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AchalugoNwa:
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but he's still a Nigerian?

he's supposed to be complying with the ban.

Nonsense!

naptu2:
The Southern Governors Forum helped to coordinate the lawsuits against the Federal Government during the onshore and offshore dichotomy disagreement of the early 2000s. They met regularly at that time.

However, in recent times the Southern Governors' Wives Forum has been more active than the Governors Forum.

A few previous meetings of the Southern Governors Forum.

naptu2:
Southern Governors Forum meeting, Lagos, October 2000.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200010100252.html


Southern Governors Forum meeting, Enugu, January 2001.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200101150174.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Benin, March 2001.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200103190380.html

7th Southern Governors Forum meeting, Akure, July 2002.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200207120292.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, February 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200402060556.html

Udenwa makes case for southern governors forum. March 2005.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503020368.html

Southern governors to meet again in Lagos tomorrow

• Akinrinade, Opadokun, Dogo Salute Move
• Urge Lobby Of NASS, States Assembly To Achieve Restructuring

Following their May 11, 2021 declaration in Asaba Delta State, the 17 Southern governors will again converge on Lagos tomorrow for the second leg of the first gathering. The meeting is to be hosted by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the State House, Ikeja.

Critical stakeholders have, however, warned the governors not to allow Nigerians to perceive their meetings as a “mere gathering” where empty threats or resolutions are made.

They said the governors should deploy better strategies by involving their representatives in the National Assembly, engage the State Houses of Assembly and also seek collaborations of socio-cultural and political organisations, to get their aim and objectives achieved.

In telephone conversations with The Guardian yesterday, former Chief of Defence Staff, General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), General Secretary, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Mr. Ayo Opadokun and spokesman, Middle Belt Forum, Dr Isuwa Dogo, commended the governors’ determination to meet and take a stand, especially at this uncertain period. But they all tasked them to go beyond making resolutions.

Akinrinade, who commended the governors for having the courage to reconvene, said the present challenges confronting Nigeria would linger till the next century “except something urgent is done. You must remain resolute in the demand for restructuring.”

He enjoined the governors to mount pressure on elected representatives from their various states in National Assembly to support restructuring.

“I wonder what Southern lawmakers in the National Assembly are doing about restructuring? They seem not to be serious about it.”

To him, the governors should as a matter of necessity impress it on Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and all Southern Senators to kickstart the debate on how to restructure the country.

The retired general also said the governors must be more assertive in their demand for state police in the meeting tomorrow. “I think after tomorrow’s meeting, the governors should return home and begin to lobby their states Assembly to raise Bill on State Police. Their demand now should be a full-fledged State Police and nothing more. They should also make their stand known to President Muhammadu Buhari that he (Mr. President) must come out and speak on the state of insecurity in the country.

Opadokun said the governors must act their talk. He said it was not enough of the 17 southern governors to make pronouncements. They should make their state Houses of Assembly legislate the Asaba Resolutions into law to give it a force of law. If the governors can collaborate with lawmakers, it will become more effective and remain a credible voice for the marginalised southern part of Nigeria.”

Dogo challenged the governors to deploy tactical strategies to get their demands achieved. He urged them to ensure they deploy their numerical strength to persuade the National Assembly and their various States Assembly to implement and recognise the resolutions of the 2014 National Conference.

“If they are serious, they can also get support from States like Adamawa, Plateau, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, Sokoto, Kwara and Kogi. They should mobilise all the socio-political and cultural bodies to support restructuring and how to implement the conference report. By the time they do this, President Buhari will have no choice than to adhere to their demands.”

The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, was said to have confirmed that the parley would deliberate on insecurity, true federalism, open grazing, State Police, restructuring, and food security, among others.

The meeting would also discuss the aftermath of the Asaba gathering to assess if any meaningful success was made.

The Guardian gathered that nearly all the governors are likely to be in attendance because of the near-war situation Nigeria is in at the moment and how insecurity is currently affecting their states.

