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Zahra29:
If you have a spare $5m (only £4m), why not join Russian and African oligarchs/politicians and move to the US on a new gold visa (which replaces the soon to be cancelled immigrant investor visa) that offers a guaranteed pathway to US citizenship.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/trump-gold-card-visa-rich-foreigners

omooba969:
A bit of unwarranted information I must say, but I'm not really interested. I expected an insightful response to my comment, at least, on how the black south africans would fare or outperform if the afrikaaners were to leave SA.

Remember the events that followed when the white farmers were ejected from Zimbabwe? The black south africans would not be immuned to same reality IMO.

ttmax09:
There is a company called bob tractors in PH producing tractors, but trust Nigeria to like everything foreign.

FreeStuffsNG:
IBB has written his own denial but we owe posterity to keep the facts for posterity.


Igbo leaders were spared , no single Igbo leader was touched and the primary beneficiary of these tragic and callous murders was Late Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi, also a Nigerian of Igbo extraction who went further to reward his Igbo kith and kin military coup plotters with promotion while non- Igbo Nigerians were grieving and mourning the violent murder of their leaders by the Igbo coup plotters across the nation.
This is no coincidence. The coup was pre-planned and viciously executed to kill the leaders of other regions, decimate and cheat other Nigerians by the Igbo military officers. An obscene and unpatriotic I Before Others(IBO) mentality was perpetuated by the Igbo coup plotters against Non- Igbo Nigerians.

These are the proofs that made people regard the coup as Igbo coup. You can't spin and revise the history. Apologize to the Non- Igbo Nigerians you murdered their leaders violently in the unfortunate coup.

No fair-minded Igbo will be happy if it is the other way. If you are Igbo, just put yourself in the place of Non-Igbo Nigerians whose leaders were violently murdered in their prime by these Igbo military officers. Awful, right?

IBB wrote:

"It was heinously callous for Nzeogwu to have murdered Sir Ahmadu Bello and his wife, Hafsatu, because not only were they eminently adored by many but also because they were said not to have put up a fight.

jedisco:
A good starting point is understanding what ISAs are. ISAs is the umbrella term for your tax free saving allowance of 20k. Its like a tree which then has different subdivisions such as LISA, S&S ISA, Cash ISA e.t.c. I've found this site useful in explaining the whole concept : https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/isa-guide-savings-without-tax/

Now to LISAs - Its a seperate bucket under your ISA where the government tops up your contribution by 25% but this can only be used penalty-free for 2 purposes: buying your first home or at retirement. There is also an exemption if one is terminally ill. Also worth noting that you can't currently use it to buy a house that costs more than 450k - something to consider as you're in London.


First is to decide if you want to save for your home in a LISA or normal ISA or both. To many, filling a LISA first is preferable as you get the 25% rebate. With the money (your deposit + govt rebate) now in a LISA, you then decide what you want to do with it. Do you leave it in cash and get 1- 4% per annum without the risk of loosing money or do you invest it in S&S with potential for much higher returns but risk of losing some capital. If investing, the next question is do you buy individual companies (st0cks) or do you buy a basket comparising a large amount of companies (i.e fvnds). Fvnds which are my preference, if well chosen are cheaper, little hassle and historically return 7-10% pa. There's the risk you may lose some money when investing but if you your time frame is long enough (3-5 yrs and above), you would likely come out much better when invested properly. The risk is actually holding cash. Remember guaranteed interest on cash would struggle to match inflation and is unlikely to keep up with house prices.
When deciding on whether to go with solo st0cks or buy a collection, I've found this short video series quite good in explaining the concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4KEJQ_Z5U

I'd give an example (pictured)- after buying my place, I decided to continue investing in my LISA for retirement purposes. This time I went with S&S against cash. Its maxed out for the financial year and invested for under 8 months in the named fvnd. Returns so far (aside government rebate) is over 9%. Granted the last 2 years have been exceptionally good for markets but it'd take 3 years for same amount in cash to bring same return if the interest rate was 3%. I say 3% cos though you might get higher now, rates are likely to fall as BOE drops rates. Interest rates on cash were 1% is not too long ago. While saving for my place, I used a cash ISA+ LISA but with what I know now, I'd save in S&S if I'm doing it again.
Thesame concept largely also applies to how pension investments are made. Just like ISAs, they are all called tax-free wrappers. It's what you do with money inside the wrapper that matters.

