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@poster. The truth shall one day prevail. They should hand over the manuscripts to the Pope he will lead the way by first converting to Islam, them the remaining gullible followers will follow suit.

@poster. pls copy the whole text and paste it

Heard the bomber survive. The beroms should not eat his flesh this time round, rrather he should be handed to the SSS where rigorous and demeaning torture will be subjected to his pathetic life so that he Will revel his accomplices

I can bet wit my life that the American gold casket will not last one week. Even the MOSSOB guys posted to guard the casket will align with Aba boys and remove the HIV infested body of the warlord and re sell the casket in the black market. Trust igbo wit money.

Na waho even UAE or Qatar government can't promise this kind of the thing.

His decomposing body should be quarantine in US so that the deadly strains of the HIV virus that killed this warlord should not violate our airspace

Ex- South Africa Police Chief Appeals Bribery Conviction
1 Nov 2011 … The former police chief of South Africa ,
Jackie Selebi, has filed an appeal against his conviction for
taking bribes … The ex IGP in south africa got 15year for collecting 23 million naira bribe, while Tafa Balogun got 6 months for collecting 2.4billion naira.

Boko Haram attacks Gombe Prison with Bombs and gunfire

THESE BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRES ARE AT IT AGAIN. MOVING THEIR FIGHTERS FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER TO CREATE IMPRESSION THATCHER ARE WIDE SPREAD. GUNFIRE IN GOMBE.

No mind those SSs releasing info we already knew. Imagine todays headlines; HOW WE GET SUICIDE VEHICLES. Is this what we want to hear?

To further buttress my point, when I googled “Northern
Nigeria” and “Arewa Nigeria”, at least 50% of the
images that came up in the search results were of Boko
Haram, scenes of its attacks or images of its victims.
That speaks volumes.
Whatever the case, it is our generation which will suffer
most because the present crop of leaders have little to lose;
we will live with the consequences of their actions while our
children’s future becomes increasingly uncertain. Perhaps
the tone here is a tad too pessimistic when this writer
concludes that the numerous problems we face in the North
crowned no less by Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency gives a
gloomy premonition of a bleak future . We are in a terminal
decline, the question is are we doing enough to address
this? What can we or should we do to reverse this certain
reality?

We are a people bedevilled by so many challenges which of
course, this writer has barely scratched the surface of. The
leadership deficit has aggravated our economic decline and
retardation, and threatens not only our social cohesion but
our very identity as a people. In times like these, a strong
and transformational leadership is what is required to
mobilize our abundant human and natural resources for us
to realize our full potentials, but this deficit forms the bane
of our problems. Paradoxically, while we acknowledge the
failure of leadership, and the incapacity or inability of the
present crop of leaders to do much to salvage our pathetic
situation, we are still waiting on them. Obviously our
leaders cannot do much because they are constrained,
because they are not interested or because it is a
Frankestein’s monster has turned on Dr. Frankestein
situation. While we “wait”, Boko Haram seems to be the only
force filling this leadership vacuum in a very destructive and
warped sense by co-opting the vast number of idle,
unemployed and frustrated youths as willing recruits to its
campaign of death and terror. Gradually, Boko Haram could
become the only thing that defines us as a people, if this
leadership vacuum persists and by then we WOULD BE
DOOMED!

