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PoliticsKilling Of Shiites Is Bokoharam Ideology by Elbinawi(op): 9:03am On Jul 02, 2021
#FridayThoughts

Killing of Shiites is #BokoHaram ideology. Mass murder of Shia civilians is a global agenda of the Saudi-sponsored ideology of #Wahhabism.

Shia Islam is the complete antithesis of the evil ideology of Wahhabism that inspired Al-Qaeda, ISIS, BokoHaram and all the murderous terrorist groups that are killing the innocent using the fraudulent name of Islam.

Tens of Thousands of Wahhabis have become Shia Muslims in Nigeria but no single Shia has become a Wahhabi. Please ask yourself "why this?"

Jumuat Mubarak to Muslims and Bless Weekend to All Friends!

#FreeZakzaky
#FreePalestine
#FreeKashmir
#FreeBahrain
#SaveYemen

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PoliticsRe: DSS Confirms Gunning Down Sunday Igboho’s Allies by Elbinawi: 2:32am On Jul 02, 2021
#TyrantBuhari = #BokoHaram

Went across boarder to capture Nnamdi Kanu & bring him to Nigeria, Stay up all night to attack Sunday Igboho’s House. Both self-determination agitators which is constitutionally valid.

But can't locate BokoHaram leader Abubakar Shekau in Sambisa forest. And can't locate leaders of armed bandits in Birnin Gwari forest and Tegina forest.

I recently watched a viral video of armed bandit leader boasting of killing soldiers on camera. He was confidently boastful of his action.

Fellow Nigerians, if Buhari is not BokoHaram then who is BokoHaram? In late November 2015, BokoHaram leader threatened Sheikh Zakzaky and the Nigerian Shia community with genocide, two weeks later Tyrant Buhari murdered more than one thousand Shia civilians in Zaria.

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PoliticsRe: DSS Launches Manhunt For Sunday Igboho After Recovering Arms From Him by Elbinawi: 2:31am On Jul 02, 2021
#TyrantBuhari = #BokoHaram

Went across boarder to capture Nnamdi Kanu & bring him to Nigeria, Stay up all night to attack Sunday Igboho’s House. Both self-determination agitators which is constitutionally valid.

But can't locate BokoHaram leader Abubakar Shekau in Sambisa forest. And can't locate leaders of armed bandits in Birnin Gwari forest and Tegina forest.

I recently watched a viral video of armed bandit leader boasting of killing soldiers on camera. He was confidently boastful of his action.

Fellow Nigerians, if Buhari is not BokoHaram then who is BokoHaram? In late November 2015, BokoHaram leader threatened Sheikh Zakzaky and the Nigerian Shia community with genocide, two weeks later Tyrant Buhari murdered more than one thousand Shia civilians in Zaria.

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PoliticsTyrantbuhari = Bokoharam by Elbinawi(op): 2:31am On Jul 02, 2021
#TyrantBuhari = #BokoHaram

Went across boarder to capture Nnamdi Kanu & bring him to Nigeria, Stay up all night to attack Sunday Igboho’s House. Both self-determination agitators which is constitutionally valid.

But can't locate BokoHaram leader Abubakar Shekau in Sambisa forest. And can't locate leaders of armed bandits in Birnin Gwari forest and Tegina forest.

I recently watched a viral video of armed bandit leader boasting of killing soldiers on camera. He was confidently boastful of his action.

Fellow Nigerians, if Buhari is not BokoHaram then who is BokoHaram? In late November 2015, BokoHaram leader threatened Sheikh Zakzaky and the Nigerian Shia community with genocide, two weeks later Tyrant Buhari murdered more than one thousand Shia civilians in Zaria.

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PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu: Groups Threaten To Bomb Aso Rock, NASS, Others, Kidnap Burutai by Elbinawi: 6:47pm On Jul 01, 2021
This is an escalation. Nigeria is very unfortunate to have a bloodthirsty #BokoHaram terrorist as president.

The leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu have cult followership among Igbo Youths. Thousands will support this action.

Celebration of Northerners of the capture of Nnamdi Kanu has not help matters. Northern civilians in the South East will be targeted. Most unfortunate! God destroy #TyrantBuhari and gang! Ilahee Ameen

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PoliticsThis Canada Day, Let’s Remember: This Country Was Built On Genocide | by Elbinawi(op): 2:24pm On Jul 01, 2021
This Canada Day, let’s remember: this country was built on genocide | Mumilaaq Qaqqaq https:///CeItKK5oWD
PoliticsFg’s Refusal To Allow Sheik Zakzaky, Wife Access Proper Medication by Elbinawi(op): 1:57pm On Jul 01, 2021
Shiites Expresses Concern Over FG’s Refusal to Allow Sheik Zakzaky, Wife Access Proper Medication

http://www.thewhip.com.ng/2021/06/shiites-expresses-concern-over-fgs.html
PoliticsUpdate On The Illegal Trial Of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (01/07/2021) by Elbinawi(op): 11:49am On Jul 01, 2021
Update on the Illegal Trial of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (01/07/2021)

Due to the 2 months old strike by Judiciary Workers (JUSUN) the illegal trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife resumed today.

We should remember that the genocidal Buhari regime brutally murdered more than one thousand innocent men, women, children and infants in Zaria in December, 2015. #ZariaGenocide

Today's court session started by the "No Case Submission" presentation of the Legal Counsel of Sheikh Zakzaky, Chief Femi Falana (SAN).

Falana told the court that they said from the beginning that the charges against Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife are fraudulent and trump-up charges with no basis. He called on the court to dismiss the 8 count charges.

Falana postulated that all those that were initially charged with the offense have been discharged and acquitted by two competent courts of all the charges levelled against Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife.

Falana said the Prosecutor Counsel presented 15 witnesses, none of these witnesses made any connection between the alleged crimes and Sheikh Zakzaky. The 8 trump-up charges have no connection to Sheikh Zakzaky. He said these charges are fake, fraudulent and fabricated.

Falana added that the 15 witnesses confessed that they did not set their eyes on Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife during the massacre of the Nigerian army in Zaria. Among them is Brigadier General Sani Usman Kukasheka.

Falana said all those that were accused of killing corporal Yakubu Dankaduna have been discharged and acquitted by two competent courts. He asked "since courts have discharged those that were initially accused how can the court jail those they claimed only assisted them"?

Falana said the charges of road blockade and unlawful assembly can not stand because two courts have already discharged and acquitted all the accused.

Chief Femi Falana (SAN) concluded that they presented the "No Case Submission" report but the Prosecutor Counsel only replied to it yesterday and they only talked on only one charge. He said they only did "Copy and Paste". Falana completed his presentation and submitted the document to the court.

The Legal Counsel representing the wife of Sheikh Zakzaky, Barrister Enegedu, stood up. He said none of the 15 witnesses presented associated his Client with the 8 charges. He added that none of the witnesses even mentioned her name.

The Judge fixed 28th July, 2021 for ruling on the "No Case Submission".

Conclusion

Dear Friends, brothers and sisters 28th July, 2021 is the date of the freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife. The bloodthirsty Sunni extremists in power in Nigeria have no case against them. Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife are totally innocent. They are the biggest victims of the Saudi-sponsored #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria.

We will NEVER forget,
We will NEVER forgive,
We will overcome!

#FreeZakzaky.

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PoliticsRe: Another 182 Unmarked Graves Found At 3rd Indigenous Residential School In Canada by Elbinawi(op): 9:07am On Jul 01, 2021
Another 182 unmarked graves found at third indigenous residential school in Canada

Mee:

This is part of the historical crimes and atrocities of ethnic cleansing of indigenous population by the White Supremacy barbarians of the West.

