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chiefobdk2:
No insects in the village.. The problem is access,, mostly by bikes and ferries...

The road (path) to especially from Gembu to mbamga is deadly and bad. I am always not confortable traveling the roads.

FreeStuffsNG:
Wow! Thank you sir. But Taraba itself is not Hausa land na?

You're correct; There may be another meaning for the Taraba state's Taraba tho...

FreeStuffsNG:
One of the richest Nigerians alive is from Taraba state. His name is Gen. Theophilus Y. Danjuma(Rtd).

I recall meeting one Taraba indigene some decades ago, he is a brilliant guy who finished from I think Futyola or Futminna. They had a Governor who was a Pharmacist who died from injuries sustained in air mishap. .
It's one of those underdog states in Nigeria but I have no doubt that some day Taraba too will go global. They should be a tourist delight.
@OP, please what is the origin of the word "Taraba " the state is named by ?

Taraba is an Hausa word that mean "seperation" or "partition". Taraba state was name after the river Taraba. As said above

omale88:
As of just now temperature at mambila is 26 degrees celsius while jos is 28 degrees celsius mambila is indeed colder but within same range

This may help... but google information are not always correct

Judybash93:
25°C is cold?

If you read again, 25°C is the hottest temperature on a very hot sunny day. You will still feel the chilling cold air even in a hot day.

doctore212:
Abeg , as I wan go serve there , how much I fit budget for olosho..


My question is this, can you find olosho in this place because of too much cold?

As far as I was told, sex is very cheap over there (many sex workers). But a lot of statistics indicates that number of persons with HIV/AIDs in Nigeria is highest in the Mambila plateau.


check out below, the map of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Nigeria.

Kingsasian:
I served in Gembu 2018/19. Mehn, I have never seen a colder LGA in Nigeria than Sardauna in Taraba. Initially I almost regretted going for service when posted to that town but a few weeks after I started to enjoy my service year. The cold temperate climate over there was one I would love to experience again. Beautiful scenery, hails or snow that accompany the start of raining season. I still have lots of pictures on my phone. It's a beautiful region, it's like staying outside the shores of Africa.

You are absolutely correct about everything you said. I used to spend days at the Gembu corper's lodge too.

Please, post some the pictures for our enjoyment. pleeease!

elpochas:
UncleAyo how ina take dy razz babe for that kind plaz,abeg tell us o na dat one some OG want to hear.

As long as the girls are not your students or married women, corpers are encourage to relate with the ladies but must be ready for marriage in case the relationship result into pregnancy. there was a case like that that they told us about.

The girls over there are are nice generally and approachable.


Some of them (female students) still call me till this year... maybe they were showing interest and I did not notice

DubaiLandLord1:
E go be pleateau state or taraba

Taraba state ofcourse

Part Two


My National Youth Service NYSC Experience in Mbamnga, Taraba state (October '15 to March '16) **continued** pt. 2

You will like reading our coping strategies

But I don't want to forget to let you know that:
1. Monthly clearance was always done in the corpers lodge. The LI put it upon himself to travel monthly to prevent any touching story of capsized canoe carrying corps members for their monthly clearance or accident on the mountanous road.

2. No CDS meeting or activities; all community activities perfomed by corps member posted to Mbamnga were agreed on at corps members discretion.

3. Enrollment into any Certificate programme while serving was a no no.

Briefly about religion of people:
People in Mbamnga are quite religous. About 80% of people are church goers while 18% of people are muslims and remain 2% tradional worshiper. Generally, Taraba state has 60% population as christians and 40% as muslims; contrary to general opinion that northerners are muslim majority.

Coping strategies
1. For warming and boiling of waters, students helped to gather sawdust from carpentry shops. With a big metal cylinder and a bottle, we set our fire using the saw dust and firewood. Use of sawdust helped to conserve kerosine for food cooking.

2. Cold: At night, we used to put on doubled pair of socks and two more cloths to keep warm agianst the cold weather in mid night. Sometimes one would get waked up by cold to add more cloths. I was suprised to read online during my stay that people are dying of heat while the opposite is our case in the same nigeria.

3. To make calls and use the internet, we had to go to next community (Mbara), where local calls could be made at local charges. Other places nearby showed no signal and some hill top showed roaming network with which call can be made at international call charges and message could be ricieved. We frequented Mbara as if a fiends house.

4. To charge our electronic gadgets, we took them daily to nearby phone charge shop for charging at corps member subsidised price and to the police station which is a thrown stone distance form the corpers lodge for free. Their was no generator made available for corps members.

