Saturday, December 21, 2013

OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENT (MARRIAGE) QUEEN & OGBONNAYA ..

 Official  marriage engagement,Initial  traditional marriage rites and ceremonies between Queen and Ognonnaya


Queen delivering (take-away) 'Abacha Nenwe' to  her suitors family and friends- accompanied by her mother Bridget 











Thursday, December 19, 2013

Iva Valley Massacre: Sixty years of struggle

Iva Valley Massacre: Sixty years of struggle

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By Owei Lakemfa
IT is exactly 60 years today November 18, 2009 when armed British colonial policemen opened fire on defenceless coal miners in the Iva Valley mine in Enugu. In those moments of collective colonial insanity, the colonialists within minutes murdered 21 Nigerian workers and injured 51.
The workers crime was that they dared to go on a strike which the colonial authorities interpreted as a political strike designed to pressurise them to quite the country and let Nigeria join other nations free from colonial misrule and exploitation.
Although the  Yar’Adua government, like successive ones since independence  will not mark this day, even with one word of appreciation for the struggles of many ordinary people who gave us independence, it is necessary that the Nigerian youth know that contrary to popular myth, our country did not attain independence on a platter of gold. Like other countries under colonial rule, our forebears fought for independence with many losing their livelihood, liberty and lives.
It is true that many of the official “nationalists” wore long traditional clothes about, making ineffectual speeches in parliament and attending constitutional conferences in London  where they had the privilege of taking tea with the colonial masters, but the true nationalists were the patriots who looked the colonialists in the face and demanded freedom. They are heroes like Bello Ijumu,  Aminu Kano, Mokwugo Okoye, Nduka Eze, Anthony Enahoro  and Micheal Imoudu who put their lives on the line for freedom.
They are people like Osita Agwuna who on October 27, 1948 on behalf of the organised youths made  public, ”A Call For Revolution” to cast off colonial rule, and Raji Abdallah who when charged with treasonable felony in 1948, told the court “I hate the crown of Britain with all my heart because to me and my countrymen, it is a symbol of oppression, a symbol of persecution, and in short, a material manifestation of iniquity”.
No exploiter concedes power by persuasion or repenting of his sins; pressure and power must be applied because as Franz Fanon explained, colonialism is a one-armed bandit. The coal miners who fell that day in Iva Valley had watered the tree of liberty with their blood.
Labour leader and nationalist, Nduka Eze  said of the chain reaction  of this massacre: “The radicals and the moderates, the revolutionaries and the stooges, the bourgeoisie and the workers, sank their differences, remembered the word-‘Nigeria’ and rose in revolt against evil and inhumanity”.
The political scientist, Richard L Sklar wrote on the significance of their sacrifice : “ Historians may conclude that the slaying of the coal miners by police at Enugu first proved the subjective reality of a Nigerian nation. No previous event ever evoked a manifestation of national consciousness comparable to the indignation generated by this tragedy”.
The coal mine managers were British racists who had a sense of superiority over Nigerians. There were cases of physical abuse. In one case, a Briton T. Yates on September 2, 1945 slapped a worker, Okwudili Ojiyi  who had the courage to bring up an assault case and  Mr Yates was prosecuted and fined.
On November 1, 1949 matters between the workers and management reached a head when the latter rejected demands for the payment of rostering, the upgrading of the mine hewers to artisans and the payment of  housing and travelling allowances. The workers then began a “go slow” strike.
The management’s reaction was to sack over 50 of them. Fearing that the strike was part of the growing nationalist agitations for self- rule, the management also decided to move out  explosives from the mines on November 18, 1949.
Those of the Obwetti mines were easily removed, but that of Iva Valley was not because the workers refused to assist the management to do so.
The Fitzgerald Commission which the colonialists were forced to set up to investigate the massacre, found that “the reason why the miners objected to the removal of the explosives was because they feared that once the explosives were removed, nothing stood in the way of the management closing the mine and thus effecting a lock – out”.
Senior Superintendent of Police, F.S.Philip came to the mine to assist in the removal. He had two other officers and75 armed policemen. At a point there was a struggle between three of the policemen and the workers, and Philip without  any hesitation ordered his men to shoot.
There were mass protests in places like Port Harcourt, Aba and Onitsha and 18 prominent Nigerians set up the National Emergency Committee (NEC) to coordinate a national response to this crime against humanity. It was chaired by Dr Akinola Maja with Mbonu Ojike as secretary.
The colonial government issued a statement that the workers were armed, had tried to disarm the policemen and had attempted to seize the explosives. The Commission found all these to be lies. The Commission which partly blamed the union and said Superintendent Philip committed an error of judgement, found that: “ Not one policeman was injured, not one missile was thrown at them (and that) if the crowd was bent on using force against the police nothing could have saved these policemen from grave injury, whereas in fact they were not injured at all”. Such are the bloody legacy of British colonial rule and repression and the peoples struggle for emancipation.
Today, on this 60th commemoration, may the courage, patriotism and selflessness of the martyred Iva Valley miners and those of the true nationalists continue to inspire us in these neo-colonial times.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Harvard students vote to ban bottled water


