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Business / Re: Start Your Own Boxers Business With N5, 000 by Stinson007(m): 9:43am On Aug 13, 2017
dkconcept:
The business concept, many employer wont share with you
Let’s me introduce myself to you, in order to lets you know am not here to scam anyone rather to break you from Financial hardship, Am here to strictly give information not advert or profile selling, am (Andrew O.K a.k.a engrkunlexy4u, am from Ibadan but base in Aba), I started the business during my service year in Aba, and today the rest is good story to tell.
Before I continue to explain, try to answer this question if you can, and also know some facts.
1. The largest selling of textile materials in Nigeria is which state?
2. Electronics container from oversea is entering lagos as Number 1 importer , while Textile,Okirika (Buskoro) is entering which state as Number 1 importer?
3. 70% of the shirts, pants trousers we used in Nigeria, is made from where (you will never know this, if you are not from Onitcha or Aba)?
Lets me share these amazing facts with you?

70% of boxers used in Nigeria is made from Aba (anybody with contrary evidence should quote me wrong), shirt they sell and jeans is directly made from Aba. The question is, are they Aba made? Nope and yes, what we called Aba made is simply lack of packaging and that is why someone like I and you is going to invest into all this area. Later, I will still share amazing things about Aba peoples you need to know.

Introduction into the business (Boxers)
Boxer is made of different materials, we have close to 7 materials, but the common type of materials in making boxer is majorly two in Nigeria today, check this link for the facts: http://dudeundies.com/news/7-mustknow-mens-underwear-fabric-types/ (Cotton and Bed sheets material), lets me explain to you, original Boxers materials is made using Cotton material (Shirt Material) because the texture is of high quality and it does not wash nor change the color after entering water, most packing shirt material we used are made of Cotton materials, it also does not absorb heat and the washing is very simple, you get this type of boxer in supermarket and good store. Lets me share of other the materials with you, called bed sheet material, go and look for a bed sheet material that brings color and remove hair after washing and you will understand what I want to explain, note: we have some bed sheet material that are costly but am sure they will never use that to produce boxer, only a big company use it, Bed sheets material is very cheap to get and most people get their profit from using that in producing boxer, as per say Nigeria like cheap things, Bed sheet materials has less (good) and thick textile texture, this is the type of boxer you wear and 2nd day your yarns and this stuff will begin to ask for fresh air (you get that line), where can I get that? Some fake supermarket store, aboki for road, omo igbo for road side, infact they can sell it for you at 150 to 200, they have already make their profit. It is left for you to choose what you want as a visionary business person.

Why you need to do the business
Do you know that 50% of ladies now wear boxer? Do you know that 10% of women (our Mother) also wear boxer? Do you also know that 80% of our papas now wear boxer and lastly do you know that 95% of grown up guys have nothing less than 3 boxers in their wardrobe? All this estimate was not so in the year past. Before our own generations wear pants, am still a young guy, our ladies don’t even wear boxers before, our mother don’t try it, while our father only wears pants or none. This facts should make you know that the paradigm of fashion is shifting and its for the best brain that will grab this profitable future opportunity and make it a reality. Another reason why you should do this business is, do you know that most people used to overlook the production of boxer and very few peoples knows how to sew boxer well, ask anybody in the North and western part of the country where they are producing boxer, they will tell you from yanki(abroad) or those guy that don’t have what to do.

The marketing strategies
I will like to explain from what worked for me during my service year and now I can be proud of it. Then we used to pick it at the rate of 200 naira and packed it into 3 in a good nylon for just 1000, the nylon at times attract peoples, people talk about Aba made, Simple definition of Aba made is what simply lack packaging and lack of well arrangement, though I know some people sew bad material for boxers and still sells. We give out to our fellow friends and also go to nearby store, banks and offices to deliver to them, some get attracted with the nylon and the color packed inside. Also, know that if people love you, even if they have 10 boxers at home, they will still buy from you, mostly, ladies sell faster than we guys you understand better.

