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Francis Selormey, one of my favorite authors, who wrote "The Narrow Path" was an Ewe from the Volta Region

When people tend to look alike and all that, dont rule out the fact that they maybe related to one another. I wouldnt rule out a DNA test if the resemblance is striking. Remember that in the olden days, twins were left to die in the forest. There is this story I read of a chinese woman who was always mistaken for another person. Out of curiousity or so, she tracked down that lady and found out that they were twins, but she never knew that she was a twin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/bao-lulin-and-yang-yanfei_n_2245622.html

144,000 thousand people referred to (and falsely taught by Jehovah's witness as only those who would go to heaven) are actually drawn from the tribes of Israel.

http://www.wake-up.org/Revelation/Rev144.htm

Thank God for the missionaries like Mary Slessor who helped put an end to the killing of twins and human sacrifices. For how long would this barbaric and inhumane act be tolerated under the guise of culture evolving if not for the intervention of these missionaries? There is good and bad in colonialism, lets put it that way.

18wheeler: Age 6-7: NTA and our local PTV in jos usually played the national anthem before start of programming. I would stand stiff @ attention and salute in front of the screen displaying the flag/coat of arms. Was a ritual I never failed to observe daily.

Same ritual my senior brother and I did as youngsters.

Did she really make the above quote on how how she surpassed Oprah financially or are the journalist putting words into her mouth? Either way, it's just petty. I cant see how Oprah would be bothered that a black woman's wealth has exceeded hers.

feels sorry for the tiger cubs, I hope she feels sorry for motherless babies who are yearning for breastmilk.

I still dont know if this is a figment of my imagination or it really did happen. But my earliest childhood memory may have been when I was 2 years old, I faintly recall eating icecream in an envelope with my senior brother back in D.C. I cant say for sure though if it's something that I am making up (and I do sometimes wonder if my mind plays tricks on me or if it really happened)

At 4 or 5 years old, I clearly recalled vacationing with my senior brother (during the long holidays) with cousins of mine at the Metropolitan Hotel, Calabar. The hotel was six storey high and during the day or so, I would stand outside the quarters pondering and curious to know what transpired on the sixth floor, the topmost building of the hotel. I couldnt summon the courage to explore the hotel, but one day, one of my cousins, (who did not even know of my desire to explore the building), told me to tour the hotel with him. We took the stairs, first floor, 2nd floor, third or fourth floor when bam, one of the employees emerged from the hotel and confronted us. The man barked at us, a four (or five) year old buy and his elder cousin. We immediately dashed out and picked race with the man in hot pursuit of us. I remember running down the stairs (that was built kinda like in a zig zag fashion), my heart racing till we got to the balcony. It was a narrow escape, when we got to our destination, we rested on the floor and cried. My cousin still remembers the incident and laughs over it. :From thence on, my imagination of living in Nigeria has been photographic. Even my brother and my mates back in elementary and secondary school (that I have reconnected with on facebook) are truly amazed that I do recall a lot of details that occured way back in school. Till today, I remember some of their birthdays even though I havent seen them in decades.

Good topic.

https://www.nairaland.com/134249/earliest-childhood-memory-dates-what

http://www.whenweruled.com/news.php?lng=en&pg=&id=5

Until the lions have their own historians, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Kobojunkie: We need to use our heads here . . . divorcees were avoid back in the old world yet, divorce continued to GROW in society to the point that it is more than 50% of society today, no matter were you go. Even in remote Afghanistian, divorce has been common since the same olden days you refer to. What does that tell you?

Avoiding divorced people is no solution. If anything, it has helped NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM for centuries and continuing that old practice will help no one.

I am reminded of back in the days, while growing up in Nigeria, parents would advice their kids not to play with the other kids from divorced homes. Twas really sad and kids would not hide this at all.

I have never heard of any parent telling their child not to play with another kid from a divorced family. It's absurd. My discourse resonates more with people because I'd like to think that some people even on this board are aware of the discomfort people, particularly spouses, might experience if one of them is friends with a divorcee.

Kobojunkie: Is a divorcee a leper or something?? Are you so ignorant that you think and believe divorce is some contagious disease? What? Like people who are not divorce suddenly want it because, and only because they have friends who are divorced, and probably in your eyes, "living up the life"??

What next? Ask if your kids should even be allowed to hang out with orphans, or kids raised in single parent homes? *** ugh!

The kin questions people dey ask here gives me the willies . . .

They arent lepers, but truth be told, divorcees, (women especially) were avoided back in the olden days for fear they would break up another person's marriage. Some people still hold onto that attitude in today's world.

odumchi: *I might have mispelled some of the words*

A relative translated them for me into Calabar Efik.

