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PFRB:
I did not see where he mentioned Igbo in hi press release. This your own is wrong reporting.

Really, bro?...I checked your moniker it doesn't bear Adamu...u know what I mean...

DickTator1:
Gay alert!!!

Lol...u don't mean that...

remybj:
keep up the awareness bro
we are solidly behind you

Thank you bro...Pls, let us share the posts and try comment on the site to begin conversation
It is coming up

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors are set to remove Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, as chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and replace him with a Governor from the South West.

Daily Trust reports that the two second-term Governors from the South West who might replace Okorocha, are Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun.

According to a source, the APC Governors are not happy with Okorocha, who they say has failed to provide a proper sense of direction to their forum.

“Rochas is only interested in the ceremonial aspects of being APC governors’ chairman. At any public event, especially at the State House or where the president or vice president is present, he is in a hurry to assert himself as the PGF chairman and position himself close to the president or vice president for a photo op. But that is as far as his chairmanship goes,” he said.

“He is not interested in charting a clear program for the forum, in harmonising the views of his colleagues or in making the forum an important player in the scheme of things. Even the opposition PDP Governors’ Forum has a higher profile and more political relevance than the APC Governors Forum. It is for these and many other reasons that they want to change him.”

He, however, denied that the move was a ploy by South West APC Governors to snatch leadership from Okorocha, the only APC governor in the South East.

“At a time when our ruling party is facing many leadership problems, such as the ineffectiveness of the national leadership and the continuous tussle between the Presidency and the APC-controlled Senate, APC governors could play an important role in filling the vacuum and reuniting the party behind a common ideal. However, they are unable to do so because their forum’s chairman is even less effective than the national secretariat,” he added.

Credit: Daily Post

http://igbobia.com/?q=apc-governors-set-to-remove-rochas-okorocha-as-their-chairmanhe-is-ineffective-they-say.html

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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

In a move to validate his graduation from ABU Zaria, and tame the controversy surrounding his first degree, Senator Dino Melaye, has shared more photos from his convocation day at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria.

Recall, Friday, he shared a photo of himself with former VC of ABU, Prof. Mahdi.

He has, yet again, shared more photos showing his parents attending his convocation at ABU and a group of his schoolmates.

http://igbobia.com/?q=dino-melaye-shares-more-conovocation-pictures-he-took-in-abu-zaria-to-show-he-graduated-from-the

Cc:
Lalasticlala,

stefanbanach:
To be an igbo man is a privilege

I like that line dear...sends shivers down the spine for some and goose bombs to others

biafranbaby:
Stop repeating white man's lies.

Ekwensu was never an enemy of Chukwu.

Our Chukwu had no enemies. He's not the useless bible god fighting foolishly up and down..

Ekwensu is Igbo's God of war. If you go to war without Ekwensu, you are on your own. (E.g. 1967)

With Ekwensu on our side, the europeans never conquered us. So they painted Him as evil and we swallowed their lies and abandoned our Gods. Now we suffer.

No, brother...u have some instance of misinterpretation here. The sentence you quoted tells how the Whites expressed their view...though some of these views they expressed were informed by the tales of our father's then.
Nevertheless, Ekwensu isn't presented in the light of evil especially, with the traditional Igbo person. It is the becoming of a distorted tale.

While you identify with the truths in the information and contents from this Moniker...don't forget the source is Igbobia.com...the Pan-Igbo forum that reveals real facts about and discusses the Igbo people.

Visit the forum, register and post news contents and helpful materials that are relevant to Ndi-Igbo. It is free for everyone.
The site was launched two months ago, and ever since, it has received massive positive response for the unique knowledge and hidden facts it springs.

Of course, anyone can register there...it is fast rising.

Umu-Igbo, ka anyi wue nke anyi.

Victornezzar:
Op u wan give some people sleepless nyt ahbi

How na...no be me give Philip the honour na

Magician1503:

make I folo u shine teeth small

...and why do you laugh brother?

Mynd44, Lalasticlala

While you identify with the truths in the information and contents from this Moniker...don't forget the source is Igbobia.com...the Pan-Igbo forum that reveals real facts about and discusses the Igbo people.

Visit the forum, register and post news contents and helpful materials that are relevant to Ndi-Igbo. It is free for everyone.
The site was launched two months ago, and ever since, it has received massive positive response for the unique knowledge and hidden facts it springs.

