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Sunshineg5:
It's really sad

Anyone appointed to serve in a State government should be a stakeholder in that state, either through years of investment or by birth

I agree! Na madam dey rule Ondo State.

Are you from Ondo?

uvie66:
excuse me..so you are saying the mandatory qualifications are either PhD or Masters and they must be from Ondo by Origin?

She studied aquaculture. I dont know what it is exactly but my guess is this is some marine ecological program.
What does it have to do with gender research?

They just created something out of nowhere and put her in.

Akeredolu is quick to speak out on any controversy, why is he not addressing this one?

Sunshineg5:
I am not saying that Akeredolu shouldn't appoint igbos or non Ondo living in Ondo state but what is the position of this lady in Igbo community in Ondo state?

She went to school next door in Edo State. Thats close enough to be part of the community.

Betty, not Akeredolu, appointed Ngozi.

kaaaii!!!
This is unecessary now.

Rekhina come and see.

Cc
Chi5
Lzaa
Imhotep
Amatarasha
Adaibeku, Adadioramma I of Ibeku

What is that Treasury sec. name, Steve something....

Get me hin name and hin papa name, I dey go Ijebu next week. I go stop see baba. Na so Trump go fire this treasury sec before my bus go depart from Ijebu Ode sef. Aah ahh....which kin nonsense!

AFONJAAAAAAH:
All his posts are related to Igbos.
He is a Yoruba Tribalist.

Stop saying that. Im your in law. We are glued together.

It must be admitted that I have not rested well for the past three days; having been bombarded and still being bombarded with barrages of calls, text messages, WhatsApp and email messages; with most coming from phone calls and WhatsApp messages. I am also yet to recover from the stress I went through including brain-cracking and sleepless night in anchoring or supervising the work. I have attended to such messages and calls from not less than 500 persons and contacts. I have also missed several calls. The number of visitors/readers on our website ( www.intersociety-ng.org ) has surged and the work has attracted hundreds of thousands or millions of readers and commentators around the world.

attracted hundreds of thousands or millions of readers and commentators around the world.



The research work has also attracted heated debates on various social group media platforms. It has equally kept independent and politically exposed internet users busy in the past three days. My respected friend and “elder brother at large”, Chief Oselloka Obaze has also called three times, saying he has been facing similar bombarded calls and messages. This is on account of the fact that he happened to be one of those contacted in the case of Ogbaru-where this writer also resides. Our new head of publicity, Barr Damaris Amaka Onuoha (Mrs.) has also received a number of calls even though her mobile line was not included in the signature side of the work.

As a matter of confession, I have never received the number of calls, questions, suggestions and commendations as head of Intersociety, formed in 2008 or since I became a rights and democracy campaigner in 1995 or past 25 years. In all the messages, calls and comments, I only received one unfair comment. It is also worth revealing that the cost of all this (research work) was not more than N200, 000 and it was freely published in the media.

All contributions and assistance towards same were voluntary or free of charge or from ‘in-kind’ supports. I feel deeply elated by the positive impacts the work has made and still making on our people (aroused group consciousness); to the extent of asking myself: “so with just N200, 000 or roughly $500, great works such as this can be done for humanity with such high magnitude of positive impact?”

My attention has therefore been specifically drawn by my friend and ally, Elder Isaac Umunna, Publisher of the NewsExpress Online regarding some negative reactions to the research work on occupation of no fewer than 350 Igbo Communities and other locations by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their Shuwa Arab brothers. The negative comments (frivolities and irrelevancies) were said to have been made on “Nzuko Umunna WhatsApp Group Forum”.

Some of such comments that I have gone through are found to be petty and intellectually unsound. They had deviated from core issues, focusing their attention on “which community is correctly or incorrectly included or excluded”; even when some, if not many of such commentators are well known to have the urban background of being ‘ana bu otu’ or ‘urban red cap chiefs’. I have therefore considered it necessary to set the following records straight:

Clearly understood are the negative impacts of the present ICT ruled Society including internet usage. Though the ICT has positively made a lot of things including social science research and investigation easier, but it has also negatively introduced intellectual laziness and has same inculcated in the intellectual culture of many members of the educated class.
This is to the extent of them transformed them into ‘chatting intellectuals’, with clear lack of intellectual depths including lose of senses of judgment grounded in logic and critical thinking. Totality of these has sadly become a norm among the dominant members of the Igbo educated class. Today, an average university professor in Igbo Land runs a real estate or a beer parlour or a boutique instead of being a research professor. Research grants now go into property acquisition or development. And in the end, anybody who refuses to join them is jeered at and seen as ‘a deviant’.

