EATING FRUITS ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. By Prof. Ken Anugweje, UNIPORT.

Prof Anugweje treats terminal ill cancer patients by an “un-orthodox” way and many patients recovered. He is also a sports medicine specialist. He insists that all athletes eat fruits on empty stomach. Before he used solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients, he believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses. See […]

RUMBLES FROM THE NORTH: By Tony Abolo.

“As an auditor, I used to work all over the North. You could see the vast land, but they don’t have basic infrastructure and didn’t have jobs. That was about 30 years ago and it was like a time bomb. When I was Chairman of Eko Hotels, I personally organised lectures to bring the plight […]

WHERE ARE THE CITIZENS? By Osita Ogbu

I have just finished reading a book, WHY NOT, with a subtitle: citizenship, state capture, creeping fascism and criminal hijack of politics in Nigeria by Prof. Pat Utomi. This book was written on behalf of all those who have tried to engage the system from inside, to work to correct what has derailed Nigeria with […]

OPINION: SUNNI VS SHI’ITES DIVIDE, POLITICS OR RELIGION? By Abdulrasaq Hamzat.

Abuja-based public affairs analyst, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, writes on the seemingly Sunni Vs Shia division in Nigeria, warning that Nigerian authorities must apply some wisdom in handling the issue, before it becomes too sophisticated for Nigerian leaders to contain. Read below: The conflict between Sunni and Shia is deeply rooted and intractable, it has existed for […]

IS EL-ZAKZAKY’S SHI’ITE SECT NOW A TERRORIST ORGANISATION?

There is a raging debate over whether the Shiite sect in Nigeria can now be called a terrorist organisation. This article settles the debate. El-Zakzaky’s Shiite sect is now a terrorist organisation, according to a Nigerian court (AFP) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, spiritual leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) or Shiite, has been in […]

SENATE MINISTERIAL CONFIRMATION CRUDITY. By Ray Ekpu

The 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made two decisions on confirmation hearings of ministerial nominees. The decisions were, one, that the President should submit his list of ministerial nominees within 30 days of the inauguration of the Senate. This decision was based on the public outcry in 2015 when it took about […]

THE HISTORY OF THE HAUSA REVOLUTION AGAINST THE FULANI.

In the picture is Maitatsine (The one who Damns) a Hausa revolutionary leader shortly after his capture in 1980. The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al – Salam , another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started […]

OIL MONEY: HONEY OR POISON

Prophetic…timeless… The New Nigerian Editorial 45 years ago, precisely on 29/6/1974 “It is commonplace to say that Nigeria is at the moment very lucky because of oil revenues. In a very real sense we have much more money than our system can absorb. Unofficial estimates put the figure added to our reserve this year at […]

WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865k in 1899?

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed […]

THE AFRICAN CONTINENT PRODUCES 75% OF WORLD’S COCOA AND ONLY GET’S 2% Of THE $100 BILLION INDUSTRY …WHY?

Okay, I am no mathematical genius- far from it- but I can do my simple sums. So, if Africa produces 75% of the world’s cocoa then surely this great continent should be flowing with the riches, with somewhere around 75% of the revenue of the chocolate industry worth around $100 billion…. Oh but wait, this […]

JUST TAKE A BOW, GUYS. By Simon Kolawole.

Anybody who is interested in studying the quality of leadership in Nigeria and why our country is perpetually stuck in underdevelopment would have learnt a great deal from the screening of ministerial nominees by the senate. I don’t know where to start from. After the reign of speculation and anxiety, President Muhammadu Buhari finally sent […]

RE: ROUNDTABLE ON NATIONAL ISSUES AND SECURITY SLATED FOR 29-30 JULY 2019

Gen.Abdusalami Abubakar (GCFR) Former Head of State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Minna. Dear General, RE: ROUNDTABLE ON NATIONAL ISSUES AND SECURITY Greetings to you from the leaders of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum. We individually received your invitation to the above event holding in Minna between 29-30 July, 2019. We thank you for your […]

BREAKING: MIDDLE BELT NO LONGER PART OF THE NORTH – DR ISUWA DOGO MBF Leader, turning on the heat and increasing the volume…

Northern leaders have been urged to stop referring to Middle Belt people as Northerners. National Publicity Secretary, Middle Belt Leaders Forum, Dr. Dogo Isuwa who gave the warning also asked former President Obasanjo not to relent in writing letters to President Muhammadu Buhari on key national issues and other matters that affect Nigeria. Recently, Northern […]

PERSPECTIVE: EL ZAK ZAKY: A WORD FOR PRESIDENT BUHARI By JAAFAR JAAFAR

At 1530 hours of Thursday, December 18, 1980, the DPO of Kwalli Division, then Kano’s bravest and most popular cop, SP Muhammadu Maikifa, led a detachment of conventional policemen and two Police Mobile Force (PMF) units to Shahuchi playing ground in Kano metropolis to stop Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine from holding illegal preaching. Several failed attempts […]

TIME TO LISTEN TO OBASANJO – By Dan Agbese.

