Elemosho478: Nigeria is a country full of enormous talents who operates both within and outside the country.
One of such people is Dr Olawale Sulaiman who is a professor of neurosurgery and spine surgery. He is also the system chairman of department of neurosurgery at Ochsner health system in New Orleans, Louisiana, in America. Sulaiman also serves as co-medical director of Ochsner Neuroscience Institute and medical director of the most comprehensive spine center in the region.
Dr Olawale Sulaiman is recognised as one of the best spine surgeons in the USA and is skilled in the application of minimally invasive techniques to treat spinal disorders. He also founded RNZ Global with the belief that: "There are tremendous number of brilliant Nigerians in diaspora who will significantly contrute to raising the standard of healthcare in Nigeria, based in the metro area of New Orleans who operates and renders his medical expertise in US and Nigeria."
The motivation according to him: " if I have been given all these opportunities in life and the least I can do is to give back to the society. " He stated further that: “My philosophy is whether you are Nigerian, Vietnamese, an American, everybody should have access to some degree of good quality healthcare.”
Dr Sulaiman's medical mission in Nigeria started in 2010 with his coming to the country every few months. Now, he shuttles between USA and Nigeria every month spending seven to ten days performing free surgery and saving lives.
To achieve his medical mission in his country of birth, Dr Sulaiman agreed with Ochsner to give up 15% of his salary so he can have a flexible schedule to travel to Nigeria. In the last five years, Sulaiman and his team have performed surgeries for over 500 patients.
They have also screened and provided preventative medicine to more than 5,000 people. Ochsner on the other hand has supported his efforts by sending supplies overseas with him. Sulaiman has developed programmes to train Nigerians back home so they can spread healthcare to those with no access.
Saudi Arabia is devils capital and are evil beyond evil itself. I'm only sorry for those who believe in the religion they sold to the world called Islam. The picture is an epitome of human sacrifice needed by their god inside Kabba that they worship all over the world. Liberate yourselves from Islam religion of Evil and accept Christ today so that when he comes back for the beloved you will be counted among the faithful. Islam can never be a good religion because it was indoctrinated on falsehood and arrive with antichrist mohammed 400 years after Christ Jesus liberate the world through his Propitiatory Sacrifice for our sakes which islam has been profaning since its establishment. Read 2 Peter 2:1-22 take good note of all verses read again if possible , Romans 1:18,19, John 14:6. God bless you as you do in Jesus Name.
franchasng: Please I don't believe it, Fulani herdsmen are peaceful and go about their business, i grew up playing with them and their cows at Ikirun and Ijebu Igbo, we help them fetch water to feed their cows, so lets wait until they kidnap Ooni of Ife, Alaafin of Oyo or better still Oluremi Tinubu before we Yorubas can believe that its Fulani terrorist that have taken over Southwest forests that's perpetrating all these evil, until then, wait for APC and Buhari supporters from Yoruba land to come defend their terrorist leader cum Nigeria's president.
But I don't think its Fulani herdsmen because I cannot see their cow, if they were responsible for the kidnapping, we ought to have seen their cow near the scene
Yorubas must eschew sentiments and have a one on one with Fulani community leaders and give them terms and conditions and even formally write them an eviction order and anything that happens subsequently is fulanis cup of tea. The whole world will know they are forewarned. Come to think about it Yoruba do not need the nation of Nigeria, the converse is true that the Nigeria nation needs yorubas to survive. Any brainless ipob may not believe this but the last time I checked the meaningful Nigerians making waves all over the world are all of Yoruba extract, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Davido, Dr Toye Oyelesi, Dr Awolesi, Prof. Wole Soyinka, ....the list is endless. Why are we afraid to take the next step. We really need to move away from unblessed, uncouth people who are nothing but retrogressive like Hausa/ Fulani and Ipob nonentities who have no God-given blessings but are usurpers that are forever stagnated and stunting our collective progress. Its up to us to see the perfect opportunities presented to us now and brake away from this elements of retrogression you don't need big land to develop. the whole of japan is not the size of Oyo state so why afraid to grow our own and determine who live with us and grow with us, definitely not ipobs and Fulani retrogressors.
