- FACTUAL NIGERIA MATTERS ARISING
- Is Nigeria a free nation or a conquered vassal state? By Femi Fani-Kayode
- THE ULTIMATE CORRUPT PRACTICES: THIS IS PURE MADNESS
- Kaduna Nzeogwu last African soldier revolutionary; not Igbo
- Your Land Or Your Blood.
- IF ANY THING HAPPENS TO NIGERIA, HOLD ISLAM RESPONSIBLE!
- EMIR SANUSI BARES HIS MIND ON HAUSA, IGBO AND YORUBA… THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA.
- A good Nigeria is better than a good Arewa, Oduduwa or Biafra.
- Prof. RACE Achara: Keeping Crime in the Tribal Family
- IGBO SCHOLAR DISGRACES Femi Fani-Kayode, Demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures
- A VOTE AGAINST COUNTRY IN FAVOUR OF TRIBE.
- OHANEZE NDI-IGBO AND FULANI INFILTRATION
- The Fulani Republic of Nigeria - by Fani-Kayode
- NIGERIA UNITY UNDER THREAT! THE FULANI CONSPIRACY - Obiora Ogochukwu Okafo
- THE WILL OF GOD - DONALD J. TRUMP.
FACTUAL NIGERIA MATTERS ARISING -Reality Check!
June, 2017.
The Ibos want Biafra
The North wants Ibo's exit
The Yorubas want Ibo's exit
The Ibos are saying "we have investments in your areas and cannot leave them"
And the fight is being cooked.
Amongst all these, the President is in London
Governors are sharing bailout funds
Workers salaries are not paid
Government officials have their children schooling abroad
Ministers and senators are looting
The poor Hausa man is riding Okada
The poor Ibo man is riding Okada
The poor Yoruba man is riding Okada
The poor Hausa man sleeps under the bridge as Alamajiri
The poor Yoruba man sleeps under the bridge as Alaye
The poor Ibo man sleeps under the bridge as agbero
It is pertinent to note that the poor from all ethnic groups in Nigeria have everything in common and so is the rich.
Do not allow the agitation of an Ibo man who lives in UK or USA for Biafra cause the killing of the Ibo man in Adamawa. The rich hate us that much.
Do not allow the Alhaji whose children are living abroad to persuade you to go and start killing on the street of Kaduna.
The problem in the country is not the agitation of any ethnic group but the unity of the elite and the disunity of the masses.
How many times have you taken your agitation to question your local government Chairmen?
Why have you not asked your Governors through agitation how they spent bailout fund?
Why have you not agitated against that government official whose mansions you go to beg for help?
Sad to note;
All the Governors love themselves
All the past Presidents love themselves
All the senators love themselves
All the top government officials love themselves
All the looters love themselves
Why can't you and I love ourselves?
Why can we combine efforts and fight them?
Why do we fight ourselves?
Why do we allow them the freedom we don't have?
Remember; a good Nigeria is better than a good Arewa, Oduduwa or Biafra.
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Prof. RACE Achara: Keeping Crime in the Tribal Family
6/13/2017
By Pius Adesanmi
I've been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a mirror of the fratricidal ethnic divisions, hate, and bitterness among the small people.
In other words, our small criminals replicate tribalism and the intense ethnic provincialism which clog the minds of people in the lower classes in Nigeria and prevent progress.
Take a look at the composition of Evans' criminal gang: everybody is Igbo.
A few weeks ago in Toronto, the police were finally able to burst a notorious Nigerian criminal gang of credit card racketeers and other assorted fraud. From gang leader to gang messenger, everyone was Yoruba.
From the US to the UK to Canada to Indonesia to Thailand and to Nigeria, every time the law catches up with a Nigerian criminal gang, do not bother to look beyond the name of the gang leader. Whether it is kidnapping or drugs or credit card and other 419 schemes, the ethnicity of the gang leader always determines the ethnicity of the rest of the gang. There was an Arewa drug gang bursted by the police in Thailand a few years ago. I looked at the names: all Hausa Fulani.
Because many of these criminals come from the lower classes, they reflect what you see on display among members and children of the lower classes on social media every day: small-minded clannishness, ethnic insularity, hate, bitterness and division. Among the Nigerian lower classes, even crime must be kept in the tribal family.
Now, let us leave the ranks of the little people and migrate to the ranks of the world's leading criminals: Nigeria's one percent. The looters in the political class. Public office holders. The owners of Nigeria. Mind you, the rulers of Nigeria in the one percent are worse criminals than the kidnappers, the 419 fraudsters, and the drug pushers described above.
However, are they petty-minded and tribalistic in their orbit of crime? Well, take a trip with Mallam Doyin Okupe. Before he landed in Aso Rockk Villa with Goodluck Jonathan, he was involved in contract jibiti. Who was he scamming in contracts? His Yoruba people? For where. Among the one percent, pan-Nigeria is very important. They are the purest embodiment of though tribe and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand.
Thus, one Igbo criminal governor in Imo state took care of his Yoruba criminal brother from Ogun state and awarded him juicy contracts on the back of the Igbo people of Imo state. Doyin Okupe collected on the contract and vamoosed. Did he return to Yoruba land on his way back from Imo? For where. He stopped over in Benue where one criminal Idoma Governor (abi na Tiv?) awarded him another chop and clean mouth contract.
From Benue to Imo to Ogun: no ethnic or religious division. These are members of the one percent. When two Okun jibiti Senators went after each other recently on Channels, I noticed that Harvard alumnus, Dr. Dino Melaye, accused Hotelier Emeritus, Smart Adeyemi, of collecting contracts from Peter Odili back in the day. You see how many ethnic rivers Smart Adeyemi crossed for contract racketeering in the south-south?
Look at Dasuki. He is the true definition of in my father's house there are many mansions there. No one percenter's bank account was left uncredited by Dasuki. He did for Hausa. He did for Fulani. He did for Yoruba. He did for Igbo. He did for Ijaw. He did for Ogoni. He did for everybody. Your only qualification for his ATM was being a Pan-Nigerian member of the one percent.
So, if you are a member of the lower classes who has spent the last two bitter weeks hurling curses and hate behind ethnic lines, you better 'borrow' yourself brain. Even the petty criminals who rise from among you reflect your hate and small-minded tribalism. That is why you and the petty criminals are always where you are in the lower rungs of social advancement.
Look at how far unity has gotten our united one percenters. As a group, they have done very well for themselves by uniting across ethnic and religious lines in criminality.
If you unite across ethnic and religious lines in good works, vision, social mission, and nation building, you will do better, much better than the criminal group of one percenters have done for themselves.
I got an email from my son, Mitterand Okorie, yesterday notifying me that he has quit social media for now because of all the hate and division.
You are driving the best minds away. You are losing them to despondency.
People united by crime should never trump your potential to unite for good and maximize your differences for social progress.
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Ethnic difference is wealth, not a liability.
Prof RACE Achara
6/13/2017
When the Biafran war happened, Igbos were ill-prepared. Ojukwu's blood was hot - an age factor. He failed to look into the future and how much Igbos would lose in that war.
He took many Igbo young men and wasted them in different sectors of war. And achieved nothing. In the end, he ran away to Cote d'Ivoire - with a WOMAN. And moved on.
I am passionate about the Biafran ideology.
But I won't be a party to bad strategy.
The spirit warned Ojaadili, "Ojaadili, agbakwana chi gi mgba". Don't wrestle with your chi.
I prefer to see Biafra as an ideology than a country. That's my take.
I will suggest this any day, any time.
Igbos want a country to be called Biafra.
Sometimes, I just wake up and begin to laugh at this humongous Biafran dream.
It is good to dream - don't get me wrong.
But permit me to say that Igbos are not diplomatic dreamers.
So Igbos who are busy building the best hotels, schools; estates, businesses, bus stations etc in the South-West and North of Nigeria, want a country to be named Biafra with its capital located where???? Excuse me??
Funny.
Ibeto hotels in Abuja is owned by an Igbo man.
New Nyanya, a major transportation company that dominates northern routes is owned by an Igbo man.
Efab estates in different parts of Abuja are owned by an Igbo man.
Rock Foundation Schools, one of the three best schools in Wukari in Taraba State is owned by an Igbo woman. Deo Gratias schools in different parts of Abuja are owned by an Igbo woman.
Many young, hustling Igbo ladies own tasty houses in Abuja and Lagos.
Show me a Fulani man who owns big schools in Awka.
Show me a Yoruba woman who built classy schools in Nsukka.
Show me a Tiv man who has classy hotels in Owerri.
Show me a Jukun woman who owns a big hotel in Aba.
Show me an Igbira man who owns many estates in Enugu.
Apart from Dangote's trucks that pass by Igboland for delivery, show me one Hausa man whose transportation company is domiciled in Abakiliki.
Every Yoruba man I have seen in Igboland is either a tailor or a banker or telecom worker who owns an inconsequential one-room apartment with a miserable mattress for sleeping or straffing ambitious Igbo girls who want to be laid and a miserable bucket to wash down.
Every northern ethnic minority or majority I know in Igboland is either a driver of a commuter passing by, on temporal posting by his or her company; a well-digger, farmer, fisherman, shoemaker or banker in TRANSIT with a room to lay his head.
It is only Igbos that have the mind to live in Sokoto and Bauchi with their wives and kids, establish businesses and make investments.
And the next thing, they're talking about Biafra.
Do you plan to uproot those houses and other investments or what?
Now, this three-month ultimatum ...
Why not? Why won't they? They know you will lose again like in 1970.
Where are the agitators asking for a new country? It is time to host their brethren who will soon saunter home for safety. Prepare rooms for them please. Those northern youths mean business.
If you have lived in Northern Nigeria, you would know that hausas don't play. When they mean war, it is war. One hausa man can disorganise a million people. They get mind ooooh. One of them can go on suicide bombing just to exterminate a thousand southerners in a motor park.
Those guys don't joke. Don't be deceived that they are mere threats. They make good their threats. i don't see this APC government interested in frustrating that threat.
Igbos, start tidying up to push eastwards.
Decongest your presence in northern Nigeria. Stand one leg ... like a chicken brought to a new ground. Stop feeling at home if indeed, you want Biafra. Invest in the east. Have only annexes in these other states.
You make yourselves vulnerable when you live like this.
Keep your wives and kids at Enugu, Aba, Onitsha etc, and after chasing money, return home. Have a miserable room to lay your heads and straff their babes if you can deal.
Go HOME. Stop strutting the northern areas like you are helpless.
They hate you. With the strongest passion. They have only been tolerating you. And now, they are done. Peace? It's over.
Don't be that tree that waited till men came with machetes to make firewood of it.
I am pushing eastwards next month. I won't wrestle my chi. It's no one-Nigeria anything.
The one who wins the war is the one who strategises better.
Nnamdi Kanu is human.
Don't always take his words for it.
People change as they grow older. The Ojukwu that returned to Nigeria in the 80s turned out different from the one who led the Biafrans to war.
He had his regrets before he died. He identified the Biafran mistakes.
Yet Ojukwu was a brave stock.
Ten years from today, Kanu's disposition won't remain the same. Mark this.
Because he is human.
Ojukwu's family experienced the war. All his kids and official and secondary wives all experienced it.
Kanu's wife and kids are in the UK.
Ndigbo, ubelegede k'ana ekene eze mmuo.
I hate to employ clichés, but a stitch in time ...
This masterpiece is written by Ifedimma Onwugbufor ....a great poet and Prophetess as I use to call her
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EMIR SANUSI BARES HIS MIND ON HAUSA, IGBO AND YORUBA… THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA….. A MUST READ !
The former Central Bank Governor, and Emir of Kano His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi the second , surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi.
Below is his unedited speech.
“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.
“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.
“Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.
“The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now said it was a Muslim North.
“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.
Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.
You talk about Babangida and the problems of our economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?
“We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land, there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?
“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not. “The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.
Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.
“So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria . The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.
The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about few numbers of graduates in the North (two as at independence). What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerner should not be educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It was documented. And you say they love us (North) more than the south.
“I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows it. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?
“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere. That is the truth. “Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we are united than to divide it.
“Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urobos. Isn’t that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.
“There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody’s hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature.
“So, why don’t you talk about; we don’t have infrastructure, we don’t have education, we don’t have health. We are still talking about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying there is no poverty among the Fulani?”, he said.
LESSONS FROM THIS MESSAGE
Tribalism is not our problem. Tribalism and religion are artificial problems created by selfish leaders for their own personal interest.
There are only two major tribes in Nigeria. The Elites and the Masses. Once you make lots of money, you belong to the elite tribe. When you are a commoner or suffering, you belong to the tribe of the masses. If you are an elite, and you need more power, or elective position, you sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, so as to sway their emotion for your personal victory. This happens at both the national and state level. Unfortunately, after the election when they have won and joined their “sworn enemies” to drink and party, the gullible masses continue to fight each other.
Even smart people who belong to the masses, sometimes will sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, and then the masses will carry them up until they belong to the elite class. It is a classic strategy used over 3000 years ago in the art of war. A commoner who aspires to sit with the elites, could stir up powerful tribal or religious sentiments, such wave if properly utilized either by shedding blood or destabilizing the elites, carries the commoner to the elite class. But once there, he immediately mingles and makes peace with the elite tribe, and turn his back on the same masses that helped him get there.
Youths are the worst victim of this powerplay, they kill each other, call other tribes unprintable names, do terrible things and sometimes, even lose their life, thinking they are fighting for their right, not knowing that they are fighting for the personal welfare of someone, whose own children are probably safe in America or London.
So youths, don’t hope on the government. If you don’t have a job, create one. There is abject poverty in the south as well as the north, whether Ogoni or Maidugri. At the same time, there is massive wealth in Lagos, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Kano, Abuja, irrespective of zone.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it well and never remain idle. No job is too low for an idle hand, or else the devil will find work for you. As you become independent, and grow your capacity, do not lose hope in Nigeria. We are the largest economy in Africa and soon the world will fear us. Western powers, don’t like big economies that threaten them, America will do anything to break China, but China is wise to resist that. China has 1.6 billion people, we have only 170 million, and we are talking of breaking.
China has 5 major religions which are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity. Nigeria has only 2 major religions, Christianity and Islam. Yet we claim that religion is our problem.
America, the strongest economy is comprised of every tribe in the world, since they accept anybody from any part of the world. Yet they are united and extremely patriotic. Nigeria has only 3 major tribes, and we claim tribalism.
Think clearly and deeply, and you will realize that empowering yourself is the best course of action, not fighting each other. And once the youths are empowered, they can begin to take back their future from the hands of the old and corrupt generation that has been blinding Nigerians with hatred, while looting all her resources. Sani Abacha’s loot is still stashed away in Switzerland, did he use it to develop the north? Those that stole billions under GEJ stashed it away in foreign banks, bought expensive toys, jets and foreign homes, are they using it to develop the south? Now the ones stealing currently, including the “grasscutters”, are looking for Ikoyi apartments, abandoned houses, and pit toilets to hide it, are they using it for the youths in their tribe? NO!