Morbeta11:
The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has announced that the first Made-in-Nigeria helicopter is nearing completion and will soon take its maiden flight.

Speaking at a Focus Group Engagement in Kaduna, Engr. Kareem Aduagba, Project Manager at NASENI’s Aeronautics and Air Vehicle Development Institute, confirmed that significant progress had been made on the indigenous helicopter, which would soon be officially recognized as the “Nigerian Chopper.”

The engagement session, organized by NASENI, brought together inventors, manufacturers, government officials, industry leaders, and academics to promote local innovation and discuss policies that will drive Nigeria’s industrial and technological advancement.

“What we are doing now is not reinventing the wheel. We have one of our projects that started from the ground up, including the Made-in-Nigeria helicopter and some Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),” Aduagba explained.

“Additionally, we have acquired some aircraft components from developed countries in Semi Knock Down (SKD) and Complete Knock Down (CKD) forms. Using scientific and engineering expertise, we are working on assembling and modifying them.

“Very soon, we will conduct the first test flight of the Made-in-Nigeria helicopter as we approach the final stages of development,” he added.

Also speaking at the event, Engr. Abdulfatai Ambali, Head of the Manufacturing Services Department at NASENI’s Hydraulic Equipment Development Institute, Kano, emphasized the agency’s renewed commitment to commercialization, collaboration, and innovation under its current leadership.


“Many Nigerians are unaware of NASENI’s contributions, but with the leadership of the Executive Vice Chairman, Khalil Suleman Halilu, we are prioritizing awareness, stakeholder engagement, and community impact.

“Our goal is to develop homegrown technology that reduces Nigeria’s reliance on foreign products. Many of our innovations are already being deployed across various sectors,” Ambali stated.

Facilitator of the program, Saleh Kwaru, urged Nigerians to support local industries, stressing that national development depends on patronizing homegrown products.

“We must look inward and leverage our resources. Constant reliance on foreign products weakens our economy,” he noted.

Similarly, Yusuf Suleman, Acting Zonal Coordinator for the North West Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), commended the event for tackling challenges affecting locally made products, such as quality and finishing.

“Innovation and modern technology are key to improving the acceptance of Nigerian products. This kind of engagement will help solve production challenges and create more job opportunities.

“SMEDAN and NASENI share common goals, including marketing, technological advancement, and job creation, ensuring sustainable industrial growth,” Suleman added.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/made-in-nigeria-helicopter-set-to-fly-soon-naseni/

jaxxy:
My Simple point I an ethnic coloration doesn't not mean it is ethnic motivated. Dora said what she said which is facts.

Also many credible and authoritative people have come out to say the coup was NOT an Igbo coup and that is FACT but bigots won't let it rest.

I do not care what IBB said infact many yorubas have labelled him a serial liar so his point or position is indifferent.

Bottom line Coloration doesn't mean fact.

AmazingGenius:
Source: https://punchng.com/usaid-donated-drugs-found-in-lagos-abia-markets-nafdac/

jaxxy:
Yes u are trying to speak facts but we all know the facts have an ethnic coloration. Not saying they are not facts but u understand what I'm saying? Ur choice of word description of the fake drug merchants gives understand the report or operations out.

So it mean only Anambra and idumota traders of obviously igbo extraction deal on fake drugs in Nigeria. Then Drag Dora into it to cover ur ethnic purposes. Very Convenient but we see through u.

Exactly same way the 1966 coup was not an igbo coup and thst is authentic fact despite all that happened and ur ethnic coloration assumptions. We are on sane page.

Indeed many people even b4 IBB regardless of what he said in his book have said it was not an igbo coup but bigots find that hard to believe. I understand.

SamGift0817:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YjWRgqLgok
Drama as Flight Captain gives his pre-flight announcement in Igbo language. Passengers on board were excited while some had mixed feelings.

pazienza:
Rambling of a demonic Yoruba man.

How does the above rubbish clear the fact that Fajuiyi was killed because all evidence pointed to the fact that he trained the boys involved in the coup and supported the coup?

How does it disprove the fact that your wicked Yoruba people invented a lie to try and cover Fajuiyi role in the coup so as to cover your loose end?

How does it change the fact that all that were killed were all Awolowo enemies, none were his friends.

