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as long as its Ijaws kidnapping ijaws. no wahala

rebekah2011:
Not grapevine. The MD himself admitted it. Ditto for Diamond Bank too

Diamond ke? diamond has anything to recapitalise?

pluto09:
Fcmb has issue with CAR
dividend expectations should be moderated
The bank is likely to recapitalize a large chunk of its profit.

I've been hearing this from the grapevine since late last year. Probably true.

ZeroTolerance:
Shagari was in office from 1979 to 1983. They say his government looted the national treasury. Things were not so good but Nigeria did not go into an economic recession. Then Buhari came as military Head of State and was in office from 1983 to 1985. They say he did not loot. But during his time in office, Nigeria fell into a deep economic recession. Then came Babangida. They say he looted Nigeria from 1985 to 1993. Yet there was no economic recession. After Babangida came Shonekan and Abacha from 1993 to 1998. Abacha was also said to have looted the treasury. In fact, his loot stashed abroad is still being recovered till today. Yet there was still no economic recession. From 1998 to 2015, we have had Abdulsalami, Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and Jonathan. All administrations were accused of looting the treasury. Still there was no recession. Now Buhari is back and we are once again in a recession and you say "LOOTING" of the Jonathan years is the cause? Are we okay Do u need a prophet to tell u that this pmb is a proven failure?

This is the most ignorant and foolish post I've ever seen on Nairaland!
Shame to all the three hundred and something people liking this post, you're all ignorant of history. Shagari's government was booted out by the military with cheers and jubilation everywhere because they were so corrupt and also because Nigeria was in recession occasioned by the fall in oil prices at that time. If any of you people in the likers club is old enough to remember, Nigeria could not even pay for basic imports and out foreign students were stranded abroad because of the scarcity of forex during that time. You people should stop twisting and turning history to suit your devilish narratives.
Buhari won the elections at a very critical time in our history. Record low oil prices, massive corruption and a populace that has almost given up on the government.
I personally believe buhari is too old and frail to solve any of our problems. We need more energy in aso rock. It doesn't mean I will now twist history to suit my narrative like this idiot I'm quoting here.

In my honest opinion, Buhari should resign and leave the rudder of this country to a stronger and more energetic person. We can't be in the middle of a recession and have a President who can't preside. Its absurd. That's why Daura and babachir lawal are taking advantage of the situation, writing fraudulent letters, welcoming ibori home, harassing magu and arresting pastors at night.
Buhari is a good man but his best years are behind him. We need plenty of energy and zeal in aso rock. Buhari should quietly resign and go rest. He has tried.

The president isn't dead yet and we have people like the DSS DG and Abba kyari and Buratai acting like they're above the law. God knows what will happen when he eventually dies.
Buhari is a good man but I think it's time for him to go.
For someone who chased after this thing for so long to finally acquire it and then be bereft of any ideas, its just pathetic. Let him go home and rest peacefully. Now we need someone who's strong, incorruptible and also energetic.

Account containing money that doesn't belong to him. I'm against disobedience to court orders but I'm happy this two faced fraudster and false prophet Fayose won't get to spend money that doesn't belong to him, stolen money.
Stupid and shameless oloriburuku of a man

I think Buhqri hasn't been given any time to make any meaningful change. I think things are really messed up in Nigeria today and I also think it'll take a lot of time to rectify our problems.
I think it is absolutely right for anyone to go out and protest high food prices, unemployment and corruption, it is their right even if anybody is sponsoring them. Nobody has the right to condemn anyone for going out to air their grievances.
I'm not naive tho and I understand that there are charlatans, killers and bastards like Ayodele "the murderer" Fayose and co that would love nothing more than watching everyone in arms against Buhari. To people like that, I say your day of shame and disgrace is near. Fayose's fall and disgrace is going to be as epic if not, more epic that Abacha's.

The show man of Ekiti, the murderer of Kehinde Fasuba, the stealer of NSA and Ekiti money, the only man that can commission a N1.2 billion naira poultry without chickens, the one who uses his sisters name to buy houses in Abuja. The one who shares and distributes government money at his Spotless hotel in Ado. The one who tells contractors to over invoice contracts and payback by buying property for him in Lagos. The one who used Ekiti money to buy houses for his mother in Ibadan. That is the same man "Apostle" suileman invited to desecrate the alter of God!
All the facts I Stated above are verifiable with a simple google search.

