stated that, “With evolving digital solutions and a millennial generation coming into centre stage, LOTUS Bank is bringing on board innovative and comprehensive non-interest-compliant financial solutions in investment banking, consumer banking, asset management, private banking, and wealth management.
“At LOTUS Bank, we believe in fairness to all parties in every business transaction. This is a requirement for building any strong economy. Everyone can thrive where fairness prevails. Non-Interest Banking stands for equity and ethics in business, as well as growth for the real sector” she added.
“Financial Inclusion is also a strong motive for setting up LOTUS Bank. The concept of financial inclusion targeting the unbanked and underbanked population cannot remain just a concept but must be seen as an actual necessity, for the nation’s economic growth” Araoye further noted.
With a growth strategy focused on continuously evolving by providing endearing financial products, innovative solutions, and expanding coverage across regions, LOTUS Bank aims to be of service to its current and future customers, who are looking for an alternative banking model in Non-Interest Banking.
A001: Our ancestors were never idol worshippers! Look How they used their language to deceive us:
Our ancestors are “Abọriṣa” (They who feed/respect Orisha)”. “I-bọ” (to feed/respect )” this never translate “Worship”
Whitemen called us “Idol worshippers” which should literally translates “Ijọsin ere” - does this make sense to you?
“Idol” according to Merriam-Webster means: (I) an OBJECT of extreme devotion (II) a representation or symbol of an object of worship.
The above definitions of “Idol” is the same description for what we call “Ere” or “ọmọ langidi”
One should be curious to ask: How does “Idol” mean/translate “Orisha”?
How does “worship” which direct translation is “Ijọsin/Isin” mean “bọ” (which is “Feed” &/or “respect” in English)?
This is the hogwash they fed us to misconstrue the practice of the ancestors and ridicule it.
We were never “IDOL WORSHIPPERS” Our ancestors were craftsmen & Art lovers. They made idols, figurines in the image and depiction of nature, irunmọles, Orisas & predecessors.
They have these icons in their shrines as a point of connection to a respective divinity just as the Abrahamic religionists and other religions have the statues and the pictures of their religious figures in the church, mosques, temple respectively.
Now, my question is: how true are these claims? I'm coming across them for the first time.
Cc: macof, TAO11 or TAO12, Olu317, Konquest, musicwriter, OtemAtum, et al.
@A001
Thanks for the mention and the deep insights. You're spot on about what you posted.
I'm not an adherent of the Ifa or Yoruba religion but I respect the adherants because of the deep knowledge of karma or the teachings of the spiritual laws of cause and effect.
Did you know that as recent as the 1950s census, adherents of the Ifa faith (Yoruba religion) were MORE than the Christians in the entire Yorubaland? Muslim Yorubas were more than the Ifa adherants as of the 1950s though.
The late 1890s census of Lagos island with a population of not more than 50,000 had the Yoruba religion adherents being more than the Muslim and Christian natives, and non-natives!
The 1950s census that I first read in that Nigerian history book back in the late 1980s, also showed that on the national level, adherants of the different traditional religions were more than the Christians in especially the Middle Belt.
The Yoruba religion (Ifa) is an international faith in Cuba, Brazil, U.S., UK, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Columbia, Guyana, etc, with white and black adherants.
The beautiful and iconic names such as Fayemi, Fayose, Fasola, Falana, Falola, Awolowo, Awomolo, Awori, etc, are proofs that the Ifa and Awo played and still plays a defining role in the ascendancy of the Yoruba people.
Even the term Babalawo is the official name for Ifa priests in the Yoruba religion just like we have a reverend father in the Catholic religion or a monk in the Buddhist religion, or a Magi of the Zoroastrian religion of Persia (or Iran) which gave birth to the Pharisaic Judaism via Cyrus the Great of Persian Empire who is called "my King of Kings" in the beginning of the book of Ezra by the so-called prophet Ezra.
"Shah han Shah" written on ancient Persian burnt clay tablets unearthed by archaeologists means "King of Kings!"
