₦airaland Forum

amaniro:
But sadly Unilag is not what it used to be. My dad also attended Unilag

Are you sure?

Hope it’s not university of Mannittawiw

Lagos is where wisdom and knowledge is transported to other places

Amy sha ni ilu eko

Kokuni gbe

But really

It’s better to be in sambisa forest than to live with a nagging woman

Kansas man who robbed a bank last September and told police that he was hoping to get caught so he would get prison time to escape his wife was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement after pleading guilty, the Kansas City Star reported.

Lawrence John Ripple took the guilty plea in January. He told the judge Tuesday that he had heart surgery that left him depressed when he committed the bank robbery, the paper reported.

His public defender told the court that Ripple had lived a law-abiding life and was in a stable relationship with his wife. He has four stepchildren, the report said.

Ripple handed a note to a bank teller in Kansas City demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money, $2,924, and went to sit in the lobby, where he told a guard he was the “guy he was looking for.”

Officers arrived quickly. An FBI agent wrote in the affidavit that Ripple had earlier been arguing with his wife. He told investigators he wrote the note in front of his wife, telling her he would “rather be in jail than at home.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


https://nypost.com/2017/06/14/man-who-robbed-bank-to-get-away-from-wife-sentence-to-home-confinement/

Am a product of BSMC

Bishop smith memorial college


1993 set

Simongm:
I thought you have sense before oo, but this have proved me wrong.

When people don’t align with Pdp the person know get sense

EzeCanada:
Please stay clear

On your family forum?

This is Nairaland bro

Wake from sleep

simonlee:
commot hand for rotten mango make fly no follow you!
people just dey spoil our country image for nothing!

Both the leadership and the followers are corrupt

Say NO to name calling

All Nigerians are corrupt in mind

It’s not peculiar to only one tribe

We play and mix politics with everything

It’s bad

Simongm:
Next Kogi Governor, keep it up.

He will ends up like atiku

Not that yahaya Bello is good

But far better than Dino

Only man of God I Know

They are part of people that duped atiku on back end servers

Atiku is either dumb or foolish for him to believe back end server

What am I even saying

A criminal like him

BlackfireX:
The yorubas and the Igbo s should merge to tackle this menace, I assure you this is the right thing to do


B[b]ut tribalism, suspicions, old wounds will not

[/b]

Only exists on social media

In the real world it’s not so

unohbethel:
When i wake up and hear yorubas making threats such at this... I will simply go back to sleep.................... IBB


(short version)

One thing that is sure is

Your elders are respectful

They know better

Learn from them young man

agitated whispers, the cultural establishment of the Yoruba nation would appear to be speaking up finally in a coherent voice on the perceived expansionist agenda by migrant killer herders, if the flurry of statements last weekend by the Ooni of Ife and the Aare Onakankafo (the native war generalissimo) is enough clue.

Without mincing words, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi declared a royal fatwa in Ile-Ife on the sneaky herders believed to have infiltrated the Yoruba forests in their thousands and, fairly on daily basis, are increasingly making life a total nightmare for subsistent farmers, sowing fear of rape in defenceless women and dispensing summary execution by AK47 to hapless commuters on key highways in the Yoruba heartland.

What lends Ojaja II’s stern message more pungency is that it was delivered to a visiting five-star royal father from the Arewaland, the Emir of Borgu, Alhaji Muhammed Dantoro. Discarding the forebearance expected of a royalty of not just his gravitas but also the co-chair of the National Council of Traditional Rulers, Oba Ogunwusi said: “We keep hammering on the Fulani herdsmen trying to take over everywhere, it is the bad ones that we want to kick out and enough is enough. We will kick them and do justice to the peace and peaceful coexistence in our country.”

Elsewhere in Lagos, the Aare, Gani Adams (doubling as the strongman of the dreaded Odua Peoples Congress), also spoke in similar veins to a high-powered delegation sent by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to explore the possibility of collaborating with the vigilante organization to address the emergent security threat in the South-west.



Said Adams: “We have identified the dark spots across the South-west, and we are more than ready to fight the scourge head-on.”

The tough words by the Ooni and the Aare would seem to provide a perfect backdrop to two summits already scheduled this week in Ibadan to address the new challenge – one is brokered by the college of six Yoruba governors and the second by the Yoruba leaders of thought under the auspices of Dr. (Mrs) Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, the daughter of sage Awo.

