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Nigeria’s Economy Under Buhari Remains Weak With High Unemployment Rate– Tinubu | Sahara Reporters

Bola Tinubu is the National leader of Buhari's party. For Tinubu to utter this in Arewa House in Kaduna underlined the monumental failures of the Genocidal Buhari regime.

As it stand today #TyrantBuhari is not a political asset. Buhari is a political liability. The only people supporting this bloodthirsty killer today are Wahhabi extremists who are grateful to him for killing thousands of Shia civilians.

Even the Wahhabi savages in Northern Nigeria are so much ravaged by extreme hunger that they are accusing their corrupt clerics for deceiving then to vote Buhari.

Anybody that uses the Buhari yardstick to campaign in the 2023 general elections will be ignored by Nigerians. No time that Nigeria is so divided like today. Killings and Kidnappings everywhere. A lawless country.

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Yemenis mark National Day of Resilience

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Friday Reflection: Thoughts about the Freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky.....

A Brother from far away Philippines yesterday asked me for updates on Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky.

I told him the next court session is next Wednesday, 31st March, 2021. The Prosecutor Counsel will finish their witness presentation. Then the Counsel of Sheikh Zakzaky, Femi Falana (SAN), will submit the "No Case Submission". The Judge will fix a date for Judgement.

We all know the final result. The Judge himself acknowledged that the whole world is watching. The bloodthirsty Sunni extremists in power in Nigeria will NEVER win in the courts because they are the murderous criminals.

After the freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky the first step is their health. They will leave for Iran for further medical treatment. Their entire blood will be emptied and changed to halt the advance of lead poisoning. The remaining eye of the Sheikh needs attention. The knee replacement surgery of his wife will take place InshaAllah!

The fact that Sheikh Zakzaky is still alive today is another miracle from God. The first miracle was how they survived the burning of their house by the Nigerian army while they were inside the house. We are grateful to God for His Mercy and Blessings!

Hopefully, I will meet with the Sheikh before they leave for Iran. I know Friends from around the world will like to hear update on that. The only "help" that I offered the Sheikh is my pen �️. I am not worthy! I should have done more.

The enemy is defeated here. The enemy is on the retreat. No government will continue with the Saudi-sponsored #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria. The International Criminal Court, ICC, will definitely come for the murderous criminals who executed the ZariaGenocide.

Someone close to the regime recently told me that even if the Saudi regime will give the whole world to the Buhari gang they will not dare repeat what they did in Zaria in December, 2015. They underestimated us.

I salute the brave and courageous Youths of the Movement. You decorated our existence with your steadfastness and sacrifice, we remain grateful forever!

On a final note, after the freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky we will retire the Hashtag FreeZakzaky but the Hashtag #GodProtectZakzaky will remain. We will create another Hashtag for Justice of Victims of the brutal and inhuman Genocide, multiple massacres and senseless killings of peaceful protesters.

#FreeZakzaky

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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16 IPOB members killed in clash with police, army in Aba https:///79HbvlhDFI

Nigeria Needs Quality Weapons to Defeat BokoHaram Insurgency

This morning I shared with Friends an interview of an Ex-military chief with the Nation Newspaper tittled "Ex-military chief: Troops lack proper arms to fight".

Everything he said there about BokoHaram insurgency is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.

He boldly stated that: “90 per cent of the arms Boko Haram uses are from the troops. They collected them after attacking military bases." This means that it is the Nigerian government that is funding and arming BokoHaram terrorists. Can we now remember the historic declaration of Sheikh Zakzaky on this issue?

If BokoHaram gets 90% of it weapons from the Nigerian army, the remaining 10% they use the money they get from the Nigerian government from ransom payments after mass kidnapping of school children to buy weapons, salaries, feeding and logistics.

• "Soldiers battling Boko Haram in Hilux vans with outdated guns" he said. Total lack of weapons and equipment in the fight against BokoHaram insurgency despite the huge yearly budgets. Billions earmarked every year and billions looted every year.

Due to lack of equipments Nigerian soldiers are using soft-skin vehicles Hilux vans instead of Mines Resistance Armoured Personnel Carrier (MRAP) in the battlefront. Hilux vans are easy targets that a pump action gun will penetrate and destroy. Funds that should be use to buy Resistance Armoured Personnel Carrier (MRAP) are looted by Criminal Buratai and his likes. MRAP will resist fire, Hilux vans will not.

