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I am not a woman, but consciously or unconsciously, I have found myself in sympathy with the lot of women and always agitating for them over a number of issues. Playing the role of a woman protagonist is borne out of the sympathy I have for them as a grossly marginalized group who are not even conscious of their plight. Even where and when they are conscious it plays only on their lips in form of verbal protest as they are also helpless in realising their dreams and aspirations through any meaningful action. It is already sunk and fixated in…
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How do I sum up 23 years in one page? I don’t know. How do I describe you? I cannot. Not in any depth. Not for anybody else – you were my husband, my brother, my friend, my child. I was your queen, and it was an honour to have served you. You were the lion of my history books, the leader of my nation when we faced extinction, the larger-than-life history come to, my life – living, breathing legend.But unlike the history books, you defied all preconceptions. You made me cry from laughter with your jokes, many irreverent. You…
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List of courses that have not been accredited in Nigerian universities have been released – A certificate issued for those courses will be considered void – The university of Abuja has the highest number of unaccredited courses The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a list of some courses that have not been accredited. The unaccredited courses pose serious danger to students who study them as the certificates issued by these universities for the courses will not be officially recognised. Premium Times reports that 2016 accreditation status report indicated that these unaccredited courses were taught in 37 out of 143…
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The graphic exposition of the extent of looting that he masterminded is both surprising and sobering. His greed consumed him to the extent that he lost every sense of decorum and could not even do it intelligently. Imagine that he awarded different contracts amounting to N20 billion (including over N1.5 billion worth in one week) to an unknown company! I learnt about the fate that has befallen the former governor of Imo State, now senator, Ethelbert Anayo Okorocha. Like many discerning citizens of the State, one will say that it serves him right. It has been reported that so far,…
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I stand before you today fully cognizant, as are many of you in this audience, that these days are not the best for Nigeria. At the risk of being called prophets of doom, we really have no choice than to admit that our country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, lies in the paths of sundry tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, storms, superstorms, whirlwinds, and typhoons all of which are rushing towards our Republic with deadly speeds and their concomitant devastating momentum. We all know that humans cannot perfectly predict what the future holds. But they can examine, assess and calibrate past and…
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13th August 2019 I had followed the altercations in the public space between Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State and his immediate predecessor Mr. Rochas Okorocha. Both of them had a bitter election fisticuff which ended in Mr. Ihedioha’s favour and Mr. Okorocha who had struggled valiantly to plant his son in law, Mr. Uche Nwosu, in the Governor’s chair has been inconsolable. The exchange of barbed shafts and poisonous messages has been unrelenting. A lot of rot has been allegedly exhumed by the Ihedioha Administration as evidence that Imo State under Okorocha had been hibernating in the waterland of…
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In the United States, the term “deep state” is used to describe a conspiracy theory which suggests that collusion and cronyism exist within the US political system and constitutes a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. Some people believe that there is “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance, the military, the intelligence agencies and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process”, whereas others consider the deep state to encompass corruption that is particularly prevalent amongst…
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The wise say two wrongs don’t make a right. But three wrongs make a right in Nigeria. First wrong: lunatic soldiers shot dead an innocent civilian along with three well-trained Intelligence Response Team policemen on national duty in Taraba State while the military hierarchy dipped the memories of the murdered Taraba Four in a cauldron of excreta by justifying the killing with an insane logic and writing ‘kidnapper’ on the foreheads of each of the brutally slain men. Second wrong: hip-hop artist, Tekno, opened a new chapter in entertainment madness in Nigeria as he danced publicly with naked ladies on…
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It’s democracy versus Sharia ideology —Danjuma, Asemota, Lekwot, others. In a paper dated July 31, 2019, National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), parading prominent Nigerians including Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN; a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma (ret.); Prof. Joseph Otubu; Major General Joshua Dogonyaro (ret.); Archbishop Magnus Atilade; Dr. Kate Okpareke; Dr. Ayo Abifarin; Major General Zamani Lekwot (ret.); Moses Ihonde; Elder Nat Okoro and Matthew Owojaiye, analysed the state of the nation, tracing the root of the current crisis in Nigeria to a conflict between democracy and Sharia ideology. The full text of the paper, under the…
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The mish-mash of Nigeria’s post-war history has permitted many sad revisions which in turn has made Nigerian historical studies and its statements therefrom to be lopsided, ethnic, and gnarled. We have tended in Nigeria to celebrate the worst of us, and have confined Nigeria’s true national heroes to the dustbin. Today, only in a place like Nigeria, with its twisted ethos, can a man like Ahmadu Bello for instance, have greater pride of place in the National rolls than Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, one of the great spirits of the anti-colonial Nationalist movement. While the likes of Nwafor-Orizu were in…
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And in 1993, Margaret Thatcher’s wealth was put at £9.5 million or roughly $6 million. Kamuzu Banda’s wealth was estimated at $320 million, that is 53 times the wealth of *Margaret Thatcher.* In other words, *Kamuzu Banda* of poorest of the poor Malawi was worth 5,300 per cent more than Margaret Thatcher of first world UK. How do you explain that? How can you explain that? And remember that if you compared Kamuzu Banda’s wealth with that of Abacha, Kamuzu Banda is a mere pauper in comparison to Abacha’s wealth that was estimated in the billions of dollars. When Zambia’s…
