LAGOS: Monarchial open challenge to anarchy, the social mishap; distortions in the delicate balance of social accords.

By SirDebimpe Asunni.

The current tide will surely soon subside and, we will all move on while life continues. Our relationship has long endured, but for Yorubas, from all the southwestern states to be publicly assertive of the phrase "Hey! Lagos is our land", is an omnious sign that something is not right. This has never occured in the past. It shows there is a distortion in the socially designed modules of tolerance.

In every socio-ethnic relationship, some mutual dependence and the peaceful co-existence it promotes, are woven around certain non-articulated accords such that in the ensueing social intercourse, benefits mutually derived are sustainable on regular maintainance of these usually unwritten and unarticulated social treaties carefully weighed and measurable on a conceptual balance.

Slightest disturbance of the delicate balance will inevitably culminate in mutual suspicions, mistrusts and disturbance of the social order. In such instances, should the order be again need to be restored, all stake holders will need to re-examine situations and find out where exactly things have gone wrong in matters and circumstances. The stimuli for chaos in Host-Guest relationship, and the eventual social mishap they tend to provoke, are usually rooted in power equations, it's sharing and political differentials.

While the perceived guest in such arrangement sees more acquisition of powers as necessary intruments in furtherance of his perceived rights and as an essensial ingredient to push forward and harness all potentials convertible to economic and identity survival, the host perceives same as a quest fixated in domineering invasiveness and a clear threat to her own identity and therefore, a breach of the conceptual social accord.

While no tribe is right to claim supremacy or superiority over another, be it of jewsih tribe or of egyptian ancestry, History hijacks a central stage in the life of human kind. We are embodiment of history ourselves because it gives meaning to our identity as individual beings and as tribes, and to our purposes in life as the species of beings we are. History, is the compass by which we navigate through the world. It is the searchlight we beam to the past to enable us reconcile motivs and destinies. It also serves as the guide for the journey into the future not readily understood from the present. There is no such thing as innovations, inventions and development, they are all adventures under history itself. In our journey through life as beings, there are only three things and others are necessarily sub-issues under them: Identity, Time and History. The movement of identity in time is what history seeks to encompass. Without history , we are empty and non-existent. Science, fictions and spiritualities are the ways in which we manifest the essence of the trio of History, Time and our Identity. All the great men of the ancient and the present, sees our life in these philosophical compass. History, History, history I repeat is the link between our yesterday and today and it is also the lead into our tomorrow.

As vagues and unassuming the concept of 'history' itslef tends to sound, it is a formidable instrument by which a people can be united and dis-united, their ethnic sentiments provoked and revoked. Any subtle attempt to distort the history of a people especially by a force historically perceived alien is like declaring a war on what such group considers her heritage and feelings of suspicions will be followed by misgivings and ultimate contortion on the fabrics of mutual existence hitherto enjoyed.

It is through those philosophical prisms that; the social mishap and the socio-ethnic political disturbance of the delicate balance easily perceived in Lagosians' clime.

Mending the current tears in the fabrics of this social order can never be a process undergone in such a jiffy. It will linger in the process of time and gradually fade along the passage of same. While our threatened peace and harmony struggle to survive, our mutual patience and sacrifice must be made to endure while we all take our gaze away from those happenings provoking our current furies.

4bobo:

Thats true. Reminds me of my dad's adage: MEN OF SENSE DREAD DEBT, AND SPEND LESS ON DRESS.
Hope u will find it soonest and if u have the pics, post it here.

DON'T hide behind computer to create pains

Bucolic.

We want #‎CHANGE‬, not '10Naira change'!

GENERAL BUHARI SURRENDERS!

MESSAGE FROM Muhammadu Buhari THIS MORNING:

Good morning, my friends. As we continue our relentless pace campaigning for #‎Change‬ this week, let’s reflect on the past few weeks -GMB

I have become seriously disturbed by the volume of falsehood and desperation from the opposition campaign of the PDP.

I clearly underrated the panic and lack of integrity that leads people to tell barefaced lies, and must confess, it continues to confound me.

I have run for office before, but I have consistently done so without desperation or anger, because elections are not war.

Why should candidates tell so many frantic lies in order to win elections, if truly their purpose is to ‘transform’ the lives of our people?

It is a tragedy to see the ruling party focus on pettiness and lies; rumours of cancer, foreign treatment, and certificates they know exist.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Nigerians died in #‎Baga‬ days ago. Our unemployment numbers are rising.

The businesses of our enterprising youth are being killed by lack of access to finance and poor economic policies.

