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onomefm:
The Igbo as a Blessing to Nigeria

Written by Reno Omokri

On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender.
But though the U.S. defeated Japan, they never decimated Japan's great technological and industrial complex. They were visionary enough to distinguish these from Japan's military industrial complex, which they scrapped.
Realizing that Japan was decades ahead of the West in many technologies, the allied powers, led by the US, allowed those industries to remain as a going concern and took the unique step of enacting legislation and policies to enable them flourish.

What they did in Japan, they also did in Europe. In Europe, the US, acting unilaterally, even went a step further by introducing the Marshall Plan through which America sent financial and other types of aid to help Europe (and especially Germany) recover from the ravages of the Second World War.

The point of the allied and American actions in Japan and Europe is that technological advancement belongs to the human race and should not be allowed to suffer because of a quarrel or war amongst humans.

This lesson was thoroughly established in 642 AD when the Library of Alexandria was burnt to the ground during the Muslim conquest of Egypt.

It has been argued that that act set the world several centuries back in technological advancement and has become something to watch out for during the prosecution of a war.

A war is a quarrel between or amongst people that is settled by means of violence. It is not a quarrel between or amongst technology, so civilized nations have pursued the policy of fighting wars while preserving technology.

Gone should be the days of the scorched earth policy which is why despite the bestiality of the apartheid regime, President Nelson Mandela did not do a Mugabe, but rather left intact White owned farms, industry and universities and only insisted that they be opened to Blacks and other races.

This brings me to Nigeria. I would like to state a fact that will be argued against, but still a fact that even those who would argue against it know to be true.

The Igbo (or Ibo) ethnic nationality of Nigeria are the most technologically advanced Black race on planet earth, bar none!

This is a fact. A fact that was proven to be true for 30 months while they were landlocked in their constantly shrinking enclave known as Biafra.

Cut off from the rest of the world, the ingenuity of the Igbo came to the fore during the civil war as they constructed the Uli airstrip and when that airstrip was bombed, they repaired it in record time and under the most trying circumstances. They would go on to repair Uli not once and not twice.

The Igbos refined petrol from a variety of non fossil fuels, including from but not limited to palm products (from which they also produced diesel) and manufactured surface to air missiles which they also adapted to surface to surface missiles (the Ogbunigwe).

They converted commercial planes to fighter jets and weaponized them. That was no mean feat in 1967.

In fact, when in 2012, the Nigerian Army rolled out the igirigi and promoted it as the first indigenous armored personnel carrier, they were wrong. I am not a Biafran. I am proudly Nigerian. And beyond that, I am a proud dark skinned Black African yet I make bold to say that the igirigi is not the first indigenous APC.

In fact, the first indigenous armored personnel carrier in Black Africa is the Red Devil, built by the Igbos during the Nigerian Civil War.

The Nigerian Civil War ended in January 1970 and the Nigerian Army unveiled the igirigi in July of 2012. If they had converted the Red Devil to their own use, they would probably be talking about a greater feat in the year 2012.

My question is what happened in the intervening 42 years between 1970 and 2012? Why didn't the Nigerian Army integrate the military industrial complex of Biafra into its Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, DICON?

Why did we have to reinvent the wheel at great cost in terms of time and money?

The Nigerian Civil War ended on a note of 'no victor no vanquished'. That was a watershed moment inspired by the Christlike mind of General Yakubu Gowon. That gesture is to be applauded.

But why did we as a nation not go the whole hog and take advantage of Biafra's technological advances and integrate her scientists into our Research and Development sector much like the US did with German and Japanese scientists?

That is where we failed as a nation.

I remember growing up as a child and how other Nigerians scoffed at 'Igbo made' electronic products. There was hardly anything including electronics, pharmaceuticals, spirits and wines that the Igbos could not counterfeit.

And rather than our leaders seeing the potential in those products, we all scoffed at them. Igbo made products were a pariah.

Did it ever occur to any of our leaders that if government had supported these technological advancement, Nigeria could have become an industrialized nation today and Igbo made products would have been exported abroad as made in Nigeria products?

It would surprise many that a number of the greatest technological advancement and products that came out of America after the Second World War were the work of German or Japanese scientists!

In an operation code named Operation Paperclip, 1500 German scientists, engineers and technicians were airlifted to the United States and given US permanent US residency and citizenship immediately after the defeat of Germany in 1945. The primary aim of Operation Paperclip was to prevent these skilled men and women from falling into Soviet Russian hands.

Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann who was one of the fathers of radar technology was one of such scientists airlifted to America.

