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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 N2,000m. In many essential respects this bounty has been a blessing. It has enabled us to repay some of our outstanding foreign loans, liberalised commercial and industrial policies and has enabled increased revenue to be diverted to building of modern infrastructure commensurate with our executive…
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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 resources such as palm oil to maintain that. Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the…
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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 is Africa, which has constantly been pillaged and screwed over. So somehow it only comes out with 2%… Seriously it just ain’t right and I guess it’s no real surprise. Cocoa, coffee, rare minerals/metals, the world runs on the produce of Africa. Yet on the…
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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 a list of 43 nominees to the senate without attaching their portfolios — as usual. The PDP governments did that in their four terms over 16 years and we criticised them. Buhari and APC promised us “change” but they have continued with that tradition. If…
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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 interest in the affairs of our country which made us to accept your invitation in good faith. It was in the thick of our preparations for the journey that fuller details of the roundtable came to our attention,some aspect of which has necessitated this last…
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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 Elders Forum, NEF leaders expressed some reservations about the frequent meetings and alliances between Southern Leaders and the leadership of the Middle Belt Forum. Asked what he thought about the reservations expressed by the NEF, Dr. Isuwa said: “Yahaya Kwande and his leader, Prof. Ango…
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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 had been made in past but the police went “fully-prepared” for the December 18, 1980 raid. What started as a simple crackdown on illegal activity turned out to be a major crisis that rattled not only Kano but the whole country. On that day alone,…
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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 a major player on our political turf since July 1975. They say that after being head of state and a two-term civilian president, he has nothing more to offer the country and he should move over and leave the stage for his political pikins. There…
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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, non is a fulani. They are all Hausas in majority, coupled with other ethnic groups”. “The fulanis marry less wives, have less children, train them all in good schools, while encouraging the Hausas to marry many, bear many kids for voting and violence” The Shia…
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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 letter on Saturday. The Iranian official also called on the judiciary, which is the last hope of the common man, to grant bail to El-Zakzaky who is the leader of all Shi’ites in Nigeria. Montazeri also criticised the Federal Government’s handling of the crisis, adding…
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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, they have to fight Futa Jalon invaders from Guinea for independence as well. His alignment with Shia islam is based on his admiration of Iran and the 1979 putsch…. He also needs allies like Iran to fight the overlords from Futa Jalon …. His movement…
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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 route came in the person of Ihedioha who was elected Okorocha’s successor. And that is the reason the burden on his shoulders is enormous. Enormous because the now-set-free Imolites see a Messiah in Ihedioha who must meet their demands and needs within a short time,…
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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 most westernized, most enterprising, most astute, most dynamic, most intelligent (smart), and the most technically gifted tribe found among the black race. The Hausa/Fulani and the Yorubas have limitations. But an Igbo man doesn’t see any limitations. An average Igbo man is highly competitive, unlike…
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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 madness of war, none is more heart-tugging than the defiance and will to survive of a place called Uli, and an airport called Annabelle. Not only did it encapsulate the fighting spirit of the Biafrans bent on seceding from Nigeria, but it also was the…
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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 and blunders in not holding the FGN to its word on the Aburi Agreement that had transformed Nigeria into a confederation, which is the only workable structure for a country that is an ill-assorted ragbag of mutually hostile ethnic groups and conflicting ideologies. I understand…
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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 investigation, is as a result of the failure of the suspects to honour the Commission’s invitation for questioning on the propriety of their acquisition. The properties include: Dews of Hope Hospital traced to Dr. Paschal Obi, former Principal Secretary to ex-governor Okorocha; Market Square Super…
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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 and thousands, painfully from preventable and treatable diseases. And the root cause of this problem is nothing other than quackery and misinformation in health practice vis-à-vis drug abuse and misuse. As long as good health remains an indispensable wealth, a healthy nation automatically becomes…
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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 the House of Representatives in 1999 to 2003. He contested for Imo State Governorship Election in 2003 challenging the then incumbent Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa of the Peoples Democratic Party. He has been President Muhammadu Buhari’s most trusted political ally from the time of CPC…