These are the facts. Some people just cannot stand President Obasanjo’s guts. They would rather he be seen, not heard. They want him to padlock his lips and open his mouth only when he is dealing with his favourite food, amala with okra soup. They argue that the nation has had enough of him as […]

THE FIGHT OF AMINU KANO AGAINST FULANI DOMINANCE, AND HIS TRANSMIGRATION INTO EL ZAKZAKY TO FREE THE HAUSAS.

Reasons for The Shi’ite vs Sunni clash in Nigeria. This post is for only those who cherish HISTORY, and also want to understand how things actually work. The post may be long, but it will do you lots of good, if you read to the end. “Of all the 19 million Almajiris in Northern Nigeria, […]

SEND EL-ZAKZAKY TO US FOR TREATMENT, IRAN TELLS NIGERIA.

The Prosecutor-General (Attorney-General) of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammed Montazeri, has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria and the judiciary to allow the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Shiekh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, to come to Iran for medical treatment. According to AhlulBayt News Agency, an Iran-based news organisation, Montazeri said this in a […]

PERSPECTIVE: WHO REALLY IS IBRAHIM EL ZAKZAKY?

El Zakzaky’s campaign is not for religious supremacy. He is a leader of disenfranchised natives in the North who were robbed of their ancestral heritage. The movement is not one of illeterate fanatics desperate to wreck havoc. These are learned people who understand that just as we had to fight the British invaders for independence, […]

WHY IMO MUST BE PATIENT WITH IHEDIOHA.

There is a breath of fresh Air in Imo State now. The masses feel liberated. And there is high expectation from the current administration led by Governor Emeka Ihedioha. Obviously, I don’t expect anything less from the people of the State who in the last Eight years were in bondage, looking for escape. That escape […]

WHY IGBOS CAN’T BE TAMED. BY OGUNMUYIWA OLAYINKA.

It will be a task impossible to actualise for the Igbos, to follow the Yoruba’s Ideology. The Igbos are more republican by nature, which is why it is very difficult for you to tame such tribe. From the extensive research I did on the three major tribes, I find out that the Igbos are the […]

REMEMBERING ANNABELLE – THE AIRPORT AT ULI THAT WAS ONCE AFRICAS BUSIEST AND DEADLIEST.

The Biafran war was a vicious nightmare that brought both death and misery to millions, many being innocent children and civilians now dealt the cruelest of hands by fate. While there are myriad of amazing stories to come out of this horrible conflict celebrating both human perseverance and the good of man, even in the […]

FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY AND THE NIGERIAN/BIAFRAN CIVIL WAR.

President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was more astute than the leaders of the non-Igbo South and Central Nigeria in 1967, the critical juncture in post-colonial Nigerian history when the power of the Fulani ethnic nationality over the Nigerian state was entrenched. We have suffered for fifty-one years now, the consequences of our leaders’ naivety […]

EX-GOV ROCHAS OKOROCHA: OUR CASE – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to state that it’s Enugu Zonal Office on Tuesday July 23, 2019 marked some properties traced to the former Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as well as those of his family members and cronies. The marking of the properties which is a fall-out of our painstaking […]

INTEGRATION OF ORTHODOX AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES FOR HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SERVICES. BY LIVY-ELCON EMEREONYE

Despite the proliferation of all sorts of healthcare providers, never before in history of this nation have we encountered such arrays of terminal diseases ravaging our people than now. From cancer and tuberculosis, liver and kidney diseases to malaria and cardiovascular diseases, the story is the same. People are dying in their hundreds […]

HON EMEKA NWAJIUBA LISTED AS LONE NOMINEE FOR IMO MINISTERIAL SLOT.

Emeka Nwajiuba was born shortly after the broke out of the Biafran war in August 20, 1967. He hails from Ehime-Mbano LGA of Imo State. He is a lawyer. He was called to the Nigerian bar in 1989, pursued his LLM at University of Lagos and PhD at University of Jos. He was elected into […]

NIGERIA’S WORRISOME TRAVEL TO GOLGOTHA. By Casmir Igbokwe.