The ex-military officer said: “Due to lack of sufficient and right equipment, arms and ammunition, troops have witnessed a situation when 35 Boko Haram fighters displaced 500 soldiers.”

He added: “I was part of Operation Lafiya Dole.  Our troops have insufficient equipment, arms and ammunition. Most of the tanks you see are old.

It is shocking that a country like Nigeria that is battling a murderous insurgency does not have Helicopter Gunships with night fighting facility. A responsible government will get 20 Helicopter Gunships and wipe out BokoHaram from existence. Nigerian soldiers also need night fighting goggles.

Hear him:

“What we need is to get six helicopter gunships with night fighting capability. We can finish Boko Haram battle within three months or four. We know where they are."

On a final note, more than 50,000 innocent Nigerians have been killed in this bloody BokoHaram insurgency and the killing is ongoing. Those that will loot funds to but weapons are disciples of Satan.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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How top Saudi official issued death threat against UN investigator https:///LuDwy8gfWI

“90 per cent of the arms Boko Haram uses are from the troops. They collected them after attacking military bases. They just come very close to a base and fire. The boys will repel and after exhausting their ammunition, they will run for cover. https:///lWLzUGDHtM

General Analysis of Global Affairs

The attacks and counterattacks between the world powers of America, Russia and China is a welcome development to the world Oppressed. None of these world powers is a force for good. The fact remain that White Supremacy America is more evil than the other two.

Their fight is not about helping the world Oppressed but of cornering the world resources and domination. They use different methodology to achieve the same goal. From regime change agenda, to the fraudulent clamour for democracy, freedom and respect for Human Rights. And to the massive debt burden from China to facilitate enslavement and domination.

Russia and China are allied against America. Joe Biden is desperate to take America back to the pre-Trump level. This is wishful thinking and day dreaming. Trump did a lot of damages to US imperialism, arrogance and terrorism. And the health and dementia mannequin state of Joe Biden is not an advantage.

The UK regime is of little help to America. The UK regime is broke and on the decline. No country in Europe that is rising. Germany, the biggest economy in Europe is not rising but stable. France is desperate to continue it historic rape of Africa but no evil last forever. UK exit from the EU has weaken Western Europe. Generally, Western hegemony is on a steady decline but Islamophobia is on the rise in Europe.

If India want to rise, that notorious Muslim-killer #Modi and his gang of Hindu extremists must be eliminated from the corridor of power. India has great potential of becoming a world power but Hindu extremism is the biggest challenge to this. The 200+ million Muslim Community of India live in constant fear of genocide by these bloodthirsty Hindu extremists.

As for Africa, sadly, we are in the wilderness. Static and stationary, no movement. When we have tyrannical, oppressive and outdated leaders like the bloodthirsty killer #TyrantBuhari that we have in Nigeria, what do you expect? Some few countries in Africa are making progress but not substantial. Nigeria is the biggest embracement on the African continent. Nigeria is presently breaking all the world record of bad governance and maladministration.

China is rising and there is nothing the arrogant West can do about this. Japan is not rising, South Korea is in the shadows of their American masters. North Korea is stable and stronger. No country is rising in the Arab world, sadly! UAE that is a safe haven for looted money is not a country. UAE is another American aircraft carrier in the Middle East. The racist Apartheid Israeli regime, the other American aircraft carrier in the Middle East, has passed it peak, decline has set in. The desperation of normalization deals with despotic and authoritarian Arab regimes underlined this statement. Turkey is still in confused state. This NATO member is desperate to lead the Muslim world. The savage Saudi Wahhabi regime and global Wahhabism on the decline.

Countries of Latin and South America are not rising. They are static and stationary, living under the shadows of US neocolonialism. Brazil has derailed with the present right wing government in power. The deadly Coronavirus pandemic is presently ravaging Brazil. Cuba is stable. Venezuela remain standing despite the barbaric and inhuman US sanctions.

The #Khomeinist Iran is rising despite all the Western debilitating sanctions and sabotage but the Rouhani gang of shameless traitors is an aberration. The Revolutionary Iran of the Great Khomeini should not have a clownish idiot like Rouhani as president. The Resistance Axis is rising despite all the challenges imposed by global arrogance. Industrialized Iran will be a great model to the Muslim world.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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Re: Buhari has not fulfilled all his campaign promises

Dear Sir (Elder Statesman Bashir Othman Tofa),

I read your recent interview with the Daily Trust Newspaper and I was disappointed with your thrust and conclusions. Your usual frankness and decisiveness are clearly missing.