I think people are being deliberately and stupidly over critical of Buhari. There is no forex!!!!!!!
Oil prices have plummethed more than 70% from USD110 per barrel to USD30 per barrel in 2015. We went from having more than USD60 billion in our foreign reserves when Jonathan assumed office to less than USD30 billion when Jonathan left. There is no forex to give to any manufacturers.
These people should stop making it seem like Buhari is storing dollars under his bed. There is just no forex!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jonathan used all of it to bribe traditional rulers and his PDP people like Koro, Omisore, FFK and Fayose.
What the CBN is doing now is to ration the very little that is available. Please lets put on our thinking caps and reason like sensible people. There is no forex!!!!!!!!!!

This suileman fake pastor is a real "sule". How does El-rufai's tweet qualify as hate speech? Any soldier that kills a Fulani takes a loan repayable. There's no Instruction or command to shoot anyone or kill anyone, where's the hate?
Mr "sule" explicitly said "shoot any Fulani man found near my church". That is the definition of hate. Even see the irony coming from a pastor. These are the kinds of comments that set Rewanda in fire during the 1994 genocide.

Eazybay:
Lol.... Pls ask Osinbajo, u think d ND leaders are asking 4 ur money? Just run amok from post to post saying balderdash! PMB said more than this b4 coming into power he even called dem thieves using govt money to sabotage d country. His notion changed ASAP, I won't tell u why. Now d ND is occupied by 3 categories of thieves.. The vandals, d govt (by extension security agencies) and the IOCs! Do u know what it means to allow exploration on ur soil? Coupled wif d fact dat they heavily militarize d place so even ur old men have to pass wif dea hands up. In fact in some parts, it is said dat d best thing 4 u as a youth is to become a militant/vandal because when army show whether u join or not them go carry u go kill. If u join, u would be rich and still get amnesty. I won't tell u all because dis is a public forum but ask urself "if d present ND occupants wea to b reborn, do u think dey would agree to come 4rm d oil rich region?" Even d allocation is flawed, in fact I don't want to insult u and ur thrashy submission, tell PMB to implement PIB and let's have resource Ctrl. Ur headache is not the ND, rather the FG is d prob of d ND

don't give me that shit. I've worked in ogidigben, bonny, warri, onne, brass. portharcourt and Koko before. I know exactly what goes on there. I know those lousy ijaw touts at refinery area in warri that do nothing but extort people. I know the tribes that are hardworking and those that are born stupid and lazy like the Ijaws. I know the ND like the back of my hand. I know the amount we use in settling those ijaw criminals whenever we want to work. Those people are born with criminality in their blood.

kulrunsman79:
Another brainwashed fellow spotted.... If government removed only subsidy, how much was the subsidy payment before its removal? Come to think of it, didn't the government claimed that the word "subsidy" was a scam? Why removing what never existed?
They claimed that #12.00 was the subsidy cost, how can u reconcile #12.00 plus #87.00/ltr with #145.00/ltr?
For your info, gov didn't just remove subsidy but they fixed a higher tax on PMS and other oil products to generate fund not minding the ripple negative effect it will create on the economy. May God help us out this economic woes and hardship

Another ignorant and sad fellow. Instead of sitting down to understand the underlying figures and stats, you're here making up figures from your head.
The scam in the subsidy was that marketers were collecting money for cargoes that were not delivered. They were also overstating the volume of their cargoes to get more subsidy money from the government. It was for this very reason that those some subsidy thieves were sentenced to prison today. The subsidy was removed last April and marketers were given the leeway to import the product on their own. The only thing the government, through the PPPRA, did was to place a cap on the amount of profit the marketers can make, like the NERC does to DISCOS or the NCC does to telcos with voicecalls and data.
The problem now is that marketers have been unable to access forex to import the product themselves, so the NNPC has been doing most of the importation and selling to the marketers.

