₦airaland Forum

Why can't 'Ewi be popularised?? Before anyone tells me that the words are not easy to understand (I know, lol!), those poems are so lyrical. Just listen to the beats. And the chants are so rhythmic! One day my late maternal grandmum's sister - may God rest her soul! - translated one of those old Ewi chants for me titled Oriki Olodumare, it was so deep and rich in meaning! I can't even remember the name of the artist, anymore.... _*sigh*

stanech:
sorry to dissapoint you brother the oil is in anambra as of now theres no oil in kogi state

Not true, sir!

Here are outfits made from Kente-oke by a designer known as Yemi Kosibah

quimicababes:
I like how you mentioned earth architecture.I have been following keenly what the Indians,Kenyans and Tanzanians are doing with it.Those earth structures are beautiful...it looks just like regular brick houses lol.I also like what they are doing with rammed earth.The thing is there have been research on earth architecture with regards to Naija tertiary institutions...one of the major hurdles however is that people view mud houses as being tied to poverty.UNESCO also works with the Centre for Earth Construction Technology,Jos Nigeria.Their was even a yoruba civil engineer who started producing the machinery to make the compressed earth blocks.I also stumbled across one who builds houses out of them.

Individually there are young Yorubas who are working with aso oke and other tradtional crafts to tranform them into various consumer goods but the major issue is a matter of scaling it up and getting government support.This is especially so amongst isese folks as diaspora folks and outsiders usually patronize them.For example Tunde Owolabi is using aso oke to make footwear and he started handbags also. Are you aware of any NGOs that are working in this area or would one need to be formed? The reality is that the private sector would have to try to revitalize those sectors as it is the case many times for the arts and creative sector.Government many times only get involved when they realize its lucrative.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing all this info. I didn't even know that a Yoruba civil engineer had manufactured equipment to make compressed earth blocks. My question is this - why isn't it being popularised??

I would like to see local and state govts using these kind of blocks to build schools, markets and hospitals, and even homes. Every local govt should have a cluster of local builders who can mould and construct houses using these compressed earth blocks. I like the fact that UNESCO also works with the Centre for Earth Construction Technology, Jos - but can these skills be taught as compulsory practical courses in Civil Engineering departments in universities and polytechnics across the South-West? Just asking.

As for aso-oke, I do agree that some people are creating new works using the fabric. But the number of people engaged in aso-oke weaving, are still too few and far apart. In some other countries, such crafts are done by entire villages. I really don't know of any NGO that has taken up this cause. So nothing stops anyone from forming an NGO to cover this area.

But there are fashion shows being organised on a regular basis by private organisations. Lagos Fashion Week 2015 just ended in Lagos. Apart from a few designers who showcased clothes made with aso-oke, the fabric was eclipsed by ankara, organza, lace, foreign fabrics and wax prints. It was not given the prominence it deserved. Adding a skill workshop in aso-oke weaving and adire creation, would be a great side event in such shows.

I agree with you - the scale of aso-oke production needs to be ramped up and heavily publicised. The fabric itself has undergone a metamorphosis from the 60s till date. I remember in the 90s, there were some designers who mixed it with silk thread, and produced a lightweight version called 'aso-oke lurex'. Another designer named Adelaide Ofori cross-matched the Ghanaian kente fabric with local aso-oke to create the 'kente-oke,' which she now sells abroad.

But like I said, individual efforts are not going to achieve much. There has to be deep interest, funding and skill transfer on a massive level, to revive these crafts in a sustainable manner, to provide employment for the youth.

Kirigidi:
We Niger-Deltans ar not eyeing ur Igboland. Even if ur Igbo communities/lands agreed to join ur Biafra, ur dreamed Biafra wil stil remain landlocked surrounded at all sides by Nigeria. because no Igboid community in d Niger-Delta borders d coast or hav direct access to d sea.

Talk true!

quimicababes:
I like your ideas...those areas fall under the creative/handicraft industry.How do you suppose Yorubas can work on that outside of depending on government?

Search for those older folks that still have the skill, and empower them to get more tools and materials to teach young people these crafts. Govt agencies and NGOs can form trade clusters and offer stipends to anyone willing to relocate to the villages, to learn these dying crafts under these older folks.

