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By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter:@farooqkperogi

In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity by the renewed agitation for Biafra and its reverberations across the country, some readers of this column requested that I republish a series I wrote in 2008 and 2012. Here is an edited and updated version of the series:


Why is our diversity such a lumbering burden on us? Why do most Nigerians have such powerful loyalties to their incidental, primordial identities and a corresponding disdain, even hatred, for other identities?

Many Nigerians think our country is unworkable because it was “forced” into being by British colonialists. This view has no basis in the history and sociology of nation-building.

There is no nation in history whose formation was the consequence of a democratic consensus. Historically, most nations were formed by conquests, expansionist wars, and forceful cooptation, not by consensus. I don't know what fuels this false, annoyingly ahistorical sentiment among Nigerians.

Many Nigerians also cherish the illusion that they inhabit the most diverse country on planet Earth. But India, a post-colonial country like ours, has a lot more diversity than Nigeria has. It has over 800 languages, several mutually irreconcilable religions, a huge landmass that is several times the size of Nigeria, and a human population that is more than that of the entire African continent combined.

Yet it's one country, and it was formed in fairly the same way as Nigeria was formed. Most of the groups that make up present-day India were independent ethnic groupings. None of the groups was consulted before they were integrated into the modern Indian nation. But you don't hear Indians interminably whining about the unnaturalness of their nation, or about the need to “renegotiate” the basis of their existence.

Nigeria is only about 200 million in population, the 13th largest country in Africa in landmass, with some 500 languages (most of which belong to the same language family), two major religions (which share tremendous doctrinal affinities, unlike, for instance, India that has such mutually exclusive religions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and other Eastern mystical orders). Why is it difficult to conceive that a nation can be formed out of this?

In any case, there is no evidence that mono-ethnic nations thrive better than ethnically diverse nations. One supreme illustration that explodes the myth of the "naturalness" and invulnerability of mono-cultural nations is Somalia. There can be no more homogeneous nation on Earth than Somalia. It's a monolingual, mono-religious, and mono-ethnic society. Everybody in Somalia speaks the Somali language. Everybody there is not just a Muslim, but a Sunni Muslim. It is often said that Somalia is not just a nation; it is, in fact, a big family. They all have a common ancestor and preserve their ethnic purity through endogamous marriages.

How more homogenous can a nation get? Yet it's an excellent specimen of a failed state. It has been gripped by sanguinary convulsions for years on end.

An example nearer home is the former Oyo Empire, which had effectively disintegrated even before the start of colonialism, although it was an ethnically homogenous entity. It was caught in the web of a vicious internal schism that precipitated a debilitating war of attrition, which stopped only with the advent of colonialism.

So homogeneity and consensus are no safeguards against implosion. They are not necessary and sufficient conditions to immunize any nation against internal contradictions and disintegration. Only justice, mutual tolerance, good governance can.

Having said that, the claim that the formation of the Nigerian nation is “forced” needs some interrogation because the history and sociology of pre-colonial relations in Nigeria don't bear testimony to this claim.

A lot of research has been done by historians, notably the late Yusufu Bala Usman and Elizabeth Isichei, which chronicles the robust relational intercourse between the disparate ethnic groups that populate what is today Nigeria. A notable example was the burgeoning social and cultural melting between the Yoruba people and various ethnic groups in North before colonialism.

As the travel records of Arab explorers show, the "ambassadors" (or, if you like, interpreters) of the Alaafin of Oyo during the Trans-Saharan trade with Arabs were people from the extreme North. And records show that Hausas had been living in Yoruba land in large numbers before colonialism. The same is true of Yorubas in the North.

If you go to Kano, for instance, you will see entire neighborhoods that are peopled by men and women whose ancestral roots are located in Yoruba land. Gwammaja is one such neighborhood. Ayagi is another.

This is not to talk of the vibrant pre-colonial inter-ethnic relations between such northern minorities as Igalas, Tivs, Idomas, etc. and Igbos. To this day, Igalas and Idomas have councilors in some Igbo states, and there are "indigenous" Igbos in Benue State.

A lot of people are often shocked to find out that Joseph Wayas, Nigeria's Second Republic Senate President from Cross River State, is “Tiv.” He comes from a part of Cross River State called Obanliku (the location of the famous Obudu Cattle Ranch) where people speak Tiv but call it by a different name. And the man was made Senate President on the basis of his being a Southerner.

Interestingly, during the still-born Third Republic, Iyiorcha Ayu, another Tiv man, became Senate President because he was supposed to be from the North!

