Happy New Month.

Happy New month my lovelings, wishing you loads of blessing, grace, favour, divine intervention and God's blessing this lovely month, and you know what? .. it's my birth month. Yippeee..

Today in history 1st July.

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

July1st

1543		England and Scotland sign the Peace of Greenwich.
1596		An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere capture and sack Cadiz, Spain.
1690		Led by Marshall Luxembourg, the French defeat the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands.
1777		British troops depart from their base at the Bouquet river to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.
1798		Napoleon Bonaparte takes Alexandria, Egypt.
1838		Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
1862		Union artillery stops aConfederate attack at Malvern Hill, Virginia.
1863		In the first day’s fighting atGettysburg, Federal forces retreat through the town and dig in at Cemetery Ridge andCemetery Hill.
1867		Canada, by the terms of the British North America Act, becomes an independent dominion.
1876		Montenegro declares war on the Turks.
1898		American troops take San Juan Hill and El Caney, Cuba, from the Spaniards.
1916		The Battle of the Somme begins. Approximately 30,000 men are killed on the first day, two-thirds of them British.
1942		Axis troops capture Sevastapol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
1945		The New York State Commission Against Discrimination is established–the first such agency in the United States.
1950		American ground troops arrive in South Korea to halt the advancing North Korean army.
1961		British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
1963		The U.S. postmaster introduces the ZIP code.
1966		The U.S. Marines launch Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam. Source:HistoryNet

News:Tears for the tourists killed on the beach: Devastated UK holidaymakers pay their respects to the 30 fellow Britons shot dead by ISIS fanatic

British holidaymakers have been laying flowers and paying their respects to the 38 people who were killed by a gunman on the beach in Tunisia. Despite the massacre in Sousse, some British tourists have defiantly continued to stay in Sousse and remember those who lost their lives outside the RIU Imperial Marhaba and Bellevue hotels. Three heart-shaped memorials have been laid on the beach to mark where so many people lost their lives. Handwritten messages and floral tributes have been left by people from around the world.. 
R I P to the souls lost

Source:Mail Online

News:The sick ambitions of a caliphate bent on carnage: Chilling map predicts where ISIS will seize new land, strike the West with 'lone wolf attacks' and awaken 'sleeper cells'... all before the end of Ramadan

ISIS will mark the holy month of Ramadan by launching terror attacks against the West and activating 'terror cells' in the Middle East, respected terrorism analysts have said. The Institute for the Study of War correctly predicted ISIS would execute a 'mass casualty attack' in Tunisia before gunman Seifeddine Rezgui slaughtered 38 people  on Friday. It also said ISIS would target Shia holy sites in the Middle East to spark sectarian war before the extremists carried out a suicide bomb attack at a Shia mosque in Kuwait on Friday - killing 27 innocent worshipers. It says the ISIS rampage continue will continue throughout Ramadan because 'death this month is considered more valuable than in other months'. ISW says the terror group has already announced Western nations like the UK, France, Spain and Italy as its next targets. And it expects ISIS to create havoc in south-east Asia by awakening 'sleeper cells' in Muslim-majority countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Other nations spanning the globe - such as Greece, Romania and Australia - are at risk of deadly 'surprise attacks'. 

God save us all

Source:mail online

Lol, How To Check How Old An Egg Is.

Lol ok I Don't know how authentic this process is, but it's educative and you can try it out.

How safe is YOUR holiday destination? Foreign Office reveals the threat of danger in Britons' favourite tourist hotspots

How Safe is your holiday destination? That's the question, due to the recent attack in tunisia which killed 30 tourist and left several injured,Thousands of holiday goers are trying to change holiday plans in the aftermath of the tragedy in Tunisia. France also experienced utter chaos last week as rioting erupted throughout the country and a man was found beheaded in a suspected terrorist attack at a factory on the outskirts of the southern city of Lyon. The FCO have information on which countries are currently in a high risk status.

Source:Online mail

The Genius, Solve This, If You Can

Lol, ok I am no genius, so solve

Our lovely Afro Di'ja released another single today, with a video with it, enjoy.

Today In History, JAN 26

1699   The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks. 
1720   Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country's empire.
 1788   A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia's national day. 1861   Louisiana secedes from the Union. 1863   President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. 1875   Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb. 1885   General "Chinese" Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa. 1924   Petrograd is renamed Leningrad. 1934   Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system. 1942   American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland. 1943   The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma. 1964   Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta. 1969   California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides. 2005   Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in an U.S. presidential cabinet.