But a serving member of the House of Representatives, who did not want his name in print, disclosed that northern lawmakers are watching Gbajabiamila closely and would not hesitate to initiate an impeachment motion against him if he tries anything they perceive to be against the interest of their region.

It would be recalled that the governors, at the last meeting, which was hosted by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and attended by 15 of the 17 Southern governors, arrived at a 12-point resolution, which included the banning of open grazing of cattle in all the states.

AchalugoNwa:
why is Kayode useless bastard stickfish Igundamisi still tweeting
aren't he supposed to be complying on the terrorist buhari directives judging that he's also among the government aide?

Ever8090:
Pictures attached makes materials like this more authentic... without pictorial evidence, I consider it mare propaganda and poor journalism

Hoodlums chop off man’s penis in Imo.

July 4, 2021 in City Beats, News Update
By Chris Njoku, Owerri

Hoodlums have chopped off the manhood of Matador from Orsu Iheti Ukwa in Imo State.

The man was seen tied in a viral video horizontally to a stick and subjected to inhuman treatment by the suspected hoodlums.

The hoodlums were heard accusing him of being a saboteur responsible for military bombardment of Orlu during an encounter with the Easterner Security Network (ESN), the security arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

It was learnt the man, in his late 50s, was picked by masked men in a dramatic operation along Okigwe roundabout, Owerri on Saturday.

Matador, said to be former Special Assistant to a House of Representatives member, was tied to a stick covered in a pool of his blood after his manhood was severed.

A background voice in the video accused him of allegedly leading military operation that led to the death of many people in Orlu.

Imo Commissioner of Police Abutu Yaro confirmed the Command “is aware of the iniquitous and obscene video that has gone viral on social media where, a man was seen tied horizontally to a stick undergoing inhuman act by some suspected hoodlums.”

In a statement by Imo Police spokesman CSP Michael Abattam, Yaro said the Command has commenced investigation into the viral video to unravel the truth behind it.

naptu2:
Brunei, Brunei! Nobody talks about Brunei anymore.

It seemed like people couldn't stop talking about Brunei in the 1980s. The Sultan of Brunei was listed as the richest man in the world by Forbes. There were documentaries about the number of Rolls Royces that he owned and the air-condtioned stables that he built for his polo ponies. They talked about the gifts that he gave to citizens of Brunei that got married and also about his relationship with his father.


However, Forbes removed heads of state from its list in the early 1990s and Bill Gates replaced the Sultan of Brunei at the top of the list. From that point it seems as if people gradually forgot about the Sultan.

naptu2:
I deliberately did not write the names and designations of the visiting dignitaries on that thread. This was because of what I saw in 2003.


The Sultan of Brunei was one of the most famous heads of state in the 1980s. This was because he was often acclaimed as the richest person in the world. He was at number 1 on the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world. He lost his position on the list when Forbes decided to exclude heads of state from the list. Bill Gates then became the richest man in the world.


Nigeria hosted the Commonwealth Heads Of State and Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 2003 and heads of state and government from around the world were arriving the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport for the event. The NTA showed them as they arrived (it was a live broadcast).

The Sultan of Brunei arrived and despite the fact the "Royal Brunei" was written on the plane, the NTA commentator kept saying, "The president of Brunei has arrived". He said "the president of Brunei" 6 or 7 times before someone corrected him and he apologised and said, "The Sultan of Brunei". I was shocked. How can you not know the Sultan of Brunei??


I knew that the same thing would happen yesterday, so I decided that I would only write the names of the countries that the dignitaries are from and I would refrain from writing the names of the dignitaries or their designation.

Sure enough, TVC wrote that Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro had arrived, but I could clearly see that the person in the picture that they posted was not Nicholas Maduro. So, after creating the thread I had to quickly rush and find out the identity of the person. I usually do this via the Twitter handle of the embassy of the country that the dignitary is from, but the Venezuelan Embassy had not posted anything. I later found what I was looking for on the Twitter handle of the Venezuelan foreign ministry. It was the vice president.

