Through out this week, their office in Yenegoa was locked up by the indigenes of Bayelsa demanding training and job opportunities. I don’t know if that affected the whole letters whatever. someone I know in Bayelsa mentioned this off the cuff to me yesterday. Please don’t ask me for updates as I have none and I don’t even live in Naija Anymore. Just thought to mention.

Please listen to the Amayanabo of Opobo talk about his kingdom and if they are Ijaws or not. So of course, nobody is denying the Ibo admixture, but in Ijaw society they are ijaws.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPKHyhdYD8

Idiko1:


The so-called Anna Pepple was not Ijaw. What does Opu Obu mean in Ijaw. The silly Anna Pepple was a nickname.

My dear even from the Anna people he was bought too and the same culture of accultaration applies. The person bought from Ibo land is entitled to rise to become a chief and head his own house and buy slaves. In fact there is a kind of wrapper a chief wears on his shoulder, that signifies that his slave/ adoptee has become successful enough to buy another slave/adoptee who has also become a chief. So in the eastern ijaw society that Anna pepple a slave/adoptee could be so successful that his own slave, ended up a chief is a thing of pride.

Please if you don’t understand the culture of the Ijaw city states of the eastern delta. It is important you ask.
Under the acculturation system of the ijaw city states of the eastern delta. There are 2 ways to become a citizen.
1. By birth
2. By adoption where a head money is paid. (siwi igbi). The literal meaning of Jaja’s full name Jugbo Jugbo fem is somebody bought somebody else. So of course he is of Igbo descent and he was bought by Anna people and became his child by adoption. In ijaw society nobody is a slave, he was raised as a child with full rights of the Anna people house that allows him to even replace his father as chief.

Now on the issue of Amachree, I am a direct descendant of Amachree (8th great great grand father), and King Abbi (5th great grand father) any of my brothers can become Amayanabo of Kalabari (New Calabar) if they contest and win. Amachree’s mother was a Kalabari woman from the original Kalagbea ward. But his father was a freshwater Ijaw man from the central delta. He is not of Igbo origin, although he bought a lot of ibo people from the interior to expand the Kalabari population, and reinforced the idea that all Kalabari people are his people. There is a saying that King Amachree o e da fe a or inyingi fem- meaning if he did not buy your father, he bought your mother. Now on Bonny, they migrated from the central delta- fresh water ijaw land, and stayed for a while in ndokki, where the group split into 2, and some went to Bonny which the new indigenes called Okoloba. In Bonny, with the rise of the palm oil trade and the large number of slaves from the ibo interior. Bonny made a different decision than the kalabari’s by making ibani ijaw a secret language for the elites, so that their numerous slaves will not overthrow them. So ibo became the trade language. This decision means that someone like Jaja who was the foster child of a big chief spoke fluent ibani because he was an elite, and I have read diaries of the British consul trying to settle the fight between opobo and bonny chiefs, with Kalabari and Okrika chiefs as mediators for both groups. All the chiefs from the 4 kingdoms were speaking ijaw because the eastern jaw dialect of kalabari, Okrika, bonny and opobo are mutually intelligible. Now, in new calabar all new adoptees, we don't call them slaves, had to learn the kalabari language, and in fact your ability to speak kalabari determined how fast you could integrate into your new society, that is why in kalabari land. Ibo never gained a foothold like in bonny and the subsequent state of opobo did. So of course we too had lots of people from the ibo interior acculturated into our societies. But, you are an ijaw person, not a slave and you are accorded full rights of a full citizen. So the whole calling Jaja a slave is a joke gone too far. He was the pampered and privileged child of a wealthy chief.

Please, I am having issues with my FORM A. I have been waiting for over 1 month for forex from Zenith bank. Please, can anyone recommend any bank that is faster with FORM A, thanks?

I got my collection mail this morning and picked up my visa today. Biometrics (11th December) priority. Decision mail on the 15th, collection mail and pick up 17th.

I Did biometrics (priority) on the 11th of December. I got decision mail on the 15th of December. Yet, to get collection mail. Has anyone received collection mail yet?

Update:

I was one of the GT applicants and I had a strong background, I obtained my first degree from a top 5 UK uni and my masters from an Ivy league US university. I am also from one of the prominent families in the niger delta. So I thought there was no need for any connection. I applied for the process without telling anyone to push any buttons for me, and got to the interview stage. At my interview the panelists were all impressed and we're even asking me if I was going to stay at the NNPc with all my degrees. So I was quite surprised when the list came out and my name was Not on it. But, I think God was redirecting me, between February 2020 till date I have won multiple global awards and was recognised by the UN in Nigeria this year. Not only that I recently won a really prestigious all expense paid 1 year program to the UK, one of only 5 people in the world. All of this would not have been possible without that rejection. After I was rejected, God decided to open the heavens for me to set me on the Path he had for me. After my Nnpc saga, A top agency was the next goal. But, by the time their recruitment came to test stage, I already had multiple good offers, that the agency in Nigeria was no longer attractive. Lesson- you can only receive if you stop chasing a thing that is not yours. NNPC is a bird in the Bush, and we know that a bird in hand is worth more than a million birds in the Bush. God will bless the works of your hands, what is your work? Definitely not nnpc. Do you know how many potential blessings you would have gotten if you removed your mind and your prayers from NNPC? I am sure the God we serve can do better for us! So please redirect your prayers and efforts to other things, and God will lift you up higher than your imaginative capacity. Also, if NNPc is for you, without sweat and tears, it will come to you.

Good day!

R0LL0N:
Hello house, please I didn't remember to upload my international passport during the self service to tls. What can I do.

Make a photo copy of your data page and your document checklist page and take with you on the day of your appointment. The TLS people will scan your international passport for you on the day. If you have multiple passports tell them you forgot to scan it and is it possible for you to pay for the other passports to be scanned as well.

Hi, I had a similar issue, with not receiving a receipt for my priority visa. But When I went for my appointment the tls people checked it for me online and confirmed my priority visa. So don't worry they will confirm it for you.

Please I have just paid for my IHS surcharge and visa fee using paga verve. But, I am trying to pay for a priority visa on the TLS website, but there is no option for paga and it is rejecting my naira card. Any ideas on how to make that payment, please?

Just to clear some of the misconceptions and confusion on the thread.
1. It is NCDMB (don't ask me how I know, but take it from me).
2. Calm down with the anxiety. It is not yet 2 months since the deadline passed (18th of July).
So we are still within a reasonable time frame.
3. There will always be connection, but people on merit will get in as well.

PS- do not send me any private messages.

Hi guys,

I just want to say the following:

1. NCDMB is largely on merit. So just calm down, do your preparation for the test and if you pass, you will have a job offer in your hands.
2. NCDMB payment is very good, as their funding comes from multinationals, they take 1-2% of all oil and gas contracts in Nigeria.
3. It is very organised and the Nigerian factor there is not too high.
4. On Pay, this is what I can tell you, 5 years ago, an entry level lawyer (contract staff) earned 250,000 a month.
So I encourage you all, to prep for the test and calm down with the anxiety.


PS-it is also a permanent job as they are moving into their new head quarters and need staff.