In Canada, genocidal White Settler colonialism murdered hundreds of thousands of the indigenous population to wipe them out of existence. Tens of thousands of innocent Children were abducted from their home and wickedly murdered.

The Churches played prominent role in these genocidal mass murder of the indigenous population. This was what happened in USA, Australia and New Zealand. And this was what they planned in #Palestine.

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Foreign AffairsRe: Donald Rumsfeld Dead At 88 by Elbinawi: 9:06am On Jul 01, 2021
"The lord of war is Donald Rumsfeld, one of the dogs of the devil."

- Hugo Chávez

This notorious war criminal just died and unfortunately not in the jail of the International Criminal Court, ICC.

Donald Rumsfeld was one of the war criminals that orchestrated the Iraqi invasion using a fake Israeli Intel. More than one million Iraqis died. This Chemical weapons vendor was a devil incarnate.

Yesterday the Hell was warm as one of the devil has arrived. Rest in Hell!

#Photo: Donald Rumsfeld and late Iraqi dictator Saddam planning Chemical weapon attacks on Iran in 1983.

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PoliticsAnother 182 Unmarked Graves Found At 3rd Indigenous Residential School In Canada by Elbinawi(op): 8:02am On Jul 01, 2021
Another 182 unmarked graves found at third indigenous residential school in Canada https:///8mH1TgjTg0
PoliticsRe: Bandits Attack Governor Ganduje’s Convoy by Elbinawi: 6:10pm On Jun 30, 2021
BREAKING: Bandits Hit Governor Ganduje's Convoy

Mee:

This is a welcome development. Those that are playing with the safety of innocent and defenseless Nigerians should be hit by the murderous armed bandits they created, trained and armed.

If bandits start Kidnapping and killing their wives and children, these extremely wicked and corrupt Nigerian ruling elites will take security serious.

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PoliticsUN Decision To Acquit Killer Of Yemeni Children Is Unforgivable by Elbinawi(op): 8:30am On Jun 30, 2021
UN Decision to Acquit Killer of Yemeni Children Is Unforgivable

https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/20230/
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PoliticsRe: No Tears For Nnamdi Kanu - Farooq Kperogi by Elbinawi: 9:52pm On Jun 29, 2021
I read the thread that the US-based Farooq Kperogi wrote on Twitter about the arrest of the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. 98% of the replies to the thread is by Igbo Youths and they are hurling abuses and insults on Farooq Kperogi.

As far as I am concern #TyrantBuhari is more wicked and evil than Nnamdi Kanu. Nnamdi Kanu kill in dozens while Tyrant Buhari kill in hundreds. Buhari is a better killer of the innocent than Nnamdi Kanu.

The extremely wicked and corrupt Northern Oligarchy usually create imaginary enemy for the extremely poor and suffering people of Northern Nigeria. That enemy today is Nnamdi Kanu.

I think it is high time the people of Northern Nigeria should look at themselves in the mirror and ask why is their region the most backward in the world, the extreme poverty capital of the world with more than 10 million Out-of-school Children?

Nnamdi Kanu is not righteous, he is crude and vulgar but the genocidal massacres and gross irresponsiblility of Tyrant Buhari made him popular among Igbo Youths. Does Buhari has the right to sent #Criminal_Buratai to mass murder hundreds of unarmed Igbo Youths?

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PoliticsRe: DSS Operatives Produce IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu In Court by Elbinawi: 5:38pm On Jun 29, 2021
Breaking: The leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in the UK where he was residing and extradited to Nigeria.

The Nigerian secret police (DSS) took him to court where he jumped bail. Justice Binta Nyako ordered Nnamdi Kanu detained until July 26 2021 for continuation of trial!

Among the charges against Nnamdi Kanu are Terrorism, money laundering and treason but the Buhari regime granted him bail. This same regime murdered more than one thousand Followers of Sheikh Zakzaky that included his three (3) biological children and wickedly refused to release the Sheikh after a competent court has freed him and his wife in December, 2016.