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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 herdsmen in the southern part of Nigeria to return to the North immediately. This, they said, was to ensure safety of their life and property. The chairman of NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, is a former vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. He…
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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 Party (PDP)]. The question borders on the Supreme Court’s policy (philosophy) on technicality and substantial justice in the determination of cases. The Senator cited one decision of the Supreme Court (Abraham v. Akeredolu)confirming the policy of the apex Court that the courts will not allow technicality…
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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 famous jurist to have occupied that position in a generation. Despite the likes of Justices Mohammed Uwais and Mohammed Bello who served almost a dozen years each, Justice Walter Onnoghen has more name recognition today in our national consciousness even though he occupied the office…
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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 humanity and violence against children by failing to address the perennial crisis of an estimated 13 million out-of-school children. Bensouda is being asked to find out if this negligence does not fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC and whether it also does not resemble…
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“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. And took to begging . Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now,the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long. Northern politicians lived in bubbles, in distant cities. Some governors literally ruled by ‘Wifi’. When they bothered to…
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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 system that is deeply institutionalized. It has a name which is QUOTA SYSTEM. He was appointed a judge in the North and pushed up to the level of the Supreme Court by Northerners who knew he lacked the competence to even serve as an Aide…
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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 mediocrity. I noted that, “The law of attraction says like attracts like, which explains why Muhammadu Buhari is a magnet for mediocrities. Almost all his appointees are, like him, underwhelming, intellectually incurious rubes.” Justice Tanko is the latest instantiation of Buhari’s passion for attracting and…
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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 regularly bring you to date with the happenings in our administration particularly the journey so far and some of our plans and challenges going forward. In doing this, we are open to genuine criticisms and suggestions on how best to serve you better. We consider…
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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 yahoo yahoo guyman, Mbaka and the other man, Kumuyi are all more interested in protecting their interests than they are in protecting, defending and speaking out for those who can’t speak for themselves or even standing for what is right and fair. Imagine how impactful…
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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, must pursue peace and unity in all their words actions to enhance peaceful co-existence in the nation. 2. On the agitation for the establishment of settlements by the government for ‘a tribe’ in all the states of the federation, Council strong advices the Federal Government…
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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, was the bane of governance in the state for eight years; and wherein the people were made to see halls and squares as the hallmark of development. Today, if we are talking of edifices, Imo would likely rank the first among the 36 state. But…
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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 to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous…
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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 in the country. FOLLOWING the suspension of the RUGA settlement policy for cattle rearers by the Federal Government, a group known as the Coalition of Northern Groups, issued a threat to the Federal Government to see to the implementation of the policy, while leading…
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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, former chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). He said the implementation of the report will help the nation to make progress. “The call for reforms has continued to grow louder, gathering the kind of momentum that should no longer be overlooked, if the nation must make…
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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 can look after themselves and their families? How do we collect taxes of those who work, ensuring that everyone pays their fair share? How do we deploy government revenues to serve the best purposes of government and the interest of the people? How do we…
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•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 the soldier who is eating well, has adequate supplies and modern equipment, and also feels that he is being supported both by the Army and the civilian population, will perform far better than the one who feels neglected,” – Lt. Gen. William G. Pagonis. Nigerian…
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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 West African Currency Board (WACB) pound (also known as West African Pound (WAP)) was in use, first from 1913 in restricted distribution, and then more generally from 1946 until 1959 in Nigeria, 1957 in Ghana, 1965 in Gambia and 1964 in Sierra Leone. Liberia also…
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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 believed to be a woman with a half-human and half-fish appearance with the ability to transform wholly into any form of her choice. The deity could also take up the form of half-human half-snake. Her upper body is that of a woman while her lower…
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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 was later executed for resisting oppression, it is easy to think that one is reading about two different women while trying to make sense of her story. That withstanding, it is equally important to attempt to make sense of her story and tell it as it…