Another way would be to get young undergraduates to serve as interns understudying these old craftmasters, or for those old craftmasters to be brought into the campuses as visiting lecturers etc., to teach students who are interested in learning these skills. Students can be taught pottery, textiles and aso-oke weaving, in this manner. These segments can be incorporated into the fashion and arts market, and hopefully built into money spinners in this way.

Builders of the old mud houses can also work with students of Architecture and Civil Engineering, to create stabilised blocks from laterite, using local materials. Those old mud houses have now become relics in many cities, yet we still have a severe shortage of housing units. In another country, the model and materials for building such houses would have been refined, and adapted to modern times using technology and improved tools.

These are things that Youth Empowerment schemes can use to transfer knowledge and skills to unemployed young people.

Adoption of raw earth technology provides a broad spectrum of opportunities for national development. The local availability of the basic raw materials and skilled / unskilled labour cuts down effectively on the cost of importation of services and materials which have been a significant drawback for the construction industry in developing countries. This drawback particularly affects concrete as a material which has been at the vanguard of modern building construction.

In Nigeria, 60% of the components of cement are imported by most cement factories. The cost of materials accounts for about 40% of production costs while energy costs account for 30-40% of the total production costs. Coupled with transportation costs which inflate the unit price of cement bags in direct proportion to the distance; these costs have made the deployment of cement based construction for affordable mass housing rather difficult.

In response to the problems posed by modern construction methods, research in raw earth construction has gone a long way in showing the versatility, functionality and cost effectiveness of earth as a construction material. Development programmes geared towards the harnessing and development of this technology for architectural application in the past have provided an avenue for:

1. Expression of cultural identity in traditional building techniques
2. Initiating development plans which are not capital intensive but labour intensive. Such cost effective schemes would help developing nations with effective debt management.
3. Technology transfer and inter boundary diplomacy between developing nation states and advanced countries which have pioneered the adoption of raw earth architecture.
4. Maintenance of the ecological balance while cutting down on the unemployment figures of developing nations.

Raw earth structures have been existing in practically every state of the country for several centuries. The obvious reason for this is the basic nature of the material, its ready availability and easy manipulation and durability even well and above that of stone or timber structures.

The flexibility of the material is well exhibited in the variety of expressions of earth forms across the cultural, religious and climatic regions or terrains of Nigeria.

The northern regions have the tradition of using conical sun dried earth bricks (tubali) for their residential houses and monumental structures like mosques and palaces, characterized by domed roofs.

The central and southeastern parts of the country are known for clustered huts made of puddled earth laid in wet courses. Colonnades are common to support overhanging thatch roofs which protect the earth walls.

South - western Nigeria is known for houses and palaces built around spacious courtyards with earth walls and thick columns linked by strong beams. Down south, raw earth is padded unto linear wood structural frames to form composite walls which could easily be load bearing.

A visit to the Lagos station of the National Museum, where the bamboo huts that once characterized the craft village area are being replaced with raw earth structures; would show how some of those possibilities are being explored today. According to Messrs Folaranmni Adebayo and Festus Owojaiye, technical officers of the museum attached to the project, the new buildings are being erected with solid compressed earth blocks of 4 inches by 12 inches which are made with a molding machine and technical knowledge brought in from Jos.

The compressed blocks are made from cement stabilized earth: 19cm³ of cement to 4 wheel barrows of laterite (red) sand. The resultant blocks are rock solid after curing for 7 – 10 days and can then be laid in courses like regular sand-crete blocks or burnt bricks. Sourcing the laterite sand of the correct consistency could be a challenge in Lagos where sandy and loamy soils are prevalent.

For the current project which complements the popular Museum Kitchen that has continued to stand tall with its earthen walls through generations of use; laterite soil had to be source form the Mowe – Ibafo area, right outside Lagos at the cost of N8,500 per tipper as against N1,500 which would have been obtainable up north where the soil type is more prevalent. Though this makes it difficult in Lagos to benefit from the cost savings that should have been the norm when building with earth, it is not the case in other parts of the country (or other parts of Lagos for that matter) where red earth is readily available in abundance.

