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Dozzywest:
It was all glitz and glamour at the wedding ceremony and reception of Mr Ugochukwu Udu, who recently married the daughter of Chrome boss, Chief Sir Emeka Offor recently held at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos, on Saturday 12/10.

Mrs Njideka Udu (nee Offor) is a daughter of Sir (Dr.) Emeka Offor; Chairman/CEO of Chrome and Chairman, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC).

Other prominent people in the event include:
Bola Ahmed Tinubu; APC National Leader, Baba Gana Kingigbe; former SGF of Nigeria, Governors: H.E. Kayode Fayemi; Ekiti State Governor, H.E. Emeka Ihedioha; Imo State Governor, Senators: H.E. Ken Nnamani; Former Senate President of Nigeria, Senator Ike Ekweremadu; former Deputy Senate President and current Senator Enugu East, Senator Patrick Ubah; Anambra Central, H.E. Ibikunle Amosun; former Governor of Ogun State and Senator Ogun Central, H.E. Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; former Governor of Kano State and Senator Kano Central, Lady Uche Ekwunife; Senator Anambra Central, Senator Annie Okonkwo, Senator Osita Izunaso, Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Lai Mohammed, Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba, Comrade Tony Nwoye, former Federal House Member, AnambraEast and West, George Moghalu, Hon. Ifeanyi Ibezim; Federal House Member Idemili North and South.

Engr. Ernest Ndukwe; Chairman of MTN Nigeria PLC, Chief Osita Chidoka; former Minister of Aviation, Chief Alex Otti; former Diamond Bank Group Managing Director, and others like: Popupar blogger Linda Ikeji, Jude Nges Okoye and many others.


#foodforthought..never you loose sleep over any politician, they flock together to enjoy, celebrate and intermarry, while you continue to kill yourself shouting PDP, ApC, coneheads, Igbos or whatever nonsense.

I only took interest here. This is no food for thought but gibberish for thought.

White wedding didn't start today, it dates years back and many have been attending weddings because it is a thing of joy and honour.

When Dangote daughter married, creme la creme of the society was there incly bill Gate. Sometimes I don't understand how you lots reason or is it that some brains are no longer functioning.


Same way People of this calibre attended this wedding, will be same way the day a local pdp chairman daughter will marry both APC, apga, as in that area will attend because is solely a thing of joy.

Same way an average business man will also invite his business associates and opponents to his children wedding, same way it will happen to many.


So the Issue of food for thought is outrightly Nonsense and born out of self insecurity and emotion.

Work on that young man.


Thank you.

Nigeria politicians and road project since 1999.
If you know, you know

Continued


The Lessons

Those who kill by the sword will also die by the sword. But even at that, the physical death of the individual sinner is not the end of his punishment. God tells us through the Bible that we should not be afraid of the person who only has power to destroy the body but has no power over the soul.
The person we should fear, says God, is the person who has power to both destroy the body and cast the soul into Hell Fire. So, both terrestrial and eternal punishment await all those who committed and condoned the Massacre of Igbos generally and Asaba people particularly.
God is merciful. If Nigeria genuinely repents and forsakes her evil ways and submits herself for thorough blood transfusion, she might obtain forgiveness and survive, otherwise, she must pay the supreme price – death, both of body and soul.

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The story of Adaobi, a 16-year old virgin