How is he supposed to have gun in the first place? What with the surrendering of weapon and licenced guns taunted by Buhari? why must there be exceptions? Why a foreigner must come and add to our problems and show us contempt for the love we show them? must only fulanis and foreigners be armed to harm us the bonafide citizens of Nigeria? why our people will steal only sweets and celphones and end up linched and necklaced with tires for offence police can handle and murderers will walk away scot free? Aren't we naturally cowards in Nigeria or are mentally unstable for modern society? Let Buhari start answering these questions so that he will not cry fowl if the monster he's grooming now come home to roost. My five cent.
Why is it that Yorubas that supposed to know better are more divided among themselves than with outsiders. I couldn't believe this weak narratives are still being taunted today till tomorrow. 'Awolowo is too rigid that's why he cannot rule at the national level' so Tafawa Balewa is not rigid? What does an average Yoruba expect? An akindindirin leader or what? This narrative has to change in view of the recent killings as yorubas will have no one but themselves to blame for their inaction which has been read wrongly or fearfully by their nemesis Hausa/Fulanis and igbos of no consequence.
AkinEgba: RIGHT OF REPLY: The Akintola controversy
Originally from Vanguard Newspaper
Friday, November 14, 2003
Ope-Agbe’s distortions of history, by Otunba TOS Benson
MY reputation as a politician of note in the first republic has been brutally bruised with untruths, and avoidable distortions of history, by Fazil Ope-Agbe in an article in the Vanguard, titled: Akintola Fought For The Yoruba People. The piece ran for two days from August 8. Ope-Agbe’s version of the history of the politics of the first republic was heavily jaundiced. The references made about me assaulted my values, as a politician, with good principles. I write to set the record straight, about the tainted roles, he ascribed to me. My name was mentioned at least eight times in the said article. I cannot therefore, ignore the unwholesome role of prospective arsonist or anarchist, which he claimed falsely, that I offered to play.
Protracted in-fighting between the AG and the breakaway NNDP of S. L. Akintola led to a break down of law and order, the second time in Western Nigeria. The first time was in 1962 when a state of emergency was declared for six months and Chief M. A. Majekodunnii was appointed the Administrator for Western region. The 1965 state of lawlessness in the region was dubbed: "Operation Wetie". People and property were doused with gasoline and set on fire. The AG Secretariat in Ibadan, was torched. I had quit the NCNC in a dispute with Okpara when the party failed to nominate me to compete in Federal Elections in December 1964. Ayo Rosiji a leading member of the party was also, a former star of the AG. The big lie is that Ope-Agbe wrote that I proposed that the NNDP should organize its own operation wetie in my Lagos constituency to hit back at the "NCNC" — which was accused, I believe, wrongly, of organizing the Mayhem. In fighting between the members of the AG and NNDP, was responsible for the operation wetie crisis in the West. The NCNC which was the opposition party in the West, only cashed in on the crisis, on the side of the NNDP.
I categorically state that I did not make any proposal to torch AG offices in Lagos, which the author said was rejected — as counter productive - by both Rosiji and Akintola. The only witnesses to this bit of Ope - Agbe’s history, which has not hitherto been reproduced in print, are dead. I have never read nor heard of the author’s charge before now. It is a puzzle that it took him about forty years to invent his story, which associated me with thuggery. Its purpose must have been to counter the equally false postulations in glory of Awo by Ganiyu Dawodu in a book, titled:
"Who Won The 1951 Western Nigeria Election - Zik or Awo?’ True Awoists will not find comfort with the writings of Ope-Agbe on SLA and what he did for the Yoruba. For the author clothed SLA as the political angel who dragged the Yoruba — through partnership with the North - into the mainstream of national politics.
Ope Agbe says that Awo was rigid and uncompromising to the extent of putting his own whims and interests above the general interests, and needs of the Yorubas. He saw no good at all in Chief Awolowo’s desires and principles, and believes that Awo’s extreme regionalism crippled his own ambition for national leadership. On the other hand, SLA was the man for outreach to the North and South-East. His article generally was a disservice to be sought after unity of the Yoruba race. The wounds of the Awo- SLA conflict persist in some form. Afenifere and (Igbimo Omo Yoruba) Yoruba Council of Elders, remain two political poles apart. My wish is to see Yoruba fly a united political and cultural flag, within the context of one Nigeria. I believe that the author wrote in bad faith as a surviving agent of satanic politics in Yorubaland.