Of course, anyone can register there...it is fast rising.

Umu-Igbo, ka anyi wue nke anyi.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared May 30 a work-free day for all supporters of Biafra dream in commemoration of Ndi-Igbo who had lost their lives in sectarian killings in the country from 1945 to date. Other pro-Biafra supporters have given their support to the declaration.

The announcement was given via a statement signed and issued by the group’s Spokesperson, Emma Powerful.

It called on Ndi-Igbo and everyone who believe in the Biafra ideology all over the country to close their businesses and stay at home.

IPOB also said prayers would be held at designated places to mark the day.

The statement read in part “The indigenous people of Biafra and its leadership worldwide would like to use this opportunity to inform Biafrans, friends of Biafra, lovers of freedom all over the world and humanity in general, to prepare for the historic annual Biafra Day of Remembrance 2017.

“On the 30th of May 2017, as it is now the tradition since our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu held the inaugural event at our Cenotaph in Enugu on 30 May 2014, we shall honour the gallant and brave Biafran soldiers that withstood the might of the British-sponsored coalition against Biafra between 1967 and 1970.

“Our heroes and heroines of the class of 1967-1970 who paid the ultimate price in defence of the dignity of the black race during this genocidal war against the people of Biafra, will be remembered and honoured in the finest traditions of IPOB.

“This annual event for 2017 has been designated a day of prayer, fasting, supplication and introspection.

“We shall also remember all the martyred freedom fighters (IPOB & MASSOB) that fell in pursuit of our liberation from the oppression and the tyranny of Nigerian Army, Police, Navy and DSS.

“We can never forget them and we must always honour them as long as there are Biafrans on the face of the earth. Every victim of unwarranted state-sponsored sectarian violence in Nigeria will also be remembered.

“All those that sacrificed their lives in the field of battle and protests that this present generation of Biafrans might live, will be honoured, including the victims of Asaba Massacre. They will be honoured with a two-minute silence immediately the clock strikes 12noon on the 30th of May 2017.

In the statement, it was noted that the May 30 ceremony would be the fourth consecutive time IPOB had held the anniversary.

It added “The very first event was held in Enugu on May 30th, 2014, Aba May 30th, 2015 and 30th May 2016 at Nkpor Anambra State where the Nigerian Army, Police, Navy and DSS committed unspeakable crimes against humanity that brought shame to Nigeria before the comity of civilised nations around the world.

“Therefore, we expect every man, woman and children to observe this great annual event by staying at home and not engaging in any business activity.

“There will be no movement in Biafraland, both human and vehicular. Biafraland will be shut down completely as a mark of dignified respect to those that sacrificed their lives for us.

“That is the least we can do to show them and Almighty God that this generation of IPOB and those to come will remain forever indebted to them that gave their lives to stop the elimination of the Biafra race from the face of the earth.

”Equally all victims of state-sponsored genocide starting from the Jos massacre of Biafran people in 1945 to the most recent Asaba massacre in 2017 at IPOB meeting by the Nigerian Army will all be honoured”.

http://igbobia.com/?q=ipob-declares-may-30-work-free-day-for-ndi-igbo-biafra-sympathizers.html

Lalasticlal, Mynd44

Who Are Igbos

The Igbo have a clear notion of who they are. They call themselves Igbos or Ndigbo (Igbo people). But at the point of cultural contacts non-Igbo writers have wrongly misspelt them as Heckbos, Igbos, Egboes, Eboes or Ibos.

I tackle these misnomers right away.

There are 36 letters in the Igbo alphabet made up of 8 vowels (Udaume), 19 consonants (Mgbachiume) and 9 blends (Udamkpi). The third letter, "gb," falls under Udamkpi. "Gb" is different from "g" and "b," which are (Mgbochiume). Call us "Igbos," not "Ibos." The language we speak is also called Igbo.

Since creation, Igbos have lived in the Lower Niger down to the Niger Delta area of the Bight of Biafra. To their East (Eke) are the Annang/ Ibibio and Efik peoples. They are bounded in the West (Orie) by the Yoruba and Edo. In the North (Afo) by the Hausa/Fulani groups; while in the South (Nkwo) are the Ijaw/Ogoni kingdoms. Some forty million Igbos today live within and outside the Nigerian borders.