This campaign should be about those issues. It should be about today and the future; about securing Nigerian lives and Nigerian land.

The desperation is beyond my understanding. #‎ThingsMustChange‬

What is this obsession with lies? What is this obsession with pettiness? What is this obsession with threats and attacks?

All of us, citizens and voters need to ask ourselves – why is our President so desperate?

How can the President of this country be talking about remembering phone numbers and coup speeches?

How can his campaign be talking about dead ex-leaders, jogging around the stadium and outright lies about my health?

How can a President who has led this country for six years be unable to run on his own record and his achievements?

Where is his fabled calm, where is his reserve, where is his composure? Why is he so ruffled? Why is he so frustrated and afraid?

We should be deeply worried that a President who called for calm during governorship elections has now lost his cool in his own elections.

Our President and his allies must remember that he is not only a candidate for office; he is the President of Nigeria.

We do not have a disinformation or propaganda wing in our campaign. We have no need to waste time in driving petty attacks.

We have not spoken about the President's family, his health, his religion, his ethnic group, or his phone number.

We are concerned only about his record – has he secured Nigeria? Has he fought corruption? Has he truly grown the economy so it can work?

Do our children find it easy to get jobs? Do our sisters and brothers find it easy to set up and sustain their businesses?

Can our president keep us safe when we travel to any part of this country? Is your life better today than it was six years ago?

We have only presented our record – how we fought insurgencies, how we stabilized the Naira, how we tackled corruption.

We have presented our vision and plans – through our manifesto (available on http://www.thisisbuhari.com/ ) and our town hall meetings.

We are lucky to have in this election two people who have led this country. I am proud to present our record of solutions and effectiveness.

Imagine the accelerated growth we can now achieve in a democracy –which the world has seen to be the most effective way of governing nations.

Let us focus on those issues, please. Elections are not war. February 14 is not about politicians. It is about our country.

I am appealing to you: the damage to this country is great. The level of unemployment and insecurity is intolerable, worsened by corruption.

Therefore, I shall refuse to indulge the smear campaign. I refuse to allow them take away the focus from the issues that concern you.

We insist on a campaign of hope, change and the future. This election is about big, important issues. We refuse to play it small.

Join us as we continue the relentless pace of our rallies in Minna and Kaduna today. #Change is finally here, my friends. - GMB

So sad, the lies are so much that the General has to surrender from being able to reply to them any longer.

i was hoping this post would make it to the FP for more contributions.

The statement says

"behind every successful man, there is a woman"

But who is the said woman?

This is my own view;

Yeah, that statement is true but who that 'woman' is, is the part fundamentally mis-conceived by a large chunk of people. The woman behind the success of every Man is his Mother and not his Wife. The wife will later grow to become the woman behind the success of her own children. No need to be in a haste and claim the glory of another woman.


What is your take?

Creamish:
He's claiming to be GEJ'son....its on the front page of one of the national papers... GEJ denied him tho..

But the guy has challenged the President to a DNA test.

No wonder, GMB was always in court to challenge PDP's victory!

YOU WILL NOW UNDERSTAND OBJ BETTER...

PASTOR TUNDE BAKARE Says, "I support Buhari."

. Rev MBAKA SAYS, "Goodluck is badluck to Nigeria--"

Cardinal Okogie says: "President Jonathan should Forget Second Term----"

Pastor Kalejaye of RCCG says: "Buhari, A Better
Candidate Than Jonathan---"

Rev Chris Okotie says: "Jonathan's declaration has occult connotation

Pastor Bomang Moses says: "Go to the streets and spread the Gospel of Change. Ask them to Vote for Change, This is the turn of Nigeria........"

Apostle Sulleiman says: "2015 election would be a replica of June 12 where the Nation will unite against a particular candidate----"

Apostle Oludeji says:" In 2011, the masses chose
Goodluck Jonathan but after the election he chose the politicians. Now its time to say goodbye---"

Pastor Uchena says: "Use your PVC to claim back your Destiny because prayers alone can't change anything without good. leadership....."

Pastor Uchena says: "My God told me that Buhari
means well for Nigeria. Poverty does not know
whether you are a Christian or Muslim...."

Pastor Peter Kayode says: "In 2012 i told my daddy in the Lord that President Goodluck is never a Christian but an agent of destruction...."
@ Sprinkle
RE: NIGER DELTA READY FOR WAR!!!

