₦airaland Forum

IGBOPRINCE:
eventhough s/sudan re christians, our thinking faculty is different. Even ghanian knows that.
It s not about religion, it s all about human factors and development.
So I am not one bit panic. They just don't wants biafran to leave.
But time shall tell.

The question I ask is why are they scared if Biafra... I still just don't get it. They are saying that Igbo are the key that hold Nigeria


So I just don't get it

DickDastardly:
On Sunday, Professor Taiyemiwo Ogunade gave a bombshell interview to the NATION newspaper in which he made startling revelations about those who killed Dele Giwa in 1986. In a subsequent chat with Saharareporters, he spoke specifically about the role of former military administrator of Lagos State Buba Marwa in the assassination of the journalist.


Dr. Ogunade disclosed that soldiers loyal to the slain General Mamman Vatsa identified Marwa as the person who delivered the parcel bomb that killed Giwa, the Newswatch magazine founder.

He said the revelation came from a confidential discussion he had with one of the military boys who came to the City University of New York (CUNY) to press the college to train Nigerian military officials in “Peace and Conflict Resolution”. He said that Vatsa gave a four-hour long testimony to the military tribunal that tried and later sentenced him to death for a phantom coup plot against former military dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

Saharareporters: Do you know who delivered the bomb that killed Dele Giwa?

Ogunade: I believe that Buba Marwa did it. Some Mamman Vatsa boys told the full story in New York during a visit to my college to lobby our college to accept to train Nigerian military officers. Ambassador Olusola was on that entourage. [My informant] told me Dele Giwa was killed because he was in possession of a tape containing Vatsa’s testimony before the military tribunal. For four hours, Vatsa requested to tell the full story about how the Babangida regime was operating and his knowledge of the workings of IBB’s mind. He pointed out that after Halilu Akilu and Col. A.K Togun of the military intelligence prepared the parcel it was handed over to Buba Marwa to deliver to Dele Giwa. Marwa is a well–known “IBB boy”. But I was the one who gave Dele Giwa the tape.

Saharareporters: How did you get the tape?

Ogunade: Vatsa had a copy made by his friends in the tribunal and smuggled out to me and I “loaned” it to Dele Giwa who got on the case immediately. I still don’t know how Dele Giwa found out that I had the tape till this day.

Saharareporters: Do you still have a copy?
Ogunade: Yes, but you know I left Nigeria hurriedly after the death of Dele Giwa. I left [the tape] with my aged mother, who did not know the value then. I won’t say more, let the military release that tape to the Nigerian public.

Saharareporters: Did Dele Giwa return the tape to you?

Ogunade: Yes, he returned it after 24 hours. Don’t forget that I loaned it to him; I think he went and played it to Babangida’s people and they eliminated him after they heard the tape.

Saharareporters: What about Gloria Okon? It’s been said that Dele Giwa’s discovery of her was the reason he was killed?

Ogunade: Gloria Okon is actually Chinyere, that’s her real name. She married Charles "Jeff" Chandler, the fellow who killed Nzeogwu and was killed a day later. Chinyere, Maryam and Princess Atta were young friends who hung out together. They all married into the military, because the military was a proud and respectable profession then. Charles Chandler, who was Tiv, married Chinyere who I think is from Imo State. IBB married Maryam from Asaba and Mamman Vatsa married the princess. So Chinyere became a widow and resorted to trading between UK and Nigeria. And then she was caught with drugs; Mamman Vatsa was the person who put Chinyere on the next available flight from Kano to London – and then claimed that she was dead by parading a dead woman picked out of the mortuary. Dele Giwa later found out that she was in London having delivered a baby by another man. He sent a French photographer to the place and they saw Maryam Babangida at the event. Kayode Soyinka brought back the photographs.
Dele was sitting across the table from Kayode examining the photos taken of “Gloria Okon” (Chinyere, Richard Chandler’s wife) at the naming ceremony in London. Maryam Babangida was there. And then a letter parcel was delivered to him and he said excitedly that it must be from “Mr. President” referring to the discussions he had with IBB days earlier. The bomb exploded and severed his lower abdomen; he died a few hours later.

Saharareporters: Did you ever meet Marwa again? And did you ask him about his involvement?

Ogunade: Yes, Marwa was very active in the Nigerian embassy in New York. For a long time he was the “military attaché” to the Nigerian mission in New York while I was a professor of Black Studies at the City University of New York. He came to my college to sign a $30 million contract with the college so that members of the Nigerian military could attend a “Peace and Conflict Resolution program” and then be awarded a masters degree upon completion of the program. I fought bitterly against it, but the chair of the department, John Muyibi Amoda, badly wanted the money. I kept fighting and one day the college authorities acceded to my request. When I got home the college had dismissed me, but also I got a fax message saying the $30 million had been returned to Marwa. But between Marwa and Abacha they never returned that money to the Nigerian treasury. They shared it. I heard between him and Abacha, over $250 million was laundered through an account used by the New York mission of the Nigerian embassy. Marwa later set up an airline with his share of the loot. When he showed up to run for president I was the one who petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate him. He confessed to money laundering in handwritten statements to the EFCC, but today he is the ambassador of Nigeria to South Africa. The police officer that investigated him, Ibrahim Magu, is permanently suspended from the police force after he was humiliated by the EFCC. It is a shameful country.

Saharareporters: What else did you do?

Ogunade: We helped start the Obama phenomenon in Chicago.

Saharareporters: How?

