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Cjrane2:
Afonja
Heart of darkness and evil

Na wa, o! Wait sef, na wetin dis Afonja people cook for you chop? The thing dey strong well-well, because you no even fit mention any other tribe for Nigeria, na only dis one...

AntiWailer:
Na this jew dressing I no understand.

Yeah... I thought he is from Umuahia?? Why isn't he wearing an Isiagu and ankara wrapper? With the woolen cap?

holysainbj:
and u are 30+ right?
this was a simple argument and u r sounding this pained? ok sir 30+

Nah... pained, ke? Over what?? You?? Let me laugh very well...in Chinese! Kids like you are too amusing for words.

It is 72 hours to the 51st anniversary of the first military coup which took place in Nigeria on the 15th of January 1966.

May the souls of the departed, continue to rest in perfect peace...

holysainbj:
They are failed, yet u refuse to run every election year?
So NYSC is for humanitarian purposes now eh? no longer what the fed govt penned it down to be, the purpose is then defeated..
I leave u to your presumptions

Does a person need to run for election, every election year even if he/she does not have any political inclination to do so? And what are the aims of the NYSC that the federal govt penned it down to be? Do those aims conflict with the provision of doctors or teachers, to underserved communities? Enlighten us please, if you can. Oh I forgot.... I am actually talking to a small twenty-something year old fresh graduate of a university, who has gotten carried away by the euphoria of getting his first job!!

Let me laugh very well in Chinese!

More excerpts from articles about the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Baban Kowa: A Tribute To Cop Who Found Tafawa Balewa, Okotie-Eboh’s Bodies
— Sep 11, 2015 3:43 am | By Jaafar Jaafar.

On Wednesday morning, the nation awoke to the death of one of the gallant policemen Kano State, and perhaps the nation, has ever produced. He was Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Babankowa – a policeman, a businessman, a politician, and traditional title holder.

Aside leading the operation that led to the discovery of the bodies of late Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, First Republic Minister of Finance Festus Okotie-Eboh and others, Babankowa also led the earliest offensive against Maitatsine insurgents of Kano, helped in quelling Tiv riot and the Wild, Wild West crisis..... An all-time opposition politician, Babankowa remained reclusive in the last one decade at his Tokarawa residence.

Babankowa was the most regular goer of Tafsir sessions of Tijjani Bala Kalarawi at ‘Yanbaher in Fagge area.

But how did this gallant cop find the late Prime Minister’s body? Below is his account in an interview with Vanguard:

“I remained at Sango-Ota up to January 15th 1966, the day the first military coup took place in Nigeria. On the night of the coup, I was at a police checkpoint in Sango Ota when a convoy of Army Land Rover, Trucks, and two Peugeot saloon cars were moving from Lagos to Abeokuta and we had no cause to suspect anything sinister because they were military vehicles presumably on a complimentary patrol to restore order.

“Little did I know that those military vehicles were indeed conveying the Nigerian leaders to their death? We were perhaps the last group of people that saw them alive. We later discovered the vehicle stopped about three kilometers away from our checkpoint and diverted into a nearby forest where they shot and killed the Prime Minister, Okotie-Eboh, and this was on a Friday night, January 15th 1966.

“About an hour later these same military convoy came back and headed towards Lagos. The following morning we learnt that there was a military coup. While the chaotic situation remained, the prime minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa was reportedly removed from his residence and taken to an unknown location.

How did you discover where the Prime Minister and the minister were dumped?

“I got a clue on the fourth day of his death I had gone to the clinic at Sango Ota to get medication at the only clinic then in the town that equally served as General Hospital, when I picked a loose conversation between some patients at the clinic.

They said in Yoruba that there was an unpleasant smell around their neighbourhood, and they didn’t know what was causing it and I later found out that those women came from a village along Abeokuta highway.”

What was your reaction to the clue ?
“The nature of the operations dramatically changed as I divided my anti-riot unit squad into two. I deployed a unit to comb the area, and that was how we came across the spot in the forest where we beheld a horrible spectacle.

What did you discover?
“We saw the decomposing corpses of the Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Chief Okotie –Eboh , Colonel Kur Muhammad, Colonel Abogo Largema and two others.

I was shocked and reported my findings to the Inspector General immediately through the nearest police station at Ikeja Provisional Headquarters where the officer in charge, Alhaji Kafaru Tinubu, allowed me access to use the facility. I told the IG that I had sighted and identified the dead bodies of the Prime Minister and others and that I was awaiting further instructions.

