WEDNESDAY In House News...

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IN HOUSE MEMO

The tradition gist is so very interesting down there... I dont even know of any tradition in Isoko because i lived in Lagos all my life and stayed away from such talks cos of fear.....chei....

I know a lot of people and sad and scared about the happenings in Nigeria, but my people can i preach? Please be comforted by the FACT that all evil must one day come to an end.....

I wish God can just stretch out his hand from the sky and make everything right again..... Nigeria needs special deliverance to become a normal country again oh....... Those complaining about terrorists, what about kidnappers and armed robbers? I tire!

Enjoy your day and stay safe!

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INSIDE THE MIND OF A WOMAN GOING THROUGH MOTHERHOOD.



I play with my kids, I run around with them, jump and do other physical activities. and i try to make it as much fun as possible.

My husband is hardly home but when he is, he tries his best to play with the kids, I love the fact that he plays with the kids and also tries to involve them despite how small they are in farming activities. The “but” there is that he plays too rough with the boys. My heart is literally in my mouth when they play.

He throws them in the air and catches them, they love it and squeal in delight every time, they play ball so rough and sometimes hit each other in the process.

He leaves my first to wander about in the farm while watching from a distance which I the mom would not dare to do because of my fear of snakes. They get to feed the fishes and play with fish pond water that I wouldn’t touch. They run around chasing the chickens back to their pen together and this has caused a lot of scraped knees.

I complain about how rough

he plays with the kids but deep down, despite that it bothers me sometimes, I really love how much he plays with them and I love the way they scream in delight running to the door when he comes home at night because they know daddy will throw them up in the air, I love how they never want to leave his side when he is at home. It’s something I never had and I am happy for them.

Its the spending all their time with him when he is around so you can catch your breath.....hehehehehehehehehe

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EMERGENCY ADVICE NEEDED

I need advice for a 68 yea old woman who's losing weight seriously. No diabetes and tests have being Carried out. The only issue is pain in the middle chest especially at night which doesn't make her sleep well, i need advice on what to do.





OMG this sounds like a heart attack loading... Please take her to the nearest hospital if she is still alive.......... If i am wrong, the doctors in house will advice further.







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IJEOMAS GIST CORNER

TRADITIONS AND EVIL FORCES ARE REAL

We had a family get together last weekend in the villa. News came that one of the late chiefs was going to be buried next month, late chief was the only elderly friend i had, we were really close before his demise. A lot of people (youths especially) that came to visit my brothers were really excited about the upcoming burial and vowed they must be there to witness the almost lost or dying tradition.


They said they were going to honor him by doing 'Igbudu' for him.

 Igbudu is an ancient tradition being done for aged traditionalists or head of clans at their funeral, no be everybody dem dey do am for. I thought Christianity had taken these traditiona away, but for where.


Igbudu is a bamboo stick, just one bamboo stick then they'll tie a George wrapper round the stick. Two people will be made to carry each ends on their heads, once it's done, they'll get a live cock. An elder will hold the cock and make some incantations, then he'll use his bare hands to tear off the cock's head. And immediately, these two people carrying the bamboo stick (now Igbudu) will be hypnotized and controlled by the Igbudu. 

This sounds like a lie and only typical villagers will understand.

 Igbudu is carried by doubting Thomas', those who believe that it's just a myth and not real


Before they carry these Igbudu, the elders will ask for those that don't believe it will control them to step forward and carry it, lots of them will step forward. Once the cock's head is off, kpakam, they're in another World. It is believed that the spirit of the dead person lives in the Igbudu and is the one moving through the carriers. 

He, the deceased will take them to his true friends to greet them while the villagers followed. Those that were in good terms with the deceased when he was alive will be waiting in their homes happily with traditional drinks and cola nuts to welcome him when he leads them to his compound to greet them. People wey dey suffer am, na the people wey carry the stick, cos it is as heavy as a house according to the tradition and those that's carried it before. Lots of them fall sick for months after carrying the bamboo stick (Igbudu).


The carriers don't walk, they run from one villager to the other entering the deceased friends and relatives compounds until, 'he's ' done. He'll lead them back to his compound to be laid to rest.....

