My people, read and understand what is going on in Nigeria. Don't get distracted in other news and when fulani sneak in and assault you to start lamenting.

Southern and Middle Belt have decided to stop honoring constitution of Nigeria. The deadline is approaching.

Dr Nnamdi is a member of the alliance. It includes all indigenous people from Southern Kaduna all way to South. They all have representatives in the Alliance.

You will get these feed from different sources. We have been tasked to get these information out. Share them.

There is no secrecy, it is open and we want everyone to see to hear and to know that Nigeria will restructure, willingly or unwillingly.

There will be videos, there will be documents, there will be town hall meetings.

Prof Banjo Akintoye will be delivering a public speech tomorrow. Be on lookout.

If you agree and like what Dr Nnamdi said here share your feedback.

We are De-Constituting Nigeria!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRrP8LGQjKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGK4Rz4GUA

I signed off this morning and said I will return in 2022, I got this in email last night and thought it is well to return and share.
Im going to sign off now, I will probably just be flexible as need may be considering ongoing changes and agitations in opposition to the sovereingty. This is a very interesting area of politics for me personally.

Go get that pdf link above and read the whole document, very interesting.

Introduction

“The only thing that makes us sleep with full eyes closed”: so a trader in Onitsha
market characterizes the Nigerian vigilante group the Bakassi Boys, alluding to their
brutal but effective tactics in ridding the city of armed robbers (HRW/CLEEN, 2002).
The trader’s implication that the vigilantes intervene to provide security for citizens
where the state fails to do so points towards the significance of vigilante groups as
responses to states’ failure and inability to provide security.
In this paper, I discuss state security failures and citizen responses in Nigeria and
Sierra Leone, two states which despite their distinct circumstances have engendered
citizen movements for the provision of security in the form of vigilante groups and
civil militias. I show how state failure and the breakdown of the rule of law in Nigeria
and Sierra Leone has contributed to the rise of vigilante groups and civil militias,
looking in particular at the emergence of the Bakassi Boys in south-eastern Nigeria
and the Kamajor Militia in Sierra Leone throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
Moreover, I demonstrate how these groups can be seen as both legitimate and
effective in the eyes of the citizens they are designed to protect, in contrast to the
state, with which many Nigerians and Sierra Leoneans have had an ambivalent
relationship.

The emergence of the Bakassi Boys in south-eastern Nigeria has been welldocumented (Baker, 2002a) (HRW/CLEEN, 2002) (Ukiwo, 2002) (Harnischfeger,
2003) (Smith, 2006) (Meagher, 2007). While vigilante groups operate throughout
Nigeria, others focus more on ethnic or regional claims for self-determination and
recognition; the Bakassi Boys are fairly unique in their focus upon crime-fighting.
They originated in Aba, in Abia State, where armed robberies during the 1990s were
endangering the personal safety and livelihoods of market traders. In 1998, following
a particularly brutal murder of a trader, traders embarked on an operation of seizing
and executing suspected armed robbers, until nearly all suspected criminals had been
executed or had fled the state.
Following this operation’s success, a semi-formal group composed of many of the
traders who had taken part in the uprising was inaugurated, and was supported
financially by contributions from traders. This group became the Bakassi Boys; its
operations subsequently expanded to Anambra and Imo states, and gained significant
support from state governors. The group punished suspected criminals with a range of
penalties, often involving torture or public execution, and were highly successful in
bringing down crime rates. However, following condemnation of their extra-judicial
and brutal violence (HRW/CLEEN, 2002), and concerns about the manipulation of
the group for political ends (Office of Communications, 2003), the federal
government officially banned the Bakassi Boys in 2002.

In both cases, these civilian security forces were formed in response to the state’s
inability to provide adequate security for its citizens. The weaknesses of West African
states challenge their claims to sovereign authority, to such an extent that analysts
contend that several West African states have ‘failed’ or ‘collapsed’ (Sawyer, 2004)
(Omeje, 2005) (Reno, 1995); this state failure has, as Zartman (1995) predicts,
inhibited their capacity for security provision. There are of course degrees of failure:
though the Nigerian state has significant problems, it cannot be said to have ‘failed’ to
the same extent as Sierra Leone, which barely functions as a state, impaired by years
of conflict.

However, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, in common with other West African states, have
faced political and economic instabilities which have undermined their authority,
stemming from flawed domestic policies, resource fluctuations, Euro-American
foreign policy, the imposition of structural adjustment programmes, resentment
against the state as a result of inequalities derived from patrimonial resource and
power distribution, weaknesses and inefficiencies inherited from colonial
bureaucracies, popular disenfranchisement resulting from military regimes and
personalized rule, and the rise of informal markets and shadow states.
The Nigerian state faces the additional difficulty of functioning as a federal republic,
uniting states which are in some ways very disparate, particularly in terms of divisions
between the Muslim and Christian populations and between the 250 ethnic groups.
Ethnic and/or regional separatist movements such as the Yoruba OPC, the Igbo group
MASSOB and the northern APC undermine the federal government’s claim to
sovereign authority; the Biafran civil war of 1967-1970 demonstrates the threat to
state authority from separatist rhetoric.
Similarly, movements such as MOSOP and MEND, who make claims for autonomy
in terms of issues of land tenure and resource ownership in the oil-producing Niger
Delta, challenge the federal state’s claims to sovereignty over land and resources. The
implementation of Sharia law in twelve northern states has also weakened the federal
government’s claim to sole legal jurisdiction over the state.
It is within this context of the federal government’s diminished sovereignty that its
ability to provide security for its citizens has reduced. The Nigeria Police Force is a
federal force, and this has created tension between state and federal governments;
state governors have argued that ‘they had the right to their own police forces’
(Meagher, 2007, p. 95). Furthermore, the police force has committed countless human
rights abuses and is seen widely throughout Nigeria as being ensconced in patronclient relationships between police officers, politicians and criminals which prevent it
from reliably detecting and punishing crime (Baker, 2002a) (Harnischfeger, 2003).
Even the Police Affairs Minister, D.M. Jemibowon, admitted in 2000 that the police
‘can’t guarantee [citizens’] safety’ (Harnischfeger, 2003, p. 26). Thus the federal
nature of the police force, and the police force’s own inadequacies (a result of low
salaries, inefficient bureaucracy, and their origins as a colonial and repressive force
(Jemibowon, 2003)) result in popular perception that the federal state has failed as a
security guarantor.


https://www.unhcr.org/afr/48f351722.pdf

DMerciful:
The amendments have been cosmetic! We need to throw away the Illegitimate constitution and WE THE PEOPLE will sit in a sovereign national conference and draft a people's constitution where there will be input from all ethnic nationalities! If we are to amend any constitution,
it has to be 1963 because that was when Nigeria
made the most progress!

Correct Talk!

naptu2:
The Lagos State Government has banned motorcycle taxis, popularly known as Okada and auto-rickshaws, popularly known as Keke Marwa from operating in some local governments in the state. The ban takes effect from February 1, 2019.

The local governments include Lagos Island Local Government, Eti-Osa, Apapa, Surulere and Ikeja. This was made known by the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Lagos State Governor on New Media, Mr Jubril Gawat. The ban will also affect ride hailing services like O-Pay and Gokada.

Do you mean 2020?

This is good news, Im very pleased.

clarocuzioo:
Please where is the video? We have been hearing of this video but till date nobody has provided credible evidence that it exists, so that the elders can do proper analysis.

Anyone with video please forward to council of elders, chaired by clariocuzioo. The elders must not be kept waiting.

crownwealth:


You welcome! Oduaa agbewa ooo.

Ashe!

Modify that address abeg in your post abeg.

crownwealth:


before Buharin boys invade the store...

Ok. They must not have it on display because I have passed there two times already this morning when I went to Onikoyi on errand. Thank you my brother.

Trump2020:
Na so Yusuf founder of BH take start. Yoruba Moslems should align with their Christian brothers for once in their miserable lives.

I fvcking hate traitors.

