GamalNasser:
Emperor Nero was an achiever when compared to Buhari

Absolutely, just a modest comparison when it comes to a ruler that chooses to look the other way when the nation he is ruling over burns as we see in today's Nigeria under a useless President called Buhari

rafindo:
Op with lies .it obvious you don't understand what a service chief is as well as what a federal character is.

education is a total waste on you it is very obvious that the new nation to emerge from this miserable contraption will surely consume your likes

adadike:
Tomakint of nairaland will forever be my favourite Yoruba person. A true Omoluabi, The man who saw tommorow and warned his people against Buhari. He is never jealous of the Igbo man. He makes friend with him, learns his success secret and enjoys with him. He is always standing for the truth. A true supporter of NOI and everything good and right. Tomakint, you are the best!

Thanks love you are a darling jare

OneTemplate:
Worth bearing in mind that Ganduje is an unapologetic Tinubu loyalist. This is what we keep telling Igbos. Give Tinubu his dues.

He was working and building men, bridges and alliances while IPOBians were busy playing politics of hate and enmity. It is stupid to think Tinubu won't or should not profit from his investment. Life does not work like that and it is only Igbos who believe in cheating, criminality and reaping where one has not sown as a way of life.

Let all the small boys do their initial gra gra. When things swing into flow then some will know Tinubu is a political titan some Moin Moin Buni and his crew, all unknown yesterday and nobodies without APC, cannot dismiss.

At your age in life with what your big eyes have seen you are still here shouting Tinubu and the same you will be crying up and down that Nigeria is not working......a useless rogue that was stuffing his agbada with dollars is talking and the next thing that came out of your mouth is another useless rogue that will soon perish called Tinubu and you will be crying why you are where you are in life when you are your own worst enemy in life....what a pity

mayklef:
a lengendary Entertainer alongside a renowed cultist/ritualist

are you for real with that renowned cultist tag you laid on Zubby Michael? I thought he was not into that..

Golan007:
Tinubu would make a great president.

Jesus wept for your lost soul......spits at him

As House Moves To Impeach Trump, A Look At White House's Reaction!

January 11, 2021 4:19 PM ET

Heard on All Things Considered

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Transcript

NPR discusses what is known about the White House's reaction to the House moving forward on articles of impeachment against President Trump.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
And I want to bring in another voice - that of NPR's Mara Liasson, who was listening in, along with the rest of us, to that last conversation.
Hey, Mara.

MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi there.

KELLY: Hey. What jumped out at you from what we just heard there from Steven Groves?

LIASSON: Well, I think that there's going to be a debate about what the president said. He gave a very long speech. And obviously, fight like hell is - sometimes that can be used metaphorically. But he did tell his supporters that they should try to overturn the election. That's what was happening inside the Capitol building - that they went up there to encourage Republicans who weren't joining that effort to be strong. He called them weak.
I think there are a lot of other moments in that speech that people would take a different way. He sent out a call to law enforcement and the military to let the people - protesters come up. Did he mean up the steps of the Capitol? We don't know. But there's no doubt that many Republicans in Congress took that speech as an incitement.

KELLY: Let me get your take on a question that I suspect is on a lot of people's minds. What is the point of going forward with impeachment when the president, whether you think he incited an insurrection or not - when he is leaving office before the Senate can possibly act and carry out a trial?

LIASSON: Yeah. And even if the Senate did act and carry out a trial, it's unlikely - very unlikely that he would be convicted and removed because that would take a two-thirds vote. The House of Representatives - the Democratic leadership there wants the president to be held accountable, and they feel that impeachment is the only way they have to do that. Censure is - in their mind, is insufficient. So that is a good question.
There's also the question of logistically how it would work with a new president coming in. Joe Biden wants to get his nominees confirmed. He wants to move forward very quickly on his COVID relief package, he said today. Although he's been noncommittal about impeachment, he said he has been talking to senators about how a trial and confirmation hearings could go forward at the same time. He talked about bifurcating the schedule.

KELLY: Right. Real quick, you heard me going back and forth with Mr. Groves there on whether the president has been silenced now that he's been kicked off Twitter. Do we know what is going on behind the scenes at the White House?

LIASSON: Well, we know the president hasn't been saying much. As you said, he still has the bully pulpit. He could come out and talk to reporters anytime he wanted to. Tomorrow, he will go to the border. We assume he will speak there. He's going to show off the small amount of wall that has been constructed. But the very big question is, will the president encourage or discourage his supporters from converging on Washington again - we know they're emboldened...

KELLY: On January 20, which is...

LIASSON: ...By what happened in the Capitol on Wednesday...

KELLY: ...Just around the corner.

LIASSON: ...Or will he stay silent?

KELLY: OK. NPR's Mara Liasson, thanks.

LIASSON: Thank you.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955720006/as-house-moves-to-impeach-trump-a-look-at-white-houses-reaction

Opinion: Trump Is the Republican Party’s Past and Its Future!
Donald Trump is not an aberration but a blueprint.

By Lisa McGirr

Dr. McGirr is a historian and the author of “Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right.”

Jan. 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET

The appalling siege of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists, on the heels of their upset defeat in two Georgia Senate races the previous night, will require soul searching among Republicans about the direction of their party. Republicans will certainly seek to pivot from the riot, but the nativism, extreme polarization, truth-bashing, white nationalism and anti-democratic policies that we tend to identify with President Trump are likely to remain a hallmark of the Republican playbook into the future. These qualities will outlive Mr. Trump’s presidency because they predate it: Republicans have been fueling the conditions that enabled Mr. Trump’s rise since the 1980s.

A growing Southern and Western evangelical base pushed the party to replace its big-tent, bipartisan and moderate Republicanism of the mid-20th century with a more conservative version. Under President Dwight Eisenhower, the party had made peace with New Deal social provisioning and backed large-scale federal spending on infrastructure and education. Even as late as the 1970s, President Richard Nixon passed legislation expanding federal regulatory agencies. Yet when Ronald Reagan moved into the White house in 1981, the Republicans sharply slashed government regulations. They cut taxes for the wealthy and oversaw a hollowing out of the American welfare state. At the same time, the party shored up its heavily evangelical base with tough-on-crime policies, anti-abortion rhetoric and coded racist attacks on “welfare queens.”

But the past 40 years of Republican-led (but bipartisan) neoliberalism left large segments of the party’s social base, like many other Americans, with declining standards of living and worse off economically. Economic crisis and the browning of America opened new avenues for calculating politicians to exploit white cultural resentments for political gain: Isolationism, nativism, racism, even anti-Semitism roared back. Long part of the mix of American conservatism, these ideas had been increasingly sidelined during America’s midcentury golden age of the 1950s and 1960s.

But by the 1990s, greater numbers of the Republican Party’s grass-roots activists blamed declining standards of living not on the free market individualism they believed in almost religiously, but on job-taking immigrants and the shadowy machinations of the global elite. Such scapegoating is strikingly reminiscent of the radio priest Charles Coughlin’s attacks on the Rothschilds and “money-changers” during the Great Depression.

Mr. Trump championed ideas that had been bubbling up among the Republican grass roots since the late 20th century. His great political talent has been to see the extent of these resentments and rhetorically, and to some extent politically, speak to those concerns. His hold on his supporters is not just a cult of personality but grounded in a set of deeply rooted and increasingly widespread ideas within the Republican Party: ending birthright citizenship for immigrants, militarizing the border, disenfranchising Americans under the guise of protecting the integrity of the ballot, favoring an isolationist nationalism.

