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sincerenigerian: Thanks brother!

Payless?

Anyway, sorry about your wife's condition. I can imagine what you are going through - emotionally and indeed financially. God is your strength.

Get well soon brother and friend, Pa Eziachi

We have missed your incisive inputs on thorny issues for a while. Don't let us miss too much, do get well soon.

If one man's exercise of his constitutional right leads to the disintegration of the a country, them such country was never meant to be.

A good reason to VOTE GEJ in 2015!

I think this inane, rascally and cowardly behavior of Lagos State got to stop. For goodness sake, if those people broke the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria they should be tried by a competent court and punished in accordance to the law. It is very idiotic to even begin to assume you can successful deport people in their own country.

The Anambra State Government should also stop being complicit in the illegality, they should promptly transport back those individual back to Lagos (if they so desired). Lagos, nay Nigeria, belongs to all Nigerians.

Like Onlytruth aptly noted in his first comment, if Lagos is tired of being part of Nigeria, they should do the needful. The Federal Government indeed needs to step in to stop this rascally and cowardly behavior.

And IGBOS (and non-indigenes) should not vote ACN/APC in Lagos in 2015, this sort of bad behavior and tribalism should never be rewarded.

I dey laugh oo.

But anyway, even though they are both killers, I prefer this man to Buhari.

legendsilver: Waiting for madam Dame Jonathan's reply.

Ironically, PEJ has shown more class than ISoyinka since this saga begun.

Let's look at it this way. How many times have Patience Ebele Jonathan - the victim of these unprovoked attacks- responded to Wole Soyinka ungentlemanly, immature, chauvinistic derision? Just once - in a mild press release to express her displeasure at Wole Soyinka's diatribe.

Subsequently, Wole Soyinka has called her 'illiterate', 'mammy wata, hippopotami.' and now 'shepopotamus'? Looks to me like the almighty WS is raring for a fight with a 'mere domestic appendage.' Incidentally, PEJ has borne all these vitriolic attacks calmly without uttering another word to Soyinka.

Women (forgive me if I sound a bit like Soyinka's but I mean no disrespect) are known to be more chatty/loquacious in comparison to men. Now the question I begin to ask myself is this: between Soyinka and PEJ who is more mature? Who really is the man here? The angry and loquacious Soyinka or the patient Patience? But with men like like Wole Soyinka, I bet indeed some mothers do have 'em!

I hope Patience continues to keep a dignified silence, in the face of this continued provocation. Shame that Soyinka's stock is falling - with every myopic outburst of his!

My brother Rochas, we hear you. You have spoken well, like a true Igboman. But kindly remind us again, when you or Ngige grab the APC Presidential Flag bearer ticket! Until then, this is just nothing tongue in the cheek.

Perhaps this explains why Soyinka has been married and divorced thrice - he abused his wives, in every way!

What's it with Soyinka and name calling? Couldn't he fathom another way to address issues without mudslinging? This old man has become a child. Such a shame!

kettykin: Nigerians should care quite alright but judging from the antecedents of the TIV who would want to risk his head saving them again knowing fully well that they will turn around and join the same Hausa Fulani to fight those people when it suits them.

The TIV should use their tongue to count their teeth , a few checks some few years back would reveal when the rain started beating them. Every one remembers with surprise how some people boasted of spilling the last drop of their blood to keep Nigeria United can the same people spare some drops of blood or sweat to defend their home stead ?

It is unfortunate what happened in the past. In any case, my argument for caring does not necessarily imply any 'physical' intervention, however speaking out against the threat of the Fulani herdsmen pose is important even for us east of the Niger. Someone once said say when our neighbor's house is on fire, we don't haggle over the price of hose. Point really is that we need to watch halt the advances of the marauding herdsmen before they cross the river.

I think Nigerians should care. The menace of these herdsmen is getting out of hand. They and Boko haram collectively constitute the biggest security challenge in the North, nay, Nigeria.

More attention should be paid to their activities by the security agencies.

‘They want to wipe off our tribe’
Thursday, 18 July 2013 00:00 From Joseph Wantu, Makurdi News - Metro

• Tiv monarch laments the killing, maiming and razing of communities by Fulani marauders

THE story of Fulani clash and incursion on sedentary farming communities in Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau as well as Taraba states among others in Nigeria, has in no small measure assumed a dangerous level that calls for, not only urgent, but total action by all and sundry.

It is no gain saying that the attendant consequences of these violent clashes are better imagined than described in communities where they occur.

