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PoliticsRe: Court Overrules Tinubu And APC, Consolidates Atiku And Obi’s Petitions by saintbillion(op): 3:26pm On May 23, 2023
Erasused:
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If u no scam person u won't eat.
RomanceRe: AFRICAN HISTORY: What You Need To Know About Sara Baartman by saintbillion(op): 3:25pm On May 23, 2023
One girl for my street then, if u see her ass. I use to called her Sara Baartman. The dumb girl on even understand
RomanceAFRICAN HISTORY: What You Need To Know About Sara Baartman by saintbillion(op): 3:22pm On May 23, 2023
https://www.blackpast.org/wp-content/uploads/Sara_Baartman.jpgSaartjie (Sara) Baartman was one of the first black women known to be subjugated to human sexual trafficking.
She was derisively named the “Hottentot Venus” by Europeans as her body would be publicly examined and exposed inhumanly throughout the duration of her young life. Moreover. her experience reinforced the already existing and extremely negative sexual fascination with African women bodies by the people of Europe.

Sara Baartman was born in 1789 at the Gamtoos River, now known as the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Baartman and her family were members of the Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Baartman grew up on a colonial farm where she and her family most likely worked as servants. Her mother died when she was aged two and her father, who was a cattle driver, died when she was still a young girl.

By her teenage years Baartman married a Khoikhoi man who was a drummer. They had a child together who died shortly after birth. When Baartman was sixteen, her husband was murdered by Dutch colonists. Soon after, she was sold into slavery to a trader named Pieter Willem Cezar, who took her to Cape Town where she became a domestic slave to his brother, Hendrik. On October 29, 1810, although she could not read, 21-year-old Baartman supposedly signed a contract with William Dunlop, a physician, who was a friend of the Cezar brothers.

This contract required her to travel with the Cezar brothers and Dunlop to England and Ireland where she would work as a domestic servant since technically slavery had been abolished in Great Britain. Additionally, she would be exhibited for entertainment purposes. Baartman would receive a portion of earnings from her exhibitions and would be allowed to return to South Africa after five years. However, the contract was false on all details and her enslavement continued for the remainder of her life.

Baartman was first exhibited in London in the Egyptian Hall at Piccadilly Circus on November 24, 1810. Her public treatment, however, quickly drew the attention of British abolitionists who charged Dunlop and the Cezars with holding Baartman against her will. The court ruled against Baartman after Pieter Cezar produced the contract that had been signed by Baartman. Baartman also testified that she was not being mistreated.

The publicity generated by the court trial increased Baartman’s popularity as an exhibit. She was taken on tours throughout England and by 1812 as far away as Limerick, Ireland.

In September 1814, after staying four years in Great Britain, Baartman was taken to France and sold to S. Reaux, an exhibitor who showcased animals. He put Baartman on public display in and around Paris, often at the Palais Royal. He also allowed her to be sexually abused by patrons willing to pay for her defilement. Reaux garnered considerable profit due to the public’s fascination with Baartman’s body.

Sara Saartjie Baartman died in Paris on December 29, 1815 at the age of 26 for unknown reasons. Even after her death, many of her body parts would go on display at the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Man), in Paris to support racist theories about people of African ancestry. Some of the body parts remained on display until 1974.

In 1994 South African President Nelson Mandela formally requested that Baartman’s remains be returned to South Africa. On March 6, 2002, her remains were returned and buried at Hankey in the Eastern Cape Province.

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/baartman-sara-saartjie-1789-1815/

RomanceRe: Buckingham Palace Refuses To Return Remains Of An Ethiopian Prince. by saintbillion(op): 3:12pm On May 23, 2023
Kobicove:
Someone who died and was buried over 100years ago, they're asking for the body to be exhumed and returned to Ethiopia.

What do they want to do with it?! undecided
Why them kidnap him b4?
PoliticsRe: Court Overrules Tinubu And APC, Consolidates Atiku And Obi’s Petitions by saintbillion(op): 3:11pm On May 23, 2023
Cassandraloius:
This table is shaking. grin
Yes ooo
Joy is

Coming
RomanceBuckingham Palace Refuses To Return Remains Of An Ethiopian Prince. by saintbillion(op): 2:40pm On May 23, 2023
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/22/21/71286159-12112491-image-a-22_1684788138138.jpgBuckingham Palace has refused to return the body of an Ethiopian prince who was buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th century.

According to Mail Online, a descendant of Prince Alemayehu, an orphan who was adored and supported financially by Queen Victoria and died at the age of 18, has demanded that his remains be returned to Ethiopia.

