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Did he say anything about nepotism, as in hiring only your family members first to government positions?

kmcutez:
That is a Yoruba name, not Igbo. Seems your eyes are playing tricks on you. What does Olaudah Equiano mean in Igbo?

Your brain is playing tricks on you!
Obviously, you have never read any of Olaudah's articles where he introduced himself, described his home town, their language, and culture.
Better not make a fool of yourself by these questions, ok!

kayfra:
Jesus is Igbo by extension

Not sure where you're going with that, but any blind person can hear the phonetic similarities of my comparison.
Jesus, Mohammed, and co are newer phenomena to Hebrew as a culture. The World, and certainly Igbos did not start 2000 years ago.

Igbos, Ibos, Ebos, Hebrews: said my great grand dad, are the same!

aremuforlife:
That is part of OBJ failure as a Yoruba man who has ruled this country twice, we shouldn't expect a fulani man to support suppressing a fulani communities.
Let's hope that another Yoruba president will do justice to that.

Don't count on a Yoruba leader to liberate Ilorin from the Fulanis. An Igbo president with good understanding is your best bet!

zoba88:
Read more. http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2019/09/pretty-nigerian-lady-marries-blind-man.html?m=1

Beautiful picture!
But why him forehead resemble muslim forehead?

sawdi:
Which one is ba turenchi?

Are you telling mez that there is no church in Kano where Christians worship? Is that what's you're telling me?

The question is not whether there is a church in Kano or not, the question is whether the Kano state government allows Christians to build churches, officially!
So, please don't confuse the issue. I don't mean roadside illegal churches that will be demolished at the next almajiri rioting session in Kano! It's ok, if you don't know, because this is well known fact inside and outside Kano, Sokoto, and even Katsina.

sawdi:
What are you saying? I schooled in Kano and there were churches. I remember vividly when some students will ditch the school church for the ones outside.

Ba turenchi d'allah!
Just show me a church building approved by Kano state government since 1960 inside Kano city, and I will pay you $100 immediately, in minutes if you accept Paypal!

EdiAbali:
If prophet Muhammad was alive in this 21st Century, he would be the number 1 in CIA terrorist list,

Many countries would ban prophet Muhammad from entering their countries, including Muslim countries,

just like they are doing to Zakir Naik

Nice input!
Many Nigerians don't even know these facts about Islam.

kogi2010:
mr man go to zungaru road and nomansland see 4 ur self n if I may ask what part of kano are u

Hotoro, and Sabo.
Even catholic church approved before the civil war destroyed b y fire was rejected for renovation in Sabon Gari. Nomansland and airport road have no new legal church!

abdulkayus:
Churches are still being built in Kano up till today, u can come and see it urself. The number of churches in kano are more than what u can imagine.

I lived in Hotoro for many years, and I know the local rules and regulations-both written and unwritten!

Sultan of Sokoto is useless to a democratic Nigeria.

BroadStreetBull:
Are you sure that you will say the same thing if El Rufai demolishes a church in Kaduna and tells you that the church was causing traffic and they refused to repair the road?

Are you sure you would say the same thing?

When was the last time a church was allowed to be build in Kano or Sokoto?
Hint: think when the British were in charge.

Despite the Billions and billions being spent by Buhari to fight BK, soldiers don't even seem to have decent feeding!

Say no to trial by media!
How do you even convince us to the facts of this case in one thread?
That primitive tactic used by Fulanis must not be adopted in Igboland. Go to court and make your case, not N/L.

I forgot to ask, did Tinubu approve this letter?

Freedom from Fulani domination!

ariesbull:
Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders

August 08, 2019

The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader
His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad

THE STATE OF THE NATION
We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria.It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication.

We write to honour you with this letter, given the floundering opportunities for a dialogue on the future of Nigeria, which has eluded the various ethnic groups in Nigeria and which may not enhance itself too soon.