To put the full power of the nation’s chief executive behind such proposals was uniquely Trumpian, but the animating ideas have precedent in Republican politics. In Orange County, Calif., Republicans had already in 1988 stationed uniformed guards outside polling stations when rumors circulated that Democrats were planning to bus “aliens” to the voting precincts. They carried signs in English and Spanish warning “Non-Citizens Can’t Vote.” Some intimidated immigrant voters by writing down their license plate numbers. Republican nativists warned of the “takeover of America.” Their “greatest fear,” according to one prominent Republican activist, was that “illegal aliens will stuff the ballot boxes.” Mr. Trump’s genius was to recognize the opportunity to mobilize such anti-democratic resentments around himself. By articulating a right-wing America First populism already deeply rooted in many circles of the Republican Party, Mr. Trump turned himself into the messiah for MAGA-land. He was an innovator.

Yet party elites struck a Faustian bargain to secure tax cuts for wealthy Americans, business-friendly deregulation and conservative court picks. They understood that in a world of economic anxiety, disempowerment of the middle class and colossal income inequality, such policies would deliver majorities. The successful combination is most likely to encourage many Republicans to continue to embrace it. It lets them mobilize, at least in some places and at least for now, a majority of voters. With the party’s elite disinclined to grapple with extreme wealth inequalities and the increasing immiseration and insecurity of the American middle and working classes, the only way to win votes may be to pander to cultural resentment.

Mr. Trump’s style of personalistic authoritarian populism is his alone. It is unfamiliar to most American politicians, and the messianic loyalty he commands among his most martial followers is unlikely to be replicated by those within the party who seek to pick up his mantle. But Mr. Trump’s Republicanism, despite his belief that everything is about him, has always been about more than that. He has forged what is likely to be the Republican blueprint for the future, absent his most unhinged behavior. Without major party reset, the heirs apparent to Trumpism, probably with the party elite’s blessing, will continue to pander to visceral cultural resentments, champion outsider status, war against the very government they are part of and in the process continue to weaken our already fragile democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opinion/gop-trump.html

Facebook sees $34 billion erased from market cap as Trump-ban fallout continues to spook tech investors

BEN WINCK Yesterday at 5:28 PM

Facebook tumbled as much as 4.5% on Monday as the company's indefinite ban of President Trump continued to drive investors out of the stock.

The plunge saw $33.6 billion erased from Facebook's market cap at intraday lows.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the ban on Thursday , saying the president's role in the violent storming of the Capitol makes it too risky to keep him on the platform.
Twitter , which permanently banned Trump on Friday, also underperformed amid the broad market slump.
Watch Facebook trade live here .
Facebook sank as much as 4.5% on Monday as investors continued to balk at the platform's ban of President Donald Trump.



The slide saw $33.6 billion erased from Facebook's market cap at intraday lows. Shares have since pared some losses and now trade about 2.6% lower.

The stock's decline comes as Wall Street reconciles with the president's role in encouraging supporters to storm the Capitol on Wednesday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday the company would ban Trump "indefinitely," adding the risks of allowing him to remain on the platform "are simply too great."

Twitter , which permanently banned Trump on Friday, also underperformed the broader market slump on Monday. The downturns saw the communications-services stocks drop more than any other S&P 500 sector.

While Facebook is far from the only platform to ban Trump, it is among the largest to do so. Investors likely fear that the move will lead pro-Trump users to boycott the website and congregate elsewhere. Right-wing social-media platform Parler was poised to take in such users until Amazon removed the website from its hosting service.

Additionally, CNN's Kevin Liptak reported on Monday that the president might retaliate against big tech companies in response to the bans. He signaled he may lash out through executive actions against the companies but it's unclear what those policies would look like, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Facebook traded at $259.78 as of 11:45 a.m. ET, down roughly 4% year-to-date. The company has 51 "buy" ratings, three "hold" ratings, and two "sell" ratings from analysts.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/markets/facebook-sees-dollar34-billion-erased-from-market-cap-as-trump-ban-fallout-continues/1ef8pnq

Fact check: No, impeachment itself would not ban Trump from a 2024 run

By Daniel Dale

Washington (CNN)A viral tweet claims that impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time would mean he would lose the ability to run for president in 2024.

That's not true. Nor are other claims in the tweet.
The tweet was posted on Friday, two days after a Capitol insurrection by a mob of Trump supporters sparked a new impeachment push from House Democrats. As of early Monday, it had more than 181,000 retweets and 725,000 likes. It says the following: "For those wondering if it's worth impeaching him this time, it means he:

1) loses his 200k+ pension for the rest of his life
2) loses his 1 million dollar/year travel allowance
3) loses lifetime full secret service detail
4) loses his ability to run in 2024"

Facts First: The tweet is inaccurate in multiple ways.

1) Trump would lose his post-presidency pension only if both the House voted to impeach him and then the Senate voted to remove him from office; impeachment itself, without removal, would not result in Trump being denied any benefits.

2) The law makes clear that presidents who have lifetime Secret Service protection never get a $1 million travel allowance.

3) It is unclear that Trump would lose lifetime Secret Service protection even if the Senate voted to remove him and prohibit him from running.

4) Even a Senate vote to remove Trump would not prohibit him from running in 2024; for the Senate to ban him from the presidency, it would have to hold an additional vote on this question.

The post-presidency pension

Trump would not lose his pension if the House impeached him for his role in inciting the insurrection -- just as he didn't lose his pension when the House impeached him in 2019 over his effort to use the US' relationship with Ukraine for his own political ends. Rather, under the Former Presidents Act, he would lose his pension only if the Senate voted to convict him and remove him from office.
Lots of average citizens use the word "impeachment" to refer to impeachment and removal, so we're not bashing Costiloe for this common error, but the statement is incorrect.
Presidents who have not been impeached and removed are entitled to a lifetime pension equivalent to the annual salary of a head of an executive department. For Trump, like predecessor President Barack Obama, that would indeed amount to more than $200,000 per year.

Running in 2024

Neither a second House impeachment nor even a Senate vote to convict Trump and remove him from office would prevent him from running again, in 2024 or beyond.
Rather, after two-thirds of senators present voted to remove Trump, a simple majority of senators present would have to approve an additional vote to bar him from the presidency in the future.
The Senate could not skip the conviction-and-removal vote that requires two-thirds of senators and go straight to the simple-majority vote for future disqualification, Ross Garber, an impeachment and political investigations lawyer who teaches at Tulane Law School, told CNN.
There is at least some uncertainty about the disqualification issue, since no president has ever been removed from office by the Senate and only judges have been disqualified from future office. The disqualification language in the Constitution is "disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States"; Garber noted that no court or Congress has ever settled the question of whether the presidency counts as an "Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" from which the Senate is able to ban an impeached and convicted person. (Garber said he personally thinks the presidency does count.)

Secret Service protection

Would Trump lose Secret Service protection if he was removed from office? It is not clear -- to us or to two legal experts we consulted, law professors Stephen Vladeck and Josh Blackman.
There are two relevant laws that use different language on who counts as a "former president."
One law, the Former Presidents Act we mentioned earlier, specifically says that a president who gets booted by the Senate does not count as a "former president" for the purpose of certain post-presidency perks.
However, another law signed by Obama in 2013, the Former Presidents Protection Act, simply authorizes lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents -- without defining "former president" in any particular way.
It is not clear which definition the federal government or the courts would use when it came to deciding whether an impeached and removed Trump should get lifetime Secret Service protection. (The Secret Service did not respond to a request for comment.)
In summary, the tweet was too definitive on a point that is very much up in the air.

Travel expenses

Trump was not certain to get a $1 million travel allowance in the first place. In fact, the travel allowance -- technically, a security and travel allowance -- is only for former presidents who are not getting lifetime Secret Service protection. An official from the office of a former president confirmed to CNN that the former president they work for does not have access to a $1 million security and travel allowance.
In other words: under normal circumstances -- if Trump finished out his term as scheduled and then accepted the lifetime Secret Service protection he would indisputably be entitled to in that case -- there would be no $1 million security and travel allowance for him.

