₦airaland Forum

Censorship maybe,. . . .but impeachment? C'mon, thats too harsh!

Frontline politician and publisher of Champion, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, called for the documentation of Biafran soldiers killed during the civil war and the compensation of the families.
He said: “Those of us who fought during the civil war can tell you that we lost our finest young graduates from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I want those who lost their people to compile their names, so that we will take it to the Federal Government for compensation.”

. . .does Iwuanyanwu know the meaning of "no victor, no vanquished"? It means we are even, the one does not owe the other anything!

point B,

In that last response, you just exemplified the typical Southern sit-down-and-look approach to politics. The tomorrow is another day attitude has not yielded favorable outcomes. The Northerners grab the bull by its horns, d a m n everyone! They know what just happened and we all know they will outdo GEJ when their turn comes to reward their pseudo military vagabonds. What will we do and how will we handle it?

They did not start the coup remember. . . they only responded to it. They did not start the agitation for reviewing 13% derivation. . . they only responded to it. They did not start the contention over offshore oil ownership. . . . they responded to it.

They are calculative in the North while we are hopeful in the South.

no more translations. . . last time i translated boko haram video all of you rascals labeled me boko member.

Kilode,

there is truth in that statement, but there is a twist of fate in it also.

If the Tompolos and the IBBs, the OBJs, the Yar'Aduas, Dokubos, Abachas, Abu Qaqas must be lumped together now as crops of the same spirit and whatever befits one of them is befitting the other, then I fear for the day when SLS shall be our President and Kabiru Sokoto wins a security contract for policing our cities and metros.

Thats not Tompolo in the picture.

Point B,

will you accept an ex-robber whose hands is stained with innocent blood to marry your daughter? Focus on the implication of the security risk of this contract to future political outcomes when other regions are in power and the broadness with which their imagination can extend the range for contracting security of the sovereignty to private hands. The EX designation is not important, a robber and murderer is simply no longer a fitting and credible member of society to be entrusted with the care and protection of your child. Am i correct?

Two things -

1. We should refrain from endorsing foreign candidates above and in preference to our own citizens vying for a respected and global position of leadership. Even if her citizenship was not Nigerian the fact she is a black woman, we ought to rally support and add voice to her success.

2. Whichever way any of us look at it, World Bank, and everything it stands for, is a shepherd dog. It is there to corrall the flocks for the capitalist barons. NOI or anyone else occupying the position will be called *President*. . . but truly it's just a glorified administrator position that reports up to the capital owners . . . .the true land barons of the globe.

FG has signed and awarded the security of the coastal waters to a private contractor favored and lobbied for by Tompolo. The security contract is to help fight crime on the sea but particularly against pirates, who are credited to be too powerful for the Nigerian Navy to control.

Excellent proposal!! I will be following and observing developments on these ideas. Good job to these pioneers!

am not surprised.i have always known that this slaves will always go back to their masters in the north for alliance.

. . . .Ojukwu, your lord, must have realized the wisdom in that slave-master relationship because he spent all the years of his return from exile patronizing Northern politicians.  Nigerian politics is a different animal from Biafran politics.

Assallam Alaikum brothers and sisters,

I want to share with you a great treasure that I use for dhikr and which I find very beneficial particularly for night vigil prayers. Those who practice Thursday fastings and vigil may want to use this in their night practice and Insha Allah, may you find the Blessings and Mercy of Allah in these teachings. I encourage you owning a copy of this book if you can afford to, otherwise you can use the online guide to navigate and learn the mysteries of these names.

http://physiciansoftheheart.com/


When you get to the site, look at the audio of the authors talking about their collaboration, read about the book and how to order and then go to audio pronounciation guide link. There is an index of the names. There is also a mp3 recitation of all the names stringed together as a recital. Each name selected separately from the index coaches you on how to say and use the practice.

Please buy the book, in hard cover or soft back, if you can afford it. Help the authors and let us appreciate this phenomenal work and their grace in making it available to us. God Bless!!

