Great Okrika Part 1

Opukirike or great Krike is Okrika.

This is my home town. I was born here and raised awhile for some time before I was taken to Kafancha, a part of Jos in the North, before I finally settled in Jos city.

Here in Jos, I start my primary school education up to primary 3.

Due to the coming war, I move with my parent and four junior siblings down to the south and now I am at Okrika, my home town and place of birth.

This is the place where my placenta is buried and it has summoned me home.

Okrika is a country of rivers domain. Years later, some youths described it as Okrika London. It is an Island surround on all sides by water, with feeder delta creeks routes.

Okrika has an outlet to the Atlantic ocean due north. It is here that ocean going vessels can enter the island to both ATC and then marine base. Again, from this northern boundary, very big marine vessels or ships enter and leave the first ever sea port at Port Harcourt.

When I return from Jos, I see that this little but great country has only one English link standing in its glory. It is the famous African Technical Company or ATC. 

After the war, it became just a shadow. Its remain is now buried under the sea due to dredging of the river front.

ATC is an English trading enterprise. I do not know what is traded. But the company I gather is a mercantile venture. It is located on a deep sea port.

It made history as the first English trading company in Okrika.

It is at this ATC terminal that you can enter and leave the island or kingdom. Other route exists, but ATC is the main and the most important.

I think also that ATC has an outlet, branch or station at the deep marine base sea channel for the tide rarely falls low here. Marine base affords all sea vessels to Okrika any time day or night.

24/7 the river is waiting for boats coming and going. At other points you have to wait until the tide rise again.

It is on record that the Union Jack or the British wants to build a sea port in the Eastern part of Nigeria. But survey on Old Calabar, which is also sea coast seems very unreliable and Okrika shows that a sea port can be build for ocean going vessels.

The result was the Port Harcourt sea port and others.

Being raised in the city of Jos, I initially found Okrika hard to accommodate me and my four little brothers and sister: two males and two females. Jos city is somehow westernized. 

At Okrika, I saw 10 years old boys and girls of my age go completely naked. They do not even wear pants.

In Jos, you have to wear your pants. Even the bushman when he and his family come up to the city covers their nakedness with some leafy foliage. 

Seeing a girl of my age and up to 13 years naked is a belief I learnt in Jos brings death to a person. So I and my juniors think we will die soon!

I believe I will die and told my mother we all go back to Jos sooner not realizing that home coming is escape from death.

She was laughing, while I and my juniors were crying and relations what to know what is going on, because I speak in Hausa language to her. Her explanation sent them to roar in laughing too!

The belief, that to see the private sexual parts of the opposite sex cause death is even strong with my juniors at that time. It is something we all learn when we are in Jos, although we have not seen a death body.

There is a lesson in covering one’s private parts here. The death it carried has nothing to do with untimely or timely death.

Going all the way of the earth is normal. When the time comes, one dies and go to his or her creator.

I think sexual arousal is the issue as I realize when I fully grow up to a man.

Sex can kill a man. The opposite is also true. Should a man’s heart trod after the girl in seeing her naked to the private parts. Some men or women have fallen victim to this process even on mere flirtation before the opposite sex!

Or we would say that the man (even some women too) viewing the opposite sex nakedness can be arouse and desire sexual intercourse intensely and immediately. The desire when very strong can lead to a positive or negative effect.

That is the issue here.

There was this famous prophet and king in the bible on seeing the nakedness of his neighbor’s wife while she bath, sent for her and had sexual intercourse with her immediately.

Did the king died? Yes, he died to all common sense and reason. He has not a right to take his neighbors wife or any other girl to exploit the damsels sexually. To cover up his evil act, he send his soldiers to kill a private and husband of the woman! He proved this or his action is wrong when he was told of a similar incident committed by a lord of his status.

You can read the story in the Christian bible second Samuel chapter 11 and 12.

There was this story of valentine day festive. We take it was due to love affairs. But whether it was due to sexual arousal, I do not know. But it implied that sex is involved.

This is the morale of dying.

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Home Coming

Okrika is my home town.

In 1967 there were political uprising in the northern parts of Nigeria.

Jos, the city I live is strongly affected. 

I remember I was a boy of 10 years at the time.

This was as a result of the first military coup in the history of the country.

The leader of the coup army major Chukuma Patrick Nzeugwu Kaduna is Igbo by ethnicity. Popularly known a Chukwuma Kaduna, he was an intelligent officer and head of the military school, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.

Chukwuma was born and raised in the North and grew up there.

Chukwuma was so hard during the coup that it resulted in the death of some Northern political leaders. 

Famous among these were the prime minister Tafawa Belewa and the Sarduna of Sokoto.

This generated the feeling that the coup was a section of the army or country military raising arm against another ethnic group.