Or what would you make of the story of Adaobi, a 16-year old virgin, set aside by the gods to serve as Priestess to the River Niger. Three Nigerian Soldiers raped Adaobi to death during the Asaba Massacre. Adaobi’s father told Emma Okocha: “You don’t know how powerful your River is…I told you I’m from Abor. Many Abor, Ndoni and Kwale families were killed at Cable Point. We live in Cable because the River has taken over our land. In those days, my daughter whose name was Adaobi was betrothed to the Omu family. She was sixteen. The Omu would stop by my house on her way to the Oniche Shrine down the River. She would take Adaobi along. She was getting initiated and as a Christian I wasn’t bothered about the details.
“Then the soldiers came and defiled her in my presence. For me, a titled ma, the Otibu-Ayiya of Abor, that was an abomination! She was a virgin, and apart from the fact that the eye does not see the ear, the three army rapists almost suffocated Adaobi, my young daughter, to death. “In my rage, I cared little about their guns when I charged. By the time it was all over I had lost an eye and those vandals beat me to a pulp. It was in the morning hours a day after the Omu as usual visited her daughter. She never said any word or blinked till the end of the story. She left for the River and returned with a large piece of white cloth and covered the poor girl.
The following morning, it was my sister who ran to the Omu with the sad news. Adaobi had bled to death!! The Omu returned with my sister and asked us to leave the house. She avoided the casket the family bought for Adaobi’s burial. “She lifted her with little effort and we were amazed that such an advanced woman could lift that 180 pound, 5feet, 9inches chubby girl without help. She never cried, shed tears, nor blinked. She took my daughter down the slopes of Cable Point to the River. Adaobi was buried somewhere there. I never had the courage to interfere and till this day there was no question from me, her mother, or my sister on why the Omu took away the corpse of my daughter.
“Four days later, the Priestess of the River, the Omu of Asaba, entered my house. Again, she was in all white. It was around 5:00 a.m. and she declared in the language of the water: On the portals of her Shrine/Before the presence of her messengers/Barbarians came to defile?/The virgin daughter of the River/Abomination is wrought their cause/Tribulation shall carry their cause/Their families a future cursed/ A generation to be born and lost/Oniche from strife always recaps/But never forgives her virgin rape/Tomorrow the land shall turn to water/And the water shall bury the land. “And Omu disappeared just like the way she had appeared.
I rushed to my door and the door was still locked. It had been locked since the previous night yet she had come in. “When I opened the door, the build up for the inversion of Onitsha had started. There were lots of activities down the River Niger Road to the River Port – hundreds of armored vehicles, artilleries, machine guns, etc., countless numbers of soldiers. Then the following morning, there was Armageddon! The River was afloat with thousands of dead soldiers by dusk, right till the next day.
The soldiers that attacked Adaobi were in the same boat with Lt. Usman, alias ‘White man no mercy’. Their disintegrated barge was the first to receive a direct hit from the Biafran shore-batteries. Lt. Usman and few others were still struggling when an amorphous monster, more of an alligator, surfaced. “White man no mercy” had been masticated alive.
The next morning, his two legs still in the black army boots and familiar bulala whips were found at the banks under the big Mango trees overlooking the River Niger killing spot. After the vultures had had their fill, the boots were never touched until the end of the war.” (P243-244)
Perhaps that is why General Gowon went to Asaba “to the very sands of the River Niger and prayed and apologized,” said Saint David Oputa. But what can one man’s apology do for a nation neck-deep in the blood of her innocent citizens? And yet, the blood level, like sea level, is still rising.
How did leaders of these murderers, General Murtala Mohammed and Major Ibrahim Taiwo end up? On February 13, 1976, Lt. Col Bukar Suka Dimka, who was deeply involved in the killing of innocent Igbos in Kaduna during the July 1966 counter coup, cornered General Murtala who was sitting in his car in a Lagos traffic holdup and cut his body into pieces with a machine gun. On the same day, Col. Ibrahim Taiwo was also beheaded by his mates. It was a coup against Murtala Mohammed.
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Professor Wole Soyinka

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in October 2017, spoke against naming national institutions and infrastructure after leaders known to have committed grievous harm against humanity.

As a special guest of honour in Asaba at the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Asaba Massacre, Soyinka, said it is a desecration of the memories of innocent people killed by federal troops in 1967 to name our streets and important public infrastructure after them. For instance, he said, “How do we talk to future generations about corruption if they find a street named after Gen. Sani Abacha?…We do not say dig up Abacha’s remains and put in the evil forest, but do not leave lying around the provocative symbols, the trauma that this nation went through.”

Emma Okocha, Author

Time and time again, author of the tear-evoking book, Blood on the Niger, Emma Okocha, said the people of Asaba will continue to remember General Murtala Mohammed as a war commander of the Second Division of Nigerian Army who came to Asaba and had his hands filled with blood of innocent people who had no hand in the killing of Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa: “He (Murtala Mohammed) was the butcher of Asaba people. He was the one central character who destroyed Asaba. He decided what happened in the Nigerian Civil War. He was on the move from Lagos to Benin and was heading to Nnewi in Anambra State. He killed our children, men and women who came out to welcome him to Asaba. It was a genocide that will remain indelible in the minds of our people.”
“We will never forget,” the author said. “We’ve erected war memorial at Ogbeosowa quarters…Although General Yakubu Gowon, the then Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Army came to Asaba and apologized to Asaba people…but it’s not like ordinary killing. Genocide is a deliberate planning of by a group to eliminate another group. The number of killings to make it genocide has to be massive. If you allow the perpetrators to go free, there is no guarantee that it won’t happen again.”