Ogunade: We fought and exposed Carol Mosley-Braun who was Abacha’s agent in the US Senate. She was removed from the US Senate because she took $5 million from Abacha to help cover his tracks in the US. We exposed her, which was how it became possible for the brilliant Obama to become the US president today. We set the stage for it.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2009/06/08/%E2%80%9Cmohammed-buba-marwa-delivered-letter-bomb-killed-dele-giwa%E2%80%9D-dr-taiyemiwo-ogunade

Expendable he was ...dele is gone dead,spent, kaput so let the dude rest in peace and stop disturbing us here


Thanks goodness u know the letterboy that delivered the letter

Do the needful and stop whining


Either u forgive or revenge... Pls let us be

freshvine:
Following the judgment of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that nullified the election of Governor Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), revelations have surfaced about a grand plot to build Nigeria’s biggest mosque in State’s capital city of Port Harcourt.

According to sources, the plan, which dates back to 2012, is to repossess a large portion of old Port Harcourt Township from the popular Aggrey Road, through Victoria to Bonny Streets and unto Creek Road and convert it to a new development to be called Great Dawatul City.

The developers of the project, which will have Nigeria’s largest Mosque, 6,000 units of 3 and 5 bedroom residential duplexes and world class business arcades as its star attractions intend to use it as a global model to showcase and redefine Islam as a progressive religion in cosmopolitan cities around the world.


NNPC Refinery inPort Harcourt
Funding for the project it was said, had been secured by a billionaire mogul and industrialist who himself had negotiated some years ago to purchase the entire shoreline from the Creek Road axis which he has earmarked for world class luxury apartments and Africa’s first 7 Star hotel.

Possession of the shoreline was hindered by the Goodluck Jonathan administration’s refusal to give its nod following agitations by local inhabitants of the area claiming forced eviction. The new plan, it is reliably gathered has got the nod of the Presidency and will have residents and property owners handsomely compensated in return for their lands.

A former governor of the State who is already in talks with the promoters of the Estate development assured them of cooperation on the condition that allegations of corruption against him are ignored and the current Governor Nyesom Wike is removed from office to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.

The developers plan to market the project as an open society which would provide jobs for the teeming unemployed and change the skyline and landscape of the Garden City.

The area earmarked for the multi billion dollar project already has the highest concentration of Northerners in the city and is expected to see an increase especially of elite class after its completion in 2023.

Culled from the Trent. Online blog platform.

Where is amaechi the Judas of ubima ?

Riwo11:
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*.1. He knows he is good at something... Knowing his worth is usually the first step towards wealth creation. Baby-sitting, baking, gardening or whatever so long as he recognises that the skills he honed are exchangeable for money.


*.2. He is self-disciplined...
He has the ability to concentrate on future financial goals without swaying from everyday tasks that will lead him there. No matter how boring or unpleasant.


*.3. He blames himself, not others...
He thinks it’s always his fault. Either partially or entirely. It might seem a little sadistic but it’s him actually knowing that he has control over his environment, decisions and ultimately his own future.


*.4. He lives below his means.... It doesn’t mean he’s a miser. He chooses to accumulate more wealth rather than to succumb to short-lived pleasures of buying a Rolex or a BMW. Someone in the relationship has to make this sacrifice at the beginning. If not him, who else?


*.5. He is a doer.....
He doesn’t blabber on and on about how he is going to do something great. He just does it. He doesn’t complain about doing stuff. He just does it.


*.6. He is extremely curious....
He takes time and effort to figure out the nuts and bolts of why things work or don’t work. Opportunity sometimes arises when he stumbles upon an unserved niche.


*.7. He is thick skinned...
He has the balls to execute his crazy plans. Whatever they may be. Failure doesn’t concern him. Or should I say he isn’t afraid of being laughed at if he didn’t succeed. He repeats 6 and tries again. Investing in men is largely based on intrinsic value. You’ll win some and you’ll lose some. But when you do win, make sure you win big. So good luck ladies. May the dating market be forever bullish..


Source: http://www.riseup247.com/2015/10/7-ways-to-tell-if-your-boyfriend-is.html

The next important thing is that


He doesn't womanize....women are big distraction and money wasting ventures


Then the company and friends he keeps determines how far he will go in life ..if he hangs out with lotto playing boys or people envying people ...he is a gonner


He must believe also in God

Restarted and retarded folks

Ezegozie:
Goodevening Ladies and Gentlemen.
Let me start by introducing myself.
I am Gozie and I graduated from Geology department from one of our Federal Universities in Nigeria (name hidden for confidential reasons).
Well, I am currently serving in Akwaibom state and will pass out next year by April, but I have great fear borthering me sometimes, and that is LIFE AFTER NYSC.



I am an ardent visitor of Job and Vacancy section and I always read some threads created by Job seekers complaining of how Nigeria is devoid of employment and each time I see it, I feel disturbed.


REASONS WHY I AM AFRAID OF LIFE AFTER NYSC

1......My parents are both in the village and I dont have anyplace to go to after service while waiting for employment because I wont like to stay in the village.








2.........Though I graduated with Second Class Upper, I dont have any single connection in the industry and I have been reading posts of how life without connection can be miserable for a job seeker.










3........The highest I can save from this NYSC scheme is 100k, which is not enough capital to venture into any reasonable thing in Nigeria.





Please I seriously need your advice on what to do in other to get Job immediately I finish service next year April because that is the only surest way to raise capital.







I plan to relocate to PH and rent house there while waiting for employment because PH is well industralized and there are lots of oil companies , construction companies and other companies related to my course located in PH.

