Igbo Monitor

20/03/2025

National cake is the strategic resources and assets of Nigeria.

These strategic resources include oil and gas, gold, motor parks, markets, railroads, banks, government buildings, national treasury, government lands, seaports, banks, limestone mines, and anything that generates huge sums of money.

What is called politics by Nigerians is simply the battle or fight between the most greedy and wicked people in Nigeria over the control of these resources and assets.

Due to mumuness, Nigerians will take sides in these battles along tribal lines. Even though in reality they don’t benefit from the sharing of these national cakes.

The British colonisers were the ones who set up the system for exploiting these resources and assets. When they left, they ensured that the elites who believed in such a system were the ones who took over from them. This is called Neocolonialism.

By 1966, some soldiers who were ideologically socialists, attempted to end this system with force, but the British secret service operating through BBC Hausa, and fearing the loss of their hegemony over Nigeria to the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union, exploited the tribal divide in Nigeria to turn the so called coup into a tribal issue that culminated in the anti-Igbo pogroms of 1966 in the northern region and a genocidal war which lasted until 1970 and claimed over 3 million Igbo lives.

To put the greed of these exploiters into perspective; from 1960 to 2015, according to Oxfam, over 20 TRILLION dollars were stolen from the Nigerian treasury. All the strategic resources and assets of Nigeria have also been transferred to private individuals by politicians and military heads of states.

Such private individuals now have more money than Nigerian government and they don’t even know what to do with the money. They save the money mostly in Europe and America. Meanwhile the government is broke and majority of Nigerians (over 100 million people) live in poverty. Is this normal?

Because the government is broke, it can’t provide basic amenities or maintain crumbling infrastructures or support job creation. The government will borrow from foreign banks and local banks. Those banks use the savings of billionaires for these loans and charge interests which makes the billionaires even richer.

If most of the wealth of the nation ended up in the bank accounts of few men, who show us their massive houses, expensive cars and jets, then how can we get some of that money back from them?

Well, first we have to replace the greedy and wicked politicians with less wicked and greedy people. Then we must tax the wealthiest 5% of the population and use that money to modernise our economy and society.

Because these men are more greedy than the average person, they’ll resist this and will fight anyone who says what I’m writing here. They’ll not allow someone like me to get power. They’ll fund those who are greedy like them or who will help them secure more strategic resources and assets.

It is when Nigerians start thinking along these lines that they’ll finally understand politics. Wike and Sim are fighting over who will control the oil and gas profits in Rivers state. Nothing more, nothing less. So taking sides between them is something Mumu people who don’t understand politics do. Getting rid of both of them should be the aim and replacing them with men and women who have a master plan for developing rivers states by getting back the billions stolen by Wike, Sim and others including foreign oil companies and using these to develop Rivers state for Rivers people.

Lastly, let me address the distractive tactics of this cabal of exploiters. They distract Nigerians by funding things that are leading to the breakdown of the fabrics of the Nigerian society. They’ll fund a Mumu like Bob Risky so that you’ll spend more time talking about him and his homosexuality than talking about why you’re impoverished and miserable. They’ll fund record companies that produce artists who show naked women and smoke cannabis openly like it is what Nigerians are raised to do. They’ll fund those who blame the miseries of Nigerians on other tribes and those who blame it on Jesus. They’ll throw money at shows like Big Brother and they’ll be ensure that no serious discourse about the redistribution of the wealth of Nigeria is ever discussed at a national level.

They love Tinubu, he’s a technocrat who love money and power. So he is useful to them and is a part of them.

They love Atiku, he’s a politician who love money and power. He is useful to them and is one of them.

They don’t hate Peter Obi either. He is an entrepreneur who believes that if he does things the “right way” then things will change. So, he is not a threat to them because nothing will change even if Peter becomes president today. Unless Peter Obi is increase their taxes and collect back some of the wealth they’re sitting on, he won’t be in a position to fund any major changes.

