ODVanguard:


Well, personally, I think that Awolowo, in spite of his brilliance, was in some ways politically naive. His intransigent posture when it came to working politically with the North really messed him up. Zik was, in my view, a more pragmatic politician in the Nigerian context. Zik had enough intelligence to realize that the political structure the British bequeated at independence gave the North an intimidating political advantage, and he exploited that by working with the North to advance his people's political aspirations within the Nigerian political space. He wasn't as emotional/sentimental (politically) as Awo was so he was willing to overlook many of the reasons why Awo felt he couldn't work with the Northerners, in order to further his/igbo political aims. That was why he was able to successfully use that political advantage to ensure the igbos occupied and dominated very strategic positions at every level of the Nigerian civil service, army, educational institutions, and beyond at the time.

Awo on the other hand felt that the Northerners were too uncivilized for him to work with politically. But while he may have been right in his estimation that the North abysmally lagged behind the South educationally, he failed to appreciate their political sophistication, hence his limited success at the centre, politically. The North on the other hand, being well aware of its political advantage, is always ready to work with any political bloc in the South.

The Akintola/Awo issue came up because Akintola felt the Yorubas were better off being in alliance with the North (by then he had seen what Zik was able to use his Northern alliance to achieve for his people), as opposed to wallowing in the opposition while waiting endlessly for a Zik/Awo alliance that would never happen.

True! But you mustn't forget the raison d'être of Awolowo's expressed fears way back then. You said Zik recognised the rulership bequeathed to the north by the British. Well, if that were the case, I think you missed the point that had Zik gone into alliance with Awolowo, take it or leave it, the north would have been emasculated by now because many north central states would've have alligned with the Zik/Awo alliance. I said it earlier that Zik had the joker in his hands. He instead played onto that hands of the north in lieu of more civilised accord with Awo. You see, Zik had felt he would be able to control the north. He felt they were stupid people and not as suave as the south west. He pitched his tent there. When that wasn't working, you know what and what led to the civil war eventually. It wasn't Political ingenuity from Zik. It was political greed and a plan of domination and it backfired eventually. When the civil war was about to break out, this same Awo went to their leader there and ADVISED HIM NOT TO GO TO WAR YET. Read the history very well, Awo was almost killed by irate Biafran soldiers and on getting back home, Awo was arrested by Nigerian government for TREASON! Yorubas contributed soldiers to the Nigerian army fighting the Biafran soldiers but that's where it ended until OJUKWU ATTEMPTED to make inroads here after he overan Asaba. That's when the likes of Awolowo rose up and showed that brain is ultimate, not brawn, when it comes to warfare.
Back to the discourse here, Awolowo RECOGNISED what we are all suffering now. He attempted to SHIFT the political balance with Zik. Zik reneged and followed what he believed was political gain at the expense of many things. If Zik had realised that it's better to work with Awolowo, he'd have laid his joker on Awo's table rather than trying to see how he can subdue a "foolish" north. He was badly mistaken.
Fast forward to today, Igbos are as beautiful as they come. No doubts about that. But history is history. Truth is truth!

ODVanguard:
And Awolowo's greatest blunder, in my opinion, was his repeated attempts to form an alliance with a Zik who didn't regard him and saw him as a political threat. On atleast two occassions Awo went cap-in-hand to Zik to try to form a political alliance with him (as a junior partner) but was rebuffed at both times. The same fate awaits any future prospects of a Yoruba-Igbo political alliance. It will never work.

I wouldn't call it a "blunder" for Awolowo. Awolowo's intentions were noble and he believed so much in progressive doctrine of governance. He saw the northern oligarchy as a threat to an even and just Nigeria. They even jailed him because he stood against northern interests. That's what prompted him to approach Zik. He begged Zik to see reason. Zik agreed. On the day when the alliance was to be formed, Zik INSTEAD ran to the north! He left Awolowo stranded and vulnerable. Awolowo was determined. That's why he declared free education, built the cocoa house (first skyscraper in Nigeria), built the first TV station (among many other firsts), in South West to facilitate development. What did Zik call him? A TRIBAL LEADER!
I'm sure their Kanu of IPOB isn't a TRIBAL LEADER right now.
History is there to learn from. We must know where we're coming from. This isn't propaganda. It's the truth. I won't banter words with any Igbo kid that comes here to rant over what is not.
May God heal Nigeria!

mrvitalis:

U mean after awolowo and your yoruba friends betrayed zik in the western region and then u want him to form alliance with u ?

Oga we have internet today ...your press power is dead and igbos now dominate social media

2023 we would betray yorubas again and form alliance with north ...as pay back for 2015

You're a kid!

".....And I shall regret to my dying day, having taken part to advise Zik not to form the alliance with Chief Awolowo" -Dr Michael Okpara.

This was the confession of one of the most influential Igbo leaders when Zik betrayed Awolowo by running to form alliance with the north and they(the north oligarchy) made him(Zik) a ceremonial leader. Zik had the ace, the joker, in his hands to liberate Nigeria then. But he messed it up for a pot of porridge.
Awolowo begged Zik then to help liberate Nigeria. After Zik betrayed Awolowo, Awolowo came back to South West and developed it extensively. Zik started calling Awolowo a TRIBAL leader. Anyway, here we are, we all now witnesses to the fallout of Zik's behaviour!

Ayoswit:
Is nairaland gradually turning into a porn site. Who are these creatures derailing this thread?

It's a gimmick to lure as much people as possible to their site. People tend to get attracted to anything that has porn(soft or hard) as part of content.

ClearFlair:


Yes, that’s why PDP bought you and all their criminal agents on Social Media

Funny enough, I'm not PDP at all. At all at all! You see, you loath the truth!

Why do these people often hide behind the rhetoric "in the interest of the nation" to either act as Judas to a common cause or foster some illegalities on the citizenry? Everyone truly has a price, even the self-righteous, self-absorbed, industrious indigbo!

It's not easy mixing palm oil with water and with sand. It's quite difficult achieving "unity" with those contents. Tell me how to go about doing that so that we can heal this country and make it truly ONE!

By Lasisi Olagunju

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday July 1, 2019)

On October 18, 1990, the United States, in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), predicted the end of a country which was behaving almost as Nigeria is behaving now. It said, “Yugoslavia will cease to function as a federal state within a year, and will probably dissolve within two. Economic reform will not stave off the breakup. [...] A full-scale inter-republic war is unlikely, but serious intercommunal conflict will accompany the breakup and will continue afterward. The violence will be intractable and bitter. There is little the United States and its European allies can do to preserve Yugoslav unity.”

That country called Yugoslavia ceased to exist in 1992 –within exactly two years as predicted by the US. I wonder what the authors of that report are writing about Nigeria this moment.
Analysing Nigeria in 2013, two US security experts, Robert D. Kaplan and Mark Schroeder, also predicted that Nigeria would “not descend into a civil war” but would “totter onwards.” They described it as “a country that is not wholly a country...an assemblage of several British-ruled territories” where “life is a Hobbesian, zero-sum game that adds up to an aggressive, predatory system of survival of the fittest...a place where life is too often a matter of who can intimidate whom.”