The Buhari gang lack sophistication, this is a gang of bloodthirsty killers. They might try to eliminate Nnamdi Kanu in their custody. A "Martyr" Nnamdi Kanu is more dangerous than a Nnamdi Kanu in prison. Be warned!

To the Southerners that worship these Western hegemonic barbarians, this should serve as a lesson to you. Those you have been worshipping because they brought you Christianity are not your friends. They will only use you as tools to further their evil imperialist agenda.

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PoliticsRe: Omoyele Sowore: Free Kanu Now! Asking For Self-Determination Is Not A Crime by Elbinawi: 5:37pm On Jun 29, 2021
Breaking: The leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in the UK where he was residing and extradited to Nigeria.

The Nigerian secret police (DSS) took him to court where he jumped bail. Justice Binta Nyako ordered Nnamdi Kanu detained until July 26 2021 for continuation of trial!

Among the charges against Nnamdi Kanu are Terrorism, money laundering and treason but the Buhari regime granted him bail. This same regime murdered more than one thousand Followers of Sheikh Zakzaky that included his three (3) biological children and wickedly refused to release the Sheikh after a competent court has freed him and his wife in December, 2016.

The Buhari gang lack sophistication, this is a gang of bloodthirsty killers. They might try to eliminate Nnamdi Kanu in their custody. A "Martyr" Nnamdi Kanu is more dangerous than a Nnamdi Kanu in prison. Be warned!

To the Southerners that worship these Western hegemonic barbarians, this should serve as a lesson to you. Those you have been worshipping because they brought you Christianity are not your friends. They will only use you as tools to further their evil imperialist agenda.

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PoliticsRe: Court Grants DSS Order to Remand Nnamdi Kanu Till July 26 by Elbinawi: 5:37pm On Jun 29, 2021
Breaking: The leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in the UK where he was residing and extradited to Nigeria.

The Nigerian secret police (DSS) took him to court where he jumped bail. Justice Binta Nyako ordered Nnamdi Kanu detained until July 26 2021 for continuation of trial!

Among the charges against Nnamdi Kanu are Terrorism, money laundering and treason but the Buhari regime granted him bail. This same regime murdered more than one thousand Followers of Sheikh Zakzaky that included his three (3) biological children and wickedly refused to release the Sheikh after a competent court has freed him and his wife in December, 2016.

The Buhari gang lack sophistication, this is a gang of bloodthirsty killers. They might try to eliminate Nnamdi Kanu in their custody. A "Martyr" Nnamdi Kanu is more dangerous than a Nnamdi Kanu in prison. Be warned!

To the Southerners that worship these Western hegemonic barbarians, this should serve as a lesson to you. Those you have been worshipping because they brought you Christianity are not your friends. They will only use you as tools to further their evil imperialist agenda.

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PoliticsRe: News: Many Feared Dead As Security Operatives Shoot Students Protesting Tuition by Elbinawi: 3:24pm On Jun 28, 2021
The Midget Satan Elrufai is bloodthirsty and absolute evil. No one murdered peaceful #FreeZakzky Protesters like him. Elrufai has killed in the past, this notorious child-killer will always kill innocent Children.

In the midst of global Coronavirus pandemic and downturn of the global economy, this Dwarf Satan increased school fees by more than 300%! He wickedly sacked their parents from their jobs and increased school fees. A favorite disciple of Satan. God destroy him! Ilahee Ameen

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EducationReasons For The Mass Failure In JAMB by Elbinawi(op): 9:02am On Jun 28, 2021
Someone asked:

What could be behind this massive failure in JAMB?

To my Foreign Friends "JAMB" is the qualifying exam to Nigerian Universities.

A lot of factors involve that resulted in this mass failure:

�Students of now don't like reading their books. They hate reading. Some of them do not even know the importance of education to themselves and to the society.