The story of the tweet

When we called Costiloe to tell him that we were planning a fact check and that much of the tweet was inaccurate, he said good-naturedly: "Tear it a new one. Go for it, baby." He said he is "nobody," a man who lives with diabetes in Texas and did the tweet because he had seen the information pop up somewhere on his Facebook feed and "it made me feel good."
He said he was never sure the content was correct and was amazed the tweet went so viral. He said he had only 200 Twitter followers at the time he posted it.
"I don't want to mess up the world. I just wanted to make me feel good," he said. "It turns out it made a lot of people feel good."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fact-check-tweet-trump-impeachment-run-2024-secret-service/index.html

Live updates: House begins effort to remove Trump

Jim Clyburn, a member of House leadership, said Democrats could delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until after Joe Biden's first 100 days.
Image: Members of the National Guard arrive to the U.S. Capitol days after supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington
Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Monday morning. Erin Scott / Reuters
Updated Jan. 11, 2021, 4:31 PM WAT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday that her chamber will act with "urgency" to remove President Donald Trump from office, starting with the introduction Monday of a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. If that fails, Pelosi said House Democrats would move to impeachment.

House Democrats are planning to introduce at least one article of impeachment against Trump on Monday for "incitement of insurrection" when his supporters violently breached the Capitol last Wednesday.

Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said, however, that the House could delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate until after Joe Biden's first 100 days in office to allow the president-elect to get his agenda off and running, including Covid-19 relief legislation and the confirmation of his Cabinet officials.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a memo obtained by NBC News that the soonest his chamber could receive the articles of impeachment would be Jan. 19, the eve of Biden's inauguration, unless senators give unanimous consent to taking a measure up earlier.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/live-updates-house-begins-effort-remove-trump-n1253700

saaron:
What is happening to Trump is similar to what happened to GEJ. See what your fulani terrorist govt has reduced Nigeria to. Even Syria, a wartorn countryis better off in every indices of development.
Better to stand on the path of what is right and let history vindicate you, than stand on what is wrong because multitudes of people are in support of it. History will be hash on you just like it's currently being hash on those who voted buhari.

you are a wise god

Racoon:
Ka Chinke goziri umu ada Igbo nile.Read about their Aba Women Riot of 1920 that set off the cascade of revolts that led to crumbling of colonial government in most parts of the Eastern region back then.

This is also the same resilient spirit of the Igbo man that made our forefathers captured as slaves refused to give up on their fate even when they arrived the shore of the US city of ..........for servitude.They killed their captors & committed self annihilation to prove their unconquerable spirit.
cc: Amarabae, Adadike

You are truly in the know my brother

How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule

Bright Alozie, Lecturer in History, West Virginia University

Sun, January 10, 2021, 6:54 PM GMT+1

Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated male-dominated colonial institutions and structures of the time.
African women acted in varied and complex ways to the situations they found themselves in. This ranged from subtle to overt opposition, and sometimes violent resistance.
One response was through petition writing as women took to the pen to articulate their concerns. In my research, I examined several petitions written by Igbo women to British officials during the colonial period. I found that petition writing was part of the complex power politics between the women and the colonial state.

On June 5, 1885, Great Britain proclaimed Nigeria as a colony. It declared a protectorate over territories on the coast between the British Protectorate of Lagos and both banks of the Rivers Niger and Benue (The London Gazette, June 5, 1885). Although treaties were signed with rulers by 1885, actual British control of northern and southern Nigeria was not attained until 1900. Colonial rule lasted until 1960 and was resisted in various forms. In Igboland, this included warfare, protests, tax evasion and petition writing.
The petitions enable us to understand the circumstances under which women turned to the government for assistance and under which the authorities granted or rejected their requests. Women opened up debates and dialogues using petitions. This offers insights into their relationships with indigenous men and with British officers.
My research shows that petition writing granted women agency and opportunities for far greater female assertiveness and civic engagement. In this sense, petitions served a political purpose and proved a powerful tool for the disenfranchised — a group that included more than just women.

The petitions

The political context of the time was that women were not incorporated in colonial administration. Petition writing was therefore a means by which women could influence, resist, negotiate and counteract policies within the colonial framework.
It also challenged the outmoded narrative of the passivity of women in the colonial power structure. They were actively involved as individuals or groups in shaping public policies in the colonial era.
In Igboland, women regularly approached British officials with personal requests and complaints. The focus of their petitions was on socio-political and economic issues such as taxation, politics, policies, price control, cost of living, family issues, representation, marriages and so on.
These excerpts are drawn from a pool of petitions which I have dubbed “voices on ink”.
On September 12, 1928, Igbo women led by Madam Chinwe petitioned the Lieutenant Governor of the Southern Provinces over the frustrations that the colonial economy placed on them. (The British National Archives (TNA), FCO 141/13669/2. Petitions and Complaints: Madam Chinwe)
In view of the fact that Aba women at the present time suffer significant hardships regarding the high cost of staples, could you consider fixing the prices of foodstuff at certain fixed rates? (Aba Progressive Union – Petitions, 9/12/1928, National Archives, Enugu (NAE), Abadist 13/12/15. File No. 99/28)

On November 16, 1937, Mary Nna of Ohambele petitioned the Senior Resident, Owerri Province, concerning what she perceived to be an unfair judgement against her in the group native court of Ikwueke. She wrote:
I respectfully submit that the annulment of the Native Court judgment by the Reviewing Officer is bad in law … The evidence of the defendant is a tissue of lies and the defendant set up the defence as an afterthought in order to frustrate the course of justice and bring to ridicule and contempt British justice and fair play. (Petition from Mary Nna of Ohambele, Aba Division, 12/11/1937, NAE, Abadist 9/1/95, File No. OW. 3041/5)
On September 7, 1940, Maria Olumo petitioned the Resident to help restore her ownership of a piece of land that she alleged the Chiefs of Umuezi had taken from her and unlawfully transferred to a European firm, the United Africa Company. (Abadist 14/1/31. File No. 31 Vol. XVII. Maria Olumo (F): Petitions and Complaints: General)

What the petitions tell us

Petition writing demonstrates the “politics from below” which regularly featured resistance by women during the colonial era. Women, along with their male counterparts, took advantage of opportunities to seek redress and inform the government of their needs and complaints.
Petitioning was an avenue to interact with colonial authorities despite the social distance that separated ordinary subjects from the colonial ruling elite. Seeking redress through petitions was a powerful tool that helped bridge the gap between men and women in a rigidly patriarchal colonial system. While women understood and respected this distance, they certainly were not entirely powerless or voiceless.
Petition writing also offered a legal means to bridge the gap. It gave female subjects, who generally had no other direct contact with the authorities, a legal mechanism to press the government to fulfil its obligations.
Additionally, they demonstrate that women were not passive and voiceless subjects of the empire, as much of the colonial historiography would have one believe. On the contrary, women understood their qualifications as petitioners and their rights even as they stood before an administration that was male dominated.

Petitioning allowed women to occupy (as much as possible) colonial spaces that were constructed as quintessentially male. Since they occupied substantially diminished roles, Igbo women evolved their roles into a semblance of their precolonial expressions of political and socioeconomic power. By petitioning, they could be heard in the corridors of power that were otherwise unapproachable to them. Sometimes they managed to get the upper levels of colonial government to address a manifest wrong.
Even when the administration did not resolve their problems, analysis of these sources reveals a pattern of interaction between the coloniser and colonised, one that hasn’t been recognised before.

Indeed, a study of “female voices on ink” demonstrates the need to shift narratives and focus on neglected but unsung female heroes of the colonial period. We must recognise these women for who they were – contestants and agents of power in a male-dominated, British colonial society.

