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While I returned my certificate


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Opintiwa:
ASUU is not your problem, hold your useless government.

How can you owe a labourer and still force him to farm .

Black man country

You can be asking for autonomy and expect government to found it. ASUU is a collection of intellectuals they should device a means for self sustainability

*The Case Against ASUU…1*

*By Olusegun Adeniyi*

A thought-provoking piece is going round on WhatsApp. Credited to Professor Hamman Tukur Sa’ad, it concerns the current Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and the tertiary education crisis in Nigeria. The author not only accuses ASUU leadership and those who manage education in Nigeria of lacking critical thinking, but also indicts them for sundry acts of financial impropriety and gross incompetence. In these days of fake news, I had to scout around for the professor’s contact to be sure he wrote the piece.

Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna between 2002 and 2007 and Chairman of the Federal Government Visitation Panel on the 2020 crisis at the University of Lagos, Sa’ad is a prominent national figure. Apparently, the professor belongs to an online chat group where prominent academics daily agonise over the problem of tertiary education in Nigeria. Not only did he confirm his authorship, Sa’ad forwarded to me other more critical interventions he has made on the issue. And they are not the usual lamentations. They go to the root of the crisis, offering suggestions on the way forward. Today, I want to publish a few excerpts from Prof Sa’ad before I proffer my own comments on the issue.

*REMUNERATIONS*

The salaries paid to lecturers are ridiculously low by all standards, but ASUU can be blamed for that too. Universities have their autonomy and statutes as well as governing councils that can introduce charges to augment whatever pittance government pays. But ASUU is vehemently opposed to charges, even when the federal government promised to reintroduce Education Bank from where students could borrow funds and pay later. This is what happens in some countries, including the richest country in the World, USA. With charges, it will be possible to pay a professor in a high-profile discipline up to N3 million per month and get him to render good services. What happens now is that some lecturers are servicing three to four universities to make up. Even when ASUU is on strike, they service private universities so they can afford to stay six months while pretending that they are without salaries. Who is fooling who?

I am opposed to IPPIS on principle. We are not civil servants and cannot be lumped together with government employees. However, most ASUU members are afraid that such a scheme will show their names in a number of federal universities, doing part time teaching, being visiting teachers, or adjunct lecturers. It is unfortunate that students and parents are the ones suffering as a result of these strikes. Government officials and ASUU leadership are shedding crocodile tears over the fate of the students as if they care. It is not enough to call off this strike just in readiness for the next one. This open-close regime must be stopped once and for all. Let universities take their autonomy seriously and councils do the needful, including paying good salaries to lecturers.

*STATE UNIVERSITIES*

ASUU in its greed for check-off money has incorporated state universities into the union. Now they want federal government to fund state universities. Is it that ASUU leaders don’t understand that university education is on the concurrent list? What a crazy country we are running! There are states which have three universities where majority of the structures were built by TETFUND. I was opportune to sit on the council of a state university where more than N1 billion was squandered, and the governor insisted that no more funding to the university until the council was able to recover the looted resources. In the process of investigation, the council realised that the funds were actually monies from federal sources: TETFUND, NEEDS, SEEDS etc. and that state government officials were deeply involved in the looting. Along the line, the governor decided to ignore the council and set up a visitation panel consisting of commissioners, including some that were deep in the rot. The result was that the council was dissolved with ignominy. One of the commissioners was appointed as sole administrator or acting vice chancellor!

*FUNDING ISSUES*

The federal government has consistently goofed in negotiating with ASUU members, especially over allowances. The federal government is not the employer of university staff by law. However, since ministers of education have insisted on acting Big by pretending that they have absolute and direct authority over universities, they will continue to suffer the consequences of their folly. ASUU has sucked them in.

I have spent all my life in the education sector, either as a pupil, student, teacher or a lecturer. The sector functioned better when regions, native authorities, missionaries and private sector handled it. The collapse came when the federal government felt it could handle everything below the sky. Every day, the government opens new universities while they can’t fund the present ones they own. Every sector that the federal government took over, it has managed to destroy. Hospitals, roads, universities, secondary schools, name it.

As rich, powerful and big as the United States is, other than specialist universities like those for the army, navy and airforce, the federal government has only two universities. Howard University that was created when the states and private universities were denying admission to black people. The second one is the District of Columbia University in Washington DC which is in the federal territory. However, US federal government intervenes in education through bursaries, loans and grants to students. Barack Obama just managed to finish the repayment of his university student’s loan when he became American president.

Seeing how the regions and native authorities competed in educating their children during the First Republic, I have no doubt that creating a similar atmosphere would enable us to once again move forward. Take the case of Borno Native Authority that used to send its brilliant pupils to secondary schools and universities in UK on scholarship. People like Babagana Kingibe and many others of that generation were products of such a scheme. Education was a serious business in those days at every level. But with the illusion of oil money, we dumped everything on a dysfunctional government at the centre.

