₦airaland Forum

Obiagelli:
the days of self criticism is over, if you want to be accepted in the east, Attack the hausas or Yorubas and you become the son of the soil. Recent igbo leaders ride on that emotion.

InvertedHammer:
What exactly are you exposing?

That you are his side chic?

I don't think the fiancee would mind. She may think na bad belle dey worry you.

It will take a lot more than that to break a marriage in this era of scarcity of eligible bachelors. If you are his baby mama, that will be a different case. You were just a fling Next time apply due diligence in your relationship(s).

OfoIgbo:
That is my point... Remember that I had already written that the Oba title originated in Nri, and it is still born today. People in Enugwu-ukwu must have heard of the late Oba Nwandu. In fact, a cousin of the current Eze Nri is known as Oba Agbalanze (Prince Emeka Onyesoh). The title has been in Igboland (Umu-Nri clan to be exact) 100s of years before the first Oba of Nri ancestry was installed in Benin, and the current nomenclature's OBA IWEKA.
Put simply, it was the Nris that introduced the oba title to Benin, by installing an Nri titled man as the first Oba. Now Iweka means ANGER IS GREAT presumably in the land that he was installed as the don.

Akalaka is reputed to be a Benin prince that established Ikwerre, Ekpeye. Akalaka means DESTINY in Igbo.

Ezechima is reputed to be a Benin prince that established Onitsha. So how come these Benin princes all seem to have Igbo names? Because the first oba was an Nri man and his early descendants were Igbo, and Igbo was the language spoken at the Oba's palace to start with.

Add all these to the findings of early Portuguese explorers, most probably led by Prince Henry the navigator, in which they saw Nri people in the Oba's palace, and a picture begins to develop

Abagworo:
Some parts of Igbo have Benin influence but Ikwerre has zero Benin influence. Ikwerre society was kingless and lacked the Benin monarchical society.

In the East only Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni/Oguta/Onitsha/Ogbaru areas have Benin influence. Their origin if we must use what I know from my people is from a place known as Ado n'Idu inhabited by Igbos but at the fringe of Benin territory. Most of these tales are illogical but I have been able to deduce that Igbos were actually part of warriors in Benin but later fell out with a wicked Oba which led to an exodus towards the East. On their way back they realised other Igbos had already occupied some areas but many settled along the way while others moved on and crossed the Niger ferried by Ijaw sailors who joined the expedition. These Ijaw people and some Benin loyalists joined the Igbos to form the Igbo speaking peoples inhabiting today's Aboh, Kwale, Ogba, Egbema and Oguta. Onitsha, Ndoni and Ogbaru people were ferried by Igala men who equally became part of them. Igbo language has always been the language of all these Niger River Igbos right from Ado n'Idu era.

Volksfuhrer:
@ KINGOSIRO99.

There's too much salt in your story. The Ilajes know their history, they are not from Benin. Many other groups you mentioned might have been vassals to Benin, it doesn't necessarily mean their people came from Benin. That Rome ruled over England does not necessarily mean the English came from Rome.

I believe Benin influence over the Niger delta has been grossly exaggerated. I find it curious that the Ogisos did not build an empire, yet we are being led to believe that the Benin empire has ubiquitous for thousands of years! That story just doesn't add up.

Ugomba:
will you shut up pls, we delta Igbos have warned you benin people to stop bringing your benin crap inorder to falsely rewrite our history and claim Asaba.. Heads will ROLL if you people dare us.

Jesusloveyou:
we are talking about 300yrs ago,many bini names has gone into extinction, for example, if bini came from oduduwa lineage, as of today nobody bears oduduwa in Benin kingdom, d same way onitsha is also trace to Benin kingdom, Benin kingdom actually extended from owo in ondo to agbor to onitsha,

porka:
[size=13pt]Ogbeni, do you people have any analytical skills at all?

This is the figure for the entire country. The money goes into the federal account for the entire country. The federal government budget of N4trn is just a subset of the the total figure.

This is part of what the whole country shares. The federal government plus the 36 states and 774 local governments. You would have to add all their budgets together for better understanding.

And the report stated the percentage of shortage compared to the same period last year. Will you just open your eyes and read before you jump into hysteria?

Why is so difficult to comprehend simple things for you guys.

