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I wonder why they didn't send Turai. Afterall she's been signing nuclear documents at the IAEA meeting.

The only bad thing Sony did was the 419 insinuation. They have apologised.

Any reference to our shameful govt is in order. I will buy Sony products if I choose.

UN Assembly: Yar’Adua’s absence causes ripples in presidency
Posted To The Web: Monday, September 28, 2009 - Christian Okeke, Abuja


EVEN as President Umaru Yar’Adua has returned to the country from Saudi Arabia, where he was said to have gone for an official tour, instead of attending the United Nations General Assembly in the United States, there has been growing resentment over the decision of the president not to attend the meeting, even in the presidency.

Information available to the Nigerian Tribune revealed that the growing criticisms over the president’s action was already causing some disquiet in Aso Rock, where it was gathered that those in the corridors of power had also frowned at the manner in which the trip was managed by the president’s spokesperson.

A source, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune, said that since the president returned, there had been some discomfort over the embarrassment which the Saudi trip caused to the administration, as well as the credibility crisis it caused the government.

It was, however, not clear whether the kitchen cabinet of the president had finally resolved to meet with their boss on how to avoid further embarrassment to the administration.

But the source hinted that there had been some ‘’silent attacks’’ at the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Communications, Mr. Segun Adeniyi, over the ‘poor’ manner in which his office managed the president’s trip.

According to the source, some of the critics, who included the president’s foot soldiers, were at a loss on who to blame over the issue. It was their argument, the source stated, that even the most skillful image manager could not have done much to provide an effective excuse for the president’s absence in the US.

It was also gathered that there were growing concerns that the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, failed to give the excuse by Adeniyi the boost it required, even as it was obvious that the sitaution was generating concern from Nigerians and that was used to discredit the administration in no small measure.

The dust, which the president’s action was generating, Nigerian Tribune gathered, was reinforced by the fact that President Yar’Adua was seen as one who placed his personal interests above national interests, as he demonstrated in the trip to Saudi Arabia instead of attending the General Assembly of the United Nations, where the best interests of Nigeria within the international dynamic system would have been better served.

Apart from the fact that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, who represented the president, was shut out from the meeting with the United States president, Barack Obama, critics have argued that President Yar’Adua would have used his presence to, at least, give a good account of his administration and counter the insinuation in the global circles that his government was inefficient and condoned corruption.

It was a concern as to how the country would fit into the first 20 most viable economies of the world, where it shunned such opportunity to market itself, as well as the vision of the government to attract assistance and cooperation.

Critics have said that the president should have reminded the world of the peacekeeping role Nigeria has been playing around the world, the sacrifices in both human and material resources which the country has made in restoring democracy in Africa and boost the country’s chances of getting the nod for a permanent seat at the Security Council.

One of the critics, the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), in a statement made available to the Nigerian Tribune, on Sunday, in Abuja, argued that President Yar’Adua’s absence made Nigeria not only to lose its voice but also would have provided what it called a soothing balm to the African Union (AU) chairman, Colonel Muammar Ghadafi‘s bizarre address and Zimbabwe’s president, Mr. Robbert Mugabe’s coarse voice.

The group argued that there was no better place to promote and protect Nigeria’s national interests and a just world politico-eco order than the UN General Assembly; hence in compliance with the foreign policy objectives of the nation as enshrined in Section 9 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

CNPP said it was worried that even in domestic policy, President Yar’Adua seemed to be more obsessed with his passions, idiosyncrasies and personal preferences than that of the country and observed that while the Director-General of State Security Service (SSS), Mr. A. Gadzama, was raising the alarm and warning the country of an impeding inferno, chaos and crisis ahead of the 2011 elections, the president was more concerned about how intra-party crises ahead of 2011 elections would affect his party’s, PDP, of victory.

Part of the CNPP statement reads: “The General Assembly is an organ of the United Nations, where each member has one vote and where resolutions are passed, where members that serve in other organs are chosen and where the sessions are used by presidents to assert the global views of their nation. How can we be enrolled among the first 20 countries in the world, if we do not assert ourself?

