I've just returned from a 10 day quasi official trip to BiafraNigeria. I tried to log on from PH but the thing was taking forever! Time is still at a premium at my end but I hope to eventually settle down to give you an account on what's g'wan in that place.
Some brain teasers for you:
Where is the new refuse dump in Udenwa's capital Owerri?
Ans: At the centre of Douglas Road stretching over 1/2 KM.
When was the last time my 79 yr old papa, a WW2 veteran who served BiafraNigeria for another 35yrs get paid his pension?
Ans: Sometime towards the end of last year!
What are you likely to see in the middle of the road as you approach the rail track near Milverton junction in Orji Kalu's Aba?
Ans: The bloated Torso of a generation 60 - 70+ Igbo apparently killed elsewhere and dumped on the motor way!
Who acts as traffic warden in the often chaotic Port Harcourt roads?
Ans: A mad man.....and he's been interviewed by the TV. Other touts are fast following in his foot steps in places like Aba.
What does RED mean in Aba traffic lights?
Ans: Nothing.......they horn at you if you stop at a red light!
What was Ajala Obasanjo's itinerary for the period under review?
Ans: Australia, Lybia, Holland, England, Zimbabwe and Mexico!
What is Orji kalu's latest Chieftancy title from Ngwa land in preparation for his show down with Ojo Maduekwe and the Aremu men?
Ans: Agwo turu mbe...... !
How did Ojo Maduekwe fare with his bicycle in his hilly Asaga Ohafia village during the last Christmas hols?
Ans: Not very well. The Ohafia youth told him to do away with his Motor vehicular escort since they were a nuisance and took up more than a person's share of the road. Another thing, The Ohafia Youth Movement has concluded plans to declare him a PNG (go figure) if he doesn't ammend his ways.
What makes the water sold by hawkers "pure" in BiafraNigeria?
Ans: Writing some funny number called NAFDAC on the nylon container - It doesn't mean nought that you can see all sorts swimming in the "pure water"!
Will the Igbo control the commerce in Abuja?
Ans: Nope, the Lebanese(IBB's gambling mates) are in firm control!
Did Ohafia see Tunde Bakare?
Ans: Yes, Aremu still had his ppt.
Did Ohafia see Uwazurike and/or Okwukwu?
Ans: Nope!
Sorry guys, but I've got to hit the sacks as I've got to go to work tomorrow. See you later!
PS: I put on about 3 KG in weight from drinking all sorts to try and cool down.
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Welcome back. The sight of dead bodies littering a street in Igboland is a sign that Igboland is being Yorubanized. Until recently, such things could only be seen in Lagos, Abeokuta, Ife, and the Ibadan areas.
The "Agwo turu mbe ..." a.k.a. Orji Uzor Kalu branch of Bakassi Boys should at least have the decency to properly dispose of those bodies.
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The Aba bakassi has messed up big time! They now double as "debt/rent collectors" and willing assassins.
Why I certainly think rigor mortis has set in is that I was the only one in the taxi that was shocked at the sight of the torso. The other passengers just shrugged their shoulders and carried on as though nothing had happened.
I made an effort to see Orji Kalu but was told he wasn't available. I wanted to advise the young man to build something(one thing) that will out-last his regime like an independent power project. All these noise about roads and bore holes(which even Ohafia has sunk) will not last.
As for Chief Udenwa, he has shared out the Imo treasury between himself and his ex colleagues at MCC where he was an accountant. His achievement in his own words is that he restored Ahiajioku lecture and dresses in Igbo traditional attire. Pass me the sick bag!
Will be back
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Welcome back my brother. No human can really explain what goes on BiafraNigeria without acknowledging the inhumanity of that nations inhabitants. If it was only one wasted Biafran you saw at Aba, how lucky you must have been.I got the whole enchilada at control post owerri last year. Bakassi entertained the audience with a human bornfire of three young men, I am yet to recover from that sordid experience.
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It is amazing how much the so called South East has deteriorated in the hands of the Abuja errand boyz.
The sad thing is that Bakassi are not there when you really need them. The past time of armed Lagos rougues is to way-lay Igbo people travelling by the overnight coaches somewhere around Shagamu. They armed robbers just kill as many as they wish and then ransack the rest of the passengers relieving them of their hard-earned money.
I'd travelled by the overnight coach(Chisco) from Aba to Lagos and was just observing the body language of the so called armed escorts to see how these things operate. All the buses carry armed escorts who searched all the passengers at the embarkation point ensuring they are unarmed. My position was: why disarm innocent passengers only to lead them into the hands of armed marauders?
My trip also took me to the South West. I noticed that the dualisation of Ibadan-Ife- Ondo road was progressing at a fast pace. Now compare that to the perennial dualisation of Asaba-Onitsha road which is one of those things they mention for the fun of it. Meanwhile the Enugu-Aba-PH road is still an eye sore!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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My recent trip was an eye-opener in more than one way.