Our parents used to sell goats, cows, groundnuts and whatever they had to send us to Government Secondary Schools in the 1960s. At the university level, state governments gave scholarships, but fees were charged. Uncle Naija moved in with oil money, took over everything and destroyed it. Our universities competed with the best in the world under the old system. But where are we today?

*BACK TO THE BASICS*

In the 1970s when we were at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, we were either on scholarship from our state government in my case N/E or parents paid in the absence of sponsorship. Those who genuinely could not afford the fees were termed indigent students. List of such students was forwarded to federal government for sponsorship. But it was a stigma. Few students would like to be on that list. So, university education was not free as such.

When I was in secondary school at Government College Kaduna, fees were charged, based on perceived income of your father. The highest was £36 per annum. The lowest was £3. Three pounds was the price of two sacks of groundnuts at the harvest time. £33 was the cost of two fully mature bulls if you were a cattle owner. Salary earners’ income was visible, so the charges were easy. Our parents paid according to their abilities. We valued the education we obtained at all levels. The person who claimed that education in Europe is free should contend with Brexit. Britain always charged foreigners while citizens enjoyed the fruit of their parents’ taxes. Some of the Scandinavian countries that are reputed to have free education like Finland also have the highest taxes in the World. So, it is not free per se. Someone is paying for it. Who pays tax in Nigeria? Mostly people in the services and the formal sector. But our informal sector is perhaps larger than the formal sector. It is not taxed. How can anybody run a country based on allocations from one source, the Federation Account?

*A PERSONAL EXAMPLE*

I took over a university where 15,000 students were cramped in a Teachers Training College compound meant for 2,500 students. Meanwhile, there was an ongoing permanent site, 12 kilometres away but abandoned because of lack of funds. In addition, there were backlogs of arrears promised to unions by government and a monthly shortfall of salaries of between N5 million and N8 million. With these problems, the university was always in crisis either from staff or students. Where could I get funds to complete the permanent site and move out, balance my monthly salaries, pay arrears promised unions and run my laboratories and lectures?

President Olusegun Obasanjo gave me a letter saying I was in charge, and he sent envelopes to the National University Commission (NUC) to distribute as it pleased. But we also had university laws and statutes of dos and don’ts. The students were paying N15,000 per annum to the university as charges including N90 per annum for hostel which they leased to fellow students at N15,000. I decided to hike the various charges. My leap was to charge N50,000 for regular students and N60,000 for remedial students with additional N20,000 for absorption of those who passed the remediation. Most students claimed they were from poor families and could not afford it, but I had my data based on the schools they attended. Many of them came from fee paying secondary schools like El Amin, New Horizon, Hikma, to cite those around Minna. The fees there started from N500,000 and ran to over N1 million. They even played polo in their schools!


To cut the story short, every student found a way of paying the charges. Niger State offered to pay for its students, I refused to accept the offer. I asked the governor to give scholarship to his students. I would take my money direct from them. Nobody would step on the campus without clearance from our various banks. It worked. Niger State paid only once and never again. The governor who was a student at the period I was a lecturer in the same university thought he could trick me by wasting my bursar’s time, chasing his commissioner of finance like a contractor.

The students paid us, and we had money to run the place. Over the years we completed our buildings and started new ones. Departments were getting enough money to run their services. The most highly subscribed department was Computer Electronic Department. In addition to the allocation in their budget, they received N800,000 per quarter from charges and N250,000 from DTLC. In short, they had over N1.5 million quarterly to run their services. There was prosperity not because of government but despite government.

Can you imagine my shock when I returned to my base at ABU Zaria to find out that my department with over 600 students was receiving N50,000 per quarter from one joker calling himself a vice chancellor! The most surprising aspect of the maladministration was that ASUU officials were made directors, deputy directors or heads of some units.

*ASUU GETS IT WRONG*

For the five years I served at Minna, I never had serious problems with either the students or unions. In fact, ASUU was so cooperative that we often asked for exemption because prior to my arrival the university had lost cumulatively almost two years as a result of students’ union crises and staff strikes. Funds are the magic wand that drives the university system.

When ASUU insists that no contribution should come from parents and students to run a university, let them visit our permanent site at FUTMIN. We even had a dedicated power line from the Shiroro substation, eight kilometres away at the cost of N50 million completed that time. Parents will appreciate your efforts if you use their resources judiciously. I never had problems increasing my charges at the CBN inflation rate every year. Because we discussed it with the students and outlined what we intended to do the following year. All this posturing and ‘open-close’ syndrome on our campuses will take us nowhere.