Records have it that in Benue state alone, over 50 communities in the past three years have been under siege of the Fulani nomads as they throng into the communities, ransack, maim, set properties worth millions of naira ablaze and kill unquantifiable number of lives. Women, children and aged persons are worst hit by these rascally actions.

Similarly, 40 of the Tiv communities resident in Nasarawa state are also being visited with the same holocaust of maiming, killing and destruction of farms.

It was at the heat of this crisis that the government of Benue and Nasarawa States on June 24, 2011, constituted a joint communal clashes committee to look into and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crisis with the aim of proffering lasting solutions. But as the situation portends now, it no longer warrants the release of any white paper of the said committee as it has been overtaken by events.

Explaining the situation to The Guardian, a royal father, Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse expressed worry that the phenomenon has sent thousands of Tiv people to their early graves both in Benue and Nasarawa states and their ancestral homes occupied by the Alagos, Fulanis or their associates.

Chief Abomtse said: “By the foregoing analysis, it no longer gives a picture of mere Fulani herdsmen – sedentary farmers clash, but a case of consummate hatred of a particular tribe by others in order to wipe off the unwanted tribe called Tiv both in Nasarawa and to some extent deep inside the Benue Tiv community at the borders.”

The royal father called on the Federal government, through the National Assembly, to enacts national policies to curb incessant Fulani menace now that the nation is undergoing the constitution review.

While stressing that Nigeria needs to settle once and for all, the settler-indigene dichotomy so as to give Nigerian citizens the right to live anywhere in the country; the royal father also posited that all forms and politically incorrect discriminations should be sanctioned to promote inter-ethnic interactions, maintaining, too, that the Nigerian Constitution should be amended to protect the land tenure system from abuse where peasants are often dispossessed by the rich and powerful.

He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to evolve policies and programs that will dramatically reduce poverty and increase agricultural production which remains the mainstay of the majority rural dwellers; aside using the ECOWAS protocols to convene a special conference on the ways to help settle the Fulani in their states in West Africa.

He also blamed the heinous attitude being perpetrated on the people on the visiting or nomadic Fulanis, noting that before now, the Tiv and the resident Fulani relationship used to be cordial, as the two tribes had even intermarried.

Abomtse further called for massive sensitization of the visiting Fulanis to make them know the difference between pasture grasses and farm crops; urging that the visiting Fulanis should always be made to live under the authority of their host communities and under the supervision of local government authorities as well as the law enforcement agents with all the rules of engagement.

The monarch equally advised the Fulanis in Benue and Nasarawa States to re-establish their own conflict resolving rituals to foster peace from antiquity so that peace shall reign and the sinister agenda of occupation be abandoned for ever, just as he condemned the calls by some people for barricading grazing areas for the cross border Fulanis saying it will compound more of Fulani aggressions on the people.

Recently, the governments of Nasarawa and Benue States, at a joint meeting in Lafia, vowed to intensify security through increased logistics to operatives to bring down the menace.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/news-metro/127463-they-want-to-wipe-off-our-tribe-

torkaka: not my wife nor my mum but the character who refuses to recognise the significance of the office placed on her husband preferring to go about acting without decorum!! they say when in Rome act like the Romans alas ours is a hippo who refuses to act like the Romans while in Rome but instead goes about displaying her barbaric heritage!!

like someone once said, "there's no making up this pig to pass as a cutie puppy"

All the same, sane people take exception to the professor calling people names, because it doesn't solve any problem. Sane people!

dbl post

Great article!

I hope the mad professor quickly checks into a mental home before it is too late to redeem himself. He indeed reeks of 'faeces' for now!

How many kilo/mega watts is generated? Or should we just starting dancing azonto because Lagos State was mentioned in the same line as electricity generation?

How many megawatts?

torkaka: with your needle size brain you couldn't comprehend what Soyinka said and so you decide to reduce it to an issue between the prof and the hippo.

in black and white what Soyinka is saying is simple; "cage the unelected grammatical bomber and bar her from interfering with elected authorities" I don't remember Nigerians voting for an occupant to the office of the first lady!!

Cage the hippo or mammy wata, the exotic produce from the 'delta swamp'? Who was referred to as hippo? Your wife or mum?

debetmx: I find it ironic that the people he stood up for, are people trying to disparage his person and calling him unprintable names.

He stood up for what he believed in. Now that doesn't make him infallible.

