If APC like let them come up with all manners of allegations against the person of Atiku, even if they say Atiku thief the whole CBN and I see the CBN korokoro with my two eyes in his pocket I will still vote for Atiku over buhari. all we are saying some of us have made our choice. me and my entire household have choosing to Atukilate . for those who choose to Atikulet like us click like and against click share. the Atikulators have it.!!!

jpphilips:
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https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2018/10/08/2019-battle-begins-what-obasanjo-said-about-atiku-trending-video/

old story! even if obj like let him write hundred books about how bad atiku is, we will still vote atiku over buhari come 2019. beside every one should know this is an old story written in his book.

here was the story sometime ago that PMB seat on an old chair,

https://www.nairaland.com/4695647/what-buharis-chair-represents#70589084

if you look at the first picture and the second picture u will understand that the chair is not really old as claim but the design on a chair from afar appeared old. and the meany question on the certificate issue needs answer by ministry of education katsina state

so my question now is PMB where is your certificate ? show us or you do the needful.

In my opinion I think Mr Garba
Shehu should honorably resign his appointment with this government to save his public image, it is obvious that this Buhari administration is undefendable, too many lies everywhere. Mr shehu it is true that your job is to defend your boss, but when the work you do have the capacity to dent your public image the best option is to resign. remember that you still have a long way to go in your political career those whom you are trying so hard to defend are all most at the tell end of their political career. I can't believed I just read this from you.
Jonathan’s loyalists responsible for Maina’s reinstatement – Presidency
Published October 25, 2017
PUNCH
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
The Presidency on Wednesday said some influential government officials loyal
to the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan were responsible
for the reinstatement of the embattled former Chairman of the defunct
Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, into the
service.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba
Shehu, stated this in a statement made available to journalists.
Shehu was reacting to a statement by the Peoples Democratic Party on the
matter.
He said the PDP had no moral right to level any accusations against the
current government in respect to Maina.
“Some influential officials loyal to the previous government may have been the
invisible hand in the latest scandal that saw the return of Maina to the public
service, despite being on the EFCC’s wanted list,” the presidential spokesman
said.
He, however, assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari is
determined to get to the bottom of the matter of the impunity that led to
Maina’s reinstatement.
“Everything will be uncovered in due course. This just goes to show us the
scale of corruption that this government is fighting. And, as we can all see,
corruption keeps fighting back viciously,” he added.
Shehu also described Maina as one of the monsters created by the former
PDP government, and which are still rearing their ugly heads long after the
party was soundly defeated in the 2015 elections.
“Over and over again, the President Buhari government has pointed out that
the administration’s greatest problem is the mess left behind by the previous
government. Maina is just one more example,” he said.
http://punchng.com/jonathans-loyalists-responsible-for-mainas-restatement-
presidency/

if Jonathan’s loyalists responsible for Maina’s reinstatement as Mr shehu would want us to believe then who is responsible for the following since Maina isn't the first person that was fired for corruption that Buhari has
brought back to government. Here are a few I can remember
1. AbdulRahman Danbazzau was fired as chief of army staff for corrupt
practices in purchasing of arms and gas been appointed minister of interior by
buhari
2. Mohammed Barkindo was removed as NNPC MD by the late yaradua for
stealing huge kickbacks from oil and and been appointed as Nigeria's
Secretary General to opec by Buhari
3. Acp Zakari Bui, a man accused and dismissed for aiding boko haram kingpin
kabiru Sokoto to escape from detention was reinstated and promoted by
buhari.
4. Abdul Rasheed Maina, a man that ran away since 2014 and has been
declared wanted by efcc for embezzlement of N2bn pension funds have been
reinstated as deputy director ministry of interior.
5. Ahmed Gambo Saleh, Registrar of the Supreme Court, He stole N2.2bn
belonging to the Supreme court and was caught red handed and fire, today
Ahmed Gambo Saleh has now been appointed the secretary of the committee
monitoring corruption trials.
6. What about timipre Sylva? Over 46 houses seized by fg has been returned
to him.