By 2007, I left N1.27 billion in the kitty for the incoming VC to continue with what we started. Surprisingly, someone advised the VC that since he was taking over from a popular VC if he removed some of the charges, he would be more popular. And he did. But after clapping for him, the students told him to ensure that he worked like his predecessor. He didn’t realise that it was the very charges he removed that made them proud of their university and made me popular at the end.

*MORE POSERS*.....

Why can’t each council run its university as the law stipulates? Why should government be directly involved? If UNILAG which could hide N10 billion from my special presidential visitation panel decides to be paying its professors of computer engineering and plastic surgery N5 million per month, why should ASUU insist they should take N500,000 because that is what an anthropology professor like me was taking? ASUU lives in the sixties. The world has moved, leaving us behind. We are losing our best staff and students to a globalised world at an unprecedented rate. Not because of the poor state of the economy but because of our archaic mode of thinking.

*ENDNOTE*: To be concluded.

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Sometimes we need to appreciate the economic policy makers in Nigeria looking at what is happening globally now


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This type of news hardly make headline, seems we enjoy seeing bad news on our airspace

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The Akure Division of Ondo State High Court on Friday sentenced three persons to death, by hanging, for the murder of Funke Olakunrin.

Mohammed Shehu Usman, Mazaje Lawal, and Adamu Adamu were sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of Mrs Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural body, Afenifere, Reuben Fasoranti, three years after the murder.

Usman, Lawal, Adamu and Auwalu Abubakar were the four suspects arraigned in the court.

However, the fourth suspect, Mr Abubakar, who was on trial for aiding and abetting the crime, was discharged and acquitted by the court.

They were trialled at the court on eight counts bordering on conspiracy, kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearms and aiding and abetting.

Justice Williams Olamide, who delivered the judgement, on Friday morning, found the trio guilty after they conspired together to commit the armed robbery that led to the murder of Mrs Olakunrin.

Justice Olamide gave his final judgement, which spanned more than two hours, after taking appearances of the prosecution counsel, Charles Titiloye, and the defence counsel, Obafemi Bawa.

The judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The judge had reserved today for the judgement after listening to submissions and adopted the final written addresses from the prosecution and the defence counsel.

The judgement came three years after the killing and trials of the arrested suspects by the government.

Mrs Olakunrin was travelling from Akure to Lagos after visiting her father when the gunmen struck and killed her on the Ore federal highway on July 12, 2019.

Her gruesome death had attracted a wide range of condemnation from Nigerians, including political and social groups.

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A prosecution witness, Bamidele Safiriyu, has narrated how one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a self-professed army general, posing as the son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo defrauded him of almost N300 million.

Bolarinwa is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of documents, and possession of documents containing false pretence.

He is standing trial before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, EEFC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Tuesday.

Testifying as the first prosecution witness, Safiriyu, who was led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, narrated how the defendant defrauded him in a well-calculated fraud scheme to the tune of N266,500,000.

Describing himself as a businessman who deals in “clearing and forwarding”, he said he registered two companies, Kodef Clearing Resources Limited in April 2008 and De-Rock Maritime Resource in July 2013 both for “the clearing purposes”.


The General

The witness identified the defendant in the dock and narrated how their paths crossed, leading to him being defrauded by the defendant who claimed to be an army general and claimed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was his father.

He told the court that on a Friday, sometime in April 2017, one of his trucks that he loaded going to a customer’s cold room hit the defendant’s Honda Accord.

“He (Bolarinwa) detained the truck because he moves in a convoy of soldiers,” said the victim. “On Saturday, the following day, I got a call from my client that some soldiers have hijacked the container.

“I became troubled because it has never happened before and that Saturday, I was to travel out, and so I was just praying because I didn’t know what to do.”

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Safiriyu told the court that some of those working with him, including his younger brother, had to step in to see what they could do.

He recounted, “Later in the day, I received a call from this young man and he introduced himself as General Abiodun Bolarinwa, a general in the Nigerian Army and a son to Baba Olusegun Obasanjo, former President.

“He told me in that conversation that my truck was with him that the truck bashed his car and his boys brought it to where he stays at Abule-Egba. Later my team also met with him, and they got the issue resolved after spending about N200,000.”

Bolarinwa continued afterwards to communicate with Safiriyu, who even saved his phone number as ‘General Bolarinwa’, Uwujaren stated.


COAS Contest

According to him, the defendant once came to his office in a convoy of military personnel with a banner of former President Obasanjo adorning one of the vehicles.

“He came with a convoy, and they were shooting in the air and everywhere was scattered,” the witness narrated. “Later he sent me a message that he is going to be made the military assistant to the president at Aso Rock.