In 1954, I led the campaign in the Western Region against Action Group and NCNC won the majority. The people appointed ministers from Western Region were Okotie Eboh from the Mid-West, Kola Balogun and Adegoke Adelabu from Yoruba area of Western Region. Although, I was the Chairman and Leader of NCNC Western Working Committee (Lagos — Asaba) but I was not appointed a minister because there was no provision in the constitution to that effect, hence I was appointed Federal Government Chief Whip. When Adelabu was removed as a minister in 1955, he was replaced with J. M. J. from Ibadan constituency. In 1959, none of the three parties; NPC, the NCNC and AG won the overall majority hence the NCNC had an alliance with the NPC to form the Government at the Center. Okotie Eboh was again appointed a minister from the Mid-West while from the Yoruba Area of the West, JMJ and Akinfosile and myself, T. 0. S. Benson from Lagos, were appointed Ministers. The snag in the constitution against the appointment of ministers from Lagos was removed in 1957 London Constitutional Conference.
It amounts to living in a dream world for Ope-Agbe to posit that , Chief T. 0. S. Benson of Ikorodu, Chief Olu Akinfosile of Okitipupa and J.M. Johnson of Ibadan who were in charge of federal portfolios that belonged to the West were not true and legitimate representatives of that region. It is naively for him to so postulate. The NPC/NCNC alliance of 1954 to 1959 continued to 1964. The author blames Awo whom he wrote "was obsessed" with leading the nation, for not opening up to the stretched hands of the North for partnership in a coalition — which SLA did. Let me state that Awo made attempts at forging an alliance with the North contrary to the position of Ope Agbe. But in his attempt at forging this alliance, the AG played a double political game when the party sent Rosiji to the Sardauna to negotiate NPC/AG alliance and at the same time sent Gbadamosi to Zik for NCNC/AG alliance. The end of the road came for the AG when Sardauna phoned Zik to find out NCNC’s readiness for the alliance following AG’s overtures to the NPC and Zik replied to him that the Action Group was also negotiating with him. At this point the Sardauna was annoyed with the AG’s double deal and dismissed further discussions with the AG hence the NPC/NCNC alliance was sealed. This clarification is for Ope-Agbe to note.
It is not correct, as Ope-Agbe wrote, that ", Chief T. 0. S. Benson the NCNC’s mainstay in Lagos had quit the party in high dungeon over the open support of the Eastern House of Assembly for Boniface Ofokaja’s rebellion; and open defiance of the minister over the appointment of Mr. Segun Smith as News Editor of the NTA. Ofokaja’s shattered ambition had nothing to do with my exit from the party. I was the Third Vice President of the NCNC. My relationship with the President of the party after Zik, and Premier of the Eastern region, Dr. Michael Okpara, was uneasy and full of friction. I should, at this stage, tell the story of the final straw that severed the political bond between Okpara and I. I was in USA with my consort on medical grounds; when Okpara fixed a date of the start of the NCNC Campaign in Western Nigeria. He appointed me to lead the campaign. I replied in a cable, that I could not make it on the prescribed date. We were undergoing a series of medical tests. Okpara concluded that I did not want the party to win in the West and that I was playing games. Another incidence was during our campaign tour when Okpara and I were on our way to Ogbomosho and Okpara expressed his wish to become the Prime Minister in 1964. I told him that it was not possible because we formed UPGA in order to bring Awo from prison and make him the Prime Minister as was the case in Ghana where Nkrumah emerged from prison. Because of this and particularly my objection to his ambition of becoming prime minister in 1964, he led a campaign for the party to substitute me with Maduagwu Moronu, an Oba man from the East, who was one of my constituency secretaries, as candidate for my Yaba Federal seat.
Okpara appointed Ogunsanya, my town’s man to head my nomination committee, but Ogunsanya, not wanting to be seen to be opposing me appointed Akinyemi Obe whom though I sponsored to become a lawyer, carried out Okpara’s plan. At the close of nominations, two contestants emerged. So, I boycotted the nomination committee and quit the party to contest as independent UPGA and I won the election. In essence, Moronu was not fair to me as his leader. He betrayed me politically by allowing himself to be used by Okpara to achieve his plot to unseat me. I took care of Moronu, I was nice to him and even bought him a car worth 300 pounds at BEWAC. From the foregoing, Ope-Agbe can better understand that he was wrong to accuse me of not allowing Moronu to contest the election.