Given the drumbeats of armed violence and extremism perpetrated largely by your people, and the fleeting prospects of a national dialogue, we hope this letter will not be the last opportunity to constructively engage you and the Fulani nation.

We, on behalf of Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), a coalition of several Itsekiri, Edo and Yoruba groups write with our deepest feelings about the Nigerian state and what appears to be the pitfalls that lay ahead, most of which are oiled and orchestrated by your own people, the Fulani, albeit consciously.

THE PAST

There was no history of Fulani in today’s territory until 1804. This was 800 years after the Yoruba Kingdoms had been established, about 600 years after the Hausa, Ijaw, Tiv, Igala, Junkun Kingdoms had flourished. The Igbo Nation had existed for centuries before your people wandered into this hemisphere.
We recall that your forebears came to power through brutal and bloody conquest of indigenous peoples in many parts of Northern Nigeria under the guise of Islam even though Islam had taken firm roots in Yorubaland, Kano and Bornu Empires as early as the 11th century.

Since your sojourn in Nigeria, you have been very lucky.

A whole country of over 300 ethnic groups, was handed over to you a foreigner, first through conquest of some of its part, you, who never owned an inch of land centuries earlier in this hemisphere.

You have reaped the fruits which trees you did not plant and you knew not when they were planted.

Moreso, you were from a family of wanderers and your emergence as Emir and traditional ruler was unusual, having no royal blood in your veins ab initio.

No doubt, You succeeded in taking over the land, the main means of production of these innocent peoples whose main offence was that they were too caring, too gentle, too subservient and accommodating of foreigners in their ancestral homeland, Today, you sit on a throne soaked with the blood of millions of innocent souls anguished with deafening ears to the agony of the spirit of millions of victims of the horrendous killings by your men, who came from Fouta Jallon in Senegal, only some 210 years ago.

The British left in 1960 and you emerged as the main benefactor eventhough your people were not known to have fought for independence.

You were wise enough to plant your people in the security institutions, a reflection of your preference for force and brigandage instead of a knowledge-driven society.

Through direct military intervention or subterfuge, sly plots, you have been ruling Nigeria, or determining who rule Nigeria since 1960. This is a rare luck that only courageous people can manage for some time, but needs wise, intelligent, decent and conscientious people to manage for a millennium.

Under the false, artificial creation called Nigeria, your people produce no oil, yet you appropriate and decide how the resources should be expended.

You have no access to the Ocean, yet you decide which goods should be imported and which vessel should ply routes that indigenous owners of this God given oceans had been using for centuries.

All the military weapons were bought not by your money, but you decide who should use them and who should be killed by the same weapons. You have no rich scholarly tradition, yet your people sit on the Nigerian Universities Commission, (NUC) and decide the faith of other Nigerians.

You located all the military institutions in your land, more out of fear than out of love for justice and fairplay.

90 percent of Nigerian resources are sourced from the South and Middle Belt, yet you decide how the funds should be spent. Did you think this irresponsible way of life will continue for ever? Did your people think we are foolish and even if we are, did you think coming generations will accept this brazen exploitation? We have called for dialogue on these issues, but you call it treason.

The truth is that you have grossly mismanaged this opportunity. Your ruinous and destructive tradition has robbed on all Nigerians. Your intuition for aggression has become a national culture. Your disdain for debate and logical criticisms has been imbibed by Nigerians who continue to gravitate towards the custodians of political power, whose way of life must be imbibed for recognition.

You have ruined and destroyed this whole nation at your beckon due to your exclusive, narrow, primordial and savage instincts driven only by your self interest and your brutal and non-negotiable desire to conquer and subdue every nationality in Nigeria. This is a tall task which you are hell bent in executing.

THE INVASION OF YORUBALAND BY FULANI HERDSMEN

We like to caution you on your latest antics to renew your grand 1804 design to conquer the entire country, not through ideas but through the most savage tradition of killings and maiming.

