Urheadmaster:


Simon Ekpa in the mood

The monkey was making noise all over the net yesterday, meanwhile the cannibal crew dey collect 'wotowoto'.

The credibility of this 'report' is incredibly low. But if by any chance there is truth in this, then impeachment proceedings should begin.
No time for nonsense.

BiafraInc:
HEARING OR NO HEARING, THEY MUST RELEASE HIM, BY FIRE BY FORCE. WE ARE NOT BEGGING THOSE LOW LIVES. YOU HAVE GUNS, BIAFRANS HAVE GUNS AS WELL. BLA HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED. BELIEVE ME THE CESSPIT WILL BEG BIAFRA AND BY THEN WILL REALIZE IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE.

Austineva2:
easy say than done, e be like say u want to automatically end the zoo kpatakpata.
Simon Ekpa is waiting for such opportunity to ruthlessly deal with the zoo

When Nigeria is ready, Finnish government go submit simon ekpa like parcel.

ecolime:

🤣

No be pure water dyna be dat?

Nigeria will be Great

This rat threatening Igbos with death every other day.

The Nigerian government is not ready to sanitise the South East.

The biggest problem of Nigeria are the ones who call themselves 'common man'.

The radical change needed by the Country has to begin bottom-up.

Tinubuagbado:


He will use only consultants to deliver on his task.

Civil servants are very corrupt. Why will a worker be going to work very late?

If they're tired of working, the fcsc should sack them and employ others.

In Nigeria, the civil service is one of the most unproductive, wasteful institutions.

Which one be Igbo Christians again?

Bendeco2020:
The man is a clown normally.

He is catching cruise with those taking him serious especially yorubas in this forum.

Those Igbo haters supporting him because of his hate speech against Igbo while the man openly admits that he is Igbo.

He is indirectly telling ijaws in rivers that his ancestors conquered and rule them.

Asari just dey use their head

Asari's great grandfather was Igbo from present day Imo State who was sold as a slave to Kalabari masters ( a Kalabari royal family - Amakiri royal family) in present day Rivers State.
He was named Good head because of his good character and the name Dokubo, an Ijaw name, was an adopted one.

Over time, from one generation to the next, intermarriages with Ijaws have taken place and he (Asari) a descendant of Good head, prefers to identify as Ijaw.

He knows his history and has never denied it.

Igbos never conquered and ruled Ijaws.

What Asari stated in those videos released some months ago were facts! Even his great grandfather was also a slave from Imo.

korm2me:

When Obaseki that is from Edo South rulled it was supposed to be the turn of Edo central. Nobody objected. Why is he fighting now.
Igbenedion rulled form Edo south
Oshionmole rulled From Edo north
It would have been yhe turn of Edo central but Obaseki came into the oicture from no where

Edo Central cannot be left out indefinitely.

We live by equity and fairness.

It's the turn of Edo Central.

LOL

Her calculation took into consideration the possibility of Remi getting married at birth!

I wonder what the so-called biafra would look like.

Almost everyone would want to be king in order to take advantage of the next!

Pure anomie!

spearman:
E no go better for colonialist wey join Niger Delta minorities with cannibals in Eastern Region.

Nigerians should stop using the word - minorities

What's this rubbish about harassing and intimidating consumers who make reviews about products?

The owners of these small companies don dey mad?

The Consumer Protection Agency should make a strong example with these rogues!

No be only erisco.

What's this rubbish about harassing and intimidating consumers who make reviews about products?

The owners of these small companies don dey mad?

The Consumer Protection Agency should make a strong example with these rogues!

No be only erisco.

jamesversion:


It's either you're being Insincere with this post or Ignorant.

Jaja was born in Imo/Asia and sold into slavery. He was sold to Bonny. He excelled in his masters house and rose to become a chief, thereby regaining his freedom from slavery. After many years, disagreement arose between the Chiefs of Bonny and Jaja sought a place where he can establish himself separate from the Bonny Chiefs. He discovered an island, settled there and called the place Opobo.

If his descendants have decided they are Igbos due to ancestry, then I don't see why there's an issue. Jaja discovered Opobo land himself so no ijaw should lay claims to owning Opobo land.

Igbos naturally are a handful. They will test your resolve almost perpetually, so live with them or let them go

My brother, you only get such revised history from wikipedia, and certain writers who intend to alter true history.

Let's logically view this.

How can one man 'discover' a land and became king over the land? King over who? An empty land?