WE has received information indicating that Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to
President Muhammadu Buhari, is a recipient of the $26 billion contract windfall
in the Nigeria National Petroleum Commission [NNPC].
According to the source, companies linked to Abba Kyari were allegedly awarded
$13 billion contracts by the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti
Kacalla Baru.
One such company, Brentex Petroleum Services, with Abba Kyari's name on the
company listing as owner, was awarded of $10 billion.
It was also discovered that some other beneficiary companies were linked to
Mamman Daura​, the “​powerful nephew” of the president who controls the
presidency.
Recall that in a leaked memo from Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu had revealed irregularities in the state-
owned oil giant.
Kachikwu had alleged that US$26 billion contract was awarded without board
and Federal Executive Council [FEC] approval.
He wrote to President Buhari to report on questionable practices by Dr Baru,
including accusations of insubordination.
"I have been unable to secure an appointment to see you despite very many
attempts," Kachikwu wrote to Buhari, who is oil minister as well as president.
The letter appeared to point to Kachikwu's deepening frustration.
The letter states, among other things:
“The legal and procedural requirements are that all contracts above $20m
would need to be reviewed and approved by the Board of NNPC.
“Mr. President over one year of Dr. Baru’s tenure, no contract has been run
through the Board.
“This is despite my diplomatic encouragement to Dr. Baru to do so to avoid
wrongfully painting you as a President who does not allow Due Process to
thrive NNPC.
“Given the history of malpractices and the public perception of NNPC as having
a history of non-transparency, the NNPC Tenders Board (NTB) cannot be the
final clearance authority for contracts it enters into.
“The NTB which is a collection of top level NNPC executives and COOs, with the
GMD as Chairman, cannot continue to be the final approval authority for multi-
million dollar contracts and transactions involving NNPC to the exclusion of the
Board.
“Board members have singularly and collectively raised these issues to no avail.
“The following major contracts were never reviewed by or discussed with me
Board of NNPC:
1. The Crude Term contracts- value at over $10bn
2. The DSDP contracts- value over $5bn
3. The AKK pipeline contract- value approximately $3bn
4. Various financing allocation funding contracts with the NOCs – value over
$3bn
5. Various NPDC production service contracts – value at over $3bn--$4bn
“There are many more Your Excellency, in most of these activities, the
explanation of the GMD is that you are the Minister of Petroleum and your
approvals were obtained.
“However, the correct governance should be that the Minister of the State and
the Board review the transaction and give their concurrence prior to
presentation to you.
“As I many cases of things that happen in NNPC these days. I learn of
transactions only through publications in the media.
“The question is why is it that the Parastatals which I supervise as Minister of
State or Chair of their Board are able to go through these contractual and
mandatory governances processed and yet NNPC is exempt from these?”
So far, no visible action has been taken after Buhari finally granted Kachikwu
audience on Friday, October 6, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
NNPC's chairperson, Baru, whose governance of the oil giant is clearly in the
memo's firing line, remains in office.
Awarding contract without due process in Nigeria parlance is a euphemism for
saying that the money was embezzled via fictitious contract awards
Having looked into the presidency of Buhari, it seems that the BaruGATE heist is
a tip of the iceberg.
This government allowed many agencies to run without boards for over two
years and one can imagine what took place inside the belly of those
institutions.
President Buhari has severally been accused of selective justice and intentional
neglect of corruption allegations by his officials, one of such being the “grass-
cutter” allegation against the former Secretary to the Federal Government [SGF],
David Babachir Lawal.
www.omovibes.co.uk/2017/10/shocker-buharis-chief-of-staff-abba.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1

tsdarkside:


dont mind am...he is a islamophob...

not matter if nigeria become paris,so long a muslim is leading then nigeria is still nothing...its a mental thing...brings nothing to talk with this type of people...

you see what too much of weed has done to you? who is talking about religion here? corruption has no religion OK

11 and still 11

with the magnitude of embezzlement and monumental corruption in this present government, I want to believed that it is high time we Nigerians and all those who believed in the APC propaganda against the last administration of PDP, that Jonathan administration was the most corrupt government should tender an unreserved apology now. oh nooooo! this is too much from secret recruitment to secret contract and embezzlement everywhere; APC which way na?. if truly the last administration was as corrupt as APC want us to believed then I think PDP is still leaning when it come to corruption compared to APC. men! do you know how much is $26 billion ? far more than our 2016 National budget. can some one please help us convert that money into naira, I tried it and my calculator nearly break.

nwabobo:


Can we have a link to this judgement as anybody can concoct anything. Thanks

a link to my whatsapp inbox? or which link are u asking for ? some one send the massage to my Whatsapp this morning so I don't have any like

Is Nigerian army trying to justify military action in the southeast? I got this massage this morning from a friend of mine who is an army officer. and I reply him: #I am a #Nigerian and i do not support #military actions in the #East. how about you? read below.


In DOKUBO-ASARI V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (2007) ALL FWLR (PT 375) 588, The Supreme Court per Muhammed JSC (CJN Rtd.) had this to say:

"Where national security is threatened or there is real likelihood of its being threatened, human rights or individual rights of those responsible take second place. Human Rights or individual rights must be suspended until national security can be protected or taken care of. This is not anything new. The corporate existence of Nigeria as a united, harmonious, indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation is certainly greater than any citizen's liberty or right. Once the security of this nation is in jeopardy and it survives in pieces rather than in peace, the individual liberty or right may not even exist"

@Page 585-586.

From the above holding of the Supreme Court, the action of the Nigerian military in the Southeast is justifiable. That's my take and you...?