Blood on the Niger

Given that today, October 7, was in history, the day of Asaba Massacre, permit me to retell this story: On page 234, Mr. John Kanayo Hudson Odittah, a survivor of the first black-on black genocide popularly known as October 6 and 7, 1967 Asaba Massacre, gave an eyewitness account of how “at the Cable Point Area, hundreds of (Asaba) people were lined up by the River (Niger) bank (from where Nigeria derived her name) and ordered to walk into the River by the vandals (Nigerian Army). When they moved into a point where the water reached their waist, they were shot dead and their corpses carried away by the river (Niger)…at Ogbeosowa Square, the (Nigerian Army) vandals also collected thousands of men who they ordered to dig three large graves. After they had dug the graves, they were ordered to enter into the graves which they did and were all shot dead.”
Among the thousands of innocent people executed at Ogbeosowa killing ground on 7 October 1967 by Nigerian soldiers led by Col. Murtala Mohammed, Major Ibrahim Taiwo, and Major Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, were not more than 4-year old infants like Felix and Alphonsus Nwajei who were forced to join the men as they faced firing squads. “Babies were yanked away from their mothers’ breasts,” an eyewitness, Dr. Getrude Okogwu, narrated, “their heads bashed against concrete bitumen tar, their little bodies strewn under and rolled over by the monstrous tyres of the army supply vehicles.”

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In commemoration of the October 7, 1967 Asaba Massacre


By Osa Amadi

In August 2018, several decades after the end of the Second World War, 95 years old Jakiw Palij, a Nazi war criminal, was deported from American soil, where he had been hiding. Palij, in March 1944, among other roles, was assigned to the Deployment Company, whose mission included arresting suspected Jews and sending them to concentration camps.


The case of Jakiw Palij, the arrest and trial of other fugitive Nazi war criminals who had served in Adolf Hitler’s army are clear messages to all the soldiers in this world, especially soldiers (and even civilians) who played one role or the other in the Asaba Ogbeosowa Massacre, exactly 52 years ago today, on October 7, 1967, that there are no hiding places here or hereafter for participants in massacres and pogroms. Judgment and punishments may tarry, but they must surely come.


As Asaba people and all Nigerians of good conscience shed tears afresh today in memory of thousands of Asaba sons, daughters, husbands, wives and even infants, who were massacred at Ogbeosowa killing ground by the Nigerian Army commanded by the late General Murtala Mohammed and Major Ibrahim Taiwo, we commiserate with them through the invocation of the most authoritative book ever written on that mass bloodshed, Blood on the Niger, by Emma Okocha, who, as a child, had witnessed but survived the pogrom.


Dr Cyril Uchenna Gwam

Dr Cyril Uchenna Gwam was also an eyewitness of the massacre. He had, in an interview with a national newspaper, described the Nigerian soldiers who committed the atrocities as evil: “They were evil! The Nigerian troops that came into Asaba came with the aim of eliminating every Asaba man as they thought they were fathers, brothers and uncles of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, the leader of the first Nigerian coup in 1966 that killed Sardauna of Sokoto and Sir Ahmadu Bello. Major Nzeogwu was from Okpanam Town, which was five kilometres drive from Asaba. It would interest you to know that every Okpanam person regards himself or herself as an Asaba person. I would rather say those soldiers that came to Asaba were on a revenge mission and not after the Biafrans.”
One question Dr Cyril and many others have continued to ask is why the soldiers decided to kill unarmed, innocent civilians, saying it is against the international humanitarian to deliberately kill innocent civilian, whether in time of peace or war. “For me,” he said, it would be very difficult to forgive or forget the injury inflicted on the Asaba people.”

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Boris meets Boris.

Reaction of British PM Boris Johnson when he was told the name of the dog barking at him is Boris.

He even had to join in calling the dog Boris.


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I bought Big Brother Naija for Mercy ― Cubana Chief Priest


The executive director, CubanaGroup��, Mr Chibuike Okechukwu popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest while celebrating Mercy’s victory on Instagram said he bought the reality TV show for Mercy.


In his words ” I F**k** Bought Big Brother For #myowerri�� Sister @official_mercyeke I Said It N I Did It � Of The Gods #CelebrityBarMan”
Mercy Eke aka Lamborghini is the winner of 2019 Big Brother Naija reality show season four.
Lamborghini went home with N30m cash, a brand new G80 SUV, full set of home electronic appliances, an all-expense-paid trip for two to Dubai, and another trip for two to watch a European Cup final of choice, as the winner of the BBNaija Grand Finale.
Cubana Chief Priest was one of Mercy’s strongest supporters while she was in the Big Brother Naija house.