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I was in conversation with a United Nation official yesterday and we were talking about the acquisition of warships by ethnic militant Tompolo, in a country were our brave soldiers are being starved off equipment. He told me point blank that in every major conflict he has assessed or being involved in as a UN official it all started with one fellow choosing to ARM an ETHNIC MILITIA as against the national army of the country, sometimes deliberately depleting the army before the violence starts.

I first got reports of Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo buying military helicopters and hardware from diplomatic intelligence sources about 2 years ago. Shortly after that he was arrested in Benin Republic but released upon the intervention of our government. What I can see is very clear, JONATHAN is leading an effort to create an alternate military force in the Niger Delta to force the hands of the generality of NIGERIANS when the time comes. How else can one explain Tompolo a man once declared wanted for killing our soldiers now effectively taking over the duties of our navy?

Where is all the money coming from? Do you think the arms are being bought for boat parade or regatta? No they are to kill NIGERIANS.

JONATHAN has never been able to rise to fill the position of the NIGERIAN Presidency, he acts like an ethnic war lord and at the rate he is going he is going to push us into the path of Liberian and Sierra Leone, while silly people are busy cheering him on.

I have taken it upon myself to write a letter of complaint and warning to the United Nations Secretary General to pay attention to what JONATHAN and his cohorts are doing in Nigeria, seemingly pushing the country closer to a violent ethnic crisis.

This crisis would consume the entire African continent if not checked.

This morning I received this in my in box, and I couldn't help but shudder that we are dealing with really devious human beings who have mistakenly found themselves in power. Their attitude and body language says it all:

"I'm really amused that we are all screaming murder years after the deed was done? It's well over 3 years that I have been screaming the overall plans and strategies of the south-south vs the behemoth Nigeria, i.e, their eventual emancipation! For the sake of many who have not read or few who have taken these posts as scare mongering by Oyenuga Lanre Paul, I'll re summarise them here. To free their region of the shackles of endless exploitation and domination by the rest of Nigeria, the south-south decided as follow:

1). Cripple the Nigerian Army's capacities to engage in sustained warfare: thus the encouragement of BH and decimation of the army's hardware and personnel.

2). Ensure Nigeria is economically destitute and unable to spend on warfare: thus the unprecedented looting of the treasury, resulting in our current vulnerability. Okonjo Iweala is not 'coordinating' for nothing.

3). Is the military takeover of our coastal waters by the south-south, which is what the coastal waterways protection contract with Government Tompolo was designed to guarantee. Let no one be deceived, less than 0.5% of our military, (including naval and air force) personnel can swim in an 8 foot deep pool, not to mention a river or coastal waters. Thus, how do you engage these toughened militia in their coastal waters, when we couldn't tackle BH in plain view?

4th). Is the intense frustrations of the oil producing companies by the south southerners nouveau-riche to hand over the onshore production bases to them by forced sale or outright disruption of their operations. As we chat here, 70% of the onshore operations have been sold off by the major players like shell, Mobil, etc.

As well as the training of ex militants as pilots under amnesty Anyone doubting my claims of warning about these can browse through my timeline.

IF THE SOUTH-SOUTH PULLS OUT TODAY, WE ARE SITTING DUCKS! The South-East are tagging along with the south-south, for obvious reasons and I don't blame them!

The choice of Buhari is due to these calculations by our rulers in the South-West and the core North. Unless I'm paranoid, we have a scary situation ahead. I moved my family out as far back as 2011, based on this concerns.

GEJ will very likely lose the elections in 2015, but the south-south will keep their oil. Can we afford a war with a region sitting on oil? Do we have a military capable of delivering our goal? Would it not be cheaper to renegotiate our federation?

Or, would it be another Rehoboamic declaration of "To your tents o Israel"? GEJ ain't clueless, he's merely troubled by the plots he's a key player in?

Viva Le Nigeria'.."!
It's from Oyenuga Lanre Paul

By Oyenuga Lanre Paul.

DEAR BUHARI HATERS...COME LET US READ TOGETHER...

You are surely victims of PDP propaganda machineries. We know this very well because we have also been in your shoes before.

Calaumnous campaigns against Gen.Buhari is so potent that irrespective of your exposure or level of education, you can still fall.

Many intellectuals and elites who were once victims are all over the social media giving their painful testimonies of how they had been brainwashed in 2011 to think Buhari was a demon.

Today, they give new stories of how they were liberated through personal researches and objective analysis of the General's passion for Nigeria as evidential in his tenure as a military leader and his undying spirit to salvage Nigeria from the current triad of insecurity, economic failure and corruption.