Sir, you stated that president Buhari did not fulfil all his campaign promises because he does not have the good team that will help him. By implication you are suggesting that president Buhari has fulfilled some of his campaign promises. Sir, please can you name a single campaign promise that Buhari has fulfilled? Can you name one sector of the Nigerian life that the genocidal Buhari regime has improved on?

As for the fight against corruption, president Buhari underlined his status as a monumental fraudster by appointing a notorious treasury looters, #Magu, as the head of the anti-corruption agency, EFCC. The then National Assembly under Bukola Saraki consistently refused to approve the appointment of Magu due to the damning report of corruption cases against him but the usual sturbon Buhari refused to bulge.

As for security, Nigeria has never had it bad like what we have today. Truth must be told for posterity. In the midst of a bloody insurgency that has claimed more that 50,000 innocent lives, president Buhari has freed thousands of BokoHaram terrorists using the fraudulent pretext of "Repentance". The Governor of Borno state, professor Babagana Zulum, and a serving Senator from Borno state told Nigerians that these "repentant" BokoHaram terrorists has since returned to active service.

The gross incompetency and acute irresponsiblility of president Buhari groomed the murderous armed banditry that want to consume the North West and North Central. His cluelessness, village mentality and warped mindset were seen in the unchecked and unchallenged rise of the murderous armed banditry in Northern Nigeria. Buhari thought using soft approach to Killer Fulani Herders underlined his love for the Fulani tribe. Buhari was ignorant of the fact that these Killer Herders pose existential threat to the law abiding Fulani Herders who are the majority. Due to this official rascality of president Buhari today the Fulani tribe that is associated with deep Islamic Scholarship is today associated with armed banditry and Kidnapping.

As for the economy sector, that is the worst performance of the Buhari regime. Today as I write Nigeria is the extreme poverty capital of the whole world with more than half of it population in the extreme poverty bracket. A recent report by the agency of statistics, Nigeria has the second highest unemployment rate in the world with more than 40% unemployment in some sectors. Inflation is the order of the day under the Buhari regime. Prices of goods and services are sky rocketing on daily bases. And Buhari enabled this unprecedented inflation with massive increase in Taxation.

Dear Sir, the acute nepotism of president Buhari has destroyed all the pillars holding the Nigerian state. Bishop Matthew Kukah spoke against this recently. President Buhari thinks appointing his Northern Muslims equates to good governance. Northern Christians make up more than 30% of the population of Northern Nigeria. There are 3 states in the North with Christian majority. Most of the states in the North East and North Central has large Christian minority. President Buhari maginalized them despite the fact their votes contributed largely to his victory during the 2015 elections.

This acute nepotism has now triggered massive and unprecedented tribal agitations from the South. The gross incompetency of Buhari created the Nnamdi Kanu phenomenon. When the Biafran agitation started Buhari sent heavily-armed soldiers to mass murder hundreds of unarmed Igbo Youths in the South East. Today as I write a low level insurgency has started in the South East. Military personel, police and paramilitary Organizations are being attacked and killed daily in that region. In just 7 days 4 police stations were completely burnt down in Anambra state.

The acute nepotism of Buhari has again helped the rise of another tribal war lord in the South West, Sunday Igboho. This guy recently declared a Yoruba republic and massive mobilization is going on unchecked and unchallenged.

Dear Sir, I will like to remind you that the Buhari regime is the only government in Nigerian history that has perpetrated genocide. More than one thousand innocent men, women, children and infants were brutally murdered by the Nigerian army in Zaria in December, 2015. All their dead bodies were wickedly dumped in the multiple Shia mass graves and the Survivors of that genocide framed with murder! Two competent courts in Kaduna freed all of them from the fake, fraudulent and fabricated trump-up of the Buhari gang of bloodthirsty killers and monumental fraudsters after spending more than 4 years in that dilapidated Kaduna prison. Sir, can you imagine this level of extreme wickedness and monstrous savagery? The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, is still in that dilapidated Kaduna prison with his wife. It is important to note that Buhari gang killed their three (3) biological children in their residence and in their presence and burnt down all their properties. The Saudi-sponsored #ZariaGenocide is not the only massacre of unarmed Shia civilians by the genocidal Buhari regime. There were the Kano Arbaeen massacre of 2016 and the Abuja massacre of 2018. Hundreds of peaceful #FreeZakzaky protesters have been murdered by the Nigerian army and police on Nigerian streets. The genocidal Buhari regime that freed thousands of BokoHaram terrorists is notorious in killing peaceful protesters. The #LekkiTollGate massacre is the latest.