The culture of Igbo people is called Omenala Igbo. It has man and his well being at its very center. This culture envisages life to include the past, present and future. Cultural practices like prayer, farming, dancing, sacrifice, birth, marriage and death are there to ensure that one's link with the world beyond is not broken.

The Igbo family includes the unborn, the living and the dead, for which reason abortion has no place in Igbo culture. Our family is made up of the father, mother(s) and children. It includes all those related by blood to a common ancestor. Marriage between persons even remotely related by blood is strictly forbidden. Igbo family/society is patriarchal but one completely balanced with female values. Yes, we pay ilobola to marry somebody's daughter.

Politically, chief-priests and elders ruled Igbos for thousands of years. There was no time in Igbo history when they were ruled by one man as their core value frowns at unilateralism. Their system of government is best described as theocratic-democracy as (1) the Igbo recognize only Chukwu (God) as their spiritual and secular king and, (2) government is by mutual consent after wide and open debates usually at the market place.

Igbo Traditional Religion

I must privilege Prof. Emmanuel N Onwu's submission that Igbo religion in its original form was a "direct revelation of 'Chukwu,' 'Chineke' to the Igbo earliest ancestors" (2002 Ahiajoku Lecture, Owerri). It pre-dates Christianity.

Secondly, it is Judaism in its unwritten form. Igbos believe in the sacredness of blood. They circumcise their male children eight days after birth, observe religious purifications and washings. Altogether, if you codify the religious practices of Igbo people what will emerge is an authentic version of the Pentateuch.

Igbos believe in a Supreme Deity called Chukwu (the Great God) who created all things. Chukwu is also called Chineke (God the creator). The Igbo religion, like Christianity, engages creation from a common source or monogenesis.

The Igbo also believe in an entity called Ekwensu (the Devil) who is the father of all evil and enemy of Chukwu.

Apart from Chukwu, the Igbo have a pantheon of other lesser gods. We therefore have a polytheistic situation where Chukwu presides over lesser deities who act as his messengers.

Man and His "Chi": Meaning of "Chi" in Igbo Cosmology

Let me introduce this topic by stating that Igbos see things in two. Scholars of Igbo studies call this the principle of complementary dualities. Nothing is absolute and alone. Our philosophical thoughts equip us to see man and woman, life and death, water and fire, secular and spiritual and, so forth.

Igbos have a firm grasp of the abstract. It is true that Igbos talk mainly in proverbs. Now we know that proverbs and analogies are there to help you transmit complex ideas with the human language. Our ancestors did all these bestowing on us certain immutable truths we can feel and connect harmoniously with. One such truth is predestination. Another is will power. Between these polarities the concept of "chi" makes sense.

Even if man is predestined to die, the Igbo believe one can through conscious effort and good deed delay his death and even alter its circumstances. I believe that is what Professor Donatus Nwoga had in mind when he asserts that "Things not only form and act in dualities, it is also possible for forms of reality to change both within the same type of reality and from one type of reality to another. 'No condition is permanent' does not only operate within the social system, but also at the ontological level" (1984 Ahiajoku Lecture, Owerri).

Complete reading: http://igbobia.com/?q=why-ndi-igbo-are-who-they-are-and-behave-the-way-they-dosee-facts.html

Lalasticlala

Philip Emeagwali has been listed as amongst the top 10 most intelligent people in the world, having the acclaimed IQ of 190.

Philip Emeagwali, of course, is a renowed and world-acclaimed engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help detect petroleum fields.

He has the 9th slot directly below Marilyn vos Savant, 8th with verified IQ of 190 and directly above 10th placed Garry Kasparov who is alleged to have an IQ of 190.

The Igbo-born Nigerian is credited for inventing a formula that allows supercomputers powered by thousands of processors to perform billions of calculations per second, a discovery that made international headlines and inspired the reinvention of supercomputers.

The supercomputer comprises of thousands of networked computers and the Internet also comprises of millions of networked computers. The supercomputer spawned the Internet.

Emeagwali’s 1970s hypothesis on 64,000 networked computers around the Earth led to his programming of 64,000 processors inside a big box to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second, a world record in 1989. For the latter achievement, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which is the “Nobel prize of supercomputing.”

http://igbobia.com/?q=philip-emeagwali-among-the-top-10-most-intelligent-people-in-the-world-with-190-iq.html

Lalasticlala

etebefia:
Whoever wrote this deserves an award and I urge him/her to never stop writing, this article captured the real order of the day in using propaganda and paid protest to force the populace into seeing thick black as immaculate white.