Looking forward to hearing your response.

Number one we all passed through that stage and you are a man for not deciding going back to your parents be it in village or town. This makes you a man and a pure bred for that matter ...this is a step

Number two forget what you came from the university from...at this point it is immaterial I know they will tell u go do professional course but don't mind them...pick any job that comes your way. You have to start building your experience and don't mind how low the job is once it is legal ...never forget the days of your humble beginnings

Three never depend on human connection but on lord connection ..when I passed our like a decade ago had aunts that are well placed never helped so do not depend on human ...they will fail u.. Pray and work hard ...if you are good in sales as an Igbo boy I know you are good their pls start applying for sale jobs then with time your confidence will grow you can build contacts on clients


It's not how far it is how well


Now brace up it is not gonna be smooth sailing but u will conquer


Today by the grace of God we conquered and still looking out u will conquer


It is a phase in life... Now get urself a decent lady also ..any lady that stick with u now . pls marry her . I know money will come once u are focused but then it will be foolhardy to find a wife


Good luck nwanne

luvablesam:
South Sudan was a country carved out the present day Sudan. Five years ago, they sang songs, rallied support for getting independence,did a referendum and got a resounding YES vote. They got independence, everyone in the south was ecstatic. Some gave their houses away or sold it cheaply and they all left.

Two years afterward, people with oversized ego n selfish personal interest have set the country on fire.A lot of these people have been killed,houses burnt and just disorder all over. As guardian journalist put it 'a level of human suffering I have never seen anywhere else'

Now same people from South Sudan are seeking refuge in the main Sudan in Droves. While some Sudanese wanna help others see it as unacceptable and would want them to leave.

Now in Nigeria,Do we think breaking up is the best way to show our displeasure towards situations or working together to make Nigeria prosper?

If u are in the shoes of those Sudanese will you welcome them back or send them back to their country?

This is where u make mistakes

South Sudan are Muslim and Igbo are Christian so you don't compare both

Maybe compare north Korea and south Korea to Biafra


Maybe compare Ethiopia and Eritrea


These are non Muslim state

Why are u scared of Biafra

Phame:
I see biafra going the way of south sudan, that's I want them to go. Igbo are more disunited than the people of S. Sudan before they broke away. So expect biafra to be in turmoil from the onset.

It is now I have known how Igbo are ..they are very special that is why everybody is scared of Biafra

They are disunited yet they vote with one voice
They are disunited yet you don't see their villages fight one another
They are disunited yet you don't see their governors fight one another like in ekiti state and Lagos with tinubu


People talk trash

LordMecuzy:
Trash..... You opened a new account just because of Barcanista? Why not use your real account to buttress your point...Nairaland joblessness at its peak

If I were u take a walk to etche and research or even research the name on Facebook


Why are u people this stupid

OZAOEKPE:
If I tell you how this biafra thread they pain me, I wish I can get hold of the OP's, what nonsense.

Benin boy it suppose pain u...them no want u na

spanishkid:
No amount of intimidation or propaganda by these biafrans will make us cede our lands to them. The SS will not join biafra is Nigeria decides to disintegrate today. We chose to be on our own. Biafra is an igbo thing and not a SS thing. The time has come for us to draw the line between biafra and SS.

We are not part of biafra and we never will. Igbos only want us for their selfish gains. They're using the votes they gave Gej to blackmail us into joining their failed project. SS wants no part of biafra. If they claim they have oil why are trying to add SS? Any attempt to annex our lands will be met with heavy resistance. I'm happy with our unity and that we are all speaking with one voice irrespective of what tribe we might come from. If Nigeria divides, it's the Niger Delta republic or nothing. No more no less.

Once again, God bless you tonyebarcanista. You're truly man of few words and great intelligence. I enjoy your articles. The world needs more people like you and also the likes of Goodboiyy, fineguy11, martineverest, sandraokosun, mulattoclaro and co. If you're single I'll link you up with my sister. I'm sure she will love to be with someone like you.

To those calling you names, they will die miserable and wallow in frustration. The SS has spoken and that's final.

This benin boy can u just get a life ..mullatoclaro or something

Igbo don't want u ..go meet ur edo peeps

What the fvck is wrong with u

What is obo NLA ..I hear that so much in Lagos

juicee1:
igbo is just a language spoken by different tribes. Why do you think there's much disunity among the SE people with each being clannish? Nigeria and ojukwu made them see themselves as one under an umbrella called ibo. The other ibo speaking tribes in the SS are equivalent to africans and the world over speaking english but aren't british.

And when was the last time you heard that Igbo villages fought ..with this ur disunity


Igbo are united not go sleep

atbu1983:
When I say most nationalities in Niger delta including Ndoki,Ikwerre, ika, Anioma are descended of benin, all these Igbo land grabbers will start making noise. They dont know history.

I summary, there is no Igbo in Niger delta. You only have some nationalities who have interacted with Igbo for a long time and borrow some Igbo culture along the way. That does not make them Igbo.

Today we from edo state from benin understand the following fact and we accept it completely:
Ikwerre is Ikwerre. They are no longer Benin and where never Igbo.
Ika is Ika. They are no longer Benin and where never Igbo.
Anioma is Anioma. They are no longer Benin and where never Igbo.
Esan is Esan. they are no longer Benin.
Ndoki is Ndoki. They are no longer Benin and where never Igbo.
Urhobo is Urhobo. They are no longer benin.
Isoko is Isoko. they are no longer benin
Itsekiri is Itsekiri. they are no longer benin or yoruba

These niger delta nationalities are now developed enough to be a complete tribe of thier own.
The fact that they have common acestry from benin, does not mean they cant be a tribe of thier own.
After all we all came from Adam and Eve including Arab, chinese, europeans etc.

