Here is an official photograph of the first 30 Nigerian officers in Nigeria's military.
Date: June, 1959
Left to right sitting: Captain Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Captain Philip Effiong, Captain Umeh Ogere Imo, Major Samuel Adesoji Ademulegun, Major Wellington Bassey,...
Major General Norman Forster (GOC, Nigerian Army), Major Aguiyi Ironsi, Major Ralph Adetunji Shodeinde, Captain Zakaria Maimalari, Captain Conrad Nwawo, Captain David Akpode Ejoor.
2nd Row Standing: Lt Igboba, Lt George Remunoiyowun Kurubo, (non Nigerian standing next to Kurubo), Lt J Akahan Akaga, Lt Patrick Awunah, Lt Louis Ogbonnia, Lt Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Lt Eyo Ekpo, Lt Author Unegbe, Lt Abogo Largema.
The very first Nigerian to be commissioned officer was "Wellington Bassey" with Army number (N1). Two months later, "Aguiyi Ironsi" (N2) and "Samuel A. Ademulegun" (N3) were also commissioned. A short while later, "Ralph Adetunji Shodeinde" (N4) was also commissioned officer.
Mobutu Sese Seko, also called Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, original name Joseph (Désiré) Mobutu, (born October 14, 1930, Lisala, Belgian Congo [now Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died September 7, 1997, Rabat, Morocco), president of Zaire...
(now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) who seized power in a 1965 coup and ruled for some 32 years before being ousted in a rebellion in 1997.
Mobutu was educated in missionary schools and began his career in 1949 in the Belgian Congolese army, the Force Publique, rising from a clerk to a sergeant major, the highest rank then open to Africans.
A shocking example from history:
How powerful can the generational influence of parents be on their own family and descendants?
In 1874 a member of the New York State Prison Board noticed that six members of the same family were incarcerated at the same time.
The board did some research, looking back a few generations to try to find the original couple who initiated this tragic family legacy.
They traced the family line back to an ancestor born in 1720, a man considered lazy and godless with a reputation as the town troublemaker.
He was also an alcoholic and viewed as having low moral character. To make matters worse, he married a woman who was much like himself, and together they had six daughters and two sons.
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The Truth My Fulani Friends Must Accept
“ Everything that has a beginning must have an end.
As they say on the street:
“ E fit take time, but one day, one day, Monkey go go market”
“I love this quote about injustice:
"Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating.
Buffett's Berkshire taps yen debt with $ 1.5 Billion Offering.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Warren Buffett evaluated the yen-denominated bonds as yen yields fell to their lowest in more than two years, resulting in Berkshire Hathaway selling $ 1.5 billion of bonds.
Average spreads on local Japanese corporate bonds fell to about 29 basis points, the lowest since December 2018, after the Bank of Japan adjusted its monetary policy. The offer allows Japanese investors to buy shares of a well-known international firm while receiving slightly...
higher returns than are usually offered on the local market, as reported Bloomberg.
As part of the deal, Berkshire Hathaway valued the 10-year bonds at 80 billion yen with a 0.437% coupon, compared with about 0.1% on Japanese government debt of the same maturity.
“I was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament on December 12, 1959. And I remained in parliament until January 15, 1966 when the government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet.
I woke up one morning in my official house in Ikoyi, Lagos, to discover that my telephone was not working. I had never experienced coup before nor did I know that it was a coup. I was thinking it was just a telephone fault, until a colleague of mine in the cabinet, ...
Chief Abiodun Akerele, came in and told me there had been a military coup. So, I had the fortune or the misfortune of being a victim of the first coup in this country.
Many people may not know that I spent 18 months in detention in various prisons across the country.
IMA MMOWU (INITIATON INTO THE MASQUERADE CULT) IN ARONDIZUOGU AS DESCRIBED BY MAZI MBONU OJIKE
“In my town no boy can be considered adult until he has performed the Imamowu rituals. He must earn enough money by his own labour to pay the huge fees ranging from 3 to 30 pounds.
He must provide ten mounds of utara, or pounded yam meal, which no two persons heaving together could lift up an inch from the floor. He must provide other edibles and drinkables upon which the members must feast until their stomachs appear to be bursting.
At midnight he is led into a dark room where he is frightened by a masked mowu or juju. The mowu puts a reed between his jaws and talks like the spirit. The boy must shake hands with him. Then they converse in a friendly way about society and its needs.