The last picture below is a picture of Maduro.

naptu2:
Sir Siddiqi Abubakar was the Sultan of Sokoto from the 1930s until 1988. My dad used to ask, "Why are they making this man suffer"? That's because he was very old. You should have seen him at the time that Buhari or Babangida visited him. He was old and infirm. He couldn't deliver a speech. He would tell someone (standing beside his throne) what he wanted to say and the person would then say it out loud for everybody to hear. He really looked very old. My dad said that they should have allowed him to rest.

Dear Diary, do you remember that I told you that we always got complimentary copies of West Africa Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s? Well, that's how I found out that Sir Siddiqi had been ruling for so long. You see, as I told you, West Africa usually had two historical pages near the end of the magazine. One page had articles from 40 or 50 years before that issue and the other had 25 year old articles. One of the 40 or 50 year old articles was about Sir Siddiqi's response to Hitler. Adolf Hitler had called on Africans to rebel against Britain and Sir Siddiqi basically replied that Africans did not need Hitler to tell them what to do. This was in the 1930s or 40s!


Anyway, Sir Siddiqi died in 1988 and everybody expected that his son, Mohammed Maccido, would be turbaned as the new Sultan, but shockingly, the government announced that Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, a member of the Donation Circuit, had been selected as the new Sultan. It led to massive riots in Sokoto and many people died.

However, years later, General Sani Abacha removed Dasuki and made Maccido the Sultan.

naptu2:
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C) The Sultan: - You must have heard people say that the Sultan is very
powerful (he controls all northerners,  he controls the government if
Nigeria,  he controls boko haram, etc). Why do people have this perception
of the Sultan?  The answer is Sir Siddiqi Abubakar.

 Sir Siddiqi was the Sultan of Sokoto from around the 1930s to late
1988/early 1989. He was probably the most powerful man in Nigeria. He was
around 101 years old when he died. The Sultans that have ruled after him
have not been half as powerful as he was.

Sir Siddiqi was the Sultan during the colonial era and he helped the
British administer Northern Nigeria.  He also helped them to rally
northerners against Hitler and the Vichy French during the Second World
War. Therefore,  he had a lot of friends and contacts in the British
Government.


He also encouraged northerners to go to school and gave them scholarships.
 These northerners became prominent politicians in the First and Second
Republics. They saw him as their mentor and father.  They almost worshipped
him.

Similarly,  he encouraged many northerners to join the army and these
northerners became top members of the military governments of Nigeria.


Sir Siddiqi was Sir Ahmadu Bello's cousin and Sir Ahmadu envied him. The
one thing that Ahmadu Bello wanted most was to be Sultan of Sokoto.


It was said that the Sultan was not happy about the coup (Shagari is from
Sokoto). The first place that Buhari visited after taking over power was
the Sultan's Palace.

naptu2:
My sister expressed surprise that the carriage did not collapse under the weight of Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, the Nigerian minister of finance. If you know Triple A, you would know that he was a rotund man and so my sister thought that the carriage would not be able to withstand his weight.

ghostwon333:
1) "the united arab emirates" people are arabs so how does that contradict my claim of "emir" being an arab title ?

2) which rulers used the sultan title before the ottomans ?

ghostwon333:
Though, did you just get that from wikipedia or do you actually know anything about the topic ?
I just got your story in wikipedia.

OK, I don't think you can answer my above questions. You should try and give credit to your information source instead of pretending to be knowledgeable in your own right.

ghostwon333:
Thanks for the information, I thought it were the same title.

So does this mean that danfodio just took the ottoman title after overtaking some haussa kingdoms ?
I wonder why he didn't take an indigenous title ?

Do you know why some other northern monarchs are using the arab title of emir ?
If you could tell me when these adoptions of middle-eastern titles started in northern nigeria, I would appreciate.

ghostwon333:
I wonder when they started using arab titles such as "emir" and ottoman titles such as "sultan", indeed the title which we now refer to as "sultan of sokoto" was called "sardauna of sokoto" before the civil war.
I hate all these copy copy of other people's titles which we can also see with the "yorubas" copying of the title of the emperor of Benin empire.

People should at least preserve their ancestral titles and do away with copying other people.