How do I make my own profit?
The profit is very simple; first, ensure you are getting a good material from your supplier, because this will make your business sustainable for long. Imagine you are getting at 200 per one and you are packing it into 3 per 1 as in you pack 3 boxers inside one nylon for just start of 1000, mathematically, you gain 400 on it, which means 100+ on one boxers, may be after expenses of buying nylon and may be you want sticker to the nylon, you later make 100 on each boxer, I believe that is enough for anybody. Secondly, you can target supplying it out to people close to you, I have a guy who always acts as a middlemen for the boxer, he gets it and supply out to his people for sell, he made faster money than we do then. Making your profit depends on how you can think deep on it.

Risk attached to this Business
I believe there is no business without risk, any business that poses without risk must not be a genuine business. Number one risk is frustration? What do I mean, if you ever buy boxers from an untrusted person, and your customer started condemning your goods, you notice that frustration is the first thing that will come to you, advice, don’t go for anybody you cant trust in supplying you the boxer, and no matter what, never allow your customer to select boxer and that is why we packed it in a nylon, because all colour can never be so attracting, they compensate each other. Secondly, if you fail to establish market or target a market, you may be disappointed that it is easy to establish with mind but execution is a challenge, my advice for you is to talk about it to friends and family even your enemy and lets them comments about it. Lastly, You are the last risk, don’t join because I said its profitable, simply follow your dream and lets be fits into making it before you start, I started with my mind fits in making it, and today, after my NYSC, I stayed back in producing my own boxers and also work as an IT executive for one popular radio station in the city.


NOTE:
The business is sweet, but if you don’t have right mind of making it, don’t start it. Today, am supplying to different state today simply because I started the business from my mind after gathering all the facts needed and I develop a right attitude towards it. I started producing my own with less than 200, 000 today, though I invested more than that into it now.
If you will like me to supply you anywhere you are in the country, I can incur the cost of sending it but it will be (a pack) which is 25 pieces inside a pack nylon at N5,000 for now, I will pack 3 in 1 boxer separately from your 25 pieces as a sample for you, you pay after receiving it, you pay to the person that will give to you or from where you will get it from after bargain on sending it, I will only incur the cost of transporting it for the first time and subsequently you pay for the transportation on your own, all is to clear your doubt about it.

:If you have interest on how to make your own boxer with less than 200, 000, just drop your mail on this forum, I will mail you.
Note: I dont sell a fancy Boxer,i only produce what will last long for the consumer, so dont be disappointed getting my boxer and not seeing oyo-yo,and also i dont come here to advertize, only to sensitized. We can only promise you the best

Note: If you are in Lagos or Abuja and you are ready to invest in Bulk supply or partner kindly send a text or call: 08038662353.
Kconnel23@yahoo.com
Agriculture / About To Start Agricultural Products Supply ; Pepper, Yam And Cucumber by Stinson007(m): 9:33am On Aug 13, 2017
I need every network to assist me. I have plans to buy from Jos, markudi and supply to onitsha, awka etc
Any information on cost of transport, purchase price, sales and Logistics will be appreciated.
Religion / Re: "You Can’t Force Islamic Studies On Our Children" - PFN, Bishop Oyedepo Warn by Stinson007(m): 12:03am On Jul 01, 2017
alBHAGDADI:
Does it make any sense to Introduce Arabic studies in Nigerian educational system when we still have over 200 languages that we are yet to study? Is Arabic a language that is productive? How has Arabic improved the backward Arab world? Don't get me wrong, but the development in Qatar, Dubai and UAE are all done by white men whose language supports construction and Development. Arabic language is only in line with Islam.

Since we all know that Arabic is the language of Islam, why didn't they create an option that allows the study of Jewish or Greek languages which are in line with Christianity? No, they wont cos their aim is to systematically islamize Nigeria, a thing that will fail.

Arabic language adds no value to one's life other than being able to read the terror manual called Quran. Aren't they satisfied with their. issues and madrassahs that they now want to start corrupting the children of the Living God with a barbaric ideology?