 Born on January 26 

1715   Claude Helvétius, French philosopher. 1826   Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant. 1880   Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general in World War I, World War II and Korea. 1893   Bessie Coleman, pioneer aviator. 1944   Angela Davis, American activist. - See more at: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history#sthash.8FICYFCB.dpuf

Statistics Of Were BH Has Hit The Most.

According To Statistics Released sometimes last two weeks, Some Of The Parts Painted In Red are were boko haram has hit the most..


Photo Credit:- Linda Ikeji

           

Johann Adam Weishaupt born on 6^th of February 1748 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria to Johann George Weishaupt (1717-1753), died when Adam was FIVE years of age, after his father passed away he came under the guardianship of his godfather Johann Adam Freiherr Van Ickstatt, who like Adams father was a professor of law at the university of  Ingolstadt,  Ickstatt  was a proponent of the philosophy of “Christian Wolff” (Also known as Wolfius, who was a German philosopher, his main achievement was the complete work of art on almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded accordingly to his demonstrative, deductive, mathematical method, which perhaps represents the peak of enlightenment rationality is Germany). And of the enlightenment, and he influenced the young Adam weishaupt with his rationalism.

            On May 1^st 1776 Johann Adam Weishaupt founded the illuminati, which was originally named the Order Of The Illuminati and had an initial membership of FIVE, the founder Weishaupt, who was first lay professor of cannon law it the university of Ingolstadt, this so called Order Of The Illuminati  was made up of free thinkers as an offshoot of the enlightenment and seems to have been modemed on free masons, the illuminati member took a vow of secrecy and pledge obedience to their superiors, members where divided into THREE main classes, each with several degrees, and many illuminati chapters drew membership from existing masonic lodges. The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter spies, each isolated cells of initiates reported back to a superior whom they did not know, but this project of illumination, enlightening and understanding by the sun of reason, which will drive away superstition and prejudice, was an unwelcome reform. He used freemasonry (an international fraternal organization) to recruit for his own little look like masonic society with the goal of perfecting the human nature “re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed from government and organized religion” presenting their own system of pure masonry. Adam Weishaupt code name (Spartacus) organized his ritual structure which greatly expanded the secret organization. And the main goal of the illuminati then were to eliminate superstitious, prejudice and the domination of government, philosophy and science by the Roman Catholic Church, to reduce oppressive state, abuses of power, and to support the education of women and encourage their treatment as intellectual equals.

           Weishaupt original plan was for the order to be named the “PERFECTIBILISTS” and many influential and progressive politicians counted themselves in as members, the order had branches in most European countries and reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of ten years. It attracted literary men and reigning dukes. But because of Weishaupt radical and rationalism in his vocabulary his organization was not likely to succeed. In 1777, Karl Theodor became the ruler of Bavaria, he was a proponent of enlightened despotism and his government intercepted the writings of the order in 1784 and the writings were interpreted as organized rebellion and civil disorder against the authority and the state, with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, Karl Theodore permanently banned the illuminati and other secret societies in Bavaria in 1785 and Adam Weishaupt lost all he had and he fled Bavaria.

                                            

MODERN ILLUMINATI

           Several recent and present day fraternal organisations claim to be descended from the original Bavarian Illuminati and openly use the name “illuminati”. Some of the groups use variation on the name “The Illuminati Order” in the name of their own organisation. However, there is no evidence that these present day groups have a connection with the Bavaria Illuminati, rather they use the name Illuminati as a means of attracting members.

           Even conspiracy theories has emerged is this modern day to say that the Illuminati survived there suppression in 1785 where by there is no real evidence of such anywhere. Many modern Conspiracy theorists have propose that world events are being controlled and manipulated by a secret society calling itself the ILLUMINATI, they have even claimed that notable people e.g the high class, presidents, governors, owners of big cooperation’s are part of the group, and they even say that they’ve infiltrated the movie and music industries and other theorists contend that a variety of historical events were orchestrated  by the ILLUMINATI, from the battle of waterloo, to French revolution and president John F. Kennedy’s assassination to an alleged communist plot to hasten the New World Order by infiltrating higher places in the world.

The history of Niger can be traced back to prehistoric settlers living in the area as early as 11,000B:C. Numerous ancient African civilization settled in the region that is today Nigeria. An example of one of the civilizations that settled in Nigeria where the Nri Kingdom. Islam reached Nigeria through the Hausa states in the 11^th century A: D. the Songhai Empire also occupied part of the region.

  The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied only to the middle reaches. The word likely an alteration of the Tuareg name Egerew, N-igerewen used by inhabitants along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu prior to 19^th century European colonization.