As grim as their conclusion was, they did not see that just two years ahead, the intimidation of a part for a part would start coming directly from the government itself. The best of patriots, in alarm, today query the terms and costs of preserving Nigeria.

You do not reduce the lion to the leopard's caddie and expect a peaceful forest. It is difficult to understand the ways of the Muhammadu Buhari regime. There are deadly crises across the country with Fulani herdsmen as the common denominator. And the government's solution to herdsmen's fire is more fire from herdsmen. First, it was exclusive Fulani radio; now the regime is creating exclusive towns for herdsmen in all states –even where they have victims. It is not funny. Benue State has seven camps hosting 112,500 internally displaced persons. Taraba State has even greater number of IDPs. Both states are now being reinforced by the federal government with special, purpose-built settlements for the Fulani, a major side in the unceasing bloodletting there. The regime called the new creations Ruga – a Hausa-Fulani word for village. And for this, our presidency said Sunday night that "it is true that the government at the centre has gazetted lands in ALL states​ of the Federation" but the scheme is still "voluntary." And you ask if the Federal Government, under our laws, has any land anywhere?

Across West Africa today, the most popular term in security documents and discussions must be 'Fulani.' Killings and reprisal killings have pushed the Fulani name up the chart of safety concerns. United Nations figures say that in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the Fulani versus others crises have claimed more than 1,200 with 4.2 million people displaced across the Sahel. In all these places, killings by Fulani and counter-killing of Fulani are shameful blitzes on the conscience of humanity.

If Google would be truthful, it would confirm a surge in searches on who the Fulani truly are. They are not many but they are making news, great and gory, everywhere across West Africa and the Sahel. Everywhere they inhabit, their creepy wisdom makes them the dominant voice in politics and policy. In Nigeria, they have President Buhari; in Senegal, they have President Macky Sall; in The Gambia, they have President Adama Barrow. The vice president of Sierra Leone, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh is a Fulani, just as the prime minister of Mali, Dr. Boubou Cisse. They have used these seats to plant their own and sit pretty well in every international organization of consequence. Globally, they are just about 40 million –and are blessed beyond measure.
Historian M. Delafose in his 1912 account ascribed Judae-Syrian roots to the Fulani. He traced their movements across sandy hills, alleys and valleys, lands and rivers. He said when they “arrived in the region of the ancient Ghana, they found the country occupied by Sonnike (Wakore) but eventually became predominant and ruled as the 'white race of Ghana' from the 4th to the 8th centuries." To be the 'white race' anywhere is to mould yourself into a super race –like Hitler's Aryan master race.

A people with a famed tendency to crawl into and dominate their environment can't be trusted by anyone with sense. That is the very reason the Ruga plan is suspect and is being resisted from the Middle Belt to the Atlantic. One scholar notes that at the beginning, “the Fulani movement in West Africa tended to follow a set pattern. Their first movement into an area tended to be peaceful. Local officials gave them land grants. Their dairy products and fertilizer were highly prized. The number of converts to Islam increased over time. With that increase, Fulani resentment at being ruled by pagans, or imperfect Muslims, increased. Then they revolted and overthrew the old order. Then followed what scholars describe as “the basic principle of Fulani ethnic dominance.”

The 'white race' is a long distance trekker. The more of their guileful fingers you cut, the more they grow. You note that General Muhammadu Buhari contested in 2003 and lost. He tried again and again in 2007 and 2011 and met the hot iron wall of rejection. Then he talked to himself and remembered that he was a Fulani. He correctly read history, identified and befriended his ancestral political enemies – the Yoruba. He bewitched them with the same charm snakes use to pull in preys. They rallied round him, repaired and rebranded him as the ultimate friend of everybody. He got the prize but trashed his collaborators almost immediately after the conquest. Two years into the next campaigns, he remembered and bewitched them again. And again, he had them.

Political collaborators of today only need a little peep into history to behold the future that awaits them. Fulanis are smart in war and smarter in victory. Their victories in all wars always become ethnic triumphs. It was so in Ilorin between Afonja and the Jamaa. Even soon after Afonja's horrific death at the hands of his friends, a successor Kakanfo who did not learn from Afonja's fate replicated the disaster for himself. Aare Onakakanfo Edun of Gbogun betrayed his people in a war waged to remedy the Afonja tragedy. The invading Fulani force once again reaped the fruits of that betrayal. But how did it profit Edun? His Fulani friends soon confronted him with his own war and fate. History says at the subsequent Gbogun war, Edun's Fulani friends pursued and caught him at a place called Gbodo. “His head was taken off, raised upon a pole and carried in triumph to their camp, and from thence to Ilorin.”

It happened also in Bauchi –the indigenous Hausa who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with them in the Jihad had their seats placed outside the palace of victory. In the Yola area of today's North-East, a historian notes that after their victories over the Mandara kingdom, they “eased their Hausa collaborators from positions of power and forged alliances with fellow Fulani.” The area became Adamawa –named after their leader, Modibbo Adama.
The resistance to Buhari's Ruga is rooted in the feeling of deja vu; a feeling that we've been here before and the experience was not pleasant. The one whose mother was killed by a snake would run at the sight of an earthworm. Or, put differently, if you know the ways of snakes and you behold an earthworm dancing like a snake, if you are wise, you will kill it like a snake.

A former member of the House of Representatives, Jonathan Asake, was on a television programme last Thursday. No one who isn't in Buhari's government would hear his words and dance to the Azonto beats of Buhari's Ruga. Asake said that in 1987, the then government of Kaduna State approved Ruga settlements in the old Kachia Local Government Area which now comprises Zangon Kataf, Chikun, Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas. He said that the Fulani soon began to expand these settlements and today, some of them are being converted to Emirates.

Listen to him: “I'm from Zangon Kataf Local Government Area in Kaduna State. We have what was established in 1987 as the Kachia grazing reserve in the then old Kachia Local Government which comprises Zangon Kataf, Chikun and Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas of today. That grazing reserve has been changed to Laduga. Laduga is actually a Fulani word and no indigene is there. The land has been taken over from the indigenes. And that place is now a big town, with big hospitals and roads. In fact, the last voter registration exercise there, two registration machines were put there. Today, they have a district head and they are asking for an emirate. It is just a model of what will happen tomorrow in this country when these settlements are established. You will have state constituencies in the state assembly established all over the country –strictly for Fulani.”

The Buhari regime is a mighty river coursing most headily towards tempestuous depths. The way this government stubbornly cooks broths of poison, ignoring every wise counsel, it is almost certain that nothing will stop it from that journey of finality. Why would you use collectively bestowed powers to settle your outsiders on the ancestral lands of others? There was a mindset which massed all state security powers in someone's bedroom and created a radio for the president's ethnic group. That mindset ignored all protests and allayed no fears of ulterior motives. It is now rudely putting Ruga trouble in everyone's mortar to pound. Perhaps since the civil war, no other time has seen our country badly polarised as it is now.