Thanks dear

Honestly, Am yet to conceptualise the basis for fear.
Physical Death? That's what remains of many in Nigeria because the government has taken out whatever that makes us human.

These people just assume us to be some goats of sort they drag around with their rope (politics), they can control, subjugate, manipulate and pocket whenever, where ever and however.

They monopolise our monies, education, health and cage our freedom.

And the only thing left with us is our voice. If they succeed in seizing our voice, are we then better off than animals?

I have a life to live.

The current swing of our “mob” system of politics is quite both perplexing and heart-wrecking. It now seems that we have really arrived at that point in our political history when our choices and behaviour must be completely determined and satisfactory to the ruling class, and anything short of serving their self-aggrandising interests must be suppressed and if possible, obliterated.

The recessed, sickening economic system that has aggravated hunger, food draught, liquidations of companies, mass sack of employers, overwhelming rise in unemployment, crimes and currently, cases of suicides, has met huge public outcry and in selective cases, revolt.

More particularly, Nigerians have been hard-done by the seemingly lackadaisical attitude of the government in addressing these germane issues of concern and blanketing the issues with cheap propaganda and obnoxious policies that further deepen the situation in the country.

In a bid to channel their complaints and express their dissatisfaction of the present mis-governance and failure of the government, some people drew up the initiative of a nationwide protest which is a deserved means of expression of civil rights by the citizens in as much as the manner is peaceful and lawful.

But unfortunately, the government of the day has sworn to shut off their ears to the cries of the people. More worrying is its desperation to validate and exonerate itself in the face of the ever-increasing and ravaging consequences of its bad governance, poor economic policies and blatant disregard for rule of law, democratic and constitutional processes.

This desperation for validation has seen the government arrange series of protests and anti-protests with taxpayers’ money; the truth of which was partly exposed when the contracted protesters were caught sharing their monies publicly shortly after their protests. The government has also, very glaringly laboured so much to shut down voices of informed individuals who raise their voices against the injustices the citizens are faced with in this administration.

Here is a review of some of these orchestrated protests with incoherent story lines that did well to serve the purpose of distracting the public from the issues bothering them and unfortunately for the government, the actions tell of its desperation and propaganda.

Buhari Solidarity Rally By Ndi-Igbo Students in Abuja: How could one possibly understand that Igbo students, even students who are still dependent on their benefactors, would expend their precious academic-business time and hard sought monies to buy placards, create banners, customise T-shirts and caps, charter buses just to protest, much more for such a government as this, from whom Ndi-Igbo have suffered more marginalisation, deprivations and deaths, unprecedented in the history of civilian dispensations of Nigerian; a government of whom, the students would retire to their hostels amidst intense hunger with thirst and start cursing?

The 25, 000 Igbo Youths Protesting in Anambra: the Propaganda with a state as Anambra that has the most politically and culturally conservative but active Igbo people which is exemplified in their hold of native political institutions (party), e.g. APGA, elaborates the shamelessness and incompetence of this government. 25, 000 vibrant youths who loved Buhari so much that they could come out en masse to rally for him, one would wonder, should have won for Buhari some more votes than the paltry 17k he managed to hit in the past election.

Is it now that even the APC’s staunch supporters don't have a day pass-by without saying a curse word against the government for the hardship, economic hostilities and whatever one may consider bad governance this government has inflicted on the populace so far, that 25,000 youths would come out to rally for Buhari in an Igbo land; people whose mainstay is business and businesses are closing down for bad policies of the Buhari Administration? Can you beat that?

One may ponder, did the APC-led federal government readily organise these mob rallies to make the blind assertion that Buhari was active and that Nigerians who were beginning to see some instances of economic revival, some breeze of healthy policies, some steps of correction of the negative political trend set by the government as soon as Osibanjo took over, that Nigerians especially the Igbo, are happy to continue with the same inept and crippled government the President was and has again begun heading? Or, were they trying to distract the attention of Nigerians from the brouhaha that surrounded the London adventure of the president; from asking questions on how much of our national fund he expended in London in those 50 days of fanfare.