When a man has a good car it attracts more ladies to him. When a lady has a good car it repels guys away from her. This is the world we live in. A teenage boy impregnates his teenage girlfriend. The girl drops out of school, the boy continues his education. This is the word we live in. A guy catches his girlfriend with another guy, he fights his girlfriend. A lady catches her guy with another lady, she fights the other lady. This is the word we live in. The older a man becomes, the higher the number of ladies available for him. The older a lady becomes the fewer the number of guys available for her. This is the world we live in. A 76 year old man can still marry a 26 year old lady. A 36 year old lady is tagged too old to get married. This is the world we live in. A man divorces his wife today and the next day he is dating other ladies. Six months later he is married. While the divorced woman is labeled a divorcee and remains single six years later. This is the world we live in. A married man is caught in bed with another woman, his wife is asked to forgive him and move on. A married woman is caught in bed with another man, the husband asks her to leave his house. This is the world we live in. A man gets transferred by his company to another state, the entire family relocates with him. The woman gets transferred to another state, she goes alone or resigns from the job. This is the world we live in. If a man rises to be the CEO of the company, he got there by hard work and determination. If a woman rises to be the CEO of the company, even if the staff are are only women, she is suspected to get there by sleeping with the Board members. This is the world we live in. Facts like these make some ladies angry at the world and channeling the anger towards men. For me, that is not the right card to play. Understanding the world you live in should help you play a better game.

and the male in the house will help in pounding the yam. #our unique culture #our pride.

I want to use this occasion to wish every sons and daughters of IGEDE Nation a HAPPY IGEDE AGBA "New yam festival" celebration.

