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AUTHENTIC News Daily got the list of 11 senior Police officers who were decorated by the Inspector-General of Police on Wednesday. From the names, only one may not be a northerner.

It also appears that ten out of the 11 promoted are Muslims.

PROMOTION SENIOR POLICE OFFICERS
The Police service commission on the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police has approve the promotion of eleven (11) senior Police officers: One (1) commissioner of Police to Assistant Inspector-General of Police and ten (10) Deputy commissioner of Police to Commissioners of Police with effect from 15th March 2016.
The Names of the promotes are listed below
S/N NAMES FROM TO
1. AIG MOHAMMED KASTINA
2. CP ERO OGA
3. CP YUNANA Y. BABAS
4. CP DAN-MALLAM MOHAMMED
5. CP MU’AZU ZUBAIRU HALILU
6. CP RABIU YUSUF
7. CP SANUSI NMA LEMU
8. CP AHMED ILIYASU
9. CP ISYAKU MUKTAR GARKU
10. CP MOHAMMED UBA KURA
11. CP ALHASSAN MAMUDA

The beneficiaries were decorated today 6th April 2016, by the Inspector-General of Police , IGP Solomon E. Arase NPM,fdc, assisted by the Deputy Inspector-Generals of Police and other members of the Force management team. It was witnessed by spouses and friends at the Force Headquarters Abuja.
The IGP congratulated and charged the officers to live up to the expectation as the Force is stepping up effort to restore civil authority in the North East.

richiepolymer:
U wan tell me about okpella? U know whether I be okpella person? I lived in okugbe, awuyemi and briefly afokpella. Be honest! Okpellans like wahala

The fact that u lived in all those places u mentioned does not mean u know more about Okpella, The truth is, Erhuru-Unemeh are the aggressive ones in this issue on ground. It is not just a problem that started today. It is not about any lime stone mining. If u truly know Okpella, then u should know they have limestones in abundance. The bone of contention here is a case of a tenant telling his landlord that he now has more right on the landlord's estate. Would u condone that?
Mind you, the fight is not them vs entire Okpella Kingdom. It is them vs Ogute-Oke.

richiepolymer:
It really hurts me that Okuokpellagbe is doing this. Okpella people have always been known for violence. They are the most violent branch of etsako with misdirected energies. Why oppressing uneme people? Is Afenmai not one again? Poverty of the mind is indeed a disease. Dangote will be flossing wherever he is while brothers kill themselves? Afenmai......please let's not allow greed and darkness have its way.

Young man, can you give instances to support your affirmation that Okpellans are violent?
You dont say what you know nothing about in a bid to draw unwarranted sympathy. Okpella are peace lovers.

omoigbomina:
Okpella that's the headquarters of Babalawos in that axis

Sharrap boy, stop saying what you know nothing about. This issue is beyond your comprehension. Go help mama in the kitchen.

tinafix:
"Okwuokpellagbe's order that Erhurun Uneme should be attacked and wiped out because of Limestone sold to DANGOTE claiming ownership of the long existed village. As a result The people of Erhunrun Uneme has to face untold hardship, people of the town were seriously injured, properties destroyed e.t.c the worst of all is that routes into this village has presently been blocked, and villagers has to seek for alternative in a hard way".

ALHAJI A.Y.E. DIRISU is the King of the entire people called Okpella. Yesterday at the Area Commander office Auchi, Edo State in a truce meeting brokered by the Nigeria Police between Okpella and Erhurun Uneme in Etsako East LGA and Akoko Edo LGA respectively insisted that even though he did not send anybody or Vigilante to conquer or attack Erhurun Uneme all of the piece of land and everything underneath and above the surface around Ogute stretching to River Ovheni belongs to his kingdom. According to him and many others who I have had encounter with on the social media they have a government white paper of 1982 or thereabouts which empowered them to take title and ownership of all that Land.

Victims of the attacks.
Investigation has shown that the Erhurun Uneme community is not oblivious of the same government white paper which also empowered it to take title and ownership of same land stretching from Erhurun Uneme to Ogute 1 around the Akoko Edo Reservoir. A detail study and scrutiny of the same government white paper by the Erhurun Uneme elites even though the report was doctored and manipulated by the then Military governor of the state shows that the REPORT OR GAZZETTE is inchoate in Law. See Photo below (viewers discretion advise).