If time has healed our old wounds, I am not sure that this regime's insensitivity to the complexity of feelings of Nigeria's ethnic nationalities has not reset the country to the rawness of the past. November 2, 1970, ten months after our civil war, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a report summed up Nigeria as “...still very much a tribal society, in which clan, tribal and regional jealousies, hostilities and interests count far more than national attachment.”

That was 49 years ago; nothing has changed. And nothing will change as long as fingers of ethnic insults recklessly rock the nation's affairs.

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Android fans are being warned about a number of phones which come with malware loaded on them straight out of the box. Android is one of the most popular pieces of software in the world, with over two billion devices running the Google mobile OS each and every month. But Android fans are no strangers to security alerts, with a number of recent widespread threats being circulated via apps found on the Goole Play Store.

Six Android apps that were downloaded a staggering 90million times from the Google Play Store were found to have been loaded with the PreAMo malware. While another recent threat saw 50 malware-filled apps on the Google Play Store infect over 30million Android devices. And now Android fans are being warned about another malware threat, but this time it’s not being spread via Google’s official app marketplace.

Google has confirmed a number of budget Android smartphones were found to have malware pre-installed on them. As revealed in a post by HackRead, the Triada malware was believed to have been installed on these Android phones during the supply chain process. The Triada malware is capable of stealing sensitive data from banking apps, intercepting chat messages from social media and spying on users.
In a blog post Google’s Lukasz Siewierski said: “The creators of Triada collected revenue from the ads displayed by the spam apps.
“The methods Triada used were complex and unusual for these types of apps. Triada apps started as rooting trojans, but as Google Play Protect strengthened defenses against rooting exploits, Triada apps were forced to adapt, progressing to a system image backdoor.
“However, thanks to OEM cooperation and our outreach efforts, OEMs prepared system images with security updates that removed the Triada infection.”
Prior to this Google blog post being published the Triada malware was found pre-installed in a series of budget smartphones by Dr Web.
The anti-malware firm found Triada loaded up onto over 40 Android devices.

These devices are as follows: Leagoo M5, Leagoo M5 Plus, Leagoo M5 Edge, Leagoo M8, Leagoo M8 Pro, Leagoo Z5C, Leagoo T1 Plus, Leagoo Z3C, Leagoo Z1C, Leagoo M9, ARK Benefit M8, Zopo Speed 7 Plus, UHANS A101, Doogee X5 Max, Doogee X5 Max Pro, Doogee Shoot 1, Doogee Shoot 2, Tecno W2, Homtom HT16, Umi London, Kiano Elegance 5.1, iLife Fivo Lite, Mito A39, Vertex Impress InTouch 4G, Vertex Impress Genius, myPhone Hammer Energy, Advan S5E NXT, Advan S4Z, Advan i5E, STF AERIAL PLUS, STF JOY PRO, Tesla SP6.2, Cubot Rainbow, EXTREME 7, Haier T51, Cherry Mobile Flare S5, Cherry Mobile Flare J2S, Cherry Mobile Flare P1, NOA H6, Pelitt T1 PLUS, Prestigio Grace M5 LTE, BQ 5510.

Siewierski said that the Triada malware mainly targeted Android versions 4.4.2 and older.
The Android Security and Privacy team member explained newer versions of the popular OS blocked the process by which the malware obtained root access to a device.
Siewierski added: “By working with the OEMs and supplying them with instructions for removing the threat from devices, we reduced the spread of preinstalled Triada variants and removed infections from the devices through the OTA updates.
“The Triada case is a good example of how Android malware authors are becoming more adept.
“This case also shows that it’s harder to infect Android devices, especially if the malware author requires privilege elevation.”

Matters must definitely be fast approaching a head in Nigeria when a man like this, a brilliant one-time Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, writes in this manner. Southern quibblers are free to continue to hide behind one finger. It's all out in the open now:

Wake up, Nigeria is dying: A reply to my Fulani friends (2)