Reverend fathers are singing new songs, Pastors are reviewing their former perceptions, Journalists are clearing up the mess they once created around the personality of that great icon of our Nation.

Reports are pouring in about his success of the past. Letters are being 'exhumed' from various archives of How He was described as an outstanding international fellow in his days at the US war college. We are now being exposed to the fact that Buhari was the only military officer who returned his unspent stipends each time He returned from a military training abroad.

He was the only officer among his contemporaries in the army, who used to return his official cars after 4 years to get a new one as the law stipulated while others kept both the old and the new.

We now know that Gen. Buhari earns lower salary compared to other former heads of states due to his rejection of some allowances he considers unnecessary since 1999.

Today our Nation is sick and almost heading to a total collapse. Providence comes to our rescue and it beckons on the goodwill of this unsung hero. The tide is fast changing. Buhari's honesty and integrity is paying off. It is a necessity our generation needs to witness, to re-direct our warped mentality that Politics and leadership positions cannot be considered without being dishonest and deceptive to some extent.

We have been groomed in this society to think Politicians must as a matter of necessity be Liers and deceivers. We even use the word "Politicise" "playing politics" synonymously to mean "Lieing" or "not being straight forward". That is the way we have been made to think and grow.

Those who have done this to us and have deprived us of our mental morality and filled our thoughts with this evil beliefs are the same people who have made sure every outstanding Nigerian, who pursue integrity as his own life philosophy is adequately demonised and made unto a detestable and unenviable model for us as growing up youths and the potential leaders of the future. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is a classical example of the victims.

They have become so brazen in their filthy ways that they are now openly teaching our generation that Lies, deception, calaumny, slandars, libels, blackmails are what we need to be great. To them, the era of integrity and honesty is irretrievably gone for good. We should forget about those good virtues because they won't make us succeed in life.

Hear one of these enemies of our society speak:

"“If you cannot lie, get out of politics. Anything you are involved in has its own rule. You are in politics to win, win first and let other things follow. Don’t be the one crying louder; lest you will be the one they will take to court. If you are talking of honesty or morals, go and become an Imam or Pastor. Politics cannot be the way it used to be. The challenges are more now. The variables have changed. The issues that we are going to face in 2015 are different from the ones we faced in 1999 and we must bear this in mind. Our society is not as grateful as it used to be, the values and morals have gone down. If you want to win, use the modern morality.”

Dr. Aliyu Babangida (January, 2015)"

Those of you who still remain in their mental enslavement, calling Buhari all the unprintable names the Babangida Aliyu's have stamped on his personality, You that still habour hatred and enmity in your mind against Buhari due to the propaganda fabricated by these people, you can as well know that you have made a resolution to dine with those who are clearly the enemies of our progress.

I have spoken!

The political south-west has been adjudged the strongest in the southern flank of Nigeria.That truth has been long conceded by the treaty of silence. The Yorubas are the most advanced politically and the most intellectually sophisticated in the south . All the entire Nigeria has come to realise that any presidential aspirant must consider South-west as a focus point of entry into the wagon of victory at the poll. Any time the yorubas feel their aspirations are not being met within the Nigeria union, they would build some formidable politico-social front against any despotic leader whether military or civilian.

At a point in time, General Ibrahim Babangida owned Nigeria as a military head of state. while his tactical subtle brutality had filled nigerians' guts with painful chills of totalitarian dominance, when a presidential smile was the capital signature publicly appended at occassions that any ill-fated recipient of Maradona's grin must not live to witness the sun set of the same day, when the Gideon Orkar messiahnic effontry was devoured into the ignominy of one would-have-been a laudable military coup ever staged that it wasn't , at that time, the most feasible wayout of the Babangida owned excruciating Nigeria had crumbled flat on the remnant of Nigerians hope. That was when the Yorubas rose and formed that historical movement that would make them single-handedly deposess IBB of Nigeria. They did not stop at that, they made sure IBB was so terrified that He jitterily hand-picked a Yoruba man as an interim leader. Abacha would take over through another coup and emerge a brutal force with his bayonnete hunting down every intrepid voice with Yoruba blood running in the jugular.

Abacha had studied the trend for long and He knew the intellectual south-west has always been the waterloo of any despot with fixity in self- perpetuation. Yet the Yorubas would not compromise their ancestral martial gallantry, it was Pen for gun, street demonstrations in retaliation for Abacha's crushing mercilessness. Yorubas had formed NADECO, a socio-political formidable front that fought the reigns of terror head on. The anti-government sentimentalism was heaped out of the ghostly Radio Kudirat. Abacha would later succumb to the frigid fang of a forever mysterious death after an alleged frolicking with a prostitute in the Aso cave! Once again, another despot fell to the depth of the earth.