This to us is at the bottom of the current Fulani kidnapping in Yorubaland. We wish to inform you that we are aware of your grand plan to renew a project done half way and put on mute mode since the defeat of your forces in 1840 by the Yoruba Army.

We are worried that you and your Fulani people have been suspiciously silent on the kidnapping of Yoruba people, the killing of our young professionals including the killing of the daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader.

We were not surprised that you and the other Fulani leaders did not consider it necessary to send condolence messages or even visit the family of the slain woman. This can only mean your tacit approval or at least, a philosophy of cold compromise.

Please be aware that in the past two years, records show that 689 Yoruba people have been kidnapped by your people, Fulani, about 400 reported cases of rape, including rape of toddlers. Out of this number of the kidnapped, 356 were women, and out of that number, 250 were married women.

In all, 112 people were killed by your Fulani people either for resisting kidnap or for failing to pay ransom. This may mean nothing to you, but to us, it means a lot.

We urge you to imagine a group of armed Yoruba cocoa farmers storming forests in Kano, Katsina and Sokoto, kidnapping Fulani people, raping their young girls and even killing the daughter of an Emir or a prominent Fulani leader? Can you also imagine the same heavily armed Yoruba cocoa farmers occupying your forests, stopping your people from farming and preventing your people from plying the highways in their ancestral homes?

To make the matter worse, imagine the armed Yoruba cocoa farmers carry out these terrible crimes under the banner of a Yoruba man as the Nigerian President. How will you feel?
As it is, your people, the Fulani are digging their hands down our throats. They are entering our bedrooms and sleeping with our mothers and wives. These actions are not only against Islam, they are against humanity.

These latest actions plus our experiences in the past have combined to renew the energy of millions of Yoruba people who want a country of their own. Either you like it or not, this will happen. God, before whom you and your big crown are like but a filthy rag, will make it happen.

We urge you to prepare your self to dialogue or if you chose the path of violence, there will be proportional response. Having Yoruba or Igbo Republics is something you do not wish to hear, but which is imminent and inevitable.

Please be aware that the Yoruba do not begrudge your values and the ways of your living, all we are saying is that we want to live our lives, design our political and cultural architecture, live and die on our own terms.

The forthcoming Yoruba Republic will be glad to accommodate righteous Fulani people who respect our civilisations and the laws of our fatherland.

We wish to use this opportunity to advice you and your people to be aware that you have no power to conquer Yoruba Nation. Your forebears tried and failed. Your military and political surrogates tried, marked with killings, maiming and destruction of our economy, yet they failed.

We ask you to instruct your people, the armed Fulani herdsmen to withdraw from Yoruba territories and on their own, mop up the cache of arms and ammunition stored in Yoruba territories.

Sir, the Yoruba people stand for peace and not war. We would prefer these issues to be resolved amicably without firing any gun shot. But, we wish to say that if your heart remains rebellious and your soul defiant, the Yoruba people are not afraid to confront you once again the way we did some 175 years ago, this time in the most ferocious manner you can ever imagine. It is necessary to let you know this even though we are aware that you will not change the conquest desires of your heart.

We wish you a happy Salah and Allah’s wisdom to know and do what is right.
Yours Sincerely,
Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd)
Mallam Salau Ahmed Akorede
For Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA)
The Yoruba self determination group

Excellent letter.
How did I miss it
It should be made available to every school child in Nigeria, because it contains so much history ordinary folks have since forgotten.

Wonder why Iwu is now being prosecuted for an allegedly 5 to 6 year old crime, and only when he seems to supportive of Atiku's court case? It's called intimidation of witness in most civilized societies, and Fulani long memory in Nigeria!

Richardmary:
Akụkọ mbe agaba

Where is Fr. Mbaka when you need him to teach this pastor how to deceive folks?

Danjuma sounds exactly like Ojukwu pleading with Gowon to stop killing Igbo civilians in 1966.

Pathetic!

wirinet:
How come you say unseen hands were determined to foist Fulani hegemony on Nigeria and at the same time 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader were Igbos. How would that have been possible?