How does it change the fact that Awolowo was imprisoned because he committed an act of treasonable felony which lends credence to the fact that he was more than capable of attempting to pull of a coup?
IBB being present at Awolowo funeral and eulogizing him means nothing, he was probably relieved the chronic power hungry man is dead.
Even Nigeria gave Nzeogwu befitting burial.

When will you wicked ones that have ruined Nigeria stop with the lies and bigotry, have you not done enough?

You invented an Igbo coup lie, hijacked Nigerian economy through Indigenization policy, ran all the foreign companies you stole down to bankruptcy through your financial incompetence and plunged the economy into recession.

You have repeated that same feat since 2015 just when it looked like Nigeria was finally getting to recover under Igbo financial prudence touch from 1999 to 2015. You ran an Igbophobic agenda against GEJ, invented lies and lies against the man, ousted him. And just like in 1967,
you have ran the country back to recession and shit hole! While still inventing and propagating your usual Igbophobia!

How can a people be this vile?

jaxxy:
Quite a long epistle but let me summarise it into the recent NAFDAC Raid which seem to have unmistakable taken an ethnic coloration but its definitely not an ethnic Raid or is it?

Wisdomkosi:
He noted that apart from the release of the concrete polling figures of the watershed 1993 presidential election, the major take away from the controversial memoir is IBB’s clarification on the 1966 coup.

“Some of us have always known that the naming of the January 1966 bloody putsch as Igbo coup was the deliberate orchaestration of the United Kingdom Government using the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Lagos/Ibadan axis of domestic media.

“Britain resolved to sow the seed of long term political animosity between Igbo and Yoruba, as well as set Igbo up for national vilification, demonization and hatred. And, to my mind, this long-term plot by the British, started with the ignition of open battle between Chiefs Obafemi Awolowo and Samuel Ladoke Akintola, which snowballed into the 1966 coup.

“From branding the coup as Igbo, through the counter coup, the genocide, the breakdown of Aburi accord, and deceiving Ojukwu into secession by the same British, all provided a golden opportunity to destroy Ndigbo, Igbo land and the Eastern Nigeria emergent and thriving economy,” he remarked.

Obidigbo maintained that with the benefit of hindsight, nobody or group would explain in whose interest the war was fought, regretting that no Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Biron, Jukun, Hausa or even Itsekiri can point to any benefit from the war.

Obidigbo, who said he was yet to read in full Babangida’s memoir, said it would have been proper for the retired General to explain the circumstances that surrounded the 1992 Military Plane crash at Ejigbo, Lagos State and what he knew about the murder of Dele Giwa, so that Nigeria’s healing process could begin in earnest.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/obidigbo-ibbs-memoir-has-exposed-origin-of-banditry-corruption-igbo-marginalization/

Agbaka1997:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/how-my-late-wife-maryam-converted-to-islam-after-our-marriage-babangida/%3famp


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me_ztt2s2Fs

jaxxy:
IBB isn't the first to say it wasn't an Igbo coup. Don't know why bigots are crying over IBB'S book.

Image123:
Hmmm. Listen to Nzeogwu clearly stating the reasons for the coup.

HERE is the text of broadcast taken from a tape of the speech by Major Chukuma nzeogwu right after the coup on lover Radio Kaduna on 15 January 1966, starting at about 12.30 P.M.

Nzeogwu broadcast over Radio Kaduna just after noon on
Saturday 15 January.!!!!! pic.twitter.com/6b0W1fSt2j

— Senior Pastor Okezie James Atañi (@Onsogbu) February 24, 2025

Martial law over the NORTHERN provinces of Nigeria. Suspension of constitution. Ten proclamations in the extraordinary orders of the coup, but nothing suggesting Awolowo's release, neither was he ever released by the coupists, but revisionists are telling us otherwise.
Looting, arson, rape, homosexaulity punished by death sentences
Demostrations punishable in grave mannner up to death.
Shouting of slogans punished by incaceration or more.
doubtful loyalty of sitting on the fence punished.

These are the things the young generations don't think of when they shout for military because some mediocre candidate lost an election.
People argue that the 1966 coup started off as nationalistic, but it clearly came off in one way.
People argue that the ENDSARS movement started off as nationalistic, but it clearly came off in one way.
People argue that the Obident movement started off as nationalistic, but it clearly came off in one way.