TAX the billionaire class, especially those who made their money from the resources and assets of Nigeria. Stop taxing the poor to more poverty and hardship!

Wealth inequality is the biggest issue of our time.

20/03/2025

National cake is the strategic resources and assets of Nigeria.

These strategic resources include oil and gas, gold, motor parks, markets, railroads, banks, government buildings, national treasury, government lands, seaports, banks, limestone mines, and anything that generates huge sums of money.

What is called politics by Nigerians is simply the battle or fight between the most greedy and wicked people in Nigeria over the control of these resources and assets.

Due to mumuness, Nigerians will take sides in these battles along tribal lines. Even though in reality they don’t benefit from the sharing of these national cakes.

The British colonisers were the ones who set up the system for exploiting these resources and assets. When they left, they ensured that the elites who believed in such a system were the ones who took over from them. This is called Neocolonialism.

By 1966, some soldiers who were ideologically socialists, attempted to end this system with force, but the British secret service operating through BBC Hausa, and fearing the loss of their hegemony over Nigeria to the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union, exploited the tribal divide in Nigeria to turn the so called coup into a tribal issue that culminated in the anti-Igbo pogroms of 1966 in the northern region and a genocidal war which lasted until 1970 and claimed over 3 million Igbo lives.

To put the greed of these exploiters into perspective; from 1960 to 2015, according to Oxfam, over 20 TRILLION dollars were stolen from the Nigerian treasury. All the strategic resources and assets of Nigeria have also been transferred to private individuals by politicians and military heads of states.

Such private individuals now have more money than Nigerian government and they don’t even know what to do with the money. They save the money mostly in Europe and America. Meanwhile the government is broke and majority of Nigerians (over 100 million people) live in poverty. Is this normal?

Because the government is broke, it can’t provide basic amenities or maintain crumbling infrastructures or support job creation. The government will borrow from foreign banks and local banks. Those banks use the savings of billionaires for these loans and charge interests which makes the billionaires even richer.

If most of the wealth of the nation ended up in the bank accounts of few men, who show us their massive houses, expensive cars and jets, then how can we get some of that money back from them?

Well, first we have to replace the greedy and wicked politicians with less wicked and greedy people. Then we must tax the wealthiest 5% of the population and use that money to modernise our economy and society.

Because these men are more greedy than the average person, they’ll resist this and will fight anyone who says what I’m writing here. They’ll not allow someone like me to get power. They’ll fund those who are greedy like them or who will help them secure more strategic resources and assets.

It is when Nigerians start thinking along these lines that they’ll finally understand politics. Wike and Sim are fighting over who will control the oil and gas profits in Rivers state. Nothing more, nothing less. So taking sides between them is something Mumu people who don’t understand politics do. Getting rid of both of them should be the aim and replacing them with men and women who have a master plan for developing rivers states by getting back the billions stolen by Wike, Sim and others including foreign oil companies and using these to develop Rivers state for Rivers people.

Lastly, let me address the distractive tactics of this cabal of exploiters. They distract Nigerians by funding things that are leading to the breakdown of the fabrics of the Nigerian society. They’ll fund a Mumu like Bob Risky so that you’ll spend more time talking about him and his homosexuality than talking about why you’re impoverished and miserable. They’ll fund record companies that produce artists who show naked women and smoke cannabis openly like it is what Nigerians are raised to do. They’ll fund those who blame the miseries of Nigerians on other tribes and those who blame it on Jesus. They’ll throw money at shows like Big Brother and they’ll be ensure that no serious discourse about the redistribution of the wealth of Nigeria is ever discussed at a national level.

They love Tinubu, he’s a technocrat who love money and power. So he is useful to them and is a part of them.

They love Atiku, he’s a politician who love money and power. He is useful to them and is one of them.

They don’t hate Peter Obi either. He is an entrepreneur who believes that if he does things the “right way” then things will change. So, he is not a threat to them because nothing will change even if Peter becomes president today. Unless Peter Obi is increase their taxes and collect back some of the wealth they’re sitting on, he won’t be in a position to fund any major changes.