Youths shine your eyes ! Don’t always fall for this tribal, religious sentiments over and over again. Nigeria is bigger than these corrupt elites. They are the problem, not the poor masses.
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Is Nigeria a free nation or a conquered vassal state? By Femi Fani-Kayode
By Femi Fani-Kayode
~Vanguard Nigeria. June 25, 2017.
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"- Harriet Tubman.
How can anyone describe Nigeria as a free nation when Sheik Othman Dan Fodio, the hero of the core Muslim north, the father of the Fulani Caliphate and the first Mahdi of Nigeria, once said,
"Allah has bestowed on me and my people the historic duty to spread the holy faith of the Prophet throughout the Caliphate and convert these pagans. If they refuse to accept Allah and his Prophet we will wash the earth, the forests, the mountains, the rivers and the streams with their pagan blood. Ours is a holy and righteous calling. We are doing the work of Allah".
How can anyone describe Nigeria as a free nation when Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Saurdana of Sokoto, the Premier of the Northern Region and the second Mahdi of Nigeria, once said,
"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future".
What portion do those of us that are southerners and Middle Belters have in this so-called "free country" and why have we been consistently denied the right to decide whether we wish to remain in it by having a referendum?
Were we born to be slaves whilst others were born to rule? God forbid it. My Christian faith teaches me that I am the head and not the tail.
What portion do those of us that are southerners and Middle Belters have in this so-called “free country” and why have we been consistently denied the right to decide whether we wish to remain in it by having a referendum?
Were we born to be slaves whilst others were born to rule? God forbid it. My Christian faith teaches me that I am the head and not the tail.
It teaches me that it is a sore sight and a great evil under the sun to see the sons of slaves riding on horseback whilst the sons of the King walk around on bare feet.
It teaches me that we are the head and not the tail and that light is meant to overcome darkness and not that darkness overcomes the light.
The truth is that whichever way you look at it Nigeria is not free and Nigeria is not one nation.
We are in bondage and servitude to the sons and daughters of Futa Jalon and we are badly divided. That is the subject of this essay.
Permit me to share some bitter truths here.
I repeat, Nigeria is not a nation. As a matter of fact she was NEVER a nation. She is and has always been a monumental fraud and a manifestation of colonial Britain's doublespeak and deceit.
In 1947 she was rightly described as a "mere geographical expression" by Chief Obafemi Awolowo but since then she has degenerated even further.
Today she is is no longer a "mere geographical expression" but instead a fully-fledged and dysfunctional vassal state and a colony of timid slaves that is owned lock, stock and barrel by the all-powerful, all-seeing and all-knowing Fulani hegemonists.
Yet in their pitiful delusion and blissful ignorance some still claim that we are a free modern nation-state where all are equal. My questions for those that actually believe this nonsensical assertion and that espouse this erroneous notion are as follows:
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when Christian Religious Knowldge (CRK) is removed from the curriculum and Islamic Arabic Studies (IAS) is made compulsory?
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when the words Christ, Church, Christianity or Christian are not mentioned ONCE in the Constitution and when the word Sharia is mentioned 73 times, Grand Khadi 54 times, Islam 29 times and Muslims 10 times?
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when the Federal Government refuses to arrest the recalcitrant Arewa youths and lock them ALL up for their implicit threat to commit genocide against the Igbo if they don't leave the north by 1st October?
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when the Arewa youths can send an open letter to the Acting President describing the entire Igbo race as ingrates who have "not learnt their lessons from the past" and who "ought to be thrown out of the north" and "out of Nigeria?"
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when the the Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) can tell the Federal Government that "Nigeria will boil", that there will be "a crisis that will spiral beyond control if the Arewa youths are arrested" and that "the Presidency will not be allowed to go to the South under any circumstances in 2019?"
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when well-armed militants and herdsmen commit genocide against whole communities and yet not one of them has been arrested?
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when cows (yes cows!) drive children out of their classrooms in Edo and drive worshippers out of their churches in Benue?
How can anyone describe Nigeria as free when those in power today together with the entire Hausa-Fuani ruling class have consistently said no to restructuring?
I could go on and on.
What those that continuously threaten others with violence and carnage fail to appreciate is as follows: for every mujahadeen there is a crusader. For every tyrant there is a deliverer. For every oppressor there is a freedom fighter. For every globalist there is a nationalist.
For every integrationist there is a separatist. For every lily-livered and chicken-hearted coward there is a courageous and valiant hero and for every Goliath there is a David.
Yet despite our collective and pitiful servitude there is a silver lining on this very dark cloud.
The demand for restructuring or, failing that, self-determination and full-blown independence is now very strong amongst the progressive forces and the long-oppressed ethnic nationalities in the land.
This, coupled with the demand by the leaders of the three southern zones that the Arewa youths must withdraw their threat to the Igbo, is commendable and historic.
They have also issued a timely warning that an attack on the Igbo would be deemed as an attack on the entire south. This gives us hope.
This indicates to us that the tree of liberty will soon be watered by the blood of the patriots and tyrants as it once was in the history of each and every one of the great western democracies.
This proves that we are finally ready to pay the terrible price for our collective freedom and to make the necessary sacrifices.
Simply put, the yoke and affliction of slavery and bondage shall soon be broken and Nigeria shall soon be free.
The first Nigerian civil war was about keeping Nigeria one. The second will be about winning our freedom.
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THE ULTIMATE CORRUPT PRACTICES: THIS IS PURE MADNESS
Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.
The current senators who once served as governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and Isiaka Adeleke of Osun.
The former deputy governors in the Senate are Ms Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti and Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as the acting governor of Taraba state.
Many former governors are also in Buhari's Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN).).
In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.
In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.
It is alledged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.
This is the reality for all the 21 ex govenors and deputy governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex governors who are now serving as Ministers.
NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?
As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?
IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE......
Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, you must forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until you vacate office. This should also apply to senators collecting military pensions like former Senate President David Mark.
Yet these senators are in the Senate that is inviting the current finance minister to discuss the recession of Nigeria's economy. A senator pockets approximately 30 million naira monthly as salary and allowances. Our "honourables" are not interested to make laws that could restructure our country into economically autonomous federating States/Regions to save the country from sectional agitations that is threatening to destroy Nigeria. The sad and hopeless situation is that the rest of Nigerians are busy arguing based on party, ethnic and affiliations while these enemies of state continue to rape us.
Do you know that it costs tax payers 290m Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works & 80% of population earn below 300 Naira a day ? A working day earning of a senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor; it's more than the salary of 42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than twice the pay of the US President or 9 times the salary of US congressmen.
It's high time the country had a referendum on those outrageous salaries of Senators, House of Representative members and other political office holders.
*If you are seriously against the looting of our commonwealth in Nigeria, in the name of democracy, you can let this piece go viral by sharing it with as many of your friends and groups too!*
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Kaduna Nzeogwu last African soldier revolutionary; not Igbo
~The SUN Nigeria. Wednesday, June 21, 2017.
Alan Feinstein, African Revolutionary, The Life and Times of Aminu Kano, Fourth Dimension, 1987, pp. 220
Apart from the Western Nigeria inferno, which, according to Moses Ihonde in his First Call, an Account of the Gowon Years, the election itself had been brazengly rigged, with women in various parts of the region discovered to be pregnant with ballot papers and even with funeral processions found to be conveying ballot papers in coffins. The people resorted to direct action since that Western government had effectively killed the constitutional process. In no time, the region had the singular infamy of being the most insecure part of the country. 'Operation Wetie,' as it was called became the symbol of that insecurity, as persons, vehicles and goods traveling by road through the South-west to the capital city of Lagos risked being wet with petrol and set ablaze.
That was in the West. In the Middle-belt Region of the North, a Daily Times report of HEADLINES, August 17, 2003, Vol. V, No 435, Soldiers Invade Tiv Land revealed that: "There had been violent disturbances in the Tiv Division in 1939, 1947 and in 1960. Early 1964 there were various suggestions as to the appropriate solution to the problem of the Tiv. But in November 1964, the Federal Government decided that something drastic and definite had to be done about the Tiv situation."
The Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa, sent into Tiv Division units of the Nigerian Army, who were to assist the police, who had been trying their best to maintain law and order and to ensure a return to normal life in the area as soon as possible. The reporter followed closely on the heels of the army units in order to see for himself what the situation in the Tiv Division was really like. He can only sum it up in these words: "It is terrible. It is frightening. It is dangerously explosive."
"One had to be in the Tiv Division in order to feel the spine-chilling danger of poisoned arrows. Stories of the atrocities committed by the "Temtios" - that is what Tiv rioters are called and it means 'break the head into pieces and make the blood curdle.' Malam Tanko Yesufu, the Benue Provincial commissioner, is alive and he has been a recurring decimal in the tragic drama of the Nigerian floundering state.
Continuing, the Daily Times Tiv war riot correspondent observed that "trouble had broken out in Daudu village, a town about 35 miles north of Makurdi and an army detachment, consisting of two units was sent to put down the riot. The reporter followed this crack detachment into Daudu village. He was frightened ...as the two army units rolled into action immediately they arrived at Daudu village. They surrounded the riot area and appealed to the rioters in their own dialect to surrender all the dangerous weapons they had. When the rioters failed to comply they threw smoke bombs to frighten them into submission...."
"The next riot area of the Tiv Division was Tombul, which is about 73 miles from Makurdi. This time the reporter was in greater danger. At Daudu village, he had the protection of the two army units. But he had no such protection on his journey to Tombul. He had been warned that the ordinary folks in the area were very suspicious of the army, the police and, unfortunately, prying cameramen. The air at Tombul was filled with stories of riots, arson and murder. Straight on his arrival, he visited one of the drinking places where he was told by one of the local inhabitants that some wounded policemen had been conveyed to Makurdi. He also saw two wounded policemen. One was shot in the eye with a poisoned arrow; the other was shot in the arm. From Tombul he went to Adikpo where many houses had been burnt down and he was informed that earlier some "Temtios" had murdered the village head.
In most of the Tiv Division, people had to carry a sign-tie green leaves to their bicycles, or their hands in order to be left unmolested. There was the pathetic story of a peasant, who forgot to do so. Some rioters reminded him of this by carving a leaf with a knife on the skin of his hand." That was the situation in the Middle-belt and throughout the West before the emergence of the Nine Majors, who carried out the January 15 coup.
On the other side of the debate, the conservative North has always maintained that the January 15 coup was an Igbo coup led by Igbo officers, who upset the status quo. In his lecture in Memory of Ali Akilu, published by the New Nigerian, Saturday, January 23, 1982, Alhaji Liman Ciroma C.F.R, posited that "the 1966 coup was a deliberate and co-ordinated plan to bring the efforts of the then leaders of the North down and put an end to effective northern participation in government and other spheres of national life, such as the army. These were the only two sectors in public life with major northern involvement. Not the Civil Service, home or foreign affairs, banks, commerce, industry, the professions, etc. It is also difficult to rule out foreign connections," he remarked.
Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, was even more detailed in offering the content from which the tenseness of those days needs to be appreciated. "But there comes a moment when the committed must ask; do I accept the January 15 action or do I reject it? To reject it means two courses of action; immediate and public denunciation of the execution of January 15 and the demand for a restoration of the pre-January 15 position. The other choice; acceptance of the January basis was a demanding alternative made without some deep resentment, at least, for those who have been involved in the wider strategy of Western uprising. The army's intervention was accepted gratefully because it anticipated the other army intervention planned by the Mafia-feudalist alliance to take place two days later... It was asking too much to accept that Akintola, recently returned from his decisive meeting with Sarduana had been shot dead, or that the diabolical schemes set between the two of them with Balewa's direct consent had been forestalled by a preemptive strike."- see Blood on the Niger, pp.223.
While Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the golden boy of the 50s generation was moved into action by the debacle he witnessed on the streets of Ibadan, Ijebu Ode, Shagamu, Ondo, Ikorodu, etc. Major Chris Anuforo refused orders from Colonel Pam to employ his recce unit and join in the scorch earth blitz against the courageous Tiv freedom fighters. Chris Anuforo, who, in 1966, had a Masters in Mathematics, in the face of the genocide against a defenseless people, on the spot in Gboko in 1964 made a commitment to move against that oppressive system.
He was the original leader of the January 15 revolution and he was the one, who converted his St. John's Kaduna schoolmate, the charismatic Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu. Their mission was to install the prisoner Chief Obafemi Awolowo the Prime Minister of Nigeria
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Your Land Or Your Blood.
By Adamu Mohammed. 15th May, 2017.[5/5, 9:11 PM]
Phone: +234 802 948 1691
Ever since President Muhammadu Buhari took over the mantle of leadership of this great country Nigeria, we(Hausa-Fulanis) have come under severe media attack from enemies of progress. Just because they are educated than us, they stereotype us with negativity. Just because they own and control the media, they use the media against us.
But let me make something clear to you stupid fellows hating us, whether you love us or hate us, it doesn't change anything. We are who we are and we will continue to remain like that. We hate you even more and we can never love you because you are all infidels. I pity those of you who keep deluding yourselves that we can love and trust you simply because you worked against your people to our own advantage, never!
I heard that the stupid Governor of Oyo State, Ajimobi said that they won't accept the proposed Grazing Bill. But my message to the filthy Yoruba pig is that, if you don't want to give us your cursed land, we will rear our cattle not only on your farmlands but in your churches. And if you try to stop us, we would killed your chicken hearted men like rabbits then turn your mothers, wives, sisters and daughters to our sex slaves like we have always done.
It is either you give the whole of South to us to use as grazing reserve or we soak it with your blood. And what you would do like you always do is noise on Facebook and Twitter. you cannot be united against us because there would always be the likes of Tinubu, Amaechi and Okorocha in your midst who will divide you for selfishness and love of money. Such treacherous characters can't survive in our midst because we burn them and their families.
I so much detest Southern Christians because they are the problem of this country. If I have my way, there won't be any functional church in this country, especially in the North. That's why I am so much happy with Governor El-rufai who is living up to the expectations of Allah in Kaduna State. We are not really pleased with President Muhammadu Buhari who is too slow to implement everything we asked him to implement in this country for us, he has not even done 20% of the Northern/Islam agenda, what he is waiting for I don't know.
We will make life unbearable for Igbos like they are in Hell, and yet we won't let them have their useless Biafra because the whole of South is a conquered territory. We can never see Yorubas as allies no matter how hard they try to please or serve us because they are born traitors and infidels. Those slaves in the Middle Belt would continue to be willing tools in our hands, and the day they attempt to raise their heads, we will cut off their heads like weeds. I lack words to tell the inconsequential and always crying Niger Delta because what we are waiting for is for President Buhari to declare state of emergency in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta, then we will show them how to use power.