“Therefore, the CNPP meeting notes that there is no better place to promote and protect Nigeria’s national interest and a just world politico-eco order than the UN General Assembly; hence in compliance with the foreign policy objectives of the nation as enshrined in Section 9 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“CNPP also notes that President Yar’Adua’s absence means clearly that not only Nigeria that lost her voice but also Africa, as Nigeria’s voice could have provided the soothing balm to Ghadafi‘s bizarre address and Mugabe’s coarse voice.

Attempts to reach the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, to comment on the matter were unsuccessful, as the minister was said to have left for her home state, Anambra, for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the election of the party’s candidate for the governorship election for the state coming up soon.

Also, all efforts by the Nigerian Tribune to get across to the Special Adviser to the President on Media, Mr. Segun Adeniyi, proved abortive, as he did not pick his calls

http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=8434&z=10

Security officers detain El Rufai’s family members
By Idris Akinbajo
September 29, 2009 01:33AMT


Security officers detained family members of Nasir El-Rufai, the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, on Monday, according to the account of Mr. El-Rufai.

Four of them, Asia El–Rufai (his wife), and their three children, Ahmed (nine), Bilkisu (seven), and Mustapha (three) were returning from Dubai where they had gone to celebrate the Muslim Eid el-fitr festival when “[the] State Security Service (SSS) invited them for dialogue and held them for an hour,” Mr. El Rufai said in a telephone interview.

No official responses could be obtained at press time, and efforts to reach the Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili, failed. She did not respond to text messages either.

Mrs. El Rufai declined comments on the matter, but her husband told NEXT that “they came here to Dubai to spend the Sallah holidays with me. So, they were here for about eight to 10 days. They left Dubai this morning. When they got to the airport, the immigration officials told them to wait after collecting their passport and returned the passport to them after about 30 minutes.”

Speaking more on the ordeal further, the former minister said, “by that time, their luggage had arrived, they got their luggage and were about to leave when somebody from [the] SSS accosted them and asked my wife to hand over the passports to him. And she handed over the passports to him. He took the passports, and took my wife and the children and they were made to wait about an hour without any explanation.”

Mr. El-Rufai said he was “naturally concerned about this development” which he characterised as a “slippery slope on the political landscape when family members can be held hostage to resolve political differences.”

His words: “This is unprecedented and very strange and it shows the extent to which this administration can go just to harass and traumatise anyone related to anyone that is supposedly opposed to them. It’s really sad, and there is no basis for it whatsoever whether in law or in our administrative procedures. It is just a reflection of how petty this government has become that even wives and children are part of the political persecution that has been unleashed on me.”

Mr. El-Rufai said the State Security Service officials offered no explanation.

“They were not given any reason. They were just made to wait while the officer said he is trying to get clearance from Abuja. Nobody gave them any reason. By the time they collected the passport, immigration had already stamped the passport anyway. And so there was no issue, and no explanation was given” he said.

Speaking on his next line of action, Mr. El-Rufai said “my lawyers are already filing a petition against the government on the matter of the denial to renew my passport. We are filing a suit on that so we will now add this among the reliefs that we want. We want the courts to stop the Federal Government from violating our constitutional rights. I have the right to a passport because I am a Nigerian. [President] Yar’Adua cannot cancel my nationality,” he said.

The Nigerian High Commission in London on September 15 refused to renew Mr. El-Rufai’s passport, saying, it was acting on orders from Abuja.

The former minister is also on a wanted persons list posted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC which filed an eight count charge against him in May. The charges which made claims of abuse of office, corruption, and gratification are before a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr. El-Rufai has refuted the allegations saying that they are politically motivated because of his opposition to the government of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5464798-146/story.csp

Presidency denies plan to sack some ministers
By Elizabeth Archibong
September 28, 2009

The Federal Government on Monday denied reports that the President, Umaru Yar’Adua, is planning to reshuffle his cabinet. Some national daily newspapers had reported that a reshuffle was on the cards, with one paper going further to say about seven cabinet members had been slated for removal in the planned changes.

But the Special Adviser to the Nigerian President on Media and Information, Segun Adeniyi, has denied the reports.

“I don’t know where the speculations about cabinet reshuffle are coming from, but let me state for avoidance of doubt that there is no plan by the president to replace ministers at this point in time, the daily speculations in some newspapers have indeed become a needless distraction as the public is being made to believe a lie,” Mr Adeniyi said.