So, when ordinarily affable Ooni begins to talk with such severity and the OPC warrior also openly sharpening his sword, the omens should not be lost on the onlookers, however distant.

After centuries of peaceful coexistence secured through bloody inter-tribal wars and bitter liberation struggles, it is very doubtful if the descendants of Oduduwa would sit idly by in supposedly modern time and the age of enlightenment and allow their homeland be overrun that casually without a fight. Therefore, woe betide the undiscerning who might have been misconstruing the cautious gait of the lion as cowardice.

Perhaps, the Inspector General should, at this moment, be commended for taking a proactive step to engage OPC before the militants take liberty to resort to self-help. Whenever faced with even far less existential threats in the local communities over the years, easily excitable OPC militants have rarely ever showed any self-restraint in the deployment of often unconventional arsenal with ruthless efficiency. Much less when there now seems to be an outcry that the homeland is under siege.

As they say, when a father sanctions an ordinarily valiant son to fight, the latter rarely ever comes sneaking in, but instead smash their way into the battle arena.

Indeed, tempers would be inflamed beyond repairs were we to succumb to the temptation to gobble every tale told on the social media on kidnap-for-ransom, humiliating rape of women before their spouses or mindless and unprovoked mass murder by armed herders barging onto the highways from the forest and opening fire on any vehicle driving by.

But some of the tales are nonetheless compelling enough given that victims are quite identifiable and losses suffered easily quantifiable. Such testimonies always sound more like extracts from a Grade A horror movie.



Relations of a poor varsity lecturer at the University of Ife, Professor Ademola Aderele, had to raise N5m to save him from being slaughtered in May by those he vividly described as herders of Fulani stock.

On another day, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State himself had to depend on the superior firepower of his platoon of bodyguards to storm through an ambush on the Akure-Ilesa highway. Few days later, a traditional ruler in Ondo reportedly outgunned another band of kidnappers who waylaid him on yet another highway.

Much earlier, elder statesman, Chief Olu Falae, was not only beaten up and kidnapped for days, his farm was torched by another group of herders in Akure outskirts. Just as the “territorial integrity” of Professor Wole Soyinka’s literary redoubt in “Ijegba forest” in Ogun was similarly breached in another episode.

Last week, son of the immediate past health minister, Professor Isaac Adewole, only regained freedom three days after being kidnapped from his farm in Ibadan.

Seasoned journalist and publisher of The Cable, Simon Kolawole, added to the unending tale of woes last weekend with a pathetic story of how a friend of his had his cashew farm mindlessly destroyed in Kwara. The vandals were not content with having their cattle ravage the land and savage the crops, they, in an extraordinary act of wickedness, proceeded to set the entire three acres of farm on fire.

Against this backcloth, I think the good news from the interaction of the Ooni and the visiting Borgu emir is the expression of a shared belief by both parties that the menace of killer herders now constitutes not just a threat to Yorubaland but also the entire nation, hence a commitment to join a collective search for solution. For, truth be told, the entire Arewaland is no less besieged by the same killer gangs, with even a traditional chief in President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown in Katsina already clocking more than forty days in captivity after being seized from his home.

Left to OPC, it is doubtful if the combined forces of these evil herders can survive a day or two of pitched battle across the Yoruba forest. But when things get too hot for them to bear, the natural option left for these bandits would be to slip into states like Edo, Kogi and Kwara whose borders are contiguous with the South-West. What this simply underscores is the need for a holistic approach to solving the issue.

In Edo State, for instance, the same killer herders have long been giving natives hell. So, it is hoped that Governor Godwin Obaseki would take more than a passing interest in the two crucial conversations in Ibadan this week on regional security with a view to drawing appropriate lessons to fortify his own borders and ensuring that his efforts to foster a new agro-allied economy in Edo is not entirely derailed by the subversive herders scaring folks off their farms.



To truly confront the monster confronting our collective humanity at a global level, there is, therefore, an urgent need for honesty in really identifying and establishing the true identities of these beasts, and shun the temptation to easily politicize the matter.

But truth be told, those inclined to jump into quick conclusions can hardly be faulted to an extent. Such reading is undoubtedly partly fueled by some unforced errors on the part of government. A classic example is the indiscretion of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in making a policy statement that a radio station is to be established for the nomadic Fulani and going a ridiculous distance further to explain that its programming will be devoted exclusively to their education and enlightenment. The law only designates NBC as a regulator, not a champion of any interest. Laudable as such idea might appear, the initiative is better left for Miyetti Allah, the umbrella advocacy group for Fulani herders.