Incidentally the substantive IG, the late Mr. L O Edet was on leave and the late Alhaji Kam Salem was acting. I was subsequently directed to move to the Force Headquarters and to facilitate my quick arrival he asked me to use siren when coming to Lagos.

By the time I got to Lagos, General Aguiyi Ironsi had already taken over power as the first military Head of state , and located himself to the Moloney Street Force Headquarters. Before I was let in, I was disarmed by the military personnel who were there waiting for me. They seized my weapons a gun and a pistol.

They also went ahead to remove my boots, belt and cap before I was marched bare footed before the Inspector General who was sitting in company of the new Head of state, General Ironsi.

As I arrived in the office, Kam Salem did not utter a word, but General Ironsi said to me in Hausa, “officer, Ka ce kaga gawar Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa da ta wasu mutane”? meaning “Officer you said you have sighted the corpses of the Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and others”? and I said “Yes, Sir”.

General Ironsi asked again “How did you know him”? and I said “ well I had worked with the Sardauna of Sokoto as his Security officer, and Sardauna and Balewa were very close, and I knew the Prime Minister very well”.

What happened thereafter?
I was marched out, and General Ironsi directed I should be detained at the Naval Base, Apapa, but the IG told him that “if you wouldn’t mind we can put him in detention here in our own custody and produce him at any hour you want him.’‘ General Ironsi accepted the IG plea, and I was hounded into detention at Yaba Police station.

At about mid night the ADC to the late Prime minister, Mr Kaftan, and the then Madaki of Bauchi who was an in-law to Alhaji Tafawa-Balewa came with an ambulance and a truck full of coffins, secured my release and directed I should lead them to the spot where the corpses were.

What happened at the forest?
We saw the mangled body of the prime minister crumbled under a tree, his cap (zanna) was lying by his right side. He wore a pure white guinea brocade gown which had already changed colour. As a result of advanced decomposition, numerous worms were coming out from his body.

We rolled over a white cloth, and had to bring my weight on his knee in order to straighten it to get a perfect position. We attended to the prime minister body first before others, and I marked his coffin with an Arabic inscription to avoid mix up. We conveyed his remain to the VIP section of the Ikeja airport where there were two waiting aircraft.

The Prime Minister’s corpse was placed in the baggage compartment of one of the aircraft which was also conveying members of his immediate family back to Bauchi for burial.http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://leadership.ng/features/460219/baban-kowa-a-tribute-to-cop-who-found-tafawa-balewa-okotie-ebohs-bodies

holysainbj:
Now u r getting to my point, why should it be required to get a job? and u say people clamouring for the scrapping are highly ignorant? I hear u sir, u now know better than ur teachers, than those young guys up there in the senate wanting the scrap of it, yes, young guys who have seen that its truly not worth it just to gallivant, socialize for 1 yr, one year! the older senators will always fight it, have they finished filling their pockets from the scheme? so it must go on ...
On a lighter note, it should be made a thing of choice but not mandatory and a job requirement.

You are using those chaps in the Senate, most of whom are faulty, failed, unscrupulous politicians as your yardstick??!! I laugh in Greek!

Someone else has told you clearly on this thread, that if not for NYSC some communities would NOT have any access to a doctor or a teacher...and you are still here claiming NYSC is not worth it. Let me leave you to your delusions!

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Cire80:
80%of the members in that page are from the East. Is it the moderator that makes the comments on post? He is one person and only comment for one person.

Guy, you have laid out the facts clearly in most of your posts. There are some folks that will still refuse to believe the truth, and will continue spewing insults, because of the way they have been raised. You can't do anything about those who have been programmed with a default mindset that screams 'ignorance.' Just siddon dey look.

Hmmn...

In another 72 hours, Nigerians would witness the 51st anniversary of the first military coup in Nigeria. That coup took place on January 15th 1966 and it also took the lives of political leaders such as the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Prime Minister of Nigeria - Sir Tafawa Balewa; the late Finance minister Chief Okotie-Eboh and several others.

Tafawa Balewa, a man of distinction

The same coup that consumed the Sardauna also snuffed life out of the nation’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on January 15, 1966. He was abducted and later killed by Emmanuel Ifeajuna, one of the five majors that plotted the first coup, and who was assigned the role of operation in the mutineers’ action plan.

