Professor Umar Labdo Muhammad of the Faculty of Humanities, Northwest University, Kano has alleged that Benue State belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest.
The University Don predicated his claim on the fact that half of Benue State is part of the Bauchi Emirate and also half of the Adamawa Emirate.
In a post on his Facebook, Muhammad stressed that by extension, Benue is “part and parcel of Sokoto Caliphate” as such nobody has the right to expel Fulani from the state.
Muhammad also stated that Fulani are the largest single nation in the African continent and they have “remained unbeatable throughout their history.”
The post reads, “Benue State belongs to the Fulani people by right of conquest. This is because half of the state is part of the Bauchi Emirate and the other half is part of the Adamawa Emirate. Benue is therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one has the right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise.
“Second to the Arabs, perhaps the Fulani are the most benevolent and merciful conquerors in history. If they had applied the Nazi final solution to the natives, or if they had treated them the same way the European settlers treated Red Indians in North America or the Aborigines in Australia, the story would have been different toady.
“The Fulani are the largest single nation in West Africa and, perhaps, on the whole continent and they have remained unbeatable throughout their history.
“You can hate the Fulani, you can call them all sort of names, you can blackmail their spineless political leaders, you can conspire to wipe out the entire Fulani leadership in a single day, you can stage a coup and “orkarize” (excise) the core Fulani states from Nigeria, you can hate them to he’ll, but you can never beat them.
“Fulani’s main problem remains their meek, spineless, incompetent leaders that have lost all sense of responsibility and abandoned their people. But this problem, thank God, is not insurmountable.
“The Fulani are capable of changing their leaders: traditional, political, religious and cultural (I mean by cultural those so-called Fulani socio-cultural organizations that eat fat on the Fulani but cannot champion their cause or defend their rights). They have done this in the past and are capable of doing it again.”
jaybenugo: "You Poisoned My Food And Bathing Water For 2 years" - Duncan Mighty Calls Out His Estranged Wife, Vivian
Singer Duncan Mighty has continued to accuse his estranged wife and her family members of making attempts to kill him, IgbereTV reports.
A few months ago, he took to Instagram to allege that his estranged wife Vivien connived with her family members to try to inflict him with an illness through diabolical means just so they can inherit his properties.
He further alleged that he has the "confession" recorded and would release it to the public should she or her family members deny the allegations.
barnawilla: You unschooled generation, its just a narration, meaning no one retain championship forever, there's time for everything under the soon. Time to be born, live and time to die. YOu can be strong today but someday healing will not be needed as old age will take over you. Watch your word.
Mr schooled generation, what have you achieved in the most religious country in the world?
Nothing but a Full blown Narcissistic society.
oyinbo wey give you religion gave you a slavery version of religion.So you continue to fight and die based on lies and falsehood like it happened in Europe in the past.(Islam and christianity akways fighting for land and borders under the pretence of fighting for God).Many great men die this way.
Europeans hardly go to churches these days because they know the truth.
In Ireland 9,000 children deaths were reported in church-run homes,this happened in the 20th century.Gays abound in religious institution than any other organisations,who is fooling who?
Religion places are smokescreen for the criminal underworld and ritual sacrifices.It has nothing to do with God.
Learn about the origins of European xtianity and Arabian Islam.You will see they are two sides of the same coin.They were founded on the principles of genocide,slavery,subjugation and extremist ideology,Cultism(US vs Them).
Karlovic: This thief will always find enticing tales to tell his sheep that will make them part away with their hard earned money so as to fund his flamboyant lifestyle.
God didnt speak to him on how to heal his hero. Naija clerics and beating about the bush.Alfas and Pastors in Nigeria are the blind leading the blind followers,they have no knowledge of scriptures and no God called them.We are all men and women of God because we are all created in God’s image.
Vardanes2: And all those kingdoms were formed by bigger tribes assimilating smaller tribes. They were, in brief, contraptions..and they all were not at peace with each other.
True in European countries like Sweden for example have a majority Swedes and minorities such as Sami,Roma(Gypsies)and Jews.Swedish is the dominant language but the other languages are recognised as minority languages.
capitalzero: Most of the Diasporans here live in Europe; Can you show me one multi-ethnic state in *Europe* where one group is positioned to dominate the rest that hasn't broken up?
For those who may not know, what you call *ethnic groups* in *Nigeria* are called *nations* in *Europe*.
