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23/07/2019

< DID THE IGBO REALLY MARGINALIZE, DOMINATE OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS DURING THE EASTERN REGION ERA > :::::

The Falsehood Being Disseminated By The Hausa/ Fulani Oligarchy and Yoruba Bourgeois That The People of Igbo Ethnic Nationality Had Used Their Population Superiority to Dominate, Control The Government Of The Then Eastern Region and Also to Oppress Other Ethnic Nationalities in The Old Eastern Region Must Be Confronted Now or Never.

Truth Being That The Eastern House of Assembly Consisted of A Majority of Non-Igbo's, The Eastern House of Chiefs was Chaired By A Non-Igbo, Chief Nyong Essien,
Out of Eight of The First Class Traditional Rulers of The Old Eastern Region, Five of Them Were of Ijaw Ethnicity .
Imagine Fulani People Make A Claim of Being Marginalized in Nigeria When They are The Majority in The National Assembly and Control Every Parastatal of Government.
The Falsehood That The Government of Dr Michael Okpara Had Deliberately Neglected Other Ethnicities in The Old Eastern Region On The Basis of Tribalism is Nothing But Ruthless Propaganda intended to Strike 'Igbo-phobia'
And Blind Festering Hatred for Igbo's in The Hearts of The Coastal Riverine People's Within The Old Eastern Region. All in A Sick Ploy to Foment Division and Infighting Amongst The Igbo's and Their Riverine Neighbors So The Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba Bourgeois May Continue to Exploit The Oppressed People of The Old Eastern Region and Cart Away With Their Natural Resources as Two Brothers Fight .

Below Are Socio-economic Developmental Projects Established By The Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation And Distributed Diversely Across All Ethnicities Which Made up The Old Eastern Region.

· Opobo Boatyard.

· Oban Rubber Estate, Sited in Oban Efik land.

· The Portland Cement Company, Sited in
Port Harcourt (A Port Town Whose Land was Bought From The Indigenous Ethnicities of Ijaw and Ikwerre/Riverine Igbo)

· Catering Tourist Guest Houses Diversly Sited in Twelve Towns of The Old Eastern Region.
Ikom (Ibibio) , Ogoja , Aba (Igbo) , Onitsha (Igbo) , Port Harcourt (Ijaw and Ikwerre),
Uyo (Ibibio) , Owerri (Igbo) , Calabar (Efik),
Umuahia (Igbo) , Abakiliki (Igbo), Nsukka (Igbo) and Enugu (Igbo).

· Santa Coffee Estate, Sited in The Region Now Known As Ambazonia (Southern Cameroon) Which was Then Part of The Old Eastern Region.

· Bonny Coconut Estate, Sited in Okoloama (Bonny Town) On 970 Hectares of Ijaw land.
Kwa Falls Palm Oil Estate, Sited in Ibibio land

· Ikom Cocoa Estate, Sited in Ibibio land
Calaro Oil Palm Estate, Sited in Eket Ibibio land.

· Seven Rubber Estates in Biakpan (Efik) , Nsudop (Ibibio) , Elele (Ikwerre) , Etche (Igbo),
Nko, Obitti , Amaeke-Abam, Ibiae and Emeabiam.

· Obudu Cattle Ranch, Sited in Obudu Efik land.

· Oghe Piggery and Poultry Farm.

· Adada Mixed Farm.

· Obudu Ranch Hotel, Sited in Obudu Efik land.

· Obudu Butter Production Factory, Sited in Obudu Efik land.

· Cold Food Stores Established in Onitsha, Uwani and Asata, All in Igbo land.

· Cashew Processing Factory, Sited in Oghe

· Ogoja To***co Farm, Sited in Ogoja

· Arochuku Cocoa Estate, Sited in Arochuku Igbo land.

· Obrenyi Cocoa Estate, Sited in Obrenyi

· Biase Oil Palm Estate, Sited in Biase

· Port Harcourt Glass Factory, Sited in Port Harcourt (Ijaw/Ikwerre).