His body was not found until Jan. 21 that year. Born in 1912 in Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was described as a ‘cool figure’ who pre-occupied himself with holding together Nigeria’s more than 250 ethnic groups. Presiding over some major political upheavals in the nation’s history, he was a man guided by a sense of moderation and the 1965 election crisis in the Western region was his greatest challenge.

Popularly referred to as ‘Balewa the Good,’ he had a humble background from the Jere ethnic group (a branch of the Hausa). His assassination was described as “the most regretted in Nigeria,” due to his humility, Spartan lifestyle, commonsense, and tolerance.
A man of “unusual authority” and “possessed of the gravitas of a statesman,” Tafawa Balewa must have been a soothsayer of sort to have foretold what a post-independence Nigeria would look like.

According to his biographer, Trevor Clark in his book “A Right Honourable Gentleman: The Life and Times of Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,” Balewa had said that “an independent Nigeria would be likely to founder on tribal differences and on corruption,” and he was doubtful whether the British-style Wesminister democracy would be the ideal system for an ethnically divided Nigeria.

He never under-estimated Nigeria’s political weaknesses and was said to have admitted Nigeria’s cross road status in pursuit of political relevance: “The trouble is that the Nigeria Member of Parliament wants to criticize the government and to be in it at the same time. Democracy, democracy, what is it? There is American democracy –British democracy. Why not Nigerian democracy? I wish we could find that.” Perhaps the search has continued to elude Nigeria.

Described as the man with ‘the golden voice’ because of his oratorial powers and eloquence, Balewa spoke “convincingly, meaningfully and truthfully,” concerning the imperative of justice and transparent honesty, as he was reported to have told the Chief Justice of Nigeria (1958 to 1972), Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, who himself wrote a forward in the above-mentioned book. “I remember one of his sayings to me from time to time, ‘CJ, if I do anything wrong and I am brought before you, deal with me; and if necessary send me to jail….” Sir Adetokunbo wrote that Balewa often repeated and emphasized this point.

And as a measure of his sincerity in his task of building a new nation, Sir Adetokunbo said the prime minister had often put himself on the spot by his own utterance. “If this people do not want me any more, all they need do is to give me about two hours’ notice, and this is enough for me to pack my few belongings here and leave.”

Unfortunately the assassins never gave him the chance to once again display that modesty that leadership should bestow and which only the great Balewa had monopoly of.

Again, to quote Clark, “his murder in 1966, perpetuated in the arrogance of ignorant brutishness, appalled and affronted me as did countless others…” http://www.arewaonline-ng.com/sardauna/articles_002.html

rusher14:
Alpha Phoenix Consulting = APC.

Wicked!!! Hehehe.....

Here is a copy of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's speech, when Nigeria got her independence from the colonial masters. At the time he died, he left behind a single storey building that served as the late Prime Minister’s living quarters and study. It housed his 4 wives and children. He did not leave millions in his bank account or foreign investments in other countries.

.... Today’s ceremony marks the culmination of a process which began fifteen years ago and has now reached a happy and successful conclusion. It is with justifiable pride that we claim the achievement of our Independence to be unparalleled in the annals of history.

Each step of our constitutional advance has been purposefully and peacefully planned with full and open consultation, not only between representatives of all the various interests in Nigeria but in harmonious cooperation with the administering power which has today relinquished its authority.

At the time when our constitutional development entered upon its final phase, the emphasis was largely upon self-government. We, the elected representatives of the people of Nigeria, concentrated on proving that we were fully capable of managing our own affairs both internally and as a nation.

However, we were not to be allowed the selfish luxury of focusing our interest on our own homes. In these days of rapid communications we cannot live in isolation, apart from the rest of the world, even if we wished to do so. All too soon it has become evident that for us Independence implies a great deal more than self-government. This great country, which has now emerged without bitterness or bloodshed, finds that she must at once be ready to deal with grave international issues.

This fact has of recent months been unhappily emphasized by the startling events which have occurred in this continent. I shall not labour the point but it would be unrealistic not to draw attention first to the awe-inspiring task confronting us at the very start of our nationhood.

When this day in October 1960 was chosen for our Independence it seemed that we were destined to move with quiet dignity to place on the world stage. Recent events have changed the scene beyond recognition, so that we find ourselves today being tested to the utmost

We are called upon immediately to show that our claims to responsible government are well-founded, and having been accepted as an independent state we must at once play an active part in maintaining the peace of the world and in preserving civilisation. I promise you, we shall not fail for want of determination.