There's nowhere in the world where the *white man* accepts domination from another *white man* in *perpetuity.*
It used to be so under the *Roman* empire and the like. *Not anymore*. The *Communists* tried it, dividing society into capitalists and proletariats, deluding themselves that ethnicity is effectively swept under the carpet, but what followed? The Communist edifices in *Czechoslovakia,* *Yugoslavia,* and the big brother, *USSR,* all collapsed, while the two *Germans* that are ethnically the same but split by *communism* vs *capitalism* were reunited. Such is the power of *ethnic nationalism.*
*Czechoslovakia* was made up of *two ethnic groups*, the *Czechs* and the *Slovakians*. Both separated peacefully on *1st January 1993.* The former is today *10.6 million* people and the latter *5.4 million.* Added together, they're not up to *Lagos*. Yet, they split for *peace.* Two masters can't be in the same house.
*Yugoslavia* in *1991* was *23.2 million*, barely more than *Lagos* population. It broke into *six countries* same year - all along ethnic lines, namely: *Bosnia* and *Herzegovina*, *Croatia,* *Macedonia*, *Montenegro,* *Serbia* , and *Slovenia*.
Then the big brother, *USSR*. It had, at least, the following ethnic groups identified by their languages:
*Regional languages:* *Ukrainian
*Belarusian
*Uzbek
*Kazakh
*Georgian
*Azerbaijani
*Lithuanian
*Moldavian
*Latvian
*Kyrgyz
*Tajik
*Armenian
*Turkmen
*Estonian
*Minority languages:*
*Abkhaz
*Bashkir
*Buryat
*Chechen
*Finnish
*Volga German
*Korean
*Ossetian
*Tatar
&
*various others.
Today, your fingers will not be enough to count the *number of countries* that have emerged from the *USSR.*
Sit down there and be preaching unity in Nigeria as if you're the kindest gentleman on earth while you have no solution to the genocide in *Southern Kaduna,* the illegal but officially condoned arms in the hands of killer herdsmen roaming the country, and be condemning those better informed about the fact that the country is undergoing the strains of a *forced union* and should be *peacefully restructured* or let people go their separate ways.
In *Europe,* the two best examples of fairly stable *multi-ethnic states* are the *UK* and the *Switzerland*. The former is led by reasonable men who permitted regional autonomy to the *Irish*, the *Scots* and the *Welsh*, while the *English* dominate *Westminster*. That's something some of us are asking for, but you're fighting against it in your own country wracked by *ethnic crisis*. Your own people are better off under oppression of fellow black men because your people have bad leaders who can't do better than their new *internal colonisers.*
The latter country, *Switzerland*, has *four ethnic groups*. Each of them *rotates the presidency* through seven cantons that constitute the *federating units*. All the four languages of the four ethnic groups are recognized as official languages and school languages to boot, namely, *German, French, Italian*, and *Romansch* that has just a few thousand speakers!
There's nowhere in the world where the *Caucasians* allow the domination of their group by another.
In *Canada*, *Quebec* is the only full *French-speaking province*, aside a little section of *New Brunswick.* The other *seven provinces* are *English-speaking.* Yet, *Canada* is *bilingual* for the sake of *Quebec*! And each of the provinces is largely *self-governing.*
Here we are in *Nigeria,* you have people arguing vehemently that a *decrepit, structurally-flawed, and crisis-prone artificial contraption* badly configured by the *British* only needs good people to survive. Why not centralise the powers of the *British regions* to *London* and see what happens?
I once believed in Nigeria but not in oppressive contraption saddled with brutality of fellow Nigerians. I think it’s time to ‘let my people go’ or change the status quo of governance."
In precolonial era,we had Oyo empire,Benin kingdom,kanuri kingdom,Nupe kingdom etc before the two face British and france join us together.They copied our system in Europe and gave us their archaic and catastrophic system of chaos and bloodshed.
Beface: Fulani herders are very troublesome in the whole of Africa where their are found, their like harnessing lands that is not originally theirs. The worst part of it is that the Fulani in Nigeria are inviting others neighboring ones to come and harness land in Nigeria. As Colony and Ruga done failed them, those Vagabonds still want collect land by force.
Yorubas should send for all Yorubas across the world to relocate to Yoruba and we must take care of their residence and give them land instead of the fulanis or non Yorubas.Ibos and other tribes should do the same.