This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: Bright Alozie, West Virginia University.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/igbo-women-used-petitions-influence-175435870.html

This is nothing but pure gibberish cum beautiful nonsense from Pastor Bakare and how he lost it to this level, beats me. He is even arrogant in his supports for Buhari in 2015 and 2019......God's wrath may fall upon him for this open shame of madness he just displayed right there. Tinubu? God forbids it.....

ChoCho54:
Please where's Tomakint?

Dude is a prophet!

Of everyone in APC in 2014, only buhari was considered competent to clinch the ticket.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, na God go punish you wherever you dey for bringing this calamity on Nigeria!

Yes nau! Buhari was jejely loosing his election serially and loving it until yoruba mooslims brought in their sufferisticated ideas that saw first, a whitewashed sepulchre and then later, a Sudanese, occupying the highest seat in the land!

Well Las Las and just like biblical Moses, him no go ever enter the promised Land!
You are only Abelejayan!

My brother thanks for the recognition that's why i decided to leave my signature since May 2015 like that.....Nigerians will cry bitterly soon. Watch it happen soon

The Northern Plan and its Execution

The Northern leaders know that there will be Restructuring after a Southerner becomes President in 2023. However, they would do their utmost best to help elect a Southerner who wouldn’t be serious with Restructuring or who would at least not do the type of Restructuring that would significantly whittle down the federal government. The Northerners know that they cannot elect a Northerner to become President in 2023, and neither can they hold on to the presidency after Buhari’s second term, for otherwise they would see the country break up.
So, just in case they cannot elect a “useful idiot” from the South to become president, someone the Northern hordes would be made to vote for en masse, they would use the last four years of Buhari’s second and final term to prepare the North for a life after Restructuring. The overarching aim is to use Nigeria’s resources to develop the North’s infrastructure very quickly, even to surpass the South, and set a new irreversible path for the North’s rapid development. Action points:

(1) Accelerate the Chinese development of the Northern Railway System. Even build a Railway line to the President’s hometown of Daura and take the line to the Fulani centre in Ramadi, in Niger Republic.

(2) Have the Chinese build a Transportation University in Daura, and have the Transportation Ministry handle this development, including sending many Northern students to learn all aspects of Railway transportation construction and management in a university in China.

(3) Announce the discovery of oil in the Chad/Benue basin of the North, the same place, international oil companies with their sophisticated technology have failed to find oil in commercial quantities. Actually, the real plan is to help the neighboring nation Niger develop its oil industry. Niger is already a small oil producer. The NNPC under Abba Kyari’s oversight during Ibe Kachikwu’s time had already been ordered to look into connecting the Nigérien oil fields to the Kaduna Refinery so that the North would no longer have to depend on Southern oil fields. The following excerpt comes from page 625 of the same 2017 IRG Consultants report THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA.

Nigeria to Import Crude from Niger Republic to Feed Kaduna Refinery

The Nigerian government is in advanced talks to import crude oil from the neighboring Niger Republic to use as feedstock for the Kaduna Refinery. To this effect, the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. plans to build a 1,000-km pipeline that will transport the crude from Niger’s Agadem oilfield to Kaduna.
A statement by NNPC spokesman Ndu Ughamadu on November 27, 2016 quoted NNPC CEO Maikanti Baru as saying: “Due to challenges with the aged refinery and crude oil pipelines that had been breached severally, the operations of the refinery has been epileptic. This we are determined to resolve through various intervention methods, including evaluation of alternative crude oil supply from Niger Republic through building of a pipeline of over 1, 000 kilometers from Agadem to Kaduna. That effort is being championed by Mr. President himself.”

Said Baru: “The Corporation has already started engagements with the Nigerien Minister of Petroleum and the Chinese that are operating the field at Agadem.”
Niger's Agadem Block is located in the East Niger Rift Basin, and has a production capacity of 21,000 bpd. IRG analysts speculate that the NNPC may be trying to swap its partnership crude from Nigerian production in the South for the Chinese output in Niger. China's CNPC has been refining crude at the Soraz Refinery, near Zinder, close to the Nigerian border, in which it has a controlling 60% equity interest. The Soraz Refinery is configured to satisfy Nigerien domestic demand for refined products, leaving some capacity for export.
There are some who would say that the official petroleum minister, President Buhari himself, is putting the Kaduna Refinery in a position to operate successfully and serve the North, were the South to separate from the Nigerian state.

(4) Under the guidance of Abba Kyari and current Power Minister Saleh Mamman, the Buhari government was set to use major portions of the proposed US$17 billion Chinese loan to complete the $6 billion 3,050 MW Mambilla Hydroelectricity project in Taraba State to serve the needs of the North. Under the radar some of the loan was to be used for the upgrade and expansion of the Kainji Dam (960 MW nameplate capacity), the Shiroro Dam and Jebba Dam hydroelectric stations (combined output 1,200 MW). Money would also be devoted to developing other renewable energy projects, primarily solar and wind power, so that by the time Buhari’s second and final term ends in May 2023, electricity output in the North would be at least 10,000 MW. This output capacity would provide constant electricity to the North, all of it renewables, without the need for combined-cycle gas power plants which, you guessed it, would require natural gas from the South to function. This electric power development plan was of such urgency and importance that Abba Kyari himself had to travel to Germany to conclude what would have amounted to a secret deal with the German giant, Siemens AG. You ask yourself, why would a presidential Chief of Staff be handling such a responsibility?

(5) The government of Gen. Gowon, you can say, went overboard in its massive irrigation development projects in the North, an effort that was seen to completion by Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who tried to do something for the South with his “Operation Feed the Nation,” and “Water Basin Development Authorities,” which basically all collapsed soon as he left office. [In fairness I should add that General Obasanjo drew up plans for the construction of the Ikere Gorge Dam on the Ogun River in Oyo State, which was being built during 1982/1983 by President Shehu Shagari. That dam was not of the quality or size of the Northern dams built by Gowon and quickly became useless as it was abandoned by subsequent military dictatorships. It was the same situation with the tiny Oyan Dam near Abeokuta in Ogun State, and the Obudu Dam in Cross River State]. Look for the Buhari government to pour more Southern resources from crude oil sales and taxes into building more dams and irrigation projects to make the North, that is being assailed by desert encroachment, even more fertile. Right now, there are irrigation dams virtually everywhere in the North, and agricultural production is massive. The dams include: the Challawa Gorge Dam (Kano State); Tiga Dam (Kano State); Kafin Zaki Dam (Bauchi State); Kiri Dam (Adamawa State); Dadin Kowa Dam (Gombe State); Zobe Dam (Katsina State); and Goronyo Dam (Sokoto State). And don’t forget, Kainji (Niger), Shiroro (Niger), and Jebba (Kwara and Niger).

(6) The Buhari government has also recently announced that it will borrow €950 million ($1.2 billion) to import equipment for mechanized agriculture and agro industries. Your guess is as good as mine where those mechanized agricultural equipment will be headed to. The North? The part of the country where large-scale agriculture is most practised? The part of the country where virtually all the national fertilizer production and imports go to? The Buhari government says that the loan, the source of which is undisclosed, will be used to buy the tractors and other such machinery and leased to private individuals and companies who would then hire out the machinery on a per diem basis, and use their profits to service the loans. Purportedly the tractors will be made available in all the thirty six states, but guess which people would take the risk of leasing the tractors? Definitely not many people in the South who don’t do agriculture on the massive scale of the North. And who can say whether eventually the loans would not be forgiven and the individuals and companies who received the machinery in the North get away with paying absolutely nothing? The aim, after all, is to make the North more economically dominant in agriculture than it already is.

(7) The unyielding nature of the Igbo people, their stubborn refusal to accept Buhari as their leader, the horrors of the Civil War which led to the deaths of over 120,000 Nigerians, and Hausa-speaking Chadian and Nigérien soldiers, is not something Gen. Buhari is able to forget, and so there is Igbophobia going on. That explains why if anything that smells like trouble rears its head in the Southeast, he overreacts and quickly takes the proverbial hammer to confront an ant.

