New Nigeria Vanguard

.The Bible is viewed as a holy book, but all it really does is document the history of the Jews and their tribulations over the years at the hands of various oppressors culminating in the dreams of a messiah to take them to the promised land. If we had a written language or transcribed the stories of the griots that Alex Haley in his Roots book had consulted to track down his ancestry, you would discover it would encapsulate the histories of our various people and trace bloodlines leading back to a long forgotten supreme ancestor, no different from Abraham who descended from Adam and you would trace your genealogy like the Bible does in linking Jesus all the way back to the line of kings, specifically to David in his case, similar to the bible. Their native men and sorcerers foretold of the arrival of the various messiahs to take them to the promised land or to restore the kingdom of Judea.  Jews had Prophets akin to native priests and griots and whole tribes, like the Levites, ded...

I salute UNN for this first revolutionary attempt to begin a discussion about this topic in Nigeria today, perhaps the first original theme of its kind. Many Nigerians act so sophisticated, but deep down we are a bunch of primitive superstitious savages. Nigerians go to church and mosques during the day, but we consult native doctors aka “juju” or medicine men at night.  Bring a white male cock, bring me a tortoise, bring me white cloth, what is the name of your grandfather, swear an oath, etc For instance Ngige received his “native” blessings to see him remain as minister today, go and try him and see the forces that will kee you, even Abacha imported native doctors from Bamako before the superior juju of mascara wearing Indians with red dots on their head superseded them, juju pass juju oh. No one can die in tiv land without accusations that his mother or relatives or enemies conspired to kill them in the spirit world, deaths in the aftermath are traced to a deceased spirit secur...