@Efyakimora The comments section is already filled with the reasons why that's likely no going to happen...
Funny part of the reality for thieves in Aba is when you're caught, your fellow thieves will want you dead fast.
In fact they're usually the ones to provide the tire, fuel and match.
@Efyakimora The logic is simple. They rather have you dead than risk you snitching on them.
What you see in the comments doesn't mean they're no thieves in Aba. Nope!
It means being a thieve in Aba is fucking risky. So many intending thieves are extremely careful how they go their craft..
@Efyakimora The comments section is already filled with the reasons why that's likely no going to happen...
Funny part of the reality for thieves in Aba is when you're caught, your fellow thieves will want you dead fast.
In fact they're usually the ones to provide the tire, fuel and match.
Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out and offered to gift laptops❤️
Apologies, I haven’t even been on my DMs to get feedback, I’ve had a stressful trip today, missed my train 🥲
So please bear with me, but I’ll respond as soon as I can.
So far, we’ve received 6 laptops, 4 brand new and 2 fairly used. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has shown up to help.
I left my DMs open to help link people who need laptops with those willing to give, but I’m hardly in my DMs, so please if there’s anyone willing to take this task and help coordinate this, please reach out.
If you have a laptop to gift, you can also check the comments and connect directly with someone who genuinely needs one. That may help us move faster.
Every laptop could mean a chance to learn, work, study, or access an opportunity. Thank you all for making this possible❤️.
Unfortunately for you, free education Yariba Ronu agbero, William Baikie and the six times sold Yariba slave you all love calling so much aka Crowther documented the clothing wore in Onitsha, how fancy it was, and who Onitsha reported as their trading Partners for it aka other Igbo group. This was written in 1854 by Baikie.
Additionally to that, Basden made video archives of Onitsha while he was there in 1930s. In that video archive, he gave us a view of everything he saw in Igboland. We saw women wearing their ICHAFU and other clothing. Hence when posted on this app, it became video archives you inferiority complex Yariba Ronu Agberos tried to claim that Basden, despite never stepping one foot in your lands, misclassified Yariba community as "Yibo." When that didn't desperation didn't pan out, due to that desperate need to claim things as yours, you lots ignorantly tried to ascribed it as Niger-Delta, ignorantly stupid that both SE and SS were called Niger-Delta back then. Thus, it is your influence since it was Niger-Delta. Desperation.
Don't mistake us for your Yariba ancestors that Fulani clothed with Sahelian dressing. You all renamed it and started arguing with everyone that it's your invention despite it being clear it's the Sahelian clothing that was traded throughout the whole of West Africa hence, every West African tribe wears it.
This is why we must actively and aggressively defend our cultural heritage in the media. After posting sources that weren’t visible on Google and Wikipedia, grok immediately found those credible sources and referenced them when asked to “school us” on which is which between #ichafu and gele. The individual who asked was so shocked at grok’s response he had to immediately delete the response, which I made a screenshot of before deletion.
That screenshot is below 👇🏾
Stay in the fight 💪
#Igboamaka 😍😎
I C H A F U - HISTORY & ETYMOLOGY
Before the widespread use of the term ‘‘Ịchàfụ̀’’, headgear in precolonial Igbo society was known by various names depending on dialect. These include Ụ́narị (also rendered as Ụ́nalị, Ụ́larị, or Ị́larị), as well as terms such as ‘‘aka-isi’’, ‘‘okaraisi’’, and ‘‘ihe-isi’’, all of which refer broadly to head coverings or headgear.
Etymology
The term Ịchàfụ̀ is a native Igbo compound noun derived from two verb roots:
•Ịchị – meaning “to gather”, “to bunch”, or “to collect”
•Ịfụ or Ịfọ – meaning “to wrap”, “to bind”, or “to enclose”
Together, they form the descriptive action phrase ‘‘Ịchị àfụ́ isi’’, meaning “to gather and wrap the head”. This reflects the physical process involved in creating the headgear.
In Igbo morphology, the prefix Ì- is used to nominalise verbs, forming concrete nouns from verbal expressions. Thus, ‘‘Ịchàfụ̀’’ refers to the object produced from the act of gathering and wrapping fabric around the head.
Headwrapping among Igbo women is widely regarded as indigenous [4][5]. Early accounts of Igbo women describe the head as being bound with cloth, often moderate or large in some settings, indicating established wrapping practices [6]. The 1913 anthropological work of Northcote Thomas documents expressions such as nsu n’isi (“head kerchief”) [3], demonstrating that specific terminology existed for head coverings well before the colonial peak.
Follow the links below for more:
https://t.co/v9z8fJfjlN
https://t.co/wKlHubGfdu
@ajekadam@SamuelOmogor You're funny....
See how you turned this on his head just to have a laugh at people who don't agree with you..
Is it Tinubu or Trump the leads Nigeria?
🔥🔥🔥 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INCLUDED ICHAFU IN ITS INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (B) CURRICULUM RESOURCES!
“Ichafu, the bold head-tie towering towards the sky gains international recognition.” - https://t.co/HQm8JI7XUz
Oxford University Press includes Ichafu the traditional Igboceremonial bold head-tie in an International Baccalaureate curriculum alongside the Japanese Kimono and other cultural textiles from around the world.
In a curriculum developed for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, the Ichafu is featured under a section called “Textiles and Cultural Signs.”
The publication examines the meaning, symbolism, and cultural importance of the traditional southeastern Nigerian head-tie.
The Ichafu is studied alongside other well-known cultural garments from around the world, including the Japanese Kimono.