( The Northern leaders would support even a Yoruba politician for President if he would stop Restructuring from taking place. But they know now that no Yoruba politician would dare stop Restructuring come 2023. That would spell the end of that politician. Many Yorubas at this point are even more anxious than Igbos and Niger Delta people to leave Nigeria.

(9) In my forthcoming article titled OPERATION ABRACADABRA REDUX, I will explain in detail the strategy behind the clandestine influx of Northern youths into the Southeast and Southsouth.
If they complete their agenda, Northern leaders, come 2023, would tell the clueless Southerners, “We are ready for Restructuring. You can split the country into two if you like. We are ready. And with that they will laugh and tell you to go ahead and repay the $23 billion they borrowed from China, on top of the other tens of billions of dollars they have previously borrowed, using your crude oil reserves as collateral.

Hector-Roosevelt U. Ukegbu, Economist, International Business Analyst, and Financial Consultant, is the Chairman & Chief Economist of IRG Consultants/Accrezion Corp., and is a graduate of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

https://www.bitsofnaija.com.ng/2020/05/29/while-rome-burns-emperor-nero-fiddles-by-hr-udunna-ukegbu/

Me: I hope the sophisticated morons and useful idiots "leaders" down south we parade can read and understand the true meaning of strategic planning from their northern counterparts. Too many pretenders down south who are always willing to be used as enemies of the growths and development of southern Nigeria just because of the crumbs they are feeding from the tables of their Northern Overlords. Go to custom you will weep for the south. Now, Dangote was "helped" with Nigerian public funds (and not his money) to build a gigantic refinery in Lagos in a Free Trade Zone, meaning he pays little or no tax to the state government of Lagos and from the look of things, the North benefits more from this venture. Indeed the southern leaders are the real and true enemies of the people of the southern part of Nigeria. Let me sound this warning loud and clear that, should Nigeria break today, the interest of the North (in Dangote's refinery) is 100% secured and you know why? He built it strictly for the benefits of the North that's why they Ibeju Lekki FreeTrade Zone was cleverly picked as its site. We waffle too much down south and this is where our problem lies as the North strategically prepares for a total break away from Nigeria right before our eyes. I pray southern leaders will wake up now before it's too late. Reading the article above that was written as far back as May last year (2020) and compare its predictions to what is happening now in Nigeria especially as regards the shocking revelations between Nigeria and Niger relationship to the detriment of Nigeria and Nigerians is enough to wake the "sleeping Jonah" in the minds of the south. As I watch the unfolding drama, let me hope this piece will be a tintinabulator that is sounding the needed end time message of awakening to the sleeping South!

WHILE ROME BURNS, EMPEROR NERO FIDDLES
By HR Udunna Ukegbu

May 30th, 2020

The reader can replace this headline with: AS THE NORTH PREPARES FOR RESTRUCTURING, THE SOUTH BLOWS HOT AIR.

The Roman Emperor Nero is considered by many religious scholars to be the Antichrist, the beast codemarked 666, who ordered the execution of his own mother, persecuted and brutally executed many early Christians (including the apostles Peter and Paul), a group he falsely blamed for the fire that consumed most of Rome in 64 AD. Legend has it that as Nero watched the six-day conflagration, he somberly played the stringed musical instrument, the cythara. The “beast” was also a trained musician, sculptor, painter and poet, much like Adolf Hitler was also a painter.
Today, as has often happened in the past, some key Northern leaders always come together and plan ahead to confront a crisis they see approaching. [You have probably heard about the famous or infamous “Kaduna Mafia.”] You do realize now, I hope, that leaders in Northern Nigeria took time to plan the May, July, September and October 1966 massacres of Igbos and other people from Eastern Nigeria who lived amongst them. The tail end of their dastardly ethnic cleansing campaign took the veneer of a mob action, but was in reality carefully planned and executed across the entire Northern Region. Igbo leaders were not doing any planning on their own side, and the blood-letting caught them by surprise. At a point Igbos who had earlier fled to safety in the East returned to the killing fields in the North believing the new military government of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon which seized power in August 1966 would protect them. How wrong they were; they had no knowledge of the enormity and extent of the massacre Northern leaders had in plan.
The onset of the Civil War prevented any international accounting being demanded of the Gowon government. The gory killings were swept under the carpet of war, and the barbarians got away with murder. Mass murder. The Igbos are only left with the hope that God will settle the matter in the hereafter.

Today, the entire Southern Nigeria is doing practically nothing as conservative Northern leaders put in high gear their operation to win the Restructuring battle in Nigeria. Day by day, the signs of this plot are being manifested, yet the Southern leaders remain clueless, completely unable to connect the dots. They moan loudly about this and that which the Buhari government is doing. Some choice items: 
All the nation’s security chiefs are Northern Muslims, a clear violation of the “federal character” principle constitutionally required for all federal government appointments. 
The Buhari government almost succeeded in borrowing a whopping $17 billion, with almost all of it going to fund projects in the North. 
The masterplan for a new Railway system calls for it to go by the coast and avoids most of the Southeast. 
When the late Abba Kyari forced the former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to accept a skewed membership of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), most of Nigeria had no idea what had happened, because then in 2016, if you went to the NNPC website and clicked on the button for the Board, it would not open. The following excerpt is from page 607 of the 700-page confidential report THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA 2017 published in December 2016 by my company IRG Consultants (division of Accrezion Corp.):

The members of the then NNPC Board:

Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chairman
Mr. Abba Kyari, President Buhari's Chief of Staff (North)
Dr. Maicanti Baru, Group Managing Director, NNPC (North)
Mr. Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance (North)
Dr. (Mrs) Jamila Shua'ra, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources (North)
Mr. Pius Oluwole Akinyelure
Dr. Thomas M. A. John
Mr. Mohammed Lawal (North)
Mr. Yusuf Lawal (North)
Dr. Tajudeen Umar (North)

Now things get curious with the names of the people appointed to the board of the NNPC. The junior minister (Kachikwu), as is the norm, is the chairman. Joining him on the board is Dr. Maicanti Baru, the NNPC's Group Managing Director. A statutory member is the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance, in the present case, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse (a Northerner). Another statutory member is the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Dr. (Mrs.) Jamila Shua'ra, who is also a Northerner.
In the board membership announcements, Mr. Pius Oluwole Akinyelure, a retired top executive of Mobil Oil Nigeria PLC, is a member. He is clearly APC National Leader Bola Tinubu's appointee, as he is a well-known friend of Tinubu's. The third member from the South is Dr. Thomas M. A. John, the fellow who was Chamberlain Oyibo's predecessor as the Group Managing Director of the NNPC during the time of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida's dictatorship.
Two of the members are individuals from Buhari's northern Katsina State, namely, Mr. Mohammed Lawal, and Mr. Yusuf Lawal. Dr. Tajuddeen Umar, another Northerner, who once chaired the Nigeria-Sao Tome Joint Development Authority, is also a member. The seventh member from the North is Mr. Abba Kyari, Buhari's Chief of Staff.
So, any time there is a vote by the Board, the North (with seven out of the ten members) is assured of a majority. Ironically, all the oil is produced in the South.
Mr. Bola Tinubu had to journey to London to lobby President Buhari [who was then in London dealing with his medical issues] to include his friend. Mr. Akinyelure wasn’t a tough candidate to lobby on behalf of, because Abba Kyari had served in Mobil as did of course Ibe Kachikwu.

