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Health / Re: Stubborn Staphylococcus And Gonorrhea by nsiba: 12:30pm On Mar 09 |
greggng: Very logical my neighbor married his wife for years not knowing she is HIV, after 3 years he got to know they are still married and he is still clean same with their 3kids It is easier for a man to spread HIV than a woman, as long as their is no open wound on the man for her fluid mix with it |
Politics / Re: 24 States Can’t Pay Salaries Without FG Allocation by nsiba: 8:37am On Mar 07 |
SoNature: Only the Bayelsan and fellow oil producing states have the right to question their government Nigeria as a country depends on the SS for survival 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: 24 States Can’t Pay Salaries Without FG Allocation by nsiba: 8:34am On Mar 07 |
Islie: The SS states is Feeding the entire country so they can do as they please 1 Like |
Politics / Re: I Am Not Responsible For Nigeria’s Economic Woes - Olayemi Cardoso by nsiba: 6:45am On Feb 28 |
Ogiame: I neva sea am carry big big Bible yet or shey u don see am? We are only seeing BULABUL econometrics yet let's see the rest of them as we go |
Business / Re: CBN Lists The Number Of BDCs In States In Nigeria (Full List) by nsiba: 6:30am On Feb 28 |
spiSeyi: Which king and their land is poverty stricken inside out In a normal country like Kenya South Africa Ghana you think say selling currencies na work? Ogbeni de close ya mouth no be because of hate you go de lie untop Okoro boys, even your president through the vice president talk am at the Geometric power launch No de talk nonsense because of hate always make use of your God given brain effectively and not like those Agberos |
Politics / Re: I Am Not Responsible For Nigeria’s Economic Woes - Olayemi Cardoso by nsiba: 6:18am On Feb 28 |
Ogiame: Emiefele is a special demon released from hell fire to come and suck d blood of Nigerians |
Politics / Re: NLC Protests: Why Nigeria's Economy Is In Such A Mess - BBC News by nsiba: 4:27pm On Feb 27 |
Chucks13:. Sharap ya mouth Insulting Buhari and APC for 8 years is more than any work or business What do you say BULABUL is doing |
Politics / Re: NLC Protests: Why Nigeria's Economy Is In Such A Mess - BBC News by nsiba: 4:22pm On Feb 27 |
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Politics / Re: Lagos: Police Seal NLC Office ahead of planned nationwide protest - SR by nsiba: 11:42am On Feb 26 |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 11:40am On Feb 26 |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Terrorists Kill 15 People In Burkina Faso Church by nsiba: 8:35am On Feb 26 |
judatech: What concerns innocent Christians in their land of origin and the trouble of Gaddafi/West palaver If all religion wants to behave like terrorists who will stand |
Investment / Re: Crypto Currency Investors Thread by nsiba: 8:16am On Feb 26 |
twosquare: Why should anyone be browsing under such conditions |
Politics / Re: "Nigeria Has Failed, Must Be Reformed" - Professor-Ango-Abdullahi by nsiba: 6:50pm On Feb 25 |
Racoon: Throughout Buharis eight miserable years u did not see this |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 6:39pm On Feb 25 |
Lawag3: I never knew any human can be this shameless and abominable |
Phones / Re: Top 10 States With The Highest Number Of Internet Users In Nigeria by nsiba: 4:34pm On Feb 25 |
johnjose68: Population wey poverty carry over 90%, you want to tell me that MTN and Co makes more money in dead Kastina than Edo state? Both you and NBS are on high local cheap weed |
Phones / Re: Top 10 States With The Highest Number Of Internet Users In Nigeria by nsiba: 4:30pm On Feb 25 |
FreeStuffsNG: Nigeria Bureau of statistics so you me expect to believe that MTN GLO AIRTEL and 9mobile are making more money in Adamawa Kastina kaduna than AIBOM IMO EDO CrossRiver Very nonsensical data |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 4:21pm On Feb 25 |
Lawag3: You are extremely shameless, so where did I quoting you from |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 10:36am On Feb 25 |
Lawag3:. Just imagine |
Politics / Re: Economic Crisis: Obasanjo Urges Devolution Of Power, Resources To States by nsiba: 8:54am On Feb 25 |
ogododo: When Obansanjo was President he refused it and Tinubu was the arrowhead of power devolution then, now Tinubu is President let us see what he will do |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 8:48am On Feb 25 |
Lawag3: That is why I ask you which night school you graduated from? Even the Jehovah's witness Awake magazine is more acceptable for references you de here shamelessly de defend Wikipedia that any rat can edit and unedit Again, which village night school did you attend? |
Investment / Re: USDT Is Not The Same As US Dollar by nsiba: 6:17am On Feb 25 |
NigerianEagle: Good writing but I don't see how this is putting pressure on the naira instead it only proves that the naira fall is simply base on useless speculations both on the digital world and real sectors People are just manipulating figures for the naira with nothing to prove why, the necessary authorities should simply go after the economic saboteurs 1 Like |
Politics / Re: NLC’s Planned Protest, Contempt Of Court -AGF by nsiba: 5:46am On Feb 25 |
Jagabanbattle: Coward, you ya father and the Tinubu u support are chicken your moniker is of what is it You see battle u don die before the action, thunder strike you |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Brazil Ends Diplomatic Relations With Israel by nsiba: 5:37am On Feb 25 |
