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CCHMC - Postdoc |UGA - PhD | Dawgs ❤️🖤

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@superorganism69 @uzomaveer @isitbyforcee Yep! The patwa caption helped a lot though.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

His Excellency, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR

You claim the President is your friend. What has the President actually done for you?

1. Has the Federal Government connected Onitsha, the largest open-air market cluster in sub-Saharan Africa, to the national rail network?

2. Has the Federal Government linked Anambra to the Gas Master Plan?

3. Has the Federal Government designated the Chinua Achebe Airport as an international airport? President Tinubu designated Muhammadu Buhari International Airport in Maiduguri as an international airport—likewise, the Victor Attah International Airport in Uyo.

4. Has the Federal Government allocated strategic funds for expanding the Onitsha River port? Or for dredging the River Niger?

5. What international brands have you attracted to Anambra with support from the Federal Government? No global manufacturer, auto OEM, pharma MNC, FMCG giant, or even a brewery has established a confirmed greenfield plant during your tenure.

6. How much FDI have you attracted to Anambra? From mid-2023 to date, Abia ranks among the top three Nigerian destinations for recorded capital importation with $150m, while Anambra remains at zero.

Sir, there is no harm in supporting President Tinubu, but Tinubu is leveraging his relationship, and you have gained nothing from the Federal Government apart from a visit by the First Lady.

You mocked an international FDI in Anambra undertaken by your predecessor, but after five years, you have attracted no FDI based on official figures you can verify.

After all the noise dies down and you no longer have a state-funded media team, this is how you will be judged.

After politics, there is life.

Kaa sir

Kalu Aja

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@superorganism69 @uzomaveer @isitbyforcee Unu, di or deh, poto-poto…

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@OziIkoro Ok, that’s nice! 👏🏽

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 Very interesting!!!

Could this linguistic similarity be connected to the Akalaka story …or is it just a proximity effect?

I asked bcos my study suggests that N.Ikwerre, unlike the south, shows no evidence of a recent migration event.

**I kinda misread ur response initially

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@akiltomen ***Nigerians

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 Thanks! I thought it was mainly used in the Obio-Akpor & PH LGA axis. The etymology suggests there might have been a history of land disputes. I came across a source that suggests this, but I couldn’t verify its credibility.
Did such disputes occur?

“Nye-ishi-ali” seems more apt

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 I know that Ikwerre’s is based on ancestry.

I find it interesting that only communities within that specific coastal region have the house system. Obio-Akpor & N.Ikwerres don’t, nor do W.Ijaw communities. So, I’m wondering if there was a common factor that influenced this system

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@OziIkoro **Oyirinneya**

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@OziIkoro Great work you’re doing here!

Pls add Archibald Monteith’s memoir to your collection. His birth name was Aniaso, & his parents were Durl (Duru?) & Dirineja (Onyirinneya?).

https://t.co/ZHq125vvNO

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@AdemolaVictorTv … and they beat Ghana with red card oo. Them true true carry that egg nation for mind.

Akpor is constant! lol

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 A few more questions:
-Do N.Ikwerres address their ezes as “Nyeweli,” as is done in the south?
-What inspired the formation of the 7 Oros (houses) in Rebisi Kingdom..trade, warfare,or both?
-Could the same factors have influenced E. Ijaw house formation as W.Ijaw doesn’t have it?

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 Due to their small population & territory at the time, they were easily assimilated by N. Ikwerres who migrated/expanded southward for trade in the 16th–17th century. Although their language is now extinct, I believe its remnants make up the unique Obio dialect of Ikwerre.

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 Apologies! I was off for a while, but thank you so much for this!

My study points in that direction as well. It suggests that the Obio (not Akpor) aborigines were not originally Ikwerre/Igboid, but part of the “Delta-Cross Civilization” you described.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There are 196 tribes on Earth that still refuse all contact with outsiders. Brazil has 115 of them, more than any country, and its government flies planes over their villages on purpose.

The flyovers exist because of a brutal catch in how Brazil protects land. Forest only gets shielded as Indigenous territory if FUNAI, the Indigenous affairs agency, can prove isolated people actually live there. No proof, and loggers and miners move in. So agents photograph longhouses and gardens from the air, confirm the tribe exists, and never land.

The word "uncontacted" hides the real history. Most of these groups descend from people who met the outside world during the rubber boom a century ago, when enslavement and disease killed roughly 90% of western Amazonia's Indigenous population. Their ancestors ran deeper into the forest and never came back out.

The ones who did come out show why.

The Nahua in Peru were contacted in 1984 after oil exploration opened their land. Half of them were dead within a few years, mostly from colds and flu. The Matis in Brazil were contacted in 1978. Five years later, 87 of them were left. The Panará lost 80% of their people in the eight years after a highway was bulldozed through their forest.

A respiratory bug that costs you three days on the couch can erase half a village with no immunity to it.

So Brazil settled on the strangest conservation policy on Earth. Prove they exist. Guard the borders. Never say hello.

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@ioyekinni 👏🏽

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@onyeka_chii @Apostle_23 @CCSoludo @PayeeIzuchukwu Nah question I ask o

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@onyeka_chii @Apostle_23 @CCSoludo @PayeeIzuchukwu Where is the hospital located? ...or r u talking about the College of Medicine in Isuofia?

[C.D.O @Ugomba_]

@VitaYoung11 Awesome!

Why do northern & southern Ikwerre communities have different market days? Ikwerre and Emuoha LGAs have Igbo/igboid market-day cycles, but in Obio-Akpor axis it’s kinda Ijoid. Similar to Ogbia and Degema, if I’m not mistaken.