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I have immersed myself in the study of the ontogenesis and manifestations of fascism since Buhari started to bare his ferociously fascist fangs. One of the world’s most insightful writers on fascist totalitarianism is George Orwell. As he himself pointed out in his 1946 essay titled “Why I Write,” “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism….” His most famous works, Animal Farm (published in 1945) and 1984 (published in 1949), were not just devastatingly searing fictional critiques of totalitarianism, they also offer enduringly accurate insights into how absolutist…
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Last year, rumours started circulating regarding a strange form of thievery in Nigeria. In this case, people were not stealing cars or computers, cell phones or wallets, but pants, female pants. When I first heard about this pant theft and ritual, I thought it was a joke, or some made up stories by local comedians. I was of the view that the pant ritual story would trend and quickly fade away. But I was mistaken. The story didn’t go away. Instead it kept appearing and reappearing in the media. In fact, the mainstream newspapers started publishing photos usually of young…
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT – WHERE IS THE “RESCUED” NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPER, ALHAJI HAMISU BALA WADUME?
The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the Press Release by the Nigerian Army dated 07 August, 2019, seeking to justify the unprovoked and unwarranted murder of three (3) Police officers and one (1) Civilian, and serious injury to other operatives, who were on legitimate criminal investigation activities to Taraba State, to arrest one Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume indicted in a series of high-profile kidnap incidents in the State. In the best tradition of Esprit de Corps, Inter-Agency Harmony and National Interest, the Nigeria Police Force would naturally have kept quiet, but it has become imperative…
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Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders August 08, 2019 The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad THE STATE OF THE NATION We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria. It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication. We write to honour you with this letter, given the…
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Our present national predicament reminds me of the last days of Socrates, the Greek wise man. After an ignorant mob condemned him to death, for urging the people to be rational in their beliefs and in their approach to life, his triumphant detractors gloatingly asked him to plead for his life, so that they might have mercy on him. Socrates burst out laughing, instead. This was certainly not what they expected from a man staring death in the face. He did not do any of the usual things a condemned person in Athens of those days would do; like weeping,…
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(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 August, 2019). In July 1968, a year into Nigeria’s civil war, one of the divisional commanders fired a note, from the war front, to the Head of State: “What really are we fighting for: to enliven a new class of the domineering type or to integrate the country?” General Benjamin Adekunle who wrote that note to General Yakubu Gowon fought in our civil war and became a folk hero. He thought he was performing that duty for the sake of the children and grandchildren of a future Nigeria of justice. The celebrated…
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Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa 1. Overview Sources indicate that Fulani herdsmen are nomadic pastoralists and mostly Muslim (France 30 Nov. 2016, 62; IEP 2017, 76). The same sources state that conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers, who in Nigeria are mostly Christians, increased in recent years (France 30 Nov. 2016, 62; IEP 2017, 76), driven in Nigeria by a lack of resources, desertification, ”ambiguous” land legislation, and a ”weak” rule of law (IEP 2017, 76). According to a 2016 fact-finding mission report on Nigeria by the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA),…
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The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people’s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have…
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Golden Guinea Breweries Plc, a beverage manufacturing company in Nigeria has re-opened its plant following a US$9.98 million (N3.6bn) cash injection to rejuvenate the brewery. According to a Beverage Industry News report, production operations in the firm were cut short in 2003 which has since then been engaging in efforts of bringing back the brewer to life. The brewery, which has been dormant for 17 years, reopened after receiving a loan facility of US$9,98 million from the Federal Government through the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and the Bank of Industry (BoI) in April last year. The investment has enabled the…
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1. Introduction The Igbo race continues to face enormous political and economic challenges since the instigated and imposed civil war. A plain glance at the economic and political development in Nigeria may be considered normal in terms of where the Igbo people stand politically, especially economically when compared to other ethnic nationalities. Indeed a cursory look at the poverty level among the ethnic groups would make the Igbo race appear exceptionally successful. The Igbo people in reality experienced an overwhelming level of disadvantages based on public policies that seemed crafted to undermine their ability to maximize political and economic potentials.…
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You can call General Muhammadu Buhari all sort of names, but what I can assure you is that his popularity is increasing all over core Northern Nigeria and across the sahel region of West Africa. The Fulani with the brainwashed Hausa vassals will fight and die for him. General Buhari is one of the most intelligent and courageous leader the fulani controlled territory has ever produced. He is always two steps ahead of his distractors and he understands history, power and what it takes to build a civilization. General Buhari understands that there is nothing called One Nigeria in any…
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A must watch for our youths who lack in-depth information on our collective history.
