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I have a kinsman who operated in that dimension. General Hospital Onitsha mortuary had to bring his corpse outside the compound to avoid turning other corpses upside down.

He was deep into mystical practices whilst alive to the point my community banished him for five years. He died a few months before his five years was due and this happened.

I also know a traditional ruler who had to be exhumed from the grave and reburied with some rituals to "tie his soul" or whatever, because since he was buried in that compound, peace eluded his family members who lived there and there were no more night sleep again.

I had a photo compendium of the 1976 Colonel Buka Suka Dimka coup against General Murtala Mohammed's government from my father. I cherished that document. I once showed it to my roommate and kept it back in my box. I guess that was my sin. I think he loved the photo compendium too and he saw where I kept it. I never saw it again and it took long for me to realize it was missing. I couldn't talk about it again. E pain me sha.

It is essential you write to them formally addressing these issues. If you cannot afford a lawyer, write them yourself and ensure you obtain an acknowledgement for it.

Note: Do not treat this as trivial. I repeat, do not treat this as trivial. Do not continue to let the money into your account without adequate repositioning. It might not be a clear cut set up, but it would be a set up by default in a short while. Do not permit it.

Again, you may address the issue of your pension of you please, but do not succumb to those who submit that since they have your pension, you can have this in peace. I give you free legal advise, no you cannot when the chicken comes home to roost.

Treat seriously.

1423
Brush, Eat, Bath, Dress

Burial that happened months ago? They just woke up from sleep to remember? Or there is something else we don't know?

Englandboy:
Am not yet married but oneday I will be married to joy.

The Lord grant this will. Amen.

Even the day of physical birth are in some cases unknown.

There are circumstances even the day of death may not be certain. The body is discovered after sometime and no one can say exactly what date death actually happened.

Any date could be unrecorded.

jimyjames:
I didn't read all that you wrote but I still repeat the election went peacefully for the first time in Nigerian history all thanks to ipobs for calling off the sit at home

IPOB and its acolytes are losers.

After setting this place on fire for weeks, IPOB shamelessly called off its so called lockdown on the eve of the same election, without achieving a thing both ways. For sure, the idiot from Afaraukwu is still in the pit eating leftover meals from Muhammadu Buhari's kitchen.

Na wetin I talk!

jimyjames:
still opening thread crying why there is no bloodshed? Kudos to ipobs for the first time in Nigerian history an election was held without a single fight, the trust for ipob is growing and will grow more after APC lose this election

It is not true. IPOB made this place hell to live in, in the build up to the election. We even lost most of our illustrious sons to the carnage orchestrated by IPOB, which utterances were out of this world. We almost thought it was over with the election and were even thinking a state of emergency could be declared. Thankfully, the FG showed itself strong and mighty, discharging those idiots to ensure the restoration of order.

When IPOB saw that they have been put in their place, they first cried for negotiations. Who negotiates with losers? Then in trying to save face, they claimed to have called off the lockdown, 24 hours to the poll day.

Who cared?

Don't mess with our minds. We are here ourselves to know what happened.

IPOB and acolytes are losers. They claimed the lockdown was to ensure the release of the Idiot from Afaraukwu who they call their leader from the dungeon of the DSS. As I speak, the mad man is still there eating from President Buhari's kitchen, and that was the same man he once said had died and was replaced by a certain Jubril al-Sudani from Sudan.


The hottest part of hell, I am sure, is reserved for that scoundrel.

Olaoluwa112:
The mistakes most of us keep making is that, we totally ignore our governors while we keep bashing the president, the havoc aregbe caused in Osun State will take years before it can all be solved but then no one talks about it.
Our senators are there in the house doing nothing, just supporting and opposing motions but we all turn our deaf ears to it al.

I think if we start selecting good persons right from our bases, the speakers, senators and our governors to work for us then majority of our problems will be solved.

Such a brilliant submission.

Dartilo:
So ur point is that today outcome is by no means a measure of the heart felt desire of the populace?

Very well, most persons I know here travelled out of Awka since Thursday to other states like Delta, Lagos, Edo and Enugu. They did that for the fear of the terror in the land.

Now, most persons who usually would return from Lagos to vote in Anambra also stayed out because of the same reason. They also added that if the IPOB imposed lockdown continued, as earlier thought, it means they won't have been able to return to Lagos for business by Monday. And that would be one week away from productivity.