Take the case of Edo State, too. The people of southern Edo had shared, and still vastly share, deep cultural and historical ties with the Yoruba people long before colonialism, and those in northern Edo had deep ties with northern Nigeria dating back to hundreds of years. The people of Akoko Edo, for instance, speak the same language as the Ebira of Kogi State, although they call their language Igara. Yet Edo is supposed to be in the South and Kogi in the North.

Again, the people of Auchi have cultural values that decidedly owe their debts to Nupe and Hausa people. I remember that Auchi people used to be called "Bendel Hausas" when, in fact, their language is almost mutually intelligible with Bini and Ishan in southern Edo State

In northern Cross River, the Yala people are linguistically, ethnically, and culturally indistinct from the Idoma and Igede people in Benue State. The Ebu people in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State are actually Igala people. So are the Ilushi people in Edo State. And most so-called Delta Igbos are actually descended from Igala people in what is now Kogi State.

The point of these examples is to demonstrate the inadmissibility of the claim that Nigeria is a "forced" nation. We were too culturally and ethnically intertwined even before colonialism for that claim to have any basis in truth. Even without colonialism, it is conceivable that Nigeria in its present form would have emerged. If we related as closely as historical records show we did, the British merely accelerated what was likely to have happened anyway.

Of course, the result of these robust pre-colonial relational intercourses could very well have resulted in the formation of a different kind of nation from what Nigeria is today, but there is no reason to suppose that it would be the product of the kind of elaborate, unrealistic consensus that irredentists claim is indispensable to national formation.

To be continued
http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2017/06/t

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ehispapa:
my friend, if i were you i will keep shut and read. you went for your service and you educating us that have spent more than 30 years in the north. its is more like the vast majority of them. dont pray to meet religions crisis in the north..it is the worst form of riot in the world. i just read your gullible comment and laugh. 80% are jihadist

North is not peaceful and u were asked to pack, u didn't and u are still complaining.

By Tabia Princewill
Nigerians need to be more discerning. In a country filled with special interests and rapacious individuals who would stop at nothing to safeguard their predatory lifestyles, one must always analyse and think critically about political statements: who benefits?
This should be the question on everyone’s mind whenever any issue is raised in Nigeria. Does the political elite in the South-East truly support the idea of Biafra, of secession, or is the issue of Igbo marginalisation funded, used as propaganda to derail an administration which has made fighting corruption one of its central objectives?
It is interesting to note that under a South-South President, a time which might have been the best to raise and finally address all issues of marginalisation for the South-South and the South East, many politicians of this extraction chose to blindly support their “son” and partake in many of the scandals which have come to define the era. Why did the politicians of Igbo extraction not raise their voices to call for more development in the South East under President Goodluck Jonathan? Why didn’t they speak on behalf of the poor Igbo or Niger Deltan?
“Marginalisation” only becomes a trending issue in Abuja when political appointments don’t seem to favour Igbo politicians. The idea, sadly, has little to do with the average Nigerian. In truth, all Nigerians are marginalised. The well-being of the poor and middle-classes, from the North, to the South, has hardly ever been a political priority. It is therefore all too easy to manipulate sentiments of desperation and hopelessness thus benefiting, yet again, the same selfish politicians who squander their chance at leadership on comforts for themselves and their immediate families alone, rather than acting on behalf of their communities and the country as a whole.
It is ironic that the anti-corruption fight is also viewed through an ethnic lens. Because the past President is from the South-South, any attempts at unveiling corruption which occurred under his watch is viewed as an attack on the entire region and its indigenes which is curious because whatever money left Nigeria’s coffers illegally, as the many cases and corruption allegations which are now in court show, did not serve to develop the region. It landed instead in private pockets. It was easier to participate in the “sharing” of the national cake than to come up with plans to deal with the environmental issues of the South East and the South-South (from erosion to cleaning up oil spills etc.). Nigeria needs a counter-Biafra movement, a counter ethnic-manipulation movement, a truth movement, one which asks real questions of those politicians and their stooges who are suddenly very vocal: where were you when a Niger-Deltan was the President? What did you do for the region then? Besides congratulatory messages and promoting an empty Ijaw agenda which only benefited those in power, what did South-South and South East politicians do to bring development to these regions when they had the chance?
Beyond the Federal Government, greater blame should be laid at the feet of the state governors of the South East and the South-South. Despite the NDDC budgets (in fact, where is the OMPADEC money?) despite derivation, where did all the money go? Who are the contractors if not cronies of these same South-South and South East politicians? Nigerians need to ask real questions rather than hiding behind the spectre of wars which happened before many of those currently agitating were born. Unfortunately, the mind-set in today’s Nigeria, has it that only acts of violence produce results. After all, we only seem to pay attention to people’s demands or suffering in this country once groups turn to violence. When do we get serious?
We mustn’t only demand seriousness from our leaders. We the people need to think deeply and critically about the issues. Our short-sightedness is consistently manipulated by politicians who know exactly what buttons to press to get the right reactions from us. We keep talking about restructuring as if it were some sort of magic wand after which all our ethno-religious problems would suddenly disappear. Our wobbly zoning arrangements hardly allow the best man (or woman) to contest for office, further trapping us in a cycle of corruption, public anger and disappointment when the “son of the soil” doesn’t develop his region (or the rest of the country for that matter) because he never proved he had the intellectual capability or ideas necessary to come up with a real blueprint for progress.
We are yet to honestly answer the question of what truly went wrong with our regional system of governance, before the military coups. It was, in part, the inefficacy of those in power, their greed and corruption which served to justify the coup culture. What would be different if we returned to the regions of old? Wouldn’t it be the same crop of politicians we currently complain about who’d be up for elections? Let’s not deceive ourselves, they wouldn’t perform any better. We’ve heard all the arguments about “feeding bottle federalism” and encouraging competition between the regions and I’ve written quite a lot about them in previous articles available online.
The truth is, if not for corruption, which Nigerians, both rich and poor have curiously defended by shielding their ethnic kin from prosecution, even under our current structure, we could have attained far higher levels of development. We can’t account for two-thirds of the budgets at the federal level since 1999. Corruption is the true root of marginalisation, not ethnicity or religion. The next time you hear the word “marginalisation” ask yourself what the political motives behind the term truly are. Very few of today’s politicians are capable of leading viable stand-alone nations (or areas roughly the geographic equivalent of the South-south or South-East regions for example) without the help and support of the rest of Nigeria.
Many politicians have neither the credibility, the ideas or capacity to do so, without the Federal government propping up their structures. The most urgent form of restructuring should be at the party level, where candidates begin their journey. Greater scrutiny to ensure that only the best are fielded to represent us can only happen if we the people get involved at all levels.