Igbo should allow these nationalities be. They are not Igbo but distinct nationalities.
Igbo should grow up and move on.

Fulani, yoruba, Igbo, chinese are all product of adam and eve. but today are distinct nationalities.
Therefore all niger Delta ethnic nationalities are distinct nationalities.

Igbo please leave Niger delta alone

We the south south
We the Niger delta chanters


So you benin boy has the prerogative to tell us who is Igbo or not


Edo boy ..stay away

Ban em

IGBOPRINCE:
my brother, we should stop seeing ijaws as cousins. We re not cousin. They don't know the meaning of cousin, they re our neighbours who can turn to our enemies tomorrow,the lands they occupied in ph is due to igbos abandoned properties and lands saga, they gained entry to claimed ph today due to abandoned lands and properties saga in the 60s,
however,this ijaws people re not our cousin, They re too black like the ghanians,and we igbos re different from them.

Pls it s time to protects oguta before tonyebarcanista and truckpusher lay claims to them.

Very confused set of people lol. We will help them out as big bro.

They are just neighbours not cousins and won't be

cakeshopper:
africa awake. please stop waiting for alert while singing Godwin. read study research invent recycle explore. the most painful thing about trump's alleged comment is it's truth

check my signature

They won't ..they will prefer to dance and party then sex

businessline:
http://www.politics.co.ke/news/some-africans-are-lazy-fools-only-good-at-eating-lovemaking-and-stealing-donald-trump-2/

He might sound racist but this dude makes a while sense


Africans are bleeped up...dancing and signing no thinking


Look at black Americans
Look at what we have as leaders in Nigeria


Bunch of Buffon

wordcat:
Ok

Oji ihe nwata welie aka elu; aka fuba ya ufu, owetue aka ya nwata ewere kwa ihe ya.

Gbam

Secrets 23 of 1985 promulgated by former President
Ibrahim Babangida to adjust the boundary between
former Cross River and Imo States said to be the cause
of incessant communal clashes in Akwa Ibom and Abia
State.
By Obong Akpaekong

Decree number 23 of 1983, which adjusted the boundary
between former Cross River and Imo States, may have
complicated border problems in Akwa Ibom and Abia
States carved out of the two states. The decree
divided many border villages into two, with one
section in Abia and the other in Akwa Ibom. This also
affected the communities’ shrines, barns and totems

In Ika local government area of Akwa Ibom State,
communities affected by such arrangement include Ikot
Udo Ika, Urua Inyang, Ikot Inwang, Effen Okoro,
Immaman, Ikot Ekong, Ikot Akpan Anwa, Ikot Ikara and
Ikot Uko. Abiaka, in Ibeme community, Azumini and
Iwukem are also well known examples of such
communities in Ukwa East Local Government Area, Abia
State.

The decree compounded the problem of Ikot Udo Ika more
than it did in other villages. Ikot Udo, a once
closely knit family with about 3,000 inhabitants, was
split into two groups. One of the groups is claiming
that its people are indigenous Akwa Ibomites while the
other, a smaller number, insists that they are Igbo.
Although all the people spoke the local Annang dialect
of Akwa Ibom, those who preferred to belong to Abia
adopted “Akirika Obu” as their village name.  But
there is no boundary between the two groups.

With time, some of those claiming Igbo nationality
changed their names to suit their new posture.  They
were said to have preferred being Igbo in protest of
years of neglect by the then Cross River State
administration.

The decree which former president Ibrahim Babangida
promulgated in November 1985 excised the pro-Igbo
side, said to be a third of the entire village into
Imo State, while the rest was to be administrated by
Cross River State. When new local government areas
were created by General Abacha, the Annang went to Ika
local government of Akwa Ibom while the pro-Igbo group
(Akirika Obu) went to Ukwa east local government area.
The promulgation of the decree said to have been
influenced by Paul Omu and Ndubuisi Kanu, former
governors of Cross River and Imo States, predictably,
worsened the rift between the two brethren. There have
been one class after another between the people since
then.

The most destructive of the clashes between them
occurred on February 7, 2000. Over 50 houses were
torched. The houses which included storey buildings,
were infact the best in the locality and belonged to
prominent persons in the community. One of the houses
belonged to E.E. Ekpenyong, former secretary to Cross
River State government. Other include those of Marm
Ichara, a professor of petrochemical engineering and a
former Shell official, Sunday E. Akpan, general
manager in charge of audit in Nigeria Social Insurance
Trust Fund, Abuja, Young Ekpenyong, an avionics
engineer with Nigeria Airways and Samuel Adam, a
retired teacher. The houses of Godwin Nwagbose Nwulu
and Michael Thompson Nwambaha said to be leader of the
pro-Igbo were also burnt.

The incident was triggered off by pro-Igbo youths who
a caterpillar grader operator working on one of the
roads in the village. He was sent to do the job by
Francis Udoikpong, chairman of Ika local government
area. Witnesses said when some youths on the Akwa Ibom
side saw the grader operator attacked, they went to
help him out but were equally attacked.