Ada, firstborn of a thief in the land of thieves. Na dem dem

Chiefpriest1:
Seems we are on a parallel here. If you were the owner of a company. You hire a new Managing Director to turn around your ailing business.

You pay his salaries, he has a private jet to move anywhere he wishes.

He has free accommodation, free food. In fact free everything.

Almost two years after hiring him, he's still giving you one million reasons why things are getting worse, not even better.

You see movement, but no progress. How would you rate yourself if you keep retaining him as your MD.

Again, back to those " idiots ". Buhari is the C-in-C. He gets intelligence reports on daily basis.

He has the full compliments of the DSS, police, army, navy, air force, FRSC, NSCDC etc, yet you want me to rather keep quiet or blame my village if a rag-tag group of boys decide to take the laws into their hands.

I never made excuses for Jonathan, I will not make excuses for Buhari. He's the president. The buck stops right at his desk.

I'm sorry but your anecdote won't work here. You need to understand the issues before you even attempt to make any kind of evaluation.
What were the constraints of achieving stable power before privatization? Inadequate generation, the little we generated we couldn't transmit because of poor transmission infrastructure, then distribution network and infrastructure was in the abyss.
Generation stations were built in the past without anyone thinking about the gas that would power them. Someone built a generating plant in an obscure location with no gas pipelines to supply gas. Do you build pipelines across thousands of kilometers overnight? Then gas itself. The few generating stations that were built were powered by pipelines that were stupidly routed to restive areas. All this happened before privatization. Escravos - Lagos pipeline which supplies Egbin is always breached every other day. Same as other generating stations. These are historical mistakes that were made before privatization. Even if we want to reroute the pipelines to more stable areas, which we can't afford at the moment, that'll take years to accomplish.
The only way forward is peace in the ND. Those idiots must be made to understand that when they blow up pipelines, they themselves will be in darkness. Buhari cannot force an ideology of peace into the mindset of those people who are criminals by blood. You cant wage war against entire ethnic groups because of oil and gas.
They must be made to understand that if they blow up anything, they'll lose too.

Chiefpriest1:
Lol@ misinformation. I don't know how old you are, but I 've been hearing everything you just enumerated for years. Same stale arguments every time. By the way, do you elect governments to keep telling you what the problems are or to solve them.

And if you are pained because you feel this is about the Buhari government, then you have missed the point. And did Dangote start building the refinery because subsidy was removed?

The problem is that of sheer incompetence whether of this government or previous ones. Whose job is it it to stop the "idiots" you mentioned from blowing up pipelines? My aged mother's ?

I'm sorry but exactly how many years are we talking about because the power sector was just privatised 3 years ago. Dangote has been building his refinery for 4-5 years now. As regards the situation in the ND. Nobody knows exactly how to deal with it. We move the military in and some fools turn it into a north vs ND thing and start writing petitions to the UN claiming genocide. We adopt a softer approach and yet another group of fools turn it into an "incompetence issue".
There is no template for the type of unrest we have in the ND. Its unique to only this part of the world. No where in the world can you find a group of people as foolish, narrow minded, greedy and short sighted as those people in the ND. People who would rather steal 1naira today than invest it and turn it into 1 trillion naira tomorrow.

Agozie48:
come this fool stop mentioning me be there , you have been blindfolded and you are really comfortable being blind. With all the hardship and difficulty in the country . Stay In the sinking ship and let it sink you to death. The person who called you a zombie is quite right

I quoted someone on something I felt was wrong and this fool jumped in from no where, without even talking about any of the points I raised, and called me an idiot.
I can yell you had lousy parenting as a child. I can also tell you're a fool in real life and and away from the internet. Pathetic idiot. Very empty on issues but very vocal with insults. You haven't contributed anything tangible to this thread. Bastard child of a ho

Agozie48:
What an idiotic and stupid comment clap for yourself it is your type that will see that a ship is sinking and you will still enter

Look at this idiot. You're attacking me and have said nothing about my post, if its right or wrong. That's how fools behave.There's clearly a misconception out there about the power sector and I'm trying to correct it. Instead of agreeing or disagreeing with my points, you're here talking crap. Idiot!
Is it a lie that militants are blowing up pipelines? Is it a lie that dangote is building a refinery in Epe that will be commissioned in 2019 and that will cater to all our petroleum needs? Then what the hell is wrong with my post? Bloody fool!