By Obadiah Mailafia

TODAY concludes the piece I wrote in this Column last week in response to one Abdullah Musa Abdullah who accused me of being a hate-monger. His confused and unlettered attacks, he declared that I had no right to talk of genocide in contemporary because such crimes appertain only to states.
He gave examples of the Spanish Conquistadores in Latin America; America against the native Indians; Australia against the Aborigines; the Nazis against the Jews; and the more recent Burmese against the hapless Rohingya Muslims: “How can someone who became a Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria write of genocide in Nigeria? …I am not a historian, but I believe that genocide is either a state policy or abetted by the state as is currently going on in Myanmar.” In his selective historical memory, Abdullah predictably makes no reference to the genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks against the Armenians – the first genocide of our twentieth century. Our friend has apparently not come across Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948. Genocide can be committed not only by states but also by organised as well as militarised gangsters. The horrible genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda was committed by Hutu militias at a time when there was no government to speak of. Lest we forget: Genocide involves targeting a specific group with the intent to wipe off every trace of their racial, ethnic or religious-cultural identity. The atrocities committed by Boko Haram against Christian communities in the north east and by herdsmen militias in the Middle Belt are patently genocidal in intent and character. To be sure, Muslims have also been victims, but the sheer thrust of the strategy of eliminationism has been directed mainly at religious and ethnic minorities. I submit that those who do such things know neither God nor Humanity. Our friend inferred that I mentioned the gang-up against the Fulani in their ancestral homeland of Guinea so that others in Nigeria could take the cue and do likewise. I have no such sinister motives. I only made reference to that judicial fact so as to explain the psycho-sociological roots of the Fulani obsession with Nigeria as contrasted to their indifference to countries with significant Fulani populations such as Mali, Senegal, Niger, Gambia and Cameroon. I insist that the Fulani worldwide seem to have this delusion that our country is their patrimony by rights. The forget one of the biggest lessons of history, that those who are relative late-comers owe us a duty of humility, not arrogance. The message I have for people like Abdullah is: Please, wake up, Nigeria is dying! People are dying and you prefer to play the ostrich. Either you have no conscience or you are tacit or even active conspirators, in this genocide against my people. History will judge you. These people are like infants playing with fire; oblivious of the fact this fire could transmute into a conflagration that consume our entire country. Even our National Assembly – a branch of government not reputed for its commitment to morality or public ethics — has recently condemned the killings in Benue, Taraba and as far as Birnin Gwari, Zamfara and Mubi. It is rather patronising of Abdullah to say that the Fulanis “promoted” the General Danjuma and made him what he is. I have heard such nonsense on stilts – such balderdash. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has sacrificed far more for the Caliphate than they could ever repay him. He could have taken the presidency on a platter but he never wanted it. Our friend is perhaps ignorant of the fact that Danjuma’s Kwararafa people conquered Kano for two centuries. If he is in doubt he should consult elder statesman Tanko Yakasai. I was born in a small missionary village within the catchment of the ancient Nok civilisation whose origins date back to Pharaonic Egypt. We are the true Nigerians. Without us Nigeria would have disintegrated like a house of cards. As a young lad, I grew up tending cattle with my childhood Fulani friends Lawal and Bello. If there is anyone who hates Fulanis, it cannot be me. People of Abdullah’s ilk are so bigoted that they do not even remember that the founder of the first northern cultural and political movement was Russell Aliyu Barau Dikko, a Fulani Christian and first medical doctor of northern extraction. He founded Jamiyar Mutanen Arewa while his wife Mama Barau Dikko founded the women’s wing, Jamiyar Matan Arewa. It was at the 1959 Jos Congress that men like Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa conspired to remove Dr. Dikko as their leader. They have all but expunged his memory from the hall of Northern political fame; with the only monument being the name of the hostel for medical students in Zaria. In fairness to Sir Ahmadu Bello, he was generous enough to embrace leading northern Christian leaders among his inner circle. This was probably because his own mother was a former Jukun slave concubine of his father Ibrahim Bello Sarkin Rabah. His closest confidantes were the likes of Michael Audu Buba, Reverend David Lot and Amos Awoniyi; while his most trusted personal physician was a devout Christian, the distinguished prize-winning medical scientist Professor Ishaya Shuaibu Audu. The pretenders to his legacy have been a bunch of selfish, wicked, corrupt, narrow-minded little men. Abdullah and his ilk are suffering from what psychiatrists call “transference”. In an age when our latter-day Salafi neo-fascists consider it haram even to smile at members of another faith, those who live and breathe hatred are the first to accuse others of the disease. Such is the character of evil in our time. In all this unedifying conversation, I have received very strong messages of solidarity from Kanuri Muslims. One of them, Ramat Shettima, wrote: “Kanem Borno resisted the evil plans of the Fulani to Islamise Kanuri people as already Muslims (sic)….the only reason for the Jihad just as it happened to the unsuspecting and naïve Hausa communities was to enslave the entire northern people….Benue, Taraba and Plateau people must be united against the coming progrom….Let us be united against this tiny tribe which uses Islam to kill others. We the Kanuri will not accept this evil.” I also received an email comment from a brilliant young northern Muslim woman. She is from a wealthy and highly influential family and her identity must be protected. She wrote, and I quote: “I just finished reading this column and I must say you spoke the truth. Your knowledge of history should really put professional historians to shame. The Jihad of Usman Danfodio was a religious cum political ideology executed to entrench a political/ethnic hegemony….The Habe Hausa people were already practicing Muslims many decades before the coming of the Fulani…the Fulani were smart in abandoning their language and culture to embrace the Hausa tradition…In recent times, there is a subtle and incipient rejection of the Fulani within the ethnicities that inhibit the far north. The Pullo themselves are making the situation worse. If you follow the news, you may have heard of the uncomplimentary comments made by some notable Fulanis reasserting their Fulaniness as the purest form of mankind. These comments are infuriating the Hausa…” To our latter-day genocidaires, I have only one message: You are labouring under a curse. Far from invoking fear among our ancient warrior-tribesmen, your bloody swords invoke only our contempt. As Holy Scripture warns, those who live by the sword will die by the sword; and those who sow to the wind will surely reap the whirlwind. And when the children of light prevail, as surely as they must; all of us – Igbo, Ijaw, Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, Ibibio, Christians and Muslims – will work together as children of God.

DRAMA AS I WAS WALKED OUT OF STAKEHOLDERS' MEETING AT ABUJA YESTERDAY
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For asking what appears to the officials of the Federal Ministry of Education a hate-filled question, I was asked to leave the venue of the 19th Stakeholders Meeting on Unity Schools/Colleges.
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The order came in such an uncharitable, direct and malevolent manner! It matched the same venom that gave vent to it. I was not allowed to pick up my files and say a few words to colleagues. I must leave, and leave immediately within split seconds.
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What did I say?
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Priscilla Ihuoma, the spokesman of the Minister has just announced what appeared to me, the information that brought me to Abuja. I was waiting for this announcement. I got it. I predicted the minister.
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She played into my hands. I had waited for an opportunity to share my thoughts on my hatred, opposition and stance against Unity Schools and the injustice in Nigerian education system.
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I missed the opportunity in 2016 and 2017 to present my views. Then, the meeting was a hushed one. This time around, we were told the meeting would drag to two days. And stakeholders who have views could easily share them as the Minister would entertain such.
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Mrs Ihuoma, the announced the breakdown of the registrations for the 2018 Common Entrance Examinations. A total of 71, 294 young boys and girls were registered for the examination, a little shortfall from the 81,930 that registered in 2017.
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Lagos State hit the top with 24,465, FCT came next with 7, 699. Of course you know why? Igbos in Lagos and FCT are included! Then, she murmured a well rehearsed statement: Zamfara 28, Kebbi 50, Taraba 95. These three states came first from behind.
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She went ahead to tell us the obvious: that the nation has 104 unity schools; that most of these unity schools dont get up to their carrying capacity; A budget, running into billions of naira goes into their maintenance each year and that The Unity Schools take up to 45% of the budgetary allocation of the Ministry of Education.
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I was bitter. I was overtly burning with rage and hate. I couldn’t wait for the question and answer session. I did all I could to get hold of the microphone and finally, I got to the aisle, looked directly to the raised table and heaved a sigh of relief. I glanced through my notes and let loose the canons:
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Why do we have 12 Unity Schools in the East where more than 50% of candidates come from? Mr Minister, why are kids from Igboland not given admission to those Unity schools that don’t get up to their quota/carrying capacity?
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Honorable Minister, can you explain why a young girl from Imo state,seeking admission into any of the country's 104 Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) must score 139 points out of a possible 300 to stand a chance of being taken. But her counterpart from Zamfara state only needs to guess two answers right?
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Why does the young boy from Abia be denied admission even when he scores 198 while his counterpart from Gombe who merely wrote the examination ( but scored zero) is allowed to study in any unity school of his choice?
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Why do we have only 2 Igbo principals in the 105 Unity schools in Nigeria? Does this reflect intellectual preparedness or merely a reflection of the wishes of the leadership of the nation and that of the ministry?
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Why must the federal government set up a well funded advocacy team to persuade villagers, traditional rulers in North and clergy to encourage their citizens to send their wards to unity colleges while efforts are not made to accommodate thousands of kids from the East who are denied admission yearly.
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Our Minister, I hope you are aware that Last year, Nigeria’s four Federal Government Colleges did not produce a single candidate that scored five credits that included English and Mathematics, needed to gain admission into the university.
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Hon Minister, i hope you are aware that, Federal Government Girls’ College, Bajoga (Gombe State); FGGC, Bauchi (Bauchi State); FGGC Gboko (Benue State), and the Federal Science and Technical College, Kafanchan (in Kaduna State) did not produce a single pupil with credits in English and Mathematics.
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Honorable minister, I hope you are aware that In 2013, human rights lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos over admission inequality in Federal Government Colleges. The court declared as unconstitutional, the decades-long state-based, quota system admission into federal government colleges.
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John Tsoho, the trial Judge, in his ruling declared that the action of the Minister of Education in prescribing and applying different requirements for candidates seeking admission into unity schools is in violation of Section 42(1) of the 1999 Constitution. If this is the case, and definitely that is the case, Why, does the Minstry of Education under you refuse to adher to the court ruling?
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Why does, Zamfara State, with 28 candidates for the 2018 common entrance examination have three Unity Schools, while my state of Imo has only two!!! Why do we have three Unity schools in Taraba ( that has only 95 students this year) while Enugu State has only two. Hon. Minister, I can go on and on to...
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It was at this point that heavens was let loose. Stop there!!! Voices form the elevated table raged. It was amidst claps and jeers, heckles and clear disapproval from those whose benefits have been threatened; acclamation from those whose grievances have been let loose, that i was ordered and whisked away from the ICC, venue of the stakeholders meeting. No harm befell on me.
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I retired to my hotel room, got enough rest and made a Lagos-bound journey. I am sure, the organizers wouldn’t invite me to subsequent meetings. But who cares?
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Dr. Modestus Ezenwa.