“He sent me the letter and he said he would need some assistance, claiming that in the army you are going to provide everything you need. Later he said he was vying for the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) that he has been nominated by the President and that he needs money to press and process the appointment.

“I was reluctant at first and started asking myself question if he wants to become army chief and he claims to be Baba Obasanjo’s son; as a former president, will he not just need a call from him to press anything?

“So, I asked him, ‘you said you’re baba’s son, why can’t he take care of this? He replied and said you know that baba doesn’t want to do that because of the polygamous home and so he doesn’t want to be seen as the one financing him.

“In 2013, a message came in to my phone saying ‘I, President Obasanjo’. Then a few minutes later, he called me and said, ‘Baba has been trying to reach you’, but that I was not picking his call. I checked my phone, I saw only a text, no missed call, and I told him; he said that Obasanjo has been trying to reach me to thank me for all I have been doing for him.

“Then later a number called me, and it showed the name ‘Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR’ as the caller, and I picked up the call, it was exactly Baba’s voice and he said to me to help my brother financially to become COAS that he will repay me.

“So, I said, ok, sir; and that was how at various times he kept requesting for money. He said he needed money to travel to go and meet emirs to make his intention known, that he has been nominated to become the next COAS.

“Any time he needs money, he will use the number, sometimes he asks for N5million, N6million. I did not know that he was not even in the army and never even passed through the army; this I got to know much later.”

Safiriyu told the court that the defendant posing as Obasanjo’s son even invited him to Obasanjo’s birthday in 2020.

According to the witness, he was able to later get an audience with Obasanjo who denied that the defendant was his son.

Thereafter, he petitioned the EFCC, when he realised belatedly that he had been duped of almost N300 million.

The prosecution, thereafter, tendered in evidence the petition along with several attachments, including letters, confirmation letters and several photos sent to him by the defendant to deceive and defraud him.

The bundle of documents was admitted in evidence as Exhibit A while the victim also took time in open court to itemise all the various money transfers he sent to the defendant, as well as several correspondences between the two of them.

Subsequently, the prosecution tendered the mobile phone of the witness in evidence, and it was admitted in evidence as Exhibit B, and the court adjourned the case until April 29, 2022, for cross-examination.
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..“Everything that has a beginning must have an end.

As they say on the street: “E fit take time, but one day, one day, Monkey go go market”

…“I love this quote about injustice: “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone.” – Edward Snowden._

One day, and very soon, Nigerians will cross that line too.

…”For there is indeed a limit to human endurance. One day, we all shall rise to say Enough is enough. One day!”_

Fellow Nigerians, I have had to shelve the continuation of the celebration of Ovation International magazine at 25 in order to address matters of pressing national importance. I have just received some new horrific videos of bestial killings in some parts of Nigeria, and it is obvious Satan himself has landed in Nigeria.

The above quotation is from my cerebral Sister-in-law, Sister T, whose brains I respect a lot and whose comportment and composure are remarkably wonderful. Not much fazes her. She simply takes things in her stride. She has several outstanding features, qualities and principles. Above all else, and germane to today’s epistle, she was a Buhari fanatic. But today, she has parted company with him, for obvious reasons. Before I continue, let me introduce myself properly. It is important and necessary to do so as we currently live in the age of cynicism and ignorance. I do not want to assume that everyone knows my antecedents. I used to wonder why Chief Moshood Abiola used to introduce himself in those good old days. For a man who was probably the most famous man of his generation, I found it strange that he still greeted people with “My name is Moshood Abiola!” He explained that one should never assume that everyone knows him. I later saw the sense in that statement because it is simplistic but true. No matter how popular or notorious you are, a lot of people will never have heard of you and even if they have, most people will not have seen your face before.

So, let’s now go to my own personal introduction. My name is Dele Momodu. I’m a man of many parts but I love to be known and described principally as a reporter and a journalist without borders. With all sense of humility and sincerity, I am bold enough to say that I’m a completely detribalized man. I come from a mixed ethnic and religious background. My Dad was from Edo State and my Mum came from Osun State. My paternal grandparents were Muslims while my parents were Christians. I was born in Yorubaland and had all my education in Yorubaland. I studied Yoruba as my first Degree in University and became accustomed with African traditional religion particularly Ifa, and its divination. I have travelled globally across five continents spanning more than 60 countries, territories, and islands. I have interacted with lumpen proletariats, prominent members of the bourgeoisie as well as top officials at the highest echelons of government. In all, I have maintained my sanity, humility and modesty. I am able to tell my friends the truth, whether they are in power or not. This is a rarity in our country where leaders of all hues and colourations are treated as Demi-gods and they also consider themselves as such, and where the lives and livelihoods of most people depend on government patronage. Let me now go to the main meat of my epistle today.