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By now, it should be clear to any Nigerian observer that the Igbo are ignoring President Buhari and the APC administration. As far as the majority of the Igbo in Nigeria are concerned Buhari is now inconsequential, and his party, the APC, irrelevant to the future and aspirations of the Igbo who very unambiguously made their political choices even in the last election. One more time, the Igbo vote was a referendum on Buhari and the APC. No threat, not even the promise of political lollipop could convince the Igbo in Nigeria to vote for Muhammadu Buhari or the APC.…
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The definitive electoral outcome of the 2011 and 2019 governorship elections have placed Imo State as the most politically savvy enclave in the South East in particular, and Nigeria in general. As an honor, the people of Imo State deserve the accolades. This is because in all these elections, Imo electorates were able to demonstrate that SOVEREIGNTY belongs to the people. They demonstrated that the will to decide who governs a democratic government rests on the showders of the people through their electoral decisions. Again, the people of Imo proved beyond every reasonable doubts that political Representatives can be voted…
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Be it known to all that British Intelligence and their local collaborators in Nigeria that desperately want to keep Caliphate One-Nigeria going by all means concocted this August 5th 2019 “Revolution” scrap as their strategy to distort, derail and take wind off the sail of the burgeoning Self-Determination Campaign that has reached its positive tipping point across the defunct Federation of Nigeria which collapsed since 1966. Just as was done when the ELECTION-2019 SHUTDOWN Designs of the LNC and the MNN Alliance Partners was deployed to halt the journey to the badly doomed 2019 Presidential Election, these same characters (Sowore…
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Documents obtained by TheCable has exposed how former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha awarded 12 contracts worth N20 billion to a strange comapny, Zigreat International Company Limited between November 15, 2013, and November 3, 2017, three months after the suspected bubble company was registered. The contracts were awarded to the company in obvious abuse of power and in violation of the Public Procurement Act. The Act stipulates that to bid for contracts, a company needs to present three years tax clearance, audited accounts, evidence of work experience as the main contractor executing or having executed a minimum of…
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Controversy has trailed the recent decision by the Federal Government to proscribe and designate the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – also known as the Shiites- as a terrorist organisation. The Federal Government had filed an ex parte application before the court barely 72 hours after a protest by members of the group in Abuja led to a bloody clash between them and the police. In that clash, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, Federal Capital Territory Command, Usman Umar, and a Channels Television journalist, Precious Owolabi, died, with many others injured and property destroyed. In her…
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“While president says war against Islamist insurgency is won, army conceals toll in unmarked graves” MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA—At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the corpses are delivered by truck, according to Nigerian soldiers, diplomats and a senior government official. The bodies are laid by flashlight into trenches dug by infantrymen or local villagers paid a few dollars per shift.…
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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 his article below. It is one of the strategies to heal cancer. As of late, my success rate in curing cancer is about 80%. Cancer patients shouldn’t die. The cure for cancer is already found – its in the way we eat fruits. It is…
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“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 of northern people to the government, but government turned deaf ears” – J. K. Randle, in a featured interview in ThisDay, Sunday Newspaper, March 24, 2019. There was a report carried by most Nigerian newspapers that billionaire Aliko Dangote, while speaking at the 2019 Kaduna…
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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 ideas but failed. Why Not is an answer to the question from family, concerned friends, haranguers, and cynics who are wondering what men of ideas, cognate experience and exposure are doing in politics – rather than quietly using their privileged positions to benefit themselves and…
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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 almost 1400 years. Before I proceed to discuss the conflict as requested by some of my friends here, let me note that Islam forbids division of any kind. And beyond forbidding such segregation, Quran specifically frowns at association with those that break away into sects.…
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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 detention since 2015 alongside his wife Zeenah Ibrahim, despite a court order in 2016 to release him. National leader of Shiite movement, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has been in detention since 2015 (Punch) The Zakzakys were detained after members of the IMN stood in the way of…
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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 six months for the President to submit the list. The President did not meet the 30 days prescription in 2019 but he did much better this time by submitting the list within six weeks of the Senate’s inauguration. The second prescription was that portfolios should…
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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 around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio. At the time, almost all Hausa people lived in slave camps and over 60% of them were vassals of the Fulani feudal overlords…. Another large faction were turned to chattels and sold to the Ottoman…
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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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