let us look at the brief significant of today to Igede people of Benue State, Nigeria.
* What makes people identical through life is the accumulated set of identity
they carries with them. Identity is an important concept from the perspective
of
cultural development and heritage. Renewal of Igede cultural identity
emphasizes the need to preserve, protect, restore, revive, observe and honour
all
forms of inherited cultural diversity which are reasons among others for Igede
Agba New Yam Festival.
* Participation in Igede Agba New Yam Festival among Igede people is a
strong
means of identity formation and produces a collective consciousness.
* The Igede nation is an ethnic group united by Agba progenitor, culture and
language inhabiting the territory of Igede land and in Diaspora. Igede is the
language the people speak, and the name of the ethnic group found majorly in
Oju and Obi Local Government Areas of Benue State. A number of them are
also
found in Gwer and Konshisha Local Government Areas of Benue State; and
Cross River and Ebonyi States. The people collectively commemorate Agba,
their
ancestral father via the event of New Yam Festival as a way of perpetuating
and propagating their heritage.
* There are certain disciplines, rules and procedures for doing the Igede Agba
festival. By adopting such disciplines, an Igede man is tuned up with his
physical and mental capabilities in line with the heritage and etiquettes of the
traditional beliefs.
Obeying festive rules is a tool to keep the body and mind actively engaged in
some noble pursuits. Accordingly, harvesting of new yams before its free
declaration is a big taboo in the region under the tradition of Akpang (gods of
the land) divinity. The rites of the new yam eating express the people’s
appreciation and renewal with OHE (God) for making the harvest of farm yields
possible and successful. Various villages make yam declaration earliest about
a
month or latest a week prior to the Igede Agba celebration. Thereafter new
yams can be harvested freely. It is important to obey the avowal of Akpang,
and in this case a new yam deserves a respect for cultural heritage achieved
through dedication, disciplines, rules and purification performances.
The main essence of this practice is to prevent the people from eaten up their
yams before there are fully mature. It is also believed that Akpang has the
power to thwart and avert evil doers and their activities in the society so that
they would not live to see the new yams. This performance marks the harvest
of the new yam and as such new yam is not eaten until due rite is accorded
and performed. The rite of this deity is carried out in the month of August
when
the new yam might have matured for commerce and consumption.
The Akpang never permit anyone in the land to eat (bring home) new yam
without first of all observing the performance rites of the land. These are
employed to create a sacramental space and contact with the Earth gods to
cleanse, bless, protect and keep the land as well as prayers for buffer yields.
Nowadays, it is shocked that this aspect of Igede traditional discipline is being
acutely eroded by influence of globalisation and westernization.
* Igede Agba New Yam Festival is also called Igede-Day or Igede Agba.
Whatever the name among the three means the same thing having equal
cultural connotations. It is celebrated with background knowledge of its
significance which rekindles the heritage, etiquette and strengthens beliefs of
the
people. The New Yam Festival is such a highly appealing event to the extent
that all other neighborhood tribes do aware and pay visit. This is a
development
that shows how dynamic cultures are embraced for change and continuity. It
is
a forum for the people to unite to contribute in spheres of cultural,
educational,
economic, social, moral and political developments. It is celebrated in
commemoration of the progenitor of the Igede people just as the celebration of
Christmas, Easter Holidays by the Christians and the seven sacred annual
feasts of the old covenant in the bible including Passover, Unleavened Bread,
First Fruits, Weeks Pentecost, Trumpet, Days of Atonement and Tabernacles
It is in the like of these events that Igede Agba festival is being celebrated.
* Yam (Iju) is the chief crop in Igede land identified with a rich Igede cultural
identity and heritage. That is why it is being used as the fundamental crop to
celebrate Igede Agba. But why New Yam Festival is highly pronounced in Igede
nation even more than other yam producing communities is best explained to
mean how the people cherish, treasure, adore and farm the crop as a key
staple
commodity with a masculine fanfare.
* Igede Agba New Yam Festival involves a plethora of complex ideas,
thoughts,
religions, culture and experience of Igede history and activities over a long
period of time. The festival is observed annually on the first Ihigile market day
in
the Month of September. The date alternates between the 1st and 5th of
September. Consequently, Friday, Ihigile, September 1st, is the Igede Agba day
of this year (2017).
Ihigile market day is a very good day, a peaceful day when matters are best
handled. Additionally, the Ihigile market day is the most remarkable day
among
all the rest of the market days (Ihio, Ihiobilla, Ihiejwo, and Ihiokwu) in
Igedeland. This explains why only significant events and proceedings such as
community meetings, funeral and burial rites, marriages, child naming among
others are held on this day.
* Igede Agba is highly respected by the Igede people. In the day in which the
communities celebrate the new yam festival, meetings and marriages are
withheld as well as funerals. Serving food during the new yam festival is
lavished on dishes of yam since the festival is symbolic of the abundance of
the
produce. Enough yam is cooked such that no matter how heavily guests and
family members may eat, there is always enough at the end of the day. It is in
this sense, a season of merriment, generosity, exchange of gifts, awards,
displays, commensal, abundance and hanging out together.
