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Why is he crying

Sigggy:
Update from

A Student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria named Usman Dalhatu, has won a $10,000 (N4 million) start-up grant for his clean energy innovation of a solar-powered cooker that also has an in-built television, Siggy reveals.

The talented engineering student won the grant also got accepted into All On and The Rockefeller Foundation funded Nigeria Climate Innovation Center’s 2021 off grid energy incubation programme.

The young man who had been recognized by the federal government in the past for creating an automatic ventilator was one of the eight winners from a list of 21 persons who made it to the finals.

According to Weibe Boer, CEO of All On, the funds given to Usman, will be used to scale up production of the innovation to kiosk franchise owners in Kaduna, Kano, FCT, and Abuja.

He added that the innovation would be used to create access to cleaner energy for tens of thousands of tea vendors stand across Nigeria.

https:///abu-student-who-built-solar-powered-cooker-with-tv-gets-10000-grant-photos/

Finally, a good news cum innovation from an aboki..

OyigboUpdate2:
If you're not interested in politics then stop ranting about political positions.

You guys will rant about Igbo presidency. Still you cannot use your numbers to push politically other than rant

He asked you a question about Hope Uzodinma's emergence as governor even though he came fourth in the elections and you are dodging the question. Seems you just like to believe only your own narratives.

That Supreme Court judgement tells a lot about what it is like to depend on elections in Nigeria to elect those who will bring about Biafra...

Leybari:
Exactly what we did in IMO state, but the real majorities in Aso rock sent him parking .
Somehow Miraculously, The fourth became the first .

[]Truly, What the Fulani cabal cannot do does not exist
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Those guys are hypocrites. They are depending on National Assembly to conduct referendum. Mission to nowhere!

Unik3030:
u are just looking for who to join u in fighting the northerners, yorubas don't have problem with anybody.

Go n settle d issues u have with others n let yorubas be

Okay. The same thing your ancestors said before Uthman Dan Fodio and his brothers took over Kwara State from Yoruba. No one is asking you to join in any fight. Facing your enemies head-on is not your strong points. Keep on living in your comfort zone while Oyo State and other parts of the South West are being pummeled with consistent herdsmen onslaught.

Curious345:
Why?

No need to politicise issues here..

The ipob of mazi kanu goofed the moment they created the militant wing ESN and armed them with state of the art weapons.

Gave them military training, without a single command and control structure.

Only for one deluded albino tucked away in far away London who called himself the field marshal and supreme commander of a well armed group to come and say they only take orders from HIM ALONE.
He was not on ground but in London, so how can he command them?

They (the trained militants) broke-up into different uncoordinated groups, and the UGM WERE BORN

You think so? You don't know what is going in the East man. Believe what you read at your own peril. Lips sealed!

FactBoyz:
One thing we all can agree is that the Yorubas are ORGANIZED!

They are organised in taking too long to hit back at the North fearlessly and aggressively. Let them take actions that will rattle these herdsmen wella. No be by political correctness and speaking English. The violent only understands the language of force and violence too.

[quote author=pepperdemzombie post=106695034][/quote]Clap for yaself. But you didn't have to put your mom's picture in the post. Accord her some privacy na.. Oponu

AmuRubber:
It was a scripted fight, in the WWE though.

Okay

Cokahot:
Stupid thing to do. I know of 2 Stupid ppl who got married. They were neighbours and were fuc kin comedy,we are talking bout SU O. the other one was like a fa friend,he married one of our neighbours like that. So disgusting,ow self esteem. His father and mother never attended the wedding, cos they were embarrassed.

My dear this your post is not connected to this post oo

A001:
I was lucky to be introduced to Africa while still a university student, first as an enthralled visitor during college breaks, and later living there for six years after graduation.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about Africa and travelling widely, and I married a woman who had grown up in Ivory Coast, but whose family was from a nearby part of Ghana.

I wasn’t at all aware of it at the time, but it was within a few miles of her ancestral village that Europeans first stumbled upon the abundant sources of west African gold that they had been searching for feverishly for several decades in the 15th century.

It was a discovery that changed the world.

I left west Africa to join the New York Times in 1986. Three years later, my first assignment as a foreign correspondent was to cover the Caribbean basin.

Here were gathered some of the most important staging areas for subsequent global transformations.

Specialists aside, few imagine that islands like Barbados and Jamaica were far more important in their day than were the English colonies that would become the United States.

The nation now known as Haiti most of all. In the 18th century it became the richest colony in history, and in the 19th, by dint of its slave population’s successful revolution, Haiti rivalled the US in terms of its influence on the world, notably in helping fulfil the most fundamental Enlightenment value of all: ending slavery.

Now and then during my time in the Caribbean, I could see glimmers of this region’s extraordinary role in our global narrative.