Most others said they would prefer to stay out because "they cannot run". And you know what that means.

Most others who claim enemies are hiding under the IPOB/ESN/UGM situation to take out their personal business and local rivals have chosen to stay away in Onitsha instead of travelling to Awka Etiti, Ojoto, Alor, Ora Eri, Umunze, Mbaukwu, Nteje, Mkpologwu, Oba, Amanuke etc where they registered to vote because they don't want to expose themselves to their own personal enemies in the villages, at such a time as this.

It is called supervening effect on data collection. You won't be able to measure accurately with such imposing supervening effect as fear and threat of harm.

If I beg you for money, you could accept to give or decline to give or give in part, but if I fire an AK47 into the air to demand for it, it would be wrong to assume that your response in that case would have been the natural response you would have given me in the first instance.

Dartilo:
Sir I do not support or stand against Ipob...I blv if the people are in support good for them but if the people are against then it's still their luck...

Personally for me today I will draw my conclusion from today's election turnout

What he is actually saying is that the supposed support of the people is consequent upon some inducement by the use of threat to harm and therefore cannot be measured in that manner. It would equate to consent obtained under duress.

Let's go there!

Validated:
Do you understand why INEC declared OSUN elections Inconclusive? Registered voters who could/did not vote were more than the votes by which Adeleke was leading. Those of you who think one-way are the problems of Nigeria, hence people refer to such one-way thinkers as ZOMBIE.

You are wrong. Election in Osun and generally is declared inconclusive when the leading candidate’s margin of victory is less than the number of votes cancelled.

If candidate one has 150 votes and candidate two has 120 votes and the number of cancelled votes is more than 30, which means, it can make a difference assuming it was not cancelled, then election is declared inconclusive.

Cancelled votes here means when people came out to vote but due to one infraction or the other the election was found to be irregular.

It has nothing to do with anyone sitting at home and expecting to hold anyone at ransom.

By Sunday morning or even late Saturday morning, there would be a result in the Anambra election. The less number of voters, the faster the result. If possible, result fit comot by Saturday morning e go shock all of una.

EmmyCC:
This OP may not even be Igbo.

I thought you guys claimed Biafra extends to Cross River and Akwa Ibom, and even part of Benue?

So why must he be Igbo?

Ka unu ekwelu go ka unu ra? The "dot in the circle" thing?

mmanwuijele:
I wont even bother with you. The improper use of 'Our' and then the insult of the Almighty shows who you truly are.

It seems you have cancelled your week long lockdown and boycott of the election? I heard. I thought until your despotic blood craving Onye ndu is out of the cesspit we won't live again.

Usually when your folly becomes obvious, you backtrack. That was the case during the 2019 General Election and Ndigbo ended up with not even a Deputy Speaker position at the centre.

And in our own backyard again, you are repeating the act. For weeks, you ran around town making life unbearable for our people and distorting the electoral system, only to suck up to it less than 48 hours to election day.

Unu aka aputanu kwuchie uzo ka ndi army gbulie unu ka umu ochicha n' oke.

Chineke mere unu ebere!

HIGHESTPOPORI:
They are all working for apc

It is obvious. And he is here telling us it has been decided? By who? When you have created an atmospheric condition that can only favour the one with proximity to the police and the army.

mmanwuijele:
Bikonu, umu Biafra remember you're in Nigeria. The last legit election had is probably MKO Abiola's own and you know how that went.

They are bribing people with N400 and can coke. Please share this news with our people who don't have internet or NL.

Please save your lives. DO NOT DIE FOR THESE POLITICIANS. In the midst of such insecurity, all these people care about is election. They would rather put our lives in harms was than have dialogue. Please don't listen to the Westerners or the Northerners saying you should risk your life and vote. Ndubuisi! Save your life and trust the work Chukwu Okike Abiama is doing for us through IPOB and MNK. All that is asked is that you stand in solidarity. One Biafran soul lost hurts our nation. We need you now, we'll need you when its time to rebuild our nation.

Ya gazie! Chukwu gozi unu!

All hail Biafra!

You didn't tell us who has decided the election and who it was decided upon.

You have sold our people fallacies upon fallacies and is never tired or ashamed of this slogan of your chukwu okike abiama my arsehole.

I thought you told our people election wont hold. You thought Abakaliki boys in dirty boxers with small juju from Aguleri could stop the might of a Nigerian army?


