Power of make up no be here. I be looking like

So Police found Innoson guilty of forging documents worth millions to fraudulently clear his goods and just let him walk free, not just that: allowed him to enter a negotiation with gt bank? What kinda country are we in? That people commit such criminal acts and still walk free

ERockson:
Kwankwaso really rubbishes the SE with this statement. So the whole SE is so small that the land igbo occupied in the north is now bigger than the whole SE. What an Insult!

Goes to show you don't even know Nigeria. The land mass of Niger state alone is as big as the entire South East. Just when has truth become an insult?

ItsMeAboki:


How do alleged settlers claim right to virgin land on which they have never controlled or settled on?
Had the Fulanis not been nomadic their rights to these grazing lands would have been more clearer.

Don't digress, u were talking about ancestory.
If u dont know what ancestors are, check the dictionary, its not my job to explain to u.
Settlers can claim ancestry, certainly not passer bys.

ItsMeAboki:


Live and let live; the Fulanis have long been making use of free virgin unsettled land, as nomadic herders, wherever they come across it throughout West Africa well before colonial days - and in this way they too have ancestral claims to these lands.

How do passer bys begin to claim ancestry to a land they never settled on.
Never buried any of their relatives, never set any traditional stool to build their interest, never contested or voted in any elections, paid homage to the locals as the real land owners. I find ur logic flawed.

ioranum:
You are a good writer

thank u

munas:


Kindly trow more light on this...
Does it mean that the fish will be alive in the dry ground and when the rains comes,it will start swimming again or what?

Exactly,
You've thrown the light urself.
The fish curves in the burrowed soil with it's tail inside its mouth occasionally chewing on the tail till the rains resume.
Some peeps forbid eating the fish as they accuse it of feeding on itself.

Ignyte:


OP, could I lift this for my blog??
I promise to write the source...

OK.
Go ahead.

Qmerit:
Frogs?? Like fish hmmmmmm

Yea... Frogs, real Frogs.

"Ifiam" - Frog in english. A serious delicacy in these parts

It takes patience to drive through these paths....

"Gbaver" - a specie of fish that cysts in the dry season waiting for rains being smoked.

A disturbing trend: cutting down of economic trees like he palm trees.
Since hay is hard to find now, herdsmen cut down tree branches for the cattle the feed. The palm trees are not spared.

My friend in a pose with one of the herdsmen

Today we took another trip to one of the occupied areas. The herd here is almost like double the one we earlier saw

For clarity sake, Melaye only have a statement of result from ABU. u guys stop mentioning certificate already cos he does not have one.
What we should be asking ourselves is y he's still using a mere statement of result instead of a proper cert.

I don't get. Melaye was supposed to graduate in 1999 but had carry overs and hence spilled.
Does it mean he was able to resit his carry over courses within the same year, clear them and got mobilized within the year?
For this Naija?
Was ABU operating at lightening speed as recent as '99?

ComrdDRS:
Bros, na you give these foolanis idiots that opportunity to d interrogate you na.. How can he say that foolanis killing of farmers is exaggerated? Why allow the fool to play with your intelligence!!. Rubbish!

Toh, na to follow the guy jejeli until him back reach wall na.
Shey he's already done with his questions

Hmmm ortom rocking addidas
his p.a rocking nike.....
designers on flick whilst the people roast

Vast Plane land

SalamRushdie:


Will you carry your Fulani head out of this thre
ad

LOL....

EazyMoh:

So you didn't see any of them in your expedition yet they are in your report. Continue.

Did u read the post at all? Part of the report is what my guide told me and I quoted him accordingly. U might as well have asked if I saw the big men who own the cattle there.

EazyMoh:

OK have you seen any of the militia wing members?

I will need a life insurance policy to see them lol. That'll require me to be in the battle field when crisis start.