If you are a Christian and you don't speak against this, i wonder if you think you and your children will be able to they devilishly sneak in Sharia law.

We reject Islam and Arabic language
I like this but am an atheist, Am totally against all religious practices
Politics / When FFK, Reno Omokori And Nnamdi Kanu Reacts by Stinson007(m): 9:06pm On Jun 25, 2017
Nigeria is a nation of 180 million people, 250 ethnic groups and 500 languages. Nigeria president has been away for 50 days without a single word or picture but on sallah day he decided to address the nation in what Femi falana called "reassuring move " but in Hausa.
If the report is true coming Sahara reporters then the president should be charged for treason, his manner of address could incite disunity, thats a matter of national security but if Sahara reporters wrong then they should be arrested for misleading Nigerians. Meanwhile FFK, Reno and Nk can have this for breakfast

Politics / Re: BOMB!!! Biafrexit: Osinbajo Is Less Than An Animal!, Kanu Thunders (video) LIVE! by Stinson007(m): 1:46am On Jun 24, 2017
Alariwo2:


It shall never be well with you.. Bastard!

I dunno who called you in the post.. stupid fool
How so? If all you can do is curse, then you are a tank of curses exuding your content to earth. You reap what you sow niggur...Bullshit
Politics / Re: BOMB!!! Biafrexit: Osinbajo Is Less Than An Animal!, Kanu Thunders (video) LIVE! by Stinson007(m): 1:42am On Jun 24, 2017
ItsMeAboki:
That was exactly what prompted the Arewa youth declaration; meanwhile Kanu is free to break his bail conditions (without fear of rearrest) threaten war against Nigeria, insult and abuse anybody he likes with impunity; without even a caution or condemnation from his Igbo elders; yet some ppl are calling for the arrest of the northern youths for reacting to him and his followers - what double standards and hypocrisy.

Enough is enough, I therefore stand with the northern youths - Igbos should just go.

Stand or sleep with the northern youths, it's no bodies business. Lemme clear you on your assertions, if NK has done any of the things you claim the FG will instruct his arrest, nobody stopped DSS from arresting Ifeanyi Ubah remember even though he didn't nothing.

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Religion / Re: If The Bible And Quran Has Been Corrupt Why Hasn't God Sent An Updated One by Stinson007(m): 1:25am On Jun 24, 2017
My one cent

Politics / Re: I Will Kill Lots Of People If Kidnapper Evans Is Executed - Igbo Man (Pics) by Stinson007(m): 2:05pm On Jun 23, 2017
I still don't he should be killed rather life is prison is better since he didn't kill any of his victims
Politics / Re: I Will Kill Lots Of People If Kidnapper Evans Is Executed - Igbo Man (Pics) by Stinson007(m): 2:03pm On Jun 23, 2017
Pavore9:


It will surprise you how the human mind works, a paedophile from tribe A will easily support the atrocities of another paedophile who is from tribe B!
sorry for you.... So because he is from his tribe then he should support him after kidnapping his kinsmen. You just proved Nigeria as a failed society
Politics / Re: Women Throw Their Wrappers For Nnamdu Kanu To Walk On (Photos) by Stinson007(m): 5:57pm On Jun 21, 2017
TimeMod1:
This barbaric show of shame corroborates the narratives of the Arewa youths. A situation whereby a secessionist leader is being worshipped like a demi god with no corresponding reproof from those that matters, only suggests that the Kaduna declaration was in good faith.

I don't think these people would get sense in this our generation. what a big shame!
What a foolish assertion, how many of your so called Nigerian politicians can mellow down for the people, so that they will be exalted by people.
Nigerian politicians are to blame
Politics / Re: Police Dismiss 2 Traffic Wardens In Abuja Over N15k Bribe From A Motorist by Stinson007(m): 8:29am On Jun 21, 2017
tobrinskilanski:

wat are u saying?? must u comment..huh??