On a final note, sorry for taking much of your time. My audience and I will be expecting your answer on the achievements of the genocidal Buhari regime. Thank you Sir!

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
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*Anarchy and the handwriting on the wall, by Hassan Gimba*

I sniff anarchy on the horizon. And to the discerning mind, the handwriting is bold on the wall. “The handwriting on the wall” is an English expression used whenever an inevitable result or imminent danger has become or is becoming apparent, a presentiment of disaster, in our case, anarchy. It is also expressed as “mene mene”, a shortened form of the Aramaic phrase “mene mene tekel upharsin”.

It originated from the story of Belshazzar’s feast (Daniel 5) in the Old Testament. The Muslims call the Old Testament al-Injil (Injila). Though some scholars recognise it as a work of historical fiction, we are more concerned with moral teaching.

According to exegeses, and to cut the story short, Belshazzar was indulging in drunken revelry and debasing sacred temple vessels by using them as wine goblets when a disembodied hand wrote ‘mene mene tekel upharsin’ on the palace wall.

Literally, the expression seemed to mean ‘two minas, a shekel and two parts’ or ‘numbered, weighed, divided’. None of this meant much to Belshazzar, who decided that he needed further interpretation and sent for the Jewish exile, Daniel. Daniel’s interpretation, as recorded in the first understood English version of the Bible, the King James Version, 1611, was:

MENE: God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it.

TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

PERES: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel told Belshazzar that the message was a sign of his downfall. Later that night Belshazzar was killed and Darius of Persia took over his kingdom. Some put his death at 539 BCE when Babylon fell to the Persians.

The kernel of the tale was that Belshazzar couldn’t understand the warning that was apparent to others because he was steeped in his sinful ways.

What is playing out in Nigeria now is “writing on the wall” for the onset of anarchy. We are witnessing the rise of non-state actors doing what the state should do, depicting a failure of intelligence agencies and the lackadaisical attitude of the government. I am here not talking of mass terrorism like Boko Haram, OPC, MEND or the Niger Delta militants at one time. Neither am I alluding to the unmitigated rise in banditry or the runaway menace of kidnapping. No, because these are cases of law and order, seen the world over, to be dealt with by the security agencies.

But what is most worrisome now is how the government looks like it is on sabbatical while brigands run the show. The South West, a region not too long ago held by the jugular by one Gani Adams, who it has crowned its official Warlord, is now about to be in the pincer-like grip of an original political thug, Sunday Igboho. He now runs the show, giving communities ultimatum and letting loose his goons on others while the government lets him.

I watched a video clip in which his boys “arrested” two soldiers and two civilians, labelling them as spies for the government even though some irresponsible blogs said they came to attack him. The South West, with all its eggheads, sophistication and political sagacity is falling in line behind him and, like Adams, sees him as a hero.

Guerrilla methods of attack are now rearing their head in the South East with the formation of the Eastern Security Network by Nnamdi Kanu, another non-state actor. Recently, “unknown gunmen” have been attacking police stations, burning police and military vehicles and killing operatives, including prison warders and carting away weapons.

When Kanu formed the ESN just after the #EndSARS protests, the government did not view it with the seriousness it deserved. Security agents should have viewed that as a threat because it is on record that he wanted to take over and turn the protests into something bloody. He called on his people to kill police officers anywhere they found them. With his rambling cry of “mad people everywhere” swallowed as an anthem by his shallow-minded followers, Kanu’s diatribe, though, helped in dousing the flames of the protests.

However, that was in Lagos. Now in the East, with thousands of frustrated youths who have lost hope in any good life the way the country is being run, it will be a walk-in for anarchy. Thousands have been drilled in the ways of the army, from videos made available on social media, and when unleashed on the nation, our overstretched army may not cope. Therefore, the isolated cases of attacks on our security agents should not be seen as normal or swept under the carpet. That was how Boko Haram started. Anarchy lurks on the horizon.

Or do we wait, arms akimbo, eyes wide open yet afflicted with the twin diseases of myopia and hyperopia until they make the South East a hell for recognised authorities? Do we realise the region is a candidate for anarchy, and the turmoil to be witnessed may dwarf what happened in the North East, the effects of which still ail us?

