ArodeTsolaye:


If the fulanis calls Tiv land an Emirate, they won't be wrong. The Tivs have always served them in killing, murdering children and fighting people who want to be on their own. Why should their own land be free?
Let us call a spade a spade.

Let's be a bit logical here. The then middlebelt knew what they would be up against had they not joined other tribes to fight against secessionist country, Biafra.

If the northern minorities are left just with Hausa/Fulanis in our country, the latter would wipe them out and take over their lands in the twinkling of the eye. So they needed major tribes like the Igbos and Yorubas to help curtail the excesses and instill fear in Hausa/Fulani people

PointZerom:


Omenkalives and liondeleo won't see this to use as their signature, while the former ran to SE upon herdsmen invasion of his father land, the later claimed to be hiding in New Delhi....SHAME.

Hmmm. Mr nl billionaire, is this where you came to hide? I am damn too busy right now, but trust me, I will create time and get back to you.

arrestdarrester:
Their true colour is coming out.

This thing is not about cows. It has never been about cows. It has always been about Mono-Ethnoreligious Domination of Nigeria.

That 'professor' should justify why the Binis in Edo State should not lay claim to Eko in Lagos and Benin Republic.

It has come out. So it's not about herdsmen or boko insurgency. I almost got personal with a colleague who was anti one-Nigeria few days back. He read this episode and showed it to me this morning, I wasted no time in tendering my apologies. Based on what this highly educated professor has just unveiled, a lot of apologies should be flying around by now. We really need to scrap and renegotiate this big business called Nigeria.

LionDeLeo:

Is that why with all your multimillion naira warehouses scattered all over coker, you cannot afford to take a challenge of paltry 50k to at least save face?

e billionaires on nairaland.

On the post below, he called a member with proven track record on the forum an e billionaire, yet him without anything to show us which billionaire he is, is bragging of a multimillion naira warehouse in coker, what the fvck?

Cc Nusaf

Allow the nl billionaire, I will come for him shortly.

hamilton62:

The middle belt should enjoy the bed full of thorns they prepared for themselves from 1967-1970... Nature is natural and not artificial..

Everything in Nigeria does not revolve around the years 1967-70. Those were undoubtedly 3 significant years in our history but our whole existence is not tied down there.

Lugard made a big mistake joining the different regions of this country together...

We were doing just fine before he came..

Isahalbash:
How did this man become a prof?

I think most of d fulanis are in support of d herdsmen cos they hardly condemn their activities even if they are the ones at fault.



When everyone continues supporting their tribemen/women when they do wrong, then am sorry to say- these crises will continue to occur until we get tired of killing ourselves.

bearing a prof title doesn't mean he is educated, don't get it twisted. Most of this idiots are mainly professors of arabic studies or islamic doctrine dazall. No regular education to counter the stupidity in their dull brains.

Prof. Umar Labdo



PERSONAL DATA

Surname: Labdo

Other names: Umar Muhammad

Date of birth: 12th April 1960

Place of Birth: Kano

Local Govt: Gwale Local Govt.

State of Origin: Kano State

Nationality: Nigerian


EDUCATION

1963-1973 Qur`anic School, Kano

1973-1977 Ma`ahad Sheikh Nasir Islamiyah Primary School, Kano

1977-1981 School for Arabic Studies (S.A.S), Kano

1982-1987 Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (Formerly University of Sokoto) B.A. Islamic Studies and Arabic.

1990-1993 Bayero University, Kano: M.A. Islamic Studies, specialisation in Islamic Political Though.
Title of Dissertation: Al-Aqqadwa Musahamatuh fi al-Fikr al-Islami (in Arabic).

1994-1998 Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto: Ph.D. Islamic Studies, specialisation in Islamic Political Though.
Title of Thesis: Diplomacy and War in the Sokoto Caliphate.

Soon All North Central will be part of Sokoto Caliphate....

This nah big affront to the Tivs and Idomas.

So much falsehood flying around here.

Its just so sad to see that a lot of people here don't even know about the history of this country.And they even believe the hoax that tiv's were conquered by the fulani's.
If that happened would there have been anything like "christian majority" in the south?
Had the tiv's not fought and resisted usman danfodio,the entire Nigeria would probably be Islamic at this time.
People should stop spreading lies and falsehood.
Let it be noted that at no point in their history have the tiv's been subordinates of the fulanis.It is deceptive,misleading and totally a hoax.

Im speechless.

raphafire:
[s] Shut up and stop rejoicing over nothing..... Rubbish.[/s]

Slave, go and superglue tongue in the anus your fula lords. Efi bororo.

Macelliot:
Fool.