BTW...nice move PCRRU!
SMH
Politics / Re: Wike Became Governor By Accident Of Jonathan – Amaechi by Stinson007(m): 7:24am On Jun 21, 2017
If wike won your Peterside by accident then you must be a mistake... Remember you threw your full weight behind Dakuku Peterside but Lacked Jagaban thatsall
Politics / Re: Police Dismiss 2 Traffic Wardens In Abuja Over N15k Bribe From A Motorist by Stinson007(m): 2:01pm On Jun 20, 2017
They collectrd 5k two years ago from me at Garki, i went to thesame school as the IG kyari. Hope it's enough reason to return my money too.

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Politics / Re: Quit Notice: Northern Leaders Misruled Nigeria – Okorocha by Stinson007(m): 1:50pm On Jun 20, 2017
There is something about this narration that seems like a confused man to me, Mr Rochas has a poor mind and It's difficult to say where he stands, not like he sounds like a nationalist but like "a man on the fence ", obviously trying to please both sides and that can't give him anything cuz he will make enemy to both sides enemy... If he wants to be president come out and make a bold stance stop the dilly dally already
Politics / Re: Shehu Sani Lists 10 Factors Blocking Nigeria’s Progress, Unity by Stinson007(m): 1:38am On Jun 20, 2017
Obaiyski:
Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani, has listed 10 factors he said were working against the unity and progress of Nigeria.

The lawmaker listed the factors as follows:

1.Dependence on one major source of revenue from a section of a country, which logically profiles and categorises other sections as parasitic.

2.Fading memory of t he tragedy of secession and war: Lost lessons of history.

3.Manipulation of sectional, religious and ethnic sentiments and sensibilities of Nigerians by the political class.

4.The slow death of the nationalistic and patriotic spirit in the hearts and minds of Nigerians, evidenced with the perennial indifference to October 1st Independence Day celebrations.

5.A succession of failed governments, economic paralyses and widening gulf between the have and the have nots.

Federal government to supply 3 million prepaid meters to Nigerians – Fashola

6.The rise of a new restive and angry generation without value for, interest in or sense of history.

7.Retention of a national political and socio economic culture which emphasises on sharing of national cake as against the baking of national cake. A bogus federal structure of largesse.

8.Deliberate or negligent suffocation of institutions established to promote national unity e.g. NYSC, Federal Government Colleges, etc.

9.Narcissistic and forlorn ideas and fantasy of chauvinists and ethnic champions dreaming of carving out mini nations along tribal lines.

10.Inequities of a pyramid economic structure; a rich few over a poor many.

Meanwhile, Sani has advocated for an ad-hoc Committee that would address agitations of various groups in Nigeria.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/06/19/senator-shehu-sani-lists-10-factors-blocking-nigerias-progress-unity/
Am so sure you were not elected to tell us the problems but to fix it. Our job is to critique while you correct yourselves.. Pronto
Religion / Re: A Question For Christians, Atheist Can Join. by Stinson007(m): 8:38pm On Jun 18, 2017
analice107:

lol.
What makes you Laff
Politics / Re: 2019 Presidency: Patience Jonathan, Ekweremadu, Okorocha, Obi, Kalu Shortlisted by Stinson007(m): 4:16pm On Jun 18, 2017
barcaboi:

if fayose hears what Obi said abt people from SW or how Awo name was uselessed by Obi few yrs ago; I doubt he'd join that...... fayose is not SW and has little followership outside EKITI. facts..... Sule went into his shell when GEJ n boys threatened him wt EFCC on his son's tail. only Atiku is formidable and he also has baggage
Which politician in Nigeria has no skeleton in his closet? The worst is having a man with almost nothing to offer spend tax payers money on tourist visitation and bedridden for months.
Religion / Re: 6 Reason Not To Be An Atheist (but A Believer [christian]). by Stinson007(m): 10:01am On Jun 18, 2017
Zither:
Atheism is a temporary delusion. Whether here (earth) or there (afterlife), the outcome is certain - strong belief that God exists. Their constant denial and argument all sum up to an unavoidable and inescapable conclusion of God's existence.
Please can you mention your proves?
Religion / Re: A Question For Christians, Atheist Can Join. by Stinson007(m): 6:03am On Jun 18, 2017
analice107:

Did you understand what i wrote?