Sunday, December 15, 2013 by: PF Louis

  (NaturalNews) It's refreshing to see that college students are beginning to do more than merely protest against environmental and health-damaging issues pushed by corporate America. They're also going beyond pushing for labels and "co-existence." They've started to go for the economic throat of big business by banning certain toxic products from campuses, such as bottled water.

Though this story is based on a Harvard student body decision, as of early 2012, over 90 colleges and universities of varying sizes and types throughout the USA have banned or restricted bottled water sales as demanded from student-led referendums and lobbied directives. The motives are mostly ecological.
But there are also health issues directly related to using those plastic bottles and of course tap water. The offered solution is creating stations on campus that can effectively filter and process out those chemicals where students and faculty may refill glass or metal containers or even reusable plastic containers.

Those stations, which purify water with charcoal filtration and reverse osmosis, have become ubiquitous in health food stores and even standard supermarkets. Instead of spending a half-dollar to a dollar-and-a-half for a small bottle of water from multinational corporations that steal water from regions at no or low cost while reselling their bottled water for high profit margins, one can spend a quarter to a half-dollar for a gallon of water purified the same way those multinationals do, if they actually do purify their water at all.

By the way, Nestle seems to be the Monsanto of water. They want to own it all, and their CEO has stated that they have that right but public access to water is not a right. Here's more (http://www.naturalnews.com).
Sure, some bottles say they're from certain springs and so on. But usually they're from purified (maybe) tap water near or at a place called whatever springs. A few companies have been forced to admit this.
This is not to detract from actual mineral water sources, such as pricier Volvic water, which a scientist has assured contains silica with the right type of suspension to leach aluminum from the brain.

 Specific issues of disposable plastic bottled water toxins and their environmental impact
It's not just BPA (bisphenol-A) in malleable plastics that disrupts hormones as an estrogen mimicker. A recent German study found traces of several other toxic chemicals in bottled water as well as more substantial amounts of different chemical endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Excerpted from a recent Natural News article by staff writer Ethan Huff:

The study's published abstract explains that 13 of the 18 bottled water products tested exhibited "significant" anti-estrogenic activity, while 16 of the 18 samples were found to inhibit the body's androgen receptors by an astounding 90 percent.
Additionally, the other 24,520 chemical traces besides DEHF were also identified as exhibiting antagonistic activity, which means that they, too, are detrimental to the body's hormonal system. Here's more (http://www.naturalnews.com).

Then there's the issue of land fills, which is obviously an overburdened toxic hazard, and the Pacific's plastic waste island.
Well, it's not really an island the size of Texas or any other visible size. It's an estimate of the amount of plastic strewn throughout the Northern Pacific known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the North Pacific Gyre (swirl; vortex).

It's more like a stretch of plastic garbage stew, containing particles that demand close observation to be noticed. But even without the graphic drama, its ocean-polluting hazards are real.
Banning one-time-use plastic bottled water is a great idea despite the cries of "anti-free market" from those who refuse to separate dangerous, greedy corporations from individuals.
The most viable healthy solution would be plastics from hemp, which is another topic for another time.

Learn more:


http://www.naturalnews.com/043252_Harvard_students_bottled_water_endocrine_disruptors.html#ixzz2nbs04y8z

Thursday, December 12, 2013

"...VERY NORMAL PEOPLE..." by chukbyke

.......VERY NORMAL PEOPLE.......