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“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 they come. He was born in the U.K, and went to the best British schools, has been an MP representing Tooting, 2005-2016, and shadow Minister in the Labour Party, 2010-2015. After Theresa May’s recent resignation announcement, several members of the Conservative Tory Party announced their…
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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, Turkey that was widely referred to as the sick man of Europe defeated Russia. But with determination, strong resolve and patriotism, the United States and Russia defeated their oppressors once and for all to the point that when these two nations sneeze the entire world…
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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 is quite saddening that people who struggle for a cause, in most cases, are not the ones that benefit from the gains of their enterprise. It is common in Nigerian politics! An honest attempt to recall the history of pre-independence nationalism in Nigeria, would give…
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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 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats. However, the Ahmadu Bello’s Northern People’s Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes. The above three major political parties in…
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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 Settlements’ agenda are not government officials but rather Miyetti Allah, Northern Elders Forum and some old men who congregate under the guise of ‘Northern Youth’. By making enemies of people who are asking questions from a government that cannot come up with coherent policies, they…
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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 – as the world capitals for the persecution of Christians. The report focused on the killings from Fulani herdsmen along the middle belt regions of the country. It cited the unwarranted killings of unarmed Christians by Fulani herdsmen who are often armed with sophisticated weapons. It…
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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 what he believes in. I prefer him to the caterwauling princes who pretend to be concerned about advancing the cause of the people but are always thinking of the next election and the next appointment. These are those a friend of mine refers to as…
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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 place unique local policing and security architecture around our cities and hinterland to protect our land and people . WAYS OUT /SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS FOR IMO STATE SECURITY SHERIFFS/CUMMUNITY POLICING 1. Create A strong 2,208 excellently staffed Community Sheriffs and policing force through legislation of the…
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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 eight years that Chief Rochas Okorocha held sway as Governor of Imo State were characterized by unprecedented and unbridled plunder of our common patrimony have come to demand justice. We are the leadership of the Association of Imo State Indigenous Town Unions (AISITU) in collaboration…
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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 known this but my discovery in the course of my one day visit to Imo state yesterday in company of Editors, journalists and media persons from different media houses left me speechless. What Rochas did to Imo people is beyond looting. It is called assets…
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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 on Tuesday night when he spoke with newsmen in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The governor said the signing of the Executive Order had become paramount because the government, before now, was operating over 250 accounts scattered across various banks. The TSA is a system…
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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 the man is part of the problem of Nigeria – a country frozen in a nightmare of insecurity, lawlessness, helplessness, and near hopelessness. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the land, as evil people unleash violence, arson, kidnapping, banditry and terrorism upon Nigeria, peaking in alternate…
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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 required that the bank’s development programs in Nigeria be skewed towards the North. During his tenure as Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, PTF, he located over 70% of the Fund’s projects in the North, with less than 30% devoted to the South. This tendency…
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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 a “good politician.” A good politician promotes the interests of his people. But what happens to members of the president’s party who are neither Fulani nor Northern Nigerians? Can they also care for their people as the president does for his, and at the same…
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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 a lazy and uncreative rehash of the old Zango manual of graduated occupation. Apart from its political awkwardness, the whole thing is also freighted with ethical waywardness. It is said that even President Buhari himself was so astounded by the outlandish quotations and the humungous…
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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 Rights Advocate and Nobel Laureate in Literature, at his home in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta. After the meeting on July 4, 2019, during which numerous challenges to the Nigerian quest for national cohesion and survival were examined in depth, they both agreed to issue a joint communiqué…
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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 superior race, the Rights of the Minorities disappeared. He appointed German Aryans to every part of the German Government. He removed all Jews, Slavs and others from positions of authority. He accused them of corruption, created laws through a judiciary controlled by the Reich (presidency)…
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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 rootless lifestyle of cattle herding Fulani is no longer tenable in the twenty-first century. Fulani need to have land to call home and rear cattle and that land should be Nigeria. The indigenous peoples of Nigeria have vehemently and stridently opposed this diabolic plan and…