This led to serious fighting and rioting which
climaxed in sporadic gun fire. The mobile policemen
from Azumini, Abia State, moved in to contain the
situation but they were accused of taking sides with
the pro-Igbo elements. Chrysantus Efep, vice-chairman
of Ika council area, said police in Azumini were used
to intimidating, harassing and arresting the Annang in
Ikot Udo in favour of the pro-Igbo group.

Many people including Jumbo Ukpongette, village head
of Ikot Udo, Ika, and Thompson Abia, a prominent
pastor in the area, were among many the police
arrested. The arrest, burning and looting forced many
families on both sides to seek refuge in neighbouring
villages.

When Newswatch visited Ikot Udo recently, the village
had been largely deserted. The few people around
belonged to the village security team. To them, every
unfamiliar face was a possible enemy. The village hall
located in the centre of the town was used as a base
for the vigilante group. Many of the group’s members
carried locally made rifles. While many others (the
youths) were seen sporting in the bush. They were said
to be waiting for waiting for their enemies. Many
burnt houses dotted the town hall area.

One of them belonged to Sunday Elijah Oyomete,
councilor representing Achan II ward in Ika local
government. Ikot Udo Ika is in the ward. Oyomete told
Newswatch that many pro-Igbo people voted for him
during the elections. It was because of this that the
Ika council area decided to grade the road and do
other things for the people. Those who attacked the
grader said the area was not in the control of Ika but
Ukwa East in Abia State.

Ukpongette, also spoke to Newswatch from his hideout.
He said since the police released him, he had not been
in the house for fear of fresh attack by their
pro-Igbo brothers. He told Newswatch he was happy that
despite all the destruction, no life was lost.

Udoikpong said his belief that the creation of Ika
local government was to bring development to the
people explained why he asked the grader to carry out
the work which unfortunately resulted in the ugly
incident of February 7. Youths in the pro-Igbo side
had attacked the grader operator because, according to
them, the area was not under Ika administration.

Udoikpong said the people were lured by Ukwa East
local government into saying they were not Akwa
Ibomites so as to garner votes from them. He accused
Ukwa council area of trying to annex the area which,
he said, was 60 kilometres from Akwete, Ukwa council
headquarters. Ikot Udo is two kilometres from Urua
Inyang, Ika council headquarters. Udoikpong also
explained that whereas Ikot Udo was one village in
Achan II, a ward of eight villages which Oyemete is
representing, it was a ward in Ukwa East council area.

Another reason he gave for Ukwa East’s interest in
Ikot Udo was the gas deposit Shell was said to have
discovered, in the village. The deposit, he said, was
awaiting exploration. He told Newswatch, “but I will
resist the efforts of anybody who wants to annex Ika
community to Abia” adding “if any of Ikot Udo people
wants to belong to Abia State he should migrate
there”.

Udoikpong said decree 23 of 1985, which put part of
Ikot Udo in Imo and part in Cross River was full of
anomalies which made its full implementation
difficult. He said “Akrika Obu” was merely a
nomenclature given to Ikot Udo by the Igbo for
political reason. He reasoned that Ikot Udo was
surrounded by Ika Annang villages of Ikot Otuko, Ikot
Akpan Offiong, Ikot Inyang Udo, Nto Mfung and Urua
Inyang and did not even share boundary with Ukwa East
local government of Abia State. He called for the
abrogation of decree 23 of 1985.

Over the years, Ika community has been making
representations to the nation’s various boundary
commissions on how to resolve the problem. The bodies
include Irefeke panel (1975), Justice Mamman Nasir
commission (1976), presidential commission (1983) and
the National boundary commission.

In their letter to the chairman, creation of states,
local governments and boundary adjustment committee,
Abuja, dated April 29, 1996, on the issue, they argued
that Ikot Udo had neither cultural nor linguistic
affiliation with Ukwa East. They asked for amendment
of the decree “so that all affected Akwa Ibom villages
erroneously carved into Abia State would be returned”.

The letter signed by 10 persons among them community
leaders also called for return of all venerated areas
carved into Abia State and the return of any part of
Ibeme in Obioma Ngwa local government, that may have
been put in Akwa Ibom.

On August 10, 1999, Ikot Udo Youth Association, wrote
to the chairman of Ukwa East council area on the need
for peaceful co-existence between Ikot Udo people and
Ukwa East. In the letter, they accused some of the
pro-Igbo people of making false claims and presenting
fabricated history to curry favour from Ukwa local
government area. The letter asked why “Akirika Obu”
was the only Ndoki village in Ukwa East council area
speaking Annang dialect. It accused some of them of
dropping their Annang names for Igbo.

Those accused of this included prominent villagers
such as Dick Samuel Essien who allegedly changed to
dick Samuel Nwankwo; James Akpan Abia now known as
James Nna Abia, Michael Ekot now Michael Kalu and
Monday Udo Ekpenyong who answers Monday Ama Kalu. 
Newswatch learnt that the issue of name change is not
new in the Ikot Udo case.

In April 1976, Dick Emuchay, the then chairman of Imo
State public service commission and leader of the
Ndoki people, told the Justice Nasir commission on
Boundary Adjustment that the names of some Annang
people and communities in the then Abak division were
changed during the civil war to suit their
relationship with Igbo.

Emuchay claimed that all the disputed villages were
Igbo and were descendants of the same forbearer,
Eze-Ndoki who, he said, founded the area in the 12
century. His descendants, he claimed, founded Akpala
and Azumini.

But Benson Iyang Udo and Raymond Orok, two Annang
leaders, in their evidence at the commission said
Azumini, originally called “waterside,” was a Cross
River trading post. They claimed that Ikot Udo was one
of Annang villages the Igbo tried to rename Akirika
Obu.