Another perceived deterrent to the widespread adoption of raw earth building construction in rainforest regions like Lagos is the fear that earth walls would fail under the constant influence of driving rain and floods. However, that fear is unfounded when earth buildings are conceived with the right design considerations for the regions where they are to be erected. http://designpages..com.ng/2006/05/earth-in-city.html

Boss13:
I have made a conscious effort not to go to Linda Ikeji site. It is painful that someone profits from mocking other people. It hurts when your private life is out in public domain. Linda is like the secondary school bully, who has fun seeing other people cry

Thank you for saying it all! You even left out those narcissistic posts about herself, that she uses to fuel her vanity.

jmoore:
If you don't wanna learn then may ignorance be your portion.

Back to sender, ten million times over. May that clueless ignorance that causes you to swallow other folks comments blindly, without verifying their claims, allow you to make a fool of yourself ten thousand times over, in a million different ways...! Now run off to bed. It is way past your bedtime, little kid.

Vicotex:
transfer of site doesn't affect your ranking/rating or traffic.

The reason why i defend her is simple.
The op is hating of her success

....plus you like her website, because you read all the gossip she dishes out!

jmoore:
Learn from Vicotex!!

Don't be silly. How old did you say you were again??

armadeo:
Laudate. Here it is.

Already calling Niger delta igbo land and they think we don't see it. Calling them ogogoro drinking minority.

Lol

Don't mind them. There are many ethnic groups in the Niger-Delta. Less than 1/6th of them are related to the Igbo.

IlekeHD:
No ore mi, I will give him time today because I dey bored sef.

The yeye albino monkey thinks he has monopoly over senseless epistle.

ROFLMAO!! Una no go kill person with laugh for here!!

IlekeHD:
The Lording the Ijaws have had on Igbos is so systematic thatit's invisible to Igbos. Yorubas/Fulanis lord over igbos, but the way we do it is too obvious.

1. After the war, the cowardly igbos were too weak to take back their possessions and Land (which is not Ph).

2. Ijaws have played Igbos into their hands that they continue to use the igbo race as their stand stool. Today, Igbos will die on top of Ijaw matter (Allison Madueke & GEJ)

3. Fulanis are conquering Ibolands and Ibo women. But who do Igbos attack? Your guess is right....Yorubas.

4. Guess what? PH or Igwocha will remain 100% SS land. Land grabbers.

5. Biafra is even an Ijaw word.....once again, the Ijaws are giving Igbos their identity, while Dokubo continues to use the Biafrans to fight for his NIger Republic.

6. Ijaws used and dump Igbos to become 1st citizens....once again, the Ijaws stepped over the 3rd majority tribe. So Fulanis/Yorubas/Ijaws have ruled over Nigeria. The noisemaking tribe can only lead a country under Biafra.

The person you are responding to, is a real 'ayi 'ri', with a strange mental disorder. Don't waste your time on that scoundrel.

Vicotex:
it still doesn't change the fact that bellanaija is on alexa.
If you register a new webhost and host a blog with them, they'll advise you to do three things, which are:
1. register on adsense/google search
m
2. Apply for google analytic or alexa for better page rank.
3. Optimize your site.

Btw i don't even visit gossip blogs, i only pay visit to blogs that deal with Techs, Monetization and anime/manga related articles.

So i ain't a mod or a staff in her blog

Bella Naija should confirm this first, or are you saying that Alexa's claims should be swallowed blindly?? Guy, all these steps you have listed here on web hosting etc., are common knowledge. Don't forget that people can transfer their domains and change their web host, from time to time. So that is why I would prefer to check with BellaNaija first, to confirm if Alexa's claims are true.

And please you said you do not visit gossip blogs like Linda Ikeji's blog, but you are here.....defending her website ratings blindly. Yet you want us to believe you?? Chai. Abeg, swerve!

emeritus856:
[s][/s] Typical cursed yeebhoe m.oron, You have been busted here for your constant noise of Yoruba dont have oil, now you shifting goal post that its a rogue adjustment, you people are born to be foolish and full of lies. There have never been boundary dispute in Ono except your foolish Anambra trying to steal Igala land. Shameless people.

And the Igala people are still showing them pepper at Odekpe.

Vicotex:
they don't need to tell me when their site is visible in alexa database:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bellanaija.com

Anyone can claim whatever they like on their website. Until Bella Naija confirms this, I'll pass. It may even have been installed at one time, and yanked off later... There is a client of mine dealing with a case like that, at the moment.