Now let’s look at the kingdoms that existed before the British took over with colonial rule:

THE NOK CIVILISATION

The Nok civilization flourished between 500B: C and 200A:D. In the northern part of the country, KANO and KATSINA have a recorded history dating back to around 999A:D. Hausa kingdoms’ and the Kanem-Bornue Empire prospered as trade posts between north and West Africa.

At the beginning of the 19^th century, Usman Dan Fodio directed as a successive jihad and led the centralized Fulani Empire (Also Known As the Sokoto Caliphate). The territories controlled by the resultant state included much of modern day northern and central Nigeria; this lasted the 1903 breakup of the empires into various European colonies.

THE YORUBA KINGDOM OF IFE

The oyo in south western nigeria bacame prominent in the 12^th and 14^th centuries respectively. Yoruba mythology states that ILE-IFE is the source of the human race and pre-dates any other civilization. The oldest signs of human settlement at IFES current site date back to the 19^th century and its material culture includes terracotta and bronze figures.

THE KINGDOM OF NRI OF THE IGBO   

This is one of the oldest kingdoms in Nigeria, consolidated in the 10^th century and continue until it lost its sovereignty to the British 1911. Nri was then ruled by someone called the Eze Nri, and the city of Nri is considered to be the foundation of the Igbo culture. Nri and Aguleri, where the igbo creation myth originates, are in the territory of the Umueri Clan. Members of the clan trace their lineages back to the patriarchal king like figure Eri, a city under the influence of Nri, was also known as Igbo Ukwu, a city known for using wax process to make bronze.

There are quite some few kingdoms and empires that where in existence then apart from this three major kingdoms. Such as:

*THE BENIN KINGDOM                    *THE IBIBIO KINGDOM

*THE BORGU KINGDOM                  *THE NUPE KINGDOM

*THE FULANI EMPIRE                       *THE SANGHAI KINDOM

*THE KANEM-BORNU EMPIRE        *THE WARRI KINGDOM

*THE KWARAFA KINGDOM              *THE HAUSA KINGDOM

The three major kingdoms where the most dominant when Nigeria was still being founded, but one by one the British took over every kingdom in Nigeria and made them one, just in case someone tells you that the British founded Nigeria spit on their face (joking) and say a big capital NO, the British only found the name and not the spirit, Nigeria has existed before the British even dreamt of taking over.

Lord lugard was assigned in Nigeria in 1912 to achieve the merger of the northern and southern protectorates, the task of unification was achieved two years later on the eve of    WORLD WAR I. From January 1914 onward the newly united colony and protectorates was presided over by a proconsul, who was entitled the governor general of Nigeria. The principle of indirect rule administered by traditional rulers was applied throughout Nigeria, and colonial officers were instructed to interfere as little as possible with the existing order. In 1916 lord lugard formed the Nigeria council, a consultative body that brought together six traditional leaders, including sultan of sokoto, the emir of kano and the king of oyo, to represent all part of the colony. This group of six men were not just there to talk of add to whatever they would be saying, they were just there to look and listen as the colonialist speak.

The federation of Nigeria was granted its independence on 1^st of October 1960 and became a republic on October 1963 with its first president being DR Nnamdi Azikiwe. A country with an area of923.768.64 square kilometer, with a population of about 110 million people, with River Niger and River Benue running through it, with the largest economy city being Lagos, with its capital being Abuja, its official language is English, and its major languages are Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.

OTHERS                                                                                  

Other languages consist of:

*Edo       * Kanuri    *Nupe     *Margi                                                     

*Efik       *Itsekiri     *Ibibio    *Jukun

*Fulani   *Gwari      *Katab    *Idoma                                                                       PRESIDENT

*Igala     *Tiv            *Ijaw       *Igbira                                                           GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN

*Urhobo-Isoko        *Birom.                                                                                   VICE PRESIDENT

                                                                                                                                    NAMADI SAMBO

ETHNIC GROUP (2013)

*21% YORUBA      *21% HAUSA      *18% IGBO

*11% FULANI        *7% EFIK-IBIBIO *4% KANURI

*3% TIV                  *3% EDO

LEGISLATURE                                  UPPER HOUSE                          LOWER HOUSE

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY                         SENATE                                  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WATER%                                              POPULATION                                            GDP                  

14                                                        2013 ESTIMATE                                                     2013 ESTIMATE

                                                             (174,507,539)                                             $1.018 TRILLION

                                                             2006 CENSUS

                                                              (140,431,790)

CURRENCY                                                               TIME ZONE

NAIRA (#) (NGN)                                                        WAT (UTC+1)