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”. PDP-threatens-Ali -Sheriff- his- supporters- with- jail- terms PDP threatens Ali Sheriff, his supporters with jail terms Ebuka Onyeji The crisis in Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP, continued on Tuesday with a faction threatening the leaders of the other with jail terms. The Ahmed Makarfi-led faction in a statement, Tuesday, threatened Ali Sheriff and his loyalists with jail terms if he continues to parade himself as the leader of the party. The spokesperson of the Makarfi faction, Dayo Adeyeye, said the party’s attention had been drawn to “another set of garbage and tissues of lies put together by the discredited loyalists of Senator Ali Sheriff in the name of a press statement. Mr. Adeyeye described Mr. Sheriff’s consistent claim to the office of the party chairman as a continuation of his plans to sustain mayhem in the party. “We wish to draw the attention of all Nigerians to the Judgment delivered by Justice Valentine Ashi of FCT High Court in Apo, Abuja o

ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF $175M: SKYE BANK NOT PATIENCE JONATHAN SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE                                                                                                                                                          Alleged-disappearance-of-$175m:-Skybank-not-Patience-Jonathan-should-be-accountable It has now become well established that a media syndicate with the sole purpose of tarnishing the image and reputation of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan family is in existence, given the litany of continuous falsehoods being dished out and fed to the unsuspecting public about either Dr. Jonathan, Nigeria's former President or his dear wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. The purported story in the media about a missing $175 million allegedly belonging to the former first lady is not just fictitious but plain falsehood. This submission is based on the following facts: 1. The former first lady neither owns nor did deposit any such funds into any bank anywhere in

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  A-concise-history-of-the-kalabari-kindom-part-1   A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE KALABARI KINGDOM (PART 1)   Elem Kalabari (means Old Shipping) Traditional state Ijaw States, including Kalabari Coordinates:  4°34′6″N 6°58′34″E Coordinates :  4°34′6″N 6°58′34″E Country Nigeria State Rivers State Government  • Amanyanabo Amachree XI (Theophilus J.T. Princewill) Time zone WAT  ( UTC+1 ) The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari (New Shipping Port), or New Calabar by the Europeans, is the independent traditional Kingdom State of the  Kalabari people , an  Ijaw  ethnic group, in the  Niger River Delta . It is recognized as a  traditional state  in what is now  Rivers State , Nigeria. The Kingdom was founded by the great Amachree I, forefather of the Amachree dynasty, which is now headed by the Princewill family. The Kingd

Ijaw-History-of-Southern-Nigeria A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE IJAWS OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA Dave Asei According to Ozodi Thomas Osuji, the Ijaw did not develop the art of writing and, therefore, did not leave written records of their history. In so far that they have written history it is post English colonization of Ijaw land. The English established their claim over what is now called Nigeria in the nineteenth century and thereafter Christian missionaries descended on Southern Nigeria and taught the natives how to read and write. By the mid twentieth century the natives were sufficiently proficient in the English language that some of them began to write down on paper what they believed were their histories. In the nature of things what they wrote regarding their contemporary history is probably more accurate than what they made up as their ancient history. Human memory does not remember events that took place over thousands of years unless they were written down on paper. I