We refuse to be fooled or gaslighted.

kettykings:
The real issue with the 1966 coup is the relentless Yoruba attempt to rewrite history, branding it an "Igbo coup" despite clear records showing that 50% of the participants were Yoruba. Had the coup succeeded, we’d never hear the end of how the Yoruba played a crucial role in toppling the First Republic’s government.

jocelynor:
She films every man she sleeps with when they doze off' - Nigerian activist shares shocking revelation made by 15-year-old

Exactly 11:15pm tonight 24th February, a 15 years old girl made a shocking revelation to me that she videos every man she sleeps with at the middle of the night when they were fast asleep.

I went further to ask her why she did that and she told me she watched it on a movie. Probing what she would do with those videos, she said she would use it to blow bigger on social media.

I thought she lied and decided to ask her to send 5 of those videos to me on WhatsApp which she accepted. She said "comrade, I have over 60 videos but I will send you 17 of them. The only one I deleted was the first guy who bought me the phone.

She sent the videos to me on a "once view". Sharp boy like me, I got them saved one way or the other but my greatest surprise was seeing a popular church deacon whom I know very well.

I will have a conversation with her tomorrow.


lindaikejiblogofficial

Wahabfuture:
What do you expect him to say, 🤣you actually believe he participated in the coup blindfolded, funny you , even your fellow Yorubas participated in the coup, I’m sure they were blindfolded too according to your logic 😃

keep writing long epistle but it won’t change the fact that the coup was not an Igbo coup, Yorubas make una rest small, why do you guys carry this matter for head like gala. Spit

nlfpmod:
Laila Charani and her husband, Prince Ned Nwoko toured The Sports University of Nigeria, Idumuje-Ugboko established by the Senator.


https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/02/24/laila-charani-rekindles-bond-with-ned-nwoko-joins-him-on-tour/


https://www.instagram.com/p/DGbVvchuagE/?igsh=NzEwYWtnandhYTN1

omooba969:
Black south africans don't have the brain capacity to do it, bcoz the afrikaners never show them the way.

RandDigital:
Farmers and agricultural workers are flooding into South Africa from neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, and Mozambique.

This data was detailed in a recent Parliamentary Q&A, where the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) was asked for the total number of work permits issued in the last financial year.

In response, the DEL explained that it provides recommendations on corporate work visa applications regarding the availability of local labour in various categories.

According to the department, it received 60 corporate work visa applications covering 6,255 migrant workers.

Of these, the DEL negatively recommended (rejected) 5,383 (86%) and positively recommended (approved) 872 (14%).

The approved visas included workers from several countries, including China, India, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Pakistan, the UK, Israel, and Zimbabwe.

The various sectors included agriculture, education and training, manufacturing, mining, maritime, wholesale, and retail.

However, 91% (796) of the recommended approvals of work visas from the Department of Employment and Labour were for farmers and agricultural workers.

Most of these foreign agricultural workers came from neighbouring countries, Zimbabwe (445), Lesotho (250), Namibia (70), and Mozambique (30).

WHY ARE THEY COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA?

The chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz), Wandile Sihlobo, told BusinessTech that these migrant farmers and workers are moving to South Africa for better opportunities and pay.

“South Africa’s agriculture is robust and growing. We had about 924,000 people working in primary agriculture at the end of the last quarter of 2024.

“There are workers in the sector from neighbouring countries who are attracted by competitive wages in South Africa’s agriculture,” he said.

“The revised agricultural Minimum Wage in South Africa is R28.79 per hour. In Namibia, the sectoral determination for farm workers is at R10 per hour.” This makes work in South Africa attractive, he said.

In some instances, Sihlobo added that farmers also provide lodging, which assists. Some, such as Lesotho, bring unique skills in sheep shearing, amongst other aspects.

However, Sihlobo stressed the importance of ensuring that South African workers receive primary work opportunities and that neighbouring countries supplement them when necessary.

pazienza:
From Lt Walbe account and ADC Nwankwo account, we can rationally deduce the following:

1. Fajuiyi was marked to be killed by the North because they reckoned that he was the one who trained all the boys who participated in the coup, he ran a course which all those who were involved did.
Infact the only reason Fajuiyi wasn't personally involved in the coup was because he went on overseas course during the execution, but he supported the coup fully. So much for an Igbo coup.