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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 these guys that Ndi Igbo are looking for integration or desire to be sucked into the current systemic/ fraudulent Nigeria STRUCTURE? I get upset and irritated because the theoretical foundation of their argument always assumes that the unity of Nigeria or welfare of Ndi Igbo…
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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. Because they are back home and they need food for their cows, they are invading farms. Because they are invading farms, there was violence between farmers and herders last week in Katsina State. Herdsmen from Katsina attacked Katsina farmers and lives were lost. Because there…
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“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 reached to consult Miyatti Allah cattle breeders association for assistance to boot Jonathan Goodluck out of office. Consequently, the National Chairman of Miyatti Allah was engaged to bring in foreign mercenaries. Within a month, 2,000 Fulani fighters were brought in from Mali, Senegal, Niger Republic,…
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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 directly to the stables of the mainstream media and the many “mumullectuals” in the social media who continue to display such annoying arrogance even in their ignorance without repentance Most of these folks reason abnormally like the herdsmen and almajiris . No apologies. How can…
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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) in Imo is perpetrated by both government and the governed. While the issue of the negative value of pull Him down has been recognized by concerned Imolites, all concerned Imolites should join me in taking a swipe at some of our politicians for their crab-like…
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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, my grandfather and my father were ardent Muslims. It is therefore safe to conclude that I am not a stranger to Islam, the Holy Quran and the Hadith. King Henry 8th of Britain was not impressed with the choking command and controls in the affairs…
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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 the Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development and other federal civil servants twisted the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) to achieve a different aim. News of the suspension was broken yesterday by Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi after a meeting with Vice President Yemi…
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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 and insincerity of the federal authorities. “Throughout the last four years, the administration of President Buhari had twisted and wobbled deceitfully around the visibly stewing security situation in Northern Nigeria, especially the herders and farmers’ conflict. The administration had proposed several conflicting and ill-designed approaches…
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Control Freaks — The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following article. However, before we jump to the timeline, let’s read this invaluable introduction which will help us to clearly understand who the Rothschilds are as opposed to who they claim to be. Definition of Zionism: an organization of so called Jews whose goal is to create a nation for Jews. Definition of Judaism: Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud. Khazarian…
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The creation of the New World Order (NWO) agenda was put in motion by the infamous character, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the one who decided to control the entire planet by any means necessary. Of course, this meant: deception, control, financial enslavement, blackmail and murder… but also far graver things, like: wars, famine and depopulation… a genocide unlike any other before it. If you want to better understand just how powerful and black-hearted the Rothschild family is, then you must read their complete history HERE. They are the richest clan in the world, and their empire was built on mountains of…
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In the last couple of weeks, there have been insinuations and conflicting signals about what the notorious Fulani herdsmen might be up to in the Southeast region of Nigeria. First, there was the leader of the so-called Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) announcing to the whole world that the Southeast region of Nigeria would soon boil and perhaps burn as well because of their stubbornness and refusal to turn over their farm lands to the invading Fulani herdsmen for the grazing of their cattle. Of course, there was the predictably immediate denial of the truth of the…
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A National Stakeholders group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday In Abuja, has alleged that cabals were running down the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the group the cabals were Mamman Daura, Ismaila Funtua and Abba Kyari. Dr Symeon Chilagorom, the national convener of the group, had said to newsmen during a protest in Abuja that the Nigerian people would refuse to accept the repetition of President Buhari’s first term as the slogan of the 2019 campaign dictates. His statement had read in part: “Our demand is a simple one, the people of this country…
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It is exactly 20 years since Chief Christogonus Ezebuiro Obinna but widely known to the rest of his admirers and music lovers as Dr. Sir. Warrior joined his ancestors. Warrior was not the first Igbo highlife musician but he sensationally revolutionalzed it. He brought Congolese and Cameron music flavour to highlife music. His music genre was perculair as his sonorous voice was not just appealing but exciting. His idiomatic expressions were both pungent and poignant. Warrior was the third person in what became known as the five Original Oriental Brothers International Band led by Kabaka and later Dan Satch. The…