We are at war with you people but we won't allow the country to breakup because, natural resources found in any part of the country is our heritage and birth right. We will continue killing you in large numbers until you are truly submissive to us as your slave masters. We won't stop killing you until we fully takeover your land as a conquered territory. This is not the time to mince words, this is not the time to sugarcoat things, and this is not the time to be economical with the truth, this is nothing but the truth, ignore it at your own peril.
GRAZING RESERVE BILL.
[5th May, 2017, 9:16 PM]
Phone:+234 802 948 1691
Please continue to pass this leaked information until every Yoruba, Igbo, all tribes and all Christian parts of Nigeria gets alerted.
This was planned many years by Fulanis as a strategic way to Islamization of Nigeria.
That was why Buhari continued running for presidency even at his old age because they knew he is the most possible mean to achieve their goal.
In 1804 - 1808. Fulanis came in from Guinea to the Northern part of Nigeria, led by Usman Dan fodio .He lead in jihad against the Hausa kingdoms of the northern Nigeria. The forces of Usman dan Fodio slowly took over more and more of the Hausa kingdoms through war. By 1810, Fulanis had already conquered all hausas.
They formed boko haram sect solely for the process, waiting for Buhari or any of their Fulani brother to come in power but Unfortunately, Goodluck Jonathan came into power and they became annoyed.
They started their violence to distract him and whether it was Yoruba or Igbo that was on the seat during GEJ'S regime. The same thing could've still happened about Boko haram.
Now their dream has been achieved having their brother on top.
Here is their plan.
They started herdsmen war believing that they have the chance to control all parts of the country since they are in power and forces.
If GRAZING RESERVE BILL is passed and achieved, It means that Fulanis will have a place mapped out for them in all 36 states of Nigeria.
The next thing is that, they will start bringing in their wives and children to increase their population.
With time, they will have their Emir installed in every 36 states which will eventually take part in every leadership community gatherings.
They will eat into every community like worms and the place given to them can never be taken away from them again since it has been passed.
Their sect will be ready to strike in every state and community with no hiding place for anyone since they have known every corners of our community.
It is then that we will beg them to stop killing us for we are ready to become Muslims in order to live.
This is the only time we have to reject this because tomorrow might be late for us to act.
#SAYNOTOGRAZINGRESERVEBILL#
#SAYNOTOISLAMIZATIONOFNIGERIA#
Pass this to everyone in your contact,Yoruba, Igbos, Ibibio, Anang, others and all Christian alike.
DON'T BE TOO SPIRITUAL, PASS ON THIS INFO!
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IF ANY THING HAPPENS TO NIGERIA, HOLD ISLAM RESPONSIBLE!
BY SIR DON UBANI; KSC, JP
OKWUBUNKA OF ASA
16TH JUNE, 2017
In life, the worst miscalculation a group could make is to take the patience or tolerance of others for granted.
As an individual, I hold the opinion that Nigeria as amalgamated by the British in 1914 could stand tall in, not only Africa, but the comity of nations.
With our geographical size, population and human capacity, there is hardly any economy that Nigeria can not sustain. Besides, the country is abundantly blessed with natural resources.
Though very heterogeneous by composition, our diversity, if properly harnessed, should have been our major source of strength and, may be, pride.
Taking advanced cognizance of human nature, our post amalgamation founding fathers articulated and meticulously bequeathed us a Constitution that had in mind our diversity.
Our Constitutions, especially that of 1963, have always had and presented Nigeria as a secular state.
Being a secular state means that Nigeria has no state religion. Citizens are fundamentally allowed to practise the religion of their choice.
As we could sincerely attested to, nothing is as sensitive and volatile as religion. No wonder, our founding fathers allowed it to be a matter of personal choice.
In Nigeria, there are different types of religion; Traditional, Christian, Islamist and Jewish.
In a secular state, government has no business trying to impose one religion on any citizen. As long as the religious practice does not inhibit the fundamental rights of other citizens, government's attention is never drawn to its mode of worship.
Christianity and Islam are two major religions in Nigeria. While Christianity found its way into Nigeria through the western zone and spread by European Missionaries. Islam came through the North. Islam has its origin in Arabia.
The methods adopted for the spread of the two religions by those that brought them to Nigeria differ basically. Christianity was spread through evangelism, persuasion and conviction. On the other hand, militancy and brutal force, otherwise known as Jihad, were the method of spread for Islam.
It was by military conquest that Uthman Dan Fodio subdued Gobir and converted it into a Muslim Sokoto Caliphate in 1804. By 1808, Islam, by conquest, had taken over katsina, Kano, Nupe and Illorin.
In spite of Nigeria's purported secularity, some leaders of Nigeria of northern extraction, have tried or been trying to upset the religious peace of the country.
In 1986, General Ibrahim Babangida, a self-styled Military President of Nigeria, unilaterally and dictatorially dragged Nigeria into membership of Organization of Islamic Co-operation. I vividly recollect that mere expression of ignorance of Nigeria's membership of OIC cost Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe his position as Chief of General Staff(Vice President)under President Babangida.
Other Military Heads of State who came after Ibrahim Babangida deliberately sustained that membership, not minding it's sensitivity.
Boko Haram insurgency in the North of Nigeria, particularly in the North-East; a religious volcano that has eaten too deeply into Nigeria's resources and still counting, is Islamist and has desperately been fighting for an Islamist caliphate in that region.
From the same Islamist propensity, the Fulani herdsmen, all Moslems, have been waging and sustaining wars against Christian farmers in North-Central and Southern regions of Nigeria. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Christians have not only been killed by these Muslim herdsmen but heartlessly butchered. Yet, no single arrest has been made.
To add salt to injury, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari, a core Moslem, through the Nigerian Education Research Council; a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Education headed by Prof Adamu Adamu, a core northern Moslem, has, without consultation with key stakeholders, changed the curriculum of secondary schools in Nigeria.
Because Nigeria is fashioned as a secular state, practitioners of different religions in the country establish their schools through which they inculcate their beliefs in their children.
Christians, the world over, worship God Almighty, believing Jesus Christ as their Intercessor.
In Christian Missionary Schools, Christian Religious Knowledge is taught in order to sustain the faith. In junior classes in Secondary schools, CRK is compulsorily taught.
Jesus Christ is the pillar upon which Christianity rests. Any person or body that tries to force or deceive the Christian not to believe that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God is only attempting to sow the seed of cataclysm in Nigeria.
According to the Prof Adamu Adamu new curriculum of education, Christian Religious Knowledge has been removed and replaced by Islam/Arabic studies and French. Christian Religious knowledge will only be mentioned as a theme in Civic Education.
The trick here is that between Islam/Arabic studies and French, many secondary school students, in the absence of teachers of French, would opt for Islam/Arabic studies.
This is a crude way of phasing out Christianity in Nigeria and, in it's place, imposing Islam on Christians. We know that whatever is fed the mind at its tender stage is what it grows to accept.
As a Knight of the Anglican Communion and being a defender of the Christian faith, I am duty-bound to join Rev(Dr) Sampson Oyekunle; the President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, who led a protest yesterday against this illegal and potentially explosive imposition of an Islamist Curriculum on Christians, to say no to this horrible and horrific imposition.
Islam has continued to constitute a threat to the unity, safety and progress of Nigeria.
For those who may query if Nigeria's unity is not threatened by the activities of Indigenous People of Biafra, Niger Delta Militants and Odua People's Congress, my answer is very simple. These groups are either agitating, in a non-violent manner, for referendum or true federalism.
The desperation and manner in which Moslem leaders in Nigeria seem hell-bent in wiping out Christianity could leave an irregular signature on the Nigerian project, if left unchecked.
Those who think this write-up makes sense, could quicken it's circulation by sharing it. We must say a capital No to this aberration. Enough Is Enough!
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EMIR SANUSI BARES HIS MIND ON HAUSA, IGBO AND YORUBA… THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA.
The former Central Bank Governor, and Emir of Kano His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi the second , surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi.
Below is his unedited speech.
“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.
“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.
“Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.
“The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now said it was a Muslim North.
“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.
Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.
You talk about Babangida and the problems of our economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?
“We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land, there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?
“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not. “The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.
Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.
“So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria . The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.
The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about few numbers of graduates in the North (two as at independence). What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerner should not be educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It was documented. And you say they love us (North) more than the south.
“I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows it. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?
“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere. That is the truth. “Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we are united than to divide it.
“Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urobos. Isn’t that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.
“There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody’s hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature.
“So, why don’t you talk about; we don’t have infrastructure, we don’t have education, we don’t have health. We are still talking about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying there is no poverty among the Fulani?”, he said.
LESSONS FROM THIS MESSAGE
Tribalism is not our problem. Tribalism and religion are artificial problems created by selfish leaders for their own personal interest.
There are only two major tribes in Nigeria. The Elites and the Masses. Once you make lots of money, you belong to the elite tribe. When you are a commoner or suffering, you belong to the tribe of the masses. If you are an elite, and you need more power, or elective position, you sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, so as to sway their emotion for your personal victory. This happens at both the national and state level. Unfortunately, after the election when they have won and joined their “sworn enemies” to drink and party, the gullible masses continue to fight each other.
Even smart people who belong to the masses, sometimes will sow seeds of tribalism and religion among the masses, and then the masses will carry them up until they belong to the elite class. It is a classic strategy used over 3000 years ago in the art of war. A commoner who aspires to sit with the elites, could stir up powerful tribal or religious sentiments, such wave if properly utilized either by shedding blood or destabilizing the elites, carries the commoner to the elite class. But once there, he immediately mingles and makes peace with the elite tribe, and turn his back on the same masses that helped him get there.
Youths are the worst victim of this powerplay, they kill each other, call other tribes unprintable names, do terrible things and sometimes, even lose their life, thinking they are fighting for their right, not knowing that they are fighting for the personal welfare of someone, whose own children are probably safe in America or London.
So youths, don’t hope on the government. If you don’t have a job, create one. There is abject poverty in the south as well as the north, whether Ogoni or Maidugri. At the same time, there is massive wealth in Lagos, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Kano, Abuja, irrespective of zone.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it well and never remain idle. No job is too low for an idle hand, or else the devil will find work for you. As you become independent, and grow your capacity, do not lose hope in Nigeria. We are the largest economy in Africa and soon the world will fear us. Western powers, don’t like big economies that threaten them, America will do anything to break China, but China is wise to resist that. China has 1.6 billion people, we have only 170 million, and we are talking of breaking.
China has 5 major religions which are Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity. Nigeria has only 2 major religions, Christianity and Islam. Yet we claim that religion is our problem.
America, the strongest economy is comprised of every tribe in the world, since they accept anybody from any part of the world. Yet they are united and extremely patriotic. Nigeria has only 3 major tribes, and we claim tribalism.
Think clearly and deeply, and you will realize that empowering yourself is the best course of action, not fighting each other. And once the youths are empowered, they can begin to take back their future from the hands of the old and corrupt generation that has been blinding Nigerians with hatred, while looting all her resources. Sani Abacha’s loot is still stashed away in Switzerland, did he use it to develop the north? Those that stole billions under GEJ stashed it away in foreign banks, bought expensive toys, jets and foreign homes, are they using it to develop the south? Now the ones stealing currently, including the “grasscutters”, are looking for Ikoyi apartments, abandoned houses, and pit toilets to hide it, are they using it for the youths in their tribe? NO!
Youths shine your eyes ! Don’t always fall for this tribal, religious sentiments over and over again. Nigeria is bigger than these corrupt elites. They are the problem, not the poor masses.
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The Ibos want Biafra
The North wants Ibo's exit
The Yorubas want Ibo's exit
The Ibos are saying "we have investments in your areas and cannot leave them"
And the fight is being cooked.
Amongst all these, the President is in London
Governors are sharing bailout funds
Workers salaries are not paid
Government officials have their children schooling abroad
Ministers and senators are looting
The poor Hausa man is riding Okada
The poor Ibo man is riding Okada
The poor Yoruba man is riding Okada
The poor Hausa man sleeps under the bridge as Alamajiri
The poor Yoruba man sleeps under the bridge as Alaye
The poor Ibo man sleeps under the bridge as agbero
It is pertinent to note that the poor from all ethnic groups in Nigeria have everything in common and so is the rich.
Do not allow the agitation of an Ibo man who lives in UK or USA for Biafra cause the killing of the Ibo man in Adamawa. The rich hate us that much.
Do not allow the Alhaji whose children are living abroad to persuade you to go and start killing on the street of Kaduna.
The problem in the country is not the agitation of any ethnic group but the unity of the elite and the disunity of the masses.
How many times have you taken your agitation to question your local government Chairmen?
Why have you not asked your Governors through agitation how they spent bailout fund?
Why have you not agitated against that government official whose mansions you go to beg for help?
Sad to note;
All the Governors love themselves
All the past Presidents love themselves
All the senators love themselves
All the top government officials love themselves
All the looters love themselves
Why can't you and I love ourselves?
Why can we combine efforts and fight them?
Why do we fight ourselves?
Why do we allow them the freedom we don't have?
Remember; a good Nigeria is better than a good Arewa, Oduduwa or Biafra.
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Prof. RACE Achara: Keeping Crime in the Tribal Family
By Pius Adesanmi
I've been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a mirror of the fratricidal ethnic divisions, hate, and bitterness among the small people.
In other words, our small criminals replicate tribalism and the intense ethnic provincialism which clog the minds of people in the lower classes in Nigeria and prevent progress.
Take a look at the composition of Evans' criminal gang: everybody is Igbo.
A few weeks ago in Toronto, the police were finally able to burst a notorious Nigerian criminal gang of credit card racketeers and other assorted fraud. From gang leader to gang messenger, everyone was Yoruba.
From the US to the UK to Canada to Indonesia to Thailand and to Nigeria, every time the law catches up with a Nigerian criminal gang, do not bother to look beyond the name of the gang leader. Whether it is kidnapping or drugs or credit card and other 419 schemes, the ethnicity of the gang leader always determines the ethnicity of the rest of the gang. There was an Arewa drug gang bursted by the police in Thailand a few years ago. I looked at the names: all Hausa Fulani.
Because many of these criminals come from the lower classes, they reflect what you see on display among members and children of the lower classes on social media every day: small-minded clannishness, ethnic insularity, hate, bitterness and division. Among the Nigerian lower classes, even crime must be kept in the tribal family.
Now, let us leave the ranks of the little people and migrate to the ranks of the world's leading criminals: Nigeria's one percent. The looters in the political class. Public office holders. The owners of Nigeria. Mind you, the rulers of Nigeria in the one percent are worse criminals than the kidnappers, the 419 fraudsters, and the drug pushers described above.