For him to be King, there must have been people coexisting in such land, and there must have been a social structure in place for a king to be ordained.

We are not talking about 19 BC, this happened in the 19th century!

Hope you know all these lands were under the Bonny Kingdom and the Ibanis (who are Ijos/Ijaws) were the indigenous people.

Ikaeniyan0:
Jaja was bought as a slave like any other igbos that were bought as slaves by the ibanis

How do that link Ijaws and igbos?

Many cunning (or ignorant) individuals attempt to use Jaja of Opobo(~1821 - 1891) to lay claim on Ijaw and Kalabari lands.

He was born in Imo State and taken as a slave to Ijaw land (present day Rivers State).

With the abolishment of slave trade and assimilation into the general society, with the conversion of camps to communities and the magnanimity of the host communities, he was ordained leader (king) of the community in Opobo. All these events occurred just towards the end of the 19th Century. Today, certain Igbos are telling the indigenes who embraced them they are not the owners of their lands.

Unfortunately, this would only heighten distrust and worsen the level of hostility of potential hosts towards even innocent Igbos who have no business with such madness as has been seen in Lagos, now PH.

jamesversion:


It's either you're being Insincere with this post or Ignorant.

Jaja was born in Imo/Asia and sold into slavery. He was sold to Bonny. He excelled in his masters house and rose to become a chief, thereby regaining his freedom from slavery. After many years, disagreement arose between the Chiefs of Bonny and Jaja sought a place where he can establish himself separate from the Bonny Chiefs. He discovered an island, settled there and called the place Opobo.

If his descendants have decided they are Igbos due to ancestry, then I don't see why there's an issue. Jaja discovered Opobo land himself so no ijaw should lay claims to owning Opobo land.

Igbos naturally are a handful. They will test your resolve almost perpetually, so live with them or let them go

My brother, you only get such revised history from wikipedia, and certain writers who intend to alter true history.

Let's logically view this.

How can one man 'discover' a land and became king over the land? King over who? An empty land?

For him to be King, there must have been people coexisting in such land, and there must have been a social structure in place for a king to be ordained.

We are not talking about 19 BC, this happened in the 19th century!

Hope you know all these lands were under the Bonny Kingdom and the Ibanis (who are Ijos/Ijaws) were the indigenous people.

Ikaeniyan0:
I wander why IPOB is trying to claim Ijaw land. And none of their elder is stopping them from this madness that can lead to bloodshed

The Ibani, an offshoot of the Ijaw people is located in Southern Rivers State, Nigeria. Its
alternate name is Ubani made up of Bonny Town, on Bonny Island, the Kingdom of Opobo in
Opobo Island and its settlements. Both kingdoms have a strong central authority structure and
a long-established royal lineage. Bonny’s development was also shaped by the close interaction
with European traders. It was the melting point of economic activities right from the 16th
century. It served as Christianity’s first port of call in West Africa. With a thriving traditional
system and robust cultural heritage, it stands out as one of the foremost local communities in
Nigeria.
The community is subdivided into two main segments – the mainland and the hinterland. The
mainland is comprised of the Township, Sandfield, Iwoama, Orosikiri, Aganya, Agambo,
Akiama, Workers Camp, Finima and some outlying fishing settlements lying along the Bonny
River’s coastline. The hinterland includes the villages that houses indigenes of Bonny kingdom.
The Kingdom of Opobo is in many instances a replica of the Old Bonny Kingdom but unique
in its planning; showing a combination of modernity and the ancient. Yet not totally bastardized
by the impact of Western influences brought into the local community as the Bonny case.
Opobo Kingdom is made of Opobo Town which is the seat of authority and the outlying
settlements or plantation settlements called Kalama and owned by chiefs of some main Houses
in Opobo. The structure of authority revolves round the House system. The Alabo – in council
is the highest policy making institution. The council members are elders – Warisenapu who
constitute the council. The Amanyanabo in council is the policy making institution and the
highest administrative organ. Although there are title holders, they play little or no role in
governance. In recent times, specific assignments like raising funds in socio-economic
development have been assigned to them.
The main town which was virtually submerged by the rising water level was sand filled in 2007.
The social history of Opobo Kingdom was also shaped by interaction with Europeans and her
neighbours, from the Igbo hinterland, and to a little extent by the Ibibio Ogoni and Andoni.
Unlike Bonny, Opobo played little part in the oil and gas industry, thus shielding the Kingdom
from the eroding influences of modernization.

