9jahotblog:
what has your clueless otoge governor done in Kwara, I guess he gave you guys appointment niii not knowing that he deceived you guys with lies and propaganda. Infact thousands of Aggrieved APC members are working tirelessly against Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman second term bid. The handwriting is on the wall. Abdul Rahman won’t be returned for his second term bid. Insecurity is at high side in Kwara State, Religious crisis are on high side in his government. No form of federal characters in appointments positions in his government. Abdulrazaq is just looting the treasury. Economical crisis is at high side too. Kwara State is one of the state with huge debts in his tenure. APC has failed woefully in Kwara and new government will be formed in Kwara State in March 18th, 2023. People are tired of APC government in Kwara State. It’s the turn of Kwara North senatorial district to form government in power. Pdp and other parties have done the needful on that. Tinubu the drug baron tun ma lule piii Lekan siii.

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq is the progressive people's governor.

Like Tinubu, he's laying the foundation of a greater Kwara.

The people are solidly behind him.

*We all should be begging Tinubu to be our president*

Why?

Because

1. When Nigeria needs people to get us out of military dictatorship, Tinubu was the vanguard.

2. When Nigeria needs people to get us out of one party system, Tinubu was the vanguard.

3. When Nigeria needs people to bring true federalism to life, Tinubu was the vanguard

4. When Nigeria needs people to build working institutions, Tinubu was the vanguard in Lagos.

5. When Nigeria needs example of creating vision and innovation in governance, Tinubu was the vanguard

6. When Nigeria need people that can identify talent and fix the right people in the right place, giving them the right atmosphere to excel, Tinubu is the vanguard

And when Nigeria needs someone to build a great nation, who should we untrust it to?

See, if not for injustice in the world, even if Tinubu say he's not interested in leading Nigeria, we are supposed to mobilize ourselves to his house everyday and insist he must lead us to greatness.

This is how nations grow and we will not miss this opportunity.

*2023: Kwara Must Change urges political parties to base campaign on truth and empowerment*

_Says political campaigns should be a competition for quality ideas_

Ahead of the 2023 political campaign that is about to begin on 28th September 2022, a leading Pro-democracy group, Kwara Must Change has called on political parties in Nigeria to base their campaign on truth and genuine issues that could intellectually empower the people and build their capacity to be active and responsible citizens.

The group also said that, political campaigns should no longer be about antagonism, but about competition of quality ideas.

In a statement by the Convener of Kwara Must Change, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, the group stated that the era of turning campaigns into battle and pitching one group against the other on the basis of tribe, region or religion should be over.

According to Hamzat, deliberate falsehood, outright misrepresentation and unpatriotic demarketing of the country under the guise of campaign is no longer tolerable, adding that all candidate seeking to lead the country and its component units must be empowering the people through their campaigns.

Hamzat maintained that, Nigerians should be learning more about the country's opportunities and challenges during the campaigns, they should be building better understanding of specific issues such as digital economy, climate change, artificial intelligence, agricultural enterprising etc and not be bombarded with negative rhetorics that strips others of humanity.

While noting that nothing is wrong with criticism and pointing out deficiencies in other candidates, Hamzat insisted that, stripping other people of their human dignity is crossing of the redline and all such attitudes should be avoided ahead of the 2023 election.

Kwara Must Change concluded by wishing all political parties well in their respective campaigns, saying 2023 will be the turning point for Nigeria's greatness.

End

KWHA Candidate, Rukayat Shittu gives out Scholarships, Uniforms, Others to students in Asa LG - Sho pen News

She wrote on Facebook

As part of the extension of our community intervention program and “Catch Them Young Policy” yesterday, the 11th of September 2022 was another remarkable day as I joined stakeholders and progressives people at the end of summer lesson ceremony organized for students around schools within Onikeke unit of Onire District in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State.