5. To reduce boredom, we made friends with and visited our neibours and community leaders, played cards, Ludo and mobile games, read novels, listen to music and audio podcasts, visited officers at police station and went frequently to call centers for calls and internet surfing.

6. To get clean water we woke and went to the gutter daily as early as 5 AM to fetch water before anybody disturbed the water. Also we had a lot of bucket to keep clean drinking water gotten from distant government source.

7. Money & Feeding: we ensured we withdrew enough money and stocked up enough food stuff for two or more months whenever we traveled to Gembu, the local government secretariat (an one and half mountanous journey on byke) where we could have access to bank and market. We also bought suplements on market days where their tomatoes and potatoes were very cheap.

9. News? We depended wholy on the internet for our news source. The transitor radio we had could not pick any signal except for cameroonian french speaking stations and some desert SW stations.

10. We leveraged occasionally on corps member(s) whoever volunteer to travelled to buy our market needs, food stuffs and to withdraw money from bank. This was done to prevent all others from the stress of transportation on the hilly road.

Excerpts from my Mambilla language class.
(Thanks to Geofrey my 10 year old neigbour, who helped with learning of mambilla language).

Nana: how are you
Jam: fine
Ochajiama / ochaloma: good morning
Yirji imana: what is your name
Sanu: weldone
Ben da leya: where are you going
Nda bani: welcome
Nda ol: good bye
Da wii may kofii gomie offisa: go and bring me cup from the office
Ben gua je bo mejualene: listen to me carefully
Ben kili foshi: keep shut
Nana terchibo / merchibo: how is your father / mother

The Coldest Region In Whole Nigeria: My NYSC experience

Interesting read. This thread was motivated by a previous thread that bears similar name


If you like wear 20 cloths you will still catch cold.

Part One (see part two in the next comment section)

My National Youth Service NYSC Experience in Mbamnga, Taraba state (October '15 to March '16)

Brief Description of place:
Mbamnga is a remote community located directly on Mambilla plateau, Sardauna Local Goverment of Taraba state. Tribes in mbamnga include majorly the mambillas and Fulanis with preponderance of the Mambilla people. Other tribe include Kaka, panso and Kanbu.
Two distiguished feature of mambilla plateau is the hilly landscape and the temperate weather which makes it the coolest area in nigeria.

Facts:
1. Mambilla plateau has an Altitude 2419 meters, 7936ft above sea level (height of about a 900 story building in Lagos) making it the highest peak in Nigeria.

2. Weather is temperate, with highest Temperature of 25 degree celsius (77 degree F) during a sunny day. The coolest part in Nigeria. You sweat less.

3. Major languages include Mambilla, fulfude, kaka and Hausa.

4. Have you heard of mambilla beans? That strong beans that takes days to cook, It is from there.

Advantages:
1. Temperature: weather in mbamnga is always cool, sunshine is moderate, fill with chilling air.

2. You save money: in mbamnga, their is no bank and market is after 10 days intervals. As a corps member you save money with a budget plan because of the difficulty involved in accessing your banked cash.

3. Abundant of fruit: fruits expecially african pear and banana are in abundance in mbamnga.

4. Good quality bread: If you want a very quality bread mbamnga is the place you can get it.

5. Cheap meat: meat is in abundance here, with little cash you can buy meat quantity that doubles what you can get in Ibadan

6. Communication: Due to language diversity and need to communicate with other tribes, children at tender age learn, understand and can communicate in English. Their is no language barrier in reaching out to people.

7. People in mbamnga are accomodating and friendly, they love to entertain visitors with corps members inclusive (although bad eggs can't be found wanting in every society). They are peace loving and are alway ready to help.

8. Cross-country? Yes, Mbamnga community is located where nigeria borders with Cameroon, to enter cameroon boundary take less than 40 minutes on byke.

9. Mbamnga is mosquito and tse-tse fly free, so their is little or no recorded case of malaria of night blindness.

Challenges:
1. Distance: mbamnga is far away from town, one and half hour from Gembu the local goverment secretariat, 10 hours journey from Jalingo the state Capital and 34 Hours from Ibadan.

2. Water supply: been on the hill, only source of water is government supply which is not evenly distributed. Many people even corper use spring water channeled into gutters to for bath and cooking.

3. Market: their is no proper market in mbamnga, the only farm product market is 10 days intervals where some farm product are even wanting

4. Transportation: due to lack of road network and presence of an unbridged river, major means of transport is through motorcycle which need to be carried in canoe while crossing the river. Also some manbilla vehicles are carried using big canoe carrier.