However, are they petty-minded and tribalistic in their orbit of crime? Well, take a trip with Mallam Doyin Okupe. Before he landed in Aso Rockk Villa with Goodluck Jonathan, he was involved in contract jibiti. Who was he scamming in contracts? His Yoruba people? For where. Among the one percent, pan-Nigeria is very important. They are the purest embodiment of though tribe and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand.
Thus, one Igbo criminal governor in Imo state took care of his Yoruba criminal brother from Ogun state and awarded him juicy contracts on the back of the Igbo people of Imo state. Doyin Okupe collected on the contract and vamoosed. Did he return to Yoruba land on his way back from Imo? For where. He stopped over in Benue where one criminal Idoma Governor (abi na Tiv?) awarded him another chop and clean mouth contract.
From Benue to Imo to Ogun: no ethnic or religious division. These are members of the one percent. When two Okun jibiti Senators went after each other recently on Channels, I noticed that Harvard alumnus, Dr. Dino Melaye, accused Hotelier Emeritus, Smart Adeyemi, of collecting contracts from Peter Odili back in the day. You see how many ethnic rivers Smart Adeyemi crossed for contract racketeering in the south-south?
Look at Dasuki. He is the true definition of in my father's house there are many mansions there. No one percenter's bank account was left uncredited by Dasuki. He did for Hausa. He did for Fulani. He did for Yoruba. He did for Igbo. He did for Ijaw. He did for Ogoni. He did for everybody. Your only qualification for his ATM was being a Pan-Nigerian member of the one percent.
So, if you are a member of the lower classes who has spent the last two bitter weeks hurling curses and hate behind ethnic lines, you better 'borrow' yourself brain. Even the petty criminals who rise from among you reflect your hate and small-minded tribalism. That is why you and the petty criminals are always where you are in the lower rungs of social advancement.
Look at how far unity has gotten our united one percenters. As a group, they have done very well for themselves by uniting across ethnic and religious lines in criminality.
If you unite across ethnic and religious lines in good works, vision, social mission, and nation building, you will do better, much better than the criminal group of one percenters have done for themselves.
I got an email from my son, Mitterand Okorie, yesterday notifying me that he has quit social media for now because of all the hate and division.
You are driving the best minds away. You are losing them to despondency.
People united by crime should never trump your potential to unite for good and maximize your differences for social progress.
Ethnic difference is wealth, not a liability.
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IGBO SCHOLAR DISGRACES Femi Fani-Kayode, Demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures
An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations.
In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-baked intellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “the most reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.”
Below are Okafor’s words:
FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:
•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:
From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795.
Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.
I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.
What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we can discuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!
Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.
Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.
I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.
As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of them came back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.
Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.
Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.
Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics:
•The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man
•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man
•The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man
•The police was run by an Ibo IG
•The military as a professional institution was also run by elite-ilk Ibos.
Facts can never be hidden. To be first does not mean you would win the race; let us open up all our institutions and may the best man win. Let us not depend on handouts or privileges but on heard work. Let us compete and give the best positions to our brightest – be it Ibo, Yourba or Fulani, and then we shall see who is the most successful Nigerian.
I find it difficult not to respond to some of these long-held lies that are constantly being peddled by Yorubas. One is that the Yoruba have the largest number of professors in the country. I would again ask that we stick to facts and statistical records. The Nigerian Universities Commission has a record of the state with the largest number of professors on their records and as at 2010 that state is Imo State followed by Ondo State and then Anambra State; the next state is Ekiti and then Delta before Kwara State. I am sure you Yorubas are surprised. When you sit in the South-West do not think others are sleeping but I wish to address another historical fact and that is who were the first Nigerians to receive Western education. It is important that these issues be examined in their historical context and evidence through research be presented for all to examine.
I have continued my research for as the great sociologist and father of modern sociology – Emile Durkheim – put it, the definition of a situation is real in its consequence . What this simply means is that one must never allow a perceived falsehood to become one’s reality and by extension individuals who accept a defined position act as though the situation is real and apply themselves in that narrowly defined perspective.
Why is this important to state it is because for long the Yoruba have peddled lies that have almost become accepted as the truth by other Nigerians but it is important that we lay down the facts for others to examine and come to their own conclusion for facts are facts. Let’s go back to education. Historically, Western education resulted as a product of indigenous ethnic groups interacting with the whites through trade. The dominant groups sold slaves, ivory gold and a host of other products to their European counterparts in exchange for finished goods – wine, tobacco, mirrors, etc.
The Bini who were the dominant military force from the 15th to the 19th century raided and sold other ethnicities to the Europeans. Top on the list of those they sold were the Yoruba, Ibo and Igala. Various other ethnicities suffered as a result of the Bini military expansion. And the Benin Kingdom stretched from present-day Benin up to what is now geographically referred to as Republic of Togo. Indeed, the influence of the Benin Empire extended to the banks of the river Niger to present-day Onistha. There are huge Yoruba settlements in the Anioma part of Delta State who fled Yoruba land as a result of these attacks and constant raids. Yes, there are Yoruba people who are currently living with Ibos in the Ibo-speaking part of Delta and they are full citizens of the place no one refers to them as strangers and there is no talk about the Ibos being the host community like we hear from the Governor of Lagos State. But let me return to research. Slaves were moved from the hinterland to the coast and many were sold through Eko to the New World. These slaves were the first to encounter the Europeans and by extension their way of life – this included education in a Western sense. The Bini King had taken pains to establish a diplomatic presence in Portugal and the relationship developed into areas that extended beyond trade in the late 15th century and lasted well into the early 19th century. Scores of young Bpni youth were sent to Portugal and studied there, coming back with advanced degrees in various disciplines. The next set of people to receive Western education were the slaves themselves. Some of them managed to buy their freedom and develop themselves further.
For the Ibo it does not matter who your father is; the question is: Who are you? Who was Obasanjo’s father? Was he the most educated Nigerian? I am sure the answer is no. Yet this Great Nigerian led this nation two times as a military Head of State and as a civilian President. What about GEJ? Who was his own father? Was he the first Nigerian to go to London? The answer is no. In fact, he had no shoes, yet he is fully in charge. So it does not matter if your father was the first Lawyer or first Doctor in Nigeria but rather what matters is what an individual does with the talents the Almighty has given to him. Let us open up Nigeria for competition. That is the solution to our problems. Those who want privileges keep reminding us that their fathers were the first to go to school in London. Every generation produces its own leaders and champions. Like Dangote who is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria today and the richest man in Africa. Was his father the first to go to study in London? Yet he is the master of people whose parents gave them the best. My brothers, the answer to the Nigerian problem is that we should establish a merit-driven society.
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A vote against country
in favour of tribe.
Sent by Oke Chuk-Wu Dibor, Cape Town, South Africa · March 2, 2017~culled from Vanguard of February 3, 2015
Incase you are not aware !
Between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu of Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the OAU. At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, there was a major stumbling block to Peter Onu’s candidature: his Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, was campaigning against him. Buhari claimed: “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria.” But when the crunch came, his allegiance to Nigeria disappeared. In the election of the OAU Secretary-General in 1985, Buhari voted against Nigeria and for Niger instead. He secured the election of Ide Oumarou, a Fulani man from Niger; as opposed to an Igbo man from Nigeria. By so doing, Buhari became the first and only Head of State in the history of modern international relations to vote against his country in favour of his tribe...
- Vanguard, February 3, 2015
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From the stables of Obiora Ogochukwu Okafo: OHANEZE NDI-IGBO AND FULANI INFILTRATION
Written by Obiora Ogochukwu Okafo, Abakaliki , Ebonyi state.Email: okafooo@yahoo.com
The Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, the apex sociocultural
organization of the Igbos with its new leadership is eager to take the Igbo
nation to a new level. But presently, the body language of some of its officers
and their praise singing for some Fulani elites seems that they and the Igbo
political class have been infiltrated by the oligarchy.
The Fulani push to realize the colonization
and Islamization processes in Nigeria and beyond, coupled with the President Buhari’s
vow to care for the 95% of the people that voted for him while ignoring the 5%
(mostly Igbos) that did not vote for him is manifest. These have been
translated largely to the obvious lack of appointments, infrastructures and use
of brute force on Igbo youths that are expressing their rights of self-expression/determination
in the face of tyranny and injustices by the state that ought to protect them -
an affront to the Igbos. The gang-ups, killings and destruction of their properties
has now become recurrent like a tradition. Could this imply that the Igbos are
no longer wanted or are no longer relevant in the Nigeria scheme of affairs?
The Igbos naturally are republican, so with all
the deliberate and temporal set back put on their way that reduced them to the
primordial level of existence by the Biafra civil war - they were strongly able
to overcome to the chagrin of their prosecutors who see their come-back to
powerful reckoning as a threat. Many thought that the Igbos will never come
together, but like nkakwu, the rat
with long mouth that makes nest when it is in labour - the Igbos when
threatened would drop all their busy schedules to come together like the
amalgam of carbon and iron to form steel, the strongest of metals – when it
mattered most.
In line with this therefore, in recent times,
is found the unity and near dead silence that is existing amongst the Igbos
like never before seen since after the war, in tandem with the hallmark traditional
Igbo system leading to the persistent demand for restructuring of the Nigerian
nation - else, we lose it. All these combined with the sustained struggle for
the restoration of Biafra by the youths have therefore become a source of worry
to the rest of Nigeria.
For this, a lot of emissaries have been
frequenting the South-East to thaw the gridlock, without success.
Like all other parasites, the Fulani (who are
about 8 million people in Nigeria) are now becoming politically lonely or are
becoming isolated – a backlash of their inhumane and political mindlessness,
just like their fellow Bedouins in Africa and Middle-East. This is because they
have continuously and unrepentantly squandered the goodwill of everybody as a
result of their attempt to use primitive violence to colonize the world.
Their disruption and disrespect of their only
unifying force - the Islamic religion, going
by their total abandonment and utter disregard
for the tenets of the religion as
they carry out their expansionist schemes via the activities of Bokoharam,
ISIL, Janjaweed, Fulani herdsmen etc have exposed them and left them bare to their former allies.
In Nigeria, the moderate Muslims, Christians,
Hausas, Kanuri’s, Nupes, Kajes, Tivs, Idomas,
Biroms, Yorubas , Igbos, etc.. whom they have hurt deeply by years of manipulations,
cheating and outright massacre of their people in great numbers, have turned
their backs against them. A new political alignment based on these social lines
cutting across old frontiers is on to checkmate the common enemy - the Fulani.
Globally, they and their mother stock, the Bedouins
are being pushed back; America is closing their door against them, Russia is
containing them, Brexit was majorly to block them from free entry through the European
doors. Australian government has gone as far as providing a ship to evacuate
whoever amongst them that do not want to live like the Australians in
Australia. Germans are narrowing their refugees to a corner. Sweden refused
their refugees from coming in, Angola has banned them in their soil. And so,
they are desperately in need of host to dig in their roots to continue from
where they stopped.
And
being adept in diplomacy, and holding on to the Nigerian statecraft, they have
been spreading their dragnets to hold on to others by hook or crook. They are
employing variations in tactical maneuvering and strategies; some subtle, some
psychological, some outright violence and intimidation to accomplish their
goal.
In the Igbo nation,
they have multi-pronged approaches. They have employed violence in the
killing of Igbo youths in civil demonstrations, like what happened recently in
Port Harcourt, the use of soldiers in the case of ‘Operation Python Dance’ to intimidate
them. They use herdsmen to terrorize the villagers. But they are being blocked by the youths’
resistance. The Igbo youths, who are majorly the victims of the injustices of
the Nigeria state are more travelled and more exposed due to their penchant for
technological, economic, academic and business interactions with the people of
the world. They are discovering the why, how and what made/making them lack in
the midst of abundance in Nigeria. They seem to be more informed and knowledgeably
versatile than many of the elders parading themselves as piloting the affairs of
the nation. They have long understood the Fulani and their antics.
This is why Nnamdi Kalu and IPOB are an
anathema to the Buhari regime and the Fulani oligarchy. The group has opened
the eyes of other Nigerians to the insidious past, present and future
domination programs of the Fulani with their allies in other African countries and
Arabia.
As soldiers, the Sultan - Abubakar Saad III,
Buhari and others that preside over the Fulani affairs are adept in war
strategies. They know that in the act of any struggle, the ability to know your
opponent in other to subdue them is important. For this, they know that the
Igbos have been wounded in the Nigerian political chase game, they employ the
services of spies and moles applying the myth that everybody has a price. People who are greedy, hungry, poor and socially
wounded or alienated are good materials for turning.
And so, in Ohaneze and the Igbo political
class, some that are hungry for power and
popularity, like the many migrants from PDP to APC, many that have corruption
cases against them that could be roped in to do the dirty job for them and their
sins will be forgiven. Going by the dirtiness of politics, many of the
politicians are broke after losing many elections. Not only that, many of the
political players are nothing but very greedy that they will want to accumulate
unbridled wealth to themselves even when their kith and kin are being killed! Added
to those politicians who feel betrayed by their parties that they are looking
for every means to avenge.
The greedy ones are offered monetary and
other largesse to fall them in line. Others that are hungry for honor and
praises are showered with them. Others, they use mouth watering promises on.
So, the use of strategic penetration of our
people in the guise of Igbo presidency is no surprise the kind of joker being
dangled on the face of many of the Igbo ignorant and uninformed elites. The Sultan,
emir of Kano and the host of others may come with humble words, but they may be
plotting to increase their preparation of Igbo heartland. Their visits to the
South East in recent times are a manifestation. Like in a criminal mindedness,
they have thrown the bone to the dogs, while the dogs are busy struggling, they
will be busy perfecting their ways and grip on the entire nation. A good
example is the mass exodus of politicians to APC – where it is happening?.
Hence, typical of a
Fulani mindset, like the rest of the Bedouins, they therefore are confident to claim
and say they are ‘Born to Rule’. They can sacrifice anything to lure-in and
destroy their opponent. In Nigeria, they did it to the Hausas, the Tivs, Idomas,
Angas, the Yorubas, Kajes, Nupes etc; the middle belt soldiers from Idoma, Tiv,
Nupe, Kaje they used to gain and consolidate power right from 1960s, they have
destroyed.
Tinubu, Obasanjo and
many other Yorubas are their latest victims. They use people like ladder to
accomplish their ascendency and discard them with cynical ease.
Recently, the promise
of Igbo presidency is the latest of their games because that is what they think
the Igbos want in order to come back to the fold.
But, like ‘infants’
without deep thinking, many Igbo elites have abandoned everything – integrity, populism
and political correctness to the Igbo race to jump into the wagon just for the
lure/individual-gains of this juicy trap!