There was reprisal in the north against the coup.

The Igbos and the Hausa/Fulani who had been living peaceably for long before the British united the northern and southern Nigeria as one country for centuries were now enemies.

One should not blame the Hausas for not understanding the motive of the coup planners. The Hausa/Fukani were not education well in the western sense. What is important to them was that their leader was killed during the execution of the coup, despite the fact that both an eminent Yoruba and Igbo army officer were  also killed during the process. 

The Hausa/Fulani mindset was fear and to get rid of the Igbo fast.

Thus the southerners particularly the Igbo who were doing business in the north were seen as enemies.

All these I understand in later years during my history lessons.

The result was the revenge of the north against the south as seen in the beginning. The southern were no longer safe in the north.

It is in the midst of these events that the southerners begin to flee from the north of the country.

One evening, my father hurried up with his bicycle from his workshop, and told my mother to get ready. He sound very urgent. It frighten my mother. He want us to go home with the remaining south bound train.

Within an hour or so I think we were all ready.

We took a taxi to the railway or train station.

We arrived in time, get our ticket and board the train to the south or to my country.

My father had to arrive a week later.

The train carry more southerners especially those from the Igbo country. 

The journey is however not a happy event! 

Station after station that the train arrived, we were all checked for fleeing Igbo army personals.

Whoever is suspect to be an Igbo soldier was pull out and killed by the vigilant Hausa/Fulani soldier.

Crying and lamentations follow the journey day and night. We all can plague to death any time.

Even when my train crosses the Niger Bridge, the cry of the Igbo’s seems to rent the earth!

This is a happy cry. At this junction, my mother told me we are now on a much safer place. We will sooner or later arrive at Okrika country.

But I do not understand all this until years later during my college days; and especially in my history classes on the course of the Nigerian civil war.

I believe Okechuku and me were on the same train. We live in the same environment and I do not see reason why he should stay behind. Okechukwu is Igbo. As a civilian, he and his family is not safe at Nasarawa, Jos.

I saw some of my school mates in the train but not Oke. He was on the same train. We were all going to our respective country. He to igbo land and I to Okrika Kingdom.

I think it took at most a week before my train arrived at the Port Harcourt railway terminus.

It was already night. 

We unbound the train and my mother who knows the place well took us her children to Okrika water side. Here we took a hand paddled canoe to Okrika.

If we had took a boat fit with a motor engine, we would have arrives in less than an hour. But it took that long with a dugout canoe.

I remember the scent of the river and the swamp vegetation. The cool breeze refreshed our mind and body. The evening air seems more so refreshed. This is the first time I travel back to Okrika from any where else.

We arrived very late into the night at Okrika and went to sleep.

But I was soon waked in my sleep. It was my mother who woke me up. She wants me to meet my uncle. He was a lawyer, and a law nut; and in later years became a Justice of State High Court, having been a Federal High Court Judge earlier.

I went back to sleep and wake up the following day.

But I do not know the day whether it is a Monday, or Tuesday or Wednesday.

All I know is that I woke up fresh to meet many people in the extended and immediate family.

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Welcome To Miebakagh Fiberesima’s Blog

Welcome to Miebakaghfiberesima.blogspot.com

I am male. And like all human beings being found online, I am here to sell myself and make some smart passive income online.

Yes, I sell myself and make some online income that will help improve my standard of living.


There is nothing wrong in earning an online income in the right way.

I think many will like it. 

Many will take interest in my blog. I know this because my first posts on wordpress.com give me some likes or thumbs up.  Others will come later.

I cannot say why. They will do that.

You know people like to change their minds on this or that.

Like as William Shakespeare say, they come and go.

They say at a later time. Yes, they may come or they may not come.

But one thing is clear. People do accidentally on search results fall on some curious sites or blogs. And that is it.

This has happen to me too. I then start to leverage on a  theme or post if it appeals to me with some common sense. 

This is how I began an affiliate program to make my first earnings online! I cannot help it.

And if you are such a fellow, CONGRATULATIONS!

Once again, welcome to miebakaghfiberesima.blogspot.com

But what do you want to find here?

I am setting out as an online internet marketer. It pays.

Like as I say, I earn my first online income as an affiliate. I am still in the affiliate program at the moment.

You can join my team here: http://www.joinmySFIteam.com/12714792
 

Okay, as I say, I sell myself. I am an internet marketer. I sell the affiliate program I team up with.

I write pages and posts on blogger and wordpress. All this garners to help me earn me smart passive income.


Show me a person who is not interested to earn money either offline or online, and I will show you some one who is not able to buy any item or product in the market, right?

Small kids were buying their favorite products with cash. And I wonder if a grown up can not buy, is he/she engaged in some money making ventures?