http://zainabusman./2012/02/17/a-people-in-terminal-decline/

Buildings housing hitherto bustling factories lay derelict and
abandoned in ominous gloom in Kano, Kaduna and Zaria.
Poor incentives to farmers, lack of storage facilities and
access to credit has led to a decline in agricultural
productivity as state governments are embroiled in one
fertilizer corruption scandal or the other. With the exception
of Kano and to a lesser extent Kaduna, few businesses, and
enterprises especially SMEs are owned and managed by
Northerners. In many state capitals, the bulk of the labour
force engaged in the formal sector are civil servants. The
neglect of agriculture, manufacturing and other economic
activity for easy oil money coming from the federal
government by the state governments has aggravated this
situation as the allocation is hardly directed towards reviving
infrastructure, capital projects, empowering the populace or
investment in non-oil sectors of the economy. The CBN
governor recently stated that many states, especially in the
North are economically unviable without such allocations .
Instead, monthly allocations which run into billions of naira
each month are expended towards recurrent expenditure
and unproductive ventures such as subsidies on annual Hajj
and Umrah pilgrimage trips mainly to reward cronyism. This
dependence on oil revenues which has done little to benefit
the ordinary Northerner has created an impression of the
North as an unproductive region, a “liability” which
contributes virtually nothing to the nation’s kitty but
consumes so much because of its population and its size.
Though a cursory look at history deflates this impression
since the proceeds from agricultural produce of the North
virtually sustained the nation before the discovery of oil.
A socio-cultural aspect of our numerous problems and
which lies at the heart of it is our mind set as a people,
especially amongst the Hausa-Fulanis . We have developed a
mind-set that paradoxically makes us feel culturally superior
when infact we are progressively retrogressing in many
aspects. We look down on fellow Northerners of a different
religion and ethnicity, we feel our own brand of Islam is
better than the Islam practiced by a Yoruba man, an Igala or
a Tiv such that you’d forgive anyone for thinking the Holy
Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in
Hausa language somewhere in Kano. We feel many career
choices especially those which involve working our way to
the top are demeaning; our educated youths have been
brought up with the mind set to only aim for the ultimate
“secure government job” or bust, and as a result many an
enterprising and creative youth’s dreams have died at
stillbirth by the patriarch’s final fiat.
This paradoxical superiority complex has pitched us against
other “minority” groups in the north who used to be our
brothers but now regard us with contempt and derision and
has been played upon by mischievous people to ferment
ethno-religious tensions. Many are quick to blame Islam or
the mixture of religion and politics, but a comparison of
predominantly Muslim societies who are doing relatively
well-off such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia
and Indonesia for instance shows Islam is not the problem,
rather a crude cocktail of ignorance, and the perversion of
religious teachings and cultural prescriptions. While in Iran,
women outnumber men in Universities as many are highly
educated and articulate, female literacy in Northern Nigeria
by contrast remains abysmally low, one of the lowest in the
world and ditto women empowerment though attitudes are
positively changing at snail pace. The problem appears as a
friend once stated that we haven’t found the right interface
between culture and religion in the North.
Lastly is the all-out media war and propaganda against the
North. From the mainstream media to social networks,
online forums to blogs, it is hunting season for anything
Northern (in this context, synonymous with the Northerner
of Hausa-Fulani extraction but also any of the
predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the north: Kanuri,
Nupe etc). At most you need an advertorial on the pages of
the numerous dailies, at the very least, you need an internet
connected mobile phone and you are set to begin unleashing
your full arsenal against “Northerners”. The activities of
Boko Haram which have claimed more Muslim lives,
wreaked more havoc to Northern cities than anywhere else
are attributed to desperate Northern politicians who lost out
in the political chess game, a view peddled around even by
erstwhile respected intellectuals; sectarian crises and conflict
which abound in every part of the country, but more
frequently in the North are mostly attributed to the Hausa-
Fulani Muslims who are seen to be the culprits even in
situations where they are victims; even the lacklustre
performance of the Jonathan administration is attributed to
the “evil Northerners”. The problems highlighted above:
leadership, economic decline and socio-cultural challenges
have rendered us a voiceless people in this media war and
propaganda, we are unable to tell our stories strongly from
our own perspective while others do it for us, and they paint
their version of the truth in whatever colour hue they deem
fit.

For a while now, I’ve had reason to believe that the people
of Northern Nigeria, especially the (in)famous “dominant”
group, the Hausa-Fulanis seem to be in terminal decline.
Could this conviction have stemmed out of the aftermath of
the 2011 Nigerian general elections and the rampage of the
Northern youths against the so-called Northern leaders or
the recent spate of Boko Haram attacks in the northern cities
of Kano and Kaduna? Perhaps it is the intensification of the
unfair media bias and the recent vitriolic, virulent and
hateful diatribes against the mostly Muslim Hausa-Fulani
Northerners in the mainstream and social media or the serial
decline and retardation of the economy in the north and/or
the region’s growing political irrelevance in the scheme of
things in Nigeria. This conviction is coupled with a growing
realization that little or nothing is being done by us, the
victims, of our mostly self inflicted problems to salvage our
future which is in dire jeopardy.
The most obvious problem is the serious leadership deficit in
the North which became magnified before and after the
2011 general elections. There is almost a general consensus
that Northerners who were at the helms of affairs in the
country for several decades did little to better the life of
ordinary people in the region in terms of provision of
healthcare, education and other infrastructure, direction of
useful investments and creation of economic opportunities
for the population. The leaders are seen to have enriched
themselves and their cronies while using an adept mixture of
religion and ethnicity to keep people subjugated in the
shackles of illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, and misery. Few
leaders have utilized accumulated wealth towards
establishing profitable enterprises that employ people,
philanthropic organizations that empower others or other
productive ends. Rather accumulated wealth is squandered
in consumerist behaviour, in opulence in the midst of
absolute and abject poverty. Interesting exposés on the
leadership deficit have been written by analysts such as Dr.
Hakeem Baba Ahmed and the columnist Adamu Adamu
amongst several others.
While the deficit of transformational leadership is not
exclusively a Northern phenomenon, it is more magnified in
the North. It is these leaders who are perceived by many to
have “sold out” the north during the 2011 elections hence
the rampage of the youths against various emirs, a former
speaker of the House of Representatives amongst others.
Consequently traditional, religious and political leaders who
used to command tremendous respect from people have
lost their credibility, and to an extent legitimacy to speak on
behalf of the people. Certain enigmatic “geniuses” have
been de-robed of their toga of mystique. The people in turn
are plagued by frustration, helplessness and hopelessness in
the wake of un-inspiring leadership. The newbreeds like
Nuhu Ribadu and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who are viewed with
suspicion or seem more interested in embroiling themselves
in political controversy provide virtually little solace.
Closely following the heels of the leadership deficit is the
economic decline and retardation of the region. This
economic decline has been accelerated by the Boko Haram
insurgency, thanks to which the holy grail of foreign
investments will now become ever so elusive. Once the
basket of the nation on account of its agricultural
productivity – the legendary, towering groundnut pyramids
of Kano come to mind – and its budding industrial activity,
the north is now plagued by rapid de-industrialization.