While the ill-conceived reasons of the government in staging the protests may be concealed, the public can not for sure, be totally ignorant of the fact that corruption is the centre-piece of the actions.

Tuface Championed #IStandWithNigeria Rally: all hell was let loose on the poor forerunner for damming consequences to speak up against the injustices we are all facing. It took off from propaganda from some deluded logic-deprived elements who had some coins pushed into their pockets just to desecrate the integrity of Tuface. They dug out outrageous and malicious claims from nowhere and unsuccessfully sort to distort the personality of Innocent Idibia. And as soon as Tuface backed out, they suddenly remembered they had starved their wives in the other room while they worked all night to deliver on the scripts of the government. No one heard their screams till today.

As soon as the vague rhetoric of the contracted lecturers began to wane, the script was shifted to the police. The Police would ensure they threatened Tuface to submission. They began with abhorrent threat that they would stop the protest because Tuface didn't have the capacity to manage the expected crowd expected to turn up. The public outcry that greeted the threat forced them to change tactics. This time, they concocted yet a more damning claim that Tuface had not obtained Police permit to protest. Did it not take the intervention of the perplexed populace to remind or better still, force the attention of the police to constitutional provisions that every citizen has the right to protest or rally in as much as such is peaceful and lawful and in fact, it is the duty of the Police to protect the protesters?

It was glaringly, a war against the music icon just to seize the voice of the populace he sought to lead. How well they managed to shift the focus of many from the fact that it was an organised body that called for the rally and Tuface was just a convener, was a serious concern on the gullibility of majority of Nigerians.

Threats to life Tuface received were just more for the defenseless musician to handle. Majority of Nigerians may not understand the seriousness of such threats probably because the empirical proof hardly comes public, but to outrightly discard such claims is unreasonable. Tuface feared for his life and backed off.

The Anti-#IstandwithNigeria Rally: they dubbed it pro-Buhari rally; how shallow and reason-deficient that was. In a bid to scuttle by all means possible, the #IstandwithNigeria Rally, a group of hunger-troubled individuals were called up and promised some stipends just to parade under the scorching sun and chant against the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Again, the desperation of the government came unclad. One, the rally was readily called up as it appeared that even though Tuface had pulled out of the planned nationwide rally, the rally was still gathering momentum and clearly would hold. Just same day, some individuals were gathered together and promised to be paid just to distract the #IStandWithNigeria protesters. Albeit, they were abandoned by same people that contracted them to protest and they had no option but to beg the same #IStandWithNigeria protesters as little as N100 to buy water and quench their thirst and, some even begged for transportation fare to go home as they said they were left stranded after some government officials promised them they would be paid after the protest.

Complete reading: http://igbobia.com/?q=the-propaganda-of-protests-and-rallies-by-the-apc-governmentan-attempt-to-distract-and-seize-the

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Alert:
I will soon make it to that list

Lol...Amen bro...your sobriquet already tells ur ambition.

Forbes, world reputable website for ranking of richest people in the world, has released the list of richest people in Nigeria in 2017.

In the latest release, 9 Nigerians made the billionaires club cut with some, just few million dollars away from reaching the benchmark.

Below are top 10 richest men in Nigeria according to Forbes ranking 2017, ranging from the least to the top.

10. Oba Otudeke: Oba Otudeke is the Chairman and founder of the honey well group. He is also the chairman of FBN Holdings Plc. His operations spread across oil and gas, flour minning, real estate, and marine transportation. Net Worth: $650 million.

9. Jim Oviah: Jim Oviah is the founder of Zenith Bank. He is the chairman and the largest shareholder with a stake of almost 10%.He also manages a mobile telecom Visafone which has over 3 million subscribers. Net Worth: $1 billion.

8. Orji Uzor Kalu: The former governor of Abia State. He is the founder and chairman of Slok Holding. A conglomerate with interest in shipping, banking, oil, trading, manufacturing and the media. He became a real business man at the age of 19 after being expelled from a Nigerian University for allegedly spearheading a series of student riots. Net Worth: $1.1 billion.

7. Tony Elumelu: A philanthropist and founder of the Transcorp and Heirs Holdings. He was the chairman of United Bank for Africa and was estimated to worth $1.4 billion.