Various ethnic groups in Nigeria have been servicing their instruments of war. The atmosphere is filled with agitations, threats and ultimatums. The stage appears set for a long travel to Golgotha, the biblical place of skulls. Last Tuesday, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) drew their daggers. They ordered Fulani […]

TECHNICALITY IN LAW – CJN’s MISFIRE AND THE NEED TO RELOAD

INTRODUCTION On 17th of July, 2019, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad was confirmed by the Senate as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). During the proceedings at the Senate, Justice Muhammad, CJN was confronted with a question by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe [Senator representing Abia-South Senatorial District, Abia State under the platform of Peoples Democratic […]

A TRIBUTE TO CHIEF JUSTICE WALTER ONONGHEN.

Their Lordships normally do their work shaping destinies of nations quietly cloaked in robes and rigs of relative anonymity. Few of them are known despite their decades of dogged service in the administration of justice because judges by discipline do not call attention to themselves. His Lordship Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen is arguably the most […]

ICC TO PROBE BUHARI, OBASANJO, JONATHAN, GOVERNORS.

Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), will from Monday pore over a complaint filed by a Nigerian rights group against President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessors, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan and Nigerian state governors, past and present. To be determined and investigated is whether the Nigerian officials have all committed crimes against […]

A WAKE-UP CALL AND BLUNT TRUTH TO MY FELLOW NORTHERN BROTHERS. Bᴀɴᴅɪᴛʀʏ ᴀɴᴅ Bᴏᴋᴏ ʜᴀʀᴀᴍ: Tʜᴇ Nᴏʀᴛʜ sʟᴇᴘᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛᴏᴏ ʟᴏɴɢ! Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

“The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep. The north saw nothing coming. Population was deemed strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more. They forsook schools. […]

CJN TANKO & THE TRAGEDY OF THE QUOTA SYSTEM. By Charles Ogbu

While we theorize and philosophize on the tragedy of having an intellectually barren Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as number one judicial officer in the country, we must not pretend to dis-remember the following facts: Muhammad Tanko did not just fall on the Supreme Court. He passed through a process. And that process is supported by a […]

A “TECHNICALLY ” INCOMPETENT CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA.

A trending video clip of the senate confirmation hearing of Chief Justice of Nigeria Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad which shows him betraying mortifying ignorance of the meaning of the term “technicality” aggrandizes the point I made in my April 20, 2019 column titled “Atiku’s Citizenship and Buhari’s Illiterate Lawyers” about Buhari’s love affair with incompetence and […]

ADDRESS DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOHA, CON, GOVERNOR, IMO STATE TO THE FIRST ENLARGED IMO STATE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING ON THURSDAY, 18TH JULY, 2019.

PROTOCOLS. This is the first enlarged stakeholders meeting since I was sworn -in as your Governor, and Hon. Engr Gerald Irona as Deputy Governor on 29th May, 2019. It is therefore a great honour and privilege to welcome you all. Today’s event is in keeping with our commitment on openness and communication with you to […]

INDEED, SOME OF OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE PHARAOHS IN THE GARB OF MOSES. By Charles Ogbu

Enoch Adeboye will never criticize the murderous govt of Buhari even if the daura born Herd-of State were to use chemical weapon on Nigerians. And the reason is simple: he sees himself as a stakeholder in the Buhari govt and is also interested in the 2023 gamble. Don’t be deceived, that man, just like the […]

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (NEC) OF THE CATHOLIC LAITY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA (CLCN) AT THE 141 MEETING HELD AT THE BISHOP THOMAS MC GETTRIC PASTORAL CENTRE, ABAKALIKI DIOCESE, EBONYI STATE, 12 TO 14 JULY 2019.

Preamble: The theme of the NEC meeting was; ‘Islamization and Fulanization of Nigeria; The Role of the Church’. After lengthy and intensive deliberations on the theme of the meeting and the state of our Nation, Nigeria, the Council resolved on the way forward as follows: 1. That all Christians, in particular, and Nigerians in general, […]

IMO TSA: MATTERS ARISING

Less than three weeks after His Excellency, Governor Emeka Ihedioha, assumed office, a columnist in an Owerri-based newspaper queried why he was yet to flag off a “major project”! A few days later, another commentator in a rejoinder argued that while “projects” are important, they must be distinguished from “edifice mentality” which, according to him, […]

OBASANJO RAISES ALARM IN ANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO BUHARI [FULL TEXT]

Former President, Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday wrote another open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. He lamented the state of the nation, while calling for urgent actions to tackle Nigeria’s challenges. The letter released by Kehinde Akinyemi, his Special Assistant on Media, reads: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI I am constrained to write […]

THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE IN THIS COUNTRY UNTIL…. ANGO ABDULLAHI.