It is a grand rule of social research that: “to validly invalidate the research work of another, the critic(s) must have carried out a counter research with counter finding”. It is also a fundamental characteristic of social research that “no matter the amount of disproval received by a research work, it must contain some validity and substance”. Researchers generally are also like ‘the living spirits and seers, what they see today many don’t see same even in years to come’.
It is granted that research work or investigation is an intellectual or academic discourse; guided by eight rules: ‘debate, scholarship, argument, criticism, analysis, evidence, objectivity and precision’; and to evaluate a social research, the evaluators must apply them to the letter; setting aside ‘synchronous’ or ‘asynchronous’ web gossips or gullible utterances.
It must be clearly stated that our research work was not done to be debated on social media and in the end dumped. Granted that people have a right to read and agree or disagree with the work; including those that wish to have it infested with their personal biases; but we must be reminded of the core objectives of the work: exposing the intents of the Jihadists in Igbo Land and effectively exploring collective or teamwork ways of dislodging them and restoring full indigene-ship and ownership of our great Land. Any religion that uses violence and crookedness to get new converts must be resisted by all means legitimately necessary.

From my general findings, therefore, the biased commentators are clearly not interested in the growing insecurity and threats posed by the referenced Jihadists, which was why they stayed on their laptops and palmtops and said ‘we are alarmists’. They are not different from those in Igbo Land who ‘do not believe that COVID-19 is real’. The butcheries in Southern Kaduna and old Middle Belt and raging regional jihadism; all cited in the work ought to have served as an eye opener or a warning signal or a wakeup call to all Igbo indigenes home and abroad.

It must therefore be disclosed here that ‘ICT is a research made easy’; quickening social research. The today’s ICT empowers two major types of social research: ‘natural method’ and ‘scientific method’. While scientific research such as use of drones is the easiest and quickest; it is highly manipulative and substantially questionable. The natural aspect, on its part is the most difficult but substantially reliable and credible. In our own work, ICT powered natural method was used. I am sure the biased commentators must have been surprised as how we came about or located those communities, villages and other locations.

The answer is not farfetched. Our work is built on the existing one conducted last year by the duo of the respected Igbo Intelligentsia-the Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF) and the Association of Southeast Town Unions-which had last week petitioned the UN, US, EU, UK and others raising alarm or saying what we also said. To congregate and aggregate communal facts in Igbo Land, there are two powerful natural means to achieve it. One is through the leaderships of the Town Unions-and where they are deemed compromised, another which is the most effective, is available (name withheld). It is a group network that has presence and communally active foot soldiers all over Igbo Land. It requires you as a would-be field researcher to be on the ground or an ‘area boy’ for you to tap same.
This is just the magic and requires no rocket science. Our communal ‘boys’ used, are very communally active and can penetrate the impenetrable. Even when some Town Unions and their leaders do not know that “Fulani abata go n’ obodo’, the ‘area boys’ already know. To authenticate their raw data, we identified intellectual ‘area boys’ in the affected areas; most of them active and seasoned journalists. In Ogbaru, it was applied; same in Anambra West, Anambra East and Ayamelum where we got a seasoned broadcaster/journalist from the area who has also written much about the menace of the Jihadists in the area. In Uzo Uwani and Ezeagu LGAs of Enugu State, we got two ‘area boy’ natives who made further calls back home to add to what they already have.

Same methods were used for Abia, Imo and Ebonyi (a former Commissioner for Information in the State); likewise in Igbo Delta and Igbo Rivers. We also made good use of internet searches to identify some troubled spots. Where we have directly witnessed same, we added them. This is in addition to our existing data on similar issues. A particular trend noticed long ago and profiled was the establishment of Jihadist Herdsmen camps very close to military or policing formations and major roadblocks in Igbo Land such as in Obinze, Ohafia, Ukwa-Ngwa, Abakiliki, Ogbaru, Elele, etc.
The upsurge in the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen movement and occupation into Igbo Land is such that in some communities, their leaders don’t know that their distant bushes are already under their grip. In others, the community leaders are found to have colluded with Government or the leaders of the Jihadists to let them in.