 Ha afraid catch me oh, I was fearfully asking my bro, sey this man as he was my friend when he was alive, will not come to our house ni, he told me not to worry, he'll go to his elderly friends whom he knows, know the tradition and not small pikin like me, Thank God oh. I want to attend his funeral, but that Igbudu thing, I no want see nor witness.

 Come and see the excitement in people's faces as they heard about this Igbudu, lots of them want to witness it. It's been long it happened, many years ago. When mom was alive, she used to say, God chased Satan down without taking powers from him. These things are happening. 

We don't intermarry in my community, but if a boy and a girl from the community do the do, nsogbu, they've desecrated the land and must appease the gods. Something they did in the secret will be opened waaaa for everyone to see with different signs. You go see where goat tie wrapper dey Waka round the town amongst others


The oldest man in each clan holds the offor, but if e reach another person turn to hold am when the head dies, and he refuses, he dies mysteriously. Or if the person is a born again and refuses to take part in such practice, he most hold Baba Goddey very tight, because, he go fight battles wella.

Someone was talking about funeral rites and settling the elders on a post sometime ago. Hmmmmmmmmmm, if you no settle those 'hungry looking ' or 'common elders' eeh, Wahala dey oh. The wicked ones will even be happy, cos they'll see it as an opportunity for them to call the spirit of the dead against the living to mechie unuoma (close down the family) Sometimes you'll see where them dey bury pastors, pass back dey settle traditional rites.


I was told a community in Ikwerre do not choose their king, once the ruling king dies, a python pays the next king a visit to show he's been chosen, it's been like that for a long time and they've been following this process


I was told about a local chief and traditionalist that died. Days later, the mortuary attendants came to ask his family to take him away or bury him fast. They said they'll come to work in the morning and see different kinds of emptied alcoholic drinks drank by a 'dead man', other times he'll push the other bodies outside telling them he's a king and should be the only one in the morgue, amongst others.


A man was sleeping in his room with his wife, he got up in the middle of the night, wifey thought he was going out to ease himself (villa setting), only for her to hear voices outside. They almost killed him, he didn't know when he was hypnotized and was walking to the compound of his sworn enemies. He realized himself when they raised alarm that he came to harm them.

My mom told me those days when she was pregnant with her first daughter, my first sis, that there were no hospitals nor churches, except the Anglican and Catholic Church. Just as pregnant women have days they go for antinatal these days, they had days they go to the shrine. They gather and the priest will check them until delivery. What amazed me much was when she said, the priest used to tell them to acknowledge 'Chukwuokike ' the creator of heaven and earth, they sing praises sometimes, In a shrine? 

 Papa on the other hand will be offering chickens to the gods for wife's safe delivery. She said those days when this child is born, they give them marks of protection. Now eyes don open, them don know God. But it took the grace of God with plenty prayers and fasting to save my big sis, cos no one is offering 'them ' sacrificial fowls again. I had to ask and ask and ask and even go as far as other villagers to ask about my own root, thank God I came at the right time.


God no take power from Satan oh. It's either you hold Him, or keep pretending that nothing is happening when you know you can't even pray to save yourself. So people keep working and working and earning just little. Then they'll fold their hands and keep saying nothing dey happen. How much do you know your root.


My friend told me about how her mom always call them each year to bring their blood for protection and ije awele. Her others siblings does, but babe doesn't want to be entagled with any deity and start fighting forces she doesn't know when her mom dies.

A relative when she was pregnant, encanted and fought plenty spiritual battles, sometimes she feels their presence and was always praying, she never stopped praying till the day she gave birth. Baby died, she passed through pains. Weeks later her mother in law called her to the village, asked her to kneel and start renouncing her utterances.


About inheriting generation curses, matter plenty. Believe whatever you wish to
You be fine geh, yet the presumed ugly ones are wedding every Saturday, biological clock dey tick dey go... Sit down wella fold hands oh. Some sef go marry, some families, the women don't stay long in their husbands house, it's like a pattern. A woman in my church said they don't cross 40years in her family, once anyone gets to 40, e go die. Because she doesn't want to die as she was approaching 40, she had to seek help and pray till it was revealed, and the curse was broken.

Everyday i keep thanking God for the children of this generation that's being born and dedicated in the church, they're keep excelling without any nonsense family spirit to battle.


The essence of this long epistle is that 'God did not take power from satan, save yourself whichever way you can'

JESUS!!!.... what an interesting read!

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