Kurt Lehovec the pioneer of the integrated circuit systems in electrical engineering is another. He was airlifted to America in 1945 where he became a Professor at the University of Southern California and passed on his knowledge to America's next generation of scientists.

The allies had been having issues with the jet engine and were not able to develop planes like the German Messerschmitt Me 262. But after the defeat of Germany, US forces gave safe passage to Rudi Beichel who went to the US and became an adviser to the US army on liquid propulsion. Other German scientists such as Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun and his brother, Wernher Von Braun helped reverse engineer German jets which led to the development of the US American F-86 Sabres, a plane that helped the US dominate the air during the Korean War.

More importantly, Wernher Von Braun provided much of the know how that helped America build the Apollo spacecraft which allowed America beat Russia as the first nation to get to the moon.

Methamphetamine was invented by Japanese a Japanese chemist, Nagai Nagayoshi and the drug was shared with their German allies and helped their soldiers stay awake and focus. After the war, German scientists helped American scientist synthesize the drug which revolutionized the US health industry.

Why can't we do the same in Nigeria? Can you imagine what our technological base would have been if we as a nation had a policy of patronizing the so called Igbo made products right from the end of the war till today? What if we had absorbed the the Research and Production Organisation of Biafra (RAP as it was then known) into the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers?

By now, we may have been manufacturing jets and we would not be dependent on foreign nations for weapons to fight terrorists.

This is why I was so disgusted with the minister of science and technology, Ogbonnaya Onu for aspiring, on Nigeria's behalf, to produce pencils by 2018!

I mean this man is the first civilian governor of the old Abia state which today encompasses both Abia and Ebonyi states.

Right there, under his own nose, Nigerians of Igbo extraction, without ANY governmental support, are manufacturing electronics and heavy machinery components and Onu is caught up on pencils!

Onu should visit Nnewi if he knows where it is. Right there he would see a city that does not wait for government. Nnewi people are so industrious that after years of waiting endlessly for government to provide basic amenities, they have built their own roads, have their own power stations and their own water works.

Just like Japan, Nnewi has manufacturers of such things like batteries, pistons, automobiles and other products. These Nnewi manufacturers have built schools for the kids of their workers on site, just like in Japan.

You just need to visit Nnewi or Aba to see what is going on in Nigeria. These guys are Nigeria's most guarded secret because even the federal government is not aware of them.

And the reason why this is so is because these people are Igbos!

It is time for Nigeria to forgive the Igbos for being Igbo and accept them as full partners and equal partners in the Nigerian project and use the entire strength of the Nigerian federal government to provide them the support to fulfill their destiny as the Black African people that are nucleus of the technological advancement of Africa.

Notice I say Africa, not just Nigeria. I don't say this lightly. All over West and Central Africa, Nigerians of Igbo extraction are the backbone of the commercial and technological sectors.

I can say what I have said above without any accusation of self or group interest promotion because I am not Igbo neither am I married to one. I have said the truth as my conscience sees it because I am committed to advancement of the Black Race because as a proud Black man, I know that no black African tribe is as great as the Black Race when it is united.

OP u like creating thread just to get traffic.What u r saying is well know to everyone. Well haven said that, u should not expect d American attitude or Mandela character from people who rip pregnant woman's baby from her womb to appreciate or support another's innovation.Or for d descendants of someone a leader who wanted to starve another to death to support another's innovative. As we speak countries and people that fought d second world war v reconciled their differences and even apologize for d inhuman atrocities they or their leaders committed. In Nigeria it s a far cry, rather d Igbos r being visited with hatred and destruction of their properties by Huasa and Yoruba youths who still believe whatever poverty in their is caused by d Igbos. Nepotism and tribalism v destroyed Nigeria. Well meaning Nigerians r leaving d country everyday. Could u imagine that big worldly pastors like Kumuyi,Oyedepo,Adeboye can not lead d country for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Adebowale89:
guy you mumu o. infact you mumu so tey I cum dey shame for you

I'm sure your psychological trait except if is dead, knew your people are known as foreign prisoners than any region in Nigeria. guess na everything be celebration in your own land?


to your last sentence "that's why Igbo blast Yoruba". check my post where they blast me and my tribe that I won't reply them and make them even cry like a baby before they quit

let them come with their blast, dem go hear em

your sense of reasoning need a total redress if you think you guys says have any meaning to us here.

