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Nairaland is too good for filthy and immoral politicians like jonathan.Thieves and traitors like him haue no honour and for one to think that his presence and contributions are relevant,that person must be mistaking evolution to retrogression. Sad.

But Obama doesn't act like he is got any kind of nazi blood and traits in him like sarah palin.I refuse to accept this as truth.

The world economy has gone beyond forex and world street orchestrated consumerism and greed,it is about the reality on the ground,what the people need to survive and level up with the basics.

Nigerian economy has never depended on the government and their foreign collaborators to propel it,rather it's the resilience of hard working nigerians that keeps the economy going,while the government on the other hand is sabotages nigerian economy.

America is not a civilized nation per say,rather it is a rat race nation where the winners take all.And for those that can see,that way of life is coming down crashing like a pack of card.

This is the era of sustainability,durability and harmony and africa is going to benefit most,

Nigeria is blessed of course but the leadership and precedences are cursed.

How those miners must have felt down there can only be compared with the feeling of being in nigerian jail as an ordinary nigerian,never knowing whether you will come out of it alive-Infinite dungeon

nex:
Nairaland was created about half a decade ago, almost the same time as Facebook. Some years back, I wrote to the owner of Nairaland telling him how he can increase the mailing list of this site by a million annually, but he's done nothing.

Goodluck Jonathan has no business publicly displaying himself on Facebook when he's not on Nairaland. It's such a shame.

An independent country that depends on a foreign kid for its president to communicate with citizens?

The President shouldn't only be on Nairaland, he should ask the administrators to create a special page for him.

I'm really upset with the President's presence of Facebook and neglect for Nairaland, that I have to go on his Facebook fanpage everyday to condemn everything he does there. The man is not patriotic at all, and for the president not to be a patriot, that's very dangerous for any nation.

Nigerian leaders are nappy wearing sissies who does not understand the concept of humanity,talkless of leadership,they derive pleasure in being losers.

The only option for nigerian economy growth,the only obstacle in its way are the miscreat leaders.

We can only but grow and innovate.

Some one is wondering how MC got into power,of course he got into power as a ruthless assassin used mostly by nigerian politicians to get rid of their opponents and some inquisitive,a bit fearless and pricipled nigerian journalists

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=526746.msg6918710#msg6918710 date=1286796227]The whole documentary is more or less about NURTW in relation to its operations in Lagos,so let's get the whole thing straight.NURTW is not a lagos state agency but a federal,so the perception that the state gives it protection of some kind is not part of it.You cannot isolate NURTW in oyo state simply because you are reporting about NURTW activies in Lagos,what then is the objectivity in such reporting ?[/quote]How is NURTW different from PDP hoodlums headed by obasanjo,nigerian police,army or senate?Same principles of touting,stealing,extorting,killing and manipulating with the innocent nigerians at the receiving end.

What was shown yesterday is the miniature nature of nigerian state,the exact depiction of nigerian system from the presidency to the agberos themselves-Touting,extortion,bribery,violence,unreasonableness,unproductiveness,disorderliness and gross irresponsibilty.

Even the suppose best nigerian leader,Fashola acknowledges and encorages it,since it's a channel to which he gets the unruly youths votes.Lagos itself doesn't look any different from lagos of yesteryears,same disorderly,chaotic and sub-standard condition.

What the heck is wromg with you murderfuckers over there?Why can't you think?

truly:
How does this secure a conviction in court
I remember that Obj was drafted into the presidential race by IBB
Although the whites wanted OJ Simpson convicted, they could not secure it outside the court

I am not Dokpesi or IBB's fan - I DETEST all those PDP people
But the security agents frame people all the time - it can be my turn tommorrow - we need to protect  our laws

truly:
How does this secure a conviction in court
I remember that Obj was drafted into the presidential race by IBB
Although the whites wanted OJ Simpson convicted, they could not secure it outside the court

I am not Dokpesi or IBB's fan - I DETEST all those PDP people
But the security agents frame people all the time - it can be my turn tommorrow - we need to protect  our laws

CONVICTION?In a rogue like nigeria.Abegee,let's face the fact,our system is illgitimate

There will be a louis Theroux show showcasing lagos on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight.I wonder what he is going to show again?same madness and disorder, i guess,that seems to have become a way of life in nigeria,to the extent that some of us are beginning to think that it is normal be be disorderly and unorganized in any way

Just because we are africans,we can get away with filth and disorderliness and still think of ourselves as rational people.No be naija,some will say.

The moment dokpesi publicly identified with IBB is the moment he lost his sanity and humanity.He has identified with evil at the expense of good and evil will be his enclave,it is a natural phenimenon.