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LegendHero:
I'm not lieing and I never denied that there are Yorubas in Togo and Benin Republic.

You asked me about their life and if we carry them along and I responded that I don't know much about them to give you a deserving response.

I don't have much information about them, I just read it online just like you, never been to Togo or Benin, never had any friends from there, so how will I know about them than normal online knowledge.

Try to understand my earlier response

Alright, I understand.

Try and make friends there. They are your blood.

Communication won't be a problem as they speak Yoruba.

That's an American rat and it must be very costly.
Nigeria is a shiiiitholllle, you can see such rats here.

Kudos Washington.

LegendHero:
Even your reply is ambiguous. So how do I understand the non coherent speech the guy wrote.

He’s just ranting like a baby learning how to talk!

I think you have that attitude of denial and I won't like to generalise it because it is too early.

That message was clear and I stand by it.

LegendHero:
This is not a matter of propaganda, for USA, UK, and Canada, Yourba got the most representation.

Now to your question, I really don’t know much about the Yorubas in Benin and Togo, maybe some other Yorubas on here could better answer your question.

Gracias.

The highest thing I hate in my life is outright and barefaced denial.

Very sad indeed.

Who in this age, infact grown up will say that he/she is not aware of Yorubas in Benin and Togo.

Same culture, language, dressing, sane everything and you look into my face telling me you don't know.


You can do better than this lie.

Too bad.

LegendHero:
Did I touch a nerve, why are you venting all your frustration on me. Kilode?

Justice is already done to this thread and no amount of venting can change that. Let love lead.

Gracias

No anger was vented on you young man, let me immediately state that unless you have that complex nature of looking inferior to superior argument.

If can't get his message, read again.

Very simple and clear.

Very sound.
Can he now leave SA and return.
Thanks for coming.

LegendHero:
In the UK, USA, and Canada, yoruba have the most population. It’s a fact known to even most Igbos.

If you’re talking about Europe or Asia, I won’t deny the Igbos are enormous in that side but within that 3 countries up there, the Yorubas dominate.

I also saw you talked about the IT guys not making profit, that’s the most rubbish statement I’ve ever heard. Not all IT make profit but those that are established are crazily rich.

If you’ve lived in the USA, IT companies alone in Silicon Valley generates a lot of revenue and infact IT is the future.

Ya’ll always talk about Igbo traders like we don’t also have Yoruba, Hausa, and other tribes traders. You always make it seem like you own the monopoly of trading and that’s a ridiculous assumption. We have a lot of importers that are of different tribes, the Yorubas are known to have the largest concentration of artisans, mechanics, etc beside the Iya oloja selling Aso ebi and all.

Tho the OP need not project the Yoruba as the best in IT, it’s already an established fact so no need of louding it again.

leave Wikipedia that is been edited every minute. Infact leave propaganda, we already know you guys for that one.

I want to ask a very sincere question


Hope you guys carry your brothers and sisters, your people, your blood in Benin republic and Togo along in all these feats and achievements?

Nice one.
Keep it up.

Loud mouth Governor...
Rubbish.

All these Apga cloth everywhere, means what?

StaffofOrayan:
The government is really useless in Nigeria, look at the road leading to this man's investments
Look at how the governor posed like its his personal accomplishment

I thought I was the only one that saw the posing.

Obiano ana eko..
Something is really wrong with that guy man..

That's great..

Umahi no suppose be on that Entourage.
That's the fact..
Decode the reasons on your own.

Ngobili or bilingo is a mad man...


Corrected Misconception About Nnewi Monarchial History


The hereditary monarchy of Nnewi predates the British. But it is not absolute monarchy like we have in the UK or Benin or the Southwest or Northern Nigeria.


It runs from the smallest unit (the ụmụnna) through the ógbè (village), to the quarter or semi-town, then to the town. Each of them has an obi which is hereditary via primogeniture.
The British cannot impose hereditary monarchy on Nnewi and Nnewi would just accept it sheepishly and still happily practise it over a hundred years after.
Nnewi people are very ambitious people with enormous resources – if the hereditary traditional rulership was created by the British, many powerful men would have used their wealth and political clout to appropriate such positions in this modern age. But in Nnewi, the throne of the Igwe or the Obi at all levels does not go to the rich or strong or influential.