Lawag3: How dare you quote Wikipedia on this forum, which night class did you attend and in what village? |
Religion / Re: Video Of A Lady Flirting With Evangelist Ebuka Obi During Deliverance by nsiba: 9:02am On Jan 13 |
Scammers, the fake prophet is just another TB Joshua 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Celebrities / Re: Mohbad: DNA Test For My Grandson Is Non-Negotiable – Joseph Aloba by nsiba: 6:20am On Oct 19, 2023 |
Sheistoopretty: Guilty as charged 1 Like 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Ebonyi's 30,000 Capacity International Stadium Nears Completion by nsiba: 5:14am On Oct 19, 2023 |
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Business / Re: Weaker Naira Drives Up Foreign Demand For Local Products by nsiba: 4:56am On Oct 19, 2023 |
What a junk write up, somebody is exporting to Mali and he thinks he is helping the economy? We export fresh raw materials and we think we are doing great worse of all we are now down to CFA countries market zones Agbado president Agbado mentality 4 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Chad: Daoud Brahim, Choua Mahamat Resign After Sex Tapes Leaked by nsiba: 10:09pm On Oct 18, 2023 |
Conservative what? Because you see people wearing hijabs and men forming holiness you don't know say na dem knack pass shege 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russian Deaths In Ukraine Surpass All Its War Fatalities Since WWII Combined by nsiba: 10:03pm On Oct 18, 2023 |
DerrickzB: Where is the boy? |
Politics / Re: Military Officers Raise Alarm Over Corruption, Ethnic And Religious Bigots by nsiba: 1:04pm On May 15, 2023 |
LeoDeKing: So the fact that some remain in Abuja without going to war is not of concern to you 1 Like |
Politics / The Tension Between Hausa And Fulani by nsiba: 10:39am On May 08, 2023 |
The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced. Northern intellectuals resented the label at first. For example, the late Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, the famously iconoclastic professor of history at the Ahmadu Bello University who was ethnically Fulani and who was the scion of the Katsina and Kano royal families, condemned the hyphenation of Hausa and Fulani as both ill-willed and ignorant. But several Northern Nigerian elites of Hausa and Fulani filiation have now enthusiastically embraced it. President Muhammadu Buhari, for instance, told the Weekly Trust in 1999 that he loved the hyphenated Hausa-Fulani identity that the southern press invented because it encapsulates the complexity of his own identity. His father is Fulani while his mother is half Kanuri and half Hausa. More than that, though, Buhari is culturally and linguistically Hausa. Like most people in Nigeria’s northwest who trace patrilineal bloodline to the Fulani (including most of the emirs), he doesn’t speak a lick of Fulfulde (as the language of the Fulani is called in Nigeria) and is completely divorced from the culture of the “unmingled” Fulani who now live mostly in Nigeria’s northeast and in the bushes elsewhere in the country. Over the years, the northern political elite not only used the common Islamic heritage of the Hausa and the Fulani people as an instrument to construct and cement the notion of an undivided and indivisible Hausa-Fulani identity, they also encouraged other parts of the country to see them as one, undifferentiated people. In time, the rest of the country came to regard the Hausa and the Fulani as indistinguishable. A popular quip among the Yoruba says, “Gambari pa Fulani ko lejo ninu,” which roughly translates as “If a Hausa person kills a Fulani person, there is no case,” implying that the Hausa and the Fulani are homogenous people whose internal strife are no more than evanescent, resolvable sibling squabble. But the emergence and unabating intensification of kidnapping for ransom and other forms of rural and urban banditry in the Northwest where most of the villains are Fulani and most of the victims are Hausa are rupturing the centuries-old ethnic harmony between the Hausa and the Fulani that Nigerians had taken for granted. In response to the rural and urban banditry by mostly Fulani brigands against Hausa people, Hausa people have formed vigilante groups called yan sakai or yan banga for self-defense, but Fulani people say the yan banga self-defense groups often indiscriminately murder innocent Fulani people who are not even remotely connected with abductions and murders. This has provoked an endless cycle of recriminations and retaliatory violence between Hausa and Fulani people and is threatening the age-old, Islam-inspired ethnic fusion between them. This has been going on for years under the radar of the national and international media until BBC’s BBC Africa Eye brought it to the forefront of global attention in its Jul 24, 2022, documentary titled “The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara.” The documentary showed that although the Hausa and the Fulani share a common culture, religion, heritage, and language, they are, for the most part, divided and rarely mix in rural areas. They fight over land, water, and food. Self-confessed Fulani bandits told the BBC that Hausa people enjoy preferential treatments in government jobs, that Fulani people face discrimination in the formal sector in northern Nigeria, and that kidnapping, banditry, and indiscriminate mass murders were the only way they could call attention to their neglect. Following the documentary, which so unsettled the Nigerian government that local TV stations that rebroadcast it were fined, there has been an open