Source HERE http://tinaomone..com.ng/2016/03/edo-monarch-okwuokpellagbes-unleash.html#more

This is why I hate to believe stories that are been reported by these hungry bloggers. If you must report a story as sensitive as this, make sure you make it as balance as possible.
Now let me enlighten you a bit.
History does not have it that Okpella Kingdom has at anytime shared a common boundary with the Erhurun people.
Okpella has a common boundary with Dangbala people of Akoko Edo LGA. This the people of Dangbala can attest to this fact.
Erhurun were allowed to temporarily settle in that part of Okpella land because of the generosity of the then Ruler of OKPELLA.
The said feud is not between Erhurun and the entire people of Okpella. Okpella is too big to go into a feud with that tiny village. (Okpella is the third largest town in Edo state). The quarrel is between Erhurun and Ogute-oke.
As against what the OP wants to make this forum believe, the People of Erhurun are the aggressive once. They have attaked and unleashed more harm on the people of Ogute most of whom are now refugees in other parts of Okpella Kingdom.
The Okuokpellagbe of Okpella is a God-fearing and peace-loving leader. He has invited the leaders of Erhurun for peaceful dialog on several occasion and his offers were turned down. If he had allowed a retaliation from his people, perhaps the whole of Erhurun will be ashes and debris by now.
As for the issue of limestone deposit, I can authoritativly say that, that is not true. Okpella has more than enough limestone that can last for ages. Dont forget that they already have two cement factories. Other are still warming up.
Much as the good people of Okpella Kingdom seldom violence, I am using this opportunity to ask that they continue to tow the path of peace until the government of the day come to mediate on the issue.

Chai!

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
The Yoruba Factor and “Area-boy” Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was ” Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors” published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled ” The Igbo, the Yoruba and History” (Aug. 21, 1998).

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.

When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.

Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.

Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.

When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.
Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other “nationalities” that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.
iii.The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution.

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.
Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.
The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.
After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems. By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.


http://www.naijaonpoint.com/politics/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-lamido-sanusi.html

Emmm, what about the Hausa/Fulani attack on the yorubas? When is he going to address it?

Emmm, what about the Hausa/Fulani attack? When is he going to address it?

amiskurie:
Because they are not filled with hatred,they are very cohabitable people,and they followed teachings of their forefathers and holybooks that preaches to endure tons of troubles till they can no longer.






Goan die

Abiliv u dye.

Una nor get levus.
Kon unilag see baes and guys eh, u go bow.
Just kidding.
I love d jersey.

DaFlash:
*This people seems to be mastubating hard on the current yoruba-hausa ethnic tribal clash in lagos, they seem not to think of the ripple effects this small tenson will bring to all tribes in nigeria when it escalates to a full blown crisis/civil war 2.0. Talk of their sizable population in lagos and SW plus their liveliwood and investments all over nigeria but they are blinded to play tribal hate and choose the "enemy of my enemy is my friend".
*Even when the oba of lagos gave the infamous threats doing 2015 lagos elections, we saw some sizable yorubas who condermed this act they seem to forget this. Plus when soilders are killing them in east in their biafra protests we saw some sizable yorubas who condermed this act. But i have not seen not even one of them that condermed the current ethnic tenson in lagos.
*They think a nigeria civil 2.0 will be limited to one region even after they get their country, they are wrong it will be felt at all corners of the country plus even all of west africa(take sudan, iraq, syria and middle east for example).
*One thing we nigerians seem not to understand is that SW is the heart of this country and all regions of west africa if any thing happens here it will determine the outcome of what will happen else where.
*SW is like a buffer zone and balance between north and south, islam and christianity, all various tribes in the country, if it boils all other regions are gone and roasted.
THIS CURRENT ETHNIC TENSION SHOULD BE CONDERMED AND SWIFTLY STOPPED AT ALL COST BEFORE ITS TOO LATE FOR ALL.

Sharrap!!!
Instead of you to face the reality that stares you on d face, you are here stylishly pushing blames on the humble and quiet IBO man?
Which way forward, Nigeria?
Hausa dey kee ya pipu, na IBO man fault?
When our people were stup!dly campaigning for those anuofias, why didn't we think about the consequences of our folly then?
If Nigeria will burn because Igbo refuse to toe our path this time, so be it. But get this fact: IBO man is not the problem of the Yoruba.
Mtchw

Realtol:
Dindinrin, confused set of people (kanu or Kalu n co )... Part of Benin people are also descendants of Oduduwa. It was the balkanisation that split it and made those people to be on a land called Benin. If you go there, I'm sure you will hear an element of Yoruba language from their language. You guys need history book. To be half baked is trully a problem.