1. How are you: eti eririe (response would be: iri oke; meaning: "it is not bad" )
2. Where are you: eroke mmong
3. Where are you going: aka mmong
4. Good morning: emede mere or mesierong
5. Good day: menyong
6. Thank you: sosongo
7. Friend: ufan fo
8. Come and eat: eriamkpo

That's Efik, which has a slight variant from the Ibibio dialect.

[quote author=baby-boy]That was one competition that was rigged, the Miss world Inter-continental that she won was also rigged 2 contestant passed out when they called her name![/quote]From what I read, the 2 contestants fainted due to the oppressive heat at the National Theatre, Iganmu, where the pageant was held, not because of Bianca's victory. However she wasnt expected to win the contest to begin with.

A female classmate in college thought it rude that I addressed her by her first name instead of "aunty." Not that long afterwards, the woman started complaining that the girls in the class mockingly addressed her aunty an indirect way of telling her that she was an old woman, way older than some of them. At the work place, please do away with all these uncle and aunty stuff and address them as Mr or Mrs last name!!!

Abiola really had 113 children?

greatgod2012: If i may ask, staff of where? or which company? Of road transporters?.........so many things are wrong in this country and they have to be addressed as soon as possible. These pple who are claiming to be staff are not even beneficial to these transporters, instead, they make things complex for them by unnecessarily extorting money from them for no good reasons. Oh God of mercy, have mercy on me....
Staff indeed!

Some of these Nigerian policement, after extorting money from passengers through illegal tollbooth, they now want to be exempted from paying taxi fare. Talk of freebies.

jidegirl12: No such thing as fake policeman.... they can only purchase their uniforms from specific places with I.D..... I can't speak for Naija o!

We are talking about Naija.

sienna116: @jidegirl, giving them discounts is a good idea but to go without paying @ all is robbery.

Soon, fake policemen would be inside buses demanding for discounts and freebies. That's not the way to go please.

Rustic: There is this close friend of mine whom I share my secrets wt bt he's always jealous of me especially wen I purchased a new thing.
Hw do I handle the situation cos am nt happy seeing my close friend bn jealous of my achievements. I dnt want my fellow colleagues to notice we are nt too close again cus they all knw hw close we are.
Any idea on hw to handle the situation?

Dump this close 'friend' of yours.

Baby mama: Let me teach you Igbo culture
Call it what you may but if a man did not carry wine and properly ask for a woman's hand in marriage and perform the necessary marital rights,the child in question cannot be counted as his children.
That is just the way it is
If a woman likes let her deliver triplets,all boys ,if he did not marry her in the proper traditional way before or after the birth,the children belong to the mother and her family not the man and so have no inheritance unless the man chooses to recognize them in a will
Without a will he gets nada
I am surprised he is bearing Ojukwu as his last name
In Igboland if the mother was not a wife,the children bear their mother's last name
There is a clear distinction in Igbo custom between a wife and a concubine or mistress

They are not on equal footing
So the man should stop claiming first son,Ojukwu never married his mother and did not recognize him as first son

Conversely if a married woman leaves her matrimonial home without a proper divorce traditionally where a portion of the bride price is returned to her husband,every or any child she decides to have outside belong to the husband according to Igbo culture .


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I wonder how these cultures are enforced. Ojukwu and Bianca already had children (after their white wedding) before they had a traditional marriage. Yet, those kids have his last name. Explain.

Nightshift: You were perhaps a baby-boy in 1990. Was her Crown taken from her? Definitely not, please don't sound irrational.

Yes, Silverbird took the crowns from her back when her affair with Ojukwu was covered in the media towards the end of her reign. She claimed she resigned but Ben Bruce said he detrhoned her. Regina Askia, her first runner up took over from her as MBGN, 1988 while Brenda Marte Lajara, her first runner up in the Miss Intercontinental pageant, inherited her intercontinental crown. From what I read, her victory at the MBGN 1988 contest was rigged as Regina Askia was the favored contestant, the same controversy trailed her when she won Miss Intercontiental in 1989. Yet, she ended up losing all the crowns. Brenda is from Dominican Republic not Venezuala, and I think she or the 2nd runner up were favored to win, definitely not Bianca.

Read the post below

funkybaby:
Are you saying he fathered a child with his 'adopted daughter"?

Are you sure about this ?

That's more ammunition for the anti-ojukewu team.

Dayokanu, copy that

Ethiopian or not, Ebele is Ojukwu's adopted not biological daughter.

tpia1: Ebele is actually part ethiopian.

She was adopted when Ojukwu and his then wife, Stella, lived in exile in Ivory Coast.

dmcdad: I would... The thing is, I'll have a thorough examination on both parties individually to know their cravings in a union. If I discover they have an affinity, then I'd be glad to bring them together.. After bringing them, I'll always keep an eye and make sure I help them in making it worthwhile...

That's being intrusive.