Cuba alone has more than 5.000 Babalawos or Ifa priests. The former two-term Vice-Chancelor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Wande Abimbola is a Babalawo just like other prominent professionals who are Ifa priests. It's criminal defamation for any ignorant Christian or even a Muslim in the media to falsely accuse Babalawos of human sacrifice based on fictional Nigerian movie scripts.
Babalawos are aware of the karmic repercussions of doing evil and teach the purity of thought.
The freedom to practice any legit faith is important instead of some people trying to dubiously claim that only 2 religions exist in Nigeria when I'm aware of at least 10 distinct faiths being practiced by folks in Nigeria.
walkbrazil4k: What many people abroad don't tell you is that you can make a lot of money selling on the street abroad and In many countries, you need to register your business or your goods would be seized, many foreigners sell on the street in Brazil, I have seen a man from Portugal disturbing flyers in Brazil, that is his job.
I told you guys that I am talking about brazil from the street level. In Brazil, you can make money that way as well, but you need money because you have to buy a car and then buy a food truck.
Let's say you make 100reais per day and you work for 26days in 1month that is 2600reais and that is 190k naira monthly
Your Nigerian certificate can't help you here unless you teach English or work directly from Nigeria. We don't speak English in Brazil.
Brazilians already love Akara, they call it Acaraje in Brazil, then find a good spot park your truck and start selling, The man in the video is the king of fries in Rio.
Many of our people abroad do these kinds of jobs so I am not saying something new it is just that they would never tell you what they do abroad, some do but not all.
So all I am trying to say is you can make money abroad if you are willing to work.
I have a friend in America and he is an American citizen now and he's got an associate degree and he does security and he is proud of his job, in fact on this Facebook and WhatsApp he has pictures of him on his security uniform, many people cut flowers in the USA but they won't tell you. so this is just another way to make money in brazil. Remember I am talking about brazil from the street level
Dayum! That's an insightful sub-titled video on street foods in Brazil. I watched the full pre-Covid video.
A visible location, clean and lively ambience would always bring in a good return on investment.
Second, how fluent are you in the Brazilian variant of the Portuguese language?
As for the akara delicacy which the Yorubas of Nigeria and Benin Republic first introduced into the Bahia region of Salvador State in Brazil between the 1700s and 1800s when thousands of Yorubas (Ijesas, Egbas, Oyos, Ekitis, Ijebu) who were sadly deported on slave schooners to Brazil, Cuba, U.S., Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago,Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Sierra Leone, etc, took place.
The positives from the trans-Atlantic slave trade is that the Yorubas took their religion of Ifa, language, culture, and foods such as moin-moin and akara to the Americas.
In Bahia, the Yoruba descendants and other Brazilians call it "acara je" (Akara Ijesa).
The Yoruba Akara fried bean fritters (fried in palm oil, soya or groundnut oil) is known as Kosai by the Hausas of Northern Nigeria and Niger Republic who mainly use groundnut oil.
ochon: Personally, I can't date or marry any girl that doesn't have a tinge of jealousy for me, and vice versa.
Small jealousy or moderate jealousy is needed, it shows one cares about his or her significant partner. Jealousy is man's nature, so it's nothing to be ashamed of.
However excessive or over-the-top jealousy, is a no-no for me. It kills my love for a girl faster than a marksman bullet to his target. When a girl gets overtly jealous over little things, or even ask I cut off my female friends that have been there before she came, without any CREDIBLE reason(s), then I'll have to find my way out of that relationship. Most times, it leads to headaches from the nagging partner.
But one partner should try his or her best to be open about his or her dealings with opposite genders, to reduce his or her partner's chances of getting overtly jealous. Don't give him or her reasons to get overtly jealous.
Nollywood actress, Inem Peter has put out an announcement that she is ready to settle down and eligible bachelors should approach her.
In a post she shared on her Instagram page, the actress set her pride aside to reveal that she is ready to be a respectful and dutiful wife to her husband[color=#d7e0c9].[/color]
According to her, she woke up this morning craving a husband and is willing to do anything for him. She further added that she is willing to lose weight if he doesn’t like her present weight, as long as he gets married to her.
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