Imagine ur reasoning on issue which u lowly observe as blast. Well i wont blame u because u r one of the ppl trained by Nairaland.All ur reasoning is about Nairaland because that is where the latitude and longitude of ur knowledge is. How big u r ignorantly to deny that yorubas dont engage in illicit businesses.U break record in most of them.I thought u r reasonable sef.How old r u sef?If u r below 40yrs dont reply pls.

CSTR1005:
Where are you getting your history from?
it was dora akunyili in the national assembly that fought turai and her kitchen cabinet to force Jonathan to be sworn in .
Don't revise history here.

Jonathan gut 10million votes with his biggest base being igbos and the South South, Buhari got 12 million with unprecedented northern support and majority Yoruba votes .
Common sense shows that it was igbo support that prevented Jonathan from losing woefully given the odds.

Buhari claimed he got just 5% from the south East. Yes, because we didn't vote for him.
95% of our votes went to Jonathan which made the election very close.

The Yoruba on the other hand have always been perpetual opposition.
Hanging on to buhari coattails will not change that.

Apart from the SW states where else can Yoruba votes count? Even in the socalled SW states non Yorubas like Igbos compete very well with them. So what is the votes they r giving? The North has since washed the Yorubas away long ago that it was their votes that brought PMB to power.

ridwanomooba:
The Tinubu Rhetoric: My Response, by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki

I have always restrained from joining issues in the media with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and this is based on my respect for him. However, I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for my decision to exit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and present his prejudice as facts for public consumption.

I have been consistent in my complaints to all leaders of the APC, including Tinubu, that a situation where the National Assembly is not constructively engaged or carried along in key policy decisions, particularly those that will eventually require legislative approval, is not in the best interest of the nation. No genuine leader of the legislature will be comfortable that the Presidency will simply write a terse letter to the National Assembly on key issues which the federal legislature is expected to later deliberate upon and give its approval. The Buhari administration consistently treats the legislature with contempt and acts as if the lawmaking body should be an appendage of the Executive. To me, this is unacceptable.

In the same way, I find it very objectionable that many stakeholders who worked strenuously to get the administration into office have now been excluded in the government and not consulted on key decisions as necessary and expected. In fact, some of them are treated as pariahs. A party that ignores justice, equity and inclusion as basic pre-conditions for peace, unity and stability cannot sustain its membership and leadership.

Let me redirect the attention of the former Governor of Lagos State to the aspect of my July 31, 2018, statement announcing my exit from APC in which I emphasized that the decision "has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist".

In that statement, I further noted that those APC elements "have done everything to ensure that the basic rules of party administration, which should promote harmonious relations among the various elements within the party were blatantly disregarded. All governance principles which were required for a healthy functioning of the party and the government were deliberately violated or undermined. And all entreaties for justice, equity and fairness as basic precondition for peace and unity, not only within the party, but also the country at large, were simply ignored, or employed as additional pretext for further exclusion. The experience of my people and associates in the past three years is that they have suffered alienation and have been treated as outsiders in their own party. Thus, many have become disaffected and disenchanted. At the same time, opportunities to seek redress and correct these anomalies were deliberately blocked as a government-within-a-government had formed an impregnable wall and left in the cold, everyone else who was not recognized as “one of us”. This is why my people, like all self-respecting people would do, decided to seek accommodation elsewhere".

Tinubu himself will recall that during the various meetings he had with me at the time he was pursuing reconciliation within the APC, I raised all the above issues. I can also vividly recall that he himself always expressed his displeasure with the style of the government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the same government which we all worked to put in office. I also made the point that whatever travails I have gone through in the last three years belong to the past and will not shape my decisions now and in the future.

However, during those meetings, the point of disagreement between Tinubu and I is that while I expressed my worries that there is nothing on ground to assure me that the administrative style and attitude would change in the next four years in a manner that will enable us to deliver the positive changes we promised to our people, he (Tinubu) expressed a strong opinion that he would rather 'support a Buhari on the hospital stretcher' to get a second term because in 2023, power will shift to the South-west. This viewpoint of Tinubu’s was not only expressed to me but to several of my colleagues. So much for acting in national interest.


It is clear that while my own decision is based on protecting the collective national interest, Tinubu will rather live with the identified inadequacies of the government for the sake of fulfilling and preserving his presidential ambition in 2023. This new position of Tinubu has only demonstrated inconsistency — particularly when one reviews his antecedents over the years.


Again, let me reiterate my position that my uncertain and complex relationship with Tinubu has been continually defined by the event of 2014 when myself and other leaders of the APC opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement about to be foisted on the APC for the 2015 polls. It should be noted that he has not forgotten the fact that I took the bull by the horns and told him that in the interest of the country, he should accept the need for the party to present a balanced ticket for the 2015 General Elections in terms of religion and geo-political zones. Since that time he has been very active; plotting at every point to undermine me, both within and outside the National Assembly.