Ever wondered why Buhari in this his second term took away the Ministry of Power portfolio from Mr. Babatunde Fashola and gave it to Mr. Saleh Mamman? You would quickly answer that Buhari felt that Fashola was not performing as well as expected handling the combined three ministries of Power, Works and Housing. But the correct answer is different, and I will soon come to that. Anyone who knows Nigeria would realize that Power is the thorniest problem that Nigeria has faced, and one that has defied solution for decades, and a proven leader like Fashola would be better placed to handle Power, if the superministry was to be broken up. It would have been understandable if Buhari had given Fashola the Power Ministry and offloaded the Ministry of Works and Housing to others.

Now, let us begin to connect the dots, and get more educated about what is really going on in Nigeria.

You heard it here first. The North is far along on executing its plan to be ready for life after Nigeria’s Restructuring. The Northern leaders know that they escaped by the whiskers from Restructuring following President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Conference in 2014. The members of that Confab, almost 500 in number, were very knowledgeable and important people from all the corners of Nigeria. Furthermore, the Chairman of the Conference was a respected former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Idris Kutigi, from Niger State. There was no way the North could claim that they were marginalized in the membership of the Conference. Still, they battled tooth and nail to derail the Conference, everything went through votes, both needed and unneeded, and the provisions needed a supermajority to pass. Still Mr. Kutigi hung tough. He wanted the Conference, which consumed billions of naira, to not end in failure and be a waste.
The Northern leaders ultimately gave in and the Conference succeeded in passing substantial resolutions, even though these were clearly watered down from the original concepts. The remaining question became what choice President Jonathan would make: Organize a national referendum as is done virtually everywhere else in the world? [Instructively, the Nigerian constitutions passed since 1979 were not “We the people” constitutions, but “We the military” constitutions.] The alternative path for Jonathan was to send the Conference Resolutions to the National Assembly for that body to use for a massive exercise in amendments of the existing constitution. The cowardly Jonathan shelved the Report, announcing that he would take up the matter in his second term. That promise, reportedly packaged with dollar bills, earned him the endorsement of Southwestern monarchs, to the chagrin of the Afenifere, who were outraged by the massive corruption that had been going on in Jonathan’s administration. Still, Jonathan’s ploy succeeded to a considerable extent because the Yorubas gave him half of their aggregate votes. But he lost the election anyway, although to his credit he honorably conceded defeat.

As you might imagine, the Northerners breathed a collective sigh of relief when President Jonathan chickened out. President Buhari happily let the Conference Report gather dust on the shelf where Jonathan had kept it. The Northerners wanted to move immediately to create a plan to protect their interests, but the guerrilla war in the Niger Delta and low world oil prices had crippled the Nigerian economy, rendering them unable to quickly carry out their agenda. Consequently, they were determined to get Buhari a second term come hell or high water. That explains why they were ready to go to such extremes as to fire Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen and replace him with Mr. Tanko Mohammed, who would do anything he was asked. The Buhari government at this juncture did not care about international opinion about the rigging of the 2019 elections, though it was a country like the United States that pressured Jonathan to concede defeat in 2015. The Northerners were ready to turn their back on America, believing that China could satisfy their needs.

GBTYO:
Tomakint, there has never been any popular reviot that was truly organic and which wasn't led by sadistic communist Jews


At the end, the communist can only maintain power through the same means they came to power - terror and violence.

Agreed, however when the time is ripe for Nigeria to follow suit, the revolt will not follow the normal pattern but will take the shape of the EndSars pattern. Watch it

The French Revolution Template: The Path To Nigeria Freedom From Her Oppressors!

On 14th July in the year 1789, on that day in the streets of Paris, the "Jacobin mobs" (the aggressive peasants in Paris then who have been protesting the killing and anti-people style of leadership of the King, Louis XVI) stormed the Bastille, the State Prison of Paris, set the prisoners free and destroyed the building. This act led to the much celebrated French Revolution. The uprising resulted into a national conflagration whereby beautiful houses of the elites class (nobles and lords) were attacked by the peasants and hundreds and in some accounts about 40,000 of nobles alongside others like priests, nuns and the wealthy were sent to their graves through the guillotine (beheading). This is not where I am going, because I know Nigeria is gradually heading to her path of freedom as we tow this ignoble path the French once tread back then. Let's understand what led to the epoch-making French Revolution? 

For many years France has been badly governed under the rulership of Louis XIV (1638–1715), the "Grand Monarch", unfortunately the bad governance remains unabated under the reign of his successor, Louis XV (1710–1774), and it eventually reached a crescendo under Louis XVI (1754–1793)  when he ascended the throne in 1774 (as we have it now in present day Nigeria under Buhari) whereby the country was at the verge of bankruptcy as a result of reckless extravagance and grim corruption. The then States-General, as the French Parliament was called had not convened for any meeting close to two centuries (almost 200 years) and even when it managed to converge for deliberations, the commons (masses) were always outvoted by the nobility and clergy (today's elite class in present day Nigeria who always push bills that will favour and enrich them the more and make lives more unbearable and difficult for the masses). 

Let me state it clearly that under the monarchical system of France then, the Kings own anything called properties (especially lands), as a result of this high handedness of this corrupt system, taxes were not fairly imposed (that is, the poor pay more and heavily as seen under this Buhari's government), well dressed lords and ladies, the higher ranks of the clergy, and other rich people contributed little towards the growth and expenses of the State (it was that bad) whereas the general masses were heavily taxed (now you can see the striking semblance to what triggered the French Revolution happening under this Buhari's government).

Something happened on the 5th May, 1789 under the Louis XVI reign, when he called for a meeting at the States-General (their parliament) after close to 200 years they last met for deliberations. Guess what, he was so oblivious of the agony and pains his leadership had meted out to the people that the sole aim of his meeting was how more supplies of money to accommodate their flamboyant lifestyles would be voted for to the detriment of the people's plight and sorry state. The masses have seen enough, earlier before then, the writings of famous essayists and philosophers like Arouet Voltaire (1694 - 1778) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) had exposed the eyes of the commoners to what is happening in other climes. It had shown the French people through their literary works and speeches that in prosperous England, the inhabitants actually took part in drawing up their own laws. 

Also six years ago, that is in 1783, the American Revolution (1775 - 1783) otherwise called War of Independence had just ended where the British Colonists in America had risen against their rulers (Great Britain) and defeated them to earn their deserved independence. The literates and studious members of the French masses who were well armed with these histories were ready to face their oppressors for once and get their freedom too and in the process liberate the people of France from slavery and economic regression.

As a result of this awakening among the people, when the States-General assembly was convoked in 1789, it assumed a new title called, "National Assembly" and tried to make changes which the king and his lords and cronies did not like. Louis XVI attempted to force his will on the people at the National Assembly but he was firmly resisted this eventually paved way for the insurrection that eventually engulfed the whole of France from a people already ravished with anger, hunger, heavy taxes, injustice all these and many other lapses from the leadership made the Paris mob in unison with the commons to rise in wild fury and this build up gave birth to the emancipation of the French people that we all see today. You must understand that the Bastille, which was the State Prison of Paris also serve as fortress which the king had commanded should be mounted with guns to push back the protesting masses and surging mobs, unfortunately for the king, the place was besieged and destroyed (talking about an idea whose time has come to fulfillment which can never be resisted and stopped by any force whatsoever).

In 1792, the Prussians (people of former kingdom in North-central Europe including present day northern Germany and northern Poland) and Austrians invaded France in order to help the king. A new Assembly called the National Convention was quickly evoked. Among the revolutionary leaders were Jean Paul Marat and two lawyers named Georges Jacques Danton and Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre. As a result of this, the King was deposed and France was declared to be a Republic, hence, ending 1,024 years of Monarchical System in both old and new France. A National Convention convoked in early 1793 under the leadership of Robespierre, leader of the Jacobins, through his "Reign of Terror" sentenced Louis XVI to death and he was executed. A few months later, his beautiful wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was dished out the same fate. A Pandora's Box had been opened and no stopping it, until it ended in 1802 through the temporary Treaty of Amiens as orchestrated by the "First Consul", Napoleon Bonaparte.