However, Buckingham Palace has maintained that removing the body would affect others buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

The Palace said that chapel authorities empathised with the need to honour Prince Alemayehu's memory, but added they also had 'the responsibility to preserve the dignity of the departed'.
Prince Alemayehu was brought to England after his father, Emperor Tewodros II killed himself as British forces stormed his mountain-top palace in northern Ethiopia in 1868.

The orphaned seven-year-old was adored by Queen Victoria and educated at Sandhurst military academy. But he tragically died at the age of 18 from pneumonia in 1879 and was buried in catacombs next to Windsor's St George's Chapel.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/22/22/13384916-12112491-He_tragically_died_in_1879_aged_just_18-a-12_1684790031524.jpg
In 2019, the Queen refused to allow the repatriation of his bones, but in the wake of a new book about his life, campaigners have renewed calls to return them.
One of his descendants Fasil Minas told the BBC: ‘We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians because that is not the country he was born in’, and added ‘it was not right’ for him to be buried in the UK.

But a Buckingham Palace spokesman said: ‘It is very unlikely it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity [in the catacombs of St George’s Chapel].’

The statement added that the palace also had a ‘responsibility to preserve the dignity of the departed’.
Alamayu's father, King Tewodros II, known as 'Mad King Theodore', had wanted to be friends with the British and wrote a letter to Queen Victoria in 1855.

After she failed to reply to that and a follow-up letter, Tewodros took the British consul and several missionaries hostage in a high mountain jail.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/22/22/67013123-12112491-Prince_Alamayu_is_seen_posing_for_a_photograph_in_western_clothi-a-13_1684790214364.jpg

An army of nearly 40,000 British troops were sent to rescue the 44 hostages. They lay siege in April 1868 to Tewodros' mountain fortress at Maqdala in northern Ethiopia and emerged victorious.

As the successful mission neared its conclusion, Tewodros took his own life. Tewodros's wife, Alamayu's mother, died on her way down the mountain, leaving her son an orphan.

The British also took thousands of cultural and religious artefacts including gold crowns and necklaces, alongside the prince.

According to historian Andrew Heavens, this was done in order to keep them safe from the Tewodros' enemies, who had been close to Maqdala.

Following his arrival in June 1868, he met the Queen at her holiday home on the Isle of Wight, off England's South Coast. She later wrote in her diary that he was 'a very pretty sight, a graceful boy with beautiful eyes and a nice nose and mouth, though the lips are slightly thick'.
Alamayu was put under the guardianship of Captain Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, who had accompanied the prince from Ethiopia.

Whilst the Queen had wanted him to remain on the Isle of Wight, he went first with Speedy to India before the Treasury ordered that he be properly educated.

He was sent to Cheltenham and Rugby and then on to Sandhurst, but struggled with his studies.

The prince caught pneumonia when he fell asleep outside one night. After refusing to eat, he passed away whilst living in Headingly, in Leeds.

After learning of his death, Victoria wrote: 'It is too sad! All alone in a strange country, without a single person or relative belonging to him... His was no happy life, full of difficulties of every king.'

Near his burial spot is a plaque bearing the inscription: 'I was a stranger and you took me in.'

The Ethiopian government first demanded the return of Alamayu's remains in the 1990s. But Palace officials have previously insisted that they cannot recover them without disturbing those of others.

Campaigner Alula Pankhurst, who sits on Ethiopia's cultural restitution committee, told The Times that the argument is just an 'excuse for not dealing with it.'

'Bringing this young man home means unearthing uncomfortable truths that people don't want to think about.

In 2019, Ethiopia's ambassador to London, Fesseha Shawel Gebre, urged the Queen to consider how she would have felt if one of her relatives was buried in a foreign land.

'Would she happily lie in bed every day, go to sleep, having one of her Royal Family members buried somewhere, taken as prisoner of war?' he asked. 'I think she wouldn't.

He insisted that the boy was 'stolen'.
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/5/buckingham-palace-refuses-to-return-remains-of-ethiopian-prince-who-is-buried-in-windsor-castle-grounds-2.html
PoliticsRe: Court Overrules Tinubu And APC, Consolidates Atiku And Obi’s Petitions by saintbillion(op): 2:11pm On May 23, 2023
Obi is coming.
PoliticsCourt Overrules Tinubu And APC, Consolidates Atiku And Obi’s Petitions by saintbillion(op): 2:11pm On May 23, 2023
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, today May 23, consolidated the three different petitions that are seeking to upturn the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the APC as the winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election.

A five-member panel of the court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, in a unanimous decision, dismissed objections the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, raised against the merger of the petitions. The court held that Justice of the cases demanded that they should be consolidated and dealt with as one petition since they all relate to the same election. The court then scheduled May 30 for the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, to open his case against the outcome of the presidential election held on February 25.