2. The Western region media lied about the circumstances surrounding Fajuiyi death because that's all they always do, lie! Twist truths sell falsehood.
It was easier to do that that admit that Hausa-Fulani came to their region and killed their military governor in Fajuiyi! They didn't want to confront the implications of that, they were more interested in looking for ways to sell Igbo coup agenda and to pin Akintola( the same man who distablized their region and led to Awolowo imprisonment) death on the Igbo and push on with that agenda.
Their modus operandi hasn't changed till today.

3. If they could lie about Fajuiyi death, what else can they not lie about?


My Questions though:

Could it be that Fajuiyi was Awolowo link to the coup, could it be he was working for Awolowo incognito. He allegedly trained the boys involved in the coup, a coup that conveniently killed all Awolowo enemies!
Remember Awolowo has history of coup before, he was imprisoned for the crime of financial misappropriation and treasonable felony! Balewa accused him of hatching plans to overthrow his government.

Also remember that Awolowo actually was accused by IBB of trying to overthrow his government after Jakande ratted him out, and he was given the option of going to prison or exile by IBB government?
https://www.legit.ng/1169589-what-led-death-chief-obafemi-awolowo.html

Every other regional leader was killed , except those not reachable. Zik was outside the country, Okpara was entertaining international visitors and couldn't be reached without harming them. But Awolowo was most vulnerable he was in prison and easily reachable, yet he wasn't killed, why was that?
Could it be he was the masterminder of this coup and had Fajuiyi as his agent who brainwashed young soldiers like Nzeogwu and co into a suicide mission?

Why has this aspect of history not been explored before now? What was Awolowo role in this coup?

Teedol:
As much as there is emphasies on punishing folks selling COS, people willing to buy are also culpable in this case, have seen people desperate and intentionally asking to pay for COS, thats intentionally breaking the law.

Zahra29:
@Lexus, you didn't give us the tea on the protest going on outside the Home Office lol, calling on the Home Office to investigate CoS scammers who have allegedly scammed people of up to tens of thousands of pounds.

They even have a banner with the faces of some of the "scammers"

NewDigitalWorld:
Seplat Energy eyes 14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in acquired assets in Akwa Ibom.

The Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy, Roger Brown has disclosed that the company sees the potential of unlocking an estimated 14 trillion cubic feet of untapped natural gas in its newly acquired assets in Akwa Ibom State.

Brown said this while speaking at the Heirs Energies Leadership Forum 2025, in Abuja, where he spoke about Nigeria’s potential in accelerating oil & gas production, unlocking untapped gas reserves, and driving sustainable growth in the energy sector.

He reaffirmed Seplat Energy’s commitment to enhancing Nigeria’s energy sector by accelerating oil production and expanding its domestic gas supply capacity.

“We see tremendous potential in unlocking 14 TCF of untapped gas in our newly acquired assets in Akwa Ibom State and we are aligned with the government’s vision that every barrel of oil and molecule of gas counts,” he said.

Seplat Energy Targets 850 Million scf

He stated that the company will deliver 850 million standard cubic feet of gas for domestic and industrial use in Nigeria.

“Seplat Energy is committed to supporting the delivery of Nigeria’s energy future by accelerating oil production and delivering on our 850 million scf gas capacity to domestic industry including power, fertilizer production, and LNG.”

He noted that Seplat Energy’s targets and recent investments align with the Nigerian government’s vision of optimizing every available resource to strengthen energy security and economic growth.

“We are aligned with the government’s vision that every barrel of oil and molecule of gas counts. As such, we will continue to invest in safe and efficient operations to ensure long-term energy security and sustainable growth,” the CEO added.

He stressed that Nigeria’s energy sector is undergoing a historic transformation, with unprecedented divestments.

He said these new investments and divestments will unlock new opportunities for growth in the energy sector.

Backstory

Last year, Seplat Energy, which is listed in both Nigeria and London acquired Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU) from ExxonMobil for $1.3 billion.

• The assets acquired primarily include oil and gas operations in several oil fields and export terminals in Akwa Ibom state.

• The acquisition has now bestowed on Seplat, equity in 11 blocks (onshore and shallow water); 48 producing oil and gas fields; 5 gas processing facilities; and 3 export terminals.

Nairametrics reported that the acquisition will double Seplat Energy’s oil production capacity.

The company described it as a “game-changer, positioning us to maximize the potential of mature assets through strategic investments and high-impact drilling campaigns.”