On February 25, 2000, the people of Ikot Udo wrote to
Chris Ekpenyong, Akwa Ibom deputy governor and
chairman of the state’s boundary committee, asking him
to assist in resolving the boundary crisis. Their
requests included abrogation of Decree 23 of 1985,
allowing the whole of Ikot Udo/Akirika Obu to remain
in Ika, bringing pressure on the federal government to
release a white paper on the 1997 boundary adjustment
commission R.D. Mohammed. The letter, signed by
Oyomete and nine other leaders of the villages asked
for a re-establishment of a police station in Ikot Udo
and a federal government’s involvement in
infrastructural development of the village to
discourage the people from political harlotry.

The village also sent a save-our-soul letter to Akwa
Ibom State government, February 10, asking it to
prevail on the federal government to send neutral
policemen to the police station in Azumini, as well as
send relief packages to those badly affected by the
February 7, incident.

Ekpenyong, who was visited the community after the
incident, condemned the wanton destruction of property
in the village and appealed to the youths on both
sides not to act in a way that will inflict more pains
and injuries on the people. He asked the federal
government to consider all cultural, historical and
political antecedents before taking a decision
affecting Akwa Ibom and other states.

Others who visited the village since the incident
include Akwa Ibom indigenes in the national assembly
and A.A.Oyakhire, assistant inspector-general of
police, AIG, in charge of zone 6.

Various steps have been taken to resolve the Ikot Udo
conflict over the years. In 1994, Yakubu Bako, Temi
Ejoor and Gregory Agboneni, then military
administrators of Akwa Ibom, Abia and Cross River
States well as top officials of the national boundary
commission met in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, to
find a lasting solution to the problem.

Successive chairmen of Ika and Ukwa East have also
been working together to resolve the crisis.  On July
30, 1999, Ukwa council chairman visited Urua Inyang to
hold discussions with his Ika counterpart on how to
end the conflict. But also their efforts seem to have
once to naught as hostilities continues in the area.



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Vicotex:
Abeg i dey office, make i no laff out loud b4 my boss think say i don dey mad

Lol na so na

Secrets 23 of 1985 promulgated by former President
Ibrahim Babangida to adjust the boundary between
former Cross River and Imo States said to be the cause
of incessant communal clashes in Akwa Ibom and Abia
State.
By Obong Akpaekong

Decree number 23 of 1983, which adjusted the boundary
between former Cross River and Imo States, may have
complicated border problems in Akwa Ibom and Abia
States carved out of the two states. The decree
divided many border villages into two, with one
section in Abia and the other in Akwa Ibom. This also
affected the communities’ shrines, barns and totems

In Ika local government area of Akwa Ibom State,
communities affected by such arrangement include Ikot
Udo Ika, Urua Inyang, Ikot Inwang, Effen Okoro,
Immaman, Ikot Ekong, Ikot Akpan Anwa, Ikot Ikara and
Ikot Uko. Abiaka, in Ibeme community, Azumini and
Iwukem are also well known examples of such
communities in Ukwa East Local Government Area, Abia
State.

The decree compounded the problem of Ikot Udo Ika more
than it did in other villages. Ikot Udo, a once
closely knit family with about 3,000 inhabitants, was
split into two groups. One of the groups is claiming
that its people are indigenous Akwa Ibomites while the
other, a smaller number, insists that they are Igbo.
Although all the people spoke the local Annang dialect
of Akwa Ibom, those who preferred to belong to Abia
adopted “Akirika Obu” as their village name.  But
there is no boundary between the two groups.

With time, some of those claiming Igbo nationality
changed their names to suit their new posture.  They
were said to have preferred being Igbo in protest of
years of neglect by the then Cross River State
administration.

The decree which former president Ibrahim Babangida
promulgated in November 1985 excised the pro-Igbo
side, said to be a third of the entire village into
Imo State, while the rest was to be administrated by
Cross River State. When new local government areas
were created by General Abacha, the Annang went to Ika
local government of Akwa Ibom while the pro-Igbo group
(Akirika Obu) went to Ukwa east local government area.
The promulgation of the decree said to have been
influenced by Paul Omu and Ndubuisi Kanu, former
governors of Cross River and Imo States, predictably,
worsened the rift between the two brethren. There have
been one class after another between the people since
then.

The most destructive of the clashes between them
occurred on February 7, 2000. Over 50 houses were
torched. The houses which included storey buildings,
were infact the best in the locality and belonged to
prominent persons in the community. One of the houses
belonged to E.E. Ekpenyong, former secretary to Cross
River State government. Other include those of Marm
Ichara, a professor of petrochemical engineering and a
former Shell official, Sunday E. Akpan, general
manager in charge of audit in Nigeria Social Insurance
Trust Fund, Abuja, Young Ekpenyong, an avionics
engineer with Nigeria Airways and Samuel Adam, a
retired teacher. The houses of Godwin Nwagbose Nwulu
and Michael Thompson Nwambaha said to be leader of the
pro-Igbo were also burnt.

The incident was triggered off by pro-Igbo youths who
a caterpillar grader operator working on one of the
roads in the village. He was sent to do the job by
Francis Udoikpong, chairman of Ika local government
area. Witnesses said when some youths on the Akwa Ibom
side saw the grader operator attacked, they went to
help him out but were equally attacked.