And we come to this task better-equipped than many. For this, I pay tribute to the manner in which successive British Governments have gradually transferred the burden of responsibility to our shoulders. The assistance and unfailing encouragement which we have received from each Secretary of State for the Colonies and their intense personal interest in our development has immeasurably lightened that burden.

All our friends in the Colonial Office must today be proud of their handiwork and in the knowledge that they have helped to lay the foundations of a lasting friendship between our two nations. I have indeed every confidence that, based on the happy experience of a successful partnership, our future relations with the United Kingdom will be more cordial than ever, bound together, as we shall be in the Commonwealth, by a common allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, whom today we proudly acclaim as Queen of Nigeria and Head of the Commonwealth.

Time will not permit the individual mention of all those friends, many of them Nigerians, whose selfless labours have contributed to our Independence. Some have not lived to see the fulfilment of their hopes—on them be peace—but nevertheless they are remembered here, and the names of buildings and streets and roads and bridges throughout the country recall to our minds their achievements, some of them on a national scale. Others confined, perhaps, to a small area in one Division, are more humble but of equal value in the sum-total.

Today, we have with us representatives of those who have made Nigeria: Representatives of the Regional Governments, of former Central Governments, of the Missionary Societies, and of the Banking and Commercial enterprises, and members, both past and present, of the Public Service. We welcome you, and we rejoice that you have been able to come and share in our celebrations. We wish that it could have been possible for all of those whom you represent to be here today:

Many, I know, will be disappointed to be absent, but if they are listening to me now, I say to them: ‘Thank you on behalf of my country, Thank you for your devoted service which helped build up Nigeria into a nation. Today we are reaping the harvest which you sowed, and the quality of the harvest is equalled only by our gratitude to you. May God bless you all.

Sources:
_{Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Mr. Prime Minister: A Selection of Speeches Made by Alhaji the Right Honourable Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, K.B.E., M.P., Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Apapa: Nigerian National Press, Ltd., 1964).} - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/1960-sir-abubakar-tafawa-balewa-independence-day#sthash.AaOqRtb6.dpuf

holysainbj:
I have just one question for you. NYSC has been so great but yearly why is there debate for it to be scrapped off? or u haven't heard of it?

u got ur job after NYSC, or u were offered one during NYSC, I got one a good one immediately I wrote my last exam in Uni.

Those who enter into a debate for NYSC to be scrapped are either highly ignorant, or have not taken out time to research about how the programme can be beneficial to them.

As for the 'good' job you got after writing your exams in the university, it would be an entry level position. Let me offer my congratulations. Come back after one year on the job, and share your experience here. Organisational culture and office politics has a way of colouring one's experiences.

If you however decide to switch jobs, or work for a multinational in the future, they would definitely request for your NYSC Certificate.

I do not subscribe to the appointment of non-diplomats as ambassadors. They usually end up putting their foot in their mouth, and creating negative issues for their countries, abroad. So what are career diplomats expected to do? Sit down and twiddle their thumbs while external parties are being appointed? Yuk!

holysainbj:
Get sense or at least borrow one
You are probably one of those kids that still fantasize about NYSC not knowing its truly one year wasted if not two years with the incessant delays now, ur type will probably wear ur NYSC khaki and cap to bath. If anyone has relevant info on it pls do well to share.
Let's skip the part of being hypocritical, most graduates who have served would attest to the fact that NYSC is one year wasted.

Who are those that fall into this your category of 'most graduates' that claim NYSC is one year wasted? Kindly name them. Do they constitute 10% or 50% of those who served on the programme? Oga, you need to stop generalising and speak for yourself.

My own NYSC year was great. It exposed me to a lot of projects and wonderful people drawn from different sections of the country. I was even retained by the company I served in, but I had to decline their offer, as I got an even better job after the year was up. In fact, the projects I worked on during my NYSC year, helped in no small measure to secure that job!

mfm04622:
I keep saying it. If you say NYSC is a waste of time, there are two things involved. I is either you haven't served or you worked your way to where you contributed NOTHING, so it was truly a waste. If you really served, you will contribute to either the present or the future of this country. Corp members in the medical profession contribute to the present while other who primarily serve in the education sector contribute to the future of this nation. The truth is that some pupils/students won't have teachers if not for the NYSC programme. So people won't have access to the presently poor medical services if not for NYSC.
I know many ex-corp members that contributed so much to where they served that they were offered appointments (mostly teaching jobs which most rejected). I also know of those dashed lands and other things by the community. Go where you are posted and do your bit for humanity. Like some have done for you.