The case of Boniface Ofokaja and Segun Smith was entirely, another Kettle of fish. What Ope-Agbe has done is to weave it into his text in such a manner, as to confirm his theme that NCNC Yoruba Ministers did little for their Kinsmen. At best they were Satellite of Igbo colleagues. Not so. His general theme is that only SLA genuinely cared and catered for the welfare of Yorubas in the West; while those of Yoruba ministers who "appropriated" the cabinet seats meant for heartland Yorubas, did little for the West. Again, it is not true.
I was accused by the group led by my parliamentary secretary, Chief Mbazulike Amechi and R.B.K. Okafor, of promoting only the interests of the Yorubas in the various arms of my ministry. I denied the charge but made the same accusation against Dr. Okechukwu lkejiani, Chairman of board of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Nzegwu, the General Manager and Raymond Njoku the Minister of Transport in charge of the railways. I said specially that they had loaded the Railway hospital and offices in the railway generally with Ibos to the exclusion of Yorubas and other tribes. There was an internal party tribunal on the matter. I was not the loser, when the verdict was pronounced. The matter of Boniface Ofokaja losing the post of NTA News Editor to Segun Smith was one of the matters I disposed of. My Ministry of Information even published a pamphlet on the Matter titled: Is Benson Igbophobist? I still have a copy. Ofokaja was a brilliant news- reader with a sonorous and firm voice that was richly loud. But his rank was that of News Assistant. Smith was already a News Editor in the NBC, which managed the newly established TV station. When the contract of the American GM of the NTA expired, he recommended Ofokaja who was much junior in the organization to the post of News Editor. Other staff in the organization, ranked after Smith, were all Easterners - mainly Igbos — and very senior to Ofokaja. They were Philip Okereke, Edet Charles, Ochi Ogbuaku, Rex Eleazor, Godwin Ironkwe, Charles Emerue, and West Camerounian, Sony Dikpoko, and Yebovi. Late Dr. K. 0. Mbadiwe campaigned for Ofokaja. The premier of the East later gave him a high post in the Eastern Nigeria Broadcasting Service in Enugu. They made politics out of nothing and it is most unfortunate that Ope-Agbe is bringing up this matter at this time, but however, I have no choice but to reply to him.
They however, failed to tarnish my image, as a detribalized nationalist. Ope - Agbe obviously concocted the ugly story about Cyprain Ekwensi, Director of Information, and roped me in, in bad light. He claimed that Ekwensi jumped over him for promotion to Higher Information Officer.
Instead of him, Ekwensi had recommended two junior staff Moses Ihonde and Azeez Garuba. According to him , with Chief T. 0. S. Benson, an NCNC as Minister of Information, Ekwensi had been able to throw his weight around to the extent of treating the Permanent Secretary, Mr. F. I. Ajuniogobia, as his subordinate".
That was plain mischief The inference is that he, a Yorubaman, would not get justice from me a Yoruba minister, because my party was anti-Yoruba. He never complained to me nor his permanent secretary; for my action, about his alleged running battles with his Director (Ekwensi), whom he said suppressed him as an act of vengeance; for his refusal to join him in reporting Mr. Ajuinogobia to me, as Minister, for interfering with publicity. He claimed that Ekwensi "could toy with me" because I was an NCNC. I do not know how possible it is for the Public Service Commission to make promotions without an input by the permanent secretary of any particular ministry. Ope -Agbe, as a Yoruba man and a Grammarian never complained to me, or to his permanent secretary for us to put things right. Being an Akintola man, he was afraid of his own shadow. He had to wait until Rosiji came on board as minister, to raise the issue of his succession. Yet, the Commission, as he admitted, refused to reverse itself In my days as minister, no staff of my ministry would dare to toy with me for political or ethnic reasons. I did not tolerate nonsense. I was not a tribal leader. I have remained detribalized, as every one knows; and I was a senior member of a national party.