TAX the billionaire class, especially those who made their money from the resources and assets of Nigeria. Stop taxing the poor to more poverty and hardship!

Wealth inequality is the biggest issue of our time.

Let these pages that are not shadow banned share this post for more visibility. My page was shadow banned some years ago, during my fight with Ndi IPOB. Who were being brainwashed to blame all their problems on one ethnic group and had no single plans for how they’ll build and run a new country, other than insulting anyone that said anything they didn’t like.

06/03/2025

Let’s talk about wealth inequality.

I am a graduate of Economics and International Politics, so my views on this subject are informed perspectives.

Now let’s get to the crux of the matter. Look around you, what do you see? You see that the poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer. This is the case across the world ever since the implementation of neoliberal economic policies and the triumph of crony capitalism.

This widening gap between the rich and the poor is called wealth inequality. It is the GREATEST issue in our time and if it is not addressed, social tensions will continue until such a time when a crazy person gets power and causes a great tragedy that will reset the world and force humanity to finally wake up. It happened in Germany in the 1930s and all the socioeconomic issues that led to the rise of Na**sm is Germany are also present in every capitalist society today.

Let’s focus on Nigeria. In Nigeria, the resources and wealth of the nation are held by a few men. These men then gather their friends and families and share these resources and wealth with them. We call it “National Cake” in the Nigerian parlance.

This national cake is why politics in Nigeria is DO or DIE instead of public service. The strongest men win the fight for control of access to this national cake. They create an oligarchy who then funds their power grab.

Arthur Eze has opened his mouth many times in public and told you all that this General and that General gave him oil well and made him rich.

Now think about it, did any General come to this world with oil well? So why is the General giving it to anybody? If the oil belongs to Nigeria then anyone the oil well is given to should be a manager on behalf of Nigerians, meaning that 99% of money made from that oil should be used by that oil company to build and maintain public amenities like modern schools, modern roads, hospitals etc rather than one person running around with 1 billion dollars in his pocket while the government then goes to America or China to beg for 1 billion dollar loan to build schools.

Now because 1 person is allowed to have 1 billion dollars from proceeds of oil well (oil and gas billionaires) or limestone mine (Dangote and co), such people can drive up the prices of goods and services because they can afford to spend 500 million on a house that should cost less than 100 million or 400 million on a tent that was made with $5,000 or less by Chinese workers. They also normalise obscene wealth and they do so by showing it off and making you feel that only money can give you happiness and fulfilment in life.

So even when the government borrows money from foreign or local banks to spend on building schools, the contractor who wants to be like the billionaires who you all worship, will put half of that money in his pocket and build a substandard road.

If few people hold far more wealth then majority of the population then it means there is always going to be fewer money to go around and the poor will have next to nothing.

This will lead to dispair amongst the poor and they’ll start trying to find solutions to this problem. That is when different characters will start emerging with different answers. One will say it is the fault of Fulani people, they rule Nigeria and unless we leave Nigeria, we will continue to suffer but does he know how to get you to the promise land other than barking insults at Fulani people? No. Another will come out and say our suffering is caused by Christianity and he will start insulting Jesus. But does he know what will fill the void that will be left in our people once the only religion they know is taken away from them? No, he’s an ordinary mechanic. But he knows that something is wrong but doesn’t actually know the root cause of the problem.

I have now articulated for you what the root cause is.

You’ll ask but how do we fix it. Once you understand that billionaire means transfer of wealth from poor to the rich then the solution is transfer of wealth from rich back to the poor.

But will the rich allow you to do this? No, they’ll buy up all the politicans. They’ll promotes things that’ll distract you and make sure you’ll never have sense.

That is when you’ll have to look at each other and deduce what exactly you all have in common. It is the fact that you all lack access to basic amenities, you are all struggling. So you must all unite whether you are a Christian or Odinani or Muslim or Ifa or Sabbath.