Thank you, o jare!! You talk am well. It is such a relief to hear such words of wisdom for a change.

adioolayi:
And do you have LASEMA in Lagos Two Years ago

See the excerpt below. Does it answer your question?

Lagos State Emergency Management Agency

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) was established vide LASEMA Law 16 of 2008 for emergency and disaster management in the State in pursuance to decree 12 of 1999 as amended by Act No. 50 of 1999 which established the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

The Agency is responsible for the overall co-ordination of emergency management in Lagos State, working closely with all its Stakeholders. It came into existence in February 2007, the legal framework establishing LASEMA was signed into Law on July 22nd, 2008 by His Excellency, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN)

The Agency was statutorily charged to provide adequate and prompt response as well as sustaining intervention in all forms of emergency/disaster situations in the State within the territorial boundary called “Lagos”.

It performs this onerous task through Emergency/Disaster prevention preparedness, mitigation, recovery and relief.

The law that set up the LASEMA did empower the Agency to coordinate the activities of all its stakeholders and NGO’s who are categorized into Primary, Secondary and Tertiary responders in management of all emergency and disaster situations in the State as well as also to build their capacity toward increasing response capability.http://lasema.lagosstate.gov.ng/

softMarket:
Things like this happen after u ate a good pu.ssy!

Na today him marry her? .........NO

Abeg....na puna cause this!

satowind:
this man marry olosho still they praise her

They are NOT married!! She is his live-in lover, baby mama or olosho! Take your pick!

TeamSimple:
Infact those LASEMA people they give person goose bumps

Which yeye LASEMA? Do you think if that truck contained gas, they would have been able to manage the situation?? Two years ago when a petrol tanker fell at the same spot, where were they? It was the Chevron fire service & personnel, along with the mobile police stationed inside Chevron premises, that swung into action. That day, a journey of 30 minutes ended up taking 4 hours on that road. And some hare-brained, useless, backward individuals with a death wish, still jumped on the road and started scooping fuel from the truck!!

omogidi234:
Only that you cannot scoop gas, people would have rushed that tanker. I heard that the ship that is laden with Gas is still on high sea, that is why gas is scarce. Come do we need to import gas again?

NLNG produces the gas used in Nigeria, at their facility in Bonny. A smaller vessel is used to evacuate & transport the gas from Bonny to Lagos, from where different gas trucks then load & distribute it to other parts of the country. It is that smaller vessel that has been at the NOJ jetty in Lagos for the past 10 days now, and is unable to offload its contents. It is all due to poor logistics control on the part of the authorities & NNPC.

By the way, NAVGAS terminal in Apapa has cooking gas in stock.

redcliff:
These people dey think say water go quench gas explosion wey big like this. E be like say them never see where gas of this magnitude dey explode before. E go even explode the water sef

Thank God the truck was not loaded with LPG or cooking gas. That stretch of the road would have gone up in flames!!

Enice:
from this biography, Banjo was a Biafran soldier, died a Biafran soldier and was from the SW.

Well, he paid the price for being a Biafran soldier...

Cire80:
Ika has never accepted being Igbo neither has Ika ever been Igbo. Igbo is like Igbon in Ika language which means slave. Aniocha land is referred to as Ozhi'igbon by Ika people which means road to slavery . The slavery here is the East. The Igbon is from the name Igbo. This shows that we in Ika area regards the East as Igbo and slaves as well and the Enuani areas as where you pass through when going to Igbo land. This is in no way derogatory against the Enuani but it's targeted at the Igbos.

Wha-aa-at?? You don't mean it!! Are you kidding me??

ehikwe22:
the interview was concocted from the bedroom of IPOB, The chief propaganda unit of NDIGBO

Redbonesmith1:
It is not historical fact. The Owerri migration is historical speculation by Onwuejeogu and nothing more.

Cire80:
All they do is concoction, speculation and propagation (in cheruv's) words.

