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Politics / Re: American Blasts Nigerian Uber Driver For Hating On Trump, Calls Nigeria “trash” by DerideGull(m): 7:41am On Oct 05, 2020
Jdbrasco2:
Biden even said that he doesn't want black people to attend same school with his kids. Stop claiming ignorance, just google Trump and Biden and find out who is a racist. Forget what American media are spinning. Trump love blacks from long time ago, he promoted so many black people like Michael Jackson, Tyson, Alsharpton, etc. Be wise

Does the jackass you responded with the above post ever open a book other than listen to crap spewed by airheads on CNN and MSNBC?

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Politics / Re: American Blasts Nigerian Uber Driver For Hating On Trump, Calls Nigeria “trash” by DerideGull(m): 7:14am On Oct 05, 2020
Kennyswag:
Africans are fools na.. grin grin grin grin grin
All the so called blacks in the Americas hate africans, but foolish africans go carry their matter for head..
Fools once again grin grin grin

The bolded compelled me to agree on the fact that most Africans are basement fools.
Politics / Re: Opinion: How Do We Move This Country Forward? by DerideGull(m): 7:01am On Oct 05, 2020
Bigmanpickin:
Have we tried?

Of course, Nigerians have tried for 60 good years. I had rather raise a child than to repair a broken adult at 60 years old.
Politics / Re: American Blasts Nigerian Uber Driver For Hating On Trump, Calls Nigeria “trash” by DerideGull(m): 6:53am On Oct 05, 2020
It is funny how a misnomer, racism, becomes a political weapon for the dumbass liberals in USA. Racism does not exist. The earth has only one race and it is human race. The day the foolish "Blacks" stop voting for Democratic Party, the liberals and their useless lame media will stop propagating the seeds of "Black and White:.
Politics / Re: American Blasts Nigerian Uber Driver For Hating On Trump, Calls Nigeria “trash” by DerideGull(m): 6:18am On Oct 05, 2020
Ogbuu101:

By igniting and escalating wars on several fronts.
In Syria,Libya,etc

He supported Boko Haram.
Foreign Affairs / Re: President Trump Pays Surprise Visit To Supporters Outside Hospital. by DerideGull(m): 6:13am On Oct 05, 2020
vioment:
This guy is supposed to be a current African President, he values personal wealth and ego like them.

He is such a leadership disgrace to a great place like the USA.

It above crap can only come from deluded ninny submerged in unintellectual scheme of racism. By the way, racism does not exist.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: President Trump Pays Surprise Visit To Supporters Outside Hospital. by DerideGull(m): 6:09am On Oct 05, 2020
Judolisco:
Trump wish u quick recovery.. The hate dis man get is jst 2 much from the first day in office people protested in their numbers... Trump na strong man o... A lot of people died around the world due to Coronavirus not just Americans it's a disgrace they are playing politics with it..

Political liberals are the most idiotic, vicious and hateful human beings on earth. It is their way or no way, at all. They are communists who hopelessly found themselves in a democratic settings. They are leper which is only good at destruction but build.

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Politics / Re: Dissolution Is Not The Panacae To Nigeria's Woes. by DerideGull(m): 12:06pm On Oct 04, 2020
helinues:
Dissolution is a younger brother to restructuring..

We could start from dissolution before moving to full restructuring

Your stream of thought is always skewed. Who needs restructure when dissolution has been achieved?
Politics / Re: IBB Owns UBA - Kemi Olunloyo by DerideGull(m): 11:54am On Oct 04, 2020
IBB is written all over Mrs. Alakija, the so-called richest woman in Africa.

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Politics / Re: Chinese Man: "African Men Are Lazy And Can't Adapt To Modern Ideas" by DerideGull(m): 11:46am On Oct 04, 2020
jesmond3945:
is Europe developed? How many new buildings have been constructed in uk? What I see is 18th century styled buildings.

Only dumb fool rates development through the prism of concretes and steels. Europe is highly developed in every bit of the word, develop.
Politics / Re: Chinese Man: "African Men Are Lazy And Can't Adapt To Modern Ideas" by DerideGull(m): 11:43am On Oct 04, 2020
joyandfaith:


tribalist should not complain of racism.