We are talking of defending the south and this stupid things from the pit of hell are working hard to discredit it

You get mouth sha. If you enter Yoruba family compound you fit tell who be muslim and who be christian?

You just open mouth talk. Prof. Akintola has Christians in his own family and he mingles with them. The guy is a political comedian.

crownwealth:



Idumota, please...

Na who dey sell am for Idunmota? Just give name of the seller. He dey sell shirt for my area and me no know. .

SE leaders must speak up in Kanu's favor.

Im sure if they speak up leaders in other regions will add voice. This is how you lobby interest.

Many people in Benue got killed by fulani because only Ortom was speaking up, leadership generally were silent. Other regions therefore were also silent.

On the issue of Amotekun you have seen how Yoruba leadership took a stand.

Kanu has some usefullness for the Igbo cause. You do not have anyone else like him and he has already carved a mark in your agitation for equity. He should be to SE what Shettima Yerima is to North, the curveball shooter that enjoys freedom of speech under the privilege of political agenda midwifed by Fulani political leadership.

Nothern leaders dont give opinion on Yerima but as crude he is security forces stay away from him. Yoruba leaders dont give opinion on Fani Kayode as bad he is with attacks on everybody, Yoruba and Fulani, but security forces cant touch him. Asari yab everybody in the whole nation and talk crap, SS leaders dont comment about him but security cant arrest him. So why cant Igbo have a curveball shooter? You do have one and is Kanu, but your leadership have to give him a safety net to operate and remain untouchable.

Get sense!

crownwealth:
Mad cow

Hey, na where i fit buy this polo?

I want three, i want one send to Malami.

Justice Yusuf Halilu

The lead counsel on the defense team need to interrogate the Judge's professional background and religious leanings to see if Sharia was a factor in his judgement in the civil case.

I am not bothered about guilt or innocence of Mrs Bello but it appears that many Judges from Sharia Court have recently been crossed over to the Civil Court Circuits. They need to be identified and weeded out.

FrLukas:
Mr Oga, add those middle belt votes to the northern votes.

In the constitution, there's nothing like middle belt. It's called North Central, emphasis being on the word NORTH.

And just in case you aren't aware, officially, Southern Nigeria is made up of Southwest, Southeast and South-south (I wonder where that is on the cardinal points)

Then Northern Nigeria is made up of Northeast, Northwest and North Central.

Note that there is no middle belt or North-north.

Apparently you do not appreciate that the geographical zoning is an approximation to situate and align, as best as possible, a congruence of people with similar cultural background and root. So that all those with majority Hausa-Fulani background were called NW. All those with majority Kanuri background were called NE. All those with non majority of either of Hausa-Fulani or Kanuri background were called NC.

This zoning is not representative.

The list and count I presented is representative. In their representation the people have indeed identified themseves as a people of Middle Belt, and not a Northern people. In Middle Belt, Hausa-Fulani is a minority, so is Kanuri. The people of Middle Belt have rejected to be tagged with the identity of minority in their midst, which is North.

Again, focus on representative identity, which is what this thread is about.

solaugo1:
PDP Rebrand: Doyin Okupe Suggests New Name, Party Logo and Slogan (Read Tweets)



Fresh pressure is being mounted on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on the need to change the name of the party in order to win the 2023 presidential election.

The pressure is said to be spearheaded by some members of the former ruling party who believe that the party must change its name in order to drop what they referred to as its moral burden .

One of the chieftain of PDP HAS PROPOSED a new rebrand name for PDP.

In a tweet posted on his official twitter page, special assistant to former President Obasanjo (Media & Publicity) and senior special assistant to former President Jonathan (public affairs), Dr. Doyin Okupe proposed as follows:

A VISION FOR 2023
Party: NIGERIAN PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NPDP)
Flag: GREEN,WHITE
GOLD
Symbol: PHONE HANDSET
Slogan: PEOPLE POWER!!!!
PDP SHLD CONSIDER TO:
RENAME. REBRAND. REFORM .REOPEN&REALIGN. REBOOT.
PDP: WE CAN WIN AGAIN.