People wonder why Ayo in Ekiti and Nyesom in Rivers are best of friends. Well here's why: Nyesom is reading from Ayo's playbook of murder.


DEMAND FOR THE ARREST AND PROSECUTION OF MR. AYO FAYOSE FOR SUNDRY ALLEGATIONS OF MURDER AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SEVERAL PERSONS COMMITTED IN EKITI STATE FROM 2003-2009.
[b]As a firm of legal practitioners dedicated to the defence of human rights and the promotion of democracy and rule of law we have had cause to collaborate with the Nigeria Police Force to stamp out extra-judicial killings and politically motivated assassinations in the country.
As you are no doubt aware, the killer squad set up by the Ayo Fayose regime (2003-2006) unleashed violent attacks on several indigenes of the State for challenging his official impunity. Some politicians who nursed ambition to contest governorship or senatorial elections in the State were not spared. While the killer squad assassinated two students (2004), Mr. Tunde Omojola (2005), Dr. Ayo Daramola (2006) and Engr. Kehinde Fasuba (2009) there were attempts to assassinate some other persons.
Based on incessant complaints of concerned citizens including the relations of those who were exterminated by the killer squad the Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Service investigated the sundry allegations of politically motivated killings and came up with detailed reports which indicted Mr. Ayo Fayose and his accomplices. Although two members of the killer squad were successfully prosecuted while others are standing trial at the Ekiti State High Court and Kogi State High Court Mr. Fayose has been treated like a sacred cow. The details of the murderous activities of the criminal suspect are set out hereunder[/b]
A. ALLEGATIONS OF MURDER
i. On December 16, 2003 a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Muyiwa Adeyanju was shot dead at Ikere Ekiti by the killer squad during a peaceful protest against the Ayo Fayose regime. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “A” is a photocopy of The Comet newspaper of December 17, 2003 which reported the incident.
ii. On March 4, 2004, two students of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti were shot dead during a peaceful protest. The investigation conducted by the police established that the killing of both students was carried out by the Ayo Fayose killer squad led by Captain Dayo Okondo and Corporal Moses Usman. Both suspects have been tried and convicted by the High Court of Ekiti State holden at Ado Ekiti.
iii. On May 28, 2005 the Ayo Fayose killer squad murdered Mr. Tunde Omojola during a local government by-election in a ward at
Ifaki, Ekiti. Mr. Ayo Fayose, the then governor of Ekiti State, led the armed gang that snuffed life out of Mr. Tunde Omojola, a Holland based Nigerian who was at home on a short holiday. Mr. Omojola’s “offence” was that he had the temerity to challenge the brazen rigging of the election by the criminal elements. The investigation conducted into the gory murder of Mr. Tunde Omojola indicted Mr. Fayose and members of his killer squad. Apart from Mr. Fayose all the other suspects who are members of the killer squad have been charged to court for conspiracy and murder. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “B” is a copy of the Charge Sheet.
vi. On August 14, 2004, Dr. Ayo Daramola, a World Bank Consultant, was brutally assassinated in his country home at Ijan Ekiti by professional armed robbers contracted by the killer squad. The deceased had indicated his wish to challenge Mr. Fayose at the primary for the 2007 governorship election on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party. All the suspects who are members of the killer squad have been charged to court except Mr. Ayo Fayose, the mastermind of the murderous attack. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “C” is a copy of the Charge Sheet.
v. On January 3, 2009, Engr. Kehinde Fasuba was assassinated by a gang of assassins who were hired for N2 million by Mr. Ayo Fayose through one Mr. “Abecity” based in Ibadan, Oyo State. Mr. Fasuba was killed for nursing ambition to contest the Ekiti Central Senatorial election on the ticket of PDP. Mr. Fayose later contested the election but was rejected at the polls by the electorate. When the said Mr. “Abecity” was arrested by the police and detained at Abuja it was Mr. Fayose who stood surety for him. Neither Mr. Fayose nor his agents have been prosecuted for the murder of Engr. Kehinde Fasuba.
vi It may interest you to know that the gang of criminals recruited by Ayo Fayose to kill Engr. Kehinde Fasuba also kidnapped the Attah of Ayede Ekiti, Oba Joseph Orishagbemi at Ilawe Ekiti on September 20, 2010. A few hours later, they also kidnapped the Provost of the College of Education, Dr. Ogunleye. The suspects are currently standing trial at the High Court, Lokoja, Kogi State for the abduction of several persons. While he was the governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose once caused the police at the Okesha Police Station, Ado Ekiti to detain Oba Orishagbemi in the midst of armed robbers!
vii. Since the trial of the kidnappers will soon be concluded at the Kogi State High Court they should be charged along with Mr. Ayo Fayose at the Ekiti State High Court for conspiracy and murder of Engr. Kehinde Fasuba without any further delay.
B. ALLEGATIONS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
a. On Sunday, February 15, 2004 Mr. Sikiru Babalola was violently attacked by the Ayo Fayose killer squad at Ado Ekiti. He