The Yar’Adua government carried out its last cabinet reshuffle on October 29, 2008. During that reshuffle, 20 of the 42 ministers in the cabinet were dropped. Although, the rumoured shake-up was said not to be as sweeping, several ministers and their aides have been having sleepless nights in Abuja because of the widespread claims of an impending cabinet change. Indeed many ministers have started intense lobbying to keep their job, at the detriment of their job, according to the statement from Mr. Adeniyi.

The Nigerian president returned to the country last Friday from a much criticised trip to Saudi Arabia. A lot of commentators were unhappy that Mr. Yar’Adua went to the Arab country at a time the United Nations was holding its General Summit during which the Nigerian president was expected to deliver a speech and that he also attended the opening ceremony of a state of the art University while Nigerian Universities have been closed for over three months.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5464785-147/story.csp

Ibori Fights Back – Ribadu Is A Serial Liar Who Plotted Against Yar’Adua

Mon Sep, 28 2009

The war of words between former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori and former chairman of Economic and Financial crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu took a new dimension yesterday when Ibori accused Ribadu of plotting against President Yar’Adua’s government while calling him a “serial liar.”
In a statement signed by Ibori’s media aide, Tony Eluemunor, Ibori denied the accusation by Ribadu that he tried bribing him. He further challenged Ribadu to tell Nigerians who paid for his hotel accommodation during one of his overseas trip.
“He should tell the world who paid for his hotel accommodation at 47 Park Street, Mayfair, London where he stayed on his way from San Francisco, USA.”
Read full text of Ibori’s statement below:
“Mr Nuhu Ribadu engaged in self-glorification in his press statement published on Sunday, 27th September 2009, taking an ignoble flight of fancy instead of addressing the issues I raised in my Media Chat of the preceding Friday, which, by the way, did not focus solely on Ribadu. The indecorum and name-calling in his language was not surprising too; they have combined to become the Ribadu signature tune.

Yes, I maintain that I never, repeat NEVER, bribed or attempted to bribe Ribadu, who always loose with the facts, tried to hoodwink the public by alleging that I was speaking after two years of being investigated. Yet, the bribery allegation I reacted to publicly, was the one he made in a witness statement in London as recently as August 26th 2009. I had to reply to that one publicly because, as Ribadu himself knows, that allegation will not be tested by any trial, as no charge whatsoever, whether related to that bribery allegation or not, has ever been leveled against me in any court of law in the entire United Kingdom. His allegation of two years ago, which I have not publicly reacted to, is being tested in court.

I expected Ribadu to disprove the contradictions I pointed out in his Nigerian and London statements as well as those of his Director of Operations and second in command at the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, and Mr. James Garba, a Central Bank of Nigeria staff seconded to EFCC. Instead, he employed his usual rabble-rousing antics of name calling, which was the trade mark of his reign as EFCC chairman.



On my position on resource control and the driving principle behind my determination to redress the injustice done to the people of the Niger Delta, Ribadu asked “if it is in keeping with his promise that he became a billionaire overnight on behalf of the suffering masses of Delta State.” Ribadu should know that before I became Governor, my collective wealth was substantial. Even the London Metropolitan Police admitted in their own witness statement filed in court that one of my private companies earned in excess of $5 million annually. I have been the most investigated Governor in Nigeria and the EFCC and London Metropolitan Police are in possession of my Account statements from the Bank of Austria, Merrill Lynch, Citibank (I was a CitiGold member—a club of high net worth customers) and Barclays Bank before I became a Governor. Both the EFCC under Ribadu and the London Metropolitan Police have dubiously refused to exhibit these Account statements to maintain their lie.

Second, Nuhu Ribadu must be a serial liar, to attempt to deny that he approached me to help unseat the present President. This is one of his numerous on-going attempts to recruit both local and international friends to undermine President Yar’Adua’s administration. The persons he approached, including me, are still alive and they have given testimonies to security agencies. Ribadu even contacted a high-ranking member of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with complaints that a “sick Yar’Adua” should not be allowed to remain in office, and also wanted a serving judge and member of the electoral panel to convince the team of INEC officials to concur with his evil plot that the ballot papers were not serially numbered - to damage Yar’Ardua’s defence. And he did this with some of his foreign friends who, to date, still wish President Yar’Adua dead.