Obi initially told the tribunal that he would need seven weeks to present his case through 50 witnesses. Ruling on his application, the court reduced the period to three weeks, even as it gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, five days each to defend the petition. In the same vein, the court gave the 4th respondent in the case, Kabiru Masari, three days to also defend himself.

The court stressed that the parties would adopt final briefs of argument on August 5 to enable it to fix a date for judgment.

Aside from Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who came second in the election, and Obi of the LP who came third in the election, the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, equally lodged a petition to challenge the outcome of the presidential election. Though five petitions were initially filed to challenge the return of Tinubu as the winner of the election, however, the Action Alliance, AA, on May 8, withdrew its case, even as the Action Peoples Party, APP, followed suit two days later by also discontinuing further proceedings on its own petition.
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/5/2023-election-court-overrules-tinubu-and-apc-consolidates-atiku-and-obis-petitions.html

PoliticsUS President Joe Biden Announces His Delegation To Tinubu’s Inauguration by saintbillion(op): 7:38am On May 23, 2023
US President, Joe Biden, has announced the Presidential Delegation that will be attending the inauguration of president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29, 2023.

A statement released on White House website says Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, will lead the delegation.

Other members of the Presidential Delegation include David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy Abuja., the Honorable Sydney Kamlager-Dove, United States Representative (D), California, the Honorable Marisa Lago, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce, General Michael E. Langley, Commander of U.S. Africa Command.

Others include the Honorable Enoh T. Ebong, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Honorable Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Honorable Judd Devermont, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council and Honorable Monde Muyangwa, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development.


The announcement comes days after US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, made a call to Tinubu, promising to strengthen the US-Nigeria ties when he assumes office.
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/5/us-president-joe-biden-announces-his-delegation-to-tinubus-inauguration.html

CelebritiesTacha Claims She Paid $20,000 (₦‎15M) For Her Blue Dress To The AMVCA by saintbillion(op): 9:27pm On May 20, 2023
Big Brother Naija star, Tacha has claimed that she paid $20,000 (15m) for the blue dress she wore to the #AMVCA2023 which is currently ongoing.

The reality show star and influencer who made the claim on Twitter, wrote;

“Everybody looks AMAZING on the BLACK CARPET TODAY!!! BUT we all KNOW!!! NOBODY COMES Close!!!”

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/5/bbnaija-star-tacha-claims-she-paid-20000-15m-for-her-blue-dress-to-the-amvca2023-2.html

BusinessRe: New Naira Swap: What Did You Benefited From The Cashless Policy? by saintbillion(op): 9:13pm On May 16, 2023
eldervine:
Omo i learn how to do transfer by force oo.
even till now i still dey do transfer.
Lol
BusinessNew Naira Swap: What Did You Benefited From The Cashless Policy? by saintbillion(op): 1:37pm On May 16, 2023
As we all know the misery, sufferings and pains from FG cashless policy, some people will rather say it was favourable. I remember me trekking from Douglas in Owerri to Nekede cause of no cash. But despite the policy, the only thing I could boast of was me OPENING A PALMPAY & AN OPAY ACCOUNT WHICH IS STILL FUNCTIONAL TILL DATE.
WHAT did you achieve? Did the policy achieve its aims? What are your recommendations?

RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 5:37am On May 15, 2023
Waffarianman:
@Oop hope you no dey sneak go bang all those widows within your neighborhood. Thunder ⛈️⚡ and lighting like striking those kinda person's
Ha no oo
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 5:37am On May 15, 2023
ghettochild:
This same thing happend to me....back in NYSC days in Nsukka..
There was electricity n the lighting struck thru the wall..and entered the socket and it slapped the phone off my hand.
Omo
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 5:36am On May 15, 2023
SuperOnyi:
shocked


Damn (🥶)...

I really need this so I can inform others.
My advise to them. Tell them to avoid ear piece when it the weather is not friendly
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 8:11pm On May 14, 2023
9182736455O1999:
Lolz. smell of thunder? That's some wierd stuff.
It smells like gun powder or knock out.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 8:09pm On May 14, 2023
SuperOnyi:
shocked


Wait...

I don't understand, what exactly was the cause of that? So, if I had earpiece in my ears, I'm vulnerable when lightening and thunder strikes? What about if I connected my phone or laptop to my switch whether it's on or off?

God!
I just can't explain the mystery behind it. But as I'm talking to u like this, I am not using any earpiece on my laptop again, never.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 8:07pm On May 14, 2023
9182736455O1999:
The first time it happened in our house, it almost hit my aunt. As it struck on the house, all the electrical appliances turned on and went off for a second.
Another time while we i and my siblings were in our mum's shop. The lightening struck on the refrigerator and my younger brother was having contact with the fridge. See as him shout eh as the thing shock am well.