I was amazed to see our guys at Aba and PH generating their own power using generators "assembled" in-house.
They guys will just acquire any engine including garri or corn grinder and then buy an alternator and hey presto, they'll start generating. When I asked my friend(an Electrical Engineer) how they tackled environmental issues like noise at al, he just chuckled and told me that the Volkswagen "Beetle" exhaust manifold was the perfect answer to the noise wahalah.
However, my friend waffled when I asked about other concerns like mounting and cooling arrangement that will eliminate vibration and ensure smooth running, AVR(automatic Voltage Regulator) etc etc. Na wah O!
On the posher scale is the use of Datsun Laurel 2.0 or a car engine of a similar capacity. I was told it gives the smoothest running but their was no word on the IP(Ingress protection), mounting and cooling considerations since the originally intended design environment has altered.
It was while I was still taking it all in that I read in the Yoruba Punch that the so called improvement in Power supply announced in Dec 2001 has fallen by 25%. That is the trouble with BiafraNigeria: making the most basic stuff seem like rocket science!
Next..... internet/cyber cafe and home made masts: The new money spinner!
Stay glued....
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Talking about the Aba ingenuity, I noticed a great deal of the shoes in BiafraNigeria are manufactured at Aba. The quality of these products seemed quite impressive for the level of technology being employed, most manufacturers are one room operations.I also came accross grinding machines fully manufactured in Aba, how they forge the steel parts remains a mystery to me. The engines appear to be diesel powered to completly avoid any dependence on NEPA. Whoever can organize these guys would have unleashed a tiger in Africa.
The so called Igbo leaders should be encouraging more of this and I think the Nnewi and Aba folks have done a great job so far (I know Aremu would have cursed secretly when he saw how determined Biafrans were on his last visit to Nnewi ).To be honest small scale manufacturing remains the most tangible means of lifting Biafra from it's economic misery, and guess what? it does not cost that much believe me.
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Welcome back. You are like Lucille, (Kenny Rogers' Lucille); you picked the right time to leave. While you were gone, a coterie of hatchet-jobbers took their stab at this forum and its members. Blackmail and 419 schemes concocted in New Jersey, incubated in London, and hatched in Boston, MA, were sent to New York where they were botched during delivery.
I missed most of the fireworks on this forum when the plot started. Next time you have a "hunch," LOL! and you decide to travel, give me a holler. Did I say "hunch?" memories, memories! I have a few places I'd rather be sometimes than deal with some of those crackpots.
Keep it flowing brother.
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quote:I've just returned from a 10 day quasi official trip to BiafraNigeria. I tried to log on from PH but the thing was taking forever!
Ohafia, Ohafia:
For the past few weeks, Anu Nti has been trying to convince all of us that he is in Nigeria or is it Biafra? He manages to have the best Internet connection in the world from his home town in Biafra. You were in Nigeria. For 10 days, you could not make a post. That is my experience with the Internet in Nigeria.
I used to think that all you Igbos knew each other. Now, I know better. Some of you need to get to know Anu Nti. He knows something about the Internet that none of you seem to know.
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All, Ohafia just confirmed what I wrote on this board when I returned from BiafraNigeria. Sad that ever since I made those posts (almost haf a year)nothing has changed in eastern part of that damned country. No sincere Igboman will after visiting the East will come back and still be proud of coming from that country. Sometimes one is forced to ask if Ojo Maduekwe and his Abuja jobmen really have conscience, not to talk of shame to be defending Obasanjo's anti Igbo government. Unfortunately, the Southeastern Governors, Councillors and other elected Is it selected) officials are not better than Obasanjo and his Igbo errand boys.
Idowu, What do you expect in a country like Nigeria of over 120 million inhabitants with those owning Personal Computers in the thousands? Does it also make meaning if those connected to the Internet (public and private) in Nigeria are less than those enjoying same service in a remote village in Germany? For the records: those connected to the Net in all of Africa are FIVE TIMES less than those connected to the Internet in London alone. Brother think deep.
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quote:Talking about the Aba ingenuity, I noticed a great deal of the shoes in BiafraNigeria are manufactured at Aba. The quality of these products seemed quite impressive for the level of technology being employed, most manufacturers are one room operations.I also came accross grinding machines fully manufactured in Aba, how they forge the steel parts remains a mystery to me. The engines appear to be diesel powered to completly avoid any dependence on NEPA. Whoever can organize these guys would have unleashed a tiger in Africa.