Some of these myopic
thinkers bandy the weak argument of ‘a little to the right and a little to the
left’, so that what happened in the past as Igbo isolation will not happen
again? Unknown to this class of ‘unpopular’ Igbo elements that even the political
goodwill that they are enjoying is leveraged on the unity of purpose of the
Igbos. This Igbo unity of purpose is what these political hawks and saboteurs want
to harness, therefore putting every Igbo in potential state of political jeopardy.
Yet as the Igbo we are, we abide by the rule of Igwebuike - United we stand, Divided we fall.
These saboteurs and
enemies-within are being used to cause rifts within the Igbo synergy. So, today,
The Anambra state governor Dr Willy Obiano is slugging it out with Chief
Okorocha - the Imo state governor, Chief Ekweremadu, the deputy Senate President
is lashing out on the morally bankrupt politicians that are crossing over to a
party that has offered Nigerians more deaths, hunger and disunity.
But the advise to
them is - like the Holy Bible said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and every
other thing shall be added unto you”. For, of what use is it that you gain the
whole world and lose your soul.
Of what use is Presidency
in a country that is in total disarray, as we are presently experiencing in Nigeria
as evidence of gross and heartless misrule of the APC led government?
Infact! What many Igbo
haters and habitual challengers do not realize is that what the Igbos have
always wanted from Nigerian state is nothing but PEACE, UNITY AND JUSTICE as
reflected in the Biafran motto. These vital virtues and values of one nation will
surely usher in freedom for all and profound progress and prosperity for all
and country. Igbos will not and cannot accept a lame duck presidency, just like
we had with Zik’s rubber stamp presidential portfolio.
With PEACE, UNITY AND
JUSTICE in the Nigeria nation, the Igbos do not really care who governs as long
as these indices of nationhood and sustenance are realized and respected. This
is surely in consonance with the Igbo age-long connotation of Igbo-enwe-Eze (totalitarian ruler-ship/kingship
does not apply with the Igbo race), therefore, given an enabling environment, every Igbo man remains like no
other man, like some other man and like any other man – thriving in his God
given and privileged pace.
The Igbo life pattern have always been guided
by the principle of egbe belu ugo belu and onye
aghana nwanneya - let the kite perch
and let the eagle perch and be your brothers keeper.
Some elites that are blindly fraternizing
with the Fulani for political solutions do not know or understand where the
solution lies. Therefore, they must learn to ‘think outside the box’ or by reaching
out to weigh other global instances in order to understand the Nigerian problem.
What is happening in the Nigeria political sphere, just like in the economy
too, cannot be alienated from what is happening in other places too. And so,
the Wahhabis ploy to dominate the world by force by spreading hate is all about
the programs of the four cardinal point movement of the political Islamists -
the Bedouins.
The wars of Bokoharam, herdsmen, ISIL, Janjawid,
etc are not religious, they are not
about Muslim/Christian struggle, but manipulative schemes by some elites in the Muslim world to consolidate/expand
their territorial control. Therefore, what is going on in the world in the
guise of religion is not religious because even fellow Muslims are equally
victims of these excesses.
The wounds inflicted
by the Fulani on other Nigerians, just like in the gang up against Biafra offered
a good rallying point and opportunity to finally solve Nigerian problem
including the Fulani intransigency and other pressing/primordial issues.
It is clearly obvious
that the greedy and blood thirsty ones will never have their way with the Igbos
and the rest of Nigeria. Therefore the Igbos in general and Ohaneze in particular
should capitalize on this standpoint to once more play the role of a genuine rallying
point as a big brother by putting aside past betrayals and mistrust to liaise
with every other oppressed people in Nigeria.
The old traditional ties like the Igalas, Ibibios,
Anag, Calabaris, Tivs, Idomas, Nupes, through to the Edos, Ekitis etc should be
re-invigorated through frank-dialogue in order to eschew old suspicions and
contempt.
Through this, a handshake
across the Benue and the Niger rivers will be reawakened for a new and greater Nigeria.
Where this fails, then the Biafra dream remains
the only option for the great Igbo people.
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The Fulani Republic of Nigeria - by Fani-Kayode
Written by Chief Fani-Kayode
~vanguard Nigeria. Friday, January 20, 2017.
The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the spiritual leader of all northern Muslims.He is not just a traditional ruler but an all-powerful potentate who represents a strange and mystical power and who heads an ancient and dark empire.
Not only is he reverred by his subjects but he is also regarded and treated by some as something akin to a deity and by others as nothing less than the reincarnation of Sheik Usman Dan Fodio, the Sufi Muslim who founded the Caliphate empire by conquering and utterly crushing the Hausa kingdoms in a brutal and bloody jihad in northern Nigeria in 1804.
Whichever way his subjects choose to view him, whether as a deity or an all-conquering and all powerful jihadi war-lord, to the Muslims of the core north his word is law and absolutely everything revolves around him.
He is the living symbol of Fulani power, strength and glory and the physical manifestation of the quest for Islamist domination.
Yet despite these lofty heights and undoubtedly rich and impressive heritage his people have slaughtered, subjugated and terrorised more Nigerians in the last 212 years since Usman Dan Fodio’s 1804 Jihad than ANY other ethnic group in our nation.
They have butchered more of their fellow Nigerians in that space of time than the white Boer settlers and farmers of apartheid South Africa butchered the black African population in Southern Africa in 363 years of white rule and domination since the time that the Dutch coloniser and admnistrator, Jan Van Riebeek, first put his foot on the South African Cape in 1653.
No African ethnic group has killed as many of their fellow Africans as the Fulani of northern Nigeria. Not even the Hutus of Rwanda, who did a whole lot of killing in the genocide of the early 1990’s, could match them.
From the first Mahdi, Usman Dan Fodio, to the second, Sir Ahmadu Bello and to the third, General Muhammadu Buhari, the trail of blood, carnage, terror and religious compulsion and the inexplicable quest and insatiable desire to dominate, conquer, subjugate and control others trails them.
This is as unacceptable as it is provocative. The truth is that there is no place in any civilized society for any form of compulsion or ethnic and religious domination and bigotry
I say this because I believe that the mark of civilization is the ability to tolerate dissenting views and to accommodate those that do not share your faith or come from your tribe, ethnic stock or nationality.
If you are incapable of being tolerant of others simply because they are different or they come from a different place and if you cannot indulge in any form of accommodation of those that do not share your views, your faith or your bloodlines then you are nothing more than an uncivilized field hand and an intellectual barbarian.
If you are capable of both tolerance and accommodation of others, no matter how strange or absurd their views, their faith or their circumstances may be, then you are the epitomy of civilization, decency, good breeding and good old fashioned class.
The morale of the tale is as follows: to be tolerant and kind to ALL those that see things differently from you, to stand up against the intolerant and to resist the ignorant, the bigoted, the racist, the ethnic supremacist and the religious extremist. .
It is in an attempt to keep faith with this sacred resolution and honor this fundamental principle that I wish to bare my mind and share my views about the way forward for the Fulani Republic of Nigeria in this contribution. Those views are as follows.
I am a nationalist. I believe in the rise and power of the nation state. I believe in the sovereignty of the will of the people. I believe in the right of independence and self-determination for all and sundry. This is especially so for the numerous ethnic nationalities that make up the space called Nigeria.
I believe in the right of the Igbo to have Biafra and the right of the Yoruba to have Oduduwa if that is their wish.
I believe that that right ought to be extended to the Ijaws and indeed to every other ethnic nationality in the country if that is what they want.
I believe that to compel a man or a people, by the force of arms and with the raw power of the state, to stay in a house or a space that they do not wish to stay is evil.
Such a state of affairs and situation is an eloquent testimony, graphic example and accurate illustration of subjugation and bondage.
It is a testimony of the most barbaric form of wickedness and a total denial of the most basic civil liberties, fundamental human rights and expression of free will of the victims.
I believe that there are many countries in the belly of Nigeria but sadly they have all been choked, suffocated, swallowed up and killed at birth.
I believe that Chief Obafemo Awolowo was right when he said that Nigeria was “not a nation but a mere geographical expression”.
I believe that Sir Ahmadu Bello was right when he described the amalglamation of the northern and southern protectorates as a “great mistake”.
I believe that he was also right when he told the ever-accomodating and over-compensating Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe that we needed to “understand our differences” rather than to just “forget them”.
Again I believe that Awolowo was right when he said “there are no ‘Nigerians’ in the sense as there are English, Welsh or French. The word ‘Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not”.
I believe that Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa accurately reflected the mind of his core northern people when he said,
“the Southern people who are swamping into this region daily in such large numbers are really intruders. We don't want them and they are not welcome here in the North. Since 1914, the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country but the people are different in every way, including religion, custom, language and aspirations. We in the north take it that Nigeriam unity is only a British intention for the country they created. IT IS NOT FOR US."
I believe that Lord Fredrrick Lugard, the architect of the 1914 amalglamation, was right when he said “the North and the South are like oil and water. They will never mix”.
Again I believe that Awolowo was right when he said “Nigeria is only a geographical expression to which life was given by the diabolical amalgamation of 1914. That amalgamation will EVER remain the most painful injury a British government inflicted on Southern Nigeria”.
I believe that the hero of Biafra, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (the one and only Eze Igbo Gburugburu), was right when he said “it is better we move slightly apart and survive than move together and perish in our collision”.
I believe that Sir Ahmadu Bello spoke the minds of his northern people when he said,
"the new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the south as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future."
I believe that General Yakubu Gowon was right when he said,
"suffice it to say that putting all considerations to the test, political, economic as well as social, the basis of unity is not there."
I believe that Dr. Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe was right when he said,
"if this embryo republic of ours must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be a short and painless one."
Finally I believe that Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was right when he said,
“Nigeria is a stooge of Europe. Her independence was and is a lie. Nigeria committed many crimes against her nationals which in the end made complete nonsense of her claim to unity. Nigeria persecuted and slaughtered her minorities; Nigerian justice was a farce; her elections, her census, her politics - her everything - was corrupt. Qualification, merit and experience were discounted in public service. In one area of Nigeria, for instance, they preferred to turn a nurse who had worked for five years into a doctor rather than employ a qualified doctor from another part of Nigeria; barely literate clerks were made Permanent Secretaries; a university Vice-Chancellor was sacked because he belonged to the wrong tribe."
These words are as truthful, accurate and appropiate today as they were when Ojukwu spoke them many years ago.
If there is still anyone left that believes that all is well in our forced union I urge them to consider the words of Chief John Nwodo who is a former Minister of Information and the newly-elected President-General of Ohaneze, the leading Igbo political and socio-cultural group which comprises of all the elders and traditional rulers of Ndi Igbo. He said,
"Our young men and women can no longer tolerate a second class status in their own country. They can no longer forgive the President for arguing before he came into office that Niger Delta militants were meekly treated and tolerated by President Yar Adua while Boko Haram was harshly treated by President Jonathan when his law enforcement agents literally opened fire and maimed and killed unarmed MASSOB and IPOB members. They see how returnee Boko Haram members are absolved and rehabilitated while leaders of MASSOB and IPOB are incarcerated or mercilessly murdered. In their rage, they are becoming uncontrollable as they pass a vote of no confidence on us, their parents, describing us as cowards and compromised”.
Could anyone have put it any better than this? Has Nwodo not hit the nail on the head? Has he not spoken the bitter truth? Is this not an aberrant and unacceptable state of affairs?
Has our so-called country not been turned into the theater of the absurd where anything can happen in the last two years? Did some of us not warn that this would happen if a Fulani supremacist and Muslim fundamentalist with delusions of grandeur like Buhari was elected President? Are the Nigerian people not reaping what they sowed in 2015?
Have the southerners and Middle Belters in Nigeria not all been turned into slaves today? Have their leaders and elders not all been turned into quislings and cowards who shiver under their beds at night and who dare not speak truth to power?
Christians are slaughtered, nobody talks. Southern youths are butchered, nobody talks. Shiite Muslims are massacred, nobody talks. Christian refugees are bombed at IDP camps, nobody cares. Fulani militants murder hundreds in cold blood on a weekly basis all over the country and nobody is arrested or apprehended.
Was this not Awolowo and Ojukwu’s greatest fear? Are we not living that nightmare today?
Whether they wish to admit it openly or not EVERY southerner and Middle Belter in this country feels like a second class citizen today.
Clearly something has gone horribly wrong and this reinforces my belief that the amalglamation of the northern and southern regions of Nigeria in 1914 was not just a mistake but a demonically-inspired, craftily- contrived and premeditated satanic conspiracy by the British to destroy the greatness and enormous human potentials of the people of the south and the Middle Belt of Nigeria.
I do not believe in and neither do I respect a man-made, artificial, hybrid, mongrel-state like Nigeria which has forcefully lumped my people together with those that are inherently fascistic and racist, that are culturally and historically inferior, that are intellectually defective and that are nothing more than genocidal maniacs, ethnic vagabonds, wandering herdsmen, cow-loving jihadists and islamic fundamentalists.
We have nothing in common with them physically, spiritually, culturally, historically and genetically. We are indigenous black Africans but they are not. They come from Berber, Taurag and Futan Jalon stòck. They are not and were never from here and neither were they ever part of us.
And neither was there ever one Nigeria in the true sense of the word. That erroneous misconception and misguided notion is nothing but a monumental fraud.
I am an Ife before being a Nigerian. I am a Yoruba before being a Nigerian. I am a southerner before being a Nigerian. I am a Christian before being a Nigerian.
And unlike others I am not prepared to sacrifice my ethnic identity and nationaliy or my religious faith on the alter of a servile, cowering and slavish puppet-state called Nigeria.
I consider those in the international community that seek to compel me and my people, the good people of the south and the Middle Belt, to stay in a united Nigeria where we are nothing but canon-fodder for Islamist terrorists, sport for Janjaweed herdsmen and food for Haramite dogs as nothing but globalist slime.
I consider those from outside our shores that expect us to remain in this debilitating and traumatising zoo and madhouse called Nigeria where we have been systematically reduced to grovelling quislings and shivering slaves as nothing but closet-islamists and neo-imperialist scum.
They have an Obama mindset. They believe in espousing and accomodating evil and in sleeping with the enemy. They believe in light and darkness merging together as one and in darkness contaminating and overwhelming the light.
They believe in the spreading of death, disease, destruction, suffering, persecution, poverty, barreness, corruption, evil, heartlessness, decay and terror.
I am very different. I have a Trump mindest . I believe in helping my friends and fighting my enemies. I believe in calling a spade a spade. I believe that the essence and purpose of light is not to cohabit with darkness but to identify it, expose it, drive it out and destroy it.
I believe in life, goodness, mecy, justice, charity, love, kindness, courage, faith and a Living God that protects His own and showers His children with peace, blessings, joy, prosperity and abundance.
I believe that radical Islam and those that seek to conquer and subjugate my people by assimilation and the acquisition of political power in the name of ethnic superiority should not be pampered and espoused but rather should be confronted, resisted and destroyed.