Jerryherd: When exactly will you Northerners realise that Nigerian Security apparatus are overwhelmed and you must start taking the options of self defence
Buhari won't save anyone he is a Politician like others
The police are also victims of kidnap by the bandits Police abduction But the climax came last Tuesday when BBC Hausa revealed that 12 assistant superintendents of police deployed from Borno to Zamfara have been abducted by bandits in the northwest. Yes, you read it right: a dozen police officers were kidnapped on duty at once.
The wife of one of the officers told the BBC that her husband had called from the kidnappers’ den and instructed her to sell off their house for ransom payment. She said she knows eight other police families working to raise N800,000 each to pay the abductors. The situation is so ugly that the police can’t even defend themselves even in a convoy.
If 12 senior police officers, with their training, experience and presumably weapons, could be kidnapped on a highway, what more of ordinary Nigerians living in remote villages? Worse still, the captives know very well that their institution is incapable of rescuing them. That is why they asked their families to ransom them.
Amidst of all this, the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, insulted us by asking us to ignore the facts and fall for their propaganda. Responding to criticisms and concerns, including in this newspaper, he claimed that the bandits have been “degraded”.
This is even as they hold a dozen police officers captive! His statement came on the same day 16 people, including the district head of Zangon Kataf were killed in different spots in Kaduna, and, two days earlier, nine French language students of ABU Zaria were abducted on the Kaduna-Abuja road. Dingyadi, who is himself a northerner, said all these attacks are “small” and “normal”, an indication that government isn’t bothered, and we should expect more.
One is left to wonder if the minister’s opinion would’ve been the same if the victims were his family. I would bet my bottom naira that Dingyadi can’t drive from Abuja through Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara to his native Sokoto.
billyG: Most of those Hausa victims that should be farming for food sufficiency will abandon their farms & flee to d south.is this d next level they voted for??
They pay harvest fees for their farms in the North.
akanke79: On a weekly program of BBC Hausa that I was on last night, a father told a story that kept me awake. Bandits in Zamfara asked his brother to “lend” them his daughter for a week or they would destroy the family. They took her to the bush and raped for the period. His isn’t the only family.
He said families in their villages can’t conduct any wedding ceremony until they seek permission from bandits and pay them “marriage fees”. This is happening in a state where the Governor is taking photos with bandits, paying them and quarreling with soldiers to not attack them.
ThatEnuguboi: Get the fvck outa here u biased modafucker, if for anything na Tinubu suppose the do the talking bc he's yoruba and his people are the ones affected so he should voice out, and being in APC is utter nonsense, it should even be an advantage for him or are u saying his party membership is worth more than yoruba blood spilled no wonder fulani places cow above yoruba lives
No wonder your govnrs pay killer herdsmen to co tinue the killings in SE.The North experiences the same thing as the south rape,killings of farmers,take over of their land,kidnappings and maiming of innocent civilians worse than the South.
On a weekly program of BBC Hausa that I was on last night, a father told a story that kept me awake. Bandits in Zamfara asked his brother to “lend” them his daughter for a week or they would destroy the family. They took her to the bush and raped for the period. His isn’t the only family.
He said families in their villages can’t conduct any wedding ceremony until they seek permission from bandits and pay them “marriage fees”. This is happening in a state where the Governor is taking photos with bandits, paying them and quarreling with soldiers to not attack them.
Mysticwebb: Same reason Tinubu is silent. Come to think of it, is Atiku your President? Focus on the President who has power to stop the bloodshed but chose not to.
So why the cry on Tinubu must talk when he is not the president.Atiku is a parrot who always has advise on every APC govt policy.Why the silence on kinsmen atrocities?
inspector1: =Rolexjerry post= If you still support APC even after experiencing how Buhari has dealt with this country, then you must be a very wicked person.
APC as nothing to offer this country as a political party, neither TINUBU. He will reck the whole economy within 6 month. Bullion van CEO
ATIKU MUST COME IN, to rescue this country before it collapse totally. What e
Atiku will take all your money to Dubai and settle his large family from the treasury.
Racoon: Fulani herdsmen terrorists are stronger than Amotekun because they are well armed & got the backing of Bubu. Meanwhile, the SW brought this calamity upon itself by romancing these power mongers from 2015.
Voting for Atiku wouldnt have changed the narrative now either.Have you seen Atiku condemning his killer kinsmen?A fulani is a fulani no matter which party they belong to.