As bloody as the revolution was, one must factor in the many advantages and new vistas it opened in the life of the new Republic, which are; 

(1) Deliberate attempt to build a new France;
(2) A complete wiping away of seigniorial dues, aristocratic titles, a mass of taxation and tithes and a whole host of other hangovers from the supposedly ‘feudal’ government of old regime France;
(3) The idea of three ‘estates’ was abolished, as were noble and church privileges; nobility was completely ended, and church lands were nationalized and sold, causing a full tenth of all land in France to change hands, a massive redistribution. 
(4) The clergy became salaried officials of the state. 

Most of these changes took place in only two years, a tiny timescale for such sweeping reform whose energy was beyond control more like a supernatural force. Head or tail, whatever France is enjoying today was traceable to this bold move by the peasants about 231 years ago. As I am about to put a stop to this short essay, let me use this occasion to talk to fellow Nigerians that we have a story that is symmetrical to what France had over 200 years ago now as seen in this write up, and our liberation lies not in the hands of any of these crop of LEADERS currently TORMENTING us but in our hands as a people. It is either we MAKE IT now by our resolute actions for justice as a people being plagued by their untrustworthy leaders or MAR IT by our continued and compromised silence in the face of injustice, the CHOICE is ours to make.

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ICYMI: Bini, not Yoruba, are original owners of Lagos – Ajayi-Bembe

Published November 19, 2017

INTERVIEW

A former President of the Association of Lagos State Indigenes, Chief Layi Ajayi-Bembe, in this interview with BAYO AKINLOYE says the real owners of Lagos are the Bini, not the Yoruba

What is your lineage as a Lagosian?

My grandfather was Ajayi Bembe; the eighth Obanikoro of Lagos – my father was the last of his children. My mother was the first child of Gbajabiamila (of Olowogbowo fame) – of course, of Lagos. When it comes to the ownership of Lagos, it is sad when people talk about Lagos being no man’s land or Lagos being part of Yoruba land – I consider that position to be an abomination. Yes, because of the affinity or geographical location of Lagos, we’re nearer to the South-West (the Yoruba) than to other regions. It should be stated that Lagos has always been independent of the West. When I returned from England, (Chief Obafemi) Awolowo was in prison; before I came back to Nigeria, there had been agitations that Lagos wasn’t part of the West. No doubt that a lot of us speak Yoruba – in my family, we’re Bini. Oba of Lagos (Rilwan Akiolu) was completely right that the early settlers in Lagos were the Awori and the Bini. We’re talking about the Island of Lagos.

Extending it to the east of Lagos, you have Oshodi, the Tapa (from Niger State) were there. And, of course, we knew one another. I don’t understand why some of our brothers in the West think that we can be enslaved by them. In all my years, I have not seen what Afenifere has done for Lagos to inspire me because during the last constitutional conference, they were not talking about Lagos; they were talking about themselves. Don’t forget that the so-called Edo State was part of the West before. But to say Lagos is part of Yoruba land is not fair; it is not charitable. And when kabiyesi now said, Lagos is Bini, not only because we came from Benin, there are signs and relics of Benin all over Isale Eko. And obas (in Lagos) – we don’t call them ‘obas’, we call them ‘eleko’. My grandfather said in 1903 that when there was a dispute of which traditional rulers should wear crowns – my grandfather was at that meeting. Ooni of Ife had to come all the way from Ife to Lagos upon the invitation of Governor (John Hawley) Glover. And the question they asked him (Ooni) was, ‘Who are the obas that should wear crowns?’ He mentioned them – Lagos was not part of the list. We don’t wear crowns in Lagos. I remember, Pa Edegbele – that’s Prof. Edegbele’s father – when he said ‘oba’ is alien to Yoruba land that only the Bini use that title, there was a furore over that. But Edegbele was right. Note that politicians have done a lot of havoc in Yoruba land more than in other regions of the country. Nobody is going to doubt the hegemony of the Sultan of Sokoto in the North. But the Yoruba are fond of creating problems among themselves in Yoruba land. Permit me to digress: look at the recent installation of some kings in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. A governor created 21 kings, for what? Is that what the people need at a time when the masses are hungry, civil servants are owed salaries and basic amenities are not available? It now appears there are more rulers than the ruled.

Are you saying Lagos belongs to the Bini people?

Lagos belongs to us – the Bini. When you get to Enuowa, they (the inhabitants) pay homage to Oba of Benin there. Enuowa is in Lagos; Idumota is like a Bini name; Iduntafa is Bini name; Idunmagbo is Bini name; Iduganran is Bini name; tell me, what further proof do you want (that the Bini own Lagos)? Why have some people tried hard to erode our identity and the labour of our ancestors? Today, if you go to the Lagos State Secretariat, you’ll hardly see the original indigenes of the state hold a prominent position. So, why are people crying about the quota system? You don’t ‘quotarise’ knowledge. Whatever is the case, I believe that the indigenes of Lagos – by the way, I was president of Association of Lagos Indigenes for almost 15 years – we know how our resources were plundered and carted away. Look at the fiasco called ‘Lagos @50’. The state government doesn’t recognise the true indigenes of Lagos State. Some of the indigenes work with them for the purpose of getting whatever they can get from the government. Some people are trying so hard to maintain the stupidity that Lagos doesn’t belong to anybody – that’s annoying.

What about Alhaji Femi Okunnu’s view of the Awori being the original owners of Lagos?

I am not a lawyer but Femi Okunnu is a lawyer – a Senior Advocate of Nigeria for that matter. On the issue of the original owners of Lagos, my attention was drawn to an article focused on the Idunganran celebration. Mr. Femi Okunnu happened to be my mentor; he was an inspiration to me particularly when I returned from England. He was not only elder ‘brother’ to me because we lived close together. They were living at No. 1 Ido Olowu Street and I was living at No. 7 Ido Olowu Street. I have known him for a long time. I remember when he came back from England as a young and vibrant lawyer. When Femi Okunnu himself was the Federal Commissioner for Works during the military regime, he was the one who actually acquired the area where you have the National Theatre, Iganmu. From whom did he acquire it? He got it from the indigenes; my grandfather had a place there. We must have a good perspective of history. People should learn not to mutilate history. The owners of Lagos are not the Yoruba; they are the Bini. We are Bini; there’s no ambiguity about that. To prove it further, the obas or the elekos, when they died, their bodies were taken to Benin for burial for a time. Tell me, who owns the land then?

Who are the Awori?

The Awori and the Bini are the same. If an Awori spoke to me when I was young, I understood him. My parents spoke Awori. The Awori are partly from Dahomey and partly from Benin. My forebears came from the riverine area through the Bight of Benin and settled in Badagry for a long time before moving down to Lagos. And when they moved down to Lagos where did they go? They went to Idunsagbe – a place famed for Bini culture and tradition. I am an Awori. Tell me, which state did they create for the Awori now? If you say the indigenous people of Lagos State are the Awori, then the Awori are the Bini. We must put history in its right perspective. The right perspective is that Lagos does not belong to the Yoruba; it belongs to the Bini. According to the Lyttleton Constitution, the West was created; the North was created and Lagos was made a colony and it later regained its independence.

Some may argue that the original Lagosians didn’t protect their legacy, allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry to hold sway politically and economically.