�High computer illiteracy in the North. The JAMB exam is with the use of computers to answer questions on key subjects. Some of the students do not know the difference between a keyboard and a mouse.

�A lot of junk distractions. With the spread of internet and social media platforms like TickTok & IG, some students like watching slay queens and Rappers dancing than read their books.

�Lack of good government policy and effort. Governance in Nigeria is not about service delivery but about looting the public treasury.

�Children of the extremely wicked and corrupt Nigerian ruling elite do not write JAMB. Their parents usually send them to Western Universities.

Conclusion

This mass failure is a wake up call to government, parents and students.

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PoliticsRe: Boko Haram & ISWAP Forge Alliance, Threaten Havoc Against ‘Unbelievers' by Elbinawi: 4:24pm On Jun 27, 2021
There is looming hunger in the land - Punch Newspapers https:///6jRWLmu0Ey

Mee:

This is today's Editorial of a prominent Nigerian Newspaper Punch. There is looming hunger and mass starvation in the land. The fact that the present government is totally useless makes things worst.

Nigeria occupied the 10th position in the 2020 Global Hunger Index where countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad prominently featured among the ten hungriest countries of the world.

The rampaging armed banditry has worsen the situation as Farmers in North West and North Central Nigeria can not access their farmlands. Thousands of them are already in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.

Pray For Nigeria!

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PoliticsRe: Boko Haram & ISWAP Forge Alliance, Threaten Havoc Against ‘Unbelievers' by Elbinawi: 4:23pm On Jun 27, 2021
I watched the 10 minutes recent video of BokoHaram on the unity of BokoHaram and ISIS. The show of force and the presence of hundreds of brainwashed Sunni Youths call for concern.

The evil ideology of Wahhabism successfully infiltrated Sunnism, hijacked it and occupied it. Sunni leaders and intellectuals failed woefully to check Wahhabi infiltration.

There is nothing Islamic about murderous Wahhabi Terrorism. These bloodthirsty savages are tools of the biggest enemies of Islam and Muslims - the Western hegemonic barbarians.

Those they branded as "Kuffars" are non-Wahhabi Sunnis, Shias and Christians. We are all infidels to these bloodthirsty savages who are in payroll of the savage Saudi Wahhabi regime.

It is important to note that #TyrantBuhari has freed thousands of #BokoHaram terrorists which is part of his contract with his Saudi masters. Imagine arresting these bloodthirsty savages then freeing them. The best place of these Wahhabi savages is Hell.

Unfortunately, for more than 10 years now the Nigerian army has failed to defeat this rag tag Terrorists. Give these savages to #Hezbollah and after one year they will cease to exist.

The celebration of unity by BokoHaram and ISIS is fake as it will not last. In the dictionary of Wahhabism the word "unity" does not exist. This is just a phase, they will resume killing themselves.

Conclusion

Sunni leaders have failed humanity. They failed woefully! A big shame!

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PoliticsRe: Punch Editorial: There Is Looming Hunger In The Land by Elbinawi: 11:47am On Jun 27, 2021
There is looming hunger in the land - Punch Newspapers https:///6jRWLmu0Ey

Mee:

This is today's Editorial of a prominent Nigerian Newspaper Punch. There is looming hunger and mass starvation in the land. The fact that the present government is totally useless makes things worst.

Nigeria occupied the 10th position in the 2020 Global Hunger Index where countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad prominently featured among the ten hungriest countries of the world.

The rampaging armed banditry has worsen the situation as Farmers in North West and North Central Nigeria can not access their farmlands. Thousands of them are already in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.

Pray For Nigeria!

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PoliticsRe: Aisha Buhari, Children Move To London Ahead Of Nigerian PMB 2nd Medical Trip by Elbinawi: 11:19am On Jun 27, 2021
Nigerians are in “one chance” under Buhari: Islamic cleric Muideen Bello

Mee:

This is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. The genocidal criminal Buhari is intergenerational failure.