EazyMoh:
Nice one OP the crisis between Fulani herdsmen and farmers tends to always be exaggerated and misrepresented. Many wouldn't believe these people still inter marry and live peacefully together on most occasions for the better part of time. The crisis are only from time to time. But the way things are reported it makes it seem as if the moment a Fulani herdsmen sights a farmer the next thing is killing and vice versa. Like Boko Haram and JTF.
Again if I may ask, have you seen any herdsmen with an AK47 or any firearm? Because I have never seen one in my entire life!

Like I said in the post, there is a militia wing that launches attack when the need arises. The nomadic herds men don't wield guns.

more pics

HungerBAD:


The last time I visited home,I went to some remote hilly village in Akokoland in Ondo State and stayed 2 weeks there.

Did not know anybody there. Just showed up one evening and that was it.

For the Obudu thing. For about 3 years now,I have been trying to talk to somebody with the phone numbers I see on their website.

It's either not working or like one time,the guy I got on a cell phone promised to send me the vacation package price list by morning And it never came.

If you know how to get in touch with the Obudu cattle ranch I will appreciate it.

Ok, will try

HungerBAD:
Nice write up Boss.

I am here actually for the pictures.

Do you have more pictures of nature like this?when you have lived in big cities all your life,you tend to appreciate pictures like this a lot thanks.

Haba, taking a week holiday to a place like Obudu Cattle Ranch won't hurt na

So today, in the heat of the Fulani killings in Buruku, my busy body took me into the deep of Gwer West. We all know the sorry state of the road from Makurdi to Naka (that one is story for another day). The road from Naka to Agagbe and a little beyond is very motor able due to on going constructions. Our expedition finally took us to a destination we could no longer drive. We parked and did the rest of the journey on foot.
I must confess I have never seen plain, arable land so vast (Benue is richly blessed), I could see as far as my eyes could take me, save for some few tractors that ploughed the soil and a pocket of young men and women who followed behind in search of “Gbaver” or “Akee” - a species of fish that cysts in the dry season . I also have never seen so many herds of cattle like I did today, white colors from far and near with dust from their movement renting the air, moving in different directions one wonders where they are headed. I completely lost count of how many times our vehicle had to park for the herds men to clear the way so we could pass.

To get the clear picture, we trekked to the border of Gwer West with Agatu, crossing a stream whose bridge was just a log of wood laid across. While we were contemplating whether to attempt crossing (I come dey wonder who send me), our guide was already at the middle of the log drinking still, murky water from the stream (these guys strong sha). They told us the Agatus have decided to fight a “cold war” with the fulanis, they’ve refused to sell food items, water, medicine, cigarettes, drinks and any other thing a Fulani man will need to survive, that in fact trade between the Agatus and fulanis is at absolute zero, leaving the fulanis no choice but to move towards Tyoshin. I also learnt from our guide that there are 3 different layers of Fulani: the big men who own the cattle, the nomadic herds men who move the cattle from one place to another in search of pasture and the militia wing which launch attacks when the need arises.

One thing that surprised me however was the level of peaceful cohabitation between the Tivs and the Fulanis. One of the men I talked to told me he left his village settlement to set up a makeshift camp so he could carry out hunting activities together with other hunters. He showed the” Kpiam” (Gazelle in English I guess) they killed yesterday smoking under charcoal. Right there beside these camps were herds of cattle littering the surroundings as can be seen in the video (I begin dey wonder which kain liver these men get). He told me the last time they (Tiv and Fulani) fought, there were lots of deaths, schools were burnt down and their kids could no longer go to school, worst of all; there was hunger and their means to livelihood was cut off since they could no longer farm, leaving them no choice than to live at peace with the fulanis.
Now as I’m back to the comfort of “City life”, typing while my feet aches from blisters, I can imagine those hunters in their make shift camps, exposed to the elements (I no see any mosquito net for there self), with unwanted neighbors (Fulanis) who have forced themselves on them. It makes me wonder if in the long run, this forced cohabitation is the panacea to peaceful coexistence or the Tivs there are just sitting on another time bomb waiting to explode.

Yet we keep complaining all the jobs go to the north.
It is now clear from this analysis that the north is marginalized.

of all the points, no 6. is more important.