5. Harsh weather: air can tend to freezing cold at night and disturb sleep at times. Water needs to be heated before use in the morning.

6. Security: although the people are cool, don't engage in violent act, no theft, but for politics and tribalistic herders/farmers clash. A Police station present is poorly equiped with only two officers and zero ammunition.

7. Network coverage: Their is no coverage in mbamnga. To make or recieve call, one will need to travel far and climb montains and at time you cannot use local network but roam with cameroon network which charge double.

8. Bad road: paths created up and down hill serves as road. It's tressfull to travel hours on such roads. No tiled road and those graded are erosioned. Most kids, even some adult have never aeen tiled road.

9. Electric Power supply is a no no. some of their children never know government provides elctricity. People in mbamnga uses individual power generators and get their premium motor spirit from black market alone. No filling station.

Opportunities:
1. waterfalls for power generation
2. Cool weather favours some type of crop not grown in nigeria
3. abundant of raw materials for animal products e.g skin, hoof...
4. Good soil for agriculture e.g tea and coffee cultivation
5. Nearby game reserve (Gashaka game reserve)
6. Mbamnga is an international boundry
7. Population favour labour availability
8. Limestone
9. Abundance of Timbers

Personal Opinion:
The other day in Lokoja, while I was watching a NTA broadcast, my mind told me where they were showing was mbamnga and voila, it was. They were talking on possible investment due to the cool weather condition (Tea and coffee cultivation). I love the people in mbamnga, I will like to go back to mbamnga to do some business there.

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Here is the link to the complete story of my NYsC experience at Mbamga (part one and part two)

https://www.nairaland.com/6862501/coldest-region-whole-nigeria-nysc

This is very much correct.

I did my NYSC here at mbamga, Mambila at Sardauna Local Government of Taraba state.

Mbamga is deep after Gembu and is boundary of Nigeria and Cameroon.

If you like wear 20 clocths you will still catch cold.


Let me quickly share my experience at Mambila here:

My National Youth Service NYSC Experience in Mbamnga, Taraba state (October '15 to March '16) pt. 1

Brief Description of place:
Mbamnga is a remote community located directly on Mambilla plateau, Sardauna Local Goverment of Taraba state. Tribes in mbamnga include majorly the mambillas and Fulanis with preponderance of the Mambilla people. Other tribe include Kaka, panso and Kanbu.
Two distiguished feature of mambilla plateau is the hilly landscape and the temperate weather which makes it the coolest area in nigeria.

Facts:
1. Mambilla plateau has an Altitude 2419 meters, 7936ft above sea level (height of about a 900 story building in Lagos) making it the highest peak in Nigeria.

2. Weather is temperate, with highest Temperature of 25 degree celsius (77 degree F) during a sunny day. The coolest part in Nigeria. You sweat less.

3. Major languages include Mambilla, fulfude, kaka and Hausa.

4. Have you heard of mambilla beans? That strong beans that takes days to cook, It is from there.

Advantages:
1. Temperature: weather in mbamnga is always cool, sunshine is moderate, fill with chilling air.

2. You save money: in mbamnga, their is no bank and market is after 10 days intervals. As a corps member you save money with a budget plan because of the difficulty involved in accessing your banked cash.

3. Abundant of fruit: fruits expecially african pear and banana are in abundance in mbamnga.

4. Good quality bread: If you want a very quality bread mbamnga is the place you can get it.

5. Cheap meat: meat is in abundance here, with little cash you can buy meat quantity that doubles what you can get in Ibadan

6. Communication: Due to language diversity and need to communicate with other tribes, children at tender age learn, understand and can communicate in English. Their is no language barrier in reaching out to people.

7. People in mbamnga are accomodating and friendly, they love to entertain visitors with corps members inclusive (although bad eggs can't be found wanting in every society). They are peace loving and are alway ready to help.

8. Cross-country? Yes, Mbamnga community is located where nigeria borders with Cameroon, to enter cameroon boundary take less than 40 minutes on byke.

9. Mbamnga is mosquito and tse-tse fly free, so their is little or no recorded case of malaria of night blindness.

Challenges:
1. Distance: mbamnga is far away from town, one and half hour from Gembu the local goverment secretariat, 10 hours journey from Jalingo the state Capital and 34 Hours from Ibadan.