You can't juxtapose 'Good' and 'Savage'. What makes a man good and what makes a man savage?

Now, here is what the Holy Spirit says with regards to your question.


Mark this, "There's no respect of persons with God"

But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Romans:2:10
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans:2:11

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Romans:2:12


This is the answer to your question;

For those who don't or did not have the law, shall perish, without it, but those who have it, shall be judged by it.

E clear you now?


Just listen to yourself, How old are you please? Just consider this, doubt everything you know and come back, take away fear cuz it seems thats your major problem (hell fire). Tell me what makes you think a man who died in middle east, the story peddled by your missionaries and passed on to some of your forefathers s is true? If so what has this practice really done for your immediate environment? Do you think the writers of the bible dont contradict theirself? Why so? If you think it's interpretation can be please interpret the whereabout of buhari? They seem like same things to me, imagination at its best
Religion / Re: “the Hallelujah Challenge Will Change Nothing In Nigeria” - Joy Isi Bewaji by Stinson007(m): 5:36am On Jun 18, 2017
OtemAtum:
May God Almighty, the father of Yahweh and Allah and all other small small gods naturally give to this woman all she wishes in her life.

May the millions of sheeple join the few people to think deep. May nature support truth and uproot evil.

Here on NL, the greatest and frontier of the sheeple(Christians) 4evergod aka Samuel Chinedum Ekwueme, whom all atheists and all thinkers know clearly as a 419 who has duped many people in Nigeria and abroad, but no Christian believed it until recently the FSARS and EFCC came up against his matter and he is now on the run and absent from Nairaland since February when he was accused.

Free yourself from religion. You are gods. You need no skydaddy. Go and achieve success. You can do it without religion. You are not under any spell if things aren't smooth enough yet.

Keep trying things will naturally come to good for you. Make africa better. Set it free.

Nice!!! But the truth is the people are grasped to religion that they see someone who thinks are mad, may the ignorant see light and may the Age of reasoning come

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Religion / Re: 6 Reason Not To Be An Atheist (but A Believer [christian]). by Stinson007(m): 5:23am On Jun 18, 2017
This is the problem, why not rebuke the bad leaders in this country and in the world for peace and prosperity to spread. You are here wasting your saliva, the young man told you the truth. That story was all about middle east, find your own and write your bible.

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Religion / Re: 6 Reason Not To Be An Atheist (but A Believer [christian]). by Stinson007(m): 5:20am On Jun 18, 2017
Jhaytee4all:
I rebuke the devil in Jesus' name! Please, step out of darkness and come into light. So, where will you be when you die? Think about this. we are talking reality here not fiction.
Okay, waiting for the effect of that.
Politics / Re: If There’s War Today, None Of Us Will Escape – Lai Mohammed by Stinson007(m): 4:04am On Jun 18, 2017
When people become clueless they call God to appeal peoples conscience. God didn't join Nigeria but Luggard nitwit, unless you now worship him, as your boss could have turned tourist cum oyibo worshiper