We must fear Nigeria’s gradual descent into anarchy. Anarchy, from Greek, meaning “without a leader”, is a word that has over one meaning. But one of its meanings is: When there is no leader, or when nobody has power over everyone; when there is no political order, and there is confusion. Jim Dodge, a contemporary American novelist and poet, thought that anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their (government’s) control.

Anarchy sets in when a government is insensitive to the yearnings of the people, when a few appropriate everything to their benefits, when a majority lose hope in having a good life or confidence in the leaders and those at the top appear to be above the law. It is an added catalyst when a government appears to be unfocused, losing grip of situations, especially security and economy.

George Washington, America’s first president, once said that “if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.”

The writing on the wall is ominous. Yet there is still hope.

Every government elected on a party’s platform is to be guided by the party’s manifesto, because that was what made the people vote for it. In the early part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, a lot of mileage and goodwill was squandered because of the lack of focus of his party. Infighting, ego peddling and the rat race for self-service turned the All Progressives Congress into a rudderless ship in a roaring sea.

However, with the party’s executive council dissolved and with the appointment of a provisional executive committee under the management of Mai Mala Buni, the Yobe State governor, the party has stabilised and recovered its mettle, developing into a sort of beautiful bride being solicited by politicians of every hue.

We can understand that there are many things from the government that have happened for the benefit of Nigerians that would not have been so if not for the focus the party now has and its interface with the government and its various arms.

This is one reason that a growing number of political observers think many of the security challenges Nigeria is experiencing would have faded away with a character like Buni in the core business of governance.

The way the APC, without intimidation, now talks with one voice from ward levels up to the national stage is an accomplishment, no doubt. It shows a unifying, consolidating and focused leader at work.

But not so for the government, which can be likened to a meeting of individuals on a tower with each speaking in tongues. There is no synergy between the security agencies; backstabbing one another was a pastime. Ministries counteracted each other and government representatives speak to deny later. It is a scenario where each man is to himself and God for all of us. The citizens as a result have become suspicious of the government, trust broken. And unfortunately, the country and the poor citizens suffer more than should be the case.

Officials conduct government business as if there is no clearinghouse, philosophy or direction. Daily we face problems of governance staring at us starkly, the good intentions of the president not getting fulfilled. We should not continue to bury our heads in the sand like the ostrich; we should have people who can right the ship of state in the day-to-day running of national affairs at the helm.

Otherwise, a thousand writings on the wall would be unrecognized, with no value attached even if looked at.

#ZariaGenocide: The Nigerian army raped our women and girls. https:///zHmbqWC8A6

Gunmen attack fourth Anambra police station in one week - Punch Newspapers https:///uY77oo6p45

Protesters demand Atlanta shootings be labeled hate crime

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13 people were brutally murdered in Southern Kaduna yesterday by the murderous armed bandits and more than 50 houses burnt down. The Bandits operated unchecked and unchallenged by the compromised security forces.

What is the difference between the Nigeria of today and Somalia? Sheikh Zakzaky warned in the past that the Western hegemony wanted to turn Nigeria in to another Somalia. Have they not succeeded already?

Why can't we have armed Vigilante groups in Southern Kaduna that will be armed with pump action guns to protect their community from these armed bandits? O' I now remember that notorious child-killer #Elrufai is a Christian hater.

God Rest the Dead!

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Buhari's Gross Irresponsiblility...

Nigeria needed war planes to fight against the murderous #BokoHaram insurgency. Nigeria has $1bn cash.

In order to please former US president Trump, Buhari deposited half a billion dollars for a dozen of US-made Super Tucano fighter jets. And Nigeria will wait for 3 years to have them!

This is a practical manifestation of gross incompetency, acute irresponsiblility and lack of patriotism. This was why the same Trump that he wanted to please described him as #Lifeless.

You wanted war planes and you have the money, why not go to Russia and China and get quality Fighter Jets with more quantity and less money? Must you please Trump? #idiot

Your country is facing massive and unprecedented insecurity, why wait for 3 years for the war planes? How many unprotected Nigerians were brutally slaughtered in those 3 years by the bloodthirsty BokoHaram terrorists and murderous armed bandits?

Lest I Forget: Nigerians are still waiting for those planes to arrive. And the senseless killings has increased.

This is how useless #TyrantBuhari is!

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"Shell Oil Products US (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc announced today that it has formally closed on the sale of Shell’s Martinez Refinery in California to PBF Holding Company LLC (PBF), a subsidiary of PBF Energy, Inc., in exchange for $1.2 billion which includes the refinery and inventory. The deal also includes crude oil supply and product offtake agreements, and other adjustments."