2. Water supply: been on the hill, only source of water is government supply which is not evenly distributed. Many people even corper use spring water channeled into gutters to for bath and cooking.

3. Market: their is no proper market in mbamnga, the only farm product market is 10 days intervals where some farm product are even wanting

4. Transportation: due to lack of road network and presence of an unbridged river, major means of transport is through motorcycle which need to be carried in canoe while crossing the river. Also some manbilla vehicles are carried using big canoe carrier.

5. Harsh weather: air can tend to freezing cold at night and disturb sleep at times. Water needs to be heated before use in the morning.

6. Security: although the people are cool, don't engage in violent act, no theft, but for politics and tribalistic herders/farmers clash. A Police station present is poorly equiped with only two officers and zero ammunition.

7. Network coverage: Their is no coverage in mbamnga. To make or recieve call, one will need to travel far and climb montains and at time you cannot use local network but roam with cameroon network which charge double.

8. Bad road: paths created up and down hill serves as road. It's tressfull to travel hours on such roads. No tiled road and those graded are erosioned. Most kids, even some adult have never aeen tiled road.

9. Electric Power supply is a no no. some of their children never know government provides elctricity. People in mbamnga uses individual power generators and get their premium motor spirit from black market alone. No filling station.

Opportunities:
1. waterfalls for power generation
2. Cool weather favours some type of crop not grown in nigeria
3. abundant of raw materials for animal products e.g skin, hoof...
4. Good soil for agriculture e.g tea and coffee cultivation
5. Nearby game reserve (Gashaka game reserve)
6. Mbamnga is an international boundry
7. Population favour labour availability
8. Limestone
9. Abundance of Timbers

Personal Opinion:
The other day in Lokoja, while I was watching a NTA broadcast, my mind told me where they were showing was mbamnga and voila, it was. They were talking on possible investment due to the cool weather condition (Tea and coffee cultivation). I love the people in mbamnga, I will like to go back to mbamnga to do some business there.

In the video is a Zimbabwean minister of local government and housing EDDISON JONASI MUDARIKWA ZVOBGO tackling a white tobacco farmer over alleged mistreatment of local African workers in his plant ( in 1981).

The same scenario is still at play in Nigeria today: many of these foreign company in Nigeria abuses Nigeria worker and deprive them of their fundamental human right.

Do you still remember Mr Gbadebo, a 300-level student of the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, who died at a factory in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onwFatpjdJw

Have you seen this confrontation by the Ghana president? Watch the video till end


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmR2n6ryQvg

It is time we wake up in Africa and have a mind of our own and own up to responsibility.

tesseract:
Wow...

What they don't want us to know. Africa also seems to be the center of the world...

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Don't forget to add how he acted and mediate as Lautech Chancellor and APC party leader, the row between the then two APC governors of Oyo state and Osun state to prevent the Lautech students from going on the (almost) two years strike they embarked on few years ago.

Africa is more likely the biggest continent by landmass


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wncgOBGlC8



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu-sQq7cy5s

Picture 1: The known map (Notice how greenland, Russia and Cannada looks bigger)
Picture 2: True scale map of the world

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See beautiful videos of cannabis medical wonders in tye thread below:

https://www.nairaland.com/6770950/cannabis-nigeria-legalise-marijuana-definitely

Cannabis: Nigeria To Legalise Marijuana (Definitely Must Watch Videos

They like twisting the relics. We did not request legalisation for personal consumption but for medical purpose.

They are only wasting the last minute on idea whose time has come.

Here is the news

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said legalization of consumption of cannabis will take Nigeria back to it’s dark days.

Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), the Chairman and Chief Executive of the agency, said this at an interactive session with heads of security agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and heads of government agencies in Jos, Plateau as he rejected the calls for Cannabis legalization.

Some Nigerians have been advocating for the legalisation of the drug for health and economy purposes.

But Marwa said that legalising cannabis would truncate its ongoing fight against drug abuse, stressing that such a move would also take Nigeria back to its dark days.

He revealed that 10.6 Nigerians were currently consuming cannabis, adding that legalising it would further destroy the nation.

“NDLEA rejects absolutely the call for the legalisation of cannabis; it is a choice between earning money and the importance of life

“There is no research about the healing qualities of cannabis, but we all know on the other hand that it causes brain disorder, psychosis, it destroys the lungs and other key organs of the body.

” It definitely affects one’s behaviour as well.

“NDLEA will not accept that; we in NDLEA reject the move in totality,” he noted.