Atlanticfire:


Yoruba boy stop trying to rewrite our history and stop trying to deceive people.

The British handed over Nigeria to the Fulanis.

In a parliamentary election the party with the highest seat forms the government, if they don't have enough seats then they go into coalition with other parties to form the government.

The fulani party had the highest number of seats even though they had the lowest number of votes in the election.

The question you should ask is why did the fulani party have the highest number of seats when they had the lowest number of votes compared to the yoruba and ibo parties. That singular act of the British of making the Fulani to have the highest number of seats with the lowest number of votes is how the British rigged the election for the Fulanis even before the vote was cast.

You may hate the Ibos, but don't twist history to satisfy your narrow mind.

By giving the north more seats, the British ensured that the north will always form the government either alone or in coalition with other minority parties. Zik simply accepted to be the minority party.

Think of Donald Trump and Hillary, Hillary had more votes but trump had more delegates, trump became president and Hillary went home. In our case the Fulani were given more seats intact almost the total seats of the western region and the eastern region combined.

There is no way either Awolowo or Zik could have scale through such a high seat disparity to form the government and hold on to power

How old are you, if I may ask?
Anyway, the north had more seats because they had more ethnic representations. The north central was included in northern seats. It will shift the number of seats, not necessarily the number of votes.
You don't even know if I'm Igbo. You see, the day you realise and accept where you went wrong, that's the day you embark on the road to genuine recovery. No one is above certain mistake. If you have enough energy and data, kindly go round and do your won research and see if what's written here is false. You react because it pained you. Truth hurts, brother!
The number of votes and seats that'd have resulted from the coalition between Zik and Awolowo would have shifted and balanced the power play at that point in time. Zik betraying the gentleman agreement with Awolowo unduly shifted the power balance to the north.
Did Awolowo swallowed his pride and went to Zik for a coalition just to checkmate the growing influence of the north then? Yes, he did! What did Zik do, he betrayed that gentleman agreement and went to meet up with Balewa instead.
Did Zik influence Balewa into getting Awolowo arrested? Yes, he did because he felt the Yorubas were making too much trouble and noise over his sneaky, betraying behaviour. The financial sleaze accusations were believed to be from the Yoruba people mentioned in the post.
Did the Igbo later find out they couldn't control and puppeteer the north as Zik initially thought? Yes!
What did the Igbo do? They went on rampage in a coup to try to decimate the north that was becoming larger than life to them.
What happened after the coup? CIVIL WAR OF THREE YEARS DESPITE AWOLOWO'S PLEA TO OJUKWU TO FORGET THE IDEA AND TO INSTEAD REACH OUT IN DIPLOMACY!
Who lost more people at the end of the day? Igbos!
Who's playing the victim? Igbos!

Now, this doesn't take anything away from the Igbos and the Goodwill they enjoy even on the west. Igbo's biggest problem is starring them right in the mirror if they look in the mirror and honestly evaluate what they see.

Igbos are good people. But their biggest leader didn't see things correctly. He made wrong decisions, likewise some of others that followed thereafter.
When Awolowo saw the hegemony brewing from the north, he started developing the west to make it strong and independent should anything happen. The cocoa house, the first TV, the free education, etc. The coalition of the betraying, sneaky Zik and Balewa called him A TRIBAL LEADER. Alas, Awolowo saw right and equally did right!

It is well with Nigeria. Everyone will get their just reward! Amen!

ANOTHER SIDE OF OUR HISTORY. The youths need to know !!!. Most especially igbos brothers in South West Nigeria.

Let us go down memory lane
Someone said "Fulani is Yoruba's number one enemy and that the British handed over Nigeria to them."

*This is not the truth.*
The British did not hand over Nigeria to the Fulani.

Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung parliament with no clear majority to form a government.

Zik's National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), came first with 2,594,577 votes to get 81 seats.

Awolowo's Action Group (AG), came second with 1,992,364 votes to get 73 seats.

However, the Ahmadu Bello's Northern People's Congress (NPC), came a distant third with 1,922,179 votes to get 134 of the 312 seats in the House of Representatives despite getting less public votes.

The above three major political parties in the election did not get enough number of the seats to form a government. An alliance had to be formed to determine who would rule.

It was a no brainer that Zik's NCNC and Awolowo's Action Group should make a coalition government as they came first and second respectively.

Awolowo, then humbled himself and volunteered to be a Deputy Prime Minister or Finance Minister in a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister. This was because the Zik's NCNC party had more public votes and seats than the Awolowo's Action Group.

Zik invited Awolowo’s team to Asaba, the gateway between the Yoruba's Western Region and the Igbo's Eastern Region to hold coalition talks. The talks were a clever ruse to keep Action Group’s hopes high, so that Action Group would be kept distracted from meeting with other minor parties for talks, including: Northern Elements Progressive Union with 8 seats; Mobolaje Grand Alliance with 6 seats; Igala Union with 4 seats; Independents Candidates with 4 seats; Igbira Tribal Union with 4 seats and the Niger Delta Congress with 1 seat.

Whilst the Action Group team was waiting in Asaba for a meeting with the NCNC, they read in the news that Zik and the NCNC had gone up North and clinched the deal with Ahmadu Bello on forming a coalition government with the NPC.

Tafawa Balewa, a Fulani, would be the Prime Minister of Nigeria while Zik would be the figure head Governor-General. Even Nkrumah of Ghana was shocked. He asked Zik why having spent so much energy fighting for colonial emancipation and then settling for a toothless bulldog role when Nigeria needed him the most.