One of the reasons for this gradual loss of the Ibani language was the injection of Igbo people
(not culture) in the Ibani regions which culminated in the age-long interaction between Ibani
and Ndoki people (who are actually Ijaws that allowed Igbo migrants to settle amongst them).
Many of them now speak variants of Igbo and are sometimes classified as Igbo but their Ijaw
culture is still very pronounced. The main reason why Bonny and Opobo regions speak Igbo
dialects is because of continuous relations (mainly through intermarriage) with their Ndoki
relatives. Note that the Ndoki people are Ijaw people that reside close to the mainstream Igbo
who accommodated Igbo migrants and lost their language to the visitors a long time ago.
Opobo became the worst hit because they are located at the mouth of the Imo River that
connects Ndoki and Ibaniland. The Ibani do not share a boundary with the Igbo people. They
only share boundaries with Ibibio, Ogonis and Ndoki people who have adopted variants of the
Igbo language (Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, Ndokwa etc).

Another probable reason for the dearth of the Ibani language is the absence of literary materials
in the Ibani language. Written materials in a particular language, serve to preserve that
language. Roger Blench had this to say in the preface of his Ibani dictionary; “despite the
importance attached to literacy in the Ibani area, there are a few accessible modem publications on the language. We have a few historical accounts which state the possible causes of the
decline of the Ibani language.”

Paul Hair (1967) seems to have been the first bibliographer to cite the history and citations of
Ijo in early historical sources and the following is largely adapted from his essay.

The first actual words of Ibani were recorded by Captain Hugh Crow, an English slave-trader who
operated from Bonny around the end of the eighteenth century. From his account one would
think that there was only one language, namely Eboe [Igbo] spoken at Bonny, but in his wordlist
of Eboe’, a few Ibani words are found casually embedded in it.

The expedition of 1832 - 34 up the Niger collected vocabularies of a number of languages but not of Ijo.
Edwin Norris, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, used these when he
compiled a handbook for the use of the next Niger Expedition and added materials from other
sources, including numerals in ‘Bonny’, i.e. Ibani (Norris 1840).

In 1840 a German doctor spent some four months in Bonny as a ship’s doctor, and wrote a
detailed account of Bonny including a long vocabulary of Ibani. (Köler 1842-43), reprinted as
Köler 1848). He notes the use of two languages, Ibani and Igbo, at Bonny, and the attempts by
elders to prevent boys from teaching him Ibani. This confirms what is said today, that the major
reason for the decline of Ibani is the successful attempt to keep it from being learnt by outsiders,
which in the nineteenth century included a large slave population. The result of this policy is
that Igbo has become the common language of communication.

Two more dialects of Ijo were recorded for the first time by John Clarke (1848). These were
‘Numbe’ [Nembe] and ‘Akrika’ [Okrika], together with further lists of Kalabari and Ibani.
Clarke was a Baptist missionary who, with the help of an Afro- American colleague, Merrick,
collected his wordlists in an unsystematic way, some in Fernando Po and some in the West
Indies (Hair 1967).

Sigismund Koelle was a German scholar who worked for the Church
Missionary Society (CMS) in Freetown. There he compiled his Polyglotta Africana in 1850
which was published in 1854. It was a collection of vocabularies of African languages,
compiled by interviewing the freed slaves who had been resettled in Freetown. Koelle used a
standard wordlist of about three hundred items and added notes on his informants and their
homelands, from which he was able to draw a map which is remarkably accurate for a period
when no European knew the interior of West Africa. His vocabularies are grouped according
to genetic relationship in so far as he could trace it from the wordlists. He has two wordlists of
Ijo, grouped together as V.C., the group which conjoins Igboid and Edoid.
The first list, ‘OkuIma’, is a wordlist of Ibani, named for the town Okólómá, although Koelle’s informant
was from Orupiri (órüpIrI). Koelle (1854: refers to Obäne as the name for these people given
by the Ibos and Kerekas [Okrika]. Williamson (1966) discusses Koelle’s Ijo lists in detail. In
the case of Ibani, she shows that some 73% of Koelle’s forms were accurate and also yield
interesting information about lexical and phonological change in the language since they were
recorded. In 1856, Baikie published his account of the 1854 voyage to explore the Niger. In his
appendix on the languages, he states:
From the Rio Formoso to the Nun, including all the western portion of the Delta, the natives
speak Orü or Ejó, and to the westward of Abó a distinct dialect is used, namely the Sóbo, Nimbe
or Brass is very nearly related to the Orú, and I believe that from the Brass River to the New
Kalabár, the natives dwelling on the banks of each of the intervening rivers all talk differently.