My letter today is meant for my Fulani friends. I know and have many of them as buddies. They are naturally handsome and beautiful depending on the sex. This is not a stereotype. The educated ones are mostly so sweet natured and mild mannered. The unlettered ones are mostly the exact opposite. I apologise if I over-generalise, but that is my opinion, which is shared by a lot of other compatriots including the Fulani themselves. I have undertaken some research about the origin and character of the Fulani people lately as a result of the unfortunate hoopla they have generated in many West African countries, Nigeria in particular. According to my investigations, the Fulani are largely itinerant in nature. They have the power and the stamina to trek long distances with or without their cows. They pride themselves as warriors and the advent of Major General Muhammadu Buhari – a man seen as epitomising all the virtues and vices ascribed to the Fulani, and who they see as an Icon and a Messiah – as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has really emboldened the Fulani. The result is that more than ever before, because of the manner of governance of Mr President, the Fulani now arrogantly consider themselves as being superior to other tribes that make up Nigeria including their other Northern brethren.

I used to argue that Nigeria is indivisible, and we must protect its unity with everything we have but not any longer. While I may not yet have crossed the Rubicon, I’m sufficiently convinced and reasonably assured that Nigeria is truly on the fringe of another civil war if we do not push back. I know that those in government are not likely to see or feel the heat like most of us watching from the sidelines. President Buhari has obviously driven Nigeria closer to war than any of our leaders since 1967. What is worse is his nonchalant and reckless demeanour and outlook. He just does not seem to care about whatever happens to the country he campaigned vigorously and beguilingly to lead and on which basis the unsuspecting majority of Nigerians entrusted their future to him! This is a man who appeared to wear his patriotism on his sleeve when he cried bitterly after being adjudged as having lost the 2011 Presidential elections. He cut a sorry, pathetic figure then. It now appears that this was all part of a charade aimed at wooing and ingratiating himself into the heart of Nigerians who naturally sympathised with him.

While it is very convenient for our Fulani compatriots to play the victim and blame everyone else for the woes they have brought upon all of us for no justifiable reason, they need to be told the gospel truth. Many of us do not hate the Fulani but they obviously hate us non-Fulani people especially those of us who are south of the Niger. They hate many facts about us. They hate our liberal nature and our psychedelic and glamorous lifestyles, but we do not concern ourselves with how they live their own lives. It is their choice that they decide to live a spartan almost ascetic existence out of suppression and subjugation. We are very tolerant and do not even mind that this tends to draw us back. Many of the Fulani who are not astute enough view us as arrogant, but this is not true. What they call arrogance is a product of our Western education and robust knowledge of the world which is in stark contrast to the Arabic education that most of them possess and embrace. We do not begrudge them their education which is steeped in religious mores because we recognise that we live in a secular nation. We appreciate that Arabic education is itself of a high standard and encompasses almost all facets of human life and endeavour whereas Western Education may sometimes be narrow and limited in certain aspects. What is not in doubt is that Western education breeds in us a degree of confidence which is seen as a threat by our fellow Fulani citizens.

The Fulani have been over-pampered in Nigeria. We have ascribed to them humongous mythical powers which they do not possess. Because of our conciliatory nature and disposition, we have been complicit in elevating their status and position in the country. For this reason, it has been easy for them to manipulate us into the position where we find ourselves today. Based on this false premise on invincibility, we have allowed the Fulani to hold power for periods much longer than all other ethnic groups in our country. They have almost erroneously come to consider it their birthright to lead Nigeria to the detriment of other sections of the country. Yet, despite all this extended leadership periods, their people remain almost irredeemably pauperised. The reason is simple, lack of proper education (Western or Arabic) and, more importantly, vocational training have rendered many of the Fulani youths unemployed and unemployable. The Northern politicians who chose to use the Almajiris as their slaves and thugs particularly during elections have shot themselves in the foot. They have murdered sleep. Restless and restive youths will eventually turn on their handlers. It has always been a disaster waiting to happen. Feudalism could never work for too long and certainly the opening of eyes occasioned by various forms of social media has meant that these youths can see how they have been repressed and oppressed. Many of the Fulani oligarchs and nouveau riche can no longer visit their villages and sleep with their two eyes closed. Their leaders refused to take a cue from Chief Obafemi Awolowo whose main legacy was the investment in free education.

Therefore, my first suggestion to our Fulani friends is that they should abolish their wasteful investments on unproductive ventures like foreign exchange trading and ill-thought projects like building a railway to Niger Republic or the rehabilitation of moribund refineries with a whopping billions of US Dollars. Let them embark urgently on compulsory Western education mixed with Arabic norms and teachings. In this way, they will produce stellar citizens who will develop their cattle rearing methods, if indeed they must continue to rear cattle. I am certain though that they will realise that the world does not begin and end with cows!