My brother, I agree with you 100%. The proplem is that the tiny cabal that rule BiafraNigeria do not want the tiger unleashed. There was a time when "Aba made" became such a derogatory term that my friends decided to be taking their finished shoe products first to Cameroun and then back to BiafraNigeria. Believe me, it worked! BiafraNigerians would rather pay more since they have been brought up to believe that money (and not the culinary skills) makes a good soup. Idowu's people say "obe todun owo l'okpa"
BiafraNigeria has bluntly and persistently refused to assist our guys in any form or shade except to tax them in a most ruthless and embarrassing fashion(they stop people at Aba and confiscate your shoe or wrist watch if you can't produce your tax receipt). I just read in yesterday's Vanguard:
quote:Speaking on the decision of the council, Gov. Odili said an increase of 100 per cent was approved for tariff on imported food items. He stated that the customs had already been briefed on the approval.
Just like that! Will they ever make a decision that will encourage our budding engineers and inventors. I remember once when I went to see a friend at Nnewi in 1990. He wanted to buy a new but cost effective motor bike and so we just went to this humble mechanic who just gave us a list of things(parts) to buy. By the next morning the mechanic had assembled and tested my friends brand new bike which came at about 45% of the cost of the ready made one. Can you believe it is almost 10 years since Izuogu's car was featured in BBC-24 being test-driven by cry baby Diya? Yet today BiafraNigeria are quite happy to continue to patronize the French and the Germans.
Masts & Internet: The NU Craze in BiafraNigeria
BiafraNigerians are becoming more aware of the internet by the day. Places like Lagos and PH are pretty well saturated now with Cyber caffes. Prices for internet telephony and surfing range from 90 - 150 BiafraNigerian Naira.
You can usually tell a cyber cafe is in sight from the imposing but crude masts which will send shivers down the spine of safety-conscious Engineer. The masts are made by our very own welders and serve to boost or enhance the signal at the cafe. I came away wondering what would happen if Captain Disaster decided to go for a Chopper or Jet ride in a dark night when NEPA had struck. Our people haven't bothered to put a battery powered flashing L.E.D(Light Emmiting Diode) to warn air traffic about the presence of these monstrously high structures.
The above observations not with standing, internet Cafes are helping a lot of BiafraNigerians provide for their families. A good location with a thick population density sure counts in addition to a reliable Generator. A guy with 5 slow PCs could expect an average of 10,000 BiafraNigerian Naira per/day.
Coming next.... Operation tax everything: Tinubu's fund raising schemes!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Thanks for welcoming me. For obvious reasons, I have NO comment on the WW3 that is playing out before us. My hope is that one day some people will sit down and ask themselves why a simple little happy party that went "wexie" or pear-shaped should be allowed to degenerate into a full blown cyber-war. The positive thing that's emerged is that the Igbo are not as politically docile as people think considering the time and energy paople devoted to recruit people to their "curse" in this saga. Nuff said!
You further wrote:
quote:Next time you have a "hunch," LOL! and you decide to travel, give me a holler. Did I say "hunch?" memories, memories! I have a few places I'd rather be sometimes than deal with some of those crackpots.
Hmmmm... my "travel" is still being debated. It's been called AWOL et al. You'll have to convince me you can stomach being lied against without retaliating. Anyway, hope you're keeping well.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote:Ohafia, Ohafia: For the past few weeks, Anu Nti has been trying to convince all of us that he is in Nigeria or is it Biafra? He manages to have the best Internet connection in the world from his home town in Biafra. You were in Nigeria. For 10 days, you could not make a post. That is my experience with the Internet in Nigeria.
Na wah for you O!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote:The positive thing that's emerged is that the Igbo are not as politically docile as people think considering the time and energy paople devoted to recruit people to their "curse" in this saga. by Ohafia Udumeze
Ohafia
You were not present when the wars took place at egbeomooduduwa.com. But, when you were banned at egebeomooduduwa.com, you experienced, in a short version, the arbitrary and discriminatory behavior of Chuck Odili and his friends at egbeomo.com, including Rudolf Okonkwo, Laolu Akande, and Steve Nwabuzor.
I have never forgotten because Rudolf Okonkwo and Laolu Akande were pivotal in getting me banned at egebeomo.com. Just before I was banned, Laolu Akande and Rudolf Okonkwo said that they were "lifting Olympus." Damian and I were the Olympus. Ndubuisi Obiora has joined Rudolf and Laolu Akande.
There was a war against Biafrans and Nd'Igbo at egbeomooduduwa.com. I took part in that war, fighting for Biafra, and we won when BiafraNigeriaWorld was established. Anyone reading the osu/efulefu script by Rudolf and nobiorah should be very careful. Amanda was not relevant back then, and I don't really have time to spend talking about Amanda.
Unfortunately, Chuck Odili is broke, and he no longer has the archive. I cannot direct you to the links where we battled the Yoruba, the Idoma, the Tiv, the Hausa, and the rest of them. But, even chuck Odili himself was using his many handles at egebeomooduduwa.com to attack the Biafrans.