It is a surprise to me that Asiwaju Tinubu is still peddling the falsehood about the fact that my defection is about automatic ticket and sharing of resources. Members of the public will recall that when the issue of my decision to quit APC came to the fore and many APC leaders were holding meetings with me, a newspaper owned by the same Tinubu published a false report about the promise of automatic tickets, oil blocks and other benefits. I immediately rebutted their claims and categorically stated that I never discussed any such personal and pecuniary benefits with anybody. My challenge that anybody who has contrary facts should come forward with them still remains open.

It should be known that Democracy is a system that allows people to freely make their choices. It is my choice that I have decided to join others to present a viable alternative platform for Nigerians in the coming elections. Tinubu and leaders of the APC had better respect this decision or lawfully deal with it. As for me, Allah gives power to whom He wishes. Human beings can only aspire and strive to fulfill their aspirations.

Signed:

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON
President of the Senate

Yorubas are devilish and evil minded.I wonder why God created them. Hope they r not the Moabites tribe we often read in the Bible. No wonder all the killings of Idoma, Tiv, Igbos, Plateau people, Taraba people, Adamawa people, Kaduna people and others never mean anything to them as far as their ambition for 2023 is not jeopardize.They shouted restructure and when given d opportunity they said it s not restructure that we need. From their religious leaders to everyone of them talk from both mouths.They spy ur meetings and play double standard in evry affairs.Always looking for corrupt means to success.Any govt they work with is always indentified with failure because they are afraid of inclusive system.Yorubas will always prefer the status quo to remain because they v nothing to offer. While d North will embark on agricultural revolution, d South south will make money or wealth with their oil and the Southeast have ingenuity in every thing including oil as a resources.Apart from Lagos state foundationed by Federal Government,all d rest states in Lagos r locals.

chiagozien:
yerobar prefers boko haram and herdmen killers over igbos.

Their only problem is igbo.

Unfortunately they will never grow with that.Yorubas duty in life is to hate d igbos,castigate them and kill them.Unfortunately d igbos care less about them and that s why d igbos progressing massively in all human endeavors.I pray Yorubas will get sense and stop looking for failed opportunities or some dirty ways.With their UK education they v failed to believe and cooperate in forging inclusive market and environment.

Ioannes:
It's like these Igbo people in the diaspora don't know the kind of species that American lawyers are.

There's a reason why they are referred to as sharks.

Walahi, they will bankrupt IPOB and nothing will come out of it.

Unfortunately the Igbos who have formed IPOB are semi-illiterates and stark illiterates.

You tell them something sensible, they'd rather believe the incredulous lies they are being told. Like Donald Trump is coming with Putin to bomb Nigeria and liberate Biafra.

Awon ode sha.

So ur little education tells u that group of ppl agitating for self determination r illiterates I pity ur father that wasted money on u.Agbero ode.

Adebowale89:
ask your mentor and those mining your smelling pvssy that mumu QST. how is life treating your kinsmen in Asia prison you meant? you can join them as well to ask

Some of u Yorubas think very low and lack good judgemnt on things.If u call Igbo ppl drug dealers in SA what about d yorubas?If u say Igbos r in prisons outside nigeria what about d yorubas?There r thousands of yorubas doing those tins anf worst outside,even Huasas in Arab world.Thats why these igbo guys will always blast u ppl when u speak ill of them.

BabaRamota1980:
Islam had been in West Africa while your forebears were still gathering lizards and frogs in the forest covered with banana leaf, with occassional human meat from a kidnapped victim to enjoy a village feast.

Yorubas had been going to Mecca through Egypt to perform Hajj before dan Fodio learnt about Islam.

Go back to the head of your autonomous community to tell him that if it wasnt for Ajayi Crowther bringing you into light and Christianity you would still be a heathen tribe.

This man u r always talkn of Islam.How many Yorubas went to Mecca before Dan fodio jihad?Remember Dan fodio jihad was d beginning of islam in d North&nigeria.Well dont derial this thread.Your ppl shud try to cure themselves of Igbo hatred.We know its painful to see Igbos advancing very rapidly in Lagos and other endeavors of lives.Its their nature and gift frm God Almighty and any attempt to stop them means giving dem leaverage to advance a century above u.Remember d Jews,d Igbos r like them.From Obasanjo to Yardua to Jonathan and now PMB, their tours outside bring them into d ingenuities of d Igbos dominating d world where Jews,Japanese,American etc reside.Instead of ranting and spewing hatred on them,let learn frm them to be like them and make Nigeria better.

ijustdey:
https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/160554/

Tribune u r full of lies.There was no decision reached by PMB and VP to sack Duara.His sack only came up during PMB absence and d siege on NASS.Meanwhile,Duara and some others r PMB's Bishops and Rook in d game of power and they dont interact with d VP.To me Duara's sack is a minus to PMB because one of his luetenant v gone.Remember this s politics.