You could not be more correct with the above post.
Politics / Re: Few Pics From Imo State by DerideGull(m): 11:12am On Oct 04, 2020
sanctity454:


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Nigeria: A New Refinery in the Horizon
editorSeptember 22, 2020 1:00 Am
Chineme Okafor, tracks the progress of work at Waltersmith’s first phase refinery project and reports that all things being equal Nigeria could get its first structured modular refinery in place and working next month


In 1965, Nigeria built its first refinery at Alesa Eleme in Port Harcourt; the plant had an initial production capacity of 38,000 barrels a day (bd) which was later expanded to 60,000bd. With this, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which ran it tried to meet the country’s domestic demand for refined petroleum products, however, it could not and had to set up another in Warri in 1979 with a 100,000bd production capacity.

Two more – the Kaduna refinery and a second in Eleme, were subsequently built by the NNPC within the 1980s to bring Nigeria’s oil refining capacity to 445,000bd which adequately met her domestic demands for refined products at the time, and even portions exported.


From the 1990s however, outputs from the country’s four refineries became insufficient for her growing population such that the NNPC resorted to importing petroleum products to augment. Buoyed by corrupt practices in the running of the refineries, poor maintenance and incompetent management routines, the preference for imported refined oil then ensured that the production capacities of the refineries declined further with the years.

With such rather unhealthy business fundamentals, investments in new refineries – modular or monolithic, became rare in Nigeria, and this was despite business experts’ conviction that the country has a healthy market prospect for refined petroleum products.


Plugging into the demand, opportunity

Based on such convictions, and to equally change the ugly narrative of an oil producing country heavily trusting on imported petrol to run its domestic economy, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) issued permits for construction of new refineries; as at 2018, the DPR in this regard issued about 47 new licenses for private refineries. Collectively, the licences had circa 101 million barrels production capacity.

Out of the 47, some have achieved considerable milestones in their development, while others have equally failed to move the needle further – the licenses of 17 in this category have also been cancelled by the DPR. But amongst those that have made significant progress in the refinery endeavour is Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical Company whose first phase 5000bd capacity refinery is apparently due for commissioning in the first weeks of October.


THISDAY from its tracking of the project’s trajectory learnt from a recent report presented to a visiting team which included the Governor of Imo state, Mr. Hope Uzodimma, the Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed and Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote, that the soon-to-be commissioned first phase will deliver about 271 million liters of refined petroleum products comprising diesel, kerosene, heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) and naphtha per annum.

With these, the refinery will produce and supply more diesel and kerosene into Nigeria’s domestic petroleum products market, subsequently cutting down the volumes imported, as well as HFO which are mostly used as marine transportation fuel and naphtha used amongst others as paint thinner and feedstock for manufacturing plastics.


“The 5,000bopd phase one refinery was to be commissioned in Q2 2020, at which time it had progressed to 98 per cent completion but was delayed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

“Commissioning is now planned for late September/early October 2020 and the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was invited with other dignitaries for a pre-commissioning tour of the refinery on Tuesday the 15th of September 2020. The phase one of this refinery will deliver about 271 million litres of refined petroleum products – diesel, kerosene, Heavy Fuel Oil-HFO and naphtha per annum,” said a statement obtained from the project financiers on the status of works.


It further explained that the refinery which has a second phase is a joint venture between Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited, a Nigerian energy company and the NCDMB on a 70 and 30 per cent equity shares distribution. This means that the federal government has a 30 per cent share in the endeavour.

In its account of how the project moved from the paper to the site, the firm said that it, “carried out a feasibility study for modular refining in support of the federal government of Nigeria’s aspiration and with the proximity of many producing oil, gas and condensate fields in the Ibigwe hub. By 2018, Final Investment Decision (FID) had been taken and in October 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony was done, effectively kicking off the construction phase in November 2018.”


According to it, the first phase of the modular refinery targeted 5,000bpd of own operated crude oil as feedstock, with alternative sources from the over 7,000bpd NNPC/SEPLAT OML-53 joint venture Ohaji South production field which is processed at Waltersmith’s Ibigwe flow station.

“Negotiations on crude sales and purchase agreements are at an advanced stage with both SEPLAT and NNPC,” it added.

Beyond the first phase

In addition to the planned commissioning of the first phase of its refinery, Waltersmith noted that it has gone ahead with works on the second phase, and other energy-security related projects earmarked in its investment portfolio.


