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The governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has stated his interest in immortalizing the Aba Women Riot of 1929.

Governor Alex Otti says his administration will approve the building of monuments in honour of the heroines of the 1929 Aba women’s uprising.

Mr Otti disclosed this on Wednesday during the burial ceremony of Chiamaka Joyce Ibekwe, wife of the lawmaker representing Bende North state sonstituency, Nnamdi Ibekwe, in Igbere, Bende council area.

The governor said that the honour would be done to the heroic women in recognition of their contributions to the society and history.

He said that such recognition would serve as encouragement to women who contributed immensely to societal growth.

“I want to thank the honourable member for the request he made here because the request was not about him and it was not even about Chiamaka, it was about Abia women from inception.

“Our women have always been great women. If you do not know, then you do not know history. We have come to the level where somehow, either knowingly or unknowingly, we have refused to give women their due recognition.

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beautiful. nice one otti of otti

This is a very wonderful and a welcomed development from our lovely painter and odoziobodo of abia state!!!

Okay. pls someone should explain to me

Noted.

That should be among top priority for the future.

Awesome 😎 Weldon Mr governor

I haven't been to Abia State, but from what I'm seeing/reading online, I think this man is the real man of his people.

Excellent gesture by the governor.

Igbo people should do more to project and protect their history, especially the genocide during the civil war.

Dickson178:
Okay. pls someone should explain to me

nothing to explain to you go and ask tinubu what he is doing with bullion van on Election Eve

Dickson178:
Okay. pls someone should explain to me

Oga try and google aba women riot. We where thought in history in secondary school then.

Otti our most priority now is to remove tinibu from power..

The demons must leave..

All the best to him in doing that

If you give Tinubu supporters chance they will immortalize him where he fell in Turkey and broke one of his brown teeth.


70 years old shaky shaky Baba



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Great idea. The man is thinking while other govs are busy playing politics. But with all d defections, I still think Tinubu is still far from winning the 2027 elections as the northerners are giving Tinubu a little finger, and he has played into the trap of the NORTH.

He didn't see beyond arresting El Rufai. He knows that Elrufai is very smart but the ogogoro man decieved him that nothing will happen.

When El Rufai was making those statements on national TV, they are unaware of the game. Today the HATE has spread ALL OVER THE NORTH to level that no one can organise a support procession for Tinubu in the core North.

Now, El Rufai lost his mother while in detention which has made the HATE in the north to spread more. The narrative is that the woman died over shock of his son’s imprisonment.

Ofcourse, all Northerners even in his government including the NSA and VP extended condolences, displaying secret solidarity 🤣 to El Rufai.

They have already accomplished the mission, while he will be granted bail by the court soon. The is literally beating him in his own game.

Party already have plan B and C long ago.

Muslim-Muslim ticket is chocking him to the extent that he doesn’t know whether to drop Shettima or not esp as America is on his neck for the genocide ongoing.

The governors they compelled into APC will still watch them lose 🤣. I was listening to Umahi shouting that all leaders should start telling people the good work of Tinubu 🤣. That you can’t be claiming to be supporting Tinubu and you’re not trying to convince people with his good work🤣. He’s already seeing that the sabotage is unavoidable.

Tinubu will play politics and know say no be only him sabi.

okorogodwin4:
nothing to explain to you go and ask tinubu what he is doing with bullion van on Election Eve

Is it bad to ask a question in your family?

Haters of good governance will have something bad to say but we don't give a 4k 😎

Things I love to see.. Very Beautiful.

Very thoughtful of him.


Well deserved.


Great Aba women!

It should be called a protest, not riot. And Nigerians need to learn from this history, especially as it was due to taxes imposed by the British

Now, women should pick their lessons from their mothers. These women were independents women who did not need to be EQUAL to men to hold their own. Many of you think they were oppressed but these women knew the role of a man and the role of a woman. They didn't fight some misguided fight. In fact, women had money than men because they were their own bosses. The British knew this and wanted to steal from their pie.

Now, look at modern women today. They go work for an unknown stranger, climbing the career ladder in a company that your father has no shares in 🤡

Women wake up. They deceived you. Empowermemt scam.