If 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader we Igbos at that time, why weren't 67% of officers killed during the January coup Igbos?

Gowon, Danjuma and other northern soldiers retaliated only against Igbo officers, it was the northern masses that killed innocent Igbo civilians. Although you could accuse Gowon of not doing enough to stop the killings.

Igbos, their way of life, religion, and independence have always been greatest hindrance to British and Fulani colonization.
Today, Gowon, Danjuma, and other willing Middle Belters and Fulani sympathizers have seen the same light Igbos saw 60 years ago.

The first strike was when Sarduana ordered the commanding officer in Jos to violently put down a Tiv rebellion, the Igbo officer, Col. Anuforo refused the order at the risk of his own life and safety. How did Tivs pay back? Oh, by sending J.S Tarka to the US to falsely campaign against the Igbos just like Danjuma and Gowon(middle belters) were equally convinced to side with their mortal enemy the Fulanis against the protective Igbos.

Don't forget, Gowon was strategically made head of state, to appease the short sighted Middle belters, though he was not the most senior officer to occupy that position, it should have been Ogundipe, but Gowon was however the most easily influenced by the hidden Fulani hands--coming from all over desert west Africa and north Africa!
Till today, Gowon still could not even understand the bigger picture, just like Danjuma.

The coup did not go as planned, no question, and without making excuses for the people involved, I still want to know why it descended into murdering civilians in cold blood just because they answered Igbo names?

If you continue to make lame excuses for Gowon and his government being unable to stop the well planned "civilian" massacre of Igbos, then you're laying the foundation stone for the massacre of another tribe in the future.

While we wait for Gowon and Danjuma's official account of the coup, it's sad to see persistent distortion of history and abuse of common sense in this reasoning.

Labeling it Igbo coup was a long formulated Fulani plan to use people like Danjuma, even the adjunctant officer did not take control of events all by himself, he was following a plan, long designed by unseen hands determined to foist Fulani hegemony on Nigeria.

Of course the Igbos made their own mistakes, because they were never really organized as portrayed by unseen Fulani masterminds. If they were organized, why would some Igbo officers like Ojukwu be fighting the coupists, his own people?

If you had 67% of Nigerian army officer's cader as Igbos at that time, simple statistics would tell you that you couldn't have a coup without having majority of them identified as Igbos.

Nevertheless, there were Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Tiv, Ijaw, Idoma, and Nupe officers involved in that coup, but it was easier to label it Igbo coup, especially after it failed in some parts of the country.

While history would forgive Gowon and Danjuma for retaliating against Igbo officers, God in heaven would never forgive these inept and mediocre officers for the massacre of helpless children, women, and old people simply because they were Igbos.

Whoever supported the genocide against Igbos, because of the coup allegedly planned by Igbo officers in 1966, should also support a genocide against Fulanis, because Fulani herdsmen have been actually terrorizing fellow Nigerians without any provocation today.

MelesZenawi:
Editor's note: In this piece sent to Legit.ng, Anayo M. Nwosu writes on the relationship between the Rivers people and Igbos.
Nwosu believes the Igbos owe the people of Rivers state a long standing apology which must be tendered to foster better relationship between the two ethnic groups.

Mazi Kiwe left Nnewi in 1927 with his maternal uncle to Port Harcourt to learn carpentry.
He served his master for seven good years before he was "settled" or freed to start his own workshop.
Igwe Ocha was renamed Port Harcourt by the colonial government.
It was the main port for export of slaves and palm produce.
Many warriors in the hinterlands had their human barns or warehouses at Igwe Ocha where they would keep human beings kidnapped from their towns in the mainland and gradually be selling them into slavery to the Europeans.