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The US$200 million Chinese gift to Africa — the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa opened in 2012. At the September 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China pledged US$60 billion aid package to Africa. The figure includes project financing, investment, grants, concessional loans, and credit lines. This aid package tells two stories — China’s extraordinary social and economic development and Africa’s stagnation. The irony is that China was poorer than most African countries in 1960. BACK IN 1960-FIFTY EIGHT YEARS AGO- CHINA WAS POORER THAN MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES. Table 1 — Per capita income comparison between China and African countries (1960 and 2017) As shown in Table…
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In October 1967, the federal troops, having captured and secured Enugu, the capital of Biafra, were on their way to Awka and Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Biafra, through the old Enugu-Awka-Onitsha road. The well armed, heavily equipped federal troops, with their superior fire power, encountered a battalion of poorly equipped, out-gunned and virtually exhausted Biafran troops at the Ugwuoba Bridge, few kilometers into Awka. However, the Biafran troops had on hand some of their air defence dust mines. Unable to withstand the superior firepower of the federal troops, they began to run for their dear lives carrying along…
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You are either a historian or a politician. You cannot be both. And generally speaking Nigerian politicians hate historians more than anyone else because they remind them of a past that they would rather bury and forget. Today I am speaking and writing not as a politician but as a historian, a servant of truth, the voice of the voiceless and the champion of the oppressed. And it is in this light and spirit that I can boldly say that if the truth were to be told about what almost all of our Army Commanders and field officers, including four…
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“Nigeria is a typical West African mess of a country, only bigger and meaner. It’s divided up the usual way: the coastal tribes are Christianized from sucking up to the European colonists. The further inland you go, the drier, hungrier and more Islamic it gets. The Brits grabbed the Nigerian coastline from the Portuguese when they realized there was money to be made, and turned the two big coastal tribes, the Ibo and the Yoruba, into their overseers on the Nigerian plantations. That left a lot of the inland Muslim tribes, the Hausa-Fulani people of the Sahel, permanently pissed off,…
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The country was shocked to the marrow recently when it became public that the Ghanaian-European Railway Consortium (GERC) had agreed to construct a 340-kilometre standard gauge railway line in Ghana for $2.2 billion. This is against the background of the cost of the 156-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan railway line, handled by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and put at $2 billion. The implication of this is that while a kilometre of railway line costs $6.5 million in Ghana, the same length costs $13.6 million in Nigeria. It is nothing short of a scandal that the Ghanaian project handled by a…
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George Washington, as many don’t know, was not the first President of the United States. The first President of the United States was one John Hanson, and he was a black man. Or it can be said that he had African genes. The Articles of American Confederation, the predecessor to the American Constitution, called for a president. Eight men were appointed to serve one year terms as president under the Articles of Confederation. In November 1781, John Hanson became the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, under the Articles of Confederation. Don’t go checking the encyclopedia for this, because…
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Majority of the Igbo accepted christianity through coercion and not an immediate inspiration of the Holy spirit. Now before you (the Igbo/African Christian) begin to tear yourself apart on this, I would want us all to pay attention and take these lessons of our history. If you must understand why the Igbo practice Christianity as opposed to Odinani, you must do your best to trace back to when it all started and how it all started. This is not an attack on Christianity as presently practiced by the Igbo – No. This is my own analogy on why a good number…
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Twenty-six years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, which was won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, his first son and present head of the extended Abiola family, Kola Abiola, has opened up on his father’s struggle to win the election and reclaim his mandate after the results were cancelled. In this exclusive interview with The Sun team in his Lagos residence, he revealed what transpired behind the scenes before, during and after the annulled election and the role played by different persons and interest groups. He said, contrary to widely held beliefs, Abiola never…
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Never known to be in the habit of turning the proverbial other cheek, it is a big puzzle that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo chose to absorb a sucker punch of volcanic severity on June 12 last week without as much as a grunt. Babagana Kingibe had baited him with a charge of complicity in the high conspiracy that aborted June 12. Not that we did not know that before. But afraid that his old skeletons might be unearthed finally, ordinarily voluble and perennially crusading OBJ uncharacteristically retreated into a cowardly silence to a claim that, considering his assumed brotherhood with MKO,…
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A psychiatrist, Dr Maymunah Kadiri on Saturday advised married women to have regular sex with their spouses in order to prevent depression and gain happiness. Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration. Kadiri, the Medical Director of Pinnacle Medical Services gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Pinnacle is a health and wellness centre for psychological, behavioral, and mental health related issues. According to her, sex…
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On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender. But though the U.S. defeated Japan, they never decimated Japan’s great technological and industrial complex. They were visionary enough to distinguish these from Japan’s military industrial complex, which they scrapped. Realizing that Japan was decades ahead of the West in many technologies, the allied powers, led by the US, allowed those industries to remain as a going concern…