In as much as I am neither for nor against the self-determination or self-actualisation of the Igbo people in whichever peaceful manner they chose to do it, I have my grievance against the way and manner the Yoruba people want to distort history just to make their Oduduwa an all encompassing deity.
For the record, no part of Benin is a descendant of Oduduwa whomwas only a prince from Benin. The more you guys make this assertion, the more I am forced to believe you dont know your history.

nnachukz:
Op are you mocking some people. If not for the constitution that mandates dullardkpo to pick from each of the state, I will bet my house that all ministers must come from the north. The only thing I like from the latest appointments is that even the change chanters have turn to wailing wailers thereby increasing our wailing community. Proudly 5%.

You never can tell. Some folks recently advocated for an Interim Constitution as a replacement to the existing one so as to enable your President function optimally. So, should your constitutional provisions be pushed aside, during his ministerial appointments, dont be sad or mad.
While it last, enjoy the dividends of your APC.………
Change!!!!!!

Aminat508:
Alhamdulillahi

The same name they used to turn the poor girl to the monster-faced she now is.
SMH.

It doesn't matter what anyone thinks. GEJ remains the best President Nigeria has ever had, and so,…... He is my Hero.

funmijoyb:
He died? Oluwa mi o. Eyin olori pelebe yi o kin gboran o.

RIP

Ya fada, olori pelebe.

Let somebody closer to Buhari advice him to let GEJ be. He should be more concerned abt how to fulfill his campaign promises.

Something tells me this is an Ibo man's concept. Tell me I am wrong.

Emm, Commissioner Osibade is missing in those pictures. Was it a deliberate act, an oversight or that he was truly absent like his "Oga at the top"?

The Nigerians that voted you were expecting a Leader that will hit the ground running.
It is so unfortunate that they just realised that The WAI crooner, Brg. Tunde Idiagbon died some decades ago; and so who we have left is Mr Dongoyaro.

nwadiuko1:
Did he also drink rat poison?

Like who?

Chai!

Chai!

coolhamid:
Still to see the change APC promised ...
I hope I won't regret voting this man because he has been travelling everywhere and kinda slow in his actions ...

You mean you truly voted him?
What were you expecting, Change?
Now you realise you have just been duped.
As for me, I voted GEJ and no regret.

Trailblazer1:
The duo of SE/SS have now become the game changers.

At the right time, Nigeria will have to beg this duo to remain with them

And that is a fact!

Mrs Tinubu: Saraki, I thought you said you have embrassed CHANGE. Saraki: Yes I did. But were you expecting Total CHANGE overnight? hahaha.

donphilopus:
This man should just keep shut lest thunder fires him. He 'dashed' out the Deputy Senate Presidency slot to PDP and he's here blabbing. The respect I used to have for Saraki and Dino Melaye has just diminished. I love the way Ndume was treated. He never knew Saraki had met with PDP Senators to offer them the 'Deputy Presidential' slot. He thought he had played fast on his fellow APC Senators to emerge the Deputy to Saraki. He may have dumped Saraki by now since his 'supposed' slot was freely given to Ekwerimadu and Saraki is in for a long thing.

The PDP Senators should know that they were the greatest losers yesterday. Out of the 57 Senators that were present at the hallowed chamber of the Senate during the 'sham' Election, only 8 of them were APC Senators. If a PDP Senator had moved a motion to nominate a fellow PDP Senator (say David Mark), he would have won the contest hands down and Saraki would have felt betrayed by now (which would have gladdened my heart). Saraki betrayed their trust in him when he defected to APC, he also betrayed APC's trust when he shunned the meeting convened by the President at the ICC and went to the floor of the Senate, they (PDP) should have also betrayed him by electing a PDP man as Senate President. I would have preferred it that way. PDP goofed!

No one cares about what you think or who you have respect for. Infact, Saraki doesn't whether someone like you is "angry" with him.
The bottom line is: Sen. Saraki is the Senate President Nigeria has at the moment. So learn to get use to it.
And as for Sent. Ekweremadu, what can I say? When it comes to the "politickings" in Nigeria politics, APC is an amateur.

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