Thirdly, Ribadu said: “I am also open to his friendship but that will never be at the expense of my loyalty to my fatherland and commitment to transparency and honesty in public office.” Ribadu should shut up and stop boasting about having been Nigeria’s anti-corruption Czar. He compromised himself, politicizing his office, and teamed up with politicians to distribute funds to influence National Assembly members in the failed third-term tenure elongation gambit. He was a politician, not anti-corruption fighter.

Ribadu should wait for the persecution by him and his London Metropolitan Police friends of my associates to break open in a full trial. Then I will enclose copious documentary evidence to substantiate every claim I have made. The opportunistic and brazen-faced Ribadu is nothing but a fraudulent “anti – corruption Czar” who operated with instruments of blackmail.

He should tell the world who paid for his hotel accommodation at 47 Park Street, Mayfair, London where he stayed on his way from San Francisco, USA. Additionally, Ribadu went about soliciting for contributions from those he claimed to be investigating, towards a non-existent EFCC Football Club, for which he collected large sums of money which was never applied for the purpose they were collected. This may account for one of the reasons why he made away with many files when he was leaving office, and has refused to formally hand over to his successor in office to date. Has he declared how much he so collected?

Worst of all, Ribadu denies that he lobbied me to be Inspector General of Police, (IGP). I never expected him to admit that fact. But if he did not approach me to be IGP, at what point did he inform me of his intention to seek appointment into a narcotics control arm of the United Nations Organisation? That day he appealed to me to keep it away from the public, but surprisingly, former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, told me, a few days after, that Mr. Ribadu was indeed seeking for the office and he heard this from the former World Bank boss, Paul Wolfensohn. Of course, Ribadu also pursued Kalu everywhere in the name of investigation, while, all the time hiding evidence that Kalu had millions of dollars in foreign accounts before he became Abia State Governor.

Furthermore, that Ribadu claims to have deposited $15 million at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not, and cannot, be proof that I gave that or any sum of money to him. Also, what greater felon could there be than he, an architect of a third-term tenure for a President whose constitutional entitlement is for two terms only, and who tried to induce, harass, embarrass and humiliate National Assembly members to support the project.

Now, Ribadu is using colonial police in London to settle petty political scores in Nigeria, and he, a lawyer, denigrates and disrespects our judicial system by constant allegation of judicial incompetence. My advice to Ribadu is that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been elected the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the Grace of Almighty God. Ribadu should respect the mandate Nigerians gave to Yar’Adua and stop hopping from one international capital of the world to another like a junketing gadabout, maligning the elected President of his country, to entertain the world and aggrandize himself.

Ribadu also ranted he would use the London Metropolitan Police to send a certain Nigerian businessman to prison for alleged money laundering because he wrote and published a damaging piece about former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s vindictiveness. He actually tried to but only succeeded in wasting British taxpayer’s money as the businessman was discharged and acquitted on the orchestrated money laundering charges. My question is, was that businessman a public officer in Nigeria? Was it not his masters’ bidding to go after that man? May I also ask if Otunba Mike Adenuga, the eminently popular business mogul and chairman of Globacom, whom he targeted and hounded into exile, is also a public officer?

The same Ribadu, master-minded the ex-convict plot against me. One night after a meeting of the co-conspirators to frame and denigrate me at all costs, Ribadu called the businessman to “shoot his mouth” as usual. That same night, the benefactor phoned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar alerting him of Ribadu’s plot against me.

Sooner Nigerians would know how Ribadu purchased by proxy the shares that he owns in his friends’ companies. Ribadu would then have to tell the world whether he bought those shares with proceeds from his salary. No wonder he has failed to declare his assets - which is tantamount to a crime.

Finally, Ribadu, on our friendship, said: “Since I couldn’t see you when I visited Lagos recently why don’t you visit me in London to catch up with your other friends”? I will accept his invitation to visit London as soon as he can prove to me that the matter in London is not driven by malice and vindictiveness. Let me remind Ribadu my friend, that by now I am too smart to be caught in a political game which himself and his collaborators in the London Metropolitan Police are playing. If he indeed believes that the trial of the women they have held hostage in London is not political, he should allow the process of the court to prove that, instead of pronouncing people guilty even before they appear in court as he usually did as EFCC chairman in Nigeria. He is not a staff of the London Metropolitan Police. He is not a member of the Crown Prosecution Service. Neither is he a member of the jury nor the Judge in the matter.