Amongst these are a 25,000bpd phase two condensate refinery and 20,000bpd phase three crude oil refinery, a 300 megawatts (MW) gas power generation company (Genco), as well as a 500-hectare industrial and innovation park in partnership with the Nigerian government, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The park, it added will support economical energy-related production endeavours.

“With the exceptional planning and execution of this first Phase of the refinery, Waltersmith initiated the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the 25,000bpd phase two condensate refinery and the 20,000bpd phase three oil refinery to maximise feedstock from the nearby ANOH Gas Plant Company (AGPC) and some additional commercial discussions were progressed on some nearby oil and gas assets, with the investments proposed by Waltersmith to develop the oil assets to be used as feedstock for the 20,000bpd refinery and the gas assets for the 300MW gas power plant, both enormously strategic to the domestic energy security strategy of Waltersmith and aspirations of the federal government of Nigeria.


“These commercial discussions on both the condensate feedstock, the crude oil and gas developments strategies are currently ongoing and Waltersmith has approached NNPC for its support in making this a reality,” it stated.

Further, it said: “The 25,000bpd phase two condensate refinery FEED was completed in Q1-2020, feasibility study in Q2-2020 and the EPC contracting process has been initiated with Final Investment Decision (FID) planned for Q4-2020 and delivery by Q4 2022.

“The ground-breaking ceremony will be done in conjunction with the commissioning of the 5,000bpd phase one refinery in September/October 2020. When completed the phase two will deliver about 1.4 billion liters per year of refined petroleum products – Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), diesel, kerosene, aviation jet fuel and HFO, in addition to the 271 million litres from the phase one.”


The firm explained that the overall impact of these investments will be huge, adding that, “current estimates of direct and indirect job creation in this industrial hub during the planning, design, construction and commissioning phases will exponentially grow from an estimate of over 500 jobs in 2020 to over 18,000 jobs by the commissioning of the industrial complex in about 2025.”

“This will then be followed by an even greater exponential growth in job creation when the manufacturing, commercial, residential and technology innovation hubs go into operation post 2025,” it stated while confirming that regulatory licence for the 300MW power Genco has been granted it by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).


Local communities not left out

To ensure that its plans and investments do not get wrecked by conflicts of interests associated with host communities, Waltersmith, indicated that it has taken along its host and access communities on the journey, with up to N1 billion earmarked for community welfare-related projects over the next 10 years.

Regular contracts, it explained will also be extended to local suppliers and vendors to guarantee shared prosperity from its operations within the area.


“Of note is the massive impact this will have on the growth of the host, access and other communities in this area, including the job opportunities both in skilled, unskilled and community contracts this will generate.

“Building on Waltersmith’s highly successful community engagement strategy, which has secured license to operate for over a decade, over N1 billion will be committed to community projects in line with the existing 2019 to 2024 GMOU.

“In addition, Waltersmith is committed to the N460 million ISOPADEC Ohaji/Egbema electrification project to which it has agreed to contribute 50 per cent and technical advice, as required, and has already paid a substantial part of this pledge. We are also expanding our technical skills acquisition program to train an initial crop of 80 graduates from the community to become highly skilled professionals,” it stated.

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A person cannot learn anything tangible from current Nigerian writers. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) could not have run show in 1965. I could not continue to read after Eleme refinery in 1965 and NNPC which operated the it.

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Politics / Re: Few Pics From Imo State by DerideGull(m): 10:58am On Oct 04, 2020
Abagworo:


Continue deceiving yourself. Rochas foundation is not Okorocha's business but an organization he has interest. Being a Governor doesn't stop one from donating to a charity organization nor an organization he has interest from existing.

The above crap is the same silly sickness which afflicts most people from Africa. If Okoroawusa donates anything to Rochas foundation while he is governor, he violated the law against conflict of interest. He may donate to other charity organizations not the one affiliated to him directly or indirectly.