When you go about insulting people and calling them names; you are not solving any problem, you are fomenting crisis, and should accept responsibility for your action. That is what is happening to WS now. Let him deal with it by measuring his utterances like a statesman.

Ile-Ife:
The Prof's words were clear and direct. A mere domestic appendage of POWER should not be going around the country holding state capitals hostage. No one is twisting and turning anything.

And you expect him to respond to a twitter rant of an ex dictator's daughter who is probably a domestic appendage to some paedophile, literally. Seriously?.........apart from NLs who gives a damn about what she says.

@bolded,
Now judging from his antecedent, how will that be beneath the one who bashes women? Is trolling beneath a troll?

Prof Corruption: There's no fair description of what's bad. Patience-be it mother, wife, sister, whatever-is behaving fatuously and merited all the adjectives that had been used to describe her from loud, silly, and perhaps thoughtless .

We are basically saying the same thing. Squabbling publicly with a woman (whom he clearly called 'mere') and other name calling makes him god-like. It's all good. Let's hail him!

And he (Soyinka) deployed his depth of wisdom; the acme of his professorial and literary sagacity to inform those from the 'Delta swamp' that apart from oil, the other things they are good at producing are mammy watas, manatees, hippopotami, and mermaids. I am very sure the people of 'Delta Swamps' will rejoice exceedingly at this well crafted, apt characterization of themselves by the infallible and erudite Prof. Either that or this sagacious professor called a woman - someone's mother, a wife, a sister - hippopotami. Either way, since he is a Nobel Laureate, I must harken to say, his is right, just and honorable! He is utterly flawless, and wiser than Solomon!

Please join me in hailing Saint Soyinka, the man who does not even honour God!!

Na wa o. Fashola, but why?

Me thinks that Fashola went in with emotions or coercion, now logic is prevailing. He can see clearly now the rain is gone!

I didn't know the erudite prof, and Nobel Laureate in English Literature needs an interpreter to help him communicate in English. One of the basic tenets of public speaking is to know the audience, and communicate to them at their level. If Soyinka doesn't understand this simple trick then in which way is he better than Patrick obahiagbon whose people deemed not fit enough to represent them at that national assembly because of his unreasonable verbosity?

In anycase, let the twist and turns continue, intelligent Nigerians have heard enough of his rant to know that the Prof stoop low from his usually high pedestal to engage in mudslinging, not with the Presidency, but with the President wife's and the dwellers of the 'Delta swamp' . That is the perception that will last a very long time.

Now let's stand arms akimbo and hear which rants he chooses to address the shot from Abacha's daughter. Should be fun!
Soyinka is now the latest clown in the market square!

This is a good one.

But I like to see it materialize before we start giving the kudos.

“Now, the best practice is that within a period of five to eight years, you redesign the currency, because after that period, counterfeiters tend to catch up.”

Hmmm, so how many times in the past 20 years has the Euro, Dollar, Pound Sterling been redesigned?

Soyinka has deployed his depth of wisdom; the acme of his professorial and literary sagacity to inform those from the 'Delta swamp' that apart from oil, the other things they are good at producing are mammy watas, manatees, hippopotami, and mermaids. I am very sure the people of 'Delta Swamps' will rejoice exceedingly at this well crafted, apt characterization of themselves by the infallible and erudite Prof. Either that or this sagacious professor just called a woman - someone's mother, a wife, a sister - hippopotami. Either way, since he is a Nobel Laureate, I must harken to say, his is right, just and honorable! He is utterly flawless, and wiser than Solomon!

Please join me in hailing Saint Soyinka!!

Soyinka has deployed his depth of wisdom; the acme of his professorial and literary sagacity to inform those from the 'Delta swamp' that apart from oil, the other things they are good at producing are mammy watas, manatees, hippopotami, and mermaids. I am very sure the people of 'Delta Swamps' will rejoice exceedingly at this well crafted, apt characterization of themselves by the infallible and erudite Prof. Either that or this sagacious professor just called a woman - someone's mother, a wife, a sister - hippopotami. Either way, since he is a Nobel Laureate, I must harken to say, his is right, just and honorable! He is utterly flawless, and wiser than Solomon!

Please join me in hailing Saint Soyinka!!

LFJ: You were brought-in in 2011 to support other members of internet warriors. When Nigerians chase your yoga out of Aso Rock you will go back home. 2015 is very close when this fresh air will end.

Let me guess, by you?

The kind on infantile inanities that grace this board these days.