Even your Linda Ikeji blog has carried inaccurate hype in the past, just to boost her website traffic. And from the way you are doggedly defending Linda Ikeja, it appears you are either her staff, or her publicist.

jpphilips:
You actually think we are debating, imagine the f00l!!
Go and get the basic education first to know that an Assembly does not exist in tandem with military rule at least not in Nigeria.
Go and read to know that the Richards constitution that created the Eastern assembly was suspended immediately after the 66" coup, no way they would have re emerged to give Ojukwu a mandate in 67", those are the rough edges of your enlightenment you need to trim.
I cant debate with you, you are not fit for purpose, too hollow for my liking.

Nah.... everyone can see from your comments that the real f00l here, is you!! Redirect your aggression and insults right back at yourself, please. Take a leaf from Shannon L. Alder. He said: “Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.”

Your little knowledge is actually affecting the quality of responses, you are bringing forth. No one asked you about the Richards constitution and nobody said the Eastern House of Assembly was NOT suspended. The fact still remains that Ojukwu later set up an Eastern Consultative Assembly for reasons best known to him, and he used them to win support for his secession plans. Read the articles attached to my earlier post on this subject. It is a fact of history. Calling other people names, is not going to change this fact. Grow up.

And you have said that 'we are not debating.' Good. So why did you type such a lengthy response to my previous post?

blackprowler:
If people of Ibo ancestry don't come out to fight the Biafran lunacy, well, I'm really sorry. In the '60s, when Ibos were dying, no one asked if you supported Biafra or not. The greatest losers would be the Ibos who know that this is lunacy and keep quiet. Am I the one to fight it out for you, so I can be discredited as non-Ibo?

The Biafran experiment was not an Ibo secession from Nigeria - it was the greed of one small boy who was entrusted with a part of the country to govern, an area which contained hundreds of tribes. By force of arms and propaganda, he seized the area with the connivance of people of his ethnic group. Meanwhile he claimed modernity with British education but was absolutely a typical African tribal ape. His tribesmen paid with great suffering and yet, 45 years on, the African in them makes them unable to learn their lesson. We now have about 10 states where it used to be one region for one criminal to seize. Need I say more?
PS: cramjones is factually wrong on a number of points. What does he think Jan 15th is for?

Na true word you talk . I don't agree with the use of the word 'ape', though....

Vicotex:
Talking about SEO, no site is more accurate than Alexa

Kindly provide facts and data to support this assertion.

Vicotex:
that one no mean say bella naija no get d script installed 4 dia site

Did Bellanaija say that Alexa's script was installed on their site??

Vicotex:
Alexa's traffic estimates are based on data from our global traffic panel, which is a sample of millions of Internet users using one of over 25,000 different browser extensions. In addition, we gather much of our traffic data from direct sources in the form of sites that have chosen to install the Alexa script on their site and certify their metrics. However, site owners can always choose to keep their certified metrics private.
Our global traffic rank is a measure of how a website is doing relative to all other sites on the web over the past 3 months. The rank is calculated using a proprietary methodology that combines a site's estimated average of daily unique visitors and its estimated number of pageviews over the past 3 months. We provide a similar country-specific ranking, which is a measurement of how a website ranks in a particular country relative to other sites over the past month.

www.alexa.com/about

And you believe their hyped up claims?? What did they deploy to analyse the data they used to rate Linda Ikeji's website?? It is not stated. And they can only gather data on web traffic, as long as their script is installed on that particular website.

What this means is that if another website is doing far better than Linda Ikeji's blog, in terms of website traffic, as long as their script is not installed on that website, they would not have access to data concerning such a website, in order to determine if it is performing better than Linda Ikeji's blog or not. Their criteria is still shrouded in too much secrecy, to be objective.

Please provide stats from Google or highly rated SEO engines for us to believe your claims about Linda Ikeji's blog.

jpphilips:
I have a personal problem with people who refused education but feel they have the right to misinform the public, It is the highest provocation to my sanity, the likes of Nnamdi Kanu is causing chaos using that means, I will do whatever is necessary to stop your madness of misinformation on it tracks even if it will tantamount using anti social behaviors, these are the options you have;

A) Get your facts right
B) Shut the fvck up.

One more mis information I will spit venom, be warned!!