One one occasion, in the Dominican Republic, I stood knee-deep in seawater witnessing an archaeological dig that sought to identify a wreck from Columbus’s first voyage.

Another time, I hiked a verdant peak in northern Haiti where Henri Christophe, that country’s early Black leader, built a formidable fortress, the Citadelle Laferrière, arming it with 365 cannon to defend the country’s hard-won independence from France.

Other hints came when I wandered into the mountains and rainforests of Jamaica and Suriname, respectively, and was thrilled to be able to make myself understood speaking bits of Twi (the lingua franca of Ghana, which I had learned while courting my wife) as I spoke with the descendants of proud runaway slave communities known as maroons.

But back then, I still had no big picture in mind; like most correspondents, I was too busy following the news to pursue sweeping historical connections very far.

Even knowing the silence and enforced ignorance that surround the central contribution of Africa and Africans to the making of the modern world, I have often been surprised by just how difficult it can be to access some of the physical traces of this history, or to find local forms of remembrance that raise this African role to its proper dimension.

I have seen this in many places that have shaped our common history, such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the publicly established sites of Atlantic memory are few.

I saw it in São Tomé, the island where the slave-plantation-complex model that would drive wealth creation in the North Atlantic for four centuries appeared for the first time, fully formed – a fact for which there is nary a plaque or commemoration.

My biggest surprise came in Barbados, whose slave-produced sugar, arguably more than any other place on earth, helped seal England’s ascension in the 17th century.

I visited the island not long ago, determined to find as many traces of this legacy as possible, only to discover how thoroughly they had been hidden or effaced.

Among my top priorities was to visit one of the largest slave cemeteries anywhere in the hemisphere, which included the excavated remains of nearly 600 people.

It took me several attempts just to find the cemetery, which had no signage from any public road. Few local residents seemed aware of its historical importance, or even of its existence.

All I discovered when I drove down a bumpy dirt road, proceeding as far as I could until instinct told me to get out and walk, was a modest clearing alongside an active plantation whose cane had grown as tall as I am.

There was a faded sign attached to a rusty iron post. It proclaimed the site to be part of something called “The Slave Route”, but it provided no further information.

With the sun racing downward in the western sky, I paced about, snapped a few photographs, and then finally collected myself as the wind whistled through the cane.

I tried mightily to conjure some sense of the horrors that had transpired nearby, and of the abundant wealth and pleasure that the sweat of the dead had procured for others.

But the most egregious forms of historical erasure do not involve an assortment of mostly small, former slave-trading or plantation societies scattered around the Atlantic Rim. The most important site of erasure, by far, has been the minds of people in the rich world.

As I write these words, the US and some other North Atlantic communities, from Richmond, Virginia, to Bristol, England, have recently experienced extraordinary moments of iconoclasm.

We have seen the pulling down of statues of people who were long perceived to be heroes of imperial and economic systems built on the violent exploitation of people extracted from Africa.

For these gestures to have more lasting meaning, an even bigger and more challenging task remains for us.

It requires that we transform how we understand the history of the last six centuries and, specifically, of Africa’s central role in making possible nearly everything that is today familiar to us.

This will involve rewriting school lessons about history just as much as it will require the reinvention of university curricula.

It will challenge journalists to rethink the way we describe and explain the world we all inhabit.

It will require all of us to re-examine what we know or think we know about how the present-day world was built, and to begin incorporating this new understanding into our everyday discussions.

In this task, we can no longer hide behind ignorance.

Nearly a century ago, WEB Du Bois had already affirmed much of what we needed to know on this topic. “It was black labour that established the modern world commerce, which began first as a commerce in the bodies of the slaves themselves,” he wrote. Now is the time to finally acknowledge this.

Adapted from Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, by Howard W French, published by WW Norton & Co and available at guardianbookshop.com

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/12/africa-slaves-erased-from-history-modern-world

Nice read

FvckAllMods:
My earliest memory the night mom died I was to 5 ... when she suddenly woke from sleep middle of the night looking for me I knew something wrong mins later she was gone I frooze couldn't talk couldn't move my soul knew straight she don die.

You mean you saw her ghost leave her body? That must traumatizing

Wiseandtrue:
No dey leave your brain for house!

That's if he even has the updated app in the first place..

NGpatriot:
So, make we off pata because some ipob terrorist gave his girlfriend terrorist uniform to take pose for ipobia jihadi terrorist propaganda.?


You clowns are even bad at comedy..

So among all the provoking and degrading words in your arsenal, terrorists is the only word you can find to use in taunting IPOB? Chaii.....you lack depth ooo


My friend look for other more shocking words joor. We are used to the terrorists tag.

Kingosytex:
Fury so much loves God and His Son Jesus.

That's good. Just like Evander Holyfield and Manny Pacquiao

Adakintroy:
Americans had fallen this is just a manifestation.