I consider the article which I complained of as an irritating piece of worthless propaganda that gave praise only to the Akintola faction, of what used to be the AG; which was torn apart after the Schism that was nurtured at the conference of the party in 1961, which exploded in 1962. All the pieces in Ope-Agbe’s rambling history were designed to show SLA’s NNDP in a federal outlook, while the rump of the AG under Awo and Adegbenro was regionally based, although Awo wanted badly to rule the Federation. In the process of stitching his story together, Ope-Agbe maligned both the living and the dead. I cannot call Dr. K. 0. Mbadiwe to witness because he is dead. He accused Dr. Mbadiwe of plotting to displace Chief Festus Okotie Eboh as minister of Finance. But Professor Ben Nwabueze is alive. He devastated him with false projections about the tussle between him and Professor S. Biobaku in the political battles that resulted from attempts to fill the Chair of VC. of the University of Lagos, which was vacated on transfer by Professor Eni Njoku. I must recall that during that struggle, Adams starved Prof Biobaku. Nwabueze and Ekwensi must speak out in their cause, and not allow the taleteller to get away with fiction. Moses lhonde, one of the two men claimed to have superseded Ope-Agbe is alive. He has produced three books on the politics and personalities of the first republic. He should not allow the spin yarns of Ope-Agbe to stand, unchallenged.
Akinloye is entitled to his own version of the statement about the January/February 1952 Carpet crossing affairs at Ibadan. But the fact is that Ibadan NCNC Mabolaje allies contested with the AG and won six seats in Ibadan. Five of them led by Akinloye and Aboderin crossed to the Action Group (AG), but Adelabu remained with the NCNC. In 1954, Adelabu cleared the whole six seats in Ibadan during the election to the Federal House of Representatives thus showing his supremacy over Akinloye and Aboderin in Ibadan.
In 1959, Chief Adisa Adeoye, a lawyer who stepped into Adelabu’s shoes in Ibadan cleared the whole eight seats in Ibadan for the NCNC and he is still alive. I am saying this categorically because I led the campaign for these two elections. Adelabu had died on the 23rd of March 1958.
This country does not require spin writers of history. We want works that will advance the cause of healing the political wounds of the Yorubas in the past half a century. The article shows that these wounds are still bleeding. For the sake of decency, I will not like to say that Ope Agbe is a liar, but suffice it to say that he is a composer, fabricator and manufacturer of untrue stories.
Of late spin authors have been active on the pages of the Vanguard. The most prominent is Taiwo Akintola, who is a staff of the BBC. He reopened old political wounds with his article titled: "Awolowo/Akintola: The Tango Between Vision And Compromise". The article ran in the Vanguard of August 15 and 18. He is obviously an Awo man. He says SLA made grievous mistakes but did not elaborate. He also criticized Chief Okotie-Eboh for the break up of Western Nigeria, to create the Mid-West region. Okotie Eboh’s children have replied to him. I do not think that bosom-bits about past politics will help us. Lagos was the center of political gravity before Abuja. So, I would rather urge the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University to consult together and undertake omnibus works separately about the politics of the first republic. They should share out spheres, which each will deal with. Let us hear three sides of the same story, so that the complete truth will be out. I recently had to give my own version of events in the West in 1951 in reply to a book by Ganiyu Dawodu.
The Deputy Political Editor of Vanguard, Bolade Omonijo - thinks that sometimes I exaggerate my importance - Political Notes; Vanguard of September 26. For somebody who was 2nd Vice-President of the NCNC, Chairman of NCNC Western Working Committee, a Councilor in Ikorodu Town Council 1955 to 1958, Councilor and Deputy Mayor of Lagos 1950 to 1953, Leader of the Opposition in Western House of Assembly, Member of the Lagos Executive Development Board - 1951 - 1959, Member of the House of Representatives for Lagos, and Nigeria’s lst Minister of Information, my status at the time, speaks for me. I do not need to exaggerate any thing. This is why I have advocated that more books be written of the era.
Why is it that Yorubas that supposed to know better are more divided among themselves than with outsiders. I couldn't believe this weak narratives are still being taunted today till tomorrow. 'Awolowo is too rigid that's why he cannot rule at the national level' so Tafawa Balewa is not rigid? What does an average Yoruba expect an akindindirin leader or what? This narrative has to change in view of the recent killings as yorubas will have no one but themselves to blame for their inaction which has been read wrongly or fearfully by their nemesis Hausa/Fulanis and igbos of no consequence.
Polithieftians wey dey chop una money so they all Nigerians don become poppers in their hand na pepper soup with cold beer una dey give them. This unsuccessful thief na come suffer more than the sin self. Na wa for Naija oo.