The duo of Mallam Abdulateef Gidado Alakawa, and Hajia Risikatullah Mopelola AbduMaliq who are commissioners under the cabinet of His Excellency, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq did a wonderful job at the ceremony.

Also, the APC Chairman in Asa LG, Alhaji Sheu Yahaya, Vice Women leader, Alhaja Dupe Adams, former commissioner for Water resources in Kwara State, Alhaji Ahmed Adebayo, Ward chairmen from Owode Onire constituency, supporters and well wishes from Ilorin west were present at the ceremony and gave their goodwill messages.

The ceremony was meant to celebrate the young champs. Educational materials were given to students and the 20 best participants were awarded scholarships.

The effort is to complement HE, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's policy in enhancing basic education in the State.

The students were excited about the good gestures of the organizers of the summer lesson.

- Rukayat Shittu
APC Candidate, Owode Onire Constituency

https://shopenonline.com/kwha-candidate-rukayat-shittu-gives-out-scholarships-uniforms-others-to-students-in-asa-lg/

Dynasty102:
Imagine this idiot..

Even you will eventually vote for Tinubu, when you get back to your sense

Sergio103:
Orisa?? Sounds terrible to me.

Oh! it means a chosen one.

Education brings you into light

*Tinubu is an Orisa*

Orisa is 2 words joined into 1.

Ori- Head
Sa- Choose

Orisa- Someone the head choose.

The head here means God or the creator.

So, orisa could simply be translated as someone chosen by God, literally saying, the chosen one.

The primary election, ahead of the 2023 general election came out with some surprising outcome.

At the national level in APC, the number 2 (Osinbajo) and number 3 (Lawal) men were contesting for the number 1 position.

Both men enjoyed tacit support from those usually refered to as cabal, even though they can't show their face.

Several sitting governors and serving ministers were also in the contest.

But some how, a man (Tinubu), who left govt as governor about 15 years ago, without active support from number 1 or those around him, I dare say with hostile party chairman, who allegedly made last minute proclamation that another aspirant had been anointed, suddenly was able to mobilize enough support to emerge as presidential candidate.

Isn't that the most interesting event of modern democracy?

To diminish the accomplishment of the candidate, some said he bought his victory. I don't know how true that was.

But, just few days before his victory, he declared before the world, without anyone countering him, that since he worked for the emergence of the current administration about 8 years ago, he never took anything from the govt in terms of patronage or from those who benefited from the govt.

He said, I never took a contract, appointment, nor beg anyone for anything. And prior to 2015, he has always been in the opposition.

This means that, those in govt, may have had more access to funds than him and they could have spent more money than him.

It goes to say that, the attempted diminishing of his victory by those who lost out, through unsubstantiated claims that he bought his victory was not only unreasonable, it is also unjustifiable.

What this man achieved is nothing short of a miracle. Only those regarded as orisa's (special one's) can achieve something like this in my own opinion.

I have not had time to fully dissect this issue, but I think *Tinubu is an orisa*

Abdulrazaq Hamzat

We are watching already

Forensic Audit:
*Kwara Must Change urges govt to charge all indicted individuals to court immediately*

_Says prosecution, not indictment will deliver justice_

A leading Pro-democracy group, Kwara Must Change has urged the Kwara State government to charge all those indicted in the recently submitted forensic audit to court, so that they can have fair opportunity to respond to specific allegations leveled against them in the damning report.

Kwara Must Change also said that, the indictment of various individuals in the report will amount to nothing, if they are not charged to court immediately.

In a statement by the Convener of Kwara Must Change, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, the group explained that, the engagement of forensic auditors to investigate various allegations leveled against officials of the past administration by different committee's set up by government is an indication that the Kwara State government is not on witch hunting mission.

According to Hamzat, several committee's set up by the Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman led administration has indicted several individuals in the past administration, but instead of acting solely on the indictment of those committee's, the government choose to delay action, subjecting it's own committee's indictment to further forensic audit, so as to ensure that no one is being indicted without any evidence or out of sheer dislike or malice.