Students are encouraged to explore how clothing and textiles can reflect a people’s history, identity, traditions, and values.
Traditionally, the Ichafu is made from rich fabrics such as Damask, Brocade, George, and Akwete cloth. It is known for its elaborate design, large size, and striking appearance. Carefully wrapped and arranged, the Ichafu often rises high above the head in a towering style that symbolizes elegance, dignity, prestige, and cultural pride. Its impressive height and structure make it one of the most distinctive ceremonial headdresses in Igbo culture.
The Ichafu is commonly worn during weddings, title-taking ceremonies, festivals, and other important cultural events. Beyond its beauty, it serves as a powerful symbol of identity, heritage, and social status.
This recognition shows that the Ichafu is more than a traditional piece of attire. It is an important cultural symbol that is now being studied in an international academic setting.
For generations, the Ichafu has been a treasured part of Igbo cultural expression. Its inclusion in an Oxford University Press educational resource highlights the growing global appreciation of Igbo culture and traditions.
The recognition is another reminder that indigenous African traditions continue to make valuable contributions to world culture and education. The Ichafu is not only a cherished part of Igbo heritage, it is now part of documented international study in this art, culture, and visual communication.
Me: From Igbo apprenticeship system (nwa odibo) or #nwaboi to #omugwo to now #ichafu, Igbo culture is being carefully integrated into global educational curricular and studied wildly, whilst people we are forced to share common geography with are busy trying to belittle, imitate and diminish our ultra rich and buoyant cultural heritage
#Ichafu #ichafunnukwu #omugwo #nwaboi #nwaodibo
#IgboAmaka 💪🔥😍
Link below, maka ndi uta:
https://t.co/id7PJknaJF
🤣 I saw where “Community Notes” was correcting images of our Igbo women wearing #ichafu claiming what they’re wearing is gele.
I exposed how they weaponize grok searches to intimidate you into accepting their fake re-written history of the Igbo culture. I’ll expose this one too with just one screenshot that you can verify right now.
Community notes’ only references are Wikipedia and one tribal commentary. That’s it. But take a look at the screenshot on the right and see who runs your Wikipedia operations in Nigeria. The misinformation and disinformation agenda is real and its aim is to suppress authenticity and promote fabrication. But we’ll never let them succeed.
If you’re Igbo and on this space, you’re already at war with these “culture vultures” who are right now waging a ferocious information warfare on our heritage. You must stand up and use every intellectual weapon at your disposal to defend what we’ve got.
To hell with their manipulated groks searches and Wikipedia references. Our history is our history and we, not them or anyone, can tell our story.
#ichafu #omugwo #akwete #nwaodibo #nwaboi #ofeogbono #ofensala #ofeonugbo
#igboamaka 💪🔥😎
Your Banking and Tax system handed over to 🇫🇷FRANCE
Your Mines and resources worth $700 billion , handed over to 🇺🇸USA
Your Defence tech and digital data handed over to 🇺🇸 USA
Your strategic Seaport handed over to 🇬🇧 Britain
Your Lithium and cobalt mines handed over to 🇦🇺Australia
Your Health data handed over to 🇺🇸 USA
What then is left of the Nation NIGERIA to serve her 250 million population? NOTHING!
These are the exact same people with history of killing your kings and enslaving your people. The exact same people who invaded, pillaged, raped and looted your resources and artifacts still sitting in their museum till date.
#AfricaRevolt
Why am I not shocked? Typical deeply intense inferiority complex from this lots. You’re so desperate to claim Social Media Influencer Ancestors that you didn’t even bother to properly read the source you posted.
The screenshot you shared is from Simon Ottenberg’s 1955 work focusing specifically on Afikpo Igbo.....a completely different Igbo community from Onitsha. Yet, in typical copy and paste fashion of you free education low IQ Yariba Ronu Agberos, you grabbed a reference without understanding its geographical or cultural context and presented it as though it proved your point.
What makes this even more embarrassing is that the very page you posted explains what the author meant. The footnote literally identifies the Yoruba item being referenced as a “head pad for carrying loads.” It is right there on the page.
In other words, the source you proudly posted has absolutely nothing to do with the gele you are trying to claim. It refers to that round cloth pad you lots place in your head to cushion and stabilize loads being carried. Had you actually read your own source instead of rushing to claim Social Media Influencer Ancestors, you would have noticed that yourself.
And while we’re discussing chronology, if you knew wtf you're referencing or where it came from, you would have known that several of the images already slapped off that deeply intense inferiority complex desperation you're about to display.
For example, the dates of these photographs:
The first photograph is from 1905....50 years before Ottenberg’s 1955 publication.
The second photograph dates to the late 1800s....more than half a century before that publication.
So citing a 1955 description of a Yoruba "load-carrying head pad" does not establish that the much earlier Igbo ICHAFU shown in these photographs originated from Yariba gele. Those are two separate claims, and your own source does not establish the connection you are trying to make. It was clear as daylight.
ICHAFU is not the same thing as the Yariba handkerchief which you all changed to head-tie in modern days.
Y'all deeply intense inferiority complex continously make you Agberos make a fool of yourselves shamelessly. Desperate to claim Social Media Influencer Ancestors. Una insecurities no dey carry last I swear.
UPDATE: Going forward, we shall not be requesting for donations from the common man.
If you want to Partner with us, kindly DM. We have come to realize that this is prone to be abused. Kindly disregard any tweet soliciting a donation going forward.
We shall make personal sacrifices, and if we can't continue, we will shut this down. Blessings.