The ipob people are capable of evil untold. Once upon a time, Nigeria used to be the darling of the world until ipob introduced their reserves of evil, coup plotting Igbo is first, drug peddling, fake drugs, fake products, fake news, baby factory, kidnapping, 419, ....the list is endless, they introduced all these and want to rule and turn Nigeria to Devils headquarters.
All the Doctors and professors who signed that paper must tender an unreserved apology for being deceived to vote a person who didn't pass WASC
Anyway, till we hear from Nnamdi Kanu, its Buharri till 2089
since when has your nnamdi kanu been backing without a single bite? you think nothing will change with igbos aspirations nada will happen. Mark my word very soon you'll begin to systematic action to wash southwest of useless people Fulani and ipob specifically.
I said it before and I'm saying it again, Tinubu can be president of Bourdillon road if likes, but he can never be president of Nigeria.
Seun I think you'll allowing igbos to use your media to propagate fake news and all manner verbal assault and hate speeches. Watch your back because the vultures will disappear when the chips is down, you will be on a own last last.
7lives: Yes north fear Igbos no wonder your elders are holding another useless meeting with Ganduje in Kano. The problem with Igbos is that they have no respect for themselves, and they expect people to respect them. The truth of the matter is that Igbos fear Hausa because Igbos values life and hausas don't. You slaughter 10 hausas, a 100 will rise to fight to death, you slaughter 100 and a thousand is ready to die and it's not as if their opponent will not sustain heavy casualties. This is why the people of the west prefer to jaw jaw than to war war, war is just a waste, it is not an option to solving any problem. After the meaningless killings, the Waring parties will still have to jaw jaw, so what is the essence of the lives lost?.
Tell them, if only they are wise enough to take note.
Gentlewarrior1: that means there is need for us to divide then
No point deceiving ourselves.
Lets divide so peace can reign
Because if we igbos have our country we won't tolerate this fulani herdsmen nonsense. And the rest of you guys complaining that igbos qre dominating you people and claiming your land. Will have full control over it. Yorubas can now enjoy Lagos Hausas can now enjoy their Kano
And any igbo man dear will be foreigner and u can decide to deport him anytime u like
Please note that Igbo deportation will be sharp sharp not like Fashola's own take note unwanted ipob vultures.
KEVIND: What Junaid Mohammed said is not different from what Sir Ahmadu Bello said about the Igbos and his Northernisation Agenda in 1964. Infact its a general fear in the North. IGBOphobia- (The fear of the Igbos)
But why Igbos hate the truth so much? Amadu bello told the truth about you guys and that is what yall do with the unwary yorubas. They tolerate and accommodate your wicked selves, they now suffer with all manners of nonsense from you people with your crimes and must be rich by hook or crook mentality. There is nothing great about Igbo thieving vultures.
why you don't say Ohanaeze should do something when the Fulani attack una recently no be paddy paddy una take settle am. You flat heads thinks Yoruba people go to senseless wars? But very soon shove will become push. Una Fulani and ember fanners Igbo the loud speakers of Nigeria go hear am no matter how una try to camouflage we will uproot una from our virile society. Only time will separate our enemies and their evil plots.
[quote author=slade31 post=80406917][/quote]While we are on this, the Yoruba nation must now begin to evolve itself and devolve from Nigeria nonsense. The famous palace security "Akoda" must now be upgraded into modern security/military outfit with full weapons training and the traditional hunters (Olode, vigilantes and manowar)should be upgraded to a full modern weaponised military outfit trained, paid well, in all aspect of intelligence and police/ military capability for protection of Yoruba land. Time for sitting on the fence is over the evil people in North and Ipob must no more be handled with kid gloves as they do not mean well for the well-meaning people of Yoruba land. my five cents.
Zikora1000: 'who may not necessarily be Fulani' what is the Oni insunating and why is he not calling a spade what it is? How I wish say na abaribe waka dis journey, he will tell the cow president to caution his fellow herdsmen oh ah!
because una IPOB MISCREANTS follow join with una criminality like drug peddling, kidnapping,....etc. So the Ooni is correct if you don't have wisedom gerrarahere.
franchasng: Fulanis must be forced to evolve like every other humans on earth.
They can't be allowed to continue living like wild animals in this modern age and time.
Their archaic and nomadic lifestyle is putting other people's lives at risk.