If you, Nuhu Ribadu, a Nigerian in London, think you have the right to invite me to London to face some trumped up charges, I, a Nigerian with all the rights as a Nigerian, invite you to Nigeria your home country, where you are a pitiable fugitive from justice.”

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/TON/Article.aspx?id=2190

`FG not sincere on political reform’

By ABDULLAHI BABA ALAWUSA


THE federal government is not being sincere in its efforts towards reforming the nation's polity even as the Yar'adua administration has been chided for its seeming lack of political will to address the country's socio-economic and political problems.

"By adopting some of the Justice Lawal Uwais Electoral Reform Committee recommendations and leaving out the most important elements in the recommendations the PDP-led federal government has confirmed fears of the citizens that the much-publicised electoral reform programme may have been a political gimmick, after all."

Alhaji Rabi'u Bako, secretary of the Kano state chapter of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), made the remarks in an exclusive interview he granted Daily Triumph recently.

He said: "When Umaru Musa Yar'adua was declared winner of the 2007 Presidential elections, he testified publicly that there were some reported cases of electoral irregularities during the elections but promised that his administration will initiate a comprehensive electoral reform programme with the view to avoiding such electoral malpractices in the country's future elections."

According to the Kano ANPP scribe, most of the citizens did not take him serious until when the Electoral Reform Committee, headed by the respectable former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammad Lawal Uwais was constituted.

"People thought that considering the caliber of imminent personalities with proven record of integrity as members of this committee, the Yar'adua administration should be given the benefit of doubt as to its sincerity to reform the electoral system," Alhaji Bako recalled.

"However, he said: "When the Electoral Reform Committee submitted its findings and recommendations to the federal government, after several months of consultations with various stakeholders across the six geo-political zones of this country, the Yar'adua administration grumblingly accepted the report but surprisingly rejected key recommendations therein."

Daily Triumph recalls that the major contentious issue on the electoral reform recommendations as presented by the Justice Uwais Committee is the issue of appointing the INEC chairman, which the committee recommend delegation of prerogative of appointment from the executive to the National Judiciary Council (NJC), a hitherto exclusive prerogative of the presidency.

While rejecting this recommendation, however, the federal government cited constitutional provisions which gives the executive president the prerogative of appointing the INEC chairman, arguing that it will amount to unconstitutionalism on the part of government to abdicate its constitutional responsibility for the NJC.

But the Kano ANPP scribe dismisses the federal government's argument for rejecting the "most important element" of the electoral reform committee recommendation, saying the government is not being sincere in its reform programme.

According to Alhaji Bako, "if the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua was sincere in its efforts to reform the nation's political and electoral process it could have put more pressure on the National Assembly to expedite the constitutional amendment and accepted those key recommendations by the electoral reform committee."

Supporting the view that, appointment of the INEC chairman by an independent, neutral body like the NJC would strengthen the electoral process and give the electoral body the true independence to conduct elections without undue influence of the executive, the new-breed politician believes "unless an impartial body is vested with the responsibility to appoint the INEC chairman, election rigging and other irregularities will continue to be our main headache as far as conducting credible, free and fair election in this country is concerned."

While urging the federal government to review its decision to reject the recommendation and be prepared to hand over the prerogative of appointing the INEC chairman to the NJC, as proffered by the Justice Uwais Electoral Reform Committee, the Kano secretary of the ANPP also charged members of the National Assembly to wake up to their responsibility concerning the much-awaited constitutional amendment.

Alhaji Bako advised that President Yar'adua, rather than interprete the Justice Lawal Uwais recommendation as a threat to his presidential prerogative should look beyond personal interest and consider the positive impact the recommendation will make towards conducting credible elections that is the basic objective of the electoral reform.

"On their part, the honourable members of the National Assembly should expedite action towards effective constitutional amendment because it is a known secret that there were certain lapses and shortcomings contained in several sections of the operational 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that needs to be amended," Alhaji Rabi'u noted.

"With the 2011 general elections fast approaching and considering the federal government's seeming lack of political will and sincerity of purpose in its political and electoral reform programme, in addition to the legislator's lackadaisal attitude towards the very important issue of constitutional amendment, the forthcoming election may not be anything different from the previous controversial elections because most of the past problems have not been solved," the Kano ANPP scribe cautioned.