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Politics / Re: Young Visioneers Association of Nigeria (YVAN) by Stinson007(m): 3:40am On Jun 18, 2017
Where is your Abuja office?
Politics / Re: Do Igbos Really Come From Nigeria ? This Old Map Says Otherwise by Stinson007(m): 3:41am On Jun 17, 2017
sukkot:
this is the bottomline, a group of people called the bantus in ancient times setlled in the cameroon region. with time they travelled to the south east of nigeria. they couldnt go further west because there were established empires like the benin and yoruba. so the point is, the reason why igbo has no long history in nigeria, which all historians allude to, is because you are the last mass migration into nigeria from cameroon. point being if today you are the 3rd largest tribe in the country there should be documented history of your existence in nigeria but there is none, which alludes to what that map is alluding to by not having igbo on the map. when exactly did you all come in mass ? i dont know exact dates but i will suspect its within the last 400 years. you people migrate very quickly. its like how in lagos in the sixties you will hardly see an igbo man. but in 2017 there are like 4 million or more igbos in lagos. so in just 40 years 4 million igbos appeared all of a sudden in lagos. so within the past 300 years i can see how 50 million igbos just appeared in that region from nowhere. now if that ancient map was drawn today they would include igbo because you are 40 million or so. but when that ancient map was drawn you were so few that it didnt matter to include you. maybe it was like 10,000 of you. then the mass migration of the rest happened within the past 300 years. thats the point
You lie my friend, Igbo didn't migrate from Cameroon, kamerun a place in Adamawa is still called Kamerun Kamerun and the yola south people believe their forefathers migrated from cameroon. Igbos migrated from Isreal, jews and Igbo has undeniably similar features
Politics / Re: Inflation Rate Of All Nigerian States by Stinson007(m): 2:59am On Jun 17, 2017
Inflation isn't a bad thing, it's good for businesses sometimes
Politics / Re: Why We Couldn’t Create 3M Jobs As Promised – FG by Stinson007(m): 1:57am On Jun 17, 2017
Templerun95:
stupid Igbo minister
Na only crime dem sabi
Curse race cry
shocked
How stupid can you be? What a tautological judgement, you should be ashamed of yourself something very peculiar with people residing in the villages
Politics / Re: 2019 Presidency: Patience Jonathan, Ekweremadu, Okorocha, Obi, Kalu Shortlisted by Stinson007(m): 1:41am On Jun 17, 2017
barcaboi:

obi can never get there with the stunt pulled during his 2nd term campaign against ACN: tagging it Awos party and people shdnt vote Awos party.....big deal is 90% SW are awo faithfuls and I doubt SW forgets
ObI and ekwerenmadu are the best shot at Igbo presidency, politics is a game of numbers, they two could garner votes in the zone (south east n ss) and with a complement of northern Atiku,sule lamido or southern Fayose,
Politics / Re: 2019 Presidency: Patience Jonathan, Ekweremadu, Okorocha, Obi, Kalu Shortlisted by Stinson007(m): 1:32am On Jun 17, 2017
totorimi:
The only one I believe can stand face to face with both the local and international insurgence is Prof. Charles Soludo he has the answer to the economic, political, religious, educational, agricultural problems of Nigeria and most importantly he is brand model we can present outside because he is presidential.

Another person in this category is senator Ken Nnamani, he has the can do spirit.


Peter Obi s too soft he will be crushed by the cabal, inshort he will be another GEJ, he wont be able to confront the cabal frontally. Same for Emeka Anyaokwu.
Orji Kalu has lost it he needs to go and work on is public image.
Ekwerenmadu asnt done anything for the Ibos to warrant his name to be included in there.
PEJ is better off as a former first lady please.


Oga how na? What did he do as a CBN governor? How many mandates can he control at zone leve?
Politics / Re: 2019 Presidency: Patience Jonathan, Ekweremadu, Okorocha, Obi, Kalu Shortlisted by Stinson007(m): 1:13am On Jun 17, 2017
I have supported alot of Ndigbo agenda on this platform but this is nonsense. This is democracy and people should select their leaders not some groups ranting hopelessly. I doubt the credibility of this news, this is nonsense!!'
Politics / Nigerias Refusal To Respect Aburi Accord Made Ojukwu Declare Biafra by Stinson007(m): 2:45pm On Jun 15, 2017
By CHIKE MOMAH



USAfrica: Throughout North America and around thBiafra, NdiIgbo are coming together in their organizations to celebrate the life and November 2011 passing of the Ikemba Nnewi, Eze-Igbo-GChido2u, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Emeka Ojukwu. He was, indisputably, one of the two or three most renowned and significant Igbo sons.

He was the scion of a wealthy Nnewi family and, as many commentators have already written and said, he could have lived out his life in luxury and opulent laziness. But his Chi – that divine spark that is in all of us, and which shapes our
destiny – led him, first into the Nigerian administrative services and later, into the Nigerian army. The rest, as they say, is history.