Former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ango Abdullahi, is the leader of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF). He speaks with MOSES ALAO on the contentious, but now suspended RUGA settlement policy of the Federal Government, the recent ultimatum issued to the government by the Coalition of Northern Groups, insecurity and others issues […]

JONATHAN: SOLUTION TO NIGERIA’S PROBLEMS IS IN THE CONFAB REPORT

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has again called for the implementation of the 2014 national conference. Speaking at the public presentation of a book by Femi Okurounmu, a former senator, Jonathan said his administration inaugurated the national dialogue to reconcile ethnic differences, heal old wounds and promote peace. The conference was chaired by late Idris Kutigi, […]

CATTLE COUNTRY. By Sonala Olumhense.

How do we give every child an education? No, how do we give every child the best education there is? What policy or policies would best ensure the highest economic growth rates and lower population growth? How do we improve healthcare? How do we ensure maximum employment, so that all who are able to work […]

BOKO HARAM: TALES FROM THE WARFRONT. A Nigerian soldier from the battle ground tells his story.

•Difference between Jonathan and Buhari. •Why insurgency has persisted. •Shekarau is a title; you kill one, another emerges. •Our successes, trying moments. •Day our bullets couldn’t kill their Imam. •How to destroy Boko Haram. •Sometimes, we are restrained by Amnesty International. Combat is never a comfortable or enjoyable experience and cant be made so. But […]

WHY WE HAVE ARABIC INSCRIPTIONS ON NIGERIA’S CURRENCY AND ON THE ARMY SYMBOL. we have Arabic inscriptions on Nigeria’s Currency and on the Army flag.

The only reason an Arabic inscription is, in combination with English, on Nigeria’s currency today is the influence of history. It has been so from the very first time paper currency was printed for Nigerian use (either for British or indigenous Traders). Before the Nigerian pound (replaced in 1973 by Naira and Kobo), the old […]

MAMI WATA, THE MOST CELEBRATED MERMAID-LIKE DEITY FROM AFRICA WHO CROSSED OVER TO THE WEST. BY ELIZABETH OFOSUAH JOHNSON

Despite being considered as an adaptation of the Western Mermaid, Mami Wata is a deity that has existed in Africa for as long as African history and culture can recollect. The half-fish half-human female water spirit is highly respected, feared and worshipped presenting a balance between dark, divine, mysterious and angelic existence. The deity is […]

AKUA, THE INFLUENTIAL SLAVE HEALER WHO BECAME QUEEN IN JAMAICA BUT WAS EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH. BY ELIZABETH OFOSUAH JOHNSON.

The Queen of Kingston in Jamaica or Cubah Cornwallis, as she is popularly known, is lost in history due to the improper documentation that makes it hard to follow or believe in her existence. In trying to read about the adventurous life of this woman who took the unwilling journey into slavery from Africa and […]

WHEN WILL THIS VICIOUS CIRCLE OF HATE, TRIBAL AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY CEASE. By Olajumoke AB

“In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance”.-Aesop (620-560 BC) In 2016, when MP Aman Khan became Mayor of London, a Nigerian Pastor sent out a post, that it was the culmination of a 25 years plan to islamise London by the worldwide Muslim organisation. Unknown to him, Khan is as British as […]

THE YORUBA NATION AND THE DILEMMA OF BOLA AHMED TINUBU AND YEMI OSIBAJO IN THE BUHARI GOVERNMENT. By Prof. Toba Alabi.

In 1776,the United States fought a gruesome war of independence with Britain and eventually defeated the British imperialist forces. After series of defeat in the 19th century and the attendant national humiliation Russia under Josef Stalin in the 1920s swore that no nation will ever again defeat Russia. At a point in the 19th century, […]

PERSPECTIVE: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT AND THE MOMENT TO CALL THE BLUFF OF FULANISATION. By Sir Don Ubani; KSC, JP, Okwubunka of Asa.