When Major Moorhouse led the British into Nnewi in 1904, the Igwe of Nnewi (Igwe Iwuchukwu) had just died. For fear that his son (Orizu) would be killed or treated the way Jaja of Opobo, Oba of Benin and some other monarchs had been treated, he was taken to Ihiala (the hometown of his mother) and hidden there. The Igwe’s uncle Nwosu Ezeodumegwu stood in for the Igwe at the Nnewi square.
The British thought the man was the traditional ruler of Nnewi, but he told them no, that his nephew was, but because he was mourning his father tradition had it that he should not come out to see strangers. Ezeodumegwu was undoubtedly the richest man then.
The British were impressed with his carriage and power and wanted to make him the ruler of Nnewi, but he told them no, that the throne of Nnewi was hereditary from father to his first son. As an ọzọ titled man, the taboo of his ọzọ would not allow him to take what did not belong to him.
It was only after there were assurances that the young king would not be harmed that he was later brought back to meet the British and a treaty was signed.


Umudim my part has its obi which is hereditary. My village Okpuno-Egbu has its obi which is hereditary. My ụmụnna has its obi which is hereditary.
The obi of Otolo is also the Igwe of Nnewi (because Otolo is the first among the four “jaws” of Nnewi). It is not contested, selected, or appointed.
When the Obi of Uruagu Nnewi died, his first son simply took over. When the Obi of Umudim Nnewi died, his first son automatically took over. When the Obi of Nnewichi died, his first son seamlessly took over.
No election, no horse-trading, no lobbying, no appointment. When the Obi of my village (Okpuno-Egbu) died last year, his first son (a medical doctor based in the United States) came back to bury his father and become the Obi.
The office of the traditional ruler at all levels in Nnewi does not go to a former Senate President or Speaker or Governor or military General or Director General of a government agency or one billionaire that is well connected with those in power.
The state government does not even wield any influence in determining who becomes the next Obi or Igwe as the case may be in Nnewi. The first son automatically takes over and life goes on.
Nnewi people love it like that. It saves them bickering, court cases, assassinations, and lack of peace and progress. To strike a balance, Nnewi people made all elective political/social offices rotational.
The British simply called Igwe Orizu “Chief Orizu” because “chief” is a leader of a people or clan. It does not mean someone with a title, as we assume today. Please see the attached screenshot.In South Africa, there is the chief of the Zulus called Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Nnewi people use “Igwe” or “Obi” because they want the office of their traditional rulers to be known with their Igbo name.
Igwe Josiah Orizu and Igwe Kenneth Orizu bear English names because they became Christians.
The minus Nnewi has is that it has never had a top writer like Achebe who projected its story.
Nnewi was also overshadowed by Onitsha for many decades that historians like Afigbo, Isichei, Onwuejeogwu, etc did not pay attention to its monarchical system which was different from what existed in many parts of Igboland.
And because of the uniqueness of Nnewi traditional institution, many people wonder: How can you people have hereditary kings when most other Igbo towns did not have such? So they find it hard to believe or find ways to disprove it.
But having kings or not does not make a place better or worse. The UK has monarchs; France eradicated monarchs; the US never accepted monarchs – that does not make any of these countries better than the other.
Nnewi does not boast about the fact that it has always had hereditary traditional rulers at all levels. It just states: This is the way we have been living and it has been working for us. Simple.
What Nnewi people find annoying is when someone says or implies: “My town never had kings; so you people could never have had kings; you just concocted the story to feel good.” You then wonder whether having kings is an achievement.
The best attempt to document Nnewi history was done by Dr Okonkwo Alutu, who wrote the book Nnewi History. It may not be as popular as the book of many national historians but it captures the true essence of Nnewi.
Some years ago the palace of the Igwe of Nnewi chose me to write the biography of Igwe KNO Orizu (Igwe Orizu III). They will present the book on December 27 at Dame Virgy Etiaba Centre in Nnewi.
Even though it focuses on Orizu III, it chronicles his genealogy and the uniqueness of the Nnewi way of life.

Tribunal should end this Kano petition, so that whosoever that won will face governance squarely.

When politics stumbles, the people pays.

fairfora:
We don't seem to understand why we have so much lunatics in our streets nowadays. You're one of the reasons I don't pity them when seen with tangled hair and tattered, dirty clothes, begging for food. Because I wouldn't know where they erred so they wouldn't give me a bad luck when given money. You need to beg God for pardon.

I stated the obvious fact and you just confused on what to say.