What you should know

• With Nigeria pushing to expand gas utilization as a transition fuel, Seplat Energy’s investments in oil and gas infrastructure, as well as other recent multibillion Naira investments, are expected to play a key role in enhancing domestic energy supply and supporting industries.

• The federal government has a target of producing over 2 million barrels per day of crude oil in 2025, but its output for January was 1.5 Mbps.

• It is short of 500,000 bpd, but the government has vowed to meet this target this year, as the 2025 budget is benchmarked on an output of 2.06 Mbps
Source: https://nairametrics.com/2025/02/25/seplat-energy-eyes-14-trillion-cubic-feet-of-natural-gas-in-acquired-assets-in-akwa-ibom/

Emu4life:
No be thesame Belarus wey come buy Proforce Amoured Vehicles that time be dz
How come we are exporting 'Armoured ' vehicles but importing Tractors.
Naija matter no clear o

TimeManager:
The Federal Government has received the first batch of 2,000 tractors and 9,027 other farming equipment from Belarus as part of efforts to enhance mechanised farming and accelerate food production across the country.

The Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, confirmed the development in a video posted on X.com on Tuesday.

“Nigeria has received the first batch of the 2,000 tractors and 9,027 other farming equipment to be procured in 2025 as President Tinubu’s administration seeks to accelerate food production in the country,” Olusegun wrote.

According to him, the new tractors will be distributed under three key schemes aimed at making mechanised farming more accessible to different segments of the farming community.

“The tractors will be distributed under three key schemes: direct purchase for individuals and organizations seeking to acquire them outright, a leasing scheme that provides affordable access to mechanization without full ownership costs, and a service provider model that establishes tractor service centers in farming communities across the country, allowing smallholder farmers to lease tractors as needed,” he explained.

To ensure sustainability, Olusegun added that the government has procured spare parts alongside the tractors to guarantee maintenance for at least the next four years.

The arrival of the farming equipment aligns with the government’s broader strategy to enhance food production and reduce the soaring prices of food commodities. In August 2024, President Bola Tinubu announced that Nigeria had placed orders for mechanised farm tools from the United States, Belarus, and Brazil to support the agricultural sector.

Similarly, in January 2025, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, disclosed that the government had begun receiving the 2,000 tractors ordered from Belarus, reaffirming its commitment to modernizing agriculture and addressing food security challenges.

The initiative is expected to provide smallholder farmers and agribusinesses with greater access to mechanized farming tools, ultimately improving agricultural productivity and stabilising food prices across the country
https://leadership.ng/food-production-nigeria-receives-first-batch-of-farm-implements-from-belarus/

GistMedia0:
A Nigerian man has set social media abuzz after dressing his dog in a full agbada outfit to celebrate its second birthday. In a viral post, the proud pet owner shared photos of himself and his stylish pup rocking matching traditional Yoruba attire, complete with intricate embroidery.

Captioning the post, he humorously bragged, "First dog to rock agbada"

Saywhat10:
The President told the delegation that biometric capturing should be central to the process, with multiple identification features, including facial and voice recognition.

“We should work on our financial muscle well in place to lift our burden before we go and meet development partners for the census. We should work out the figures before discussing the role of development partners.
https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/nigeria-moves-closer-to-fresh-census-president-tinubu-to-set-up-committee/

nsiba:
The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced.


Northern intellectuals resented the label at first. For example, the late Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, the famously iconoclastic professor of history at the Ahmadu Bello University who was ethnically Fulani and who was the scion of the Katsina and Kano royal families, condemned the hyphenation of Hausa and Fulani as both ill-willed and ignorant.

But several Northern Nigerian elites of Hausa and Fulani filiation have now enthusiastically embraced it. President Muhammadu Buhari, for instance, told the Weekly Trust in 1999 that he loved the hyphenated Hausa-Fulani identity that the southern press invented because it encapsulates the complexity of his own identity. His father is Fulani while his mother is half Kanuri and half Hausa.

More than that, though, Buhari is culturally and linguistically Hausa. Like most people in Nigeria’s northwest who trace patrilineal bloodline to the Fulani (including most of the emirs), he doesn’t speak a lick of Fulfulde (as the language of the Fulani is called in Nigeria) and is completely divorced from the culture of the “unmingled” Fulani who now live mostly in Nigeria’s northeast and in the bushes elsewhere in the country.