This led to serious fighting and rioting which
climaxed in sporadic gun fire. The mobile policemen
from Azumini, Abia State, moved in to contain the
situation but they were accused of taking sides with
the pro-Igbo elements. Chrysantus Efep, vice-chairman
of Ika council area, said police in Azumini were used
to intimidating, harassing and arresting the Annang in
Ikot Udo in favour of the pro-Igbo group.

Many people including Jumbo Ukpongette, village head
of Ikot Udo, Ika, and Thompson Abia, a prominent
pastor in the area, were among many the police
arrested. The arrest, burning and looting forced many
families on both sides to seek refuge in neighbouring
villages.

When Newswatch visited Ikot Udo recently, the village
had been largely deserted. The few people around
belonged to the village security team. To them, every
unfamiliar face was a possible enemy. The village hall
located in the centre of the town was used as a base
for the vigilante group. Many of the group’s members
carried locally made rifles. While many others (the
youths) were seen sporting in the bush. They were said
to be waiting for waiting for their enemies. Many
burnt houses dotted the town hall area.

One of them belonged to Sunday Elijah Oyomete,
councilor representing Achan II ward in Ika local
government. Ikot Udo Ika is in the ward. Oyomete told
Newswatch that many pro-Igbo people voted for him
during the elections. It was because of this that the
Ika council area decided to grade the road and do
other things for the people. Those who attacked the
grader said the area was not in the control of Ika but
Ukwa East in Abia State.

Ukpongette, also spoke to Newswatch from his hideout.
He said since the police released him, he had not been
in the house for fear of fresh attack by their
pro-Igbo brothers. He told Newswatch he was happy that
despite all the destruction, no life was lost.

Udoikpong said his belief that the creation of Ika
local government was to bring development to the
people explained why he asked the grader to carry out
the work which unfortunately resulted in the ugly
incident of February 7. Youths in the pro-Igbo side
had attacked the grader operator because, according to
them, the area was not under Ika administration.

Udoikpong said the people were lured by Ukwa East
local government into saying they were not Akwa
Ibomites so as to garner votes from them. He accused
Ukwa council area of trying to annex the area which,
he said, was 60 kilometres from Akwete, Ukwa council
headquarters. Ikot Udo is two kilometres from Urua
Inyang, Ika council headquarters. Udoikpong also
explained that whereas Ikot Udo was one village in
Achan II, a ward of eight villages which Oyemete is
representing, it was a ward in Ukwa East council area.

Another reason he gave for Ukwa East’s interest in
Ikot Udo was the gas deposit Shell was said to have
discovered, in the village. The deposit, he said, was
awaiting exploration. He told Newswatch, “but I will
resist the efforts of anybody who wants to annex Ika
community to Abia” adding “if any of Ikot Udo people
wants to belong to Abia State he should migrate
there”.

Udoikpong said decree 23 of 1985, which put part of
Ikot Udo in Imo and part in Cross River was full of
anomalies which made its full implementation
difficult. He said “Akrika Obu” was merely a
nomenclature given to Ikot Udo by the Igbo for
political reason. He reasoned that Ikot Udo was
surrounded by Ika Annang villages of Ikot Otuko, Ikot
Akpan Offiong, Ikot Inyang Udo, Nto Mfung and Urua
Inyang and did not even share boundary with Ukwa East
local government of Abia State. He called for the
abrogation of decree 23 of 1985.

Over the years, Ika community has been making
representations to the nation’s various boundary
commissions on how to resolve the problem. The bodies
include Irefeke panel (1975), Justice Mamman Nasir
commission (1976), presidential commission (1983) and
the National boundary commission.

In their letter to the chairman, creation of states,
local governments and boundary adjustment committee,
Abuja, dated April 29, 1996, on the issue, they argued
that Ikot Udo had neither cultural nor linguistic
affiliation with Ukwa East. They asked for amendment
of the decree “so that all affected Akwa Ibom villages
erroneously carved into Abia State would be returned”.

The letter signed by 10 persons among them community
leaders also called for return of all venerated areas
carved into Abia State and the return of any part of
Ibeme in Obioma Ngwa local government, that may have
been put in Akwa Ibom.

On August 10, 1999, Ikot Udo Youth Association, wrote
to the chairman of Ukwa East council area on the need
for peaceful co-existence between Ikot Udo people and
Ukwa East. In the letter, they accused some of the
pro-Igbo people of making false claims and presenting
fabricated history to curry favour from Ukwa local
government area. The letter asked why “Akirika Obu”
was the only Ndoki village in Ukwa East council area
speaking Annang dialect. It accused some of them of
dropping their Annang names for Igbo.

Those accused of this included prominent villagers
such as Dick Samuel Essien who allegedly changed to
dick Samuel Nwankwo; James Akpan Abia now known as
James Nna Abia, Michael Ekot now Michael Kalu and
Monday Udo Ekpenyong who answers Monday Ama Kalu. 
Newswatch learnt that the issue of name change is not
new in the Ikot Udo case.

In April 1976, Dick Emuchay, the then chairman of Imo
State public service commission and leader of the
Ndoki people, told the Justice Nasir commission on
Boundary Adjustment that the names of some Annang
people and communities in the then Abak division were
changed during the civil war to suit their
relationship with Igbo.

Emuchay claimed that all the disputed villages were
Igbo and were descendants of the same forbearer,
Eze-Ndoki who, he said, founded the area in the 12
century. His descendants, he claimed, founded Akpala
and Azumini.