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Politics / Re: Femi Fani-Kayode: I Caught My Wife In Bed With A Married Man by DerideGull(m): 10:33am On Oct 04, 2020
admiral450:
even has wealthy and influential Chief Fani kayode his, his wife still cheat on him ! this life no balance & this is why marriage scared some of us thou ! African woman has no loyalty

Fuvk can surprise you big time!!!!
Politics / Re: This Why It Will Be Hard For Nigeria To Divide by DerideGull(m): 10:02am On Oct 04, 2020
AlexBells:

You don't get European politics, do you think whites don't respect agreement like we blacks, in case you had forgotten, the scramble for Africa is still very much in effect, have you ever seen any France official make any remarks on Nigeria, it is not like Nigeria is a British enclave in the light you are seeing it but in Europe, Britain has the say when it comes to relationship with Nigeria, if France Dares, then Britain would also interfere In the affairs of francophone countries, respect me I respect you, that's Europe

The bolded indicates you are a pawn of globalists. It is very unintellectual to refer humans as "white or black". The earth I know is inhabited by ONE race and it is human race. You could do yourself good by being fundamentally educated. It is a shame the act of enjoying the free air by Africans depended on the free will of Europeans and Americans. What a lost course.
Politics / Re: This Why It Will Be Hard For Nigeria To Divide by DerideGull(m): 9:54am On Oct 04, 2020
AlexBells:
I do know that Nigeria is not dividing anytime soon, not because the people in Nigeria don't want her to divide but mostly because the people out of Nigeria won't want her to divide.

The rest of the international community wouldn't want Nigeria to divide, maybe Republican wing of American politicking may fancy it a bit but from UK, to Russia, to China while they all want Nigeria intact, US may remain neutral, but the majority of American interests would be in a single Nigeria.

That's why Nigeria can not divide, the rest of the countries like Germany, Spain, Japan, Isreal, Saudi etc are not power brokers and their interest won't matter much, France can't have a say here and they better stay out, as this is a UK enclave, so every reasonable oversea power want Nigeria intact.

If the bolded did not want Nigeria to dismember it is solely on their economic interest not Nigerian interest. It took bold stance of Donald Trump to slightly shake off many countries which have been on free lunch at USA. I do not care whose interest the division of the shithole called Nigeria disrupts. I simply want unconditional disintegration. If the disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria would engender the end of Igbo land, I say so be it. I sue for Republic of Igbo land.
Politics / Re: Dissolution Is Not The Panacae To Nigeria's Woes. by DerideGull(m): 7:58am On Oct 04, 2020
VaselineCrew:


Guy, I truly don't get how Nigerians continue to defend their slave masters.

It's almost like non of them know history.

The British came in with guns and Nigeria was formed, yet same "Nigerians", will kill and bleed to defend the British creation.


Some straits of stupidity which seemed to run wild in Africa are visible on most Nigerians.

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Politics / Re: Akwa Ibom State At 33 (Photos, Video) by DerideGull(m): 7:38am On Oct 04, 2020
Uchasa:



Claiming Rivers
I'm done with you coz you're talking offpoint
I'm a true Iwuruonha son and I have the right to pursue you guys away from our lands any day from now,we only have one thing in common and that's Niger Delta...since you guys claim to be very developed,leave PHC and Ali Ikwerre and go back to your "developed" lands,we don't need midget traitors!!

No wonder you have written liked a dumbass dingbat. There is nothing such as Iwuruonha. It was Ihuoha as spineless folks tried to change it into a meaningless crap. It was not Ikwerre either. Please do not flaunt your ignorance in the public. You should know your self before insulting others.

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Politics / Re: Akwa Ibom State At 33 (Photos, Video) by DerideGull(m): 7:29am On Oct 04, 2020
Uchasa:



You just shot yourself on the foot!

80% of Ashawos in Port Harcourt are Ibibios and Annangs,you guys are known to be very sexually active and promiscuous...My friend who lives in Choba told me about his escapades with your sisters who open their stupid Toto for as little as 2k...do not even enter into ashawo, because na una be Lord for that!

You just a door. In all instances of silly posts, you have never researched or experienced anything. It is either one goofy elder in your communality or friend in Choba told you one idiotic tale. You need to grow up or shut the hell up.