Dr Doyin Okupe , who is spearheading the name change campaign , told one of our correspondents that the PDP should consider the option if it plans to win the 2023 presidential election .

He said he had started mobilising members of the party with the aim of putting pressure on its leadership to agree with the position .

Okupe said, ‘‘ You know that the APC controls 21 states while the PDP controls 15 out of the 36 states in the country . The PDP in its present state and form cannot win comfortably the presidential election in 2023.

‘‘ To defeat the APC in 2023, I want the PDP leaders to think of changing the name of the party . They must also make the party itself the arrow head of a national movement to oust the present administration . We should not forget that this is exactly what the component factions of the APC did in 2014.


https://news.assure.ng/pdp-rebrand-doyin-okupe-suggests-new-name-party-logo-and-slogan-read-tweets/

Dr Okupe lost a very good opportunity to sell the new brand and win hearts ahead of 2023.

1. He should have done what Innoson did when he threw a challenge asking for new logo for IVM.

2. Adding Nigeria infront of PDP is stale. Many people are turned-off by Nigeria. This naming will put a distance between that population and the party.

3. Drop PDP completely and coin a name that is soft, is people friendly and focused. Example - The People Constitutional Party (its call name should simply be "The People", no need for letter abbreviations).

4. On this mission Dr Okupe should engage youths, particularly on item number 1 and 3.

News release claimed Leah Sharibu gave birth to a baby boy fathered by a bokoharam leader.

Pastor Reno Omokiri operates a global movement to free her from captivity.

His first reaction to Amotekun was scandalous in which he accused the leadership of a religious sponsorship.

His advice with this followup release is an insult and a pre-emption of motive.

Prof. Akintola has always been very careful not to overstep the threshold of law, as reckless as his publications and outbursts are.

Xposed2020:





So are you going to invite the military to overthrow an democratically elected government Please becareful of treasonable felony and the consequences anytime you are on SM.

Even if i invite them they will ignore my invitation. I possess no such powers. If i did have a power like that I would do some very radical things that will change Nigerian structure.

Imagination is powerful. I have a very deep and omni-present imagination.

Because I do not have a power to invite a change of government my radicality is a handicap and of no use but I can express the thought as simple and wisely convenient to do.

There has been precedence, many of it, in which government was overthrown and the govt was changed. After the fact, those radical agents were recognized legally and accepted as heroes of Nigeria.

If you go to government house pictures of Abacha hangs on the wall, Buhari is there, IBB is there. They are precedence cases of what I talk about and no one has ever taken them to court and convicted them for staging coup or for crime against the sovereingty. So I dont see anything wrong in expressing ideas on what could happen in the current political environment.

Omoakin120:
Hello everyone, I have something bothering my mind for a long time which I need an advice on.

I have a girlfriend who I really love so much, we were friends before I started falling for her, we've been together for long, I enjoyed her company, she's the best woman to me, she's everything you'll love a wife to be in character, caring, love and all.

Unfortunately, I have a problem, and the problem is that, she's not that beautiful to me. I'm a kind of person that doesn't like trying what my mind doesn't fully want, whenever I think of her, it's only that aspect I don't always like.

I've always fantasized of marrying someone very beautiful cos that's what I want. The problem is that this girl is so good to me. I have no problem with her, but I'm only thinking I can get fed up of her with time cos of her beauty which is not up to my expectation and I may likely cheat on her.

Please, I don't know what to do, can I still risk being with her or leave her?

If you get a beautiful woman of your desire to marry, what would happen to the marriage if she has an accident or a disease that disfigures her beauty? Will you still keep her?

yarimo:
no one said you give a damn , this is a public forum you can't just wake up and post false comments and you don't want to be corrected nonsense, nonsense in fact nonsense . MALAMI is a native of kebbi state.

Hey, aboki, What does Malami has to say about Matawalle criminally circumventing law and paying bribe in form of amnesty and rewards to fulani criminals?

Im more concerned about that.

We refuse and reject the matawalle example for SW, it is not in harmony with our way of live and cultural value to reward criminals.