His name will, for ever, be linked to Biafra. The civil war that rent the heart of
Nigeria was fought, not because Emeka Ojukwu – in an excess of ambition – led
his Eastern Nigeria into the ill-fated attempt to secede from Nigeria. All objective
assessments of the events that led to that fratricidal war have cleared Ojukwu of
the stigma of an egomaniacal ambition. Even the Encyclopaedia Britannica – and
Britain was no friend of Biafra – exonerates Ojukwu on this issue, and recognized
that only popular pressure from his fellow Eastern Nigerians compelled him to
declare Biafra’s secession from Nigeria. All he wanted, and proposed to the all-
party meeting in Aburi, Ghana, was the loosening of the excessively rigid umbilical
cords that held the Nigerian hotchpotch together, so that Nigeria could evolve
into a weak federation-type government that would allow the major ethnicities
some autonomy.

As it turned out, the Aburi agreement was not worth the paper on which it was printed. The Federal government of General Gowon unexpectedly backed away from the terms agreed, which inevitably led to the civil war. Nigeria, with vastly superior weaponry, invaded Biafra, fired the first salvoes, and was strongly supported by the United Kingdom and the communist Soviet Union, in an unholy alliance that eventually snuffed out the fledgling Biafran nation. An impious alliance that did not hesitate to use starvation as a weapon of war against Biafra’s children!
I am indebted to Chris Ukachukwu for his two internet postings of January 5 and 6, 2011. The January 5 posting was Ojukwu’s speech to the South-East Elders and Leaders on March 5, 2010, in Owerri. The other was a selection of Ojukwu’s quotes.

I was struck by Ojukwu’s reference to Nigeria as “OUR GOD-GIVEN COUNTRY”. Of all the likely descriptions of Nigeria by, especially, an Emeka Ojukwu, I would have least expected him to use those words. My reaction might well be because I (as insignificant a Biafran as you are likely to meet) would
have indignantly shrunk from giving Nigeria that divinely worded accolade. But of course Ojukwu used that description of Nigeria to upbraid the Igbo for our timidity in asserting ourselves and our rights in a country that we – more than every other ethnicity – have helped to build, and in which we should “act as the adhesive force holding the Nigerian fabric together”.

It is matter for regret that Ojukwu did not live long enough to bring to fruition
the publication of his book that he had hoped would tell the unvarnished story
of Biafra and of the civil war. A story that he hoped would have shown that
NdiIgbo “are nation-builders and not nation-wreckers”!

Ojukwu’s reflections on his Igbo people ring with fierce pride in our abilities as
a people, and regret that, as a people, we Igbo seem to have resigned ourselves
to the role of playing second fiddle in the life of Nigeria. In his address to the
assembled Igbo leaders and elders in Owerri, not quite two years ago, Ojukwu
expressed his ardent desire and hope that NdiIgbo “shall regain their political
relevance in Nigeria, without violence, in MY LIFETIME”. He urged the nurturing
and strengthening of internal unity and cohesion in the Igbo nation, and – in his
own words – “the re-establishment and strengthening of the authority structures
and sanction mechanisms in Igboland”. I believe this to be a direct reference to
the Ohaneze NdiIgbo, the successor organization to the Igbo State Union,
which was a potent force for advancing Igbo interests.

My family and I lived in far-away Europe during the entire duration of the Biafra-
Nigeria civil war, and for a little over a year before it started. We had our three square meals every day, and only suffered vicariously because we felt deep,
heart-wrenching anguish for the Biafrans, especially the children, who were being
starved to death by the superior military strength of Nigeria – a situation in which
the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were criminally complicit.