Zik wrote in his autobiography why he did not form a coalition government with Awolowo.

In 1947, with over £13,500 raised from the Yoruba people and given to the NCNC, Zik had led other six prominent NCNC delegates to London to protest the “obnoxious laws” of Governor Arthur Richards. The trip ended in failure with backbiting, abuses and accusation of theft against Zik. Zik’s opponents at the NCNC, accused him of squandering the money and the trust of Nigerians.

Zik replied insinuating that the Yoruba on the team, that are: Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, and Dr. A. B. Olorunnimbe, were the problem.

There erupted a heated and prolonged press war between Zik’s Political Reminiscence in his West African Pilot and H.O. Davies’ Political Panorama in the Daily Service. This led to Igbo in Lagos rushing to buy machetes in large numbers thinking a tribal war was imminent.

The Governor and his General Secretary, Hugh Foot, quickly called Zik and H.O. Davies to order at the Government House.

Zik went away with the resolve that “the Yoruba must not be allowed to rule over others in Nigeria”.

And afterwards in the Daily Service published the speech of Zik in 1949 about Igbo being destined by God to conquer and rule over others. This among others, will explain why Zik rejected Awolowo's offer of a coalition government in 1959 and instead worked with the Fulani.

The Fulani had been reading Zik and the Igbo through the lens of his 1949 speech ever since.

The Fulani way of neutralising Zik when the opportunity came in 1959 was to offer him a powerless post, which surprisingly Zik and the NCNC dutifully accepted in place of being Nigeria’s first Prime Minister.

Zik had thought that the Igbo can easily manipulate the Fulani in place of the educated Yoruba. He thus manipulated Balewa to arrest Awolowo in 1962 and to have him jailed for 10 years in 1963.

Zik also manipulated Balewa to remove from the Western Region the Edo, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Western Ijaw that account for 70% of the oil wealth in Nigeria and created for them the Mid-West Region.

Zik's hatred for the Yoruba gave the Fulani the impetus to rule over others in Nigeria.

The Igbo coup plotters tried to undo Zik's mistake in 1966. And unfortunately, they killed other tribes and left theirs, which resulted in the civil war.

Britain did not really hand over Nigeria to the Fulani. Nigeria was given over to the Fulani by the Igbo.

However, to hold on to power in Nigeria, the Fulani enlisted the backing of the self-serving career politicians in England.

Not many Igbo especially the young ones know this narrative. I don’t think most Yorubas, even their elders remember this. Has the leopard changed its spots?

post=78543938:
PDP : DEAD AND BURIED IN NIGERIA patapata.

NEVER AGAIN are we going back to 16 years of rape, looting of our National treasury.
The era when STEALING IS NO CORRUPTION has past in our nation.

May all evil and corrupt politicians along with their supporters who do not want good news concerning our darling country end miserably.

Well, then, what baffles me is just that I don't know if it's brain you have in your skull or something else. I'm sure if it's brain, you'll know that we're presently in an era that's seriously worse than this PDP era you keep whinning about. PDP have done theirs. We all corrected them. And they've shown signs of reformation to a large extent. APC is not only looting as well but
also killing Nigerians, and you come here to talk trash instead of telling your sponsors the truth of you really love them.
Maybe you're actually from Niger Republic because I seem not to understand what motivates you into making all these your irrational submissions here.
I hope and pray Nigeria will rise again from the ashes your APC has reduced it to.

Please, I need clarification on this pertinent question gnawing away at my mind every now and then. Who do these pastors and bishops pay their own supposed tithes to? Is it not to their own ministries and by and large to themselves?
In the old testament where we see examples of tithing, we see two formats. The one done by Abraham and the one received by the Levites. The Levites were ordained to receive the Israelites tithes and those tithes were EXPECTED EVERY FOUR YEARS or so. Aside from that, all other things the Levites enjoyed were from OFFERINGS and sacrifices for purification or forgiveness of sins. As for Abraham's tithe, it wasn't attached to a clear pattern and he was only recorded to have done it once. Now, the Levites were not paying tithes.
If these present pastors consider themselves as "Levites" of our time, how come they are paying tithes? Aren't they supposed to be exempted as well? Or they say they "pay" it just to ginger followers into paying theirs? And of these pastors pay it, is it not to themselves they pay it to?
There's more emphasis on GIVING than TITHING in Christ's teachings. If anyone says you should bring 10% of your money every month, I feel he's exploiting you using that principle of tithing as outlined in the Bible. Tithes weren't monthly. It was once every four years. And Abrahamic tithe was even once in his lifetime as records say.
Why can't the pastors just emphasise on giving and the blessings that follow it rather than hiding behind tithing to fleece followers. Because even the pastors are flouting the ordinance of tithing as exemplified by the Levites. The Levites didn't pay tithes. If you say you are a present day Levite and you pay tithe, you flout the rule of tithing. God isn't interested in you going overboard to please Him(As Saul tried to do), rather He wants simple obedience. The Bible says if you want to live by the ORDINANCES OF THE LAW and you keep to it 99% of the time and fail in 1% of the time, you have TRANSGRESSED. That's how strict the LAW is.
Maybe people should just give whatever they can afford as exemplified by the poor widow and the rest in the new testament. Jesus even commended the poor widow for her selflessness. If you decide to make your giving 50% of your salary, your choice. If you decide to make it 10%, your choice. If you decide to make it 1%, your choice as well. And, believe me, you'll receive blessings from God whichever way you choose to do it. If you decide not to even pay your gifts to pastors or churches but to the poor and destitute, God will also infinitely bless you.
I feel the pastors are using an old testament ORDINANCE to milk their members while they THEMSELVES are actually not following the rules of tithing to the last letter.


I'm open to correction on this.

Beautiful bed, honestly! But then, does he have peace once he closes his eyes on that bed? Is he able to sleep with absolute peace of mind and true rest once he hits that bed?
I'm not saying he lacks peace in his life.
I'm only saying that the cost/beauty of the bed is not as important as the peace and rest of mind we find in and out of whatever we call "bed" at home.

GrabHisBalls:
Like I stated before, if my son should marry a lady who later turned out to be Tonto, then I'll suppose my son made her who she became. There's no two ways about this. Tonto isn't toxic as most of you are painting her. She's merely reacting to pains. And people react differently to pains. Some go very quiet while others become loud. Need I also remind you that talking about one's pains is a good way of healing?

You don't have a personal relationship with TONTO and likewise I.

You don't also have a personal relationship with Churchhill and likewise I, so why are we taking sides? Why can't we tell ourselves the truth? What if she was your hurting sister? Being Obasanjo's son didn't make her leave him. He used that as a strategy to get a beauty celebrity married and being that she's upset now, she had to spill the beans.