TarOrfeek:
Somebody that cannot feed himself.



See tie on his neck like a suicide cord.

The guy reminds me of d Yoruba medical doctor in USA that called for d extermination of d Igbo in Lagos.Have u ppl forgotten d Oba of Lagos and his vow to push all Igbos in Lagos into d lagoon.These Yoruba hatred on d Igbos r blood vienned.Well Igbos like d Jews v become a global threat to some ppl.And d more u hate some one d better he is.

Sagay212:
Stop deceiving and consoling yourself. Of all the killings in SA, how many Yoruba names have you heard? Your fellow ipods even brought their S.A fight back to their village in Amambra killing people like chickens. Keep shying away from the truth while ipods are being sent into extinction

U may not like what u said but that is d truth.U cannot compare d atrocities.Kidnapping is wrong no doubt but it's not as deadly as ethnic and cultural skull mining or gbomogbomo; or religious terrorism and violence.While kidnapping and drugs deal can be tackled professionally by secuu agencies, the other remain part of d society.

Afam4eva:
I have called out Rochas Okorocha for his many misdeeds buut it has to be said that apart from Dee Sam Mbakwe, no other Imo state governor, not Udenwa, not Ohakim comes close to him. He has bested them but i still don't think we should use him as a standard in Imo state.

I actually don't get excited whenever i exit the major roads in Owerri and enter the inner streets. Roads are not existent. Even in areas with very good structures have very bad roads. This has made me think that what a lot of Governors actually is cosmetic surgery on the outside to deceive people.

Same thing i noticed in Abia state and other states.We v good houses in d rural areas but bad roads.I will suggest d governors should engage d universities and civil engineering students to do d work.

AuntLaVIV:
Permit me to share with you guys.

It is friday at Awka Amusement Park

D pictures of Amusement park is wonderful.We should v d best of amusement park bc we can spend and our children love d best.

NOETHNICITY:
I like the part where you said scream big English
You are very correct

All the stories and pictures r fluke.Hw come that area keep turning out millions of vote nothwithstanding dat d area has been ravaged by Boko Haram&d population reduced.All we need in dis country is true federalism&restructure.We need to go back to d principles of our founding fathers who revolutionalized der areas with agriculture.

Sagay212:
Don't know why ipob miscreants are crying all over this thread like headless chickens. Every african knows how ipods are being slaughtered like chickens in S.A by themselves because of fraud and drugs. We also know how they commit suicide in malaysia and india by jumping off buildings to escape arrest from police. Which normal person will commit suicide because they are running from police if not a useless drug trafficking ipod miscreants. See as body dey pepper dem..

The killings r social vices which can be controlled by policemen.U can see same in other countries. but it s nothing compared to skull mining which is cultural and terrorism which is fanatical and religious.Yorubas also r into drugs and fraud in SA while huasas r doing theirs in suadi

wakaman:
Rather yanmirs killing themselves in SA.

The killings r social vices which can be controlled by policemen.U can see same in other countries. but it s nothing compared to skull mining which is cultural and terrorism which is fanatical and religious.

Juliusmalema:
Op I have verified...

But I still maintain the need of homogeneous igbo nation of south east only....

South east is enough to form a country even larger than Guinea....

If we continue to drag south south....it will always be a set back and repetition of stories.

yes I concur with u.south east states should make up d Biafra nation. however our kit and kins outside d nation can be protected with better restructuring of d Nigerian nation.Have thought about this,if Nigeria is restructured there will be less thieves of our wealth.ppl will focus on looters in their States and zones. Then we will know how much an igboman trust his governors same will go for d Yoruba man and huasa Fulani man.

JGracious:
I will advise you check with a dermatologist too apart from the eye specialist.