"Since 2019, immediately after the otoge administration came on board, many have called on the government to prosecute officials of past government indicted in various reports, but for reasons best known to them which is now glaring to all, they choose to subject those reports to forensic audit to ensure no one is being wrongly alleged"

Hamzat maintained that, the government willingness to wait for independent forensic audit, after several of its own committee's had indicted the past administration is a progressive virtue, which should be applauded.

Speaking on the forensic audit report, Kwara Must Change is of the view that, government no longer have any excuse to delay prosecution and it urged government to charge the concerned individuals to court with immediate effect.

"Now that the forensic audit is out, giving details of the various allegations, it is now time for the government to charge those indicted to court without any delay". Hamzat said.

God1000:
He's an unstable man, he behaves so weird sometimes, I started disliking him since the day he announced his support for Donald trump.

So many african americans don't like him, I think he has mental problem

He's a genius. I love him more, since he declared support for Trump, without minding the opinion of others

Jennifer663:
Such a nice post .

Most people are not interested in posts like this actually

Former Presidential Candidate, Mr Gbenga Olawepo Hashim writes about the debt the world owes Niger Delta.

*THE DEBT THE WORLD OWES THE NIGER DELTA*

The oil palm war in Nigeria written by ace blogger and peace advocate, Hamzat Abdulrazaq reminds us of the debt the whole world owes the region called the "Niger Delta" today.

Palm oil nut was first native to this area before it was taken abroad, and in the 19th century, provided the lubricants for the industrial machines of United Kingdom and most European countries. By the late 1800's, palm nut/oil became dominant in the trade between the region and Europe.

"Trade" in those days, were not as normal people understood it. The Europeans wanted and dictated the terms, their desire was to control, leading to battles with local chiefs such as Jaja of Opobo and Koko in Nembe. The dreaded British Navy invaded the region on January 20 1895, burning down Brass, at a period, when the invasion of Benin was also accomplished.

When we talk about the fact that Niger Delta provided the Energy for Europe and America as some middle Eastern countries started doing in the 1940's and 50's, for the Niger Delta the story started over one and half century earlier with palm oil.

Incontrovertibly, the story of the rise of Europe as an industrial power is incomplete without the story of the "black oil" from the Niger Delta. Between the late 19th century and early period of the second half of the 20th century, the Niger Delta was the foremost producer and exporter of the palm product.

Today, Nigeria hardly accounts for any significant production in palm oil. According to the National President of the Oil Palm Producers Association (OPGAN), Chief Joe Onyuike, Nigeria imports 80% of her current need and requires investment of about 500m USD to bridge the gap.

Over the centuries, about 40 industries utilise the palm nut oil as raw materials. They include Soap, Magarine, Chocolate, tooth paste etc. Yet, it was from the Niger Delta that the first seedlings of this important crop traveled to the world. Next time, when you see the thriving fourty industries associated with the "black oil", remember the sweat and the blood of the Niger Delta people, as well as the historic contribution of their land.

As it was with Palm oil, so also it was with cocoa from the South West, and the hide and skin of Northern Nigeria and the cotton. Nigeria and indeed Africa made enormous unpaid for, and unacknowledged contributions to the wealth of the world.

Turning to the mass production of those things that made us more relevant some two centuries ago, and using them to feed the associated industries at home in Nigeria, holds the key to our industrialization and sustainable employment.

*Gbenga Olawepo Hashim*

My tour around Niger Delta

In the past 2 months, I have moved from Portharcourt in Rivers State, to Yanagoa in Bayelsa, to Warri in Delta State and Benin in Edo State.

All these movements were done by road.

Just like me, thousands of vehicles are moving in and out of these places every day unharmed.

But if we go by media reports or narratives on social media, nobody should even contemplate going close to some of these places.

Ofcourse, we can not downplay the existence of insecurity in the country, but there's difference between the real insecurity on ground and media created insecurity.