Congrats Chinaza.
Many more accomplishments to come.

benuejosh:
Lagos, a land of possibilities.

That's how it should be. She has represented Lagos (her home) well; and definitely worked hard towards achieving this.

This is what should be replicated all over Nigeria.

MorataFC:
Mr Man your writeup is watery, the length of the whole world is 40,000 km by length and the wall of Benin covers half of that, from Lagos to London is 5,020 km while the wall of Benin is 16,000 km long?
How is that even possible?

The walls were not built in a straight line. They surrounded different towns and villages through various terrains.

If you measure the distance through bends and turns which you would travel from one part of town to another, you'd be surprised at the number of kilometers covered.

Moreover, most of these lands are allocated plots which have to be developed within a given timeframe or risk revocation and reallocation to others with true intention for development and investment, in the spirit of fairness and equity.
But over time in Abuja with the influx of various characters, a dirty practice by very greedy individuals would be to receive multiple allocations, refuse to develop, then place these lands for sale at ridiculous prices.

Anyone who wants to hoard lands should go to his or her village to do so.

Great, Positive development by the Minister.

juman:
In highbrow areas, when you buy land you should be ready to develop it.
Because lot of more serious people are there willing to develop the plots if they get chance.

Most of these lands were not bought, they were allocated by the FCDA through AGIS with a relatively small application fee (as at 12 years ago - 100k per application), also through government padi padi, lands were allocated to many of these individuals whose names you recognise.

Most of these lands have been lying fallow for over 15 years. Some have been in the market at ridiculous prices, potential buyers have ignored them.

This significantly retards the development of the FCT.

It seems these people are yearning for a full military campaign in the region.

Nigeria!

Where there are supposed to be 150 doctors, only 30 will be employed and exploited like Jakis.

Meanwhile, there'd be an army of unemployed doctors, who would be readily employed in other Countries.

I worked like this a few years ago.

Na today?

nedu666:


Rubbish comparison. Since kano advert is open to all, I dare you to go and apply make we know how far.

A lot of Igbos are being recruited. Not just in Kano, but other States.

flokii:
How will an Executive appointee be answerable to the National Assembly?.. Wike as Minister of FCT is directly under the Executive arm of government and must function in such capacity.

I see those not happy that a Southerner is FCT Minister pushing the Kingibe woman. The constitution is clearly spelt out.

It's actually certain 'Southerners' pushing the Kingibe woman. Unfortunately, it's DOA.

The senator just mentioned that to whine some of her party members during her post-tribunal speech.

Benwallt:
Oga, Edo State should be number one.

I just dey look them.

Meanwhile Simon Ekpa with his toy helmet dey hide for one hole for Finland.

obiekunie01:
THE CHAIRMAN OF NMA JOS CHAPTER SHOULD BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY!


The purpose of NMA is to vet all practicing medical doctors - hence reason why the doctors pay almost 100k for annual practicing license fee!
If you don't pay these fees, NMA will proscribe you immediately!

NOT JUST THAT, BEFORE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PRACTICE AS A DOCTOR IN ANY STATE IN NIGERIA, YOU MUST FIRST PRESENT YOUR CREDENTIALS TO THE STATE CHAPTER OF NMA, THEY WILL DO ALL DUE DILIGENCE AND VET YOUR CREDENTIALS!

SO ARE THEY TELLING US THAT DOCTOR KEKERE HAS BEEN PRACTICING IN JOS AND OWNING SEVERAL CLINICS WITHOUT PAYING HIS PRACTICING FEES??

IS THAT WHAT JOS NMA CHAPTER IS TRYING TO TELL US??

WHY IS NMA ALWAYS QUICK TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM ANY MALPRACTICE BY ITS MEMBERS?

If NMA cannot do the work of protecting Nigerians from fake and quake doctors then the organisation should be disbanded!

IF I AM THAT WOMAN'S LAWYER, NMA WILL BE LISTED AS ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS AND BY THE TIME AM DONE WITH THEM, THEY WILL BE PAYING HEAVILY FOR THEIR NEGLIGENCE!

The man is not a doctor to begin with and therefore not a member of NMA.

It's the duty of the State Ministry of Health (or Department of Medical Services) to license and monitor facilities operating within their jurisdiction.


Also, doctors can be verified at the NMA.