Yorubas, wake up. This is Eye opening to expecially the Yoruba people. don't repeat the mistakes of your fore-fathers.
I am not exhibiting any form of tribalism, but the asslicking and slavish nature of "SOME" Yorubas are one of the reasons we are in this tough situation. I mentioned the Yorubas because they are a MAJOR ethnic group. Benue state is already a conquered region.
In the future, if I tell my grandchildren that I was opportuned to choose between being part of a Biafra Republic or living under the Fulani caliphate? (Note: I not an IPOB, neither do I support the separatist)
Guess what, my grandchildren would smile knowing that I Chose the right decision.

I wonder what the educated youths from Benue are doing?
I am not tribalistic, but sometimes Truth are bitter "The worst thing that ever happened to the people of Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau, Adamawa is the Nigerian geographical entity called NORTH

when yorubas fought against the abacus regime for MKO Abiola - they were ass-licking abi ? When they joined hands to fight for Jonathan and then voted massively for him - they were ass-licking abi ?

See the mess we voted for in 2015...
Kudos to Fayose,
Tinubu and
other Yoruba leaders
but yet Yoruba, ronu oooooooooooooooooo
Alimi/Afonja saga
still fresh in my memory
Adekunle fajuyi,
Fabunmi okemesi,
Ogedengbe Ijesha,
and other legends
work still saving us

Warship:


Voting for Buhari the grand patron of Boko Haram & Fulani herdsmen terrorists.

But don't forget your elders has zoned their presidential candidate to Atiku another Fulani man and bokoharram.

First and foremost, Buhari has nothing to do with bokoharram and he's not a religious bigot like Igbo's. if you don't know. Also before he became president, he promised to defeat the deadly sects known as "Bokoharram " when he gets to power as a result he won the support of USA president Barrack Obama and he has reduced the terrorist attack to their bearest minimum unlike the embecile Jonathan.

The Yorubas tested Jonathan twice and he failed then why should we continue to toll d path of doom.

Conclusively, pls educate your people on how to vote for a credible and formidable leaders and put sentiment, hatred, bigots, tribalism etc aside for the betterment of this country.

If this is what being a prof turns a grown man to become, then I beg to remain illitrate.

This man is an insult to profs.

Warship:



That is why the Borno Kanem Empire resisted the Fulani people.

It is all about power land and wealth.

This mindset does not conform to what is needed in 2018 global trends

Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way!

UROWAYINO WARAMI 
8 JAN 2018

By chereome Nnanna

For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests.

When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “Negotiations are also advanced for the construction of other railway lines, firstly from Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic passing through Kazaure, Daura, Katsina, Jibia to Maradi”.



Maradi is the third largest city in Niger Republic with a predominant Hausa/Fulani population. It is about an hour’s drive through a bumpy road from Jibia, the border town near Buhari’s hometown, Daura, in Katsina State. When I went to cover the 2007 presidential election in which Buhari ran on the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, in 2007 and the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, I had joined a team of journalists that went to Daura to visit Buhari for an interview. We also monitored the election in Jibia, which is a border town with Niger.

I realised how easy it was for people from the two countries to cross the rickety border post manned by a man dressed virtually in rags. He only smiled when we decided to set foot on Niger Republic soil. Indeed, it may interest Nigerians to know that Daura Emirate stretches deep into Maradi and Zinder Departments in Niger Republic. During the 2015 election, there were reports of thousands of people from Niger Republic crossing the porous borders to vote in an election that was none of the business of their country. In the far North Nigerian electoral officials hardly ask questions about the eligibility of voters. That is why you see millions of under-aged voters voting, and at the end the polls are declared “free and fair”.

Once Buhari achieved his life’s ambition of matching Olusegun Obasanjo’s feat as a former military ruler who became an elected President of Nigeria, his visit to Niger Republic became the first of the 22 foreign trips he made within 11 months before he was slowed down by ill-health. He was received by the President and people of Niger like a triumphant son back from the battlefield. Niger Republic President, Mahamadou Issoufou, gave him a white horse and a golden sword. In fact, Issoufou, in 2016, emblazoned Buhari’s photograph beside his own on vehicles during political campaigns.

I went into all this to let you know that the planned new Nigerian railway network from Kano through Daura and Jibia to Maradi in Niger Republic is a selfish project that has nothing to do with other Nigerians like you and me. Even though a president’s oath of office indicates: “….that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conducts or my official decisions…”, Nigerian presidents and governors brazenly disregard their oaths of office and oaths of allegiance and divert the state’s or nation’s resources to their pockets, and after that, to massively develop the infrastructures of their hometowns no matter how remote such places are.

For me, if Buhari had merely sought to connect his hometown, Daura, and even Jibia to the new national railway network, I would not have minded it too much, though it violates the principle of economic viability and bankability, which the largely borrowed funds will emphasise in order that we repay the debts in good time. The same logic that led the British colonialists to pass the Eastern rail line through Eha Amufu in today’s Enugu State and terminate it at Nguru in today’s Yobe State and pass the Western line through Kaura Namoda in today’s Zamfara State can also be adduced to extend the new rail network through Daura to Jibia, even if a president did not hail from there.