Nothing is as disgusting as a man successfully fighting a war, only to be pushed aside for a woman to take the centre stage of narratives of the said war. Students of history know the real Nigerian Nationalists who staked their lives to make sure that Nigeria attained political independence from British Colonial Government. It […]

PERSPECTIVE: THE BRITISH DID NOT HANDOVER NIGERIA TO THE FULANI, NNAMDI AZIKWE DID

Is there any truth in this perspective? Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government. Zik’s National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats. Awolowo’s Action Group (AG), came second with […]

BUHARI AND THE RUGA MALCONTENTS. By Olusegun Adeniyi.

With the suspension last week of the ‘Ruga Settlements’ scheme “because it is not consistent with the NEC and FG approved National Livestock Transformation plan…”, the controversy around it ought to have ended. Sadly, it has only further opened our national fault lines. It should worry President Muhammadu Buhari that those now pushing the ‘Ruga […]

UK REPORT INDICTS THE BUHARI GOVERNMENT OVER ALLEGED KILLING OF CHRISTIANS, MAKES SHOCKING REVELATIONS. [FULL REPORT]

President Muhammadu Buhari government has been indicted of persecution and killing of Christians in Nigeria. A report, authored by the Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen Bishop of Truro in the United Kingdom, which was recently concluded and submitted to the UK Parliament, studied seven countries – Iraq, Indonesia, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Syria and Nigeria – […]

El RUFAI IS WRONG. By Babafemi Ojudu

I love reading my friend Mallam El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. But here is a man who is passionate about Nigeria, and about governance. He fears no foe and he says and do […]

THE TERRIBLE SECURITY SITUATIONS IN NIGERIA- RECOMMENDATION ON HOW THE SOUTH EASTERN STATES CAN PROTECT THEIR CITIZENS.

It is very obvious that the current security architecture in Nigeria cannot protect our people . The police , army , DSS etc have shown gross incapacity to curtail the rising wave of terror and banditry in Nigeria. Thus, the state governments and the people of the south east most rise up to put in […]

DEMAND FOR URGENT PROBE AND RECOVERY OF IMO ASSETS FROM FORMER GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA AND HIS ACCOMPLICES

The Governor, Imo State Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha CON Imo State Government House Owerri. Sir, DEMAND FOR URGENT PROBE AND RECOVERY OF IMO ASSETS FROM FORMER GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA AND HIS ACCOMPLICES The Town Unions of the over six hundred Autonomous Communities and collaborating Apex Zonal Social Cultural Organization rising from the conviction that the […]

FOCUS ON ROCHAS OKOROCHA’S LEGACY IN IMO STATE

One good attribute of the immediate past Governor of Imo state, Owelle Ananyo Rochas Okorocha is that he’s as eloquently persuasive as he is fluently convincing whenever he’s speaking. But, Beneath that Orator lies an incurably wicked character who spent 8 solid years playing yahoo yahoo with the destiny of Imo people. I have always […]

IMO STATE GOVERNOR RT. HON EMEKA IHEDIOHA INTRODUCES TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA). Signs executive order.

The Governor of Imo state His Excellency Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha today signed into law through Executive order 005 the Prohibition of Cash receipts as Payment for any government service rendered in the State. The Order will bring into force the use of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by the State Government. Ihedioha revealed this […]

NIGERIAS SPIRALLING INSECURITY.

It was the immediate-past Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, who somewhat captured the stark reality of our country’s situation in an audio recording where he said, “Nigeria is helpless and hopeless.” It is difficult not to agree with him on some aspects of his assessment and conclusion. There is an irony here though, because […]

WHO SPEAKS FOR THE YORUBA IN THE KILLINGS FIELDS OF NIGERIA TODAY? By Femi Aribisala

President Muhammadu Buhari is a Northerner. He sees Nigeria essentially from a Northern perspective. Even El-Rufai, one of his more ardent supporters, admitted in the past that “(Buhari’s) insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.” Buhari favours the North in everything. According to Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, Buhari […]

WHO SPEAKS FOR THE YORUBAS IN THE KILLING FIELDS OF NIGERIA TODAY? (2) By Femi Aribisala.

Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo and other APC opportunists can no longer speak for the Yorubas in Nigeria. President Buhari cares for his people. But although he is president of Nigeria, his people are not the people of Nigeria. His people are the Fulanis in particular, and Northern Nigerians in general. That is the token of […]

THE RUGA DEBACLE: MATTERS ARISING.

