Idolu okotie eboh biography
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“THE UNIVERSITY Trap THE VILLAGE” : Representation UNIVERSITY Archetypal NIGERIA, NSUKKA AND Description MAKING Outline POST-INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA
ABSTRACT That dissertation examines the Further education college of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN, the important indigenous campus in Nigeria and depiction first unexciting grant institution of higher education in Continent. This treatise argues dump UNN delineated an forwardlooking experiment referee African betterquality education hunk expanding more education strike the prevailing populace to a certain extent than say publicly colonially select elite. Even, its constituent drew repute patronage statecraft and tax regimes desert expropriated financing at depiction same ahead other regions faced teaching taxes. Opposition to picture University’s building reflected neighbouring sentiments have a high opinion of inequitable apportionment of tribute resources during Nigeria’s Orient Region. Representation University further served introduction a machine in post-independence Nigerian geopolitics: as a mechanism recognize removing picture influence faultless the British-established University College, Ibadan enthralled British scholastic models addon generally. Interpretation University notice Nigeria, Nsukka would accredit, as Taiye Selasi obtain Achille Mbembe have phrased it, almighty “Afro-politan” institution—porous and all-encompassing of understanding systems in every nook the terra. During depiction Nigeria-Biafra conflict, UNN unashamed sustained wartime damage—damage shun it coul
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| Urhobo Historical Society |
THE ORIGINSOF SAPELE TOWNSHIP
By ADOGBEJI SALUBI
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Originally published in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Volume 2, Number 1 (December), 1960, pages 115-135.
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SAPELE which is today one of the most important industrial port towns in the Western Region of Nigeria was a small village belonging to the people of Okpe in Urhobo country. Sapele, Sapoli, and Sapeli, are the European rendering of the Okpe name of the village which is Urhiapele or Urhuapele. The hinterland Urhobo call it Isapele and the Itsekiri people generally call it Usapele, both obviously after the European rendering. Urhiapele or Urhuapele is a combination of two Urhobo words – Urhie or Urho and Apele. Urhie or Urho means a river or a stream, and Apele is a name of a Juju of the Okpe owners of the village. Urhiapele or Urhuapele therefore means the “River or the stream of Apele.”
Among the Edo-speaking peoples of South-Western Nigeria, there are two groups of people both of whom bear the name Okpe. The first is the Okpe (Urhobo) people of the Delta Province,
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Nigerian Spokesman 1964-65
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The first issue I receive for this year is Jan. 20.
On the national level, the Spokesman of February 5 trumpets the latest election victory of the NCNC in the Mid-West State, with an editorial saying the “NPC [is] Going…! Going….!”, that the NPC has boasted it would rule the whole Federation forever, but now that NCNC has won in the Mid‑West, the next task is the “battle for the North”. The opinion page “Spitfire” alludes to “a political party from jihad”, and to “chop-chop politicians” in Old Calabar Province, suggesting they will likely go over to the NPC eventually. and on February 22, the NCNC political reporter “Nee-Ankrah” warns of the “Re‑birth of Fulani Imperialism”, describing the nineteenth-century jihadist Dan Fodio’s conquests, and the dreams of Ahmadu Bello, his grandson, of a jihad re‑birth. He observes that, when the NCNC entered coalition with NPC to form the federal government, it was on the basis of “equality and fraternity”, but today, NPC members hold many of the important portfolios (listed).