"Do you want normal process or you want me to help you?"
The question roared into my ears this morning as I rushed into this office for some documentation.
I smiled when the man on a senator dress and yellow nose-mask hanging on his jaw asked me that.
I was stopped by the security guys who cornered me into the security room. They tried everything possible to extort money from me, I told them I wasn't in a hurry. I allowed them to give me all the information I needed unbeknownst to them.
Once I got it, I told them I hate cutting corners.
Now I was at the right office, the man who was paid to do the job also wanted me to pay bribe of 10k before he could submit my documents for signatory. Remember, I have done everything I was expected to do.
But the rumpled-face man ihu dị ka nke nwa mkpị ṅụrụ ara ọkụ wanted a bribe before submitting my file.
"I want a normal process", I said.
He frowned his face like nsị a gbara catapult. .
I saw him submitting other documents of those who bribed him and left my file on the table.
I quietly sat down somewhere, pressing my phone and receiving sweet sensational cold chilling out from the Air Conditioner. He looked at me, maybe he was thinking son of man is ajebutter
Ọ marọ na mụ atago concrete na Congo. Nwoke atago nchara n'ógbè.
I was so unconcerned and unperturbed, he left his table and came to me.
"You'll leave here by 3:00 PM today. If you do something, you will leave here now".
"No problem sir. I have no wives and children at home", I said.
He sighed and paused, I paused; both of us paused
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This man is Okoko Ndem. The second most wanted person by Nigerian government after Ojukwu.
Who was Okoko Ndem?
Okoko Ndem was from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. He was in charge of media— Radio Biafra between 1967—1970.
The manner and how he reported cases got the federal troops and outsiders more confused. He was a strength to the Biafrans during the war. After speaking for length he would say: "onye ndị iro gbara gburugburu na-eche ndụ ya nche mgbe niile". He who is surrounded by his enemies
watch after his life all the time.
Nobody knew where he was broadcasting from. But the frequency of Radio Biafra was everywhere. Radio Biafra then was located at the Bunker, now called Ojukwu Bunker in Ụmụahịa. Okoko Ndem was a fluent Igbo speaker. He switched anytime too.
Headtie or headgear in Igbo is called ịchafu, right?
Yes.
But do you know that ịchafu is okwumbite? It is a loan word or borrowed word from French language.
Let's look at the etymology of ịchafụ. It is derived from the French word "chiffon" or "couvre-chef"
which means headgear or scarf. The "couvre-chef" or "chiffon" from the French word gave our people the domestication of the word "ịchafu". To show more emphasis on this, some regard it as "ịchafu isi".
Do you know what our forebears called such? It is not gele.
Gele is a Yoruba word, not Igbo word. It is not ịchafu— a domestication from French.
Now the original and old names for it is:
Ụnarị
or
Ụnalị
or
Ụlarị
I am sure this might be the first time you are hearing this.
Infinitive Verbs in Igbo Language: a Grammatical Perspective
In this article, we are going to discuss infinitive in Igbo language. What is infinitive?
Infinitive is the basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense.
In Igbo language, infinitive comes in form of prefix attached before a verb root. The letters used to represent infinitive in Igbo language are:
* i and
* ị
These two letters are attached as a prefix before a verb root (isingwaa) and vowel harmony known as ndakọrịta ụdaume must be observed. So, "i" or "ị" must follow vowel harmony thereby corresponding with the same class as any vowel making up the verb root. Example.
Mee 30, 1967
Mma abaghị ji
Ekwu esinwukwaghị ite
Ọchịchịrị gbara n'igwe
Chi ewere ehihie jie
Mee 30, 1967
Ara nne tara
Nne enweghị ara ọ na-enye nwa
Nwa enweghị ọnụ o ji aṅụ ara
Nna enweghị ahụ o ji arụ ọrụ
Mee 30, 1967
Mpịtị kwere
Opi nọ n'ọsọ
Nsụka nọ n'ọsọ
Ala Igbo niile nọ n'ọsọ
Mpịtị kwere
Ọsọ
Ọsọ ndụ
Ọsọ ndụ agwụ Ike
Ndị nọ Ọnịcha agbagawa Ụmụahịa
Ndị nọ Ụmụahịa agbagawa Ọnịcha
Onye nọrọ ebe ọ nọ,
Ebe ọ nọghị ana-agụ ya
Nzute ya abụrụ ọnwụ
Agụụ ajọka
Eburu ọnụ na-achụ aja,
Ọ na-ada ọnwụ ọnwụ;
Awolowo bụ ahịhịa
Aburi Accord was an agreement reached in 1967 at a meeting attended by delegates of both the Federal Government of Nigeria (the Supreme Military Council) and the Eastern delegates,
led by the Eastern Region's leader Colonel Ojukwu. The meeting was billed to be the last chance of preventing all out war.
It was held between 4 and 5 January 1967. The Aburi conference lasted for two days. Ojukwu wanted it to held outside Nigeria for the sake of his life.
He put out things he wanted which will be beneficial for the people. Almost all the proposals he presented were adopted. It was a time for Council of Nigeria to reconcile with Ojukwu.
The Aburi was between Ojukwu and Gowon. They ate in the same plate as a reconciliation factor.
This is for those who said Ojukwu declared a war. This is for those who said the Igbo fought Nigerians. This is a report by Paul Anber, a whiteman.
The hostility the Igbo faced in the north not just about the Kano Pogrom of 1966 where over 30k Igbo were killed but previous ones
It was becoming too much that Eastern Region Consultative Committee gave Ojukwu, who was a military governor of Eastern Region madate to secede. Ojukwu was mandated by the Igbo to leave
The pogrom in Kano made the matter worse.The East seceded and of course the war against them.
When I hear people calling Ojukwu war monger who thought he could fight Nigeria and win I start laughing.
The Igbo never prepared for war. But just as the sheep says. She doesn't know how to dance. But if you beat drum to her father's place, if she cannot dance, she'll jump up.