The big slave merchants have empowered buying agents who have gangs of strong men moving round the towns to kidnap able-bodied men and women for onward movement to Igwe Ocha for sales.
Some unfortunate slavery victims were beaten to submission while many died as they resisted being captured.
Relatives were known to have conspired to sell their fellow siblings into slavery in other to inherit the victims' wives or land; or out of sheer jealousy or envy.
On that fateful evening, Mazi Kiwe greeted Pa Douglas Lookman as usual and steadied his attention on his chisel as he worked on chairs he must deliver to a client the next day.
His customer was a temperamental type who had paid upfront for the furniture delivery.
"Pa Douglas, I'm so busy as you can see and cannot play drought now, I have an urgent delivery of a pair of chairs to make tomorrow morning" Kiwe told his older friend.
But Douglas didn't come to play drought that evening.
He had found Kiwe very trustworthy enough to tell him his well guarded secret.
He left to return the next day.

"Kiwe my son", Pa Douglas began, "I have observed you for some years now and have come to trust you". Kiwe was confused as he had never seen his old friend in such a sober mood.
"I could tell from your accent that you are from Otolo Nnewi" Kiwe was shocked by such allusion as they had never discussed his village before this time.


Kiwe was particularly surprised because everybody in the yard knew that Pa Douglas hated Igbo people.
Pa Douglas openly would rain invective on Igbo race on slightest provocation hence making most Igbo co-tenants to avoid him.
"I know you are shocked by my statement, don't be because my mother was from Otolo and I can tell all the dialects in Nnewi" , he continued.
"Who are you Pa Douglas?" Kiwe charged. "I will never listen to you until you reveal your real identity, perhaps you are okara madu okara muo or superhuman".
"Is Dim Ohachie still alive?" Kiwe's skin instantly grew goose pimples.

Every Nnewi youth was rattled upon hearing that name. The hearing of the of name "Dim Ohachi" could make a sleeping man wake up and scale a fence for safety.
"Dim Ohachie was my uncle, he sold me into slavery; I'm from Okpuno Nnewichi Nnewi" , Pa Douglas said and started crying.
"Why didn't you go back when slavery was abolished by the colonial government? You can go back now" Kiwe advised.
"I can never go back to Nnewi; he will kill me if he hears that I returned; not after acquiring my father's land, palm trees and breadfruits.
"Besides, Dim Ohachie was onyemuo na afu uzo or a living evil spirit who has turned grasses and roots into his messengers.
"How else can I explain the method he used to capture me and sold me into slavery?
"I can vividly recall that he sent for me and I arrived at his house but what happened thereafter and how I ended up at Igwe Ocha, I could not remember till date.


"I was not the only one he sold from our village; after the ban on slavery and our eventual freedom, some settled in Ikwerre while I decided to live in Okirika.
"My real name is Anaka and my dead father's name is Nwokekeke. I had to change my names to Douglas Lookman to break away from my past.
"So my son, you can see why many of us were betrayed and sold by our relations from our various Igbo towns hate you and the children of our wicked relations.
"I have related my story to my children and have urged them to avenge my humiliation because an injury to one is an injury to all" , Pa Douglas ended with a heart full of vengeance.
Until the whole Igbo people in the hinterlands openly and genuinely apologize to our brothers in Ikwerre, Obiakpor, Okirika, Port Harcourt and to those inhabiting the creeks of Rivers state, their hatred and inclination to have a pound of flesh on Igbos in the main land shall never abate.
Their ancestors told them of the atrocities perpetrated against them by their relations who sold them off into slavery in the most callous way.
The heartless seizure of Igbo landed properties by Rivers people during and after Biafran war as
"abandoned properties" was in retaliation of the injustice suffered by their ancestors.
The mindless taking of the abandoned properties belonging to the Igbo's was considered a tit for tat for loss of land in the Igbo mainland by their forefathers to the greedy relatives and slave merchants.
The Igbo leaders shouldn't gloss over the injustices of the past.
Apology needs to be tendered.
Who knows? Some of our brothers, upon genuine appeasement, might be touched to return the seized properties of their fellow Biafrans.
With a genuine reconciliation, Rumuokoro and other Igbo cities corrupted with "R" prefix by post-civil war government of Rivers state may be changed to their Igbo identity.
Truth be told, our forefathers were very very mean to our brothers.



https://www.legit.ng/1087892-opinion-why-rivers-state-indigenes-hate-igbos.html

100% distortion!