ran to a church where he was protected by worshippers. The criminals damaged the Izuzu Jeep belonging to Mr Babalola beyond repairs. Mr. Fayose prevented the Ekiti State Police Command from investigating the attempted murder and willful
damage to property. Attached and marked Annexure “D” is a copy of Mr. Babalola’s Petition.
b. The six policemen deployed from the Police Headquarters to investigate the murderous attack on Mr. Babalola were prevented by Mr. Ayo Fayose from carrying out their statutory duty. When they insisted they were assaulted by the killer squad. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “E” is a copy of the report of the assault of the policemen published by the Comet newspaper of Friday, February 27, 2004.
c. On September 11, 2004, the killer squad attempted to assassinate Mr. Taiye Fasuba, the then Chairman of Ado Ekiti Local
Government for challenging the diversion of local government funds in Ekiti State by Mr. Ayo Fayose. Even though Mr. Fasuba escaped rather miraculously a member of the killer squad was mistakenly shot dead in the violent attack. After the incident both Messrs. Ayo Fayose and Taye Fasuba were summoned to the Villa at Abuja by President Olusegun Obasanjo where they were “reconciled” in the presence of the then Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun Esq., the Ewi of Ado Ekiti and Aare Afe Babalola SAN. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “F” is a copy of The Punch newspaper of September 21, 2004 on the police investigation of the attempted murder.
d. On March 21, 2005, the killer squad attacked Mr. Michael Ajasin, who was then the Chairmanship candidate of the National Conscience Party in the local government election for Ekiti South West Local Government. Even though the assassins narrowly missed their target Mr. Ayo Fayose did not allow the Ekiti State Police Command to investigate the violent attack.
e. Sometime in 2010, there was an attempt to kill Justice S.A. Daramola (current Chief Judge of Ekiti State). Mr. Ayo Fayose had paid a notorious armed robber/kidnapper, Patrick Owie the sum of N500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira Only) to kill the judge for refusing to strike out the murder charge against him (Fayose) pending before the judge at the material time. The assassin who was to kill the judge while returning to Ado EKiti from a wedding at Awo Ekiti had a change of mind when he realized that the judge had once struck out a charge against him. A copy of the confessional statement of the hired assassin is attached and marked Annexure “G”.
f. The involvement of Mr. Ayo Fayose in extra judicial killings in Ekiti state was confirmed by the then Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero at a press conference held in Abuja on October 20, 2006. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “H” is a copy of The Punch newspaper of October 21, 2006 which reported the press conference.
g. On September 2, 2005, the then Deputy Governor, Surv. J.A. Aluko petitioned the police of the plan of his boss, Mr. Ayo Fayose to assassinate him. Attached herewith and marked Annexure “I” is a photocopy of the petition submitted to the police by Surv. Aluko.
h. In June 2005, the killer squad was dispatched to Ibadan to eliminate Aare Afe Babalola SAN for challenging the executive brigandage in Ekiti State. The iniquitous plan was leaked to the elder statesman who petitioned the Presidency. Upon the confirmation of the plot President Obasanjo directed the State Security Service to investigate the several allegations of politically motivated killings in Ekiti State. The assignment was carried out by the SSS which produced a 33-page report on the reign of terror under the Ayo Fayose regime.
i. During a local government by-election in April, 2006 Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd.) was brutally attacked by armed thugs and mobile policemen on the orders of Mr. Ayo Fayose. According to the former military governor, “I was saying I was a former military administrator and ex-naval officer, showing them my identity card. They just seized the ID card and told me to comply by lying down. And the next thing was they started kicking and manhandling me, forcing me to lie down and matchetted me in the back”. Attached and marked Annexure “J” is a copy of The Punch newspaper of April 29, 2006.
j. The Police filed a murder charge against Mr. Ayo Fayose at the Ekiti State High Court in November 2006 but the suspect was
then on the run. Upon his return to Nigeria the Ekiti State government under Engr. Segun Oni requested the police to arrest and arraign Mr. Ayo Fayose for the murder of Mr. Tunde Omojola. As the request was turned down the Ekiti State Attorney-General applied and obtained an order of the High Court for the arrest and prosecution of the murder suspect. But before the warrant of arrest was executed Mr. Ayo Fayose filed an appeal against the order of the High Court. Although the Court of Appeal dismissed the frivolous appeal on December 10, 2009, Mr. Ayo Fayose has not been arrested by the police.
In the light of the foregoing, I urge you to use your good offices to ensure the immediate arrest and prosecution of Mr. Ayo Fayose and his cohorts for the afore-mentioned sundry cases of MURDER and ATTEMPTED MURDER committed from 2003-2009, without any further delay.
TAKE NOTICE that if the serial murder suspect, Mr. Ayo Fayose is not arrested and arraigned in court for attempted murder and murder before June 13, 2014 we shall not hesitate to initiate legal proceedings to compel you to carry out your statutory duties in line with the transformation agenda of the Goodluck Jonathan Administration.
Please accept the assurances of our highest esteem[/b]
Yours sincerely,
FEMI FALANA, SAN