Cheers

Gud morning maa,pls I need help.
I need ur help.my baby has not been breathing well.Her nostril is blocked and dry. and no running nose.We v been to d hospital twice d doctors keep saying it will clear.in d hospital something was fixed into her nose to either soften or remove it but it didn't work.they gave us drugs for cold and now piritin.and advice I steam her.I v done all that my baby's breath is still not ok
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pls I need ur help.my baby has not been breathing well.Her nostril is blocked and dry. and no running nose.We v been to d hospital twice d doctors keep saying it will clear.in d hospital something was fixed into her nose to either soften or remove it but it didn't work.they gave us drugs for cold and now piritin.and advice I steam her.I v done all that my baby's breath is still not ok
.pls what can I do?

1stola:
Olodo
What do you know about international thief thief?
Overgrown baby

I dont blame u because ur likes adorn corruption and criminality as a fun fare.

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE BENEFICENT THE MERCIFUL
BEING THE TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION DELIVERED BY THE CHAIRMAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF OYO STATE ALHAJ ISHAQ KUNLE SANNI TITLED "YORUBA CHRISTIAN LEADERS STOP PARADING YOURSELVES AS YORUBA ELDERS" DATED THURSDAY 5TH JULY 2018 (21ST SHAWWAL 1439) AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER BODIJA, IBADAN
Islam preaches fairness, equity and love, even in a hostile situation against Muslim, Islam still preaches fair treatment and justice. Quran 5:8 states O you who believe, stand up as witnesses for Allah in all fairness and do not let the hatred of people deviate you from justice. Be just. This is closer to piety, and fear Allah. Surely Allah is aware of all you do
Islam is against hate speech, hostility and all forms of iniquity. It promotes love, unity and peaceful co existence.
The Afenifere or Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) have always pretended to be the vanguard of Yoruba interest, to confront their enemies and fight against their marginalization from the so called HausaFulani Oligarchy. It is however crystal clear that this amalgam of Christian predator's modus operandi in its absolutism is furtherance of Christian political domination in the southwest and ostracization of the Muslims who constitute the majority in four out of the six states in the region. What an absurdity!!
Statistics will unveil to you their hypocrisy when you look at their membership, you hardly find a Muslim in their midst.
You now wonder if there is a paucity of elders among the Yoruba Muslims which militated against bringing them on board Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) or Afenifere. Is Retired Justice Abdul Jabbar Bolasodun Ajibola, a former attorney general and Minister for Justice and former Judge in the world court in a Hague, and octogenarian is not qualified to be a Yoruba elder?!
Baba Habib Fasinro is 99years old, a retired and accomplished civil servant, still active. What disqualified him from being among Yoruba elders? Chief Sakariyau Babalola, a business mogul an octogenarian active and vibrant. Is he unworthy of being among the Yoruba elders?!
What of the first African professor of Geology, professor emeritus Muhammed Oyawoye, a London trained university of Ibadan professor. What denies him from being considered among Yoruba elders?! Or offa people are not Yorubas?!
Distinguished legal luminary, Alh Abdullateef Femi Okunnu, is an octogenarian too. Why was he not invited to the Yoruba council of Elders?! Is it because he spots a beard?!
What about Professor DOS Noibi, who is so much recognized internationally as a scholar that the queen of England awarded him the prestigious honour of Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) He was disqualified by this tribal Christian jingoist as Yoruba Elders. We can continue ad infinitium to mention qualified Yoruba Muslims who are qualified to be among the Yoruba Council of Elders.
What disqualifies them is the agenda of the group for Christian prostelytisation hiding under the canopy of Yoruba irredentism. Therefore a Muslim in their midst is like a mole in their eyes. The only time those Christian pundits; masquerading as Yoruba Elders, seemingly supported a Muslims interest was during the June 12 saga. Eventually it was discovered to be fluke hypocrisy of the highest pedestal.
It was the greatest treachery of our political history as they were collecting money from the government when they gave impression that they were great supporter of democracy and June 12 struggle.
Recently, El Mustapha, the erstwhile chief security officer of the late Sanni Abacha exposed their abandoning the struggle after collecting dollars from the late dictator Sanni Abacha.
So they were charlatans. They did not believe in a Muslim presiding over the affairs of the Nation. It was an abberation to see this Yoruba Elders holding meeting with Obasanjo. It is a known fact that they were not on the same page with this crude man with diabolical inclination. They believed he deliberately aborted the political ambition of their godfather Chief Obafemi Awolowo and enthroned Sheu Sagari. Now that Obasanjo is in a political quagmire and was being asked to pay for the misdemeanors he committed when in power, the Afenifere are now trying to parley with him as if they are suffering from collective amnesia. Tokunbo Awolowo, the daughter of the sage, was at the meeting meant to plot against Buhari and save Obasanjo from eternal damnation.