Fellow Nigerians, Shell has sold a whole Refinery in the US for $1.2bn and we are repairing ours at $1.5bn. Can you now see how extremely wicked and corrupt the Buhari gang of bloodthirsty killers and monumental fraudsters are?

Shell sold a functional Refinery for $1.2bn and the economic terrorists that we have in power in Nigeria want to repair the Port Harcourt Refinery for $1.5bn

Buhari is absolute evil!

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FEC approves $1.5 billion for repair of Port Harcourt Refinery - News Report

Mee:

Another rip off by the extremely wicked and corrupt Buhari gang of bloodthirsty killers and monumental fraudsters.

The price of crude oil tag in the 2021 budget is $40 per barrel. Anything above this is sent to the Excess Crude Oil Account. The price of Crude Oil has being climbing of recent. There is money in the Excess Crude Oil Account. So, these economic terrorists want to loot that money.

We all know that the 4 Nigerian Refineries are conduit points of massive looting of the public treasury.

The Buhari gang brought in a faceless Italian group that will facilitate their treasury looting. A proper repair of the Port Harcourt Refinery will contact those that build the Refinery.

$1.5 billion is more than enough to build a brand new mini Refinery. But we have notorious treasury looters in power in Nigeria. What do you expect

#ElbinawiTweets

FEC approves $1.5 billion for repair of Port Harcourt Refinery - News Report

Mee:

Another rip off by the extremely wicked and corrupt Buhari gang of bloodthirsty killers and monumental fraudsters.

The price of crude oil tag in the 2021 budget is $40 per barrel. Anything above this is sent to the Excess Crude Oil Account. The price of Crude Oil has being climbing of recent. There is money in the Excess Crude Oil Account. So, these economic terrorists want to loot that money.

We all know that the 4 Nigerian Refineries are conduit points of massive looting of the public treasury.

The Buhari gang brought in a faceless Italian group that will facilitate their treasury looting. A proper repair of the Port Harcourt Refinery will contact those that build the Refinery.

$1.5 billion is more than enough to build a brand new mini Refinery. But we have notorious treasury looters in power in Nigeria. What do you expect

#ElbinawiTweets

EXCLUSIVE: How Buhari stopped Monguno’s $2.5bn arms deal with UAE merchants

Mee:

@thecableng shared this piece today to dampen the bombshell of Monguno that Criminal Buratai diverted money meant for weapons. Criminal Buratai is behind this piece.

Both Buratai and Monguno are both our enemies. Both of them are part of the Saudi-sponsored #ShiaGenocide agenda in Nigeria. Both of them actively participated in the brutal slaughter of thousands innocent Shia civilians in Nigeria.

When the enemy camp is in disarray and divided, one should give thanks to God. Alhamdulillah!

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I saw a Video of Muslims and Christians throwing stones at each other today in Ilorin, Kwara state, due to the Hijab issue. Most unfortunate!

Preventing Muslim students from wearing the Hijab in schools is another form of extremism and fanatism.

Wearing the Hijab is a constitutionally guaranteed freedom that is above institutional rules of schools. The Nigerian constitution allowed Muslim students to wear the Hijab in schools. Denying them this right is acute intolerance.

A Muslim sister was recently denied wearing the Hijab in the Nigerian law school. She went to court and won. Precedent exists in this Law School Hijab case. Preventing a Muslim student from wearing the hijab in a missionary school infringes on that student’s rights.

Female police officers in Scotland that are Muslims are allowed to wear the Hijab. What is the percentage of Muslims in Scotland? Not up to 5%.

Christian Nuns in Roman Catholic Churches are wearing the Hijab, why prevent school children from doing so, we ask?

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A Must-Watch Video:

In case you're wondering why Masari is so obsessed with Mahadi, this is Mahadi the famous Katsina whistleblower that @GovernorMasari is dehumanizing while allowing bandits to continuously pillaging communities.

#FreeMahadiShehu

https:///r2Mkd5Jufs

Activist Mahadi Shehu is a whistle blower in Kastina state. He is exposing the massive corruption and fraud in Kastina state. Billions looted by the @GovernorMasari regime with nothing to show.

But do you know what happened to Mahadi Shehu?

The Nigerian police abducted him, dumped him in a dilapidated Police station and sent snakes to attack him. They then fabricated trump-up charges against him.