There are situations, too, where some community leaders declined to comb their bushes off the invaders for fear of being killed or ‘wiped out’.
We at Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law have a track record of enviable repute. We documented and exposed the massacre of Shiite Muslims in the North. We documented and exposed the massacre of Northern Christians which also received wide international media coverage and we documented and exposed the massacre of our Igbo brothers and sisters during the military operations in old Eastern Nigeria: 2015-2017. We have also since 2018 and 2019; and before then, exposed the gross lopsided composition and domination of key military and policing formations in the Southeast and South-south by Northern Fulani and Hausa Muslims; and we documented and exposed the military and police roadblock extortion and other corrupt and brutality practices on old Eastern Nigeria roads.

Therefore, we boldly wish to submit again that all the Igbo communities mentioned in the work are under ‘active or passive’ Jihadist Herdsmen occupation. The work is both ‘lawyerly’ and criminological; the world’s best combination in matters of securitization research or investigation. If Mmiata-Anam Community in Anambra West LGA, for instance, was attacked last year and six killed and the Jihadists temporarily relocated to neighboring areas, ‘in legal and criminological research’, the Community is inclusive in the list of those under Jihadist Herdsmen occupation; likewise another facing periodic or constant raiding of its farmlands or bushes from a Jihadist Fulani camp in a nearby village or community.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/288509/reactions-concerning-our-work-on-jihadists-occupation-of-ig.html

We Have Earned A Name In Research & Investigation: We at Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law have a track record of enviable repute. We documented and exposed the massacre of Shiite Muslims in the North. We documented and exposed the massacre of Northern Christians which also received wide international media coverage and we documented and exposed the massacre of hundreds of Igbo sons and daughters during the military operations in old Eastern Nigeria: 2015-2017. We have also since 2018 and 2019 exposed the gross lopsided composition and domination of key military and policing formations in the Southeast and South-south by Northern Fulani and Hausa Muslims; and documented and exposed the military and police roadblock extortion and other corrupt and brutality practices on old Eastern Nigeria roads. These are to mention but a few.

Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, (Board Chairman) & Damaris Amaka Onuoha, Esq., (Head of Publicity)

Contacts: Mobile: +2348174090052, Email: info@intersociety-ng.org , Website: intersociety-ng.org

31st May 2020, Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria:There are still some, if not several Igbo Communities, Villages and other Locations including ‘Camps’ missing from our compiled list of ‘not less than 350’ released on Wednesday, 27th May 2020. Though we forensically identified 318 ‘communities, villages and other locations’, we also added ’32 dark figures’ so as to proportionally take care of those not included or ‘missing communities, villages and other locations’.

Further, by ‘invasion’ and malicious ‘occupation’, they legally and criminologically mean any Igbo Community or Village or Location jointly invaded by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their Shuwa Arab brothers or singly invaded by the former for purpose or with intent to occupy same permanently or temporarily; or being raided constantly or subjected to periodic or constant attacks by the Jihadists from within or nearby community, village or location.


Therefore, we boldly wish to submit that all the Igbo communities mentioned in the work are under ‘active or passive’ Jihadist Herdsmen occupation. The research work is also ‘lawyerly’ and criminological-the world’s best combination in matters of securitization research or investigation.

If Mmiata-Anam Community in Anambra West LGA of Anambra State, for instance, was attacked last year and six killed and the Jihadists temporarily relocated to neighboring areas, ‘in legal and criminological research’, the Community is inclusive in the list of those under Jihadist Herdsmen occupation; likewise another facing periodic or constant raiding of its farmlands or bushes from a Jihadist Fulani camp in a nearby community, or Village, or Location.

It is also criminal or malicious occupation when a group of violent including armed citizens; with track records of bloodshed and religious radicalism forcefully and illegitimately enter and occupy permanently or temporarily a farmland or bush or forest belonging not to them; and done outside the consent of the owners. These include threatening the community or its leaders with fears and violence or maliciously inducing them with money or material things so as to secure or gain access. This is more when Nigeria is not among the world’s top ten producers of cows and none of them uses ‘wandering cattle grazing’ methods including nomadic pastoralism.