Okonjo-Iweala's assertion was recently corroborated by your dullard god who said all the notions of Nigeria being a rich country are false.

Why are you people so easily deceived with figures. [/size]

phyllosilicate:
I understood what I wrote, FG collects more than fifty percent of what Nigeria earns. If you factor that, it means we FG has gotten about 30 percent of this year's budget from petroleum product alone from just one quarter. If we add revenue from other exports, from Customs, federal inland revenue and other revenue generating agencies it would make it to about 35 percent of the budget. Let assume petroleum price remains this low through the remaining 2 quarters. It would mean that FG would get 105 percent of her Budget from just 3 quarters alone. Don't forget we haven't added the first quarter. By question sir still remains the same : where did our money go to, when we were selling crude oil at $120 per barrel?

Russellval:
The FG does not collect up to 50% of revenue even from those companies it is in Joint Venture (JV) with, let alone other private companies. This statistics from NBS does not give us insight into with establishments actually made these transactions, so it's difficult to speculate.

To be fair to Dr Okonjo Iweala, she never said Nigeria was broke, she even hated that language, what she said was ''Nigeria has cashflow difficulties'' , but like you i will also like to know where our earnings from excess crude went.

Russellval:
Unfortunately my brother you do not understand what you just read. The report said ''Nigeria earned'' not ''FG earned'' which means private sector is also included. If you compare it to same period in 2014 you will notice that export actually declined by 38.5% which indicates a slow down in growth and should get you worried rather than rejoicing.

emmyrichie:

UMUAHIA — THE National and State Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Umuahia has been told that Mr. Emeka Nnamani representing Aba North State Constituency allegedly forged University of Port Harcourt certificate with which he filled his INEC forms for the April 2015 elections.

Nnamani was also alleged to still be a member of the PDP in his home State, Enugu while he contested the election on the platform of APGA in Abia State where he resides.

These were the submissions of Dr. [Mrs.] Blessing Nwagba of the PDP who is challenging the election of Emeka Nnamani at the tribunal.

Meanwhile, the tribunal headed by Justice S. Yahuzu has admitted in evidence a letter from the Registrar of the University of Port Harcourt disowning Nnamani as a graduate of the University.

Also, the tribunal also admitted in evidence was a certified true copy of an expression of interest form filled by Nnamani who contested the PDP primaries in Enugu State for the House of Assembly, which the petitioner said was evidence that he was not qualified to contest in Abia State on the platform of APGA.

The petitioner alleged that by this act that Nnamani was a member of two parties during the elections.
According to Chief K. C. Nwufo, SAN, lawyer to the petitioner, by allegedly being a member of two parties, Nnamani allegedly contravened the Electoral Act, arguing therefore that his election would not stand.

Nwufo also told the tribunal that the respondent told lies with regard to his educational qualification, alleging that he never graduated from the University of Port Harcourt as claimed. The Petitioner had closed her case.

In his submission, Chigozie Ogunji, counsel to Nnamani said that the respondent was ready to enter his defense and hinted that they have no less than 10 witnesses to give evidence.

The Tribunal Chairman has adjourned the matter to 24th and 27th of August for the respondent to begin his defense.

Yhunoos:
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It is instructive to noted that the amount the country earned from petroleum products sale in the second quarter of 2015, was 56.8 per cent of the country’s N4.49 trillion 2015 budget.

Chiaka:
'Oil rivers protectorate' was just a name given to note places in the east where oil seem viable not a replacement for a region , the 'Oil rivers protectorate' still was under Eastern Zone. If we had continued with the name 'Oil rivers protectorate' a state like Imo with some oil and a lot of gas reserve would have been included in the 'Oil rivers protectorate' . 'Oil rivers protectorate' was just called to mark out areas where oil is viable, just like the 'The Barnett Shale ' in Taxas, USA where Shale is found viable. And also Calabar was simply the Capital of Nigeria....when British handed over. It was later the capital was moved to Lagos and there after Abuja......these two changes was not done by the europeans

Chiaka:
The Europeans did not form south south. Northern leaders did. What the Europeans formed was simply called Eastern Zone which includes the fraudulent division called South South

SWAGGAVILLAGE:
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Freegift75:
Be rest assured that if you stay six months in blackout and you are using prepaid metre, be expecting N750 x 6 = N4500 as fixed charges for that six months. Is that justifiable?