We heard Wike on tape, twice! saying he had killed, and would still kill. lnstead of condemning him, we started making noise about how his voice was twisted. We heard that other idiot in Ekiti on tape, also twice! First when plotting to rig the Ekiti governorship elections with General Momah, and then when celebrating with his fellow killer in Rivers.
Yet these two murderers and killers have plenty of supporters even here on NL. Its a big shame!
Ayo Fayose will one day account for the blood of Kehinnde Fasuba whom he had killed for no reason.

Chiefpriest1:
Lol. Hike this , hike that. Same imbecilic arguments every time.

They told us investors will rush to build refineries when the price of petrol is increased. Yet, close to two years, not even one.

Has anybody noticed that they are alreading agitating for another rise in price to N165.

They said when electricity tariffs are increased, investors will pump money into the sector. They almost doubled the unit cost in the last one year, yet things are worse.

Bunch of confused human beings.

Please stop spreading false information. Refineries take as long as 2-3 years to build. The subsidy was only removed April last year, less than a year ago. Dangote is building a refinery in Lagos that will cater to the supply needs of the entire West Africa, plus the refineries we already have are being refurbished. Nigeria should be a net exporter of Petroleum products by 2018/2019.
We would have stable power now if those idiots in the creeks stopped blowing up pipelines. Gencos cannot generate the power they need because of gas constraints. Discos cannot supply the very little they are supplied with because they have not been able to invest in the distribution network because the banks are not giving them money again. Between paying for the power from the Gencos and investing in upgrading the distribution network, almost nothing is left.
Banks are not giving credit because of the impact of the dollar scarcity on their books. There is dollar scarcity because the price of oil has plummeted, and also because those idiots in the creeks are blowing pipelines.
Whichever way you look at it, those idiots in the creeks account for almost all the problems in our power, economic and financial sectors.

