The First Man to Propose a Modern Independent Nation of Igbos in 1865:
Do you know that an Igbo man planned & proposed a modernised self-governed Nation/Empire/Republic of Igbos 39 yrs before the birth of Nigeria as a country? His name is JAMES AFRICANUS BEALE HORTON (1835–1883).
He published and sent the British government his proposal titled, “The EMPIRE OF THE EBOES/HACKBOUS/HEEBOS/IBOES/IGBOES/EGBOES, with the Requirements Necessary for Establishing that Self Government Recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons, 1865: and a Vindication...
of the African Race.” This proposal included a plan for
· A self-governed independent nation
· An army,
· Currency
· Support for modern civilisation and economic empowerment.
His proposal was hinged on his research showing that the Igbo race was the most emulative, intelligent and adaptive "race" in West Africa, and with modern support, they will vindicate the black race.
He also supported the hypothetical but controversial Jewish migration origin of the Igbos at that time.
Horton was born in the then British colonial Sierra Leone, near Freetown. His parents were former recaptive Igbo slaves.
Horton lived in Gloucester until 1847 when he moved to Freetown to attend the local Church Missionary Society School (CMS). In 1853 he was moved to Freetown’s Fourah Bay Institution to train for a ministry in the Church of England.
His seminary studies ended two years later when the CMS selected him to study medicine in preparation for a medical career in the British army. Horton attended Kings College in London for three years and then Edinburgh University for a fourth year to earn an MD.
In 1859 Horton was commissioned back to West Africa as a staff-assistant surgeon in the British army. His works led him to correlate topography and human health, developing theories that eventually would earn him a reputation in the medical world and a promotion to the army...
rank of surgeon-major.
Horton became more concerned with politics during his military service in West Africa. Horton refutes the derogatory racial theories about Africans rife in Victorian Britain and its empire.
However, Horton also consider himself, a loyal subject of the British establishment and envisioned that Britain should have a strong cultural and technological influence in the development of Africa.
Thus his philosophies, radical when colonial powers were dominant, have acted as a basis for the future advancement of African independence and nationalist ideologies.
At 45, Horton retired and returned to Freetown, where he continued to promote African education as the key to...
self-governance, and he further provided scholarships to hopeful young Africans. He also took a keen interest in Africa's technical and economic development and Opened a bank called the Commercial Bank of West Africa.
His business and gold mining exploits made him one of the richest men in Africa by 1880.
Although his dream of an independent self-governed Igbo nation was not realised in his lifetime, his political thoughts birthed the African political thoughts during the colonisation of...
Africa after his death.
James Africanus Beale Horton died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1883.
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With the requirements necessary for establishing that self government recommended by the committee of the House of Commons, 1865; and a vindication of the African race. London: W. J. Johnson.
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TEN SHOCKING BIBLE VERSES ABOUT ‘YAHOO YAHOO’, FRAUD, PONZI SCHEME AND ALL DISHONEST WAYS OF GETTING RICH/MONEY.
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1. Jeremiah 17:11
The person who gets money dishonestly is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the prime of life he will lose his riches, and in the end he is nothing but a fool.
2. Proverbs 20:17
Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.
3. Proverbs 13:11
Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.
Warren Buffett overtakes Mark Zuckerberg on list of richest men in the world
Warren Buffett is richer than Mark Zuckerberg again, as the result of a steep slide in tech stocks this week that caused Silicon Valley's richest men to lose about $50 billion.
Fortune of Elon Musk, the world's richest man, fell $25.8 billion on Thursday, down $54 billion this year. Zuckerberg's fortune is down 12%, or $15 billion since the start of 2022.
Buffett's fortune has risen $2.4 billion since the beginning of the year to $111.3 billion, and he is now $1 billion ahead of Zuckerberg.
Buffett, 91, is the only person in the top 10 richest in the world whose fortune has grown this year.
Anyone who has monitored Nigerian political punditry in the institutional news media and on social media in the last few weeks would be led to suppose that only candidates of the improperly named All Progressives Congress (APC)—who are actually a bunch of opportunistic,...
conservative fascists— would be participating in the 2023 presidential election.
The bulk of traditional and social media commentary on the presidential election has devolved into a pointless internecine feud between supporters of Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo.
Even the reportorial ambition and inquisitiveness of our traditional newspapers have been circumscribed by the unwarranted presumption that the choice before Nigeria in 2023 would be between Tinubu and Osinbajo.
PETER OBI RELEASES HIS FULL PROFILE AS MORE NIGERIANS PREVAIL ON HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY.
NAME: Mr Peter Gregory OBI, (CON).
DATE OF BIRTH: 19th July 1961,
PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria
NATIONALITY: Nigerian
MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED
· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)
. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)
· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)
· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)
· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the Game)
· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy)
· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Mgmt )
· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Senior Executive Program)
MY TOWNSMEN HAD BEEN PRACTISING SAME SEX MARRIAGE BUT WITH A DIFFERENCE
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As a young boy in the 1970s, I witnessed, aside from stories I heard, women marrying fellow women in my town. It was strange, but it happened.
I was to find out why the elders of my town allowed such acts that have become outlawed because of how it has been repackaged and sold to Africans as lesbianism.
Under Nnewi native law and customs, a woman could marry a fellow woman under the following situations:
TO PRESERVE INHERITANCE: An only girl-child who was traditionally licensed to procreate in her father's house (Nhachi) without marriage and who has been unable to sire a male child or have as many male children as desired can marry a fellow woman of her choice to help her...
Microsoft reported quarterly revenue that exceeded $50 billion for the first time and profits that beat analysts' estimates, fueled by cloud computing, games and Windows software.
Total revenue for the quarter rose 20% to $51.7 B, beating analysts' forecasts of $50.9 B. Net income rose to $18.8 billion, or $2.48 per share, compared with analysts' forecasts of $2.32 per share.
Sales of commercial cloud solutions rose 32% to $22.1 B in the quarter.
Revenue in the Productivity division, which includes Office, was in line with the average forecast of $15.9 billion.
Revenue in the PC division, which includes Windows, Surface and Xbox, was $17.5 billion, beating the average forecast of $16.7 billion.