* Today, culture diplomats from Igede residing in urban centers celebrate new
yam with equal amount of curiosity and zeal to re-engage their life-world and
cosmological values.
* The event of New Yam Festival uses yam, often produce, as its central and
fundamental food. Yam which is the most important crop item in the locality
is
iconic which makes the celebration colourful. The pounded yam dish is being
used as the core food of the festival, as the festival is emblematic of the
abundance of the produce. Chickens, goats and cows are slaughtered and
prepared with delicious soup precisely Ogbonor (Oho'Ono bali Ibehi) to
transport
pounded yam to the abdomen destination.
* The Festival is a time of peace, reunion, reconciliation, share and
cleanliness.
No one eats alone on this day. With the coming of the month of August, marks
the preparation for the grand Igede Agba Festival; and the time and mood of
preparation is uniform from one autonomous village setting to another.
* Friends and well-wishers come together to dine and wine together on this
cultural day. For this reason, as part of the preparations, it is mandatory to
clear the foot path that links to neighbour’s house. Compounds, pathways,
and
grimy sites are cleared and kept clean for indigenes and visitors to have a feel
of the geographical beauty of the community. The whole community arenas
experience the best of its cleanliness and physical features as an important
part
of the meaning of the festival also. This implies you are welcome to visit or
branch and eat. Exchange of gifts and food is done with enthusiasm and joy.
* The rite of new yam is to re-enact a bounty harvest and wealth for the
celebrants. It is customary that family members wash hands in one bowl or
calabash and eat together on the Igede Agba day. The tradition of washing
hands mutually in one bowl or calabash by the family constituents is a long-
established promise which is an agreement or pledge to remain united, and
not
to harbour bad feelings against each other.
Eating together gives Igede people the chance to communicate and build
relationships. It is also a great chance for children to learn the art of making
conversation and listening to others.
* The relevance is captured in seeing the new yam festival as a tradition, and
one of which culminates the end of a yam farming cycle and the beginning of
another. That is perhaps why in Igede cultural setting, invitation to the festival
is open to all and sundry-friends, neighbours, kins, relations, acquaintances,
in-
laws, etc.
* The carnival mood and graciousness at extending invitations and welcoming
every visitor, means that there is plenty of food to enjoy as opposed to lack of
food in the past months.
* Celebrating the New yam feast is common with men, women and children’s
cultural dance, in addition to group eating (epwedii), fashion display, role
reversals, masquerades, beauty contest (Adiya), drinking of wine, folklores,
commensal and reciprocity all of which are synonymous with the Igede Agba
in
Igede life and culture.
Typically, Igede Agba Festival provides a heritage of dances, feasting, renewal
of
kinship alliances, as well as marks the end of one agricultural season with a
harvest to express gratitude and thanksgiving to the society, gods, friends and
relations.This
has always been a means of uniting Igede communities through celebrations
of
harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season. Igede Agba serves
to
meet special needs, as well as to provide entertainment. The time of
celebration
offers a sense of belonging for religious, social and geographical groups. It
focuses on ethnic topics seek to inform Igede youths of their traditions. It
provides means of unity among Families (Ugbiyegwu), Lineages (Imwuahu),
Village settings (Epweji), and Clans (Upwuma). It is also a forum for the
youths
to fine mates. The day is symbolic of enjoyment after the cultivation of
season,
and the plenty is shared with friends and well-wishers. The festival is a
pageant
of displayed jubilation, exaltation, gratification and community apparition.
* The annual new yam culture offers the Igede people a wonderful opportunity
to exhibit their hospitality with enough food and drinks. It enables them to
enjoy merriment and spiritual rebirth together. It instills the spirit of love,
charity, generosity and good-will among the people. Its significance lies in the
beginning of yam harvest to prevent shortage of food. This is because having
food in abundance gives hope for survival.
* Furthermore, new yam festival reminds Igede people of their cultural heritage
which promotes spiritual rebirth.
It is imperative to inform the readers that Igede Agba New Festival is not a
fetish event but a thanksgiving ceremony to the Sky-God (Ohe Oluhye and the
Earth-god (Ohe Oleji) for a good harvest and further prayers for next farming
season.
* Our heritage should be embraced, renewed, conserved, preserved and
revitalized in the most efficient way for tourist attraction, national and
International recognition.
* Globalization is brain washing. There is discernible change in attitudes
among
our youth due to globalization. More so, the atrocities happening these days
are
as a result of people abandoning culture and traditions that checkmate evil
doing in the society.
* Today, people marry their relations because they are ignorant of cultural and
traditional implications. The younger generation now feels they know more
than
the elders. People have deviated from our culture, our ways of life. Taboos
and
sacrileges are no longer observed as they were in the past, our dress codes
are
in question. Millennium child-rearing and upbringing has taken a different
dimension.
PS: When culture and traditions are observed, it brings sanity, blessings for the
people; boosts crop yield, sustainable development and people now live
happily
and hopefully.
Culture and traditions promote peace and unity in communities and that is
why
leaders, youths and adults in any society must understand the culture and
traditions of the people.
HAPPY IGEDE AGBA!!.
IT'S A SEASON OF LOVE AND SHARE.
Our culture is what we stand for!!!
# OurCultureOurPride