It is strange that Chief Ayo Adebanjo an incurable believer in restructuring of the polity is now on the same page with Obasanjo whose hatred for restructuring has reached a legendary crescendo. We are not oblivious of sensational and unprecedented jailing of Bode George which was instigated by Obasanjo for allegedly pocketing the resources of Nigeria Port Authority NPA while he was chairman. This was the beginning of hot enmity between Obasanjo and Bode George.
The popular aphorism says "a drowning man will hold on to anything, even if it is as dangerous as a serpent". With the desperation of Obasanjo to look for allies to save him from a second incarceration at old age, he found a good alibi to visit Bode George, a belated visit to commiserate with him over the death of his son. One of the greatest enemies of Obasanjo who one could have thought like a plague would have nothing to do with Obasnjo is Pastor Tunde Bakare. He prophesied that God told him that Obasanjo would die before being sworn in as president in 1999. He hates Obasanjo with passion and that must have culminated in Buhari making him his running mate in 2011. The Christian agenda which is in the front burner of overzealous elements in Christiandom made Tunde Bakare to consume his vomit by attending the Save my soul meeting called by Obasanjo at the house of chief Adebanjo.
It is intriguing that the Afenifere generalissimos who were political allies of Bola Ige who was murdered in what look like a political assassination during the despotic regime of Obasanjo are now rallying to support him. This becomes irresponsible and illogical when Buhari has put on high gear the process to unveil those who committed the dastardly act that seemed to have been thrown into the dustbin of history. It is a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.
All the cacophony of the Christian propaganda using their pre-eminent domination of the Nigerian press is apparently geared towards a Christian propelled president in 2019.
We, Yoruba Muslims are no fools. We can read in between the lines. We cannot be stampeded to supporting a well orchestrated agenda that refuse all the noble things Buhari has done to move the nation forward in the last three years. He had done much with less. He had plugged all the conduit pipes through which our commonwealth used to be siphoned by the corrupt politicians. Customs, Jamb, Federal Inland Revenue Services are clear indicators of these facts. He had been commended for his tremendous achievements locally and globally.
Buhari had been fair to the Yorubas and the Christians. Minister of Finance, Minister of Petroleum, Minister of Transportation, Head of Service, The Chief Judge, CBN Governor, Secretary to the Government of Federation are all Christians. We have no presidential candidate but we believe honestly and passionately that Buharis performance is the best in recent times.
The Yoruba irredentists who trade the race for personal pecuniary interest are blinded by opportunistic sentiment not to appreciate this good work Buhari is doing. It is amazing that some political clowns and demagogues expect Buhari to turn Nigeria into an Eldorado of a sort in four years after sixteen years of unprecedented primitive looting of the treasury and siphoning of our commonwealth to the foreign countries by shameless politicians. The churches are no more making stupendous wealth that produced jet flying billionaire pastors whose followers are wallowing in abject poverty like the proverbial church rat.
Not a few Nigerians are conscious of the ganging up of the robbers to suspend this government and see the back of their traducer president Buhari whose puritanical life and zero tolerance for corruption legendary. We are elated that this Buhari they are criminalizing out of mischief was applauded at the last African union as the most incorruptible president in the continent. It is worthy of note that the president of Mauritania said in an unmistakable terms that if Africa were to have a president it should be Buhari because of his transparency and zero tolerance for corruption.
We are aware that corruption is fighting back and those corrupt, shameless pen robbers should not put a deceptive wool over our face. Obasanjo should go and face the music for years of corruption and tyranny that is the worst in the history of this country. Those who habitate glass houses, should be told that throwing stones could be catastrophic.
We therefore admonished "the acclaimed Yoruba Leaders" to stop criminalizing us for being Muslims. They should not castigate Buhari for being a Fulani. The regime of Obasanjo, a Yoruba Christian President of eight years and that of Jonathan another Christian President for six years cannot by any standard be compared to the Fulani-Muslim rule of three years based on incontrovertible facts and figures.
If Afeniferes problem is that the money they made during Jonathan corrupt regime is no more coming, they should manage what they have made during the period of looting expedition. In shaha Allah it would not be business as usual.
Conclusively, we appeal to the media, the conscience of the nation, not to encourage violence by giving undue publicity to those making hate speeches and drumming war drums. You can know the beginning of the war, nobody can know the end. Those leaders who fuelled the genocide in Rwanda between Hutsi and Tutsi that culminated in the death of 800,000 people are regretting it till today and forever will remain on the negative side of history.
Gentlemen of the press, we thank you for your patience.