How can a people decide to remain the same from generation to generation without at least making efforts to become civilised and adopt safer ways of life
How can Fulani herdsmen be roaming forests and be sleeping in forests day in day out in the name of rearing cow abi cattle
So long as they continue to live that nomadic, archaic lifestyle of the 13th century, they will continue to be a threat to civilised people's lives and peace.
This is why Nigeria needs to go back to regional government system to give every region power to control their boundaries and borders, secure their region with their best practice and security outfits, and to also protect their people from intruders and invaders.
And if restructuring won't work, then Nigeria needs to peacefully divide so all interested regions seeking for freedom can go their way in peace, to ensure security and prosperity of their people.
Nigerians wake up, you cannot continue to condone these Fulani herdsmen and their open grazing madness, its no longer funny
The only thing making it look like Fulani herdsmen are dreaded is the government backup and support they are getting in Nigeria, if not tell me why strangers like Fulani herdsmen will invade a whole community and sack them without the youths and entire community rounding them up
Even American and Russian soldiers do suffer heavy casualty when they invade smaller armed units in ordinary Middle East, with all their sophisticated weapons oh.
Nigerian government is the reason this Fulani herdsmen killing menace is getting worse daily
Alo ramirami laari a ki ri abo e. This valueless Fulani people must leave Yoruba land forthwith and no Oba must be allowed to bring them back to our land again. lets empower the youth in Yoruba land to engage in cattle feedlot and ranching to fill the vacuum. Every human is disposable but only God almighty is indisposable. We rather replace this worthless people with monkeys and other wildlive at least we can eat them if there is no meat in the land. The next on this agenda is IPOD they must go and form their Biafra and leave Yoruba land alone abeg our friendliness have been taken for granted far too long. Igbos must be replaced with immigrant who believe in our kindness and love and ready to contribute and not leach on our society. Lobatan.
This is how brainless ohanaeze supposed to unit with other southern agitators to remove those parasites from the north from our midst. stronghead and lack of wisdom make them follow Nnamdi Kanu like a fly to the grave.
This is how brainless ohanaeze supposed to unit with other southern agitator to remove those parasites from the north from our midst. stronghead and lack of wisdom make them follow Nnamdi Kanu like a fly to the grave.
President of Fulani affairs is fastest when matter concerns Fulani and the north. Nigeria don't even have ministers as we speak but he's more interested in miscreants of no value called Fulani. even monkeys are more valuable than them, at least you can eat monkeys. This man Buhari qualifies for nothing. How did Nigeria get itself to this decadence? An unpatriotic pretentious president that will unwittingly divide Nigeria before his term is over. Those of the south who kept buring their head in the sand, in denial-must understand that from day one this man did not mean well for Nigeria. Nigerians must wake up. This is why God struck him with deadly sickness to avoid these problems of the future, but he was forced back on us. He will definitely not get a second chance next time.
Abdulazeez99: Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has hailed members of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and the Coalition of the Northern Groups (CNGs) for calling on Fulani herdsmen to leave the southern part of Nigeria, Igbere TV reports.
The groups had made the call at a press conference after a meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.
They said the herdsmen should return to the north where their (herdsmen) safety and that of their property could be guaranteed.
The northern elders and the youths said they were worried that some southern leaders had allegedly openly threatened war against the Fulani herdsmen.
In a tweet late Tuesday, Mr Kanu said he welcomed the call on behalf of IPOB.
“On behalf of the great IPOB family worldwide, I welcome the decision by Fulani feudal lords to recall their terror cells back to the north. Our mood & determination here in the south has changed irrevocably. Our resolve to free the oppressed must not be underestimated,” Kanu said.
The Federal Government had suspended the proposed Ruga settlement project after southern leaders rejected it.
The rejection has been further fueled by kidnappings and killings of innocent men and women by persons suspected to be herdsmen.
They know the fulanis want to ignite the war they can never win and will help annihilate them from the surface of the earth. Good riddance to bad rubbish. bunch of unfruitful nuisance.
YorubaHero12: I am a Muslim from the south. Some of these Northern Muslim are everything wrong with society, fanatics, brutal, deadly, radicals and everything a religion shouldn’t be. Both shite and Sunni included.
I have learnt some things in life, which is that religion is a function of the culture or let’s say ethnicity. If normally a ethnic group shows a kind of wicked barbaric way, it will affect the religion and make it toxic.
Only North, Boko haram, Fulani herdsmen, Almajiris, intolerance for fellow human being coz of religious affiliation, dominating yet with no visible achievements.
