It was boko hahaha and militia year..... Hip! Hip!! Hip!!! Hurray!!! It was all a rage, the fumes and plummeting, the year of our lives. 2011, the year that took somuch from many and the terror it brought so many afew to count. It was the year that swept our feets off-floor, one that scruff of the neck and swung us violently round and round threatening to overrun us. The dirge I heard in Nassarawa, the Ode that moved our eyelids in kaduna. What about the joy that was stolen from many families off-foot NYSC in Bauchi. 2011, we, Nigerians stood at the precipice and peered down the abyss and shuddering in tremulous seizures, we took our lamp when the dusk was midway all in a step back. Only but one step for we are still there at the peak of our perdition, at once mortified and stupefied, ensnared, trapped and condemned. As the memory of 2011 rolls by do not forget the most of all hiena. Now yuletide of the new year is fast affluence in our thoughts, may we remember each with a glance at the most terrifying moment of last year, the events that shook us the most.. This is what i have as the best fanfare in the 2011" It was a jubilating hour for the ivory coast (cote 'de' voire) as Lauret Gbagbo alias 'mr strong' was captured and detained. It was as if the whole world was in Africa, as the Tunisian stood up to sing the whale song to Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on 15th jan, 2011. After 23 yrs sit-tight syndrome, the mighty Ben Ali was toppled out of power in just 23 days of unrest. The ever strong Ben Ali was feared. A dictator who ruled with an iron fist and a surplus crony-based corruption that even his fellow autocrats fled his country like a thief at night. With the successful tonic seen in Tunisia, the Egyptians saw it a niche to climb to glory, Calling for an end to president Hosni Mubarak's 30yrs rule. It captured the world's attention with mass protest from jan. 25, 2011,.across the country. Amidst the protest, hope for change was born for the wider North African regions and close Arab countries, though some hundreds of people died, but it was victory at last. On 11 feb. 2011, when Mubarak stepped down, the hope of another North African country to follow same was certain. Then came Libyans pouring out on the street to protest 41 year-rule of yet another dictator. It was Colonel Muammar al- Gaddafi, the world's longest serving non-royal national leader. But his rulership was became sour and seems to crash when the libyan pro-democracy activist called for protest against the 41-year-old autocratic rule of Gaddafi. The protest was stem already on february 17, 2011. Using social network to convince people to take to the streets and peacefully call for change. The call saw the formation of National Transitional Council (NTC) on 27/02/2011. Story became an international awareness when NATO, the western force was drawn to libya to oust Gaddafi out of power and to protect its citizenryIt was a laudable praise when muammar Gaddafi was rooted out of his hideout on 22/10/2011.And d rest is history.And the timeline was Nigeria general election on April 18/2011.When Dr.Jonathan was announced winner of the April16th election. The cry of families will continue to linger in the heart ofNigerians,many were massacred, miamed and condemned to death at their prime all in the name of 'will do not want a southerner up there' hate. Like an epidemic in the air Boko Haram stormed the street of Maiduguri to take the live they do not create. It aches to hear yet another bomb blast. Nigerians we're one and 2gether we shall live. I end with words of Nmandi Azikiwe "its better we dissintegrate in peace than for us to break in pieces!

The Ekpeye (Akpaohia) are a people in southeastern Nigeria with a distinct culture and rulers of a former kingdom. The Ekpeye are usually included as a subgroup of the Igbo people on linguistic and cultural grounds. They speak an Igboid language. Ekpeye people living in the Ahoada (Ahuda) and Ogba-Egbema areas of Rivers State in Nigeria were a population of 80,000 (1991 census), that has increased 63% to approximately 130,000, according to the 2006 census estimates.

History

The Ekpeye have long lived in the land bounded by River Orashi in the West and River Sombreiro in the East; starting out at the northern end from about 3000 BC. Archaeological work showed a steady and very consistent southward movement of the Igbo people, resulting in about AD 1000 in a large settlement mainly at the central geographically elevated area now called Akoh (Dry Land) and Egi. The rise and Expansion of the Benin Kingdom in the following centuries, forced Igbo-speaking but Benin culture-bearing populations down the Niger river into then Ekpeyeland. A socio-political crisis resulted.

A minority of the Ekpeye, who sided with the Benin cultured Igbo immigrants, moved away up north and founded what is now Ogba land, whose language plainly bears the inprints of the Ekpeye and Igbo languages. The commonest historical tale in Ogba and Ekpeye today, is that both are "the sons of one father born of different mothers". At about 1542 AD, during the reign of Oba Awuarre of Benin, when the Benin kingdom was at its most glorious and its culture at its most widespread, Ogba, which majority were Benin-cultured, created the theory that its Progeneitor was a Prince of Benin. They gave his name as ‘Akalaka’, which noticeably, does not match any personality mentioned in Benin Histories. The man known today as the father of Ekpeye and Ogba is now held by some historians to have left Benin kingdom due to infighting within the royal family; to have fled with his family, amidst rumors of his inevitable demise for his disloyalty to the Oba. That they moved southwards, following the River Niger, eventually settling along the Orashi River (in current day Ubie in Ekpeyeland, southeastern Nigeria).

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