Personally, I received all sorts of insults from Yoruba people and some Igbo-Yorubas, like Chuba, because I was supporting Damian, Biafra, Ambrose, or Anu Nti. This is why Anu Nti has proved to be such a disappointment.
To date, Damian has never disappointed. I can proudly say that Damian is an Igbo man's Igbo man. Damian is what Ojukwu refers to as Igbo gboro Igbo. If Igboland had five people like Damian, Biafra would be a forgone conclusion.
No Igbo man should turn himself into a bride to be woed by the true Igbo and by the osu/efulefu Igbo. Biafra needs people who have made up their minds. At the critical time, and when it really counted, Rudolf sided with Yoruba people. Rudolf and Laolu Akanda worked with Chuck Odili to drive Igbo people and Biafrans out of egbeomooduduwa.com.
Although I could not support BiafraNigeriaWorld financially, this site has all the moral support I can give. Anyone messing with BiafraNigeriaWorld is an enemy of Biafra. They are messing with the only voice that young Igbo and Biafrans have. So, anyone that is playing beautiful bride can just go on to egbeomooduduwa.com right now.
Oruele mgbe anyi ji awa anya. Onye ujo abiala nga anyi na awa anya!Posts: 199 | From: Saratoga, CA. USA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Next time you come to Nigeria, let me know and I will hook you up on the Internet.
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My position should be quite clear from posts. My personal commitment is to make this place worth visiting. If anybody has a problem with that, tough!
Ohafia cannot say I like this place in August 11 2001 and then turn round in March 2002 and say "close the damn thing down " It is not my style and I have no intention of changing.
When the real Ten-part-series war begins, then I'll make myself clearer! Gentle and weak are poles apart and we will give stuff new definition when the time comes. No cheap publicity to name/attention seekers for now.
When the come comes; the happen will happen ~ K O Mbadiwe
When fire meets fire; pity will pity ~ Orji Uzor Kalu
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Next time you come to Nigeria, let me know and I will hook you up on the Internet.
Folanke, Folanke:
What can I do without you. Does this offer include other towns apart from Lagos?
It was a very frustrating experience. I also had to adapt my power point presentation to OHP acetate after I discovered the hotel conference room lacked the projector I required.
Happy Easter!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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No one in their right mind can doubt your mettle. When the efulefus resume their 10-part series, we shall meet them at Igbo forum.
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I won't allow you guys to derail this thread. Nuff said!
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Bola Ahmed Tinubu: The making of a roguish thug!
Senator Governor Alhaji Chief "Ashiwaju" Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a thug, an area boy born and bred at Mushin. Mushin is the jungle in Lagos and was the scene of the recent ethnic war between nomadic awusa fulani and Mushin area boys. Thugs are by nature a very insecure people most of whom had suffered a lot of deprivation earlier in life. This insecurity could drive them to an unhealthy crave for wealth or anything that could patch up their inferiority complex. For Tinubu the crave for fame, wealth and recognition sticks like a second skin.
Tinubu had claimed a Chicago University degree, a college he was never enrolled in for one day. He has recently got himself crowned "Ashiwaju" (which means leader in Yoruba) and introduces himself as Governor Senator Tinubu just so we don't forget that he'd spent a few days in the BiafraNigerian Senate. By far his most laughable megalomanic exhibition was a picture I saw during my recent visit. The picture showed a be-spectacled(round glasses) and moronic looking Tinubu's portrait sandwitched between similar bespactacled portraits of Obafemi Awolowo and Mahatma Ghandi, with the following caption: "Great minds think alike". Not much there, afterall, even Abacha fancied himself as George Washington and had pictures made showing the duo(Abacha and GW) in military uniform.
Biafranigerian thugs are very resourceful especially where revenue drive is involved. They gave the world the indeginious wooden plank and nail barricade which ensures that motorists either pay up or have their tyre deflated at a cheaper cost than a police bullet. Ahmed Tinubu has brought his thuggery fund drive methods into the government house at Alausa.
He has dispatched his boys into every nook and cranny of Lagos to go and renumber Lagos properties to ensure the numbers are more orderly. Before you ask wetin concern agbero with orderliness? , let me just say that Tinubu expects the owners of every property that he "re/numbers" to part with 500 BiafraNigerian Naira! Just imagine the sort of fund he will have available to take on his opponents et al. And this is only one aspect of his taxing madness.
One up for the area boys.
Epilogue :
I've just discharged myself from hospital having been under admission for malaria since the night of the Easter Sunday. I'm still under medication and rest but I couldn't resist! Make sure you do your Malaria prevention stuff before you set out to BN. Malaria is treated as Rocket Science in oyibo land!
One line that greeted me everywhere I went in BiafraNigeria was : "With Condom, I dey Kamkpe" . Maybe my own motto will have to be: "With malaria prevention, I dey kamkpe". Last year I got away with it, but not this year.
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