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Politics / Re: Third Term Agenda: How We Stopped Lawmakers From Collecting ₦50m Bribe – Osoba by DerideGull(m): 7:15am On Oct 04, 2020
It is funny that a former governor in Yoruba land cannot understand that Obasanjo's agenda for third term got nothing to do with agitation for Oduduwa Republic.
Politics / Re: Femi Fani-Kayode: I Caught My Wife In Bed With A Married Man by DerideGull(m): 6:53am On Oct 04, 2020
Iyoocartel:
Iyooooooo cartel

Most of these beauty queens are empty headed piece of crap, i pity men who wife beauty queens and actresses.
She just joined the league of her other colleagues like Christabel ijeoma,dabota Lawson,Tonto dikeh, toyin lawani, mercy aigbe, toke Mankinwa and the newly recruit cha cha ike. They only get married because of the Marriage tag,after giving birth to kid(s), they go about jumping from dick to dick and kick for divorce or separation, before you know it they start posting videos and posts of false domestic abuse all over Instagram and Twitter making their ex husband seem like the bad person just to draw sympathy to their side.
Few weeks from now she will be celebrating a new house in lekki or banana Island or a range rover ride.
These set of people belongs to the streets. Just login and logout and pass own the liability to the next unlucky guys on the queue

Blame the bolded on the liberal wings of the society including the lily-livered so-called men who talk about wife abuse.
Politics / Re: Dissolution Is Not The Panacae To Nigeria's Woes. by DerideGull(m): 6:36am On Oct 04, 2020
Dissolution of Nigeria shall be a glory to emerged nation states. Most countries that emerged from the dissolution of USSR have found unity, peace and progress. Nigeria is a natural dead end. The earlier the disintegration of the shithole called Nigeria the better for Republic of Igbo land.

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Politics / Re: Chinese Man: "African Men Are Lazy And Can't Adapt To Modern Ideas" by DerideGull(m): 6:28am On Oct 04, 2020
solmus:



A typical Trump supporter has inferiority complex and self hate for his own kind so I excuse you


If 9 out of ten African men are incompetent and lazy as you say then you just described yourself, your family and your tribe just to please Europeans and white supremacist

And for you genuine information almost 60% raw materials for almost all industries come from this hardworking African men, most of America's monuments and European infrastructure came from this African men..

Just because of white supremacist global suppression they fool themselves


..

Shut up your putrid loud mouth. The support for Trump has nothing to do with inherent laziness found among Africans. It is jackasses who claimed to be "Black" suffer from inferiority complex. Africans are bunch fools who cry "racism" when the Europeans refused to allow them to enjoy the fruits of Europeans' labor. Why globalism when dunces from Africa have no originality to contribute? Actually globalism is a modern form of colonization.

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Politics / Re: Only Alaafin & Obong Have Constitutional Power To Call For Nig. Dissolution by DerideGull(m): 1:00pm On Oct 02, 2020
Freegift75:
DISSOLUTION OF NIGERIA: ONLY "ALAAFIN OF OYO" AND "OBONG OF CALABAR" CONSTITUTIONALLY EMPOWERED TO LEAD THE STRUGGLE OF SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE!

It is really common sense to understand that you cannot CALL for dissolution of what you were never Part of its signatories!

The proclaimed Leader of the Oduduwa Independence struggle, Prof. Banji needs to seek the support of the foremost Monarch, Alaafin of Oyo to agree on the paradigm shift in the existence of agreement signed by his Ancestor.

Then, Alaafin will link OBONG of Calabar with the support of other Oodua OBAs and Constitutional Lawyers in Oodua Land to seek the review of documents purportedly signed on behalf of Southern Indigenous People of Nigeria.

,'Alaafin of Oyo' coordinated all Oodua OBAs and Constitutional Lawyers within Southern-Western Area; While 'OBONG of Calabar' coordinated that of Southern-Eastern Region Royal father's and Constitutional Lawyers in the Area!

In the struggle for the dissolusion, anything fall short of the above propositions may likely spell doom, which will turned to horrible scenario and pitiable efforts on the Part of Independence Campaigners and innocent Southerners.

Suffice to recall that only 6 Nigerians signed the Amalgamation Document In 1914; they are

1.HRH Maiturare Sarkin Mussulumi and Sultan of Sokoto

2. Usuman Dan Maje who later became Emir of Kano

3. Sir Kitoyi Ajasa (lawyer)

4. HIM Oladigbolu Alaafin of Oyo

5. HRH R Henshaw (Obong of Calabar)

6. Abubakar Shehu of Borno

VENUE: Zungeru, Niger State (The Capital of the British Protectorate of Northern Nigeria 1902 - 1916

ATTENDEES
Total: 28
22 British
6 Nigerians

In view of the law, the people who signed the document are the only ones who are constitutionally empowered to call for the dissolusion.