Reservation? just because they are northerners? so racism don dey enter

Lately the locals are fighting back, and assisting the jtf, last time they apprehended a lone gunman, in maiduguri, locals gave out the hideout of the sect in kano that led to their arrest, now they have alerted the jtf in this report. more of that.

Lately the locals are fighting back, and assisting the jtf, last time they apprehended a lone gunman, in maiduguri, locals gave out the hideout of the sect in kano that led to their arrest, now they have alerted the jtf in this report. more of that.

@poster. You still dey circulate this fake story. Abeg if you don't have better things to do just log off.

The guy was never arrested for ties with Boko Haram, he was arrested for possessing firearms and with the violence in kaduna. But yet don't blame our security agencies or judiciary, blame our outdated laws. possession of firearms attracts just 6 months.

Now I know why GEJ called them rascals.

He was aided by top police officials, who are they, why have they not arrested and made known to the public. stupid journalism

From Kabiru Sokoto to Habib Bama Very soon SSS will declare Aminu Kano wanted.

When You Marry An Illiterate Woman as
a Wife, You Make Stupid Decisions Like
Jonathan – Wole Soyinka

An analytical piece With Prof. He has obliged to sharing this
with as many Nigerians as possible. Please share this with
friends and the general public.
1. It’s No More about Subsidy Alone.
The American President has only TWO aircraft, our
president has 9[Nine] in his fleet and was voted
money recently to buy ONE more! Making it TEN!
The British prime Minister has only TWO official cars,
our president has 23 in his pool and only recently
voted 300Million Naira to buy TWO more bullet/
bomb proof ones!
Senators in the US earn about $6,000 dollars
monthly and that’s about what a university professor,
or a director in a state department, or a doctor with
20years experience, or a teacher with 25years
experience earn too, but Here in Nigeria a senator
earns 245 million Naira per annum! That’s the salary
of 25 vice chancellors, or 50 medical doctors, or 60
directors, or 500 school teachers!
The US, almost the size of Africa with about
500million people have 24 ministers, and 32
government parastatals and commisions, Nigeria has
a whooping 42 cabinet ministers, and over 50[Fifty]
government parastatals!
America with about 500million people and more
mileage to drive consumes 39million litres of petrol
daily, Nigeria with 150million people 60% out of
which live in remote areas, yet our government tells
us we consume about 35million litres of petrol daily!
2. Is Subsidy Really the Problem of Nigeria?
‘When you marry an illiterate woman as a wife, you will
definitely make stupid decisions like jonathan’: wole soyinka
spoke!
Our Dear President GoodLuck Jonathan has become a tyrant,
a shandel, a shame, he has become the No.1 Enemy of
Nigeria. Is this because we, Nigeria are yet to adopt to
CHANGE? Change that only Jonathan can see? The End will
justify everything. Pray for Nigeria! Pray for our Beloved
Country!

only one victim a policeman who ignore administrative procedures as regard securing scene of incidents. The policeman open a sack near the first blast killedand the blast killed him instantly.

Just confirm it. blast near Sultan Bello mosque

Just confirm it. blast near Sultan Bello mosque

They have time to dey yarn rubbish for 100 million naira donation by CBN

Enough of this trash. What is the revelations here? we know Boko Haram rob banks and we know proceeds will normally be shared amongst the members and widows of slain members. What we want to know are who are the major sponsors and we want high profile arrest. shikena

What is all this trash. You have kabiru sokoto, you have Abu qaqa, what is the sss waiting for? go for the sponsors and stop playing hide and seek game.

They promise to go after those that betrayed them and those that preach against them.

What do you expect when they are arresting them in countries where they know what they are doing.

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I just checked all the national dailies only THE SUN carries a. ethnic bigot headline. Waku we know what is happing using Innocent peoples blood to fuel a succession agenda.

We are feeling the effect of Boko Haram more badly than any tribe. We get bombed in the north by Boko Haram and get chase, hacked in the south and called Almajiri, Jihadits and other demeaning names on the internet.