discussion, particularly in Arewa social media circles, of hitherto culturally taboo subjects such as whether Usman Dan Fodio whose jihad inaugurated the current Fulani ruling families in much of Muslim northern Nigeria was a Hausa-hating Fulani ethnic supremacist. Islam had been centuries old and already deeply entrenched in Hausa land before Usman Dan Fodio’s nineteenth-century jihad, which many historians have called a “Fulani war.” The well-regarded seventeenth-century Songhai Muslim scholar by the name of Ahmad Baba, for instance, had recognized Hausa land as a bastion of Islam. In a 1613 essay titled, “Al-kashf wa-l-bayān li-aṣnāfmajlūb al-Sūdān” (translated into English as “The Exposition and Explanation Concerning the Varieties of Transported Black Africans”), he wrote that “the people of Kano, some of Zakzak [Zaria], the people of Katsina, the people of Gobir, and all of the Songhay” lived under ideal Islamic rule and could never be enslaved by other Muslims. About 200 years later, when Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. In his 1806 treatise titled "Bayan Wujub Al-Hijra, Ala L-Ibad,” Dan Fodio rebutted Ahmad Baba’s thesis by asserting that what was true of Hausa land when Ahmad Baba wrote, “might not necessarily be true at all other times, since every scholar relates what he sees in his own days.” Dan Fodio’s son, Muhammad Bello, also wrote Infaq al-mansur in 1813, exactly 200 years after Ahmad Baba, and contested the notion that Hausa land was ruled by Islamic precepts. Now, in everyday dialogic engagements on social media, in the marketplace, and in the streets, Hausa and Fulani people are openly talking about the jihad and its decidedly ethnic character. Hausa people are asking why all the emirs that emerged from the jihad, except for that of Bauchi, were Fulani. (Emirs in Borgu in Kwara and Niger states are not the product of the jihad and are not Fulani.) These questions are especially important because the Fulani emirs who dislodged Hausa Muslim rulers have been doing exactly what the Hausa Muslim rulers were accused of by Fulani jihadists—keeping multiple wives and concubines, oppressing everyday folks called the talakawa, believing and partaking in fortunetelling, etc. Besides, in Islam, leadership isn’t hereditary, so Hausa people are asking why a supposedly Islamic jihad has entrenched Fulani ethnic monarchies to the exclusion of the native Hausa populations. These debates aren’t new, of course. For example, in a June 30, 2000, article titled “The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics” published in the Weekly Trust, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (who later became the emir of Kano on June 8, 2014, and was dethroned on March 9, 2020) caused a stir among not just other Nigerians but also among Hausa people when he said although the Fulani in northern Nigeria have lost their language and culture to the Hausa, they still cherish the irreproducible cultural and genetic distinctiveness that their ethnic identity imbues them with. He isolated Nigerian leaders of putative Fulani line of descent—Ahmadu Bello, Shehu Shagari, Murtala Mohammed, and Muhammadu Buhari—whom he said even their “greatest enemies” respect because they supposedly embodied incomparable and uniquely Fulani values (even when they are/were not culturally Fulani). He pointed out that the same could not be said of “other prominent non-Fulani contemporaries of these great men,” including military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida, who is Hausa, and Sani Abacha, who was Kanuri but born and raised in Kano. Sanusi then said the Fulani are “culturally programmed, generation after generation, to imbibe the best spirits of what makes good leadership, to a far greater extent than competing cultures.” Garba Shehu, now a spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is ethnically Hausa from Jigawa, was incensed. In a response titled “Sanusi’s Racist Rubbish” on July 7, 2000, Shehu wrote: “When I read Sanusi L. Sanusi’s article ‘The Fulani Factor in Nigerian Politics’…I came away with the feeling that the writer wanted to do one of two things: to either be ridiculous or to insult all of us who are not Fulani with some racist crap.” Shehu invalidated Sanusi’s ethnic supremacist notion of a Fulani culture that makes Fulani people such good, just leaders by calling attention to the atrocities that were perpetuated against Hausa people by Fulani emirs—or what he called the “well-documented acts of brigandage” by the “Fulani oligarchy”— which instigated the emergence of the Northern Elements Progressives Union (NEPU). “Where was he when the late Sa’adu Zungur, Aminu Kano, and company fought Fulani rulers who forced Hausa peasants to work the emirs’ farms, snatched wives, plundered what was kept in their trust, and appropriated/mismanaged farmlands and other resources belonging to their subjects?” Shehu wrote. These sorts of emotive brickbats between everyday Hausa and Fulani people are escalating and becoming mainstream in the aftermath of the bloodstained conflict between Hausa farmers and Fulani herders. In fact, there are now calls, from both Hausa and Fulani interlocutors, for the reformation of the emirate system to strip emirship of its exclusivity to people of Fulani ancestry. I think these are transitory, spur-of-the-moment tensile pushes and pulls that may soon abate, but it’s astonishing that it’s even happening. **farooq kperogi ** |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by nsiba: 12:00am On May 08, 2023 |
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