If the agitators realky mean the business, they should do the needful legally

The above crap which was staged for amalgamation ceased to exist moment the real estate gained independence and later attained the height of republic in 1963. The inhabitants of Nigeria do not need to seek anybody to disintegrate the shithole called Nigeria. Good you uncovered a historical fact.

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Politics / Re: How Fulani Jihadists Created The Largest City In West Africa by DerideGull(m): 12:41pm On Oct 02, 2020
ImadeUReadThis:


Even their name yoruba was given to them by Huasa Fulanis

You could not be more correct with the above post. Yoruba were the second fiddle to Fulani during the migration. Nomadic Fulani who journeyed to northern part of the real state which later became Nigeria knew the exert place the Yoruba joined the march.
Politics / Re: How Fulani Jihadists Created The Largest City In West Africa by DerideGull(m): 12:33pm On Oct 02, 2020
12Monkeys:


BishopMagic:

How Yoruba Muslims Sacked Old Oyo And Will Do Same For All Odua

Ilorin was a small town in the Oyo Empire by the beginning of the 19th century. Afonja, Baale of Ilorin, who also held the title of Are Ona Kakanfo of the Oyo Empire, rebelled against his king, the Alafin of Oyo, in 1817. (There is no space here for the reasons for his rebellion). In order to sustain his rebellion, he was desperate to build a large and powerful army. To that end, he did a number of desperate things.

First, he invited the people of nearby villages to move to Ilorin and turn Ilorin into a large town. Many people so moved, but most refused.

Secondly, he reached out to many prominent friends all over the Oyo country, and invited them to come and live in Ilorin. Some accepted his invitation and came. Among these was a rich trader named Solagberu from Kuwo. Another was a man named Alimi, a Fulani man who had long lived in the Oyo country peddling charms from town to town. Afonja employed Alimi to make charms for him and his army.

Thirdly, Afonja decided to exploit a religious situation that was causing trouble in the country at the time. A Jihad movement had started in Hausaland in the north in 1804, generating wars and stormy Islamic evangelism there. It was started and led by an immigrant people called Fulani. The Fulani immigrants were few among the large Hausa nation, but very many of the Hausa who were already Muslims sided with the Fulani – and thus made it possible for the Fulani to defeat the ancient Hausa kings and make themselves rulers over Hausaland.

Some of the violent Jihadist preachers trickled south into the Oyo country. Everywhere they came, they were causing a lot of commotion by preaching violent and disrespectful sermons against the Oyo kings and chiefs, and against Yoruba culture in general. Yoruba people, with their tradition of religious tolerance, were alarmed; and angry crowds began to attack the preachers. Afonja decided to exploit the situation by issuing a general invitation to the Muslims to flee to him in Ilorin, promising to give them protection there. Thousands of frightened Muslims fled to Ilorin, and Afonja trained many of them for his army. (Afonja himself did not intend to convert to Islam, and he never did).

Fourthly, most rich Oyo families had Hausa, Nupe and Fulani slaves - used mostly in farming, trading, livestock rearing, etc. Most were Muslims.

Afonja decided to exploit this also. He issued a proclamation saying that if any slaves ran away from their owners and came to him in Ilorin, he would give them freedom and protection there. Large numbers of slaves, mostly Hausa, fled to Afonja, and he trained some of them for his army.

Afonja thus had his large town and large army. Most of his army’s commanders and soldiers were Oyo Muslims. A few of the soldiers were Muslim Hausa – all slaves recently set free by Afonja. But many of his Hausa soldiers were unruly. He warned or threatened them repeatedly, but with no result. When he at last decided to discipline them, they mutinied. Afonja was killed in the mutiny - in 1823.

Meanwhile, while Alimi had been making charms for the army, he had become a friend to many of the Oyo commanders who were Muslims, and these hadmade him Imam (Islamic teacher and preacher) for the Muslim community in the army. After Afonja›s death, the same friends gradually made their Imam the ruler of Ilorin. They also created some officers among the Hausa soldiers - for instance, Balogun Gambari. The powerful men doing all these things were Oyo.

That then is how Oyo people made a Fulani man the ruler of Ilorin. When Alimi died, his elder son, Abdulsalam, was elevated to his father’s position by his father›s powerful Oyo Muslim friends. Adulsalam had lived in the Jihad in Hausaland and had only recently come to live with his father in Ilorin. He knew that the Jihad had made the Fulani the rulers of Ilorin - with a Fulani Sultanate based in Sokoto and quasi-independent Fulani Emirs in the separate Hausa kingdoms. So, after he was made ruler of Ilorin, he sent to Hausaland to announce that he had established an Emirate in Ilorin and to ask that his Emirate should be accepted as part of the Fulani Sultanate.