IGEDE AGBA NEW YAM FESTIVAL IN IGEDE, BENUE STATE, NIGERIA AT
GLANCE.
* What makes people identical through life is the accumulated set of identity
they carries with them. Identity is an important concept from the perspective of
cultural development and heritage. Renewal of Igede cultural identity
emphasizes the need to preserve, protect, restore, revive, observe and honour all
forms of inherited cultural diversity which are reasons among others for Igede
Agba New Yam Festival.
* Participation in Igede Agba New Yam Festival among Igede people is a strong
means of identity formation and produces a collective consciousness.
* The Igede nation is an ethnic group united by Agba progenitor, culture and
language inhabiting the territory of Igede land and in Diaspora. Igede is the
language the people speak, and the name of the ethnic group found majorly in
Oju and Obi Local Government Areas of Benue State. A number of them are also
found in Gwer and Konshisha Local Government Areas of Benue State; and
Cross River and Ebonyi States. The people collectively commemorate Agba, their
ancestral father via the event of New Yam Festival as a way of perpetuating
and propagating their heritage.
* There are certain disciplines, rules and procedures for doing the Igede Agba
festival. By adopting such disciplines, an Igede man is tuned up with his
physical and mental capabilities in line with the heritage and etiquettes of the
traditional beliefs.
Obeying festive rules is a tool to keep the body and mind actively engaged in
some noble pursuits. Accordingly, harvesting of new yams before its free
declaration is a big taboo in the region under the tradition of Akpang (gods of
the land) divinity. The rites of the new yam eating express the people’s
appreciation and renewal with OHE (God) for making the harvest of farm yields
possible and successful. Various villages make yam declaration earliest about a
month or latest a week prior to the Igede Agba celebration. Thereafter new
yams can be harvested freely. It is important to obey the avowal of Akpang,
and in this case a new yam deserves a respect for cultural heritage achieved
through dedication, disciplines, rules and purification performances.
The main essence of this practice is to prevent the people from eaten up their
yams before there are fully mature. It is also believed that Akpang has the
power to thwart and avert evil doers and their activities in the society so that
they would not live to see the new yams. This performance marks the harvest
of the new yam and as such new yam is not eaten until due rite is accorded
and performed. The rite of this deity is carried out in the month of August when
the new yam might have matured for commerce and consumption.
The Akpang never permit anyone in the land to eat (bring home) new yam
without first of all observing the performance rites of the land. These are
employed to create a sacramental space and contact with the Earth gods to
cleanse, bless, protect and keep the land as well as prayers for buffer yields.
Nowadays, it is shocked that this aspect of Igede traditional discipline is being
acutely eroded by influence of globalisation and westernization.
* Igede Agba New Yam Festival is also called Igede-Day or Igede Agba.
Whatever the name among the three means the same thing having equal
cultural connotations. It is celebrated with background knowledge of its
significance which rekindles the heritage, etiquette and strengthens beliefs of the
people. The New Yam Festival is such a highly appealing event to the extent
that all other neighborhood tribes do aware and pay visit. This is a development
that shows how dynamic cultures are embraced for change and continuity. It is
a forum for the people to unite to contribute in spheres of cultural, educational,
economic, social, moral and political developments. It is celebrated in
commemoration of the progenitor of the Igede people just as the celebration of
Christmas, Easter Holidays by the Christians and the seven sacred annual
feasts of the old covenant in the bible including Passover, Unleavened Bread,
First Fruits, Weeks Pentecost, Trumpet, Days of Atonement and Tabernacles
It is in the like of these events that Igede Agba festival is being celebrated.
* Yam (Iju) is the chief crop in Igede land identified with a rich Igede cultural
identity and heritage. That is why it is being used as the fundamental crop to
celebrate Igede Agba. But why New Yam Festival is highly pronounced in Igede
nation even more than other yam producing communities is best explained to
mean how the people cherish, treasure, adore and farm the crop as a key staple
commodity with a masculine fanfare.
* Igede Agba New Yam Festival involves a plethora of complex ideas, thoughts,
religions, culture and experience of Igede history and activities over a long
period of time. The festival is observed annually on the first Ihigile market day in
the Month of September. The date alternates between the 1st and 5th of
September. Consequently, Friday, Ihigile, September 1st, is the Igede Agba day
of this year (2017).
Ihigile market day is a very good day, a peaceful day when matters are best
handled. Additionally, the Ihigile market day is the most remarkable day among
all the rest of the market days (Ihio, Ihiobilla, Ihiejwo, and Ihiokwu) in
Igedeland. This explains why only significant events and proceedings such as
community meetings, funeral and burial rites, marriages, child naming among
others are held on this day.
* Igede Agba is highly respected by the Igede people. In the day in which the
communities celebrate the new yam festival, meetings and marriages are
withheld as well as funerals. Serving food during the new yam festival is
lavished on dishes of yam since the festival is symbolic of the abundance of the
produce. Enough yam is cooked such that no matter how heavily guests and
family members may eat, there is always enough at the end of the day. It is in
this sense, a season of merriment, generosity, exchange of gifts, awards,
displays, commensal, abundance and hanging out together.
* Today, culture diplomats from Igede residing in urban centers celebrate new
yam with equal amount of curiosity and zeal to re-engage their life-world and
cosmological values.
* The event of New Yam Festival uses yam, often produce, as its central and