The offensive aspect is extending the railway 55 kilometres into a foreign land just because the President considers the region as part of his hometown.

When the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, was called upon by critics of this unviable extension of our railway to defend it, his response was vacuous and of very little use as a justification. By the way, the proposed new rail addition from Kano through Kazaure, Daura and Jibia to Maradi covers a whopping distance of 806 kilometres, which is more than the distance from Lagos to Abuja (779km) and Lagos to Calabar (770km). It is important for Nigerians to know the scale of the rail line and the amount of borrowed and oil money we are going to dump on this aspect of the project just to gratify the personal whims of the President.

Hear the Minister: “We realised that we had competitors for our landlocked neighbours, competitors like Ghana, Togo and even Benin Republic. Our landlocked neighbours are importing through these countries because we don’t have rail lines that go to them. So, to address the situation Mr President approved a rail line that will go to Maradi in Niger. But that rail line which will come from Kano to Maradi in Niger must pass through some cities. So the rail line passes through Kazaure, and then Daura before proceeding to Jibia and then Maradi”.

The questions the President and the Minister should answer are: Did “our competitors” like Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic build rail lines into Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali and thus stole the “competition” from Nigeria? The answer, obviously, is no. Secondly, why don’t we also extend the favour to Chad and Burkina Faso if indeed we need their patronage? Thirdly, what “competition” is Amaechi referring to? How much do Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic make from imports that our landlocked neighbours route through their countries that makes it enviable which Nigeria should scramble to snatch?

It would be a different ball game if Nigeria and Niger Republic signed a memorandum of understanding to share the cost of the rail line, each country taking the financial responsibility to build the lines that run through their respective territorial jurisdictions.

One thing Nigerians must never forget is that we are borrowing heavily from China, Europe and the Breton-Wood institutions to build our standard gauge railway network. Repayment for the loans which outlay is not available to me at this moment will span decades. Most of us will be gone from the surface of the earth while the repayment will devolve to our children and possibly their children.

This is why we must never keep silent when the ruling party and leaders so brazenly violate the nation’s interests and abuse their offices by throwing projects from these loans into unviable remote hamlets, including hamlets in a foreign country that happens to be a part of their hometown.

I am very sure that our National Assembly, especially the very responsive Senate, will thoroughly examine this railway plan and its funding and protect the interests of all Nigerians, including those of their future generations. Sanitising the implementation of this railway plan will be a prime opportunity to prove that this country belongs to all of us. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to take what belongs to all of us for himself and his kinsmen alone.

We are in a democracy, not a military autocracy. Even if we must accommodate Daura and Jibia to make Buhari happy, the rail line must NEVER be extended an inch into a foreign soil.

eodavids:


This guy has taken Nigeria back to pre-colonial era. So the Tivs and the Idomas as well as any other person in Benue and by inference, the indigenous people in states like Kogi, Kwara, Taraba, Plateau, Adamawa, Gombe, etc are just allowed to live there by the benevolent acts of the fulanis?

This statement is weighty and depicts the reasoning of the fulanis which informs their heartless butchering of supposed land owners. So in fact, the lands belongs to fulanis but they just allowed those tribes to stay there for the meantime. Now they want their lands back, and must have it?

This also implies that the "Jihad" of the 17th century was not for religious propagation but for land grabbing and political expansion

Am confused. Pls somebody explain this man's statement for better clearity.

Good morning sah!

HegenIkomkeh:
So much falsehood flying around here.

Its just so sad to see that a lot of people here don't even know about the history of this country.And they even believe the hoax that tiv's were conquered by the fulani's.
If that happened would there have been anything like "christian majority" in the south?
Had the tiv's not fought and resisted usman danfodio,the entire Nigeria would probably be Islamic at this time.
People should stop spreading lies and falsehood.
Let it be noted that at no point in their history have the tiv's been subordinates of the fulanis.It is deceptive,misleading and totally a hoax.

shut up Mr/miss one Nigeria u and ur people are conquered already. we dey enjoy d show.

IronPants:

Oga please swerve make I see well jor. Mtchewwww

I don swerve. Hope you are seeing well now.

you wish..........sokoto caliphate ko ....just how his household belongs to pigs by right of ancestry.

[s]

Ever8054:
you are an anointed idiot,just because your fellow fool came out to spill trash does not mean its true.Google is there for you go check how the tiv nation fought and defeated Danfodio and his men...mumu

[/s]
E pain the conquered tiv Fulani slave

The professor is a fool, since the British conquered the sokoto caliphate, Benue belonged to them
and since they have handed over the territories to the Federal Republic, Benue lands belong to the
government.