This scenario can only favour the APC backed candidate. Admit it and also admit you created it with your folly about a supposed phantom country.


Even if you will have Biafra, is it not anarchy to suggest that Anambra shouldn't have a government until a Biafra which date of realization your captured onye ndu has not given us.

Who will pay civil servants and workers in Anambra assuming there is no government beyond Obiano?

If Biafra agitation means no election and no government in Anambra, how come the same energy is not used to stop Okezie Ikpeazu, Dave Umahi, Hope Uzodinma and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi from further continuing as governors in the other part of the so called Biafra?

You lied to our people and don't you say the election has been decided without telling us who did. You did. You decided it for those who will catch in on the opportunity you have created.

ogwumgbe:
More chaos is welcomed, why do you think people are sitting at home? We want total chaos so that the zoo will collapse, let them impose their willing tool, we don't bloody care, Where in the world has someone that came fourth in the election was sworn in as the winner of an election?And you expect the people to come out and risk their lives to these vampires where as their votes will just be a ceremonial garbage to fulfill all righteousness? We are not interested, let them as well import a mallam from Niger and impose their, none of our business

Ok oooo. If we really do not care if a "mallam from Niger" governs us, then that is fine. But to add that
total chaos in Anambra, as you said, will not mean the collapse of Nigeria. Those of them in Abuja and even Asaba are not feeling the heat of any closed business in Onitsha.

ogwumgbe:
Jokers, that day you will create the so called law abiding citizens because the ones that are available will be sitting at their homes

But you sure know there would be election results at the end of the day. We would have unwittingly thrown it to "one with the police" to grab.

Forsee the possibility of an Andy Uba as the Governor of Anambra State.

gidgiddy:
There is no single evidence that either IPOB or ESN killed her. Even her own family says in the Obituary poster that the gunmen are unknown

Nobody knows who killed her

Ordinarily, you will agree with me that it is not right to leave it a mystery who killed her. It ought to be known by now, but some idiots have burnt down almost all our police stations and made it difficult for the state to function. Those ones aren't unknown at least.

ekobami:
Two New Widows And More Fatherless Kids

Most of those traditional rulers are usually married to more than one wife, so it could actually be more than two widows. So let's say, AT LEAST TWO WIDOWS...

Listen to a lot of high rated English media. Not junkies.

I am proud to say I learnt English on radio, even as a rural dweller. I read old newspapers a lot. I could read one newspaper every day for two months until my uncle brings home another one.

Listen and read any interview granted by those oratorical public figures. There are people blessed with English oratory. I listened to Ibrahim Babangida, Professor Jerry Gana, Professor Wole Soyinka, Mr. Kofi Annan a lot those days. I listened and read their interviews keenly.


Of recent, Babatunde Raji Fashola and Adams Oshiomhole ticked that box of learnable, transferable and transmitable Anglo-oratorial eloquence for me. I can't skip any interview granted by these two, not just to know what they are saying but actually to take from that fluency they command.

Mehn, once you have the opportunity to speak, speak and don't run back to your more comfortable language.

Na wetin I dey try do with Pidgin English now, since I saw I needed to fill that gap too. Once I see anyone who speaks it well, I try to flow with him, instead of the Plain English I am already more comfortable with.

NPTJ:
I never said i intend beating up the man or something. Someone only suggested that. It's a mere suggestion which doesn't implies sticking to it or not

Don't take that suggestion at all. It will complicate the matter. If your sister was a minor I would have advised you on what agency to approach depending on your location, but since she is not and you do not seem affluent enough to wage a "proxy war" against him, it is better you adopt pacification as a means to the end, whichever way.

You erred when you heaped the blame on the man. About your "going to treat his Bleep up", just hope he is not aware of his legal rights and also pray he doesn't have brothers too who love him as you love your sister, who will come to pay back as you did.


There is no law against living with a woman who is an adult without paying bride pride. Those are cultural and religious only, so I will advice you to prevail on him rather subtly until you succeed. Your sister being an adult makes it difficult for you to go hard on the man without being at fault. I have witnessed personally scenarios like this overtime and can tell you, you will lose if you try. Just follow peace with them and see if you make a headway and if not, let it. You cannot win here. Water crossed the bridge from the moment the young woman went into financial difficulties and succumbed to the man. You can't blame her, you cannot blame your parents and you cannot blame anybody. Life just happened, and too bad!

