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How is your boss unhappy now when he has refused to make his staff unhappy all along.

Na so e dey be for body.

Jah will vindicate you and give you a well paid job jare

Trump is gonna have problems both at home and abroad.

Too many hasty decisions not well thought out.

He takes rash decisions based on his persona. Elon Musk probably advised him to reverse that.

I really don't understand what gives Islamists the impression they kill for Allah or that Allah pats them on the back for murder.

It beats my imagination

The day the man reacts, feminists will be shouting like mumus on SM.

Kennitrust:
WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899?

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he re

Dude was the first Hushpuppi

The privileged few controlling the system are bent on making life more difficult for the average citizens while they get richer.

End-time taking shape all around the world.

Hwfar with hin eye now, shey e don clear?
May we not bear children that will kill us or put us in trouble.

Boyfriend demand, obviously.

If Nigerian Politicians did what's necessary for Nigeria, you wouldn't have to come to social media to debunk a false narrative of your country on Social Media.

Politicians talk like they own tomorrow.

If na their logo dey the beret, e don enter gbege otherwise lawyer go save an.

All these Yoruba elders are all agbayas. Sold their credibility for money.

Fool in government

Are Nigerians been covered with some kind of spiritual spell or what?

Why is everyone maintaining steeze with all of these anomalies?

This is getting out of hand and the politicians keep taking us for fools.

This shouldn't be.
960 p/ltr?

NNPCL is filled with thieves from Kyari to his member staff.

This kwantry

Beautiful woman. God rest her soul.
Life!

Brown roof ancient houses is the eyesore of Ibadan. Also an Ibadan signature 😂

Am I the only one sniffing civil unrest in Nigeria very soon? Government appointees dey do pass themselves these days and the katakata go reach everyone.

Nigerians dey see shege, home and abroad.

Una rating don drop drastically

Nigerians too dey fear

ttobizz:
It's all nonsense. Amaechi can still afford the opulence, it's his decision to live modest, free from societal pressure.

Make he charter private jet 3x na...e go see as hib acct balance go emanciate

Wipe dem USB cord for head when they are eating

This one na wife or problem? Men dey try living with this gender sha

Wey the rest of the dog gala?

Tinubu govt will wringle Nigerians dry. He is only passing and wasting our time at Aso Rock.

No meaningful progress

Same Prophet has also warned about Wizkid and another Nigerian female prophetess too warned Wizkid about an impending death except he does what she proposed he does.

I hope Wizkid take heed

The prophet saw clearly. God of his father's eventually got him. It's unfortunate

When govt officials want to embezzle public funds, they devise unreasonable mechanisms. What sense is there in new cards. Existing ones sef na stress

This country leadership lack real solution ideas

Auxtan:
People rarely talk about how much thinkering men go through in finding/choosing a life partner.

I'm at that point in my life and is really not an easy thing or decision.

Majority of ladies out there today are no wife material at all. Instead of being your helpmate, they will snuff out the little peace left of you. Gen Z ladies are not trained to take care of a man. It's iPhone, sex, and money.