The sensational narrative on the media is not even aimed at helping the real situation, it is rather aggravating it.

Let's do better

*The Oil Palm War in Nigeria*

By Abdulrazaq Hamzat

Prior to the discovery of crude oil, Nigeria is the home of the black oil, now known as the oil palm.

In the 19th century, shortly after the end of slavery, a part of Nigeria, now known as Niger Delta was identified as the origin of oil palm and its people were killed in their thousands by the British invaders, just to have access to the black oil.

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in a small part of the area that eventually became Nigeria.

Historically, all through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery.

During Britain's industrial revolution, the country needed resources such as palm oil to maintain their industries and from their slave trade experience and dealing with a part of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, they are aware that palm oil is a native business in the area.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta.

Malaysia’s dominance in the oil palm industry came a century later, after the seed was transported to other parts of the world.

Because of increasing global demand, by 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast.

At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals.

Native chiefs such as former Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade.

In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River.

By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference.

The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs.

Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers.

Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them.

So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company.

One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment.

He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets.

In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade.

This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused.

A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun.

Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed.

On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners.

After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town.

The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899.

Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today).

As a result of the instability in the region, Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia where the oil palm fruit had been planted became the new destination for oil palm and soon after, they became leading producer of the black oil, until the mid 1940's, when Nigeria reclaimed it's leading status after moving beyond the oil palm grove, to Oil Palm plantation, with improved seeds.

Nigeria Institute for Oil Palm Research (Nifor), established in 1938 was responsible for this improved seeds.

Nigeria maintained it's leading status from 1940's until the outbreak of civil war between 1966-1970, when the oil palm business was disrupted and many plantation destroyed.

Malaysia overtook Nigeria as leading producer in the 80's until Indonesia took over them in the mid 2000's.

Today, Nigeria is the 5th highest producer of oil palm in the world, after Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Colombia.

Although, Nigeria's production is less than 20% of its consumption.

This means that, Nigeria imports more than 80% of the oil palm it consumes annually.

*Abdulrazaq Hamzat can be reached at discus4now@gmail.com*

Change must begin with you

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*Where did British colonial loot go?*

As at 1938, during the end of colonialism in India, British loot in India was pegged at minimum of $45trillion.

$45trillion loot, just in one country.

But how many countries did Britain colonized and looted from?

90.

If British looted $45trillion in just one, out of the 90 countries it colonized, can we really place a value on the economic value of British loot during the colonial era?

That's not the focus of this piece.

What is Britain's GDP today, 75years after looting $45trillion from 1 of the 90 countries it colonized?

According to 2020 data, Britain has $2.7trillion GDP.

If you calculate it properly, Britain's current GDP is 1/17 of the countries loot from India.

The question one would then like to ask is that, where did Britain loot go?

Abdulrazaq Hamzat

Jesuisbelle:
My great grandmother made it to 108. My dad's family all planned a surprise birthday party for her 108th. There were so many people there. She was found in her room the next morning. Passed peacefully in her sleep.

Wow.

May her soul rest in peace

Do you know anyone above 100 years? Share their pictures, name, location and age so that we can celebrate them.
#Over100

*Why Labor Party got lost in Osun*

In Osun election, ADP came 3rd with over 10k votes. Another party simply known as A came 4th with over 4k votes.

PRP came 5th with over 2k votes.

Labor Party's position is lost amongst the rest.

Many people on this platform don't even know about the existence of the above mentioned parties.

Nobody dey give the parties hype on social media, but still, they have more votes than the online noise makers.

Actually, ADP had more than 5 times, what Labor Party has.

This is what often happens due to structure.

In 2018, ADP actually had more than 40,000 votes in the governorship election. They built a pretty rooted structure due to the capacity of their then governorship candidate.

This time around, the structure could not be sustained by the party, but they still manage to have over 10,000 votes, despite limited publicity.

If you still don't know what a structure is, na you know.