National Assembly
It has the power to approve appropriated funds, not to decide (which is a function of the executive) what funds should be spent on. If legislators want to decide the specifics of budget line items, then they are in the wrong arm of government and should have pursued careers under the executive branch. The unspoken allegation here is that the running battle between the National Assembly and the Federal Government is in fact over constituency projects and other such amendments which allow many legislators leeway to spend money as they please.
The number of uncompleted and abandoned so-called “constituency projects” and fanciful donations of sewing kits, motorcycles etc. which are far below the monetary equivalent of the amounts the legislature claims its spends on its constituencies, are a bone of contention and represent just some of the issues Nigerians should be up in arms about. These are the wasteful, allegedly corrupt practices holding us back, not our ethnic origins or religion.

Goodluck Jonathan
Three former officials of the Nigerian Ports Authority and a former special adviser of this former President were recently named in a Swiss corruption case involving a company whose top officials have already been convicted. According to Swiss prosecution, Mohammed Adoke, the former attorney general, claimed there were no grounds for prosecution in Nigeria.
Yet, the Swiss case alleges that the company in question was awarded $70million worth of contracts every year without any public bidding, cornered jobs worth around N717 billion and bribed Nigerian officials copiously. How much did the Nigerian state lose? Nigerians aren’t poor because of ethnic marginalisation, we’re poor because of corruption. It’s time we face up to reality and stop hiding behind ethnicity to excuse the enrichment of some at the expense of the majority.

Tabia Princewill is a strategic communications consultant and public policy analyst. She is also the co-host and executive producer of a talk show, WALK THE TALK which airs on Channels TV.

http://www.nigeriatoday.ng/2017/06/who-is-lying-to-the-igbos-and-to-the-rest-of-nigeria/

CLASSMAN:
Nice phone , do u know u can use 2 SIM and memory card with this phone?

That what am using

morgang:
Hello house, thanks for this insightful post. Not sure if there's any specialist to help.

Lately about a month ago, I began to have this lower back pain at my left side body coupled around my waist. well, I googled and I found out the possible cause which could be either kidney infection or kidney Stone. I proceeded to my school clinic (undergraduate students) , where the doc requested for a urinalysis, blood test and one other test which I barely remember the term.

Afterwards, the results were all negative; no symptoms of kidney stone/infection. she however, proceeded to referring me to another Specialist clinic for Abdomino pelvic Scan; The result was also negative. The scan report was stated as, I quote

"The right kidney is normal in shape (RT- 10.5cm x 5.09cm x 7.10cm) while the left kidney is mildly enlarged (LT - 11.87cm x 6.84cm x 6.85cm). Both kidneys are however normal in shape, position, outline and echopattern with good corridor me dull art differentiation. The pelvi-calyceal systems are no dilated. No renal Cyst, mass or calculus is seen".