See, you're not getting the reality in proper perspective. Don't try to rationalise what is bad. What is bad is bad regardless of many people expressing themselves that way. Some do drugs to "heal"; is that healing or further destruction? Some bottle it up and turn homicidal to "heal"; is that healing or further destruction? Tonto is exhibiting mania and a extreme form of nascisism and you're saying she's "healing"! No! You're absolutely out of tune with the gravity of what ails her. Don't rationalise her attitude. Everyone is of the opinion she needs help. Let her go see a counselor or religious leader she trusts. If she's left unchecked, take it or leave it, she'll turn homicidal, and you'll still be here preaching to is she's "healing". This girl is a psycho. She's greedy as well. She said she has no shame, and you think if your son married such a lady he'll have peace in his life for one day? Not if he married a "shameless" woman.

GrabHisBalls:
I don't think she's depressed. The problem is, going by how the relationship started, Tonto is a lover. She loved with all, but got bullshit in return.

I was telling by best friend yesterday who was complaining about her boyfriend that it takes a lot to love somebody, but seconds to hate as opposed to love doesn't cost a thing. People should learn how to mind their business, and leave her alone.

No, love is better than this. Even if genuine love is betrayed. I think she's reacting more to broken expectations than a love gone sour. If you truly love someone, you'll make several attempts at reconcilation before you will start reacting badly. Tonto lost out in the game of expectations and rewards. She was looking for Obasanjo's son, shey? She don find one, lol!
This lady is toxic and she's extremely self-centred. If you like the way her nature is, maybe you should pray that your son should marry a girl like her in the future. Then you'll realise that such characters are nascisistic.
If you know how to reach Tonto on phone, please tell her she's raving mad!

PapaNnamdi:
ETo everything there is a time

ask Samuel peters

Sure, everything has its time. But, please, this guy is way way over Samuel Peters. Compare AJ to another legend in his class!
Thank you!

What if find distasteful is how Buhari had gone about "embarrassing" the select legislative and judiciary persons on his own crusade while TOTALLY turning a blind eye to members of the executives/political associates. We often cry that the legislative is corrupt, but people don't realize that being a federal executive Minister for just a year can/will make you richer than being a senator for eight year. Quote me, please!
Buhari dines and chats with "corruption" right under his nose. But he DELIBERATELY frees you once you don't criticise him.
Osinbajo has turned to something else. That man is no more a pastor. He's now a politician. Once he leaves office, he should not be accorded any respect because he calls himself a pastor. He should be brutally probed and embarrassed like he supported his boss to do to others. As a matter of fact, Buhari and Aishat should also be brutally probed and embarrassed as well. At least, na fight against corruption we dey do.

You didn't specify if the itching is limited to outside of your pudenda or it extends inside. You didn't say if you're discharging anything of sort.
But if I have to advise by the info you provided, I'll say you should go to a pharmacy near you and buy ABF-3 cream. Wash and dry the area before each application of the cream. Apply it twice a day. Also, I'll advise you desist from wearing airtight underwears.

Biglittlelois:
Yep I'm single and presently doing (1), kills boredom sometimes.

Nice one

GolDRoger:
@Op am single and i didn't fall into any of that

i dnt need a distraction

Clap for yourself!

greatnaija01:
SINGLENESS Is not a disease and relationship is not a cure.

SOME OF US ARE SINGLE AND HAPPY.
We have made so much meaningful progress in all areas of our life than when we were dating someone who was always OVER expecting what they have watched in movies.

We have understood ourselves better and understood that NOT EVERYTHING THAT LOOKS PRETTY, BUSTY AND SHAPY is actually a wife material

Singlehood continues after marriage BUT many will not know until its late.

I never posited that you can't be single and happy. You simply veered from my presentation here. You sure can make progress while you're single; did I say anything contrary to that?
But, then, I notice you wailing and giving reasons why you consider women unworthy of your commitment because, according to you, they "OVER expect" whatever from you. You also submitted that "NOT EVERYTHING THAT LOOKS PRETTY, BUSTY AND SHAPY is actually a wife material", well, that's not in the direct scope of what I'm saying here. You have only succeeded in showing subtle signs of a wounded heart caged within you. I understand you. But, next time, do kindly understand what I'm trying to say here.
By the way, in spite of this your outburst, I'm quite sure there's a lady somewhere who wants you but who you just deliberately ignore because of your unpleasant past experiences. You likely fall into category number 4.
Cheers, bro. All is well that ends well!

IF YOU'RE SINGLE:
1. You're either talking to someone
2. Stuck on an ex
3. Chasing someone who's already taken
4. Ignoring someone who wants you

So, you see, the BALL IS ACTUALLY ALWAYS IN YOUR COURT.

IYABO OBASANJO JUST KILLED IT HERE� A MUST READ

An excellent article by Dr Iyabo Obasanjo (published on her blog).

I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87 million extremely poor people and 13 million children out of school in 2018, the mighty has indeed fallen and change has come. Now I know ‘all things’ are possible in a country ruled by incompetent ‘saints’. We have mass starvation in the North East, yet a clan of ‘Grass cutters’ are making their billions and smiling to the bank with the blood of hungry, homeless children, and internally displaced people in their hands. We hear rumors of ‘Bama Initiatives’ yet the fraternity in power manufactures internal solutions and our conniving cabinet of ‘saints’ watch in silence. They seek another term for their inaction, they call out the nation to pray for God to bless their cluelessness while we wait forever, for just anyone to answer the ‘grass cutter’s’ question; ‘who is the presidency?’

There are few things as nauseating as watching your favorite dog lick up its vomit. That is how sick this government of clowns make me feel. For three years Nigerians have been immersed in a disgusting circus show; the high point of our week is the next ‘tall tale’ from the spin doctor; Mr. Lie Mohammed. The man has shown great dexterity in fabricating bogus stories and making excuses for the pathetic ineptitude of our government. From his bedtime fairy tales about our ‘hale and hearty’ president waiting in the UK for 50 days to have the Presidential jet serviced, to the one that won the tales by moonlight award of the year; the story of the ‘Great Rodents of Aso Rock’. Governance by propaganda and lies has been institutionalized by ‘saints’. That is how we became a nation addicted to tall tales, a place where the rest of the world can look to, for comic relief. Every new day we shake our heads or bite our nails, and wonder why ‘our dear leader’ and his team are taking us for fools.

Three years crawl like eternity, every day with its pangs, and our people beg God to take us back to 2015. Just three years ago in January 2015, President Jonathan reduced the price of fuel from N97 to N86.5 per litre. Babatunde Fashola; Buhari’s super minister, responded by saying the price was not low enough. He promised the nation a better deal under the APC government of ‘saints’. He bragged that a ‘serious’ government would solve the power problem of the country in six months. Today, he is the Power, Works and Housing Minister and his silence is as deafening as it is shameful. Corruption in the power sector under the nostrils of our ‘saint’ stinks to the high heavens as ordinary citizens groan under the burden of ‘estimated bills’ and other sundry deceits.

