naptu2:

It seems that, for some reason, you are more interested in a quarrel rather than a discussion.

naptu2:
Aha! A kid who is more interested in venting emotions and quarrelling. I thought it was someone who was more interested in exchanging ideas.

Waste of time.

naptu2:


My sister expressed surprise that the carriage did not collapse under the weight of Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, the Nigerian minister of finance. If you know Triple A, you would know that he was a rotund man and so my sister thought that the carriage would not be able to withstand his weight.

naptu2:
14)


C) The Sultan: - You must have heard people say that the Sultan is very
powerful (he controls all northerners,  he controls the government if
Nigeria,  he controls boko haram, etc). Why do people have this perception
of the Sultan?  The answer is Sir Siddiqi Abubakar.

 Sir Siddiqi was the Sultan of Sokoto from around the 1930s to late
1988/early 1989. He was probably the most powerful man in Nigeria. He was
around 101 years old when he died. The Sultans that have ruled after him
have not been half as powerful as he was.

Sir Siddiqi was the Sultan during the colonial era and he helped the
British administer Northern Nigeria.  He also helped them to rally
northerners against Hitler and the Vichy French during the Second World
War. Therefore,  he had a lot of friends and contacts in the British
Government.


He also encouraged northerners to go to school and gave them scholarships.
 These northerners became prominent politicians in the First and Second
Republics. They saw him as their mentor and father.  They almost worshipped
him.

Similarly,  he encouraged many northerners to join the army and these
northerners became top members of the military governments of Nigeria.


Sir Siddiqi was Sir Ahmadu Bello's cousin and Sir Ahmadu envied him. The
one thing that Ahmadu Bello wanted most was to be Sultan of Sokoto.


It was said that the Sultan was not happy about the coup (Shagari is from
Sokoto). The first place that Buhari visited after taking over power was
the Sultan's Palace.

naptu2:
Sir Siddiqi Abubakar was the Sultan of Sokoto from the 1930s until 1988. My dad used to ask, "Why are they making this man suffer"? That's because he was very old. You should have seen him at the time that Buhari or Babangida visited him. He was old and infirm. He couldn't deliver a speech. He would tell someone (standing beside his throne) what he wanted to say and the person would then say it out loud for everybody to hear. He really looked very old. My dad said that they should have allowed him to rest.

Dear Diary, do you remember that I told you that we always got complimentary copies of West Africa Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s? Well, that's how I found out that Sir Siddiqi had been ruling for so long. You see, as I told you, West Africa usually had two historical pages near the end of the magazine. One page had articles from 40 or 50 years before that issue and the other had 25 year old articles. One of the 40 or 50 year old articles was about Sir Siddiqi's response to Hitler. Adolf Hitler had called on Africans to rebel against Britain and Sir Siddiqi basically replied that Africans did not need Hitler to tell them what to do. This was in the 1930s or 40s!


Anyway, Sir Siddiqi died in 1988 and everybody expected that his son, Mohammed Maccido, would be turbaned as the new Sultan, but shockingly, the government announced that Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, a member of the Donation Circuit, had been selected as the new Sultan. It led to massive riots in Sokoto and many people died.

However, years later, General Sani Abacha removed Dasuki and made Maccido the Sultan.

naptu2:
Brunei, Brunei! Nobody talks about Brunei anymore.

It seemed like people couldn't stop talking about Brunei in the 1980s. The Sultan of Brunei was listed as the richest man in the world by Forbes. There were documentaries about the number of Rolls Royces that he owned and the air-condtioned stables that he built for his polo ponies. They talked about the gifts that he gave to citizens of Brunei that got married and also about his relationship with his father.


However, Forbes removed heads of state from its list in the early 1990s and Bill Gates replaced the Sultan of Brunei at the top of the list. From that point it seems as if people gradually forgot about the Sultan.

naptu2:
I deliberately did not write the names and designations of the visiting dignitaries on that thread. This was because of what I saw in 2003.


The Sultan of Brunei was one of the most famous heads of state in the 1980s. This was because he was often acclaimed as the richest person in the world. He was at number 1 on the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world. He lost his position on the list when Forbes decided to exclude heads of state from the list. Bill Gates then became the richest man in the world.


Nigeria hosted the Commonwealth Heads Of State and Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 2003 and heads of state and government from around the world were arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport for the event. The NTA showed them as they arrived (it was a live broadcast).

The Sultan of Brunei arrived and despite the fact the "Royal Brunei" was written on the plane, the NTA commentator kept saying, "The president of Brunei has arrived". He said "the president of Brunei" 6 or 7 times before someone corrected him and he apologised and said, "The Sultan of Brunei". I was shocked. How can you not know the Sultan of Brunei??


I knew that the same thing would happen yesterday, so I decided that I would only write the names of the countries that the dignitaries are from and I would refrain from writing the names of the dignitaries or their designation.

Sure enough, TVC wrote that Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro had arrived, but I could clearly see that the person in the picture that they posted was not Nicholas Maduro. So, after creating the thread I had to quickly rush and find out the identity of the person. I usually do this via the Twitter handle of the embassy of the country that the dignitary is from, but the Venezuelan Embassy had not posted anything. I later found what I was looking for on the Twitter handle of the Venezuelan foreign ministry. It was the vice president.

The last picture below is a picture of Maduro.

Sseeluvu:
This one na political Emir
A P C Emir,


I advocate for autonomy for the traditional institution,only then can they speak undiluted truth to power (executive power).

naptu2:
Extend the thread.

iamyemiakins:
It just looks like Osinbajo isn't a part of this government, he's just on his own these days attending different public functions

ghostwon333:


I wonder when they started using arab titles such as "emir" and ottoman titles such as "sultan", indeed the title which we now refer to as "sultan of sokoto" was called "sardauna of sokoto" before the civil war.
I hate all these copy copy of other people's titles which we can also see with the "yorubas" copying of the title of the emperor of Benin empire.

People should at least preserve their ancestral titles and do away with copying other people.

naptu2:


It's my fault. I should have realised from the beginning.

I once told a Nairalander that she should always check the profiles of people before engaging them, but I didn't follow my own advice.

The good thing is that my instincts always work. The first clue was that he was being unnecessarily aggressive and insulting. That always tells me that the person is deliberately trying to troll. The second clue was something that he posted. It reminded me of a time that I argued with him in 2013.

Go and check his profile. He registered today. The sole reason he registered is to have that encounter.


Obviously some people are jobless.

naptu2:





The clown has deactivated the account that he created just to be able to engage me.

God, some people are funny!