Next is the overbearing Fulani attitude of cornering every important position in the government. This will always be a major source of friction. It is not feasible or sustainable in the long term and the Fulani being in the minority will eventually be the losers. They should realise that their champion, Buhari, has over-acted and overreached himself by his apparent Fulanisation agenda. Neither he nor them can or will last. The more the Southerners protest against clear acts of division, oppression and suppression, the more Buhari provokes them recklessly with more insulting appointments for Northerners. It will all lead to tears for them in the end because when you push people to the wall and there is nowhere else to go, they will come out fighting with all guns blazing.

The Northern Hausa-Fulani irredentists should also understand that Southern Nigeria is too cosmopolitan and globally influential to be conquered by any invading Fulani bandits and terrorists. This is what is playing out now. The Government may be turning a blind eye to their atrocities but those being pillaged, raped and murdered will not do so. Their home is their castle, and they will stoutly and robustly defend it. This may ultimately be what makes the downfall of Nigeria.

What Buhari has succeeded in doing is to unite the Southerners in the face of common tribulations. I have never seen the level of anger I see today in our country. Only God through our youths can possibly avert the monumental collapse of a once beautiful and powerful country brought to its knees by the myopic vision of a bigot. The truth is Nigeria is greater than all this and I believe that as the Fulani youths achieve their emancipation through qualitative education, they will join their Southern brethren in creating a Nigeria based on equality, fairness and justice. This is not a pipe dream. Our country’s youths may well save us

Before now, I had thought that PMB’S enthronement has a mixed effect, but now, I have grown up to understand the Divine hands in hoisting him as our president.

It’s for all Nigerians to think about the true character posture of a leader rather than focusing on our tribal and religious differences or sentiments.

Before now, I have read about Uthman Dan Fodio as a historical reference, but today, it has dawned on me why Ilorin now has Emir instead of an Oba.

Before, I heard that the Fulanis were very good herdsmen with resilience attitudes to migrations, but today, they are not only herders, but a people with conquering power in wherever they lay claim to possess.

PMB’S ENTHRONEMENT has opened my eyes, and I am now beginning to wonder that the fairytale of the Hausas being conquered by the Fulanis is no more a fluke.

The aborted coup of RUGA was all that I read to understand that sooner than later, my children will be hearing that once upon a time, there was a King called the OBI of ONITSHA. Then, the children will be hearing of EMIR OF ONITSHA.

Today, in our 1999 Constitution, nothing of Christianity was mentioned, but Islamic religion dotted many clauses, and yet, like morons, we tend to dream of a country under the tenet of secularism.

Today, Nigeria is more vocal in the OIC conglomerate, and as people under a spell, we are still alive to the illusion of secularism.

PMB is truly a blessing to me because I have seen practical nepotistic democracy being exhibited with impunity.

PMB is a blessing because I can now understand that it’s better to destroy your country’s healthcare and educational systems so as to travel abroad for estacodes and leadership egoism.

PMB has helped many of us to appreciate a leadership principle that hinges on old school friends, tribal acquaintances and religious sentiments.

Does it matter anymore when most of our leadership architectures have become a clear case of the Fulanis versus the rest of Nigerians?

We are entrapped in a eulogy of confusion hence the very best of our core leadership portfolios are the exclusive reserves for the Fulanis.

Take a routine task of reflecting on the military or security, Judiciary, NASS, NNPC, NCS, NPA, FIRS heads, and still tell me that PMB’S tenure has not been a blessing in disguise.

It’s very unfortunate that the South and Middle Belters are still confused, and we need not blame them.

The lopsided state creations have messed up their bargaining powers.

Before 1963, we have four regions that were operating as near self- governments. Suddenly, the military took over and not only unified the regions but without any constitutional authority, created many states.

Most of these states that were created were the HANDIWORK of the Northern Heads of States. Cleverly, the four regions were divided into 37 states (including FCT). Out of the 37, 20 states came out of one single region – North, whereas the other three regions were pathetically given 17 states.

Till date, no one has challenged that absurdity of state creations.

It was even more insulting for anyone to tell me that landmass should be a variable in state creation. That means that Texas and California states would have been divided into probably 20 states because of their landmass.

To date, all the Southern leaders are bemoaning their pains internally.

By the present structure of Nigeria, the North will always dictate everything about the wellbeing of Nigeria and Nigerians. Invariably, we are all a conquered territory under implied Caliphate manipulations.

Have you wondered why most Southern leaders who want to be recognized in the polite of Nigeria will never speak against the obnoxious laws of PMB? The truth is that they are stooges, awaiting the Northern elite endorsements.