IBB is a shameless scum and his supporters are no different either.IBB's emergence in nigerian politics and his acceptance by some nigerians shows that nigeria is a country full walking corpses,living dead mentality.The only that seems to make sense in the country is dubiousness.

The system is built on absolute illegality because all the government people and their establishments are nothing but bunch of rogues and legitimize crime syndicates.The president,the senators,the speakers,the governors,the ministers,the commissioners,the judges,the police,the army,the civil service,the local government,infact,gbo-gbue,are all criminals in nigeria aswell as leaders.

The land of savages,plague with fundamental ignorance that leads to no where but avoidable destructions.

If obasanjo who is suppose to be the one statesman,a suppose top policy maker and a role model can be notoriously insestious and perverted and still remain illustrious in the eyes of gullible nigerians,why can't a peasant nigerian policeman think it is normal to be perverted?

A land where retarded criminals like obasanjo and babangida rule the roast is a doom land

Nigeria being a country in mental and physical darkness,they could have done it for ritual purposes to become wealthy or for more sinister reason,to cure thermselves of HIV.

Nigerian state as it now is no better than somalia or afganistan.Nigerian government since independence till date,apart from the short period of Idiagbon have always been hijacked by rogues like obasanjo,atiku,ibb and the likes of jonathan.And funny enough,people expect peace in a rogue state like nigeria,pipe dreamers.

There can never be peace in the midst of injustices,unfairness of the highest order and gross irresponsibilities.Those that live in a glass house don't throw stones.

The greatest terrorists in nigeria are nigerian leaders,ex and present,like obasanjo,ibb,atiku,jonathan and co,they stoically believe that they will continue to eat their cakes and have it.They can only fool the people sometimes but they full all the people all the time.

Until nigerians stop recognizing traitors and gangsters like obasanjo,babangida,jonathan and co as leaders,nothing will ever make sense,the country wil ontinue to go down the road of fools.

Systematic ignorance and backwardness is turning nigerians into 21st century savages for real.The country is totally mesed up,full of darkness.

Andre Uweh:
EKUMEKU  WAR OF WESTERN NDIGBO
The Anioma-British war popularly referred to in history as Ekumeku or Ekwumekwu in some Anioma quarters occurred between 1883-1914 and involved Anioma and the British. The Anioma are mostly Igbo therefore all Anioma speak Igbo beyond the enclaves of non Igbo ancestry of the Anioma region. It is therefore easier to recognize that Ekwumekwu is an Igbo word. However, different sources have interpreted "Ekumeku" differently.

Ekumeku is indigenously known in Anioma historical context as "Aya Ekumeku". Aya in Igbo language denotes "war" while Ekwumekwu in Igbo onomatopoeia connotes "Do not talk about it" or "Not to be spoken about". This is a portrayal od secrecy associated with Ekumeku movement. The terribly fast, devastating and invisible nature or strategy employed to wage the war couples with the initiation requirement necessary for the recruitment of soldiers may have warranted the word "Ekumeku" In the years of the Ekumeku war, it was a taboo to reveal the secrecy behind the activities of the cult regarding initiation, operational bases, movement and sources of the cult group.

 

This situation posed the British with so much difficulty as they were unable to manage the activities of the Anioma perceived worrisome to their imperialist policies. The mystery surrounding the activities from which the people derived unexplainable strength puzzled the British who perhaps were hasty to abolish what they believe could become established in the socio-cultural society of the Anioma and constitute hindrances towards realizing their economic aims if nothing was speedily done.

Resistance was strong in western Igboland with series of wars waged to resist the British who had strong economic interest in the region and Ekumeku with well organized leaders joined in oath-taking secrecy to forestall the activities of the British in the region. Guerrilla warfare was the effective weapon if this was to be achieved. The Ekumeku became the greatest of the Igbo nationalism that instilled fear and discipline in the minds of the British on how and how not to deal with the Igbo people generally. It was from Ekumeku that other Igbo regions derived boldness to confront the British. Perahps, there existed no region in Southern Nigeria where the people ferociously and collectively rose to resist the British imperial conquest as in the Anioma region where the war lasted for 16 years with heavy casualties on both belligerents. 

Attempts in the 19th and 20th centuries by the British to impose imperialistic and hegemonic measures that would subjugate the Anioma people for their own economic gains triggered-off the Ekwumekwu war. Anioma had viewed socio-economic activities of the British in the Anioma region as an intrusion that must be resisted at all cost and the British decided to employ the use of force to subdue the people. This became a threat in the Anioma society. Scholars of the Anioma History believe that while Britain because of its experiences derived from other parts of the country was well prepared for the outcome, the Anioma were little prepared and only ready to defend its territory from economic violation of the British. This gave the Britisn an upper hand over their Anioma counterparts. It was not until towards the end of the war that the rest of the Anioma towns prepared themselves for the battle the British.