What amazes me is that they have the sultan, Emir and elder statesmen that can intercede with the government or talk to their people but they always like to remain silent and see situation deteriorates. Or what explain why the Sultan is quiet with all the herdsmen palaver and this shite constant protest if not that they condone all this.
You northerners just keep making me wonder whether we serve the same God or yours is different from the south.
No matter how MURIC tries to defend the Muslim faith, they still most times use analogy and does not threaten to kill or show a radical way of reasoning likewise CAN also most times accuse the government With logical argument devoid of threatening to kill or destroy government properties.
Now I’m starting to think maybe we should just leave this union with the North.
......it is just inevitable reality that will fester if not handled with care now is the time to engage peacefully and arrive at a common grounds in a war situation no one is any better. My 2 cents.
seunmsg: The Catholic bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has warned against blanket demonisation of herdsmen, especially of the Fulani stock, warning that such actions could be preamble to a breakout of violent confrontation against the Fulani.
The bishop said hate speech often precede any genocide experienced in history.
Mr Kukah spoke Tuesday at a colloquium on fake news and hate speech organised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Centre for African Studies, an arm of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
He said Nigerians “have to be very careful” before the situation degenerates beyond control.
He likened the uproar and profiling of the Fulani to what happened to the Igbo leading up to the Nigerian civil war between 1967 and 1970.
“If it is Fulani today, yesterday it was the Igbos,” he said.
Reacting to the recent controversy on the use of picture of a herdsman on the Nigerian passport booklet, Mr Kukah said he was almost swayed by the fake news, before he got a copy of the passport himself.
The cleric displayed his passport to illustrate the content and debunk the insinuations that it carried only a picture of a herdsman.
“When I look at my passport, it has the coat of arm and map of Nigeria. Then right in front of the data page where all my information is, I have the Bini. I am not a Bini man, but I am eminently proud of this. I didn’t even know it was here, because I had to go through the passport page by page.
“When I opened the passport the first thing I saw was Zuma Rock, then I see Tiv dancers. Who gave them permission to put Tiv dancers? Then I got to next page, before I came to this poor Fulani man who is standing with his cows.
Suddenly, this is the only thing we have chosen.
“Why is it exciting? It is exciting because this is the time for us to ‘hate’, literally tag every Fulani as a herdsman. We are on a very dangerous precipice,” he said.
Mr Kukah said it was time for those in the position of leadership to tame the situation.
“Those who lead us should better stand up and tell us where we are going,” he said.
The Catholic priest also urged Nigerians to be each other’s keeper and avoid ethno-religious profiling in dealing with each other.
To further tame the spread of hate, Mr Kukah called on media to sieve through in choosing who to give audience to avoid persons who propagate hate and mischief.
In his opening remarks, NOUN’s vice chancellor, Abdalla Adamu, said liberalisation of the media space by technology provided opportunity for easy spread of fake news and hate speech.
He lamented increase in hate speech in the polity which, he said, will not augur well for the society.
“What we see are labels over crimes. The moment you start talking about labels, you are breeding hate speech,” Mr Adamu said.
In her contribution, former journalist and politician, Chris Anyanwu, also bemoaned “too much of this hate and bile stuff” warning that it could consume the country if not properly tackled.
“We have to be careful not to use our own hands to set our own house on fire and someone will sit there in Russia laughing,” she said.
Ms Anyanwu, a former senator, said the media has a big role to play in reversing the trend, but lamented poor quality of journalism currently in the country.
She said the rise of “brown envelope” in journalism has bred poor attitude to work thus some reporters rely on press releases churned out by newsmakers.
Whatever happened thereafter is the harvest of Fulanis handy work that they are reaping. The person to be held responsible will definitely be Buhari for is actions and inactions. I think all mechanisms has to be in place hence forth to teach this dullard a lesson or two which he failed to learn while he was at school and at the military while getting promoted by quota system for his incompetence and ineptitude.
Eteka1: How do you feel when your comment on every story exhibits hate? I really fear for Nigeria, with the kind of youth we currently have.
...future is really bleak when all schools in Naija can only boast of cultism not the best performing students of the time past. What do you expect? drug addiction, yahoo yahoo, crime, youths with low IQ, rudderlessness, lack of focus and lack of patriotism. Oh what a mess and what a futureless country we are all in?
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