MakeADifference:
Oh a lie? Just click here so you can update this secondary school 'school of thought'. And maybe you'll stop defending killers and terror. Same Google, thousands of reports.

http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&source=android-browser-type&q=fulani+herdsmen+christian+communities

I'm sure you missed this part of the article

"Violence perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen has also led thousands to flee from the largely Christian areas of Kaduna, Benue and Taraba states in Nigeria’s farming belt.
Such attacks have features long familiar to Nigerians: ethnic Fulani cattle herders, largely Muslim, moving in on farmers, largely Christian. The long-running land conflict is frequently framed in economic terms, but it also has distinctive religious contours"

The only religious aspect of the violence, like the writer alluded to, is that the Fulani herdsmen are Muslim and the communities they attacked in Kaduna are predominantly christian. The "religious contours" the writer spoke about is that the Fulani are Muslim and the farming communities are christian. It doesn't mean the motive for attacking the communities is religious. The Fulani herdsmen have killed countless Muslim communities in Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi states, for the same reason, land! The motive is still Land. Land is the issue here bro, grazing land!

Nigeria's issues are very fundamental. How do you send policemen with live ammunition to confront protesters? Where is the training for crowd control? When are we going to hand over the Federal police to the various states? Buhari made that his campaign promise, Osinbajo even reiterated it recently. The genesis of this entire Shite-army/ Shite/police conflict was the inability of the police to quell a simple protest over the right of way for the Chief of Army staff. The same thing with Boko haram. The insurgency started after the police killed innocent people protesting the detention and subsequent extra judicial killing of Mohammed Yusuf.
Very small and insignificant problems like simple crowd control mechanisms by the police, have led to the killing of thousands and thousands of people and the displacement of more.
Nigeria's problems are very simple, but fundamental. We need to take care of the simple first before we move forward.

MakeADifference:
The 'arguments' we need to have is how herdsman get the right to carry AK47 in the first instance and who sponsors their armoury. A more massive security threat than Boko Haram is nomadic terror.

But then if you Google you will see as usual Christians have been largely targeted. So please it is now 80% religion+ethnic and 20% grazing.

This is a lie. I even indulged you and googled and found nothing of such. This farmer - pastoralist conflict has been on since the 90's. It has taken a more dire and bloodied turn recently, especially since the Jonathan administration and after the boko haram insurgency in the north because the conflicts there and the scarcity of water has forced pastoralists to move south with their cattle in search of grazing land.
We all did this in secondary school. In the dry season pastoralists/herders move south in search of pasture and in the rainy season they move back North when there's more pasture up north and to avoid tsetse flies.
With climate change reducing water availability especially with the drying up of the lake chad, these pastoralists have been forced to move permanently south. A migration pattern that used to be seasonal has now turned permanent.
I remember reading a report by the US AFRICA COMMAND (AFRICOM) in 2007 in which they were forecasting future sources of conflict in Africa. Somalia was mentioned in East Africa, and then they mentioned pastoralists and farmer conflicts in West Africa because of the drying up of major rivers and lakes in West Africa especially the Lake Chad.
So my friend, this is a conflict that is not particular to Nigeria. Its affecting all the countries bordering the lake chad and experiencing water scarcity induced by climate change. How do we resolve this conflict? By using the Ayo Fayose method and turning it into a hate and religious conflict, crying that people are killing Christians which is a lie that even he himself knows?

Built2last:
Don't be silly in this new year.

Did you read your comments above or are you just discombobulated?

so Fulani is looking for grazing land, and when their cows graze crops, we should not attack the cow because if we do. we pay with our lives.

are you suggesting that human life equates that of a cow? Now you boldly posit that Fulanis only retaliate when their cows are killed.

Fulani leave their own land to another mans land for grazing and you don't see that as trespass.

Exactly my friend! These are the kinds of arguments we should be having! Do we allow them settle in these communities and build ranches for them there like the Benue State government just did in Agatu, or do we send them back to their communities with their cattle to build ranches for them there? These are the important questions! Not listening to the likes of Fayose and Suileman who want a religious war over something that has absolutely nothing to do with religion.
Hope you see my point now.