The story behind "that selfie"


(AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt next to US First Lady Michelle Obama during the memorial service for South African former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. (AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)

  

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By Roberto Schmidt


So here’s the photo, my photo, which quickly lit up the world’s social networks and news websites. The “selfie” of three world leaders who, during South Africa’s farewell to Nelson Mandela, were messing about like kids instead of behaving with the mournful gravitas one might expect.
In general on this blog, photojournalists tell the story behind a picture they’ve taken. I’ve done this for images from Pakistan, and India, where I am based. And here I am again, but this time the picture comes from a stadium in Soweto, and shows people taking a photo of themselves. I guess it’s a sign of our times that somehow this image seemed to get more attention than the event itself. Go figure.
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Anyway, I arrived in South Africa with several other AFP journalists to cover the farewell and funeral ceremonies for Nelson Mandela. We were in the Soccer City stadium in Soweto, under a driving rain. I’d been there since the crack of dawn and when I took this picture, the memorial ceremony had already been going on for more than two hours.
From the podium, Obama had just qualified Mandela as a “giant of history who moved a nation towards justice." After his stirring eulogy, America’s first black president sat about 150 metres across from where I was set up. He was surrounded by other foreign dignitaries and I decided to follow his movements with the help of my 600 mm x 2 telephoto lens.
So Obama took his place amid these leaders who’d gathered from all corners of the globe. Among them was British Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as a woman who I wasn’t able to immediately identify. I later learned it was the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt. I’m a German-Colombian based in India, so I don’t feel too bad I didn’t recognize her! At the time, I thought it must have been one of Obama’s many staffers.
Anyway, suddenly this woman pulled out her mobile phone and took a photo of herself smiling with Cameron and the US president. I captured the scene reflexively. All around me in the stadium, South Africans were dancing, singing and laughing to honour their departed leader. It was more like a carnival atmosphere, not at all morbid. The ceremony had already gone on for two hours and would last another two. The atmosphere was totally relaxed – I didn’t see anything shocking in my viewfinder, president of the US or not. We are in Africa.
(AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
(AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture. But photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance.
I took these photos totally spontaneously, without thinking about what impact they might have. At the time, I thought the world leaders were simply acting like human beings, like me and you. I doubt anyone could have remained totally stony faced for the duration of the ceremony, while tens of thousands of people were celebrating in the stadium. For me, the behaviour of these leaders in snapping a selfie seems perfectly natural. I see nothing to complain about, and probably would have done the same in their place. The AFP team worked hard to display the reaction that South African people had for the passing of someone they consider as a father. We moved about 500 pictures, trying to portray their true feelings, and this seemingly trivial image seems to have eclipsed much of this collective work.

(AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
It was interesting to see politicians in a human light because usually when we see them it is in such a controlled environment. Maybe this would not be such an issue if we, as the press, would have more access to dignitaries and be able to show they are human as the rest of us.
I confess too that it makes me a little sad we are so obsessed with day-to-day trivialities, instead of things of true importance.
During Mandela's memorial service in Johannesburg. (AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
During Mandela's memorial service in Johannesburg. (AFP Photo / Roberto Schmidt)
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

FESTEGGIANDO LA VITA DI MANDELA

correzione...(.... altre culture altre concezione....).la morte e funerale di Mandela non è un evento trieste nella cultura Africana...quindi ben venga balli, feste, fotografie , giochi...Si chiama da noi 'festa di funerale' cioè celebrando il bel grande passaggio all' altro stato con le feste: Quindi Go on Obama & co!!!!
by chukwubike.....


Un autoscatto da big. In occasione del memorial dedicato a Nelson Mandela, non mancano le foto ricordo per un evento che ha raccolto in Sudafrica i grandi del mondo. Al centro, tra Barack Obama e David Cameron, il primo ministro danese Helle Thoring Schmidt. Non è chiaro a chi appartenga lo smartphone ma negli Usa si leva già qualche voce critica per l'atteggiamento troppo scherzoso tenuto dal presidente in tribuna per un'occasione così solenne e triste (non assecondanto da Michelle, come si vede anche nella foto in cui il presidente scherza con la Schmidt). Il giornale di tech Mashable, ad esempio, già titola: "Caro Obama, i funerali non sono luoghi adatti a un autoscatto". Su Twitter molti utenti criticano il cattivo gusto, e anche la mancanza di tatto per non aver incluso Michelle nella foto. La fotografia è di Roberto Schmidt, Afp/Getty (afp)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

PRESENTATION SCH ...by chukbyke



Presentation Sch Awgu (Enugu State of Nigeria)  cultural group ...welcoming visitors with a dance

Monday, November 4, 2013

BIRTHDAY GIFTS ....

Yeah !!!! today is our birthday/ Saint Charles  day  and many of you would like to send  some wishes and gifts across  to me: ok don’t stress yourself so much nor send  those’ HBD’ (an  ambiguous   abbreviation…can as well mean Have  a Bad Day ) hahahah .

 All you have to do is to  top up my phone   with any amount; Usa At &T, Italian TIM or Wind, British Voda ,Cameroonian Orange,  Romanian Voda,Norwegian Telestial  or  Tele 2, NigeriaMTN,ETISALAT,VISAFON,AIRTEL;GLO.  If you don’t have any of my numbers in this country ,,,ok remind me and I shall send across my number in the country you reside.