As a matter of confession, we have never received the number of calls, questions, suggestions and commendations over our advocacy activities since our formation in 2008. It is also worth revealing that the cost of all this (research work) was not more than N200, 000 and it was freely published in the media. All contributions and assistance towards same were voluntary or free of charge or from ‘in-kind’ supports. We are deeply elated by the positive impact the work has made and still making on the people of Igbo Nation ‘home and abroad’.

Therefore, following the widest publicity, reading, sharing and analyses the research work have received around the world, we make bold to say that the core aim of the research work is widely achieved. The research work has now gone beyond ‘which community or village or location has been included’; to ‘communities or villages or locations not included’.

Several communal natives have called us from different parts of Igbo Land, saying: ‘their communities were omitted’. There are callers who complained of the omission of their communities or villages or locations in Isiukwuato LGA of Abia State, Idemmili South LGA of Anambra State, Afikpo LGA of Ebonyi State and Okigwe and Orlu LGAs of Imo State, etc. In Okposi Community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, we were told that “their affected villages and locations or camps were not mentioned in the research report”.

Some natives of other communities have specifically called us and mentioned the omission of their communities and pleaded for their inclusion. They included Communities of Ohofia-Agba in Isielu LGA of Ebonyi State, Umuomaku in Orumba South LGA of Anambra State, Agba-Umana in Ezeagu LGA of Enugu State, Lekwesi in Umunneochi LGA of Abia State, Obeagu in Isielu LGA of Ebonyi State, Okobo Plantation in Arochukwu, Arochukwu LGA of Abia State, Ojoto in Idemmili South LGA of Anambra State and Nara-Unataeze (almost all its villages are affected) and Ugboka in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State.

Pathetically, one of the messages we received from an ordained native of Amagunze Community in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State has this to say “they (Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen) took away our farmlands since 2015. The whole villages of Onicha-Agu and Umunevo in our Community of Amagunze used to farm in the area and since then, we have been buying everything (foodstuff/agricultural produce) from the market. They destroyed all our farmlands and crops then and have since occupied the area now bigger than the two villages”.

We hereby passionately appeal to the natives of other Igbo Communities who have found names of their communities missing from the list to feel free to send theirs to us for capturing, so as to be accommodated in our ongoing updates. In sending such names, non natives of the affected communities and their villages or locations are excluded from doing so. The names of such excluded communities must include the Local Government Areas and States where they are located and can be sent or forwarded to: info@intersociety-ng.org and +2348174090052 (WhatsApp).

Tranquillity360:
Your fathers fought three years to bring them to your region.


Yorubas are also in East.

Tufiakwa for Yoruba to live in East.

Say who die

Those are federal employees, civil servants, not investors.

LZAA:
Lebee4 is scared of igbo domination

Yoruba has been working in film while Ibo was still struggling to find political leadership. We invented Nollywood.

Is this what she wore to church?

Kaii! Id love to be a pastor.

Tell Ngozi come do research on my gender.

Adaibeku:
Now area4area afamed n co will swear with awolowo"s grave to mobilise against akereigbo


.is that not Rosalind metaphysical 's girlfriend ,cos she is Rosalind ngozi ugochi

You don turn to fbi?

Adaibeku:
that's y u shud marry igbos if dey allow u ,so she can make u a god like FFK, gani, omokri n odumakin

Ffk is the only person there married to Ibo.

Juliusmalema:
Not new.


Rochas Okorocha did more than this...He appointed both Yorubas, Hausa-fulani, kanuri in his cabinet.

Even Umahi did same...So not new.

Owelle Appointed even Ghanaian as special assistant..




Meanwhile let the appointment be only on gender research.... nothingelse.

Because what I am seeing is more than gender research.

Give us names lets fact check.

MinorityOpinion:
If he scam the whole south east, its not my problem, they gave him willingly, but inciting violence through hate speech is what I'm against

He should go get a job. He should start walking people dog and learn a thing or two from dog behaviour in a pack....use the lesson to lead ipob

Juliusmalema:
What is remaining of Oduduwa republic?

I don't have my face designed with razor, to be obsessed with kanu.

I decide when to speak against and when not to..

You have no character but yet try to claim intellect..

I say shut up!