Onijagidijagan:


But don't forget your elders has zoned their presidential candidate to Atiku another Fulani man and bokoharram.

First and foremost, Buhari has nothing to do with bokoharram and he's not a religious bigot like Igbo's. if you don't know. Also before he became president, he promised to defeat the deadly sects known as "Bokoharram " when he gets to power as a result he won the support of USA president Barrack Obama and he has reduced the terrorist attack to their bearest minimum unlike the embecile Jonathan.

Did u just say Buhari is not a religious bigot? Ur brain needs a complete overhauling stupid.

IF THIS IDIOT IS NOT ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY THEN MR PRESIDENT IS WHAT HE IS CALLED AND MUCH MORE. SO BENUE BELONGS TO FULANI THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE BEEN KILLING THEM LIKE CHICKENS. IF THIS IS NOT HATE SPEECH I WONDER WHAT THIS IS.

Nuisance begets nuisance – Kukah
 January 17, 2018  News
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Anyone who thinks the Biafra agitation is a nuisance and irritating should know that it is not the collective aspiration of all Igbos but especially that no one has the monopoly of nusinace. Nuisance begets nuisance. When you stay with potash loaders you too will share in their dusty hair. It is in this country that the same standards are not held against all. Some can get away with anything but others cannot get away with something. I shudder at those who blame the agitators for agitating. Everyone knows what is good for them. If you don’t know what is good for you then shut up and don’t obstruct those who know what is good for them. If I have my way I will cease to be a Nigerian because there is no sense of nationhood. Those who have leverage over others use it to oppress them. Otherwise how can you explain the audacious impunity of a certain section of this country. They can intimidate everybody even a sitting president and get away with it. When GEJ was president he was literally harassed by this same people until they sent him packing and we thought they will be appeased. But a las we were mistaken!
Now how do I love a country where a murderous terrorist group like the herdsmen acclaimed even internationally as deadly is being openly defended by a govt. that wants my loyalty. Do you know as I make this comment, a first class Chief of Bokkos LGA in plateau state was murdered by a certain group of Fulanis almost a year now and no one has been arrested not to talk of prosecution; there are many villagers in my parish who cannot go to farm again except to farm their backyard because their farms have been forcefully annexed by their Fulani murderers; that in Bokkos a wife and a daughter can be taken away right before her husband or father and be repeatedly raped then released at the convenience of the barbaric Fulani tribesmen and no one dares talk; police will advise you to go and settle the matter through dialogue? I want independence from a country where terrorists are embraced and agitators are terrorized.
At the slightest excitement Hausa or Fulani man can kill you and get away with it; it has happened and continues to happen but when you gear up to defend yourself because security will not, then you are caught by the same security who will lecture you on how to be peaceful and law abiding. This country will end unless there is justice for all. Rubbish! I hate the lie that Nigeria is. Let’s say the truth and die but it is what will set us free. Nigeria is negotiable to me the oppressed even if it’s not to the oppressor and that is normal.
“The only right Nigerians concede to you is the right to agree with them” –
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese.

greatjoey:

That is a quacky claptrap. The Tivs may be part of them but the Idomas are not. I now see reason why the Tivs gave a total votes to the useless Fulani man. Let the Tivs be ceded to the north and the Idomas ceded to the south where they each belongs to originally.

Tivs have never ever been part of the fulanis let alone being their subordinates at any point in history.
Its for the greed and selfishness of some of the leaders like akume and the immediate past Tor tiv that the tivs have found themselves in this situation.

vorigan:


Go back and read your history properly......

The sokoto caliphate was in the 18th century and not the 10th or 11th century like you claim. The kwararafa kingdom existed between the 14th and the 18th Century. The Tivs arrived present day Nigeria in the 18th century after the collapse of the kwararafa kingdom.

Idomas were part and parcel of the kwararafa kingdom and were in fact at Wukari (Akpoto section). By the late 18th Century after the fall of the kwararafa Kingdom, the Idoma Chiefs owed their authority to the Aku Uka (The Jukun head) who in turn paid tribute to the Bornu empire.

The kwararafa tribes (Jukum, Alago, Igala, Idoma, Etulo etc) had long interactions and intermarried with the Hausas, the Bornus, the Nupes and the Fulanis long before the Tivs even set foot in Present day Nigeria.

History is what it is......You can't change that!!

Tivs didn't enter Nigeria in the 18th century but much earlier than the 10 century.

The Kwararafa kingdom existed in the 10th - 11th century and was never under the Borno Kanem empire.

The Kwararafa kingdom has nothing to do with the Hausa Fulani people but instead, destroyed Kano in 1000AD.

I think this idiot headslammer is a bastard.