Moreover, Buhari is confused. Rewarding crimes is not a strategy, its a felony under the law. This is called an accomplice of crime.

Africomterror:





I've seen the darkness of Western European Christianity. I've never lived in Nigeria so I cant say what your faith is or isn't. Yet 90 million Nigerians in abject poverty and many are Christians too.


Wake up out your slumber

Yoruba will say
"Abo'oru bo'ye, Abo'ye bo isise"

Abo Horus bo'ye, Abo'ye bo Isis!

Meaning:
Adoration to Horus, the mother
Adoration to the mother, Isis

CaptainStephen:
I have drank worse water in training, deployment and will still do, the army is not for the weak.

Back to this video, there are supplies provided, of course troops in far remote locations might get delays in supplies depending on several factors.

It is expected to be resilant and make good use of your environment.

So you shove your sensational headline and video down your behind

There are more important things you people can hold the government accountable for regarding the military.

Your input is disgusting! Where did you school, NDA? You were not given good foundation on why you are in the Army. Your miseducation is evident in your response.

You are in the Army because land and resources are scarce and humanity competes for those scarce resources. You are in the Army because competitors kill and displace people to occupy their territorial space. You are in the Army because Nigeria has resources in abundance and competitors will fight and displace us to own our resources. You are in the Army to keep ownership of our resources out of the hands of our competitors.

Bokoharam has identified itself as a competitor and so has fulani bandits and herdsmen.

Bokoharam has defended all bodies of fresh water and lakes in the Chad basin and guarded them jealously against a takeover. This is because water is life!

Fulani herdsmen and bandits are encroaching Southward and displacing people from their territory because of need for fresh water. Water is life!

The water shown in this video will not attract an interest from bokoharam or fulani herdsmen because this water is stagnant....this water has no life in it!

To hear that you drank from a worse pool of water is shocking. You do not value the life in you.

In some countries if their soldiers were seen drinking from such water heads will roll at the top. Someone like you popping your head to proclaim pride in drinking a lifeless water will be disciplined and might have your rank and pay cut, as well these ignorant soldiers in the video. The basis of your discipline will be that you are government property and by drinking "infected water" you commited acts of vandalism and threat against govt property. The offense is punishable.

Captain, please stop claiming superman on such demeaning stories in future. It does not portray you or those in the video well, and it is a damning evidence against top brass in the Army.

Get sense!

May the soul of all who departed in this crash rest in peace!

Kobi sun re o!
Omo arigba buwo!
Majokun majekolo, oun ton'je lorun ni ko ba won je o!

This guy does not deserve such treatment but im glad to know he was dehumanized.

Did you all see his text screenshot? He earned his maltreatment in the first sentence.

"...to Eastern Nigeria (a place called Abia State)"

He is describing alaibo, his fatherland, like he was describing a newly discovered primitive habitat hidden deep in the forest.

He goes on to say
" ...from the United Kingdom"

Mr explorer left the dominion of her majesty to go and see this new discovery that humanity is yet to hear of...."a place called Abia State".

Im not Ibo but im annoyed at such. Let me know next time this guy visit a so he can also go to "a place called Oshodi" to receive the mother of dehumanization treatment.

On the rule of law, government’s human rights record, the extended detention of Sambo Dasuki and Omoyele Sowore, Buhari replied: “The two examples you cited are still before the courts, so the less said on this matter, the better, lest we be in contempt of court.”


Asked to comment on PUNCH decision to call him “Major General (rtd)” instead of “President” in protest of government’s disobedience of court orders, Buhari said: “Am I not a retired Major General of the Nigerian Army? I didn’t just pick the rank in the streets, I earned it.”

Listen to Buhari forming court compliant.

budaatum:
Ignorance! That's what makes people not understand that boko haram have killed more Muslims than Christians. They just refuse to understand that boko haram is not an Islamic outfit, but a terrorist group.

Like your sheikh usman dan fodio

Constable is another central organ, an agent of the central power.

We reject it!

Long Live Amotekun!
Long Live IPOB!