Affiliate programs are good for all newbies or new comers. I also have made vital posts on hubpages.com that I am leveraging on to earn me passive income.

I will later set up my own website posting articles, photos, links, feeds, and pages, on my hobbies, passions, interests and so on.

Interests

I like reading and writing. I write on food and nutrition and that which I am passionate about.

I write on any subject that interested me and at the same time fascinated me. I write on any subject that I have the passion at heart.

I like making and meeting new friends. Whether it is offline or online on facebook, twitter, pinterest.

This is good for all internet marketers. You have to network your way well in this to success. Networking with others will help you connect well. It will make you some if not many contacts.

Education

I was educated up to primary 6.

I then went to college and obtain my General Certificate of Education ordinary and advance level certificates.

Years later, I went back to a university and obtain my Bachelor of Arts honors degree in History. I read computer programming along my history studies.

I took a 3 months desktop course in computer to enable me leverage well online.

The post and page you are reading and others elsewhere, that I hit away on the computer keyboard.

Again, I change my gear to do a Master of Science degree (Msc) in internet system.

I am having an issue here, but life goes on.

Careers

I am a retired administrative officer.

I retired from the civil service of the government of the Rivers State of Nigeria.

I retired as a chief administrative officer.

I was to earn the rank of Assistant Director before retiring two months before, but I took a voluntary retirement or I should have forfeit huge financial loses in my pensions. 

 I start work as a clerical assistant. I was made a clerical officer within a year and move up the ranks to executive officers class. 

When I become a principal executive officer, I change over to the administrative officer cadre after my university education and passing the administrative officers class examination.

Hobbies

I like fishing, cooking and writing articles and pages online. I like reading good and informative books.

Exercise keeps me fit and strong. I do my aerobic exercises regularly. Walking, jogging and swimming relax me.

I walk a lot if I am not engaged in any exercise schedules.

Home movies

All James bond films fascinated me. I like actions and war movies.

The Transporter 1 and 2; the battle of the River Plate, a world war 2 movie, the hunt for eagle 1 and 2, delta force 1 and 2; cheaper by the dozen is interesting family film.

Bollyhood, Hollywood and Nollywood movies can capture my attention if it is interesting and educative.
This is the way I like to take time of anything that keeps me busy after a relaxation exercise.

My Blogs On Blogger

1.      goodhealth.blogspot.com Go to http://dynamicnewyou.blogspot.com and you will be directed to GoodHealth.blogspot.com

2.      masculinityblogspot.com http://masculinity.blogspot.com

3.      workfromhome.blogspot.com http://workfromhome.blogspot.com

I have more than five blogs on blogger, these three are enough here.

Fishing For Tilapia And Sardines

I catch tilapia and related species. Sardines and mullets are also my favorites.

Any fish that traps itself in my fishing nets and is good for food, I take home with me for my use. 

I sold some fishes on the river, and bring home too for my customers. That was some14 years ago.

Fish is good food. It is one of the excellent protein foods even better than bird’s eggs for man.

Fish protein builds the body. Sardines and mullets contain the essential omega -3 and -6 fatty acid. This is for good heart health. I do not fail to get this fresh from the river every week however small.

I like sardines and mullets a lot.  I even extract the oils and eat my loaf with it instead of butter or margarine.

I also keep some birds that laid eggs for me. Now, I am not much into this poultry thing again. On festive occasions, the birds brought some cool cash to me. 

Nowadays, I am not much into all this again, being online writing all about my passions and interests keeps me busy away.

I also write long posts on hubpages.com/ I have posted more than 15 articles on hubpages.


But each week, when the river begin to team with fishes, I do catch sardines and mullets.

I hope to come back again to raising poultry having retired from active government service, even on a small or medium scale.

Aerobic Exercises

I exercise regularly. Aerobic exercises, walking, jogging and swimming builds the body muscles and nerves. Best of all, it helps the body digest food, eliminate wastes and wards of a cold issue.

A 10 to 15 minutes in-door or out-door exercise three or four times in the week can do a person much good in mental development, relaxation, sleep and a sound positive mental health.

Cooking

I like cooking. I am a good cook. Nearly all my breakfasts, I cooked and took to work. I do not fail to tell my co-workers that.

My family loves every meal I made.

When I come home with Tilapia from fishing, the soap I cook is delicious and they all enjoy it.


I usually cook a cocoyam soup with slightly worked bitter leaves. Periwinkles as delicacy, gives the soup a better flavor to enjoy.

All my cooking try to preserve much of the minerals and other food nutrients. That is why I make cooking a hobby.

I cook preserving much of the nutrients to build good health that send sickness and ill-health packing off in the body. 

In addition, this rejuvenated the body from being destroyed!


Good foods when carefully prepared impacts health, healing and longevity.

So, I am taking advantage of all this to learn to make money online. 

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