When a military administrator cherry picks his paddy men like Affiong, Ukiwe, onwuamaizu, etc, is that what you call an Assembly? what kinda education do you have that refused to tell you that an Assembly that represent the South Eastern interest should be enthroned through an election? which date was the election held? which political parties fielded candidates that enthroned them? It was a military government for fvcks sake and there was no need for any stvpid assembly.
The fact that a lunatic like yourself was allowed to sell misinformation in public is the reason you had to recycle the same sh!t to me as a fact,
take your time!!

Hahaha.....ROFLMAO! Guy, keep your hair on! Who is the 'lunatic,' and who 'misinformed' whom??

Your post said the Eastern House of Assembly was suspended. I did not dispute that. All I did was to point out that an Eastern Consultative Assembly was then set up in its stead, to give Ojukwu the consensus he felt that he needed to declare Biafra. I was not the one who set up the Consultative assembly, neither was I a party to their deliberations. So in what way did I misinform the public?

The legitimacy of that Consultative Assembly was not the issue under discussion. Whether they possessed any powers or not, was not the issue being debated. But did they exist, yes! And excerpts from articles posted by other sources online were included. You did not even read those articles that were cited?? Abeg, dump the aggression, o! There is absolutely no need for it....

Vicotex:
see you
alexa are the one who does all the ranking concerning websites globaly.

Provide the source or URL to show that they carried out the rating on Linda Ikeji's blog. It would be interesting to know the criteria they used.

Vicotex:
alexa stats says otherwise.
Bellanaija is nowhere to be found in the anual top naija blog/site

who knows how alexa gets its' stats and who cares??! Those who rank those Top naija Blogs are yet to share how they arrived at their rankings. A lot of their criteria is highly subjective.

Arogunmasa:
I think regional integration holds the key. The hinterland must be made accessible to urban centers and between states.

Yes, regional integration holds the key...but who would teach the young ones these fast-dying skills before the old brigade dies off, or before regional integration becomes a reality??

In the past, apprenticeship was one way through which skills were passed down from one generation to another. My maternal grandmother's late sister (may God rest her soul!) had a great talent for mixing effective herbal products, used in treating a wide variety of ailments and injuries. There was one she used to make for upset stomachs, which had lemongrass, dongoyaro leaves, barks of various medicinal plants etc. But sadly, none of her children were interested enough in learning this trade. I still tease her kids that they could have become Nigeria's answer to Anita Roddick of The Body Shop, UK. In some cases, these skills were part of a family tradition, handed down from father to son and then on to grandson.

But since the sons and grandsons have departed for the cities, and the fathers, grandfathers and uncles are dying off.... who or what will serve as the repository of such skills?

Now, there is revived interest in Agriculture, because of former Minister of Agriculture Akinwunmi Adesina's programme & multi-faceted approach to Agric. Now, I see catfish being processed and sold in fancy packaging in shopping malls. I see locally processed Moringa tea in a wide variety of attractive packs, and I actually have to pinch myself that it is not imported. A lot of agricultural entrepreneurs or 'agropreneurs,' have started earning a comfortable living from their farms, or by partnering with farming establishments to process their food

Who will do the same thing to revive all these traditional crafts and skills, that were mentioned earlier??

benjamytes:
Serious biz ...no jokes ooo..laudate ..step up sir

Guy, step up .... with what now?? This is a beautiful car. Unfortunately, my budget can't stretch that far at this particular time, because my funds are wrapped up in an on-going project. So instead of stepping up, I would have to bow out. I wish you happy sales.

chiedu7:
[size=14pt]A Secret Service man of the United Kingdom & Famous Author Fredick Forsyth ,
accuses Nigeria of genocide against Biafra during the Civil War.[/size]

Fredick Forsyth say's that at least 1 million children were died during the civil war , this is genocide.

Guy, Forsyth was on Ojukwu's payroll. So what would you expect him to say? Forsyth was not impartial. He was the one that wrote Ojukwu's biography titled "EMEKA". Frederick Forsyth wrote about his friend Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, in 1982 while the book was reprinted by Spectrum Books in Nigeria, in 1991.

jpphilips:
Another History deficient student, how can the Eastern house of Assembly dissolved in 1966 as a result of the coup and decree 34 that ensued resurface to mandate Ojukwu a military administrator to declare Biafra in 1967?
This generation is so empty, little wonder Nnamdi Kanu could feast on you guys. How can a military administrator be over seeing a House of assembly? does that not prick your dumb brain for a second?
Empty baboons!!