Nigeria needs to be restructured or broken. And it is left to us, the real leaders that are prepared to stand up and speak truth to power and that are ready to offer ourselves as the voice of the voiceless, to do it.
We must be bold. We must be strong. We must be brave. We must take our destiny into our own hands.
We must resist the devil and the evil and set ourselves free. The Yoruba deserve better. The Igbo deserve better. The Niger Deltans deserve better. The Mid-Westerners deserve better.
The Middle Belters deserve better. The Christians of the north deserve better. We ALL deserve better.
Better we deserve and, whether our collective oppressors and adversaries accept it or not, one way or the other, better we shall get.
The bottom line is this: our country cannot be described as the Federal Republic of Nigeria but rather the Fulani Republic of Nigeria.
And as long as this remains the case she must either be quickly restructured and given a new name or she must be broken up and carved into two or more pieces. No-one was born to be a slave and no-one was born to rule. May God help and deliver us.
In response to Part 1 of this contribution, Mr. Abraham Ogbodo, a well respected columnist with the Guardian newspaper and one of the most respected and insightful journalists in Nigeria, said the following:
“Sir, I share your pains. But this endless lamentations shall take us nowhere. The Israelis understand so well the Islamic mindset which seeks what it does not or cannot give. The Arabs want always to thrive on thier own terms in the West and elsewhere yet in their enclave a man cannot do as little as renounce Islam for Christianity. Butchering of humans is not an exclusive occupation of one group against another group. If nothing including government intervention is able to stop the butchering of Southerners and Christians in Nigeria by the Fulanis, and since self preservation is not negotiable, I suggest those being butchered should adopt counter-butchering as a defense policy until reason prevails. It is a well known fact that Islam does not spread by persuasion but by conquest and that is not going to change in this generation. From its tiny location in Medina, Islam conquered Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, North Africa and substantial part of Asia. The Jihadist entered Europe and in fact occupied Spain for centuries before they were dislodged. But it wasn’t so in Turkey where Christianity was obliterated and Islam established. Modern day Turkey was part of the Eastern Roman Empire with headquarters in Constantinople (Istanbul). It was founded by Emperor Constantine who marked the turning point in the history of Christianity. Today Turkey from where most of the acts of Apostle Paul were derived is all Islam. The Armenians were butchered by the Ottoman army in a brutal quest to obliterate centuries of Christian tradition in Turkey. I even hear that the special cannon equivalent of today’s large-impact bomb with which the Sultan sacked Constantinopole was produced by a Burgarian. As it is, Europe, the Americas and Asia as they are today are not open to further Islamic conquest. The only open and soft field remain Christian nations or enclaves in Africa. The earlier we understand this and prepare for ceaseless jihads the better for us. Issues in the Islamic doctrine are hardly determined by engagement; everything is settled with the sword. When the terror is balanced, perhaps there may be peace. It calls for eternal vigilance not only in the sense of endless advocacy but more in terms of specific action plans to put up a formidable military resistance against the sustained carnage. Just my thoughts sir”.
I wholeheartedly concur with Ogbodo’s observations. Not only has he spoken the truth and hit the nail on the head but he has also spoken the minds of millions.
It is time for those that enjoy to butcher others at the drop of a hat to be reminded of the fact that they do not have a monopoly of violence.
Yet despite all the horror that is being inflicted upon our people by the jihadists and ethnic supremacists in our midst all is not lost.
Comforting were the words of President Donald J. Trump, the new leader of the free world, at his inauguration on 20th January. He said,
“We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and UNITE the civilized world against RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM which we will ERADICATE from THE FACE OF THE EARTH…..
……There should be NO FEAR. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be PROTECTED BY GOD.”
These words bring hope and give strength. They are deeply encouraging. We needed to hear them and the lifeline and inspiration that they offer now more than ever before.
This is especially so in view of the fact that no less than 14 young pro-Biafran IPOB members were shot dead in the streets of Port Harcourt on January 20th by the Fulani President of the Fulani Republic of Nigeria’s security forces simply because they dared to take part in a solidarity rally and peaceful celebration of President Trump’s inauguration. They were murdered simply because they supported Trump.
Their blood, together with the blood of the 808 Christians that were butchered by the government-sponsored and protected radical islamist Janjaweed Fulani militias in the sanctity of their homes in Southern Kafanchan on Christmas eve and Christmas day, will not be shed in vain.
It will cry to God in Heaven for vengeance and it will speak death and destruction into the ranks and lives of our collective oppressors and those that seek to enslave us and keep us in bondage forever. Thus sayest the Spirit of the Lord and that is the counsel and decree of the Ancient of Days.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with an aside. I write the most painful and bitter truths that few dare to write because I do not know tomorrow.
I write what others dare not to write because when my maker calls me home what will I say to Him if I fail to impart the profound knowledge and deep insight that He gave me. What will I do or say when He asks me what I did with the deep secrets and hidden and mystical truths that he asked me to share with my fellow men when I was in the land of the living.
That is why I write: that God will not judge me or decree and declare me a worthless coward before the Hosts of Heaven when my time comes.
I write every essay as if it were my last knowing that those who despise and deny truth and who hate me with a perfect hatred wish me dead or silenced.
Yet even if and when I fall my words will linger and continue to speak powerfully into history and eternity.
Posterity will judge between me and my traducers and I will be vindicated and proved right in the end.
For these are not my words but the words of the Holy Spirit that resides in me and that guides me.
Today, as with every other day, I shall be the servant of truth and the voice of the voiceless, minding not who I offend because I am emboldened and empowered by the knowledge that the Lord is with me and that His word says “to die is Christ and to live is gain”.
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
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From the stables of Obiora Ogochukwu Okafo : NIGERIA UNITY UNDER THREAT! THE FULANI CONSPIRACY
Written by Obiora Ogochukwu Okafo, Abakaliki , Ebonyi state.Email: okafooo@yahoo.com
Phone: +234 8071245923
Nigeria’s corporate existence is under threat, despite several efforts in making her a united nation.
She has passed through a lot of shocks, in her quest for nationhood. But in trying to locate the root of her problems, and remedying them, there seem to be a reoccurring decimal.
Prior to Nigerian independence in 1960, a nation of about 400 ethnic nationalities had two distinct protectorates: the northern and southern protectorates, which were respectively Muslims and animist, turned Christians today.
They were differently administered by the British, the colonial master before the eventual amalgamation of 1914. But before independence, the leaders of the major ethnic groups had series of constitutional conferences with the colonial master, resulting to the choice of federal system of government as the mode of relationship amongst the ethnic nationalities. But this system was truncated by a military coup in 1966 that eventually led to a unitary government.
Subsequently, the nation has survived several ethnic clashes, about eight military coups, an election annulment and a civil war, the Nigeria / Biafra war.
Today, Nigerians are more divided than ever before. More lives have been lost in this administration more than in any other one, except during the Biafran war.
The political and economic situation in the country is in the worst state, most people now believe that it is a deliberate action by the present leadership to destabilize the nation for an ulterior motive. It is unusual that almost two years into an administration, no definite plan has been made for the improvement of the economic and political situation in the country. Our economy has slid into recession, not necessarily because of the prevailing global economic problems, but as a result of leadership inflicted injuries. But beneath all these militating against Nigeria attaining a united nation is the Fulani oligarchy and their lackeys, the thieving generals.
The Fulanis have naked ambition for power and bitter view of faith. Everywhere, they preach stern and joyless world, along with the duty to carry out jihad to expand the reach of Islam by fire and sword. They are the tragedy for Nigeria.
Hence, what we are seeing today in Nigeria as bokoharam insurgency, Fulani herdsmen attacks, increased religious intolerance in a secular state, demand for grazing lands and ranches, suppression of freedom of speech by the government, abuse of human rights, intimidation of the press, annulment of elections in some regions, lopsided political appointments as against the Nigerian constitutional provisions, abuse of court orders, intimidation of political opponents with security agencies - in the name of fight for corruption, utter neglect of some sections of the country in provision of infrastructures - even visitation, starving to death of internally displaced persons etc.. are all Fulani conspiracy to weaken and dominate the whole of Nigeria and beyond.
These schemes are geared towards intimidating and subduing others in order to form a Fulani regional power block: SAHEL REGION, that will span from Mali to Somalia and link up to Arabian peninsula to Turkey. There could be the interest of some elements from the north in the Turkey coup...
The region comprises of over twenty countries of Fulani stock and Sunni Muslims in Africa . This is why there are replicas of crises found in Nigeria in most of these countries like Mali, Gambia, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan etc. This program of expansion, dates back to over 200 years, but it was speeded up in recent times by Muamur Gadaffi , a Fulani, when he was rejected by Arab leaders as not being one of their own.His handiwork was seen with the initial military equipment from Libya, with which the bokoharam sect started their campaign.
The Fulani schemes are an age long program that has been systematically followed to conquer and annex territories. The following names in history: Usman Dan Fodio, Ibn Batuta, Sundiata, Kanka musa, Rabe etc were all fulanis warriors that had headed Fulani conquests and expansionism in many parts of Africa.
But, who are the Fulanis? They are bedouins, desert dwellers, that rear animals .They are called by different names, such as Peul in Wolof, Fula in Bambara, Felaata in Kanuri, and Fulani in Hausa. They migrated from the Arabian Peninsula and took over North Africa, the land of the Ethiopians. 
They drifted down south through the Sahara desert to many West African countries .They are presently in over twenty countries in Africa and are mainly Sunni Muslims. Their ownership of herds of cattle and other domestic animals, a currency of exchange from the old has always placed them on economic advantage. And, being the harbingers of Islamic religion and Arabic knowledge in Africa, coupled with their feudal monarchical system and accompanying mastery of warfare due to their nomadic life style in harsh environment, they exhibit superior diplomacy. These continually place the Fulanis above the indigenous people they come in contact with.
But the Kanem Bornu empire, the north east of Nigeria today, they could not defeat, even with repeated attacks that earned them the name: Elkanemi warriors. But today, the genocide being committed in the North east in the name of bokohram insurgency has been used to achive the desire. The Fulani had been from the old, wanting to wipe out the indigenous people of Bornu and other people in the North in order to take their land. Even the colonial masters of now Chad and Niger, France, now Nigeria, Britain, now Cameroon, Germany, in 18 century had to combine to defeat the Fulani to stop them from over running the Bornus.The Fulanis see the Bornus as opposite and equal force that should be destroyed to complete their colonization of the northern Nigeria. Though the Fulani conquest of some part of the north then was termed a‘’jihad’’, a holy war, a fundamental question was raised in that period by the El kanemi, a non Fulani ruler of Kanem Borno empire, to the then sultan Mohamed Bello, the son of Usman Dan Fodio which has not been answered till today: ‘’I am a reformist Muslim, why do you carry war to my domain or is this a political domination.’’ Relate this question to what is happening in the north east today, for the Quran abhors a Muslim killing or enslaving a fellow Muslim; which means, what is going on in North East of Nigeria is a colonization process by the Fulanis . Mounting of flags and calling defeated areas a caliphate, an Islamic state - are proofs of this assertion.
They have always been champions of political Islam, a capitalist device by a group that hide under the canopy of the Islamic faith to perpetrate crimes for their selfish ends. They hijack governments and use the state crafts to expand their territorial control that translate to money in form of rents , taxes and levies . Most often, they co-opt the uniformed and color their minds with lies of religious war. The true Muslims that challenge their dragging the religion of peace to mud , they kill in order to subsume their nefarious activities.
Therefore, the Fulani oligarchy’s relationship with others has been for total subjugation. They do not believe in Nigerian project, from the amalgamation era till date. After all, Sir Ahmandu Bello formed Northern Nigeria People’s Congress, (NPC), in total disregard for other Nigerians, while others formed national parties.
The oligarchy pay more allegiance to their ancestral home, Saudi Arabia, even their leaders; the Emirs are representatives of Saudi Arabia in Nigeria. It is from the word emir that the word emissary is derived. So, they think and act more Saudis than Nigerians .This informed the hoisting of flag on half mast in Saudi Arabia for Sir Ahmadu Bello , the first premier of Northern Nigeria and a direct descendant of Usman Dan Fodio, when he was killed in the coup of 1966. Hence, the propagation of Islamic religion to suffocation point, more than anything in Nigeria, even to the exclusion of the real tenets of Islam; serves them more as weapon of cohesion than spiritual endeavor. It ensures their total grip and control of the people.
It is therefore not surprising that this informs why Nigeria ranks one of the highest in supply of pilgrims to hajj operations to Saudi Arabia, even when most of the pilgrims barely feed themselves The government’s sponsorship of the operations for the poor and hungry citizens as against the provision of the Quran: ‘’going to Mecca once in a life time, if you can afford it’’, throws up sinister motive behind that.
At the moment, Nigeria is a nation with two constitution, most northern states have officially adopted sharia to the exclusion of their Christian brothers. This informs the high degree of religious intolerance in the region. In 2016 alone; four hundred and fourteen Christians have been killed for excuses bordering on religion. The killing of preacher Eunice in cold blood in Abuja is still fresh in our minds.
Based on this, the utterances and actions of the Fulani emirs and the muslin leaders of the North are pushing Nigeria to part ways like India/ Pakistan who were formerly one nation. But they will want to have access to the sea through Lagos in the west, that is why they are empowering the south west muslims and making strategic investments in the zone. Their plan is for the Sahel region to have access to the sea through Mali, Somalia and Lagos. But the Christians have understood their game plan.The Fulanis want to co-opt north east, a 50/50 Christian / Muslim area to their part, that informs the fight the bokoharam is waging in the region to drive away the Christians or force them into their religion.
In furtherance of this project, President Buhari has aligned Nigeria government to the 34 Islamic nations, mainly to fight ‘’terrorism’’ even when he told Nigerians and the world that his government has ‘’technically ‘’defeated bokoharan, but we keep losing our citizens up till now . One wonders which insurgency he is fighting. Meanwhile, Nigerians have not been told who the sponsors of bokoharam are, or is it possible to presume a snake killed, when the head has not been cut off and buried?
Ironically, considering the presidents body language, his targets are the other Nigerians, he is trying to overrun. This could be inferred from his lopsided political appointments that betrays his presumed fight for corruption. It is greatly in favor of the Fulanis in particular and the North in general, in utter disregard for the Nigeria’s constitutional provision, as captured by the federal character policy, an ethnic balancing policy that ensures equitable distribution of positions, to avoid domination by one ethnic group over others.
Below is the spread of President Buhari’s political appointments: North/West 25, North/East 9, North Central 4, South/West 4, South/ South 6, South/ East 0. Additionally, the appointment of 13 out of the 17 Nigeria security agency chiefs from the north is worrisome and leads us to the most potent fear now, that genocide is in the offing in Nigeria.