Then walking back home one day while it was still raining. I just hear "kprahh" very close to me and the car parked close to me started blaring (you know that sound when you try to break into someone's car) it was then it dawned on me that i eacaped being hit by lightening.
Then u might have perceived the smell of thunder. I like the smell of it though. When I was small, lightning and heavy thunder once struck a palm tree, and fire opted out from it. It also struck beside me while running I could see smoke it cause, that one was dry thunder, no rain fall.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:48pm On May 14, 2023
Mcslize:
There was one heavy thunder that occurred in the afternoon around 3-4 PM when the sun was still shining. Is it that one?
Exactly bro. Today exact same time here on owerri. Even now self thunder is still buzzing
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:47pm On May 14, 2023
Runnerzz:
U sure say ur hands clean so undecided
I done check am tire ooo. I thought Bolatito have moved on with her life
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:46pm On May 14, 2023
Starboytwo:
Guy if to say you calm down now let that hot frying electricity pass through your body, you for get some powers now
I for be flash. I for dey wait APC 29th of May presidential swearing in b4 I strike
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:45pm On May 14, 2023
9182736455O1999:
Experienced close lightening stike many times.
Same here, but have never been affected aside from appliances burnt
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:44pm On May 14, 2023
worldclass68:
Cool...cus that's what they made us to believe from movies like spider man grin
Abi ooo
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 7:05pm On May 14, 2023
worldclass68:
U should be doing extraordinary things by now nah.....try go upstairs and jump from the top, I won check something undecided
Lol. I am typing from Mars
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:30pm On May 14, 2023
SenecaTheYonger:
Happen to me too. Burnt all the lights, TV, DSTV, Fans in our house.

I saw the lightning and all I can say is that it looked like a high powered electric voltage up close.

The accompanying thunder was deafening. All this happened even though we had lightning protector
Imagine say there was no lightning conductor around. Guy lighting kills more than electricity
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:28pm On May 14, 2023
Jakumo:
Holy chit that was a close shave. Reminds me of the day that a fast-approaching storm caught me unawares deep in a jungle swamp aboard a canoe, where I had gone to lay ambush for the elusive and amphibious Sitatunga Swamp Antelope, known in the Yoruba dialect as Agbalamgbo . I decided to ride that unexpected storm out under a small hunter's shed standing on stilts in deep water.

With no walls around the flimsy hut to protect me from the full fury of the tempest, I curled up on the wooden floor of that hut in a fetal position and prayed to the Goddess of Rivers to spare me that day. Lightning lit up the forest simultaneously with multiple explosive booms of thunder reminiscent of battlefield artillery shells impacting all around, while the air developed a distinct odor of burning sulfur I had never in my living past once perceived.

At the same time, the river water levels rose dramatically as rain deluged the forest in roaring sheets that pulverized the tree canopy in an unrelenting sequence. Soon the river had engulfed the full height of the stilts on which the hut stood, and the brown muddy waters began to swirl around me where I lay curled up like a terrified millipede, silently begging Sango the God of Thunder to spare my humble life.

An hour later the worst was over, and the rolling thunder cannonades faded off into the distance. I again boarded my wooden dugout canoe, and slowly paddled my way back under a moderate drizzle to landfall where my truck was parked, thanking my lucky stars that I did not try to paddle that distance while the storm raged. At no time in my entire life before or since that day, have I EVER witnessed Mother Nature wreaking her full calamitous might upon the land. it was a humbling experience from which I consider myself very lucky to have emerged unscathed.
Which literature Novel u copy this from? The grammar too big
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:16pm On May 14, 2023
malcom1X:
Make him test himself to see if him don get some small super powers, he might never know.

There's a hero amongst us.
grin grin.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:16pm On May 14, 2023
wis3:
are you sure someone did not send sango after you grin
My brother I've check ooo. I never break any girl heart of recent. In fact I'm married na.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:10pm On May 14, 2023
My should I say let's be caution ⚠️ of the way we do use eat piece. The experience was a terrible one.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:08pm On May 14, 2023
Persephone1:
Wow 😮
Wow?
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:07pm On May 14, 2023
Blackdeewhy:
Ha!
May we all not die young 🙏.
Amen.
RomanceRe: Lighting And Thunder Almost End My Life Today. by saintbillion(op): 6:07pm On May 14, 2023
wis3:
it's not possible. It could have been possible if you say you were electrocuted though.
Guy I say na lighting deal with me. I know what I am saying

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