In this way, Ilorin became a Fulani Emirate, ruled by a Fulani family.

Ilorin was, in population, still an Oyo town - probably over 95% Oyo in population. And Ilorin was never conquered or even invaded by any Fulani army. Those influential Oyo men who made Alimi and his son the rulers of Ilorin did so out of fervour for their Islamic faith.

When the news of the happenings in Ilorin spread all over the Oyo country, people were shocked to hear that Ilorin people had made the family of an obscure Fulani charm peddler their rulers. Therefore, people formed armies to go and subdue Ilorin and flush out the Fulani impostors. None of these invasions of Ilorin succeeded. The invading armies were poorly organized, and, moreover, the old Afonja army defending Ilorin was just too powerful. In fact, in the end, the Ilorin people, in order to ensure perfect protection for their fervently Muslim town, decided to go out and conquer most of Yorubaland (all the way to the sea coast), and make all of it a Muslim empire ruled from Ilorin.

Their army marched out in about 1838, conquering town after town towards the south, and causing mammoth streams of refugees. Till today, most Yoruba people still call this Ilorin invasion a Fulani invasion of Yorubaland. But it was not a Fulani invasion at all; it was an attempt by the predominantly Yoruba Muslim people of Ilorin to conquer and Islamize the rest of Yorubaland.

The victorious Ilorin march southwards ended suddenly in 1840. The refugees who had gathered in the Egba village of Ibadan had quickly become a large town. Their army marched out and met the Ilorin army in Oshogbo in 1840, and totally destroyed them, capturing many of their commanders. From then on, the power of Ilorin was more or less over, and Ilorin never dared again to face the Ibadan army in battle.

In the following years, Ibadan became the most powerful state in Yorubaland, and established control over the Oshun valley, Ife, Ijesa, Ekiti, Akoko, Igbomina and parts of Iyagba. Ilorin continued to be ambitious to control some territory in its immediate neighbourhood – in nearby Igbomina and Ibolo (especially Offa); but they feared Ibadan. In 1877, the Ekiti, Ijesa, Igbomina and Akoko revolted against Ibadan’s rule, and the Kiriji War started, keeping all these peoples and Ibadan busy until 1893. Ilorin took advantage of this and established some feeble control over parts of Igbomina and Ibolo.

However, at home in Ilorin itself, a proper Emirate could not develop. The powerful Yoruba war chiefs wanted to re-establish the traditional Yoruba political system whereby the chiefs in a kingdom select their king. The Emirs resisted. By 1895, the chiefs were winning the contest grandly – a situation which forced the Emir Momoh to commit suicide after setting his palace on fire. The victorious chiefs then installed Sulaiman as Emir. This was the situation when the forces of the British Royal Niger Company came and conquered Ilorin in 1897.

In the years that followed, it was the British that established Ilorin as a full-fledged emirate, making the Ilorin Emir like the Emirs of Hausaland. The Emir then took advantage of that to establish all sorts of Emirate-type control over Ibolo and northern Igbomina.

In short, Ilorin was never conquered (was never even invaded) by the Fulani. Ilorin is more than 90% Yoruba in population. The Igbomina, Ibolo, and Ekiti of Kwara, because they have hated the imposture of the Ilorin Emirs since the beginning of British rule, tend to be usually cool towards Ilorin. Rather it was the treasonable ambition of Afonja and the Yoruba Muslim converts who handed Ilorin to the Fulanis.

Today, the same group are at the forefront fighting to ensure that all Yoruba land falls to Sokoto.



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Above post is a complete fabrication produced by loudmouthed storyteller who assumed he/she has monopoly on recorded events.
Politics / Re: Arewa Celebrates 60th Independence Day In A Cute Way (Photos) by DerideGull(m): 12:13pm On Oct 02, 2020
leisuretym:
Jos is not Arewa Land, Jos is know as the Promise Land , Plateau State.

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Anagutas
Naragutas
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Mangu

the new Jerusalem

Jos was represented by Fulani girls in the picture posted. I guess Fulani has taken over Plateau too.

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