That relentless justice demanding racial radicalism would later force a Babangida-influenced General Abdul Salam to make the next election to the Aso Rock be a restricted contest between two Yoruba Men, the two "Olu's". Olufalae was submerged while Olusegun emerged. It is that utter doggedness and political resilience that has "standed" the Yorubas among other southern tribes in a glowing political halo.

While accidental political mis-calculus harvested the Nigeria Presidency from the ground-nut farmyard to the crayfish streams, the shoelessly growing communities had basked in the euphoria of being the providencial beneficiaries of the rudder. While the other co-hemispheric tribes were equally rejoicing that their desolate distress wailings reverberating from the creeks would finally be heard to as far as the desertifying savannah and that a common sympathy would then be born. At that moment of reconciliatory possibilities, there from the creeks some political hippopotami got driven ashore! Their satiety for hegemonic quest will linger on, the lootomaniac hippopotami were quickly threatened that the politically strongest co-hemispheric tribe must first be broken and severed from the string attaching all to the political baloon. "Break Baba first, then appoint none of his clan to any position of singnificant influence", Hippopotami have said.

The two recent elections in the west, were the the most humiliating moments for the Yoruba race. When dissidents in their mutinous hordes were hauled out of the creeks, cladly facelifted in military outfits and unleash'd on the historically unconquared territories of the Oduduwa, with all the alcoholic feelings of being the lords of the trigger! No Nigerian leader as ever gone so audaciously contemptous for the rather sacred sovereignity of the Yoruba Race as "Jonathanyau" did ! We were conquared by the creeks, not by the confluence in Lokoja. Sure, Power dictates it all, the hooks and the nets are today terrorising the Ink and the quills. Who could have ever thought that the Yoruba race that was davidic to the junta's downfall would easily be this conquared by the pin-head of the fishing hook?

" O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you #‎nations‬ and #‎tribes‬ that ye may #‎know_one_another‬. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware."

(Quran 49 verse 13)

One clear message in the above verse is that God almighty intentionally made human race unto Nations and He also broke the Nations into different tribes/ Ethnic groups. Also from the verse, we can also see clearly that He has given some distinguishing features to each tribes by which they can be identified as unique People in the appearance and morphology.

It is the above verse of the Quran that really answers my question on why it is so easy for an Ijaw man to identify an itsekri man even before the later utters a word! A yoruba man will identify an Hausa man and the Kanuri will identify Fulani as not being from his tribe. As a Medical student, while doing my dermatology posting, One of our consultant dermatologists who had his training in the US would tell us that many of his non-african colleagues in the US would always ask him How we africans don't have problems of identifying each other? "All africans are too identical to be differentiated, it is as if the same father and mother gave birth to all of them" they would argue.On his own part, He would reply them in return "The problem of identification should even be among you people, because the resemblance is far more on your side".

On my own part, It is the chinese and the Koreans that have always given me the puzzles over the years. I keep wondering how they truly identify each other because every one has tiny eyes, flat nose, short leg with relatively longer thighs that makes the buttocks quickly reach the ground as they try to sit down. When we would visit the beach here in lagos, i would have a difficult time trying to figure out any obvious difference in the appearance of the Chinese that came to the beach on weekends, yet my puzzle would remain unless i marked each with the outfit on his body.

On the contrary, a southerner in Nigeria can easily identify a Northerner and vice versa. Not only that, an experienced Yoruba man can as well identify further the sub-ethnic groups within the south west. i have always claimed and proven it to some friends, that i can Identify an Awori man and an Ijebu man many times even before they speak. i have this experience because i have lived very closely with the Awori and the Ijebu yoruba sub-ethnic groups.

Equally,while in the North as a student, some of my hausa classmates would tell me who was a fulani among them, not just that, while going outside the school, they would show you who is a fulani man even If they had never met him or heard him speak. i initially started to identify the obvious features of a fulani man. i realise He is typically slim, a bit taller, fair in complexion and a pointed nose. The confusion set in when i met some guys who claim to be Fulanis but completely lack any of these features. The funny part of it is that these "unfulani looking" chaps would again tell you who is Hausa, Kanuri ,Berom, Kaje etc. i later realised that the ability to identify each other depends on several years of living together with other tribes.