Imagine the scenario, you have a relative who is single as well as a close friend currently seeking a mate. Would you pair them up with hopes they might have a future together or would you simply stay out of their personal lives? I decided to pose this question on Nairaland over divergent views people have on being a matchmaker. Some would back out of this role for fear that a broken relationship (particularly if it ends badly would summarily destroy their friendship (particularly since blood is thicker than water in most cases) And even if it leads to marriage and there is 'wahala' in the union, they might be called upon to intercede or even blamed for introducing one another. (Abi, you go hear your friend complain one day, "Your sister did not cook for me, your sister . . . ) A certain man who introduced a close friend to his relative got caught in the middle when the duo had problems during their courtship that after their marriage, his relationship with his friend took a nosedive and never fully recovered. I know of two women who maintained they wouldnt be a matchmaker so as to stay above the fray (instead of being blamed) in times of trouble. But there are heartwarming stories of union formed courtesy of one being introduced to the other.

Would you or wouldnt you?

Plumber's son emerges FUTA's best student

Twenty-six-year-old son of a plumber whose mother is also a trader in Iseyin, Oyo State, Mr. Nurudeen Adegoke, has emerged the overall best graduating student at the 24th convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, on Saturday.

Adegoke, who read Mathematics, shone like a star at the occasion as he won other awards and had to shake hands on different occasions with special guests and other principal officers of the university to receive his prizes.

He told our correspondent that the road to his success was rough and challenging as he had to put in personal efforts to get himself through his degree programme at FUTA.

He said, "I really worked very hard. No unserious student can survive the rigour at the Mathematical Science department from where I graduated. I was very prayerful too.

"Right from my first day in FUTA, I was determined, focused and diligent. I was humble too because humility is very essential in anything one is doing.

"I was at the Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, for my Ordinary National Diploma in Statistics. I got direct admission to FUTA, doing everything on my own.

"My dad is a plumber while my mother is a petty trader. I am really from a humble background. Being the first child of my family, I made up my mind to be serious and hardworking so that I could help my parents in taking care of the academic needs of my younger ones.

"I always had it at the back of my mind that I must pass very well if I really wanted my certificate to be useful to me and I was always prayerful and focused.

"I used to get involved in tutorials. I didn't play with my academics. I am not sure I had any social life because I didn't want any form of distraction," Adegoke submitted.

He advised students to face their academics instead of engaging in activities that would not add value to their main reason of being in the university in the first instance.

The Chancellor of the institution, who is also the Emir of Lafia, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Isa Mustafa, described the five-year degree programme at FUTA as stimulating and intellectually enriching.

He congratulated the graduates for attending an institution with world-class academic curricular which made it the best university of technology in Nigeria.

He admonished the graduates to be entrepreneurial and creative and to tap from the vast natural endowments and economic resources in the country instead of looking for salary jobs years after graduation.

He said, "I exhort you to be lawful, peaceful, and God guided in your pursuits of livelihood. I beseech you to follow the path of honour, integrity and righteousness at all time."

The pro-Chancellor, who is also Chairman of the Governing Council, Brig.-Gen. Raji Rasaki, said FUTA would remain focused in its determination to contribute towards the development of quality human capital to meet local and global needs.

He also pledged that the university would continue to intensify efforts to attract indigenous and foreign students at both undergraduate and post graduate levels by acquiring facilities that meet their demands.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, said 15 out of the 1,960 students that graduated had a first class degree while 561were in the second class upper division.

He added that 998 graduates were in the second class lower division; 331 in the third class; while 55 of them graduated with a pass.

Daramola said the university agreed to confer honorary degrees on Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma and Prof. Daniel Mireku-Gyimah from Ghana because of their generous contributions to human capital development.

He reiterated his determination to "take FUTA to the market place" by focusing on policies and programmes that would lead the institution to a higher height of global recognition for excellence.

He said, "We are also going to harness, package and market the great potential of the university to be financially solvent.

"We are starting by focusing on completing all on-going projects, upgrading our entire infrastructure to international standards. It is a daunting task that requires a lot of reforms, system re-engineering and economic utilisation of human and material resources," he added.

Daramola also explained that through the introduction of entrepreneurial training to the students, electrical and painting jobs that were usually contracted out were now being handled by the university's works and services personnel with the active participation of students, saving the institution, millions of naira.

He commended the Ondo State, Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, for his efforts when the university was in the process of acquiring one of the state's housing estates near the campus for its centre for continuing education which is responsible for pre-degree programmes and short-time certificates.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented on the occasion by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, charged the university to focus more on research which he described as a veritable tool for development.

Mimiko, who was also represented on the occasion by his deputy, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, pledged the continuous support of the state to the institution and provision of an enabling environment for the members of staff and students at all times.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/nov/27/840.html

I remember reading about this woman back in the 80's. She had a popular fashion house called "Supreme Stitches" that she later on changed to "Rose of Sharon." Reading the article, she came off as a pleasant lady.