ROFLMAO!! Make una take time, o! Una wan take laugh send person go hospital??!!

dragonking3:
How can you be referring to NL posts when the main center of attention is the facebook post. Ngozi, it is you that is filled with hypocrisy.. Your people are complaining and accusing their fellow brethrens who are ready to sell them to make money and you are here to look for people that will comment on NL while avoiding the main issue on ground. How dumb and cowardly. That's the exact same thing you and that other guy did on one other thread. This is very shameful what you did. SMH

You should know their modus operandi by now. Any negative thing that happens to them or their kin, even when they are the direct cause or their brethren... must always be blamed on an external 3rd party.

They will always leave the root cause of a problem, and chase its symptoms, or vilify those who have called their attention to the problem, instead of taking steps to address it, themselves. Some people have attributed this syndrome to selective amnesia. It afflicts most IPOBians.

enemyofprogress:
Seun as the founder of nairaland you and nairaland suppose to be neutral on this kind of issue. The igbo people have the right to agitate for whatever they want and you have no right to stop them except there is something you are not telling us.

Please agitate for it on www.biafr'aland.com

Cire80:
Because the typical Onitsha indigenes don't call themselves Igbo. Even now that Igbo is all around them and they're in the South East, some of them still don't like to be called Igbo.

Oh, I see. That explains it then...

Cire80:
There is no king in Igbo land that uses the Obi title. Obi doesn't mean king in Igbo language. It's only recently you see some adding Obi so so and so, Eze of so so and so. Now they're even borrowing Ada and Ebeni from us.

All the Kingdoms that use Dein/Dei are Anioma people. Dein originated from Agbor and it's in use all over Ika and some Anioma area. Recently, I started seeing some Igbo write nonsense about what Dei means in Igbo. Dei doesn't mean in Igbo but you people tried to ascribe Igbo meaning to it but it's dead on arrival. How can you say Dei is from di anyi? They are not even close at all. This is the ridiculous meaning you guys ascribed to it.
It's like saying Igbanke is from Igbo akiri when it's well known that Igbanke is coined from the names of the two largest villages of Igbontor and Ake. Some people here some time ago wrote about how Agbor was founded by Omini Eze Ijie from Umuleri because the name of Agbor was Ominijie. Ominijie is an Edo name. Doesn't have anything to do with your imaginary Omini from Aguleri. Ain't you guys ever tired of propaganda?

Are you arguing about igala culture in Anioma land?

Don't mind them. They are revisionists. But wait o... isn't the king of Onitsha referred to as the Obi of Onitsha? I am scratching my head, trying to figure this out.

Cire80:
thanks. I saw this yesterday and I laughed in my mind because it only confirmed what I already knew. The reason I didn't confront him with it is because I knew he would twist it like he always does. That's what him and his brothers are best at doing.

Na true word you talk!! The secrets are being revealed...

Wulfruna:
Cire80 was right. He said you were going to twist this.

I have been on this forum long enough and have seen your comments long enough to know you have no connnection to Anioma. You are from Imo-Abia axis as your comments bear witness. You only started calling yourself Anioma on the other thread, much to my puzzlement because no be today I don dey see you for this forum.

You better go and start wiping your history, because when I have time i will start digging them up. Including one comment where you clearly insinuated that you are NOT from Delta.

Chimo!! Another Sherlock Holmes has uncovered this chap's antics! I beg, start the digging, o. Some of us are eagerly waiting for the truth to be revealed...hehehe!

Redbonesmith1:
Heard of Odeke in Ibaji?

And what exactly is their ancestral history? Is that not the same Odeke where the new Orient refinery is supposed to be located?

RedboneSmith:
I have lived in Abakiliki for a long time, and I have never started a sentence with "as an Izii man..." No one writes like, except someone who is trying to tell you that that is what he is by tribe. An Ohuhu living in Aba will never say, "As an Ngwa man...", an Echie man in Port Harcourt will never say, "As an Ikwerre man..." What you may hear is "As an Aba boy" or "as a PH boy", indicating ties to the particular city he was raised in. That you did not write "as an Aba boy", but instead wrote "As an ukwangwa" speaks volumes. So that line about you living there a long time blah blah is an attempt at saving face after being caught impersonating. It's okay, we get it. This debate is important to you and you want to win.

Where in Ndokwa East are you from sha? I speak the dialect of that axis pretty decently. Let's communicate in vernacular.

De ele odi, nwene malu?

Chai!! You are a correct detective, oh!! Sherlock Holmes in action. I hail you, sir! So this chap has been forming to be Anioma all these while? No wonder some of his responses had k-leg, especially his recital of the Ekumeku & Nri connection. Hmnn....