Maybe Tompolo is now in Kaduna.
At dis rate politicians go soon finish for deh sha.

AfroCynic:
One is a social ill, the other is not. Does that answer your question?

I really think you should tell us which is a social ill between homa and prostitution.
Please, if you could spare a minute, we would like to know.

We shouldn't bastardise natural design.

Homo is illegal in Nigeria anyway. Rubbing plantain against plantain will rightly get you in jail.

^Ehn Ehn! We will "never" be ready for it.

complove:
can u ban beaf,we are tied of him ke. my minute remain 2 minute before they kick me out of this cafe.

People that want to join Republic of Benin go kill person sha!
@complove = becomerich = ikeyman; what is a "Moderetor"? What is "Nusanti Ni"?

Bring out your maps na! Come and "Remove the Yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa into Benin republic". I am your nemesis.

Deep Sight: The two critical bits that Sanusi got wrong: Regulatory Discretion & Procedure and Approprition of Public Funds.

If you are familiar with the Fundamentals of Regulatory Oversight in any industry, you will be aware that the cardinal function of the Regulator is to guarantee a healthy industry and in so doing, the Regulator has various tools of intervention. The tools are to be excercised progressively in such a manner that correction of anomalies is effected with minimal disruption to the system. The ultimate sanctions are only reserved for irreversible situations and even at that ONLY after the application of intermediary measures which have failed.

Too right!
From day one when Sanusi reached for a military decree to dessimate the 5 banks, it was clear that we had an agbero rather than a technocrat.
The damage he is wreaking will take several years to fix. As if the country doesn't already have enough problems.

^
Well said. Society is more important than the individual, it must be preserved.

[quote author=sleek_p link=topic=329578.msg4623863#msg4623863 date=1254119585]Though I don't know the history between you two, I however believe with all the pictures the cretin posted here justify's a ban or some suspension.[/quote]You say something really stupid. . . Then call someone a cretin? Strange.

Nigeria is a country where every state is an almajiri. They all produce nothing and go to Abuja to fill their monthly begging bowls with oil.
A wise saying; "those who don't work shouldn't eat".
Split the place so everyone can learn the dignity of producing their own money. Shameless. Maybe, then we will drop laziness and begin using our brains to manufacture stuff.

Maps of Nigeria's mineral resources (all undeveloped) of Nigeria here http://www.nipc.gov.ng/zonalmaps.html

https://www.nigeriaembassyusa.org/selectedphotos/business2.gif

@Beaf, Naira and Kobo are not Hausa.

Whatever. They are of Northern Nigerian origin.

sjeezy8:
ban that coon hes getting annoying

Coon?
The KKK and other racist groups use such words. I demand an apology

Coon 
(U.S. and U.K) a black person. Possibly from Portuguese barraco, a building constructed to hold slaves for sale (1837).[45][46] Popularized by the song "Zip Coon", played at Minstrel shows in the 1830s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#C

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/coon

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black person.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coon

Somehow, this discussion is gravitating toward the discussion of Islam.
While I do not sanction that, it is a clear reminder that the propagation of Arabic is one of the consequences (or functions) of Islam. That is just another reason why non Muslims find the very idea insulting.

Do the Arabs in the image below not seem very far out of place? That is the same for Arabic inscription on it, to those who aren't Arabs and have no Arabic affinities or affiliations. It is a dangerous thing.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/183611_arabicnaira_jpg29d1645a9edf65a5bd75076272278e88

Any non Muslim will correctly identify Arabic inscriptions on our national currency as attempts to dominate, intimidate and Islamise a cowering population.
Naira and Kobo are already Hausa words. The motto of "our" army is already "Victory for Allah".
Numerous other examples litter the landscape.

babaearly:
Cafeboy
We "love" Beaf cozz we cant do without beef.

God bless you o jare!

Rewiiinddd!

^
Add this to your medals. Frame it for your kids.

^
You really talk stupidly.
How come half your "las giddi" budget comes from Federal allocations? What resources has "las giddi" got that they want to control?
Fool.

@IG
Simple question. If Arabs love blacks so much, why are there still black slaves in Arab countries to this day?
Remember that the worst enslavements were carried out by Arabs. Why, if there is so much love?