It is duly deserved.. They deserve to be remembered

Repost. I used riot too 🙈👇

Reposted from the thread:
No Tax If You Are Earning Below ₦800k Annually
https://www.nairaland.com/8591409/no-tax-earning-below-800k/3#137990000

I just need to break this down here because what you don't understand you will keep being misled.

A tax is money the government collects from people, businesses, or things you buy, to pay for public services like roads, schools, hospitals, and electricity.

Many Nigerians think only people with salaries pay tax because income tax (PAYE) is very visible, it comes straight off your paycheck. But in reality, everyone pays indirect taxes whenever they buy goods, fuel, food, use electricity, phone, or travel. The “hypocrisy” comes from the fact that government talks about income tax more because it’s easy to track, while indirect taxes are hidden in prices, so it feels like the poor or informal workers aren’t paying anything when they actually are.

What annoys me is the japa people that go abroad and yap about taxes. They want Nigeria to have the same western style. If you play with taxes abroad, you'll be shown the way out in the next election and you should also understand the white man and why he does things in a way. When you understand their history, you'll know why we are not the same.

Some countries really do not charge personal income tax at all meaning residents don’t file annual income tax returns like in the UK/US and don’t pay tax on their salaries. Examples include United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Monaco, Brunei and Vanuatu, among others. These countries still get money for government services through oil, trade, fees, or other taxes, not by taxing individual salaries. Do the maths and tell me one thing in common Nigeria has that some of these countries have. These countries fund government spending through other sources such as oil and gas revenues, corporate taxes, import duties, fees, tourism income or VAT/sales taxes, instead of taxing people’s income directly.

You need to get off this obsession with the west and trying to be like who you are not. This is the miseducation of the average African. Don't forget that in Aba and Ogun State, Women fought the imposition of taxes by the British. Many Nigerians don't even study their history. You should go and read why they didn't want the colonial government collecting taxes from them.


Historically, Western heavy taxation grew partly from scarcity and because they needed money to fund armies, wars, infrastructure, and administrative systems. Land and resources were limited, populations were growing, and scarcity of money made taxes necessary. Scarcity also came from their harsh climates, poor harvests, and limited technology, so the state had to extract more from people to survive and provide basic service, sunlike in some African systems, where wealth was shared communally rather than extracted as formal taxes. When you look at it today, the concept of Black Tax is because in Africa, we share the resources with the rest of us Ubuntu style. Learn why things are the way they are. Today, I see people teaching financial wealth and I laugh when they want us to copy westerners and their form of selfish indiduvual finance.

The Aba Women’s Riot of 1929 happened mainly because of unfair taxes and the extension of colonial authority over women. The British tried to impose direct taxes and give warrant chiefs more control, but market women in Aba protested since they had no voice in government decisions. Tens of thousands of women joined strikes and demonstrations, even attacking colonial offices, to resist being taxed and controlled unfairly. The revolt forced the British to rethink taxation and local administration, making it a turning point in Nigeria’s colonial history and showing the strength of women’s collective action.
Femi Kehinde, author of A Short Stroll Along History Avenue, brings history to life as he revisits the fearless activism of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a woman who redefined resistance in colonial Nigeria. In this interview, he recounts how Funmilayo mobilised the women of Abeokuta to rise against unjust taxation and challenge the colonial power structure. The revolt, a powerful act of defiance, ultimately led to the exile of the Alake of Egbaland.
Through Kehinde’s narration, we see how one woman’s courage reshaped the course of Nigerian history.

The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt: When Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Rewrote Nigerian History


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvTtYrZTAk?


History tends to repeat itself when the people don't learn from their past.

The day Nigerians wake up to know their rights and why the government cannot just squander their money, they will wake up.

The Aba women riot is a false narrative.

https://www.thecable.ng/history-101-dont-say-aba-it-was-ikot-abasi-women-riot/

The Women War Memorial Museum in Ikot Abasi is a lasting relic that tells the correct story about the 1929 Women Riot which originated from Ukam Market in Ikot Abasi where women gathered to protest against a colonial policy which imposed taxes on them for domestic animals, household utensils, etc.