Them no get anything. Their music is garbage with sex. Movies are over hype in fictions. No real stories. Over exagerated rational take. Many of the great movies made their remake are trash. No real story tellers. Just mostly c.g.i freaks ready to blow up stuffs. Too bad boxing do t have acting or c.g.i.

This is funny. America have set the pace in many fields of human endeavour. That cann't be wished or hated away. There is a reason they have been world leader for many decades now and still going... They have paid their dues my dear. Give them their due respect please

Ikillbrokehoes:
I think Wilder should retire from boxing, he has tried alot and made alot of cash.

fury is a beast and an ace fighter, it's very hard to knock him down, even AJ is no match for fury.
when I watched the last fight, I knew that fury will triumph, it was glaring.

For me, the name is too befitting to be deemed coincidenctal. Imagine bearing Tyson Fury as a name. What extra motivation remain again??

Mckhala80:
The night Fury punch enter Braun Stroooman ribs , i fear Fury. That monster among men run comot from strooman body and even after 10 counts , he couldn't stand to his feet. Punches dey oooo , but fear Fury .

Really? Thought Braun Strootman only does wrestling and Fury only boxing? Under what category was the fight staged please?

J2381:
Bla bla bla you impoverished douchebag born of a brothel whore_ who collects 500 naira to make ends meet.

Sane post can't be deciphered by bastards and useless simpleton who are devoid of any education other than the bigotry their unfortunate parents birth them with.

So Mr. Go fvck yourself and fvck your mother while you're at it.

Say that again without crying. Hohoho.... All I see over you is severe painment, so much bile! Grrrrrr.... Son, don't incur permanent brain damaging seizures on this lil matter ooo. I take you not serious ooo

J2381:
For the fact you guys made assumptions about things your oxygen deprived brain can't ever decipher. One can say you lot are the product of the conjugation between whores and wastrels.

It's a shame Nigeria habours insignificant purus idiotas like you lot, who are the embodiment of failure and bigotry.

If your more than useless parents had the sense of using contraceptives, Nigeria won't be plagued with glorified idiots like you lot, whose bigotry and senselessness reek like a ruptured septic tank.

You lot are a shame to your parents, it's no wonder they abandoned you guys and here you are, making a complete fool of your ancestors and yourselves. It's a marvel they say "pigs don't have shame and a sane individual shouldn't roll in the mud with them".

Now you lot should get lost and choke on your bigotry. Foolish fools born of incest and everything that is lame and full of shame.

Epic lame. You ended up saying nothing.

What else do you have to say? Doesn't it bother you that you cann't even make a single sane post void of pettiness. Like I said before, your parents are the most unfortunate forbears. It must hurt
so much trying to outdo the abominations of your lineages cum ancestry....Lol.

J2381:
Stupid man.

Yes, just like your father and ancestors

[quote author=pepperdemzombie post=106664521][/quote]Your parents are unfortunately unfortunate to have a lunatic for a son. Oyaaa....go and transcribe it

onumadu:
From Fred Itua, Abuja

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has called on Igbo in the diaspora to offer their strong voice against violent agitations. He also urged them to bring their influences to bear in the search for security and stability in Igbo land.


Ekweremadu’s admonition is coming, almost two months after the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested in Kenya and clandestinely brought to Nigeria.

Ekweremadu, in a statement signed by his media adviser, Uche Anichukwu, gave assurances that the South East Caucus of the National Assembly, where he serves as the leader, was also working towards defusing tension in the region, as well as finding a political solution that would result in the release of Kanu.

Ekweremadu blamed the agitations by various parts of the country on a flawed federal system, injustice, poor management of the nation’s diversity, failure of the federal government to secure lives and property, and needless clampdown on self-determination agitators when dialogue and giving every part of the country a sense of belonging could have sufficed.

He, however, insisted that violent agitation was not the answer.

The lawmaker bared his mind in a lecture entitled: “The Igbo in Diaspora: A Perspective” that he delivered virtually at the Igbo Heritage Lectures and Ugwumba Excellence Award event, which held in Pretoria, South Africa, Sunday evening.

He observed that one of the worst things that could happen to Ndigbo at this time was to allow their homeland to be turned into a theatre of war.

“The injustices and marginalisations are palpable and must be addressed. But by all means, we must ensure the stability of Igbo land because only by so doing can Alaigbo (Igbo land) prosper economically and also elicit local and international support and sympathy over their plights.

“What has happened in Alaigbo in the past few months is odd, ‘un-Igbo’, and sacrilegious. Destruction, waste of human lives, and economic losses have been the lot of our region. In particular, the sit-at-home has hemorrhaged Igbo lives and economy and it is good the IPOB has said they are no longer interested in the sit-at-home. No wise man brings war into his home. Our people prosper on industry, commerce, and the informal sector. Most of them survive on daily income.