Tam David West, a military era ally of General Buhari went further to promise his friend will bring the pump price of petrol down to N40 per litre. Then the price of crude came tumbling down to the ground, making the pump price of N40 per liter even more feasible but our government of ‘victims’ doubled the pump price of petrol. They went ahead and increased the price of Diesel by 400% without a reason, crushing the productive sector of the economy where everyone uses diesel to generate their electricity. We are told to blame Jonathan for three years of ineptitude, mediocrity and unbridled nepotism. We thank our God who in his faithfulness has given Professor Tam David West long life to watch ‘crocodile smile, python dance’ and to eat his empty words.

Did our President really promise to make the naira equal to the dollar at the APC South East rally at Owerri in 2015? Some think he did, but we will never know. To comment further may be labelled ‘hate speech’. We hear rumors of the possible reincarnation of decree 2, 4 of 1984. Those who are old enough will understand. The silence of our usually vibrant ‘yoruba’ media speak volumes for their independence and the state of our democratic evolution. I am however sure our ‘saints’ promised to create 740,000 new jobs in one year. They promised to revamp the coal industry in Enugu. They promised change and changed everything. Since then the National office of Statistics reported job losses of 1.5million in the first quarter of 2016. Now they say we are crawling out of recession but in the words of Bob Marley, ‘he who feels it, knows it’.

Nigeria; the famed land of ‘Hailers, Wailers and Lazy Youths’ has never had it so bad, yet apologists of this administration of ‘saints’ will hastily tell you to continue to believe, to celebrate the ‘incorruptibility of our pious ‘dear leader’ and his ‘lopsided’ war against corruption, to jump on the broomstick and believe their voodoo economics. I have difficulty believing that a man in his 4th attempt at the presidency, after 14 years of scheming and plotting will turn out so lame and bereft of ideas. The President of a 21st Century Democracy cannot afford to be this clueless and hands-off-ish. He has watched in near silence the worst form of savagery and bloodletting in our modern history. To give him another term, would be unfair to the old man, like whipping a tired horse.

When Lai Mohammed promised that the 1.4 trillion naira from the TSA will be used as ‘Father Christmas’ handouts to ‘20million’ of the poorest amongst us, many thought it was a joke, vintage Lai, another blatant ‘hot air’ the type for which even within APC, only Lai holds the patent. But alas, it is true, if your state is a ‘political battleground’ state, or depending on which side of the 97.5% versus 5% divide you fit in, you may even get ‘Market Moni’. I will never understand the economic sense in doling out monthly stipends to plan less youths in certain places, sharing out ‘Abacha loot’ while we borrow the same amount from China to support our budget. The revelations from the World Bank President that they were instructed to respect the 97.5% versus 5% formula trounces everything this government has ever done.

I knew the second coming of GMB will not be different from the firsts. I did warn in my blog but Nigerians were past caring. They just wanted a change in the saddle; anything but GEJ. By February 2015 millions of my countrymen were sick of the impunity and kleptocracy of the PDP clan of predators; they were ready to replace them with anyone or anything, even a retired and tired Military Dictator whose High School leaving examination nobody ever saw the certificate. But whatever hope he held out was drowned when he recruited the same old tainted clan of politicians, recycled into the 2015 cabal nay ‘cabinet of saint’. All of them unimpressive without a single exception. Their inability to take responsibility for their failures will always stand them out as a pitiable class of ‘victims’ which we should all quickly forget.
The APC claim of superior morality and credibility was always deeply flawed. An amalgam of the vilest tribalists, the most sordid political capitalist, discredited PDP dropouts, all desperate for power and vengeance, could amount to nothing but the poisonous stew it is. The simpletons who were sold to their cynical manipulations and sloganeering, who voted in droves have been betrayed. Today we have gone full circle, we are back at that same point, where just anything goes. We are back to where we were in February 2015. Budgets after padded budgets, the empty promises of Lai Mohammed will always resonate as great lines of deceitful poetry. The saintly grandfather who came to rid Nigeria of its army of predators and leeches has shown a complete lack of aptitude, indeed his coming has become a hoax. His abysmal failure is a lesson to the next generation of Nigerians, never to worship idols.

I remain an unrepentant optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness. We are yet to live the dreams of our founding fathers. Though we are close to the bottom, Nigeria shall rise again, because we still have the most capable and smartest people on earth. Today they prostrate before imbeciles, tomorrow they will maybe find their livers and use their brains.
Iyabo Obasanjo DVM, PhD.

Tunde broke up with his long time love late last year. The lady practically was broken completely. I had to do my best to console. The same lady has been so torn up since she got the news this morning. I'm still consoling her. Tunde, RIP. She loves you. She honestly loves you. It's all too damn late now.

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets.

These are documented facts!

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central govt because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*. Let those who have ears hear.
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[21/10 8:45 pm] Anascopeterson: WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausafulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their third class citizen status of Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to a play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria.
The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of.
However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish this house with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done by colonial fiat without the consent of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.
To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be a called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any other tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, termed them ethnic champions, accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and declared that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constipation of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, buy Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constipation. While Azikiwe did all this, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.


https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/06/my-opposition-to-secession-zik/

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949)
[21/10 8:46 pm] Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria.
With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.
But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, the Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.
[21/10 8:48 pm] Anascopeterson: While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
[21/10 9:02 pm] Anascopeterson: When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.
But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.
Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony.
Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exuberance.
On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.
Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint".
After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.
[22/10 6:22 am] Anascopeterson: The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.
Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.
In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heros. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.
Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro's, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.
Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igbo land to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.
But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge.
Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:
After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.
[21/10 11:23 pm] Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.
First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijacked the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.
Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.
In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected respresentatives.
That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.
On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amnend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of irresponsibly and dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement we ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements. So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
[22/10 6:26 am] Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suit their narratives.
Right now, all hands must be on deck to salvage whatever remains of the broken dreams of Nigerians.

THE AMIR MUST GO.

COPIED:

"The Electoral Act as Amended was first forwarded to Mr. President in March and it was rejected because of the Sequences of elections which had fixed the Presidential elections last. The NASS returned the elections sequence to the previous routine and returned the Bill to Mr. President to sign. Mr. President rejected the Bill on the excuse that there were drafting issues. NASS again corrected the drafting errors and returned the Bill to Mr. President a third time. He returned the bill still citing drafting errors.... Then for a forth time the Bill was sent to him in October and it took him about 2 months to give a reply... Even a child knows that Buhari is not sincere. The use of incident form gave the President 70% of his vote in the North in 2015. It is the same game he is banking on in 2019. That is why he is scared of outlawing the incident form... Nigeria is bigger than anyone. Let the will of the people stand in 2019" .

Part of the amendment done to the electoral act says the votes will be transmitted live and instantaneously to relevant authorities (even media houses, if need be). Please, somebody should help me ask this drunkard what you'll be counting manually again?