Now  my good ladies and gentlemen who always run about looking for gifts for  me and coming  back home  with good reasons of not knowing what to give….here  you  are hahahahahahahah !!!!.
Meanwhile I wish the most beautiful and best wife in the  world  (Madam Ndidi-name and fact)a happy  birthday. !!

 I wish you all a very nice day and thanks  for  your   wishes both on FB.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

ANTI CORRUPTION AWARENESS ORG. NIG (ENUGU COMMAND) AWARD CEREMONY


The Anti-Corruption Awareness Organization Nigeria (Enugu State Command)  ACAON  on the  31st October 2013  held an award  ceremony  to mark their one year anniversary at the Filbon Hotel  New Haven Enugu. Three persons   received merit awards from the Association;
·       HRH Igwe  Col. I.O Mbah(retd) fes Ononenyi 1 of Nomeh Unateze,
·       Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma 8ofr) CEO/MD  INNOSON Industries,
·       Prof. Edmund U. Agbo Promoter International Bio-Research institute  (IBI) Ugwogo Nike Enugu.
Prof  Edmund U. Agbo  was  also the Guest  speaker and  delivered  a lecture  themed ; CORRUPTION – A GUEST,A HOST OR A GHOST IN NIGERIA.
By: Chhukwubike OC & fotothoughts 
 


Monday, October 14, 2013

RESEARCH........HUMPHREY B. AKANAZU

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Monday, September 30, 2013

IGBO DAY 29 TH SEPT. 2013 ...OHANEZE...( Igbo is the strongest pillar of my administration–Jonathan)

 Igbo is the strongest pillar of my administration–Jonathan


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PIC 8: PRESIDENT JONATHAN, ACCOMPANIED BY GOV. PETER OBI OF ANAMBRA  ON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE  AKANU IBIAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN ENUGU EN-ROUTE ANAMBRA ON THURSDAY (30/8/12).
IFEANYI EZUGWU, ENUGU.

Seven states; Rivers, Abia, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu and Delta converged yesterday in Enugu under the auspices of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo to mark this year’s Igbo day at the Micheal Okpara square.The annual event which is stipulated to commemorate the efforts of Igbo heroes who contributed steeply in championing the cause of Igbo had as its theme, “uplift the homeland” with an inter-denomitional service.


While presenting President Goodluck Jonathans’ address, his representative, Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo expressed profound gratitude to Igbo for,”being the greatest pillar of support to my person and administration. My administration have taken cognizance of the unalloyed support of the Igbo. Igbo is the ethnic group that has supported my administration greatly and I promise that it will not be taken for granted”.“This is evident in the level of Federal attention the infrastructure in the south-east is receiving as examplified and in the roads, commencement of international operations at the Akanu-Ibiam airport, Enugu, the dredging of the river Niger to boost inland water ways transport. The Akanu-Ibiam airport will have all the trappings of an international airport. Federal Government is working assiduously to build Aerotropolis and inject vibrancy at the cargo terminals, befitting of international standards” said the President.President Jonathan disclosed that Igbo has been frontal in the believe of the co-operate existence of Nigeria adding that the Igbo is the highest investor in Nigeria’s economy even as he explained that,’Igbo carry the banner of Christianity and culture as they traverse the country in search of greener pastures typical of a republican’.He further urged Igbo youths to eschew the vices of kidnapping, armed robbery and assassination while appealing to them to imbibe the virtues of their forebearers in their various endeavours.Contributing, the Governor of Enugu state, Barr. Sullivan Chime represented by the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Chief Joe Mamelu urged,”Igbo to uphold the practice of speaking Igbo language wherever they find themselves to forestall the language from going into extinction”.In his remark, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey poisted that the way forward for Ndigbo is,”to speak with one voice in a clear direction. Emphasis must be in generating and directing these energies towards growth poles. We must unite in pursing commercial and industrial objectives and much more importantly, political challenges”.“We reiterate for emphasis that Ndigbo must seek the Presidency of this country at the expiration of the tenure of the south-south. This is in keeping with our stand that equity,justice and fair-play demand that we, the only zone remaining to hold the prime office in the country, should be allowed by our fellow Nigerians to so occupy it in unbroken succession after the south-south. This is an appeal to the political class of Ndigbo to put their house in order. We cannot afford to play a second fiddle forever” Igariwey noted.












IGBO DAY 2013 ORGANIZED BY OHANEZE. 29TH SEPT.2013 AT MICHAEL OKPARA SQUARE ,ENUGU

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