fundamental food. Yam which is the most important crop item in the locality is
iconic which makes the celebration colourful. The pounded yam dish is being
used as the core food of the festival, as the festival is emblematic of the
abundance of the produce. Chickens, goats and cows are slaughtered and
prepared with delicious soup precisely Ogbonor (Oho'Ono bali Ibehi) to transport
pounded yam to the abdomen destination.
* The Festival is a time of peace, reunion, reconciliation, share and cleanliness.
No one eats alone on this day. With the coming of the month of August, marks
the preparation for the grand Igede Agba Festival; and the time and mood of
preparation is uniform from one autonomous village setting to another.
* Friends and well-wishers come together to dine and wine together on this
cultural day. For this reason, as part of the preparations, it is mandatory to
clear the foot path that links to neighbour’s house. Compounds, pathways, and
grimy sites are cleared and kept clean for indigenes and visitors to have a feel
of the geographical beauty of the community. The whole community arenas
experience the best of its cleanliness and physical features as an important part
of the meaning of the festival also. This implies you are welcome to visit or
branch and eat. Exchange of gifts and food is done with enthusiasm and joy.
* The rite of new yam is to re-enact a bounty harvest and wealth for the
celebrants. It is customary that family members wash hands in one bowl or
calabash and eat together on the Igede Agba day. The tradition of washing
hands mutually in one bowl or calabash by the family constituents is a long-
established promise which is an agreement or pledge to remain united, and not
to harbour bad feelings against each other.
Eating together gives Igede people the chance to communicate and build
relationships. It is also a great chance for children to learn the art of making
conversation and listening to others.
* The relevance is captured in seeing the new yam festival as a tradition, and
one of which culminates the end of a yam farming cycle and the beginning of
another. That is perhaps why in Igede cultural setting, invitation to the festival
is open to all and sundry-friends, neighbours, kins, relations, acquaintances, in-
laws, etc.
* The carnival mood and graciousness at extending invitations and welcoming
every visitor, means that there is plenty of food to enjoy as opposed to lack of
food in the past months.
* Celebrating the New yam feast is common with men, women and children’s
cultural dance, in addition to group eating (epwedii), fashion display, role
reversals, masquerades, beauty contest (Adiya), drinking of wine, folklores,
commensal and reciprocity all of which are synonymous with the Igede Agba in
Igede life and culture.
Typically, Igede Agba Festival provides a heritage of dances, feasting, renewal of
kinship alliances, as well as marks the end of one agricultural season with a
harvest to express gratitude and thanksgiving to the society, gods, friends and
relations.This
has always been a means of uniting Igede communities through celebrations of
harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season. Igede Agba serves to
meet special needs, as well as to provide entertainment. The time of celebration
offers a sense of belonging for religious, social and geographical groups. It
focuses on ethnic topics seek to inform Igede youths of their traditions. It
provides means of unity among Families (Ugbiyegwu), Lineages (Imwuahu),
Village settings (Epweji), and Clans (Upwuma). It is also a forum for the youths
to fine mates. The day is symbolic of enjoyment after the cultivation of season,
and the plenty is shared with friends and well-wishers. The festival is a pageant
of displayed jubilation, exaltation, gratification and community apparition.
* The annual new yam culture offers the Igede people a wonderful opportunity
to exhibit their hospitality with enough food and drinks. It enables them to
enjoy merriment and spiritual rebirth together. It instills the spirit of love,
charity, generosity and good-will among the people. Its significance lies in the
beginning of yam harvest to prevent shortage of food. This is because having
food in abundance gives hope for survival.
* Furthermore, new yam festival reminds Igede people of their cultural heritage
which promotes spiritual rebirth.
It is imperative to inform the readers that Igede Agba New Festival is not a
fetish event but a thanksgiving ceremony to the Sky-God (Ohe Oluhye and the
Earth-god (Ohe Oleji) for a good harvest and further prayers for next farming
season.
* Our heritage should be embraced, renewed, conserved, preserved and
revitalized in the most efficient way for tourist attraction, national and
International recognition.
* Globalization is brain washing. There is discernible change in attitudes among
our youth due to globalization. More so, the atrocities happening these days are
as a result of people abandoning culture and traditions that checkmate evil
doing in the society.
* Today, people marry their relations because they are ignorant of cultural and
traditional implications. The younger generation now feels they know more than
the elders. People have deviated from our culture, our ways of life. Taboos and
sacrileges are no longer observed as they were in the past, our dress codes are
in question. Millennium child-rearing and upbringing has taken a different
dimension.
PS: When culture and traditions are observed, it brings sanity, blessings for the
people; boosts crop yield, sustainable development and people now live happily
and hopefully.
Culture and traditions promote peace and unity in communities and that is why
leaders, youths and adults in any society must understand the culture and
traditions of the people.
HAPPY IGEDE AGBA SEASON.
IT'S A SEASON OF LOVE AND SHARE.
Our culture is what we stand for!!!
# OurCultureOurPride
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we all know that they are not Niger delta people. I personally drove through them while the demonstration was going on, I hear must of them speaking Hausa and I ask my friend in my car when did Hausa language become officer language of Niger Deltans people ? those supporters are Hausa/Fulani's. APC and deceit !