@gadogado
You might be right about the general thrust of amanaonline article. Except for one subtlety; I'm more concerned about a Fulani branch (Toronkawa to which the Caliphate belongs) - not all Fulani. Therefore, your arguments don't hold.

These quotes from Northern sources emphasise the separateness of the Toronkawa from other Fulani and definitely; from the Hausa.

In fact some of them distinguish themselves as a separate entity distinct from other Fulbe thus they became identified as Toronkawa in Nigeria.
According to Wazirin Sakkwato late Shaikh Junaidu who was the leading authority on Sokoto history during his time in his book “Tarihin Fulani” the ancestor of the Toronkawa was Rama son of Esau (refered to Isa in Junaid 1956) who was the son of the Prophet Ishaq (AS), the son of Prophet Ibrahim (AS). They moved from Sinai and settled at Toro in West Africa, where they got their name of Toronkawa (the people of Toro). Uqbat Ibn Naif the great Muslim Leader converted them to Islam and married Bajju Manga the daughter of the Torankawas Chief. They gave birth to four sons, Deita, Woya, Roroba and Nasi. These were the ancestors of the Fulani and were the first to speak Fulfulde language, the language of most of the Toronkawa was Wakore. The Songay descended from Deita, Ba'awina and Wolorbe descended from Nasi, Forbe descended from Woya and Wolobe from Roroba. As these tribes multiplied they moved to Falgo and became distinct from the Toronkawa of Futa Toro (Junaid 1956: pg. 7).

http://www.triumphnewspapers.com/ado7112008.html

One of the earliest traces of Islam in the Sudan was amongst Takrur, the Toorodbe (singular Tooroodo) in Fulfulde, the Torankawa (singular, Ba toranke) in Hausa[5] and Toorobbe or Toucouleur in French for all the Fulfulde speakers who originated from Futa Toro of Senegal [6]. They belong to different tribes and clans[7]. In fact some of them distinguish themselves as a separate entity distinct from other Fulbe or Fulani thus they became identified as Toronkawa in Nigeria . They claim descent from Esau of the Bible. According to Wazirin Sokoto Alhaji Junaidu[8] the ancestor of the Toronkawa was Rama son of Esau[9] who was the son of the Prophet Ishaq (AS), the son of Prophet Ibrahim (AS).

http://www.gamji.com/article3000/NEWS3659.htm

@IG

Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are not official languages. Should they be removed from the Naira then?

They ARE official languages (unfairly, considering that there are 250+ ethnic groups). The main issue we have is the overbearing attitude of the North.
Forget about whether Arabic is alien to Nigeria or if it is a tool of Islamisation, of what use is Arabic on the Naira, if by far the vast majority of Nigerians cannot read it and don't even know if the inscriptions abuse their parents?

The North is the greatest proponent of "one Nigeria", but they are the ones who want to live separately with their own sharia, their own private inscriptions on national currency. Their own everything, while others do the donkey work.

Truth is patience is really running thin. If care isn't taken, we might begin witnessing horrendous riots against Northern attitudes within a couple of years, maybe even less. People are tired, it is a dangerous position the North is taking.

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How much does each of those states generates a month? That should knock out your "thoughts".

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Sharap! He didn't say that.
I was incensed like any other ND person at the very obvious falsehood you put out earlier. Why lie? As soon as you folk her "ND", you crowd in with your lies and hatred.
For your information, Delta state also leads the nation (by a wide margin) in immunisation.

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The Emirs belong to a branch of Fulani called Toronkawa. The North is enslaved to them and they believe that they are descendants of the Esau.
The Toronkawa believe that they are a superior race.

http://www.amanaonline.com/Sokoto/sokoto_2.htm

Quote from the link above;

In character the Fulani are very different people from the Hausas. Where the Hausas are usually tolerant and easy-going, the Fulani tend to be passionate and intense. This basic dissimilarity of temperament is reflected in many differences of outlook.
The Fulani take life more seriously than the Hausas and are less ready to laugh at themselves. They have a greater reverence for learning. They have more highly developed powers of leadership. They throw themselves with more singleness of purpose into the causes which they adopt. They have a superior faith in their own destiny. In short, though not necessarily abler or more intelligent, they have more fire in their bellies than the genial worldly Hausas.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the time had arrived when these qualities would be put to the test