But Benson Iyang Udo and Raymond Orok, two Annang
leaders, in their evidence at the commission said
Azumini, originally called “waterside,” was a Cross
River trading post. They claimed that Ikot Udo was one
of Annang villages the Igbo tried to rename Akirika
Obu.

On February 25, 2000, the people of Ikot Udo wrote to
Chris Ekpenyong, Akwa Ibom deputy governor and
chairman of the state’s boundary committee, asking him
to assist in resolving the boundary crisis. Their
requests included abrogation of Decree 23 of 1985,
allowing the whole of Ikot Udo/Akirika Obu to remain
in Ika, bringing pressure on the federal government to
release a white paper on the 1997 boundary adjustment
commission R.D. Mohammed. The letter, signed by
Oyomete and nine other leaders of the villages asked
for a re-establishment of a police station in Ikot Udo
and a federal government’s involvement in
infrastructural development of the village to
discourage the people from political harlotry.

The village also sent a save-our-soul letter to Akwa
Ibom State government, February 10, asking it to
prevail on the federal government to send neutral
policemen to the police station in Azumini, as well as
send relief packages to those badly affected by the
February 7, incident.

Ekpenyong, who was visited the community after the
incident, condemned the wanton destruction of property
in the village and appealed to the youths on both
sides not to act in a way that will inflict more pains
and injuries on the people. He asked the federal
government to consider all cultural, historical and
political antecedents before taking a decision
affecting Akwa Ibom and other states.

Others who visited the village since the incident
include Akwa Ibom indigenes in the national assembly
and A.A.Oyakhire, assistant inspector-general of
police, AIG, in charge of zone 6.

Various steps have been taken to resolve the Ikot Udo
conflict over the years. In 1994, Yakubu Bako, Temi
Ejoor and Gregory Agboneni, then military
administrators of Akwa Ibom, Abia and Cross River
States well as top officials of the national boundary
commission met in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, to
find a lasting solution to the problem.

Successive chairmen of Ika and Ukwa East have also
been working together to resolve the crisis.  On July
30, 1999, Ukwa council chairman visited Urua Inyang to
hold discussions with his Ika counterpart on how to
end the conflict. But also their efforts seem to have
once to naught as hostilities continues in the area.



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Ugomba:
This is why I said, Anything Niger Delta Republic, count the Anioma Nation out because this is how confused it is going to be! We will rather be in a Federalised Nigeria.

Nwanne no mind them ...you will see very soon they will say anioma is ijaw,they tried anioma is benin it did not work they said anioma is Yoruba is still did not work



Wait for them they will say anioma is ijaw soones


I wonder why they want to associate with Igbo by hook or crook

They just love Igbo

IGBOPRINCE:
Hahaha..
Bro, igbos re not your cousins biko. Is like you don't know the meaning of cousin.

Bro, this your new distorted history eeh, I am certain that you re in pained.


Ndigbos will continued to torments you. We shall bring back the old habits of you.

Don't worry, we re watching you.

Ekenedegreat, vicotex, pezienza, tonychristopher. This guy is in pained with our comments.

Hahahaha, ndoki is ijaws, go there and claimed them na.

Anuofia.

Bros u dey mind them ..ndoki is ijaw opobo is ijaw even uguta and etche are all ijaw ...no mind them


They should be contented with their creeks and swampy environment.. They are aquatic and have nothing to do on the land....who are his cousins anyway ?

Ike gwuru


We know our cousins and our friends then ijaws are neighbours and that is just where it all ends

Simple and short

Cousin kwa
Nephew kwa


Madu ka ana aria

voltron:
The Bible as Christians know it today is the infallible word of God, written by scribes inspired by the Holy Spirit since the days of Adam.. the bleeding ignoramuses have no clue that the gospels only started coming into written thoughts 50-60 years after Jesus died and that the Council of Trent in Nicene Rome organized the Bible they so voraciously consume.. Inspired by the Spirit indeed.. smhhhhH!!

You should have allowed them to wallow in ignorance

Euro31:
Ijaw people invaded rivers state after betraying the old eastern state during the civil war ..... Getting a portion of land in rivers state was the deal they made with the Nigerian Govt , in return for betraying the old eastern region ...

Ijaws are expansionist ... All minorities in SS should be wary of them ..

Lol

peppyluv02:
We shouldn't be deceived again...let them kill themselves
Dakuku and wike can kill themselves too..
Let SE mind their business before someone will go and create thread warning Igbos as if an Igbo man has attempted taking his father's property.

Cc Rose2014,belzabull,severussnape,ishiamu,Devi1himself,chukwudi44,whynotthetruth,FREEDOM4BIAFRA,
Okeikpu,tonychristopher,NOBLEDANDY,Candyrain,warrior01,Noneroone,pazienza,WhiteTechnology,athaboi,
owobokiri ,ghostmist,yujin,Imhotep,anambradota ,funkiebully,patrick89,francizy,IGBOPRINCE,obiagu1...


It is time for Sidon dey look.......

Wetin concern me NNE....you spoke well.we will leave rivers Igbo to sort their differences unless they bring it to ohaneze otherwise let's let them sort the domestic matter


Kedu ihe na eme ?

businessline:
http://www.politics.co.ke/news/some-africans-are-lazy-fools-only-good-at-eating-lovemaking-and-stealing-donald-trump-2/

You guys will cast and chastise Donald but I think he said the bitter truth here


Take it or leave it many Africans are daft .....though his statement is racist but the truth


Just take a look at Nigeria and who they have managing their affairs
Shame on Africa