Reminds me of encounters with black Americans who have one reason or another to hate Africans, and Nigerians in particular.

They would actually say things like, "your ancestors forcibly sold our own ancestors into slavery, and now you have voluntarily undertaken the cross Atlantic journey just to take our jobs, welfare, and girls"

Had a bet with my friends on this topic!

To prove that NL is now run by Fulani herdsmen, or not.

Test:
Topic will be hidden, or moved to crime where it will have less exposure, unlike other threads of the same topic on politics section==>Fulani
Topic will be allowed to supplement similar threads already on politics==> Neutral and professional moderator

And the result is
You know the answer.

Ready to be banned and exit NL.

stefanbanach:
Did you see any cattle in the scene?

I'm asking you. Where are the cows?

I see a few cows inside Tinubu's babariga!

Waiting for Tinubu to rationalize this one too.

Herdsmen stab 49-year-old farmer to death in Ogun


ON JULY 14, 20199:01 PMIN NEWSBY ADEKUNLE FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsAppPinterestShare By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA-

Residents of Adao community in Alabata area of Odeda Local government in Ogun state were thrown into confusion on Sunday when two suspected herdsmen reportedly stabbed a 49-year-old farmer, Rafiu Showemimo to death.


It was gathered that the suspected herdsmen accosted the farmer and stabbed him in the neck on his way back home from the farm around 12 noon . It was gathered that a 76- year -old man had two weeks ago escaped death after suspected herdsmen macheted him in the head . The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi could not be reached as of the time of filing this report . Pandemonium in Nasarawa as vigilance group, traders clash(Opens in a new browser tab) However, the Olu of Alabata, Chief Sanusi Waheed who oversees the affected Adao community as one of his consenting communities, among others stressed the need for quick government’s intervention to abort the plans of the youths to foment trouble adding that the herders had crossed their boundaries. He said ” The Fulanis have crossed their boundaries and we can’t condole them anymore.

We would do all within our powers in communicating our plight to the government”. When our correspondent visited the community, the youths were sighted standing at strategic points in their numbers and armed with local guns, cutlasses and charms. Vanguard

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/herdsmen-stab-49-year-old-farmer-to-death-in-ogun/

kelvine:
High on Drugs

Clearly looks like it!
Not only should he be banned for violating many rules, but I will not be surprised if the mods place him on FP tomorrow. This is their World.

BishopMagic:
Since Funke Olakunrin murder the wheels of propaganda have been on full spin with many Yoruba Muslims and their BMC colleagues reiterating the official narrative from Aso Rock as espoused by Femi Adesina that the daughter of Afenifere chieftain was killed by armed robbers .

Adeyinka Grandson of the Odua e-rebel movement claimed that she was murdered by Igbos . How the Buhari sponsored afonja arrived at that conclusion only tells you who (is paying him (Grandson) to spew trash.


Some zombies, in their desperate bid to deflect from Fulani terrorists , stated that the late Funke was actually assassinated, and in their usual APC vs PDP stupidity are fingering the PDP .

Now if we go by the assassination theory as formulated by the half brained zombies , who will want to kill Funke?

The only people I can think of is Tinubu and Buhari .

Funke would have been murdered to send a message to her father (Foransati) to stop exposing the Fulani occupation of Yoruba land .

Tinubu is not exempted either as Tinubu has balkanized Afenifere and is in full control of a faction that is both pro Buhari and pro Rugs.

Tinubu and Buhari will both want to silence Afenifere over their Ruga nonsense .

Hold Tinubu and Buhari for this murder !

You have been vindicated by Tinubu's statement this morning