Guy, why resort to name calling?? I don't get it, o! You can make your point without being disrespectful. The only time you should take your gloves off, is when someone has provoked you or used foul words on you first.

Anyway, Ojukwu set up something called an Eastern Consultative Assembly. The membership was drawn or hand-picked by him from various tribes that make up the old Eastern region.

They were the ones who gave Ojukwu the mandate to go ahead and prosecute the war.

NDIGBO, OJUKWU & BIAFRA: WHERE DID WE GO WRONG (PART II) by Osita H. Olisa | Nigeriaworld.com

... .To pursue and grab this machiavellian power to its logical conclusion, "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE GBURU-GBURU NDIGBO," had first to provide credible instrument of cover so that Ndigbo would see things not as they are, but how Ikemba wanted them to see things. Eastern Nigeria Consultative Assembly was the consequence. Eastern consultative assembly was created as a ploy instrument and diabolical cover with the pretext of giving itself the appearance of legitimacy and authenticity as representative voice of the masses.

Would it be any surprise that Eastern Nigerian Consultative Assembly was populated with hand-picked rubber-stamp stooges. Some of these hand-picked members of Eastern Consultative Assembly were in every shape, manner and respect analogous to their carbon-copies of the distant past during the dark era of slavery in African history.....

Majority members of Eastern Consultative Assembly were simpletons and crass illiterate local chiefs who can barely discern their left form right. How troubling and infuriating that these Eastern Consultative Assembly members were the people that mandated "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE GBURU-GBURU NDIGBO" the authority to declare Sovereign Republic of Biafra.

Would it be any wonder how these people with limited intellectual abilities and gravitas would understand the implications and intricacies of secession project they were handpicked to midwife, legislate and give birth to...? http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2003/aug/253.html

On the evening of Saturday, May 27th, 1967 the joint session of the enlarged Consultative Assembly and the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders, after full deliberation, passed a resolution the text of which is as follows:

“WE, THE CHIEFS, Elders and Representatives of Eastern Nigeria, gathered at this Joint Meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders and the Consultative Assembly do solemnly declare as follows:

..... WHEREAS the Federation of Nigeria has forfeited any ‘claim to our allegiance by these acts and by the economic, political, and diplomatic sanctions imposed against us by the Federal Government.

“AND WHEREAS the object of government is the good of governed and the will of the people its ultimate sanction;

Now, THEREFORE, in consideration of these arid other facts and injustices, we, the Chiefs, Elders and Representatives of all the Twenty Provinces of Eastern Nigeria, assembled in this Joint Meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs ‘and Elders and the Consultative Assembly, at Enugu this 27th day of May, 1967, we: hereby solemnly:

(a)MANDATE His Excellency Lt.- Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria to declare at the earliest practicable date Eastern Nigeria a free, sovereign and independent state by the name and title of the REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA.

(b) RESOLVE that the new REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA shall have the full and absolute powers of a sovereign state, and shall establish, commerce, levy war, conclude peace, enter into diplomatic relations, and carry out, as of right, other sovereign respon­sibilities.

(c)DIRECT that the REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA may enter into arrange­ment with any sovereign unit or units in what remains of Nigeria or in any part of Africa desirous of association with us for the purpose of running a common services organization and for the establishment of economic ties.

(d) RECOMMEND that the REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA should become a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Organization

(e) RECOMMEND the adoption of a Federal Constitution based on the new provincial units

(f) RE-AFFIRM HIS Excellency’s assurance of protection for the persons, properties and businesses of foreign nationals in our territory.

(g) DECLARE our unqualified confidence in the Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, Lt.-Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and assure him of our unreserved support for the way and manner he had handled the crisis in the country.

So help us God.” http://www./biafra_proclamation.htm

aminaadamu:
Radiobiafra during the evening broadcast yesterday announced that the Millions man March will be on coming Friday, 6th of Novemeber, 2015. According to the Head of Directorate of Biafra embassy located in Spain. He said the protest will be on the creating awareness on the dother termination of Biafra to become a sovereign state and protest the continued extrajudicial detention of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

According to him, this will be done in all Biafra cities including SE, SS, Igbanke, Idoma, Igalla, etc.