Our consultant dermatologists would tell us that the so-called white people know each other by tribes and that his American colleagues would tell from the mere look of a man and say if He is british, french, canadian, Alaskan, Irish, welsh etc. They would easily tell you where a man is likely to come from and the African chaps would be so surprised at how they do that so perfectly. He told us that He would let them realise that, in Africa, we don't only differentiate based on countries but also based on ethnic groups! To the white people, it would sound impossible because they hardly see any difference in our look just the way we don't see it in them especially the Japanesse, chinese, Koreans.

It is in that light that one can truly understand the dillemma of an average southerner when He confidently says the Boko Haram members are Hausa people. In the past, we have been told that the majority of the insurgents (almost 80%) are people recruited from Chad, Cameroon and Niger. The majority of the around 20% that are Nigerians are also kanuri. One insurgent that was captured months back even claimed to be a Yoruba man from Ogbomosho and another one that was part of the Bayero University Attack then was an Ibo man who had lived in Maiduguri for years.

You would always see our Hausa brothers telling you that these insurgents are not Hausas. To a southerner, who thinks anyone who speaks Hausa is an Hausa, He finds that difficult to believe. Hausa Language is spoken by various people in cameroon, Ghana, Niger and even chad, yet these people are not Nigerians or Northerners as many usually think and funny enough, the real maiduguri people know those that are foreigners and non-nigerians, no matter how perfect their Hausa may be. i have seen pictures of captured suicide bombers being displayed on a news papper website and all the northern people were happily saying "you can see now that He is not a Nigerian" "Only a blind person will not see He is from niger or chad". But funny enough, some of us from the south would not see the difference because we have not lived with them as to make out the difference just the way the white man says Africans are all alike.

I remember a time in the Past when i was coming to Lagos from Kaduna, i met a Yoruba man on board the Bus, who was a Vice Principal in Maiduguri for almost 10years and was coming down to Ilorin. He told me a lot about the truth of Boko haram and Borno state as their base. He said that whoever was behind Boko Haram must have been a master schemer to have selected maiduguri as the base of the organisation. He said borno state is a strategic place because there are hundreds of borders and illegal routes that enters Nigeria from there.

He went ahead to inform me that from the front of the school where was working, People board Buses and cars directly going to Central Africa Republic! That from many townships and villages, Cameroon, chad and Niger are at trekkable distances. Because of this, many foreigners have so mingled and dissolved into the indigenous Hausa, Kanuri and other tribes in such a way that only the indigenes can identify themselves. He told me how He also later began to identify foreigners after years of living there.

While we were somewhere around Kaduna state, we were stopped on the road by the immigration officers in the night. Then came a shocker of that journey! They would briskly flash their tourch lights to our faces and order some people to come down. They selected about 8 people from our 18 passenger bus and demanded for their I'd cards. i was wondering why only them and not others? Only 3 of us were Yoruba on board. To my surprise, the seleted 8 people turned out to be non-nigerians! They collected an average of 3-4 thousand from each before allowing them to join us. I turned to the maiduguri vice principal and asked How they knew those people were not Hausas or Nigerians? These are the people that have been speaking hausa perfectly on the journey, i asked If they were identified by another method because they did not even speak to them before ordering them out. He smiled and told me that He also used to see it as a magic until he had spent years in maiduguri and mastered the tricks. He told me their Hausa was perfect and fluent but i should take a look at the bridges of their noses that it has a characteristic depression and that their fingers are somewhat longer and skinny! i laughed my heart out. You know why? I could not even see any difference in what He said from his own nose and fingers and He is even a Yoruba man, not to even talk of the Hausa men. But He really knew what He was talking about because He told me that a woman sitting in the last row with an infant baby is equally a foreigner and that one of the detained guys is likely to be her husband. The immigration officers obviously left her because she was a nursing mum or knew her husband would pay for her. To my surprise, when those chaps returned one of them took the hand bag of the lady and took some money from it and went back to pay!

The Northerners keep saying Boko Haram is not their agenda and that their members are not truly Nigerians and yet many people don't believe. These are the people who have lived with these foreigners for years and identify them like the tips of their own fingers. I don't say there are no Hausa, Kanuri, Fulani among them, just the way we can never rule out the presence of Ibos, Yorubas or any other minority ethnic groups being among them.The truth remains that Boko Haram is never a Northerner's Agenda, Neither is it populated by the Hausas or any Nigerian tribe.