These Southern leaders will prefer to trade the lives of their people than confronting PMB.

You have seen how everyone remained quiet when PMB single-handedly appointed Usman as an Acting IGP without the police commission meeting or recommendation.

Indeed, PMB is a blessing to most Nigerians who can sell our principles at the detriment of the masses.

In an ideal environment, PMB would have been reminded of certain issues by NASS, but unfortunately, NASS has equally been annexed by the presidency.

Today, BokoHaramists, Bandits and slaughters are rampaging, and of course, we were told to be lenient with them.

In fact, we were told to hand them over to the police whenever we catch any of them.

What an irony!

A man who has been asked to surrender his weapon fighting a man who is priding himself with Ak 47.

Who’s supposed to catch the other?

Today, we have seen where terrorists are treated as VIPS and their victims neglected.

Today, there were killings in Anambra, Enugu, Asaba, Ibadan, Ondo, Benue, Plateau, and other places, but that was the best time for PMB to travel for medical checkups.

The heinous crime happened in Imo State recently where police headquarters was attacked, and prison inmates released.

From abroad, PMB knew that the attack was the handiwork of terrorists, and collaborated by former IGP Adamu, who categorically pointed an accusing finger on IPOB even when IPOB denied any involvement. Meanwhile, the massive massacre in Ebonyi State by alleged herdsmen incursions was never a terrorist attack.

“We have seen the best of our leaders’ stewardships and of course, we are beneficiaries of what we have planted.” DSM.

Let me conclude with a reflexive explanation to my about submission in a simple INCOME and EXPENDITURE outlook of PMB’S Stewardship appointments and effects.

Income (Major Revenue Earning Establishments)

1) NNPC – Fulani

2) FIRS – Fulani

3) NCS – Fulani

4) NPA – Fulani

Expenditure (Major Revenue outflows/Expenses Sectors)

1) Defence – Fulani

2) Finance – Fulani

3) Education – Fulani

4) Justice – Fulani

5) FCT – Fulani

6) Agriculture – Fulani

7) Police Affairs – Fulani

8. Aviation – Fulani

9) Communication – Fulani

10) Power – Fulani

11) Water resources – Fulani

12) Humanitarian affairs – Fulani

13) FERMA – Fulani

14) NYSC – Fulani

15) PTDF – Fulani

16) NTA – Fulani

17) FAAN – Fulani

18) INEC – Fulani

19) Loads of others

Anti-corruption Agencies

20) EFCC – Fulani

21) ICPC – Fulani

22) NFIU – Fulani

If there’s nothing you can take out from my piece, just remember that PMB’S tenure has exposed many Nigerians to ask questions about the future of Nigeria. It has equally exposed us to the enormous power of a president who is more or less, a supreme being that must not be questioned.

Of course, we have come to the uttermost understanding that tribal and religious sentiments are part of our governance policies.

Last but not the least, Nigerians are clamouring for the restructuring of Nigeria.

The call has never been this alarming rate, and they’re pointing their accusing fingers on a deformed document that we referred to as our Constitution.

Thank you, PMB for being our president, and now most of us have come to understand that Nigeria has been mismanaged under a faulty foundation and unpatriotic governments.

As you answer, please remember that I come in PEACE.
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Oghene1st:
First of all, may his soul rest in perfect peace.

This is a story of a young man who decided to develop himself educationally in order to remain useful and law abiding, paid for an hotel room with his hard earned money only to be killed by those who are supposed to ensure his safety in their premises.

I have a question to ask. Why didn't the police charge the owner of the hotel for murder? Why just the staff?

I guess after investigation, the hotel owner might not really be involved about the murder, may be he was just covering for his investment

Never had any issue since I have been using his service. You can relax with your order rest assure you are in good hand.

Keep it up

Good day,
I bought your product Techfine 60A MPPT charge controller and seems to have some issue.
I have three 320w solar panel connected in series to it and two 12v Tubular batteries connected in series to give 24v.
The issue is, during the day (sunrise), the battery indicator shows full with 27.5v but immediately the sunset, the battery indicator drop by 1 bar on the charger controller.
Is there any settings I should be look at.
Please I need your technical advise.

I have seen several recorded voice messages and distributed messages on social medias especially on alerting people on new scam tricks and how scammers operate.

Some of this messages are recorded voice conversation between a scammer and their targeted victims.
My concern is since their numbers are visible to all, is there a regulatory body that one can report to, at least if they can not track the number if the NIN is not activated they should be able to deactivate such line.
What seems to happen is to hear the scammer and the victims abusing one another and that seems to be the end of it.

I think we can do more than tagging the number on true caller app as scammer.