Consequently, President Buhari’s decision to drag Nigeria into the coalition of 34 Islamic nations to fight ‘’terrorism’’ is a subtle approach that tends to confirm the fears that underneath this, there is an agenda with strong political and Islamic undertones, aimed at supporting him in case of fallout in his annexation of Nigeria . The so-called "terrorists" are the black Africans that may oppose him. At the moment, there are heavy military presence in South-East and South-South, the sections of the country that have been opposing the Fulanis, due to their long knowledge of their schemes.
Read: Saudi Arabia forms coalition of 34 Islamic countries to fight terrorism.
The aftermath is that Awolowo and twenty nine other leaders of the yorubas were sent to prison on trumped up charge of treason. Ahmadu Bello also added that Nigeria as a nation is an estate of the Fulanis, that is why the insignia of the caliphate is “born to rule” ; and the motto of Nigerian army is written in Arabic uphill today .These actions, infuriated some elements in the military that the decadence in the political circle had permeated them and they struck.
Hence, the coup was designed to neutralize the Fulani push; that was why he, the premier was target number one in the coup. The subsequent decree 34 of 1966 was aimed at curtailing them by abrogating the institutions that further subjugation. Eventually, the many coups and counter coups in Nigeria, were either for or against the Fulanis, a minority of 8million out of the 160 million Nigerians, who have ruled Nigeria for four times, far more than any other ethnic groups, even the big three: the Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.
Below is an excerpt of Major-Gideon-Orkar-coup-speech April 22, 1990
“Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birth-right to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.
It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalization is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.”
So far, out of the fifteen administrations that have ruled Nigeria from independence, eleven are from the North, but the irony is that north is still the most backward, poverty and disease ridden. But the Fulanis are the richest, most educated and influential in the country. But across their fences is poverty and squalor. The "talakawas" , the poor and other tribes of the north are meant to believe that western education is not good, even when the holy Quran says that knowledge is mandatory to every Muslin from cradle to grave and that they should seek for knowledge even to the farthest point of China. The Fulanis still have the ancient belief that knowledge is only for the aristocrats.
So, for every section of Nigeria, they have a program for permeation and conquest.
Starting from the right flank of Nigeria, the North-East, Middle-Belt, South-East to the mangroves of South-South, there has been more turmoil , than the left flank (North-West to South-West ) which the Fulanis have long dominated through conquest and religion.
The northern region, comprising of the North-East and North-West, which are mainly Kanuris and Hausas respectively are the traditional owners of northern Nigeria. But the Fulani defeated the Hausas, to form the Sokoto caliphate, but the Bornu Empire, they see as equal and opposite, they could not defeat, even with their persistence, this earned the Bornos, the Elkanemi warriors. But since the British handed power to the Fulani due to their organized system, they have been trying by all means to annex the North-East.
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The bokoharam is a multidimensional scheme, crafted by the Fulani oligarchy to serve the purposes of destroying the indigenous people of North-East and other minorities, whom they have already turned to religious, social, economic and political monster by years of deprivation and brainwashing. They plant in their void-brains extreme religious ideology and cover it up with religious fallacies that even in death; they will be welcomed in heaven by seventy virgins. But unfortunately, neither their leaders nor their children are ever interested in the heavenly goodies. The Fulanis fear of revolt, and eventual dominance by other ethnic groups resulted in trying to reduce their population by all means. Hence, the bokoharam boys will kill the children, women and the aged; the federal armies in turn kill the boys. The remaining internally displaced people (IDP) in camps are killed by hunger and starvation, as we are witnessing today. At the moment, hunger, diseases like kwashiorkor, diarrhoea are killing more people than the bullets, a replica of what they did to Biafrans in the 1967-70 war.
The United Nations scribe in the zone has warned that 100,000 children will lose their lives if nothing urgent is done in terms of relief supply before the end of the year. But, even the relief items that manage to trickle in are diverted and sold out to speed up their deaths. By this, the coast is clear for domination. Even women are now offering sex for food to live. They go further by race contamination by impregnating the under aged, as the case with the Chibok girls.
This conspiracy may have informed President Jonathan’s lukewarm attitude in fighting bokoharam. He understood the fraud of using him by the northern leaders, through the Nigerian soldiers to kill his misguided citizens. But in his wisdom, Instead of buying weapons to equip the soldiers, he built schools for the alhamajiris, because, it is only the truth, that is education that can set them free. This method is a more potent and lasting solution to fighting bokoharam insurgency and not weapons of mass destruction. The weapons are obsolete means, and it is only by education that the bokoharam soldiers can be schooled out of the lies that have been planted in their minds and the realities of the their struggle will be manifest in their eyes; that their struggle is enmeshed in religious fallacies in order to deceive them to die for their leaders to live. So, when the truth is known to the fighters, their dedication to the struggle will turn to hate towards their leaders and the system will cave in and collapse, because a system that is against itself will die.
The Fulanis were almost beaten to their games by former President Jonathan. He must have presumed that 2bilion US dollars worth of arms expended in the North-East will make the region desolate for the next 50 years. Instead, the money was tactfully diverted to politicians through a Fulani prince, colonel Dasuki , the former security adviser.
The Fulanis intention was to make North East a desolate land, but many Nigerians did not understand President Jonathans wisdom then, now many are realizing it. We should remember that Bulunkut riot , the suppression of the Bornu Youth movement by Ahmadu Bello and many others have taken place in the area, even in 18 century an insurgency of this magnitude was levelled against the Bornu by the Fulanis. It is even from there that giving staff of office to traditional rulers by the government started.
The presumed presence of crude oil in the region and large expanse of land, good enough for factory sites, have added to the lure of the Fulanis’ intensified push to dominate the region. The destructions in the guise of insurgency and eventual provision of great master plan for its reconstruction and over 40billion dollar capital outlay for exploration of oil in the region’s Chad basin in this year’s budget exposes this intensions.
Today, Nigeria’s bokoharam is officially the world’s most deadly terrorist organization. It has killed over 30,000 people and displaced about 3million people in the North East. It is one of the Fulani devices used to instill fear into their opponents by killing, maiming and destroying properties to get them yield to their dominance.
Presently, the Nigerian army numerical strength is daily being reduced in the war front by in house connivance that eliminates middle belt and southern soldiers by exposing their tactical plans to the bokoharam that ambush them. These are deliberate methods to weaken the army for easy manipulation.
Therefore, the biggest fraud in Nigeria today is bokoharam. Dasuki gate is just a symptom of it. And by existing precedents and utterances of many Fulanis, it is now open that the genocide being perpetrated in the North East and other parts of the country is the hand work of the Fulanis.
So, it is Hippocratic for President Buhari to pretend to be fighting bokoharan. After all, he had been asked by the sect to mediate between them and government. Hence, he is merely massaging them, while they act-out the oligarchy’s script. No wonder Aliko Dangote, the richest Nigeria, a fulani man from Kano in North-West is heading the committee to repair north east. The question arises, is there no one good enough from the region to head the committee to reconstruct their place? This has given rise to what I call the scramble and partitioning of North East; a complete takeover of the Borno land by the Fulanis and their fellow bedouins from the Arabian countries, coming in as sponsors and investors.
If not, why is the fuse about oil exploration in Chad basin even with the austere situation in the country? Such idea of government funding oil exploration is now moribund in the oil industry. Oil exploration is for private companies, which eventually pay royalties to the country.
The middle belt region, which the Fulanis often confuse as being part of the monolithic north when issues of struggle arise, produce most of the combatants in the Nigerian army and other paramilitary agencies. They are warriors, even in the Biafran war, they contributed most of the soldiers that waged the war. But they have been struggling from the Joseph Tarka era, through the formation of the United Middle belt forum to wriggle out of the northern grip. Instead, they have been suppressed and decimated by the oligarchy directly or indirectly through their cronies after Dimka’s, Mama Vasta’s and Orka’s coups and other killings.
Presently, they have been infiltrated by the bokoharam, in the guise of herdsmen, they stay and mingle with the locals and after a long time, they attack the vulnerable villages. The killings in, Jos, Agatu, Kastina Alla, Nasarawa, Taraba, Kaduna, Oyo, Ekiti, Ogun, Nimbo incidents in Enugu state, Ebonyi state took this modus.
The Fulani herdsmen are now number four most dangerous terrorist groups in the world .They are occupiers’ army, on the mission of the Fulani expansionism. If not, what are herdsmen doing with assault rifle, AK47, if not war? Anyway, the cattle are owned by the Fulani town and reared by Fulani. It is not surprising to any one that even the president is a cattle owner too. Therefore, the issue of possession of assault rifle by the herdsmen is not from the blues. The worst is that he has been mute on the rampaging actions of the herdsmen.
To further their schemes, the Fulanis have even gone to the extent of contaminating other ethnic groups by impregnating their under aged girls. The Esse, an under aged from Baylsea state abducted to Kano, the Chibok girls and many more that have opened the eyes of the doubting Thomases to this fact.
The Igbos , who are outspoken and hard to yield to intimidations have been driven to extreme by the Nigerian system inspired by the Fulani oligarchy machination. They are now scattered all over the world; but they are sustained by their industry and entrepreneurial skills. The Igbos have been championing the national integration process by their uninhibited investment in all parts of Nigeria, but some misconstrue this to be drive for dominance, and this has given rise to criminal gang-ups against them. This is the reason the Igbos have been agitating to opt out of Nigeria for a separate country, Biafra. They prefer to be kings in the gutter than to be slaves in a king’s palace where they see good things but they cannot touch them. The Fulanis may use interlopers and all manner of Greek gifts to infiltrate and divide the Igbos, but they are making mistakes as our colonial master, Britain made. The masters in diplomacy could not succeed with ezeship and indirect rule in Igbo land . This is why till today, ezeship is still subject of contest in Igbo communities.
They have long understood the Fulanis and their subterfuges, and they always checkmate them: Nzeogwu saw it, Ojukwu saw it, Ekwueme saw it, IBB saw it, Major Orka saw it, Kanu is seeing it now. Many Nigerians and people outside the country are seeing it. The Igbos have been the Fulanis’ only stumbling block to over running and colonizing Nigerians. But the fulanis, who are small in number, always camouflage their identity with Hausa/Fulani appellation when it comes to struggles only. They maintain headship of the group and always whip up religious and other primordial sentiments to hoodwink others into supporting them to deal with the Igbos, whom they perceive as being resilient and domineering.
The gang up is always apparent. They did it when they redrew Nigerian map, when English speaking Camerouns was ceded to Cameroons to reduce the population of the eastern region, then, the Maruwa area of Cameroons was carved into the northern part of Nigeria as Sarduana province by an inconclusive plebiscite by sir Ahmadu Bello, and Ahmadu Ahijo, a Fulani prime minister of Cameroun. They even had to co-opt the rest of Nigerians to fight the Igbos during the Nigeria / Biafra war.
They enshrined it into the Nigerian constitution as federal character, in the guise of maintaining ethnic balancing. All these permutation were meant to perpetually cede power to the north by conferring high population to it and reducing the political power of the Igbos in particular and the south in general.
In 1954, they entered and killed over fifty children in Igbo primary school in Kano, and through the war, over two million lives were lost From then on, it has been killing upon killing and destruction of properties up till now. It becomes a thing of worry that a particular group of people have been killing other Nigerians from time immemorial as if they are birds.
The story of genocide against Igbos is no longer new in Nigeria, it has graduated from one official dimension to another political suppression, economic deprivation as witnessed by giving of only twenty pounds to Igbos, no matter ones savings in the bank after the war, use of weapons of war and outright war fare as seen in many peaceful demonstrations and as experienced in the 1967 Biafran war in which many people lost their lives. Starvation, all manner of obnoxious policies, local and international gang ups, instigation of street urchins to destroy the Igbos’ properties and club them down is daily occurrences.
Use of economic emasculation as seen with giving of 20 pounds in the height of indigenization policy of 1970s, mental destruction by use of federal character and quota system in education; a device they have effectively used to suppress the almajiris in the North, who are Hausas, Kanuri, Angas, Kaje, Nupes and others, while Fulani have nomadic education for their nomads. Therefore, "kill the education industry in the east, you tame the Igbo man" was the historical bases of introduction of federal character and quota in the Nigerian Constitution.
The obnoxious policies enthrone in Nigeria educational system mediocrity over merit without a terminal date. Hence, the policies are genocide in accordance with International Court of Justice and United Nation’s definitions.
United Nations Article 2 (b) of the convention defines Genocide as:
(a) The following act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
So, the policy discriminates against the Igbos in particular and the southerners in general as against the Nigerian constitutional provision of non-discrimination against any citizen based on ethnic nationality, religion, birth place and others.
Further into their schemes, the Fulanis, are hiding under the desert encroachment in the north to device a means of coming down south by requesting for grazing lands or ranches. Yes, the south has green vegetation because of abundant rainfall, but moving from place to place with animals is old fashioned, even countries like Libya, Algeria and others with similar climatic features with the north do not practice such any more. They keep their animals in an enclosure and plant grasses for them. It is not surprising that such request could have the nod of Mr. President, a Fulani and a cattle owner too, who had been adamant on reacting to the killings by the so-called herdsmen.
The request for grazing lands or ranches is actually to secure a permanent operational base to continue their colonization. This group destroy others' farm crops to feed their animals, even when the traditions of host communities abhor living their domestic animals to roam the streets.
The Fulanis age old expansion with violence is obsolete and it is steering up crises that will ravage them by the rest of Nigerians whose anger by their naked provocation and age long deceit of others, particularly the Hausa, Kanuris, Nupe, Angas, Kajes, Jos, Tiv, Idoma etc has been aroused beyond their imagination.
Buhari envisaged this, and this informed his enlisting Nigeria into 34 Islamic nations to fight "terrorism", whereas in actual fact, they are the real terrorists, targeting the black Africans to take over their land like they did in north Africa, the land of the Ethiopians, the Hausas, the Yorubas.
Hence, no grazing land or ranches will be given them. How can a gun and machete wielding herdsmen, doing their private business be trying to take others land by force?
The South-South, the Niger delta is the oil rich part of the country that has been criminally neglected by the Nigerian state. The region is sitting on the oil that gives Nigeria the 95% of her national revenue, but this region and its people have been neglected, deprived, intimidated and killed. Majority of the oil wells in the region are owned by the northerners: the Fulanis and their lackeys, but none for the Niger-Deltans. Their wealth is taken to develop the other regions, excluding them. Apart from the north east, Niger-Deltans are the second poorest in Nigeria, to the point that the state of the first oil well (Oloibri, 1956) in Nigeria, Beyelsa, just had light(electricity) from the national grid in 2005. Their land and waters are polluted, leaving them on nothing to fish or plant on. The free air given by nature is highly polluted with carbon particles. House roofs are covered with black coating. Worst still, is that the region has the highest gas flaring in the world, to quicken their death.