6. Abdusalam Rabiu: Abdusalam is the founder of the famous BUA Group. A conglomerate active in sugar refining, cement production, real estate and port operations. In September 2015, his Group signed a $600 million deal with a chinease cement equipment service provider Sinoma Internation Engineering to construct a second production line located in Edo State Niger Delta, Nigeria. Net Worth: $1.5 billion.

5. Theophilus Danjuma: Former Nigerian Chief of Army staff between 1975 to 1979. He is the current chairman of Athlantic Petroleum. Net Worth: $1.7 billion.

4. Folorunsho Alakija: Folorunsho is a business tycoon who has interest in fashion,oil and printing industries. She is the richest Woman in Nigeria and the richest woman of the African descent in the world. Net Worth: $2.1 billion.

3. Femi Otedola: He is the CEO of Zenon Oil and Gas and Forte Oil Plc. He has interest in real estates amongst other sectors. Net Worth: $2.3 billion.

2. Mike Adenuga: Mike Adenuga is the second richest man in Nigeria with interest in Oil and Gas and telecoms. He is the owner of Globacom, Nigeria’s second biggest telecom operators and the chairman of Conoil. Net Worth: $10.5 billion.

1. Aliko Dangote: Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Nigeria, Africa and of course the richest black man in the world. In 2014, he ranked as the 24th richest man in the world but has since then fallen to positions below 100 due to Nigeria’s poor Naira. Net Worth: $12.5 billion.

http://igbobia.com/?q=forbes-releases-top-10-richest-men-in-nigeriano-igbo-person-in-the-top-5.html

cc: OAM4J, Mynd44, Lalasticlala

Ifeanyi Ubah, the owner of Capital Oil, has been arrested and detained by Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS).

The main reason is not yet known.

But the businessman had been previously implicated in a fraud saga with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

He was accused of embezzling funds from an illegal sale of crude oil saved in his facility.

One of his staff working on a project site in Anambra confirmed the arrest to DAILY POST.

He said news of the arrest was quietly discused by his superiors Thursday morning.

“The news is true. Our bosses wore long faces this morning. They have not said anything to us yet”, our source said.

Details later…

Credit: Daily Post

http://igbobia.com/?q=dss-arrests-detains-ifeanyi-ubah-for-undisclosed-reasons.html

softtouch2:
No credible and verified link to the source of the speech.
From blog to another quote of statement..

Igbobia.com is a forum...the original source is Emeka Maduewesi and he was accorded the right in the post....you can check him out on facebook.
On the authenticity of the write-up, if you dispute the truth, google may help you find some answers. You can as well get the proof you need on the site...www.igbobia.com as enlisted here

In the following address given eleven years before Nigerian independence, Nnamdi Azikiwe calls for self-determination for the Ibo as they along with other ethnic groups march toward an inevitably free Nigeria. This address was delivered at the Ibo State Assembly held at Aba, Nigeria, on Saturday, June 25, 1949.

Please read this address very closely and pateintly and see the higher plane Zik was operating from. No, it was not really a higher plane. It was and remains the Igbo plane. Zik did not want the Igbos to be controlled by anyone. He knew the Igbos were not controllable by outside forces. He wanted the Igbos to be within a federated framework, part of Commonwealth Nigeria and United States of Africa. And we worked for it.

After Salutations:
Harbingers of a new day for the Ibo nation, having selected me to preside over the deliberations of this assembly of the Ibo nation, I am conscious of the fact that you have not done so because of any extraordinary attributes in me. I realize that I am not the oldest among you, nor the wisest, nor the wealthiest, nor the most experienced, nor the most learned. I am therefore grateful to you for elevating me to this high pedestal.

The Ibo people have reached a cross-road and it is for us to decide which is the right course to follow. We are confronted with routes leading to diverse goals, but as I see it, there is only one road that I can safely recommend for us to tread, and it is the road to self-determination for the Ibo within the framework of a federated commonwealth of Nigeria and the Cameroons, leading to a United States of Africa. Other roads, in my opinion, are calculated to lead us astray from the path of national self-realization.

It would appear that God has specially created the Ibo people to suffer persecution and be victimized because of their resolute will to live. Since suffering is the label of our tribe, we can afford to be sacrificed for the ultimate redemption of the children of Africa. Is it not fortunate that the Ibo are among the few remnants of indigenous African nations who are still not spoliated by the artificial niceties of Western materialism? Is it not historically significant that throughout the glorious history of Africa, the Ibo is one of the select few to have escaped the humiliation of a conqueror’s sword or to be a victim of a Carthaginian treaty?