The Anioma nation had before 1898 engaged in violent clashes with the British resulting in the identification of the Anioma region as a difficult terrain and it was the feeling of the British that the area needed to be purged if they would derive economic gains from the region and for the social activities of the British to be impacted on the people.  Interestingly, the British had already noted the leaders of the region as violent because of their unpleasant experiences with the people. In 1830, the Lander Brothers reported their sour experiences in the hands of the Anioma back home as they were captured by the Anioma community who did not understand their reason for crossing through their territory. It was a crisis that put the Anioma in the bad book of Britain only waiting to explode.

By 1870, the crisis between Anioma and Britain had escalated culminating in the invasion of Ndoni, an Anioma community by the British in the same year. The British parliament had ruled that the use of force would be necessary to compel the people of Ndoni to cooperate with their economic terms among several others. Atani another Anioma community would suffer the same fate as it engaged the Royal Niger Company in 1880 in a bid to control the trade of the region. The Royal Niger Company with its charter perpetuated what Joseph Egwu an erudite scholar regarded as the first genocide against the Anioma people. Finally, in November 2, 1897, Onicha-Ado (Onitsha) an Anioma community was bombarded in what was to set the Anioma rulers against the British in many years of guerrilla warfare.

Ibusa-Royal Niger Company War (1898)
The real first of the Ekumeku wars was between Ibusa and Royal Niger Company. Dr. Joseph Egwu in an article titled"Ekwumekwu Movement" published in Anioma Essence Vol. 1, No. 4, 2008 edition delivers a beautiful account of the Ibusa-Royal Niger Company War in which the Royal Niger Company forces commandeered by Major Festing decided to attack Ibusa.

Strangely, the Royal Niger Company launched a surprise attack on Ibusa and thus won an initial victory which through was temporary. The Ibusa forces retreated and the feeling of the British was absolute victory.

Writing further, Father Zappa in 1898 emphasized that rather than surrender, the Ekwumekwu soldiers continued to resist as the Ibusa forces reinforced. Major Festing's further appeal and indeed reinforcement of troops from Lokoja that joined the forces of the Royal Niger Company helped the Forces to sustain victory over the Anioma community of Ibusa.

"Indeed it was not the possession of more sophisticated firearms that ensured Major Festing's ultimate victory, it was rather wanton and callous destruction of Ibusa farms and villages that forced them to sue for peace.

Ukwunzu/Owa-the British (1904)
On the 11th February 1904, severe fighting increased between Ukwunze and Owa on one side and the British as the other party. W. E. B. Crawford Coupland, the Divisional Commissioner ordered for 4 Connaught Rangers, 2.95 artillery and other weapons with which the people were subdued.

Owa-the British (1906)
The Ika people displaying prowess of the most war-like of the Western Igbo speaking people with the fierce wars fought to end S. O. Crave-Read and his British styled inhuman treatment. In this war, Ekute provided military support to the Ekwumekwu soldiers. The Ika people fought a well prepared battle as Lt H. C. Moorhouse would later put up a brilliant defence of himself on why he appeared prone to sustaining casualties stating that the Ekwumekwu soldiers operated with a well trained soldiers and geographical knowledge was an advantage. Mr. S. O. Crewe lost his life in the battle.

Ogwashi-Uku-the British
The Anglo-Ogwashi-Uku war which began on November 2, 1909 with a mandate to the British Forces to kill everybody proved to be a partial disappointment ion the part of the British and more than anything proved that the British Forces could collapse if matched with sophisticated arms and ammunition. In that war the British sustained 34 casualties with the death of Captain H. C. Chapman.

With the fall of Ogwashi-Uku, the Anioma was doomed for balkanization. Dr. Egwu briefly summarizes what thereafter befell the Anioma as thus:

"Anioma Region was divided into four and joined to other groups neighbours who were then given political precedence over Anioma. Asaba Division was joined to the Benin Province and Aboh Division (Ndi-Olu) were joined with Urhobo, Ijaws and Itsekiris to make up the Delta Province. Onitsha, Oguta and environs were joined to the Eastern Provinces. This made political unity nearly impossible. This was the genesis of our woes!

With the fall of Anioma, the great price for losing a war was paid by the people. The region was balkanized by the British and many Anioma territories such as Onicha-Ado (Onitsha) and Oguta were permanently lost to the easterners. That of Onitsha was characterized with a change of the name that disassociated it from Onicha-Olona, Onicha-Ukwu, Onicha-Uku kinsmen but in all Anioma achieved for the Igbo nation a movement more extensive and resisting than what the British had experienced in Africa South of the Sahara.