Written By Pa Iju Lawson.

Sources : A Detailed Government Report From The Book Titled "In The First Decade 1955 - 1964" Written and Published By The Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation.

23/05/2019

“MOBILISING NIGERIA’S HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STABILITY” Keynote Address by His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the |

22/05/2019

I FOUND THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING WRITE UP ON A CHRISTIAN PLATFORM , IT'S WORTH SHARING.

POLYGAMY! POLYGAMY!! POLYGAMY!!!
You will all agree with me that one of the most controversial word in Christiandom today is *POLYGAMY*

Are you a religious scholar? a Pastor? a Theologian? a born again Christian?.......? Please , feel free to constructively contribute, castigate, correct, admonished, advice, preach........in accordance with the provisions of the Holy Bible (the word of God)

Before I go further, I will like you to have the following questions at the back of your minds.

1). Who was the first person to engage in the act of POLYGAMY?

2). Is POLYGAMY a sin?

3). Did God condemn POLYGAMY?

4). Those that engaged in POLYGAMY, are they in Hell?

5). What is the fate of the polygamous Children?

6). Is marriage a traditional act or religious act?

7). Why do Christians condemn POLYGAMY?

8). What are the effects of POLYGAMY in Christiandom?

9). Has God changed?

*GEAR 1*
Lamech was the first man to marry more than one wife, Gen 4:19

*GEAR 2*
Godly/Holy persons that engaged in POLYGAMY according to the Bible included
*Abdon*, Judges 12:13-14; *Abijah*, 2 Chronicles 13-21; *Abraham*, Gen 16-1-3, Gen 25:1; *Ahab*, 1 kings 20:1-3; *Ahaseurus*, Esther 1:9, *Ashur*, 1 Chronicles 4:5, *Belshazzar,* Daniel 5:2, *Ben-Hadad* (who married Ahab's wives), *Caleb,* 1 Chronicles 2:18-19, *David* (had 8wives), 1 Samuel 18:27, 25:39, 25:42, 2 Samuel 3:5, 5:13, 12:7-8, 12:24. *Eliphaz*, Gen 36:11-12. *Elkanah*, 1 Samuel 1:1-2
*Esau*, Gen 26:34
Ezra, 4:17-18; *Gideon*, Judges 8:30....and many more.

We had not fewer than 40 Godly and ungodly men that engaged in POLYGAMY from the Bible. Also, we had not less than 43 POLYGAMY cases from the Bible.

*GEAR 3*
Had God condemned POLYGAMY?
*No! God NEVER did* In all the POLYGAMY cases mentioned in the Bible, God did not condemn any axcept David who snatched Uriah's wife. God said to David ' in 2 Samuel 12:8; *I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more."*
Why did God himself say so to David?

*GEAR 4*
Is POLYGAMY a sin?
Those that engage in POLYGAMY are they in hell?
Is Abraham in hell? (Luke 16:19-31)
Is Jacob in hell?
Is David, Solomon, Elkanah, Ezra....., in hell?

*GEAR 5*
Does God permit POLYGAMY? *The answer of course is Yes!* In Genesis 21:10, God said *If he (man) marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights*. In 2 Samuel 12:8. God Himself said to David ,"...I gave your master Wives,........if you need more, I would have given you"

*GEAR 6*
What is the fate of the polygamous children? Condemned or
Favoured?
Why was Joseph, Samuel, Solomon.... Highly favoured?

*GEAR 7*.
Before religion there was marriage.
Gen 1:26-28, Gen 2:18-25

The issue of Monogamy was purely *the tradition of the western world whom were our religious colonial masters. In the land of the White, traditionally, rivalry is a taboo*. But the Jews (Israelites) and the Edomites (the blacks) shares the same tradition. A widow is not allowed to be seen in the Street, but be remarried to their husbands relatives or friends, Gen 38.