Search through the records of African history and you will fail to find an occasion when, in any pitched battle, any African nation has either marched across Ibo territory or subjected the Ibo nation to a humiliating conquest. Instead, there is record to show that the martial prowess of the Ibo, at all stages of human history, has rivaled them not only to survive persecution, but also to adapt themselves to the role thus thrust upon them by history, of preserving all that is best and most noble in African culture and tradition. Placed in this high estate, the Ibo cannot shirk the responsibility conferred on it by its manifest destiny. Having undergone a course of suffering the Ibo must therefore enter into its heritage by asserting its birthright, without apologies.

Follow me in a kaleidoscopic study of the Ibo. Four million strong in man-power! Our agricultural resources include economic and food crops which are the bases of modern civilization, not to mention fruits and vegetables which flourish in the tropics! Our mineral resources include coal, lignite, lead, antimony, iron, diatomite, clay, oil, tin! Our forest products include timber of economic value, including iroko and mahogany! Our fauna and flora are marvels of the world! Our land is blessed by waterways of world renown, including the River Niger, Imo River, Cross River! Our ports are among the best known in the continent of Africa. Yet in spite of these natural advantages, which illustrate without doubt the potential wealth of the Ibo, we are among the least developed in Nigeria, economically, and we are so ostracized socially, that we have become extraneous in the political institutions of Nigeria.

I have not come here today in order to catalogue the disabilities which the Ibo suffer, in spite of our potential wealth, in spite of our teeming man-power, in spite of our vitality as an indigenous African people; suffice it to say that it would enable you to appreciate the manifest destiny of the Ibo if I enumerated some of the acts of discrimination against us as a people. Socially, the British Press has not been sparing in describing us as ‘the most hated in Nigeria’. In this unholy crusade, the Daily Mirror, The Times, The Economist, News Review and the Daily Mail have been in the forefront. In the Nigerian Press, you are living witnesses of what has happened in the last eighteen months, when Lagos, Zaria and Calabar sections of the Nigerian Press were virtually encouraged to provoke us to tendentious propaganda. It is needless for me to tell you that today, both in England and in West Africa, the expression ‘Ibo’ has become a word of opprobrium.

Politically, you have seen with your own eyes how four million people were disenfranchized by the British, for decades, because of our alleged backwardness. We have never been represented on the Executive Council, and not one Ibo town has had the franchise, despite the fact that our native political institutions are essentially democratic—in fact, more democratic than any other nation in Africa, in spite of our extreme individualism.

Economically, we have laboured under onerous taxation measures, without receiving sufficient social amenities to justify them. We have been taxed without representation, and our contributions in taxes have been used to develop other areas, Out of proportion to the incidence of taxation in those areas. It would seem that we are becoming a victim of economic annihilation through a gradual but studied process. What are my reasons for cataloguing these disabilities and interpreting them as calculated to emasculate us, and so render us impotent to assert our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

I shall now state the facts which should be well known to any honest student of Nigerian history. On the social plane, it will be found that outside of Government College at Umauhia, there is no other secondary school run by the British Government in Nigeria in Ibo-land. There is not one secondary school for girls run by the British Government in our part of the country. In the Northern and Western Provinces, the contrary is the case. If a survey of the hospital facilities in Ibo-land were made, embarrassing results might show some sort of discrimination. Outside of Port Harcourt, fire protection is not provided in any Ibo town. And yet we have been under the protection of Great Britain for many decades!

On the economic plane, I cannot sufficiently impress you because you are too familiar with the victimization which is our fate. Look at our roads; how many of them are tarred, compared, for example, with the roads in other parts of the country? Those of you who have travelled to this assembly by road are witnesses of the corrugated and utterly unworthy state of the roads which traverse Ibo-land, in spite of the fact that four million Ibo people pay taxes in order, among others, to have good roads. With roads must be considered the system of communications, water and electricity supplies. How many of our towns, for example, have complete postal, telegraph, telephone and wireless services, compared to towns in other areas of Nigeria? How many have pipe-borne water supplies? How many have electricity undertakings? Does not the Ibo tax-payer fulfill his civic duty? Why, then, must he be a victim of studied official victimization?