That said, let us now cast sentiments apart and consider some variables dispassionately. If nothing at all, one common thread can easily be established from the testimonies of victims. Which is the fact that the killer herders are mostly non-citizens of Nigeria, though of the Fulani stock who traditionally straddle Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and Chad in West Africa. Only that could perhaps explain the psychopathetic malice on display when destroying people’s farms, the unspeakable beastiality without provocation and the manical savagery with which they butcher victims who never even put up any resistance.

From extensive study and observations, I am, therefore, one of those sold on two probable triggers.

One, with the intensification of the shelling and dispersal of Boko Haram insurgents in the blighted North-east, there is a possible ambition by them to regroup in more fertile land in South-west.

Added to such exodus down south is, of course, the migration of the Fulani pastoralists from ancestral mountaneous Futa Jallon in Guinea. Pushed either by climate change that means parched earth for their famished herd or simply inspire by adventure.

Along their journey without destination, it is quite cheap to acquire lethal weapons from now largely ungoverned jungle of Libya and parts of Mali at some point, and thereafter fall into a romance with the Jihadist doctrine of affiliates of terror franchises like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Now, being wandering citizens of no nation, it is only natural that they covet greener pastures belonging to others. To access Nigerian territories, they require nothing more than mere invocation of kinship spirit of their cousins here. Thereafter, they continue their nefarious expedition down south in search of people’s land to call their own.

Bearing this in mind, I think the challenge now is to reappraise the integrity of our national borders and find out if those tasked with the critical duty of securing our gates are truly patriotic enough to the Nigerian nation to realize the high treason in aiding and abetting the infiltration of our land by these rogue Fulani elements from the Diaspora.

So, now that there is a consensus that evil herders constitute a common existential threat to the nation ultimately, there is no justification henceforth whatsoever for the national security establishment not to respond to these vermins with, in fact, a hand heavier and more decisive than what is often applied against IPOB, Niger Delta militants and other elements questioning Nigeria’s sovereignty. For, what is now clearly at stake is our continued survival as a nation.


https://thenationonlineng.net/genocidal-herders-and-the-siege-to-odualand/

few hours to the end of his reign as Ogun State helsman, embattled Governor Ibikunle Amosun contacted the state’s Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, confessing that he had thousands of arms and millions of ammunition in store at a secret armoury in Government House, and that he had decided to hand them over to the police.


Mr Amosun’s anointed candidate for the March 9 governorship election, Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), had been roundly defeated by Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress and the governor was now desperate to clear the Government House of any incriminating material as Mr Abiodun moved in to take charge.

Shortly after he was contacted, Commissioner Makama raced to Government House with some of his subordinates. On arrival, truckloads of arms and ammunition were brought out of a nondescript amoury inside the Ogun State Government House.


And then begun a short hand-over proceeding during which the governor surrendered at least four million rounds of ammunition, 1,000 units of AK47 assault rifles, 1,000 units of bulletproof vests and an armoured personnel carrier (APC).

At the event, Mr Amosun said he procured the arms and ammunition to check the widespread insecurity in his state of 3,751,140 residents, according to the 2006 census. He said he decided to keep them at the Government House Armoury to ensure they were not allocated indiscriminately by security agencies.


The speech making over, the arms and ammunition were driven to the police command headquarters in the Elewe-Eran area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Four weeks after the event, top Nigerian security operatives remained alarmed that a civilian governor would create an armoury and store thousands of arms there. The agents are also wondering why Mr Amosun has not been arrested and prosecuted for violating sections of the Nigeria Firearms Act.

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The law forbids individuals and civilian institutions from illegally operating armouries or possessing prohibited firearms, including artillery, apparatus for the discharge of any explosive or gas diffusing projectile, rocket weapons, bombs and grenades, machine-guns and machine-pistols, military rifles (namely those of calibres 7.62 mm, 9 mm, .300 inches and .303 inches), revolvers and pistols whether rifled or unrifled (including flint-lock pistols and cap pistols).


It remains unclear how Mr Amosun obtained the weapons. Authorities are wondering how he imported the weapons, and how he transported them to Government House and stored them for prolonged periods without being detected.