The NDLEA boss admonished security agencies and other stakeholders to support the agency in its bid to curb the tide of drug abuse in the nation.

Source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/11/18/legalization-of-cannabis-will-take-nigeria-to-dark-days-ndlea

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I don't know how true this complaint is but

I took the same vaccine at Ibadan North Local Government free of charge last week. We were not even many; just about 14 of us.

Covid 19 vaccine is free of charge in Ibadan.


Are you sure it is not the covid19 test he did?

Ekealterego:
What do you mean by traits? Have you asked "Why".

Do you know so many of them still have uncles, brothers, sisters, aunties who died as a result of the Western backed and funded Nigerian war against Biafra?

Do you know what many of them experienced after the war? Left with no money and starting from the scratch?

Yes, it was them against the whole nation.
So, maybe you should think hard about losing your loved ones, father and mother and having to start life alone with people against you.
Experience that and come and tell me how it feels.

Looking at all the pictures of dead uncles and aunties who I only see in pictures, I am usually astounded at how quickly forgiving Igbo people actually are.

The same genetic traits resulted to why the war was started in the first place and to why they lost the war.

Your this comment is just a good example of the traits we are talking about.

Pls sir, don't quote me again because I may not be available to reply you.

realestate99:
lol, it is indeed genetic, I think they are cursed by this " we against the world " mentality, no matter how sound academically some of them can be, they still come up with silly and basic excuses to patch their inadequacies.

I think their gross inferiority complex is remotely caused by the loss of the war, it has embedded a huge victim mentality in their DNA no matter how successful they can be.

The way they exaggerate petty stuffs to massage their ego shows a group eager to dominate others but lacks depth and tact. personally I do not rate any of them both online and offline,.............a person with quick emotional outbursts should be avoided by all means

These are my observation trully about the tribe. Thanks for helping to put this traits into words.

I dislike tribalism or when people attribute negative traits to a tribe, but I became amazed that a large number of people can behave the same way and exhibit same traits.


1. For example, a whole tribe is claiming victim base on another tribe's right to vote their choiced candidate.
Must everybody follow your same steps. Don't you have many of your tribe men who voted for the same candidate? Don't we have many south west states where the ruling party loss the election? Must you dominate other tribe and control their choice?

Shouting of being maginalised and that Yoruba should not participate in the election, has the yoruba stopped you from nominating a worthy candidate from your tribe? Will anybody stop you from making your choice the during election?


And that Lagos is a no man's land; can the same be said about any SE state? Whereas, even our SS neighbours did not make such claim.

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Considering what I have seen both online and offline, I have a lot of questions about the genetic make up of a particular tribe in Nigeria.

Maybe I will start making my research.

It seems all the tribe members have these particular traits

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Three out of these six survivor are muslims, some people are simply mischievous:


Oduntan Timilehin, 26

Ahmed Kendeku, 19, (A Beninoise)

Sunday Monday, 21

Adeniran Mayowa, 37

Solagbade Nurudeen, 33

Waliu Lateef, 32

I found answer to the question I asked previously.
I decided to share here:


Frequently Asked Questions on COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for International Travel


The Biden Administration announced a new international air travel policy that is stringent, consistent across the globe, and guided by public health.

Starting on November 8, foreign national air travelers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane to fly to the United States, with only limited exceptions.

The CDC has determined that for the purposes of entry into the United States, vaccines accepted will include those FDA approved or authorized, as well as vaccines with an emergency use listing (EUL) from the World Health Organization (WHO). See the CDC's website for more details.

Fully vaccinated air travelers will continue to be required to show documentation of a pre-departure negative viral test from a sample taken within three days of travel to the United States before boarding. That includes all travelers – U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (LPRs), and foreign nationals.

To further strengthen protections, unvaccinated travelers – whether U.S. citizens, LPRs, or the small number of excepted unvaccinated foreign nationals – will now need to show documentation of a negative viral test from a sample taken within one day of travel to the United States.


https://travel.state .gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/emergencies/covid-19-faqs-for-travel-to-the-us-information.html

beejhay69:
1. YES.

2. NO.

Please, I mean covid-19 vaccinations.

Is covid19 vaccination compulsory for usa travel or the test requirement is just OK

Quick questions please:

1. is covid 19 vaccination now required (compulsory) for USA travel?

2. can one make use of an a/c statement, dated july for november visa interview?

Please, I need clarifications

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Eyigold:
First bank also offers credit card facility, but mainly to FG staffs

I have learnt alot with this thread. This is also great. I don't know something like this exist.