Over the years, the northern political elite not only used the common Islamic heritage of the Hausa and the Fulani people as an instrument to construct and cement the notion of an undivided and indivisible Hausa-Fulani identity, they also encouraged other parts of the country to see them as one, undifferentiated people.

In time, the rest of the country came to regard the Hausa and the Fulani as indistinguishable. A popular quip among the Yoruba says, “Gambari pa Fulani ko lejo ninu,” which roughly translates as “If a Hausa person kills a Fulani person, there is no case,” implying that the Hausa and the Fulani are homogenous people whose internal strife are no more than evanescent, resolvable sibling squabble.

But the emergence and unabating intensification of kidnapping for ransom and other forms of rural and urban banditry in the Northwest where most of the villains are Fulani and most of the victims are Hausa are rupturing the centuries-old ethnic harmony between the Hausa and the Fulani that Nigerians had taken for granted.

In response to the rural and urban banditry by mostly Fulani brigands against Hausa people, Hausa people have formed vigilante groups called yan sakai or yan banga for self-defense, but Fulani people say the yan banga self-defense groups often indiscriminately murder innocent Fulani people who are not even remotely connected with abductions and murders.

This has provoked an endless cycle of recriminations and retaliatory violence between Hausa and Fulani people and is threatening the age-old, Islam-inspired ethnic fusion between them.

This has been going on for years under the radar of the national and international media until BBC’s BBC Africa Eye brought it to the forefront of global attention in its Jul 24, 2022, documentary titled “The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara.” The documentary showed that although the Hausa and the Fulani share a common culture, religion, heritage, and language, they are, for the most part, divided and rarely mix in rural areas. They fight over land, water, and food.

Self-confessed Fulani bandits told the BBC that Hausa people enjoy preferential treatments in government jobs, that Fulani people face discrimination in the formal sector in northern Nigeria, and that kidnapping, banditry, and indiscriminate mass murders were the only way they could call attention to their neglect.

Following the documentary, which so unsettled the Nigerian government that local TV stations that rebroadcast it were fined, there has been an open discussion, particularly in Arewa social media circles, of hitherto culturally taboo subjects such as whether Usman Dan Fodio whose jihad inaugurated the current Fulani ruling families in much of Muslim northern Nigeria was a Hausa-hating Fulani ethnic supremacist.

Islam had been centuries old and already deeply entrenched in Hausa land before Usman Dan Fodio’s nineteenth-century jihad, which many historians have called a “Fulani war.” The well-regarded seventeenth-century Songhai Muslim scholar by the name of Ahmad Baba, for instance, had recognized Hausa land as a bastion of Islam.

In a 1613 essay titled, “Al-kashf wa-l-bayān li-aṣnāfmajlūb al-Sūdān” (translated into English as “The Exposition and Explanation Concerning the Varieties of Transported Black Africans”), he wrote that “the people of Kano, some of Zakzak [Zaria], the people of Katsina, the people of Gobir, and all of the Songhay” lived under ideal Islamic rule and could never be enslaved by other Muslims.

About 200 years later, when Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. In his 1806 treatise titled "Bayan Wujub Al-Hijra, Ala L-Ibad,” Dan Fodio rebutted Ahmad Baba’s thesis by asserting that what was true of Hausa land when Ahmad Baba wrote, “might not necessarily be true at all other times, since every scholar relates what he sees in his own days.” Dan Fodio’s son, Muhammad Bello, also wrote Infaq al-mansur in 1813, exactly 200 years after Ahmad Baba, and contested the notion that Hausa land was ruled by Islamic precepts.

Now, in everyday dialogic engagements on social media, in the marketplace, and in the streets, Hausa and Fulani people are openly talking about the jihad and its decidedly ethnic character. Hausa people are asking why all the emirs that emerged from the jihad, except for that of Bauchi, were Fulani. (Emirs in Borgu in Kwara and Niger states are not the product of the jihad and are not Fulani.)

These questions are especially important because the Fulani emirs who dislodged Hausa Muslim rulers have been doing exactly what the Hausa Muslim rulers were accused of by Fulani jihadists—keeping multiple wives and concubines, oppressing everyday folks called the talakawa, believing and partaking in fortunetelling, etc. Besides, in Islam, leadership isn’t hereditary, so Hausa people are asking why a supposedly Islamic jihad has entrenched Fulani ethnic monarchies to the exclusion of the native Hausa populations.