Some security experts say they are suspicious he might have acquired far more weapons than he gave up to the police and that some of them might be in wrong hands already.

The former governor, now senator, declined to give his own side of the story. He did not answer or return telephone calls made to him over five days. He also did not respond to text and WhatsApp messages sent to him.

Ogun State Government House (Photo Credit: Wikimedia)
Ogun State Government House (Photo Credit: Wikimedia)

When contacted, his media adviser, Rotimi Durojaiye, requested this reporter to email him the questions meant for Mr Amosun. Five days later, Mr Durojaiye is yet to respond with answers.

‘Absolutely troubling, illegal’

Authorities at Nigeria’s key security agencies told PREMIUM TIMES Mr Amosun may have procured the arms and ammunition without securing End-User certificates from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA). End-User certificates are absolutely required to import controlled products into Nigeria.


A guideline by the NSA office stipulates that End-User Certificate requests for arms and ammunition must be made by approved security agencies on behalf of themselves or their qualified vendors. Neither Mr Amosun nor his state is an approved security agency or qualified security equipment vendor.

“In line with international best practices EUCs for arms and ammunition are to be obtained before the shipment of the items from the originating country. These conditions equally apply for parts and accessories of all military armaments and hardware,” the guideline states.


A spokesperson for the Office of the NSA, the only government institution responsible for issuing end-user certificates, did not return requests for comments. But PREMIUM TIMES learnt from multiple sources within the agency that Mr Amosun or his state could not have been granted certificates to procure and store arms.

Also, the Nigeria Customs Service said Mr Amosun did not clear the deadly equipment through Nigerian ports, and that no one without an end-user certificate could be allowed to bring controlled items into Nigeria.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/336813-amosun-surrenders-1000-ak47-rifles-4million-bullets-acquired-before-2019-elections.html

Justice Ayokunle Faji of a Federal High Court in Lagos State on Monday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest and production in court of CEO of Innosson Nigeria Ltd, Innocent Chukwuma and two others, over fraud allegations.

Details later…..


https://dailypost.ng/

Dreew:
You sound really desperate like your life line depends on this sham called Nigeria. Mind you, I'm yoruba.

Who cares

Racoon:
[s][/s]It happened to the former USSR.Even Yugoslavia also splited.Meanwhile your demigod is passionately advocating the formation of a seperatist country from Morocco.

Nigeria is not Morocco youngster

Destiny34:
Why're you guys always afraid divisionof, if Nigeria divide will you die. That means without SS/SE there no Nigeria!

Learn from history young man

We won’t allow any miscreants to kill innocent children and women for greedy purposes again

theenchanter:
mumu, how can u post something and not understand it?

He never called for division of d country, he said d central govt is too strong and asked buhari to create 8 big blocs (regions). He said we're practicing a unitary govt imposed by d military and not truly a federal system.

He said d 8 regions should be responsible for their affairs.

We know his inner motive

He never meant well for this country

highcollide:
unity beggar....


unity almajiri....

Yet you and your leaders are rooting for Atiku Abubakar

Nigeria will remain as one entity

Nobody will divide us

There is strength in unity

We say big NO to our haters

Nigeria won’t be divided

Cc mynd44

Cc lalasticlala

Can you imagine

Someone that have benefited immensely from Nigeria

Someone that campaigned for Atiku day and night

Someone that supported Pdp day and night

Agbakoba is really an agbako

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and human rights activist, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has told President Muhammadu Buhari to divide the country into eight regional structures.

Agbakoba, one of the greatest heroes of democracy in Nigeria, noted that there are so many unclear issues in Nigeria about how people of the country want to organize themselves and how they want to live together.


The senior lawyer told reporters at the weekend that insecurity and other serious issues facing the country “can’t [be] fully arrested,” if the central government remains so strong as it is now.

He added that, “This is because community policing or state policing is a tactical tool to deal with the problem, but the strategic tool is the bigger question of the national question.

“There are so many unclear issues in Nigeria about how we want to organize ourselves, how we want to live together, this is what some people have called the restructuring question, some call it the national question, but I call it devolution of powers question.


“Whatever it’s called that is the central issue that needs resolution so that even if you use tactical tools like community policing, but the bigger issue remains then I don’t know if we can resolve it.