You have no shame. That bloody terrorist has hijacked good cause from honorable people and tarnished it in the mud. Where is he now? If he was as brave as he claimed he should be on biafran soil leading the cause.

He said yesterday in a broadcast that when he was in kuje he gave 20million to Asari and you all believed him.

How does a freak on burnt watery beans diet get 20million in lockup?

Thunder faya Kanu

MinorityOpinion:
Biafra is fast turning to North Korea in which having a different opinion is liken to treason, may be they will start execution of people like this writer once they get their Biafra. God save us

Correct!

You see they dress Kanu like an Emperor already.

A bloody homeless, unemployed persin scamming innocent people in name of Biafra to earn livelihood.

Ogonimilitant:
Why cant you Yorubas mind your business. cant you live without Biafra? why are you so afraid. have you seen any biafran condemning Oduduwa republic. This IPOB is about Biafra and not about Oduduwa. IPOB has come to stay and its has taken over everywhere.
Nnamdi Kanu has come to save the world,
He deserves to be worshipped. This is something you don't know. Your salvation from the unholy union lies in his hands

Please, mind your business

Kanu cannot even save a little afaraukwu from python attack, but you believe he can save the world.
Mmmmttchhheww...i pity you.

It is Yoruba concern because you refuse to stay out of our region.

Juliusmalema:
MinorityOpinion

Metaphysical

All na one person. Don't be deceived.

Shut up! Face this topic and condemn Kanu. He has destroyed Biafra.

Ogonimilitant:
Churchill Okonkwo is an Efulefu. He is looking for political appointment.

So what? Its not about Okonkwo, any Ibo following that bloody freak called Kanu is on the wrong path.

Igbos should, therefore, not allow our political, emotional, and cultural consciousness to be plagued by a homegrown nemesis. Rather, we should speak out, in unionism, against IPOB’s collateral damage to the Biafran Spirit (the Igbo brand in Nigeria). This 53rd anniversary of the declaration of Biafra is an excellent time for Igbos to come together and protect and preserve our common resource – the Biafran Spirt.

In Igbo cosmology, there are many gods e.g. Amadioha (the God of thunder), Ani (the Earth Goddess), Idemili (the lady of the waters), Upkaka Ndam (African oil bean that protects kindred’s of Ndam), Ogwugwu (a female god), etc. It is very common, in Igboland, for someone to be in good stead with one god and not the other. As such, Ogwugwu could kill a person despite an excellent relationship with Udo.


The Igbo sociopolitical landscape has produced “god-like-figures” like the gods in Igbo cosmology. Examples include Chief Dr. Nnamzi Azikiwe (The Zik of Africa), Mike Okpara, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi), Chief Sam Mbakwe, Chinua Achebe, etc. Akin to the Igbo cosmology too, despite the excellent relationship of Igbos with these godlike-figures that we have come to love and admire, Igbos are witnessing our slow annihilation after we embraced the cancerous ideology of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB).

To say that Igboland is in grave danger is an understatement. We are currently facing a self-inflicted annihilation. The Igbo nation has been hoodwinked by a group who is not only erratic but one that is led by an embattled and paranoid leader, who is going down the tubes and is hellbent on dragging the entire Igboland down as well. Their political ineptitude, mediocrity, indiscipline, and ethnic bigotry is legendary and destructive.

This is, therefore, one of those pieces that I set out writing with the future Igbo generations on my mind. It is for the sake of the future of Igbos in Nigeria, for our children and grandchildren, that I, once in a while, steps in to present a different narrative, an insider’s view of the inside, on the state of Igbo land. On the remembrance of Biafra, at 53, I am particularly worried about the generation in Igbo land that is being fed with so much misinformation and outright lies that it may take an eternity to rectify.


The main purpose of IPOB’s campaign of misinformation is to confuse many Igbos with contradictory lies that will be repeated here and there until Igbos do not know what the truth is. For years, Igbos have allowed IPOB to spread lies that have poisoned the trust between us and the rest of the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

The cutting words of IPOB is worse than a bowstring. While a cut may heal, the cut of the tongue does not. Ultimately, what IPOB has succeeded in doing is stir up hatred between Igbos and the rest of Nigerians. So, I stand bold to state that IPOB is a disease; the lies and venom that they are vomiting through Nnamdi Kanu do not have to make sense to be successful as a disease.