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Ego, pride , procrastination, sycophancy , banal bureaucracy, and empty “bigmanism” is the greatest undoing and baggage of some of us in the southern part of Nigeria. We have an Investment Banking funding group based in Zurich Switzerland that we represent here in Nigeria and also help to cover the West coast for them. Last month they called me up that there is this Funding group that have concluded plans to invest in frontier markets economy in Africa. They desire to take African investment risks . They specifically mentioned that they will prefer Nigeria and the beneficiary projects must be…
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On June 11, 2019, Nigeria inaugurated what promises to be the most servile and least independent National Assembly in Nigeria’s entire history. The new Senate President and the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose ascendancy to their positions was enabled by nakedly transparent executive manipulation, are unabashedly obsequious grovelers to the presidency. New Deputy Senate President Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege’s cringe-worthily sycophantic genuflection to Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa on June 11 is perhaps the most symbolic affirmation yet of the loss of any pretense to legislative autonomy in the coming months and years. The National Assembly will…
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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 the man is part of the problem of Nigeria – a country frozen in a nightmare of insecurity, lawlessness, helplessness, and near hopelessness. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the land, as evil people unleash violence, arson, kidnapping, banditry and terrorism upon Nigeria, peaking in alternate…
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•The crisis may engulf coastal West Africa —Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister •10 million people in Lake Chad area need urgent help —UN There are fears that the current security problems wracking the country could become worsened soon with reports that jihadists across the West African region are recruiting heavily from aggrieved Fulani pastoralists. While the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), fears a hike in the population of the displaced in West Africa, other reports warned that militant groups in the Sahel are on their way down to West African coastal countries. Sahel countries are Senegal,…
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For the average Nigerian, the politician is that man who does not honour his words. He is economical with the truth and finds it an arduous task to also trust another man. Paul Bamikole, the great revelational speaker of God’s words, may have captured this notion when he stated: “God forbid that we become so brainwashed as to embrace a politician as a messiah and believe what the media portrays him or her to be. Until their tenure is up and they have done their bit, every politician is another politician”. Specifically, the last sentence of Bamikole’s statement suggests that…
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Nwanna, Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the “Biafra of the mind.” Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep. But let me attempt here to tease out Dim Ojukwu’s prescription: the greatest proof of Igbo survival and aspiration must be to model, wherever Onye-Igbo stands, the ethos of innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ability that marked the Igbo endeavor in Biafra. We must also use Biafra as the stepping stone to a higher vision of the Igbo place in the world. There is no single proof or…
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Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited has restated its preparedness to contribute about 271 million litres of refined petroleum products annually towards the development of nation’s economy. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited, Mr Abdulrazaq Isa, said that the establishment was keen to serve as an import substitution for meeting domestic demand for petroleum products, create both direct and indirect employment as well as reduce the demand for foreign exchange from the nation’s treasury to import these products. Abdurazak Isa is one of those few Nigerians who are assisting the nation with their personal wealth…
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“I was returning from one of such trips to a prominent Emir one afternoon when I heard from my car radio Chief Abiola calling on General Abacha to come and ease Chief Shonekan as he eased out Babangida, I was shocked. I called Chief Abiola and asked for an explanation of what I had just heard. His reply was, “Mr. Chairman, I am very happy to have worked with you. You are a strong-willed man, but you see, if you want to go to Kano by road and you later decide to go to Kano by air, as long as…
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Africa’s large-scale security operations have neglected rural areas where violent extremism thrives. The terror threat across Africa is as strong as ever. Attacks are occurring not just in the older centres of activity such as Somalia, northern Nigeria and northern Mali, but in emerging hotspots like northern Mozambique and Burkina Faso as well. Violent extremism across the continent has many roots, making it difficult to simplify a complex phenomenon. But given the failure to stem its advance over the past decade or so, what can be done differently going forward? One of the most popular responses to terrorism in Africa…
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Buhari delivered what sounded more like an Inaugural Speech than a Democracy Day Speech, yesterday, June 12. The 3,114 word-speech was essentially his evaluation of his government’s last four years, the successes he felt were recorded and his sense of the challenges ahead. Needless to say, he scored his government very high. As he put it: “When therefore we came to office in 2015 after a decade of struggle, we indentified three cardinal and existential challenges our country faced and made them our campaign focus, namely security, economy and fighting corruption. None but the most partisan will dispute that in…
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A 13-year-old igbo girl has invented a system for the production of oxygen in space, the igbo Hebrew youth paper Ma’ariv L’Noar reported on Thursday, along with an interview with the budding tween scientist from Ramat Hasharon. The recent winner of the “Satellite Is Born” award from the Israel Space Agency, Chinwenu Amaka developed BioSat “to solve a problem for astronauts trying to prove that life on Mars is possible.” Amaka said her satellite is “built like a large bubble on one side of which there is a mirror and the other is transparent, enabling the penetration of sunlight. In…