My parents are from a town in Oyo state called "Saki". It is a border town about 2hour drive from the state capital of Ibadan. After Saki, there is no another Nigerian town till one will enter Benin republic. The commercial activities of the Saki indegenes take them to "Parakou", "Togo" and all those neibhouring countries and not only that, a tribe called "Ajase" are indegenes of one of these francophone nations. Ajase people speak Yoruba as their indegenous language. Only a Yoruba man from Oyo state and probably some part of Osun state can tell these people's Yoruba is not that of Nigeria. Any non Yoruba man will never believe they are not Nigerian Yorubas and even some Yoruba people will be deceived into thinking that they are only speaking a different dialect but also from the south-west.

The Ajase people don't only speak Yoruba but also have the same tradition as yorubas, same culture, same way of dressing and similar cultural festivals! Infact Saki people use to listen to the Ajase news on Radio because they understand perfectly the news and Ajase person understand anything a Yoruba man speaks. Because of this inter-lingual and inter-cultural relationship, Ajase people freely enter Nigeria from Saki to do Business and some have lived there for too long to be considered foreigners again. However, the Saki people will easily identify these people no matter how long they have stayed in their midst. There are other countries where indegenes speak Yoruba like some minority part of Togo among others. It is also very common to see togolese in Saki coming to do menial jobs like farming and so on. Meanwhile, as one leaves Saki and heading to Ibadan, the state capital, there are Custom check points on the road where these non-nigerians are easily fished out by the custom officers. An Ibo man or an Hausa man who has always never seen any difference between these #‎Benenoiurs‬/ Togolese and the Yoruba people will always be surprised how they get fished out.

I have used my undertanding of the border setting of Saki and the multi-tribal and multinational composition with it's attendant identical dillemma to appreciate what maiduguri and borno state is passing through. If similar type of insugency should spring up in Saki city and it's neighbouring borders, All northerners and the easterners will surely keep calling the Yorubas Terrorists because only we would be able to know the true Identity of these foreigners that have lived among us and are looking perfectly like us.

The daily massacre of the northerners and the wanton destructions of their homes, farms and properties should have opened our eyes to the fact that no human being would want to make a nation ungovernable for another person and be wiping out his own people. What an insanity! How many of these trauma has the southern Nigeria truly felt from the boko haram insurgency? When People are killed and their properties destroyed and those that manage to survive among them are daily turned into refugees in their own country and yet those that are not being directly affected claim to be the victims, is that not insanity taking the fullest meaning?

Whoever is today destroying the north and killing and maiming the northerners will one day come over to the south after He is done with the north. The schemers of this blood-shed had firstly divided us to weaken what would have been our collective resistance. It is the turn of the North today, it will surely be ours tomorrow unless we see this as a war against us all.

~Nigeria Street Dawah

The N'deltan apologetics keeps skirting around the topic, they have not denied the facts that Dokubo and other millitant leaders are preparing the region for a civil war. They have not denied the fact that dokubo has trained all his teenagers how to shoot guns.

They have not told us the Niger delta periodic drum beats of a looming civil war is just a joke!

The prevailing line of thought among some Nigerians today that; our soldiers, who are currently in battle field in defense of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nigerian nation, appear to be losing the battle due to their inadequate training, may not be true after all,it's twin argument of inadequate and poor arms may still stand, what is obviously clear from the last week hot battle between the soldiers and the Boko harm insurgents, which led to about half of a thousand of our green berets over zealously charging beyond our geography(pun intended!) into the Cameroonian territory, proves the point that after all, our soldiers might not have had adequate training in defeating a handful of dissidents, who lurk in a government-owned forest reserve raising arms against the state, they are adequately trained in trail blazing records as most athletic soldiers in history. It takes some soul snapping drills to make a soldier a complete athlete!

Back to my secondary school days, we used to do what was called a “country race”. We would take off from the assembly ground in the morning and race round the town only to end it at the starting point . I had always wondered why it was called a ‘country race ’ when we only ran round the town. That question had always erupted and collapsed within my mind as I had never bothered to ask any of my teachers. The answer too, had remained elusive not until last week when our green berets demonstrated what my curiosity finally came to terms with as the correct definition of a “country race” - running on foot from one country to another!

While the news hit the media that some Nigerian soldiers had been pursued into Cameroon by the Boko haram insurgents, it initially came as an embarrassment to many of us until when the defence headquarters quickly came out to “debunk the rumours” and gave us the “true picture” of what had transpired. The DHQ, through it ‘s eloquent brigadier Chris Olukolade had described what happened as a “Tactical maneuver ” which was meagerly explained as our soldiers purposefully “charging” towards the Cameroonian territory to round up the insurgents and crush them from a vantage point. He further explained that the soldiers, having realized that they had entered into the Cameroonian border, voluntarily laid down their arms to avoid threatening the Paul Biya’s army.He meant the cameroonian soldiers who have always won Boko haram in all their own encounters! Why will Cameroon not be threatened by Nigeria? Didn’t we show them during the bakassi peninsula dispute that our soldiers are too gallant to dare? Haven’t we also demonstrated from the current fight against insurgency that any external aggression would be crushed within twinkling of an eye?