“Therefore, while we are at liberty to employ every legitimate and democratic means to press for justice and equity, we must all work together to condemn and end the violence, irrespective of whatever quarters it is coming from.

“This is a special appeal to Ndigbo in South Africa, in particular, to wade into the orgy of violence in Igboland and help to restore normalcy. Ndigbo at home expect the Igbo in diaspora to lead the campaign against violent agitations and insecurity in our region because threats to Igbo businesses, the peace, security, and stability of the South-East are threats to our very existence as Ndigbo,” he stated.

He said: “As the intellectual bank of Ndigbo with extensive exposure to liberal and progressive democratic ideals, and access to international resources, the Igbo in diaspora are well positioned to elevate the intellectual content of the Igbo struggle for justice and equity.

“How best can we address the issues of exclusion, imbalances, detention of many Igbo sons and daughters in various correctional centres across the country, the issues of clampdown on unarmed protesters, and the challenge of extra-judicial killings in Igbo land without recourse to violent agitations?”

On Kanu, Ekweremadu said: “Let me also assure you that the South East Caucus of the National Assembly is not resting on its oars. We are working quietly and surely to address these issues, including finding a political solution to the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu matter.

“We did it before in the case of Chief Raph Uwazuruike in 2007. We also did it in the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in 2017. And God willing, and with your support and prayers, we will succeed again in the matter of Nnamdi kanu to promote peace and stability in our region.”


Ekweremadu, however, enjoined the Igbo in diaspora to show interest in leadership recruitment in Igbo land.

“The Igbo diaspora must show more than a passing interest in leadership recruitment at all levels in Alaigbo. If possible, please, come home and run for elective offices. Those who cannot come home should prompt and support other candidates of their choice. The bottom line is to ensure that our local, state, and federal political offices are occupied by our best and those who have Igbo at heart. That to me, is the beginning of the real emancipation struggle for Ndigbo because charity begins at home,” he concluded.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/nnamdi-kanus-release-underway-ekweremadu-assures/

Finally....umuchineke. no weapons fashioned against us shall prosper..

Arthurboy:
Someone shared this on Facebook.

According to him, the unidentified woman, who was at a nightclub with her new man and drank 5 cans on black bullet energy drinks. Unknown to her, the drink was too much for her system to handle. The result is really messy…
Full post below
https://swaghood.com.ng/lady-shits-all-over-the-club-after-drinking-5-cans-of-black-bullets-graphic-photos/

Hahahahaha...serves her right.

Patrioticbreed9:
Not dull per say.. But they are kinda lazy and lack magic words, in all my 30yrs in naija aside my mum and my sisters no nigerian lady have ever told me, guy you are handsome, but just six days in cameroon i got that in tons.

Nigerian ladies are way smarter though.

You are right about Naija girls being uptight. But from my experience too, it seems it's not just Cameroon girls but the whole of Francophone ladies. Cos I stayed in Benin Republic for sometime. And I have heard stories too about other french speaking countries.

I will say our girls have more style and are more moral than them. I personally was almost raped that year in Cotonou..

Reunions are not easy ooo. Human beings are one hella intimidating creatures

[quote author=pepperdemzombie post=106651239][/quote]How many cans have your family members used? Seems you bought the last batch from the manufacturers??

BigSarah:
Yeah I didn't like that part of The Interview..
TMI(Too much Information) Peter Obi, Peter Truly Cares about his Image, you can't stain the stainless..

That's the reason why Prof Charles soludo, should be elected Governor, these are people who have something to protect...Soludo will live to go above the standard of Peter Obi and Willie Obiano..
Andy UBA is known rogue that doesn't care, he has nothing to protect or offer really...

Nigeria missed a good head when Obi and Atiku weren't elected in 2019.

MeghaneMorgane:
I don’t know if this thread is ok considering the security situation in the country. Maybe as long as no names are mentioned then it should be fine, I guess

You come across as an over careful fellow or over protective fellow. You remind me of an aunty who used to fuss so much over details others are not seeing or ignoring....It's kind of nice sometimes though. But don't always push it...

DubaiLandLord2:
You're not smart!

Without Nigeria, there will be nothing called the Eastern Region. It was the British that created the Old Eastern Region.

Stop this your unnecessary wailing boy

Know this and know peace.

You are a confused nitwit. Keep staggering in self delusion

DubaiLandLord2:
Lol

The Old Eastern Region was a creation of Nigeria. Before Southern Nigeria was established by the British, there was nothing like Eastern Nigeria.

See how you are contradicting yourself. Can we now conclude that Nigeria is responsible for the alienation and ceding of Igbo territories to other parts of Nigeria like was done in Rivers State etc?

You guys are specialists in shifting the goal posts to drive home your lame narratives and arguments..

Tinububalls:
IPOB IS A WEAPON OF EASTERN ELITES AGAINST NIGERIA.

Kaii...you guys are impossible. Tueh