for the first time in two years today 12 August, 2017, I can look at the national Television and smile and be happy our great party is back PDP! power for the people. 2019 here we come, up PDP

GMBuhari:
This is why i hate talking to immature people , i added a condition , if you had a plain heart and honest intention, you wouldn't feel the need send me this type of response

Grow some sense

and how on earth do you think I will just make up some like this? am I happy that the president is sick? or will war benefit me in anyway ? let me ask how could u think this is a fiction. I shared my dream so that we can pray, because I love my country and my president.

GMBuhari:
Well , We will pray as Nigerians and Loyalists

but if it's a made up dream, i hope it happens to you

amen! and if it is not, I pray it will happen to you. can you see that I say Amen to your pray? that was the dream I had

Jabioro:
Your dream of fiction, you can Re title it (My vision) simple because it an illusion to have such awful dream at such weird hours... Can you see that the interpretation is against your thought.

don't get me wrong I had a dream and that was the dream, it is not vision neither is it fiction. I had a DREAM

pray! pray! Nigerians Pray for this country and our president. my dreams are always............ we have to pray now like never before.

my dream last night: I see war!

In my dream i saw a casket, unpainted wooding casket, and I ask someone who die? and to my surprises he told me is GMB, before we know what happen people were gathering in group hold meetings everywhere u look u will see people holding meetings and among those group is only Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba's that were holding meeting then we saw a large crowd of people holding up the very casket I saw earlier, at that very time and at the same moment some people were making arrangement to swear in acting president as the new president and then suddenly the people holding the casket drop it down on the ground and they ran to the place where there were swearing in the new president, chase every one away and they vow that osinbajo will never become the president, that It must have to be some one form the north. before we could know what was happening some group of people came and told them that, according to constitution that it is only him osinbajo who could be swear in as the president but they insist that he must be swear in. suddenly out of nowhere fight started before we could run form where we are to our house or I don't even know where we were ruining to, serious war breakout, cars, houses and property were bunt down many people were killed people were ruining everywhere. and what terrify me most was that many were cult unaware in the crisis, the only people that I knew who were saved are those who ran into the bush. after I ran and I ran, I saw myself in the bush all alone in the middle of no where, that was when I weak up, when I check my clock it was after 2:am.
please people of Nigeria we should pray for this country and pray for Mr President GMB for his quick recovery.

praiseèeeeeeeeeeeeèeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the Lord !

The Muslim brotherhood mission and agenda across the world is well explain
in this video below, Christians and Christians leaders watch and learn what is
ahead. the video addressed all the following questions:
1 why the new curriculum for primary schools
2. why must it have to be now?
3. what is the aims for new curriculum
4. what is the mission and agenda of this new curriculum for primary school
education in Nigeria ?
5. why at the primary school level?
you will see many more links to Brigitte Gabriel @ACT for american on
youtube, watch as many as you can. thanks and always remember Jesus is
Lords and the subprime God above all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvlZ4MKQLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The video will explain this:
The issues with the new curriculum:
1. On pages 17 and 46 of the "Religion and National Values" curriculum for
Primary one to three (Primary 1-3) are statements that are not only inciting
but derogatory to a particular Religious Belief and Faith of ( Christianity).
Specifically
a) On page 17 under Theme:
ISLAMIC Studies and Sub theme "Sarah and Tahdib"
Primary 1 to 3 pupils in their formative years are taught
the Supremacy of Prophet Mohammed and the Quran over all others.
That Mohammed was the Seal of all the Prophets, sent to the whole world and
Quran the final guidance of Allah to mankind.
b) In page 46 of the same book produced with tax payers money who include
Muslims and non Muslims
That
Prophet Isa known to Christians as Jesus Christ is not the son of God
That Jesus was not Crucified.
What a blasphemy.
The implications are the creation of a sense of supremacy of Islam over other
faiths and completely denigrating Christianity.
If this has been restricted to Muslims alone, in their Quran Schools that could
have been excused, but putting it in a National curriculum for all is Provocative
and Insulting.
The Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship took this matter up with the current
executive director of NERDC and his team in Abuja and I was was a member
of the NCGF team.
extract from:
www.nairaland.com/3904278/arabic-saga-real-problem-ahead#58191029

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFxNPvns7nU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Islamization is real and is here with us, we must show to world what there missions and agenda is. watch the vedio below and learn what is ahead for Christ faith.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvlZ4MKQLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFxNPvns7nU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Muslim brotherhood mission and agenda across the world is well explain in this video below, Christians and Christians leaders watch and learn what is ahead. the video addressed all the following questions:
1 why the new curriculum for primary schools
2. why must it have to be now?
3. what is the aims for new curriculum
4. what is the mission and agenda of this new curriculum for primary school education in Nigeria ?
5. why at the primary school level?
you will see many more links to Brigitte Gabriel @ACT for american on youtube, watch as many as you can. thanks and always remember Jesus is Lords and the subprime God above all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvlZ4MKQLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The video will explain this:

The issues with the new curriculum:

1. On pages 17 and 46 of the "Religion and National Values" curriculum for
Primary one to three (Primary 1-3) are statements that are not only inciting
but derogatory to a particular Religious Belief and Faith of ( Christianity).
Specifically
a) On page 17 under Theme:
ISLAMIC Studies and Sub theme "Sarah and Tahdib"
Primary 1 to 3 pupils in their formative years are taught
the Supremacy of Prophet Mohammed and the Quran over all others.
That Mohammed was the Seal of all the Prophets, sent to the whole world and
Quran the final guidance of Allah to mankind.
b) In page 46 of the same book produced with tax payers money who include
Muslims and non Muslims
That
Prophet Isa known to Christians as Jesus Christ is not the son of God
That Jesus was not Crucified.
What a blasphemy.
The implications are the creation of a sense of supremacy of Islam over other
faiths and completely denigrating Christianity.
If this has been restricted to Muslims alone, in their Quran Schools that could
have been excused, but putting it in a National curriculum for all is Provocative
and Insulting.
The Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship took this matter up with the current
executive director of NERDC and his team in Abuja and I was was a member
of the NCGF team.
extract from:
www.nairaland.com/3904278/arabic-saga-real-problem-ahead#58191029

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFxNPvns7nU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

we know what they are up to. watch the link of a video attach below you will understand Islamic mission across the world, the Muslim brotherhood agender, the is what is happening Nigeria education system. Islamization is on course, Christen leaders watch out, they will stop at nothing to put through there mission.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvlZ4MKQLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player