It's so obvious sometimes that you will see the notification on true caller that this is a scammer calling because several people have been victimized or attempted and all seems to do is to tag it on true caller app.

So can one report such number to NCC just as we report ATM scammers to banks?

nurey:
Normally both have advantage over each other but plantain is better than banana in Nigeria.

Banana could be turned into seasoning for ice cream, cakes, confectionery uses in sweets and biscuits. In the drinks sector as a flavour too.

Plantain can be sold raw or dried and milled into flour or made into plantain chips and packaged for better profit.

Depending on which one you wanna go for. BUNCH TO BUNCH banana command more than plantain because it has more fingers than an average plantain

The bolded part is one of the reason I consider banana to be more profitable since you have more bunch to sell than plantain. But I know most times it's a different ball game in reality

Just got thinking about this two Musa specie in terms of their economic profitability.

Plantain seems to be seasonal in profit but makes lot of sense during it's off season. Don't know much about banana but seems to be more of staple/fruit, which means that banana price is like make sense all year.

Will appreciate the opinions of plantain and banana farmers.

domack99:
Debate is on, on how best to move Nigeria forward. Down to four schools from four states of the federation. Vote for school with the best point. No sentiment please.

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Obvious Nigerians are voting with sentiment

Debate is on, on how best to move Nigeria forward. Down to four schools from four states of the federation. Vote for school with the best point. No sentiment please.

https://acln.org/acln-chapters-ng/vote

Truth be told, this is going to be a difficult move to execute but highly recommended not only for Kaduna state but the entire states of the federation and the Federal service personnel.

Less than 1% of the population of a state cannot be consumint the entire monthly allocation. This same civil servant are also frustrating business in the name that they are not be paid well.

Can't imagine people are employed only to be frustrating people trying to setup business that will pay tax that will be use to pay their salary.

It’s the end of the road for LG’s mobile division. The company confirmed it's moving out of the smartphone business after the decision was finally approved by its board of directors. LG will now shift its focus and resources in the fields of electric vehicle components, IoT devices, smart homes, robotics, AI and business-to-business solutions.

The currently available LG smartphone inventory will still be sold at retailers and LG promises both hardware and software support to existing customers for an unspecified amount of time that will vary by region. The process of phasing out LG’s mobile division is expected to be completed by July 31 although product inventory will likely be available after that date.

LG will continue its R& efforts in the field of communication networks including its projects on 6G and will focus on strengthening its competitiveness in other fields. There’s also confirmation that all core LG technologies developed in the past two decades will be retained and put into future products from the brand.
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The problem in this coutry is our security personnel, they have failed to do their work. If the security ate up to their task, all these ethnic trouble will not exist.

God bless this writer. This is one of the problem of common man in Nigeria, we believe anything bad news especially coming from Nigeria and use it to blame the government. If we don't have faith in our country, sincerely no one we do.

The Chinese court has published a verdict on a case involving the Chinese smartphone maker Gionee. It seems that Gionee planted a Trojan Horse on more than 20 million devices to get money from unsolicited ads and other malicious activities without the user's knowledge.

The Shenzhen Zhipu Technology Co. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Gionee, has implanted a Trojan Horse through a software update using the so-called "Story Lock Screen" app. The first devices infected with the "Dark Horse Program" were in December 2018. The job was carried out until October 2019 and for that period, the company is said to have earned around $4.2 million, affecting 21.75 million smartphones. The expenses for that period are just a little below $1.3 million.

Xu Li, Zhu Ying, Jia Zhengqiang and Pan Qi were found guilty in the process of illegally controlling mobile devices and are sentenced from 3 to 3.5 years in prison along with a CNY 200,000 (~$30,000) fine each.

Although shocking, this seems to be a common practice with cheap Chinese smartphones and other companies were also found guilty of the same
malicious activity and Tecno is one of them.

https://www.gsmarena.com/chinese_finds_gionee_guilty_of_planting_malware_on_more_than_20_million_units-news-46613.php

I have an HTC 10 for sale, still very neat with transpa rubber covering.

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Issue.
Less than half centimeter part around the center of the screen do malfunction, so if happens that a button or link you are to click fall on that little area, you will have to activate rotate mode in order to click.

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Can the Genuity of Lagos land survey be confirm via online platform or how do one confirm if the land survey presented by the property owner is genue or not.

What is the process and cost in confirming this.

Good CCTV. Will surely contact you soon

Comment from professionals will be appreciated

To surveyors in the house

Please what does *consent to survey mean*. Is it different from general survey that we all know.
If the letter for consent to survey is granted, what does that mean for the land?. How does one applied for it.

Thanks

Still available

Guess we don't know

Keep the calls coming

Any idea