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All Praise is due to GOD Almighty Who spared our lives to be present at this great occasion. We give thanks also that the democratic process has been further entrenched and strengthened. 2. Twenty years ago, a democratically elected government took over from the military in a historic transfer of political power for our country. 3. Today, we are privileged to mark the longest period of unbroken democratic leadership and 5th peaceful transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another in Nigeria. 4. Throughout the last four years, I respected the independence of INEC. I ensured that INEC…
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Media mogul and former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Dele Momodu, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government cannot unite Nigeria. Momodu said this on Channels TV on Wednesday evening while speaking on MKO Abiola’s politics and how he won the hearts of the people On why he thinks Buhari cannot unite Nigerians, Momodu said: “I see Buhari government as more pro-military than pro-democracy. “I am hoping that the government of today, beyond naming the stadium after Abiola, beyond declaring the public holiday, I’m hoping that they will also be able to unite Nigeria. “When you…
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The State Security Service on Wednesday announced a nationwide crackdown on individuals allegedly caught posting inciting materials on the Internet, in a move that could provoke fresh debates about the potency of Nigerian Constitution’s free speech safeguards. The SSS said it had recently observed that some social media users were skewing Nigeria’s history to promote ethnic violence and tip the nation into crisis, a development it said must be urgently reversed through state interference. The secret police’s spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said in a statement to PREMIUM TIMES that some “unpatriotic” Nigerians have been using social media platforms to make “unguarded…
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First of all, I would want to congratulate the malevolent schemers who have succeeded in scheming the Igbo nation out of the country Nigeria. I am congratulating them because they have succeeded in doing what is virtually impossible in sane climes. They have succeeded in strangling separation of powers and would in no time shoot the rule of law, point blank in the middle of the eyes. It is great to know that you completed your mission albeit without much resistance from those who are at risk and should have known better. It is expedient to note that the final…
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Today is June 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day and I have some home truths to tell. The struggle for June 12th was indeed a noble, worthy, cataclysmic and monumental one. It was also something of a nightmare which littered our fields with many corpses and soaked the very foundation of our nation with blood, sweat and tears. I can confirm that because I was deeply involved in it and for many years I, along with many others, fought for it’s actualisation. Many were martyred, many were jailed, many were tortured and many were compelled to flee into exile. Great essayists,…
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“Below is an extract from the proceedings of the Northern Region House of Assembly between February and March 1964; less than four years after Nigeria’s independence from the British. Read and judge for yourself…” NORTHERN HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS, February-March 1964 Mallam Muhammadu Mustapha Mande Gyan: “On the allocation of plots to Ibos or allocation of stalls, I would like to advise the Minister that these people know how to make money, and we do not know the way and manner of getting about this business. We do not want Ibos to be allocated with plots. I do not want…
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Debt servicing gulps more than 50 per cent of Nigeria’s revenue, the African Development Bank has said. The bank, which said this in its West Africa Economic Outlook 2019, said the servicing of the country’s external debt gulped about 50 per cent of the country’s revenue. According to AfDB, the average revenue spent by West African countries on external debt servicing is 17 per cent. This is high and even higher in Nigeria which spends about 50 per cent revenue on external debt servicing. It added that with the increasing domestic debt burden, the percentage of revenues spent on debt…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is driving Nigeria towards “disaster and instability”. Mr Obasanjo said this in an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES at his Ibogun Olaogun ancestral home in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, last month. The interview is part of a special magazine publication by PREMIUM TIMES, put together to commemorate Nigeria’s 20 years of democracy since 1999. The former president fell apart with Mr Buhari ahead of the 2019 general elections and endorsed the president’s closest rival and his estranged vice president, Atiku Abubakar. Mr Abubakar, who served…
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The Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has approved a 10 per cent discount on harbour dues in all concessioned terminals at the Eastern ports. Mr Jatto Adams, the NPA General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos said that the discount was part of efforts to increase patronage of the Eastern ports. According to him, ports that will be affected by this initiative are Calabar, Rivers and Delta Ports. The Authority, however, wishes to clarify that this discount will only apply to harbour dues payable by the following types of vessels/cargoes. “Container…
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Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, has told President Muhammadu Buhari and other African leaders, that it is not enough to fight corruption — but to also add value to human life. Speaking at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) summit in Abuja on Tuesday, Kagame congratulated Buhari on his victory at the poll and said Nigeria must share resources equitably, so everyone can join the fight against corruption. He also called on the president and other attendees to add value, create wealth, while fighting corruption, and not merely to fight corruption. “There is one of your own [Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala], who…
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