These debates aren’t new, of course. For example, in a June 30, 2000, article titled “The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics” published in the Weekly Trust, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (who later became the emir of Kano on June 8, 2014, and was dethroned on March 9, 2020) caused a stir among not just other Nigerians but also among Hausa people when he said although the Fulani in northern Nigeria have lost their language and culture to the Hausa, they still cherish the irreproducible cultural and genetic distinctiveness that their ethnic identity imbues them with.


He isolated Nigerian leaders of putative Fulani line of descent—Ahmadu Bello, Shehu Shagari, Murtala Mohammed, and Muhammadu Buhari—whom he said even their “greatest enemies” respect because they supposedly embodied incomparable and uniquely Fulani values (even when they are/were not culturally Fulani).

He pointed out that the same could not be said of “other prominent non-Fulani contemporaries of these great men,” including military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida, who is Hausa, and Sani Abacha, who was Kanuri but born and raised in Kano. Sanusi then said the Fulani are “culturally programmed, generation after generation, to imbibe the best spirits of what makes good leadership, to a far greater extent than competing cultures.”

Garba Shehu, now a spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is ethnically Hausa from Jigawa, was incensed. In a response titled “Sanusi’s Racist Rubbish” on July 7, 2000, Shehu wrote: “When I read Sanusi L. Sanusi’s article ‘The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics’…I came away with the feeling that the writer wanted to do one of two things: to either be ridiculous or to insult all of us who are not Fulani with some racist crap.”

Shehu invalidated Sanusi’s ethnic supremacist notion of a Fulani culture that makes Fulani people such good, just leaders by calling attention to the atrocities that were perpetuated against Hausa people by Fulani emirs—or what he called the “well-documented acts of brigandage” by the “Fulani oligarchy”— which instigated the emergence of the Northern Elements Progressives Union (NEPU).

“Where was he when the late Sa’adu Zungur, Aminu Kano, and company fought Fulani rulers who forced Hausa peasants to work the emirs’ farms, snatched wives, plundered what was kept in their trust, and appropriated/mismanaged farmlands and other resources belonging to their subjects?” Shehu wrote.

These sorts of emotive brickbats between everyday Hausa and Fulani people are escalating and becoming mainstream in the aftermath of the bloodstained conflict between Hausa farmers and Fulani herders. In fact, there are now calls, from both Hausa and Fulani interlocutors, for the reformation of the emirate system to strip emirship of its exclusivity to people of Fulani ancestry.

I think these are transitory, spur-of-the-moment tensile pushes and pulls that may soon abate, but it’s astonishing that it’s even happening.

**farooq kperogi **

Indabawa1987:
Logistics of July 1966 coup:

Colonel Daramola led the Makurdi faction that executed the coup in Makurdi. He is Yoruba

Danjuma and Akahan led the Ibadan faction that captured Ironsi. They are from the middle belt.

Murtala Mohammed led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is from Kano.


Logistics of January 1966 coup:

Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Tafawa Balewa’s residence…. He is Igbo

Nzeogwu led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is Igbo

Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Akintola…. He is Igbo

Timothy Oneatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife. He is Igbo.

Timothy Onwatwegu led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna…. He is Igbo.

Ezedigbo led the faction that went to Okotie- Eboh’s house…. He is Igbo

Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col Kur Mohammed’s house…. He is Igbo

Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house. He is Igbo.

Lt Oguchi was sent to the East to kill Okpara…. He spared his life…. He was Igbo.

Everyone who died in the January coup was killed by a "son" of Zik. Nobody from another tribe pulled a trigger that killed anyone in the January coup.

To imagine that the January coup was not an Igbo affair in as insult on the memory of the casualties.

So Nzeogwu spoke Hausa fluently and lived in the North…. SO WHAT?

Ojukwu was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. Up until he was made Governor of Eastern region, he never lived in the East. He schooled in Lagos and England before joining the military. History remembers him as the warlord that led the Biafra war.

Zik was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. His parents had to send him home so he could learn the language. He spoke Yoruba fluently. His early political career was in Yorubaland.

That did not stop him from building an Igbo supremacist group called Igbo federal union where he declared that his people were created by God as a special race to lead others.

Propaganda has no place in our time. Your fathers killed innocent people… murdered innocent women and even pregnant women. You can never whitewash the sins of your fathers with any kind of Propaganda.