Was she the one who told you that if you get a divorce you will lose half of your wealth? It is not exactly so and I speak as a divorce lawyer here. Try talk to one first and establish you rights and then your options.


From the face of it, the more you stay in there, the more you get entangled. The only thing at stake here is the child from you but I bet you more will come as you stay and that would only make matters more complicated. It will eventually crash, take that from me.

Atiku must have thought we've forgotten all the tantrums he threw and the meltdown he had in 2011 with that obsession about Jonathan wanting to run when it was the turn of the North.

Atiku should go play the tape of his speech at the Eagle Square on that convention night. It was pathetic and pitiable, only he was crying about was that it was the turn of the North Jonathan had wanted to steal.

And now?

Calibrator:
You are only procrastinating because you don't have responsibilities yet.


How can you procrastinate when we are almost in the 10th month of the year and rent will be due in less than 63 days, not forgetting that school just resumed and school fees will have to be paid.

Even if you are still unmarried, bills no dey finish for a serious minded person.


Nonsense and procrastination.

I doubt if you got the whole context. Procrastination may not have to be economic tied all the time. Someone planned calling to commiserate with a relation who lost the child. He keeps pushing call time until it became almost needless to raise the matter again.

Like someone said, it is a phenomenon that could affect any aspect of life including the purely social.

If that's their daughter, then she must have bleached the devil out of her skin.

proeast:
I quite agree with you on certain points and also disagree with you on others.

Yes, you're right that once a local militia is formed, it becomes difficult to reign them in eventually. Also, it would even become more difficult to control once they go out of control. However, such scenario can only materialize in the North but certainly not East and I will explain to you.

Firstly, I don't know who the UGM are or those sponsoring them. However, one thing is discernable they're enjoying the support of locals. The UGM are apparently smart enough to know that they will all be smoked out like rats once the locals are against them. The government of the day also understand this fact and that is why they're using all means to make the locals to condemn them, including causing innocent deaths and destruction and trying to pull wool over the people's eyes by claiming they were done by UGM.

This battle is now ideological based, and whoever the people sides with will win in the long run. Some clips we have seen online often show the UGM applying discretion in ensuring there is no civilian casualty but the opposite is the case whenever law enforcement agencies arrive, they will throw caution to the wind; shooting sporadically, arresting passersby and causing havoc. Have you wondered why UGM will be around and people will be going about their duties but each time law enforcement agencies arrive, everyone will be running helter skelter?

Instead of attacking innocent people and destroying things, the government and its agencies should look into the grievances of the people. Stop every form of police extortion and if they must be on the road, let it be strictly professional search and rescue work. Let the people know and feel that government is out to protect their interest and not to subjugate them. Once that is done, the UGM will have no loophole to manipulate. The people will have no incentive to support them in anyway and they will naturally fizzle out or risk being smoked out with ease.

I can tell you that these UGM, no matter who their sponsors are or what their ultimate mission is, they will never go all out to attack people. People naively try to draw parallel with Boko Haram and I laugh because the settings are polls apart. Boko Haram is feeding off from extreme religious fanaticism, widespread ignorance, mass Illiteracy and poverty. These factors are not present in the East, so it will be much easier to stop if the people believe there is need.

I hope so.

I sabi say something dey shele! When I saw that number of military police officers controlling traffic in front of Bonny Camp this morning, I know say e get why!

haslaw:
I am also seeing the foolishness of Igbos in allowing this monster grow in their land.

I warned from start. Hatred is a blinding emotion. No movement founded on hate is devoid of errors. If we want to push for a nation state, let's do that on the basis of some other strong convictions than a hate for the president and the tribe he comes from. No viable nation state is built on the basis of calling down curses on the other side. If one ever emerges that way, it will fail too. See South Sudan.

But most of us lacked the knowledge of history and recourse to the past to find the future.

When I talked about the rise of militias and anarchy, I had friends who took offence. How are they not seeing that scums are the ones driving this pursuit and that is disastrous. In Igboland, with all our intelligentsia, unemployed boys carrying Kalashnikov rifles would rise to determine the fate of our tomorrow, with no guidance? And no one saw trouble?

And I asked, since these men are jobless, what do anyone think would ever be the circuit breaker? If you are dealing with people engaged, it is easier to ask them to go back to their jobs. But when scumbags run the "gun government", they usually don't quit without collapsing the cities. They have nowhere to go, nothing else to live for and nothing at all to preserve.