We are watching... shocked

Source: RadioBiafra Anchored by Deputy Director Alphonsus Uche-Mefor.

I feel sorry for them, if they try it in Igala land.

jpphilips:
I think you completely misunderstood the point that guy was making, Asaba massacre, was during the war and the Pogrom was before the war, now if you bring all of them under the canopy of Genocides, where will you place Abagana massacre, perpetrated by the Biafrans and other scores of atrocities committed by the Biafrans in the Niger delta region?
Do you think that the SS/SE animosity started today? i dey laugh, ;Dkids of nowadays!!

According to the Biafrans, the Abagana massacre never happened, or it remains "unsubstantiated."

jpphilips:
As for Botswana, having a high human development index, it does not in any way signify a prosperous nation, is a calligraphy of deception smuggled in to make your argument relevant, individual citizens efforts can account for that more than the impact of the government, even if I choose to accept your position for the sake of argument, I can tell you that with Federal allocations and IGR to biafra in present Nigeria, has only a sh!t hole as results.

While I agree with a lot of what you have said, I beg to disagree with the part you posted above. There is no calligraphy of deception anywhere, when it comes to Botswana. That country has a high human development index and where you have a high HDI, it usually translates into corresponding increase in economic and commercial growth. Their population is quite small, and concentrated along the coastal areas.

If you have ever visited Botswana, you would discover that their inter-city and intra-city road network as well as their infrastructure is one of the best in Africa.

The only problem is that many of their citizens do not share the same capacity for hard work that a lot of Nigerians, have.

ECONOMY OF BOTSWANA

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9% per year from 1966 to 1999. Growth in private sector employment has averaged about 10% per annum over the first 30 years of independence.

At the start of the 21st century, however, the economy of Botswana stagnated up until the early 2010s when it registered for the first time since the economic boom a GDP growth up above the 6-7% target. Botswana is also commended for the site of Africa's longest and among the world's longest economic booms (which almost surpassed that in Asia's largest economies). The relatively high quality of the country's statistics means that these figures are likely to be quite accurate. The government has consistently maintained budget surpluses and has extensive foreign exchange reserves.

Botswana's impressive economic record has been built on a foundation of diamond mining, prudent fiscal policies, international financial and technical assistance, and a cautious foreign policy. It is rated the least corrupt country in Africa, according to international corruption watchdog, Transparency International. By one estimate, it has the fourth highest gross national income at purchasing power parity in Africa, giving it a standard of living around that of Mexico and Turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Botswana
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The southern African nation of Botswana has defied the global economic downturn of the 2007-2009 great recession. Instead, it exemplifies the recent transition of economic growth in favor of low-income countries as it jumped from recording one of the world's lowest per capita income figures of $70 to a middle-income level category of $16,300 within a few decades.

Botswana is leaning towards becoming the Singapore or Hong Kong of southern Africa. More importantly, Botswana's progression of economic growthmanship has become the envy of its neighbors, as well as a source of inspiration, which they should consider emulating.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nake-m-kamrany/botswana-economic-growth_b_2069226.html

angiography:
I concurr...there's this level of poverty in the hinterlands...m soo sick of it. What're we gonna do

Revive the arts, crafts, traditional skills, cane furniture weaving and farming collectives that existed in the hinterlands in the past. My sister did her Masters' project on commerce within traditional Yoruba communities, and I was her unofficial driver on that project. In the process we toured several communities in the South-West. Are you aware that in some locations, it is Ghanaian and Senegalese weavers that are now weaving aso-oke??

In many of these communities, traditional crafts such as pottery, cloth weaving, black smithing, casting etc have totally died out. The old grandmasters have died or are far stricken with old age, and younger folks who should take over from them have run into the cities to do menial work and become agberos.

MayorofLagos:
Good day my people! It's nice to return and see wonderful inputs and contributions covering diverse grounds and aspects of progress in substance and ideals. Many thanks to the regulars and as well the seasonals, like myself.

Shizzy,
Your input is well received. We have a anthem in Yorubaland, it has featured here two or more times already -

Mu'ra si ise Ore mi
Ise la fin'di eni giga...

Gee... I thought it was a poem?? I remember reciting these words in school, when I was much younger! Now, i have forgotten half of it...