xty50:
Ruga is a fulani word u can't find it in d dictionary. Its just those huts fulani people make using straws.those ones carrying cows around prefer that type of hut just where they leave (ruga) witj their cows they generally call it ruga.

SheikhMuniru:
RUGA In Chinese It Means Chin Chuan Xing

Staro:



And in English?

Staro:



That is how tricky and cunning Fulani occupiers appear in the beginning.

Allow them an opportunity and in two years time they will tell you they need basic amenities - pipe borne water,
electricity, Mosque, market, better housing and schools for their children.

Five years after, they will multiply rapidly and install an Emir.

Thirty years after, they have taken charge. Their children will tell you they were born in that land decades ago and
have nowhere else to go to.

Have you ever wondered why the majority native Hausas are mostly ruled by the minority Fulanis?

Have you asked yourself why all the Emirs in the North are Fulanis?

My dear, their usual trick is to settle, occupy and take charge. They will wage a Jihad if you resist them afterwards.

ivandragon:
Don't mean to sound alarmist, but I don't think a lot of people understand the history of Ruga settlements...


'Ruga settlements' came about from the deployment of fighters known as Ruga-Ruga, by Western colonial powers who used these settlement to expand their military colonial influence over Africa...

Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Colonies, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Ruga-ruga: The History of an African Profession, 1820–1918". In Nina Berman; Klaus Mühlhahn; Patrice Nganang (eds.). German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences.


Of course, the name has taken on different meanings over time, but its primary origin (I stand to be further educated) is military expansionist in nature & application.


So the history of 'Ruga settlements' is steeped in conquest & expansion & considering the historical events that have led to the proposed establishment of the present settlements, it is hard not to associate it with something sinister.

The FG needs to be more open on this Ruga issue, especially when it had earlier claimed that the attacks were from foreigners, so the question is, is Nigeria now building settlements for foreigners? Same foreigners who have killed & maimed Nigerian citizens?

eagleeye2:
In Igbo it means Ruga ha arurala.

Juliet11111:

Shut up it’s in d dictionary

BanevsJoker:

Same foreigners whom El-Rufai admitted to paying off? Whom Buhari gave 100 billion and set up a radio station for? Are you referring to the same foreigners?

TarOrfeek:
it means to dominate in a Northern language.

in Hausa it means 'fast' or with speed.

So dominate/steal/posess the southern lands with speed or faster.


There you have it.

Splashme:
Ruga or Rugan .... what language is that?

I'm talking about Buhari's Fulani herdsmen's Ruga settlement.

What's the meaning of Ruga?