We Biafrans, resident in Switzerland, and indeed elsewhere in Europe, felt fierce
pride in Biafra. Pride in the intrepidity of her soldiers against overwhelming odds!
Pride in the remarkable ingenuity of the Biafran scientists and technologists who,
from scratch, produced the deadly OGBUNIGWE (otherwise known as SHORE-
BATTERY) that, at least partially gave the “vandals” a taste –however minimally –
of the havoc they wrecked on our Biafran soldiers and hapless civilians! Pride in
the Biafran scientists and technologists who found ways to refine our petroleum
– an example and an achievement that a wiser Nigeria should have embraced and
taken further, to reduce our shameful dependence today on imported refined oil!

We held our heads high as we walked the streets and boulevards of Europe, and
grabbed every opportunity to introduce ourselves as Biafrans. And almost always
our interlocutors reacted with what sounded like genuinely warm praise for Biafra
and Emeka Ojukwu. They would pump our hands enthusiastically. When, as soon
became inevitable, the end came, there was a very audible sigh of anguish from a
thousand Biafran and sympathetic European throats around Europe.

It might have been Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s manifest destiny to try to
lead the Igbo nation and their immediate neighbors out of a Nigeria that was and
– as of this writing – still remains at best an artificial agglomeration of ethnicities.
A Nigeria where the Igbo have been, and still are, subjected to cruel martyrdom,
for the sole reason that we are Igbo and Christian!

If it was indeed his CHI that predetermined the course his life would take, I join
everyone else in saying to Dim Emeka Ojukwu: “You were divinely ordained to
be our man of destiny and, but for the obscenely insurmountable odds stacked
against you, you would have fulfilled that destiny. But your work may not
necessarily have come to a full stop with your passing. You have lit a flame which
seems temporarily to have been extinguished. But the idea and notion of Biafra lives on. And, sooner or later, the world – the United Nations Organization – will
sit up, and do for the Igbo what it has done for Southern Sudan. And when that
happens, you – our EzeIgbo Gburugburu – would finally have a memorial befitting
your unparalleled work and strivings for your people.”

We will probably never see his like in our lifetime, and then some. He bestrode
the Nigerian firmament like the colossus that he was. May his soul rest in perfect peace!!
•Nnabuenyi Chike Momah, one of the late 1940s graduate of the Government College Umuahia, is an author of several novels and retired international agencies staff currently residing in Arlington, Texas. His book review-exclusive interview with USAfrica’s Publisher Chido Nwangwu will be published here on USAfricaonline.com and across the platforms of USAfrica e-groups on March 7, 2012.

The greatest Igbo ODUMEGWU OJUKWU’s great farewell in Aba. By Chido Nwangwu http://www.usafricaonline.com/2012/02/28/the-greatest-igbo-odumegwu-ojukwu-farewell-in-aba-by-chido-nwangwu

USAfrica: Ikemba ODUMEGWU OJUKWU’s farewell in Aba, today February 28, 2012, reflected a fitting tribute, historically meaningful celebration, proper regard and deserving appreciation of the greatest Igbo, in my opinion, to have ever lived (like him or hate him).

I SALUTE Aba (aka Enyimba city), the robust and fearless town I was born, bred and raised, for giving the Ikemba, our Ochiagha, Gburugburu, Oka oburu uzo, dike na ndu ma n’onwu, mgbadike anyi, a hero’s farewell.

To the Ikemba, may your valiant soul rest in peace and dignity.

We will, and I, Chido Nwangwu, will never forget to continue to tell my generation and the next about your towering courage through tempest and thunder; through sorrow, pain, tears, blood….

Religion / Re: Is Masturbation/self Service Truly A Sin? by Stinson007(m): 5:45pm On Jun 14, 2017
Masturbation is stigmatized and infact I think masturbation increases lustfulness ; since is self service you get isolated emotional and sometimes physically. Isolation could easily lead to depression and failure as no man is an Island. Meanwhile if one can handle masturbation with a reasonable degree of self control there is nothing wrong with it.
The position of the church is well understood, their modus operand operandi has always been by frightening and indoctrination, hence, they call it a sin to eternal damnation. Is cutting your hair too sin? Is bathing your self sin? If the body is a temple then masturbation is cleaning from lustfulness? One cent

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