What started as a non-violent protest became an unfair battle as the women were shot by the colonial policemen and some of them drowned in the adjoining river during the melee.

The sculpture outside the museum was made in honour of Madam Udo Udoma (the mother of the late legal luminary Sir Egbert Udo Udoma) who wrestled and seized a gun from a colonial policeman and broke it into two. The museum also houses the roll call of women who lost their lives in the war. Close to the waterfront in Ikot Abasi is a mock grave of women who died in the protest. It’s about one (1) hour drive from the city centre of Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.

https://discoverakwaibom.com/heritage-sites/1929-women-war-memorial/

1929: Women War - Feature film based on the historical event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1vVQxf3uA?si=D5D7c1UwuSftXtK0

Tinubu wan kpai person

We need another session 🤷🏿

Repost

Aba Women's Riot of 1929: A Turning Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDdh1sxztw

The Aba Women’s Riot of 1929 happened mainly because of unfair taxes and the extension of colonial authority over women. The British tried to impose direct taxes and give warrant chiefs more control, but market women in Aba protested since they had no voice in government decisions. Tens of thousands of women joined strikes and demonstrations, even attacking colonial offices, to resist being taxed and controlled unfairly. The revolt forced the British to rethink taxation and local administration, making it a turning point in Nigeria’s colonial history and showing the strength of women’s collective action.


The people are very comfortable with corruption. In the UK and US, politicians who raise taxes can lose elections because voters hold them accountable, but in Nigeria, taxes are 🇳🇬

Governor wey dey show workings

Maybe the man at the center needs 20 years to make an impact

Lagos builder indeed

[quote author=papyjaypaul post=131837425]There is nothing like that. The problem is that we do not appreciate our culture and history. Do you know that markets are connected to the Oba? The Iyaloja is a member of the King's cabinet and the King gets to know the feelings of the people through what the market women say? Our mothers worked and earned without problem until the British colonialists came to destroy our system of government. It won't happen in Igbo markets because historically Igbo don't have the same system but the story of Funmilayo and aba women's rights should have taught Nigerians some lessons about who they are. Alas!

Our society has been destroyed by Western ideas and some people who call themselves feminists without knowing who they are will say their fathers are misogynistic and all that nonsense. They don't know how powerful their mothers were before oyinbo came to destroy what they had. Now the oyinbo are contaminating their minds the way they did in the west to make them compete with men instead of us working together as a society. Everyone had their roles, both men and women. The same British called our fathers idiots for giving their women so much freedom such as Iyaloja!!! They did not allow women participate in their own democracies, today women are looking for crumbs to eat in that thing they call percentage whatever. They are begging the Presidents to give them space. How foolish can Africans be!

Do your own research on why we had the aba women riot and the Abeokuta riot, all led by women. Even in Black America, women were tired of being lied to because they saw white massa sleeping with them and giving them false hopes. women are protectors of the society. Today I saw one boy on Nairaland who said a woman without 500k should not get married. women in Nigeria have been raped off their power and deceived with feminine rights by oyinbo who make them hate their ancestors and love fake oyinbo rights. The women did not take a careful study of how these oyinbo gave their own women rights and when.

Before you reply me, if you choose to reply me, listen to Prof first and reflect on who we historically are. If you don't know your history, you will repeat the mistakes of the past




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hZ2DmS0bk

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Who were those responsible for the killing of those courageous women?

The answer is simple: Christian Slave Merchants from Europe.

[quote author=anonimi post=82397523]Powerful women.
Excellent ideas.
When our women take up matters, we just have to act.
They should do more of this as the Abeokuta and Aba women did on governance matters.



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CertifiedGee:
I haven't been to Abia State, but from what I'm seeing/reading online, I think this man is the real man of his people.

In a city of blind blind men, the one-eyed man is king.

A baby born in 1929 will be 97 years today. even at that, the same person cannot tell you the history from their head except from history books, because 1929 that person was a baby,and now 97. Looking at all of them there, none of them was there, history written down made it possible. So, Shout out to history . One day we too will be history

Aba people dey enjoy ooo