Mahadi Shehu is suffering this inhuman dehumanization because he called for accountability and good Governance.

Nigerians must understand this fact that the extremely wicked and corrupt Nigerian ruling elites will not just sit and watch you threaten their looting of the public treasury.

Lest I Forget!

That is how the Buhari gang of bloodthirsty killers and monumental fraudsters are fighting corruption by the dehumanization of a WhistleBlower.

#FreeMahadiShehu

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Saudi regime to displace 521 families, raze houses in Shia-majority Qatif

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We can’t guarantee your safety, be alert, FG tells schoolchildren https:///dGtnYphBxU

Senator Rochas Okorocha is from the South East but he has built good schools all over the North that offered Free & quality Education to the poor masses of Northern Nigeria.

How many Northern leaders have done this? How many schools do Aliko Dangote, the richest Blackman in the world, has in Kano state, his home state?

When former vice president Atiku decided to established a School, he built a University in Adamawa state that a Middle Class Nigerian can not afford. How many schools did Atiku build for poor Northerners? None

Northern leaders are notorious in buying choice properties for international prostitutes in Dubai, UAE. They don't build schools for their people despite the fact that Educationally, Northern Nigeria is the most backward region in the world with more than 10 million Out-of-school Children.

#Photo: One of the schools of Senator Rochas Okorocha in Sokoto state. Can you see the female students on Hijab? Rochas is a Christian.

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Tijjaniyya sect denies appointing  Sanusi leader in Nigeria https:///wO43pBpFua

*Much Ado About Hijab, by Hassan Gimba*

Hijab. This five-letter word has refused to take leave of our public discourse for long. Many female Muslims all over the world love to don the garb because they are fulfilling a part of the injunctions of their religion. But some Christians will have none of it. No one can say why. It may, perhaps, be out of misunderstanding, fear, envy, mischief or a mix of the above.

What is hijab, one may ask, that its love or hate has seen protagonists and antagonists grappling with one another around the world? Hijab, an Arabic word, means a partition, screen, barrier. In Islam, though, it has a wider meaning. It can refer to the “veil” that separates man, world, from God, and isolate women from men in the public sphere, to maintain modesty and privacy from unrelated males.

Physical hijab comprises two parts. First is the khimar – a veil that covers the head (sometimes face, called burqa), neck and bosom. And the other is the jilbab, and it covers the torso, arms and legs. But we are more conversant with the hijab as a veil covering the hair, neck and chest of women. And it is an issue worrisome to those who hate it.

Though the veil (hijab) has a standard in terms of size and texture and goes together with the jilbab (or modest covering), a Muslim girl could wear a mini-skirt or tight-fitting trouser but there would be a problem if she wears a “veil” that covers only the neck, even if it’s meant for fashion.

This played out on December 12 in Nigeria when the Body of Benchers refused a law graduate, Amasa Firdaus Abdulsalam, entrance into the International Conference Centre for call to the bar. She was accused of not been properly dressed because of the hijab she wore, they ruled.

But why do Muslim women insist on wearing the hijab despite discrimination, intimidation, marginalisation and threats? Many verses of the Qur’an instruct Muslims to dress modestly, one of which is Surah 24:31. It tells women to guard their private parts and draw their khimār over their bosom, Muslim women find hijab as the best form of dressing.

“And say to the believing women they should lower their gaze and guard their private parts; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their khimār over their breasts and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet to draw attention to their hidden ornaments,” says the verse.

There are also prophetic traditions (ahadith, plural for hadith) that form parts of the Islamic law that emphasise the importance of hijab in the life of the Muslim woman. In Muwatta Imam Malik (a collection of ahadith), a hadith said, “Yahya related to me from Malik, from Muhammad ibn Zayd ibn Qunfudh that his mother asked Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), “What clothes can a woman wear in prayer?” She said, “She can pray in the khimār (headscarf) and the diri’ (shield, armature), a woman’s garment that reaches down and covers the top of her feet.” In Jami’ at-Tirmidhi, Aishah narrated that Allah’s Messenger said: “The salat (prayer) of a woman who has reached the age of menstruation is not accepted without a khimār.”

Perhaps with this in mind, and having regard for human rights and the American value of freedom of religion, the USA’s Supreme Court on June 1, 2015, ruled 8-1in favour of Samantha Elauf, thus allowing her to work without sacrificing her modesty as prescribed in Islam. In 2008, Abercrombie and Fitch, an American casual wear mega-retailer, denied employment to Samantha Elauf because she wore the Muslim headscarf known as hijab.