Igbafe in his work opines "the ability to manipulate their Age Grade system and other associations building an extensive network of communication throughout the whole of Anioma…no matter its cost, honour, bravery and integrity which have been internalized and consolidated in their myths, legends, proverbs and typical behaviour patterns.

The Anioma Ekwumekwu commanders were:

1. Dunkwu Isusu (Onicha-Olona)
2. Ochei Nwayazia (Onicha-Olona)
3. Nwabuzo Olimagwo (Issele-Uku)
4. Mokobia Odiajo (Ogwashi-Uku)
5. Nwaiyogolo (Ogwashi-Uku)
6. Eninwizomo (Ugbodu)
7. Idegwu Otokpoike (Ubulu-Uku)
8. Monye Ukpe
9. Diei Nwobodo
10. Egbune Uza
11. Awunor Ugbo (Akumazi)
12. Abuzu (Idumuje-Unor)
13. Idabor (Issele-Uku)
14. Agbambu Oshue (Ibusa)

Some of the Anioma towns that participated were:
1. Isheagwu
2. Kwale
3. Ugbolu
4. Obiaruku
5. Aboh
6. Ebu
7. Ubulu-Uku
8. Ogwashi-Uku
9. Akumazi-Umuocha
10. Onicha-Ado (Onitsha)
11. Obomkpa
12. Ezi
13. Issele-Uku
14. Ilah
15. Okpanam
16. Issele-Azagba
17. Owa
18. Ibusa
19. Idumuje-Ugboko
20. Agbor
21. Igbodo
22. Umunede
23. Asaba
24. Ute-Okpu
25. Ashama
26. Idume-Ugbo
(ArticlesBase SC #2316537)http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/ekumeku-war-of-the-anioma-people-2316537.html

Man,this is my history you just raised and i never really took it seriously because i have been so preoccupied with the unnecessaries,chasing shadows.Most of us have been so distracted and schooled to believe  that all that  is black is irrelevant, barbaric and unsystematic,and most of us are beginning to believe,hence our acceptance of undignified ways of life as a people,though i don't believe.

History vividly says that one of my grand ancestral uncle killed a whiteman(missionary) for real in resistance of their interferance in their ways of life.Blackman can never be bored,we have alot of hidden dramas to excavate and reverse for good.

Corruption is synonymous with nigeria.An average nigerian like a policeman/woman does not know the difference between corrupt practices and non corrupt practices,talkless of the big thieves themselves,the politicians.

From a very formidable source,i learnt that obasanjo that obasanjo owns the majority shares in tardard trust bank of ghana,along with several mansions in ghana.

Obasanjo needs to be thoroughly investigated,probed,jailed or be executed,he the greatest plague that has ever befallen nigeria as a nation.

Jakumo,i bet you got a direct whip of Buhari/Idiagbon regime?were you a jornalist then in nigeria?You need to simmer down on him,i still think his regime is the best that has ever stimulated nigerians consciousness.

Our problems are deep rooted in our soul as a people that we need some kind of drastic actions to flush them out.Some kind of revolution

Who doesn't know that smartness in nigeria means crookedness?hence the acceptance of a retarded,immoral,dubious and evil obasanjo as a smart statesman and leader.

Jonathan can not bring the change that nigeria needs with him aiding and abating corruption.He is part of what we need to change in nigeria,grossly irresponsible individuals

janus05:
@Poster (Beaf)

You have been unmasked! You are a pro-Jonathan man !. Nairaland should be a place for x-raying these would b leaders. And I think the time for scoring never reach cos NONE of them has really convinced us.

1 question for you. Does the smiling faces on the stage at eagle square now represent the true reality(face) of Nigeria?

The same beaf came in here at the height of MEND saga to beaf for them unreasonably,now he has switched his ellegiance to jonathan without genuine reasons.

His priciples are like bubbles,it has no weight,a typical nigerian

IBB moves and his acceptance by some nigerians has says it all that nigeria is on the brink of disintegration and total eclipse.It is a country where immorality rules and lies are generally accepted as truth.

Nigeria is such a failed,lawless state in the sense that Babagida,the symbol of anti-democracy,embezzelment,looting,thuggry,assisinations and epic coruption have the guts to say that he wants to be the president of nigeria again with his track records and nigerian masses are sheepishly looking as if they are under some kind of spell.

Babagida is a traitor,a prolific criminal,a thug and a numbskull,he has nothing to offer a country that is on the road to progress.All he will bring to nigeria is the same generational backwardness and hopelessness that have being the order of the day since heaven knows when.He has to be stopped by all means or that will rationally spell the end of nageria as a nation of human beings.