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3 Feb

Editorial on #Nigeria
(62 years ago)
The Time Magazine 10th November 1958.

INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT DIFFICULTIES IS A DREAM OF UTOPIA.
For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerians—some with necklaces of animal teeth, others with...

feathered straw hats, at least one with a jeweled crown—parade into Lancaster House for their historic conference.
Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home.

For the Colonial Office's big reception at the Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount Chief—His Highness James Okosi II of Onitsha —fulfilled a lifelong ambition:

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2 Feb

FRANCISCO FRANCO
A historical thread.
The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the

democratically elected Second Republic. Adopting the title of “El Caudillo” (The Leader), Franco persecuted political opponents, repressed the culture and language of Spain’s Basque and Catalan regions, censured the media and otherwise exerted absolute control over the country.

Some of these restrictions gradually eased as Franco got older, and upon his death the country transitioned to democracy.
Franco: The Early Years
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born on December 4, 1892, in El Ferrol, a small coastal town on Spain’s northwestern tip.

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29 Jan

Of Voting But Not Being Voted For: The Hausa Plaintive Cry On Recovering Their Lost Kingdoms.

These Kingdoms were viable in virtually every aspect of human endeavour at that time. I should draw the readers attention to the meaning of the Hausa word ”Banza”. Banza, is a ...

derogatory word which means worthless or anything that is of lower quality which clearly showed a marked distinction between the Hausa Bakwai and the Banza Bakwai Kingdoms.
There may have been the pastoral or nomadic Fulani as part of the population in these Kingdoms but not...

much if anything was recorded in this respect. The Fulani got a mention when migrants from the general area of the Futa Djalon foothills and the SeneGambia region in West Africa arrived Gobir not long before 1800.

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Olaudah Equiano®

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28 Jan

When falling to the Earth, a celestial body in most cases falls apart in the atmosphere into smaller debris, forming a meteor shower, without reaching the earth's surface intact. Another option assumes that the speed of the falling body upon collision with the Earth will be...

sufficient to cause an explosion, as a result of which it will explode, and an impact crater will form at the site of the fall.
But it also happens that meteorites reach the Earth in relative safety, and also do not lead to a crater.

A striking example of this is the Goba meteorite with a mass of 66 tons, which fell to Earth about 80 thousand years ago. No crater was found at the site of its fall, and it is surprising that such a massive body did not explode in the atmosphere.

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Olaudah Equiano®

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27 Jan

Later today, I'll be tweeting on the origins and history of the Ika people of Anioma. Please turn on notifications if you're interested.

The Origins And History Of Ika People of Anioma.

Ika communities mostly comprise the following: Agbor, Owa, Umunede, Mbiri, Abavo, Orogodo, Otolokpo, Igbodo, Ute-Okpu, Ute-Ugbeje, Idumuesah, Akumazi, Ekpon (Edo State), Igbanke (Edo State), Inyelen Edo State).

The Ika people are specifically located in the North-West of Delta State but some like Igbanke, Inyelen and Ekpon are presently located in Edo State.
Other Ika communities found in Edo State are Owanikeke, Owa-Riuzo Idu and Igbogili.

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26 Jan

There're six different trajectories to a career in politics in Nigeria.
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When you join politics, you choose the segment to pursue depending on your ambition, traits, education, pedigree etc.
These are:
1. Those that stand for elective offices.
2. The Godfathers

3. Those that seek for appointive offices.
4. Those that seek for party offices and control.
5. Those that seek for business derivable from the government through membership of the party in power.
6. The enforcers or political thugs.

These are usually criminal elements in the society who have worked their way up from petty crimes, to become recognized party thugs. The pedestal is usually through the membership of NURTW. This again is reserved for folks with scant education, but that wouldn't have any scruples

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