Iceman2017:
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I shake my head for you bro.
So in my own land, its wise for me to be dragging my land with a stranger? So I have every right to come from nowhere and drag your land, farmlands in your own community.
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Of course it is not right. The point I'm making is that these attacks are sporadic all over the country and did not start with Buhari. The death toll from these attacks was even worse under Jonathan. How do we permanently resolve this conflict? By ensuring smooth relations between host communities and the hearders, by ensuring that any conflict arising from missing cattle or destroyed crops is not solved with killings by the communities or the Fulani herdsmen. We cannot end this conflict by turning it into a religious war like Ayo Fayose and apostle suileman are trying to do, it has nothing to do with religion!
Ayo Fayose receives daily security reports and briefings, he knows the real cause of this thing, yet he goes out there to deliberately misinform people in order to cause a religious war. That kind of person is very very evil.
Please ensure that you know who your real enemies are.

Built2last:
Our problem is that we don't understand English.

Apostle Suleiman told his members and body guards. If you see a Fulani man approaching this premises or getting close to me. Kill him, behead him.

The last time I attended English language class. The word "if" remains a conditional word. If Fulani is approaching the church premises. Kill him.

We all know what Fulani does to churches when they approach.

Fulani weilds AK 47. Am I suppose to arrest him if I have opportunity to kill him....

Can anybody point the prison where any Fulani man arrested has been kept.

No arrest from all killings in Agatu, Nassarawa, Enugu. Ogun, Ondo. Etc. If you talk DSS headed by core Fulani will come after you.

DSS wrote a report on judges and went ahead to arrest them. DSS wrote a report on SGF and Buhari mandated the Attorney General, another Fulani to investigate and report back. Imagine the nonsense. Minister investigating Magu' s report from DSS. What do you expect.

One of the factors causing the escalation of this Fulani herdsmen massacres is ignorance and misinformation. The Fulani herdsmen are not killing Christians and burning churches, their conflict is about grazing land. All the communities you mentioned where the Fulani have killed people had land disputes with the Fulani over grazing rights. The local farmers always complain that Fulani invade their farms and eat off all their crops. They then retaliate and kill the cows of the Fulani. The Fulani then retaliate and kill members of the community. That is the source of the conflict. I've never heard of any case where the herdsmen entered a community and just went to burn a church or kill Christians. We can't solve a problem unless we identify its causes. Let us stop listening to the likes of Fayose and Suileman that apostle of darkness and evil who are trying to turn this into a religious conflict, it is not! It is about grazing land!

luvinhubby:
Jesus Christ came(suffered & died) that i may live and live & abundantly, any herdsman that tries to tamper with this, will be mortally resisted.

Hosea 4:6 My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me.

Continue turning Gods word on its head. It'll be between you and him on judgement day.

Linzo:
So defending yourself from Fulani attack is now being political but Fulani killing Christians is not political?. You mean Christian should be like Christ by allowing Fulani to kill them and then fold their hands. You better receive sen-ce

The Fulani's are not killing Christians!!! The Fulanis are killing people who prevent their cattle from grazing on their farmlands. The people who want you to believe the Fulani are killing Christians are the real enemies of this country, Fayose and co.
This Fulani herdsmen. conflict is about land and nothing more! Land for grazing cattle. Fayose and co have introduced the ethnic and religious dimensions to it being the evil people they are. The annoying and unfortunate part is that Nigerians everywhere are buying this mans bullshit. Its scary!

luvinhubby:
Read Luke 22:36.

Christians can kill in self defence, and such is the case with the issue of rampaging Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria.

May God forgive you for turning his word upside down. How many of the apostles of Christ retaliated when they were persecuted? when they were stoned, burnt at the stake, hung and fed to wild animals? Even Jesus Christ the progenitor of the faith was tortured and made to carry a cross on his back, whipped mercilessly, slapped, had nails driven into his hands and feet, how many of his persecutors did he kill?
You know the consequences for turning Gods word on its head?

Trailing a pastor in the middle of the night and attempting to arrest him is just barbaric. But then at the same time its immoral and barbaric for a man of God to preach violence and to tell Christians to retaliate when attacked. That kind of message is from the pit of hell and is not from Christ.
The only person that will gain from all this is Ayo Fayose. As judgement day is approaching in 2018 for all the money he has stolen since the 2006 poultry scam, he is doing everything possible to prepare the ground for everyone to say he is being persecuted politically.