The company’s policy prohibited the wearing of any kind of head covering, forcing Ms Elauf to take her discrimination case all the way to the Supreme Court. As it is now, even the military in America, Britain and South Africa have accepted that female Muslims can don the hijab as part of their uniform.

Considering that female Muslim lawyers in Britain and the USA may wear the hijab to court, Amasa Firdaus’ case was resolved in her favour and they called her to the bar the next year without losing her seniority.

Not so in Kenya, as the court of appeal had to, in September 2016, overturn a 2015 judgement of a High Court that ruled that hijab-wearing by students was illegal. The court also directed the education directorate of the country to ensure they create new rules on school uniforms and not to discriminate against students based on religion.

A Methodist Church-run school in the country was aggrieved by an earlier sanction by the country’s education directorate saying Muslim students in the school could wear hijab and white trousers, which is against the school’s rules. The school’s claim before seeking resolution at the high court was that wearing hijab and trousers created disparity among students.

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) followed the same path in Nigeria when it challenged the Lagos State government up to the court of appeal over its refusal to allow students to wear hijab.

A five-man special appellate court panel presided over by Justice A.B. Gumel, had on July 21, 2016, overruled the October 17, 2014 judgment of Justice Modupe Onyeabo of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, which banned the wearing of hijab in public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State. The panel held that the ban on hijab was discriminatory against Muslim pupils in the state and that it violated their rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, the dignity of the human person and freedom from discrimination as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution. Justice Gumel also held that wearing the hijab was an Islamic injunction and an act of worship required of Muslims and that its use by Muslim pupils could not cause disunity, distraction and discrimination against students of other faiths as declared by the lower court judge.

Therefore, with this as background, one wonders why wearing the hijab is an issue in Kwara State with the Christian Association of Nigeria beating the drums of war. Does CAN want Muslims to fail a religious injunction, or what does it want?

This is because Christianity, too, is a religion that preaches modesty and morality and all paintings of its earlier respected women depict them in veils (hijab). We see so even with Catholic Nuns.

Women of the ancient church all wore head coverings. An early theologian, Clement of Alexandria (150 to 215 AD), wrote, “Woman and man are to go to church decently attired…for this is the wish of the Word since it is becoming for her to pray veiled.”

He also wrote, “It has also been commanded that the head should be veiled, and the face covered, for it is a wicked thing for beauty to be a snare to men. Nor is it appropriate for a woman to desire to make herself conspicuous by using a purple veil.”

The early Christian writer Tertullian (150–220) explains that in his day, the Corinthian church was still practising head covering. This is only 150 years after the Apostle Paul wrote 1 Corinthians. He said, “So, too, did the Corinthians themselves understand [Paul]. In fact, at this day the Corinthians do veil their virgins. What the apostles taught, their disciples approve.” Early church history bears witness that in Rome, Antioch and Africa, the custom of wearing a head covering became the norm for the church.

Later, in the 4th century, the church leader John Chrysostom (347–407 AD) stated, “…the business of whether to cover one’s head was legislated by nature (see 1 Cor 11:14–15). When I say “nature,” I mean “God.” For He is the one who created nature. Take note, therefore, what great harm comes from overturning these boundaries! And don’t tell me that this is a small sin.”

Writing about head covering, Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD) said, “It is not becoming, even in married women, to uncover their hair, since the apostle commands women to keep their heads covered.”

Until at least the 18th century, the wearing of a head covering, both in public and while attending church, was customary for Christian women in the Mediterranean, European, Middle Eastern, and African cultures. In Europe, a woman who did not wear a head covering was interpreted to be “a prostitute or adulteress”, hence a law stipulated as evidence of her infidelity that a married woman uncovered her hair in public.

Now, is it anybody’s fault if Christians no longer wished to wear the hijab but prefer western dressing? Must they force others, too, to abandon what they hold as their belief? The difference here is that one has jettisoned what his earlier religious teachers preached to him while the other holds to what his earlier religious teachers told him was right. None should force the other to do otherwise or do as he does.

We may have to go back to a conversation between Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, our First Republic President, and Sir Ahmadu Bello, the first and last Premier of the Northern region. Zik was said to have told Sir Ahmadu Bello: “Let us forget our differences”, to which Sir Ahmadu Bello replied: “No, let us understand our differences. I am a Muslim and a Northerner. You are a Christian, an Easterner. By understanding our differences, we can build unity in our country”.