Gpdwise:
It is no longer news that abia state government has rejected any plan of federal government to use its land as a grazing reserve. I really don't blame them due to the herds men reputation of late which has been soiled further by the recent Killing in benue state.

Abia state is a state that has little or no federal government presence. So you can imagine my shock when even without been named the government is in a hurry to reject this offer without even hearing what federal government plan

If federal government is serious about ending the menace caused by cattle rearers then I would suggest the following which will make States like abia state regrets it's decision

1) federal government should encourage sells of packaged meat products

2) grazing reserve land should be allocated or bought from 6 States in 6 geopolitical zone by both government and private enterprise

3) grazing land should be adequately fenced and local indigene should be used as security

4) open land grazing law should be enacted with serous fine. Nobody should be seen with cattle on roads or Street

5) adequate transportation should be provided to move this life stock from one grazing reserve to another..

Most of you won't agree but if this my little common sense can be implemented I believe this could be the end of fulani attack.

Really little sense.Terrorist sense.U can give ur dather's house and then u enjoy d benefirs by making ur siblings securityetc.

1stola:
Yoruba people have good heritage.
Unlike our OSU bLodas

Macron is visiting Fela shrine to remind us of Fela's fight against corruption and his song of "obasanjo and abiola,international thief thief" We now celebrate these criminals.

sarrki:
Lord let my enemies bow before me

She’s actually begging for job and recognition

Kemi have made this professor of looting humble

OP u go school at all?How could u post pictures of ppl exchanging pleasantries only to say one is bowing to d other.U r reducing urself with this thread.

Angelanest:
The violence in Ekiti keeps growing ahead of the July 14 gubernatorial election in the state. Yesterday night, the family house of governor Ayo Fayose's Chief of Staff, Dipo Anisulowo was set ablaze by some hoodlums.

According to reports, the thugs were said to have attempted to burn the new Oja Oba market that is under construction but presence of security men prevented them.

They set the Chief of Staff's family house on fire when they saw the family name written on it.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deputy governorship candidate, Kazeem Deji Ogunsakin and Chairman of Ado LG, Clement Bamisile was there today, to commiserate with occupants of the house.

This is coming after two supporters of Peoples Democratic Party, Adeleye Gbenga and Dimeji Adeleye were attacked and seriously injured by some unknown thugs in Aramoko Ekiti two days ago. The thugs also damaged their campaign vehicle.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/06/family-house-of-dipo-anisulowo-fayoses-aide-set-on-fire-in-ekiti.html

Yorubas will always display their political intolerance.It s historical.from Awo/Akintola; Abiola/Folawiyo,Akoya Thomas,now another one is looming.Houses will be burrnt,ppl will be killed,juju&agbero thugs will be employed all because of political immaturity&intolerance.Honestly Yorubas v a long way to go.

gidgiddy:
Nigeria dissolves in 6 months? The evil contraption Lord Lugard created in 1914 comes to an end and we Igbos are finally free?

May it come to pass in the name of the Almighty God

Amen!

To many ppl they will say u r Igbo meanwhile u r not.

sarrki:
http://thenationonlineng.net/2019-obasanjo-ex-generals-plot-against-buharis-reelection/

Ok,so this is what they want to do to Buhari? PMB should arrest OBJ and lock him up then throw d key in d river.His ranting is getting out of control. Or invite him for a personal meeting then put chemical through d aircondition so that when he inhales it after 2hrs he will pass on.Pls do it fast.

Itzpetersv:
The Chairman of the Christain Association of Nigeria CAN in Northern Plateau state, Rev. Isa Nenman, has reportedly been arrested.
A statement signed by the Chairman of the Plateau Northern Ethnic Nationality, Paul Dekete, says Nenman who was part of the facilitators of the protest that took place at the state government house yesterday June 27th, was arrested for allowing the protest to degenerate, leading to the destruction of some properties at the state government house.

Read his statement below
''Following yesterday's peaceful protest by CAN supported by youth groups, the CAN chairman, Northern Zone is in Police custody, and there is a directive from Abuja to make arrests. 
Due to that, we are inviting all members to meet at the Hqts, as we, demand for Chairman's release. Its urgent and now, all other platforms should mobilize now, please.
Signed by Chairman Plateau Northern Ethnic Nationality
Paul Dekete''


http://www.vondanews.com/can-chairman-arrested-over-violent-protests-in-plateau/


Get in touch with VP Yemi Osinbajo to release d CAN Plateau state chairman. The VP is a Redeemed Church Senior pastor.

Things r getting tougher as we approach 2019.When two elephants fight d grass will be d one to suffer.