That was the report. Doctor assured me nothing is wrong and recommended that whenever I feel pain, I should take pain relief medicine.

Note- The diagnosis covers-
Liver
kidney
gall bladder
Git
Urinary bladder.
(which were all Negative Reports)

After wards, I decided to go for another urinanlysis elsewhere, in a laboratory Result interpreted by the doctor was still negative.

Puss cells - pale and amber
Blood- Negative
Bilirubin- negative
urobilinogen- normal
ketone- negative
glucose- negative
protein- negative
nitrite- negative
leucocytes- negative
pH -7.0
specific gravity- 1.010

That was my Urinanalysis result else where, outside the school clinic.

Well, to consolidate the negative confirmation of this report, I probably need a finally check up to reassure me that all is well. Aside from Abdominal pelvic diagnosis and Urinanalysis which I did, what else is recommended? Is there also a need for a routine check up like the aforementioned?

Please, doctors in the house should help. can't afford to gamble this. I need to be 100% sure. What's your suggestion(s) please?

Thanks in proxy.

I have been having similar pain for sometime now, I have also carried all the above tests, they all came out negative. I have been living with the pain like that.

There are big man holes without cover on Eko bridge, it's disaster waiting to happen, let them use this money they want to waste to repair the bridge.

I have been having this problem with my MTN sim for almost 2 weeks now. When am making or receiving calls, suddenly I will not be hearing the other party again, I have to cut the call and call again. Location is Festac town. I don't wether it's only me. I have Etisalat in the same phone but I don't have any problem with the sim when making or receiving call

Climax11:
YOU'RE JUST IGNORANT OF THE LAW..........DID ANY COURT OF LAW CONVICT MIKE FLINN(FORMER SECURITY ADVISER TO TRUMP)B4 HE RESIGNED OVER A MERE ALLEGATION? ONLY IN THE ZOOLOGICAL REPUBLIC. FOOLS EVERYWHERE!

Then Saraki and majority of the senators shouldn't be in the chamber. Saraki case is not mere allegation, he has been docked several times.

Rubish, in Felas voice "uniform na clothes, na tailor saw am"

Why Yoruba lost out in Kano LG election

The political permutation of the Yoruba resident in Sabo-Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State failed them in the just-concluded local government election in the state. Kola Oyelere reports that the Igbo in the community were the beneficiaries of the loss which is now causing ripples among the Yoruba.

SABO-GARI is a well known area in the ancient city of Kano. It was exclusively carved out by the host community several years back for people regarded as non-indigenes. It has been in existence for long under Fagge Local Government Area of the state.
Continue.........
https://www.nairaland.com/104822/revealed-igbo-yoruba-politics-sabon

gadotor:
Who knows this hd receiver .thank you

I know it, what do want to know about it

rusher14:
Very much doubt the veracity of this letter.

Anyone could have typed that.

Kungiya in the signature and Kugiya in the header.

Lots of people just throw in comments without even reading and understanding the content of the letter. One, this letter is written by non Hausa speaker, Hausas do not speak Hausa and add another language not to talk of writing. Two, Fulani has never in the history of their attack written to anyone. Three, what is the source of the letter? They are lots of errors especially pronunciation which a person born as Fulani or Hausa will not commit. Finallly, Southan Kaduna fight is not religious as many people will want us to understand. Go and ask any community that has issues with the Fulani wether Fulanis segregate muslims from the christians.

I was a victim

Do you operate illegally and still have license?

Our lecturers are number one destroyers of our educational system especially those in Federal and states higher institutions. No one monitors them, a lecturer decides when he or she comes to class, he or she decides what to teach. Some come to class 4 times in a semester, the next thing is exams.

durodee:
I think a fuller explanation will be of help. This type of charger is a bulk charger and has its use. I use it 4hours a day connected to a 24v 600amp setup with the rest of the charging done by my 1400w solar panels on 60amp MPPT CC.
To use that charger only or use it without good monitoring is extremely dangerous for you batteries. To leave your batteries empty /drained for long is also bad.
I will rather have this than nothing.

I have been using this charger for over 5 years without incident. I don't want to believe this charger is not smart, remember it was removed from telecom rectifier. If it's not smart MTN, GLO and other telecom companies that use rectifier are at risk of battery damage. In fact, I use this charger to revive any of my battery that is performing below expectations.

People should not comment without facts

How much?