It is true that Lagos is open to everybody that could bring ideas. But when it comes to certain elements within the political spectrum in Nigeria… Look at it this way, will it surprise you that a representative of Lagos who calls himself a Lagosian representing the state in the National Assembly went to Kogi State to vie for the governorship? Isn’t that insulting? Some are even saying once (Osun State Governor, Rauf) Aregbesola has completed his tenure in Osun, he will come back to Lagos to contest a senatorial seat. We called Bola Tinubu, sat him down and told him how we accepted him and he let us down. I know the role I played when Bola Tinubu was coming in; when I gave him my second cousin, (Musiliu) Obanikoro to go along with him (I don’t talk to that one (Obanikoro) again after he had his hand in something embarrassing; because you don’t disgrace your family). I am not looking for anything from them. It is very wrong that people should trivialise the affairs of Lagos. For example, we kicked against (Prof. Wole) Soyinka being made the chairman of the Lagos @50 celebration. But nobody listened to us. Look at the fiasco; was it a success? Who bothered about it? People who will not celebrate the living are celebrating the dead – it doesn’t go beyond that. You acquire land from me for a public purpose and the next thing you did was to share it with your siblings, friends and other loved ones. It is really sad for people to proclaim Lagos as no man’s land. Lagos is so accommodating; it is only here you see an Igbo man being made a commissioner. Even the Yoruba that are shouting, how many Lagosians are in their cabinets? They all live in Lagos; we know them. Some of them benefitted from the liberty Lagos offers. But ask them: what have they done for their host communities? Can you imagine Orji Kalu, who bought land here, saying Lagos belongs to nobody? They just talk.


Don’t you think Prof. Wole Soyinka deserved to have been the chairman of the Lagos @50 celebration?

I am not used to Soyinka and I don’t want to be acquainted with him. It is unfortunate that because he was made the chairman of Lagos @50, he began to insult people, claiming that his father had a land in Lagos. We traced the land – one plot of land – and discovered that the land was bought from my grandfather. People like him go around insulting others. Has he not insulted Femi Okunnu before? Tell me who Wole Soyinka has never insulted? He is part of the Tinubu group. Is he not an Ogun man? I don’t think he has a right to say that Lagos is no man’s land. Who is he to say that? I think Okunnu knew better; I don’t think he meant what he said the way the press reported him. What he said is that Lagos is ‘part’ of Yoruba land; he didn’t say it was owned by the Yoruba. We need to be discreet in our definition. Geographically, we’re in the West and culturally, we speak Yoruba. If an Igbo man speaks Yoruba fluently, does that make him a Yoruba? Go to Lagos State House of Assembly and count how many of them are truly Lagos indigenes. Again, Okunnu was an active participant in the creation of Lagos State together with (Philip) Asiodu and Alison Ayida. They facilitated the creation of the state; there was a western state then. If Okunnu had advocated the merger of Lagos with the western region then, one would have thought otherwise. Wole Soyinka didn’t want Lagos to be created at that time. Soyinka used to be very radical but having got into the group of Bola Tinubu’s scientific imposition, he has been mellowing down. Soyinka would be the one that would stand for the truth when people were accused of certificate forgery and other ills. He was always at the forefront; he has become a turncoat. What happened to him? I respected him; he may not know me and he doesn’t need to know me.


So, you think Okunnu is on the same page with you when he talked about the early settlers of Lagos?

I believe Okunnu was actually agitating for the indigenes. He was president of Lagos State indigenes before me – we have Isale Eko Descendants Union, which we all belong to. All I am saying is this: Lagos is not part of Yoruba. The settlers are Bini. Wasn’t Benin part of the West before until the Mid-West was created? The Bini agitated for that, insisting that we’re not part of the Yoruba. Why can’t the Yoruba leave us alone for God’s sake? My grandfather went to court in 1889 to claim all the lands that belonged to him. He got a judgment. Then some people said, these lands were too much for one family – the place now called Ikorodu Road, they acquired it – for how much? For £27,000! My grandfather wasn’t around; he’s dead. But they forgot that this man gave them a land to build the first police barracks in Lagos. How could Bola Tinubu come all the way from wherever he came from (Kafaru brought him to me, turn Lagos into a place for Osun people in the secretariat). They’re radicalising the owners of Lagos with the way they’re acting. By the time they stand up you’ll be shocked. What are the people asking for? Give them what they deserve. Show them some respect. Okunnu did a lot for Lagos State; most parts of Victoria Island were sand-filled by the Federal Government. He and his colleagues at King’s College were able to excise Victoria Island and gave it to Lagos. In fact, Okunnu has done more for Lagos than any governor. Okunnu had his roots in Isale Eko.


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The truth will always be bitter!

Did he actually say this or some sort of joke

adadike:
you know I can't stop loving you

Anytime babe

jmaine:


Bro we gather dey full time ... Those were the days mehn when gladiators, and men were bantering and colliding in high intellectual discourse..

Now na tribalistic kids dey game.. What a let down...

This thread is the bomb... E be like series film... Contents every where...

Sincerely speaking if no be the mad hit wey NBM come do for my school that time in 1999 when Afrika and 4 others were wasted I for buy special gift for saynotocultism walahi na real man the guy be for creating this great thread in order to give hope to those already entangled in cultism and help to discourage about to be blended. EnthronebyGod na another don here too plus many brilliant minds too. Respect to GreenArrow1 and NoBones too also you for stoking the embers of fun on this thread. Jmaine my pesin

jmaine:


My Gee post story jawe, even people wey dey relate their personal stories dey collect doubts on a steady level here......

Abeg we dey wait make you make our evening better... Thanks..

You ehn still rocking your old time signature in the days of "Political war on Nairaland" with the likes of katsumoto, Chino, Berem etc how u dey bro I love this thread no be small

OBelz:
It's will be put in a book and am trying to redeem myself. It not been easy.

The Lord is your strength

Eyitayo Jegede is winning this

enthronedbyGod1:


Coffin still dey every NBM temple, but it's no more physical and I'll explain.

In every normal NBM temple, there's the presence of 7 candles. These candles are placed on the floor in such a way as to depict a coffin.

The candles are drawn on the floor to represent a coffin.

When a Jew is being initiated , he walks on the ground with his knees into the 7 candles, with his eyes closed.
Na 4 inside 7 candles , them dey give Jew teeth and na there Jew dey take oath.
Na for inside 7 candles , catapult dey spit kokoma for Jew eyes take open am.
Na for inside 7 candles , kpoai dey place 7 untop Jew head , take confirm am strong man.

The most important part of the initiation takes place inside the 7 candles, which are placed on the floor to depict a coffin.

When I speak , I don't make statements anyhow.
People who know me on this forum , already know that.

Every kpoai or chief priest or elder knows this to be true, even some aiyes also know this.
However, you try for the other muyen story of kpoai.


I would have explained more on this issue, but I don't want to go spiritual again so as not to derail the thread

modified.

This is deep my brother may God in His infinite mercies continue to uphold you my brother to seve him.

enthronedbyGod1:


From the day I had a divine encounter with God in 2007 till today my life has been a mystery.
In that encounter God swore to make me invisible and also said a lot of unbelievable things will happen in my life and ministry. Things that will make the ear tingle.

I didn't put up the post for people to believe it. I put it up because I was instructed to do so by the Holy Spirit of which I didn't know why. I now know why.

By the grace of God that story has won 4 converts into God's kingdom. One of them used to be a very rugged axe man who has decided to abandon NBM and embrace God. He isn't the first cultists that has been won over by my stories.

Everyone has a purpose on this thread and this is my own purpose, to turn men from darkness to light.
To this end was I born and for this purpose came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth and everyone who is called into the way of the truth hears my voice.

The foolishness of God is indeed wiser than men.

God bless

I love your fighting spirits and penitence stand on spiritual matters. You are born again now and you are winning souls from kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ please keep it up.

julifeisgood:


No derailing, please. I've provided enough info already.

Thank you.

I love your spirit bro this is an OAU alumnus too, I was a friend to LOM P of JayCee back then name Sarge at Faj hall. Talking of President of JC then. Of course I know of AIESEC back then but was discouraged because many said it was more of big money to be a member. Very organized group like JayCee too