My Foreign Friends do not know the meaning of “one chance”. “One chance” is a popular phrase used in Nigeria to describe con artists, ritualists and robbers who deceive unsuspecting commuters to board their vehicles and then harm them midway through the journey.

Sadly, the overwhelming majority of the religious leaders in Nigeria are in the pockets of our wicked Oppressors. Only few speak Truth to those in power.

No Nigerian leader attack medical tourism like president Buhari and no Nigerian leader make maximum use of medical tourism like Buhari. Buhari has already sent his wife and all his children to London for his recent medical tourism plans. Nigerian Taxpayers funding this jamboree of the bloodthirsty killer #TyrantBuhari. They will stay in the best hotels in London while people are dying of hunger in Nigeria. If this is not “one chance”, what is it?

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PoliticsBokoharam: Remembering Fannami Who Died To Make Borno Safe by Elbinawi(op): 5:27am On Jun 27, 2021
BokoHaram: Remembering Fannami who died to make Borno safe
https:///3A56UtZ
PoliticsNigeria: "Kill Shia Civilians But Free Bokoharam Terrorists" by Elbinawi(op): 1:17pm On Jun 26, 2021
Nigeria: "Kill Shia civilians but Free BokoHaram terrorists"

The savage Saudi Wahhabi regime were lucky to have Tyrant Buhari that is not intelligent as an asset in Nigeria. The illiterate barbarian Buhari is a stack dullard. In a primary school class Buhari will be competing for the last position. Dullard character like Buhari will NEVER smell the first position in a class.

The Saudi regime made full use of this dullardness of the bloodthirsty killer #Buhari to further their evil global agenda of Wahhabism in Nigeria "Kill Shia civilians but Free BokoHaram terrorists".

Since coming to power on 29th May, 2015, Tyrant Buhari has murdered thousands of Shia civilians in Nigeria and freed thousands of BokoHaram terrorists using the fraudulent pretext of "Repentance". Today as I write there exist multiple Shia mass graves in Kaduna and Kano states.

An intelligent person will never perpetrate this monstrous evilness, savagery and barbarism. The Saudi regime paid the former Malaysian Prime Minister $750 million to massacre Shia Muslims. He collected the money but failed to kill a single Shia Muslim. How much did Buhari, Elrufai, Buratai, Ganduje and gang collected from the bloodthirsty Saudi savages to execute the Saudi-sponsored #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria? How muchhuh The world will know this one day!

#FreeZakzaky

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Foreign AffairsRe: US Government Blocks 36 Iranian-Affiliated News Websites by Elbinawi: 8:35am On Jun 25, 2021
US tyranny – closing down Resistance media channels https:///3DbMQHWiWL https:///5fn4t4qWmB
PoliticsUS Tyranny – Closing Down Resistance Media channels by Elbinawi(op): 8:33am On Jun 25, 2021
US tyranny – closing down Resistance media channels https:///3DbMQHWiWL https:///5fn4t4qWmB
PoliticsRe: President Buhari Off To London Friday For Medical Follow-up by Elbinawi: 9:26pm On Jun 24, 2021
BREAKING: Again, Buhari embarks on medical trip to London

Mee:

The genocidal criminal Buhari that wickedly denied Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife medical treatment after been rained with bullets during the Saudi-sponsored #ZariaGenocide is off again to London for medical tourism.

The bloodthirsty killer #TyrantBuhari will spend 3 weeks in London. We call on our friends, allies and the Nigerian diaspora community in the UK to make his stay in London uncomfortable with daily protest.

For more than 6 years in power, Buhari has not build a single hospital in Nigeria. The yearly Nigerian budget on Health is among the lowest in the world.

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PoliticsUAE 'forcibly Disappearing' #pakistani Shia by Elbinawi(op): 9:04pm On Jun 24, 2021
UAE 'forcibly disappearing' #Pakistani Shia https:///rOjMOv8ZqW
PoliticsThe Biafran Question, History & What Next by Elbinawi(op): 12:24pm On Jun 24, 2021
The Biafran Question, History & What Next

I wish to write something about the Biafran agitation in the South East. Some Igbos might not be happy with this frankness but they should think deep.