The Cameroonian authority described the same occurence as “disarming” many Nigerian soldiers that fled to her territory, while being pursued by the insurgents. What Chris Olukolade did not tell us was that these soldiers had had all their vans captured and set ablaze by the Boko haram fighters and the trans-border “tactical maneuver” that ensued was not without their boots on the sand, while the charging lasted. We were also not told about how the soldiers had demonstrated their overzealous gallantry by charging to Cameroon without waiting for the mandatory order from their commanders as their professional codes of ethics demand, not mentioning the fact that neither the foot soldiers nor their commanders had it as part of the plan to charge in that tactical maneuver, and that the soldiers only paid homage to the rabbit.

By the time the DHQ spokesman had finished with his apologetics,the lexicon in our comic library had increased by another vocabulary. Then there is that economic advantage of the last week event, which has ushered in another economic opportunities for the “socio-comical entrepreneurs” among us. “Tactical maneuver”, being the latest “hit-phrase” in our socio-comical parlance after the other now moribund ones such as “oga at the top” and “there is God o”. The new vocabulary too, will soon be on customized brands like T-shirts, bags, and so on, with some smart “Okoro” and “Kanayo” spinning thousands and smiling to the bank while others are busy popularizing the phrase as part-time freelance rib crackers. Our military and paramilitary outfits are now emerging as sub-sectors of the fast growing entertainment Industry!

I don't believe in the "Federal Government is the Boko" hypothesis being majorly sold by the Opposition camp. However, the Presidency may not have a hand in the initiation and thus, the perpetuation of the Boko Haram insurgency that has brought the Nigerian army to it's knees and finally reduced the so-called "Giant of africa" to "giANT of Africa".I strongly believe the President along with his regional agenda is making a very good use of the insurgency to actualise their current cravings for total independence of the south south.

The billions of Naira budgeted to fight BH remain "abducted" just like the "chibok chicks" it is being disbursed to rescue; Just the same way those allocated to curb the Ebola insurgency get "Quarantined" in some private pockets,the same way the very victims of the Ebola disease are Quarantined!

Dear Nigerian youths, If you don't believe this, just keep it in your memory and please remember to qoute me when it inevitably happens!
The periodic drum beats of war being sounded by the Niger delta millitants and their politically and financially emboldened leaders should never be mistaken to be mere barking of some toothless dogs.


The South South has a grand plan to break from Nigeria just the way the Ibos attempted in the 60's.Meanwhile, Where Biafra failed, Niger deltans have learnt a great lesson.They are now using the presidency in the region to do what can be described as "Pre-civil war tactical manouvring of the Nigeria army"

If Jonathan wins 2015 general elections, it will afford the region another four years to completely destroy whatever remains of Nigerian army. The army would continue to be demoralised by the Government purposeful failing in upgrading their armoury and thereby endangering the lives of the soldiers. By then, Nigerian army would have become a complete shadow of her glorious past, being ridiculously vulnerable to a disgraceful defeat by any internal insurrection or external aggression.

You should know that, the Niger Delta is being armed heavily at moment, consignments of weapons keep entering the Niger delta through so many points. Those that come through lagos ports are tagged "not to be open, belongs to the federal government" "For general x,y,z, stay away". These vessels are usually cleared by men in military uniform backed by that nebulous phrase- "Order from Above"

If Jonathan loses the 2015 elections, the secession declaration will begin and the Nigerian army won't be a match for the Deltan army, who will fight to complete the breakage process in case an attempt is made to thwart their agenda militarily. Don't think the best option is to ensure the president does not win, because the result is still the same! Our military today is already weakened.

We can never stand another insurrection even if our President humbles himself now and begs Shekau for forgiveness on behalf of Nigerians. Should President Abubakar Shekau of the Gwoza Emirate, Borno State, Nigeria, decide to call the Gwoza millitary back to barracks, It will take some few years for Nigerian millitary to recover from the current defeat and it's attendant disgrace.


If Jonathan wins 2015, declaration will be delayed till 2019 while Nigerian army will keep being destroyed ahead of the grand breakage plan. So either way, the result is the same.

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