Today, these disabilities have been intensified. There is a movement to disregard traditional organization in the Ibo nation by the introduction of a specious system of a form of local government. The placing of the Ibo nation in an artificial regionalization scheme has left an unfair impression of attempted domination by minorities of the Ibo people. In the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council the electoral college system has aided in the complete disenfranchisement of the Ibo. As a climax, spurious leadership is being foisted upon us—a mis-leadership which receives official recognition, thus stultifying the legitimate aspirations of the Ibo. This leadership shows a palpable disloyalty to the Ibo and loyalty to an alien protecting power.

The only worthwhile stand we can make as a nation is to assert our right to self-determination, as a unit of a prospective Federal Commonwealth of Nigeria and the Cameroons, where our rights will be respected and safeguarded. Roughly speaking, there are twenty main dialectal regions in the Ibo nation, which can be conveniently departmentalized as Provinces of an Ibo State, to wit: Mbamili in the northwest, Aniocha in the west, Anidinma and Ukwuani in the southeast, Nsukka and Udi in the north, Awgu, Awka and Onitsha in the centre, Ogbaru in the south, Abakaliki and Afikpo in the northwest, Okigwi, Orlu, Owerri and Mbaise in the east, Ngwa, Bende, Abiriba Ohafia and Etche in the southwest. These Provinces can have their territorial boundaries delimited, they can select their capitals, and then can conveniently develop their resources both for their common benefit and for those of the other nationalities who make up this great country called Nigeria and the Cameroons.

The keynote in this address is self-determination for the Ibo.
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ScarletOverkill:
Nkwuocha.
Mmanya nkwu.

Which one be mmanya ngwo? I keep mixing it up in my head.

The boy in the picture take style fine sha

Mmanya ngwo bu nke si n'elu osisi ana akpo ngwo...Mmanya nkwu bu nke si n'elu osisi nkwu.
Mmadu nwere ike ikpo ha abuo nkwuocha...

I daria nwanne

[b]Anyi na akpọ ya nkwụ ọcha...nkwụ elu

Odogwu nwafor ma ife anaru, si n'obodo Imo...[/b]Actor, Michael Godson Ifeanyichukwu shared it on his Instagram handle @mikegodson7 and ooooah!! the palm wine is too fresh.

How can we run away from our culture; our identity, what defines us? Even when we try, it comes back hunting us; running after us and shouting "give me attention!!"

Mike understood that and that was why he wrote alongside the picture "When your igbo culture keeps hunting you...." with these hashtags "#PalmWine #IgboBoy #SonOfTheSoil #TushMbaiseBoy"

Chukwu gozie ana/ala igbo...
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I've just bought the book, Far Away in the Sky: A Memoir of the Biafran Airlift Paperback – by David L. Koren (Author) 
A BIAFRA HERO

Some were paid. Some felt compelled by a duty to God. Some volunteered. Some died doing it. All flew on rickety old aircraft into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra. "Far Away in the Sky" gives the personal account of one of them, a young American volunteer who joined the largest civilian humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. In 1968 millions of people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria.

The World Council of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift. Flying at night to avoid Nigerian MiGs, without radar or any modern navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and medicines. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes.

The former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the area and the people. To David Koren the people of Biafra, his former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for joining the airlift. “Sometimes after unloading our planes in the dark, we evacuated children in the final stages of starvation. One boy, lying limp on a mat near the plane, looked up at me in the gloom and said, ‘My father, why don’t you speak to me? Don’t you know me?’ As he was about to pass into eternity he felt that no one - not his father, not God, no one - knew who he was. He survived. He grew up to be a successful adult. He has a name. Nearly a half a century later, because I wrote "Far Away in the Sky", I learned his name. Now I want you to know his name.” More than the story of a daring humanitarian rescue, this book reveals the astonishing future of the rescued children and their descendants.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

My mother told me to write this book. She is 95 years old, and she handed me a bundle of letters that I had sent her from Africa 50 years ago. She said, "You write very well, and you need to tell this story." I served in the United States Peace Corps in Nigeria in 1964, 1965, and 1966, and I wrote home about it. Since we had no instantaneous electronic communications back then, letters contained a lot of detail and feeling.

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