The politics of divide and rule is played with the little money that trickles to them. They collide their representatives with the youths to create confusion amongst them, while they steal their natural resources. Their young men and women are the house boys and girls in the houses of the beneficiaries of their wealth and when they protest, they bomb and kill them as they did to Ken Saro Wiwa-an activist and the Ogoni nine, the Odi people. And so the youths decided to avenge the injustices of the Nigerian state to them through arms struggle, kidnapping and destroying the oil installations.
At present, the zone is racked by political manipulation, as seen with the blatant annulment and cancelation of elections in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Edo and Byleasa states. The Fulanis try to use politicians from that zone to get in. But the people of the region beat them in their violent game, theirs is a child’s play compared to the Niger Deltans. There is a presumption that the weapon stock pile of the Niger Delta Avengers, are more than that of the Nigerian army. But the Fulanis are still using the state craft attempt to break into them.
The Fulani grip on the left flank of Nigeria, from Nupe land to Lagos which has been under their religious dominance is being deepened through political manoeuvring and religious intrigues. Though the west, the Yorubas taunt themselves as the most educated and diplomatic, they always play second fiddle in their relationship with the Fulanis . Presently, the Fulanis have permeated them by the introduction of religious divide and rule. The former united west is now deeply divided on Muslim / Christian line. This is seen from the appointments of the hierarchy of All Progressive Congress in the South-West, they are mostly Muslims. But even at that, the Fulanis still subjugate them; master servant relationship exist between them. The divide and rule is being fuelled by empowering the Muslim minority with juicy appointments so as to lord it over the majority of Christians, while the Fulanis are busy making strategic investments to deepen their economic and political control over the region. The emboldened Muslims are now asserting their rights, which has given rise to the politics of hijab and masquerades going to school in Osun state.
The romance of the Fulanis in the West is to suffocate their elites . The older politicians have been used to climb the leadership position, but they have abandoned them for being too dangerous to deal with. The likes of Tinubu, Obasango etc have been circled out of governance in the government they help to make. At the moment, the Fulanis have formed a parallel alliance and making investments with their young politicians. Some young politicians of the west , the likes of Fashola , Fayemi etc have been given Greek gifts as appointments, some have been cornered with religion, the likes of Gov. Aregbesola, Gov. Ajumobi of Oyo, Alhj. Lai Mohamed , the information minister , the Oba of Lagos Dr. Akiolu. They seem to be favoured by the Buhari administration, but they are actually being groomed to further the divide and rule to subvert the region. You can see that the thought of three key ministries given to Fashola is enough to destroy the young man with his potential but on a face value it is a favour meant for absolute loyalty.
The Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu Rewanu almost destroyed the commercial activity of Lagos by his utterances against the Igbos, during the election. He was trying to impress Buhari and the Fulani oligarchy, by lacing his utterances with religious terms, but unknown to him that he was laying foundation for the destruction of Lagos and for Kano and Abuja to spring up.
The effects of the divide and rule is manifesting with the infighting between Tinubu and some of the young men he made politically. This is to disorganize the Yorubas for easy over run. The Yorubas should be mindful of the infiltrators in the likes of Emir Sanusi of Kano, El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna, Senator Ali Ndume of Borno State and the host of them. From history, they Yorubas have been hurt by their relationships with the Fulanis:
- Afonja, the Yoruba war leader was killed, and his kingdom taken over. This gave rise to the emir of Ilorin being a Fulani man on the predominantly Yoruba people, and the eventual destruction of Oyo empire.
- Pa Awolowo and twenty nine leaders of Yoruba were sent to prison by them on the trumped charges of treasonable felony. He lost the 1979 election through the manipulation of their cronies in the west with the 2/3 of the states.
- Abiola lost his mandate and eventually died by the invisible handiwork of this group.
- Shonekan was chased away from office by the manipulation of the same people.
- Gen. Diya , the second in command to Abacha was messed up.
They young Oni is stewing himself in that. Tinubu is in it now. My advice is that Yorubas are Yorubas before being any other thing, Christian or muslin or otherwise...
In Alausa, the seat of Lagos state government, this religious acrimony was what brought into office, Governor Ambode of Lagos state, a Christian. The religious wrangling has spread to many other Western States, many of which are resorting to litigation and demonstrations. Looming dangers are now lucking in the Yoruba land because of the Fulanis and their manipulations.
President Buhari’s so called fight against corruption is a disguise; core issues have not been touched. Today, other forms of corruption are manifesting in grand styles in our system; nepotism, disobedience to the rule of law, abuse of systems by the agencies of the government, is the order of the day.
No wonder British Prime minister, Cameron said Nigerians are ‘’fantastically’’ corrupt. The corruption crusader, our president and his cronies are enmeshed in it.
The USD 2.8 billion Irikefe tribunal NNPC laundered through Midland bank, now HSBC bank, UK from 1977 through 1979 is not yet forgotten.
The so called "body language of the president’’ is just to intimidate the opponents, and so, he is not creating an enduring legacy that will outlive him. He is not earning the trust of the people; rather he is busy creating agitators and terrorists.
Till today, the voice of late Fela Anikulakpo Kuti, a renowned musician and a philosopher that called Buhari "animal in Agbada’’in the 1980's in his musical tracks resonates. With what is happening today, people are starting to believe truly that even the Buhari coupe of 1985 was to relief a fellow Fulani, President Shagari of a political load, so that the power will remain with the oligarchy instead of going down south; that was why President Shagari was kept in a house in Ikoyi while the rest were sent to Kirikiri prison. The leopard cannot change its spots no matter the rain.
The president is using the state craft to muzzles down the political class with fight against corruption. The middle and lower class are weakened by economic hardship occasioned by loss of jobs and other accompanying hardships. The selective appointments and retirements in the military and other paramilitary agencies are meant to weaken those institutions for easy manipulations.
The judiciary, which is the bedrock of democracy is being destroyed by selected or lack of obedience to the rule of law.
Worst is that even the officers of the law are used to abuse the law. Some of the judges, deliver judgments that lead to miscarriage of justice, just to suite the over lord, Mr. president. The judges on the side of justice are being intimidated, using scape-goatism and dead of the night raids. The result of all these is to be an absolute ruler and a dictator so as to carry to the letters, the Fulani agenda.
All these conform to Buhari’s promise in 2001 to Islamize Nigeria in his lecture at a conference organized by the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Kaduna. He was quoted as saying “I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria, God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country,”
So, Buhari’s presumed planlessness, inactions , inability to call in experts to help him out, slowness to react to national issues, filling up available positions by his kinsmen seem suspect . They are decoys, to tactically weaken Nigerian state for islamization and eventual colonization by the Fulanis; after all he is a general.
Aliko Dangote, the billionaire’s advice to Nigerian government to sell her assets to cushion the effect s of the recession is an extension of the Fulani oligarchy's scheme to tighten their noose on Nigerian economy. By this, they will buy up strategic assets of the government and use them to further manipulate the country. What Nigeria economy needs is a policy reversal and a well thought out stimulus to jump start the economy.
Also, the hypocrisy of the Sultan Saad Abubakar 111, the supreme leader of Islamic affairs in the country on his Eid el-Kabir message, that the herdsmen tormenting Nigerians are not Fulani’s, but foreigners was akin to an ostrich burying its head in sand while the whole body is outside. Ok, They are foreign mercenaries killing for the owners of the herds, if not, what is the motive of foreigners fighting in our soil. The irony is that the president is asking for crazing land for the same group that is killing his compatriots. Unfortunately, the sultan’s presumption that the rest of Nigerians are like the human vegetables they created in the north with deprivation of education is confusing him.
Additionally, the actions and utterances of the Kaduna state governor El Rufai in the killing of over 1800 people and destruction of over 700 houses of the southern Kaduna people shows clearly their expansion motives.
To sum up, It will surprise you to note that while most part of the country is in turmoil, the north west, comprising of: Daura, Kastina, Rano, Kano, Zazzau(Zaria) Sokoto, the traditional base of the Fulani remain calm and the most peaceful in the country. Neither bokoharam nor the so called herdsmen never operated there. The hen does not cheat on its eggs.
The Fulanis have traumatized the Nigeria state. The angers of the other component parts: the Haussa, Igbos, Yorubas, Kanuris, Nupe, Angas , Kajes, Jos , Tiv, Idoma , Edo, Ijaws, Kalabaris, Igalas, etc have risen to high heaven , they can no longer condone "monkey dey work baboon dey shop syndrome" in Nigeria.
People are asking for equivalent of Brexit, some are considering a revisit of Major Orkar’s coup formula, ceding them out of Nigeria. But for the works of our heroes past, not to be in vein, some of the citizens are considering a weak center - Restructuring.
Regards,
Okafo obiora | okafooo@yahoo.com
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THE WILL OF GOD - DONALD J. TRUMP.
Sent by Engr Duke, Lagos Nigeria.
Phone: +234 8023908415
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Donald J. Trump - says a lot of wrong things, but God uses anyone; in the scriptures, the Lord used animals, heathen Kings, etc to bring about His will.
Many supported Obama 8 years ago as the First Black President, but the things he has done against Christianity and Morality are deeply astonishing in History:
*Christian bakeries in U.S have been closed down by judges appointed by Obama for refusing to bake cakes for homosexual marriages*
*Christian bakeries in U.S have been closed down by judges appointed by Obama for refusing to bake cakes for homosexual marriages*
*People have been told to stop saying Happy Christmas and to say happy holidays because Obama believes that the Christ in Christmas offends none Christians in a country where about 80% are Christians.*
*Obama has withdrawn money meant for the education of children from schools that have refused to allow boys and girls to use the same bathrooms and toilets.*
*Obama ordered Chaplains in US army to stop using the Name of Jesus during funerals.*
*Christian companies have been forced to employ homosexuals by Obama judges*
*laws have been made that allows 15 years old children to have a sex change operation without parental consent.*
*The Bible has been removed from the beds of US Christian soldiers by Presidential order*
*Did nothing for Africa and actually punished African Countries with funds withdrawal because of our broad dislike for homosexuality.*
*He sanctioned Nigeria because President Jonathan signed a bill against homosexuality.*
*He refused to visit his father’s country of Kenya because President Uhuru Kenyata is against homosexuality – he only visited Kenya last year; 7 years into his presidency so that it will not be on record that he never visited his fatherland as President, and when he visited, he tried to get President Kenyata to legalize homosexual marriage in secret.*
Hillary Clinton – supports everything Obama does.
Hillary would have continued all of Obama’s policies against Followers of Christ.
Many people like her because she is a woman and would have become the first female President just as we supported Obama when we saw he could become the first Black President.
*America is the most influential country in the world: once Obama came out to endorse homosexual marriage 4 years ago – the Prime Minister of Britain and the President of France did the same thing within weeks.*
According to Trump’s son, one of the things that his father rarely gets credit for, is the way he raised them:
*“How many children of billionaires turn out like us – no drugs, no alcohol, no tattoos, very responsible”.* Trump Jr.
Clinton ran for the office to protect Obama’s legacy.
*Jesus said “He or she that is not for us, is against us”.*
Please, let's support President DONALD J TRUMP with our prayers and love from within and far, that he may accomplish: THE WILL OF GOD.
DONALD'S VICTORY ...
A VICTORY FOR THE CHURCH!
A VICTORY FOR THE KINGDOM!
A VICTORY FOR MISSIONS!
Thank God, who has not left his heritage, the church at a time like this
Thank God, who has heard the silent cries and prayers of the global intercessors for the American church
Thank God, who has not left the church
Who has not left the church at the mercy of abortionists
Who has not left the church at the mercy of gays
Who has not left the church at the mercy of lesbians
Who has not left the church at the mercy of transgenders
Who has not left the church at the mercy of bestials
Who has not left the church at the mercy of the terrorists
By this victory, the agenda to run over America with Islam b4 year 2050 has just suffered a terrible blow and huge setback
The plan to declare Eid el Kabir holiday by 2050 has just suffered a huge setback
The plan to create unisex bathrooms all over America like they did during Democrat Convention has just suffered a setback
The plan to plant public masturbation centres all over America has just suffered a terrible setback
The plan to spread the law approving permitting sex between animals and humans has just suffered a setback
Thank God who has not left his heritage to the Sanbalat and Tobiahs who are bent to run over the walls of Jerusalem on the basis of political correctness
Thank you Lord for this victory for a Cyrus that will hasten the exit of the Tobiahs and rebuilding of the broken walls of American church
May God grant President Elect Donald Trump the political will to effect all these and many more for revival and restoration in Jesus name
Thank you Jesus!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
God bless America!!!
Australian PM Julia Gillard should be made Queen of the world. What she has said requires a lot of courage and confidence.
All the countries in the world should have leaders like her.
She says "Muslims, who are demanding Sharia law have been asked to leave Australia by Wednesday because Australia sees fanatic Muslims as terrorists. Each and every mosque will be searched and Muslims will cooperate with us in this process. All the Muslims who have migrated from other countries to Australia will have to adapt and change themselves as per our country and not expect us to change as per them.
If they are unable to do so, they are most welcome to leave Australia.
A lot of Australians are worried that we may be insulting a particular religion... but I assure the people of Australia that whatever is being done is for the betterment of Australia and its people.
We speak English here and not Arabic or Urdu or any other Islamic language so if you want to stay in our country you better learn to speak English.
In Australia we believe in Jesus who is our God and we believe in God. Just because we believe in and follow Christianity and no other religion, does not make us Communal which is why you will find God's Pictures and religious books everywhere.
If you have any objection to this, you are free to leave Australia and go anywhere else in the world.
Australia is our land, our country and this is our culture.
We do not follow your religion but we respect your sentiments which is why if you want to read koran and offer namaz, please do not create noise pollution by using speakers and reading out loudly. Please DO NOT Read Koran or offer prayers in our schools, offices or public places.
You can do so in the quiet of your home or in a mosque which will not inconvenience us.
If you have any issues with our national flag or national anthem or our religion or our lifestyle, kindly leave Australia at this very moment and never ever return back".
~Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
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Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is a former Australian politician who was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, as leader of the Australian Labor Party. She was previously the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and held the cabinet positions of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion from 2007 to 2010. She was the first and to date only woman to hold the positions of deputy prime minister, prime minister and leader of a major party in Australia.
Born in Barry, Wales, in the United Kingdom, Gillard migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1966. She attended Mitcham Demonstration School and Unley High School. Subsequently, Gillard studied at the University of Adelaide, but cut short her courses to move to Melbourne, Victoria, in 1982, where she worked with the Australian Union of Students and was the organisation's president from 1983 to 1984. Gillard later graduated from the University of Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Laws degree (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts degree (1989). In 1987, she joined the law firm Slater & Gordon and became a partner in 1990, specialising in industrial law. A departure from the law firm in 1996 saw Gillard serve as chief of staff to the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria John Brumby, which preceded her own entry into federal politics.
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