The striking resemblance which the Yoruba religious system bears to that of the ancient Greeks can scarcely have escaped notice. Olorun, the sky-god proper, now being gradually displaced by the more anthropomorphic Obatala, resembles Uranus, who was displaced by Kronos. In Greek mythology Kronos married his sister Rhea, the earth, and the Yoruba myth makes Obatala marry Odudua, who also represents the earth, though the qualities of Aphrodite appear to predominate. Olokun answers to Poseidon, Ogun, worker in iron, to Hephœstus, Orisha Oko to Priapus, Osanhin to Æsklepius, Orun, the sun, to Helios, and Oshu, the moon, to Selene. Zeus' messenger, Hermes, the lightning, was the protector of plunderers, and Shango is the god of lightning and plunder. Ifa, as the, god of prophecy, and the being who wards off evil and affords help, resembles Apollo, who, in Homer, is perfectly distinct from the sun-god, though identified with him in later times.[1]
[1. In the Roman mythology Air married Earth,and the marriage was renewed every year in spring. (Virgil, Georg. ii., 325.) Here, Air (Orungan) marries Water (Yemaja).]

The spirits of the trees answer to the Hama-dryads, and we have river-gods and sea-spirits. Metamorphosis to a brook, spring, or lagoon is common, and we have one example of a girl, being transformed, like Daphne, into a shrub. The gods, when consulted, gave oracular responses that differ in no essential particular from the answers given by the Oracle of Delphi. The Yorubas, like the Greeks, offer human sacrifices in time of national need. Dancing was, with the Greeks, intimately connected with worship, as Lucian says: [1] "You cannot find a single ancient mystery in which there is not dancing;" and on the Gold and Slave Coasts every god of note has his own dance, which is sacred to him, and known only to the initiated. The religion of ancient Greece has been obscured by a great deal of later poetic imagery; but, when we look into it closely, it is found to be similar to that of the Yorubas, and was no doubt produced when the Greeks were in a like intellectual condition.

In the above quote from sacred-texts, on Yoruba people, Greek culture is assumed as the yardstick for measuring ancient civilization. In a number of art reviews and analysis of the Ife Bronze Heads we heard similar comparisons where the Greek arts and civilization was used as the benchmark to grade Yoruba art and civilization. This of course is all taken from a Eurocentric view. This approach is mainstream and is greatly aided by many great African scholars, some of who in the interest of earning a living and fame and approvals are uninterested in an Afrocentric analysis of Greek civilization to examine if indeed it’s civilization and greatness were not donations from Africa, and Egypt to be specific.

Also, if ancient Yoruba is as closely-related to ancient Greek as is admitted by Eurocentrists, then by logic the two ancient civilizations existed on the same philosophical axis which is yet to be attributed orcompared by the same level or degree of affiliation and symmetry to any other sub-saharan culture or people. What will explain this close association between Yoruba and Greek? If Greek philosophy closely resembles a Black African philosophy, it's because Greek civilization was birthed by the knowledge and sacredness of African mysticism; the knowledge was obtained forcefully when Alexander raided Egypt and carted away the scriptures and scrolls. The knowledge also confirm that Yoruba itself was strongly influenced directly in these sacred knowledge and teachings.

An Afrocentric re-examination of Greek Philosophy. You have read the Eurocentric view, it’s time to get the Afrocentric view and then draw your own conclusion. This book is not recommended for lazy readers, it is intense and engaging, and if you follow through and read the entire book, you will thank the author for this revelation and awakening.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/stle/index.htm

I'm willing to bet something hefty that 99% of the Igbo commenting here will NOT marry an Osu

. . . bottom line!

Thnx Ezeagu.

Delivering his judgement, Judge Timothy Pontious

This is unacceptable! . . . We need all cases coming out of Peckham to be handled by Yoruba Judges.

Ibos are whining and complaining that Yorubas hate them. This is false! They call us tribalists, bigots, prejudiced, stereotyped, oppressors, haters. . . . this is all false!

We love everyone but we love our own land and its people more. If we are any of these things you call us then we should have long ago sent you away from our cherished homeland and soil. The fact you live and are sustained by the milk of our land and the sweat of our labor show that we have love for you.

If you have any issue with our accomodation and love for you on Yorubaland and you call us all these names, then one must wonder how you will describe the treatment of your people in the hands of the Northerner who kill, slaughter, maim, evict, ban and even hunt you on your own soil.

Please understand that Yoruba hates no one. We are peace loving people, but our love for our homeland cannot be shared. . .it's a special kind of love, reserved for our own sons and daughters! We wish your own land will love you selfishly like we are loved by our land and people.

Eze Rhino, I cant stop laughing at those reconciling babboons. You have lost your dayam Yoruba mind. Now thats a classic!

The name Amadi is popularly borne by the Ikwerres, just like in Imo and Abia States. It is the short form of Amadioha (Igbo pagan god of thunder) and figuratively means a (free) man.

This quote is from the writer of this article.

Are there some men that are in bondange. . . like Osu, maybe?

what do you mean? clarify your point.