Aggrieved commanders of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday visited Biafra war veteran, Col. Joe Achuzia, in Asaba, the Delta State capital, over the leadership crisis rocking the group. It has resulted in the death of six people. Others were injured. The delegation, led by Ndubuisi Igwekani, aka…
Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE AND FREDERICK LUGARD 9th The Liman came today, and went off to see the King and finally arrange about who was to represent him, regarding the business I wanted to speak of. He promised to be back again by 1or2 P.M. He duly turned up with…
Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE AND FREDERICK LUGARD 8th Issued to the Hausas who were quite contented, and chaff and laughter prevailed, not a trace of sulkiness. Then the Yorubas were called, and told that the cloth was for 5 days-they had lost yesterday’s ration by refusing. They replied that they…
TAKE NOTE OF THIS NAME TRACK HIS CHILDREN AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE PAINS AND WHY OUR PEOPLE SUFFER, ABANDONED PROPERTY THIEFS, I WILL SUMMARISE IT LATER OR AT THE BUTTOM. CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 LAGOS 07892 281407Z 66 ACTION AF-18 INFO OCT-01 IO-15 ISO-00 CIAE-00 INR-10 NSAE-00 RSC-01 PA-03 PRS-01 USIA-15 ACDA-19 DRC-01 SS-15 NSC-10…
The process of sharing Nigeria’s oil block national cake is as fraudulent now as when Ibrahim Babangida started the process of discretionary allocation of oil blocks to indigenous firms. Discretionary allocation of oil blocks entails that a president can reward a mistress who performs wonderfully with an oil block with capacity for cumulative yield of…
Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE AND FREDERICK LUGARD 7th A fowl and salutations from the Liman. Then another ‘King’s son’ to visit me. Then a man to complain that my men had stolen food and yams from his fields. I made the Crier cry round camp that any man caught stealing…
19th We were to have left today, but there is now no chance of it. I would greatly have liked to go out shooting this morning but refrained lest the King’s message might come in my absence. Instead of this a message was returned by Joseph {whom I had sent to ask if the letter…
Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE AND FREDERICK LUGARD 6th [November 1894] At last the Caravan book is complete. The Long Roll contains every man’s name-soldiers, Hausa-porters, Yorubas, and Nupes, Headmen, Interpreters, Horse and donkey attendants,
POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE ITINERARY EASTWARD As you have been informed verbally, it is just possible that you may, before leaving Jebba or Bajibo, receive a cablegram ‘Lugard Kuka’, meaning char instead of proceeding westward, you will retrace your steps to Lokoja and make your way to Bornu and Lake Chad.
OBJECTS OF YOUR JOURNEY WEST The last sentence conveys the objects of your journey. France has obtained a few treaties with powerful chiefs on the strength of which she claims immense regions in the great bend of the Niger, known in France as ‘le boucle du Niger’.