I was not born when the civil war happened (1967-1970) but I heard terrible things happened. Mass slaughter of Igbos in Northern Nigeria and the mass starvation of Igbos in the South East.

After Nigerian independence in 1960 Igbos had a dominant role in post-colonial Nigeria. Igbos dominated the military and the civil service. Though the Prime Minister was from the North, the President (ceremonial) was an Igbo.

The Igbos then totally controlled what is today the South East and South South regions.

Then the 1966 coup that was planned and executed by Igbo military officers happened and their main Victims were political and military leaders of Northern Nigeria. The famous Sadauna was murdered with his wife in Kaduna. The reason of this 1966 tribal coup was to enhance Igbo hegemony. Despite all what they had in the political space then, they were still greedy for more power. And this was their unmaking as they lost everything.

After the 1966 coup an Igbo, Gen. Aguyi Ironsi, became Head of State. Then the North organized counter-coup the next year, abducted Gen. Aguyi Ironsi and eliminated him. Two Northern Army officers of Christian extraction led that operation in Ibadan.

Then the unfortunate civil war (1967+1970). More than 3 million Igbos died in that war. All their major cities destroyed.

One of the outcome of the Nigerian civil war was that the ethnic minorities of the former Eastern region were liberated from Igbo servitude and domination. The lands of these minorities is rich in oil resources. This shrinked the sphere of influence of Igbos and restricted them to just 5 states with the smallest land mass in Nigeria. Each of 13 states of Northern Nigeria are bigger than the entire South East region in terms of land mass.

The South East is a densely populated area. The Igbos who are historically traders are forced to move out of their region and spread to various parts of Nigeria, Africa and the world. The largest number of Nigerians outside Nigeria are Igbos. It is not an understatement to state that majority of Igbos live outside the 5 South East states. There are millions of Igbos in Lagos alone. The millions of Igbos in Northern Nigeria are more than the population of two states in the South East. Go to remote villages in Northern Nigeria and you will find Igbos.

Historically, Igbos did not have contact with great civilizations before the advent of European colonialism. The North had contact with great civilizations before the advent of European colonialism. This was why the North could read and write even before British colonialism. The city of Kano is more than one thousand years old. The people of Borno were playing Chess game before the European colonialism arrived the shores of Nigeria.

The Biafran sessesionist agitation did not die with the end of the civil war. It was just subdued but that quest always remain. In the regime of former president GEJ, Igbos were well represented with key government appointments. The Biafra agitation was almost non existent then. Then came the Buhari regime on 29th May, 2015. Those that know President Buhari knows that he does not have favorable disposition towards the Igbo tribe. In appointments president Buhari marginalized the Igbo tribe hiding under the pretext that they voted for the opposition party PDP.

Then the pretender, Nnamdi Kanu, surfaced from nowhere and started a campaign for the actualization of Biafra. The brutal and tyrannical nature of president Buhari became the catalyst of the brutal attacks on the then peaceful Biafran agitation. Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and detained. President Buhari sent the former Nigerian army chief Buratai and hundreds of Igbos Youths were brutally slaughtered and dumped in a mass grave.

These genocidal massacres fueled the sessesionist agitation in the South East and thousands of Igbo Youths flooded to join the military wing of Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB. The IPOB militia started attacking and killing security forces in the South East and some part of the South South. Some Northern interest and businesses were also attacked. A low-key insurgency has started in the South East. Very unfortunate!

On a final note, we should hold president Buhari responsible for the recent rise of the Biafran sessesionist agitation in the South East but it is up to Igbo leaders to decide whether they want to remain in the Nigerian union or not but in my thinking it is in their interest to remain in the Nigerian Union.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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