*GEAR 8*
Why do Christians condemned POLYGAMY?
The new testament completely responded seamlessly on POLYGAMY matters. The new testament talks about every expect of Christian living except POLYGAMY. Mathew 19:3-9, Jesus spoke about God initial plan for man. He condemned divorce but did not condemned POLYGAMY. Paul admonishment to Timothy on how to elect Church leadership, just like the case of levites of old (Moses...), 1 Timothy 3. The point of contention here is, If there were no men with more than a wife in the Church, Paul Won't have mentioned it. Also in 1 Corinthians 7:39.

*GEAR 9*
Effects of POLYGAMY:
POLYGAMY has it merits and demerits in the society and Christiandom at large.
1). In the Society, the Maternal Mortality rate is high in the female folks compared to men. The number of girls birth rate is higher than that of men, and the number of men dead rate is higher than that of women. The number of widows keep increasing geometry adding up to the number of single women in the society.
This leads to increase of infidelity, adultery, formication in the society compared to the days of our forefathers. So pathetic now adays to see our single girls fighting with widows for the ownerships of a guy.

2). Religiously, the so-called MONOGAMY has cause more harm than good in Christian-dom. God says in Gen 1:28 'God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground'. But what do we have today? Christians going into family planning. The Israelites lived 430yrs only in Egypt, but Pharaoh became scared because of their rapid growth in population. I can't imaging if they were practicing Family planning and Monogamy.

IBB introduced family planning to Nigeria with a maximum of 3 children to a couple and, was widely embraced mostly by Christians, that is 3 children to a couple but, Muslim being naturally a polygamy has an average 2 to 5 wives to a man, meaning 20 children to a family. This have invariably led to increase in population of Muslim far above their Christian counterpart in Nigeria (60% / 40%).
Looking critically, Nigeria is trailing the path of Turkey and North Sudan.....

Turkey(the biblical Antioch) was a Christian nation overtaken by Muslim because of falsehood of Christian priest.
b.) Very soon Our children, particularly daughters (that we are trying to protect today) will be used as s*x slaves because monogamy denied them an opportunity to marry.
C.) There are millions of stranded women in the South and, may not likely get an husband forever because of argument against polygamy; whereas hardly can a women be stranded in the North; thanks to polygamy..

GEAR 10
Has God Change?
God of Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, .....the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the beginning and the end, the Alfa and Omega, He is the same yesterday, today and for ever; has not change.

CONCLUSION
What is the way out?
Christians don't be "Paul when he was Saul'
Pastors, be careful what you preach on the pulpit about POLYGAMY as what you preach, instead of becoming light, rather, it is destroying Christianity
Hosea 4:6, 4:6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

COPIED

22/05/2019

06/05/2019

When the Bolivian military managed to find Che Guevara with the information of a shepherd, they asked the shepherd: "Why denouncing a man who sacrificed himself for your freedom and well-being?"
The shepherd said: "I denounced him because the crackling of arms scares my animals in pasture"
When Mohamed Karim, in this case the Egyptian who undertook to resist the assault of Alexandria launched by Napoleon, was arrested by the army and sentenced to death, Napoleon appealed to him and said: "I feel troubled to kill a man who has valiantly defended his country, I will not wish history to retain from me the image of a person who stifles the impetus of the patriots to defend the integrity of their homeland, thus, I promise you freedom if you pay ten thousand gold coins as financial compensation to my soldiers that the resistance killed ", smiling, Mohamed Karim replied:" I do not have the full amount requested on me, but I am indebted more than 100 thousand pieces of gold to the merchants of Alexandria, they will pay for sure, so that I have life saved! "
Chained, he was driven to the Alexandria market in search of the money on which his freedom will depend. But, to his great surprise, no merchant was on his fate, worse, the natives accused him of troublemaker, destroyer of property, and damage to the economic vitality of the port city of Alexandria! "
Napoleon, seeing the resignation of his family towards him, declared: "I will concede that the sentence of capital punishment is executed not because you killed my soldiers, but for having fought for cowardly people, who count more about their business than about their integrity! "

Mohamed Rachid Rida, Syrian Arab said: "To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is to self-immolation by fire to light the way to a blind man!"