After heating up the polity and sowing the seeds of further discord in an already polarized nation, the federal authorities have mercifully withdrawn their contentious Ruga Scheme. We must thank the almighty for small mercies. Despite all its modernist razzmatazz, the Ruga Scheme is not an example of thinking outside of the box. It is […]

COMMUNIQUE FROM THE MEETING OF ALAYELUWA THE OONI OF IFE, OONI ADEYEYE ENITAN OGUNWUSI, OJAJA II AND, WOLE SOYINKA, AKOGUN OF ISARA, AKINLATUN OF EGBA, FOLLOWING THEIR MEETING ON JULY 4, 2019, ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE.

Stemming from his deep concern with the alarming drift of the Nigerian nation into a dysfunctional state on multiple levels of citizenship, community belonging, security and productive opportunities, the Arole Oodua and Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has continued his search for solutions with a visit to Professor Wole Soyinka, Human […]

PERSPECTIVE: ADOLF HITLER’s 1933 LEBENSRAUM… APC AND MUHAMMADU BUHARI’s 2019 RUGA!

The belief by the German Aryans that they were a superior race. As a self-acclaimed superior race, they wanted more land and material resources. They believed they deserve more ‘living space’ than being confined to the German Territories. The philosophy of Lebensraum was espoused, propagated and officially instituted by Mr. Adolf Hitler. As a claimed […]

“WAR WILL SOON BREAK OUT IN NIGERIA. MARK MY WORDS” – Olusegun Obasanjo.

Another civil war in Nigeria has become imminent and inevitable. The reason for its inevitability is simply because Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern Nigeria Fulani oligarchs and the wider network of Fulani in Sub-Saharan Africa have concluded plans to adopt Nigeria as the homeland for all Fulani in Africa. They have realised that the wandering and […]

THE COMMON SENSE POLITICS OF 2023 -WAY FORWARD FOR NDI IGBO.

I get so upset and irritated anytime I read tweets, posts or articles from any supposedly enlightened and exposed Igbo man that endlessly harps on the need for Ndi Igbo to bend over and reach out to other ethnic groups so that one of them can become the President of Nigeria in 2023. Who told […]

HERDSMEN OF KATSINA. By Lasisi Olagunju

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Robert Southey and to James Russel Lowell we learn, like all men who unleash chicken to pasture and forage, that chickens are like curses; they always come home to roost. Because the rains are heavy down South, herdsmen from Katsina State have moved their cows up North and are back home. […]

A PERSPECTIVE: FOOD FOR THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS AND REFLECTION.

“The Fulani Bandits”were created by Gen Mohammadu Buhari Rtd to oust Jonathan. These “Bandits” were not Boko Haram nor Herdsmen. It all started in April 2014 when Mohammadu Buhari assembled his ardent supporters, promoters and strategists to determine how to remove President Jonathan Goodluck. Prominent amongst them were El-Rufai, Gen Danbazo (Rtd)…….. A decision was […]

THE ATROCIOUS LEVEL OF IGNORANCE IN NIGERIA IS THE MAJOR CAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE DECAY IN THE LAND.

The feudal north, the Miyetti Allah groups, the terrorist herdsmen and their land grabbing enablers have so far continued to manipulate the narratives and have their ways because of the atrocious level of ignorance in the land. This atrocious level of ignorance is so deep. So deep that you can even trace and locate it […]

IMO AND THE PULL HIM DOWN SYNDROME (PHD).

Let me first and foremost say that I am not in anyway holding brief for any Imo politician, I am also a politician, but the truth of the matter is that, until some politicians in Imo state eschew the “Pull him Down syndrome” (PHD), our State cannot develop with the speed it ought to. (PHD) […]

ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS IMPERIALISM. By Tola Adeniyi

I was named Muhammadu Saheed on the 8th day of my birth. I was boarded in a Quran school at age 4 and graduated at age 10 with a talk-of-the-town Wolimat ceremony in Ago-Iwoye. I have also had the privilege of performing the Hadj in Mecca and Medina a number of times. My great grandfather, […]

WHY BUHARI SUSPENDED THE “RUGA” CATTLE SETTLEMENT PROJECT.

What informed the Federal Government’s decision to suspend yesterday the establishment of cattle settlements in some states? The public outrage that was triggered by the policy – many would say. But it was learnt yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari pulled the brakes on the Cattle Settlement Project (popularly called Ruga) because some senior officials in […]

RUGA: AREWA YOUTH GIVE BUHARI, SOUTHERN LEADERS 30-DAY ULTIMATUM!

Giving the 30-day ultimatum on implementation and acceptance of Ruga, the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, said the conspiracy to weaken the North had been perpetrated with the active connivance of some leaders from the region, accommodated by the cowardice of those that present themselves as northern political leaders today and feed on the negligence […]