“What Nigeria needs is space, there are diverse ethnicities and they are living in such close proximity that one ethnic community is in the face of the other with counter-cultures, counter-religious beliefs and that is not healthy. Even in America in spite of all their advanced democracy, they take care of diversities.

“So, I think if I were to advise the president, for instance, the first thing to do is create space…,identify the ethnic regionalities, create eight big blocs, even though we have 6 to make it 8.


“And then I will give them the power to do things at their own local level, it’s called the principle of subsidiarity; let them work at their own local level. Subsidiarity is where people engage themselves at the local level such that you find in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England.

“Part of the challenge they had when they were living closely was to create an act of settlement of 1705, that was when peace began to come and each of the regions recognized themselves.

“They all had their own prime ministers and they call them first ministers, so the prime minister of the UK is the one we see internationally, but on local matters like school, refuse collection, education, agriculture, employment, health issues, it’s local.



“So, imagine where eight of the regional structures in Nigeria were fending for themselves at their local level and not depending on federal allocation from Abuja, things will be different.

“Immediately they will take control of what is around them, they will create state police, they will create the relevant security apparatus to deal with any threat, therefore, you don’t need one Chief of Army Staff, and they don’t need one Inspector General of Police to be running around entire Nigeria.

“For instance…say in the South-south region, they will have all the relevant apparatuses to deal with whatever situation that they need to survive as a region.



“They could have courts; they might like to have a Supreme Court of the South-south where cases end in the Supreme Court of the South-south, so they do not have to go to the Supreme Court of Nigeria because the Supreme Court of Nigeria has no business dealing with issues arising from there.

“That is the kind of space I think that should be paramount in the issue concerning where Nigeria is heading to.

“Because that discussion is not on the table, all these ethnic issues flare up as major national insecurity challenge. So, that is what I will do or suggest if I had the opportunity to advise on it. The Federal Government is too strong.



“The Federal Government is actually not a Federal Government, ours is a unitary government because the states have no power on the legislative list so there are 68 items on the Exclusive List and as the name implies in Exclusive List only the Federal Government handles it.

“There is 30 on the Concurrent List, concurrent is between the federal and the state to legislate, but if the Federal Government legislates then pursuant to what is called the doctrine of covering the field the state is not allowed to do anything. In other words, the states have no legislative authority, that creates a problem.

“Why should the Federal Government be dealing with Universal Basic Education for primary schools? What is the Federal Government responsibility with that? I don’t understand.



“What is the Federal Government responsibility with setting up a JAMB process so that you equalize educational activities, but if my grandchild from Anambra scores 282, but my friend’s grandson from Zamfara scores 100, my friend’s grandson gets into the university, but my own does not get in. Why don’t you simply say ….look each region can just organize itself and take your examination?

“So, it is this centrifugal federalism, that means federalism that has a pyramid that has only one leader that is our problem.

“We just have to blast the structures and allow regional leaders as we had under the 1960 Constitution. So, when you have regional leaders you will have people who will like to play regional politics or regional law.

“There is no reason, for instance, in my own profession the eight regions I propose should not be awarding SAN to their best lawyers. Why must it only be Abuja? In the UK, the SAN in England is different from the SAN in Scotland.

“So, the formula that worked for Nigeria was to recognize the differences and I think the best example of the agreements that we can apply is the Aburi Accord.

“The Aburi Accord recognized that Nigeria’s problems were as a result of our diversity not being well managed. We need to manage our diversity that is the way we can move forward




https://dailypost.ng/2019/06/23/apply-aburi-accord-divide-nigeria-now-agbakoba-tells-buhari/

PaChukwudi44:
In 2023 we are all voting a northern PDP candidate.Kadunna,Kano,katsina,Enugu,Anambra,Rivers will vote along the same line this time around

That’s how it has always been

Stop repeating yourself

rusher14:
Let's face it, the guy has been out of work for 4 years.

Pdp and supporters are criminals naturally

rusher14:

Really sad

Reno is a hardened criminal

Seriously, I begin to wonder for our politicians

It seems we take God for granted if we even know who and how God work

You lied

Steal

Maim and still in the act

N someone will tell you that once you accept or receive Jesus your sins are washed away

Same to the Islamic faith that when you believe ALLAH and his prophet you will not go to hell

The truth is , only when you asked for total forgiveness and desist from the act

That’s when you will be forgiven