IPOB tends to make frequent reference to other groups in Nigeria – usually in terms of outsiders and enemies. Most often, this reference is accompanied by a fear factor, a xenophobic perspective that is meant to heighten ethnic tension in Nigeria. This contributes to the creation of the ‘us versus them’ social divisions in Nigeria. They use a variety of tools and tactics to increase these schisms, or cleavages, in society at every given opportunity. It is a deadly disease.

There are two specific reasons why are I am worried about the slippery slope the Igbos are on. One is that the bug of misinformation and propagation of conspiracy theories and alternative facts has caught the educated and the enlightened strata of the Igbo race. The second is that ruin is the destination towards which IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu have pushed all Igbos, politically, economically, socially, and religiously.

According to Chinua Achebe, ...stories are not always innocent...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you. IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu have not only disposed of Igbos of their place in the community of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, but they have also destroyed our trademark, the Biafran Spirit.

A family is like a forest when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place. I am a member of the family and I can tell my brothers and sisters without hesitation that IPOB has destroyed the Biafran Spirit. Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. On this occasion marking Biafra at 53, Igbos should stop throwing ashes with IPOB.

The message from Biafran heroes to Igbos who are not speaking out against the desecration of the Biafran Spirit is that Ndigbo will continue to be incapacitated and paralyzed. The message to my Igbo brothers, from Biafran heroes, on this special commemoration of Biafra at 53, is that Igbos must ditch their blind support of the divisive political ideology, completely. Do not let anyone keep deceiving you that Biafra is coming, tomorrow. The Biafran heroes told me to tell Igbos that it is not coming. At least not as packaged and promoted by IPOB

On this occasion marking Biafra at 53, the Biafran heroes want Igbos to remember that knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. They told me to remind Igbos that a chattering bird builds no nest. They are reminding us that knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. Biafran heroes told me to tell Igbos that even though the Biafran Spirit is enigmatic and indestructible, we must not allow IPOB to drag its good name to the mud.

Finally, the Biafran Spirit is e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that IPOB is NOT. It is forward-looking, while IPOB is still looking back to 1960s; Biafran Spirit is progressive, IPOB is retrogressive; Biafran Spirit is fearless, IPOB fears even flies: Biafran Spirit is loving and unifying, IPOB is divisive and filled with hatred and anger; Biafran Spirit is positive and truthful, IPOB propagates lies and fear.

Igbos should, therefore, not allow our political, emotional, and cultural consciousness to be plagued by a homegrown nemesis. Rather, we should speak out, in unionism, against IPOB’s collateral damage to the Biafran Spirit (the Igbo brand in Nigeria). This 53rd anniversary of the declaration of Biafra is an excellent time for Igbos to come together and protect and preserve our common resource – the Biafran Spirt.

Together, we can.

Churchill Okonkwo, Ph.D.

@Churchillnnobi



http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/30/biafra-53-ipob-has-destroyed-biafran-spirit-igbos-must-restore-it-churchill-okonkwo

imhotep:
Say the truth.
Do you miss APC?

Cc lzaa

The thing wey dey do me now pass APC matter.

imhotep:
PDP amaka

Afamed and metaphysical will not sleep well this week .

Cc lzaa

Say wetin happen....

19. BBC igbo, the kind of thunder that will kill you have never been born.

Ffk was the financial backer when Kanu was in kuje appreciating burnt watery beans. We know this.

He spoke while receiving the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at his palace in Sokoto while in the state to assess the situation in some areas recently attacked by bandits.

I hope the bandits succeed in attacking and crushing the Sultan and his palace.

Has Chief of Air Staff visited Southern Kaduna or Benue?

T9ksy:
IMHO, Azikwe wasn't just only the above in bold but also covetous and myopic.

His greed could not make him see beyond his nose and that's why he ended up sucking up to the people who have not at any time hide their hatred and suspicions about the ibos. These are the same people who slaughtered his ibo folks in 1945 and again in 1953, yet he was the main proponent of One nigeria.

He was born and bred in the north. He ought to have known that there is no way the sardunna would have agree to a united nigeria that will essential be dominated by the southerners simply because of their educational advancement. He would rather go it alone.

Correct!