You all have a common enemy and it is not Jesus or a Fulani that sells cow.

It is the wicked men who have monopolised the wealth and resources of the nation and share it amongst themselves. They use fronts like your favourite Naira billionaires to hide the fact that it is them who own the wealth. Their fronts are the ones on social media helping them to normalise grotesque wealth inequality. Making you feel that the only way you can be a worthy human being is when you accumulate more wealth than you have need for. And making you feel that anyone against such absurdity is pained and jealous and also making you feel that one day, just one day, you too will be like them.

Another negative aspect of this system is that also pushes people into crime and corrupts the morals of society. We are currently experiencing moral chaos. It’ll get worse.

A good Nigerian leader will gather all your billionaires and force them to build every public infrastructure we need. They’ll cry and cry but they must do it.

A good Nigerian leader will impose price and wage freezes meaning, the price of commodities needed most by ordinary Nigerians must not be allowed to rise beyond a certain amount. Yam, meat, tomatoes, rice etc. My brothers in the market will cry and tell me price of fuel is higher, and so is that why you are charging your fellow citizens an arm and leg for rice? Do you prefer they starve to death? Transport cost and rent will also be frozen. While billionaires will be gathered and taxed so that we will move money from their pockets to build mechanised farms in every region to ensure food security.

Any Mumu that spends billions on any funeral or wedding will be arrested and forced to donate billions to publicly owned companies to innovate and employ more people.

But bear in mind that they’ll fight back and they have their allies in America and Europe. They’ll try to destroy the country but that’s when unity is key. The whole nation will unite and resist them.

China and Russia have this in common. They have billionaires but the billionaires don’t control the government like is the case in America, Europe and Africa. Instead the Government controls the billionaires. If any billionaire oversteps their wings will be cut by the government. That’s what happened to Ali Baba in China and neoliberal oligarchs in Russia. And you can see how they’re fighting China and Russia by constantly demonising their government and telling you the leaders of such countries are evil.

31/10/2023

30/10/2023

Ogwashi Ukwu was established by Odaigbo from Agukwu Nri, the son of an Eze Nri.

Odaigbo (or Odaba Igbo) fled over the Niger with his brother Edini. Odaigbo and Edini are said to have fled from Agukwu Nri due to issues there and in several versions of the history were given a ritual pot which would fall at the spot where they'd establish a settlement.

Ogwashi Ukwu, Ogwa Nshi Ukwu, means 'the great shrine-hall of Nshi (Nri) people. Edini founded Igbuzo with other migrants from Isuama around present-day Imo State headed by Umejei a son of (nwa) Eze Isu (other traditions place this Isu north of Öka around Isu Aniocha).

📸: A titled Igbo man from Ogwashi Ukwu, Enuani, present-day Delta State, photographed by Northcote Thomas, 1912.

30/10/2023

Mmanwu Ijele (Ijele Masquerade) was inscribed in 2009 (4.COM) on the Representative List of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

According to UNESCO, in many communities in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria, celebrations, burial ceremonies and other special occasions during the dry season to evoke fertility and a bountiful harvest feature the performance of the Ijele masquerade.

The mask is about four metres tall – so large that it takes a hundred men six months of work to prepare the costume and build an outdoor house to hold it before a performance. Divided into upper and lower segments by a large python at the centre, the ijele is constructed of colourful fabric on a skeleton of bamboo sticks and decorated with figurines and depictions of every aspect of life. The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six ‘police’ and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers. Ijele mask carriers, chosen by ballot, seclude themselves for three months, during which they live on a special diet to acquire the strength necessary to don the mask.

The masquerade plays a number of important roles in the community: spiritually, it marks both festive and solemn occasions; politically, it provides an opportunity to reaffirm loyalty to a chief or king; and culturally it provides a popular entertainment as young boys and girls sing and dance to the tunes of Akunechenyi music.